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 1'RESE.NTED 
 OX WEI)\ESJX\Y, FEBRLAKY .>ivd, 1853, 
 
 TO hi: takkx into co.nsidekation 
 ON WEDNESDAY. APKIF. 6th ISA.i 
 
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 TOrvONTO: 
 
 A. F. PLl.-S, PULNT£R, CANADIAN CHURCHMAN OFriCE, 
 
 1853. 
 
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 >SELECT COMMITTEE 
 
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 tl)c Cl)ttrfl) eocictg. 
 
 I'RESKNTKD 
 OX WEDXESDAV, FEBRL AliV Jivd, 1853. 
 
 TO Bi; TAKKN- INTO COA^IDJ'.KATION 
 
 OX WEDNESDAY, APRIE 6th, 18 
 
 TORONTO : 
 
 A. F. VLV.tH, PRLNTiCR, CANADIAN CHURCHMAN OFFICE, 
 
 tS53. 
 
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R li POUT. 
 
 The Coiiirnitt^e to whom was referred a return 
 •ettirig (orlli the vai ious amounts which have been 
 roniribiitec) by the several Parishes in the Diocese, 
 to the Churcli Society, both through thi* Parochial 
 Committi-'es, or l)y means of Special Collections, 
 during the last three years, and how many of the 
 Cleigy liaH re^uiai ly paid the amount of their An- 
 nual Subscription, with a request to report there- 
 on, and to prepare a Kesolution or Resolutions the 
 principle of whicd shall be " that all who desire to 
 benefit by the Society must conform to its rules"; 
 and also to examine tlie By-law for the due admin- 
 istration of the Widows and Orphans' Fund, and 
 whether under the provisions of such By-law ade- 
 quate means have iieen provided for the purposes 
 therein contcinplalea — beg leave in this Report to 
 call the attention of the members ol this Society, 
 and of the Churcli eenerally, to some striking and 
 importnntfacts of which lliey have become cogni- 
 zant in the course of their duties. 
 
 I. 'I'here appears (fronn such information m 
 your Committee possess) to be in the Diocese 
 nbout 138 Piirorhial Clergymen, having iharge of 
 129 Rectories, Incumbencies or Missions. Jn 
 these 129 .Missions there appear to be 81 Paro- 
 chial Conrimittees, but on further examination of 
 the return, it is (numl that 23 of these Parochial 
 Committees are in operation within the limits of 
 ten Missions. Thus seeming to prove conclu- 
 sively that there are 61 Missions, or nearly one 
 half of the whole number within the Dioces* 
 wholly destitute of any " Parochial Coi.imittee". 
 
 II. The number of .Souls belonging to our Com- 
 munion is now estimated at considerably abov« 
 200,000. In 1817 the average number of atten- 
 dants upon the several Services of the Church in 
 this Diocese was somewhat upwards of 32,000. 
 >Vince then about 23 new Missions have been 
 opened, and many Churches built and endowed. 
 Your Committee have, therefore, no fear of exag- 
 gerating when they place the jiresent average of 
 attsndance at 40,000. Yet the whole number ol 
 Subscribers to the Church Society— as nearly as 
 your Committee can approximate to it — does not 
 greatly exceed, if indeed it reaches the aggregate 
 of 4000 persons out of the 200,000 who belong to 
 us, and th« 40,000 who statedly attend our 
 ServicM. 
 
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 "i:; the last year K; fniTyl-^ ""'^y '"'"'- ''ur- 
 l•^u:d, ISO- (oMh^i', '''^^'''""■^ •'''-' Orphans' 
 
 "'"J'-' ua. many lake,, u /• si f ^""r^""'"* 'f'"» 
 'wo /acts : /irsi tl, ,, ' , ' ''• ^'''""">*, Urns proviij.. 
 
 J^oakin. back bey^J the la f "', '^'"'""»- 
 
 -1.0 Jn-eo years e,£" t C",? f "' '^'"'"S 
 
 'he Society have be , ' , "V""'' "^^'^"""^'J 1-7 
 onheU>L(' ' 't-ulady made, is -M out 
 
 /i-om the (;enp al 'nnl ' ''l^' f"-'''s^'' t° '^«n»'er 
 Jiie support or he '■ i ^"TL'" '''« »''"'"' '^r 
 resource, wil pjn^i \ S,?' ""^ *^'"f '^''"'«' ^'^ *'» 
 
 imdei-.iandi.iir that ho shw *■ -^'"cese, on the 
 P'-c'scril,e,| Colle io V/'h Vh °l''^ '"'"^-^ '^e 
 
 General Purposes of t^e 'a m,; 1 •'''™ ""^'» 
 ">.«'", that o.,t t e I A vTT ?"'^">i"ed to 
 
 «Peci(ied, into the ha <f n f HoC ''•"'' ''^'^ *"'» 
 would also call rttemion m ,L • ^'"■''"'>'- T^^'X 
 
 'l'"s Paul, one /Sftr'/^i ."' '^"-^'^ ^* '^'^■ 
 nde, reaches the St /of U 1'?' '\ I g^"«^al 
 the remai.iinij three fo mhs i ' ^ "'"'I' ^^of^'ety- 
 
 i« usually paid. ''Om'n.ltee, to whom it 
 
 striki;gS,'^prty^;£«^!' attention to tb« 
 their investigation th/f I . ^^["'" suDn.itted to 
 
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In '"V. ''" '''' "'•' 
 
 """/! iJ'vi„t.S..rvi" 
 vvilliin Ihcm. There 
 ' •mml,or,w,Stat„„„ 
 "'•l'"i.-'l""iA)m,e,lut 
 . 'I'w« (iieuilv) 500 
 
 ';,N'ci.ny innilH.lur- 
 
 '^i/Ws .u„l Orphans' 
 ^aulenis' Fu,„| 173. 
 
 7'^r Ihe l>,opngatio,: 
 tlie Collections thus 
 tutioiis, thiisprovii).' 
 ' "i llio a,u,rhes iZ 
 I and set'orully, that 
 Ji'-'iioiis ut Stations. 
 
 ■ y^ar and consider- 
 i«i fwi tictilar, during 
 '' the Return, your 
 
 tl'e whole number 
 ii'liotis appointed by 
 rJy niade, is U out 
 
 ' believe) genernllr 
 Pit'dged to tran»/er 
 'I'l to the Fund /jr 
 J Orphan's, (if it» 
 otX'l OS. Od.,per 
 no Diocese, on the 
 ]<; only imke the 
 "Ji-'ct, but further, 
 
 ■ i' 'ike sum to the 
 It t-'ociety. Not. 
 ' your Comrniiteo 
 T". submitted to 
 chial Clersfymen 
 ''■e paid the sum 
 . Society. They 
 important fact in 
 '"'the XI osOd. 
 •J", as a general 
 ' arent Society— 
 r applied to local 
 ttee, to whom it 
 
 'tirlher state a« 
 ion that cut of 
 iDtinexistance, 
 the one fourth 
 to the parent 
 ast past. 
 
 ttention to tht» 
 n suDniitted to 
 138 clergymen 
 i Diocese only 
 !omplie<l with 
 
 ttiat ail who 
 t tt with tbam 
 
 in thfir f.plriion. that tlicy hnvt made rut a v<.iy 
 •tronar c lie. ciiilinc iirfft-ntly fnr the nanjuion i,i" 
 remedini mesiKuri «. 
 
 In iiiijir.'Niina' siifli fiipamin r. they would mom 
 «iar.Tully Ruard ii:aif-t t'lc pirsihility of itn 
 h-'iri(T snppnscl tbit tliry Ct n momont ..vfrlooli 
 the .'net that the (.'htircli S 'oi..rv is a I'urcly Toliin- 
 tary assnrijition. and tint it lins no powr of 
 authoritatively rci'ilriup ihn clcrpy or lailv to 
 comply with itg rcj'uirriorfi. 
 
 Omitiin;? the oMientions tn support this Soeicfy 
 which mny nrisc frn-ii the satiction end fxbor- 
 tations of the ecclc«i!i<itical aiiih .riiii s and, fer 
 tht- present, layirjr a«idt' the considir3lion of thr 
 apiritnai wants of the nnuntry wjijch conetilut*' 
 »o strong a n-resniy for Oneral co-operation. 
 your Committee would remind the Miinl^ernof 
 the Church at hirre that this Society p'lsscfiies 
 the ri-rht, inherent in every such Ine'itution, of 
 re»trictinp;thf beni'fiis whieli it is ciilcnlated to 
 ennfer. to those alone who comply with ili« 
 conditions which it shili deem necessary to enact. 
 _ The jmlirfl and rquil'/ of calling this right 
 into exercise can sorely admit of no contiove>-i<y. 
 The TiccisfU!/ for doing so miist be Mbund«nfiy 
 apparent to all who will only consider tlio facts 
 already enumerated. 
 
 On this principle, therefore, your C- m^ittee 
 are prepared to ndvise, that no applicn'ion from 
 any Mission, praying for aid in carrying (.nf any 
 Parochial object, shall be entertiine'd by the So- 
 ciety, unless the mission so npphip;^ fh:ill have 
 complied with nil th.; requirements 'enumerated 
 in the Constitution and liy-lawsof this Corpora- 
 tion. ' 
 
 They are further prepared to recommend the 
 adoption of the same equitable principle in case 
 of applications for relief from the Widows and 
 Orphans' Fond. They would ndvise that no 
 •noh application be entertained by this Society, 
 unless the deeeaRpd Clerk shall, during iiis lilc- 
 time have faithfully comp' ; with all the le- 
 qoirements named by the f ui ly. 
 
 These recommendations i.ro of course subject 
 to certain exceptions to be hereinafter specified. 
 Your Committee have somefurther suggestions 
 to oflFer for the considerati(m of the Society, but 
 they will he more fitly adverted to in the oonrse 
 of some remarks which they would very respect- 
 fully bring before the attention of tlie Urard. 
 
 It appears to your Committee that in such an 
 Institution ns <he Churcli S-.cietv, it is a great 
 misfortune to have the Central Government in 
 a weak and uninfluential state ; and, since in 
 Missionary, as in other objects, rafiney is one 
 iireat source of power, the veiy limited" amount 
 of Funds placed at the disposal of the Parent So- 
 *'*'•>' impairs, to a groat degree, the efficiency of 
 the Institution at large, and almost destroys its 
 really Missionary character. 
 

