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 JOHIV JOSEPH LYmCH, by the grace of God, and appointment <f 
 the Holy See, Archbishop of Toronto. 
 
 To the Reverend CUrgy, Religious Oaf^jgunities aitd Beloved People of fhe 
 Laity, Heulth and Benediction iit vttr L&rd. 
 
 * Under the strongest impreMio: of duty and charity, and following the 
 doiirei of His Holiness the Pope, we ordered last year a voluntary collection 
 to be taken ' p ir, all the ChiTches of the Archdiocese, on the Second Sunday 
 of Lent, in aid of the Foreign Miesions, especially in pagan conntries, and 
 we wish thw year .> yenew the same request. The Society of the Propaga- 
 tion of the Faith, having its centre in France, which gave it birth, aflfords 
 one of the strongest examples of the universality of our Church in the present 
 age. This Society, raised up by providence to spread the Gospel in foreign 
 lands, collected last year at one cent a week from each member, over 6,900,000 
 francs, about a million, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, including 
 an in'irease, on account of the Jubilee alms ci' f 177,200. This sum, though 
 large, is not equtl to the one-tenth of the money expended on foreign mis- 
 sions by the Protestant sects, fiibles and tracts are distributed by the 
 millions by them. But the success of these efforts, according to the ac- 
 knowledgment of their own newspapers, is minimum, whilst the outlay is 
 maximum. The Holy Spirit is wanting to enterprises, undertaken for tbo 
 conversion of the pagans and the spread of the true gospel outside of the 
 true Church, founded by Christ. It will be interesting to know the localities 
 where the funds for the propagation -' the faith are collected and whore 
 they are dispersed. In Europe about .^1,351,000 were subscribed. Franco 
 supplying about three-fourths of the sum collected throughout the whola 
 world. This country is destined to see better days, Ireland, in her poverty, 
 gave $27,525, England and Scotland »43,757, North America $28,000, South 
 America #10,000. It if quite certain that, with more zeal, some cc mtries 
 could do more. We acknowledge that there is a difficulty in collecting one 
 cent a weak from each member of the society, and hence we have adopted 
 the plan of taking up a collection once a year. Asia contributed $2,400. Africa 
 $6,100, Oceania $2,700. •»' > ' 
 
 DIS 
 
 EMENTS. 
 
 Thirty-four Bishops and Vicars Apostolic with nine Religious Orders, and 
 their branches, receive in Europe donations from the Society of the Propa- 
 gation of the Faith. The missions in the greatest need are, Norway, Sweden, 
 Lapland, Denmark, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Scotland, Greece, and Turkey in 
 Europe. These missions received last year $134,683. 
 
 In Asia donations were given to 71 Bishops and Vicars Apostolic and 17 
 B«ligiouB Orders, 
 
 In China and the neighbouring kingdoms there are 3G Bishops and Vicais 
 Apostolio wtihseventeen Religious Orders, to whose care our Holy Father 
 has confided that empire and the adjacent kingdoms. Donations have been 
 supplied to these in proportion to their wants , as the Catholi<a there are 
 all very poor and able to contribute but very little towards the support of the 
 Church. Still the Bishops have their seminaries, orphan asylums and schools. 
 There are many native priests amongst the clergy. In those countries there 
 are 24 Vicar- Apostolic Bishops, with priests, religious communities, colleges 
 »nd orphanages in the British possessions of Asia. In Africa thei-e are 17 
 Bjshoiw, Vicars-Apostolic, priests, and J 9 branches of Religions Orders. Vast 
 
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 fields of missionary labour are opened here within the last few years. It i» 
 the most difficult and insalubrious of all the foreign missions, and needs at 
 the present moment all our sympathies and aid. Many conversions are 
 effected amongst the blacks. In Australia and Oceania new dioceses have been 
 formed and a great future awaits the Church in those countries owing prin- 
 cipally to Irish emigration, and their children being educated in the true 
 faith. In our own North- West and eastern territory a great work has been 
 accomplished during the last fifty years. There are now in these conntrieg 
 one Archbi&hop aud five Bishops, Vicars- Apostolic, including British 
 Columbia and Vancouver Island. The Archbishop of St. Boniface, opposite 
 Winnipeg, is assisted by thirty-four priests and thirty Sisters of Charity, 
 college schools, orphan asylums, schools, etc., etc., and a number of lay 
 brothers. 
 
