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Excerpt from A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Oxford, at the Visitation Held June 1833
Parting information, exhortation, and advice on matters connected with the state of our Church generally, and with the peculiar wants or ad vantages of the Diocese in which our labours are engaged, that so, from time to time, our judgments may be guided, and our exertions quickened in thatsacred cause in which we, that is, our time - our energies - our mental pow ers - our bodily labours - our talents - and our thoughts have been enlisted. The Opportunities on these occasions offered to us are far more deeply important than can justify the wasting them in complimentary declarations of satis faction: there are ever springing up fresh oh jects of local interest, fresh channels to which our ministerial labours may be turned, and fresh cause for the mutual exchange of advice and information. Again, in accordance with this view of the beneficial effects of these annual meetings, the season of their recurrence seems to each one of us as a time admirably suited for our review of the sincerity and success which may have accompanied our ministerial labours: at such a time our own re?ections may well be occupied-in meditating upon our feeble and ?uctuating exertions during the year last past - in reviewing the import of those solemn vows and public declarations of steadfast resolution made in humble and devout reliance on God's help and grace at our Ordination - in referringto that beautiful and affecting service in which at our admission into the ministry we took part and in refreshing the memory and awakening the conscience by there searching out what zeal should in?uence, what occupations should inter est, what motives should guide, and of what manner of Spirit should be the ordained Min ister of our apostolic Church. A day like this too may be well employed in learning, by com muning with others, various matters connected with the management of parishes and of schools, and the most acceptable and effectual method of fulfilling our ministerial engagements. In these last matters, however, details are better learned through frequent intercourse than through stated official meetings. He who would improve him self In all the practical parts of the ministerial office; he who would seek for instruction as to the best method of superintending a parish school, or the most successful manner of oh taining access to the confidence of the ignorant and af?icted, or the most effectual plan for re lieving the wants of the distressed, and pre venting the demoralizing evil of that poverty which is the offspring of improvidence; he who would improve himself, and gain information on the many details in which it is, if not necessary, at least most useful, that a clergyman should be instructed, need scarcely be reminded, that what.
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