 The prfifntorgao'i ,tion cmiTerti ». h Dliirlct 
 Branch, dnd ind^fd ench Firodiiiil ( (iminittn*, 
 into B "epamtt and iilmnut itidepriulir l Society 
 for raiiinff amniify, ui.t to le t-inpltijt'd in Mil- 
 •lorary ohject!« hut to he i-xpcniled en lortt 
 want*. One fmirtli of «|| Hnmi I snlmTipiiona 
 which ii all thnt is transmitted to tlif Farcni Suci- 
 ety. Ii not much mote than inlHcieni lo miet lh<» 
 necewttry and nnavoidiible txpfMt'« , f jig nio- 
 chinery, and prcv^ntin;; the possibility ,,f jti en- 
 tt?ring with vij^or and i-ffect upon any renlly 
 niiisionary fnterprin', 
 
 Taking the income of rhc la»i »wo yean at 
 X4,000, if ii evident thnt whf n out of thv fourth 
 of this sum, (or £1,00(1) the siilnry of its - mcera 
 and the necessary expenseo <if the Society artt 
 taken, and the XI 5 for each clergyman in th.« 
 Diocese hns been transferred to the Widows and 
 Orphans' Fund, there cnn he but a v.ry trifling 
 lum left, to be devcted to strictly Missionary 
 purpcses, even when ti. the hnUnce tlins remain- 
 ing is added the proceeds of the nnuul cnllectinu 
 nuade on behalf of Travelling MisMonaries. In- 
 deed it may he safely mated th:it the united sums 
 expended within the Diocese, throuj'h the medi- 
 um of the Church Society, for the r<-lief of those 
 who really are in spiriui.il destiiutinn, does not 
 greftly exceed 4750, the contributions of the 
 District Hranehes towards the support nf travel- 
 line Missionaries not doing more than making 
 np for the necessary expenditure of the Tarenl 
 Society. 
 
 This then seems really to be all that is done 
 for OTHERS, even by those r.8 missions within 
 whose limits the 81 I'arocbial Conimititcs are in 
 operation, the remainder of their contribution* 
 being altogether expended upon their own wants. 
 Small, however, as appear the sacrilioes which 
 even they make to relieve the wants of thosu 
 who arc in spiritual need, it i.s matter <f deeu 
 regret to find that in Gl other Missions, nothing 
 whatever is done (in the way of annual contribu- 
 tion to the Church Society) either for themselrea 
 or others. 
 
 To extend any of the benefits of the Society »o 
 auch parishes, appears to >our Coinmitfee mani- 
 festly unjust to tho^e who exert themselves upon 
 Its behalf, and hence it is that they feel compel- 
 led to recommend their exclnsion from any claim 
 to sncb benefits, until thev comply, to the extent 
 of their ability, with its just and reasonable re- 
 qairements * 
 
 Yoar Committee has already adverted to fh« 
 fact of 23 Parochial Committees being in opera- 
 tioD within 10 Missions,— and 5 of the 23 ar» 
 Tinbraced within the charge of a sinsle travelling 
 Missionary. This shows that even in thoM 
 parishes where the present Parochial Oommitfeea 
 exist, their number might be verv considerably 
 iuareaacd, beoanse in every rural Mission ther« 
 
rirs. h Diilrli't 
 liiil < oininiltri*, 
 iMiiliT I iSocietr 
 ipio) fij III Mi«> 
 ii'leil I'n l(ir<t 
 I HiilniTi|itinni 
 \m' FartMii Srici- 
 i-nt to rm'xt ihs 
 ■ •I'g I f its nin- 
 bility I'f it! fii- 
 iiii any renlly 
 
 •wo ycari nt 
 It of thv fourth 
 r of it« I fKoert 
 ie Society ar« 
 rpytiniii in the 
 e Wiilnws and 
 1 viry trifling 
 ly MisRionury 
 f thus remain- 
 tiiul collectinu 
 licinKrifn, In- 
 f united sums 
 ufh the mt'di- 
 ri'lii'f of those 
 tinn, does not 
 )ntions of the 
 port 'if trnvel- 
 
 thnn making 
 of the Parent 
 
 L that is dons 
 ssions within 
 niittft's are in 
 contributi'ins 
 .'ir ci«:ii wants, 
 critices which 
 ants of thofu 
 alter >■{ der\t 
 iions, nnthinj; 
 lual uontribn- 
 ur thi-mselvps 
 
 he Society 'o 
 iniittee mani- 
 mselves npon 
 feel pom pel - 
 om any claim 
 to the extent 
 easonable re- 
 
 'ertfd to th* 
 ing in opera- 
 f the 23 ar» 
 •{li' travelling 
 'en in thoM 
 1 Oommitteei 
 considerably 
 [iisinn thert 
 
 «r« usually r«T«rAl charcbfi or imp iilani iU« 
 tiuQi entirely indepcmleiit of ejr-h oihfr, iu con- 
 n«MiMi with each <.f which a sepiriitc I'arocLtal 
 Cuiuinitli-e n.i^ht be fornied. 'I'hat theae ttepar- 
 ftte cr)nL;roKations are not, ait a t^fnentl rule, in- 
 cluded in one Purochiiil {'mnmitiee for the .Mi»- 
 lion at iHrj^e, in, (your Coininittie think) cupabU 
 of proof friin the recorifs of tlie Sneiety. 
 
 If, iu addition to the increase whidi is tha* 
 considered practicable, there weic, in those paru 
 of the Diocese, when' no Bttiin whatever has 
 Keen taken on behalf of the Institut- i. further 
 than making some of the appointed culleclions, 
 a strenuous effort made^ by cl.rgy and la- 
 ity to extend tlie ramifioatioiisi of the Society, 
 it ii evident that its resources migi-.t at once 
 be almost doubled. Your Committee confess 
 themselves unable to see any difliculfy in ma^ 
 king tltii effort when those wha rre called npon 
 to make it are not held respoufiiblu for the mea- 
 sure of success which m;»y attend it ; and they 
 cannot believe that any, wheihnr individuals or 
 Committees who decline to do so, can deem them- 
 s?lvn8 unjustly treated if, in conse>iuence thereof. 
 tha Society exuliidt-s thein from any benefits it 
 may be able to confer. 
 
 The mere multiplication of Parochial Com- 
 mittees, however, although un object of the very 
 greatest importance, does n't appear to your 
 Committee to be sufficient to meet the evil entail- 
 ed by the very limited sum, which, by the pre- 
 sent rules of the Corporuticn, is confided to th« 
 Parent Society, for carrying out its general pur- 
 poses. 
 
 The extension of the Parochial Committees, 
 must necessarily increase the number of appli- 
 cations for aid, which your Committee firmly 
 believe it will be impossible to meet, unless a 
 larger proportion than one-fourth of their con- 
 tributions, be appropriated to the Parent Society 
 for such purposes. 
 
 At present it is the wealthy parts of tha Dio- 
 cese that are assisted by the Church Society, 
 while the poorer Districts are left unaided in their 
 poverty, and this must of necessity be the cas* 
 as long as three-fourths of all annual subscrip- 
 tions are allowed to be expended upon local ob- 
 jects in the parishes where suih subscriptioui 
 are raised. 
 
 This is a state of thin(^s furbidden by th« 
 rapidiv incrwiRiog population of the country — 
 by the pressing spiritual wants of our brethren 
 in the remoter settlements, and by all the prin- 
 ciples of Christian love and liberality. When 
 it is remembered also that there is not a Mission 
 iu the Diocese where the people do not receiva 
 from some extraneous source, snch as from tha 
 Clergy Reserve Ftind, or from the liberality of 
 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, at 
 ietkH the half, and frequently nearer the wbala 
 
mini, r<'quire<l (ci fu«inin t'lieir own raptor, 'it 
 must surely be felt tliixt they who themselves 
 receive ii;ich b"Ti.'fits, ,irp h(>und hy every princi- 
 ple of pratifudi' as well as duly, to aid their 
 brethren who are less highly fiivonred. 
 
 Such considerations have induced your Cnm- 
 Tnit'ee to reconiniend that, wi'h cevtain excep- 
 tions to be hereinarfer proyi'led fov, the Paro- 
 chial Committees be culled upon to pay into the 
 Treasury of tbe Parent Society, \\w. onehnlf, in- 
 stead of the oiie-fourlh of their annual subscrip- 
 tions 
 
 To the subject of the Widows and Orphan*' 
 Fund your Coniraittee have giveu tbeir gravest 
 consideration. 
 
 AVhile participating: in the apprehension that 
 unless very energetically supported, it will ere 
 Ions; b; unable to meet the demaiuls likely to be 
 maile upon its resources, your Committee are not 
 prepared to advise any meterial charge in the 
 general principles of its management and appro- 
 priation. 
 
 It appears to your Committee, that the pros- 
 psrify of this Fund is— like all the other objects 
 of this Society -dependent to a great degree upon 
 the general extension and support accorded to the 
 Society itsell ; and it is this consideration that has 
 induced them to recommend that no application 
 lor reliel from the Fund in question be enter- 
 tained, unless the C'srgyman deceased shall have 
 complied, not only with the requirements of the 
 Society touching this particular object, but with 
 all such rules and bye-laws as are already in force 
 or shall be from time to time enacted by this Cor- 
 poration. 
 
 The abilityof the Society to redeem its pledge, 
 of payini'' to this Fund, tor every parochial Cler- 
 gyman in the Diocese the sum of £1 5s. annually 
 from its general resources, must of course depend 
 upon those ijenoral resources being well sustained. 
 In addition, tlierefoie, to their previous recom- 
 mendation o{ onr-hdl/ of all annual subscriptions 
 being paid to the Parent Society, instead of the 
 present proportion of o?ie-/b«r//i, your Committee 
 would further suggest the necessity of requiring 
 that the amount of the Clergyman's subscription 
 be paid to the Treasurer of the Parent Society, to 
 be by him transferred to the credit of the Widows 
 and Orphans' Fund, instead of into the hands of 
 the parochial Committee, which is at present th» 
 custom wherever such Parochial Committee ex- 
 ists. 
 
 For the Society to continue annually to trans- 
 fer to the Widows and Orphans' Fund, from its 
 general resources, the sum of £1 5s. foi every 
 Clergyman in the Diocese, while the majority of 
 such ClergyVncn contribute to those resources only 
 one-fourth of that sum, 6s, 3d., must eventually 
 injure its prosperity, and cause the very extension 
 of the Society to tend to its disruption. 
 
I Fastor, • it 
 
 tlieuiRf'lves 
 
 very princi- 
 
 aid their 
 ed. 
 
 1 your Com- 
 .•tiiin exrep- 
 , tlie Paro- 
 pay into the 
 onchnlf, in- 
 lal subscrip- 
 
 d Orpharifc' 
 heir gravest 
 
 tension that 
 it will ere 
 likely to be 
 itiee are not 
 large in the 
 , and appro- 
 It the pros- 
 )ther object* 
 den;rp(' upon 
 orded to the 
 lion that has 
 application 
 )n be onter- 
 d shall have 
 nents of the 
 ;t, but with 
 ady in force 
 by this Cor- 
 
 n its pledge, 
 ochial Cler- 
 ks, annually 
 urse depend 
 11 sustained, 
 ous rerom- 
 abscriptions 
 ?t«ad of the 
 Com mil tee 
 if requiring 
 iuhscription 
 ; Society, to 
 Ibe Widow* 
 he hands of 
 present th» 
 nmittee ex- 
 
 y to trans- 
 nd, from it» 
 s. for every 
 majority of 
 lources only 
 eventually 
 y exteniion 
 
 Tour Committee would furlhe; »u^gc»t tht- 
 »(|uiiy ol re(HjiriiiK "n lin.;" Irom tiiose uhojlicd! 
 hiiieat'ler be received into llie Diocese, on tire 
 tjround o( iheir purlieipulion in tiie Li-'iiedt ot H 
 fund already accumulated ; ijikI tliey woiiii.1 Inr- 
 tiier recommend that a line bit li;;ev\'ise requireij 
 in the case ol second iiiuriianei). 
 
