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'T is the trade name of the Congregational Sunday- School and Publishing Society, an organization having: a twofold work, business and missionary, these departments being: entirely separate. The publishing: and bookselling: business is conducted under the name of Cbe pilgrim Press, this being: o shorter and for business purposes a better name than the Society's full leg:al title. The Society's headquarters are at Boston, and it is now in the 72nd year of its history. It occupies a handsome store and offices in the Cong:reg:ational House at Boston ; also a fine store, equally well stocked, at 175 Wabash Avenue, Chicag:o, and a New York depository at 156 Fifth Avenue in con- nection with that of the Presbyterian Board. Its business includes the publication of The Congregationalist, the leading: weekly of the denomination, the oldest relig:ious paper in the country ; The Pilgrim Lesson Helps and Sunday-school papers with an ag:g:reg:ate circulation of two-thirds of o million ; a larg:e list of books, including: many especially adapted to Sunday-school library use ; and it also sells the books of all other publishers. It has contributed nearly $60,000.00 in cash during: the past eleven years from the earning:s of its business to the work of its Missionary Department, including; $7,500 appropriated for the present year. Its total net sales last year were $376,198.89, and its net earning:s $21,871.27.

The Missionary Department of the Society, which, as above stated, is entirely separate from the Business Depart- ment, is under the immediate direction of Secretary Georg:e M. Boynton, D.D., and a missionary committee. All contri- butions and bequests g:o to the Missionary -Department, which also receives such portions of the earning:s of the Business Department as can be spared from its g:rowing: work.

It will be seen that the patronage of (Et]C pilgrim press, either by the purchase of books or by subscribing to its periodicals, is a direct help to the Missionary work of the Society of which it is a part. Hence we solicit the book business of every Congregational Church, Sunday School, family and individual, feeling tvarranted in doing so tn view of the object for which we are working.

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The Canadian , )%^/ Congregational Year Book 1903-4.

Thirty-first Annual Volume.

RBV. M. H. THOiVlAS, M.A.,

EDITOR.

82 Bismarck Ave., Toronto.

TORONTO:

Printed for the Congregational Publishing Company,

by Henderson & Co., 8-i6 Lombard St.

1903.

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Congregational Church,

LONDON, ONT.

Where Fiftieth Annual Meeting

of Union of Ontario and Quebec

was held June loth, 1903.

PREFACE.

Again the Yeae Book makes its appearance, and bespeaks the kindly reception it has always received. Our friends, the officers of the Societies and Unions, deserve our thanks for their promptness in forwarding /reports. We have been particularly helped by the Maritime Union meet- ing in July. This volume is sent forth with the prayer that God may use it to spur us on to better work for the cause of Christ.

September i, 1903.

CONTENTS.

Preface

Postal Information 5

Congregational Records and Institutions 9

Congregational Churches and Ministers in Canada and Newfoundl'd 17

The Associations, etc 19

The Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec 23

Constitution 24

Churches and Record of Meetings 27

Ministers 30

Minutes of Annual Meeting 31

Financial Statements and Reports 47

Chairman's Address 51

The Canada Congregational Missionary Society 65

Constitution 67

Minutes of Annual Meeting 70

Reports, Contributions, Life Members 73

The Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society 103

Constitution 104

Minutes of Annual Meeting 107

Reports, Contributions 108

The Congregational College of Canada 133

By-Laws 139

Minutes of Annual Meeting 142

Reports, Contributions, List of Graduates 144

The Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ... 171

Minutes of Annual Meeting 174

The Canada Congregational Women's Board of Missions 1S3

Mmutes of Annual Meeting 184

The Woman's Board of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 187

Treasurer's Report 190

The Congregational Provident Fund Society 192

Minutes of Annual Meeting... 193

Report and Financial Statements 194

The Congregational Publishing Company 199

Minutes of Annual Meeting 200

Report and Financial Statement 201

Congregational Churches in Manitoba, British Columbia and New- foundland 207

Visit of Rev. R.J.Campbell 208

Church Letters 212

Statistical Tables 215

POSTAL INFORMATION.

A letter once posted becomes the property of the person to whom it is addressed.

Address all complaints to the Postmaster. With a view to facili- tate investigation, always transmit the envelope of a letter which is the subject matter of inquiry.

Letters for the United States should bear the name of the State as well as that of the Post Office.

Letters addressed to mere initials or fictitious names will not be delivered unless addressed in care of a resident or to some box in the Post Office.

The public are cautioned against doing up book packets in enve- lopes notched at the ends or corners; nor must the postage stamp be attached to both the wrapper and contents. The contents of a book packet must be tied or fastened up to permit inspection.

FIRST CLASS MATTER.

LETTERS.

Letters addressed to places in Canada and United States, 2 cents per oz., or fraction thereof.

Great Britain (by Canadian or New York Mail Steamers), and nearly all British colonies and possessions, 2 cents per % oz., or frac- tion thereof.

Letters addressed to places in Canada must be at least partially prepaid, and those addressed to the United States must be prepaid at least a full rate (2 cents), otherwise they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office.

Letters addressed to places in Canada and partly prepaid, will be forwarded, subject on delivery to double the amount of unpaid postage.

Re-directed letters are not liable to any additional postage, if ■handed back to the Post Office with a changed address as soon after delivery as possible, provided always the change in the address is not to a place where the postage rate is higher. Re-directed letters should not be dropped into a Post Office Box unless additional post- age has been put on.

POST CARDS.

For Canada and the United States, i cent each. For Great Britain, Newfoundland, and all Postal countries, 2 cents each. Reply Cards, !or Canada and the United States, 2 cents each. Nothing must be attached to a Post Card.

Private Post Cards under certain regulations as to size and -material may be prepaid by affixing on each a i cent stamp for Can- ada and the United States; and by a prepayment of 2 cents, may be ■sent to any Postal Union country.

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SECOND CLASS MATTER.

Newspapers and Periodicals posted from the office of publication are half a cent per pound, to regular subscribers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Newfoundland.

Newspapers and Periodicals published not more frequently than once per week, and addressed (for regular subscribers) to post offices within a circular area of 40 miles in diameter, the centre of which rnust be the place of publication or some point not more than 20 miles distant therefrom, are exempt.

British periodical publications, and other foreign publications, can be re-mailed by newsdealers to subscribers in Canada, at the bulk rate of i cent per lb.

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS.

Transient newspapers for any place in Canada or United States,

1 cent per 4 oz. ; but a paper not more than i oz., will go for % cent. For Great Britain and other countries in Postal Union, i cent per 2 ozs.

THIRD CLASS MATTER.

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BOOKS, ETC., AND MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.

The postage on Books, Pamphlets, Circulars (wholly in print)^ occasional publications, etc., addressed to Canada, the United States, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and all other countries, i cent per 2 ozs. Circulars, typewritten, are liable to letter rate.

The postage on Printed Stationery, Printers' Proof Sheets, Maps,. Prints, Drawings, Engravings, Lithographs, Photographs, Sheet Music (whether printed or written, including Music Books, whether stitched or bound), etc., addressed to Canada, the United States, New- foundand. Great Britain, or any European country, is i cent per 2 ozs. No package must exceed 2 feet in length by i foot in width or depth. The limit of weight for Canada and United States is 5 lbs., for other Postal Union countries, 4 lbs.

Seeds, Cuttings, Bulbs, Roots and Scions or Grafts, can only be sent to the United States as 5th Class matter: when posted for deliv- ery in Canada, the postage is i cent per 4 ozs., and the limit of weight 5 lbs.

PATTERNS AND SAMPLES.

Bona Ude Patterns and Samples of Merchandise, not exceeding 3 lbs. in weight, may be sent to any place in Canada at i cent per 2 ozs» Must be put up so as to admit of inspection.

The limit of weight to United Kingdom is 5 lbs.; limit of size^

2 feet in length by x foot in width or depth.

POSTAL INFORMATION. 7

FOURTH CLASS MATTER.

Comprises such articles of general merchandise as are not en- titled to any lower rate of postage. Postage i cent per oz., or frac- tion thereof. Limit of weight 5 lbs.; of size, 30 inches in length by i foot in width or depth. Must be open to inspectmt, and there must be no correspondence enclosed (except invoices and accounts.)

PARCEL POST.

Closed parcels may be sent to places in Newfoundland, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, Japan, and all other countries and colonies with which the United Kingdom maintains a parcel post. No correspond- ence must be enclosed. A customs' Declaration of the contents and value of each parcel must be filled up at the Post Office by the sender.

Parcels for Newfoundland must be prepaid 15 cents per tb., or a fraction of a ft.; limit of weight, 7 lbs. For Great Britain, 16 cents •for the first ft., and 12 cents for each additional ft. Limit of weight, 12 lbs.

REGISTRATION.

The fee on letters, and on all classes of articles addressed to places in Canada and all countries to which matter may be registered, is 5 cents. Receipts should be obtained for all registered matter.

In sending money by mail, it is always best to transmit by Money Order, when possible. Postal notes may also be used. If sent by letter, it should always be registered.

COMMISSION ON MONEY ORDERS.

On Orders up to $ 5-oo 3^.

Over ft 5.00 and up to 10 00 6c.

Over 1000 " " 3000 IOC.

Over 30.00 " " 50.00 ISC- Over 50.00 " " 7500 25c.

Over 7500 " " 100.00 30c.

Payable in Canada, Newfoundland, and the United States.

(The limit for a single order is $100).

Payable in the United Kingdom, British Possessions (except New- loundland), and all distant countries upon which Money Orders may be obtained. (The limit for a single Order on these countries is $50.) The rates to foreign countries are as follows:

If not exceeding ft 10 loc. Over ft30 not exceeding $40 40c.

Overftio " 20 20c. "40 " 50 ... 50c.

20 " 30 30c.

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POSTAL NOTES.

The Postal Note System established by the Post Office Depart- ment affords a cheap and convenient means for remitting small sums- in Canada.

Odd cents may be made up by affixing Canadian Postage Stamps not exceeding g cents in value to the face of a Postal Note.

No single Money Order, payable in the Dominion of Canada, can be issued for more than $ioo; but as many of $ioo each may be giv- en as the remitter requires. Limit on American Orders, $50; on British and Foreign Orders, $50.

FOREIGN MAILS.

The postage to all countries included in the Universal Postal Union is as follows:

Letters, per V2 oz., 5 cents; Post Cards, 2 cents; Books ajid News- papers, I cent per 2 oz. ; Registration, 5 cents.

INSTITUTIONS AND RECORDS. 9

CONGREGATIONAL RECORDS FOR CANADA.

ORDINATIONS, INSTALLATIONS, ETC.

Rev. Wni. Munroe, B.A., Westmount, Que., began work, Aug. 31, 1902, Rev. H. W. Stillman, Listowel, took charge, September i, 1902. Rev. T. A. Munroe, Brandon, Man., reception, September, 1902.. Rev. J. P. Gerrie, B.A., Watford, Ont., began work, October i, I9^J.'''' Rev. T. Leggette, Burford and New Durham, Ont., commenced work,

October 5, 1902. ' .

Mr. Astor Schrag. Amherst Park, Montreal, reception, Oct. ji, I9b2. j '

Rev. W. J. Hindley, Vancouver, B.C., accepted call Central' Chiirch/,, ^

November, 1902. \, / ( ^' ^1^

Rev. D. W. Purdon commenced work at JCingsport, N.S., Dec, iV, 190^; / ^c Rev. J. W. Hard, Middleville, began work, December i, 1902. (' ,'<^<a <'''^ v Rev. John Reid, Jr., Nelson, B.C., commenced work, Dec. 14, 1902; \ Rev. C. Moore, Keswick Ridge, N.B., commenced work, Dec. 14, 1902. Rev. Merton Smith accepted call to Knox Congregational Church,

Vancouver B.C., December 15, 1902. Rev. ,G. A. Lowes, Calvary Church, Kingston, Ont., took charge,

January i, 1903. Rev. C. E. Bolton, Scotland, began work, Feb. i, 1903; installation,

Feb. I2th; first there in fifty-six years. Rev. W. W. Smith, St. Catharines, recommenced work, Feb. i, I903- Rev. J. Unsworth, Immanuel Church, Hamilton, began work, February

II, 1903. Rev. J. R. Lewis, Amherst Park, Montreal, began work. Mar, 22, 1903. Rev. F. B. Harrison, Brantford, commenced duty, September i, 1903- Rev. D. M. Solandt, ordained and installed, Kingston, First Church, June

8, 1903.

RESIGNATIONS.

Rev. J. L. Alexander, Middleville, to study at Chicago, October i, 1902. Rev. A. S.ecord, Forest and Plympton, Ont., ill-health, Oct. 13, 1902. Rev. W. G. Hamilton, Amherst Park, Montreal, to study at College,

October 31, 1902. Rev. D. W. Purdon, Chebogue, to take up work in Kingsport, N.S.,

November 30, 1902, Rev. C. Moore, Milton, N.S., to take Keswick Ridge, N.B., Dec. 7, I902- Rev. D. H. Reid, Nelson, B.C., to go to U.S., December 13, 1902. Rev. G. A. Lowes, Immanuel, Hamilton, to take Calvary Church,

Kingston, December 31, 1902. Rev. J. R. Lewis, Economy, N.S., to resume studies at our College,

January 4, 1903. Rev. C. E. Bolton, St. Catharines, Ont., to take charge of Scotland,

Ont., January 26, 1903. 2

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Mr. A. Schrag, Amherst Park, Montreal, March 22, 1903.

Rev. R, R. Morson, St. John, N.B., to become pastor in Yannouth,

Me., June i, 1903. Rev. J. M. Austin, Brooklyn and Beach Meadows, N.S., June 7, 1903. Rev. H. A. Morton, Cobourg. Ont., June, 1903.

Rev. R. B. Greenaway, Bowmanville, Ont., June 28, 1903, to accept , ' Newago, Mich.

IS C ^t^it(tf,^.tv. W. J. Hindley, Central Church Vancouver, B.C., July, 1903, to ■r • ,<* ''-^ ' ■. tindertake work of Traveling Superintendent for British Columbia ,^~ ,'\ ancl Northwest.

t- J SPECIAL HAPPENINGS.

Micitilf^ville, Hopetown and Rosetta, celebrated the jubilee of their founding, August 24th and 2Sth, 1902.

Knox Presbyterian Church. Vancouver, became East End Congrega- tional Church, September 1902.

Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, September 10-15, 1902, at St. John, N.B.

Dr. Alfred Rowland, Rev. J. D. Jones, Mr. Edward Smith, and Dr. Lambert, delegation from churches, of England and Wales, visited Canada, September and October, 1902.

United Association Meetings of Toronto and Western Districts, at Toronto, October 9th and loth, 1902.

Rev. J. F. B. Tinling visited Canada in the interests of Church Union and Church Federation, September and October, 1902.

Lanark Church re-opened November 23, 1962 — old building destroyed by fire.

Foundation stone of Pine Grove Church, Ont., laid, November 27, 1902, by J. D. Nasmith, Esq.

Immanuel Church, Toronto, organized, January 8, 1903; Rev. A. B. Shirk, pastor.

Toronto District Association met in Western Church, Toronto, Febra- ruary 9, 1903.

Toronto District Association met in Broadview Avenue Church, To- ronto, April 21, 1903.

Rev. John Wood celebrated his jubilee, February 16, 1903.

Rev. D. Macallum celebrated his jubilee, February 23, 1903.

Western Association met at Frome, April 15th and i6th, 1903.

Quebec Association met in Calvary Church, Montreal, April 21st and 22nd, 1903.

Seventieth anniversary of the founding of Zion Church, Montreal, cele- brated by Rev. Dr. J. Munro Gibson.

Rev. J. E. Flower, M.A., Secretary of Church Aid and Home Mis- sions in England and Wales, visited Canada.

Sheffield parsonage burned, June, 1903; loss $1,600, insured for

INSTITUTIONS AND RECORDS. II

Union meetings of Ontario and Quebec at London, Ont., June loth to i6th; of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, July i6th to 19th, at Truro, N.S.

New churches dedicated at Pine Grove, Ont., July loth and Victoria, B.C., July 19th.

OBITUARY.

Rev. W. F. Clarke, died suddenly, September 25, 1902; founder of the CoNGREGATiONALisT, and for some time editor.

Rev. John I. Hindley, Ph.D., born near Speedside, Ont, 1842, and died at Guelph, October 29. 1902. He matriculated at McGill, 1862; studied in our Theological College, Montreal, from which he graduated in 1869. He held the pastorates of Frome. Owen Sound, Oro and Barrie, Granby, and Forest. He was chairman of the Union of Ontario and Quebec 1897-8. He continued to supply up to June. His last service was for thirteen months at Churchill. " His memory is sacred and his works follow him."

Mrs. (Rev.) A. F. Pollock, born near Forest August. 1867; a sister of Rev. D. S. Hamilton, of London, First. She became wife of Rev. A. F. Pollock in 1898, and was truly a helpmeet in the Lord. She died November 16, 1902. " Christ hath abolished death."

Mrs. (Rev.) Chas. Dufif, died November 7, 1902, over seventy years of age. In October, 1862, she married Rev. Chas. Duff, M.A., then pastor of Meaford, Ont. Mrs. Duff was a person of strong indi- viduality, sympathetic and unselfish, with great executive ability. Four children beside the bereaved partner lament her loss. Her interpretation of the will of God was, " Whatsoever thine hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might."

Mrs. Wealthy Scott, wife of Deacon Ebenezer Scott, many years a member of Chebogue, afterward transferred to Yarmouth, N.S. In 1892, turned the first sod for the New Tabernacle. Aged seventy- three, she fell asleep in Jesus, November, 1902.

Mrs. Maria E. Sterritt, Yarmouth, N.S., widowed mother of Deacon W. T. Sterritt, aged seventy-two, she entered the presence of the Lord November, 1902. after a church membership of forty-seven years.

Mrs. Margaret Thomas, aged forty-eight years, entered into rest after great suffering, November, 1902. She came from North Wales to Yarmouth, N.S., in 1892.

Mrs. David Hamilton, nee Elizabeth McPherson, was born in Argyle- shire. Scotland. 1827, and came to Canada, 1848. In 1852 she mar- ried the late David Hamilton, and after a year in Detroit they settled near Forest, Ont., and attended the Lake Shore Congre- gational Church. In 1877 she lost her husband, but the widowed mother bravely faced the responsibility. About two years ago she removed from Forest to reside with her daughter, the late Mrs. A. F. Pollock. She passed away at Danville, Que. Rev. A. F. Mc- Gregor, of Newport, Vt., conducted the services after which the remains were taken to Forest for interment, December 6, 1902,

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when Rev. A. Secord ofificiated. Forest Church arranged a me- morial service. Rev. J. P. Gerrie, chairman of the Union, preached from the words, " Her children shall rise up and call her blessed."

Mrs. Chas. E. MacMichael of St. John, N.B., suddenly deceased, De- cember 21, 1902, while her family were at church. Prominent in King's Daughters' Society work, and a Sunday school teacher. She will be greatly missed.

Rev. F. W. Read, B.A., was laid to rest, December 19, 1902. Recently

returned from Sakanjimba, West Central Africa. He was born, at Ramsey, England. At about twenty years of age he came to Canada. He graduated from McGill in 1889, and took his theology in our own College. His wife, formerly Miss Williams, also a graduate of McGill, heartily seconded his missionary work. After ten years' labor furlough was imperative to restore his exhausted strength, but it was too late. His widow and six children have the sympathy of all. Who will stand in the breach? Who next will say, " Here am I, Lord, send me"?

Mrs. Annie E. Livingston Scott, Forest, Ont., May 15, 1903. An enthusiastic helper, she was taken away the week that the annual meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary was to have been held at her home. " We shall miss her, but her work abides."

Mrs. David Gemmell, Belmore, Ont., May 26, 1903. Well-known in Lanark and Turnberry for her faith and patience. She was a staunch supporter of Congregationalism.

Capt. Edwin McLeod, Brooklyn, N.S.,, on May 20, 1903, aged seventy- two. A grand witness of faith in Christ and hope of everlasting life.

Mrs. Eunice McLeod, widow of the late Capt. George McLeod, on May 24, 1903, at the age of eighty-nine. Her testimony for her Savior was clear and confident.

Rev. Prof. Kenneth M. Fenwick, Westmount, Que., June 13, 1903, aged seventy-seven. Born in Dundee, Scotland, he emigrated at the age of sixteen to Canada, where he received his education for the ministry. For over twenty years pastor of First Church, Kingston, he became professor of Apologetics and Church History about 1877. He was interred at Kingston. A man of unusual scholar- ship and natural ability.

Mrs. Livina Rusk, in her eightieth year„ on Junq 28, 1903, at Toronto, Ont. An earnest Christian and good friend.

Miss Esther Howell, aged seventy years, on July 2, 1903, at Toronto. " She hath done what she could."

Wm. Pritchard, in his sixty-ninth year, died, December i, 1902, at his home, Minto Tp.. Wellington Co. Prior to his removal he had resided at his birthplace, near Millbrook, Ont. In i860 he was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Fee who with five sons and three daughters mourn the departed. An active and consistent member of the Congregational Church, his funeral was largely attended, and he was committed to the grave in " full assurance- of a glorious resurrection.

INSTITUTIONS AND RECORDS. I3

Dr. Stewart, of Port Rowan, on Wednesday, January 21, 1903, son of the late George Stewart, Esq., J. P., of Carnbourne.

Ephraim Stimson, of Melbourne Church, Que., a kind husband and father, a good neighbor and a worthy citizen, he passed, January 22, 1903, over fourscore years of age.

Mts. Hugh Lennox, Edgar, Ont., died January 19, 1903, after a brief illness. The large funeral testified the esteem felt for the deceased.

Little Arthur Beath, son of Mr. David Beath, Edgar, Ont., passed away after a week's illness with scarlet fever, on January 22, 1903.

Mrs. Elizabeth Burpee, wife of Hon. Chas. Burpee, succumbed, to pneumonia, February 3, 1903. A native of Oromocto, N.B., she was " sixty-six years young." She remembered the denominational funds and her own church generously in her will. " God hath set in the Church . . . helps."

Arthur Sanderson Mcintosh, son of our esteemed Home Mission Sec- retary, Rev. Wm. Mcintosh, was called at the early age of twenty- seven. Delicate since his fourteenth year, he had gone to Winni- peg, Man., but to no adva<itage. On February 12, 1903, his suffer- ings ended. He " witnessed a good confession," even joyfully awaiting the end.

Miss Edna Swackhammer, the beloved and only daughter of Deacon Swackhammer, of Churchill, died February, 1903, at the age of eighteen. Great sympathy is felt for the sorrowing parents.

Mrs. Elizabeth Northmore, widow of the late J. P. Northmore, passed peacefully away, Feb. 8, 1903, in the eighty-eighth year of her age. She came to Canada over fifty years ago, and resided in Qiuebec and London, in which latter she deceased, at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. W. R. Langridge. A large family connection miss her who has " gone home."

