IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET {MT-3) 1.0 121 y^ I.I 1.25 «f KS 112.2 ^ L£ 12.0 u i .8 JA 11.6 6" % ' > A ^? ^w 0} Photographic Sciences Corporation Sb #> V \\ "% v ^\/#^\ signifia "A SUIVRE". la symbola ▼ signifia "FIN". Mapa, piataa. chana, ate., may ba filmad at diffarant raduction ratioa. Thoaa too larga to ba antiraly includad in on* axpoaura ara filmad baginning in tha uppnr laft hand comar. laft to right and tcp to bottom, as many framaa aa raquirad. Tha following diagrama illuatrata tha mathod: Laa cartaa, planchaa, tablaaux. ate, pauvant atra film4a i daa taux da rMuction diff Grants. Loraquo la documant ^at trop grand pour Atra raproduit an un saul clichA, il aat film* i partir do I'angio supAriaur gaucha. da gaucha i droita. at da haut an baa, an pranant la nombra d'Imagaa nteaaaaira. Laa diagrammas suivants iiluatrant lo mAthoda. 1 2 3 4 5 6 jy^-^ I A (fi0^ '^ fc.tS^' (PS, ^i '9 1 AN ADDKESS 6X darB wr-id J :'J TO TBI Congregalion of St. Thomas's Church, BT THB BISHOP OF NEWFOUNDLAND. ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND: *. C. WITHERS, queen's PRINTER. MP i I » I 4 to THE eONGBEGATION OF ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, &c. My- Friends, I have now before me the two subjoined documents, upon each of which it seems due to you to offer some remarks: The first,— which appears to be a Report of certam pro- ceedings at a Meeting of the Pewnolders and Congr^a- tion of St. Thomas's Church held at the \ estry the 30th day of May, 1853, pursuant to public notice, signed by R. Prowse; Chairman,-was forwarded to me on the 4th 6f June, with a private note fron? Mr. Prowse himself The second-which is an Address from fifty-six Pew- holders in St. Thomas's Church-was sent without any tote! or other formality, o n Thur sday last the 9th mstant. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS, &c. " At a meeting of the Pewholderj and Congregation of St. Thomas's Church held at ihe Vestry on the 30th day of Mav 1853. pursuant to public notice,. - ThVreply of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese to ha recent adiress of this Congregation having been submitted by the Churchwardens to this meeting, it was Resolved,— Thtii this meeting regrets that the Bishop in the communication submitted to us should have refused o accede to the reasonable request of the members of this Congregation to have the Rev. Mr. Gathercole appointed as the Minister of St. Thomas's Church. Resolvf.d,-That the proposed appointment of the Rev. Mr. Wood is for various reasons objectionable to this Con- gregation and would be unsuitable to their wants and requiremenis. tlesolved,-Tlmi all due means be tak i to prevent the im- position upon us of any but a clergyman m whom should appear to combine the necessary qualifications, with sound Evangelical principles. il Resohed,-T\M a Commidce be anpoi„te,l tn r„„ i , reporuo an adjourned „eo.,ng Kffn'oVirgt'^fce'r"'' of IheTncUtm om tLlrcr'T """ •"^'«""'"<'" 2H vuhr,* c u * nomas s Church is vested? gre^an;r.tltt'hr^%X;^s\'„t." ^^ ""^ ^t"" principles they entertain? ^ ' ""^ *° ^"PP^^* *h« ROBERT PROWSE, f i • • /• 1 Chairman '* thJnKdrisstrVardfdl '" "°"" - ".is report, a, 'in several smaU fnacc:rades "' "" ""^ ""'™ "> ^'^ •'»'">'''. ea[iol"\'„T'ro*f.'r ^"h,;;?, ^^^»' ^v; ^°"«"'- others:" and li »,.