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 opinion contained In it but if <hnwl ifc . . ' ""' "'""r'tion of every 
 
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A CHARGE TO THE CLEKGY 
 
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 Uevkkend and Dear Brktuuen, 
 
 We must be sadly indifferent to the culls of (iod's Providence, if 
 the death of four of our small number of clergy, within a very short 
 time, does not impress us to-day with a solemn sense of duty. 
 
 Two of those taken from us were men of marked ability in various 
 ways, and will be much missed in their several spheres of influence ; 
 and one of those removed from us, though of a less keen intellect, was 
 a rare instance of childlike simplicity, and guilelessness of character. 
 May they all •' find mercy of the Lord in tliat day." 
 
 As the younger clergy may not feel so acutely as the elder that 
 this heavenly call demands of them without delay " to set their house 
 in order," I would earnestly and affectionately remind you that the 
 decease of your elder brethien, and the perilous crisis through which 
 our church is now passing, call for increased earnestness, increased 
 unity, increased manifestation of the life and fervor of religion in all 
 your church-work, whether it be private, pastoral, or social. 
 
 The peculiar habits of a country so thinly peopled as this is, and 
 depending so much on hazardous speculation, are very unfavorable 
 to religious thought and religious unity. ** Scattered and peeled," to 
 use a Scriptural expression, the tendency of the settlers is to separation 
 and deadness of feeling. Often without any literature, feeding solely 
 on the husks of a passing newspaper, or on the unwholesome stimulant 
 of party controversy which taey can ill understand, what can we ex- 
 pect but those spasmodic bursts of religious feeling, which supply an 
 electric life for a few weeks, and then sicken, droop, and die away 
 into deadness again? It must be confessed, I think, that wuth the 
 highest perception of the sober and sustained majesty of many parts 
 of our Liturgy, and its comprehensive and attractive petitions, its 
 very freedom from erroi-s of taste, requires an educated mind in order 
 thoroughly to enjoy it; and even the condensed force of the collects 
 passes over the heads of uneducated persons, and thsy do not " say 
 Amen at our giving of thanks," in the intelligent spirit which the 
 
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A <ii\H<;i; TO INK (;i,KR(iy 
 
 great Apostlo iccoin.iMMuls. Tlunv. nnisi. th.MHto.v, In, tho .rreutor 
 need that you .should ...idcavoui- K. call church-knowlodoo ami life 
 into action: that hy s.^h.M.ls, hy p.-ival.. and public instnu'tions, both 
 in tho p(,Ip,| iiud out ofit, you should teach vour people what is the 
 value ol our prayers and services, what they mea.i, what is their 
 order, how they may h,. made most ondu.-ivo to private devotion 
 and lamily worship; and how a life n.ouldod and reoulated bv the 
 spn-it of our prayers will b.- a lite ol' pi.-ty, honeslv, integritv; and 
 purity; ot love to (Jod and love to man, such us no church on earth 
 need be ashamed of. 
 
 The activity of men's minds in the present a-e leading to innuirv 
 on all subjects, an<l to ditlerent aspects of thought in the most sincere 
 and painstaking m.p.irers. is „„t of itself an evil. It is a part of tiod's 
 Provulence, which it is our duty especially to discover, and to see 
 that It imposes on us new, grave, and arduous duties. In former 
 times, clergymen, whether ignorant or not, whether holv men or the 
 reverse were respected for their office. As the laitv did i.ot trouble 
 hemsclves greatly about the doctrines of relioion,thev listened to 
 the clergy with respect, ev.Mi though they were not possessed of much 
 intormation nor gifted with the power of imparting knowledge. The 
 general diflusion of a certain amount of learning, and the special 
 8 udy o sacred subjects by great numbers of the laitv, have entirelv 
 changed the aspect of things. Many of the laity equal, or even exceed, 
 the clergy ni sacred knowledge; many more are masters of subjects 
 connected with Biblical knowledge. History, geographv, astron- 
 omy, geology, and othe. kindred sciences, have all been cultivated 
 
 Ti ".• «T;'''?f. '"''"''' ^"*^ *'^" •■'^"•^•'^ '^^^^« l^^^" directed to the 
 held o Biblical literature. The office, the duties, the pastoral work, 
 the public discourses of the clergy, have all been considered by laymen 
 trom a ayman's point of view, and the freest criticism has been 
 applied to them; and, last of all, the same criticism has been applied 
 to the 8acred Scriptures themselves, both by reverent and irreverent 
 minds We may lament over, or we may rtyoice in, this altered rela- 
 tion; but we cannot -force the course of a river." We may, however 
 certainly use it to subserve our own good desi<r„s, and mav turn iJ 
 int. many usefu channels. What I wish to impress upon you all is 
 that we are deeply responsible for the manner in which we meet this 
 overpowering tide. To meet it with unmanly lamentations is worse 
 than useless ; it is actually sinful, if the new order of things be part 
 of God's providential government. It is equally useless lo meet it 
 infii f^"'i:^,denunciation of infidelity. AH men who doubt are not 
 •nn t ■ ^ \ "" r^'"' '' presented to us in a new light, we natu- 
 all> stand in doubt as to which of the two or more aspects of the 
 truth will prove to be correct, and we withhold our assent till our 
 
OF THK mOCKSK OK I'UKItKKKjTON. 
 
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 convictions are satistied. Ignorance and self-conceit often dogmatize, 
 when the wiser and more reverent mind is endeavoring to discover 
 where the truth lies. It must, therefore, bo seen by all candid in- 
 quirers, that the learning which suffliu-d for a clergyman tlfty years 
 since, will not sutiice him now, if he desires to vindicate the truth, 
 and bring it home to the understandings, as well as to the aftections, 
 of his hearers. High sounding words with no better foundation than 
 our own repeated assertions will show their emptiness in the long 
 run, and the most sincere and pious intentions will not make amends 
 for the want of that which all educated laymen feel that their teacher 
 ought to possess, let him be as pious as ho may. Happily, there is 
 no great, certainly no insuperable, difficulty, which need prevent a 
 clergyman's acquiring the necessary learning, as there never was a 
 period when a larger number of good and valuable works was more 
 accessible, many of them cheap, as well as good. The " reading and 
 assiduous meditation," which St. Paul enjoins, the *' books and parch- 
 ments " which, on the verge of nnirtyrdom, he desired might be 
 brought to him, show that the Apostle, at all events, did not under- 
 value learning, and that he was a diligent student to the last moment 
 of his life. 
 