 'I'lie proceeds, then, of the sreneiLiI colleriiiin 
 made on behalf of this Fund— the .special dmia- 
 lious which may be made iowuids its ausjiui'ii- 
 tatioii — the dividends uccruiii!^- iroiii its vttled 
 ciipiial — llie £1 os. per annum paid from the 
 General Purposes Fund lor each Clergyman in the 
 Diocese, and the tines above siisji^esled, uppi-ar to 
 be all the sources to whicli we can le;,'iiiinately 
 look for the purpose of gusta'iiing this most im- 
 portant object. 
 
 Your Committee are deejily spnsible that, re- 
 garded upon any principle of Life A!>surance, tiif 
 proceeds arising from the various sou justenu- 
 merated, must be pronounced inadequ.. . to secure 
 lor the Widows and Orphans ol the Cleigy th» 
 •urn which is at present assigned to ihem. 
 
 To adopt the principles ot Lile Assurance, 
 would be indeed to render safe whatever amount 
 of income might be warranted thereby ; but it 
 would at the saine time so reduce that amount, as 
 to render it insufficient toansvver, in any adequate 
 degree, the object for which the Fund was ori-'i- 
 iidted. 
 
 Your Committee are therefore bi-ousht to the 
 conclusion, that it is impossible, with due re','ard 
 to the object at which ii aims, to reduce the 
 Widows and Orphans' Fund to a matter of sim- 
 ple Life Assurance ; and they are convinced, that 
 the best practicable method of attaininj; iheobjecl 
 of the Society, is to disregard the apparent hazard 
 of the step, and to go on in fa rru, regarding the 
 proceeds of the annual collections as income— to 
 be expended, if the demands upon the Fund shall 
 so require— to be invested as permanent capital 
 in whatever measure such demands shall leave it 
 nnconsumed. 
 
 But while your Committee are impressed with 
 this conviction, they are equally impressed with 
 the vital necessity of adopting every legitimate 
 means in order to maintain the largest possible 
 capital, for the purpose of securing as far as prac- 
 ticable the safety and e<iiciency oi this most im- 
 poirtant Fund. 
 
 Since there is, unquestionably, great danger of 
 the Widows and Orphans' Fund being eventually 
 unable to meet the demands herealter to be mad» 
 upon it, your Committee are disposed to think 
 that the Clergy at la.-ge are bound to consider 
 whether or not from their own resources, or by 
 the assistance of their parishes, they could not 
 contribute a larger sum to this object than £i 6s., 
 if such payment will tend to secure to their fami- 
 lies io great a boon as the pension at present paitl 
 from the Widows and Orphans' Fund. 
 
Tour Coiiiniiltee nre «wave thnt many of lh» 
 CWray pay 'rom i''''-' ^'*'y ''"'''^^'^ income* to 
 raiious Life Assurance Companies an aveinge of 
 about Xir> per annum, foi the purpose of sficuring 
 to their families tlic sum of £bQO ; a bum winch, 
 however well invesled.caii hardly he expected to 
 produce a huger return than X35 per annum. If 
 therefore, to secure an income of £35 to their fa- 
 milies, thev readily pay a yearly premium of 
 £\b your Committee are disposed to believe that 
 ihey would gladly pay a laiger sum than XM 5»., 
 if it can be shown that by so doing they would in 
 anv considerable degree add to the ability of 1h« 
 Widows and Orphans' Fund to assign a pension 
 of £50 to their widows and then orphans.' 
 
 It will naturally be said, however, that the 
 very fact of many of the Clergy, struggling amidst 
 much self-denial to pay ibis annual premium to 
 the Assurance Companies, renders it vain and un- 
 reasonable to expect them to do more on behalf of 
 the Widows and Orphans' Fund. 
 
 Your Committee are deeply sensible of this Uil- 
 ficulty ; but the question appears to them to re- 
 .olve itself into a choice of difficulties. If thu 
 Clar-'v are required to pay a much larger contri- 
 bution, it is to be feared that it will add materially 
 to the many trying and harassing anxieties by 
 which they are often surrounded, in consequence 
 of the scantiness of their means. On the other 
 band, if from their own resources, or through the 
 nssistance of their parishes, a large "leasure of 
 unfluctuating support is not given to the Widow, 
 and Orphan's Fund, there is but too much reason 
 to apprehend that, after having laboured during 
 life in the service of the Church, after death their 
 families may be left in poverty and perhaps in 
 
 ' "it d"oes"iot appear to yourCommittee that their 
 language is too strong, when they say that thi» ii 
 a prospect which is in truth appalling. In order 
 to avoid it, thev find that many of the Clergy con- 
 tinue to pay to' the Life Assurance Companies at 
 the rate of £13 per annum, because such payment 
 ,s absolutely necessary, in order to enable tbos* 
 (Companies to secure to their widows and children 
 a yearly sum of £35. If, therefore, it can b» 
 demonsfraled, that to enable the Widows and Or- 
 phans' Fund, with anything approaching cerlani- 
 S to pay £50 annually to their families, it u 
 SuaUy Lessary to pay a larger sum than h« 
 £1 58., which 18 at present contributed to th« 
 General Purpose Fund. Your Comniittee «r. 
 , disposed to think that the Clergy would gladly do 
 go. even although they were thereby compelled 
 to lefsen the amount paid to the Assurance Com- 
 paS!or to practice more self-denial, if possible 
 
 '"Yo'tlr'^cdLtllmee have felt called upon lhu» 
 lareelv to discuss the nature and necessity of the 
 .uigestions which they have to offer, b™. 
 thry feared that if thev simply embodied lh«m 
 
 / 
 
many of th» 
 i income! t<» 
 in Hvera^e of 
 se of securing 
 J sum wliich, 
 e expected lo 
 r aiinuni. If 
 35 to their fa- 
 premium of 
 :o believe that 
 I than jL'1 5s., 
 they wouM in 
 ability of the 
 si<5n a pension 
 •phans.' 
 ;ver, that tha 
 iggling amidst 
 U premium to 
 t vain and un- 
 re on behalf of 
 
 ibleof this dif- 
 to them to re- 
 alties. If lh« 
 1 larger contri- 
 add materially 
 g anxieties by 
 in consequence 
 Oil the other 
 or through the 
 •ge measure of 
 to the Widows 
 DO much reason 
 aboured during 
 Iter death their 
 and perhaps in 
 
 nitteethat their 
 say that this is 
 lling. In order 
 the Clergy con- 
 :e Companies at 
 ie such payment 
 to enable those 
 )ws and children 
 jfore, it can be 
 Widows and Or- 
 oaching cerlaiii- 
 >ir families, it is 
 ;er sum than the 
 itribuled to the 
 Committee are 
 would gladly do 
 ereby compelled 
 Assurance Com- 
 lenial, if possible 
 
 ailed upon thus 
 
 neces'sity of the 
 
 :o offer, bfcause 
 
 • embodied th«m 
 
 in a series of resolutions, they might appear to b» 
 advising a stringent and high handed coursiB, en- 
 eiitiieiy inconsistent with the character of a vo- 
 luntary association which this Society is confessed 
 to be. 
 
 They again repeat that they have never for a 
 moment forgotten or overlooked the fact that tha 
 Church Society has no prelentivns to lay any au- 
 thoritative obligations upon the clergy. The 
 course which they respectfully recommend can 
 be adopted only on that principle, which they 
 before alluded, as inherent in every corporate 
 body, of restricting the benefits it conlers to 
 those alone who comply with the condition it 
 imposes. 
 
 This point being thoroughly understood your 
 Committee cannot doubt that every one who will 
 duly reflect upon the facts they have brought 
 forward and the statements they have moved, 
 will feel that if the Church Society is to fulfill 
 the object for which it wa« origina»ed, loma 
 vigorous and energetic step to place it upon a 
 proper footing ought to be taken without delay. 
 Your Committee find from the subjoined docu- 
 ment, marked A., that there has been collected 
 Irom the 2nd to the 10th year inclusive, for the 
 Widows and Orphans, £4,362 Os. GJd. Of thia 
 sum there bas been invested and disbursed £3,- 
 418 4s. lodj. 
 
 A reference to the same document, will show 
 that the investments of the above Fund to tha 
 10th ynar, ending March 31, 1852, amount to £2,- 
 767 13s. 2d. 
 
 PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN BY-LAWS AND CONSTITUTION. 
 
 That in Article XVIlI of the Constitution of 
 the Church Society, in the 28th lioe after the 
 word respectively, the following words be 
 introduced, and do form part of said Article, 
 •• together with the full sum of one pound five 
 shillings for each duly recognized clergyman 
 within the district, or, in case of life member- 
 ship the sum of £12 10s." 
 
 2 That in third (Hansfl of 'the By-Law to pro- 
 vide for the due administering and improving 
 the Widows and Orphans' Fund of the diocese of 
 I oniDto, at the ninth line, the words from "on" to 
 the end of the said Clause be onnitted, and the 
 following inserted " under the provision of the 
 AlX Article of the Constitution of this Society, 
 tihall have established a Parochial Committeeof 
 this Society under the provision oftbeXVIIf 
 Article of the Constitution thereof reportingto 
 and in communication with the parent Society, 
 ♦•hull have remitted tie required share of thean- 
 nual subscriptions made therein to the tame 
 
10 
 
 Parent Society, stliali liiive ooiifurmeJ to all the 
 requirements (if llie t aid cunstitutiou generally, 
 unli'ss npon the (iiuisiiion of hucii requirement 
 tt special written disii .'iisatinn had been ftranted 
 by his Lordship the I'lfsident, and lorwardedto 
 the Si'cri'taiy of tiio S ciety fur i .(.'ihiraticn 
 within tliree months ifter ihe d iti; theit'uf. and 
 als> shall have paid ';iie fine or fines or the in- 
 Sialinents of the saint to « iiich he may have been 
 liable as herein after ■|irovi(!e 1. Pro\ idcd never- 
 theless that it shall at, all tiini'S be coiiipefent for 
 the President to recommend to the Standing 
 Committee any ease whioh in his Lordships 
 opinion may require special cousideiation. and, 
 should the Standing Committee report favourably 
 thereon, that then the S.ciety may grant such 
 proportion of an annuity as to ihcm may seem 
 fit," Provided nevertheless that nothing here- 
 in contained shall be deemed to exclude any 
 clergyman of this d'ocese, who may have been 
 placed by the Lord lishop on any superannuated 
 list, from participa'inj; in the full benefits of 
 the By-Law, providei' he conformed loall the re- 
 quirements of this l$y-Law up to the time at 
 ■which he was placed on said list. That all the 
 words in the said Cla ise be omitted and the fol- 
 lowing inserted in lieu thereof. " thnt every cler- 
 gyman cnferinp thediciese and desirous of avail- 
 ing himself of the provsion of the Uy-Lawbe re- 
 quired to pay to thecr lit of tlif widows and or- 
 phans fund the sum ' fX 10 within 6 months af- 
 ter said entrance int.' the diocise in one payment 
 or, under the sanction of the Bishop, by 8 annu- 
 al instalments of.tl .5!-'., and in case such Cler- 
 gyman shall decease before such instalments be 
 paid, that then such instalments as tbey become 
 due shall be deducted from 'lie annuity payable 
 to his widow or orphans : and that everyclergy- 
 manofthe diocese remarrying and desirous of 
 availing himself of the provision of ihe By-Laws 
 be required to pay to the credit of the widow 
 and orphans fund the sumofjClOin one pay 
 ment within three months after said remarriage. 
 
