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J3. 1863. ^•**. >«l>l|MiH(M«Mt«M«>M*llM<>«tMi>llMtMf BY THE RIGHT REV.CHARLES PETIT McILVAINE, D.D., D,C.l. ^ , ^ BISHOP OF OHIO, U. 8. of A. TO WHICH IS APPENDED THE OPENING ADDRESS OF THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD PISHOP OF HURON. LONDON: DAWSON tc BROTHER, BOOK & JOB PRINTERS, „^, RI0HMOND-8T., OPPOSITE Oliy HALL. 1864. ;.r*; London, C. W., Dec. 5tb, 1863. My Dear Bishop: I have to request a favor from you. The Inaugural Addrsss which you delivered on Wednesday, at the opening of Huron College, was heard with so much pleasure by all, that I most cordially concur in the request contained in the enclosed Reso- lution * that you will allow its publication. I trust that the In- stitution which we have so happily commenced will, under the Divine blessing be the means of upholding the sound Protestant and scrip»ural views so ably enunciated in the Address. Believe me, my dear Bishop, with earnest prayer, that our covenant God and Father may continue and increase all blessings upon you. Your affectionate brother in Christ, . BENJ. HURON. The Et. Rev. Dr. McIlvaine, Bishop of Ohio, &c., &c. London, C.W., Dec. 7th, 1863. My Dear Lord : In answer to your kind note of the 5th, I can only say, that I have great pleasure in complying with tlie request contained therein, and will furnish the manuscript of my addrefjs, as soon as parts unwritten when delivered can be prepared for the press. I remain, affectionately your friend and brother, CHAS. P. McILVAINE. TiiTJ Rt. Rev., the Lord Bishop of Huron. * Moved by the Rev. M. Boomer, L. L. D., ^^coiided by the' Rev. F. A. O'Meara, L. L. D., and supported by the Ven. Archdeacon Hellmuth, D. D., Principal of the College : " That tho cordial tliiinks of this meetincf he tendered to the Right Tleverend Dr. Mollvaino, Bishop of Ohio, for his kindness in attending the opening of Huron College, and for delivering the Inaugural Addressj and that he be requested to allow the same to be published." INAUGURAL ADDRESS. My Lord, Ladies and Gentlemen : I have great pleasure in congratulating the in- habitants of this City of London, but especially my Eight Eev. brother, the beloved and most venerated Bishop of this Diocese, on the present auspicious occasion, as it is the happy evidence of success in a measure of so much importance, and yet of so much labor and care. I desire also, very particularly, to congratulate my dear friend and brother, the Ven. Archdeacon Hellmuth, who has borne so much of the burden and heat of the day, in bringing the enterprise of founding and endowing the College of Huron to the present most hopeful issue ; and whose arduous and wisely conducted labors in this cause, INAUGURAL ADDRESS. united to his eminent qualifications as a scholar, and a learned and evangelical Divine, have most justly obtained for him the honorable place of Principal cf the College, and Professor of Divinity therein. It was my good fortune to be much with him daring the first of his tw6 visits to England, in behalf of this work, and to witness his indefatigable zeal in its prosecution. We shared the same affectionate hospi- talities ; our beloved friends were much in common. He had trials then, and obstacles to overcome, which were not a little increased on his return to Canada, and in a second visit to England. But he had the warm hearts of devoted friends of evangelical truth, able to help -and ready to help ; ready to help him because of his cause — but made the more ready because of their great respect for and confidence in him as its agent— hearts made only the more strong in its behalf by such opposition as it encountered, and which ^ am sure are to be relied on for whatever aid it may hereafter require. My whole sympathy was with it and its unwearied advocate ; and what little I was able to do for either, I am sure was done as heartily as if it were for a College on the other side of our national boundary Hues, and in the m^yovBAL J^pDWaSSf Diocese at the head of which Divine Providence has placed me. I remember a particular incident in that connection. Soon after an interesting clerical meet- ing at Ishngton, at which I delivered an address in company with Dr. Hellmuth, in behalf of his effort, I wrote an article for the London Record in further- ance of the same. It was just after the Trent affair had spread such a dark cloud over the international relations of Great Britain and the United States. That cloud, happily for both countries, by God's goodness to both, had passed away. But while it stayed, there was a great deal said by the English press and in social circles of a design asserted to be entertained, or likely to be entertained, in the United States, of making an armed invasion of her Majesty's dominions in Canada — a matter which I then be- lieved, as I believe now, to have been, and to be, about as much designed or desired, as that the people of Canada should invade the United States. I wrote the article referred to, and after alluding to such supposed design, and expressing my ideas of its probability, I said, that certainly / did purpose an invasion of Canada^ and was then about it ; that it was neither more nor less than to endeavor, as by that article, 6 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. to lead captive some pecuniary aid from England, to the help of this very College of Huron. My invasion" may have been as feeble as it was harmless. But on the assurance of the Archdeacon I am led to hope that it did lead to the surrender of some good gold- dads J (so much better than tron-clads) for the benefit of the College. If, however, it had no other effect than to manifest good will and brotherly kindness, the result was sufficient reward. I am here among you now by request of your Bishop, to renew that in- vasion more directly^ and with weapons such as befit a spirit of fraternal co-operation in this your eminently important work. I have read the Constitution of this College, and have marked with great satisfaction the pains taken therein to secure to all generations the continuance of that form of religious doctrine under which, in the teaching of the present and first Bishop of this Dio- cese, and of its first Principal and Professor of Divinity, the College begins its course. The doctrine here to be taught, and in expectation of which tho donations of brethren in England have been made, is designated in the Constitution, under the expressions " strictly Protestant" and " strictly Evangelical,'* INAUGURAL ADDRESS. according to " the natural and grammatical interpre- tation of the Articles of the Church of England." I like that word " Evangelical^^'' as I like also that word " ProtestanV They go together as two that are agreed. Aside from what each may mean, when restricted to its etymological sense, each like many other terms which the needs of classification have en- larged or restricted in their application, has come to signify a certain well understood and classified system of religious teaching, in distinction from every other professing to be Christian and Apostolic. Protestant means, in these days, not merely those more particu- lar and salient doctrinal corruptions of the Church of Rome, against which the Church of England has lifted up a formal protest in Articles of Faith ; but all that system of Romanism which naturally proceeds from, and is identified in teaching and practice with those more prominent corruptions. Evangelical is well understood among us to mean, not merely a system of doctrine suflSciently marked by distinctive Gos- pel truths to separate from all other religions but that one system, which has come to be so distin- guitthed from others, making the genei'al profession of being Christian and Scriptural and Churchly, that iil 8 INAUGURAL ADBRBSS. it is a name of honor and >.