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 RUPERT'S LAND. 
 
 CALLED BY THE BISHOP, AND HELD ON FEB. 24TH, 1869, 
 
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 §£i)kateb to tljc ^gnoir, tobo rcqiusteb its ^ubUtatioit 
 
 PRINTED BY J. PALMER, 23, JESUS LANE. 
 
 1869. 
 
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 The Hon. an.l Ri-lit Rev. tlu' RISIIOF (,<F CARLlShK. 
 
 The Rifiht Rov. the- RISIIOl' OF ELY. 
 
 The Ri^ht Rc-v. the RISIIOP OF RII'OX. 
 
 The Ri-ht Rl-v. the HiSlIOF OF ARERDEEX. 
 
 Tlic Ri^'ht Rev. BISHOP ANDl'.RSON. 
 
 The Right Rev. RISHOP SMITH. 
 
 CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 
 
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 ]'u-ht li V. BISIlOi' S.Miril. Lee, lihukhciith. 
 
 Rev. I'REBENDARY AURIOE, St. Dunstnn's, London. 
 
 Rev. ^y. BAN If AM, WorshnV Dale, Banisley, J/oii. Local Sec. 
 
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 Rev. R. il. I5.\YNES, St. :\[ith;iei'.s Coventrv, Hon. Ijocal Sec. 
 
 Rev. y.. II. BEAr.MONT, Lowi-stoft, lion. Local Sec. 
 
 Rev. T. R. BIRKS, Vicar of iluly Tr'nity, Canihiidge. 
 
 Rev. E. BROWN, Hull. 
 
 Rev. CANOV CLAYTON, Stanhope Rectorv, Diulinp;ton. 
 
 Rev. A. ?i[. . CHRISTOPHER, St. Aldute's, Oxford. 
 
 Rev. J. DECK, Hull. 
 
 Rev. S. A. ^VRIGHT, Shoffi^ld, ITw. Loral Sec. 
 
 Pvev. J. C. WILLIAMS ELLIS, Fellow and Tutor of Sidnej' Coll., Cambridge. 
 
 \m. ARCHDEACON EMERY, Elv. 
 
 Rev. PREBENDARY (JIBHS, CJui'^t Church, Newgate-street, Loudon. 
 
 Rev. CANON GROOME, Monk Sohani, Sulfolk. 
 
 Hon. Ljoral See. 
 and Treasurer. 
 
 Rev. G. HALE, Lecturer of Sidney College, Cnnihridge, 
 
 Rev. JOHN HAWKSLEY, Clifton, J fan. Local Sec. 
 
 Rov. J. B. HEARD, HariMgate, Yorkshire. 
 
 Rev. CANON HOARE, Tunbrid-e Wells. 
 
 Venble. ARCHDEACON HUNTER. Bavswater, I-ondon. 
 
 Rev. J. S. JACKSON. Vicar of St. Giles', Cainbridoe. 
 
 Rev. C. A. JONES, We.«tminster School, llo)i. Seerctari/. 
 
 Rev. J. MARTIN. Vicar of St. Audr^w the Great, Cambridge. 
 
 Rev. T. T. PEROWNE, Stalbridge, Dorset., Comini^san) and Chairman, 
 
 Rev. A. II. RU.MBOLL, Tht)rpe, Colcheter, Hon. Local Sec. 
 
 ■o^„ rivAv Q*TT? A'- <• CI <K 1 1 ) I'resi'dcnt of the Shefpeld 
 
 Rev, CANON SALE, \ lear of Shemeld, } , •' . ,.^„ •' 
 
 Rev. CANON SELWYN, Lady Marrjaret Profe-ssor of Divinity, Cambridge. 
 Rev. T. SHANN, Boston Spa," York.'^hire. 
 , SMITH, E.^q.. Ilvde Park. 
 Rev. W. S. S.MITII, Viear of Trnmpingten. 
 Rev. A. ^V. W. STEEL, Fellow of Cains College, Cambridge. 
 Rev. Dr. TANCOCK, Vicar of Tavistock, Dev.ui. 
 
 Rev. W. II. TAYLOR, Martin, Worcester, Chaplain to tlie Bishop of Rupert's 
 Land. 
 
 Rev. II. W.TINDALL, Mirgate, Hon. Local Sec 
 Rev. PRICI'.ENDARY II. VENN, Church Missionary House, London. 
 Rev. 0. P. VINCEX'J', LS, St. Augustine's Road, Camden Square. 
 Rev. E. A. WALK INS, Beiihall, Suffolk. 
 Rev. D. WILSON, Islington. 
 Rev T. B. WRENFORD. Aberdeen, Hon. local .^ec. 
 
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NOTICE. 
 
 The Bishop especially invites contributions to the Diocesan College 
 of St. John's, which ho believes will tend largely, by the bles=^ing 
 of God, to the future benefit of his diocese. The Endowment is as 
 vet very small, and there is an urgent need of a new Building. 
 Contributions for St. John's College or for the general puri)oscs of the 
 Diocese will be thankfully received by Rev. T. T. rEuowM,, Stalbridge 
 Bectory, Blandford; Eev. C. A. Jones, 1, Dean's Yard, AVestuiinster; 
 Rev. G. Hale, Sidney College, Cambridge; Messrs. Smith, Payne, 
 AND Smiths, Lombard Street; London; Messrs. Moktlock and Co., 
 Cambridge; and the Commebcial Bank of Scotland. 
 
CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF RUPEirfS LAND. 
 
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 Right Rev. R. MACURAY, D.D., LL.D., Bishop. 
 
 VcueraUe J. Mt^CLEAX, M.A., Artiideacon of Asmnihoia, ■Warden and 
 Divinity Professor of St. John's College, Rector of St. John's, and Ex- 
 amining Chaplain to the 15ishop. 
 
 Venerable A. COWIiEV, Archdeacon of CiMmjiiLAND, Incumbent of St. 
 Clement's, Maplkton, Secretary for C. M. S. 
 
 J. IIORDEN, C. M. S., Mi.^sioiiary at ^foosi- Factouv. 
 
 R. Mcdonald, c. m. s., " the Yoican. 
 
 II; BUDD, C. M. S., Native Pastor at Devon Missicm (the Pas). 
 
 W. I\rASON, C.M.S., Missionary at Youk Factoky. 
 
 J. SETTEE, C. M.S., " Scvntf.uiu'uy. 
 
 W. AY. KIRKBY, C.M.S., " Four Snirsox. 
 
 II. GEORGE, C.:\r. S., Incumbent of St. Mary's, La Puaiuie. 
 
 J. P. r \RDIXER, C. M. S., Incumbent of St. Andrew's 
 
 II. JRANE, C. M. S., Native Pastor of St. Peter's, and Chaplain to the 
 
 B. )p. 
 T. T. SMITH, C. M. S. (on leave for health). 
 T. VINCENT, C. M. S., Missionary at Albany. 
 J. A. MACKAY, C. M. S., " Stanley, Enqltsu Rivna. 
 
 T. COOK, S. P. G., " FouT Ellice. 
 
 ^V. C. BOMPAS, C. M. S., " Athaiusca. 
 
 A. PHAIR, C. M.S., " FoKT Alexander. 
 
 J. CARRIE, Col. and Contin. Ch. S., Incumbent of Holy Trinity, IIeadixglky. 
 S. PRITCIIARD, Master in St. John's Collegiate School, and llegistrary of 
 
 the Diocese. 
 D. B. HALE, C. M. S., Missionary at Faiuioud. 
 
 G. COOK, Col. and Contin. Ch. S., Incumbent of St. Anne's, La Pkaiuie. 
 G. BRUCE, C. M. S., :\rissiunary at Foiix Pelly. 
 W. C. PINKHAM, S. P. G., Incumbent of St. James*. 
 
 B. SPENCE, C. M. S., Missionary at Islington. 
 
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 PROCEEDINGS 
 
 OF THK 
 
 ^^ynolr of tljr Diorrsc of Kuprrt's itanli. 
 
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 TiiK Synod was opened on Wednesday, Feb. 24th, 1869, being St. 
 Mattljias' Day, by the eelehration of Divine Service at half-past 10 
 o'clock A.M., in St. John's Cathedral. 
 
 The Litany was read by the Venerable Archdeacon Cowley. The 
 Aute-('onu)iunion Service was taken by the Bishop, the Epistle being 
 read by the Venerable Archdeacon M^^Lean. 
 
 After the Niceno Creed the Bishop took his scat within the 
 Communion Hails in front of the Communion Table, being supported 
 on either side by the Archdeacons of Assiniboia and Cumberland. He 
 then called on the llegistrar of the Diocese to read over the names 
 of the Clergy, when the following answered to their names : 
 
 The Vonevaljlo John ^^I^Lean, Archdoacou of Assinibuia and Rector of St. 
 
 Jollll's. 
 
 The Venerable Aiiuaiiam Cowley, Archdeacon of Cumberland and Incumbent 
 
 of St. Clement's. 
 The Rev. James Settee, ^lissionary at Scantcrbury. 
 The Rev. Henry Geokoe, lucunibent of St. Mary's, La Prairie. 
 The Rev. Joseph P. Gauuinek, Jncumbent of St. Andrew's. 
 The Rev. IIenuy Cochuane, Incumbent of St. Peter's. 
 The Rev. Roheut Phaiu, ^lissionary at Fort Alexander. 
 The Rev. James Carhie, Ineuiiibeiit of Ileadingley. 
 The Rev. Samuel Pimtchahd, Master in St. John's Collegiate School. 
 The Rev. David B. Uale, Missionary at Fairford. 
 The Rev. Gilhert Cook, Incumbent of St. Anne's, La Prairie. 
 The Rev. Geouue Bruce, Missionary at Fort Pelly. 
 The Rev. William Cyprlvn Pi.nkham, Ineimibent of St. James". 
 The Rev. Baptiste Spence, Missionary at Islington. 
 
 The remaining ten Clergy of the Diocese being prevented by 
 necessary causes were excused attendance. 
 
 The Bishop then delivered his Primary Charge, after which the 
 Communiou Service was proceeded with. The Offertory was for 
 the Church Endowment Fund. The non- Communicants retired after 
 the Prayer for the Church Militant. The Holy Communiou was 
 celebrated by the Bishop, who was assisted by the Archdeacons and 
 his Chaplain, the Rev. Henry Cochrane. 
 
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 To tho Ck'r<,'y, L:iy-P{'l<};[;itt's, and Cluiichwardons of tlin Diocese 
 of Uiiiiert's Land, by ItoiiKUT, iJislioj) of Jlniicit's Land, delivered 
 Tebrnary 21tli, in llu; Calliedial Chuicli of St. John's, and dedi- 
 cated to the Synod of llupert'a l.and, wlio by a unanimous vote 
 recjue-stcd its publication. 
 
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 Mv Ki;vj:ui.m) Bkituuen' and Bukthrkn or tiik Laitv, 
 
 In (iod's iiicicy the C'hureh of Kupert's Land onco nion 
 ni'.ots to receive lur Ijishoj)^ ('liar;^a'. Tin- occasion is necessarily in itseli 
 a solemn one. The .Vn^'cl of tlic Cliun'h hiis from his onicc to review tin 
 works, charitv, service, I'ailh, and iiaticncc of licr mi'udurs, ;md to endeavour 
 by (iod's f^ri'ce to address to them some words sidtahle i'or the times. J]iit *'''''• "- "i 
 to my mind the j^reiit cliaiij^-e th;it has liiken jjlace in tlie body ofc/ur (Meruv >^"t'",iT ''ei 
 f^reatly adds to the solemnity. What ii lesson it y-ives <m the ever-proceedini: ^^'''olai-sln 
 chnnn'cs of lile! Onlv live years have passed since the last Charijo wa- iiielit 
 delivered in this Cathedral by my predi'cessor, on the Epiphany 1S(!1; vi ' ''"* I''''^t s 
 both Archdeaconries, as well as the ]>i^hopric, have new occupisnts. Tht ""t'^^'ti"!) f( 
 number of the Cler^-y remains the same, but of those then labouriii^^ in tlii ""!'• -'"d 
 Diocese, three have been talu'ii to their rest, and otliers havi' left the Uiocesr W'templat 
 If we look further baeh, Arcluleacon ("owley and the Kev. Henry Ihidd av on the expi 
 now alone witii us of those who were (.'lerjjfymen in the Diocese when Mishe; _ -• '"-' •''! 
 Anderson delivered his I'rimary Char'j^e. J"'""- He 
 
 Ihit I cannot pass over with a mere reference some of those who are i ''P"''^<''i "i ; 
 more with us. 1 oltt'n think how yreatly favoured this Church has been i '" ^'"'•'^ 
 a succession of faithful ami s;'odly pastors. (Iladly coidd I ^o back to th; ^o^**''"- '> 
 first brave and wise i)ioneer, the JJev. dohn West, for so I have learned t ^'"v' ''xprt 
 re<;-ard him, and follow up the pioijress of the Church from his arrival. 15: occupied, 
 time will not admit of so lenii'thened a survey, and I nuist content mysi' sowed. J 
 with takiiiy- u]» the history of matters since they have fallen into my o\\ "*^'^ '''^<-'^^'' 
 hands. sigiHhat 
 
 And Hrst of all I thank Ood for the fj;entle, pious, and devoted life, w ' ''^' '" 
 nessed in your nudst for lifteen years by my predecessor, Dishop Ander^i^"''^'^ ' '^^ 
 I doubt not tliat I am indebted not a little to the alleetionate re,i;-ard that tI,^Pl»''''-'''te 
 lile brou;^'ht to my oilice, ibr the ease with which the important measures tl.*"^ proi;-r 
 have of late years been introduced, have i'ound their way to the confidence a: ^""-'h tlie 
 supi)ort of Cler^'y and people. Hut the riiemory of I'ishop Anderson so li\ ^ one ma 
 amongst you that it is unnecessary and, as he will see this, perhaps uiil ^ ""'^ ^i"' 
 comii)<j: in me to say more. His yearning affection for the Indian ChunI "* '^ ^'"^'bi 
 you all know, lie was, indeed, their " great praying- Father." When be ca;^^'^- -'h 
 to this Diocese he found five cler'^vmen in it. When he left it there w ""^ cliaii< 
 twenty-two. Xo one knows more than I what labour and effort are bound diocese, 
 in that simple fact. Probably many judge of their Bishop's work by wl^^^O' 1"'' 
 "liey see him do in his Diocese. But I can bear testimony that I have ibv***^''^"" oi 
 my heaviest occupation in endeavouring to arouse Societies and friends of » '''"^''' ^ 
 
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 Cli'irch to a lively sense of our wants. Ami i^ishop Anderson's nfTection fur 
 this laml has not ceased with his reslj^niatimi of the lii.^hoi \-. lie reiin'iiiliers 
 if kii;dly in his present iiiip(trtant Cliarue. Constant are iiis lnii<,' and kindly 
 letters. And cvrry year ids iiolilc eoii;,'re_'atiuii. so licli in i^ood \\oik>, lias at 
 lii> eall ^dven a lar;;o eontrihutimi (o niir liiiiils. 
 
 Thi' late Veiierabli' Arehdeaeoii C'oehriiii also has a jilaee in the alleetionate Anhiicncon 
 renieniiiraiiee of oin* people. I low coidd it he otherwise J" ( M'teii iiave 1 heard 
 lii.-' tall, powerful Ibrni deserihed. lie liad a hand in the huihliii^ of ainiost 
 «very Church. Kvi'iy I'ariNh — I may almost say every family of the old 
 n .-.i'leiits — reiiienilni's in him a bein I'aelor. How iiidef.iti;;abl<' I how eeaselesa 
 lie v,as ill sea.Mdi and out of season, ever reaily with the word of enooui'a;j;e- 
 nieiit or adnionition as lie felt was iieMilcilI The elibrt made to establish 
 a Seiiolarship at the younj.^ Colleije as a nieniMrial of liim has been an entire 
 suec, ■>.-;. J hope the clay is not di:<'ant when uilh a suitable' room we shall bo 
 able, as in sueh institutions in the oM country, to have a «lay ibr eommeino- 
 ratiiiLf i!eiiefaetors. The annual notiei' on tiiat day t'" the foundation of this 
 Scholarship will help to carry into tiie l"iiture the name of this noble worker. 
 
 The Kev. Thomas t'oehran. son of the Archdeacon, died at Toronto durint; Rev. T. 
 the jiast summer. Hy his will he has shewn that he sluired in his father's ''''' 
 
 alfeetiou tor this land, lie le!t a lei::aey of "ilK» dollars to the Cochran Scholar- 
 ship, and bec|iieathed for sueli purposes, as the Chun h Kndowiuent Fund 
 contemjilates, the reversion (»f the jj;reater part of the residue ol his property 
 on the ex]iiratiou of a life-interest. 
 
 The third e!er;rymaii whom we have hi>t by death is the llev. Henry IhuM, H''^' H 
 junr. lie died helbre my a]>pointment to the !^ee. I have otten heard him 
 spoken of as a yoiiiii;' man of much promise. 
 
 Ill tlinse wilt) have lelt us to riturii to i'.'u^'land wc hav.' also snircred j^'ivat Clci-u'v 
 losses. IJut as it would be invii'.ious in me to distinuuish them, I would ,. ('„',i',,'a^to 
 only e.xjiress the hope that those who have succeeded to the sphcrt's they ''"y'''''^'- 
 occupied, may be enabled, by Cod's ^-raee. to reap abundaiiily wliere they 
 sowed. 1 am ha))]\v to say that iVoin one of them, Archdeacon Hunler, [ 
 have rceeivetl, in the shapi' of a cullection for our Diocesan work, a welcome 
 sign that he still thinks of us, as I know many remember him. 
 
 liut in referriu}^ to those that have left us, 1 would hi' very wantin<^ in f'ordi;)! 
 what I feel is owiiu:; to yourselves, if I did not express how <jratel'ull3' I hisiuip of 
 ap])reciate the kind way in which my various suy;;estious Ibr the well-beinr ' '"'"^ 
 and proy-ress of the Church have been received, and the cordial i^ood-will with 
 which they have been carried out. Clerivy and people have worked witli me 
 as one man. Some of the chani^es that have been introduced have y'iveii not 
 a little trouble in other Dioceses. With us there has not been the alienation 
 of a siiii,de member. I know I ewe this to your loyalty, and 1 heartil}' thank 
 you. The chauLfcs proposed had no ulterior object. They were tbunded on 
 no change of doctrinal views from those that have ever prevailed in this 
 Diocese. You had full coulidence that this was the case. You did not view 
 every proposal with a suspicion of some lurkin/^; evil. You did not even 
 search out better planj. But you loyally gave yourselves to the working 
 of such as were proposed. They may not have been the best. As we meet 
 
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 and I'liiiiiril 
 of Kuih'H'h 
 
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 llttil'iT.S of 
 
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 ](ll(l«>l)'s 
 
 Itiiy Cotu- 
 liaiiy. 
 
 The fhurcli 
 Mi>-ion:»ry 
 Society. 
 
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 and C CCS, 
 
 S. P.C. K. 
 
 Thp New 
 Englmd 
 Company. 
 
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 fi.uii time to time in Synod wo wliall tloubtlfss hoo our way to iinproveineiits ; yf^y ^i j,,.^.^ 
 but tlii.s ^'^oat ri'«ult Iiuh been uiliifvod— tbo peaceful adoption ol' toinporaiy abh' to uvai 
 and introduetory l)lHn«, Clniich .Mi 
 
 Hut when I endeavour to return thaidts I feel I have many obli^'ations to venture upi 
 acknoivlfd;,'e. And lirst I would tli!ink tlie (Jovernor of Rupert's liand for of tliis Sot-it 
 his kindness and ^'ood olliees in so many ways both to myself anil to my from expre> 
 ('ler>,'y. 1 have also to acUnowled;;o the kind eonsideration yiven by thi' Indiun, ol" ' 
 Council of Kupert's Land to jiroposals beurim; on our Missions that I Diocese thai 
 Bubmitted to the (Jovernor atul its ainiual vote of £l(X) towards St. John's the hir^'eat i 
 Collejje. Nor can I omit nuntionin^' the invariable courtesy I meet with jg eispeciiilly 
 from every orticer of the Honourable Company in my tniVt'ls. Tims in mvaecessitv tli; 
 late visitation 1 received every possible attention and hospitality when f^oini,' T(» mv ( 
 to Geor^'etown in the steamer and at Michipieston, Moose, Kupert's House, En<,"land wh 
 Albany, and New Brunswick. j\nd this has been my constant experience. And hen 
 
 Passinr^ to our Church friends, I feel it my duty first of all to express our n my late 
 jrratitude to the Chinch Missionary Society. (Jur debt to that beloved )bjeets in tli 
 Soiifty cannot be expressed in words. For nearly fifty years has it f,'iven an Jom|)aiiv S' 
 un^'riuh^^iui; assistance to this Dioeose. Its 3Iissionaries and Af^ents an; lelp in Can 
 seattered throui,'hout its wide extent. All our Indian Missions with one ex-\,t the reipi 
 ception are maintained by it. It has jjivon and still ^'ives large aid in whatFIelhuuth Lj 
 now forms the Settlenu-nt. The chief grant to the College comes from it nvitation ol 
 It pays my expenses in visiting its Missions on episcopal duty. And all thi>)peniiig of t 
 is d(nie so heartil)- and cordially. 1 feel that we can never repay our obliga-mr Diocesar 
 tions to this Society. I only hope to shew in some small degree my sense olhat I was al 
 them by the most careful ell'ort to aid the efficient and economical carrying oiuf the Coi 
 of their operations in the I)i(»cese. equest ow 
 
 To other Societies, the 8ociet\' for the Propagation of the fJospcl, and tin )r. Fiilfon 
 Colonial and Continental Church Society, we are also under great obligation-n our wo 
 for continued grants to us, by which important Parishes and .Misaions anlingland. 
 occupied by the Chur(;Ii. . felt it m 
 
 I have also to thank the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge foi'^ulford a s 
 various grants in the shape of Libraries for the Clergy at various Missioii'ervice of t 
 Stations, and to meet purchases for the Diocesan Hook Dejjot, the IMissioiiJew York, 
 Depot, and several ])arish orders. I also received a vote of X'lOO towards tli^his was a 
 erecti(m of new Churches, from which I have yet only given a grant to Ilolmd the oth 
 Trinity, Winnipeg. The Society has also agreed to give the remainder of it>ay, throng 
 grant to St. John's College to aid the erection of a substantial Puildinirifancy of 
 I hope the venerable Society nuiy also be induced to give to us a vole towar(lv'llowslii|) 
 the endowment of St. -lohn's College. I believe it has frequently volche liisliop 
 money for such an object. No diocese could more need assistance in tha?ntury. 1 
 way than ours, whose colonial life has yet to begin. To none would such ai 'ith, lor it 
 be more important. must iusf 
 
 •c aLcain shewn an interest in our worl 
 
 ipany 
 
 •isho}) 
 
 the Indians by giving two Theological Seholarshii)s to St. John's College fi' indignant 
 three years and one ( Jeneral Scholarship to be held at St. John's Collegiate Scho( .lost awful | 
 They can only be held by Indian students. I am thankful for this assistain'Iissionary 
 and indication of interest in us, though the vote is not exactly given in ilollege in 
 
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 iprovemeiits ; ^nj* at pn'»«'!it most siTviccahlo fur us — iiulcod it is (|ut'sli()nal»le if we sliall he 
 
 of tomponiry abl'' to avail (iMisflvcs ol' tin' Tlicoldi^ical SclKiliirsliips for soim- tiiiu", as the 
 
 Chunh Missionary Scliolar.Hliips may prohalily ain|)ly inci't what wo can 
 
 obliijations to venture upon ii; that way. I am I' illy st-nsihli' of tiu' ditlitiiltii's in tlu- way 
 
 rt'rt liaiul for of this Socit'ty aidin;^ lis more lilu'rally and directly, hut I cannot keep nyself 
 
 If and to my from cxprcssin)^ the hope that it may see its way to do it. Duty to the 
 
 ^ivcn hy the Indian, of whoso intorosts tlu-y aio the -^'iiardian, demands it. It is in this 
 
 >sions that I Diocoso that the main work lor the Indian txists. It is in this Dioeeso that 
 
 rds St. John's the larj^est and most comhined ell'orts are heini; made on his hehalf. And it 
 
 V I moot with is especially in this Diocese in view of the future that there is an urj^ent 
 
 Tluis in my necessity that there slumld he no delay in what is done, 
 ty when {Jfoini,' To my Cointuissary, the Kev. T. T. I'erowne, and the other friends in 
 upert's House, Enjflaud who have aided us, I would also return our best thanks, 
 experience. And here 1 {gladly notice the kind weli,'ome and ^'enerous taid given me 
 
 to express our n my late journey. I received neveral munilicent donations for Church 
 
 that beloved )bjccts in the Moose District: t)ne otliii'r of the Honourable Hudson's Hay 
 has it given anjompany giving inc. £'.\0 and another £2-'). I also received much kind 
 
 ind Agents an; lelp In Canada, ami many marks of courtesy that I shall not soon forget, 
 ns with one exAt the reijuest of the Dean of Huron I laid the foundation stone of the 
 iri'-e aid in whatflellnnith Ladies' College, which I heliovo will suj)ply a great want. On the 
 comes tVom it.nvitation of the late IMsho)) of Montreal 1 preached the sermon at the 
 And all thi>)peniiig of the Provincial Synod of Canada, with the special view of hringing 
 epay our obliga-mr Diocesan work before the Church of Canada. I am reminded by this 
 o-roe my sense olhat I was also invited by the Hishop of Minnesota to preach at the Oju'iiing 
 nical carrying oiuf the Conventicni of that Diocese, but had with much regret to decline the 
 
 equest owing to my movenu'nts. In the death of the Bishop of ^lontreal, 
 ; Gospel, and thf)r. Fiilford, this Diocese lost a warm friend. He took the kindest interest 
 "•reat obligation-n our work, taking occasion several times to mention it at Meetings in 
 ind iklisoions aniingland. One last all'ectiug sign of his regard I cannot but mention, for 
 
 . felt it much — when, 1 may say, falling into his rest he lei't with Mrs. 
 
 n Knowledge foi'^ulfoi'd a small donation for us as his last gift to any t)bject. At the Opening 
 
 various IMissiou'ervice of the (Jeneral Convention of the American Church, in Trinity Church, 
 
 L'liot, the Missioiifew York, I road the Consecration Prayer and consecrated the Klenients. 
 
 £"10() towards tlii^bis was a very marked act of co\irtesy on the part of the Presiding J}ishop 
 
 1 a <'rant to Holvnd the other ISishops of that great Church to a stranger Pishop, ami, 1 niiiy 
 c remainder of it-ay, through him to the Church of England. How it carries us back to the 
 stantial Puildinirifani^y of the Church 1 It was some such act oi' courtesy and Christian 
 us a vote towardv'Uowship that Anicetus, Pishop of Pome, shewed to the aged Polycarp, 
 
 frequently votdlie Bishop of Smyrna, when he visited Pome about the middle of the second 
 assistance in th;r?ntury. How much more I could gladly .'^ay to you on the kinde.ess I met 
 no would such ai'ith, I'or it was shewn to mo oUicially, certainly as much as personally. Hut 
 must just mention my hajjpy visit to that true-hearted friend of the Indinn, 
 st in our work in»ishop Whipple, whose every word for them I know is wrung i'rom a heart that 
 John's College fc indignant for the wrongs that drive an uncivilised people to madness and the 
 s CoUciate Schoe.iost awful outrages. I must also mention ni\^ visit to Nashotah House, the 
 [ for this asslstauolisBionary College of the American Church in the West, and to Lennoxville 
 nactlv <'iven in tl ollege in the Diocese of tiuebec. There is a joint commemoration kept by 
 
 FiIoikU in 
 IIiikI.iikI. 
 
 Kiniti/ ;s 
 atul aid in 
 my latP 
 jdiirncy to 
 vi>it tlie 
 M (II ISO 
 Missions. 
 
 Bishop 
 Whipiilu. 
 
