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 Su(, — M(.n(l;«y th«5 Simato will hocallefl 
 upon ti» pnjrjoiince on the Ttunpi»rHlit««'H' 
 Bill, Hud wo t;iiUH8tly ink honourable 
 Kt^ntleuitn to wtii^h wt-U its (omiitlor i?, 
 utiptcially tts tliu Parliamout of tli*) Do- 
 . miuion has tiiken noon itself the duties 
 ^ ,. of a court of law, witlmut following its 
 procedure, hut iH deeiding a case upon 
 the HpeecheH of counarl In a matter so 
 iniporfaiit as this, wo rnav be pardoned 
 for say i Hi,' that there hiiouKI have boon a 
 most car»'ful e.\ainiDntiou and Hiltin(j ot 
 evideuce. So tar a« we can see, there 
 lias been no such examination, all the 
 intormation aft'oided th(! comraittee 
 bcinu: the Hpeechns of tlie promoterH and 
 oppoBern ot the bill. As reprenentatives 
 of the PreHbyterian Church of Canada in 
 connection with the Church of Scotland 
 we l^eiievu it to be our duty to k'vo our 
 view of the position ot the (juestiou. 
 
 The TemporaliticB Fund was formed 
 from the moneys paid to the ministers 
 of our church, aa a commutation of 
 their porsouiil claims upon the Crown 
 for htipeuds for which the faith of the 
 Crown was pledged to them as lainis- 
 tt^rsof t .e Church ot Sotland in Canada. 
 The payments tor which the faith ot 
 the Crown waf. thus pledi^ed b-lng ex- 
 tiuifuished, the moneys ceased to be 
 public funds and became prirate pro- 
 ptrty, and were by ttie clergymen to 
 whom they were so paid, placed in one 
 common fund tor the purposes expressed 
 in a certain agreemerit made at thd 
 time of commutation, the de-ire of the 
 commuting miniKtors being to make a 
 provision for ttieir cliurch for all time, 
 it being expressly agreed and stipu- 
 lated that only the interest should b) 
 U8ed, and that the beneticiaries were to 
 be ministers of tlie Presbyterian 
 Chun h of Canada in connecticm 
 witli the with tlie Church ot Scotland. 
 In i)nier to stro if^th'^-n and maintain 
 the trust thus created, an Act ol In- 
 corporaiion» calltd tht* Temporalitit-s' 
 Act, was obtained in 1858 from the Par- 
 liament of Canada, and under this Act, 
 the fund was, until 1875, ttdministered 
 ^ lor the benefit ot the church in con- 
 uev tion with the Church of Scotland. 
 
 la 1874, a majority of the Synod of 
 t^vi'«« thur'^li determined to j»ln certain 
 
 was curried out by the majority, Whilst 
 these ttiinus were i^oinu: on, a mnjority 
 
 the union, and, as stated, have been 
 recognized by ttio Chtirch of Scotland a« 
 being in the old relation. The hi^^hesi 
 co^irt ot Ontario baa declared them to 
 be tlie reprosfutatives of tlio old ctiurcb^ 
 Whit follows? The Privy Council, in 
 giving judgment ; say " I'he fund (ihis 
 Temporalities Fund) belongs to tnose 
 who represent the Prcsbyturian Church 
 ot Canada m connection with theCliurch 
 of Scotland, and the common sense 
 statement of the position ot the churches 
 shitWH that the minority never iravc up 
 or left their church, while the m ijority 
 wen^ 'nto a new church. The courts 
 declare this to be the case, and the con- 
 clusion is inevitable that the minority 
 are the rightful owners of this fund. 
 Believing this to be the true state 
 of the caKe, are the honourable 
 seMutors prepared to declare a fund 
 which is evid' utiy the propv-rty of 
 the representatives of the Chnruh io, 
 connection with the Church ot Scotland 
 to l»e the property of a body of men who 
 have been adjudge«l by the highest 
 court ot Ontario to have left that connex- 
 ion ? Are they pr< pared to pass a 
 stfitute declaring that a fund which 
 before and up to the present dite was 
 vested in the property of thone who 
 adhered to the old church shall, by au 
 Act pass d in 188-, become the property 
 of those who in 1876 forfeited all riuhc 
 to it; nay, more, that the fund shall be 
 given to men whose only claim to it is 
 tnat they wern a maj »rity, and votetl to 
 put into their owu pockets money 
 dHVOted and given, as a perpetual endow- 
 ment for the church in connection with 
 the Church of Scotland, or, to ustj the 
 words of the ministers who gavn the 
 fund, it was to be "for the general and 
 perinuuent i;oodof the people committed 
 to their charge." 
 
 We would further draw the attention 
 of the honourable gentlemen to 
 the tact that they will, if they 
 pass this bill, sanction everything 
 done by the Temporalities Board, 
 since 1875. What has been d^me no 
 person k flows, except tha^ the capital 
 (which under the TiU!*t whs in no case 
 to be touched) has been depleted in the 
 last Seven years to the extent ot about 
 $135,000 — and that it is t)ein4 drawn 
 upon to the extent o! $20,000 per an- 
 num ; ttie charges on it now being 
 SjB40,000 per annum and the receipts 
 about $20,000 per annum, as per last 
 
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 WMH ciiniod out by the rnujority. Wbilrit 
 iluifie thinu's were uoinji 011, a ranjority 
 
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 numberB of the <.hur h, proteHted jigiiiriHt 
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 ing ^■/i the old relations, whilst fiptakiUK 
 oi Liiuse who h^.'v K<>u^ iiito iiuion, as 
 being •« in (he new slate 0/ things." 
 
