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Lee cartas, planchee, tebieeux. etc.. peuvent Atre filmis i dee taux de reduction diff«rents. Lorsque le document est trop grsnd pour Atre reproduit en un seul cliche, il est film« A partir de I'engle supArieur geuche. de geuc^ie A droite, et de heut en bee. en prenant ie nombre d'Imegea nAcaesoire. Las diagrommes suivants lllustrant la mithoda. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ALL DENOxMiNATIOXS INTERESTED IN THE I'RKSEnVATION OP THE CLERGY RESERVES FOR RKLIGIOUS PURPOSES. The following Reaolutiou wrta advocated by tbo Rev. T. S Ken- nedy, m the year 1851 :— Rcsolvfcf lit, That by Act of Imperial Parliament, passed in ]H40, the Clergy Reserves were declared to be the property of all Uenominations of Christians in this Province, for the maintenance of roligion and the diflFusioii of Christian knowleeo, accordinir to their respective rights. The mover said, that the objects hid party had iii railing this and sunilar meetings, had been stigmatised as factious, for the purpose of creating agitation in the country ; wherca.-", so far from this bcmg; the case, they desired to allay that excitement of which the discussion of the Cler^ry Reserves question had boen rendered the instrument— not, he really believed to be ascribed to the merits of the question itself, but to t..3 misrepresentation and abuse of the public mind, which in many cases for interested and unhallowed purposes it had been made. Whether the Churcli was right or wrong in so long quietly permitting the realltf factious party to make this question the instrui. ,mt of disturbing the peace of the country, it was bootless now to ask. That it had been done, was a fact which could not be deni jd ; it had relied on the plighted faith of the Government to eecuio it? temporalities from spoliation ; it considered that ono-seveut!i <>t the lands of the province was guar- anteed to it by the constituti -n given to ns by the British Govern- ment, and to which all loyul men appealed as their charter. The past could not be rcc\lled, but experience had taught them that they must change their coiiiutt, and strenuously defend their lights, and the best iutere.^t^ of the people, against traitors to themselves and their country. The question was not now, whether the lands sot apart for the maiutcnanco of religion and the diflFusion of Christian knowledge, ought, in order to caiTy out that holy ob- ject, to be abided iu this or that way ; but—and he would here quote the language of an organ of their opponents, which stated that the Clergy Reserves should be alienated from the purpose for which they were resencd, and devoted to education or some other useful purposes, just ab if religion was not a useful purpose ' ^ow, he believed, that if tho truth had been set before the people years ago, and that Ihey had understood that tho Reserves Iwd been from tho first set apart purely for religious purposes, for ad- vancing the best interests of the colonists temporaUy and spiritual- ly, taat this portion of the lands of the province- had never been glvc'u OTor to the control of the people of Canada ; that they were reserved by the Crown for a particular purpose, uml that conse- quently they had no right to intcrfero with them in any way, — that if from the commencement of the agitation the public mind had been disabused, such contentions as now disgrace a professedly Christian country could not exist. As matters now stand, every Christian should arouso himself and show, that though in the world, he belongs to another kingdom, and do his utmost to resist the appropriation of his Lonl and Master's property, to the pur- poses of the prince of this world. Holding these opinions, and believing that the majority of the people were ignorant of the fact set forth in his resolution, that by the final settlement of 1840, the Clergy lleserves were declared to bo tho property of "a// denominu- tiont of Chrhliam" in this