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 OCCASIONAL PAPER 
 
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 PRINTED BT JOHN LO"VELL, ST, ANH STREET. 
 
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 BI0CE8E OF QUEBEC. 
 
 Letter addressed by the Lord Bishop to the 
 
 Acting Secretary. 
 
 BARDFIELD, 
 
 4:th March, 1861. 
 Rev. and Dear Sfr : 
 
 I am prompted to address to you, in your capacity 
 of Acting Secretary of the Church Society, the statement of 
 some few particulars relative to the two Missions maintained 
 by that institution, in tlie District which I have recently had 
 occasion to visit. 
 
 The first which I visited was that Mission, of an itinerant 
 character, which is occupied by the Rev. J. P. Richmond, 
 whose labours are carried over the townships of Barford, Clifton 
 and Hereford, lying close to the American frontier. AH this 
 tract of country is as yet in a very backward cor ition — and 
 with the exception of some efforts, unavoidably desultory and 
 nnfrequent, yet by no means unfruitful, made by different 
 Travelling Missionaries of the Church Society, and, at one 
 time, by the nearest Clergyman (the Rev. H. G. Bnrrage), the 
 ground has not, till lately, been taken up by the Church. 
 There are many circumstances attaching to the whole field of 
 labour in the Eastern Townships which present an aspect of 
 discouragement and difficulty. Wherever there is a predomi- 
 nance or a considerable infusion of settlers who are American 
 or of American descent, there is a great proportion of the 
 population who, drawing their origin from a country in which 
 there are no national religious institutions, are unconnected 
 with any religious organization whatever, and who remain un- 
 
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 baptized, and, in a vast number of instances, totally regardless 
 of the duty of attending public worship. And, in what does 
 appear in the shape of Religion, there is frequently to be wit- 
 nessed a frothy torrent of extravagant fanaticism which is apt 
 to run itself sneedily dry, as well as a multiform exhibition of 
 doctrinal error, (such as is propagated by the Universalists, 
 the Adventites, the seventh-day Baptists, &c.,) serving, alto- 
 gether, to bewilder the minds of the people, and to make many 
 stand aloof from Religion. On the otl^r hand, these very cir- 
 cumstances are found, in different instances, to recommend, by 
 contrast, in the eyes of thinking men among the inhabitants, 
 the " order and steadfastness" with the grave, solemn and truly 
 scriptural services of the Church ; and a Minister of our Com- 
 munion who is seen to be self-denying and earnest in his work, — 
 zealous for the salvation of souls, and, at the same time, 
 conciliating and discreet, will rarely fail, under the Divine 
 blessing, to make a favorable impression in many quarters 
 where all has been loose in matters of Religion, and to gain 
 over some straying, and what may be called unrecognized, 
 sheep, besides preserving safely in the fold those who may be 
 said more naturally to be our own. 
 
 The Roman Catholic Church has of late years made great 
 advances in these townships— not, thus far, in the way of 
 proselvtism, but by means of accessions which it affords to the 
 population year by year, tending, in the probable result, numeri- 
 cally to overbalance the Frotestants in portions of the country 
 heretofore considered as distinguishingly Protestant, and to gain 
 the ascendancy in matters of municipal concern. The vast facili- 
 ties afforded in the formation of certain new settlements by the 
 Government, and the large advantages there opened to the 
 settler, appear to be so dispensed and administered as emi- 
 nently,— I believe I should not be far wrong in saying exclu- 
 sively, — to favor the Roman Catholic interest. 
 
 The call, therefore, upon our own Church to keep her ground, 
 and, without obnoxious interference, to promote the spiritual 
 welfare of ail those anong the population who are accessible 
 to her overtures, or have a claim upon her watchfulness, is an 
 urgent and solemn call. And what the Diocesan Church 
 Society has, up to this point, done in this behalf, in taking its 
 share of labour when other resources have begun to fail us, is 
 the earnest, I trust, of greater things which, as the demands 
 multiply, the same institution will be permitted to effect. 
 
