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Les diagrammes suivants illustirent la mdthode. 1 2 3 4 5 6 I ;,.-i«Br*— t. .- t^tci/t^" ^v^; ' ^■ i) \ 1% M-Pi^^t-^S I rv^v- VV^ L^ A REPORT or COMMITTEE OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY, ON COXiOirZAL CHURCHES, 30th May, 1836. WITH DELIVERANCE OF THE ASSEMBLY, AND Pr^cii^auiigj^ %t tMi (^^mmMtt \ St June, 183S 0- GLASGOW: PRINTED BY RICHARDSON, HUTCHISON, & Co. MDCCCXXXVI. ]{ n It l0( REPORT or COMMITTEE ON COLONIAL CHURCHES. taiEc-ATOLT .(ter tbe rising of Imt Genend Aisemblr the M^m^ri , . H.S Majesty from .he Synod „f Canada. reepectioTttectrnTfT Presbyterian Clergy .„ a .hare of the proceed of ;hat a^lld T Clergy Reserve Land,, was oonyeyed to London brthe T., ^ I. Patrick M-Farlan,„n. of the Depntation on the subtc! Tr'/" »ents and placed by bin, in the hands of Lord Gleneirs! . ""': State for the Colonies, with an earnest recomLenltion^f 1^^^.°' in the name of the Oe-. ,ral Assemble Tt.. v ""' *"» court«,„sly,a„d a f.™ura le opTn^^of^t orere^"" ""r''^" Lordship declined to pledge ^L« t^ ZytZSLZl' "" "^ |»e.snre, in the present agitated state of some o7tte NorttA "'■'*" Colon,es. Your Committee are of opinion tha h s verj^ tZT", question ongbtnotto be lost sight of and thatfl!. • if^^T^"' isters of the Church of ScotUnd in Canad, t^ the Fu'J • .""t ■"'"■ daim a share, ought, from time to time ,„ 1 , ."'""'' "'"y oe Hi, Majesty'sWvernmennh ;> UweiZltfl ° """:'°" the Church can bring to bear on it. ^ "'^'^lir "'""^ With regard >o the Second Memorial adverted to in ,t..i, . , I.S year, your Committee do not see in wba'Tesne L m- fT"' "' nition of the Statni nt .l..f o j „ "spectamore full recog. Church of Sotlndwtbrc^^^^^^^ » ^.^f «' «>e Es«.blishfd le is from the LegislatL*: ttCrrrttlir^tS Tt a recognihon must come in order to be of real benefit 7 '"* Report. ^' "^"^ ''^ '"'*"^>"c Mr. G.llesp:e. Mr. M'Lellan, Mr. Cupples, Mr. John Paul, Mr. Dempster. Mr. James Paul, Mr. Abercrombie Gordon, Mr. Andrew Sym, Mr. M«Cul- loch, Mr. Clark, Mr. James Henderson, Mr. Nathaniel Paterson. Dr H Duncan, Mr. M.nzies, (Greenock,) Dr. Alton, Mr. Lang, (Glaasford,) Mr. J.* M^Naughtan, Mr. Gi.erson of Errol, Mr. A. B. Campbell. Mr. Laurence Lockha, t. Mr. Duncan Macfarlane, Mr. Robert Craig. Mr. Allan M'Naughf- .. Mr. John Macfarlane, Mr. John Macleod, Mr. Robert J. Brown, Dr. Charles A e, Mr. James Thomson, Mr. John Cook, Mr. Charles Gibbon, Dr. Rose (Inverness,) Dr. Rose, (Drainie,) Mr. Alexander Brander, Mr. Alexander Flyter, Mr. Alexander Beith, Dr. Cook, Ministers, The Marquis of Tweed- dale. Earl of Leven and Melville, Lord Moncrieff, The Procurator, Henry Paul, Esq, George Buchan, Esq., David Milne, Esq., Robert Dundas, Esq Rev. Archibald Browne, Charles Fergusson, Esq., V.illiam F. H. Laurie, Esq , Alexander Dunlop, Esq., James Bridges, Fsq., Robert Johnstone, Jun., Esq., [BLY » on Colonial he Convener, he fulloMTing Dr. Patrick . Forbes, Dr. ns, Principal Dr. Ritchie, Dr. Welsh, Vfackay, Dr. lugston, Mr. ivart, (Sorn,)- r. Dempster, Mr. M«Cul- ^on, Dr. H. ford,) Mr. J. fr. Laarence I'Naughf- .J, Dr. Charles 3, Dr. Rose, r. Alexander is of Tweed- itor, Henry iindas, Esq., ^^aurie, Esq , Jun., Esq., Simeon Sawers. Esq., William Paul, Esq. Patrick Tennant ' E.n David Maitland Macgill, Esq., James MaUland Uog, Z a! a Hutchison. Esq., William Young. Esq., Alexander Earl M:.nS ia'lZ Campbell Colquhoun. ^.q., Patrick Boyle Muir Macred^C ^^^^^^r Pnngle.^q., M^P Robert Bruce. Esq. of Kennet. Edward hI'sI^^ M.I., Thomas Balfour. Esq., M. P.. Dr. Alexander Hannav WilZ, Howxeson Crawford, Esq., Captain Duncan Darroch. William Giimour. Esc, Cohn Campbell, Esq.. William Smith, Esq., John Swinton, Esq.. wSt^ Malcolm, Esq., James Small, Esq., Waller Cook. Esq.. W S Proft.»„„. Hercules Scott, Jan.es Hope, Jun.. Esq., Ws M^'^s ;:st L SZ iJders, 1 nuc:pal Macfarlan. Convene,; a special Committee for carrying the measures suggested by said Report into, effect, to be called. ' The General Assembly s Committee for promoting the religious interest of Scottish Presbv- tenans m the British Colonies.' Appoint this Committee to meet in Edinburgh on the \N ednesday after the rising of the Assembly, at 1 1 o'Clock A M id thereafter statedly on the Tuesdays before the stated Meetings'of ihe Com missmn, with power at their tirst said Meeting to choose their own Clerk, and If necesaao;. their Treasurer; and witn power to appoint Sub-committee, to meet m Edmburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and elsewhere for the purpose of col- lectmg funds, and furthering the objects uf their appointment. The Assembly re commend to the Presbyteries of the Church to make Public Collections within their respective bounds, so as to enable the Comrritteo to send Ministers and other Teachers to stations in the Colonies, where their services are required and to assist those already employed there, whose circumstances call in a peculiar manner for sympathy and assistance; and the Committee is empowered to apply the funds put under their management to the purposes above-mentioned and mstructed to continue in correspondence with the several Synods Pres' byteries, and, where these have not been formed, individual Clergymen'in caid Colonies. This Committee is farther instructed to correspond and co-operate with the Colonial and other Societies having the same benevolent objects in view • and It IS a special instruction to them to renew in the name of the Assembly the application made by the last General Assembly to his Majesty's Government m support of the Memorial presented by the Clergy of Upper Canada respect' mgthe Clergy Reserve Fund. It is also made a special instruction to this Committee, that they act in terms of the Report in mattew respecting .he Churches in Van Diemen's Land.