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1823.]
The committee find, that twenty-three dollars and twelve and a half cents are still due from the Convention for printing the Journals for and previous to 1821 ; and four dollars and sixty-nine cents for printing the Journals of 1822.
INTREPID MORSE, CHRISTOPHER RIPLEY.
Resolved, That the following sums be deducted from the charges against the parishes respectively annexed : St. John's, Liverpool, $4; Trinity, Brooklyn, $4; Christ, Windsor, $2; St. Thomas', St. Clairsville, $2.
Resolved, That the following parishes be entirely excused from the charges against them : Christ Church, Beaver; St. Thomas', Dayton; St. Matthew's, Mill Creek, Coshocton county ; St. Luke's, Perry, Coshocton county.
Resolved, That the committee appointed to investigate the accounts of the Con- vention be directed to pay over twenty-five dollars, of the funds now in their hands, to the Treasurer, for the purpose of printing the Journals of the present Convention, and that they apply what funds may be on hand, after further col- lections, to liquidate former arrearages.
Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that their thanks are due to the inhabitants of Worthington, for their kindness and uniform hospitality to the members thereof.
Resolved, That the next annual meeting of this Convention be held in St. Paul's Church, in the town of Chillicothe.
PHILANDER CHASE,
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Ohio, and President of the Convention.
SAMUEL JOHNSTON, Secretary.
On Sunday, the 8th instant, in St. Paul's Church, Chillicothe, the Rev. Philander Chase, Jr., minister of St. James' Church, Zanesville, was admitted to the holy order of Priests; and on Sunday, the 29th instant, in Christ Church, Cincinnati, Mr. James A. Fox, of Pinkneyville, Miss., was admitted to the holy order of Deacons, by the Right Rev. Bishop Chase.
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[JUNE,
APPENDIX No. I.
RELATIVE TO THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY: Omitted in the Journal of 1822.
List of the Life Members of the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, within and for the Diocese of Ohio.
Right Rev. Philander Chase, $12-paid.
Henry Brush,
12-paid.
Members who pay, annually, one dollar.
Names.
Places of Residence. Time of becoming members. Paid, 1821. Paid, 1822. Paid, 1823.
Charles Hammond, - Cincinnati,
1821 -
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Bezaleel Wells,
- Steubenville,
Samuel Johnston,
- Cincinnati,
66
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Thomas Osborne,
Cincinnati
66
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Intrepid Morse,
- Steubenville,
66
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Roger Searle, -
· Medina,
Rufus Murray, -
- Western Reserve, Dayton,
Joseph H. Crane,
Daniel L. Collin,
- Steubenville,
- Ashtabula,
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Samuel Gunn, - Seth Croker,
- Worthington,
- Sunbury,
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Ezra Griswold, -
- Worthington, -
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Cynthia Barker, William Little, - J. L. Webb,
- Delaware,
66
Robert Jamison,
Caleb Howard,
Noah Spalding,
Wm. Walker, Jr.,
C. Griswold,
66
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William Smith,
1823
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- Beaver, -
- Worthington, -
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Christopher Ripley,
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Steubenville,
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Trial Tanner,
Canfield,
Wm. R. Dickinson, -
Steubenville,
Rezin Hammond,
Guernsey,
Robert Jones, -
- Hamilton,
James A. Fox, -
Pinckneyville, Miss.,
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Walter Thrall, -
- Circleville,
Guy W. Doan, -
- Circleville,
1821
John E. Morgan,
- Circleville,
1821
Names of the Members of Societies auxiliary to the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, within and for the Diocese of Ohio.
St. Paul's, Chillicothe-Members, by paying one dollar.
E. B. Kellogg,
J. S. Swearingen, Edward King,*
Henry Jack,
Levin Belt,
Matthias Haufnagle, Robt. Kerchival,
Peter Leister,
Daniel Steinhor,
J. W. Collett,* D. B. Macomb,
Ira Delano,
J. Woodbridge,
W. S. Porter,* J. Woodbridge,
Benjamin Eaton.