 But this universal spirit of inquiry is accompanied by a restless 
 unqiiietness of mind, which is, no doubt, productive of much evil. 
 There is, perhaps, no subject of thought, political, social, civil, or re- 
 ligious, of which it may not be said that the foundations are shaken; 
 and the complexity of the various subjects of controversy renders the 
 mind more uneasily alive to the difficulty of our position. This is 
 much increased, in our own case, by the fact that the Church of Eng- 
 land, be it for good or evil, is, on some points, a compromise — an 
 endeavor to find a mean between extremes. In our Articles we find 
 many strong expressions against lloman errors, but we find others" 
 equally as strong against very opposite doctrine. The nineteenth 
 Article asserts that " the churches of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and An- 
 tioch, as also the Church of Home, have erred;" but the 30th canon 
 declares that "it was so far from the pui-pose of the Church of England 
 to forsake and reject the churches of Italy, France, Spain, Germany, 
 or any such like churches, in all things that they held and practiced, 
 that it only departed from them in those particular points, wherein 
 they arc fallen from themselves in their ancient integrity, and from 
 the apostolical churches, which were their first founders." How much 
 bitterness might have been spared, if such wise and moderate 
 expressions had ever been the guide of our divines ! 
 
 In spite of all our declarations against liome, no Anglican Bisliop 
 attempts to re-ordain a Roman Priest, but invariably ordains a 
 Presbyterian or Wesley nn Minister; yet we do not anathematize 
 
A CIIAROR TO THK CLKR(JY 
 
 Hlthc, l.e on. .„■ tUo oth..-. TI.« .o.ncn hat obscn- wording of 
 sumo ol ,1... \yuc\0.,aua tl„. vurions <,l.ange« a.ul .evi^ious of our 
 I.ltm-y, l.n.vi' (hut it w.<s nUyayn tlic desi,,, of .„„. d.unl. to ho ,ih 
 co.„i,,eheus,v.. as possible, .hort of th«, sarnnce of what in phiinlv 
 revou C..1, and that the dittWont d.-dncfions of mcM.'n ,ni„d. from the 
 sani. text are ..ot only worthy of consideration, hut are not alwavs to 
 ineet with disaUowan.-e on one si.h, or the other, where (he matter is 
 obscure, or IS n<.t ilMistrated by <.a(holie consent, and univernal chrin. 
 t an tiadition. In a system like that of the Church of En.Wand, 
 stand.nj,. midw.y betw(.en Rome and (Geneva, it must clea.ly be im' 
 
 liZl n "'^rVi'-"'""'"'*^ uniformity of thought, of action, or of 
 tua ihe ,vho e h.Htory of our church is a history of the failure of 
 the entorcement by law of absolute uniformity. No sooner was tlio 
 reformation launched, than the princii.al reformers tied from perse- 
 cuuon into forei^u coui.tries. There, so far from being united, their 
 diUerences were u.any, a.td became embittered ; and they returned to 
 Lnjfland only to open the whole question, or the series of questions 
 which from (lm( period have troubled and perplexed the Eufe.lish mind. 
 I he evils of disunion appeared to be 8o great, that absolute lu.iformity 
 •as the only remedy that presented itself to some of the governors of 
 the C uirch ; and Archbishop Laud hoped to accompush this object bv 
 a porlect union of Church and State, and bv emplojing the whole 
 power of the State to crush nonconformity.- llow^^g^Jo ,sTy he 
 failed and how both Church and State were bi-ought low in the we N 
 intended, but mistaken, endeavour, every one knows. This JZt 
 desolation past, and the ro^al family restored, again a strin.rent''law 
 was passed to effect perfect uniformity. BuJ, though partlallv s c^ 
 cessful, a large number of ministers with their flocks left our" pale 
 and bequeathed to posterity rights to be asserted, wrongs to bo' 
 avenged and attacks to be incessantly made on the Church favoured 
 and protected by the State. The Church of England, however .^. 
 imuned in temporals, victorious, and then passed into a condition 
 
 1 1 Vff^'' '^''Z ^' ^''"''■'">' «"PP»«ed) of comparative sloth 
 and indifference From this we were aroused by a loud cry of ener^ 
 and zeal j.roceeding from those who were at first sincerelv attached 
 to our church yet who certainly broached new opinions, not easily 
 reconcilable with our Prayer Book; yet they protested t; their la t 
 n^oments that they lived and died in the Communion of th S u C 
 of England This movement, the force, extent, and duration of whicl 
 could not be foreseen, was ascribed to an insane enthusiasm. Those 
 ui power could neither believe in it, nor appreciate it. Again the 
 sword of unifonnity was unsheathed, and again a vast breacl was 
 made in our ranks. Thousands left us, and remain to this day deTfi! 
 tute of he attachment which their founder had fo our Church and I 
 fear, with very little wish to return to it. ' ' 
 
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OK TIIK UI0CK8K OK KUKDKHK^TON. 
 
 From this tiiiu% H uppourN to me, ftom wuch NoiirwH of iii(|uii'y as 
 nro open to mo, tlmt tho principle of conipulsoiy unifonnUy Iiiin l)«en 
 practically jfivcii up, aftur the fallun? of ho inai'\ ;;'J''mpt.s to euforco 
 it by tlin power of tlip State; men's iniiids liav< becotne accustt)mpd to 
 iliil'er ill matters not epsontiul to the faith; and it must bo admitted 
 that a very ^'eneral neglect of the decency and reverence duo to tho 
 worship of (iod was the immediate result of a reaction from tho 
 attempt to put down noncomformity with a hij(h liand. 'I'lial I have 
 not overstated the result is evident, I tliink, from tw'» pnicticuil proofs 
 winch 1 shall now mention. 
 
 If we examine the royal declaration prellxed to the Thirty-nine 
 Articles, King James says thai "the bishops and clergy, in convoca- 
 tion, shall have license, under our broad seal, lo deliberate of, and to 
 do, all such things, as being made plain to them, and assented to by 
 us, shall concern the settled continuance of the Church of England 
 now established, from which we will not endure any varyimj or 
 departing in the least degreed Again, ''in those curious and unhappy 
 ditlercnces that have, for so many hundred years, in ilifTercnt times 
 and places, txercised the church of Christ (hero the declaration seems 
 to include nil controversies of doctrine and discipline from tho Arian 
 controversy to those connected with Calvin), we will that all curious 
 aearch be laid aside.'' How singularly the spirit of the Tudor sov- 
 ereign seems to speak out here; and how remarkable it is to hear him 
 speak as if not only England, and all Christendom, but the realm and 
 ample domain of the mind of man, lay prostrate at his feet, and at the 
 dread words, "Le roy I'avisera/' all disputation would be forever 
 hushed, and that the waves and storms of thought would lie still in 
 everlasting peace. Yet if a sovereign in our day f hould express such 
 sentiments, who would pay any attention to them? Tiio whole theory 
 of Tudor government has melted away. We retain the declaration; 
 and there it stands before the Articles. No one ventures to touch it, 
 but no one believes it, though many of our great divines once pro- 
 claimed it, and did their best to maintain it. 
 
