which are committed to their care—aside, and lead them to those
pastures and streams where they will find, as they believe it, the
food of life and the waters of consolation.
"Permit me in conclusion, to say, both as an humble Christian man and
as the head of the civil government of the province, that it gives me
unfeigned pleasure to perceive that the youth of this country, of all
denominations, who are destined in their maturer years to meet in the
discharge of the duties of civil life upon terms of perfect civil and
religious equality—I say it gives me pleasure to hear and to know