would join with them heart and hand in fighting against Satan by every good work whereby his empire can be shaken, assuredly, under God's blessing, and with His strength, we should shake it: yea, in time we should overthrow it; we should cast his throne to the ground. Were a forein army invading our country, and were we called to repell them, should we stop to enquire whether he who called us were a Whig or a Tory, whether our fellow-soldiers were to be Conservatives or Liberals? and, if we found that they were not all of our own party, should we refuse to fight by their side? Nay, should we not richly deserve to be shot, if we abandoned our post for any reason of this sort? Would not Whigs and Tories, Conservatives and Liberals, all join in the one all-important work of driving out the invader? So ought all Christ's servants and soldiers to unite in the warfare against Satan, in whatever way it is to be carried on. We are to fight against Satan, and not against each other, which in fact is fighting for him, and against Christ. This is one of the terrible mischiefs of our party nicknames. They make us fancy that we are at variance with our brethren, even when we have the selfsame purpose, the selfsame end in view; and the arch-deceiver beguiles us, like the French and Austrian armies at the siege of Angiers, "to shoot into each other's mouth." O, my Brethren, that we might but cast away these nicknames, and look at our brethren, each one of them, as they are in themselves, according to their own conduct, not according to the party we suppose them to belong to, that we might look at the work they are engaged in, according to its manifest purpose, and might help them

heartily whenever that work is a good one, a work plainly designed for the glory of God, and the benefit of His people. Surely we may do this without any improper compromise of our own principles. The Whig and the Tory, who fight side by side in the same regiment, may each retain whatever is true and valuable in their own peculiar views, which they may afterward do their best to carry out they have only to discard their animosities and their jealousies, which they are much better without. Else, in sacrificing their country for the sake of their party, they are traitors to both, and sacrifice their party too. In like manner should we be much better without our jealousies and animosities; unless indeed, as is not seldom the case with those who take the most violent part in religious controversies, these are all that we have. Yea, thing else, would still be of these racking mischiefs. back into their native insignificance, than to be raised out of it by flaring up for a moment, like a fire among the thorns.

even those who have nobetter, if they were rid Better for them to fall

There is a vast need of institutions at this time in England, for all manner of purposes, for all the works of Christian love, in proportion as those works have brancht out, through the manifold ingenuity of man, in various directions. We have a great many already; fresh ones are springing up every year. As soon thoughtful benevolence discovers a new want, attempts are made to relieve it. Can it be desirable that each of these institutions should have a party colour? that there should be one belonging to one party in our Church, and another to the opposite? Is not this the

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sure method of embittering and perpetuating opposition, by carrying it into all the relations of social life? Nay, would it not be necessary to extend the subdivision still further? Should not each branch of each party have its own separate institution? Or, seeing that every one has certain individual peculiarities of opinion, whereby he is distinguisht from all others, the euthanasia of this system would be for every single man in England to establish a series of charitable institutions, in which he should be ready to confer all good on all such as agreed with him, but to which no one would come, because there was nobody who had not some difference to keep him away. It was not by stickling, each for his own separate opinions, that the Apostolic Council at Jerusalem pacified the first controversies in the Church, and prepared themselves for their mighty work of bringing the world to Christ, but by giving each other the right hand of fellowship, and by adhering to that which was morally essential, while diversity and freedom in lesser things were fully allowed. In fact, by refraining from supporting institutions establisht for a godly purpose, because they are supported by the members of an opposite party, we do all we can to give them the very bias we complain of; whereas, if we took part in them heartily, we should correct that bias. In this manner is the whole work of the world carried on, not by single forces, but by manifold combinations of opposite forces. Nor does harmony arise from the incessant repetition of a single note, but from the union of divers

notes.

I have spoken thus strongly on this point, though I have often spoken on it before, because it is by these

miserable and hateful divisions that God's work upon earth, the work for which Christ came down, and lived in the form of a Man, and died on the Cross, has been hindered age after age. Through them the Church has been rent in pieces, and has become an object of reproach and scorn to the unbeliever and the Heathen. Through them that holy Body, which the soldiers would not break, and the unbroken integrity of which was of such deep meaning as to have been typified for a millennium and a half in the Paschal Lamb, has been broken in all parts of the world, as though it were the body of Dagon. Through them the saints have been persecuted, and their labours have been baffled. Through them Satan

is upheld from age to age on his tottering throne. Nor have these hindrances often been more powerful, and more mischievous, than at this day in England, fostered and stimulated as they ever are by our religious newspapers, which draw their bloated life from feeding on the morbid humours in the Church, and which therefore are ever busy in fomenting and exasperating them (M).

After I have detained you so long, you will not desire that I should protract my Charge still more by talking about the ordinary parochial duties of the Churchwardens. Of these I have spoken frequently on former occasions; and the remarks which I made then are, most of them, applicable still. The restorations and improvements which I recommended in my earliest Charges, are still needed more or less, in many of our Churches, though several of them have been gradually effected in some. This reformation has been carried on during the last year in several parishes with a very

commendable spirit. The greatest work of the last year in the way of church-building has been the opening of the beautiful and noble church of St Paul at Brighton, the architect of which has shewn that he has been thoroughly animated with the spirit of the great architects of the Middle Ages. Valuable improvements have recently been effected in the parishes of Balcombe and Catsfield, where the churches have been in great part rebuilt on a larger scale. From both these churches the nuisance of pews has been in great part removed, from the latter entirely; and the congregations assembled in them are no longer broken up into knots, but have assumed the appearance of a single body. The same change, I understand, is shortly to take place in the fine church of Icklesham, in which many improvements have already been made. So, I trust, will it at Winchelsea, where important works have been undertaken for the restoration of the church, wellnigh the grandest and most beautiful in the Archdeaconry. The beautiful little church of Bishopstone, which is quite an architectural gem, but which was grievously disfigured by all manner of incumbrances, has also been restored. The church of Lindfield, that of Framfield, that of Warbleton, and that of Jevington, have also been greatly improved. Thus a better spirit has been spreading from parish to parish most of the worst abuses have been removed: and ere long, I trust, no house of God will be left in this Archdeaconry, the aspect of which will not betoken that it is regarded with reverence and love by the people. From my not dwelling more on these points, you will not infer, I hope, my friends, that it is less