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 NARRATIVE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CONSECRATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REV. H. TULLY KINGDON, D, D,. 
 
 AS 
 
 BISHOP CO-ADJUTOK 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DlOCEgE OF FREDERICTON, 
 
 IN 
 
 THE CATHEDRAL, FREDERICTON, N. B., 
 
 SUNDAY, JULY 10th, 1881, 
 
 (BEING THE FOUrtTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.) 
 
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 ST. JOHN, N. B. : 
 
 PRINTED BY THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY. 
 
 1882. 
 
Rl 
 
1 Ol 
 
 NAliRATIVE 
 
 OK TlIK 
 
 CONSECRATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REV, H, TULLY KINGDON, D. D., 
 
 AS 
 
 BISHOP CO-ADJUTOK 
 
 OF THK 
 
 DIOCESE uF FREDERICTON, 
 
 IN 
 
 THE CATHEDRAL, FREDERICTQN, N. B., 
 
 SUNDAY, JULY 10th, 1881, 
 
 (BEING THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.) 
 
 ST. JOHN, N. B. : 
 
 I'RINTKD UY THE HUN PnBLISHIXG COMPANY. 
 
 1882. 
 
i 
 
NARRATIVE. 
 
 Previous to 18t5 tho Province of New Brunswick formed part 
 of the Diocese ')f Nova Scotia and was visited as a rule triennially 
 ))y the iiishops of tliat See. On Sunday, tht; Jth of May in this year, 
 The K(H'. John Medley, M. A., of Wadhani College, Vicar of St 
 Tlionias, in the City of E.veter, England, was consecrated first 
 Bishop of th(^ newly formed Diocese of Fr<;dericton, in the Chapel 
 of Lambeth Palace, and immediately eml»arked for his new field of 
 labour, taking possession of the Cathedral Church, Fredericton, N. 
 B., on St. Barnabas' Day. 
 
 In 1879 Dr. Medley, now M(^tro])olitan of the Ecclesiastical 
 Province of Canada, received the noblest tribute of confidence ever 
 j)aid to a Jiishop l»y clergy and laity — the right to nominate his 
 successor V»y the Canon for the appointment and election of a 
 Bishop Co-adjutor. 
 
 Su(th concession of right by the Synod of the Diocese was 
 indeed exceptionally great and cannot be quoted as a precedent ; for 
 it is enactt^l that " the provisions of this Canon so far as they relate 
 to nomination by the Bishop shall not extend beyond the 
 Episcopate of the present Diocesan unless the Synod siiall otherwise 
 order."' 
 
 The nomination and election of a Bisliop Co-adjutor in 
 accordance with the terms of the aforegoing Cai'.on took place in 
 the (Jity of St. John, N. B., on 12th and 13tli January, 1881, and it 
 is worthy of especial remaik that tfie nominee of the Metropolitan, 
 The Bev. H. Tully Kingdou, Vicar of Good Easter, Essex, England, 
 was unanimously elected by clergy and laity. The whole debate on 
 this important ([uestiou was conducted with the best of feeling and 
 an utter absence oi })art} spirit. 
 
 The consecration of 1 he llev. Dr. Kingdon took place in the 
 Cathedral, Fredericton, N. B., on Sunday, July 10, 1881. 
 
 5T1 b'O- 
 
Tlw Mctidpolitaii wns ussiitcd in this consivratiou liy two 
 nisliopH from liis Kcclcsiiistical Province, viz :- -The Jvi-^lit R«'v. 
 Tli(> liisliop of Nova Scotia, icprcscnti!!^' the oUh'st ('oh)iiial See of 
 the Chinch of Iui<,'hiii(l, and tht* Jii<,'ht Ke\'. The IJisho]) of (.Quebec, 
 whose j>re(lecessor, Dr. Momitaiii, was R(!ctor of Frederictou from 
 1814 to I<sl7 and assisted at the consecration of the Cathedral tliere 
 in IS;-).".. 
 
 From the sister Cliurch of America, to sliow their sympatliy, 
 came the Piishop of th»^ adjoining' Diocese of Maine, Dr. If. A. 
 Neely, and the Bishop of Albany, Dr. W. C. Doanf^, whose fathei', 
 forty years before, liad been th(! first Amei'ican Bisiiop to ]>reai;h in 
 an l']n}„dish Church.* 
 
 The morning of the consecration was bright and unusually 
 warm. A large number of clergy and laity attfMided the first 
 s(!rvice of tlu; day at K a. m., wlien the Rev. J. H. Talbot read the 
 prayers and tlu; Bishops of Maine and Albany the lessons, the 
 absolution being j.'ronounced by the Metropolitan, 
 
 At 9 o'clock people began to assemble in the Cathedi-al from 
 all directions, and less than an hour afterwards th<! spacious nave 
 and aisles were crowded to their utmost capacity. At 1 1 o'clock 
 standing room could not be ol)tained and many persons were unable 
 to gain admittance at all. 
 
 The interior of the sacred ediiice was beautifully decorated 
 with flowers, a conspicuous feature of the oi'uamentation Ix-ing 1200 
 roses, the generous gift of Mr. Alfred Kay of Fredericton. 
 
 It was exactly eleven o'clock when the procession entered the 
 west door of the Cathedral in double file, .singing tht; Hundredth 
 Psalm, the choir uniting in the last two verses. 
 
 Divinity Studknts. 
 Messrs. Frith, Hanington, Hooper, Montgomery and Parlee. 
 
 ' 
 
 F. W, Yroom, 
 
 Deacons. 
 
 E. P, Flewelling. 
 
 *Dr. (i. W. Doano, nishoj) of New .Jersey, (ui 2n(l Sppt 1841, prpiichcd at the I'oii.st'i'ration 
 of the Leeds Piuisli (Imrch of which the late Dean Hook was then Viear. 
 
 
hy t\V() 
 lit licv. 
 il Sec of 
 
 Quchoc, 
 1)11 from 
 i-al tlicro 
 
 iny)at1iy, 
 
 ■. n. A. 
 
 (' fiitlici-, 
 )r('iu'li in 
 
 iniisuuUy 
 
 tlie first 
 
 read the 
 
 sous, the 
 
 ral from 
 
 ions nave 
 
 1 o'clock 
 
 re unable 
 
 decorated 
 Miig 1200 
 
 tered the 
 Aindrodtlx 
 
 'arlee. 
 
 'hnvelling. 
 
 consecration 
 
 A. V. Wiggins, 
 W. J. Wilkinson, 
 W. (). iJavmond, 
 J I. II. Ncales, 
 II. \l. r.arl.cr. 
 I.e|{. W. Fowler, 
 (»eo. Love, 
 .1. II. Talhot, 
 .1. If. S. Sweet, 
 a P. Wilson, 
 J. Ruslitoii, 
 (J. II. Sterling, 
 .1. Lock ward, 
 T. Neales, 
 F. Alexander, 
 W. Lei J. Me Kiel, 
 W. S. Covert, 
 ii. E. Smith, 
 (I. (i. Koherts, 
 I). W. Pickett, 
 H. M. Spike, 
 E. A. Warneford, 
 S. J. Jianford, 
 ]{. Sinionds, 
 Canon Scovil, 
 
 I'iMK.STH. 
 
 V, 'i'owcrs, 
 W. Civrr, 
 .J. W. .Millidge, 
 N. M. Hansen, 
 ( ). S. Newnhani, 
 J. Iv l"'l('welliiig, 
 ''. I'\ \\ iLTgins, 
 A. F. Hilt/, 
 F. S. W. I'cutrcath, 
 1). FiMsvtli, 
 (A Willis, 
 L. A. H.»yt, 
 Canon Partridge, 
 J. U. Canipl.el'l, 
 H. S. Wainwright, 
 T. Ii Howling, 
 < ieo. SclioHcld, 
 W. H. Street, 
 ]). I. Wetmor-e, 
 I). M. Ijliss, 
 W. Jatt'rey, 
 Canon J)eVeb(!r, 
 A. II. Weeks, 
 James Neales, 
 ('anon Walker. 
 
