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 To the Kirk-Sessions iwd Congregations of the Prahytcrian 
 Church cf Canada In connection with the Church of Scotland: 
 
 Beloved Brethren 
 
 I have it in charge from the Synod, to ofter you a f'ewr words 
 of counsel on the Christian duty of adequately providing for the 
 support of Ordinances. It may be inferred from this direction 
 to their Moderator, that, in the judgment of the members of the 
 Synod, there is need throughout the Church for a more intelligent 
 appreciation of thia»subject than now exists. For som • years the 
 opinion has been gaining ground in the Synod, until it has at 
 length grown into conviction, that to v/hatevcr causes it may be 
 traced, the Church is not fulfilling her duty in this regard. It is 
 felt that, whether measured by their ability, or compared with 
 other Christians, or tested by the Gospel standard, our people 
 have not reached that degree of liberality which is due to their 
 Christie 1 profession, to their position in the Country, and to the 
 necessities of their Church. 
 
 The Moderator shrinks from the task which the Synod has 
 thus imposed. He might find it comparatively easy to explain 
 and enforce the duty in question to his own congregation ; but 
 to issue counsels suited to the variety of opinion and practice 
 which prevail in our Congregations generally in respect of 
 supporting Ordinances, — this is a work from which he would 
 gladly be relieved. In attempting it, he unaffectedly casts 
 himself upon the indulgence of those whom, in the discharge of 
 official responsibility, he is called upon to address. 
 
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The duty of consecrating money to religious uses is as clearly 
 enjoined in the New Testament as is that of honesty or truth- 
 fulness. Both Jcst.s and the Apostles enforced it upon their 
 converts by the highest sanctions, its observance was deemed 
 by them to be of the essence of religion. Under Jewish law 
 the proportion of money to be so set apart was strictly defined. 
 A faithful Jew gave to religious objects, a tenth of all that he 
 possessed. The Gospel exacts no specified proportion. In 
 accord with its free spirit, it leaves it to the Christian's conscience 
 to determine how much of his means he shall surrender to the 
 claims of religion. Let no man think that, by thus leaving it an 
 open question, the New Testament sets up a lower standard of 
 liberality under Christ, than had been observed under Moses. 
 The spirit of the teaching in the Gospels points rather to a more 
 generous outlay ; and the instructions of tho Apostles leave no 
 doubt that they so understood the tenor of their Master's words. 
 
 A considerable portion of the Christian Scriptures is employed 
 in illustrating and enforcing this duty. The Mission and Life of 
 Jesus arc at once the embodiment and the illustration of self- 
 denying liberality : " For your sakes He became poor, that ye 
 through His poverty might be rich." The lives of the Apostles 
 also, illustrate and confirm it. Both they and He were living 
 examples of all that they spoke and wrote upon the subject. It 
 accords with Christ's being our Pattern in the spirit and practice 
 of unselfishness, that He uttered the command, "Lay not up 
 for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth 
 corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal ; but lay up 
 for yourselves treasures in heaven." There is no way, indeed, 
 to the rewards of heaven, but by a faithful use of the gifts of 
 earth. Heavenly treasure is assuredly laid up by him who well 
 and ''enerously employs the earthly treasure which Providence 
 bestows. The principles which will determine the retributions 
 
of the rich, will equally govern the retributions of the poor. A 
 man will be reckoned with and accepted in the Last day, according 
 to that he now hath ; not according to that he hath not. "A cup 
 of cold water only" will have its reward. Yea, with " the Judge 
 of all," the two mites of the poor widow count for more than 
 thousands of pounds given by the rich man. He casts into the 
 Lord's Treasury of his abundance ; she gives up all her living. 
 Not that God thinks lightly of the munificence of the wealthy. 
 When rich men forget not " to do good and to communicate," 
 "with such sacrifices God is well pleased." Zaccheus stood and 
 said unto the Lord : " Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to 
 the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false 
 accusation, I restore him fourfold." That Jesus approved the 
 publican's resolve is shown by the benediction which it called 
 forth : "This day is salvation come to this house." Christianity 
 is averse from selfishness in all its forms. Covetousness is 
 represented in the New Testament as shutting men out of 
 heaven, and as involving them in the perdition into which 
 murderers and adulterers sink without remedy. So, a chief aim 
 of the Gospel is man's conversion from that self-regard and self- 
 indulgence which master fallen humanity, to a generous, philan- 
 thropic, merciful nature. 
 