*J ^^^^^^^ tion of a definite, ^«\ ""'^?7;^^^ Articles of of doctrinal ^each^f /^/^ Prote;tant Epi. tbe Church of Engl-d. -^ of *« ^^^^ eopal Church in the ^^^^^^^l, ,„ ,,, Homilie. common to both, are in t ^^ ^«i.r«fll nrofession. i 1""°" » '"^'^"'^Tifar^^^^^ ^ „f ,,i, requisition oxpreBsmysatmtacuona of-.^.^orfyProi^'"""""'^'""^*'''' stone of this CoUege^ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^ ^,,,,, But again: In looking » ua nresent progress, of rejoicing and t^-^^^^^^^Xa — t, as .,,owinetocal,yo«ra^n...^^J^^^^^^^^^,„. , is an effort to ra.s up a ^ ^^ ^^^ aigenous to the se laid here ; jut that all the teaching of candidates for Orderswillbe decidedly in that direction; and especial- ly that, in it, and far above all, and as the great head course which shall marshal and subordinate all for its own best development, divinity, specifically so called, in its full and logical system, in all its parts and dis- criminations, with its antagonisms faithfully traced out and the divergent lines of error at their earliest steps of departure exhibited, and all that enters into the proper preaching of the Gospel, so mapped out that the faithful student may be made a thoroughly furnished teacher and guide of Christian believers, as well as of the wandering and impenitent. mAUQURAL ADDRESS. 11 I speak thus emphatically on this head, because while in theory it is taken for granted that a (so called) divinity-education will be what I have en- deavored to describe, it is often in practice 'far otherwise. In much of the education for the ministry, furnished by Colleges and Universities, on which Orders ai*e conferred, while courses of divinity lec- tures and in certain affiliated branches are given, among many other branches of instruction, the am- ount of theological education is for the most part but little more than all well educated men secure. It is as if our lawyers should be satisfied with only such study of law, or our physicians with only such study of the theory and practice of medicine, as all men of general education possess. For the practice of law there are law-schools, ipecificuUy so called and fashioned, where only law is taught. For the practice of medicine we have like medical schools, where only medical science, with what is essentially auxiliary, is learned. What would be thought of a professedly medical college-training where the materia medica^ the an- atomy of the human frame, and all the system of doctrine and practice founded thereon, with the false 12 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. " theories and practices to be shunned, constituted only one branch of a general course of teaching, in which many other great branches of science received at least equal attention, so that the aspirant for medical practice being expected to take all, must necessarily be only generally and superficially qualified in any, and must come forth to the work of his calling about as well prepared for the practical treatment of diseases, as to apply the principles of the steam-engine to all the uses of machinery in the various manufactures ? - The first preachers of the Gospel were not compe- tent for their work without the inspiration of God. It requires a careful, extensive and well digested study of revealed truth, as contained in the Scriptures to supply the place of their supernatural endowment. I know indeed, and would not for a moment even seem to forget, that the mere study of divinity, no matter how wisely and thoroughly prosecuted, can not make a qualified minister of Christ. Much else is need'^d; such as the inward calling of the Holy Ghost ; the truly regenerate heart ; the love of God shed abroad therein ; the personal experience of what it is to come to Christ by INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 13 faith and become a partaker of Him and of the precious hope of eternal life which is built only on him ; an earnest desire to glorify Grod in the mani- festation of His grace, and to turn sinners to his great salvation. Certainly there can be no preparation without these. The preacher is blind and dead with- out them. And all he can make himself by other attainments and all the activities he can be stimulated to engage in, from other causes, can not give life to that death. But neither must we suppose that, with such spiritual preparation, infinitely precious as it is, the minister can be thoroughly or adequately furnished, to " do the work of an Evangelist," and " rightly divide the word of truth/' according to all needs and in opposition to all errors, until, upon that " sure foundation," he had built up in his mind the specific education which we have endea/bred in gen- eral terms to designate. ^ 1 think we see in the want of such professional education much explanation of the progress of certain great corruptions of gospel truth among the Protes- tant clergy of England in recent years. The false teaching of the Tracts, and of all the school of which they are the expression, would not have takeii such 14 INAUGURAL ADDRESH, ■ > I i hold on the younger clergy of the Church of England, had more of them been carried, in their preparation for the ministry, through such a systematic course of Divinity, as would have enabled them easily to detect the false pretences to Christian doctrine by whicji they were seduced. In Ireland, where, from various causes the Romish controversy was better under- stood, those furtive advances of Eomish delusions gained scarcely the least success. I venture to say that among those clergymen whose sympathies are most with the authors of the notorious " Essays and Reviews," it may be found, as with a certain Lord Chancellor of England of whom it was said that he knew everything but law, that in their prepara- tion for the ministry, they applied themselves to almost every branch of education more than divinity. The Bishop of Natal, better known as Dr. Colenso, is a case in point. Whatever he may be as a man of sci- ence or of classic attainment, it is manifest, from the nature of the difficulties which were so new to him, and of which he was not aware of the usual so- lutions, that in the proper studies of a minister of the Gospel he was not a well educated man. Such difficulties could not have so seriously affected him, INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 15 t had he been trained in those branches of study which pertain to every respectable course of theological education for the ministry. His mind, had it been enlarged, and exercised, and furnished by such dis- cipline, would easily have seen, what we so much wonder that he did not see, the excessive chaffimss of objections which to him were mountains. ^ ' ' ' ' 'It is for self-protection against assaults of error, as well as for ability to declare the whole counsel of God, that a minister needs to be well armed in the learning of his profession. Every age has its special developments of religious error, seeking to turn away the ministry as well as the laity, from " the truth as in Jesus." Our age is well marked in this re- spect. I need not mention the two familiar examples, — the Tractarian movement and more recently the Rationalistic — both present and very seriously dan- gerous. '- ': ■■-■ ' ■" ' -' ■ ' ^ 5 ' ■"'■■•■■ f''- But whea I speak of the Tractarian movement as a matter of present danger, I am met with an almost universal confidence, even among those who have resisted it, that it is a matter of the past — that its dangers ure over, or at least of so little remaining power as scarcely to deserve a thought, in view of 16 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. the threatening advances of that which has recently so engrossed the attention of watchmen on the walls of Zion, In this confidence I have no share. And here, I beg to be allowed to speak my mind somewhat at large ; and while doing so, to be understood to speak, not as a Bishop of a Diocese in the United States ; not