 Nasliotiih 
 House unci 
 Lennox vil c 
 Colk'KC 
 
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10 
 
 Nashotah House and St. Aac,'astinc''s College, England, on St. Peter's Da^ne cannot 
 The Ollertory at Nashotali House on that day lust y.'ar was devoted to uc[o\v "land 
 Missions. I also obtained a Collection at a Meeting in the Hail of Lennojie Ion.'- ran 
 Arclidcacon ville College. I appointed the Venerable Archdeacon ^IcLean my Connnis.-^iin that pro" 
 Coiiunissary. during my absence for the Visitation of the l^Ioose ^Missions. And wh.he earnest! 
 I thank him for his kindness in acting, I would desire to express my higliijig prisjs? 
 satisfaction with the way in which he disciuirged the duties ot the otKce, aOacotali, wl 
 especially with the visits which he was good enough to make to the sevei;he new ]] 
 Parislies. « Fathers ai 
 
 ruanfr;- in I began my Charge by adverting to the change that has taken place in tjoberness. 
 
 the coiidilion , , ,, ' ,, ,,,V , , , ■ . l i- c i i , ' , 
 
 of thr Si itie- body ot our Clergy Ihere lias been also a cliang(^ ni part ol our tieiil precedents ; 
 
 *"*"'"*■ work. In the short period of three years since 1 came to the Settlement I i -egion's pn 
 
 perceive considerable progress. I led tiiat the country is dilfeieut from wLn^ l),> j,.y 
 
 it was, and that the time is hastening on when tlie isolation of the past will states will c 
 
 at an end. And it is well that it is so. In former times, isolated though t'nties of tin 
 
 country was, there was so great a provision supplied by it for man's wan- here lui'e, t 
 
 Avithout any labour or care, that in general there was no dilHculty lelt by .iChristian ei 
 
 family in getting its needs supplied. Even in tlie event of such a feai:j,bie, in ferfi 
 
 disaster as we have lately experienced, there were still the vast berd^ jftho earth, 
 
 bull'alo within easy distance, and supplies almost to any extent were obtainaiCsland, spol^ 
 
 from them. How much everything is changed now, we all know! T'Someol'vi 
 
 ' trying winter we are passing through has told its tale. This Settlement cjartli. to a \ 
 
 no longer look on its grain crops or its grazing stock as merely givi:."ipe and bu 
 
 comforts and luxuries and a Iding to the stock of provisions. They are ijreat sea of 
 
 the future its main — practically its entire stay. Failure in our crops, whi.;he world. 
 
 we remain isolated, now means nothing less than want and starvation. ;hat this I 
 
 The change then that we are beginning to experience has not come a iiantrodden 
 
 too soon. We shall be in constant peril till the country is occupied up to Pacific slopi 
 
 and means are provided naturally foi' the easy and cheap transit of gonCaliibruia, 
 
 Xotwithslanding the great advance of population and the occupation of l:ithe giganti 
 
 towards us in Minnesota, we still labour under great disadvantages, (soon to lloo 
 
 carts have to freight our goods fnmi St. Clotul for a distance of nearly lof Asia." 
 
 miles, of which over 300 miles lie throiigh uninhabited Prairie-land. It cciruth. Ni 
 
 ncarl}' as much to freight goods to this from St. Cloud, thoiigh the chargiiuestioned 
 
 ver}' reasonable, as it does tu carry them froui Liverpool, across the occ.states to tl 
 
 and then across all the long lines of railway up to St. Cloud. Of course, wl.sonsiderabi 
 
 winter conies ujjou us, the freighting over those unoccupied and snow-covi .made stmi 
 
 plai 
 
 ns Decomc 
 
 s very severe and very costly. Of every £100 given to niiineet the 
 
 our wants in the present distress, scarcely £"30 went in the purchase of IL Still a 
 and grain in 3Iinnesota. The freighting swallowed up the remainder. :Outer worlj 
 that freighting has been done from this to Fort Abercrombie often with nnvvill dcpcnl 
 self-denial. But the advance of population towards us in ^Minnesota is rapis. If ill 
 I found this j-ear a great change from wliat I saw tb.rce years ago. ,\calamity, 
 there is not the shadow of a doubt that the advance will come on wbe a large| 
 increasing rapidity till it comes u]) to us, and we share in its results. liproduciiu 
 a mere matter of time, and that time but a lew years. The opening-iqi every thiiii 
 a good road from Fort William will doubtless on our side accelerate matti visitation 
 
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 St. Peter's Da)ne cannot but look forward to tlie future that is to be seoti in the distance. 
 
 as devoted to otiow grand is the progress of tlie Western Slates of the great Republic! Is 
 
 e Hail ot Leninite lon^- mnge of eountrj- along tlie south of this laud after some years to share 
 
 n my Coninnssiin that ])i(>gress ? ^ Js it strange that I should nutice with the deepest interest 
 
 ions. And \vli,he eanu'stuess with which the Anu'riean Church is rising to the necessities of 
 
 xpress mj' higlit,he crisi^!' Listen to the words of my neigli!>i)ur, the Hishop of Xehrasha and 
 
 s ot the othce, aQacotah, when ))reaching a few weeks ago the Sermon at the Consecration of 
 
 ke to the sevc;;lie new liislio]) of Oregon. Turning to the Bishops present he said: 
 
 'Fathers and Urethren, I a])peal unto you. These are words of truth and 
 
 taken place m ijoberness. Territories to-day will be em))ires to-morrow. There are no 
 
 ;irt ot our field 3recedents in the ))ast by which to measure the wonderful growth of that 
 
 e Settlement I region's present, or tlie certain spkiidoiii' uf its futiu'e. Scarcely will the 
 
 ilfeicnt from wink l)e (hy upon thes(> letters of Consecration, before populous and powerful 
 
 of the ])ast will states will cover that wide expanse 'even to the great sea westward.' (Jiant 
 
 solated though 1 -ities of the plain are springing up whilst we hesitate and dally. Send, 
 
 for man's wau-herefoiv, the Church fully equipped. Lay at once the foundations of 
 
 itliculty felt h^' ^Christian empire in those vast regions, soon to bi the lionie of millions, and 
 
 , of such a feariible, in fertility, wealth, and extent, to feed, nourish, and enrich all the peoples 
 
 the vast herds )f the earth." Listen again to the words of Dr. liittlejohn, Hisliop of Long 
 
 ent were obtainaiCslaml, spoken also a few weeks ago respecting the same Bishop of Oregon. 
 
 •e all know! T'Sonie of you. no doubt, regard our brother as going foi'th to the ends of the 
 
 riiis Settlement icjarth, to a vast solitude, to a region over which rolls no wave from our own 
 
 : as merely givi::ipe and busy life, and which feels little more than the spent ripples of this 
 
 lions. They are ijreat sea of activity that swells around us. This is nctt the view of men of 
 
 in our crops, wlii;he wovld. These men will tell you in hurried s])eech and with kindling eye 
 
 1 starvaticm. ;hat this brother, whom some of us eoinmiserate as going forth to dwell in 
 
 has not come a ilantroddeii wastes, will not beconn! an old man before he will see the vast 
 
 s occupied up to Pacific slope, stretching from tlu' northern boundary of Oregon to the Culf of 
 
 nj) transit of goeCalifornia, alive with busy millious, and looming up to the eye of Europe as 
 
 i? occupation of l::the gigantic Western arm of that great continental life of America, which is 
 
 lisadvantages. (soon to llood with its energy, and grasp with its cnter^irise, the untold niilliou.s 
 
 tance of nearly lof Asia." 'f liese may seem excited words, but they convey nothing but the Tho fiUure 
 
 airio-land. It cetruth. N'(» one who has looked into the mattt r can doiibt it. It may be couutiv. 
 
 Iiough the charge questioned how far our country will share the progress and prosperity' of the 
 
 ol, across the oce;states to the south of it. Jhit the probability of it.-; doing so in time, to a 
 
 d. Of course, wi considerable extent, is sutliciei't to make me most anxious to .see our Church 
 
 ■d and snow-eov.;fnade strong at its centre, that it may be able to work out from itself and 
 
 [;1(X) <nven to niiueet the spiritual wants that may arise. 
 
 ho purchase of IL Still a few years must pass b 'lore we an^ even fully connected with the 
 
 tho remainder, : outer world. And how is it likely to be with us in the meantime? This 
 
 hie often with nnvvill depend on the way in which it ])leases our Heavenly Father to deal with 
 
 ^Minnesota is raius. If He keep away from us in these lU'xt few years every destructive 
 
 ee vears a'-'o. ,\calamity, it is likely that many may settle in the country and that there wiU 
 
 will come on wbe a large extension of farming operations. In that case the I'ertile grain- 
 
 1 its residts. liprodueing lamls of this region and the rich plains for grazing stock will make 
 
 The openin*>"-u]i everything prosperous, pleutil\d, and cheap. Ihit should there be any such 
 
 e accelerate matt. visitation as we have just passed through, we sball be probably in a worse 
 
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Dcsfrip- 
 tion of the 
 plHfTiic of 
 
 hoppors. 
 
 Mercies 
 amid the 
 trial. 
 
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 Diirifrcr 
 from ),n-,iss- 
 hoppir.'i (iiily 
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 condition than we have ever been. We shall have a larger and more dopendi;** ^ believ 
 population, and be without the natural resources of former years. No one ,|OP"''>'""n a 
 think of tlie frightful plague of the past summer without a degree of misgivii ^^'"" '^ ^^' 
 and anxiety as regards the remaining years of our isolation. The descriptii^"*"^^ ^'^'^^ 
 of it is appalling. The ground was riddled with the eggs of the grasshopj)! '^"'*"^"' 
 When spring opened the 3'oung grasshoppers came out and filled the liii;'^^''*^'^*^^ m 1 
 Some weoks passed before they reached their full growth and were able to ;!"® ^^'^^ ^^ ^' 
 During that period they crawled on in one unceasing mai'ch. The whole count'^^'^P "'^ ^'^' 
 for a great distance v. as alive with them. They devoured every green thii ^^ '^ ^^ " 
 —the young crops, weeds, grass. They filled the trees till they were coven'^'^^ '^ ' '^'"' 
 with them, as when bees are swarming. They covered every piece of fence ''^tnnig is \ 
 wall. They crowded on each other, when any obstacle came in their way, t ^^®"' poi»ul 
 they formed masses feet deep. Having no more food in the fields, or crowdii ■I'^ii'iiing : 
 on each other, tliey devoured each other — till the whole country was filled wir^®*"^ ^*' '^ ^ 
 masses of their corrupting bodies. In many places the air was filled witli'^*'^' ■'^'"^' 
 noisome stencli from them. It was a mereil'ul providence that no pestiKu'^'* "' *''^'"' 
 broke out. At length the}' took wing and in a short time all disappeavt^^^ ^igns f 
 The country in many places never recovered all the season. The trees ai^ " *^*^"^ 
 grass seemed poisoned. The land remained black and bare. Such is ("^provement 
 account ol' this frightful visitation. There have been previous trials of t' ^] ^ '^''-'' 
 same kind, but by common consent this last has exceeded in severity evc"^® f^' '^'"^ 
 previous one. It shews what C!od can do by an apparently very i'M^^ tliurchet 
 instrument. Oh, may we be moved by a sense of our dependence on Ili'f ''"'I'^'iig r 
 and by the evidence of His having some controversy with us, each to exanii: ^ g<H)d 
 his life and conduct that we may live closer with Him, and devote ourselv *'^" ''•^"'' 
 more heartily and unselfishly to His glory and service! "*°' ^^"^''-''y 
 
 lint amid the trial there have been many mercies. God has not 01 ^®^^'^'"*-^- 
 removed the plague, but He has given us a season of rare healthfulness ev cause fj 
 in this healthy country. A large amount of assistance has been sent to " _ ^^'^ ^"'"^"f 
 from England, from Canada, i'rom the United States. And we have li^^^^c till wel 
 a milder winter than almost any one that the oldest inhabitants can remenib '***''^ ^'1 
 This has not only been a great mercy for the many families who have bt™'^^^'" ^^'■'^'1 
 able to provide themselves with but little and insufficient clothing, but it l"'°"^*^- <'i" | 
 enabled the freighting of the provisions for the relief of our people to go j^^lodeon 
 witliout interruption. Indeed, it is hardly too much to say that it has sav°^ ^"^' ^^°| 
 a large proportion of the population from the greatest want, if not starvali"®^*^ '>^^^^\ 
 by allowing the continuance of successful fisliing in the Lakes, so that 1^"^% ''*'•■''( 
 deficiency in the Fall Fishery has been more than made up. ^es of lanil 
 
 As to the future tliere is no cause for despondency. A return of •?^'^^ P'''"i 
 grasshopper plague is perhaps to be feared, as long as we are encorapas- |^"'"^ ^'1 
 with uninhabited and uncultivated plains: indeed, visitations of locusts sc*^^' ^ 
 to occur throughout the world in the neighbourlu)od of large waste tnu^® quarleJ 
 Quite recently they destroyed the crops in Algiers and in the Holy t:i^^* '^^'^'''* 
 But for us there is hope. Our unoccupied plains are not deserts. Tli'®^® there j 
 destructive locusts have been long k .own on this continent. They have b.' ^*'°"^'"''^ 
 experienced in Canada. They were very severe as I'ar east as Maine in '^"^^^ '"*1 
 early part of this century. Ihit their ravages in those districts have cea/®'^® ^^^'^^'*' 
 
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 (1 more (lopendr** ^ believe our dan^'er tVoin tliein will pass away with the advance of 
 
 ■ars. ;ffoonoii°P"'"^'"" ^"^ ^'"^*^'^"^'°"- 
 
 , ^ „f ,,,:„„;,.;, ^'<>r if we were conneeted with the civilized world would there be the same 
 
 'Ljr(!C oi iiiis'^ivii 
 
 The descrii)ti'^"*^'^^ result even if a district of the countiy were to suffer from such a 
 P the o-vasshopi"^®^^"^^^*^"' i'rovisions and grain could then be obtained without any great 
 d filled the hu ■^*'^^'^***^ "^ ^'^^ ^^^^- ^^"^ ^^'^^'' ""' '" ^^^"' present isolation, there is not only 
 1 -ere able to 'l'*® ^^^^ ^*^ ^^'*^ cultivators of the soil, but we cannot have «upplies from abroad 
 
 The whole count'^^eP*. "* ^''"'""'^ P'''^^^^^- 
 
 J.1 •, It is to be hoix'd then that there tnay suon be a large emigration into this 
 
 every green tlni ' ... . 
 
 ,, „ ^^„ „ountrv, and that the settling in ^Minnesota mav rai)idlv advance towards us. 
 
 they were coven _- \ " j i j 
 
 of fence ^^^■'^'"5? ^^ wanting to make this a great and prosperous country but a suf- 
 
 • Ai •.. ,..o,. 1 cient poindation and easy access to the outer world. • 
 
 e in then way, t ' ' •' _ _ 
 
 i- ij „..„.,. i;, Turning fi-om the material to the spiritual and moral condition of the land ,. T"^ ^^ , 
 helds, or crouui; _ = _ _ ' _ _ _ lis,':oiis and 
 
 i. ixu I .. i.iere is a very yratifving and encouraging attention iiaid to the means of ">'>i;il f""- 
 
 itry was hlledwir j n . n ,,,,"",,, .^ , , edition of the 
 
 C1I 1 wi race. Ihe Lliurches are well attended, and tliere is a large number ot Settlement, 
 ir was hlled wall _ -.^ i ,. • . ,• i i • i. • 
 
 ., , ,-1 igular oouununicants. A or does a relis^ious toeung merely shew itselt in 
 
 that no pestilcii ^ i • • .i i ti • ^ i i 
 
 ,, 1. icn signs so iileasing m themselves, lucre is a large number who are 
 
 p.e all disappeavi . " . ' . ^ , " . 
 
 mi i lading consistent lives as true servants of the Lord. Still there are some 
 
 11. The trees ;u '^ 
 
 , CI 1 • , nprovements that a Churchman would ijladly see. The responses are as 
 
 bare, ouch is t: - ^ ^ . i r i i • i 
 
 , • 1 ,' .et only feebly taken up. There is a neglect of the devotional position of 
 3V10US trials ol t • -^ i , , . , , x • i r 
 
 1 . ., ueelinLT duvnig the prayers, tor whieh, however, I lear tlie arrangement of 
 
 d in severity evu •" . , . . 
 
 ,, ' ,' iir Churches are in general but badly suited. And though several Parishes 
 
 lareutly very teel . " ,."... 
 
 , ^\'e making great and successful efforts in cultivating Church music, there is 
 
 ependonce on 11. o" , . , . ■, ' . 
 
 1 , ; ill a good deal to be desired. But it must be remembered that in our 
 
 us, each to exanu: ... 
 
 , 1 , 1 olated condition, with a mere handful of peoiile, and even our small popula- 
 
 xnd devote oursel\ ' ..... 
 
 jn, widely scattered, we have to contend with difficulties utterly unknown 
 
 ^ 1 , , sewhere. In fact, when our circumstances are considered, I believe there is 
 
 God has not oi , , . , . , 
 
 , ,,, ,. , 'eat cause for congratulation at the success achieved m two or three Parishes, 
 
 e healthfulness ev '^ _ 
 
 , , J. i nd we can hardlv look for a taste or enthusiasm for the higher class of Church 
 
 has been sent to . , :, ■ , ,. ,,, i, i ., i • i i ^'"^i^'- 
 
 . , ^1 ^ , U81C till we have the assistance of settlers who have themselves actpiired and nannoniums 
 
 , , 1 Itivated the taste elsewhere. I have the expectation of receivii.<; next l"'""^'"*^"- 
 
 itaiits can remenib. , . -i ■ ^ tr , 'r^ tm i i r c 
 
 ... , , , mmer two kind presents to aid our musieaf eflorts. llie Lliurch ladies ot 
 
 uhes who have U .i t i n c 4\ ^■ <«• . 
 
 , ,, . 1 i. -i oronto. or rather 1 sliould say some ot them, are making an eflort to present 
 
 clothing, but it 1 . o T 1 • /I n 111- i«Ar i 1 1- • -1 
 
 , , ^, Melodeon to St. John s Lollege, and ladies ot Jlontreal arc making a similar 
 
 -- i. -i. 1 ,°. 01^ foi" Holy Trinity, Winnipeg. 1 am ha]>p3' to bear my testimony to the 
 say that it has siu • •; ii ,• ,i i ,. 
 
 / .„ . , .neral good conduct of our commuintv. I'-iXceptiiig the more or less fre- 
 nt, if not starvati: '^ , ,,,.,,„,„ ^ i ,,, i r ,. i . 
 
 _ , ., , ently recurrmy; thefts by the tieathen and unsettled Indians, and a few 
 
 le Lakes, so that 1 -^ . ?i • i n i i i 4- v,4\ • u ^ r i 
 
 ^68 01 lamentable violence, there has been but little crime. iJut 1 have 
 
 . , ,. secial pleasure in referring to the conduct of the Indian settlement. I do 
 
 ^y. A return ol ... 
 
 t know that a sinj^Ie criminal case has come before the courts fnmi that 
 we are encompas- . , j ,. , ., , i ^ .^ <. i r ru i i 
 
 ,. , . itnct. 1 feel it, however, my duty to taUe notice of the sad prevalence, in 
 itions ot locusts sc -.It- 1 ( c 1 • /^ 1- • 1 *. ii -pi i 
 
 ,. , . , ne quarters, ol a sin that is very hatetui m tiod s sight, the sin ol drunken- Habits of 
 
 )t large waste tia. ' . ^ ,'• ^ .i ■ • • . n ii • iutcmpc- 
 
 , . 7, ,r 1 t ?3' 1 here is a ijeculiar temptation to this sin in a young country like this, r-in,i. 
 1 in the Holy La ^ . n . > mnLt. 
 
 ! not deserts. Tli 
 ?nt. They have 1 
 east as Maine in 
 districts have cca; 
 
 lere there can be little yet of what is known as society, to give a tone to 
 3 conduct of those who would like to hold a good position, and thus in- 
 isibly influence all, where the j)eople are so scattered from each other, 
 lere there is an absence of those manlv amusements and recreations that do 
 
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 much in a healthy way to engage tho vacant time of young men, and \v!i J^^^^ ^^^j. 
 there are few of those home comforts, accomplishments, and occupations, tl jj^yp alreat 
 make drinking hahits less inviting. It hecomcs the Clergy and other frin^g Cluirch ? 
 of the well-being of the community to do what they can to di.scounteiiaig glioiild U( 
 the vice, and the authorities to restrict the licensing of houses within the Ic, j^^j^^ ^},gj 
 possible limits. And every encouragement should be given, as soon ^ ^\^•^^ ,„^|^j 
 practicable, to healtliy ways of occupying the leisure time of the yoiitlirop^,.]y the 
 the coimtry. As regards the Interior there cannot be two opinions. Tll^J^^ j(. j^ j,^, 
 is a sad, a melancholy attraction for the Indian in intoxicating licjuors. l^hers from i 
 best resolutions too often vanish in their presence. The only remedy is \q .rosppi o 
 absolute prohibition of the sale. The trading in spirits with the Indi!iiipi„},s most 
 too often cruel to an extent that arouses one's indignation. 1 regret to h ^d I confes 
 to say that I do not think, in the present state of things, that the prohibit j evan'"-oli/.i 
 of the sale could be safely and effectively carried out. I have therefore iicomes a V 
 seen my way to support such a projjosition. Hut I have no doubt that if i, o^v,^ ^lea 
 and order in this country were backed by a small military force — and I beli unot Mipi)f 
 a very small force would be sufficient — there would be no dilKculty, by mc^cJety's assi 
 of severe punishments on offenders, in putting an entire stop to the traQrk on wh 
 For it must bo remembered that the evil is as much felt and acknowledged jgigty value 
 many of the traders as by others, and that it would be for the inteivstig^i.^ j^,, 
 those possessing the larger capitals to assist in putting the tratHc do'fluence will 
 There is another sin of which I fear there are too many examples — the sii^)ciety as is 
 iinchastity. I have not the means of expressing any opinion as to its incnppovt of q 
 or the reverse. But 1 would give the warning that the effect of the incrcasobabW iu t 
 intei'course of people in a settlement is to make a freedom of maui.e means o 
 dangerous, that was perhaps comparatively harmless formerly. I would v. But the 
 on the Clergy and Laity that they use their influence to induce every headntinuous 
 a family to have at least two or three rooms in his house. pulation. 
 
 The i)resent I have been now referring to religious and moral conduct. These n e Proiiajj 
 poVi'cy npces- depend much on education. The time was, under my predecessor, when .ciety. A 
 tf'^st' t"of ^^'^'O'^l'^ ^^''-'^■^' very flourishing. There was a Collegiate School receiviiiLr sistance 
 the Schools, kind attention and accomplished scholarship of Bishop Anderson, and fllynobett( 
 were many common Schools throughout the Parisbes maintained partly cieties fin 
 the Church Missionary Society, and partly by the Bishop's own exerti'ing much 
 The Collegiate School expired some years before I came, and all the <>; disastrous 
 Schools fell through except those supported by the Church Missiciiis. 
 Society, partly, I suppose, from the same difficulty that is now so m The otli 
 experienced of securing and keeping competent teachers, and parti}'', perlue Church 
 from the cessation of the benefactions so kindly given. At anj' rate, llwer for t 
 were no Schools remaining when T came, except in the Cliurch Missioiiiighty gro 
 Parishes. encouragi 
 
 I have made the above statement because the mere effort of orgaiii-ty can we 
 Parish Schools would have rendered necessary that appeal to the menibrveadv done 
 our Church to come forward and do what they can for themselves that all the CI 
 characterised my episcopate. I had no funds for the purpose, and T h. It w; 
 nerallv that it is more difficult for a second Bishop than a first lii-i 
 
 
 say gei 
 
 les in 
 
 to get funds f(n- his Diocese, especially in these days of ever-widening Clionthly, tr 
 work in every direction— at home, in the colonies, and among the heatlKii 
 
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 g men, and wii J^^^^ f,,^. pi-escnt Churpli policy was rtMulered necessary by another cause. The present 
 I occupations, t! jj^^yp already explained to you very I'ully on several occasions the feelinjTs of p„i"!^^^ calif^^,} 
 ' '"if^ f»<^''f^i' f''i''ie Church Societies that help us, their desire— I nuiv sav their anxiety— that ^'"I'^'y ".!'' 
 
 , ,. , ' _ ' ' •' action ot our 
 
 to discountenaig ghouid au soniethinij towards supporting.'' our means of i;race. rhuich 
 
 es within the Ic. Jf„\v there are two uTouuds on which we niav fancy the Societies movinjr " 
 
 ;'iven, as soon ^ ^\^\^ matter. The one is a chan'^v in ourselves, hy which we are less 
 
 ne of the youtiipQp^,.|y ^\^^^ ohjects ol' their charitahle aid. The other is the general ground 
 
 o opinions, -lliiat it is incund)ent on every Christian to do what he can, not only to free 
 
 ating lupiors. l-^hers from any charge on his account, hut to extend, according to his abilit}', 
 
 only remedy is ■^Q g^^^y^,\ q[' om- ,\^^.^xv Lord. The hrst of these grounds is doubtless what 
 
 with the Indiiiiieiglis most with the Church ^lissionary Society as regards the Settlement. 
 
 I regret to li ^jj j confess with very grave reason. Their work is intended to be mainly 
 
 Kit the prohibit 1 evangelizing (me among those who know not the gospel. When a Mission 
 
 have therefore i>comes a Christian congregation, the Society must desire it should support 
 
 10 doubt that it .^ Q^y,^ means of grace, and allow their niissiou.'ny to go beyond. Uut we 
 
 ibrce — and I bcli jjjjof support native agents as in a tropical region. The removal of the 
 
 dilKculty, by nic^cjety's assistance would be at present simply ruinous to the stability of the 
 
 stop to the truork on which has been spent much money, and which has had what the 
 
 nd acknowledged )ciety values more, the prayers and loving ellbrts of a succession of devoted 
 
 ? I'or the niteresligtoi.t._ i;„t J thoroughh' feel with the Society in the matter, and nij- whole 
 
 ig the trafhc do'fluence will be given, for the sake of our Church itself, for such relief of the 
 
 examples — the sir)ciety as is practicable. A lirst step is being taken in the measures for the 
 
 lion as to its incvi pport of our educational expenses ; and I ma}' say that that alone will 
 
 [I'cct of the incrcjisobably in this countr}' entail as heavy a charge as the maintenance of all 
 
 freedom of mauie means of grace in a warm country. 
 
 ncrlv. I would i'. But the chancre in our circumstances in the Settlement arisinsr from the 
 
 induce every heaiintinuous entrance of white setllers and the advancemenl of the Indian 
 
 pulation, only brings us more directly within the sphere of the Society tor 
 
 onduct. These i:e Propagation of the Gospel and the Colonial and Continental Church 
 
 )redecessor, when iciety. And there is in the change no reason for the diminution of their 
 
 School receiviirj' sistance. For the people in this country, belonging to the Church, are not 
 
 Anderson, and t!ly no better able to support the means of grace than they were when those 
 
 maintained partlv cieties first gave their aid, but, on account of the weakening effect of 
 
 diop's own exertiiing much more widely scattered by removal to new localities, of a succession 
 
 le, and all the ot disastrous years, and of the transition state of things, are practically much 
 
 I Church Missioi>;s. 
 
 that is now so m The other ground I mentioned as a possible one for the desire shewn by 
 
 , and partly, perlie Church Societies is the duty of eveiy Christian doing what lies in his 
 
 . At any rate, ilwer for the support of the means of grace. This is to m\' view a most 
 
 e Church Missiniisighty ground. Tt is enough to make me anxious to make every exertion 
 
 encourage our self-ellorts. For I feel that only in the faithful discharge of 
 
 ? effort of orgaiii-ty can we look for God's blessing. Let me then trace out what has been Review of 
 
 al to the inembrv-eady done. I arrived in the Diocese on October 12th, 1805. A meeting aJii'mJI!^! * 
 
 • themselves that all the Clergy in the Settlement took place at Bishop's Court on December '*'"'-''-' ^'*''''- 
 
 purpose, and 1 h. It was then arranged to introduce the weekl}' Offertory in all the 
 
 )p than a first Hiiurches in the Settlement with the new year, to celebrate the Holy Communion 
 
 ever-widening Clumthly, to extend the organization of Vestries to all tht> Parishes, and to 
 
 mom; the heathen 
 
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 have a Conference of the Clergy and Lay-Delegates from the different Coiled to report 
 gations. Private efforts, with more or less success, were also made in iraft of a Co 
 non-Church Missionary Parishes for establishing Schools hy obtaining sis that I ill 
 scriptions from parishioners and charging moderate fees, with a power or, at we could 
 part of the Vestries of nominating pupils on a free or reduced list. I ai3 not like a 
 these clforts by a promise of a small grant from my English Diocesan Fuiist be more 
 if the fund allowed it. ^leantime there came a more definite statement t;>n was prep 
 the Church Missionary Society. Before leaving England I was infornu-d littee, to the 
 "the education of the children of the settlers must be defrayed by themsil shop of Loi 
 with such assistance as the Company may afford. " JJut the new IMin'hn llilyond 
 while advising the formation of a Settlement Fund, stated that '" the Sch 'Oieties that i 
 and all other expenses, except the salaries of the European Clergy, must bject, and a 
 upon the Settlement Fund." This necessitated the immediate formatioiily to say on 
 a Diocesan Fund. At the fleeting of the Conference of Clergy and \Aj compose 
 Delegates, on j\Iay 30th, ISGO, I therefore recommended this, together \\pre8s the ho 
 tho establishment of our Endowment Fund. And the proposal was apprir^^^s of obta 
 of. The sanction of the Conference was also given to the Church H-r place as tl 
 Depot, which I had found it necessary to establish, owing to the total w " Ireland, 
 in the Settlement of School material and books for Church Service. Tl: ^ have on! 
 was also a Resolution passed for raising money for a Scholarship in St. Jol.^'^^t'O'^ ^^^ ^ 
 College in memory of the late Venerable Archdeacon Cochran. In *"® resoluti 
 address to the Conference I expressed the hope that the Church Mission ^^'^ "P "^ 
 Society would not at once press the great change they announced respcnt ^^^ y" 
 
 this fund. 
 There is a 
 
 the School expenses in the Settlement. In reply to their comniunicat 
 
 I had, with the approval of the corresponding Committee of the Society in 
 
 Diocese, asked the Society kindly to grant us the same indulgence as they ^^"^^^ ^* "* 
 
 under similar circumstances granted to the Church of Sierra Leone. T^® missions ( 
 
 i, /> T 1 
 
 continued to that Church their assistance for five years, giving the full 'j;i'^ ^^ .'"^ 
 in the first year and diminishing it bv one *ifth yearly. In the course of'' ® c(^'>*it'" 
 summer a favourable answer was received. This led to the arrangement l* ' ^^ *■ 
 was mentioned in my address to the second Conference that assembled"* * ^'*'" 
 
 Til 
 
 May 29, 18G7. By this arrangement the same sj'stem of subscriptions 
 fees existing in the other parishes for the support of the Schools was exteu* '' ' 
 to the Church ^Missionary Parishes. And it was hoped that the payments fi 
 these sources, added to the surplus of the weekly Offertory to be voted to 
 Diocesan Fund and the Thanksgiving Offertory, would enable our Churcl ■'•"'^ ^^ ^ 
 do at least what the Sierra Leone Church did. That Church was abl. 1^'^*'= ^^'i' ^1' 
 meet from the first the whole charge of the Schools, and therefore to inv"® necessit; 
 the grant which the Church ^Missionary Society gave. Hitherto, owinu^^^*^^ ^^' / 
 the votes from the Diocesan Fund for the non-Church Missionary Paris ^"^'^S^' "^ 
 being paid from my English Diocesan Fund, and the votes for the Cliv, ^ ^ *^^ ' ^' 
 Missionary Parishes being pai(1 by the Church Missionary Grant, all ^}^^\ ^'''** 
 income of the Diocesan Fund has been paid over to the Endowment \' ^ , ^ 
 and invested. 
 
 lut tht 
 
 The second Conference resolved itself into a Synod of '"■" "" , ^ ' 
 Diocese, and a Standing Committee was appointed to be the executive !>".__ 
 to carry out the decisions of the Synod, to take the management of 
 various Diocesan Funds, to prepare business for the annual Meeting of Syi 
 
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 le difforent Coiled to report its acta. It was also remitted to this Committee to prepare 
 c also made in iraft oJ'ii Constitution for our future government. It was mainly owing to 
 
 hy obtaiiiiui,' sis that I did not call you together last May as usual. It seemed to me 
 ith a power or. at we could scarcely meet again without settling our constitution. Now we 
 iced list. I ui3 not like a self-supporting Church, There are many by whose views one 
 sh Diocesan Fi;ii8t be more or less guided. Conseipicntly, when the draft of the constitu- 
 iiite statement I »n was prepared, 1 submitted it, with the approval of the Standing Com- 
 
 was informed ittee, to the late Archbishftp of Canterbury, the present Archbishop, then 
 lyed by thenisel shop of London, Bishop Anderson, the House of Bishops of Canada, Mr. 
 it the new ]\Iiii'hn llilyond Cameron, Q. C, of Toronto, and others, as well as to the 
 
 that " the Scli cieties that aid our work. The Standing Committee lately reconsidered the 
 n Clergy, must bject, and a draft has been prepared which will be laid before you. I have 
 ediate formatioi ly to say on this subject that we must exist for a time simply as a voluntary 
 f Clero-y and 1.^7 composed of members joining by their own consent. But I would 
 this together wpress the hope that we may so arrange everything, that when we have the 
 >posal was api)ni2*'^8 of obtaining legislative sanction we may, with little or no change, take 
 
 the Church 1!^ place as the legal Synod for this branch of the United Church of England 
 g to the total w d Ireland. 
 
 rch Service. Ti ^ have only further to mention that the Synod gave authority for the 
 arshii) in St. Julfniation in this Diocese of a Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund. According 
 
 Cochran. In ^^® resolution of the Synod, a bye-law for its temporary management was 
 
 Church Missioi ^^"^ "P ^'y ^^"^ Standing Committee, Avhicli expires with our present session. 
 
 nnounced respect ^^^^ ^^ .V"'^^' ^^^^y ^'^ make the necessary provision for the government 
 
 heir communicat ^"^^ ""^"' 
 
 of the Society in '^^^^'^ ^'^ ^^^'^^ being formed a Native I'astorate Fund for the support of 
 
 luh'-ence a** thev ^^^''^ ^^ Indian congregations. The chief income of this fund will be from 
 
 rrie missions of the interior. 
 
 ierra Leone 'P*' niissioiis oi lue mtunor. The Epiphany collections throughout the Settle- 
 
 iviu"- the full cr®^^ ^^^ Indian ^Missions were last year paid into this fund. I must here 
 
 In the course of''^® occasion to thank the Settlement Parishes for having had this year, as 
 
 le arrano-ement t^*^*^' *^'^ Epiphany collection for the ^Missionary work among the heathen, 
 
 4-u ,<^ .,., ^, 1 K 1 Dtwithstanding the difHculties of the times, 
 tnat assembled " 
 
 Df ubx-riotion' ^ would now say a few words on the different funds that have been 
 chool' was ext .„'tablished, and which it will be for the Synod to manage. 
 
 t the payments i\ ^ rj.j^^ fjj^^^^,^j^ Endoxcment Fund. 
 
 y to be voted to 
 
 nable our Churcl This is a fund for general Church purposes, but more especially in the 
 
 I'hurch was able^^'^*'* ^^^ ^'^^ support of clergymen, of which only the interest can be used. 
 
 therefore to inv^® necessity for the early establishment and hearty support of such a fund 
 Hitherto owin"''""*'^ ^^' ^"'^ strongly urged. Let me quote some words of lament from 
 Missionarv Pari« ^^^'^S^ ^^ the Bisiiop of Fredericton at the neglect of this in his Diocese : 
 tes for the Chr ^^ ^ evident to me, and will appear equally plain I should think to many 
 larv Crant all ^^^> ^'''"^^ ^ '''^^"^ of money invested for this purpose, which might without 
 
 Fndo p t F '^^*''^^^y \\vlvg been raised, would have served us effectually at this crisis. 
 L s ' 1 t' •'^^ ^^^'' opportunity was lost, and I know not whether now it can be 
 
 the executive 
 
 iianagement of 
 1 Meeting of Syii 
 
 3C0vered." 
 