 In my late circuit through the Eastern Townships, I held, 
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 twenty-four services, preaching at each, and administered the 
 rite of Corifirinatlon in eighteen places. My labours com- 
 menced in one of the Missions maintained by the Church Society 
 and closed in the other. In the former, already mentioned aa 
 being under the charge of the Rev. J. P. Richmond, I con- 
 firmed two persons in a little school-house close to the house in 
 which that gentleman has his lodging. The moulding and 
 training of the people (or such among them as are in a disposi- 
 tion to conform to the Church) remains in a great measure to 
 V ibne. Matters are in train, however, for the erection of a 
 'ch ii this neighborhood. The spot where the school- 
 ^' ! : tdi 'h LToes by the name of Drew's Mills, and is in 
 4- '.. ;d. T'iv. Richmond has had a rough time of it in this 
 •j\: '^uen^^^d tra'^t of country, in a winter of such almost un- 
 " 'all' ^ sevtr'ty as the present, and marked by such a series 
 ■■; , Veni snow-storms, causing an enormous accumulation of 
 snow in the i ads. And he bore some marks of service in the 
 very visible tracos of the eifect of frost upon two or three parts 
 of his face. I do believe, however, that he is quite prepared 
 to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, and that 
 he will approve himself wise to win souls. The only other 
 place within his Mission where I held a Confirmation was in 
 Hereiord, again in a school-house,— which was within a stone's 
 throw of the territory of the United States. An American 
 Congregationalist Minisfer, and a good many of his people, 
 came over from their settlement just across the lines, to attend 
 our service. As respects our own inhabitants in the townships, 
 it is very much the custom among the sects and the unattached 
 members of the community, to attend every variety of teach- 
 ing, to which the school-houses are always open. Here I 
 confirmed ten persons. And 1 may make this general remark, 
 subject, no doubt, to instances of exception, that the recipients 
 of Confirmation are hopeful subjects as members of the Church — 
 not only because the Clergy usually take great pains in pre- 
 paring them, and because we may look for grace and blessing 
 to attend the ordinance when truly turned to account, but be-- 
 cause the notions prevalent among the population at large, err 
 rather on the side of over-strained exaction respecting particular 
 evidences of grace as pre-requisite to the use of appointed 
 means, than on that of undue facility and laxity, — which 
 notions have naturally a certain sway and influence over the 
 minds of our own people who are in contact with those who 
 entertain and insist upon them. 
 
 In the Mission of Danville, matters are a good deal more 
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 to become a flourishing village. Mr. Fothergill has been suffi- 
 ciently long now in the service of the Church Society to be 
 known and appreciated as a faithful, zealous and successful 
 Missionary. Here I confirmed, at two separate Confirmations, 
 (the state of the roads and weather having made it impossible 
 upon the day first appointed for some of the candidates to 
 reach the place,) thirty persons, some of whom had much passed 
 the usual age. At Trout-brook, a dependency upon the charge, 
 about seven miles from Danville, in the township of Tingwick, 
 I confirmed eighteen— forty-eight in all, within the Mission, a 
 number constituting the largest Confirmation in the whole of 
 my late circuit. The Confirmations at Danville were held, as 
 the school-house was too small, in the meeting-house of the 
 Congregationalists, afforded to us, I must say, in the most 
 obliging manner, and, in one instance, to the exclusion of their 
 own service, which they insisted upon foregoing — they being 
 all the time aware that this is an accommodation which, 
 according to oar rules, we can never afford in return. At 
 Troutbrook, I confirmed in the school-house. Mr. Fothergill 
 is busily engaged in the erection of a good brick Church at 
 Danville, now roofed in, upon a very correct and pleasing 
 architectural model. It stands upon a site given by Mr. 
 Ilanning, a proprietor in the place, who is also one of the 
 principal contributors in money. (This is the Church to which 
 the Church Society granted 6650.) 
 