province, for the maintenance of religion and the diffusing of Christian knowledge, according to "(heir re- tpective rdigioui views,'" ho considered himself bound to come for- ward and give an unvarnished statement of facts ; ho begged there- fore for a patient hearing, although he felt that in tho fulfilment of his self-imposed task ho might bo considered tedious, as, in order to prove that he had truth and right on his side, ho must read several clauses from various statuses, both of the Imperial and Colonial Parliaments. On the ceding of Canada by the French to tho victo- rious ormy of Qrcat Britain, 1759, tho rich endowments of the Church of Rome, granted to them by the French king (and this is a fact which all Protestants should take note of, viz. — that the grants were made under a Popish and not a Protestant Monarch. The British Crown did not endow tho Roman Catholic Church in Canada, as it is sometimes erroneously asserted. That Church had been endowed by the French King previous to the conquest ; and upon the principle tliat British law respects existing rights, she was allowed to retain her endo^vments) — these grants were by treaty guaranteed by them, and such being tho case, any parties who would petition the British Government to deprive that- Church of her guaranteed rights would desire, in his opuiion, their rulers to be guilty of as great a breach of faith as those who demand the spoliation of the temporalities of tho Protestant religion. The Romanists, who were then almost the only occupants of the soil, desired to bo recognized by Great Britain as the established Church of Canada, but this the truly Protestant and pious monarch George III. refused to grant them, and looking forward to the colonization of the Province with British subjects, he caused in the statutes of the British Parliament which related to this colony certain clauses to be inserted, whioh recognised the rights of tlie Church of Rome only 80 far as regarded the members of their own Church, and as- serted the intention of the Government to make provision for the encouragement of the Protestant religion, and for the^Jlaintcnance and sujjport of a protcstant Clergy within tho Province, as from time to time might be found necessary and expedient. [Tho Rev. speaker here read clauses 5 and 6 of oh. 83, 14th year of Geo. III., A.D. 1768 to 1774.] Canada was then but ono Province. Induoments were held out, by oflfers of free grants of land, to those who ha4 foJght for British supremacy, viz. — tho IT. E. Loyalists, to British subject?, and subsequently even to othws, to come and settlo here ; and it is to be hoped that many chocs this colony as a homo for themselves and their children, from 3 a knowledge of the fact tliat a provitsion would be made for tho nmintenanco of tlio Protestant religion, and tho diffusion of Chris- tian knowledge. It was soon found that enactments passed for the government of a people of such opposite character as tho French and the British, and such antagonistic religions as tho Roman and the Protestant, could not be applicable to both parties; consequently, 1780, a separation took plaoe, and the Province of Quebec was divided into tho Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. In this aiid tho following year, that act was passed called tho Con- stitutional Act, an act which conferred upon the people of both provinces a right, which up to this time they did not possess, of electing representatives, who in each Province should pass such laws subject always to the approval of his Mnjesty ns related to the well, '^eing of tho inhabitants and the improvement of tho colony. That act prohibited (clause 21) any person who should be an ecclesiastic from being eligible as a member of the House of Assembly. Now, was a Christian minister less capable of rightly fulfilling the duties of a legislator in a Christian country ; did he necessarily by becoming a teacher of religion, forfeit his privileges as a civilian and