under the authority of the convention; to pay over to the respective treasurers of the two funds first mentioned, the sums belonging to those funds respectively; and also to distribute and dis pose of the monies collected for the Diocesan Fund, according to the directions of the convention. Mr. Henry McFarlan was appointed treasurer. The Committee of the Protestant Episcopal Church for Propagating the Gospel in the State of New-York, made the following report: The Committee of the Protestant Episcopal Church for Propagating the Gospel in the State of New York, respectfully report— That the number of missionaries on their list for the past year, has been twenty-one; being as follows: 1. Buffalo, Erie county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Deodatus Babcock. 2. Granville, Washington county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Moses Burt. 3. Oxford, Chenango county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Leverett Bush. 4. Ogdensburgh, St. Lawrence county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Lawson Carter. 5. Albany and Greene counties, the Rev. Samuel Fuller. 6. Binghamton, Broome county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Ezekiel G. Gear. 7. Trenton, Oneida county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Algernon S. Hollister. 8. Batavia, Genesee county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Lucius Smith. 9. Richmond, Ontario county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. George H. Norton. 10. Oswego. Oswego county, and parts adjacent, the Rev Amos Pardee. 11. Onondaga, Onondaga county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Thomas K. Peck. 12. Unadilla, Otsego county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Marcus A. Perry. 13. Turin, Lewis county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Joshua M. Rogers. 14. Setauket and Islip, Suffolk county, the Rev. Charles Seabury. 15. Windham, Greene county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. James Thomp❤ son. 16. Cooperstown and Cherry Valley, Otsego county, the Rev. Frederick T. Tiffany. 17. Fairfield, Herkimer county, and parts adjacent, the Rev, Phineas L. Whipple. 18. Exeter, Otsego county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. Daniel Nash. 19. Oneida Indians, Mr. Solomon Davis. 20. Plattsburgh, and parts adjacent, the Rev. William Shelton. 21. Fredonia, Chatauqua county, and parts adjacent, the Rev. David Brown. The two stations last named, have been added to the list of last year, and promise to strengthen the interests of our Church in parts of the state where it has been hitherto comparatively unknown. The various salaries hitherto attached to these stations, the committee have thought best to equalize, fixing them at $125 per annum, with two exceptions, arising from peculiar causes. Among the sources of auxiliary aid, the committee feel pleasure in reporting the appropriation of $500 per annum on the part of the general government, for the support of a school to be established among the Oneida Indians, under the direction of their missionary. Also the further sum of $200, to aid in the erection of a suitable building. The numerous applications for missionary aid made to the committee during the past year, on the part of new and scattered congregations, with which they have been unable to comply, have forced strongly upon their minds the necessity of increased efforts for the enlargement of the funds appropriated to that end; and they would respectfully urge upon the convention, the adoption of such means as in their wisdom they see best fitted to render these funds more commensurate with the extent of the demands, which, from the nature of our population, and the extent of the diocese, has necessarily been made upon them. By the report of the treasurer, reference to which is hereby made, it ap pears that the total of receipts for the past year, inclusive of the balance of credit from the old account of $504 44, amounts to $3359 61, of which $279 36 is the balance on hand; while the existing engagements for the salaries of missionaries, amount to more than $900. The zeal of the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society of this city, has enlarged its annual contribution to the amount of $1250. Many thanks are due to this society for their uniform liberality, and the example they set of steady exertion in a good cause. For a detailed statement of the various missions, the committee refer to the accompanying documents, being abstracts of the reports of the missionaries, addressed to their board. All which is respectfully submitted. THOMAS LYELL, Chairman. On motion, the report of the Committee for Propagating the Gospel was accepted. The following abstracts of the reports of missionaries were then read: From the report of the Rev. David Brown, missionary at Fredonia, Chatauqua county, and parts adjacent. For the past year my labours and their fruits have not been essentially unlike those of the preceding. To