Wm. K. Bond,
Thomas James, E. P. Kendrick,
The names thus (*) marked are unpaid.
Female Auxiliary Society of St. Paul's, Chillicothe, names unknown, forward- ed twenty-three dollars.
Episcopal Church at Piqua, by paying one dollar.
N. Greenham, John C. Lest, Wm. Johnston, John D. Howe,
Wm. R. Barrington, Joseph Sage, John Johnston, John C. Ferrall.
John McCorkle,
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Delaware,
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Ozias Burr,
John M. Jones,
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A. Buttles,
Worthington, -
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Joseph Beatty,
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John Hall,
Philander Chase, Jr., Zanesville,
Portsmouth,
Aaron Strong, -
Worthington,
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1823.]
Episcopal Missionary Society at Springfield, Clark county, forwarded thirteen dollars, without the names.
Episcopal Missionary at Troy, by paying one dollar.
Hezekiah H. Reed, Henry Boose, Asa Coleman, Cornelius Westfall,
Asa Mayo, Benj. Overfield, Fielding Lowry, David Williamson.
Auxiliary Society of Christ Church, Cincinnati, by paying fifty cents.
Th. Jenifer Adams, B. E. Bliss, Edmund C. Smith, Thomas Burley,
John Stinson, N. M. Whittemore, Wm. Brown, James Tallant,
Samuel Johnston, Wm. S. Johnston, John R. Wilmer, Samuel Scott,
Edward Hallam, Dan'l P. Robbins, Joseph Cowdin, Martin Hill,
James M. Mason, Thomas Osborne, Ethan Stone, Fearing,
John Jolley, Elijah Hayward,
Andrew Mack,
P. S. Symmes.
Twenty-seven members, each 50 cents, Collection in Church, -
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-$25 16
All Saints' Parish, Portsmouth, forwardcd, (names unknown,) $13 00 From Brooklyn, Cuyahoga county, by Col. Barber, 5 00
From St. Peter's Church, Morristown, 4 00
From Gov. Meigs, and others, -
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Grace Church, Berkshire-Subscriptions from sundry individuals :
David Prince, - $12 00 Thos. Brown, - - $1 00 P. Chase, Jr., - 2 00
Ichabod Plumb, 4 00 Wm. Ramsdall, - 3 00
A friend, - 1 00
Selah Skelton, 4 00 Julia Strong, -
1 00 Sophronia Prince, 1 00
Joseph Prince, 4 00 Eliza Strong, 50 Alwood Smith, - 50
Aaron Strong, 3 00 Abby Skelton, -
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Elias Adams, 50
Lawrence Myers, - 1 00 Minerva Brown, - 50
William Smith, - 3 00
David T. Sherman, 2 00 Polly Skelton, 50
Whole amount,
- $45 00
St. Peter's Church, Delaware.
J. L. Webb,
$15 M. D. Pettibone, $3 John Minter, Jr., $1
Wm. Little, -
15 E. Griswold, Jr., 2 Rutherford Hays, 2
Solomon Smith,
5 Benj. Powers, 1
Asahel Welch, - 1
Robert Jamison, 5 Hez. Kilbourn, 3 Chester Griswold, 3
Noah Spalding, 5 David E. Jones, 1 Moses Byxbec, Jr., 3
Caleb Howard, -
3 Ralph Dildine,
1 Walter Watkins,
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Whole amount,
- $72
To be paid whenever a missionary shall be employed in this and the neighbor- ing parishes.
Forwarded to Missionary Society, for 1823, Christ Church, Cincinnati :
Samuel Johnston, c. 50 Edward Hallam, - c. 50 James M. Mason, - c. 50
Luman Watson, 50 H. Rockcy, -
50 Thos. J. Adams, 50
Joseph Cowdin, 50 John R. Wilmer, . 50 G. Ycatman, 37
Wm. Brown, 80 E. C. Smith, 50 John Stinson, 50
John P. Footc, 50 J. G. Worthington, 50 Wm. S. Johnston, 50
$7 37
Collection in Church,
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$18 00
Forwarded by the ladies of St. Paul's, Chillicothe, -
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Forwarded by the ladies of All Saints', Portsmouth, - 10 00
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
JUNE 5TH, 1823.