 Clkk(;y KkoM Nova Scotia. 
 K Shreve, J. A. Ivaulhack, 
 
 W. H. Snyder, .J. ( ). Ruggles, 
 
 L. M. Wilkins, H. C. Moore. 
 
 The Bishop Co-ad jiitor elect (walking by himself.) 
 
 Pi.shop Neely, of Maine, fol 
 lowed by his chaplain, Canon 
 Ketchum. 
 
 Jiishop Williams, of Quebi'c, 
 followed l)y his chajdaiii, Ke\-. 
 James J»oydell, M. A. 
 
 lUsliop P)inney, of Nova 
 Scotia, followed by his chaplain, 
 Archdeacon Cilpin. 
 
 Jiishop Doane, of Albany, N. 
 Y., followed by his cliaplain, 
 Canon Fulcher. 
 
 Canon Medley, 
 
 chaplain to the iVIetropolitan, 
 
 (bearing his crozier.) 
 
 The Metropolitan 
 (wearing the mitre recently sent him from England.) 
 
6 
 
 As th«' procession filed up th« i'<Mitral aislo the olor^y opened 
 coluiiiii and tlu^ iJishops took post as follows : — 
 
 The JJi-ihop of Nova Scotia at tlu^ t'antoriiinost .sinlilcf on tin* 
 rij;ht ; the Mislmp of (.^uchec at the first sedili- on the rij^dit, the 
 IJishop of Maine the \v»!sterinuost ciiair on tluf left, th(» Bishop of 
 Alliany the ciMitral sedile on tlui ri;;lit; the IJishop (/o-adjutor elect, 
 at a chair set for him near the throne of the Metrop(»litan. 
 
 The .Metropolitan ])roceeil(Ml at onct; to the Holy Tahh^ and 
 commenced the (Jommuaion Otllce. 
 
 The liishop of Xova Siroiia nnul th(! ItJpisth^ from Acts '20 c. 17 v., 
 and tli(^ jii.sh()p of Maine the (josj)el from St. Matthmv, 28 c. 
 KS V. 
 
 The Nicene (^i-ccd was tluMi said, followed by the anthem " How 
 lovely are the mess(Mij,'ers that preach us the <;ospel of jxiaco." 
 
 The liishop of Alltany pn^ceded hy Deacons Vroom (of Petit- 
 codiac,) and H. 1*. Fhnvellini,' (of IJay duVin,) and his chaplain, 
 Oanon b'uleher, then pi'oceeded to thi; indpit and dtdivered the 
 sermon, as follows : 
 
 SKllMON. 
 
 i;xlioii will) all Inii^i-Mill'iTMi;,' siikI iliK'irinc.— 1 1. TiTiiotliy iv c 'Jil v. (latter part.)* 
 
 There ai-e three; reasons why it seems to me that these words fur- 
 nish fit food for our cf)nnnon study hen; to-day. 
 
 1. The Pastorid r][)istles of St. Paul are the liand-hook of a 
 lUsliops constant study, as tliey run over with the tender and the 
 trtMiiendoiis solemnity of his i'esponsil>ility to God, for it is to he 
 home in mind that Timothy is the pn^cise and perfect type of the 
 liishop in the C/hurch of (lod to-day. We stand on no narrower 
 foothold than this : A Bishop is a man derivin<^ through the 
 Apostles, from Jt;sus Christ, power and duty to do what Christ 
 commanded the Apostles to do. Then; is no break in the goldeu 
 chain, no split in the close mesh. Nor is there link of the base 
 mental and the ilumsy forging of human invention in the chain, or 
 thri^ad of human spinrang in the net. The union of the universal 
 ICpiscopate is alike direct and divine with Christ through the 
 Aposth's, and the "laying on of hands" for ordination as for con- 
 firmation, is "a principle of the doctrine of Christ." There is 
 
 *i !t i« woitliy (if remark tliat tin' HislKip rlioso as his text part of the passaRo sck'ctotl 
 l)y Ills latlnr liic I5isli(i|) ol' Now .Icrscy, fort y-sevcn years het'ore, on a similar occasiou. 
 S('e till' Uisliop of New Jersey's Sermons, London, Lngland, 1842, page 23G.J 
 
(! oil the 
 ii;;lit, the 
 l>isl\()|) <»f 
 itor elt.'ct, 
 
 "iil)lt"i iiud 
 
 Oc. 17 v., 
 ew. 28 c. 
 
 I Low 
 
 •in ' 
 
 30." 
 
 (of Potit- 
 
 fhiiplaiu, 
 
 ivered tlie 
 
 ter part.)* 
 words fur- 
 
 )Ook of a 
 
 r and the 
 
 it is to he 
 
 ypc of the 
 
 narrower 
 irough the 
 hat Clirist 
 the «^ohhni 
 )f the base 
 (! cliain, or 
 I! universal 
 irough the 
 as for (-'ou- 
 
 There is 
 
 :issagL' sck'ctcil 
 Hilar occasion. 
 
 noitlier time nor need to argne this point here, in any bringing for- 
 ward of the witnesses. Ihit the inipoitanee of its ueeeptunce does 
 need to he dwelt upon in the fare of u new foe. The Presbyterian 
 tln'oiy of paiity is iis intelligibh- and consistent us it is nnttnable 
 iiiid uiiscriptiiral. So is the iiiiii;;ination of poor Kdward Irving, 
 overltalanced and overboine liy tlie fury of un enthusiasm, earnest 
 as it was erratie. lUit the theoiy iri//iin tlie ( hureh whii h gilds its 
 Presbyterianism by the ajologrtif glorilication of an inspired 
 ingenuity on the part of tht- Apostles to invent the Kpiscopate as a 
 eonvriiient foini or order, mciiis im oik eivable to any one who 
 knows the purjiose of the great forty days, or remendx-rs the olijeets 
 for which the llolv d'host was <!i\)n. "The tldnus concernin*' tlie 
 Kingdom of (Jod," the Cirifns JJri. (juestioiis, that is to say, of 
 eon.stitution, of policy, of order, of jx'ijietiuition, octuj»ied the whole 
 mind and time of our «Iear Lord risen, with those "witnesses 
 chosen before," to whom, lie, (Jod, "showed himself openly after 
 lie rose from the dead.'' And when the day of the Ascension 
 came, and ^'-e Catholic; commission of th<' ('hristian Ministry was 
 uttered with this parting benediction of the ever-present Christ, its 
 <lefiniteiiess, "teaching them to observe all things wliatso<'ver J 
 ha\(' commanded you," was as distinct and e.\cliisi\c of iiii] ertinent 
 innovation on tlu^ jiart of man, as the great, (iod-lik** perpetuity of 
 the promise, " Lo, I am with you ahvay," was positive evidence; of 
 the unchangingness and permanence of the system which Chi'ist 
 commanded. 'I'luf disciples waited for the juomise. 'J'hey wen- 
 assembled together in that upjxT loom consecrated as no Cathedral 
 can be, by the tirst luicharist and by the post-Kesurrection 
 manifestations of ('hri.st. Their tirst act was to continue the 
 aiio.stolie olHce, and on this added ajiostle, as on tho.se who had 
 chosen him, eaim^ tlu; seal and sign of the Lord's favor, the gift of 
 tli(! Holy ({host — given for what I To make them witty of inven- 
 tion, clevca' in device, ingenious in discovery? No; hut to "guide 
 them into all truth," by "bringing all things to tlieii' remembiain'c 
 whatsoeviir Christ had said to them," either with the earthly lips of 
 His going in and out among them before the crucitixion, or with the 
 unearthly lips of that spiritual mouth which taught tlu'iii tlie things 
 pertaining to the Kingdom of (iod. The Ej)iscopute suc;ceeded the 
 Apostolate, not as a new order, not as a convenient cun; for dis- 
 orders which had arisen, not by tlu; arrogant assumption of one 
 elder to rule and rank his ecjuals, but as St. Cyj)rian * puts it, 
 ^^vicaria unlludtione" by an ordination which put bishops in the 
 place of the apostle.s. St. Timothy is set by the Apostle St. Paul 
 
