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May 21, 1877.

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Liackhall’s Livery Stable attached.

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Prince Edward Island STEAMERS.

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teams

Nova Scotia.

Leave §Chariottctown for Pictou every MonDAY, WEDNESDAY, TiuRSsDay, & SaTURDAY mornings, at 5 o'clock, con- necting there at 10 a. m., with train for Hatifax. Fare to Halifax, $4.10. Picnic Parties of Twenty and upwards can obtain Return Tickets at Charlotte- town Office to Pictou and back same day $1.00 each.

Returning to Charlottet own.

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ave Pictou for Hawkesbury every Mon- pay and THuRspay, on arrival of morning train from Halifax, connecting both ways with stage and Steamer ** Neptune,” to and from Sydney and Bras d’Or Lake.

Returning to Pictou same nights, connect- ius with 10 a.m. Train Tugspay and Fri- DAY for Halifax.

New Brenswick, Ganada and United States,

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Returoing, leaves SHebIac every day (Sundays excepted) on arrival of day train trom St. Joux, for Summerside; connect there, without delay, with ain for Char- lottetown. Also, leaves Stmmerside for Charlottetown every Saturday evening, about 6 o’elock,.

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FREIGHT carried at moderate rates and as low as by any other route.

EGGS in boxes and _barrels handledjwith the greatest care.

SAVING TIME, only one business day used in reaching Boston, by leaving here Saturday Morning and catching steamer at Hal.fax, and arriving at Boston iMonday morning.

LEAVE CHARLOTTETOWN Eivery "Thursday,

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Ch’town, June 7.91877

Parks’ Cotton Yarns,

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A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE PROVINCIAL SYNOD OF CANADA, IN CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, MON* TREAL, BY JOHN, LORD BISHOP OF FREDERIC- TON, ON SEPTEMBER |2tH, 1877,

Psalm xlviii, vy. 12, 13,14. Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever.

Those who are as old as | am, may res member that once it was taken for grant- ed, that the whole strength of the Church lay in its being an Established Church ; a Church firmly bound tothe State by golden fetters, of which St. Paul and St. Peter knew nothing.

In those halcyon days, there were occa sional meetings on behalf of the society (as it was called) scantily attended. A safe, moderate and wealthy person was usually invited to preach, and discoursed on the security of the Church of England, and the evils of dissent. At a small as semblage afterwards held, after a few well turned compliments to each other, and a brief glance at foreign lands, which no one bad any intention of visiting and of which few knew ahything, the meeting separated in the full spirit of Mons. de Talleyrand’s direction, ‘‘above ail, sir, no zeal.’ It was taken for granted that Christianity and the Establishment were synonymous terms. One can scarcely think it possible, that in one man’s lifetime the aspect of things in the Church should have so completely changed. Hundreds of parishes in those days had only one service on Sunday; and thousands found the church doors closed against them all the week. It seemed that man was made to worship his Creator one day in seven. More than this would be fatal to the Protestant religion.

Those were days in which [. can well re- member, a8 a boy, the lordly faculty pews, in which there was abundance of room for the owners, but none for the poor, and in which the wealthy proprietors, if anything were too plain spoken in the sermon, stirred their fires, and rendered the oftan- sive worde inaudible. The old churches lingered on in calm decay, but no one uns derstood their architecture, and ordinary Christians could see no difference between the style of one other.