John C. Field ex-M.P.P., in his eighty-first year, entered the eternal morning. Born in Somerset, Eng., September 18, 1822, his father came to Canada in 1832 and settled in Cobourg. In 1844. he married Miss Pearse. In 1879 he successfully carried the riding. " Ready for all Thy perfect will," was his life motto. The Tbwn Council attended the large funeral in a body. He leaves an hon- ored memory, and is mourned by all classes and creeds.

Morgan John Greenaway, infant son of Rev. R. Brandon Greenaway, was taken, March 18, 1903. A large number of sympathizing friends attended the funeral. ,

Mrs. Jane Wickson Ebbs, relict of Rev. Edward Ebbs, a chairman of the Union of Ontario and Quebec, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Janes, Elgin, 111., in her eighty-first year. A daughter of the late Mr. James Wickson, she is remembered as a devoted worker in the churches of Ontario where her husband was pastor.

Mrs. Samuel Greey, on April 5, 1903; one of the seniot members of Hamilton, First Church, went to her reward. " To depart with Christ is far better."

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Miss Allie Stoneman London, First, is missed from Sunday school and services^ She looked forward to the springtime, when she would be better.

Mrs. Harry Mossop, London First. Three little children and a grief- stricken husband mourn her loss, yet trusting in Him who has promised to bear burdens.

Elkanah Freeman, of Milton, N.S., on the 26th of March, 1903, entered into rest, after a linorerine: illness borne with patient resignation to the Heavenly Father's will.

Mrs. A. Anderson, of Brampton, passed away on April 4, 1903, at the age of seventy-eight. Her nephew, Dr. Roddick, of Montreal, visited her in the last illness. Her unwavering faith, cour- age and unselfishness are held in remembrance by her relatives and friends.

Mrs. R. Robinson, wife of Rev. Robt. Robinson, sister of the late Rev. W. F. Clarke, of Guelph, and daughter of the late Rev. Wm. Clarke, one of our pioneer fathers, suddenly an'd unexpectedly was taken. May 4, 1903. Surviving her, five children and the aged husband mourn their loss, in humble confidence that He doeth all things well.

Mr. John Mertens, Stouffville, in his seventy-sixth year. His record of justice, kindness and strict honesty never was broken.

Mrs. Wheeler, Stouffville, in her ninety-first year, a life-long member of the church and a subscriber to the Congregationalist since its inception.

Mrs. Sarah Blaikie, on April 2, 1903, passed in her sixtieth year. She was financial secretary fourteen years. She loved her church and people.

Mrs. Margaret Kribs Brown, May 24, 1903, during her seventy-ninth year joined 1' the innumerable company," after a lingering illness borne with Christian patience.

M-r Frank Hutchinson, Milton, N.S., a faithful, earnest worker in Christian Endeavor and Sunday school work. He was also vice- chairman of the Union of N.S. and S.B.

INSTITUTIONS AND RECORDS. IS

CONGREGATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 1903-1904.

Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec. — Chair- man/or 1903, Rev. John P. Gerrie, B.A., Watford; Chairtyian for 1904, Mr. Henry O'Hara, Toronto. Next meeting, Zion Church, Montreal, June 8th, 1904.

Congregational College of Canada, Montreal. — Princi- pal, Rev. E. Munson Hill, D.D., Montreal ; Treasurer, Thomas Moodie, 30 St. John St., Montreal.

Canada Congregational Missionary Society, — President, Charles Cushing, Montreal ; Secretary, Rev. Wm. Mcintosh, Ottawa ; Treasurer, Mr. Charles R. Black, Bank of Toronto Chambers, Montreal.

Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society. — President, Rev. T. B. Hyde, Toronto ; Secretary, Rev, p. S. Hamilton, London ; Treasurer, Rev. Wm. T, Gunn, Embro, Ont.

Woman's Board of Missions. — President, Mrs, D. Macal- lum, Kingston; Secretary, Mrs. J. D. Nasmith, 207 Bloor St, E , Toronto ; Treasurer, Miss Emily Thompson, 27 Linden St., Toronto.

Woman's Board of Missions, N. S. and N. B. — President, Mrs. C. Moore, Keswick Ridge, N.B.; Treasurer, Mrs. Robert Pe- grum, Yarmouth, N,S.; Secretary, Miss Ida Baker, Sheffield, N.B.

Provident Fund Society. — Chairman, Charles Alexander, Montreal; Vice-Chairman, C. R. 'E>\diCk,^sq.: Secretary-Treasurer, Thomas Moodie, Montreal.

Congregational Publishing Company. — President, John C. Copp, Toronto ; Editor of Year Book and of Canadian Congrega- tionalist, and Secretary, Rev. H. F. Thomas, 82 Bismarck Ave,, Toronto ; Treasurer, Mr. Wm. McCartney, 269 Carlton St., Toronto.

Colonial Missionary Society. — Secretary, Rev. D, Burford Hooke, Memorial Hall, Farringdon St , London, England.

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London Missionary Society. — Foreign Secretaries, Rev. R. Wardlaw Thompson, and Rev. George Cousins ; Office, 14 Bloom- field St., London Wall, London, England.

Congregational Union of England and Wales. — Secre- tary, Rev. William James Woods, Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., London, England.

London Union of Congregational Churches. — Secretary, Rev. Andrew Mearns.

Congregational Union of Scotland. — Secretary, Rev. W. Hope Davidson, 30 George Square, Edinburgh.

Congregational Union of Ireland. — Secretary, Rev. James Cregan, Knock Croom, Belfast, Ireland.

National Council of the Congregational Churches of THE United States. — Mo^em^or, A. H. Bradford, Montclair, N.J.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, — Secretaries, Revs. Judson Smith, D.D., James L. Barton, D.D.; Treasurer, Frank H. Wiggins ; Office, Congregational House, Boston, Mass.

Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society. — Secretary, Rev. George M. Boynton, D.D.; Office, Congrega- tional House, Boston, Mass.

Congregational Home Missionary Society. — Secretaries, Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.; Rev. Washington Choate, D.D., Office, Fourth Avenue and 22nd St., New York.

American Missionary Association. — Secretary, Rev. A. F. Beard, D.D., Fourth Avenue and 22nd St., New York.

Congregational Church Building Society. — Rev. C. H. Taintor, Chicago, Field Secretary.

Congregational Education Society. — Secretary, Edward S. Tead, Congregational House, Boston.

INSTITUTIONS AND RECORDS,

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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES IN CANADA AND

NEWFOUNDLAND.

Alton, Ont. Ayers Flat, Que. Barrie. Ont. Belwood, Ont. Beach Meadows, N.S. Bowmanville, Ont. Brandon, Man. Brantford, Ont, Brigham, Que. Brooklyn, N.S. Burford, Ont, Caledon, South, Ont. Chebogue, N.S, Churchill, Ont. Cobourg, Ont. Cold Springs, Ont. Cowansville, Que. Dalston, Ont. Danville, Que. Eaton, Que, Edgar, Ont. Economy, N.S. Edgeworth, Ont. Embro, Ont. Erin, North, Ont. Fergus, Ont. Fitch Bay, Que. Forest, Ont. Fortune Bay, Nfld. Franklin Centre, Que. Frome, Ont. Garafraxa, Ont, Georgetown, Ont. Granby, Que. Guelph, Ont. Hamilton, First, Ont. Hamilton, Immanuel, Ont Hemford, N.S, Howick, Ont,

Humber Summit, Ont. Keswick Ridge, N.B. Kincardine, Ont. Kingsport, N.S. Kingston, First, Ont. Bethel, Ont.

" Calvary, Ont. Lake Shore, Ont. Lanark, Ont. Listowel, Ont. Little Bay East, Nfld. Liverpool, N.S. London, First, Ont.

" Southern, Ont. Maitland, N.S.

South, N.S. Margaree, N.S. Martintown, Ont. Maxville, Ont. Melbourne, Que. Middleville, Ont, Milltown, N.B. Milton, N.S. Montreal, Calvary, Que.

" Emmanuel.

" Pt. St. Charles.

" Westmount.

" Zion.

" Amherst Park. New Durham, Ont. Noel, N,S. Nelson, B.C. Ottawa, First, Ont.

" Welcome-Zion. Paris, Ont. Plympton, Ont. Pleasant River, N.S. Pine Grove, Ont. Random, Nfld.

Rugby, Ont. Scotland, Ont. Selmah, Lower, N.S. Sheffield, N.B. Sherbrooke, Que, Speedside, Ont, Stanstead South, Que, Stratford, Ont. St. Andrews, Que. St. Catharines, Ont. St. John, N.B. St. Johns, Nfld, Toronto, Bond St., Ont.

" Broadview Ave.

" Hope.

" Immanuel.

" Northern.

" Olivet.

" Parkdale.

" Western.

" Zion. Truro, N.S. Twillingate, Nfld. Ulverton, Que. Vancouver, Central, " Knox Ch.

" First.

Victoria, B.C. Warwick, Ebenezer, Ont.

" Zion.

Watford, Ont. Waterville, Que,

Winnipeg, Central, Man. Wetaskiwin, Alta. Woodstock, Ont. Yarmoutn, N.S.

^^ CONGREGATIONAL VEAR BOOK-

CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND.

Austin J M., Brooklyn, N.S. *Macallum, Daniel, Kingston, Ont.

Baker W Moulding, Woodstock, Ont. Macallum, F. W., B.A., Turkey Mis. tJall U W. Liverpool, N.S. Main, Arthur W., Lower Selma, N.S.

•iiarker, bnoch, 4 Simpson Ave., To- Margrett, Albert, Georgetown. R ""^^^V TT ^ Marshall, W. H. L., Speedside, Ont.

fo,™"^ ' rf u ■^•' x9^^^^''^'''^' ^"^- *Alorton, John, Hamilton.

*Back, Robert K Granby, Que. Morton, H. A., B.A.

Black, James R.B. A Kingston, Ont. McCuaig, Joseph A. C., Toronto. ^u ^u ' ^- A V^'^tona, B.C. McCormack, A., Coldsprings, Ont.

Bolton, Chas. E Scotland, Ont. Mdntosh, William, Ottawa.

Sf''^"' J- ^•' W°?^ ^^^A ^^^"- Mcintosh, David C., Lanark, Ont.

ri "^' w-n ' Tilbury, Ont. Mackenzie, Geo. A., Stratford, Ont.

Claris, Wiham H. A. London, Ont. McKillican. John, Montreal, Que. Collms William, Franklin Centre, Q. McLean. Thomas D.. MiUtown, N.B. Cox, Jacob W B.A Truro, N.S. Moore, Churchill, Keswick Ridge, N.B. Creehnan Harlan, PhD., Montreal Munroe, T. A., Brandon, Man.

SaTk^'G^len^H R A -W^'^'n ^n Munroe, W., Westmount. Que. v^raik, Ualen M., B.A. Waterville, Q. t, •, , j -ixr-ir ™ c u a r.-o.,K» Daley, Jas. T, B.A., Maxville, Ont. P"tchard, William S., B.A., Granby.

Day, Benjamin W., St. Andrews, Q. Q"^- ^

Day, Frank J., B.D., Sherbrooke, Que. Pedley, Hugh, B.A., Montreal, Que. Drysdale, R. J., Georgetown. Pedley, James W., B.A., Toronto.

*Duff, Charles, M.A., Toronto. Pedley, C. S., B.A., Barrie, Ont.

Gerrie, John P., B.A., Watford, O. Pedley, Hilton, B.A., Japan Mission. *Goddard, Henry, Milton, N.S. Pegrum, Robert, Yarmouth, N.S.

Gordon J L., Toronto, Ont. Pollock. A. F., B.D., Danville, Que.

Gunn, William T M. A., Embro, Ont. pHor, A. E., Kincardine, Ont.

^T 7' T Vxr '..?J^-' •T°'"°^^°- Purdon, D. W., Kingsport, N.S.

Hard, J. W Middleville Ont. Read, George E., Stanstead, Que.

HaSilfon D ^ R°A^' P"'. O . ^^^d, D. H, Nelson, B.C. rlamilton. D. b.. B.A., London, Ont. d- xj <" td t-> a r .. 1

Harvey, W. R., 191 Ash Ave., Montreal. =?;^^; ^, ^^ ^^.f ^i°"''f . n . Harris, P. C. U. Guelph, Ont -Richardson, A. W., Kmgston, Ont.

Harrison, F. B., Brantford. *Robinson, Robert, Woodstock.

*Hill. E. Munson, D.D., 25 Crescent *RoutUffe, C H.

St., Montreal. Ross, A. B., Frome, Ont.

Hindley, William J., Vancouver, B.C. Rose, Edwin, Ayers Flat. Horsey. Harold I., Ottawa. Salmon, John, Toronto.

Hyde, T. B., 64 Isabella St.. Toronto. Sanden, A., Wetaskiwin. Kelly, Matthew, Edgar, Ont. Secord, A., Burford, Ont.

Leggette, Thomas, Burford, Ont. Silcox, Edwin D., Paris, Ont.

Lewis, J. R.. Montreal, Que. Silcox, J. B., Winnipeg, Man.

Lowes, G. A., Kingston, Ont. Skinner, George, Fitch Bay, Que.

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Smith, Wm. W., St. Catharines, Ont. Qnsworth, Joseph K., B.A., Hamilton, *Sykes, Simeon, Fredericton, N.B, Ont.

*Shaver, M. A., Toronto. *Warriner, W. Henry, D.D., 7 Shuter

Stillman, H., Listowel, Ont. St., Montreal.

Thomas, H. R, M.A., 82 Bismarck Watt, R. G., B.D., Melbourne, Que. Ave., Toronto. Watson, W. H., Cowansville, Que.

Thackeray, Jos., St. John's, Nfld. =^Wood, John, Ottawa.

*Unsworth Joseph, Hamilton, Ont, Whyte, George M., Siheffield, N.B. * Not in pastoral office.

THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION.

The Western Association meets in October and April. Last year the October meeting was held at Toronto in union with To" ronto Association to meet the English delegation. The April meeting was held at Frome. Revs. J. K. Unsworth and C. E. Bolton, presided.

President, Rev. C. E. Bolton.

Secretary, Rev. E. D. Silcox, Paris.

[Treasurer, Rev. W. H. A. Claus, London.

MEMBERS.
Rev. W. H. A. Claris, Rev. G. A. Mackenzie, Rev.	W	'. T. Gunn, M.A.,
" John Morton, " C. E. Bolton,	E.	C. Oakley,
" A. Margrett, " W. J. Hindley,	D.	S. Hamilton, B.A.,
" W. W. Smith, " E. D. Silcox,	Thos. Leggette.
" J. K. Unsworth, B. A. " E. C. W.McColl. B.A.
" W. M. Baker, " M. Kelly,
ASSOCIATE CHURCHES.
Brantford, Frome, Listowel,		Speedside,
Burford, Garafraxa, London, First,		Stratford,
Belwood, Guelph, London, Southern,	St. Catharines,
Embro, Hamilton, First, New Durham,		Turnberry,
Fergus, Hamilton, Immanuel Paris,		Woodstock,
Forest, Kincardine, Scotland,		Watford.
London District Brantford District.		Stratford Dist,
Tilbury, Brantford, Scotland,		Stratford,
London, First, Paris, Hamilton, First,		Listowel,
London, Southern, Burford, Hamilton, Immanuel	1, Turnberry,
Frome, New Durham, St. Catharines,		Kincardine,
Woodstock, Kelvin,		Howick.
Embro,

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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.

GuELPH District Guelph, Garafraxa,

Speedside, Belwood,

Fergus,

Lambton District Forest, Ebenezer,

Watford, Warwick,

Lake Shore, Zion.

Plympton,

TORONTO DISTRICT ASSOCIATION.

The meetings of this Association, according to the Con- stitution, are in October, January and April, the fourth meeting, in June, being cancelled on account of the Annual Meeting of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Que- bec. The ministerial members are received on conditions similar to those required for admission to above Union. Churches are required to contribute an annual collection to the funds of the Association. Three meetings were held last year in Toronto, with Rev. H. F. Thomas, M.A., and Mr. W. Woodley, presiding.

President — W. Woodley, Esq.

Treasurer — Mr. W. J. Stibbs, 55 Charles St., Toronto. Registrar — Rev, W. E. Gilroy, B.A. , 10 Withrow Ave., Toronto. Home Missionary Representative — Mr. H. O'Hara, Toronto.

ASSOCIATE CHURCHES.

Alton,	Georgetown,	Toron	to	Bond St.
Barrie,	Humber Summit,			Northern,
Bowmanville,	Pine Grove,			Western,
Churchill,	Rugby,			Olivet,
Cobourg,	South Caledon,			Parkdale,
Dalston,	Toronto, Zion,			Broadview Ave
Edgar.

CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF QUEBEC.

The object of the Association is to promote ministerial improvement, the harmony, fellowship and efficiency of the churches, and their co-operation in Christian work. It includes the Congregational churches in the Province of

INSTITUTIONS AND RECORDS.

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Quebec and those in the territory previously covered by the Eastern Association. Each church is entitled to send three delegates to each meeting, provided that if the full number be sent,, one of them at least shall be a woman. Two meetings were held during the past year, both in Montreal. Scribe, Rev. F. J. Day, Sherbrooke.

E. M. Hill, D.D., John McKillican, Thomas Hall, W. H. Warriner. D.D. R. G. Watt. B.D.. G. H. Craik, B.A., G. E. Read, Jas. Billington,

MINISTERS.

W. Mcintosh,

W. Johnston,

B. W. Day.

F. J. Day. B.A.,B.D..

R. K. Black.

W. R. Harvey.

H. G. Rice, B.A.. D.D.

W. H. Watson.

W. S. Pritchard, B. A..B.D. Hugh Pedley, B.A.. Harlan Creelman, Ph.D., Edwin Rose. A. F. McGregor, B.A. A. F. Pollock. B.D., Wm. Monroe.

ASSOCIATE CHURCHES.

Ayers Flat,

Brigham,

Cowansville.

Danville.

Eaton,

Fitch Bay,

Franklin Centre,

Granby,

Montreal, Emmanuel,

" Calvary,

" Zion,

Pt. St. Charles.

" Bethlehem,

" Amherst Park,

Melbourne and Ulverton^

St. Andrews.

Stanstead, South,

Sherbrooke,

Waterville,

Maxville and St. Elmo.

MARITIME ASSOCIATIONS.

The Eastern Association is composed as follows: Kingsport, Noel,. Lower Selma, South Maitland, Economy, Truro, Margaree; Chairman, Rev. A. W. Main, Lower Selma; Secretary-Treasurer, Rev. J. W. Cox. Meets annually; time of meeting, September, about 6th; place, Kings- port.

Western Association: Liverpool, Milton, Brooklyn, Beach Meadows, Pleasant River, Hemford, Yarmouth, Chebogue, Rev. J. W. Ball, Chairman; Rev. J. M. Austin, Secretary-Treasurer.

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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK-

PROF. HARLAN CREEI.IMAN.

THE MONTREAL CONGREGATIONAL CLUB.

This Club was organized in 1890. "to encourage," as stated by Article IL, of its constitution, " among the mem- bers and adherents of our Congregational churches a more intimate and friendly acquaintance; and to secure concert of action, and to promote the general interests of Con- gregationalism."

OFFICERS FOR 1903-1904. President — Rev. Prof. H. Creelman, Ph.D.

Vice-Presidents f^^-^""^- ^ ^ Burland. ytce fresiaents ^^^^ ^^ ^ Harvey.

Secretary — R. W. McLachlan.

Treasurer — Hugh Vallance."

Executive Committee — A. McA. Murphy, C. Gushing, S. P. Leet.

Reception Committee— ChdivXes Gurd, T. B. Macaulay, C. T. Williams, G. Climie,

Mrs. C. Gurd, Miss Williams. Lookout Commilt:c—Rev. Prof. W. H. Warriner, D.D.,C- R. Black, Rev. H. Pad

ley, M.A., Rev. Prin. Hill, D D., Mrs. T. Moodie, Mrs. S. H. C. Miner-

UNION OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.

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THE

CONGREGATIONAL UNION

OF

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC

OFFICERS FOR 1902-1903.

CHAIRMAN

For 1903. REV. J. P. GERRIE, B.A.. " 1904. MR. H. O'HARA.

Toronto, Ont. Toronto, 0\t

SECRETARY-TREASURER AND STATISTICAL SECRETARY

REV. J. T. DALY. B.A. Maxville, Ont.

minute SECRETARIES

REV. H. A. MORTON, M.A. REV. W. R. HARVEY.

union COMMITTEE

REV. HUGH PEDLEY. F. J. DAY J. T. DALEY W. R. HARVEY T. B. MACAULAY H. G. RAE

With the OfBcers of the Union.

MR. T. MOODIE

" S. P. LEFT

" W. D. LIGHTHALL DR. E. MUNSON HILL

" W. H. WARRINER

PREACHERS ANNUAL SERMON

REV. E. D. SILCOX

ALTERNATE

REV. W. S. PRITCHARD, B.A., B.D., .

Paris, Ont.

Granby, Que.

Next Place of Meeting, Zion Church, Montreal, June i8th, 1904.

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CONSTITUTION.

I. — That the name of this Association be " The Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec."

II. — That it shall consist of Congregational or Independent Churches, and of ministers of the same church order, who are either in the pas- toral office, or (being members of Congregational Churches) are en- gaged in evangelistic or educational service, approved or received at a general meeting, and those laymen who have been Chairmen of the Union and are members in any of their churches.

III. — That this Union is founded on a full recognition of the dis- tinctive principles of Congregational Churches, namely, the Scriptural right of every separate church to maintain perfect independence in its government and administration, and therefore, that the Union shall not assume legislative or administrative authority, or in any case- become a court o£ appeal.

IV. — That the following are the objects contemplated in its for- mation: I. To promote evangelical religion in connectipn with the Congregational denomination. 2. To cultivate brotherly affection and co-operation in everything relating to the interests of the associated churches. 3. To establish a fraternal correspondence with similar bodies elsewhere. 4. To address an annual or occasional letter to the associated churches, accompanied with such information as may be deemed necessary. 5. To obtain accurate statistical information relative to the Congregational Churches throughout the British American Provinces. 6. To hold consultation on questions of interest connected with the cause of Christ in general.

V. — To promote the accomplishment of these objects, and the gen- eral interests of the Union, an annual meeting of its members shall be held, each of the associated churches being represented by two lay delegates; the meetings to be held at such time and place as may be appointed at each annual meeting.

VI. — That the officers of this Union be a Chairman, Secretary- Treasurer, Statistical Secretary, Minute Secretary and Committee, all to- be chosen annually from its members, who shall execute the instruc- tions of the Union, and prepare a docket of business for the annual meeting.