 3 That in the seventh clause, first line, the 
 vord Treasurer be omitted, and the word Secre- 
 tary be inserted in lieu thereof. 
 
 4 That in the eighth clausei tenth line, and all 
 Other places in this By-Law where the personal 
 sabscription of the clergyman is alluded to, after 
 the words " one pound five shillings per annum" 
 there be inserted, " or shall have become a lifo 
 member under the third Article of the Constitu- 
 tion of this Society". 
 
 5 That whereas after eleven years working 
 of this Society, it has appeared that the propor- 
 tion of one-fourth of all ironeys collected in the 
 Parochial CoEimittees now required to be remit- 
 ted to the Parent Society, is not sufficient for ful- 
 ly carrying out the object of the Society, Be it 
 therefore resolved, that on and after the generftl 
 
^d to all the 
 a gcnerully, 
 requirement 
 )t'en f;rante(l 
 lorwarded to 
 i.f.'i.s!raiicn 
 ihcroof, and 
 ^s or the in- 
 ly luive been 
 vided never- 
 iiiipefent for 
 he Standing 
 is Lordships 
 eiaiinn, and, 
 rt favourably 
 
 I grant such 
 
 II may seem 
 ithing here- 
 
 exclude any 
 
 y have been 
 
 iperannuated 
 
 benefits of 
 
 loall the re- 
 
 ihe time at 
 That all the 
 1 and the fol- 
 it every cler- 
 rouB of avail- 
 y-Law be re- 
 dows and or- 
 6 months af- 
 one payment 
 ■), by 8 annu> 
 ie such " ier- 
 staUiU'nts be 
 they become 
 luity payable 
 everyclergy- 
 1 desirous of 
 the By-Laws 
 f the widow 
 
 in one pay 
 I remarriage, 
 irst line, the 
 
 word Secre- 
 
 ) line, and all 
 the personal 
 ided to, after 
 9 per annum" 
 become a life 
 the Constitu- 
 
 ars working 
 t the propor- 
 lecled in the 
 i to be remit- 
 icient for ful- 
 Society, Be it 
 !r the genertkl 
 
 li 
 
 Itnnual mectinar of the S loipty, which shall ha 
 held in June \%',:,, thi> proportion shall he one- 
 half, and that after said niectinj; the words one- 
 fourth, in the twenty seventh lino of the eight- 
 eenth clan«e of the Constimtion shall be omit- 
 ted, acd the words o/if-/<((//" inserted in lieu there- 
 of. 
 
 6. That f f illowing ba aranng the Standing 
 Orders of the Society . 
 
 First Standing Ordrr. 
 
 That after the adoption (,f this report no ap- 
 plication for a grant, loan, or other assistance, 
 be entertained from any Koctory, Incumbency or 
 Mission, in which tliere shah not have b. en 
 established, a " rarochial Committee' of this 
 Society, under the provisions of the article of the 
 Constitution theret.f, reporting to and in com- 
 munication with the P.irent' Society, and in 
 which all the requirements of said Constitution 
 shall not have been complied with, unless upon the 
 omission of such requirement a special written 
 dispensation had been granted hy his Lordship the 
 President, and forwarded to the Secretary for re- 
 gistration within three months of the date thereof; 
 and further, that accompanying such application 
 there he a distinct and accurate description nf 
 the object towards which aid is sought, together 
 with adetailsd account of the sums of money 
 collected in the loca'ity or elsewhere towards the 
 same object, and how applied: Provided aever- 
 theless, tfiat it shall be at all times competent for 
 the President to recommend to the Standing 
 Committee any case which in his Lordship's opi- 
 nion may require special consideration; and 
 should the Standing Committee report favourably 
 thereoii, that the Society may in such case grant 
 the assistance so s ■ught, or any portioa therei f. 
 
 Second Standing Order. 
 
 That after the adoption of this rep'^rf, no ap- 
 plication be enterlaine I from the Widow or 
 Orphan or the guardian of t!ie orphan, of 
 any deceased clergyman of this Di< cese who 
 •ball not have confbrnieJ to the provisions and 
 requirements of a certain Byhw entiitiled a 
 "By-law for the due :idministerinff and impro- 
 ving the Widows' and Orphans' Fund of the 
 Church Society of the Diocese (.f Toronto," and 
 also of any amendments to the said By-law, 
 which may be enacted from time to time according 
 to the provisions of the constitution of the said 
 Society unless upon the omission of any of the 
 ■aid requirements a special written dispensation 
 had been granted by his Lordship the president 
 and forwarded to the Secretary for registration 
 within three months after the date thereof. 
 Provided nevertheless, that it shall be at all timet 
 
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 tompcleDt fur the Pretideot to recouimcnd to 
 the Standing Committee any case which in hix 
 Lordship's opinioo may reqaire Bpecial confii- 
 deratiuD, and should the Siandinf; Commitlee, 
 report favoorably thereoii, that then the Society 
 may grant such proportinn of an annuity as to 
 •aid Society may seem fit. 
 
 AU of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 Stk.phkn Lett, Chairman, 
 P B. DeBlaquiehe, 
 D. E. Blake 
 W. Stevvaht Dafmno, 
 Thomas S. Kennedy, Secretary C. .5, 
 
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STATEMENT OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED AND DISBURSED ON AC- 
 COUNT OF THE WIDOWS & ORPHANS' FUND FOR INVESTMENT. 
 
 Old Ledger. 
 Foho 50. 
 
 Third Year, 
 
 To Amounts Invested, &c, &c. 
 By Amounts Received, &c. . . . 
 
 1852, 
 Mftrch 31, 
 
 Fourth Year, 
 
 To Amounts Invested, &e.. 
 By Amounts Received, &c. 
 
 Fifth Year, 
 
 To Amounts Transferred &c. 
 By Amounts Received 
 
 Sixth Year, 
 
 To Amounts Invested, &c. 
 By Amounts Received. . . . 
 
 Seventh Year, 
 
 To Amounts Invested, ike 
 By Amounts Received. . . . 
 
 Eighth Year, 
 
 To Amounts Invested. , 
 By Amounts Received. 
 
 Ninth Year, 
 
 To Amounts Invested, &c 
 
 By Amounts Received and transferred 
 from Helief Fund 
 
 Tenth Year, 
 
 To Amounts Invested and Disbursed. . 
 By Amounts Received &c. 
 
 Balance to Credit of this Account 
 for Investment 
 
 488 
 
 492 
 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 199 
 
 813 
 
 398 
 
 90 
 
 6!) 
 
 927 
 3480 
 
 10 
 
 16 
 
 15 
 
 7i 
 
 2i 
 
 lOi 
 
 H 
 
 519 
 
 1 66 
 
 476 
 
 569 
 
 527 
 
 297 
 
 278 
 
 345 
 
 3480 
 
 8. 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 9J 
 
 11 
 
 4i 
 
 911 
 
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 n 
 
 Remarks. 
 
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 iS'J'MENT. 
 
 STATEMENT WITH THE PARTICULARS OF AMOUiNTS RECEIVED 
 
 AND DISBURSED ON ACCOUNT OF THH WIDOWS AND ORPHANS* 
 
 RELIEF FUND, FOR 8ni, 9th, IOtii, AND PART OF llin YEARS, 
 
 D. 
 
 Remark*. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Cr. 
 
 91 
 
 Eighth Year. 
 To Fayments of Annuities 
 
 Ninth Year. 
 To Paid Annuities. 
 To paid Expenses. . 
 To Investnfienta.... 
 
 !l. D. 
 
 il Eighth Year. 
 
 I' By t'olieclioiis 
 
 i! P.. e.,^i»i (lunations, 
 
 271 I(i|5^'l 6yS|i«ia 
 
 |1 By Dividends 
 
 185 
 
 
 
 232 
 
 I 
 
 Tenth Year. 
 To Investments. 
 
 69 
 
 4i 
 
 Elev«>"th Year. | 
 
 To Inves.ments, &c j 77 
 
 To payments of Annuities. 202 
 To payment of Taxes 3 
 
 Ninth year. 
 
 By Collections 
 
 By Dividends 
 
 By Special Donations. 
 By fSiibscriptionii 
 
 15 7 
 
 Tenth year. 
 
 By Collpctions 
 
 By Special Donations 
 
 Instalment and Interest per 
 
 llev, F. Evans 
 
 By Rents 
 
 Eleventh year. 
 
 By Collections 
 
 By Subscriptions 
 
 By Special Donations 
 
 By Dividends 
 
 By Instalments and Interest 
 
 From Rev. F. Evans.. 
 
 £ I 8. u 
 
 311 
 
 2 
 
 83 
 
 lU 
 
 360 1 1 & 
 
 I00|l8 9 
 
 4'il3 9 
 
 10 
 
 289 
 4 
 
 45 
 5 
 
 318 
 
 5 
 
 11 
 
 54 
 
 39 7 
 
 3 
 
 4i 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 6 
 
 10 
 
 
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 Tba above Accoant for the 11th year, is up to Jan. Slst last, being 10 months. 
 
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 Thi 
 promote 
 howevei 
 Church 
 will be 
 strength 
 ficulty ii 
 and Saci 
 nunnber 
 dates foi 
 tance w 
 increase 
 part of t 
 people i 
 have suj 
 the Dio( 
 pel amo 
 sionarie! 
 other bo 
 distincti 
 moreovi 
 in cases 
 the Min 
 
 An 
 such me 
 and her 
 fulness 1 
 
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 with wl 
 into the 
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 tember I 
 Diocese 
 
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PASTORAL LETTER. 
 