 I had made appointments to visit Acton and South Durham, 
 (or Durham Station,) being the principal places of the third 
 Mission which it is proposed to open under the auspices of the 
 Churnh Society, within the limits of the Eastern Townships. 
 Mr. Taylor, a lay-reader of the Church in the adjoining town- 
 ship of Upton, within the Diocese of Montreal, has been em- 
 ployed to serve the former of these places once a fortnight, 
 under an arrangement between the Bishop of Montreal and 
 myself, and by means of an appropriation from the grant made 
 available by our own Church Society for such purposes. Mr. 
 T. being an extremely competent and well-approved person in 
 his vocation, and having been furnished with tracts for the 
 candidates, prepared for such occasions, I had signified to him 
 that 1 would accept his tickets for confirmation. But it hap- 
 pened singularly enough that, whereas in the whole of this 
 stormy journey, I had effected the objects of my visitation, and 
 carried my ministrations to the ruder and more remote settle- 
 ments, I was now brought to a stand in that portion of it where 
 I had to travel by the train. It is well known that, for days 
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 made it a point to allot a Sunday to Acton, and, losing my 
 opportunity, I returned by the first train that ran to Quebec,— 
 reserving Acton for another visit. 
 
 8th April. — Since I wrote the former part of this letter, 
 two gentlemen have arrived from England for whom I had 
 been looking to fill appointments under the Church Society. 
 The first of these, Mr. Robert Mitchell, arrived on the 2nd of 
 March and staid with me till the 8th. As he was of age for 
 Orders and supplied with all requisite testimonials, and I had 
 marked him down for Acton, I decided to accompany him to 
 that place, and thus it turned out very well that I had been 
 prevented from reaching it before, since it was evidently advan- 
 tageous that I should introduce him to the people, and take 
 part, personally, in the arrangements to be made for his estab- 
 lishment among them. I also thought that it would be desirable 
 to ordain him in that part of the country, and I fixed the 
 Ordination accordingly for Sunday, the 10th March, at Rich- 
 mond, within an hour, by the train, from Acton. (At Acton 
 there is as yet no Church.) Mr. Mitchell passed a most 
 creditable examination, conducted partly in Quebec, with the 
 help of the Rev. Mr. Ilousman, and partly at Melbourne, (close 
 to Richmond,) where he was put into the hands of the Rev. 
 S. S. Wood — these two gentlem3n being of the number of my 
 Chaplains. Upon proceeding with him to Actonvale, which is 
 the name given to the town laid out at the Acton coppsr-mines, 
 I LOok him, according to invitation, to the house of Mr. Merrill, 
 the principal proprietor of the place, in whose ' Duse I preached 
 twice and confirmed three persons on the 11th March. Nothing 
 could be more kind and cordial than the reception which we 
 met with, on all hands, in Actonvale. Mr. Mitchell has become 
 an inmate of Mr. Merrill's house. The place, as the Board 
 must be aware, constitutes an important station for the Church, 
 and is likely to become a great and thriving town. There wa« 
 one interesting circumstance, though marked by a mortifying 
 disappointment, in this visit to Acton. The service had been 
 appointed in the afternoon, and a considerable number of per- 
 sons had assembled accordingly, some of them having come 
 from a distance of a good many miles. But the labouring 
 miners {i. e. the Protestants among them) sent a message 
 requesting a postponement till half-past six, that they might 
 be enabled to attend after the close of their work. As I felt 
 that I could not well keep the other parties waiting till then, 
 I proceeded to the peribrmanco of service at once, and sent 
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 for them. We waited, however, tul half-past eight, and then 
 gave them up — but had, without them, a congregation of 
 about twenty persons. It appeared that it was imy-nighu and 
 the miners could not get away. 
 
 On the next day, I went to South Durham, where the people 
 from Metcalfe-Hill, some miles distant, were to meet :he South 
 Durham congregation. The Rev, L. C. Wurtele, connected 
 with the junior department of Bishop's College at Lennoxville,, 
 (who was with me upon the occasions here described,) has paid 
 much useful attention, to such extent as is compatible with his 
 duties at that place, to the three congregations here mentinned, 
 who (together, probably, with the care of some out-lying settle* 
 ments besides) will constitute the charge of the Missionary at 
 Acton. Mr. Wurtele renders his own reports to the Board, 
 and the Board are ai>quainted with the means by which th» 
 compensation of his services is provided. I held service at 
 the school-house in South Durham, and confirmed two persons, 
 who had been prepared by Mr. Wurtele. The earlier labourf. 
 of the Church, in the ground which, from time to time, sh® 
 takes up, exhibit only •* the day of small things;" but that day 
 is not a day to be "despisei" and may be pregnant Avitfcj 
 auguries of blessing. 
 
