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GOVERNOR} TOGETHER WITH AK ADDRESS DELITERSD ON THE OCCASION BY V Mr. CAVIE RICHARDSON, AGENT FOR THE COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY FOR THE PRO- VINCES OF NOVA SCOTIA, CAPE BRETON, NEW BRUNSWICK, AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. TO WHICH II AjDDKH A LIST OF OFFICE FEARERS, SUBSCRIBERS AND BENEFACTORS, CHARLOTTETc WN : IWKTID BV JAMSS DOUGLAS HASZARD, fttTllN** WllfTlR. IOjIA / COD CLERGY TO AND Ti THE THE THE THE THE THE THE THE LTEU LIEU LIEU SIR J CAPI J.D. ] GEOI lOUlS hen; EVA W. ] iOHl MON HEN tiEO: K. 1 CAP' Ava C. E THO JOHI AND ALL [Aflipiititfi / COLONIAL CHURCH SOCIETY, FOR SENDING OUT CLERGYMEN, CATECHISTS, AiND SCHOOLMASTEKS TO THE COLONIES OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND TO BRITISH RESIDExNTS LN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. THE RIGHT HON. LORD BARHAM. Vice ^PtcsiHents. THE RIGHT HON. LORD CALTHORPE. THE RIGHT HON. LORD TEIGNMOUTH, iM. T THE RIGHT HON. LORD HENLEY. THE RLGHT HON. LORD MOUNTS ANDFORD. THE RIGHT HON. LORD BLOOMFIELD. THE RIGHT HON. LORD GLENELG, F. R. S. THE RIGHT HON. SIR G. H. ROSE, G. C. H., M. P THE RIGHT HON. FREDERICK SHAW, M. V LIEUT.-GEN. SIR PEREGRINE MAITLAND, K. C B. LIEUT.-GEN. LORD SEATON, G. C.B. LIEUT.-GEN. SIR RALPH DARLING, G. C. H. SIR J. FRANKLIN, Governor of Van Diembn's La.nd. CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD PARRY, R. N. J. D. MACBRIDGE, ESQ. D. C. L. PRIN. MAG. HALL. GEORGE FINCH, ESQ. lOHN LABOUCHERE, ESQ. HENRY POWNALL, ESQ. ©o.nmittec. I r EVAN BAILLTE, ESQ. W. n. BAILI.IE, ESQ. JOHN BALLANCE, ESQ. MONTAGUE BERE, ESQ. HENRY BLANSHARD, ESQ, tJEORRE BURNAND, ESQ. E. A. CHAPLIN, ESQ. CAPTAIN FARRER, AUaUSTUS LANGDEN, ESQ. C. E. MANGLES, ESQ- THOMAS MEUX, ESQ. JOHN WOOD, ESQ. CAPTAIN GASCOYNE, SYDNEY OURNKY, ESQ. CAPT. VERNON HARCOUET, ». N JOHN HARDY, ESQ. MAJOR C. F. HEAD. CAPT. H. HOPE, R. N. G. NOEL HOARE, ESQ. HON. P. J. LOCKE KING, THOMAS LEWIN, ESQ. MARCUS MARTIN; ESQ. J. S. REYNOLDS, ESQ. AND ALL SUCH CLERGYMEN AS ARE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. Cruasuwr.— R. C. L. BEVAN, ESQ. <5lerCcal Sccretarj. Has Secrctars. REV. \V. CHAVE. CAPTAIN E. A. COTTON. «:oUcctor.— MR. W. B. EMMENS. lA^ippina atflents (Gratuitous).— Messrs. R. TAYLOR & Co. 2l3, Birchin Lane. -3 H J I It At a Meeting for the formation of the Prince Edward Island branch of the Colonial Church Society, held at the Court House, in Charlotte- town, on Monday, November 16th, 1840 ; and by adjournment, on the Friday following— the Hon. the Attorney General, in the chair— the proceedings having been opened by prayer, Mr. Cavie Richard- son stated the plan and objects of the Society- after which he read the following highly interesting Address: ADDRESS. ! Prince Church harlotte- , and by he Hon. ceedings LlCHARD- iociety — iteresting Many of the Rehgious Societies formed in England have weighty claims on your attention, and demand your co-operation; but no Society was ever formed with stronger claims upon your zealous services, than that, wliose interests we are now met to advance — it is a Society whose efforts are directed to your im- mediate advantage. It is well known that the heathen in distant lands- have received much assistance from the liberality of British Christians; and several Societies were formed for the Conversion of the heathen; their labours have been crowned with success, but much, very much, re- mains to be done; — it was said by many " why do we send Missionaries to the heathen abroad, and pass* by unconcerned the heathenism at home — our Mills and Factories have risen up in all directions, the labourers in them have located in thei vicinities by hundreds and thousands, yet no Church, or house of God has been erected;" — Societies were immediately formed to provide for the visitation of the people ifi their houses, and to erect Schools and Churches for their advantage, and abundant success has crowned their labours — but it was next inquired, " and lohat havevje done for our ColoniesV we have sent from our shores, or there have departed from our Country our brothers, parents, children, friends and neiglf hours — our countrymen ! they are gone to seek, or to improve their fortunes in the world ; — but they are j^^one to those places where "The Church going bell is ne'er lieard." i ! rUL X ft.