* And the Committee is instructed and • Viz. To provide a suitable Pastor for the Clinrrli at UnUart t«.™ . for him from any Preshylery in this Cl.urcl.\ wi^hTwhic .Krvfeiie.f^^^ to direct him on his arrival at Van Diemen's Lumi to inin i»ith .h!! .^ .i- ■ '"eUme, and are licentiates of the Church of &ot anTrn form ng the^^^^^^^ ""» declaratory Act of Assembly, 1833. and CthMth^lrmiM^^ ther, that the CommiUee is instructed to apply at the CoVonfa?0(^ K rn„ « L " ^"'^ '^"•■• cations from Governor Arthur, respecting ?lfc doltish SchvluW^^^^ can properly be communicated ; and to represent, in the nameo the Asiimblv 'to hf MafeS^. 10 I I i I t empoT^ered to embrace every proper opportunity of asserting and practically maintaining the rights of Members of the Church of Scotland resident in the British Colonies, to all the privileges and emolumentd securer oy the Treaty of Union to the Established Churches of the United Kingdom. The Assembly appoint the Report with their deliverance thereon to be printed, with such documents as the Committee may think proper to add in an Appendix, and to be circulated throughout the Church, and in the Colonies. The thanks of the General Assembly were unanimously given to Principal Macfarlan the Con- vener, and the Committee, for the very able manner in which the business de- volved on them had been conducted. Extracted from the Records of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, by JOHN LEE, CI. Eccl. Scot. At Edinburgh, the first day of June, 1836, at Eleven d* clock , A. M., which day The Assembly's Committee for PROMOTrvG THE RELIGIOUS INTERESTS OP SCOTTISH PRESBYTERIANS IN THE BRI- TISH Colonies met according to appointment, and mas constituted by prayer. Present PRINCIPAL MACFARLAN, Cohvenkh, DR. LEE, MR. ABERCROMBIE GORDON, GEORGE BUCHAN, ESQ. JOHN SWINTON, ESQ. PATRICK TENNANT, ESQ. In virtue of the powers vested in them by the General Assembly, they elected Mr. John Murray, W. S., Clerk of this Committee, and named Dr. David Welsh, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Edin- burgh, to be Sub-Convener in the absence of the Convener. The Committee then appointed the following Sub-Committees, viz: Dr. Chalmers, Dr. Singer, Dr. Dickson, Dr. Lee, Principal Baird, Dr. Bryce, Dr. Ritchie, Dr. Brunton, Dr Muir, Dr. Welsh, Dr. Simpson, Dr. Grant, Government, the right of the Church of Scotland to have her Ministers recognised as in ah re- spects on an equai footing with the Clergy of the Church of England, and to have Uic provi(iii.r.3 of the Act, 4th and 5th, William the I v. Entitled, Act respecting Southern Australia, carried tuWy and bona fide into e&bct, by securing to each Church a share oi all grants, revenues, and other privileges corresponding to the number of inhabitants in the several dUtricts of the Colony adhering to the worship and government of said Churches respectively. And to request that provision may be made in any future Act of the government of said Colony, 'or thejust and fair appropriation on the above principle of any grants, allowancesi and provisions of whatsoever kind wliicii may U: lundc fur Uie bti;v-iii of Ibu said Cliucclies. 11 ^. Gordon Mr. Marshall, Mr. John Paul, Dr. Alton, and Dr Cook Rev. Archibald Browne, Charles Ferguson, Esq., Alexander Dunlop ^ A I :. „ ^■' ^*"**''' lennant, Esq., James Maitland Hav Em Mh, &, Edward Hor,man, E,,., M. P., Colin CmfiM, E». Walter Malcta. B,.. Ja™« Small, E^., w,l..r Cool,, E^., ^. s . Jal« Hopt time to time in Edinburgh, Dr. Welsh, Convener Wirling, Dr. Hil!, Dr. BnnB, Dr. M'Gill, Dr. Brown, Gla.aow Dr Mrnel^- ^Tl- °- ^ ^*^> "'■ S™^"- Mr SteZX; M M3?'r 'r;,'"'-^'™* •"■'^•"°"' "'• N"han,.l P .arson B r^Tn S r ' *'■'• ^""^ '"'**"''• M'- J- M'N.ugh.on. Mr. A CrafrM \T rr '"'*"• '"'• °°«^"" Maof^lane. M . Roben SlSod M r "^""Khton, Mr. John Macfarlane, and Mr. John PaWckR "■°?^"" H'-'J"'''"'. E.9-. John Campbell Col,nhoun, E«,., wl p' 'r' .^'"'"'' °"°'='° ■'""°''' William Gilmonr, Es,., William triasgow. Principal Macfarlan, Convener. 3rd, Dr. Forbes, Dr. Mearns, Principal Dewar, Mr. James Paul. Mr S« Robert Brown. Elders, to meet at Aberdeen, Mr. Gordon. 4th, Dr. W. A. Thomson, Mr. Muir, Mr. Leith, Mr. Clugston Mr itnd M^GHl F "iT"' «"^ ^- J«'''^ Cook. Ministers; David Mait- *Dra?nt ^M ^T"!,' ^'°'""'*^' ^'^ ^"''' ^'^ ^«''' ^^^'^'^ ^r. Rose. Balfour Esq M. P., Elder. To meet at Inverness, Mr Clark. Convener. M- L w^°"'' f'- ^'""'P'^' ^'- ^'^«"«^~'» ^°d Dr. Henry Duncan. sr Lrrci.!"