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 NEW BURIAL ACT AND CHURCH 
 LEGISLATION. 
 
 WARNINGS AND ENCOURAGE^^IENTS. 
 
 A CHARGE 
 
 BY 
 
 THE ARCHDEACON OF ELY 
 
 AT 
 
 Igis General i3isitation; Cambridge, 
 
 1880, 
 
 WITH NOTES. 
 
 Price Sixpence. 
 
 Reprinted from the Canibridge Chronicle, 
 Nov. 20, 27. 
 
 The Yen. William Emery, B D., Archdeacon 
 of Ely, held his General visitation of clergy and 
 churchwardens on Tuesday last, November 16ih, 
 at St. Michael s Church, for the Deaneries of 
 Barton, Bourn, Camps, Cambridge, Chesterton, 
 and Shingay, which was largely attended. 
 There were in attendance T. M. Francis, Esq , 
 registrar ; Rev. S. Banks, official ; and Mr. 8 P. 
 Widnall, apparitor. From 10 till 11 present- 
 ments were made, policies and receipts of Fire 
 Insurances exhibited, and other business trans- 
 acted, aftes which came the service of Holy 
 Communion. The Archdeacon took the chief 
 part of the service, assisted by the following 
 clergymen in the administration :— The Rev. S. 
 Banks, official, who read the Epitle ; the Rev Dr. 
 Campion, Rural Dean of Cambridge, who read 
 the Gospel ; Kev. A H. F. Boughey, Vicar, who 
 read the Confession ; the Rev. J. Martin, 
 Surrogate : the Revs- Canons Underwood and 
 Sharp, and Archdeacon Lower, Rural Deans. 
 The arrangements made by the churchwardens 
 were very satisfactory, and though a large 
 number communicated, the whole service, 
 including the charge, was finished shortly 
 after one oclock, having commenced at U. 
 
 After the Nicene Creed, the Registrar called 
 over the roll, to which the clergy answered, and 
 then the Archdeacon proceeded to deliver the 
 following Charge : — 
 
 RE-AREASGEIIEKT OF TIMES OF VISITATION. 
 
 My Reverend Brethren and Brethren of the Laity : 
 
 For some years past I have omitted a second or 
 general YisitatioB, like the preECLt, and held ouly aa
 
 Easter Visitation at which I have deVirered a charg© 
 to the Churchwardens, on their admission, and 
 circulated it throughout the Archdeaconry. This 
 departure from earlier practice was not made without 
 consultation with others in whose judgment I had 
 great confidencp. Considering the many additional 
 opportunities of conference now supplied by revived 
 and exiended Church organizition amongst ue, and 
 the much more frequent gatherings for religious 
 services and church objects than of old, it is a 
 question whether :n future the cuttom which I &nd 
 exiets in other Archdeaconries should not be hence- 
 forth the rule in this, viz., to have only oi»e annual 
 Visitation for Clergy and La'ty soon after Easter — 
 the inherent right of holding other visitationa during 
 the year still remaining in force. 
 
 NATURE OF A GENERAL VISITATION. 
 
 "Gereral Visitations" it should be remembered 
 " were originally of a dieciplinarfan and judicial, 
 character. In course of time, however, and under 
 the influence of various circumstances, thi y took the 
 place of the two yearly Synods anciently held by the 
 Bishops of the several Diocesec. They are in fact the 
 only constitutional assemblies of Clergy and Laity 
 known to the Law." So reported years ago a Com- 
 mittee of the Lower House of Convocation,, as I noted 
 in my first charge. And we do well to note this 
 again in view of the resuscitation of Discipline whiclii 
 is strongly pleaded for by many, with great force and 
 reason, under the new conditions in which modern 
 legislation seems to be placing us. 
 
 bishop's VISITATION IN 1881. 
 
 Next year, according to the usual order, our 
 Bislaop will hold his General Visitation throughout 
 the Dioceee and mine will be pretermitted under the 
 customary inhibition. I shall hope, however, if life 
 and strtngth be granted, to visit many of the 
 parishes separately as heretofore, and give such 
 Iriendly help and advice to my brethren, as God may 
 enable me, in their responsible and soLmn duties. 
 Should the time of the Bishop's Visitation in 1881 be 
 such as to make it needful or desirable to admit any 
 of the Churchwardens eailier,, provision, as bef&re, 
 will be made to avoid inconvenience. 
 
 TtSITATION PEES. 
 
 I may rematk in parsing that even when there has 
 been more than one visitation In the -year it has not 
 been the custooi to require any second fee; thus re- 
 moving as far as possible any hindrance to the at- 
 tendance of the Churehwardenp. The question of 
 payment of fees hy the parishes at visitati ns, and of 
 procurations and pensions by the Clergy, Lay Impro- 
 priators and others, has not been free from trouble 
 and vexation ! 1. Personally I would willingly see an 
 alteration in the amount and incidence to meet the 
 new circumstances in whic*^, by the change in the 
 law of Church Rate and otherwise,^ the Clergy and 
 
 1. See Notes at the end for this and other numbers.
 
 Cbnrchwardena are placed. But it has been pressed 
 on me, that I ought not to act alone or to resiga 
 rights and dues which noay materially affect others 
 differently circumBtanced. Of course no system, 
 ecclesiastical or civil, can be carried on long, regularly 
 or effr!ctually, without adequate contribuMoos to- 
 wards the necessary expenses of management and 
 correspondence, and moderate fees equitably evied do 
 eeem the fairest way of providing for such expenses. 
 On the whole I deem it best to await further legisla- 
 tion on this matter of fees before making any further 
 alteration la what, after all, can be no great burden 
 to any. 
 
 PRESENTMENTS. 
 
 Iq the great maj 'rity of the Presentments made 
 annually by the Churchwardens there have been few 
 matters of urgency, and friendly consultation has in 
 most cases hitherto availed to smooth away difficulties 
 and complaints. The kindness with which I have 
 been everywhere welcomed, the loving readiness with 
 which as a rule Clergy and Laity have accepted my 
 suggestions, the generous support and confidence 
 vouchsafed me, not only in the Archdeaconry but in 
 the Diocese and beyond it for many years, I would 
 desire now gratefully to acknowledge, whilst I humbly 
 confess how far I have fallen short of that standard 
 of attainment in duty which I set before myself when 
 entering on my present office. 
 