VII. — That alterations may be made in this constitution at any annual meeting, providing that notice of such alterations has been given at the meeting next preceding.

STANDING RULES.

I.— Applications for admission to the Union, whether by churckes or ministers, should be made in writing; and after having been read.

MR. HEx\RY O'HARA,

CHAIRMAN OF UNION, I903.

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to the Union, shall be referred to a standing committee on member- ship. Churches so applying shall present the written recommendation of three members of the Union. Ministers bearing regular letters of dismissal from a kindred Congregational organization and those who furnish evidence of having completed a course of study in the Congre- gational College of Canada, and having been ordained to the ministry, may be received at once on these grounds. Other ministers shall be required to bring proof of (i) their membership in a Congregational Church; (2) their ordination to the ministry; (3) if they have come from any other denomination, their good standing therein; and they shall satisfy the Membership Committee in relation to their literary acquirements, and their doctrinal and ecclesiastical views. (4) Should the Membership Committee be satisfied on these points and recom- mend the applicant for membership, the recommendation shail be filed with the Secretary, and the application and recommendation shall then lie over until the next annual meeting, when a two-thirds vote of the members present shall be requisite for admission into membership.

2. — The Union shall meet annually on the Wednesday after the first Sabbath in June, at 9 a.m., when, if the elected chairman be absent, a chairman pro tern, shall be chosen. After a devotional service, min- ute secretaries and reporters shall be appointed, the Report of the Committee presented, and the Standing Committee on Business, Mem- bership, Nomination and Finance chosen on nomination by the Com- mittee of the Union. At 11 a.m., the Union will rise, to give place to the Canada Congregational Missionary Society.

3. — On Wednesday afternoon the Union will hold no public session, in order that time may be given to the work of several committees.

4. — The Chairman's address shall be delivered on Wednesday evening.

5. — On Thursday morning the Chairman for the next year shall be elected by ballot without nomination. Ballot papers shall be furnished to all members of the Union present, if required; and the votes shall be counted by scrutineers appointed by the Chairman. If no candi- date have a majority of the votes cast, the names of two persons having the highest number shall be reported, and another vote taken. The Union will adjourn at 11 a.m. on Thursday, in favor of the Canada Congregational Missionary Society.

6. — The meeting shall be daily opened and closed with prayer; the morning devotional exercises to extend to an hour.

7. — No motion shall be discussed unless seconded; no member shall speak twice to the same motion without permission from the chair, and every motion shall be presented in writing by the mover, if required by the chair.

8. — The members of the Union shall register their attendance with the Secretary in a book kept for this purpose. The Minutes of the preceding day shall be read at the opening of each day's sesion, and the Minutes of the last day at the close of the session.

g. — The church in whose locality the annual meeting shall be held, shall be requested to celebrate the Lord's Supper in connection with such meeting.

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10. — On Monday evening, during the sitting of the Union a public meeting of the Union shall be held, the program of wh'ch shall be arranged by the Union Committee.

II. — Application shall* be made by the Statistical Secretary, one month at least before the annual meeting, for statistics of the sev- eral churches, and a brief narrative of the state of religion among them, that he may prepare a condensed narrative of the whole for the annual meeting, and for publication if so ordered.

12. — A collection for the funds of the Union shall be made annually in each church, on or near the Lord's Day prior to the meeting. From this source, the Finance Committee, after providing for other necessary expenses, shall pay in full, if possible, the travelling fares of its ministerial members (provided always that no member of the Union, whether ministerial or lay, attending the meetings, shall receive anything for travelling expenses, imless such ministerial member shall have contributed not less than one dollar, and the church represented by the delegate not less than five dollars to its funds) ; or if unable to pay in full, shall deduct from the claim of each, such equal amount as may be found necessary; such payment shall not be made until after the final adjournment, except with leave of the Union.

13. — The delegates from the Union to corresponding bodies, who may fail to fulfil their appointment by personal attendance, shall ad- dress these bodies by letter, communicating in substance such infor- mation and sentiments as they would furnish if they were present at their annual convocations.

14. — All supplies of pulpits required during the Sunday in which the Union is in session, which are not otherwise provided for, shall be filled by the Nomination Committee in connection with the' past')r of the church where the Union is held, and a copy of such appointment shall be posted on the door of the church where the Union is as- sembled. ,

IS- — In order to facilitate the introduction of properly accredited preachers to churches connected with this Union which may require pulpit supply, the Secretary is authorized to send to secretaries or pastors of churches a list of preachers; but on the understanding that only the names on the list shall be of those: i. Who are pastors of churches in connection with the Union. 2. Who have been stu- dents of the Canada Congregational College, and who have left that institution with the confidence of the College authorities. 3. Who are carrying on their studies at the College, and who are certified by the Principal or Secretary as qualified to undertake preaching engage- ments. Who have been pastors connected with the Union, and who are still members of the churches of the Union. 5. Who are recom- mended by a District Committee. 6. Who are accredited by the Con- gregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, England and Wales, Scotland. Ireland and the British Colonies, or by any Local Association, or National organization in the United States of America. 7. Lay preachers and evangelists accredited by any District Asso- ciation.

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CHURCHES CONNECTED WITH THE UNION.

Alton, Ont. Barrie, Ont. Belwood, Ont. Bowmanville, Ont. Brantford, Ont. Brigham, Que. Burford, Ont. Caledon, South, Ont. {a) Canifton, Ont. Cobourg, Ont. Coldsprings, Ont. Cowansville, Que. Danville, Que. Durham, Que. (6) Eaton, Que. Edgar, Ont. Embro, Ont. Erin, North, Ont. (c) Fergus, Ont. Fitch Bay, Que. Forest, Ont. Franklin Centre, Que. Frome, Ont.

Garafraxa, First, Ont (d) Georgetown, Ont. Granby, Que. Guelph, Ont. Hamilton, First, Ont.

Hamilton, Immanuel, Ont. Pine Grove, Ont. Howick, First, Ont. {e) Rugby, Ont. Humber Summit, Ont. (/)Sarnia, Ont.

Kelvin, Ont. Kincardine, Ont. {g) Kingston, First, Ont. Bethel, Ont. " Calvary, Ont.

Lanark Village, Ont. Listowel, Ont. London, First, Ont.

" Southern, Ont. Martintown, Ont. Maxville, Ont. Melbourne, Que. Middleville and Rosetta,

Ont. Montreal, Zion, Que.

Scotland, Ont. Sherbrooke, Que. Speedside, Ont. Stanstead South, Que. St. Andrews, Que. St Catharines, Ont. Stratford, Ont. Tilbury, Ont. Toronto, Zion, Ont.

Bond St., Ont.

Northern, Ont.

Western, Ont,

Olivet, Ont.

Parkdale, Ont.

Broadview Ave.

Emmanuel, Que. Turnberry, Ont. (/?) Calvary, Que. Unionville, Ont.

Vankleek Hill. Ont.

Warwick, Ont.

Waterville, Que.

Watford, Ont.

Winnipeg, Central, Man. " Maple St., Man.

" Pt. St. Charles

" Amherst Park

" Bethlehem, Q. Newmarket, Ont. New Durham, Ont. Ottawa, First, Ont.

Welcome-Zion, Ont. Woodstock, Ont

Paris, Ont.

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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK-

MINISTERIAL MEMBERS OF THE UNION.

Alexander, J. L., Berlin, Wis. Baker, W. M,, Woodstock, Ont. Barker, Enoch, Toronto, Ont, Barnett, J. H., Garafraxa, Ont. Black, Robert K., Granby, Que. Black, J, R., B.A., Kingston, Ont. Bolton, Chas. E., Scotland, Ont. Brown, J. L., Wood Bay, Man. Claris, William H. A., London, Ont. Claris, C. C, Tilbury, Ont. Collins, Wm., Franklin Centre, Que. Craik, Galen H., Waterville, Que. Currie, W. T., B.A., Chisamba, Africa. Daley, J. T., B.A., Maxville, Ont. Day, F. } , B.D., Sherbrooke, Que. Day, B. W., St. Andrews, Que. Drysdale, R. J., Georgetown, Ont. Duff, Charles, M.A., Toronto. Ont. Gerrie, John P., B. A., Watford, Ont. Gilroy, W. E., B.A., Toronto, Ont. Gordon, J. L. , Toronto, Ont. Gray, M. S., Farrington.Mich., U.S.A. Greenaway, B.,Newago, Mich. Gunn, W. T.. M.A., Embro, Ont. Hall, Thos.. Island Pond, Vt. Hamilton, D. S., B.A., London, Ont. Hay, Robert, Watford. Ont. Hambly. D.D., B.D. Harvey, W. R., Montreal, Ont. Hill, E. M.. D.D., Montreal, Que. Hindley, W. J., Vancouver, B.C. Hopkin, Robert, Kent, Ohio. Horsey, H. L, Ottawa, Ont. Hyde, T. B., Toronto, Ont. Jackson, W. P., Barre, Vt. Johnston, William. Kelly, Matthew, Edgar, Ont. Lowes, G. A., Kingston, Ont. Leggette, T., Burford, Ont. Macallum, D., Kingston, Ont. Mackenzie, G. A., Stratford, Ont. Main, A. W., Maitland, N.S.

Margrett, Albert, Georgetown, Ont. Mason, H. E , Medical Lake, Wn. Ter McAdie, James, St. Andrews, Que. McCormack, A., Coldsprings, Ont. McCuaig, J. A. C, Toronto, Ont. McEwen, J. D., Orobo, Brazil. McGregor, A. P., B.A., Newport, Vt. Mcintosh, William, Ottawa, Ont Mcintosh. D.C., B.D., Lanark, Ont. McKillican, John, Montreal, Que. McKinnon, J., Pilot Mound, Man. Moore, Churchill, Milton, N.S. Mote, W. H., D.D. Morton, J., Hamilton, Ont. Morton, H. A., M.A., Cobourg, Ont. Munroe, T. A., B.A,, Brandon, Man. Pedley, H., B.A., Montreal, Que. Pedley, J. W., B.A., Toronto, Ont. Pollock, A. F.. B.D., Danville. Que. Prior, A. E., Kincardine, Ont. Pritchard, W. S., B.A., Granby, Que. Read, G. E., Rock Island, Que. Rice, H. G., B.A., B.D., Montreal, Que.. Rose, Edwin, Ayer's Flat, Que. Routliffe, C. H. Ross, A. B., Frome, Ont. Richardson, A. W., M.D., Kingston, Ont. Salmon, John, B.A. , Toronto, Ont. Secord, A., Burford. Silcox, E. D., Paris, Ont. Skinner, George, Fitch Bay, Ont. Smith, Wm. W., St. Catharines, Ont. Shaver, M. A.

Thomas, H. F., M.A., Toronto, Ont. Unsworth, Joseph, Hamilton, Ont. Unsworth, J. K., B.A., Hamilton, Ont. Warriner, W. H.. M.A., D.D., Mon--

treal, Que. Watt. R. G., B.D., Melbourne, Que. Watson, W. H., Cowansville, Que. Wood, John, Ottawa, Ont.

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MINUTES OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF

ONTARIO AND QUEBEC, HELD IN THE

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,

LONDON, ONT., JUNE ioth, 1903.

/ The following was the registered attendance:

MINISTERS.

Bolton, C. E., Scotland, Ont. Mcintosh, Wm., Ottawa, Ont.

Claris, W. H. A., London, Ont. Mcintosh, D. C, Lanark, Ont.

Claris, C. C, Tilbury, Ont. McKillican, J.. Montreal, Que.

Daley, J. F., Maxville, Ont. Morton, J., Hamilton.

Day, F. J., Sherbrooke, Que. Morton, H. A., Cobourg. Drysdale, R. J., Georgetown, Ont. Munroe, Wm., Montreal, Que.

Gerrie, J. P., Watford, Ont. Pedley, H., Montreal, Que.

Gilroy, W. E., Toronto, Ont. Pedley, J. W., Toronto, Ont.

Gordon, James L., Toronto, Ont. Prior, A. E., Kincardine, Ont.

Gray, M. S., Laurel, Ont. Pritchard, W. S.. Granby, Que.

Gunn, W. T., Embro, Ont. Rice, H. G. Montreal, Que.

Hamilton, D. S., London, Ont. Ross, A. B., Frome> Ont.

Hay, R., Watford, Ont. Secord, A.. New Biurham, Ont.

Harvey, W. R., Montreal, Que. Schofield, J., Port Huron, Mich.

Hill, E. M., Montreal, Que. Silcox, E. D., Paris, Ont.

Hindley, W. J., Vancouver, B.C. Smith, W. W., St. Catharines, Ont. ■

Hyde, T. B., Toronto, Ont. Thomas, H. F., Toronto, Ont.

Harris, P. C. L., Guelph Ont. Tippett, E. H., Montreal, Que.

Leggette, T., Burford. Ont. Unsworth, J. K., Hamilton, Ont.

Macallum, D., Kingston, Ont. Warriner, W. H., Montreal, Que.

MacKenzie, G. A., Stratford, Ont. Wood, J.. Ottawa, Ont.

Margrett, A. Georgetown, Ont. Wood Morgan, Cleveland, Ohio.

DELEGATES.

Alton. A. R. Schragg. Forest, A. B. Imrie, ^Irs. Gammon,

Belwood, H. Bolton, Mrs. Bayne. Mrs. Kemp, Miss Prout, Mrs.

Brantford, H. Yeigh, Mrs. Wilkes. Campbell.

Brigham, H. A. Carson. Forest (Lake Shore) J. G. Hindley.

Burford. Leslie Tennant. Garafraxa, George Burr, W. Ran-

Cobourg, Harry Field. som, A. P. Gerrie.

Coldsprings. J. C, Rosevear. Guelph, Thos. Waters.

Embro, Annie Duncan, Mrs. Gunn, Kincardine, Miss J. McKinnon. D. J. Mathieson. Listowel, A. Climie. H. Stillman.

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Montreal, Emmanuel, Thos. Scotland, Ward Foster.

Moodie. Speedside, Mrs. VVm. Hindley.

Montreal, Calvary, G. McLeod, C. Stratford, Mrs. McNeil.

Gushing, T. B. Macaulay, Mrs. Tilbury, James Burgess.

Tippett. Toronto, Bond St., Wm. McGartney

Montreal, Point St. Gharles, Mrs. Toronto, Northern, J. G. Gopp, H.

Harvey. O'Hara, E. J. Joselyn.

Paris, Peter Adams. Toronto, Western, Wm. Woodley,

Renwick, Richard Garless. Mrs. Pedley, D. Eccles.

London (First), Maggie McLeod, Warwick, Sara McGormick, Mrs.

R. Johnston, Mrs. Porteous. Luckham, Mr. R. J. McGormick

London (Southern), Mr. Cannon, Watford, Mrs. John McGormick.

Mr. Jepson. Woodstock, Miss Munro.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

Rev. J. Edward Flower, M.A., London, Eng., and Mrs. Flower; Rev. D. M. Solandt, Kingston, Ont.; Rev. Jasper W. Hard, Middleville, Ont.

The meetings were opened at 9 a.m., on Wednesday, June loth, Rev. J. P. Gerrie, B.A., presiding. The first hour was spent in devotional exercises.

The Union Committee presented the following nom- inations, which were adopted:

Minute Secretaries — Revs. Wm. R. Harvey, H. A. Morton, M.A.

Membership Committee — Revs. Hugh Pedley, B.A., T. B. Hyde, W. T. Gunn, M.A., B.D., E. M. Hill, D.D.; Messrs. J. C. Gopp and Wm. Woodley.

Business Committee — Revs. W. H. Warriner, D.D., J. K. Unsworth, B.A., F. J. Day, B.A., B.D., R. J. Drysdale; Messrs. Henry Yeigh and J. R. Barber, M.P.P.

Nomination Committee — ^Revs. E. D, Silcox, W. H. A. Claris, J. W. Pedley, B.A., D. S. Hamilton, B.A„ and W. S. Pitchard, B.A.. B.D.

Finance Committee — Messrs. T. Moodie, Wm. McCartney, and G. McLeod.

Press Committee— Revs. H. F. Thomas, M.A., C. G. Claris, and A. B. Ross, B.A.

The Rev. J. T. Daley read the Union Committee's report as follows:

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ANNUAL REPORT. .

We are enabled in the good providence of God to re- assemble in this city of London after an absence of ten years. We extend to the members and friends of the two churches whose hospitality we shall enjoy, our Christian greeting; and we pray that not only they, but we also, may be abundantly blessed through this season of fellowship.

On consulting the table of " Annual Meetings," we learn this is the fourth time the Union has met in London. It is pleasing to note that the officers in charge of the three former meetings are all living and in membership with the Union.

But many changes have taken place in the ranks of the ministry. If a roll of the pastors in charge of the churches ten years ago were called, only fourteen would now report themselves in the pastoral ofifice in this Union. Three others who were then pastors are engaged in educational or evan- gelistic work in connection with the denomination.

This meeting of the Union is made interesting by the fact that it is the fiftieth annual meeting. Your Committee thought the occasion too important to pass without some special notice. It has accordingly arranged that the " vet- erans " have charge of one part of the program, when doubt- less many of the notable incidents of our denominational life and history will be called to mind.

It appears that of those who were in membership with the Union fifty years ago there remain to this day the Revs. R. K. Black, K. M. Fenwick, D. Macallum, John McKilli- can, and John Wood. The last named has attended every meeting of the Union in all these years, except the one held while he was traveling in the Holy Land.

In connection with this " Honor Roll," mention should be made of Revs. J. Unsworth, E. Barker, M. S. Gray, R. Robertson, W. W. Smith, R. Hay, B. W. Day, Chas. Duff, Thos. Hall, and Mr. Henry O'Hara, all of whom have been long and honorably connected with the Union. We rejoice

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in the abundance of their labors and their continued wet- fare, and pray that they may long be spared to witness to the goodness of the Lord whom they serve.

We record with deep sorrow the death of two ex- Chairmen of the Union during the year, the Revs. W. F. Clarke and Dr. Hindley. They had l:)oth served the Master for many years in our churches. The former was one of the early pastors of the church in which we are now as- sembled.

We recommend that the Business Committee prepare appropriate resolutions to be forwarded to the bereaved families.

This year has been marked by the visit of the deputation from the Congregational Union of England and Wales. Many of the brethren and churches of the Union had the pleasure of meeting these visitors and hearing their helpful m,ess'ages. It will be in order for this Union to draft suitable resolutions expressing to the Congregational Union of England and Wales, and to the members of the deputation, our appreciation of their kindness and of the benefit received by us.

As an outcome of that deputation's report there has come to our churches in Canada from the Union of Eng- land and Wales, and the Colonial Missionary Society, an ofifer to aid in clearing the debts from our churches in this Dominion. This " Challenge to the Churches " has been discussed by many of the brethren at Association or other meetings, and will now come before the Union. Mr. John C. Copp has kindly consented to lead in the discussion. We trust the fullest consideration will be given this import- ant matter, and that a plan may be devised whereby the thing we all desire may be accomplished.

In this connection it is a pleasure to report that we shall h.ave in attendance at the meetings a representative of the Union of England and Wales, in the person of the Rev. J. Edward Flower, M.A., Secretary of the Church Aid and" Home Missionary Society of England and Wales. Mr..

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Flower is on the program to speak at the Home Missionary meeting on Thursday evening.

The delegates appointed for various purposes last year, and the conveners of the different standing committees, were all duly notified of their appointment, and are expected to report at this meeting. The Business Committee should arrange for the reception of their reports.

In view of the important place the temperance question has had in the Province of Ontario during the last year and the declared intention of the Government to postpone the legislation promised, the Union should give a pronounce- ment on the subject for the guidance and strengthening of the members of our churches in advancing the interests of temperance.

In concluding this fiftieth annual report, may we express the hope that while the occasion calls for a review of the things that have been, the hearts and minds of the breth- ren will be turned with earnest expectation and ever- increasing zeal to the things that are yet before; and may it be the determination of the members of this Union to bring to pass in so far as it is in their power the answer to our prayer, '' Thy kingdom come." Respectfully submitted,

James T. Daley,

Secretary.

This report was referred to the Business Committee.

The following communications w^ere read and referred to the Business Committee:

Letters from Revs. H. F. Thomas, M.A., and Principal Hill, re British and Foreign Bible Society. Letter from Rev. Charles Duff, re Church Union Society. Letter from the Joint Committee, re church debts.

The following applications for membership were re- ferred to the Membership Committee: Knox Church, Van- couver; Revs. Merton Smith and James Billington.

A letter from Dr. Rowland, relating to Rev. J. Edward Flower, M.A., was referred to the same committee.

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Letters from Revs. H. I. Horsey and E. C. Woodley were read.

It was decided that a teleg-ram be forwarded to Rev. Merton Smith asking him to convey the greetings of our Union to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in session at Vancouver.

Reports were received from Revs. F. J. Day, delegate to the Union of England and Wales; T. B. Hyde, delegate to the Presbyterian General Asembly, Dr. Hill, delegate to the Baptist Convention.

The meeting adjourned at ii a.m. a

Wednesday Evening.

Rev. J. P. Gerrie, B.A., presided at the evening session. Rev. G. A. Mackenzie conducted devotional exercised.

Rev. J. Edward Flower, M.A., was received into cor- responding membership.

Dr. Campbell, city alderman, and Rev. D. S. Hamilton, welcomed the Union to London.

Rev. Dr. Warriner responded to the addresses of wel- come.

Rev. J. P. Gerrie gave the Chairman's Address, on " The Abiding and the Changing in Religious Life and Thought."

The meeting closed with the benediction.

Thursday Morning, June iith.

The prayer-meeting was conducted by Rev. H. A. Mor- ton, of Cobourg.

At 10 o'clock the Rev. J. P. Gerrie occupied the chair. The minutes of Wednesday's meetings were read and con- firmed. The Business Committee presented the order of the day.

The Membership Connmittee recommended:

1. That Revs. E. H. Tippett and W. H. L. Marshall, whose appli- cations were laid over from last year, be now admitted.

2. That Rev. Merton Smith's application be received and held until next year, according to Standing Rule i. S. 4.

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3. Concerning Knox Church, Vancouver: In view of the fact of the recognition of this church as a Congregational church by the British delegation, and by the Missionary Superintendent of British Columbia, we recognize Knox Church as a sister Congregational church, and heartily welcome her to our fellowship.

That pending the settlement of the question of a Dominion Union, Knox Church be received as a member of this Union, subject to the provision that no grant be made for traveling expenses of delegates out- side the bounds of Ontario and Quebec.

4. That the application of Central Church, Vancouver, laid over from last year, be also granted, subject to the same provision regarding traveling expenses.

The report was adopted.

Letters from the W.C.T.U. and Dominion AlHance were referredxto the Temperance Committee.

