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 The adviseableness of holding a Convention of Sabbath School Teachers in Canada 
 was suggested by Mr. 8. J. Lyman, at a Meeting of the Committee of the Canada 
 Sunday School Union in July last. The Committee approved of the suggestion ; but, 
 as only a minority of the Sabbath Schools in Canada co-operated with the Union, they 
 hesitated to take any decided action, believing that, to be successful, the Convention 
 would require to be Provincial, and that it would not bo so if they alone moved in 
 the matter. It was agreed, however, to appoint a sub-Committee to invite an expres- 
 ■ion of public opinion in relation to it. 
 
 This was done, and it led to a preliminary meeting of a few gentlemen 
 from different parts of the Province, at Kingston on the 25th of September last. The 
 decision at that Meeting, in favor of the Convention, was unanimous ; and a local Com- 
 mittee, consisting of the Superintendents of Sabbath Schools in Kingston, and a Committee 
 of arrangements, consisting of the original sub-Committee of the Union at Montreal, 
 were appointed, and the Secretary of the latter was instructed to correspond with parties 
 in Toronto, which city was unavoidably not represented at the Meeting, for the purpose of 
 inviting the organization of a co-operating Committee there. The friends in Toronto who 
 had previously manifested a warm interest in the movement heartily responded to the call. 
 
 These three Committees carried out, as far as possible, the views expressed at the pre- 
 liminary meeting. 
 
 With the exception of the superintendent of the Great Western Railroad, the managers 
 of all the roads applied to, liberally entered into the plans and views of the Committees 
 and proprietors of newspapers throughout the Province as liberally inserted the notices 
 sent to them. 
 
 From time to time the Committees were much f r: t^fied by the apparent growing po- 
 pularity of the movement : a popularity not to be ascr bed to their efforts, but to the over- 
 ruling Providence which blessed their labour, and which ultimately gave to the Conven- 
 tion a measure of success which far exceeded their expectations. 
 
 May the same Divine grace accompany this Report, and give to all who read it deep 
 and abiding impressions of the importance of Sabbath Schools, and resolution and ability 
 to labour unceasingly for the spiritual good of the youth of our country. 
 
DEC 2 ~ 1920 
 
CONVi:XTTON OV BELEOATES 
 
 KIIOM 
 
 SUNDAY SCI[0()LS IN CANADA 
 
 AND 
 
 REPUi:SENTATlVi:S FROM 'IIIi: UMTFJ) STATKS. 
 
 WKnNrsnAV, lltli Fchy,, IHr.7. 
 
 roiifiirnialily to tli<' iirriiiiLCcincnls c.f llic locnl 
 Cniiiinilti'c, ilclcffiilcs assi'hilik'd in tlic Wes- 
 Iryiin Mclliudisl (Jlniri'li, Sydciiliatn Slrfut. 
 
 At lmir-|iiist !) H.ni. the lU'V. Mr. Mnrlinpr 
 rallcil ilic ,M''ciiii<r to ()i'<|(M', iiDil I'loposril |)r. 
 Mail-, of Kiiii^'-'toii, iis leiiipurury Cliairiiiuii. 
 
 Norn in II I ion a[iiirovo(l. 
 
 Dii. Maiu ftC('ortliii<;ly took tliu (Mi;iir, ami 
 eallcil iipoii till' Itcv. Mr. LaiitDii, t') oiu'ii lliu 
 nu'otin>( with prayer. 
 
 Al'Icr which Dii. .Maiu saii),tiiiit lie ili<l not tliink 
 it ni'ci'ssary to nad the circular lij which tlii.s 
 Convention had liccn called loi,'('ihcr. Itwii.s 
 sntlicient to say tiial it had oritriiialed in u coni- 
 mitleo appointed to meet in Kingston, for 
 the pnrpose of considering its expediency. 
 Three connnittees were named, one for .Mon- 
 treal, one for Toronto, and one for that city, 
 ftiid ilie residl wa.s maTiitested iutiie highly res- 
 jiectalile nu'eting then before him, It allorded 
 liiin the ntniost pleiisiirc to he called to the |io- 
 Hition he then ladd ; and he would remark that 
 lie had lieen much struck the day liel'ore with 
 the remarkable intelligence and good coun- 
 tenances of the nnnu'riMis Delegates who had 
 arrived for tiie purpose of attending the (/'onvcn- 
 tion. lie had lived in countries where he had 
 become familiar with very diHerent faces. He 
 had been in N.S. Wales and Van Dienians Nand, 
 where he frecpiently had to encouTiter persons 
 of the very worst characters, and could state it 
 as a remarkable fart that crime st.Tmped its im- 
 press on the countenance. Having had these 
 op|iortnnities then of observation, he could not 
 lielp comparing the benevolent and intellectiml 
 faces before him with those of men wlio had 
 bciMi familiar witli crime, and with everything 
 else whiidi teniled to make the heart worse than 
 it naturally was. He cordially entered info the 
 desires expressed in the prayer just oU'ered, and 
 had no doubt the Convention would tend great- 
 ly to the advancement of the cause in which nil 
 were so much interested. He felt, too, that the 
 Lord would he ]>resent with them, [t was de- 
 lightful to rcllect that there were present men 
 who merged all their diderences in love — love 
 to (Sod — love to Jesus — love to the Spirit of 
 Truth and Holiness. Would that the day might 
 shortly be seen when all men, of all the various 
 opinions which were entertained, would come 
 
 together to advance the cnnso of the conimfni 
 Lord. In the larg" correspondence which had 
 taken place ou this subject, lie thought ti.at 
 there was but a single letter in which the writer 
 ventured so tar as to opjio^e this moveliieni, " be- 
 cause'tliis Ciuiveiitioii would con-iist of rather 
 heterogeneous materials." That he (l>i'. Mair) 
 coiiM not iiiulcrsland. Ilelengeneoiis 1 He 
 took it the materials were (piite tlie reverse. Had 
 they not one Father? — one Saviour? — one Hj i- 
 ril iiilliiencing them all ? How, then, could the 
 liody be heterogeneous? They were all one in 
 (!)lirist Jesus. To these few remarks he bad only 
 to add, that it was his duty to call for the ap- 
 pointment of a tem|iorary Secretary. 
 
 Mu. (!eo. Hai!('(m:iit, thereupon nominated 
 Mr. J. \V. Tavi.oii, (d' .dontruul, and lie was 
 appointed to that otiice. 
 
 .Mn. f. J. Lyi«av, then moved the appoint- 
 ment of a nominating Committee to nominate 
 officers, and the Chairnnm named 
 
 Messrs. S. J. Lyman, Montreal. 
 " D. Mkadi.k, St. Catherines. 
 " (lEO. llAi((;otiiiT, Toronto. 
 " Joii.s Paton, Kingston. 
 " W. J!k<!(j, London. 
 
 The committee retired, and dovotionnl ci- 
 crcises were engaged in for half au hour. 
 
 The nominating committee having returned, 
 reported the following names for the oflicers of 
 the Convention, and the nominations were una- 
 nimously adopted, vi/, : — 
 
 IIo.N. Ja.mijs FKnniKn, President. 
 
 VICE-PnE8IDENT8 : 
 
 • Rev. R. V. RooEUS, Midland Di.^trict. 
 
 • Mr. J.H. Sankokn, M.IM'., Kiistern District. 
 Mr. \Vm. Rkoo, Western District. 
 
 Dr. John Maiu, Kingston. 
 
 Mr. Sheritr TiiKADWKM., Ottawa District. 
 
 Rev. Wsi. Lanton, I'rcscott. 
 
 HEcnETAniEa : 
 Rev. John Scott, Hath. 
 Rev. Tiioa. Honn.sKiN, Doon. 
 Mr. J. W. Tayloh, Montreal. 
 
 • These (rotitlemen worn not present. Tho Nomina- 
 ting Committee put their names on the list of olItciTS, 
 as it waa understood that they would be prascnt. 
 
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 tcachill^' or sniicrinlcndintj Sahlialh Schoi Is, 
 
 d during that time, 1 have h<'cii the (glo- 
 
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 Ooavenlion .slionhl, durinn' ils laesenl session, 
 
 children. I have (*eeii them dii' ln|ipy in the 
 prospei-t (d' spl•lldill^c an elernily with Jesus, 
 
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 little cliildieli to come lllllo 
 
 devise means superior to those now eliiployid 
 in the eoiidiicliiin of our Sniiduy Selio"! work, 
 or if il should cNtite a stronu't'i' I'eeliiiK' in liie 
 hreast of every <lelejfale in this house, so tliat 1 j'|' 
 
 »ne," I rejoin- lo be aide lo report lo this 
 
 Convention, ihat in the scl lid' which lam at 
 
 present the superinleiideni, there have lieel 
 
 (liinn;; the pist yeai 
 
 it thirty yoiiii|LC per- 
 
 is converted !<■ (lod, and that in .Montieiil, 
 our jirospects (d" fnrtlior success are lirighler 
 
 we niiiv return to our sell 
 
 hools with rcdiiuhled 
 
 energy to teach the rising generation the k'low- 
 Icdge (if the trntli as il is in .lesiis, the cut' 
 
 I will 
 
 be fiillv an.swered. 
 
 iiin Ihey ever have heei 
 (lentlemen, a great deal has hccn done, and 
 is now doing, to furnish a lihcral secular edu- 
 cation to the youth (d' our I'rovince, and no 
 one can lie more anxious than I am to si-ciiro 
 
 Sunday School teaching will, in my opinion, this, llut let 11s never forget that the sciences 
 iiici.:,ise"tlR> prosperity of our rising country to , ^\^, ,„,( \^.^^^^\^ the way <if salvation. Malhci 
 a fur greater extent than any political (pieUion 
 which has ever occupied the attention of our 
 Kcgislaturc ; niid it is ciiiiahlc of elVeetiiig what 
 
 purely .secnliir ediicalinii 
 
 can ctt'ei't, viz. ; — 
 the'c-ilid'dishnienl of that high moral and reli- 
 gions clmracter, without which there can he no 
 security to either person or jiroperly. (ienllcinen, 
 1 fuel deeply on this snliject ; and I helicve that 
 the future destiny of (mr country deiiemls on the 
 sound religions and moral training which our 
 children receive in the Salihath School. Let 
 us for a moment look at onr Province, divided 
 as it is into two classes — the Protestant and 
 Roman Catholic, nnd let us note the ditferenee 
 between them, which we attrihiite to the eflects 
 of theliihle. We Protestants helievethat (].od 
 has given ns the liilde as his revealed will ; 
 thiit he commands ns to read nnd ohey it : and 
 that it is our duty to teach it to our children 
 anil all around ns. To the Roman Oatludics 
 the Hihle is a closed Imok— they are prohihited 
 from reading it, nnd the result is Inmentalde in 
 this country ns well as on the continent of 
 Europe. I point to these facts to show that 
 the present and future prosperity of our Pro- 
 vince depends on Ihe thorough Hihle edu- 
 cation we give to onr children. And I would 
 ask— where .ire they to get this? The Dis- 
 trict Schools do not furnish it ; neither do 
 the other schools cstnhlisl,ed for secular edu- 
 cation ; and, therefore, we have to look 
 to our Sunday Schoids as our only hope, 
 and we expect, liv pi'oniotiiig their iiiterevis, to 
 attain the desired eiul. For ever shall I thoiik 
 God that I was born in Scotland, and that in 
 the scluud where I was educated, there were a 
 l?iV)le and a Testament class. Hnt, gentlemen, 
 when wo consider that not only the temporal 
 prosperity, but the eternal destiny of every hn- 
 mnn being depends on his being made saving- 
 ly acquainted with the glorious plim of Ue Jeera- 
 
 tics will never solve the problem — how can a 
 sinner be jiistilied before his otfendert (iod? — 
 nor Clin meiitiil philosophy ever show that the 
 carnal mind is enmity against (!od. No ! in 
 the sciences, whether |diysical or metaphysical, 
 there is mi voice whicli tells ns of the heighth, 
 the depth, the length and the breadth of the 
 love of (!od to man. To tiie IJiblc, therefore, 
 and to the liible alone, let ns go, and take with 
 us the children and youth of onr land, that 
 from the study of that Hook of Life, teachers- 
 and children may be made wise unto salvation. 
 
 After further devotional exercises : — 
 
 Mr. S. H. Scott moved that the ^'rc.^ident 
 do ajipoint a Business Committee. Carried. 
 
 The Chairman named- 
 Rev. F. H. iMarling, 
 " J. Elliot, 
 " A. Hiillard, 
 " W. Jetfers, 
 
 Rev. Geo. McDonald, 
 
 " J. Shorn, 
 Mr. James Walker. 
 " S. IJ. Scott. 
 
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 Mr. J. W. Taylor moved, and it vasresolvcdr 
 tlnit the roll be made up, and in doing bo, in 
 order that delegates may become known to one 
 another, that each rise in his jilace, announce his 
 own name, the name of the School he rejiresents, 
 and the name of the place in which it is situated. 
 
 Roll of delegates present taken accordingly. 
 
 The Rev. Ma. Smakt, after announcing hig 
 name, mentioned that he represented the oldest 
 Sunday School in Canada, it having been 
 founded in 1811, whereupon it was moved, se- 
 conded, nnd carried unanimously, that the Rev. 
 Mr. Smart be the first Vice President of th» 
 Convention. 
 
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 I'l'lc, tliiTcCore, 
 I 'hhI tiiko nitli 
 ""I'l'iml, tlint 
 I'i'<', ti'aclicrs 
 unto siilviitjon. 
 
 1 
 
 KAIIIIATII BCIIOOt TRACIIRUH CiiS VKNTION. 
 
 iscs : — 
 
 tJie President 
 '• Caniod. 
 
 • -"^fcDonnld, 
 
 liortt, 
 
 '3 Walker. 
 {. kScott. 
 
 va.q resolved^ 
 " «loiiig ao, in 
 I* "own to one 
 , iiniioiince hia 
 lie rejOTaenta, 
 ' it is situated. 
 
 accordingly. 
 
 iiouncing his 
 eil the oldest 
 having been 
 s nioved, ae- 
 "'at tlie Rev. 
 ident of th» 
 
 I 
 
 Ri'v. Mil. S«AiiT lliiinkiMl the nioetiii)^ for the 
 Iioiioiir I'liiit'i'i'i'i'd ii|iiiii him. lie little i'.\|i('rtiM| 
 wlii'N III- iinivi'd III ('luiiidji, t'oi'i,v-i4ix jie.tr/4 
 l)ct"(ii'i', to «(•(' -tiirli u day ii-t llint. It wa'' indeed 
 un limionr to lie made tln-ir lir.-.t Viee I're^i- 
 deiil ; lint it Win ii slill irreali r one to liuve 
 Im'i'ii |M'rniitiei| to lie (lie rmiiider nC tlie llriit 
 Siiiiday Seliuiil in Canada, lie liilieved that 
 iiilli the per, on and ihr l.ilmni.i ut' llie lale Kev. 
 Mr. (>>)fiiiid, Were known in inust of the 
 lirethreii, lint he mi;{lit int'nrm tliein perhaps, 
 that Mr. O.-iniiod wa-t iiiiicnlated with Sunday 
 HcliodN in hrocUville. lie came there iim un 
 Itinerant mi.^^ional■y in IMIJ, and he t^iiit h-.i 
 idea-ieil, that he lie^aii imiie iliaiely tii travel 
 llironnh the I'liiviiiee and to e-taliliv|i Siimlay 
 }S<dioiil-i wherever he went. For his iiwn part, 
 lie (.Mr. Smart,) on;;hl to erect his Khene/.er 
 and .say, iiillierln the l,<>rd has In Iped me. lie 
 fame to Cm. Ilia furty-.six mhis nun, and he 
 ini^'ht say thai the Lnrd had now made him 
 two liands -Iwii hands ! why what a iiiimlier of 
 liands were present that day! lie thanked 
 (iod for llie preservation of a very feehle life 
 and eonstitnlion till he .saw that day, and espe- 
 <'ially till he saw that the ciiiitte of Saliliatli 
 HehiMiIs had taken such deep root in Canada. 
 That cause was ideiitilied with the moral and 
 |tolitical, he liii},'lil say even with the scieiitilic 
 and literary pro^rress of the country. 
 
 Mil. TiioMi'.^oN (Itiichesler) said lie would pre- 
 Bcnt Mr. Smart with a portrait ot' K. UaikeK. 
 
 The I?rRiNi.;gH Committkr reported the fuilow- 
 ing rerommendalions, which were adopted. 
 
 iHt. Tlint the hours of nieeliiifr lie from half- 
 past !t to half-past I'i in the moriiiii^,', and from 
 lialf-past 'i to half-past .""t in the afiernoon, and 
 that the lirst half-lionr of each Session he spent 
 in devotional exercises. 
 
 2iid. That no speaker sjieak more than once 
 or oecnpy more than ten minutes on each .siih- 
 jeet, without permissi-:;, of the .Meeting, 
 
 .^rd. That all linsiuess come throngh the Busi- 
 ness Committee. 
 
 4tli. That the following questions he discussed 
 in their order, and that not more than one hour 
 be devoted to each. 
 
 1. What is the hest mode of training Teachers 
 for Saliliatli Schools? 
 
 2. What ought to he the necessary qiialilica- 
 tiiiiis of Teachers hefore tlieir appointment to 
 Salihath School classes? 
 
 ;t. Can the giving nf rewards lie so ciiiidiicted 
 as to be of advaiilafie to tiie scholar, and to 
 the jirosperity of the School? 
 
 The Hcsi.NEs.s Co-Mmittki; further recommend- 
 ed. 
 
 1. That a Committee of five he apjioinfed to 
 Tnake all iiumiiiatiiiiis iei|iiired liy the Conven- 
 tion, itiid that the said Cummittee consist nf — 
 
 Messrs. S. J. I.ymaii, (J. II. Deller, W. linius, 
 Ainsley iiiid Daylimt. 
 
 2. Timt a ('nimnitlei' of three lie appointed to 
 examine the slalislicMl returns with the view of 
 conipletiitg them as far as piissilile, and prepar- 
 ing a siiminary thereof to he siilnuilted to the 
 Convention. 
 
 .'{. That a Committ(!e of three lie apjiointed to 
 make up a statement of the expenses of the Con- 
 
 vention, to aitccrtalii the prohaliln ro<<t of pitl>- 
 lishiiig the procredinxs, and to lepurt a plan lor 
 rai.'iiig funds, (he said I'onimitlee in he callvil 
 the Coinniitteu on Fimiiieu iinil I'lihlieiitioiu. 
 
 All of uhieli reeuinniendatioiiit were adopted. 
 
 till mntinn it was resulveil Ihat all ennimniil- 
 catiniis In the I'oiiventiuu be rel'erred to the 
 liu!<ineiti« Coninilttee. 
 
 The prllceedillg^ of the inornliii; were then 
 eluiied hy pra\er liy the Itev. Mr. Sinarl, 
 
 SKCd.NlJ si;ssi().v. 
 
 The Conveiilion assenilded again at half-past 
 two o'clock ; and al'ier a hymn li.id lieeii -niig, 
 ti.e Itev. .Mr. Iliirpee nH'ired plilver. .Viiollier 
 hymn having heeii snug, the Kev. Mr. Scott 
 prayed 
 
 The minutes of llie first Sessimi were read 
 and ennlinned. 
 
 They led til a slatemenl, that the lirst Sunday 
 Sehocils In Lower Canada wi're eslalili-hed in 
 Montreal and Slanslead in iNlil: the latter 
 seliool having sent out a missionary who w ai 
 one nf llie lirst In gn In the Samlwieh Idai.dg, 
 and whose lalionrs had deeii lilessed liy I Iod to 
 the eonversimi of many Iniudreds nf souls. It 
 was founded liy .Mr. 1*. V. Hihliard. 
 
 The .N'o.Mi.NATi.Nd C0.M.MITTKK submitted a re; ort 
 which was aeeepted, naming for the 
 
 coM.Mirrfc'K o.v kinamk a.nd I'uni.icATioNa: 
 Mr. II. .\. Nki.son, Chairnian. 
 
 " jAMKsSrKWAIiT. 
 
 " H. T. Ciiorv. 
 
 " W. J. MoiiiiiH, and 
 
 " Joii.s Mahnaiii). 
 
 A.Nn KOn TIIR CO.MMITTKK ON STATISTICS : 
 
 Mr. Ai.iix. Macai.i.stkii, Chairman. 
 " (iKomiu Hacaii. 
 " F. '1. I'KAllSO.N. 
 
 T'.^y also reported the names of speakers for 
 i the public meeting to be held in the evening, 
 I viz:— 
 
 I Rev. J. Shortt, Port Hope 
 
 I !{ev. It. W. Cliidiaw, Cineinnati, (Jhio. 
 
 I Rev. M. Miller, Ogdensburgh. 
 
 ; Rev. C. W. Denison, IhiHah). 
 
 Rev. ,\. Hiillard, Mostiin. 
 
 Mr. I). P. .lanes, Mnnlreal. 
 
 Mr. J. I). Fonte, IJuHalo. 
 
 Mr. T. II. Thomsiiii, Ruchester. 
 
 Mr. K. T. Huntington, Roehester. 
 
 The lirsi.NKBS (Iiimmittkk recommended that 
 the third i|uesliiiii 011 the printed list in the cir- 
 cular calling the t'onveiition, vi/, ; — 
 
 "Are Sablmlli Rehools at the present day ac- 
 cnniplishing the purpose for which tiny were 
 instituted? viz; the religious enligliti iiinent 
 of nncareil for elf'.Iren ? Has this nut ticen iu 
 a great measure departed from by giving more 
 heed to the children of the Church than to 
 those who are without means of religious 
 instruction, and would not their usefulness be 
 
6 
 
 RECOlll) OF TIIK PR0CKEl)IN(i8 OF TUB 
 
 increased by a rotiirn to llio ori};iiiiil olijcci" V 
 bn (lilt sccniul on till,' DiicUi't, uinl tliut llio 
 third tiipii; bo, — Uitw cuii wo leather into uiir 
 Scliodl.-; till! tlioiisiuids tif cliililii'ii wbii lunv 
 iicf^iict tlit'iii? and lliiit llio lopics |novi()M.-ly 
 naniod us lind and IJrd, bo iducod 4tli and filli ic- 
 ipt'ctivolv. — Adoiiled. 
 
 Tlic (|iic^iiiin "AViiAT IS 'I'M K iiusr mouk ok 
 
 IKAINIXI} TKACIIKlia i'Oll yAIIUATll Si;i(OOI..S,'' 
 
 wiio ihoii liilvon up. 
 
 Tlio Ifov. Mil. Smaiit (ISi-ockviHo) siiid, that 
 from an oxi'crioiice n{' loriy-lhroo or IniiN- 
 foitr year.^, wliicii was alioiit tho lonj^ih ot'linu' 
 siiico lie bocanie iv .Sunday School louohor, ho 
 had conio to the I'lHuliision, that tho bo.>l inodo 
 of iiiiiiroviii<r toachoi's was liy thoir iVoiinonlly 
 moi'iinfj t()<;t>thor and hohiing cordial Christian 
 coniniuiiion on tho task in whi(di thoy wi'ic 
 (!iii;i!;;\'d. That was llio plan which had 1 oon 
 adoptod at tho Kitzioy Scliool in Iiondon, with 
 which ho had boon conncclod, and where tlu-ro 
 wore 4!10 or.")*)!) childroii. Tho toiwdiors assoni- 
 blod at six o'clock on Sunday morninj; to cnn- 
 voi'so, and to lay thoir to(dinj,'s, and ditlici.ltios 
 rtiid oncoiiragonionts botbro oaidi other, so ns to 
 pcrt'ocl thoir ])lans for the e.Ntension <d'tln' <ros- 
 pel through the .school. lie iiad altonipod to 
 Cirry ont tlin same jdan in Itrockvillo, and so 
 t'lir as it was triv'd it had boon very siiccossfnl. 
 Indeed if there was anylhiiij^- thai could cheer 
 the hoarl and mind of the old man who ad- 
 dressed thoin, it was the retrospect of those 
 times, lie could not tell tho number of mi.s- 
 sioiiaries and ministers who had eiuie forth 
 frnn the Fitzroy School. The Morrisons, (ior- 
 dviis, .Milnos, and many others had however lio- 
 {jnu their career in it. And so it was at Hroi k- 
 villo. There the teachers had more time 
 tiian ill London, and they mot once a Aveek to 
 converse amont; thomscdves, and once a week 
 to converse with the children round a table. 
 Tiiere had I)eeii not less than six or eiji'lit'minis- 
 t'M'S ji() out from thats(dio(d, and lie bolieved its 
 success was chiefly owinir to tin; intei'courso of 
 which ho had sjioken. This was one means 
 and thou^^h not the only one, was a veiT impor- 
 tant moans of (rainin;^ teachers. (tne f^i'eat 
 defect ill the lives of C'hri-;tians in this conntry 
 was the want of communication botweeu tliom- 
 selves. They heard a sermon, jrood, bad, or 
 middling, and then loft the ClnnTli for the week ; 
 but they did not rally round each other; nor 
 become acquainted with each other as lliey 
 shou'd do. Xeilher were the ministers siifli- 
 ciontly acquainted with their iieojile, fbr they 
 were s''noially very deficient in visiting. The 
 same thing was true of Sunday School t 'aehors. 
 .Ml!. lirTiii'.iii.'oiti) (l'eterl)oro) cimceivod that 
 the chiofdifliculty of carrying on SiiiKlay Schools 
 was found in procuring properly (pialilied 
 teachers, and this (piestion of training Wii.<!, 
 therefore, of the very highest illll)ortanel^ Long 
 connected with Sunday Schools, the last four 
 years as a siiiierinlendent, he knew the difiicnlty 
 well. In l'eterl)oro, they had found the best 
 plan for meeting tliis trouble was to form a 
 class expressly for the purpose of educating 
 Sunday School teachers. In that place, they 
 had found that ailults, not being tlie nmstor.s 
 of thoir own time, did not make the best teachers, 
 for family ties frequently kept them away from 
 tliu sclioul. UesideS] men advanced iu life bad 
 
 not generally had the .«ni)ic fidvanfnges of in- 
 lollociiial tiainiiig as the young men who were 
 growing 11)1. lint by establishing a Itible (Mass, 
 many young persons, who wore not likely soon 
 to leave the school were interested in its ope- 
 rations. What had boon said already was very 
 widl ; but he thought the first thing was train- 
 ing. A\ I'eterboro, they had an ex('elliiif class 
 for teachers many of whom continued in tho 
 school, and better than all, became conveited. 
 
 Mil. MoiiiMS (I'erlli) reniarkc d that the Scotch 
 ("hiiridi School to wliicdi he boloiigod had 
 adopted the same course, and it turned out that 
 te.u hers thus truiiiod ahvays to(di niiu'o interest 
 in the school than those who hail not beeu 
 thus educated. 
 
 .Mii. IlKTiiiiiMiTO.N (Melbourne) acfpiiescing 
 in the views of tho previous >peaker-, recom- 
 mended moreover the |>laii he had seen adopted 
 in Lower Canada, of discussing beforehand tho 
 lesson whith was to be given out on the coming- 
 Saldiath. At the mooting for this discussion 
 the minister took the chair ix-oj/iiio, and tho 
 teachers having given their sentiments upon 
 the t(qiic in hand, the minister coriicied them 
 if he ol)served any thing erroneous in their 
 views. Thus all were jireparod to give instruc- 
 tion to the children. 'I'here were several mi- 
 nisters who wore first taught in thai school. 
 .Mr. Bkcc (London) bilievcd it was of the 
 greatest imporlance, es; ecially in Inion iSchools, 
 that tho teachers shoulil be bettor instructed in 
 the best modes of teaching their classes. It was- 
 easy to get pcrsims to attempt to teach ; but 
 it was not easy to secure that interest iu the 
 work and (pialiflcation for it which were re- 
 I qtiireil. in London, under the direction of his 
 pastor, there was a large Hible class for tho 
 training of the teachers ; and hi' held that it was 
 the duty of the jiastor thus to tr.iin the young of 
 the Hock. Anyone who did not meet the IJiblo 
 or some similar class once a week, did not do 
 his duty, besides the Bible class, his ]iastor 
 was ill the habit, during six months of tlie year, 
 id' meeting the teachers one night in the week, 
 and going over the lesson of the following 
 i Sabbath with them, giving them all tlie infor- 
 , mation in his power ujion the doctrines embrac- 
 ' ed in the lesson, or upon the illustrations of 
 : th.e conntry, or manners of the peo])le which 
 might come up in reailiag. This could not bo 
 done in country |dacos where the ministers re- 
 sided at groat distances ; f)ul in such cases his 
 ! ]dace might be taken by the most intelligent 
 j teacher. 
 
 i Rev. Mr. Je1''kei)s (Jlontrcal) thought a reso- 
 
 I Intion should be passed recommending, that in 
 
 connection >vith every vSnnday Schoid tliero 
 
 should be a Hible class taught, either by a nii- 
 
 I nisler or some other com|ielent person, which 
 
 I class should be made suyserviout to the objects 
 
 . of the school, a)id that as ])art of the regular 
 
 work of the school there should be a male and 
 
 female .Vornial or Training Sidiool, out of which 
 
 the teachers for the Sunday School might bo 
 
 selected, lie therefore moved : — 
 
 Resolved, That with reference to the training 
 of teachers, it is desiralde and earnestly to bo 
 rocomineiided, that, when jiracticablo, there bo 
 mainliiiiied in connection with each school a 
 Hible class for teachers, and such elder and 
 more advanced scholars as are invited. Tho 
 said class tu meet uucu a week. And that in. 
 
 i 
 
SAnnATII SCHOOL TEACIIEUS CONVENTION. 
 
 tlviintnjioM of in- 
 r men who were 
 IX a liilile Class, 
 not lilu'ly soon 
 ■*H(I in its ojie- 
 liciuly uiis very 
 liin;; Win train- 
 
 I excellent class 
 ntiniied in tho 
 
 in;c convei ted. 
 
 Iliat ti.e.'-cdtch 
 
 liclonired had 
 
 tniiied out (lint 
 
 il< more interest 
 
 Imd not Ijci'u 
 
 ') nr(|Mic.-;cing 
 eulsoiv, lecdin- 
 d seen addpted 
 III lorelianil iho 
 on the coniinjf 
 his discussion 
 '/ilia, and tho 
 ntinienis npoii 
 on-ecle<l llieru 
 neons in their 
 u give instrnc- 
 ! several nii- 
 " thai school. 
 t was of the 
 11 ion Schools, 
 instructed in 
 isscs. It was- 
 o teach ; hut 
 ilerest in ihe 
 lich were re- 
 ection of hig 
 class for tho 
 ■l<i that it was 
 the .young of 
 leetthe Jiiblo 
 i, did not do 
 "» liis pastor 
 s of the year, 
 in the Aveek, 
 le following 
 
 II the infor- 
 ines enibrac- 
 istrations of 
 -'"I'le which 
 onld not bo 
 linisters re- 
 ch eases his 
 
 intelligent 
 
 iht a rcso- 
 iif?, that ia 
 liool there 
 t'l' by a nii- 
 ^"11, which 
 theolijeets 
 he regidar 
 I male and 
 It of which 
 might bo 
 
 e training 
 ^tly to bo 
 ', there bo 
 school a 
 ;lder and 
 od. The 
 J that io. 
 
 addition thereto, there bo also maintained as 
 normal training classes, out (d" which teachers 
 may lie taken when Avanted a superior class 
 for ca(di sex, composed of the elder and more 
 ailvaneed scholars. .Such classes to form part 
 of tho sciiool, and to meet at the sauio time 
 and place as the school. 
 
 fiev. Mr. .Mii.i,i;ii (Ogdeiisburg) conceiving the 
 great object of SablKith School inslriiclion to be 
 tlic leading of tho pupils to Christ, held that 
 none but those wiio knew ('hrist by the teach- 
 ing of the spirit could be litling instructors to 
 guide oliiers to him, who is the wa}-, the truth 
 and tho life. It recpdred John t(j ti'aeh that it 
 was the Land' of tJod which takelh away tho 
 gins of the world. As the lirst step, then, to- 
 wards biinging out teaclrers it was necessary to 
 go to the only place whence fitting instructors 
 could come — to tiie fool of the cross. Tho lirst 
 question to candidates for admission to tho 
 Church should be not only, do you know Christ ; 
 but, are you willint;' to lalior for him ? If so, we 
 can take from that class those who are to teach. 
 As to l!il)le classes, the universal ex|)erienco of 
 tho Church correspiuids with the reason of tho 
 thing, that such classes must load to the pros- 
 perity of the Sabbath Scliocd. In Rochester, 
 IJiblo classes had been established with the 
 understauiliug that those educated in them 
 were afterwards to bo emiiloyed in Sabbath 
 Schools, and, indeed, ho thought that all mem- 
 bers of Churehos should understand the import- 
 ance of pre|)aring themselves to instruct others. 
 Tho most gifted colporteurs had come from the 
 Sabbath Schools, and one who had labored in 
 Canada had been taken to the school by his 
 child, and he thence went forth to sjiroad abroad 
 the loss(nis he himself had learned. The most 
 useful missionaries and servants of (Jod in other 
 ways were those who had been brought into the 
 Church from tho family altar under the inllu- 
 cncc of r.ible classes and Suiuhiy Schools, lie 
 had heard nnmy say when introiluced into the 
 Church late in life, that their old habits of 
 thought still clung to them. To have good 
 teachers, then, let them' go to the schools, lot 
 them look out for the child who.so eyes sjiarklod 
 while the teacher spoke to him of the love of 
 Jesus, and when such a one had beiju fixed upon, 
 let him be followed up and trained for the pur- 
 pose to which he was to be i)ersuaded to devote 
 himself. One reason why some Churches wore 
 ..blessed in having many ministers go out from 
 them was, that their Sunday School teachers 
 thus set their mimls on children, who were to 
 be teachers and ministers. 
 
 Mr. NoiiMAN, (King) thought the excellent 
 speeches just made did not touch tho real 
 point. If some schools were not to exist before 
 they could get real converts for teachers, it 
 would be long before they flourished much. In 
 a neighbourhood where there was only occa- 
 sional preaching, sometinies on Siindaj' even- 
 ings, and sometimes on week day evenings, a 
 Union S;ilili;ith School had been started, and 
 he did not suppose it would be easy at present to 
 find a more moral, civilized neigidiourhood. 
 Now there was no whiskey consumed there, 
 though formerly there could he no " I'eaco " 
 without grog. At present none was used in the 
 shanties, and on Sunday mornings, there was a 
 full house thougli no pastor, lie had no profes- 
 giug Christian near him ; but the young men and 
 
 women were growing up to rosjiect and prac- 
 tice morality, and he hoped that in another 
 year he might have something still l)eiler to re- 
 late. (Jod answered prayer, and he wanted the 
 inhabitants of large cities, where they could 
 choose their teachers, to pray for the people in 
 
 Iho backwoods, 
 say whether a 
 
 In the meantime let them 
 hool was to lie broken up 
 because real converts could not be obtained for 
 teaidiers. The (piestion had been long upon his 
 mind ; but he thought when people could not 
 do what they liked, they ought to do wlaitthey 
 could. At the schoid he spoke of, they had a 
 library of 300 vt)luiiies. As to training, of 
 course, it only could be thought of for the 
 young. It was impossible to train those who 
 for twenty years had been running about all 
 day on Sundays visitin;; an'! tale beai'lng. 
 
 Mr. Adams (Montieat) rennirked thai Mr. 
 Jell'ers had a largo congregation, and it would 
 be easy to work among them ; but in tho 
 small orgntu/.ation with which ho (Mr. A.) 
 had to deal, the strict rule contended for would 
 not work at all. He had liecn oliliged to do 
 Ihc best he could to got teachers, and often did 
 not know whether he would have to sto|i or go 
 on. lie must take just such timber as he could 
 get — a converted teacher if jiossible, if not, one 
 of gooil i}ioral character, otherwise tho school 
 must be aband<uied. If he wanted to interest 
 a young man or a young woman in the scriiH 
 turcs ho got them to take a Sabbath School 
 class, and thus he imposed upon them tho 
 necessity of studying the bible. He knew a 
 case of a boy who had been at sidiool ; but got 
 too large to slay there. He accordingly left 
 and spent his Sundays in perainbulaiing the 
 sireets ; but one day he went past the old 
 Church, and the minister happening to see him 
 said : " George suppose you take a little class 
 this nuuMung V " Ho did so ; he was asked to 
 take it again, and he became a very consistent 
 teacher. 
 
 Mr. Gkmmill (Toronto) thought they were 
 wandering from the iioint, which was the train- 
 ing of teachers. If a resolution like that 
 recommended by Mr. Jell'ers passed, the eldera 
 and pastors training the elder children in con- 
 formity with it would provide exactly tho sort 
 of teachers \^hich Mr. Norman required in the 
 backwoods. Men would go out and do tho 
 work of Sunday Schools where no converted 
 men could now be found. His cxjiorionco was 
 that it was easy to appoint teachers but not 
 cas3' to keep them with their classes, and this 
 not Uecause they wore not Christians, nor 
 because they did not wish to do good ; but 
 because they did not understand how to com- 
 municate their ideas to tho minds of the young. 
 That showed the importance of training. 
 
 Mu. Thompson (Rochester) gave his brother 
 from tho backwoods the right hand of fellow- 
 ship. It was easy to make plans for cities 
 -with Churches ami Church members ; but his 
 brother was right. Ho said, do what you can. 
 Let him go homo not to tcdl the pcoide to shut 
 up tho schools till they could get converted 
 teachers for them ; but to pray thai these 
 teachers might bo converted. At Rochester 
 they at one time had no converted toa('h"r at 
 all ; but they had thirty-live unconverted ones, 
 of whom every one was brought in. Afterwards 
 the Church separated, and they had again 
 
8 
 
 RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINOS OP THE 
 
 Bixtecn unconverted teachers, and tlicy were 
 all brought into the Church. He recollected the 
 last, the (lay after he was couTerted making a 
 record in his own hand ; " IJlessed be God, I am 
 the last of the teachers of this school ; but I 
 too have found mercy." He would ratiier have 
 an unconverted teacher with some go ai'.ead, 
 and zeal, and ability, than a converted one wlio 
 could not or would not do any thing at all. 
 Let his brother go home ; keep his schools 
 going, and pray God would bless him. It 
 was imjiossible that he should not. Children 
 would not go there, and read the bible, and yet 
 not be converted. Tliey must cither be con- 
 verted or leave the school. Let hi.-i brother 
 go back and light a flame that would set all 
 the back woods on fire. 
 
 Mil. Stkko (Sarnia) had heard a good deal 
 about schools which, he supposed, all belonged 
 to Churches. His, however, was in a different 
 position, being a Union School. There were 
 three to six clergymen in the town, and they 
 never interfered with it. Perhaps they did not 
 wish to go out of theii own fields. At any 
 rate, the conclusion he came to was, that it was 
 necessary to make the school self-sustaining, 
 and raise teachers for themselves. If they had 
 not the means to get up good Bible and train- 
 ing classes, they must do the best tiiey could. 
 Perhajis other teachers would say their schools 
 had as little support as his. For his own part, 
 he thought it the duty of clergymen to give 
 their support to the Union Schools. 
 
 Mr. Di'GOAN (Kingston) stated, that his Church 
 had a Bible class, conducted by the Pastor, 
 and a teachers' meeting every Tuesday even- 
 ing, at which, after prayer, the lesson for the 
 following Sunday, announced on the previous 
 Sabbath, was taken up and considered. The 
 teachers read the lesson, verse by verse, and 
 the pastor gave his views upon it. The teacli- 
 ers then asked each other their opinions. This 
 with the Bible class and one oilier thing, had 
 been mainly instrumental in securing teachers 
 of the right kind. The other thing was prayer 
 that the young in the school might receive 
 the truth. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Hodoskin (Doon) held that 
 teachers should be able to interest their classes, 
 and this not only by the possession of knowledge, 
 but also by ability to impart it. Without that, the 
 scholars could not be made to feel that they at- 
 tended school with profit to themselves ; and 
 they therefore could not be retained under the 
 influence of the school. In his experience, he 
 had found that the bread of life must be cut 
 very small, and served up very nicely, in order 
 to interest the child ; and ministers should re- 
 member when they went to the schools, tliat 
 they were no longer preaching to their congre- 
 gations, but had to take the children and talk 
 to them all. He believed that teachers some- 
 times thought that they were not teachers, but 
 ministers preacliing. lie remembered seeing a 
 Bible class conducted by a person who, he 
 thought, believed himself very well qualified. 
 He was a person of some note, and had called 
 the land after his own name. This person 
 thought it would be well to have his (Mr H.) 
 brother, two j-ears younger than himself, as his 
 scholar. The lesson was in Jeremiah, where it 
 is said : " The days come saith the Lord, that 
 they shall no more say, — The Lord liveth that 
 
 brought the children of Israel out of the land 
 of Egypt," and the teacher asked,— why it 
 sliall no more be said, the Lord liveth? Ho 
 (Mr. H.) saw his brother sitting and trying to 
 look grave. He was the last in the class, and 
 when it came to him, he said he did not seo 
 that tliiit was in the book. " Oh, yes," said the 
 teacher, "they shall no more say, the Lord liv- 
 eth." Ilis brother told him to read on a little, 
 and he would see that the blessings in the day 
 wliicli was foretold, were so far to exceed those 
 that had been granted to the children of Israel 
 in the land of Egypt, that the former deliver- 
 ance would 1)^ forgotten in the greatness of the 
 latter. " Oh, well," said the teaciier, "we will 
 ask no more questions to-day ; read on, if you 
 please." Now, he (Mr. II.) thought, if the 
 truth, conveyed in the passage, had been fully 
 imjiresscd on that man's mind and heart, he 
 would not have made so miserable a sjiectacle 
 of himself. To make schools resi)ectable, then 
 the teacher must be able to make himself 
 respected. 
 
 Mr. IIaoaii (Montreal) mentioned, that in the 
 school with whicii he was connected, there were 
 several adult or Bible classes. The elder scho- 
 lars did not leave the school, but grew up in it; 
 and when old enough to do so, took part as 
 teachers. From the Bible class, in the past 
 year, several teachers had gone out to supply 
 branch schools, and when the superintend- 
 ent wanted teachers, he could always ap- 
 ]dy to these adult classes. The mem- 
 bers of these Bible classes sometimes took 
 turn to lead the classes, and they thus pre- 
 pared themselves and became qualified for 
 teachers. In his own class, several had lately 
 been taken for regular teachers in the school. 
 
 Mr. McAi.Li.STKU (Kingston) said that 204 
 schools had reported, in which there were 2040 
 scholars over sixteen years of age, so that many 
 teachers might be expected from them. 
 
 A Delkoatk here recommended as a kind of 
 manual, a book called the Teacher Taught. 
 