 WEEKLY OFFERTORY. 
 
 lam glad to find that the sjstem of the Weekly 
 Offertory which I have ventured again and again to 
 recommend, in connection wi;h freedom of worship in 
 our parish churches, is fairly answering where tried 
 and is growing in favour. In Cambridge it is now all 
 bat universal. Where not introduced in country 
 churches, at the p-incipal services for the whole 
 congregation, the opposition comes rather from the 
 well-to-do than the poor. Such strange opposition 
 will I trust soon cease, and the conviction become 
 nniversal that the giving of alms for the Church of 
 God and for His poor, as a distinct part of holy 
 worship, is both a duty and a privilege. If however 
 the weekly offertory is to prosper, every care must be 
 taken to give full publicity, by notice on the church 
 door each week, both of the amount collected and the 
 purposes for which it is to be applied. Once a year 
 at least a carefully prepared Balance Sheet with 
 particulars, duly audited, should be published and 
 circulated. The Parish Magazine, which every 
 parish or gronp of parishes should haT(^,is a very con- 
 venient channel for this purpose. 
 
 I would recommend that the offertories and collec- 
 tions on certain Sundays in the year be devoted to 
 special H )me and Foreign objects, social and 
 religious, and that those of the other Sundays be 
 divided in certain proportions, fixed beforehand, for 
 the poor, the ministry and church expenses. To 
 ^aide congregations the better as to the sum they
 
 4 
 
 <boDld, as a rule, weekly contribate, it would be well 
 for minister and churchwarvlens and cburoh council, 
 if it esisf, to make a careful estimate of the amount 
 probably required during the jear, for tbe general 
 purposes I have enumerated, and to lay this estimate 
 before all. If then as time goes en it is found the 
 due proportion has not bsen given, there will be fair 
 reason afforded for urging on all a higher standard of 
 offering, that the year may not end with a dtficit no^ 
 the service of God and his poor be stinted. 
 
 CHARITIES AKr> BENEFACTIONS. 
 
 I am not quite satisfied as to the right disposal of 
 the charities and benefactions which have been left or 
 assigned for the repair and sustentation of the fabrics 
 of the Churches in some parishes as well as for other 
 pions uses. Iq my parochial visitations I have heard 
 dissatisfaction expressed on this point. The whole 
 Bubject might well be considered in Euridecanal 
 Chapter and Conference, and the hands of any brethren 
 strengthened who may be found subjected to persecu- 
 tion or unfair opposition in their endeavour to see 
 Church Trusts properly administered. 
 
 PARISH TERRIEB AND RECOED. 
 
 It is a matter of concern to me that in many 
 parishes there is still wanting a teriier of glebe landa 
 and other possessions belonging to the Chnrch, made 
 up accurately to the present time, according to the 
 spirit ard intention of Canon 87. Such a terrier and 
 record would be, I am convinced, of essential service 
 and permanent interest, especially if carefully 
 corrected from time to time, as changes in glebe, 
 alterations of fabric, additi )n8 of plate, books, church 
 furniture, &c-, occur. In some places, I find the 
 clergy, and the laity too, have dtvoted tome of their 
 time thus pleasantly and profitably to the coropi'ation 
 of histories of thtir parishes and churches, as well as 
 to the preparation of terrier and record. I would 
 again recommend this as a labour of utility and love 
 to others, especially in our country districts, where 
 comparatifely more leisure for such work can be had. 
 
 CHURCH EESTORATION AND IMPROVEMENT. 
 
 During my seven'een years of office there has been 
 a general and maiked improvement, not only in the 
 material fabiics of the Charchep, but in the conduct 
 and number of the holy services therein. Every 
 newly restored church has become, more or less, a 
 centre for increased zeal and effoit to meet more 
 thoroughly the spiritual needs of the district. Cam- 
 bridge, as in Juty and honour bound, has set, and 
 will I trust continue to tet, a good example in these 
 and like respects. There is not one church in this 
 principal place of my Archdeaconry on which there 
 has not been, during recent years, large expenditure 
 for renovation aud improvemmt within and without. 
 Several new churches have been built and mi«f^ion 
 churches and rooms provided, for the increasing 
 population.
 
 NATIONAL SCHOOLS CONNECTED WETH THE CHURCH. 
 
 Whilst thonsanda upon thousands of pounds have 
 been spent thus on the material fabrics and on the 
 miuietry and eorTices connected therewith ; the 
 Cburchpeople of Ciimbridge, in Uaiveriity and Town, 
 have almost alone, at great cost and self-sacriflce of 
 means and time and etreogth, bnilt, maintained, and 
 extended the primary and eecoDdary schools for the 
 poor and lower middle class; so aa to satisfy Govern- 
 ment requirement and preserve the sound principles 
 of combined secular and religions education. 2. 
 
 In the country parts there has been on the whole 
 cqml progress, large outlay and cheerful self-sacrifice 
 for similar objects. It i3, indeed, curious, instructive 
 and full of encouragement, to compare the present 
 condition es'ptcially of the country churches which 
 are under my supervision, with their condition as 
 described by my predecessors. Only a few Churches 
 now remain unrestored or unimprovei. And in the 
 parishes where these few remembrances of past neg- 
 lect survive, there is a spirit for good at work, wh'Ch 
 though for a time checked by injurious opposition or 
 depressing indifference, will ere long, I doubt not, 
 triumph over all difficulties and impediments. 
 
 VOLUNTAET SCHOOLS IN COUNTEY PAEISHES, 
 
 There is now also scarcely a country parish with- 
 out a suitable schoolroom, and in the mijority of 
 parishes the educaMon there is supported by volun- 
 tary contribution and carried on, with dne respect to 
 conpcience, according to the principles of the Church 
 of Englind, by the free choice of those chiefly con- 
 cerned, the parents of the poor children, who shew in 
 general every readiness to let them enjoy the benefits 
 of religious education and inspection thus aSorded. 
 
 BOARD SCHOOLS. 
 