A letter from Rev. W. H. L. Marshall was read.

The Secretary reported the credentials of Revs. C. S. Pedley, W. R. Harvey and A. B. Ross duly received and their membership established.

Applications from Revs. P. C. L. Harris, Guelph; D. M. Solandt, Kingston; and Jasper W. Hard, Middleville, were referred to the Membership Committee.

The election of Chairman for 1904 was then proceeded with. The Rev. F. J. Day reported for the scrutineers, that Mr. Henry O'Hara was elected by a large majority.

Mr. O'Hara, on being escorted to the platform by Revs. T. B. Hyde and W. J. Hindley, thanked the Union for the honor conferred.

Rev. J. T. Daley, Statistical Secretary pro tem., pre- sented the annual reports, which were held over for discus- sion.

The meeting adjourned at 11 a.m.

Friday Morning, June I2th.

The Rev. E. H. Tippett, Montreal, conducted the prayer- meeting.

The business session opened at 10 o'clock, the Chairman- presiding.

The minutes of last meeting read and adopted.

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The Business Committee presented the order of the day.

The Nomination Committee read Hst of Sunday appoint- ments.

A delegation from the Presbyterian Church, consisting of Revs. Clarke, J. G. Stewart, and Mr. Somerville, was received.

Mr. T. B. Macaitlay, representing the Provident Fund Society, addressed the members of the Union.

Letters from Mrs. Wilkes, Brantford, Revs. Chas. Duf¥ and John Salmon, were read and referred to the Business Committee.

" The Challenge to the Churches " was introduced by Mr. John C. Copp, followed by the Rev. Hugh Pedley.

Rev. H. Pedley moved and Mr. Copp seconded, the fol- lowing resolutions:

Resolved: I. That, recognizing with gratitude the spirit of brotherly co-operation in the offer of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, acting in conjunction with the Colonial ^Missionary Society, we, representing the Congregational Churches of Ontario and Quebec, do accept the challenge therein implied and pledge ourselves to do all that we can to raise a sum that- with the English offer will amount to not less than $100,000, and as much more as possible.

II. That in view of the fact that for both this Union and the Can- ada Congregational Missionary Society this is the jubilee year, the fund we undertake to raise be called the " Jubilee Fund."

III. That the work of raising this fund be regarded as inherently a religious and spiritual enterprise, the object being not merely to deliver churches from present financial embarrassment, but also to place them in a position to carry on more effectively all departments of Christian work in which they are interested.

IV. That every one of the churches, whether rich or poor, in debt or out of debt, be counted upon to do its share in carrying on this project to a successful completion.

V. That all the churches be asked to contribute to a Central Fund, from which, in connection with the money furnished by the churches in England, there shall be offered as high a percentage as possible as a stimulus to churches in their endeavor to wipe out their debts.

VI. That a representative committee be appointed by this Union to work out all the details of the scheme.

VII. That the C.C.M.S., through its Executive, be the depository of the money raised and shall disburse it as occasion may arise, under directions from the above committee.

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VIII. That the Jubilee Fund Committee be instructed to devise 'some method by which in the administration of the Central Fund the principle may be maintained, that where denominational funds are taken advantage of there should be a corresponding measure of denom- inational control of church property.

]\Ioved by Rev. W. H. Warriner, seconded by Rev. James T. Daley,

That these resolutions be considered seriatim and adopted forthwith or referred to a committee to be appointed by the chair, with instruc- ■tions to report on Saturday morning.

The motion was carried.

The resolutions were then read.

Resolutions numbered I., II., III., IV., VI., were adopted by vote of the Union.

Resolutions numbered V., VII., VIII., were on vote referred to Committee.

The Chairman appointed as Committee of Reference, Revs. Hugh Pedley, F. J. Day, J. K. Unsworth, E. D. Silcox, Dr. Hill, T. B. Hyde, J. W. Pedley, J. L. Gordon; Messrs. J. C. Copp, Charles Cushing and T. B. Macaulay.

The meeting adjourned at 12.30 p.m.

Friday Evening.

The meeting was opened at 8 o'clock, Chairman presid- ing. Rev. Wm. Munroe led in the devotional exercises.

The Rev. E. Munson Hill, D.D., addressed the Union on " Our Educational Interests."

The Rev. J. W. Pedley gave an address on " Congrega- tional Liberty."

The Rev. T. Bradley Hyde followed, with an address on " The Imperialism of Jesus."

Saturday, June 13TH.

At 9 a.m. a memorial service was held. Rev. R. Hay, of Watford, in charge. Special mention was made of Revs. W. F. Clarke and Dr. Hindley.

At 10 a.m. the Chairman resumed the chair.

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The minutes of Friday's meetings were read and con- firmed.

The Business Committee reported the order of the day, A delegation from the Methodist Church, consisting of Revs. G. J. Bishop, R. D. Hamilton, S. J. Allen, C. T. Scott, and Mr. D. A. McDiarmid, was received. THE JUBILEE FUND.

The Committee re Jubilee Fund reported recommending:

1. That Resolution V. be struck out and the following substituted: Resolution V.: That the Fund will consist of two parts:

(a) All sums raised by the local churches to clear off their debts. These surhs to be certified to the General Committee.

(b) A Central Fund, consisting of the amount offered by the Eng- lish churches and contributions from churches and individuals. And out of this fund there shall be offered to the churches as high a per- centage as' possible to aid them in clearing off their debts.

This recommendation was adopted.

2. That Resolution VII. be adopted. Carried.

3. That Resolution VIII. be amended so as to read: That the Jubi- lee Fund Committee be instructed to devise some method by which in the administration of the Central Fund the principle may be main- tained that where denominational funds are taken advantage of there should be a corresponding measure of denominational control of church property; such control being of the nature of a lien on the property in favor of the Canada Congregational Missionary Society. Carried.

4. That two sections be added to these resolutions, as follows: Resolution IX.: That the representative committee to direct the

fund be composed of two sections, an Eastern and a Western, which meeting in sections shall elect an Executive of from seven to ten members.

Resolution X.: That the representative committee be composed, as follows:

Eastern Section. — Revs. H. Pedley (Convener), Dr. E. M. Hill, Dr. W. H. Warriner, Revs. D. M. Solandt, Wm. Mcintosh, F. J. Day, W. S. Pritchard; Messrs. T. B. Macaulay, Chas. Cushing, G. B. Burland, Chas. Gurd, C. R. Black, S. H. C. Miner, B. W. Robertson, A. J. Stephens, and two representatives from the Maritime Provinces.

Western Section. — Mr. J. C. Copp (Convener), Revs. J. L. Gordon, J. W. Pedley, E. D. Silcox, J. K. Unsworth, J. B. Silcox, W. J. Hind- ley; Messrs. H. O'Hara, A. J. Moreland, T. R. Earl, Geo. R. Copping, Henry Yeigh, J. W. Lyons, and A. Wickson. This recommendation was adopted.

Rev. Hugh Pedley, seconded by Mr. John C. Copp, then moved.

That the series of resolutions as amended and enlarged be adopted as a whole. Carried.

REV. HUGH PEDLEY.

CHAIRMAN OF THE EASTERN SECTION OF THE JUBILEE FUND.

MR. JNO. C. COPP.

CHAIRMAN OF 1 HE WESTERN SECTION OF THE JUBILEE FUND.

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Rev. W. H. Warriner, D.D., seconded by Rev. John

Wood, moved.

That the Nomination Committee be instructed to nominate a delegate to the Maritime Union, such delegate to have power to deal with the Jubilee Fund on our behalf. Carried.

Reports were received from Revs. D. S. Hamilton, dele- gate to General Conference of the Methodist Church, and Dr. Warriner, delegate to Maritime Union.

Revs. John Wood and Dr. Hill addressed the Union re the centenary of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

Rev. Dr. Warriner, seconded by Rev. John Wood, moved, -..-■

That we commend the British and Foreign Bible Society to our churches and agree to do all in our power to make its centenary meet- ing and efforts a success. Carried.

The Finance Committee presented their report, which was adopted.

The Membership Committee recommended: That Rev. P. C. L. Harris be received into membership; that the application of Rev. Brandon Greenaway, for letter of transfer, be left with the Secretary, who shall be authorized to issue such a letter when the Toronto District Association shall so recommend; that the appli- cation of Rev. D. M. Solandt be received and lie over according to Standing Rule I., S. 4; that the application of Rev. Jasper W. Hard be received and lie over according to rule; that the application of Rev. Jas. Billington be not granted (see Article II., Constitution).

The recommendations were adopted. The meeting adjourned.

Sunday, June 14TH.

The annual sermon was preached at 11 a.m., by the Rev. F. J. Day, B.A., B.D., of Sherbrooke, Que. In the even- ing the Rev. J. L. Gordon, of Toronto, was the preacher.

The ordinance of the Lord's supper was observed, with Rev. D. S. Hamilton, B.A., pastor of First Church, presiding.

Monday, June i5th.

The Union assembled at 9 a.m., when Rev. R. J. Drys- dale, of Georgetown, led in praise and prayer. At 10 a.m. the Rev. J. P. Gerrie took charge of the business session. 4

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The minutes of Saturday's meeting were read and adopted.

The Business Committee reported, recommending,

1. The order of the day.

2. That the reports of Union Committee and Statistical Secretary be adopted and printed in " Year Book."

3. That in future the honorarium attached to the office of Union Secretary be $30, and to the office of Statistical Secretary be $20.

4. Re church union: Whereas there is a growing desire on the part of God's people of various denominations to come into closer practical fellowship with each other; and whereas other denominations, notably the Presbyterian and Methodist, have expressed their conviction that the time is ripe for some further advance along the line of Christian co-operation and confederation, be it resolved, that we, as representing the Congregational churches of Ontario and Quebec, are prepared heartily to co-operate with these brethren and with all who love our Lord Jesus, in every movement that promises to further the unity of Christ's Church. Resolved also, that a committee be appointed to take this matter in hand and confer with similar committees of other bodies.

The report was adopted.

The Temperance Committee reported, moving the fol- lowing resolution:

That in view of the recent expression of the electors of the Province of Ontario in favor of the Liquor Act of igo2, we deem it advisable to request that effect be given to said vote by the abolition of the public bar, the treating system, and drinking in clubs, and the impo- sition of such other restrictions on the liquor traffic as shall most effectually curtail its operation and remedy its evils. Carried.

They further moved.

That the following be a committee to represent the Union on the Dominion Alliance, namely: Revs. D. S. Hamilton, J. W. Pedley, John McKillican and Mr. Thomas, of Barrie. Carried.

The same Committee reported re cigarette question.

1. We acknowledge the valuable communications received from the Dominion and Ontario Woman's Christian Temperance Unions in reference to the cigarette habit.

2. We earnestly call the attention of our members to the following extracts from these communications. (Read.)

3. Without passing judgment on the practicability of the Bickerdike Bill, we endorse its principle and urge all our members to unite with our Christian women in their noble efforts to put an end to this per- nicious habit and to secure the utmost practical measure of restrictive legislation.

4.We recommend also that the present laws against the sale of cigarettes to minors be strictly enforced.

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The report was adopted.

The Committee re Itinerary of Enghsh Deputation reported,

Your committee had much plea&ure in arranging an itinerary for the delegates of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. The brethren first visited the churches of Manitoba and British Colum- bia, and later the churches of Ontario and Quebec, where their move- ments were under the direction of the various Associations. By their inspiring addresses, wise counsel, sympathetic inquiry and earnest ex- position of Congregational principles, they have greatly aided us in our work. We have appreciated their good cheer, practical counsel- lings, deep spirituality and magnificent capacity for work. We express our gratification at the action of our College in conferring an honor- ary degree on the senior member of the delegation, Rev. Alfred Row- land. One of the first results of the visit has been the generous offer of the Eng'lish churches toward the clearance of our church debts, the particulars of which have been already laid before the Union. We -express the earnest hope that this visit and consequent action will lead to further strengthening of the insipiring bonds between British and Canadian Congregationalism.

Hugh Pedley, J. K. Unsworth,

Chairman. Secretary.

The report was adopted.

A communication from Mr. Charles Cushing, referring to incorporation of churches, was referred to the Union Committee.

An invitation to meet in Zion Church, Montreal, next year, was accepted.

The following notice of motion was received: I hereby give notice of motion, to introduce at the next meeting of the Union of Ontario and Quebec such resolution or resolutions as may be necessary to give national name and character to the Asso- ciation of Congregational Churches in the Dominion of Canada.

(Signed) Wm. Munroe.

The Rev. W. S. Pritchard, B.A., B.D., addressed the Union on " Personal Work Among Young People."

The Rev. Wm. R. Harvey addressed the Union on "' Young People's Organizations and Church Union."

The meeting adjourned.

Monday Afternoon.

The Union re-assembled at 2 p.m., the Chairman pre- siding, when the minutes of the last meeting were read and "adopted.

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Rev. Wm. Mcintosh, on behalf of Mr. H. O'Hara, brought before the Union the Question of an Executive Committee. It was moved by Revs. W. T. Gunn and Dr. W'arriner that this matter be referred to the Union Com- mittee for action next year. Carried.

It was resolved to give a place to Mrs. Wilkes, repre- senting the Woman's Board of Missions, at 345 p.m.

As arranged, several of the veterans then addressed the Union, in the order named: Revs. D. Macallum^ J. McKilHcan, J. Wood, Robert Hay, and M. S. Gray.

Rev. J. K. Unsworth, seconded by Rev. M. S. Gray,

moved the following resolution:

One of the earliest leaders of the denomination has passed away, in the person of the Rev. W. F. Clarke, who occupied the distinguished position of having been the second Chairman of the Union, being elected to that office in 1855, at Kingston. Mr. Clarke was the first editor of the " Canadian Independent," and held that position for many years. Versatile in ability, warm in heart, fluent of speech, and wide- awake to the living issues, Mr. Clarke was a potent factor in the life of our churches. As a stout advocate of Congregational principles, he strove to guard the independency of the local church. In debate he was able to retain the friendship of those with whom he differed. The older men, our honored veterans of the jubilee year, remember with special interest the life and work of their talented co-worker, "William F. Clarke, and they and the whole Union would express their sympathy with Mrs. Clarke and the family. Carried.

Rev. Dr. Warriner, seconded by Rev. W. H. A. Claris, moved this resolution, which was adopted:

Resolved, that this Union express its deep and heartfelt sympathy with the widow and family of our deceased friend and brother, the Rev. J. I. Hindley, Ph.D. Dr. Hindley was Chairman of this Union in 1897. After a long life of usefulness spent in the service of our churches, and a lingering illness bravely endured, he has entered into his rest. We are grateful to God that he has left behind him two sons devoted to the Christian ministry, and we pray that the blessing of their father's God may ever abide upon them.

Rev. J. McKilHcan having reported the recent decease of the Rev. Prof. Fenwick, it was resolved, that Rev. C. S. Bolton be asked to prepare a suitable resolution, and that the Business Committee send a telegram of condolence to the relatives.

Mrs. Wilkes, of Brantford, being introduced by Dr.

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Warriner, then addressed the Union on the work of the

Woman's Board and the annual meeting held at Maxvihe.

Rev. Dr. Warriner, seconded by Dr. Hill, moved this

resolution, which was adopted;

Resolved, that this Union has had much pleasure in hearing Mrs. Wilkes as the representative of the Woman's Board, and learning from her of the magnificent work of our sisters, both for our Home and Foreign Missions, and we heartily commend that work in both of its two great departments to the sympathetic co-operation of all our peo- ple, with the hope that before long an auxiliary of that society will be formed in every church.

On motion of Revs. W. W. Smith, John Wood, Dr. Hill and J. W. Pedley, the following resolution was adopted:

This Union assures our dear brother. Rev. Robert Robinson, of Woodstock, Ont., of its loving sympathy in his great bereavement, in the loss by death of his loving partner in life. She will be one more to welcome him when, at no distant day, he is allowed to cross the river.

Rev. W. E. Gilroy, B.A., gave a paper on " Congrega- tionalism and Democracy."

This was followed by discussion.

Rev. W. H. A. Claris reported for the Nomination Com- mittee and recommended the following officers and com- mittees:

Secretary-Treasurer — Rev. J. T. Daley, B.A. Statistical Secretary — Rev. J. T. Daley, B.A. Union Preacher — Rev. E. D. Silcox. Alternate Preacher— Rev. W. S. Pritchard, B.A., B.D. Church Union Committee — The Committee appointed by the C.C.M.S. Representatives on College Senate— Revs. John Morton, W. H. Watson, J. K. Unsworth, and Dr. Stevenson.

Delegates to Union of N.S. and N.B.— Revs. Dr. Hill, J. McKillican, and W. Mcintosh.

Delegates to Union of England and Wales— Revs. J. W. Pedley and E. D. Silcox.

Union Committee— Henry O'Hara, Esq.; Revs. J. T. Daley, H. G. Rice, Dr. W. H. Warriner. Dr. Hill F. J. Day, Hugh Pedley, W. R Harvey; Messrs. T. Moodie, S. P. Leet, T. B. Macaulay and W. D; Lighthall.

The recommendations of the Committee were adopted.

Rev. J. W. Pedley having referred to the attendance of

members of the Union at the service when the Union ser^

mon was preached, Rev. Dr. Hill moved, seconded by Rev.

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W. S. Pritchard, that the matter be left to the Union Com- mittee. Carried.

The meeting adjourned.

Monday Evening.

The meeting was opened with devotional service. Rev. G. A. Mackenzie addressed the Union on 'The Phil- osophy of the Christian Conscience."

Rev. Hugh Pedley gave an address on " The Principal Features of the Union Meeting."

Dr. Warriner, for the Business Committee, moved the following resolutions, which were adopted:

Resolved, that we desire to express to our brethren of the Con- gregational Union of England and Wales and to all the members of the Free Churches associated with them, our very great admiration for the splendid fight they are making in defence of the people's right to a truly national system of education, and against the grave injustice of taxation without effective representation.

We congratulate them on their readiness to endure sacrifice for the sake of conscience.

They fight the battle of freedom not only for themselves alone, but for humanity, and especially for all the members of that glorious empire of which we form a part, and in whose honor all her sons, however widely separated, are most vitally concerned. We assure them of our sympathy, and anticipate a decisive victory.

Resolved, that a copy of the above resolution be forwarded to the Secretary of the Congregational Union of England and Wales.

That the name of Rev. J. T. Daley, Union Secretary, be added to the Eastern Section of the Jubilee Fund Committee.

That this Union express to the Rev. J. Edward Flower, M.A., and to the Society which he represents, the very great pleasure and profit which it has derived from his visit. His presence at this particular juncture when the generous ofifer of the English churches is before us has been specially opportune, and his wise counsels and inspiring addresses have greatly contributed to the success of our annual meeting.

That the thanks of the Union be given to the Chairman for his instructive address. We congratulate him on presiding over a meet- ing which will be historic as the jubilee year of the Union, and prophetic of the deliverance of our churches from the bondage of debt.

That we tender to the Rev. F. J. Day, B.A., B.D., our thanks for his excellent sermon on Sunday morning.

The usual votes of thanks were passed, the minutes taken as read and adopted, and after appropriate closing exercises the Union adjourned, to meet in Montreal, June, 1904.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

RECEIPTS.

Balance from last year , $ 37 31

Additional collection, Emmanuel, Montreal, 1901-2 400

Collections from churches 296 48

Friday evening collection 10 56

Monday evening collection 11 00

$359 35

DISBURSEMENTS.

Printing in " Year Book." $ 83 00

Secretary to English Deputation i 50

Telegram to Merton Smith I 05

Printing 7 00

Secretary's expenses 12 90

Honorarium to secretary 50 00

Paid ministers and delegates on claim of $345 79 145 5^

Balance 58 34

$359 35

London, June 13, 1903.

Thomas Moodie,

Chairman of Finance Committee.

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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CHURCHES.

Bowmanville $ 2 oo |

Burford 2 oo |

Brantford lo oo ^

Brigham 6 oo ]

Covvansville 5 co

Cobourg 6 00

Embro 8 6o

Forest . . .• 5 oo

Frome I 50

Granby 9 oo

Georgetown 7 oo

Giielph 5 00

Hamilton, First 5 oo

Humber Summit i 30

Kingston, First 7 85

Kincardine 6 00

Lanark 9 68

Listovvel 5 00

Montreal, Calvary 17 00

Montreal, Zion 6 00

Montreal, Pt. St. Charles... 600

Montreal, Emmanuel 26 25

Maxville 1 1 40

Middleville, etc 10 20

New Durham 5 00

Ottawa, First 11 00

Paris 5 00

Rugby 2 50

St. Andrews 4 00

Sherbrooke 16 00

Speedside i lO

Scotland 5 00

Tilbury 3 00

Toronto, Northern 10 00

Toronto, Western 16 70

Toronto, Bond St 2500

Toronto, Olivet 7 00

Toronto, Broadview i 40

D. Macallum i 00

J. Wood I 00

W. H. Warriner i 00

! J. McKillican i 00

E. Munson Hill 100

\

Total $296 48

STATISTICAL REPORTS.

Mr. Chairman and Brethren, — Owing to the removal of Rev. W. J. Hindley to Vancouver, B.C., this report is pre- pared by the Secretary of the Union. For convenience in comparison, the general outline of last year is used. Four churches sent no reports this year, so the comparison can- not 1 e exact. Figures in brackets are those of last year.

QUEBEC.

There are twenty churches and eight out-stations, as last vear. The church at Eaton has been closed some time, but is included here. They report 6,469 (6.210) under pas- toral care, an increase of 259. \\'ith an average attendance

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of 1,905, not including two churches in Montreal; 136 members were received, 90 by profession, 46 by letter, 10 more in all than last year; 122 removals, 33 by death, 37 by letter, 52 by revision, being 32 in all less than last year. The present membership is 2,051, being 5 more than at last report. Five churches decreased in membership. The others have more than held their own. There were 10 more baptisms than last year, 12 adults and 78 infants, a total of 90. Value of church property, $327,000 ($322,200); debt on church property, $40,130 ($40,320). $35,544.89 was raised for all purposes, an increase of $3,379.66.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Eighteen schools report, as compared with twenty last year. There is very little change in the standing of these schools: 223 teachers and officers, 1,580 scholars, 1,101 average attendance; 22 joined the church; $970.24 raised.

YOUNG people's SOCIETIES.

Eight (9) reports received, indicating a slight gain. Total membership, 353 (275); 15 joined the church (13). Money raised, $463.04 ($468.32).

ONTARIO.

