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'\ ■<»♦« Dedicated to the Synod, mho IIeqtkstki» its Priii,i('ATio:T. <»» ♦ REPORT OF THE SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF RUPERT'S LAND, CALLED BY THE BISHOP, AND HELD ON THE 8tu JANUARY, 1873 ; THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS. The Synod wa» opened on Wednesday, January 8th, 1873, by the celebration of Di- vine Ser' ice at 10.30 a.m. in St. John's (Jathedral. Morning Prayer was said to the end of the Third Collect by the Rev, Henry Cochrane, the First Lesson being read by the Ven, Archdeacon Cowley, and tlie Second Lesson by the Ven. Archdeacon Mcljoan. The Litany was said by the llev. W. C. Piidc- ham. The Ante-(yOininunion Service was read by the Bishop, the Epistle being read by Archdeacon McLean, The Sermon was preached by the Ven. Archdeacon McLean, from Acts chap, xv,, V, 22. (The Sennon will be found below). At the celebration of the Holy Coiuimmion the Bishop consecrated the elements, which were distributed by the Bishop, the Arch- deacons, and the Rev, Messrs, Cochrane and Pritchard. The offertory was given to the Diocesan Fund. The Synod assembled in Saint John's •School Room at 2,30 p m. The following members were present : CLERGY. The Vena. Archdeacons McLean, D,D,, D.C.L., and A, Cowley; the Revs. Hemy Cochrane, James Settee, Samuel Pritchard, W, C. Pinkham, Gilbert Cook, Louis De Lew, Ph.D„ Walter Beck, T, N. Wilson. LAV DELEGATES. St, John's — Hon, Colin Inkster, George Tait. Holy Trinity, Winnipe;j — W. G. Fonseca. St. Paul's— W. Thomas. St. Andrew's — G. Davis, T, Sinclair. St, Clements— Thcs, Bunn, M,P,P., John Kippling, St. Peter's — Henry Piince, J, P., John Sinclair, J,P, St. James's — Hector McKenzie, Henry Cook, J.P, Headingly— V/, B, Hall, J, P., John Taylor. St. Anne's — Andrew Tait, John Tait. St, Margaret's — James Tait, Jas. Brown. St, Mary's — C. Mair, J, Corrigal. Westboum — Chief-Trader Taylor. The Secretary read the usual prayers. The Bishop then delivered his address. Moved by Archdeacon McLean, seconded by Mr. Bunn, That as the minutes of last Synod have been printed and circulated, the Bishop be requested to sign them without their being read over to the Synod. — Carried. The Bishop then read the following R«port : The Executive Committee beg to make the following Report : — First. — They reconmiendforadoptionby the Synod, 1. A Canon for the organization of the Church in Rupert's Land. :!.ii ii 2. A resolution relative to tlic provision made for the New Bisboprios. 3. A plan for sustaining the Diocesan Funil and applying it in aid of clerical in- comes. 4. A plan for raising part of the Clergy- man's income by the contributions of the people. C. A resolution respfctlngthe ajipointraent of an agent for L^ irch Funds and of Audi- tors for the same. 6. A resolution requesting the Bishop of Rupert's Land to bring into operation in this Diocese the Act ai)pointing a new Lectionary, and the Act amending the Act of Uniformity. 7. The appoini;ment of a Committee to con- sider the organization and working of Sunday Schools, the encouragement of Church Music, the extension and management of the Depot for Church Books, and the diffusi .;i through- out our Parishes and Missions of Church Periodicals and reading. 8. The re-appointment of the Executive Committee, substituting the Rev. Henry George for the Rev. J. P. Gardiner, and Mr. Hay, M. P.P., for Judge Black. 9. A Canon on persons qualified to vote or to be voted for at Church meetings. 10. A resolution of thanks to Archdeacon McLean for his advocacy of St. John's Col- lege in Canada in 1871. 11. An alterati^'^ of Section 3rd of Consti- tution, to be proposed by Rev. W. C. Pink- ham. Second. — ^I'hey cannot recommend an alter- ation of Section 10 of the Constitution to be proposed by Mr. Pinkham. (Signed,) R. Rupert's Land. President. Moved by Archdeacon McLean, seconded by Rev. Dr. De Lew, That Rev. S. Pritchardbe re-elected Secretary to the Synod — carried. Moved by Archdeacon McLean, seconded by Mr. H. Cook, That His Lordship, the Bishop be respectfully requested to allow his address to be printed for circulation — carried. Moved by Archdeacon McLean, and seconded by Archdeacon Cowley, That the following Canon for the organization of the Church in Rupert's Laud be ad(*i)tetl by the Synod : — TAN ox. Wlicreaa the Lord Bishop of Rupert's Laud has given his consent to the division of the proaont Diocese of Iluport's Land into four Dioceses, and the arraiigonients seem to be progressing satisfactorily to that end, and whereas it is necessary for the well-being of the Church in Rupert's Land, that the Bish- ops, Clergy and Laity of these Dioceses should be aldo to meet and provide for the government and adjuinistration of the Church in the same, and whereas it apjiears that in any colony where tliere is a Local Legislature, action can only be taken in such a matter liy the Church of that colony itself, the Synod of Rupert's Laud hereby adopts the following Canon for the organization of the Church in Rui)ert'8 Land : — The present DioiJese of Rupert's Land shall for the present be diviiled into four Dioceses as follows : — 1. The Diocese of Ruj^ert's Land to consist of the Province of Manitoba, with the Dis- tricts of Cum1)erland, except the sub-District of Fort ' a-Corne, Swan River, Norway House, and Lac la-Pluie. 2. The Diocese of the Saskatchewan to consist of the Districts of the Saskatchewan and English River, with the sub-District of Fort La Come in the Cuml^erland District. 3. The Diocese of Hudson's Bay to consist of the Moose or Southern Department of the Hudson's Bay with the Districts of Church- hill, York, Oxford and Severn. 4. The Diocese of Athabasca to consist of the Districts of Athabasca and McKenzie River, being the whole of the North-West Territories beyond the Long Portage. Second— That the Dioceses thus formed be an Ecclesiastical Province, to be called the Province of Rupert's Land. Third — That as soon as the new Dioceses, or at least two of them have been organized by the appointment of Bishops, a Provincial Synod to represent the whole Church in Rupert's Land be convened by the Bishop of Rupert's Land. That the said Provincial Synod consist of two Houses, — one House composefl of the Bishops and the other of representatives of the Ckr^'y and J.aity of the Diooosos. That the House of Representatives of tlie C'ler<,'y and Laity at the first meeting bo thus eomposed, viz : — The Archdeacons of Rupert's Ijand, cx- ofiioio and one clergyman and one layman for every Diocese — if there are more than three clergymen and not more than six in a Diocese, then two clergymen and two laymen — if more than six and not more than nine, then three of each order and so on. That the Biahojjs and Executive Committee of the Diocese of Rupert's Land l)e a Com- mittee to arrange the way in which the Clerical and Lay Delegates of each Diocese shall 1)6 appointed. Fourth — That at the first meeting of the said Provincial Synod, steps shall be taken to frame a Constitution for the said Synod, which among other things shall provide for the future representation of the different Dioceses and for the general Government of the Church in Rupert's Land. The foregoing Canon was considered clause by clause and was unanimously adopted, with the exception of clause 3, in the case of which there was t .e dissentient voice. Moved by Archdeacon McLean, seconded by Thomas Bunn, Esq., M.P.P. and J.P.