 Mr. Beoo (London) woold like to see the 
 nomination of a Committee of Pastors to recom- 
 mend books for the instruction of teachers. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Dugoan esjiecially counselled 
 teachers to adopt a holy walk and conversation, 
 cxami)le being better than advice. 
 
 Dr. Maik (Kingston) on this account was 
 very anxious that teachers should be punctual 
 in their attendance at school in order to insure 
 punctuality on tlie part of the children. 
 
 Jlr. Stewart (Kingston) remarked that the 
 population in this country being very fluctuat- 
 ing the children were usually but a short time 
 under the instruction of their teachers. For 
 that reason the teaching should be concentrated, 
 and instead of going tiirough the whole bible, 
 truth should be presented in as condensed a 
 manner as jjossible. Now where teachers were 
 not converted they were unable to give that 
 kind of instruction which was so essentially 
 necessary. He could not conceive how an 
 unconverted teacher could present the Lamb of 
 God which taketh away the sins of the world, 
 or how such a jierson could be a living epistle 
 of Christ. It was no doubt often impracticable 
 to get men of the stamp required ; but there 
 should be nothing in the resolution which 
 would seem to lose sight of the necessity of 
 having such persons if possible. 
 
SADBATII BCilOOL TEACIIEIIS CONVENTION. 
 
 9 
 
 It of tlie land 
 iked,— why it 
 Jlivcth? lie 
 and trying to 
 the class, and 
 ■ did not SCO 
 yes," snid the 
 the Lord liv- 
 id on a little, 
 ,'s in the day 
 
 exceed those 
 iiTu of Israel 
 ■mer deliver- 
 atness of the 
 ler, " wc will 
 d on, if you 
 uglif, if the 
 d been fully 
 id lieart, he 
 
 a spectacle 
 I ctable, then 
 ike himself 
 
 , that in the 
 d.tiicre were 
 ! elder scho- 
 ■eiv nj) in it ; 
 )ok part as 
 in the past 
 t to supply 
 iipcrintend- 
 ilways ap- 
 riie mem- 
 times took 
 r tlius pre- 
 alified for 
 had lately 
 ) school. 
 1 that 204 
 were 2040 
 that many 
 hem. 
 
 ! a kind of 
 aught, 
 o see the 
 to recom- 
 chcrs. 
 !ounselled 
 versation, 
 
 ^unt was 
 punctual 
 to insure 
 
 I. 
 
 that the 
 tiuctuat- ■ 
 lort time 
 rs. For 
 ;ntrated, 
 'le bible, 
 lensed a 
 ers were 
 ve that 
 lentially 
 how an 
 ^anib of 
 
 World, 
 : epistle 
 Hicable 
 t there 
 
 which 
 38ity of 
 
 Mr. McKay (Xlontreal) said tliat in the school 
 with which he wa.s coiinecled, the tcaciiers nicl 
 every Sabbiith inoniing at 10 o'clock, for one 
 hour, for prayer and the sttidy of tiie le.sson. 
 To tills nieeling the elder sciiolars wim'c often 
 invited ; few, however, availed llieniselves of 
 the privilege, lie ai)proved of wiiiU .Mr. Gcin- 
 mill had said, and llioiigiit the plan hinted at a 
 good one, as It had a tendency to lit those who 
 atteiiiled for prolitalily euj^ai^iiig In the work of 
 teaching, and was one — among many — of the 
 means blessed in preparing the young lor taking 
 classes In the Sabliatli .School. All the (piallli- 
 cations alluded to were essential ; Ijiil i^ifts 
 were reipilred as well as g'cacc.s, and the liberal 
 education of the young was not only desirable, 
 but should (Ml no account be neglected. 
 
 A Delegate thought that lilble classes should 
 not be formed merely for the teachers. There 
 should be such classes for all the scholars like- 
 wise. Then each one would show what ability 
 he had, and the best qualillcd teachers would 
 bo picked out from the whole. 
 
 The nEsoi.uTiON moved by the Rev. Mr. 
 Jekpbus, having been seconded by Mr. Ayles- 
 woHTH, (Odessa,) was read by the Secretary 
 and carried. 
 
 The Convention then took up the next ques- 
 tion : — 
 
 Auk SAHnATii Schools at thk present day 
 
 A0C0MI»LISU1N<: THE I't'ItPOSB KOU WIIICU THEY 
 WEHE ESTAHLfSHED ? VIZ : THE ReLIOIOLH ENLIOUT- 
 ENMEXT OF UiNCAHED FOIl CHILDUEN. IIaS THIS 
 NOT IIEE.V IN A OIIEAT MEASi:ilE DEI'AUTED FUOM BY 
 GIVINfi MORE HEED TO THE CHILDUEN OF THE 
 ChUUCH THAN TO THOSE WHO AllE WrTHOUT 
 MEANS OP UELKilOL'S IN'STKUCTION, AND WOULD NOT 
 THEIU fSEFIJLNE.SS HE INCUEASED BY A RETUUN TO 
 THE OUIGINAL ODJECT ? 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jeffeus (Montreal) said that, when 
 Robert Raikes lirst collected his Sunday scholars 
 and put them under a female teacher, he did so 
 with the intention of iHstructing the poor and 
 destitute only, and he understood that the ques- 
 tion now imder discussion was whether that 
 idea had not been greatly lost sight of, and 
 whether Sabbath Schools were not now devoted 
 to other purposes than collecting the ignorant 
 and destitute ? Certainly this was not kept so 
 much in view as it was by Raikes, and he thought 
 it was a subject of gratitiule that the Sunday 
 School operations had been extended over more 
 ground. The Bible Society had been formed in 
 the first instance to give the Hible to the peo- 
 ple of Wides ; but it could not be said that it 
 was losing sight of the original object because 
 Bibles had been sent elsowlierc. God had made 
 nse of Robert Raikes' idea and had caused the 
 Simdny School to become the nursery of the 
 Church, eiial)ling the Church to carry out the 
 mind of Christ in the educating of her children. 
 Theuncarcd for should be helped. But [daclng 
 the original idea too iironiinently in the fore- 
 groimd would, in his opinion, do harm instead of 
 good, and he was not very friendly to that spirit 
 in some Christian organizntions winch kejit con- 
 stantly in mind that they were intended for the 
 poor and ignorant. Such words as ragged 
 schools and poor schools showed, perhaps, a bad 
 spirit in those Christians who thus named them. 
 
 Sunday Schools ought rather to bo considered 
 as a part of Church organization and the work 
 of 'the Gospel. 
 
 Mr. S. B. Scott (Montreal,) read the following 
 pa])er : — 
 
 That Sunday Schools to a very great extent 
 at the present day, are not fully accomplish- 
 ing the object for which they were design- 
 ed, and in consecpience, are not accomidlshing 
 the good they might do is believed from the 
 following : 
 
 Sunday Schools were originally designed for 
 those who were destitute of religious instruction. 
 
 .Sunday Schools now are principally devoted 
 to those who have, Independent of the Sunday 
 School, every desirable opportunity for the 
 acquirement of religious knowledge. 
 
 Sunday Schools now are made up mostly of 
 the children of tiie church, who, if they are not, 
 ought to be faithfully and prayerfully instructed 
 at home. 
 
 In view of these facts we may inquire, what 
 is the effect of present .Sunday School opera- 
 tions upon members of churches and their chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Before the days of Sunday Schools, a large 
 ])roportion of christian parents strictly and re- 
 gularly attended to the spiritiuil training of 
 their households, deeming this as much a part of 
 the work God had designed for them to do, as 
 it was to provide for necessary daily food. 
 
 Is this the case now ? — 
 
 So far from it, that evidences are to be found 
 in almost every house, that this duty which had 
 been strictly performed by religious families, 
 from the days of the I'rophets to those of Robt. 
 Raikes, has been either partially or entirely 
 laid aside, as being no longer useful. 
 
 It is to be feared that but few christian pa- 
 rents now feel the importance of this duty as 
 they would were there no Sunday Schools, and 
 though doubtless there are some who as they 
 should do, look upon Sunday School instruc- 
 tion only as a help to their own, at the same 
 time it cannot be doubted, that a very large 
 portion, and many believe by far the largest 
 portion of the members of the church, entirely 
 neglect the religious training of their children. 
 And why ? — Because they have come to the 
 conclusion, that this is the legitimate work of 
 the Sunday School, though by what command 
 or example in the Bible, this transfer of so im- 
 portant a duty is made, it is not easy to dis- 
 cover. The effect too upon the children of thia 
 class of Christians, is most surely very much to 
 their disadvantage. Not that anything is 
 chargeable to the unfaithfulness of the Sunday 
 School Teacher, for if there are faithful devoted 
 spiritual minded Christians any where, they are 
 to be found in the Sunday School ; but really 
 how much time does the .Sunday School teacher 
 have, however faithful he may be, to devote to 
 his class during the whole week? — On an 
 average not more than 30 minutes. And what 
 too is the portion of Sunday School Scholars, 
 who as attentively listen, even during this 
 small portion of time, to the instructions of a 
 person comparatively a stranger as they would 
 to the earnest words, gushing from the full 
 heart of the father or mother. We are also 
 forced to conclude, that by the present system 
 of Sunday School operations, vast numbers of 
 cbristian parents, for wa7it of the mental and 
 
10 
 
 HECOUD OF THE PnoCEEDINOS OF TIIK 
 
 religions exercise God has designed for them in 
 fitting tiu'msi'lvcs for tlie iniiiortant dnty of 
 tniining n|i Ihcir cliildrcn in llie wiiy (liry 
 slioiild go, bt'CMnnc \vt'iil< iind nsoless nioniliei'S 
 of tlie {!linirli, and tlii'ii' children bai(dy exist 
 upon tlie einnd]s tliey receive from olliers in- 
 stead of growing u|ion tlie bountifid snindy (.Jod 
 Las jnovided for llicm. 
 
 It is a conunon and with many a favourite 
 remark, that the Siiiniay School is the nursery 
 of the church, liecaii.se that now the; larger por- 
 tion of those added lo the church are from the 
 Sumlay School, and in eonsecjuence the Sunday 
 School is credited with their conversion. 
 
 How far tins nnitler sliotildhv looked upon in 
 this li:^/it, — is a suhject of mucdi douht. 
 
 It is true that n )W most of the additions to 
 the Church, are fiom the Sunday School, hut 
 it is also true, that nearly all of these, are the 
 children of (Mn-istian ]iarents. 
 
 Now what is the fact in relation to con- 
 versions in this class of persons before the days 
 of Sunday Schools. There is no reasomihle 
 donbt of there having licen as great a projior- 
 tion of these jiersons added to the (Church, 
 before Sunday Schools were eslal)lished as there 
 has been since, so that really the only percep- 
 tible dill'erence is, that now the individual goes 
 rouml through the Sunday School, into the 
 Church instead of direct frf)m home as liefore. 
 
 This may lead us to inquire, what good after 
 all are Sunday Schools now doing? 
 
 And lniml)ling as the answer must be, we are 
 forced to the conclusion tluit they are not ac- 
 complishing by far so much good as we Imd 
 Bupiiosed. 
 
 It is the firm belief of many good men, that 
 Sunday Schools are really eminently useful only 
 in so far as they are instrumental in the salva- 
 tion of those who are in the main, destitute of 
 all other means of religious instruction. 
 
 It is true that they may he, and in some 
 cases doubtless are a help to Christian jiarents 
 in instructing their children, but the value of 
 this agency, in these cases, is so small in com- 
 parison with the great opportuni'y for their use- 
 fulness in the riglit direction, taat really it is 
 hardly worth mentioning. 
 
 That there is in ourinjdst, a c'ass of persons, 
 destitute of all moral and religijus training, is 
 believed by all, that there is a large class of 
 such ])ersons is believed l\y m;'.ny, but all who 
 have taken the trouble of informing themselves 
 upon this point, are ]ierfectly astonished at the 
 result of their inquiries. 
 
 In the city of Brooklyn, New York, a place 
 noted for zeal and energy in efforts for destitute 
 children, there were about one year since 15,000 
 Sunday School scholars, 30 of their schools 
 being Mission schools, and yet at the same time 
 it was estimated that there were in that city 
 alone 20,000 children out of Sunday Schools. 
 
 It is also worthy of notice that at the Sun- 
 day School Convention of the State of Xcw York, 
 held at Albany a few days since, the alarming 
 Btatement was made, that there arc now, in 
 that single Stale, not less than 300,000 chil- 
 dren, whose moral training is totally imcared 
 for, e.\cept as they may be reached by the 
 Sunday School. Comjiare the poimlation of Ca- 
 nada, with that of the State of New York, make 
 all the deductions required on account of 
 those who are catholics, and of course appa- 
 
 rently beyond onr reach, and wo have here 
 
 in Canada the vast number of m)t less than 
 100,000 to ir)0,000 of tills .same class of destitute 
 children. 
 
 It is to be feared that we have allowed our- 
 selves to fall into a grievous error, in relation 
 to the nncared for in our midst. 
 
 While throughout the Province of Canada 
 the number of ciiildren out of Sunday Sclnxds, is 
 vastly larger than that of those who are /'«, wo 
 have criminally closed our eyes to their dephjra- 
 ble condition. Wv are literally surrounded by 
 darkness and heathenism. Those very persons 
 who are to be men and women, and active upon 
 the stage of life, at the same lime withourown 
 children, are growing up in ignorance of the 
 Itible, straiig<'rs to Cod, profaners of the sab- 
 bath day, ami eminently (jnalilied for all tliat is 
 sinful and wicked. 
 
 And those very ]iersons whom God haa 
 designed, as instruments in his hands, to rescue 
 them from this fearful conditi(m, are to-daj 
 almost as totally regardless of their welfare, 
 as if their existence was merely in the imagi- 
 nation. 
 
 Hut it is a question not lightly to be thrust 
 aside. Is there not a fearful responsibility 
 restingupon us in relation lo them? To-day they 
 are within our reacii, and they may be gatiiered 
 into Sunday Schools and taught the truths of the 
 liible, but in a fewyears it will be with them as it 
 now is witli those who are, apiiarently, entirely 
 beyond the reach of our ellorts. If it is in our pow- 
 er in any way, or by any means to bring tlicm, or 
 a,ny number of them, under the inlluence of the 
 gospel, I ask dare any of us take upon Ourselves 
 the responsibility of withholding the means God 
 has provided for the accomplishment of this 
 purpose ? 
 
 What Sunday School teacher, after having 
 carefully reflected ujion this subject, and know- 
 ing as he comes liefore his class next Sunday, 
 that there is not one in it, in whose father's house 
 there is not bread enough and to spare, can 
 feel in his heart, that he is really and faithfully 
 accom|)lishing the object and design for which 
 Sunday Schools were established. 
 
 I think Me must conclude that the Sunday 
 School is designed for the destitute, for those 
 against whom every other door of access ia 
 closed, and I feel that until all these are gather- 
 ed in and iirovidcd for, we have no business 
 whatever with those for whom God has jn'ovided 
 Christian fathers and mothers, only as they may 
 he made useful in attracting or inlliiencing 
 others. We ought by no means to lose sight of 
 one important fact in connection with this sub- 
 ject, which is this, that wherever or whenever 
 any sucessful cH'ort has been made for this class 
 of ])ersons, it has been done thrtiugh the agency 
 of the Sunday School. 
 
 We have every reason to believe this to be 
 God's own appointed way of accomplishing 
 this work ; for look where we may, we see how, 
 in every ]dace and at all times, when this kind 
 of instrumentality has been used with a firm 
 reliance npim lliin for His blessing, iuvariabla 
 success has been the result. 
 
 AVho can estimate the amount of good that 
 would be accomplished — the joy and rejoicing 
 that would be in heaven — if the efforts which are 
 being made by all the Sunday Schools in (Canada 
 for the benefit of the children of the Church, 
 
SAUnATII SCIIOOI, TEACHERS CONVENTION. 
 
 11 
 
 c allowed our- 
 
 wcro diroctpd to llioso who arc now in ij^no- 
 ranci.' of ihi.' ISiliK'? Where is tlic sin in my dis- 
 bftiidin;; iiiv chi<s, convinced us I iini tliiil tliey 
 arc douMy provided for, (Ihoiigli I iniiy love 
 thcin lis my own children,) and sending tiicm 
 home to he cured for Ijy llieir ('lirisliim purcnts, 
 wliile I go into the streets and lanes, and gati.jr 
 into the Sahhiith School the children of the 
 irreligious, the Salihath hreaker, I ho drunkard, 
 the, iiili(l( I, and the outcast ? and, in this way 
 endeavour, liy all tiie inlluence, 1 have, to give 
 food, spiritual food, the hreail of life to those 
 who arc perishing; and, on the other hand, am 
 I not incurring the disideasurc of heaven, hy 
 continuing, a; 1 do, the teacher of tiiose who 
 should he taught at home, to the neglect of 
 those who are sure to he lost, if //its effort is 
 not made for their salvation? Where is the 
 benevolence which has reason to ex|)ect (lod's 
 blessing upon elUn-ts to ])rovide food and cloth- 
 ing for the rich? He; tluit giveth to the rich 
 ahall surely couic to want. Who would think 
 of sending Hildes and Missionaries to Kngland 
 or the rnite(l States, leaving IJurniah and Afri- 
 ca to |)crisii ? and yet, are not our jirescnt Sun- 
 day School operations, to a large degree, of a 
 similar character to this? 
 
 We oficn feel, and sometimes exjjress much 
 anxiety in relation to the matter as to who are 
 to hll the ])laces of the great and the good men 
 who arc now occujiying stations of intlnence 
 and importance n[)ou the stage of life. Is not 
 the iiupiiry of vast importance, too, who are 
 to fill the places of those who now occujiy the 
 cells in our jails and penitentiaries? Who arc 
 to occupy the ]daces of drunkards in their 
 poverty and in the gutter? Who are to occupy 
 the places of thieves and pickpockets, and all 
 the other i)csts of society? The places of all 
 these are to he filled, and thai too, no doubt, by 
 some children who are in our midst. They arc 
 now in the Sunday School of the devil — a 
 school in which they are receiving the most 
 perfect education — and it will not be the fault 
 of their teachers, if they are not more eminent- 
 ly qualilied to fill their various positions than 
 those who are before them. 
 
 I may be in an error, but it is my firm belief, 
 that the destinies, for time and eternity, of 
 thousands of these most unfortunate beings de- 
 pend upon the action and results of this Sal)balh 
 School Convention ; and I dare rfot close with- 
 out urging my IJrethern here assembled, to 
 look well to it, that the blood of these perish- 
 ing sonls is not found in their skirts in the 
 great and final day of all things. 
 
 Mr. (.'arman (Matilda) differed materially in 
 opini(m from that of the last speaker. To pass 
 a resolution in the sense of this paper would be 
 to destroy the Sabbath School cause. The ef- 
 fect it would produce in the towns and villages 
 could not hut bo unfortunate. Every man de- 
 sired to bo considered bettor than his neighbor, 
 and if it were said that schools were es- 
 tablished merely for uncared for children, the 
 children who were really uncared for, but 
 whose jiarents would not admit that they v. ere 
 80, would be driven away from such, schools. 
 He had sometimes asked himself, if a school 
 should not be made, separate from the rest, for 
 the wandering children of the streets; but he 
 Boon -saw the impropriety of it, and that as 
 everybody Lad a desire to be thought to belong 
 
 to the up])er classes, no one would like to .send 
 their children to such schools. Th(^ teaching of 
 poor children was one of the grandest olijeets 
 of the Sabbath School ; but one of the greatest 
 attractions for them was, that they would bo 
 then! g.ithercd together with the respectablo 
 children of all classes of the community, llo 
 would make one remark that seemed ai)propriato 
 to this sul)ject, this was that a serious evil in 
 Sabbath Schools was the love of expeu.^ive and 
 gaudy dress. Nothing was more calculated to 
 drive children away than to see tin; teachera 
 coming e(piippe(l in tinsel and (inery, and no- 
 thing was less becoming thos(; who professed to 
 be followers of the meek and lowly Jesus. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Siioin t (Port Hope) remembered an 
 occurrence at Port Hope, where the peoidewero 
 and are particularly loyal. It w.is desired to 
 connnemorate the l^neen's nuirriage ; and in 
 order to do so it was arranged upon the propo- 
 sal ofageutleman who hail his head full of old 
 country ideas, that a dinner was to he given to 
 the respectable i)oor, and those of the respect- 
 able ))oor who applied were to have tickets for 
 the dinner. Jiut not one api)lied, though it was 
 to be suiiposed that there were poor jieople in 
 Port llo|)0 as well as elsewhere. So it would 
 be with Sabbath Schools. If there were to bo 
 respectable po(n' schools, no one would enter 
 them. Just in the same way a Temperanco 
 Society which professed to be a society for re- 
 claiming i>oor drunkards would be a failure. 
 All the respectability that could be obtained 
 should he i)r()cured, and if jiossihle he would liko 
 to have the (lovornor (leneral for a most worthy 
 grand patriarch. Another consideration : all 
 jirofessing Christians should educate their chil- 
 dren in a religious manner ; hut that was not 
 practically the case, so that nninysuch children 
 were as much neglected as the most uncared 
 for. Therefore, it was the business of those 
 concerned in Sunday Schools to collect alike 
 the most respectable and the most destitute. 
 
 Mr. Thomas, (Clairville,) after cxjiressing hia 
 happiness at thus meeting Protestants of all 
 denominations in Canada, declared himself of 
 opinion that it was neither doing good to our 
 fellow men, nor serving the cause of God truly 
 to make schools only for the destitute and un- 
 cared for, lie thought one reason why hundreds 
 more children were not brought into the schools 
 in days past was the fact, that such schools had 
 been always more or less sectarian, — adapted 
 for children of this, that or the other Church. 
 The school ho was connected with, however, 
 was a Union School, and the teachers came from 
 the dill'erent denominations. It was a largo 
 school for a country ]dace ; but there had never 
 been a word of regret on account of this ar- 
 rangement, and if all schools were conducted on 
 the same plan, the wayto advance the good ca\iso 
 would be made plain. Letallmeeton the broad 
 principles of truth and they would be mightily 
 edified, and if any teacher advanced something 
 which was not in accordance with the mind of 
 all, it would bo a ])leasant thing for them 
 to meet and talk it over so as to conform them- 
 selves to the truth as it is in Jesus. 
 
 Mr. Becket (Montreal) offered a resolution 
 recommending the establishment of visiting 
 committees in connection with each school. 
 
12 
 
 nECOIlD OF TIIK PU0CEED1N08 OF TIIK 
 
 Rvv. Mr. IToDdBKiN moved tlmt tlie third 
 tojiic. on tlio docki't hv ooinljiiu'd with the one 
 now liehig disrussed, mid llml the time for liieir 
 coiisidiTiitiou l)e extended to the hour of iid- 
 journineiit. 
 
 The motion was seconded l)y Mr. Ilcthcring- 
 ton niid carried. 
 
 The words How can wk nusT <!ATitKn i.vto 
 
 OUR S0lll)0l,a TUB TIIOISAND.S OK ClIir.KllKN WHO 
 
 NOW NEdi.KCT TiiKM, wcrc therefore added ufler 
 the word odjuct. 
 
 Mr. IkcKKT tlioughthis resolution covered the 
 whole ground. 
 
 Ilev. Mr. Maumno (Toronto) believed that to 
 put up oversciiools : " For unciired for children, ' 
 would prevent any parents from sendiuf{ their 
 children. What parent would adniil tliat lie 
 did not care for his children? He wanted, 
 liowever, to liear tlieir American brethren on 
 this matter, as they were understood to have 
 taken a great deal of pains in it. 
 
 Mr. Hkckkt (Montreal) thought his resolution 
 did nothing like proposing to put U)) " Fur un- 
 cared for children." Tiie object of obtaining 
 visiting Committees was to bring in children. If 
 all tiie cliildrcn were brought what more could 
 be wanted ? 
 
 Mr. An.MSTRONH approved of the resolution, 
 having seen tiie good working of visiting eom- 
 mittees, who, in his school, were called absentee 
 visitors. A year and a half ago that school had 
 dwindled down to tlie number of sixty, of whom 
 the average attendance was about thirty. Four 
 persons were, therefore, appointed to net as vi- 
 sitors, to get all children not connected with 
 other schools to come to that one. That ])lan 
 answered well. In order to get children who 
 were uncared for, it was not necessary to write 
 that over the door. He was Superintendent and 
 made no distinctions. The child who was capable 
 of being in a particular class was placed there. 
 If there were absentee visitors appointed to all 
 Bchools, a large nuuibei' of children now uncar- 
 ed for would be brought in, yet nothing invidi- 
 ous would be done. He had heard it said, that 
 the children themselves made the best mission- 
 aries ; but believing that the great object of 
 Sabbath Schools was to bring children to the 
 knowledge of Jesus, he thought they could 
 hardly be expected to take the same interest in 
 bringing other children to the school as was to 
 be looked for from persons engaged in the ser- 
 vice of the schools, esjiecially when these last 
 were so engaged from high and pure motives. 
 
 Mr. Thomi'son (Rochester) had seen a /^reat 
 deal of cflFort jiut forth to get into the schools 
 children who did not belong to any Church un- 
 less the Church of Rome, and had seen tliesc 
 efforts blessed ; but it was no particular ma- 
 chinery that did it. It wa.-i tlie love of God 
 shed alu'oad in the hearts of those who lal)ored, 
 and tliough at lirst tliere were many little 
 dithculties, it was found at last that the pa- 
 rents could be got at. He knew a brother who 
 really had but one talent, but that one was the 
 talent of trying to do good. lie tried to get the 
 French Catholic boys into the school. Fathers 
 and mothers and priests all opposed him, but he 
 Bucceeded. He was a mechanic, and used to 
 go down to the residences of these poor people, 
 
 sometimes with firewood, at others with bread 
 or clotlies. Tiioy found he lia<l a lieart, and ho 
 tliiis came to exercise great inlluence over them. 
 He (.Mr. Tiionipson) could bring tears into the 
 ryes of either parents or teaeliers by the iiiero 
 nientioii of the name of that brother. He did 
 not approve of putting up " [loor schools." Ho 
 once saw an arrangement where there was an in- 
 fant school, and a Sunday school, and one called 
 an interniediate school, wliich was devoted to 
 the |(oor children wlio were picked up in the 
 streets. He told the friends that this internie- 
 (li:ite schixd would break down, and, in fact, it 
 ran down to nothing. His desire was, that all 
 the children should ccune together to the same 
 sciio(d. They were all possessed of immortal 
 souls, if they liad not all clothes. Let the poor 
 children be taught that they have souls, and the 
 ricli that they sliould res])e'"t the jioor on that 
 account. tJonimittees for v'siting were all very 
 Well ; but that would not do alone. He had 
 known a young lady who taught in a mission 
 sciiool ; but on a wet Suiulay her motlier said 
 slie had better not go us it was at a distance, 
 and as the mother thought she wcuild tiiul no 
 children there. He (Mr. T.) said siie had better 
 go ; she herself insisted on going, saying she was 
 sure slie would find her children. On her com- 
 ing back he asked if she had had any scholars? 
 " Ves, seven as usual, she always had cliildrcn." 
 The reason was, that she always went herself. 
 Let the teachers take an interest in their scholars 
 and the children could not be kept back. 
 
 Mr. MoROAN gave an account of the 
 manner and difliculties of getting up a 
 school at Dickinson's Landing. \Vhen he 
 first went round, the parents said there were 
 sciiools enough ; but he insisted that they 
 should have a Sunday School, and he at last 
 collected forty-five children to start with. He 
 next went round to collect for a library which 
 he started with $14, and he had now 250 vo- 
 lumes. Tlien there were difficulties with the 
 children. Some would say they could not 
 come to school because they had no shoes. He 
 said you shall have shoes, and he got them for 
 them. In ten years they had only lost about 
 nine Sundays from having no school, and when 
 some difliculties had occurred, he insisted upon 
 losing no more. He was a poor shoemaker; 
 but when the Convention was talked of, he said 
 he wanted to go and show himself and see what 
 was going on, and bring good news back from 
 it. At present he was fireman to the school. 
 He had been several years a trustee as well ; 
 but when they turned him out of that he insisted 
 on keeping the other office, and so he made 
 the fires still. 
 
 Mr. FooTE (Buffalo) thought tliat Committees 
 would do little to get children to the schools. 
 (Jive him one little boy or girl zealous in the 
 work, and he had yet to see the iilace where 
 children could not be prevailed on to come to the 
 sctinol. He had a large file of correspomience 
 on Sunday Schools, and every letter complained 
 of want of teachers. There was no trouble 
 about getting children. He had visited one 
 place where there was a Christian Church, 
 supposed to have gnat efficiency ; but there 
 were from 300 to 500 neglected children there, 
 lie ajipealed to them on this subject, and three 
 weeks after on returning there, he was told 
 that a little Irish Catholic girl had done more 
 
 1 
 
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 i 
 
BAnnATFI SCHOOL TKACirERS CONVKNTrO.V. 
 
 13 
 
 hem witli brcnd 
 "I lifiiit, iiii.l lie 
 L'licu over tliciu. 
 : iL'iiis ill I,) tho 
 '■■* I'y tlie iiiui-e 
 
 OtIltT. JIo did 
 
 acliools." Ho 
 tliiTL' WHS ail in- 
 . "lid oiiu culled 
 va.s (lovotcd to 
 '■^^•"1 iiji ill the 
 I <lii.-< iiiiciiiic- 
 ii'iil, ill r,ut, it 
 .>' was, thai III! 
 t'l' to the siiiuo 
 J of iniiuortrtl 
 I-<c't tlie jioor 
 
 souls, and tho 
 L- poor on that 
 K were all very 
 <"i('. He had 
 
 ill a mission 
 !r inollier said 
 "t a distance, 
 *'oiild (ind no 
 die had better 
 ii\iiigslie was 
 
 On iier com- 
 iiiiy scholars? 
 liid children." 
 went herself, 
 their scholars 
 i back. 
 
 "It of the 
 ttinpT up a 
 V\hcn he 
 d there were 
 d that they 
 d he at last 
 t with. He 
 hiarv wliich 
 low 250 vo- 
 les with the 
 ' could not 
 3 shoes, fie 
 ot them for 
 ' lost about 
 il, and when 
 isisted upon 
 slioemaker; 
 tl of, he said 
 nd see what 
 5 back from 
 the school, 
 ee as well ; 
 '- he insisted 
 J he made 
 
 ^mmittees 
 le schools, 
 oils in the 
 lace where 
 ■ome to the 
 sponiience 
 omjilained 
 10 trouble 
 isited one 
 ! Church, 
 hut there 
 ren there, 
 and three 
 was told 
 oue more 
 
 than all the f'hurch to coljpct Hchojfirs. With ' 
 respect to poor and iinciired for children, he ■ 
 thought thiise ]mrpiits who cared for their 
 children at the present day were the exceptions ; 
 hui he cerlaiiiiy did not charge that on the i 
 Siimliiy Schools, there were other iiidiieiures 
 yrliicb nmde jiiirent.s remiss, and lie feared that 
 witliiiui Sunday Schools, the children of the 
 ('liureh Would often be as inucii neglected as 
 the children of the poorest parents. 
 
 Ucv. Mr. HrLi.AiiD (lioston) had labored for 
 twenty-six years in this cause, and had heard 
 nothing more freipiently presenlcil as a cause 
 of regret than that parents threw oil' their 
 responsiliiliiy on Saliiiath Schools. Hut the 
 schools ought not to liear the blame. In the 
 early history of the I'nited States, it was com- 
 mon for all ]iersoiis religious or not religious, 
 t.) attend to the iiistriiclion of their children, 
 and in I'lt'i there was a law passed, that all 
 persons should catechize their chililren and ap- 
 prentices on Sundays, in the doctrines and 
 grounds of religious belief — not of any particu- 
 lar belief This was the law passed l)y the 
 Geiienil (aiurt of Massachusetts ; but he doubted 
 if the Court would entertain a proposition for 
 siieli a law at present. Indeed as time ad- 
 vanced, it was found that all parties neglected 
 the instruction of their children, and then the 
 Sabliatli Scliool cau.se had to provide for the de- 
 ficiency. These schools were in his opinion, 
 great blessings even to godly parents ; but in 
 truth, few parents even among those who 
 attended churches were professors of religion, 
 and all the rest had children dependent wholly 
 on the schools. As to neglected children, he 
 would bring them into the schools to sit side 
 by side with the rest. In the Broome street 
 •Ldiool, Boston, the question had come up two 
 years before, sliall we get up another separate 
 school, or l)ring these children into our own 
 school. The last plan was determined on, antl 
 a school of three hundred children was col- 
 lected, half of them taken out of the streets. 
 la the Infant school there were one hundred 
 children, of whom all but fourteen were from 
 the streets. The pastor's daughters went into 
 the streets and brought them in. They then 
 gave up the school to some men, and went out 
 and collected another school. They had one 
 school for adults with ten Swedes in it, eight of 
 whom were converted, and thus learned the 
 language of Zion before they learned that of 
 the United States. He knew of one instance 
 in which two classes, one of boys and the other 
 of girls, were appointed to look for and bring 
 children into the schools. In Manchester they 
 appointed similar classes of young men and 
 women. The men got fourteen and the women 
 thirty four or thirty live ; for the young women 
 could always do more than the young men, and 
 he knew one place where the calculation was 
 that a lady was worth 13 5 gentlemen. At any 
 rate, the superintendent, a lawyer now in prac- 
 tice at Boston, soon reported a school of 530. 
 The same thing might be done in Canada. It 
 was a work in which pastors and teachers 
 might take part, and both plans might be em- 
 ployed. One course was to propose to very 
 little children to give them a book a piece, if 
 they would bring in a scholar. In that case a 
 little girl, perhaps, would go to her mother 
 saying the teacher says, ho will give me a 
 
 book if [ can get a scholar. How could tho 
 
 mother help going? The schools in the States 
 
 had many s('li<diirs besides the children. In 
 
 one church out of ^>:u) meiubiTs, 5rJ were in 
 
 the school. The members of the better families 
 
 Were wanted to make teachers; but others 
 
 were wanted to (time and learn, and jierhaps 
 
 these last would eventually make tlie best 
 
 teachers. In the nieantiiiie the little girl and 
 
 little boy sat by the side of the adult .scholar. 
 
 At one of the towns in New Hampshire, it was 
 
 determined to give one bilde to wlioever would 
 
 bring in the most scholars; but there were two 
 
 Utile girls, and one young man, each of whom 
 
 had done so much that a bible bad to be given 
 
 ' to each of them. He saw this young man sit- 
 
 I ting in a pew with the little girls, and he took 
 
 I him for the teacher, till the I'astor tiimc for- 
 
 ; ward and said, lure is a bible to be given to tho 
 
 i little girl who has got twenty scholars; the 
 
 other is for the other little girl who has got 
 
 ' fourteen ; and there was one for that young man 
 
 1 who bail lironght in twelve young men, and 
 
 1 though in thus acting he had been in o]iposition 
 
 ! to bis own set, he was not ashamed to come 
 
 j and sit with the little girls and to receive a 
 
 I bible as a present fur what he had done. 
 
 The time for adjourning having arrived the 
 final decision was deferred till the ne.xt sitting. 
 Tlie Convention, after singing and jirayer, ad- 
 journed to meet at the City Hall at 7, p. m. 
 
 THIRD SESSIOX. 
 
 PUBLIC MEETING AT THE CITY HALL. 
 
 The President of the Convention took the 
 Chair at 7 o'cldck. 
 
 After devotional exercises, the President call- 
 ed for and introduced the Speakers in succes- 
 sion. 
 
 Mr. Thompson (Rochester) said he had 
 never made a set speech in his life, and 
 would not begin in his old age. He had been 
 a Sabbath School teacher forty years, and had 
 seen that God had poured forth his spirit upon 
 these schools like rain ujion the mown grass. 
 In Rochester they ke|)t a record of what oc- 
 curred in the Sunday Schools, and without 
 such a record, a school was not what it ought 
 to be, and when teachers or scholars were 
 united with the church the fact was entered. 
 In the year ending January 1st, sixty-ttve 
 scholars had been united to the church, making 
 in all 055, to say nothing of those who had 
 gone all over the land and made profession in 
 other jilaces. Yet very little had been done 
 for God, though he had blessed that little. But 
 if men would but try to work for God, God 
 would bless them. Try ! — that was the word 
 every teacher and scholar ought to have written 
 on his heart. It was the word of Raikes — "I 
 will try." Montgomery had said of this work. 
 
 " Once by the River's side 
 
 " A little fount it rose, 
 
 " Now like the Severn's rushing tide 
 
 " Round the wide world it flows, 
 
 " One Heaven directed mind 
 
 " Revealed the simple plan; 
 
 " Now, in the glorious task combined 
 
 " Ten thousand are one man." 
 
14 
 
 RECORD OF THE PRQCEEOINOS OF niB 
 
 I i 
 
 Ho Imil nskcd a larffo maniifiicturcr of biittons 
 to iimkc a Siitulay Scliool liiitton with llubfrt 
 liiiikn.s' licail ami the word " Try" Htani|>t'(l upon 
 tliuin. ir a buy liail such a iMitton a^ that, 
 it would iiiako a new l)oy of liiin, for as a 
 rcriii'iiili('raii(!t'r it would stiiiiiilatc liiin in tlio 
 pcrruniiaiico of duly. Many had tried, and 
 trii'il hard ; but let tlicin i,'o back and try aj^ain, 
 There was enonjjh jiower here to convert all 
 Canada, if all did what tliey mi),'ht do. One 
 thing he parlienlarly de-<ir(;d,was, that the child- 
 ren should be law^rjil to do good. Oiu" of the rich- 
 uHt men in .N'ew York State, who hail (nice been 
 ready to iiold a si.vpence so hard as to nniki? a 
 hole in it, bnt who hail got over that, had said 
 to him. "Teach yonv childicn to give." If 
 that were done, (di what an overllowing Trea- 
 sury the [joid would one ilay havel Sometime ago 
 )d.s schocd liegan educating cidldren in India, and 
 when dillieulty occurred lie asked lii.4 children 
 ivlicther they would like to send the Indian 
 boy.4 and girls back to heathenism. The reply 
 was. No. Tiie heathen children then in question 
 Iiad been taught ; the s(diool where they were in- 
 itrncted broken up: and the chiblren of lii.s 
 echool now gave their money for the establish- 
 ment of other schools. He knew a boy who 
 went to school at three years old. He began 
 with penny contributions. At four years old, he 
 was prevented from attending school for forty 
 weeks, at the end of which time ho came to the 
 flchool witii forty cents in his pocket which he 
 gave. He had now been twelve years in the 
 school ; b\it he never forgot his i)enny contribu- 
 tions. It was nil moonshine, what some said, 
 that the child .should give only for his own 
 Bchnol. They should give for the good of man- 
 kind. At his school, they had a lil)rary of live 
 hundred volumes, and from time to time they 
 flaid to the children, now who is for giving this 
 library to the children where they have none. 
 They all get u]) at once. 
 
 He had .said that day in the Convention 
 that he would present a daguerreotype por- 
 trait of Robert Raikes, to the venerable 
 father who had founded the first Sunday 
 School in Canada in 1811. That was forty- 
 six years ago. Well, the Temple took forty-si.K 
 years to build, and this father had been forfy- 
 si.x years building up Sunday Schools. He 
 should now make him a present of the portrait 
 of Robert Raikes. 
 
 Mr. Thompson accordingly handed the por 
 trait to Mr. Smart, repeating the following 
 lines : — 
 
 " Think how he taught unmoved and ardent 
 ''In those sacred halls. Nor end his labours 
 
 here, 
 " But onward rolled a mighty stream of rescued 
 
 souls, 
 " To bliss, and joy supreme in heaven. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Sm.\ut, (Gananoque) expressed his 
 thanks for the present, and after remind- 
 ing the audience of the saying of Archimedes 
 that he could move the world, had he a place 
 to plant his machinery, remarked that the 
 Christian had not only the machine ; but a firm 
 foundation whereon to plant it, the macl'.ine 
 was education, which already nearly realized 
 the wish of George the Third, that every child 
 should know how to read, and every child who 
 could read should have a bible. The bible was 
 
 I Indeed the foundation on which the machine 
 I was planted, and (he world, intellectual and 
 
 moral, was alreaily moving. 
 I Rev. Mr. Mii.i.kii, (Cgdensbiirgh,) conceived 
 I that men might already sec bcfue their 
 eyes the fulfilment (d'liie promise, thai the hearts 
 of the fathers should be turned to the cliildrcn, 
 in the spread of Sunday Schoids, that jieculiar 
 enterpri/e of the nineteenth century. The im- 
 jiorlauce of it was easily .shown. In the .Metho- 
 dist (Ihurcli, the aggregate lucre. ise last yiar 
 was Hn,n()(), which was alnnisl tlie previse number 
 of those who had been added from the Sunday 
 Scluiols. The rest only sufliced to sujiply tho 
 places of those who dropped otl' by death. Tho 
 exiierience of the rresbyteriiin Church was .simi- 
 lar. During the last ten years, of every thousand 
 received as cotnniunieants seven hundred and 
 liftywere from the children (;ftiie church, andwero 
 unit(Hl to it before they were twenty-live years of 
 ago. Only one in a thousand was added after 
 sixty years of age. "What volumes of exhorta- 
 tion in these facts, to remember the children 1 
 In his church, out of a Inindred and ninety-nine 
 a|iplicanls, of whom one hundred were by jiro- 
 fession of failh, the largest part were from the 
 children of the church. He would add to his 
 friends motto " I'll try" the words "and perse- 
 vere." Phidias, the sculjitor, being unjustly 
 banished from that native country where his 
 statuary graced the I'antheon, repaired to Elis, 
 far from the land of his fathers ; but there ho 
 imdertook to accomplisii a work superior to 
 any he had hitherto achieved, and presented to 
 the world, the statue of Jupiter 01ynii)ns. 
 Look at him thus toiling (ui the shapeless mass, 
 to gratify his ambition and revenge for the in- 
 j\istice of his countrymen ! I5nt Sunday School 
 teachers had to do with immortal spirits. On 
 them they were to make their mark ; and should 
 they not persevere ? In a school where severe 
 rules for the preservation of order bad been 
 enacted, a boy was reprimanded by his teacher 
 and by the superintendent, and told that he 
 must be banished unless he reformed. Fre- 
 quently the teacher impressed this simple lesson 
 upon him. At last he was banished ; but thelesson 
 wasconstantlyringing in his ears, till at last it wa.9 
 the means of introducing him to an extended 
 sphere of usefulness, first as a Sunday School 
 teacher, and then as a superintendent who suc- 
 ceeded in building up many Sunday Schools. 
 