 The Metcalfe-Hill congregation being composed. In part, of 
 residents in Ely, within the Diocese of Montreal, the Church 
 Society of that Diocese has, upon the recommendation of the 
 Bishop, engaged to contribute $50 a-year towards the salaiy of 
 Mr. Mitchell. The sum was indicated by myself as propor- 
 tioned to the claim existing upon the spot, to help from the 
 sister Diocese. 
 
 Mr. Charles Eoberts, the other gentleman to whom X haT§^ 
 referred, arrived at Quebec in the middle of Passion- Week ,^ 
 and I brought him out to my own house. As he will not be of 
 age for Orders till September, I have appointed him to act, in 
 the service of the Church Society, as lay-reader at Bourg- 
 Louis, within the Mission, at present, of the Rev. A. Pearse,. 
 under whose direction he will conduct his operations ; and his 
 allowance will be provided from the disposable balance, as far 
 as it will go. of the fund reserved by th« Board for these ob- 
 jects. As you accompanied him to Bourg-Louis, and intro- 
 duced him there to Mr. Pearse and to the people, you will bo 
 best enabled, yourself, to give the particulars connected with 
 his first assumption of duty. I will only state that he comes 
 highly recommended from home, and that bs produced favorable 
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 It is very desirable that Bourg-Louia should be formed into 
 an independent Mission, for which object I hope the present 
 arrangement will pave the way. 
 
 The three clerj^ymen, Mr. Fothergill, Mr. J. P. Itichmond, 
 and Mr. Mitchell, and the luy-reader, Mr. ?.oberts. now in 
 preparation for f^^e ministry, all of whom T have mentioned as 
 enga^'ed in thi Tvice of the Church Society, are alumni of 
 $t? AugustincV .missionary College at Canterbury. That most 
 Valuable institution is fast increasing in the number of its 
 •tiidents, and fast gaining in public estimation,— certain un- 
 Hjunded pre'iudices wnich had, in some quarters, existed against 
 % having very much disappeared upon a better acquaintance 
 %ith its real character. The highest testi'-.o?;:, has baen ien- 
 iered by diiferent Bishops, to the cand'Cdx-o for Orders pro- 
 ceeding from within its walls, with reference to their manner 
 of acquitting themselves in their examination. They also 
 tendergo an examination before the S.P.G. in London previously 
 %s^ their being adopted by that body ; and nine of them having 
 y^cently presented themselves together, fo this purpose, the 
 fiishop of London was so pleased with them, that he invited 
 them all 1o stay as guests at his Palace in Fulham. Two of 
 tiese nine gentlemen were the persons who have just come out 
 U u^ here,— Mr. Mitchell and Uv. lloberts. I send you here- 
 with, for exhibition to the Board, some letters shewing the 
 (character which they had established and the favor which they 
 vol) iVoni competeut judges in England. 
 
 I am. 
 
 Pear Sir, 
 
 Very faithfully yours, 
 
 G. J. QUEBEC. 
 
 ]). s.— As 1 stated verbally at the last Meeting of the Board, 
 the Rev. i.. C. Wurtele continues, as a temporary arrangement, 
 t# sapply different places on Sunday, which he can reach from 
 Lennoxville on Saturday, returning on Monday morning ; ^nd, 
 (in accordance with the discretionary power left in my hands 
 by the Board during a vacancy in the office of Travelling 
 ]\lissionary,) his expenses are in part made chargeable to the 
 allov/ance for that object,— the balance being provided by the 
 cwgregatlons whom he serves. 
 
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 Journal of a Tour for holding Meetings, on 
 behalf of the Society, in the St. Francis 
 District.— 25/A Feb.— 3rd Marck 1861. 
 
