the other side, their honest denial or most triumphant refutation. We hardly think the Bishop of Huron will venture to continue the controversy: for, unless he goes outside the Church of England, he must fail to support his positions by legitimate or sufficient authority: the high and strong ground is all on the side of his opponent. Nor will Trinity College, as we believe, be lowered or depreciated as the result of these discussions in the judgment of honest minds, she will come out brighter and purer from the ordeal.

Still, with these convictions, we have our regrets. The warfare, though as we believe unjustifiably provoked,—a war simply of defence on the part of the College, is an unseemly one. It exhibits the picture of a divided house, and threatens the weakness and disaster which must follow from such division. Strife will beget unkind feelings, and enemies will triumph when friends are at variance. The Church in Canada has years, perhaps generations, of struggle before her; she has a multitude of the dissentient and erring about her, and her honest assumption of the high ground of truth only embitters their opposition. They are tolerant and kindly when she descends from the dignity of her position, and takes equal rank with themselves. But her divine institution and lofty mission forbid this unholy sacrifice. If she is not what her Lord made her, she is nothing; if she clings not to the pattern set forth by Apostles and Prophets, she abjures the fact of a Church of God at all. It is no time, then, to be splitting her strength, and effacing the distinctive lines which mark her proportions, and assure her integrity: she must go forth to her Master's work, in the majesty and might of truth and unity. If she parts with this, hers will be a slow and doubtful progress; and, if the sacredness of her principles is kept down, her vitality is at stake. It may be that the wickedness of the land will provoke the judgment and the calamity; but, if she is unfaithful to her trust, we may believe that her candlestick will be removed from our midst.

These are our regrets and our warnings; but we have also our hopes. Good, we believe, will come out of the evil of this fraternal strife. It will constrain the great body of Church

men to think, and search, and prove. It will help to drive them from the meagre and tainted theology of equivocal tracts and party newspapers; and it will impel them to the fountainhead, to those giants in Christian literature, the lustre of whose learning makes the Church of England a light-house to religious inquirers. We hope it will be of service to the Bishop of Huron himself; that it will cause him to ponder more the value of a thorough theological training, and not fill the ranks of his clergy with men whose ignorance and presumption must have the effect of shaming well tutored Laymen from their allegiance to the Church. He may be led to adopt a better test of qualification than the cant of party phraseology, or the power to give ready utterance to a crude and meagre treasury of ideas.

We augur from it, too, good to the Church åt large, in the interesting country, where, with much of promise, she has had so many trials. There she has been stripped of her adventitious support, and must be built up and spread by the faithful and liberal hands of her sons and daughters. For success and prosperity she must rely upon her principles; if she adopts any compromise, there may be the uplifting of an imposing gourdlike plant, but, with the first wane of a capricious popularity, it will droop and wither. She must fling to the winds any creeping bias towards the opinion, that all religious bodies can rightfully claim the designation of a Church; and she must lead on her children,—gently, firmly, affectionately,—to assert the position her Divine Master has assigned her. For this hopeful result, we look largely to her Church University in Canada; and so we say, from our heart of hearts, God avert the day when TRINITY COLLEGE shall cease to be the dispenser of sound learning and a religious education.

ART. VI.-LIFE AND WRITINGS OF BISHOP DOANE.

The Life and Writings of George Washington Doane, D. D., LL. D., for twenty-seven years Bishop of New Jersey, containing his Poetical Works, Sermons, and Miscellaneous Writings, with a Memoir by his son, WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE. 4 vols. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1860.

BISHOP DOANE's Life and Writings form an important contribution to the history and the literature of the American, and therefore of the Universal Church. Whatever may be the estimate of the Bishop, or of the author, whatever the praise or the censure of his various works, there can be but one opinion as to the importance of the part which he took in many prominent movements of his time. There may be a question as to the proportions of the work before us, nor do we suppose that the four massy volumes, to which it expands, will ever be familiarly handled. Some compression will be called for, and the result will be an octavo or two, which will be read, and re-read, and constantly used in quickening and maturing the purposes of Churchmen and Churchwomen for many a generation. To the present collection the historian or the student will have more frequent recourse than the general reader, after personal associations with its subject have died away. But for the time, the extended plan is perhaps the better one; it meets more inquiries, it excites more sympathies, it stirs more pulses; and it may be said to be no more than was due, both to and from the contemporaries of Bishop Doane, as a large photograph of his manifold relations with them, his influence, his labor, his temper, his hope. It is seldom, at all events, in our branch of the Church, during its comparatively brief existence, that we encounter a single figure, so surrounded on all sides, so involved in great efforts and great interests, so provided with opportunities for action and for strong action, as the late Bishop of New Jersey. We have in these volumes, then, the materials for becoming acquainted with a leading

