I most earnestly thank you for your kind letter, and for abstaining from congratulation. For indeed that grates upon one, when one knows that the World alone can look on it as matter of congratulation, and that the true Church must (and, I thank God, does) feel nothing but sympathy with deepest need-trust in Him who calls-belief that as He calls, He strengthens. The thickening problems about us need more wisdom than ever. Pray that it may come to me for my time as it came to the sweet strong father we have lost-who, when it was most important, lost no ear of the most difficult assembly of laymen whom the world knows-most discerning of any false note, most indifferent to any false enthusiasm. May the same Wisdom guide the African Churchmen and the English, through their so diverse difficulties. You will remember me on March 29th, and much more remember our Mother. Yours sincerely, ED. W. CANTUAR. elect. To Canon Wickenden. LIS ESCOP, TRURO. 26 Feb. 1883. DEAREST OF FRIENDS, I rejoice indeed, with anxious but great joyfulness, that the three months past have been months of gaining groundthank God. Augeat laetitiam. It is so odd how I have been so much in our early times of late. Walking with Maggie (as tall as I am almost) and Minnie yesterday along the Piran Road, and thinking how we 1 Rt Rev. William Kenneth Macrorie, now Canon of Ely. first walked it with you,-and how your Lily and my Martin are gone from us since I was telling them all about your old home and our first heraldries, and our readings of Nicholas Ferrar1, and how it had impressed itself on our lives. I have been having a very interesting correspondence (about which you will of course know nothing) with J- about his lectures. He is a very candid man-and will "beat his music out" I truly believe. Of course he sees the necessity for stating the negative side in respect of not doctrines, but floating ideas, more potent almost than doctrines, among the mass of Christians, and so wretchedly misrepresented to secularists. But he will bring out the positive side as he proceeds. We are indeed wretched at present. Our ovoía or substance is visibly organized in a trichotomous manner-part has to continue to exist here-part at Lambeth-part at Addington-Et quid duo? Mr Lace is another of a noble old set of Yorkshiremen who have done good services for God out of times of apathy into times which moved too fast for them. And Stonegappe, one of my earliest homes of memory, and the delicious holiday home, is tenantless-and the rooks and the garden enjoy themselves unchecked. Your ever loving and much happier friend, EDW. CANTUAR. elect. Professor Mason writes: At the Editor's request, I wrote a short paper for the "Church in Cornwall" on "Our Loss," when the Bishop accepted the Primacy. As soon as Canon Wilkinson's appointment to Truro was announced, the Bishop, who did not quite approve of my former paper, said, "Now you must write one on 'Our Gain."" 1 "Now, however," (temp. Car. I.) "it began to be rumoured that the old monastic spirit had reappeared in the Church of England; that there was in high quarters a prejudice against married priests: that even laymen who called themselves Protestants had made resolutions of celibacy which almost amounted to vows; nay, that a minister of the established religion had set up a nunnery in which the psalms were chaunted at midnight by a company of virgins dedicated to God." Macaulay, Hist. of Eng. ch. 1, citing Peckard's Life of Ferrar; the Arminian Nunnery, or a Brief Description of the late erected monastical place, called the Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, 1641. See also Mr Shorthouse's John Inglesant, passim. 1883 FAREWELL TO CORNWALL A Truro correspondent writes: 569 The announcement of the Bishop's appointment to the Primacy evoked a remarkable manifestation of affectionate respect. Regret, in many cases real sorrow, for "our loss," was mingled with thankfulness for the achievements of the past six years, and with some sense of pride that the first Bishop of the restored Cornish See should have been called to the Primacy. From Ruridecanal Synods, or from parishes, addresses of congratulation were received, and many suggestions were made, publicly or privately, for some memorial of the Bishop's services and of his call from Truro to Canterbury. He had himself wished that a fund might have been raised to set "Lis Escop" free from a mortgage, and so to release his successors from an annual charge on the income of the See, and to make it possible to improve the house as the Bishop's residence. But the Diocesan feeling in favour of completing the Great Transept of the Cathedral, at a cost of over £15,000, as a memorial of his Episcopate was too strong. In response to the prevailing wish, the Lord Lieutenant called in the Town Hall of Truro a public meeting. The attendance was numerous and representative. In the course of his speech Lord Mount Edgcumbe spoke in terms of warm appreciation of the Bishop's labours. "No one,” he said, 66 can tell how hard he has worked. Five hours or five and a quarter hours of rest were all he took. The other nineteen-how much of each day of his life was devoted to real hard work for the benefit of those whom he was sent to labour among we have a pretty good idea." Among other speakers, the Wesleyan Mayor of Truro bore witness to the value of the Bishop's efforts, and the effect