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WHAT

THE CHURCH SOCIETY?

Parson, — I called thiq evening, Mr.
IJeyric, to ask you to attend our Church
Society meeting, which is to be held next
week?

ParisMoner, — I am very glad you
have called, sir, for I wanted to asl^ you
about this Church Society,
. Par, — Did you not receive one of the
annual reports of tlie Society's proceed-
ings, which I (jirculated through the
parish ?

Parish. — I have, sir, but there is a
good deal about it I don't rightly under-
stand.

Par^ — ^The readiest way of explaining
its objects is to refer you to the Constitu-
tion, contained in the beginning of the

4 WHAT IS THE

Keport ; and as I have one in my pocket,
we will go through it together. First,
then, yon see it is a Missionary Society,
established for the support of Clergymen
of the Church within this Diocese, who
shall labour for the spiritual good of the
people— for assisting poor Ministers by
increasing their stipends— for providmg
some support for them when worn out by
age, exertion and infirmities, and unfit
for work, as well as for their widows and
orphans after they themselves are removed
bv death. This is the first elass of
objects the Church Society has in view,
and I am sure no one can deny their

excellence. ;

Parish.— No, sir, that they can t, tor
the Clergy in this country are too poor to
lay up either for themselves or their
families, and I don't know that the
people would care to see them la^jirii, up,
even if they had the means.

Par.' -Next you see the Church Society,
as the Constitution shows, is a Society
for promoting education^ according to
the principles of the Church.

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CHURCH SOCIETY?

Parish, — That's good, that's good. I
wish we had a day school here.

Par, — The next object to which the
Church Society desires to direct its efforts
is, to grant assistance to deserving young
men, who, have not the means of pursuing
those studies which are needful to fit them
for the ministry, for there are numberless
instances where respectable and excellent
young men are lost to the ministry, for
no other reason than their poverty.

Parish — But is not this part of the
Society's work done for them already ?

Par. — The Society for the Propaga-
tion of the Gospel has indeed given both
scholarships and exhibitions to the College
at Lennoxville, where our Missionaries
are educated, but it is to be feared that
the time is nearer than we think, when
these and other grants they make shall be
withdrawn.

Parish, — I see in the report something
about Books and Tracts being " circulated
through the medium of the Depository ;"
now I don't understand what this *' Depo-
sitory" is.

WHAT IS THE

Par.-— It is a book-store m Couillard
Street, Quebec, which has beeaset up by
the Ohurch Society, for the purpose of
furnishing, at the lowest possible prices,
BibleSy Testaments, Prayer Books, and
other books and tracts setting forth the
doctrines of the Gospel, You can get a
good Bible there for Is. Sd.,. a Testament
loT 6d., a Prayer Botk for lOd,, and
other books remarkably cheap. Besides
this Depository for the sale of books,
there is another, estalished for the same
purpose, at Lennoxville, and there ought
to be branch depositories in every Mission
of the Province.

Parish* — Why, what a pity it is that
these depositories are not more known
amongst the people,

Far» — The last object which the
Church Society has in view is, to assist
in the building, keeping up, and endow*
ing of church^ and parsonages, and the
settiDg apart of church-^yards aad burial*^
grouia^.

Par*s/i.~AII very good, I am sure.
But where does the Society get the

CHtmcH SOCIETY? T

money to do all this; It must take a
large sum?

Far, — It would indeed take a lai^
sum to carry out fully all the objects
Vrhich the Society has in view; and we
cannot hope to do it for years to come,
it is still, comparatively speaking, with it
the day of small things. The only source
to which it can look for the funds neces-
sary to carry out its holy object is, the
free-iHll offerings of the members of
the Church J and to obtain and gather
these together, and devote them to the
objects I have named, is the purpose for
which the Church Society was formed.

Parish. — But why should a Society of
this kind for the support of the Clergy be
formed at all? The Government pays
the great<»st part of all your stipend, does
it not, sir ?

Par.— Most certainly not. The Gov-
ernment affords no more countenance
to the Church in this Colony, than
does to any of the religious denom-
inations; it is txue that George III,
endowed the Church munificently from

WHAT IS THE

the waste lands of the Crown — of the
Oown, observe, not of the people, —
but far the greater part of these lands,
now called Clergy lleserves, have since
been taken away by the Governments of
more recent days."*" A portion of this
land was sold, and from a part of the
proceeds arising from these sales, some
of our Clergy are to some extent sup-
ported.