 I can see, however, the possibility of a great in- 
 crease of Biard Schools in this county and elsewhere, 
 if the Education Department continue to rai^e and 
 press unduly the standard for grants, or if the laity 
 do not assist, with somewhat larger contributions, the 
 gifts of the Clergy which form often a burdensome 
 charge on their limited and in many cases, alas ! 
 diminishing incomes. I have no wish to make a raid 
 upon Board Schools : but before any commit them- 
 selves further to this system, by refusing necessary 
 help to the present voluntarily supported schools, I 
 would have them weigh we'l the result of experiment 
 made in other parts : and e'^pecially in the country 
 districts of Cornwall, where ' the experiment of 
 Board Schools has been and is being remarkably well 
 tried.' Cornwall, as we all are painfully aware, has 
 been pre-eminent, whatever be the reason, for its dis- 
 senting proclivities. The result in education there, 
 under favourable conditions of dissent, where hitherto 
 little or no check to its action has been found possible, 
 may be tbe more fairly observed and tested. The follow- 
 ing then is the desciiptioa of the result of this ex-
 
 perimant, a"? stated publicly by the Bishop of Trnro 
 in his Diocesan Conference a fortnight ago, and re- 
 ported in the Guardian of November 10 : — " The 
 anaoagers of the Board Schools in Cornwall," said the 
 Bishop, " are selected by the collective elective 
 wisdom of whole district?, after matured and anxious 
 deliberations (many of them in private) with the 
 object of secaring fit representatives, often at 
 considerable expense to neighbourhoods which 
 are in earnest. Elected they devote themselves 
 to execute their duties according to their coioeptions. 
 But, as one Government Inspector reports, " No clear 
 conception of their duties has yet been attained by 
 the managers of Board Schools in Cornwall." The 
 other Inspector sums up the results by saying " that 
 unless the Clergyman of the parish is a member there 
 is, as a rule, no one in country School Boards either 
 qualified or inclined to superintend the conduct of the 
 Bchool ; and the teacher, often young and inexpe- 
 rienced, is left to himself." " However," continued 
 the Bishop, " it was not to found reputations for 
 managers that the system was established. It was in 
 order to secure by due outlay a complete attendance of 
 children, and a more thorough education." " As to the 
 outlay it is confessedly great. The cost of Voluntary 
 Schools, which are fully as successful in their results, 
 varies in Cornwall from Id. to 3d. in the pound, while 
 the School Board rate varies up to 1p. Id., and even 
 averages 4^d., and etill has not reached its maximum." 
 For the report states " the teaching staff is in- 
 adequate." 3. 
 
 As to the attendance, we read in Her Majesty's In- 
 spector's Report that the Cornish Boards exercise " no 
 judicious systematic compulsion." That there are 
 " at least 8000 children in one-half of the county who 
 ought to be in attendance and are not, that even on 
 the day of inspection, when numbers are largest, 
 " not quite one-half of the children who are of school 
 age attend ;" that in places where full and costly accom- 
 modation is provided, half the space stfcnds unused, 
 and the Education Department is informt d that " the 
 average attendance is lower in proportion to the 
 population than in the rest of England," " and that 
 therefore, unless serious improvement is made the 
 county of Cornwall will become noted for the igno- 
 rance of its inhabitants." As to the education, the 
 standards are well reached; but it is lemarked in the 
 Government Report, " that the children now have 
 some notion of geography and grammar, but are not 
 guite such adepts in reading, writing, and, above all, 
 in arithmetic, as they were," 
 
 Xow remember these Board Schools are, to use the 
 inildeBt phrase, in their essential constitution non- 
 religious, to me^t the scruples of nonconformists and 
 secularists, and to put aside the old teaching in con- 
 nection with the Church of England. Is the result 
 then satisfactory P There are it appears in Cornwall 
 through this sjstem thirteen schools where there is 
 no religious instruction whatever. Thirty- two
 
 Bchool8 where the Bible is only read. Sixty-two out 
 of 161 where nothing now is taoght of God and 
 Chriat and my duty towards God and my neighbour. 
 And this is the summing of the whole, implying a warn- 
 ing which we may well give heed to as good citisena 
 and good Christians, not to say good churchmen. 
 " As board schools," said the Bishop of Truro, " cost 
 more than voluntary schools, and we have mora 
 board schools than any other county in proportion, 
 we are paying at a higher rate than any other county 
 for schooling. As we have fewer children at school 
 we pay a very great deal more, and get less good out 
 of if. And as we have a larger proportion of 
 irreligious schools, we are paying this larger quota for 
 a smaller result and of a poorer quality,— a quality 
 of which we dread the resnlts both in this world and 
 the next." 
 
 Notwithstanding all this, wherever, brethren, 
 Board Schools are established amongst us, I do 
 urge most strongly that clergy and churchmen 
 generally, be ready to take an active share in their 
 management, to lease their school rooms on nominal 
 reut to the Board for certain hours each day of 
 secular instruction, retaining of course the trusts ol 
 the school in their own hands and employing the 
 premises for the rest of the hours of the day and 
 week, both for religious instruction to such children as 
 attend, for missionary and instructive meetings, 
 parochial nses, &c. 
 
 Let not, however, the clergy and churchpeople be 
 responsible for saddling the parishes with Board 
 Schools ; though holding themselves ready to mitigate, 
 as far as they are able, any evil which may arise and 
 to supply by other means the good religious influence, 
 definite teaching and training which the tendency of 
 the School Board system seems almost necessarily to 
 undermine and destroy. 
 
 CHUECHYARDS. 
 
 I pass on now to the question of our Churchyards 
 and consecrated burial grounds. After many years 
 of strife and debate a new Burial Act has been passed 
 with the sanction or active help of the two Arch, 
 bishops and many of the Bishops— our own Bishop I 
 am myself thankful to say not agreeing thereto. 
 This new Act was deprecated we know by the great 
 majority of the Clergy, and as far as can be judged, 
 by discussion and divisions in meetings and confer- 
 ences, by a very large number, if not the larger pro- 
 portion of the faithful Church laity. 4. 
 
 Many previous measures had been proposed, notably 
 by the late Government and their supporters, to meet 
 and satisfy the alleged grievance of Nonconformists 
 in this matter. That the grievance could not really 
 have been widely felt seemed proved by the fact that 
 even where uaconsecrated burial places existed, the 
 others were preferred, though they involved the 
 service of the Church of England and of its Ministers ;
 
 and this in cases where no family ties or feeling could 
 be alleged as determlDin^ the choice. 
 
 However, wisely or uu wisely, the Act has passed 
 and i(« now the Law of the land. 
 
 As Section 6 states " At any burial under this Act 
 all persons shall have free access to the churchyard or 
 graveyard iu which the same shall take place. The 
 burial may take plsce at the option of the person 
 having the charge of or being responsible for the 
 same, either with or without any religious service or 
 with such Christian and orderly religious service at 
 the grave, as such person shall think fit ; and any 
 person or persons who shall be thereunto invited, or 
 be authorized by the person having the charge of or 
 being responsible for such burial, may conduct such 
 service or take part in any religious act thereat. The 
 words ' Christian service' in this section shall include 
 every religious service used by ai.y church, denomina- 
 tion, or nerson professing to be a Christian." 
 
 An tifort was made in the Legislature to get rid 
 altogether of the service being iu any way Christian, 
 but for the present this has been frustrated. 
 