 The Bishop of St. Albert, in the Saskatchewan District, is assisted by thirty 
 priests and by as many Sisters of Charity with their orphan asylums, schools, 
 etc. There are about twelve thousand Catholic ' ndians scattered over that 
 vast region. The thirty priests have residences in the most 'convenient lo- 
 calities. In the districts of Arthabaska and Mackenzie there are two Bishops, 
 seventeen priests, and a number of lay brothers and Sisters of Charity. 
 British Columbia has one Bishop, eighteen priests, seventy-eight churches 
 and chapels, three convonts, with orphan asylums, schools and hospitals. 
 Its Catholic population being 20,000, principally Indians ; while Vancouver 
 Island has a Catholic population of five thousand four hundred, one Bishop, 
 twelve priests, a number of Sisters of Charity, with schools, orphan asylums, 
 and convents. There is no part of the world at present that is not mapped 
 out by the direction of the Pope and provided with spiritual assistance and 
 guides. The command of our Lord to His Apostles, " Go teach all nations," 
 has been faithfully carried out by degrees, by the Catholic Church. The 
 evangelization of the world requires great courage and perseverance, the 
 Holy Spirit of God breathes into souls the spirit of self sacrifice to quit home 
 and all human ties and comforts, to labour and suffer for the salvation of 
 souls. The missionaries in most of those countries that we have enume- 
 rated have to endure, like St. Paul, the fatigue of long journeys by sea and 
 by land, dangers in the rivers, dangers from robbers, from the uagans, dan- 
 gers of the city and in solitude, dangers from false brethren, pains from sick- 
 ness and in watchings, from hunger and thirst, from cold and nakedness, 
 and above all the anguish fronj the solicitude for the salvation of the people 
 confided to their care, let.^ air should be lost through their fault. What great 
 reward must these missionav' , co-operators with Christ in the salvation of 
 so. h, receive from Him 1 We, by our alms, can participate in their reward, 
 which must be exceedingly great, for the salvation of one soul is more impor- 
 tant than the preservatiiu of ten thousand material worlds. If the Society 
 of the Propagation of the Faith ceased to exist, or becomes relaxed in its 
 efforts to supply means to the missions, then millions of souls should be aban- 
 doned, and would relapse again into infidelity. But this, we hope, will never 
 take place. 
 
 God will stir up the zeal of generous souls to continue the good work, 
 and their reward will be very great both in this world and in the next. We 
 trust that all our good people will contribute according to their means. We 
 must not forget that all Upper Canada received large contributions from the 
 Propagation Society, when the fir.i^t missionaries were labouring under great 
 difficulties, but now that the missions are well established, honour as well as 
 gratitude demand a return. Donations were sent to us, until we announced 
 to the Society that we scrupled to receive money from them whilst so many 
 other parts of the world were in greater distress. Parents will also teach 
 
their children to be mindful of the thouBonds of poor children in China, who 
 are exposed by their parents to the death of body and soul. In this unhappy 
 country, parents when they have u^ many children as they wish to rear up, 
 will expose the rest to be drowned in the rivers or devoured bj- be asts. 
 Thousands of these innocent babvs are collected every year, and tiieir lives 
 preserved by pious women who go through the villages in quest of those in- 
 fants. These pious women require money for this work. We shall appro- 
 priate a fair share of the funds which are gathered, to the Association of the 
 Holy Childhood instituted for the baptism and succour of those children. 
 The journeys of the missionaries are very expensive in these foreign coun- 
 tries, and their people are too poor to contribute mere than a trifle to their 
 support. Besides, churches, orphanages and schools must be built, and 
 teache -8 supported. This Evangelical work cannot be carried on except by 
 the charity of the old Christian world. If we cannot join these holy men 
 and women in labouring to extend the Kingdom of Christ by our toils and 
 sufferings, we can at least facilitate their work, and participate in their re- 
 ward. One of the great obstacles to the spread of the trne faith is the mul- 
 tiplicity of the Protestant sects, preaching different religions to a people who 
 were taught to believe that the religion of Christ is one, " One Lord, one 
 ^'aith, one baptism." We have appointed^the Second Sunday of Lent for this 
 collection, to give the people an opportunity of adding to their fastings, 
 mortification and prayer, almsdeeils which deliv<^'' from sin. This pastoral 
 shall be read in all the churches, religious communities and chapels of our 
 archdiocese on the first Sunday of Lent, or on the following Sunday in 
 chapels where there had been no mass'on the first Sunday. The religious 
 communities and children confided to their care are exhorted to contribute to 
 this great work. Given at St. Michael's Palace on Ash. Wednesday, 1883. 
 
 J. J. McCann, Priest, 
 Secretary. 
 
 t John Joseph, 
 Archbishop of Toronto. 
 
 Collections are to be sent to St. Michael's Palace as soon as possible. 
 
 Note. — Synopsis of the progress of religion in China. 
 
 Pagan Population 164,663,200 
 
 Catholic „ .. 771,710 
 
 Japan, Pagan 33,940,000 
 
 ,, Catholic 25,633 
 
 Conversion of Adults in China 17,847 
 
 Baptism of Children 286,782 
 
 Conversion in Japan 1,227 
 
 Baptism of Infants 1.464