^^' ^-' "• «•' -- - ™- ^^ -"-■ Mil"ters^'n„''.''iu^r";^""^'°°' ^'- ^"PP^^"' ^"^ M'- M'Culloch, W n F '^. %'^^' ^^«^^-P"««l^ E«q., M.P., aad John Sw,nton, Esq., Elders. To meet at Kelso, Mr. M«Culloch. Convener, all for -n. purposes apccined in Uie Assembly's instructions. it .1 it i i 12 The Committee instructed their Convener to apply to the Right Hon, Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, for copies of all such communications from Colonel Arthur, late Governor of Van Diemen's Land, respecting the Presbyterian churches in that colony, as his Lordship may conceive it consistent with his duty to grant to this Committee, lliey also instruct him to take the first favourable oppor- tunity of recalling to his Lordship's attention, and recommending to his support, the Memorial from the Synod of Canada respecting their claims to a share of the funds arising from the Clergy Reserve Lands of that province, as laid before him by last General Assembly. They recommend to the Convener to prepare a Memorial to be laid before His Majesty's government, asserting the right of the Members of the Church of Scotland, residing in the British colonies, to be placed on a footing of perfect equality in all privileges, immu- nities, and emoluments, ecclesiastical as well as civil, with the members of the church of England and Ireland resident there : and as it appears to the Com- mittee of peculiar importance that this claim should be supported by those members of the Houses of Parliament whose co-operation in promoting its object may be anticipated and is likely to prove effective, it is recommended that communications on the subject be made to his Grace the Duke of Buc- cleuch, the Marquis of Tweeddale, Marquis of Bute, Marquis of Breadal- bane, Earl Dalhousie, Earl of Galloway, Sir M. S. Stewart, Bart., Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., Sir George Sinclair, Bart., Walter Frederick Campbell, Esq., J.J. Hope Johnstone, Esq., James A. Stewart Mackenzie, Esq., A. W. Chis- holm, Esq., Thomas Balfour, Esq., Alexander Pringle, Esq., and such other noblemen and gentlemen connected with Scotland as may be disposed to lend their assistance in impressing on His Majesty's Government the great and urgent importance of the subject thus submitted to their consideration. The Committee las-ly recommend that copies of the Assembly's deliver- ance, and of this Minute, be transmitted to all the Presbyteries of the church, and circulated as widely as possible throughout the country, in the humble hope that by collections or otherwise, in terms of the Assembly's recommenda- tion, a share of the contributions of their pious and benevolent fellow-christians may be put at their disposal, to assist in relieving the spiritual destitution, and promoting the r !igious and moral improvement of their countrymen and brethren in all parts of the habitable world. Closed with prayer. D. MACFARLAN, Ckmveuer. APPENDIX. .Kdinburoh, sort May, 1833. Sess. lOt^ Which day the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- land called for the Report of the Committee for corresponding with the Scottish Presbyterian Churches in the British Colo- mes, which was given in by Principal Macfarlan and read, the tenor whereof follows: Tn,- r •. «. Edinburgh, 26(A May, 18S5. the Briti«hTi -^ corresponding with Scotch Presbyterian Churches in have re entlv hT/'P"'- 'V^' ^f"^'"*''^ ^^'^ ^leneral Assembly. That they ranada to tl. r. ''T^''''l/° '^"'" '^'^'^^ Memorials from the Synod of Memorials reLn ^^^ TreTS,s"oft %T "°" '^^ °" '""^ ^^^'^ ^hese proceeds of X^t'aTe Jed theTfert Rese :?Und^"f \h ' ^"^ 1 ''^^ a"r rAnSiiT °' ;^«^?f-— a^3ch^T t Is JbtLdThu^ch^ S;L int^^thi- 1! ."^ "' ^^"Z"-- ^' *" P'°P°^^'« ^I'^'^h h«^« been made ^^ Thli r nf ^K S' some Mmisters of the Secession in Upper Canada melfal^ Ltion T.^'"""""^' "P?T^ ^° ^°"^ Commiitee fo^ require im- progre,„ve average dlminulion. Th. chcumslance^rS lei 3 .h^ utmost imnortanrB thaf nn .:„^ oK^,.i.i u^ f ™^"nces. It is therefore of the ngh«, .„j .he data, 5 ^<^s^'B:s^'n:^i^s<^it .1 4 14 Majesty's Government. Your Committee would therafore respectfully suggest, that the Memorial of the SjTiod of Canada should be transmitted to Lord GtKNELG, with a letter from the Moderator in name of the Assembly, earnestly recommending it to his Lordship's immediate and favourable consideration ; and that it shall be an instruction to any Deputation who may be sent to London on the temporal affairs of the Church, that they endeavour, through every "channel to which they have access, to promote the objects embraced in the Memorial. Should it please the General Assembly to re-appoint their Committee, the other two Memorials may perhaps be remitted to them for mature consid- eration, and giving such advice as the circumstances severally referred to in ♦,hem may require. Your Committee have only to add, that an application has been made to th..m on the part of the Presbyteries of Nova Scotia and New Bnmswick re- questing that copies of the Acta of Assembly should be sent to them yearly, and to suggest whether the same privilege may not be extended to all the Synods and Presbyteries in the Colonies coimected with this Church. D. M/CFAHLAN, Convr. The General Assembly having heard this Report, approve of the diligence of the Committee, and of the suggestions which the Report contains, agree to forward to government the Memorial therein referred to, and to enforce the application contained in said Memorial by all the means in their power; and especially