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...mind. Our people had been carried off
into wretched infidelity by assaults
directed, for the most part, against these
mere and oftentimes false technicalities
of religion; and the success of such
attacks was supposed to be the overthrow
of Christianity itself. The broad sweep
of Rev Ravenscroft, Otey, and many of their
noble compeers, brushed away these para-
sitical assailants together, and presented
to the people the truth in its majestic
simplicity, untouched and unimpaired.

Such a man was admirably fitted to
lay the foundations of a new see: and
he has laid them, broad-deep-solid.
On the corner stone of this Diocese

"His name is registered in remembrance,
For to endure by long continuance."

In the pulpit he was "the strong man
armed." His eloquence was that telling
mastery of a genuine orator which
works its way straight through to the
understanding and the heart; forcing
conviction upon the one, and moving to
action the other. No "solemn fooling"
was visible there--none of the blandish-
ments of popular oratory. Profound
thought--varied research--argument
clear, cogent, solid--a diction often ele-
gant, always marked, with strength and
dignity--an elocution and manner pecu-
liarly his own, bold, earnest, striking--a
presence noble, imposing, dignified--
these were his characteristics as a
preacher. Every thought, every word,
every movement was but the interpreter
of the [?] reality of the man.

The leaves of the [?] plant yield
not their aroma until they have been
crushed.

Suffering is the Divine dispensation
under which the highest graces of the
spirit are developed, and the character
of the children of God is purified and
exalted.

The Bishop had been thoroughly
trained in the school of affliction. Do-
mestic bereavement, prostration of
bodily strength by overwork and con-
stant exposure, with consequent pro-
tracted physical suffering--disappoint-
ment in well-devised plans for the ex-
tension of the Church, and for the pro-
motion of sound learning and religious
education in his own Diocese--these
were a part of the severe discipline to
which he was subjected.

Two beloved daughters were snatched
away, within the period of a few months,
by the ruthless hand of death. A son
in the gospel--the gifted Alston--whom
he had trained, with a father's solicitude
and affection, for the ministries of the
[?], came from his parish work to lie
down and die in his house and in his
arms. Another, who was as a son in his...