British subject? No ? But might not one reason of the prohibition be that provision had already been made for ministers of the Church of Home, and was about to be made for the Protestant Clergy, which engaged their services for the exclusive discharge of far higher and more responsible duties. Wc may at least surmise this, for the sanae act by which tho people of Canada acquired any right of jurisdiction over any portion of the country, confirmed to tho Church of Rome the rights they already enjoyed, as rognrer to bo clnm ed, demanded, or received bynny eccJcsiaBRp nnr son rector, or v.cr of the Protestant Church witLu ho pro;iEJe any custom or law or usage to the contrary notw tl"tandi«r" R.!; to return to the question IJn tn ^u<^>> . ""'"""sianuing. But competent authority THp rh.,..«i. !!f I.' ?^ naa been clehned by the Ldowments of^ti.e ChSrct of ScotSnf "'' ^^' T^PP^^^^ ^ but that they were perfectly wUlfni ^n^^'''*! T? **»* '"'*'J««t' question should 1^ ?e£d to he*ho™« T* '**^''"°"» *•"»* *»•« whom the lands did So^.^ The b,t^r feeC^^r/ *' f^'^' *« 80 unhappily excitvd among other bSsa^aiLtr/^^ *''?*''*' undescrred. She said, I have merelva nf^Tf !^ .F*'"''^'* '''"» I must guard it for future genemS infy ?et h b? *''' ?':?Pk*'^^ •' Imperial Oovemmpnt ♦»,.♦ t IlT ' . ^ ** '* "* asserted by the submjt, and consider myself relievpH fr««. ♦v. ' ^ .?m. ** *"•<=« Stitt^ ♦u"** ^***""' * oonTenient electioneering topic, a fruit- fal theme for the demagogue and the grievancemonger Theory en.itTr*!:*.^?"''^''' '*""'• "* °°*' *^« attempted to be madST; d«Sl/- »"«'?*"«♦« "•«t»rity tbe schemes of thoeo who had other «on*^f h ""* ?*•* ^''* P»''»'«»> amelioration or religious equiUixir ittemLl ''.'°''''/';''^"«**'''" ^«89,it was found hopelees J, lis bf a ,.^.i""f*^r I? 1"^'''"'° u^P*'" '•'« ^"•'"«'"' satisfactorily here. Sow/ WK1^^^'i*''*'^"'''' '''® "'^"«» ^«" reiqTe.tedin the fnlTto l.ir??i The representatives of the people then appeared «!l^i«K "/,''• •1«<«'^«'> «« bo disposed of, that the DritiHl Gov- «W1Th''^°•"'^, r^t"^*""™ 'he property belonged, and how U Tancement of religious instruction in the province." Let this be alw«L n ""'"^-/T •» *>*" been said that the people of JDannda iere always ayerse o the grant, bfcame they tliought that refi^gionsliould Jle oJ rln«,il 1. 5 /"P"""' °f ^''^ property, the wishes of he peo- ple of Canada had been consuUo I and met. In tho first place it lUm."n?f'T/'lr*^'"^^^^^• 'b'^t they wished tho In. peri a! P;;! IZ^r, ° " "° ^'"' •^"'*"°"' '^"*' «1«° ^''at the property should be X„ flin«V°V*'°"%r'- ?"»' P"''*^ ^"« '" Vo^,er which has so often flinched from the scttK-mcnt of diflBcult questions which hV* so often resorted to the infidel policy of expeLrcyind for' f tern? porary poace sold it.self and tho best interests o^f the countryTo £for« tK^f "^'*''*''''' *^ '"*'^'^'' <•»« Romanist, and even bowed before the Jew; instead, therefore, of acting in accordance wiS the constitution, and laying the question before the two Houses of Pariinment, where the Colonial Bill ought to have lain thirty davS ^U:dh?m'uT.?tt *"."•'•■ ^^•^'"^^'"- ^" declLtlonfJhj; the colonv 't^wfAl the disappointment of all right-minded men in tnc colony, to withhold her assent, and to exoresa her HPHir« «h.t the question should be decided in this co ony^Tord SydenTam in announcing Her Majesty's pleasure to the Legistturof bisiS' S .19 message, recommended the adopUon of a bill which was final y to dispose of the question. Note the concluding words of S message: "A measure which, in his opinion will !ffrd the surest InZTnafr'"'',^-' ^^ 't" ^^^^i-re here, of provfngS wi n-f ?^ ' P •=?"