 Mr. Janes (Montreal,) had begged tho Com- 
 mittee not to put his name on the list of speak- 
 ers, and when they insisted and refused to take 
 it off, he declared he would not occujiy the 
 meeting for two minutes. One of his reasoiis 
 was, that he was very diffident and afraid to 
 hear his own voice and the other,that his friends 
 said his notions were very ultra, by which, he 
 supposed, they meant they were exceedingly 
 right, and he, therefore, dared not risk mischief 
 by what he might say. But if it would do any 
 good to hear something of his experience he 
 would say this : — lie had been more than thirty 
 years in the Sabbath School as teacher, one of 
 the visiting committee, and superintendent ; and 
 lastly, as teacher of the adult classes, and if he 
 were asked whether he loved the work as well 
 as he did thirty years before, he would reply: 
 vastly more. His heart was never more 
 thoroughly interested, nor more in the work 
 than at that moment. 
 
\ 
 
 HAIinATri SCHOOL TEACIIEIIS CONVENTION. 
 
 10 
 
 liirh the. mnrliine 
 iiiti'llocliiul und 
 
 •MPffli,) ronccivrd 
 ici! iH'foro thoir 
 sc, timl the licarU 
 I to till' cliililrcn, 
 iIh, llmt |pcciiliiir 
 
 iiliiry. The ini- 
 1. In the Mutlio. 
 iTiMse lust yciir 
 II' |iii".'isc niiinlicr 
 III tli(! Kiiiidiiy 
 1 to .siiniily tho 
 
 liy ilciith. The 
 
 liiircli was siini- 
 f every tlioinnnd 
 I'll liiiiiilrcil and 
 cliiin'li.iiiHlwere 
 iity-livcyciirs of 
 was aildi'il after 
 inies of cxhorta- 
 er the chililrcnl 
 and ninety-nine 
 
 I were liy pro- 
 t Avcre from the 
 oiild add to his 
 •d.s " and jierse- 
 heiii^!^ tiiijiistly 
 itry where hia 
 epaired to Elis, 
 but tliere lie 
 rk superior to 
 id piesiMited to 
 iter Olympus, 
 bapeles.s mass, 
 ngo for the in- 
 Sunday School 
 il S]>irit3. On 
 rk ; and should 
 1 wlicre severe 
 idcr had been 
 by his teacher 
 
 I told that he 
 brined. Fre- 
 ) simple lesson 
 ; but thelcsson 
 
 II at last it was 
 an extended 
 
 iinday School 
 lent who siic- 
 ay Schools. 
 
 fed the Corn- 
 list of speak- 
 d'lised to take 
 I occiii)y the 
 f his reasons 
 ind afraid to 
 at his friends 
 )y wliich, he 
 exceedingly 
 risk mischief 
 oiild do any 
 tperience he 
 e than thirty 
 icher, one of 
 endent; and 
 RS, and if lie 
 rork as well 
 ould reply: 
 lever more 
 n the work 
 
 Mr, IIi'NTiNOTON (Rnelu'ster,) would givo a 
 '•w Btiitisties of the school of wliicli Mr. 
 Thompson had spoken. They Imd a book ci)ii- 
 tainiii;; bioj^rapliicai records of the school, 
 with the nutotfrajdis of every tearhor and 
 scholar for twi'iity or thirty years back. It 
 contained three thousand biof;rapliical skel(dies, 
 And his colleajruo who had already spoken 
 made it his business, if he saw anylhiiifj in a 
 newspaper, or anywhere else, of one of their 
 Bcliolars or teacdiers to insert it in the book. 
 Whenever a scholar emif,'rated to the West or 
 elsewhere, a record was made of the fact, and 
 the collection was well worthy of exaininalion. 
 The 8(diool contained -Cto scholars, of whom 
 140 were over fourteen years of age. It had 
 youiiff teachers and teacliers who were fathers. 
 Amoii}^ the (dderly teachers was the oldest nuin 
 in the Church. Willi one or two exce|itioii- 
 that tearher had been in bis jilace rej^iilarly Uh 
 three years. One young lady had assumed the 
 instniclion of the female bibb; class in IHfi.'i ; 
 but her health became impaired and she was 
 called to iier resting idace. On her dying 
 pillow she had the consolation of believing that 
 save one, all her scholars had been con- 
 verted. As an evidenec of what one little boy 
 could do, he would mention that in Western 
 Kentucky a reward was offered to boys who 
 should bring in scholars. The first jierson that 
 one of these boys applied to was his father. 
 The man said " I dont know how to read." 
 " We will teach you said the child." The father 
 followed his son ; sat on the same bench by 
 him ; learned to read ; became converted ; and 
 finally was sent out as a coljiorteur. .\t the 
 end of fiuir years ho had established four hun- 
 dred Sabl)atli Scdiools, and ;!.">, 000 children, 
 within seven years were, by his instrumentality, 
 gathered in. That boy was now a missionary. In 
 NewYork, there were about 500,000 children and 
 about 200,000 of these were in Sabbath Schools 
 Among the rest were the Catholic children who 
 went to their own schools, and it was projioscd 
 to adopt a])lan to bring them all in. In the City 
 of New- York, a good deacon and a Scotchman 
 met a few little boys on Sunday morning for 
 the sake of giving them instruction in the 
 scriptures. Mr. Pardee proposed one day to 
 visit him and see if he could render any assist- 
 ance. At the appointed time Mr. Pardee went 
 and found his friend engaged with ten or 
 eleven boys ; but he had noticed on his way 
 some boys who were playing at marbles. lie 
 asked if these had been invited ; and was told 
 that they had been but would not come. Upon 
 that he went out and found a lad thirteen years 
 of age and other smaller boys together. lie 
 said to the elder. I have a motion to make 
 and if you will second it, I think I can carry it 
 — it is that you adjourn your meeting and go 
 to the Sabbath School. " Xo" said the boy " I 
 sha'nt do that." " Well" said Mr. Pardee, " you 
 are doing two things that are wrong, — one 
 is gambling, and the other breaking the Sab- 
 bath. I protest against them." "Oil come along 
 boys" said the eldest, and off they went a little 
 further and resumed their game. Mr. Pardee 
 returned to the school, obtained a little book 
 with pictures, and got a boy to accompany him. 
 Then he approached the group again, reading 
 the book to the boy and looking at the pic- 
 tures. The other lads became interested and 
 approached to see what the interesting story 
 
 was about. At length tho eldest boy was loft 
 alone and he ciime up too. Then Mr. Pardee 
 nsked if they did not all want botjks, saying 
 that just Hiieli were given to the boys at tho 
 Kchoid, ;iiid addressing the elder boy, now, said 
 he, if you go all will go. '• Oh, he knew lliat," 
 he said, and then " well boys ! lets all go to 
 school. " They went in ; but the eldest boy 
 HiKui slipped away, returning however, soon 
 after with the exelaiiiatioii — " here .Mister — here 
 an? some more boys." lie slipiied out again, 
 and returned in the same manner, so that 
 before the sehoid broke iiji he had gathered 
 sixty four boys ; and ho was then made assist- 
 ant superintendent, and ultimately he becaino 
 much interested in the work, lie was taught 
 the trade of nuudiine manufacturing in tho 
 Southern ]iart of t'oiinectieut, ami if any of his 
 hearers should ever read of Casiier Iloward, 
 that was the boy. In one of the largest schools in 
 lirooklyii lately, a man came and asked tho 
 superintendent for a ]dace to teach a bible 
 class, Dr. .Morel did not know if he bad any 
 ])lace to Sparc. " Can I have that corner ? " 
 " Certainly." Next Sunday he had livi; young 
 men ; thi; next as many more, and at the end 
 of the year forty were converted from that class. 
 The reason he (.Mr. II.) was so much interested 
 ill Sabbath Sclools was, that he had had no 
 ])ious father or mother ; but he went to Sab- 
 imth School. All the children of the family 
 were converted by those schools, and after that, 
 the parents were converted likewise. 
 
 Mr. FooTE (Hnlfalo, ) loved Sabbath 
 Schools, because through their iigency, he had 
 seen communities of Sabbath lireakers and 
 drunkards transformed to fearers of Cod and 
 lovers of righteousness ; — because tliey promot- 
 ed the interest of the Church, the country, 
 the father, the child, the scholar and the 
 teacher. He was sorry to hear any charges 
 brought against them. 
 
 " Plartli had no name more worthy fame. 
 
 " The countless blessings it had shed. 
 
 " Would be revealed when worlds were fled." 
 
 The Sabbath School did not get credit 
 enough. You might indeed look to a particular 
 school, and sec no fruit for the moment; but 
 where was that seed prepared, of the germina- 
 tion of which they had heard tliat night? In 
 the idaces wlicre those who had toiled and sowed 
 in tears, twenty or thirty years before, leaving Iho 
 generation that came after to gather the har- 
 vest ; and long after the accounts of those now 
 labouring should be sealed uj), the value of 
 their work would be better understood. There 
 were in this land hundreds of thousands of 
 neglected children ; but the jiast history of 
 Sabbath Schools warranted the conclusion, that 
 they wore powerful as a remedy. Go to Afric's 
 shore, and there would be found, borne thither 
 in a ship from other lands, the boy who had 
 been trained in a Sunday School to love Jesus 
 Christ. lie went to tell to those benighted 
 minds the way of salvation. The missionary 
 there, too, began with the children. This had 
 once excited the wonderment of an old Chief 
 who met a missionary, and asked : " What is 
 this you come after — the children ? " Yes," 
 said the missionary, " I come to do you good. 
 The old people are hopeless ; but my hope is 
 with the young, and we must first get their af- 
 fections." " Ah I " said the old man again. 
 
10 
 
 REconn OK THK jmiocrkdinob or tub 
 
 " Yiiu nrc cnifly ; yon want Id i^rl poxsos'tion of 
 our coiiiilry, ikiiil to livo li)ii(i;." "No; I cxpoct 
 BOOM to (lie; l)iit I come to tell you of (Mirist'rt 
 Biilviiliou. llyn mill li.vi", your connti-yini'M will 
 ffiir (Jod, kt't'p tin' Siililpiitli, ami imvo only 
 oni! wife." ''Ah!" ri'|pciit('(l tlm old iiiiin, 
 "you will Hv(! loiiK imil m'l tim world. Tliu 
 child to-day is the luiin to-nioirow." 
 
 Rev. Mr. Dkmhon (IluHiilo,) had liad some 
 trouble to conic, hut had don(! licMcrMmii soiiii' 
 of his hrcthrcn, for h. iuol liron^^lii liis wife with 
 liiin ; and without saying aiiythinj; ahoiit wo- 
 men's rights, he would add, that sIm' had cuiih^ 
 us a ([(debate. JIc felt that the friends of Sun- 
 day S(diools niijrlil well coii^Matulati^ their 
 wives and daufjliters on the us|i(M't of the Sah- 
 bath Sclii)(d cause, hiith here and in the I'niled 
 States. Ill both countries, everylliiiij,' which 
 hud been achieved was owiiijf to their ('hrislian 
 woiiien ; and if ever either country fnllillcd the 
 destiny wliii h he believed God hail in store for 
 them, it would be because of the exertions of 
 the ('hristiun inothers, and wives, and sisters. 
 It was not eiiouph that children should be 
 tauj?lit ill the Sabbath School — their mot hers 
 must take them on their knees, und there teach 
 them to lu'iiy — must have their closets 
 where they niij;ht take their little ones us Sa- 
 muel of old to Saninel's CJod. When lie thought 
 of the Christian union manifested tliut evening, 
 his heart rejoiced. Perhaps one brother was a 
 Presbyterian. He was n IJaiitist ; but if the 
 Baptists were close communionists, they felt in 
 close communion with all others who were 
 concerned for Sabbath Schools ; nor were there, 
 he believed, any people who went together more 
 steadily shoulder to shoulder, in the cdiieation 
 of the young, than the Baptists of the United 
 States. They knew that if they could instruct 
 the children aright, it would be impossible for 
 any tyrant to forge his chains for them hereaf- 
 ter. The American brethren felt united to 
 their Canadian friends, and felt the ncc(>ssity of 
 this union, not only because lliey recognized 
 the ditferences of denominations, but also of 
 nationalities. There were a great variety of 
 Saints, — St. George, and St. Duvid, and St. An- 
 drew, and, last of all, St. Jonathan ; but with 
 all this diversity, there was only an imaginary 
 line between the true Christians of Canada and 
 the United States. When he crossed the Sus- 
 pension Bridge, he thought of that; but he 
 must confess the line there was rather a lofty 
 one. Hut when he listened and heard the great 
 diapason of thunder which went up to the 
 heavens from that cataract, he reflected that it 
 ascended alike from the shore of Canada and 
 that of the United States. Americans, then, 
 need not ask Canadians whether their thunder 
 was louder than their own, or which side pour- 
 ed over the most water ; but each might hear 
 and see without jealousy the cataract which 
 belonged to the other, and the same thing was 
 applicable to the Sabbath School Union. One 
 thought had occurred to him, which he would 
 mention. It was the dignity of being a Sunday 
 School Teacher. There were young ladies and 
 gentlemen who said : — "Well, about this Sun- 
 day School teaching — this getting half a dozen 
 boys and girls on to a bench, with a testament 
 and question book — is it not rather nndigni- 
 fied ? " But here was a fact. The Chancellor 
 of the University of New York, Theodore Fre- 
 
 linghuyscn, one of the ripest ocliolars und best 
 Judges in America, ut Heveiity-lwo years of 
 ugc, is u teacher in u Sunday Sclnxd. Mr. 
 Pardee, a gentleman whom, if ilicy nil knew, 
 they would all love, a very extensive men hunt, 
 was now '■iigagcd in the work of building up 
 Siinduy Si-hools ; und lit! mentioned that, jiuv- 
 iiig >>ni'e I Hked u ft lend, what induced him to 
 be u tea'lM-r. he received for n reply ; — " Be- 
 cause it is so dignilied an oeeupiition to teach 
 the immortal miml, and because i love it." 
 Mr. Pardee asked again : — " What capital do 
 you represent as a broker?" lb? was told, 
 ,Sti, 000,0(10 ]icr uiinnin. Yet tliut man, with 
 such large concerns on his .«hoiilders, sat down 
 every Sunday in u little .sclioid, with u company 
 of raggcil chiblrcn. Ijct the rich men of Cana- 
 da say what they thought of that. Was not 
 that man fullilliiig his mission in |iutiiiig tho 
 staui|) of (iod on the youthful mind? The 
 manner in which that gentlemen tried to keep 
 the children round him, was by studying four 
 or live hours a day everything novel und inte- 
 resting ; collecting facts und incidents to please 
 his pupils. It often liap|iened that teachers 
 were delicient in this respect — that they tailed 
 to bring forth things new und (dd. In tho 
 United Stutes. it wus found that the interest 
 taken by [lurents in the Schools, was being felt 
 more and more strongly. In Boston, an etlbrt 
 was being made to establish an asylum for va- 
 grant children ; and through that institution, tiio 
 children were being reacheil, as they had never 
 been reached bcftue. His Kevereiice, the Uo- 
 niaii ('atholic Bishop, too, had taken more 
 alarm at that ed'ort than at any other which 
 had been made. The teacher would go to tho 
 chiKlren with a bible in one hand, und a loaf of 
 bread in the other, and when he ajiprouched 
 the [tarent in this guise, and took him by the 
 hand, it became ea.sy to pour the word of tho 
 living God into his heart. The man thus as- 
 sailed, would throw off Popery, and would be 
 brought into that liberty, wherewith Christ 
 makes his peojile free. lie trusted these schools 
 would bring about union between all denomi- 
 nations of Cliristians, and between Americans 
 and Canadians. One word more. An Ameri- 
 can, at AUiany, had declared that it wus neces- 
 sary in Sunday Schools to teach duties us well 
 us doctrines ; and he wanted all the children 
 of Canada to be taught to hate Slavery even 
 unto death. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Ciiidi.aw was rejoiced to find him- 
 self once more among those who had been hia 
 neighbors in the days of his childhood beyond 
 the deep Atlantic. He had been taught to read 
 the Bible in a Sunday School in North Wales. 
 Had he remained there, the child of a peasant, 
 what an inheritance it would have been to have 
 a Welsh Bible, knowledge to read it, and con- 
 fidence to believe in it I At ten years of age, his 
 parents liad brought him to the United ^tatcs, 
 and had settled near the Reserve of the W^yandot 
 Indians. There was no preaching there ; but 
 he had a pious mother and a Welsh Bible, which 
 his mother, his sister, and himself spent the 
 Sunday in reading, till at si.xtecn years of age, 
 God blessed the reading of that blessed book 
 and made him find a Saviour. A member of a 
 Welsh Baptist Church soon after said to him : 
 " You must now begin to do something for 
 Christ. In Wales wc had Sunday Schools : I 
 
ix-st dcholars and best 
 ^'•vcnt^.lw,, ^,,ii„ of 
 "nil. lay Scliool. Mr 
 ""' '•' ""7 all know" 
 Kf\t.'ii.siv.> iiirnlnint. 
 *v.<rk oC 1)1,11, ii„jf „ ' 
 
 '•'•■Mti..Il..,l lliul, |„jy'. 
 
 Imt iimIiic,.,) |,i,„ ^Q 
 
 '-r n ri-i-ly ;__« „„. 
 
 "••i'i'P"ili„ii to leach 
 
 IH'CUII.SC I love it." 
 -" VVIlllt CHIiitiil (Jo 
 
 ''.'•'•'" K.' was told, 
 >'•' "mt nmii, with 
 •■-'iomI.I.ts, Hiit down 
 
 '""'. w^il'iicoiniMinv 
 '•'••i.'li mciioC(',i„,i. 
 
 ."'■ """• \\'h.s not 
 '"•" '■" I'litiing (1,0 
 "liltil mind? T/m 
 i'"H'n liie.l to k...op 
 ■< >>y stiid.vinK four 
 '"K iiovfl „„d i„te- 
 ''"<;iiifi,uto|deu8o 
 "'L'<l Hint tcuehcrs 
 l-th,U they (uilod 
 , ",'»' "I'l. Ill the 
 ' ""It tlie interest 
 '"l'<, wii.s heing felt 
 ' ifo.ston, ,in ettbrt 
 "'I asyinn, for ya- 
 li'itiastitniion, tlio 
 ii.s they hiiil never 
 ii'vorencc, the Ko- 
 lifi'l taken more 
 ftiiy <'ther which 
 •• would go to tho 
 '»iiil, anda loaf of 
 " 'le ajijn-oached 
 ♦ook him hy the 
 tlio Word of tho 
 'le man thna os- 
 '.v, and wonld be 
 ■iHTcwith Christ 
 tt'd these sehoola 
 •■t'n all denomi- 
 M'con Americans 
 •'•e. An Anieri- 
 "*t it was neces- 
 fi duties as well 
 ^11 tlio children 
 te Slavery even 
 
 BAllllATII rtrilOOL TKACIIERS CONVENTION. 
 
 It 
 
 'd to find him- 
 " liad been his 
 Idliood beyond 
 'taught to read 
 I iVorth Wales. 
 I of a peasant, 
 'e been to have 
 'd it, and con- 
 ■ftrsofage, his 
 United fejtates, 
 f the Wyandot 
 ig there ; but 
 ' Uible, which 
 elf spent the 
 years of age, 
 blessed book 
 member of a 
 'aid to him: 
 mething for 
 '■ Schools : I 
 
 li^ 
 
 wi-ili wo liiid simp hero. Voi, could leacli Kn- 
 gli-li iiii'l I Wilsli." Tliiil ,ri;in liu'd in une of 
 thii.-ii' iiri'«tiioi'ati(' lii(( liulH wliioii inul two en>U 
 to It, and he siiid : " Von .'tluill Imvo inio end 
 and I tlio otiiei'." 'I'lioy nunlo a li ^'iniiin;;, and 
 soon all'M' lie loll III, iri'osi.tlibii' ('on\ iclln,, llial 
 ho ou;,'lit tu b' II Minister. Ili'i m.illier -luid hIiu 
 wonld soil her IumI cow to ^ivo him an eilnca- 
 tion ; and at last he .oci oiU, wulUin<^' one linn- 
 drod and foi'ly inilos lo the .-umI ut' Icarnin;;, 
 with his lu^rj,ML,'o in a tnw liaj^ which iii-< si-tinr 
 haci Woven for liini. ili; lived ilo'ie fur tliiriy- 
 twii conn II Wick, ilo nieniloiicd all this lo 
 show how di'ojily lio was intcri'slcd in lliis Sali- 
 bal li Sclioul inovemcnl. lie iiail inel a h'W wcckd 
 ago ill the West, witliii nninlier of per.'Oiis who 
 bail never soon a looiiinolivc, and llio inrseiU'C 
 of Olio of tliono niacliiil s created i|uilu .1 stir ill 
 the place, and said inoihcr U'liiliii;;', an oM lady 
 with siieciaclos on licrnoso, while -iu' iiliontivc- 
 ly regarded it : " Can that lliin;,' ;(oV ' llesaiil : 
 " (111 ! yos, wait till llio iiiiii cdiiic and uiit water 
 into it anil kiinll" tlio lire, and it will go fust 
 enoii^jli!" \V<'I|, till' SaliliatliSoluml eau-" was 
 a glorious loooinolivo wiiicli (Jut liinisidf iiad 
 put on the rails, and wliieli his iioople were 
 called on to keep },'oing. What was the inis- 
 aioii of the Siililialli .Scliiiol? To all'. ad religi- 
 ons instruction, with a view to personal suUm- 
 tioii, lo all the cliildron in tho world. If this 
 wore so, no wonder thai (Janada was waking 
 up. .No wonder that the rniled Statos were 
 rousing tlieiiisolvos IVoiii llioir slnniliors. Let 
 it 1)0 reinoniUerod, loo, thai (loil had provided 
 all the aiipliaiK'os which wore lu eded lor this 
 work, l/ook at the position ol' this great work. 
 The Viahlialli School did not come to llio imlpit 
 and demand fVoin it the care of the lamlis of 
 tho Hock ; nor did it euiiio lo the Clirisiian pa- 
 rent and say, wo will cancol your obligation. 
 IJnt with kindly smilos and a groat heart of 
 lovo, it oll'ered lo co-oporale with other agen- 
 cies. What, then, wore its rosourcos ? First, 
 it had an open liihlo and the agency of that 
 blessed Spirit which lakes of llio things of (Jod 
 and shows them to his children. Xoxt the work 
 coucernod children. When adults wore preach- 
 ed to, the message was often mot with ii roinil- 
 sivenoss that chilled the heart ; and yet, the 
 Church of Christ, too ofloii overlooked its 
 vantage ground. It did not, indeed, make too 
 many sacrifices to reach the adult population ; 
 but he might very properly ask whether more 
 ought not to be done for the children ? At any 
 rate, the circumstances he had mentioned wore 
 two great advantages which were possessed by 
 laborers in this cause, lie had boon connected 
 for twenty years with the Amorican Sunday 
 School Union, which last year, had sent out 
 three hundred missionaries to scatter books and 
 establish schools in thirty-one dilferent Statos. 
 They had also organised 2,400 new Sabbath 
 Schools, and he told his frion'ls there present, 
 and that venerable Father Smart, that he want- 
 ed to go back to the heart of Ohio, and say that 
 he had seen a second edition of Father Cun- 
 ningham. They all knew Father Cunningham 
 there. In the West, Ihoy tried to go ahead. 
 They sowed the seed in a small parcel, and it 
 came up all over the country. In old Switzer- 
 land county there were, at a late celebration, 
 thirteen schools with flying banners, and 1,100 
 scholars. That was where Father Cunningham 
 
 lived, lie was two miles IVniii Iho school honse ; 
 lint, he sail!, ho noviT missed a Sabbath lor two 
 years. Were there le.icher!* prosoiit who hiul 
 boon at the school every Lord's P.iy fir two 
 years? Mo had hoard of a iioigborhood, Pear- 
 born, In Indiana, wlicre lliey needed a .><cliool, 
 bocaiMo they had loo ni.iiiy nyu-^ simps. That 
 was an excellent I'eiisoii. lie Went lo try lo 
 e.iialilisi, one, and knocked at one door after 
 the other impiiriiig lor a religions family, lu 
 iiii-iwer to Ih.il, he was con-i,iiiily refi iiimI lo 
 lallier Turner, whom he at last I'luiiiil in a 
 Utile tell Icel log shop, making -hois. Ili> .-aid ; 
 " I am glad to see yon. I have been I'.ir a long 
 time looking for some one to help me to gi'i up 
 II Sunday Schoul, 1 was eonvertod in oiio at 
 Iblslol." The old man got his horse, ami pre- 
 piiriUions were made for hclding a meeting in 
 llio centre of the district. To iioeiini|dish tliat, 
 however, lliey had to make many shil'is, und 
 wore greatly indebleil to one old lady who 
 broiiglil a candloaml a huge I'mk. i'nr iiis lite, 
 he ciiiilil nut think to wliat ii>e the t'oik was to be 
 put; but when it got dark he I'nind out, f'lr his 
 iVieiid sliiek llie fork through the candle and 
 thus I'astenod it lo the wall of tho log Imuse. 
 After he (.Mr. C.) had got through wiili his re- 
 marks, l'"ather Tnnior followed, and made a \i-i-y 
 eHective spooeli ; but when he had done, allot hor 
 man got up and said he iinilorslood the wliole 
 thing. His father told him il was got up alier 
 the rovolntionaiy war, and ho donliled not, that 
 it was now taken hold of by that hdlow with the 
 black coal, and tho Ihigllsliman lo lake away 
 American liberty. Then ho told the peoiilo how 
 they might be taken in by the alliiir. The ^'iin- 
 koo pedlars, ho said, came along and did nothing 
 but talk, and, vol, they afterwards brought in 
 long bills anil compidlod payment. Finally, he 
 ol)jooii'd Icolotally lo Sunday Schools, or any- 
 thing being taught to children about religion. 
 Thoy did not, ho said, lot children trade horses 
 till they wore twonty-ono years of age, and he 
 thought they ought to have no religion till thoy 
 were of that age. Afior he had spoken for some 
 time another speaker rose and said, that he 
 know very little about the matter : but he was 
 sun^ there must be some good in it, or Si|uire 
 ihirnhain would not oppose it so much. There 
 was, at that lime, but one christian man in all 
 that district ; but he (Mr. C.) had since preach- 
 ed to a large congregation from a pulpit whence 
 he conld see another Church through the back 
 window. Sipiire iJurnham's influence had de- 
 clined, and with it horse racing on Sundays; 
 together with four grog shops out of five which 
 formerly existed. Some winters ago he had 
 visited the .Mission School at the Five Points, 
 New York, and on his way he sawn gentlomau 
 before hira with a bundle in his hand. This gen- 
 tleman descended a cellar, and ipiickly return- 
 ed with two little children, lie took out of his 
 bundle some clothing, and having attired lliom 
 in il, went ii]) into a garret, returned, and did 
 the same thing, until he had thus collected 
 thirteen little childri.Mi, whom he led to that 
 Sunday School. Persons were sometimes kept 
 1 from this labour by the saerificos and efforts 
 I wiiich it demanded ; but those who engaged In 
 I it found themselves wonderfully blessed and 
 i encouraged. In 1837, he was prosecuting his 
 I mission in Xorthern Ohio, and passing through 
 I a wilderness part of the country, ha came to a 
 
v^ 
 
 18 
 
 MOORD or TltR PROrKKDINOA or TIIR 
 
 h 
 
 iiwniii[> tliroiiRh wliich tlie rdiid wim but Jiixt 
 liilil (Mil. Ill' ciilcriil ii|Hiii UU Jiiiiniry wiili ii 
 weiiiy liciirt, mill llimnfli ul lirsl lii;< Iihiki- rmiiil 
 lcii|i ovi'i' till' \t'^!H I.Mii;; in liic h\\ jiiii|', lie at 
 Icii^lli ^Mi'W I'lili^iicil mill liiiil lo ^'11 iiiiiiiil llirlii. 
 Ill' llmii^rlil III' lillist Hlrrp in llir Wnuilrt, mill III' 
 Wiisjlisl limKin^ IJllI till' 11 ill'} |>iui r fill' liini>rli' 
 
 anil 11 .<|>irt' IhimIi I'nr his iimsi' wliin lie ln'iinl ii 
 (lii|{ limU, 'I'Ik^ hiiiiihI iuiiiiiiili'<l Ills liotsi' mn 
 \vi.'ll IIS liiiiisrit'; linl us till' miiiiiiil ruiilil nut 
 Ki't tlii'iiii);li llio lin^lii'M, III' liiiil III ili-iiiiiiiiil iiiiil 
 Juni|i t'l'iiin iii^ III liiK. At l('n){lli lie |{iit to ilic 
 iiuutti' ; was I'ci'i'ivi'il liy II vviinian, w Iiii8t> lins- 
 liitnil was aliHi'iit, |>iil u|i liim lioitii' mul nut down 
 to sii|i|ii'r. 
 
 Ui'liiii' ill' lii'Him oiiIImr, howevir, Iii> noknl 
 for a lili'ssin(( to ucroniiimiy ll. Tlir (fimil 
 wuniiin al miri' rmiic ti> liiin, anil asktil — 
 " wliul, an' you it Mi'llmiiisl |ii'iarliii' '.'" llr if- 
 [illi'il lui ; lint I lun llif ni'Xt tiling' to It. I unia 
 truviliiii)^ I'l't'sliytciiiin liii'iirla r. " •'Will," 
 giiiii sill', ",\i)U iiiiiHt in'iiuli. " — "My j;iimI 
 \voniiin 1 liavi^ conic ii Inii^ way anil 1 
 liiiM.' si'fn no oni! but yoiirr-i'lt'. Ilowivtr, if 
 you will Ki't niL' u ciniKii'Kation I will |ihmiIi 
 \viHinj,'ly.'' Wlit- wt-nl to tliiii imrl of tlii' lo^^ 
 lioubi' wlii'i'i' in otliiT lioiist'H tlii'i-e is u niiintic 
 liicci' iiiul liikinij ilow n a lar^ft: Imrn, ulii' liicw 
 it lit llii' iloor. Ili'i' liiisliiiiiil |iri'S('iilly miswircil 
 the Hi^iial. " (Jli, " t.aiil sliu '• Joliii, lu'ri''.s a 
 Iivi'uclu'i' anil wi; will liavc a si'iniuii, " liy ami 
 by sii'vi'ial oliit'ts came in till si'Vi'iitei'n wrio 
 Colk'Cti'il. lli^ fi'lt tliat, if tliirc cvit was ti 
 time to ini'iicli thai was il, ami llu'y diil mil ask 
 wlntlii'i' lie wan a Metlioili.sl or not. After he 
 liucl (lone, out) of the men eaiiie forwanl, how- 
 ever, and said : " Will you lead a class '.' " — 
 " 1 never did ; but if yon want to talk aluuit 
 religion ^o right at it." " Well " replied the 
 niun, some of these iicojde have not (^ol 
 religion and they had oiiu'lit to ^d it." He 
 was enaliled to make a iiowerl'iil discourse ; 
 two of the men eiinie on their knees ami 
 there was a good time talking to thein. 
 Such was the encouragement the iSimday 
 School teacher sometimes received. Perhaps 
 there were some piesenl who had mil been 
 in a Sunday School for three months. (A 
 voice: three years.; That was bad, for (Jhrist 
 expected all to do their duty. He had once 
 seen in a school al Louisville an old colored man 
 who was 80 blind that he could sec nothing. 
 lie asked why he came there. " To show, " 
 said the other, " that my heart is in it." lie 
 hoped then that many of those of whom he had 
 just spoken would let superintendents and 
 teachers see that their hearts were in the 
 Bchools. If men and women would but become 
 teachers, though there were no classes for them, 
 classes would soon be formed. Mr. Hcechcr 
 used to say to students who asked him where 
 they should go to preach—" make places. " 
 Just so, let children be gathered in, they would 
 make classes here and, in glory, fill up the 
 Heavenly garners for evermore. He concluded 
 with an appeal to those jiresent to contribute 
 liberally to the collection, enforcing his e.vhor- 
 tation by a story of an old lady who belonged 
 to a Church where a bell had been put up. She 
 did not like the bell at all ; but she gave $10 
 towards it to please her grand daughter. Next 
 Sunday she went to Church ; heard the bell ; 
 and was delighted with the music— such a 
 
 rhnii;:!' wnii produced by huvlng $10 Invcitrd 
 
 in Hie bell. 
 
 Urv. .Mr. SimiiT (Port Iloiie) nnld the motto 
 (if SiiMiiilh Sclioids was ^o nliead, and the 
 Mpirii which this motto indicali'il was not cun. 
 lilii'd III till' riiilcd Slates, as was proved by 
 the ('i>n~tru('ili>n nf llie (iriind 'I'liiiik Itailway, 
 III will se p|iipi'ic|iir.'< and to those of the other 
 niilw iiys, w Ih'Hc liiri's had hccii ri'diiccd in I'avor 
 (f the ilrli'jfMti's, iiiiirh (.'nilitiiili' was due. Ily 
 that iiicnns tliry had Ixeii hrniight to Kiiif^ston 
 — now the ("apilal ( 'ily of .""■'unday Schonls, and 
 by the very cliuiec made of it fur that piirpoMO 
 pointed out 11.4 the most litling plai'r for llio 
 seat of the ^'iivcriiment of the I'mvime. Ho 
 Went on to cxpies.s his jrri'iit satisfactinn at the 
 pioiif atlonli (I by the mceling nf that ('iinveiitidn 
 (d' the I iissitiilily uf all Cliiistians Mietiiig mi 
 tciiiis I'f f; il iiilship iinil i'i|iialily to prniiiolc the 
 cause uf Christ. He had hiiiiselt eiitii tallied 
 prcjiidires against such nici'tings ; but he was 
 happy at haviujf f;iil ovir thiiii. Si nie feared 
 that thiy winilil Inid to what was called sliecp- 
 slealiii(; — Ihiil was to say that the liinib.'4 of 
 SI nic )tiist(irs Hoiks wiiild be taken away fri ni 
 Ihi'in in eoiisefiiii'iiee ol these intercoinniuiiions. 
 Hut he tli(>ii);lit no Hiieh (lunger was to bo 
 apprehended, and at any rale it wa.s a danger 
 e(|iial from all sides. He illiistratdl the jiro- 
 jirieiy and hni'mlcssness of these i niuns of 
 Chi'istians al considerable length by u number 
 of familiar c.Mimples. 
 
 I'ev. .Mr. lit i.i.Aiti) (lioslon) being called on 
 said he Would not venture to detain the meeting 
 aiKilliir moment on that occasidn ; but wonlil 
 speak III more leiifrth thereafter if another 
 opportunity olleied for doing so. 
 
 The iir(icee(liiip.s of the evening cloned with 
 the ilu.\ol()j;y, " I'raisi! Cod, fr(.m whom all 
 blessings Ilow" and the benediction. 
 
 THUIfSDAY, FEBIU'AUY 12tii. 
 
 A prayer meeting under the charge of tho 
 Rev. Mr. Keough, of Kingston, was held at 
 7 a.m. 
 
 FOURTH SESSION. 
 
 Tlie Convention reassembled in the Methodist 
 Church al f» o'clock. 
 
 Devotional exercises occupied half an hour, 
 after which the niiiiutos of the second Session 
 were read and continued. 
 
 The NoMiNATiNO Committee recommended 
 that a Committee to consist of — 
 
 Rev. R. Torhance. MES.sn8. Geo. Fenwick, 
 
 Mebsks. B. Lyman, " Gko. IIahcouht, 
 
 " II. A. Nelson, and SiiEniFFTnEADWELL 
 
 be appointed to examine and report upon the 
 credentials of delegates. — Adopted. 
 
 Mr. A. MacAlister, Chairman of the Commit- 
 tee ON Statistics, reported that they had made 
 up the returns from 204 schools, being the num- 
 ber received up to the opening of the Conven- 
 tion, and presented a statement thereof, (which 
 is here omitted, it being superseded by the ap- 
 pended summary of all the returns.) 
 
 The Committee recommended that Sabbath 
 Schools throughout the Province keep regular 
 
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 ln'.-f I iiiong of 
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 '•'""•ffe of tho 
 was held at 
 
 the Methodist 
 
 '"■f an honr, 
 3ond Session 
 
 ^commended 
 ■0. Fenwick, 
 
 • HahcoL'HT 
 
 Theadwkli, 
 ■' upon the 
 
 'C COMMIT- 
 
 ' liiiU made 
 ? (he num- 
 e Conven- 
 'ofj (which 
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 t Sabbath 
 P regular 
 
 Tfroriln from whjrli ihoy may in fiilurc lip ublo 
 to iiiiswcr (111 •»<ti(iii"« nnirw fully. 
 
 Till- Uc|i()rt ••xcltfil rniu'li in ri'^t, mid, on Mo- 
 liiiii, it M'lm ordi-i'i'd, iliiittlic >• Minis wliidi, in 
 G(inM('i|iu-iirc (if I'dtiiiii^ in tun |,itt>, liii'l not liccii 
 inoliiili'il ill it. hIiiiiiIiI bij lidili'il tliiTcKi in the 
 |iriiiii'il i'c|Hirt'i. 
 
 Mr. I'AroN, (KiiuMlii/i,) on hclialf iT the 
 KiiiK'^tou ^^lllll^ .Mi'ii'k CIii 'tiiin A.sdo( i.irion, 
 iiiviiuil lilt' iiii'iiili(-rri uf till! ( iivi.-iition to iit- 
 tciid a Icrtiire, to bu tlctivcrt'd in the 
 <!Vi'iiiii;^, bcfiifn Unit boily, by tlm Ib'v. Mr. 
 HoikI, ill tlif City Hull. ' Siil'ijict !— SiibbHth 
 S(•lllMll^ ; Ibcir ri-ii' mul |ir<ii;iv.s.-i. — .Mr. I'litmi 
 Htiitt'il III, it a I'lilli'ciloii lii\viii'i|.4 till- ('.\|i('ii-ii.''i of 
 the (Niiivciitinii, iiii;;iit III- taken lip on tiiiit (ic- 
 Clinioli. — lll\ ililtioli iirci'pti'il. 
 
 T ho Convention then resumed tho iliHCitn»ton 
 v.'liicli liiiil bi'cn interrupted by tlie itdjourn'- 
 ineiit. 
 
 .Mr. HiiBiUKK TiiKAitWKi.i. Miiiil lie liikd been 
 Cllf;ll^^ell in ."^iiiiiliiy S(•lt(Ml|^ for tliirty three yciir.i 
 liiiil liiul vi^iteij iiiiuiy ill ('itiiiula, tlu* I'liitcd 
 iSliitcx, itnij Iviniiie, uml in H |;i liml seen one in 
 Wt. Maurice Street Monlri'.il, when' there were 
 lliliuitiiud liible I'lii-i^eTt, iiiiil where lie llioiijjlit 
 till! luiiniijreiiieiil wa-i the best he hud ever ^o'li. 
 He hull itt'terwiiril't vi-iited one in i^ueliee, also 
 e.'(ceeiliii(.fly well eondiicted. It wii)» worth 
 rt'inurliiu^f that the iMiildiuf^ where tliiii .'^eliool 
 was li(!ld WHS the only one in the nei^liboiirbood 
 saved at the k''''uI lin' ut (^iiebee., uiid tliiit it 
 wad jireserved by the excrtion.s of the Sunday 
 School .s{!holar.s. Mr. Tread well was here inter- 
 rupted by fries of nueslion. 
 
 A UKi.bKiATK o.\pi'e.ssed n desire to move 
 a resolution, di'eluring tho expedieney of or- 
 f^aiii/.iiiK a peruuiueut Caimdiaii Suinliiy Srhool 
 Allianee, to provide means for establisliiti}^ .Sab- 
 batii Scliool.s in every School .section lliroiiKliout 
 the country, for all kinds of children ; the said 
 schools to be free from all sectarian names, 
 sectarian t^'uching, or sectarian book.s, 
 
 The I'hk.siok.nt ruled that such n motion 
 ■would he out of order, it beiiiff foreign to the 
 Bubjeet before tlic Convention, and as ii would 
 reiiuire to be referred to the liusinesa Committee. 
 
 Mr. Dl'ijoan, (speaking to the question,) con- 
 ceived tiuit the numtier ot destitute children 
 was greatly cxiig;^eraleil. It was a libel to say 
 there were 100, UOO. In the cities there could 
 not be nearly that number, and in tlie rural 
 districts there could scarcely be any children 
 of the class contemplated by Robert Ilaikes, 
 as the objects of his exertions. 
 
 Mr. Becket requested leave to withdraw his 
 resolution for the purpose of substituting another. 
 Leave granted. He then moved the following, 
 which was seconded by Mr. Armstrong (Ot- 
 tawa.) 
 
 " That this Convention, recognizing in the 
 Sabbath School an important means of in- 
 structing the lambs of the flock as well as an 
 auxiliary to aid parents in training their chil- 
 dren in the fear of God — Resolves, that in con- 
 nection with each Sabbath School there should 
 be a visiting Committee to canvass given dis- 
 tricts, for the purpose of bringing in those who 
 do not attend any Sabbath School ; and that 
 teachers should be earnestly requested to aid the 
 
 ('ommlltrp in llu> work, and that tho ncholarii 
 Ihemselve-i should bo taught that they e.iii do 
 iiiMib to bring In tlime who are wilbout ' 
 
 rpoii being read by the Uecretary, the roHolu- 
 tlon wa.H carried. 
 
 Tho next qtioxtion on the Hoekct, viz : — What 
 
 OldllT TO tin ItIR .VKCKSflAUV IJIf AI.IKIfATlo V S (T 
 T»!ACI1I-;UH IIKKOIIK Tlinil AI'I'OI.NTMKVr ToSaIUIVTII 
 
 HciiooL CuahmkhV wiu then stulid by the I're- 
 sldcnt. 
 
 Rev. Mr HoixiMKtN, (Ooon) believnl Ilii4 
 wai a question H'hicli must bo deterniiiieil imt 
 by precine rules : but by the circuiiistuiiecs of 
 each case. It wan desirable that tlio'ie ivlio were 
 to lead ntliers to Christ shonlil tlieui-eUeS 
 know liiMi, timl they might speak with the 
 mouth out of tiie riilliiess of the heart. Hut if 
 a rule uere laid dnwu tliiit luuie should be em- 
 Jiloyed cicept those truly converted to (1<hI, 
 ami meiuliers of the Cliurcli, either that decision 
 must be often set aside or Sunday Si'hools 
 must in many cases be closed. His (irst evpe- 
 rieiice on this siibjeef was at I'uslinch where n 
 joiiiig man, who had been to a meeting of co- 
 loured people called on him, to see what could 
 be done for them, and to ask him to visit them, 
 lie went luid found that only one of them 
 could read. lie asked if they hud a bible 
 among tlu'in. They said they hud only ii part 
 of luu', and handed to him what instead of part 
 of a bible, turned out to be a piece of the .\me- 
 riciiii K[)iscopal Prayer Itook. What was he 
 to do in that c.ise 7 lie could not leach them ; 
 nor get converted imcii to do so. In the pliieo 
 where he now preached, he at one time could 
 not got converti!d teachers ; but it, was otherwise 
 now, for many hud manifested a (!lmnge of 
 heart. In such cases the thing was to do the 
 best that could be done, as his brother from 
 King who stood nearly alone was obliged lo 
 do. Vet something must be said about ipiali- 
 (iciition, and that quulilication he should say 
 when practicable, should be consisteul nu tn- 
 bcrship of a Church of Christ. When (inrties 
 so (pi.ililied could not be obtained let the best 
 available be taken, always remembering that 
 there must bo no overt immoral conduct on the 
 ])art of those cm])loyed. A delegate jiresont 
 would recollect that on an occasion when he (Mr. 
 II.) hail called a meeting to get u]) a Sunday 
 School, a little gill of fourteen or fifteen years; 
 hutsmall of henigo presented herself foni teach- 
 er. He (.Mr. II.) thought she was too young, and 
 not possessed of sullicieni knowleilire. However 
 she got on the list, and kept on though he had 
 tried to keep her olf. She proved very ellicii-nt. 
 The list of Chiiri'li members avou Id have 
 shut her out. There were some too, wiio were 
 not (Jhurcli members, who miglit yet be the 
 Lord's hidden ones. 
 