 [* See S. Cyprian! opora. Piul.siiM, IT'JCi, ]> 11.^. 'riiccxjirosioii is used by Hisliop Firmiliun 
 in a letter to St. ( yprian, lip, Ixxv, j 
 
8 
 
 to select (I Tim. iii. i-.S), to ordain (1 Tim. v. 22), to rule (1 Tim. 
 V. 1, 17-li'.)) the very ehlei's of tlie Cliureh, wliom the apostle 
 describes as overseers oi* liish()j)s in tlie Hock. Il(; was, that is to 
 say, o\('i' those who were iii the Chureli. Epiiphroditus in I'hilippi; 
 Titus ill ('ret.-; the aii,ij;els in the seven Asian Ohurches; Clement in 
 Rome ; Polyearj) in Smyrna ; Timotliy in lilphesus, were Bishops 
 such as we are to-day, ap[)ointed by apo.stles, St. John, St. Peter, 
 St. Paul, to do what apostles did, c. (/., ordain and rule ''Iders ; and 
 in thus !'oiitiiaiin<j; their otHee the apostU^s were ol servinj,% and 
 teachiiiLC others to ol)servo what Christ had commanded them, as 
 the Holy dlhost " bi'oui,dit these things to their remembrance." We 
 are sueli "isliops, or we are intruders and pretenders anci usurpers ; 
 a disorder, and noi an order in the Church. No anti(i[uity, liowever 
 remote, that does not go back to the great forty days and the 
 ascension ; no authority of apostles, or college of apostles ; no sooth- 
 ing suggestions even of the guidance of the Holy Ghost, apart from 
 Christ's direct command, m.\rts the claim of the Catholic Episcopate. 
 Against himself we ([note the great Jiishop of Durham, the only 
 considerable suj)2)orter of this semi-Presbyterian idea, as he writes, 
 "Episcopacy is so inseparably interwoven with all the traditions 
 and the Itelief of men, like Irciueus and Tertnllian, tliat they Ix'tray 
 no knowledge" of a time when it was not ;" and we add the well- 
 known passage from the Ei)istle of St. Ignatius to these very 
 Epliesijms, (which Bishop Ijightfoot places in the earliest years of 
 tile second century :) "The!)ishops settled in the utniost borders 
 of the t^artli are by the will of /esus Christ.'* 
 
 2. I find an added reason for the fitness of these words to our 
 sermon lu.'re to-day. St. Paul, the aged, looking *"n,\'ards the time 
 of his de{)artur(% with the great outlook of the crown laid up, and 
 the vis<"a behind him of the tinished course and the good light 
 fought, ihrew all the deep intensity of his nature into his exhorta- 
 tions to his dearly beloved son. I need not make more pointed, 
 I dare not make more personal, the parall(;lism h^~'e. I feel that 
 the chief honor and the greatest difficulty of my position to-day is, 
 that I am compelled to be the mouth-piece of my most revered and 
 reverend iacher, the Metropolitan, as he charges his successor in 
 the labors of this arduous see, "before God and the Lord Jesus 
 Christ," to " preach the Word, to be instant in season and out of 
 season, to re})rove, rel)uke, exhort, with all long sufiering and 
 doctrine." Earnestly we pray that the "hour of his departui'e " is 
 not at hand; but when it shall come, witnesses will rise on every 
 hand to testify to the good fight he has fought ; to his keeping 
 
 (*l^) ad i:i)lii'sii)s (J:<. The passage is also quoted by the Bishop of New Jersey, in 
 diifereiU words, iknnuns p. li^'J.] 
 
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 Was 
 
 linge 
 
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 the 
 
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 Th 
 cumii 
 with 
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9 
 
 e (1 Tiin. 
 ,e apostle 
 
 that is to 
 I Philippi'- 
 'lenient in 
 e Bishops 
 St. Peter, 
 ders ; and 
 •vin;,', and 
 I theui, as 
 ice." We 
 
 usnrpc^rs ; 
 ^', however 
 s and the 
 
 no sooth- 
 apart from 
 Rpiscopate. 
 I, the only 
 
 he writes, 
 
 traditions 
 ■hey Ix^tray 
 Id tlie well- 
 these very 
 st years of 
 ost borders 
 
 >rds to our 
 Is the time 
 lid uj), and 
 good light 
 lis exhorta- 
 re pointed, 
 feel that 
 1 to-day is, 
 evered and 
 accessor in 
 ord Jesus 
 and out of 
 tiering and 
 parture " is 
 (! on every 
 lis keeping 
 
 New Jersey, in 
 
 of file faith ; to his remenibranco of tiie word of the Lord Jesus, 
 " It is more blessed to give; than to receive ;"' to his thorough fur- 
 nishing unto all good woi'ks, and as to how he behaved himself in. 
 the House of God. Meanwhile, thank God, he lives to enjoy ih(5 
 noblest tribute of conlideiice ever j)aid by clergy and lay people to 
 (\ I'ishop, honorable to tliMii as to ' im, and will live, we trust, to 
 vindicate bt?for<^ his diocese that cuutideace, by the pro\tm wisdom 
 of his choice. It is in no common degree tlus relation repeated tliab 
 existed between St. Paul and St. Timothy. 
 
 ."id and lastly. I have chosen these words liocauso they seem to 
 me in their double suggestion eminently litted to tin* demands and 
 dangers of our time : " Long sulfering and doctrine." 
 
 'i'he maintenance of doctrin(% ([uite as much as the oxerci.se of 
 discipline and tlu; succession of authority, is entrusted to the 
 Episco[)ate. The {)romise of guidance into all truth is given to t'le 
 Apostles. Th(!y are the commissioned te:.;cher8, and the commis- 
 sioners of tlu! teachers, of the things that Christ commanded to Ite 
 observed. They are the witnesses to (Jhrist unto all the ends of the 
 earth. The injunctions to keep what is committed ; to hold fast the, 
 form of sound words ; to feed tin; flock ; to commit to faithful men 
 that they uiay be abh; to teach others also, were giv(!n to them ; and 
 Nicea, Constantinople, Kphesus and Chalcedon witness to the fact, 
 that the P>ishops gathered into general councils defined and main- 
 tained the faith, so that in t'le fai-e of mediieval coverings-up of 
 truth, or of more modern dilutions of it, one is not afraid to clial- 
 lenge contradiction of the statement that the truth in its fulness 
 and its proportion has not been kept, or held, or taught, a})art from 
 and without the; Kj)isco|)ate. The creeds of Christendom are no- 
 where in the world to-day "confessed with the mouth" of common 
 worship, outside of that great body of beli(!vers whose centre of 
 unity is tlu^ collected l!ipiscopat(^ of the un Roman Catholic Church. 
 Home has not only sulistituted Tridentine decrees and Vatican 
 decisions, but has lost the E/ilscoptitus, having merged it in tlie 
 Episcopus ; and Pi'otestantism puts a profession of faith for the 
 confession of Chi-ist. The jar keeps long the |)ei'fume with which it 
 was once imbue<l, and religious belief, still more religious lite, 
 lingers yet in the sherds of the Church's broken unity. But the 
 one \ase of the Catholic creed needs the stopping and the sealing of 
 the ['Episcopate to preserve fresh and fragrant the pure fulness of 
 the faith. 
 
