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I do not 7nean to be understood as saying that the members of the Church of England hold aloof from politics as indifferent to the affairs of theState, but what I do mean is that every member of the Church of England holds his own political views and adheres to them. His vote cannot be bought. The Church of England man is a loyal man, and it is a loyal toast that I have to propose to you now. I am quite .sure that if his Excellency the Governor-General of Canada had not been travelling at the time these preparations were being made he would have been glad to accept the invitation to be present at this luncheon to-day. The Governor-General is a member of our Church of England. I couple with his name another which is in familiar use with it, and I am happy to say that he is also a member of the Church of England, His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, who was present at the service in the Church this morning, thereby testifying 5>T So his real interest in this Jubilee coninitmoiation of the Church. He would liave been present here, but that he i.s afraid in the state of his Iiealth at present to enter a crowded and heated room. Therefore I ask you to cordi- ally and loyally drink the health of the Governor-General of Canada and the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. The toast was duly honoured. The next toast on the list was " The Jubilee Year of this Diocese." The Bishop in proposing it said : This is a proud and happy day for the Church of England and especially for myself, occupying the position which I do. I feel proud this afternoon to be surrounded by so many distinguished guests, and particularly by four of my biother Bishops, including the distinguished Bishop from the sister Church of America. I am proud to see here at table such a large and thoroughly representative gathering of the members of the Church of England. One source of grati- fication which I have to-dav is that the Church of Eni;land in Ontario contains within its communion, such a large proportion of the real working talent and sulstance of this country. We have to-day to compare two dates, 1839 and 1889. I feel that it becomes me to bo very brief in dealing with the subject, because there are many who will speak this afternoon who can speak from longer experience than I am able to do. It is known to all persons here that in the month of November, fifty years ago, the first Bishop of Toronto returned to take charge of the Diocese after having been consecrated in Lambeth Chapel, on St. Bar- tholomew's day in the same j^ear. It was a day for the Church of England and for this Piovince of profound thankfulness. The Diocese of Toronto at that time embraced all of Upper Canada, and the number of Clergy in the entire Diocese was between seventy and eighty. We have here this afternoon two of the four Clergymen still living who were in the Diocese at the time that Bishop Strachan was consecrated in 1839. I 30 "inusb leave to these gentlemen the opportunity of giving some reminiscences of that time. The interval of fifty years, of course, is not a large one in the history of the Church, but it is necessarily a large one in the history of a new Colonial Diocese. It will be remem- bered by all present that the first Colonial Bishopric of the English Church was a Canadian Bishopric— that of Nova Scotia, When on the 24th of August, 183!), the Bishops of Toronto and Newfoundland were consecrated, they were the ninth and tenth Bishops of the Colonial Church. There are now seventy-five Bishops of the (Colonial and Missionary Church. You are aware that this original Diocese consisted in and was coterminous with Upper Canada, which has since been dismembered and made into five Dioceses, another sign of the great growth of our Church in this Province. There were but seventy-five clergy or so administrating in the original Diocese ; there are now over five hundred. The portion of the Diocese retained in the original name of the Diocese of Toronto has 160 clergy, which is the third largest num- ber in any Diocese in the Colonial Church, the others exceeding being Calcutta and Madras. I do not recjuireto speak at any length upon the internal growth of the Church. There are many thing.s which should be mentioned in a short history of these fifty years. It is a very long period to us, as a Church, because it is so full of incidents. I might sa}'^ that the last fifty years is a much longer period than any fifty years that have ever gone before, indeed there is more crowded into that period than into any century preceding. Progress has been so rapid, and that rapid progress has been goinj? on all round the world, which has been living at such a rate. I am quite sure that the City of Toronto, if not 1 ae Diocese of Toronto, has not been lagging behind^in this onward march. There are only one or two obvious facts in reference to the Episcopate of the first Bishop which I would refer to. One 37 isubject which occupied much of his aetivo attention was the fi«^ht over the Clergy Reserves. We must all acknowledge with what pluck, indomitable energy, untir- ing devotion and skill he conducted as champion of the Church of England that teitible struggle. The next most prominent feature in his Episcopal life was his educational work. Owing to his exertions King's College was origi- nally foundeil as a Church of England Universitj', and you are all aware how when seventy years of age he had to begin his work in this direction over again, and with what indomitable pluck he set himself to that labour. There is no better way to view the Diocese in this year of 1889, than to look around upon the educational institu- tions of the Church in this Province of Ontario. In the first place there is Trinity College — and there is an addi- tional Theological College to that here in the city of Toronto, Wycliffe College. Then there is the Church School for boys in connection witn Trinity College, which is acknowledged not only throughout Canada, but largely in the United States, to be the very best school of its kind that can be found. There is the Bishop Strachan School for girls, the Bishop Bethune College at Oshawa, the youngest of our educational children. I am sure that any one who was present in St. James's Catliedral this morning, or at this luncheon, must have very little feeling indeed if he did not feel his heart touched with pride and gratitude for the prospects which are now before the Church in this Province, and in this Diocese. In review- ing the history of our Church here for the last fifty years, there are other internal difficulties which might be spoken of in addition to the Clergy Reserve dispute. We come across some very sad divisions between so-called parties in the Church. Theie is no occasion why we should shut our eyes to these facts. I do not know that we have any great cause deeply to deplore them, because we believe that in the providence of God they were I I I t I f 38 intended to do good in the end. And I say at this present moment that we are able to rejoice that although we have not and could not possibly succeed in reducing all men to one line of thought, for that is utterly impossible so long as men ure endowed by God with independence of views, yet T claim that we have arrived at a ]ierfect unity ami harmonv one with another, and the result has been attained without any surrender of principle on the part of any one, but by a cordial recognition by each party of all that is good in the other, that the Church of England is the Church of Christ, and that it is broad enough to admit a very great number of divergent views, and is able to harmonize all together in the one great work which (Christ gave to his Church to accomplish. That is the one supreme cause, ami we rejoice that in this Jubilee commem- oration we are met together representing justice and truth, nnd thoroughly in earnest and zealous, not only in our devotion to the Master, but also to our beloved Church, whose ministers we are. There is one more word which I wish to say and which I hope no one will consider out of place. I speak of the present condition of this diocese and of the prospects of the future. We have set out now upon the commencement of another half-century. We have set out with the very best hopes, and there is ground to look that the coming fifty years will be not less pros- perous and fruitful than the period I have been speaking of. You are aware that I have started in connection with this semi-centennial celebration another great work for the further advancement of the interests of the Chui'ch. I mean the setting on foot of a real Cathedral establish- ment fully organized for its work. I have undertaken this work in faith, believing it w^ill be a very great benefit of the Church in years to come. I believe that on two grounds • (1) I believe in the Church of England, and (2)1 believe in the future of the City of Toronto. It is in that faith I have undertaken this great venture, trusting that the i 39 Church in this great Diocese will rally round it, especially in this City of Toronto, with its increasing prosperity. I believe that the Church in this city, and in this diocese, will not think its work completely organized until, like the churches in the dioceses of England, it has a Cathedral that it may be proud of. I will now ask you to toast the Jubilee year of the diocese. The toast was cordially honoured, and, in the absence of the Very Rev. Dean Geddes, the chairman called on the Venerable Archdeacon MacMurrjiy to respond to the toast. RESPONSE BY THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON MACMURRAY. My Lord Bishop. — Having been invited by your lord- ship, and requested so say a few words in reply to the toast of the Jubilee Year, I trust I may be excused, if I venture to give you very briefly some of the causes of our rejoicing to-day. In tracing the early history of the Church in Canada, the name of John Strachan presents itself to our notice, a name which cannot \he mentioned without deep esteem and rejjard. Mr. Strachan left his native land at the close of the last century, and came to Cornwall as tutor to the families of the late Honorable Richard Cartwright and the Honorable James Hamilton. In May 1803, he applied to Bishop Mountain, the elder, for holy orders, and was ordained by his lordship in that year, and placed over the parish of that town. As his parish work did not occupy the whole of his time, h^ opened a school which soon attained celebrity, and at which some of the first men of the country received their education. Notably am'^ngst these were Sir John Beverley Robinson, Sir Jame."? .ac- aulay, and Mr. Justice Jones, and subsequently all .-iie Judges of the Superior Court at one time were pupils of Dr. Strachan. for at this time he had received the degree of LL.D , from his college in Scotland. But his stay at 40 1 I 1 Rjg 1 \ 'in IH i' ^ Cornwall was not to be of long continuance. The inhabi- tants of York, having heard of his celebrity, in conjunc- tion with Chief Justice Scott and Major General Sir Isaac Brock, a name of imperishable memory, and a name that is still dear to every lover of Canada, made application to the Bishop of Quebec, Dr. Mountain, in behalf of Dr. Strachan to the parish of York. This he accepted, and after a stormy passage he reached his new parish in 1812. The population of York at that time being about 1,000 his duties were consequently light, and he at once opened a school, as at Cornwall, in a small wooden building on King street, a little east of Yonge, the property of one Joseph Dennis, in which were educated the Baldwins, the Boultons, the Cartwrights, the Gambles, the Rewards, the McDonalds, the Macnabs, the Macaulays, the Smalls, the Spragge.s, and others — who disting* shed themselves in various avocations of after life. I had myself the good for- tune of being admitted to that celebrated school as a junior pupil when eight years of age, and am now, I think, the only surviving pupil, whilst the school was held on King street. The school was soon after removed to a large building, placed on a square of the town north of St. James's Church. Dr. Strachan had, as his assistant masters from time to time, the Rev. Messrs. Macaulay, Stoughton, Rolph, and Mr. A. N. Bethune, then only nineteen years of age. But Dr. Strachan not only discharged the duties of his parish and school, but he also held Divine service once a month at the first missionary station a few miles north of York, then called Ketchum's, or Hogg's Hollow, now York Mills. Well do I remember as a youth, his notices given every fourth Sunday in the parish Church : — " There w^ill be no service this afternoon, as I am going to Mr. Ketchum's." . For a .short time these services were discontinued. A deputation waited upon Dr. Strachan to ascertain the cause. He was pretty severe upon them, and stated to them H! Hi 41 B inhabi- conjunc- Sir Isaac ame that cation to If of Dr. )ted, and in 1812. out 1,000 :e opened lilding on ■ty of one wins, the ards, the nails, the selves in good for- I a junior the only \g street, building, James's ers from n, Rolph, s of age. 33 of his e once a north of )w York es given lere will to Mr. ued. A le cause, io them I the reasons. He said, that when last there he had only the individual who took care of the place, where the services were held — the weather being very stormy and wet, and not a chair to sit upon. He nevertheless discharged his duty, read Divine service and preached a sermon to the person who was present. He reminded the delinquents that he had gone several miles in the same storm, and that if they promised to attend in future, and had the place fit for service, he would again supply the services. The reproof had the desired effect, and the services were continued. This, I believe, was the first missionary service ever held outside of York. In after years efi'orts were made to supply the destitution in the surrounding country, which were loudly called for, and six stations were selected by Bishop Stewart and Dr. Strachan, namely, Mimico, Weston, Charlton's settlement, Thornhill, in the morning at eleven o'clock, and Ketchum's in the afternoon on the same Sunday, Lamoreaux settlement in Scarborough, and Anderson's on the Kingston road, near the Rouge. An arrangement was made with three masters of Upper Canada Collet- , the Rev. Messrs. Boulton, Dane, and Matthews, and with the three students in divinity under Dr. Strachan, Messrs. Elliott, Padfield, and McMurray, to supply these places with Divine service, which was regularly attended to each Sunday for a long time by the parties nan\ed. In addition to this, an efibrt was made to establish a missionary society for converting and civilizing the In'iian? about the year 1830. A considerable sum for thoKv days was subscribed by the members of the Chuich, and m conjunction with assistance rendered by the Governmeav nndtr Sir John Colborne, an Indian mission was determined upon. I was sent for by the Governor and informed that it was his intention to establish missions to the Indians on the north shores of lakes Superior and Huron, that I had been selected for the work, and that my headquarters were to be Sault Ste. '• i 11 lit 'Ij 42 Marie. I remonstrated, and told His Excellenc}' that I was only twenty- two years of age, not old enough for orders ; and, further, that I had never heard of Sault Ste. Marie. He requested me to go to the Sur- veyor-General with a request that he would point out to me Sault Ste. Marie. After a careful examination of the jhen surveys of all the region north of York, the place could not be found. I returned to His Excellency and stated the place could not be found. He informed me that I was to proceed to Buffalo, thence to Detroit, and I would be able to ascertain the locality of my future residence. Following these instructions, I left York, as if going to the north pole, on the 20th of September, 1832, and reached Sault Ste. Marie or. the 20th of October following, just one month on the passr ? v^ich can now be accomplished in thirty -six hours. 'i'L as the first efibrt to establish missions in the great nona-west. The increasing duties of his Parish, occuping most of his time, and having been appointed a member of the Legislativ^e Council and Archdeacon of York, Dr. Strachan retired from his scholastic duties, but not from the cause of education, which was ever uppermost in his mind. He urged the necessity of grammar schools, one of which was opened in York, and eventually merged ii-to Upper Canada College. But these did not satisfy his longings for superior education. In the absence of a Church University, he established a Theological School at Cobourg, at which many of the then clergy received their theologi- cal training, under the Rev. Dr. Bethune. In the .summer of 1839, Archdeacon Strachan went to England, and in August, was consecrated Bishop of Toronto, with the con- sent of the then Bishop of Quebec, who had long been desirous of a division of his vast and unwieldy Diocese. The newly formed Diocese comprehended the whole of Upper Canada. While in England, in 1827, he was instru- mental in securing a Royal Charter for King's College, 43 lenc}' that >ld enough r heard of ) the Sur- )omt out to ition of the c, the place illeney and led me that jid I would : residence, [oing to the ind reached ng, just one nplished in o establish ig most of ber of the r. Strachan the cause nind. le of which iLto Upper is longings a Church it Cobourg, r theologi- he suuiDier nd, and in ;h the con- long been y Diocese, whole of xas instru- 's College, which the good Bishop ho})ed would meet the requirements of the Church. But in this his hopes were blasted, for so far from being a benefit to the Church, its whole original character was secularized, and its abolition followed in 1849. In the month of January, 1850, the Bishop addressed a stirring circular to the clergy and laity of the Church in the Diocese calling upon them to assist by their contribu- tions the establishment of a Church University, and heading the subscription with £1,000. The appeal was generously responded to throughout the Diocese, and a large sum for those days subscribed. Early in April, 1850, the good and indefjitigable Bishop left again for England, to procure, if possible, a royal char- ter for an exclusively Church University. ^Vhilst there, pressing the matter on the attention of the Colonial Sec- retary, he received handsome contributions from the two great Church societies, from Oxford and Cambridge Uni- versities. He preached, and had collections taken up in several Churches, and also appointed a committee to aid him in his eftbrts, two of whom now only remain, namely, Lord Nelson and the Rt. Hon. Mr. Gladstone, both of whom vigorousl}' aided the Bishop in his noble object, and whom I found of great value during my sojourn in England in behalf of Trinity College, especially the latter, who not only gave me the first contribution, but introduced me to persons of the highest distinction, both in Church and State. The good Bishop's efforts were successful and r( ''ulted in procuring about £15,000. He returned in November, en- couraged with his success and the prospect of soon procur- ing a royal charter for Trinity College. But did he wait for the charter ? Not he. He at once secured a suitable site for a Church College, tenders were arccpted for Trinity College, the first sod was turned on th j 17th of March, 1851, and on the 30th of April the corner itone was laid. In January, 1852, Trinity College was fr rmally opened with a suitable and efficient body of professors, and its work vigorously 44 11! III i: 1 proceeded with. On the 16th of July, 1854, the long looked for charter was granted and the College firmly and securely established. So great has been the sviccess of Trinity College, that, at the present time, large additions are being made to meet its present requirements. An able staff of professors, second to none in the Dominion, and I may add on this side of the Atlantic, are busily engaged in training for pastoral usefulness a large number of students, who will be an ornament to the profession they may choose and a blessing to the Church at large. Already the happy influence of this Church University, which the lamented Bishop Strachan called " the child of his old age," extends well nigh from Vancouver to Labrador. As age pressed heavily upon the Bishop, he asked to be relieved from a part of the anxiety and cares necessarily arising from the oversight of so large a sphere of duty. The appointment ';f Bishops for the colonies was no longer exercised by the Crown, but left to the election of the clerical and lay ^ueirhers of the Church. A meeting for the election of a coadjutor Bishop to aid the " Wellington of the Church," as he was well named by the late Rector of St. Paul's Church, Bufialo, the Rev. Dr. Shelton, a firm and life-long friend of the Bishop of Toronto, was assembled, and the result, after many ballots, was in favour of the Rev. A. N. Bethune, rector of Cobourg, who, from being a pupil of the aged Bishop, was consecrated by him to the high and holy office of Coadjutor, and who for many years ably administered the aftairs of the Diocese. The time of his departure having arrived, his mantle fell upon your lordship, who, we hope, may long be spared to tread in the steps of j^our illustrious predecessors. Nor must' another most important addition to the episcopate of the Church be overlooked. The Provincial Synod, deeming the work of the Bishop of Toronto far too onerous, appointed a few years ago the popular and talented Dr. Sullivan as Bishop over the northern portion of the 45 long looked nd securely of Trinity IS are being ble staff* of I may add in training dents, who nay choose Iready the which the lis old age," )r. As age be relieved rily arising duty. The no longer ^ion of the neeting for sllington of ector of St. 1 firm and assembled, our of the om being a lim to the nany years he time of upon your o tread in Nor must" tate of the cl, deeming o onerous, il anted Dr. Dn of th& 4 I I if; Diocese of Toronto, as well as for the Indians, in fact, of the south-west this side of Winnipeg, and most ably and energetically has he laboured under many disadvantages, at times well-nigh hopeless, until to-day he has, I believe, some twenty clergN'men in his extensive Diocese faith- fully and prayerfully doing their blessed Master's work. But little York, with its one Church, no longer exists. Toronto, its new name, has now, I understand, over thirty Churches, with a prospect of speedy increase, and where the old wooden Church of St. James stood, there is now a noble structure, vastly improved by the late judicious and called for alterations, second to none as a parish Church in our Dominion. Still, with this satisfactory state of the Church, there is nevertheless a blank, which the happy thought of your lordship, and a few warm-hearted church- men associated with you, is in a fair way to be filled up, for already the stately walls of St. Alhan's Cathedral, a well-chosen name, are fairly under wjiy, and a portion erected in which Divine Service is performed every Sun- day. I cannot, my lord, bring myself to believe that the Christian zeal and liberality of the membe 's of the Church in this rapidly increasing city in wealth and population, with others in the Province, will cease their efforts or withhold their means and prayers until the top stone is placed upon the Cathedral of St. Alban's at no distant day. It will not only be a great advantage to the Church at lariife, with the assistance of the corporate body now appointed, but it will be an ornament to your city, which can scarcely be entitled to that name, without its Cathedral, as in the cities in the fatherland. I fear I have detained you too long, and therefore I will only add my earnest and heartfelt prayer, that with God's blessing upon your noble efforts, St. Alban's may speedily be brought to a successful and happy consumma- tion. ^ .«l«WMMl tl l\ n 46 RESPONSE BY THE HON. JOHN BEVERLEY ROBINSON. Hon. John Beverley Robinson, in the course of his address, said that he was the only representative from Upper Canada present at the consecration of Bishop Strachan in Lambeth Chapel. He happened to be present because in his early days he was a friend of Dr. Strachan's youngest son, Alexander Strachan. Among all the com- panions of his youth there was not one so handsome, so gallant or so spirited as young Aleck Strachan. To the personal knowledge of the speaker, Aleck Strachan had, with his own right arm, settled many a difficulty between opposing parties in their early days. His friend. Arch- deacon MacMurray, he (the speaker) also recollected fifty years ago when he was up in Sault Ste. Marie. As he was in the habit of travelling a good deal in Upper Canada he once took a trip to Sault Ste. Marie. Would their lordships and the gentlemen present believe it, that the first time he met Archdeacon MacMurray at Sault Ste. Marie it was at a dance. There were ladies there and gentlemen also, and when he asked his friend MacMurray who they all were and what did it mean, the answer was, " Oh, these are my parishioners." There he was in all his glory at Sault Ste. Marie. It was a long time to look back upon, but it touched his heart when he recollected it to-day. Looking back over the period 1839- 1889 he felt that it was a retrospect indeed. Archdeacon MacMurray had in his address drawn attention to numerous hard passages and important incidents in the life of Dr. Strachan in Canada. He (the speaker) could tell of the harder passages in the life of Dr. Strachan before he had left Scotland for Canada ; he could speak of the difficulties under which he acquired his education. He was only six- teen years of age when he entered the University of Aberdeen. His circumstances then were particularly trying since he was left in charge of his mother and sister two 47 (BINSON. fuise of his native from of Bishop be present Strachan's I the com- mdsome, so n. To the achan had, ty between iend. Arch- recollected Marie. As il in Upper i>te. Marie. ?ent believe VlacMurray were ladies his friend mean, the There he was a long rt when he riod 1839- ^rchdeacon numerous life of Dr. tell of the ore he had difficulties s only six- versity of arly trying sister two years previous to the entrance into the University. It was absolutely neces.sarj' that he should support those left in his charge, and he had to take to teaching, by which he earned the annual stipend of £20. Yet out of this sum it was necessary to provide for the mother and sister. He did it. When about eighteen years of age he went to St. Andrew's where he met two gentlemen, afterwards distingui.shed in life — Dr. Chalmers and Prof. Hunter. There he earned £30 a year, and the additional .£10 to the first salary were given over entirely to his mother and sister. After he left that school he earned a scholarship, for which he worked hard, which brought him £50 a year, and so anxious was he to get it that he stood many previous examinations before Prof. Hunter, who told him that he had little doubt of his success. When he gained this every pound of the additional income went to his mother and sister, and he (the speaker) knew that young Strachan often walked ninety miles on foot to send the remittance complete. These were some of the hardships of his early life. Soon after that he was informed that an academy in Upper Canada was vacant, and the office of principal was offered to Dr. (Chalmers, who refused it. It was then offered to young Strachan, who accepted, and he sailed for this country in August of 1799, arriving towards the end of the month of December. Here his difficulties started out anew, and he was known to have expressed the wish that if he could get £20 in his possession again he would start back for Glasgow. Luckily for this country and for himself he could not get the £20, but went as a private teacher to the children of the Hon. Richard Cartwright and others of Kingston. The speaker then spoke of the manner in which Dr. Strachan came to the front in 1812, and then, how backed up by his people, he came before the Legislative Assemblj' and preached such a sermon to them as would do good to any student of to-day or of future years to read. He said to them : " Let the ambition 48 of each man, be to see if he cannot outstrip the other in this race of glory." In the race of glory his students took a noble part, and he afterwards had the pleasure of seeing them wearing medals for their glorious deeds. If the occasion had been more pressing Dr, Strachan would have shared in the deeds of these men. T^ow, let every man present resolve on building upon the foundations that Dr. Strachan had laid a superstructure worthy of his name. He wanted to see the Cathedral of St. Alban's completed in the way that his lordship had outlined. THE BISHOP OF WESTERN NEW YORK. Right Rev. Dr. CoxE, Bishop of Western New York, on rising to propose the toast of " Tlie Church of Englaud in Canada," said : My Lord — I ought to be very thankful to your lordship, and I am thankful indeed, for an opportunity like this of meeting so many of my Christian brethren and valued personal friends. The warm welcome with which they have honored me, is gratifying ; all the more so, because I am conscious that it is not meant for myself only, but rather, is a recognition of your regard for my Right Reverend brethren, the Episcopate of the Church in the United States. And I must further thank your lordship for assigning to me the privilege of proposing the toast I rise to offer. It requires no words of preface from me, and I name it, at once: "The Church of England in Canada." For ray venerated mother, the Church of England, whether in Canada, or any where else in all the world, I am ready to stand forth and speak a loyal word, here, or in my own country ; among her friends, or even more especi- ally before her enemies ! And, in sjieaking words of love and gratitude to-day, for what my Canadian brethren have done to extend her blessed influences on this continent, I shall claim for such words a value not otherwise belonging to them, because, in some degree, I may spoak as a repre- 49 sentative man. I utter the sentiments of thousands of my countrymen, and of tens of thousands in the couimuniou in which I exercise my sacred functions as a Bishop. I fear that many of those who liear me have a very inade- quate idea of our cordial feelings towards the Churchmen of Canada; feelings of brotherhood, in the communion of a common Mother Church. I fear I must here fall into the favourite vice of my countrymen, and you must forgive me for a little boastinir. I think there is to be found among us an enthusiasm and a loyalty to that ancient and Apostolic Mother, which surpasses what I have as yet dis- covered in Canada. Churchmen in "the States" know what they owe to the Church of England, not only as Christians, but as American citizens. Had we derived our Institutions from sources less pure and primitive, I must add less Catholic, we too should have been "as Admah and as Zeboim" : I mean we should be no better off than the states and provinces of Spanish and Portuguese America. It mav be said that I talk like a " Hisfh Churchman " ! So I do ! But, in my country, I do not know a " Low Churchman " wdio is " low " enouffh not to love the Church of England ; and I thank God that Church is large enough and broad enough to embrace as children, legitimate and w^ell-beloved, those who are called " Low Churchmen " — a term I do not greatly admire. For myself, lam a Church- man — without an adjective, But, I say, with all my heart, honour and gratitude to those who, in the last century, revived an evangelical spirit in the Church, and made it ready to do, and capable of achieving, what it has done ever since, and is now so mightily doing for Christ, in all parts of the earth ! Even in my childhood I learned to love the character, the sweet hymns and the Scripts :' teachings of old-fashioned evangelicp.ls. How much go. A has resulted from their missionary spirit and their fervent zeal ; nay, also, from their heroic examples of self-sacrificing 7 g 50 love to God and man. That is no Catholic Church which can expel from her bosom holy Christian brothers, because of differences only to be measured " by the estimation of a hair ; " by hair-splitting quarrels, about honest difficul- ties bred by the ambiguities oi" human dialects. What Christian wishes to be separated from men of the school of Wyclif and of Cranmer, because he prefers the clearer orthodoxy of Ridley, and of Bull, and of Butler ; I trust the day will never come when the Anglican (,'ommunion will fail to embrace in loving arms, her Hebers and her Wilsons — lights of the Indian Empire ; and may she never lack missionarj' Bishops of another school such as — in a word, your own " Wellington of a Bishop " — whom we commemorate to-day, the illustrious Bishop Strachan. It was news to me, indeed, that he was a " Wellington," of the field — I mean (besides the missionary field) — of the field of war ! Nor did I know before, how greatly those tremendous triumphs of the British arms (in the war of 1812-1815) were indebted to hisbra/ery. But from what has fallen from my honoured friend, Mr. John Beverley Robinson, I infer that it was chiefl}' his strong arm that pushed my unfortuate countrymen over the heights at Queenston. Ah ! brethren, if enemies should attempt to make a mess of Canadian affairs on those eastern heights where Wolfe planted the Hag of England, I trust there will be found an arm as strong to push them down, quite as effectually. If there is anything glorious in our com- mon history — the history of the Anglo-Saxon race, in America — it is that march of Wolfe and his intrepid soldiery up those inaccessible steeps, to plant the flag of liberty and light upon the heights of Abraham. The heights of -4 &ra^am, I say, that "father of the faithful" — no father of the renegade and the apostate ! " The Church of England, in Canada," is here to-day because of that achievement ; and here she shall stand forever — yes ! and there also ; for I love Canada, and I wish to love her ■: :i 51 truly Catholic Church all the way from Toronto to Quebec, and to the niouth.s of the St. Lawrence. Our distinguished friend, Mr. Beverley Robinson, ]m» dropped the gratifying assurance that he is still in the prime of life, though he well remembers the consecration of Bishop Strachan. That encourages me to think that I, too, may be not yet superannuated, though I remember that event, as well ; albeit, unlike him, I was not so fortu- nate as to be in Lambeth Chapel to behold it. I was, then, a candidate for H0I3' Orders at our Seminary in New York ; and I recall the enthusiastic interest with which some of us learned that Archdeacon Strachan was in our city, on his way to receive Consecration in London. I remember how appreciatively he was spoken of, as greatlj- worthy of this Apostolic Commission, by that delighful man, the silver-tongued Dr. Wainwright : himself subsequently a Bishop, presiding over our great Metropolitan Diocese of New York. But, my Lord and my brethren, Reverend and Right Reverend, this is, on many accounts, a solemn though a festive occcasion. When I associate myself with memorie.9 that have been here revived, and when I stand here among so many honored brethren who are my juniors in years, and official responsibilities, I cannot congratulate myself as mv eminent friend on the left has done in his own case, that I am still in " the prime of life." No, No ; I am an old man, and it is proverbially hard to "grow old, grace- fully." Why, even my honoured and beloved friend, whose early movements "on the light fantastic toe," hav been, recounted, to-day, could not now move himself as grace- fully as we are assured he once did, far away and a long time ago, at the Sault Ste Marie ! But, God does some- times grant to His servants the privilege of growing old graciously, and by the help of Divine grace, I cherish the hope that I may never do or say anything ungracious when I visit liiy friends and brethren in Canada. My heart 52 I expands towards all my friends and brethren of the Episco- pate in the Dominion, and you know, my Lord, how unfeignedly I esteem your Lordship and other Right Reverend prelates, by whom I have the honour to be surrounded here. But; let me open my heart in a tribute to a few others of the elder clergy with whom I hold cherished relations, and whom, not less, all present delight to honour. To many of the clergy whom I see before me, 1 have been indebted for brotherly offices ; but longer than any others among them, I have known and loved the ])erson and the name of Archdeacon McMurray. I am sorrv to hear that the absence of Dean Geddes, whom I had hoped to meet, is attributable to ill-health. I venerate his character, and greatly prize his friendohip. Let me add the name of Dr. Scadding, among whose successful works, I specially value his "Life of the first Bishop of Toronto." And here permit me to recall the name of one who, on our side of tl»e lake and river, cherished these friends as well, and who for fifty years as a special friend of Bishop Stracltan, and of his friend, the late Bishop Fuller, shared in all their early Ii hours and anxieties for ' the Church of England in Canada." I refer to my beloved friend and brother, the late Dr. Shelton. Canada never had, among my countrymen, a warmer friend than he : and dearly is his m.eraory cheii'^hed in the city of Buffalo, where, for fifty years, he presided over wliat is now our Cathedral. Among his parishioners v/as the greatly honoured Judge Smith, the Chancellor of my Diocese, whom 3'^ou have distinguished by reading entire the letter in which he regrets his inability to be w^ith me, to-day, in the enjoyment of your Jiospitalities. That letter has fully expressed what many of our laity would say, could they also be with you ; and I need only add the remark that all ' our feelings of good neighbourhood with the Motherl)? Diocese of Toronto have been doubled since she gave us for nearer neighbours, the daughter Diocese of Niagara 53 and its honoured Bishop. May no future Canadism Bishop be called to follow the patriotic example of which we have been reminded, in rousing his people to fight against us as perilous