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 LAST WORDS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS TO ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE. 
 
 BY 
 
 HEKRY BAILEY, D.D. 
 
 WAUBEN OF ST. ArOlSTINE's COLLEGE, HON. CAXOX OF CAXTERBrRY, 
 
 VICE-Pr>^ESlDENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL, AND 
 
 VICAR OF WEST TARRING, SUSSEX. 
 
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 PKINTEI) FOR THE AUTHOK HY JAMES GIHI:S, PALACE STREET. 
 
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 TO OUR SUBSCHIBEIIS. 
 
 It will be a satisfaction to myst'lf, and a duty, I 
 think, to others, that, before I retire from the office of Bursar 
 of St. Augustine's, which I have all along held with the 
 AVardenship, I should address to the Subscribers a few ''last 
 words" on fijiancial matters connected with the College. I 
 desire to do this the rather, because I have never yet issued 
 anything of the nature of a periodical Treasurer's Report. 
 And when I say ''Subscribers," I mean all those who at any 
 pre^'ious time, as well as at the present, "have contributed of 
 their substance towards the establishment and continuance of 
 this Missionary College." 
 
 This thought at once carries me back to the beginning 
 of things, before I was myself officially connected with the 
 College ; when the marvellous exertions of the Rev. Edward 
 Coleridge, and the munificent donations in succession made by 
 Mr. Beresford Hope, of site, of adjoining ground and buildings, 
 of the chapel, of £3,000 towards the general fund, evoked a 
 like spirit in others, of all classes and degrees. Royalty con- 
 tributed in the persons of her gi'acious Majesty the Queen, 
 the Prince Consort, and the good Queen Dowager. The 
 prelates of the Church, headed by the Archbishops Howley, 
 Yernon Harcourt, Beresford, and Bishop Blomfield, gave, 
 almost without exception, handsome donations. Amongst the 
 laity the most conspicuous names were Mr. J. C. Sharpe, the 
 Banker, the Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir John Patteson, and 
 others ; amongst peeresses and ladies, the Countess of Pembroke, 
 the Marchioness of Bath, the Misses Mitford ; amongst the 
 clergv, who as usual were forward and liberal in their sub-
 
 scriptions, ».ii • First l'iuit.-> t.i ..k uii.xi.. . fed Logiu-y," the 
 Kov. Julin Krble, and the well known Eihvaixl Bickersteth, 
 who joyfully gave his ofForinpj '* towards the establishment of 
 a Colk'p;e which was to train Missionaries after a fnijjal 
 manner." And lastly, the Society for Promoting Christian 
 Knowledge, and many Colleges at Oxford, gave money out of 
 their general funds. 
 
 And thus the sum total grew, till it had reached 
 £32,000, with which were paid the expenses of the Collegiate 
 buildings and their furniture, and a surplus of £19,000, which 
 was invested for a pai-tial endowment. This, however, would 
 have been quit<' insufficient, but for handsome subscriptions 
 promised, some for five years, and some (I am thankful to say) 
 continuing to this day. The sum of £3o paid yearly for each 
 Student for board and lodging, never over much, soon proved 
 too little, owing to the increased cost of provisions. 
 
 "When I entered upon my duties in Februaiy, 1850, I 
 found that many promised donations were still outstanding, as 
 was natural at that early date ; and it was my first employ- 
 ment, not a \cry easy one, to collect them. The money thus 
 got in enabled us to make a most valuable acquisition to the 
 College, in the purchase of the Cemetery Gate, and the remain- 
 ing half of the old Pleasance of the Palace, now the Warden 
 und Fellows' garden. 
 
 I could not deny myself the pleasure, at that time, of 
 providing and placing in the Library a series of Benefaction 
 Boards^ with full lists of the cJiief names which we wished to 
 keep in grateful remembrance. 
 
 I found the recommendation ol tlie statute, that the 
 Warden should be also Bursar, a great advantage ; for it enabled 
 me to nurse and economize the funds, and to increase them in 
 many ways, which it is not now worth describing. The Sub- 
 scriptions also voluntarily offered, (for no solicitation was ever 
 made for them) enabled us to augment our available balance ; 
 and in 1853 we employ(Hi it, and some of the funded property
 
 ^^-lIicll (by consent of the Visitor) we sold out, in the piirdiase 
 of about ninety acres of eli<'ible ground near Canterbury, free 
 from buiklings of any kind, and admirably adapted for our 
 inu-pose. Some years after (1868) we improved this possession 
 of the College by the purchase of an acre of land lying in the 
 midst of it, and which had been offered for sale. 
 
 In the year 1861 we purchased a house in the High 
 Street of Canterbury ; a good inyestment. 
 