There are 59 churches as compared with 62 last year. StoufTville and Wingham have disbanded and North Erin is closed. Four churches failed to report. This should be re'membered in the comparison. Number under pastoral care, 13,720 (14,759); average attendance, 7,884 (7,845); members received on profession of faith, 301, by letter, iii, a total of 412 (392). Removals by death, 41 ; by letter, 102; revision, 72; total, 215 (558); leaving a reported membership of 5.250, as com.pared with 5,659 last year. This year's re- ports show a gain of 197, as above. Baptisms, 28 adults;

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146 infants; total, 174 (162). Property value reported,. $502,750; debts, $139,981. Amount raised for all purposes, $69,963.85 ($68,559.23).

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Only 53 (62) Sunday schools reported. Teachers and officers, 629 (631); scholars on roll, 4,610 (5,378); average attendance, 3,390 (3,783); joined church, 122 (123). Money raised, $4,178.10 ($4,196.18).

YOUNG people's SOCLETIES.

Only 24 (37) report this year. Members, 734 (989);, joined church, 30 (66); money raised, $552.37 ($919.64).

TOTALS FOR CHURCHES.

There are 79 (82) churches, and 16 stations. Under pas- toral care, 20,189 (20,969). Average attendance, 9,789 (10,360); additions, 548 (518); removals, 337 (712). T6tal membership, 7,301 (7,705).

Total property value reported, $829,750 ($851,350);. debts reported, $180,111 ($186,815). Total amount raised for all purposes, $104,508.74; a gain of $3,784.28.

Attention is again called to the absence of report from four churches, and to some blanks in reports received. Until the churches keep better records and do less guessing, these reports cannot be relied upon as accurate. It will be well before forwarding reports to compare them with those of last year, a record of which can always be found in the: " Year Book."

Respectfully submitted,

James T. Daley,

Acting Statistical Secretary^

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THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.

LONDON, ONT., June lotli, 1903.

THE CHANGING AND THE ABIDING IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND LIFE.

Few things more impress the thoughtful observer than the changes of advancing time. The world of the past is very different from the world of to-day. In all departments of life are great transitions and wonderful changes. Of this, our own Canada gives object lessons both interesting and suggestive. The most striking, perhaps, is the transformation of the country from its primeval wildness into a prosperous and an enlightened land. Agriculture, commerce, and scores of industries flourish where a century ago were the great woods of a new land. Since the clearing of the forests, and even within the past quarter of a century, another new land has been made. Both in country and city are countless improvements which were unknown a score of years ago. London, with her electric lights, trolley cars, telephones and hundreds of improvements, is a new London in that period. It is so with the Dominion, and Canada is a new land from the Canada of the same earlier date. In like manner we read other changes on every side. There was a chemistry of the past, there is a chemistry of the present; an astronomy of yesterday, and an astron- omy of to-day; a psychology of then, a psychology of now; a social order of by-gone years, a social order of a new century; a theology of the fathers, a theology of our own.

In all these changes there has been a great sweeping and clearing away. It is idle to say that the things of the past are in only a dififer- ent garb, and that we are thinking precisely the same thoughts, deal- ing with the same forms, and living the same life. There has been everywhere a general and absolute removal. The wild beasts and men who roamed up and down this land, and the great forest, their abode and home, are gone. The earlier and ruder contrivances of pioneer days are laid aside. The sickle, the cradle, and scores of implements once doing service on the farm, have had their day. The old printing- press, the horse-car, and many things at one time in use in the city, are seen no more. This thought is also applicable to study and research. Views held with a tenacious grip in relation to astronomy, chemistry, and psychology, are not now entertained. The social world

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too, has had a great lopping off in caste and slavery, while in our theology, mists are dispelled, untenable positions abandoned, and mis- taken views given up. No, it is a mistake to contend that the past is ours intact, and may be viewed as absolutely the same only in a new dress. The transitions are marked and distinct, and the supplanting thorough and complete. Thus it has been and so it will be, for as Browning says:

Man must pass from old to new. From vain to real, from mistake to fact, From what seemed good, to what now proves best, N How could man have progression otherwise?

Another writer, too, Percy Bysshe Shelley, very different from Brown- ing, but in full accord with this truth, utters a like thought in these words :

We have passed Age's icy caves.

And Manhood's dark and tossing waves. And Youth's smooth ocean, smiling to betray;

Beyond the glassy gulfs we f^ee.

Of shadow-peopled Infancy, Through Death and Birth to a diviner day.

It is well to note, however, that great and sweeping as the changes are, they have not been in an abrupt and revolutionary way. Slowly and gradually the better order of things has been evolved. There is no unbridgeable chasm between the Canada of the past and the Canada of the present, the London of yesterday and the London of to-day. Step by step scholars have brought forth our chemistry, astronomy and psychology from the old, discarding in turn erroneous views and positions. The great social change by the abolition of slavery was through evolution in the old land, and revolution in the new, but may it not be said that this revolution was evolution hastened, inasmuch as the thought which was gripping so many leaders in national life, and becoming diffused among the people, would in time have led to the freedom of the slave without the bloodshed of the civil war. In religious thought and life there has been a like gradual development, and to all these changes successive generations have contributed their part. No one age can claim exclusive credit for its progress and advancement. This wonderful century is indebted to all previous centuries, and it would be ungracious to reflect on the past. The over- lapping life and generations from the time of the pioneers until now, have made our land what it is to-day. Copernicus, Brahe and Kepler were milestones leading to the new astronomy, while Priestly, Dalton

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cind Faraday were in due course to the new chemistry. The theology of to-day owes a debt which none can compute to Augustine, Wiclit, Luther, Bushnell, Dale, Beecher, and others far in advance of their day. Thus it has been, that successive generations and overlapping years have had a share in the marvelous changes between the present and the past, marking a gradual road in the march of progress.

But more. Not only is there this gradual transition from the old to the new, the past to the present, we find points of essential oneness between the two. There are the changing and the gradual changing, but there is also the abiding. We see everywhere lasting foundations and imperishable principles. Canada has changed mightily, but Can- ada abides. Our land is not lost because it is no longer viewed through the great woods of a century ago. It is still the Land of the Maple Leaf, even if millions of that goodly tree have fallen before the Woodman's ax. It was the home of the pioneers, and it is our home, a brighter, richer, grander land. London, too, is wonderfully changed, but London abides. It was the dwelling-place of her founders — it is the dwelling-place now of her citizens — an infinitely more prosperous and beautiful place. It is even so in study and thought. The new astronomy does not put aside the stars, the new psychology man, nor the new theology God. On the other hand, the stars are viewed in a new lustre, man in a discovered greatness, and God in love and goodness before unknown. There is then in the changing, the abid- ing, the everlasting, the eternal.

This leads me to make some practical applications of my topic, and at the very outset may be noted the striking changes in the con- ception of God. There was at one time the thought of a great Archi- tect, who formed all things, started them in motion, and then with- drew to His throne in the heavens. Unfortunately this thought still lingers, but a better day has dawned. The old Deistic conception of God is fast going, and we think of Him as immanent in the world, the very soul and life of all created things. Nor is it a change from Deism to Pantheism, inasmuch as we feel and know a living person- ality, both immanent in nature and transcending nature. The great Presence moves in our midst, and if we will, we may hear His foot- steps, listen to His voice, and feel His touch.

But even more striking is the changing conception from the great Sovereign, to the Father of love. At no far, day in the past God was lifted up on a great throne, and made almost unapproachable in His holiness, majesty and power. There He was a great magistrate, a despot in the heavens, infinitely more thoughtful of law than man.

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Some of us, perhaps, can recall our own earlier conceptions of God,' and how we stood before Him in trembling and fear. We had thoughts of a relentless, stern and angry God, demanding and taking pleasure in the death of the sinner, and of a great magistrate, eager and anxious to administer punishment. We felt no heart of love, and we saw no escape. But again, a brighter day has dawned. The veil has been withdrawn and we see the Father. As President Tucker of Dartmouth says, there is " the advance of sovereignity into father- hood." And this is true. The Sovereign is not gone, nor His holi- ness. His majesty, His power. God is still the Mighty One, the King of kings, but we see the Father, and feel His love. We understand as never before the significance of the words of long ago, " Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." There is new meaning in our Savior's words ' INIy Father and your Father." We pray, " Our Father," with a feeling before unknown. Heart and soul respond to the apostle of love who wrote: " Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God, and such we are." We catch the inspiration of F. W. Faber, and sing with new impulse and fervor:

For the love of God is broader

Than the measure of man's mind. And the heart of the Eternal

Is most wonderfully kind.

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word.

And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of our Lord.

Very different then are these magisterial and fatherhood concep- tions of God, but in the changing there is also the abiding. The God of the past is the God of to-day. The God of the fathers is our God, and perhaps no better illustration of this can be given than from the recent Sunday school lesson, in which we saw Paul arraigned before Felix. " After the way they call heresy," said the great apostle. " so worship I the God of the fathers." The fathers' God remained as Paul's God, though greatly diverging were their conceptions of His plans. His attributes and purposes. And so this God of the past is our God. Shall we not then proclaim Him as we know Him? Shall we not seek to draw back more and more the veil that the Father of love may be seen yearning, for His wandering children, calling them home, and giving tO' them a place in His great household of love. Can we not do even more than Oliver Wendell Holmes suggests in these lines?

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When the blind heralds of despair Would bid thee doubt a Father's care, Look up from earth and read above On heaven's blue tablet, God is love.

May we not read this on earth's green sward? Yes, in the desert, in darkness, in sorrow, in death. Could this great heart be felt, and the Father seen as He is, what a renunciation of the sin which He hates would follow! What a home-coming there would be!

Another great change is found in the conception of the Bible — the revelation of God. The often-quoted saying of John Robinson i.s still true, thaj: God has. yet more light to break forth from His Holy Word. This statement has been abundantly verified since the days of that good man. Many cf the changes, too, have been radical and sweeping. The old literalism is gone. Portions once regarded as history and fact are nov.- accepted as a metaphor and allegory. The absolute inerrancy is no longer contended for as in the past. Many interpretations, explanations, and expositions of former times are not now held, but the Bible remains. These great changes, then, have not done away with the Book. It is still our Bible, and here again we turn to the illustration already taken from Paul's defence before Felix. That great apostle not only worshiped the God of the fathers, but believed all things which were written in the law and the prophets. The Scriptures of the fathers were Paul's Scriptures, though their interpretations were widely different. The over-zealous Jews, bound to literalism and form, saw in him a heretic, an evil- doer, a destroyer, but most emphatically did Paul declare that what they read and believed, he read and believed. It is so to-day. The Bible of the conservative is the Bible of the radical, the Book of the fathers is our Book.

But more,' these changing conceptions of the Bible are removing one after another the props of infidelity and unbelief. A repelling ethics over which so many have stumbled need not be accepted or explained away. Acts and sayings recorded of God, but atrocious in our day, and indeed, in any day, are no longer attributed to Him. The frailties and imperfections of men and women of long ago are not now read in the light of to-day. And so the Bible abides, and will have a stronger and more abiding plaoe in time to come. Thoughtful and reverent souls can take it with new faith, and interest, and make it the man of their counsel, a lamp to their feet and a light to their path, because its value is enhanced and its power increased. Dr. Hillis, in his book " The Influence of Christ in Modern Society," saj^s that the broader view of inspiration makes the Bible a thousandfold more

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truly binding as the Book of God than did the old view, and concludes with these words: " Read this Book, therefore, for life and liberty; read it for refinement and culture. Read the pages wet with your mother's tears and the precepts your father dearly loved. Stoop to those life- springs where the patriots and reformers and the heroes of time knelt to cool their parched lips. It holds youth for old men. It holds maturity for children and youth. It has medicine for the heart-broken, the bankrupt, and the desolate. It has life for those trembling on the brink of death. If for one day in each week, through a period of five years, the children and youth, parents and patriots, could be induced to read and obey its principles, to nourish reason and imagination and memory and judgment upon its sublime truths, all danger of anarchy and reviolution, all fear of the bloody street and the trampled corn- fields would pass away. The jails would be closed. The saloons would be deserted. The schools would be crowded. The colleges would be filled. A new glory would fall upon the library and the forum. A new era would dawn for music and poetry. Architecture would tax itself for glorious triumphs. Art would enter upon a new epoch, and liberty would find a new meaning. All society would enter upon a great forward movement. For God's Book of morals and mercy for the individual is His Book of progress for society and civilization." May the members of this Union _ find for themselves new comfort and inspiration as they spread abroad the glad messages of the Book.

Again, we see a marked change in the conception of man. Many of the old views are seldom now advanced. Particularly is this so with regard to free-will and volition. Man is no longer regarded as a creature of destiny, led and governed by external agencies over which he has no control. We see him the controller of his own destiny, with vast responsibilities in his hands. No doctrine of election now ordains him to a place in the heavenly land, or leaves him to be numbered with the lost. In his own choosing is heaven or hell. As ©ne has written:

'' I sent my soul through the Invisible Some letter of that after life to spell, And, by and by my soul returned to me,

And answered, I myself am heaven and hell."

And this leads me to note further that man is not now viewed as utterly corrupt and wholly depraved. True, there is sin, hideous and repelling. Alas, that man wills that this should abide. The awful thing lurks about us all, and nestles down in the best of souls. But still, is it not a fact, that man was made a little lower than the angels — crowned with glorj' and honor?

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" How wonderful is man! Though sullied and dishonored, still divine, Dim miniature of greatness absolute."

And here might I also refer to Thomas Carlyle, who quotes St. Chry- sostom's words: "The true shekinah is man," and adds himself, " Yes, it is even so; this is no vain phrase; it is veritably so. The essence of our being, the mystery in us that calls itself 'I' — ah, what words have we for such things? — is a breath of heaven; the highest Being reveals Himself in man." The great sage further quotes Novalis: " There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before man is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body," and adds himself. " We are the miracle of miracles — the great inscrutable mystery of God." Should not these changing conceptions of man have their bearing on teaching and preaching? It is not for a moment hinted that evil and wrong- ■doing are to be condoned or palliated in any way. Never were the thunders against sin more needed than now. Never should they be more specific and more direct. An increasingly relentless warfare must be waged against evil of every form, but at the same time let us recognize the divine in man — God in every soul. Shall we not say to the moral, the upright, the conscientious man who makes no profes- sion of religion, avows no allegiance to God, and fails to see the Father, that God is behind every virtue and excellency of character? Shall we not reveal to the young man, who is resolute in the hour of temptation, the God who gives him strength to withstand evil, keeping his soul clean and his honor unsullied? May we not believe that the Savior would repeat to the many upright and virtuous souls who do not profess His name the words of old: " Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?" May .we not go further and say to the reprobate and outcast that the divine still lingers, and may be quickened and helped to a life of noble aims and righteous endeavors? We will not therefore insist on set rules and experiences, as has been done in the past, and Is done even now. The- Christian life is not an unnatural foreign self-hood. There is the abiding in self, but the changing to a better self. The identity — the personality — remains, but it is now governed by the Christ now seen, now loved and served. With His help all evil will be trodden down, until there is no spot or wrinkle, and we shall be satisfied with His likeness. Shall we not then more and more unfold the perfect Man, not as an example alone, but as a Savior, a Redeemer, a Friend?

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Growing out of these changes is yet another in the religious life and activities of man. Church history is replete with records of the religion of the monastery, the cloister, and the retreat. Good people were wont to withdraw in seclusion that they might develop their spiritual life and better serve their God. This religion was subjective rather than objective. There are traces of a like expression of 'religion even now in conventions and gatherings for the deepening of spiritual life, as well as in our Sunday and midweek meetings. Far be it from me to say one word against this subjective development. It is needed — sorely needed. In this age of rush and din, seasons of communion and quiet more than ever must be had that we may hear other mes- sages from God and come in touch with the unseen. I believe that deep down in every soul is this want. It is a need that always abides. At the same time let us rejoice in the great change so manifest in the recognition of an objective religion. It is not for Sunday alone, but for every day — not exclusively for worship, but for factory and store — not for the hereafter and the unseen, but for the present and visible — for the conflicts, the burdens, and the tasks of life. And here might I quote James Martineau: "We are not made upon this pattern, to be the children of nature at ten o'clock, and children of grace at four; nor is religion a separate business, a branch of study, a program lesson, that can be emptied out into an hour; but a life of every time, a spirit of all work, a secret wonder in the thought, a manly duty in the will, a noble sweetness in the temper, which spreads, from the eye of an earnest teacher, though seldom coming from his lips, but which would cease to lurk in his silent looks were there not sacred things represented by him of which at any moment he might speak. In short, religion is the very respiration of all faithful and loving toil; and to detach it for minutes specially reserved is like pro- posing to take your walk in the morning and do your breathing in the afternoon." So wrote the great American divine, Prof. Henry Van Dyke teaches the same great lef:son in his beautiful poem " The Toil- ing of Felix," which I wish I could quote at length. Felix longs to see the Christ, and to realize this gives up the duties of life, severs human ties, follows vigils, visits shrines, goes to the desert, shuts himself in a cave, which he leaves but once a year, but alas! there is no vision of the Master, only this message:

" Raise the stone and thou shalt find Me, cleave the wood, and I am there."

The words are understood and Felix takes his place in a quarry, where he enters fully into the toil and experiences of his fellow workmen.

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■*■' Now he swung the ponderous mallet, smote the iron in the rock, Muscles quivering, tingling, throbbing — blow on blow and shock on shock."

But passing on we have these lines, showing the nobility and sacred- ness of daily toil:

■" Every mason in the quarry, every builder on the shore, Every chopper in the palm-grove, every raftsman at the oar —

" Hewing wood and drawing water, splitting stones and cleaving sod — All the dusty ranks of labor in the regiment of God,

" March together toward His triumph, do the task His hands prepare: Honest toil is holy service; faithful work is praise and prayer.

And by and by comes the revelation of the Christ which he longed for, and a message to his soul, which I quote in part:

" They who tread the path of labor follow where My feet have trod; They who work without complaining do the holy will of God.

" Where the many toil together, there am I among My own; Where the tired workman sleepeth, there am I with him alone.

" I, the peace that passeth knowledge, dwell amid the daily strife, I, the bread of heaven, am broken in the sacrament of life.

" Every task, however simple, sets the soul that does it free; Every deed of love and mercy done to man is done to Me.

" Never more thou needest seek Me; I am with thee everywhere; Raise the stone and thou shalt find Me, cleave the wood, and I am there."

Shall we not, then, make more of this objective religion, carrying it to the burdens, the tasks, the struggles and the conflicts of life? We will have our retreats and seasons for the quiet communion which the soul needs and craves, and may we make them real, vital, and earn- est. But, oh, brethren, let us be out in the race of life, cheejing, encouraging and helping our brother toiler. With Sam Walter Foss may we each say:

" Let me live in my house by the side of the road, And be a friend of man."

And in our religion, subjective and objective, may we remember the

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abiding — the same Spirit to guide and help and comfort, the same Savior to uplift and strengthen and restore, and the same Father to forgive and receive and enthrone.

And now, before closing, let me make a few brief applications of my topic to our own Canadian Congregationalism.

There is the changing and the abiding in self-sacrifice. Congrega- tionalism is replete with records of privations, suffering and even death for conscience's sake. We read with gratitude the devotion and. heroism of little bands of men and women in the early centuries, and under different names, who gave up up their all for the principles which; are dear to us to-day. We honor the Pilgrims, who braved sufferings^ untold for " freedom to worship God." Dr. Dunning tells us that the little surviving band levelled the graves of their comrades, that the Indians might not know how few were left, and when the Mayflower returned to England in the spring after that first awful winter, not a Pilgrim offered to go back. Nor is the day of self-sacrifice over. The form has changed, but the need abides. Our brethren in the old land, are read}' for self-sacrifice in their " passive resistance " to the Educa- tion Bill. God give them courage and strength for what they may have to endure and bear. In our Canada self-sacrifice will be in other forms. The churches up and down the land are calling for men whcx- will resolutely hold the fort amidst difficulties and discouragements.. Nor must the self-sacrifice be confined to the minister and a few in. the individual church, as it often is. Let all the people share the bur- den and respond in giving and service, and there will come a new era in the prosperity of the churches. The college and missionary societies- are urgently calling for liberal support, that strong, able, aggressive ministers may be sent out, and that our work at home and abroad, may be mighty in furthering the kingdom of God. If the present chal- lenge to the churches is to be met, it must be by self-sacrifice, aitd by self-sacrifice it can be met, and the giving of a portion sufficient to meet the challenge will be but a small part of the money and means. in our churches, and a little service, too, compared with what the fathers suffered and gave for the heritage which has been handed down to us. May the changing yet abiding call for self-sacrifice meet with a Christ-like response, not only in giving, but in every service for the- upbuilding of His Church.

But again, there is the changing and the abiding in methods of' service. It is no reflection on other denominations to say that Con- gregationalism is an advance guard in thought and service. This». representative leaders in the denominations admit. Other churches-

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by reason of their constitutions and rules necessarily move rrore slowly, consequently the advance guard is needed which Congregation- alism supplies. It is on ground peculiarly Congregational that mem- bers of all churches meet in convention to confer about the further- ance of their common work. It was through the instrumentality ot Congregationalism that the Christian Endeavor movement, the Insti- tutional church and the Social Settlement were inaugurated. Other' wise these agencies might have been long delayed and it is possible that activities owned and blessed in the promotion of great goo4 would never have been employed. In the future — as in the past — there will be changing means and methods of service. What these will be I cannot tell. Each age will reveal its own needs, and Congregational- ism, without waiting for the sanction of ecclesiastical courts or oiHcials, will stand ready to take hold of agencies which will more speedily further the work of God among men. May we keep our trust and move forward as the Master commands.

And in concluding, I would note the changing and the abiding in opportunity. We speak of the opportunities of the past — oppor- tunities for ciscovery, for invention, for civil and religious freedom, for great educational, missionary and philanthropic enterprises. Con- gregationalism, too, had her opportunity in an age dark with super- stition, corrupt in church and state, and fettered in mind and soul, and grandly did she respond. But the day of opportunity is not over. Never was it brighter and more auspicious. New discoveries, new inventions, new achievements are of almost daily record. Nor is the day of opportunity for Congregationalism over. Never, I believe, was it brighter and more auspicious. In the old land it is revealing itself in a very special way in the conflict for equal rights for all in connection with the Education Bill already alluded to, and nobly are Horton, Campbell, Silvester Home, and others responding to the call. A letter received only yesterday from Edmund Sears, of the " Congregational Messenger," says, " We are in for a life fight this side of the water, and we want to let our people feel that the churches in the colonies are in sympathy with us." They have our sympathy and our prayers, and we say God-speed them in the opportunity at their doors. And in this growing land are opportunities at every turn. Many of these apply to all denominations, and some of them are peculiar to our Congregational churches. The magnitude of these opportunities none cf us can measure. Press and platform are loud in their eulogies of our great Dominion, and every patriotic soul rejoices in our goodly heritage. Ours is the giant of the north, but

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it must be remembered that it is life, character, and righteousness which make a nation, and that the principles of a free and exalted democracy can be best served by the church and religious life permeated with like principles. This life we can strengthen and promote not only in our own communion, but in other communions, and in the land at large. But more, is there not given to Congregationalism the opportunity of being heralds in the matter of church union? We can best advocate it, because our own doors are open in unrestricted fellowship to every follower of Christ. We will erect no barrier in creed or doctrine, in rite or ceremony. We will forbid no one because he foUoweth not with us in interpretations and conclusions. On this ground we must meet and will meet, because as long as the world lasts Christians will not see eye to eye on all themes, and it is well that it is so. The banner unfurled over this common ground may bear a dififerent name from what we now inscribe. This may be the changing and it may not, but whether the changing or not, the same great principles of fellowship in Christ and with one another will be the abiding, and over these we see now, and will see then our watchword: " One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren." And lifting our eyes yet higher, we see a vision realized, if not on earth then in heaven, of one fold and one Shepherd — " One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."