 The proportion of his earnings or income which a Christian 
 should devote to the advancement in the world of the knowledge 
 of Christ, depends on his ability. From those to whom much 
 is given, much is required. Any man who brings common sense 
 to the interpretation of Scripture must see that a fixed propor- 
 tion, universally applied, would not reach even the letter of New 
 Testament teaching, much less its spirit. The consecration to 
 religious uses by some men of a fourth of their income, or even 
 of one half, would be a smaller oflbring and less, acceptable to God, 
 than the surrender, in other cases, of a tenth. St. Paul indicates 
 
the just scale of Christian giving in the order which he sent to 
 the Churches of Galatia and Corinth : " Upon the first day of 
 the week let every one of you lay by him in store, ^sGoJ hath 
 prospered himr This is the written rule. It is fulfilled no less 
 by those who, unable to strike a weekly balance, lay by them in 
 store, j^'./r hyyear, according to their gains or income. The motive 
 which impels the Christian to generosity— the impulse which 
 constrains him to make sacrifices for mankind— is that which is 
 embodied in the words. " Ye arc not your own, for yc are bought 
 with a price." 
 
 We exhort you, beloved brethren, to apply these general prin- 
 ciples to your own character and practice. We do so the more, 
 because they arc the principles by which you will be tested and 
 dealt with, in the Last day. How many of you make a conscience 
 of giving ? How many sit down for the purpose of measuring by 
 the gifts which they receive « from above," the extent of their 
 responsibility to lay out money for the poor and for the advance- 
 ment of religion ? Few amongst us strive against their native 
 selfishness. Few set themselves to reach the self-denying standard 
 of Christian piety. May it not, indeed, be feared that some of those 
 who " name the Name of Christ " in the Sacrament of the Supper, 
 are going down to the grave laden with the frightful guilt of 
 covetousness which is idolatry?" Those who "watch for your 
 souls " feel that at least there are grounds for urging upon you self- 
 examination in regard to this solemn matter. It cannot be safe 
 for any man whom God blesses with competence, much less for 
 him to whom plenty is vouchsafed, to add stock to stock, store 
 to store, farm to farm, and at the same time to grudge to the 
 poor the help which they need; or to refuse to sustain those 
 Christian Ordinances by which his household are blessed; or to 
 withhold the means of sending to neglected ones the Gospel of 
 
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Ii he sent to 
 : first day of 
 (IS God hath 
 illcd no less 
 by them in 
 The motive 
 iiilsc which 
 at which is 
 ! are bought 
 
 :ncral prin- 
 3 the more, 
 
 tested and 
 I conscience 
 casuring by 
 nt of their 
 lie advance- 
 heir native 
 ng standard 
 me of those 
 the Supper, 
 ul guilt of 
 :h for your 
 •n you self- 
 lot be safe 
 ch less for 
 itock, store 
 Ige to the 
 tain those 
 sed; or to 
 
 Gospel of 
 
 Love. We fear for the safety of such a man ; •' How dwclleth 
 the love of God in him ! " 
 
 The adequate support of Ordinances is that especially which 
 we, at this time, ask you to provide- for. God has blessed you, 
 for the most part, with suflicicncy. Many of you enjoy abun- 
 dance. In respect of ability to give, there is no church in Canada 
 beyond you. This you will readily allow. Not less certain is it 
 that there exists amongst the members and adherents of the 
 Church generally, an indisposition to provide suitably for their 
 clergy. Long and costly is the preparation which these men 
 undergo ere they are ordained to the Sacred office. Laborious 
 and self-denying is the work to which they devote themselves. 
 Yet the instances are rare in which they arc sufficiently provided 
 for. To our shame, be it said, most of them arc expected to 
 be satisfied with the barest maintenance, while very many are 
 even pinched by poverty. 
 