as having any local allusion beyond what I may express ; but as a Bishop of the Holy Catholic Church in all the world, to whom the interests of Gospel truth in all the world are precious, and in an important sense, committed. - : l. :^ What I desire to urge is that since a portentous school of rationalistic scepticism has grown up in the very Halls where the Tractarian movement first appeared, and is now receiving so much of the public notice that its predecessor is little heard of, we must be far from supposing that the latter has no advocates that need to be watched, nor strength still to do harm ; that its Bome-approaching doctrines are not by zeal- ous teachers still busily propagated ; or that there are not extensive classes and conditions of mind, wherever we go, ready to receive its congenial seed and to produce its appropriate fruit. Because it has been sig-nally defeated in the field of argument, it INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 17 may be too much supposed, that its field of operation has been closed ; not remembering the power of the Oanaanite to trouble Israel, corrupt the true re- ligion, and fill the land with idolatry long after his fortresses had all been taken. " The Oanaanite was yet in the land," defeated but not exterminated ; and Israel was in captivity to the blandishments of his captive. ■^'•' -■■''■...::, ;.■-■;.'.'- -'^ :v. ,.::-*. ;■•..-■.,•',■•:; One thing is certain. The present promoters of .the system of doctrine and of chrrch-practice best known as Tractarianism^ do not think it defunct, or in- operative, or unambitious of progress, or slow of operation, or likely to be so. They work it and glory in it, as ^ spreading leaven, a tree planted by the rivers of watera, whose leaf hath not 'withered, and that brings forth its fruit in its season. To a ?/Mi- siderable extent we agree with them. It may be perfectly true that it has lost its first positions ; that in the falling of so many of its chief leaders into avowed Popery, in spite of their strongest anti-Po- pish professions and protests, the system has sufiered great disgrace ; it may be very true that we hear much less than during its former years, of new con- verts to it, or through it, to the Church of Home; mmmma^m 18 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. that the press has ceased to teem with its publications and the magazines to do battle against it or for it ; it may be very true that what it now does, is done more quietly and secretly than formerly, more as the miner under ground, than as a soldier in the open field. And yet, I believe it is just as true that it is still aoing a very evil work; leading many, many souls astray and spreading a vast deal of spiritual delusion ; that under the profession of special defer- ence to the teaching of the Church, its abettors are industriously inculcating doctrines and practices di- rectly in opposition to thos( of the primitive Church, and of the articles and standards of the particular Church to which they belong ; that under the special boast of Catholic truth, it is propagating with serious success what is wholly uncatholic, because wholly in- compatible with the Gospel of Christ, thus preparing a great breadth of ground for a future harvest of actual Popery, and educating aspirants for the ministry, who will incur the anathema pronounced by St. Paul on those who preached another Gospel than that which he preached.* The old Upas tree may be standing no more on its original roots ; but its branches have * Gal. 1. 8. INAUGURAL AJDUESS. 19 taken root and are now trees, and are sending out their branches to take root likewise, and become poison in their turn. r? ^ * » » In our estimate of the present condition of this system, we must remember that change of policy is no evidence of diminished zeal or influence, vv^hen at its first development, it had need to rcdse atten- tion in order to obtain a field, it came forth with an array of high pretending publications, bold in as- sumption, arrogant in argument, challenging oppo- sition and afiecting contempt for whatever stood in their way. It spake" as one having authority." It was boastfully a Eeformation, of the Eeformed. It was the very Protestantism of the Church of England in distinction from the ultra Protestantism of Luther and Calvin. It denounced Kome and abhorred Gen- eva. A great flourish of trumpets proclaimed its advent and progress — volume followed volume, con- troversy was sought, because notorie'y was desired. It obtained both, and when in argument it was signally defeated, its success was not hindered with the class of minds it expected to gain. - ..*.*- But now there is a marked change in the bearing of the system thus installed. Of a great deal that 20 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. was at first loudly professed, for the «ake of a garm- ent to hide what it would have been premature to exhibit, we hear no more. Of many protestations against the injustice of charging it with certain doc- trines and tendencies, we hear no more. That it is the only safe ground on which real Protestantism can be sustained and vindicated, of which we once heard so constantly, we hear now no more. To vindicate itself by elaborate argument, is no longer its care or its need. It has gained a position and it improves it. The silence of the mine has succeeded to the noise of the assault. Instead of the column of attack storming your walls, we have the quietness of the sower sowing his seed. It was once of importance to court the notice of the polemic press. It is now of equal importance to evade it. " Let m alone^^'* is t)ie petition. The strategy has changed — not the enemy. > .- ..,.i.^ :>-- .. ':- -- --- •■,;■:■■: ^.^m-' The present policy is to cherish a taste for a cere- monial, sensuous^ minute and exacting externalism in worship ; for pomp, symbolism, mystery, and a cumbrous ritualism, multiplied with details of church furniture, clerical-millenary, posture-making, musical formalities and the like ; under such morbid INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Bentimentalism, calling itself the real spirituality, to introduce, by degrees, the whole sacredotal doctrine and practice of a sacrificing Priesthood, and of sacraments eflScacious (ex opere operato) to salvation, because received at such hands ; the visible church, the only depository of saving grace; ministers of sacraments, the only dispensers of that grace ; true Ministers, real Priests, having a real sacrifice to offer, and at a real altar— remission of sins obtained only through their ministry, in which ministry they stand as mediators between us and God, so that bv them only \\re come to Christ, and through him to God. The Priest at the altar ,offering sacrifice for the people, is represented as the prime and essential aspect of the Gospel Minister. The preacher in the pulpit, teaching and preaching Jesus Christ, is studiously, however cautiously, represented as doing work quite subordinate, not essential, but rather incidental to his office as a Priest. All this of course is of the very es- sence of Popery. Against it every nerve in the heart of a true Protestant is braced. Let it be once estab- lished, and then the fore-runner has well made straight the path,and prepared the way of Anti-Christ,speedily to come to the temple of God and make it his own. ■ 22 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. With that sacerdotal system for its central position, it can easily ramify and extend itself under ground, till the whole surrounding soil is essentially possessed, with all the tendencies and tastes that Popery desires. Hence, an essential Popery, without its name or profession, but professing still the Protestant faith, may easily grow up without any observable effort of propagation. The false doctrine is insinuated, not proclaimed or urged. It is so asserted by