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PREFACE
In issuing our annual volume of reports and statistics once more, we rejoice tliat we are able to sound a note of optimism regarding Canadian Congregationalism. It would seem that for tlie last few years eacli succeeding year has been the best. The record that follows is a record of the attaining of freedom for many churches. Difficulties still confront us, and for those ready for discouragement, there are many things to discourage. We believe, however, that the outlook has not been so bright for years. It devolves upon us to be hopeful, self-reliant, and persistent. A new era is before us for Canadian Congrega- tionalism if we will but arise and enter into our heritage, we must look forward to this as a year given over to the inspiring of faith in one another and in the Congregational Ideal. It is only thus that we can prepare ourselves for the mission God has given us to fulfil.
The editor desires to acknowledge the ready assistance ren- dered byNall, and the promptness with which the officers of the various societies have forwarded their copy. He has endeavor- ed to follow to the fullest extent the instructions under which the y.ear book is now issued. The plans for reorganization, al- ready begun, will soon require an enlarging of the scope of the year book, and an extension of the editorial power as regards subject matter. Meanwhile, every effort has been made to make the pages that follow broadly representative of the entire Canadian Congregational work.
Toronto, July 12th, 1906.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface 3
Congregational Institutions 4
Congregational Churches in Canada and Newfoundland 8
Congregational Ministers in Canada and Newfoundland 9
Congregational Records for Canada 11
The Congregational Union of Canada (for new name see
minutes) 21
Constitution 22
Churches connected with 27
Ministerial Members 30
Record of Meetings 28, 29
Minutes of Annual Meeting 32
Financial Statement 65
Summary of Statistics , 67
The Western Association (Ontario) 92
The Toronto District Association 93
The Quebec Association 94
The Canada Congregational Missionary Society 96
Constitution 98
Minutes of Annual Meeting 103
Annual Reports, Contributions, etc 105
The Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society 130
Constitution 131
Minutes of Annual Meeting 134
Annual Reports, Contributions, etc 136
The Congregational College of Canada 155
By-Laws 158
Minutes of Annual Meeting 162
Annual Reports, Contributions, etc 164
The Congregational Provident Fund Society 185
Minutes of Annual Meeting 187
Annual Reports and Financial Statements 187
The Canada Congregational Women's Board of Missions 194
Annual Meeting 195
The Congregational Publishing Company 198
Annual Meeting 199
Report of Financial Statement 202
The Congregational Union of N.S. and N.B 204
Minutes of Annual Meeting 206
The Women's Board of N.S. and N.B 215
Annual Meeting 216
Congregational Churches in Manitoba, British Columbia and
Newfoundland 219, 221
Church Letters 222
Statistical Tables , 226
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CONGREGATIONAL INSTITUTIONS— 1906-1907.
CANADA.
Congregational Union of Canada (formerly of Ontario and Quebec) — Chairman for 1906, Rev. J. B. Silcox, '62 Gloucester St., Toronto; Chairman for 1907, Rev. W. T. Gunn, M.A., B.D., Embro, Ont. ; Secretary, Rev. J. T. Daley, B.A., Maxville, ,Ont.
Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick— Chairman for 1906, Rev. George M. Whyte, Sheffield, N.B.; Chairman for 1907, Rev W. S. Pritcbard, B.D., St. John, N.B.; Secretary, Rev. J. W. Cox, B.A., Truro, N. S.
Canadian Northwest Congregational Association — Chairman, Rev. Merten Smith, Vancouver, B.C. ; Secretary, Rev. John Simpson, 1065 Pacific Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Congregational College or Canada, Montreal — Princi- pal, Rev. E. Munson Hill, M.A., D.D. Montreal; Treasurer, Thomas Moodie', 30 St. John St., Montreal; Secretary, Alex. McA. Murphy, 43 Jurors St., Montreal.
Canada Congregational Missionary Society — President, Mr. Charles Cushing, Montreal; Secretary, Rev. Wm. Mcin- tosh, Ottawa; Treasurer, Mr. Charles R. Black, Bank of To- ronto Chambers, Montreal.
Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society — President, Rev. T. B. Hyde, Toronto; Secretary, Rev. D. 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.
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Woman's Board of Missions, N.S. and N.B. — Honorary President, Mrs. A. Jenkins, Yarmoutli, N.S.; President, Mrs. Collins, Brooklyn, N.S. ; 1st Vice-President, Mrs. Hutchinson, Milton, N.S.; 2nd Vice-President, Mrs. J. A. Rose, Pleasant River, N.S. ; 3rd Vice-President, Mrs. Edwards, Yarmoutli, N.S.; Secretary, Miss Ida Barker, Sheffield Academy, N.B.; Treasurer, Miss F. Robertson, St. John, N.B. ; Superintend- ent, Mission Bands, Miss Mary Mitchell, Keswick Ridge, N.B.
Congregational Provident Fund Society — Chairman, Chas. R. Black, Esq., Montreal; Secretary, H. J. Ross, Esq., 180 St. James St., Montreal; Treasurer, Thomas Moodie, Esq., 30 St. John St., Montreal.
Congregational Publishing Company — President^ H. O'Hara, Toronto; Secretary, H. W. Barker, 12 Simpson Ave., Toronto; Treasurer, Dr. Chas. J. Copp, Toronto; Editor of Canadian Congregationalist and Year Booh, Rev. W. E. Gil- roy, (Successor to be appointed.)
GREAT BRITAIN.
Congregational Union of England and AVales — Secre- tary, Rev. R. J. Wells, Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., Lon- don, England.
Colonial Missionary Society — Secretary, Rev. D. Bur- ford Hooke, Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., London, England.
London Missionary Society — Foreign Secretaries, Rev. R. Wardlaw Thompson and Rev. George Cousins; Office, 16 New Bridge Street, E. C, London, England.
London Union of Congregational Churches — Secretary, Rev. Andrew Mearns, Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., Lon- don, England.
Congregational Union of Scotland — Secretary, Rev. C. Richardson, M.A., 44 Queen's Drive, Crosshill, Glasgow.
Congregational Union of Ireland — Secretary, Rev. James Lyon, Carrickfergus.
INSTITUTIONS AND RRCORDS.
UNITED STATES.
National Council of the Congregational Churches of THE United States — Moderator, Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Columbus, 0., Secretary, Rev. AsKer Anderson, Con- gregational House, Boston, Mass.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- sions, Congregational House, Boston — Treasurer, Frank H. Wiggin; Publishing and Purchasing Agent, John G. Hosmer; Office in New York, Fourth Ave. and Twenty-Second St. ; in Chicago, 153 La Salle St.
The Congregational Home Missionary Society, Fourth Ave. and 22nd St., New York, N.Y. — Editorial Secretary, Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D. ; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Washington Choate, D.D. ; Associate Secretary, Don. 0. Shelton.
The Congregational Sunday School and Publishing »So- ciety, Congregational House, Boston — President, Willard Scott, D.D. ; Secretary, F. K. Sanders, Ph.D. ; Treasurer, Phineas Hubbard.
Congregational Education Society — Corresponding Secretary, Edward S. Tead; Treasurer, S. F. Wilkins. Of- fices, 612, 613 Congregational House, Boston: 151 Washington St., Chicago, 111.
The Congregational Church Building Society, Aids in building churches and parsonages. — Secretary, Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D. ; Treasurer, Charles E. Hope, 105 East 22nd St., New York, N.Y.
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES IN CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND.
Alton, Ont
Ayer's Cliff, Que.
Baker's Settlement,
(Pleasant River P.O.) N.S.