- and yet the places to which they are gone, are our own Colonies ; — considerations such as these, spring- ing from, and animated and regulated by Christian principles, led to the formation of the Colonial Church Society. In bringing the constitution and designs of ^nis Society before you, I shall chiefly adopt language selected from the Appeals, Reports and published documents of the Society. I. The General Regulations of the Society. 1. The management of this Society is tobe under the direction of persons who are members of the united Church of England and Ireland. 2. The selection and appointment of Mission- aries and Catechists is to rest entirely with the Com- mittee of the Society, subject as to those Mission- aries sent from England, to the approbation of the Bishop of London; and as to those appointed in the Colonies, to that of the Bishop of the Diocese; and such Missionaries and Catechists are to be sub- ject to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the respec- tive Diocesans. 3. Tlie Missionaries are to be ordained Ministei'S, and the Catechists Laymen of the United Church. II. The Objects of the Society. After giving a statement of the vast extent and population and iluggiffh destitution of many of the Colonies in the appeal of the Society, it states, " To meet this want there is no adequate provision. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, however extended its operations, thus declares its inability to to meet it, " while the tide of emigration continues to jflow with its present strength " and it is certain to '.nis flow more strongly " the religious wants of the Colo- nies nre more likely to increase than to bo overtaken by any efforts which it will be in the power of this Society to make. The same may be said of the East Indies." Indeed, while the gradual extinction of the public grants for the maintenance of the Clergy in British North America, with increasing emigration, demand an enlargement of their resources, the funds of that Society are still so insufficient that the want is likely to increase. Can then (the appeal asks), can this Country, while employing hundreds of thousands of pounds for the heathen, leave our Colonists in this fearful dearth of all public instruction, to grow into the most irreligious and immoral nations upon the earth. In referring to several of the British North Ameri- can provinces, the appeal states "were we only anxious for the credit of our Church, and susceptible of no higher motive than party zeal, we should be ashamed to observe that while other denominations without public aid, have furnished for a population mainly Episcopalian, two hundred and thirty-five Min- isters, our own Church, with large public grants, has only furnished one hundred and fifty-two. Our zeal is however not sectarian ; what we anxiously desire is, to send out faithful Ministers to those of our Country- men who have no Ministers at all, and to secure a Christian Education to large numbers of their Chil- dren who would otherwise remain untaught. And although we confine our agency to members of our own Church, we heartily desire that every one of our Missionaries should cultivate a brotherly spirit towards all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. To effect our object, we intend to send out Cler- gymen, Catechists and Schoolmasters ; to furnish a part of their maintenance — to aid in the erection of Churches and Schools, and to procure for our Mis- ^n 8 sionarics, if necessary, bibles, school books and reli- i,Mous tracts. If our readers ask what Episcopal sanction we expect, we answer, that although some or our Bishops may wish to see the workinir of the Society, before, in their responsible situations, they give to It the sanction of their influential names, we have no doubt that