 I was once present at a meeting of most of tlie English bishops 
 when the question was discussed whether an address should be pre- 
 sented to Her Majesty to remove from the Prayer Book three of the 
 state services then appended to it, and in use by many of the clergy, 
 A prelate, not now living, remarked that he feared the removal of 
 them would give umbrage to many sincere protostants. It was drily 
 observed that, probably, the protestants would not discover that they 
 had been removed, so little regard was generally paid to those semces ; 
 and the result has proved the general truth of the opinion. The ser- 
 vices were expunged without long deliberation, and with less atten- 
 tion. Prayers and applications of scripture which appeared perfectly 
 
A CHAIJGE TO THK OLKKtJV 
 
 propnatc in former limes mado not tl.e ^Ughtcst imprn.^ion on tlie 
 pnbhc m.nd in our own day ; and many seem to be i^noranf that Uiese 
 services were ever h, their prayer books, and certainly feel no regret 
 at «hcn- removal. Yet liow vast is Ihe difference implied between our 
 ances ors and ourselves in om tone of thought on these matters! 
 
 To take another view of the same subjeci . J f you read the sermons 
 Snuilir' '''^'^''y'' ^"«h as those of Bishop Andrews, Bishop 
 bande, on, or Dv South, valuable as they are in manv respects, /t 
 would be impossible to preach them when they touch on the rela- 
 tions between church and state, or on the conduct of dissenters: not 
 onljr because the relations are entirely altered, but because the state- 
 men s, jt now made would be perfectly untrue. Our feelings and 
 haoits are entirely different, though the le.ter of our formularies 
 continues to be the same , I draw, therefore, this conclusion, that, 
 constituted as the Church of England is, and must remain, if she 
 continue to be a mean between two powe.ful and apparently irrocon- 
 cilablc adversaries; unable as she is, by her constitution, to accept 
 the theory of a living, infallible authority on earth, whose word shall 
 
 peifectly chimerical in her to aim at absolute or enforced uniformity 
 either of aoctrme or of ritual. Ev.n Koinan Catholics have never 
 attained it rhough the decrees of the living pope are their law, it 
 IS clear that .he popes have not been uniform in their decrees, either 
 on doclnne or riaial; and the vast orders ly m«ans of which the 
 Roman Church has controlled various schools of thou -ht. differ still 
 more widely If our church profess to be built on a^more popular 
 basis It is plain that we cannot evade the necessary conclusion that 
 vvhether a man be called Low Churchman, High Churchman, or 
 Kitualisi, tuere is comprehensiveness enough in our clnirch to em- 
 brace him, and there ought to be charity enough to make use of his 
 zeal and piety, though as to the means he makes use of to ^,romote 
 
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 Another moral I should draw iVom the historical tacts to which I 
 have called your atteivdon i., that Providence has been for three 
 untunes plainly teaching us that the strength of ur church does not 
 he in Its connection with the State; and that when thnt connection 
 has been closest, the State has been unable to enforce uniformitv of 
 teaching and ritual, and the Church has been least prosperous. Lid 
 If even m England, where the Bishops are officiallv recognized in 
 Parliament whore the majority of the nobility and landed gentrv are 
 
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 that Establishments have seen their best days, and that the time will 
 come whe.i a higher and nobler strength than kings or parliaments ca 
 
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OF THE inOCESK OF FU! 'DEUICTON. " 
 
 supply will be needed bv clmiclnnen for the success of their work, 
 how much more is it our duty, my brethren, not to lean on the staff of a 
 broken reed, which will run into our hand and pierce it, but to rest 
 on the broad and strong foundations which our blessed Master marked 
 out for us at first, and on which the Church has rested, under every 
 lorm of government, in the midst of the severest persecutions, and on 
 which she must chieflv rest, whether the Statxi grant or withdraw its 
 favour. To talk of an established Church in this Province at this 
 time is one of the idlest dreams that coald enter into the mind of man. 
 The words found indeed in the Statute Book apply to the time when all 
 officials and most of the colonists were actually churchmen. Emigra- 
 tion and other causes have reduced that statute to a dead letter; and 
 the legislature, by the admission of all, deals \«ith us exactly on the 
 same footing as with all other religious bodies under the protection of 
 the State. I would not wish it otherwise; for what can be a more 
 invidious and dangerous position than to be the church of the small 
 minoritv, caressed and pampered, and perhaps corrupted by state 
 patrona'f'c, whilst all our fellow christians, equally wortlry of assis- 
 tance with ourselves, are willingly giving their hard-ear.ied money to 
 the building of their cluirches and schools, and to the support of their 
 cler-^y, and are denied other assistance or favour. On this ground 
 it mty be said that we have paid dearly even for the glebes granted 
 to us by the crown, which have yielded more odium than profit, and 
 have contributed to foster the injurious suspicion that the clergy of 
 our church are paid b> government, and have some secret support, 
 of which no body can give anv account. And valuable as has been 
 the a'd of the Society tor the Propagation of the Gospel, it is clear to 
 me thai whenever a church is rooted in the affections of its people 
 it oufht to sustain its own clergy, to build its own churches, to es- 
 tablish its own schools, fid to consider itself as much bonnd to pro- 
 vide for its spiritual wants as the lather of every family is bound to 
 labour for his children's dailv bread, and to educate and send then, out 
 into the n orid to make homes for themselves. Where the settlers 
 arc poor, and unable to provide the whole salary of a clergyman, 
 their richer brethren should assist in bearing the burden ; but it is 
 a shame and a scandal that this burden, after sixty years of assistance, 
 should be laid on charitable people in England, and especially on 
 sprvants and poor agricultural labourers. It would have been greatly 
 to 01U- rvedii h^^d we volunteered to take some of this burden on our- 
 selv..^: this, however, is perhaps not to be expected from human 
 nat'.re; and we naturally cling, as othcrc have done before us, to the 
 dole of -ood money, and shrink from the trials and privations to 
 which its withdrawal may expose us. But even if that withdrawal 
 should lead to a temporary abandonment of some missions, I Hunk 
 
 •^x; 
 
ij 
 
 10 
 
 A CHAKGE TO THE CLERgt 
 
 it would be better to be a real I 
 
 dimensions, doing- ou,- own woi-k'^'u^d^ n""""^' ""^ '^"^^^^'^at smaller 
 liave the mere ..hadow of an estab>h In l?'/"^' 7' '"'"" '^'^-^■' t''^" '^ 
 loal pauperism, with the .m^Zt^n^rTT' ""^ /" ^' ^""^'"'-^ ^'^ ^ 
 belon.. to us. The Society at ome , ' ^ ^^'''"^^^^^^' ^^^^^ ^-'^ ^H>t 
 that our love for the church shal be el, T. f"^'''-^' ^'^'^^nr.ined 
 us three hundred pounds a year and i. H . ^ "' ^vithdrawn from 
 ^vjll cdainly make a further red'uc on 'j?^° """"«• ^'- ^'^'^t year it 
 f '1^^1'awal will continue u/,arwT u'o 1''' "'"'' *^"^^^^^^ ''^'^^ "^i« 
 church by our own exertions and end)" . «^'""(ain our own 
 