Canada Corigregational Missioijary Society.

Officers and Committees for 1903-1904.

PRESIDENT

CHARLES GUSHING, B.C. L., - - - Montreal, Que.

SECRETARY

REV. W. Mcintosh, . . . . . Ottawa, Ont.

HONORARY SECRETARY

REV. E. MUNSON HILL, D.D., - - - Montreal, Que.

TREASURER

MR. CHARLES R. BLACK, - - - - Montreal, Que.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

REV. J. P. GERRIE, .... Western Association

MR. HENRY O'HARA, - - - Ceniral

REV. HUGH PEDLEY, B.A., - - - Quebec

REV. W. J. HINDLEY, - - Brit. Columbia and Northn-est.

Maritime Union. REV. J. W. COX, B.A. REV J. M. AUSTIN REV. R. R. MORSON

GENERAL COMMITTEE

REV. E. D. SILCOX,

" D. C. McINTObH,

" J. K. UNSWORTH, B.A.

" JOHN WOOD,

" W. H. WARRINER, D.D.

" T. B. HYDE,

" J. W. PEDLEY, B.A.,

" H. F. THOMAS, M.A.,

" J. L. GORDON,

REV. W. S. PRITCHARD, B.A. " W. MUNROE, " F. J. DAY, " CHURCHILL MOORE,

MR. w. McCartney,

" T. B. MACAULAY,

" J. C COPP,

" HENRY YEIGH.

AUDITORS

MR. B. B. STEVENSON. MR. A. McA. MURPHY.

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NOTICE.

It is becoming more than ever a practice among Chris- tian people to recognize the Lord's portion in their Last Wills and Testaments, whereby, though they be dead, they- speak and act in the furtherance of ]\Iissionary, Educational and Benevolent objects. American Congregationalists are among the most wise and generous in this day, and have left legacies of blessings for succeeding generations. Among the members of our Congregational churches in Canada, there have also been those who have followed a likewise generous course.

For the guidance of those who may desire to make like bequests, the following legal form is subjoined. The amount bequeathed may be devoted specially to the Church Extension and Building Fund, in which case the income would only be used, or may be given for the general pur-, poses of the Society.

rOKM FOR A BEQUEST.

I give and bequeath to the Canada Congregational Mis-, sionary Society, incorporated by the Parliament of the Do- minion of Canada, A.D. 1885, the sum of $. . . out

of my estate, to be paid without any

charge or deduction whatever; and I direct that the receipt of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Society shall consti- tute and be a sufficient discharge thereof.

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CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I. — NAME.

This Corporation shall be called " The Canada Congregational Missionary Society," and shall conduct its operations within the- limits of the Dominion of Canada.

article II. — objects.

The objects of this Society shall be as set forth in the Act of In- corporation, namely, to plant and to foster Congregational Churches, in suitable localities; to aid churches in sustaining their pastors where- required.

article III. — membership.

All persons being members or adherents of Congregational Churches, payijig two dollars annually into the funds of the Society,, shall be members, and those who subscribe at one time twenty dollars or more, shall be life members. Churches subscribing annually ten dol- lars or more, may be represented at the annual meeting of the Society by one delegate, and churches subscribing fifty dollars or more may be represented by two delegates. Each Auxiliary branch contributing annually to the funds of the Society ten dollars or more, may be represented by one delegate. The above mentioned subscribers and; delegates shall constitute the membership of the Corporation.

AliTICLE IV. — OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.

The ofificers of the Society shall be a President a Secretary, a.. Treasurer, a Superintendent and two Auditors. The Standing Com- mittees shall be a General Committee and an Executive Committee. These officers and committees shall be appointed at the annual meeting of the Society, and shall all be members of the Corporation. The General Committee shall consist of the President, Secretary, Treas- urer, Superintendent, and not more thaji twenty-five members. The Executive Committee shall be composed of the President, the Sec- retary, the Treasurer, the Superintendent, the Honorary Secretary, and one member from each District Association within the bounds of" the operations of the Society, who may be nominated by the As- sociation.

ARTICLE V. — DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.

The President shall preside at all meetings of the Socie^ and its. Committees, when practicable, and shall seek to promote the general interest of the Society's work.

The Secretary shall have charge of the books and correspondence- of the Society, shall call the meetings of the Society and its Comv

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mittees, and shall exhibit the records of the proceedings at each meeting.

The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Society, dis- bursing them as directed by the Geaieral or Executive Committee, and shall present annually a full account of all receipts and disbursements.

The Superintendent shall be under the direction of the Executive Committee, to whom he shall report quarterly, visit the churches of the Congregpitional order within the bounds of the Society's opera- tions with a view of deepening their interest iji its work, and of secur- ing liberal contributions for the Society, and shall explore new mission fields, secure missionaries for vacant churches, and have a general oversight of the interests and work of the Society.

The Auditors shall examine the accounts of the Society when re- quired, and make an annual audit of the Treasurer's books previous to the annual meeting of the Society.

The General Committee shall exercise all the corporate powers of the Society, have charge of annual mission grants made to the churches, examine, employ and direct all the missionaries of the Society, and have a general supervision of its affairs. They shall present a report o{ the work of the Society at each of its annual meetings.

The Executive Committee shall have full charge ajid power for the administration of the affairs of the Society during the interval between the annual meetings of the General Committee; shall receive all appli- cations from churches for aid from the Society, and report thereon to the General Committee, to whom they shall make an annual report of their proceedings.

ARTICLE VI.— MEETINGS.

The Corporation shall meet annually on the first Wednesday after the first Sunday in June, at the place where the Congregational Unioji of Ontario and Quebec assembles. A public annual missionary meet- mg shall be held on the evening of the next day. Special meetings for the despatch of special business may be called by the Executive Com- mittee at such time and place as may be deemed desirable, provided that a month's notice be given thereof. The General Committee shall hold their meeting at the same time and place as the Corporation, at the call of the Secretary; and the Executive Committee shall hold their quarterly meeting at the time and place it may be agreed upon.

ARTICLE VII. — CHURCH EXTENSION AND BUILDING FUND.

All sums of money specially collected, given or bequeathed for the purpose together with the proceeds received from the sale of disused church property, shall form a Church Extension and Buildmg Fund, which shall be invested by the Corporation, who may apply the income thereof, by the General or the Executive Committee, by the way of loans, or otherwise, for the organization of churches in new fields, and for the erection or enlargement of places of worship where they may be required.

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ARTICLE VIII. — AUXILIARY SOCIETIES.

Auxiliary branches of this Society may be formed in churches and localities, to co-operate in the work of the Society. Each branch shall, at least one month previous to the annual meeting of the Society, make an annual report to the Secretary, and send to the Treasurer all funds collected on its behalf.

ARTICLE IX. — MISSIONARIES.

Each missionary in the employment of this Society must be a regu- larly accredited member of a Congregational Church, and shall en- deavor faithfully to promote ail the interests of the Cojigregational denomination in Canada. He shall send to the Secretary a quarterly statement of his work and furnish such statistical returns as may be called for.

ARTICLE X. — MISSIONS.

Each church requiring a missionary grant by the General Com- mittee, must make application therefor through the Secretary, at least one month previous to the annual meetijig of the Society, according to the printed forms provided, in which a certificate to the efifect that all previous pledges of support to its pastor have been fulfilled, shall be inserted. Churches aided by this Society are required to make an annual collection for the funds and to Keep their property sufficiently insured; and such churches acquiring property shall have inserted m the Trust Deed a clause providing that in case the church shall at any time be disbanded or cease to exist, the property shall revert to the Society.

ARTICLE XI. — RECEIVING AND DISMISSING PASTORS.

Churches aided by this Society are required, as far as practicable, in the settlement and dismissal of pastors, to carry out the recommen- dations passed by the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, in 1876, in relation to Councils. In cases where this is impracticable, the sanction of the Executive Committee must be obtained before a settlement or dismissal of a pastor is consummated.

ARTICLE XII. — CONVEYING PROPERTY.

The President, Treasurer and Secretary, or any two of them, shall be the duly authorized persons on behalf of the Corporation to convey real estate, and to discharge mortgages; and the Treasurer shall be the duly authorized person, on behalf of the Corporation, to accept con- veyances of real estate, and to receive mortgages. The Treasurer shall affix the Corporation seal to all documents which may require it.

ARTICLE XIII.— .\MENDING THE CONSTITUTION.

This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of two- thirds of the members present at any annual meetin- of the Society, one day's notice having previously been given of the proposed amend- ment, in writing.

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MINUTES OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE CANADA CONGREGATIONAL

MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

The fiftieth annual meeting of the Canada Congrega- tional Missionary Society was held in the First Congrega- tional Church of London, Ont., beginning at ii o'clock a.m., on Wednesday, June loth.

The President, Mr. Charles Cushing, was in the chair.

Rev. D. C. Mcintosh, of Lanark, led in prayer. Rev. W. S. Pritchard, of Granby, was elected Minute Secretary.

The Secretary, Rev. Wm. Mcintosh, of Ottawa, then read the fiftieth annual report of the Society.

The report of the Treasurer, Mr. C. R. Black, was read by the President, Mr. Charles Cushing. It was moved by Rev. W. J. Hindley, seconded by Rev. W. H. Warriner, D.D., that the reports as now read be received and adopted.

The discussion of the report was not concluded at this sitting.

On motion of Rev. W. H. Warriner, D.D., seconded by Rev. E. D. Silcox, Rev. J. Edward Flower, M.A., Secre- tary of the Church Aid and Home Missionary Society of England and Wales, was invited to sit as a corresponding member. Carried.

The report of the General Committee containing nom- inations for officers, was received and adopted. The report was as follows: "That the officers be. President, Mr. Chas. Cushing; Secretarv, Rev. Wm. Mcintosh; Hon. Secretary, Rev. E. M. Hill, D.D.; Treasurer, Mr. Charles R. Black.

Executive Committee: Revs. J. W. Cox, J. M. Austin, Nova Scotia; Rev. R. R. Morson, from New Brunswick; Rev. Hugh Pedley, from Quebec; Rev. J. P. Gerrie, from Western District; Mr. H. O'Hara, from Toronto District Association; Rev. W. J. Hindley, from British Columbia and the Northwest, together with the officers.

General Committee: Revs. J. K. Unsworth, W. S. Prit- chard, W. Munroe, John Wood, F. J. Day, D. C. Mcintosh,

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W. H. Warriner, E. D. Silcox, T. B. Hyde, J. W. Pedley, H. F. Thomas, J. L. Gordon, C. Moore, and Messrs. T. B. Macaiilay, J. C. Copp, Henry Yeigh, W. McCartney. On motion the meeting adjourned.

* W. S. Pritchaed,

Secretary.

The adjourned meting of the Canada Congregational [Missionary Society was held in the First Congregational Church of London, Ont., on June nth, at n o'clock am., with the President, Mr. Charles Cushing, in the chair.

The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. S. Gray.

The minut.es of the previous meeting were read and approved.

The discussion on the reports of the Treasurer and of the Secretary was resumed, and finally the reports were adopted.

Rev. Albert Margrett gave his report as evangelist for the past fourteen months.

It was moved by Rev. \\\\\. ]. Hindley, seconded by Mr. Henry O'Hara, that this report be received and referred to the General Committee. Carried.

It was moved by j\Ir. J. C. Copp, seconded by Rev. W. H. Warriner, D.D., that the thanks of this Society be ten- dered to the auditors for the past year, Messrs. A. McA. Murphy and B. B. Stephenson, and that Messrs. A. McA. Murph}-- and Albert E Hanna be elected as auditors for the ensuing year. Carried.

It was moved by Rev. Hugh Pedley, and seconded by Rev. Wm. Mcintosh, " That we recognize with gratitude the continued interest taken in Canadian work by the Col- onial Missionary Society, an interest shown in substantial contributions of money, contributions without which the work would have been seriouslv crippled. We would also record cur grateful appreciation of the part taken by the Society in arranging for the visit of the deputation from

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the Congregational Union of England and Wales, a visit the memory and influence of which will long remain with our churches." Carried.

It was moved by Rev. John Wood, seconded by Rev, Wm. Mcintosh, " That the thanks of this Society be«ten- dered the Woman's Board for their contributions during last year." Carried.

It was moved by Rev. W. T. Gunn, B.A., seconded by Rev. E. Munson Hill, D.D., " That this corporation appoint Rev. F. J. Day, B.A., B.D., of Sherbrooke, as Educational Secretary of this Society." Carried.

Dr. Hill gave notice of motion that at the next annual meeting of this Society, he will move that the constitution be amended so as to create the office of Educational Sec- retary.

It was moved by Rev. Hugh Pedley, seconded by Mr. Henry O'Hara, " That, in view of the fact that approaches have been made towards an agreement between the Home Mission Boards of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches to secure a more effective and economical administration of missions, and conference between these denominations has already taken place, we now empower the Executive Com- mittee of this Society to represent us, should it be found feasible and desirable that we should be included in any scheme of interdenominational comity." Carried.

After the benediction was offered by Rev. Mr. McKilli- can, the meeting adjourned to meet again in the evening at eight o'clock.

A public meeting was held at eight o'clock, which was addressed by Rev. Albert Margrett, Rev. W. J. Hindley, of Vancouver, B.C., and Rev. J. Edward Elower, M.A., Secretary of the Church Aid and Home Missionary Society cf England and Wales.

REV. W. J. HINDLEY,

HOME MISSIONARY SUPERINTENDENT FOR B.C. AND N.W.

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FIFTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE C.C.M.S.

Fifty years is a short period in the history of the race in its upward progress toward the Hght. It is a short space in the history of a country, even a young country as is ours; and yet momentous changes transpire in that time. What is attempted and accompHshed cannot be tabulated or described by any secretary or statistician. This is as true of quiet unobtrusive agencies like the Canada Congrega- tional Missionary Society as it is of political or ecclesias- tical commotions that fill multitudes with wonder and awe. It is no unimportant event to us that to-day we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of a Society that has organized and nurtured churches that, few as they are, have done much to leaven society with liberal Christian thought, high ideals of religious life, and perfectly untram- meled freedom in individual activity.

This Society was founded by the fusion of several al- ready existing organizations. In England and the United States, what are now the societies in connection with the Congregational churches were first formed on a catliolic oi non-denominational basis. But gradually the other and more closely organized denominations w'ithdrew and formed societies under their own peculiar administration. The same is true here. The first movement of a missionary character in Canada was in a union of Congregationalists,. Presbyterians and Baptists. This was in 1826. Under the auspices of this united society, missionaries were brought from England and the United States. They were princi- pally located in what is now the Province of Quebec. In 1836, or ten vears later, the Colonial ^Missionary Society \\as formed. This society has all through the intervening years been a warm friend of our Canadian churches. Until in 1853, missionary operations were carried on through these agencies, having their centres in ]\Iontreal and Tor- onto, and represented bv Rev. Henrv Wilkes. D.D., in 6

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Montreal, and Rev. John Roaf in Toronto. A consolidation of these agencies resulted in the formation of the C.C.M.S. in 1853. In 1884, the Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick united with this society for all missionary purposes. Thus it has come to its present posi- tion.

Our list shows thirty-four churches that more or less received aid from our funds during the past year, five in British Columbia, one in Alberta, one in Manitoba, thir- teen in Ontario, five in Quebec, nine in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Although many of these churches have been a charge upon the Society for many years, and are still dependent upon it for aid, it does not follow that they are not doing good and faithful work. They are often a rich blessing to the locality where they are situated. The little Con- gregational church is ever found on the right side on all moral questions. It is a rare thing to find that the member- ship is not a unit on the temperance question, the Christian Lord's Day of Rest, and presents a goodly standard of spiritual life. So it does not follow that the money ex- pended in the past, and needed now, is not well-spent money; year by year our expended dollars are doing some- thing to extend the Master's kingdom.

The Maritime Provinces still suffer from removals. The centres of population do not increase, and the young people still remove to other parts of the Dominion, a con- stant drain on the vitality of our churches. But they still have a place, and work that is theirs to do.

In this brief review we mention :

Chebogue, N.S. — After a pastorate of over nine years, Rev. D. W. Purdon resigned, and removed to Kingsport in the same Province. Mr. Purdon is one of our brethren from England who fits into our Canadian work in a way that is pleasant to see. He has left a record of work well and faithfully done. The church is being supplied for the sum- mer by Student Baker. What with deaths on land, losses

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at sea, and removals to the United States, the famiUes are few and scattered, yet the withdrawal of the light that has burned there for 136 years would be sorely felt along the coast. A man will be needed in September.

Liverpool. — A church with a varied history extending over 142 years has for a year or two received aid from our Society. Losing their church' edifice by fire a few years ago, there is a debt on the beautiful new structure, which renders it necessary for them to apply for pecuniary help for a short time. Rev. George W. Ball is pastor.

MiLTOx. — About two miles from Liverpool. Has lost in the removal of Rev. Churchill Moore, but is supplied by Student Anthony. A pastor will be needed there in the autumn.

The scattered field called Pleasant River on our list is unfortunately vacant at present. The people are generally poor, and many are neglected. Missionaries are needed for just such fields.

Brooklyx axd Beach Meadows have been served by Rev. Jas. M. Austin for four years, but the health of his family is such as to demand a change of climate; so another worker will soon be needed down by the sea, while Mr. Austin is open to a call to any of our Quebec or Ontario churches, and he is a man who can be recommended as a faithful and diligent pastor, and who has done good work in every field he has occupied, invariably leaving the church in better condition than he found it.

KixGSPORT is rejoicing in having Rev. D. M. Purdon, late of Chebogue. as pastor. We are looking for cheering things from the present pastorate.

Noel, Sel:\ia and South Maitland, a field 35 miles in ex- tent, is ministered to by Rev. A. W. Main. He preaches three times on Sunday, has two Sunday schools and three prayer meetings every week, involving a drive of from 60 to 70 miles every week along a bleak coast. Mr. Main writes hooefullv of his work.

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Across the bay is Eco^tomy, now supplied by Student Rose. A settled pastor is much needed there.

Teuko. — Rev. J. W. Cox works here amid much diffi- culty and discouragement. It is uphill work to build up a. church where strong organizations are all around, even when there is a considerable portion of the people unreached by them. Mr. Cox continues his labors in faith and prayer;, results are sure to follow.

Far away Makgaeee asks for a pastor. We have been so far unable to provide one. It is a needy field; a quiet place where important work for the Master could be done, by any faithful pastor.

Sydney. — Our attention has been repeatedly called to that growing town, but so far we have been unable to make a beginning. Want of the right man and the means to sustain him have barred the way.

Keswick Ridge, N.B., is another field occupied by one man where there ought to be two. Rev. Churchill Moore, late of Milton, N.S., is doing all he can to cover that ex- tended territory.

Coming to the Province of Quebec, our churches are in a healthier condition than they are in any other part of the Dominion. Of the nineteen churches, but five are in receipt of grants, and two of these are specially arranged for by legacy, so that only three are helped from our general fund, and the total amount is only $375, and that is to be reduced the next year.

Melbour^'e is rapidly paying off their debt, and at the same time asking for a reduced grant for the ensuing year. Rev. R. G. Watt is the pastor.

PoixT St. Ciiaeles, Moxtreal, is growing, but because of the need of repairs on their building, requires a grant a little longer. Rev. W. R. Harvey is pastor.

Fraxklix Cextee, a rural district, does not grow, as the farms increase in size rather than the families. It is under the pastoral care of Rev. W. Collins.

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Ayer's Flat and Fitch Bay are ministered to by Revs. E. Rose and Geo. Skinner, both working faithfully, and not without good results.

Coming to Ontario, our first is Ottaava, Zion. It is seven years since the church was organized by a small band of workers from the First Church, It has a good property in a growing part of the city. Has a flourishing Sunday school, more than twice the size of that of the parent church, and a good attendance at the Sabbath services. The people are hearty and earnest workers. Last fall they put in a hot-air furnace and removed the stoves. What with work in the evenings and gifts of money the furnace was paid for as soon as it was lighted. Their church building is too small for their work. If they had more accommodation they believe their attendance on Sunday afternoon would be doubled in a very short time. Rev. H. I. Horsey is their first pastor and is still holding the fort.

Calvary Church, Kingston, sends us reports of growth. Progress is being made all along the line. Their applica- tion is still more than one-half of that of last year. Rev. Geo. A. Lowes is the pastor.

CoBouRG has been under the care of H. A. Morton, and reports an addition of fifteen on profession of faith. We are sorry to report that Mr. Morton has resigned, leaving the church in need of a competent successor. Cobourg has a nucleus of earnest and self-sacrificing workers who must not be left pastorless.

The Central Association Executive succeeded in dispos- ing of the property at Stouffville. The circumstances were such that it was deemed advisable for the church to disband, the way not being clear for continuance.

BowMANviLLE. — Rcv. Braudou Greenaway has been pas- tor for two years. We regret to report that he has placed his resignation in the hands of the Society, and is about co remove to the United States. Mr. Greenaway has done good work, and we wish he could have continued in the .service of our Canadian churches. The church will need a

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pastor by July ist. In common with many churches in towns and villages they lose from emigration of the young and hopeful to the cities and the new Northwest, but a band of faithful workers remains.

Alton is supplied by Student Schragg for the summer. A pastor will be needed for September.

Bakrie. — Here as elsewhere the church suffers from re- movals to larger centres. Rev. C. S. Pedley is the pastor, and in that the church is fortunate. The work is hard, up- hill work, yet the pastor writes hopefully. It is one of the many fields that need the steady, wise and earnest work of one pastor for years to place it in a position of strength and comfort.

Hamilton Emmanuel, by the removal of Rev. Geo. A. Lowes to Calvary, Kingston, and St. Catharines, by the removal of Rev. C. E. Bolton to Scotland, are at present without pastors. Both these will be considered by the new General Committee.

LisTOWEL has the services of Mr. H, Stillman.

Kincardine. — Rev. A. E. Prior is pastor. We are not able to report much of this field. It is one of those where not much that is new and startling may be looked for. Quiet and steady work is all that may be expected.