a short observation of its working with increasing proof of its necessity, will secure to a great extent at least, tlieir important aid. On the other hand, with respect to the Colonial Bishops, we cannot doubt that when we offer to them Ministers whose testimonials prove them to be well instructed' orderly, pious and devoted clergymen, to become the pastors of settlements entirely destitute, they will gladly avail themselves of this addition to the focble body of Missionaries scattered over their enormous and untaught Dioceses. It is not to promote the views of a party, not to diffuse the important maxims of a philosophical mo- rality, but, under the guidance of God, to provide for our countrymen in foreign lands. Ministers who will laithfully, affectionately and laboriously preach Christ. Convinced that men are by nature children of wrath and that it is only by faith in Christ Jesus, that they become the children of God, we wish to publish through every destitute settlement in the British Co- lonies the unsearchable riches of Christ. Knowino-ly we will not send out a single Clergyman who d^'oes not tully preach the Gospel, nor one who does not ive as he preaches. And as such Ministers ordained by Christ himself, animated by his spirit, and devo- ted to his glory, have the promise of his presence in then ministry, and have ever been among the most important means which God has in his providence employed to make nations religious and happy, we Have the full conviction that we could not take any method more effectual than this to promote the wel- fare of the Colonies. With this conviction we enter wc i gladly on our work. It will be our business to learn more fully their condition, to form corresponding committees, to receive applications for assistance, and eventually to send out as many Clergymen as the zeal of our Christian brethren may enable us to sup- port. We intend at the same time to urge upon the inha- bitants of every settlement with which the Society may be connected, the duty of aiding our resources as far as practicable. Thus the elder and wealthier settle- ments contributing largely to our funds, the younger and poorer may successively receive our help. In this manner we hope the wants of the Colonies may in a few years be eftectually supplied. Already in various places, especially in Upper Canada and New South Wales, our countrymen have shewn much rea- diness to contribute to this object. More zeal and liberality at home may etfectually kindle a similar spirit throughout the Colonies (and may we not say that the zeal and liberality of the Colonies may increase the same spirit at home,) only let us care for their souls as we should, and Churches will speedily be built, Schools will be multiplied, and zea- lous Ministers will be labouring among affectionate congregations, where before there was no School, no Church, no Pastor, and no public acknowledgment of God." I shall now state the sentiments of several of the supporters of the Society, still copying from the pub- lished papers of the Society. The Rev. Edward Bickerstith, in a sermon preach- ed in 1839, before the Society, states " The Colonial Church Society has undertaken the work (to supply the spiritual destitution of the Colo- nies), not in any spirit of rivalry to any other institu- t 10 lion, but in the hope that another Society, like ano- ther fellow labourer, having this more specific and distinct sphere for its exertions, might possibly excite more attention to the peculiar claims c^ the Colonies, and call forth contributions that former and existing Societies did not obtain. Satisfied of the vastness ot the necessity, and the utter inadequacy of all present exertions, they think it may please the Lord to use yet another instrument like them to give mformation respecting the state of our Colonies; to direct atten- tion to them, and to furnish some help in a case which they believe to be so plain and so urgent. " Think of our being constantly enriched from our Colonies by several hundreds of thousands of pounds vearly, produced there for our use, then think of