 Rev. Mr. .Mii.i.Ku (Ogden?'burgh) would not 
 have it presumed on account of what he had 
 said the day before, that he oppo.sed the ju'inci- 
 plc of doing the best yon can, when you cannot 
 do what you would like ; but, when the ipialitica- 
 tions for a Suu'lay School teacher were asked, 
 he thought the answer should be three-fold — 
 piety, love of the work, and aptness to teach. 
 He remembered the application of an African 
 Avoman for admission into a Church in (Con- 
 necticut. They asked her about her evidences 
 
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 of conversion nnd otlior qiip.stions whicli s!ie 
 could not iiii.-.\vc'r lii'iiuisi.' slie cuiilil liiirdly 
 uiidersliind tlit'in. Tlioy UiLTrrore Icld li» r, wc 
 tliiiik in'flmiis you are sciini'l}' j.ri']:iit'i'(l to 
 eonie In tlie tnblo. ^\'lR'll sIk' lioiird it, Irt licad 
 lldl, iind she i'.\cliiiui(.'d. " Oh 1 lliiuk 1 lovu 
 uiy iniuslLT. " Upon that cviikiito she was 
 received into the Chiii'cii. It ^\^atf gocid to 
 have men who coidd sjiow the analogy heiwecn 
 the did and New Tertanient ; who could dis- 
 course on tlu! iioelry of the [..-alni,-, coidd illus- 
 trate liil)le nariatlve h\ eastern ciistotiis, and so 
 forth, and jiersfins who did so, by being fami- 
 liar with the trill h theoretically (dtcn bi'canie 
 ])raclically iiupressed with it. IJui love for the 
 work must lie the great nujving luineiide 
 everywhere. That was the stiiuulaiil of Kaikes, 
 of I'axtou, and of all wlio had ever done much 
 for ISunday Hehocds.aud witiiout that thi're could 
 be no elKeient teacliers. Again, there must bo 
 ai)tue.ss to teach. He renieniliered seeing a 
 very learned man, f.uailiar with all the mys- 
 teries of pebbles, rocks, trees and plants, and 
 apt to teach all the higher branches of secular 
 knowledge ; but placed as a teacher in a com- 
 mon school, at the cud of the tirsi year, the 
 c.vamination showed that the class of a compa- 
 ratively ignorant young nuin should be placed 
 higher than the one he taught. The learned 
 man shot too high, while the other taught out 
 of tiie fullness of his own heart, and thus enlist- 
 ed the syni[>athies of the chililren. To all 
 these 'inalilieations add, that which can be ob- 
 tained tluough grace only, the inlluences of 
 the divine sjiirit on the teacher, and yon 
 have a qualified mac. None ever went to his 
 class deeply mipressed with the worth of souls 
 without having received the blessing of the 
 Spirit's out-pouring — that out-pouring which 
 makes this latter day the day of glory. 
 
 Rev. Mr. JIcDonald (l'\'rgus) would not 
 wish any man who was not a communicant 
 to be a Sunday School teacher. Yet the 
 circumstances of each case must settle what 
 should be done. He would say to all go and 
 teach ; but add as the Scotch minister did ; 
 " be sure you know it yourself. " 
 
 A Delegate held that the character of every 
 officer should bear an amilogy to his office. 
 Then, what was the office of a Sunday School 
 teaclicr ? To inculcate religious piinciplc, and 
 explain religious emotions. Now, it is true, the 
 anatomist might learn his science by operating 
 on the bodies of others. But he who would 
 know what religious emotion was must learn it 
 from the ojierations of his own heart. The 
 minister or teacher who did not know the Lord 
 is like a pilot unacquainted with the port 
 towards which he wants to steer. Yet, though 
 desirous of having converted persons for teach- 
 ers, he would not thrust out othcis, for this 
 question aro e : What shall we do with our 
 children when they grow up? He would not 
 thi'ust them out because they were unconverted, 
 but keep them in. In his neighborhood, at a 
 recent revival, many teachers and scholars be- 
 came the subjects of divine grace. Among the 
 teachers was a yonng lady very amiable and 
 mucii interested in the school ; but unacqainted 
 with the grace of God. But one evening, in 
 retiring from a religious exercise, she said to 
 herself: " this evening the last of my scholars 
 has been converted to God, and shall I remain 
 
 j unconverted?" She sotight the Lord herself, 
 and thus teacher nnd scholars were all on 
 their way to heaven. One qualification of 
 teachers sluudd be love. A little girl onco 
 said: " I'a ! you do not pray wit ii me as Ma 
 does.'' The fatlier, unused to free jirayer, rend 
 a ]irayer from a prayer book (Ui his knees i)y the 
 chilli. W hen he had done she addressed hiin 
 again. '' Pa ! you did not jiray for the dear lit- 
 tle girl as Ma does." There was a pathos in 
 the mothci's jirayer which touched the child's 
 heart. Indeed, the first hint of Sabbath Schools 
 had been given to IJaikes Ijv a pious woman wlio 
 !iad cidlecled several children and liegan to 
 talk to tliein in a class of scripture history, &c. 
 
 i!ev. .Mr. Scott (liath) appealed on this 
 point Ic the autlnu'ity of Christ. He chose 
 twelve n en to i)reach His Gospel and one of 
 them was a devil. 
 
 A delegate was fiu' setting up a high 
 stainhiril. The practice would always fall 
 low cntaigh. 
 
 Mr. NoitMAN (King,) thoitght it would have 
 a very liad effect on the frieiuls of unconverted 
 teachers if they were <lriven out of the schools. 
 
 Mr. TutESDEL (Sunday Sidiool Agent) was 
 often called to places where all was darkness, 
 where, perhajis, there were not more than ten or 
 fifteen fanulies and not one jjrofessing Christian 
 among them ; yet, with several persons of good 
 moral ciiaractt r, who might be interested in the 
 scliool cause. Let the agent go among these per- 
 sons and establish a school, as well as he could, 
 visiting them afterwards and seeing to it, that 
 they were carrying out what was exjiected of 
 them. He had established many schools in 
 l)laccs where there were no professors. lie had 
 always called their attention to the Importance 
 of having a right qualification. In some of these 
 jdaces the teachers now had their hearts in the 
 work, and followed it with earnestness and 
 Christian ])rinciple. In one jilace, far in the 
 back woods, he had found several persons ready 
 to engage ; but he had almost feared to allow 
 them to do so. He did so, notwithstanding, and 
 the time had come for a blessing before his faith 
 had ventured to claim it. He found the hearts 
 of those teachers already giving way before the 
 force of truth. In one place where, in his labor, 
 he had been mori; perplexed than in any other, 
 for no religious person was to be found there, he 
 met a nnxn who offered to do the best he could, 
 and though for three months after the com- 
 mencement there Avas no one to lead the school 
 in prayer, the school could not only be so now, 
 but family altars had been erected in several 
 houses, and live school houses had been built in 
 the woods not far off. 
 
 Members of Churches could not themselves 
 go forth to act as ageuts ; but when they could 
 not they should give of their substance to send 
 others forth, and let such agents call all to 
 the work. 
 
 God would listen to prayer in behalf of 
 those who had not at present an experimen- 
 tal knowledge of his ways. At Warwick, 
 in Arthabaska county, there was a girl who 
 had had no religious instruction She de- 
 sired to go to the school, but ns she had 
 no shoes and was approaching womanhood, 
 her mother objected to her attending till 
 she could obtain shoes. At last she said to 
 her mother : " If I ever get to heaven shall I 
 
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lie Lord Iiei-self. 
 "■^ wt'ie all on 
 <li"ililifution of 
 J""t' girl onco 
 with Hie ns Ma 
 i-fe i)niyt.r, rend 
 
 'lis KJICL'S liy (he 
 
 ' addressed iiin, 
 '"'■ the de.-u- lit- 
 "fis 11 ])!ithi)s in 
 clii'd I he child's 
 "il'Imlh !Seliool3 
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 and )>(}'r:m to 
 ii't' liistoo', &c. 
 "•■ak'd on this 
 ^t. He chose 
 I't'l mid one cf 
 
 "P a iiijTh 
 always full 
 
 would liavo 
 
 f unconverted 
 
 'the .«chools. 
 '^gi'iit) was 
 
 *vas darkness, 
 
 "•e tlian ten or 
 
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 rsons of good 
 
 ei'psted in the 
 
 >'ig these per- 
 ' as lie could, 
 
 "g to it, that 
 « exjiected of 
 Y schools in 
 ^rs. lie Jiad 
 e im])ortance 
 some of these 
 iiearts in the 
 lestness and 
 ', far in the 
 ersons ready 
 •^d to alioiv 
 ending, and 
 ore his faith 
 1 the Jioarts 
 y before the 
 n his labor, 
 
 any other. 
 Id there, he 
 t be could, 
 
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 tlie school 
 ^e so now, 
 in several 
 in built in 
 
 fiemselves 
 icy could 
 to send 
 •II all to 
 
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 ''arwick, 
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 anhood, 
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 HAiniATU SCHOOL TnACHEHS' COXVENTION. 
 
 21 
 
 rot have to go there barefonted." The iirgu- 
 ment was in-esistiblc and she went. He often 
 saw that girl afterwards and noticed how tlie 
 truth was wori<ing in lier licart. S(inv! time, 
 after the school was estabii-^hed lie was iias*iii;r 
 about twelve miles of, and was invited to the 
 funeral of that girl, wli), he found from her pa- 
 rent?>, had given 'iiroof of true piety. Slie bad 
 nlsobnaight her faiiiei'down tolas knees, though 
 he bad not been used to pray hefore, and bad 
 induced him to erect the family altar, ami bc- 
 coniL', be (.Mr. T.) bopi'd a true Oiirislian. 
 
 Jlessrs. R. Rutherford and J. II. l!eiiS(Ui, as 
 mover and seconder, offered a resolution on tbe 
 subject, several aun'udinents were proposed ; 
 finally, upon motion, tbe whole were referred to 
 a (^iraniiltee consisting of — 
 
 .'\Ir. I'.. Rutherford. 
 Mr. Jaines Stewart. 
 
 Rev. R. Rolunson. 
 Mr. Hetberingtun. 
 
 with instructions to draft a resolution, and to 
 report at 3 o'clock. 
 
 On motion it was resolved that Ibe last busi- 
 ness Session be held to-tUL>rro\v (Friday) between 
 the hours of balf-jxist D A.M., and half-past 12, 
 and thai the last bor.r and a half bo left open for 
 voluntary addresses from friends and delegates. 
 
 The Rev. F. II. Marling, Chairman of tbe 
 Bi'sixKSS CoMMiTTiop, proposed the following 
 votes of thanks, all of which were passed. 
 
 To the several committees of arrangements, 
 who with so much labour, thougbtfulness, anil 
 care, made such thoroughly ellicient [)rovi- 
 sions for the summoning of the Convention. 
 
 To those Railw.iy Oom))anies of Canada; the 
 Grand Trunk, the Chainplain and St. Law- 
 rciice; the Montreal and New- York, the Onta- 
 rio, Siracoe and Huron, llui Ottawa and I'res- 
 cott, tiiu Oobourg and I'eterboro; and the 
 Northern Xew York Railway Company, who so 
 liberally reduced the travelling fares of dele- 
 gates from Sabbath Schools, a privilege by -which 
 Ibis Provincial Convention has been so much 
 facilitated. 
 
 To the conductors of the Press throughout 
 the whole Province, wiio have aided in announc- 
 ing, ami have ticlvoc ited tiie Convention. 
 
 To the Local Coiniuittee ami to the inluibit- 
 ants of Kingstoti for the iiearty welcome we 
 liavo received among them, and for tlie effec- 
 tive arraugjinents for our meetings, and t'.ie ge- 
 nerous responses they have m.ide to our large 
 dom.iiids on their hospitality. 
 
 And to the truistees of the Wesleyan ^I-tho- 
 dist Church, for the liberality with wliicb they 
 have granted us the usu of their boau'iful place 
 of worship, in every respect so couveuieut for 
 our purpose. 
 
 It w.is also voted. That wo have had much 
 pleasure in welcoming to lliis Convention 
 our fellow labourers in the Sabbath Sciiool " 
 cause from the ruiteJ States, and thank tliem 
 for the valuable aid and counsel they have given 
 us. 
 
 The ((uestion : — " Can Titiii aivixo op uewards 
 
 BE so COXDLC'TBD AM TO ME OP ADVANTAGE TO 
 TUB SCUOr.AltS AND TO TIIE IMiOSl'KRIT V OP THE 
 
 Scuooi-s?'' being the fifth on the docket was 
 then introduced. 
 
 Rev. .Mr. Bimpei: ; Montreal / believed tlie subject 
 of r<'wards was \ery nuudi misuiiilerstood ; but 
 in the scriiiture lliere was ample evidence timt 
 reward was held out to eveiy biiinaii l)eing, and 
 Christ himself had before him his work and its 
 consetiuent reward. " Who for the joy that was 
 sot befiu-e him endured the cross." liut many 
 had iiitroduet'd a sort of reward, differing from 
 the Divine rewards, which were given according 
 to energy and e.tertion, and the circumstances 
 of ea(di case, and not according to the mere in- 
 tellectual power of the recipient. In some 
 Sunday Schools those obtained tbe reward, 
 who made tbe greatest attaiuinenls, and the 
 rest had nothing but the disaiipointment of de- 
 feat. He thought the rewards ought to be 
 e(inally within tbe reach of all. 
 
 Mr. XoitMAN (King) had seen rewards given for 
 learning verses, reciting, Sic., but he bad never 
 been favorable to it, and at ]iresent they never 
 gave anything in bis school ns a reward, but they 
 gave as a token of love— a course which producecl 
 great benefit. He related an occurrence to show 
 the adrantage of such presents. A girl was at 
 service in Toronto, and a piece of ])late was miss- 
 ing in the bouse where she lived. On search 
 it was found in her box; but in the same jilaco 
 there was found a Hible given herby her S\inday 
 School teacher. The girl was friendless, but 
 the discovery of the liilile made her master re- 
 solve not to prosecute, and it afterwards turned 
 out that the plate had been stolen by a fellow 
 servant, and placed in her 1)0.\. to divert atten- 
 tion from tbe real thief. In bis school, the 
 teachers gave a Utile present every new year, 
 but not as a reward. The children wore t(dd 
 that they must come to school for the love of 
 Christ. 
 
 Mr. IlAOAn (Montreal) believed rewards had 
 done much to sustain schools, and cited the 
 account given by .Mr. Bullnrd of tbe manner in 
 which pupils bail been obtained through that 
 means. In Montreal there was a scdiool at the 
 extremity of the city, the Cross, which he lately 
 visited, and in'omised a bible to every child wlio 
 would bring another schidar and keep him or 
 her there. In a short time he had to give five 
 or six bibles. But it had hapiiened in Montreal 
 that The order of reward giving had been re- 
 versed, lor one of the teachers there having in- 
 vited his class to his house, bad been sur[)riseil 
 at being presented by the pupils with a very 
 handsome Bible. 
 
 ilr. Becket (iMontreal) remarked that there 
 were two kinds of rewards — one sort given for 
 verses learned, recitals, attcml.'ince, .tc, accord- 
 ing to the number of marks or tickets gained 
 by each pujiil. He bad •=ecn the evil of that 
 from the want of discrimination on the jiart of 
 teachers, from which it happened that all tbe 
 chi'idren, good and liad, were rewarded alike. 
 Tbe other kind given for bringing scholars to 
 ]' the school li(! a|)proved of, he thought, however, 
 thai no deiiuite action siiould be taken on this 
 subject for, concerning it, there was great 
 diversity of o]iiuion, iind teachers generally 
 would act on ilieir (.)wn couviclions. 
 
 Mr. O'LouoiiLiN (St. James, Kingston) had 
 heard a good deal about the ex, erience < f 
 teachers ; but would rather follow the precepts 
 of the bible. He thought the ]iro]iriety of giving 
 rewards might be amply proved from that hook, 
 and then the only (piestiou that remained was the 
 
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 22 
 
 RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF TUB 
 
 best mofle of regulating the giving of them. 
 Prom liie lii'ginning to tlic end of the sacred vo- 
 lume rewards were held out to man. Tlicre was 
 the injunction to our tirst parents, in the day that 
 tiiou eatest thereof, thou slialt surely die, and 
 going on to Revelations rewards were always 
 held out to man as inducements to serve his 
 master. Jacob served for a reward and got it 
 at last, Caleb and Joshua too were rewarded 
 by enjoying the promised land alone out of all 
 tile Israelites who left Egypt. Let the same 
 rule then be followed with children, lie 
 had been sixteen years a teacher and twelve 
 years a scholar in a school, i)resided over by a 
 gentleman now jirincipal of an eminent institu- 
 tion at Uirkenhead, the Rev. Jos. Bailey, who 
 always held out rewai'ds to bis pupils, and with 
 the best effect. Among them were two shoe- 
 makers, one of Aviiom had since been engaged 
 in translating the bible from the Hebrew, and 
 tlie other was a clergyman in the Church of 
 England. The rewards were given yearly 
 aec(U-ding to the number of tickets held by the 
 pupils for attendance, attention, and lessons. 
 
 Uev. Mr. Siioutt (Port lloi)e) agreed witli .Mr. 
 Becket that the only question was ui)on what 
 principle should rewards be given? The ticket 
 system was most troublesome and it happened 
 that under it the worst children got the largest 
 ju'izes, while modest children who were ])re- 
 vented from coming to school by some cause or 
 other got none at all. With a natural feeling 
 every teacher thought his own class the best, 
 and gave tickets accordingly. It was better to 
 teach the children to regard the Sabljath School 
 as its own reward. Then use might be nuule 
 of the library by denying books to children to 
 whom it was intended to exiiress disapproba- 
 tion, the abseuce of disapprobation being of 
 course approbation. The benetit children derived 
 from the school was reward enough ; and if 
 the teachers interested them, they would love 
 to be there. 
 
 Air. Hughes (Bowraanville) believed rewards 
 were excellent if given in a proper spirit. What 
 ■would a man in after life take for a reward re- 
 ceived at the Sunday School ? The rewards lie 
 had received had done him a great deal of good, 
 though his teachers were moral only and not 
 pious. 
 
 Jlr. Gemmill (Toronto) had found that rewards 
 given in a form that required competition were 
 very injurious. The little ones struggled with 
 all their energies to obtain the prizes, and the 
 object of bringing them to the Saviour was lost 
 sight of in the competition, which was as keen 
 as that carried on by men arrived at maturity. 
 Then, boys, no matter how vicious, might carry 
 off these prizes, while others, jiatient and indus- 
 trious, lost them. All the bad i)assions of the 
 buiiiaii heart were thus introduced, instead of 
 rewards thus given, it should be kept in view 
 of the children that the Sabbath Sciiool was its 
 own reward. Teachers might, however, ]iro- 
 jierly show their love and symjiathy by giving 
 presents as a bond of union between them and 
 the children. 
 
 Mr. MATirEWSON (Port Ilojie) api)roved of 
 jirizes, having always fouud that the best scho- 
 lars always carried them ofl'; and then, tliose 
 who thus learned most scripture and were most 
 attentive were, by the blessing of God, most fre- 
 queuUy converted. He had asked children, 
 
 whom he had missed from the school, — why 
 tlu^y went awaj' ? and the reply was, — that they 
 got no books nor tickets. It was necessary, 
 then, to give these things in order to get cliild- 
 ren, and if they got children to the aeliool, they 
 did tlieni good. This could not be, if the means 
 of drawing children were neglected. He once 
 asked a boy, why he had left the school, saying 
 that tiiey had given him books. " Oh, yes," ho 
 replied, "but I get better ones elsewhere, and 
 you give nic none wlicn I come late, and I 
 can not come early." He told the boy they 
 would give him rewards ; and he came back, 
 and was afterwards a very consistent teacher. 
 Another boy said he would come, if he (Mr M.) 
 would talk about S(iiii»thiiig he could under- 
 stand. He (.Mr. M.) i)romised to try ; and the 
 boy has since been a constant attendant. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jkfpehs (Montreal) did not approve 
 in general of giving rewards, nor did be think 
 the bringing of children to the school was a 
 speciality which deserved to be an exception. 
 Cliildren should try to bring in scholars for 
 love, and should not go round electioneering 
 for the sake of getting a bible. It had been 
 said, that God jiromised to reward man for 
 servitig him ; but a distinction should be made. 
 He oH'ered spiritual and everlasting rewards 
 certaiiilj'— temporal rewards only as thej' might 
 subserve sjiiritual interests. That should be 
 the rule in the Sunday School. There were of- 
 ten very bad cliildren, who yet excelled in some 
 specialitj', and these children ought not to get 
 rewards, which ought to be given at the end 
 of the year, for general good conduct — the 
 children not being allowed to know beforehand 
 who was to get them. 
 
 A Deleoate thought misrhief had arisen from 
 giving prizes, and in his school they found the 
 money once applied to buying them was better 
 disposed of in getting a good library supplied 
 with such modern books as were suitable for 
 Sunday Schools. He would not try to regulate 
 every school by one line, and thought the Con- 
 veution should avoid going into particulars. 
 
 Mr. BuoAD (Brantford) believed the question 
 would be best left to teachers and superinten- 
 dents. He had given in his class rewards for 
 those who could repeat the most verses in the 
 Bible. That had a bad effect ; for so many 
 verses were thus gone through that the teacher 
 had no opportunity to comment on them. 
 
 Mr. Rogers (Bowmanville) also thought the 
 sul;ject had belter be left ojien. After the Con- 
 veution should have decided, every one would go 
 home and act on his own responsibility in his own 
 school. He had found that prizes for the num- 
 bers of verses committed to memory, induced 
 some scliolars to learn a great many, while 
 the children who had bad memories gave 
 np altogether. Then, when those with good 
 memories had done their best, and could get no 
 higher, they guve uj) too. The consequence 
 was, that in his school tliey could get no chil- 
 dren to learn verses. Like men with some kinds 
 of appetite, the eliihlren witli good memories 
 always wanted larger and larger doses to satis- 
 fy them. 
 
 Several resolutions were brought forward, but 
 it was resolved to lay them all ou the table.. 
 
 oci 
 
 an! 
 til 
 
SADDATH SCHOOL TEAClIERs' CONVENTION, 
 
 23 
 
 [he school,— wfir 
 ^ was,~tj„i,, they 
 It was necesdiiry 
 tier to get child- 
 ' ll'e acliool, thoy 
 ' oc; if tli(; nieuna 
 .^eted. Jfe o„ce 
 e school, saying 
 "OJ',yes,"ho 
 elsewlierc, and 
 I'lic late, and I 
 r the boy tliey 
 J he came back, 
 pistent teacher 
 K';i''lic(Mr AJ.) 
 P '-oiild nnder- 
 |o ti'.v ; and the 
 Itendant. 
 
 'J not approve 
 Tdid he think 
 ' school was a 
 _ an exception. 
 1 scholars for 
 <^'ectioneering- 
 It had been 
 '^■'ird man for 
 '>iild he made, 
 itmg rewards 
 .'IS they might 
 "t should be 
 hero were of- 
 jelled in some 
 "t not to get 
 ' at the end 
 conduct— the 
 y>' beforehand 
 
 d arisen from 
 =y found the 
 " Was better 
 "•■y supplied 
 suitable for 
 ' to regulate 
 lit the Con- 
 'iculars. 
 
 'e question 
 siiperinten- 
 eivards for 
 'ses in the 
 '' so many 
 ■le teacher 
 cm. 
 
 o'lffht the 
 
 tlie Con- 
 would go 
 '1 his own 
 "le num- 
 
 i'lduced 
 y, while 
 "s gave 
 "i good 
 ' get no 
 '"'luonce 
 110 chil- 
 10 kinds 
 ■mories 
 u saiis- 
 
 ••J, but 
 lie. 
 
 On motion it was resolved, that in future the 
 time allowed for each speaker be live minutes, 
 instead of ten. 
 
 After prayer the Convention adjourned till 2 
 o'clock. 
 
 FIFTH SESSION'. 
 
 The PiiESiDENT took his seat at 2 o'clock, 
 and half an hour vras occupied with devo- 
 tional exercises. 
 
 The miuuti's of the preceding Session were 
 read and confirmed. 
 
 The Committee on Finance and Puhlication 
 reported the following recommendations which 
 were approved : — 
 
 1st. That all Delegates send in thoir own 
 name, the name of their respective schools, and 
 of their Post Odicc town, with the number of 
 the jirinled copici^ of tlio i)roci'iMlliigs they are 
 prepared to take. I'artics ordering to be held 
 responsible fur the cliarLM* for the same. 
 
 2nd. The expense of tliis Convention being, 
 as nearly as can be made up, about iJSO, that 
 to meet the same. Delegates assess themselves 
 to the amount of 2s. ijd. each, it being under- 
 stood that parties may give more if they see tit ; 
 and that, if tliere shall be a greater sum raised 
 than is ronuired, the balance be paid to the Ca- 
 nada Sunday School Union. 
 
 The Business Committee recommended that 
 the 1st, 2nd, 0th and lOtli subject on the lu'inted 
 list, in the circular calling the Convention, be 
 the Olh, '7th, 8th and 9tli, for discussion ; tlie re- 
 commendation was approved. The subjects 
 being — 
 
 Are any other than strictly religious books 
 suitable fuv Sabbath School Libraries ? 
 
 Infant and IJible classes, their importance and 
 management : 
 
 Missionary and kindred objects, how may 
 children be interested in tliom ? 
 
 Conventions general and local, their utility : 
 
 The lirst of these, viz : — 
 
 Are any other than strictly religious books 
 suitable kou sunday school libraries? was 
 then taken up. 
 
 Rev. Mr. IIodoskin (Doon) thought much 
 depended on the jjrecisc meaning of the words 
 of the nuestion. It might well be doubted, if 
 there were not seientitic works treating their 
 subjects in a religious [loiut of view, and show- 
 ing the ])ower and goodness of God, which 
 would be suital)le for Sunday School libraries. 
 Yet, ho sliould hesitate to admit them to such 
 libraries in this country, wliore the excellent 
 arrangenieuts of the government created libra- 
 ries in eonneclion with the Common S(;' -ols, 
 and thus removed any necessity in the i^uuday 
 School libraries for books, veiy profier to be 
 found in them in countries not possessing the 
 literary api)liiuices which distinguished Cana- 
 da. Wiiatever the character of the books, they 
 would be given out on the Sabbath, and if he 
 had not viisappreliendcd the question, it might 
 be better stated in this way : — " Are any books, 
 not adapted for Sabbath reading, adapted for 
 
 Sunday School Libraries?" His idea was that 
 they were not. He therefore moved, seconded 
 by Mr. Betdvct of .Montreal — 
 
 " That it is the opinion of this Convention 
 that those books only which are suitable for 
 Sabbath reading are suitable for Sabbath School 
 libraries." 
 
 Mr. Phaser (Ooderich) apprehended that 
 books which tauglit Christ were those alone 
 fitted for Sunday School Libraries, and those 
 which treated most of His jierson and work 
 were, therefore, the most suitable. Mere scien- 
 tific books, though they treated of tlie ])0wer 
 and wisdom of God, ought to be given out 
 only in very rare cases. He woulil jiretcr works 
 which treated of Christ doctrinally. 
 
 Mr. KuTiiERPOHi) (Peterboro) remarked that, 
 if the question were decided in tlie manner 
 re(M)mmeuded by .Mr. llodgskin the question 
 would still arise what is fit for Sabbath reading. 
 He liiought the answer to the iiKiuiry l)i-tore tlie 
 Ccmvention would dejiend very much on the 
 character of the mind of the ]ierson to whom the 
 l)ooks were to be given. There was a book 
 called '-Fern Leaves for Fanny's Little Friends." 
 Was such a book fit for the Scliool Library or 
 not ? It was of a high moral character ami in 
 his oiiiniou might be suitaljle. Dry theological 
 M'orks fit for converted [lersons might lie quite 
 unsuitable for children the majority of whom 
 were unconverted. He would give to such 
 children the thing nearest to that which he 
 would desire them to read. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Hoooskin (Doon) did not wish to 
 enter into the ([uestion of what books were 
 fit ; but only to lay down a principle, leaving 
 tlic ai)i)licalion to every man's conscience. 
 
 Mr. S. B. Scott (Montreal) read an extract 
 from the report of a Sabbath School teachers 
 Convention in Jlassachusctts to this efreel. 
 
 " They have examined the catalogues of 
 eighteen schools represented in this Convention, 
 containing in all a fraction over 10,000 vo- 
 lumes. Of these, about 2,100 volumes, or a little 
 more than one-fifih of the whole, were con- 
 sidered by the Committee ns " not religions." 
 Leaving out nine schools, the catalogues of 
 the remaining nine, containing 0,880 volumes, 
 of which l,!),"iO, or 2.SJ per cent., are '• not 
 religious. " Taking three schools only, and we 
 have 1,525 volumes, of w bich 025, or more than 
 40 per cent., are " not religious. " 
 
 It will be proper here for the Committee to 
 "define then- position." The term religious, 
 they suppose to comprehend the following ge- 
 neral classes of books : — 
 
 1st. Books that corroborate the truths of the 
 Bible, or illustrate its meaning, as for example, 
 Layard's Nineveh, or Hackett's Illustrations of 
 Scripture. 
 
 2nd. Such as explain the doctrines of the 
 IJible, or enforce its precepts, such as Truth 
 Jlaile Simple, by Todd ; The Corner Stone, by 
 Abbott ; an(l several of the Avorks by " Char- 
 lotte Elizabeth. " 
 
 .Trd. Such as are fitted to develope jiersonal 
 piety, to ]>rei)are the reader for the service of 
 (lod on earth, and the enjoj'inent of his presence 
 in heaven ; for instance. Pilgrim's Progress, 
 Hugh Fisher, Eagle Hill, The Wilmot Family, 
 Willie Grant, and Green Hollow, by Dr. Lie. 
 
 As not included under either of these three 
 divisions, the Cemmittee felt constrained to 
 
34 
 
 KECORD OF THE PUOCEEDIXtiS OF THE 
 
 ri'jc'ct u coimidcmhle number of books wliich 
 thi'.v foiiiid ill diu' or more of tlie liliriiries they 
 exiiiniiied, autl which uiiiy be chissihed tu 
 follows : — 
 
 1st. Srrvhir NnlhiKiI flhtoriei, such ixs 
 Gcildfimitli's History of (ireece, iiiid Mnciuiliiy's 
 History of Eiijrliuid.' 
 
 ■Jiid. Ilisturin:! Memoirs and Narratives, not 
 pcrviidcd by ii relif:fioiis s|»irit, — such as the 
 entire! interesting scries recently jireimred by 
 Abbott, iuul the liistiU'lciil narnilives of Uan- 
 viird. 
 
 lird. Pcrwmil iMrmoirs of Slalcsmeti and 
 Mdilanj llcrucs not written with a relif^ioiis 
 ]tur|iose, — as the Lives of lionnpiirte, Lafayette, 
 Jaekson, Taylor, the Life of Webster, by J!an- 
 vard, or his Private Life and Correspondence, 
 liy f,anman. 
 
 '4ih. Books of Travel and Personal Mven- 
 lurc, not conliiiniiig the truth or ilhislratini^ 
 the meatiiii'j: of Scripture, — ns, The Cajitive in 
 Patagonia, Houifhiiif? it in the Hush, Adventu- 
 res in the (Jold Kci^ions, Hollo on the Rhine, in 
 Paris, Switzerland, kc. 
 
 5tii. U'orA:.s of Fiction, the reading of which 
 is not littcd to nialve a relij;;iuus inqiression on 
 the mind, — books, in which rclitjious truth is 
 not so closely interwoven with the narrative, 
 that the reader is compelled to take both or 
 none. To this class bel mg the largest propor- 
 tion of books, not religions, to be found in our 
 Sabbath School Libraries. We may mention, 
 under this head. Aunt Mary's liibrary Series, 
 Swiss Family Robinson, Abbott's Hollo and 
 Lucy, Grace Aguilar's Works, all or nearly 
 all the host of books written by T. S. 
 Arthur, the Paul Creyton Series, — (Father 
 Brightlio[)es, Hearts and Faces, »S:c.,) — .Mrs. 
 Tut hill's books,— (Onward, (Jneer Honncts, &c.,) 
 — Inthience, or Evil Genius, Two Lives, The 
 Lanipligther, Ida Maj-, Ac. 
 
 (ith. Miscclldncous Bookn, under which wc 
 specify Lotus I'laling, and Chamber's Miscel- 
 lanies, and I'ap'Ci's for the People, and Parley's 
 Cabinet Library, these serials making some 
 forty volumes in all. 
 
 In regard to books of an absolutely " inju- 
 rious tendency, " the Committee are happy to 
 say that their number is small, as compared 
 with the whole number id' books in the libraries. 
 They are numerous enough, however, to call 
 for imuu^dintc scrutiny on the jiart of those 
 whose duty it is to have this matter in charge. 
 We would invite such to inquire into the rtli- 
 ixiou^ iiilluence of such books as Hiith Ifall, 
 Fashion and Famine, I<ife and its Aims. Car- 
 lyle's KssaVs, Easy Nat, Cuis'.avus Lindorni, 
 Autobiography of an Actress, The Wonderful 
 Mirror, iVc, iV'c. 
 
 In vi(>w of the whole subject, and after ma- 
 ture deliberation, the Conimiltee express it as 
 tlicir s<ilcmn conviction that the Salibath School 
 Libniry should be held sacred io books of a 
 decidedly ndig'ous char:>ctcr. 
 
 If it be deemed desirable to furnish secular 
 books to the members id' our Sabbath Schoids, 
 let such books be kept in a sei>ara;e library ami 
 dislributed on a week-day ami not on the Sab- 
 bath. This plan has alreaily been successfiilly 
 
 * Every book named in this report was found 
 in one (U- im)re of the libraries exiimined by the 
 Committee. • 
 
 adopted in some schools, and will soon be in- 
 troduced into others. 
 
 In closing their re|)ort, the Cominitteo sug- 
 gest the necessity of greater care in the selec- 
 tion of libraries. This matter, it is feared, has 
 been too otten done at hap-lia/.ard. It should bo 
 nnide It subject of prayer, — of careful, thoughtful 
 nttenticm. The duty should be devolved on a 
 coinpetent Connnittee ajipoiiitcd by the school, 
 or, belter still, by the churcii ; said (."omniittco 
 to make full report of their didngs. This wotdd 
 tend to clie(d< the '.;'mptation wliich irresponsi- 
 ble persons mighi feel to i.iirehase an unsuita- 
 ble book IVir tile liluary, that they might have 
 the reading (d' it gratis. It slunild he considered 
 unwise, also, to leave the selection, as is some- 
 limes done, to publishers or booksellers. The 
 reponsibilities connected with this subject are 
 too vast and momentous to justify a careless, 
 lu'gligent or sellish discharge of the duties it 
 involves. .May (iod grant to his servants, in 
 this thing, the sidrit of wisdom, fidelity, and 
 S(uind discretion. 
 
 Mr. .Matukwsox (Montreal) objected to any 
 other tluin strictly religions books for Sun- 
 day School Libraries. All the books admitted 
 into such libraries were eiulorsed by the school 
 teacher, and were taken home to be read on Sun- 
 day. Tlie Sunday School [laper was open to the 
 same objectimi. It ecnitained many things 
 altogether nntit for Sunday reading. There 
 were identy of secular and moral j.apers ; could 
 not ri'ligiou then be made sutticiently interesting 
 to fill one paper with reading matter tit for 
 Sunday? 
 
 Mr. Campbell (Carleton Place) agreed with 
 the previous speaker lie himself had been 
 converted by the reading of a library book. 
 
 Mr. FosTKu (Smiths Falls) held tha't the teach- 
 ing in the schools ought to be enforced by the 
 books sent out from the library. In his scliool 
 there was not a single book of an objectionable 
 character. They were all religious biograi)hi- 
 cal sketches, short sermons, or scriptural histo- 
 ries. The Common Scli0(d Libraries, .Mecha- 
 nics' Institutes, iV'c, furnished ])lenty of general 
 reading and the v^unday vScliool Libraries ought 
 to be comiuiscd (d' strictly religions liooks. 
 
 Rev. .Mr. McDon'ai.o (Fergus) thought the 
 best advice a parent could give to a child 
 leaving home was i "keep the Sabliath Holy." 
 Every individual who did s(j would be holy. 
 The intention of the Sunday Sciiool teacher 
 therefore should be to give luuie but religious 
 books out on Sinulays. There was much loose- 
 ness of practice on this head, and the minister 
 was fre(piently jiained to see even what was 
 called tlie religious newspaper nuike its ap- 
 pearance on the Sunday, because uf the nii.xed 
 character of its contents. Even Sunday School 
 papers, such as the Penny Ciazette and others 
 of that class were not tit for tlie Sunday. 
 
 Jov. Mr. Dknisox (AUiany) ))elieved their 
 was no fear of the l),)oks becoming too religious. 
 The only fear was of tlieir not being religions 
 enougii, and of thus leliing down the high stan- 
 dard set u]! ill the r.ilile. It was too much the 
 custiun to teach children that if they were res- 
 pectful to tiieir parents, and teachers, and if 
 they did their duty to soci<'ty when they grew 
 nil that was all that was required. Thi- should 
 be guarded ag,-,iust. and as to the book which had 
 been lui.'uiioued, (Fern leaves) he felt it his duty 
 
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SABBATH SCHOOL TEACIIEHS' CONVENTION. 
 
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 ".'•''.'■" the ,s,.|oc- 
 
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 "•It should bo 
 
 I'tnl, thoM;.|„fu, 
 
 P <iovolv,.,l (,n a 
 I' '.'.V (he school 
 
 . 'I'his would 
 |"''h m-esponsi- 
 P*-' "11 iiiisiiita. 
 7 mifilit Iiavo 
 I' ''« I'oiisMereij 
 T|"'i as i.s some- 
 |ksdler.s. The 
 /'.'■■^ subject are 
 \'y II eaieless, 
 I'/ the iliities it 
 |is servaius 
 
 fideliiv, 
 
 in 
 and 
 
 'J^'tefi to any 
 "ks for Sun- 
 '>"lvs admitted 
 
 ''>• 'he scJiooI 
 - ''C'ld on Hun- 
 '■■^ "Iiou to the 
 """ly tilings 
 
 '"«•• There 
 ;"l'C''s ; could 
 
 'yinferestinfj 
 i"ttt>r lit for 
 
 agreed with 
 'f had been 
 "•.V book, 
 at the teach- 
 'i-eed by the 
 " '"'■•' sclioo] 
 ''jeciionable 
 
 ■ '''"graidii- 
 .taral bisto- 
 'cs, Mecba- 
 
 ■ of general 
 ai'ie.s ought 
 looks. 
 
 'oiigJit the 
 " a cliild 
 
 llll Holy." 
 
 I be lioly. 
 '• teacher 
 
 '■'■'igious 
 'I'h loose- 
 
 t'linister 
 ■'i;'t Avas 
 
 lis ap- 
 <-' "li.ved 
 '■''^'(•hool 
 ' u tilers 
 
 'I their 
 
 '''pious. 
 ''i.t:iou3 
 h i^tan- 
 'I'h the 
 '<■ rca- 
 ■•uid if 
 grew 
 hould 
 h bad 
 i duty 
 
 to sft.v that there was not a really Christian Sah- 
 batli .School ill the United States, wiiicli would 
 admit it to its library. There was no objection 
 to sncli books elscwiicre ; but ministers, teachers, 
 and superinteiidents were as tiie rciiresentatives 
 of Jesus Obrist, guardians of the school, which 
 was tbe nursery of the (Jlinreh. Now if tbe nurse- 
 ry were lilied with a miasma, the cliildrcu would 
 grow up the cliililren of the Devil ratlicr than 
 of (Jod. It must be rcmeinbcrcd that liooks 
 from liie Keliool library, went (nit witli a sort 
 of blessing of (be pastor and teachers. AVas it 
 lit then that they should contain one grain of 
 wheal and perhaps a biisbel of chaff? No — 
 
 " Christ and bis cross are all our theme, 
 
 " The mysteries that we S])eak. 
 
 Dr. IIaiu (Kingston) believed there bad been 
 too much laxily in this jioint of iiraelice, and 
 did not exempt himself from tbe censure, others 
 might feel that some blame attaciu'(l to tiiein, 
 for not having examined with sutlicient strict- 
 ness the books which appeared on tbe library 
 shelves. The teachers were res)ionsible that 
 Gueli books should be unimpeaehalile — that was 
 to say strictly religious. There is a wide dill'e- 
 rence between such books and those containing 
 one grain of wheat and a Inishel of chalf. If 
 any means could be found of selecting books, 
 to wliich the convention could give its iiiijiriiiid- 
 tur it would be d(jinggood not (nily to Canada, 
 but perliaps also to the United States, England, 
 Europe, and the world. Nor was that imprac- 
 ticable, for it must be a poor religion if its [iro- 
 fessors could not say what books were truly 
 religious. 
 
 Jlr. Umvkh (Paris) conceived that tliongb in 
 other countries, scieniilic books perhaps might 
 be properly ailinitted to Sun(la\ School libraries, 
 there could bo no reason for doing so in Ciina- 
 da, where general reading was so amjily pro- 
 vided for. lie recommended teachers, on seeing 
 their own libraries supplied, to turn all their 
 attention to tbe carrying out of tlie law. Then 
 society would be sniijilied with literary and sci- 
 entitie works, and Sabbath Scliool libraries witli 
 tbe description of literature wliich might be 
 looked for in tlieni. 
 
 Jlr. \). RosK had exi)erieuccd the diftieiiliy 
 of being obliged to iindertal;e the illustration 
 of Scripture without having access to books of 
 travel written by religious men ; and since he 
 had had such books in his own library, be had 
 found tb.at those who dii! not jiossess them, were 
 unaljle to exiilain passages of Scripture as fully 
 as was necessary. It was well, tlierefoie, to 
 have such books in Sunday School libraries. It 
 might, be said, they could be liad in tlie 
 Coniinon School libraries. iJiit unfortunately, 
 he was situated in a locality, where so far the 
 people bad not availed themselves of the law 
 in any one School section of the township. He 
 tbougiit tlieiv were wnrks on science which 
 ought never to be excluded fnun Sunday School 
 libraries ; for instance, the works of Diclc and 
 Hugh Miller, tlie latter on that very science 
 which had been made the inslriiinent of spread- 
 ing iiiliiielily in tbe land. 
 
