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j856l CONSECRATION 205
What wisdom will be : required what kindliness ; what deep
conviction of Christian truth ! Lord, who is sufficient for these
things?
On November 23, I856, 1 he was consecrated 2 in the
Chapel-Royal, Whitehall, together with Dr. Cotterill, a
former Senior Wrangler, who had been appointed to the
See of Grahamstown. 3 In the reviving interest which was
beginning to be felt in such services, a wish had been
widely expressed that the Consecration should take place
in St. Paul s Cathedral. But ecclesiastical usage required,
it was strangely said, that the Bishop should not appear in
his Cathedral before the day of his enthronement. The
preacher, appointed at his request, was his dear friend
George Lynch Cotton, his former colleague at Rugby, who
had now for four years been headmaster of Marlborough.
The sermon set forth in striking words the comprehensive
character of the Church of England, and the greatness of
the issues before her in the conflict against sin and unbe
lief. The preacher dwelt with special emphasis on the
growing secularism 4 of the great towns, a fact which
dwarfed into insignificance, by its very magnitude, the
petty disputations about smaller things.
The Diary that night reiterates the prayers of the pre
vious days, and the chequered memories of Rugby and
Carlisle.
"
Cotton s sermon was excellent. O Lord, make me to real
ise the greatness of the office which has devolved on me. Hear
me, and guide me, weak and stained with sin as I am, through
1
Jesus Christ our Lord/
Twenty-seventh Sunday after Trinity.
The consecrating bishops were Archbishop Sumner of Canterbury,
Bishop Gilbert of Chichester, Bishop Jackson of ;
Lincoln, and Bishop Villiers
of Carlisle.
He held that See from 1856 to 1871, and was Bishop of Edinburgh from
1871 to his death in 1886.
use.
4 He used the word secularism apologetically, as one just coming into