the enormous crime of wholly, or so greatly neglecting the highest interests of those regions from which we re- ceive our wealth." In the third report of the Society is a letter ad- dressed to the committee by a gentleman long resi- dent in, and well acquainted with the state of these provinces, he says "When I consider the spiritual state of Nova Scotia and the neighbouring Provinces, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, I cannot but rejoice and tee I thankful at the formation of a Society, composed ot the Evangelical clergy and members of the Church of England, who are anxious to extend the doctrines of the Gospel and the knowledge of Jesus m those Colonies which have hitherto been so much neglect- ed. The funds of the Society for propagating the Gospel are evidently inadequate, and its Committee are daily deploring the neglected state of the pro- vince (Nova Scotia.) T xi -li f-.„ *U^ -.r^r,*. 1-kfnviniis. it IS statcd I " Wc propose to send out Clergymen to any place within the Colonies, where the settlers may be without pub- 11 lie instruction, and ask our help. Wherever we find a faithful Minister, though employed by another Society, or belonging to another denomination, we shall rejoice in his ministrations ; but wherever we learn that there is unregarded destitution, we will act. In the Parishes or Districts in which Clergymen or other Societies minister, we mean not to enter; but when souls are perishing for want of a faithful min- ister of Christ, and we have it in our power to send them the help which they ask, we never will refuse it. If it be asked, what pledges we have that the Bishops in the Colonies will concur in our design, we answer that we cannot permit ourselves to doubt for one moment, that whenever a settlement within the Diocese of a Bishop is destitute of a minister, is unable to maintain one, can get help from no other quarter, and demands it from us, that he will gladly avail himself of our instrumentality to promote the spiritual welfare of the peoj^^ 3; and will cordially wel- come a new labourer into the moral wilderness which spreaas out immeasurably before hmi." A letter was received from the Lieut. Governor of New Brunswick, in which his Excellency writes in these terms — " To a Society constituted and com- posed as the Colonial Church Society appears to be, based upon the only sohd foundation, viz. that of an extensive Christian benevolence, and governed by regulations which the most scrupulous member of the Church of England must regard as free from objec- tion, no true Christian can possibly wish otherwise than that its objects should be successfully carried out and fully accompHshed ; any aid which it may be in my power individually to extend to it must neces- snrilu \\n limitorl Knf if cKoll V%o ^Koovfullir nnA — — - "J - ' ' ' ....... .«.^^. p^. ^^-, .^. -jax^^ja ". — ' ----- --— lously afforded." ^Hdovfiillir fii / =^j#f-»?- 12 Another letter was received from New Bruns^yick, from a highly respectable and most mfluential mdi- ^Zal, he states: "The extention of your missionary Society to the British North American Colonies will I think, be hailed by many attached members of the Church, and will I, fervently pray, under the di- vine blessinp, be the means of making known the v^ants o thf; portion of the empire, and supplymg tTe great destitution of religious mstruction and Church Ordinances." The Lieut. Governor of Newfoundland, makes the following representation in a letter to the Committee : " The present state of our Church here may be term- ed deplorable, and unless some effort be made of the nature contemplated by your Society, it is in danger of becoming altogether extinct in a large por- L^of the Island; I beg to be enrolled as a 'fe me™- ber and I forward the necessary sum for that purpose you may freely command my best services, and dejend upon my exertions in support of your lauda- ble undertaking." Sir Colin Campbell, expressed to the agent of the Society his deep conviction of the need of the bo- c°ctv, and lamented the state of education promising to afford every