 Hev. .Mi(. Mahi.ixo (Toronto) knew a Sunday 
 School where the managers had taken the trou- 
 ble to order a nnniber of books on s[iecuIalion, 
 every one of which they caused to l)e read over 
 by members of a coinmiltee, appointed for that 
 purpose, who reported on the character of (he 
 
 book. Not till every book had been thus in- 
 sjiccted, was it allowed to go into the library of 
 the school. One ]dan of procuring iibrariea, 
 Avas to iMirchase from some laiblisbing society 
 one or two hundred books ; but the inconveni- 
 ence of this jilan was, that new books were not 
 procured in that way, as they were copyright, 
 and the societies could not, therefore, get bold 
 of them. He thought iiersoiis who got up 
 School libraries ouglit to go over the liooksel- 
 lers' catalogues themselves, especially (be cata- 
 logues of such houses as (!arter and Nesbit. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Jki'i-kus desired to place on tbe re- 
 cord a condemnation <if all books of lietion. 
 The mere idea that (hey were not true iirevcnt- 
 ed (hem from having a good ell'ect; and tlio 
 reading of religous licdons led lo (he reading of 
 other tic(i(iiiiis works. Religions liclions bad 
 the great evil of all romances — they brought 
 together surprizing events in a manner which 
 did iio( occur in life, and they by this means 
 created a state of liojie and expectation which 
 was higlilj' injurious, liesides they always 
 brought (heir lieroes to a successful (ermination 
 of their diliicnlties and tlnis led children not to 
 make up their minds (o those sacrifices which 
 arc necessary on the part of those who desire 
 to serve God. 
 
 Mr. FooTK (Ihiffalo) with reference to what 
 Mr. Marling liail said (m the siiliject of selection, 
 related that (ui one occasion be had gone into 
 a liook store in cininection with which a depot 
 of religions books was kept, and had seen the 
 astonishing recklessness with which selections 
 were sometimes made. lie had seen a man 
 purchase eighty-five volumes, taking perhaps 
 ten minutes for examination. IJy and by, the 
 friends of this gentleman found sonielhing erro- 
 neous in one of the works, and on closer inspec- 
 tion, twenty-one of the.ni were foiiml to contain 
 teaching oiijiosed to the IJible. He thought it 
 was better to go to a Society which allbrdcd 
 some guarantee, rather than make so superficial 
 an examination. There were booksellers who 
 sold (hoiisaiids of books as Sunday School 
 Hooks, A\ ;,o bad no religious jiritieiples at all. 
 
 Mr. 1). .McKay (Montreal) ajiproved of what 
 the Rev. Mr. Jeffers said, ami thought many of 
 the ''religions w(n-l;3 of fiction" were more 
 bi.ghly coloured (ban some of the novels of the 
 present day. The heroes of such works were rc- 
 ]n'eseiited as ]iossessing hearts very different 
 from what the liible taugli(, and in order to 
 couuieract much of \.\wlidit reinliii'^ (often very 
 licentious) that was so cnmmon in our day, 
 works of History aiiil Clu'istian Travellers, and 
 even scientilic works, such as geology and As- 
 tronomy, were worthy of being admitted into a 
 Sunday School lil>rary, for they directed the 
 pupil '■ from nadire up to nature's (lod." The 
 as-^ertion that the cause of Christianity might 
 suffer from the investigation of scientific men, 
 was a libel ; as S'lch labois went to confirm, not 
 to upset tbe truths of revelation. 
 
 Mr. llAiiAii (Mcnitreal) reniarl;ed that in his 
 school they had a Coiuniittee to examine books, 
 and tliat it was (lie fault of Sunday School 
 nianage:'s, not of pulilishers, who made books 
 to sell, if bad books got iiilo liie libraries. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Hoixiskix'h resolution was then'" 
 re-rend. 
 
 t was moved in amendment 
 Jcfl'ers, seconded by Mr. J. 
 
 AVherei 
 the Rev. 
 
 pon 
 Mr. 
 
86 
 
 nECono OF the proceedinqs of tub 
 
 Taylor, nnd resolved : — That this Convention 
 conceives it to l)o of groat imiiortanee tliat the 
 booliH in our Hahbath Sciiool libraries bo of a 
 strictly religious cliuracter, anil |iarticularly 
 that books of a merely scientiiic or literary 
 interest, and that books of religious fiction be 
 excluded as tending to produce elfucts not in 
 accordance with the specillc object of Sunday 
 School instruction. 
 
 The Committee appointed to prepare a resolu- 
 tion on the (juestioii, — What oihiht to he tub 
 
 NECESSAUV QfAMFlCATIOXS OK TeACHKUS BEKOIIE 
 THEIU AIM-OINTMENT TO SaIIIIATII ScUOOI. CLASSES ? 
 
 presented two resohitions, one from the majority 
 and one from the minority of the Connnillee, — 
 upon both being read the cpiestion stood lirst on 
 the resolution of the minority, viz : — 
 
 Resolved, — That the requisite qualifications 
 of a thorough Sabliath School teacher are 
 accredited piety, aiitness to teach and a love 
 of the work ; but in cases where such 
 teachers cannot be ol)tained, the best pro- 
 curable may be employed ; it being always un- 
 derstood and provided tliat tlirougli tlie suiierin- 
 tendent or others the children of every Saljbath 
 School, be brougiit into contact witli the in- 
 structions of truly pious perstms, to the end that 
 the great oliject of Sabbath School instruction, 
 the glory of God and the salvation of souls 
 may be secured. 
 
 To which it was moved in amendment by 
 the Rev. Mr. Marling seconded by Rev. Mr. 
 Hodgskin, and carried tliat all after the word 
 "cmi)loyed," be omitted. The resolution as j 
 amended was then put and carried, after which 
 the resolution of the majority, viz : — " That 
 this Convention records its convictions that 
 only pious persons are properly qualified, 
 to be teachers in Sabbath Schools, and none 
 but members of Evangelical Churches and per- 
 sons of high moral character, should be ]>laced 
 in so responsible a position," was rejected. 
 
 ' The Convention proceeded to consider, the 
 seventh subject on the docket, viz : — " Infant 
 AND Bible Classes, tueir impoiitance and ma- 
 nagement." 
 
 Rev. Mr. Hodgskin believed that the great 
 error parents made was not beginning with tiieir 
 children soon enough. They seemed to think 
 that there must be a certain length of time 
 before children should be taught the knowledge 
 of God. Dr. Beattic had had an idea that his 
 son should be taught nothing of the Supreme 
 Being till he was six years of age, and then the 
 doctor sowed some seed in the form of his son's 
 initials. When the son saw it come up, he at once 
 referred to his father as having sowed the seed. 
 His father put off the question for some time ; 
 but at length acknowledging himself as the 
 author of the fact, thence took occasion to 
 direct the attention of the boy to the autlior of 
 all things. That was a wise act ; but consider- 
 ing the uncertainty of life and the certainty of 
 death it would have been more wise and more 
 loving to have taken an earlier period t ■ show 
 that there was a God to be loved and served. 
 Perliai)S however, some were deterred by the 
 difficulty of speaking on these subjects to a child. 
 He knew that when the Rev. Mr. Jay was asked to 
 address the children at Rowland Hill's church, 
 he had replied that he never could address chil- 
 
 dren. It was not every minister who would 
 make a good Sabbath School teacher ; nor 
 every teacher who wotdd make a teacher of 
 infant classes. It required some one wiio did 
 not thiidi llie work unimportant, and who would 
 be able to give the little crumbs of the word 
 to the young ehddrin. 
 
 Mr. llAHCoi'iiT (Toronto) had given instruc- 
 tion for a long time in an Infant school. Some 
 time ago, a jierson came to him, and said she re- 
 mi'mbered the nuinner in wliich he (Mr. H.) 
 bail illustrated the account of the raising of the 
 Syroiihieuician wonum, ami that that illustra- 
 tion liail tauglit her more than anything else 
 the best mode of exi)lainiiig the scriptures. 
 Teachers who were tit for their Ijtisiness, went 
 among the little ones with infantile ideas, and 
 elucidated the histories and doctrines of the bi- 
 ble by illustrations drawn from domestic life; 
 so that, if the children are even unable to un- 
 derstand at the time, they treasure it n]) in their 
 memories, and comprehend it later in life. An 
 infant school teacher should neither bo too 
 young nor too old ; but one who had vivacity 
 and clieerfulnoss, who could, if need were, sing 
 with the children. He remembered a teacher 
 speaking to children thus ; "Wliatis prayer?" 
 (Jne said : " It is talking with God." " Nothing 
 else ? When you go home to your mother and 
 ask for bread and butter, is that nothing but 
 talking to your mother ? You feel the need of 
 what you ask for, do you not ? " " Yes." " Well, 
 that is prayer ; it is asking God for what you 
 want." These were the kind of illustrations 
 fitted for the young. He believed that tlie want 
 of bible classes might be largely supplied by 
 Infant schools. 
 
 Mr. Peahson (Toronto) knew of two cases of 
 conversion by the instrumentality of the Infant 
 class, in the scliool to wliich he belonged ; one 
 was a little girl, seven years of age, converted 
 bj' means of j)ietures, which were used in the 
 scliool, and which taught her to ai)i)rehcnd the 
 truths of the gospel. She died, and hor last 
 words were words of comfort — that she was 
 going to heaven. Through her expressions, a 
 cliild ot four years old, was also converted. 
 He did not think a eliild must be twelve or 
 thirteen years of age before it could apjirehend 
 the gospel. He had known many of seven 
 years old converted to God. In his school, the 
 teacher did not keep the children long in one 
 position ; but got them to stand up after sitting 
 some time, made them frequently clap their 
 hands, sing, and so forth. They were almost 
 all under eigiit and some under six years of age. 
 The school was in i?iclimond street, Toronto. 
 
 Mr. B. Lyman (Montreal) mentioned that at 
 the first Sunday School w'here ':■! atti'iuled forty 
 years ago, tiiere were but , evi n children, and 
 the oldest was but eight years of age. His 
 venerable friend, Mr. Smart, was the means of 
 establishing that infant class. He (Mr. L.) was 
 seven years old then and had continued a scholar 
 up to the present time. True he had b ■come a 
 teacher, but he had been learnini;- all the lime. 
 He superintended the school of the Church to 
 Avhich he belonged in Montreal, but had visited 
 many others. He could bear witness to the 
 excellence of the school last mentioned, also to 
 that of Dr. Tyngs school. New York, conduct- 
 ed on similar jirinciples. At one time the 
 teacher of the infant school with which he was 
 
 I 
 
BAnnATII SCHOOL TEACHETRS' CONVKNTION. 
 
 ft 
 
 ['<''• Who would 
 f i^'nvU.r; nor 
 I*- " toiirJier of 
 f''-' <•"" wiio did 
 J«"<1 vvJio would 
 1'^ "' tlio word 
 
 P'/i-'i insfruc- 
 '^y"}- «omo 
 ,"•■ ■'""d she re- 
 " ''c (Mr. H ) 
 
 '■'"'^'■"ffoffho 
 
 "'..vthin.ir eiso 
 
 i;iisi.io,s,s, went 
 
 .."•^ "lo'is, and 
 
 V"'^ '^'' tile bi- 
 
 '"'iK'stic life- 
 
 ,'!"'''« to „n-' 
 P '.t lip in their 
 ■ '" ^''t'. An 
 .'"'I''' be too 
 fiad vivacity 
 t'<i were, sing 
 'V '1 'facher 
 "s luvivpr?" 
 "'Vo'thing 
 "lotlier and 
 'lolliiiig but 
 tlio need of 
 
 J'Mvliat you 
 "Justiationa 
 mt tJie Want 
 supplied by 
 
 ^yo cases of 
 
 f'c Infimt 
 '"g'L'd ; one 
 I t'on verted 
 ml in the 
 •clieiid the 
 ^ ^'«r last 
 ' s''e fl-as 
 sessions, a 
 ■onverted. 
 t'velve or 
 Ppi'chend 
 of seven 
 liool, the 
 : in one 
 '■sitling 
 ip their 
 
 nlniost 
 ! of age. 
 onto. 
 
 that at 
 tl forty 
 1; and 
 
 Hi3 
 
 ans of 
 •) Was 
 •holar 
 )me a 
 'iuie. 
 eh to 
 sited 
 
 the 
 30 to 
 luct- 
 
 tlie 
 was 
 
 connected taught the ABC, but he broke that 
 up ami got thi- children i)livced under a jicrson 
 ■w'ho CDiihl sing an<l interest tiicin. Pictures, 
 too, illustrative of scripture liistory, were 
 pluceil in prominent positions in the school room, 
 anil the chililren were catechised upon such 
 lnutinns of the bible as the ])ai'alilc of the jiro- 
 digal. The narrative was explained, and from 
 it tiicy were taught that all must go to 
 Christ. At seven or eight years of age when 
 the children C(juld read the bible, they were 
 taken to form other departmental classes, 
 and from the adult classes which follow- 
 ed these, teachers, thus tniiued up in the 
 school, were selected. The teachers and the 
 children, therefore, grew up together. As to 
 teachers for infant classes it had iieen well said 
 they shouhl neither be too young nor too old. 
 He had taken a young lad}' and taught her to 
 instruct the classes, and now it was a pun- 
 ishment for the childreu to be kei)t away. 
 
 Rev. .Mr. Chidi.aw had long tried to find 
 in any i)rison a Sunday School graduate, and 
 ho had not found one yet, and never ex- 
 pected that he .should. He was, therefore, glad 
 to see that Canada had the whole system, in- 
 fant, ordinary, and adult classes. He repeated 
 that he had never in his cxjierience of the crimi- 
 nal classes fouml an offender who had i)assed 
 through the infant, the ordinary, and the adult 
 classes. One might as well seek an Angel in 
 the realms of darkness as expect to meet 
 with such a child abandoning the works of 
 light and love and becoming a convict within the 
 fangs of the law. It was, nevertheless, true, 
 that in general Christians did not begin soon 
 enough with the child. Let the teachers, then, 
 go home and think for the little ones. God 
 would honor them in their work, and permit the 
 truths of Christianity, adapted to the cai)acity 
 of the young, to be by their lips and examples 
 impressed upon the tender, confiding, and im- 
 pressible minds of the children. The scholars 
 were often lost to the Sunday School class be- 
 cause their affections were not enchained early 
 enough. Uut set a young man or young wo- 
 man, a matron or father, in a circle of twenty, 
 or thirty children, there was no difficulty about 
 retaining their attention. The child would grow 
 up and be transferred to the second grade, and 
 there he must Ijc held on to, and not allowed to 
 slip away till he was passed to the adult class. 
 Last Sunday, in Cincinnatti, ho went to the 
 rooms of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, and saw there one hundred and forty 
 young men, each with a bible in his hand. 
 Tliere was hojje for a country where the young 
 men were interested in such a study. 
 
 Rev. .^^r. Bl'i.laud believed there was no age 
 from the mothers lap to the grave unsuited to 
 Sabliath Schools. In Massachusetts and else- 
 where in the United States, the plan was to 
 have infant classes of one hundred to one hun- 
 dred and fifty. But they had also succeeded in 
 interesting older persons. A minister told him 
 that if a member of his Church did not belong 
 to the Sabbath School, hf should feel it his duty 
 to go and converse M'ith him, as he would do if 
 the mail were neglecting family prayer. He 
 could see no good reason why an adult 
 should not go to Sabbath School, which could 
 not be eijually well urged by the children for 
 staying away. As to common schools, of course 
 
 they understood that adults had finished that 
 part of their education ; but was there any time 
 when a man could be said to have finished his 
 educatiini in the liilile? Was there any reason 
 why if a man did not go in as a teacher he 
 should not go as a |mpil '.' It was one thing to 
 read the Bible and another to study it. Ho 
 appealed to many who wen? acciistiaued to 
 read one or more chapters daily, whether they 
 did not sometimes, if they mis.-<ed their mark, 
 find themselves douliting whether the^-werc not 
 reading the same chapter which they had jie- 
 rused the day liefore? But ilid any who had 
 studied a cliai)ter at school ever forget having 
 read it? And this social nianiHjr of study 
 ])repared the mind to listen with more interest 
 to the things of (Jod. What advantages a ])oli- 
 tical speaker had over a preacher? How far 
 more fi.xed the attention which the former at- 
 tracted, and why ? Because every man jiresent 
 had lieen prepared by reading the newspapers, 
 for the discussion of the speaker's subject. The 
 sjieaker concluded by mentioning that the Chi- 
 co])eo School contributed SP) a mmith to the 
 Sabbath School mission, and when he went 
 there to preach, the minis. ^r told him he 
 must take up a collection. lie said no, that 
 would be too much. "Oh yes," was the re- 
 ply, " it wont hurt them." After he (Mr. Bul- 
 iard) had addressed the peojile, he told thcrn 
 he was going, as their minister had said he must, 
 to tike up a collection, but instead of the 
 usual apjieal made on such occasions he would 
 teJl them he thought they gave as much as they 
 ought. They gave him §52 more. 
 
 In answer to questions, he stated that he 
 thought it desirable that adult or Bible classeg 
 should meet in the same room, in which the 
 ordinary classes meet, and at the .same hour. In 
 the States they usually had the gentlemen in 
 one room and the ladies in another. They took 
 turns to become monitors, and the pastor some- 
 times had a class of ladies and gentlemen him- 
 self Also, that adults rarely learned scripture 
 except for the lessons. 
 
 Mr. Thompson (Rochester) had seen children 
 of 2 J years of age in the schools of the United 
 States. Then, when they were eight or nine 
 years of age, they were told : '• If you bring in 
 si.x or eight scholars, a class of si.x or eight of 
 you may graduate." Thus, the school was kept 
 full. The scholars passed through from the In- 
 fant school till they became teachers. The Bi- 
 ble classes should he where the superintendent 
 could see them. He had known lawyers come 
 and take away the best scholars to form Bible 
 classes. Then they did not come, and their ab- 
 sence for two Sundays sufficed to drive away 
 the scholars. Nineteen years ago. he put his 
 foot down against that. The i5ible class, 
 now tlie most interesting in the school, would 
 not go away ; but if they were taken into a se- 
 cond room, tiiey would quickly fall off. 
 
 Mr. Denison found the influence of Bible 
 classes so great, his congregation had had 
 doubts if they should not do away with a ser- 
 vice, in order that all the congregation might 
 attend the Bible class. If they could get them 
 established, slavery would soon cease to 
 exist in America. Bible classes taught the 
 great practical duties of life, and would reform 
 the world. 
 
88 
 
 RECORD OK TriE VROCEEDING8 OF THE 
 
 :\ 
 
 The Rev. R. Touiianob moved, seconded by Mr. 
 J. A. Skxsmi I'll, mid it wiis resolved, — 
 
 Tlint this Coiivcnlioii feels deeidy the impor- 
 tnnce of Inl'.mt niul ISilile eluHHes in conneetion 
 Tvitli Haliliiith iSchool-i, nnd eiirner^tly rccuni- 
 mends their estiihlishnient thiuiiijliout tlic I'ro- 
 vinci'; mid recomniends witli regard ti) their 
 niainifceinenf. 
 
 1st, Tliat Uilde elas.ses lie held in the room 
 with the otlier (lu.-iscrf, unless sfiecial reasons 
 exist lor the conlrary. 
 
 'Jnd, That liilde ehisses l)e under the teacliing 
 of the inininter of the eiMif,n'e.t(aliiMi, oi of some 
 other jierson well inslrnele<l in tlie contents of 
 tlie ll(dy Scriptures and a])t to tencli. 
 
 3rd, That it he the constant eltort in the Dihlc 
 class to ((ualify for enlerinij; into fellowship 
 witli the ("hristiiin Churcli. 
 
 4th, Tliat infant classes he not held iu the 
 snrae room or not at the same hour us the other 
 classes. 
 
 Oth, That for infant classes iiarticuliir atten- 
 tion he paid to select teachers of known piety 
 and who will enter into the feelings of the chil- 
 dren, nnd who know how to engage their atten- 
 tion, or to hearken to sujjgestions on this point 
 
 The COMMITTEK ON Fl.VA\CK AND Pl.BMC ATIONS 
 
 recommended that the jiuhlieation of the jn-o- 
 ceedings of the Convention l)e contidcd to a 
 Special Cdminittee, witli full power tn adopt 
 whatever steps tliey might tiiink necessary, and 
 the nominating ('ommitlee having suggested — 
 
 Messrs. H. A. Xelson, Montreal. 
 " S. B. Scott, " 
 
 " J. A. Mathewson, " 
 " J. W. Taylor, " and 
 
 " James Stewart, Kingston. 
 It was moved by Mr. 1). Ueadlk, seconded 
 by Mr. (Joodfellow, and resolved, — 
 That that Committee be composed of the 
 Delegates named. 
 
 The President then submitted the eighth topic, 
 viz : 
 
 JIlSSIONAUY ANB KINDHED OnJEOTS — UOW MAY 
 ClIILDltEX BE INTEUESTED IN TllE.M ? 
 
 Mr. Thomp.so.n (llnchester) had begun this 
 work many years hef n-e, liy getting jienny sub- 
 scriptions to eilucate children in India, lie re- 
 collected a missionary wlio once had charge of 
 the school Coining and telling the children: — 
 " Your contributions towards ediicaiion ena- 
 abled me to leave my [lost, and was the occa- 
 sion of Mr. Thorai'son taking iii}' place." The 
 idea of having ell'ected something, worked like 
 electricity. The school ciiildren began again, 
 and contributed for educating five more. 
 Their contriliuiions were always increasing. 
 They gave §'2o,") in one Sunday. A genera- 
 tion was in course of training whicii, by 
 and bye, would exercise a mighty inliuence ; 
 and he believed that liero the Finance Couiinit- 
 tee niiglit go among tliC ciiildren and get money 
 to pay all expenses. Let them be taught to 
 spend for the Lord, otherwise, the money would 
 be spent in AVcprse ways. 
 
 Mr. Baylis (Montreal) thought more was re- 
 quired than to iea(di the more giving of money. 
 They should be encouraged to deci<le as to the 
 objects on which the money should be spent in 
 order that they might be interested in the work 
 of missions, and learn to talvc part in public 
 business connected with religious societies. 
 
 The Rev. .Mr. I lodgskiu moved, seconded by 
 the Uev. Mr. Elliot :— 
 
 That this Convenlion earnestly recommends, 
 that wherever praelicable there lie, beyond the 
 taking up of luriodiciil contributions, the 
 organization in Sabbath Schools of Juvenile 
 .Missioiniry Societies, such societies holding 
 meetings at stated brief intervals for the jnir- 
 pose of giving and receiving missionary intelli- 
 gence and for the triiiisactioii of business. 
 
 Uev. Mr. SiioiiT rose to move in iimendinent 
 that the words ''and temperance" lie inserted 
 in the resolution, after the word "missionary." 
 
 Key. .Mr. lIonosiuN, however, called -Mr. 
 Short to order, as the subject of total absti- 
 nence firmeil no part of the programme of 
 proceedings which were understood to lie the 
 object of assembling the Convention, ami iPiirli- 
 cularly as it was fiu'eign to the subject of the 
 resoluliiui. 
 
 The I'liKsiDENT ruled that the amendment was 
 not in order. 
 
 Rev. .Mr. Ili'i.LAiii) in answer to the question, 
 how to interest idiildren in missions ? would 
 say, that the way was to get them into 
 o|ieratious they could understand. They 
 could understand for instance what mission- 
 aries were doing to gather children in their 
 own land, and it would be well to let them 
 receive letters direct from the missionaries 
 so employed. He often felt stimulated and 
 encouraged by the necessity of thus reporting 
 to Sabbath Schools. Let young and lender 
 sensibilities be touched by compassion for the 
 young, and the children would soon come n]> to 
 tiie Work of Sunday School extension. Last 
 year his Society had issued a circular, stating 
 that every school whicli would give S,")0 would 
 receive a letter direct from a missionary. Fifty 
 or one hundred schools sent in immediately from 
 I?,')!) to SlOO each. Children who contributed 
 50 centg had a beautifully engraved certilicate 
 with a ])ictorial receiiit at the back. 
 
 It was then moved in amendment to the 
 resolution before tlio (Jonvention by Rev. Mr. 
 Marling, seconded by .Mr. Ainslie, that in the 
 opinion of this Convenlion it is a most important 
 element in the christian training of the young 
 to make them take an active part in sustaining 
 the great benevolent movements of the day, and 
 that it Ihereton' recommends that theodicers of 
 Sabbath Sciiools make arrangements for the 
 regular communication of missionary inielli- 
 geiice to the schobirs and the reeeiving of their 
 contributions. 
 
 And tiio amendment being put to the meeting 
 was carried. 
 
 The Co.MMiTTKE ON FiNANCK reported the fol- 
 lowing stateiueut : — 
 
 Amount due J. C. Becket, .Montreal, 
 
 for lu'lnting circulars, £25 8 9 
 
 Travelling ex])enses of invited Dele- 
 gate 3 18 9 
 
 Gas for Public ileeiing at City 
 
 Hall " 1 10 
 
 Local expenses, printing, Sexton, 
 
 stationery, .^-e 7 15 3 
 
 Due J. W. Taylor, Montreal, for 
 ]iostages, telegraphs, &c., paid 
 by him, (estimate) 8 10 
 
 £4:1 2 9 
 
flAHnATIl SCHOOI. TEACIIEKS' CONVENTION. 
 
 29 
 
 I', seconded by 
 
 ["'i I'l'.voiKl the 
 r'"'ti.>iis, t|,o 
 "f Juvenile 
 ■"'"'•■■' JioliL'ng 
 ''"'■ the j.iir- 
 |i<)ii;irv iiitelli- 
 
 llf<ilK'.s.s. 
 
 I'' "iiiciKiiiicnt 
 '»' iiHiTted 
 ' "ii.''siiiii.irv." 
 ciilh'd Afr. 
 
 M' '"till al).:ti- 
 
 ['■"^'•I'.lllllllf of 
 
 f"'<l to l„. (ho 
 J'") 'iiid i.aitj. 
 jii'y'ect of the 
 
 r'lidiiieiit was 
 
 "ii' quesdon 
 
 '""^? would 
 tlic'iii into 
 
 ""'■ Tiiey 
 
 'lit niission- 
 
 '■(^■n ill their 
 
 '". It't tliem 
 
 »)is;iioniii-ie3 
 
 iiihiled and 
 
 lis I'ojKii'iing 
 
 "lul tender 
 -^ioii for the 
 ' <-'<""« nj) to 
 "*ion. Last 
 '''.'!•, stating 
 ; $50 Avould 
 '""T- Fifty 
 JiateJ.vfrcn 
 fontribiited 
 ' certiljcdte 
 
 P"t to the 
 I- Ucv. Mr, 
 Imt in the 
 'I'll'orlant 
 "le young 
 sustaining 
 -' ''".V, and 
 o'licen of 
 3 for the 
 >' iiiieili- 
 y of their 
 
 J meeting 
 the fol- 
 
 OONTRA. 
 
 Oollitction at Public 
 
 Meclin« i'l!5 5 •>'i 
 
 A-*-<'^^iiieiit of Dele- 
 
 gatea '^3 5 t) 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 IS 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Ij 
 
 3 
 
 U) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ') 
 
 9 
 
 ■VI n 2 J 
 
 Deficiency. 
 
 XI 11 (5 J 
 
 CONTUA. 
 
 Amount oa per foriuer lieiiort .... 47 2 9 
 
 On motion it was resolved to tiike ui) a col- 
 lection to meet the deficiency. 
 
 MAYOll AND CITIZK.NS OP KING.STON. 
 
 It having been stated, tlmt, owing to the pre- 
 valeiiee of seai'let fever in tlie city, unil the un- 
 expected Uw'^ii number of Di'legates presenl, all 
 the delegates are not enjoying the liosi>italitle.-i 
 of the (leople of Kingston ; aliout seveuly-live of 
 them having liad to go to hotels, some con- 
 versation arose on the iiropriely of dividing the 
 exi'eiise. Whereon, the Treasurer of the city of 
 Kiiigst(Ui rose and stated that he was authorised 
 by the Mayor to say, that he and the citizens of 
 Kingston (not the (Jor|)oration) would see that 
 all hotel expenses were paid. 
 
 It was immediately res(dved, that the thanks 
 of this Convention are tendered to the Mayor 
 and citizens of Kiiif,'ston for their extremely 
 handsome hospitality. 
 
 Thanks were also voted to the Members of 
 the Kingston Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion, for the warm consideration tliey had 
 shown for the interests of the Convention. 
 
 Thanks were due to the proprietor of Iron's 
 Hotel, for liberally entertaining delegates at 
 one half of his customary charge. 
 
 It was announced that the Rev. Mr. Bullard, 
 Rev. Mr. Elliot, and the Kev. Mr. Childlaw 
 would address the meeting in the City Hall, 
 after the Rev. Mr. Bond had finished his lecture. 
 
 After devotional exercises the Convention 
 adjourned till 9 a.m., on Friday morning, with 
 the view of enabling delegates to be present at 
 the lecture in the City Hall. 
 
 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 
 
 A prayer meeting was held this morning at 
 1 A. M. 
 
 SIXTH SESSION. 
 
 The Convention met at 9 o'clock, pursuant 
 to adjournment, and, after half an hour of de- 
 votional exercises, the minutes of the preceding 
 Session were read and confirmed. 
 
 The minutes of the former Sessions were also 
 re-read. 
 
 The Finance Committee presented a final 
 report, as follows : — 
 
 Amonnt previously reported JC42 11 2 J 
 
 Amount of Collection 15 5J 
 
 £49 6 8 
 
 Balance f.'J li 11 
 
 To lie paid to the Canada Sunday School 
 Union. 
 
 '.iud. Amount haiu' ■ ' to the Com- 
 mittee for reiiorts of | 'e(Hngs with 
 (U'deis fcu' as many copies as the sum 
 will jiay for X'20 19 3 
 
 ;!rd. Seventy names were handed to tho 
 Commitlee with (U'ders for l,o;)0 copies of the 
 rop(U't at such a price as they can be all'urd- 
 cd. 
 
 4th. The Committee have to allude to the 
 unbnniided generosity of the .May(U' and citizens 
 of Kingston, tor the handsome numner in which 
 Dele^^ates have been entertained during their 
 sojourn in Kingston. Xot l)eing satislied with 
 lilliiig their dweHiiii,'3 to overilowiug, they pay 
 the bills of those who were under the necessity 
 of going to hotels. 
 
 The Ilejtort was received and adopted. 
 
 The ninth and last subject was then pro- 
 pounded for discussiim : — 
 
 " Conventions, local and cenebal — their 
 
 L'TILirY," 
 
 The I'ev. Mr. IIodoskin thereupon moved, se- 
 conded by .\lr. .MoiiK, of yuebee ; 
 
 1st. That we cannot but n^cognise the great 
 utility of Siibbath School 'feachers' Conventions, 
 and therefore deem it desirable that arrange- 
 ments be now made for holding Local or I'ro- 
 viiicial Assemblies of that character in succeed- 
 ing years. 
 
 2nd. That such Conventions be composed of 
 Deli'gi'.tes appointed by Sabbath Schools or Sab- 
 bath School organizations, holding what are 
 commonly regarded as evangelical sentiments, 
 viz. : 
 
 1st. The Inspiration of the Scriptures. 
 
 2nd. The Deity of Christ, and the Personality 
 and Deity of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 3rd. The total depravity of human nature. 
 
 4th. The Vicarious Sacrifice of Christ. 
 
 5th. Justification by Faith alone. 
 
 6th. Regeneration by the Holy Si)irit. 
 
 7th. The Eternity of future rewards and pu- 
 nishments. 
 
 Mr. RuTHERFOiiD, instead of having the reso- 
 lution in its present shape, would like to stop 
 with the words "Evangelical sentiments," as he 
 did not want any platform laid down. All 
 knew what "evangelical" meant, and perhapa 
 if they went farther, they might get into dis- 
 cussions on doctrine. He moved, seconded by 
 Mr. Dobson, that all after the words evangeli- 
 cal sentiments, be struck out. 
 
 Two Deleoates expressed an opinion that the 
 Convention should keep its standard held aloft. 
 
 Rev. Mr. t\''iL80N (Kingston) approved of the 
 statement of the basis on which the future Con- 
 ventions were to organize. The term " evan- 
 gelical," whether in Canada or the United States, 
 was most indefinite ; and it was time to do away 
 with it. No one would doubt that these 
 were the principles which should be taught in 
 
80 
 
 RKrOUT) OF THE rnOOEKDlNfJS OF THE 
 
 yours 
 
 18, -.3 
 
 and 
 
 18i;o. 
 
 
 IHfiO 
 
 
 IHGl. 
 
 
 1858 
 
 
 1H(J0. 
 
 
 18r>9 
 
 
 18(il. 
 
 
 1858 
 
 
 18li0, 
 
 
 IS'iU 
 
 
 1801. 
 
 
 1858 
 
 
 18()0. 
 
 Eviitif^i'lical Snndny Scliools ; iind if any S(duiolg 
 dill not nminlain tlmso [iriiicipli's, tlicy ()ii(;lit 
 not to III' conntcnanccd. Was tlic fonvcnlion 
 to coiintcnanci' .Monisonianisin, or tiic doctrino 
 of lliy iniTcly tiiilycclivo work of tin; li(dy 
 Si'irit ? 
 
 Ucv. Mr. HoDdHKiN tlioujflit dciioiniinitlunal 
 names oii(,'lit not to bi- niciitiijni'd. 
 
 Mr. llKdd (London) approved of tlio (Irst part 
 of tlic ri'Solnlion — all tiie iiiori', liccauHc hid 
 prt'jndiccs ajjainst ('onveiitiou.s iiad linen re- 
 moved lpy wliat lie had seen of the nnily and 
 larf^eiiesa of heart of lirethren of dill'ereMl de- 
 noniinatioii.^ present. As to the latter Jiart, he 
 did nit oliject til the prineiples laid down; lint 
 (lid not know that it was necessary to lay them 
 down. 
 
 The nmondraent being [iiit was lost. Ilev. Mr. 
 Hodgkin'b motion was Ihun curried. 
 
 Mr. J. W. Tatlou (.Montreal), seconded by 
 Mr. D. Hkadi.k, moved the following resolu- 
 tions : — 
 
 1st. That it bo recommended to hold local 
 Conventions in the following cities, viz. : — 
 
 London in 
 
 rianiillori 
 
 Toronto 
 
 Kingston 
 
 Ottawa 
 
 Montreal 
 
 Quebec 
 
 And that a Provincial Convention be held in the 
 City of Kingston, in the year 18G2. 
 
 2nd. That the superintendents ofSal)bath 
 Schools in the several cities be appointed com- 
 mittees to prepare for the lirst local conventions 
 in these respective cities, and that at each of 
 them, committees be appointed to arrange for 
 each succeeding one, and that it be recommend- 
 ed to all these committees to confer with one 
 another for tlie purpose of preventing the occur- 
 rence of two conventions at the same date. 
 
 3rd. That at each of tiie local conventions 
 held in the years 18(i0 and 1801, except at that 
 held in tlio City of Kingston, one person lie 
 appointed to correspond with tlic committee 
 hereafter provided for, and to aid it in arranging 
 for the Provincial Convention to be held in tlie 
 city of Kingston in 1802. 
 
 ilh. That at the local convention held in 
 the city of Kingston in 1801, a committee be 
 appointed to arrange for tlie Provincial Con- 
 vention to be held in that city in the year 
 1802 : the said committee to consult tlic indi- 
 viduals appointed at the local conventions as 
 provided for in the preceding resolution and 
 with them to determine the date for holding tlie 
 Provincial Convenlion and to do whatever else 
 may appear necessary to ensure success. 
 
 5th. That the following subjects be recom- 
 mended for consideration at the local conven- 
 tions of 1858 and 1859. 
 
 1st. Best mode of regulating schools and 
 keeping records. 
 
 2nd. The duties of teachers. 
 
 3rd. Tlie relation of the school to the Church. 
 
 4th. Children who cannot read, shall tliey 
 be taught to read or taught from the Bible 
 orally ? 
 
 I Titli. The claims of pommunitips, without 
 Hclniols and unable to organize them without 
 
 I assistance, upon those which enjoy their udvun- 
 
 i tages. 
 
 I .\nd tliat tlie various pommiltees appointed 
 to prepare for these conventions correspond 
 with each other for tin; purpose of selecting a 
 number of Hubjccis to be recommendetl to theiu 
 for consideration at the respective sncceedin); 
 local conventions. And that at the I'rovincial 
 Convention, to Ik- ladd at Kingston in lH(i'2, ft 
 review cif the wiiole lie taken, so that a compa- 
 rison of results may lie obtained and the e.xjie- 
 rieiice of those who have carried out the sug- 
 gestions maile at tlu^ local conventions may bo 
 related. 
 
 (ith. Tliat each committee endeavour to se- 
 cure suitable persons, eaidi to take one of the 
 subjects detertiiiiied on into consideration in 
 time to enable him to ttudy it carefully, so that 
 it m:iy be brought before the convention in a 
 complete and comprehensive manner. 
 
 7th. That all the conventions provided for 
 in the iireceding resoluti(>ns claim the utmost 
 faiibfulness, wisdom ahd energy of the respec- 
 tive committees. 
 
 After a somewhat rumbling conversation and 
 several (irojiosals to amend the resolutions 
 which appeared to tho Convention to possess 
 too niucli of a legislative cliaracter. 
 
 Tlic mover stated that he had no desire what- 
 ever to press liis resolutions upon tlie Conven- 
 vention. lie brought them forward merely as 
 recommendations, which would he carried out 
 or not, just as future circumstances may dic- 
 tate ; '>ut he felt that it was important to place 
 resjion Vi'Vity somewhere ; for unless that is 
 done, p.i'vei'se circumstances and difhculties arc 
 permitted to exercise greater influence than they 
 otiicrwi.-ie would. Jloral responsibility, by being 
 a powerful motive to action, generally coun- 
 teracts ojiposing influences, and leaves the way 
 clear for action, when reason points to its expe- 
 diency. He felt tliat for local Conventions, 
 it was especially necessary to make some pro- 
 vision ; responsibility should be felt, and, as far 
 ns possible, a system determined on. Of course, 
 the naming of certain places in the resolutions 
 was not intended to preclude other places from 
 getting up local Conventions, if they thought 
 proper to do so. lie hojied they would, pro- 
 vided they were not too numerous ; there is a 
 danger of overdoing them, and he conceived 
 that the advertising of a limited number of 
 Conventions, to be held at stated intervals, 
 would be the best means of preventing it ; be- 
 sides, such arrangements should, he thouglit, be 
 made, as would prevent one Convention inter- 
 fering with another. In the United States, they 
 have tlieir Annual State Conventions, but they 
 arrange so that two do not occur at the same 
 time. We have but one state, and it is projiosed 
 to have local Conventions all over ; surely it 
 will be well to make known or adopt a plan 
 likely to prevent the occurrence of that circum- 
 stance here. In drawing up his resolutions, ho 
 liad endeavoured to provide against a few of the 
 difliculties and fears which had been experienced 
 by the preliminary Committees in arranging for 
 this Convention- From July last, when as 
 Secretary of the sub-Committee of the 
 Canada Sunday School Union he had 
 
 issued 
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 P'l'ovidofl for 
 
 If the respec- 
 
 psation and 
 ''''Solutions 
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 f'li'i'ied out 
 L's may di^.. 
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 ■e tlian tiiey 
 3', hy hcing 
 ■"'ij conn- 
 M tlie way 
 '" 'ts expe- 
 nventions, 
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 'fil, ns far 
 '>*' course, 
 -solutions 
 1CP3 from 
 
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 enced 
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 m as 
 
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 issued bis first circular relating to it, 
 up to the moment of liln arrival at Klri;;- 
 Hton, lie had had lo eneouuter many of tliene, 
 lie felt that eaeh ('(iimnillee should kimw from 
 the lie;;iuiiiuf? willi whom to eorri'spoiid, and 
 ujjou whom lo de|ieiid tor ro-operatloii. It 
 woulil -lave 11 liir^fe amount of hilmur. AUo, a 
 few sulijeets should he su^'^^esfed Ijeloichaud, ho 
 that ]llll•lle^ may come prepareil to discuss Ihein. 
 The selection <d' those n.'inu'd in the circular 
 caliiu^' the lu'csent meetiuf,', had caused iv large 
 amount i>\' correspondence. Many topics were 
 BUg}.'e^ted. It had, Iherefore, lieeii a dedicate 
 matter to make a selection, and iinpussilde to 
 make one to meet the wislies of all. There were 
 other suggeslioiis in tla; resohitioiis wlii(di he 
 thought of value, and he was siu'ry thai tlwre 
 appeared to he some misconception in relation 
 to them. They did not liL;isliilc for future yearn 
 as had heen averred, — they siini)ly recnmiuended 
 the liolding of ('(mvenlions in certain years and 
 certain places ; the first in each place only he- 
 iiig legislated lor, and that only in the appoint- 
 ment of (Committees to prepare lor them. They 
 to appoint Committees ('(U' those to succeed, and 
 thus on timi! heiiig aniicipatcd, hy one season 
 only, and everylhing left open for the chaiige.q 
 it cll'ecls. lie would not, however, press his re- 
 solutions, but would he (piite willing to agree to 
 any motion which would be acceptable lo the 
 Convention. 
 
 On motion, the matter was referred to a Com- 
 mittee of Messrs. Taylor, Meadle, Logic, Nelson, 
 Marling, and others with instructions to prepare 
 a rcsolulioa on the subject. 
 
 FBEK CONFERENCE. 
 
 The Convention then having disposed of the 
 topics form.'illy ordered to be discussed, entered 
 upon a free conference. 
 
 A Dkm!'!atk asked if it were proper to teach 
 children their letters in Sun<lay Schools? 
 
 Mr. 1!ki>wkMj (Montreal) rejilied, by asking if 
 children could read the gospel without learning 
 how to read ? 
 
 The I)i;i,K(iATB who had asked the question 
 thought the day too sacred to be employed on 
 the alphabet, and considered that the lime 
 would be more fitly occupied in telling scriptu- 
 ral stories to the children. 
 
 A Dumujatk knowing that some children had 
 no opiiortunity for instruction save in the Sun- 
 day School, would not think he did his duty if 
 he did not teach children their letters. 
 