 We cannot raise money without great difficulty, but we can do our best, 
 nd no time should be lost. 
 
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 I am happy to say tlio Church Endowment Fvnul has bolonginj,' tn JiggJonavy <j; 
 3900 dollars in Dominion Stock of Canada, yielding (3 p. c, or nearly i:.'n) ^^ Piocesaii 
 
 annum. ^ School 'j:rant> 
 
 2. T/ie Native Pastorate Fund. -g , ^ 
 
 It is not intended to use this fund for some time. At least that is w yieetini; aii<il 
 I would wish. It amounts to GliO dollars in Dominion Stock of Canada, -[^y^y to siijip 
 
 3. T/tc Clcrqfj Widow and Orphan's Fund. ^^"^ ^"'■'''''>' '' 
 
 . . , , aound to olhi 
 
 A kind donation of £15 was given to this fund by Chief Factor Andci - . jj - j^ 
 
 of Moose. Such a sign of kind interest in the families of the Clergy, ^\ li j ^„ j- ^ 
 
 deprived of their head and protector, is doubly dear to the Bishop's lu a their •i"-ci 
 
 If only our people, instead of luoking back to the past, when they have 1 ^^.^^ ^'i^^^ 
 
 served by European clergy sent out from England, would look forward \ ii „:_ gniiiMivt 
 
 me to the future, and consider the trials and exigencies of a native Clm i iilld 
 
 and tlic coming struggles of a colonial field, they would, I am sure, ' ungoeakalilc 
 
 up this scheme with the same hearty zeal and love with which I conni! riu_:_*., \\y^\^ 
 
 it to their pious aid. IJefore many years it will be felt as a great neces- „-:gQ ^o those 
 
 I am sure nothing could more distress an all'ectionate people than that tli _q„ gonif of 
 
 who minister to them in their sicknesses and griefs the consolations ol 
 
 time of I 111' <) 
 
 gospel, should be torn with anxiety for the future support of those dear « "yyiio >''o 
 
 them. And unless such a I'und exist, cases of this kind must arise as „ _:„„„,. ,.,i . 
 
 Si viimy<ini) < 
 
 begin to be left more to ourselves. 
 
 " If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we 
 reap your worldly things?" 
 
 The fund po-sesses 380 dollars in Dominion Stock of Canada. 
 
 eateth not ol' 
 " Do ye n 
 sacrifice ; and 
 so hath the I 
 of the Ciosjiel 
 "Let hhu 
 
 last Easter exceeded £Cu. The stock in hand was valued at £107 O.v. 
 There was a balance due to me of £S \U. lOd. It must be remembered t: 
 this only represents a portion of the sale of such books in the Diocesr, 
 
 4, The Diocesan Bool; Depot. 
 
 This Depot contains Dibles, Church Services, Prayer-books, S. P. C. ,, i n • , 
 
 Hymn-books, and common school material. The sales in the year end; ,, ,, , ' 
 
 i_-i. T7«.._i.-.. 1-.1 n,^>r mi i 1 • 1 1 , , , i..^>. ^ soweth that > 
 
 Ah! helo^ 
 deceived." 
 
 XI • X 1 -i p XI TIT- • •-,.,. „ Christ's doct 
 
 there is a separate depot lor the JMissions in the interior, as well as sew .p., , .,, 
 
 distinct Parochial ones. I hope to make a beginning this year of extendi i- • i 
 
 the depot so as to include some religious and useful books of a gein 
 
 character. 
 
 5. The Diocesan Communion Wine Account. 
 
 I have thought it well, on behalf of the Parishes, to lay in two or t!i 
 octaves yearly of port-wine for Communion use. It is divided to the Paris! 
 at 20.V. per gallon. The account will be regularly audited with the others. 
 
 The funds in connection with St. John's College will receive notice wl; 
 I come to speak of that institution. 
 
 sense of jiisl 
 labom-ing lb 
 should tell 1 
 men of piety 
 way the stui 
 a Church by 
 does this, G 
 ing of the i 
 
 Fund, to aitl 
 
 I have now then fully reviewed the past, and it becomes my duty to sp.. *o ^^ ^'"''^*' ^ 
 of the future. It will be necessary for us to give our best energies to ; ^^^''^ ^-'l'-'''^': 
 successful working of the Diocesan Fund. 1 have already explained that v ^^ Diocesa 
 were able in the past two years to invest in the Endowment Fund all i School^ grar 
 income. That can no longer be done, from the diminution of thy Chun parishioners 
 
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 IS Oelongintr t(ijjjggjQ,^j^,.y irrant. We require, tliereforo, now to have an annual income for 
 , 01 nearly '^-JOjjjg Djooosan F\\n<\ that we ean depend upon. The present charges on it lor 
 School ^-rants are £2!*i5. 
 
 But, my dear livethren of tlic Laity, I led that the time lias come for our 
 
 least that is w neeting another obligation. God has very distinctly hud on Christians their 
 
 ck ot Canada. i,ity to sujiport the Ministers of the Gospel. It is quite true that, as we 
 
 ,jfl_ lave freely received from (iod the precious treasure of the gospel, so we are 
 
 p „ , . , bound to olU-r and extend that !,a)si)el. if need he, without money and without 
 
 t 1 actor Andei> . ,, , , - - • i \ wi • * ^ 4- t* i 
 
 price. J>ut let us not misunderstanu tins statement. It ex|)resses, remember, 
 
 the duty of such Christians as yourselves as well a.s of INlissionary Societies 
 
 and their agents. The meaning of it is not that Christian congregations like 
 
 your own should Ijo receiving the means of grace without contributing towards 
 
 their sujiport : but the meaning is that you and all other Christians sl-ould 
 
 be so lilk'd with the love of ju'ecious souls from your own sense ot your 
 
 unspeakable privilege in having had access to the unsearchable riclies of 
 
 Christ, that you gladly carry the Gospel even without money and without 
 
 price to those who are still without the knowledge of it. Let me im))ress on 
 
 you sonic of those weighty words of Holy Scripture that are read at the 
 
 time of Uic Oll'ertory every Lord's Day. 
 
 "Who goeth a warfare at any time of his own costi' Who iilaiiteth 
 a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a Hock, and 
 eateth not of the milk of the ilock ?" 
 
 " Do ye not know, that they who minister about holy things live of the 
 sacrifico: and they who wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? k]ven 
 so hath the Lord also ordained, that tliey who preach the Gospel should live 
 of the Gospel." 
 
 "Let hhn that is taught in the Word minister to him that teachetli, in 
 
 J.1 ,. all good thinijs. Re not deceived, God is not mockeil : for whatsoever a man 
 
 the year end: u ^i . i n i 
 
 r-.-..-.^, „ soweth that shall he reap. 
 
 Ah! beloved Jirethren of the Laity, notice those solemn words — " He not 
 deceived." AVe assuredly deceive ourselves when, howi'ver clear our view of 
 Christ's doctrine, we do not conform ourselves to Christ's rules. And even 
 if there were not such express commands given us by God in His Word, our 
 sense of justice should teach us that we should do what we can for those 
 labouring i'or us in the Lord, if they need our help; and our common sense 
 should tell us that, if we are to expect the services and devotion of young 
 men of piety and ability, we must be careful not to put imnecessarily in their 
 way the stumbling-block of anxiety about the future in temporal things. If 
 a Church by an}'' selfishness or want of thought on the part of its mendiers 
 does this, God will assuredly visit the neglect by the withdrawal or lessen- 
 ing of the means of grace. I am anxious then, by means of the Diocesan 
 Fund, to aid an eHbrt to raise the stipends of all our Clergy in the Settlement 
 to ai least £'150 per annum Let me suggest a plan. I would propose that 
 every Clergyman having a stipend under £150 should be entitled, as far as 
 the Diocesan Fund woidd allow, after capitalizing the Church JMissioiuny 
 School grant, to an augmentation of his stipend to the same amount as his 
 parishioners allbrd him till the sum of CloO is completed. In other words, 
 
 !{('( oiu- 
 iiioiulations 
 for the 
 I'laiirc. 
 'riic Din- 
 cc-aii I'und. 
 
 ;' the Clergy, w] 
 he JJishop's Ik 
 en they have 1 
 look- forward v, 
 f a native Chm 
 , I am sure, t 
 which I comiu 
 1 a great neces- 
 le than that tli. 
 onsolations of 
 t of those dear 
 must arise as 
 
 matter if we >! 
 
 lada. 
 
 books, S.P.C, 
 
 I at £107 9,v. 
 remembered t 
 n the Diocesr, 
 as w^ell as sevi 
 year of extend: 
 3ks of a geiu 
 
 ni. 
 
 7 in two or tli 
 ;d to the Paris: 
 ith the others, 
 ceive notice \vl: 
 
 ny duty to sp., 
 : energies to ' 
 explained that v 
 mt Fund all ( 
 n of the Chuiv 
 
20 
 
 suppose a Clerf;yman has a stipend of £1(X). If liis people give him £V2. 
 would be entitled to £12 iVoni the J)iocosan Fund — if his people ^'ivc ! 
 £25, ho would be entitlod to £2o ; but if his people ^'ive £10, he w< 
 be entitled only to £10. And I would have no wish to see the hi"l| 
 the people limited to a stipend of £150. On the contrary, I regard : 
 as a mininmm for affording a Clergyman in the Settlement with a fai; 
 a comfortable support. I should be glad to see congregations endeavour 
 to raise the stipend of their Minister to at least £200. But this rnu>' 
 done privately. The Diocesan Fund cannot be given to assist such cu- 
 There are in this country many ways, my Brethren, in which gifts o 
 be given to the Clergy having the smaller stipends, entailing trouble ra; 
 than expense on yourselves, yet saving them the expending of money. 
 I am sure that if our people kindly act on this suggestion, they will not i 
 have the ])leasure of fi't'lim; that thev are discliarixing a solemn dutv, 
 they will tind that it will remove the feeling of distance which, I fear, is m; 
 times felt between them and those who minister to them, and nuike • 
 ministrations of the Clergy more dear and acceptable to them. TIut. 
 nothing I know stronger than such a bond of interest. They will feel ti. 
 Clergy as in a new sense their own. This proposal will place, if carried ■ 
 a new burden on the Diocesan Fund. 13ut I trust those I'arishes which 
 not called upon by the arrangement to aid the augmentation of their Mini>t 
 stipend, will do their part by enlarged gitts to the fund. The maxiii, 
 liability the proposal will create is at present £05. This, when added to • 
 School charge £2S5, raises the whole obligation to £350. It will be neccs- 
 to ensure an annual income of this amount independent of the Church M 
 sionary grant. Towards this we have the interest of the Endowment V - 
 £50, annual subscriptions to the Diocesan Fund say £;iO, the Vote from :. 
 English Diocesan Fund £30, leaving £240 to be made up by the Sri. 
 subscriptions in the Church Missionary Parishes, the surplus of the Paiv 
 Offertories, and such additional Collections as the Thanksgiving Otluit. 
 Now what we did in ISO" and in 1808, although in both cases there wa> 
 parts of our small Settlement a partial destruction of crops by the gra- 
 hoppers, would enable us to do more than meet this demand. But we caiii 
 well promise grants on the I'aitli of so uncertain and lluctuating a collectitm - 
 a Harvest Thanksgiving Ofl'ertory. Besides, we require to have a propovt: 
 of the vear's income earlier in the voar. It will be necessarv for us, thoril'; 
 to change the system of giving b}' a Thanksgiving Oll'ertory to a settled [.. 
 of weekly, monthly, or yearly subscriptions. It may be that in our pre- 
 condition the income of our people is so dependent on the harvest that not!::: 
 of great amount could be promised irrespective of the harvest. Still proba:. 
 enough could be got to answer our wants, and to bring the system into o]" : 
 tion — and in such cases, if God gave prosperity, a corresponding oll'ci:: 
 could be made at the Thanksgiving Olfertorj'. Every communicant shuu 
 feel that he has something to do. If a person cannot give a shilling a Wf. 
 he may give a penny a week, if not a penny, a halfpenny a week, and if t 
 that, he ma}' still give it monthly. There is no hardship surel}' in such 
 regular git't irrespective of harvest to the Lord's work. We have to \w 
 
 nmnerous ex 
 
 the Lord? oi 
 
 purposes to 
 
 convinced tli 
 
 gohools, and 
 
 gnwU salarie 
 
 I am now y 
 
 posol to subs 
 
 far as possi 
 
 Offertory, wl 
 
 a Thanksgi\ 
 
 we should ill 
 
 And now 
 to have spiMV 
 Church. 1 
 keeps back t 
 Christians, a 
 given them. 
 besides con? 
 times was, " 
 there is no 
 the early Ch 
 the Epistles, 
 expecteil by 
 consideri.'d tl 
 of the Chri: 
 Lord's servi 
 sight unless 
 but it is in 
 will wear al: 
 Him and fo 
 least of thes 
 I am sor 
 the Schools 
 but the effo 
 now re(pru'( 
 signatioi^s. 
 must be sc 
 which grar 
 Diocesan ir 
 wish with 
 and have tr 
 in my min<] 
 There h 
 without re: 
 very servi* 
 
A'ive him £12 
 
 s iH'opIe ^'ivf ' 
 
 e .£10, ho w, 
 
 J .•*ee the h.'l|, 
 ry, 1 regard ; 
 lit with a till 
 loiis eiuleavoMi 
 IJiit this rnu>' 
 assist such i;,- 
 which git'ts c 
 ii.i? trouble r,i; 
 of monoy. .\ 
 they will not . 
 solemn iluty, 
 h, I Tear, is <(.: 
 1, and make ■ 
 them. Tlur, 
 ey will feel t- 
 ce, if carried • 
 Irishes which 
 •f their .Mini>; 
 1'he max in, 
 len added to • 
 will be nece>> 
 the Church M 
 ndowment F. 
 le Vote from : 
 5 by the Sr!. 
 IS of the Par:. 
 :iving OHert. 
 iscs there wa> 
 s by the gin- 
 But we cam. 
 g a collection 
 ive a pro2)ort: 
 or us, therct: . 
 :o a Settled pi 
 in our pro>': 
 ist that notlii:. 
 Still proba'u; 
 tern into o]'.:. 
 nding oiler::., 
 iinieant sho.;. 
 hilling a wet' 
 eek, and if i. 
 rely in such 
 have to me 
 
 21 
 
 numerous cTpcnses whatever tlie harvest is. Are we to keep back only from 
 the Lord ^ or are we to endeavour always to begin to save in our gifts for holv 
 purposes to be better able to meet our worldly expenses? At any rate, I am 
 convinced that it is imjiossiblc for us to arrange for the proper support of tho 
 Schools, and to give the needful encouragenu'iit to our jMinisters, who havo 
 small salaries, unless we secure an iuconie that we can dc'jcml upon. What 
 I am now ])lacing before you is not in reality any new call, but it is a pro- 
 posal to substitute for the uncertain ell'ort of the Thanksgiving Collection, as 
 far as possible, a system of regular subscriptions. Then the Thank.sgiving 
 Offertory, when <jiod visits us in mercy, would take its jiroper position as 
 a Thanksgiving Oll'ertory. and not as the opportunity of discharging a duty 
 we should fullil independently of the harvest. 
 
 And now, my Reverend brethren and TJrethrcn of the Laity, I may scorn 
 to have spent a good deal of tiiue in dwelling on the jxHMuiIary ellbrts of the 
 Church. I have not done this unadvisedly. It is ni}' belief that nothing so 
 keeps back the spiritual growth and devotion to (lod of a larg(> proportion of 
 Christians, as their keeping back from (Jod a share of the good gifts He has 
 given them. In the Jewish Church a tenth was exacted from every one, 
 besides constant sacrifices of n\iu'h value. ( iod's connnand to Israel at all 
 times was, "none shall appear before me empty." In the Christian Church 
 there is no such express command, but it is impossible to read the records of 
 the early Church, as given us in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles and in 
 the Ei)istles, without feeling that so far was less self-sacrifice from being 
 expected by God, that, on the contrary, so great and overpowering was now 
 considered the witness of (Jod to His love for us, tliat it was lelt to the fulness 
 of the Christian's heart to decide the proportion he slujuld dedicate to the 
 Lord's service. We know very well that no gifts are anything in God's 
 sight unless first sanctified by the freewill olfering of the soid's atfectiona ; 
 but it is impossible to say how nmch of the crown of rejoicing Christians 
 will wear above, will depend on their ellbrts, faithfidness, and self-sacrifice for 
 Him and for others below. " Inasnnich as ye have done it unto one of the 
 least of these ]My Mrethren, ^-e have done it unto j\le." 
 
 I am sorry that I camiot expi'ess any very definite o])inion \ipon the state of The Parish 
 the Schools and their etficiency. Schools have been estal)lished in every parish, 
 but the elibrt to maintain them has been a difficult one, from the larger amotmt 
 now reipiired to obtain the services of a schoolmaster, and from frequent re- 
 signatiop'j. The whole question mu.st, however, .soon be grappled with. There 
 must be some di.stinct regulations laid down, defining the conditions under 
 which grants from the Diocesan Fund aie to be given, and some plan of 
 Diocesan inspection will be necessary. But before we can obtain all we could 
 wish with our Schools, I feel we must be able to provide still larger salaries 
 and have trained teachers. How to secure such a training has been a good deal 
 in my mind, but I do not yet see the way to the accomplishment of what I wish. 
 
 There has been a very kind gift for the encouragement of School education 
 without regard to denomination, which I have no doubt will, by-and-bye, be 
 very serviceable. ^Ir. Isbister, an oM pupil of Mr. McCallum's Academy, 
 
 Schools, 
 
Mr. lH»)is. 
 ti'iV I'ri/i'N. 
 
 St. John'-i 
 Collcjc ami 
 (.'()llei,'iat>; 
 School. 
 
 KiiilowiiH-nt 
 oftllO C'ha'l- 
 of Divinity. 
 
 Tho 
 
 Si'liolavshii). 
 
 The 
 
 Mc'( a'lhiin 
 Scliolarsliip. 
 
 22 
 
 wlio has tjrt'iltly ilistiiii,'iiislii(l liiinsell' in Knt,'laii<l, has comiik'tcd a Tr 
 with tiic Sorit'ty lor tho l'n)pa<;ati()n of the (iospcl, whoivhy 10<M) (hillar- 
 American CioviTinnont Stock, yli-hrm;,' about €12 a-ycar, jmv invostcd in ; 
 name. Tliis Huni is intended to be distributed in I'ri/.es I'nr tlie best »v]u> 
 at an examination conihicted by St. .lolin's (.'olh'u'c, ami ojien to the schni 
 attendin;; any common sciiool in the Selth'nient. It was orii^inaliy intcn 
 to have lield the lirst examination last month, but the L;'overnin^' bod, 
 St. Jolin's C(dlo<;c were of opinion that the cH'oct of the present di>t; 
 ill diminishini;" School attenilance in many parishes wonld Ite prejndieial 
 tho siicce.s.s of the examination. 1 fell myself the more reailily into this v 
 that I was of o))inion that, from varidus en'^'rossin'^ causes in the past vi 
 tho comin;,^ examination iiad not received in the Seliools that prominence t., 
 it onjjht to have had, and that I thoni;ht more precise reixnlations :! 
 arran<,'ements were needed. The examination has been, thereftiro, del'en 
 till January, ls70. 
 
 I am hapi)v to be able to say that ijroat success has attendetl tlie rii' 
 to estaidish a School of hi;;'her education as well as a School of Tlu'ol. 
 lor candidates for Holy Orders. I was ablo to annonnce at the li: 
 Conference the appointment of a Warden and the Kn;;;lish blaster, and tl 
 is all I have yet seen my way to do. In tlu; meantime I have sujuili 
 the want of a mathematical master with my own services. Statutes Ii„ 
 been drawn up by uu' for tho government of the ('olleye, which were pi; 
 lished in tho Appendix of the Report of Synod in IStJ", and which have 1 ■. 
 strictly adhered to. Last term the larije number > Ibrty-two students entrr 
 the Collegiate School; but I mu;<t refer you for jiarticulars of the state ol' i 
 College and the diligence and progress of tho students to the Warden's Rvpur 
 I woidd only take this opportunity of expressing my fullest satisfaction wi' 
 tho whole working of the institution, and my thanktulness to the Veneral. 
 the Warden tor the energy and conscientious attention t(» duty, by which tk 
 success of the College has been ensured. 
 
 Some ])rogross has been made with the endowment of the Chair of Sy- 
 tematic Divinity held by tho Warden. I obtiunod nearly £"J0() from Englaii-. 
 and when in Canada I received, in respon.so to appeals that I made in Seruio:.' 
 and Addresses, ISiJO dollars, with a iiromise of (iDO dollars payable in in 
 year.. With these sums there has been a purchase of 22(X) dollars i: 
 Dominion Stock of Canada, aiul a sum of above 50(3 dollars is now in tL 
 Immls of 3[r. Hopkins, of I\rontreal, for investment. 
 
 Tho Scholarship founded in memory oi' Archdeacon Cochran has beloii:;iiu 
 to it 17()i) dollars in Dominion Stock. The bc(|Uost of the Ivov. T. Cochnu;-: 
 if fully realised, will add 500 dollars. 
 
 I am happy to say that a beginning has been nuide to give the Collo:' 
 another Scholarship in memory of tho late licv. John JMcCallum. Seven 
 distinguished pujjils of .Mr. MoCallum have expressed their desire for tli' 
 success of this ellbrt and it is in their hands. I have ptuvhased for it 13' 
 dollars t)f Dominion Stock. 
 
 The whole amount of Dominion Stock of Canada which the Chuiv: 
 possesses is OOOO dollars; but there will soon be a further ptu'chasc. 
 
 The Col 
 0hunh Mi; 
 SliHsioitary 
 ISie Churc 
 digible cm 
 of the most 
 pleaded Coi 
 
 and h.ij.py 
 
 Schola diip 
 Our ij:re: 
 This both 
 would lie \ 
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 Classics an 
 teachers co 
 at the sam 
 that as the 
 a large pill 
 Beveral sep! 
 gick schola 
 with it> nr 
 
 is the ^.V* 
 
 unpropitioi 
 
 determined 
 
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 building, ^ 
 
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 commend 
 
 necessity : 
 
 to our owi 
 
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 80 scatter' 
 
 We shall 1 
 
 om'selves 
 
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 and-bye ( 
 
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 greatly w 
 
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 meaning 
 
 not the iS 
 
 College i 
 
 that Coll 
 
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 that, as 
 
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 and the 
 
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 iiivi'stfd in 
 lie Itt'st »cli(i' 
 ti) flic scImi! 
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 n't'si'iit (li>i 
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 y into this v 
 tlic past v, 
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 '•'Lrulatioiis ■ 
 ri'l'oro, ik'I'iT; 
 
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 ol of ThfoL, 
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 astiT, and t- 
 liiivo su|))ii! 
 StatutoH ]i,; 
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 tudonts cnttr= 
 lif.' state of ! 
 
 ardcn's K-jn-r 
 
 tisl'action wr 
 tlio ViMioni' 
 
 ', hy which t,. 
 
 CI 1 air ol' Sv- 
 irom Englai;. 
 uk' in Serine 
 ayablt' in li. 
 !0() dolhirs : 
 is now in ti. 
 
 has bc']oii;'ii:; 
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 the Colk- 
 luni. Sever;! 
 lesire i'or tt 
 ■d for it li 
 
 the Chuiv; 
 
 ise. 
 
 f- 
 
 The ('(illfffo is still mainly deiiondeiit (.n tht* ffvnnt of £'2(M) finni the 
 Chunh Missiotiary Society, on aceount of the jireparation of its students for 
 Mi.s'^ionary work, and the |,'rant of Jl'lOC) from the Council of Hnpert's Land. 
 The ('liurch Missionary Society ftlHt> i» prcpare(| to maintain six ntudents, if 
 eli|,'ihle candidates can he presented hy the corresponding; Committee. ( )no 
 of the most hopeful of their students — a native Indian of i,'oo<l ahilities — it 
 pleiiM'd (iod io take to Himself last summer. His death was a most ho]iefiil 
 •nd hippy one. I havo already mentioned the New Kngland Company 
 Sclinla. ships. 
 
 Our trreat difheulty in the College is the want of adecpiato nccomnutdation. Urgent 
 This both prevents that orderly arrani;ement and <,'eneral appearance that atliUtidiial 
 Would he very servieeahle, and also ilinctly interferes with the etlicieiicy «'' anVillii!""" 
 the work. There; are now many classes, advancing to some attainment in 
 Classics and Mathematics and reipiirinir three class-rooms, so that the three 
 teachers could, as far as mi>,dit he thou^-ht necessar}', be carrying on classes 
 at the same time, At present then; are only two small rooms. I confess 
 that as the work has (^-rowii, the sense of our necessities has <,'rown. We need 
 a larLTe public room, two smaller class-rootns, and a masters' room, a library, 
 several separate rooms for candidates for Holy Orders, and u distinct ward lor 
 sick scholars. For these objects we shall reijuire a sidistantial building which, 
 with its necessary fittings, will not cost less than £'1()U0, towards which there 
 is the S.I*.C.K. grant of .i"2oO. I feel, however, that the ])resent time is very 
 unpropitious for going fully into the question, and have, therefore, reluctantly 
 determined to put it otl' for another year. Ihit a Fund has been opened for 
 receiving subscrii)tions, and any help, or the promise of material for the 
 building, woidd be gladly welcomed. 
 
 [ cannot too earnesth', my J{everend brethren and Ilrethren of the Laity, 
 commend the College to your coiisich-ration and assistance. It meets a 
 necessity as regards higlier education for the whole country. lUit looking 
 to our own Church it is of pecidiar importance in view of the future. The 
 time is coming when people will enter this land in such numbers and be 
 80 scattered, that no help from abroad will enable us to meet the onergency. 
 We shall have to dcjiend upon men raised up in the country. Let us tlicn give 
 ourselves heartily to the great work of building up the College, of ensuring 
 its endowment, of prej)aring for an adequate building, and of supporting by- 
 and-bye candidates for ()rders. Clad would I be to draw the ailections of 
 you all closer around the College. As regards the Clergy, I sympathize 
 greatly with words that were used by my predecessor in his third Charge: — 
 
 '■ As 1 think of and use the word College. I revert to bygone years and the 
 meaning of the term in early times. Tn this sense I employ it as embracing 
 not the Scholars alone, but the IJishop and Clergy also, forming a Missionary 
 Collci,^',' in a dark land. I would reijard each Clerirvmau as a member of 
 that College, and it thus becomes a centre uniting us all." 
 
 There is an idea there that 1 think might be protitably worked out, though 
 of eours(! the membership could only be of a partial character, — and 1 may say 
 that, as regards a principal advantage of the Colle:,'e — the use of the Library 
 — this view is already practically taken. It is a Library for both the College 
 find the Clergy of the Diocese. 
 
24 
 
 % 
 
 On the 
 
 teaching' of 
 the pulpit. 
 
 And now, my Reverend Brethren, I would turn from the practical work, 
 that has been engaging, I doubt not, mucli of your thoughts as well as mine, 
 to make some remarks on your spiritual duties as Ministers of Christ, and on 
 those questions tliat are at the present time occupying the attention of the 
 Chuixh, and on which you will expect your liishop's counsel and guidance. 
 