assistance in his power to forward its objects. The Lieut. Governor of Prince Edward Island, on the first representation to his Excellency, niostkind- p'n.misecl to aid the Society and forward Us obje^. and practically gave proof of his readuiess most fully to redeem his pledge. Lord Teignmouth states at a public meeting at ..rW.nh hi« LnrdshiD presided, in Exeter Hall : ''There was no desire on the part'of the friends and support- ers of the present institution to enter into any rival- ry with other Societies. T^iere was an acknowledged destitu the So meet ii refercE of his < as com the Go By the cording be unc or in cj the jiiri sionaric diction Englan Englan strengtl Adm of perse there w certainl provisio placed i The dwell fc the Co] jWere re f society ; emigran the drur of the C( Jeave th( Many ei , jiad regi lell;" V avcd 8 of 13 destitution of religious means in all the Colonies, and the Society for Propagating the Gospel could not meet it. The rules of this Society considered with reference to Australia, had received the sanction of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, though as connected with the Society for the Propaga< ion of the Gospel, he was unwilling to become its patron. By these rules they should still be governed. Ac- cording to them, the Clergymen to be sent out would be under the jurisdiction of the Colonial Bishop, or m case where there was no Colonial Bishop, under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London. The Mis- sionaries would therefore be subject to the same juris- diction with other Missionaries of the Church of England, and so far from injuring the Church of England, this Society could only enlarge and strengthen it." ^ Admiral Hawker, said: "He had known instances of persons who had lost all traces of religion, because there was no regular means of instruction. It was certainly the duty of Christians in England, to make provision for those of their countrymen, who were placed in the situation which had been described." The Rev. Mr. Marsden said : " He could not but dwell for a moment upon the peculiar claims which the Colonists had upon British Christians. Many were ready to suppose that they were the refuse of society ; but that was by no means the case. The emigrants and settlers were by no means the outcasts, the drunkards, the Sabbath breakers, the profligate of the country. It was not easy to get such men to leave their parishes, from their want of moral energy. ;Many emigrants were, on the contrary, persons who |ad regularly heard the " Sound of the church goint? |^^|[" who had attended the ministrations of the -uuhaih; and who, on ie^?^ng their native villages, aved a deep sigh as they lost sight of the spire of b 1 / J 14 their beloved parish church. Many had been per- sons who were under the influence of rehgious and moral principles." A Clergyman well and officially acquainted with the state of these Provinces, thus writes, when speaking of the Colonial Church Society:— " This Society has been lately called into existence by a view of the spiritual destitution of the various Colonial Possessions of Great Britain, and of the avowed inability of the only Missionary Society, which had previously aimed at their instruction, (the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts,) to meet the numerous calls for help, which were con- tinually pouring in upon il. Its ami, as you will perceive by the papers now forwarded, n the supply of spiritual trr.chers, under the saiiction oi the Bishop of the Diocese, to all such places as are yet un- furnished ; and whose cry for help sounds aloud across the vast waters, in the ears of the privileged ,' , Christian People in our father land." , . '' A reverend gentleman near him on the plattorm had lately printed an impressive appeal or. behalf of Lower Canada : and if their leisure would have al- lo',ve(l tliem to hear all the statements made in the renod they would have seen that there was similar dcstiu'ition in almostall the Colonies. Such then being the state of things, some small societies, like their own, were already formed to meet the necessity of parti- cular Colonics. But if this course was to be adopt- od what end would there be to the multiplication of sorieticsr Besides supporting the Newfoundland School Society, the Upper Canada Clergy Society, •ind the Australian Society, new societies must be V ...,-j^.j f..v Lmvcv Canada, for New Brunswick, for Jli^West Indies, for the Cape, for the Mauritius, for rv.