 It does seem hard that those who in the past have 
 thrown scorn and contempt on our consecrated 
 yards should now have power to invade them and 
 employ the services of man or woman, young or old, 
 of any religion that can in the widest sense be called 
 Chris' ian, to conduct these funeral services, on ground 
 solemnly dedicated to Almighty God for the burial 
 of persons according to the rites and ceremrniesof 
 the Church of England. If a grievance on one side 
 has been in part or whole removed, a more consider- 
 able grievance has been created en the other, which 
 touches very nearly the most solemn convictions and 
 the tenderest feelings of the great majority of us 
 Churchfolk. 
 
 As a set off to this innovation in the old 
 Law of Burial, and this invasion of the freehold 
 right of the Parson, a relief in certain cases is 
 made possible with the sanction of the person re- 
 sponsible for the funeral. With such sanction the 
 clergyman may use an alternative service sanctioned 
 by the Bishop, in cases such as have from time to 
 time caused much distress and perplexity of mind ; and 
 which, let us honestly acknowledge, have assisted 
 materially, through the urgent appeals of many of 
 the Clergy themselves, to promote the passing of the 
 ^ew Act. 5. 
 
 Another power is given in the Act to the Clergy, 
 which I think may wisely and profitably be taken ad- 
 vantage of, with comfort and satisfaction to the 
 mourners and friends , and in accordance with the 
 ascertained wishes of the deceased person : viz., the 
 power to u?e the service of the Charch of England 
 for the Burial of the Dead (and as far as I can see 
 any other service which may be considered suitable), 
 " in any unconsecrated burial ground or cemetery." 
 
 On the whole my distinct advice to my brethren — 
 and this I have reason to believe accords with the
 
 adTice of our Bishop— is to accept the Act loyally, 
 to work it fairly and considerately, but to keep 
 Btrictly within the four corners of it — carefully 
 maiotaining all the rights which have been distinctly 
 reserved in the Act, and requiring its conditions to 
 be enforced and carried out by others. In soma 
 influential quarters the Clergv have been advised to 
 go beyond what the Act sanctions or suggests, and to 
 shew the extreme of generosity by granting the use 
 of the belfry for these exceptional funerals — i.e , to do 
 more than even the chief promoters of the measure in 
 the House of Commons thought reasonable or called 
 for. Such advice appears to many ominouEiIy 
 significant of further concessions and trouble, through 
 continued pressure put upon our spiritual rulerf. 
 
 I cannot think such advice good. The Clergy 
 should act as far as possible together in this matter. 
 Personal or private feelings should be subordinated ta 
 the common welfare and to the future good and 
 safety of the National Church. It is right and well 
 to work the Act with every fair consideration for the 
 wishes of those who have forced it on us or helped to 
 pass it, bat we ought to be careful to avoid giving 
 offence to our own neighbours and stirring up for them 
 possible annoyance and persecution, by taking some 
 independent line in our ewn parish which the Act 
 does not require or presume, 
 
 USE OP THE BELL. 
 
 It appertains to the duty of the churchwardens to 
 take care the bells are not rung without proper cause, 
 and the minister conjointly with them is to be the 
 judge of the proper cause. Except under very special 
 circumstances they are not authorized, without the 
 consent of the minister, to give orders for the parish 
 bells to be rung : and such special circumstances can- 
 not, it seems to me, be created by the new Act, 
 which distinctly afEects only rights of burial in the 
 Churchyard, not any accessories which custom or 
 canon have connected with burial when performed 
 according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of 
 England by the ordained ministers of the parish. It 
 has been publicly stated that the Bishops are shortly 
 to meet and put out general suggestions as to the 
 best way of working the new Act. This possibility 
 makes it the more desirable, meanwhile, to avoid doing 
 anything which the Act does not distinctly prescribe, 
 lest it be found difficult to withdraw hereafter from a 
 false or undesirable position. 
 
 With respect to the p^assing bell, where still this 
 custom is observed, I see little or no diflBculty. Till 
 the dead body is taken possession of by ttie person 
 responsible for the funeral — who may, remember, be of 
 different views or feelings from the departed —and till 
 formal notice, as required by the Act, is given, that 
 other services than these of the Clergyman will be 
 employed — there is no reason to recognise differences 
 any more than heretofore. Therefore the Church 
 beU may well perform its accaetomed warning call to
 
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 solemn prayer for a dying parishioner, and prayer 
 lor ourselves, bo Boon it may be to die also. Thia 
 would be strictly according to Canon 67. But the 
 moment notice under the Act is given, the Church 
 and its Minister stand aside : and the bell is forth- 
 with silenced. 
 
 EEGISTERinO THE FUNERAL. 
 
 I do not see any difficulty of conscience or other- 
 wise in the matter of registerini? the fact of the burial, 
 and simply inserting the name of the person by whom 
 the notice of the funeral was served under the Act — 
 no'', remember, of the person officiating, of which no 
 record is required in such cases to be kept. Similar 
 entries by tbe Parish Piiest are found, I am told, la 
 old registers. 6. 
 
 GENERAL SPIRIT OP THE ACT. 
 
 In all other respects the old law remains untouched, 
 and fees are payable to the clergyman and other 
 officers as in other cases " The Act does not interfere 
 with the ownership of property in the Churchyard. 
 The power of selecting the grave, the time of burial, 
 the erecdon of tombstones, the words of the inscrip- 
 tion and other like matters are in the power, and 
 within the cognizmce of the clergyman as before. 
 The Act does not interfere with the legal rights of 
 the Incumbent, save as to restricting bis power to 
 forbid funerals in the Churchyard unaccompnnied 
 with the service of the Church of England. It leaves 
 him in the full exprcise of the right of control in all 
 matters ess?ntial to the promotion of order and 
 decency within the precincts of the Churchyard." 7. 
 
 FUTTIEE EtTRIAL PLACES. ' 
 
 Closely connected with the subject of the new Act 
 18 the question of fnture burial places for our parishes. 
 In many country parishes respect for the dead and 
 consideration for the living, alike demand that the 
 crowded Churchyards should be at once closed Where 
 this is the ca<?e application should be made without 
 delay to the Home Office for necessary warrant and 
 direction. 
 
 It ia most undesirable to obtain fresh ground for 
 buriala hy an extention of the consecrated Church- 
 yard. With the new Act in force and the still, I am 
 Borry to find, lond cries for more concession, even to 
 the opening of our Churches to all sects and denomi- 
 nations, and their confiscation and sale to the highest 
 bidder, according to the notable and astounding 
 scheme put forth under the auspices of the so-called 
 Liberation Society, in May, 1877, I cannot think it 
 well or prudent, as a rule, to enlarge jur existing 
 burial places round the Churches. This would only 
 be to give occasion to them who seek occasion to 
 foster fresh contentions with the view to establish 
 fresh claims. 8. 
 