^"*'>"« «« the peace and happiness of the i^abi tents ofthe Province generally." The bill was introduced. Ssten to the preambe:-" Whereas it is expedient to provide for theS^ disposition of the unds called Clergy Reserves in this Prorince and for the appropriation of the yeariy income arising or Jo «ri there- from for the maintenance of religion and the adx anfement of religious knowledge." Provisions of the bill: one-half to be allotted to ?h« Churches of England and Scotland, according to Veil "umbe«! of Scotland. The other half to be distributed to all other denomina tions. in proportion to the amounts raised by their paSiclrcoJ: gregations; five commissioners to be appointed, to dVcidias L the a«»ountfrom time to time to be paid to each denomination, who wth ^Z i'^^f ""'" *" ^ P"''? '^"* ""^ '^' *^°d •' ^^bich last p;oris?oraU must admit was most unwise and unjust: unjust, because it laid a heavy tax npon the fund ; unwise, because it wou^d have the effect of perpetuating strife and bickerings between the chSmants TWs fwhUH ITi"^* ^^ hoth House 1„ the Awembly a majority of eight— a miyonty which hns been coDBiilcre.l very resnoctahlo when me„areH of a far more objectionable nature I J Len ?«« cd but JS woud prove to them that, if tno question had been as it i« now whether the ReaorvoH «houh. be apVo,riated L secular' in "po^eT; wS^ fir« h« 7lr^ '" *''" """""'^ ^""'"^ •"»'« voted the othe; Kown that^hnL'"'""',^'' ""'"•"' "^ "'" Kentlemen.) Now it was well ftTnd ^ thA K.^''*"?'?" ^ero opposed to a diviHion of the Reserve Sl^ they considered it the exclusive property of the Church of SaS «» >' ''"V"''"' 'r.'° ""'"" »>«'•« «>"»•''«• views : but hero we I^^t^l f "^f ' '^°"'''''". '"^^ "'° '•«P»e««"tatives of the people in Canada Ienth.^r« w„.'f'^?{:T''"".''' '••"'K'""' P^'-P"'""- The bill onSj iZi M • ^ '1"* ■''•'['"■" "'•'' ^*" ""'*««« »»■ I'-iliauient, aud certain tw*Llv« '"f ""'^p" ^"'.« ^•'•""K''* '■"'•'^"^'l. it W"« referred to the twelve judges of England for their opinion. Ten out of the twelve Who aa upon the question deci'''•''' ^''-'y «'«° decided, that om.lH.!. "^ "'': ^'^ 'r^ ""^^ ^"P°"' ^y ^»'« '•••ovinciul LogiHlature. a?ri.lt .P'?^'"' M °"'^ ' ""^ "''■■^'•^ ""» be intended to effect gran?; nnwor^n; "• ""l'^^^'^^ ^'"■•' *'"'" ''"'^ '"^^ inconsistent with the Asremhl."^^.,'; r"** ''«'«'''f»'-e-therefore the acts of the Canadian Assembly must be void, as it undertook to repeal the provisions of TordTr '''"'"''; '■'^^ '">'*'y ^^"-^ »ow placed in^ a dnlmm irif^h "; '" *'-*"'*n""inK the Act for their assent, had in his th^Zl """ "rr^y "'■«''^ "P''" ^''''"^ ^''« »«««««ity of adopting be b?ouX'f.nl!i. r' ""'• "m*^ "^ "^.^•''- P«'-'"it'ing the quesflin tS ?„ »,rh^ v^ * "^ ''^''"' '° **'° Pi-ovinee, and yet it was impo.ssible to ask her Majesty's assent to this Act, which had been pronounced nt„^r. r'" •• , ?7 "'"•■"^"'■^ '^^ •"•^^ t° introduce a meaSnrJ ^n fa^^i "P"-!?' *^*'''*™«"*- Tha^ liui, which doubtless they were r.^.tn" *'"'••,?' « ''"^ «""°'*'"* ^''« ^^'^^-^ to print it in full hni whf r™'"''^"! Z^*"',"^"-' ""'I they had done so this week-a bill which provided for the sale of the remainder of the Reserves; and dividing the proceeds as nearly as possible in conformity to the KriT"^ '^% ^'''•"^- '^' <^*''"'"*' Parliament, only leaving out the obnoxious Commissioner clause, and defining the respective proporton of the one-half to be divided between the ChuSes of JZt"! T'^ ^"""""'L' ""^ ^^^ "'^'^ '•"'f »° be divided amongst all fn To?,„nn Th " '"'^ PJ-OPO «on as n.ight seem just to the Governor in Council The preamble of the bill was nearly the? same as that of the local one. '; To provide for the/««Z disposition of the randJ, and the appropriation of the yearly income," &c. And it contained no clause permitting it to bo varied or repealed, except the usual one, during that particular session. No proposition to vary or ropeal was made that session; therefore the disposition was a final one. m honest man, no conscientious man, no loyal man, whether ho S ^r E- ;:^-rS s^^f ---:»; ";:K of tlio slmrc which woul com., f u '"'""""'' *V»' H'« ■""'•«Kcniont their object been " -uSl tU c^^^^^^^^^^ = "^"^ '"»'« which would not hour too c ose a -c uth v t^^ f'l .'' -'I'.