 This is the reason why St. Paul pours into St. Timothy's ear the 
 cumulated and culminating urgency of tlu^ injunction arming him 
 with the ofrensiv(; and defensive weapons of his authority and his 
 rcsponsiljility ; reprove, rebuke, exhort ; clench and convince with 
 
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 stroTiL' arirniHcnt ; show tlic error of fal.so teacliiiii' 1)V iiiai'iiit'viii2 
 the value of the tnith and imposing; severe peiialtifis for its (h'fiuiiiuif ; 
 and hy (uiti'eatv, hy coufereiu'e, \>y pleadiiii,' jiersuasioii, that I'ci-all 
 the very olliee of the Parach'te, uri,'e, " witli all U)n<r sutl'ei'iiiu; and 
 doctrine.' For only so, as each Bishop in his own s[»hei'(^ (•(uncs up 
 to the measure of liis own responsihility ; and as the collected 
 Kpiscojtate of all (/hristian centui-ies conti-ols anrl corrects the 
 individual iUsliop, so shall tlm truth he maintained, if thei-(; is 
 need to descend to practical proofs, to common sense and i-anonical 
 evidence, it is to be found in the final responsihility of each l>isho}) 
 as to the admission of men to the sacred ministry, in the duty of 
 each i)ishop to addi'css his cler-^y from time to time in what ai-e 
 c.vlled chari,fes, (takiujij Saint Paul's own words, "I char^^e thee 
 before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, ') and in the position of a iJishop 
 secui'ed from the j)Ossi])ilities of that most daniLfei'OUS snain^, the love 
 of popularity, by tlie fact that, independent of all interferenc(? and 
 influence of merely human and material considerations, he is free to 
 have the courage of his convictions of the Truth. 
 
 " With all lon<f-sufierin<; and doctrine.'" We are not left to anv 
 (]uestion or uncertainty as to the distinctness and definileness of 
 this word ; it is the favorite expression of the New Testament 
 Scn-iptures for describing that which is most lix(>d and definite. It 
 passes from our Lord's a})propriation and applications of it to his 
 own i-evelation of all truth: " My doctrine; is not mine but His 
 that s(;nt me ;" " If any man will do His will, he shall know of the 
 doctrine: " from tliis it passes into those two mo.st set and «e(tled of 
 all expressions, "The doctrine of the Apo.stk;.s," and "the form of 
 doctrine," as used in tlie I'ook of tlie Acts, and in the Epistle to 
 the Romans ; and so the cliarge of tlie Apostles is to set forth tin; 
 whole, complete, balanced system of the faith. It is the teaching of 
 dogma to which St. Timothy is urged. W(> have received it in 
 crcin] and (catechism and sacramental otKce. It is our goodly 
 lu'ritage, Jiot for the coin[)lacent contemplation of sj)iritual self- 
 conceit, but to be held up and lianded down. Neither the stam- 
 mer-ng lips of uncertainty, nor the shut lips of cowardice are the 
 tokens of a teaching Church. And where tin; Dible, taught from 
 lectern and stall and altar, is contradicted by tlu; pul[)it ; where the 
 service of the Church is denied by tln^ sermon of the preacher, men 
 will ([uestion liis commLssion or his conscience, and be justified in 
 what they do. 
 
 No man can look out on th(' rt^ligious world to-day, without the 
 sense of danger ; not altogether in the encroachments of unbelief, 
 for that is only the old tide, advancing and receding, marking its 
 vvav(!-lines on the beach, which by and by the flood will wash away ; 
 
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 main,d('(l reading of the great revelation by those who will read it 
 better when they have studied moic, -as schoolboys, not liaving yet 
 learned to spell, couk; through theii- lilunders by slow degrees to 
 read : and not much in the growth of schemes and associations of 
 error, for either by disintegration or division they are lessening and 
 losing tlieir hold on thoughtful men. The danger lies rather where 
 we look for safety and li\e in fancied security. The old war cries 
 of men earnestly contending for tlu; faith have died away. The 
 great principles contended for in the last generation, within this 
 Chun-h, are either held or allowed on every hand. We are con- 
 gratulating ourselves on the obliteration of old party lines ; the 
 dying out of party s[)irit, and the drawing together of men that 
 st()(Ml apart. Meanwhih^ steadily and stealthily, the thought is 
 creeping oven' tlu; minds and hearts of men, that these contested 
 points are not imj)ortant. They have dropped out of sight and out 
 of mind ; and the grass and the flowers, too often the fading grass 
 of mans theories, and tlu; nnfragrant flowei's of mans rhetoric, have 
 o\(Mgro\vn tin* gi'ound of asserted ])i-incij)les, and the rock of the 
 positions that wei'e W(m in tlu; earnest contentions of earnest men. 
 Practii'al Christianity, pcu'sonal religion, W(jrks of love — tlu^se are 
 the walrhwords of the day. And they are great words and true. 
 Bui as facts tliey are not — they cannot live, without faith ; and faith 
 cannot live without something, and so)nething delinite, to believe. 
 These things are simply faith exi)ressed in life, in character, in 
 servici'. And to jiold to them instead of faith, to magnify them 
 abov(! it, to overlay and overgi'ow faith with these, is to kill that 
 which giv(>s them all the virtues and all thi^ value that they have. 
 What Moly l>a{)tism is as the new l)irth ; what Confirmation is as 
 giving the Holy Spirit; what the Holy Eucharist is as nourishment 
 to the soul ; what the nuuistry must be for the due administi'ation 
 of the sacraments : these; are truths which, to leave untaught and 
 not held is to eat out and sap away, by lowered estimation and 
 disus(» and de[>ravation, the very .sources of lift; of men's souls. 
 And it is jilain, I think, to b(; seen, that this very drawing together 
 uj)on a new ground, of men who once met in the old battle-tield of 
 lionest maintenance of their convictions, is dangerous, because it is 
 (\\n\ not altogether to the u))lifting of the whole Church to a higher 
 level of belief, though that in part is true, not altogether to the 
 raising of new issuers, and the changing phases of tht; tight, but in a 
 large degree to a dangerous tendency t<j secure a sfM'uiing agreement, 
 by smoothing otl' tin; sliai'p outlines of clear definition, l)y evacuating 
 the old syndK)ls of part of their meaning, l»y rejoicing in a chai-ity 
 which docs not rejoice in the truth ; by loving not the truth and peace, 
 
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 but peacn with disroi^ard of truth. Tlie period of nierj^i'd dilleroiices 
 is in (hintjor of becouiing a period of iudirt'erentisni. 
 
 Let me take some ilhistratious of tliis drift and tendcucy of our 
 time, h^st I seem to some to be a mere ground Uiss ahirmist, or a 
 stirrer of strife among brethren. 
 