and mischievous neighbours, only fit to be j^ushed over the heights of Queenston ! Happy and proud should I be, could I venture to hope that among the few here present who may live to see another Diocesan Jubilee, there might be one to racall my humble name as that of one, who never failed to act on the principle that we are one in race, one in a common work for Christ, and one in the blessed communion of His Church. May he bear wit- ness to another generation th.at I was one of those who, in their aay, never lost an opportunity to do all that could be honourably done to cement the bonds between the Church in the United States and the Church of England, in America. I give " The Church of England in Canada." RESPONSE BY THE BISHOP OF ONTARIO. Thfc Bishop of Ontario also responded. He said that he supposed the privilege of being allowed to res})ond to this toast had been assigned to him because he was the senior Bishop present. He could not go back in memory for fifty years, but it was this month, forty years ago, that he received his first license from Bishop Strachan, and forty yeare is a long retrospect. In responding for the Church he had to cast hh eyes back, and what had occurred in that time ? Had the Church grown as she ought to have, or had she not ? There was a great deal to be thankful for, because he thought the Church of England in Canada had made very satisfactory progress. They had solved a great number of knott}' questions. We have outlived the problem of the voluntary system, and we have solved the question of synodical action, and it was from the Church of England in Canada the Lambeth Conference had ius rise. But in some respects it had not done so well. He had been reminded by the press and by pamphlets, that at the 54 last census the Church of England had fallen from her high position — that other religious bodies had outstripped her. That was certainiv somethinor to be thought over with great regret. At the same time that regret was not tinged with despair or despondency. He did not think that the strength of the Church of England was to be estimated by counting heads; he did not think it depended upon nu- merical strength. He believed that the great power and force of the Church of England in Canada would be always in direct proportion to the intensity with which Ave hold our convictions ; and he thought that that inter ' ';y was growing. He believed that more people in the present dey could give a reason for the hojie that was in them than tifty years ago. He believed honestly that the Church was progressing in a greater comprehension of their privi- leges as churchmen, and. moreover, he thought that, even taking external features viewed by practical results, we have reason to be proud and thankful for so much progress. Now, it might be a littlf^ invidious, and it might savour of egotism v.hen he stated that in his own Diocese they had increased from forty-five clergy to 130. They had builfc 100 new Churches, and he might say that he confirmed moie than 30,000 people. He thought these facts showed thej' were making progress. He hoped also that soon they might be able to point out the subdivision of Dioceses. He believed that with smaller Dioceses the work would be better done. He had no doubt that their meeting that day would give an impetus to the Church all over the Province of Ontiirio. He could assure them that the Clergy of the Diocese of Ontario had their S3'mpathies with them, in that we look back with aftectionate regard to the time when we formed part of the Diocese of Toronto. He looked back to the days when he was a member of the Diocese of Toronto, with great affection, but someti'nes it was tinged with regret and melancholy. He was just thinking how few people there were present with whom li' 55 he was personally acquainted. The time was when he knew every clergyman of the Diocese of Toronto. Now, Toronto had outgrown his memory, and therefore this retrospect is tinged with melancholy when he saw so many persons present whom he knew not, and that his numerous friends in the I/.'ocese were gone. However, he hoped they would depart from this, gathering, determined to do their duty, whether in Ontario or Toronto, God being our helper. DR. GOLDWIN SMITH ON CHUKOH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Professor GoLDWiN Smith gave " The Educational In- stitutions in connection with the Church of England." He said that his honoured friend the Bishop of Western New York, had remarked that the Church should be large and liberal. We, the laity, the Professor observed, had thank- fully to acknowledge that the Church of England has been large and liberal in the education of her clergy. She had sent them to free Universities, and has not deprived them of the education of their manhood. The Church had not been afraid to come in contact with the advance of physi- cal science and the criticism of this age. In doing so he tl.ought she had shown not only true wisdom, but real faith in God. If they not only said with their lips, but belie %'*^d in their hearts there was other truth, what had they to fear of the advance of science and research ? If the alleged discovery was false, it would come to nothing, but if true, it would come back as the truth of God. The religious world had been terribly disturbed by the dis- covery of the thejry of evolution — a discovery, he must call it, though it had not yet received its final adjustments, nor had undergone its destined modifications. But why should this discovery of evolution disturb us ? He was not speaking now of literal interpretations, but spoke of the practical treatment of human nature by Christianity. Chris- tianity had always treated human nature as having some- ^r^w 56 s I thing in its original state that required to be worked out and corrected through the instrumentality of the Church. What said Evolution ? It said that there was something in man of the brute and the animal that required to be eradi- cated. The philosophers of the French Revolution, and those who tried to carry their doctrines into effect, assumed that human nature was perfectly and purely good, and that it needed only to be realised to enter into perfect felicity. They knew what the result of that experiment was. He was old enough to remember the time when Dr. Buckland, the geologist, was an object of general suspicion and mistrust. They laughed at these fears now. In an age like this, teeming with discovery an:l change, it wa.s natu- rally inevitable that perplexity and doubt should Ije felt, but let them not lose their balance or their trust in God. The other day the religious world was almost convulsed by a brilliant novel which, between drawing-room adven- tures and scenes of love, insinuated a rather vague theology. In view of such things let the Church of England pursue her large-minded and liberal course, not being afraid to bring her clergy into contact with the learning and science of the day. With regard to primary education he dared say there were some of them who would like something more parental — he would not say ecclesiastical — than their public school system. But the public school system was an absolute necessity to the masses. The public school needed a supplement which the Church mu.st supply. Democracy was apt to think too much of popular will, and too little of duty. The Church taught that the charactei' and not worldly prosperity was the one true thing worthy of attainment — the one true source of hap- piness. He again expressed the gratitude of the laitj' for the broad, liberal education that was given the clergy. : 67 RESPONSE BY THE HONOUUABLE G. W. ALLAN. Hon. George W. Allan, Chancellor of Trinity University, res[K>nded to the toast of Professor Goldwin Smith. He said : I esteem it a great honour to be called upon to reply to the toast which has just been so eloquently proposed by Prvifessor Goldwin Smith, and so warmly received by this assemblage. I feel that I owe this honour, not to anything pereonal to myself, but to my office as Chancellor of Trinity University, the chief educational institution of the Church of England in this Province. For while everv institution carrying on the work of education in connection with our beloved Church within the Province is included in the toast, our thoughts on an occasion like the present, when we are commemorating the jubilee year of the Diocese of Toronto, are naturally directed to its first Bishop and the great work of the closing years of his life — the found- ing of Trinity College and University. In what spirit the venerable Bishop and those whom he associated with him undertook this great and important work cannot be better illustrated than by quoting, if I may be permitted to do so, a few sentences from the prayer of consecration offered up on the laying of the foundation stone of the University now nearly forty years ago. In it the good Bishop implored Almighty God to "Vouchsafe to those who should sojourn within the walls about to rise from this foundation, minds enlightened by His heavenly grace to proceed in all their doings according to His will. To " teach by His Holy Spirit from on high those who should there teach, and cause their instructions to agree with the truth of His word and the testimony of His Church : that by the might of His power, working through the frail instrumentality of men, the Faith once delivered might be handed on forever. To " grant to all who should go forth from thence, to labou/ in their various vocations among their fellow-men, that to intel- lects accomplished in wisdom and knowledge, they might join souls filled with a true reverence and love to Him, so that 8 ^-<= 58 as polished shafts from His hand they might in all things fulfil His good pleasure to the glory of His great name." My Lords, I may venture to say, with all truthfulness, that it is in the spirit of this prayer of its first founder that those to whom, through successive years, has been com- mitted the work of instruction in Trinity University have sought to discharge their important trust ; and that in the lives of the men who have gone forth from her walls, whether labouring in the (church's vineyard or actively engaged in secular vocations, we have had many cheering proofs that the training and instruction received at Trinity has borne the good fruit for which its founder so earnestly prayed. Doubtless most of those whom I have the honour of addressing are aware that Trinity owes such endow- ment as she possesses entirely to the liberality of the churchmen of this Province, and the generous aid extended by the great Church Societies and our fellow-churchmen in the motherland. There have, of course, as in the history of every insti- tution, been times of anxiety and sometimes of discourage- ment ; but thank God those days have passed away, and Trinity now commands a wider and more general support than ever, from the members of the Church of England in this Province. A little more than six years ago a move- ment was set on foot, chiefly due to the energy and zeal of the present able head of the College, Provost Body, by which a sum of $100,000 was raised for the different requirements of the College, and now a second appeal is about to be made for a similar sum, and already $20,000 has been contributed from different sources. As one result of that appeal, we are enabled to proceed with the erection of a new wing to the College, for the accommodation of the largely increasing numbers of our students, and as the tii*st Bishop of Toronto laid the corner stono of our present building, in the faith and hope of that future for the institution which has since been so fully 59 realized, so now we purpose to call upon you, my Lord, the third Bishop of Toronto, to lay, God willing, the comer stone to-morrow of the new building, which is to meet our present requirement, but to be followed, I trust, as the years go on, by still further additions to keep pace with our increasing numbers. Year by year also we have been increasing the efficiency and adding to the equipment of the College. Our standard of scholarship will compare with that of any other insti- tution of higher education in the Dominion, and we yield to none in the thoroughness of our work. Foremost, of course, among the objects for which Trinity College was founded, is the training and education of those who desire to devote themselves to the work of the min- istry of the Church, and in reference to such shall we not all join in heart, in the words of that prayer from which I have already quoted — " That many may go forth from those walls to be messengers of the Gospel of Peace, rightly equipped for their work, to win souls for Christ." But ray Lords, I attach the same importance to what I believe to be equally the mission of Trinity College, to educate our laymen ; and while affording every opportunity for the higii3st mental culture and scholarly attainments, to train up in the fear of God and the faith of Christ those who are to be engaged in the various professions, and tliose who are to take part in the trade, the commerce, the public affairs of the country, our future lawyers, our future merchants, our future statesmen. No earnest thoughtful man can regard what is passing in almost every part of Christendom without, I think, being fully convinced that there are times of perplexity and trial not very far distant ; that grave social questions and political complications are looming up on ever}'^ side; and that even in our own highly favoured country we are not altogether free from causes of anxiety for the future. Surely, then, there is the greater need that the youth of 60 I our country, when they enter upon the battle of life, should be armed with those principles and actuated by those motives, which can alone enable them, amidst temptations and difficulties, always to stand fast for the right. To implant these principles and suggest these motives is what we seek to effect by the teaching and discipline of College life at Trinity, In regard to other educational institutions in connection with the Church of England, we have Wycliffe Theological College, in this City, which is also carrying on the work of educating young men for the ministry of the Church, and has furnished not a few earnest clergymen to the Church in Canada, a3 well as for work in the mission field abroad. And we have also Huron College, in the west, which is doing the same important work, under the direction of its able Principal. In connection with this important subject of theological training, we have great reason for thankfulness, in an agree- ment which may not be known to all whom I address, and which was come to unanimously by all the Colleges and Univorsities in connection with the Church of England, not in this Diocese only, but throughout the whole eccle- siastical province, and embodied in a canon, which was passed at the last meeting of the Provincial Synod. By this Canon a common board of examiners was appointed to act in all matters appertaining to degrees of the faculty of divinity within the ecclesiavStical province, and a high and uniform standard adopted, to which all must attain before they can receive a divinity degree. Of all the educational institutions connected with the Church none are, perhaps, of more importance and value than those which are to train and educate the vouth of the Church, from the commencement of their school days until they proceed to the Universities or enter upon the active occupation of life. Foremost among these is Trinity College School at Port Hope, which has been so long under the able direction of the present Head Master, the Rev. Dr. 'Pl' 3:1 1; 61 Bethune. To a sound, scholarly education there is added that careful relifjious training which, combined, has ren- dered Port Hope School one of the best in Canada. The boys educated there have been distinguished both by tiie good positions they have afterwards taken at the Universities, the Royal Military College, and other institu- tions, and by their manly. Christian tone and spirit. In addition to Port Hope, there are two other schools for boys in connection with the Church, one in Toronto, estab- lished a year or two ago, and intended, I believe, chiefly for younger boys, and which, I am informed, has been very successful ; and another lately opened at St. Catharines* which is intended to do the .same sort of educational work as Port Hope, and has already a very largo number of pupils. While the Church has thus been mindful of the educational interests of her sons, she has not been neglect- ful of her daughers. To quote the words of an appeal, issued some time ago. to the members of the Church, the great importance to our Church and country of rightly guiding the higher thought of the Churchwomen of Canada, and the grave peril of giving to that higher thought a mere intellectual .secular development, had occupied the attention of not a lew earnest Churchmen, and has resulted in the founding of St. Hilda's College for Women, which is now in success- ful operation, and is destined, I trust, to take as important a part in the work of higher education for women as similar institutions are now doing in the motherland. We have also had another most valuable institution in our midst for many years, which has been doing the same excellent w^ork for the other sex that Port Hope has been doing for our boys. I refer to the Church School for girls, or, perhaps, better known as the Bishop Strachan School, in this city ; and there is another school which has lately been commenced on the same lines at the town oi O^^hawa, and which, I am told, has already a large number of pupils. Iff: SBBI .'in 62 I think, then, my lord, that wo as Churchmen have reason to be thankful for the educational advantages which are presented by these various institutions to which I have so briefly alluded, covering, as they do, the whole ground, from the first entrance into school life of the boy or girl to the highest step in a University career. And may we not also feel especially thankful, that, whether engaged in developing the intellectual powers of the youthful beginner, or affording the highest mental culture to the matured student, those, who have the oversight of these institutions, are ever mindful of the sacred duty, of training up all who come under their teaching and influence [as good Christian men and women, and loyal sons and daughters of our beloved Church. DR. SNELLING AND THE CITY CORPORATION. Dr. SNELLiNGproposed the health of the corporation of the city of Toronto. The first mayor,he said, was William Lyon Mackenzie. He mentioned that many of the chief magis- trates of Toronto were members of the Church of England, and he instanced the Hon. Robert Baldwin Sullivan, Hon. John Beverley Robinson, Hon. Senator George William Allan, Sir Adam Wilson, and Chief Justice John Hawkins Hagarty. Dr. Snelling also referred to the great progress whicb the city had made during the last decade, and pro- posed in cordial terms the health of the Mayor of the city. His Worship Mayor Clarke responded to the toast. He said : My lords and gentlemen, I think I would best suit the wishes and feelings of every one present if I did not attempt to make a speech at this late hour in the afternoon, in view of the services that are to take place later on. I will content myself with thanking you for the great honour done me, and for the great privilege afforded me in being present with you this afternoon, to take part in this impor- tant celebration of the jubilee of the Church of England in Upper Canada. As has been said by the gentleman 63 who proposed this toast, only a few years ago tlie people of Toronto were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the incorfioration of the city, and then was placed on grateful record the progress that has been made during the past half century of the corporation's existence. But I am sure that those who have had the opportunity of reading the newspaper reports for two or three years past, and who have listened to the speeches delivered at this table to-day, must have formed an adequate idea of the progress of the Church of England in this Diocese during the past fifty years. My lord, I freely admit that the progress of the Church has kept pace with the progress of this city and this Province; and I am sure, my lord, that I only express the wishes and the sentiments of all classes of people when I say that I hope, in the half century upon which the Church is now entering, that it will meet with even more prosperity and more glory than it has experienced in the fifty years just concluded. I have to thank you for the very kind way in which the corporation of the city has been spoken of by Dr. Sneliing.* * In connection with the toast of the City of Toronto, at the Jubilee Luncheon, it is desirable to add the following interesting facts contributed to the Trinity University Jteview,hy Mr. O. A. Rowland, one of the Churchwardens of St. James's Cathedral. He said: " Before the incor- poration of the City of Toronto, in that year, the Ciiurchwardens of St. James's Church had been ex-offioio, for nearly thirty years, the town wardens of the town of York. Should there ever occur to one of our modern Mayors the thought of inquiring where the early ofUcial records of the town, before the incorporation, are to be found, his search would lead him at last to the vestry books of St. James. There, and there only, he would find, officially recorded, the names and terms of office of his predecessors in the government of Toronto. By virtue of an Act to be found in one of the earliest statute books of Upper Canada, the same site where the stately structure of St. James's Cathedral has supplanted the original hewn log chuich of our forefathers, was the scene of the annual election of all the functionaries of the Municipal Government between 1807 and 1834 — namely, of the *' Churchwardens, or Town Wardens," the Town Clerk, the Ass-^ssors, the Overseers of Highways, and minor officials. The town elections were held according to law, on the old site 64 Rev. Prof. Clark proposed tl)e toast of " Our Guests," with win; li ill an eloquent H[)eecli he coupled the names of the Bishop of Nova Scotia and the Bishop of New York. He spoke of the record of the liishop of Nova Scotia in Glasgow, New York, Chicago, and Boston. The Bishoj)S of Nova Scotia and of Huron responded, after which iiis l^ordship the Bisho[) of Toronto pro- nounced the benediction, and the guests departed. set apart l>y the Impcriiil (lovernineiit in the plan of the town, and granted by royal patent ' To the sole use of the parishioners and inhabi- tants of the Town of York as a churchyard forever.' " •* Until the year 180C, (according to Dr. Scadding), services were held in the Parliament Hotise, and no church existed on the churchyard site. In the year 1S07, however, the first vestry book of St. James's Church opens with the following entry, in now partially faded ink : "•On Monday, the first (JoxK preiichetl in Holy Tiiuity Cluuch. His text was from Psalm xlv. 17 : " Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou uiayest make princes in all lands." It seems strange that the missionary propliecies of the Old Testament were so little observed by the Gamaliels of the Hebrew Church. Perpetually were the Israelites reminded that they were a nation of priests, called not for themselves, but as ministers of light and mercy to mankind. In the evangelical pages of Isaiah, more particularly, were they reminded of a destiny with reference to us who dwell in the utmost parts of the earth. Very little were the Jews a commercial people ; )et this sublime prophet is ever .speaking to them of the isles afar off, and of remote regions of the earth to which they should extend the sceptre of David in its univer.sal sway. By their instrumentality the kingdom of Messiah should gather the Gentiles into a kingdom called by a new name. 'I'he glory of Judah was to be not in hoarding, as a peculiar treasure, the from the chiirnhwardens of that day. They seem to have been ex-otticio, trustees for the city of all its public properties. "Messrs. Stanton and Small, town and churchwardens of 1834, con- tinued in office as churchwardens till 1842, when the ("hurch Temporali- ties Act of 1841 came into eflfect. The Act, so far as the mode of succes- sion of the Corporation of the Churchwardens of 8t. James was concerned, was in effect, the re-enacting and confirming of the old law ; only substi- tuting vote of the pewholders for the vote of the householders. " Though shorn by the Act of 1834 of their civic functions as town wardens, the ancient legal Corporation of the Chuichwardens of St. James has never been dissolved, but has continued by rtguljir succession to the Churchwardens of this day. It is an historic office antedating the mayoralty, "Perhaps it may appear to liberal minded readers of a University journal that the recent Jubilee ceremonies would have derived much additional point and interest from a graceful recognition of what (I can- not help thinking) was the chief fact in the history of the Church of England in Canada,' etc. 6G knowleilge of tlie true ^iod, but in making it tlie riches of the world. Wc may woiuler at tlieir blindness unci incredulity, V>ut perhaps it is more strange that we, who have been made free by the Gospel that, ooiue forth from Jerusalem, aro nearly as uaveflecting upon what God has wrougiit for us, and upon promises of richer blessings fo»" the universe, which are yet to be fulfilled, llow often have we brought to mind the text, in all its significance, and reflected that liere in Canada, and in the adjoining States, we ourselves are living monuments of the fulfilmont of its prophecy. Our Apostolic Bishops are " the prince.^ in all lands" of whom the Psalmist speaks : not " princes of ti)is world," but spiritual chieftains and leaders of the sacra- mental host, who, if they are true to their mission, are enthroning their Master, Christ, in every regioii whore they minister, as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. The pure and evangelic Episcopate ■.vhich God, in His good- ness, restored to England at the great epoch of her emancipation from a foreign and usurping ecclesiastical despotism, is an inheritor of this glorious pron:ii.se — the charter of a groat mi.'-- sionaiy commission to go and teach all nations. And this is the ennobling view we should take of the Jubilee we are celel)rating to-day : we are part of the lands M-liich rose on the prophet's vi.slon of a distant future, when he s[)oke the text as he was " moved by the Holy Ghost." For obvious reasons, 1 must decline to review the rapid development of the Anglican Episcopate during the past iialf century : too large and glorious, for a single sermon, is that inspiring retrospect. But, confining myself chiefly to what is immeiUately before our eyes and in our hearts, let me pause for a moment on what God has vvrought for the Church in the Dominion of Canada, since the first Bishop of Toronto was consecrated, just fifty years ago. As a child I used to look with interest at the tablet, in St. Pauls Chapel, New York, which commemorates a former Re^jtor of Trinity Church who became the first Bishop of Nova Scotia. I remember the names of Bishop Stewart of Quebec, and Mountain of Montreal ; and some personal account that was given me of the former, by Bishop Brownell of Connecticut, many years ago. But the consecration of Bishop Strachan seemed to break up a 67 tnulitional idea, that your Church was merely to exist, and not lo grow, and ever since that epoch, during a prolonged life and ministry, I have watched your progress ivith affectionate interest ; at times, with dismay, when I felt that the Home Government was re|)eating some of the mistakes which were inflict'"! on our own colo»iial period, but warriied very often to enthusiasm when I observed the resolute spirit with which your first Bishop rebuked the cruel wrongs inflicted on a missionary church. In spite of all, your progress has been steady, and of later year^<, it has been com|»aratively rai>id. Foi'give n>e, how- evei-, for a i-emark, which is one of surprise, rather than of fault- finding with the good people of the Domitiion ; your growth has not been what I should have anticipated in a country where all historic traditions commend the Church of EnglaiH^ to its filial love, and wheie the mighty Empire, that Church 1 as done so much to create and hold together, invests your entire population with it*5 dignity, and sheds upon their own history a lustre which only the loyal heart of a true Churchman can reflect upon others as a personal charm. For he is but half an Englishman who has no jiart in the communion of her ancient, her Apostolic, and Scriptural Church ; a Church most Catholic in its adherence to primitive antiquity, aiid not less so in the glorious testimony of her mavtyrs, and lier greatest bishops ami doctors, against the false pretensions and unsjteakable deformities of modern Kome. Let it never be fori^otten that the Anglican Ri-storation was not the crejition of a new Church. A true reformation implies the pre existence of what is reformed ; and this fact identifies the Aiiglican Church, so reformed, with its former self, which neeiled reforma- tion. But for all the ages, before and since it was purified, it never has had any new creed, or drawn up any modern confession, as terms of communion. On the contrary, the Church which asserts exclusive claims to catholicity, is essentially a novelty in Christendom : her creed of Pope Pius was imposed upon her adherents subsequently to our Restoration, and the Council of Trent organized them into a new communion, called " Koniiui Catholic," which is, therefore, as really i> recent sect as that of Calvin or Luther. Yes, and in some resj)ects more recent ; our own times bear witness to still newer inventions incorporated I 1 r;ii 08 with its creed, and prescribed to every human soul as necessary to salvation. Meantime, your Canadian Church, unchanged in doctrine, and holding nothing but what has been held always, and by all, from the lieginning, in the Apostolic communion, has yet adapted itself to new condivions, by still further reviving the institutions ofantiquity, Yoiu Diocesan and Provincial Synods are based upon the maxims of St. Cyprian, and the inclusion of faithful laymen as partners in Church Councils finds its example, wf think, in Scripture, and certainly in the times and in the Church which he adorned " as a burning and a shining light." So then, in all i-espects, your Diocese and the Church of the Dominion, have proved most active in the vast development of missionary and evangelical life, which has distinguished the entire Anglican communion during the past half century. It must be rememlx-red that it was often said of that communion, that it was confined to a single island, and had no part in the sound that had "gone forth into all lands." But, three king- doms, at least, were blessed with it through all time ; and in those dsirk days when it M-as proscribed at home, it was visible in our own Virginia, where King Charles never ceased to reign, and where the Church maintiined her worship and her sacra- ments all through tie dreary period of the usurpation. She never claimed to be the entire Church ; she never yielded for one moment her placii- in the Catholic communion as it is con- fessed in the Creed. And yet, Avhat a Catholic note has lieen impiesM'd upon her, in our own times, by her vast colonii;! expansion and the growth of her missions. What hath God wrought ! I shaicd in that memorable gathering of 1888, which surrounded the patriarchal chair of Canterbury, and filled the long-drj. An nave of Westminster, with 150 Bishops from almost every region of the earth, and of the waters that gird the the earth. I heard their voices uplifted in the Nicene Con- fession : and in hymns and prayers and thanksgivings, that resounded through that ancient Abbey. It was just three hundreietl the pulpit of St. James's Cathednil. He took his U'xt from St. Matthew v., portions of the 13th and 14th verses : " Ye are tlie salt of tiie earth ; ye are the light of the world." (As Mr. Spencer, was not aware that his sermon would be inserted in this volume, he did not give the manuscript to the Committee. His address on the state of the Diocese of Ontario ■will be given in full in the proceedings of the last day.) HISTORICAL SERMON BY THE BISHOP OF TORONTO. The Rev. Canon DuMoulin conducted theservice at St. James's Cathedral, on Sunday morning, 24th November, and the Bishop OP ToRo:'To, preached. His text was : — Psalm cxxvi. 3: "The Lord hath done great things for us, ■whereof we are glad." Thi.s devout and joyous recognition seems to strike the very key note ji our Jubilee commemoration. It is true that a review of the past fifty years of the history and fortunes of the Church, whether in this Diocese or at la.ge, pr ients a picture of many cor.llicts of sad ■dissentions of human errors and infirmities. But these were all essential to a period of struggle and reaction ; they were the painful steps by which, of a necessity, a victory must be won and emancipation gained from long- settled indifference, forgetfulness, or opposition. By their means God has brought His Church, as through the fires of trial, safely out into its present state of renewed life, purified doctrine and practice, quickened activities, and, consequently, of restored honour and pros- perity. And it would ill become us to fight the battle over again to-day, and recount the mournful story of feuds 10 I 74 and animosities, failures and mistakes which mark its progress. A Jubilee is an occasion of rejoicing, of summing up of successes won, not of counting the wounds and scars sustained in the strife. And if, passing over the inter- mediate stages, which might suggest cause for humiliation and regrets, we bring our state as a Church and as a Diocese, at this time, into direct comparison with what it was half a contury ago, we shall have good reason to exclaim, " The Lord hath done great things for us, wdiereof we rejoice/' In 1839, when the Diocese of Toronto began its separate history, the condition of the Church of England at home was such as to cause its faithful and watchful friends the gravest anxiety. For some j'ears previously not only her fortunes as the national Church, but the cause of religion itself, had sunk to a very low ebb. The spirit of irrever- ence was widel}' spread, and with it a lamentable unsettle- nient of principle. Great temporal prosperty had engen- dered not only a forgetfulness of God its giver, but a bold infidelity that ridiculed all reference to His being and providence. This manifested itself both in the public pro- ceedings of the British Parliament and in the private life of the people. It was a time' when a passion, a mania for reform, prevailed that was ready to attack, in a reactionary spirit, everything that was time-honoured and established. The national Church, as might be expected, was not exempt from such attacks. The press teemed with pamphlets and treatises of all descriptions, advocating the most radical changes in her position and formularies — the expulsion of bishops from the House of Lords, the overthrow of chapters, the abolition of religion from the universities, and the purging from the Prayer Book of what they pronounced the antique rubbish, the supernaturalism which had descended to it from the middle ages, such as the professions 40 of belief in the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the doctrine of a divine Providence. The chanored relations of the State towards the Church were manifested in the successive Acts passed by the Parliament; in 1828 the repeal of the Test and Corpora- tion Acts ; in 1829 the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill, and in 1833 the bill for the extinction of ten Bishop- rics and two Arch-bishoprics in Ireland. The press, for the most part, was ranged on the side of hostility to the Church, and as one who passed through that crisis says : "In the midst of the revolutionary turmoil the Church and Christianity w^ere in danger of being swept from their old foundations, and replaced upon the philosophic basis of the nineteenth century." At this time, too, the Church was weak and divided, without means of offering effectual resistance to the spreading evil of unsettlement and infi- delity. The lines of religion needed to be restored and deepened ; principle had to be infused where there was none to fall back upon. It was at this juncture, and as a direct result of the extinction of the Irish bishoprics, that, in the same year, 1833, the Oxford movement was set on foot. And in this movement, from the course it had as- sumed at the date which we are commemorating, was furnished an additional element of apprehension and O'^ical danger. Up to the middle of 1835, the Tracts for the times, of which seventy had so far appeared, were doing excellent work in the defence of the principles of the Church ; but with the next year, such a marked change came over the spirit which directed them as to cause serious alarm to the more sober leaders of tlie movement, who withdrew their support. Then, in 1841, came the catastrophe in the fatal Tract ninety with its disastrous consequences, includin«r the apostacy of its author to the Church of Rome, drawing after him many followers in a stream of secession which flowed for years. This was the origin of that unhappy cleaving of the Church into two a w. Il m I I.' II 7C strongly marked parties, with its bitter strifes, disturbing, weakening, and disgracing the Church, wliosc etiects we feel only too painfully to this day. It is a gloomy and unpromising picture indeed that the Church of 183f) presents to our contemplation ! Let us pass over the intermediate stages of fifty years, and glance for a moment at the position which she holds to-day. Weakness in numbers and influence has given place to strength in both ; the apathy and faintheartedness of friends has been replaced by zeal and loving devotion ; gloomy fears have vanished before the sunshine of bright- est promise ; the hostility and contumely of enemies have been converted into the respect and cordial recognition of those who dissent from her ])olit3\ Never was the time when the clergy were so diligent and laborious in their spiritual ministiations for the good