Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from God's Works in the Time Past: A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Quebec, on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ordination of the Lord Bishop, August 2, 1863
Any ministry of fifty years' duration, be it in a Sphere how ever limited, and on a scale however humble, forms an integral, often an important, portion of the history of the Church of God. For, that Church, not being a mere mass or mob, but a well ordered and compacted army with banners, finds its appropriate emblem not in a heap of disintegrated sand, swept together by winds and waves but, rather, in some well organized and living body, where, though each member is complete in its own formation, and has its own peculiar line of action, still, it is. Jointed and articulated into that body as a necessary part of its unity, and, therefore, of its life. And thus, the Church's life is made up of individual lives; the Church's history is composed of individual histories the Church's ministry among the nations is the aggregate of individual ministries.
Every separate ministry, then, has a place, a. Position, a meaning in the Church, which lifts it out of its mere local surroundings and connexions, giving it a life, and investing it with a dignity, which the careless observer can never estimate. When moreover, this ministry has been held in trust.
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