There were no bymnals in those

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age and the style of ans |;

we all rejoiced, or submitted to the feeble}

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church; fonts are restored to their original use and place, and altars, duly vested, are substituted for mean kitchen tables, and the chureb has (by God's blessing) achieved a second reformation. No longer oflering to God the meanest and the worst, ‘‘ the blind and the lame,’’ she humbly and re« verently presents to His glory the best, the costilest of all His gifts to her. We have also lived to see a still more qestons reform, for the Chureh has ful- led her great Master’s charge, and has bem mindful of her duty; extending her- into all lands, giving to independent

|states, and widespread colonies, what

statesmen sulleniy denied ber; linking to» gether people of all lands in the fellowship of christian love, and furnishing for an ex- ample to mankind, not the silken court liness of purple ease, but the self-sacrific- ing labors of priests, and laymen, and sisterhoods, and the courted martyrdom of & primitive bishop. Have we, then, lost any- thing by the changes? Nay, are we not intin- ite gainers? Have we not been taught no longer to lean on the promises of states- men, but on the strong arm of the present Saviour standing on the right hand of God to succor us? And | if read the mys- tical gospel history aright, that waves and storms will ever beat upon the church ship, until He rises from His throne, omni t to save, we have no cause to be dismayed by present dangers, more than by the past. ‘'O passi graviora, dabit eu uoque finem.” And thus after iland a miraculous deliver- ance, ti holy writer of this Psalm, ‘‘ with all the -pride and affection of a patriot,” with a poets anda painter's eye, bids the citizens of Zion go forth. ‘ Mark well her bulwarks,” which God has founded, which the foe has threatened, but could not des- troy; consider one by ove the glory of her sacred shrines, and tell to future genera. tions that your confidence was not mi:- placed; hand down to coming ages your great Catholic heritage whole, undetiled., unmutilated, unimpaired, for itis Jesus the Saviour who has commanded you to keep the bulwarks of His Church for Him. In venturing to offer some advice in re gerd to our present dangers, and the conso- lations which we may gather from the Di- vine Word, and from past history and ex- perience, I would say they ali point to the one great source of hope, * Hoid thee stiii

rhymes of Brady and of imitation of the genius of

The Christian year born. Hymnology was

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part of a clergyman’s reading. The Prayers book was pronouced excellent, and many & panegyric was uttered on our admirable Liturgy; but the sources of its grandeur were not investigated. Its revisions were un-

its collects, and no history of the discus. sions at the Savoy Conference set forth in full, for the benefit of all time, the temper and the desires of our opponents, and the full and explicit answers to all exceptions by those most learned champions of our Church, Saunderson, Pearson, Walton, Spar» row and Gunning. How could our Prayer- book be understood, or really valued, when its Communion office was dethroned from its proper place in Christian worship, when, instead of meeting, like the Apos tolic Christians, at an early hour to break bread every Lord’s day, and to offer the daily sacrifice of prayer and praise, Holy Communion was read, [ can hardly say celebrated, three or four times, and res ceived sometimes once a year ?

At this particular term of our history, when paralysis of spiritual life and motion seemed the pressing danger, a few earnest and good men, hearing the mutterings of a rising storm against the Church, set themselves seriously to investigate the whole history of her constitution. They

foundation on which she rested? Had her Prayer-book no link with the past? Where her orders traceable to Apostolic times? Had her bishops and clergy any authority independent of what the State could confer? Could the State, consist» ently with the enactments of Parliament itself, and the declarations of our mons archs, dictate to the church what our doctrines and our ritual should be, irres- pective of the deliberations of Convoca- tion? These inquiries were, it must be remembered, made by men unyersed in arcuitectural knowledge, who certainly were not Ritualists. But the notion of any powers wholly spiritual, and independs ent of the State, appeared so novel and so foreign to men’s minds, that men lashed themselves into fury at the thought. It would not be saying too much to describe them, like their predecessors, throwing dust into the air, and crying out, ‘‘ Away

not fit that he should live.”’