of souls ; never was the Church so strongly planted in the affections and rev- erence of the people. For the igtiorance that prevailed as to the historical claims and position of the Church, there is now a well-diffused knowledjre of her unbroken connec- tion in doctrine, worship, and authority with Apostolic and primitive Christianitj% through the accessibility to ordinary students of the writings of the great Fathers and Doctors of the Church. In the intelligent understand- ing of Church principles, there is a growing security for loyal and practical Churchmanship. But not to deal merely with generalities, let me point to a few of the facts which incontrovertibly witness to the growth and prosperity of the Church during the last fifty years. In 1839, there were twenty-seven Bishops in England and Wales. Since then seven new Sees have been created : Manchester, St. Al ban's, Truro, Liverpool, Newcastle. Southwell, and Wakefield ; and by an Act of Henrj' VIII., never put into operation until the revived life of these latter days called for a large extension of the Episcopate, no fewer than eight sufl'ragan Bishops have 'ii / i been consecrated, niakin<^^ a total of forty-two Bisliops, ns against twenty seven, with territorial jurisdiction. And it is not alone at home that the Church has thus strengthened her stakes; ahroad she lias enlarged her borders. No greater proof could be given of at once the vitality and the Apostolic spirit of our Church in these last years than the extent to which she has realized and sought to carry out the Missionary command of her Lord. The extension of Christian Mi.ssions throughout the world is one of the most marvellous and instructive characteristics of the last half century, and in the glorious work the Church of England confessedly leads the van. When on St. Bartholomew's Day, IS.'JO, the Bishops of Toronto and Newfoundland were consecrated in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, they became the ninth and tenth Bishops of the Colonial Church. To-day the Colon- ial and Mi.ssionaiy Bishops of the Church of England number seventy-five, and there is scarcely a remote corner of the world where her establishment is not to be found planted with its Apostolic order fully developed and its Evangelical truth faithfully taught. It is with deepest thankfulness for God's signal favour towards our beloved Church that I point you to the most recent exhibition of her present position of honour and usefulness, in the great Conference of her Bishops held last year at Lambeth. It is not so much the display of her strength in 145 prelates of the Anglican communion — English, Irish, Scotch, American, Colonial, and Missionary — gathered together from the four quarters of the globe that I desire to emphasL-je, as the moral and religious effect of that august gathering. It concentrated the best of the profound learning, the practical ability, the earnest piety, the missionary enthusiasm that is to be found in the Christian Church of to-day. The English press, which in 1839 was actively hostile, in 1867, at the first Lambeth Conference, contemptuous, and in 1878, at the second 7N II !i If I i fy Lambeth Conferonct', movely tolerant, was in 188cS cor«lial in its rc'co<;iiition of the nower wlucli tlie Knglish Chnieh is, in the nation and the workl, for the hitrliest irood. The topics discussed by the Conference fnrnished another proof that our Cliurch is neither apathetic nor behind the ajj;e, nor a fossilized and unpio«5ressive survival of obsolete niedian'alisni, but a living organism, with an active brain and warm-beating heart, intensely alive to all the interests and problems and burning (piestions that stir men's minds and vitally affect the moral, social, and reliuious life of the men and women of to-day. Temperance, purity, the sanctity of the marriage contract, the social rights of the people — these, not less than the maintenance and teaching of the true faith, are the matters which she makes her business and the objects of her niost solicitous care. And, not least, the great (juestion ot the re-union of Christendom, the healing of the divisions in the body of Christ. In this she has been the prime mover, and for the accomplishment of it .she seems to have been specially prepared and called by the good providence of God. Who can look upon these two contrasted pictures, so hastily and imperfectly sketched, and not be constrained to exclaim with devout thankfulness, " The Lord hath done great things for us ; whereof we are glad ? " And should not the same acknowledgment go forth from our hearts and lips when we .survey the result of God's dealings during fifty years with our Diocese of Toronto ? I am quite aware that statistics might be called in evidence that the Church of Entjland in Ontario has numerically fallen back in comparison with other Christian bodies at each successive taking of the public census. It would be useless to deny this and uncandid to conceal it • and I am not concerned now to enquire into the causes which may explain it. Neither do I forget that were the history of this Diocese faithfully told, there would be many unhappy pages filled with the records of dis.sen.sions 70 ami tlio lieated conrticts in party strife, thr result of Iminan infirtiiity, iiarrow-iiiindtMlness, or iiiisiinr the training; of the sons ot theClnneh in sound leainin<', based ujx)n the principles of true leligion and for the supply of a body of godly and well-Iearne:tahli>,hed and promising school for hoys, Ridley Ct>llege in St. Catharines; the Voronto Church School for Imjv.s in this city ; the Bishop Strachan School for girls, also in this city, and the newly opened Bishop B«'thui>»' SclnH»l for girls in the town of Oshawa. All tin se fxcfllent institutions l)elong to our (^hurch, and I do not hesitate to name theMi in this sacr d ])la('e, Iteeause the heart of every true Churchman must ho filled with hound- ing hopes for the future of the Church and country which are so ilear to him by the very reflection that si«eh ample and careful provisions has been made for the bringing up of our sons and daughters fjom the very dawnirig of their intellectual powei-s till they go forth to take their part in the active tluties of life, in the surest principles and strongest of .safeguards of our most holy faitii. But it is impossible to speak of our educational privileges without reverting in grateful thought to the memory of that tiuly great man and venerated Bishop the father of our Western Canadian Church, whose consecration to be its first overseer we connnemorate in this Jubilee. God gave him tt) guide the destinies of His infant Church in this then vast and sparsley settled territory at a critical time of danger and disturbance, when for many years there would be difliculties of no common order to face. Cod endued him with singular gifts to overcome these ditticulties and bring His (Jlmrch through these dangerous times; high courage, a dauntless energy, a far-seeing sagacity, grand administrative 83 abilities, and consummate tact in dealinir with men all hallowed and fortified by an unshaken faith in God and strong conseio'isness of the duty he owed to Him and to His Church in his consecrated ottice. You all know the story of his heroic labours and contiicts, the scrvicies he rendered to the councils of his country in his le;i;islative capacity, in times of political as^itation ; how he rallied tlie opposini^ parties, by his words of burning patriotism, to unitii in a common and courageous defence against the invading foe, the indomitable spirit and personal bravery with which he played his active part in the hopeless resistance of a hand- ful of patriots against a large bjdy of discipliiied troop^ and how it was Ids strenuous insistency secured honourable terms of capitulation, his bold remonstrances and threats that coiupelled the ruthless victor to desist from putting the town to the Hames. You know the story of his prolong- ed, persistent, unyitilding, though, alas, umivailing resistance to the alienation of the (Mergy Reserves; his great labours in ])r'ocuring the foundation by letti^rs patent from the CJrown, of the University of Kings College, and how, when al! his cherished hopes were dashed to the ground by the Meoulari/atioii of that institution, the dauntless old man of 72^ s(!t to work with a spirit that could not be broken to establish a second University for his beloved Chinch, rousing by his appeals the Zealand liberality of churchmen in this province and proceeding to the Mother Country to enlist the sympathy and contril)utions of churchmen ihei'e, and to su*! at the foot of the Tiirone for (he lioviil ChartiT which madt^ Trinity College a (.'hurch University for ever. Thus lu! laid the foundation of all educational advantages we enjoy, and at the same tim:', by the wise, firm, ami able administration of a prolonged Kpiseopate, made th<; Diocese of Toronto what it is to day. For such a life for these grand lal)ours, for the successes achieved by tliem, we do well to day to rejoice and thank Go I, who has done great things for us. 84 i That most faithful and honoured servant of God sleeps beneath the Hoor of yonder Chancel, awaiting the crown that will reward his faithful service. Meanwhile let him still live in our memory and grateful love; let him still live in our lives stimulated to like courage, constancy, and tireless labour for God and His Church by his example. And now, brethren, what is to be the fruit of our jubilee commemoration of all that God has done for us as a Diocese ? Is it enough that we be glad, even with a devout and rev- erent gladness? Does it not become us to bethink ourselves of the future that lies before us, and that that future is entrusted to our faithfulness as was the past to those holy and devoted men who, through fifty yeare of hardness and difficulties toiled to build up the Church of Christ into her present stability and honour. We may well enter upon a second half century of diocesan life with brave hearts and high hopes. The con- ditions under which we do so are imnieasural>ly more favourable than those which our pioneer fathei-s had to accept. Not only do we find all the organizations of the Church in such full efficiency, ready to our hands, but we have not the hindrances to discourage us that thev knew. The time of dissensions and mutual suspicions in the iKxly has, happily, passed away ; and the antagoni.sms of the two schools of thought no longer divide our counsels and paralyse our actions ; the depressing gloom of a chronic state of indebtedness no longer clouds the efforts of our Mission Board to sustain the services of the Church in the poorer places ; but returning confidence has brought with it a more cheerful liberality of our people. And we begin the fresh stage of our histor}', in an important particular, under new and mostho|)eful auspices. Our Diocese has now received, in the full equipment of a Cathedral staff', that completion which it lacked to conform it to the type of the Anglican system. It pos.ses.ses now a head to devise, counsel, and direct, a heart from uhiih 85 will flow forth warm, loving sympathies and living activi- ties, and a centralizing unifying bond, that, embracing all the scattered writs of* effort, will remedy that evil of isolation and break down that barrier of congresfationalism that have been such a felt hindrance to the effectiveness of Church work. This is one of the great things wrought for us of which to-day, I am unfeignedly glad. I pray, brethren, that this commemoration of all that God has done for us in the past may make its impress, deep and lasting, upon the character of our Church work and life in the future ; that the songs of Jubilee which we raise from so many hundreds of congregations to-day may not die away with the services of the week, but that their echoes may be given back and back again, and roll along the coming years of faithful labour and patient endurance in the animating strains of cheer and hope. Only let us be instant in prayer and undoubting in faith that God the Holy Ghost will still, as of old, guide, and teach, and aasist His Church, and then we may be sustained in the confidence that riches, blessings, and fuller measures of i-eward are in store for us ; that the Lord will do even greater things for us, whereof we may be glad. I- y'f ? •'1 erseverance of Bishop Strachan. In speaking for a few moments he would not be for- getful of the great interests of the Cliurch here, but wouM take a wid»'r view, by looking back for fifty years over the hi.story of the Church to which they lielonged. No move- ment in one part of the Church left the other unafiected. During that period what took place in one part of the Church aflecte5 notes of Order and Government by which all branches of the one Catholic, i.e., Universal, Church of Christ had been always and every where known. The "Tracts for the Times" were written with the object of - people's minds to this subject, that they might appreciate the importance of them, and hold to those things that couKl anchor the Church in catholicity. The course of events was such that several people, almost at the end of that movement, lost heart in their hope that the Church of E'ngland would ever regain the assertion of her catholicity, aiul so many a one dropped off; including Newman, Manning, and others besides, while such men as 1 5* I. 89 Pusey were objects of scorn and vituperation. Then came a panic of a totally opposite character, about twenty-eight years ago. It was caused by a volume entitled " Essays and Reviews," and v as called Broad-churchism — an attempt to reconcile the .science of phenomena and the science of thought with the religion of the Church. The two parties previously in the Church were so utterly panic-stricken that they gave up their fight, and made a coalition for the purpo.se of meeting a common enemy. McNeile, of Liverpool, and Pusey, of Oxford, agreed to work together in order to stem the current which threatened to subvert not only the Church but Christianity itself. The third panic was pro«Juced by ritualism; and pro.secution, and imprisonment was thought an appropriate way in which to meet honest conviction. Then there had been another kind of panic. There had been two great discoveries within the past fifty years. The first was known as the science of Geology, in regard to which the majority of the people to whom he spoke that evening might perhaps say, to use a common phrase: 'The .science of geology is all right." But, when the science of geology first began to attract attention in England, the people were so panic stricken that they said they thought the word of God was subverted and cast to the winds, and that the things that geology asserted, must be denied, because the conclusions contradicted, as the}' thought, the state- ments of Scripture. And the panic that took place at that time had been almost equalled by the panic respecting the late Professor Darwin's theory of evolution. It would seem as if people had a very poor opinion of the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, if they thought it needed the buttress of their anathema in order to keep it from being overthrown. People should recognize the difference be- tween the contradictions of the interpretation of the Holy Scripture and the contradictions of the Holy Scripture itself; and many people, if they would simply discern 5 h 12 li ; i: ; 90 between these two things, would have their minds calm and quiet, where they were now disturbed. Questions touching geology an«l the teachings of geologists had liad an enormous effect on the interpretation of Scripture, and caused many people to alter their views as to what is meant by the inspiration of Scripture. The chief thought he had taken at the beginning was the impos- sibility of reaching a finality. The necessity for thought, questioning, the arrival at different conclusions, sitting, resettlement, would go on. As far as he could see, the Church |»eople had come to that point where they could ask a question and strive to answer it, recognizing the different conclusions arrived at, and beinij willing to dis- cuss the matter in a calm and impartial spirit, sifting those things which were before their attention. He did not think that Church people had come to the point where they could re-settle things which have been unsettled, and one often wished one could live to see what the reconstruc- tive age, which must follow the present one of disintegra- tion, would brincj forth as the result of this thouafht, this sifting of the matters seething within its brain. He might turn their attention to another important phase of matters namely, emigration. Fifty j'-ears ago, when this Diocese was founded, or in its infancy, emigration went on only in little driblets. Several yeai-s after, the great Irish famine caused an exodus which carried many to the United States and some here, setting in n\otion a stream which has not ceased to to flow. That meant the doing away with the forest, and it meant a new kind of life for those who formed the old town of York. And then steam and telegraphy meant the bringing of the thought and action of this community into touch with the thought and action of the people of this whole continent, and al.so of the other hemisphere of the world. Looking back to the daily newspaper as it was fifty years ago, and, considering what a factor it has 91 now become in the processes of Iiuinan thought ; lookinj^ back to the nwigazines, and comparing with them those of to-ihiy, to the great publishing liouses, ami the works issued ; noting the increased culture shown on the part of the writers, and the increased numbers of those writers who intelligently and earnestly labour for the benefit of those who read their productions ; at the national educa- tion, which had been placed on a fit, broad, and active basis in England and also, he thought, in this country, would, if it led to any conclusion, lead to this one — the necessity of holding fast those things which had, by the experience of the past, been proved to be of value. He thought this was all important in a new country, because there was a tendency in human nature to undo all which had l^eendone, and begin entirely de novo. VV^e required to think on great hereditary lines handed down from our forefathers, modified to meet the relations that man now sustained to his fellow-man, as compared with the relations sustained in his primeval condition. It was absolutely impossible for anyone to cut himself ott' from the past, although it was exactly what a great many would do. Looking back along the lino of eentuiies they would find such an idea utterly scouted and set at naught by the facts of history. A new truth came to be more clearly seen, then to be embo^i.j-.' -, /((yWfe, I j«.jECT»rr«Hf™r- «-«F.-?^^S7-»r 100 promised to be with His Church always, even to the end of the ages, had not forgotten to be gracious for 1500 years. He had not slept in the ship, or allowed her to drift at the mercy of the boisterous waves of this trouble- some world. The conclusion to be drawn from .these considerations is, that the Church needs some machinery whereby her members shall be taugl. ^ that Church doctrine is Bible truth, and the only^ available machinery that I know of, is the pulpit. Ignorance of what the Church really teaches has occasioned the loss of multitudes of members. It cannot be too forcibly insisted on that popu- lar theology is seldom or never identical with standard theology. It was the great object of our blessed Lord to teach that the popular beliefs of His day were not in harmony with the law and the prophets. Even in the primitive Church we find the same phenomenon. Dean Stanley, speaking of the evidences furnished by the Cata- combs, says, they differed widely from the representations of contemporaneous authors, and gave a striking example of the divergence that existed between the actual, living, popular belief, and that which was to be found in books. It has ever been so. The popular belief of the ordinary uneducated Romanist is not consistent with the decrees of the Council of Trent. Multitudes of Presbyterians and Methodists neither know nor regard a great deal to be found in the Westminster Confession and Wesley's sermons. It is no wonder, therefore, when we find a churchman's theologj' out of agreement with the Book of Common Prayer. The chances are that he has derived his system of belief not from the new Testamer ',, but from the Pilgrim's Progress, Paradise Lost, and the newspapers. This fatal error is fostered, too, by the pulpit. To be a popular preacher you must preach popular theology, and keep standard theology in the background. Closely rea- soned sermons are not popular, and the clergy know it. Congregations insist on making the Lord's day a day of 101 rest for their minds as well as for their brnlies : they listen to be excited or amused, rather than to be instructed, for instructions require a mental effort. Popular preachers are, however, not the only ones who foster this evil. Men of a loftier type forget that most of what they know themselves by reason of their .special training, is quite a noveltv to their hearers. St. Paul told the Hebrews that they needed that some one would instruct them in the first principles of Christianity, and there are multitudes who resemble them in the Church to-'i m ■Mi4fi»ii^:^M, ti^iMfi Im-M.'^ ■• -M''.iii,j.i4iXimi:Ji^^'!^Um)m^ .. 11 11 102 ANGLICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL SERVICES IN ELEVEN OF THE OIIUKCHKS, NOVEMBER 24tH. Not the least iiiipoitaiit of the Jubilee services were those held in connection with the Anglican Sunday Schools of the City in eleven Church centres, at each of which there was a large atten>^. !^i! ii I' 106 and their conduct throughout was most orderly. Rev. Chas. L. Ingles, M,A., (St. Mark's,) and Rev. E. Bryan, (Epiphany,) con- ducted the services. Mr. Wni. Wedd, jr., acted as organist. Altogether the services were most interesting. AT ST. John's church. The cliildren of two schools those of St. Matthias and St John's Churches, assembled in the latter place of worship. The pastor.« Rev. R. Harrison and Rev. A. Williams presided. The choir- masters were Mr. Wilis, of St. John's, who presided at the organ, and Mr. DeGruchy, superintendent of St. Matthias. The jubilee service was well rendered. SERMON BY THE VERY REV. DEAN INNES Dean Innes took for his text the following : Matt. xiii. 33. " The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." This week, set apart for the Jubilee of the Diocese of Toronto, will long be remembered as marking an epoch in its history. It is not my purpose to-night to review the events of the past fifty years, this will devolve more especially upon the brethren, lay and clerical, who will address you on Thursday, at the Conference to be held in St. James's School-house. It will suffice for me simply to refer to the fact, that the small and apparently unpromis- ing amoimt of" Leaven" of the Kingdom that was deposited half a century ago, has, by the blessing of God on the labours of His servants, increased five-fold ; the one Dio- cese has grown into five, the mother has given birth to children, some of which almost equal herself in strength and vigour ; a result which should cause our hearts to swell with deepest gratitude to Him who is " the author and giver of every good and perfect gift ;" and while we recognize God as the giver, it surely does not derogate from His love, if. 107 we at the same time call to loving remembrance the energy, zeal, and practical wisdom of the first Bishop of this great Diocese, who, consecrated to the solemn responsibilities, and arduous duties of the Episcopate in 1831), was the instrument in laying the foundation of so admirable a superstructure. Organization is one of the chief elements of success in every undertaking, whether human or Divine in its origin, and now the Church in this Diocese is adopting an organization which, when complete, with its Cathedral, endowments, and working staff, will place her in a fore- front, not only of every Diocese in Canada, but in America, It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of the step that has been taken in the establishment of a Cathedral system upon the model of that to which is so largely due the strength and greatness of the Church in the mother land ; it will tend to bind together the various elements that compose it, to harmonize differences in theological thought, and impart a directness and efficiency to every effort put forth for the advance of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ ; and may we not hope that it will prove a step in the direction of bringing about that union for which all Christians, by whatever name called, are now praying tor. But let us bear in mind that no plan of organization, how- ever complete, can be brought tosuccr^'sful accomplishment, by the designer alone, the head and the members must work together, there must be " no schism in tie body." Without such union of action failure alone can result, and the blame, (I had almost said guilt) of such failure, will rest, not upon the head, that has planned and laboured with ever anxious thought, but upon the members who have held back from their portion of the work. God grant that the children of the Church to-day may have bestowed upon them, the spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice ; that they may have grace to look beyond the present, and realize the unspeakable advantages that future generations will derive from a system, so well and ably conceived. m ■nif t ■ rn M '^^ ik$*\ ml ,■■■'-' ■ !^ I S!! I §1 i 108 But, brethren, let us also remember that in order to secure success, in order to be a blessing to those who, in coming years, shall worship in her sanctuaries, it is essential that the one grand purpose, the only purpose for which God has instituted His Church, should be kept bright and clear — that purpose is as declared by the inspired apostle St. Paul, in his epistle to the Church in Ephesus, " For the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying the of body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." This is the great work for which the ministry of the Church has been ordained, for this only it exists, and will continue to exist, till the Great Bishop Himself shall retu^'n. Every part of the Church's organization, its lesser as well as its greater wheels, is for the accomplish- ment of this one result, " for the perfecting of the saints for the edifying of the body of Christ." And as we con- template this glorious aim, how utterly weak and insuffi- cient do all human instrumentalities appear, how wholly inefficient do they seem be. Our encouragement, our strength is here, that while by God's wise appointment man is to be His instrument in winning souls to Christ, he is only an instrument, the power is of God, and He has endued His Church with an inherent vitality, before which "the world, the flesh, and the devil," must give back. The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the ivhole luas leavened." So spake the Master nearly nineteen hundred years ago, and throughout the ages His declaration has been justified. Let us this evening devote our thought to the development of this practical utterance. Every student of Scripture knows that though leaven is frequently referred to both in the Old and New Testa- ments, it is generally, though not always, a symbol of evil. m 109 m in the Old Testament there are two instances in which it is not used in a bad sense in Exodus vii. v. 13, leavened bread is commanded to be offered with the peace offerings and in Leviticus xxiii. 17, leavened bread of the firstfruits was to be presented at the feast of Pentecost. These are both remarkable exceptions to the general rule, and prove that the same word does not always teach the same thing, its meaning must be interpreted by the context. There is much that is instructive and suggestive in this frequent ise of leaven as a symbol. And here 1 would just say, in passing, that as a rule, the language of Scripture is con- formed not to scientific, but to popular ideas, not to the nature of things as they are, but to the way in which they were regarded at the time ; and yet, notwithstanding this, it is a very remarkable fact, a fact which confirms its Divine origin, that the stronger the light thrown upon its statements by modern researches and discoveries, the clearer does the reason for the use of such language appear ; science has no quarrel with the Bible, when rightly understood, nor has the Bible with science, they are mutual handmaids, and it is only in so far as our knowledge is veiled in twi- light, that there is an apparent contradiction, but when the full light streams in there is perfect harmony. It is in the light of such comparative modern knowledge that I purpose to examine the words of our text. Again, I ask you to notice that this passage is the only exception in the New Testament to the use of the word leaven in a bad sense. The occasion and the reason was this : Our blessed Lord knew that in a very short time His bodily presence would no longer be with His disciples, and that when it was with- drawn, they would be sorely tempted to think, that because they could no longer see Him, His kingdom would cease to exist. He knew that in its beginning itwould be very small and insigtjificant,when compared with the great mass of op- position and difficulty with which it would have to contend, that there would indeed be cause for discouragement ; there- ys w »TA1 .SI I l! ! I ■J 110 fore throughout this chapter He labours to encourage them with inspiring words, so that they might be pre- pared to meet and face these difficulties bravely, and in the full assurance that though appearances were against them, the progress of the kingdom, its ultimate success, and triumphant establishment was certain. We find that among these cheering words is the parable of this leaven. " The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven." The principle is the same in whatever sense the symbol is used, the permeating and ultimaf.ly irresistible force of that which at first was apparently insignificant and weak. We are to examine this saying in the light of what we know about it, that we may be able to understand why Holy Scripture attaches so much significance to it. From any cyclopoedia we may gather the folUowing facts. We will take what is familar to all, bread-making, as an illustra- tion that will serve our purpose. In this instance leaven is so much dough in a state of fermentation, and when the whole lump is leavened, a small portion can be laid on one side, and used as occasion requires, as leaven for another lump. The process of fermentation is one of a most curious and obscure operations of nature. It is now known to be due to the rapid, often inconceivably rapid development of vegetable growth, which has the power of changing the chemical character of that upon which it acts : nor is it confined to that which is external to man, for it is now ascertained beyond doubt, that most contagi- ous diseases are due to this process of fermentation, intro- duced into the blood by what are called germs. Thus we can see why it is chosen as a symbol of evil, and that the principle can be equally well applied, as in our text, to represent the permeating force of that which is good. So here our Lord says to His disciples, do not build your hopes only on the things that are seen and temporal, trust not in appearances, for Mine is a kingdom, My mission to earth is to lay its foundations, of that kingdom you are members. Ill •th irs. ,It is My purpose that you shall be the instruments by whom the superstructure shall be raised, it shall prevail, " but not with observation " ; it shall grow, " but not with observation," it shall ultimately triumph, " but not with observation," " it is like leaven, whicli a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole wiis leavened." And may we not accept this for our encouragement as God's rule, God's law applicable alike to individual Chris- tian life, and to the life of the Church ? My presence will not always be a seen presence with you, but be of good courage, I will carry on the work to a triumphant con- clusion. Christianity is not only an external organization called the Church, it is a living principle, an indwelling of the living Christ, let the living principle be taken away, .and death must prevail, whether in the individual soul, or in the Church. We are sometimes prone to think that the Kingdom of Heaven on eai th is something which is external, mechanical, hard, dependent upon Churches and organizations, and societies, whereas these are but the necessary growth, the outcome of the spirit of Chiistianity : it is " like leaven," and leaven is a living thinjj. Now Jesus Christ snys, " the Kingdom of Heaven " is like that, it is the law of the living presence of the living Christ- " God was in Christ," and Chiist by his spirit is in the world, reconciling, attracting, harmonizing men, Christ in Christianity. The Gospel is the yiower of God at work for the salvation of souls, first redeeming throuQ-h faith in Christ, and then operating by His mighty processes of educatiL i towards all that is holy, and noble, and of good report. Thus we see that Christianity is a living, breath- ing presence, not a dead, mechanical thing : it is a life, not a sermon, not a book, not a rite, not an organization, but a person, and that person, our friend, our Saviour, our rest, our hope, our victory. It is like leaven, alive. Again, this force is not only alive but active I have just said that leaven manifests a marvellous activity. H::f m, \ .la •■.#" { ?;M§';; lip .. ■■; ^w^is "■X: M^W^\W ' "'■ aW^W ."■ .a.;#j- iw# 'i |^^|p'^'»| V j Titi.^'3 .;i" ^-^'^^ r.-i: ■,^i :', . *. 