the churches at Fredonia and Mayville, my services have been principally devoted. Thanks to the presiding care of our divine Master, the church at Mayville is now blessed with the stated services of the Rev. Rufus Murray, who has removed from Palmyra to this place; and devotes also a portion of his time to Jamestown, where are some friends of the Church. In consequence of this happy accession of Mr. M., I shall be enabled to appropriate more of my time to the church at Fredonia, and to give some attention to places adjacent, where the services of the Church may be blest. The baptisms and additions to the communion have not been as numerous as had been hoped. There is, however, God be thanked, no reason to despair of the good cause of the Church in this county. Its friends are daily increasing in number, and in the zeal for its prosperity. Three adults and five in fants have been baptized, and seven added to the communion. Considerable additions are expected soon to be made to both these small numbers. I have attended two marriages and five funerals. It is confidently believed, that by the divine blessing upon the labours of its ministers, the Church in this county will be found, ere long, in a respectable and flourishing condition; although it has now to contend with many difficulties. The collections for the Missionary, Episcopal, and Diocesan Funds, have been made. From the report of the Rev. William J. Bulkley, missionary at Manlius, Onondaga county, and parts adja cent. My services commenced on this station the 19th of October, 1823. Since which, making Manlius my residence, my time has been employed in that and the adjacent villages. And including those Sundays on which I exchanged with other clergymen, the return of services will be-four Sundays at Perryville, ten at Jamesville, and the remainder in the village at Manlius Square. Besides the required duties of Sunday, your missionary has given a at Jamesville, once at Chitteningo, and third service twice at Syracuse, twice twice at Nelson. I visited, on a week day, a few families scattered in the town of Fabius and Tully, held divine service, and baptized four children. In the discharge of my official duties during the year, and within the comBaptisms (adults 2, infants 12) 14— pass of my labours, there have beenMarriages 2-Funerals 2. Independently of St. Stephen's, Permunicants, of those who usually attend ryville, where there are about 36 comat Manlius, although dispersed throughout that and the neighbouring towns, :-Added the following is the account :7, removed 9, present number 65. Collected for the Missionary Fund $3 56; Diocesan Fund $750. The congregation at Manlius has suffered much of late years by removals; and such as have been, and are, most sensibly felt. From the report of the Rev. Moses Burt, Missionary in Hampton, Wash ington county, and parts adjacent. I have continued to officiate one half of the time at Hampton, and the other half at Ticonderoga, in the county of Essex, excepting when I have been prevented by sickness. I found at Ticonderoga eight in communion with the Church, and two have since been added. The number who come to the communion is between 30 and 40. The number of baptisms has been two adults and eight infants. At Hampton there has been no material change since my last report, except in the loss of two of the supporters of the Church, one having removed and the other died. One has been added to the communion, but has since removed to Connecticut. The baptisms have been six infants-Marriages 4-Funerals 5. I have been confined by severe illness the last seven weeks, and am now only beginning to convalesce, so that I am unable to attend the convention, which is also my excuse for not having made, as I intended, a collection for the Missionary Fund; three dollars have been collected for the Bishop's Fund. (To be concluded in our next.) DURING the preceding year, nothing has transpired materially differing from the statement of the last report. The labours of the board have been attended with similar success: so that, while the institution continues to sustain its original character, it yet remains a subject of regret, that its excellence and importance are regarded but with trifling interest. Briefly, the board have to state, that the increase of benefit anticipated from the additional number of subscribers to the society, has been frustrated by the discontinuance of contributions on the part of many of its former members. The number at pre sent connected with the society is 108, comprising eight life subscribers, of whom two, together with thirteen an nual subscribers, have been added during the past year. The amount of contributions received is sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, of which four dollars have been paid for printing 400 copies of the constitution, leaving the sum paid over to the parent society, fiftyeight dollars and fifty cents. It must be obvious, that this sum is by no means proportioned to what might rea sonably be expected: in comparison with the important object of its application, it is insignificant. The mighty work of bringing all to a knowledge of the gospel, is to be accomplished only by great exertions; and great exertions are most required of those who, from experience, can estimate the value of what these exer tions are to effect. Our humble institution, it is true, is wanting in the allurements adapted to win the aid of the lovers of ostentation; yet for that very reason does it commend itself the more to the pious disciple of Jesus. The charity which it calls into exer cise is of that surpassing description, whose reward is with our Father in heaven. Exclusive of the high considerations of advantage to our religion and our Church, there are motives, less important it is true, yet fraught with commend the institution to more exgratifications of the purest kind, to retended patronage. That pleasing emotion which ever accompanies the performance of a benevolent act, is here heightened by the certainty that the charity bestowed is not of questionable consequence; for this endeavour towards the discharge of our duty is nothing less than co-working with the Almighty in the progressive fulfilment of his decree, that the knowledge of himself should cover the earth, as the waters cover the channels of the deep. In the perfection of the design we are called upon to aid, is recognized the object which the wise and good in every age and nation have laboured to complete-the happiness of man. With this as the only possible consequence, inasmuch as the religion of our Saviour cannot do aught but benefit man, and with this as the certain consequence assured by the unerring word of prophecy, and the manner in which Providence is ever pleased to effectuate his designs-with this consequence resulting from their aid, they who love our God and the immortal beings of his creation, will not, cannot withhold or relax their exertions. of 1 From the National Gazette. Bishop Hobart's Sermons. Mr. Editor, MOST of your readers have remarked, that two volumes of Sermons under this title have just been published in this country, from the London edition of the same, and that they are now advertised for sale in New York and this city. As I class myself among that number of your readers who take great pleasure in the perusal of this species of literary production, and think that no other has a more important and beneficial moral effect upon society, I beg leave, through the medium of your Journal, to express my decided approbation of these volumes, and to recommend them to the attention and perusal my fellow citizens. The Bishop, in these discourses, has comprised a large portion of that kind of religious instruction which is the most useful in the effect which it produces upon a christian audience. He seems to keep steadily in view the only legitimate and great end of preaching, the spiritual edification and moral improvement of mankind-the strain of thought in which he indulges is truly evangelical; his language is pure, chaste, and neat; his imagination is rich and fertile in legitimate embellishments, but seldom if ever runs into the excess of gaudy ornament; his views of divinity are clear and comprehensive; his doctrines always sound and well digested. If there be one property in these performances which distinguishes them above that of all others, it is that of uncommon perspicuity of style-his style is also natural, easy, unaffected, and inartificial-his whole manner of writing, as we know that of his delivery to be, is without artifice, grave, solemn, and impressive. A vein of ardent and genuine piety runs through From the Gospel Advocate. 1. Christ Church is one of the most ancient, and not one of the least striking or beautiful of the religious edifices in Philadelphia. So early as 1710, a wooden church stood on the site of the present building, which was begun in 1727. It is 90 feet long, and 60 feet wide. The steeple (for a long time the only one in the city) is a very graceful piece of architecture. It is 190 feet high, and has a ring of eight bells. 2. St. Peter's Church is at the corner of Pine and Third streets, and was built in 1761. It is 90 feet in length, and 60 in breadth. 3. St. James's Church was built in 1809. It is 90 feet in length, and 60 in breadth-situated in Seventh-street, between Market and Arch streets.Christ, St. Peter's, and St. James's, are united under the rectorship of the bishop, the venerable Dr. White. The assistant ministers are Dr. Abercrombie, and the Rev. Messrs. Kemper and De Lancey. 4. St. Paul's Church is situated between Walnut and Spruce streets, and was built in the year 1762. It is 90 feet in length, and 60 in breadth. The present rector is the Rev. Mr. Allen. 5. St. John's Church has been built but a few years, and is situated in the Northern Liberties. The exterior of this edifice is very imposing. It is constructed of brick, with two lofty_columns and a portico in front. The Rev. George Boyd is rector. 