Visitation of the Diocese.
Having just completed a thorough Visitation of the Diocese and laid the details of my Visitation before the Church, I do not think it necessary to do more than refer you to that account. But I wish to place on record the very satisfactory impression made on my mind by a review of the condition of our Church. I see evidence on all sides of its having taken hold of the country. I thought a few years ago that it was so helped and fortified by grants from England, and Clergy from England, and old English associations, that it was possible that it might after all pass away when these were withdrawn but I see no reason now to fear this result. I did fear it once, but now I find that the support of the Church is given not in consequence of the popularity of any individual in the Ministry, or of any local fashion, but because it is valued for its own sake, not only by those who were members of it in England and elsewhere, who might naturally be supposed to cling to it, but by those to whom it has been the Church of their birth, and now also of their convictions.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 257, 30 October 1877, Page 5
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