During the last conventional year the most rigorous efforts have been used, and with success, to complete the Chapel at Friendship, and to raise funds to build one in the upper end of the Parish. The Chapel at Friendship is completed, and the debt upon it very nearly liquidated. Sufficient funds have been raised to authorise the appointment of a committee to contract for the building of the Chapel at Owingsville. The funds for these objects have been raised partly by subscriptions, and by the proceeds of fairs. Liberal donations have been also received for the erection of the Chapel at Owingsville, by the members of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, and other friends of the Church out of the parish. A handsome Bible and Prayer-book were presented to the Chapel, at Friendship, by a generous lady of Baltimore. A new and substantial railing has been placed around the yard of the Parish Church. The zeal and energy displayed by the ladies of the Parish in their labors in the building and completion of that Chapel, are worthy of high commendation. While the external condition of our beloved Church is thus improving in the Parish, there has been also much seriousness prevailing in the minds of many whom we believe to be sincere seekers after truth. We hope yet to see them as humble and ardent communicants at the table of the Lord, and fervently pray that the Spirit of God may bless the labors of his servants, in adding to the Church daily such as shall be saved. JOSHUA MORSELL, Rector. P. O., West River. St. Margaret's Westminster Parish, Anne Arundel county. 20 Severn Parish, Anne Arundel county. Baptisms-whites, adults 4, children 5, colored 6, Communicants-last reported, whites 39, colored 5, Stricken off-white 1, colored 3, Removed, 15 44 5 The subscriber has officiated at Ellicott's Chapel every other Sunday afternoon, since the Rev. Mr. Waters' resignation, and married one white couple. H. AISQUITH. Grace Church, Elk Ridge Landing, Anne Arundel county. Communicants-last reported, 14-removed 3, added 9, Sunday School-teachers, male 2, female 9, 66 60 scholars-male 32, female 35, The School for colored persons is discontinued. Offerings-Domestic Missions, Support of the Bishop, 10 1 10 20 11 67 $4.50 5 00 The Church was consecrated June 15, 1848. After the resignation of the late minister, Rev. J. E. Van Bokkelen, September 1, 1848, the undersigned was elected to the Rectorship. His duties have been confined to those strictly of a priestly character. Since November 1, 1848, all other duties have been performed by Rev. A. D. Jones, who upon his admission to Priest's Orders, will be elected Rector. LIBERTUS VAN BOKKELEN, Rector. Elk Ridge Landing, May 30, 1849. Grace Church, Ellicoll's Mills, (now St. Peter's Church.) Baptisms-adults, white 2-infants, white 8, Confirmed-white, 10 2 Communicants-last reported, 14-added 8, died 1, present The undersigned continued his services as a Missionary of the Diocesan Board, and as Assistant Minister of Grace Church until September last, when upon the resignation of the late Rector, he was elected to the Rectorship. In presenting to his Bishop this report of the condition of the congregation committed to his charge, he cannot forbear expressing his serious conviction that under God's blessing, nothing additional is needed to secure its steady growth and ultimate success, but pecuniary help; and while he states this fact, he gladly and gratefully acknowledges on behalf of his people, the timely assistance they have received during the past year from numerous friends throughout the Diocese. To the Rev. Drs. Wyatt and Pyne, the Rev. Messrs. T. J. Wyatt, D. H. Buel, A. A. Miller, R. Riley and other clerical friends, our thanks are particularly due and are hereby cheerfully rendered. To the kindness of a number of zealous lay members of the Church in Baltimore, we are likewise much indebted. 66 The interior of the church edifice has been plastered; about one-half of the number of pews required by the original design, have been put inand other important improvements, indispensable to comfort, have been made. The ladies of the congregation, although few in number, have organized themselves into a Sewing Society," and are laboring systematically, and with much self-denial, in raising funds for the payment of the church debt. The attendance on our services is gradually increasing. Perhaps one of the greatest evidences we have of a more healthy state of things among us, is the increased reverence and devotion during public worship on Sundays, Holy Days and prayer days; and that this is a growing spirit among his communicants, the Rector is encouraged to believe from the increasing demand among them for devotional books and tracts. The Sunday School is still continued and efforts are now making for its greater efficiency. Ellicott's Mills, May 30th, 1849. JAMES MOORE, Rector. St. John's Church, Howard District. Baptisms-adult 1-infants, white 7, colored 1, 9 25 6 1 Diocesan Missions, including special donations to feeble churches, 80 27 Communicants-admitted to Holy Communion 16, left the In stitute and commended to different clergymen 4, died 1— present number, of whom three no longer reside here, Candidates for Confirmation, 3 8 27 12 $146 00 $45 00 69 00 32 00 This Institution, through God's continued favor and blessing, has been gradually improving, in almost every respect, during the past year. Its present condition, both spiritual and temporal, is even more encouraging, and its claims to the confidence of all who are interested in sound Christian education, stronger and more evident, than at the date of my last annual report. WM. H. CLARKE, Chaplain. Ellicott's Mills, Monday in Whitsun Week, 1849. Church of the Ascension, Baltimore. When I entered on my duties as Rector of this Church, I found 61 Communicants; of this number, 3 have deceased, and one has removedleaving 57. I have added 43; making the present number of commuDicants 100. The congregation has so increased as to call on the Vestry for prompt efforts for the enlargement of the Church, and they have met the demand nobly. The addition to the church, now far on towards completion, will add 325 sittings to our present accommodations. The Church is to be handsomely lighted with gas, and the whole interior is to be tastefully frescoed. When the whole is completed, which will be on the 1st of August, the Church will, in respect to size, and tasteful finish, take its rank with the first in the city. The entire cost will be four thousand dollars; two thousand of which, has already been secured from the members of the congregation. "Establish the work of our hands, O Lord! Yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it." RICHARD S. KILLIN, Rector. |