its agents, as if a matter of course, that persons habitu- ated to its phraseology, get to identify it in their minds with real church manship, and forget that any true Protestant churchmen have ever thought other- wise. By all that they constantly see in the church and in the minister the education goes on. They hear no more of such a thing as a communion Table. It is ^Hhc altar,^^ They see, (at least it is the case in some parts on the other side of our national boundary line) they see no more of any furniture for the Lord's Supper that looks like a table and conveys the idea of a, feast '^ but in place of it something stu- diously intended to convey the idea of an altar only, in order that the minister may seem a Friest and the sacrament a scwrifice. In all this, and much more that 1 . INAUGURAL ADDRESS. W§ might be mentioned, there is a constant, insinuating, i silent, and influential education, under which people are , ' being habituated to the doctrine as one which it were a want of churchmanship and reverence t to doubt, that where the so-called altar stands, the Lord is present to his people as he is to faith and prayer no where else on earth ; that grace is thence specially dispensed, and ihither the worshipper is specially to look, because there stands the Priest, ; offering sacrifice for his sins, by whose sacrificial mediation alone the sacrifice of Christ becomes fully eflScacious to salvation. We can not suppress our in- dignation at such teaching, under the name of that simple, free and glorious Gospel of Christ, which knows no Priest nor Sacrifice nor Altar but Christ — and knows no way to him but what is alike open in every place and *.o every believer, v/henever and wherever his faith looks unto Jesus. - ;. .^^ ,i We remember the zeal with which our martyred Reformers, in their published " Injunctions" required every altar in the churches to be cast out, and only what good Bishop Ridley called '• an honest tahle^^'' to stand in its place. Why ? Because of their stern condemnation of all that system of priest and sacri- 24 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. fice, and sacerdotal mediation of which an altar- structure is the symbol and instrument. We quite agree with a learned Romish divine — one of the translators of the Rhemish version of the N. T. (Grregory Martin) who wrote : " The name of altar implying and importing sacrifice^ therefore we in re- spect of the sacrifice of Christ's body and blood, say alta/i'^ rather than table. But Protestants, because they make it a supper and no sacrifice, call it a tabU only — to take away the holy sacrifice of the mass, they take away both altar and priest, because they know right well that these three, priest, sacrifice and alta/r are dependents and consequents, so that they cannot be separated." * We have spoken of the recent portentous aspect of a sceptical rationalism in the Church of England, as one of the two chief dangers to which the truth and the purity of the Church are exposed in these days. The question of its rise — what state of mind produced it — what influences favored its appearing, how far it is connected with Tractariiinism, or had its origin in the same head waters, is important. It is generally supposed ♦ Fulke'8 Defence of the English Translation of the Bible. Parker's Soc. Ed. pp. 516 ve. INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 25 to be so entirely the very antipode of Tractarianiem ; the former exalting reason above the authority of Scripture, and finding the ultimate j:\x\e of faith in one's own consciousness; the latter degrading reason into a slavish submission to church authority, to the entire denial of all private judgment — that the two must be so essentially opposite as not to have by possibility any common origin, or be in any degree helpers of each other. From this we differ. Opposite extremes sometimes meet — and have the same begin- ning. But let me be understood. I am far from supposing that the oflfensive Eationaiisni of the Essays and Reviews, or of the school which they represent, is not most strongly and sincerely con- demned by those who now represent the Tractarian School. We do not know, nor has it any connection with our present enquiry to ascertain, whether any of the present sjhool of Anglo-Rationalism were ever enlisted under the banner of Tractarianism, or shewed any leaning towards it. We maintain however that there is a most important connection between these two widely divergent and,in many important aspects,really antagonistic lines of doctrine, in this, namely, that the state of mind which Tractarianism, like Romanism, 11 26 INAUaURAL ADDRESS. seeks to establish as the stock on which to graft its doctrine of the dependence of our faith in the Scrip- tures on the authority of the church, is such, that it is wholly a question of circumstances and incidental influences whether that stock will take the graft and, produce Tractarianism, or refuse the graft and because of the condition to which the effort has re- duced it, bring forth Rationalism. For example — It was notoriously the effort of the Tractarian leaders to decry the Evidences of Christianity; to maintain that we could not arrive at a sure faith in the Scriptures by any such process ; that it was the way to make of enquirers infidels. It is well known that Mr. Newman, before he went to Eome, in his lectures in Oriel College, Oxford, studiously endeav- ored to depreciate the argument of Paley, and directly laboi'ed to convince his pupils that all such evidences were essentially inconclusive — so that if we had nothing better to lean on, the straight result was unbelief. One of his chief adherents at that time, wrote in the chief periodical of the School (the British Critic) that when an unlettered man says he believes " because he has been told so by persons wiser and better than he," this is so very wise that ** there INAUGURAL ADDHESS. is notliing to be compared to its logic, either intellect- ually, morally or religiously, in all the elaborate de- fences and evidences which could be produced from Paley and Grotius, and Sumner and Chalmers " But why all this ? Did they want to make men in- fidels ? No. But they wanted to compel them to the alternative of being infidels, or taking refuge in the mere dictum of the Church (not however of the Protestant Church in her Articles, bnt of what they called the Catholic Church in her traditions) as the only warrant to believe in the Scriptures, and so in all the doctrines contained therein. But now suppose that some of their pupils after being led so far in this training as to give up the Evidences of the inspiration of the Scriptures and of Christianity, would follow no further; that while some were of a tempera- ment or a state of feeling which hiade them quite ready to take the Church as authority for any thing — others of other dispositions and feelings were unable to see any warrant for the Church, when there was no warrant for the Scriptures, and felt that in renouncing the Evidences of Christianity they re- nounced all — church and every thing; and hence became rationalists and sceptics — was not Tractarian- 28 INAUGTJRAL ABDRffSg. ism the cause of such sad apostacy — was it not the very forerunner which made its paths straight ? And must there not have been enough of this stopping half way — ^this receiving the teaching which annulled the authority of the Scriptures, and rejecting that which sought to substitute the authority of the Church, to have prepared the ground for an actual harvest of unbelief, of which the present school of rationalism might well be the natural offspring ? * Here was a preparation of mind inculcated as- the basis on which the authority of the Church was to be accepted, which went on to Tract- arianism or to Rationalism and Infidelity, just according to the peculiar character or impulse of the individual pupil. We may imagine a fountain of water on a ridge of the high nckountains which divide the streams that flow towards the Italian Seas on one side, from those which flow to the German on the other, so situated that a more incident — the scrape of your foot, a blast of wind may determine to which- ♦ We might make a similar illuetratian from the Tnvctarlan doctrine of the necessity of submitting our interpretation of the meaning of Scripture to the authority of the Church, and also from the doctrine of Reserve or Development which is common to Tractarianism and Ration- alism. See Archbishop Whatley's " Caution for the 'fimes," Nos. xii,. k. xiii. INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 29 of those seas that fountain shall send down its waters. Certain it is, as a matter of fact, that * Tractarian teaching about the Scriptures did make infidels, as well as Papists. In the year 1850, appeared a book by F. A. Froude, of Exeter College, Oxford, a near relation, if not brother, of the Froude who figured prominently as one of the original Tractarians. It was called " the Nemesis of Faith.'