instruct the Members of the Deputation about to proceed to London with the view of obtaining Endowments for the New Churches in Scotland, to use their utmcet efforts with his Majesty's Government for securing their fav- ourable attention to that subject. On a motion, the thanks of the Assembly were given from the Chair to Principal Macfarlan, and the other Members of the Committee, for their exertions in this interesting cause. The General Assembly also agree, that the Report be printed and circu- lated, with an earnest adn-nition to the Ministers of this Church to promote the object by congregational collections and otherwise. The Assembly re- appoint the Committee, with the addition of the names of Dk. Stewart, and Charles Ferguson, Esq. Extracted from the Records of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, by JOHN LEE, a. Eccl. Scot. To the Venerable the General Assembly/ of the Church of Scot- land, the Petition of a Committee appointed by the Congre- gation of the Scottish Presbyterian Church in Hobart Totvn, Van Diemen^s Land; HCMBLY ShKWETH, That a congregation of Scottish Presbyterians has existed in Hobart Town for upwards of twelve years, claiming a connection with the Church of Scr t- land. 15 That, in the year 1803, the Government of Van Diemen's T unA j vision for the permanent existence of a Presbyterian rTnil -^ ™*''^ P''" Town, in connection with the EstablisLd rWnK p ^""^^ega'-on in Hobart prialion of an allotment of land foAhe erecUo^^^^^^^^ ''^ '^« «PP™- n such connection, on which a C Wn was St hi n w ^u ^ ^congregation it has since assisted in building a rSnra^d " I i^„ J"''^'' '"^',"P'>«n- That Congregation as a burial-groS^S ; and 'tha? aS t» ^""^ "^S™"""^ '° »»>« ative Council appropriated the sum of L 1250 „f thprhr""' '«"' *''" ^"«'^ m the erection of a Chuch for thp nn.r j • ® P"''''*^ revenue to assist as are in such connection ' ««««™'nodat,on of .uch of the inhabitanL ^vitltVa^oTSLt^dSr^^^^^^ ^°- ^- ^'^erto existed circumstance the inteC and S^e of Z^/rT?'^^^^^ from which many respects, suffered verj marerially. ' !•'«%'«"«« Church have, in That circumstances affectina the nrosnpriHr «*•«>.• pointed out the necessity of aSDlvln/Trffi u '^°"&"'«gali«n have lately the General Assembly S tL ChuSofsl^''- k''^'" '^ Jurisdiction cl of the Presbyterian cLrch in HobarfTn' '"'1^°'"' ^^'"^ ^^e stability trine, or in idpline LTgovemmen^^^ " ''""°' '^^ '''^"^^' ^''^^^^ - d«c^ gregatt'ofthfSs^P^^^^^ |Oth day of May, IBS, the ^Cng" ^o::\:^^XZ^ ; P^SnS^^ .^hould be re m connection there with, were mv^n h„ ,hL i^ i ^""'^'^" ^"^ bunal-ground ; of creating an establish^^tTn f rec'^on ^ h^terrof t^ ^T law established; 2rf, That the Minister of the Ch J;rwhlh i„ ""^ ^ ^^ • years ago, has been paid a stioend hv th^Cr... which was erected ten ; such an establishment^ 3rf, J^t the «rt' ^f T iS ^ '^' ^'"'^'«^ «f • St. Andrew's Church was made hi thi T ^° *° *"""' '" ^ailding ' same object; and m' That^h^ cZot ^°^«f '"^n' '^ f.irtherance of thf ' nection: Resolved Therlte That Sr^".-'''' '.'"^^^ '^^'""'^ '^'^ <=««- • establishment of this CWh' in connee ion w ^7..^^'"^^ ^'" '^''' '^e ' by law established, and endeavour to obS ^"^ • *' ^ '- "''^ ^""'^'^ '' ; so that it may be based upon pub] c p^i^ dpfes anr-^^^^^ for it accordingly, spect of a private establishment, which 3d be mL?-^'''"''' '".^"^ '«" ;e3.^Mhe Presbyterian Church in ^^S^J^'SS^ ^^^ to 'S:\t'n^ersS;"st:p:ro s^t^ ets^f^rr ^7' ^-^ ^'-p--^ come to by the Congregation at th^at rieellt '''""' '"' "'^^'^ VeL'Sble7;:LX?ar/h'X^^^^ before your into your consideration the Se of the CWeJJ"^"'''' '''''/°" ^'" '^^^ lution, and adopt such measures as mav in vn^^^ J"" ^^P-^^^^d i" that reso- the branch of t£e Cl.ur27TcolZ''elZ: ZtllnT ""'^ '""«'"« complete connection with the Parent Ch^rnh "I Hobart Town, mto full and basis as will brins if wifhin Tk • • ^"'. ' *"<* ^or establishing it on such a Church of Scotlanl "^^'^'^ '^' J^^^^^^tion of the General AsfemblJ of the to tIeltSlT?h?L?dS^^ iZ^ formation has been directed in the colonies. «n^ .h,.. l! !" :1"1^"? condition of the Church of ScotlanH ' Ken.nri,.. .„ '.u^TcT"' „"' '^= »it.-...oers nas Oia- - ' Kemarks on the S'^^^^i^TZg^—^ZlT^'S^^^^^ !l 16 Joy«d favour and support from GoJemmln^^ ^'^ ^^""^ ^^ '''^herfo en- extent as to lead toX op Z tha7u S fI^K^^/A^^ *° "" »'««' «» nies, which designation it indeed adoDSan?„"^ ?"'""'* °^ ">« Colo- belonging to thafcharacter, andfs IcZ^y^L T'JKr""^ ""^^ ''^f?