I have already glanced at Ireland's contributions to the various forms of religious force in Canada. It will now be my duty to write of the representative men not already mentioned, who, according to their light, have laboured amongst us in the most important of all causes. The same impartiality which has obtained, I hope, throughout, must prevail here. My task is to chronicle, not criticise; to give facts, not to discuss tenets; still less to harmonize discordant voices to which there may yet be a master note whereof we know nothing.

"Were the wax

Moulded with nice exactness, and the heav'n

In its disposing influence supreme,

The lustre of the seal should be complete:
But nature renders it imperfect ever,

Resembling thus the artist in her work,

Whose faultering hand is faithless to his skill."*

One of the latest elevations to the Episcopal Bench in the Church of England will not be thought to be improperly brought within the scope of this book. Brevet Major Fuller, of the 41st Foot, was a scion of a well-known and highly respectable family in the County Cork. He came to Canada with his regiment, some years previous to the war of 1812. He died at Adolphustown, in 1814. His son, Thomas Brock Fuller, the future bishop of Niagara, was born in the garrison of Kingston, on the 16th of July, 1810.

He lost both parents while yet a mere child, and was left dependent on a widowed aunt, a sister of his mother, who was a daughter of Captain Poole England, and cousin of Sir Richard England, who commanded the third division in the Crimean war. He received his early education at Kingston and at York, at Lundy's Lane, at Niagara, and again at York. He studied divinity at Chambly, Lower Canada, and was ordained on the 8th of December, 1833. He was immediately sent to Adolphustown, as the locum tenens for the missionary of that mission, who had gone for eight months to Ireland, his native country. The following year he was sent as Second Assistant Minister of Christ Church, Montreal, and missionary at Lachine. While in Montreal, he, in 1835, married Cynthia, eldest daughter of the late Samuel Street,

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of Niagara Falls. In 1836 he was sent as missionary to Chatham, Upper Canada, where he remained for five years, the only clergyman within a radius of forty miles. Whilst here he published a tract entitled, "Thoughts on the Present State and Future Prospects of the Church of England in Canada, with Hints for some Improvements in her Ecclesiastical Arrangements." At the time there was no Synod of the Church of England anywhere. In this tract he suggested the formation of a Synod. He said: "We require some change; a change which, under God, will meet our wants and narrow our difficulties. No change will effect this, less than one, by which we may be enabled, together with lay delegates from our parishes, frequently to meet in General Council." There being no printing press west of Toronto, he had this little treatise printed at Detroit, and a copy sent to the Bishop and each clergyman of the Diocese. The result was, that in 1853 the first Synod was constituted in Toronto, and now there is not a colony of the British Empire which has not followed the example of the Diocese of Toronto.

In 1840 he was appointed Rector of Thorold, and in 1849 Rural Dean. Here he was mainly instrumental in building a very fine stone church. Most if not all the money was supplied by him. When he was nominated Rector of St. George's Church, Toronto, he presented the fine edifice at Thorold to his congregation, by whom he was much beloved. In 1867 he was appointed Archdeacon of Niagara, and on St. Patrick's Day, 1875, he was almost unanimously elected Bishop of the new Diocese of Niagara. The Right Reverend Prelate has published tracts on "Religious Excitement," "Systematic Beneficence," "Forms of Prayer," and on other subjects connected with his profession.

The Right Reverend John Travers Lewis, LL.D., the Bishop of Ontario, is from the County Cork, where he was born in 1826. His father, the late Rev. John Lewis, M.A., was formerly Rector of St. Anne's, Shandon, in the City of Cork. Bishop Lewis graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, as senior moderator in ethics and logic. He was gold medallist and obtained the degrees of LL.D., B.D. and D.D. He was ordained in 1847, and soon after came to Canada. For four years he laboured in the Parish of Hawkesbury At the end of that time he was appointed Rector of Brockvil

where he worked for seven years. In 1862 he was elected Bishop of the new Diocese of Ontario, and took up his episcopal residence at Kingston. After some time he removed to Ottawa. When elected Bishop he was, perhaps, the youngest Prelate on this continent. He has written "The Church of the New Testament," "Does the Bible require Retranslation?" "The Primitive Mode of Ordaining Bishops," and several other works. He is considered "high," but his sermons are said to be evangelical.