^ It was an exhibition of the re-action of Tractarian teaching on a mind that had followed to a certain extent its guidance. It was substantially such an exhibition of scepticism as is found in the Essays and Keviews, The London Christian Observer reviewing it in 1850, said : " Rumors had long been rife of a reac- tion at both the Universities, but more particularly at Oxford, against the principles and doctrines of the Tractarian, so called, Anglo-Catholic School. The new movement was understood to be Rationalistic, if not decidedly sceptical. And not a few of the immediate disciples of the most eminent Tract writers were said to be the chief oracles of coteries in which to use an ex- pression reported to be current among them, the historic truth of Christianity was considered an open fuestion,^'' This observe, was written in 1850 — so 80 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. long before the present Kationalistic School declared itself. Observe also, in the current expression — of that reaction from Tractarian teaching — namely that " the historic truth of Christianity must he con- sidered an open question,''^ its sinailarity to declara^ tions and insinuated teachings in the recent Essays and Eeviews — its remarkable resemblarice to what Dr. Colenso says concerning the historic truth of the Pentateuch and to what he will say hereafter, if consistent with himself, concerning that of all the Scriptures. See how near it comes to the dootrine of Rome and- of the Tractarians, that such is the defect of evidence for the truth of the Scriptures and of Christianity — that we have no consistent refuge from infidelity but in the authority of the Church ; and then do not charge me with rashness in maintain- ing that between the teaching of Tractarianism and the state of mind out of which spring Rationalism and Scepticism, there is a near and most important connection. It is worthy of remark that, some eighteen years ago, Archbishop Whately, that eminent writer, lately decease in his " Kingdom of Christ," compared Tractariauism with the German Rationalism, of which w INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 31 • the present English Rationalism is but a new edition ; and he considered them as so agreeing in certain doctrines which both dwulffed^ " that a still further agreement might be expected in the doctrines reserved.''- " Both parties (he said) decry the histori- cal evidences of Christianity and every appeal to evidence ; and both disparage miracles, considered as a proof of the divine origin of Christianity.'' " Other coincidences may be observed, such as the strong desire manifested by both parties to explain away or soften down the line of demarcation between what ordinary Christians call the Scriptures, and every thing subsequent; between what we call the Christian Revelation and any pretended after Revelation or improvement, or completion, or perfect development of the system of true religion. To Christianity as a- Revelation completed in our sacred books, both parties, more or less openly, according to circum- stances, confess tleir objections. And it is remark- able, that even the vehement censures pronounced by one of these Schools on the speculations of the other, are far from being inconsistent with their funda- mental agreement in principles."* • * Kingdom of Christ, App. to Essay II. Note P. m INAUGURAL ADDRESS', If it had been the settled purpose of the Tractarian writers coVfertly to prepare the way for, and ultimately to introduce a School of just such Rationalism as we now deplore, they could not have acted more skilfully than they did in some of their teaching. Let us take for a specimen the 85th Tract. It seems as if it were written for the Express purpose of so un- isettling men's minds, as to the truth of the Scriptures and their meaning, that whoever did not want to be an infidel must feel that he bad no refuge but to become a Tractarian or a Papist. Difficulties to faith are exaggerated; evidences of faith are depreciated ; objections are given in their utmost force to the very parts of Scripture which the Essays and Eeviews select, and the objections are similar, and are either not attempted to be answered or they are answered so feebly as rather to fasten than re- move them. The Tract proceeds throughout on the abominable assumption, that all parts of what it calls " t?ie Chttrch system^^'^ namely, its own peculiar doctrine of Apostolic succession, of the corporeal presence of Christ in the Eucharist, of absolution and priestly power, &c., are so on a level in point of evidence in the Scriptures, with the fundamental doctrines of the INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 88 i Trinity, the Atonement, the inspiration of the Scrip- tures, &c., all so " latent^'' in the Bible— none " on the surface^^ so few texts for any, and those so indirect and circuitous in their application their proof so " ollique^'' that if we conclude against one, we must, to be consistent, conclude against all — ^that is if we reject the Tract doctrine of Apostolic Succession or of priestly absolution for want of proof in the Scriptures, we must reject the Atonement, the Trinity — the Inspiration of the Scriptures ! Can we help seeing how such teaching prepared the way for the present Eationalism concerning the Atonement and the In- spiration of the Scriptures ? Take such passages as the following from the 85th Tract. " If we will not content ourselves with what we may be disposed to call insufficient proof of matters of faith and worship, we must become either Latitudinarians or Papists.'' Again : " God has given us doctrines obscurely gathered from Scripture, and Scripture which is but obscurely gathered from history." Again : " Doubt and difficulty as regards evidence seem our lot* The simple question is, what is our duty under it ? Difficulty is our lot, as far as we take on ourselves to inquire." " If we will not go by evidence in which 8 1^ 84 INAUGURAL ADDUKSS. there are three chances for Revelation and only two against, we cannot be Christians." Thus our basis of faith is a feeble preponderance of chances^ three to two. We do not wonder that the Tract writer should have said, *' I predict as a coming event, that minds are to be unsettled as to what is Scripture and what is not." He needed no prophet's inspiration thus to predict. It was only a calculation of effect from cause. Men's minds have been and are thus unsettled — and we charge that writer and his whole School with the cause. They expected as a logical consequence that where their teaching did not make disciples it would make sceptics. I think therefore one may well be excused who thinks he sees as much connec- tion between that School and the present Rationalism in the Church of England, as I have endeavored to point out. It does not make us less condemn the Rationalism, but it does make us feel obliged, the more a great deal, to detest the other. I rejoice in the founding of this College, because I * entertain the surest confidence that it will stand as a strong wall of defence against both. "We are assured of this — not only when we see in what hands its government and instruction are now placed, but INAUGURAL ADDREHS. 