We shall have fewer pretended articles of faith. We shall have more allowed diversity of opinion. We shall be more anxious to know of a brother, whether he have the Spirit of Christ, than whether he speak precisely according to our Shibboleth; and we shall not recoil from a day, when we must own as among the faithful and the accepted, those who on earth have walked not, in all things, according to our will.

intolerance thus produced by an imaginary exemption from error, is far from being confined to the Church of Rome. And hence we may justly infer that the same inquisitorial power which has been exercised by the Church of Rome, would be exercised by others who set up similar pretensions, if the means of employing that power were once at their command."—" Lectures on Interpretation of the Bible," as quoted in the Bampton Lectures of the present Bishop of Hereford. Bishop Marsh's work, entitled "Comparative View of the Churches of England and Rome," is one which well deserves attention in our day.

121

TEN YEARS REVIEWED.

FIFTH CHARGE.*

BRETHREN :

Since I was first called to the post which I now occupy, a period of ten years has elapsed, and it may not be uninteresting or unprofitable to review briefly this period in the history of the Diocese, and to endeavor to derive from its leading incidents some hints for our future guidance.

In reverting to the names attached to the testimonial of my election, drawn up in May, 1845, I find that out of seventy-six clergymen who were then members of the Convention and sharing in its deliberations, nine are no longer among the living; and that of the ninety-three parishes then represented, twenty-one have been deprived by death of one or more of the deputies then present. Such facts constitute a startling call to work while we have time. The mutability of all things connected with the Church Militant, especially in this country, is still further illustrated by the fact, that of the seventy-six clergymen just referred to, only one-half are now resident in this Diocese, and in more than one instance they have removed in the interim, but have since returned. * Delivered May, 1855.