— That this Synod desires its best thanks to be conveyed to the Church Missionary Society for having added to the many obligations un- der which this land lies to it, a temporary provision for Bishops for two of the proposed new Dioceses in Rupert's Land, viz. Hudson's Bay and Athabaska — that it trusts the Soci- ety will find itself repaid in the greater vigor and progress, under God, of its missions in those parts — that it rejoices to hear that steps have been taken for the appointment of those Bishops, and that it hopes that the eflFort for '■ ising the Endowment of the Sas- katchewan Bishopric may meet with such success as to enable the Bishop of Rupert's Land, in concert with His Grace the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, to take steps at as early a period as possible for appointing a Bishop for that Diocese also. --Carried unani- mously. Moved by Mr. McKonzio, seconded by Mr. Fonseca, and carried: — Resolved. First.— That the Rules for the A theBishopbe requested to bring into operation in this Dio- cese, the Act IH and S.T Victoria, (I'hap 37, ' ' An Act to i^nioiul tlie Law relating to tho tallies of Ijcasons and Psalter contained in the Prayer Book,' and the act 35 and 36 Vic. CJliaj). 3.'>, "An act for the Amendment of the Act of Uniformity. " Moved by Ven. Archdeacon Cowley, sec- onded by Thos. Bunn, Esq., M. P. P., and carried by ac'lamation, The Synod of Uuport's Land desires to ex- press its sense of the ability and zeal with which Archdeacon Mclioan advocated the cause of St. John's College in Canada in 1871 and to convey to him their best thanks for his services. Moved by Hon. Colin Inkster, seconded by Mr. Hall, aiul carrieil. That the following Canon on persons quali- fiedtc» vote or bevoted upon at Church Meet- ings be adopted by the Synod : — CANON. That no person be qualified to fill the office of Churchwarden or Vestryman in any Parish or mission, or to vote at the elcv-jtion of any such officer or for any other object at public meetings of the Congregation, unless he shall have signed this declaration in a book to be kept by the Incumbent and Churchwardens for that purpose : — I, A. B., do declare that I am a member of the Church of England or Protestant Epis- copal Church in Rupert's Land. Resolved further that this Canon take eJBFect at next Easter. Moved by Rev. W. Beck, seconded by Rev. Dr. DeLew, and carried. Kesolvod that the Executive Committee be ro-nppointedjwitb the excoptiuii that the Rev. Iloiiry (Joorgo be substituttiil for the Rev. J. P. Gardiner and Mr. liuy, M.P.P., (or Judge Black. Moved by Rev. W. C. Pinkhara, seconded by Archdeacon McLean, and carried, That the following a<\dition be made to Section three of the Constitution That one Clergyman and one Layman bo appointed by the Synod to examine the certiticatea and report on them. The Bishop then named the following members of Synod to compoae tlie committee on Sunday Schools, Music, &c., viz: The Rev. Dr. DeLew, Rev. Messr. Pinkham, the all Beck and (irisdale, tiid Messra. Mair, Henry Cook, Hall, and Fonseca. Moved by Ven. Archdeacon McLean, conded by Rev. Dr. Del^ew, That in the opinion of this Synod, Lord Bishop ia ex-oHicio n memlter of committees without l>eiu'^ named as such when they are formed. Carried unanimously. Moved by the Rev, W. C. Pinkham, sec ondedby Chas. Mair, Ksq,, and carrietl. That the business decided upon by the Executive Conmiittee to be brought before the Synod be printed and placed in the hands of the members of the Synod at least a fort ■ night before the meeting of Synod. There being no further business the Bishop closed the Synod with tlie Benediction. THE BISHOPS ADDRESS. Reverend Brethren and Brethren of the Laity : Four eventful years have passed since I last had the pleasure of meeting the Synod. We were then suffering from the gi'ievous effects of ihe plague of grasshoppers in the preceding summer. Many families were impoverished by it, and but for the generous aid received from England, Canada and the United States there would in all probability have been not a little loss of life. And yet the following year found us borne down by even a more serious trouble. The country was in a state of anarchy. In the autumn of 1870 lawful authority was re-established, but, in the imsettled state of afiaii's as well as from the de- sireability of consulting the Church Societies of England that help us, be- fore proceeding further with our organi- zation, I thought it better not to call the Synod together. At the same time, as it was represented that my presence here might be of service, I very unwil- lingly deferred my visit to England for a year. Then came my absence on that visit. Thus from one cause or another a considerable time has elapsed since our last meeting. It i.s my tirst duty in addressing you to express my deep sense of the gieat- ness of the services of Archdeacon Mc- Lean to the Diocese. I have to thank 1dm for the ability and energy witli which he advocated the cause of St. John's College, in Canada, in the sum- mer of 1871, and for the vigor and faithfulness with which he discharged in my absence the duties of the delicate office of Commissary. He is soon to undertake an anxious mission, on the success of which will depend, in my opinion, imder God, not a little the posi- tion to be taken by our Church in the great West of this land. The duty is imperative ; but I feel not a little the losing from my side at this time one so hearty in liis own work, so ready for whatever duty tunis uj), so fitted to be helpful by counsel or action in any emergency. We have to regi'et the early death of one of the Clergy who attended the last Synod, the Rev. David Hale, Missionary of the C.M.S. at Fairford. He had done good service at that station m very difficult circumstances, and gave eveiy promise of being a faithful Missionary and a very valuable and true-hearted I 8 ISi II ,.1 '.N- ; oo-o[)erator in all the eiroi-ts of the Dio- cese. The Diocese has also lost one of its oldest and most experienced Missionaries — Tlie Rev. William Mason — Missionary of the 0. M. 8. at York Factory. He labored in this country for 30 years. For some years, however, after he first came ont he v/as connected with the Wesleyan Missionary Society of Eng- land. He received at Norway House, V)ofor8 he left, an address signed by a larg3 niunber of the leading officers of tha Hudson's Bay Company expressive of their high regard. He leaves behind with us a noble monument to his servi- ces. A district which he found Hea- then is left Christian. The Indian con- verts are able to read in their own tongue the Bible which he ti'anslated. Family worship is common in their tents, and in their journeyings. Several of these Indians trained by him are Lay Readers conducting our services among their countrymen, whom also they ad- dress with power. Their offerings to the Native Pastorate Fund of the Church have been regular and generous. THE DIVISION OF THE SEE OF RUPERTS LAND. In my last address I spoke at length ; on the change to be anticipated in the circumstances of the country. I said i that a few years must still pass before we are fully connected with the outer ; world. Those few years have almost ; I)assed. We are now in the midst of i the difficulties of a period of transition, ; and we are on the eve of still greater I changes. Emigrants are coming into \ the country notwithstanding the diffi- i culty and expense, as yet, of travelling ; to it, and they have many needs, while | there is a very small population to sup- ; ply them. Labour and all the neces- 1 saries of life are, therefore, very dear. I Winnipeg, which, when the Synod last I met, had only a few houses, has already j a population of 1500 souls, and though i the rest of the country has not changed i proportionately, yet there are already various new settlements, and there is every prospect of a considerable increase to our population next season. We may expect, early in summer, to have the railway from Glyndon, on the Noi-th Pacific Railway of the U. S. , completed to our Frontier, and it is not improba- ble that before the season