THE COLONIAL CHURCH CHRONICLE, Missionary Journal, AND FOREIGN ECCLESIASTICAL REPORTER. 1873. "Christianity is to be considered as a trust deposited with us in behalf JOHN & CHARLES MOZLEY, 6, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. THE COLONIAL CHURCH CHRONICLE, Missionary Journal, AND FOREIGN ECCLESIASTICAL REPORTER. JANUARY, 1873. THE RECENT CONSECRATION OF BISHOPS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. THE Day of Missionary Intercession observed last month was fittingly preceded, on the 15th, by the consecration to the Episcopate at Westminster Abbey of three Missionary presbyters, all for spheres of work essentially Missionary, and two to regions-of imperial extentwhither the Church of England had never expressly sent an Apostolic Evangelist before. The occasion, however, thus far auspicious, was not altogether gladsome: as if to impress on us afresh the manifold imperfections which attach to our present Missionary work, Divine Providence permitted us the great disappointment of not seeing at the same time Mr. Rowley invested with a like commission for Madagascar. We shall advert to that topic after speaking of the lands where Bishops Horden, Russell, and Royston are to exercise their new ministry. 1. Bishop Horden is the first Bishop of Moosonee-the Indian name of Fort Moose, which has for some time past been his Missionary home. Canon Miller, the preacher at this consecration, said of him that "First as a humble and unordained catechist, one-and-twenty years ago, he so endeared himself to his Indians that they besought that he might not be taken from them, and were gladdened when Bishop Anderson discerned his fitness for immediate ordination. Those hands which will hereafter be laid on those Cree Indians who shall be brought to him to be confirmed in their holy faith or to be ordained to a native ministry have NO. CCCVII. B |