\:i.n nncl for India. Could these distinct appeals societies be oi) In the report for 1832, there was this staternent-- " Under the conviction that the Society would find the utmost difficuUy in meeting tUa^rreM e^end^ ture, and under the apprehension that *«» re ources will sustain a still further reductwn, the Bishop ot Nova Scotia has abstained, though with the utmost t^^kctance, from complying with the desire expressed by the weli-disposed in several places, &"•,*« appomt- ment of a resident minister among them. In 836 the same fear is again thus expressed- While the tide of emigration continues to flow with its present s^enAh "he religious wants of the Colonies are more S; to increase: than to be overtaken 6y any ef- f^ts which it will be in the power of thrs Society From'these statements, and from their own know- led '•'"'"'''' '='""fa'-y to subtracting 90 or 100 nnf'^' '"'" ">« danger of general fuml onhe XTI.' ^"' '""^ '■^°"' "-e "vould lament even that sli'h,'^^^' •'""'='' «« 'hey fources, ought that to Lf' '^''"ct.on of their re- 'eave in religious LloranceT". '"'"J ""'^^ ^''ould sands of thefr coumrvmen f ' I ^""'^'^'^^ of thou- God should prosper the und-rr'" '^'" '"""d^' if faithful pastors ? """lertaking, might furnish Objection 11. " Thnt lu the cause, which might « i.e f.. '''"'""''"7 '"^'"g to separate agencies anf theTepa ^ r"^"'''"'"^" ">« " '^^-^e^^^s cannot be worth i thr.„ V**'"- " "'''' * At present the inn thought in com- ^^eotJrAolZ.""'''"' °^ ^^"'^'^^^'--'y- ^10,000, and Of f m parison with the jealousies and disorders wliicli would ensue." Answer 1 . In the first place, no jealousies and disorders would ensue on their part. 2. Although to the author of those objections, the cost and difficulty of maintaining a number of small Societies might seem a trivial matter, they ought to remember that charitable funds ought as little as possible, to be spent in agency ; but more than this, it was not merely wasteful to support a number of small Societies seeking similar objects, but absolutely impossible, and then for the question which they had continually to bring before their minds, was this, should they form a general Society 10 send out Missionaries to the Colonists, or should they leave them to sink into absolute ungodliness and immorality ? The 12th objection was of no moment whatever. Objection 13. That if this consideration (the want of clergymen) would justify the establishment of one Society, it would justify the estabhfhment of any number; and upon the same principle a multitude of Church Missionary Societies, &,c. might be formed, Answer. In parallel circumstances, such new, not rival Societies might properly be formed. It instead of adding 10,000L to its income in oiio year, and sending out about 30 missionaries, the Cliurch Missionary Society now could only, whether by its constitution or its principles, or its administration, or from some cause or another, add nothing to its income, then it would be necessary to try some new mode of bringing the public to their duty. The hoathon must not perish through our falser coinplai- sance to one another ; nor must the colonists, Thoy w(^re in numbers untaught, the (iestitution was iri- r.reasing, and tlicy were bound iH.'lore God to^uiiply it; if they could. 23 OhjecHv.i H Tin, :, • , t" consider whether nerH »',"!"' -^^ ""' "" ""'cf» "■c persons calledLon 1 '"', "•' ^'"^"'^^ ^^ are t'-cr or not in he mnnot '''"'^ '/' "'"' '^^O' ^he- governed by God tiTZT^^'} ^' '^e world is his permission on T and h^^'"''^™''' «-^i''« by good time, and in the ^ 'T°^° "' '" '"' o'vn best. If ^e are thou<.ht 'V^'""'' ^'^•""«'' h™ n-onts, we may be s re h "n'''^ •" "^'^ ^is instru- Church, &c. ' °"* ^""S:'"S evil upon his L AriiaholSt' 'Sr"-.'"' --' P-test. the permission of God «nH .,, ? ."'''' ^'^^ '^^^'s by Evil exists beeause me'n'a"! Ivi/ ''° ,^J" r^""'^« ''• hat they should resist "hat e,? ' r^ " /f ^'' *^"' those wlmi tl e pret ff h"^ r" T'^'^' ''"'' ^""^ «^ be light, when he Hi , ho .1, '^'' >"''." '^^ !