1 w^M 112 i It is a stupendous type of increase ; it passes from particle to particle of the meal in which it is placed, until the last stroke of work is done, and the whole is leavened. Now there is no point better sustained by facts than the irre- pressible activity of " the Kingdom of Heaven." It is a living force, and action is as essential to its life, as air is to the life of man. A dead Christianity, professing much, but doing little ; a Christianity that finds its chief element in fault-finding or slandering, that gives but little for the advance of the Kingdom of Christ, is not that of which our Lord speaks when He presents leaven as its type, but a useless degenerate thing : " salt that has lost its savour, and is fit only for the dunghill," and the sooner its useless- ness is known and recognized the better. Ruskin, in his studies of the Greek myths, says something to this efl^ect : "There are three stages that may be distinctly traced in the history of every nation. First, an age of war, when men are self-dependent, strong and active, developing every noble virtue. Second, the age of wealth, when money, and a desire for its possession takes the place of goodness, and to be rich is to be great. Third, the age of luxury, whei*e self-ease and self-comfort is everything, and sulf-sacrifice nothing." And may we not in measure apply this to mi;ich that history records, and which our eyes see, of the professing Christian Church. The early days of " The Kingdom of Heaven," vrere characterized by a strong and bold confes- sion of Jesus Christ, by unbounded self-sacrifice for the advance of the kingdom. Christians then, were in the highest sense warriors, " who counted not their lives dear unto them," who feared not to carry the war into the enemy's camp. Next came the age of wealth, when a man's salvation was supposed to depend, not upon his faith in Christ, but upon his wealth, upon how much he could pay into the coffers of the Church, to secure indul- gence for his sins. We might have thought that the shakings of the Reformation would have renewed the 113 face of the Church, and so for a time it did ; but, alas ! the vast majority of her professed members have fallen back from, andj been unfaithful to their glorious heritage, and now|\ve see developing the age of luxury, the easy self-satisfaction that rests in the mere pro- fession of faith ; in worship, a formula of vrords ; in life, self-ease and self-comfort everything, and self-sacrifice nothing. I am, of course, speaking of the general aspect of the professing Christian Church. Nor does this conflict with the truth of the parable we are now considering. The leaven to work must have an appropriate temperature, and favourable materials upon which to operate, and so he would enter into the Kinffdom must be willini; to resign himself wholly into God's hands, and if the Church would appropriate to herself the blessed heritrige of His pro- mises, she must be a co-worker with Him upon the lines so unmistakably laid down in His word, must, " purge out the old leaven of malice and wickedness," must realize the spirituality of the religion she professes to uphold, must cut herself adrift from superstition and will-worship, and cleave in all simplicity to Him who is the only foundation stone ; thus keeping her hands clean, she will live, increase, and triumph, to her the promise shall be fulfilled, for in her dwells He who is " the life," therefore, she must both live and work. Let us mark it well, Jesus Christ in this parable says, that the leaven was put into meal, not among stones, where it would have no effect, it was into a sub- stance that had an aflSnity for it, and upon which it was especially fitted to act. And do we not find it thus with all the promises and invitations of Jesus Christ? It is to the " weary and heavy laden," He says, " Come unto Me." It is to the thirsting. He says, " If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink." He says, " Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God." " Blessed are the persecuted, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Thank God, Jesus Christ is what He f!is>i V 15 114 ever has been to the weary and heavy laden, to the hiinger- inir and tliirstinfj. He satisfies the soul's cravings for peace and rest. His sacrifice soothes the racked consci- ence ; His life is the true goal of manhood ; His words comfort the sorrowing, cheer the sad, strengthen the weak; and His resurrection begets an everliving hope of eternal peace and progress. Finding Him, the soul cries, " Thou O Christ art all I want, more than all in thee I tiiul." It is this receiving Christ into our needy souls, that assimilates us to Christ, filling us with His life, and this life, is a living, working, self-sacrificing life. The leaven inserted into three measures of meal, makes that meal like itself, sul)jiigates it, and impresses its own character upon it, penetrating with its living nature from centre to cir- eu inference. So is it the nature of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to make living Christians of those who receive it. We sometimes vonder at such passages as, " I live, yet not 1, but Christ liveth in me." We marvel as we read of the boldness of the persecuted Apostles as they stand in the ])resence of those who thirst for their blood, and yet bravely exclaim: " We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard." " We ought to obey God rather than man." We envy the heroism of such men as Bishops Selwyn and Hannington, of Henry Martin, Livingstone, Williams, and a host of others who have leavened the people of the Pacific Islands, of India, and Africa, leading them from the depths of heathenism and superstition into the light and liberty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This saying of our blessed Lord, explains all at which we .so wonder, and which we envy. Nearly 1900 years ago, Jesus Christ said such would be the effects of His Gospel, and a chorus rises from every nation, people, and tongue, testifying to the truth of His saying, witnessing to the exactness of tho symbol, " the kingdom of heaven is like leaven." O dear friends, let us be brave and fearless and self-sacri- 115 cinix.lct iisputawaythocoM tetn|)onzinj^sflf-intlulijent type of Christianity which so sa every part of your Uin;^, His thou;;hts into every part of your thinkin<;^, so tliat all that is of you and in you" may be broui^ht into the ca|»tivity of Jesus Christ." Christ in vou, and vou in Christ. It is thus that the leaven has worked in millions who have ijone before, and shall work in millions who will follow after, till, " the kineen and still is ill the Church of God. Organizations that are the outcome of human thought may to us appear to Ix* very feeble, the instruments employed may apparently be weak and insufficient, but the power is not of man, but of the living C'hrist, who is set forth, and just in proportion a.s any organization, or human instrument exalts the Saviour, in that proportion will it elevate the human nice. I»uild up the Church anJ glorify God, and so merit and demand of you as Christians your most hearty support, your most liberal gifts. " The Kingdom of Heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meid till the whole was leavened." ^ IB 1 :i m ii#f J '■VA r nc I SERMON BY THE BISHOP OF NIAGARA, Tlie Right Rev. (!uarles Hamilton, D.D., D.C.L., Bishop of Niagara, preaclied in St. James's Cathedral on the evening of the 2Gth November. He selected as his text Ephesians i. 22, 23 : " And gave Him to be the Head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in iill." Fifty years ! liow many are they in the life of each member of the Church ? how few are they for the Church herself? For the individual, they furnish too extensive a retro- spect, because there is no time left in which to profit by the lessons of the past. Moreover, the weakness and exhau.stion of advancing age are such, in most men after sixty-five or seventy, that the lessons drawn from early youth and vigorous manhood, will be inapplicable to the future. In the Church the case is just reversed. Advancing 3'ears take nothing from the freshness and vigour of her life. However much the external circumstances of her position amongst men may vary, her own life and powers continue unchanged and unchangeable. There is, accord- ingly, absolute certainty in applying the lessons which the past may furnish for the Church in the future. She can- not change, either in herself or in her powers — though every single circumstance external to her, in the position and life, and intelligence, and temper of the people whom she is moulding for Christ may alter, as in deed they are sure to change under her blessed guidance. Do fifty years, however, afford a sufficiently long retro- spect to admit of any certainty or safety in the lessons which they may indicate ? The lessons may be clear and distinct without being certain, just because the peiiod has been brief, because they have not been tried and tested by some change of circumstances which the time has been too brief, or the region too circumscribed to admit. * 117 We shall, however, miss one larye benefit of such a Jubilee AS the Church in this Diocese invites us to celebrate, if we are so fearful of blundering that we dare not gather up the lessons of these fifty years, and apply them to the future, distinctly and firmly, yet in readiness to revtevv and to re- trace our steps the moment our erroi' or blundering appears. There is this, however, to be borne in mind, though fifty years may be as a little speck in the Church's long life in the future, they represent almost the whole of her life in the past of this country. They have, witnessed too, the struggling of a people into existence. They have seen their battlinc: with the forest and the vast distances of the wide-spreading country, their rapid pro- gress in organization and self-government, their advance in education, refinement, and wealth, and their attain- ment of mP'.y features of a national existence. The periou is no ordinary fifty years. There can for us be no precisely similar period in the future. Still the weak- ness, and the failures, and the successes of the Church in these fifty years so brief in themselves, and yet witnessing more than long centuries in old settled countries, may be most valuable in their practical suggestions for the future. The condition of this Province fifty years ago in its forest clearings, :n its log dwellings and barns, in its scattered population, in its imperfect slow means of inter-communi- cation, without railways or telegraphs, is present to every mind. The striking contrast, the vast improvement is the fi'equent subject of honest satisfaction and congratulation. Is anything corresponding to this contrast, this vast improvement to be seen in the Church ? Not yet ; but the principles are at work, the principles are spreading steadily and surely in the Church of England and outside of her, which will secure in the Christianity of our land as great an advance upon the past as that which is to be seen in the physical welfare of its people. Do not misapprehend my meaning; Christianity will r* 118 r'l I'il not alter, but the people's view of it, and their exhibition of it, will alter. Truth is always one and the same, but individuals and whole classes misapprehend it and even prevert it, and their perversion passes for the truth amongst them. Christianity is God's truth. It can no more change than God Himself or His Church, but both individuals and communities may so understand and teach and prac- tice the Holy religion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as to make it appear as though God Himself and His Church had changed, as though they were different, essentially different, in one country and in one century from what they had been at another period and amongst another people. Of this history furnishes us with painful, perplexing illustrations. How different, for example, the Christianity main- tained and exhibited by many in the dark days of the ci'uel inquisition, and the rack, and the stake, from that which is accepted and prevails to-d;iy. The Bible was the same then as it is now, but men had so wrested its meaning and its principles that the greatest cruelty was brought out of the infinite mercy and love which shine forth from its pages for us. Saul, of Tarsus, in the blindness of his whole-souled de- votion to the Jews' religion, verily thought that he ought — that he was bound to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus Christ, and so he persecuted even unto death those who loved that sacred name. Thus facts as painful and perplexing as they are indis- putable in the history of communities, and in the lives of individuals, warn us that it is quite possible f jr us to be perverting and ndsrepresenting the Holy religion of Him whom we profess to revere and love as God our Saviour. What perversions, and what misrepresentations then are to be seen in the Christianity exhibited by the people of 119 ? In ventui to this Province during these fifty ye review the principles and ways of those who have pre- ceded us, of those whom we rightly regard as superior to ourselves in many respects, we hope to avoid all self- gratulation and self-exaltation. Their perversions may be, in themselves and in their effects, far less serious than those into which by our own wilfulness we may be betrayed, or into which we may simply drift through easy thoughtlessness or indifference. While our minds are set on recovering the features of Christianity which may have been ctverlooked or perverted by those who have preceded us, we may be guilty either of exaggerating them, or of abandoning others of equal, if not of greater importance. Verilj^ we have need to walk warily, and to ai)proach with chastened spirits the lessons to be gathered from the failures of others. We have, however, this grand protection and encourage- ment. The due proportion of the Faith — the accurate statement of the essentitil truths of our holj religion is preserved and presented by the Church ; and s^lie lives on through all the generations of men as they come and go in all countries. Iii the face of all the misrepresenta- tions and perversions of which they are guilty, she holds up the true standard. She exhibits in the pure word of God,, in the Creeds, and in the Sacraments, and in her worship, a pattern by which their exaggerations or their omissions maj' be detected and corrected. This assuredly has been one important purpose of the Church's life upon the earth. For more than eighteen centuries ti.e human mind induenced by the corruptions consequent u|jon the fall, and by Satan's unceasing enmity to Christ, has been busy introducing mto Christianity errors of every conceivable nature. In some parts of the w^orld and a.nongst some nations the mischief which has been accomplished is most serious. Christianity amongst them is so interwoven with n'i r(5 '*?.* 120 I heresies, abuses, and superstitions, that its likeness, its correspondence with the original can with difficulty be traced. Still in spite of many failures which have to be admitted and deplored, the Church has not merely pre- served inviolate and in its due proportions the faith once for all delivered to the saints, but she has extended it far and wide. A few provinces, once fair and beautiful in their Christian worship and practice, have been lost, but many more of much wider extent and embracing a far larger proportion of the human family have been won for Christ. It is not a matter of faith but of siwht. The Church has proved herself the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Our hopes, then, may well be quickened and brigiitened and our courage strengthened for the future, as we see the Church in these past fifty years quietly and steadfastly holding up apostolic order as the needful protection of that precious evangelical truth ivliich alone men would tolerate. The Christianity of the past fifty years has, however, made much of the individual and little of the Church. It has set up spiritual edification as the great aim and end of every effort, and buried almost out of sight the glory of God. Perversion and misrepresentation will not be regarded as too strong terms to be applied to much of the Christianity of the last fifty years when selfishness in cotmtless ugly forms in the congregation and in the Diocese is seen to be its characteristic. Surely selfishness must be the outcome of some perversion of Christianity, it cannot spring from the truth as it is exhibited by Him who came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. Again, coldness and deadness had settled down upon the Christianity of the eighteen«ih century. Unceasing, earnest ■efibrts were need'^d to rouse the hearts of men, and kindle in them a fervour of religion. And this came to be re- garded as the one thing to be done, as the sole aim and pur- 121 posb of Christianity. Acconlingl}' subjective religion, the religion of the feelings, finding its expression in certain emotions, and phrases, and terms, was generally accepted as not merely superseding, but as excluding all forms and institutions in religion. Written prayers were by many regarded as, inconsistent if not incompatible, with any heart reliofion. The sacraments were viewed with doubt and suspicion, and the Church, was any and every society originated and organized by men and women seeking to promote religion among themselves. If the revival of religion after the deadness of the eighteenth century has not died out, evaporating in a sys- tem of empty phrases and party watchwords, we owe it to the quiet persistence of the Church in presenting on her Festivals and Fasts forgotten or neglected truths of the Bible ; in faithfully ministering the Sacraments, and con- stantly repeating her creeds and prayers, in which Chris- tianity, without the exaggerations or perversions of any party, is enshrined. Gradually, little by little, under the force of her example and quiet presentation of religion, both objective and subjective, in its external form, and in its rule over the heart, the Christianity of our times is being relieved of its perversions and misrepresentations. The plain unmistakable statements of the Bible, as to the Church being the body of Christ, are now everj-where receiving attention. Men are wondering that they could have been so blind as not to have observed them before The enquiry has been started, and it must be followed out. What is the Church ? Men will not be satisfied until they have learnt whether the Bible means what it in so many places affirms, that the Church is the body of Christ, repre- senting Him en this earth of ours, uniting men to Him, speaking and acting, for Him, convejing to them the Saviour's gifts and graces of which she is so full, that she is said to be the fulness of Him that filleth all in all. n\ I I II ^•■i t -ii 16 122 It is easy to see that, once the Bible truth is generally and intelligently accepted, the Church is in no figure of speech, but in a true and real sense, the body of Christ, the popular exhibition of Christianity will be affected in many directions. First of all unity, corporate, organic unity will be lecognized as a necessity. All will say, if the Church is the body of Christ it must be one, there cannot be many bodies, each claiming to be equally and alike the body of Christ. Two human bodies fully formed in all their parts ami limbs, each attached to and moved by the same head, would be a monstrosity froin which men would turn away in horror. The Body, of which Christ is the Head, cannot be such a monstrosity. It cannot be divided — it must be one. Then again, to be a Christian, and to be a member of the Church, will come to be equivalent terms ; for once the Bible truth is grasped that Christ and His Church are as inseparable, as closely knit together as a man's head and his body, union w^ith her will be union with Him, communion with her in all the ordinances and exercises of religion, \f\\\ be communion with Him. He will ani- mate, and rule, and guide each individual Christian through His Body the Church. The life and strength and direc- tion of each Christian will be wholly in Christ the Head. The perversion of the last fifty years will vanish, and men will wonder that they could ever have supposed that they could be Christians without being members of the Church. Onco again. The vital truth of the mediation of Christ will be fully recognized. Men will grasf> anew the Bible truth that there is but one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus : that while all blessings come down from God, they reach us only in and through Christ Jesus. They will recognize the reality and force of the fact that apart from the God-Man, Christ Jesus, the one mediator, they have and can have no spiritual blessings. The meaning and the importance of the Church being not If 123 merel}'' full of all His blessings, but the fulness of Christ Himself will be manifest. That perversion of the past will fade away which has confined the mediation of Christ to a work ccasionallv discharged for us up in Heaven and chiefly when we on earth are engaged in earnest prayer. There will be no room for that grievous misrepre- sentation, which has marked the Christianity of the past fifty years, that Christ is only one of many media- tors, that internal acts of faith and love are even more true and real channels of communication between the devout soul and God, or God and the devout soul, than those ordinances by which Christ joins men to Himself in the first instance, and acts as their mediator ever after- wards, keeping up their union and communion with God in and through Himself. The mediation of Christ has in the past been narrowed down to such limited and occasional acts, that He has been made to share His honour as the one mediator with many others — who were not even living personal beings — such as saints and angels, but only acts and feelings and transient emotions of fallen human nature. That Jesus Christ is the one — the alone mediator be- tween God and man — this foundation truth has to be restored to its rightful position in the Christianity of the future. His incarnation is the bridge between Heaven and earth. More than that, it is the union of God and man. There is none other name whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus. Why ? because that precious name stands for Him who is the God-Man — the one who unites God and man — the alone mediator between God and man ; and His mediation is not carried on up in heaven, only, but here on earth, amongst us men, through the Church, which is His Body, which unites us with God in Christ, which not only speaks and acts for Him, but is His fullness, full to overflowing of Him and all His blessings. The lessons were read by Rev. Mr. Ingles, of Parkdale, and Rev. Mr. Winterborne, Curate of St. James's. f -:S! 1;; -.id ■ yt*'M ' p .,Li.i-*tJ£tAf.. -. .um*^ 124 H l' I a CONVERSAZIONE AT THE PAVILION IN THE HORTICULTURAL GARDENS. The social event of the Anglican Jubilee took the shape of a Conversazione, which was held in the Pavilion, Horticultural Gardens, on Wednesday evening, the 27th of November. Most elaborate arrangements were made for the affair, and no efforts were spared by the Committee to make it the most popular event of the Jubilee commemoration. The Royal Grenadiers' band played many English and Scotch airs in the gallery, which was decorated with flags. Tables were covered with ices, sweetmeats, and other delicacies, of which the guests partook from time to time. The Bishop of Toronto presided, and in appropriate terms introduced the speakers. Having introduced Bishop Court- ney, the latter made a brief, witty speech, thoroughly apropos to the occasion. He spoke of the kindness he had met in the Queen City from its Bishop, Cathedral staff, Diocesan friends, and others, and returned thanks for the same. The proceed- ings of the Jabilee had, he said, gone off without a hitch. Everyone had done their duty, Bishops, clergymen, organ- ists, and even the choir boys. The organists had done better, perhaps, than those out west, not in Canada, but in the United States, where in some country churches the notice was posted : " Please do not shoot the organist, he is doing his best." In the hope that they would nol: shoot him (Bishop Courtney) for not doing his best. He then spoke of the general cheeriness of the people who had attended the services, for which he remarked, there ought to exist a feeling of deep thankfulness, followed by a de- termination to go on and do the work before them with a determination to let bygones be bygones, and to avoid all differences Referring to the weather, the Bishop said that Mark Twain claimed for New England a larger assortment of weather in twenty-four hours than any other part of the habitable globe, and as a proof thereof had stated at a 125 banquet in New York that he had sent up 240 samples of it to the Centennial, at Philadelphia, in 187G. He did not think Mark Twain would find such diversity in Toronto ; but after all diversity could be found everywhere, and it generally brought self-content, and the elements of good health. In that respect Nova Scotians could not boast of superiority. The people of Toronto looked well, and seemed to have a great deal of " go " in them, which was, perhaps, due to the weather. St. John, and even Halifax, might obtain from them a lesson in go-aheadness, and Toronto would do well on next Jubilee celebration if, instead of inviting the Bishop, invited the whole of the Church people of Nova Scotia. In concluding the Bishop spoke of di- versity as making up the national life of a great nation, as each section or individual — although acrimony might pre- vail in politics — strove for the general good, and for this reason they should recognize other religious bodies kindly. The Bishop of Algoma, was then introduced by the Bishop of Toronto. After some introductory remarks as to the relative position of Missionary Bishops and their right reverend brethren in Dioceses such as Toronto, possessing cathedral cities, the Bishop went on to say : — I cannot help feeling that the Bishop of the Diocese is to be congratulated most heartily on the brilliant success that has tlius far attended this Jubilee commemoration. Doubtless for months past it has been a subject of anxiety to him, and those who have assisted him. It was neces- sarily an experiment, before untried, and entered on, I doubt not, with not a little apprehension as to the results, and to-night, its originators can look back, and feel that by the Divine blessing, and with the co-operation of the Clergy and laity, not only have their fears been dispelled, but their most sanguine hopes have been fully realized. The Jubilee of the consecration of the first Bishop of Toronto, not merely marks an epoch in the history of the Church of England in this Diocese, it is destined to exercise a deep and lasting II Ml '"^jfl ■$M 1-1' ! :? ;P1 126 influence on the future of this Church in Canada i^enerally. One index to the importance belonginc,' to it is found in the prominence given to its proceedings by the press. Day after day the Mail, the ablest and most enterprising news paper in Canada, devotes not merely columns, but pages to a report of it, re|)roducing alike pulpit and plat- form utterances in minutest detail. This simple fact indi- cates very forcibly the interest which this Jubilee possesses not only for Church people, but for the community at large. Frequent allusion had been made in the course of the proceedings to the fact, that the Church of England is behind other religious jomraunions in Canada in point of numbers. Well, this may be so, but, damaging as it may seem to a superficial observer, the fact is by no means so ugly as it looks, and, though it suggests enquiry, need not bring with it excessive self-reproach. For, first, as has already been hinted, more than once, truth and right are not always on the side of the majority. Moral weight and influence are not always measured by the heads counted or the votes cast. There are other and more reliable tests of success. Indeed, it was not to be expected, under the exist- ing condition of things, that the Church of England would compete successfully with other bodies in point of numbers, simply because she sternly refuses to pander to the pre- vailing spirit of the age, by encouraging that love of novelty and sensationalism which has too often invaded the sacred precincts of God's house, and seems more desirous of excit- ing the risible faculties than of piercing the conscience, and changing the heart. She sets her face like a flint, for example, against the increasingly prevailing custom of advertising ad captandum titles for pulpit themes, and so dragging down the Word of God from its lofty pre-emi- nence as God's appointed agency for the world's conver- sion, to make it an instrument for gathering the masses of the worldly and frivolous at the feet of some popular idol, to gratify his little soul with periodic bursts of applause. 127 ■ ■'! '■M No, the spirit of the Church of England is too sober, too chasteneJ, too reverent, to descend to such methods of \) 'pularity hunting. Her mission is not this, but ratlier to do God's work in the workl in God's appointed way, by presenting a pure and complete Gos|iel, and so approve heiself a true and faithful branch of " the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." And this mission she is, in her measure, fulfilling faithfully, not only in the Diocese of Toronto, but through the length and breadth of the Dominion. Alluding to the Jubilee gathering of the " Woman's Auxiliary," the Bishop ex|)ressed his great regret that delays of the trains had deprived him of the pleasure of being present, but he felt the liveliest interest in its operations, and wished the move- ment a hearty "God speed.'' Indeed his Dioce,«e, and therefore he himself, had already been laid by it under such a weight of obligation for its substantial sympathy with the temporal needs, alike of the missionaries and their families, and the settlers as well, that even the strongest language he could use, would fail to express adequately the gratitude they felt. In conclusion, the Bishop said that he was certain he was only voicing the sentiments of all who were present, and of thousands of loyal sons and daughters of the Church not with them that evening, when he recognized the good hand of God riding in ' their Jubilee celebration ; and, further, thanked the Bishop of the Diocese for the time, and thought, and labour, so successfully expended in its conduct and management. He was sure they would all uiiite with him in the sincere and hearty prayei- that the same Divine blessing which had marked the history of the past fifty years, might be granted still more abundantly to its Bishop, during the many years that they trusted he would be spared, in the providence of God, to occupy the Episcopal chair of that important, and rapidly growing Diocese. Pi if I V ' if ■ li\ Wl 9 128 THE CLOSING DAY'S CONFERENCE IN ST. James's school house, 28th November. Thursday, the 28th of November, was the closing and practica day of the Anglican Jubilee Celebration, which has been so full throughout of high literary effort, and solid religious dogma. The event of the day was the Conference, which lasted from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., with a slight intermission. It was held in St. James's School House. Historic retrospects dealing with the work in the five Dioceses were read by gentlemen who, from long acquaintance and intimate knowledge of Anglican Church work, and the possession of facilities for obtaining the most reli- able data, were particulaily well fitted for the duty. The first ])aper was comi)osed jointly by Rev. Henry Scadding, D.D., and J. George Hodgins, LL.D., Historiographers of the Diocese, and read by the latter. In calling upon Dr. Hodgins, Deputy Minister of Education, to read the paper, the Right Rev. Bishop Sweatman, who presided, paid a high com- pliment to the writer of the paper and the Rev. Dr. Scadding, the Historiogra))hers of the Anglican Church, — the latter also rightly and well known as the historian of the city of Toronto, and the author of the life of its first Bishop. Dr. Scadding, the Bishop said, was perhaps more fit, no less from his own pei-sonal knowledge than from the accomplished gifts he possessed, to com- pose such a work, while his confrere was a gentleman intimately associated for many years with Church work as the active and efiiciert Lay Secretary of the Synod of the Diocese of Toronto, — a gentleman of long experience in public positions, and most intimately associated with the educational work of the Province, and with Dr. Ryerson, its great leader of education. Dr. Scadding, in rejjly, said he regretted that his contributions to the paper were so few. 129 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO. 1839-1889. PREPARED BY J. GEORGE HODGINS, M.A., LL.D., WITH THE AID OF THE REV. CANON SCADDING, D.D., CANTAB. What is now the Anglican Diocese of Toronto is but a fraction — a fifth part — of what it was when its fii-^it energetic and influential Bishop was consecrated in 1839. It then included the present Dioceses of Huron, Ontario, Algoma, and Niagara, which were set apart respectively in the years 1857, 1861, 1873, and 187o. One hundred and two yeare ago — in 1787 — the first Colonial Bishop consecrated in England, was the Rev. Dr. Charles Inglis, as Bishop of Nova Scotia. His episcopal jurisdiction then extended nominally over the whole of British North America, but practically it was limited to Nova Scotin, New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada. His first episcopal visitation was held in Quebec in 1789, just one hundred years ago. Nova Scotia preceded Quebec as a Church of England Diocese, probably for the reason that Nova Scotia, under the name of Acadia, had been a portion of the British Empire from the date of the Treaty of Utrecht, (1713); but continued disputes with France about its boundaries ren- dered the English tenure uncertain for fifty years, and until after the Treaty of Paris in 1763. As early as 1790, Col. J. Graves Simcoe, who was after- wards the first Lieut. Governor of Upper Canada, wrote a letter to the Most Rev. Dr. Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, 17 .'■la »l 130 1^ sff urginLT the establishment of a Bishopric in Upper Canada. He said : — " I am decidedly of opinion that a n^irular e])iHcop)d establish- inent, subordinate to the prinmcy of Great Ilritain is ab8olut«ly ncces.sary in the extensive cohmy which this country moans to preserve. In regard to a coh)ny in Upper Ciina(hi, which is blessed with the laws and upright administration of them, which, distinguishes and ennobles the country, niul wliich colony is peculiarly situated amongst a variety of republics, every establish- ment of church and state that upiiokls a distinction of ranks, and lesstns the undue wiiight of the democratic influence must be indispensably introduced and will, no doubt, in the hands of Great Britain, hold out a purer model of government, in a praictical form than has been expatiated upon in all the theoretic reveries of self-named philosophers." In June, 1791, Col. Simcoe wrote to the Colonial Secre- tary Dune immediately established in Upper Canada." , The reasons he gives for this urgency are : — (1) " The propriety of some form of public worship, politically considered, being prescribed by the state," (2) "the necessity of ]»reventing enthusiastic and fanatic preachers from acquiiing a sm)erstitious hold of the minds of the multitude," etc. In subsequent letters. Governor Simcoe urged this matter upon the attention of the Home Government. The question was not, however, settled as he desired. But in 1791, when the Province of Quebec v/as '.livided into Upper and Lower Canada both were separat'^d from the see of Nova Scotia, and the Bishopric of Quebec was established, with Rev. Dr. Jacob Mountain as its first Bishop. His jurisdiction extended over Upper and Lower Canada. Montreal became the see of the coadjutor Bishop of Quebec in 1836, and an independent See in 1850, under Bishop 131 Fulford. Tlio Bi.shop of Quebec and his co-adjutor exercised episcopal jurisdiction over Upp»!r Canada until iHlid, wlieii Toronto becauie a separate see, with the Rev. Dr. John Straclian as its first Bishop. New Brunswick was separated from Quebec in 184'), and became the Diocese of Froderictou, under Rev. Dr. John Medley, its first and present Bishop. The Very Rev. Dean Alford was nomi- nated to the Bishopric, but declined it. The first Anglican clergyman who miuisterod in Upper Canada was the Rev. Dr. John Stuart, a United lilmpiro Loyalist. He arrived here in 17HG, and became Chaplain to a Provincial Regiment. Although a native of Virginia, he was ordained in England. He had been a missionary to the Six Nation Indians near Fort Hunter, in the Mo- hawk valley, N.Y. In 178G, he commenced his missionary labours among the Indians and refugee loyalists, scattered here and there between Niagara *'nd Cataracpii (Kingston). He was also Chaplain to the Legislative Council. One of his sons, George Okill Stuart, became the first Rector of Toronto, and afterwards Archdeacon of Kingston. For some years prior to 1827, he acted as the first Bishop Mountain's official representative, or Commissary at York. With Joseph Brant, he translated the Prayer Book into the Mohawk language. He died in 1811, aged 71. In 1787, Rev. John Langhorn came to Upper Canada from England, as Missionary at Ernesto wn and Bath. He returned to England in 1813. In 1792, the Rev. Robert Addison came from England, and was stationed at Niagara. Two other Clergymen came from England in that year. He (the Rev. Mr. Addison,) was also a missionary to the Indians at the Grand River. When the Bishop of Quebec visited Niagara in 1816 Mr. Addison presented him with 50 candidates for confirmation. In 1818, his care of the Indians was shared by the Rev. Ralph Leeming, Missionary at Barton, Ancaster, &c. In conducting the service among the Grand River Indians, Joseph Brant acted as his inter- ml '■Jl ■^1 fi-V -fH'-.I 132 preter. He died in 1829, after a useful ministry of 40 years, and was succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Creen.* In 1774, 14 George III, Ch. 83, was passed. It contained the afterwards famous provision "for the support of a Prolostant Clergy." Under its authority one seventh of the Province was set apart as Clergy Reserve lands, and, in 1836, 44 out of 57 projected rectories, were established by Sir John Colborne, (Lord Seaton). The endowment of these rectories varied from 200 to 400 acres each. That of Toronto was 400 acres. The Rev. Dr. Jacob Mountain, who was consecrated a.s Bishop of Quebec in 1793, made his first visitation of the clergy in 1794. There were then but six clergymen in Lower Canada, and the three (already named above) in L^pper Canada, On the ordination of Rev. George Okill Stuart in 1800, he was appointed by Peter Hunter, Lieutenant Gevemor, Rector of York. His portrait, as first Rector, still hangs in the Vestry of St. James's Cathedral. The year 1803 was, in many respects a memorable one for the after Diocese of Toronto. In that year Mr. John Strachan, who came out from Scotland in December, 1799, and who for so many years exercised a potent influence in Upper Canada, was ordained a deacon, and commenced his ministerial career at Cornwall. He there opened a school, at which most of the noted men who were his trusted friends in after years, were educated. In the same * Mrs. Maniierp, .a near relative, has very kindly furnished me with the following particulars in re/;ard to the Rev. Mr. Acidison : — " The Rev. Robert Addison, fellow of Christ's Ch'Tch, Oxford, came out from Englaud in 1792. He resided at Ilamstead, near London, where he prepared students for the Uiiiversities of C'anibridge and Oxford. Applicatioii having been made irom Canada for uiissionnries, he was sent out by the Church Missionary Society, and received £fiOO a year as stipend. While resident at Niagara, he occasionally gave instruction in the school there without making any charge. His first wife was a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Atkinson, whose wife was a direct descendant of Bishop Ridley. His second wife was a Miss Fluiumer, an English Lady." 133 year the Rev. Richard Pollard was appointed missionary at Sandwich. Up to that time there was no episcopal church edifice at York, and service was held in the Parlia- ment buildings. Funds were however collected in that year, and a suitable wooden structure was erected on the site of the present St. James's Cathedral.