 A Uklkoatk had heard many ways spoken 
 of for getting children into the schools; but if 
 he could learn how to get the aged in, he would 
 go home contented. 
 
 iMr. H. LvMAN (.Montreal) held that the only 
 way by which the middle aged could be got 
 into the schools, was by having the Spirit of 
 God poured on them. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Hodoskiv (Doon) did not know 
 that the best way to spend the Sabbath was to 
 spend it publicly, and thought there Avas a dan- 
 ger of overlooking private and household piety. 
 He sympathized with those who liked to see the 
 Church filling the Sunday School ; but no less 
 with those who like to see Christians at home 
 reading their Bibles. The best use of Sabbath 
 Schools was in caring for uucared for children, 
 aad he did not wish to throw on them the whole 
 
 care that belonged imffi.iu. Tfcl d two con- 
 
 gregati<m8 — m.inii ami nflPri i, and Iho 
 morning one li I kioI Into v h they eol- 
 
 lected all cared liM incared I'oi ibh' n Dtil 
 the (diiblren of the uinereongri- 'u v « |i t 
 instrucleil in the short cateelu-tu, hee.aiw ^ 
 was done by their |iareuts. While cricoiiia f 
 
 the Hcl ! then, let the household uoi be st 
 
 sight of. 
 
 .Mr. Haoau (Miuitreal) said he heli. \ it 
 would be found that those who alleuded i .jst 
 to I hi; siduad, were also they who attended 
 most to their househould duties. He thought 
 heads (d' families should be brought more than 
 ever into the school, for (diiblren liked to seo 
 parents consislenf and doing what they recian- 
 mende(|. lie remeinbered a sehool in the 
 I'niled States, wlu're almost all (he members of 
 the Church attended. In one class lher(! was 
 no schidar under wi.\ly years of age and they 
 all wore spectacles. 
 
 Mr. l!KO(i (liondon,) recurring lo the subject 
 of rewards, said that if rewards were promised 
 by (iod it was not for merit ; but (d' grace. Ho 
 woubl therefore, like to get rid of rewards of 
 merit and have only gifts of affection. 
 
 A I)i;r,K(iATB would hke to use the word Sab- 
 bath always in the place of Sunday ; taking tho 
 latter to be Heathenish and I'opish and convey- 
 ing a false idea. 
 
 Mr. Tavloii on behalf of the Committee to 
 whiidi the ninth subji'cl had been leferred, ]ire- 
 sent(Hl the following resolution, which was 
 carried. 
 
 " That this Convention cordially recommends 
 the Indding of general and local ('oiiventiims, 
 and that the Hon. Jas, Ferricr, of Montreal, Mr. 
 John Mair, .M. 1)., of King-iton, .Mr. Geo. liar- 
 court, of Toronto, and .Mr. \Vm. I'egg, of London, 
 be ajipointed a Committee, with full power to 
 call a future Provincial Conven'.ion." 
 
 TheCnEDENTiAL CoMMiTTKK reported that they 
 had e.\amincd the certilicates of two hundred 
 and sixty JJclegatcs, all of which were duly 
 filled up and certified, and had given certilicates 
 to three delegates whom they had good reason 
 to regard as such from their res])ective schools. 
 All these certificates had been countersigned by 
 Benjamin Lyman, Ksc]., Secretary of the Com- 
 mittee, as re(piired by liie [{ailway authorities. 
 
 The Committee did not attempt to classify 
 the religious denominations. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Maoalisteii, seconded by 
 W. J. MoniiiH. 
 
 It was ordered that a copy of the proceedings 
 of the convention be sent lo every school which 
 responded to the circular of the i)rclii!iinary 
 committees by sending in statistics, but which 
 have not been able to be represented in the Con- 
 vention, and also to all oilier Sabbath Schools 
 as far as possible. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Tavlob, seconded by Dr. 
 Maiu, — 
 
 It was resolved that James Stewart and Geo. 
 Fenwick be appointed a Committee to obtain 
 and audit the accounts of the hotel-keepers 
 against delegates, so that they may be handed 
 to the Mayor of the city of Kingston corrected 
 if correction should be necessary. 
 
8> 
 
 HKCOKD Of THE I'HOCREDINOH OK TIIK 
 
 
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 On motion It wag rpiinlrp<l, tliiU wlillo this 
 
 Cdlivciltiiiii coniiili-rs tllf Subliutli Stlloul In lie li 
 vnlimlilc iiid In cliristinii |iiin'iit-i in llu^ ri-ll- 
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 the i\'li^i»uri I'lliiciitioii (if tlii'ir own cliiUlrcn. 
 
 The HuHiNKHH OoMMirTKK ri'|i(irtcil tlml. Ihcyhiid 
 rcfi'rriMl to Ihcni IcIIith fnun the Kcv, K. ltiii'ni.'<-(, 
 Primitive MctlKMJi-il Mini^icnit Toninto, him! liic 
 BU|U'riiit('ii<li'iit (if I lie lii'.-ii i!ii|itlst Ciiiircli H, S. in 
 that city, will) were nimlilc^ to lie |ir('-tfiil, imil 
 riH'omiiicndcil lliitt the niiiiicH of tlic-ic niid nil 
 otiicrs wild liiid sent in -tiniiliii' conimiiniciitionH 
 Hhduld he ciilcrcil on iIk' niiMiitc.-i. 'I'lic Cnni- 
 uiiltce had liiid Hcvcriil othci' ('(inimiiiiicatinii-i 
 iiiid |ir(i|i(isai.s licfnro lliciii, lint as lliey ri'ft'rrcil 
 to nmltci'ri not strictly and aii|irii|iriiitidy cimi- 
 in}r williiii (he iiriivincc of the ('onvonlion, or 
 wliicdi ciiiild not liu takL-n \i\> within titu thue, 
 they have no rejiort to iiresent on them. 
 
 On motion, the thank;t of the Convention were 
 tendered to the Hon, James Ferrier for the emi- 
 nent aliility, coiirteonsness and ini|iartiality with 
 wliieh he had discliari;i'(l the onerniis (hilies of 
 the Chair, and tlie l/'oiivention expressed the 
 hope that hendt^iit lie spared nniny years to enn- 
 limie his active labors in the cunse of SiibhiUh 
 Schools. 
 
 The rion. James Fekhieu said that he had 
 come there to perform a deliffhtfnl dnty, ami 
 hart never felt so much honored as by the dis- 
 tinction conferred npon him. lie hoped his 
 BOiil had reaped benefit from Christian com- 
 munion, and that he would p'> back a better 
 man to the discharge of the duties of the School 
 and of life. 
 
 The Chairman of the Ihislneis Commlttre 
 the l!ev. r, 11. .Mauu.\(), then Uiovud on their 
 behalf :— 
 
 Tliat the mrinberi of this Convention deslro 
 cro they separate fnmi eaeh ollii r, to record tin) 
 expression of their hcarthdt thankfulness to 
 Almighty (i(i(| that hi-i providence anil jjraco 
 have enabled them to asicndde in such 
 lari^e numbers from every part of the Pro- 
 vince, out of so nniny dennnMuations of (JlirU- 
 linns, and to consult toKclher with ho much 
 harmony and mutinil benefit. " It bus been 
 Kiiod for IIS to be here," and we sliiill return to 
 our homes and our scdiools, resolved in so far 118 
 in us lies, to liriiiK the whole of the yoiilh of 
 Canada into these nurseries of the Church, with 
 the linpe thai we may be iiistnunentiil in brinjj- 
 iiiK then\ to (lirist liimself. 
 
 One alliriualive feelin;? pervaded tin; Con- 
 vention when this resoliilion was put. 
 
 After thi> sinnin;^ of a byiiin and prayer by 
 the l!ev. Mr. Chidlaw, who pronounced the bo- 
 ncdielion, the Convention dissolved. 
 
 A Meeting of the ehildren of all the Hnbbath 
 Schools in Kin^fston, was ludd. In conneoiion 
 ■wllii the Convention, in the Wesleyan .Methodiat 
 Church, at three o'clock. A pood many dele- 
 gates were iireseut. The Rev. T. .1. lloi'lgskln, 
 Kev. A.sa liullard, Rev. II. W, Chidlaw, and 
 Messrs. Thoiii|ison of Uochester, and Wilder of 
 Detroit, addressed the children. The attention 
 and siiipinj.f of the latter were very pleasing. 
 The meetinjf was one of great interest ; for it 
 was felt, that the presence of llim, who delight- 
 eth to be w ith His peojile to bless them and to 
 do them good, was not wanting. 
 
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 DESIGNATION OF SCHOOL. 
 
 LOCALITIES. 
 
 (The nutnbors in the left hand column refer to 
 the lists of doU'gat«s, &cj 
 
 Dijon S. » Prr:8bytcrian Churcli of Canada, .., 
 I'amiersville M. E. Church, 
 
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 Oshawa, " 
 
 Kiniraton Kaptist ] 
 
 6 St. Vincent I'hnenix Union, '. 
 
 l-nohute C. E., Union 
 
 Montreal American Presbyterian, brancli School 
 
 Hrockville, 
 
 North Dundee, ... "" '" " 
 
 Montreal A^■psleyan Methmlist District School!! 
 
 Huxtnn Presbyterian Church of Canada, 
 
 Toronto City Mission, 
 
 Carlton Place I'nion 
 
 Kinireton Brock st. Prcsb. Church of Canada, !! 
 
 Leeds 
 
 Cobourit Wesleyan, !!! !!' 
 
 Guelrih Wesleyan 
 
 Kronklin Union, !, 
 
 Stratford Presl)yterinn Church of Canadia, .!! 
 
 Kramo.sa Union, 
 
 Mount Pleasant, Durham 
 
 Othra 31. R Church ', 
 
 Cramahe Union, 
 
 Hamilton Methodist, New Connexion, ... !!! 
 
 Vienna TrVesleyan 
 
 Vienna Union !!! 
 
 Newcastle Union !!! 
 
 Rodericli United Presbyterian, ! 
 
 Toronto Primitive Methodist ! 
 
 Maiden Union 
 
 82 Toronto Western Union, 
 Windsor Union, 
 
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 Newcastle Wesleyan 
 
 Percy Union. ... 
 
 Millbank 
 
 Bownianville I'resbytcrian Church of Canada, !! 
 
 Melrose 
 
 Oshawa Wesleyan, 
 
 Shannonville Union 
 
 St. Andrews, C. E., Wesleyan, 
 
 St, Andrews, C. E., Baptist, .. 
 
 Laeliute, C. E., Union 
 
 Morlinifton, 
 
 St. Andrews, C. E., Congregational, 
 
 Beanisville, 
 
 Hull. C. B. 
 
 Hamilton, 
 
 Township Moore, Lampton, " Proridcnce,' 
 Bible Christian, 
 
 Rowmanville 
 
 Picton Wesleyan, 
 
 Ormstown, 
 
 Sarnia Union, 
 
 Preseott Wesleyan, 
 
 Lanenster Union, 
 
 Shipton 
 
 La Prairie Church of England, 
 
 Dunham, 
 
 Eaton Conirregational, 
 
 Montreal St. Lawrence Suburbs Wesleyan, 
 
 Rredalbane Baptist 
 
 Brampton Primitive Methodist, 
 
 Whitby Baptist, 
 
 Brampton Kbenezer, 
 
 Canton 
 
 Sarnia Presbyterian, 
 
 Woodstm'k Baptist, ... 
 
 St. Catherines Wesle.van 
 
 Pre.sbj'terian Church of Canada,.. 
 
 American Presbyterian 
 
 Baptist, 
 
 InKcrsoll Union, 
 
 Salford 
 
 Toronto Bond Street Baptist, 
 
 City of Ottawa 
 
 Blooniflold, South Monaghan, 
 
 South Monaghnn, 
 
 Cavan Forest Cliapel Union, 
 
 Stamford Associate Presbyterian Church, 
 8« rialt I'resliytcrian Church of Canada, 
 j;* liiinville, J.ittle Warwick 
 
 Hi^lilnnd Creek Presbyterian Church of Canada 
 
 S('arb(iroii)fh Union, ... 
 
 rvilioure Bilile Christian, 
 
 *"" Kinpston Chalmers Presb'n Church of Canada... 
 
 Toronto United Presbyterian, 
 Primitive Methodist, 
 
 Union, Sayer Street 
 
 n.^ ,\'.9iitreal Second Con(rregational Church 
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 anil if so, what was the increase during the past year, 
 
 —or otherwise what was the losh i 
 
 10 Prosperous 
 
 20 Prosperous 
 
 Decrease. Another school opened 
 
 Increase 
 
 Prosperous 
 
 None to notice 
 
 Stationary 
 
 Inci'oase 
 
 Prosperous 
 
 Stationary. 
 
 Prosperous, very 
 
 Same as la.st vear 
 
 Several have left 
 
 A1)oiit same 
 
 Prosperous 
 
 Increase 
 
 Prosperous 
 
 18 Yes. 
 
 10 Moderately prosperous 
 
 Prosperous 
 
 Fewer on books. Attendance more regular. 
 
 6 Prosperous 
 
 6 Improving 
 
 10 Prospect good 
 
 10 Not very prosperous 
 
 Prosperous 
 
 Seems to be prosperous 
 
 Increase 
 
 6 Yes 
 
 18 V^ei7 prosperous 
 
 Some increase 
 
 12 Prosperous 
 
 Increa.se 
 
 11 Increase 
 
 20 Prosperous 
 
 Increase 
 
 Prosperous. 
 About same. 
 Nothiiift to note. 
 Prosperous, 
 41 Prosperous, 
 
 8 Visible improvement 
 
 16 Average about same 
 
 2 Only npi'n one year 
 
 6 Only in first year 
 
 Only four months started. ... 
 
 10 Increii«e 
 
 InereaiiP 
 
 8 Progress satisfactorj' 
 
 O.\boutsaine 
 
 Prosperous 
 
 14 Prosperous 
 
 5 Prosperous 
 
 4 Prosperous 
 
 1 Only commenced this year. ... 
 10 I'rosperou.s 
 
 4 Commenced November, 1856. 
 About stationary 
 
 5 Prosperous 
 
 Not much ch^-ngo 
 
 12 Increa.sing 
 
 Opened last summer 
 
 10 Decided advance in scholars... 
 
 2 Yes. Without increase. 
 
 6 Increase 
 
 9 More prosperous. 
 
 10 Stationary. 
 
 15 Prosperous 
 
 12 Prosperous 
 
 2 Not so prosperous 
 
 20 Increase 
 
 20 Prosperous 
 
 Very prosperous. 
 
 6 Increasing 
 
 1 Increase 
 
 6 
 
 .. About the same 
 
 .. Very prosperous 
 
 6 Rather on the increase. 
 
 6 Prospers gi-eatly. 
 
 2 Prosperous 
 
 .. Only fourteen months opened. 
 
 12 Yes. 
 
 25 l>rosperous 
 
 8 V little progress 
 
 I Increa.se 
 
 12 Not muehincreaao 
 
 15 A decrease 
 
 10 About the same 
 
 80 Yes 
 
 Gain. Loss. 
 
 10 
 
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 211 
 
 211 
 
 105 
 
 16 
 
 30 
 
 14 
 
 20 
 
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 14 
 10 
 
 14 
 
 . Is your school 
 closed during any 
 portion of the 
 year? 
 
 9. Is it suffering from any particular came ? 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 Open all the year., 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 During winter. 
 
 No 
 
 Winter 
 
 During 4 months. , 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 During winter. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 During winter. 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 In winter 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No. !!! !!! !! 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No. 
 
 No 
 
 In winter sometimes 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 During winter. 
 
 No. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 During winter. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 During wint(T. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 During winter. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No, .:. 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 For want of a superintendent 
 
 No 
 
 For want of ministerial labor 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 From negligence of parents 
 
 No... 
 
 Want of efficient teachers 
 
 Intemperance of some parents, 
 
 No 
 
 Xo'.'.'. ".■.". '.'.". !!! !!! !!! !!! 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Indifference in parents. Irregularity in teachers, 
 From want of accommodation 
 
 For want of system, and irregularity of teachers. 
 
 Parents not interested 
 
 Want of proper books 
 
 Increase of other schools 
 
 No 
 
 Church burned ; just opened again. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 Want of interest 
 
 No.!!' !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! 
 No 
 
 Want of teachers 
 
 Lack of zeal 
 
 Xone 
 
 Place of meeting not central 
 
 Want of library, &c 
 
 No 
 
 Xon-attcntion of parents 
 
 No 
 
 Not that we know of 
 
 Not that we know of. 
 
 Tea 
 
 Xo.!!' !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! 
 
 For want of teachers 
 
 Xo 
 
 We think so 
 
 Rather cramped for time 
 
 No 
 
 Xone 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xot sensibly 
 
 Want of spirituality and new library. ... 
 
 Yes 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 Want of a library 
 
 Xo 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No.!!" !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Want of teachers 
 
 Xo 
 
 Want of teacliers 
 
 Without a pastor 
 
 Removal of some teachers 
 
 None 
 
 From a want of appreciation 
 
 Want of books 
 
 Our building is small 
 
 None 
 
 Xot sufBciently appreciated 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo... - 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xone 
 
 Irregularity of teachers 
 
 Temporary decrease, from sickness. 
 
 Xo 
 
 Want of teachers 
 
 Indifference and slotlifidness 
 
 Xo.!!' !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! 
 
 Chiefly want senior teachers 
 
 10. How many 
 of the scho- 
 lars are 
 members of 
 tlie ohuroh? 
 
 None ... 
 Ten, ... 
 Nome ... 
 
 None ... 
 
 Thrse... 
 Noi.e ... 
 None ... 
 One. ... 
 None ... 
 
 Six.; ... 
 None ... 
 
 Twelve. 
 FoiB. ... 
 Ten. ... 
 Thnn ... 
 One. ... 
 None ... 
 Six.,,... 
 Nont ... 
 None ... 
 
 None ... 
 Two. ... 
 Twelve. 
 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 Twelve. 
 Three... 
 None ... 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 Eiglitoen. . 
 
 None ... 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 
 One 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 
 Five. !!! ! 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 Thirty-two . 
 
 Ten 
 
 Two 
 
 One 
 
 Thirteen, . 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 Three... 
 None ... 
 Twelve. 
 Eight... 
 Thirty-four . 
 Xono ... 
 None ... 
 Four. ... 
 None ... 
 Xono ... 
 Xono ... 
 
 Six 
 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 
 Two 
 
 Xono ... 
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 Fifteen. 
 None ... 
 
 Two 
 
 None ... 
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 Ten 
 
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 Xono ... 
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 Xono ... 
 
 Four 
 
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 One 
 
 None ... 
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 10. Bow many 
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 members of 
 tlie church? 
 
 lendcnt. 
 nl labor. 
 
 arents... 
 
 icrs. ... 
 parents. 
 
 . None . 
 .Ton, . 
 
 iNoBB. 
 
 None. 
 
 Thr»e., 
 
 Noi.e .. 
 None .. 
 One. .. 
 None .. 
 
 Sil.; .. 
 
 None .. 
 
 Twelve. 
 
 FouB.... 
 
 Irregularity in teachers. Ten. 
 
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 (1 irregularity of teachers. 
 
 3l3 
 
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 lentral. 
 nts. ... 
 
 Ill new library. 
 
 ers. ... 
 iation. 
 
 ated... 
 
 }m sickness. 
 Illness. 
 ihcrs 
 
 ThriB ... 
 One. ... 
 
 None ... 
 SU.^... 
 
 Nont ... 
 Non« ... 
 
 Nont ,„ 
 Two. ... 
 Twelve. 
 
 Non» ... 
 None ... 
 'l^»elve. 
 Three... 
 None ... 
 One. ... 
 None ... 
 Eighteen. 
 
 None ... 
 One. ... 
 None ... 
 One. ... 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 
 Fiva '.'.'. 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 Thirty-two , 
 
 Ten 
 
 Two 
 
 One 
 
 Thirteen. . 
 
 One 
 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 Three.., 
 Nono ... 
 Twelve. 
 Eight... 
 Thirty.four . 
 Nona ... 
 Nono ... 
 Four. ... 
 Nono ... 
 .\ono ... 
 Noxio ... 
 
 Six 
 
 None ... 
 Nono ... 
 
 Two 
 
 None ... 
 Three... 
 Fifteen, 
 Nono ... 
 
 Two 
 
 Nono ... 
 Nono ... 
 
 Ten 
 
 Nono 
 
 .\ono 
 
 Three 
 
 Nono 
 
 Four. 
 
 Vono 
 
 None 
 
 One , 
 
 Nono 
 
 Three 
 
 11, How many would not be under any religious 
 
 instruction, were it not for the 
 
 Sabbath School? 
 
 Eight... 
 
 Think a great part of them 
 
 Not any 
 
 Several. 
 
 Cannot tell 
 
 Hard to say ; certainly some. 
 
 .4 small number— say sii 
 
 Not known 
 
 Few, if any 
 
 About forty 
 
 The majority 
 
 About twenty. 
 
 Nearly all receive instruction at home. 
 
 Not many— cannot say 
 
 Aixiut lifty 
 
 Cannot state positively 
 
 All connected with church 
 
 One-fourth 
 
 Very few. 
 
 Eight. 
 
 Say twcnty-flvc 
 
 Twelve 
 
 About thirty-five 
 
 Forty-five 
 
 Many have no other means 
 
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 None 
 
 Seventeen. 
 
 None 
 
 Cannot say 
 
 None 
 
 Twenty 
 
 Not more than four. 
 
 A number, but cannot say how many. 
 
 Seventeen 
 
 None 
 
 Nine 
 
 Fifteen 
 
 One!.'.' '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. 
 None. 
 
 Very few 
 
 Thirteen 
 
 Nono 
 
 Eigli't. .'.'.' 
 
 Thirty 
 
 None 
 
 .\11 far from any place of worship... 
 
 All of them 
 
 The majority. 
 
 Six 
 
 One-third 
 
 None 
 
 One-lialf 
 
 Six 
 
 A large number 
 
 None 
 
 Can't say 
 
 Some 
 
 Twenty 
 
 Ten 
 
 Twenty 
 
 Two 
 
 Eighty 
 
 One-hnlf 
 
 Cannot tell 
 
 Nono 
 
 One-foiu-th 
 
 Don't know 
 
 No other means within seven miles, 
 Tliirty 
 
 Not many 
 
 Don't know 
 
 Not any 
 
 Think none 
 
 Cannot tell 
 
 None 
 
 Thli-ty 
 
 
 120 
 2B0 
 2(10 
 30(1 
 16U 
 30 
 20(1 
 300 
 100 
 100 
 
 13. Havo you a regular Teachers' Meeting ; and 
 
 if so, 18 it for prayer, or for the study of 
 
 lesson, or both? 
 
 176 
 8; 
 
 30(1 
 172 
 200 
 650 
 210 
 300 
 210 
 300 
 100 
 200 
 100 
 300 
 250 
 150 
 150 
 170 
 64S 
 IS' 
 175 
 25 
 500 
 160 
 200 
 75 
 80 
 1.5(1 
 800 
 480 
 125 
 1511 
 200 
 150 
 200 
 400 
 110 
 
 First Mondav each month (both). 
 
 No regular, only for business occasionally. 
 
 No regular meeting. ... ... _ ••• 
 
 No meeting ; teachers live too far olr. ... 
 
 Weekly, for both. 
 
 No. ... 
 
 No : teachers too much scattered. 
 
 No 
 
 Once a quarter, for iiraycr. 
 
 Onee a quarter, to transact business. ... 
 
 Yes, for prayer and consultation. 
 
 Only occasionally teachers so scattered 
 
 No. ... 
 
 Yea, for prayer. 
 
 Twice In the season ; prayer. &c. 
 
 Prayer monthly, lessons weekly. 
 
 Semi-quarterly, for business. ... 
 
 None at present. 
 
 Revision of lesson.s. 
 
 Every Sabbath, study of lesson. 
 
 None, but feel need of one. 
 
 Weekly, for prayer. ... 
 
 None ... 
 
 No, only business meetings. ... 
 
 No, but intend to have one. ... 
 
 None, about to establish one. ... 
 
 Not regular, but when held, prayer, ... 
 
 Both 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 Business meeting once a month. 
 
 For both 
 
 For prayer and lesson, weekly... 
 No. ... 
 
 No 
 
 Yes, to devise plans for .success. 
 
 No 
 
 One, for prayer only. ... 
 
 Not regular, teacliers too scattered. 
 
 Player and business once each month ... 
 
 No 
 
 Nono... 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 50 
 150 
 100 
 4U0 
 nil 
 350 
 200 
 200 
 300 
 
 76 
 27ti 
 
 "l60 
 300 
 100 
 82 
 120 
 300 
 30(1 
 1()5 
 200 
 500 
 2511 
 150 
 300 
 60(1 
 200 
 (iOO 
 100 
 184 
 100 
 ISO 
 
 "250 
 ISO 
 126 
 176 
 160 
 123 
 300 
 255 
 120 
 160 
 60 
 400 
 
 Yes. ... 
 Nono yet. 
 None ... 
 
 Yes 
 
 Regular, for prayer and iraprnvement ... 
 Not regular, for business cliiody. 
 No. ... 
 
 No 
 
 For both, onco a inontli. 
 
 Wo have, for study of lesson. ... 
 
 We have occasional, for iKith. ... 
 
 One for prayer just organized ... 
 
 No. ... 
 
 No, about to commence one. ... 
 
 No, concert for praj-er monthly. 
 Monthly meeting, for prayer. ... 
 No. ... 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 A monthly meeting, prayer and business. 
 
 No. ... 
 
 Yes, for both ... 
 
 Jlontlily, prayer and confcrcnec. 
 
 Yes, both 
 
 Onco a month, prayer... ... 
 
 (rreguhir, study of lesson. 
 Prayer and business. ... 
 
 No 
 
 No. !;; '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. 
 
 Yes, for study of lesson. 
 
 Yes, attended by whole settlement, 00 souls. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No, only when business requires. 
 One weekly, for lessons, one for prayer. 
 Weekly, both, also monthly prayer. ... 
 Monthly, for business... 
 
 Weekly, both 
 
 Monthly, for prayer. ... 
 
 ?uarterly, for prayer and conversation. 
 es,botli. ... 
 
 How many, if any, were the 
 conversions in your school 
 during the past year? 
 
 16. Is your school in the habit of 
 doing anything for Misgions ? 
 
 Cannot siy if any. 
 Fifteen 
 
 7 Cannot say. 
 
 Hope a few. 
 None. ... 
 
 None. ... 
 None. ... 
 
 Vone known. 
 None known. 
 Not knoirn. 
 
 One. '.'.'. 
 Cannot say. 
 
 AlittlctoF.O. Mission.., 
 Not anything. ... 
 Nothing... 
 
 Tea 
 
 Yes 
 
 6 
 
 17. Are the people in your vicinity I 
 alive to the importance of 
 Sabbath Bcbooli ? 
 
 None knoMrn. 
 None knovvn. 
 
 .Not aware of any. 
 One ... 
 
 I fear none. 
 
 Tw-elve '.'.! 
 
 Numb, under serious impressions. 
 
 Two under serious impressions , 
 
 None. 
 
 Fight. 
 
 5 None. 
 
 6 Cannot sa;'. 
 Can't say .., 
 One 
 None, 
 Fear none. 
 None. 
 None. 
 
 One 
 None. 
 
 16 
 
 None. ... 
 None. ... 
 Thirty-four. 
 Seven ... 
 
 None. ... 
 Fifteen ... 
 Three ... 
 None. ... 
 None. ... 
 
 Ten. 
 One. 
 
 Six 
 
 Nono 
 
 None. ... 
 
 Nono 
 
 None. ... 
 Don't know. 
 
 Three 
 
 Two 
 
 Twelve seriously inclined. 
 None. ... 
 Fifteen ... 
 Nono. ... 
 Nono. ... 
 
 Couldn't say. 
 
 No 
 
 None known. ... 
 Four. ... • ... 
 Nono knoivn. 
 Believe good ia done. 
 
 Onn 
 
 Believe a few. ... 
 (,'annot tell. 
 Cannot say. 
 Eleven ... 
 
 Annually for Tract Society. 
 .\bout jio a year. 
 They are. 
 
 No. 
 
 Yes, ti2 last year. 
 
 Yes, for AfHcan Mission. 
 
 Yes, a Missionary Box. ... 
 
 Yes 
 
 Some children are collectors. 
 
 Yes, Sm this year. 
 
 Yes, gi)(i Wesleyan Mission. 
 
 Itisnot... 
 
 A •Tuvenile Missionary Society 
 
 Occasionally. 
 
 Yes 
 
 Three teachers, active collectors.. 
 Yea 
 
 Not yet... 
 
 Yes 
 
 Not last year. ... 
 
 No. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Not yet... 
 
 No 
 
 Yes. 
 
 PorMissionary and Bible Society, 
 
 No 
 
 To China Testament Fund. 
 
 About to commence. 
 
 No 
 
 A .Tuvenile Missionary Society. ... 
 
 No 
 
 None. ... 
 Do a little. 
 Nono. ... 
 
 No 
 
 No. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Collection on Sabbath. ... 
 Occasionally. 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No , 
 
 For 1856, £28 38. Od. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes 
 
 No 
 
 A Missionary Box. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes » 
 
 Yes 
 
 For Bible Society, S19 
 
 No 
 
 Monthly collections 
 
 None. ... 
 Yes. 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes. '.'.', '.'.'. ... 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes, every Sabbath. 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 £7 108 F. C. Mission, £3 16s for Mis 
 
 Generally. 
 Oenerally. 
 Not very. 
 Rather backward. 
 Believe so. 
 Lukewarm. 
 A good deal. 
 
 They arc. 
 Not at all. 
 Yes. 
 Generally no. 
 
 To some extent. 
 
 Generall.v. 
 Not generally. 
 Not as should. 
 Much indifference. 
 Some are. 
 Yes. 
 No. 
 Yes. 
 
 Small portion. 
 Increasing. 
 Partially. 
 Partial. 
 
 Beginning to 1)0.., 
 Some are. 
 Generally. 
 Some are. 
 Not all. 
 Improving. 
 No. 
 
 They are not. 
 No. 
 
 Generally. 
 Veiy much. 
 Some. 
 Growing, 
 Too much apathy. 
 Generally. 
 Partial. 
 No. 
 No. 
 
 Portion arc. 
 Partial. 
 Only a few. 
 Very little. 
 Yes. 
 
 We trust BO. 
 Partial. 
 No. 
 Yes. 
 
 Not'sufflciently so. 
 Not general. 
 Not very much 
 Generally- 
 Some are, some not. 
 Partially so. 
 
 Not as much as should. 
 
 Not very favorable. 
 
 Yes, generally. 
 
 Moderately so. 
 
 I think they are. 
 
 Increasingly 80. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Generally yes. 
 
 Not fully alive 
 
 Not fully alive 
 
 No. 
 
 But partially. , . ., 
 
 Not so much as desirable. 
 
 Generally so. 
 
 No. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 They are. 
 
 Generally alive 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Most arc. 
 
 Very nuich so. 
 
 Partially indifferent. 
 
 To some extent. 
 
 Moderately. 
 
 Perhaps not suffleient. 
 
 Reason to think not. 
 
 Not generall.v. 
 
 Not generally. 
 
 Yea. 
 
 A few are alive 
 
 Generally so. 
 
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 l;i 
 
 12 
 
 01 
 
 (ill 
 
 24 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 »: 
 
 76 
 
 
 3n 
 
 .'III 
 
 291 
 
 2115 
 
 '"21 
 
 2( 
 
 2:i 
 
 2.-.:' 
 
 1S7 
 
 
 1 
 
 4 71 
 
 63 
 
 
 21 
 
 111 in 
 
 121 
 
 1: 
 
 ( 
 
 t (1.^ 
 
 .'(7 
 
 11 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 tn 
 
 'ii 
 
 
 fi 
 
 f) 
 
 41 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 10 
 
 Lit 
 
 01 
 
 "■31 
 
 3.'l 
 
 2(1 
 
 132 
 
 Hi' 
 
 21 
 
 ■7. r.iuii.ared with pvcvlous yearn, In your nrhool pi-osperntiii 
 = ,. I anil il's.i, wliiit 'v;is III.' iucrea.ie diiiinit llie p'l.st year, 
 S'.^ ' - cr .itlii'i'wise what wii.s lilt' i.is.^: 
 
 0-3 
 
 .. Miii'li til" same 
 
 fl rr.'>|ii'i'.tiis 
 
 fi llTI'i'IlM' 
 
 lOl'liic'iirn'riinr 
 
 II Ui'iiil the suiio 
 
 .VVi'i 
 
 13 iiu'M'asi'. ... 
 
 IS Illl'I'l'.lM' 
 
 'i lici r.'risi' 
 
 2lli.'r.'.'is.' 
 
 (Ii|;irl l.i>a.v 
 
 14 lilt ^.■a^" 
 
 ISlu.'i'iaii.'d 
 
 lO-^talii'iiiiry. 
 
 8 licrri'ii-i' 
 
 10 I'rnipei'' (IS 
 
 1(11 Inly . leven months npeu 
 
 11 ('iiis..(';'.>us 
 
 12 \l.. Ml six inimtlis op(*n. I'rospcrous. 
 dStali.Miary 
 
 (I I'r'.spii*..iis. 
 
 1 Mil. lit -'•nmi' 
 
 2 i'l'lisp'T. ,iis 
 
 ,. ■'I. .111.' lalliuK off. 
 
 .. I'mspi'i'iins 
 
 .. Iiii|iriiviiiif 
 
 .. Alii.iil the same 
 
 4V,.ry jin.siM'i'ou.-i 
 
 3 
 
 lilinpnivinir. 
 
 .. Not much (lid'erciice 
 
 ISOidy I'.-.iir nioiitlis iipencd 
 
 SS.iirii' iniproveni'-'iit 
 
 ! Iii.'i'.'a-'.' 
 
 2Ulncn'a.-e 
 
 BVi's 
 
 4 liu'i'cas.-^ 
 
 111! '.iiiiiii.'ueeii .Tilly, 185(1 
 
 l(i>'lati"',iar.v 
 
 Ifi.Mioiit sauio 
 
 I2N11 i-emaikablechniiKe 
 
 2(1 liii'rease 
 
 ti |i|-nsp"rous 
 
 2(iT\\iiS s brauehcd oir. 
 
 Ill \ new si'hoiil 
 
 (isjniilar 
 
 7 I'rnspernus 
 
 6 Ml. lilt the same 
 
 4 Mi.ri' regular 
 
 2.''. .\li.iiit same 
 
 .. lii.'rcasi' 
 
 3lii.ii-s 
 
 1(1 ' reat iui|irovemer.t 
 
 6(1 tittle dilierenee 
 
 37:l'eerea.se 
 
 3*i:li!ercas(^ 
 
 .. 'i'rospcrous 
 
 .. jitn the (lecrea.so 
 
 .. 'I'rcsperous 
 
 6 I'rosfierous 
 
 .. stationary. 
 
 4i'..iniiieneed six innnths aco 
 
 2,' \'i'ry prosperous. 
 
 s \lii.iit same 
 
 3Mriti.iiiary. 
 
 llierea.'-e 
 
 f' I'rospir.ais 
 
 2.'. This our III'., t .year 
 
 2ii lieeiease. Xew school 
 
 Ill I'l'.ispei'i'd. 
 
 .. jlteeent fomiation 
 
 311 1'r.isper.ius 
 
 4 In op.'niti.in tworaonlhs 
 
 6 Inei'.'ii.si' 
 
 5|Ye.s, doubled 
 
 u'Saine as last 
 
 4iri'ospi'i'oiis 
 
 tiiProspiTous. Incrcasinj^ 
 
 r.!iiii'rea.se 
 
 5 V.'s. Increase 
 
 5 l■■il^t year of sebfir.I 
 
 5 Ves,.. 
 
 ,.. iSifrns of imiirovemeiit 
 
 13 increase 
 
 15 Increase, 10 per cent 
 
 61' About same 
 
 24 i'nisperous. .. 
 
 li|('i)iiip.",res favoi-abl.v 
 
 tjliicrease 
 
 5 Increase 
 
 15 Decrease 
 
 Increase 
 
 11 Decrease 
 
 (lain. I.OS4 
 
 15 
 
 . Is .your school 
 ['i!"'Ti'on'"'ol''' 'i'im I "■ '" " '■"Ifi'i'liiK fro"! «'•}' imftieular cnusof 
 
 \o 
 
 ,V 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 In winter. ... 
 
 No 
 
 \ 
 
 Vi 
 
 \i 
 
 \.) 
 
 V.'S 
 
 N( 
 
 No 
 
 Vo 
 
 \ 
 
 v.) 
 
 X. 
 
 Vo 
 
 \i 
 
 No 
 
 \( 
 
 Ves 
 
 \- 
 
 \o 
 
 I iiii'iuir winter. 
 
 Nil 
 
 V( 
 
 Nil 
 
 No 
 
 \o 
 
 Vo 
 
 V 
 
 N, 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vi 
 
 During winter. 
 
 No 
 
 Dr.rinit wint'.r. 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 .No 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 DininK winter, 
 
 Vo. 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 In winter. ... 
 
 Vo 
 
 No 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo. 
 
 In winter. ... 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 V( 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vi 
 
 Inw'iuti'r. ... 
 
 Vo. ^ 
 
 In winter. ... 
 Tiiree iimnths. 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 V.i 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 V( 
 
 Ill winter. ... 
 In winter. ... 
 
 N.' 
 
 Vo 
 
 in. How many 
 .'f Ih.'s.'lm. 
 lars are 
 members of 
 the cliiircli 
 
 Vo Ten. ... 
 
 ( liiirch will not take hold of tlio work 08 it shoulil Th o. ... 
 
 Voiio ... 
 
 I'lireo... 
 
 l''onr. ... 
 
 Want ofdiircreiit bonks, 
 Vo 
 
 >;;;;:: :;: ;:: ::; 
 
 Want of interest. 
 Want of teachers. 
 
 nfpr..pi'r interest 
 
 of teaeli.'rs 
 
 .iratt.'ntion 
 
 iifenerfty 
 
 • if more pious teachers. 
 
 of library ; piiiiK to fevt 0110.. 
 
 ant of mure int.'ii'st 
 
 iifeueoiirnKenicnt 
 
 of lnter,rst in parents 
 
 of interest in imrents 
 
 Want 
 
 Want 
 
 Wai'l 
 
 No .. 
 
 Want 
 
 Want 
 
 Maul 
 
 for w 
 
 Want 
 
 Vo . 
 
 Want 
 
 Want 
 
 Vo ;'.' 
 
 Vo... 
 Vo... 
 
 V.i 
 
 No 
 
 .Vo 
 
 \o 
 
 Vo 
 
 \o 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vpatliv ill eoiiL-repitlon 
 
 Ilii.l nials nr.il scattered pnpidatlon. 
 
 Waiil of teai'li.'i-s 
 
 D.Iici.'Ucy f.f teachers 
 
 Want of teachers 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo..'." 
 
 Want of proper accommodation. ... 
 
 .\pathy of parents 
 
 .Many not in favor 
 
 No... 
 
 Two llraneh Schools lately opened, 
 
 Vo..'." '.'.'. '.'.'. Z '.'.'. 
 
 Want of malotenehers 
 
 \ n elllcicnt visiting committee, ,.. 
 
 Vo... 
 
 Vo 
 
 Want of teachers 
 
 Want of iuteri'.st 
 
 Vi'Kleclof jiarciits 
 
 No 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vi'i-'leet of parents. 
 
 Want of general interest. 
 
 .No... 
 
 Vo 
 
 Want teaeliers 
 
 Vo..." .'.'.' .".'.' .'" 
 
 Iiri'trularitvof tcacIicrs 
 
 Vo 
 
 V.I 
 
 lii'.'.-ularity of teachers 
 
 No 
 
 Want of bibles 
 
 Vo 
 
 No 
 
 Vo 
 
 Low state of church 
 
 Vo 
 
 Vo 
 
 Want sullieient number of teaeliers. 
 
 Iri'i'irnlarity of teaeliers 
 
 Want of tea. hers 
 
 l''!'irtii partial neirlect by teachers of prayer met'g. 
 
 Want of teaeliers. 
 .Voiio 
 
 Threo... 
 Vono ... 
 
 .Vono ... 
 n'hree... 
 
 idlie 
 
 iVono ... 
 
 Due-third. ! 
 Vono ... 
 None ... 
 
 Kive 
 
 I'iriei 
 
 Noun 
 
 Kive 
 
 ■fiireo...' '.'. 
 Vono 
 
 Twelve'.' '.'. 
 
 Twn. '.,'. '.'. 
 
 Vono 
 
 One 
 
 Vono 
 
 Threo 
 
 Twent.v-flvo . 
 Twenty-one.. 
 Seven 
 
 .Vono 
 
 Vono ... 
 
 Vono 
 
 Twelve. 
 Vono ... 
 
 Twelve." ! 
 Threo... 
 
 Two 
 
 Vono ... 
 Twelve. 
 Tlin-o... 
 Tlireo... 
 b'ifly ... 
 Vono ... 
 Seven... 
 
 Twenty-flvo . 
 Vono ... 
 l''onr ... 
 Threo... 
 Vono ... 
 
 Four ... 
 Nono ... 
 Vono ... 
 Vono ... 
 Four ... 
 .None ... 
 V<ino ... 
 
 Six 
 
 ry few. . 
 Twenty. 
 
 Six 
 
 Vono ... 
 Can't say. . 
 Fiirht... 
 Kiuiit... 
 Twelve. 
 
 Vet 
 l''iil 
 I'er 
 \ei 
 
 Vo 
 
 '.iii 
 Dm 
 Fill 
 Fll'l 
 
 Fifl 
 Dm 
 llll 
 Vol 
 Scv' 
 A 1 11 
 For 
 Till 
 Fill 
 
 Are 
 Fiv. 
 
 Abe 
 I til 
 
 A fl 
 Sixl 
 
 Twi 
 'm 
 
 bar 
 Can 
 V.I 
 Vo 
 ■fw 
 Vo 
 On 
 
 No 
 
 Fii 
 Ca 
 Ml 
 Te 
 Ca 
 
 M 
 
 1) 
 Si 
 
 C 
 (■ 
 
 Four 
 
 Vono 
 
 Vono 
 
 Two. '.'.'. '.'. 
 
 Vono 
 
 Flirty-seven.. 
 'I'hirty-three. 
 
 One 
 
 Four ... 
 
 Vono 
 
 Four ... 
 
 Fleven. 
 Nono ... 
 
[STICi\Ii 'KETVnm.—Coiifiuned. 
 
 Iii.v imrticiilnr cnuaeF 
 
 of the nofk 09 It should 
 
 10. tidw mntivl 
 
 ..f iiic schc;. 11. 
 
 I:ir?*jirn J 
 iii('nitH'r4 of 
 tlicc'Imrclif 
 
 Jn>. .. 
 
 I'H 
 
 N'ono .. 
 I'lii'ti)., 
 I'liiir. .. 
 
 Thrco.. 
 .Vuno .. 
 
