The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-29 00:00:00

LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, &c.

" We, the archdeacons, rural deans, and undersigned
clergy of the diocese of London, on the memorable and to
us deeply affecting occasion of your lordship's retirement
from the superintendence of this diocese, desire to ap-
proach you with the expression of our most affectionate
regret.

"Our minds at such a season naturally revert to the
multitude of claims upon our respect and gratitude which
you have established by a vigilant, able, Conscientious,
and affectionate administration of the duties of your high
office. We have, in the first place, to recognise our per-
sonal obligation for the promptitude, patience, and assi-
duity with which all our applications for advice and as-
sistance have been met, and the admirable judgment
which has guided the counsels given to us.
But more especially as regards the interests of that
Church of which we have the privilege ,to be ministers,
we have to recognise your bold, ready, and powerful as-
sertion of its rights and claims in Parliament—your nu-
merous sermons, charges, and publications in reply to
its opponents, and in vindication of its discipline and
doctrines—your personal addresses at public meetings
held in behalf of the various objects most deeply affect-
ing the honour of God and the welfare of society—your
strenuous and successful labours in the cause of Chris-
tian missions—your liberal contributions for the further.
ance of the objects thus earnestly commended by you to
others—the assistance freely and munificently rendered
in the erection of churches and schools in the metropolis
and other parts of the diocese—the special erection and
endowment at your sole charge of the Church of St.
Stephen, Hammersmith—and the leading part which you
have always taken in securing the incorporation of reli-
gions with secular education in the great public institu-
tions of the country.
"The remembrance of these and other labours, by
which your lordship has largely contributed both to the
general interests of religion and to our own personal ad-
vantage and comfort, cannot but fill us with the deepest
sorrow on the contemplation of your retirement from an
office, the duties of which you have for 28. years so ad-
mirably discharged.
" We cannot bid you farewell without the expression
of our earnest desire and prayer that you may carry into
private life the cheering recollection of having left behind
you a large body of clergy and laymen deeply impressed
with the value of your guidance and sympathy—that the
Father of Mercies may bestow richly upon yourself the
consolation which you have endeavoured to impart to
others—that you may have the comfort of knowing that
your precepts and exhortations have not been lost upon
us—that the diocese whose interests you have so ear-
nestly cherished is largely prospering in the hands of
your successor—and that he has found a body of clergy
and laity prepared by their respect and affection for your-
self to co-operate in every plan which may be proposed
by him for the advancement of Christ's kingdom upon
earth, and especially for the well-being of that great
metropolis with which ;your name will be honourably
associated throughout all generations.

[Here follow—thesignatures.]

His lordship made the foilowing reply
" Reverend and dear Brethren,—l have been deeply
touched and gratified by your kind address on my in-
tended resignation of the see of London.
"I had long felt that the duties of that sea. required
' alt the energy and activity of a younger and stronger
man than myself ; and it has pleased God to visit me
with such a measure of sickness and infirmity as not
only to justify me in seeking to be relieved from a burden
which has become too heavy for me, but to impose upon
me the absolute necessity of doing so.
" An Act of Parliament has been passed enabling me
to resign my bishopric. For the provisions of that act
I have cause to be thankful ; though I must oonfess
that I would rather have seen a general measure appli•
cable, with certain safeguards, to the case of all bishops
of our Church disabled by age or infirmity from the
active discharge of their duties.
"Nothing short of a real and urgent necessity would
have induced me to take a step, which would Le painful
under any circumstances, and which is rendered peculi-
arly so by the fact of its involving my separation from a
body of clergymen with whom I have been connected by
a sacred bond of union for 28 years, whom I have always
regarded as brethren and friends, and who have always
evinced a corresponding feeling in their conduct towards

me.
" The relation of a bishop to the clergy of his diocese
presents so many occasions for as interchange of kind
acts and offices, that he may sometimes earn for himself,
by a friendly bearing towards them, a more favourable
opinion than the performance of his more public duties
might seem to justify. It is, therefore, very gratifying
to me to be assured that your kind feeling towards me
has arisen from both considerations.
" The long experience of my earlier clerical life as
curate and incumbent gave me peculiar facilities for
knowing the duties and appreciating the difficulties and
wants of the parochial clergy. If at any time I have
failed to show in my conduct towards them that I hal
profited by such experience, I hope they will believe
that such failure was not occasioned by any want of real
sympathy with them in their labours and trials.
" Let me add that I am not conscious of having ever
allowed any difference of opinion upon matters not
affecting the foundation or essential doctrines of our holy
faith to influence my conduct towards any individual of
my clergy, but that I looked only to his faithfulness and
diligence in winning souls to Christ.
" I earnestly hope and pray that the kindly feelings
which you have at all times manifested towards me may
cheer and facilitate the labours of your new diocesan.
I have ventured to assure him that the attachment which
I had reason to believe the clergy of the diocese felt
towards me would, I was persuaded, induce them to
receive my successor with cordial respect and deference.
"Suffer me, brethren, in addressing you for the last
time as your bishop, to remind you of the high and
weighty trust committed to each of you by the Chief
Shepherd of the sheep. I may specially urge on you
the importance of that, which I dwelt uuon at some
length in my charge delivered at my last visitation, the
constant personal intercourse which ought to subsist
between a clergyman and his flock. Nothing can ade-
quately supply the place of a zea!ous and active body of
parochial clergymen, carrying the truths and consolations
of religion to the homes of their neighbours, especially the
poor, and so awakening them by degrees to a sense of
their spiritual wants, and exciting in them a longing for
the more solemn and authoritative teaching of the Church
in her offices and in the public preaching of God's word.
At present there is little prospect of such an increase in
the number of parochial clergymen as may fully supply
this need ; but I am thankful for what has already been
done in the way of church extension, and earnestly hope
that the work may go forward with increasing energy
and success, and it is one which I heartily recommend as
deserving of your cordial co-operation and support. I
believe we may look for assistance and encouragement
from the Christian community, so long as they see that
we are faithful to cur Ministerial trust and to the prin-
ciples of our Reformed Church ; combating, on the one
hand, infidelity, ignorance, and vice ; and, on the other
hand, guarding our flocks against the errors and super-
stitions of Rome, by whom the Church of England is
justly regarded as the firmest bulwark of Protestantism.
"In conclusion, brethren, I commend you to the grace
of God, and earnestly pray that the Holy Spirit may
abundantly bless your labours for the good of that
Church over which He has made you overseers, to feed
it with the wholesome food of His pure Word and Sacra-
ments ; and that, by your sound doctrine and godly
example, you may save both yourselves and them that
hear you.
"And now, desiring your continued prayers on my
behalf, I bid you, reverend and dear brethren, an affec-
tionate farewell. (Signed) "C. J. LONDON.
" Fulham Palace, Sept. 27, 1851."

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