This being the day appointed by the Convention for the anniversary mecting of the "Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, within and for the State of Ohio," the members thereof assembled in the College edifice, at Worthington,
Richard Fosdick, Luman Watson.
John P. Foote,
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during the recess of the Convention. Divine serviee was performed; after which, a quorum being present, the Society proceeded to business.
The President stated what measures had been pursued by himself, during the past year, in relation to the Society .*
Resolved, That the President draw on the Treasurer for fifty dollars, in favor of Mr. John M. Jones, for his services in Monroe county .*
Resolved, That the order by the President on the Treasurer, in favor of the Rev. Mr. Searle, for fifty dollars, be placed to the debit of the Society.
Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. Searle receive cighty-three dollars, in addition to what he has already received, for missionary services.
Resolved, That the Rev. Mr. Hall receive, for missionary labors within the last year, one hundred and thirty-three dollars.
Resolved, That whenever the Rev. Rufus Murray shall present a satisfactory report of his missionary services for the year past, to the Bishop, the latter be authorized to draw an order in his favor, on the Treasurer, for thirty-three dollars.
The rest of the Clergy gave an account of their missionary serviees; and when required to state what compensation they demanded, declined receiving any.
The Society adjourned sine die.
4 O'CLOCK, P. M.
Members assembled by request of the President.
The following persons were chosen managers: The Rev. Roger Scarle, Rev. S. Jolinston, Rev. I. Morse, Rev. Ezra B. Kellogg, P. Chase, Jr., Rev. John Hall, B. Wells, H. Brush, Wm. Little, A. Buttles, Robert Jones, and C. Ripley.
The managers then proceeded to elect, from their own numbers, the officers required by the 6th article of the Constitution; whereupon, the following persons were duly chosen, viz: Rev. Roger Searle, Vice President; Samuel Jolinston, Re- cording Secretary; J. B. Kellogg, Corresponding Secretary ; Mr. William Little, Treasurer.
Adjourned till after divine service.
The Society met pursuant to adjournment.
Resolved, That this Society appoint the Rev. Philander Chase, Jr., to cross the Atlantic, with proper credentials, for the purpose of soliciting aid, in Great Brit- ain, for the support of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio ; and that he be allowed five hundred dollars for his expenses.
Resolved, That the Right Rev. the Bishop be respectfully requested to furnish the proper credentials, and also to furnish an address, setting forth our condition, our wants, and our prayers, to the Right Rev. the Bishops, Clergy, and members of the Church of England.
Resolved, That the minister of every parish, and the President or presiding officer of every Auxiliary Society, and every person procuring subscribers to tlie parent Missionary Society of this Diocese, be requested, annually, at the anni- versary meeting, to furnish the Recording Secretary thereof with the names of all persons belonging to the parent Society, and the Constitutions of all Auxiliary Societies, and names of persons belonging to them, over which they preside, or for which they procure subscribers.
The Managers of the Missionary Society, in consequence of the sickness of the late Recording Secretary, and the partial indisposition of their Treasurer, con- nected with some unavoidable circumstances, are unable to present any formal report; they however cannot forbear to remark, that they feel a peculiar solici- tude that the institution should sustain a character consistent with the means of the members belonging to our communion. Nor is this anxiety anywise lessened, when we contemplate the extensive field of usefulness, to the heralds of the cross, in this destitute region, where our little flocks are scattered as sheep having no shepherd. Wherever there can be a Society formed, as an auxiliary to the parent institution, however humble the means, let the benevolent work commence.
We should do injustice to our feelings to supposc, for a moment, that wherever a missionary association, within the past year, has been formed, that it will suffer, for want of personal exertions to promote the object for which it was designed. Let every heart, and every hand, be engaged in this good cause.