 On the invitation of some of the Clergy in the St. Francis 
 District, I left Quebec, on the 25th February, for the purpose 
 of holding a series of meetings on behalf of the Church Society, 
 for Danville, from whence, on the following morning, I j>ro- 
 ceeded to Kingsey. A meeting was held here after Divine 
 service, and was addressed by the Rev. A. Balfour, Rev. M. 
 Fothergill, (who had driven me from Danville,) and myself. 
 The attendance was not large, owing to the unfavorable state 
 of the weather on the two preceding Sundays, which had pre- 
 vented the circulatior. of notice of the meeting, Mr. Balfour, 
 however, had done his utmost on the preceding day to repair 
 this deficiency. A good spirit was manifested, and fresh sub- 
 scriptions, to the amount of about $18, were promised by those 
 present. From Kingsey Kr. Balfour drove me to Upper Dur- 
 ham, Mr. Fothergill accompanying us. Here I met the Rev. 
 Dr. Falloon from Melbourne, and learned that, through some 
 misunderstanding between himself and Mr. Balfour, I was 
 expected at that place on the following morning. My appoint- 
 ment at that time being at Compton, I suggested that Dr. F. 
 and Mr. Fothergill should go on at once to Melbourne, to give 
 notice of a meeting the same evening, which they did. I had 
 understood that Dr. F. did not think it advisable to hold a 
 meeting there. I had proposed to do so three weeks previously, 
 when I was there in attendance on the Bishop. The meeting 
 at Durham, which was poorly attended, was addressed by the 
 Incumbent, (the Rev. S. S. Wood,) Mr. Balfour, and myself. 
 Immediately afterwards, Mr, Balfour drove me to Melbourne, 
 where, considering ihe shortness of the notice, there was a fair 
 attendance. The Revs. Dr. Falloon, S, S, Wood, A. Balfour 
 and M, Fothergill, Professor Graham and Mr, Tait, addressed 
 the nieeting, as well as myself. I was obliged to leave the 
 meeting before its close, to take the train for Compton ; but I 
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 which had been previously announced for the following day. 
 On the 27th, a meeting was held at Compton after Divine 
 service. The Rev. W. Eichrnond was unfortunately prevented, 
 by sudden illness in his family, from being present ; but the 
 chair was taken by Mr. Doak, one of the Churchwardens, who 
 addressed the meeting. The attendance was encouraging, 
 especially when it is remembered that no subscriptions have 
 been received from this place for several years past. I found 
 some strange misconceptions prevailing here with re^'ard to the 
 character and operations of the Society, which I endeavored to 
 remove in my address ; and I am thani^ful to state that the 
 Chairman expressed himself, on behalf of himself and of the 
 meeting, fully satisfied with my explanations, and resolved, 
 with the co-operation of the Incumbent and his brother warden, 
 (who was present and signified his concurrence,) to organize a 
 parochial association without delay, and appoint collectors 
 throughout the Mission. I was glad to see the parsonage at 
 Compton, to which the Society has made a grant of $60, 
 finished and inhabited. I had proposed holding a meeting at 
 Hatley, but the Rev. H. Burrage thought it inexpedient to do 
 so at present; I learned from him, however, at Compton, 
 where he addressed the meeting, that measures were in ^'regress 
 for increasing the subscription-list at Hatley. The Rev. J. P. 
 Richmond, the Society's Missionary at Hereford, also attended 
 and addressed the meeting at Compton, and afterwards drove 
 me to Lennoxville, where a meeting was held in the evening. 
 It was addressed by the Revs. Professor Thompson, Dr. Nicolls, 
 A. C. Scarth, M. Fothergill, and myself. The amount remit- 
 ted from Lennoxville is larger than from any other place in the 
 Diocese ; and as there are large sums annually raised fok local 
 purposes, I do not know that any great addition to that amount 
 can reasonably be expected. I endeavored, however, here, as 
 elsewhere, to point out the propriety of remitting the subscrip- 
 tions entire, and shewed that the By-laws of the Society do not 
 sanction the practice of retaining one-half. From Lennoxville 
 the Rev. A. C. Scarth drove me, on the following morning, to 
 Eaton. The attendance here was small ; but I hope some 
 impression was made. The Revs. J. Dalziel, J. Kemp, A. 
 Scarth, and M. Fothergill, with myself, addressed the meeting. 
 At this place, also, I saw evidences of the Society's benevo- 
 lence in the Church and parsonage, both of which have received 
 grants in past years. The Rev. J. Kemp drove me to Bury, 
 where a very large meeting was held in the evening, and was 
 addressed by the Chairman, Mr. Fothergill, and myself, — and 
 also by Mr. Best, teacher of the C. C. aid S. S. School, who 
 