^^ the Colonies by Governmentrthe Priwt ShurrS'-^^^^^^^ equal right to the support and countenance of ?h.Ti ? ^"^ ^^^°"'«^ ^^ a" ment and has in ev^ respect reTuTltatuf Ld^u^ d:^ *^« «»-- >.ithin^:^i;t Sne'r? bi iL^r^r v'"' ^^^^ «^'-^" -'y meet on neutral ground- and from ti, T' ''J^ *^ ^°l°nies the two Churches between ^ngUnrZ^ZLtl^^tZTtatt^^ Treaty of Union ' municatL of all rights nriv 17^0 °f^^^,^^' '''»' t*iere shall be a com- • belong, to the sul^^eciTdtCfem^^^^^^ ^^''^'^ ^-^ «r ".ay upon one Church out of Britab rn„Z ' i "T^^^^^" advantages are conferred other. "'^'"» '='''' '''' <=^»""ed as a matter of right by the forTJfdtTie 'ffTheTpt^^^^^^^ Parliament talcing p^visions due regulation in matf ers oSscid ne a 'h ^^^^ and for its being so highly favoure" in th 9 orTn ^nv^^^rr'"'"*' ^"1 *^«^' ^^""^ ""^ Church is in a less flourishing on. itLXnt.ht '£'''' '''' ^-^terian nature of the population of the rolnnil tnan might be expected, from the to which it is entitled as a brancJ of re'onhp'N"^ ^'^'^J" 'f^ ''o.sideration That, as Bishoprics have been esLbhshed in the cT^ Establishments, ment, for the due government of the ESsconri^^^^^ ^^' of Parlia- for the support of%iscopaTSlS^°^wc?ul^^ '"''^"''1'^™^^^ in conformity with the fourth artEf 'tl e Trl. \Z"'-''''^ *^^" J"«''^^' an^ and Synodsf should, by thfsame auth ri y^ b^^^^^^^ ^l"/^' Presbyteries eges and immunities, and similar public Sisinnt.j/' T'*^ *^"''' P"^'"'" ministers composing them,-a measure whl he f°' ^^.' '"P^"'* "^ 'be ensure the welfare ?f the PiesbvTerircbT.rch !IT «"«g«*«^ "^'^essary to assert the dignity of the Esta^fe^^Jchtf i:oZr'''' ''^ '^-"^ ^^ Ihat this Committee would respectfullv state tha/ u u Church of Scotland might extend its' nfluenceter' et) po^rtion'of !"«'• -'k empire, and from a centre of immn t« ^ A ^ "^T^y Ponion ot the British Church, by >vhich norSy the merests o7rel -"'"^ ^T'f ^'^^terian Scotland, would be advanced butThrS...- /'T' ''"'* ''^ ^^^ ^^^""^^ of of colonists secured to the m„'ther cou"^ ^ '^^ ' ^"^^ ^""^ ^"^^^^'^^ ^^^7 own tV thei?SS;irch';L^rinTh"' ^ ''^ ^^"^^^^ ^^-^'^^ ^^ ^^eir favourably receivSr^nfthSuth me ut StrtZiSe^^^Jrul!? ^'^ ^« all the 1 resbyterian inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land th« f^Ji • ' ° »Wom ,„d i« ju„ice, claim, ta the sSh pisS^L^f J*^^^^^ "» That this Committee would submit to vour Venerahlp A^em^iv th- h.. leral Assembly, as hitherto en- to so great an :h of the Colo- ink and rights ihed Church of 'Olonies has an id the Govem- 3. Britain only two Churches eaty of Union lall be a coin- do, or may are conferred right by the ing provisions ies, and for its lat, from not Presbyterian ed, from the CO IS- deration ihments. ct of Parlia- rovision made I justice, and Presbyteries equal priviU pport of the necessary to honour and means, the ' the British 'resbyterian I Church of lential body ibly of their •t it will be ied, as will nts, but to joyment of al Church; > the Gen- in all the Committee ; upon its ht belong- r National that there 17 are at least five or six townships and districts in Van Diemen's Land without clergymen, where the appointment of ministers of the Church of ScotTand "s verydesirable; and from the great number of Presbyterian Emi^ant^ that there ,s a loud call upon the (Jhurch of Scotland to make JirrSnen'ts t^ provide mm.ste„ for their spiritual welfare; and in support o this°tatemen this Committee begs respectfully to call the' attention of the Ass^bTwo the following extract, from a minute of His Excellency the Lieutenant- ci^^en^or of Van Diemen s Land to the Legislative Com.cil, 10th September 1835 1 G TX' .Y'^'T?^ r^ ^'^"^^ establishments are estimate^HrL 14185 • iouses ' "'^'P'"'^^"* °'S™"'^ '^ ^^^ «f the erection of Churches and School- . Jn? T ^'t«''^"'""«"'« ar« altogether inadequate to the wants of the countrir • more clergymen, and a large number of schools, are exceedingly requ"rS* n ""^J Jr'T'^''* I*""' *^" '^^'«'' "°^«' '^''' h««n would r ateriaiy benefit the cause of K^ligiS and of the PreS;^^^^^^^ by using Its influence with the British Parliament to prevent a MonopSy of ^y permanent provision which may be made for the support of RelSn in Van Diemen's Land from being enjoyed by the Episcopal Churchf which would be altogether subversive of the principle of the equal statS of tS Churches, and highly injurious to the cause of the Presbyterian Church That heretofore the Episcopal Ministers in Van Diemen's Land have been who% supported by the local Government, under the direction of the Secre tary for the tolonies ; and that the principle of the fourth article of the tS„" points out the propriety of a similar provision being made rthrsuon^rt of Ministers of the Church of Scotland; more espe^iflly as in Van Een^ iSitanTs'''* * ^°"'°'' °^ ^^^ ''''^°"' '' '"^^"'''^ ^y '^^ ^'°"''h Presbyterian That, should the General Assembly, in consideration of the number of Presbyterian inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land, determine to use "rneces- sary measures to establish Presbyterian Churches in the Colony, irwUL be necessary, in order to insure the due instruction of the rising genera ion and lo'br I'^S- jT'^'T* i'^ *h\-''S'- of their fathers,^th?t SeTshouId also be established a school, on the parochial school system of Scotland n f!fZ*'-"v''^n"'^ ^rf^y'f^ Church, as the Government Ss now existing in Van Diemen's Land are all under the management of the Ep sco3 Clergymen, and are, n many respects, inadequate to serve the pSses of education, from the imperfect and limited plan of instruction purled In filwlL"!f ?"