^'r'"* obUiincd the nssistiucc ..r Wu.,?.,. J y* '"'^ ' "''^ '"'-'"'^''^ 'i«>o Toronto and elJcX "c-but UoT^i^wLl'^rT'- T"'"''''- ^"' jju ft mere woi l.ily point of view they would be guiner* by the ohang*. 1 he <|ueation waa whether the people shoul.l be assisted by a Christian werfZu* •" ■"PP'";""8 •» Christian Ministry, seeing that they r„ Tk. « " ^'*'"'»»/'"»» as«isUnce to obUin ho great a blessing in the first par-. ^rnph-they assort the absunlity, "that our con- th.r«i?l». "" "?«r t'"^ transcript of (Jreat Britain, and that Nnw ;...,«'"'"'"''"'''.• '■''^''^ ^° "'»"°8o "'» *»>««• local afTalr.." «ow. in thefirst p ace, the con^^titution granted to us protldiv that all our actflof egislation were subject to Uie approval or non-approT.l of U Homo (Jovernment. Hut even assuming that the people had a rowI/irT! *'""' ?*" '°*^'»' '*'^"'"' »»>"• d"l not give them a n«.!.Mi w**". ""^T •^'«nKe<« t« them.-Now the Weserves were ^?ZIJ. x°i^'T,^y ?'""* ""*"'"• *>"* '•""'"J for tt particular S« 1 .'i ^° '""' '"'".'"■'j' "'•""" '">'* »'•« "ct oft'" union in 1840, ?«n?!^ "',* """« y">- >" '^hi'-l' this question was finally disposed of ?hB r. olW*""'' """? '''.""'""' re«pecting the non-interference by iZtnll "°7'-»»«nt W'th the property and privileges of religious S« i.!h 1 <=ont»"'«'l the very same provisions, claxiso 42, as that r.lSn'^" "» . " ,*'l°. P"''""" »tatutc3, viz.-" that all acts touching TUL^ ^^ '?'**. ''°'^°''*' *•"' *''° ""»*«« °f Parliament for thirty days previous to declaration being asked of the Sovereign, &c.. fto.*" Ihe next clause gives a just idea of the conscientious principles of Wl"C"*lT*'" thought for his own part that these gentlemen lh..»«w 'V"^*""", *=«"''<"«'«'es, they were so capable of being thZ.ji 27 '!"«"! ""*• ''"'^° '" "^ pleasure. For instanceT their cry used to be that their conscientious principles could not brook the idea of only one Church being supported by the Clergy Reserves; and now that the property is declared to belong to ill Denoinmations, they change their cry «and say that evil only is to bo anticipated from the continuance of the anoraalout ,y,t«m of supporting from the same fund sects opposed in principle to each «!» .1.1 i?*u°' ""*." P°»'"ve injustice is inflicted on those who are wiuilielu by conscientious principles from availing themselves of the provisions of the Act. This argument savours too much of the dog in the manger"— we cannot take it, therefore you shall not— to emanate from a body professing Christian principles. If their scruples did not let them pay their Ministers with their share of the lumi, why not support schools in connection with their various con- gregations, and let others apply their share as they pleased. In the next paragraph these gentlemen set up their own opinions in oppo- ^nn^r* ♦• J'**?'^'?" °^ ^^^ •'"''««« "*■ England, and assume that the constitutional rights wore infringed by the Imperial Act of 1840, as It superseded the Colonial Acts of 1839 and 1840. The one remember, expressing a desire that the Imperial Pariiament should decide the quebiion, and the other passed at the instance of Lord John Russell as the Judges decided in violation of the constitution act In the next paragraph they attribute the silence maintained fop nearly ten years after the question was settled by the Imperial Parbament was chiefly the result of political circumstances, and is no proof of the acquiescence of the people. Now, he was ready to admit the first part of the proposition— it was owing to political circumstances, and we should do well to remember what they were The demagogues, whose " conscientious principles" were oflFended by a provision for the maintenance of a religion which taught the people to "fearGod andhonor the King,"-to be subject to the powers 10 p'-'^^ont'tni'.^t^^^^^ "7 F1.U0 mover. 1„ the because they wore the mo t noLv ami t?.lvJf ♦.'" ' ^^' ^«"«'" "»«* the strongest party and .Inrn,i f ^ " , ^^'^ *^« loudest thev wero their rebSlionVasVe;:^ -l' put™ "'^f t^'r' "^ '-'^^"-n. b" order without the assistance Sf a s^n^i'^n*^.