* * In his sermon in St. James's Cathedral, at the dedication of the new organ, on the 23rJ of February, 1890, the Rev. Canon DuMoulin thus referred to the early history of the Cathedral : — " The life of this mother church of the city runs with that of the country. In 1799 a service of thanksgiving was hela in York by royal appointment, but there was no church wherein to hold it ; it was performed in the council chamber. It is a most gratifying fact that wherever England's arms conquer and her civili- zation is set up, England's church accompanies or soon follows. Accord- ingly, in 1803 the first church was built on this site in the town of York. It was a frame building 50 x 20 feet. In 181 l-> it was enlarged and improved, and in those bygone days, which I suppose no one is now living to recollect, thu little world of York assembled. The congregation of those days \/c,s very comprehensive — high and low, rich and poor, one with another ; the governor, the chief justice, the judges, the sheriffs, the councillors, the officers of the army, barristers, physicians, merchants, working classes — all gathered within the same fold. In 1839 the stone church was destroyed by that warm public enemy— fire. The homeless congregation, beaded by Dr. Strachan, the second Jiector, whose name is a history, bound themselves to rebuild the structure. Thus the second St. James was built, and after a short life of ten years, in 1849 it fell a victim to the persistent fiery foe. Thiii occasioned the building of the present church (1850). The plans, ideas, and designs of the people kept pace with their increasing prosperity, and they resolved to build a church fiubstanti'^^^i and beautiful, and accordingly the present graceful structure arose on the ashes of the first and second churches of St. Jamta. The history of the present building has been one of progress from stage to stage of beauty and finish. In 1866 the chime of bells wad placed in the then unfinished tower. In ISC" the some rector, the councillor and statesman, had finished his cour-e, and was laid to rest in yonder chancel. It was determined to perpihi.iU' his memory, and the old pulpit and reading pew that then stood at ihe head of the centre aisle were i laced bv new furniture to harmonize nith the chancel. In 1 1;12 the \ i. i ible third rector and first dean cios3d a ministry of forty-four years, ilis consort soon followed, and they also sleep under the chancel of the church they loved so well. Their memory was preserved by the east window and its companion. In 1883, after long and anxious care, and the liber- Ality ' f a few, it was determined to make tho improvements w hich to-day I 134 ' 1; 1 i UiW In 1813, Rev. John Strachan became Rector of York. At that time the number of clergy in Upper Canada was only five; in 1819, there were ten ; in 1825, 22; in 1827, 30 ; in 1833, 46 ; in 1837, 70 ; and in 1839, when the Rev. Dr. Strachan became Bishop, 71 ; in 1841, 90 ; and in 1844, 103. In 1817, a Bible and Prayer Book Society, in connection with the Church of England, was established at York. The Directors of the Society were : Chief Justice Powell, Ex-Chief Justice Scott; Mr. Justice (afterwards Chief Justice Sir William) Campbell, the Attorney General, and Dr. Macaulay. The Rev. Dr. Strechan was Secretary, and the Hon. William Allan, Treasurer. In the following year the Society was divided into two, — one a Bible Society, and the other a Prayer Book Society. The former was the original and forerunner of the Upper Canada Bible Society, now in existence in Toronto ; the latter remained a Church of England Society. It afterwards became an auxiliary, or local committee, of the Society in England for Promot- ing Christian Knowledge, and published interesting yearly reports of its operations. It finally became merged in the incorporated Church Society of the Diocese of Toronto. In 1820, the Bishop of Quebec held his first visitation at York. In that year he ordained two Lutheran minis- ters and stationed one of them at Eaton, lower Canada, and the other at Matilda, on the St. Lawrence, in Upper Canada. At the time of his death, in 1825, his five clergy had increased to 22. In the following year his successor. Bishop Stewart, convened his clergy at York, and after- wards held confirmations at Perth, Kingston, York, Niagara, etc. In 1825 the Rev. George Okill Stuart was appointed you behold. Forty years ago when the church was built it was the mother of four churches, now the family numbers thirty-four. A very definite and enduring iiitercst it must ever possess not only for you, but for all the citizens of this place. As the first of the city's manifold churches, it should command the interest and good-will of it. (See also note on page 62.) 135 Aichdeacon of Kingston, and the Rev. John Strachan, Archdeacon of York — a title still retained. The office was successively filled by the Rev. A. N. Bethune, Rector of Cobourg, the Rev. Provost Whitaker, and the Rev. S. J. Boddy, Rector of St. Peter's Church Toronto. In 1830, another Church of England Society was formed at York for " Converting and Civilizing the Indians, and Propagating the Gospel amongst Destitute Settlers in Upper Canada." Rev. Charles Matthews and Capt. Phil- potts, A. D. C, were its first Secretaries. Subsequently, on the removal of Mr. Matthews in 1835, the post was filled by the Rev. H. J. Grasett. The seven annual reports issued by this Society show that its operations were carried on with great vigor and success. One of the interesting fruits of this enterprise was the establishment in 1830, at Sault Ste. Marie, of an Indian Mission, — at first under the direction of Mi*. J. D. Cameron, and afterwards, in 1832, and for some years, under the able management of the Rev. William McMurray, now the highl}'^ esteem-id and venerable Archdeacon of Niagara, and Rector oi" rit. Mark's Church at Niagara-on-the-Lake, a gentleman whose ministerial labours hare now extended to the almost unprecedented period of fifty-seven years. Nor, in this connection, should reference be omitted to another of the early missionaries of this Society to the Indians at the Bay of Quinte, Rev. Saltern Givins, who, in !3c531, was stationed at Tyendinaga, and who subse- quently laboured in other parts of the Province. He finally b.caino Rectr/r of St. Paul's, Toronto, and was a Canon of St. Janxes's Cathedral until his sudden and lamented death in 1880. IN o mau was more highly "esteemed for his works' sake," or more greatly beloved for his personal qualities of gentleness of demeanor, courtesy of manner and purity of life, than was the Rev. Canon Givins. Another noted Indian Missionary in Manitoulin Island •should be mentioned, the Rev. F. A. O'Meara, whose labours, Mi; 1 ■1 • j ' ■■^' iJS " V' 11 ■ t:^ 136 I If ■ I .:^ II commencing in 1838, was only closed by his sudden and deeply lamented death last year, in the fiftieth year of his successful ministry. He became rector of St. John's, Port Hope, and was also a Canon of St. James's Cathedral. His great activity and his bright, pleasant manners will long be remembered by those who knew him. Tne devoted labours of the Rev. Adam Elliott, also a former missionary at Manitoulin Island, of the Rev. Richard Flood, Rev. Thomas Creen, Rev. Thomas Greene, Rev. H. H. O'Neill, Rev. Wm. Morse, Rev. Mark Burnham, and the Rev. Abraham Nelles, afterwards Archdeacon of Brant, have long since closed on earth, but will not soon be for- gotten by Anglican churchmen. There are a few otht lames which deserve honourable mention in this place, an i I will place that of the late Bishop of Niagara — tli > Rev. Dr. T. B. Fuller. He was one of the most useful and practical members of the Toronto Synod while he remained in it. The venerated Dean Grasett, too, was greatly beloved by his congregation, and highly esteemed in Toronto during his long and de- voted ministry as rector of St. James's Cathedral. The names, too, of other prominent clergymen who have passed to their reward deserve special mention, such as the Ven, Archdeacons Brough, Elwood, Patton, Palmer, Whitaker ; Very Rev. Dean Boomer; Canons Beaven, H. C. Cooper, Baldwin, Morgan, Stennett, and Falls ; Drs. J- Shortt, S. S Strong. Neville, St. George Caulfeild, Adam Townley, Stephen Lett ; and Rev. Messrs. R. D. Cartwright, J. Padfield, F. Mack, G. Archbold, Job Deacon, James Magrath, E. J. Boswell, R. J. McGeorge, W. H. Ripley, G. Bourne, E. Grasett, M. Harris, C. L. Ingles, J. G. R. Salter, S. Armour, R. J. C. Taylor, W. Herchmer, W. Macaulay, J. Pentland, P. Shirley, W. Johnson, Francis Evans, D. E. Blake, W. Bettridge, E. Denroche, S. B. Ardagh, A. F. Atkinson, William Leeming, Ralph Leeming, John Grier, A. Mortimer, W. S. Darling, J. Hebden ; 137 E. H. Dewar, G. S. J. Hill, R. Shaiiklin, Johnstone Vicars, J. G. D. MacKenzie, and W. R. Forster. In this connection may be mentioned a few highly esteemed names of Clergymen, who took a more or less active part in church gatherings in time past ; first, the very Rev. J. Gamble Geddes, D. C, L., Dean of Niagara, who came into a Diocese of Toronto in 1834. His long, and, for many years, active service — almost equal to that of Arch- deacon MacMurray of Niagara extends to now fifty-five years. Like his late brother-in-law, Dean Grasett, he is dignified in his manner. His venerable presence is still with us, though he has retired from active clerical duty. Then, there is my colleague as Historiographer of the Diocese, the Rev. Dr. Scadding, the learned and accom- plished historian of Toronto, and an interesting writer on other topics. He is one of the most highly esteemed of our older clergy. He has been fifty-three yeai-s in the ministry, and is Canon of St. James's Cathedral. The other older clergymen of note, so far as I can recall them are : — Ven. Archdeacons Wilson, Bodd}'^, Marsh, Sandys, Dixon, and Mulholland ; Canons F. L, and H. B Osier, Read, Worrell ; the Rev. Dr. MacNab, Rev. Messrs. Sanson, Stewart, Burke, Arnold, Allen, Dobbs, Fletcher, and others. Mot t of them take an active part in Church affairs, and to their opinions in such matters great defer- ence is paid.* * This reference would not be complete were I to omit the names of prominent laymen who have exercised great influence on matters affecting the interests of the Anglican Church in this Diocese. The most honoured name amongst these laymen is that of the late Chief Justice Sir J. B. Robinson, a man of singular gentleness and purity of life. Then there were the Hon. P. B. DeBlaquiere, Hon. Chief Justice Draper, C. B., Sir J. B. Macanlay, Hon. Robert Baldwin, C. B., Hon. William Allan, Hon. W. B. Robinson, Hon. Chancellor W, H, Blake?, Hon. George Crookshank; Drs. Macanlay, A. Burnside, Melville, Paget, Boys, and Low ; Hon. J. H. Dunn, Hon. H. J. Boulton, Hon. J. H. Cartw right. Col. Wells, Hon. Justices Hagerman and Jones, Chief Justice Elmsley, E. Deedes, T. D. Harris, T. W. Birchall, L. Moffat, Sheriff Ruttau, William Gamble , 18 .;;v 1 ft: ■ '■>>■( M i P^' It 1*1 ':'■' u , i(: j'i , 1 'If I ::|fi .;lll i 1 ou mn '] In ISSS-lSSi, Bishop Stewart took steps to establish another society for the purpose of raising the " Upper Canada Travelling Mission Fund." By the aid of sub- scriptions received from England, and in this Diocese, the Society was enabled to send into the field, as travelling missionaries, the Rev. A.dain Elliot, Rev. W. F. S. Harpiir, Rev. Thomas Greene, Rev. Richnrd Hood and the Rev. J. C. Usher and others, — all long since gone to that bourne from whence no traveller returns. In 183!),another Society was projected with a view to pro- mote the mission cause, namely, the "Upper Canada Clergy Society." It did not go into active operation until 1837. Rev. William Bettridge, of Woodstock, and Rev. Benjamin Cronyn, of London (afterwards the first Bishop of Huron), were deputed to go to England and advocate the claims of the Society. They did so with considerable success. To aid in their efforts, and to diftuse information on the sub- ject a "Brief History of the Church in Upper Canada," ex- tending to 143 pages, vj^s c^. awn up by Mr. Bettridge and largely circulated in England. The Rev. Septimus Ram- say, then in England — afterwards of Newmarket — was Secretary of the Society and Rev. H. J. Grasett its corres- pondent in Upper Canada. The reports of the Society speak in strong terms of commendation of the labours of Joseph Spragge, John Kent, John Baldwin, S. Prioe H. C. Baker. W. Y. Pettitt, Sir Allan Macnab, Hon. G. J. Goodhue, Absalom Shade, Lawrence Lawrason, George Crawford, Hon. G. S. Boulton, Hon. J. Hillyard Cameron, Col. O'Brien, Judge^Arnold, Col. Kingsmill, Thomas. Benson, Hon, James Gordon, A. A. Burnhani, John W. Gamble, Clarke Gamble, Col, R. B. Denison, Leonidas Burwell, Judge Boswell, Dr. James Henderson, Dr. Bovell, Chief Justice Hagarty, Judge George Duggan, S. B. Harman, Q.C., Hon. James Patton, Q. C, Dr. now Sir Daniel Wilson, Hons. Edward and S. H. Blake, Sheriflf Jarvis, C. J. Campbell, Cols. G. T. Denison, Senior and Junior,' F. W. Cumberland, Chief Justice Harrison, R. Baldwin, Judge Boyd, Adam Brown, M.P., Col. Boulton, A, H. Campbell, Judge Benson, Col. Grierson, Capt. Blain, Dr. O'Reilly, William Ince, Dr. Snelling, Dr. Covernton, and many others, who tid good service, some are still active in prom'^ting the Church's work. 139 Kev. F. L. Osier, Rev. F. A. O'Meara, Rev. D. C. Hill, Rev. S. N. Bartlett, and others. The Society, with the approval of Bishop Strachan, afterwards became merged in that for the "Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" — the " S. P. G.," as it is familiarly designated. Thus we see that in these early times, and amid many discouragements and adverse influences, tht Anglican church made substantial progress in the wide lleld of its operations. The cause of the Master was steadily and effectively promoted, and many agencies were employed to infuse life and vitality into the various departments of the Church's work. This progress and success was largely due to the activity and zeal of him who afterwards became the first Bishop of Toronto. In this great work he was ably assisted and encouraged by a noble band of men — clerical and lay — which, with a singular magnetic power, he had rallied around him — many of them were men whose intellectual life had been awakened and stimulated by him in the earlier years of their career. In taking a retrospective glance at th ^ history of the church during these years, two things are especially note- worthy : First : That at a time, when co-operative clerical and lay agencies, for the promotion of Church w^ork, were the exception, rather than the rule, the far seeing and sagacious leader of the Church in this Province introduced them, (as we have seen,) in a variety of forms, beginning as far back as 1817. Secondly : That the missionary spirit of the Church in this Diocese wjis developed as early as in 1816; while in 1830, a most important Society was established for systematic work among the Indians and destitute settlers, and for twenty years or more, some of the most active and noted of our ministers labored either as settled or travelling missionaries throughout Upper Canada. I need only mention the names of the Revds. Ralph Leeming, Thomas ii^^l m^ ^ '?-•'• I: -■I i, 4 . %': I'l 140 ■ II E| i h His Creen, William MacMurrny, Thomas Greene, Richard Pollard, Saltern Givins, Frederick A. O'Meara, Adam Elliott, and others, as illustrative examples, In connection with the Societies already named, there was still another in England, the "Colonial and Continental Church Society " which had given liberal aid to the Missions in various Provinces. In addition to this, the "New England Society " aided (as it still does), the Indian mission work on the Grand River, and the "Stewart Missions " were organized, by means of which three travelling missionaries were wholly supported by the gen- erous aid of the Rev. W. J. D. Waddilove, of Yorkshire, England. In 1838, Bishop SteAvart presented a report on the State of the Church in Upper Canada, to Lord Durham, then Governor General and Her Majesty's High Commissioner to Canada. In that report the Bishop estimated the Church population in Upper Canada at 150,000 and the number of the clergy at 70. As the result of the appeal in that report and other efforts. Upper Canada was set apart as a new See, and Archdeacon Strachan was appointed Bishop thereto by Letters Patent from Her Majesty the Queen, in July, 1839. When Bishop Strachan took possession of his See, the number of the clergy was 71. In his primary charge, delivered in 1841, he discussed a great variety of topics, the two most important ones, however, were: (1) a "permanent provision for a church establishment ;" and (2) "cadvantages of a Diocesan Synod and a church press." This latter topic was discussed by the Bishop with a view to aid in the maintenance of The Church [Newspaper, established 1837, and then ably edited by the Rev. A. N. Bethune, Rector of Cobourg, and afterwards second Bishop of Toronto. This advocacy was the more necessary, since two church papers, one published at Montreal, and the other at Three Rivers, and both successively named The Christian Sentinel^ hnd failed of success. 141 In 1841, a Theological School was established at Cobourg, under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Bethune as Principal. It was afterwards merged in Trinity College. In 1840, a Church of England Tract Society was estab- lished in Toronto; and, in April, 1842, there w^as incorpor- ated the important and most valuable " Church Society of the Diocese of Toronto," as had been strongly urged by Bishop Strachan in his primary charge of 1841. This Society embraced in its objects all the church work in the Diocese. It did most effective service in its day, and was finally merged in the Synod of the Diocese in 1 870. In his triennial visitations of the clergy in 1844 and 1847, the Bishop brought a great variety of topics before them, relating chiefly to the characteristics and constitu- tion of the Church of England, — its creeds and formularies, the proper mode of conducting Divine service, etc. In his charge of July, 1847, the Bishop referred in very pleased and gratified terms to the establishment and en- dowment of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Toronto by a munificent anonymous donor, through the Bishop of Ripon, in England. In 1851, Bishop Strachan made a memorable new de- parture, as events proved, at his visitation. For, in addition to the clergy of his Diocese, he, for the first time, for- mally invited lay delegates from the various parishes to meet him with the clergy, and discuss matters relating to the common welfare of the Church. It was in prudential and practical matters of this kind that Bishop Strachan showed the statesman-like qual- ities of his mind. He saw that in society, constituted as ours was, and amonga people intelligent and progressive, it would be an immense advantage to bring into the counsels of the Church the Christian zeal and business ability of Church of England laymen. Not only that, but he could not fail to be aware, from various indications, that such a change in the administration of the finances and temporali- (jfi^ ^.Im ;'v! ■p 1 V 148 il \^ii ties of the Church was inevitable ; and that sooner or later the unrestricted admission of laymen to equal share in this part of the Church's administrative work would be a practi- cal necessity. In this memorable change in the constitu- tion of the Church, Bishop Strachan anticipated, by many years, the recent important changes in the constitution of the Methodist Conferences in the United States, Canada, and England, and in the governing bodies of other Protes- tant denominations. The Convocation of Laymen as a supplement of, and a complement to, the ancient Convoca- tions of York and Canterbury, which has lately been insti- tuted by the mother Church in England, is but the appli- cation, in another form, of the principle which was practically adopted by Bishop Strachan in the government of the church in his Diocese. Rev. Dr. Scadding, in his sketch of "The Bishop of Toronto," thus refers to this ancient doctrine in the government of the church as revived and applied, as has been shown, by Bishop Strachan : — " To the Bishop of Toronto, the honour belongs of being the first practically to solve the difficulty which in theory besets the admission of lay members into Anglican Synods, His example has been widely followed in different quarters of the Empire." It is true that the incorporation of this new principle into the constitution of the Church in this Diocese was deferred for some years by its prudent and sagacious over- seer until it had proved itself of permanent and practical value. Thus the gatherings of clergy and laity in 1853, 1854, and 1855, were purely tentative in their character as Synods. The year 1857, however, marked an epoch in the history of the Diocese. In that year a legally constituted Church of England Synod assembled under the authority of an Act passed by the Legislature and formally assented to by the Governor- General-in-CounciL 155 laymen took their seats in this Synod, and 119 of the clergy. In that 143 year, too, the first breach in the ohl home circle of the Church took place, and the Diocese of Huron was separated from the mother Diocese of Toronto. The election of Bishop Cronj'^ii followed, S50,000 having been raised for the endowment of the new See. Of the Clerjjv, 42 had cures within the bounds of this new Diocese, about 90 remained in the Diocese of Toronto, which has a larger number by nearly twenty, than was in it when Bishop Strachan was consecrated in 1839. The meetings of the Synod of Toronto, which took place in 1858, 1859, 1860, were devoted chiefly to matters of domestic concern, and to determining the relation this new governing body to the parishes and to the Church at large in the Dio<^ese. The first election of delejrates to the Provincial Synod, (then first constituted,) took place in 1858, A movement was also made to set apart another new Diocese to the east, with Kingston as its centre. In his a'ldress in I860, the Bishop gave an interesting retro- spective sketch of his own career, from the time he entered coilege in 1796, "through a vista," (as he said,) "of more than sixty years." No one can read the personal narrative of the good old Bishop's career, without being impressed with a feeling of profound respect for one who had met with so many untoward vicissiturles in his early life, and yet who, in the face of them all, had displayed a courage indomitable in its heroism, and as illustrative of the future Bishop's determination to overcome all obstacles rather than to submit to the mortification of Vjeinc; beaten. Not that he faltered in the race, or felt discouraged in main- taining the unequal contest, on the contrary, he was so far discouraged at one time that, had he the necessary means at his command, he would have returned to Scotland, and would thus have failed to have fulfilled the high d .;.'.iy which, in the good Providence of God, was reserved i'or him. In 1861, the Diocese of Ontaro was set apart, and the m ■ -^1 *• "I 'I m r, J ■" '■ w •4 J 144 r- Rev. J. Travers Lewis, LL. D., elected as its Bishop. Fifty- three of the clergy had cures in the new Diocese, leaving upwards of seventy still in the old mother Diocese of Toronto. In 18C5, as Bishop Strachan felt himself unequal to the discharge of his arduous duties, he made special request to the Synod of that year, thataco-adjutor be elected to assist him. The election took place in September, 1866, when the Rev. Dr. A. N. Bethune, Rector of Cobourg and Archdeacon of York, was chosen, with the title of Bishop of Niagara. lie was consecrated in January, 1867; and on the lamented death of the venerated Diocesan, in November of that year, succeeded to the See, as second Bishop of Toronto. This brief record of the incidents in the history of the Diocese and its first Bishop would not be complete with- out reference to two important matters — the discussion of which absorbed so largre a share of the time and energy of that remarkable man. I refer to the Clergy Reserve and University questions. To understand the cause of the zeal and determination of the Bishop in the discussion of the first of these ques- tions, it is interesting to noLe what was the primary mo- tive which influenced him in that prolonged controversy of thirty years ; he ever held to the idea of the union of church and state as sacred, and as ordained of God for the maintenance of His cause and Church upon earth ; and also that it was the duty of the State to support the church in her ministtations. In a remarkable speech, — memorable as it was in many respects, — which Dr. Strachan delivered in the Legislative Council, on the sixth of March, 1828, he said : — "If they fell me the ecclesiastical establishments are great evils, I bid them look to England and Scotland, each of which has a religious establishment, and to these establishments they are mainly indebted for their vast su[jeriority to other nations." 145 .« Again, in his letter to Rev. Dr. ("halniers, (in liS.*}2), on the "life and labours of Bisliop Hobart" of New Voik, lu; thus relates a conversation with that Prelate on this sub- ject. He said to the Bishop : — "You oxtol yonr Church ahc e that of England, antl exclaim against establishments. Add to this, tlie dependence of your clergy upon the people for support, a state of things which is attended with most pernicious consequences. It is the duty of Christian nations to constitute, within its boundaries, ecclesias- tical establishments, for it is incunibent upon the nations, as upon individuals, to honour the Lord with their substance." And yet, after the Bishop had so far triumphed in this contro^•e^sary, through the efforts of Lord Seaton, (Sir John Colborne,) and the Bench of Bishops, as to secure tlie passage of the Imperial Clergy Reserve Act of 1840, (which was favorable to the Church of England), he found tliat it entirely failed to provide for the stipends of his Cleigy. This he pathetically sets forth in his pa.storal letter of the 10th December, 1844, in M'hich he deplores the financial straits to which his Dioce-se was reduced. He says: — *' I applied to the Venerable (Propagation Society) in England to advance the salaries (of XI 00 each) to my five suffering clergy, They have been left without their stipends from June 1843 (to December 1844,) and this large and increasing Diocese, already so destitute of the means of public worship, will, in a spiritual sense, become through half its extent, a wilderness. Not only are five clergymen in a state of want, but two parishes are left vacant, and the process is unhappily going on. I have brought this deplorable and disheartening state of things under the notice of the Provincial Government. I have pressed (it) upon His Excellency. But all that was in my power to do has been without avail." (Page 6) As this appeal brought no relief, the practical and clear-sighted Bishop saw that a new agency must be em- ployed, and the voluntary principle, hitherto repudiated 19 1 1 Ml f ■ \ > m-i M-i ■myf-i -■■ .-Hi J 146 by him, must hereafter be relied on in part for the main- tenance of the Church and her institutions. In a remarkable document which the Bishop had pii- vately printed in 1849, on "The Secular State of the Church in the Diocese of Toronto," he furnishes a striking commentary on the eifect of his own previous teaching; that it was the duty of the state to support the Church, and thus relieve the people of th*; chief obligation of con- tributing to the propagation of the Gospel amongst them. The practical effect of that teaching he thus describes : — '• Till lately we have done little or nothing towards the sup- [jort of public worship. We have depended so long upon the Oovernaient and the (Propagation) Society, that many of tis for- get that it is our bounden duty. Instead of coming forward manfully to devote a portion of our wordly substance to the ser- vice of God, we turn away with indifference or we sit down to count the cost, and measure the salvation of our souls by pounds, shillings, and i/ence. We are bountifully assisted — and yet we are seen to fail on every side.'" (Page 19) In process of time the necessities of the Church induced the Bishop to adopt a new financial scheme for its sup- port, which he laid before his clergy in 1841 — one main feature of which was to incorporate the voluntary prin- ciple with a system of modern grants. The other great connest in which Bishop Strachan was engaged was that of the university question. ITiroughout that contest, — extending from the date of the original Charter of King's College, in 1828, to the passage of the Toronto University Bill in 1849, — two principles seem to have been paramount in the mind of the Bishop, and to have been steadily kept in view by him all through these twenty-one years. The first, and most importani was one, which he held to be essential, and, as such, he constantly pressed upon public attention, — it was thtit secular learn- ing and religious knowledge should ever go together ; and that their union wa.^ an imperative and practical necessity. 147 ■« He confessedly had high official authority in contending for this principle, as an essential element in the foundation of a University in Upper Canada. The original grant from the King in 1798, contained a declaration to the effect that the object of the grant was — " To assist and encourage the exertions of His Majesty's pro- vince in laying the foundation of promoting sound learning and a, religious education." In another part of the despatch, making the grant, it is stated that one of its main objects was — " The promotion of religious and moral learning and the study of the arts and sciences." This two-fold idea of the union of sound learning with religious knowledge, in the original grant from the King, Bishop Strachan never lost sight cf in the prolonged con- troversy which arose on the university question. It is worthy of note in this connection, that the very comprehensiveness, as well as express terms, of the royal despatch, as to the establishment of " other seminaries of a larger and more coitiprehensive nature," — i. e., colleges and universities — out of the original grant, gave rise to con- troversies — other than those with Bishop Strachan. For around the expressions — " religious education" and "reli- gious and moral learning" a fierce war was waged for many years, which', though now happily over, has yet left many traces of the prolonged and bitter conflict. The second principle for which the Bishop contended was that the Church in Canada, as a devoted, earnest, and active daughter of the mother Church in England, should, in this matter, strictly follow in her footsteps, and see to it that the union of religion with education should be strictly maintained under her iulmediate di^'ection and control. It was the persistent maintenance by the Bishop of these two great fundamental prinlci(!»les, eis he r6gaMed theih, that protracted th6 controversy for over twenty yeats, dbwn to the passage of this University Act of 1849. m .is: I i^h 148 The Bishop finally retired from that controversy in 1850, vanquished but not beaten; for, though in his 72nd year, he went to England on behalf of the then projected University of Trinity College. By his persistent energy he raised a large sum of money wherewith he founded that University in 1851. Further sums were ai'terwards raised for it in England, Canada, and the United States chiefly by the Rev. Dr. MacMurray, of Niagara, and others. In speaking of this supreme effort of the Bishop, in founding Trinity College, the lie v. Dr. Scadding, in his sketch of " The First Bishop of Toronto, a Review and a Study," said :— " After a stiniug ajipeal to the laity of Lis own diocese,- responded to by gifts and promises of money, or lands, to thb amount of 30,000 pounds, ($120,000)— he embarks for Eng- land, — lays )iis case before the two great religious Societie.H there, before the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, — before many of tlic bishops and clergy, and those members of the laity that are wont to interest themselves in matters connected with *' church education." He at the same time, makes application through the Colonial Secetary, (Lord Grey), for a royal charter for the proposed institution. " The > wglican communion in Western Canada was thus, through the j)ersistent energy of its resolute Bishop, put in pos- session of an institution for the training of its clergy, and for the higher education of its members." In the Syjiod of 1868, an interesting debate took place on a proposed provision for the care and education of pauper children. A resolution was passed for the appointment of a " Missionary Bishop to the Indians." In his address to the Synod in that year, (1868), Bishop Bethune referred in touching terms to the death of the venerated Bishop Strachan. A feeling of solemnity rested upon the Diocese during that year ; and the Ei.shop con- gratulated the Synod on the tronquility which existed within the borders of the Church in the Diocese. 149 In 1872, the setting apart of the Algoma Miseionary Diocese was concurred in, and, in the following year, this act of the Synod wab confirmed by it. The election of a Bishop for this diocese took place by the Provincial Synod in December of that year, (1872). The ad vu.uing years of Bishop Bethune and other causes induced hira to ask the Synod of 1877 to electaco-adjutor, so as to relieve him of the heavy and increasing burthen of his onerous office. A meeting of the Synod was, there- fore, called in Februaiy, 1878, for this purpose. After three days spent in balloting without result, the Bishop declared it inexpedient to make any further attempt to elect a co-adjutor, and declared the Synod ad- journed. Shortly afterwards the Bishop went to England to attend the Lambeth Conference of Bishops. On his return in November, he was heartly welcomed back by churchmen of all shades of opinion. However it was apparent to all that he was gradually failing, and on the 3rd of February. 1879, his gentle spirit passed away, to see the King in his beauty, in the 79th year of his age. The election of his successor, the present Bishop, took place in May of that year, under the presidency of the Very Rev. Dean Grasett. During the administration of Bishop Sweatman, the Diocese has made very satisfactory progress and the general feeling has been to unite all our forces in maintaining the institutions of the Church, to strengthen her stakes and to enlarge her borders. Very large additions have been made to the endowment of Trinity College. Its scope of usefulness has also been greatly enlarged. New professor- ships and lectureships have been established, a convocation hall and chapel have been erected, and a new wing projected. Wycliffe College, too, established in 1877 » has been liberally supported, and satisfactory efforts have been made to place it on a sound financial footing :ii II 150 i Im i ! ; with a view to greatly increase its usefulness and efficiency.* This paper would not be complete v^ere I not here to re- fer to the many excellent auxiliary organizations in oper- ation in the diocese for the promotion of spiritual religion and Christian morality, in addition to those already men- tioned in this paper. * In his address to the Synod of 1889, the Bishop of Toronto thus speaks of his ten years' Episcopate : — " A decennial period would seem to be an appropriate interval by which to measure growth in the body ecclesi- astical and spiritual ; I regret that I am unable to lay before you a detailed comparison of the figures of to-day and of ten years ago. . . I may, however, give a summary of my episcopal acts during this time, and one or two items of the Church's growth. In these ten years, then, I have held 31 ordinations and admitted 75 to the ord-it of deacons and 63 to the priesthood. Twenty-three of our clergy have been removed by death ; the total staff has been increased from 119 in 1879 to 156 in 1889, a gain of 37. " My confirmation services have numbered 708, of which 17 have been held privately in sick rooms ; the total number added to our roll of full Church members by these Confirmations is 14,265. "I have delivered 1,241 Sermons and Addresses, and administered the Holy Communion 372 times. " One of the most striking evidences of Church progress in the Diocese is the number of churches built in these ten years ; these total up to no less than 75 ; 27 rebuilt and 48 new churches in places where no church previously existed. Besides these new erections, several churches have been enlarged to double th.iir former capacity. I have also consecrated 32 churches, which indicates the extinction of a considerable amount of church debt The number of churches now existing in the Diocese is 212 against 163 at the commencement of my episcopate. "There is, however, another gauge of our real strength and advance as a church which you will regard as of far more vital importance ; I mean our communicants' roll. The earliest date at which I can arrive at accurate figures on this point is 1881. In that year the country parishes returned 6,381 communicants ; this year they return 7,377, an increase of nearly 1,000, or 16 per uent. Only 16 parishes in the city gave the num- ber of communicants in 1881, they amounted to 2,427. Filling in the blanks from subsequent returns, this total is raised to 3,540 in 1881. The numbers returnsd for this year add up to 7,360, an increase of 3,780. 1881 was the year of the last census ; since then the populatior. of Toronto has doubled ; it in satisfactory to know that in the same timo the number of communicant members of our Church has more than doubled." 