as to the Roman catholics, and other religious bodies as they require it, and according to their numbers respectively, for the education of the members of their own communion.

(b) Sunday Schools.

(1) We desire to express our sense of the importance, in the existing state of the Church, of Sunday-schools, especially in large towns; and we thankfully acknowledge the benefits which have resulted from the labours of pious teachers, both to themselves and their scholars, under proper direction and superintendence. In every possible case the Sunday-schools should be under the personal direction and superintendence of the minister of the parish or district; or otherwise, the minister should appoint the teachers, choose the books, and regulate the course of instruction, that there be no contradiction between the teaching of the school and the Church. All Sunday-scholars should be instructed in the Church catechism, and regularly taken to church.

(2) We would carefully guard against the assumption that instruction in the Sunday-school, even by the minister of the parish, may be allowed to supersede the directions of the rubrics and canons on the duty of catechising in church; for we distinctly recognize and affirm as well the great importance as the sacred obligation of those directions.

(c) Schools for the higher classes.

Schools for the higher classes of both sexes are much required, with particular reference to assisting the clergy in the education of their own children.

(d) Collegiate Institutions.

Although we consider it of great importance that each Bishop should connect with his diocese some college or a like institution for the special training and preparation of young men for the ministry of the Church, we believe that an University for the North American provinces, with foundations for each diocese, on the model of the two great universities, will be required to complete an educational system, as well for lay students in every department of literature and science, as for the students in theology, and candidates for the sacred ministry.

(e) Training for the Ministry.

In addition to the general studies pursued in the college or university, we deem it highly desirable that candidates for the ministry should apply themselves, under competent direction, to a systematic course of reading in theology, for at least one whole year, or longer if possible, previous to their taking holy Orders; and that they should likewise be instructed in the duties of the pastoral office, in correct reading and delivery of sermons, in Church music, architecture, etc.

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(f) Diocesan and parochial Libraries.

We deem it very desirable also, that libraries should be formed in every diocese under the direction of the clergy, both for the clergy themselves and for their parishioners.

XIV. THE ORDER OF DEACONS.

We would wish to discontinue the practice which the necessities of the Church have sometimes forced upon us of entrusting large independent spheres of duty to young and inexperienced men in deacons' Orders, deeming it desirable that every deacon should, if possible, be placed under the direction of an experienced priest.

XV. MAINTENANCE OF THE CLERGY.

While we hold it to be the duty of Christian Governments to maintain inviolate whatever endowments have been lawfully and religiously made for the establishment, support or extension of the Christian religion; and while we acknowledge with heartfelt gratitude the aid given to our missions by the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, to whose fostering care and bounty the Church in these colonies owes under God its existence and means of usefulness, we desire to record our conviction, that the ordinances of the Church will never be rightly valued, nor its strength fully developed, until the people for whose benefit the clergy minister in holy things furnish a more adequate support to the institutions and to the clergy of their Church.

Farther, as the society, in consequence of numerous and increasing claims in all parts of the world, is compelled gradually to withdraw its aid, we desire to impress on all our flocks the duty of fulfilling their obligations in respect of the payment of their ministers, and with a view to this object, we recommend that the churchwardens in each parish or mission should furnish every year to the Bishop a written return, duly certified by themselves and by the clergyman, of the sums paid towards his support for the current year.

XVI. CONCLUSION.

Lastly, while we acknowledge it to be the bounden duty of ourselves and our clergy, by God's grace assisting us, in our several stations, to do the work of good evangelists, yet we desire to remember that we have most solemnly pledged ourselves to fulfil this work of our ministry according to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, and as faithful subjects of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria-"unto whom the chief government of all estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction." And we cannot forbear expressing our unfeigned thankfulness to Almighty God, that He has preserved to us, in this branch

of Christ's holy Church, the assurance of an apostolic commission for our ministerial calling; and, together with it, a confession of pure and catholic truth, and the fulness of sacramental grace. May He graciously be pleased to direct and guide us all in the use of these precious gifts, enable us to serve Him "in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life," and finally bring us to His heavenly kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

G. J. QUEBEC,

JOHN TORONTO,

EDWARD NEWFOUNDLAND,

JOHN FREDERICTON,

F. MONTREAL.

QUEBEC, 1st October, 1851.

CHAPTER XX.

S. P. G. Jubilee-Sixth triennial circuit-Visit to England to meet the Bishop of Sydney.

IMMEDIATELY after the conclusion of the episcopal conference, the Bishop of Quebec addressed a circular to his clergy on another subject affecting the Church at large, in order to recommend the participation of the diocese in the observance of the jubilee of the S. P. G. In accordance with a request made to him by the central board of the diocesan Church Society, it was now suggested to the clergy that sermons should be preached and collections made on Advent Sunday throughout the diocese on behalf of one or more of the objects specially indicated by the S. P. G., in order to shew the sense entertained of the blessings which that body had been the instrument of affording to the diocese. A good example was set at Quebec, where the Bishop preached in the cathedral; the holy communion was administered, and £51 2s. 6d. were collected at the offertory. A collection was afterwards made from house to house, in every part of Quebec, by clergymen and laymen appointed for that purpose at a public meeting held in aid of the objects of the jubilee and presided over by the Bishop. The meeting was most numerously attended, and an excellent spirit was displayed, which exhibited itself in very large contributions. The Bishop headed the list with a donation of £50, to be given to St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. The whole sum raised in the diocese amounted to £500 sterling, which

was remitted to the S. P. G., and was more than one-fifth of the whole amount contributed out of the British Isles.

The Bishop began the year 1852 by preaching in the cathedral on the festival of the Circumcision on behalf of the Canada Military Asylum, and on the following Sunday confirmed two hundred and twenty-four persons in the same church.* The collections for charitable purposes made within its walls from Advent Sunday to the second Sunday after Christmas (both included) amounted to £141 17s. 10d.

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On the 19th January the Bishop left Quebec on a confirmation-tour through the district of St. Francis, confirming one hundred and eighty-six persons, at fourteen places. one instance, a candidate, who had come twenty-four miles for the purpose, was baptized by the Bishop before being confirmed, and "his father, who stood by him, was greatly moved, and melted into tears, when the Bishop took his son by the hand and poured the sacramental water on his head." Besides holding confirmations, the Bishop visited and preached at several places more or less destitute of the ministrations of the Church. In one place the service was held in an unfinished house, where, though three different rooms and the staircase besides were occupied by the congregation, the Bishop was audible to all, and visible to most of them. His time was also engaged with meetings at Bishop's College, and in many places with visiting aged or infirm Churchpeople at their houses. A confirmation was held for the first time at Dudswell, and this ordinance, as well as the Lord's Supper, was also administered for the first time in the diminutive school-house of the township of Ham. "Some of the recipients of both were touched in their feelings in a manner

At a supplementary confirmation held in St. Matthew's chapel, on the following Whit-Sunday, twenty-nine persons were confirmed, making the whole number for Quebec, including three confirmed elsewhere, two hundred and fifty-six,