 And first I would consider the Parochial work in the Settlement. As 
 to what should be the great subject of your preaching — the free and full 
 salvation provided by the Father through Jesus and published for us in 
 the Bible — I need say noching. It is my belief that it is the one desire 
 of you all to make that the centre of all your ministrations. The testimony 
 of (Jod to man respecting Jesus Christ and Him crucilied has been ever 
 the loving subject of the Churches of this land. Her Ministers have been 
 ambassadors of Christ, beseeching men to be reconciled through Jesus Christ 
 to God. But as to th^ mode in which you should lay this subject before your 
 people, I would say a few words. It is well to remember that you have 
 Viot only to give your people what you ma}' consider the most important 
 truth, but the whole truth. It is well also to remember that you have 
 to speak not only for those who have no spiritual life in them, but for others 
 perhaps in all stages of spiritual experience. If a clergyman select? his 
 subjects at random or without any matured plan, he will be likely either 
 to dwell on one class of subjects, or to bring out a teaching that will have 
 no connexion between its parts, and that will merely produce its own im- 
 mediate effect according to the power of the discourse. And if any plan 
 of teaching be adopted, what is more likely to be useful than that which 
 has been so carefully worked out by the Church through the experience 
 of ages, and in the working out of which the peojjle themselves possess 
 the key — a key whicli thej' will even insensibly to themselves learn to use. 
 By making the subjects for the pulpit be not slavishly but mainly guided by 
 the select^ions of Scripture which the Church has made, two tl-'ngs will bo 
 secured — a most full exiiibition of the Word of God to the people; and such 
 an intertwining of the Church's teaching with your own, as cannot but create 
 an affectionate fondness for the system of the Church. The pulpit is the 
 Minister's throne. However much we may regret statements that give the 
 impression that the exhortation is all that is thought of in Church attendance, 
 yet undoubtedly the teaching of the pulpit will be the great attraction with 
 many. Besides, what an ambition there should be in every ^Minister to fnnl 
 out what may give his people something fresh, edifying, instructive eveiy 
 week. Often have I lamenteu that I never had the joy of being able tn 
 entirely devote myself to the office of a Parish Priest. It seems to me the 
 most enchanting occupation in lile, as well as the most solemn and awful. 
 What can equal the charge of a number of immortal souls ! What loving 
 thouglit. what amazing interest their spiritual life should call out ! When 
 I was Vicar of an English parish I had College and University duties, and 
 many voluntary labours in connexion with religious societies, and since I 
 have been here I have had the care of all the Churches. But what should so 
 fill the mind must necessarily demand very earnest preparation. Some of the 
 greatest preachers have been men who made an early selection of their 
 
 \ 
 
 sul)jects, re£ 
 carefully th 
 that (xod n 
 hearts with 
 matter. I 
 nianu.script 
 out at len< 
 is usually : 
 1 would, 
 addres;s, if 
 would adil 
 extempore 
 full advant 
 reading rei 
 he is speal 
 tion that 
 word used 
 The tie 
 both the V 
 lie is to gi 
 and on tin 
 the tact < 
 discoverin 
 visit be 1 
 a solemn i 
 saved by 
 visit take 
 appropiiii 
 circumstt 
 I have sc 
 brethren, 
 of God- 
 to us, bi 
 prevents 
 confess i 
 prayer, 
 worship] 
 special a 
 the sick. 
 Such pi 
 deserves 
 chaugiu 
 be store 
 requires 
 himself 
 every c( 
 When 
 
25 
 
 :al work, 
 as mine, 
 |t, and on 
 '11 of the 
 ance. 
 ent. As 
 and full 
 lor us ill 
 |ne desire 
 estimoiiy 
 •ecu ever 
 ave been 
 lis Christ 
 lore your 
 you have 
 niportaiit 
 you have 
 or otliers 
 Icctj his 
 'ly eitlier 
 will have 
 own ini- 
 any plan 
 lat whieli 
 'xperienco 
 3 possess 
 n to use. 
 fuided hy 
 s will ho 
 and sucli 
 ut create 
 it is the 
 give the 
 ;endance, 
 ion with 
 r to fiml 
 vo every 
 able to 
 I me the 
 i awful. 
 i loving 
 When 
 ties, and 
 since I 
 hould so 
 le of the 
 of their 
 
 subjects, read carefully what they could bearing on it, and then wrote out 
 earoiully the result of their thoughts. This should be a study with prayer 
 that (lod may direct the preparation and bring what is produced home to 
 iiearts with power. And the delivery is only second in importance to the 
 matter. Extempore preaching, by which I mean preaching without a 
 manuscript, what has been carefully thought out and perhaps written 
 out at length, is in itself more likely to be effective because the speaking 
 is usually more natural, and many take greater pleasure in such a discourse. 
 1 would, thereiore, heartily recommend the encouragement of extempore 
 address, if there is leisure for cultivating it, as most of you have. But I 
 would add the caution that nothing is more unsatisfying than inefKcient 
 extempore preaching. Many must bo content, if their people are to get the 
 i'liil advantage of their labours, to read what tliey have prepared. But such 
 reading requires constant tliought. The preacher has to remind himself that 
 he is speaking for Christ to immortal souls. He has to give constant atten- 
 tion that he is not merely repeating words but conveying thoughts, every 
 word used in expressing which has a force, from his mind to his hearers. 
 
 The next great work of the minister is the frequent visitation of his people, 
 both the whole and the sick. The best book for a minister to study, for what 
 he is to give out, is, after the Bible, what he finds written on his own heart 
 and on the hearts of his people. The most useful pastor is he who has n.ost 
 the tact of reaching with love the secret hiding-place of the heart, and 
 discovering the place that religion holds there. The pastor should make his 
 visit bo felt as Lhat of a s])iritual adviser. He should support himself by 
 a solemnising sense of the importance of his work. Many a man has been 
 saved by a direct pressing home of a word in season. It is well when the 
 visit takes such a turn that the reading of the Word with prayer forms an 
 appropriate conclusion. But a judicious visitor will be guided in this by 
 circumstances. For myself T have made it a rule in visiting, from which 
 I have scaioely ever deviated, and which I would earnestly urge on my younger 
 brethren, never to have prayer without the reading of a portion of the Word 
 of God — generally with a few simple remarks. The reading of God's Word 
 to us, before wo bring ourselves to Him, has a solemnizing effect, and it 
 prevents the habit which I have known grow upon cleigymen, and which I 
 confess is to my mind very objectionable, of delivering a hasty extempore 
 prayer. With regard to prayer I ju'efer a form of prayer, known to all the 
 worshippers, whenever it can be used. But it is my experience that in the 
 special and varying circumstances of parochial visiting and the visitation of 
 the sick, a short prayer in accordance with those circumstances is most fitting. 
 Such prayer may be called extempore prayer; but I may say it as little 
 deserves the name as does a large collection of prayers prepared for the 
 changing circumstances of visitation. The mind of a diligent visitor will soon 
 be stored with all that is requisite from which he will draw as the oec.'asion 
 requires. A young clergyman should carefully and conscientiouslj' prepare 
 himself for every duty he is called to, and thus every service, every address, 
 every course of visiting will be an addition to his experience and his efficiency. 
 When I turn to the large field of auxiliary means by which a pastor may 
 
 On 
 
 Parochial 
 Visitutiuii. 
 
26 
 
 On anxili 
 ary moans 
 for rcachintf 
 the people. 
 
 hope to interest and influence his peo])le, I must say niucli must be left to 
 opinion and taste ; only such aids deserve anxious thouijht. 
 
 (Jur Chuix'h evidently intended her Clergy to have daily prayer with their 
 people ; and there is, I am happy to say, daily prayer in an abridged form at 
 most of our Missions in the Interior. JJut the circumstances of the peojilo 
 give for that a conv'^nience which is wanting in the Settlement. 1 am afraid 
 experience has shewn that the full form of Morning and Evening Prayer is 
 not well adapted to the business and close occupation of our times, and that it 
 is hopeless, except under some very exceptionable circumstances, to get mori' 
 worshipi)ers together than what might be called a i'amily gathering. I cannot 
 therefore recommend the adoption of daily prayer in Church as expedient ; but 
 would urge on the Clergy a diligent infiuiry in every family as to the use of 
 family prayer, and if necessary, their shewing how it may be conducted. Xo 
 clergyman need, I think, feel any scruple in this omission of public daily 
 prayer. At least, in the changed circumstances and feelings of our age the 
 other ministerial labours of our Clergy and the attitude of our people, whieli 
 is caused in the main by what is beyond their control, to my mind fully 
 furnish urgent and reasonable cause for the disuse. This leads me to mentiuu 
 tliat a small Manual for Family Prayer has be(Mi compiled by Mr. (lardiner 
 and myself, and will be out this summer. Family prayer is a necessity of the 
 Christian life of a household. It is hoped that this ^Manual, if brought into 
 extensive use in our parishes, may train our iieojile to a more hearty taking 
 up of that part in Divine Si'rvice. If any ditliculty is felt in using it, perhaps 
 the clergyman will kindly visit the family and conduct family prayers with 
 the use of tlie 3Ianual. While the service will not be long it will prevent 
 family prayer being hurried over, Avbich is too much the case when it is at the 
 mercy of the business and haste of the moment. 
 
 I would wish services to be held on the days which have special Collects, 
 Epistles, and (iospels. This furiii.shes part of the prepared teaching of our 
 Church. KelK'ctions rising out of them i)ut before us practical duties and the 
 happiness and glory of a life of devotion to Christ. 
 
 I doubt the jjropriety of having a regular week-day service in church 
 except in a considerable parish. It is, I believe, generally found that after 
 a time a few come more or less regularly, while the majority never attend. 
 Put it is au evident duty to hold fre(j\UMitly week-day services in an}' part of 
 the parish which is not conveniently situated for the Sunday services. Shoit 
 school and cottage services have also been found very useful. In my parish 
 of Madingicy, in England, I used to have a school-service every month on tlie 
 Friday before the celebration of Holy Communion; and the whole body of 
 the parishioners attended it. This would probably not have been the case if 
 the service had 1)een weekly. I would have lost the very persons whose 
 attendance, in one view, was most desirable. I am glad that it is becoming 
 the custom in this Diocese to have special services during the season of Lent. 
 I think the same course might with advantage be extended to that of Advent. 
 
 wo 
 
 uld 
 
 ilso heartily reeonnnend frequent, even, if possible, monthly .Missionary 
 meetings. It is not necessary— it is not desirable that those meetings shouM 
 be conducted by original addresses. I ratlu.'r think of them as (piiet oppor- 
 
 tunities for 
 
 tion on the 
 
 10 that of 1 
 
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 is being at 
 
 with the C 
 
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 winti'r. 
 
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27 
 
 left to 
 
 {iiiiitios for the parish minister readint,' to his parishioners important informa- 
 tion on tlu' missionary work of tlio Church, with sometimes special reference 
 to tluit of his own Diocese. I intend preparing a small ^Fanual with pi-ayers 
 fill- cottage and missionary meetings, and prayers for Sunday and Day schools. 
 There are many other means hy which there may be something done for 
 maintaining an interest and a heartiness in the pastor's work. Jjut as to 
 these I cannot do better than refer yon to Mr. Gardiner's efl'orts in St. Andrew's 
 Parish during the winter season. I am glad that stnnething of the sauK' kind 
 is being attempted in the Parishes of La Prairie. I should he glad to consider 
 with the Clergy tlie best way of organizing a system of tract distribution, by 
 which there might be throughout our families a weekly supply of Church and 
 devotional reading; perhaps this might be connected with the raising of sub- 
 scriptions for the Diocesan Fund. I wovdd only further commend to you the 
 careful fostering of the Sunday school. l>y means of Sunday schools and 
 Pihle classes much good may be done. It is well to endeavoiu- to enlist the 
 services of a good many teachers and have sm;dl classes. A teacher could 
 thus have an interest in every scholar and at once see after any absentee. 
 A good deal is sometimes done in the way of instilling a missionar}- spirit 
 int() the minds of tlie young. A new juvenile elfurt in the American Church 
 lias received the suppcnt of about 50,000 young persons. Several Sunday 
 schools arc led to tiike an interest in our work. The children of Dr. jM^^Iurray's 
 pai'ish of Niagara in the diocese of Toronto contribute to us yearly. I had 
 the pleasure of addressing them last autumn. I also received a collection 
 from a large number of chiKlren in Canon Bancroft's Chur<-h in Montreal, and 
 I have been offered a small Scholarship for St. John's College by the Cathedral 
 Sunday school in Toronto. 
 
 lji;t the work of the Church in this Diocese has been mainly a Missionary 
 woi'k for the poor heathen of this land. I rejoice to think that that work 
 began witli tlie lirst entrance of our Cluuch's ministrations. Wlien the 
 ]vev. Jolm West landed in this Diocese at York Factory in 1820, and brought 
 with liun to lied River two Imlian boys, he dedicated as it were the lirst 
 ell'orts of the Church to the service of those who knew not the Gospel. 
 ]\lr. West's heart felt for the wandering Indian tribes, lie pled for them 
 with the Cluirch j\lissionary Society. His plea was heard. A succession of 
 devoted men has l)eeu scut out to this land to labour in its wilds for Christ. 
 I cannot venture to trace the progress and success of the ^Missions. Some of 
 them have changed their ciuxracter and look to-day like settled parishes. But 
 they are now found scattered over the wide extent of Rupert's Land — lights 
 shining in a dark place. I have myself seen a good many of the 3Iissions. 
 in my first jMissionary journey, when I went in the early part of 1S()(I in 
 winter, for seven weeks, with the Dog-cariole, I visited, after leaving the 
 Parish of St. ilary, La Prairie, the Mission Stations of Westbourne, ]\Ianitt)bah, 
 Fairford, Swan Lake, Devon, Cumberland, the Nepoweniu, Touchwood Hills, 
 and Fort EUice, holding Confnnuitions at them all. I next visited, by boat, 
 York Factory, conlirming there oo persons. Last summer I visited Moose, 
 
 Missionary 
 wovk in the 
 Interior. 
 
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 Rupert's House, and Albany on James's Bay, confirming 215 persona and 
 travelling over 1300 miles by canoe. I hope, God willing, to visit this 
 summer Devon and Stanley, and in the following winter, Scantorbury, Fort 
 Alexander, and Islington, and Fairtbi'd for the second time. The more distant 
 missions at Athabasca, Fort Simpson, and the Youcan are, I feel, beyond 
 me. 
 
 The Missionary life in this Diocese is a very varied one. What a contrast 
 between the itinerating labours of i\Ir. M"^' Donald on the borders of the Arctic 
 circle, over a district, I imagine, as large as Canada, and the vigorous civilizing 
 efForts of the late Archdeacon Cochran in this Settlement ! Yet in both cases 
 the work done has been the needed one. What a noble testimony to Arch- 
 deacon Cochran's labours is the Indian Settlement? You know his touching 
 account of the scene when he went in the winter season to choose a spot for 
 a mission station. There was but a single wigwam to be seen, and the ill-clad 
 owner was fishing over a hole in the ice on the river for a scanty meal for 
 himself and family, llow dilferent the scene I witnessed last month when I 
 held a Confirmation in the Indian Church of St. Peter's, and went through 
 tiie Jiice cottages of that parish ! Notwithstanding the fearful disaster of the 
 past ynw, there is re(iuired but a supply of seed-wheat and God's blessing to 
 give a return to full prosperity. When we look into the various missions — 
 at least those of oldest establishment and nearest to the Settlement — we have 
 to report alternations of joy and disappointment. First there is often a period 
 of mucli success. The heart is rejoiced. Then there come temptations and 
 there is a falling away from the first love. We can toll in this Diocese the 
 same experience in some cases as has been thus given of other missions : — 
 " The first stages of a mission are so dill'erent from the second : one almost 
 sees and feels the special outpouring of the Spirit. Afterwards, when it 
 settles into the ordinary condition of all works done by Him, the trial comes — 
 shickness and lukewarmness, and all things that choke the good seed. It is 
 the beauty of early chiklhood in the first instance — the love, and reverence, 
 and coufidingness, and docility — which make it so picturesque and pleasant." 
 But I may say two causes have combined to produce a degree of disorganisa- 
 tion in some of our missions. 
 
 First, the difHculty of maintaining settlements by a people unaccustomed 
 to labour and, b}' their habits, thoughtk'ss of tmnorrow and wasteful, joined 
 to tlie impossibility of continuing the aid by which they were originally built 
 up. 
 
 Secondly, the sad traffic carried on by traders with ardent spirits. In fact 
 I may say, that however gladly I would encourage and make the most of 
 existing settlements, I could not recommend the formation of a new settlement 
 far in the interior, excepting to the extent that there was immediate prospect 
 of its being self-supporting. 
 
 But then it may be said, how is religion to be taught unless the people and 
 especially the children are together for a considerable time under instruction ? 
 
 Certainly the difficulty seems staggering ; yet in the far north it is over- 
 come. Mr. M<^Donald, in the Youcan district, has been able to baptize several 
 hundred adults. And how docs he teach them P lie has to go forth from 
 
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 his mission post for many days, probably travelling on snow-shoes to meet 
 tlie wandering lodges of Indians — consisting of seventy, sixty, fifty, or fewer 
 Indians. He abides with them, living as their guest, accompanying them in 
 their hunt for food, and day by day teaching, catachising, and leading them 
 to the Saviour. But I can speak on this question from my own experience. 
 I was most agreeably surprised with the readiness and fulness of the answers 
 I received when I examined the candidates for Confirmation at liupert's 
 House last summer. These Indians, of whom I confirmed 87, had very few 
 opportunities. The instruction of the missionary is restricted to a very short 
 visit, not even once a-year always. After a stay of a few weeks at the Post 
 they break up to their fishing or hunting grounds. But there is a great deal 
 of ell'ort brought out by these Indian converts themselves: they carry away 
 their few books with them, and continue in their wilds to worship the true 
 God. Four Indians have taken such a lead among their tribes that I have 
 licensed them to conduct the services of our Church, as occasion arises, under 
 the superintending direction of the missionaries at Moose and Albany. 
 
 The work of our Missions in the Interior has naturally engaged mucli of 
 my thought. On one point my mind is very clear. The first care of a 
 missionary should be his thorough acquisition of the language of the people 
 he is to live and labour amongst : efficiency must to a great extent depend on 
 this. But when he enters on his work he finds it encompassed with dif- 
 ficulties almost incomprehensible to those who have not seen this land. How 
 strange the solitude of Bupert's Land ! Dny after day, day after day of travel 
 without the sign of a human being, almost often without the sign of life: 
 and that is the normal state of this country. The native Indians are for the 
 great part of the year scattered so thinly that it is just as if the 100 or 200 
 families of the huge district the missionary has to attend to were scattered 
 over a great part of England. Putting aside the few ^Mission Settlements, 
 the only places where a few people are always to be found collected, are the 
 move important Forts or Posts of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company. This 
 makes itinerating duty of importance. But then in many parts of the land 
 travelling involves great expense. If men move about there must be others 
 to see after the means of support. There are no markets or other conveniences 
 in the interior of this land. Daily support is almost the whole tliought and 
 too often the whole care of the Indian. One consequence of the state of 
 things I am des'jribing is the impossibility of cheap native agency in this 
 coinitry. We cannot maintain native catechists and teachers at the trifling 
 cost by which it is done in Africa and India. The commonest native agent 
 that could be obtained in the Interior, if his time were to be kept free for 
 ministering to his countrymen, would be little less expense than a thoroughly 
 trained native from St. John's College will be. And as to the effect of 
 contact with European habits, I have made up my mind that it is only by 
 such contact, and a good deal of it, that tiiere is any hope of that condition of 
 thiuirs beins found that is desirable in the household of a teacher. I mean 
 to say that while in the house of an Indian who hunts for his daily supply 
 there may be a degree of comfort, there is the greatest risk of misery and 
 want, where it should be necessary to give a stipend or a large supply that 
 
30 
 
 Proposed 
 ])Liiis for 
 ciliiciitiiif; 
 imtive 
 agents. 
 
 On tlio 
 knowle(lp:o 
 to l)p rc- 
 ([uircil of 
 t'iiiulidatos 
 for Baptism 
 
 should last for a time. With an Indian family all is thoiit^'htlessnoss ami 
 profuse division while anything lasts. And so the views which exporienc.' 
 o-ives for native trainiii<' in other lands must be verv much modified here. An 
 insight into European habits of life, in a \vell regulated family, has everything 
 to recommend it in native training in this land without a single drawback. 
 For when a man is put into the interior of this country, unless he has a 
 fortune behind him, he could hardly have much choice as to his living. There 
 is not then the slightest danger of extravagant ideas being fostered. The pro- 
 spect of some lesson being learned in carefulness and saving is everything. Time 
 only convinces me more of the wisdom of that arrangement for the future 
 that has received the sanction of the Church .Missionary Society. The ar- 
 rangement is this, that several missionaries in the interior select two or three 
 promising Indian lads and bring them up, educating them and accustoming 
 them also to useful habits, and that out of these, after they have reached at 
 least the age of 1C'», those who give good promise for the future as I'egards piety 
 and ability be sent, if there be vacancies in the Church JMissionary Scholar- 
 ships, for a period to St. John's College. It is intended that they should 
 then go out as teachers or catechists, and if they purchase to themselves 
 a good degree in that capacity, that they should return to St. John's College 
 and be prepared for Holy Orders. It must be some years before this plan 
 can be in proper operation. To give it a full chance there ought to be a good 
 many of those preparcnuU students under preparation by the missionaries, 
 for experience everywhere shews that only a small proportion of those who 
 are trained in that way frotn youth, have either that gift of grace in holy 
 inclinations or other requisite (jualities that would make their prosecution 
 of the work desirable. The funds of the Church Missionary Society will only 
 allow of a very limited vote at present for the object. But I think my 
 ]\Iissionary brethren may be aide to arouse some interest in their special 
 works in the localities in England from which they each come, and thus get 
 the means for training more. I need not say that in this case training in 
 industrial habits is as needful as the Imparting of book knowledge : as the 
 boy may have to live by his manual labour, and at any rate in this country 
 it is of all importance to everyone. 
 
 There are some rjuestions bearing on Missionary work on which it may be 
 well for me to give my views. Considerable difficult}' often arises in con- 
 nexion with the administration of Hidy Baptism. What amount of know- 
 • ledge or what period of probation should be required ? Unfortunately, the 
 question cannot be looked upon on its bare merits, as it is understood that 
 the Koman Catholic ^Missionaries require little but the desire to bo baptized. 
 It is found that the recejition of Baptism from a Roman Catholic priest puts 
 an almost insuperable obstacle in the way of the further instruction of the 
 convert in the pure faith of the Gospel. There is, therefore, ever present the 
 fear lest the deferring of Baptism may work injury to the convert by leading 
 him to tire of the probation and accept Baptism at other hands. Still I 
 advise great caution. It may be said that Baptism was often at once ad- 
 ministered by the Apostles on the declaration of belief in Jesus as the Christ. 
 But this argument is a mere sophism. Those thct were thus immediately 
 
 .lecepted ha 
 
 reception of 
 
 Christian b( 
 
 ages had t( 
 
 probation. 
 
 yet been al 
 
 as to feel m 
 
 privilege if 
 
 hardl} say 
 
 believing ii 
 
 myself to t 
 
 is to revie' 
 
 anxious les 
 
 labourer in 
 
 met. Thei 
 
 promise oi 
 
 Christian 1 
 
 is with the 
 
 the Creed. 
 
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 facts and t 
 
 Apostles 
 
 give some 
 
 Still I wo 
 
 Indian. ( 
 
 and the n 
 
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 know and 
 
 to learn i 
 
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 repentanc( 
 
 continues- 
 
 In the ca 
 
 with a se: 
 
 of Christ 
 
 ordinance 
 
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 and a Ch 
 
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 —besides 
 
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 a child. 
 
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 with an 
 
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81 
 
 accepted had the knowledge of the .lewish Church, and only v anted tlieii' 
 rrci'ption of Jesus as tho Messiah or Christ for their at once pass.ng into tho 
 Christian hody. But we know that when the Christian teachers of the first 
 a<,'os had to do with tho heathen they made catechumens submit to a long 
 probation. Several Indians have applied to me for Baptism, but I have never 
 yet been able so to satisfj' mysdf as to tlie Christian knowledge possessed, 
 as to feel myself at liberty to grant the request, great as I would have felt tho 
 privilege if 1 could. Indeed, besides bare knowledge of certain facts, I need 
 liardl} say that in tho case of adult baptism there should be some reason for 
 believing in tho existence of repentance and faith. Jiut I would confine 
 myself to the question of knowledge. Now I know very well how easy it 
 is to review the matter calndy as I am doing. One must remember tho 
 anxious lessons, watchings, prayers, hopes, disappointnu^nts, of the earnest 
 labourer in tho Mission field. Still, I think the difficulty may be satisfactorily 
 met. There are three promises required of the candidate for Baptism — a 
 promise of renouncing sin, secondly a promise of belief in the Articles of tho 
 Christian Faith, and thirdly a promise of obeying (ilod's Law. The dilficulfy 
 is with the second promise. It is said that it is hard for the Indian to learn 
 the Creed. But the mere learning by rote is after all a small matter; though 
 in examining Indian candidates for Confirmation I have often had the Creed 
 given very distinctly. What is needed is the persuasion that the leading 
 facts and truths of the gospel, such of them as are so succinctly given in the 
 Apostles' Creed, are known. The candidate for Baptism should be able to 
 give some clear idea of what truths God has given for Christians to believe. 
 Still I would be sorry to cause difficulty by insisting on too much from tho 
 Indian. One great gift of a missionary is tho power of seeing into character; 
 and the missionary's line of action cannot be marked out by an exact rule. 
 Sin and the Saviour are the two great subjects which the catechumen should 
 know and feel about; and if he knows them and shews the humble mind 
 to learn and accept what God tells us in His Word, the three vows may 
 be perhaps sufficiently taken. If the missionary is satisfied of the germs of 
 repentance, faith, and obedience, the growth may be looked for as instruction 
 continues — and after all, what are these graces in the best of us but germs? 
 In the case of extreme illness I think the missionary may be even satisfied 
 with a sense of sin and the expression of desire of partaking of the salvation 
 of Christ; for I doubt not the Lord honours the humble reception of tho 
 ordinance of His kingdom. 
 
 Sometimes a case will meet the missionary where an unbaptized Indian 
 and a Christian are living together after the Indian way of marriage. It may 
 be very undesirable to defer the marriage till after the baptism of the heathen 
 —besides that the (juestion may arise as to the nature of their cohabitation. 
 Such a case once came under my own notice at the Q' Appelle Lakes. 
 There was an unbaptized Indian living with a Christian woman, and they had 
 a child. The Indian had been receiving instruction from the acting master 
 of the post. The course taken by the Christian woman in uniting herself 
 with an unbaptized person was, of course, open to censure, but otherwise I 
 saw nothing to prevent baptism fron; their relations, fiir removed as they were 
 
 On the 
 
 Marriiitro of 
 ;i Cliristiaii 
 and ail 
 unbaptized 
 Indian. 
 
32 
 
 On Imlian 
 Marriage. 
 
 On Poly- 
 gamy. 
 
 On Cate- 
 chetical 
 tpachinff. 
 
 On the 
 syllabic 
 character. 
 
 from any opportunity of obtaining Christian marriago. The knowledgp of 
 the ludiaii did not sati.sfy mo, so I did not baptize hitn ; but as he dechired liis 
 belief iu the God of the ChrLstiaus and his desire to serve Ilim, I married thci.i 
 and baptized tiie chikl. And this is the course I woukl reooniniend. 
 
 With regard to Indian converts tliat have long been married in the Indian 
 way, 1 have no hesitation in regarding the union subsisting between them as 
 marriage in God's sight. I do not, therefore, look on the celebration of 
 marriage between them as of any necessity — still less would I think of 
 reiiuiring any separation before baptism. At the same time, as the view of 
 marriage rises to a holier and closer bond when they become Christians, it 
 may be advisable to celebrate it if the parties are willing, especially if there 
 is any reason to apprehend that otherwise the sanctity of the connexion might 
 not be felt. 
 
 Not unfrequently a serious difficulty arises from polygamy. The instances 
 of it are undoubtedly rare, but where they occur, the Indian is generally 
 a chief and there is a great obstacle to the Gospel. If there is one wife that 
 stands out from the others iu the respect paid to her, there can be no difficulty 
 in enforcing the putting away of the others before the Indian can be admitted 
 as a candidate for baptism. Our Lord has by the new light of His teaching 
 made it ;in act of sin against knowledge for any Christian to have more than 
 one wife. There can be no room for doubt where the way is at all open to 
 a man putting himself into the position of having only one wife without 
 manifest wrong to others. No one who is unprepared to do that can be re- 
 garded as prepared to submit himself to the Lord's will. But I confess to 
 see more difficulty in a case of real polygamy, where, in accordance with the 
 belief and customs of the country, a man has two or more wives, without any 
 idea on his or their part of any wrong having been done. He cannot bring 
 himself to put them away from him from the injury done to those sent away 
 or to their children. The question is a serious one. IJare as polygamy among 
 the Indians is, I believe the Christianizing of tribes has been kept back 
 at several of our missions from it. I am glad that I can on this question 
 abstain from giving you any direct advice of my own. I believe it is the view 
 of every Society sending missionaries into this country that no polygamist 
 should be admitted to baptism till he has put away all his wives but one. 
 I, therefore, recommend you to be guided by their wishes. But it is very- 
 clear that the one that should remain is the lirst wife — otherwise I do not 
 see why the man should not put them all away, if he thought proper. In 
 this case the I'ite of Christian marriage seems to be necessary. 
 
 I have sometimes thought that it would be very useful to attempt in our 
 missions public catechetical teaching or preaching with questions to the 
 people. This is found very valuable in the Tlnnevelly IMlssions. There is an 
 unfortunate reticence characteristic of the natives of this country that would 
 be a temporary obstacle to success ; but I believe this may be overcome. 
 
 I have been much struck with the great proficiency in reading shewn by 
 those wl, use the syllabic character. I found the great proportion of the 
 candidates for Confirmation at Rupert's House able to read it. I think this 
 system deserves the greatest encouragement whenever there is only a limited 
 period of instruction. 
 