Barrie, Ont.
Beach Meadows, N.S.
Belwood, Ont.
Bowmanville, Ont.
Brandon, Man.
Brantford, Ont.
Brigham, Que.
Brooklyn, N.S.
Burford, Ont.
Carlton Union, (Park- side P.O., Sask.)
Chebogue, N. S.
Churchill, Ont.
Cobourg, Ont.
Cold Springs, Ont.
Cowansville, Que.
Dalston, Ont.
Danville, Que.
Eaton, Que.
Economy, N. S.
Edgar, Ont.
Embro, Ont.
Fergus, Ont.
Fitch Bay, Que.
Forest, Ont., Central
Forest, Ont., Lake Shore
Fortune Bay, Nfld.
Franklin Centre, Que.
Frome, Ont.
Garafraxa, Ont.
Georgetown, Ont.
Granby, Que.
Guelph, Ont.
Hamilton, Ont., First " Emmanuel
Hemford, N. S.
Highland Park, Alta.
Hopetown, Ont.
Howick, Ont.
Humber Summit, Ont.
Keswick Ridge, N.B.
Kincardine, Ont.
Kingsport, N.S.
Kingston, Ont., First Bethel " Calvary
Lake Shore, Ont. (Forest P.O.)
Lanark, Ont.
Lewesville, Alta.
Listowel, Ont.
Little Bay East, Nfld.
Liverpool, N.S.
London, Ont., First " Southern
Lower Selmah
Maitland, South, N.S
Margaree, N.S. ,
Maxville, Ont.
Melbourne, Que.
Middleville, Ont.
Milltown, N.B.
Milton, N.S.
Montreal, Que., Calvary " Emmanuel
" Point Stj
^ Xharles
Montreal, Que., Beth- lehem (Westmount.)
Montreal, Zion
" Amherst Pk.
New Durham, Ont.
Noel, N.S.
Nelson, B.C.
Ottawa, Ont., First " Welcome-Zion
Paris, Ont.
Plvmpton, Ont., (Forest P.O.)
Pleasant River, N.S. Pine Grove, Ont. Random, Nfld. Renwick, Ont. Rosetta, Ont. Rugby, Ont. Scotland, Ont. Sheffield, N.B. Sherbrooke, Que. Speedside, Ont. Stanstead South, Que. Stratford, Ont. St. Andrews, Que. St. Catharines, Ont. St. John, N.B. St. John's Nfld. Tilbury, Ont. Toronto, Ont., Bond St.
" Broadview
" Immanuel
" Northern
" Olivet.
" Parkdale
" Western
" Zion Truro, N.S. Twillingate, Nfld. Ulverton, (Durham)
Que. Vancouver, B.C., Knox
" First
Victoria, B.C. Warwick, Ont., Ebe- nezer, (Forest P.O.) " Zion Watford, Ont. Waterville, Que. Winnipeg, Man., Cen- tral Wetaskiwin, Alta. Woodstock, Ont. Yarmouth, N.S.
*ror ministers in charge and other information consult
)f this^'olume^ .
the statistical tables to be found at the back of thisj'olume.
INSTITUTIONS AND RECORDS.
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CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND.
Alexander, J. L., Granby, Que. Anthony, S. W., Milton, N.S. Baker, W. E., Chebogue, N. S. *Baker, W. M., Woodstock,
Ont. Ball, G. W., Liverpool, N.S. *Barker, Enoch, 12 SimpsoE
Ave., Toronto. Barron, Robt., Lower Selmah
N.S. *Billington, Jas., Stanstead.
Que. *Black, Robert K. , Granby,
Que. *Black, J. R., B.A., Kingston
Ont. *Bolton, Chas. E., Scotland
Ont. Brown, J. L., Snowflake, Man. Carson, H. A., B.A., 32 Rae
St., Victoria, B.C. Claris, C. C, Edgar, Ont. Claris, W. H. A. 343 Maitland
St., London, Ont. *Coburn, D., Kingsport, N.S. Collins, William, Brooklyn,
N.S. Cox, Jacob W., B.A., Truro,
N. S. *Creelman, Harlan, Ph.D.,
Congregational College,
Montreal. Currie, Walter T., B.A.,
African Mission, 90 Ger-
rard St. E., Toronto. Craik, Galen H., B.A., Water-
ville, Que. Daley, J. T., B.A., Maxville,
Ont. Day, Benjamin W., St. An- drews, Que. *Day, Frank J., B.A. B.D., Drysdale, R. J., Georgetown,
Ont. Gerrie, John P., B.A. Strat- ford Ont.
Gordon, J. L., 366 Hargrave St., Winnipeg, Man.
Gunn, William T., M.A., B.D., Embro, Ont.
Gilroy, W. E., B.A., 10 With- row Ave. , Toronto.
Hall, Thos., Island Pond (Ver- mont.)
Hay, Robert., Watford, Ont
Hamilton, D. S., B.A., 428 Duf- ferin Ave., London, Ont.
Harvey, W. R., Stanstead, Que.
Harris, P. C. L., Guelph. Ont.
*Hill, E. Munson, D.D., Con- gregational College, Mon- treal.
Hipkin, W., Bowmanville, Ont.
*Holman, E. H. H.
Horsev, Harold L, Ottawa.
Hyde,' T. B., 64 Isabella St., Toronto.
Hutchison, J. J., Brigham, Que.
Kelly, Matthew, Watford, Ont. , Lewis, J. R., Chebogue, N. S. ^*Lowes, Geo. A., (special evangelist), 203 Margueret- ta St., Toronto.
*Macallum, Daniel, Kingston, Ont.
Macallum, F. W., B.A., Turkey Mission.
Macauley, A., Middleville, Ont.
Main, Arthur W., Pt. St. Charles, Que.
Margrett, Albert, Cobourg, Ont.
Marshall, W. H. L., Frome, Ont.
Middleton, Jas., Fortune Bay, Nfid.
Morris, W. T., Saltcoats, Man.
*Morton, John, Hamilton.
*McQuaig, Joseph A. C, To- ronto.
McCormick, A., Hamilton, Ont.
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
Mcintosh, William, 285 Mc-
Leod St., Oituwa. Mcintosh, D. C, B.D., Lan- ark, Ont. MacDermott, H. J. A., Fortune
Bay Nfld. Mackenzie, Geo. A., Kingston,
Ont. *McKillican, John, Montreal,
Que. McLean, Thomas D., Mill- town, N.B. Moore, Churchill, Keswick
Ridge, N. B. Munro, T. A., B.A., Brandon,
Man. Munroe, W., 285 Clarke Ave.,
Westmount, Montreal. Pedley, Hugh. B. A., 177
Drummond St., Montreal. Pedley, James W., B.A., 23
Harbord St., Toronto. Pedley, C. S., B.A., Aver's
CliflF, Que. Pedley, Hilton, B.A., Japan
Mission. *Pegrum, Robert. Persen, B. T., Wetaskiwin,
Alta. Pollock, A. F., B.D., Danville,
Que. Pritchard, W. S., B.D., St.
John, N.B. *Purdon, D. W., Kingsport,
N.S. Read, George E., Sherbrooke,
Que. Rice, H. G., B.D., 491 G. St.
Urbain St., Montreal. *Richardson, A. W., M.D.,
Kingston, Ont. *Robinson, Robert, Woodstock,
Ont. *Routliffe, C. H., Hamilton,
Ont. Rumball, E. A., Little Bay
East,, Nfld. Rose, Edwin, Westmore, (Ver- mont.) Rose, I. A., Pleasant River,
N.S.
