Transcribed from the [1877] Hatchards edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org A Sermon PREACHED IN YORK MINSTER, ON _St. Bartholomew’s Day_, _Friday_, _August_ 24, 1877, ON THE OCCASION OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE RIGHT REV. ROWLEY HILL, LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN. BY THE REV. CANON HOARE, VICAR OF TRINITY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS. * * * * * _PUBLISHED BY REQUEST_. * * * * * LONDON: HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY. TUNBRIDGE WELLS: H. COLBRAN, CALVERLEY ROAD. SHEFFIELD: P. D. HOPKINS. _Price One Shilling_. * * * * * PREFACE. THE Consecration of the Bishop of Sodor and Man will long be remembered, both at York and Sheffield; for no one can have been present on that occasion without having been profoundly impressed by the sight of the overwhelming congregation, and the many tokens of deep interest manifestly taken in the service. So many of the Sheffield people desired to be present that two special trains were prepared for their accommodation, by which there arrived no less than seven hundred persons. The Dean having heard that they were coming did all in his power to give them a welcome. The whole space in front of the Communion-rail was filled with seats, and in the admission of the crowds who were pressing into the Cathedral precedence was given to the visitors from Sheffield. But, notwithstanding all the efforts of the Cathedral authorities, I am sorry to say that a great many failed to get in. Before the Sermon I sat in the stalls, and to avoid the crowd in the choir I was conducted into the nave, and so outside the choir to the pulpit. In the course of that walk I saw hundreds who were unable to obtain admission. Some were standing in the nave, and others straining to see and hear through the glass screen by the side of the choir. When the door was opened to let me in I cannot say how I longed to take them all in with me. But that was impossible. The whole place was packed, and every available standing-ground in the neighbourhood of the pulpit was full.