 [The Committee republish the pastoral letter of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, 
 iiiued nearly eleven yearK ago.J 
 
 TO ALL FAITHFUL MHMDERS OP THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH 
 IN WESTERN CANADA, 
 
 'Hit Bishop of Toronto Creelins : 
 Dearly beloved in the Lord, — 
 
 The Clergy and many Lay members of the Church, moved by a pious desire to 
 promote the glory ot God, and the welfare of the (lock of this diocese, over which, 
 however unworthy, He hath made me Overseer, h've represented unto me that the 
 Church is sufl'eiing from the want of greater unity of action ; that her future progress 
 will be much impeded unless steps are speedily taken to provide for her growing 
 strength and efHciency as the population increases ; and that even nlready great dif- 
 ficulty is found in maintaining and extending the decent administration ot God's Word 
 and Sacraments, more especially so far as the same depends upon multiplying the 
 number of the Clergy, providing for their support and the due education of the candi- 
 dates for Holy Orders, as well as the promotion among our people of a better acquain- 
 tance with the Evangelical truths nnd Apostolic order of the Church of England, the 
 increase of acharitable attachment to her doctrines, her ritual, and her ministry, on the 
 part of those professing to be her children, and the knitting tos-elher of pastors and 
 eople in closer bonds of mutual affection and reg'ard : and for remedy of these evils 
 ave suggested that a Society be formed, to be denominated " The Church Society of 
 the Diocese of Toronto," the objects of which will be :— The Propagation of the Gos- 
 pel among the Indians and Destitute Settlers by m^ans of travelling and resident Mis- 
 sionaries; (he circulation of the Scriptures, the Book of Common Prayer, nn<l such 
 other books and tracts as are calculated to promote a better acquaintance with the 
 distinctive principles of the Church, and the support of Sunday and Parochial Schools, 
 moreover shoulu the funds admit, to succour the widows and orphans of Clergymen 
 in cases of destitution, and to assist deserving young men in pursuing their studies for 
 the Ministry, where circumstances may require it 
 
 Another important object which has been powerfully recommended is, to devise 
 such measures as may seeni best adapted for placing the maintenance of the Church 
 and her ministers upon a permanent and satisfactory footing, and extending her use- 
 fulness by increasing her resources. 
 
 Highly approving of these objects, and feeling the warmest gratitude to those 
 with whom the proposed remedy originated, and above all, to God, who l.ath put it 
 into their hearls to attempt the supply of wants, the reality and urgency of which w« 
 have long painfully experienced, I recommended in my Charge to my Clergy, in Sep- 
 tember last, the expediency of establishing a Church &>ciety commensurate with the 
 Diocese, and that measures be taken for its speedy organization. 
 
 On that occasion a Committee was appointed to draw up such rules and regula- 
 tions as appeared necessary for the constitutian and gnvprnment of the proposed In- 
 
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to 
 
 the meet,,,, vTa..Il..la ' H;,t "r:;r':''^ M.,aM,„,„„ly .ul,,,,,.,,,. „„,„,„ 
 
 IS ...o.n,Mt.nlly.alr„K,t. ,• ,," „ ,« . '' V '"' ^"" '■'"g"^ "I »'. InUmUr.n ul,,.!, 
 mo.t l.er.olicu.i roMili. ' * 'o""""*')- ""^ tflK.eiilly muiMluin..!, lo ,Mu.iuce iho 
 
 will 'u.^i:"i:'^i ";'i;:.:;iK i;,:'^':;'f Jvr" " '■'?"'"' ''"'y' -"^ ' «-" v- 
 
 ccntaiiwn:- lull. .,l ,,nH v r I ^t ?«"'''»•'"« '■I'sonal,,.,,., vv 1,1.1,, thoi,, ., 
 
 may fe'li^/;;;;:;;;,;*';^:;- «--' ;;.:-;:;i °pp-; ^^ot .h. ohiec, or .he soci..,y 
 
 its primary move me.it ,,m ' i ,p nn,! ' ' ■ 1 "'Jl "''"" '" ""^'" '^""■' ''i"^'ly '" 
 re.peclivc.Vui,l e : e liu n^^^^^^ tl,eCk.„y and CluMchwaulcm .n iLr 
 
 into opera.lou .,, .I..Mr ^v .n^ "^ !, i^^s sju l^ '"" '," ''"' !'"' '";^^-'""">' 
 
 t he Societv. Tl... I'li,.,.) ,.,i [ .'"•''^^' .v"iims, ns .set (,)iih m llie lulci, and rc-ju .il oiis uf 
 
 Bc.'ompl.sh its bc.nevok.,.i d" ..,,3 ^ '' ""' "*' '■""'^ '^'^ Ii'stilulion is to 
 
 PastcSlnTtl^hS^wa'den.andmrz^'^^^^^^ '^'^^'°"''^^ ^-''^'y- "-'''» 
 
 their inlluoncf to du 'o ^.^ I L ' T, :'''' ''"'>;, =""^r 'h'-'r owm hearl., ,o exe.t all 
 •nd to I.ec.me act e md e f fe, t f I' ;'"" "v'"" ' ir"" ^'""■'\' "'■I'"'" ""^ ^^'-''ely 
 supported hnd it a lifF U m! ,' ,'" , ' ,^- ^'^'•"■.'" "'ly '"'"''"' t^leruyman thus 
 Whi have reached the y a • \ ; ;t I Tvio'!^^^ [l-'se of hi. congregation 
 
 gation which every Chn'.lia 1 ™ /^^^ "I'ocai b.Mnada to led the great obli- 
 not only will Ihey^tnho h le est I'Mu-r^'^r'^'' r"'''.'' »'>f <^o^P^I- And 
 its prin^a.y ohiec t bt t t Iv u i , ,; "'.'- """'"^of an Instiliitior. which has ihis for 
 tran'lmilte^ l^.''he',r."!su;7onhe'c'i:;,n,:" ^''^"'"'"^ "'^''- °«''^''"SS, that ,hey may be 
 
 daugS S-SoSlhe\:£:xSs^|;Sti:^.t^ ^^°-^;^'^ -" -'l 
 
 occasions. Its members wili honc'foTth f ef ha ihpv t ll ■'' '"' °',' '" "^"^=''7 
 remote, and perhaj.s isol.Ued con',; aiL L u w ^^ "erely ,o a smalf 
 
 With all the congregations onh.|-^lnT.?iL , V ' '""^^ ''"^ uu.n.r w corinecte . 
 Dioceses which conVrtl-e cLrcl of'rn l "" ?f ''"\ ''^"f '■''^"-■' ^"'"^ "" '^-^ 
 way only will they be u, ited to the ['h, ,S,Tm' ?„,^'''7°^°"; l^' world ; nor i,. this 
 Institution they became assoiinYedvitln , '. t°''' '^*"'"'' 1^"^ '" """'"S this 
 
 the handmaid/ oi the Cl'udlSF,!^r,^''■?^^ Missionary Societies which are 
 
 had beer; accustomed from cii:?;L, ^'l^ ^i' !''"' "'^''- ^''^''^'■e" '" 'he Colonies 
 Englan.!, and\h°Th ^ c^uld ^e fo?m I'Zt^ ^f /" u'^^- ^°^°'" °' '^' ^^urch of 
 .he&.,iritua, want.. ^An3:i^&^^KShl,?StK^°ia& 
 
 Oh 
 
17 
 
 ;'.r 
 
 I^ioreie, hnil tiut thcKO iioblt; Iiittilutiuni [tit toilli their affVifiotials exertioni toielicv* 
 
 uur ipiiitunl n(.'CP<3ilii'«t t 
 
 Urciiilliil imlci'd wmili! hnve been the iii ml ami ii.'li({i(itia dritiliitliid "( thnunandi 
 in our *etl!criieriti, liiit l.>r llini mitiiiiij^ luli.ur". II ic iipialliii'^ fven f > imiigii <! the 
 •itiialinti ill wliicli they woiiUI have been placeil, — I'lmLili' to Ion;; furvv.itd to |ia»:»ini; 
 Ih'! Sabbatli in the ii'iviru nl (/nil, ihcy tiai»i hiiv« ei'.ht'i' sii:ii< iiit^j imlitfe-ii-fioi* Mnil un- 
 belicl, or bi'coinu tlic piay ol'ilfjtiiiciivi' ciior. 'I'here woulil have ue'fii no Cl'i.'ymnu 
 to rorisiilt ill the hour ot (iillioully— no blp«»eil saiTaincnt o!' biptijin to their i ,.|ilieri— 
 no linty orthnaiu'o ol c(.t;hriiiatiun, or ol' nmiiitnony to their :-oiis niul dun^hiers — no 
 opi'oituiiily nrtonled thrm (if rfri'ivir'u^, as the chwn ol' iili' :ippri)nchpil. ihe precioin 
 coniolatioiis o( ri-'linion, or oi'a'citiM'; tin; ilistiaclii.i; ccituiiity ol pia)pil»ss inleiment. 
 All these evils havi; been toa^'icat extont pioveiited liy lli'-;i' ','r(ni Missionary !SiiciL'tie« 
 which sent (-'lcri;yrripti at tlu; voiy lirsl "]ipniiig ol' Iho Fiovinre, nmi Lave conliimcd 
 to multiply thfir imtriber to the piVsifnl tune. Ami well liavi' these si-rvants of Uod 
 fiillilled the aloridiis olijrcts ol' ilicir divine rni«sin;i, by piool,, daily tjivpii, of surh 
 Jiu'ty, zeal anil labour, tiiriital and b'ldily, ol iMidship palitiitly fndurt'il, nnd I'ortiluilo 
 displayed, ai londor them not iiiwor.hy, n( the pririiili\'P f :j;o:( nl itu- f'iuirch. — [iies- 
 tiriiable, theicfore, is the i\u\)[ of i;iali!iiile wliicli all \\ho live in tins diori -e owe to th« 
 Society for the I'ropatjatioii of the Gasptl in Foreign I'arts, and the Society for Promot- 
 ing Cliristian Knowk'd^i-. 
 