= <• *^'''"y^?' ^-sq-. and forty-seven Churehwarden bu?as .h^^'^.f '" ^l""- P-''"'-^':. not aa ihe head of Ihe'lisfoTs'igLCr'"' "'"" """^ '"^ " mimLL''ofth™tl^/\''r''' i" "'«'oquestofth. gard an'dtdi:| "a '^i /trcmbTr oJ^Lr "'°"^'"» '? '- n-e^he^haveirpS'l,;^^^^^^^^^^^^ oT . T. ^^^ ADDRESS. To TiTE Right Reverend the Lord Bishop op JNewfoundland, &c. May it please Your Lordship befr^^ctTunrif :'' P;^h^'^-^ - St.Thomas'sChurch, will Kl J * ^'^."'^>" *^ >^«"*' Lordship that il you will be pleased to mduct the Rev. Mr. Tuckw^ll Vin- cumbent of St. Thomas's he will bs gladly and cordially received by the Congregation, with a fervent hope that a 1 existing differences and difficulties may thereby be removed. (Signed) " ROBERT PROWSE, Andfifly-6ve others." *• St. John's, June 4, 1853." I can^iot help fearing that oomc parties have been in- uticed vQ sign this Address under an impression that I was at liberty and prepared to alter the arrangements I had announced in my reply to the Address forwarded to me on my re'.urn to St. John's. I see the names of several gent'emen who, I am sure, would not have surmsied thai II could recull an offer once deliberately made to a Clergy- man, and accepted by him; and who, J am equally sure, would not v/illingly add to my embarrassments. On ibe other hand I miss the names of several members of the Congrcgation.who would,I am persuaded,gladly era- brace any titimg opportunity of testifying their respect for Mr. TucKWELL, and their high estimation of h;s qualifica- tions as a Clergyman. , ^ ,. • To these Gentlemen I feel the more indebted, believing that they have denied themselves a gratification, either (1) because they would not suggest to me the withdrawal o*' an offer once deliberately made; or (2) because they would not be parties to the apparent hardship of endeavour- in*' to turn out of a preferment a respectable Clergyman, against whom the only objection is one of taste and not of principle; or (3) because they are willing to leave these arrangements in the only responsible hands. With these prefatory remarks I may now submit to you an Address which I prepared, proposing to submit it to you through a different channel, so long ago as the 4th insl. ; and which I earnestly hope may prove satisfactory ; or at least bear out the assurance I have already made, that " it is my desire and shall be my endeavour to give ihe Con- gregation of St. Thomas's Church all reasonable satisfac- tion, when higher considerafions of duty do not inieriere to prevent mo." s "MvFriexds, "^'■- Jo"'*'^ J^«fi4, 185J.. catcd to certain n^en^bcr^jf^h^ ^''"''^^^ communis 4iately upon herrinTof Mr '^'^''''SrogaUon, that i„„„e. the vacant Church to the r;."'^^' ^"^^^ ^ ^^^red ing in the Diocest--h tsetesTn o?' rf '^"^"^^^ ^^^"^- family-connections ^/Tknou . . ''5^'^''^^'"^" ^"^ of Colony, but-recommon oH ""^ '","';^ respected in this endeared to all wir^w hi/n^"""' ^"^' '''''' «"^ ''^"^ve, faithful and laboiLr7ert?[n"?hirirc ^"'T ^^"^^ views, and an unblemished hf^h! ^^^^^^c, by sound and gentle, and cveTn./nl f'r^ "'^''""^''^ "'^^^ P^t'^nt Minister to his flock^ Tnd r^TV'''''^'y to a.'tach a and accepted of GoDfor r„^ f ^'T acceptable lo then, with the%dditional clairn of,^^ '"''"' I" ^^^^'"S ^^^°^J education in St John's Thn ""^"^^^ ^^"^^'^ requiring the Diocese in whom all l.T ^^"^ «"^ Clergy„,an iS centre, the Rev. T M Woon ?j "'"rn ""^ ha. could be done o meeTthTwtholT.'hl'''''''- grcgat.on in this behalf has been done IhT Tj Woon^, entire sane.;:' °lXee„'^th:ra"^r'Mr' 't'^'''-- attemprhL'be:„'everEe"rd '"" T"-™? ^■"' "'" "» lrJr-twtl&taSH?"S- me if on the mornings on which Te Ho I r ^''^ ""^ ^-^ administered, he we?e no e^nnntlA, V ^^'""n'on is as he would thereby bo saved the trouhJp ?1.] ^ ^ .nect fs in ^^ ^pin":^