Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-06-01

OF North America, from the w e.
Indies, from Southern and Centra
Africa, from India and Ceylon, fron
China and Borneo, from Australia
New Zealand, and from the Soutl
: Pacific sea. The numbers were no
: great, but they represented larg
4 colonies in every portion of tn
world, all speaking the Englisl
. tongue, and all of one heart anC
voice, as Ministers and Pastors O
the Anglican church. / venture t,
) say that there was an undivided
feeling, as there was an outspoker
utterance for the true Christian anC
Catholic faith, and against all at
: tempts to water itdown by rational
! istic heresieS, or to make il turbid by
ultramOntane novelties. A grea'
end was attained in bringing togeth.
er, from the four corners of the
earth, men who were of one mind
and one soul, and who by theil
very concourse were pledging them
selves, in all coming time, to stand
by the Church, their common
mother, in contending for the faith,
for the truth, and for the love OF
Christ. We may not doubt that the
approaching Synod will accomplish
even more than the first one.
There are great questions which
must be settled. Questions of the
establishment of, and terms of, in
tercOmmunion with other churches /;
the relation of the Missionary Epis-
copate in foreign lands, and es-
pecially some plan for regulating
representative synodical action
among the different portions of our
communion.
THE LATE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD.
We cannot speak of the Lambeth
Conference without deploring the
death Of Bishop Selwyn. He was
a great man and noble Bishop. /
am in no way disrespectful to the
Bishops, either individually or col
lectiyely, when l say that by his
death the most important member
of the Synod is gone. He is the
only Bishop of the English church
who has .feU the grandeur of the
American Church; none but he
could so well represent the Epis-
cOpate on both sides of the At
lantic. / respectfully suggest to
this convention the propriety of
appointing a committee to draw
up suitable resolutions to be for
forwarded to His Grace the Arch
Bishop of Canterbury, expressing
its sense of the loss the whole
Church has sustained in the death
of the Lord Bishop of Lichfield. l
shall not be able to attend the APP
preaching Lambeth Conference. My
own home duties are too pressing;
my deep interest in the next meet
ing of the Board of Trustees of the
University of the South, therefore,
although my presence had been
secured for the 9Th Of June, i have
decided that my duty requi-
res me to remain at home. But i do
rejoice that SO many of our Bishops
are going. 1t is good for them to
see Just what the Church has done
for England, that they may be
made to realize the work of the
Church in our own land.
1.-THE Church." says DIR. SOuthey,
"has rescued us first from heathen-
ism and then from papal idOlatries
and superstition it has saved us
from temporal as well as spiritual
disposition. We owe to it our
moral and intellectual character as
a nation, muchOf our private hap
piness, much of our public strength"
1t has been my privilege to go in |
and out among the clergy and laity |
of the English Church, and to see
the great work that is being done |
to-day. The evidence of her labors
is on every side; in the colleges and |
halls of learning she has found |
ed in her literature, the glory of |
the world, a treasure of genius and |
learning which shall endure to the |
end of time, in her numberless |
charitable institutions, in the |
myriads of children which she is
educating in her schools and train
ing up to habits Of industry and |
virtue in the temples she has reared |
to the living God, and in the
millions who tread their sacred |
floors as devoted wOrshippers to
whom their due portion of the
bread of life is faithfully administer
ed, in the Scriptural liturgy which
is her language, in the scriptural /
articles which are her law, and in
the holiness of her unceasing offices
in which, like tender mother, she
watches over every step of her chill
dren during their earthly pilgrim
age, and administers to their
spiritual necessities from the cradle
to the tomb. "GOd is in the midst
of her, she shall not be moved" /
desire especially to call your atten-
tiOn to a subject which was ever
prominent in the mind of my
revered predecessor during his
whole Episcopate-Christian educa-
cion.
Time and again in addresses to the
congregations hevisited, in PASTORAL
letters and in reports to the con-
ventions he earnestly called atten-
tion to this subject" So during
the whole of my own Episcopate it
has been with me q constant sub
ject of interest, of exhOrtation and of
effort. What can l say more?
Whatever weighty reasons may
have been presented to us in the
past for providing for the Christian
nurture and education of our chill
dren are, to-day, ten times intensi-
fled by the developments of the
sad times in which we live. The
very foundations of Christian truth
and moral honesty seem to be over
turned, open profigacy on the
one hand and covert crime and dis
honesty on the other, in every rank
and grade of society shake our faith
in human nature, and, happening in
such rapid succession, have almost
deprived US of all trust in our fellow
man. What parent can feel other
than the most intense solicitude in
view of the demoralized condition
of our land? What mother can fall
to feel an interest in providing for
her children a continuance of Chris
tian nurture and home influence?
Twenty years ago the earnest de-
sires and plans of our fathers in the
Church took shape in the establish
ment of the University of the South
as the Church school for the ten
Southern DiOceSes. Apparently
prostrated by the war,
yet at its close, although shorn of
all its resources, it revived mar
and has gone on year by
year, growing in strength and use
fullness, and has, within the ten ;
years of its existence, afforded safe
and sheltered home for nearly one
( hOuSan6 of Our Southern Youth |