 If WG had only to deal with conscientious and 
 reasonable Nonconformiets we might be willing to
 
 II 
 
 do many things in connection with our churches and 
 charchyarda which now we fhrink from and resist, 
 I will let the Bishop of Winchester, so full of love 
 and gentleDeas, so ready to work if possible with all, 
 and so anxious to promote Home reunion, speak on 
 this point instead of me. 
 
 " Unhappily," said the Bishop to his Diocesan Con- 
 ference at Winchester the other day, " Unhappily we 
 know, it has been openly and frequently said that 
 the real reason why the Liberationists have demaoded 
 our churchyards is, that the next step should be to 
 take possession of our chuiches. I need not eay that 
 disestablishment and diseudowment could come to ua 
 in no more terrible form than if the beautiful temples 
 in which our fathers worshipped, which have descended 
 to us through past centuries trom the first planting of 
 Christian itv in our land, bat which have in greac 
 nnmbers been rebuilt or restored by the money of 
 churchmen in the last half century at an expense of 
 forty or fifty millions of money— that all these should 
 be taken from us and given up to the use of those 
 who might teach any and every, or no form of faith 
 and religion. It seems to me therefore desirable to 
 isolate as much as possible the churchyard from the 
 Church." 
 
 "The shutting up of old churchyards when over- 
 filled and the opening of cemeteries, or other burial 
 grounds, at a distance from the Church, would be 
 one mode of doing this." 
 
 CHANGE OP NONCONFOEMIST FEELING. 
 
 Brethren, would that our differences, within and 
 without the Church, could be wholly removed. In- 
 deed amidst many discordant notes and ominoua 
 signs, I yet fancy at times the day is not so distant, 
 when at any rate larger numbers of those who differ 
 from us, will come over to our side. It is said that 
 few families remain permanently Dissenters, especially 
 if they nrosper in business or profession, beyond the 
 second or third generation— a significant proof surely 
 that the old NationalOhurch has a wonderful hold on 
 the people, and on the good will and affections of 
 those who have the greatest interest in the stability 
 and prosperity of the Commonwealth. Tie touching 
 and friendly utterances by leading Nonconformist 
 Ministers at the recent Leicester Church Congreis, 
 may well encourag<» the hope of even quicker reunion 
 and absorption. Whilst plainly stating the differences 
 which at present keep us apart, their full ackoowledg- 
 ment of the hietorieal character, the spiritual power, 
 the far reaching influence of the National Church, ita 
 lofty aims, its grand Scriptural Liturgy, us magnifi- 
 cent roll of fathers and confessors, of saints and 
 divines— all bo different to what we used to hear and 
 read twenty years ago (and which first in Cainbridga 
 raised the cry of Chuich Defence and led to Cbureli 
 Congresses, Diocesan Conferences and the like) from 
 those who then denounced our Prayer Book aa soul- 
 destroying, our clergy as fosterers of ignoruuco s-nd
 
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 abettors of tyranny, onr Church as worldly and ira- 
 spiritual, a curse not a blessing to the land — that I do 
 trust, now that the last Nonconformist grievance has 
 been practically removed, there will be found a 
 (Sreater willingness to help and not hinder the 
 Church's work, to unite with rather than separate 
 from us. It may be in the good Providence of Gk)d 
 after all that we shall find the saying verified, in a 
 quite altered sense from which it is generally used^ 
 that the path through the Churchyard will lead into 
 the Church. 
 
 CHURCH PROGEESS. 
 
 They who now keep from ua and often oppose us 
 cannot but acknowledge the marvellous life and 
 energy and feeling — even to excess sometimes — exist- 
 ing within the borders of our Church, Assuredly as 
 far as it is possible to judge from actual careful and 
 enlarged observation through the land, our Church is 
 making rapid strides to overtake the apathy and 
 neglect of the past and prove itself to be in truer fact 
 th« National Church. 
 
 The very reports of other leading religious 
 bodies testify to the Church's vitality and her increas- 
 ing favour with the masses, as well as with the mors 
 educated and wealthier classes. It seems almost now 
 an accepted axiom that if our Church is to be 
 separated from its present relations with the State and 
 be broken up into discordant, independent,^ episcopal 
 elements, it will be from the bitterness of extreme 
 parties within — rather than from the cries and opposi- 
 tion of those without. May the Good Lord restrain 
 the perverse wills of heated partisans of both sides, 
 and breatbe upon us the spirit of peace and loving 
 submission 1 
 
 Be it our part and delight to help in removing 
 differences and promoting greater unity in the land, 
 upon the broad scriptural, apostolic, historical lines of 
 the Reformed Church of England, which have 
 BuflSced for so long to make the majority work together 
 as one Body in Christ, with due respect to the law 
 and to the legal decisions of the Courts of Law. 
 
 CHURCH AND STATE. 
 
 The Courts of Law do exercise supreme oontrout 
 not only over members of our Church but over mem- 
 bers of all other religious, as well as secular bodies,, 
 which have property and trust-deeds, 
 
 "AH Nonconformist bodies are, like the Church, re- 
 cogti'ised by the law of the Scate, and by it are pro- 
 tected in the enjoyment of their rights and property, 
 and are supervised in the use they make of them." 
 "They have ao more liberty to alter their Trust- 
 deeds, not — while continuing in the enjoyment of the 
 buildings or endowments secured by them — to depart 
 from the doatrine, discipline, and religious observances 
 si^t forth therein than is possessed by the Church of 
 Eagland to alter, or depart from, the formulaiies Bet 
 forth in the Book of Common Prayer."
 
 " The Church ©f Eneland may, by Tirtue of her 
 very lengthened onion with the State, in the matter 
 of making some changes in her services and arrange- 
 ments, be under Siate controul to a greater extent 
 than that of any religions Nonconforming body in the 
 countrj', but the difference in this respect is after 
 all a question of degree and detail and not of principle. 
 And the principle is this, that for the alteration of all 
 or anything set forth in a legal instrument, whether 
 in the Church or amongst Nonconformists, recourse 
 must be had to the authority of the State." ThuB 
 all in this sense are State established and con- 
 trouUed. 9. 
 
 CONTOCATION AND DIOCESAN CONFERENCES. 
 
