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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 nr* 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