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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1892 Excerpt: ... FIRST PASTORAL CHARGE, Delivered To The Clergy And Churchwardens Of The Diocese Of Peterborough, October, 1872. Rev. And Dear Brethren, THE anxious sense of responsibility under which a Bishop proceeds to deliver his primary Charge is lightened for me by the reflection that we do not meet as strangers. That we might not so meet I have delayed this my first visitation until the latest possible moment. I felt that, before attempting to speak to you those words of exhortation or counsel which you expect to hear on such an occasion, I ought first to acquaint myself thoroughly with the circumstances of the Diocese over which, in God's providence, I have been called to preside. I ought to know, not merely from the study of Diocesan returns and reports, but with the personal knowledge that could only come from overseeing and sharing in your labours, what were the special conditions under which you are called to exercise your ministry, what were your special helps and hindrances, what things amongst us specially needed to be strengthened or set in order, what to be amended or restrained. I wished, moreover, to win for my words such acceptance with you as might come from your conviction that I had, at least, honestly striven to attain this knowledge of yourselves and of your work. I wished that, when I should speak to you of the high aims and awful responsibilities of your office, I might speak as one who you knew had learned as your fellow labourer something too of its trials and its difficulties; and, that, when I should speak to you of any aims or plans of mine as regards my own work amongst you, I might speak, not as one who was producing untested theories which better acquaintance with the Diocese might correct or refute, but as one whose aims had, by your help...
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