 Yet mir iperease of pnpulition is ro rapid, — our wants so many, and oonrly mul- 
 tiplying, that it is n.i Innj-er possible fur tluse holy and Keneruus institunoii^elFectualjr 
 to meet then). Nor vi it reasonable to expoct tliat our spiritiiul necessi iei ihotild 
 nlways continue to he supplied hy the charity of our brethren of the iiiotbe' eountry ; 
 nor is it desirable, if it were. Thi.' time lias arrived when «e tnipht to do mieihing 
 for ourselves. (.)ur fellow-subjecis ut home are still willing? to encouragi \19— still 
 ready to give us an ample share of their benevidence, but they begin to idn fi>r the 
 fruits of what they have already done, nnd, as they liave assisied us so lor?, they 
 tlynk that we ought now to begin to assist one another. And it is to ioduci you to 
 meet their just expectations that I now address you; for with willing he.s rts you 
 can do mucn towards supplying our s|)irilual dtsiildtion. Here we have no native 
 Ministry — no studeuls trained to Holy Orders, except the few «ho are eneouro;., ed by 
 the beneficent Societies of whieli we have been speaking. — \Ve have nobenelict^ — no 
 Bufiic'ient miitivcH to induce parents to dedicate their children t') the sacred prol >sion 
 — nil means of assistin;; a-ied .Ministers, or their widowj and chilJren, nlien de[ iveri 
 of their protection. Xow it is for eujIi purposes, and to ail in supplying all our >anH 
 (if a spiritual nature, that we have established ibis Church Society, of which, I "ust, 
 you will all bo'cosne meinbL'rs, so that, under (Jod, it may be made the horn red 
 instrument uf promoting bis glory. And i! you come frirv-ard, with willing hearts ,nd 
 earnest prayer, for the divin;; blessing to de-ecnd on all who join in so j;o ul a Mi rk, 
 vve need not despond. Kvery mi'ii;i)er <,f llie Church siiould be aware tliat, i;i furtl -r- 
 ing the cau; of religion, we are bound to talic an interest in it beyond our parish or 
 immediate n.d^^hhourhood. In this diocese, there ire many districfs, witli a scaltui -d 
 piipulatiiin of Eiich comparative poverty as lo admit of little probability of Ibrir bei. e 
 liirnished, ! .r a very long time, with the a iministraticii of tl:e sncred ordinances, ar d 
 the preaching of the Word of Ciod. unless assisted by th(is2 who pnfsess more favou- • 
 able opportunities, and a greater suC.iciency of means. In such cases, the ouservatioa 
 of St. Paul is applicable, that the members of the body should have the same care (in« 
 for anotiier, and that, if one meaiber salTer, all the membi-rs should sull'er with it. In 
 many of i ur t;iwns'ii!.s, generations are rising withiut any visible means of instruction 
 in the most iniporiin', truths of religion, or in the practice of its duties; and we are 
 warranted, by evcf day's experience, in a(iirinin,r, that the result of such a s'ale of 
 tilings is progressii e detjeneracy. and a disregard to the common decencies of life. To 
 meet this growing evil is one of the objects of the Society, — it will enahle the Church 
 to take tbeui under her protection. 1 therefore would press upon jour consciencts 
 the duly of furnishing contributions in a measure suited 1 1 the means which a gracious 
 Providence lias bestoived upon you. We live at a period when prodigious elTorts are 
 making for evangelising the world, and it would be a most criminal oversi{;ht 
 in us to stand aloof and not ti> participate in so good a work. Nor have we far 
 to go. Uirjiricts requiring spiritual assistance are every where around us. And lo 
 «uch efforts ne are encouraged by the present aspect of the Christian world, for it !• 
 on all sides pregnant with future promise, and preieats to the reflectinff mind the anti- 
 
 « ««wj*i^"SS«iKH!?«w»m«af:?: 
 
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 eipation of the most delightful events now gtruffglinff in the womS nf .:«-. » a . 
 
 relatJl!>X8X?rto7tSii»lf''''-'' '/"'?"' '" '''S Constitution of the Society, and 
 of a sufficient SSraber ,f A nS^ ^""^ endown^ent of the Cathedral,-the maintenance 
 DOW employed OMO be eni1^Sr°rT'?fr u''^'"J""'« *"'="'"^'' f"' '^e Clergy 
 
 .olid ^.a%r&Vd^t i"sSct7f\tt^e"' '''°'""'" ^"'^ parsonage-houses'o'f 
 as to t"lSenl°K'''°''N"'^' '"•*^'^••«"• '"^'-'n'' '^n a sli^jht view, so vast and expansive 
 ChurSh afE oiT is Gnd-r wiVu""- f "«« •"'^^--^ ^y an aged membe? of th^ 
 itideed, on TZTnlJ\„A,t "'h •"'^ "°^'"S '« 'rap"ssible with G,.d And 
 Tanish s andreruUimateatt Sn^^n*; • '"fPr"""' '""<=J' "^ ""^ ^'PPosed difficulty 
 period of Timp if on L ^ attainment is all but certain, even in a comparatively short 
 
 drscipi;s of Christ? '''"■'' "' '° '^' ''°^' P'^^^' ^"'^ ""^ f'""^ ^"<=h'as becols the 
 
 .vhicItS°rvTrat^o"[etu.SVX'' '"" T''" ^''' '^""'''•'"' 1""«-nships, each of 
 ordinary parishes in Ei^Han.l I nLf','" .""^,^^r'" "^'''^' ^'-^''^^^ '° ""-'"'V twenty 
 nor will ,t fnv^.l ^"S'a" 1. Eiit such a minute division it would be in vain to attemnf 
 
 Jbteyi •;£,rr L'l,::;en^7o"t':;^' ""''l' ""f^'^'l"'- ^''""''"'' "-" «- -n^z: 
 •lowing them loe" not .PPmnlV ^'^ J""'"')^' '" '■«'=h township, the difficulty of en- 
 six thou anTacre or r^. L f f '^' ,''"t"°"'-, ^ '^'''^"M> contains about sixty 
 each. Now for thVendowm ' t f? """' ■'^''-^'''^ °'- '•'"™-^. "f tvvo hundred acres 
 allowing e^ch threeTo?s!rS ac '^s" '""'''''■ "' ''^'^' °' '''' ''''''' ^^•'" ^^ ^^'1"'^'^''' 
 
 ^vi.htueS eS of Uie ill°/l7''' '^ °'' 'T J"."^' '^'^ ^^'^'^'■^'^"^ ^^ '"^"-^ the tenant, 
 ed fora glebe and tl^-i'n-.'''ri''"' '''"''^ '^°?' ""^ endowment wouhl be requir- 
 •nd perhaps srainb/hi'm if "'h^i'^h^""^ ^'"^ /'.re wood, hay, pas?ure, 
 
 added to the advam^^^e of H,p h 1 , , """ ''^ '''-""'^ '■^"'^'^ ''"'• "'^ two other lots 
 
 ^vhich is scarcely S'fiSpaaS Ihe'Sof l[,'^"^'"^^i'''^.' f'"^ ^'^ ^'^'^^ '°'« - ^^™«. 
 purpose so bles edV £ 'nr nv T «.n L ' ''' ' ^^ ^'''''^F.'^M Pious individuals tor a 
 wil make nn fnrVr • ^ ^ Townships much more will doubtless be given and this 
 ^e hTv^^?evv^f%5:'''"-^-^ '" «''^«" -l-^^^' less liberality prevails, or p'crhaps where 
 
 or tvv?,roLrd'fiaS'i,''ihTvi'rf f ^'^""°!,'^ •^^'"i^"" ■■" =^"y °"^ township. 
 
 of land to the serv ce of Pn! i? . ^°'' ^ ::°^'"<^« ^'^I'o^ed to dedicate a small portion 
 and thus a relit ruHstabSmn'tS^^^r' '°' '""" ""'"'"^'^^^ ^^•°"''' ^« '^«''« i"^^'-^" 
 
 Diocese, or at a 1 even s I thl noid^riLT'" 'T'"'' """^'T'' '^ ^^'^ ^""'^ °f "'o 
 iv»- 1 cvcnis [111 me population had irieat v increased. 
 
29 
 
 line: and not 
 t warrants iis 
 edoms of the 
 I'o some, the 
 uea to use, as 
 that with the 
 
 ' the Church 
 lly promoted 
 1 without the 
 
 Society, and 
 maintenance 
 ir the Clergy 
 ige-houses of 
 
 id expansive 
 ember of the 
 God And 
 ed difficulty 
 atively short 
 becomes the 
 
 hips, each cf 
 ally twenty 
 n to attempt; 
 our contem- 
 iculty of en- 
 about sixty- 
 unclred acres 
 be required, 
 
 rches, being 
 uld not lor a 
 
 1 ihe tenants 
 1(1 be requir- 
 lay, pasiuie, 
 •0 other lots, 
 ;her sources, 
 
 ts or farms, 
 iduaJs tor a 
 ■en, and this 
 haps where 
 
 : Township, 
 nail portion 
 (le in each; 
 yantsof the 
 
 fe, to spare 
 
 struction of 
 
 thus, freed 
 
 nefit of the 
 
 'r by gift or 
 be secured, 
 lly imbued 
 uld be first 
 ccording to 
 
 Such endowments rc(juire to be cariif'd out, that the Church nstnbli<.htnpnt may be 
 made commensurate with the exigencies of the Diocese. J^vory parish should have itH 
 resident minister, and eveiy sucli minister should have the iiccessuiy racilitics to enable 
 him to dischaii^e without anxiety bis sacred duties. 
 
 We 
 
 may consuler ourselves lu the primitive times, \. hen the liisbop sent out his 
 Missionaries from tiie Cathedral or principal Church, and lett it to the various Districts 
 or settlements to say whollif-r they were disposed to have a resident pasior or not. If 
 the inhabitants of any sucli District or settlenieiit said, — " Here is a bouse to live in, — a 
 glebe to furnish provisions,— and an endowiiiHiit to rent lor the supply of other neces- 
 saries, — abide with lis, and be taithlul not only to us but to your Bishop, and to his 
 Master and your Master," — :i Parish becanie established. In this way arose the 
 parochial system in Great Britain and over tliu whole Continent of Europe, and thus 
 must it arise in this Diocese. 
 
 From the history of endowments we learn that they were not the gii't of Kings or 
 of States, but the fruits of voluntary contributions. — the donations of individuals ; and 
 to individuals we must still apply. At first the Bishop lived with his Cleray in the 
 chief city in his Diocese, and from time to time he sent them out to cliliuse ihe linht 
 of the Gospel through tiie surrounding counlry, on which the l^un of Ilighteousness had 
 not yet shone. The people became dissatislied with these occasional visits of the 
 ■clergy, and desired their continual residence for spiritual advice, and consolation, and 
 the regular ministration of the sacred ordinances and offices of the Cnurch. 
 This produced an arrangement between them and the Bishop. The proprietors of the 
 fioil engaged to build a Cnurch, to endow it either with tithes or with land, on condi- 
 tion of being allowed a resident Clergyman . Hence the origin of endowments, which 
 became universal throughout all Christendom. And with willing hearts nothing can 
 be easier than for us to pursue a similar jirocess in this new country. Let the mem- 
 bers of the Church, in every Township, unite in providing endowments for one or 
 more Churches, and, as sroa as productive, they will be entitled to a resident clergy- 
 man, and have the conscious felicity of walking in the footsteps of those who, in the 
 iTiore early ages, endowed the Chuich. 
 