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 alluded to the aid given by the Church Society to the school, 
 as well as the grant made to the Church, now in progress, at 
 Bury. The work of erecting this Church has caused some 
 diminution in the contributions to the Society; but the Rev. 
 J. Kemp pledges himself that they shall be materialiy in- 
 creased, and remitted without any deduction. On Friday, 1st 
 March, I was driven to Dudswell by Mr. Fothergrll, accom- 
 panied by Mr. Kemp and Mr. Martin, a lay-reader in his 
 Mission, all of whom addressed the meeting, held after Divine 
 service in the Church at Dudswell. This Church, towards the 
 erection of which the Society made a grant, is a most creditable 
 building to a country place. The Rev. T. Cliapman, and two 
 lay-members of his congregation, addressed tlie meeting. The 
 laymen spoke briefly but practically : one proposing a collec- 
 tion on the spot, which was made ; but as the people were 
 unprepared for it, it was small— the other promising to become 
 an annual subscriber, and to aid in the work of collecting 
 through the Mission. The attendance was good, and I have 
 no doubt a fair amount will be contributed, though Mr. Chap- 
 man had not encouraged me to expect much, as the people are 
 at present paying at the rate of c£65 per annum for a school. 
 I took occasion to point out to them that, while it wi 3 com- 
 mendable in them to do this, they ought not to leave undone 
 the work of providing for the direct religious interests of their 
 children. I had intended to spend Sunday, 3rfl March, in New 
 Ireland, for the purpose of administering the Holy Communion. 
 But a« I was anxious to be in Quebec on Monday, Mr. Chap- 
 man kindly undertook this duty for me, and I was thus enabled 
 to hold a meeting at Danville, to which place I was driven by 
 Mr. Fothergill, on Saturday evening. The notice was neces- 
 sarily short, and the weather was very unfavorable : yet the 
 attendance was encouraging. I endeavored to impress upon 
 the people the peculiar claims of the Church Society upon 
 themselves, from its liberal contribution to the maintenanf.e of 
 the Mission, as well as to the erection of the Church, (which I 
 was glad to see at last roofed in,) and Mr. Carter, who ad- 
 dressed the meeting after myself, remarked, that Ibis had not 
 before struck him as it ought to do, and that he, for one, slunild 
 become an annual subscriber immediately. I have no doubt 
 his example will be followed by many others. One member of 
 the congregation, who addre sed the meeting, said, that it was 
 well-known to be his opinion, that they should " pay for all 
 they got;" and that if they, or any other congregation, could 
 not afford to pay a minister without aid, they ought to have 
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 places. But since it had been thought right to act on a dif- 
 ferent principle, ^nd they had enjoyed the blessing of a resident 
 minister, he was convinced, from what he had heard, that it 
 was his duty to support the Society to which tiiey owed so 
 much. 
 
 I must acknowledge the great kindness with which I was, 
 pervsonally, received everywhere by both clergy and laity ; ^ud 
 I trust that some interest in the cause has been awakened. 
 
 ARMINE W. MOUNTAIN. 
 
 Quebec, 7tk Marclt, 1861. 
 
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 Journal of a visit to some of the Missions 
 within the limits of the Megantic District 
 Association. 
 