 Now that the powers of Convocation are revived 
 and discussions and suggestions are leading to truer 
 views of the real relations of the State with the Church 
 of England, we may hope, with patience, to see diffi- 
 culties and objections removed, and the close union 
 of Church and State continued, without the one 
 trenching upon or usurping the rights and powers of 
 the other. 
 
 It is a matter of satisfaction and thankfulness with 
 me that I have been privileged to take a share, not 
 orly in the effort to revive the action of Convoca- 
 tion, but in actively assisting in its deliberations, and 
 in endeavours to reform its organization, and con- 
 nect it more diBtinctly with those important represen- 
 tative bodies— Diocesan Conferences — which now 
 either in fact or distinct avowed intention, exist in 
 every Diocese but LlandafE and Worcester. To adopt 
 the words of the Bishop of Rochester, who has just 
 organised his Conference — "In view of the fact that 
 Diocesan Conferences have already passed out of the 
 region of experiment into that of recognised advan- 
 tage, if not of real necessity, for me to presume to 
 plead for them would be an impertinence." 
 
 KEFOEM OF CONVOCATION. 
 
 I do trust our Primate will soon now find a way, a» 
 in the Northern Province, to carry out the reform in 
 the representation of the Lower House of Convoca- 
 tion of the Province of Canterbury, so long and 
 urgently prayed for. The denial of this reform hitherto 
 has tended much to restrain the proper influence 
 of Convocation in the Country and Parliament, and 
 the carrying foward of many measures of practical 
 utility, apart from all party views, which would have 
 materially helped to remove blemishes and promote 
 efficiency and unity in the work of the Church. 
 
 CENTEAL CHURCH COUNCIL. 
 
 Of late there has been a pressing call for some- 
 Central Church body of Clergy and Lnty, which 
 should meet from time to time for the suggestion of 
 common subjects of debate in Diocesan Conferences, 
 so as the better to bring out the living voice of the 
 Church ; and generally for consultation on varioaa 
 points afEecting the interests and efficiency of the
 
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 Chnrch. Without trenching cpon the duties and 
 privileges of Convocation as representins; the Spiritu- 
 alty, buch a standing committee of the Church would, 
 I feel sure, be of great value, as was elaborately 
 argued by the Bishop of Peterborough in his presi- 
 dential address at the recent Church Congress, la 
 that address it was suggested that representatives 
 chosen by the Diocesan Conferences would aptly 
 form the Central Council so much desiderated. 
 
 Already active steps h'lve been taken to work out 
 this idea : and the following Diocesan Conferences 
 have agreed to send representatives to such a Council : 
 Eipon, Bath and Wells, Lichfield, Chichester, Nor- 
 wich, Truro, Winchester, Our own Bishop has ex- 
 pressed bis hearty approval of this new step to 
 strengthen, defend, and enlarge the powers of oar 
 Church and to consolidate still farther for good the 
 laridecanal and diocesan organizations, which, during 
 the last sixteen or twenty years, have done such ex- 
 cellent service. 
 
 VOLUNTARY LAY HOPSE OF CONVOCATION, 
 
 I am in good hope this Central Council of Diocesan 
 Conferences may help forward another pressing 
 matter, the friendly co-operation of the Laity with 
 the legal Convocation. Without going to Parliament, 
 which so many deprecate, the wishes and views of 
 the Laity of the Ctiurch may, I believe, in the shape 
 of a Voluntary Lay House, chosen by the Diocesan 
 Conferences or otherwise, be brought into harmonious 
 and useful working with Cjnvocation. Thus il it were 
 agreed, that no resolution or act of Convocation 
 should be formally and finally passed without the 
 previous assent of the majority of this Voluntary Lay 
 House, in any matter of common deliberation, there 
 need be no further diflScuUy : and what is of essential 
 consequence, no further delay till a theoretically per- 
 fect plan has been decided on between Convocation 
 and Parliament. 
 
 The plans 1 have thus referred to may not be th« 
 best, but they are practical and to hand. If they do 
 not work perfectly they can be revised and modified 
 hereaf (er by experience. It has been truly said, " All 
 great works have begun tentatively and experimen- 
 tally 1 " Let us then for the sake of our Zion arise 
 and build with the powers and materials within our 
 reach, and humbly implore the gracious help of the 
 Blessed Spirit, the Lord of the Church, to direct and 
 perfect our designs. 
 
 CHURCH LEGISLATION. 
 
 Without dissolving the intimate relations between 
 Church and State which now, with all the friction 
 and tension, happily as I think for both exists, it 
 seems quite feasible that these relations may be im- 
 proved and the time of the Legislature economized, 
 whilst keeping as heretofore the power of discus&ioa 
 and veto on all Church measures.
 
 15 
 
 Some such plan waa proposed a few years ago by 
 the Bishop of London, and has since been actively 
 promoted by the Bishop of Carlisle and Convocation. 
 The more the proposal is studied the more I believe 
 it will commend itself to all fair and reasonable per- 
 Bonsi, onder the altered circumstances and constitution 
 of the Honse oi Commons, as a just solution of many 
 difficulties which mar content and progress. Like 
 other proposals which at last have been adopted, this 
 one has to run the gauntlet of adverse criticism from 
 friends and foes, who at once start up to suggest all 
 possible and impossible impediments to its acceptance 
 by Parliament and the Nation. But this should not 
 deter others who are convinced of its utility and 
 practicability from persistent effort to secure its final 
 acceptance. Depend upon it the Church of England 
 will becure fair consideration and support for its plans 
 of Government and reform from Parliament, as 
 readily as the smaller and multifarious religious bodies 
 cf the country have secured it, so soon as its mem- 
 bers prove, not only that they have right on their 
 tide, but are determined to make worldly politics 
 and party discipline give place to the promotion of 
 the welfare and extension of the Church. 10. 
 
 DISESTABLISHMENT NO SECURER OF UNITY. 
 
 It is folly to suppose that our social troubles and 
 religions differences would be lessened or destroyed 
 by the destruction of the National Church, or by 
 redacing it to the level of the 130 or 150 pects around. 
 We have the high authority of a learned Scotch 
 Divine given in the Times of November 11, for stating 
 that almost all the ecclesiastical divisions of the Old 
 World are perpetuated in the United States, and some 
 new ones have been originated : " He certainly" said 
 the Professor to his Divinity Class " had not seen cr 
 heard of anything in the United States calculated to 
 make him believe that disestablishment was a cure 
 for Ecclesiastical division." 
 
 The example of Ireland is not an encouragement 
 to join Rome on the one hand, or the Liberation 
 Society and the multitude of competing sects on the 
 other, for the promotion of peace and goodwill, or for 
 the extension of the true faith of Christ, or the union 
 of the Churches. 
 