A few years since, the Church had no regular organization; but by the provi- dential care of her Divine Head she has been established, and is now gradually increasing in usefulness and strength,-advancing "to the battle of the Lord against the mighty." We verily believe that no sineere Episcopalian can look back upon the formation and successful progress of the Church, as represented in the concise view of our Journals, without lively gratitude to the "Chief Shep- herd and Bishop of souls." Who, after contrasting the past with the present,
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will not, in looking forward to the future, wish to renew his strength? Who will not present his humble supplications to the Fountain of Merey, that these west- ern wilds, which once resounded with the savage war-whoop, may soon morc ex- tensively be cheered with the sound of the gospel of peace, and the hallelujahs of the redeemed ?
If, during the past year, we have experienced heavy domestie afflictions ; if we have had to endure many trials, and some of us laborious exertions, for tlie extension of truth; if we have been painfully disappointed in our reasonable expectations of missionaries from the east; if we have lamented over tlie care- less, the ungodly, and the hypocritical, spreading their baneful examples ; if we reflect that many thousands have neglected to improve the means of grace ;- yct many occurrences of an opposite nature incite us to declare, "hitherto the Lord hatlı helped us." It is a mercy of no ordinary character, that our zcal increases with our numbers; that many of our infant Churchies, destitute of the regular minis- trations of the word, still have hopes, that ere long tlic messengers of truth may be seen and heard among them; that harmony in council, and unity in effort, exist among our clergy and laity, and one sentiment only pervadcs the whole. It is gratifying that wheresoever the evangelist has traversed our Diocese, he has been liailed as the messenger of glad tidings. Bearing in his credentials tlie authority of his Divine Master, proclaiming peace and good will towards men, he has every where been welcomed with joy. Though long deferred, the hope still cheers us, that the time is not far distant when others will hear us mingle our cries with the angel of Macedon, "Come over and help us." But to make these our hopes successful, we must remember who it is that hath the hearts of all men in his hand. To Him, therefore, let us pray with increasing fervor, that faitlıful ministers of Jesus Christ may be sent among us, who shall assist in pulling down the strongholds of Satan, and building up the walls of Zion.
A never-failing trust that God will protect his Church, inclincs us to believe that his Holy Spirit will influence the hearts of some, even here, and give them means to prepare for the sacred office. If from other fountains we can draw no water, who can tell that God will not be gracious unto us, and cause, even here, in the wilderness, some humble strcam to flow, to make glad his Zion, his own city. To this effcet he will hear our prayer, if with faith and constancy we Ict our cry come unto Him. (Signed) PHILANDER CHASE, President.
Attest: SAMUEL JOHNSTON, Secretary.
It is earnestly requested that those parishes who have not forwarded the amount duc from their Missionary Associations, for 1823, to the parent institution, be pleased to transmit them to Mr. William Little, the Treasurer, at Delaware.
Treasurer's account for Journals of 1823.
Cash paid Mr. Th. Wilson for printing 530 copies, and stitching, - $23 00
Caslı received per Rev. Mr. Johnson, 25 00
Due the Convention, $2 00
June 28, 1823. E. HALLAM.
Note by the Editor.
During the printing of these Journals, information was received, through the medium of the Rev. Gco. Boyd, of Philadelphia, that the sum of $170, a donation for the benefit of tlie Episcopal Missionary Society of Ohio, from four ladics of Charleston, South Carolina, awaited his order. The ladies mentioned werc Mrs. Dehon, Mrs. Russel, Mrs. Gregorie, and Mrs. Middleton; to whom the Bishop, in this manner, begs leave, in the name of the Society, to return liis most grateful acknowledgments.
1824.
JOURNAL
OF THE
SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION,
HELD AT CHILLICOTHE, NOVEMBER 3D-5TH, 1824 .*
A LIST of the Clergy belonging to the Diocese of Ohio.
The Right Rev. PHILANDER CHASE, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese, residing at present in Worthington.
PRESBYTERS.