Parish, — Well ! I am surprised at
what you say. I know that you, sir, are
not supporte4 by your congregation,
further than by the small sum arising
from the pew-rents ; and I always fancied

■ ■— . ■^^— — — ■ , , . - I - - - 1.1 ■ - 1 1 11

* For a considerable period, the Imperial
Parliament made an annual grant of £16,000 to
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, to
assist them in the support of their Missionaries
in British North America, but about 18 years
:igo, it was resolved by these gradually to with-
draw that grant, and the Society was eonse-
q^uently obliged to provide for the Missionaries
amce appointed from its own resources.

Three Clergymen only now remain, at whose
death or removal, all support from the Imperial
Government to the Church in this Colony will
cease.

CHURCH SOCIETY? 9

that you drew the rest of your stipend
from Government.

i^ar.—Not at all. I, and the great
bulk of the Clergy in the Diocese, are
supported by the bounty of one of the
great Missionary Societies of the Church
of England— the Society for the Propa-
gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
which (with the other great Society in
England, the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge,) has cherished the
Church in these Colonies from the very
beginning.

Parish,— It's a great pity all this is
not better known among the country
folks. But surely these Societies, if they
knew how badly the people in the back
settlements were off, would not refuse to
help them.

^ Par. — They are well aware of the spi-
ritual destitution which exists, for our
Bishop is in continual communication
with them; but though they are very
willing (as their deeds show) to supply
our wants as far as they are able, yet
there are many reasons which prevent

WHAT Ifi THE

them from assisting us to a greater extent
than they already do.

Parish, — What are those reasons ?

Par, — The first is, that a large share of
their funds comes from ike free -will of-
ferin^e of j^eopk who are Q-eaUf much
poorer than oursetves. I have heard it
stated that one of tho Missionary Socie-
ties in England receive £15,000 a-year>
from the pennjf^a-week sulscripHons of
the lahourirta poor. Now, there is no
comparison between the wealth of an
English labourer and that of the bulk of
the people of this Colony. liTti are far
more able to help ourselves than they are
to help us : and I suppose you will admit
it to be unreasonable thdt the poor should
help those who are comparatively rich%

Parish. — There is no disputing that>
sir, it's true ; but then if we are better
able to help some of the people at home
than they are to help us, still, there are
thousands of rich people there who could
ao a deal for us without feeling it.

Par.— Very true: but then how do
we know that they ivill ; are they even

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CHURCn SOCIETY?

certain that they ought if they see that
though we (^ould do a great deal for our^
selves, we put our hands behind us and
wait for them to do every thing, do you
tliink that a likely way to secure their
eympathy or asw^istance ?

i^af/fiA.— Why, no.— We don't de-
serve tliat they should lend us a helping
liand, if we don*t help ourselves*

Par.— Exactly } and it is in order to
enable us to put our sh >ulder to do this
with effect that the Church Society was
formed. — However, besides those which
I have mentioned, there is p.nother still
more sufficient reason for their not ren^
dering us more assistance than they do
already, and that is,— that, though wiiK
ing to do so, they are not able. It is not
very long since there were only si>v
Bishops in all the Colonies of Great
Britaiti, and now, there are twenty*. three,
and in the course of another year or so
there will probably be upwar-ls of twenty -
five, which is cause for much thankfulness
of heart, for the only iva^ human to
provide for the increase of the Chiircb., and

WHAT IS THE

the dissemination of '' the Word which
makes wise unto Salvation," is to plant
our Bishops in every country where there
are ' ' ears to hear/ ' Now, for the support of
the Church and Clergy in these Dioceses,
the Societies in England are to a greater or
less extent looked to, and if their income
was double what it is, they could not answer
so many demands made upon them from
every quarter of the globe. They there-
fore expect that we should be up and
stirring on our behalf; for we should be
preparing ourselves for that di^y, which
cannot be far distant, when thej/ will
iclthdraiv, at -all events from the older
settlements, that assistance luhich thei/
at present render. You see, therefore,
that neither from the Government nor
from the Missionary Societies of the
Church in England, can we look for much
further aid in supplying the spiritual
wants of this Diocese.

Parish, — That's plain. But then,
there are the Clergy Reserves you men-
tioned a little while since ; you said that
a part of them were left us, can we get
nothing from that quarter ?

CHURCH SOCIETY?

Par, — It is useless to build our hopes
upon the Clergy Reserves. A large
portion of the most valuable of them have
been sold, as you know, and the share
of the funds arising from the sale which
has been given to the Church, is far too
small to meet even her present wants,
and the mode in which much of it is
being disposed of, is such as to leave
little hope of its proving of n:uch service
towards the extension of the Church.

