Excerpt from A Sermon Delivered at the Consecration of the Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Joseph Brown, Bishop of Appollonia, First Vicar Apostolic of Wales: At the Church in Pierrepoint Street, Bath, on the Feast of Ss. Simon and Jude, 1811 St. Peter, the occupier of the apostolic see, from his elevated watch-tower, whence the ample range of his paternal eye takes in the entire earth in its length and breadth, and dwells with exultation or compassion upon every smallest spot, had for a long time seen. And inwardly marked, the ample field for multiplied pastoral solicitude, which this our island contained. He saw many whom he would gladly number among his spiritual children, separated by distance of place, or by natural inaccessibility Of territory, or by difference of speech, from the few seats of episcopal activity which our country possessed, and he judged the time had come for multiplying the shepherds, that the flock might be increased. He asked not for support from the arm of flesh; he asked not for counsel from the wisdom Of earth he trusted to the power committed to him long before any empire now existing had commenced, he acted upon the charter given him, in the first of his predecessors, 1800 y ago, upon the borders of the sea of Tiberias, Feed my sheep: - and he has among others, fixed his choice upon one, who, by his authority, is about to receive, in your pre sence, the imposition of hands, and the mysterious unction, by which he will be fully qualified for the discharge Of his new commissmn. How uniform, yet how majestic is the work of God! What grandeur is there not in the repetition of such similar acts of power, at intervals not to be measured by the dura tion of earthly dynasties, yet all emanating from one single impulse, from one communication of omnipotent, immortal energy, the breath Of the living God animating, from the beginning, his undying Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.