 1.5 c- 
 
 lluw tiiiiiiv WMulil mil lie iiiidir nny nliirlnii- = i. 
 iiistriK'tiiiii. wri' it iml Cur tlii' 
 hiild':itli Si'liiiuli' 
 
 \')*i',v '•tti.'ill [troiiortinii,. 
 Kiilly t\v"-tninls. 
 
 riTli.'i|is Imir. 
 
 \iT\ few 
 
 Ndiic 
 
 rkiit. '.'.'. '.:! '.'. 
 
 Ilrn'-third 
 
 l-'illy 
 
 I'lri.v 
 
 y teachers of prayer mot's 
 
 .Vimn 
 
 Fifteen 
 
 
 I'lin'K 
 
 ()Me.|:iilf, 
 
 
 (•lie 
 
 llon'f know 
 
 
 Xono 
 
 None 
 
 .Seventeen 
 
 
 I)ne-thlrd. '.'.. 
 
 .Miont Mil 
 
 
 \oIl« 
 
 Korlv-two 
 
 ... 
 
 .Villi! 
 
 Thirlv 
 
 
 Kivc 
 
 Filt.rii 
 
 
 l-irie<i|l. 
 
 
 
 \<lllO 
 
 .\ re M'ven mileH f roui any 
 
 einireh 
 
 Five 
 
 Five 
 
 
 flirec..' ". 
 
 
 
 
 None 
 
 Minut one-fourth. 
 
 
 i'welvn." '.'.'. 
 
 1 think a grent nmny... 
 
 .„ 
 
 two. '". '... 
 
 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 \ few, ;:; ■.;; ;:.' 
 
 
 One 
 
 Sixteen • 
 
 
 N'onn 
 
 
 
 Threo 
 
 
 
 Twent.v-dvo .. 
 
 
 
 Twenty-ono... 
 
 rweiit.v. '.'.'. '.'.'. ','.'. 
 
 
 .Seven 
 
 rneertnin 
 
 [.jii'tre portion 
 
 
 N'ono ...' 
 
 'nn't »!iy 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 None. 
 
 
 None 
 
 .None 
 
 
 Twelve, 
 
 Twenty 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 .None 
 
 )ne-thiril 
 
 ,.. 
 
 Twelve. 
 
 'annot tell if nny. 
 
 
 Threo 
 
 Cainiot sny 
 
 
 Two 
 
 ... ... ,,, 
 
 
 N'<u»o 
 
 Xnne 
 
 
 Tw<>lve. 
 
 
 
 rhre(! 
 
 . 
 
 
 Three 
 
 Pnlly one-imlf 
 
 
 Kifty 
 
 ^'annut snv 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 Most, if not all 
 
 
 Seven 
 
 Ten 
 
 Cannot a,ay 
 
 ... 
 
 r\venty-flvo... 
 
 
 
 None 
 
 N'one 
 
 .., 
 
 Pour 
 
 nu't say 
 
 
 Threo 
 
 N'one 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 Fifteen or twenty. 
 
 
 Four '. 
 
 
 ,,, 
 
 N'ono 
 
 Vnnv 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 )iie-half 
 
 .,, 
 
 Xono 
 
 Several 
 
 
 Four 
 
 ... 
 
 .,, 
 
 -None 
 
 "Cannot say 
 
 ,., 
 
 N'ono 
 
 'an't ,say 
 
 
 Si.\ 
 
 Fort.v. 
 
 
 Very few. 
 
 Foit.v 
 
 
 Twenty, 
 
 
 
 Si.x 
 
 rinrty. .'.■; '.'.'. '.'.'. 
 
 
 None 
 
 Hull- 
 
 
 Can't s.iy, ... 
 
 )ne 
 
 
 I'itrht 
 
 ■ii'ven 
 
 
 ICiirlit 
 
 Two. 
 
 
 Twelve, 
 
 N'one 
 
 I'welve 
 
 
 Four ::; ;: 
 
 None 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 )ne.fourth 
 
 Twelve 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 One-fmirlh,' 
 
 
 Two. '.'.'. '.'. 
 
 I'w.lve 
 
 
 .None 
 
 N'lit known 
 
 
 Forty-seven.... 
 
 A ec.n>iilenililo number. 
 
 
 'I'liirty-three... 
 
 Cant siiv 
 
 
 'ine 
 
 Fil'leen 
 
 
 Four 
 
 Twenty 
 
 
 N'ono 
 
 
 
 Four 
 
 Fifteen. .'.'.' .'." '.'.'. 
 Forty ;. 
 
 
 rileveii'.' '.'. 
 
 Si\t,v-fonr 
 
 
 -N'ono 
 
 \'ory few 
 
 
 Have .von n rnjnilar Ti'nelier»' Meetlnif • and 7 'T 
 If so, is It I'or iirn.ver, or for the stndy of ■- ■-_ !. 
 
 till) li.w^iiiiM. or llol ll V M »r ^ 
 
 ;?.^' 
 
 
 m. 
 
 
 
 2S,f 
 
 'M 
 
 ■■ 
 
 H nnnv, If any, wero thi 
 
 ■ruioiiH In your sehool 
 41 'iiiK tho iiaat year V 
 
 III \o 
 
 .'illl \o 
 
 .'iiii 
 
 .■i.",i 
 
 I. -I 
 
 ;iii:! 
 
 Ion 
 
 Ves, nionlhlv, linsiuesH, 
 
 \o 
 
 V 
 
 ■' Ine for pra.ver. 
 lnii'lnKKiiniini'r, lioth... 
 
 V 
 
 \c 
 
 Vo 
 
 VeM. |ini,vernnd conferenee, 
 
 N'one ... 
 
 N'one... 
 
 No 
 
 Vo 
 
 No 
 
 N'one... 
 
 No 
 
 V 
 
 Vn 
 
 .•iiVi 
 
 Ml 
 
 .'IJ.', 
 
 ai.'i 
 
 10 
 
 !'.;» No 
 
 17.",iN*orlo ... 
 li'ii IXo. ... 
 llm|\o, ... 
 a'.lilN'ouo... 
 ','i:ii Ves, for iir.iyer. 
 
 •jiHiOeension.'il, for prayer... 
 li.-. N'one ... ... ' ... 
 
 iNe .Vo. ... 
 
 nil, No. : 
 
 tiiii Moiitlily, for prayer; on ''nliliatli study lessoiw 
 
 il|;i Motilldy, furpr.iver; another for bnsines.s. 
 
 l.-)li N( 
 
 I!" Vo, ... 
 
 WiVo 
 
 Will V' 
 
 ■liii I lecn^iollal, fur stnilv of lessons, 
 
 inii Miinlhly. ... ' ... 
 
 Silo Ves, ehielly for eonsnltntion, 
 
 1-J.'. 
 
 2111 
 
 17.' 
 
 2:lii 
 
 inn 
 
 Illl 
 
 -'^enii-inonthly, linth, ... 
 
 No, oeeasioniil for liusiness, ... 
 
 Vi 
 
 No 
 
 Vo 
 
 2l"|N'o, ... ... ... ... ".„ 
 
 42t;|\Verkly. study of lesson, 
 
 S:a\ For prayer, luouthl.v. ... 
 loiio Monthly pr.nyir nnil monthly business, 
 
 Monthl.\', for prayer, ... 
 (l:iii Ves. every Salilja'th, iira.ver. ... 
 2.'iu U'ei'kly study, monthly busine.s9, 
 ;iiiit study of the le.ssou, ... 
 Ill" Vo, ... 
 
 No 
 
 Vot fre'iuent ... 
 
 Vo. ... 
 
 2IIII 
 li'.i 
 nil 
 VJ.'i 
 2.' 1 1 
 
 mil 
 
 ■lis 
 I!.-," 
 li;e 
 
 ;)-!■ 
 li;ii 
 111 ill 
 
 ellli 
 2iili 
 2lKI 
 .Siili 
 2|i 
 2SII 
 IT-'. 
 
 lull 
 1.14 
 
 u,- 
 
 H.V 
 lie 
 2iie 
 ;)tie 
 
 j.-)i' 
 •I'lii 
 
 ;l,';l' 
 lull 
 
 •lii 
 
 te 
 
 OOi' 
 
 3Se 
 
 Vo ;. 
 
 Monthly prayer, ic, ... 
 N'o, ,., 
 
 No. ... ■ 
 
 Weekly, for both 
 
 V 
 
 Ves, both 
 
 I'r.-iyer nioiilhly. 
 
 semi-ino;;thly )irnyor and Imsin'^ss, 
 Monthly, one e:ieli for lnisine.-.s anil prayer, 
 Mnniiily, one eaeli for business and prayer, 
 .Noi:..' ... 
 
 Vo 
 
 Ves, both ;. 
 
 \'es, prayer and busine.ss, 
 
 N'o, ... 
 
 N'o, but intend to have. 
 
 No 
 
 .Vo 
 
 Vi 
 
 Vo ;.. 
 
 Merely a business meeting. ... 
 
 No reiinlar lueetinf-', ... 
 
 Ves, both. 
 
 !)ue mmitlily pra.ver, 1 monthly business, 
 
 Oeeasional, for business, 
 
 Vo 
 
 I'rn.ver and business, ... 
 Monthly, fur prayer, ... 
 Vo. ... 
 
 N'o ;;. 
 
 .\lonthly, for prayer, ... 
 Ves, every Sabbath, both. 
 
 C 
 
 Id, Ts your sehocil In tho linliit ol 
 dohiKanythliiK for ,Missionn!' 
 
 No; 
 I'vv.. 
 
 Null', 
 
 .:|.V,.. 
 
 MI„M'., 
 
 |Vri 1] icof any, 
 
 I'll' Ik BW, 
 
 fii ., 
 Vor-. 
 Tlir- 
 I 'oi.'i ktw. 
 
 I ■ill, 
 
 V,.,., . 
 
 Niii J. 
 
 rvv,-.r 
 Von ifi.ar, 
 Noi, ,., 
 Fitli ... 
 
 Vol. „. 
 
 N'one 
 
 N'niio 
 Veiie 
 Vol,,. 
 VolT 
 
 I'W" .JlTC, 
 
 Thu; «no, 
 
 -Vol!,' .,. 
 
 N"i„' ,., 
 
 Noll. 7, 
 
 '•lOlli'. -, 
 
 12ls,.v..r; .„ 
 
 .. rnn'l.jy, 
 
 v.: Miiii> .»rncst 
 
 Two. 
 V.iiie 
 
 Two. ».. 
 ■'i'i. ,„ 
 N'onn ,., 
 Vino. ,,, 
 Von.., ,.. 
 Ti\ii.«flve, 
 V,)ii,.',.. 
 Vot k.;Own, 
 line .„ 
 None ,,, 
 
 ."S'one. .,. 
 
 .Voile ... 
 Viiiie ,,, 
 
 Vone '". 
 i'iiirt«y. 
 Thr,' ... 
 
 Till 
 
 I'uih) .„ 
 si.v. 
 Vol,.. ... 
 
 ihn* .., 
 
 Xotie 
 
 I'liivc .„ 
 Voue. „, 
 .Von,'. ... 
 
 VlllK. ... 
 
 I'wi i.:y-four. 
 
 V ine. 
 .None. 
 
 \Ian.T Bcriously Impressed. 
 
 >ne. 
 janr.'it say. 
 
 Ves 
 
 Xi 
 
 Ves, ISSfllCT ll»r;id, 
 
 Xo 
 
 N'o, ".'.. ".'„ ',','. ".. 
 
 No 
 
 .N'o 
 
 Ves, Missionary lioi. ... 
 
 X. 
 
 Xo. '.'.'. '.'.'. ".'.. ",. 
 
 Yes, Missionary llox. 
 
 Xo, ,„ 
 
 Xo. .'.'.' '". '". ".. 
 
 Xo 
 
 .V 
 
 N'o 
 
 N'o 
 
 Xo 
 
 .Vo 
 
 Xo, ".'.. '.'.'. '■'■'■ '.'.' 
 
 Xo, !!! !!! '.'.'. '.'.. 
 
 Ves 
 
 Xo, '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Ves, behalf of eh ildren of India .. 
 S'es. eolleetion eaeh Sabbath, 
 Xo, but about beKinniiiK, 
 
 Xo 
 
 es, 
 
 Vo 
 
 Ves 
 
 >'es, once a month, 
 Ves, £21 last year. 
 
 No 
 
 Mittlo 
 
 Ves 
 
 Ves. ... 
 Ves. 
 
 Xo 
 
 N'o 
 
 Xo 
 
 Ves, C2f) P, C, Ms,, £1 l.'is Kno.x Col, 
 
 Ves 
 
 Ves, .ClSllis 
 
 Ves. 
 
 Ves, £15 p ann, extras occasionally 
 
 Ves, £10 last year. 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 \o 
 
 Xo, 
 
 Ves, 
 
 Xo, 
 
 Ves, 
 
 Ves, 
 
 Xo. 
 
 Ves. 
 
 Ves, 
 
 Y(.s, 
 
 Yi'S, 
 
 Ves, 
 
 Xo, 
 
 I", .\re the penpt(. In .vour vlelnll.t 
 
 alive to lb,. Iniportaneeof 
 
 SabliathSehoolsV 
 
 Missionary Box. 
 sujiport orphan in India, 
 
 £21 l,'js,6d,. 
 tl.'i. 
 £21. 
 £1S. 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo 
 
 Yes 
 
 Xo, ;." '.'.'. '.'.'. 
 
 Xo 
 
 Yes, £.1 to Biblo Society... 
 
 Ves. 
 
 Y'es, £22 15S, last year, .., 
 
 Yes 
 
 Xot regularly. ... 
 
 Xo 
 
 Xo. ■ 
 
 Xo 
 
 Yea, monthly, .,, 
 
 Yes, £1(1 7s, (id. last year.. 
 
 Not asdesiri'il. 
 I'art of them are. 
 
 Many are. 
 
 Ves, 
 
 \ es, ileeideilly. 
 
 Considerable." 
 
 Xot at all. 
 
 Xot fully, 
 
 .Vot ifeni-ndly. 
 
 Somewhat. 
 
 N'o, 
 
 Yes. 
 
 • hily partially 
 
 (Generally ves. 
 
 Xo. 
 
 ry fc w, 
 (bily a few, 
 Onl.v partially, 
 'They are not. 
 Generally not, 
 Xot ireuerally. 
 Very few, 
 I'nrtially, 
 
 Yes, 
 Yes. 
 
 Xot as much as desired 
 Xot fnllv, 
 l'ol(.rabfy so. 
 Some are. 
 heeomliiK more so. 
 
 es. 
 Partially so, 
 Xot, 
 
 I'artiall.y. 
 Fear not, 
 Vo. 
 
 I'luee.fonrthsdeatl.onc-foVthaliVi" 
 (ienerally so. 
 (ienerally so. 
 Xot as would wish. 
 Xot lus they ought. 
 Yes, 
 
 Alius! 110. 
 Hut a few. 
 S(.areely half alive. 
 Xot particularly so, 
 I think they aro. 
 They are not. 
 I'artially so. 
 Yes. 
 
 I'artially so. 
 Think they aro 
 Xot the least, 
 Xo, not 'iiiite dead, 
 (ienerally. 
 Xot sulllciently so, 
 
 Ocuerally so, 
 Xot wry, 
 Xot much. 
 Xot very. 
 
 Xot as much as desired 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Xot as much as they ought. 
 
 Xot sulllciently. 
 
 Ves, 
 
 .Moilerately so. 
 
 Some are. 
 
 They are. 
 
 To a certain degree, 
 
 Itatlier careless. 
 
 They are, 
 
 Y'(..s. 
 
 liidiiTcrent, 
 
 Ves. 
 
 Y'es. 
 
 Many of them. 
 
 Yes, 
 
 Xot snlliciently 
 
 Ves. 
 
 Xot enough. 
 
 Vi.'s, g(.nerally, 
 
 A few not. 
 
 Some are so. 
 
 Some partially so, 
 
 Xot .sndieieutly, 
 
 A number are. 
 
^i 
 
 .It /; 
 
 J If; 
 
 ■■■ K 
 
 f ', 
 
 I 
 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
I ;.-f;.,T • ' »" 
 
 i ." 
 
 I 
 
 
JAL RET 
 
 m 
 
 >r.- 
 
 
 10. 
 
 
 n 
 
 ulnrcftuwf 
 
 h 
 
 
 II 
 
 
 t 
 
 ••) •*• •• 
 
 Iw 
 
 
 v.. 
 
 iV. !!! '.'. 
 
 No 
 
 
 rir 
 
 
 
 Vc 
 
 .','. •'•'• •• 
 
 .\(. 
 
 
 
 No 
 
 l.'i .1 
 
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STATISTICAL RETURNS. 
 
 DESIRXATION OF SCHOOL. 
 
 I.OCAT.IXrKS. 
 
 (The nuuibiTS hi llic left hirnil cnluniii refer t( 
 llie lists of delegates, A:e.) 
 
 
 m^U 
 
 l.fli Osimbniek Secdiid (.'o:iirrc(:iiliiiiial, 
 
 ly l<iii!;st,iii ('(iiit-'ret-'aliiiiiiil 
 
 lUl l<iii).'sti)ii Wetlejnn 
 
 lU-U'uatit'i)(tk, 
 
 IWiNt. I.<mi3 lie Odiiznfruc', P.K 
 
 l!'i|Marklmin t'diitrre^'ii'iinial 
 
 ISI.'i Watenliiwii Wesli'jan, 
 
 llH'iKarineisville liiiiMi, 
 
 1117 . Matilda 12II1 SeliiKil Scetion 
 
 1(1"' VValsDu's L'linierH, 
 
 urn llamiltdii, 
 
 2(111 ,'iaiiiahe, Silidol Seetidii 12, rnioii, 
 
 2(11 I'lii-diitd SecnndCmasrepitidiial 
 
 2if,;!\tluil, (ilciiK.avry, I'resb.vteriaii 
 
 2ii.'>;ilaMmianil 
 
 2iillM<irrislmr(r 
 
 2(1.") liraiiiptdii, Gor(!, 
 
 201 lidltdi 
 
 2(17 Stratlimv • 
 
 2ii!> Miltmi Uiiidn 
 
 2(11) rnkiiown, 
 
 21(1 -Jearlioru' Church of Scotland, 
 
 211 Ciikiiowii, 
 
 212 Oniiio Hilile Christian, 
 
 21;i liiknown, 
 
 214()akville I'rcslivterian Clnirch of Canada, 
 
 ai.'iOdiltown, C. li 
 
 21(i|l'nkndWii, 
 
 217 Newmarket Congropitional, 
 
 21si Montreal St. I'aid's rlmreli of Scotland 
 
 21!ii.\ai>aiiee I'nitodl'resbytorian 
 
 22ii;|iiith liiion 
 
 221 Cnkiiowii, 
 
 22:: South Monaghai. "Jnion, 3rd Section 
 
 228'rariiiprsville ^lethodist Kpiscoj)al, 
 
 22l|.\lai'khnm We.slevaii 
 
 22r,!\Villow Dale V'nion 
 
 22(i| Jlont real Union, Colborno Avenue, 
 
 227!liath Uoad Primitive Jlethodist, 
 
 22NiKin)r^ton Primitive Jlotliodist, 
 
 22',i Kintrston Township, 2nd Con., Presbyterian, .. 
 
 23l)i(;iielpli United Presbyterian, 
 
 231 ilJuilin's Creek Union, 
 
 232'liarri(! Weslevan 
 
 233]Ui-adtbrd Wesleyan, 
 
 2;U|\\'oolwich Union 
 
 = 1 = 
 
 23.^>:Haptist, (ineljih... 
 2;5i; ritt.vburi; 1,'nion, 
 
 2.')7 lirockviUo Presbvtorian Chnrch of Canada, 
 23s(iiieliili Primitive .Metliodist, 
 
 2t2 
 213 
 211 
 21.1 
 21( 
 2-17 
 2ls 
 
 23'.i:l.aneiuster Trout IVushvteri.'in 
 
 21():(Jnebec Weslevaii 
 
 211 toronlo Wesleyan, .Vdelaide Street, 
 
 " " Yorkvillo, 
 
 " " ISeikley Street, 
 
 Montreal Chnreh of Scotland, St. Andrew s, 
 
 " Wesleyan, (ireat St. .lames Street, 
 
 " Cote Street Presb'n Church of Canada, 
 
 Simcoe Baptist 
 
 Xapam.'o Wesleyan 
 
 2U)|UnKno\vn, 
 
 2jt)il"iiknoNV"n, 
 
 25 1 1 Portsmouth, Kintistou, Church of Scotland, 
 
 2.'j2 siiei-brooke C'oufrreiratifHial 
 
 2.).'i' London Wesleyaji, Adelaide Street, 
 
 251 " Uniteil Presbvt(!rian 
 
 26.-I " Jiible Christian, 
 
 2.)(i " Preshyteriau Church of Can.ada, 
 
 2.57 " Wesliyaii 
 
 2js " New t'onncctiou Methodist, 
 
 2.")U " Congregational 
 
 2(1(1 Edwardsburgh Union, 
 
 2(11 Pctcrhoro' Presln ti.'rian Church of Can.Kla, 
 
 2()2 Kinirsev, C. 1)., AVeslevan 
 
 2(13 Dnrh.am, C. K., Wesleyan 
 
 2IU Melboimic, C. E., Weslevan 
 
 2iM HellevUle Church of Scotland, 
 
 2!'>'l London Wesleyan 
 
 2117 Kdwardsburgh Uinon, 
 
 2(;s Whitby 
 
 2ii'.i Sniitlitown 
 
 27d Clinton 
 
 2(1 lliintiiigdon, C. 10., Wesleyan 
 
 27- 1/niark 'rownship Wesleyan 
 
 273 Pel 111 IVeshytenaii C'lnireh of Canada, ... 
 27.') Diindas Presbyterian Church of Canada,... 
 
 27ti Zorra, Oxford, 
 
 277 Koss Township, PorrestcT's Falls, Union, 
 
 27h Stratford Congregational, 
 
 2711 Unknown, 
 
 2.SII Unknown, 
 
 2S1 Bungannou Wesleyan 
 
 12 
 12 
 13 
 12 
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 13 
 1 
 
 12 
 Id 
 11 
 
 I 
 
 11 
 2 
 
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 fi 
 
 1(1 
 1(1 
 VJ 
 
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 7 
 
 s 
 
 8 
 4 
 7 
 
 1(1 
 
 1." 
 i 
 7 
 .5 
 
 13 
 II 
 4 
 
 311 
 
 T(i 
 11 
 1 
 
 33 
 
 1.-, 
 
 11 
 
 (i 
 
 12 
 
 11 
 
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 1(1 
 
 IB 
 •I 
 
 34 
 11 
 
 3203 
 
 
 
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 SI 
 
 Sfis 
 
 '"21 
 
 1(11 
 ti.' 
 
 Si 
 32 
 
 71 
 
 4S 
 
 111 
 .11 
 
 3.- 
 30 
 B.- 
 811 
 
 13( 
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 5( 
 41 
 8(1 
 
 11 
 
 1(«. 
 41 
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 10:. 
 C(i 
 
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 10 
 
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 3.-, 
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 111 
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 *io 
 
 311 
 32 
 
 51 
 
 «l 
 
 given 
 
 2.* 
 
 s:, 
 
 ■1.1 
 
 13 
 
 2052 
 
 Rli 
 31 
 
 41 
 45 
 
 3!< 
 
 .111 
 
 2.-,(' 
 
 11(1 
 
 nil 
 
 lOi 
 3111 
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 7." 
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 »( 
 
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 31 
 
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 71 
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 81 
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 311 
 
 4.1 
 
 21 
 
 31 
 
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 121 
 
 811 
 
 511 
 
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 11(1 
 
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 ,111 
 
 1,10 
 
 30 
 
 lUi 
 
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 7.'' 
 
 40 
 
 45 
 
 211 
 
 55 
 
 103 
 
 12(1 
 
 411 
 
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 34 
 
 3(1 
 
 45 
 
 2.1 
 
 2(1(1 
 
 35 
 
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 5fl 
 
 211 
 
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 50 
 
 a 
 
 60 
 3! 
 43 
 06 
 51 
 ISII 
 
 70 
 101109 
 
 
 7 Cninimred with previous years, is your school prosperous 
 
 aiiil if so, what was the increasi\ duriUL' the piust year, 
 
 — orotlicrwise what ivas the loss 'r 
 
 2crh 
 
 3 Ali'iiit same 
 
 10 Kill hn- so. 
 
 4(iAi I'v iJidsperous indeed. 
 
 n-y Id any no 
 
 Jlncreil^e 
 
 13lncreil-e 
 
 15( (iiislintly iinprnvinit 
 
 27 lii'i'ivasc. H. .\I. School opened. 
 20lnii-e!i-e 
 
 A''"Mt same 
 
 12 liiiTeii-.e 
 
 (jiiite pro.sDcrons 
 
 15^1 s it is 
 
 Pn'spcrdiis 
 
 A'pdut same 
 
 liMlirdving 
 
 12 Increase 
 
 10 Prosperous 
 
 6 Increase 
 
 6 Much tlio sanio 
 
 6 Increase 
 
 llilh.crease 
 
 > Increase 
 
 lliccrciise 
 
 5 Stationary, 
 
 ') Nd perceptible dillerencc. ... 
 
 Loss. Gain. 
 
 12 \ 
 
 Pro'.perous, 
 
 liecrcasc 
 
 I'rosperous. 
 
 Increase 
 
 Iiecrcase 
 
 I'rospcrdus. 
 Pi-dspcrons. 
 Pmsperons. 
 Pr.>..p(. rolls. 
 l'rd,,|>erdiis. 
 About the same... 
 Midiil the same... 
 
 Increase. 
 
 35 Prdspcroiis, 
 4 Alidiit the same... 
 About the same... 
 Prosperous. 
 Prosperous. 
 Cdimneiiccd Xovember, 1350.. 
 
 Much the same.. 
 
 20ll'|■n^pel•OUS 
 
 2iljlMcn'Usc. ... 
 
 15,Prdsperous 
 
 .. ilmreas" 
 
 50;Prdspcroii3 
 
 311 Prosperous 
 
 8 
 
 .. |Prc.;pcrous ' ... 
 
 35jAb(mt same 
 
 (iiPi'dSpcroua 
 
 6 About same 
 
 61 , 
 
 4 Dccrcaso 
 
 10, Increase 
 
 .. 'Increase 
 
 25j\ery prosperous. 
 
 S.Prosperous 
 
 O'Prosiierous 
 
 10| 
 
 20iAbdutsame 
 
 «i, 
 
 4iIiierea.so 
 
 3;liecre.ase 
 
 »| 
 
 15.1iicrca,sing. 
 
 4',Vbi tilt same 
 
 fiConnneuced Xovembcr, 1850,. 
 
 4;lner(.:tsiiig. 
 
 4'Abiait same 
 
 fllnerease 
 
 lOi ..-. 
 
 6 Increa.sc 
 
 Siliicrease 
 
 7il>ccrease 
 
 ... ICdnnucnecil May, 18.10 
 
 12|Prosperou3 
 
 ... jProsperoua 
 
 13 Only six months opened. ., 
 
 2333 
 
 12.1 
 
 21 
 
 a3 
 
 10 
 
 2153 
 
 . Is your school 
 closed during an.v 
 porfiou of till 
 year? 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Ni 
 
 No 
 
 N< 
 
 ■No 
 
 !No 
 
 [Ni 
 
 |ln winter. , 
 
 l^:" 
 
 iNo 
 
 iSix months. 
 INo 
 
 .\o. ... 
 
 In winter. 
 
 No. ... 
 
 9. Is it suffering from any particular cnuso f 
 
 No. 
 No. 
 
 ng live months 
 
 inter 
 
 inter 
 
 I'Miri 
 In w 
 In \v 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 In winter 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 In whiter 
 
 No 
 
 N 
 
 I hie month closed, 
 
 ko 
 
 Ni 
 
 No 
 
 .No 
 
 No 
 
 No. '.'.'. '.'.'. 
 
 'sj;;: :;: ;;: 
 is;;:: :;: ::; 
 
 iNo 
 
 S'N'o 
 
 iXo 
 
 [No. :;; z 
 i.No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 N<i 
 
 No 
 
 ,, INo 
 
 ,. ;No 
 
 4 Yes 
 
 .. iNo 
 
 „ !No 
 
 ., No 
 
 ., I During winter. 
 ., JIhiring winter. 
 
 lO'.No 
 
 .. iNo 
 
 .. !No 
 
 ■ ■ iNo 
 
 .. No 
 
 .. !No 
 
 During winter. 
 
 No 
 
 Two months,.. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 U 
 
 12 
 
 Want of teachers 
 
 Siiilnble room. Lack of teachers. ... 
 
 None 
 
 Want of intci^'st 
 
 No 
 
 Want of ininisterial encouragement, 
 
 Vo 
 
 l-'or want of zeal in iiarcnts 
 
 I'avern in ncigliliorhood 
 
 Cliic.lly indiHercnce of church. 
 
 Lack of teachers 
 
 .\o 
 
 No 
 
 Non-attendanco of ii,arcnts 
 
 More earnestness. 
 Want of teaches. 
 
 None 
 
 No '" '" '" '.'.'. '.'.'. '." 'Z '. 
 
 Prineiiial want, teachers 
 
 Want of teachers ami countenance of parents,. 
 
 Want of teachers. 
 
 Indill'erenee of parents. 
 It is from niaiiy causes. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Want of teachers. 
 
 No 
 
 Indill'eronce of parents. 
 No,.. 
 
 Indiirerencc 
 
 Want of teachers. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No,. 
 
 .No 
 
 No 
 
 Ves.one. ,,. 
 Ves. several. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Lncrgy in parents. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 .No 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 No.;r z. z. z. z. 
 
 Want of good libr.ary 
 
 \ pat liy of parents 
 
 ,\patliy of parents 
 
 \pathy of iiarcnts 
 
 Want of unity and zeal. 
 
 None 
 
 .None 
 
 Want of being open all year. 
 Not aware ol any 
 
 No,!!' !!! !!! !!! !! 
 
 10. How many 
 of the scho- 
 lars are 
 members oi 
 the church ': 
 
 rwcnty-llve..., 
 
 None ... 
 .Nono ... 
 Kil'tcen. 
 Very few, 
 .Nono ... 
 None ... 
 Pour ... 
 I'wo. ... 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 
 Nino 
 t'wo. 
 
 Four 
 Ten. 
 
 204 
 
 No. 
 No. 
 Xo. 
 
 Priestly iiillucncc. 
 
 Nono. 
 
 Nono .. 
 Seven., 
 (hie. ., 
 None .. 
 
 .None .. 
 .Nono .. 
 .Nono .. 
 
 -None .. 
 Olio. .. 
 Light.. 
 One. .. 
 Four .. 
 
 Two. .. 
 .Nono ., 
 
 iVne. !! 
 None ., 
 Four ., 
 .None ,, 
 None .. 
 None ., 
 
 Niine 
 
 Twenty. 
 T'welve. 
 
 Seven 
 
 .None 
 
 Thirty." !! 
 
 .\ono 
 
 Three 
 
 Fifteen.' 
 
 None 
 
 None 
 
 Two 
 
 None 
 
 Nono 
 
 .Nono ... 
 Four ... 
 .None ... 
 
 Two 
 
 .None 
 
 Si.x 
 
 .None ... 
 .None ... 
 None ... 
 Twenty-five.. 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 Ten 
 
 Niud ... 
 I''.ightecn. . 
 Nono ... 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 
 Five. 
 
STICAL 'KETJJTiNS.— Continued. 
 
 ny particular cause? 
 
 touchers.... 
 
 uraj^cmont. 
 
 its.'.'.'. 
 
 lurcli. 
 
 'iits 
 
 nnt(Mianco of parents... 
 
 1 year. 
 
 10. TIow many 
 of the .selici- 
 liirs are 
 ini'uilior.s c'l 
 the elmrch; 
 
 II. IIow many would not lie uiidor any roliijinu^ 
 
 inslnicliop, wi'i'i' it not for tho 
 
 Saljliatli .Seliodlr 
 
 rwcnty-flvc 
 
 N'ono ... 
 Ximo ... 
 Kirteen. 
 Very few. 
 N'ono ... 
 .Nonn ... 
 l''(jiir ... 
 I'vvo. ... 
 N'ono ... 
 N'ono ... 
 
 N'ino 
 r«o. 
 
 Kour 
 
 N'ono .. 
 Seven.. 
 One. .. 
 N'ono .. 
 
 None . 
 N'ono . 
 N'ono . 
 
 N'ono ., 
 (•no. ., 
 Kiffht., 
 Ono. ., 
 I'our . 
 
 I'wo. . 
 .N'ono . 
 
 r>'no. '. 
 .N'ono . 
 Four . 
 .None . 
 N't)no . 
 N'ono . 
 
 .Vone ... 
 
 Twontv, 
 ■I'wclve. 
 Seven... 
 .None ... 
 
 riiirty." 
 None ... 
 I'hreo... 
 
 Kifteen.' 
 None ... 
 None ... 
 Two. ... 
 
 1^ 
 
 r»('lve. ... 
 I'ifty. 
 
 None. 
 
 I'lui't say ... 
 Ten . 
 Kive. 
 
 One-liair ... 
 \ wioil many. 
 T^venty-nve. 
 Kitihtecn ... 
 .Many of them. 
 .None. 
 
 Thirty, 
 i'wenty. 
 
 .Vfew 
 
 Twenty-five. 
 
 Six 
 
 Twenty 
 
 I'our 
 
 annot say. 
 
 rwenty 
 
 Two-thirds. 
 
 .N'ono 
 
 •"amiot say. 
 
 Twelve 
 
 None 
 
 Unknown 
 
 Six 
 
 ITiiirty 
 
 N'ono 
 
 \\ ninnher. 
 
 One-half 
 
 One-third 
 
 .Most of them. .. 
 .Vhont one-third.. 
 
 l'(n\r 
 
 A eon,-;ider.ible nuniher. 
 
 Very few 
 
 I'ort.v 
 
 Twentv-live 
 
 Ten 
 
 Fifty to sixty 
 
 N'ono ... 
 
 N'nue Twentv. 
 
 Cannot tell 
 
 Fifteen 
 
 lieioK a mission sehool, many wonUl. 
 Few, iran.y 
 
 .None 
 
 Four 
 
 .None 
 
 Two 
 
 .None 
 
 Six 
 
 .N'ono ... 
 N'ono ... 
 None ... 
 Twenty-nvc.. 
 N'ono ... 
 None ... 
 ■Ten 
 
 N'ino ... 
 Fiithteen. . 
 None ... 
 N(jno ... 
 None ... 
 
 Five. ... 
 
 ,V large portion 
 
 Have no idea. 
 
 Xot many... 
 V(TV few ... 
 One-thii-a... 
 One-half. ... 
 
 None 
 
 Tau'l say 
 
 Thirty 
 
 Fifteen or twenty. 
 
 Four 
 
 N'o!io 
 
 One-half. 
 
 
 O M U 
 
 o a ^ 
 
 i;i. Have yon a repilar Tenehers' AleetinB; nnd|"'=.' 
 if vn w it IViv iiravi'v. i)V for the stndv of ■ " J £ 
 
 2011 N'o. 
 
 2011 
 l.'-.o' 
 tnii 
 leii; 
 21 
 ;ii>o' 
 ;i."o' 
 2,-,ii 
 leo; 
 2.'»o 
 300 
 . 130 
 
 ?.-|0 
 
 None, 
 i.'in 
 
 if so, is it for prayer, or for the study of 
 the lesson, or both'r 
 
 Oncc.T month, for lioth. 
 
 No 
 
 Ves, ^tnily of lessf)n. ... 
 
 I teeasional, for ijraycr and business. ... 
 
 Only oceasionally. 
 
 Oeeasion.'illv. ... 
 
 No 
 
 N'o, no jira.vr nieetini; in Township. ... 
 
 Miinthly, for business... 
 
 N'ono ... 
 
 I'raver and business monthly, lesson weekly. 
 
 N'o. 
 
 Xo 
 
 
 Good 
 
 Fifteen , ... , ., , ,.. 
 
 Fiftv-three. (No. of Bohemian child'ii at'g sell 1. 
 Thiitv 
 
 )ceasional, for sehool ninnagcment. 
 
 till' Vono 
 
 nine None 
 
 2I1II .Monthly, for prayer. 
 
 (IIIO 
 
 l.nnO 
 riOOXo. 
 
 2lot 
 
 bin Oeeasional, for husuicss. 
 
 2oii,Xone ... 
 
 300 Ves, for jirayer. 
 
 2."i(i 
 
 ;i(io 
 
 20oN'o. ... ... ... 
 
 .5001 ... ... ... 
 
 ISUiN'o. ... 
 
 .'!oo .N'o roKular meetinBS. ... 
 
 2.-ni:No 
 
 im No. ... 
 2oo;Vos. ... 
 4iili:..ono ... 
 3oo!No. ... 
 
 ... ! 
 
 loo'Xo. ... ... ... 
 
 l.'pO Ves, for prayer, i'c. ... 
 
 •M ... 
 
 40|''No 
 
 1st No 
 
 n»iO )iie monthly, prayer ; one monthly, business. 
 13.V Lesson aiVlJiusuiess ... 
 2ooJNo. ... 
 
 2 .Monthly for Prayer ... 
 
 lool 
 
 loiiYes '.'.'. '..'. ..', 
 
 ."lOo Not yi-ry refruiar for IJiisiuess, re.mdar for Vryr. 
 
 coo I'liiyi'v. monthly, 
 
 ■>oo I'niver anil eoiisultatioii, monthly. 
 
 ;ioii: Prayer, ,ve., Monthly ... 
 
 iMiOjiJ\iarterly and oeeasional, 
 
 O'jo I'laver nionthly, and c;very Sabbath 
 
 :loi. Wei'klv, for (tuily of lesson 
 
 •IIHij Yes, both 
 
 ';ilS We have both.'.'.' !.'." '.'.'. 
 
 soIno 
 
 200 (Juarterly, Sehool in eoimtry, ... 
 b«' No 
 
 1011 
 no! 
 
 2."io' 
 l.-.o' 
 l:lo; 
 
 3,-.l 
 101 
 200 
 .'100 
 ■too 
 
 l,-)0 
 
 I'lOd 
 
 2.-I0 
 220 
 200 
 Ml 
 40O 
 300 
 120 
 
 400 
 
 201 
 
 "ioo 
 
 3011 
 
 Ool' 
 
 70 
 
 lioth 
 
 stuilv of Lesson weekly 
 McoIhlyViusiness, weekly lesson 
 Yes. jirayer and business 
 iloiillily for biishiess ... 
 Ves, for prayer, 
 
 N'one i'or some time ... 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Prayer and business ... 
 
 No 
 
 linsiiicss and mutual improvement 
 
 No 
 
 No, but intend to have 
 No, but intend to have ono 
 
 N'o 
 
 No 
 
 N'o .'.'.' .'.'.' '.'.'. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Not reirnlar ... 
 Monthly prayer 
 No 
 
 67105 
 
 I,',, Row many, if any, were the 
 conversions in your school 
 • during tlie past year V 
 
 ],-. 
 
 I'ifiien ... 
 No,! ... 
 
 Vol*). .".'.' 
 
 tDoirt know. 
 
 N'ono. ... 
 [N'oiB. ... 
 
 .''i|NrtH0. ... 
 
 Four. ... 
 
 I'iva 
 
 liou't know. 
 
 [Nmc 
 
 TjOiii' 
 
 (ilN'oiio. ... 
 I L'lit made credible profession 
 
 s 
 
 None. ... 
 .Vone. ... 
 
 
 None. ... 
 
 
 None. ... 
 
 1 
 
 Do not know. ... 
 1 '.■iniiot tell. 
 None. ... 
 ('III'. 
 
 "noral... 
 N'one. ... 
 Nime. ... 
 
 s 
 
 'r«-n, ".'. ',', 
 None. ... 
 
 12 
 10 
 
 Don't know any!." 
 N'ono. ... 
 
 
 
 None. ... 
 
 l,-i Not aware. 
 l'o'rl,\!Fivp. 
 !i Not any... 
 
 "sori'lcii'ty .'.'. 
 
 11 
 
 .. 'Two. 
 
 13! Fourteen. 
 ., One Teacher. 
 a lielieve two. 
 
 14 
 
 N'ono. ... 
 ('nnnot tell. 
 Don't know. 
 llon't know. 
 Don't know. 
 
 Cniinot say. 
 None. ... 
 N'one. ... 
 None. ... 
 
 12 None. 
 .. None. 
 .. N'one. 
 .. None. 
 .. None. 
 .. Nine. 
 
 Look for fruit. 
 One. 
 
 None. ... 
 Six. 
 
 N'ono. 
 
 1(1. Ts your sehool in the habit ol 
 doing anything for .Missions V 
 
 Yes, weekly Bible Society. 
 
 No 
 
 .V good deal. 
 
 No 
 
 .No 
 
 No 
 
 No. ;;! '.'.'. '.'.'. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Yes, weekly collection ... 
 
 Xo 
 
 Yes, .£.') 149. last year. ... 
 
 Not regularly. ... 
 
 No 
 
 Y'es. 
 
 No, but in contemplation. 
 
 No. '.'.'. .'.'.' ." '• 
 
 Support two Indian Orjihans, 4c, 
 
 Sfo. '.'.'. '.'.'. '.'.'. '■'■ 
 
 No 
 
 Yea. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 Not yet 
 
 No. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Xo 
 
 Yes. 
 
 No 
 
 No. !'.! '.'.'. '. 
 
 Doing much. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 No. ... . ... „ , 
 
 Have a Missionary Box . 
 
 No 
 
 Yes. 
 Y'es, 
 
 No 
 
 i;:i7 last Christmas week... 
 Yes. 
 
 Yes 
 
 t7 last Christma.s. 
 
 Support two Orphans in India. 
 
 j;tis3s. 8d. last.vear. 
 
 £27 Os. 3d. last year. 
 
 Yes, monthly. ... 
 
 Support Olio orphan in India. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Yes. ... ... ... 
 
 .£19 9s. last year... 
 Yes. 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes. 
 
 fii last year. 
 
 No 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 No 
 
 Yes 
 
 N'o 
 
 Yes 
 
 Yes. 
 
 ii\r> annually F. C. Mission. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Sunport an orplian. 
 lAstyear£4179. (id. 
 
 Not yet... 
 
 Yes, Bible Society. 
 
 Support two orphans in India. 
 
 No 
 
 17. Are the people in ynur vicinity 
 
 alive to the importance of 
 
 Salibath Schools y 
 
 They apjienr to value f hem. 
 .\ppear to bo. 
 
 No. 
 
 They arc alive. 
 
 .No. 
 
 Small part only. 
 
 -■Mt-asumbly so. 
 
 Some yes, some no. 
 
 Far, far from it. 
 
 No. 
 
 liecoming so. 
 
 Ves, room for more. 
 
 In some measure. 
 
 .Not generally. 
 
 Not sudleicntlj; so. 
 
 Not mneh, until recently. 
 
 To some extent. 
 