 Tiiere is no time here to speak in any detail of the recent revi- 
 sion of tlie New Testament. We churchmen are, jx'rhaps, less con- 
 cerned about it than others, because for ourselves no textual 
 criticism will rob us of our Lord's Prayer with its larger use of the 
 word evil, its aoristic, that is its undefined time of forgiveness, or 
 its liturgical doxology, and because' we are used, in our Psalter, to 
 the thought of ditlering vc -^ions, neither excluding, l»ut each ex- 
 plaining the oth(;r. When the time comes we shall examine and 
 accept or reject, in whole or in part ; and casual criticism is not 
 hasty, in any student of the Greek New Testament, since the 
 questions raised by the revisers have been all under consideration 
 for years before they began their work. But of tlu; general tone of 
 the new translation, it is plain to see that, both in avowed 
 motive and inevitable result, there is at once an enervation of 
 language and a d(;teriorati( i of truth. There is a specimen of })oth 
 these things, not loss of rhythm merely, but loss of force and fulness 
 of meaning and of language in the change proposed in this passage, 
 "with all long suffering and teaching," and it is carried out with a 
 consistency of motive as well as of phraseology, in the other parts 
 of Scripture, wherever the word didache occurs. "The Apostles' 
 doctrine" becomes "the Apostles' teaching." The form of teaching 
 is put instead of the " form of doctrine," while the noble passage in 
 the Epistle to Titus, "holding fast the faithful word, as he hath 
 been taught," is reducfnl to "holding to the faithful word" "which 
 is according to teaching." V/hatever object may have been meant, 
 the one certain to be attained is that of diluting the thought of a 
 definite and distinct system of declared truth, and the drift is in 
 various instanc(!s precisely the same. Nothing can be gained by 
 drawing the line of absolute demarcation among the words teraa, 
 seweion and dunmnis, wonder and sign and power, but to pander to 
 the popular notion that miracles were not of the essence of our 
 Lord's life. To set "signs of divine presence" in opposition to 
 "thaumaturgic acts ;" to prefer "mighty work" to "miracle" generally 
 (only two places being in terms excepted by the author of tiie 
 companion to the Revised Version,) is simply to throw the weight 
 of the new translation against the superhuman element of 
 Christianity, to cast a question upon the miracles which our Lord 
 wrviuj/tf,, which must grow into a doubt of the miracle, that our 
 Lord was ; till by and by, it will be claimed that the Incarnation 
 
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 far nearer the truth of the original, {l»ecause a niii'acle is a sign 
 wrought liy flivin(> power,) to call nil those si(/iis, tnirm-fis, wliicrh 
 the mighty j)oiW7' of < Jod in Christ wrought to assure men of liis 
 deity. 
 
 hi like manner wliile the distinction is true between Ifades and 
 (leluMina, and valuahje, and wliile our English word, hell, (a 
 covered place of safety,) belongs wlieiv th(> ci-eed puts it> — to the 
 place of depart(>d sj)irits what could have been the etleet, if, in 
 the nine places whei-e it means the place of })unisliment, Gehenna 
 or Tartarus had taken the pla(.'e of hell, as the American revisers 
 seem to have desii-ed? Simply to get out of the Jiible what they 
 call "the fearful word hell,'' and so get rid of the fearful 
 thought of hell, from the language; and the thoughts of men ; to 
 f)liiy into the hands of the maudlin modermiess of "etiu'iial hope," 
 wliicb seeks to Ih' kiiidei- than the merciful (Jod; and to remove 
 from the minds, not of scholars but of readers of the; Bible, tlie fear 
 of everlasting punishment ! 
 
 Just the same tendency occurs in the soft(Uiing of the words that 
 teach the uwfulness of the eternal judgment. What is the valut; of 
 the exchange of ".Judgment of hell" for "damnation of hell," or of 
 he that believeth not shall "be condemned" for " lie that believeth 
 not shall be damned f Is there any real ditierence of meaning? 
 The revisers hardly will claim that the judgment of hell is not 
 damnation. But the aj)pearance of the cluing*; implies another 
 meaning, a softer word to convey a gentler theory. And so, by a 
 strange admission of the involved danger, the author of the com- 
 }>anion to the revision says that damned, which occurs in St. Mark 
 xvi. 1(1, is Koiv (why now 1) "too strong an expression, and has been 
 amended in the revised version." 
 
 I am not undertaking to criticise the work of the Revision Com- 
 mittee. It may have value as a commentaiy— as a common-place 
 book, from which more margii;al readings will som»; day be added to 
 the authorized version ; and so it cannot be condemned ill whole or 
 out of hand. Nor except as their cho.sen mouthpiece gives their 
 reason, have I ventured to assimi motives to tlieir work. But I 
 tak(; the instaiu-e both of result and of i"t;ason as signs of the times, 
 and I claim that the enfei^bled En<disli of the new words is but a 
 type of th(! enervation of the truth of revelation, the cutting away 
 and smoothing otl", the toning down of what is sharp and strong and 
 clear ; the sjieaking of peace where there is no peace, after the man- 
 ner of the false prophets ; the type of the danger of our day to 
 attract and assimilate the many l)y generalizing stattuents of truth ; 
 as against the duty of uttering with the certain sound of the trumpet, 
 
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 the trutli, tlie doctrine of Christ, wliethcr iiicii will liear or whether 
 they will t'orlH^tir. 
 
 'I'uriiin.ii; froiii this to instances less startlinii;, hcu'.ause they are tlin 
 uttei'anccs of individuals, hut none the less siLjnidcant, you wiii 
 recall recent utterances fj'oni the old Banipton t^iundation, assit,'nin<j; 
 to huiuan in'j;enuity the ptjlity of tlni Catholic Chuich: you will 
 tliink of tlie ])i'()<,fressin;,' secularization of the colleges of Oxford : of 
 conce}(tiens of Holy Scripture, and of th(^ nature of our di\ine 
 Lord, freely uttered in the American Chui'ch, so humanitarian as to 
 reduce both to an almost human le\cl : and of an English \oi''e, 
 elo(|U'nt and earnest, claiming in America, not long ago, that 
 "lilieral theology is th<! backbone of the Church of England :" and 
 delining liberal theology to comprise, in its turn credo, '' the non- 
 Pauline authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews ;" the insisting, 
 "not on the cei-emonial, tln^ dogmatic or the portentous, but on the 
 moral sidt^ of religion ;'' the composite character of the Pentateuch ; 
 "the mention of tin; second Jsaiah without alarm or scandal," "the 
 com])lexity of the nnitua! i-elation of the four Gospels ;" " the 
 resolution of the doctrine of the Trinity into its l>iblical (?) 
 character;"' "the non-reap])earanc(! of tln^ doctrine of the atonement 
 in tli(( ci'ude form common both in Protestant and Jvoman Catholic 
 (churches in former times ;"' "the condei. nation (.)f the Athanasian 
 creed by ludf of the English clergy and its silencing by the Irish 
 Church ;'" and "miracles," including n(!cessarily the incarnation and 
 r(!surrection, "no more made the chief or sole bi'sis of the (nidence 
 of religious ti'uth." Surely the Church, of which this is tlu^ back- 
 hone, has become well-nigh invertebrate, and tlie most skilful com- 
 parative an;>.tonust could hardly construct a l)ible, a Church, or a 
 system of doctrine that would stand together, of what lil)eral 
 tiieology leaves of tlu; vertel)rie of this fossil, which it consigns, 
 along with the Cln'istian institutions, to the museums of curious l)ut 
 worthless antitpiities. We have not so learned Christ. 
 