35 also when we consider by whose handsthe successors are to be continued. Such Trustees as the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, and other most trust-worthy men whose names have been read, the continuators of the Trust make the doctrine hereafter as sure as any human arrangement can make it. But when the instruction in such an institution has made its pupils intelligent and strong for the resistance of doctrinal error, there is much more to be done before they can be " apt and meet to ex- ercise their ministry to the glory of God, and the edifying of His Church." Well skilled they may be to "banish and drive awav from the Church all erroneous and strange doctrines," and yet very poorly qualified so to preach " the truth as in Jesus," as to be effectual in the conversion and sanctification of sinners. " We have a strong city." But in what consists its strength ? " Salvation hath God appointed for walk and hulwarhsy* The great defence and the only sure and permanent reliance, under God's grace, for the purity of the Church, is in earnest labors to make known among all people * Isaiah xxvi. I. 86 INAUOURAL ABDRISSB, the free and perfect salvation of Christ, and to gather in the lost to its precious refuge. A Church ^' at ease in Zion," is easily corrupted, as stagnant waters are more easily poisoned than a running stream. A Church alive in the spirit of its great duty to preach the Gospel to every creature ; a ministry enjoying salvation as a personal possession, and labouring in the experience of its glorious hope, to bring souls to the same blessing, is the City which God will keep as with "walls and bul- warks." When our blessed Lord would describe in a parable the chief work of the ministry of his kingdom, he said, " A sower went out to sow his seed?^ I beg leave to dwell a little on the lesson thus suggested. The minister of Christ is a sower of seed. Such is his office. All his duties are subordinate to that. Whatever comes of his work in the salvation of souls is exclusively the product of the sowing of sjed. And what is the seed ? The parable answers, " The word of Qod^"* — nothing else. If the seed falls on stony ground, or amidst thorns, and is fruitless — or if it falls on good ground and brings forth fruit, thirty, sixty or an hundred fold, it is still nothing but INAUQURAL ADDRKSS. 87 " the word of God." All the fruit that ever did come of the ministry of the Goapol ; all that is now safely garnered in heaven, and all that ever shall be, as the result of a ministry of men on earth, our Lord teaches us is the product, under His power, of nothing but the sowing of the seed of the Word of God. Wo hence conclude that only as a minister shall make his work to consist in the faithful implanta- tion and culture of the Word, in the hearts of men, is he regarded in the sight of God, as (in any thing but office) a minister of Christ. But the Word of God is all the Scriptwres, They contain only His truth, but yet truth of such various sorts and applications, and apparently of such various degrees of importance as regards the salvation of the soul, that the question arises, whether ail that Word is equally the seed which is to be sown for the fruit of life ; or whether there is not some portion on which, more than any other, when we preach it, God will give us his blessing ? All the land of Israel was " the holy land," but the nearer it was to " the holy cit^y^ the more was it holy. And when you entered Jerusalem, the nearer you came to " the holy home^^ the more did you tread on holy ground. And 1^ 38 INAUGURAI, ADDRESS. II P when you had entered within the temple, and passed through the Court of the Gentiles, and then the Court of Israel, and had reached that of the Priests, and stood before the " altar most holy,'^^ where was the daily burnt-offering for sin, then indeed must the shoes be taken from your feet, for the place is specially holy. But you pass within that veil, and enter what is emphatically " the holy placed Another veil is there. Within it, is " the most holy place^'^^ — ^^ the Holy of Holies''' — for there is "the mercy-seat," and " the glory," and before it, the blood of the sac- rifice is sprinkled, and the High Priest makes inter- cession. So is all Scripture holy — " given by inspiration of God, and profitable for instruction in righteousness," and we do no injustice to any of it when we say that within its holy ground and divinely indited truth, there is truth more especially to be re- garded, in distinction from all else, as the seed given us to sow ; truth which increases in such importance as it is distinguished from all other truth by deserving the Apostles description of " truth as in Jesus'''' — that is, as He, himself in his divine person, and salva- tion, is its subject and substance ; as it leads us to Him^ who is the Holy Temple of the indwelling " ful- LL IXAUGUBAL ADDRESS. ness of God ;" to Him as the one perfect and sufficient sacrifice for sin ; to Him as the High Priest of our Eedemption who for us hath entered within the veil and " ever liveth to make intercession for us." St. Paul speaking of himself as a Minister of the Word of Grod, said he was " separated unto the Gospel of God ;" and that Gospel, he said, was " concerning his Son Jesm Christ^ ^^c - rV' ^i.^;; • ;^'v #;v z-'-^v^'m*''- "?■- ■^•¥ ■^t— t-' ;■ The GosDel is Christ. The word is the seed of the kingdom, in proportion as it is concerning Him. Our blessed Lord, after he had risen from the sepulchre and when he would preach the Gospel to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus, " began at Moses and all the prophets and expqunded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.'''* -'^i^'V^^M But as within the whole enclosure of what was called the Temple, there was a part which was emi- nently the Temple ; so within the whole area of the things concerning our Lord, there are things, truths, works, oflftces of which, more than any other, the Gospel of his salvation consists. > > - ^. . •^- When the three disciples, on the Mount of Trans- figuration saw Jesus in glory, they saw also Moses and Elias " talking with him ;" the former representing \ 1^ 40 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. ,1 the Law, the latter the Prophets — both as unitedly testifying of Christ. It is written that they also " appeared in glory,'''* The glory of their Lord was upon them. It is also written that "they spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." Nothing else do we read of as having entered into that conversation. His expected death concentrated their whole adoring attention, just as after it was accomplished Jesus made all the Law and the Prophets speak concerning it, to the two disciples who knew so little how to understand it.* It was when Moses and Elias spake of his decease, that they " appeared in glory.'''' The law and the Prophets have all thei^ glory as they testify to and are fulfilled in that death. So when the saints in heaven, out of all nations and dispensations, are represented as appearing in glory with Christ, we read of no event in his history of which they speak, in their joy, but his death which he did accomplish at Jerusalem. " Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.^^ t And thus, when the ransomed of the Lord, in the Church below, are gathered to- gether, in their highest manifestation of communion ♦ Lnke xxiv. 26. t Rev. v. 9. INAUOURAL ADDRESS. 