 Not nearly so much as should be. 
 
 Many arc. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Very ncL-Iigent. 
 
 Much room for improvement. 
 
 .Vre not. 
 
 N'o. 
 
 .\ few, but not generally. 
 
 They are. 
 
 No. 
 
 Not equal to importance of work. 
 
 Ves. 
 
 No. 
 
 No. 
 
 No. 
 Cienerally. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Only a few. 
 
 I'artially. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Yes, 
 
 Tcs. 
 
 Not siifTleiently. 
 
 Believe so. 
 
 Uy no means. 
 
 .\n unfavorable neighborhood. 
 
 .No. 
 
 Ves. 
 
 They arc. 
 
 They are. 
 
 No. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Not as should be. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 No. 
 
 Very much so. 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Not much. 
 
 No. 
 
 They are not. 
 
 No. 
 
 No. 
 
 No, 
 
 Careless and indifferent. 
 Cannot .say they .are. 
 T'o some extent. 
 To a certain extent, 
 nerally they are. 
 .Seem not, 
 
 Ves, but want moro life still. 
 Think they are. 
 Some are, not all. 
 Not as much as could wish. 
 
 Peeling favorable. 
 
 Not so much aa they ought. 
 
1 1- _ I J , 
 
 ./ 
 
 / 
 
 r 
 
 f ...v.. 
 
 
 'I :■ 
 
 1 
 
 t 
 
BTATISXICAL fiUMMARY. 
 
 83 
 
 
 1 
 
 SUMMAiLY 01' Till'] PKECEDlXr, SADBATII SCHOOL RETLTRXS. 
 
 1 — Total iiunil»;r of Teacln rs 
 
 2 — Avi,'raj;>> aiioiiihiiici,' of TfUt'luM-.s 
 
 i'i — Total iiLiinbur uF Scholars 
 
 4 — AvLTai,'c atU'iidaiicc uFSrlioiars 
 
 fj — \uml)('i- of Scholars over IG ye,..^ of n'su 
 
 fi — Xmiiber of Sfholai-s iimlci- (i yuars of a.i;i,> 
 
 '7 — Xumbur of Scho(jl.s which reiiorl au increase in the number of ydiolars during 
 
 the year 
 
 Do do I'C'iKa'ted iis ))eiii'.'; stationary 
 
 Do do which report a decrease in the number of Scholars 
 
 during the year 
 
 Do do reported as newly organized 
 
 Increase of Scholars 2153 
 
 Number of scholars gathered into new Schools 1497 
 
 aiioO 
 Decrease of scholar* 204 
 
 Total increase 3446 
 
 Of those wiio report favourably, but do not give figures, a few say 
 " very large increase," a greater number say " large increase," the 
 majority say " iirosperous." 
 
 The decrease in some Schools is accounted for by the formation of new schools. 
 8 — The number of Schools reported as closed during a porliou of the year, is. . . . 
 
 A'ijter being the Season, and the time 2, 3, 4, 5 or G months. 
 
 "- i,/)od many Schools report that they arc suflcring from particular cauges, of 
 these the fnUowing are observable : — 
 
 AVaut of the t'o-o|ieraliou of parents. 
 
 A\';uit of Teachers. 
 
 A\'aiit of ])0(i1;h. 
 
 Sabbath School not appreciated. 
 
 Priestly iutlaeuce. 
 
 10 — Number of Scholars reported as being members of the Church 
 
 11 — But few Schools return definite answers to the question "How many would 
 not be under any religious in-;truclion were it not for the Sabbath 
 Schncd." Tiie char.'icter of the answers received, however, leads to the 
 belief that the aggregate must be large. The answers iu iigures and 
 
 per ceutagcs give 
 
 12 — Number of books in Libraries 
 
 13 — About ](iO Schools reply that they have no Teachers' meetings. A majority of 
 the balance report monthly meetings for prayer and busines:., a few re- 
 ]iort monthly meetings for each, several report weekly meetings for tiie 
 study of the lesson and prayer and a good uuiuy report tiuarterly or 
 irregular meetings. 
 14 — The answers to the question '-"What is the average atleuihinre of Teachers 
 at the meeliny," show that it is much higher at some Schools than it is 
 at others. The general average is apparently below tvvo-thlrds. 
 15 — Number of Conversions during the past year iu the various Schools which 
 liave reported. 
 A few scholars are alluded to as inquiring or under serious impression 
 IG — 123 Schools I'eport tiiat they are in the habit (,f doing something for misjions. 
 Several are supporting Oridians in India. The largest amount reported as 
 collected in one School during the year, is X'Crf 3s. iSd. 
 17 — The answers to the ([ue-lion '• Are the peo|)le in your vicinity alive to the ini- 
 jiortauce of Sabballi Schools," are necessarily merely indie:itive. 
 They show that much remains to bo done for the Sabbath School caude 
 ill Canada. 
 
 3203 
 2G52 
 2334U 
 IGGGt* 
 2078 
 2333 
 
 166 
 
 08 
 
 25 
 
 22 
 
 39 
 
 1002 
 
 2900 
 67105 
 
 368 
 
 c 
 
GX 
 
 M 
 
 DELEOATJS PRESENT AT THE CONVENTION, 
 
 I' .J •: f 
 
 18- 
 226- 
 191- 
 191- 
 
 150- 
 26T- 
 
 147- 
 147- 
 148- 
 157- 
 
 92- 
 
 71- 
 
 72 
 
 73 
 
 74, 
 6- 
 
 19- 
 
 22- 
 
 22- 
 182- 
 18G- 
 183- 
 
 20- 
 111- 
 
 49— 
 
 227- 
 222- 
 
 252- 
 240- 
 
 14- 
 
 28- 
 108- 
 
 90- 
 147- 
 155- 
 15G- 
 IGl- 
 ]«0- 
 178- 
 194- 
 191- 
 266- 
 101- 
 
 DELEGATES PRESENT AT THE CONVENTION, KINGSTON. 
 
 February lltli, 12th and 13th, 1857. 
 The numbers before the names refer to the Statistical Rcturnt, 
 
 -Ainsley, Richard Wesleyan Methodist S. School.... Guelph, 
 
 -Ad.inis, Austin Union S. School Montreal. 
 
 -Andrews, G. W Wesleyan Methodist S. School ) ■nr!n:„,.,o,.!ii» „«., i.-i^„=t«« 
 
 -Anglin, Win Wesleyan Methodist S. School \ ^ •"'amsville, near Kingston. 
 
 Askew, Thos Church of England S. School Kingston. 
 
 Andrews, Joseph Bible Christian S. School J5owmauvilIe. 
 
 Araas, Andrew Union S. School Osliawa. 
 
 Arltsey, A Wesleyan Methodist S. School.. Barrio. 
 
 -Armstrong, E Wesleyan Methodist S. Scliool.. Ottawa City. 
 
 -Armstrong, II Union S. School Edwardsburgh. 
 
 Aylsworth, Robert Union S. School Odessa. 
 
 Allice, A Bible Christian S. Scliool Oshawa. 
 
 -Beclcet, J. C Canada S. School Union Montreal. 
 
 -Burrell, John Q. Sub. Wes. Meth. S. School... .Montreal. 
 
 -Bedwell, C. P Q. Sub. Wes. Meth. S. School. .Montreal. 
 
 -Baylis, James Congregational S. School ...... Montreal. 
 
 -Boyd, J. T Free Church S. School Brantford. 
 
 -Burpee, Rcvd. A Congregational S. Scliool Montreal. 
 
 ► Beadle, Deloa St. Catherine's S. School Union . St. Catherines. 
 
 -Bond, Hiram Union S. School St. Vincent. 
 
 -Brebner, James Union S. School Brooklyn. 
 
 -Best, Thomas Union S. School ) ivr..„.,+ t>1oo=o„4 n„.i,=«, 
 
 -Best William Union S. School \ ^*°"°* Pleasant Durham. 
 
 -Byrne, James, junr Congregational S. School Whitby. 
 
 -Bartlett, Wm Union S. School North Ely. 
 
 -Bone, Thomas F Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Bowmanville. 
 
 Begg, Wm London S. School Union London. 
 
 -Burns, Wm Free Church S. School Stratford. 
 
 -Bird, James Union S. School 1 Con. Co. ofYork,Playbro Cor's. 
 
 Bellamy, J. B Union S. School North Augusta. 
 
 Berry, W. H Baptist S. School Hamilton. 
 
 Bird, J Whitby. 
 
 Barber, Chas Montreal. 
 
 Baker, John Primitive Methodist S. School. .Bath. 
 
 Barnard, J Union S. School South Monaghan. 
 
 Bredin R Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Cobourgh. 
 
 Benson, J. R Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Petcrboro. 
 
 Bullard, Rev. A Massachusetts S. School Society. Boston. 
 
 ■Brooks, Wm Congregational S. School Sherbrooke. 
 
 •Betts, Rev. J. E Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Quebec. 
 
 Butler, John Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Brighton. 
 
 Banthill, Mosea Whitby. 
 
 Barker, Rev. E Eramosa. 
 
 Beary, W. H Hamilton. 
 
 Bartlett, Wilder Union S. School Metcalfe Hill. 
 
 Bround, John Brantford. 
 
 ■Campbell, Duncan Union S. School Carleton Place. 
 
 ■Cooper, Morris Union S. School Newcastle. 
 
 ■Craig, Wm Baptist S. School Port Hope. 
 
 -Cade, Rev. M Primitive Methodist S. School. .Toronto. 
 
 -Connelly, R Q. Sub. Wes. Meth. S. School.. .Montreal. 
 
 -Christie, P Congregational S. School Green Island, W. Martintown. 
 
 -Campbell, Robt Wesleyan Methodist S. Scliool. .Brooklyn. 
 
 -Croty, H Church of England S. School. . IngersoU. 
 
 -Cleghorn, D Wesleyan Metliodist S. School. .Port Hope. 
 
 -Craig, R Free Church S. School Cornwall. 
 
 •Cash, D Congregational S. School Markham. 
 
 -Clark, Jos Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Kingston. 
 
 -Caldwell, Thos London S. School Union London. 
 
 -Campbell, P Campbell's Corners. 
 
 Chase, Jas Union S. School Oshawa. 
 
 Chany, A Unknown. 
 
 . Ogdensburgh, N. Y. 
 
 Chown, S Wesleyan Methodist Central S.S. Kingston. 
 
 Cosby, R Primitive Methodist S. School. . Kingston. 
 
DELEQATES PRESENT AT THE CONVENTION. 
 
 35 
 
 UDgston. 
 
 lurban. 
 
 [Playbro Cor's. 
 
 far tin town. 
 
 Cane, Robt United Presbyterian S. School. .Yorkville. 
 
 Crony, John Free (Jhurcli S. Scliool Belleville. 
 
 Chidlaw, Rev. W. B American S. School Union. . . . Cincinnati, Ohio! 
 
 Comer, Jos Union S. School Yonge St., Toronto. 
 
 56 — Carman, Albert Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Matilda. 
 
 102— Clondinnen, Wm G. Town Wcs. Meth. S. School, . Montreal. 
 
 Cochran, A Church of England S. School. .Ingersoll. 
 
 246— Campbell, John Free Church S. School Montreal. 
 
 Chamberlain, Eliaa O Wesleyan Methodist S. School.. North Blenheim. 
 
 254 — Cramley, John .United Presbyterian S. School. .Belleville. 
 
 5— Calvin, Baptist S. School Kingston. 
 
 36— Borland, James Union S. School Percy. 
 
 43 > 
 
 . . > Dempsey, Rev. J Baptist S. School St. Andrews. 
 
 48— Davis, Paul Free Church S. School Hull. 
 
 142 — Dersteen, John .....Union S. School South Wilmot. 
 
 187 — Dickson, W Baptists. School Montreal. 
 
 93 — Dugdale, H Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Kingston. 
 
 191 — Douglass, Rev. G Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Kingston. 
 
 20— Dunn, Wm Free Church S. School Stratford. 
 
 102— Dayfoot, P. W Union S. School George Town 
 
 Dobson, P Baptist S. School Port Hope. 
 
 105 — Duncan, H Union S. School Camden. 
 
 Davis, J Union S. School Yonge St., Toronto. 
 
 248 — Detler, G. H Wesleyan Jlethodist S. School. .Napanee. 
 
 Dobbs, Rev. P. W Church of England S. School. . Portsmouth. 
 
 Duggan, H Kingston. 
 
 Douglas, Rev. J Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Montreal. 
 
 154 — Dobson, Peter School Sec. No. G, n.'r Hamilton 
 
 27c — Demorest, D. L Harrington. 
 
 40- 
 
 Denison, Rev. C. W Baptist S. School Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 138- 
 
 -Edwards, G Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Oshawa. 
 
 Elliot, Rev. J Canada S. Sch'l Union Montreal. 
 
 -Evans, H. J Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Port Dover. 
 
 199 — Edgan, W Congregational S. School Hamilton. 
 
 232 — Edwards, James Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Barrie. 
 
 Evans, John Toronto. 
 
 Ferrier, Hon. J Canada S. Sch'l Union Montreal. 
 
 29 — Fraser, Wm United Presbyterian S. School.. Goderich. 
 
 39 — Forrester, Jaa Free Church S. School Melrose. 
 
 Fenwick, G. J Congregational S. School Kingston. 
 
 239 — Fraser, Alex Union S. School Lancaster Front. 
 
 Fraser, Donald Union S. School Toronto. 
 
 Frost, John Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Owens Sound. 
 
 231— Ferguson, Willard Union S. School DufKn's Creek. 
 
 217 — Ford, Congregational S. School Newmarket. 
 
 Forster, Geo United Presbyterian S. School . . Smith's Falls. 
 
 Fergusson, D Free Church S. School Montreal. 
 
 Fergusson, W Kingston. 
 
 Foote, J. D Massachusetts S. School Society. Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 243 — Foster, James Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Toronto. 
 
 218— Gibson, T. A Church of Scotland S. School. .Montreal. 
 
 134— Goodfellow, P Free Church S. School Bradford. 
 
 45 — Gelding, Geo Congregational S. School Toronto. 
 
 Grafton, F. G Congregational S. School Montreal. 
 
 -Galway, S St. L. Sub. Wes.Meth. S. Sch'l. . Montreal. 
 
 Gordon, David Pickering. 
 
 Grey, W Baptist S. School Port Hope. 
 
 Gemmell, A Free Church S. School Toronto. 
 
 9 5 — Goodhue, J. L Union S. School Danville. 
 
 Hagar, Geo Canada S. School Union Montreal. 
 
 1— Hodgskin, Rev. T. J Free Church S. School Doon. 
 
 42— Hiblmrd, P. V Union S. School St. Andrews 
 
 58 — Hill, Thos Union S. School Lancaster. 
 
 lOG — Halloway Congregational S. School Brockville. 
 
 114— Hughes, G. S Union S. School Bowmanville. 
 
 119 — Hinman, Smith Union S. School Cramahe. 
 
 200 — Hyde, Levi J Union S. School Cramahe. 
 
 Hendrey, Thos Congregational S. School Mca'd. Road, Kingston. 
 
 Flolmes, R. A Congregational S. School Kingston. 
 
 Hart, R. D Baptist S. School Whitby. 
 
 145 — Harcourt, Geo Congregational S. School Toronto. 
 
 63- 
 
X 
 
 / 
 
 M 
 
 DELEOATEg mESEST AT THE CONVEXTIOS. 
 
 I 
 
 i m 
 
 Hamilton, Wm Church of Scotland S. School. . Ottawa City. 
 
 Iliirpsco, AuKJS 
 
 lliirlbui't', 8 I'l'i'th. 
 
 E. T... 
 
 , . . Fnlciiown liochcstci-, X. Y. 
 
 IpjO 
 
 203- 
 
 JlunUiig'ton, 
 
 Hill, li. S I'liiou S. School Xorili Cnn-c. 
 
 Hone, 'LMios. S AVi'sloyim .MiMhoclist S. School. .Uowiuanville. 
 
 ) Union S. Scliool Kinp.si'V. 
 
 ■ > Hethrington, J Union H. School .Millioiiiiio. 
 
 J Union S. School Diivhnin. 
 
 Jfuni])hrcy, Rev. J. L.... Malone, X. Y. 
 
 ircrrick, 
 
 21 
 I'll 
 
 140 
 
 I4i; 
 
 240 
 
 -Ivc., ,J 
 -lron,si(U', 
 -Irwin, K. 
 -.la IK'S, D 
 
 lU'V. J. 11. 
 
 .M 
 
 J. A 
 
 .Union S. School. 
 
 Il- 
 ea 
 
 91 
 
 178' 
 
 104- 
 
 Oj- 
 
 171- 
 
 14G- 
 
 14H- 
 
 40. 
 
 47- 
 
 51- 
 
 -Malonc, X. Y. 
 
 Sic. Xo, 4, Cramahe. 
 
 [''cruns. 
 
 , Xew Connection SIc'dist S. Scli'l. Montreal. 
 
 1' American Presbyterian S. S Montreal. 
 
 W Wesieyan .MellKHJiHt Central S.S. .Montreal. 
 
 Jcll'ry, J Wesieyan .Melhoilist Central S. S.Montreal. 
 
 Irwin, S. P Uni(jn S. Seliool Aurora Co. York. 
 
 Ivingston, Prof '.\esleyan Methodist S. School. . (.'obour.Ech. 
 
 — Kilpalrick, John Union S. School Scarboro. 
 
 — Jeti'ers, itev 
 
 I ,.', 
 
 47- 
 67- 
 
 88- 
 128- 
 
 ■37- 
 189- 
 201- 
 
 3:>- 
 
 11- 
 
 27,'i- 
 
 5- 
 
 228- 
 
 8S- 
 
 ,'')8- 
 
 liiO- 
 
 1 Ha- 
 ls S- 
 
 Kerr, "\Vm United Presbyterian S. School. . Toronto. 
 
 -Kilgour, J Free Church S. School Cornwall. 
 
 Keoiigii, Picv. Thos Wesleyan .Methodist S. School. . Porismoutli, near Kingston. 
 
 Keith, (ico Fn.'c Church S. School I'elh'ville. 
 
 Kay, Robi Aultsville. 
 
 Kilbourn, David AVesleyau Metliodist S. Scho(jl. . Plaltsville. 
 
 -Louson, John Union S. School Jloulreal. 
 
 -Lacy, \V. P Primitive -Metlujilist S. School . .Uramijton. 
 
 -Latimer, .1. T A\'e.--leyan .Melhodisl. S. School. .X(nnh tlower. ' ^ 
 
 -Lyman, J5enj American Pres. S. School Montreal. 
 
 -Lyman, S. Jones ConsregiUional S. School .Montreal. 
 
 -jjake, E. P \Vesleyau .Methodist S. Sclioid. .t)shawa. 
 
 -Ivittlc, ('yrus Union S. School IJeamsville. 
 
 Luke, Jesse tlsliawa. 
 
 Loj^ie, Judg-e Church of Scotland S. School. .Hamilton. 
 
 -Lanton, Kev. II A\'esleyan .Methodist .S. School. .Prescott. 
 
 Laughlin, A A\'esleyan Methodist S. School. .Toronto. 
 
 Lovelace, K Union S. School Scarboro. 
 
 Lonrrman, Geo Torinito. 
 
 Milloy, -\. Canada Sunday School Union. ..Montreal. 
 
 -Minore, Wni Metliodist ICpiscopal S. S Othro near Ottawa. 
 
 -Merrill, M Union S. School IJeamsville. 
 
 -Millard, Rev. W'm Plymouth Urethren S. S Hram|)ton. 
 
 -Macalister, A Free l.'hurch S. School Kin,<;-ston. 
 
 -More, Wm Free Cliurch S. Scliool Quebec. 
 
 .Miller, Rev. J. i\I Unknown Oodcnslnirgh, N. Y. 
 
 -MundcU, A Free Church S. School Millbank. 
 
 -M.irgan, Wm Union S. School 2d C-on. t^snabruck. 
 
 -Marling, Rev. F. II Congregtitional S. Sclioid Toronto. 
 
 Massie, Wm Congregational S. School Jlontreal Village near Kingston. 
 
 -Massey, \V. A Wcslcyan .Methodist S. Scho(d. .Xewcastle. 
 
 -Moore, Robt Union S. School Emily. 
 
 -Miller, Robt Wesleyan .Mcthodir.t S. School. .Montreal. 
 
 Mindock, Peter Free <!hurch S. School Howiininville. 
 
 -Morris, W. J Church of Scotland S. School. . Perth. 
 
 -Mackie, Rev. J fSaptist S. School Kingston. 
 
 -Mathewson, J. A Wesleyan .Methodist S. School. . .Monti-cal. 
 
 -Mortimer, Ceo Congregational S. School Xewinaiket. 
 
 -\lackerras. Goo Ih-ockville. 
 
 --Maltras, J Primitive Melodist S. Scho(d. . Kingston. 
 
 -Mark ham, Rev. J I'^'ontenac. 
 
 -Mair, John, Al. D Free Church S. School Kingston. 
 
 -McLean, Hugh Union S. .'•'cliool Lancaster. 
 
 -McDonald, Rev. G Ciiiirch of Scotland S. School. .Fergus. 
 
 f 
 
 * / 
 
 -McCrae, .lo! 
 
 Weslevan Methodist 
 
 Sciiool. . Bov.'manville. 
 
 -McKay, I) Laiitcd Presbyti'rian S. S(diool. . -Montreal. 
 
 McPhail, Ed .Vew (Jonu'ction .Mc'd'st S. Sch'l. Toronto. 
 
 -McKillican, Rev. J Congregaiioiial S. Scliool M.irtintown. 
 
 McX 
 
 McFa 
 
 McK 
 
 airn, 
 
 J. X. 
 
 .Weslevan Methodist S. School. . Dicki 
 
 D Free t?hureh .S. School. 
 
 . Dundas. 
 
 nson's Landing. 
 
 ecluue, 
 
 R Free Church S. School St. Andrews. 
 
DKI.EOATES PRESENT AT TIIK CONVENTION*. 
 
 a? 
 
 Ston. 
 
 if 
 
 ingstOD. 
 
 > • 
 
 260- 
 
 70- 
 140- 
 '200- 
 2(15- 
 13G- 
 
 117- 
 141- 
 147- 
 
 180- 
 188- 
 220- 
 
 211— 
 
 251- 
 0- 
 
 78- 
 200- 
 
 41- 
 
 87- 
 lOtj- 
 120- 
 
 204— 
 
 4(3- 
 
 79- 
 
 8G- 
 
 lOG- 
 
 122- 
 
 58- 
 
 55- 
 
 101- 
 
 191- 
 
 191- 
 
 64- 
 30- 
 
 237- 
 177- 
 
 McN'ovin, John Union S. School Kmiiy. 
 
 .AI<'I';ii'liiiu', (; M(lr(i.--p. 
 
 -McDoUiilil, W. K I'nion S. i^cliool Milw iinlHlnirgh. 
 
 Mcl'liiuil, Frcu (.'Inivcli S. School KintrHton. 
 
 Is'drniaii, Hugh I'liion S. Scliool Loyiliowii. 
 
 -N'll^niytli, Win I!a|ili.st S. Scliool Woodstock. 
 
 -Xt'lion, H. A Aincriciiu I'ro.-i. S. Schotjl Moiilrcal. 
 
 -Xnylor, Fniuccs liiqiliot H. School Tinliil;.'ar Sctllement. 
 
 -N'cilson, Goo Kclhvillc. 
 
 -Olivir. W. II Wosloyan >rctlioilist S. Scliool. . Taris. 
 
 (>'I.aii;rhlin, A. J Churc-liot' I']Mfrlan(l S. Schoc I . . Kinjiston. 
 
 (Mivcr, (Jco. II Cliurcli of Kn'j;hiiiil S. School. . Kiiiu.slon, 
 
 < 'liver, Anili'i"\- Wcslcyan Mi tiiodi.st S. Scliool. . Xorlli Dlcnhcim. 
 
 -Panlcc, A. 1* Union S. School Xoiili Aiij.'Uiia. 
 
 -I'ntchcnl, Rev. S. W. . . . Maiitlst S. Sdiool F,,iii Hill. 
 
 -I'ickup, K (^ Sill). \\'cs. Mclh. S, School.. . Monlrcal. 
 
 I'arsl 
 
 John 
 
 Si. li.Siib. M'c-i. .Mclh. S. Schl...\|oii(i'cul. 
 
 I'carsiui, W. II Wi'slcyan Melhoilisl S. School. .Toronto. 
 
 I'atoii, Laird rnitcd I'lcshytorian S. Scliool. . .Montreal. 
 
 Price, ]{. H I'nion S. School . . Malli. 
 
 Pearson, P. P I'nion S. School Xewniarket. 
 
 Pnrkiss, C4oo I'nion S. Scliool l)icliinson'.s Landing. 
 
 Plumerficld, (leo Wesle.van .Meihodist S. School. . .Maikhani. 
 
 Paterson, 1) I'liited Pre.-;!iyterian S. Scliool. .I'everly. 
 
 Parker, .1 I'nion S. School Caiiideii. 
 
 Pomroy, Dan .Methodist Episcopal S. Scliool. . KiiifTBton. 
 
 Pearson, F. T Toronto. 
 
 ■Paton, John Church of Scotland S. School ..Kiiiu'^lon. 
 
 •Pomroy, U. I) .Methodist Kjiiscopiil !'>ro(d<ville. 
 
 •Poiihnni, Will I'liion S. Sidiool (i,-)^oode, Metcalfe Co. 
 
 ■Purdv, Ilii'ain Union S. School Ciiininhc. 
 
 Porte, AV. .1 Picion. 
 
 Palton, J. juiir AVesleyan Methodist S. Scliool. . Toronto. 
 
 -Pioblin, Rev. P. J Union S. School Slicnnoiiville. 
 
 -Poliert.-;, E liible (."hristian S. Scho(d ('olioiiro'. 
 
 ■Pobinson, Rev. R Uoiip'retratioiuil S. School lirockville. 
 
 ■Rojrerson, Jidiii ("oiiirre^'ational S. Scli(;ol licjwiiiiiiiville. 
 
 Randall, Peter Paptist S. Schixd Port Hope. 
 
 Rutherford, Robinson ....Wcslcyan Methodist vS. School. . Peterboro. 
 
 Rose, Daniel We>leyan .Mcthodi.«t S. School. .Morrisburg. 
 
 Scott, S. 1! Caiiiida S. S. Union .Monlrcal. 
 
 -Sim, Rev. A ('oiiLvreii'alional S. School St. Andrews. 
 
 -Sa(dvville, Wm Union S. School niooniiicid, Sor.lh Monaghan. 
 
 -Stevenson, John Union S. Schotd Searboro. 
 
 -Shepherd, ("oiigreu'atioiial S. School Hroekville. 
 
 -Squelch, J. W Union S. School ISrock. 
 
 -Stewart, James Free Church S. School Kingston. 
 
 -Sleod, Robt Union S. School Saniia. 
 
 -Schroder, J AN'csleyan Methodist S. School. . ]\iiij;ston. 
 
 -Savage, J A\'esleyan Methodist S. School. . Kii;gston. 
 
 -Stewart, (-ico M'c.deynn ilethodist S. School. .Kingston. 
 
 Scott, Rev. John Union S. School Path. 
 
 Smith, Sidney X V.'osleyan Methodist S. School. .Odeltown. 
 
 -Stewart, P. A Hajdist S. Sclioid r.rcadalbane. 
 
 Sliortt, l!cv. .lonathan. . . .Cliurch of Kngland S. School.. Port Hope. 
 -Stevenson, II. Jas Priir.iiive .'\letliodist S. School .. Toronto. 
 
 Snell, Elias Union S. Sclioid Chincouche. 
 
 Sihixleton, A. C A\'csleyau Motlu)dist S. School. .Brighton. 
 
 Shaw, AV. AV 
 
 Sleitli. Robt AA'osleyan Methodist S. School. . Saniia. 
 
 -Sherwood, Sheriff Free Church S. School lirockville. 
 
 Scott, Jos Union S. School llaUi. 
 
 -Shepherd, AA'ni. jnnr Methodist Epis. S. School Hamilton. 
 
 Smart, Rev. AV'm Union S. School CpiiaiK!((ne. 
 
 Se.xsmilh, John (.) I'nion S. School liichmoi.d, E. T. 
 
 Snlton, S. P llaplist S. School lircnitord. 
 
 Sills, Rev. AV. A Pn^.K viile. 
 
 S.avago, IT. A\ illia.ni.-ville. 
 
 Taylor, Jas. AA' Canada S. S. Union .Alontrcal. 
 
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 38 
 
 CORRESPONDENTS. 
 
 84— Truesdell, J. W. 
 
 Union S. School 
 
 Union K. Hcliool 
 
 Union H. Scliool 
 
 Union H. Hcliool 
 
 Union U. Kcliool 
 
 127— Tread well, Slieriff Union S. School 
 
 80— Turnbull, Janies Union S. School 
 
 Tiirnljull, J Union S. School 
 
 230 — Torrimce, Rev. II United Prcabyterinn S. School. 
 
 Thomson, Ucv. J 'Wesleyan Methodist S. School. 
 
 112— Thomas, II Primitive Methodist S. School . 
 
 School 
 
 Thomson, J. II Unknown 
 
 121— Van Vliek, T 
 
 gf)- Wallace, A Baptist S. School 
 
 94 — Wood, Rev. J (Jongregationnl S 
 
 100 — AVitze, Jos Union S. School 
 
 104— Wallis, J. W Congregational S. School 
 
 104 — Ward, S. R Congregational S. School 
 
 129 — Weyner, Jas Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . 
 
 139— Walker, John New Connection Me'd'st S. Sch'l 
 
 144 — Walker, James Free Chnrch S. School 
 
 103- Wilson, Sam G. Town Wes. Mcth. S. School 
 
 16G— Whitney, Rev. R Wesleyan Methodist S. School.. 
 
 187— AVilliams, Rev. J. N Baptist S. School 
 
 197— WooUey, Robt Methodist Epis. S. School 
 
 201 — Wey, Jos. AV Congregational S. School 
 
 Windatt, AVm Bible Ciiristian S. School 
 
 Wales, H. R Congregational S. School 
 
 4 — Whitley, Wilson Baptist S. School 
 
 AVliite, Jas 
 
 201 — AV'oodhouse, J. Joseph. . . . Congregational S. School 
 
 AA'ilson, Rev. D Baptist S. School 
 
 AVhite, Ed Union S. School 
 
 AA'allis, Jos Church of Scotland S. School . . 
 
 221— AVood, J AVeslcyan Methodist S. School. . 
 
 51 ) 
 
 ,., f AA'arden, AA''m United Schools 
 
 15— AAllson, Rev. A Church of Scotland S. School. . 
 
 AV'ilson, R Union S. School 
 
 AVilder, E. C Unknown 
 
 Little Warwick. 
 Big AVarwick. 
 5th Range Durham. 
 Hardwood Hill, 
 (ioshcn, AA'indsor. 
 L'Original. 
 S. Monaghan. 
 Sec. No. 4, do. 
 duel ph. 
 Bradford. 
 Clairvillc. 
 Ro(' ester, N. Y. 
 Lacolle. 
 
 Highland Creek, Scarboro 
 Brantford. 
 , Yongc and Escot. 
 Humbcr. 
 Huniber. 
 . Brantford. 
 .Montreal. 
 Hamilton. 
 .Montreri. 
 Port Hope. 
 Montreal. 
 Matilda. 
 , Toronto. 
 Bownuinville, 
 Mnrkham. 
 AVhitby. 
 AVhitby. 
 Toronto. 
 Farmcrsville. 
 Grimsby. 
 Etobicoke. 
 AVolf Island. 
 
 Salem. 
 
 Kingston. 
 Thomasburgh. 
 Detroit, Michigan. 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 Representing Union Sabbath Schools 76 
 
 " AVesleyan Methodist S. Sch'ls 64 
 
 " Church of England S. Sch'ls. 7 
 
 " Congregational Church S. S. 30 
 
 " Free Church S. Schools 25 
 
 " Baptist Sabbath Schools 19 
 
 " Primitive Methodists. Sch'ls. 7 
 
 " United Presbyterian Ch.S.S. 8 
 
 " Church ofScotlandS. Sch'ls. 8 
 
 " New Con. Methodist S. S. . . . 3 
 
 " Bible Christians. Schools... 5 
 
 Representing Amer. Pres. Church S. Sch'ls. 
 " Methodist Epis. S. Schools.. . 
 
 " Sabbath Scliools in the U. S. 
 
 " Plymouth Brethren S. Sch'l . 
 
 " Sabbath Sch'l Organizations. 
 
 " Schools — the denominational 
 
 characters of whicli are un- 
 known to the compiler. . . . 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 6 
 1 
 
 14 
 
 30 
 
 310 
 
 Statistics or Conimunicatioiis Avcre received from the following. The majority inti- 
 mated the probability of their own attendance or the attendance of otliers, many 
 stated that tliey were delegated. 
 
 The numbers before the names refer to the Statistical returns. 
 
 21 — Armstrong, John, Union S. School Eramosa. 
 
 175 — Anderson, Alex Not known Percy. 
 
 412— Allan, J Free Church S. School Perth. 
 
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i 
 
 3 
 5 
 6 
 1 
 14 
 
 30 
 
 310 
 
 inti- 
 imy 
 
 CORRESPONDENTS. 89 
 
 158 — Adamn, James Not known Embro. 
 
 108— Bardall, P Baptist 8. Scliool Port Hope. 
 
 33 — lilackadcr, John Union 8. 8ubool W'indHor. 
 
 lilack, James Not known Ueverly. 
 
 105 — Brown, Thomas Wesluyan Methodist S. School. . Toronto. 
 
 195 — Bingham, Alfred Wcsleyan Methodist S. School. . Waterdowu. 
 
 Best, — Not known London. 
 
 208 — Brown, George Not known Milton. 
 
 210 — Buin, Uev. J Church of Scotland S. School ..Scarboro. 
 
 216 — Brown, James Not known (klcltown. 
 
 224 — Barnes, C. J W'esleyan Metliodist S. School. .Markham. 
 
 8 — Brown, P. D Amer. Presbyterian Branch 8. S. . Montreal. 
 
 10 — Beach, Lyman Not known North Dundee. 
 
 61— Bothwell, T Not known 
 
 n — Beattie, J. M Baptist 8. School Toronto. 
 
 00 — Boomer, Alfred Weslcyan Methodist S. School. .Wellcsly Ilawkosville. 
 
 97 — Bartlett, Ilussel Union 8. School Smith's Falls. 
 
 172 — Bridgman, J. W Science Hill. 
 
 179 — Barker, Jas Free Church S. School IngersoU. 
 
 — Cunningham, Stephen. . . .Union S. School St. Vincent. 
 
 130 — Chamberlin, — Not known Wilmot. 
 
 68 — Can, Wm Not known Canton Hope. 
 
 169 — Camp, D. W Not known Smithville, Lincoln. 
 
 185 — Olumpet, Richardson .... Union S. School South Durham. 
 
 81 — Dexter, A Union 8. School Cavan. 
 
 152 — Duncan, David Not known Egmondsville. 
 
 225 — Davis, Jas Methodist Episcopal S. School. .Willow Dale. 
 
 109 — Dickinson, W. D Congregational S. School Prescott. 
 
 25 — Faulkner, Joseph New Con. Methodist S. School. . Hamilton. 
 
 22— Fullerton, S Union S. School Toronto. 
 
 233 — George, James Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Bradford. 
 
 64 — Graham, John 2 Con. Ormstown. 
 
 83— Goodwillie, D. H Union S. School Stamford. 
 
 153 — Gould, Carman M Carleton. 
 
 195 — Griffin, G. D Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Waterdown. 
 
 268 — Hodgson, Jas Not known AVhitby. 
 
 26 — Hutton, Jno Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Vienna. 
 
 53 — Haight, C Not known Peden. 
 
 115 — Henry, Albert Oshawa. 
 
 168 — Hamilton, John Church of Scotland S. School . . Beachville. 
 
 126 — Hartman, John, M. P. P. ..New Con. Methodist S. School. .Aurora, County of York. 
 
 126 — Irwin, — New Con. Methodist S. School. .Aurora, County of York. 
 
 2 — Johnson, E. R Episcopal Methodist S. School. .Farmersville. 
 
 13 — Johnston, W. A Union S. School Toronto. 
 
 99 — Kennedy, G. H Charleston, Hatley. 
 
 281 — Kanie, John Dungannon. 
 
 83 — Lutz, Morris C Free Church S. School Gait. 
 
 170 — Lenfestey, P Wesleyan Methodist S. School. . Owens Sound. 
 
 60 — Lonsdale, Rev. A Episcopal S. School Laprairie. 
 
 205 — Meysay, D Brampton, Gore. 
 
 223 — Murphy, J Episcopal Methodist S. Shool.. Farmersville. 
 
 229 — Morn, D 3 Con. Kingston Township. 
 
 334 — Mickle, John Union S. School Woolwich. 
 
 344 — Morris, Alex Church of Scotland S. School . . Montreal. 
 
 3 — Mitchell, G Farmersville. 
 
 34 — Maginn, Charles Union S. School Toronto. 
 
 113 — Millie, Edward Union S. School Sec. 6 Township of Arran, O.W. 
 
 149 — Manny, Wm Wesleyan Methodist S. School.. Montreal. 
 
 181 — Mason, W. J Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Peterboro. 
 
 118 — MouUin, J. B Union S. School Coaticook. 
 
 192 — Martin, Leonard Not known Coaticook. 
 
 16 — Mackie, Thomas Not known Leeds. 
 
 14 — McLaren, Peter Union S. School Carletonplace. 
 
 45 — Mcllbean, John Not known Marlintown. 
 
 214 — McDonald, John Church of Scotland S. School. .Oakville. 
 
 38 — McDougall, G Free Church S. School Bowmanville. 
 
 167 — McGregor, J Free Church S. School Port Dover. 
 
 174 — McLaughlan, Arch Not known Southwold, by Fingall. 
 
 176 — McKay, Thos Union S. School New Edinburgh. 
 
 202 — McGregor, M Union S. School Athol, Glengarry. 
 
 McCormick, R. C New York. 
 
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 COlUlEBVONUKNTa. 
 
 203— Noble, H Not known Ilnlillinand. 
 
 219— Phillips, Ui)l)i'rt Uiiiled rrcHbytciiiin H. Hciiool. . Napiiiioe. 
 
 193 — I'ortcous, M Uuion H. Hcliool >St. Louis DeGoniaque, 
 
 100— I'ftrish Uuion H. Scliool Yonge & Escot. 
 
 l'lii> t'iiir, Jnu Not known llatliiu'itt. 
 
 19(1 — Purisii, A{,'rii Union S. Hohnol Fiirnii'iiiville. 
 
 341— How land, J Wi'sloyun MolliodiHt S. School. .Toronto. 
 
 342— Uowcll, (icorpii Wtj.ilcyiin M('llio<!i«l S. Hciiool. . Yorlvville, 
 
 (1(! — Robinson, \V. S Hil)l() Ulirinliun H. .Scliool ^VIlitily. 
 
 103 — Rnl).son, John liuyfiold. 
 
 137— i;ol)(>ilson, J rrrtii. 
 
 8!i— IU(hI, Ur Not known Tliornhill. 
 
 33,')— .Stovel, AVm Huiilist H. Scliool (liiolph. 
 
 21 — Slciiliena, .S.vlviuius Union S, School Vienna. 
 
 33 — Sanderson, Itev. U Episcopiil Methodist S. School. .Othio. 
 
 no — Simpson, Thomas Not known Township of Lambton. 
 
 139 — Siirxison, (r Not known Montreal. 
 
 Shetlicld, Tlio3 Not known Hcvcrly. 
 
 212— Thonio, D Hihlc Christian S. School Orono. 
 
 247 — Wool . .11, .lolin IJajitist S. School Sinicoe. 
 
 C9 — Walker, I) C'hiircli of Scotland 8. School. .Harnia. 
 
 132 — Wilson, Thos Union S. Scliool Troiitbrook, Ringwick. 
 
 151— AVhite, llev. C AVesleyan Methodist S. School. .Smithvillo. 
 
 159 — Waddell, (!po Not known i'lynipton. 
 
 130 — Yoiinff, Thoiua:! CI Not known I'ittdbiirgU. 
 
 107 — Yeomans, 1). P Union S. School Millcreek, Odessa. 
 
 I 
 
 The following, the majority of whom sent in statistics, expressed great interest in the 
 
 Convention and their regr(!t,s that tliey would not bo able to attend : — 
 
 207 — Rev. R. L.Tucker Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Strathroy. 
 
 2(59 — William Stevens Not known Smitlitown, Peterboro. 
 
 278 — John Mc^\'ater3 Congref^ational S. School Stratford. 
 
 277 — Thomas Elliott Union S. Scliool No, li S. Sec, Forrister's Falls. 
 
 31 — John Paton Union S. School Maldon,Essex Co. Amherstburgh. 
 
 IKJ — Anilrew Wooler Union 8. School AV.ndsor Mills. 
 
 125 — If, E. Cromer Union S. School Melbourno Ridge. 
 
 1 — R. Ferrie, M. P. P Free Church S. School Doon. 
 
 206 — Jos. T. Weiibrock Union S. School IJolton. 
 
 C2 — S. A. JInrd (congregational S. School I'^aton, C. E. ' 
 
 181 — R. Kneeshiiw Wesle^-an Methodist S. School. .Ingersoll. 
 
 59 — John McLeod Not known Shijiton, Scotch Settlement. 
 
 275 — John Clark Free Church S. School Dtmdus. 
 
 70 — Isaac Piper Not known Salford. 
 
 7 — Samuel Orr Union S. SclioOl Lachuto. 
 
 12 — Rev. W'm. King Free Church S. School IJuxton. 
 
 75 — J. JSowes ..Union S. School IngersoU. 
 
 143 — Wm. Millar Not known FarruU's Corners. 
 
 261 — J. Hall Free Church S. School Peterboro. 
 
 133 — Win. M. Christie Union S. School Chippewa. 
 
 271 — J. Somerville AVeslcyan Methodist S. School. .Huntingdon. 
 
 272 — Andrew Stevenson Wesleyan Methodist S. School. .Ferguson's Falls, Lanark. 
 
 George Brand Primitive Methodist S. School. . Ouelph. 
 
 Ira Vnncamp Not known Howmanville. 
 
 Wm. W. Anderson ....... Not known N. Gwilliambury. 
 
 H. Sevinoiir Not known Renfrew. 
 
 llev. G. Colwell Tweed. 
 
 Rev. J. Byrne Congregational S. School AVliitliy. 
 
 v. A. Coleman Not known ("a.-Jtleton. 
 
 Wm. Anderson Not known .MIi Con. Lochicl. 
 
 John W. lligginson Not known Hawkesbury. 
 
 Rev. W. Gregg Free Church S. School lielleville. 
 
 98 — Joaiah Purkiss Not known Tbornhill. 
 
 Rev. E. Barrass Primitive Methodist S. School. . Toronto. 
 
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