 all to make this fact as widelj k now . '^ '' ^ ""*'' '•*^'>' «" vou 
 
 •show your people how reJL^^^u:::^'^''' T' '" "^^'^--"•- ^- 
 tiie sa.ne footing with all other bodi "!";,, '.^^'.^^'^^'^i ^^ Placed ou 
 tonmnttee have said, -i„ no better n.di .;''''"'' ^' *'^^ ^"^^^^^^1 
 to many of you, possibly, accuston; ", "^ T'' P^«i^i-»." As, 
 
 clino.ino.tothememoriesofe.S dTA.r ' ^'^"""^ •-"^^-^'' -^ 
 
 were purely exceptional. The Lov-.i; ^ ^'^""dii.g of our church here 
 sharpened by persecution, and full ot , 'i ? ' P^^^^'^''^^" with a zeal 
 the uttermost the rights of chm.ra f'-''"^""'^"" ^" l^''^^^^ 
 most part vigorous a^nd deten ed men '"f-/''"^ ^^^''^ ''^' "- 
 proofofdisloyaltytobeainthin. else I? ' 1 '' ''"' <^ousidered a 
 oftlie government was -rcat ehn?. f ^''^"\^^^»"'-^-J'nian. The power 
 
 and reaped the benefit c5 the ;or^^^^^^^^ «;f ^^!^^ offices olstati 
 every thing seems to have bee. n hoi., ^'''"y^^^'^'^^^^ov kuev, 
 church, having no places of wor in or h'"^'' "'"^ '"'-^"^ ^^^"t to 
 securely on the tide of court-farura,d/T "'""' '■*^'*^>' ^" ^-^^ 
 ^'-n-owly examines the record of ,' 1 T 'T'' ^'' ''''''' ^"« 
 dUions of the period seen, to be a,l o^tl r ' '''"'^ ''''''''''' *^'« t''^" 
 a primitive and catholic, character T 1 f?'"^'''^"' "«"« of them of 
 of thegovernn.ent, the air ofToddlV re n ' ;^ ^?'^"'-^''^^> "'« assistance 
 
 of thegovernn.ent, theairof woddVv re no'f"!',-'^"'''^^ "'^ ""''^'^^"^^ 
 he reverent, loving ca.e of God'sT ^ ^^'T ^"^^ '""^'^ ^'-"^l^t 
 ^•ul celebration of^Ch.,;' S c. n.::;"',!':! ^^^f ^ -''^'-^-i^i 
 
 of; but tlie 
 
 ""d careful coleb7a.ir7a!'];S w,'' '"'"'"'' "'° '•'^"'^>' ^'Moifiul 
 
 «ga,dcd. At .11 eve,,,., the olto^it IT"'' "'"' ' '■'^'"■' '"O "'"« 
 
 l'.om tl,e begi,„u„jf there was ZkT, '""" "'"'""iable.* 
 
 speaks Of, „„<, .1,0 a„„;7od; eLr''f"'-''»^".eSc,i,,,„,, 
 
 * In mentioning these fiot« t ^ 
 
 ■I 
 I 
 
OF THK DIOf'KSK OF FREDRUICTON. 
 
 11 
 
 lat smaller 
 ly, tliun to 
 iighig to tx 
 t does not 
 titemiiiied 
 uwu li-oia 
 'U year it 
 ■t tliiit this 
 
 our own 
 ly on you 
 i:!avour to 
 placed on 
 
 Judicial 
 n." As, 
 em, and 
 ^uragiiio- 
 usidered 
 
 oust see 
 I'ch ijeie 
 h a zeal 
 sei've to 
 for the 
 ilQicd a 
 ! power 
 of state 
 r later, 
 .'ent to 
 float 
 en one 
 le tra- 
 lem of 
 stance 
 ought 
 denial 
 ' little 
 
 pturc 
 uent; 
 urch, 
 
 as llie prayor book appoints; fonts there were none; the vessels for 
 the ITolv Communion were of the pooiest; pews were universally 
 sold at high prices: the poor and the middle classes were alienated by 
 the exclusiveness of the wealthy; bui'ial j^rounds were often uncon- 
 secratcd; episcopal visits were few: how could it be otherwise when 
 the state appointed, at first, one bishop for the two Canadas, Nova 
 Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland? The arrangement of 
 the churches resembled, in all external features, the worst patterns of 
 dissent ; and the offerings to the clergy were few. Even at Fredericton, 
 at first, nothing was ottered; and, after several years' service, only 
 £;30 a year was promised. Tiius this entire leaning on state assistance 
 would have proved the ruin of the church, had it continued; and it 
 doubtless injured it in a great degree. There is not one of these 
 points on which some improvement has not been made, though, 
 uniiappily, many still lean on the broken reed of state aid, and do 
 not believe even in themselves, much less in those powers and gifts 
 which our great Master and ascended Lord has granted to his church, 
 and has never witiidrawn from her. Surely, unless we are perfectly 
 infatuated, and blind to every sign of the times, we must see, by all 
 that is daily passing around us, that to lean on the state, or on poli- 
 ticians of any party, or even on the donations of our brethren at a 
 distance, is to proclaim our conviction that the church in this Prov- 
 ince is not worth the pains and trouble by which every religious body 
 in the Province, save our own, defends, supports, and maintains its 
 own religious convictions. 
 
 But to pass to another and important subject. You may, naturally, 
 expect something from me on the subject of the Lambeth Conference, 
 and on the reasons which prevented my attendance at that great 
 assembly. 1 may say, therefore, first, that had His Grace the Arch- 
 bishop required my presence as a matter of dutiful obedience, I 
 should, without delay, have complied with his command. The matter 
 coming before me, however, through his kindness and consideration, 
 in another form, it was left to me to judge whether 1 deemed it 
 desirable to attend or not. At the time fixed for the conference, I 
 had issued notices for many confirmations, and tne clergy had pre- 
 pared their candidates; and I was unwilling, without very strong 
 reasons, to postpone such confirmations, as^I must have done, for a 
 whole year. Further, with the utmost deference to the wiser judg- 
 ment of the bishops who urged His Grace to summon that assembly, 
 it appeared to me that in consideration of tl'c vast distance from 
 England of many of the colon'al dioceses, and the grave importance 
 of the step co»>templat«;d, a longer time should have been allowed to 
 give the matters selected for deliberation full consideration, and to 
 obtain, if possible, the judgment of the colonial bishops generally, 
 
12 
 
 A CHAKOE TO THE CLERGr 
 
 i" - ^n^f ^;^ ;;;:: -- -- -- -.. , .0 . .... 
 