6. St. Stephen's Church was consecrated in 1823. It stands in Tenthstreet, between Chesnut and Market streets. Its extreme length, from east to west, is 102 feet. It is built in the Gothic style, and is one of the most perfect specimens of architecture in this country. The western front presents two octangular towers, eighty-six feet high, but which are intended to be still higher. The pulpit and chancel are highly finished, and the general appearance, on entering the church, is in the highest degree impressive. The windows are embellished with cherubim in stained glass, imported from England. The Rev. Mr. Montgomery is rector. 7. St. Andrew's Church is situated between Locust and Spruce streets, and was consecrated in 1823. The character of the edifice is Grecian. The front is intended to be a copy of the portico of the Temple of Bacchus at Teos. The interior of the building is of a similar character of architecture, and is highly decorated. A spire, the foundation of which is laid, is to be added to the western end of the building. The whole length of the church, including the spire, is 130 feet, and its breadth is 65 feet. The Rev. Mr. Bedell is rector. 8. Trinity Church is a neat brick building. The interior is plain, but in good taste. It is situated on the south side of Catharine-street, between Second and Third streets. The Rev. Mr. Ives is rector. 9. St. Matthew's Church is situated in that part of the city called Francisville, in the north-western suburb. It is a neat brick building, and was consecrated in 1824. 10. St.Thomas's Church (African) is situated on the west side of Fifth-street, between Walnut and Prune streets. Erasmus's Greek Testament. A London paper of the 2d of June last says, "Erasmus's far-famed Greek Testament on vellum, printed at Basil 1519, in which edition Erasmus omitted the celebrated verse, in St. John's Epistles,respecting the three heavenly witnesses, was pur chased yesterday at Evans's, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, for 1401. (about 640 dollars.) Sir Mark Sykes bought this book in Holland for 301: there is but one other copy of it known to exist on vellum, and that is in the cathedral at York. Sir Mark Sykes manifested so ardent a disposition to possess this volume, that previously to his fortunate purchase abroad, he is said to have offered the Archbishop and the Dean and Chapter of York, one thousand guineas for their copy, which they refused. Mr. Thorpe the bookseller, was the Archbishop of Canterbury's powerful compe titor. Medals found in France. The excavations for antiquities at Famars were resumed on the 23d of August, in the orchard of the chateau. The most interesting discoveries made in these buildings were, a small statue of Minerva in bronze, clasps of the same metal very well executed, and two ivory combs of curious workmanship. On the 25th of Sept. bours with a degree of success beyond the a very precious discovery crowned the lamost sanguine hopes: at the foot of the main wall which encloses the Hypocausta, discovered in 1813, there were found two bronze vases filled with silver medals, The first, of a round form, and covered' second, of a more elliptical shape, and furwith a bronze patrea, contained 3920; the nished with a handle, contained 2658; and 3377 were found in a third vase of an elegant form, and which was preserved whole. These coins, which were in excellent preThe total number of silver medals is 9955. servation, are from the age of Augustus to that of Constantius. A considerable number, especially the more recent, are as brilliant as if they had just come from the mint. Cold in North-Carolina. A gold mine has been discovered on the land of Mr. Barringer, near the source of Long Creek, North-Carolina. It was found on the side of a hill, between two strata of slate stone, and consists of a mixture of gold dust and sand. It was supposed that Mr. B. had already collected gold to the value of fifteen thousand dollars. In Cabarrus county, a single lump of gold was found weighing 27lbs.! It is said that one lump of more than four, and another of more than three pounds weight, had also been found. Large Ship. The ship of the line of the American navy now building at Philadelphia, is said to be on an improved, plan; her stern being made round, and planked in a similar way to the prow, which it is said adds to the strength of the ship, and gives a de cided advantage in battle over ships with a square stern. She will be rated at 120 guns, but will probably mount 150. Such are the mighty engines of destruction!— but, with God's blessing, we hope in this way long to preserve peace to our beloved country. - The Logan Stone replaced. In our last volume, page 288, a notice is inserted of the removal from its place of this celebrated stone. The Christian Observer for December thus notices the replacing of the same:"Lieutenant Goldsmith, the naval officer who lately displaced the celebrated Logan Stone in Cornwall, has succeeded in restoring it to its former position, where it oscillates as before its removal." |