 Should our people in any one township be unable to complete the enilowment, 
 assistance will be given by the Lay CommiUee to makeup Ihe deficiency. Now 
 great as the call was, my brethren, on the first converts to Christianity lo do all in 
 their power with their substance, and with their talenis, both of body and mind, to 
 convert the gentiles to the faith, the call upon us is in one respect greater. For we are 
 not merely urged to convert the heathen, but to pievcni those who have once seen the 
 light, from falling back into darkness, or joining the ranks of heresy and schism 
 
 All of you must feel the spiritual deslilnlion which prevails around you, and that 
 effectual measures ought to be taken for its removal. And who can do so but the 
 more affluent portion of the community ? It is a duty laid upon them of which no 
 doubt can exist in the minds of those who bear the name oi Christ, and profess to 
 derive from the Gospel the rules of their practice. Nor are we without encouragetr.ent 
 from past experience. IMany are the townships whicli a few years ago, possessed no 
 provision for spiritual ministrations, in which a Churcli is now built, and set apart for 
 public worship, — a minister in charge, — the children collected in Sunday Schools, — 
 and the people instructed in the truths of the Gospel. 
 
 The effects of the exertions already made, faint as 1 trust they will be found to be 
 when contrasted with those to come, has been a growing attachment to the Church, 
 an acknowledgement of her excellence, and a practical conviction of the value of her 
 services. The attendance on public worship, the number of communicans and catn- 
 didates for confirmation have rapidly increased, and the clergy arc reaping the reward 
 of their labour, anxieties and personal sacrifices, in beholding the progress of religiou.s 
 principles. Moreover, abundance of evidence every where ajipears that opposition or 
 indifference towards the Church, ore^en separation, docs not in general, arise from any 
 distrust of her principle or doctrine, but from the difhculty, or practical Impossibility 
 of obtaining instruction within her pale. 
 
 But without entering farther into matters of detail, it may be sufficient'to remark 
 that endowments from our own people, added to what has been left to the Church of 
 the Clergy reserves, will, it is hoped, under the management and care of the Lay 
 ■Committee, in time, complete the full establishment of the Church throughout the di- 
 ocese. To make such endowment productive, will, It is true, require a longer period, 
 hat we are not only working for the present generation, but far posterity j and w« 
 
so 
 
 hllVC tl, 
 
 liisi>ri30ii,M:;i;ri!>^n!, tiiiit t 
 
 \vh.'ie sudi an ostablishitient .loe,^ nor alread 
 
 _ii:3 new coMntry, iJosti 
 ^'icnis est.iblishmenr wliicli old 
 
 ij'o as it is in 
 
 brc't 
 
 'iri;n, will lurn a i|(.|i| 
 
 prools, t,..,| ihuusaiu! (i,Ul, will b 
 
 ear to tlio s'llicila; 
 
 X!3f. \or c;iri I suppos,; that 
 
 of iIjl' C 
 evori now 
 parsoiia^'c, and o 
 the siitiiH 
 
 Itn.'e 
 
 lid II, 
 
 oil 
 
 'c i; veil in my cl 
 
 i'),is that vvdii) 
 
 spiiituni thitiiff, 
 
 countries dr) not possess, 
 
 yoti, my 
 
 e niadjioyoM. I trust that 
 
 iliL'r wantin: 
 tid )\v(' 
 
 icr iiuble oldecls ot' IIih So 
 
 io(;''.-:e (ou-arrl thi; pei 
 
 O, 
 
 IC (, 
 
 ic'iy. A' 
 
 iTianent su 
 
 isiiM;,'uished member has h 
 
 ic same will) (10:) acres of ex 
 
 ipport 
 
 are such prood 
 
 'lilt a Church and 
 
 or 
 
 individual nmrni.es to''endo'v'ni'h"r'r-'''t''''^ '""'"■ ^'°'' '^ this all : 
 rnuiiifficcnt manner. ' M^;thZ^Se;n^c^L ^:7,'"",'^''^^ "^ ■••-''^•"^'«- i" .he same 
 acres, or other smaller portions tw vo .,d ,' '"'"v'"''' '""''' ""« »'""''^ed 
 
 (levoted to iho service oiUo one h.in Ked . r ' .Vi "' "^ V'T"''' P^'tnmony, has 
 for a bl..,i„: ,„ heaven. A LT nin " ; d' n' t nL '^'f" ''"',''■ "'"' ^""^'' '" ••«'"^n 
 erous exainpivs. T„ b,nld a C rcii Vrd n I, ,f ' ' '' '^'"'^ '" '"^''''""^ ^''''h gen- 
 
 ««pplyin« the temporal a v ell a . t'rd '^ '",■'' ^'■?.'"? ""> ^''^ ^^'^"n.v for 
 ^ncl, a locality ,s p;e>ided «ve bv^n H.t ": ^ i°"^"' '^' PoPMlation. When 
 
 Piieii a locality is i)ie>ided over bvan elficientand 7o■^\nn■ n ' '"^ i-i -•-^'"■i. n nen 
 
 inis tr ■--.;s;^i::: tr^;:;r^ 
 
 chased vvith ins Ldood.''^'^"''""^-''^'"' ''^'"^ oi the salvation ^vhich he has plr' 
 
 t'^^'^"'^''^^;'^^::^^^^ "-ir labours .ere 
 
 tiie.r tetnfioral a/Ii>i,s/ pJa in t le n o.e ?t time ". I T"' "' *^"'' '^'^"'''' "lem in 
 
 mind.sof many, and the po i „ n ,lv Vo T '"' alteration has eomeover the 
 
 i'.^ly. lu former tin es n o c h o o^^ in "i"li '^ ""^■'^^''■' "'■.«'^'^'' "^"^^ ^^^^^ 
 AlmiKhtvGod u-ere multipli," 'a Clu' ■ n i' ^'V ^T^'f' ot; gratitude to 
 tJiocese, been twice r.,.scn. I by he n^r ^ oC ! ? ',"' """^'^ ^''^ ^^^'-'' '" 'hi-^ 
 
 cholera, where are the la^tin.l ., i '; "'.,? ,,^1 ' °!^ '>« •^'■^="""' l^^vages of the 
 
 for religious insMuction, erected to Vo'- i™ ''f "" ^^ '^"'It.-^vhat school 
 
 from such terrible visitali<H,s' \Vn d l?','n , i ' gratitude to God for saving tis 
 
 we able, at thi, da v, t no ",„ i" ' '''''""" ' '^fe'^'ice to us as a people, we e 
 
 ful ac^nowled,emi;iM;n :'^J t^ 'Srrand t^f'f "" '"i' ^"'^'^ '" '^="^- 
 secratin« a coiisiderubloportion of on -i )^f',m n V u" f '"'"^'^ ""'^' '" "'"s oon- 
 
 what remains ? To coiL mo uc o ^^ io|i'^^ .^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ f''"^'^^^ '''^"i'^g on 
 
 o^J!' T V'^;;[r X:^::::;,r^.S;' 1^" -^^T -'^ '^'""" i-ISu^l dependence on each 
 arc the wealthy l.'u. I t mi ii ' o I "nintua/?'Tf"' '""? "'^ ''''^'^'- '^"'' 'h^'-'^"'' 
 obligation can never be .e nntml Irn ,U^ •"' '«'"P0''''' wants of the poor. This 
 
 I'-anse it can,,,... be r.' ul .' ,, '^l; t, ^°'^f^'°y^ --'c 'es, and it is not less rea 
 
 than man can ,;ive, an invo ves a sTr ons ;.nin b r "'''7' ''■\^"""'^'' higher sanction 
 to God. Now my brethren who are 'i.ien^n^^^^^^^^-^ r^'"','^ ''' ""'^ accountabe 
 
 prornoto the ,dor/of God, to vhoni aM v ii rive ,7" " """"''' ^''^""^ «"mething to 
 you have diM:harf-ed t bis sole,", obi^af' })J ""'■ "''' y«"'-."wn hearts how 
 to provide for tii-Meli-ionV -<^ „° • '^'^ -^ "" ^''^'''" "'•''nnlin? to your abiiitv 
 
 vide,l acco.innodat!; r lS^SS;';Sn •^"'"''' "r'^^'^"-? H^yXS- 
 us without hum,liation and sel !?ep, a ' 1° tt , ' f TJt^ \ "•"" "'^ '°°'^' "°""'l 
 what we mi^lit have easily a 'corn b I ed ' Fo ' . " ^''' ''""' '? ^'omparison of 
 
 jujew^nn^s towards th>.est,lor;oSrLfa.!^LStl:x.^^-^;/;;^^^^^ 
 
 !inue^:v;S;i;;f,^^S'Si'i^iiS'iti;;:::,,;^"^7^"' ^^^"- «''^'' -^we con. 
 
 immediate, even at our <loors. m t are we ,„ ev^Tc^ f"'"" """"^^^'y futu.e but 
 grow up without the Ttarof Go.l, an i, sensible h,.^ en ' '7 ^r""" ' P°P"'ation to 
 
 «n.ib,. Of the ,.^ of^St^i;^- wi:^- iSr S^,J- ;i- s^^-jj 
 
di 
 
 amidst a rapidlv-iricrc;isinij popiilailon. clebtilult- oi" all n.onil and reli-i„u» culltirr I 
 Kven m a wo, dly i„,,„t ol view y.d;,ne., is gn-ai «ain, and a ino,. sure n" 'cTor 
 
 leel that they are ll,« weaker parly, and that nolhnis; protoei. ihe.r jivi^ an.) properties 
 
 but the restraints of rcliiiion. 
 
 They 
 
 1 couMdor theiiiselve.':, as Iht'v reall v ure, God's 
 
 stewards, responsible to liun lur the laicals enliu.ttd to them, and uj" whirl, ihev inns^ 
 one day tjive a strn-t account. ""intynuist 
 
 But Ihere i.s, I hope, yet time -God is !on--snli;..rinK and kind. Let such a mehin- 
 choly s ate o tlun:;. covtiime no lo,)i.er, hnt let us all unite in the support ol' ihi.ri - 
 tution, that It may h. enabled to send lorlh ministers, in siuiicient numbers lo ins u t 
 our people >n their reli:;,o,.s duties -to set be.oie then tlie ).omi,,es and thrc't n,'s 
 oftheCospel.-lo mlnse into their bosomstho.se principles which can alone render th.m 
 L'l nfft'"?' temptalion,-the fear and the loveoiGoJ. 1, wedisregaid ihcoppoMun t y 
 now offered us, what can we look (or but a severe retrilmtion ' ii^'^unii^ 
 