Salmon, John, B.A., Toronto. Sanden, G. A., Wetaskiwin,
Alta. *Scherk, A. B., 23 Saliaoury
Ave., Toronto. Schrag, Astor R., Alton, Ont. Silcox, Edwin D., 31 St. Vin- cent St., Toronto. Silcox, J. B., 32 Gloucester
St., Toronto. Simpson, John, 1065 Pacific
St., Vancouver, B.C. Skerrett, J. L., Woodstock,
Ont. Smith, Merton, Central Park,
Vancouver, B.C. Smith, W. W., St. Catharines,
Ont. Stacey, W. H., Melbourne Ave.,
Toronto. Stranahan, W. S., Hamilton,
Ont. *Sykes, Simeon, Frederickton,
N.B. Thomas, H. F., M.A., yz Col- lier St., Toronto. Thackeray, Jos., St. Johns,
Nfld. Tippett, E. H., B.A., 25 Sus- sex St., Montreal. *Unsworth, Joseph, Toronto. Unsworth, Joseph K., B.A.,
Hamilton, out. *Warriner, W. H., D.D., 7
Shuter St., Montreal. Watt, R. G., B.D., Melbourne,
Que. Watson, W. H., Cowansville,
Que. Whitmore, H. D., Random,
Nfld. Whvte, George M., Sheffield,
N.B. Wilson, J. S., Margaree, N.S. Windross, T. B., Kingston,
Ont. *Youtz, Herbert A., Ph.D.,
Congregational College,
Montreal. *Not in pastoral office.
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CONGREGATIONAL RECORDS FOR CANADA.
RESIGNATIONS.
Rev. Geo. A. Lowes, from Calvary Church, Kingston, to become Union evangelist, August, 1905.
Rev. A. B. Ross, from Frome, Ont., Fall of 1905.
Rev. W. H. L. Marshall, from Speedside, Oct., 1905.
Rev. C. E. Bolton, from Scotland, Ont., Nov. 1905. Took effect Feb. 1st, 1906.
Rev, D. M. Solandt, from First Church, Kingston, Feb., 1906.
Rev. John Pate, from Fitch Bay, Que., to take effect April 30th, 1906. Mr. Pate has entered the M. E. Church in the dnited States.
Rev. L. Leggette, from Burford, Ont., to take effect April 30th, 1906.
Rev. D. W. Pur don, from Kingsport, N.S., after 49 years of service, June, 1906.
Rev. F. B. Harrison, from Brantford, Ont., to take effect at end of Aug., 1906.
Rev. W. E. Gilroy, B.A., from Broadview Ave. Churcii, Toronto, and from the editorship of ' The Canadian Congrega- tionalist,' and 'Year Book,' July 1906.
CALLS.
Rev. Herbert A. Youtz, B.A., Ph.D., to the chair of Sys- tematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, in the Congrega- tional College of Canada. Accepted and duties undertaken at the beginning of the Fall term.
Rev. J. L. Skerrett, of Glasgow, Scotland, to Woodstock. Accepted and work begun in Aug. 1905.
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Eev. W. H. L. Marshall, to Frome, Oct., 1905. Accepted.
Rev. John Pate, to Fitch Bay, Que., Oct., 1905. Ac- cepted.
Rev. Robt. Barron, formerly of Belfast, Ireland, to Lower Selmah. Accepted.
Rev. L. A. Edwards, formerly of Winthrop, N.T., to Yarmouth, N.S. Accepted.
Rev. T. Windros, to Calvary Church, Kingston. Accept- ed, Sept., 1905.
Rev. W. Herald Stacey, to Parkdale Church, Toronto, Nov., 1905. Accepted.
Rev. H. F. Thomas, M.A., to Barrie, March, 1906. De- clined.
Rev. T. Leggette, to Bryant, S.D., April, 1906. Ac- cepted.
Rev. F. B. Harrison, to Townsend, Mass. Accepted.
Rev. W. E. Gilroy, B.A., to Brantford. Accepted. Past- orate to commence Jan. 1st, 1907.
Rev. Chas. J. Villiers, of Old Lyme, Conn., U.S.A., to Kingston First, June, 1906.
SPECIAL EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS.
Among our visitors from the Old World was Dr. W. F. Adeney, of Lancashire College, Manchester, Eng., the noted author and preacher, whose visits at Paris and Zion, Toronto, in August, 1905, were a means of inspiration.
Rev. W. J. Dawson, D.D., conducted a three-days' mis- sion in Toronto, Oct., SO-Nov. 1st, 1905. Dr. Dawson's visit was without much previous preparation, but proved effective in arousing a deeper interest in evangelism.
Rev. W. T. and Mrs. Currie returned home from Chis- amba. West Central Africa, on furlough, Oct., 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Currie subsequently visited our association and Union meetings and many of our churches, their presence and their
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words resulting in increased missionary impulse and activity everywhere they went.
Rev. Principal George, of Chicago, was the guest of the Montreal Congregational Club, at its first banquet of the sea- son, Oct. 27th, 1905. The theme of his address was, 'The Training of a Minister.'
Rev. E. C. Woodlej^ M.A., Principal-elect of London Mission College, Calcutta, India, and a former graduate of the C. C. C, was a visitor in Montreal during the Winter, having returned with Mrs. Woodley, who was in ill-health.
Organization of a branch Sunday School as a nucleus of new work by First Church, Hamilton, Aug., 1905. Dedication of new school-house, May 8th, 1906.
Re-opening of Brigham Church, Que., after extensive re- pairs and refitting, Oct. 1st, 1905.
Emmanuel, Montreal, secured a new lot in the Fall of 1905, and began plans for the erection of a fine new edifice, clear of all debt.
The Joint-Committees of the United Brethren in Christ, and of the Union of Ontario and Quebec, met at Hamilton, Nov. 23rd, 1905, and agreed upon the basis of union later ratified at Embro.
The Toronto Congregational Club, organized Nov., 1905. Officers : President, H. O'Hara, Esq. ; Vice-presidents, Rev. J. B. Silcox and W. Woodley, Esq.; Secretary, D. 0. Wood, Esq. ; Treasurer, H. B. Donovan, Esq. The Club started with 44 charter members and held an exceedingly successful ban- quet on Forefathers' Day, Dec, 21st, 1905.
Mr. J. J. Hutchison, a graduate of the C.C.C., was or- dained at Brigham, April 20th, 1906.
Rev. R. K. Black, of Granby, celebrated his 80th birth- day on Feb. 2nd, 1906, amid the congratulations of his friends. Another veteran, Rev. D. Macallum, of Kingston, also at- tained his 80th year during the Embro meetings.
Rev. Ernest R. Weeks visited Canada during the Summer of 1906-, in behalf of the Colonial Missionary Society.
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OBITUARY.
Mrs. Charles Harvie, died on April 14tli, 1905, in her 83rd year. Since 1890 she has lived in Orillia, and has attended the Presbyterian Church there. She was throughout her life, how- ever, a loyal Congregationalist, having been a charter member of the Rubgy Church from 1844. An unbroken family of- six sons and two daughters survive her. Mrs. Chisnal, of Ottawa, is a grandchild. Particulars of Mrs. Harvie's death were not jat hand for our last Year Book. She was one of many pioneers whose decease is mentioned in this year's record.
Mr. Jonathan Stephens, of Bowmanville, died on Aug. 24th, 1905, in his 88th year. Mr. Stephens was a pioneer set- tler, having come from England in 1832. He was one of the most ardent friends and supporters of the church ever since- its formation, and, until hindered by sickness, was seldom absent from its services. He died honored and respected by all.