41 , • with Him ; when in their blessed hope of appearing with him in the glory of his kingdom, they commune with him about that which, in him, is most vital and precious to their souls, it is Sis deathy accomplished at Jerusalem, on which their remembrance of him is taught exclusively to rest — and about which they speak with Jesus, in their faith and hope, and thanks and praise. When John the Baptist came " to make ready a people prepared for the Lord" — the single as[ -it in which he presented him to his disciples, was that of the sacrifice of his death. " Behold the Lamb of God." And all along the ministry of the Apostles, we see that same peculiarity ; '' turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just," by turning them first to that which is pre eminently " the wisdom of God." It v/as when they spake of the death of their Master that the Apostles appeared in the glorv '>f their office. Only in his cross did they glory. It \'," as our glory, our hope, our strength, our banner, the Christian's great confession, the Christian minister's great proclama- tion, the Christian church's " precious corner-stone, 44 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. which God hath laid in Zion," for " a sure founda- tion." ;. , ;<-•;.■' .1 " Such was the Gospel which Apostles preached, and it was of thaty in that its main aspect, that St, Paul wrote that awful sentence : " If our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious • gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto thom." * Such is the Gospel ; which we embrace hy faith alone, and which candies its assurance of a full and perfect justification and salvation, to " every one that helieveth'^ in Jesus, and to none else, and to every one only as he is a hdiever^ and which is " no respecter of persons," giving no preference to high or low, priest, minister, or layman ; regard- ing all simply as *' the losty''^ because " all have sinned," and opening the door of acceptance, with equal free- ness, to all sinners so coming unto Jesus. " Being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ." t Such is the Gospel, which the " strictly Protestant and Evangelical," written in the Constitution of this College means, * 2 Cor. IT. 3, 4. t Rom. v. 1. ' INAUGURAL ADDKESS. 45 and of which I pray, with you all, it may be the glory of this College to raise up in every generation none but faithful ministers, whose " line shall go out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world," .- ■': '■■' >- -:. -.^:v.,-;; ■" -«: :/ In conclusion, allow me to express to this Canadian iiudieiice my great pleasure, not only in addressing them, on such an occasion as this, but in coming to do it^ across separating national boundaries, and as one of another people and Church, " The right hand of fellowship," is thus held out,, in a way, and under circumstances, which afford me special grati- fication. It is a pleasure and honor to do anything that may draw us together, as distinct nations and churches, into closer bonds of amity and communion* No two political communities, separated by national line», have more to make them dwell together in mutual good will and continual concord, than those which you and I now represent. No two churches, so separated, have more to make them, in brotherly love, and for all the great work of the Church of Christ, on earth, *^om communion and fellowship^'* than ours of the United States of America, and yours of our common mother, the Church of England — the 46 INAUGURAL ADDRESS. same Articles of Faith, the same Orders of Ministry, the same liiturgy, with but little, and that only inci- dental, difference, the same history for so many cen- turies. Let us be indeed, in spirit and operation, one " household of faith." Let the prayefs of each seek the blessing of God o.\ both. Let us " provoke one another" indeed ; but only " to love and good works," — ^thus showing " h jw good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." ■^: ¥ ■. ,.*>r?. h^^ -r ■ %\ :'i»y;*;/:^'.tv§-,; ^•^■•,vv»,^V^ ''5^^ af:.--1[ i'l',. J .',, ^^^ f , 4;v. ,, /^; ^/Vf.,^,,j: ||^;-^^^4,^^|>^>^«|: i|^?|^r 1 iii-'r ^yv. 1 OPENING OF HURON COLLEGE. m .3.-, -jy • I.. ' V ■ . if ■ ■ ^W. ^':5t^r .Mi>11. T J'rom the " London Free Presu," Deo. 3d, I863v ? • -j .>^ i^iyi;. 's; ■ jj «.^'f<. V > :o:- .*^t}r ■ W Shortly after ten o'clock, the Eight Eev. the Lord Bishop of Huron entered the College apartment, accompanied by the Eight Eeverend Dr. Mcllvaine, Bishop of Ohio; Archdeacon Hellmuth; the Eev. Dr. Boomer, Eev. J. W. Marsh, Eev. Mr. Ardagh, Eev. Mr. Palmer, Eev. Mr. Flood and several other clergy of the Church of England from a distance, together with several members of the Laity, amongst whpm were the Hon. M. H. Foley, M.P.P., H. 0. E. Becher, Esq., Q. C, and other gentlemen. His Lordship the Bishop of Huron, President of the College Corporation, occupied the chair, and to m I 48 INAUGUllAL ADDREfcfS. i mi ii /^ his right was seated the Eight Eev. Bishop of Ohio, Dr. Mcllvaine, and to his left, Archdeacon Hellmuth, Principal and Divinity Professor of the College. His Lordship the Bishop of Huron commenced the pro- ceedings by prayer, and continued by delivering a very appropriate and beautiful address. He said : Before I call upon my Eight Eev. Brother, the Bishop of Ohio, to favor us with the Inaugural Ad- dress which he has kindly undertaken to deliver, I will ask the attention of this assembly for a few min- utes, while I give a brief history of the institution which we are now met to inaugurate. On my consecration to the Episcopal office, I found a great demand for clergymen in the Diocese of Huron :. out of 138 townships, not more than thirty were supplied with the ministrations of the Ohur ch . and there was no adequate supply of candidates for the sacred office. I was therefore under the neces- sity of applying to friends in England and Ireland, and by their means a few young men were induced to come to this country. Still, the wants of the Dio- cese were but partially supplied, and at the present time, after six years of exertion, over fifty townships are destitute of the ministrations of the Church. OPENING ADDUESS. ■kff It >& Very early iu my Episcopal career I conceived the desire of having a Theological School within my own diocese, and under my own control. But for several years I saw no way of accomplishing this. At length however, circumstances occurred which converted what was before an object of desire into an im- perative duty ; and just at that time I was enabled to avail myself of the services of Archdeacon Hell- muth to solicit assistance from our brethren in England towards carrying out this object. I did not adopt this measure without much consideration, and with earnest prayer for the Divine blessing. I am free to confess that, at the outset I was not sanguine of the success of our undertaking, and I did not bring the matter before our Synod or Ch urch Society, as I i*egarded it more in the light of an ex- periment, and I wished, if there were any disappoint- ment, I alone should bear it. The result of Archdeacon Hellmuth's first visit to England was that nearly $23,000 were placed at my disposal. The money thus collected by him enabled me to purchase this property, and to erect the building in which we are now assembled, and in addition to this the sum of nearly $5,000 has been securely invested as an ,< 60 OPENING ADDKlSfi. IN* endowment for the College. On Dr. Mellmuth's second visit to England, in 1862, the Eev. Alfred Peache, of Downend, near Bristol, gave the munificent sum of £5,000 sterling, for the endowment of the Divinity Chair. This money has been invested and forms the Peache Fund, and is held as a special trust for the purpose for which it was granted by the donor; One of the conditions on which this money was granted is, " that the institution shall be avowedly for the training of students in the Protestant and Evangelical principles of the articles of the Church in their natural and grammatical sense, as well as in harmony with due Church order and discipline." As I have suggested some alterations in the other conditions annexed by Mr. Peache to his donation, the indenture concerning the trust has been submitted to the English trustees for their approval. I con- gratulate the friends of Huron College that the English trustees, who are, conjointly with the Cor- poration of the College in this country, to watch over the interests of our institution, are men whose names have been long before the world as the pro- moters and supporters of every good work, and as the great benefactors of our race. I feel assured I OPBNING ADDRESS. 