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 It is fui 
 accustome(] 
 either shor 
 Cree trans 
 being prin 
 Prayer I h 
 
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 missionary 
 also be his 
 responslbil 
 
 Former 
 Indians to 
 formed \ia\ 
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 be a great 
 a people w 
 haps there 
 understanc 
 
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 of the pool 
 to do thin 
 theraselven 
 in importj 
 drawing t 
 amongst tl 
 of grace a 
 power, hov 
 of the Mi 
 I fear ther 
 will lead t 
 
 There 
 gifts, and 
 missionarj 
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 trymen. 
 mlnence t( 
 
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 which he 
 in Englui 
 Fund in t 
 unless a d 
 
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 It would 
 
 I shou 
 
33 
 
 It is further my desire, that in training tho native converts, they should be 
 accustomed to hold, by means of the l'rayer-hoo]<, services by themselves — 
 cither short family services or fuller services. The Rev. John Mackay, whose 
 Cree translation of Canon Oxenden's " Pathway of Safety" is now I hope 
 being printed in England, has offered to translate the Manual of Family 
 Prayer I have already referred to. This may perhaps be some help. 
 
 I have only further to say, that while it should be the endeavour of the 
 missionary to ensure worthy motives in those embracing Christianity, it should 
 also be his constant aim to impart to his converts a sense of the privilege and 
 responsibility of being a Christian. 
 
 Formerly a large amount of gifts was sent by those interested in the On rn- 
 Indians to our missionaries. I doubt not that the Settlements that have been fnd'epeiuipnt 
 formed have been much aided by them. I fear some of our missions have in brj^,'iin|l'out 
 that way now but little support. A moderate degree of such gifts cannot but self-support, 
 be a great boon to a missionary ; for he finds himself labouring among 
 a people who have their cases of comparative poverty and sickness, and per' 
 haps there is no one to assist but himself. But I think all the missionaries 
 understand the importance of a judicious use of gifts. 
 
 It is well understood in the present day that the object of the benefactor 
 of the poor should be to try and lead people to help themselves — not so much 
 to do things for them as to encourage them to do mainly the things for 
 themselves, and to give them heart and confidence for this work. And next 
 in importance to accustoming the converts to lean on themselves is the 
 drawing them on to feel an interest in what is being done for the Gospel 
 amongst them. They should thoroughly know with what efforts th" u eans 
 of grace are brought to them, and be encouraged to do anything in tl eir 
 power, however small, to bear expenses in connection with the Church work 
 of the Mission. Until some spirit of self-sacrifice in this way is aroused, 
 I fear there is little hope of that anxiety for the heathen about them, that 
 will lead them to do anything they can for evangelizing their countrymen. 
 
 There is already much to be thankful for, both in the offering of small 
 gifts, and in endeavours in some missions in aiding the labours of the 
 missionary. The Mission Reports in the Appendix will shew the gifts. 
 There are ten Indians engaged gratuitously as evangelists among their coun- 
 trymen. I have requested the missionaries in their districts to give a pro- 
 minence to these two funds — 
 
 1. The Native Pastorate Fund. 
 
 2. The Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund. 
 
 A separate Native Fund has been formed by Mr. Horden for Moose, into 
 which he has paid a considerable sum that was obtained by him from friends 
 in England for his special work. All collections for the Native Pastorate 
 Fund in the Southern Department will with my consent go to that Fund, 
 unless a donor wishes a different appropriation. 
 
 This leads me to say that I hope the time is not distant when the Southern ^^P^'opPlg^ 
 Department, with Moose as its centre, may be made into a separate bishopric, of the 
 It would greatly promote the missionary work in that part of the Diocese. 
 
 I should also gladly welcome the creation of a bishopric for the Mackenzie 
 
34 
 
 tion-* on 
 Uitiiul. 
 
 River district, as I may safely say that it is unlikely that I shall bo ablo evri 
 to reconcile it with my feelin<,'M of duty for my Diocese as a whole to visit tin 
 distant Missions in that quarter. 
 
 Exhorta- 
 tion !lt 
 (jrivinsr notice 
 of tlic Holy 
 Coninuinidu. 
 
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 Bai)lism. 
 
 And now, my Reverend Bvothrcn, I ])urpose laying before you as bridly 
 as possible some remarks on liitual and Doctrine. You are aware that I 
 have hitherto confined myself in my addresses to you to the practical work (f 
 organization that we have had to set about. I now deviate from what Ikh 
 been my custom, not from any desire to express my opinions on questions now 
 much agitated in the Church, but which have given us no trouble in this 
 Diocese, but because I hope, if my views recommend themselves to you, the 
 carrying out of them in your practice and teaching may have the efl'ect of 
 maintaining that unity of feeling and action that happily exists among us. 
 and of promoting a fond attachment to the words and ways of our beloved 
 Church. We have all heard of the innovations introduced into a few 
 Churches of the mother country, and of the deep anxiety that the very 
 possibility of their practice has created, but these excesses will, I believe, only 
 tend fo encourage that uniformity in ritual of a modest and reverent eharactor 
 to which the whole body of the Church is rapidly advancing. Indeed, I 
 rejoice to think that never in the history of our Church, since it has been 
 reformed, has there been such a thorough unanimity of feeling as regards the 
 system of the Prayer-book. In fact, a persuasion in favour of forms of 
 prayer and of a regular system of instruction in Christian doctrine, such as 
 the course of our Church Services provides, seems obtaining a hirgc placo 
 in the minds of Protestants who are separateu from us. Within our body 
 exception may still be taken by some to individual expressions, but loyalty to 
 our distinctive peculiarities is now universal. In this Diocese I rejoice that 
 I can go further. I am not aware that there is any Clergyman in it who has 
 any difficulty with the language of the Prayer-book, or who practises or 
 desires to practise any alteration or omission in any of its Services on account 
 of what they contain. Any deviation that there may be in this Diocese from 
 the rubrical directions of the Church is not caused by any desire to change 
 a word or expression, but simply by custom or the felt exigencies of the 
 service. This is an important fact. 
 
 In speaking then on Ritual I think it unnecessary to say anything on the 
 regular Services. I would simply express the same satisfaction with regard 
 to the way in which I believe them to be performed that my predecessor did. 
 I am very ^'ad that there is such a uniformity of practice in the different 
 Churches. 1 would only say that, while I do not call for the reading on 
 every occasion of the whole of the Exhortation that is directed at giving 
 warning of the Holy Communion, I would recommend the use of it at least 
 several times in the course of the year, and I believe that is your custom. 
 I would make, however, a few remarks on the Occasional Services— and first 
 with regard to the ministration of Holy Baptism. I am happy to say that the 
 custom of bringing children to Church for Baptism after the second Lesson is 
 becoming general. Indeed, I trust the time is near when the members of our 
 Church would regret the necessity that would prevent public Baptism in the 
 
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 now do. Private ]?a|)tisin is, unless demanded by necessity, an irregularity. 
 Tlic congregation is entitled to know who are admitted by the covenant sign 
 into the Church. And it should be felt as a great loss that the child to be 
 baptized should bo deprived of tlio prayers of the congregation. lUit if it 
 is stated that tlie child is ill or in danger from being brought out — and we 
 must ever remember the coldness of this climate — there is an obligation on the 
 Clorgynuin to baptize i)rivately. Indeed, the Canons of the Clnn-ch regard 
 severely an oifence against this. The proper service fur use in this case is 
 the Service for tlio Ministration of Private Ikptism, and the child should 
 afterwards be received into the Church as directed. Ihit I may say generally, 
 once for all, that in carrying out the retiuireinents of the Church in this and 
 other i)oints that have not always been attended to, the Clergyman should 
 rather direct than coerce. Allowance must be made for the practice of the 
 past. It may take time to get the various wise directions of the Church 
 carried out ; but if the Clergyman is anxious to bring this about, and if the 
 directions approve themselves as proper, as they assuredly in most cases will, 
 the result in time is sure. 
 
 There is one feature in our Baptismal Service which the Church iias 
 preserved as it has come down from the earliest ages of the Church. It 
 is the use of Sponsors. By custom the parents may stand as two of them, 
 leaving only one additional sponsor; but the Church undoubtedly hoped for 
 three sponsors distinct from the parents, and that they shoidd be communi- 
 cants. I would earnestly commend the subject of the choice of sponsors 
 to the diligent care of the Clergy. 
 
 The use of sponsors, if faithfully taken advantage of, would be of in- 
 estimable service to the Church, tending to encourage amongst us the great 
 truth that we are all closely knit together in the same body, and should feel 
 for each other and support each other. Those of the Clergy whose whole 
 time is devoted to parish duties will generally be aware of approaching 
 baptisms. They may be able to direct the parents in their choice. It would 
 be well if lists of godfathers and godmothers for children baptized could be 
 [)reserved. When Confirmation is approaching the sponsors should be in- 
 formed, so that if possible they may bo present. 
 
 There is only a very partial use made of the service of Thanksgiving of Th^ 
 Women after childbirth, commonly called " The Churching of Women." I of w 
 would strongly advise the encouragement of this godly custom. There is 
 mention made in the Rubric of kneeling at some convenient and accustomed 
 place ; but as a discretionary power on this point is left with the Ordinary, 
 I would recommend that if any difficulty arose on this ground, it should not 
 be allowed to stand in the way of the returning of thanks. But this Service, 
 to be a reality, must not stand alone. It is but a fragment of the Church's 
 testimony that we are all members one of another. It presumes the deep 
 interest we take in each other's welfare. It looks upon us as a fixmily in the 
 Lord. This office should therefore go along with the offering of thanks for 
 other great mercies, and with asking the prayers of the congregation in any 
 time of sickness and difficulty. 
 
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 On the 
 Burial 
 Service. 
 
 One of the Rubrics at the end of the Catechism directs the examiniii;,' 
 of the children, after the Second Lesson at Evening I'rayer, in somt; j)iirl 
 of the Catechism. It is a great loss that teaching does not occupy a share ot 
 the place that preaching holds in the Church. It would be much for tln) 
 editication of tlie younger members at least of the congregation, if the in- 
 Htruction in the Afternoon Service were conveyed by catechetical teachiii<,'. 
 l}ut wo arc not at the present day at liberty to choose what would in our 
 opinion be most lor edification. Wo must also consider what is necessary tor 
 interesting and maintaining congregations. I feel, therefore, that with tin; 
 present taste the sermon or lecture in the afternoon must be kept up. The 
 catechising after the Second Lesson, if made use of, must therefore be short 
 and as interesting as possible. It is not everyone that has the natural gift 
 for doing this successfully. Yet I feel that the importance of this instruction 
 is so great that I gladly recommend a trial of it. Should it be found that tlio 
 interest of the people is not kept up, or that the attendance at the service 
 suffers, then the attempt could be given up. Tiie method I would recommend 
 for conducting the catechising would be that employed in the Cathedral. A 
 few of the more advanced boys or girls could be told to come up before the 
 Communion Table after the Second Lesson. 
 
 I must reijuest you, my Reverend Brethren, to attend scrupulously to all 
 the formalities of iMarriage required in England, as, indeed, I believe you do, 
 both because it is dangerous to experiment where legal rights may be affected, 
 and because experience in the neighbouring country of the United States 
 amply shesvs the evil results of laxity in lowering the sense of the sanctity of 
 the marriage-bond. I am happy to say that since I came to the Diocese 
 there has been in our Church no private marriage in a house within the 
 Settlement. By the law of England, the only law to guide us, banns must 
 be proclaimed on three successive Sundays, and if the parties are in different 
 parishes the proclamation must be in both ; or instead of banns a license may 
 be obtained from a surrogate on the oath of one of the parties. Then the 
 marriage should be celebrated during the canonical hours of the forenoon, and 
 in the Church of the parish or district. 
 
 The Burial Service is, I believe, exactly performed in all our Parishes ; but 
 I fully concur in the observations of my predecessor, in his third Charge, on 
 the quietness that should characterise the burial of the dead. The assembling 
 within the house of a large body of indiscriminate friends, the giving of 
 refreshments, and perhaps a service, are not customs which our Church would 
 cherish. The deeper feelings of the bereaved would rather seek solitude, 
 where the pastor should seek in private to administer the sweet consolations 
 of the Gospel. If there is strength for going to the grave, the well-known 
 words of the Burial Service will console and sustain without any risk of 
 inflicting a fresh wound. But, as I said before, it is the part of a wise 
 spiritual adviser to direct, not to coerce. As to the future, the life and 
 activity of the Church, which are such happy features of our time, will 
 probably call for some additional services, and the liberty of adapting, with 
 the Bishop's consent, the services for special circumstances. The unbending 
 .strictness of our Act of Uniformity has never had any charms in my eyes. It 
 
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 owes its origin to unfortunate dissonaiona. It is a witness of a want of con- 
 fidonco m lonjj as it lasts. It is contrary to all primitive usage. 
 
 I agree in the main with flie observations of niv predecessor in one of his On pro- 
 valuable (. Iiargcs on some proposed alterations in the Liturgy. I should t'lw"tri'« in 
 he glad to see the Apocryphal Lessons removed, and an arrangement, as in ' "^ ''urKy. 
 the American Liturgy, for omitting certain repetitions in the full Morning 
 Service. You have my entire siiiiction for the use of the Morning Prayer, 
 the Litany, and the Service for Holy t'ommunion, as separate services, when 
 it may in your judgment, under exceptional circumstances, he advisable: 
 but I should wish to bo consulted before anj systematic practice of such 
 separation. 
 
 Further, as I have the power of directing the use of the Litany at any 
 time, I give my sanction for its use at any week-day service when you may 
 desire it. Whatever service, however, is employed must bo used as it stands. 
 
 Further changes, excepting perhaps in the mode of expression in the 
 damnatory clauses of the Athanasian Creed and a revision of the Lectionary, 
 1 have no wish to see— not even in the Burial Service. The joyful language 
 this service utters, however discordantly it may sometimes strike on the ear, iu 
 view of the life or death of the departed, is yet the language that God allows 
 to the members of the Church. No opinion is passed by it on the real state 
 of heart of any man. The proper remedy for what is sometimes felt as sadly 
 inappropriate is an endeavour to improve the discipline of the Church. But, 
 to alter the Church language in this service, while it is retained in the others, 
 would be dangerous, as perhaps affecting the interpretation of the other 
 standards of the Church. 
 
 And this leads me to make some remarks on the language which the 
 Church employs througliout the Services respecting her members, and on 
 uoctrines bearing on this subject ; as I believe a clear understanding of the 
 Churcli's meaning, and a faithful and prominent inculcation of it in catechising 
 the young and in sermons, to be of first importance. 
 
 The Church was awakened last century from a lethargy into which it had 
 fallen, b}' men who appealed earnestly to individual consciousness, and be- 
 sought their hearers to think only of heart-religion. The consequence of this 
 wrs such an attention to the individual life, as to lead to a measure of neglect 
 of the corporate life of Christians. The great truth was being constantly 
 impressed upon men, that what they had to make sure of was their personal 
 state before God. "Circumcision availeth nothing, nor unclrcumcision, but 
 a new creature." And wo cannot too earnestly with them maintain the 
 supreme importance to every man of giving all attention to his soul's 
 salvation : but there has been not a little loss from putting somewhat into 
 the background God's language and dealings with His Church. One serious 
 consequence to Churchmen has been that some members of our Church have 
 found great difficulty in reconciling the language of the Prayer-book, if under- 
 stood to be applied to all the members of the Church, with what their 
 consciences tell them must be the sad position of many Christians, who are 
 dead while they profess to live. This difficulty, in its full extent, is quite 
 
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 a modem one. An objection to the use of the term " regenerate" in the Bap- 
 tismal Si.Tvice first appears at the Savoy Conference. On the previous puhlic 
 occasions, when lists of objections to the Prayer-book were presented, this one 
 is not found. And the ground for this objection, even at the Savoy Con- 
 ference, was simply the want of discipline in the Church. The propriety of 
 the use of the term with proper discipline was not challenged. Tl\e privileged 
 position of members of the visible Church was therefore fully recognised. 
 
 Lot mc then draw yoiir attention to the language of privilege extended in 
 our Services to all the baptized, which is, I believe, both Scriptural and capable 
 of being happily and usefully employed. 
 
 It has pleased God our heavenly Father, from the day whe.i the promise 
 of the Christ was given in the Garden of Eden, to prepare hearts for loving 
 and serving 11 im through that Mediator. This Church of believing ami 
 sanctified souls from the gracious operation of the Holy Ghost, who are 
 pardoned and absolved from all their sins, by their appropriation, according 
 to (iod's provision, through humble faith m God's truth and promises, of the 
 work of CI;r'-t, is a body unknown to us. They are in the world, but not of 
 the world. T'lO secret of their faithfulness is with the Searcher of hearts, and 
 the da J o'' t'le Lord will declare it. But it has also pleased God to have 
 ulwa^'s an ratward or visible Church to represent and set forth the body of 
 these saicts from the language of God, to which wo can learn His merciful 
 intentions for His saints, and in whose worship there should be a display of 
 their service and love. The limits of this visible Church and of the body of 
 (Jod's saints is by no moans the same. We may well expect most of God's 
 children to be found within the bounds of the visible Church ; but there is no 
 reason to say more. And the visible Church, alas, at all times contains too 
 many who have no part in the kingdom of heaven. " INIany shall come from 
 the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and shall sit 
 down witii Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, while the children of the kingdom 
 shall be cas^ out." It has pleased God however to put this honour on the 
 members of the visible Church, who are in communion with it, that they not 
 only have appVied to them the names and attributes of those who are the 
 living saints of God, but alone on earth have this right. Throughout the 
 Old Testament God speaks of the people of Israel as His sons — His children — 
 llis people. They may be rebellious, disobedient, wayward; but this does not 
 withdraw from them tlio language of privilege. Israel is still spoken of in 
 the same w.y by the writ'is of the New Testament. They are Christ's own, 
 to whom He came — the ehikl';en of the Kinti-dom — those to whom belonered 
 the adoption and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and 
 the serviet of (^od, and the promises. How vividl\- the Apostle contrasts the 
 state of the Gentile Ephesians before entering the Christian Church with thai 
 of the Jewish members. First he says, " Wherefore remember, that ye being 
 in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that 
 which is called the Circumcision in the ilesh made by hands; that at that 
 time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, 
 and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without 
 God in the world : but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far ofl' 
 
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 arc made nigh by the blood of Christ." And then he adds, " Christ came and 
 liieached peace to you that were alar oil', and to them that were nigh." But 
 whk'u the Jewish Church merged into the Christian, when the natural 
 branches were broken oiF, and the Gentiles, being a wild olive-tree, were 
 gralled in among the branches of the olive-tree and partook of its root and 
 fatness, then all this language of privilege was extended to the members 
 of the Christian Church, now introduced by the Sacrament of Holy Baptism 
 instead of the old rite of Circumcision. Nor was this all. There was from 
 the promised gift of the Holy Ghost a great accession of spiritual light and 
 knowledge. The necessity of spiritual regeneration and illumination, of 
 huniule belief in God's promises in Christ, as the appointed means on man's 
 part for his justification and salvation, and of a holy life rising by the teach- 
 ing and guiding of the Spirit out of this submission to God's Mind and Will, 
 became the prominent truths of the new dispensation. Thus many new 
 terms came up to de':!gnate the saints of God, which by the same language of 
 privilege as in the Jewish Church were in a corporate sense extended to the 
 body of the members of the Church. Thus in the Epistles the members 
 of the Churches who are addressed are spoken of as "quickened," "washed," 
 " members of Christ," " temples of the Holy Ghost," " believers." It will 
 sullice for shewing this to follow the remarks of St. Paul in the oth and Oth 
 chapters of his first Epistle to the Corinthians. 
 
 '■ It is reported that there is fornication among you. Ye are pulFed up, and 
 have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken 
 away from among you. Your glorying is not good. Purge out therefore 
 the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump. I have written unto you not to 
 keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, 
 or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one 
 iio not to eat. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked 
 person. Dare any of you go to law before the unjust, and not before the 
 saints P Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world P And if the 
 world shall be judged by you, are ye imworthy to judge the smallest matters ? 
 Know ye not that we shall judge angels P I speak to your shame. Pr'ither 
 goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. Now therefore 
 there is utterly a fault among you. Ve do wrong, and defraud, and that 
 your brethren. Know ye not that the uni-ighteous shall nut inherit the 
 kingdom of God? lie not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor 
 adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with nuuikind, nor 
 thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall in- 
 herit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you : but ye are wahaed, 
 but ye are sanctified, but ye are jiistified in the name ol' the Lord Jesus 
 and by the Spirt of our God. Know ye not that your bodies are the members 
 of Christ P Flee fornication. What? know ye not that your body is tho 
 temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are 
 not your own P For ye are bought with a price : therefore glorily God in 
 your body and in your spirit, which are God's." 
 
 These passages, all connected with each other, shew distinctly by their 
 references to a notorious sinnci , who is still included among those addressed, 
 
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 that the language of the Apostle is not restricted to individual saints in tlie 
 Church of Corinth, but is intended for the whole body of that Church. The 
 same may be observed throughout the Epistles. And there are even some 
 passages in which the giving of this language of privilege is directly joined to 
 the receiving of Baptism. Thus St. Peter began his preaching b}' saying, 
 "Kepent, and be baptized every one of j'ou for the remission of sins." And 
 then we are told, " the Lord added to the Church daily such as should be 
 saved." Ananias said to St. Paul, " Arise and be baptized and wash away 
 thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." The sins, we know, had been 
 already washed away ; but Baptism would introduce him into that body who 
 had on earth the designation of being washed, sanctified, and justified in the 
 name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those who went through the water of 
 the Red sea aie said to have been baptized unto Moses — fathers, mothers, 
 and little ones — so being baptized unto Christ must evidently refer to the 
 baptism with water : and it is said, " as many as have been baptized 
 into Christ have put on Christ," and again, are " buried with Christ." St. 
 Paul writing to Titus says, " According to His mercy He saved us by the 
 washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Hulj Ghost." And St. 
 Peter iu like manner, after referring to the eight soul? who in the days of 
 Noah were saved by water, saj's, " the like figure whereby Baptism doth also 
 now save us by the resurrection from the dead." It is very clear, then, that 
 our Church, in extending such language of privilege to all the baptized, is only 
 literally following the universal language of God's Word towards the visible 
 Church. 
 
 But when we have satisfied ourselves of the scriptural ness of the language, 
 the question arises, what is its force or meaning in individual application ? 
 Now it requires little examination of the Epistles to see that there is often an 
 a'='cription of the graces of the saints of God to the members of the Churches, 
 as well as of the designations of Saints, shewing the necessity of the possession 
 of the graces to give real value to the designations. He is none of Christ's 
 who has not the Spirit of Christ. In other words, he can be no saint of Cod, 
 with his name written in the book of life, whatever he may be called, from 
 being in the Church, who has not a living faith in God's promises, witnessed 
 by a life fruitful in godliness from the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. 
 But many of the baptized come short of this. From the words I lately read, 
 there was one without the Spirit of Christ in that very number that St. Paul 
 addressed as "temples of the Holy Ghost." We read in the Acts of the 
 Apostles of a baptized person who was yet in the bond of iniquity. And sad 
 experience abundantly testifies the truth of our Church's teaching in her homily 
 for Whit-Sunday, that " if we call ourselves temples of the Holy Ghost while 
 we do not bring forth the fruits of the Spirit, we do but usurp the name of the 
 Holy Ghost in vain." While, then, both Scripture and the Prayer-book 
 encourage and direct us to extend to the professing members of Christ's 
 Church by Baptism the names of God's children, the use of this language 
 gives no definition or description of their individual spiritual condition as 
 in God's sight who searches the heart. Our Church holds that the Holy 
 Ghost sanctifieth the elect people of God; and who are so meant we may 
 
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 learn from the 17th Article. But there is one passage in the Baptismal 
 Service for infants which, by individualizing the person to whom is ascribed 
 tliis language of privilege, seems to very many as necessarily defining the 
 benefits of Baptism in the individual case, and declaring the baptized to 
 obtain all the inward and spiritual graces of the new birth set forth in the 
 Sa(;ranient. I refer to the words of thanksgiving after Baptism, " We yield 
 Thee hearty thanks, mciu merciful Father, that it hath pleased Thee to 
 regenerate this infant with Thy Holy Spirit, to receive him for Thine own 
 child by adoption, and to incorporate him into Thy Holy Church." But to 
 understand how far this passage is to be understood in the naked sense, 
 which the words will of course bear, we may turn to the corresponding 
 passage in the servio ; for the Baptism of Adults : " Give Thy Holy Spirit 
 to this person, that being now born again and made an heir of everlasting 
 salvation, through our Lord Jesus Christ, he may continue Thy servant and 
 attain Thy promises." Here the gift of the Holy Spirit is askwl for the 
 perseverance of the person baptized, who has been " born again and maoe 
 an heir of salvation." But we know from the Catechism that repentance and 
 faith are necessary for receiving the benefits of Bcptism, and in the beginning 
 of the service for Adult Baptism it is said to the congregation, " Doubt ye not, 
 but earnestly believe that He will favourably receive this present person, truly 
 repenting and coming unto Him by faith, that He will grant unto him re- 
 mission of his sins, and bestow upon him the Holy Ghost." Thus we learn 
 that the words in the Adult service must be applied only conditionally. 
 Indeed, to confound the ascription of the language of privilege to the mem- 
 bers of the Church with an ascribing of the possession of the privileges, would 
 be that prevailing error of the Jewish Church which St. Paul pointed out 
 when he said, " he is not a Jew that is one outwardly, neither is that 
 circumcision which is outward in the flesh." Against the same error St. 
 Peu-i protested when, in connection with the passage I have already quoted, 
 he said, " not the washing away of the tilth of the flesh, but the answer of 
 a good conscience." But, in fact, a literal application of the language of the 
 Church, such ns is often demanded for that in the Baptismal Service, would 
 lead in most of the services to startling results. 
 
 Take one example. In the prayer before confirmation we say, " Almighty 
 and everlasting God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these Thy servants 
 by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all 
 their sins." No one could suppose that that language was to be literally 
 applied to every candidate ; but if any candidate had to be separately con- 
 firmed, that lari/uage would be used. It is said, however, that as infants 
 cannot give the answer of a bad conscience, the language has an exceptional 
 application in the service of Infjmt Baptism. It seems a sufficient answer to 
 this statement that there is a place where the Church, if reasoning this way, 
 might have been expected to say so, but did not. Gladly, after the example 
 of Holy Scripture, does she give the name of sons to all the baptized, but in 
 her 27th Article she says respecting the spiritual privileges, "they that 
 receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ;" but she does not go on 
 to say that all infants necessarily receive Baptism rightly, but merely, " The 
 
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 baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Churcli, ;b 
 most agreeable with the institution of Christ." Does, then, Baptism in any 
 such case merely convey a barren name P That be far from our thouglit.s. 
 Certainly the state of privilege is so great when God extends the name of 
 sonship, that we cannot but feel the condemnation of original sin so removed, 
 that where no actual unbelief has been shewn we may fully believe with our 
 Church that infants so dying will be undoubtedly saved. But beyond this 
 and the admission into a state of grace to be improved, I prefer our passinir 
 no definite opinion as to the effects of Baptism in any individual case, but, 
 holding with Hooker that to our sanctification here it is a step that hatli 
 none before it, to hope all things, and believe all things. 
 
 And if any feel dissatisfied by the degree of uncei'tainty thus caused, and 
 feel tempted to ask, as St. Paul expected the Jews to ask with respect to 
 Circumcision — What then profiteth Baptism ? the answer may / as of old. 
 Much every way. It cannot be a light privilege. Oh ! how unspeakable 
 a privilege to be brought into a Body to which God extends such wonderfully 
 condescending and endearing words. Does it not testify of infinite loving- 
 kindness and willingness on His part.P Does it not furnish to the thoughtful 
 Christian abundant cause of thankfulness and encouragement to make his 
 calling and election sure? Such a position ma}', indeed, well be spoken of as 
 a state of actual grace — for the Holy Spirit is just as near as He is sought to 
 be. The promise is given. The fruition is sure. 
 On the And as it has pleased God thus to have a visible Church, to whose members 
 
 "^'o'ccivcVe '"^^'^ ascribed the names and privileges of Saints, so it has pleased God to have 
 
 the Holy ^ Ministry in that Church for its continuance, instruction, edification, and 
 Ghost." '' 
 
 government. These Ministers are not the Church, they are only the ministers, 
 
 that is the servants, of the Church and the stewards of those mysteries whicli 
 
 God has in His love given to the Church. This honour no man taketh upon 
 
 himself. Our Lord selected and ordained those who were to minister to the 
 
 body, and He made provision through them for the due continuance of this 
 
 office of responsibility. The second order in this Ministry is that of Presbyter, 
 
 which is the English form of a Greek word signifying Elder, and which is 
 
 shortened into the word Priest in our Service. In the act of Ordination of 
 
 a Presbyter, when the Bishop and his Presbytery have laid on their hands, 
 
 the Bishop is directed to say, " Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and 
 
 work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the 
 
 imposition of our hands." These words have been sometimes thought 
 
 objectionable unless they are regarded as the words of a prayer. It seems to 
 
 me, however, that if a little refiection is given to what is being transacted, 
 
 the supposed objectionableness will probably disappear. When we proceed 
 
 with faith in the Lord's presence and power, thanksgiving for a mercy asked 
 
 or an assurance of its conveyance may well attend the act of asking, when the 
 
 mercy sought is one that we know cannot and will not be denied. Now God 
 
 has appointed a Miu'stry. This jVIinistry has been continued by Ordination 
 
 in the way appointed in our Cnurch. In the exercise of this Ministry there 
 
 is a need of special gifts and the promise of them ; for the Lord is to be with 
 
 His Church to the end. It is then only a humble act of faith in God's fulfil- 
 
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 ment of His Word, when the Bishop, in the laying on of hands, believing in 
 the divine mission of the Ministry, says, " lioceive ye the Holy Ghost." The 
 moaning is not that the Bishop is endowed with any supernatnral gift in 
 himself of giving the Spirit, or that there is any opus oj)craii(i7t by which 
 witli the mere saying of those words the gift follows — but the words are said 
 with the assurance that all things necessary for Christ's promisje being 
 fulfilled have been done, and that if only the candidate for the ^linistry bring 
 the prepared heart, God will be present with the promised and needed gift. 
 Tlie principle, however, I have already explained at length with reference to 
 the language in the Baptismal Service here applies. The act done is a 
 corporate one. As to the individual benefit we can say nothing, and the 
 Ciuu'ch does not intenf' to say anything. As to the view which our Church 
 holds of the Ministerial office, it may be best learned from the admirable 
 address which the Church directs the Bishop to make in the Ordering of 
 Priests : — 
 
 " We exhort you, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you have in 
 remembrance into how high a dignity and to how weighty an Office and 
 Charge ye are called : that is to say, to be Messengers, Watchmen, and Stewards 
 of the Lord ; to teach and to premonish, to feed and provide for the Lord's 
 family; to seek for Christ's sheep that are dispersed abroad, and for His 
 children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they may be 
 saved tlu'ough Christ for ever." 
 