151 In 1869, a Diocesan Sunday School Association was or- ganized, and in November, 1870, a highly successful con- vention of its workers was held, a full report of which was published at the time. Another important convention was held in November, 1887. In 1888 an auxiliary of the Church of England Sunday School Institute was formed. In 1877, under the presidency of Rev. Canon Givins, a Society was established " for promoting Canadian and for- eign missions." A vigorous appeal on the subject was issued by him in September of that year. In May of the same year, the Toronto Auxiliary of the English Church Missionary Society was established under the presidency of the Veiy Rev. Dean Grasett. In 1878, the Church woman's Mission Aid Society was formed under the direction of the Bishop. In 1880 the Society formed by Dr. Givins, whose lamented death took place that year, was merged in the larger Provincial Board of Domestic Missions. In 1883, the operations of this Board were enlarged so as to embrace foreign missions as well. The year 1882 was noted for the establishment of three useful Societies in the Diocese, viz., the Church of Eng- land Temperance Society, the Girls' Friendly Society, and the Toronto Auxiliary of the London Jews' Society. In 1886, the Society of the White Cross Army was added to this list. In 1857, Rev. Dr. Shortt, of Port Hope, brought the subject of temperance before the Synod. In 1858, the establishment of an Inebriate Asylum was recommended. In 1859, an elaborate report on the subject of Temperance was presented to the Synod by Dr. Bovell and adopted, as was a petition to the Legislature in regard to the Asylum. From 1864, to the present time, the subject has been before the Synod in various forms. In 1874, the constitution of the Diocesan "Temperance Union" was adopted. The Present C. E. T. S. of the Diocese has now superseded it. I-; - 4 ' f 152 In 1884, the second Church Congress was held, with highly useful and practical results. The first was held in 1877. This is a pleasing record, and shows that, with all our differences, there is a gratifying advance in the church life of the Diocese " all along the line." It should be noted that in 1857, Rev. Dr. Beaven pre- pared an exhaustive report on the Canons of the Church of England as applicable to this Diocesfc. As an historical docunient it is most valuable, and is frequently referred to- I shall now add to this retrospect a few statistics illustrative of the growth and progress of the Church since 1839, when Bishop Strachan took charge of the Diocese. In 1838, the Bishop of Quebec estimated the number of adherents of the Church of England in Upper Canada as numbering about 150,000. In his charge to the clergy, delivered in 1847 Bishop Strachan estimated the number then to be 200,000. According to the census of the Pro- vince of Ontario, the Church of England population in 1871 was 330,995 and in 1881 it was 366,539. Allowing for its natural increase in the same ratio, it is likely that the number has now reached about 400,000. The number of clergy in the whole of Upper Canada in 1839 was 71, within the same area, now divided into five Dioceses, the numbers in 1889 are as follows : — Diocese of Toronto 156 Diocese of Huron 132 Diocese of Ontario 125 Diocese of N iagara 67 Diocese of Algoma 26 Total in the Province in 1880 506 I have thus attempted briefly to narrate the main inci- dents in the history of our Church in this Diocese, not merely since 1839, but from a period long anterior to the formation of the Diocese. I have done so in order that 153 1 even the scant justice of a brief reference should be ren- dered to the noble missionary pioneers.who, in their day; "counted not their lives dear unto them, so that they might win souls to Christ ; " who also endured untold hardships in seeking to minister to their expatriated fellow-countrymen ^ who lost everything but their honour, and who even per- illed their lives in seeking to maintain the unity of the empire. These were men who shed the lustre of an heroic self-sacrifice and devoted patriotism to the history and ex- ploits of the U. E. Loyalists in the thirteen colonies during the revolutionary war. I have also sought to do but bare justice to the men, who, almost single handed, sought to lay broad and deep the foundations of our Chui'ch in this Province; men who en- deavored by individual and devoted etfort, as well as by combined and consecrated zeal, to give life and vitality to various departments of the church's work. How they succeeded, and how they failed, calls up to day feelings of gratitude to God, mingled with chastened feelings of regret, that the instruments in His hands were now and then unequal to the grand and noble work entrusted to them by the Chief Shepherd Himself. I have dwelt in this sketch rather on the lights than on the shadows of our history. Deeply as we deplore the misunderstandings which may have arisen, and the strifes which they engendered, they cannot and should not be ignored. I, for one, rejoice to know that, during them all, the Master Himself was at the helm, directing, controlling, chastening, and overruling, in His own blessed way, " the unruly wills of sinful men." And I rejoice, too, that, as we have emerged out of these conflicts, the bright sunlight of His presence has cheered those of us who may have des- ponded, and has strengthened more than ever the faith of those who, with a good conscience and a brave heart, battled for what they believed to be God's truth and for the right as they understood it. ao ...J: T • • r ' ■ir:: r^y i u 4; 1 ' ^ n 154 Many of these devoted men, as well as the heroic soul of our first, and the gentle spirit of our second, Bishop, have passed away to their glorious reward. It is for us who remain to emulate the unswerving devotion to the cause of Christ and His Church, for, as Bishop Baldwin says, " He and His Church are the great Pharos, shining over the troubled waters of the world to point each battered ship to His eternal rest." As counselled therefore, by the Bishop of Huron, in his noble sermon of this day week : "Let us, for this end, labour to exalt our glorious Head, even Christ, and then, how many soever be the storms that wrap their fury round about us, and the church will grow as a lily, and cast forth her roots as Lebanon, her branches will spread, and her beauty be as the olive tree." THB PAPER DISCUSSED. Discussion having been invited by the Chairman, the Rev. Canon Bead, Niagara, said that he was under the impression that the Church Society had done an immense amount of good in the province. It would be interesting now to go through the parishes aad find the records of the first meetings. The sugges- tions, he was sure, obtained in that way would not be soon for- gotten. Rev. Rural Dean Allen said that it was net without some melancholy feelings that they heard of the small increase in the numerical strength of the Church. She was still only one-twelfth of the Church population of the province. Yet it should not be forgotion that although the church lost in number at some points, it had increased in strength. With consolidation a small phalanx could make greater progress than a large one would do. Rev. A. H. Baldwin made a few remarks in reply to Mr. Allen. Rev. Mr. Gammock said that the prevalence of Methodism had been attracting attention ; that denomination being stronger in many respects than the Church of England. This had result- ed from the Church of England not having taken advantage of the fields open to it in the earlier days, having been too much wedded to the state. Up to the death of Bishop Strachan^ 155 bishops had to be sent home for consecration, but he had lived to see the rqyal mandate to be of no use now, as it was in the caso of the first Canadian bishop. Rev. Canon Davidson was pleased with the paper read. He said that people had got it into their heads in the early days of settlement that the church and state should go financially hand- in-hand ; but as they were now getting rid of that idea the pro- gress of the church in the future would be entirely different from what it had been in the past. The Bishop of Toronto, said : I think it should be empha- sized that in the City of Toronto the progress of the Church in recent years has beei) very marked indeed. It is not, perhaps, generally known that in the census of 1881, the Church popula- tion was more than one-third of the total population. It is impossible to say what is the relative proportion now. We all know that during the years that have elapsed since, there has been an abnormal and extraordinary growth. I believe that the growth of Toronto is more phenomenal than that of Chicago. We have now thirty-two organized congregations of the Church of England, and sixty clergy, resident in Toronto. Churches ar^ continually being built, and so far as I can learn, nearly all of them are positively filled. The Church of England here is hold- ing her own. I am quite certain that in all good works, and in activity and Christian effort she is looked up to and respected by all denominations in the city. During the first ten years of my episcopate, seventy-five new Churches have been built in the Diocese, which is an average of seven and a half Churches every year. That average is being fully maintained now. These are gratifying and very obv;ous proofs of the growth of the Church in Toronto. -li: Si vi i t; 1 i II 156 THE DIOCESE OF ONTARIO: 1862-1889. HISTORICAL SKETCH, BY THE REV. A. SPENCER, CLERICAL SECRETARY. The Diocese of Ontario, which at first coraprisad only the fifteen eastern counties of the Province of Ontario (then called Upper Canada), was, on September 14th, 1886, enlarged by the transfer thereto, from the Dieing only one-half |>er cent., while in the latter it was one and a-qnarter per cent. Assuming the latter rate of growth to have continued throughout the current decennium, the census of 18c)l will .shew the total population of the Diocese to be at least half a million. No right estimate of the progress of the Church in this Diocese, during the twenty-seven years of its .separate existence, can be formed without taking :nto account the condition in which its first Bi.shop found it : and this can l)e done only by giving .some attention to its earlier hi.storv'. This begins ac far back as 1784, the first vear of the permanent settlement of Upper Canada. The influx of the United Empire Loyalists, and the disljanding of certain colonial regiments, notably Sir John Johnson's Royal Regiment of New York, supplied the Province with its first settlers. Of these, comparatively few were Church people. Even as late as 1792, when the population of Upper Canada was estimated at 50,000, so competent an authority as the Hon. Richard Cartwriirht thought himself — " Fully Wiiri-anted in as.serting that in all the Province of Upiier Canada, there are not one hundred families who have been educated in this |)ersuasion," i. e., the Church of England. "In the District of Lunenburg," (which comprised the Districts afterwards known by the names of Eastern and Johnstown,) continues the same authority, " is one Presbyterian minister and one German Lutheran, but no clergyman of the Church of England. There are Dutch Calvinists, and a vei-y considerable number of Roman Catholics from the Highlands of Scotland. In the District of Mecklenburg,"' (comprising the Midland, Prince Edward and Victoria Districts,) " are two clergymen of the Church of England, very much resjiected, and some itinerant Methodist preachere : the I'ollowei-s of these latter are nunierous ; and many of the inhabitants of the greatest property are Dutch Calvinists, who hav? for some time been attempting^ to get a minister of their own sect among them. In the District of s>' ii 158 f !i':^ Nassiiu," (comprising the Niagara peninsula,) "there is a clergy- man of the Church of England, and the Scots Presbyterians, who are pretty numerous here, have built a meoting-house and raised a subscription for a minister of their persuasion who is shortly exf)ected among them. There are here also many Methodists and Dutch Calvinists. In the District of Hesse," (comprising the Western Peninsula,) there is no other clergy than of the Roman i*atholic religion. The principal Protestant inhabitants are Presbyterians."* From this it will be seen that in 1792 there were but three Anglican clergymen in the whole Province of Upper Canada, and of one of these Mr. Cart w right says : — " It is only since the month of July this year that there has been any clergyman in the District of Nassau," i. e., the District comprising the Niagara Peninsula.t The two mentioned as in the District of Mecklenburg were the Rev. John Stuart, of Kingston, and he Rev. John Langhorn, of Bath, the date of whose arrival was respectively 1786 and 1787. The former, however, had made a brief visit to Kingston in 1784, in the regular discharge of his duties as chaplain to the Royal Regiment of New York. During that summer he had made a tour through all the settlements of Loyalists, even as far as the Mohawk reservation near Niagara, and, taking Kingston on the return trip to Montreal, he, to cite his own word.s, " remained there some days, and baptized several children and buried one." In less than two years he returned and settled permanently at Kingston, thus becoming the pioneer missionary of Upper Canada. Kingston and Bath, then, are the two oldest parishes in! Upper Canada. From a letter to the S. P. G., written in 1791 in behalf of the parish /estry, we learn that at that 'From a MS. letter book in the pos&ession of the Rev. C. E. Cart Wright, of Kingston. The original letier was written in 1792, addressed to Governor Simcoe. tibid. 1 159 time there were about thirty Cliureh families settled in and around Kingston, which is a very large proportion of the one hundred families constituting at that time the entire Church population of the Province. These had been hitherto worshipping in a room in the barracks, fitted up for the purpose ; but this year measures were tnken for erecting a church, which was completed and opened for Divine service in April, 1793 — an unpretending, wooden structure of 40 by 32 feet, containing thirty-seven pews, of which Captain Robert Macaulay and Mr. Peter Smith were the first churchwardens. The erection of this church was quickly followed by the building of a church at Bath, which was opened for service on June 3rd, 1795, and is still in an excellent state of preservation. The next parish established was that of Cornwall, in 1803, under the Rev. John Strachan, then just ordainefi deacon. In or about 1811, the Lutheran congregation at Williamsburg, with its pastor, the Rev. John G. Weagant, came over bodily to the Church, and thus constituted the fourth parish within the limits of this Diocese. No further progress was made in the establishment of new parishes till 1814, when the Rev. John Bethnne, a son of the Presbyterian minister referred to by Mr. (Dartwright as settled in the District of Lunenburg, was ordained at Quebec, and appointed missionaory aft Elizabetbtown and Augusta. He, like his preceptor. Dr. Strachan at Cornwall, combined the office of pastor amid schoolmaster — a most necessary thing in those early days when schools of any description, especially those for higher edi!ication, were few and far between. It was now thirty years since the country begam to' be settled, and the population of the entire Proviivce h«d grown from 10,000 to 95,000.* Of these, compavattrvelfy few were as yet from the mother covmtfy, and it va not improbable that the five mie-sions of Kingston', Bath, Gonv- 'Census of 1870-71, VoL 4, pp. xlii., xMv. .%i' ".'■ \. :^ ■iM 160 wall, Williamsburg, and Elizabethtown, embraced within their limits t)ie great bulk of the Church people of the Mecklenburg and Lunenburg Distiicts. Still, wherever people of the non-Roman persuasions were to be found, there Methodist preachers, regular or local, were at work ; and already the scattered Church people in outlying dis- iricts must have begun to yield to their influence, on tho principle that religion in any form is better than none at all. Bi:fc after the close of the war of 1812-14, the country began to till up rapidly with immigrants from the Old Country, a considerable proportion of whom were members of the Church of England. In 1825, ten years fi-om the close of the war, the population of Upper Canada had risen to 157,923, of whom 72,125, or nearly half, were settled within the limits of what is now the Diocese oi Ontario. Yet, during the same period, only four new parishes were established, viz., Belleville, Adolphustown, Prescott, and Perth. This year died Dr. Jacob Mountain, first Bishop of Quebec, after an episcoi)ate of thirty-two j'eare, carried on in the face cf difticulties such as we in this age of i-ailways and palace steamers can hardly realize. His successor. Bishop Stewart, brought increased vigour to the work, resulting in the establishment of twelve new parishes in the next ten years. Of these, four, like eight of the nine already established, were along the frontier, viz., 0.snabruck, Tyendinago, Picton, and Ameliasburg (otherwise known as Murray, or The Carrying Place). The remaining eight formed with Perth, where missionary work had begun in 1819, the commencement of an attempt to plant the Church in tlie vast interior, now rapidly filling up with a population pt)uring into it from the mother country. These were Camden East, Lamb s Pond {i.e., the rear of Elizabethtown),5Kemptville, and beyond the Ridcau River, BVanktown, Cp.rleton Place, Richmond, Ottawa, and March. WoT'n out with labours rather than years (for he was only 161 si>cty-two), good Bishop Stewart passed away to liis reward in 1887. A coadjutor, Bishop George Jehoshapliat Moun- iain, had been consecrated in 183G to the See of Montreal ; but with the demands pressing upon him from every quarter of his vast Dioceso, it is not to be wondered at that for some six years 'viz., from 1835 to 1841), not one new [)arish was created in what is now the Diocese of Ontario, The consecration of Bishop [Strachan, in 1839, gave a fresh impetus to tlie work. Upper Canada had now a Bishop of its own, who, though already in Ids sixty-second year, was still in the full vigour and prime of an unusually energetic manhood. Yet the same remark applies to hira as to his predecessor : it was simply impossible for him to bestow equal attention up(m every portion of his enormous Diocese. At his consecration, he found in the whole of Eastern Ontario, with its popuhition of nearly 150,000 (147,203), (mly twenty-Gtar\' of the House of Bishops. Owing to delay in the issuing of the Royal Letters Patent, his consecration did not take place until the following year : but, at length, all preliminary formalities being completed, on the Feast of the Annunciation, 18G2, in St. George's Church, King.ston, now elevated to the rank of a cathedral. Dr. Lewis received Episcopal «ionsecration at tlie hands of the Most Rev. Fran jis Fulford, D.D., Bishop of Mcmtreal and Metro- politan of Canada, assisted by the Bishops of Toronto, I '^i: i „'A # ■ ■ t i^-rl I 166 Quebec, Huron, and Michigan, being the first Anglican Bishop ever consecrated in Canada. The Synod of the Dioceso was summoned at the earliest possible moment, and met on April 9th. The first part of the Bishop's address was mainly occupied with urging upon I'le Synod the necessity for immediate action as regarded the missionary work of the Diocese, and strongly advocated the incorporation of the Synod itself as prefer- able to the formation of an irresponsible Church Society. " The vast missionary work before us," said the Bishop, *' cannot be done unless the whole Church works as a unit. It is too solenm in its greatness to be thrown by us on the precarious charity of isolated parishes, or allowed to be dependent on the popularity or unpopularity of a society* The Church expects every parish to do its duty. We need, then, an organization which must command the moral support of every bona fide Church member." The noble ideal of duty thus presented to the imagina- tion of the Synod by its youthful President could hardly fail to arouse enthusiasm, nor its statesmanlike grasp of the situation to challenge respectful attention. Measures were at once taken for the incorporation of the Synod, and a bill introduced into Parliament for that pur|)ose, which became law, by Royal Assent, on June 9th, exactly two months from the time the words quoted above were spoke'.i. The wisdom of this important step has been long since demonstrated, not only by the smooth and effective work- ing of our whole Diocesan machinery, but also by the fact that the example thus set by the Diocese of Ontario has since been followed with similarly good results in almost every other Canadian Diocese. At a special session of the newly incorporated Synod held at Ottawa, in November, another suggestion uf the Bishop was acted on by the formation of a thoroughly representative Board of Diocesan Missions. The Bishop also arranged a scheme of deputations for the purpose of 167 holding missionary meetings in the several parishes and congregations during the winter, thus making known throughout the Diocese the pressing needs of the Church, and as far as possible securing the active sympathy of every loyal Church member in aid of her missionary work — a plan which has since been developed into a regular system, and has become a most important and indispensable part of our Diocesan machinery. As will be readily inferred from the foregoing statement* the arreai:. of \vork to be overtaken were so enormous as to be almost hopeless. The total population of the Diocese* as shewn by the census of 18G1, was 373,()35, as against 283,616 in 1852 — an increase of 90,000 in nine years — shewing that the rate of growth of 10,000 j-^early, which began in 1842, was still being maintained. The numl>er of Church people reported in 1852 was 63,823, an advance of some 8,400 on the number reported four years pre- viously. In 1861, the Church population ha«l risen to 81,388, an increase of 17.565 in nine years. The machinery which the new Bishop found provided to his hand, for carrying on the work of the Diocese, was comprised within forty-six parishes and missions. Of these, six were within the Cathedral City, or in its immediate vicinity. Illeven fornfoJ a thm and narrow^ fringe along ti -3 shores of Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte. Four were scattered along the second range of townships north of the Bay of Quinte. Twelve stretched at immense intervals along the banks of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. Of the remaining thirteen, six lay between the St. Lawrence and the Rideau, and seven were wier of parishes. Seven of these being chap- lains or curates, and one a very aged man recently arrived from Ireland, and not attached to any parish, though striving to do pioneer work at Renfrew, it is obvious that there were clergymen left for only forty parishes. But the energy of the Bishop happily proved equal to the 1G9 emergency ; the six parishes threateni'il with an inter- r^'gniun were soon filled with able and ettieient workers, several new mission fields were at once opened up, and in two years, at the Synod held in June, 1864", the Bishop was able to announce that the number of clergy liad risen to seventy-three, three of whom, however, were on the retired list. " It would have been possible," said the Bishop, on this occasion, " to have added largely to this number, if I had seen my way clearly to the decent maintenance of additional labourers» but it seemed to me better policy to increase our missionaries only in the ratio of our ability to support them, rather than run the risk of encountering afterwards all tlie disheartening effect ot" a reaction and a diminution in the number of the clergy who would inevitably have been forced to leave the Diocese." This question of the maintenance of the clergy gave reasonable ground for grave anxiety. The generation of cl(;rgymen now passing away consisted largely of men possessed of considerable private means, to whom the income derived from the Clergy Reserve Commutation Fund afforded a sufficient stipend, making them compara- tively independent of the contributions of their parish- ioners. The Church had little or no revenue derived from the offerings of the people. When churches were erected, the subscriptions to the Building Fund were, in many cases, regarded simply as loans, to be repaid out of the sale of the pews as soon as the building should be ready for use. Even as regarded collections for Diocesan purposes, the people had never been awakened to any true sense of the responsibility resting upon them. The total contributions for all Diocesan (as distinct from local) purposes from the whole territory now constituting the Diocese of Ontario, during the twenty years preceding July, 18G2, amounted oidy to $24,580— an average of SI ,229 yearly 1 The thought seems scarcely to have dawned upon the minds of the great mass of Church people that they owed any duty to 11 170 the Church lieyond that of receiving her iiiinistratioDs and attending the services provided for them. Of the forty-six parishes and missions, nineteen possessed land endowments wliich, with two or three exceptions, were of very little value as long as the land remained unsold, while twenty-seven were destitute of enilowment in any form. Of the forty incumbents, twenty-seven were in receipt of stipends from the Commutation Fund, ranging fnnu £75 to £200 16s. 8d. yearly, and one who did not commute drew his stipend directly from the Government. In one parish, the clergyman wtus partly sustained by a grant from a society in England ; and twelve other parishes liad been receiving sums ranging from ^150 to S270 yearly from the Mission Fund of the Diocese of Toronto, an arrangement which terminated March 31.st, 1802, six days after the Bi.shop's consecration ! These twelve parishes stood in urgent need of assistance from a Mi.ssion Fund which as j^et had no existence; and the li.st wa.s soon swelled by the addition of eleven others, as they were ime by one deprived of the services of stipendiaries of the Commutation Fund. In fact not more than .seventeen of the original parishes have proved equal to the entire sup- port of their clergy without aid for a longer or .shorter period from some extraneous source. Hence, a Dioce.san Mission Fund became an urgent necessity, not only for opening up new Mi.ssion Fields, but also for keeping alive a large proportion of the existing parislies. Of the forty- six parishes, more than one-half were without parsonages, only nineteen being provided with thi.s guarantee of per- manence. There was an average of about three churches to every two parishes, or about seventy in all — possibly some four or five more, if some very temporary log or frame structures in a ruinous condition be included. Far the greater number of even the seventy churches were of a temporary character, rude in style, cheap in material and structure, and requiring soon to be replaced by 171 earison of the state of the l)ioces»» as the Bishop found it at his eon.s<>cration with its present condition and prospects. The avenige num I ^er of churches is now nearly two to each pari.sh ; but both {mrishes and churches have far more than doubled, there Ijeing now 1 10 of the former and 20}) of the latter, l>esides some nine or ten chapels or schoolhouses. All but thirty-three of the parishes are now supplied with jmrsonages, the present number being seventy -seven — an increase of tifty-eight, viz., twenty-two in the ohl parishes and thirty-six in the new. Several, also, of the ohl pjirsonages have been rebuilt, while, of the churches, twenty-four have been rebuilt, and many otheis restored and improved, so that onK' a few of the temporary structures of twenty-seven years ago now remain. Hence, the i-ate of progress has been as follows : Between two and three new parishes (two a-year for the fii-st eighteen years, and three a-year for the la.st nine years), over two new parsonages, and about six new churches ever}' year I Of the -i.\t3'-four new parishes or missions, some thirty or more hav«* brought the means of grace to thousands wholly destitute < f them previously — at least, as ministereil by their own .^spiritual mother — while the others, being oti-shoot>< or sub-divisions of the older parishes, have made more abunaucity of labourers. In the several parishes, regular services are held not only in the churche.s but also in not less than sixty schoolhouses, Orange halls, town halLs, or otlier buildings suitable (or unsuitable !) for the purpose — some- times with the assistance of lay-readers, but in most cases by the several clergymen .single-handed. Hence, in twenty - seven years the numl>er of distinct congregations in the 111 If? H I, 172 Diocese has grown frotn about 100 up to some 270 — thus Bupplying the means of grace to at least 30,000 more people than in 1802. This shows substantial progress towards overtaking the enormous arrears of work which confronted the Bishop at his consecration. The Diocese began with a [staff of fifty-five clergymen ^ soon reduced, however (as shewn above), to forty-eight. The present number is 128, viz., IIG priests and 12 deacons, of whom eight are superannuated or on leave, and 120 in active service. Of these, seventy-eight received their deacon's orders, and seventy-one their priesthood, at tlie hands of Bishop Lewis. Some forty or fifty other clergymen ordained by him are now at work in other Dioceses. During twenty -seven years, up to June ICth, 1889, at 851 confirmations 28,266 persons have been con- firmed, of wliom 25,613 received at the same time their first communion. In the preparation of these candidates great care has generally beerj exercised, so as to call forth, again and again, from the Bishop warm expressions of commendation of the practical work of the clergy. The effect of the teaching thus imparted is seen in the more elevated tone generally prevailing throughout the Diocese, in the increasing number of communicants in the several parishes, and in a more intelligent appreciation on the part of her children of the Church's position and rightful claims. In his charge to the Synod in 1883, the Bishop discussed at some length the state of the Church, with special reference to the somewhat disheartening revelations of the census of 1881, and pointed out the real cause why the Church, not only in the Diocese of Ontario, but throughout the whole Province, has not kept pace with the growth of population. After shewing how large a propor- tion of tho.se returning themselves as members of the Church must of necessity lie outside of the range of the ordinary work of the clergy — how large a territory still remained to be occupied by the Church — he added : w 173 " There is fooil for reflection here, ami a trumpet call for more missionaries and larger donations to our Mission B'und." The Bisho]) then shewed how little cause there was for surprise at what the census had revealed, the result being simply what anyone who knew the facts of the case must have been prepared for. " In the generation now passing away, a very large number of the old settlers, while never attending the Church's services, for the best of all reasons — that there were none to attend — and though attending other religious services, yet always called thcntselves and their families nienihers of the Church of England. That generation has either passed, or is passing, away, and the rising one, through our neglect to provide them with the minis- trations of religion, have no hesitation in calling tlumselvea by the name of the denomination that has come to their relief.'' But though the Church has sustained great lo.sses, she is not without her compensating gains. '• The lines of demarcation between the Church of England and other bodies," said the Bishop, "are more definite than tliey used to be. We have fewer heterogeneous and fewer nonde.script Churchmen now-a- day.><, and this is by no means a total los.s. For my part, I do not estimate the strength of a Church \>y its numerical superiority, but rather by the intensity of the conviction with which her members hold to her doctrines. That intensity is, thank God, growing apace ; and if we have lost our relative position with other religious bodies, as the census, in its approximsition to the truth, tells us, yet on reviewing the state of the Church in the Dioce.se since my consecration, more than twenty-one years ago, I see no cause for despairing but rather for hope. At that time, defections from the Church were a matter of every-day occur- rence. The tide has now set the other way. Five per cent, of all those contirmed by me in the last twenty-one years were con- verts to the Church, and very many of them persons of rank and intelligence, who knew why they became Churchmen." Hence, when it is considered how large a number have been contirmed and become communicants, " we nmst see that our proselytes have been numerous, and that the Diocese has not 4* ■ \ m v T I 174 h(ron without vitality." I cannoc forhear adding the solemn aud weighty words with which the Bishop closes the subject. '* I coiitiiie my reinarks to the outward and visible state of the Church. Ciod alone can know its inward and spiritual stale, but there is much in the present outlook, of the Christian Church to alarm us into more earnest work for Chri.-it. When the |K>wers of agnosticism aud destructive criticism are abroad, it docs not becoiuf! u.s to claim as an o({set against them the wonderful revival in the Church for the last forty years, but to take as our watchword, ' Nothing has been done while there remuinu any- thing to do.' " It only remains to indicate as briefly as jiossibly .some Vi'xy strikinj^ material evidence.s of the revived lif'; of the (JhurcU in the Dioce.se of Ontario, in addition to tho.se moral and spiritual tokens of progress already adion BnanI, the S. P. G., or tliu Coinniutition Fund ; these parishes l>eing St (Jeorge's (Kingston), Brockville, Napanee and Pakenhani." At present there are tliirty-eightparishos in this position, besides twenty-two whose iiicunilients an; stipendiaries of the Coninititation Fund, yet which would he self- supportinjj; even if tliose cler<^ynien were withtlrawn. Tiie reniaininjj fifty parislies are more or h' s yearly, or ;?24',.)S() in all, we shall appreciate blotter tin; remarkable progiess exhibited in the following; st;itement ; — Dioeesan Collections for Missions : l.S(J2-5 :?i;{,52l 7(i l.S(i5-S ir),7.S4- 'Mi 1808-71 20.254 5)4 S4i),r)GI 03 187»-4 ^-12.277 i(i 187-1 "i 2o,n48 Oo 1877-80 28,021 -A $70,247 02 iHHO-n j#2f),074 ;u; 1883-6 ?!3,.*U{; 74 1880-9 42,4-21 23 $104,842 33 i 17C Brought forward $104,842 33 Total Collections for Missions $230,650 3H Watkins' ficijuest $4,000 00 La Batt " 2,500 00 6,500 00 Sustentation Ftnul : Direct Cojitribiitions . . !),32G H7 ({r.^nd Total for Missions $246,477 25 (yollections for other Dioct'san Funds 55,041) 1 ii. -'-« Tisl if ' , ! •/ '1. '^'■'l V' ' k 23 178 one of tho most hopoful un(lertak.iner of converts from other ihMioiitiiiutioiis were iniide. N"j«'ct tb.e territor}' to such an extent that there is scarcely a town of any importance which does not possess a railway station. The more moderate clinuite of the Wc^stern section of the province, the fertility of the soil and the comparatively small area of unproductive land within its bounds, largely 183 contributed to its rapid growth in population and weiltli. Those innnifi^st advantages had, from year to year, attracted to the Dioc'.'sc largo numbers of immigrants, not merely from the United Kingdom, but also from Germany. Here it may not be out of placu to furnisli a few statis* tics showing the raateri»l progress of the Diocese within a quarter of a century from the date of its establishment. And if a compari.son with other Dioceses will tend to a clearer presentiition of the truth, such comparison will not be regarded as invidious by those who are of the same household of faith. Rather will it recoil upon those pos- sessed of greater advantages in means and numbers, if it can be shown that, through apathy or inditterence, they have failed to turn those advantages to the'best account in the highest and holiest of causes, the cause of God and His truth, and have been slack in their warfare against the great confederacy of evil arrayed against the Church "which Christ purchased with His precious l»lood. In the year 1857, the total population of the Huron Diocese, as nearly as can be ascertJiined, was 3(jC),0C0, of whom it is estimated that 70,000 were adherents of the Anglican Communion. The census of 1881 furnishes the following results which, for convenience, are tabulated : — ... Total population Ch. of Etn/land Extent jjiocotea. in 1881. returned an. sq.viilen. Huron 719,001 118,757 !).G04 Toronto Ontario Niagara Altroma . . . .454,037 107,553 7,112 ....421,354 79,242 9,007 250,718 50,088 3,000 47,524 10,899 If we assume the ratio of increase since 1881 to have been the same throughout the Province, it will appear that the Diocese of Htn'on contains a larger general population than that of Toronto and Niagara combined, and also a slightly larger population than the united population of Ontario, Niagara, and Algoma. From other sources of 'ii :i 184 information it has been ascertained that the five ncrthern counties of the Huron Diocese, viz., Waterloo, Grey, Huron, Perth, nnf Hiirt»n in wealth ami })opulatiuii has Wen iinsurpa.sse«l in any section of the country, the progress of the Church widiin its iHinlers s|)ecially invites our attention, And if the |>areni Diocese of Toronto shall see fit today to present its conj^nitula- tions to its first-born, on the attainment of its majority, those congratulations will lie an evidence that the bonds of spiritual affinity remain unbroken, and that the cuiTent of Christian feeling cannot Ije checkeagation and th^* Colonial Church and School Societies. But Dr. Cronyn wa.s convinced that assistance from those sources would not lie continued for many years. Accordingly, a Church Society was formed, is r 24 IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I ^ m .'^ 126 I 4 1^ IM 1.8 |l.25 |U |,.6 M 6" ► % /a * V /A Hiotogra{iiic ScMices Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEkSTER.N.Y 14580 (716) S72-4S03 * > ^. ^^ \ \ O^ 1 186 chiefly for the purpose of obtaining vohmtary subscriptions towards the support of missionaries. But in addition to this, the establishment and endowment of. Huron College^ with the assistance of Dean Hellmuth, the creation of a Clerical Sustentation Fund, and the settlement of the pecuniary claims of his Diocese upon the older Diocese of Toronto, marked the period of his episcopate. In view of the difficulties which the Bishop was com- pelled to encounter, arising from the spiritual destitution of the Diocese, and the limited means at his disposal to supply that deficiency, as well as from the poverty of the settlers in the more remote townships, the growth of the (Jhurch during the fourteen years of his administration was indeed remarkable. Uninfluenced by selfish consider- ations he devoted his great abilities and his consummate tact to the advancement of the best interests of the Church. He was himself the ablest advocate in his Diocese of the claims of the Church Society upon the liberal support of all the members of our communion. In two years, (1860 and 1862), and in the course of the last year of his active services, when his health was rapidly failing, he attended thirty missionary meetings, preached 213 sermons, visited sixty-seven congregations in ten counties, and confirmed large numbers of candidates, and, in the discharge of these duties travelled 9,355 miles. In 1871 when, from increas- ing infirmities, he was obliged to ask for the appointment of a coadjutor, the number of the clergy had increased to ninety-three, of parishes and missions to eighty-eight, and of churches to 142. He had ordained seventy-eight to diaconate, and advanced sixty -seven to the priesthood. The new parishes and missions established during his oflScial term were, for the most part, situated in the northern and north-western townships of the Diocese. Of these the chief were Walkerton, Southampton, Kincardine, Durham, Meaford, Holland, Clarksburg, Wingham, Exeter, Seaforth, Dungannon, Listowell, Millbank, Kirkton, lSi.s.souri, Pe- troiea, and the parish of Christ's Church, London. 