 If it be true, as one in high authority and influence 
 has written to me lately, that " Infidelity, Indiffer- 
 ence and Vice are far rifer than they have been for 
 centuries" — and to a great extent more optimist 
 brethren agree with this sad statement — the remedy 
 rather is to revert to the old paths of faith and duty, 
 and try to strengthen our legislature, our Universi- 
 ties and Schools for good, by imbuing them with a 
 more Church-like religions spirit: by strengthening 
 not weakening the bonds which hold Church and 
 State together : by helping still to sustain our desig- 
 nation as a Christian nation. 
 
 The spirit of worldliness and unbelief, of violence 
 and discord, of lust and lawloseness, rampant in this
 
 i6 
 
 BO-called enlightened 19th century, is not to be 
 exorcised by attenuating our Christian faitb, 
 expunging our creeds, destroying the notes and 
 marks and authority of the pure and Apostolic branch 
 of Christ's Church existing in this land in uuion 
 with the State. Before we agree to leave our 
 moorings and launch this Church and nation on the 
 wide shoreless stormy sea of secularism and infidelity 
 —before we separate Church and State in the vain 
 hope of more liberty, spirituality and unity, we do 
 well to consider what is passing in other lands, and 
 wait with patience to see the end of their hitherto 
 unsatisfactory experiments. 
 
 We may well think once, twice, thrice, and a good 
 many more times, before we join the ranks of 
 those who would sweep away with the besom of 
 destruction our grand old National Chuich. 
 
 VOLTJNTAET ASPKCTS OF THB CHUECH OF ENGLAND. 
 
 After all, the Church of England is the greatest 
 voluntary Church in the world, the Church too of the 
 vast majority of the country, its very enemies bearing 
 witness thereto, by their persistent efforts to prcTent 
 an honest personal religious census in England being 
 taken by the Government. 
 
 To supplement its endowments, which were never 
 given by the State, the Church receives by free gifts 
 from its own members, about five millions and a half 
 Bterling every year, — far more than her endowments, 
 which altogether are not three millions and a half. 
 
 And this huge voluntary contribution she expends 
 on schools and charities, on Church institutions and 
 the poor, on church building and ministry and service, 
 on Home and Foreign Missions. 
 
 The Church of England is not only the great 
 religious institution of the land but the great provider 
 of education and social charity. Surely it would be 
 akin to madness, for members within or foes without, 
 to destroy the national character of this grandest 
 and noblest of the institutions of our land, the oldest 
 and most beneficent ; so intimately bound up with 
 its history and welfare. Rather let us choose the 
 better part, to defend and extend this mighty engine 
 for good, whilst we endeavour honestly and earnestly 
 to correct abuses and defects in her management and 
 perfect her organization and efficient action. In the 
 words of John Wesley to his preachers I would say to 
 all " Be Church of England men btill. Do not cast 
 away the peculiar glory put upon you and frustrate 
 the design of Providence." 11. 
 
 IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES IN THE ARCHDEACONRT, 
 
 But I mast hasten to a conclusion. 
 
 The last seventeen years have seen great changes 
 and improvements in our midst. We have now 
 established in this Archdeaconry and Diocese means, 
 societies and organizations, of the most varied kinds, 
 for the details of which I need but refer to our Ely
 
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 Diocesan Calendar and to the Conference and othtr 
 reports annually circulated. — Faithfully, wisely, and 
 persistently employed, in conjunction with our 
 parochial machinery, our restored Churches, our 
 religious day and Sunday Schools, with improved, 
 more frequent and elastic services for young and 
 old : more aciive, energetic, self-denying miniftry ; 
 aided by a more free and liberal employment of the 
 spiritual gifts of our faithful laity, it is impossible but 
 with the Divine Blessing, we should win more and 
 more the hearts and sympathies of rich and poor. 
 
 Sometimes indeed I seem to observe, here and 
 there, a lack of hearty self sacrificing zeal, an absence 
 of energy and determination, of due thought and 
 careful preparation sadly injurious to efficient 
 ministry and acceptable service. 
 
 SUGGESTED METHOD OF WORK, 
 
 Brethren of the Clergy, now more than ever the 
 Parish Priest and his assistant Curates and helpers, 
 should be seen visiting their flocks from house to 
 house, warning here, encouraging there, carrying in 
 every possible way by look, word and act, in public 
 and private life, the message of Salvation, through 
 the redemption which is in Christ Je&us our Lord : 
 and feeding with the Bread of Life, the bodies, souls, 
 and spirits of those who have been solemnly by the 
 law of this Church and Realm committed to their 
 charge. The more we feel or see that others, openly 
 or secretly, are striving to lure our flocks to other and 
 alien pastures, or to render them discontented with 
 their own ; the more we should pray and watch and 
 strive, in conjunction with our lay helpers, the 
 Churchwardens, district visitors, missionary collectors, 
 day and Sunday school teachers, communicants and 
 others like minded, to attract and keep them within 
 the fold of the Church, and bring all who have been 
 committed to our charge to such ripeness and perfect- 
 nesa of faith in Christ, and such devotion to the 
 Church, that there be no room in our parishes for 
 error in religion, diversity of worship, or vicionsness 
 of life. 
 
 Recent Church legislation has given far greater 
 liberty than formerly for the arrangement and provi- 
 sion of services, in Church and Mission House, in 
 public and private places, so as to meet all needs by 
 the most varied machinery. 
 
 Withal, the greater freedom of worship ia our 
 restored Churches, the deeper feeling which has been 
 growiig that we arc one family in Christ, asd that 
 the Parish Church should be the House of all, the 
 place of common worship, with as little distinction as 
 possible, should encourage Clergy and Laity, to try to 
 meet the spiritual wants of all the parishioners accord- 
 ing to the doctrine and worship and discipline of the 
 Church of England. Variety of services, therefore, fre- 
 quent and varied opportunities of Holy Communion, 
 publiccatechizing, children's services, regalarconflcma-
 
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 tion,Gommanicantand Bible classes, special services and 
 addresses to men, and to women, and to servants at 
 suitable hours separately, the formation of Church 
 guilds, Sunday school associations, missionary 
 branches, Ctiurch of Eq gland temperance societies — 
 these are some of the many ways in which good 
 work may be done and oar people trained, encouraged, 
 united in Christian knowledge, in holy living, in true 
 sanctified Church life, in vigorous Christian efEort. 
 
 PAROCHIAL MISSIONS. 
 