closes, a Rail- way may be in preparation within our own territory to meet it. But the increase of population and of business to be anticipated in the next few years is really beyond calculation. There never has been in British Colonial life anything similar to the encouragement that is about to be given to emigration to this land by the cai-rying through of that gigantic un- dertaking — the Canadian Pacific Rail- wa}^ It is absolutely startling to con- sider the probable results from the opening up so rapidly of that enormous ])rairie region along the south of this Diocese, extending for so many hundred miles — belie '/ed as it is to contain a vast extent of the most fertile land and to possess very great mineral resources. As this near future disclosed itself every year more clearly to my mind, I was made to feel more and more the impossibility of the^huge Diocese, that was committed to my cai-e, being in any way satisfactorily superintended by one Bishop. Nearly half of the Diocese — the gi-eat region that is the watershed of the Youcon and McKenzie Rivera — over twenty times the size of England and Wales — had never had an Episco- pal visit. How could it, when, up to the present day, the mere time, that would be required to go from my resi- dence to visit the various Missions, at such seasons as there would be any use of being at them, namely when there would be bodies of the Indian converts collected, would have consumed a great part of two years at least. And the attempt to guide these missions from such a distance has proved anything but satisfactory. Mr. Bompas, the noble 9 pioneer in the far North, has written very strongly on the difficulty he found in carrying out the wishes and instructions of myself and of the Finance Coniniit- tee of the C. M. S., of Rupert's Land, But in the iiew state of things in Manitoba and the iSouth of Rupert's Land, there would now be practically an equal difficulty with the country round Hudson's Bay. Our Missions there have been marvellously successful and are veiy important. *7hole districts such as York, Moose, Rupert's House and Albany, are Christian, while in most of the othc" districts the large pro- portion of Indians ara either Christians or what is known as praying Indians, that is they are willing to receive Christian instruction. Now, hitherto, at intervals of years, tlieie have been brief Episcopal visits to tiiis region — sometimes to York Factory, sometimes to Moose Factory and the nearer posts. But there has not been any real thorough inspection of the Mission field, and there could not be. Even such a brief and partial visitation as I have described, giving only a few days to some of the principal stations, entailed the best part of a whole summer. And this is a large region. Inchiding Churchill, Ox- ford, York, Severn, and the whole of the Moose or Southern Department of the Hudson's Bay Company, it is about 12 times the size of England and Wales. Under the vigorous administration of the eminently qualified Missionary, who, I trust, by this time has been consecrated as its Bishop, I confidently expectthe whole of the population of this part of the coun- try to be in a very few years Christian. But absolutely necessary as is the pro- vision of further Episcopal supervision for these two immense tiucts of country that the missionary work now going on, may be efficiently inspected and pushed forward, and that native agency may be vigorously called out by one in the midst of the missionaiy life and necessi- ties, there is in the inteiost of the country and of the Church, if she ia to take a worthy jiart in the future of this land, a still greater necessity. The tliousands of poor wandering Indians along the inhosj)itable shoi-es of Hud- son's Bay or the banks of the gi'cat Mc- Kenzie, have indeed as much a right to receive the best we can communicate of spiritual or church privileges as the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, that are expected one day to occupy the great fertile belt of the south — still the thought of this coming multitude — this new nation of white men — mainly, doubtless, of Anglo-Saxon blood — Avith all their struggles for this world — cany- ing with them the common human bur- den of sin with all its sorrows, may well fill the mind with anxiety and bid it be alive and active in preparing. Who can reflect on those large and wai - like tribes of Indians in the south — whc must be immediately reached with the Grospel — if they are to be saved ^"om temporal as well as spiritual rain and misery — or who can picture the future of those vast prairies, through which the Saskatchewan flows, when the Pacific Railway opens them up, and villages and towns spring up in their midst, and not feel that there is not a day to be lost in having a man to lead and guide the work of the Church in that region, whose whole life and ener- gies shall be devoted to that work. Other Christian bodies are striving to do their part. The Roman Catholic Church, seldom behind in organization, has for- med that part of this Diocese known as the Northern Department of the Hud- son's Bay Company, into an Ecclesiasti- cal Province, with an Archbishop and three sufTragan Bishops and two of +hese Bishops have their Dioceses in what is proposed as our Diocese of the Saskat- chewan. It was, therefore, one great object of my visit to England to endeavour to make arrangements for the formation of three new Dioceses out of Rupert's Land. I had previously corresponded with the Secretaries of the C. M. S. ou 10 the question of the Northern Missionary Bishoprics, so I was able to bring it l)efore a full meeting of the Committee of that Society, along with a review of all their Missions in Rupert's Land, at an early day after my arrival. The subject nas also brought before the So- ciety for tlie Propagation of the Gospel, and at a later date before the Council of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund. And I would desire in this connection to ex- press my deej) gratitude for the very cordial language and actions of Mr. Bullock, the Secretary of the S. P. Cr. I was thereby not only helped invalu- ably in bringing the matter fiivourably before the Council of the Colonial Bishop- rics Fund, but was strengthened myself in f)ushing b(ifore the Church the impor- tant scheme. Months passed — not by any means idle months as regards the furtherance of my object, — impor- tant months when the proj)Osition could be well tiirned over and weighed by those to whom it had been submit- ed. The ultimate success was doubtless- ly materially contiibuted to by the strongly expressed views of my two Archdeacons, esjiecially Archdeacon Cowley, who sketched out of himself to the C.M.S. an identical proposition, by the known opinions of Messi's. Hoi'den and Bompas, Missionaries enjoying large- ly the confidence of that Society, and by the thorough support and countenance of Bishop Anderson and Archdeacon Hunter. The latter took an active part in the delil^erations on the subject of the C.M.S. and it was a nxatter of no ordinary gi-atilication to me when in conducting the final arrangements I was able to give the Archbishop of Canter- bury a letter from my predecessor, writ- ten of his own accoixl, in which he said : — " Archdeacon Hunter has kindly sent me your memoi-andum to the C.M.S. marked " Private." I most heartily endorse the whole scheme and you may on any occasion say so." The memorandum just referred to was printed and circulated among the members of ^he society usually attend- ing meetings of the committee by the secretaries of the Church Missionary Society, all of whom I may say, entered most heartily into my proposals, and whom indeed I felt in their constant kind- ness as a company of brothers. The whole subject was then fully