 Consider these grave facts in the light of your many blessings. 
 Take a Scriptural view of the responsibility which presses on you 
 as citizens, as parents, as communicants, to foster, in your re- 
 spective neighbourhoods, the Church «nd Ordinances of the 
 Redeemer. Remember that " the Lord hath ordained that they 
 which preach the Gospel, should live of the Gospel." The 
 Christian privileges which you have inherited from your fathers, 
 are worthy of being transmitted to your children and, through 
 them, to the generations following. They ought to be dear 
 enough to you to call forth, for their support, a large liberality, 
 and, if need be, even great sacrifices. Consideration for the spi- 
 ritual interests of yourselvei and your households should have 
 weight with you here ; not to speak of the interests of the 
 population at large. We invoke you, withhold not the needed 
 support for maintaining in your several parishes. Gospel Ordi 
 
nances. Do this adaiuatclv n :. 
 
 also chccrfullv "H T ^"^ '''''''' ^^'^'^^o.^ly. Doit 
 
 hccrfully. He that sovvcth liberally shall reap liberallv " 
 
 ' r ° ' '"°"'^' ''"^ ''^^ ''^-'- °^" blood also laid he 
 
 na,„„, ,, ,^^_^^ ^^^^^^^ or Scotland/ 'e:: 
 
 cniovth. . r ^' ' '""' °' Scotland might 
 
 cnjo\ the ordinances of Chri«t;^«:» • l ""S'li 
 
 in which ,h.. h,J u '""""y '" ""= P"'' 'nd simple lorn, 
 
 vvh,ch ,hcy had bcc„ oU,n,d in the land of ,hoi, father. 
 For . . objcc, .he .hilling, andpenec of h.mblc Scouh.nc and 
 
 1°:;"'"' "■7°""'" »'• "■= G-.. i-c been c„„,.ib cd ; ; 
 
 CO,.,. b„.n,,. Bu. ,he, who be..ow are. for .;,,■ , o": 
 less able ,0 give than wo who receive All I, , ^ 
 
 ft,,, ou r J t receiie. All honour .0 those in 
 
 he Old Land who make willing .acrifice. .hat there mav be 
 crpo,„a,ed ,n Canada the Pai.h and Ordinances which are. , ', 
 a ly dear to then, and u. ! But let u. whose barn, are filled ,vi.h 
 plenty. Whose hon,e.tead. are .urrounded with fer. , ; ^ 
 whose ..ores of merchandise ,ield ample incomes, whose ,na„:: 
 -ture. are alread, a source of enrichment to many, who e 
 »h.p. float on lake and river, and on almos. everv sea -^ 
 u do our du..v. honouring .he Lord wi.h our substance and 
 wuh the first fruits of al, our increase. Let u, see to it .hit 1 
 Or .nances of ,he Gospel are liberally sustained in our settled 
 panshe. and ..a.,ons. Le. us also look wi.h kindly, loving eve 
 toward .hose remote portion, o, ,he country wheri the people 
 
 >l.e God and Church of their fathers, and the young grow up 
 .n,gnora„ceof the Holy Serip.ures. and of ,he way of lifein Je.us 
 Christ our Lord. Let our Citie. become centre, of ene4-i- 
 M,s.,onary movemen.s. Le. our whole people wake up to 'a 
 
 
ly- Do it 
 
 ^ liberally." 
 res who, at 
 so, Jaid the 
 Emulate 
 >. in later 
 r mission- 
 ind might 
 mplc form 
 ir fathers, 
 men, and, 
 ucd these 
 cipient of 
 nost purt, 
 
 those in 
 
 may be 
 rcmiitu- 
 licd with 
 c lands, 
 e manu- 
 , whose 
 ea,— let 
 ice and 
 hat the 
 
 settled 
 ing eye 
 
 people 
 
 forget 
 ow up 
 1 Jesus 
 ;rgetic 
 
 to a 
 
 sense of the responsibility which rests upon the Church to do for 
 the outlying and other destitute districts of Canada, what the 
 people of Scotland out of their comparative poverty, yea and 
 beyond their power, once did for us. 
 
