Returning to the sanctuary, solemn Te Deum was sung before the Altar, and the service closed by the Bishop giving Benediction.11* Within the context of the sadness surrounding the death of Bishop Hibbert Binney was the light of hope emanating from the recent developments within the Canadian Church and the hope expressed by the Bishop of Niagara on the advent of the second century of the Anglican Church in the Canadian Provinces. The Reverend Frederick Courtney , former Rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston, was chosen as the eventual successor to Binney as Bishop of Nova Scotia . He proved a faithful and reliable choice. Cathedral Outreach during the Early Years of James Simpson . In his first full year on the Island, the Reverend James Simpson was called upon to help out by providing clerical assistance in a number of communities. During his trips he put to use his keen sense of observance and his astute analytical mind in wrestling with the problems and state of the Church on the Island. Excerpts from a Report written by him (in 1887) to the Reverend H.W. Tucker , M.A ., Secretary of the S.P.G . in Foreign parts gives a detailed description and analysis of the situation which faced the Church on the Island: It will be seen that while in the Counties generally the Church has lost, in the towns she has been able to do slightly more than hold her own. When it is remembered that a large proportion of the Islanders are British, as least by descent, the fact that the British Church should have failed as she has done, to commend herself to the affections and support of her legitimate children becomes all the more painful. Two principal causes have combined to bring about this humiliating result. First, the immense territorial extent of the Missions; and second, the lack of definite and loyal Church teaching on the part of the clergy. With regard to the first it may be said that for a long period the whole of King's County and half of Queen's County embracing a territory of about 1,000 square miles, was served by one clergyman, the Mission being that of Georgetown , where its boundaries, the settlement of Mount Stewart , Cherry Valley and . To provide services at all, however inadequately for each of the settlements in such an enormous mission involved the necessity of driving twenty, thirty and even forty miles. Obviously but little pastoral visiting could be attempted and the leaders of other religious denominations coming in, in the absence of the clergymen, the Church people either remained inactive and 114. The Daily Examiner. August 17th, 1887. 90