discussed at a special meeting of the committee at which the Venerable H^nry Venn was able to give the aid of his counsel, and over which the President of the Society the Earl of Chichester presided in person. The propositions were approved of and remitted to a sub-committ(!e who met with me, and the report they drew up was adopted by the Society. Provision was made for the support of the two Senior Missionaries in the McKenzie River and Hudson Bay districts, Messrs. Bompas and Horden, if they should be consecrated as Bishops. It is not known whether Mr. Bompas will give his con- sent to his name 1:>eing placed before the proper authorities with the view of his selection. Before I left England, how- ever, the Archbishop of Canterbuiy had applied for the Royal License for the Consecration in England of Mr. Horden as Bishop in the Hudson's Bay District, and from information I have since re- e-eived I have great hopes that by this time he is consecrated. After the arrangements with the C. M. S. were completed the Council of the Bishoprics Fund, at a meeting ui ier the presidency of his Grace the Arch- bishop of Canterbury to which I was invited, approved of the scheme for the formation of the three new Bishoprics, and I understood that in an appeal which was soon to be publiehed these Bishoprics were to hare the first place. I am happy to say it is so. Thirty -two years ago a similar appeal was made. Since then the Council have received and administered a capital sum of £237,- 893, which with the liberality it has stirred up in others has provided for the endowment or expenses of tho Bishops 11 of thii"ty new sees. They feel tlie time has come for a second ai)i)eal. They name in that ajjpoal 27 Bishoprics, I trust that this appeal may bring us ma- terial assistance, but it is (juite expected that the friends of each proposed Bishop- lic will do the chief part, and in our cjuse the recognition of the Council will, inde- pendently of any pecuniary aid be a great assistance. I hope endowments may be gradually formed for the Hudson's Bay and theMcKenzie River Bishoprics, but as they are for the present jn'ovided for the great effort must be to raise at once an endowment for the Bishojiric of the Saskatchewan. I begiui the for- mation of a working committe(; before I left England and the presence of Aicli- deacon McLean is expected to organize and work in connection with that Com- mittee. I am sure you will nil heartily wish him Godspeed. ORGANIZATION FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT. The formation of these Bishoprics will enable us by means of the Bishops and Clerical and Lay Delegates from each Diocese, to obtain a thorough and effec- tive representation of the whole Church in Rufjert's Land, and thus put us in a position to proceed practically to Self- Govern ment. As I have joined you with me in di- recting the affairs of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, the arrangements tor this had better bo made by our joint action. It can be done by our maiking out temporarily boundaries for the four dioceses, and pi oi)osing a general con- vention or Provincial Synod to be as- sembled as soon as possible, after there are at least three bishoj)s, to consist of two houses, one comiwsed of the bishops and the other of representatives of the clergy and laity. I have no doubt that the holding of such a synod can be ac- complished. Tlie C. M. S. has express- ed a desire to have from time to time a conference of a number of its mission- aries from different paiifi of the country. Such a conference could be held at the same time as the Convention. Till the Church is organized, the bishops will have to be appointed as nearly as possible in jiccordanee with the course suggested by the lettei-s pa- tent founding the see. The Crown reserved power in them to divide the diocese with the consent of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Rui)ert's Land, for the time being. I have been advised by two eminent counsel, that in present circumstances it would not be desirable for me by any deed to resign my present rights. The position of the new bishops will there- fore, tempoi-arily, till the Church can act for itself, be that of Bishops Sufiragan, in England, exercising the Episcopal office in districts delegated to them by me. The Crown would not, I believe, issue any new letters patent. There- fore the couree to be adopted is this. Those who send out the missionaries at work in the district, and supply the funds for the bishopric have to be con- sulted with. The consent of the Arch- bishop of Canterbury and myself, has to be obtained — and the consent of the Crown is given by the issuing of the royal license for allowing the consecm- tiou in England. The result of this Convention or Synod will be I trust, the determination of a I>lan for the organization of the Chui-cl , which will approve itself to all. It is a joy to my heart more than I can express that I am t( be no longer nominally the Bishop of an impossible jurisdiction. The necessities of even the portion of the Diocese that will still remain under my care will I doubt not need my utmost energies and be more than I can adequately meet. THE DUTIES AND SUPPORT CLERGY. OP THE But whUst I have been thus labouring for the division of the Diocese, I have not been without the most anxious thought for the future provision for the 12 m IS, \ i. ^3 !£! fc*'4 i^. Clertcv. There are two facts that force themselves upon uh. Tlie duties falling on the Clergy are likely to be for a time more onerous — the iuc(jme in jre precarious. My predecessor formed the different Districts into which the exist- ing comnninity divided itself into Parishes and the Missionaries were regarded as incumbents of tliese, I have continued tluj same course These Parishes lay along the two Rivers and there were no back settlements. But this state of things is fast clianging. Settlements b(;hind are springing up — needing to be cared for. There is a . danger of the circumstances I have re- ferred to, in which there w^as often only ! a very limited Parochial work, giving | rise to the feeling that the Parish of| which the Mijjsit)nary is Incumbent is j all that he can properly be expected to ' serve, and that there is no call upon liini for any outlving settlement. The fact is that the Missionaries of the so- 1 cieties that help us have no defined limits for their Missions but the neces- ! sities of the Dictrict, and the power of the Missionary to meet those necessities. And the Incumbency cannot over-ride the Mission as long as the income from the IncuiLibency is inconsiderable in comparison with that from the Mission. But though it is well that this should be vinderstood, I do not wish the matter to be rega'"ded from such a point of view. I trust, beloved brethren, all of us who are in Holy Orders will rise as a body to the crisis that is upon us, and not iuea,sure our duties by any bare obligations but by the work that God opens before us. But if the Clerg}'^ will often have to look beyond the Paiish, the Parish- ioners will also have to learn to be con- siderate. Where they contribute only a portion of the salary — if they do even that — they can only look for a part of the services of the Incumbent, if the exigencies of the work call for his aid elsewhere. It will be impossible for us, as new Settlements spring up, to have two servic(!S on the Sunday for every collection of 3f) or 40 families, or indeed many more. In otluu' young Colonies Missionaries have very commonly 3, 4 01" T) Churclies to officiate at, so that no congregation lias more than one service on Sunday, and some only one service cverv second Sundav. We must by and by look for a niea^iure of this hard work here — rcuidered all the liarder by the badness of the roads at some seasons and the severity of the climate at others ; hut if done with a whole heart, peihaps from the ver} hardne:-!s it will be all the sweeter and the services all the more acceptable. If we ai-e to «lo our part and make our iiiai-k, we must be active and self-deiiviny:. But I said the income is likely to be more }>recarious. By this I simply mean that we cannot in future depend u[»on such large individual grants from Societies. The new grants from the S. P. G. are only .