187 Bishop Cronj .1 was called to his rest in the autumn of 1S71, and the coadjutor Bishop, Dr. Hellmuth, who hiid been consecrated in the same year, succeeded to the over- sight of the Diocese. Dr. Hellmuth had been brought up in the Jewish faith, but he embraced Christianiiy in 1841, at the age of twenty- four. For the space of eight years he wsis professor of Theology in Bishop's College, Lennoxville. Upon his removal to London he became Archdeacon of Huron and Principal of Huron College, and subsequently Dean of Huron and Rector of St Paul's Cathedral. Possessed of immense energy, great administrative ability, and a pro- found knowledge of human nature, he had no sooner assumed the charge of the Diocese than he took the neces- sary steps to acquaint himself with its still pressing wants ; and he soon discovered that there were many townships wholly unsupplied with the means of grace. As a move in the right direction, for the better management of the funds of the Church Society, from which the missionary clergy received a portion of their stipends, the union of the Church Society and the Sj'nod was effected in 1874. From that date all Church funds were administered by the Synod as the representative body of the Church, through a com- mittee annually appointed, called the Standing Committee. Notwithstanding the great monetary stringency which existed in the country from 187*3 to 1878, the Bishop was enabled to report an increase of forty-two clergymen, fifty- eight churches and missionary stations, thirty-one parson- ages, and 4,520 communicants, during the twelve years of his terra of office. Within that period also he had ordained seventy-six Deacons and seventy-two Priests. It would be unfair to Bishop Hellmuth to pass over in silence his devotion to the cause of education. In addition to the important services he rendered in connection with Huron College, the zeal «,ad liberality which led to the establishment of the Ladies' and Boys' Colleges in the city I; 188 of London will not soon bs forgotten in the western section of the Province. And there is little doubt that, over and and above their literary results, these institutions have been the means under God, of bringing the claims of our Church before many youths of both sexes, who had been attached to other forms of faith, and finally of inducing them to accept her teaching and enrol themselves amongst her members. Bishop Hellmuth resigned in 1883, and was succeeded by the present Diocesan, Dr. Baldwin. Previously to his election by the S^'nod of Huron, he was Dean of Montreal, and Rector of Christ's Church Cathedral, in that city. He had been ordained deacon and priest by the first Bishop of Huron, and he laboured for some time in the Diocese of Huron over which he was subsequently called to preside. With few equals as a preacher of the Gospel of the grace of God, and with no superiors in earnestness and devotion to the high and responsible duties of his office, Bishop Baldwin entered upon his work with all the essentials of diocesan machinery ready to his hand. In the several charges which he has addressed to the representatives of the Church in Synod assembled he has followed the example of his predecessor, and with burning eloquence and convincing argument has brought before them the still pressing needs of the Church in the Diocese and the corresponding duty of all her members to practise increased liberality and self-denial in their efforts for the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom. Nor have his thnlling appeals been barren of results. During the six years of his occupancy of the See, Bishop Baldwin has ordained ? thirty-eight candidates to the diaconate, and advanced thirty-four to the priesthood. He has confirmed 8,268 persons, opened thirteen new churches, and consecrated fourteen. From his untiring zeal and devotion to the Master's cause, his past record of faithfulness in the discharge of his episcopal duties may 189 be regarded as a harbinger of still greater and more endur- ing results in the future. The returns show that the sum total of collections in aid of the funds of the Church Society, from the parishes within the bounds of the present Diocese of Huron, before its separation from the Diocese of Toronto, was, in 1857, $4,683 ; whereas the amount of voluntary contributions during the fifteen years of separate diocesan existence, viz., from 1860 to 1874, was $136,856, being an average of $.9,123 each year. For the fifteen years from 1874 to 1889, the total amount of voluntary contributions for diocesan purposes was $214,898, shewing an average annual amount of $14,326. These statements point to the inference that some progress nas been made in the prac- tical carrying out of the voluntary principle. Upon the Incorporated Synod of the Diocese was con- ferred the entire control and management of all the pro- perty of the Church Society. Clothed with such extensive powers, the Incorporated Synod adopted the constitution and canons of the Synod of 1858, and the by-laws of the former Church Society, with such additions and modifica- tions as from time to time were rendered necessary by the varying circumstances of the Church. The present con- stitution of the Synod requires the annual appointment of an Executive Committee, consisting of thirty clerical and thirty lay members whose duty it is, under the presidency of the Bishop, to administer all the funds and property of the Synod, and generally to exercise all the [functions of the Synod except those of a legislative character. From the members of the Executive there is appointed annually a committee called the Maintenance and Missions Com- mittee — with the Bishop as chairman — whose duty is to assess all the parishes in the diocese for such sums as they are deemed able to give towards the support of their clergy- men. This legislation, there is little doubt, will have the etfect of increasing the number of self-sustaining parishes. 190 Here it rnay be proper to refer to the leading funds administered by the Executive Committee. Upon the secularization of the Clerg}' Reserves, the portion of the Commutation Trust Fund received by the Huron Diocese, in accordance with the Toronto award, was $266,204. The investments on account of that fund now amount to $282,809. The Diocesan Sustentation Fund now stands at $48,969. Now, the interest of the Commutation and Sustentation Funds, and of the Mission Fund investments, together with the quarterly collections from the parishes, fo.-m what is termed the Clergy Main- tenance Fund. From this fund the Clergy, with the exception of those who are in self-supporting parishes, receive grants according to a graduated scale of salaries determined by the period of rfctive service in the Diocese. But, in deciding upon the grant to each clergyman, the amount for which his parish is assessed is first taken into account and made the basis of the grant. There are at present (1889), sixty-six of the Clergy recipients of grants from this source. The amount assigned by the Toronto award to the Huron Diocese, as its share of the Widows and Orphans' Fund of the old Church Society of Toronto, was $8,308. That fund now amounts to $60,315. There are now (1889) twenty-eight beneficiaries upon this fund. A sketch of the Huron Diocese, however brief, must contain some reference to the aborigines of the country. According to the returns from the Indian Department for 1887, there are in the Province of Ontario 17,479 Indians of various tribes. Of that number, there are 7,106 resi- dent within the Diocese of Huron, and of these 1,918 are professed members of the Church. For their accommodation there are twelve churches. There are three native Indian clergymen in the Diocese, of whom only one is paid by the New England Society, The rest receive their salaries from local sources, supplemented by the funds of the Diocese. 191 It will tend to give a more correct idea of Church pro- gress in the Huron Diocese since its establishment, if a tabular view be presented of its present condition : — 1889. Number of Parishes and Missions now existing 225 Number of Clergy on the roll 137, but of these engajjed in active service 128 Number of Churches [stone, 9 ; brick, 111 ; wood, 122] 242 Value of Churches $791,182 Seating capacity of Churches 55,414 Parsonages [in 1871 only 34] 73 Value of Parsonages $157,969 Total voluntary contributions for Parochial objects, inclusive of Incum- bent's Salaries $134,424 It must be observed that while large numbers of candi- dates for the ministry have been ordained in the Diocese, many have from time to time left the Diocese for other fields of labour. As regards the present parishes, many of them, as well in the more populous centres as in the rural districts, are sub-divisions of larger parishes. For instance, six parishes now occupy the territory embraced in the original parish of St. Paul's in tho city of London. There are two pari.shes in each of the following places, Brantfotd, St. Thomas, Chatham, and Stratford. In conclusion. The progress of the Church in the Diocese, if it has not been as great as we could have desired or might have anticipated from its many advantages, has at least been such as to call forth our deepest thankfulness to the great Head of the Church for unnumbered tokens of His favour in the years tliat are past, and to inspire us with courage for the prosecution of the work that lies before us in the future. God's perpetual presence with His Church is the source of her strength and the pledge of •II: *;'.' I' 1^- I. 192 her final victory over the powers of darkness. And her doctrines form the bulwark of defence to her children against the inroads of the numerous erroneous opinions that are so prevalent in our day. Let the members of the Church in these five Dioceses cling with undaunted faith and inflexible resolution to the great deposit of truth which the historic Church of England has received from past ages ; and He, who is the Truth as well as the Life, will not forsake her in her earthly trials : and she will share in His triumphs in that greater Jubilee when God shall be all in all, and the " Kingdoms of the world shall be the Kinofdom of His Son." An interesting discussion on this paper followed. The Rev. A. J. Broughal pointed out that Huron was the largest Diocese in tlie Province, and asked if tliere had been any talk of subdividing it, thus increasing the Episcopate. Bishop Balhwin replied that he would be glad when it become possible to divide the Diocese, as he could not keep up with the work which it entailed, as it was too much for one man. They did not at present see how a sub-division could be affected, but they would strive to bring it about in the near future. There were two names omitted from the paper just read, which he felt called upon to supply. One was, the name of Archdeacon Marsh, and the other, the name of his esteemed friend. Canon Paterson, who had been in the Diocese for the long period of 37 years. He would like to put before them four principles that he felt should be followed : The first principle was, that in the arrangement of parishes tlie work should be greater than the man. Their great mistake was, that they made the man greater than the work. The MethodistvS, Roman Catholics, and other bodies, when they found a man ruining a cause, sacrificed the man ; but the Church of England would keep a man in his place when every one knew that ho was scut- tling the ship. When it is proposed to move such a man, the m\ 193 \i outcry was : " He has vested rights "—vested rights, indeed, to scuttle the ship ; and they only looked to these rights when a man was ruining the Parish. In the second place, lie gave it as his opinion that the parochial system has killed many Churches by making them solely for the rich. They wanted an end to the pe'v system as soon as possible. The minister often .seemed to have the idea that his services should be wholly confined to th^ pew members of the Church. They wanted men of a different stamp from these. In the third place, he believed that a perfect system of rotation woidd be for the good of every Parish. They saw many Rectors who had apparently outlived their usefulness in the Parishes to which they were attached, and had indeed run out their welcome. Let them have anything else, he said, but stagnation. Every Parish wanted a sort of earthquake each month at least to wake it up. Anything is better than a dead level. A congregation that has a Demosthenes to preach to, it is all the better to have a stumbling brother come in now and then. The whole of nature cries out against stagnation ; and he urged that the Church of England should adopt some system of rotation. The fourth principle was, that they wanted men who will carry the Gospel outside the Church, and bring in those who do not come of themselves. They wanted in the Church of England a ministry baptized of the Holy Ghost, who would go into the highways and the bye-ways, and bring into the fold the straying members of the flock. He hoped that in this Jubilee year of the old Diocese of Toronto they could offer to the King of Kings many newly-consecrated hearts. Canon Allen, of Cavan, thought that the parochial system was moi'e calculated to counteract the congregational system, than to produce those evils to which the Bishop referred. Men had left their altar for others, and not because of the incapacity of the minister. Much of the state of affairs they deplored was due to the unfortunate preference of many people of the Church for other modes of worship. Rev. Dr. Langtry would like in the future to see careful consideration of the question of " vested rights " which had been introduced by the Bishop of Huron. They would have to set themselves to remedy the evils resulting from men holding on to 25 194 their Parishes, whether or not they were affording them spiritual nuurishnient. The Bishop of Toronto thanked his brother of Huron for laying down the principles which he had mentioned. In si)oak- ing of the parochial system the Bishop of Huron evidently did not use the expression in the sense in which he (Bishop Sweat- man) understood it. The Clergymen of tne Diocese, he was sure, regarded every individual soul within the limits of their Parishes as their parishioners. THE DIOCESE OF NIAGARA. BY REV. CANON READ, D.D. Although sensible that little can be said upon the subject of which I am permitted to address this large and impor- tant assembly, inasmuch as a Diocese which has not yet completed its fifteenth year does not afford much material ; yet I gladly accepted the duty assigned to me by the Lord Bishop of Niagara to present this report, considering it a great privilege to bear the smallest part in a movement intended to record the memory of, and do honour to the illustrious prelate who first occupied the Episcopal chair in this great city, and who for many years before his conse- cration had been the leading spirit in the Church of Upper Canada, and, I may add, in the public councils of the Province. The name of the pioneer Bishop i? still held in deep reverence and affection m Niagara, as in all the wide field of his arduous labours. For several years previous to the separation of Niagara the subject of setting off a western Diocese had frequently been brought forward in the Synod of Toronto, committees had been appointed, and their reports discussed. It was generally felt that the territory was too wide-spread for 195 ■:; : 1 itly for the supervision of one man, even under the care of the inde- fatigable Bishop who then presided over it. In the western portion it was thought that increased missionary zeal would be produced by division, and that the city of Hamilton would be awakened to greater life and energy when it became a Church centre, the residence of a Bishop, and the meeting place of its own Synod ; this hope at least has not been disappointed, as we hope to shew. In 1874, the question was definitely brought before the Synod of Toronto, and, after careful discussion, it was de- cided to form a Western Diocese, to consist of six counties, viz., Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand, Wentworth, Halton, and Wellington. These counties had previously formed an archdeanery of Toronto, and, according to the census of 1881, had a population of 250,000, with a Church of Eng- land population of over 40,000, and covered an area of 3,000 square miles. A Provisional Committee was appointed by the Synod of Toronto, consisting of all the clergy and lay delegates resident in the counties to be set off, to make all necessary arrangements. This being done, and the Lord Bishop of Toronto having signified his consent, the house of Bishops, on the 12th February, 1875, proceeded to set off the new Diocese. On the summons of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, the clerical and \-Ay delegates met in the city of Hamilton, on the 17th March, for the election of a Bishop. There were present fifty-one clergy and ninety-one laymen, repre- senting forty-four parishes. The Rev. Thomas Brock Fuller, D.D., and D.C.L , on whom the choice fell, was ordained deacon in 1833, priest in 1835, by Bishop Mountain, of Quebec, and was consecrated as Bishop of Niagara, by the Metropolitan, in the city of Hamilton, on the 1st May, 1875. After the declaration on day of election, the Synod, in accordance with the wish of Bishop Bethune, selected Niagara as the name of the new Diocese. In concluding h.i 196 the proceedings, the Bishop expressed, in kindly and affec- tionate terms, his deep regret at the seveinnce of old friends among the clergy and laity, and Ins earnest prayer for them and their Bishop in the new position they were now to occupy. His Lordship's words found an echo in the hearts of ninny wliose lot was in the new Diocese. The interests of the Church had led them to seek this result, but the inevitable consequence was, their separation from those with whom they had long taken sweet counsel. It will not here be necessary to dwell upon the settlement and division of funds, which, after several conferences of the joint commissioners of Toronto and Niagara, were agreed upon. For ten years, Bishop Fuller continued to preside over the Diocese with that indefatigable energy which marked his whole life, especially towards its close when, for several years, he suffered from great bodily infirmity, which he never allowed to stay his work, or the vigour of his ad- ministration. He truly died in harness on 17th Pecember, 1884. At a meeting of Synod held in the school house of Christ's Church Cathedral, Hamilton, on the 27th January, 1885, the Rev. Charles Hamilton, D.D., was elected to fill the vacant see. The new Bishop was consecrated at Fred- ericton by the Metropolitan of the Province of Canada, on 1st May, in the same year, and immediately entered on his high and sacred office. It is now our sincere prayer that with the Divine blessing on his lordship's energetic, loving rule the Diocese may long continue to prosper '^ every good work, for the promotion of the Church's influence, and the extension of the kingdom of Christ. In estimating the progress which the Church has made, anything peculiar in the condition of the countrj' should fairly be taken into the calculation. As British subjects wherever our lot is cast, we do rejoice in everything which extends the power, the prestige, the intellectual improve- 197 of ment, and the Christianizing influence of our mighty and glorious empire. As British Canadians we look with un- mingled satisfaction at the wonderful and rapid growth of our great Dominion, extending from ocean to ocean, with the irrepressible steam horse carrying settlers from shore to shore. While the great north-west which so lately was almost a tevva incognita, is now traversed by eager spec- ulators. The occupied territory a few years sin^ measured by tens is now imputed by thousands of miles, showing along the line cili^s growing up with greater rapidity than villages had done in old Canada. Ontario has no doubt, in many ways benefited by this extension. How much Hs population has increased we will not stay to enquire, but judging from that part of the Province in whitl. the Diocese of Niagara is situated, we should not judge u it the gain is very large. This Diocese, though lately constituted, is n / a new territory, therefor.' could not be expected to spread ii,s settlements very widely. It is true that many dcsira^jle and a feo. wealthy emigrants have left the beaten patli to settle amonor us in Niagara, but a lartje number of our own people, younger members of old families, are leaving their native homes, following the western stream, in search of more ground, more room in the new country, so that if the balance was drawn, it would hardly be in our favour in this respect. We must, therefore, be satisfied to rejoice in the advance of the dominion rather than in local im- provement, and must on this account be contented if Church work in the rural parts has not been carried on as rapidly as we might otherwise have hoped for, and must be thankful if it has kept pace with other things. When the circumstances are thus considered there seems to be sufficient cause for the grateful acceptance of the progress which the Diocese has made during the short period of its existence. ^The following statistics are founded on the best inform- i ■ w\ I 198 ation which could be obtained, and are believed to be sub- stantially correct. For want of knowledge some improve- ment may have been overlooked, but nothing is over- rated. When the Diocese was constituted there were forty-six parishes and lifty-one licensed clergymen within its bounds ; since then there has been an increase of thirteen parishes and seventeen clergy in active service. During the same period twenty-five churches have been built, many of which were consecrated at the time of opening. There are also a good number in course of erection at the present time ; others have lieen enlarged and improved. Theie are now over forty parsonage houses in the Diocese, at least thirteen of which have been built or pur- chased during the time we speak of. In the city of Hamilton, where there has b.^en a most satisfactory improvement in church life and yeal, three cI: arches and one parsonage have been built. The Church's iT;c-«'n'?e has kept pace with, if not exceeded, its material advai-ce. ln-lS7o iher'; were only twenty parishes in the Dioce-se which did not look to the Mission Board for help, now f.here are forty-two, and twenty-three new stations have been opened for public worship. About 17,500 have been )>aptized into the Church, among whom were a goodly number of adults, and a large number of these had been brought up outside of its pale. About 11.000 pei-sons, young and old, have received the apostolic rite of contirmation. On this point accurate information is more readily obtained than on some other subjects of importance, and perhaps the number confirmed affords the surest indication of the Church's progress or decrease. The average for the last four yea re has been 1,000 each, which is much higher than for any other period since the foundation of the Diocese, and it is worthy of note that at least twenty per cent, of those confirmed came from without the ranks of the Church. 199 As nearly as can be estimated there are now 7,000 coni- niunicants, and here esf)ecially we may say the number is certainly not overstated. No means has been found of dis- covering how many there were fifteen years since, but it is safe to say that the number has doubled since then. Through our beautiful and impressive marriage service 6,730 persons have been joined in the holy bonds of matri- mony. On this subject we have special cause for thanks- giving, that this all important sacred union, so closely con- nected with the happiness and social condition of professing Christian people, representing to us the union which is between Christ and his Church, is still regarded in our country, as well by the civil as the ecclesiastical law, as a sacred bond to be celebrated bv religious rites, thus marking its Divine institution and never ceasing obligation. We may also regard with feelings of thankfulness the steady increase in the clergy list, the number is becoming more adequate to the needs of the population among whom they have to labour, enabling the Bishop to extend the ministrations of the Church to hitherto neglected parts of the Diocese. The growth of the Church at home is ever stimulated by the interest taken in the missionary cause. And here again we are pleased to note improvement. During the first seven years of our separate existence there was contributed for missionary purposes, widow and orphan, and divinity student's fund $42,330. During the second seven years for the same objects $49,235. If our contribution to foreign missions are not large they are steadily increasing, and a deeper interest is being manifested. We must also take into consideration the large sum annually raised for church building and other parochial objects. When we turn to the Church's inner growth and devel- opment, we believe that we can observe much to encourage us. There are, on the whole, fuller churches, larger and H h\ 2$*'"'*''*'*'*^ " 200 more frequent attendance at the Holy Communion, and greater numbers offering for confirmation. The Woman's Auxiliary has been established in the Diocese, many paro- chial branches have been formed, and the number is steadily increasing, thus securing the pious work of Christian women in the Church's efforts to relieve the bodily as well as spiritual wants of the far off and hitherto neglected. The benefit of work accomplished or victories won is but a momentary thing — a mite in immensity, — unless the effect is to stimulate every member of the Church militant to work, and fight, and pray more earnestl}'^ in the name of the Lord and for the glory of His Kingdom. After the few remarks by the Bishop of Toronto on the paper just read, he asked the Bishop of Algoma (in the absence of an appointed representative from his Diocese) to favour the confer- ence with some particulars regarding his Diocese. The Bishop of Algoma kindly responded, and in the absence of the Clergyman appointed for the purpose, gave a verbal state- ment of the general condition of his Diocese. He said : Prior to its creation as a separate jurisdiction, it had formed part, as was well known, of the Diocese of Toronto. During this earlier period of its existence, its population consisted chiefly of Indians, the whole being found mainly at such points as Prince Arthur's Landing, (now Port Arthur), Sault Ste. Marie, etc. Among the names of clergy most prominently connected with it at this time were those of Bishop Strachan, who had travelled extensively through its wilds ; the Venerable Archdeacon McMurray Venerable Archdeacon Brough, and the late Dr. O'Meara, both of whom were still remembered in Manitoulin Island. The Algoma district was first created a Missionary Diocese by the Provincial Synod of 1873, its first elected Bishop being the Rev. Canon DuMoulin, the present honoured 201 rector of St. James's Cathedral. On his declination, the Church's choice fell on the Rev. J. D. Fauquier, incum- bent of Zorra, near Woodstock ; and during the eight years of his episcopate the number of the clergy increased from seven to fourteen, and that of Church buildings from nineteen to forty-two. But the good Bishop's faith and patience were sorely tried by a combination of difficulties, such as the vastness of the area to be traversed, (the orig- inal territory having been enlarged by the addition of Muskoka, Parry Sound, and a part of Nipissing), the lack of railway and Oyier facilities for travelling, the scantiness of funds placed at his disposal, the anxiety which pursued him through all his journeyings in connection with the health of his wife, who for long years had been a confirmed invalid, and. last, but not least among his trials, the fact that he himself suffered from a most painful, internal disease. All these weighed heavily on the first Bishop of Algoma, till in December, 1881, he was suddenly called to lay down his burden and his life together, and in a moment, entered into rest. Six months afterwards he himself was summoned by the Provincial Synod to the oversight of the Diocese, and he entered on it to find his predecessor's name familiar as a household word, wherever he went, and his picture hanging on the walls of hundreds of its lowliest log-houses. He regretted to say that not a solitary document had come into his possession from the repre- sentatives of the late Bishop, giving him any information as to his official acts, whether ordinations, consecrations of churches or cemeteries, or confirmations. The storj- of the Diocese, however, since his own election, was too well known to need repetition. Its area was about 48,000 sq. miles, and its population, approximately, 85,000. With the exception of a few business men at two or tnree centres, the people were too poor to maintain the Church by their own unaided efforts. Manitoba and the North- West were drawing away a large number of the farmers, nor ■\ 26 202 did he blame them in many cases for yielding to the tempt- ation. Many more would follow if they could, but not a few were tied hand and foot by mortgages which must in- evitably end in foreclosure. The mineral resources of the country were, however, being developed : silver mines being worked near Port Arthur, and copper, with nickel, all round Sudbury, with very successful results. During the past seven years, the number of the clergy had increased from fourteen to twentj^-six, two of whom occupied self- supporting parishes, the others deriving their stipends from local contributions, grants from English Societies, and the offerings of the Canadian Church through the Mission Board. Twenty-three Churches had also been built, the entire indebtedness on which would not amount to more than $1,000. Over and above the poverty of the people, one of our greatest difficulties lies in the profound ignorance of the majority of our people on all questions of Church history and teaching ; they know next to nothing of the Church's distinctive doctrine, and hence lie easily open to the inducements oflered by other communions to cast in their lot with them. The Church in England was largely responsible for this, in leaving her children so unable to give a reason for the faith that is in them : hence the im- portance of our Sunday School work, which, however, had frequently to be entrusted to very poorly qualified teachers and superintendents, the clergyman's Suriday duties being too heavy to permit of his giving them any supervi- sion. The organization of the Diocese was very simple. There was as yet no Synod, its place being taken by a triennial council composed of the Bishop and Clergy. The question of the admission of the laity was not yet determined. By a special canon, passed in the Provincial Synod of 1886, and confirmed last year, Algoma will be represented in that body, in 1892, by two clerical and two lay delegates, until she organizes for S3nodical action, and so falls into 203 line with the other Dioceses in the question of representa- tion. The Diocese is divided into four rural deaneries, and also into two Convocations bounded by French River, enabling the clergy to meet frequently during the interval between the triennial councils. One of our helps is The Algoma Missionary News, published monthly, and devoted entirely to the diffusion of information as to the work beinor done in the Diocese. With regard to our invested funds, that for the En- dowment of the Diocese, i. e., a permanent provision for the Episcopal stipend, has grown in seven years to some- thing over $35,000. The " Widows and Orphans' Fund," has now reached the sum of nearly $13,000: nearly one-third of this was due to the energies of Canadian Church women in commemoration of Her Majesty's Jubilee. The " Church and Parsonage Building Fund " has much to do with the growth of the Diocese, but it has almost reached the vanishing point. A Superannuation Fund for infirm or dis- abled clergymen is also a crying necessity. Common humanity forbad the cruelty of turning adrift, without the means of support, a labourer who had spent his best years, as well as mental and physical powers, in the service of the Church. There were other needs, however, besides the financial. These lie only on the surftice — deeper far than this lie the questions of the adaptability of the Church's teaching and methods to the needs of a Missionary Diocese. And here there can be no ditficulty, provided the cast iron rigidity of use, which may suit a refined and educated community, be not too severely insisted on. The Church of England needs, among other things, a little more flexibility in her methods. Let her adapt herself a little more readily to the varying exigencies of the hour by giving, for example, a little more elasticity to her services, where necessary, and she has nothing to fear from comparison with other bodies, in either moral or numerical strength. [ 204 The advantages she possesses for doing the work which her Great Head has entrusted to her are unquestionable — an apostolic ministry, a sound creed, two divinely ordained sacraments, a liturgy breathing the very spirit of primitive piety, as Adam Clarke bears witness, — these, with the " Lo, I am with you always," are her equipment. Let her use it faithful I}', remembering who has endowed her with it, and that " boasting is excluded," and, in time, she will stand forth vindicated as having faithfully fulfilled her Lord's commission. At the close of this address, Rev. Provost Body said : That the one lesson they should learn from the Jubilee is, that the division of the old Diocese, and the increase of the Episcopate had been followed by the blessing of God ; and he believed that it was in the further increase of the Episcopate that they would find a remedy for the evils that now afflict them. Tlie creation of more manageable Dioceses than at present is an object which all should strive for. He took his share of the lebuke to the mother Church in England made by the last speaker, for having sent out people not educated in Church principles. That rebuke had not been merited of late years, at all events, when the class of immigrants were found to be well acquainted with the principles of Church teaching. People would say this is a democratic country, and that the Church should be made more flexible and popular. But he asked them to look at the history of the Church of England before England had become a democratic country. Under the most monarchical forms of government in England the mother Church lost tens and hundreds of thousands by every conceivable form of schism such as they had in Canada to-day. The causes were precisely the same. They had no reason whatever to do anything else than take heart and work out that state of things in this country which had been done of late by the mother Church. Let them have still better churchmanship, and fuller appreciation of the great work of Jesus Christ. Rev. Dr. Langtry said that he agreed with the Bishops who hud spoken, but thought that on this occasion they should look 205 more at the reasons for encouragement. He had at the last Synod put on paper a proposal looking to the getting rid of the question of vested rights, which was working great mischief in at least some parishes. He had thought for years that some system of rotation should be devised, though he confessed that he could, at present, see no adequate system. Those who had had to do with missionary work would agree with the Bishop of Algonia, that they ought to make their system more flexible, while not surrendering a particle of its essence. Canon Allen moved, seconded by Canon Davidson, that those who had read papei-s be thanked, and that the papers be pub- lished in the Jubilee Volume. The Bishop of Toronto, in presenting the motion, wished to express deej) gratitude to God for what might be called the pro- nounced success which had attended the Jubilee of this Diocese, and of the consecration of the first Bishop. There wps a great deal of anxiety, and a large amount of labour connected with the preparations for the celebration. At one time he had serious misgivings whether the Jubilee would be a success, or whether it would not be simply an exhibition of the want of unity in the Church. He was grateful to be able to say that all these mis- givings had been dispelled, and the whole proceedings had been a pronounced success. The occasion had bten maiked by one or . two events which had given it deeper interest. One of these was, the laying of the foundation stone of the new wing of Trinity College, and the other was, the meeting in connection with the Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. There had been manifestations of renewed life in the Church. He desired to thank the General Committee appointed by the Synod, and the Sub-committees, for the work they had done in making the Jubilee a success. Particularly was credit due to the Luncheon Committee. He had also to thank the various Choirs who had attended the services. The full and accurate rejiorts of the proceedings and editorial comments which had been given by the Press, had added much to the public interest, and he wished to convey to the Press his cordial thanks. The proceedings had been conducted, not in a spirit of boastfulness, but as a humble n 206 acknowledgment of God's goodness to the Church. He believed that the result of the Jubilee would be an infusion of new life into all branches or the Church's work. It would have been useless to have undertaken this movement if some good jv^ere not to result from the Jubilee. The different parties in the Church had been drawn closer together. They were able to say that those foolish, harmful controversies which were inconsistent with the true spirit of the Church, were now things of the past, and from the first had been nothing but a source of weakness — that though their individual view^s might not agree on all things, they were working together for the common cause of God. He felt that the troubles and weakness of the Church had passed, never to re-appear. The effect of this better condition of things must be felt throughout the whole Dominion, and must result in the greater usefulness of the Church in every branch of her work. Votes of thanks were adopted to the presiding Bishop of To- ronto, the visiting Bishops, and the Press, and the njeeting adjourned until the evening, when the closing sermon would be preached by the Bishop of Algoma. CLOSING SERMON. BY THE RIGHT REV. EDWAUD SULLIVAN, D.D., D.C.L., MISSIONARY BISHOP OF ALGOMA. The text selected by the Bishop was : " The Church of the living God. the pillar and ground of the truth." 