^""^ttee, in coming before the General Assembly, has only ful- filled the duty It owes to the Presbyterian Congregation of Hobwt 'K ; i ^ !e I 18 and it fully relies that the decision come to l)y the Gknerai Assembly, and the measures pureuod by it, will so eslablisli the Church in Hobart Town, as will render It altogether unnecessary to resort to any private method of ensurins to that Church a suitable constitution, by which it would be deprived of the ad- vanta-ve belonging to the members of i.i Established Church, and placed in a situation in no respect different from that of Dissenting or Seceding commu- nities. ° That the Episcopal Church in this colony, by charter of incorporation, is empowered to hold Church pro^^ -ly, and that its Archdoacon holds the char- acter ot an incorporation, and this Coi.imittee respectfully suggest the propriety of a similar provision being made by act of Parliament, or Royal Letters- I'atent, by which the Kirk-session, or other competent body, may be empow- ered to receive, hold, and convey, church lands and other property ; and this Committee also suggest that provision on this and other matters necessary to estab- lisli churches in Van Uiemen's Land, and to place them on an equal foot- ing with the Episcopal churches in the colony, in respect of thb permanent provision contemplated by the Local Government as necessary to be made to support the interests of religion in the colony, and in every other respect might be effected in the act of Parliament, for the due government of the Aus- tralian Colonies, which it will be shortly necessary to pass upon the natural expiry of the present act. This Committee earnestly and respectfully entreats of the Greneral Assembly of the Church of Scotland to take these matters into consideration, and to adopt such measures as will obtain for the Presbyterian Church in Hobart lown a constitution, by charter or by other public act, for its establishment in connection with the Church of Scotland, and for securing to the Congreta- tion, both members in communion and r at-holders, every advantage attending such connection, and to make such provision as will bring it under the juris- diction of the General Assembly; and, generally, to use such means as may appear to the wisdom of the Assembly calculated to insure the welfare and prosperity of the Presbyterian Church and Presbyterian inhabitants of Van Uiemen's Land. Hobart Towk, Van Diemen's Land. \5tA October, 183.^ (Signed) CHARLES M'LACHLAN. A. MOODIE. Wm. MURRAY. JOHN ROBERTSON. HUGH MURRAY. THOs. YOUNG. JAMES THOMSON. l/nto the Reverend the Moderator, the Ministers, and Elders, of the General Assembly of the Established Church of Scot- land, now met at Edinburgh, The Petition of John Martin, Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, HOMBLY ShEWETH, That p/'^er an absence of more than fourteen years from his native land, he has beea appointed by his brethren, the Ministew and Elderi of the Synod of 19 he greatly needs, as he f3y hopes^o H^^T ' /"* ^' " '^^"^'"•^^d that kind indulgence of your VenSco„rT ' '^' '"'°"*^'« ^"«"^'°" «"d arelJX'^t^kn^rr^^^^^^^^^^^ El?.''^ of your brethren in America Is well assured that your VeSe Lw^S ' n^ """tt *" ^' 3^^' ^""^ Petitioner *at a branch of our^beloveH orh^t" I'''"^?!," ^'l^ "^^'^ satisfaction Atlantic. " "^ ^^^S flourished on the other side of the Nearly half a century aeo. the latP n^., n * j ^ Ministers of this city, W the nJoral .^ V^"^,'""* ^™^^ «"« °f the able congregation i^' HaUfax Thjeh u,, '^^ °^^ '^rge and highly respect- connection. After a cons derabTe neriS^' J7 ""?. '«'"^'"«^ '» the same to be organised. Of late years theirT,!.,,"''' °*?" congregations began Church now extends its influence over th^^K? ^^'^'^^ ™ultiplied, untU your regularly constituted by youro^au.hoH/'/T'"*="' ^*^'"& « S^o;'"«"- Your Church in New but its progress has been not Sapid an^r^^ ^ '" ^"^^ Scotia; In the year 1817, the Rev S S^e Bu IroTxweT'"^ encouraging'. Members of your Venerable Court had thl h" M ^weedsmu.r, one of the Presbyterian Church of the Establishlnt iSlL^""?' °^ ^^"^ ^^e fust Provmce, where there are now n n7^r^.- ^, ?., "^^""^^ """^ flourishing congregations, united togetherTs a Presbvt "1, ^'^'Sy™"' ^'^^ """"^^""^ ment, and where there is the n?l«;n ^ ■'' ^^ J'""' '^te legislative enact- Synod. The Member of the cSofX^^r °/ '^' 1°™"''°" "^ ^ -5-'^^ a lasting debt of gratitude to thfSL^owrt'^ «1»« «^e excellent Institution they havrreSd nl; ^^1^^''''^' «« it is from this Ministers. ^ ^ received nearly all their zealous and pious Chu^ inXTanXtefcU^k^tTof °"' '''''^'^' ^^« «-^^ "^ o- could wish, having never DersonallvvU>J^ 'u ^^^^"^^^^ ^"'i "in^te as he however enabled t? stat^ fhn?M -^^ ^''^f ^'^^^' °^ these Provinces. He is tied in the populous' e's of qSc and ^".^ ^f ^"^^--t have been set- ment of the*^ present century ^ And that ,1^!::^ T' «^^^^^ strengthened by the tide of ^migrtuoV^ ^afh ?l,^''' ^'".""^ '^^^^« y^'^^' population, the Church of sSS h J- ^?^ ''*=*'^'''"" ^^^''^ native throughout these vast regions of thilh^ ^^^'^l'f. '" ^ wonderful degree -iles in length, and mfnj'ldt^mts^r^^^^^^^^^ -« ^.^-'-^ the labours of your Ministf»r« «n/ tvt- • .°''*f ^t", has been opened up for dominions. Eve"y yelrtw labourer ™'' '" ^^ 5*^^^^^'^ Transatlantic Glasgow Colonial SocieJv to thet^rn-n?P?'°'''^' ^"'l "«"* out by the the last meeting of thrS^d of ^7^^ ^''""''^ '.""'^ ^™™ ^''^ ""'""^^^of Its bounds not fewer than fo?tf tWr ! S^ t appears that there are now within Glemrnrrv n.,I_ l,^!