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Excerpt from A Charge Delivered to the Diocese of Natal, in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Pietermaritzburg, at His Primary Metropolitical Visitation, May 18, 1864
To such an office, at all times full of responsibility, at this time burdened with great anxieties and difficulties, I have been called.
The want of that office was not felt within the missions of the English Church while they were few and feeble. When, however, it pleased God to stir deeply the slum bering zeal of our Mother Church, and fill her with a de sire and determination to provide for the spiritual needs of her children scattered abroad over the face of the earth, and to extend the Redeemer's Kingdom over heathen lands, 'it became clear, that if order and unity were to be. Maintained - if the laity were to partake of all the rites of the Church,' and enjoy the full blessings which it was' in stituted to convey - if a ministry was to be provided, and a new life thrown into these distant extremities; in a word, if the infant Churches throughout and beyond our empire were to be perpetuated and enlarged, it would be needful to plant among them the Church, in the completeness of its constitution.
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