produced by the meeting was shown in a first subscriptionlist of £5500. Meanwhile, amid all the preparations for entrance into the Primacy, the Bishop worked on, now addressing the "Truro Mutual Improvement Class," or the girls of the High School, or confirming the Boys of the "Ganges," or promoting schemes of Church Extension. His farewell sermon preached on Sunday, February 25th, in Kenwyn Church on "Simplicity," from 2 Corinthians i. 12, gave final expression to a principle which had characterised his Episcopate, and drawn towards him so much regard and trust. The view which the new Archbishop held of the duties and possibilities of his office before he actually entered upon it are best illustrated by his speech at the Festival of the Truro Church of England Mutual Improvement Society on Jan. 22, 1883. After an address to the young men who composed it, in presence of a crowded audience, the Archbishop-Designate said :— It may not be possible I shall again have the opportunity of speaking to such an assembly of Cornishmen and Cornishwomen as this is, and therefore I must break off by thanking you for the great kindnesses, the tenderness, the simplicity of affection with which you have treated me ever since I came into Cornwall. The moment I set foot in Cornwall you were willing to believe far more good of me than ever was or can be true, and ever since whatever little efforts I have been able to make you have welcomed with regard tenfold more than they deserved; and whatever mistakes I have made you have been willing quite to overlook, because you know-what is truth-that my heart is with you-my heart is with you and it always will be. I hope you will not consider it boasting if I say I know Cornwall about as well as any Cornishman can possibly do. It would be very wrong-I should have misused all my opportunities-if I did not, because there is scarcely anyone who has been carried as I have been into every part and corner, and parish of it, and wherever I have gone I have never left without loving and caring for Cornwall. You Cornish people have received a very noble inheritance. It has very strange, and very interesting, and very remarkable characteristics, and you will do well always to keep it so, and look upon every one of its characteristics as your inheritance-not foolishly to brag of any of it, or misrepresent it, but to calmly and quietly, like true descendants of your ancestors, look over every part of it, and know that which is good in it, put away everything evil in it, and go on improving and improving until all the glorious things that God has put into your hands are really dear to you, and all regarded by you in the very spirit of God. You must try to make Cornwall altogether a sweet and holy place. Why should it not be so, here in this Western sanctuary, the place where every Christian virtue can bud and blossom like a rose? Canon Mason has told you that I have been called to occupy a seat more ancient than the Throne of Queen Victoria; but you will remember this, 1883 VIEW OF THE PRIMACY 571 that if there is anything that has dignified the seat, if there is anything that is characteristic of it, it is that through all the dim antiquity through which it comes down, it has always been the loyal subject and servant of the Sovereign's Throne and of the people. I should like to go through the history of that seat with you, but its history is now very accessible and can be read by all. Its history tells us of those wonderful times when Lambeth Palace was built on the other side of the Thames from the King's Palace, because the people felt that if a tyrant came upon the Throne, or a press of nobles gathered about the English Throne, they ought to have close by, and invested with full power, in order to do their work, those who had risen from themselves, and who would be able to confront any oppression and stand up for the people on the principles of the law of Christ, so that, as an historian says, the Archbishops of Canterbury were the tribunes of the people as well as faithful to the monarchy. It is a very remarkable office to which I have been called, and one which ought to and really does crush one to the earth while one thinks of its responsibilities; absolutely faithful to the monarchy, and at the same time looked upon and trusted as the best representative of the people by the side of the monarchy. Since those days this office has passed through many vicissitudes; but I ask you as a last request to pray God for this, that it may please Him that it may ever be the seat of those who wish to be most devoted to the Throne of England and most devoted to her people. If you give me your prayers for that you will give me the very best gift you can possibly give, and in return I need hardly promise you, dear Cornwall shall ever be in my daily morning and evening prayers; and if you are kind enough to regard it as an honour that your first Bishop, who accepts the offer with much simplicity and fear and trembling, is called to that office-you will only accept that as a tribute to yourselves, and consider it is wrapped up with the love I shall henceforth carry with me to my grave-you will honour me still more. On Sunday, February 25th, the Archbishop-Elect preached a farewell sermon at Kenwyn Church, as stated above. He took for his text 2 Cor. i. 12, "For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the |