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 I SET off, on Monday, March 18th, for Frampton, and was met 
 half-way, by the Rev. J. H. Jenkins, who drove me to that 
 place. On the following morning, after Divine service in the 
 Church at East Frampton, towards the completion of which 
 the Society recently made a grant, which the congregation 
 will shortly be in a position to claim, a meeting was held on 
 behalf of the Society, under the presidency of Rev. W. King, 
 Chairmai of the D. A. The meeting was well attended, and 
 was addressed in an effective and practical way by W. Hen- 
 derson, Esq., and Mr. Dillon, as well as by the Clergy present. 
 A parochial association was formed in connection with St. 
 Paul's Church. After the meeting, Mr. Henderson hospitably 
 entertained the Clergy, and then accompanied them to Standon, 
 where a second meeting was held, which he also addressed as 
 well as the Clergy. Divine service was held in the new 
 Church, a very creditable edifice, to which the Society granted 
 $100, and a sermon preached by Mr. King. I had no oppor- 
 tunity of visiting the school at this place, which receives aid 
 
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 from the Society, the meeting having been held after it was 
 closed for the day ] but T learned from the Master that the 
 attendance averages, except when sickness prevails, 27. There 
 are upwards of 30 children on the books. I pointed out to the 
 people of Standon the claim which the Society has upon them, 
 from having largely aided in the support of their Clergyman 
 and School, as well as in the building of their Church ; and 
 now that this last-mentioned work is so far advanced, I have 
 no doubt they will willingly contribute to the funds of the 
 Sociery. There are but 22 families in the settlement, which 
 is a very poor one, and they contribute regularly, according to 
 their means, to the support of their Clergyman. A parochial 
 association was formed here also, and collectors appointed, as 
 was done at East Frampton in the morning. On "Wednesday, 
 20th, Mr. King, Mr. Jenkins and myself went over to West 
 Frampton, where, after Divine service, I preached on behalf of 
 the Society. A meeting was then held, and addressed by the 
 Clergy, by Mr. Henderson, who came over again for the pur- 
 pose, and by Mr. Baxter. A parochial association was formed, 
 •and collectors appointed. Mr. Jenkins had invited the other 
 Clergy of the District to attend these meetings; but Mr. King 
 alone was enabled to do so. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. 
 King and Mr. Jenkins accompanied me to St. Mary's, where 
 we were hospitably entertained at the house of Mrs. G. Pozer, 
 and where Divine service was held in the evening; and on the 
 following day we went over to St. Sylvestre. Here, after 
 Divine service and a sermon by Mr. Jenkins, a meeting was 
 held. There was a good attendance, (as at all the meetings 
 held up to this time,) and the meeting was addressed by Rev. 
 Messrs. King, Jenkins, Vial and Allen, and myself This 
 congregation contributed, with one exception, a larger amount 
 last year to the funds of the Society than any other in the 
 Diocese out of Quebec. The Rev. A. Allen drove me over, 
 in the evening, to Leeds, where, on the following day, all the 
 Clergy of the Association, except the two most distant, met 
 togetht-r to support the objects of the Society. A meeting 
 was held after Divine service, and was but thinly attended. 
 An excellent spirit, however, was manifested by those who were 
 present, and Mr. Hall and Mr. Thompson, one of the Church- 
 Wardens, addressed the meeting. This Mission has lately un- 
 dertaken to contribute a much larger amount than it has ever 
 done before to the support of the Clergyman ; and I was 
 assured, by Mr. Thompson, that it is faithfully and willingly 
 paid. Owing to a change in the appointment of the Missionary, 
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 Society. In the afternoon of the 22nd, the Revs. W Kin?, 
 A. Allen, W. Vial and R. G. Ward, aocomoanied me to St. 
 Stephen's Church, Inverness, where, after Divine service, a 
 meeting was held which all these gentlemen addressed. The 
 attendance here, too, was small, though some persons present 
 had come from a considerable distance. Among these I may 
 mention Mr. C. King and his son. Mr. King, who has recently 
 quadrupled his subscription towards the Missionary's stipend, 
 besides making a donation towards the Parsonage of $100, 
 briefly addressed the meeting, and accepted the office of 
 Treasurer of the Parochial Association, which was formed on 
 the occasion. The parsonage at this place is advancing to- 
 wards completion, and I trust that the Society's grant may be 
 claimed before the expiration of the year. Mr. Vial bore testi- 
 mony to an increased liberality on the part of the peoole. The 
 meeting was also addressed, in a few feeling and most sensible 
 remarks, by Mr. Thompson, who, as well as another member 
 of Mr. Allen's congregation, had accompanied us from Leeds. 
 On the whole, I found a good spirit prevailing, though it needed 
 to be stirred up ; and I trust that the revival of these meetings 
 will tend largely to advance the interests of the Society. 
 