Mrs. Samuel Evans, of Forest, passed away in Sept., 1905, after a brief illness. Mrs. Evans was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Hetherington, of Gladwin, Mich., formerly of Plympton. Her death took place on her 38th birthday, leav- ing to the care of her husband one son and two daughters. She was a loving wife and tender mother, and her loss was greatly mourned by the community.
Miss Elizabeth McDougall, at Maxville, Oct. 13th, 1905, in her 54th year. In her death the Maxville Church sustained a very great loss. She was a diligent Bible student, and ready and active in Christian work at all times. For some years she had taken an especial interest in the work of the Christian Missionary Alliance.
Capt. Byron A. Abbott, died at Yarmouth, N. S., Oct. 15th, 1905, in his 59th year. He was born at Barton, Digby County, and during his long residence in Yarmouth was con- nected with the Ccyigregational Church there, being one of its principal supporters. He left a widow and six children to mourn his loss. Capt. Abbott died of yellow fever, contracted while in pursuance of his duty as a seaman. He was uni- versally esteemed.
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Mr. Benjamin Johnston, of Franklin Centre, passed to his final reward Oct. 29th, 1905. Deacon Johnston was in his 85th year. He was a citizen held in high esteem, and had been for many years a deacon.
Mr. Robert V. Hay, second son of Rev. Robert Hay, of Watford. Deceased was in his 38th year and had suffered with lung trouble for sornp. time. Death occurred in the latter part of Oct., 1905. Revs. M. Kelly and J. P. Gerrie conducted the funeral services.
Mr. Archibald Bell, a member of the Kincardine Church from the time of its organization, and for over thirty years secretary-treasurer. Though unable to attend the services for the last few years the welfare of the church was ever upper- most in his heart. He died in Oct. 1905, in his 87th year, hav- ing come to Canada when it was still an almost unbroken forest.
Mrs. James Cockburn passed peacefully away at her home in Edgar, Oct. 31st, 1905, in her 70th year. She had been a consistent member of the Edgar Church for some years and bore a long illness with such patience and resignation that her clos- ing days of life were a benediction to all who visited her.
Mr. William Edgar, of First Church, Hamilton, passed away in Nov. 1905, in his 85th year. Mr. Edgar came from Annan, having come under religious influences during the movement of evangelicalism^ in in Scotland about the middle of last century. For forty years he had been connected with First Church, having been formerly for a long time dea- con, treasurer, and S.S. Superintendent. To the last he was a great helper. '' His was a Petrine nature, impulsive, gen- erous."
Mr. Frank Maxwell, of First Church, Hamilton, also passed away in Nov. 1905. Younger than Mr. Edgar, being in his 66th year, he also had had his spiritual awakening in Scotland, having "sat under" Dr. Morrison, in Glasgow. Rev. John Morton bore high tribute to him in the service at the home. Mr. Maxwell had been a trusted officer as treasurer and
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deacon. Rev. Robert Hopkin, formerly of Westmount, is a son-in-law of deceased.
Mr. Isaac, a faithful member of First Church, London. He had been very regular in attendance upon duties till the last few years, and was throughout faithful to his trust. Nov., 1905.
Mr. Charles Alexander, at his home in Montreal, Nov. 5th, 1905. Deceased was in his 90th year and had been for many years a member of Emmanuel Church. He was born in Dundee, Scotland, and came to Canada in 1840. Here he pros- pered greatly in business and availed himself of his success to become a power in educational, philanthropic and all forms of Christian activity in his chosen city. The universal esteem in which he was held was evidenced by the fact that His Grace Archbishop Bond attended the service in Emmanuel Church, and bore his tribute to the deceased as a life-long friend and associate in good work. Among the many benevolent bequests in his will the various funds in connection with our denomina- tional work were well remembered. His life was a great ex- ample of practical religion.
Mrs. Martha Bowman, whose death occurred Nov. 10th, 1905, after a painful illness, was a member of Olivet Church, Toronto, for 18 years. She was in her 79th year, and came originally from London, Eng. with the family of Mr. and Mrs. Smiley, with whom she lived for over 41 years. She was great- ly beloved both in the home and by her fellow church mem- bers, and was in all her ways a humble, devoted Christian.
Mr. F. Northey, who with his family had been closely connected with Southern Church, London, ever since its be- ginning, met death Dec. 19th, 1905, being instantly killed by a fall from a scaffold. A memorial service was held in the church on the following Sunday.
Mr. Samuel G. Moore, of Economy Point, N.S., died of heart failure in his 71st year. For a number of years he ac- ceptably filled the office of deacon in the Presbyterian Church, and in 1878 was elected to a similar office in the Congregation-
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al Church organized about that time. He continued on the diaconate for 27 years, and was in all things faithful. He was a man of deep religious convictions and of tender, evangelical spirit,
Mrs. John Lukes, a faithful member of Zion, Toronto, for many years, and for 69 years a resident of York County, pass- ed away Jan. 30th, 1906. She was a woman of cheerful, Christian character.
Mr. Edward Bates, of First Church, Hamilton, died in Feb., 1906. His death leaves vacant a place in the church that was seldom so while he lived. " He was a man who liked best to serve in a quiet way, his consistent Christian life testi- fying to the sincerity of his faith." He was a devoted hus- band and a loving father.
Mrs. Cecilia Mayhew, passed away at Renforth, Ont., Feb. 12, 1906, in her 80th year. She was a life-long Con- gregationalist, having been connected with the "old mud meeting house" in Glanford, during the pastorate of Eevs. W. H. Allworth and McGill. Since this church was closed thirty years ago, Mrs. Mayhew has worshipped with the Methodists. She remained a Congregationalist, however, and has kept in touch with our churches through the columns of 'The Canadian Congregationalist,' which she has read ever since it was first published over fifty years ago. Her husband, with whom she came to Canada in 1849, died in 1886. She was a kind-heart- ed and affectionate mother and is survived by a family of five sons and two daugthers.
Mr. Orson Streeter, a member of Granby Church, died in March, 1906. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. R. K. Black.
Mrs. W. Wallace, of First Church, London, passed away in March, 1906. She was a woman whose cheerful disposition had gladdened many during the number of years she was a member.
Mrs. Deuney, widow of the late Robert Deuney, died at Churchill, on March 12th, 1906, in her 84th year. She was
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quite active up to within a few montlis of her death and passed away in full fruition of a life of usefulness. She had been a faithful attendant and worker in the church for sixty years.
Mr. James McClellan, of Alton, died on March 13th, 1906, in his 86th year. He joined the church when a young man of 23, only five years after its organization. He had been honor- ed with various offices, and was finallj' appointed senior dea- con. He strongly supported the church with both substance and service, and also remembered the church and the C.C.M.S. by bequests in his will.
Mr. Henry Gibbons, for many years a faithful member of Broadview Church, Toronto, passed peacefully away in April, 1906, after several months' illness. Mr. Gibbons had been a trustee and a deacon. He was very regular in attendance, and though quiet and reserved by nature, his religious earnestness was such as to force expression. The last prayer meeting he attended will long be remembered by his friends in the church. He inquired much regarding the future life and God is now teaching him.
Mr. George Lowers, a member of First Church, Hamilton, died suddenly in April, 1906. He was most conscientious in the discharge of his daily duties and was taken away in the midst of their performance.