Rev. JOHN ARMSTRONG, residing in Wheeling, Virginia, but officiating a part of his time in St. Thomas' Church, St. Clairsville.
Rev. JOSEPH DODDRIDGE, Missionary.
Rev. JOHN HALL, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Ashtabula.
Rev. SAMUEL JOHNSTON, Minister of Christ Church, Cincinnati.
Rev. EZRA B. KELLOGG, Minister of St. Paul's Church, Chillicothe, and All Saints', Portsmouth.
Rev. INTREPID MORSE, Minister of St. Paul's Church, Steubenville, and St. James', Cross Creek.
Rev. ROGER SEARLE, Minister of St. Paul's Church, Medina; St. John's Church, Liverpool; and Trinity Church, Brooklyn.
LAY DELEGATES WHO ATTENDED THE CONVENTION.
All Saints' Church, Portsmouth-Aaron Kinney, Samuel Gunn.
St. John's Church, Worthington-Rensselaer W. Cowles, George H. Griswold.
St. Peter's Church, Delaware-William Little, Caleb Howard.
St. Paul's Church, Chillicothe-William Key Bond, Henry Brush.
St. Thomas' Church, St, Clairsville-David Neiswanger, George Roe.
St. James' Church, Boardman-Trial Tanner.
St. James' Church, Zanesville-John Matthews.
St. Matthew's Church, Hamilton-William Sparrow.
St. Paul's Church, Steubenville-Bezaleel Wells, George Chapman.
St. Peter's Church, Morristown-Edward Roe.
Christ Church, Cincinnati-Charles Hammond.
St. John's Church, Liverpool-Chauncey Barker, Ozias Burr.
St. James' Church, Piqua-John Johnston.
St. Paul's Church, Medina-Arory Buttles, Joseph L. Webb.
St. James' Church, Cross Creek-Daniel Dunlavy.
Grace Church, Berkshire-David Prince.
CHILLICOTHE, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 3, 1824.
THIS being the place agreed on, by the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Ohio, for the Convention of the same,
* " Cincinnati : Looker & Reynolds, Printers. 1824."
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the Bishop having appointed the time, the clerical and lay dele- gates generally attended at 10 o'clock, A. M., in St. Paul's Church.
Divine service was conducted by the Right Rev. Bishop Chase, (Lessons, Isaiah lx., Romans xii .; Psalms selected, xxvii. and cxviii .; Psalm sung, 85th, and 29th Hymn); and after the ad- ministration of the rite of Confirmation, and the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Bishop took the Chair.
The Secretary of the last Convention then read over the list of the Clergy, and the following answered to their names, and took their seats:
The Right Reverend Philander Chase, D.D.,
Rev. Samucl Johnston,
Rcv. Ezra B. Kellogg,
Rev. Intrepid Morse,
Rev. Roger Searle.
The following Lay Delegates presented certificates of their respective appointments, and took their seats :
William Little,
Samuel Gunn, Ozias Burr,
Caleb Howard,
Aaron Kinney,
John Johnston,
William Key Bond,
Bezaleel Wells, Arory Buttles,
Henry Brush,
George Chapman,
Joseph L. Webb,
David Neiswanger,
Edward Roe, Daniel Dunlavy,
George Roe,
Charles Hammond, David Prince,
Trial Tanner,
Chauncey Barker,
Rensselaer W. Cowles,
William Sparrow,
George H. Griswold.
Agreeably to the 45th Canon of the General Convention of 1808, providing for an accurate view of the state of the Church, from time to time, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Chase delivered the fol- lowing Address :
BRETHREN: This, the Seventh Annual Convention of the Diocese of Ohio, should, by rule, have met in June last. The consideration, however, that it might be out of my power then to attend, induced the clergy to sign a memorial that the time of meeting might be postponed till after my journey to England.