} torty-three Mmisters residing in th^ P«sKvtor'" of Yolir" Veuerairr''""'"''^ ^^"'gsto", and Toronto." •^**'''" °^ ur Yeuerable Court m.ght at first sight be inclined to believe that such r 20 . I I- |! ' 1 i ii i a great increase of Ministers, within the last few years, would be more than surticient to supply all the vacancies throughout their bounds ; but this your Petitioner begs leave respectfully to assure you is far from being the case. The supply of Clergymen has never, in any one instance, kept pace with the increase of population ; and at this moment, after so large an emigration from Scotland and the north of Ireland, and when there is such r. thirst for the ordinances of religion among the native inhabitants, the destitution is peihaps s's great as it was twenty years ago. Your Petitioner feels it is no easy task for hii.n to bring befoie your Venerable (Jourt, at a single glance, a clear and vivid and graphic view, either of the nature or the extent of that destitution, as none but those who have personally visited the huTible settlers, living soli- tarily in the woods, and have frequently conversed and associated with them and their families, can either clearly comprehend, or adequately commiserate their forlorn condition. It is difficult, perhaps impossible, for those who are living in a highly cultivated state of society, to form a proper conception of the disadvantages and privations of persons who are without churches, with- out religious instructors and Divine ordinances. When your Venerable Court then learns that this is the situation, not of one or a few individuals, but of hundreds and thousands of families in British America; that there are at this moment, within the bounds of the Synod of Nova Scotia, from fifteen to twenty thousand souls, many of them emigrants from this highly favoured and happy land, and not a few of them, in early life, members of our Venerable Church, who have no stated ministry, and seldom an opportunity of hearing the Gospel ; and when you consider still farther, the deplorable condition of their young families, who are growing up in the wilderness in a state of great mental darkness and religious indilTerence, you must be inclined to admit, that a very strong case is brought home to your friendly notice and compas- sionate regard. Were it necessary, your Petitioner might easily enlarge upon this awful destitution, and darken the picture, by presenting at the same time the urgent necessities of the new settlers throughout the Canadas ; and as he is the only Minister from these Colonies at present in Scotland, and deeply sympathises with his brethren in these remote regions, he might feel himself in some measure justified in so doing, for the interests of all the Colonial Churches are the same, their wants are similar, and they have all great need of foreign aid. But as youi petitioner is acting in the name and by the authority of the Synod of Nova Scotia, he feels himself bound in an especial manner to direct your friendly attention, and awaken your sympathetic feel- ings in behalf of the new Settlers in that Colony— a Colony to which he is strongly attached, and from whose inhabitants of all ranks and conditions he has uniformly received the most marked and affectionate kindness and regard. The Settlers who arrive annually on her shores in great numbers from the North and West Highlands, and from the Hebrides, are almost all in very poor circumstances ; and although they urgently need, yet they are utterly unablf. to support the Gospel after their settlement for several years. And thev caii, at the same time, expect but very little assistance from th« Ministers already settled in the Pn^vince, who, although warmly attached to their neglected countrymen, enjoy neither the time nor the means for ministering to their spiritual wants. Fatigued in attending to their own scattered flocks, it require;; more than ordinary hardihood and fortitude for them to plunge inta the thickets of the forest, along almost impassable roads, and across broad arms of the sea, to dispense the ordinances of religion in the open air, or in unfi- nished houses, to the poor Emigrants. Unable many of them to procure a decen! and comfortable maintenance for themselves and tlieir families, they can but ill afford to lay out money in travelling expenses. ^\ 21 It .s one of the most painful situations in which our Colonial Missionaries can be placed, to stand between the living and the dead, to feel their bowels of compassion move towards their perishing brethren, and yet be restrained by dire necessity from hastening to their aid. In Upper and Lower f anada, these inconveniences are to a certain extent removed, as the Ministers of our rhurch in these two Colonies receive £1000 a-year from the proceeds of the Church Lands, a sum which contributes not a little to the prosperity of the smaller congregations, as well as to the success of Missionary exertions But It IS not so generally known as it ought to be, that the Ministers of your Church in Nova Scot.a, New Brunswick, (^ape Breton, and Prince Edward's Island, enjoy no such assistance ; that their support is exclusively derived from the contributions of their own congregations ; and that from the poverty of many of the settlers, rather than from an indifference to religion, this support is necessarily precarious, and sometimes even scanty. Indeed, but for the generous and disinterested liberality of the Glasgow