at other times, to commend a behaviour outside the Church that will have the effect of drawing people into the Church, not repelling them. And I do feel more strongly every day I live, that it is not a strait-laced "orthodoxy," as it is termed, nor spasmodic religious excitements, that will win the masses to the side of God, but rather a Church that is marked by toleration, a Church that hates bigotry and narrow-mindedness, that can hold its own view of the one Truth firmly and earnestly, and yet stretch out the hand of brotherly love to those who, on some points, are not of its own way of thinking. And I believe that the evidence of this spirit; and of this behaviour shown out of Church, as well as in the House of God, will be the Church's truest test, and most effectual Missioner to win men to the side of Religion, and Morality, and uprightness. It is my firm belief that the chief thing that is hindering the spread of Christ's Kingdom on earth is not, first of all, what we term false doctrine or infidelity, but the intolerance and little-mindedness shown by so many professing Christians in the Church.

Intolerance has, above everything else, repelled and driven men from the Fold, while true Tolerance has been a mighty, attractive force, to gather men to her side. Bury, in an unhonoured grave, all those unchristian insinuations and charges that some people are so fond of making, that this spirit of Christlike toleration is to show a lack of Church principle, as if bigotry was "Church principle." Banish from your minds, as you would an unholy thought, the idea that Christian love and fellowship are the tenets of latitudinarianism.

I shall never forget visiting, for the first time in my life, with a dear relative, the grave of Charles Kingsley, a noted disciple of love. My friend first reached the grave, and he turned to me and said, "Isn't that Kingsley all over? And I said, "What is Kingsley all over?" And he said, "Read that text on his grave, -'God is Love.'

Could you wish to be remembered by any better thing than that? I have said it from this pulpit more than once, and I say it again to-night, that so far as I am concerned,

I should like, when I am dead, to be remembered, not by my "High Churchism," or my "Broad Churchism," or my "Low Churchism;" not by notoriety as a "Ritualist," or an "AntiRitualist," whether Catholic or Protestant, but just as one who extolled at all times, and under all circumstances, the great, wide Love of God. If men, because I say these things, call me "bad Churchman," Latitudinarian, or unorthodox, I am content thus to be, for if bigotry be Churchmanship, I am towards such a creed a nonconformist. The Creed of a true Christian, and a true Churchman, is beautifully described by the Saviour Himself, in the Gospel. That Gospel paints the picture of a true disciple in these words, "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven; give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom."

Act up to that Creed, and that will

be true Christianity, and true Churchmanship. By whatever party name you may be known, (and there will be men who will not allow you to escape from the nickname of a party), let the reality of your faith, and the sincerity of your profession be proved, not only by persuading you into a practice so easy in performance, so pleasant even to human nature, as that of coming to Church, and taking part in bright services, but of accomplishing in you that harder task, that sterner work, which, after all, proves the reality of our faith, namely, a conquest over evil passions, and anger, and jealousy, and revenge. Let our religion not only show love for God, but let it teach us to love our neighbours as ourselves; to have a conciliatory spirit, a forgiving nature, and a deep love of unselfishness. Let St. Paul tell us what is the value of such a religion as this: "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have

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all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing." And, if my common Christianity or my Churchmanship, whether it be "High," Low," or "Broad," has taught me to love with a love that "suffereth long, and is kind; that envieth not; that vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil, rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the Truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," then my religion has proved itself to be true, and real, and such as God loves. How thus to love God, and one's neighbour, is taught us when we are in the Church. But the greater part of our lesson is learned, as far as length of time goes, outside the Church. You can find such a temple, where the continuous lesson is being taught how to love God and man, in the great world itself. Amongst the flowers of the field, and the sweet valleys,