The ministers were all assembled for the occasion; prayers had been offered, discourses delivered, and the time for the actual ordination had come.

After they have so long contended for their classical ordination (not to speak of rites and ceremonies) will they at length submit to an episcopal?

The passions, actions, sentiments, whose character and results he delighted to watch and to reproduce, are those of man in society as it existed; and it no more occurred to him to question the right of that society to exist than to criticize the divine ordination of the seasons.

The fatigue of ordination, is just what the bishops please to make it, and as matters have been for some time, and may probably remain, the fewer ordinations the better.

Ministerial ordination is not considered as imparting supernatural gifts, but as a solemnity marking the entrance of the accredited person into full recognition and office.

[Restriction of native ordinations recommended.]

In all subsequent ordinations, and other ecclesiastical matters, the native pastors have been associated with the missionaries.