^ °''''"' «^ Teace and were forced to fly the country lC^'w?"'f f^'^^''^'*' ""^ they been a few of the same priSles left' in m""^'' *^'''' »"'«•'* ^ave acquiesce in the settlement of 840 l "V® country, who did not that if the question w^rfinally dLtr'rf \'l'^ ^"'^,''^ ^^P^'''^'''^ of a fertile source whence to rl, „!f ,1-^^ ,*'"'y ^*^"'<' bo deprived fonnd that the people h"3 for. S CZl ""^l'"^ ^^enevef they be again the dupes of men vKSes s d to A ""•^/''••' P'''^l^'"-«'l *« people; yet he asserted that tS Sht ' 1 T °"'^/° thesovcreign that the question v.as set at re^t ■ nnd whSSf ^''P''' ^^''^ g«''^teful memory, it would have been useless fo^^K* ^"'*' T^">f'^^^^ in their them, that they desired a "speed v tJ"" gentlemen to have told and to hint, that except it TasXSvdi ?^ ^''« question;" their wishes, that there woilA„ „ / .tl'sposed of accordine to . the Province and the VZer Lf Govtnf'"". ''^iT''^" *''« P«»pf« o? ^ question had not been fin^S^ SLosed oHfl -^^'M^'' '^' '^ «'»« tive in any of the acts of theToveinmpn. '',"°*'''''S conserva- P e generally were contented tUltC Ik, '' "''°' ^^"^ the peo- place and power, and by way of showfn. T- '''''''^ "«"'" *« returned to their old trade of nfinnf,.!!-^ """"* gratitude, have the robber and the qSam t S\S^ ' ^"* "'""gh With the assistance of gentlemen of p!,?- '^ ,°°°stituency, and might the writers of this ^ddf^T^^Ttol'^^^^^^^^ suclfas l«on and say it was cau'seT £ the Ho -^'^ P«°Pl« to rebel- mtelligent and order-loving pavtT who mlL^^'''?'~'^' '^^^ to bluster and agitate without oomW V '*°°'^' ^"^^'^ ^^ft them teach them as they did Sre that thli^.!'^ 1" '^P'^' ^'» ^oo" noase, they do not expresriiiriyhe "1,f fh^ T''r'''°/^«'"°«t Province. In the next puraerani, tl Z *, '°^"^ P^°P'e in the are their consciences, hZSShitS. S^'jtlemen show how tender their disapprobation ^f the reS tt 'of tl 1 ''^^?; ^'^'^^ ^-''Press righ 8 of the present incunSraudinsocntrr'^'^' *° ^'^^P^^* *J^« to silence on our nnrt avI.I1,, ti!„ , '"^"''^"tly throw out, as a bribe hint, that if -:^\^t''z;t:^:^:f7T'}- ^^^^t How then can they ascribe hitovLo) r^ °^ ^""'"S ^''tript too. resist there-opening of SecJeXntoT'^ ,*" "^^ Clergy wh^ motives might be attribut^d-butrrb s ,S,°^.''^° •"'' «^'«»t, such fearlessly stoo.l forward in defence of Hf^',¥ *l"^'"terestedly and not only of his gcncratioi but of .11 L!. r^'"*' "^ "^° Chrisiians, expected, an attack is made upon iLrI,"^ ""''•, ^^'^ ""g^^* be borne most falsely accused ofTcLii^H."'' ''1''^ ^^'^ J«^^» Col- would remark by the w;. v tl at tl^^l '°"* ?»thority. Now he always harping Jpon ^ 'm^I^:" S^l^^^T '^'f '"^^^'^ ^'^^^ very well that there were only fort^ Rectories though they know may say, it is the principle we ire fnl?" frPl"'*^^' ^^^' «« they a few moments longei whilJ bo .vn?*^^ ''f > ?' '""«* ^^tain them position of th.nt mySi^t plmntom"eal*i" «'T '''' ^-^''«* '^<'"- agi ators would conjure up to f iSn T^l^ }^';<^iory, which these their erection ^^^^^ ^^^^oZ^£^^^^:^ ^^^^ pcnnnncntly eligible site. But in 18'>4 oTg The rnn,,? n """'^ was established, and it was found that tw.' ''?,,9"°^'Ja Company Clergy Reserves had been inS,ld nUrrco^ta^^^^^ "kTcT '^ Corporation protested and other lands wm givenTn iieu l^o n,^^ ^n:ltVt^'o'eac"Ve" 4;7the^^^ '^"'^ ^'" presentation ofTa visions of «;: sTatto ra.i r%s'"^rihet/''*^"*^'^ r- the various Government Surveyors and T T ^^f^'S"''® '''?*"' *'' principles would^dvocatc the V2rnTofthrS.?r?''fr"' actually granted and transferred Thnf^fh!= .t ^'^'^ ^^"^^ only.hiLuld mentiJr^tutk pltl n" hJ "pro? net 7S ment when the question was broulht before thrHouso hv ll ." '.^K'this Hr'°^""°\°' *^? "•>"^« ^"'^ recorded to the eVct rSi\"bl° r '"'? *^° «*^« ^-^ P'-^P^'-^y rvoughout the%rovinc?° so that though resolutions were passed exnresqiv*. nV T^a J- ' val of the assembly to the erection Tf n/i.!r r! f ^ i''* disappro- tiously respected UtsaSym/det^^^^^^^^^^^ ss^r^r^SSa?