 Finding fault with tlie past will neither correct the present nor 
 save the future. But in the midst of tendencies and drifts and 
 curi'cnts such as these, we have need not as men of little faith, but 
 as men of earnest love for the old faith of (-reed and Scripture, to 
 beset^ch Him to rouse us to our (lang(n'. Who though He seems 
 asleep is sure to bring the ship safely to shore. Against the 
 dogmatic statement "then; is i.o dogma," we must lift uj) the 
 re})roof, tlu^ rebuke, the exhorting with all doctrine, and while we 
 thank (Jod for its army of defenders in our age, Pusey and Words- 
 worth and ALagee and Liddon and Sad'"r, who confront the forces 
 of the deiiiei's of the faith, we have need, as Bishops in the Church 
 of God, to remember our tremendous responsibility to ke(;p what 
 
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 liave r'-.'ei\('d from fait' fid men ; to cliar^e nien tliat tliey teacli no 
 «)tlier doi-trine ; to war a good warfai'e, holding faith ; to lie nourisjied 
 up in till' words of faith and of good doctrine; to tak(^ heed unto 
 ourselves and to the doctrine ; to labor in the word and dortrine ; 
 to liohl fast the form of sound woi'ds : to continue in the thini;s we 
 ha\(! learned and have l>c"ii ; ssiired of, knowing of whom we have 
 learned them, even of the (Mnirch of (Jod, which is tlu^ witness and 
 kee{)ei' of the word : to pivach the word, to be instant in season and 
 '.-lit of season, to repro\'e, rebuke, exhort with al' long-suH'ei'ing and 
 doctrine. For suieiv the time has come when men with itching ears 
 have heaiied to themselves teachers and are turned away from the truth 
 and tnrufd to fables. Standing to-day in the pi'oud position of 
 ])o|iularitv, witli what they think tlieii- following, these so-called 
 leaders of so-calli'd liberalism are really tl'.e creatures of the crowd, 
 born of the itching ears of men, who heap to themselves the teachers 
 that will speak unto them smooth things and pi'ophesy dtveits. Xot 
 so miK^h in the way of controversy, nor in following tlu; inventors of 
 the nev,' doi-trincs into all the wanderings of their ways, but in the 
 simple, steadfast proclamation of the whole counsel of (rod, in stand- 
 ing in the old ])aths, in the maintenance of the standards and 
 syndiols of the faith, in the pnisentation of positive and unchanging 
 truth against the evei'-changing and varying forms of error ; in thes(! 
 ways we are to witness for Christ. The ])arleyiug (tf pickets 
 during th<> time of truce, the laying jiside of weapons in a sus- 
 jiension of hostilities, the disarnung of soldiers while the enemy is 
 still armed — tiiese are surely things which no wise couunander 
 would allow ; and though the conflict seems at rest, or the 
 skirmishers to be on other than the old lield, we must b(^ on the 
 lookout against the feints of a cunning and siditle foe : leaving no 
 outj)ost won, unguai'ded, and keeping fresh atid liright, ready for 
 any unexpected us(^, each portion of that jnim^jdy of ( Jod, -buckler 
 and helmet, and sword and spear, girdle and sandals,— without each 
 one of \\ hich no soldier is fully armed. Abovc^ all, let us beware 
 of that cessation of all contest which nu'ans indill'ercuice, unwatch- 
 fulness, betrayal, surrender ; when men, having ntade a solitude, a 
 wilderness, a dead level of indistinct ind(Miniteness, a very waste of 
 unlieli<'f and disbelief, a gi-eat sand stretch of shapeless, colorless 
 and endh^ss monotony, call it -peace. There is no gain to the 
 truth, to the Church of Christ, when w(> break down or deny or 
 fritter away the barriers of doctrinal atatemc^nts oi" ecclesiastical 
 order that protect those who are within, in order, not to draw others 
 unto us, but simply to make ourselves as defiuiceless and unprotected 
 as thev. A man wlio reclaims and fences in a bit of broken wood- 
 
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 laiid has fiirtlior<>(l and lu'l[)C(l on tlu^ cultivation oi tlio world. But 
 the man who al)aiidon.'. md lets out into the wihhirncss a cultivatc^d 
 Meld, Ixt'lps to niakt; jjfood land waste; si^^ain. In AnKM'ica the anxious 
 thini,' iihout th«! Church to-day is its ^'rowth. The prayer of the 
 dyiiii^ Frciieh pastor for the elementary i^races suLCi^ests tlie need of 
 our laity to-day foi- th(! eh-meutai-y t»"uths of C-hristianity. "^I'hey 
 have need to 1»<! taui^ht which he tlu; first principles of tin; oracles 
 of God, tlie j)rineiples of the doctrine of Christ. AFen and women 
 born and brought u[) in the Church are not trained, as they were a 
 gfMieration hack. 'J'Ik^ Jiil)l(! is not read, tlu^ c:,techism is not 
 h'arned, th(! trutli is not i)roved, tlu^ faith is not preached, the 
 Church is not set foilh as it used to he; and when to this luiif- 
 leavened mass you add tlm constantly increasiiii^ (|ua,ntity of utttirly 
 uideaA'ened douifh ; when you (!idaj'<^(f tin* half Iviiowledife of chui'ch- 
 men hy the utter ignoraiu-c! of all thfolo<.';y, of men horn and hronidit 
 up in tlu! shap(.'less and .systeudess confusion of sectarian hodie.s, the 
 danger is that the yeast will h(! smothei-ed out of life. Thaidc (iod, 
 recited creeds, recuri'ing seasons and read Scriptures, con>pel a 
 cei'tain amount of constant instruction in the Faith. lUit the 
 principles of the; doctrine cannot he left out of our teachini:;. I'he 
 foundation nuist he laid again, and often, it we would go on unto 
 perfection. ivxhoi'tation in all doctrine is the crying need of our 
 day. Thei'e art; not many (h^niei's of sacramental grace, of aj)ostoii«j 
 order, of liturgical worshi]>, hecause tliere an; not many asserters of 
 these things to-day, These; are Iargf>ly accepted if not carried out. 
 Men are devoted to scientific investigation, to textual criticism, to 
 ti;(; fact or the degree of the inspiration of Holy Sciipture. Wo 
 mu.st b(; watchful and faith+'ul in these cont(;sts too. l»at by and hy, 
 when science lias become, by its full unrolling, parallel, up.on a 
 lower plane, with revelation ; when varying texts and varying 
 translations are found not to contradict and not necessarily to 
 sui)ersede, but oi dy to illustrate one another ; when the slieep have 
 come to hear the voice of the Lord speaking in the word of which 
 He is the r(;vealer — by and by these old questions, in that strange 
 wliirligig of errors, ■"'ill come up again ; and it will not do for us to 
 have forgotten, to have failed to teach, to have; laid aside the line of 
 defence and the armory of argument with which the great 
 theologians f»f the English Church put to fliglit the armies of the 
 aliens, in the day not unrecognized, thank Ciod, of Englan^i's 
 visitation. 
 
 But it must be with long sufFering and patience. Patience with 
 men in error, in urd)elief, in disbelief, is the first qualification of 
 successful teaching. Denunciation, condenniation, the inde> and 
 the inquisition, are too much, the tendency of positive teachers in 
 
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 ; need of our 
 , of apostoli^J 
 i' assertcrs of 
 carried out. 
 criticisiu, to 
 inture. We 
 Lit l>y and hy, 
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 and varying 
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 10 sh(!ep have 
 ord of which 
 that strange 
 t do for us to 
 (Ic the line of 
 h the groat 
 uinies of the 
 of England's 
 
