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canonicals in the old-fasWoned way, recalling the Johnsonian period, when clergy very gener- 

 ally wore their cassocks and gowns in the streets. 



Another chaplain to the Legislative Assembly was Mr. William Macanlay, a preacher always 

 listened to with a peculiar attention, whenever he was to be heard in the pulpit here. Mr. 

 Macaulay was a member of the Macaulay-family settled at Kingston. He had been sent to 

 Oxford, where he pursued his studies without troubling himself about a degree. While there 

 he acquired the friendship of several men afterwards famous, especially of Whately, sometime 

 Archbishop of Dublin, with whom a correspondence was maintained. Mr. Macaulay's striking 

 and always deeply-thoughtfal matter was set off to advantage by the fine intellectual contour 

 Of his face and head, which were not unlike those to be seen in the portrait of Maltby, Bishop 

 of Durham, usually prefixed to Morell's Thesaurus. 



One more chaplain of the House may be named, frequently heard and seen m this Church— 

 Dr. Thomas Phillips— another divine, well-read, of a type that has now disappeared. His per- 

 sonal appearance was very clerical iii the old-fashioned sense. His countenance was of the 

 class represented by that of the late Sir Henry Ellis, as finely flgnred in a recent number of the 

 IllustrMed News. He was one of the last wearers of hair-powder in these parts. In reading 

 the Creed he always endeavoured to conform to the old English custom of turning towards the 

 east ; but to do this in the desk of the old church was difficult. Dr. Phillips was formerly of 

 Whitchurch, in Herefordshire. He died in 1S49, aged 68, at Weston, on the Humber, where he 

 founded and organized the parish of St. Philip. His body was borne to its last resting-place by 

 old pupils.— We once had in our possession a pamphlet entitled "The Canadian Remembraneei-j 

 a Loyal Sermon, preached on St. George's Day, April 23, 1826, at the Episcopal Church [York], 

 by the Bev. T. Phillips, D.D., Head Master of the Grammar School. Printed at the Gazette 

 Office." 



There remains to be noticed the "pastor and master" of the whole assemblage eustomably 

 gathered together in St. James's Church— Dr. John Strachan. On this spot, in successive 

 edifices, each following the other in rapid succession, and each surpassing the other n dignity 

 and propriety of architectural style, he, for more than half a century, was the principal figure. 

 The story of his career is well-known, from his departure from Scotland, a poor but spirited 

 youth, in 1T99, to his decease in 1867, as first Bishop of Toronto, with its several intermediate 

 stages of activity and promotion. His outward aspect and form are also familiar, from the 

 numerous portraits of him that are everywhere to be seen. In stature slightly under the 

 medium height, with countenance and head of the type of Milton's in middle age, without 

 eloquence, without any extraordinary degree of originality of mind, he held together here a 

 large congregation, consisting of heterogeneous elements, by the strength and moral force of 

 his personal character. Qualities, innate to himself, decisiveness of intellect, firmness, a quick 

 insight into things and men, with a certain fertility of resource, conspired to win for him the 

 position which he filled, and enabled him to retain it with ease ; to sustain, with a graceful and 

 unassuming dignity, all the augmentations which naturally accumulated round it, as the com- 

 munity, of which he was so vital a part, grew and widened aud rose to a higher and higher 

 level, on the swelling tide of the general civilization of the continent. In all his public minis- 

 trations he was to be seen officiating without affectation in manner or style. A stickier in 

 ritual would have declared him indiiferent to minutiee. He wore the white vesture of his 

 office with an air of negligence, and his doctor's robe without any special attention to its artistic 

 adjustment upon his person. A technical precisian in modem popular theology would pro- 

 nounce him out now and then in his doctrine. What he seemed especially to drive at was, 

 not so much, dogmatic accuracy as a well-regulated life, in childhood, youth and manhood. The 

 good sense of the matter delivered— and it was never destitute of that quattty- was solely relied 

 on for the results to be produced : the topics of modern controversy never came up in bis dis- 

 courses : at the period to which we refer they were in most quarters dormant, their re-awaken- 

 ing deferred until the close of a thirty years' peace, but then destined to set mankind by the 

 ears when now relieved from the turmoil of physical and material war, but xoused to great 

 inteUectual activity. Many a man that dropped in during the time of public worship, inclined 

 from prejudice to be captious, inclined even to be merry over certain national peculiarities of 

 utterance and diction, which to a stranger, for a time, made the matter delivered not easy to be 

 ■understood, went out with quite a different sentiment in regard to the pieacfier and his words. 