-^^ rLrrtin^oSl^oFtitut^t^ their object was to esUbLa Rcputl S and ^v f--'"^ ""'*••''' obtained such a constitution, they m'g Lt wiJh a^cerSn aCJ' ^''' of sound reasoning have refused to^ckrwledre the tX7Z Churches to the endowments, and have considered themseWe/ i ,, tificd m employing them for educational or other genSru^nir but they did not act, as these conscientious gi^tSen louS h^tl done had they been in their place. By rcfeiS to nn a -"^ 12 in consequence tbo trustees had been able to effect much Rood not ?hi^T°-'^''''?T'"' ^°^''l'*y^ l^^t i" niding other churches throughout the Union lie would ask, could a single instance be advnncfd of hSj*? '°*"'^^""g 0}' attempting to domineer over other Christ an bodies? lie was himself a rector, but he considered that his right did not extend beyond the controul of the particular church and ground, constituting the rectory. If even an episcopal church were built opposite to his own, he did not think that his beiJg Js?" fnW, r^ the slightest controul over it. He was the rector of i!.l: i"'^".^ Cl^"r<:h, Darlington, or St. George's Church, Clark, as the case might be ; not of the township, for the patents expressly designated these the first rectories in these townships, tCeby leading him to suppose that other rectories would be similarly cou- ♦w f f?;i ^i'l a°g«'^g? of the induction paper most clearly proved thetruth of his assertion: "And I do by these presents commit nf'^Sj^v? ''^^ and government of the souls of the parishioners of the said parish and inhabitants, members of the Church of Enoland within limits of said rectoiy." lie would moreover state t^ 4 the glebes had been valued and the amount at which they had been valued deducted from the share given to the Church, and he would ask, what was the diffeiVjucc to the fund, whether the parties received the lands or the proceeds ? Was a clercvman a more improper person to have the power of leasing lands-would ho make a worse landlord than a layman ? He asserted that, on the con- trary, haying received a liberal education, he would bo more apt to con- sider that the tenants had rightsas wellas thelandlord, and that they should be mutually respected. He hadnow set before them both sides of the question, and said enough to convince any reasonable person, except perhaps the conscientious gentlemen above referred to, that the reserves were unalienably appropriated to religious purposes. Ihat the question had been finaUy disposed of, ami could not be constitutionally re-opened. In conclusion ho would say, that ho could not understand how ministers of religion, professed servants of God (for such he understood were many of those who had signed the manifes o) who it was to be supposed occasionally at least offered up the petition «< Thy kingdom come ; Thy will be done on earth, as It 18 m heaven ; believing as he supposed they did, that there were two antagonistic powers in the world, the Prince of Light, and the w ,''^°„®^ •^"'■''°^^^' emphatically termed the "Prince of this World, when a certain portion of the property of this world had been given up and consecrated to the service of God ; for again he would say, in accordance with his resolution, that it was not given to the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, or any other particular denomination, but for the maintenance of m Protectant ministers and the diffusion of religious Icnowlcdgc. Thev thercrorc who now opposed the appropriation did not desire the alienation of that property which had been granted to this or that body, but of that which had been consecrated to the service of God. They would not iv)b man but God. How they could thus rank themselves on the side of the infidel cud the sceptic, enlist again under the banner of the prmce of this world, he could not divine ; but this he could ouly do— namely, to pray that grace might be given them to see their error, to repent of their apostacy, and to make their peace with God, ere they were called upon to give an account of their etewnrdship