£(50 a year each. Those who receive the services of Clergymen will be expected to coiitribute materially to their support. And this is not all. While asked to assist in su])})orting our Clergy, we have to face other burden- some expenses. Even in the older Settlements much has to Ve d me for Churches and Parson- ages. In the new Settlements every thing is required, and the population is so small that we have no well-to-do and established Cony;re^ations with theii" own difficulties over, to draw upon, as is the case in most Colonies. I trust then, the Societies will not act with us accord- ing to their Rules for ohler Colonies, but look with the consideration on our position that T chankfully acknowledge they have done hitherto. Our position is indeed veiy peculiar. We have not only before us the jjrospect of an in- crease of population on an unprecedented scale, but of having to meet this without any Slate aid or endowment such as the older Colonies had. They had most of them very material help in their early days and though thai assistance has now been generally withdi-awn, yet with the 13 withdnnviil there wnn n oniii|H'nsiition for the life interest of iiidivichuiLs which has jip^eatly encoiu'iifjjed the foniiatiou of cousideriiV)le ciulowiiient funds. En- •jhmd too lias been asked to contribute to a still further cjdar^'enient of those Funds. Tims tlu,' S. P. (1 gave ,€7,000 to the Diocese of Toronto, and only last vear a hir<'e sum v/iis raif^ed in. En the extension of tlu* Church in poor dis- tricts. In most of tlu! Colonies eveiy Con-'refjation raises an income for its own JMinister which in the case of the jioorcr is su])))lemented from Mission Funds. On the whole I think we are yet too much in a state of tnu)sition to set about the settlement of the question. Our old population is small, and with some exc(!ptioiis not able to do much. Those w)io have come in amongst us ai'o not yet sufficiently settled. We do not knovv what we can de2>eiid upon. Two or three years hence we shall bo able to form a better judgment on the course to be pursued. We should bo able to consult the laity, and have their full approval and iiearty co-opei'ation before forming final plans. At present, then, I would simply recommend an (ixtcnsion of what was I'esolved U})on last Synod, with the ado})tion of some means for bringing the plan into practi- cal working. I would propose that any ndssionaiy within the Province of Mani- toba, not having from his society or from any incumbency he may hold more than £200 and a house, or £250 with- out a hoiise, should receive from the diocesan fund what may be reqi ired to make up that sum, provided that in no ctise he receive more than £50 or more than double of what those he ministers to, pay into the diocesan fund, from the offeiiory or otherwise, on ac- count of his stipend. I tnist that in every parish there will be an effort to raise at least £50 for the clergyman by the offertory or by subscriptions — £25 of this when sent to the diocesan fmid, would secure £50 under the circumstances stated. In this case a Clergyman with a gi-ant from the English Society of only £100 would receive in all £175. I think there should be no real difficulty at the present day in any of our Parishes in 14 m '\- i hi 'k' m li J'N doing this. TTiat it may call for a little self-denial that a parishioner giving $10 or .$5, or less, may feel he could spend the money otherwise, and that it might even go to some needed object is likelj' enough — but the members of our Church should know God's word suffi- ciently to feel that the support of the Ministry of the Gospel, not in a grud- ging spirit, but in an honourable way, is a first duty that God lays on us — and we shall have little profit in the end in any of our business or any of oui* gains if we forget what God, the Giver of all our mercies, calls us to. But a Clergyman wi 'i a gi-owing family will find it diffi- cult enough in the present state of things to be comfortable with less than £200 a year. Several of our Clergy are not likely to have that at present in money ; but I hope they may in other ways re- ceive the assistance of their people, so that tht^ may be encouraged in their work, and be free from the disturbing pressure of worldly cares. But how is the Diocesan Fund to be able to make such advances 1 In the first place, the interest of the Endowment Fund that has been formed in the past fevr years may be devoted to it. This will produce j£80. Then I would pro- pot e that the Synod set apart this En- dowment Fund as entirely an Endow- ment Iimd for the Ministry. The advantage from this would T^e that I think it would then come within the rules of the S. P. G., and receive from that society an addition of one-seventh of its amount. The further income of the Diocesan Fund needed at pi'esent may, I think, be raised from general subscrip- tions and the yearly harvest thanks- giving collection. In most Dioceses there is a quarterly collection for such a Fund or at any rate sevei*al collections in the year, but I do rot propose th; we should resort to svich collections at present. But it is not enough to ela- borate plans, we must endeavour to work them. At the last Synod the management of the Diocesan Fund was left with the Executive Committee. During my absence it was thought advisable to introduce some more mem- bers of the Churcli, and the Executive Committee did this of their own action and called the combined body — the Mission Board. I think it would be well to continue such a Mission Board and to leave >vith it the management of the Diocesan Fund and the Missionary work of the Church within the Province of Manitoba. The object should be to unite with the Executive Committee a number of the moi-e influential and ac- tive members of the Church. I would suggest the preparation every Easter of a list containing all who have given $5 or upwards to the Diocesan Fund in the preceding year — tliat every such donor have a right to vote for ten of the gentle- men on the list whether clergymen or laymen and that every additional $5 give an additional vote. Tlie ten gentlemen having the laigest number of votes willinir to act on si{mini; a declaration that they are members of the Church of England, or of the Church of Buport's Land in communion with the Church of England, could fonn with the execu- tive committee, the Diocesan Mission Board for the year. A similar arrange- ment should be made for each parish or mission, only on a more popular basis. At Easter, after the vestry has been elect- ed, the donors of$l or upwards, towards the clergyman's income, could elect six of the male donors to act along with the vestry as a Parochial Mission Board, to be a committee for communicating with the Diocesan Mission Boaixl, and for raising the minister's stipend. And now how should the parochial subscriptions be raised 1 Some may prefer to give a sum at once, and some may prefer to encourage that as far as jx)ssible in every case. But I would give the word of warning, that in raiiJ- ing money much depends on encourag- ing small sums. Tlie Sustentation Fund of the Free Church of Scotland, that has been such a noble success, is manag- ever is 15 e. It u- \re )n le )e d of ed by receiving not only large sums, bui a large mass of small weekly and monthly contributions. And