amend. In fact, Bishop Burgess asserts that the entire growth of our American Church must be dated from 1818; until that date she had hardly held her own. I am not counted an old man, but, according to these statements, all that our Church has become is the growth of a period within my own lifetime; almost within my own recollection. In view of the hostility which it has had to encounter from the beginning, its progress has been very remarkable. No other religious body has ventured to stem the popular torrent, and to be at once Evangelical and yet the reverse of enthusiastic: to refuse popular arts of success, and to rely for growth on sober piety, solemn but simple rites, and fixed though unfashionable principles. The Romanists have grown by immigration, and by political intrigues, in a very alarming manner: but they do very little as mere religionists, that is to say, by such measures as the Christian religion can in anywise justify. By God's blessing upon Apostolic labours, animated by such principles as I have endeavoured to illustrate, our Church has not only grown thrivingly during the last half century, multiplying her bishoprics to forty, and her parishes and stations to more than 3,000, but a mighty influence has gone forth from her, which has greatly changed for the better the religious sentiments of thousands of pious men. The Prayer-book is our great Missionary, and supplies our lack of service,' as nothing else could do so well. In VIRGINIA the Church was all but extinct at the beginning of the century it grew rapidly under the Episcopate of Bishop Moore, and that of his successor, until the civil war. In MARYLAND, under the eminent prelate who still adorns that state and diocese, the number of the clergy has doubled, and there has been a great development of strength. The south and south-west are yet Missionary ground, where the Church was never strong, and is now deplorably enfeebled but there, also, the intelligence and culture of society gravitate to the Church. Under my truly great predecessor, Bishop de Lancey, a great diocese was developed, and my venerable friend, who is with me on this platform, could tell you how he came to Buffalo as a Missionary to a few scattered Churchmen, forty years ago, and how on last Easter day, under the roof of his own church, 1,500 children were gathered, representing seven parish churches." URGENT CALLS FOR HELP. READERS of the Mission Field have probably little idea how many urgent applications for help the Society is obliged to decline in the present state of its funds. We would wish to bring forward a few of the favourable opportunities for spreading the Gospel which are thus in danger of being lost : The Society's Want of In the August number of the Mission Field (page 205) a minute of the Standing Committee was noticed, from which it appears that "the General Fund of the Society admits of no new expenditure." In July the following applications were declined by the Society simply from want of funds : Funds. 1. From the Bishop of Nassau, for an increase of the present small grant to his diocese. 2. From the Bishop of Antigua, for an allowance for a catechist in Dominica. 3. From the Bishop of Capetown, for an increase of the present annual grant (3,0007.) to his diocese. 4. From the Bishop of Mauritius, for four additional Missionaries in Madagascar, and for the establishment of a new Mission at Antananarivo. 5. From the Bishop of Calcutta, for a grant towards the support of a pastor to half-caste Christians in Calcutta. 6. From the Bishop of Brisbane, for a grant (in addition to the block grant of 7007.) for a Missionary among the railway labourers (estimated at upwards of 2,000) in his diocese. 7. From the Bishop of Goulburn, for an increase of the present grant (3007.) for his diocese. 8. From the Bishop of Tasmania, for an annual grant in aid of Bush Missions. 9. From the Bishop of Christ Church, New Zealand, for an additional grant. 10. From Bishop Twells, for an increased grant in aid of the Orange River Mission. 11. From John Buchan, Esq. for a chaplain or the mining population at Real del Monte, Mexico. 12. From Rev. Dr. Smith, for a Mission in Java. Declined. In reply to those applications, the Sub-Committee on Applications answered that they had only to express their regret Applications that, in the present state of the Society's funds, no aid could in any of these cases be given. In the case of the Bishop of Mauritius, who applied for four additional Missionaries for Madagascar, the Committee expressed their hope that the application might be more favourably entertained next year. There were also nine applications in answer to which the Society was only able to make a temporary grant from appropriated funds at its disposal. They were 1. From the Bishop of Toronto, for a grant of 80l. per annum for two years, for the Rev. J. Carry, Missionary at Sault Ste. Marie. 2. From the Bishop of Ontario, for a grant of 50l. per annum, for the Rev. Dr. Jones, at Ottawa. 3. From the Bishop of Newfoundland, for two annual grants of 251. each, for the Rev. Messrs. Temple, at White Bay, and Rule, at Bay of Islands. 4. From the Bishop of Rupertsland, for aid towards the salary of a theological tutor. 