 cussicn on points pa tly LmL 17 T'' """'''■^' ""^^ ">"«" di«- 
 Apostles only, but '^the Ipos IcT and ol ? """''''' ''''''''^^'' "^^ the 
 o; tins matter- so timt tlfe eco„d ol •' T' '"^^'^'•«'' *« ««""der 
 eluded f..on. the deliberation wLtl V' l'-"""^'''^' ^^"« ""^ -- 
 is net clear; but it is certain that ti.T ^^ ' '"'''' ''" '"' '"""«»• 
 heir consent, bein„. issued i^tlfLr 1'?."' ™ "^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ 
 a^.d brethren,'' and tlmt'^ the Who eZur " ''^l^o.tl.s, elders, 
 addresses of the Apostles. I am wnl^ "'^' '^•^'"^ ''''^^^''^'-^ to the 
 P«-acticable at tha/ early peHod whnTr" ''"' ^'^^^ ^^^^^ P^'-^^'^tly 
 were tew, may at the piesen Mmn , "^^n^<^"'bers of the church 
 «ce no insuperable difficS i ooM .^'■''"'"">' i'npossible. But I 
 the judgments of the Totl'droe^: '"^^ ^^'^^"" - —-able time 
 P'-oceeding to a more full dLc iToVi; T"/''"' ^"'j^«^' b^^-- 
 Ahove all, it appeared to me unwL o n ^' ' ^'"'^'•'*^' "^^««"^»>'v- 
 Of the earth bishops of tirA^" Hca„ Z "• "^*^""'' '''^^^ ^^^ -''^^ 
 an established church, someTo.r, •,"'"''"' '°'"^ belono-i,,. to 
 «tate, or in a very ano.naloL po J ^^l ^"""'^^^^ -^"' the 
 
 unconnected with the state, wifhouLh .,'"'"' '" " ^'^"''^'^ ^^^o^X 
 Which we were called to^^tV.^ ^^^'f /"'"f .^^^""^ the purpose for 
 Grave reasons, the force o? w^cV Itr ''''" *" '^ considered, 
 have prevented this course Zn LtlZ ^??"'' '' ''"I*"^'"' "^^v 
 ^•ankly to confess to you (with? L ° •? .^^^'^' ^"t I am obhVed 
 think me mistaken) that Z o rbi^l 'T '''"^^ ^^""^ ^' ^'ou miy 
 discussion, and when only three d.v"-^ ''^''•'^'^•^'' ^^^« "«"»ed for 
 according to the notice Z ^Znl^^'" f •''''''' '''' ^^hberation 
 «hort a time a large body ouM c'ome r. r ""^^'^^^'^^'^'^ '^^'^ -^ «« 
 points with regard to whicl, "he members T'^'T' '""''"^^"^ «» 
 the world might well look for wi^ cou,l. f '"'' P""'*^'^ throughout 
 episcopate. ^^'^ ^«""sel from the whole assembled 
 
 That my apprehensions were nn^ «ruu . . 
 ^•o.n t, ract that can haX be di pS tf^f."""^ ^^'^^^^ ^^ -« 
 wh ch I gladly signed, to aVoid even .h ' ^""^ '*'" «"C3clicaI letter, 
 contained little beyond what we aUn r ^l^P««'-«»ce of disunion 
 pressed in general terms a^ Td tl/'-" ''' '" '^^'''^^^ ""^ teach, ex-' 
 settle, as the first counc I of U^'^ "" T7 '"'^' '""^'^ o^" attempt to 
 
 M 
 
OF THR DIOCKSE OF FREDKRICTON. 
 
 13 
 
 decrees of 
 of general 
 august an 
 
 '0 it slated 
 much dis- 
 '» not the 
 consider 
 IS not ex- 
 ile matter 
 ?ted with 
 s, elders, 
 5J"s to the 
 perlectly 
 ■ church 
 But I 
 l)Ie time 
 :, before 
 sembJy. 
 he ends 
 giiig to 
 
 ith the 
 wholly 
 ose for 
 idered. 
 >, may 
 bilged 
 u may 
 3d for 
 ation, 
 
 in so 
 an on 
 rhout 
 ibled 
 
 ome 
 
 tter, 
 lion, 
 ex- 
 >t to 
 ited 
 
 ;Ied 
 itly 
 
 '# 
 «■ 
 
 ripe for deliberation; and if that matter had been appointed for 
 consideration, nothing would have prevented me from joining the 
 conference. 1 allude of course to the unhappy position of the church 
 in Natal, placed under the supervision of a bishop, who has openly 
 impugned the genuineness and authenticity of certain Books of Holy 
 Scripture; who denies (in bis work on the Epistle to the Romans^ 
 both the eternal punishment of the wicked, and the security of the 
 happiness of the righteous (thereby, as I conceive, impugning the 
 truth of our Lord's words) ; who is said to have taught, that our liOrd 
 is not a proper object of worship; and who has been requested by 
 the general voice of the English episcopate to resign his see. 
 
 I do not deny that tiiere are legal questions relative to the temporal 
 position of such a bishop, which the assembled episcopate need not 
 and might not be competent to discuss. But I should fearlessly 
 maintain that it can never be said of any christian church, that it is 
 its duty to leave the consideration of all spiritual questions to the 
 civil power; or that if legal and spiritual questions are unfortunately 
 mingled together, that the Church can be absolved of participation 
 in the sin of heresy, if she does not openly, distinctly, and by all 
 legitimate methods, declare that she will not hold communion with 
 any one, especially with a pastor, who denies any of the fundamental 
 principles of Christianity. If there be one principle common to all 
 Christians throughout the world from the very first, it is " that all 
 men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father." Con- 
 sequently, if we worship the one, we must worship the other. How, 
 tlien, can we admit to communion one who denies both? " for he that 
 denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father." Considering that 
 the last words of our Lord from heaven commend a bisliop of the 
 church for reproving heresy, and censure another bishop for suffering 
 it, I look with fear and trembling, not at the trial of Bishop Colenso, 
 but at the trial before God and the world of the Anglican Church. 
 
 It must be recollected, that if anything can be safely said of the 
 Anglican Church, it is that it has never been contented with defensive 
 teaching. Its whole aspect, since the Reformation, has been contro- 
 versial, and Anti-Roman. The one object of the incessant attacks of 
 most of its members of all parties, is the Pope of Rome. Many of its 
 divines seem incapable of preaching a sermon on any subject without 
 some hard names given to Roman Catholics. Is all tl)is zeal, then, 
 to expend its force on one form of error? Whatever Roman Catholics 
 may have added to the old faith, at all events they beliere in common 
 with ourselves in the fall of man, in our redemption t , hrist, in the 
 genuineness and authenticity of the canonical books, in the eternal 
 punishment of the cursed and the secure happiness of the blessed, 
 in the Trinity in Unity, and the worship due to Father, Son, and 
 
2 
 
 f 
 
 u 
 
 Holy Ghost. Ill tl 
 be 
 
 A OIIAWJK TO TIIK ( LKIJOT 
 
 K-'O fniidaiijeiifal 
 
 « wo are in union with th 
 
 lein, and 
 
 Oil istians to bi- 
 
 consi(l(.|ed in full 
 
 » i-^ fionnrjon to all 
 
 n'l)oltl.oscwhoaroj,niltvon ; ' m7"7"'''"'' '"'"' ""'' ^^'""'^t we 
 bo it obHorved, of tL ^^^ U, .^^'"I''''^^' '^''^ '« '"> Huostion, 
 •'•<' '^"-'""lor; it isagu..tth.no H . ''r'" ^^''^^•'^' »"^^ •^a'^.T of 
 leaching. ^ " ^^ ^''" ^^"••>' foundation of all Christian 
 
 i.iiJi'^irt::e'i^:t ;,!;:;- :- -■• ^-^ and ado. 
 