I believe if there is to be groat — to be marked success, there must be a facing of the trouble connected with such a method — the organising of a parochial machinery for the purpose — and I cannot but think thut if a clergyman should combine with this an interesting of the collectors a>s far as possible in church work — meeting them often and regularly — re- garding this always as a first call — look- ing out for them to read to them what- ever is full of life in the church's Lome or missionary efforts — using them for diffusing Church Reading (and very excellent and cheap church periodicals can now be obtained from England) — learning from them as they become trained, or fron. some of them many things in the Paiish and individual life — I say I cannot but think he might find a body of heli)ers brought around him that would be quite a power in his hands. But whilst thus anxiously arranging for the Clergy in the Province of Mani- toba we must not forget the native cler- gy in the Interior. They do not suffer from the incoming emigration in the raising of prices as their brethren in the Province do ; still something should be done to encourage them, and I think the measure I would propose would prac- tically tend to increase the Native Pas- torate Fund instead of decreasing it. At present it is being accumulated as an Endowment Fund with the object by- and-by of relieving some of the charges of the C. M. S. But there is apt to be a want of interest in what is not imme- diately beneficial. I think, then, that where there is a native Pastor he should receive at once the interest of the con- tributions from his mission district, when invested. I would make one more remark be- fore I close my observations on this part of my subject. I think we are apt sometimes to do injustice to our- selves, in what has been already done, and to dmw from it cause for discour- agement. Upon the whole it is my ex- perience that where plans are earnestly and systematically pushed, there is good result. The endowment fund amounts to nearly £1,500, whereas, according to the calculations T made in the plans formed in 1866, it was only hoped that it would have reached .£1,169 and the efforts have been carried on amid diffi- culties that were never anticipated. We have serious difficulties doubtless still before us — such as the danger of another disastrous visitation of gi*ass- hopi)er8 — but let us all make up our minds to see the difficulties as little as we can, and resolve to allow them to break up our church plans as little as possible. The character of the future will certainly depend largely upon our conduct in the present. An earnest effort on the part of our laity of to-day to do what they can, and a wise, self- denying, faithful action on the part of our clergy will lay a good foundation — and then we must leave the blessing and the fruition with God. ST. John's college. The next subject that I have to bring before you, is the position of St. John's College. I felt from the first that in our isolated condition — the first neces- sity for the church in the diocese was the establishment of a theological col- lege for the training of clergy and catechists and of a higher school for prepjiratory education. This necessity has been met by St. John's College, and a good deal has been done to place it in a stable posi- tion, and to tit it for meeting the present wants of the community. It received an act of incorporation in the first session of our Provincial Parlia- ment, enabling the corporation to held a certain amount of real estate, A very considerable addition has been made to its endowment. Archdeacon McLean went to Canada on its behalf in the spring of 1 8 7 1 . He was heartily 1 p 16 m welconifid wherever lie went, and re- ceived in all !i?H,383 21, including .^43.') 25 obtained while passing through the United States. Ul)on his return I went to En- gland, and whilst carrying on there my important negotiations, I applied myself diligently to the raising of funds for the College and other olyects. I received in all £5,270 in dc, tions, including .£300 previously granted by the S. P.C K. besides the promise of subscriptions and collections which may be calculated at £130 a year. The larger part of this sum will be given to the College— indeed has been .already given — but the exact division will not be made till the accounts ai-e ready for publication, which will be shortly. The result as regards endowment is as fol- lows : The Professorshi}) of Systematic T>i- vinity, X200 a year. The general En- dowment Fund of St. John's College, £70 to .£90 a year, according to the investment Mr. Smith may make who has th^ money in his hands for invest- nien t. The Professorship of Ecclesiastical History, £12 a year. I am gradually endowing this myself. The Cochrane Scholarship, £27 a year. It is now free of any burden. The Macallum Scholarship, £12 a year, but it has a debt on it of ^230, so that it is not worth at present more than £10 a year. The Prince of Wales Scholarship is as yet only of nominal value. The Charles Prize, founded by Miss Charles, of London, in memory of her father, Mr. Cliief Factor Ch.arles, is of the value of 36s. a year. Two ladies are also to giA^e £30 a year, at 1? resent for Mathematical and Pliilo- sophical books or apparatus, in memory of M. M. M., a native of Rupert's Land. The Library of the College has been very largely increased — indeed nearly doubled. It is now a very excellent library, especially for a Theological student. The Queen \vas pleased to give to it through Mr. Theodore Martin, a copy of her book ** Leaves fi'onx the .Toiu'nal of Our Lif»^ in the Highlands," with Her Majesty's autograjdi. The University of Oxford gave £150 worth of the valuable works jmblished by the university. The University of Canil)ridge gave me a coi)y of all its publication F. The Secretary of State for India in Council, Mr. Macmillan, Mr. R. Potts of Cambridge, and others made valu- able gifts of V)ooks. Mrs. Macallum presented a libraiy of 400 volumes in memory of her late husl)and, the Rev. John Macallum. Several authoi-s gave me their works or some of them, as the Dean of Chi- chester, the Bishoj> of Lincoln, the Dean of Canterbury, and Canon Robertson. The Religioiis Tract Society gave a grant out of their publications, and there is to be a fnrthez' grant of books from the l^ray Associates. Before passing on I would mention the kind interest takt^n in our work by fonner residents in this country. In addition to my predecessor. Bishop Anderson, I was particulai'ly assisted by Archdeacon Hunter, Dr. Thom, Mr. Isbister, and Mr. Smith now Rector of Thruxford, near Hereford. Before I left for England, Professor Kingston, of Toronto, opened up com- munication with Archdeacon McLean and myself, expressing the favor he would regard it, if St. John's College would undertake to pei-form in Mani- toba the meteorological duties belonging to a chief station. We undertook to do so. When in England I made ar- rangements with Mr. Scott, of the Meteorological office, for the best instru- ments. I hopf5 to have an aneniograph put up when the new wing of the col- lege that is proposed is erected. Mr. Flett one of the students of St. John's college was sent to Toronto, to make himself fi a station, ful mam The boari in future lege. A to the b hopcid a 1 summer, licient ac for some now str is, Frenc to those ancient 1 ILsh, and At tl Chui'ch They are ing -f 40,i lows : — i Church Native ] gy Wide other fu beginnir responsi agemen to act ai all i)Ossi l>eyond resoluti appoint in M with vestme proceec money as the ther, Comm Bishoi as to a made not I'e also a i; al liiiiiHolf fmniliiir witli tlio ilutios of such a station, and lie now in the nicst care- ful manner conducts the observations. The boai-dinj; of the (olU'^iate school is in future; to he can\od on by the col- lege. A consi(led a new wing will b(^ added in the Slimmer, which will jtrobably give suf- iicient accommodation for all our wants for Honu; time. The teaching stall' is now strong --moch-rn languages — that is, French and Cisrmiin, will be taught, to those who wish it in addition to the jincient hmguages, Mathematics, Eng- lish, and Music. THE t;HUU(!H FUNDS. At the last meeting of Synod the Church funds amounted to .