 The progress and present position of the Church of Scotland 
 m this Country arclargely due to those ministers who, in the 
 year .854 surrendered, of their own free-will, a part of their share 
 m the Clergy Reserve Fund for the sake of providing for each of 
 their successors in the ministry a small endowment. The sacrifice 
 which these honoured men thus made, yielded the chief outlay 
 which has been incurred by the Synod, since that time, for Church 
 extension. Ministers were the creators of that Fund bv which 
 with inconsiderable contributions from the laity vear by year' 
 the Church has been enabled to advance her position to previously 
 unoccupied posts. The growth of the Church has outstripped 
 the wise and worthy provision which this Fund thus supplied 
 Some years ago its custodians were obliged, practicallv, to reduce 
 the annual allowance to each minister from 6200 to .«:!i5o At 
 this time they find themselves constrained to withhold from 
 nearly /.r/y ministers the help which their older brethren receive 
 For this emergency it behoves you to provide; the more, that 
 the larger number of these forty ministers are, of all their 
 brethren, in greatest need of help, [r .. probable, as has been 
 lately foreshadowed, that permanent relief will be sought to be 
 supplied by fhe creation of a Home Missionary Fund, separate 
 and distinct from the Temporalities' Fund. Whether this change 
 shall be effected, it will be for the Synod of ,870 to determine 
 This at least is clear, that, in these circumstances, you owe it to 
 the Church and to yourselves, to make provision, first of all 
 for the pressing wants of your under-paid clergy ; secondly, for the' 
 extension cf Ordinances to those who are destitute. This 
 two-fold obligation we press upon your earnest consideration. We 
 
8 
 
 ask you whether, in view of your early training and present 
 privileges, as well as of the bounties which Providence has 
 bestowed upon you, you arc willing to allow the Church which 
 has so long cared for yourselves and your children, to fail in its 
 great mission to this country for lack of that help which it is in 
 your power to aft'ord? Wc ask you whether, with the means 
 which God places at your disposal, you arc content that the 
 Church to which you belong shall remain the lowest of all the 
 Churches around you in the scale of Home Missionary contribu- 
 tion ? Wc ask you further, whether, in view of the extension of 
 Canadian settlements to the territories of the far West, and the 
 certain migration thither of many families and people belonging 
 to the Church of Scotland, you arc prepared to let them go there 
 unfollowed, and to live unblessed by the Ministry and Ordinances 
 to which they arc loyally attached ? Rather, will you not rise to 
 a sense of the opportunity for doing good which God now sets 
 before you?— emulating the zeal and liberality of your Christian 
 neighbours? Is there any reason why other Churches in this 
 country should exceed in ecclesiastical liberality the Church of 
 Scotland? Are the members of other Churches more able to 
 give than you ? Are their farms larger than yours, or their crops 
 more abundant ? Are their merchants and manufacturers richer, 
 their mechanics more skilled, their laborers more muscular, ener- 
 getic, thrifty? Or, are they more distinguished by Christian 
 intelligence and education than you ? 
 
 Shall we then put it down to lack of regard for the Church 
 or of loyalty to her interests, that you fall behind in this work of 
 the Lord? This can scarcely be charged against you. Witness your 
 noble effort to place our University and " School of the Prophets •' 
 beyond all danger of decay ; yea more, to raise it to a position 
 of capacity and influence worthy of its Ecclesiastical and Scottish 
 connection ! The prompt liberality which you have displayed. 
 
>nd present 
 vidcncc has 
 lurch which 
 u fail in its 
 hich it is in 
 
 the means 
 tit that the 
 t of all the 
 ■y contribu- 
 xtension of 
 St, and the 
 ; belonging 
 m go there 
 Ordinances 
 not rise to 
 1 now sets 
 r Christian 
 ics in this 
 Church of 
 re able to 
 :heir crops 
 ers richer, 
 ular, ener- 
 
 Christian 
 
 e Church 
 s work of 
 :ncss your 
 *rophets '* 
 position 
 i Scottish 
 displayed. 
 
 and t!.e sacrifices which not a few of you have made on this 
 behall, in response to the Synod's appeal, encourage us to believe 
 that you will not be found wanting in that which is even more 
 vital to the existence and progress of the Church, the adequate 
 support of Ordinances, and the augmentation of Evangelistic work 
 by active Missionary agency. 
 
 That you may apprehend the more readily how great a privilege 
 it is to give of your means for these noble objects, study the Life of 
 Him who left you an example " that yc should follow His steps." 
 Remember that He consented to poverty for your enrichment, 
 underwent suffering in order to your relief from sorrow, cndurcil 
 the death of the cross that you might live the life everlasting. 
 Remember likewise, that His poverty, sufferings, death, are to be 
 not only gloried in as securing on your behalf pardon and peace 
 and heavenly blessedness, but that they arc also to be taken by you 
 as the Pattern of your spirit and conduct. You too arc called, as 
 was He, to make sacrifices for others, — to deny yourselves and to 
 take up your cross daily, that sinners, through your means, may be 
 brught into peace with God, and into the love and fellowship of 
 His Son. Take up the Gospels and ponder the self-sacrificing 
 examples and teachings which they record. Study the Acts and 
 Letters of the Apostles, and learn from these your duty to the 
 Church, to the Ministry, and to Mankind. 
 