I arrived in New York on the 29th day of August last, and lost no time in fix- ing on this, the earliest day in my power, for your assembling in this town, the place designated, by a vote of the last Convention, for our next meeting. And most happy am I, notwithstanding the shortness of time, and the great distance at which many of you live, to see so numerous and respectable an assembly. The first and best feelings of my heart are those of gratitude to God, that, after so long an absence from my spiritual charge, and after having met, during that absence, witli so many and great difficulties, I am permitted to see your faces once more. On this, the most joyful occasion and happiest day of my life, I would bless the Lord with the best powers of my soul, and call upon "all that is within mne to praise His holy name."
Let it not, however, be supposed that this exultation argues insensibility, or that it is inconsistent with those feelings which, as a father, I ought to entertain for my sons, as well in the Church as in nature. The Rev. John M. Jones, whom I ordained last Convention in Worthington, departed this life before I left the Dio- cese. The death of my much beloved son, Philander Chase, Jr., whom I ordained to the Priest's office, in this Church, the Sunday following our last Convention, was communicated to me by the Right Rev. Bishop Bowen, of South Carolina, into whose Diocese he had retreated for the winter, to prolong, if possible, his life.
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These providential afflictions are, no doubt, deeply felt by you all, who love our infant Zion, more especially by those of our brethren in Monroe county, and at Zanesville, to whom these very interesting servants of our Lord and Master last ministered. By me, also, these dispensations of God's holy providence have been deeply felt; conscious that not only in one of them I had lost a son, but in both I had been deprived of nearly one-third part of the laborers whom God had given us to build up his kingdom in the wilderness. I have mourned indeed. Even now, to see my son's seat, and that of good Mr. Jones, empty here in the Con- vention, where, at best, our numbers have ever been so few, nature feels, and has reason much to feel, what language cannot tell. They are now no longer with us; God hath taken them from us; but before He did so, we have the best reason to believe that he had so well prepared them by His heavenly grace, as that they exchanged the pains and trials of the wilderness for the joys of the heavenly Canaan ; that the Jordan of death was by them passed in safety ; and that they are now, when not engaged in ministering to the Church militant, drinking from liv- ing fountains which they digged not; tasting of the fruits from trees which they planted not; yea, now joining in the song of the Lamb in that temple made without hands, whose walls are salvation and whose gates are praise. And shall not nature's complaining voice, though ever so importunate, be hushed in the bosom of such love as God hath thus manifested to them, and through them to us, their surviving relatives and friends? Yea, when such men die, those who, like them, believe, do, and must rejoice. Faith triumphs over the corruption of the grave. "Our Lord has risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that sleep; and at his second coming the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall rise, and be made like unto his glorious body, aceording to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself." Thus are our greatest afflietions converted into subjeets of praise to Him who doth all things well. We are not with those who mourn without hope; and our joy is then at the highest, when we believe our departed friends exchange a life of pain for an immortality of bliss-the Church militant for the Church triumphant.
The heart is sometimes filled with various emotions, which to express in appro- priate language is extremely difficult. When uneommon circumstances of a mingled character, at once afflictive and cheering, press upon the mind, they often impose a restraint and an embarrassment which we know not how to sur- mount. I feel this to be my present condition.
Our tears, shed over the early graves of departed worth, are seareely washed away by the lenient hand of our holy faith, when another subject of a most inter- esting nature presses upon our consideration : that of a seminary for the educa- tion of young men to supply a clergy for this Diocese. This also, in its history, is connected with much of painful, and much of consoling reflection.
When we last met in the Convention, it is well remembered that the destitute condition of our parishes filled our hearts with sorrow, and engaged our minds in the most earnest consultations. We had for years looked in vain to the old settlements for missionaries-none were obtained. The necessity, therefore, of establishing a seminary among ourselves, was obvious to all; but the means were not in our power. So hopeless were our prospects in this respect, that had we proceeded formally to establish an institution on paper, we might justly have been derided, as men dreaming awake, and laying the ideal foundation of a base- less fabrie.
Althoughi these considerations restrained us from the adoption of any formal plan in the Convention, there were some who, notwithstanding the gloom which surrounded us, cherished a strong, though humble hope, that God would be gra- eious to us, and in His own good time open a channel through which means might be obtained.
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