 re<»on for Avithl.ol.jino- Christie,, T' .: •- ^' '''•' *'""' ' «eo no 
 
 -<> ^''0 .Tow. «ut if lid' ::;;•;::;'':" '""."" ^"'—0 clan 
 --'UH to n.othatanH>ro„oc,"^XS,'^'^7'^'-''':''^'i'^"^t^b^ it 
 i-or a colloc.od body of Au<rU^\^u^ T "''^'^ ^'' '""'^"^^^ 
 "ccusaiions aro truo and tho ^h^^ ' :i ,". f "•■'^"^" "'"'' «"«'' 
 
 tl--, 1 fear, lost by rolu.ipJt e ^ ' '"" '" '""' ""'■"'"• ^'"'•■ 
 by Unowin. all tho burdontn ,' "^^^^^ ^" ''''''' ^ ««^^J«ct.. and 
 
 o Pladn. tho .pintu.1 powo .. .^^^^j.^'^'^^' \^ ^-'^ ^-ilty 
 
 o^ Javino- tho truths of the christia,, '' ,., 5^'''"'*^'' ''' "boyanoe, and 
 world, and of roprosoiUin/ ,. ' ^'''! ""^^«'' ^''0 foot of the 
 
 HcoidoMtsofworldlv fortuno.n ,1;; ^^^^''^^ry to the temporal 
 'f -uununion with" iMslH^C^J:^^:::', ' *'-'V"^^^ ^'- q-' ^ion 
 . ti'c mode of trial to which he ':. • ? .'"■""'^'■^^' separated fi-om 
 
 Metropolitan in the En^^lish ' h, . h f "'^J«'^'*^^'- The powers of a 
 
 -•oise a.ain«t a Suflraga .o' ^^J'T f? " ."""" '""^"' "'^'^ ^^■ 
 and the authoritv of ..aiori ! !n ,? "' ^'''' '^^"" ^" ^'^tle detinod 
 
 tion, that I Should hi "bo /t 1,";?"'^"^ 
 thee points onlarood, and h c uc^s L orll "' '"f "'""'^^^^« «» 
 l^^nty of that trial thoroughly di^cu IT ^ /^ V"'^'""'"^^-^' '^'^ "•'•«"'"■ 
 r«^'ular, fair, unexoeption.rble; t b iT t T /'"' "'''' '^'^'•^'^"^'■^ 
 in-cfe^nlar and excoptiouablo, t umol '''''^ ^''^^'"^'^ "'uinrains, 
 
 way of trial and depositia,' o • o . ' V"' "'"' ^^'^B«""ios in the 
 bo ..n., do uot absolve rElchJ:',^V'^'^ '^^«" ^^--' ^*' ^'-o 
 '-atii.. with a d<,clarod bore. V j"; "' ! ?T' ^''« ■^'" '>^' ->mmu. 
 coi.tainod in tho printed bool w liH n , ^'"'''^ "^'''^'^^'^ ^o be 
 
 ^tracts. If anor we hud doa S ^ ^ J "\""'''"" "^''^'''"' '^-'i«« "or 
 ^bouhl stop in, and proven ttria 1 1 •' ""'" ""^"^ ^«^«' ^hc law 
 
 -it should appear La he S^d wis i""", '^' '" ^^«t-r>olitan, 
 
 r:^i:t;'::r'------r^^^^^^^ 
 
 wf i;;:^:^ tr ^^^ -. ^ da. not eonoeal, and 
 
 I- a-e the oue point whii. cal Jt^.;!:!? ^i:^---- ^^^ 
 
 
OF THK DKX'KSI. OF VKKDERK TON'. 
 
 15 
 
 t'lein, ai)(l 
 '>« Uoiuaii 
 'lion to all 
 will" 1st we 
 ►Ouostion, 
 I salary of 
 Olji-istinii 
 
 and adoro 
 > I see no 
 r>nnncdan 
 n, then it 
 imnfriiiofl 
 'laf, such 
 ^' they be 
 '•■". Fnv- 
 joct, and 
 Jtl ;ifnilty 
 'Jce, and 
 3t of the 
 o»n[)oral 
 liiestion 
 ed fj'om 
 ers of a 
 intoox- 
 dcfinod, 
 
 aques- 
 A\go on 
 iiTe;4'u- 
 ^rfeotly 
 nfains, 
 
 ill the 
 if there 
 [>mmn- 
 ! to be 
 ics nor 
 he law 
 olitan, 
 or the 
 srable. 
 
 1, and 
 u had 
 Uion ; 
 
 
 and though a declaration on tin; .subject was signed by many bishops 
 present, it was not the official act of the whole body, nor of a majority 
 of the body. 
 
 Unless, however, I am very much mistaken in reading the signs of 
 the times, the day is not far distant when the English Church must learn 
 to lean less on the temporal accidents of its position, and more on the 
 support which it may reasonably hope for from the spiritual powers 
 entrusted to it by'its great Head. For it can hardly be expected (hat 
 a nation which allows an established Episcopal Church in England, 
 an established Presbyterian Church and an unestablishcd Episcopal 
 Church in Scotland, an unendowed ..;id unestablished Roman Church 
 in Ireland, and several powerful bodies of ciirisiians leagued togetlier 
 in opposition to all Establishments in the three countries, can maintain, 
 with any sliow of reason, or with geiieral satisiaction, that Ihe Church 
 of England is established, because she, and she alone, teaches the truth 
 of God. This is a position which the nation, as a nation, expressing 
 the national voice in the national councils, would clearly shrink from 
 maintaining, and which, however theoretically supported by our older 
 divines, is found to be more and njorc untenable in practice since 
 the days of William the Third. 
 
 Looking at the matter from a national point of view only, I fear tliat 
 such a statement is nothing but a liction, however agreeable a fiction 
 it may be; and whilst 1 would not willingly move a stone of the 
 present establishment, 1 should be sorry to risk the progress of the 
 christian faith or. ivhat formed no part of our Lord's original foundation 
 of his Church. But I am entering, perhaps, into a field too wide for my 
 duty; and, therefore, I will pass on to speak of what concerns us so 
 nearly — the position in which the church finds itself in our own little 
 Province. 
 