Tilbury and Renwick are enjoying the pastoral care of Rev. C. C. Claris.

Stratford. — Rev. Geo. A. MacKenzie still gathers around him a people who listen with interest to his thought- ful ministry.

■WiNGHAM. — The Executive has succeeded in disposing of the property; the difficulties in the way of the church render advisable the closing of the work there.

Lake Shore and Ebenezer are supplied for the summer by Student Hindley, and the work goes on hopefully.

Maple St., Winnipeg. — Owing to the change in the character of the population, the forejgn element so largely predominating, it was deemed advisable to close, which has been done, and the property sold. The proceeds are held

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by the Central Church for new work in another part of the city, when such new work is begun.

Brandon, Man., has made substantial progress during the past year. The church is gaining a position in the town. Mr. Munroe is giving lectures in the Baptist College there, and so is gaining an influence for good. They ask for a de- creased grant this incoming year. It is going to take time, but there will be a good self-sustaining church in Brandon.

Wetaskiwin, Alberta. — We have still but the one pastor there, Rev. G. A. Sanden, where there ought to be at least two. The Scandinavian population is still increas- ing, but it is scattered over a large area, making it impos- sible for one man to do satisfactory work. There, as else- where in that great Northwest region, we could profitably employ half a dozen travelling evangelists, men who can rough it, ride a horse, preach the gospel in schoolhouses or other such shelter as offered. Perhaps they would not or- ganize many or any churches, but could comfort lonely settlers, warn such as are losing their faith in their father's God, and gather many souls into the Kingdom of His dear , Son. I believe this would be well-spent money.

Nelson, B.C., is supplied by Rev. John Reid. It, too, has its trials. The town, however, is on the road to pros- perity again, and we hope on a more solid basis than at first.

Through the co-operation of our brethren in England, the debt has been largely reduced, and the remainder con- solidated, so that it is in a position to be handled. This is a great advantage to the cause.

Phoenix. — The great depreciation in- copper so mater- ially affected the town that it was deemed wise to close the building for the present, and Rev. J. W. Hard came east, where he is doing good work in Middleville, Ont. Our property in Phoenix is cared for, awaiting future develop- ments.

Vancouver, B.C. — The English delegation visited this city and sought to bring about a union between the First and Central churches. We sent out Rev. W. J. Hindley

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with the hope that both parties would unite in one effort, but so far we regret to say this has not been accomp- lished. Mr. Hindley has been supplying the Central Church and has been drawing large congregations. But there is not room for two Congregational churches in the centre of the city, and your Committee do not feel warranted in doing anything to perpetuate their separate existence. We are hoping yet for a union in the not distant future. There is good material for one strong Congregational church in the centre. , .,

Crossing the Sound to the beautiful city of Victoria, we find that the little band under the leadership of Rev. R. B. Blyth has erected a church building which a visitor de- scribes as " one of the most convenient church buildings I have seen in the Dominion; money that has been contri- buted has been well spent here." The debt of $4,000 will not be unmanageable. Mr. Blyth is a hard worker, and worthily represents us in our most westerly outpost.

So we have gone over the ground from east to west annually traversed by our reports. I wash I could tell you something that would stir all the churches to the heart, of great achievement, of splendid success, but we have not the conditions that warrant expectation of such. And yet our work has not been in vain; something real and definite has been accomplished. We cannot say that the churches have fully realized their large opportunities. But many have done well and they have their reward.

I need not call attention to the expressed judgment of those who know our western inheritance, that if the work be neglected now. a similiar opportunity will not again be presented. It will depend on how the Church grapples with the problem that will decide the destiny of the country, -whether it is to be law-abiding, reverent. God-fearing, or like so , much in continental Europe — and too much in America — Bible, Sabbath, and house of God neglected, We are in the formative period of our country's history; may the foundations be well laid, ^^^ould that we had some one

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to travel up and clown our country among our churches, to stir them up to an appreciation of the marvelous privi- leges that are offered this generation.

We cannot close without a grateful reference to the deputation from the Congregational Union of England and Wales that visited us last autumn. A stronger personnel could not well have been found in all the wealth of strong men in English Congregationalism. They cheered us with their hope, and gave us counsel in our perplexity. The thanks of the Society are due our brethren for their timely help, and we hope our churches will take up the conditional offer of financial assistance, and carry it through to an issue that will liberate every church in the Dominion from the ■burden of debt.

All of which is respectfully submitted,

W. McIntosh.

Secretary.

^- CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK-

TREASURER'S REPORT. For Year Ending May 31st, 1

In this the jubilee year of the Society, it would have been a pleasant duty to have been able to report an increase in the funds placed at its disposal for the furtherance of its important work. It is a matter for great regret, however, that our means have blien materially lessened instead of increased; and the statement accompanying this report shows a large deficiency for the year just closed.

It has repeatedly been stated in our reports that if our w^ork is to be efficiently done the churches ought to provide not less than $5,000 each year, which would only mean an average of about sixty cents per member; certainly not a bur- densome amount as an average.

During the year the average subscriptions of the churches have been fifty-one cents per member from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; sixty-one and a half cents from Quebec, and eighteen and three-quarter cents from Ontario. These figures speak for themselves, and they say pretty loudly that some people are not doing their duty by a So- ciety whose work is vital to the success and increase of our Canadian churches. Less means will compel a decrease in the help afTorded to the weaker churches, for if the money does not come in, it cannot be paid out; and the pruning knife will need to be applied.

Last year the churches subscribed for the general and Northwest work of the Society $3,425; this year, $2,847, ^ deficiency of $578.

The following particulars will show whence the bulk of the deficiency arises:

From N.S. and N B., this year, % 433 00; last year, 9 522 00.

" Quebec " 1259 00; " 1260 00.

Ontario East " 3SS 00; " 435 00.

" " Central " 356 00; " 527 00.

" " West " 299 00; " 490 00.

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Statistics are only valuable when they are carefully con- sidered and put to a practical use. I would suggest that the following figures be treated in this manner, and that the various District Associations take the matter up, and so deal with it that the anomaly may no longer exist. The Province of Ontario is credited with sixty-two churches in the " Year Book " ; of these thirty-eight only are represented in this year's subscriptions to the Canada Congregational Missionary Society.

The Province of Quebec is credited with twenty churches in the " Year Book "; all of these with one excep- tion are represented in this years list of subscriptions.

Out of a reported number of twenty churches in the ^Maritime Provinces, fifteen are represented in this year's Hst.

Brethren of the District Associations: What will you do with these figures?

Reading papers at the meetings will not remedy matters; but work will, and the Associations can do it if they choose.

The statements herewith presented contain the account of general receipts and disbursements for the year, the General Mission Fund Account, Shurtleff Mission Fund Revenue Account, Church Extension and Building Fund Revenue Account, and George Robertson Evangelistic Fund Revenue Account.

With regard to the first of these accounts, it may be noted that the large balance of cash on hand arose from the re-pavment of a considerable loan quite recently; but this will be*re-invested shortly. _ .

The General Mission Fund account shows a debit baU ance rf $3,132; a very serious debt indeed.

Our forward movement in British Columbia and the Northwest is responsible for this, and it has been a heavy drag on our funds; much more so than the Executive de- sired or expected.

Some explanation is due in regard to this. The Nelson Church building enterprize was most unfortunate in its

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management, and shortly after its completion the city suf- fered a great decline in population on account of the col- lapse of the mining interests, many of our people having to leave the city for other places. The church's floating debts, with arrears of taxes and interest, amounted to over $1,500. If the church had not suffered such a depletion of its membership and adherents, it would have been able grad- ually to pay off this indebtedness; but the small body which were left were quite unable to undertake it.

The English deputation visited the church last autumn, and on their return reported that the non-payment of these debts to local creditors was having a most unfortunate influ- ence in the city, and interfered disastrously with their chances for the future. They recommended that the So- ciety should- undertake the payment of these liabilities, with the hope that this important city of the great mining district of British Columbia would before long regain its import- ance as a business center; and that the church, with a hand- Lsome and commodious building, on one of the best sites in the city, would gradually gain a name, place and influence for itself with the hoped-for increase of population. In addition to the floating liabilities spoken of, the church was mortgaged to an insurance company for $4,500, repayable $500 per annum up to the ist of January, 1905, and $2,500, balance of principal, payable ist of January, 1906; of this principal the Society has paid $1,000, leaving $3,500 still on the mortgage.

With regard to Vancouver, First Church, difBculttes have arisen there which rendered it advisable, in the opinion of the Executive, to make over the title of the church property to the Society, which involved a payment of $1,003.85 — all as per disbursements, General Mission Fund Account.

As will be noticed, the Colonial Missionary Society this year assisted us to the extent of $2,730 in the payments on account of the British Columbia and Manitoba grants, and the payments on account of Nelson Church debts. The best

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thanks of the Society are due to the Colonial Missionary Society for their generous help.

In addition to the amounts received by the Treasurer for the Victoria Church Building Fund, the following sums were collected by the Rev, R. B. Blyth, personally: from Quebec Province, $501, and from Ontario, $271.

With regard to the George Robertson Evangelistic Fund, Revenue Account, as requested at last annual meet- ing, the total cost of the evangelistic work carried on by Mr. Margrett is given, with the amount received from the churches using his services.

Last year's account was made up in the same way as our " Grant Year,"' which ends on the 31st March, but it has been thought best to make the evangelist's year end with our fiscal year, on May 31st, consequently his account em- braces fourteen months instead of twelve in the present account.

We are indebted to the Woman's Board for their usual grant of $600 for our general work.

The financial statements for the year are herewith pre- sented, duly audited, and the Society's thanks are due to the auditors for their services.

Respectfully submitted.

Charles R. Black,

Treasurer,

Montreal. 31st May, 1903.

P.S. — June 2nd — The following subscriptions have been received since 31st ^Nlay: Brandon, $45.15; Stratford, $15; Hamilton, Immanuel, $6.10; Churchill. $5.55; Forest, Central, $7.39.

C.R.B.

^ CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK-

TREASURER'S STATEMENT.

For the Year Ending May 31st, 1903.

RECEIPTS.

Cash on hand, June i, 1902. $6,561 96

Loans repaid 9,364 71

Capital Account 328 33

Revenue Account 3,I53 66

Gorham Trust Revenue 587 02

Contributions 3,707 31

Special contributions on account Nelson Church debts 6420

Special contributions for Victoria Building Fund 1,318 74

Colonial Missionary Society 2,730 95

$27,816 88

DISBURSEMENTS.

Loans $ 3.923 5i

Grants and special payments 12,498 76

Evangelistic work 712 84

Shurtleff Mission Fund 292 43

Contingent expense Northwest Superintendent 49 33

Victoria Church Building Fund 1,318 74

General expenses 617 45

Balance 8,403 82

$27,816 88 THE GENERAL MISSION FUND.

RECEIPTS.

Contributions for General Work —

British Columbia $ 20 50

Alberta 5 00

Manitoba 35 25

Ontario— Western District $29982

" Central District 356 21

Eastern District 38887

1,044 90

Quebec 1,25917

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 433 49

$2,798 31

Personal subscriptions $229 00

Collection at annual meeting 31 00

260 00

C.C.W. Board of Missions 60000

Colonial Missionary Society 2,730 95

CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 87

Shurtleff Mission Fund Revenue 2,026 88

C.E. and B. Fund transferred from Revenue... 1,000 00

Gorham Trust Revenue 587 02

Special for Northwest work 49 00

Special for Victoria Church Building Fund —

Colonial Missionary Society $967 74

Mr. E. Spicer, London 121 00

C.C. Woman's Board of Missions 20000

Kingston, First Church, S.S S 00

Bethel Church, Westmount 25 00

1,318 74

Collection at Nelson, B.C., on account of debts 64 20

64 20

Balance due Treasurer 3,132 10

$14,567 20

DISBURSEMENTS.

Balance due Treasurer June i, 1902 $ 87 13

Paid from grants —

British Columbia $3,533 49

Alberta 220 00

Manitoba 900 00

Ontario — Western District $843 51

" Central District 491 00

" Eastern District 706 25

2,040 76

Quebec 392 50

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 1,047 91

Ayer's Flat and District 1,050 94

9,185 60

Nelson Church sundry floating debts C979 75

Nelson Church arrears of interest and taxes. .. . 580 50

1,560 25

Nelson Church on account of mortgage principal i.oop 00

Vancouver, First Church —

Sundry payments on account of property 1,003 00

Victoria Church —

For subscriptions on account of Building Fund. . i 318 74

General expenses —

Executive, traveling $ 97 05

Administration 2co 00

" Congregationalist." 200 00

- Year Book." space 54 25

Printing, postage, etc (^ 15

$617 45 Less % charged to C.E. & B.F. and G.R.E. Fund 205 82

411 63 $14,567 20

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SHURTLEFF MISSION FUND— REVENUE ACCOUNT.

RECEIPTS.

Balance unexpended June i, 1902 $ 2 \s

Interest from investments 2,319 31

$2,321 76.

DISBURSEMENTS.

G.JNI. Fund for grants to Ayer's Flat and Fitch Bay $1,050 00

G.M. Fund for general distribution 975 94

Expense, administration and legal costs 292 43

Balance unexpended 3 39

$2,321 76 CHURCH EXTENSION FUND— REVENUE ACCOUNT.

RECEIPTS.

Balance June i, 1902 $425 54.

Interest from investments 691 24

$1,116 78

DISBURSEMENTS.

One-sixth of general expenses $ 102 91

Transferred to General Mission Fund 1,000 00

Balance 1387

■v

$1,116 78

GEORGE ROBERTSON EVANGELISTIC FUND— REVENUE

ACCOUNT.

RECEIPTS.

Balance June i. 1902 $i.599 96

Interest from investments 423 ,36

$2,023 32

DISBURSEMENTS.

One-sixth of general expenses $ 102 gj;

Evangelist's'salary, 14 months, to May 31st. $1,000 00

Traveling expenses, 14 months, to May 3i9t 220 75

REV. w. Mcintosh.

SECRETARY C C. M.S.

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Hymn books 7 go

$1,228 6s Less receipts on account of services from churches. . 515 81

Net cost to Fund for 14 months $ 712 84

V , - ^'' ^^

balance 1,207 57

$2,023 32

CHARLES R. BLACK,

Treasurer.

■ Audited and found correct,

A. McA. MURPHY,

B. B. STEVENSON, Auditors.

Montreal, May 31, 1903.

SUMMARY OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.

ONTARIO— WESTERN DISTRICT.

1903 1902

Brantford $67 80 $44 90

Burford 1380 1808

Embro 24 ^5

Fergus 3 35 385

Garafraxa 9 00

New Durham . 8 70

Guelph 1850 5015

Hamilton, First 15 63 82 co

Hamilton, Immanuel 2 50 12 00

Kincardine 12 00 13 00

London, First 20 29 10 00

North Plympton 2 50 27 50

Scotland 21 50 14 00

St. Catharines 3 00 10 50

Speedside 5 00

Tilbury 16 00 17 25

Watford 6 00

$299 82

ONTARIO— CENTRAL DISTRICT.

Bowmanville $63 10 $25 00

Dalston 5 00 2 65

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Edgar 30 90

Toronto, Northern 1 1 1 55

Toronto, Bond Street 40 81

Toronto, Zion 10 00

Toronto, Western 75 00

Toronto, Olivet 9 60

Rugby ID 25

15	50
25s	00
54	00
67	CO
35	00
15	50

$356 21

ONTARIO— EASTERN DISTRICT.

Cobourg $ 24 40 $

Coldsprings 5 00

Kingston, First 50 1 1 12 10

Kingston, Bethel 14 85

Kingston, Calvary 5 20 25 90

Lanark 35 45 50 35

Middleville 10 90 22 40

Rosetta 464 615

Hopetown 3 82 10 45

Maxville 67 50 100 50

Ottawa, First 150 00 150 00

Ottawa, Welcome-Zion 17 00 20 00

QUEBEC.

1903 1902

Ayer's Flat $ 16 90 $

Boynton 6 60

Brigham 5 00

Cowansville 31 01

Danville 26 20

Fitch Bay 860

Franklin Centre 18 50

Granby 100 00

Montreal, Calvarj- 135 50

Montreal, Emmanuel 543 55

Montreal, Point St. Charles 20 00

Montreal, Westmount 16 76

Montreal, Zion 10 00

Melbourne 62 20

Ulverton 17 10

Sherbrooke 135 10

Stanstead South ■ 15 00

St. Andrews 64 40

Waterville 26 75 23 1 1

$1,259 17

23	85
31	64
15 25
9 25
125	50
153	00
530 30
36 60
45	45
63	CO
44	CO
119	26
21	68

CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 91

NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK.

1903 1902

Beach Meadows $30 00

Brooklyn 14 50

Chebogue 20 14

Economy 15 00

Keswick Ridge 22 00

Liverpool 12 78

Lower Selma 18 15

Kingsport 20 00

Milton 22 52

Noel 1825

Sheffield 68 20

St. John 40 II

Truro 23 50

South Maitland 22 00

Yarmouth 68 25

Woman's Board 18 09

$433 49

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Victoria $20 50 $24 00

ALBERTA.

Wetaskiwin $5 00 $10 go

MANITOBA. Winnipeg, Central 35 25

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SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. For the Year Ending May sist, 1903.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

VICTORIA.

Rev. R. B. Blyth $5 00

A. Howell I 00

Mrs. A. Howell i 00

D. Spragge i 00

Mrs. D. Spragge i 00

Mr. Savage i 00

Mr. Waring i 00

Mr. Scowcroft i 00

Mrs. Talbot i 00

Mrs. Brownlee i 00

Mr. McKay i 00

Mr. G. Carter i 00

W. D. Kinnaird i 00

H. Bruce i 00

Sums under one dollar 2 50

Total $20 50

ALBERTA.

WETASKIWIN.

Total $5 00

MANITOBA.

WINNIPEG, CENTRAL.

Total $35 25

ONTARIO, WESTERN DISTRICT.

BRANTFORD.

Henry Yeigh $ 8 00

James Wilkes 4 00

Mrs. John Ott 3 00

Mrs. F. Wisner 3 00

Mrs. W. S. Wisner i 50

E. L. Goold 2 50

Mrs. Morgan Harris 3 00

Mrs. I. H. Oldham i 00

Miss Annie Wilkes i 00

Mrs. Oles i 00

Miss S. Oles I 00

Mrs. Whitney i 00

John Robertson i 00

Mrs. D. Adams i 00

Mrs. Robt. Kerr i 00

T. M. Woodyatt i 00

Aliss L. H. Goold i 00

Sums under one dollar 11 20

Sunday school 20 60

Total $67 80

BURFORD.

Church subscriptions $13 80

EMBRO.

Church subscriptions for I902.$i6 25 Church subscriptions for 1903. 58 00 Church, for N.W. work 30 00

Total $104 25

FERGUS. Church subscription $3 35

GARAFRAXA, WEST.

Church subscription $9 00

NEW DURHAM. Church subscription $8 70

GUELPH.

Church collection $12 50

Miss A. Tatham i 00

CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

SPEEDSIDE.

93

Mrs. Maddock i oo

Mrs. Waters i oo

Miss Hodgkins, S. S. class... 3 00

Total $18 50

HAMILTON, FIRST.

Church subscription $1563

HAMILTON, IMMANUEL.

Sunday school $2 50

KINCARDINE.

Wm. Gilchrist $2 00

Arch. Bell i 00

D. S. McKinnon 100

John Sheane i 00

Mrs. McCallum i 00

Anonymous i 00

Sums under one dollar 5 00

Total $12 00

LONDON FIRST.

Church subscription $15 00

Sunday school 5 29

Total $20 29

NORTH PLYMPTON.

C. E. Society $2 50

SCOTLAND.

Church subscription $20 00

Sunday school i 50

Total $21 50

ST. CATHARINES.

Sunday school $3 00

Sunday school for N.W. work 3 00

Church subscription $5 00

TILBURY. Church subscription .$16 00

WATFORD.

Church subscription $6 00

ONTARIO. CENTRAL DISTRICT.

BOWMANVILLE.

On acct. of $ioo pledged, $25 of which \vas credited last year $63 10

DALSTON. Church subscription $5 00

EDGAR.

Church subscription $20 90

S. S. and C. E. Society 10 00

Total $30 90

TORONTO. NORTHERN.

Church collection $91 55

Seymour B. O'Hara, Life

Membership 20 00

For Northwest work i 00

Total $6 00

Total $112 55

TORONTO, BOND STREET.

Church collection $40 81

TORONTO, ZION. Church collection $10 00

TORONTO, WESTERN.

Collected by Mrs. W. Woodlev— T. B. Johnson $"i 00

94 CONGREGATIONAL

W. Woodley i oo

Miss Geddes ^ °°

Rev. J. W. Pedley 3 oo

Small sums i 75

Col. by Mrs. C. A. Smith- Mrs. Stevenson 2 oo

Mrs. Dwight I oo

Small sums 5o

Collected by Mrs. Milne- Miss H. Milne i 50

D. Milne i oo

Mrs. Milne i oo

Small sums 75

Collected by Mrs Arms —

E. H. Arms I oo

F. Donaldson i oo

Collected by Mrs. Hynds—

I. M. Robertson i oo

C. Hynds i oo

Small sums 75

Collected by Mrs. Kemp- Miss Inglis I 00

Small sums 25

Collected by Mrs. Male—

H. Staines i 00

Small sums i 75

Collected by Mrs. Stanford.. 2 75

Collected by Mrs. Hazlett. . . . i 25

Collected by Mrs. Wilson i 75

Woman's Auxiliary 20 00

Communion collection 10 00

General collection 15 00

Total , $75 00

TORONTO OLIVET.

Church subscription $9 60

RUGBY.

James Ball $2 00

Mrs. D. M. Harvie i 5o

John S. Johnston i 00

Mrs. John Langman i 00

Wm. Johnston i 00

Small sums 3 75

Total $10 25

YEAR BOOK.

ONTARIO, EASTERN DISTRICT.

COBOURG.

Church subscriptions for 1902. $14 40 Church subscription for 1903. 5 85 I. P. Field 4 IS

Total $24 40

COLDSPRINGS.

Church subscription, 1902.... $5 00

KINGSTON, FIRST.

Church collection, 1902 $2458

Church collection, 1903 20 3^

Part Union collection 520

Total $50 n

KINGSTON, BETHEL.

Church subscription $9 65

Part Union collection 520

Total $14 8S

KINGSTON, CALVARY.

Part united collection at Eng- lish delegation meeting. . $5 20

LANARK ZION.

Rev. D. C. Mcintosh $1000

T B. Caldwell 5 00

Miss M. Watt 2 00

C P. Grierson 20a

W. W. Craig i 00

W M. Dorway I OO

John A. Watt i 00

Miss A. L. Peacock i 00

Wm. Stead ^ *^o

Geo. I. Hunt i «>

Sums under one dollar 5 4S

Sunday school S ^Q

Total $35 45.

CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

95

MIDDLEVILLE.

A. R. Mclntyre $2 oo

Henry Mather i oo

R. R. Affleck i oo

Arch. Rankin I oo

Mrs. Muir i oo

Mrs. W. Croft, Sr i oo

Mrs. Mary Affleck i oo

Smaller sums 2 90

Total $10 90

ROSETTA.

Church collection $4 64

HOPETOWN.

Church collection $3 82

MAXVILLE.

Mr. and Mrs. D. McDougalI.$io 00

John F. McEwen 5 00

S. I. McEwen 5 00

Thos. Munro 3 00

J. W. Kennedy 5 00

Donald Kennedy 4 00

Thos. McEwen 2 00

Peter F. McEwen 200

D. C. McDougall 2 00

John Sinclair 2 00

Rev. J. T. Daley 2 00

Mrs. D. P. McDougall 200

Mrs. J. J. and D. McEwen. . i 50

D. A. McEwen i 00

Mrs. A. A. McEwen i 00

Friend i 00

D. T. Munro i 00

Donald McEwen i 00

J. P. McDougall I 00

J. A. McEwen i 00

C. E. Society 10 Do

Sunday school 5 00

Total $67 50

OTTAWA, WELCOME-ZION.

Church subscription $15 00

Sunday School 2 00

Total $17 00

OTTAWA, FIRST.

Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Chisnall.$i7 00

Rev. W. Mcintosh and family 10 00

Mr. and Mrs. Bunney 6 00

Dr. McLaren 5 00

W. A. Lamb 5 00

W. S. Robertson 5 00

R. Addison 5 00

W. Shirley 5 00

Mrs. Hume 5 00

Geo. Gervan 3 50

A. J. Stephens 3 00

Miss H. Wood 300

Mrs. M. H. Hay 300

D. H. Shearman 2 00

Rev. John Wood 2 00

J. B. Lamb 2 00

W. Thackray 2 00

J. L. Payne 200

E. C. Malcolm 2 00

Mrs. W. H. Smith 2 00

Miss Wheeler 2 00

Miss J. E. Harper 200

A. H. Bunney 100

J. W. Bunney i 00

Mr. Gervan. Sr i 00

Mrs. Dillinger , i 00

Miss Stackhouse i So

Mr. Chamerlyn i 00

A. Revell I 00

J. J. Wallace i 00

Mr. Moreland i 00

Mr. Mumford 1 00

Miss Mumford T i 00

A. Ballantyne I 00

Mrs. J. Jarvis i oo

Mrs. Langdon I 00

Mrs. Quackenbush i 00

Mrs. McPherson i 00

Mrs. Cooch i 00

Mrs. Spackman i 00

Mrs. Ruthven i 00

Miss Watkins . .7. i 00

Mrs. Yule i 00

Mr. A. Bailey's S. S. class. ... 2 01

Small sums 6 35

Sunday school 6 55

Wednesday evening col 20 09

Total $150 00

96

COIiGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK-

QUEBEC.

AVER'S FLAT.

Church collection for 1902... $i6 90

BOYNTON. Church coHection for 1902... $6 60

BRIGHAM. Church collection $5 00

COWANSVILLE.

Church subscription $31 01

DANVILLE.

Church Subscriptions $26 20

FITCH BAY.

Church subscriptions $8 6©

FRANKLIN CENTRE.

Church subscription $18 50

MONTREAL. EMMANUEL.

John Porteous $100 00

"Mrs. F. Scholes 25 00

Mrs. A. Fisher 25 00

Hy. Lyman 25 00

Mrs. Hy. Lyman 25 00

H. H. Lyman 2500

Thos. Moodie 25 00

Chas. Gurd and family 25 00

Henry Birks 25 00

Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Black. . . 25 00

Geo. Lyman 15 00

John Macintosh 10 00

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Owens. 10 00

Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Learmont 10 00

Rev. Hugh Pedley 1000

Arthur Birks 10 00

Col. J. H. Burland 1000

Mrs. G. W. Morrison 500

R. C. Jamieson 5 00

Dr. D. F. Gurd 5 00

E. G. Brooks

H. H. Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Reid..

Gus. Harries

Chas. Alexander

B. B. Stevenson

Dr. F. A. Stevenson

Mrs. J. S. McLachlan

Mrs. and Miss Moss

H. A. Layton

P. E. Layton

W. B. Blackader

Dr. B. J. Harrington

The Misses Blackader

R. H. Bryson

Mrs. T. Moodie

W. M. Campbell

Miss A. Walker

Mrs. J. E. Phelan

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cribb ....

P. D. Lyman

W. E. Cushing

A. McA. MurpTiy

Mrs. Josepk Savage

J. Burt Sutherland

Rev. Dr. Warriner

Gilbert Johnston

Mrs. W. Reid

E. Ramsden

A. G. G

0045

Mrs. L. Cushing.

Miss Cochrane

Miss Lighthall

Miss M. Baker

W. G. Tiiom

Mrs. C. R. Black, Mite Box

Small sums

Sunday school

00 00 00

GO 00 00

.5 00 5 00

00

GO 00

00

GO 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 GO GO 00

00

00 GO 00 GO 00 00 08

6;

46 32

Total .-$543 55

MONTREAL, ZION.

Sunday school $10 00

MONTREAL. PT. ST. CHARLES Sunday school $20 00

CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

MONTREAL. WESTMOUNT.

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hanna..$io oo

Rev. W. Munro 2 oo

Geo. Climie i 00

Miss A. Moodie i 00

F. H. Barwick i 00

Small sums i 76

Total $16 76

MONTREAL, CALVARY.

T. B. Macaulay $25 00

J. R. Dougall 20 00

Dr. E. Mmison Hill 15 00

Mrs. E. Mmison Hill 10 00

C. Gushing 5 00

Mrs. R. ]\Iacaulay 5 00

Miss Dougall . 5 00

Mr. and Mrs. A. Kerr 5 00

Rev. J. McKillican 400

Rev. Dr. Creelman 3 00

F. E. Dougall 3 00

Mrs. McKillican 2 00

Miss McKillican 2 00

S. P. Rowell 2 00

Miss Mui-woe 2 00

Miss Jessie Smith 2 00

Miss C. Richardson 2 00

R. W. McLachlan 2 00

Anonymous 2 00

Rev. E. H. Tippett 2 00

Mrs. Toller i So

Geo. McGarry i 00

Mrs. Powter i 00

Mrs. R. W. McLachlan i 00

R. G. Hood I 00

Mrs. F. Jones i 00

E. W. Duke I 00

Small sums 2 45

Sunday school 5 00

Prayer-meeting collection ... 2 55

Total $135 50

MELBOURNE.

Alex. McDonald $10,00

Mrs. R. H. Cros? 10 00

Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Watt 5 00

H. A. Jones 5 00

Mrs. L. Thomas , 4 00

Geo. J. Alexander 300

Ruby Cross 3 00

N. G. Cross 300

F. E. Skinner 3 00

Mrs. Wm. Kelly r 50

Jas. E. Houliston i 00

E. C. Atkinson i 00

J. Alexander i 00

Alex. McLeay i 00

David Lockhart i 00

Lily A. McDonald i 00

E. and S. P. Lewis i 00

N. W. SmilUe . ... i 00

Mrs. Wm. Skinner 100

Smaller stmis 2 00

Sunday school 3 7°

Total ..$62 20

ULVERTON.

Mrs. Mountain $2 00

J. W. Reed I 50

A. H. Hepworth i 50

Joseph Paton i 25

Mrs. Jas. Bothwell i 00

A. Alexander i 00

Richard Walker i 00

Albert Smith i 00

Molson Bogie i 00

Geo. Sutherland 100

Smaller sums 4 §5

Total $17 10

STANSTEAD. SOUTH.

Church collection $iS 00

SHERBROOKE.

Rev. F. J. and Mrs. Day.... $10 00

A. S. Hurd 10 00

J. S. Mitchell 10 00

Miss S. A. Mitchell 5 00

Miss M. J. Mitchell 500

Mrs. H. J. Morey 5 00

N. Dinning S 00

Mrs. A. T. Nourse 1000

CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.

Mrs. J. Wood 10 00

G. A. LeBaron 7 oo

Anonymous 4 00

S. F. Morey 500

A. S. McCaw. 3 50

A. 'C. Skinner 3 00

E. W. Abbott 3 00

Mrs. W. McKechnie 2 00

Mrs. Hawse 2 00

Dr. W. A. Farwell 2 00

T. Cowan 2 00

Mrs. Powers i 00

W. C. Gage 100

Thos. Craig i

Jas. Sangster i

A. W. Blue I

E. Y. Somers i

T. G. Cockroft I

Mrs. Chas. Brooks i

T. M. Craig i

Mrs. J. O. Foss i

Mrs. E. W. Abbott i 00

H. Rausehousan I 00

C. A. McKechnie i 00

J. A. McKechnie i 00

W. R. Webster i 00

Anonymous i

Miss E. Sutton i

L. S. Channel! i

C. H. Foss I

A. M. Sangster i

W. F. Carter i

Miss Dickinson i

Smaller sums 4 60

C. E. Society 5 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Total $135 10

ST. ANDREWS.

Church contributions $64 40

S. S. for Northwest work.... 15 00

GRANBY.

Mr. and Mrs. S. H. C. Miner. $25 00 Mr. & Mrs. J. H. McKechnie 10 00

Rev. R. H. Black 5 00

W. R. Horner 5 00

Rev. W. S. Pritchard 300

W. E. Bowker 2 oa

J. H. McCanna 200.

John Lincoln i 00

Wm. Neil i CX3,

Boyd Brothers i 00

R. Kramer i 00,

J. G. Fuller i 00

Robert Allan i 00.

W. W. Miner i 00

James Duncan i oa

James Topp i 00

O. B. Streeter 100

Mrs. Warren I 00

Mrs. Bowker i 00

D. M. Mitchell 100.

Geo. Wallace i 00

Y. P. S. C. E 5 00

Sunday school i 82

Small sums 27 18

Total $100 00.

NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK.

BEACH MEADOWS.

1902 $20 00.

1903 ID 00

Total $30 00

BROOKLYN.

Total $7940 Total $14 50

WATERVILLE. CHEBOGUE.

Church subscriptions $19 75

Ladies' Missionary Society. . 7 00

Total $26 75

Busy Bees $814

W.^ B. Auxiliary 12 00

Total $20 14

I

CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

'J^

ECONOMX

Total $15 00

KESWICK RIDGE

Total $22 GO

LIVERPOOL.

1902 1903

4 00

Total $12 78

LOWER SELMA.

Church subscriptions $12 15

W. B. Auxiliary 600

Total.

5i8 15

KINGSPORT.

Sunday school $ 4 00

W. B. Auxiliary for 1902.... 10 00 W. B. Auxiliary for 1903.... 600

Total $20 00

MILTON.

Church collection $5 00

W. B. Auxiliary for 1902.... 7 y7 W. B. Auxiliary for 1903.... 9 75

Total $22 52

NOEL.

Church collections $1425

W. B. Auxiliary 400

Total

SHEFFIELD.

25

F. W. Barker 100

H. Barker i 00

P. K. Barker i 00

Ward Barker 50

Collected by E. C. Burpee —

Rev. Geo. and Mrs. Whyte.. 2 00

J . P. Jewett I GO

D. H. Burpee 100

Mr. and :\Irs. E. C. Burpee., i 00

Dougal Burpee 50

C. E. Society 1420

W. B. Auxiliary 3700

Collected by Miss Harrison. $ 2 50 Collected by Miss Barker —

Charles Burpee i 50

C. S. Burpee i 00

C. I. Burpee i 00

Total .

SOUTH MAITLAND.

Church collections $2000

W. B. Auxiliary 2 00

Total $22 OQ

ST. JOHN.

Church collection 1902 $10 50

Church collection 1903 12 50

W. B. Auxiliary 17 11

Total $40 II

TRURO.

Mrs. A. W. Tupper $2 00

Rev. J. W. Cox I 00

Jas. Williamson i 00

M. Mclnnes i 00

J. D. Ross I GO

Ross Archibald i 00

J. L. Chisholm i 00

Arnold Smith i 00

Th^ D.S.C. Young Ladies. . 6 50

W. B. Auxiliary Bog

Total $23 50

YARMOUTH.

Y. P. .S. C. E $14 25

W. B. Auxiliary 54 00

Total $68 25

100

CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK-

N.S. AND N.B. WOMAN'S BOARD.

Total

;i8 09

PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.

B. W. Robertson. Kingston. $200 00 Rev. A. W. Gerrie, U.S.A. 10 00

Anonymous 10 00

Rev. C. Moore 5 00

D. McPherson 2 00

Mrs. J. L. Anderson 200

Total $229 00

SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.

C. C. Woman's Board $60000

Collection at Annual Meet- ing in Ottawa 31 00

Total $631 00

SPECIAL.

FOR NORTHWEST WORK.

Embro $30 00

St. Catharines S.S 3 00

Toronto, Northern i 00

St. Andrews 15 00

Total $49 00

VICTORIA CHURCH BUILD- ING FUND.

(Special subscriptions received by Treasurer C.C.M.S.)

Colonial Missionary Society. $967 74 Mr. Evan Spicer, London.. 121 00 C.C.W. Board of Missions.. 200 00

Westmount, Montreal 25 00

Kingston, First, S.S 500

Total $1,318 74

(Amounts collected personally by Rev. R. B. Blyth.

(ONTARIO.)

MaxviUe $64 50

Kingston 60 50

Toronto 43 25

Vankleek Hill 25 00

Middleville 20 25

Hamilton I7 00

Belwood 13 00

Lanark 7 IS

Garafraxa 6 00

London 5 00

Guelph 5 00

Martintown ' 5 00

(QUEBEC.)

Montreal, Emmanuel $278

Montreal, Calvary 57

Montreal, sundry 35

Granby i04

Waterville ^5

Danville 12

Mount Hermon 10

00

00 a 00 00 00

75 00

Total $783 40

AMOUNTS PAID BY

CHURCHES FOR SERVICES

OF REV. A. MARGRETT.

/

Scotland $14 00

Burford 8 00

Alton 23 30

Watford and Warwick.. 9600

Toronto, Bond St 66 66

Dalston 30 00

Kingston, Calva-ry 85 00

Guelph 10 00

Lanark 40 00

London, South 25 85

Montreal, Zion 40 00

Brigham 27 00

Brantford 50 00

Total $515 81

I

CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. C.C.M.S. LIFE MEMBERS.

lOI

Alexander, Charles, Montreal. Allison, David, Detroit, U.S.A. Allison, Mrs. D., Detroit, U.S. A Anderson, George, Georgetown. Anderson, Wallace, Toronto. Anderson, Mrs. Wallace, Toronto. Armstrong, Francis. Ball, Miss, Lennoxville. Ball, Miss Emily, Woodstock. Baylis, Mary, Montreal. Baylis, Mrs. Jas., Montreal. Baylis, Rosa E., Montreal. Baylis, Jas. Adams, Montreal. Barber, Isabella, Georgetown. Barber, Frederick, Georgetown. Barber, Nellie, Georgetown. •Barber, W. M., Georgetown. Black, Miss Bessie, Montreal. Black, James, Winnipeg. Black. Mrs. C. R., Montreal. Black, Charles R., Montreal. Black, Frank, Montreal. Black, John M., Montreal. Black, W. A., Winnipeg. Birks, Henry, Montreal. Brown, Annie C, Montreal. Burland. Geo. B., Montreal. Burton, P. H., Toronto. Burton, Alfred, Toronto. Burton, Edgar S., Toronto. Caldecott, Blanche, Toronto. Chapman, Rev. Chas., Plymouth,

England. Clements, Mrs. N. K., Yarmouth. Clements. Mrs. E. F., Yarmouth. Cooper, Jame-. Toronto. Craik, Rev. G. H., Waterville. Gushing, Charles, Montreal. Gushing. Mrs. Chas., Montreal. Day, Rev. B. W.. St. Andrews. Dearborn, C. H. St. Tohn. N.B. Dearborn, Mrs. C. H. St. John, N.B. Dennis, ^Irs. F.. Yarmouth. Diplock, Miss, , Kingston. Dougall, John R., Montreal. Dryden, John, Portland, U.S. Dryden, Mrs. John, Portland, U.S. Dunn, Robert, Montreal. Dunn, ^Irs. R., Montreal. )unn, John W.. Montreal.

Ens, Mrs. Edward Fenwick, Arthur M. Fisher, Mrs., Montreal. Folger, Miss Marion, Kingston. Fuller, Rev. Geo., London, Eng. Gibson, Mrs. J. M., London, Eng. Gibson, Henry Wilkes, London, E. Golfin, Rev. J. W., Wingham. Gurd, Charles, Montreal. Hague. Geo., Montreal. Hall, Rev. Thos., Island Pond, U.S. Hall, Mrs. Thos., Island Pond, U.S. Hamilton, Mrs. Norman, Paris. Hammond,- Mrs. Hannon, M., Montreal. Harrison, Miss Emma E., St. John, Hendry, James A., Kingston. Hendrv, Mrs. Thos. California. Hendry, K. N., California. Hibbard, W. R., St. Andrews. Hill, Rev. E. AL, Montreal. Howell, Alfred, Toronto. Hurst, Mrs. J. C. Hutchins, Benjamin, Montreal. Jack, Miss Isabella, Kingston. Jackson, Rev. S. N., M.D., Barre. Jackson, Mrs. S. N., Barre, U.S.A. Jackson, Prof. J. H., Barre, U.S.A. Jackson, Mrs. J. H., Barre, U.S.A. Jackson, Dr. J. A., Manchester, U.S. Jackson, Mrs. J. A., Manchester. Jackson, Dr. J. Holmes, Barre, U.S. Jackson, Horatio N., Barre, U.S.A. Jgckson, Rev. W. P.. Barre, U.S.A. Jackson, HolUster, Barre, U.S.A. Jackson, Jos. Addison, Barre, U.S. Jamieson, R. C, Montreal. Jamieson, Mrs. R. C, Montreal. ' Jarvis, Mrs. S. J., Ottawa. Kennedy, Miss Helen C, England. Kerr, Mrs. Wm., St. John, N.B. Kerr. Wm.. St. John. N.B. Knight, Miss J.. Australia. Laing, Henry H., Hamilton. Laing, Mrs. H. H., Hamilton. Lamb, W. A., Ottawa. Leggo, Mrs. Louisa, Saltersnlle. Li!?hthall, Mrs. W. D.. Montreal. Linton, Miss Mary, Montreal. Linton, Mrs. James, Montreal.

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102

CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK-

Linton, Miss Mary, London. Lonsdale, Henry Wilices, London,

Eng. Lyman, Mrs. Henry, Montreal. Lyman, H. H., Montreal. Lyman, Theodore P., Montreal. Lyman, Henry L., Montreal. Lyster, Richard, Ulverton. Mayer, J. C, Montreal. McEwen, John, Collingwood. McGregor, Mrs. A. Pawtucket, U.S, McGregor, Eben, Pawtucket, U.S. McLachlan, Wm., Guelph. McLachlan, Mrs. Wm., Guelph. McLachlan, R. W., Montreal McLachlan, Mrs. J. S.. Montreal. McLachlan, Winnifred, Montreal Macaulay, T. B., Montreal. MacReady, Mrs. Lilias, Baltimore Miller, Mrs. Sarah, Baltimore, U S Mitchell, D'. A., Gananoque. Mitchell, Mrs. D. A., Gananoque. Miner, S. H. C., Granby. Miner, Mrs. S. H. €., Granby. Moodie, Thomas, Montreal. Moodie, Mrs. Thos., Montreal. Moffatt, Miss E., Scotland. Nelson,, Mrs. W. C., Portland, U.S. Niven, Wm., Montreal. O'Hara, Henry, Toronto. O'Hara, Mrs. H., Toronto. O'Hara, Henry R., Toronto. 0|Hara„ W. J.. Toronto. O'Hara, Seymour B., Toronto. O'Hara, Miss E. M.. Toronto. O'Hara, Miss Lillian, Toronto. Parkyn, Mrs. Wm., Kingston. Perry, Wm. A.. Yarmouth. Pim, Joseph, Toronto. Porteous, Miss M., Boston, U.S. Porteous, Geo.. New Orleans. Porteous, Geo., New Orleans, U S Porteous. W. M., St. Louis. U.S. Porteous, Mrs. W. M., St. Louis. Porteous, Daniel. Toronto. Porteous, Mrs. Jessie, Toronto. Porteous, Miss A., Toronto. Porteous, Miss H., Toronto. Porteous, Miss J., Toronto. Porteous, Thos.. Dalkieth, Scot. Porteous, Mrs. T., Dalkieth, Scot.

Porteous, Helen, Dalkieth,, Scotland Porteous, George, Dalkieth, Scot. Porteous, Jas., Dalkeith, Scotland. Potter, Mrs. E. H.,, New York. Ritchie, James, Somerv'ille, U.S.A. Ritchie, Mrs. J., Somerv^ille, U.S.A. Richardson, Mrs. Qr. A. W,>

Kingston. Ross, W. R. Montreal. Robertson, Mrs. George, Kingston. Robertson, George, Kingston. Robertson, Miss Effie, Kingston. Robertson, B. W., Kingston. Robertson, Wm. A., Kingston. Robertson, T. Hilliard, Kingston. Robertson, Robert, Manitoba. Robertson, William, Manitoba. Saer, Rev. J. B., U.S.A. Saer, Mrs. J. B., U.S.A. Sanderson, Thomas, Toronto. Sanderson, Mrs. J. R., London. Scholes, Mrs. Francis, Montreal. Scott, Mrs. W., Hamilton. Scott, Eben, Yarmouth. Sherman, Rev. B. B., U.S.A. Smillie, W. C., Poughkeepsie, U.S Spalding, Mrs. W. H., Lennoxville, Spence, David, Kingston. Spence. Mrs. D. M., Kingston Stephens, A. J.j Ottawa. Stewart, R. D., Philadelphia, U.S Turner, John, Torcnto. Tyler, Rev. W. H., Pittsfield, U.S. Unsworth, Rev. J. K., Hamilton. Waddingham, W.. New Mexico. Watson, Miss Lilias, Brooklyn, U.S Welling, W. E., Brantford. Whitlaw, Mrs. Chas.. Paris. Whitney, Mary, Montreal. Wickson, Mrs. P., Paris. Wilkes. Mrs. Dr.. London, E^g. Wilkes, Cybella D., London, Eng. Wilkes, James. Brantford. Wilkes, Mrs. Jas.. Brantford. Wilkes, Miss Annie, Brantford. Winks. George, Winnipeg. Wood, Rev. John,