 The question as to which of the two 
 parties now before PariJHment repre- 
 wents the old church is what must bo 
 Rottled. The impoitunce ot this arises 
 frtni tlie fact that tl)e Judiciai Comrnit- 
 lev of the Privy Council, in the case of 
 Dohic vs. the Temjjoriiiities Boaru, have 
 dclared that the fund htlotig to thof>e 
 who rrprenent the Fresbytt-rian Church 
 of Ciitiada in couuecticin with the Church 
 ot Scothind. Those who went into 
 union say they are the cliurch, becaut<e 
 of tbcir having made a dt^ciaration, at 
 the time they were preparing to go to 
 the Skating Rink, that, they were " iden- 
 tical with the- Pr«bhyterian Church ot 
 C mada in connection with the Church 
 olS;otlaui." But tliey becuuie an in- 
 tegral part of a body called " Tlie Pres- 
 ^ y.cenaa Church in Canaia" thoy g;*vo 
 ■■\) their uld name, and the Court ot 
 \pr)H!»l in Octurio ha. d..'cM<d Uiat tiev 
 ioat their tdenliu^ as the Presbyterian 
 Church of Canada ia connection with 
 tlie Church ot Scotland, while, on the 
 other hand, the eatno court in the same 
 case(McPherfion rs*. McKay, 4 appl Reps, 
 of Out:Hrio), declared the plaiiititf^ en- 
 titled to hold their church anil manse as 
 being representatives wnd belouKiug to 
 the Presbyterian Chnrch ot Canada in 
 connection with the Church of Scotland. 
 If the majority who went into a new 
 church are still in connection with the 
 Church ot Scotland, in the same manner 
 as they wtre before they wont into the 
 union, then the united church is in con- 
 neutiun with the Church ot Scotland. 
 But even Priacipal Grant will hesitate 
 10 say th'it the Free Church and the 
 utiited Presbyterians, with whom he and 
 his brethreu have joined, are in such 
 conutctiou, and if these are not 
 in connection, then the Presby- 
 terian Church in Canada, which 
 is a united church, cannot be in the 
 same relation to the Church of Scotland 
 as was the old church before the union. 
 On the othei hand, the minority have 
 always maintained their name and the 
 old coiinectiun, have refused to go into 
 
 ;j)l ,;,, ,)0() — Uld thit it is bein^ drawn 
 upon to the extent ot $20,0U() per an- 
 num ; ttie charjjes on it now being 
 sB4'»,0()0 per annum and the receipts 
 •iboiit $20,000 per annum, as per last 
 
 ^h8 in its present shape, the L<■gi^)ature 
 will Ka:icti(m that wtdch the Piivy 
 Council ordered should not be done, 
 namely, the payment out of ttie Fund 
 ot the law expend 'a illegally incurred 
 by tlie lioard, which the Piivy Council 
 crder'id should be paid by tlu; members 
 cf the Board individually; one of the 
 charges in the statement of the Bo.ird of 
 Trustees for 1881 being a payment ot 
 JtlOO sterlins,' to Mr. J. S. Morris for 
 legal expenses, the further ^ums of 
 $2,0110 and $1,000 being charged in 
 previous lepcrls for liu ^amo pur- 
 pose. In view, then, ot the 
 fact that to pas-? this » bill is Xo 
 destroy the Fu'jd and theret)y deprive 
 the surviving founders ot their rights 
 aud income, to take away the rights of 
 the cl.igynien ol the future and to 
 weaken the church by withdrawing the 
 rai aus placed in its hands for the exten- 
 sion ot religious ordinances it is plain 
 that it defeats the inteatol the founders. 
 It is the declaring by Parliament that 
 property held and ve."<ted by virtue ot 
 the law that exii-ted In I81 5, a law de- 
 cided by the Privy Council to be still 
 in force, snail be talien from its owner** 
 by an Act ol this Parliament and given 
 to parties who have ceased to he either 
 ministers or members of the church for 
 wnose benefit the fund was constituted. 
 
 In the name of the Presbyterian 
 Church of C lUiKia in tonneotii-'U with 
 the Church of ScotUnd, of which we are 
 represotitaiivcs find uiembcrs, wo appeai 
 to the Senate ot the Dominion to main- 
 tain our rights. If the laws of this 
 country are to he held sacred, 
 if tlie rights ot the property 
 ot the people are to bo respected, 
 tlien Parliament cannot and will not 
 pass this bill. We hold and believe we 
 have proved this properfy to belong to 
 our church ; the courts have declared 
 our claim to be just. We deny the 
 riiiht of Parliament to lake property 
 trom our church by a private bill ; if 
 taken by a public Act, that Act must 
 provide for immediate compensation. 
 
 We appeal to the Senate of this 
 Dominion, a body selected from the 
 people, lor their age, their wisdom, and 
 their stake in the country, to protect 
 our rights, trusting to their sense of 
 justice and believing that they will let 
 justice be done though the heavens 
 shonld fallo 
 
 T. A. McLhan, 
 
 UOUULAS BhYMNRB, 
 
 Representatives of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Canada in connection with 
 the Church ot Scotland.