I was delighted to learn from the Bishop of Michigan, that in his contemplated visitation through his diocese, he purposed to hold as far as it was practicable, continued services for several days in each parish, like the _Rhode Island convocations_, or the _Pennsylvania and Virginia associations_. A clergyman speaking of these anticipated services, remarked, "they will be worth to me in such a place a whole year's labour." In the place to which he referred, the Episcopal Church was just about being organized, and there, as every where, the great obstacle to the establishment of our church was the impression that we were destitute of piety, and that our object was to establish a particular denomination, and not to save souls. Let the missionary go where he will _and preach Christ crucified_, and the people will rally around him. Let him only make the impression on the mind of any community that he has a message from God to them--that he stands as between the living and the dead to stay the plague--that in his view all other things dwindle into nothing, when compared with the salvation of their undying souls--and he will not want hearers, he will not want materials with which to build up a church. The people are not opposed to an Episcopal form of government--they are not opposed to our liturgy--they are not opposed to our doctrines--but they are opposed to a _dead_ church. Whether these, their impressions in relation to us are well or ill-founded, one thing is certain, these impressions do in ten thousand instances exist, and in my view, that minister of our church, is the best and soundest churchman, who preaches most faithfully the doctrines of the cross, and exemplifies most fully the power of Christianity upon his heart by a holy life. It is not by controversy and argumentation, but by doing their Master's work, by putting forth all their energies to bring men to repentance and the foot of the cross, that our clergy will remove this impression in relation to our want of piety, and make our Zion a praise in all the earth. And this, I believe, to a very great extent, the clergy of Michigan are striving to do. _Tuesday, July 25th._