hunger; would be in comparative affluence and comfort. By rejecting the unholy compromise, they are involved in all that heart-rending distress which you are called upon to pity and relieve.

Although they have felt an honourable reluctance to make their miseries public, although their stroke has thus been heavier than their groaning, yet with many of the details of their sufferings you must be already familiar. Already, I am sure, the hearts of those of the Clergy who are here present have glowed with sympathy, when they heard speak of brother Clergymen obliged to sell their libraries for bread, and to recal their children from school to place them at the plough, and while grieving for the affliction of Joseph, the thought must have occurred to them, that what has happened in Ireland may happen in England: already, I am sure, the family man must have sympathised with those who, with wounded spirits and disappointed hopes, have been compelled to renounce the assurances by which they had provided for the future exigences of their household, and can now look forward to nothing but beggary for their wives and little ones, if, as in a lawless land is possible, they themselves be taken before this tyranny is overpast the man of honour must have sympathised with honourable minds, weighed down by the pressure of debts incurred for the mere necessaries of life, before the inability to pay became

apparent all who have the common feelings of humanity must have sympathised with whole families accustomed to the elegancies, the comforts, the refinements of life, now deprived of all animal food, and regarding wheaten bread as a forbidden luxury. As fellow Christians, our sympathies are yet more powerfully awakened in their behalf, by hearing with what courage and constancy, with what resignation and meekness, with what fortitude and patience, with what submissive piety, they have borne all their weariness, and painfulness, and cares, and distractions, and fears, and sorrows; for, by this token, we know that they have found a Comforter in him who, while he sanctifies, can elevate, control, and sustain the sinking but confiding heart.

But I will not pursue the subject. I will merely remark, that, as I commenced this Discourse by alluding to the appeal which was made to the primo-primitive Christians, in behalf of their starving brethren in Judea, so I will conclude it, by reminding you how liberally that appeal was met by the Churches, especially of Antioch, Macedonia, and Corinth. And with equal generosity I feel assured that the present appeal for the Clergy of Ireland will be answered by the Churchmen of England. And I ground my confidence on the fact, that ours are the same principles by which they were influenced; we are

justified by the same faith, we are redeemed by the same sacrifice, we are regenerated and re. newed by the same blessed Spirit, we seek for grace through the same sacraments, we enjoy the same ministry, and the works by which we are preparing ourselves to join them in the Church triumphant are the fruits of the same sanctification, and derive all their value from the same atoning blood by which they are sprinkled the qualities and circumstances being thus the same, I am justified in anticipating a result precisely similar.

THE END.

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