Parish, — It does seem a hard case : a
strange way for the Church to be treated
by the State.

Par. — It does indeed : however, we
have nothing to do but to submit. They
know that with us it is a religious prin-
ciple, continually inculcated upon us by
the Gospel. The proper ^yay for Church-
men to do now, is to act, with reference
to the support and extension of the
Church, as if there was no siich thing as
a Clergy Reserve in existence. It must
now be evident to you, that we must
depend neither upon the Missionary
Societies of the Church in England, nor

11:

WHAT 18 THE

the Clergy Reserve Fund, to supply the
spiritual destitution of this Diocese.

Parish. — It's plain, sir, that whatever
is done for the Church now, must be
done by the Chureh folks themselves :
but it will be hard to convince a deal of
the folks of the truth of this. They
have been so used to have all the bles«»
eings of the Church provided for them
at home without cost, that it won't be easy
to persuade them that here, if they want
thtm, they must pay for them.

Pat. — Still we must endeavor to
convince them of that truth ; for never,
till the people understand the tru€ posi -
tion in which the Church stands, will
they give that general and hearty support
to the Church Society which is necessary
to its success. And this I am sure of,
that if intelligent Tjaymen would make
themselves acquainted with these things,
and with the nature and objects of the
Church Society, they could most material*
ly assist the Clergy in overcoming the
iornorance and nreiudices of thp n^nnl**
on tJiese subjects.

the

CHURCH SOCIETY?

PaW«A.— Very true, sir : and that
reminds me that I must ask a few more
questions about it, for I should like to
understand the management or working
of it. Wlio are to teeome members of
the Society ?

Par.— Every person belonging to our
communion. The Society is so formed
as to be capable of embyaeing every
member of the Church, whether they are
young or old, rich or poor, male or
female, and we must never rest satisfied
till the members of the Church and the
members of the Society are alike in num-
ber.

Faruh,--^But how is this to be man-
aged?

JPar.— This may be managed without
much difficulty in those Parishes or Town».
ships where there is a Clergyman residing
or statedly visiting ; for, by the Constir
tution of the Society, every Parson, with
his Churchwardens and such of the par^
ishioners as may be appointed, form what

Oflllpfl ^^ i\ Parnrliial A ffCA|r>^of^/^r»

Committee of the Church Society.*' The

WHAT IS THE

duty of this Committee is to call upon
every member of the Church within the
the j)arish, and invite them to join the
Society — and any sum which they may
give, however small, makes them mem-
bers of the ''Parochial Association."

Parish. — That seems a very good
plan. But after the money has been
gathered together in this way, how is it
disposed of?

Far. — The Parson of the parish, or
the parochial Treasurer, if one be
appointed, receives it, and sends it direct
to the Treasurer of the Parent Society in
Quebec.

Parish.— And who is it, sir, that
conducts the business of the Society, and
determines the way in which these funds
shall be expended ?

Pnr.—The Bishop of Quebec is Pre-
sident of the Society. Everything is
considered and discussed at the meetings
of a Central Board, held quarterly.
When any very important measure is to
be considered, a month's notice, or some
times two months' notice is given of it ;

call upon
within the
join the
they may
lem mem-
ition."
ery good
has been
, how is it

parish, or

one be

s it direct

Society in

sir, that
[jiety, and
lese funds

3c is Pre-
^thing is
meetings
quarterly,
sure is to
■-, or some
-^en of it ;

CHURCH SOCIET/?

nof ra'~'^^'\ *''"^"''^ Committee do

the Society is to refer all applSiWor
grants of money to this Comm ttee "or k

whft we wi r '"'■'' ""^ """'^l °°* trust
thnnJh T ^Z ^'^^' *'' b^«er hands

^Zf M, *" ^fr«'<i tJ^at many of ou;
people will say they mn«;t fat/ ^

themselyes first. ^ ^""^ "^'^ "^

i^ar.— Yes they often do say so hnf
none should encourage that sorfof spirk

Seal h " ' as St "I "f ""'■°\" ''"^^^^^^'•s
"(^•"tn, as bt. Paul says, besides the.

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be open to the world. It

WHAT IS THE

one of its laws that ip every Church in the
Piocese there shall be collections made
Qvery year, which go towards the i^upport
of travelling Missionaries-^to wards the
fund for sustaining the Widows an4
Orphans of the Clergy, and to such other
objects embodied within its Constitution,
as the Society may from time to time
aircct.