-<=' 'here bnshel, when Tt ou ht t^t'^n '^T ''S'^' ""^ hill. As little coidd i:„ '"'''' *''«' '^''3' set on a ther they were the nert ^'"'n "f "''^ 1'"=^''°" ^vhe! If ' """g ^8- since the ack„owiLti''l^.';??f^'""°"°f the Gospel, -- quite ground eno't;grX"rir"l±- "^'"'""'^^ there ought to be no rivalry b tvt tTe" ^ L ■ " 24 n \ ties ; but tliose indiscreet objections, not only circu- lated in a separate form, but adopted by an influen- tial periodical, had compelled him. " Leaving now the consideration of the necessity of the undertaking, they might turn to their various encouragements in entering on it. In most of the Colonies the climate was genial, and therefore the missionary might usually labour long without the loss of health. The inhabitants speak our language, and therefore he could at once enter on his labours. Their minds were as masculine, and their hearts as warm as our own; they had the same habits of thought, received the Bible as the word of God, ac- knowledged the ministry to be of Christ's appoint- ment, and could at once make use of any useful books offered to them. The heathen usually mani- fested at first much indifference on the subject of instruction, but many of the colonists were earnestly desiring it. Those wishes ought surely to be met. Their prospects in this undertaking were fair." I will now conclude by stating, that as the Agent of the Colonial Church Society, I have been ap- pointed to visit the provinces of Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. I have found in each of these Provinces much spiritual destitution, and I have faithfully re- ported to the Committee in London, according to the best of my judgement; I have earnestly solicited help from them, and I have received the promises of the Conmiittee, that help shall be afforded, as speedily and extensively as possible. I have found the live- liest sympathy excited on your behalf. Something has been done, Sunday and Day scliools nave been formed, lending Libraries have been established, hundreds of Bibles, Testaments and Prayer-books, with tens of thousands of Tracts and Homilies, (every one of which, teaches the way of a ■ salvation, bv faith ;« r«L • , now m correspondence wkh ZlT^' ""'' ^^ are individuals desirous to become r«M 1'°'" """^ '"*'•>"« masters; and I feel reWcpTf„ '"^''^ «"d School- has not been done.T w Jl at H "'" *'"'"^'' "»«=h prominently, we are laTC'" *'* P^^^j" ^PP«" ^«y W and we trust fi™ aTdZrl ,h^'°"^ '^''^P «"d by God's blessing, will rise ,nfc ' f ^"P^ratructure, «:« shall "raise^ti,rtoSwi?h h'J'''''=''"^«nd Grace, graceuntoit". Ourst^^ ''°"""S«' '^O'ing purpose to build, our trowT • °? """'"'^ course, wl rt be the will ofaZ'T} " '" '"'"''' ""^ '^e pi^y^f the end-but we ^pSe to'h?^^ K'^''^'^ '« see ''-.our bodies bei„g%-s:rtrH:ur? Nol^'fe^;;™'^^./^^^^^^ wild to sail on the beautifuf riv« St Inh "^ *'l*' P'^»««e some of the chaste and ^autiff,? ' ''"'' '°'^''"c«s little fruitful garden andXiirJ nfT?^ .°^ ^0"^ America, Prince Edward IslSTrfJ^ of British North too much of a moml wUdernesr h ''j^^, ^^hibit far they shall be changed ZS^ ^'^ " Messing fruitful field-the Srt ^h^f t"''" l'"'" ^^^"'"e I the Lcrd,-ins,ead oTthe th" n -K^n ''"^ ^^'^en of tree-the rose of Sharon shalK'}Y'°'"!"P '^e fir your wastes-the % of the v^""!?',?'!.'