$9,000. — Thoy are now largely increased, exceed- ing ii^40,000. They are nearly as fol- lows :— St. John's College, .1?30,00() ; Church Endowment Fund, $7,000 ; Native Pastorate Fund, $2,000 ; Cler- gy Widow's and Orphan's Fund, $1,100; other fi:nds, $500. There is therefore beginning now to be a good deal of responsibility connected with the man- agement. I am willing for the present to act as Treasurer, but I wish to have all jmssible piotection against casualties V)eyond my control. I should like a resolution to be jiassed by the Synod appointing Mr. Smith as agent in Montreal for the Treasurer, with power of investing, selling in- vestments, and receiving and paying the proceeds of investments and holding money for the purpose of investment as the Treasurer may retpiire ; and fur- ther, giving power to the Executive Committee with the consent of the Bishop to make any other arrangement as to agfMicy. Mr. Smith's accounts are made iij) to the end of the year and do not reach this till February, He has also a considerable sum in his hands for investnu'iit which had bi-tter be invest- ed before the accounts are audited. I think the best time therefore for audit- ing the accounts will be Easter, and I should wish that in addition to tlu; auditors ap}»ointed heie, two gentlemiai in Montreal should be requested to audit the securities there and to report uj)on them. The audit would then be complete and satisfactory. CONCLUSION. There are vaiious subjects that I should like to have touched upon, but for the length to which I have aire idy proceeded, such hs the organization and working of Sunday Schools, the en- couragement of music,- the extension and management of the dejwt for church books, and the diffusion throughout our l)arishes and missions, of church periodi- cals and other reading. Perhaps the better plan will be for a committee to be named to consider these questions. For the reason already stated I can- not enter on any of the subjects that in the last year or two have been engag- ing the attention of the Church at home, but I cannot refrain from expressing my hearty sym})athy with the various ef- forts to give the C/hurch the elasticity needed to harmonize its services with the feelings and si)ecial needs of our own time. I recommend the passing of resolutions requesting me to bring into operation in this diocess — The Act 34 and 35 Vict., Chap. 37, "An act to amend the law relating to the Tables of Lessens and Psalter con- tained in the Prayer Book," and the act 35 and 30 Vic. Cha]). 35, " An act for the amendment of the act of Uii'- formity." May God, my Reverend Brethren and Brethren of the Laity, vouchsafe now to us His presence in our delil)era- ti'ius, and make all we do be for His glory aud the benefit of the Church. J m m SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE SYNOD, BY VENERABLE JOHN McLEAN, D.D., D.C.L, ARCHDEACON OP MANITOBA. " Then pleased it thoApo»tlo» and Elders, with the Whole Church to send chosen men of their own company to Antloch with Paul and Barnabas."— Acts xv. 22. Theflc words are part o( the account given us In Holy Scripture of the First Council or Synod hold in the Christlun Church. The occaalon of its meeting was to receive a deputation from the Church at Antloch, rela- tive to the question -whether the Christian converts were obliged to be circumcised and to keep the law of MoscH. The members of the deputation appear to have been Instructed to appeal to the Aiwstles and Elders or Presbyters; but when the council met at Jerusalem under the presidency of the apostle St. James, it wm composed not merely of Apostles and Presbyters, but also of the brethren or lay members of the Church. This appears, not only from the words of our text, " Then pleased it the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church," but also from the language of the letter sent by the Council to Antloch, In verse 28 we read : "And they wrote letters by them after this manner : The Apostles and Eldtrs and Brethren .«end greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antloch, and Syria and Clllcia." In verse 26 they say : "It seemed good unto us being assembled with one accord," and in verse 28, " For it seemed good to the Holy Okost and to us." There is here a clear and repeated reference to three distinct orders in the Council— Apostles, Elders or Pres- byters, and Brethren or Laity, and also to a concurrent vote of all the orders in the decision arrived at. Thto Council Is the pattern of the Synods of the Church ortant Church body -the Convention or 8yn(Kl that forms the HU|)rento authority in the ((enerol ((ovennuent of the Church, the princii)le is lulniltted of niakin;^ the consent of the Hisho|>s nccesisary an well an that of the Clerjfy and liaity. My brethren, we arc met to-day in Synod as the Coun- cil of the Church in tliis land. Our Synml is fonned after the exact pattern of the first Council of Apostolic tiines, and in accordance with the priictiuo of the Church in every colony owing allegiance to the Hritish Crown. At our heail Is the Bishop of the Church— while the other memt)cr8 of the Council are composed of the Clergy and the Brethren or lay members of the Church who are here by their representatives duly chosen. We meet to-day at a most important epoch in our historj'. We stand as it were on an eminence. We ha\u the memory of many mercies vouchsafed to us in the Ijoat. We can look to the future with the hope of mer- cies and blessings yet to come. Thero is a great work iKjfore our Church in this coun- try. It is twofold in its character. We must use our utmost efforts to bring within the fold of the Church the thousands of Ind'ans who still roam through the interior of the North-Wcst in a state of heathen dark- nes.s, and we must make provision for the spiritual wants of the settlers who within the next few years will l>eople our fertile plains. In the work that lies before us among the Indians, we shall derive both encouragement and guidance from the labors of the Church Missionary Society. The agents of that society have been signally blessed in their efforts to christianize the Indians of this country. They have carried the blessed news of salvation and ad- ministered the ordinances of the Church from Hudson's Bay to the Rocky Mountains, and from the boundary line of the British Dominions to the shores of the Arctic Sea. They have been the honored instruments in God's hands of bringing thousands of Indians out of the darkness of heathenism into the glorious light and liberty of the children of God. It is said in classic fable that Orpheus possessed such skill in music that he captivated the affections of the wild men of the woods by the witchery of its strains and induced them to abandon their wandering life and settle down in cities that they might always enjoy its delights. Is not that fable more than realized in a higher and better sense in the work of the Church Missionary So- ciety 7 Not to speak of their Missions that are dotted through the interior of the country like so many cities of refuge for poor wandering souls, we can find suiRcient illustra- tion in the Indian Settlement now under the superin- tendence of my venerable brother in the Ministry, Archdeacon Cowley. Men and women who were once wandering savages, have under