The Life and Work of Bishop Medley. By William Quinhed
Ketchum, D.D. (Elliot Stock.)—John Medley was one of the good men who owe much to their mothers, who trained him for his work with a diligence which might have wearied weaker natures, but manifestly suited her son. Latin was begun at six, Greek at ten, Hebrew at twelve. His first sermon dated from the age of fourteen. His first curacy was at Beer (near Seaton), where he is still remembered. In 1845, at the age of forty-one, he was consecrated to the See of Fredericton, and in that diocese he spent the rest of his life, dying in his eighty-eighth year, almost, we might say, in harness ; for he preached about seven weeks before his death. 'What is meant by forty-seven years of work in a Canadian diocese it is not quite easy to realise. This volume will give the reader some idea of how hard it is, and how admirably Bishop Medley did it.
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