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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. rrata o 3elure. 1 A 32X 1 2 3 1 To the Congregation of the Church of Our Lord, Victoria, B. C. D£AK BkETIIREN AND FlUKNDS : Without fonually calling you together, hut in vie*v of your unfailing kindness and consideration, I have presumed on your assent to a step which I feel to l)e proper to my advancing years. I thank my (iod, who has been so merciful to me all my life long, in that while naturally more subject to ailments, necessitating ;.'ecaution, I am neither decrepit nor b\irdened with sensible failure, mentally or physically. At the same time, at 12, I deem it oidy right to economise, so far as in me lies, what strength I have, by calling in assistance in the discharge of my own proper share in the work of the ministry over you. I trust and believe that I am not without the Divine guidance in taking this step, A clergyman of our chui'ch in the East, well nurtured in protestant principles amid liturgical surroundings, having funned the desire of coming to our province, has, through the introduction of Bishop Cssher, offered himself for work in my jurisdiction, the result being that he has accepted a six months' engagetnent as my curate and personal assistant, to join mo, Clod willing, about the beginning of the year, I ovve to you, no less than to my age, most dear friends, this contril)utive increase to our ministerial strenifth. It would have been, howe^-er, presumptuous and ungrateful on my part, had I, in thia arrangement, contemplated any atldition to your already heavy burdens. I rely simply on the allowance which I now receive from you. coupled with perhaps some added attention on your part, or rather I should say, seeing how much of the burden is wont to rest on a few, some awakened attention on the part of each one, to enable your wardens punctually to supjjly the same, for my discharge of this obligation. My ight, ami himself be so disposed, to retain his services so h)ng as, together with my beloved colleague, Dr. iieid. wh(»se co-operation during these past four years, through your liljerality, has been to me most hel[)ful and refreshing, it may please (Jod that I shall continue in tliis ministry. Meanwhile I venture to hope for your further consent at some conveuit>'.t time after the arrival of my assistant, to my taking a recess from active duty for a suitable period, hoping after such recess to resume my work as (iod shall give me strength. Permit uie then, dearest friends, to bespeak on behalf of this brother, and on behalf of his wife, like-minded with hiuiself, that kindness and graciousness of welcome which I myself have found so marked in all our mutual relations. / / In conclusion, CliristiMi\ brethren and friends, witnesses for u fiiitli iuid worsliip pure and undefilcd, snifer tluj word of oxliortatjon from one who must soon give account ol the way in wiiich he lias led the L