Excerpt from Review of the Rise and Progress of the Church of England in Nova-Scotia: Being a Sermon Preached Before the Honorable the Board of Governors and the Members of the University of King's College, Windsor, on the 24th June, 1858

A brief review Of our career as the witness for God, the guardian of morality, and the advocate of those social and civil virtues which bring blessings in their train, may tend to excite our gratitude and renew our sense of Obligation to more zealous labour in the sacred cause. God's past mercies should be an encouragement for the future. With His blessmg, I shall endeavour to set before you some of the more prominent features Of our history, thus adding the testimony of experience to that of mental con viction that we are members of a communion guided and taught by the Holy Ghost. If the Church - Of England, so pure in doctrine, so simple in its ritual, and so apostolic in its government, has kept pace with the secular progress of the colony, we should have cause for unmingled joy. If, on the other hand, the spiritual influence which we might have antimpated has not been acquired, and those early efforts of our ancestors have not been recompensed by SO rich a harvest as we might have hoped for, our rejoicing must be chastened by regret. While there is reason for boundless gratitude, there is ground for deep humiliation. For the measure of prosperity vouchsafed us, let us praise God while we have our being; for the want of success by which our course has now and then been marked, let us search out faithfully the cause. We shall find it in the shortcomings of professing Christians within our pale, whether clergy or people, and not either in the constitution or doctrines Of our beloved and long-honoured Zion.

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