Mr. William Long, for many years a deacon in the church at Keswick Ridge, N.B., was stricken suddenly while at work on April 27th, 1906, and died the same night. De- ceased was in his 74th year and was a very earnest Christian. He will be greatly missed.
Miss Florence Bolton, of Scotland, was called home on May 11th, 1906. She had gone to Paris, Out., to recuperate after an illness of several months and was in hope of recover- ing when death came after a few hours' warning. She was in her 15th year and had joined the church in 1904. She hoped to become a missionary and was already a scatterer of the seeds of kindness. Deceased was a daughter of Rev. C. E. Bolton.
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Mr. William H. Arnold, of Watford Church, met death suddenly in May, 1906. While engaged at his work as section- man, he was run down by a train and instantly killed. He is survived by a widow and three young sons.
Mrs. (Rev.) Robert Hay, also of Watford Church was pre- pared for her passing by a long illness in which she suffered much. For some years she had been an invalid, though her death in May, 1906, came suddenly at last. " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
Miss Maggie Hart, a young woman of 19 years, also of Edgar was called home in May, 1906, after a short illness. She joined the church about three j'ears ago and had been a faithful worker in all its departments..
Mr. Edward Spencer, one of the oldest members at Frank- lin Centre, Que., passed away May 12th, 1906, in his 89th year. " His genial presence is greatly missed."
Mr. David Beath, of Edgar, passed peacefully away at his home on May 31st, 1906, in his 54th year. He was an active member of the church, whose seat was never vacant at the regular services.
Mr. Martin Murphy, of Churchill, who was preparing to enter McGiU University with a view to our Congregational ministry, was called in June, 1906, to the higher service. He was a young man of sterling character and his loss is deeply mourned.
Mrs. F. Hayes, whose funeral took place on June 15th from Southern Church, London, was for years a beloved worker in the Sunday School and an earnest church worker. For some months she had been a patient sufferer till death came to her release.
Etheline Fox, a bright little member of Broadview Ave. Sunday School, Toronto, died in June, after a brief illness. She was 8 years old, and being an only child, her death brought great sadness in the home and in the church.
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Another veteran of the Old Guard of Maritime Congregj^- tional has left the ranks of the church militant to receive his commission in the church triumphant, in the person of Charles H. Whitman, who died on Monday, 16th inst, after a prolong- ed illness. For half a century he has been interested in the progress of our work and even in these latter days, when suf- fering, called out all his saintly fortitude, Mr. Whitman's keenest interest centered in the affairs of the denomination and especially of the Milton and Liverpool Churches, where lor years he delighted to spend and be spent. Now in his 83rd j-ear God has called him home. His was thiat pioneer work too often unrecognized — of superintending the Sunday School and giving gladly the labor of his hands as a faithful sexton. It was his missionary enterprise and his voluntary labor that founded the station at Black's Point, N.S., and constructed the m.eetfi3g place there. To him, too, was largely due the found- ing of the Woman's Board of jST.S. and N.B. For years he served our churches as treasurer of the Maritime Union. Oh! the richness and undying influence of such a life of unassum- ing nobility. " Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Resolutely let us pay our tribute of well merited respect to his memory and thank God, who raises up such men whose unpre- tentious lives are a living benediction. Our hearefelt sym- pathy goes out to his widow and daughter in their affliction.
THE
CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF CANADA
OFFICERS FOR 1906-1907.
CHAIRMAN.
For 1906— REV. J. B. SILCOX Toronto, Ont.
For 1907— REV, W. T. GUNN, M.A., B.D. - - Embro, Ont.
SECRETARY-TREASURER AND STATISTICAL SECRETARY. REV. J. T. DALEY, B.A., Maxville, Ont.
MINUTE SECRETARIES. REV. WM. MUNROE, MR. I. W. PIERCE, REV. T. A. MUNRO, B.A.
UNION COMMITTEES.
REV. J. W. PEDLEY, B.A. J. B. SILCOX J. T. DALE\, B.A. T. B. HYDE " E. MUNSON HILL, D.D. J. K. UNSVVORTH, B.A. HUGH PEDLEY, B.A.
REV. WM. McINTOSH " H. G. RICE, B.A., B.D.
Mr. C. GUSHING " S. H. C. MINER " B. W. ROBERTSON " T. B. MACAULAV
PREACHER OF ANNUAL SERMON. REV. J. L. ALEXANDER, B.D., Granby, Que.
ALTERNATE. REV. WM. MUNROE, Montreal, Que.
Next meeting at Hamilton, Ont. 21
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CONSTITUTION.
I. — Tliat tlie name of tiiis association be " The Congrega- tional Union of Canada."
II. — That it shall consist of Congregational or Independ- ent Churches, and of ministers of the same church order, who are either in the pastoral office, or (being members of Con- gregational Churches) are engaged in evangelistic or educa- tional 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 distinctive principles of Congregational Churches, namely the Scriptural right of every separate church to maintain per- fect independence in its^ government and administration, and therefore, that the Union shall not assume legislative or ad- ministrative authority, or in any case become a court of ap- peal.
IV. — That the following are the objects contemplated in its formation : 1. To promote evangelical religion in con- nection with the Congregational denomination. 2. to cultiv- ate 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 an occasional letter to the associated churches, accompanied with such information as may be deem- ed necessary. 5. To obtain accurate statistical information re- lative 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 general interests of the Union, an annual meeting of its members shall be held, each of the associated churches being
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represented by two lay delegates; tlie meetings to be held at a docket of business for the 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 instructions 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 alter- ations has been given at the meeting next preceding.
STANDING RULES.
1. — Applications for admission to the Union, whether by churches or ministers, should be made in writing; and after having been read to the Union, shall be referred to a sianumg committee on membership. 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 Congregational 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 (1) their membership in a Congregational Church; (2) their ordaination to the ministry; (3) if they have come from any other denomination, their good standing therein; and they shall satisfy the Membership Com- mittee in relation to their literary acquirements, and their doctrinal and ecclesiastical views. (4) Should the Membership Committee be satisfied on these points, and recommend the ap- plicant for membership, the recommendation shall 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 ad- mission into membership.
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2. — The Union shall meet annually- on the Wednesday after the first Sabbath in June, 9 a.m., when, if the elected chairman be absent, a chairman pro tein. shall be chosen. After a devotional service, minute secretaries and reporters shall be appointed, the Report of the Committee presented, and the Standing Committee on Business, Membership, Nom- ination, and Finance chosen on nomination by the Committee 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 pub- lic session, in order that time may be given to the work of several committees.
4. — The Chairman's address shall be delivered on Wed- nesday 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 re- quired; and the votes shall be counted by scrutineers appoint- ed by the Chairman. If no candidate have a majority of the votes cast, the names of two persons having the highest num- ber 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 permis- sion 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 attend- ance with the vSecretary in a book kept for this purpose. The Minutes of the preceding day shall be read at the opening of each day's session, and the Minutes of the last day at the close of the session.
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9. — One of the services on the Lord's Day during the meetings of the Union shall be regarded as a session of the Union, at which the Annual Sermon shall be preached, and in connection with it the Lord's Supper shall be celebrated. The attendance of the Union is expected at this service.
10. — On Monday evening, during the sitting of the Union, a public meeting of the Union shall be held, the programme of which shall be arranged by the Union Committee.