 And so there is a JMinistry in the Church, in the use of which God is 
 accustomed to add His blessing even to His ordinary means of grace. Yes, 
 able as the Word of God is by itself, with the demonstration of the Holy 
 Ghost, to make a man wise unto salvation, it is ordinarily, through the 
 perhaps very simple words of the human instrument, the fallible Minister, 
 that the blessing comes. It was so with the eunuch of Ethiopia. It has 
 been so in countless instances up to our own day. jMany a man owes a new 
 life, and a happy glorious service for his God and Saviour, to the mere repeti- 
 tion in a sermon of a passage of the Word of God having been brought home 
 with power to the heart. 
 
 There is only one duty of the Ministerial Office on which I think it well to 
 make a few remarks. It is on the power that is declared to be conveyed to 
 the Priest in the words — 
 
 " Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven ; and whose sins thou 
 dost retain, they are retained." 
 
 These are words which Christ addressed to the Apostles. 
 
 When speaking to St. Peter on His Church and its perpetuity, He said. On the 
 '' And I will give unto thco the keys of the kingdom of lieaven : and whatso- Absolution, 
 over thou shalt bind on earth sIuiU be bound in heaven : and whatsoever 
 thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." 
 
 Later on we find our Lord giving the same powers to all the Apostles, 
 He first gave them the commission which He had Himself received from the 
 Father, and by which He had called them to Himself. " Peace be unto you : as 
 my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." And then, " When He had said 
 this, He breathed on them, and saith unto tlieui, Keceive ye the Holy (ihost : 
 
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 whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto thera ; and whose soever 
 sins ye retain, they are retained." He thus committed His Ministry with iU 
 reproductive powers to the Apostles. As when He said in His great intiT- 
 cessory prayer to His Father, " The glory which Thou gavest me I have 
 given them," He prayed not for those only then with Him, but for them also 
 which should believe on Him through their word. So the commission lh« 
 gave was obviously intended to go on. And in the closing verses of St. 
 Matthew's Gospel we find our Lord saying to the Apostles, "All power is 
 given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, 
 baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Ghost : teaching thera to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded 
 you : and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." 
 
 From a comparison of these passages it is clear that the commission our 
 Lord gave was intended to include all that would follow in their Ministry 
 to the latest time. Nor do I see what reason there is from the words them- 
 selves to restrict their application to the Apostles. For what can they mean? 
 It is impossible that the remission of sins and the binding of sins in the 
 absolute meaning of those words, as bearing on the eternal welfare of the 
 souls of men, could be extended to any created being however privileged by 
 special revelations. God alone can forgive sins. God alone can bind sins. 
 Such power could never have been given to the Apostles, however clear an 
 insight may have at times been given into men's hearts. 
 
 The words are Ministerial with respect to the Church which they were to 
 govern. In this light they may be regarded from two points of view. First, 
 the Apostles had authority to deliver God's mind with regard to the remission 
 of sins. Thus St. Paul said, " We are ambassadors for Christ, as thouo-h God 
 did beseech you by us ; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to 
 God." Here is Christ's commission executed. Secondly, the Apostles had 
 authority to receive by Baptism into the Church of Christ, and to rule in that 
 Church by wholesome discipline, that the Church might be kept in purity. 
 
 " Repent, and be baptized for the remission of sins," said St. Peter. And 
 St. Paul thus addressed the Corinthians : 
 
 " For I verily, as absent in body and present in spirit, have judged already, 
 as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, in the 
 name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, 
 with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto 
 Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the dav 
 of the Lord Jesus." 
 
 As the members of the Church, from the language of privilege bestowed 
 on them as sons of God, may be regarded as possessing on earth, while in tlio 
 fellowship of the Church, the i..»mes of pardoned and absolved — so those cast 
 out of the visible Church ministerially for any supposed fault may be regarded 
 as deprived of those names and as bound. Nor can this be held as a trifling 
 i-endering of those solemn words by anyone who reflects on the way in which 
 God has ever treated and privileged the Church. It was the case from the 
 time of the institution of Circumcision. " And the uncircumcised man-child, 
 whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from 
 his people; he hath broken my covenant." 
 
 
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 God will certainly support and uphold the actions of his Ministers when 
 they are according to His revealed Will. Rut that is all. From human 
 infirmities man's judgment may he reversed by God's final judgment. So as 
 wo understand the words of our Saviour, " Whatsoever ye shall ask in my 
 Name, I will do it," to bo limited by our asking what is in accordance with 
 God's Mind, so we must understand the words ascribed to the Ministers of 
 Christ as restricted by what is according to God's Mind. This authority of 
 absolving, the Priest discharges in every service by proclaiming the pardon of 
 sin for the repenting and believing. And the Church has further provided 
 that if any one has any sin or trouble lying on the m.ind preventing peace, 
 such an one should be encouraged to seek the counsel of a Minister of Christ, 
 that he may give the necessary spiritual advice and comfort, and if desired 
 and satisfied with the penitence expressed, pronounce an absolution, thereby 
 declaring that on the supposition of the sincerity of his repentance, God, 
 according to His promise, grants him forgiveness. 
 
 One of the ways in which it pleases God to use the Ministry in edifying On the 
 the Church is in dispensing the blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of suppcr. 
 Christ. This is too much viewed as an extraordinary means of grace, and 
 as enshrouded in a peculiar mystery of its own. On the contrary, the 
 Holy Supper was intended to be an ordinary and constant means of 
 grace, and the mystery connected with it is such as belongs to all those 
 spiritual means by which the Spirit of God acts. Our Lord delivered to 
 His disciples, as we find in the 6th Chapter of the Gospel of St. John, 
 that mystery of doctrine which we cannot profess to understand, but which we 
 none the less receive : " Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink 
 His blood, ye have no life in you : whoso eateth My flesh and drinketh My 
 blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh 
 is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He that eateth My flesh and 
 drinketh My blood, dwelleth in Me and I in him." In the same discourse 
 He also said, " He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life." " I am that 
 bread of life." " He that eateth of this bread shall live for ever." And 
 when many of the disciples found these words of our Lord very hard — they 
 even sounded hard in Jewish ears — He gave this further explanation : " It is 
 the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I 
 speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." Still the mysteriousness 
 of the saying was left, and was felt to be left; for the Apostle adds, "from 
 that time many of the disciples went back and walked no more with Him." 
 The passage I have thus brought before you has not any reference to the 
 Lord's Supper, but the Lord's Supper has reference to the truth it enunciates. 
 When our Lord took bread and said, " This is My body," we cannot but 
 remember what He said of Himself then, " I am the bread of life." And the 
 connection is made very evident when we further call to mind the comment 
 of St. Paul : " The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion 
 or partaking of the blood of Christ ?" " The bread which we break, is it not 
 the communion or partaking of the body of Christ?" 
 
 The objects of the Lord's Supper, then, are very manifest. They are, by 
 the plainest actions of breaking the bread and pouring out the wine, to shew 
 
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 forth the Lord's Death till He come ; teaching the great fact of Calvary ami 
 the necessity of the application to us of Christ's precious Hlood, and also liy 
 the action of partaking of the Consecrated Elements to shew forth tlu; 
 nec(!ssity of our by faith feeding on the Lord's Body and Blood. It is also to 
 be regarded as a means for the faithful receiving the benefits which it thus 
 sets forth. 
 
 So far as this, which is after all the important question for the edificatio-i 
 of the Church, there is little if any dill'erence of opinion within our Church. 
 There may be members in it who regard the Lord's Supper as a moro 
 Memorial Feast, but I have never met with such. But if we have faith tiiat 
 when the Lord's Supper is duly administered we may hope to receive into 
 our souls that alone life-giving portion of which Jesus spoke, even 
 Himself, it really seems a secondary question as to how this is, whether 
 the real and life-giving presence of the Lord is by direct communication with 
 the soul, or is conveyed in the gifts of bread and wi;^e. I say it seems a 
 secondary question as far as regards the profit of the receiver, for the result 
 expected seems very much the same — but it is by no means a secondary or 
 small question from what rises out of it. My own view you may readily 
 understand from what I have said. I regard our Lord as delivering in 
 the Gospel of St. John a truth, hard to be understood — indeed, iitterly 
 beyond us — but a truth for all times and all conditions. I believe that 
 life-giving communication of our Lord, leading to our incorporation with 
 Him, so that we become one with Him and He one with us, was as necessary 
 for Old Testament Saints as for us, and has no connection whatever, as an 
 origin or cause, with the institution of the Lord's Supper. But the Lord's 
 Supper sets it forth, and being declared by St. Paul to be a means for our re- 
 ceiving it, we cannot but regard it as an Ordinance to be especially used for 
 that purpose. Hence I rejoice that the celebration of the Lord's Supper has 
 become frequent with us. It is celebrated in all our settled Parishes at least 
 once a month, and sometimes oftenor. It is also celebrated at our Ordinations 
 and Synod Meetings. I am glad of this. It is an approach to Apostolic 
 custom ; for it is very clear that the Church of the Apostles kept the breaking 
 of bread every Lord's day ; and we know from an early writer of the second 
 century, who wrote only a few years after the death of St. John, that this was 
 still the custom in his time. In the dark days that came upon Europe after 
 the flood of barbarism from the East and North spread over it, superstitions 
 of all kinds gradually affected the belief and ritual of the Church, so that the 
 blessed doctrine for the comniunicant, that he may by faith partake spiritually 
 of the Body and Blood of Christ, was lost sight of, and the attention given to 
 the act of Consecration, by which a miracle was supposed to be wrought on 
 the Elements of bread and wine. Then the weekly Communions ceased, and 
 the practice began of persons communicating only once a year, or two or three 
 times nt the most— and even then not as the whole congregation of the faith- 
 ful. And the place of llin Communion was occupied by Masses, or rather 
 Consecrations of bread and wine by ii Priest, often many times in one day. 
 LTn fortunately, when this system of superstition was swept away from our 
 Church, the Apostolic l\iinuoiicy of Communion was not restored in practice, 
 
47 
 
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 practice, 
 
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 1,'radual working up of our Church to that privileged usage, to the great edifi- 
 cation of our members. 
 
 But though the Lord's Supper is to be regarded as cmijiently the means, 
 in the use of which we are to expect this communication of our Lord and our 
 incorporation with Ilim, yet, as it is only an appointed means for what is 
 a necessary result for all God's saints, we are not to suppose that God binds 
 this gift to this one channel. On the contrary, we may suppose it being 
 communicated otherwise ; and our Church has distinctly allowed this in one 
 of her rubrics for the Communion of the Sick. 
 
 " If a rnan [for some hindrance] do not receive the Sacrament of Christ's 
 Body and Blood, the Curate shall instruct him, that if he do truly repent him 
 of his sins, and stedfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the 
 Cross for him, and shed His blood for his redemption, earnestly remembering 
 the benefits he hath thereby, and giving him hearty thanks therefore, he doth 
 cat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably to his 
 soul's health, although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth." 
 
 But while holding that the reception of the Lord's Supper is not absolutely 
 necessary for receiving the Body and Blood of Christ, yet I repeat it is, as 
 being an appointed means, the express means by which the humble, childlike 
 Christian will hope to receive it, and for such there is, when the Supper is 
 received, a real and essential presence of Christ. It is well that this should 
 be fully seen. The belief in the real presence is just as distinct when the gift 
 is expected by the soul directly from God with the reception of the Elements, 
 as when there is a belief that by the act of Consecration the presence is in any 
 way in the Elements. The view of our Chr.rch has been well brought out by 
 the late lamented Archbishop of Canterbury, whose kindness and constant 
 courtesy I here affectionately expretis my remembrance of, in the Charge which 
 he had prepared for delivery, and which has been published since his death. 
 " As to a presence elsewhere than in the heart of the believer, the Church of 
 England is silent, and the words of Hooker therefore represent her views : 
 ' The real Presence of Christ's most blessed Body and Blood is not to be 
 sought in the Sacrament, but in the worthy receiver of the Sacrament.'" 
 
 I do not think it necessary to examine the various reasonings from ex- 
 pressions in our standards by which some try to persuade themselves and 
 others that the Church of England countenances the idea of a Presence in the 
 gifts. But I must make this, remark, that those who believe that the use of 
 the outward and visible sign is blessed to so great a mystery to the worthy 
 receiver as our spiritually receiving Christ our Lord, will be none the less 
 careful in the due observance of the forms of Consecration, and shew none the 
 less reverent care of the gifts that have been consecrated to so great a purpose. 
 So that all reasoning from the Church's case in these respects, with regard 
 to her belief of any Presence in the Elements, is very much beside the question. 
 Indeed, experience tells its own tale. It tells us that if the Body and Blood of 
 Christ are once believed to be in the Elements, then reservation, exhibition, 
 and adoration are what are to be expected instead of that quiet order for the 
 reverent covering and eating and drinking of the remains, that is provided by 
 
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 the Rubrics of our Service. But it is strange how different minds draw tlio 
 most opposite inferences from the same fact. 
 
 It has been said by a writer on this subject, " I need say no more about the 
 Article (the 28th), except that the word ' given' seems to me to be only con- 
 sistent with the doctrine of an Objective Presence." Now the words of tlio 
 Article are these: "The Body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in tlio 
 Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby 
 the Body of Christ is received and ent •' in the Supper is Faith." Now break 
 up this passage. The Body of Christ is only given after a heavenly and 
 spiritual manner. The Body of Christ is only taken and eaten after a 
 heavenly and spiritual manner. But the Body of Christ is only received aiul 
 eaten by Faith. Therefore the heavenly and spiritual manner of the reception 
 and eating is by Faith. It seems to follow that the heavenly and spiritual 
 manner of the giving must be such a communication that only Faith can 
 reach and meet. It is, therefore, some gracious communication by the Spirit 
 of God to the soul ; and so the Church further declares in the 29th Article 
 that " the Wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do 
 carnally and visibly press with their teeth the Sacrament of the Body and 
 Blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ : but rather, to 
 their condemnation, do eat and drink the sign or Sacrament of so great a 
 thing." Now the Catechism tells us that the sign is the " Bread and Wine, 
 which the Lord hath commanded to be received." 
 
 Ordina- 
 tions and 
 Confirma- 
 tions. 
 
 My Reverend Brethren, it is in no controversial spirit that I have laid these 
 remarks before you. Nothing is more hateful to me than controversy. 
 Nothing can be more injurious to the edification and growth of a Churcli. 
 But I feel a solemn obligation, in this my first Charge, to urge you not to 
 avoid the subjects I have been dwelling upon, but to give your people sound 
 views respecting them from time to time. However faithfully you may 
 preach the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, and however earnestly 
 you may press home to men's hearts the primary facts of sin, righteousness, 
 and judgment, you may make up your mind to errors by and by gaining 
 ground if you leave your people uninstructed on those other points. And 
 I should be glad if your teaching upon them was in thoughtful harmony not 
 only with the spirit but the letter of the Church's standards. I rejoice that 
 I can say that from my heart I accept every sentence in the Services of the 
 Church in the literal meaning which I believe the Church intended. 
 
 The important subjects that I have had to bring before you make it im- 
 possible for me to refer to some important occurrences in the Church beyond 
 our Diocese, and also leave me little space for any account of my own 
 episcopal acts. 
 
 There have been during the three years since I came to the Diocese six 
 Ordinations, at which I ord.-ined eight Priests and five Deacons ; and there 
 have been thirty-two Confirmations, at which I confirmed nine hundred and 
 twenty-five candidates. Two buildings for Divine Service have been erected, 
 the School-Chapel at Little Britain, and Holy Trinity Church, Winnipeg, and 
 
 are both er 
 There has 
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 years, if it 
 hope after 
 buildings t 
 And no 
 of His gra 
 needs all 
 after our ( 
 terminatio; 
 free from 
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 wholly to 
 sure. Th( 
 and ever. 
 
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 wardens, a 
 not lead is 
 members ( 
 minister's 
 the truth, 
 around yc 
 amongst 3 
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 speaking 
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 them, and 
 reverence 
 belief and 
 together ' 
 language 
 heartily ii 
 a care for 
 all the 01 
 Laity and 
 of anothe 
 helpful to 
 owe their 
 r!st; and 
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 to and de 
 evidence 
 members 
 the Son < 
 fulness of 
 
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 raw tlio 
 
 Address 
 to Clergry. 
 
 to Laity. 
 
 are both enabling their respective Clergymen to carry on an important work. 
 There has not been any consecration of a Church. 
 
 I confess I am not much inclined to recommend Church-building for a few 
 years, if it can bo avoided without serious injury to the Church, as we may 
 hope after a few years to possess much greater advantages for the raising of 
 buildings tliat may bo at once permanent and beautiful. 
 
 And now, my beloved Brethren, I commend you to God and to the Word 
 of His grace. The time is short. The Lord is at hand. Our work in life 
 needs all our care and energy. May you, my Reverend Brethren, go back 
 after our deliberations in Synod to your Parishes with a more earnest de- 
 termination to spend and bo spent for Christ. Happy are you that you are 
 free from the embittering and distracting effects of controversy and division. 
 May this long — even for ever — be the case in this Diocese. Give yourselves 
 wholly to tho work. Make full proof of your ministry. Your reward is 
 sure. They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars for ever 
 and ever. 
 
 And may you, my dear Brethren of the Laity, Lay-Delegates, Church- Address 
 wardens, and all the Body of the people, grow more in the sense that you do 
 not lead isolated lives for Christ. No man liveth unto himself. We are all 
 members one of another. Cast away the notion that the Lord's work is the 
 minister's concern, and that you have only to do with your own receiving of 
 the truth, and personal living up to it. You have to do with your brethren 
 around you. Oh, how I long for this sense of responsibility growing more 
 amongst you, for as it grows in your hearts and gives life to your actions, 
 it will beget a holy and earnest interest in the things of God. I have been 
 speaking more particularly to the Clergy on the Doctrines of our Church. 
 But it is the duty and the privilege of each of you to acquaint yourselves with 
 them, and I would to God you all knew the learning, the piety, the humble 
 reverence for truth, the child-like submission to what was most probably the 
 belief and the practice of the first and purest ages of Christianity, that met 
 together to determine and hand down that greatest treasure in the English 
 language after the Bible, our Book of Common Prayer. Take your part 
 heartily in making your Church and Schools such as to witness that you have 
 a care for the things of God and the souls of youi- brethren. How much in 
 all the organization of a Parish depends on the willing cooperation of the 
 Laity and their families with the Clergy. I would conclude in the words 
 of another Bishop of our Church : " In the Body of Christ the meanest is 
 helpful to the noblest ; the noblest has a service for the meanest : all alike 
 owe their health, or recovery of health, to their not being separated from the 
 r}st; and by the due discharge of their appointed functions, as organs of the 
 one whole, are to work out the fulfilment of God's gracious purpose, as known 
 to and declared by St. Paul, when the Body will be so edified, and shall so 
 evidence its being * the fulness of Him that filleth all in all,' that all its 
 members shall have come ' in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of 
 the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the 
 fulness of Christ."' 
 
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 The Synod met in the afternoon in St. JoIui'h Parochial School. The 
 same Cler^'y were present as in the morning. Tiio following Lay- Delegates 
 attended Synod : 
 
 Mr. W. Tait, , s^_ j^ij^.3. 
 
 Mr. II. M'Kenzik, 
 Mr. A. FiDLKU, J.P 
 
 i St. James's. 
 Mr. W. Tait, J.?., ) „ ,. , „ 
 
 St. Anne's, La 
 Pniirio. 
 
 Mr. W. S LATER, ) 
 
 Mr. J. Smith, / 
 
 Mr. PociiA, J St. Margaret's, La 
 Mr. AuAMs, ) Prairie. 
 
 Mr. J. Gahuioch, i St. Mary's, La 
 Mr. F. BiiiD, } Prairie. 
 
 ist 
 
 Mr. C. Inkstku, ) 
 
 Mr. Foils RCA, ) Holy Trinity, 
 
 Mr. W. DuEVEii, junr. ) Wimiipcg. 
 
 Mr. W. Thomas, j g p j 
 
 Mr. >V . blTHEULANI), | 
 
 Mr. Recorder Bi.ack, St. Andrew's. 
 
 Mr. C. JJegg, St. Clement's. 
 
 Mr. J. ISIoNKMAX, senr. ) q. -n » „. 
 T»f T nf • I St. i eter b. 
 
 Mr. J. MoNKMAN, junr. f 
 
 Pf ayers were read by the Bishop. 
 
 On the motion of Archdeacon McLean, the IJishop was empowered to sign 
 the Minutes of last Synod without their being read, as they had been printed 
 and circulated. 
 
 The Kev. H. Geohoe moved, and Mr. H. M^Kenzie seconded,— That the 
 Rev. S. Phitciiard be re-elected Secretary. — Carried. 
 
 Archdeacon Cowley moved, and Mr. Fobseca seconded, — That the 
 Bishop be re-elected Treasurer. — Agreed to. 
 
 Archdeacon M^^Lean moved, and the Rev. H. Cociieane seconded, — That 
 Mr. FoRSECA and Mr. W. Inksteb be re-elected Auditors. 
 
 The Secretary read, as the Report of the Standing Committee appo'' *ed at 
 last Synod, the Minutes of its Meetings. 
 
 The following Report was read from the Auditors : 
 
 Bishop's Codht, Feh. 23rrf, 1869. 
 We have examined the Synod accounts, and find that the Synod holds 
 
 9000 dollars Dominion Stock of Canada thus apportioned : — 
 
 Dollars 
 
 Professorship of Systematic Divinity . . . 2200 
 
 Cochrane Scholarship ... ... ... 1760 
 
 Native Pastorate Fund ... ... 630 
 
 Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund ... 380 
 
 Macallum Scholarship ... ... ... 130 
 
 Church Endowment Fund ... ... 3000 
 
 9000 
 
 We also find that Mr. Hopkins, of Montreal, has in his hands, for the 
 
 Professorship of Divinity, 570 dollars, 11 cents, and that the Bishop holds 
 
 £6 19s. 2d. belonging to the Cochrane Scholarship and the Clergy Widow 
 
 and Orphans' Fund. 
 
 (Signed) W. G. FORSECA, \ .„...„,., 
 
 Wm. INKSTER, 1 ^"^^''»«- 
 
 The Draft of the Constitution as drawn up by the Standing Committee 
 was then fully considered, printed copies being in the hands of the members 
 of Synod. The different clauses were discussed seriatim, and some amend- 
 ments made. 
 
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 Finally, on the motion of Archdeacon McLkav, seconded by Archdoncoii 
 Cowley, the following Constitution was unanimously adopted. 
 
 CONSTITUTION OF TJE SYNOD G ' THE DIOCESE OF 
 
 RUPERT'S LAND. 
 
 1st. — The Synod shall consist of the Bishop of the Diocese ; of the Clei-j^y 
 of the same, licensed to the Cure of souls, or holding' oi%e in any College or 
 School under the jurisdiction of the Bishop, and not under ecclesiastical 
 censure; and of Lay- Delegates as hereinafter provided. clergymen who 
 have been members of the Synod, and who continue to hold the Uisliop'u 
 License, though they may cease to have the Cure of souls or to hold any 
 other office, may continue to attend the meetings of Synod and to vote 
 thereat. 
 
 2nd. — The Lay-Delegates shall bo male Communicants of at least one 
 year's standing, — members of the Congregations which they represent, and 
 of the fidl ago of twenty-one years. They shall be elected during Easter- week 
 at a public meeting called especially for that purpose during Divine Service on 
 the preceding Sunday. The Voters shall consist only of Male Communicants 
 of the Parish of at least six months' standing, and a majority of thoso pr*' I'ut 
 shall determine the choice, but no person shall vote for the Delegate or 
 Delegates of more than one Congregation. The Incumbent or his Assistant 
 shall preside at the meeting, and in their absence the meeting shall elect 
 a Chairman from their own number. 
 
 3rd. — The Incumbent or Chairman shall furnish each Delegate with 
 a Certificate as follows ; 
 
 Parish or Mission of 
 
 Congregation of Church. 
 
 No. of Registered Communicants 
 
 I hereby certify that at a meeting of the Communicants of this Congrega- 
 tion, held this day of 18 , Mr was 
 
 duly elected as a Delegate to the Synod for the current year. 
 
 (Signed) Chairman. 
 
 4th. — Each Congregation vpcognised by the Bishop, duly organised by the 
 election of Churchwardens and Vestrymen, and having at least six Registered 
 Communicants, shall be entitled to send one Delegate ; — but two Delegates 
 shall be sent if the number of Registered Communicants is over forty ; and 
 three if it is over one hundred ; but no Congregation shall send more than 
 three Delegates. 
 
 5th. — In case of the death or resignation of a Lay-Delegate, or his ceasing 
 to be a member of the Congregation by removal from the neighbourhood, or 
 from any other cause, the Incumbent shall within one month after such 
 vacancy proceed to a new Election at a meeting of which notice shall have 
 been given the previous Sunday during Divine Service. 
 
 6th. — The Synod shall meet annually, unless otherwise ordered by the 
 Bishop, and the time and place of meeting shall be fixed by the Bishop, who 
 shall also adjourn the Synod as he shall see fit. 
 
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 7th. — A Quorum of the Synod shall consist of at least one-fourth of the 
 Clergy of the Diocese and one-fourth of the Lay-Delegates. 
 
 8th. — No resolution of the Synod shall pass into a Law without the con- 
 currence of the Bishop and a majority of the Clergy and Laity present ; the 
 votes of the Clergy and Laity to he taken collectively, unless a vote by Orders 
 is demanded by any member of the Synod before the question is put from 
 the Chair, when a majority of each order will be necessary to affirm the 
 resolution. 
 
 9th.— That a Committee be appointed, to be called the Executive Com- 
 mittee, to consist of the Bishop, or his Commissaiy, as President, the Dean, 
 wlienever such a dignitary shall be appointed, and the Archdeacons as Vice- 
 Presidents, and three Clergymen and five Lay-Delegates : and that three, in 
 addition to the President, be a quorum ; that the Executive Committee shall 
 take the management of the various Diocesan Funds under the direction of 
 the Synod, carry out the decisions of that Body, prepare business for the 
 annual meeting of the Synod, and at such annual meeting give in a Report 
 of its proceedings. 
 
 10th. — No alteration in the Cons ' : '- '^^all take place unless the pro- 
 position has been first sent to the Exocu.*.-. Jomniittee for consideration, 
 approved at the meeting of the Synod by the Bishop and a majority of 
 i/Aii'thirds of each Order present voting separately, and afterwards confirmed 
 ] the Bishop and a like majority of each Order to the following meeting of 
 Synod. 
 
 Archdeacon McLean moved, and Mr. Recorder Black seconded, — That 
 the Executive Committee be desired to draw up a Report containing Rules of 
 Order and an Order of Proceedings for the regulation of the deliberations of 
 the Synod — said Report to be brought up for consideration at the next 
 meeting of the Synod. — Carried. 
 
 Archdeacon Cowley moved, and the Rev. H. Geoege seconded, — That 
 the following be the Elective Members of the Executive Committee — Rev. 
 Messrs. Gabdineb, Cocheane, Pbitchabd, and Messrs. Judge Black, 
 H. McKenzie, C. Inkstee, T. Bbown, and W. Thomas. — Carried. 
 
 Archdeacon McLean moved, and the Rev. J. P. Gabdineb seconded, — 
 That this Synod desires to record their deep sense of the kindness and 
 courtesy extended to our Bishop by the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the 
 different Dioceses in Canada which he ecently visited. They would also 
 express tL?:r gratification at the interest which has been awakened through 
 his Lordship's visit in the work of this Diocese among the Churchmen in 
 Canada, and their thanks for the very liberal contributions which have been 
 made there in aid of our work. — Carried. 
 
 It was understood that this Resolution would be notified to the Metro- 
 politan of Canada. 
 
 Archdeacon Cowley moved, and the Rev. J. P. Gabdineb seconded, — 
 That this Synod desires to record its high appreciation of the cordial re- 
 ception extended to our Bishop by the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the 
 American Church, on his recent brief visit to the United States, and that the 
 
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 Bishop be respectfully requested to forward a copy of this Resolution to the 
 Presiding Bishop of the American Church. — Agreed to. 
 
 The Draft of the Regulations of the Widow and Orphans' Fund, as 
 brought down from the Standing Committee, was then carefully considered, 
 the clauses being taken up senatim. At last, on the motion of Judge Black, 
 seconded by Mr. Fobseca, the Draft, amended as follows, was unanimously 
 adopted. 
 
 THE RULES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CLERGY 
 WIDOW AND ORPHANS' FUND OF THE DIOCESE OF 
 
 RUPERT'S LAND. 
 
 Whereas it has been deemed expedient by tho Synod of the Diocese of 
 Rupert's Land that a Fund should be formed by Subscriptions, Collections, 
 and Donations, for making provision for the Widows and Orphans of the 
 Clergy of the United Church of England and Ireland, the Synod 
 hereby ei A-ts the following Rules for the administration of this Fund. 
 
 1st. — That the Fund to be formed shall be called the "Clergy Widow 
 and Orphans' Fund of the Dioce.e of Rupert's Land.' 
 
 2nd. — That in order to entitle the Widow and Orphans of any Clergyman 
 to enjoy the annuitj' hereinafter to be provided, he must have paid a yearly 
 subscription of One Pound sterling to the Fund each year, on or before the 
 1st of July, which payment secures his membership for one year from that 
 date; and made such collections, and done other acts in its behalf as shall 
 have been from time to time directed by the Lord Bishop, with the consent 
 of the Synod, and must at the time of his decease have been a duly licensed 
 Clergyman in the Diocese of Rupert's Land, or recognised by the Bishop as 
 such, or have been placed on any superannuated list with the consent of the 
 Lord Bishop. 
 