 Prom time to time we were able to add something to 
 the Consols, deposited at the Bank of England to our credit. 
 
 In 1866 we had an unexpected opportunity of purchas- 
 ing a piece of ground at the back of the College, comprising 
 the sites of the Abbey Cloisters, the Eefectory of the ITonks, 
 and the adjoining hexagonal Kitchen. It cost us a large sum, 
 but it was a very important matter to secure this land, as an 
 encroachment had been made upon it at the erection of the 
 Library in 1845. 
 
 A handsome legacy of £500, from the late Mrs. Gregory, 
 of Bridge Hill, materially assisted us at this time, as did also, 
 a little later, one of the same amount from Miss Catherine 
 Hichens. 
 
 In 1869, finding that we were carrying on our house- 
 hold arrangements at a certain and indeed increasing loss, we 
 raised the Battels for each Student from £35 to £40 a year, 
 securing thereby (and not before it was necessary) a consider- 
 able amount of increase to our corporate funds. 
 
 The Legacies which have come in to the College since 
 its foundation have been about four or five. By far the most 
 munificent was that of the late Canon Gilbert, of Lincoln, 
 who made us his residuary legatees, besides giving us his 
 books and other effects. 
 
 Another soiu'ce of income to the College, more gratify- 
 ing than any of those which have been mentioned, took its 
 o]igiu from the first day of Intercession for Missions in 1872. 
 That year was remarkable for the Missionary enthusiasm
 
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 wliicli was called forth all over the country. The amount of 
 Offertories which was then sent us, without any seeking of 
 our own, was upwards of £500, and proved most useful, as a 
 fund out of which to help poor Students, till it was all spent. 
 The Offertories of subsequent years, as was natural, were 
 considerably less ; and last year's was but £73. The disposi- 
 tion of the money, however, has been made every year, in 
 some way or other, for the benefit of the College. And we 
 have to thank God not only for the pecuniary benefit, but for 
 " the administration of this service," as being ''abundant by 
 many thanksgivings unto God," " the abundant grace through 
 the thanksgi^^.ng of many redounding to the glory of God," 
 
 On two occasions, and on two only, has the College 
 made a special, and happily successful, appeal to the Church 
 in general. The first, in 1860, for the erection of anew ^ving 
 for the reception of additional Students, especially of natives 
 of foreign parts who were then expected, and for the endow- 
 ment withal of an additional Fellowship needed for the super- 
 vision and instruction of our increased numbers ; the second, 
 in 1873 after our semi- jubilee, for the endowment of an 
 Oriental Fellowship. 
 
 The result is that there is now a sufficient endowment 
 for a Warden, Sub- warden, and three Fellows, with something 
 to spare for necessary repairs of buildings and other contingen- 
 cies. 
 
 Numerous Exhibitions have been founded, of which 
 the Corporation is the trustee, or to which the Warden 
 nominates, for the benefit of the Students. I subjoin a List, 
 with the respective dates of the foundation. 
 
 YEAR 
 
 1848. Six, of £10 a year each, by the late Mrs. Shcppard 
 (sister of the late President llouth, of Magdalen 
 College, Oxford), by a gift of £2,000 in the Three per 
 cent. Consols. 
 
 1818. One, by the late llev. II. J. llutchcsson, a gift of
 
 £1,000 sterling ; the value of whicli lias been aug- 
 mented by balance and general exhibition funds, till 
 it has been made to yield £40 a year, 
 
 1849. A sum of £2,347 was placed in trust by the S.P.C.K., 
 
 yielding an income of a little over £64, which is 
 di^dded among three Students, on the nomination of 
 the College, and their confii-mation by the Society. 
 
 1850. A fund was started by the Leicester Committee of the 
 
 S.P.C.K. and S.P.O., and in 1856 the Consols, in 
 which it was invested, were made over to the College ; 
 it has since been augmented, and now yields an income 
 of £42 a year. Preference is to be given to natives 
 of the old Diocese of Peterborough ; and it is to be 
 regretted that these have not been more ready to 
 take advantage of it. 
 
 1851. A sum of money was collected from the friends of 
 
 Bishop Coleridge, the first Warden of the College, as 
 a Memorial Scholarship to be named after him. It 
 is of the value of £20 a year. 
 
 1851. This being a Jubilee year of the S.P.G., the Committee 
 
 set apart a sum of money for the endowment of three 
 Students for India and the East. The Society has 
 since endowed three more. All on this foundation 
 are expected to put themselves absolutely at the 
 disposal of the Warden and the Society for their 
 destination. The Society is very anxious to have 
 these Studentships always filled up, which has not 
 often been the case. 
 