1 Tim. iii. 15. The symbolism of this language can only be rightly interpreted in the light of the magnificent scene present to the Apostle's mental vision as he penned it. This was the temple built at Ephesus, the metropolis of Asia, in honour of " the great goddess Diana," the architecture of 207 which entitled it to rank among the world's wonders. Four hundred and twenty-five feet in length, and two hundred and twenty in width, its foundations rested on vast 8ub-structures laid to an enormous depth in the marshy ground below, while its pillars, a hundred and twenty in number, each the gift of a king, formed long and spacious colonnades, open on all sides, and supporting above, horizontal entablatures, covered with bas reliefs, celebrating the glories of its patron deity. Very naturally the thought of all this splendor suggests to the Apostle the language he employs here in writing to Timothy, his son in the faith. In contrast with the material magnificence of this pagan temple rises the spiritual beauty of the Christian Church. That was the shrine of a false, pre- tended deity — this was "God's house," "the Church of the living God." That was the rallying point of Asiatic heathendom, the dwelling place of lying fables — this was " the pillar and ground of the truth." Nor in the two-fold designation is there any confusion of thought, any com- mingling of inharmonious metaphors. Each term h?»s its exact place and definite meaning. St. Paul is here describ- ing the relation between the Church as a living body, and the abstract truth of the Gospel, and he represents it as one not of chronological sequence, but of itmer moral con- nection. In one sense the Church was before " the truth," understanding by " the truth " merely the New Testament narrative. It was the Church's final dictum that deter- mined the canon of Scripture, old and new alike. But the Church was not before "the truth," if we understand by this term the bright galaxy of historic facts, of which the Gospels are the record. These preceded the organization of the Church. The Church grew out of these facts as their natural and necessary consequence. Once called into being, the Church became the guardian of the truth from which she sprang, its keeper, witness, mainstay, its " pillar and ground," sustaining it as a foundation would .;r; ^1 208 the building resting on it, or a column the superstructure ' whose weight it carries. Without the " tiuth " the Church would have had no existence — without the Church " the truth " would have had no visii)le guarantee for its per- petuation. The two are therefore imperfect apart. Neither can exist without the other. What the framework of the body is to the immaterial soul that inhabits and inspires it — what the strong tissue of an artery is to the life blood that courses through it, that the Church is to " the truth," the defender of the faith, charged with the two-fold office, first, of guarding its purity, and next, of lifting it up before the eyes of an unbelieving world, for acceptance or rejection. Neither my text nor the occasion demand of me any historical retrospect, such as some perhaps expect to- night. Indeed it would be superfluous. During the week now closing churchmen have been, with one consent, gazing backward into the past, reviewing the results accomplished r and the story of its successes is such as to call forth from every devout and reverent heart the exclamation: "What hath God wrought ! " You have been reminded here, and in periods aflame with the holy enthusiasm burning in the preacher's own soul, of the priceless heritnge that has been yours, first as England's sons and daughters, members of that wide- spread Anglo-Saxon race to which, alike British and American, God's providence has manifestly entrusted the world's destinies for the realization of His own covenant promise that " all the kingdoms of the earth shall become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ " — second, as members of a Church which has borne her unchanging witness to the Gospel of Christ through all the mutations of more than fifty generations, alike in the pulpit, on the scaffold, and atthe stake — and third,as subjects of a gracious sovereign whose personal life and character, when placed under searching scrutiny in " that fierce light which beat* 20!) upon a throne, " have ever been pure and unsullied, and whose sceptre, gathering, as it does, beneath its benignant sway one-fourth of the whole human family, has been " a sceptre of righteousness." From this pulpit, too, the lips of your own chief pastor, touched by the inspiration of the hallowed memories of the past, have called up before your mental vision, in rapid, brilliant panorama, the chequered story of the Clnirch, alike her successes and her failures, on both sides of the sea, shewing how the " good hand of God " has been upon her at eveiy step, till now she stands strong in the num- bers no less than the spiritual and intellectual powers of her clergy — strong in the allegiance of a laity pre|)ared, as in primitive times, to lay their treasures at her feet, and with them their consecrated Christian energies — strong in the confidence of the nation as the best, the only imi)reg- nable defence of the domestic, social, civil, and religious liberties of tbe people — but strongest of all, in the assur. ance of the Divine favour, in the conviction that should evil times ever come when a low political partisanship, pan- dering to self-interested bigotries and prejudices, shall lift its hand to rob and despoil her, she will still stand unmoved, though the nation sway to and fro in the agonies of a terrible upheaval, deep rooted in her children's affections, built on a rock which not even the wildest hurricane of popular hate can ever move from its base, for " that rock is Christ." Contracting the circle of his thought, your Bishop then drew a vivid picture of the past of his own Diocese, setting, naturally, as the central figure, in the foreground, the rugged, massive personality of its founder, who played so large a part in the drams of the history of that day, stamping his own strongly marked individuality so sharply, alike on its religious and political life, and laying foundations, broad and deep, on which his successors might eieet the super- structure needed for the spiritual and educational interests i. ■I 27 210 of coming generations. Can we doubt for a moment that, had God been pleased to grant to that venerable patriarch, during his own Episcopate, a church growth sufficiently developed to warrant it, he would surely, with his keen, farseeing sagacity, have recognized the value of consolidation in the collective life of the Diocese, and laid the first courses, if no more, of that cathedral system which his successor desires, at least, to inaugurate, as a fitting, permanent memorial of the completion of the first half century of its existence. The object of such a system is simply the unification of the entire life and work of a Diocese, by giving it its proper centre, round which it may revolve, in concurrent, harmonious movement. The Dio- cese, like the parish, is an entity, and, like it, needs its proper local habitation. As the Bishop is the head of the Diocese, ecclesiastically, so the Cathedral should be its heart, sending out the life blood, in strong pulsations, to the uttermost extremities. As the Bishop gathers up in himself, as their chosen representative, the functions of all persons over whom he exercises jurisdiction, so the Cathe- dral, rightly conceived of, gathers round it, and under its sacred shelter, the hopes and fears, the toils and trials, the work and worship of isolated parishes, binding them to itself, and therefore to one another, in bonds of unity. In an organized Diocese, therefore, this system, till established, is the missing link. By it and its duly constructed machi- nery, the chief pastor of a Diocese ceases to be an isolated unit, becomes closely identified with every parochial centre, and is kept in closest touch with the financial, benevolent, educational, and .spiritual interests of the whole Diocesan body. From within its walls, and by the free unhindered play of its varied agencies and offices, influences radiate outward, to even the feeblest mission in the Diocese, which revive the sinking heart of the loneliest, humblest worker in the field, giving him new courage for his divinelj' appointed, but too often, as to its present reward, poorly 211 cojopensated toil. Of such a system the tirst Bishop of this Diocese must have surely often dreamt ! Stran;je, if one of his successors, permitted in God's providence, to witness so marvellous a development of his Diocese, ii; the number of the clergy, the increase of parish churches, the multiplica- tion of educational and benevolent organizations, did not cherish the thought of it in his heart, and in faith and hope, lay its first foundations, &s an abiding commemoration of this happy, holy Jubilee ! Let us now, however, widen out our thoughts beyond the narrow bounds of the merely local and diocesan, and glance at the functions of the Church as a whole, and at one or two of the practical questions on which her discharge of this function is likely to have any direct bearing. " The Church, the pillar and ground of the truth." What truth ? ill truth — all in a word which it has pleased God to reveal, and which, therefore, it most con- cerns man to know. Now all this, implying, as it does, 30 much, and covering so large an area, we will find summed up, happily for ourselves, in very brief limits, if we place a few texts in juxta position, and allow Scripture to be its own interpreter. " What is truth ?" Jesus said : " I am the way, the truth, and the life." " The truth shall make you free." " If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." " That by the Church might be declared the manifold wisdom of God." " Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." Connect with all this our Lord's own confident prediction of the results certain to follow where He is declared. " I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me ;" and the conclusion follows, as logically as if built on a chain of mathematical reasoning, that by being " the pillar and ground oi the truth" is meant that function of the Church by which, subordinating all other ends to this, she simply preaches Christ, and lifts Sim up before the eyes of a perishing world, as the incarnate truth, the impersonation of Divine wisdom, the sum and substance. ,■' J :il2 in Himself, of all that God has seen fit to reveal — so vast and all comprehending is the significance of His work and person. Not a fact or a doctrine can be found in the wide compass of distinctly Christian truth that can be rightly apprehended apart from Him, or severed from His sacred name. God, creation, the Church, its ministry, worship, sacraments, sin, repentance, faith, righteousness, heaven^ hell — all these stand fully revealed only when interpreted in the light shed on them by this ever-blessed presence — so wonderfully does the entire circle of Christian dut}' and doctrine revolve around Him as its centre, and find in Him the secret of its perfect symmetry. " The truth," of which the Church is the " pillar and ground," is simpl}'- the truth about Him, which clusters round Him, and breathes in every syllable the perfume of His name. Whtit the Church is commissioned to propound as the object of the world's faith is not an abstract sentiment, nor yet a code of morals, nor even a body of Christian doctrine, but rather a living person, combining in the unity of His mysterious being the sympathies and sensibilities of a sinless humanity, and yet the essential attributes of a God ! Here lies the foun- dation of the world's hopes, " for the recover}- of men from sin and unbelief, for the regeneration of society ; for the purification and protection of homes ; for the abolition of war: for the overthrow of revolution in the nations; for the enthronement of law and order ; for the establishment of right government ; for the quenching of an unholy strife between capital and labour; for the truest comfort of the |)oor, and the best training of the young;" in a word, for the triumph of all that ensures the salvation of this lost world, and the hastening of the " new Heaven and the new earth." For all this, Christ and His Gospel are G'xi's appointed, sovereign panacea. And the world has borne its willing testimony to its efficacy, times with- out number. Men of all ranks, races, and temperaments, the wise and learned equally with the simple and the igno- I 213 rant, have laid their homage at His feet, and cast them- selves in total self-abandonment on His power to befriend them. Nor has He ever failed to satisfy their cravings, and stay the gnawings of their hungry, unappeased desire. Indeed, even outside the circle of the Church, and beyond the pale of its theology, there is a noise and a shaking among the dry bones of non-Christian thought and specu- lation as to the claims and character of Christ. Witness the testimony borne by the words of the author of " Eoce Homo." " To-day the great question that is stirring men's hearts to their depths is : Who is this Jesus Christ ? His life is becoming to many of us a new life, as if we had never seen a word of it. There is round about us an intlu- ence so strange, so penetrating, so subtle, and yet so mighty, that we are obliged to ask the great heaving world of time to be silent for a while that we may see just what we are, and where we are. That influence is the life of Jesus Christ." So true is it, brethren, that as the great sea of human thought tosses to and fro, strewn with the jetsam and flotsam of countless theories, all designed for the redemption of the race, that which stirs it to its deepest depths, and most mightily affects the movement of its varied tides and currents is the name and character, the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth. Yes, what the world needs to-night more than aught else — nay, what it is blindly feeling after if happily it may find it, is the clear, un- dimmed vision of Christ, the embodied truth, the incarnate Saviour. Are there any probleiny now on which the f;\ithful dis- charge of this fun ',tion by the Church, supposing her duly impressed with the importance of it, would have any appreciable bearing ? Yes, several, and grave problems, which, late though the day be, still await si 3ce.ssful solution. One is, that of the masses, and how to reach them. For even in cities such as this, to all intents and purposes 214 Christian, the masses are not reached. True, your church accommodation suffices for your church-going people, but it is alleged that fifty thousand of your population never enter your churches. Even should the number fall far short of this, it still remains true that, between your better classes, as they are termed, on the one hand, and on the other, your abjectly poor, whose condition is as far removed from that of their more favoured brethren as the poles are wide asunder, there lies an intermediate stratum of society which the Church does not reach or touch, and never will, till obstacles are removed that now bar the way. Skilled mechanics and tradesmen, equally, with the husbandman, the bone sinew of our material prosperity — salaried clerks and apprentices, unable, they say, to make ends meet, and hence too poor to afford the luxury of religion — small storekeepers who are compelled by the exigencies of life to cut, and weigh, and measure closely, and count themselves successful should the day's profits equal the cost of the day's provender — store and office and factory girls, the scantiness of whose wages justifies, in their eyes at least, their absence from God's house, and not seldom tempts them perilously near the verge of that awful precipice •\yhich plunges the unwaiy and unsuspect- ing into a life of sin and shame — plovenly, improvident mothers, not merely ignorant of the first principles of domestic thrift, but too often addicted to habits productive only of vice and misery among their children — day labour- ers who eat bread in the sweat of their brow, frequently failing, even on these hard terms, to obtain a sufficiency — all these and others are to be found by thousands in all our great commercial and industrial centres, still outside the visible fold of Christ's Kingdom, untouched by its hallowing influences, strangers to the story of Christ's cross, ignorant of its abounding peace and consolation, home heathen, dwelling locally under the very shadow of countless churches, yet practically as far removed from 215 the convevting, elevating power of the Gospel as if they inhabited some distant, undiscovered island of the sea, while the Church, though loving them, as she suys, loves them only at a distance, regarding them with an air of all but hopelessness, as irrecoverably beyond her reach, they in turn regarding her with distrust and suspicion. True, her sanctuary doors stand wide open to them, equallj'^ with the wealthiest and most cultivated, but they will not cross her threshold, they feel as if the}'^ dare not, as if they had no business, and were not wanted, there. The Church to them is a private religious club, open to all who can pay for its luxuries — they cannot — the price of admission is t«)o high — the atmosphere cold and exclusive — the dress costly, and suggestive of painful comparisons, while the reception extended to them when they do venture within its precincts is too often in that " Go thou, and sit yonder " tone which wounds their pride, and tramples on their tenderest susceptibilities. Now is there a remedy for this ? Assuredly there is, as for every other ill the Body of Christ is heir to, unless His Gospel and personal mission to earth are to be confessed a failure. It lies largely within the Church's reach, if she have but the courage to attempt it. Let her make her churches as free really as they are apparently. Let her pew doors stand as wide open as her outer portals. Let Christianity shew itself as powerful to banish the spirit of caste from her houses of prayer at home as from the social life of her converts in India. Let a proclamation go forth that the poor man in his " vile rai- ment" is as welcome as the rich man in his 'gold ring and goodly apparel." Let equal graciousness be extended to both. Then when " rich and poor " there " meet together,'' and the way has been prepared by services of prayer and praise, full of heart, and warmth, and brightness, let the pulpit ring out, simply but lovingly, its lessons of comfort and counsel, fresh from the lips and life and cross of Him who tasted death for every man, without respect of persons, and. 216 believe sne, the problem of the masses will have found its final and successful solution. Grave difficulties, doubtless, stand in the waj'^ of such a reform — the right of property, secured l)y purchase — the prejudices or preferences begotten of long confirmed habit r-nd education — the very practical question of the Church's maintenance — all these are obstacles not to be overcome in a day ; but overcome they can and will be, if the Church, strong in the conviction that her mission is to " preach the Gospel," not to a privi- leged few, but "to every creature," sets herself bravely to the task of reform, and sweeps away existing abuses, leaving the problem of her own maintenance to Him who, because He cares for the sparrow that finds " a nest for her- self, and a place where she may lay her young, even God's altars," will much more care for those altars themselves. This problem, however, the Church herself can do much to solve. The solution of it is not far off: Here all Dioceses and parishes find a common interest, for just here lies on each the burden of a perennial anxiety. But it need not have been so. It never would have been so had the Church adhered to primitive systems of finance as closely as to apostolic forms of government. The one is provided for as clearly as the other. Recognizing that the Church, like her Head, has a human and material aspect no less than a spiritual and divine, and that the one, equally with the other, must carry a bag, Scripture specifies very plainly the method of its replenishment. What is it ? The old Jewish tithe system, with its minute details of proportionate assessment on all ratable property and produce, payment being made as compulsory when they appeared before the Lord, as obedience to the moral enact- ments proclaimed amid thunderings and lightnings from the top of Sinai ? Assuredlj'^ not. The Gospel knows nothing of such legal f ulminations. It moves on a higher plane, breathes another and kindlier spirit. Under the old economy lav/ was the ruling power — under the new it 217 is love. Then, the luw came full of threatening, crying " Thou shalt." Now, the Gospel appeals to man, with all the touching persuasiveness of the tragedy enacted on the cross of Calvary, and pleads and whispers, " Wilt thou ? " No formal enactment, I grant you, is found here abolishing the old tithing system ; but that is simply because there were other and better ways of abolishing it, and of lifting men to a loftier ideal of giving. It just dropped off, and disappeared with the Jewish Sabbath, and circumcision, and other Hebrew observances, before the incoming of a higher and more spiritual faith, as the withered leaves of a departed summer make way for the new growth of spring time. The Apostle provides a divinely suggested substitute, with primary reference to a special financial crisis in the Macedonian Church, but comprehensive enough to cover the whole question of the Church's main- tenance through all the future. ' Upon the first day of the week," as a religious duty therefore, enforced by the sacred associations clustering, round the weekly day of rest, " let every one of you," under a deep sense of individual res- ponsibility, "layby him in store," statedly, systematically, as a habit growing out of Christian principle, and not an impulse born of spasmodic religious excitements, " as God has prospered hi;i^," in conscientious proportion to the means possessed, and with a just and due regard to other righteous personal obligations. Such is the apostle's method — such the primitive rule of giving. Observe, further, how the apostle enforces his appeal, resting thus, foursquare on this firm foundation ? " Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty, might be rich." Believe me, brethren, that among all the motives that can find access to the human heart, and touch its hidden springs of action, and shame its inborn selfishness, and rouse it to the discharge of duty, none can for a mo- ment compare with the mighty, moving pathos of the 9 28 218 appeal that speaks from the closed eyes, and wounded hands, and pierced side, and thorn-crowned brow of Him. who was " the truth," the crucified Saviour. Let the Church but give it fair trial, exalting the uplifted Christ, and pointing her children simply to the cross, as the ground of all Christian obligation, and ere long an end will be put to the pitiable devices contrived by modern ingenuity for ex- torting, from a too often unwilling laitj% the resources which ought to have come as the free will offerinffs of hearts con- strained by the love of Christ. A new era will be inaugu- rated. No longer subjected to the humiliation of piteous periodic cries for help, her treasury will be full to over- flowing, sufficiently to build and maintain her colleges and churches, to extend her missions at home and abroad, to care for her sick and needy poor, provide for the widows and orphans of the clergy, support her homes, hospitals, and houses of mercy, in a word, to sustain, at the maxi- mum of efficiency, every one of the multiplied agencies by which she seeks to diminish the sum of human sin and misery, and to establish Christ's kingdom in the earth. My theme bears on that other and even larger problem which is just now in the hearts and prayers, and on the tongues, of so many tens of thousands scattered over all Christendom. I mean the restored unitv of Christ's Church — the re-gathering of the scattered sheep into one visible fold, and the closing and healing of the ghastly, bleeding wounds that rend His sacred mystical body. " Hopelessly impossible," some timid, doubting souls cry, fixing their regards solely on the breaches now gaping wide in the walls of Zion ; but over against their despair we ask, did not Christ pray for this unity ? Was it not a visible mani- fested unity He prayed for, such that the world, beholding it, might believe that His Father had sent Him ? Was it not also His dying prayer, standing as He did beneath His cross ' ' outstretched hands soon to be pierced with cruel nai'- ^' uplifted brow to be torn by the thorny crown ? 219 Again, was it not His sacrificial prayer, tlie intercession of the great High Priest at the offering of that one sacrifice begun in Gethsemane, consummated on the cross, continu- ally pleaded and presented in Heaven's Holy of Holies, and on earth shadowed forth in the Sacrament of the Body and Blood ? Shall such a prayer remain forever unanswered, while yet the petition of the humblest Christian, if he " ask believing," has a Divine guarantee of its acceptance ? Surely not. No, no, brethren, it cannot be. The honour due to our great High Priest, the inherent sacredness of the cause He pleads, the prayers and yearnings that ascend from the hearts of His people, the echo, as it were, faint, and feeble, and far off, of His own continuous pleading at the right hand of the Father, all these combine to forbrd our despairing of the final efficacy of that prayer. Man's ignorance and prejudice may delay the coming of the answer, but come the day will, though neither our eyes nor the eyes of our children may see it, when the links so long and rudely severed shall be reunited, and the divided branches of the Catholic Church, that hold essential truth in common, will blend and fuse into one compact body — one in their acceptance of the same form of government — one in their allegiance to the same risen and ascended Head. Inasmuch, however, as God ever works by means, what can the Church of England do to speed so holy a consummation ? Simply what she has done and is doing : standing, like Daniel, in her lot, clinging to the old land- marks and walking in the old paths, while looking this way and that for avenues of approach where she and her separated brethren may meet, and, if no more just now, cultivate in mutual counsel that " charity which is the bond of peace and of all virtues " — studiously eschewing empty compliments and short-sighted compromises, which hinder more than they help, but eschewing also alike in pulpit and press those petty disparagements which serve only to widen existing breaches, and embitter present 220 alienation and estrangement — definite and positive in hei declaration of her own distinctive dogmas, an apostolic min- istry, sacraments standing for something more and better than empty outward signs, the Christian training of child- ren, beginning, though unconsciously to them, at the veiy font, the authoritative declaration of Christ's forgiveness of sins to every penitent soul — these are distinctive truths which every loyal minister of this Church is called upon to proclaim plainly, unreservedly, lovingly, undeterred by fear of offending, but far above them all — towering beyond them in height and sublimity as far as the mon* arch of mountains soars above the hills that cluster round his base, let her proclaim that great central act of sacrifice by which Christ declared that, were he "lifted up," He would " draw " all men to himself. Here is the world's true centre of gravity — here is the magnet b}'^ whose mighty attraction alike souls disordered by sin, and Churches rent and broken by division, are to recover their forfeited unity. Finally, what shall I .say, of the effect of the discharge of this great function of the Church, on her missionary work, or how compress into a moment or two the mar- vellous results it has wrought at home and abroad during the last fifty years by our own communion, and others who, though by different methods, have laboured side by side with us, and whose conquests for the truth we thankfully recognize, for the nobility of the toil and self-sacrifice they have cost ? Indeed, the latter half of the nineteenth cen- tury may most truly be pronounced, next after the apos- tolic period, the world's missionary era. The march of the truth, grounded and pillared on the Church of the living God, has been even more rapid than that of inventive discovery or scientific research. The prophecy Is being fulfilled before our eyes that nations shall " be born in a day." Strongholds in which heathenism had intrenched itself as impregnable, have been carried by the resistless onward advance of •' the truth," and to-day are surmounted 221 by the victorious standard of the Cross. Barriers, hitherto deemed insurmountable, are being swept away before the swelling tide, and the waters of the River of Life are slaking and satisfying the thirst of races ready to perish. China gives free entry to the King's messengers as they pierce their way to the teeming millions of the interior. Japan, where not long since a Christian ran the risk of mar- tyrdom, now proclaims liberty of conscience and full re- ligious toleration. India, where woman has been for long centuries degiaded and unsexed by the miseries of the zenana, now welcomes her more favoured English and Canadian sisters, bringing the lamp of life into the darkness of their hitherto impenetrable seclusion. Ethiopia, land of tears, and blood, and slavery, stretches out her hands to God, feeling after Him if haply she may find Him, and pleads with us by the hallowed memories of Livingstone, and Hannington, and Paiker, and others, whose blood " speaketh better things than the blood of Abel." Islands of the sea, only recently the dark places of the earth, and " the habi- tations of cruelty," have not only cast away their idols, but ai'e now in their turn becoming radiating centres of light to the heathen round them. Within the same period, aceoi ding to a high authority, missionary societies have multiplied from seven to seventy, English and American missionaries from 170 to S.IOO, not including native ministers and teachers. Converts to Christianity, then about 50,000, now number 1,750,000. Schools have increased from 70 to 12,000, with about 500,- 000 pupils in attendance. The 50 translations of the Scrip- tures, in whole or in part, have grown to 226, while no less than 148,000,000 copies are in circulation. Such are the fruits borne by the seeds sown, in fear and trembling, little more than half a century ago, and yet we are told " missions are a failure." If, now, we narrow the field of our observation to the missionary work proceeding at our own doors, and within our own confines there also, 222 though the work has little more than begun in earnest, we find ample reason to thank God, and take courage. Less than fifty, aye, less than thirty years ago but one Bishop of the Church of England was to be found between your own city and the far-off* Pacific. Since then the one has been multiplied by ten, being an average of three Episcopal jurisdictions founded every decade, each manned with its own staff of patient, faithful, self-denying toilers in the missionary field. Of these, my own looks up with filial regard and affection to the Diocese of Toronto as a child to the mother who bore her, and through my lips desires, while rejoicing in your joy, to make public grateful acknowledgment of the generous recognition which this close relationship has received at the hands or its Bishop, clergy, and laity. And now a last word, to take with us, as we close these Jubilee celebrations, and scatter to our several fields of labour. I have spoken of the Church, and her function to maintain and disseminate the truth. Would that her laity understood more clearly than they do that we of the clergy hold, and claim, no privileged monopoly of this high and holy function. " Let him that heareth say, come." The Son of Man, ere He went to receive His kinordom. " grave authority to His servants, and to every man his work " — to each according to his several ability. The time is not far distant when He will return, and reckon with them. The tokens of his coming are multiplying. The sound of His footsteps is already at the door. Let us watch, therefore, working while we watch, and laying all we have and are, or hope for, at the feet of Him who died for us, in one supreme, decisive act of self-consecration. The needs of the sinning and suffering, at home and abroad — the best interests of our own spiritual life — the reputation of the Church which claims us as her children, and constitutes us the guardians of her fair fame — above all, the honour of the Church's Head, who identifies Himself so closely with her 223 that every wound inflicted on His mystical body, He feels as though directly inflicted on Himself — all these, speaking as with trumpet tongue, lend weighty emphasis to the com- mand, " Go work in my vineyard to-day." " Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when He cometh, shall find so doing." And now, etc. NOTE BY THE EDITOR. Had space permitted, as intimated in the prospectus to this vohime, it was hoped tliat the Editor would have been enabled to have added (as an Appendix), an account of the proceedings at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the New Wing of Trinity University — of the Conferring of the Degree of D.C. L. at a Special Convocation of that University ; and of the Meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Board of Domestic and Foreign Missions, — all of which took place during the Jubilee week, and thus incidentally formed part of its proceedings. The Kilitor would also, had spac3 per;x;itted, have inserted the "Historical Review of Church Revival," by the Hev. Dr. Langtry, in a sennon preached by him on the Sunday of the Jubilee week (24th November), as, however, the proposed volume of 150 pages extends to 224 pages— or is one half as large again as was anticipated — the proposed Appendix cannot be inserted. THE WOMAN S AUXILIARY. At the Woman's Auxiliary Meeting on Monday, the 25th November, the Bishops of Toronto, Nova Scotia, and Huron took part ; also Mrs. Lawis, and the Revs. Canon DuMoulin and H. G. Baldwin. In harmony with the utterances of Rev. Dr. Langtry, in his historical retrospect, the Bishop of Huron said :- -" One hundred years ago there was no missionary life to speak about. There were Churches richly endowed ; there were grand Cathedral establishments ; there was wealth and power, but little or no missionary life. To-day the Church is awakening in the great city as well as in the small town and even the little hamlet. There are grand missionary organizations to-day, and the great woman's auxiliary in the power of its nascent life is making wonderful developments every year." The Bishop of Toronto said : — " The woman's auxiliary has only been in existence three years, and the increase in interest and membership has been most rapid." The Bishop of Nova Scotia said :— "It w.is a wise thing and blessed circumstance that the wise women of the Anglican Church had Imnded themselves together, thus each one striving in her own individual sphere to do her utmost, and also bringing each one into contact with the life, heart, and brain of her fellow-sisters from time to time in the meetings held, where there was an interchange of thought, a quickening of minds respecting the work to be done at home and ai>r(Mul by the missionaries. " Toronto : April, 1890. J. Q. H. f INDEX. PAOR. Addison, Rev. Koliert 181 Aigutna, State of the Diocese of ... . 200 Allan, Hon. U. W 10, 57 Allen, Canon 16, 137, 154, 193, 205 Baldwin, Bishop. . 15, 19, 64, 154, 188, 192 Bethunc .School, Bibhop 61, 82 Buddy, Archdeacon 5, 6, 15, 137 Body, Provost 1 1, 58, 204 Brant, Joseph 131 Broughall, Rev. A. G 6, 6, 105, 192 Canons of St. Alban's Cathedral. ... 12 Curry, Rev. Dr 2 Cayley, Canon 15, 104 Clark, Professor 15, 30, 64 Clergy Reserve Que8tion.26,37,83,132,144 Committee, Jubilee 5, 7, 205 Conversazione, Jubilee 124 Courtney, Bishop 15, 64, 124 Coxe, Bishop 15, 48, 65 Davidson, Canon 155, 205 Diocesan Synods, U. C, First 140 DuMonliu, Canon 73, 86, 105, 133 Grasett, Dean. 133, 135, 136, 137, 138, 151 Gammock. Rev. Mr . 154 Geddts, Dean 39, 52, 137 Governor-General 34 Governor, Lieutenant 35 j Hamilton, Bishop 15, 116, 196 Hodgins, J. George 128, 129 Howland, O. A 63 Huron C»dlege 60, 82, 187 Huron, Diocese of. Paper on 180 Inglis. Bishop 24, 36, 66, 129 Innes, Dean 106 Johnson, Canon 15 Jones, Rev. S 105, 173 King's College 37, 42, 83, 146 Langtry, Rural Dean 104, 193, 204 Lewis, Bishop . .15, 53, 93, 144, 164, 178 PAOK. Mayor Clarke 62 McMurray, Archdeacon. .39,41,46,52,136 Mountain, Bishop. . . .29, 39, 40, ((6, 130, 132, 160 Niagara, Paper en the Diocese of . . 194 Ontario, Paper on the Diocese of . . . 156 Panics in the Church of England . . 88 Patterson, Canon 180, 192 Preliminary Proceedings 6 Programme, Jubilee 7 Queen, The 27, 32, 34 Read, Canon 137, 154, 194 Ridley College, Bishop 61, 82 Robinson, Hon. J. B 46, 50, 51 Robinson, Sir John B 39, 137 St. Alban's Cathedral 12, 45, 84 St. Hilda's College 61, 82 St. James's Cathedral 63, 133 Scadding, Canon .52, 128, 137, 142, 148 Sermons. .19, 65, 73, 86, 93, 106, 116, 206 Service, Form of 16, 102 Simcoe, Governor 129 Smith, Professor Gold win 55, 57 Smith , J udge 34 Snelling, Dr 6, 62 Spencer, Rev. A 73, 156 Strachan, Bishop . .35, 39, 46, 50, 57, 82, 132, 159, 161 Strachan, Bishop, School 61, 82 Sullivan, Bis!i«p 44, 125, 200, 206 Sunday Schoii ::'ervice8 102 Sweatma», liiaS.oj.. .{), l.^i, 34, 73,92, 124, 12V, 128, 149, 155, 194, 200, 205 Toronto, T\A|i,-' on the Diocese of . . 129 Trinity College. .37,43,57,81,83,148, 163 Trinity College School 60, 81 University Question, The 144, 146 Woman's Auxiliary ... .81, 127, 177, 205 Wolfe, General 50 ,Wyclifie College 37, 60, 82, 14» FAOK. 62 ,46,52,135 0, m, 130, 132, 160 of .. 194 of . . . 156 nd .. 88 . . 180, 192 6 7 .27, 32, 34 VJ, 154, 194 .. ..61,82 .46, 50, 51 ....39, 137 . . 12, 45, 84 61,82 ....63, 133 J7, 142, 148 06, 116, 206 .... 16, 102 . .. . 129 55,57 34 6,62 ... 73, 156 , 50, 57, 82, 32, 159, 161 61, 82 25, 200, 206 ... 102 ,73,92,124, ,94, 200, 205 ,eof .. 129 ,83,148,163 60,81 . . . . 144, 146 127, 177, 205 50 r, 60, 82, 14»