 ^atieiice with 
 lalitication of 
 [\e index and 
 e teachers in 
 
 pv -rv d<')iactni('iit of learning to-day. "In neckncss instructing 
 *no.s(' that opposo tll('nls((lv(^s,'' is tiic apost f's injiuictiou to the 
 Bishop. Angry controversy, l»itter crimination jukI uniiicasurcd 
 coiidcinnation are weapons of a carnal warfare. Least of all I'au 
 they he used in the ine\italile coiiteiiilihi,'s among Christians for 
 accurate statements of tin; faith. '• When ^Moses '.)und the I'lgyp- 
 tiaii striving with the Israelite he slew the lilgyptian, hut when he 
 saw the two Isnielites tight he said, "Ye are hrethren, why strive 
 ye?"' Against moral error or denial of the faith, the sword; Init 
 even then the sword of the Spirit ; hut against imperftH-t helicf, half 
 truths, the mistakes of ignorance, the lack of knowledge, the 
 impe: f('ctions of education, long suileriiig and doctrine. We are 
 too much at fault ourselves in our inheritance of the cold hearted 
 and half faithless years of our' Church lite, in our timid and 
 imperfect setting forth of t. ;ith, in our inconsistencies of life, that 
 contradict our sy.steiu of helicf, to he angry with those whom, if we 
 liave not repelled, w(! havc^ failed to attract ; and the ell'ort to tind 
 out points of agreement rather than to dwell on points of (liU'ereuce, 
 to construct with patieiuMi from such I'ound.ations as we have in 
 comuion, I'ather than to tear down with \ioIciice the denials, is the 
 Christian-like and the Apostolic way ; even as the Master com- 
 municated with the .Jews in the reading of their scriptures and [he. 
 kee[iiiig ot' their feasts and the worjiliip of the synagogue, and 
 builded their petitions into the structure of the Lord's Prayer, and 
 fultilhid instead of desti'oying the law; and as Saint Paul did not 
 deface the altar on the Areopagus, hut only ell'aced the tii'st syllal)le 
 of its insci'iption, till it should read, '• To the known ( Jod." Men 
 do not contend for error kiuiwing it to he such. C(juiiting it truth, 
 they lo\c it because thev uhink it truth, and for that lo\(' we must 
 honoi- them, separating them from what they hold. All error has 
 in it an element of truth. It is truth (utluM- overrated oi" overlaid 
 or misajjplied or exaggerated. It could have no Viic hut for the 
 princii)le of truth which it contains. To destroy it root and 
 branch, to root it out, to burn it, is to destroy tin; whe.it with the 
 tares. Surgery dill'ers from butchery in patient discrimination, and 
 doctrine is not denuncia+ion, because it is long suH'ering. Again, 
 the living liolders of eriur to-day hold it by force of education, of 
 cin-umstances, of surroundings. The sect idea, which is disuni(.)n, 
 proves its real longing for unity by perjietual elibrts for alliance. 
 The holder of the parity of ordt;rs believes in (i succession, and in 
 the MVA'xl of an authority to minister. The very sect which most of 
 ail narrows the recipients of iloly Baptism, and counts it not a 
 saving ordinance, is overscrupulous about a certain method of its 
 Iministration. And Christian men and women wlio do iwf. "discern 
 
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 the Tiord's IkkIv" in the IFoIv I'^iicliarist, oat and drink in a manner, 
 so far as serious itrepai'atioii ;,'<n'S, not unworthy ot tlic rt'co^cnized 
 pn!s«Mic<'! of the Lord. "The " loni,' suHei'iii^" teacher will ratluM* 
 seek out the partii'h^s of the ti'uth in t\wy imperfect systems, Ity 
 presriitinL,' to tlieui the maifnet of the whoi. 'ith of the Churt'li, 
 than crush with tlie violent hammer of con. lation, the earthly 
 matter, which (;an hi- sepiirate I from t\u'\\\ oy care. VV(: must not 
 fori;(it that the (Miarity which " believeth all tiiinj^'s," al.so " beareth 
 all thini^s," and it will he a soi*(! sin on any Christian soul, if by 
 harsh woids, and the desire for mere personal victoiy, and lack ot 
 love, he should rep(d tho.se and drive th(MU away, who are " not far 
 from the kini^dom of Ood." As in morals, the true hatred of sin 
 i.,q-o\vs out of and consists with ,i,'r(\at lov(! of sinntTs, so in I'eliLjion, 
 impatience and intolei'ance of error, makes us lon,L,' sull'erin^', con- 
 siderate, symj)athetic, t(md(!r, very purak/eftil — if the: (expression 
 may be rescrently ustsd — to tiuun that are in error, that, throujjh 
 us, as W(! retlect Ifim whns(! li;j;ht and life is love, CJod may show 
 them t\w \i<f\\t of Jlis truth. 
 
 I am Kurt; I s[)eak for all our homo Episcopates wluui I say tliat 
 we are '^iad to honor and conijfratulate the vfrnerabh; Metropolitan 
 of Canada ; glad to welcom(! you, my brother, to Ix; to him as Joshua 
 to Moses, and, in your turn, to take the pei'ils and the honor of 
 leadtu'ship in this part of tins Church of Cod ; and glad to take our 
 representative part in twisting in again the strand of our succession 
 into the great electric (Nible of our common connection, through St. 
 Paul and St. .)ohn, with the chief Bishop niul Shepherd of our souls. 
 'i1u'(ia(l of minute and microscopic insigiulicance each lUsliO]) is in 
 this great ro|)o of wire, instinct and tingling with a mighti(!r current 
 than magnetic life can have, the presence of the Holy Ghost; 
 articulatte with the voices of ins])ired nn-elation and of tlu? uniM'ring 
 tradition of the yet undividt'd Ciiurch ; and girdling what is gi'eater 
 than continents, the centuries and countries of Christendom, through 
 vvhicli it luns and binds them to eternity, to Christ, to heaven. 
 vScien(!(!, in its studies of the still undiscovered success of el<;etric 
 pow(er, has used it in a twofold way, to transmit the written and the 
 si» »ken message, /roin n/'ir. And, as so often the {)liysical is the type 
 of the spiritual, the material wonders of telegraph and telephone 
 sug^'est th(! mightier mystery of grace. Nature h;arned late and 
 used for lowi'r vnds, the Icisson of (dectric wires ; but this continuous 
 I'jpiscopate of the Church, witnessing and keeping the word, lias 
 ti'anscribed and transmitted from age to a<;e the message of the 
 written S.-riptui'e, autluuiticating witli its signature that the message 
 cam(; at first from Cod, was borne u})on its mission by tlie force of 
 the Holy (ihost, and is with absolute accuracy written down for 
 
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 tun. k'lih 
 
 promise 
 
 guiding, 
 
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 And we 
 
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 for 
 
 mm to rend. Still mni-c pfrsdiiiil is our rcliitidii (o llic ndicr 
 ttiipliciitiou of this siiirituul force, to Im- almost tlic |iiissi\t' 
 trans 111 ittiM'S, Ity this t<'l<[.|i()iiic calilin;,', of thr iihoin- (on i,i>iiii> mm 
 tun kfffoH, the voice of the (Jood Slicphcrd. 'Ilnic is no other 
 promise for th.- work that Christ has ;,riveii us t(» (h), of callint;, 
 K'lidin^', ^^atlierinir, feeding;, folding- the lUuk Jle pun hased with 
 Jlis Ithiod, l»ut (Jiily this. 'Die sheep /irar His voice, ours lliey will 
 not iiear. Nothing has e\(r come of hearini,' iiiiman voices, to thc! 
 HJieep of Clirist, liut error and loss, hunger and scattering; 1 am of 
 Paul, and ! of Apollos, and I of ('e|)jias; or in the modern n.iin.s 
 of Koine, of Wesley, of Calvin. To the onefold of the one fleck, 
 those sheep come only who hear the Sheiiherds voice. Not here 
 or now, not on earth or in time, l»ut in eternity, ihank (iod, that, 
 viifsf of Jesus Christ's consti-aining love shall he made tine of all 
 the sheep, " tliese also I niNsf I. ring." Meanwhde my l>rotiier, ''our 
 cures and studies are to he tuined," as we "go before the face of the 
 Lord to jtrepare His way;" to decn-ase ourselves that "He may 
 inerea.'.e ;" to withdraw ourselves ; to let "the sound of the Master's 
 feet be lieard l)eliiiid " us ; to he such "ambassadors for Christ as 
 that (jiod will beseecli men by us;" to be tin; voice of Christ who 
 "cries in the wilderness" after I/Is slieep which I/r has lost, that 
 Iff may bring them Home. Filled with the |)resence of His 
 promise, " I (i/n with you." w(' .say with Moses, "/ Am. hath sent 
 me." Filled with the i)ower of His grace, witli the perfectness of 
 His teaching, with the purpose of His life ; preaching not oiirsehes, 
 but Jesus Christ and Him crucitied ; seeking not our own but the 
 things that b«; Jesus Christ's; .so commissioned so conti( .cd, so 
 consecrated by Him; we who are set to be " She|»lierd.s of tin; 
 shepherds of the sheep," shall so set forth and show Him unto men, 
 that they will hear His voice as we beseech or bh-ss, instruct, 
 encourage, warn, n^prove, direct; His voice, in ours, regenerating, 
 absolving, sanctifying, pleading the jjower and feeding wi;h the 
 food of His own sacrifice; and hearing, they will know His voice 
 and follow^ Him in a "a green pasture and beside waters of comfort" 
 here; and then "through the valley of the shadow of death, fearing 
 no evil," aiul thtMi "todwcdl in the house of the J>ord for ('Ncr. " 
 And we, being such pastors, alike in rei)resentativr authority and 
 in a real presenting of Him only unto uen, O, my Father, my 
 brother, my brethren, "when the chief Si epherd shall apjx'ar, we. 
 shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." 
 