PariiA.— All I can say is^ that in my
poor judgment there never was; framed a
wiser or more admirable institution of its
kind; and you may count on me, air,
and all my family, doing everything in
our power to forward it. You said, I
think, just now, that the Society has been
in existence for years : what support has
it met with, and what has it efFeeted dnr*
ing that time ?

Par.— The degree of success which
has attended its efforts is of an eneour.
aging nature. Donations in land h^ve
been made by private individuals. It
now also provides fiinds for the support of
two Missionaries, and in one case at 6t,
i^'rancis the JL^istrict Association has

CHURCH SOCIETY?

pledged itself to give £50 towards its tra-
velling Missionary.

PamA._Indeed, sir, that is a good
example. °

.u^^'^'TJ^^^ , ^°<=iety has also sent
abroad through the length and breadth
of the i)iocese. Bibles, New Testaments,
1 rayerBooks, and many books and tracts
all containmg useful information and
sound religious instruction

PamA -Instead of calling it the day
of small things, we might almost call it
the day of great things, the Society must
be doing great good, and every one ought
to feel It a privilege to help on the good
work, by joining it immediately.

Par.- res, Mr. Heyric, that is what
we require, we want every one to join it
Jiarnestly ought every sincere Church-
man to strive and pray for the extension
and prosperity of the Church Society.

_ -raris/j.— Indeed we ought all do so
sir. "^ '

Far.~I was sure I would sjain vour
support tor it, as soon as you thorouffhlv
understood its nature and objects, they

WHAT IS THE

are such as must commend themselves to
our hearts. By the bye, I see your man
Roger there coming in from the plough
with his team, I must go and talk to him
about this matter. Good evening, Roger ;
you attended our Church Society Meet-
ing^ and must remember the explanation
which was then given of it. You did
not become a member of the Society
then, but I must have youi* name now.

Roger. — ^Why, sir, I am but a labour-
ing man.

^ Par. — St. Paul expected meii in your
situation to be charitable, for he says
that if we have no other means of reliev-
ing the wants of others, we are to labour,
^' working with our hands the thing that
is good, in order that we may have to
give to him that needeth.'* (Ephesians
iv. 28.)

Roger. — All I could give, sir, would
not be worth having.

Par. — I don't know that, your wages
are ten dollars a month, and if you had
lived in the times of the Old Testament,

you wguld, u m very teast, h^a bad tQ

CHURCH SOCIETY?

give to God's service twelve dollars a-
year. (Levit. xxvii. 30.) — Well take
three pounds a-year from you, Roger, for
the Church Society.

Roger, — ^Why, sir, would you ruin me
out-right; I would'nt mind giving a
trifle, but twelve dollars a-year ! ! !

Par, — Well, Roger, if you won't
give what you ought, we'll even take a
trifle for so good a cause. If every
member of the Church in this diocese
were to give a penny a-week, we should
have an income for the Church Society
that would do a good deal toward supply*
ing the present wants of all the settled
parts of the country.

Roger.-^-WeW, sir, I would'nt mind
giving that much, a penny a-week wotdd
not break me.

Par, — True enough, but see this.
You get ten dollars a -month, that is one
hundred and fifty pence a-^week, and so
you will really give one penny out of the
hundred and fifty which you make-— you

will iii/RuUi LTc/co wiiO givGs you aib your

hlenings, with the one hundred and

WHAT IS THE

fiftieth port of your ^uhstance ; you're
a liberal n an, Roger, very.

Roger.--We]\, sir, it don't seem a
great deal and that's the truth on't, but
it will come to summat in a year.

Far. — Yes — to four shilUnrjs and
two 'pence out of the six hundred shil-
liiigs you will gain in the course of the
year, if God should spare you and give
you strength for work; it's a great
acknowledgment, is it not, for so great
a mercy, — four shillings and two pence ?

Roger. — Well, we won't say any more
about it, sir, but I'll be a dollar this
year, and perhaps we may do more next

Par. — Many persons in your circum-
stances, Roger, would not have acted as
well as you have done, and I put the
matter in the way I did, not from any
unkindness, but merely to try and show
you what miserable niggardliness passes
now-a-days under the name of liberality.
It will, I dare say, be considered a
miracle of generosity in the parish, for a
labouring man at ten dollars a- month, to
give a dollar a-year to the Church
Society.

CHURCH SOCIETY?