Colonial Societyr many of the stations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, now enjoying a stated Ministry, could never have be-n occupied - all, or if occupied, must, for want of means, have either been imperfectly r applied, or speedily abandoned. Great, however, as the exertions of this e client Society have been, and liberal its d- lations, it has never been able to accomplish all that could be wished in the Colonies. The field of labour has proved too vast for its ener- gies, as a private association, more especially as its funds have been drawn only from particular districts of Scotland. Your Petitioner considers that the time has now arrived for forming a more extended and efficient system of Missionary operations, in connection with our (.hurch ; that a deaf and an unwilling ear ought not to be turned to the earnest, and repeated, and melting entreaties, which are addressed to her by her brethren across the Atlantic, and that seventy Ministers of our Establish ment ought not to be left to struggle with almost insuperable obstacles, and "^^ 1 innn"'T'"'"u ^'«"»,«^«'lan«J. i" ministering to a population of nearly 300,000 souls, who profess their adherence to our Standards and Church Government. It does not become your humble Petitioner to suggest how, or in what manner, your Venerable Assembly ought to extend its assistance to the Colo- nial Churches. He may, however, be permitted to allude to the efforts of the Sister Establishment for the support of her Ministers, and the instruction of her members, in the Western World. For more than a century «he has maintained a numerous band of Missionaries, formerly in the United' States and since their separation in the Provinces of British America. She has heJ Society for propagating the Gospel, with its numerous branches and auxiliaries in almost every diocese, and every deanry, and every parish throughout Eng! land. The nobles of the land, the bishops, the beneficed clergy the heaH« and professors of the two Universities, the rectors, and even the curates, are almost all annual subscriber, and many of them liberal benefactors to the society. The Archbishop of Canterbury placed at its head, is always happy to preside at the annual, and frequently at the monthly meetings of thi Society, and to plead the cause of the North American Colonists, before the highest and wealthiest of the nobles, and in the presence of our beloved sovereign himself. ^'u*eu 111 the year 1832, through the influence of the leading members of the Society, the King was graciously pleased to issue a Royal letter, directing the Clergy to make co lections in aid of its funds. These collections were fnldl dormer that rear in «vprv chnrrh nn.l ol,'"-' Sr ^"-.t^I-,-. ' - i i" • "'lue , , •', •■ -.--_, „ ii,,^,. , j£i i-.iJgiailu illlti VV flies' •inrl although many of the cullcclious were small, yet die aggregate sum amounted ^ i' t- I . 22 n^hment has thought proper to pu„ue, fl^ ml^LnY '^1 '^'^ ?"'*' ^'^^- rel,gu,n amongst her membera in he ( o onlesTJ!... ■ • '"""y' '" P^nioting by congregational collections, -by the Ho' af " "P"°"?'rV'^°"«"•«"^-- grants ; and although your Venerable Alibir ^' ""'^ ''^ ™ '«'"«" '"-y such a wealthy establishment, yet U mighTZ L^ . l'""^" "^'^'^ '" "^*' similar plans might not be adojted fo^ Se relLi^l i . '° '°™"^^' ^''«<»'« Emigrants, although upon a mSch smX ,3 ""'™'=''°° "^ '»'« Scottish ^^{<^:^^^1S^^:^'TS^ o^-liKion. that, widely diHused throughout our Church • and S«L T ^*^»'°""'g t" become extension at home, a^e by no means ?ndlfferet,rh "'''° "' "" ""^'""^ ^"^ '^e especially when this exlensionTaLZr Sefr n» " '*'""''"" "^'^''^^ '^'"™ according to the P.esh_the memSS Sf the r T'-^*" «"^ '''"''"'«" chddren-their affectionate bSers and ^tersZL^T^'''-'Y" ^'''"^^^ fnends, now living beyond the Western Ocean ""« '"'^ ''"'^ ^^'"«d expatri^rd ruTtrymen rS Vmlr^ "^'"^^"^^ ^" ^'^"^ '»>« ^^ of hi. Overtures from different pfesbvterieranH's''"^^""'.^ "" ^^ " ^3^ approving and by many enlighteS and rXe Ld^ri-^-^' -""' National 4urch* A general feeling seems ?o Zvade the rn ^^""ghout his native land. ' now take all her SissioTs und^er her own im^ .'^'^ '^^'-1^' ^''"''^^ "^0"^ The people of Scotland are now waiUn°w:.nn'^'^'^ «"'^*"^'" ^"^ '^o"'™!- 'r.*"i'^'"'=''°" on this importTnt K readT?' e'.pectation, for instruc all the Missionary Institutions of our vSa^^^^^^^^ f"«d to first opportunity which may be afforded "hem for r^f-' "?'* T^'^""" '^^ '-^'Y into the treasury of the Lord. °' ''*'''"« '» their liberal giii and q^ctent means for the sunrmrt n«f ^* "^^^ extended amongst them ; to adJtZTlLZf^ZTf" °^'^^ ^^^^^ c/o«er union with the Parent £7rch Z^/f f 1'^'*''' """"^ also to a representation rnyourmtioiyrZ^^^^^ advisable, and your Petitioner shall ever pray ' ^"'**"' Assembly; Edliibni-gh, 80th May, 1836. (Signed) JOHN MARTIN. n n India and ons, afforded f the Society iister E«tab- n promoting donations, — irliarnentary pect to rival der whether the Scottish ?ion, that 3 to become Jous for the road, more id kinsmen 5ir beloved and valued ause of his ' approving al Church, ve land, irch should nd control, [""r instruc- 'g hand to :e the very beral giits s the con- ur imme- extended he Gospel icter and tdvisablst issenibly ; rriN.