11. — Application shall be made by the Statistical Secre- tary, one month at least before the annual meeting, for statis- tics of the several churches, and a brief narrative of the state of religion among them, that he may prepare a condensed nar- rative 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 traveling fares of its ministerial members, and one delegate from each church (providing always that no mem- ber of the Union, whether ministerial or lay, attending the meetings, shall receive anything for traveling expenses, unless 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 coiTesponding bod- ies, who may fail to fulfil their appointment by personal attendance, shall address these bodies by letter, communicat- ing in substance such information and sentiments as they would furnish if they were present at their annual convoca- tions.
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14.— All supplies of pulpits required during tlie Sunday in which the Union is in session, which are not otherwise pro- vided for, shall be filled by the Nomination Committee in connection with the pastor 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 assembled.
15. — In order to facilitate the introduction of properly accredited preachers to churches connected with the Union, which may require pujpit 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 : 1 , Who are pastors of churches in connection with the Union. 2. Who have been students of the Canada Con- gregational 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 en- gagements. 4. Who have been pastors connected with the Union, and who are still members of the churches of the Union. 5. Who are recommended by a District Committee. 6. Who are accredited by the Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, England and Wales, Ireland, and the British Colonies, or by any Local District Associa- tion, or National organization in the United States of Ameri- ca. 7. Lay preachers and evangelists accredited by any Dis- trict Association.
CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF CANADA.
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CHUECHES CONNECTED WITH THE UNION.
Alton, Ont. Ayer's CliflF, Que. Barrie, Ont. Belwood, Ont. Bowmanville, Ont. Brantford, Ont. Brigham, Que. Burford, Ont. Churchill, Ont. Cobourg, Ont. Cold Springs, Ont. Cowansville, Que. Danville, Que. Durham, Que. (a) Eaton, Que. Edgar, Ont. Embro, Ont. Fergus, Ont. Fitch Bay, Que. Forest, Ont., Central l-orest, Lake Shore Franklin Centre, Que. Frome, Ont. Garafraxa, Ont. (b) Georgetown, Ont. Granby, Que. Guelph, Ont. Highland Park, Alta. Hamilton, Ont., First " Emmanuel
Hopetown, Ont. Pine Grove, Ont.
Howick, Ont. (c) Renwick, Ont.
Humber Summit, Ont. Rosetta, Ont. (d) Rugby, Ont.
Kincardine, Ont. (e) Scotland, Ont. Kingston, Ont., First Sherbrooke, Que.
" Bethel
" Calvary Lanark, Ont. Lewesville, Alta. Listowel, Ont. London, Ont., First
" Southern Maxville, Ont. Melbourne, Que. Middleville, Ont. Montreal, Que., Calvary
" Emmanuel
" Point St.
Charles
Speedside, Ont. Stanstead South, Que. Stratford, Ont. St, Andrews, Que. St. Catharines, Ont. Tilbury, Ont. Toronto, Ont., Bond St.
" Broadview Ave.
" Northern
" Olivet
" Parkdale
" Western
" Zion Vancouver, B.C., Knox
Montreal, Westmount Warwick, Ont., Ebe-
" Zion nezer.
" Amherst Pk. " Zion
New Durham, Ont. Watford, Ont.
Ottawa, Ont., First Waterville, Que.
" Welcome-Zion Winnipeg, Man., Cen-
Paris, Ont. tral
Parkside, Sask., Wetaskiwin, Alta.
Carlton Union Woodstock, Ont. Plympton, Ont.
(a) Ulverton P.O. (b) Craigsholm P.O. (c) Redgrave P.O. (d) Woodbridge P.O. (e) Tiverton P.O.
ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE CONGREGA
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TIONAL UNION OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.
MiM'IK .SKCRKTAUV.
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T. Bvrne
M. rU'ikic
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T. .M. Keikie
J. Elliott
W. Clarke
J. T. Byrne
A. Dulif
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P. Shanks
W. K. Clarke . . .
J. Wood
J. Unsworth
D. Macallum! — H. Wilkes, D.D. .
T. M. Rcikie
W. M. Peacock . Enoch Barker . . .
SABBATH PREACHER^.
W. H. Alhvorth . . . . II. D. Powis
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) I). S. Hamilton, B.A.. f
(J. T. Daley, B.A )
(VV. J. Watt J
( G. H. Craik, B. A )
I W. S.^Titchard, B.A.. /
j W, T. Gunn, B.A \
( A. Margrett /
)' J. L. Brown )
"I.I. C. Watt f
(^F. .J. Dav.B.A )
( A. F. Pollock, B.D.... ( r.I. Scholfield, Ph.D.... i \ n. B. Ely th, B.A /
/ A. Margrett i
{ H. E. MasoTi /
( W. .1. Hindley )
I M.Kelly /
j A. Maru'rett )
(R. G. Watt, B.D /
/H.G.Rice, B.A i
( T. Legrpfette j"
(U.F. Thomas, M.A. .. \
\ J. L. Alexander /
/H. A. Morton, M.A. .. i
I W.R.Harvey /
/Galen H. Craik, B. A.. . 1 (.John G. Hindley, B.A./
f A. F. Pollock, B.D ■»
\_W. W. O'Hara.. ....J
/ VVm. Munroe \
I Ira \V. Pierce I
J. L. Forster, D.C.T..
J. Burton7B.D
William Hay
W. Wethorald
II. Pedley, B.A
J. R. Black, B.A... .
Geo. Fuller
W. M. Barbour, D.D,
K. M. Fen wick ..
H. D. Powis
E. J. Sherrill ....
A. Lillie, D.D
T. Bayne
R. Robinson
R. K. Black
A. J. Parker
A. Burpee
T. Pullar
K. M. Fenwick
G.Smith, D.D
K. H. Marling . . . . H. Wilkes, D.D. .. A. McGreyror ... . . J. A. R. Dickson J. G. Sanderson . .
E. Ebbs
W. F. Clarke . . . .
S. N. Jackson
J, Eraser
R. Hay
H. Sanders
H. D. Powis
C. Duff, MA.... J, G. Sanderson .
Principal Grant .
J.Wood .-r.
H. D. Hunter
J. B. Silcox
W. 11. Warriner, D.D.
Henry Hushes
S. N. Jackson, M.D. . . .
E. M. HHl, M.A
E.G. W. MacColl, M.A.
F. H. Marling, D.D. . . . W. M. Barbour, D.D...
G. Robertson, B.A
B. B. Williams
A. W. Richardson, B.A. J. I. Hindley, Ph.D. . . .
J. P. Gerrie, B.A
VV. Johnston
W. Mcintosh
W.T. Gunn, M.A
Morgan Wood, D.D. . . ,
G. Ellery Read
J. K. Unsworth, B.A. . .
Hugh Pedley, B.A
Frank J. Day, B.D
A. F. MacGregor, B.A. .
D.S. Hamilton, B. A.I.
G.-ilen H. Craik . .
A. Robertson. W. F. Clarke. H. Wilkes, D.D. W. Hav. R. Wilson. W. F. Clarke. J. Wood. C. W. Torry. J. Butler. U. Balkman. W. H. Allworth. J. L. Poore. * J. G. Man ley. Prof. Stowe. W. P. Westell. E. Ebbs.
E. Beecher, D.D. C. Chapman, M.A. S. G. Dodd. J. Kraser. . C. Chapman, M.A. Dr. Stevenson. J. G. Sanderson. R. K. Black. H. Wilkes, D.D Dr. Stevenson.
R. W. Wallace. Z. Eddy, M.D. Dr. Stevenson.
Dr. Dexter. Dr. Stevenson. H. D. Hunter, M.A. Jos. Wild, D.D.
