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Excerpt from The Means of Unity: A Charge to the Clergy of the Archedeaconry of Lewers, Delivered at the Ordinary Visitation in 1842; With Notes Especially on the Institution of the Anglican Bishopric at Jerusalem, and on the Need of an Ecclesiastical Synod
When I last addrest you from this chair, I did not anticipate that I should so soon have to stand here before you again. I hoped and trusted that this year you would at length have had the benefit of an exhortation and admonition coming to you with the sanction of epi scopal authority, and that I myself should have been among the hearers and learners, instead of occupying the more arduous and less welcome post of a speaker and teacher. But through the peculiar dispensation with which it has pleased God to visit our Diocese, this ex pectation has been baf?ed. It is but a little more than two years since I was raised by the kindness of Bishop Otter to the office which places me in this position amongst you; and during those two years two Bishops of this Diocese have been laid in their graves. Bishop Otter just lived long enough to win the love of his spi ritual children, to shew us what a blessed thing it is when a faithful and loving servant of Christ is set on high as a father and ruler in the Church, to lay the founda tions of the institutions which in the present state of England are the most needed for the strengthening and spreading of Christ's Kingdom, and, by a Special and inestimable blessing, to draw our hearts together.
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