* P^''""'"*' your deserts-and the rivp, lf!u^ *'"'" ''« 'ound in fowii; . '"e "Ver of the wato^ „<•)•/• , ,: :"""'"= yow parched CTound— fl,„ u , "', '"e siiall feed your teeming and multi^l;^ ''f,'"^ "^ '""e shall t«e of life shall be for your ECg^ tho„sa„ds-.U,e I ^6 We invite examination, we ask for your co-opera- tion, we solicit your prayers and your contributions— the cause is God's—arise my brethren this matter belongeth to you and also to me, let us labour, while still we pray to our God, " prosper thou the work ot our hands upon us, Lord, prosper thou our handy work " ^ The following Rfsolutions were then put from the Chair : Moved by W. R. A. Lament, Esq. .uK "^t^at whilst we feel duly impressed with sentiments of the liveliest gratitude for the great efforts already made by the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in loreign Parts, to reheve the spiritual destitution of this Colony, and fervently pray that the great Head of the Church would continue to vouchsafe to it, his special blessing, and abundantly increase its means of usefulness, yet, from the acknowledged inability of that venerable institution to meet the urgent and in. creasing deniands for help throughout the British Colonies, V7e deem it our bounden duty thankfully to avail ourselves of the benevolent offers of the Colonial Church Society, to supply according to its ability, in conjunction with that ancient institu- tion, our destitute settlements with Missionaries, Catechists and Schoolmasters. Moved by Edward Palmer, Esq. 2. That a Society be formed, with the express view of aiding the Colonial Church Society in its holy undertaking— which Society shall be designated the Prince Edward Island AuxUiary Church Society, ^ Moved by Edward Haythorne, Esq. ^' T?u^' l'^^^'^ Longworth, jun. Esq., be appointed Trea- surer of this Society. Moved by William Cundall, Esq. A\ That this Society shall solicit, through the intervention of Mr. Cavie Richardson, the accredited Agent of the Parent Institution, its countenance and approval, and that a Committee be appointed, to consist of one Clergyman and two or more Lay- men, to carry on the general correspondence. Moved by Capt. Swabey. 6. That His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor be rcspoct- fiilly requested to become the Patron of this Society. hcmg Mr. J at some into a m of the P numerou ^ind inte tliem iie 37 Movcl by William Douse F, Mo^e by J. B. Haszard, Esq. 9. Thai M r ""^"'"'•n''. Esq. President, the Hon tho Pn- <• r ^Capt. S^abeJ: rT"' "" ^"--^ Genera,, treasurer, Francis Lon^worth ; n Secretary, W. R. a. i^.^^;;;-'^- Esq. £aSl?r:'^;-^»Esq..s.Bea,y, .tenS^f-i^^^^^^^^^ Eongworth, Esq.-and all .L "r^^"'""''' Esq. John '«='"? members of ",,„'''i•''.^*^''''■S>' of the Island "PPomt the Corresnondfn? r^' '^J"' -"thor^ ,„' f«"f be a quormn. ^^'"^ Committee^nd tha" •ntoa more minnte detail of ,h' "''^'^""'''"o feelint -'^^-'.eperso"n7SSttt^ them 38 I ceived during his short stay, and expressed a strong determination (D. V.) to revisit the Island as early as possible iri|the next year. Captain Swabey then announced that Hia Excel- lency the Lieutenant Governor had kindly consented to become the Patron of the Society. The meeting having been concluded with the apostolical benediction, several persons came forw^ard a^d enrolled themselves as subscribers. The sub- scription list at present stands thus : DONATIONS. Wm. Cullen, Esq. £1 J. D. Macdonell, Esq. 11 3 4 Mr. J. B. Cooper, 10 SirC.A.FitzRoy,£2 Earl of Selkirk, (per W. Douse,) 1 Miss Fanning, 5 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Rev.L.C. Jenkins, £1 W. H. Hobkirk, Esq. Oil Hon. John M. Holl, 1 Rev. Charles Lloyd, 1 Mr. seph Ball, 10 Hon. . Hodgson, 13 4 Capt. W. Swabey, 13 4 E. Haytbome, Esq. 13 4 Edward Palmer,Eiq.0 11 8 W.R.A.Lamont,E8q.l W. Cundall, Esq. 10 R. Brecken, Esq. 10 Rev.A.V.G.WigginSjl 3 4 T. B. Tremainj, Esq. 13 4 J. D. Haszard, Esq. 1 3 4 J. S. Dealy, Esq. 10 8 W. Stewart, Esq. 16 W. Douse, Esq. 15 Henry Palmer, Esq. 13 F.Longworthjjun.Esq. 11 Mr. G. Bcex, jun., 7 Mr. W. S. Compton, 10 Mr. Henry Haszard, 6 Mr. Ssmuel Batt, 10 Hon. T. K. Havilahd, 1 3 Hon. John Brecken, 1 3 Hon. G. R. Goodman, 1 3 Capt. Cumberland, 1 3 Mrs. Fanning, 1 Miss Fannicor. i o 8 8 4 8 6 4 4 4 4 J. Longworth, Esq. 11 Contributions will be received on behalf of the Society, at the Bank of British North America at their various establishments in Halifax, Nova Scotia; St. iohn, Fjedericton, Miramichi, New Brurswick; ai d by Francis Longworth, Jun. Esq, Chariottetown, Prince Edward Island. \