It is now possible to take a calmer view of the situation. After all this ex- traordinary tumult, we have lived to find

tices which now appear perfectly inno.

men’s minds no longer agitated by prac-

cuous. Ancient pews have been swept away, yet few murmur Ancient churches are restored to somewhat of their pristine glory, and every one rejoices, Long pro- cessions of surpliced priests are formed, even with Archbishops and Bishops at their head, to consecrate, or to celebrate the anniversary -of consecrations; thousands of earnest laymen await the entrance of the whitesrobed choir into St, Paul’s Cathedral

in supposed id. tin

enthusiasts. Liturgical studies formed no

known, no list existed of the antiquity of}

d > : . asked, whether Establishment was the real ! no man shall see the Lord? Whilst we glory

and abide patientiy upon

the d's leisure.

shall comfort thine heart

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bs without. He slept in di security, The.only danger ite re- pd to was t Apostles’ want of faith,

aod He said, “ Why are ye so fearful ? how is it that ye have no faith?” From which we learn this great lesson, that our chief dangers come from within ourselves, not from without.

Bear with me while | briefly point out some of thess dangers. May we not say that want of holiness is certainly the first ? As a body, the clergy and laity of our Caurch may perhaps compare favorably with some other Christians, but how far has the spirit of the age insensibly led us allaway from the Apostolic standard ? Are we the Epistles of Christ, known and and read of all men? Are we not only mo- derate, honest and respectable, but un- wordly, unselfish, and, so to epeak, ena+ moured of our duties? In the work of our holy calling, have weall the same untiring energy which the merchant, the lawyer,and the politician display in their several pur- suits? Do our iives reflect the image of our prayers? Are we often in communion with God? Do love and purity, meekness and uncompromising fidelity shine in ail our ways, or ia there anything of mere pro- fessional talk to be heard amongst us? Do we busy ourselves chiefly with the fussy, superticial activities of the religious world, as if committee meetings, and the forma- tionof new societies would atone for the absence of that holy heart without which

in our freedom from some special errors, peculiarly repulsive to us, and manifestly unpopular, issin under some other form, disguised as an angel of light, Pharisaical pride, contempt of othere and neglect of duty, the root of bitterness that springs up unseen, and mars the reality of our Chris- tian life? For, ofall men living, the clergy~ man has most to dread that epirit which proudly cries in the temple of God: ‘‘| thank Thee that I am not as other men are, nor even as this Papist, nor even as this Puritan.

A want of sound knowledge is another of our dangers. In the present dearth of } candidates for the ministry arising from va- | rious causes, we have too much reason to fear that unprepare'!| and unsatisfactory men will seek to rush into the ministry, not in the spirit of St. Chrysostom’s great treatise on the Priesthood ; not in the spirit of the Apostle who spent three years in Arabia, meditating on the sacred oracles, before he began to teach; not agreeable to the direction : ‘ Give thyself to reading, to meditation, to prayer,” but in the temper | of & man who looks on fluency of speech as | the sum and substance of the teaching power of the ministry, instead of being [as | it is) @ mo-t dangerous gift. lor mere fluency, uncheckel, is almost. sure to lead to want of preparation, Words | poured fourth at random neither spring. from thought, nor suggest thought, and | while the empty hearer marvels, the | thoughtful turn away in disgust, ‘‘ Nil sine labore,” said a wise heathen. ‘‘Every man according to his labour,”

and join heartily in the plain song of the

said an inspired Apostle. Why should we

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expect to acquire an adequate knowledye of our profession with less labour than other men? Why should a knowledge of French, German or Spanish be demanded

in certain lines of business, while it is sup-

posed that we cannot find time, or will not expend toil in understanding the gdgpe! in. the two languages in which the Holy Ghost appointed his servants to preach to man- kind? The terms of general salvation ara one thing, the preparation for the minisiry

is another. Asa reader, who will allow no man to read in the church but himself,

ought to read better, certainly not worse than his hearers, so an expounder of the sacred word should not be ignorant of the

idioms and terms of the language which he professes to explain to the flock, And to

say nothing of the gross mistakes into

which both preachers and hearers somes

tinves fall from ignorance of all but the authorized version, it may happen that

questions of doctrine are sériously affected

by a mistranslation, in which no true dis.

