66 in this Church, I am sure that the feelings of my hearers will have outrun me in anticipating the mention of one, whose character furnished a bright instance of that rare union; one, whose accustomed presence we this day miss f; whose living words no longer awaken and admonish us; but who, though dead, yet speaketh," by his example, to us who remain; shewing how compatible with profound learning and various gifts of intellect, is the grace of Christian simplicity, and the charity of Christian zeal. No place, my brethren, and least of all one of so great influence upon the religious character of the country as this University, is barren of opportunities to him whose heart is in the cause of his Saviour. To him, whom God's Providence withholds for a time from duties more congenial to his taste, it must ever be a consolation and an incitement to feel, that the eternal interests, not of one, but of many parishes, are, to a certain extent, in his hands; that here, and by his instrumentality under Divine Providence, is formed many a character to which hundreds and thousands, of whom he now thinks not, may come hereafter to look for direction and example. f The Ordination at which this sermon was preached, was the first which had been held in the Cathedral of Christ Church since the lamented death of the Rev. Dr. Burton, Canon of that Church, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford. DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, AND VICAR OF DULOE. DEVONPORT: PRINTED AND SOLD BY G. W. HEARLE, FORE-STREET; AND J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, LONDON. MDCCCXXXVI. THE following Sermon, prepared for a special occasion and for the Pulpit only, is printed, in obedience to the command of the BISHOP, and in compliance with the request of the CLERGY, before whom it was preached, and to whom it is respectfully inscribed. The Author has not introduced either alteration or addition, feeling that it was his duty to submit the Discourse to the inspection of those hearers, who called for its publication, exactly as it had been delivered. For the Notes, which are subjoined, he may be thought to owe an apology to his Diocesan and his Reverend Brethren. He ventures, however, to hope that they will accept favourably a few references and remarks, which |