 3rd. — All monies arising from the yearly payments of Clergymen and 
 Collections ana Donations made for the Fund, or accruing in any other way 
 for its benefit, shall be invested as Capital in such way as the Executive 
 Committee may direct, and the interest or the proceeds of the invested 
 Capital shall alone be available for canning out the objects of the Fund, and 
 as long as there are no claimants on the Fund, or when the income shall 
 exceed the claim to which it is liable, the income or surplus income shall be 
 added to the Capital stock from time to time as the Executive Committee 
 may direct, 
 
 4th. — From and after the passing of these Rules the Synod will pay to the 
 Widow of every Clergyman who is entitled to the benefit of the Fund, such 
 annuity, not exceeding Forty Pounds sterling, as the income of the Fund will 
 admit, in two equal half-yearly payments, on the 1st day of January and 
 July each year — the first of such half-yearly payments, or such portion thereof 
 as may have accrued from the death of her husband, to be made on the day 
 above mentioned next following the death of her husband, such payments to 
 be continued during her natural life so long as she shall remain a Widow. 
 And in case fiuch Widow shall at her death or marriage have four children by 
 
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 her late husband under the age of Eighteen years, such annuity shall be paid 
 to the Guardians of such children; and should there be fewer than four 
 children, a sum not exceeding Twelve Pounds sterling, as thj income of the 
 Fund will permit, shall be paid as aforesaid for each, provided that all 
 annuities shall cease Irom the half-year next precediiig the marriage of any 
 person, whether male or female, entitled by these Rules to any such annuity ; 
 and that all annuities paid for children shall cease on the day at which they 
 attain the age of Eighteen yeai's. And in case of any Clergyman deceased 
 leaving no widow, but having children, then such children shall enjoy the 
 annuity as above provided on the death or marriage of a widow. 
 
 5th. — The amount of the annuity to be paid to the Widows and Orphans 
 of the Clergy for each year shall be fixed at the yearly meeting of the Synod. 
 
 6th. — Every Widow and Guardian of any of the Orphans of a Clergyman 
 desiring annuities from the Widow and Orphans' Fund shall apply by 
 Memorial to the Sj nod for such annuities, stating the time of the decease of 
 such Clergyman, the name of the widow, and the names and ages of each of 
 the children, as the case may be. 
 
 7th. — Every annuitant on the Widow and Orphans' Fund shall, whenever 
 ho or she may be paid his or her half-yearly annuity, make the following 
 Declaration, which shall be attested by the Clergyman before whom it is 
 made. 
 
 Declaration hy a Widotv. 
 
 I hereby declare that 1 am the Widow of the late Rev 
 
 and that 1 am entitled to an annuity from the Clergy Widow and Orphans' 
 Fund of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, and that I am still a Widow. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Signed before me 
 
 Declaration hy the Chiardiann of CJiildren. 
 
 I do hereby declare that I am the duly-appointed Guardian of the Children 
 
 of the late Rev , whose names and ages are respectively 
 
 written below, and that they are entitled to an annuity from the Clergy 
 Widow and Orphans' Fund of the Diocerie -^^ Rnpfivt's Land. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Names and ages of Children 
 
 Signed before me 
 
 8th. — No alteration in these Rules shall take place unless the proposition 
 has been first sent to the Executive Committee for consideration, approved at 
 the meeting of the Synod by the Bishop and a majority of two-thirds of each 
 Order present voting separately, and afterwards confirmed by the Bishop and 
 a like majoiity of each Order at the following meeting of Synod. 
 
 Archdeacon McLean moved, and Mr. Gardiner seconded, — That his 
 Lordship the Bishop be requested to recommend to the different Clergymen 
 
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 of the Diocese to make Collections in their Churches in behalf of the following 
 Fundf on the days specified as under . 
 
 The Church Endowment Fund on Whit-Sunday. 
 
 Tiie Native Pastorate Fund in the season of Epiphany. 
 
 The Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund on Easter-Day. — Carried. 
 
 Archdeacon McLean moved the adoption by the Synod of the following 
 Eules for the administration of the Diocesan Fund. 
 
 Whereas a Diocesan Fund for augmenting Clerical stipends of rmall 
 amount, for giving grants to Schools, and for other Church purposes, is 
 necessary for the support and progress of the Church, and whereas it is 
 requisite for the practical working of such a Fund that there should be an 
 annual income of some certain amount that can be depended upon, therefo/e 
 the Synod hereby adopts the following Resolutions : — 
 
 1. — That his Lordship the Bishop be respectfully requested to recommend 
 to each Clergyman to have subscriptions made in his Parish in aid of the 
 Diocesan Fund. 
 
 2. — That a Secretary be appointed to correspond with the Clergy, and 
 assist in organizing Parochial Associations, Meetings, and other means for 
 aiding the establishment of the Fund. 
 
 3. — That all Grants to Parishes be made by the Executive Committee. 
 
 4. — That after the expiration of 1869 no Parish receive as a Grant to its 
 Schools more than double of what it gives in one form or other to th* Diocesan 
 Fund. 
 
 5. — That to encourage the efforts of Parishioners in augmenting the 
 stipends of Clergy within the Settlement whose stipends are under £150, 
 there be a Grant from the Diocesan Fund so as to complete that sum ; pro- 
 vided that £25 be the maximum of such Grant, and that no Grant be given 
 of greater amount than the augmentation made by the people. 
 
 6. — That no such Grant in augmentation of Clerical stipends be given 
 unless it be fomid at the end of the Financial year at Easter that a sufficient 
 sum has been raised for the Diocesar Fund to allow, after paying the School 
 and Clerical Grants, the investment in the Endowment Fund of the Church 
 Missionary Grant for the year terminating the previous September 29th. 
 
 The Rev. H. Geoege seconded this motion. 
 
 Mr. Recorder Bl-ack supported it. 
 
 The Ven. Archdeacon Cowley put a question with regard to the 4th 
 clause as appearing to interfere with the arrangement made with the C. M. S. 
 Schools. 
 
 After some remarks from Mr. Gahdinee and other members of Synod, 
 the Bishop suggested the withdrawal of the clause at present. Archdeacon 
 McLean having agreed to withdraw the clause, the motion, as thus amended, 
 was carried unanimously. 
 
 The Ven. Archdeacon Cowley moved, and the Rev. W. C. Pinkham 
 seconded, — That Archdeacon McLean be elected Secretary under Clause 2. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to, and the Archdeacon accepted the 
 appointment. 
 
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 Archdeacon McLban moved that the Synod request the Bishop to print 
 his Charge. 
 
 Archdeacon Cowley seconded the motion, which was agreed to by a 
 unanimous vote of the Synod. 
 
 The Bishop then closed the Synod by pronouncing the Benediction. 
 
 APPENDIX (A). 
 
 THE OFFICIAL EEPORT OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE 
 
 For the Year ending Easter, 1868. 
 
 St. John's Colleoe, 
 
 Red River Settlement, 
 May \2th, 1868. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I beg to present the following Report of the present condition 
 of the College. 
 
 The Ul. iber of Students matriculated this Term is 40. Three of these 
 belong to the Senior Theological department, and were ordained, one Priest 
 and the other two Deacons, last March, after attending the Theological course 
 during two winter Terms. The two Deacons will pass a third Term at College 
 next winter, before being ordained Priests. The remaining Students attend 
 the Collegiate School course. Thirty-one of them are studying Latin, ten 
 Greek, and nine Mathematics, while they are all attending to the usual 
 English branches. Eight of them form a Junior Theological class, including 
 six who are supported by the Church Missionary Society of England with 
 a view to their being trained for Mission work. 
 
 The first Cochrane Scholar was elected yesterday by the Governing Body. 
 The Student elected is Mr. Kenneth McDonald, who has distinguished him- 
 self by great proficiency, especially in his Classical and Junior Divinity 
 studies. 
 
 I am glad to say that the discipline of the Institution is in a very 
 satisfactory state, and that a very decided and gratifying amount of progress 
 is observable generally among the Students. 
 
 I remain. My Lord, 
 
 Your obedient Servant, 
 
 (Signed) J. M^'LEAN, M.A., 
 
 Archdeacon of Assiniboia, and Warden of St. John's College. 
 TKe Bight Hev. the Lord Bishop of 
 Rupert's Land. 
 
Sf 
 
 (B) 
 
 Parish and Mission Statistics from Easter 1867 to Easter 1868. 
 
 1.— ST. JOHN'S OR THE CATHEDRAL PARISH. 
 
 Rector— T)aQ Venerable Aechdeacon McLean, M.A., 
 
 Warden and Professor of Divinity of St. John's College. 
 
 I . — Church Families . , 
 
 Communicants (28 added since last Easter) . . 
 
 2. — Sunday Services in the Cathedral 
 
 Red River Hall 
 
 Saints' Days Services in Cathedral t • 
 
 Harvest Thanksgiving " .. .. .. 
 
 Christmas Day, Circumcision of Christ, Good Friday, 
 
 Ascension Day 
 
 Service at Conference . . . . . • 
 
 " two Ordinations . . . . . . 
 
 "Wednesdays in Lent . . . . • • 
 
 40 
 96 
 
 104 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 1 
 2 
 6 
 
 Services 
 
 
 3. — Holy Communions . . 
 Baptisms 
 Marriages 
 Burials . . 
 
 4. — Sunday School — Teachers 
 " Scholars 
 
 5. — ^Parochial Day Scholars 
 
 6. — Oflfertory and Collections in Cathedral 
 Collection in Red River Hall . . 
 Schoolmaster's Salary— Subscriptions 
 Subscriptions for New Church in Winnipeg 
 Proceeds of Bazaar for ditto 
 Sundry Donations to Parish Funds 
 Pew Rents in Cathedral 
 
 
 • « 
 
 « • 
 
 146 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 .. 43 
 
 22 
 
 £. 8. d. 
 
 11 1 
 
 2 
 
 27 2 6 
 
 102 0* 
 
 48 
 
 2 10 
 
 9 8 6 
 
 £268 1 1 
 
 • £25 of this was contributed by the Bishop from his own means. The S. P. C. K. Grant of 
 JB20 is not included in the above sum. 
 
 2.— ST. ANDREW'S PARISH. 
 
 Incumbent— Rev. J. P. Gaedineb, C.M.S. 
 
 I.— Families Members of the Church of England 
 " Indians (unsettled) 
 Communicants (11 added in the past year) . . 
 2._Services in St. Andrew's Church— Sundays 
 " Wednesday evenings . . 
 
 Harvest Thanksgiving and Ascension Day 
 Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Good 
 Friday . . • • • • „ "■ 
 
 at Little Britain (in Mr. Truthwaite's House, 
 
 Sundays • • • • 
 
 " in School-Chapel 
 
 in Park's Creek School-room 
 
 " on other days . . 
 
 «» 
 
 166 
 
 5 
 
 237 
 
 98 
 
 27 
 
 2 
 
 14 
 36 
 41 
 
 28 
 
 Services in all 
 
 248 
 
ff8 
 
 3. —Holy Communions in St. Andrew's Church . . 
 
 at Little Britain 
 »' Park's Creek 
 
 " Private with the Sick . . 
 
 Baptisms in the Church 
 
 " (private) . . 
 Marriages 
 
 Churchings . , 
 
 Burials . . . . 
 
 4. — Sunday Schools : 
 
 (fl) St. Andrew's. Superintendent — Mrs. Gardiner 
 No. of Teachers . . 
 No. of Scholars 
 
 {b) Little Britain. Superintendent — Mr. Stearn, 
 No. of Teachers . . 
 No. of Scholars 
 
 {c) Park's Creek. Superintendent — Mr. Slater. 
 No. of Teachers . . . . 
 
 No. of Scholars 
 
 5. — Parochial Day Schools — St. Andrew's, Scholars 
 
 Little Exitain 
 Park's Creek 
 
 6. — Night School — St. Andrew's, Teachers 
 
 Scholars 
 No. of Nights 
 7. — Secular Lectures 
 Select Readings 
 Missionary Prayer Meetings 
 
 8. — Weekly Offertoiy in St. Andrew's Church 
 Harvest Thanksgiving Offertory (cash) 
 
 " (grain) about 
 
 Pew Rents 
 
 Church Fund for alterations and repairs 
 Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society 
 Little Britain School-Chapel 
 
 OflPertory 
 Park's Creek Oifertory 
 School Fees 
 
 £ 
 
 46 
 
 21 
 
 50 
 
 13 
 
 58 
 
 8 
 
 56 
 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 50 
 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 30 
 
 39 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 19 
 14 
 
 9 
 111 
 
 4 
 
 50 
 
 4 
 40 
 
 60 
 26 
 45 
 
 4 
 25 
 50 
 
 4 
 5 
 3 
 
 s. d. 
 
 15 111 
 12 3 
 
 
 19 5 
 
 9 
 10 
 10 
 12 2| 
 
 16 7 
 
 
 £315 
 
 3.— ST. PAUL'S PARISH. 
 
 I. — Families Members of the Church of England 
 Communicants 
 
 2. — Services on Sundays 
 
 Harvest, Christmas, Circumcision, Ash- Wednesday, Good 
 Friday, Ascension , , 
 
 3. — Holy Communions . , 
 
 Baptisms . . . , 
 
 Marriages . , » . 
 
 Burials . . 
 
 4. — Sunday School. Superintendent — The Bishop. 
 No. of Teachers . . » . 
 
 No. of Children . . 
 
 5 — Day School — Scholars . , 
 
 40 
 61 
 
 102 
 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 6 
 
 25 
 
69 
 
 6. — Weekly Offertc ry 
 
 Offertory on Harvest Thanksgiving ,. 
 
 Collected towards Schoolmaster 
 
 Offertory for Indian Missions 
 
 Offertory for Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund 
 
 Other Subscriptions and Donations 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 19 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 11 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 £57 
 
 7 
 
 11 
 
 
 4.— ST. CLEMENT'S, MAPLETON. 
 
 Incutnbent—The Ven. Archdeacon Cowley. 
 
 I. — Native Christians .. .. •• 
 
 Communicants 
 2. —Sunday Services,— generally each Sunday, 2 ; Christmas 
 
 Day, 2 ; Good Friday, 2 ; and on other occasions. 
 3. — Holy Communion, administered monthly. 
 Baptisms 
 
 Marriages . . • • , 
 
 Churchings, generally with the Baptisms. 
 Burials . . 
 4. — Two Day-Schools. 
 
 Scholars : Boys, 38 1 
 Girls, 16 J 
 
 5. — Church Endowment Fund 
 
 Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund 
 
 Pew Rates . • . ■ • • 
 
 Weekly Offertory . . . . . . 
 
 480 
 94 
 
 30 
 6 
 
 11 
 
 54 
 £. s. d. 
 
 4 
 
 14 
 
 8h 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 H 
 
 1 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 5 
 
 H 
 
 £21 
 
 
 
 _H 
 
 5.— ST. PETER'S. THE INDIAN SETTLEMENT. 
 Incumbent— T\\Q Rev. Heney Cochrane. 
 
 I. — Native Christians 
 2. — Sunday Services 
 
 Passion Week, 6 ; Christmas, 1 ; Circumcision of Chi-ist, I 
 
 3. — Holy Communions— in Church, 14 | 
 
 in Private, 6 j 
 
 4. — Two Day Schools- 
 Scholars in Upper School . . 
 
 " Lower " .. 
 
 Sunday School Teachers . . • • • • 
 
 5. — Infant Baptisms .. •• .. 
 
 Adult Baptism . . • • • • • • 
 
 Burials . . . • • • • • • • 
 
 Churchings 
 Marriages 
 
 6.— Church Endowni'^nt Fund 
 
 Clergy Widow and Orr-haus' Fund 
 Indian Mission Offertory 
 Weekly Offertory . . 
 
 £. 
 25 
 1 
 
 657 
 132 
 
 8 
 
 20 
 
 60 
 
 60 
 
 4 
 
 48 
 1 
 
 32 
 48 
 
 7 
 s. d. 
 7 lU 
 
 
60 
 
 6.— ST. JAMES'S. 
 
 Incumbent — The Rev. William Cypbian Pinkham. 
 The Parish was vacant at Easter^ 1868. 
 
 I. 
 
 —Church Families in 1867 
 Communicants in 1867 
 
 64 
 
 44 
 
 2.- 
 
 —Services 
 
 about 90 
 
 3- 
 
 —Baptisms 
 Marriages . . 
 Burials . . 
 Holy Communions . . 
 
 16 
 4 
 4 
 
 12 
 
 4-- 
 
 —Day Scholars 
 Sunday School — Teachers 
 " Scholars 
 
 35 
 
 4 
 
 30 
 
 5-- 
 
 —Weekly Offertory . . 
 Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund . . 
 Indian Missions Offertory , , 
 Church Endowment Fund , . 
 Schoolmaster's Salary Subscriptions 
 
 £. 8. d. 
 
 11 6 0| 
 11 8| 
 2 4 2 
 4 15 
 
 18 
 
 
 £36 16 11 
 
 7.— HEADINGLY. 
 
 Incumbent — The Rev. James Cabbie. 
 
 I . — Church Families 
 Communicants 
 
 2.— Services on Sundays 
 
 Harvest Thanksgiving, Christmas, Circumcision of Christ, 
 Good Friday 
 
 3. — Holy Communions 
 Baptisms 
 Marriages 
 Burials . . 
 
 4.- 'unday School — Scholars 
 
 Day School. Teacher — Mr. A. Clouston. 
 Number of Scholars 
 
 5. — Weekly Offertory 
 Harvest Thanksgiving 
 Pew Rents 
 
 Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund 
 Subscriptions for Schoolmaster . . 
 
 • • 
 
 60 
 
 54 
 
 . . 
 
 104 
 
 hrist, 
 
 • • 
 
 4 
 
 :; 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 • • 
 
 24 
 
 .. 
 
 70 
 
 £. 
 7 
 4 
 5 
 I 
 
 38 
 
 s. d. 
 6 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 £55 
 
 6 10 
 
 8.—ST. ANNE'S, LA PRAIRIE. 
 
 Incumbent — The Rev. G. Cook. 
 
 The Rev. H. Geobge was in charge at Easter, 1868. 
 
 Licensed Reader — Mr. David Spence. 
 
 I . — Families Members of the Church of England 
 Communicant* 
 
 56 
 
 71 
 
ftt 
 
 a. — Holy Communiona .. .. 
 
 Baptisms . . . > 
 
 Marriages . . . . 
 
 Burials . . . . . • 
 
 3. —Divine Services 
 
 Harvest, Christmas, Circumcision, Ash "Wednesday, Good 
 
 Friday 
 
 4.— Parochial Day-School. Teacher— Mr. David Spence 
 
 Scholars . . . . 
 
 5. — "Weekly Offertory ., ,, 
 
 Harvest Thanksgiving 
 Subscriptions to New School-house 
 " Schoolmaster . . 
 
 »» ChuichBell .. 
 
 • • 
 
 9 
 
 • • 
 
 17 
 
 
 2 
 
 , , 
 
 9 
 
 «J 
 
 60 
 
 uu 
 
 • • 
 
 6 - 
 
 .. 
 
 35 
 
 £. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 8 
 
 9 3| 
 
 19 
 
 6 
 
 9 
 
 12 6 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 17 
 
 66 
 
 £54 3 9 1 
 
 9.— ST. MARGARET'S, LA PRAIRIE. 
 
 No Return has been given in. 
 
 Church Families in 1867 . • • • 
 
 32 
 
 
 10.— ST. MARY'S, LA PRAIRIE. 
 
 Incumbent— T\ie Rev. Heney Geokge. 
 
 I . — Families Members of the Church of England 
 Communicants 
 
 (There are many Sioux and Salteaux Indians.) 
 
 2. — Holy Communions .. .. 
 
 Baptisms ,/ ,• . • » 
 
 Marriages . . tt . • 
 
 Churchings 
 
 Burials . . • . • • 
 
 Private Communion . . . , 
 
 3. — Services on Sundays . . . . _ 
 
 Harvest, Christmas, Circumcision, "Wednesdays in 
 
 and Passion "Week 
 4._Sunday School. Superintendent— The Incumbent. 
 
 Teachers 
 
 Scholars 
 5. — Parochial Day School — Scholars . . 
 
 6. — "Weekly Offertory . . . • »• 
 
 Harvest Thanksgiving Offertory 
 Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund 
 Indian Missions 
 
 Subscriptions towards Schoolmaster's Salary 
 Cochrane Scholarship Fund 
 
 
 42 
 
 
 60 
 
 • ■ 
 
 13 
 
 ^ , 
 
 24 
 
 t • 
 
 10 
 
 ^ ^ 
 
 17 
 
 
 6 
 
 , , 
 
 1 
 
 
 93 
 
 lit. 
 
 15 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 54 
 
 , , 
 
 66 
 
 £. 
 
 *. d. 
 
 10 
 
 13 3 
 
 22 
 
 17 lOi 
 
 3 
 
 5 74 
 
 2 
 
 19 7 
 
 12 
 
 15 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 £67 11 4 
 
 11.— WESTBOURNE MISSION. 
 Missionary in charge — Rev. H. George. 
 Catechist—^v. Peteb Gaerioch. 
 No Return. 
 
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 12.-SCANTERBURY MISSION. 
 
 Missionary — Rev. James Settee. 
 
 This Mission has been lately enlarged from St. Peter's Parish. No Return. 
 
 13.— LANSDOWNE MISSION, FORT ALEXANO.v.R. 
 
 Missionary — Rev. R. Pn.AlR. 
 
 Church of England Christian Families connected with Mission 23 
 
 Ailults . , . . . . « • 63 
 
 Communicants ., ., ,, 11 
 
 Roman Catholic Christian Families . , , 12 
 
 Heathen Families . . . . . . . . 11 
 
 Baptisms . . . . . . . . . . 8 
 
 Services on Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas Day . . 82 
 
 Prayer Meeting .. .. .. .. 14 
 
 Daily Morning and Evening Prayer — average attendance . . 12 
 
 A weekly Service is also held. 
 
 Holy Communions (Easter aud Christmas) . . . , 2 
 Sunday School on Sunday evenings. 
 
 Day School, when there are children, average . . . . 9 
 
 Catechist and Teacher — J. Smith, now T. Hope. 
 
 Offertory . . . . . . . . £0 7s. ()'/. 
 
 14.— ISLINGTON MISSION, WHITE DOG. 
 
 Missionary in charge — Rev. R. Phaie. 
 
 Missionary in Deacons Orders — Rev. Baptiste Spei«ce. 
 
 CateoJdst in 1868 — B. La Claib. 
 
 Christian Families 
 
 Iff 
 
 Adults 
 
 8ff 
 
 Heathen Families 
 
 5 
 
 Day School, averages 
 
 8 
 
 Sunday School " 
 
 6 
 
 Dailj' Morning and Evening Prayer well attended by Adults and Young. 
 
 15.-FAIRF0RD MISSION. 
 
 Missionary — The Rev. D. B. Hale. 
 
 The accurate statistics did not reach. The following were supplied from 
 memory. 
 
 No. of Christian Families (settled) . . . . 50 
 
 A good many tents of Christians and Heathen , 
 
 Baptisms . . . . . . . . 25 
 
 Churchings . . . . . . . , 5 
 
 Burials . . . , . , . . 5 
 
 Service twice every Sunday in English and Salteaux. Daily 
 
 Evening Prayer. 
 
 ^oly Communion . . . . . . 1 
 
 No. ^f Communicants present . . . . 25 
 
 (Mr. Hale in 1868 was not in Priest's Orders. Archdeacon Cowley visited the 
 Mission and celebrated Holy Communion). 
 
 Day School, average . . , . . , 18 
 
 Sunday School " . . , . . . 18 
 
16.— MANITOBAH MISSION. 
 
 Missionary in r/iarffe—'Rey. D. 13. Hale. 
 
 Catechhst and Teacher^Ur. V. Mrvcs. 
 
 in ISOS— Mr. G. Bruce. 
 
 Collected in Fnirford an.l ]\Iamtol.ah for Schools, £6; for Native Pastorate 
 Fund, £3. Since Easter 1868, for Native Pastorate Fund and Clergy Widow and 
 Orphans' Fund, £14 lO?. 
 No Return. 
 
 17.— FORT PELLY MISSION. 
 
 Missionary— B.c\. G. Buuce. 
 Catechist in 18G8— Mr. L. Caldwell. 
 No Return. 
 
 18.-T0UCHW00D HILI'^ AND Q'APPELL LAKES MISSION. 
 
 Catechist— My. C. Pbatt. 
 Visiting Missionary— Ugv. G. Bruce. 
 
 19.— SNOW LAKE MISSION. 
 
 Catechist — VaCcant. 
 Visiting Missionary— B.ev . D. B. Hale. 
 
 20— FORT ELLICE MISSION. 
 
 Missionary — Rev. T,. Cook. 
 
 No Return. Collected for Clergy Widow and Orphans' Fund, £1 6s. 
 
 21.— YORK FACTORY MISSION. 
 
 3Iissionary—Jiev. W. Mason. 
 
 Voluntary Indian Readers— J) x\it> and JouN Kaz i Kesiak. 
 
 ^ • . 52 
 
 Communicants 
 
 Baptisms 
 
 Marriages 
 
 Burials 
 
 Holy Communions 
 
 Divine Services 
 
 " on Christmas Day 
 
 Day School— Boys, U\ 
 
 18 
 7 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 132 
 
 2 
 
 69 
 
 Girls, 35 
 
 ^nTrronSutofor 1^68 being returns of Skins ; in 1867, £5 15. 
 
 The skiS welTsea^^^^^^^^^ 4 Marten, 1 Fox, 17 Deer, also 26 days' work, 
 
 """^ Th'^ndian SntSiuUonf for 1868 will appear in Return of 1869. But they are 
 30 Se^r, 4 prime Marten, 1 cross Fox, 1 large Beaver, JeWe*! mto h^^^^^^^ 
 store, with the following since: 4 Deer skms, 6 days woik, 1 White wnalc, uetr 
 skin, shoes, and gloves. 
 
 22.-CHUHCH-HILL MISSION. 
 Visiting Mi.mo7tary—liiev.W. Mason. 
 
 No Return. 
 
64 
 
 23.— DEVON MISSION. THE PAS. 
 Native Pastor — The Rev. Henby Budd. 
 
 The following Return is for the year 1868. 
 
 1.— No. of Families 
 
 Fort Defiance . . 
 
 2. — Holy Communions . . 
 
 Private Communions for the Sick 
 
 13, 77, 102. 
 
 •T 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 The 
 
 3.— No. of Communicants— 68, 86, 126, 122, 126, 
 
 13 were Tripmcn by boats from York Factory. 
 4. — Full Cree service twice on Sundays. A lecture every Wednesday. 
 
 5. — Baptisms .. ... .. ,.33 
 
 Churchings . . . . . . . , 26 
 
 Marriages . . . . . . . . 
 
 Burials . . . . . . . . 19 
 
 6. — Day School. Teacher — Rev. H. Budd. Names on Register, 80. 
 Average in summer, 66. Attendance much less in winter. 
 Sunday School. Teacher — Rev. H. Budd. 
 Names on Register, 85. Average in summer, 76. 
 in winter. 
 
 Much less 
 
 7. — Oflfertory 
 Churchings 
 
 £. a. d. 
 
 16 2 
 
 1 15 
 
 24— CUMBERLAND FORT MISSION. 
 Visiting Missionary — Rev. H. Budd. 
 
 I. — Number of Christian and Heathen Families not accurately known. 
 
 2. — Holy Communions . . . . . . . , 4 
 
 Number of Communicants, 28, 30, 21, and 20. 
 
 3. — Daily Prayer while Missionary at Cumberland House. 
 
 4. — Baptisms . . . . . . . . 9 
 
 Churchings . . , . . . . . 4 
 
 Marriages . . . . . . . . 2 
 
 5. — Offertory at Cumberland House ., £2 55.0(2. 
 
 25. -GRAND RAPIDS MISSION. 
 Visiting Missionary — The Rev. Henby Budd. 
 Catechist — Mr. John Sinclaie. 
 No Return. 
 
 26.— NEPOWEWIN MISSION with CARLTON FORT. 
 
 Visiting Missionary — Rev. Henby Budd. 
 
 Catechist — Mr. Sinclaib. 
 No Return. 
 
 I.- 
 
 27.— TRINITY CHURCH, STANLEY MISSION. 
 
 Missionary — The Rev. John A. Mackay. 
 
 -Families of Indian Converts connected with Station 
 Other Families attached to Hon. H. B. Co.'a Post 
 No. of Communicants 
 
 41 
 
 6 
 
 32 
 
 47 
 
47 
 
 i 
 
 M 
 
 1 — Baptisms 
 
 MftrriagcB ^ . 
 
 Buriftls nt'Trinitv Church 
 
 Holy Commumons at |rm^^>^^ ^^^^^^^ 
 
 • > 
 
 21 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 
 I 
 
 84 
 7 
 
 6 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 20 
 
 Holy UoTnmu»u,..= ^^^^ ^^ -^^^ (,,,,9so 
 
 iMipan Tost 
 ,_l)ay School. General attendance ;• ^^ -, 
 
 Sullny School • ; ,,, ,, ,ody of Indians the 
 
 During the «'^" • ^^ high as 50. 2 
 
 scholars IS soma mcs^^^^^^^b^^^^^^ __ .. ^ 
 
 ,._Missionar>; journey Big Stone Post ^^^.-^ ^^^^,^,,^^ 1 
 
 ',', Pelican Tost • • ^^^ ^^^ 9,7. 
 
 6.-.Offcrtory(f<'m- times a year) •■ 
 
 ,,^FORT SIMPSON MISSION. 
 . The Rev. W. W. Kibkby. 
 
 29 
 13 
 75 
 
 117 souls 
 174 
 
 15 
 
 3/fs.vJonrtny-ine ivc . 
 
 1 9 Clerks, Postmaster and t amuy, 
 
 Ash Wednesday, ^00'^ .. 
 
 Day, Clu-istmas . 
 
 4 —Baptisms, Adults, i" , 
 
 Burials .. 
 ,-Oifts. From Europeans at ^^X" ;; 
 '.: -. Indians at Fort Simpson •• 
 
 (^rnhan Asylum in the district. 
 
 •29 -ATHABASCA MISSION. 
 
 : ,,_The Rev. W. C. Bo>ivA«. 
 Missionary— i^^^"^ 
 
 M Fort Chipewyan-- 
 '•'^^i^!^v« Protestants 
 
 33 
 3 
 
 Native Prote8tani« ^^ ,. ". '. 25 
 
 Europeans • • . . • • , . 1 
 
li 
 
 66 
 
 At Fort Vermillion — 
 Native Protestants • • . . . . 18 
 
 Native Romanists . , . . . 24 
 
 About 30 Families of Beaver Indians. 
 
 At Fous de Lac (Lake Athabasca) — 
 
 30 tents of Chipewyans. 
 At Dunnegan and St. John's — 
 
 40 tents of Beaver Indians. 
 
 2. — Sunday Services twice each Sunday in English — 
 
 At Fort Chipcwyan for 8 Liionths, average attendance 15 
 
 " Vermillion for 4 months, " 12 
 
 School daily at these I'orts for the same periods. 
 
 The Indians have been instructed only by visits to their tents 
 
 and receiving visits from them individually. In this way 
 
 most of the Indians at Forts Chipcwyan and Vermillion have 
 
 'jeen seen. 
 
 "T^aptiims 
 Marriage 
 Burial . 
 
 4 
 1 
 1 
 
 30.— yOUCAN ]\IISSION. 
 