5. From the Bishop of Grahamstown, for the incidental expenses of Kaffrarian Missions under Messrs. Key and Dodd. 6. From the Madras Committee for a grant to meet the expenses of a new Mission district (Rathapuram) annexed to the Mission of Edeyengoody, in Tinnevelly. 7. From the Bishop of New Zealand, for additional aid. 8. From the Bishop of Christ Church, New Zealand, for a grant for the Missions to the goldfields in his Diocese. 9. From the Rev. H. T. Waters (Diocese of Grahamstown) for a grant of about 1507. per annum, in part payment of native teachers among certain Fingoes and Tambookies, numbering 50,000, and including a few Christians, recently settled near St. Mark's Mission. In addition to these unsatisfied applications a letter has been lately received from the Bishop of GUIANA, in which the in Guiana. opening afforded to the spread of Christianity by the presence of 10,000 Chinese immigrants in the colony Chinese is strongly stated, and the help of the Society is asked. This application for aid has been declined; as in the present state of the Society's funds no other course was possible. It is possible, howthat offerings may be made for this special purpose, when this great opportunity which now offers itself for the spread of the Gospel becomes known. The Bishop writes: ever, "Our Chinese immigrants have lately engaged the very serious consideration of myself, and others who are interested in the Missionary work of the Church; and only the day before yesterday was their condition brought before us in a very painful manner, by the circumstance of three having suffered the penalty of death for murder. We have 10,000 Chinese here, and the number is being added to every year; and it is considered that there are peculiar advantages in the way of conversion in a country where old associations are so completely broken up. We cannot work without men and money. With regard to the former, I think I can see my way with tolerable clearness. Of the pecuniary means I am inclined to take the same hopeful view. Without any hesitation the Legislature has placed a sum at my disposal upon condition of my obtaining additional aid. I would ask you, then, with all importunity, to place 1007. per annum at the disposal of our Church Society, upon the understanding that it is to be met by a like amount. I have frequently expressed my determination to draw less and less upon the S. P. G. To this determination I propose to keep as regards our old Missions; but for this new and promising field I confidently appeal for assistance. I unceasingly urge our people, both rich and poor, to make their offerings every LORD's-day. Very many, I trust, respond to the call, and no greater encouragement can such have, than the knowledge that their brethren in the great Mother Church feel an interest undiminished by distance in their endeavours to extend the kingdom of the REDEEMER." Help Solicitéd. Difficulties. Fallangia PONGAS MISSION. MR. DUPORT, writing from FALLANGIA on 5th October, describes the past three months as a period of special trial and difficulty; small-pox was raging; the rainy season had been one of unusual severity; the important Mission Station of Domingia was vacant, from the resignation of the Rev. J. A. Maurice; Mr. Morgan, the catechist, had left, and Mr. Paulus, the schoolmaster, was absent on sick leave; his own health was failing, and the responsibility and work of the Pongas Mission rested on him, with only native schoolmasters as his assistants. The work at Fallangia was, however, making steady progress. Many of the school-boarders had been sent to their homes, in consequence of the prevalence of smallpox, and the attendance at the Sunday and daily services had been accordingly reduced. The largest congregations numbered on Sundays 108 in the morning, and 75 in the evening, and on weekdays, 42. On St. Bartholomew's Day, Mr. Duport mentions— "A good attendance at the Holy Communion and the night service. The communicants were very devout; two from Sierra Leone expressed their thankfulness for having been permitted to receive the Holy Sacrament with us. 'It was so solemn,' said one of them. The sermon, too, was attentively listened to, especially by the Sierra Leone masons engaged on the repairs of the Mission-house. The text was St. John i. 48; the subject, Devotional Exercises an essential Act in the Christian Life." When at home, Mr. Duport takes the master's assistant and pupil teachers daily. They are making favourable Schools. progress, and he proposes to send two of them to the Missionary department of Codrington College, Barbados, when any opportunity offers of a direct passage. The infant school was doing well, and had sent up three scholars to the primary school during the quarter. The number on the books was 19, average attendance, 15. "Most of these can read the Primer (S.P.C.K.) repeat the Catechism in Susu, and answer the responses in church; they can count well, and are endeavouring to understand English." The number in the primary school was 44, making a total of 63 pupils under daily instruction," more than twenty of whom can read the Psalms in church." Mr. Duport had been enabled to spend one week in each month at Domingia, for the purpose of keeping the people Domingia. together; but each successive visit impressed him |