tinction is made between the present, the

aorist and the perfect tenses, or in whicls ignorance of a Hebrew idiom has been

made the subject of an idle cavil, (ne

thing 1 take to be certain, that moe labour ought to be bestowed on the ac

quisition of Scriptural knowledge, and

that in this discerning and inquisitiva age,

unless bishops, priests and laymen see the

necessity of gradually raising the standard

ot knowledge in candidates for the minis-

try (and bishops alone cannot enforce this),

great danger will accrue to the extension

and usefulness of our Church. Nor is the

want of Scriptural knowledge the only

evil from which our clergy and laity sutfer.

in the preface to our Ordination service,

our Prayer-book teaches us that we are at

historical Church. ‘- Antient authors,” thang is the writings of the Christian Fathers, are referred to as sufficient to show, to-. gether with the canonical Scriptures, that our charch government is of divine insti-

tution. It it be so, it should be reverenc~ ed accordingly. If this reference to an» tiquity be applied further to the ordin, ances and ritual of our church, it would not only supply us with @ sound and judi-~ cious guide on many vexed questions, but it would so instruct the younger clergy and the less informed among our inity, that we should have fewer dissensions among us, and scarcely any would be found banded in opposition to the canonical authority of their bishops. or clamouring: for another reform of the Prayerxbook, sa as to sweep away all distinctive doctrine from it, -doctrine which one may safe« ly say is builton the writings and prac- tice of the apostles and prophets, as well as on the continuous witness of the Holy Catholic Chnreh Such proceedings have their root (itseems to me) in ignorance.

When the priests lips keep knowledge, and freely dispense it, they may be ree moved.

But I pass on to speak of one other danger, one of our greatest, want of love. When we remember how clearly an Apostle has told us that neither eloquence, nor knowledge of gospel mysteries, nor a large measure of faith, nor thef sacrifice of our substance, nor the yielding our bodies to the flame will avail anything without love, we may tremblingly ask what is to be the end? Fierce tires of bitterness surround us, fanned by the inconsiderate zeal of eager partizans. Every one who cannob see eye to eye with ourselves is supposed to be against us, not remembering ‘hat he that is not against us may be on our part. What must be the evils of intolerance, when toleration is but the smallest part of love? To agree to differ may be necessary, when the disputes are irreconcilable; but we ought to strive fer a settlement of them as long as it is possible, without sac« rifice of Christian principle. And it is possible to place things indifferent in the rank of principle, and to push what we call principles, to the destruction of love.

We have long been accustomed to certsin differences both of interpretation of doc- trine and ritual, and if the Articles or rubrics were enlarged, and made much more stringent in one direction than they are at present, though you might bind men by “burdens, grievous to be borne,” you could not bind the freedom of the human mind. which tinds a way out of every pris- on. The power of truth is stronger than the force of law. I am well aware that in addressing youin cathedra, I do not speak ex cathedra: yet shail I not withhold my opinion that in an evil hour for the Charch of England, is was determined to stamp out one of the serious and earnest parties in our church. Rites in public worship, all

4 men, pagan or Christian, must have, and

heave always had. Our rites are directed by the rubrics of our Prayer-book, which is, and has been in limes past, constantly neglected in its plainest expressions, to the detriment of reverence aud to the promo- tion of that most fatal notion, that worship Consists in seeiag and hearing a preacher. Attention to due ritual, judiciously con- ducted, is no more than an endeavor to dis- cover the most suitable way of doing hono: to the presence of Almighty God. This Presence promised to be in the midst of us, in our prayers, our praises, in the baptism of our infants, and the celebration of our idoly Eucharist, we come to worship. it cannot. therefore, be an unfit subject oj inquiry, nor peed it disturb any Christian mind, that there should be inquiry, with what ritual, what postures of holy devo- tion, What significant and solemn symbols of our taith, we may most humbly, and most agreeably to the mind of Christ, adore our Incarnate God. Our church has provided us with an answer to such ques« tions in part—only in part, because no

rubrics are suflicicat to provide for all emergencies, and to govern this whole question, Seeimg then it must be admitted

ihat this f#real subject has reeeived scaut

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