 Missionari/ — Rev. Rf ert McDonald. 
 
 I.— Baptisms— 146 Adults; 18 Infants .. ..164 
 
 Burials . . . . . . 6 
 
 Marriages . . . . . . . . 2 
 
 Doaths among the Indians in Interior reckoned at 300. 
 
 2. — Services on Sundays . . . . . . 96 
 
 " other dayd .. .. ..172 
 
 3. — Night School at Fort Youcan. Teachers, 2 ; Scholars, 10. 
 
 4. — Gifts of people for Missions and other good works, £12 10s. Off. 
 (Since then the Bishop has received £18 10s. Qd.). 
 
 5. — Voluntary Indian Readers — 
 Katza or Henry Venn. 
 Peter Roe and Dnvid Anderson. 
 
 6. — Christian Indians baptised . . , . . . 405 
 
 7. — Travels , (I) To Koocha-Koochen a distance of 40 miles off, met 40 Indians. 
 
 In snow- 
 shoes. 
 
 In canoe and | ^ -' 
 boat. \ (y^ 
 
 " Tranjyek-Koochon 
 
 " Koocha-Koocha 
 
 " Niadse-Koochen 
 
 " Peel River 
 
 " Indians down the 
 
 Youcan 
 
 " Fort Simpson 
 
 Return journey 
 
 60 
 
 70 
 
 60 
 200 
 550 
 
 350 
 1500 
 
 2830 
 2830 
 
 5060 miles 
 
 34 
 42 
 27 
 70 
 130 
 
 160 
 120 
 
 10.— MOOSE MISSION. 
 
 Missionary — The Kev. J. Hokdkn. 
 
 Licensed Voluntary Indian Reader — Jacob Satloh. 
 
 J. — Number of European and half-caste Residents 
 " Christian Indians 
 
 108 
 265 
 
07 
 
 \ 
 
 2. — Baptisms ., .. .. .. 18 
 
 Burials . , . . . . . . . . 5 
 
 Marriages . . . . >. . . . * 
 
 3. — Cree full service Sunday morning early, and afternoon. 
 " in summer, 3 evenings of week. 
 
 English full service Sunday forenoon and Wednesday evening. 
 
 4. — Commvmioants on Easter Day . . . . . . 40 
 
 (There were 43 Confirmed'here in 18G8). 
 5. — Day School. English only. Scholars very regular .. 33 
 " Indian. Summer only, variable. 
 
 Adult School. Females, 5; Males, 15 .. .. 20 
 
 6.— Offertory .. .. .. £11 lis. 6rf. 
 
 32.— RUPERT'S HOUSE MISSION. 
 Vidting Missionary — Rev. John Hohden. 
 
 Jacob Matamoshkem. 
 
 fNEH. 
 
 T- 1 TT 1 . T 1- T> 1 ( Jacob Mata 
 
 Licensed v oluntary Indian Headers — \ \oni<i Cuxv 
 
 I. — European and half-caste Residents 
 Christian Indians 
 
 2. — Number Coniirmed in 1868 
 
 20 
 320 
 
 87 
 
 1 
 
 ms. 
 
 33.— ALBANY MISSION. 
 
 Missionary— Uev. Thomas Vincent. 
 
 Licensed Voluntary Indian Header — Isaac Habdisty. 
 
 I. — Native Christians (including Catechumens) .. ,. 232 
 
 Communicants . . . . . , . . 32 
 
 Confirmed in 1868 .. .. .. ..85 
 
 2. — Baptisms .. .. .. ..12 
 
 Marriages . . . . . . . . 2 
 
 Burials , . . . . . . . . . 4 
 
 3. — Day School — Scholars . . . . . . 15 
 
 4. — Two English services and two Indian services every Sunday. 
 One weekly lecture. 
 Daily Evening Prayer during June, July, and August. 
 
 34.— MOOSE DISTRICT. 
 
 Visiting Missionary — Rev. J. Hobden. 
 
 — Mistasinee Christian Indians about 
 
 — Nikchikwin 
 
 —Fort George " 
 
 —Great Whale River " 
 
 —Little AVhale River " 
 
 and more than 500 Esquimaux. 
 
 6. — Matawakumrae " 
 
 •Flying Post, Ileathon, about 
 
 New Brunswick 
 
 9. — Abbitibba, 400 Roman Catholics. 
 
 10. — Temiocamingue, 250, chiefly Roman Catholics 
 
 II. — Warwanopa 110 " 
 
 12. — Matchuskcw 80 " 
 
 100 
 30 
 50 
 
 300 
 56 
 
 120 
 
 80 
 150 
 
m 
 
 35.— ALBANY RIVER DISTRICT. 
 
 Visiting Missionary — Rev. T. Vincent. 
 
 I. — Martin Falls, chiefly Heathen 
 2. — Osnahurga " 
 
 3. — Grand Lac " 
 
 (C) 
 
 DIOCESAN ACCOUNTS. 
 1.— THE ENGLISH DIOCESAN FUND. 
 
 160 
 150 
 150 
 
 Br. 
 
 Th; Bishop. 
 
 Balance in 1867 in Bishop's 
 hands 
 
 From transfer at Cambridge 
 of £201 17s. 11 ^. instead 
 of £200, on April 6, 1867 
 
 Transfer in small sums from 
 Rupert's Land Fund 
 
 Bills on S.P.G. (Borough- 
 bridge) . - - 
 
 Transfer from Fund from 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 >i •> >> 
 
 Clifton Collection, 1867, 
 through S. P. G - 
 
 Bills of Exchange on S.P.G. 
 including Clifton Collec- 
 tion, 1868, £44 Os. M. - 
 
 Discount on Macmillan's 
 bill 
 
 
 
 
 Cr. The Fund. 
 
 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Endowment of Divinity 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 99 
 
 13 
 
 6| 
 
 Chair, St. John's College 178 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Purchase of Books for 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Library, 1867 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 7 
 
 1 
 
 17 
 
 11 
 
 Freight of Books for Library 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bought and given 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 11 
 
 15 
 
 14 
 
 4 
 
 Purchase of Books for 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Library in 1866 
 
 2 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 Dr. Schultz, for Printing - 
 Freight, Duty, etc., on Box 
 
 5 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 107 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 of Books to complete the 
 
 
 
 
 78 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 12 S.P.C.K. Libraries - 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 Grant to St. James's School 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 53 
 
 
 
 
 
 St. Paul's " 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 St. John's, 1867 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 " Headingley 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 48 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 ' ' "W idow and Orphans 
 
 » 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fund 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 " Chair of S y stem atic 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Divinity 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Native Pastorate 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fund 
 
 11 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 " Church Endow- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ment Fund 
 
 17 
 
 3 
 
 111 
 
 
 
 
 Subscription to Ante-Nicene 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fathers 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 " Macmillan's Magazine 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Freight on ditto 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 Grant to Settlement Schools 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 " towards Mr. Piukham's 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 travelling expenses 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Balance in Bishop's hands 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 at Audit, Feb. 23, 1869 
 
 £ 
 
 93 
 
 11 
 
 n 
 
 £406 
 
 19 
 
 6i 
 
 406 
 
 10 
 
 H 
 
f 
 
 69 
 
 
 2.— THE CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND. 
 
 Br. 
 
 Th", Treasurer. 
 
 As accounted for in last 
 
 Report 
 St. Peter's Tarish (1867) - 
 Mapleton 
 St. John's " 
 St. James's " 
 St. Paul's 
 St. John's " 
 Mapleton 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 297 8 7| 
 
 23 16 8 
 
 2 5 
 
 8 
 
 4 15 
 
 20 
 
 74 17 
 
 4 19 
 
 St. John's Conference Offertory 3 2 
 Ordination " - 
 
 St. Andrew's Parish 
 
 St. Mary's, La Prairie 
 
 St. Anne's 
 
 St. Margaret's " 
 
 St. Peter's 
 
 Headingley Parish 
 
 Transfer from Diocesan 
 
 Fund - - 154 11 
 
 Grant from English Dioce- 
 san Fund - - 17 
 
 H 
 
 4 
 
 2 10 
 
 8 
 
 94 
 
 3 
 
 22 17 
 
 lOi 
 
 19 5 
 
 
 
 4 10 
 
 
 
 25 7 
 
 lU 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 82 
 
 3 113 
 
 £776 
 
 Cr. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Remitted to Mr.Hopkins ac- 
 cording to last Report - 225 
 
 Expenses of Parishes in 
 
 collecting wheat - 10 
 
 Remitted to Mr. Hopkins - 550 
 
 £776 
 
 With the sum of £775 forwarded to jNIr. Hopkins, there has heen purchased 
 3900 dollars of 6 p. c. Dominion of Canada Stock. 
 
 r 
 
 Br. The Treasurer. 
 
 
 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 L. Clarke, Esq., C.T. 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 T. Taylor, Esq., C.T. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bishop of Rupert's Land - 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 C.M.S. Grant to Dec. 25, - 
 
 
 
 
 1868 
 
 342 
 
 
 
 
 
 St. Andrew's Parish Surplus 
 
 
 
 
 Offertory, etc. 
 
 26 
 
 13 
 
 n 
 
 St. Mary's Parish Suhscrip- 
 
 
 
 
 tions, etc. 
 
 27 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 St. Peter's Parish OiTertory 
 
 
 
 
 etc. 
 
 23 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 A. McDonald, Esq., C.T. - 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. W. C. Bompas 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Transfer from English 
 
 
 
 
 Diocesan Fund 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 £474 
 
 12 
 
 ~H 
 
 3.— THE DIOCESAN FUND. 
 
 Cr. 
 
 £. 5. d. 
 
 St.Mary's La Prairie School 50 
 
 St. Andrew's School -118 15 
 St.Peter's and St.Clement's 
 
 Schools - - 120 
 
 St. Paul's School - 5 
 Transfer to Endowment 
 
 Fund - - 154 11 8-1 
 
 Balance in hands of Treasurer 26 6 
 
 474 12 S-S 
 
^ 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 4— THE NATIVE PASTORATE FUND. 
 
 Dr. The Treasurer. 
 
 
 
 
 Cr. 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Accounted for in last Report 
 
 
 
 
 Transmitted to Mr.IIopkins 125 
 
 under Missionary Fund 
 
 
 
 
 
 of Interior 
 
 44 
 
 4 
 
 0,1 
 
 
 Devon Mission 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 
 York Factory Mission 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fairford Mission 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Youcan Mission 
 
 6 
 
 1.; 
 
 
 
 
 Stanley Mission 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 
 Rupert's House, A. McLeod 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. W. C. Bompas 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. W. W. Kirkby 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Transfer from Indian Mis- 
 
 
 
 
 
 sions 
 
 13 
 
 15 
 
 u 
 
 
 Gran*-, from English Dioce- 
 
 
 
 
 
 san Fund 
 
 11 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 £125 
 
 £125 
 
 This sum (£125) purchased 630 dollars of 6 p. c. Dominion of Canada Stock. 
 
 6.— THE INDIAN MISSIONS. 
 
 Br. The Treasurer. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Accounted for in last Report 25 12 2^ 
 Epiphany OiFertoiy,- 
 
 St. James's - 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 St. Andrew's 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 St. Paul's 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
 1 
 
 St. John's 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Holy Trinity, Winnipeg 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 St Mary's, La Prairie - 
 
 2 
 
 19 
 
 7 
 
 St. Peter's - 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £38 
 
 15 
 
 H 
 
 6.— THE CLERGY 
 
 WI 
 
 DO 
 
 Br. The Treasurer. 
 
 
 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Clerical Subcri itions 
 
 17 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Offertory— St. Paul's 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 5 
 
 " St. James's 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 H 
 
 " St. Andrew's 
 
 1 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 " St.CIements',Mapleton 1 
 
 5 
 
 H 
 
 " St. John's - 
 
 2 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 " Ordination - 
 
 2 
 
 17 
 
 3i 
 
 " St. Mary's Parish - 
 
 3 
 
 5 
 
 n 
 
 " St. Peter's " 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 " Hoadinglcy " 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 " Devon Mission 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chief Factor Anderson 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr. Crow 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 Grant from English Dioce- 
 
 
 
 
 san Fund 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 
 £76 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cr. 
 
 £. 8. d. 
 Grant to Rev. H. Cochrane 
 
 after the fire - 25 
 
 Transfer to Native Pastorate 
 
 Fund - - 13 15 3^ 
 
 £38 15 3^ 
 
 Cr. 
 
 £. 
 Transmitted to Mr. Hopkins 75 
 Balance in hand of Treasurer 1 
 
 s. 
 
 d 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £76 
 
 
 The sum of £75 purchased 380 dollars of 6 p. c. Dominion of Canada Stock. 
 
'h 
 
 71 
 
 7— THE COCHRANE SCHOLARSHIP. 
 
 C>: 
 
 Dr. The Treasurer. 
 
 
 
 
 
 £. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 From Subscriptions promised 
 
 
 
 
 according to last Report - 
 
 316 
 
 14 
 
 2 
 
 W. Christie, Esq., C.F. 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 J. A. Grahame, Esq., C.F. - 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss Alice Davis - 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr. John Kipling 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Mr. Mowat 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Rosa 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr.J.McDougall, Fort Youcan 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Rev. W. W. Kirkby 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 M. G. Lowman, Esq. 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 A. McDonald, Esq., C.F. - 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rev. J. Hordcn - 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 A. McKenzie, Esq. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 A. Flett, McKenzie River - 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 J. Sinclair's School 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 £367 
 
 19 
 
 2 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Transmitted to Mr. Hopkins 
 
 according to last Report - 225 
 
 Transmitted to Mr. Hopkins 125 
 Cochrane Scholar, Christmas 
 
 Term, 1868 - - 12 
 
 Balance in handa of Treasurer 5 19 2 
 
 £367 19 2 
 
 The sum of £350 purchased 1760 dollars of 6 p. e. Dominion of Canada Stock. 
 
 8.— THE MACALLUM SCHOLARSHIP. 
 
 Cr. 
 
 Dr. The Treasurer. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 AV. L. Ilardisty, Esq., C.F. 10 
 
 — McFarlane, Esq., C.T. 2 
 
 The Bishop of Rupert's Land 13 
 
 £25 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Transmitted to Mr. Hopkins 25 
 
 £25 
 
 This sum (£25) purchased 130 dollars of 6 p. c. Dominion of Canada Stock. 
 
 9.— THE PROFESSORSHIP OF SYSTEMATIC DIVINITY, 
 
 Cr. 
 
 Dr. The Treasurer. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Newton Parish, England - 100 
 
 Clifton Collection, 1867 - 53 
 
 Paris Collection - - 20 
 Grant from Englich Diocesan 
 
 Fund - - 5 
 
 Chief Factor Anderson - 15 
 Grant from English Diocesan 
 
 Fund - - 7 
 
 £200 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Transmitted to Mr. Hopkins 200 
 
 £200 
 
 This sum purchased 1000 dollars of 6 p. c. Dominion of Canada Stock. 
 
72 
 
 9.-Continued. THE PROFESSORSHIP OF SYSTEMATIC 
 
 DIVINITY. 
 
 Dr. The Treatwrr. 
 
 ' nada Currency. 
 Dol. c. 
 Nashotah House Offer; ir ^ on \ 
 
 St. Peter's day, 30 dols. C.S. ( ^^ ^^ 
 Fairhault Cathe- ( 
 
 dral - 25.50 U.S. / 
 
 Offertory, Cathedral, London - 75.0/1 
 Collection at Meeting " - 41.00 
 
 F. "W. Thomas, Esq., London 
 
 (yearly for 5 years) - 10.00 
 
 Anonymous, London - - 200.00 
 
 As advertised in Hamilton Spec- 
 tator - 147.05 
 " Toronto Leader - 105.69 
 " Canadian Churchman 170.87 
 " Montreal Observer - 559.07 
 " Quebec Chronicle 
 Oflfcrtory at St. Bartholomew, 
 New York, through Canon 
 Baleham 
 E. M. Hopkins, Esq., Montreal - 
 J. S. Clouston, Esq. 
 
 288.29 
 
 121.67 
 25.00 
 25.00 
 
 1869.09 
 
 Cr. 
 
 Canada Currency. 
 Dol. c. 
 Discount on American silver 
 
 and on notes - - 17.65 
 
 Bank Commission on Orders from 
 
 Quebec and Lennoxville - .25 
 Expenses in Investing - 9.25 
 
 Cash paid at sundry times to Mr. 
 
 Hopkins - - 1841.94 
 
 1869.09 
 
 "With 1271 dollars 83 cents there was a purchase of 1200 dollars 6 p. c. 
 Dominion of Canada Stock, leaving 570 dollars, 11 cents in the hands of Mr. 
 Hopkins for investment. 
 
 Dr. The Treasurer. £. 
 
 Balance in hands of Treasurer, 
 
 Easter, 1867 - - 20 
 
 S.P.C.K. Grants, Discount, 
 
 and Members' allowance - 
 Sale of Books, in cash 
 Balance due to Treasurer 
 
 Easter, 1868 - 
 
 10.— THE DIOCESAN BOOK DEPOT. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 2 3 
 
 38 11 
 
 57 18 6 
 
 - 8 14 10 
 £124 16 6 
 
 Cr. £. .«. d. 
 
 S.P.C.K. Bills - - 80 3 8 
 
 Herring and Co., Stationery 13 11 9 
 
 Dr. Schultz, 250 A. B. C.'s - 10 
 Freight and expenses of 
 
 Carriage - - 30 11 1 
 
 £124 16 6 
 
 Stock-in-hand valued at £107 9s. 8d. Book debts, £9 13v. 5d. 
 
 IL— THE DIOCESAN COMMUNION WINE ACCOUNT. 
 
 J)r. The Treasurer. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Cash from sale of 29 gallons 
 
 7^ pints • - 29 19 Of 
 
 Balance due to Treasurer 
 
 Feb. 23, 1869 - 18 16 U 
 
 £48 15 2 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Co.st of 4 octaves containing 
 
 56 gallons - - 30 16 
 
 Charges, Agents' Commis- 
 sion, Insurance, Freight 17 19 2 
 
 £48 15 2 
 
 Eight-and-a-half gallons not paid for, £8 lO.v, 1 octavo untouched. A very 
 little in the present octave. 
 
 Colli 
 Rovi 
 Re 
 
 SheJ 
 Colli 
 
Eupctfs Jianti Hiorrsan Jpunli. 
 
 suBSciiTrrioNs, donations, ^c. 
 
 T. D. Anderson, Esq., Liverpool 
 Rev. Canon Clayton, Stanhope 
 Offertory at Worsbro' Dale Church 
 Miss Cotton, Madin^ley 
 By Rev. J. Hawkesley, Clifton 
 
 By Rev. J. W. Tindall 
 
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 ' Bisuop's Court, Rf.d Riveu Settlement, 
 
 i Feb. i//i, 18G8. 
 
 To the Camhri(J()e Committee for the RuiMutr's Land Diocesan Fund. 
 
 I havo never written to j'ou since by foriuin;^ tliis Connnittee you 
 showed such a kind interest in myself iind in the important work in which 
 I am. cni,'a;L,'ed. It was an unexpected pk-asure to find on the List the names 
 of several eminent memhers of the University, to whom I had hardly supposed 
 I was known, as well as of old friends whom 1 knew and loved and who knew 
 mo. In the heavy anxieties of a Uishop's work in this Western World, or 
 rather in the prospect of those anxieties, I naturally turn to you, as I can be 
 but little kn(nvn beyond the bounds of the Tniversity. On taking my 
 Master's degree I came into residence to hold the college office of Dean, and 
 remained in Cambridge in that position till I was consecrated. It was, indeed, 
 also my happy privilege to liave parochial duty during all my residence. But 
 the parochial duty was in small country parishes, though very dear ones, and 
 not likely to make me known. And such other work as, in the c'^^'oity of 
 Honorary Secretary, I did for several societies was all quiet work lying mostly 
 within the University. I have not, therefore, the means throughout the 
 country of obtaining for the wants of this Diocese any effectual hearing. 
 Of course I do not refer to such an acquaintanceship as a meeting or an intro- 
 duction may give, but to one that, in these days of so many calls and efforts, 
 would lead to some self-denial in the- way of taking trouble on my behalf. 
 And however excellent a cause may be it requires some friends of this kind. 
 When I say then that I naturally turn to you, I do not mean that I look to 
 you or to Cambridge for pecuniary assistance, for I know Cambridge is not 
 a place of wealth and has constant calls, but as a Colonial Disliop, who has 
 gone forth diret:tly from your seat of learning, I look to you to assist me by 
 exerting the influence many of you possess in that organising and obtaiuing of 
 active friends by which the necessities of this Diocese may be laid before 
 English Churchmen, and a hearing obtained from those who have from God 
 the wealth and, what is better, the grace to use a portion of it as for the Lord. 
 The circumstances that lead me to address you with such earnestness 
 may be briefly stated. Hitherto the chief work of this Diocese has been in the 
 Missionar}"- efforts among the heathen Indians. Tiiese efforts have been made 
 for many years, with great zeal and much faith, in the interior of this huge 
 Diocese, and in the face of very peculiar but grave difficulties considerable 
 bodies of native converts exist. It is highly desirable that for ministering to 
 these, as well as carrying on like efforts among tlio Indians that are still 
 heathen, agents speaking the Indian huiguages should be carefully prepared 
 to act as pastors, catechists, and schoolmasters. For this a Theological 
 College is necessary, and in this training work it is at present mainly engaged. 
 Occasion has been taken to combine with the College a Collegiate School 
 affording a higher education to any in the country desiring it. The College 
 is close to my residence, in what is known as the Ked River Settlement. 
 This is a long straggling Settlement of small farmers along the Red River of 
 the North, and its tributary the Assiniboine. 
 
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The whole population of this SetUomcnt is probahly not over 12,000, of 
 whicli luilf is of Froneh Canadian dosceiit and Roman Catholic. Tlie Settlement 
 has grown very slowly; for it has hitherto been so isolated that no produce 
 grown in it cmdd be iahi ii witli profit to a forei<^n market. The only export 
 has therefore l)oen furs ami .skins. Biit the wonderful advance Westward and 
 Northward of eini<,'ration in the United States i.s about entirely to change this 
 state of things. And though I am yet only an outside spectator of that 
 wonderful movement, yet the advance of settlers is now near enough to begin 
 to affect us. and within a very few years at most the wave of coming people 
 may be expected to roll over us. I already, therefore, look forward to the 
 burden of those cares that occupy the hearts and energies of those noble men 
 the Missionary Bishops of the West. And as it seems hopeless for mo in the 
 day of need to look for that aid that New York and the East give with such 
 devotion to them, I wish to plead with the Churchmen of England that they 
 provide us at once with the most modest means of doing what we can for 
 ourselves. No doubt when emigrants come to us we shall have to ask for 
 help. It must be so. But if we have given to us now the moderate aid I ask, 
 I am sure that future assistance will go three times as far. And, indeed, 
 without it I dread the struggle. Nothing so invigcnvates as some hope of 
 success, and however much the Christian soldier should bo raised by high duty 
 and principle, he is yet subject to human weaknesses. The aid I ask is to 
 provide for us what in the American Church forms a Missionary centre. 
 I wish to have the necessities of St. John's College so far met by a small 
 Endowment Fund, that our whole energies nuiy be free for the selecting and 
 training meanwhile of promising candidates for the ministry, and by-and-by 
 for throwing out Missions. The sum I think of is from £5,000 to £"10,000. 
 It is not a great sum in these days. The issues depending on its being 
 obfained are very great. 
 
 And while not a day should be lost in pushing this effort for the Church, 
 the present is a peculiarl}'- fitting time to start it. The political world ia 
 becoming alive to the signs of the approaching change i.i our condition. Let 
 th'3 Church not be behind. Canada has become deeply sensible of the nearness 
 of emigration from the South. She is anxious therefore to obtain the govern- 
 ment of the land, and to open up without delay roads into it in the hope of 
 directing the course of the emigration. Accordingly the Legislature of Canada 
 has asked the Home Government to transfer this vast region to their care. 
 There are interests involved that may dela2' this for a little ; and this part of 
 the question is connected with public and political considerations on which it 
 is better for mo not to enter. But I cannot keep from expressing my deep 
 feeling that tlic time is close at hand when this land will shaie in the great 
 emigration of the Wes^, and that some help must be given us without delay 
 if English Churchmen hope to have their glorious old Church holding in this 
 region and future population the position which they would delight to see. 
 
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 assistance which otiier Colonies received in their early dti 
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 Rev. T. Shann, Tadcaster ... 
 
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 There is, thoroforo, no rosourco but to a public iippcal. \ woulil place luforo 
 you two extracts from spt^eches tliliveroil lately at the I)i'K'f,'at»'s' Meeting nt 
 Baltimore in coiiui-ction with tin- work of the Hoanl of Missions of the 
 American Church. The one ;^ivcs a view of tlie ellVvt of Western etni^^ration 
 after some years have passuil and the wave has gone further Westward — 
 the other gives a present jiicture. 
 
 Tho llev. I[u^'ll Miller Thomson, of Nashotah, "Wisconsin, said that 
 A\ btcrn men have been accused of using great swelling words when they 
 spoke of the West. lUit be said here was a subject upon which it was im- 
 possible to exaggerate. In bis own liil'time be bad seen rising from nothing 
 on the prairies, cities with tbrt.'e hundred thousand inhabitants, and the 
 citizens living in mansions as costly and elegant as any here, and enjoying 
 all the luxuries of the East. In one country parish of which be bad charge 
 in the West, be counted twenty-suven graduates of Eastern and European 
 Universities, What ihey needed at the West was the ablest men the Church 
 could send fur missiouaries. The West is to be in the future the centre of 
 power; the controlling element of tho country is to bo there, and the Church 
 must lose no tiuK in nu)ulding it for its high destiny. 
 
 Bishop Clarkson, my lUMghbom- in Dacotah, whoso diocese contains our 
 
 post town, l\'nd)iiia, only Sfventy miles from this, said that people at the 
 
 East had no idea with what rapidity the tide of emigration was flowing to the 
 
 West. When we consider the extent of its territory, the salubrity of its 
 
 climate, and the fertility of the soil, no wonder that population should How 
 
 to it. The Ihiion Pacilic Kailway has now extended across Nebraska to the 
 
 foot of the Rocky IMountains. Ifow necessary Lbat the Church should be 
 
 there in advance of the population! They bad already built ten Churches 
 
 there, at a cost of oO,0(M) dollars, of which sum ,'JO,()00 dollars had been 
 
 raised in the territory itself. There was not to-day a town in Nebraska of 
 
 500 inhabitants which had not a Church building: this had been done by the 
 
 aid of concentrated and consecratc^d gifts from the East. There were seven 
 
 more Churehes to be built, for some of which the means bad been provided or 
 
 promised. They bad in contemplation a vast work of education : they meant 
 
 to take possession of the education of the children, (live them the means to 
 
 do so. Nebraska is the key of tlie position. It is the gate and the highway 
 
 of the far West, and there is no reason why we s' 'uld not be the Pioneers, 
 
 for there the Church met with no opposition; and 'lere was no department 
 
 of jMissionary work which would so abundantly repay as ^Missionary work at 
 
 the West. It is oid}- al»out two years since l>ishop C...rkson was appointed, 
 
 and the work I believe almost began with him. He can now report sevenlecn 
 
 Clergy canonically connected with the jurisdiction, and five students of divinity. 
 
 But it is no wonder be adds, " and yet we fuel weak a'id almost powerless 
 
 amidst the intense activity of these coming emplios. O for the faith, and 
 
 love, and strength, to undertake to accomplish what may be done for Christ 
 
 and His Church in these imperial realms!" 
 
 But for the unfortunate massacre by the Sioux Indians of several hundred 
 American settlers on the way to this country, part of the tide that has gone 
 to Nebraska would have ilowed this way. But that massacre can never be 
 repeated, and the progress towards this end is constar.c and rapid. It cannot. 
 
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 therefore, be long before the story of the work in Nebraska should be mine. 
 I am of opinion that if Canada obtains soon the government of this country, 
 and opens up roads into it so as to make transport rc^pid and cheap, emigra- 
 tion will bo upon us withii) five years. I would then appeal through you 
 confidently to English Churchmen. St. John's College and Collegiute School 
 are in full operation and doing admirably. I feel confident that if God rve- 
 serves to us in health and strength the jjresent Warden, there will be in iod's 
 good Providence men raised up who will leave their mark on this land. The 
 temporary statutes of the College and other information may be obtained from .. 
 the last Report of the Diocese, published last autumn in England. To that 
 Report and a previous one I would also direct all who wish fa know what we 
 are doing for ourselves. Only in looking at what we do it must be remem- 
 bered that our 4000 people are scattered along 100 miles of country, with ten 
 Churches and fourteen Schools, the buildings of which they now entirely 
 maintain. That alone is a serious burden upon such a handful of people, 
 most of them quite pooi ; for a large proportion of our people are natives of 
 the country, partly or wholly of Indian descent. But I quite understand that 
 we riiust, as soon as our numbers increase, depend upon ourselves. Nothing 
 else is either possible or desirable, and it is with this view that I urge the 
 present scheme. 
 
 What I would ask then of the Committee is more especially to aid in 
 organising a Working Committee in London. There is already a small Com- 
 mittee there, but it requires to be enlarged, and to have some active member.; 
 upon it who will see to our appei>l being made and brought in an influential 
 and effective way before Churchmo.i. Perhaps friends could be obtained in 
 other places to take charge of the appeal. Mr. Ellis kindly acts as Treasurer. 
 If Mr. Perowne has not appointed a Secretary at Cambridge, perhaps you 
 could appoint one who could communicate with my Commissary on any steps 
 to be taken. It is my earnest desire that Mr. Perowne, though now com- 
 paratively retired, should continue to be my representative in England. Other 
 friends will doubtless be found to manage the organisation in London. The 
 Secretary of the Committee m London is the Rev. C. A. Jones, Mathematical 
 Master at Westminster School, who, I am sure, will be glad to forward any 
 plan for action. 
 
 I now commend the important subject on which I have addressed you to 
 your thoughtful consideration and kind help. If this season is lost for the 
 Church here it will be an irreparable loss. And though, when, in a future 
 day, at the report of masses of people, help may be given, it will not enable 
 the Church to do what a very moderate amount of help now would. My 
 work and plans I would further commend to your prayers at a Throne of 
 Grace, for with God are all tae issues, and from God must coine the blessing. 
 
 I am, with a grateful sense of your kindness in agreeing to act at Cam- 
 bridge in support of ray eiTorts, 
 
 Ever faithfully yours, 
 
 R. RUPERT'S LAWxJ. 
 
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