 The Rev. R. G. Ward, and Mr. Wood, Churchwarden of New 
 Ireland, expressed a strong wish that I should visit that place, 
 and hold a meeting; but I was unable to do so at this time. I 
 have proposed to attend one at Pointe Levi ; but the Rev. A. 
 Woolryche thinks the summer a more favorable season. 
 
 I have also proposed to hold meetings in the Portneuf Dis- 
 trict, and hope to be able to do so at Portneuf and Bourg-Louis 
 early next month. The Missionaries at Valcartier and Stone- 
 ham do not consider it expedient, at present, to hold meetings 
 in those places, on account of the pressing nature of some local 
 claims for Church objects. I was everywhere received, as in 
 the St. Francis District, with the utmost kindness and hospi- 
 tality by my brethren, as well of the laity as the clergy. 
 
 ARMINE W. MOUNTAIN. 
 
 Actg. Sec. Church Society. 
 Quebec, 22rd March, 186L 
 
 P. S.-— On Easter-Tuesday, at the request of the Rev. A II 
 Pearse, I left Quebec for Bourg-Louis, where a meeting was 
 held, after Divine Service, on the following morning. There 
 was a large attendance, and an excellent spirit seemed to pre- 
 vail. Since the time of my arrandnir to hold thi« m^t^fVir « 
 
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 special effort had been set on foot for raising an annual sum for 
 the purpose of securing the services of a resident Clergyman ; 
 and I was prepared to find that this object, which has been 
 liberally taken up, would interfere with that of my vl.sit. A 
 subscription-list for the Society was, however, opened, and t. 
 beginning made to it of $11.60, of which $3 were paid, in addi- 
 tion to $5.46 collected at the meeting. In the afternoon, I 
 proceeded to Portneuf, where, after Divine service, a meeting- 
 was held in the evening. The attendance was not so large as 
 at Bourg-Louis, but an 'equally good feeling was manifested — 
 several subscriptions were promised, and it was resolved to 
 form a parochial association. I took care, at both places, to 
 point out how much this Mission is indebted to the Society for 
 grants for various objects. The school at Bourg-Louis, nearest 
 to the Church, had a holiday on account of the meeting, and 
 that at Portneuf was closed for the day before 1 arrived there, 
 so that I had no opportunity of visiting either. I had visited 
 and examined the latter, however, a few weeks previously. 
 
 It was a matter of much regret to me that Dr. Blatherwick, 
 "who had been invited by Mr. Pearse to aid us in setting the 
 claims of the Society before his people, was prevented from 
 doing so. 
 
 I have held meetings in all the Missions in the St. Francis 
 District, except Sherbrooke, Stanstead, the newly-formed Mis- 
 sion of Hereford, and Hatley, where I proposed to hold one ; — 
 in all the Missions in the Megan tic District, (and in three 
 places in one of them,) except Rivicre-du-Loup, Ireland, and 
 Pointe Levi, where I also proposed to hold one ; — in both the 
 stations in the Portneuf Mission, in the Portneuf District — in 
 the two other Missions of which I proposed to hold meetings. 
 Total number of meetings held, seventeen — besides four pro- 
 posed to be held. The Districts of Gaspe and Three-Rivers 
 are more conveniently visited in summer. I think much good 
 might be done by holding parochial meetings and fully organ- 
 izing parochial associations within the limits of the several 
 Chapelries in Quebec ; and I hope that when the Society shall 
 have secured the services of a Secretary, who shall give his 
 undivided attention to its interests, this suggestion may be 
 thought worthy of being acted upon. 
 
 Armine W. Mountain.