W. Mcintosh. H. Pedley, B.A. .Ids. Wild, D.D.
W. H. Warriner, B.D. T. B. Hyde. H. Pedley, B.A. E. C. Evans, D.D.
H. S. Bcavis, D.D.
A. W. Richardson, M.D.
Hugh Pedley, B.A.
John Morton.
T. B. Hyde.
J. L. Gordon.
W. S. Pritch'ard, B.A., B.D
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
MINISTERIAL MEMBERS OF THE UNION.
Alexander, J. L., Granby, Que. Baker, W. M., Woodstock, Ont. Barker, Enoch, Toronto. Black, Robert K., Granby,
Que. Black, J. R., B.A., Kingston,
Ont. Bolton, Chas. E., Scotland,
Ont. Brown, J. L., Snowflake, Man. Carson, A. H., B.A., Victoria,
B.C. Claris, C. C, Edgar, Ont. Claris, W. H. A., London, Ont. Collins, William, Brooklyn,
N.S. Craik, Galen H., B.A., Water-
ville. Que. Currie, Walter T., B.A.,
African Mission. Daley, Jas. T., B.A., Maxville,
Ont. Day, Benjamin VV., St. An- drews, Que. Day, Frank J., B.A., B.D.,
Sherbrooke, Que. Drysdale, R. J. Georgetown,
Ont. Gerrie, John P., B.A., Strat-
fordj Ont. Gordon, J. L., Winnipeg, Man. Gunn, William T.^ M.A.,B.D.,
Embro, Ont. Gilroy, W. E., B.A., lo With-
row Ave., Toronto. Hall, Thos., Island Pond. Vt. Hamilton, D. S., B.A., London,
Ont. Harris, P. C. L., Guelph, Ont. Harvey, W. R., Stanstead, Que.
Hay, Robert, Watford, Ont.
Hill, E. Munson, D.D., Mon- treal.
Hipkin, W., Bowman ville, Ont.
Horsey, Harold L, Ottawa.
Hyde, T. B., 64 Isabella St. Toronto.
Kelley, Matthew, Edgar, Ont.
Lowes, Geo. A., 203 Marguer- etta St., Toronto, Ont.
Lyman, Prof., Eugene W., M.A.
Macallum, Daniel, Kingston, Ont.
Mackenzie, Geo. A., Kingston, Ont.
Margrett, Albert, Cobourg
Marshall, W. H. L., Speedside, Ont.
McAdie, Jas., St. Andrews, Que.
McCormick, A., Hamilton, Ont.
McCuaig, Joseph A. C, To- ronto.
McEwen, J. D., Orobo, Brazil.
Mcintosh, William, Ottawa.
Mcintosh, D. C, B.D., Lan- ark, Ont.
McKillican, John, Montreal, Que.
Morton, John, Hamilton.
Munro, T. A. B.A., Brandon, Man.
Munroe, W., Westmount, Que.
Pedley, C. S., B.A., Ayer's Flat, Que.
Pedley, Hugh, B.A., Montreal, Que.
Pedley, James W., B.A., To- ronto.
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Pollock, A. F., B.D., Danville,
Que. Read, George E., Sherbrooke,
Que. Rice, H. G., B.D., Montreal. Rose, Edwin, Westmore, Vt. Routliffe, C. H., Hamilton,
Ont. Richardson, A. W., M.D.,
Kingston, Ont. Salmon, John, B.A., Toronto. Sanden, G. A., Wetaskiwin. Schrag, Astor R, Alton, Ont. Shaver, M.A., Boston, Mass. Silcox, Edwin D., Toronto,
Ont. Silcox, J. B., Toronto. Skinner, George, Fitch Bay,
Que.
Smith, Merton, Vancouver,
B.C. Smith, W. W., St. Catharines,
Ont. Solandt, D. M., Kingston, Ont. Stillman, H. W., Oberlin, Ohio. Thomas, H. F., M.A., t^, Col- lier St. Toronto. Tippett, E. H., B.A., Montreal,
Que. Unsworth, Joseph, Toronto. Unsworth, Joseph K., B.A.,
Hamilton, Ont. VVarriner, W. H., D.D., 7
Shuter St., Montreal. Watt, R. G., B.D., Melbourne,
Que. Watson, W. H., Cowanoville,
Que.
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
MIXUTES OF THE FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC, HELD IN EMBRO CONGREGA- TIONAL CHURCH, JUNE 6th to 11th, 1906.
The following was the registered attendance : MINISTERS.
Alexander, J. L., Granby, Que. Claris, W. H. A., London, Ont. Claris, C. C, Edgar, Ont. Carson, H. A., Victoria B.C. Craik, G. H., Waterville, Que. Currie, W. T. , Cisamba, Africa Daley, J. T., Maxville, Ont. Gerrie, J. P., Stratford, Ont. Gilroy, W. E., Toronto, Ont. Gunn, W. T., Embro, Ont. Hamilton, D. S., London, Ont. Harris, P. C. L., Guelph, Ont. Harrison, F. B., Brantford,
Ont. Harvey, W. R., Rock Island,
Que. Hill, E. M., Montreal, Que. Hyde, T. B., Toronto, Ont. Macallum, D., Kingston, Unt.
Marshall, W. H. L., Frome,
Ont. Mcintosh, Wm., Ottawa, Ont. Mcintosh, D. C, Lanark, Ont. McKillican, John, Montreal,
Que. Morton, John, Hamilton, Ont. Munro, T. A., Brandon, Man. Munroe, Wm. , Montreal, Que. Pedley, H., Montreal, Que. Pedley, J. W., Toronto, Ont. Rice, H. G., Montreal, Que. Salmon, John, Toronto, Ont. Silcox, E. D., Toronto, Ont. Silcox, J. B., Toronto, Ont. Schrag, A. R., Alton, Ont. Thomas, H. F., Toronto, Ont. Tippett, E. H., Montreal, Que. Unsworth, J. K., Hamilton,
Ont.
PERSONAL MEMBER.
Mr. H. O'Hara, Toronto.
DELEGATES.
Barrie, Ira W. Pierce. Brantford, Henry Yeigh. Churchill, Joel W. Leslie. Cold Springs, B. V. Tippett.
Embro, \V. J. McKay, Geo.
Wood. Forest Central, Miss F. B.
Rawlings.
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Granby, B. S. Black, Capt.
Scale. Guelph, F. Waters. Hamilton First, Chas. Duff, W.
J. Aitchison. Kingston Bethel, B. W. Robert-
,son, Mrs. Robertson. London, First, Mrs. Jackson,
Mrs. M. Dudley, Mrs. F.
Holt, Miss M. McLeod,
G. S. Amundson, Mrs.
Forster. London Southern, Miss L. E.
Parry. Montreal Calvary, F. VV. Horns-
by. Montreal Emmanuel, Thomas
Moodie, G. E. Williams. Montreal Zion, Mrs. H. G. Rice Montreal Point St. Charles,
Charles Gushing. New Durham, Wm. Robbins. Ottawa, Welcome-Zion, Mrs.
Ackroyd. Paris, Miss Annie Willett.
Scotland, H. W. Foster, Mrs.
Nelles. Speedside, G. J. Hindley, Miss
May .'\rmstrong. Stratford, Jas. A. Gray, Mrs.
Gray. Toronto, Bond St., Mrs. J. B.
Silcox, J. G. Gibson, Mrs.
E. M. Currie, Mrs. J. F.
Stevenson. Toronto, Broadview, H. W.
Barker, Mrs. R. Murray. Toronto, Northern^ J. D.
Nasmith, E. J. Joselin, H.