 I would also venture strongly to recommend, from 
 personal trial and experience, the holding every few 
 years of a Parochial mission in each coanlry parisn or 
 group of parishes, whereby the old message of the 
 Gospel and its blessed influences through the instru- 
 mentality of our Church, her ordinances and sacra- 
 ment?, may be the more strikingly brought home, not 
 only for the conversion of the openly profane, the 
 careless, and the vicious ; but for the strengthening, 
 refining, perfecting of the more regular and godly of 
 our congregations. 
 
 The al arming symptoms of our time when Atheism 
 stalks abroad with brazen face, encouraged rather 
 than opposed by some who would fain free us Church- 
 men, as they piously declare, from state fetters, that 
 we may be more spiritually minded and more faithful 
 to our Heavenly Lord and King, should make us, not 
 only more wary in these dangerous days, but more 
 devoted to duty, more anxious to make full proof of 
 our ministry, more determined by God's help hence- 
 forth, in life and conversation and ministry, and in 
 the employment of our own and others spiritual gifts, 
 to he wholly faithful to Him who has distinctly 
 called us to high duty and service in the cause of His 
 mystical body the Church. 
 
 Brethren, Clergy and Laity, be not faithless, but 
 believing. Go on resolutely m the path of holy duty, 
 for Christ's sake and for the Church which He has 
 purchased with his own most precious Blood. Does 
 not His Gracious Promise encourage us amidst all our 
 responsibilities, trials and sufferings for Hi« sake : 
 " Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee 
 a crown of Life." 
 
 DEATHS AND SEMOVAIS— FEESH CALLS TO 
 FAITHFULNESS. 
 
 Since I became Archdeacon, two thirds of the 
 parishes in my charge have changed their authorized 
 Pastors. Death has removed many dear and faithful 
 labourers. Clergy and Laity, in this part of the 
 Vineyard of the Church. We miss the well-known faces 
 of some who have cheered us in the past, who were 
 foremost amongst tbeir fellows in good works, who 
 were ready to give their time and abilities, their means 
 and influence to improve our organization, to increase 
 our Diocesan and Miesion Funds, to give vigour, 
 freshness, life, to our parish services, our choral
 
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 festivals, our ruridecanal and diocesan conferences 
 our Convocation, and to all other efforts and means 
 suggested for the active promotion and extension of 
 the welfare and benefits of the people through the 
 National Church. 12. , t, - 
 
 Their reward is with the most High. Be it our 
 part to be encouraged by their good example, to be 
 warned if need be by their partial failures. 
 
 Oar time is short. Let us prepare ourselves 
 then with all seriousness and alacrity for the 
 day when we too muat give up the account of our 
 mioigtry and stewardship, that we may do it with joy 
 and not with grief at the call of our Divine Master and 
 Lord, who is ready to judge the Quick and the Dead 
 at His appearing and His Kingdom : to whom With 
 the Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed all glory, 
 power, praise and dominion for ever. Amen. 
 
 In the afternoon there was a Conference for two 
 hours of the Clergy and Laity at the Guildhall, 
 which was well attended. There was a very iater- 
 esting discussion carried on with respect to the 
 operation of the New Burial Act and Church works 
 and wants in the Archdeaconry. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 1. For Tables of Fees and duties of Officers, sec Ely 
 Diocesan Calendar. Procurations or Synodals are small 
 ecclesiastical fees payable by the Clergy and others. 
 
 2. The Church Schools of Cambridge provide for 6060 
 children at an annual expense of more than £1000. bee 
 Report of Church of England Primary Schools of Cambndge 
 for 1879—80. 
 
 .3. Board Rates in this county are sometimes higher— in 
 Haverhill reaching to 2s. 6d. in the pound. 
 
 4. 15,000 Clergy protested against the measure; also 
 many Church Donors of land, several Diocesan Conferences, 
 our own amongst them, &c. 
 
 5. The Bishop in his recent Pastoral prescribes for use 
 the alternative services agreed on by Convocation in 1879, 
 and gives advice upon certain points of the New Burial Act 
 and Consecration of Ground. 
 
 6 "The place for noting by whom the ceremony was 
 performed should be left vacant, and the words certifaed 
 under the Burials Amendment Act, 1880,' be written along 
 the bottom of the particular entry."— ^ee Pastoral. 
 
 7. See valuable pamphlet on "The New Burial Act. 
 What it does and what it does not do," with Text of the 
 Act by Rev. A. T. Lee, Secretary of Church Defence Institu- 
 tion, 9, Bridge-street, Westminster, S.W. Pnte Gd. 
 
 This Institution deserves increased support. Its monthly 
 organ, The National Church, price Id., is full of mterest.
 
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 S. " The sweeping revolutionary and confiscating pro- 
 posals " referied to will be found in appendix D of an able 
 book, " The Englishman's Brief on behalf of His Na^^- 
 Church," published at Is. or Is. 6d., by S. P. C. K., Kbroth 
 nmberland-avenue, Charing-cross. 
 
 9. Tor further proof see abore work, p.p. 80 to 9fi. 
 
 10. See Draft Bill prepared by the Lower House of Con- 
 vocation in 1678, called "An Act to provide Facilities for 
 the Ajnendment from time to time of the Rites and Cere- 
 monies of the Church of England." 
 
 11. " "Wesley not a Wesleyan." Tract, price Id., by Kev. 
 A. A. Dawson, Rector of Ne'cton, Norfolk. 
 
 The works of the Heme Re-union Society, published by 
 Wells Gardner, London, supply important iif ormation and 
 suggestion. 
 
 12. Amongst others may be specially noted the following 
 who have been taken from us during the year, three out of 
 the four with much suddenness, Clement Francis, Esq., 
 Canon Birkett, Eev. J. Kempthome, and W. T. Crole, Esq., 
 so well known at our Choral gatherings. 
 
 •»• The following Charges of the Archdeacon of Ely are 
 published by Deighton, Bell, and Co., Cambridge, and are 
 as follows : 
 
 Church Organization and Efficient Ministry, 1866. 
 
 Church Union and Progress, 1867. 
 
 Hints to Chmchwardens, 1868. 
 
 The New Church Rate Act, 1869. 
 
 The New Education Act, 1S70. 
 
 Responsibilities of Churchwardens, 1871. 
 
 Church Defence an Urgent Duty, 1872. 
 
 Church Extension and Religious Education, 1872. 
 
 Some Practical Suggestions, 1874. 
 
 Timely Warnings, 1875. 
 
 Diocesan Fund. Temperance Education, 1876. 
 
 Past Efforts. 1878. 
 
 The Outlook, 1880. 
 
 New Bnrial Act and Chorch Legislation, 1880. 
 
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