the influence of the Gospel settled there on farms— they live in houses like our own— their habits, their dress, their conduct, arothofio of a civilized niral district— tl or church is crowded on Sundays by a reverent congregation listening with rapt attention to the Gosiwl as preached most clotpicntly by one of their own nu.., trained in St.John's College, under the guid- ance of that much revered i)relato, Bishop Andersc. -and in his earlier days nurtured by the late Yen. Archdeacf)n Cochrane, whoso name Is a household word in this land. They Join heartily in tlie prayers and praiacH of the service - they come in large numlwrs to Holy Communion- they are careful that their children are eariy brought to the baptismal font, and in due time they engeriy seek for them the advantages of the day and Sunday school, while as a people they have deservedly earned a character for olwdience to the laws and loyal attachment to the British crown. Tlie Churcii Missionary Society has given us another valuable lesson to guide us in our efforts to carrj' on the evangelization of the Indian tribes. It has recog- nised and acted on the principle that the truths of the Gosjiel are rendered most acceptable to the In, "'an when the messenge'- is of his own blood and 8i)ea!« his own tongue. It has already trained not a few native Indians to the work of the Ministry. One of It most successful efforts in this direction has been in the case of the Rev. Henry Budd, now engaged in the Mission at the Taa. In the baptismal register kept by the Rev. John West, the Society's first missionary to the Red River, under date of 21st July, 1822, the following entry occurs : — " Henry Budd, an Indian boy, about ten years of age, taught in the Missionary school, a.id now capable of reading the NewTestament.and repeating the Church of England catechism correctly." That same Indian boy grew up under the Society's care Into a godly, a well-educated and intelligent man, and he is now a most earnest and successful missionary to his countrymen. It has been with the view of having a thoroughly organised training school for Indian youths, that I'l Church Missionary Society has granted a generous and liberal support to St. John's College. Already several of their students have been ordained, after undergoing a training at th 3 College, and they are now doing a good work. Others are usefully employed as catechists and some are now undergoing instruction. It is the earnest desire and prayer of those who have the man- agement of this institution, that it may become more and more useful in this most important and interesting branch of the work of the Mission Field. If we glance for a moment at the vast work opening up for the Church from the coming colonization of the interior of tlie country, we shall see our need for com- bined and \igorou8 effort and earnest and perseverintr prayer. It is now beyond all question that our country has come into the possession of a vast heritage — that these territories contain millions upon millions of acres of land so rich and fertile as not to be surpassed by any 20 In tho world. For »gM they have )x;un the abode ot tito waiideriiidr wvago—Holitiides almoHt untrodden by the foot of civiliNOtl man but wo who uro now taking ])art In tlie actlvitioH consequent on tho suttlonient of a now ])rovlnce may hope, If spared for a very few yean, to Hoe the whole of the vast region 8tretehinK from this to the Pacific Ocean teemini; with buoy and priM|)erouii HCttlers. Villages and towns and cltioM will Hpring ui>— tho trade of India, China and Japan will be curried by our Cnnada Paclflc Railway throuich the fertile valley of the SaHkatchowan onward to the Atlantic seaboard for shipment to Europe, while the glorious old Hog that for a thousand years has braved the battle and the breeze will wave as the symbol of lil»erty over a free, a ha])py and a loyal ))eople. We desiro to see our countrymen go forth to the work of colonization flnnly wedded to those principles of civil and rellgioas liberty that we have brought at> an lieritage from the island home of our fathers -princi- l)les that have come down to us as a precious iH>s8e8Hlon from generations of imtrlots who have toiled " and in their coimtry's cause bled nobly." We prize these Britlsli institutions Injcaiise they con- fer U|Mjn UM the bluNsing of ccptul laws the blessings of free thought and free siiocch, n free platform a free proM— a free pulpit and liest of all, a free and open English Uible. Wldle we rejoice at the pros|)ect of seeing our coun- try'd flag waving over millions of pros|>erous settlors, let u« he earnest in the elTort to plant the Iwinnnr of tho Church In the midst of every now conununlty. Ile- memlier that without rollgii>n there will ne no true freedom. " He Is a freeman whom tho truth makes free, and all are slaves l)csiiles." Tlie Church In hor mInlstratlonH proclaims the work of Christ In all Its fulness us the sinner's only hoi*. Her ministers go forth to tell iierishing sinners that " other foundation can no man lay than that Is laid, which Is Jesus Christ"— that the blotxl of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin, and to men of every race and of every dime— of every degree of intelligence, and every shaile of guilt their language Is the gracious Invitation of the Savicmr:— " L(K>k unto me and Ijc ye saved all ye ends of the world." ,J' Wi I LATIN % m KNOLIS '1 WixsiPKO : Printed l»y Coi.dwklIj &CfsxiKoiiAM, (queen's Printei-r«. snpci'in Kvcrv a «'■( i Kce for aiK Qemiiii French who is CIIANCKLLOU: The Right Reverend Robert Machray, D.D., LL.D., Ii'ellnw .)f Sliliioy (Jolltiifo, t'ainbridKu ; Lord Ulslio|) of Hu|i(!rt*s IjuhI. WAUDKN : The Venerable John McLean, D.D., D.C.L., M.A. of tl»o Uiilvorsity of Aliurdeon, Archdoacnu of MivnilDlitt. THE COLLEGE THEOLOGICAL FACULTY. I'llOFKSSUll (»!•' SYSTK.MATKl TMKOLOC-IV : The Warden. puoKKssoH OF i:cc;i,i;siAsi'i('Ah iii.stouy: The Lord Bishop of Rupert's Land. l.KCTl KKK IN IIKIIHKW : The Rev. L. Da Lew, Doctor of Oriontal l.iuij,'Uii^fcs of tliu riiivurNity of Utrecht. / THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. (''■ ic Warilcti. liATIN AN1> CltKICK ■> Dr. J)o l.tw. I Mr. S. Miitliusuii. / 'I'lic Wanlcii. \ ill \. .1. O'.Mcara, IJ.A., and (idid Modalli KNCMSIl '. of tlio I'liivi^rsit.v of Toronto, Into Ikii j Master of I'.nintford (iraininar School. [ Mr. S. MatlKNoii. MATIIKMATICS |''|j,^, Hishoj) of RupPrt'H \mm\. AKITflMKTiC i^'""- ^^- '''«^"- (M'.iniAN Tlici Hov. Dr. Do Lew. I 11I..MI1 i,,,,!^. ,.^.^, , o'Muara. Ad'SIC -The Rev. W. Deck. There are Two Terms in the Year for the Collegiate School, KAcii coNsisrixc; oi' twknty wkkks. T>ii' MidMunnujr- Trrni hcsjiiis on tlic 2i1tli of .Inmu\r.v. The Christmas Term on the 1st of August. A limited niinilioi- of Ho!inli.'rs is rtci'ived hv the ('olloj,'c. Tliori' ;ii-»' two liesident Tutors Mr. W. Flett and Mr. S. Mathcson. The Matron is Mrs. Le.slic. Duriiiu thi' alwence of tlio Warden, llio wliole of tlie Boardin{f arrangements will he under the personal sinjerintendcni'c of tlie iiislio]>. St'' l';\ ciy liourdor has to inovido Heddiii^-, -"ix Towels, Clothes-hag, and India Riihher Ovcr-shoe.M. Kverv article of"elot)iing should he marked in full with the owner's name. THE COLLEGE CHARGES ARE Fee for Tuition in Knglish, Classics, Mathematics and Wnsic, jier Tenn §7 .^lO German, per Term 2 50 French, per Term 2 .50 Hoarding for Rovf* under 10 years, per Term $60 Hoarding for Students over 10 years do 70 Day Scholars may have Dinner at the College ' Tahle for, per Term 25 /tff 'Die charges, hoth for Roarding and Tuition, are payable each Term in ailvance. Application hjr admission should at present be made to the Bishop of Rupert's Land, Bishop's Court, who is to act for the Warden in his absence. i