Parisli. — There's a deal of truth in
what you say, sir^ but till men feel they
are debtors to God, for every blessing
which makes them happy and comfortable,
and for the strength which, as the Bible
says, enables them to get wealth, they
never will give with an open hand.

Par, — Very true, and when, in addi-
tion to that, they become sensible of the
unspeakable value of the spiritual mercies
which God has conferred upon them,
when they feel their own un worthiness
and weakness, and remember that it was
to deliver beings so lost and helpless
from the just desert of their sins, that
God's well-beloved and Co-eternal Son
suffered and died, then they will be sensi-
ble that all they can possibly give to the
furtherance of His cause, would be an
offering too poor to present in acknow-
ledgement of mercy so unspeakable.
When we duly value God's ^inestimable
love in the lledemption of the world by
our Lord Jesus Christ," the thought
that He will accept a portion of that
worldly wealth which He Himself 6e-

WHAT 18 THE

itoioed upon us, as a token of our erati-
tude, will lead us to oiFer it, not only
with willingness, but with a feeling of
thankfulness that He should condescend
to point out a way in which we may do
something to mark our sense of all that
we owe to Him.

Farish.~Yes, sir, and besides that
when we are blessed with *' the means of
Crrace, and by a proper use of them
may enjoy 'Hhe hope of Glory,"— surely
we must have hard hearts not to do
someting to extend them to others, more
especially when we remember that we
are blessed with them through the bounty
and benevolence of our fellow Church-
men in England.

Far.-ylt gratifies me much to find
you takmg such correct views of these
subjects, but as it is now getting late I
must be wending my way homewards,
and so, Mr. Heyric, I will wish you so4
evening. . '^ ^

Paruh,~Qood evening, sir, and mauy
thanks for the information which vou
nave given me.

CHURCH SOCIETY?
INCORPOllATED CIIUHCH SOCIETY

OF THE

DIOCESE OF QUEBEC.

" Blesied are they that sote beside all waters.

» •

1 J^ if^lS^'/ was incorporated in the month of June
1843 ;|the first grant from its funds was made in l«iv nf

\ht^^ •^'"' ^"^ ^*^*^" «^«t P«ri^ ^d July "^Jsf
the following sums were expended •— ^* »

l.—On Missionary labor, (including £150 voted

m the year 1845-6 to the ClerffvmanafrrS^ ^
fintown, Montreal,) ^^ ^^^^^^ »* Grif, £ s. d.

NB. The Society has aimed at ke;ping "two "^ '

Missionaries constantly employed at aS pv

pense of £250 a-year.- When twfhas noTblfn
found practicable, their duties have b^n ^"^
ded (as tar as poss ble) among the ClergXn
residing m the neighborhood of destitutei^
tlements, who have been remuneraSfor thd^
Sfat n^'' by the Society-Two j^ssionarfes
WriF« Tif ^°^Pl*^J«^' extracts from whose
journals will appear from time to tim* in the
Canadian Ecclesiastical Gaaette

Vu"rc^;s,*'"^^^^^*^^^-»*«•»of ,

Sc^iety'^"^" were made for this object Vthe ^^ '^ ®

^'7^? 5?'8onage8, Glebes and Endowments,
(mcludmg £100 to thelNicolet Endowment
luna, ) ---__ tM^ .

4.-oa 'School,, : : : : : :^ 'I ,i

v'arrisii over .... . 28«3 }e ll

26 CHUUOII SOCIETV.

, £ s. d.

Brought over SHtif) IG 11

The Society had hoped to have made some
arrangement with the School Society for the
Colonies, whereby Schools might have been
opened in some of the poorer settlements of the
Diocese. 'J'his proposal, though at iirst fa-
vorably entertained by the Society at liome,
has fallen through, from the want of funds on
the part of that l)ody.
5. — On the formation of a Book
and Tract Depository in INlon-

treal, - £222 15 1

Returns from sales in do,, - - OO 13 7

Expended by the Society, ------- 153 2

6. — On assistance to A\'idows and Orphans of

deceased Clergymen, __-__--- 103 15

7. — On landed property, acquired by the So-
ciety, ---- _--_ 97 74

Total, - £3310 1 3

N. B. With the exception of £170, no portion of the
above amount was spent in the cities of (^>uebec and Mon-
treal.

From the brief statement, furnished above, may be seen
what the Society h(fs done, rludge for yourselves whether
it has a claim on your Christian sympathy and support. If
so, pray for us, and "open wide the hand' to help forward
our " labour of love."

Quebec, Novemberj 1S52.