figure of the age, and we accept them, as we should be bound to do in any circumstances, with respect, and, as we have them. from the hands of a son, with sympathy.

A recent writer speaks sadly of the unfinished picture which the character of any eminent man presents, as it "remains in history." It is something to be sad about; for, be the lines of such a picture ever so bold, or its colors ever so fresh, there never can be any adequate portrayal of all the impressions and desires, the trials and sacrifices, the prayers and praises, that make up a complete character. But the great man "remains" in history, we are inclined to think, a more finished portrait than he entered it; time has brought out what is most real, and obliterated what was most arbitrary; it has diminished the pressure of detail and softened the tone of face and form and attitude. It is a thought which should lead us to hesitate at portrait-painting, or at contemporary portrait-painting, and by painting we mean the work of the observer or the reader, quite as much as that of the biographer; and the more marked the features, or the more striking the movements, the more hesitation there ought to be about plunging into caricature, magnifying whatever suits us beyond all reasonable bounds, or on the other hand, curtailing whatever does not suit us within the limits of our own prejudices or our own judgments. To get an idea of heights and distances as they are to appear in history, we must separate ourselves from them, we must reject all artificial expression, all local distortion, in short all that results from personal feeling or temporary circumstance. Half the difficulty in knowing those, among whom we have lived, consists in our thrusting ourselves within the framework which should be filled up by them, if we are really to know them. We make ourselves, as it were, the subjects of other men's biographies, and then wonder at the different views which are taken of them, as if they were really the objects of contemplation or of criticism. Sacrifice of self is the one great requisite to the knowledge of things terrestrial, as it is to that of things celestial.

The principal writings of Bishop Doane have been collected in the volumes under review. The First contains copious ex

tracts from his works, as parts of the Memoir, as well as his poetical writings under their early title of "Songs by the Way." The Second consists of Charges and Sermons, most of which, as the editor remarks in the preface, have been in print before. The subjects of these episcopal writings are of the loftiest character; the Church, her Faith, her Ministry and her Work in all its solemnity and all its power, form the vast orbit through which the preacher moves with sustained energy. The Third volume contains sixty-one Parochial Sermons, arranged, as the editor remarks, in "no very definite order," but with the Sermons for the Seasons in sequence, and the last of the collection the last preached by the Bishop on the evening of Passion Sunday, 1859, its subject, "Sin's Wages and God's Gift," and its closing words an appeal to our Lord and Saviour, "Help us to rise to righteousness; that, bearing here Thy Cross, we may hereafter share Thy Crown." It would be necessary to transcribe the table of contents in order to give any idea of the variety of topics treated, and to copy large portions of the text in order to exhibit the power with which they are treated. It is a remarkable volume. The Fourth and concluding volume comprises the Educational writings, and Orations. Foremost are the nine Baccalaureate Addresses to Burlington College, the Sixteen Graduating Addresses to St. Mary's Hall, with other Addresses and Sermons relating to both Institutions, the last of which, and the last of the Bishop's writings, is the Sixteenth to the Graduating Class at St. Mary's-an Address so tender and so touching that one can hardly fancy its being altered, had he who wrote it known that it was his farewell for his life to his children. The miscellaneous contents of this volume are full of interest; the Sermon at the Consecration of the Parish Church, Leeds, 1841, "an occasion of Catholic inter-communion, which has gladdened many hearts, as the new dawning of a brighter day;" the Sermon at the Church of the Advent, Boston, 1851, in commemoration of the the Rev. Dr. Croswell; the Oration before the Lady Managers of the Mount Vernon Association, Burlington, 1859, "One World; One Washington." It must be clear, even from this brief summary of the four volumes, that they form a collec