The Rev. William McMurray was born in the parish of Seagoe, near Portadown, on the 19th September, 1810, and was brought to Canada by his parents in the following year. The family settled in York. When eight years of age he entered the school of Dr. Strachan, with whom he afterwards read as student of Divinity and under whose care he remained until he was ordained. In 1832, when he was yet a year under the canonical age, he was appointed missionary by the Society for Converting and Civilizing the Indians, as well as by Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, to Sault Ste. Marie, then almost an unknown land, for the purpose of establishing missions among the Chippewa Indians, on the north shores of Lakes Superior and Huron. If it is asked why Sir John Colborne should have interfered with the choice of a young missionary, the answer is that the Government at that time had the appointment of clergymen to the Indian missions. In the August of 1833, Mr. McMurray was ordained, and in the following month he married Charlotte Agenebugoqua, the third daughter of the late John Johnston, Esq., of whose family an interesting account is given by Mrs. Jameson. This marriage must have greatly aided the influence of Mr. MeMurray with the Indians, and he succeeded in establishing a flourishing mission. In 1838 in consequence of the illness of his wife he had to leave. In the five years he baptized one hundred and sixty Indians, and admitted forty devout members of the church to the Holy Communion. In 1840 he succeeded the Rev. John Millar, as Rector of Ancaster. In February, 1867, he was appointed Rural Dean of Lincoln and Welland by the late Bishop of Toronto, and on the setting apart of the Diocese of Niagara, Archdeacon of the new Diocese by the Bishop of Niagara.

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important missions. In 1853, he was delegated to the Episcopal Church of the United States, to ask assistance for Trinity College. While on this mission, Trinity College, Hartford, conferred on him the degree of M.A., and Columbia College, that of D.D. In 1854, he was requested by Dr. Strachan to go to Quebec to look after the interests of the Church, by watching the Clergy Reserves Bill. He did good service, as may be gathered from Sir Francis Hincks' pamphlet. When he returned to Toronto, Trinity College conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L., and appointed him a member of its Council. In 1864, he went to England, to ask assistance for the "infant University" from the Church in the mother country. He was received with open arms by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and by the bishops, clergy and laity, as well as by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Soon after his arrival in London, a very high honour was conferred on him. The present Archbishop of Canterbury, then Bishop of London, appointed him special preacher at the services under the Dome of St. Paul's, on which occasions over seven thousand persons were present. He was also admitted as an honorary member of the Athenæum Club. His mission to England was most successful. Mr. Gladstone, notwithstanding the pressure on his time, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, behaved, as from his interest in the Church and his noble self-abnegation we might expect him to have done. He gave Mr. McMurray introductions to persons of the highest position in the kingdom. Mrs. Gladstone was equally interested in the mission, and of her kindness and attention, Dr. McMurray speaks to-day with a gratitude which he can never forget. Were Dr. McMurray not amongst us, as he happily is, I might dwell on the qualities, moral, intellectual and social, which recommended him to so shrewd a man as Dr. Strachan, and which rendered his missions so successful.

The venerable John Strutt Lauder, Archdeacon of Ottawa, was born in Westmeath, in 1829. He came to Canada in 1849. Having graduated at Trinity College, he was ordained in 1853. He has been mainly instrumental in all the improvements in the way of buildings and extensions of the Church of England in Ottawa, where he has worked for twenty years.

Among the Church of England clergymen who have passed away,

no nobler specimen of the devoted divine could be found, than the Rev. Samuel B. Ardagh, the late Rector of Barrie, the graceful memoir of whom, published for private circulation, might with advantage, alike to literature and the church, be addressed to a larger audience.

In 1871, Bishop Cronyn, the first Bishop of Huron, died. He was born in Kilkenny, and educated at Trinity College. He was for sometime Rector of St. Paul's, London, Ontario, and on the division of the Diocese and the erection of that of Huron, he was nominated as first Bishop and consecrated in 1857.

The number of Church of England ministers all over the Dominion, who have come from Ireland is surprisingly large, and any attempt to lay all the facts before the reader would be impossible here. How dwell at proper length on the career and work of the Rev. F. H. Clayton, the Incumbent of Bolton; the Rev. J. C. Davidson, the Incumbent of St. Luke's, Hemmingford; the Rev. William Henderson, of Pembroke; the Rev. John Ker, missionary at Glen Sutton; the Archdeacon of Hochelaga, the venerable Richard Lonsdell, M.A.; the Rev. Joseph Merrick, Incumbent of St. John's Church, Kildare; the Rev. Thomas Motherwell, B.A., Incumbent of St. George's, Portage du Fort; the Rev. John Seaman, Incumbent of North Wakefield; the Dean of Ontario, James Lyster, LL. D., T. C. D., Rector of Kingston; the Rev. W. Daunt, M.A., Incumbent of Thamesford; the Rev. Thomas Davis, B.A., Aylmer; the Rev. Wm. B. Davis, of Wingham; the Rev. John Downie, of Morpeth; the venerable Edward Lindsay Elwood, M.A.?

In the list of the clergy of Nova Scotia, we have such names as Downing, Brine, Cochran, Bell, Gray, Manning, Uniacke, White. The Rev. John Paine Sargent, B.A., and the Rev. Mr. Starnes, should also be mentioned.

In Prince Edward Island and in the Diocese of Quebec, we have a large number of Irishmen in orders.

In the Diocese of Toronto, the Rev. S. Lett, D.D., LL.D., the Rev. T. W. Allen and--but the task of enumeration is out of the question.

One name which should be mentioned in connexion with the Diocese of Huron, must, however, not be suffered to lie unnoticed. Some thirty-seven years ago, a family arrived here,