 .t.n.l"' \'^rr' '""''"'' '"^' f ''*^'''"'0"^ ''^'- l'<^lp lo il'ose who are in afliuent circum- 
 stances I likewise entreat the i)oor to conlribule out of their poverty. Le them 
 remember the widow s mile, and the scripture injunction," Let e ery nian .'ive ale 
 .sable; ^ndjau,"U thou hast little, do thy diligence gladly to give of ti;tliUe '» 
 lake heed that It b-mot the want of power but of indinatimi, that pr?ve.,ts manv of von 
 from assistin,^ ,n this ^cood work. Take heed lest .eltishness encrust your eart and 
 restrain your han.l. It is almost incredible to think how much ;;ood may be done bv 
 he naost trifling contribution, if it be general. Were every member of the Church m 
 this Diocese (believed to be at least one hundred thousand) to give one penny a week 
 onanave.ap,some §ivmg more to make up /or those who are not abl t^o'n c so 
 much, we should have an annual income of j:2\ ,0.XI, and this continually inc eas ng as 
 
 the Socie-y, and provide for more thai.sixly additional ClergyniP.i. Le no persl and 
 back because of his poverty ; for the smallest donati.-n. given with a willin-l 1 eart will 
 be thankfully received, and, with God's blessinu', will speedily increase >Tlfe Va is 
 made up of sin^jle drops, and a small contribution, it se uMal,Vi 1, o luce t e mo t 
 satisfactory amount. The chanty which 1 desire is,^-.s U wm- d op bv don -no 
 occasional, but habitual. A selfish man may be induced to ^ive tVe ly u'hen 1 ,SS 
 are touched by some exciling discourse, or by a speech at a public mcet.i . a.i | Qt 
 
 h. l»7' "f de'do>i--^t,ons in land, is Christian charity on the .A poslle's in ru le - 
 
 of nietv 'It V'^l'"' r""^^'"'" K 'f- "^'',''>'' ' •'^'""" '-'■'"■y I^*^'-^' '^ J-y '0 '1 e -vice 
 of piety. I IS the observance of this rule that sives permanence to charitable iiisti u 
 
 ions by an increasing stream. Are any so poorlhat they can give o pectin a vS 
 
 heycanst. 1 assist us by their services and p.ayers.itheir^services! n usiL thel^ 
 influence with others m recommending the objects we have in view, n Idpin" hf work 
 ofinstraction in our Sunday Schools,~and b'y their prayers to Almigh'fGod to blest 
 U^e Society's supporters and its officers, and that a double measui^TotyHolv Spirit 
 may be poured upon all Us proceedings. It is calculated, if duly sustained to mLethL 
 ZITJ"- ^]" ^''t" /? '^'^ ^°'"^' '" '''■«^^' "" ""'• i"i'"bit'ants ii^o" e u'rdi as dov 
 ^hilT; '^''"'- •^"'^ '"' "° 'T' ^' '''-''^'"'•^'' I'y 'he coldness and m.'idelity of he time' 
 whose tendency is not upwards and spiritual, but downwards and earthly. Most men 
 seem o confiae all their knowledge and labour to the gettin-^ or savir" irionev andTo 
 
 hem the present woi-ld s every thing, and the future iTothini. As o^r °ious' know- 
 edse, they tell you that it should be dealt with as an article of nK-rt^ndi/e -rreouire^f 
 
 here vy.U be a demand for it, and a readiness to supply the e.xpe se Alas - aKuch 
 reasoning is worse than absurd, and exhibits a deplorable ignorance of human natur. 
 
 Tn,r.H '^r '"';'•' ' "? '^°^ '■'""^''°"^ knowledge, the less'dispo ed he is to "ceive ft' 
 -Instead of seeking or desiring it, he loathes and detests it : and therefore it must JJi/ 
 h.m, and not only seek, but press ilsel f upon him with I^^r>e le t ineek, ess and e u- 
 
 Se&^r Se= i=i^d^';sff.;£r3 
 
 m:;:nri^^^f.eiXS^"^ ''''''"' ^° thelorceof Chnstian truth, till ';t"'rlt's"pr. 
 
 ,h.irl"elrh'' VlV' SI '^""S. thousands into the household of faith, bv placing .vithin 
 mur reach a,! th. „le«un;s anc privileees oi the Go5pei, through the ministratio.isol 
 
S3 
 
 ^^^^^'p(oJ!::^S^^ f-er per,uo.ive ca„. 
 
 Clergy, inhriilely superior to all armies and nVv « nn ^ ^' ""^ '^"«'<'se.«nd a devoted 
 present to promote ,Uce and tranq, lilv n.?! J 'T'T^ establishments, will be 
 
 l.fe, and prepare us lor thnt vl ich ,,^00^1 /^ 1^'°"'' "^"' ''"" '^''"-'^'^y '^ in his 
 your own souls, so ou.^ht von to v 1 ,e iVe s^l ^l"'' ""r';,"'^ ^'''^'''"- "^ J'O" value 
 your Sav,o,i>-. .o ou,^ht='you to love the salvation Irn'lT ^f^'^'r^T^'^- As you lov" 
 Asyoureio.ce in the happy and exalted n Mo r'°>l" ".''."'^ 'Imt Saviour died 
 
 ou^ht you to rejoice in ex e.Hling Vto ' | e.- ' ! ""' "^'^^.^hurch communion so 
 J?g-hut m the wtlderncss. Alas mv brct'h -en ^°°'''^ ""''^•"'""' *""' '^^ ^^"mbest 
 h£ °^ v""'"'-°'' l'»'''"'-^l PivTlk^ which nr^' 7""""«"3' hearing; of .he 
 human nghts are to be compared to those .h.r,! i T'^ , ''"J'^°''^''-'^"t what 
 <if the world himseir,-,he li-h s to th» !t / V r^'*".'' ^y "'" ^^'"•l and Saviour 
 therzghtslothe teaching of tLevJa, in? r^^^ »h« thread of life°l 
 
 unworthiness,to the comm n inn nV A ", 'P''' ^"^' ""'ess forfeited bv onr ou-n 
 
 rights the glo;iousri;ht",wr;m'ci",,i°ut "'' "'""^ °S^''"'^'^ Thefe a e.he 
 and It is to strengthen h^r hands to ex'end L'°'"'"''^'°".'^'' "> 'f^"*'''?'- on believers 
 ?ur brethren in this colony within her ;reJaiS °'fl' ""'"''^^'^ons, and to brin-^ alf 
 ins ituted; and surely the pureness of i^ob 'ct ° iirJ.T"''' ""' 'I'l' ''^°'=''«'V has^een 
 and a stren,^th not our own. The wor it con em 1 ° °" " ' ^'"^'■''?? ^^om above, 
 onr power, and it certainly is so. were we to"'?'!^ '"'^' "'^''f'^'' ^'''' ^"'1 beyond' 
 fear for God .s with ns. Let us remember ,1 p 9 ^7u" "' ^^''^'- ^ut let us not 
 gel.se the world,-and shall we sS m W H ^°°' ''^hermen goinj iorth to evan- 
 comparauvely easy taslc of maki'.fo'J *cVuS ,-'„? ''"^' ,1',^'"^ -"i^^nce, from ?he 
 to he inhabitants of ihi. Diocese, p.esent. do .' '" " ' ^^ I^°«'" and loveliness 
 mthe completenessofherministrv .n 1? ., come, in the holiness of her descent 
 strength of her discpline. ' ^' '" ^''^ beauty oi her services, and the salutary 
 
 at leasrtwo'?h';°rcLet':^e^cf i;Twf A^thli^^ T°^'?'^"^ '" this.Dioceseshall possess 
 consummation I dare t'lot, at my ad vanced pe iod ofln °"f ^'"Sy men ! Such a blessed 
 believe m Its full accomplishment throi.crf ho •"''' ''°P'' »« behold ; yet I firm I v 
 no distant period; and j'pray tS'l mi Tp ^^^ "'S^"}^^, '-'-'^o'tions of this^ Socie'y at 
 see the good work not mWely coLm^n^l ZT"^' """"rh >he divine blessing,' to 
 I raise the glorious song of Simeon 'Tnfi '" s^t^cesslul operation. Then mleh^ 
 " peace according to thy worT- f^; „,• ^°'''' "°J^ '•^"e^^ thou thy servant denaT in 
 In thus endeavour n^ to aw-ikenTl^^'f ^''\' f ^" "^^ salvation !'' '^'" ^" 
 the holy Catholic and Aniiri^ch^c mmitvd' "'"''? *" behalf of that portion of 
 explicitly that I am ni6ved by no desire tTr^l'.r ^° .'"y/='""-g«. 1 deem it right tosta°e 
 of the religious communities fhatsTOmU^/'^^.'iL'" '^' «>'Shlest degree wiKy 
 fo low their own plans and objects as hevhTnV I ^ .^'"^ undoubtedly at liberty to 
 this letter is, to stir you up, my brefhren^n c ? i ^u"*^ '"y ''^'■""' «"d only wis^^ in 
 and thereby to lulfil a duty imnlied nth « ^'''''•^•' '''•" . '^'""'^ "^ ou; own communion 
 And whalasourceofLpp;'iVo„ %vil .t'h'7 '''' '^' Chrislianclr S " 
 
 while yo,. remain he.e but thTugh all eternity tit vn^M ' '" f ''"'"^^ '''"«' "o\only 
 lish on a lasting footing our nationa Church in h/ ,'"''• ''°"^ J'"""- P"t to estab^ 
 built upon the foundation ot the Apo" les and I m^ , extensive I)iocese,-a Church 
 chief corner stone,-a Church Xh reia n, . r- .I'^.V-^'f ' ^^'''^^ himself bei, I he 
 «nd ntimerous than any other brL fo the ciurch C. E'l^^^^'^'i''^ ''"'''' "lore 1„^te 
 
 enlarging her tent, stretching fo" th the rurtain?!!]'h^ Tf •'"'? *" «^« '»''^ holy Church 
 and strengthening her stakes^ and breakinTbr.h nn ,?'^''f''2"' '^"g'henin/her cords 
 the whole Diocese, and drawing w ithin hfr foS ^mf ' "-'^' ''""^ «"'' «" the left over 
 every one of its inhabitants. givin^tS oneSh ^'"'^'f «-'- ^^ ^n affectionate mother 
 ting them together as membe^r. o"f C?rl"?;he; blet d^^n JSratfe h^dT"'' ''"'^^"' 
 
 Canada Toronto, 30th May, 1842. 
 
 John Tobomto. 
 
 Si 
 
r persuasive calJs 
 'se, and a devoted 
 sjinjents, will be 
 anctify us in this 
 ren, as you value 
 ts. As you Jove 
 bat Saviour died. 
 
 coinmunioij, so 
 uidihe humblest 
 
 heanu^ of the 
 'ral,— but what 
 riJ and Saviour 
 'read of life,— 
 ted by our own 
 
 These are the 
 ee on believers, 
 nd to bring all 
 ociety has been 
 nij from above, 
 eat and beyond 
 
 But let us not 
 ? iorth to evan- 
 ance, from the 
 ' and loveliness 
 f>f her descent, 
 "1 the salutary 
 
 se shall possess 
 Such a blessed 
 i.yet I firmly 
 lis Society, at 
 ne blessing, to 
 Then might 
 'ant depart in 
 
 hat portion of 
 t right to state 
 roe with any 
 at liberty to 
 on'y wish in 
 n communion 
 in Church, 
 ime, not only 
 part to estab- 
 )— a Church 
 self being the 
 s, more pure 
 1>— a Church 
 ong,— whose 
 nse devotion, 
 
 }oiy Church 
 ing her cords 
 the left over 
 late mother. 
 If and knit- 
 
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