 Up to a very late period many among us, perhaps the majority, 
 supposed that we were part and parcel of the Established Church of 
 England and Ireland, and (liat the church was established in New 
 Brunswick. This not unnatural supposition was supported, first, by 
 finding the words " established church" applied to our church in the 
 Provincial Statutes. Secondly, by the grants of iand made to our 
 parishes by the Crown, in consequence of which the representative of 
 the Crown has hitherto presented to all our benefices. Thirdly, by the 
 general appointment of Englishmen to our missions. Fourthly, by 
 the support given by the Venerable Society to our clergy. And, 
 lastly, by tlie notion generally entertained, that an Englishman carries 
 with him all the ecclesiastical law of England, wherever he goes. 
 This pleasant fiction it is time that every one should abandon, as it 
 has been demolished by the inexorable logic of facts. The legislature 
 of this country has not ordered the words " established church" to be 
 
la 
 
 A CHARGE TO TUB CLERGY 
 
 erased fion. the Statute Book, but it deal8 witli our church on the 
 .an,o tcnns ns with every other religious body. Grants ot land re- 
 main which have been akso made to other bodies besides ourselves, 
 but the Lrencral wishes of our people are evidently averse to the ap- 
 pointment to benefices remaining in the hands of the representative 
 of the Crown. The appointment of Englishmen only to missions 
 has been reversed under my Episcopate ; and the majority of clergy 
 <onsiscs now of persons born in the colonies. The support given by 
 the society is being gradually and permanently withdrawn; and the 
 hi"hest judicial court known to the realm has declared that " m all 
 colonies in which there is an independent legislature, we are in no 
 better position than any other religious body, and in no worse." It 
 seems now to be generally admitted among us that there is no estab- 
 lished church here in the sense in which there is an established church 
 in Eixrland. But the state has gone further than this. It has declared 
 that the bishop's letters patent must not be taken as conveying the 
 coercive jurisdiction which they professed to convey, and has left to the 
 bishop the title which the Queen conferred upon him, the incidents of a 
 corporation, and an undetined spiritual and pastoral care. Such being 
 the facts, which can hardly be denied, what is our relation to the 
 mother church, or by what bonds are we connected with it? 1 should 
 answer, bv stronger bonds than kings or parliaments can supply. 
 History docs not teach us, especially church history, that nations and 
 countries are preserved in their faith solely by courts of law. The 
 three great creeds were not framed by lawyers, nor were they debated 
 in parliaments. The canonical books of Scripture were not settled 
 by jurists. Though our church has been called, in derision, a parlia- 
 mentary church, its liturgy is derived from very different sources; 
 and thouc^h the parliament ratified the thirty-nine articles, it did not 
 frame them. Courts of law did not prevent the success of the designs 
 of Philip and Alva on the Low Countries, nor of James the Second 
 on the Protestants of England. So long, therefore, as the reformed 
 Church of England at home, and her branches abroad, acknowledge 
 the same standards of faith and practice, we shall be united by he 
 same bonds which knit our foretathers in communion, though the 
 accidents of an establishment may not remain. 
 
 If there be any doubt or suspicion on this head, ought not all rea- 
 sonable men to be wilUng to learn from experience; for is there any 
 safer or more trustworthy guide? It is now more than eighty years 
 since the United States became independent. The breach between 
 the mother and the child took place under manifestations of exceeding 
 bitterness towards the Church of England, for almost al churchmen 
 were on the side of the king's government ; yet, notwithstanding that 
 severance, and the total die-vnption of all connection between the two 
 
 
OK THK PIOCKSK OV KURDKUIOTOS. 
 
 17 
 
 countrios the Episcopal Church ha« -rown up, P-Mtectly indopondent, 
 c I ■ . o t.'l.uKl .han evvv. l>n..la.<.» .ukI „.c..b.v(e.-» moot on 
 
 „f imbeciUty and Isf™™""';';- '' '; ■;";" °fj!,i^'Xlo, however, is ,. 
 bishop, suppose clorgy a..a la>t>^t»,';;- ^^^^i^j" ^^^ Jf Ibe case, and 
 
 mere lUui^iou, con 
 
 U-adicted by all the 
 
J8 
 
 A ClIMUSE TO THE d-ERGY 
 
 and most lunvorthy suspicion of othnrs. 1 
 
 o-,oniulea on tlio meanest .u.u ....- "''"r::Z^yr,^' hv fiomc, to be Btill 
 .e^avacd with an j-ot^nu^ -^ o^ . ^ ".^;^,,, ,, ,,,, 
 
 -^-!^^'ri;;:;a.enoneave.ate.p.al^^^^^^ 
 
 sec tluit the Cluiicn ' - , j -^ Every new legi^la- 
 
 ,,o.e!y -'--^^-\7^ ^;; ;^ ;:. a^^^^^^^^^^ of chnvch rate., the 
 
 live measure, such as tlic jn opo. eu ui church, 
 
 tends ni th.it ^" «^\^?"; • ^^^ ^f tlie measures, supported 
 
 ^^'^!"''""'-':i;;; i r npo^ibermistalce; and there is every 
 by larf^e nu.ior ties "^^^'^^ jj^^,,, ^^t" Commons will proceed 
 
 „„=i. o,>, as 'Y;;' "'!,i "En-lh o it >., that wo m«,t M.ift for 
 „„,-.elvc., lely on om ow ,,o„fave.,e the civil law, and 
 
 begin Willi, ana we ""« " ... 5„.„„„ie. We have their energy 
 „„ .„e losing -'^ "' ''^:"::]'°^'nttp rof oiir brethren, niulor tlie 
 and prudence ^«<°- »^» « .'^^/^^ , P,, „„ Ming to contend with 
 same monarchy, to giiulc us, aim .onaration from the 
 
 on .he P-'»f''V^'X;Sdose»dpeina:,ent union. What 
 mothr church, but ratiiei *»' ^ "'°;': , , \, . fu,.tlier,ifthed!oocse 
 
OF THK DIOd-.SK or lllKDERK'TON. 
 
 19 
 
 ami that aft or law iul li 
 
 ml, aiul sufflciml i)roof of jruiU, 
 
 witnesses 
 
 sentence shoukl be jnonounretl oy a \n-n\n-i iu..v;^.. -■ — - 
 
 ^e p pvietv of thi. method in onr -onrts of law. Ave we .o devo. 
 „ de -sta.ulinjr, that vnles .annot he fnuned in the ehn.eh w h eh 
 
 vi leln-e the lun.ishment of ,nnlt, and yet protect the person of to 
 :i2. iron, t ranny? U is next to -M>os.ible that n. a dn.y c^ - 
 stitnted svnod, a bishop shonld ever play th. tyrant; for he n n> 
 ri: IheV.,ns;nt of a nlajovity of both onlers ; and in ,u.^^ 
 
