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'rtie Anniversarj of this Society was held in 'the City Hall, on Thursday evening, 22d i^an- uary, Cm>^m Wright, R, A^ occupied the chair. The Rev. H4||JpKM>M^lkin3 opened '4>he meeting With prayer. The Rev.^C, F. Burns, Correspon ■ding Secretary, read the Rdport. After the reading of the Repfttt the following i*esolution3 were submitted : — Moved by Rev. R. V. Rogers, seconded by Dr. Fraser, R. B., I. That the Report now read be adopted, and that the following be the listof officetbeaiers for the ensuing year. ' . President, Lieut. Oolonel Lawrence, Rifle Brigade. Vice Presidents, Rev. R. V. Rogers, Rev. Sam- uel D. Rice, and Captain Stace, R. A. Treasurer, William Ferguson, Esq. Corresponding Secretary, Rev. R. F. Burns. Recording Secretary, Neil McLeod, Esq. 'Committee — Ministers of the Gospel who ate 'members of this Society, John Counter, Esq^, Capt. Hamilton, R. A., Capt. Wright, R. A., Dr. Fraser, R. A., Messrs. James Stewart, George Hardy, J. J. Haines, George Marriott, R. M. Rose James Gray, with power to add to their number] Moved by Rev. R. F. Burns, seconded by Rev. II. Mulkins, II. That it is the duty of every lover of God and man to rally round the Sabbath as being es- sential to the being as well as the well-being of the Institutions 6f Christianity — as forming the grand ^otection of civil and religious liberty— and as fitted to confer on the human family in- numerable blessings, physical, intellectual, social and spiritual. Moved by Rev. Alex. Lorimer, seconded by Rev. H. Gordon, Gananoque, III. That the present aspect of the times in general, and the prospect that exists of a large increase of travelling by reason of the introduc tion.of Railways into Canada, ili particular, should stimulate to a renewal of the agitation on the subject of the Sabbath with redoubled - pended under God mainly on the disseminatioc throughout the maSs of the community of clear and correct views respecting the character and claims of the Sabbath ; that in order to securing .0, hearty co-operation in the adoption of any ings of a hopeful kind were held, and practical measures were adopted. From a variety of causes your Committee were not able to overtake all the places above enume- rated, but enough was done to show that the plan was entirely feasible, and that if eflRciently carried out success would be by no means pro- blematical. They accordinglv resolved a few weeks ago on resuming it. Tne number of lo- calities was increased to twenty-six — apportion- ed off on the same principle as before. It is their hearts' desire and prayer that the respected brethren to whom the Executive of this Depart- ment has befen more immediately entrusted, may experience the presence and power of the Lord of the Sat>bath, and the willing co-operation of those to whom visits may be paid or communi- cations directed. Your Committee have during the past year made the Sabbath Desecration in the Post-office again the subject of their special efforts. From our own city three memorials were dispatched to the three branches of the Legislature. One from the public meeting convened in January last ; a second from our Society in its Corporate capacity, signed by the office-bearers and mem- bers of Committee ; and a third from the commu- nity in general, having affixed to it the names of our most respectable citizens — not professional men merely, though these are fully represented — but the sinews oi our strength — the great bulk and body of our merchants and artizans. At one time it was proposed that memorials sTiould be despatched by each separate congregation in the city op the official members of each, but it was deemed expedient in present circumstances not unduly to multiply petitions ; and this mode of evoking public sentiment was accordingly postponed till (if necessary) a future stage of the Agitation. Prom several quarters beyond the limits of our city, memorals were sent us for transmission, as the result of the plan to which reference is made above. The thriving village of Napanee sent one with about 150 names appended ; Ganano- que, with 500 ; Ramsey, with the representatives of a congregation of GOO ; and Portsmouth, with the townships of Kingston, Storrington, and Portland, sent in theirs more or less numerously signed. The thanks of your Comlnittee are due to the Hon. Messrs. Lesslie and Price for so kindly con- senting to present these memorials to the Houses of Legislature. It is ground of thankfulness that during the last session of Parliament 69 petitions were pre- sented on the matter of the Post-office. Your Committee would take thiis opportunity of no ticing that two or three of those committed to thern for transmission to Head-quarters, were re- turned in 'Consequence of an informality which, though seemingly slight in itself, nevertheless prevented their presentation. No signatures were iiisciiod on the otifiiviil paper whereon fke petition g.scntial to render- pointed to look after this important matter, and particularly to wait on the principal forwarders, in order to gather information, and to discover their views. Convinced that it would be of great conse* quence to secure the continuance and co-open^ ' tion of the different religious bodies throughoat the Province, your committee tesolVed on res- pectfully requesting them to give ptdminenceto the subjeet of the Sabbath in the deliberations of their respective judicatures. A copy of this resolution was sent to six dis- tinct denominations whose supreme courts as- sembled in June and July. It is gratifying to your committee to note some additional indications of progress which the past year has supplied. In April an ^cour* aging movement was made in Montf eal. A vigorous association was established, and a periodical entitled the ''Sabbath Advocate" set, agoing, intended to form a medium of communi- cation for the friends of the cause in both sec- tions of the Province. The association has al- ready done good service. Of the " Advocate" only two numbers have as yet appeared. From the matter original and selected, it promises to be a useful handmaid. Your Committee have gratefully to acknow- ledge the generous grant of SOO copies ol'the first number : they have giv,en an order for 200 copies of every succeeding one. A friendly Correspon- dence has been entered into betwixt the two so- cieties which we trust may prove of mutu£^ advantage. At Gananoque, Bath, Spencerville, in the neighborhood of Prescott, Associations have also been organized, with which we have had inter* course either direct or by letter. A long and interesting Communication has been received from Dr. Greville, Secretary of the Scottish Sabbath Alliance, in reply to one from your Committee : it speaks of the gratification which the movement in Canada has produced in Scotland, and the proceedings past, present, and prospective, of the- Alliance there. From the in* tense excitement caused by the Great Exhibition and the Papal Aggression, their operations have been temporarily suspended, Taut they are again preparing to muster and to take the field. " We have one comfort," writes tlie Doctor, "that should we fail in closing the Post Office on the Sabbath, the very agitation of the question has done incalculable good. The Churches have tsr ken up the general question more prominently, and We now com ratively rarely hear those sneers with which we were assailed a few years • ago." Your Committee have also had a corresjponi- dence of a very Cordial kind with the Lord's day Society in London, The communication from Mr Baylee, the respected Secretary, contains sen* tiinents and breathes a spirit similar to the one from Edinburgh. Both these societies have, in the most liberal manner, made over to your Com- mittee several thousand of the principal tracts ^V )l jag_unon the whole been suq.tained during the I* is ground of thankfulness that during the! ana we now cr aneerg with whifth wp. wprA noeuiloHl taw TT An ma a. IlCliriy CU-UJil-Tiilimi m mu uuu[iinjii ui uiij isscntial to reiulcr- IIIILIUI^ JUll-lUl lii»»»twi»»»«» itnpc lias upon the whole been sustained during the past year, and that the liiielilM^td of substantial Results