 1852. A desire having for some time been growing in the 
 
 Diocese of Worcester to mark the respect and attach- 
 ment felt towards the memory of Queen Adelaide, 
 (perhaps thi^ough the fact of her Chaplain, Eev. J. 
 Kyle Wood, being a Canon of Worcester), it took 
 the form of an Exhibition to St. Augustine's, through 
 the exertions of some fiiehds of miuL\ Au^ the
 
 result was u fund of £800, wliitli has from that day 
 to tlic pivsoiit bc't'U leut ou mortgage at 5 i)L'r cent. 
 
 1S53. The friends and admirers of liishop liroughton, of 
 Sydney, A\ho indeed was the first to suggest the idea 
 of a Missionaiy CoUege, after securing a handsome 
 Monumental Memorial in Canterbury Cathedral, 
 where he lies buried, applied the suqilus (£1,000) 
 towards the endowment of a Broughton Scholarship 
 in the College, which now by augmentation yields 
 £40 a year, and is always given for the support of a 
 Student going to, perhaps also having come fi'om, 
 Australia. 
 
 1857. The llev. H. J. Hutchesson generously founded a second 
 Exhibition by the gift of £1,000 Three per celit. 
 Consols, expressing his desii-e in the deed of founda- 
 tion that it should be given in preference to a 
 Candidate from the Clergy Orphan School, and then 
 in turn to any Clergyman's Oi-j)han, or to the son of 
 any living Clergyman. . The income is now raised to 
 £40 a year. And it is with no small regret I report, 
 that we have had but one Exhibitioner from the Clergy 
 School on this foundation for twenty years. 
 
 1870. The Students' Memorial Scholarship of £25 a year was 
 a thank offering from myself for the mercies of the 
 past twenty years since the day of my appointment. 
 I designed it to be *' adjudged to a Student propter 
 7HerUa" and I should be glad if this distinction can 
 be still observed. 
 
 1872. Mrs. Clarke, widow of a former Archdeacon of Wilts, 
 Mho had twenty years before told me of her intention, 
 died this year, and by her will left the College the 
 sum of £1,000 for the foundation of an Exhibition 
 for the sons of Clergymen. AVe have now made it 
 £35 a year. 
 
 1875. •Tlie llev. Canon Gilbert, our own generous benefactor,
 
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 liad for many yoars bofore his death arranged, by his 
 will, to found three Exhibitions to cover the Battels 
 of three Students for ever, without preference or 
 distinction, by a sum of £4,000 in the Three per cents. 
 And his noble bequest became available this year. 
 In addition to these Exhibitions, the College is trustee 
 for some other useful funds, raised by ourselves or oiu- fiiends ; 
 ^. y., a Prize fund for books to the most deserving Students ; 
 the Ernest Hawkins ^Memorial Fund for the same object ; and 
 a Students' Passage Fund, for supplying grants to out-going 
 Students, in particular cases, where other means fail, in aid of 
 their passage to their destination. 
 
 The financial assistance to the College which results 
 from the several Missionary Studentship Associations estab- 
 lished happily through the country is, I need not say, very 
 considerable, and very valuable. But I will refer, for any 
 further remarks on this subject, to another portion of these 
 ** Last Words," which is prefixed to a "Combined Eepoi"t " 
 of these Associations, just issued from our College Press. 
 
 Another class of donors, in the case of such an Institu- 
 tion as St. Augustine's, calls for s(>parate and especial mention 
 and acknowledgment. Starting witli a magnificent room for 
 a Libraiy, and yet without any funds for the purchase of 
 books, we should have presented a poor figure, but for the 
 generous donations of books made to us from year to year. 
 The earliest of these donors was Mrs. Honie, of Gore Court ; 
 she was followed by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 
 the S.P.C.K., the Bible Society, the Eev. W. F. Witts, 
 A. J. B. Beresford-Hope, Esq., Joshua AVatson, Esq., 
 Sir Bartle Frere, Mrs. Matheson, and many others. The 
 Sub-warden, with loyal and characteristic diligence, has 
 made out a complete list of donors to the Libraiy for preserva- 
 tion and Teference. A few works have been purchased. We 
 have now a most valuable collection«of works of all sorts, to 
 the number of 14,000. I need not remark how veiy useful,
 
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 not only to ourselves, Avlio an on tlic Staff, but to the Studeuts 
 iilso, our Library has proved ; nor liow valuable an element in 
 tlieir mental education tlic very presence and sight of such a 
 collection of literature supplies. A gift of useful books, or of 
 money for the purchase of books, is always an acceptable 
 thing to us. 
 