 The sermon being concluded, the chair of the ]Vretro{)olitan Avas 
 moved to the centre of the sanctuary by tlu; Deacons, and he took 
 his seat thereon. The Bishops of Nova Scotia and Quebec then 
 
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 went to tlir ('oiiuimiiioii mils and iiiPt tlic nisliop I'll«'ct and leading 
 him, tilt" |{iKli')|> of Nova Scotia hy th(( rii^Iit hand, and the nisliop 
 of C^ut^))ec by tlic left, prcHcnttMl him to the M»'tro|)olitan. Tlic 
 l»isho|i of Nova Si'otia, as Senior lUshop, said the wohIh of 
 presentation. In the ahsfMice of th(^ "Queen's niandati; " as 
 preseril»ed in the rnliric, the Metrojjojitan ealied for tho record of 
 the eh'ciion which was hnuI as follows, by Cunon Partridge, from 
 tiie steps near the Kagle lectei'n. 
 
 r, Francis T'aitridgt;, Secretary of tlie Diocesan Synod of Frech-ric- 
 ton, do herelty certify to all whom it may couc(!rn, that at a special 
 meeting; of the said Synod, held on tin; thirt(;enth day of .January 
 last, under the j)rovisions of the canon for the appointment and 
 election of a Bishop-Coadjutor, 'J'h(! il(;v. llollingworth 'I'ully King- 
 don, \I. A., of Trinity College, Cambriilge, and Vicar of Cood 
 Fastei", in the County of Essex, in Fngland, was (^lecteil to tho 
 ollicf of j>ish(»p ( 'oadjutor of this said diocese, and that no canonical 
 imptidiinent to his consecration (jxists. 
 
 (liven undei' my hand and tlus seal of the said Synod, at Fiedcjric- 
 ton, in the Province of N((w IJrunswick, this ninth day of July, in 
 tln^ year of our Jjord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 FiiANCis Pautuiduk, 
 Sec'y of the Synod. 
 
 This having been read, the Bishoi)-elect took the oath of due and 
 canonical obedience to tlie Metroi)olitan of Canada in the following 
 form : 
 
 [n the name of Clod. Amen. I, Hollingworth Tully Kingdon, chosen 
 Bishop-ljoadjutor of Fredericton, with the right of succession in case 
 of \acan(;y to the Si-e and Diocese of Fi-c^dericton, do profess and 
 promise all due and canonical reverence and obedience to the 
 Metropolitan of Canada, and his succes.sors in that ollice: So 
 help me (loil, through J(!sus Christ. 
 
 Tho Metio})olitan then moved the congregation to pray, in the 
 words set forth in the foi-ni of consecration. The two Bishops, 
 who had presented tlie Bishop-elect, then returned to their S(!dilia, 
 the Bishop-elect to his fornuir place outside the Communion rail, 
 and, after a pause, the Rev. Canon JMcidley and the Rev. H. H. 
 Barber proceeded to the stejjs of the Chancel near the Kaglo 
 
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 Xa'cU'VU, and, knocliii^ down, chaiitcd the Tiitimy, tli« clergy, clioir 
 mill coiii^rcpitioii clnmtin^ tlic rj'SjtoiiscH. 
 
 Tlif liiraiiy »mmIc(1, tin* Mt-tropolitaii sitting; in IiIh chair, tlion 
 • lucstioncd tlw Iti.sliop clfct, uh iu tlio form of conscc'ration. This 
 ♦•ndfd, th«' I'lshoji <|((t retired to assume the rest of the Episcopal 
 haltit, wliih' the oc^^aii phiyed a short voluntary. 
 
 Th(! Elect, proprily vesttMJ, rc'turned and kneeled iu front of the 
 Metro|>i<litan, atul the other liisliojts canu! down and stood on either 
 sidi! of the Metiojtolitan, wjio commenced the Veni Creator. This 
 havinj; heen smii.'. tii(> Mi-tropolitaii proceeded to the (Consecration, the 
 other Uisliops assistint; liv layinv; their hands upon the head of the 
 elected Hishop. 'I'he Metropolitan then proceeded to tlu; Holy 
 Table and counneneed the ( )ir('rtory ; when the two Deacons advanced 
 and removed the chair from the cfuitro of tlu^ ('liancd to tin; spac(! 
 at the north end of the Holy Tuldc. The alms of tlu! people were 
 then collected and cari'ied to the rails and delivertMl to the Suh-d(!an, 
 who brought them to the Metropolitan, who oll'ered them, the wliole 
 coni;regation rising. 
 
 The newly consecratiid 33ishop then brought the elements to the 
 Metropolitan, who placed them on tin? TaJ)le, and proceecled with 
 the Communion Seivice. 'i'he congregation then retired, except the 
 communicants. After the consecraticjn j)rayer, Hymn .'V23 was 
 sung, "1 am not worthy, Holy Lord." 
 
 AfttT the Metropolitan had pronounced the Blessing, the Nunc 
 Dimittis was sung, and the procession returned to the Vestry 
 thi'ough the transei)t in the same order as before, singing as a 
 recessional hynni the song of Simeon, " Lord now lettest Thou Thy 
 Servant depart in peace." 
 
 At the evening service in the CJathedral the procession formed as 
 in the morning and the Bishop of Quebec prea,ched, taking his text 
 from St. Luk(i 10 c, M v. Just before the sermon a tremendous 
 til under and rain storm came on which rendered inaudible most of 
 his Lordship's discour.se. 
 
 Thus closed the interesting, solemn, and important services in 
 connection with the consecration of the Bishop Co-adjutor of the 
 Diocese of Fredericton. It was the first instance of the consecration 
 
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 of a Bishop of the Anglican Comnmuioii in the Maritime Provinces. 
 Few of those present had witnessed before the consecration of avx 
 Ancrlican Bisho].. Few of the present generation can reasonal.ly 
 hope soon to l)ehohl again such a ceremony. Notwithstanding the 
 vast assembly which crowded every part of the Cathedral, the 
 utmost decorum prevailed from the beginning to the end of the 
 
 solemnities. 
 
 The spirit of the occasion was felt by all. The music was 
 appropriate and admira])ly rendered. The responses came back 
 from the assembly of clergy and laity with impressive distinct- 
 
 uess. , 
 
 All must have felt that it was indeed -ood to be present on sucli 
 :m occasion and in such company, imbued with the spirit of brotherly 
 love and Christian unity. 
 
 All must have come away impressed to son*- extent with thf 
 deep solemnity of the services in which they had engaged, thanking 
 God for His past mercies to the Church in this Diocese, and prayer- 
 fully looking forward to the future. 
 
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