 The age demands a pure Gospel. The emissaries of error arc 
 earnest in their attempts to subvert the Faith as it is in Jesus. 
 The apostles of superstition and of otherwise corrupt forms of 
 Christianity, arc incessant and unscrupulous in their efforts to 
 turn the faithful from the simplicity of the Gospel. Worldlincss, 
 setting in upon the domain of the Church with unerring and 
 fatal flow, threatens to overwhelm her choicest spiritual enclo- 
 Rurcs. Fierce is the onslaught which the enemies of truth and 
 godliness are making upon those who arc striving to hold to "the 
 
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 F»ith which wa, once delivered unto the saints » In ,K- 
 "Oicss than in those lands where Christian d ",'".""""^- 
 
 -died, error, superstition, wordiin s ? .""" ""= 
 
 forces against the progress of the on , "'" """''"" ""'" 
 -ces of the Gospc o u L Tt ""'""™* '"«- 
 
 -Ponsibilit, in ,'his regard • TuT Tk "' '""""'■ "" 
 
 -=pe.iciousanddesrt;4:c;:st:::;r-'-' 
 
 nanee of Christian Ordinances and Godly t. T"""" 
 
 ='■"■• ' ^"- -™- «-an.e front th "^ 7^;°? 
 mcssage to mankind, faithfulness in teachiLr,. '' 
 
 f™".andLt:::::f;rr;;orrrr"^''-"*= 
 
 Of a, iving holiness through feliowsh p : th C h^st Tt"'"" 
 works of faith and love The s I ^ u u ' "'' ""■""«'■ 
 
 famiixAltar-these arJihebl^kt^i?:"'"-':''- *=''■■"-'■= 
 -i" the inroads upon societ, „Id 1 „; ' '""^"'""^ 
 -Wshness. of intentperanccof ungodln sf 11^""°"' "' 
 your power. Arise! Meet manfullv ,r "*"'""= ^ou in 
 
 Hold fast, without waverintrr °' "^ "'"'■• 
 
 in earnest prayer tie prl; / """f °'^°" *"'''*■ S-^- 
 Ghost. Shut „ t V „r e "' '"' '"' °' '"= Holy 
 
 Then shall yourno:t;:;„:;;:d"^T'- "■' -"" ■■" ■"■ 
 
 if V , ^od, and knowine it -shoM j 
 
 It. Your reward is sure. In vnnr ' " "^^ 
 
 conviction ^^at your are doingX";"::!":"" "" 
 reward. In the evidence which the Z '"" >""" 
 
 shall furnish that you are fulffl i ',•""?""'' °' ">= Church 
 
 father in Heaven, ou si:, w-yi::::^ '" T" " ^^ 
 I.O.O shall eome, and call for an ac Irf '""' 
 
 Sreat, unspeakaUe will he the j! nr , ^7 ^-"^^P- 
 
 you hear His approving words, « Well d ne /"" "" " 
 
 well done, good and faithfu) 
 
II 
 
 1 this country, 
 -'ilization were 
 combine their 
 1-saving influ- 
 
 brcthren, no 
 St tel] against 
 •hful mainte- 
 
 simplc wor- 
 
 the Gospel 
 - young the 
 nd of Chris- 
 ding, in the 
 
 cultivation 
 nd through 
 ^cBiWe, the 
 successfully 
 rstition, of 
 lave you in 
 
 the truth. 
 ith. Seek, 
 
 the Holy 
 ^alk in it. 
 t, shall do 
 -—-in the 
 lave your 
 e Church 
 
 of your 
 hen your 
 vardship, 
 hearts as 
 
 faithful 
 
 servants !" " Forasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least 
 of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me." 
 
 " Now the God of Peace, that brought again from the dead 
 our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the 
 blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good 
 work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing 
 in His sight, through Jesus Christ ; to Whom be glory for ever 
 and ever. Amen." 
 
 JOHN JENKINS, D.D., 
 
 M ator of Synod. 
 
 Given in Montreal, nnd within Saint PauPs Church 
 there, on this eighth day of Decemher, eighteen 
 hundred ana sixty-nine years.