 matter, the vote wonld always he taken by orders, not b. a bau. n a 
 oritv of votes. The qnestion is whether you will have the decision 
 f he whol chur.-h represented by her con.mnnieants, lay as well us 
 le lar^ vh t,u von will sub.nit to the dictation of a tew nres- 
 ^rihL'e^Ls, as;nn.in, powers which tb<. ch^vh^has no ,.^ 
 he.n, and denouncing ev<.ry one who dares to th bom t u _ I m 
 twentv vcars I have refused, on principle, to submit to tl..>, im 
 we tv years I have borne accusations and insiuuations in si ence 
 unTlave rested mv justitieation on the ..,od sense and j^ood leelino- 
 ; he whole diocese. If the ,.leroy and laity think me in error, tliey 
 live a^^^n hint opportunities for making their sentimen s known 
 B^t I c n cahnlv, UK>ugh humbly, appeal to my own conscience and 
 fo the j t sentence of (Jne who will hereafter render judgnien and 
 us^'to all. without respect of persons, tln.t [ Inwe "ot sough o 
 cruvh bv the strong arm of power, those whose opinions dUlei fiom 
 mv ovvn that I liavreonferred beneiices and honors on those who gave 
 ; sZ ; t to mv own views of truth : and if T have done this when I 
 W.S 1 -i PO'.ition of greater independence, I must be less bkely to do. 
 X c ^.0 -etb^ the strong checks of continual public discussion . 
 " r; it i« fov tl>c diocese, not for me personally to wish tor the 
 .srblisbment of a synod. No man, as he grows old, desires more 
 4^ r^tuble; and if it be generallv distasteful, 1 can ive very 
 u TSf M it is tlie diocese that will be shut out of a com- 
 Tou bS t broLUod, and deprived of the advantages that 
 ZJtL common consultation, and mutual co-operat.on in a 
 Z^md. With England we are likely to have less, rather than 
 ,»r»ip pnrninunication of this nature. 
 Th^ie one other point which I cannot wholly pass by, but on 
 
 newUlero ti.o lailv; »,ul ,l>c only thing timt soe.nsccvtan, a 
 "sc." "a tal-.ablo co„m.lm,, and po.sibly a tn.nnUnou. and 
 
20 
 
 A CHAHtil. TO Tin: < I.KK«1Y 
 
 I, list \ derision. WlKtlicr tliis hv your w i^*h in nudi a caso, yoursclvos 
 nui>i (Utcnnino. In siu-l. an event, my npirir. may bo far tVom ilic; 
 ronllii-ls and passionn ofeartli, and my voice and (;(»un^'cl may be alike 
 l.owei-less to assiMt you. But for tlie sni<e of tlie clmrcli wliidi I Iiave 
 loved, tlie b'-etlireii on whom 1 Itavo l«dd my hands, and the con}<re- 
 jiiilion whicl. I have served, I pray (Jod to preserve yon from i\w evil« 
 of a hastv, tumult nous, and ill-eonsitlcred clioicc. If there he any- 
 thing that Kliould be done '* decently and in order," surely it nmst l)e 
 tlie election of the liishop who is to ]>reside over you all. The very 
 mention of such an occurrence reminds me that as it is not lil<oIy that 
 all here assembled will meet a^ain at another visitation, I Hhonld 
 take leave (.f you uow with words of earnest love for your common 
 spiritual welfare. If yoti valiu' my counsel, if you seek the common 
 peace and growth ofcmr small and scattered flocks, you will not per- 
 petually cast abroad the llrebrands of controversy and strife in our own 
 communion. A politician of j^reat ability, but bound by no tie to 
 our clmrch. has lately said in his place in the House of Commons, 
 that the Kiiylish establishment miyht last lor a<?es, if it were not for her 
 own internal dissensions; and such words, proceeding from such a 
 source, nuiy well be considered as a timely, if not a providential, 
 warning; and if they may be so regarded by a powerful, well-endowed 
 body, whose roots have struck deep into the English heart, which 
 has the tenacity of one of its own venerable oaks to sustain it, how 
 much more im'pressive should the warning be to us, who are more 
 like exotics than trees home-born in the soil, and of whom it has 
 beeu said by an authority, i)ossessed of some keenness of observation, 
 whether truly or not , I do not pretend to say, that the genius of the peo- 
 ple at large iu this country is not favorable to the growth o! the religion 
 of the ( 'hurch of England. Be this as it may, there can be no reasonable 
 doubt in the mind of any pru>!ent person, that we need all Ihe etmrgy, 
 all the wisdom, all the learning, all the forbearance, all the unity of 
 purpo.-e that we can summon to our aid, to make us to stand at all, 
 amidst the conflicting elements which surround us. Every lawful 
 and christian means you can devise is required to keep our liocks 
 from wandering, to teach and attract the young, to All their minds 
 with Catholic truth, with sober, sound theology, to render them loyal 
 and dutiful to their baptismal covenant, and to induce them to remain 
 steadfast in Apostolic doctrine and fellowship, sound iu faith and 
 holy in life. Our disunion will ne c.- ;>'.omote their unity. Our 
 mutual recriminations will never i? .•,ir.>.s.j th("r attachment. And 
 our perpetual attacks on the most numcrw'is body of christians in the 
 Province will never nnike us a strong, united church. This plan has 
 been tried long enough iu Ireland to prove itself a total failure; and 
 what converts have we ever made to our conjuumion in tiiis i'rovlnce 
 
 
 k 
 
(V 
 
 OF Tnr niocESK ok riiKi>KniCTON. 
 
 91 
 
 by IncesRunt dcnunrlntlons oflho (.'hurch of Homo, or by Rtinii.f? up 
 suspicion umouKHt the brcthicn? If iiifttcml of nltciuTmff t<. Ww ffiout 
 Apofitlo'8 ndvlco, to miiko known Hie uioHsa}?^ of jfood will on- 
 trusted to UH, «'bv punMioHS. l)v knowlcd^'c by lonj? Nurtcrinj?, by 
 kindness, by lovo 'unfiiKUod," wc -bito and devour ono ivnoti.cr," 
 HHKurcdlv wo sliull bo '• consumed ono of anotlicr." 
 
 Wo may HnK <I>p cbun^es on llonuuiisn*. riluaHfui, and infldPllty 
 every dav'of our lives; but wl.ilc we tluis live !n tbc spirit of bitter 
 controvcVsv, our inner life will decay, and lovo to (Jo<l and love 
 to our noijibbour will fudc away froni our bearts. (io<l {fiant I may 
 never live to nee tbc dav, wben it slmll be nuid to tbe Churob of New 
 Brunswick as to duuchcs plunted by Apostolic bands, ami watered 
 by Apostolic prayers, " God haUi numbered tby kin;,'dom and linislicd 
 it; tliou art weighed iu tbe balances, and art found wauting." 
 
 EuuATUM.-On page 7, line 26, for " Le roy Vaviserar read ^^ Lc 
 
 roi s'avisera. 
 
 Extract from tlie Records of the Synod of tbe Diocese of Frcdcric- 
 
 ton, dated July 2, 1868: 
 
 Resolved. Tbat this Svnod fully concurs iu tbe sentence of cx- 
 coiamunicatioa passed on Dr. (^olenso; and solemnly declares tbat 
 tbc Cburcb in this diocese is not in communion with him." Passed 
 unanimously. 
 
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 H. A. CROPLKY, PUINTKU, QUEEN ST., KUKDEKICTON, N. B.