51 have only to name these gentlemen to excite in the hearts of all friends of the College, feelings of devout thankfulness that we should be associated with such men in the management of our institution. The names of the English trustees are The Eight Hon. t^e Earl of Shaftesbury, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M. P., the Hon. Francis Maude, K. N., the Eev. Joseph Ditcher, Eev. Alfred Peache, Canon Burgess, A. Haldane, and Eobert Baxter, Esqs. . - .:. I have received several proofs of the deep interest which is felt in our College by friends in this cou? tiy, bof "^ar and at a distance. A gentleman in Kings- ton, some time since, transmitted to me $400, and C. S. Gzowski, who was for many years a resident amongst us, has evinced the interest he still takes in our welfare by contributing $120 per annum for ^ve years, towards the endowment of a classical and mathematical chair, and he would have been present on this occasion, but that important business made it necessary for him to go to England. A gentleman connected with the College has liberally contributed $320 per annum, towards the same object. And I received, within the last week, a letter from which I extract the following passage : — " I am requested by 52 OPENING ADDRESS. a Friend of the Gospel to forward to you the enclosed order upon the Bank of Upper Canada for $4,000, as a donation to your Theological College, for the train- ing of young men for the ministry, who may go forth and preach Christ and him crucified. That the blessing of God may attend the institution, and th^ Lord may graciously spare you to see some fruits of your labor, is our earnest prayer." This letter is without name, and the signature under which it is to be publicly acknowledged is " A Friend of the Gospel." We trust that these liberal gifts from friends in our own country are but as drops which precede the shower, and that through the Divine blessing those amongst ourselves who feel a lively interest in the spread of Gospel truth in the land, will follow the example which has been so nobly set. It is the intention of those, to whom has been entrusted the management of the institution, that no candidates for the ministry shall be received within its walls, or sent forth from it, but such as they have good reason to believe have experienced in their own souls the con*^ verting power of Divine truth applied by the Holy Spirit, and who are prepared to maintain with all steadfastness, the pure and unadulterated tiuths of OPENING ADDRESS. 53 f ^ God's Holy Word as set forth ia the articles, homi- lies, and formularies of^ur Church. The staff with which we shall commence our operations is composed of The Ven. Archdeacon Hellmuth, Principal and Divinity Professor ; Rev. J. Shulte, D.D., Professor of Modern Languages, and the Rev. H. Evans, B, A., as Classical Tutor, and I hope to obtain the services of a gentleman with whom we are in correspondence as classical and Mathematical Professor. s>^ ^'-^ Our staff, you will perceive, is at present small, but we expect that our friends in this country will assist us, and we yet hope to obtain such help from home as will enable us to place the institution upon a more respectable footing and upon a permanent basis. One resolution we have made concerning the manage- ment of the institution, that as we have heretofore* proceeded without incurring any debt, so we shall continue, using such means as, in the Providence of God, are furnished by the liberality of our friends, and not launching out into any expenses which we are not fully prepared to meet. We intend, withf God's blessing, to foUov/ out the injunction of the Apostle— .' '^<< -i^^:-^. ^i■•;^.''■v■>•K■cn'■;;^ -;:;:;:;!;> i<:»|^:^,;'-;i',^.-ti*^'!'r* *^ Owe no man anything, but to love one another." ili i! ( !• 54 OPENING ADDRESS. I ^1 Ili: P' It will be one aim of those who shall direct the studies of the students in Huron College to make them thoroughly acquainted with the writings of the Eeforriiers of the 16th century, that they may thus be fully aware of the evils from which the Church was then delivered, and may dread the slightest approach to that system of false doctrine which for ages has hung, like a dark cloud, over the Church, and shut out the light of God*s saving truth from so many nations of the earth. There is a danger at the present time that the minds of men in England and in this country may be so filled with horror at the bold infidel suggestions which have been advanced, even in high quarters, that the subtle progress of those whose object it is to bring our Church again under the yoke of Eome, may be overlooked as being an evil of less magnitude than the other. But the view which I have been led to take of this matter is very different. I believe that the sound common sense and reverence for Scripture generally entertained by the English people wiU,after the first excitement has passed away, reject with hor- ror the infidel suggestions which have been advanced, and will consign to merited disgrace those who OPENING ADDRESS. 55 have been their authors. But the old enemy of the gospel, which has such a powerful ally in the corrupt heart of man, will always remain, and will always find advocates; and it is against this enemy that Protestant divines and Protestant institutions will have most zealously to contend and most carefully to guard? I trust that Huron College will be, for all ages to come, the honored instrument of sending forth men well prepared to contend for the faith, not only against the avowed enemies of God's inspired word, but also, with the sword of the spirit, to oppose the Mystery of Iniquity, whatsoever form it may assume. I will conclude my address with the recital of a pleasing incident which occurred when Dr. Hellmuth was soliciting aid for Huron College in Englr i. He called upon two ladies, residing near Bath ; thuy are, the daughters of the late General Simcoe, who was the first Governor of Upper Canada. These ladies have ever taken a lively interest in Canada, and they have evinced their earnest desire to promote the progress of Huron College by contributing to its funds, and by presenting to it the picture of their father, to . be placed in the College ; that picture is now before you. Governor Simcoe explored this ,ili 56 OIENINQ ADDRESS. m country before roads were formed or townships sur- veyed. He encamped on the forks of the Thames, and it was he who fixed upon the site of this city and called it " London," and in his journal which is in the possession of his daughters, and which Br. Hellmuth has seen, it is recorded that he and staft'at one of their encampments, it may be on the site of our city, knelt and prayed that God's hght and truth might penetrate the^se regions, and that his blessing might rest upon the country. It becomes us thank- fully to acknowledge that the prayer of this great and good man has been so signally answered. I shall not any longer occupy the time of the meeting, but will call upon my Eight Eev. Bro. Bishop Mc- Il.'aine of Ohio, to favor us with the Inaugural Address, which he has so kindly undertaken to deliver. ■1 :;ff..M: ■ 4.M '■ m'. t !'iiii^ ih*'