 Once more, there are benefactors, not of money, or of 
 books, but of time and professional skill, which they have 
 freely devoted to the service of the College. One such must 
 be here mentioned by name, because he is prominent among 
 them, occupying an unique place indeed, as having gratui- 
 tously and cheerfully given full courses of Medical Lectures 
 and Instruction for the space of 26 years, to the successive 
 generations of our Senior Students. Most readers of this 
 paper will understand I mean Dr. Lochee, Physician to the 
 Kent and Canterbury Hospital. The benefit is so self-evident, 
 that it does not need any words to prove it. But it is neces- 
 sary I should linger awhile on the subject, because it is at this 
 point I have to turn round from the past to the future ; from 
 grateful reflection on benefits already received, to the con- 
 templation of measures which need to be taken for the welfare 
 of the College in times to come. 
 
 Dr. Lochee, on learning my intentions last year, said 
 to me, *' You were the one to ask me in 1850 to occupy this 
 office, and when you give up I shall give up, so that your 
 successor may be free to make such arrangements as he may 
 think best for the medical education of the Students." 
 Happily there is a fund of £50 a year, provided by the 
 liberality of Archdeacon and Mrs. Huxtable, which is available 
 for this purpose, having been liitherto employed in assisting 
 Ex-Students during a course of attendance at some London 
 Hospital, before going abroad. And I cannot doubt that a 
 sufficient augmentation of this fund could be easily obtained, 
 either by an annual offertory in London at some suitable time 
 an<l Church, or by special subscriptions, till an annual sum
 
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 was collected for the remuneration of the services of a com- 
 petent Lecturer. Looking into the future, this object seems 
 to me the first in importance to secure without any delay, 
 
 . Another measure, though not of like urgency with the 
 preceding, ought not, I venture to think, to be lost sight of. 
 The design expressed in the Charter, that the College Staff is 
 to consist ultimately of Six Fellows, and the condition and 
 prospects of the Mohammedan population in our Eastern 
 possessions, seem to point to the desirableness of endowing, 
 what I have elsewhere called, a Moslem Fellowship. This I 
 hope may be an acccomplished fact before very long. 
 
 I may add a few words here on another subject. The 
 College Statutes contain several paragraphs about the Advow- 
 sons of Benefices which they evidently contemplated might be 
 given to the Corporation, and the conditions on which they 
 were to be available for Members of the College. Modelled 
 as St. Augustine's was upon the plan of a College at one of 
 our ancient Universities, it was no doubt considered that 
 College Livings formed an essential part of the ideal of the 
 Institution. As a matter of fact, however, no Livings have 
 been made over to the College ; nor has any member of the 
 Staff anything to retire upon, in case he wishes, or is con- 
 strained by circumstances, to do so. iSTor, again, has the 
 College anything in its gift to reward a deserving Student in 
 his declining years, after bearing the burden and heat of the day 
 in conducting a Mission among the heathen. The Rev. Ernest 
 Hawkins of the S.P.G. pleaded hard, at the beginning of the 
 College, for some advantage of this kind, but it was not 
 gained. True it is, as St. Bernard said, "'Xon est cur fines 
 timeant, qui sibi in coelo thesaurizant " ; but yet the Church 
 should look after the interests, more than it has done hitherto, 
 of those of her Missionaries who occupy the out-posts of 
 danger and responsibility. 
 
 I have thought it right to allude to this subject without 
 offering any reflections, but it has an obvious and intimate
 
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 b(Mring upon the >;(l('f;tion and maintcnanc-c^ of a succession of 
 Sub-wardens and FellijvN's in future years. Their modest 
 needs, as single men, while in College, may be supposed to be 
 fairly supplied, though no more ; but prospect for the future 
 they luive none. I am myself the one fortunate exception, 
 being, through the kindness of the Archbishop, about to 
 remove to a countiy living, which, though it will give me full 
 employment, will be, I trust, within the compass of my 
 remaining powers. 
 
 But the introduction of myself in these terms reminds 
 me that I had better draw these observations to a close, and 
 without more words tender my warmest thanks to all those 
 who have at any time contributed, in ' any of the afore- 
 said ways, to increase the funds and property of St. Augus- 
 tine's College : — my thanks, not only for what has been given, 
 but idso for the manner in which it has been given, spon- 
 taneous, with unquestioning confidence, truly gratifying, and 
 calling for special, thanksgiving to God. And thus, my 
 numerous friends known and unknown, I make you a final 
 bow of gratitude, and as I retire from the Bursarship of 
 St. Augustine's, I would take upon my lips some musings of 
 Archbishop Trench, which truly express my present feelings : — 
 '' What wonder, ... .if I cannot restrain 
 Some sadness, turning from these haunts away, 
 A momentary sadness, yet which brings 
 Thanksgiving with it, gratitude for this. 
 That where we live, we cannot choose but love." 
 
 HENBY BAILEY 
 
 Warden'* 8 Lodge, 
 St. Peter's Day, 1878.
 
 
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