Revell. Toronto, Western, Wm. Wood- ley, G. H. Wilson, Mrs.
Wilson. Toronto, Zion, Miss L. Silcox,
Florence McKinley. Woodstock, J. D. McKenzie,
Miss L Perry, Miss Mc- Kenzie, P. J. McKay, Mrs.
McKay, Alex. Murray,
Mrs. Campbell.
COEEESPONDING MEMBEES.
Eev. A. H. Hills, Brantford, Ont. ; Eev. F. A. Steven, London, Ont. ; Eev. Geo. C. Milne, Mrs. Milne, Aberdeen, Scotland; Eev. Wm. Ewing, Lansing, Mich., Mrs. W. T. Cur- rie, Cisamba, Africa; Eev. J. W. Newbery, Mrs. Newbery, El- cho, Ont.; Eev. J. W. Schofield, Sheffield, Ont.; Eev. J. L. Skerrett, Mrs. Skerrett, Woodstock, Ont.; Eev. Prof. H. A. Youtz, Montreal, Que.; Mr. Wm. Commack, M.D., Salem, Iowa; Miss S. Libbie Seymour, M.D., Iowa City, Iowa; Eev. J. E. Millyard, Embro.
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The sessions of the TTuion began on Wednesday, June 6th, at 9 a.m. The Chairman, Rev. J. B. Silcox, conducted the devotional exercises.
At 10 a.m. the business of the day was begun. The Secre- tary presented the following nominations which were adopted :
Minute Secretaries — Rev. Wm. Munroe, Ira W. Pierce.
Mcnibership Committee— Rev. J. W. Pedley, T. B. Hyde, J. K. Unsworth, John Morton, Dr. Hill, Messrs. Henry Teigh and J, D. Nasmith.
Business Committee — Revs. J. P. Gerrie, J. L. Alexander, Messrs. W. J. Aitchison, Geo. E. Williams, Geo. Wilson.
Nomination Committee — Revs. D. S. Hamilton, Wm. Mc- intosh, D. C. Mcintosh, Messrs. Henry O'Hara, B. W. Rob- ertson.
Finance Committee — Messrs. Thomas Moodie, Wm. Woodley, E. J. Joselin, Rev. J. T. Daley.
Press Committee — Revs. J. L. Alexander, H. G. Rice, J. P. Gerrie, H. F. Thomas, W. R. Harvey.
The Annual Report of the Union Committee was read.
UNIOX COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
Your Committee has pleasure in presenting its report at this Fifty-Third annual meeting of the Union.
The Union closed its meetings a year ago without having decided upon the place of next meeting. Your Committee has arranged the matter, we hope to the satisfaction of all. We are meeting this year for the first time outside of city limits. In deciding to do so your Committee was influenced by the prominent place, Embro Church and its pastor, the Rev. Wm. T. Gunn, M.A., B.D., have occupied in our denomina- tional life and work, especially during the past three years. We congratulate pastor and people upon the excellent condi-
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tion of the churcli in both its material and spiritual interests. We come to Embro with the expectation of a good meet- ing. This should be a time of close fellowship and an ex- cellent opportunity for the transaction of business.
We have arranged the programme with the expectation that the full time of the Union will be required for business.
This has been an important and successful year in con- nection with the movement for removal of debts and the Com- mittee in charge will doubtless present an interesting report. We congratulate the churches that have been able to wipe out their indebtedness and trust the time may not be far distant when all the churches will be free to serve.
The Committee appointed to confer with the United Breth- ren in Christ has we understand made substantial progress and is prepared to report at this meeting.
Th^ Committee on Union with the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches has had further conference with the com- mittees of th;^ churches named, and the joint committee has issued a printed statement of the proceedings of the conference. This matter is nnw in shape for and should receive a thorough discussiun by the Union.
The Committee on re-organization has had the question assigned to it under consideration during the year and will submit a report.
The reports of these four Committees should receive the most careful consideration. We regret that they will not be presented until late in the week. This, however, could not be avoided as most of the time during the first three days is oc- cupied by the denominational societies. We urge the brethren to remain until the business is completed.
We consider the work of the Sunday Schools and Young People's Societies of great importance. We regret that the pressure of other business has made it impossible to give this department of our church work the prominent place it deserves in the programme. This regret is emphasized by the fact that
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D^any of the churches have no organized work among the young people except the Sunday School.
We, therefore, advise that a standing Committee of the Union be appointed in connection with the work of Sunday Schools and Young People's Societies.
We are pleased to announce as one of the speakers at the evening meetings the Rev. W. T. Currie, B.A., for many years the able and honored leader of our work at Cisamba.
We also welcome Eev. Prof. H. A. Youtz, Ph.D., whose appointment at the College has recently been made permanent.
We note that the Union will have the pleasure of hearing the speakers provided for the meeting of the C. C. M. S. on Thursday evening, namely. Revs. H. A. Carson, T. A. Munro and Wm. Ewing, who has been appointed for special service in the West.
The Committee on Lord's Day Observance will bring in a report touching the Bill now before the House at Ottawa.
At a recent meeting of the Union resolutions were passed expressing sympathy with our brethren of England and Wales in their sufferings through the Education Laws.
We are glad of the brighter prospect now before them and rejoice with them in the success that has thus far attended their struggle for liberty.
Respectfully submitted,
James T. Daly,
Secretary .
The report was referred to the Business Committee.
The Treasurer's report was referred to the Finance Com- mittee.
The following communications were referred to the Busi- ness Committee :
One from Rev. Dr. Warriner, in regard to courses of study.
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One from Rev. H. A. Carson, announcing appointment of representatives on Re-organization Committee.
Also the report of Committee on Sabbath Observance.
The following were referred to the Membership Com- mittee :
Application for membership from Carlton Church Union, Sask., and from Rev. Benjamin Ralph, LL.D., pastor of the church.
Application for dismissal from Rev. Thos. Leggette.
Also letters received by Secretary in reply to inquiries or- dered last year.
The Rev. Geo. C. Milne, Aberdeen, Scotland, and Mrs. Milne, were invited to sit as corresponding members. They briefly addressed the Union.
The following report was presented by Rev. J. K. Uns- worth on behalf of the Committee :
REPORT OF THE JUBILEE FUND COMMITTEE.
In taking a review of the Jubilee Fund work we must ever gratefully keep in mind how wonderfully our expectations have been exceeded by the result. The resolution passed in London three years ago to raise at least $100,000 has written itself in our history for twice that amount. While we may not have reached the extreme limit of our anticipations, we may well give way to Christian elation that God has advanced us so far toward the goal. The success of the Jubilee Fund enterprise will be manifest by the following statements :
First. We have exceeded the challenge of our English brethren. They challenged us to raise $180,000; we have given $183,021.24, and have laid claim to the £4,000 so gener- ously ofiered.
Second. Of the 45 churches in debt January 1, 1903, all but seven, that is 38, have accomplished the task allotted to
38 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
thorn. Thesi; 38 have either paid their debts in full or have raised the amouut which along with the expected aia from the Central Fund will set them entirely free. Of these seven two have debts so small that we may say that only five of our churchts failed to attain the desired goal. We may congratu- late ourselvo."-.. that almost 90 per cent, of the indebted churches reached the mark set before them.
Third. The average contribution per member, man, wo- man and child, touched the high point of over twenty dollars, a sum equivalent in the case of the largest Canadian denomina- tions to four or five millions of dollars.
Fourth. With the exception of one free church which did not contribute to the Central Fund and one indebted church which did nothing for its debts, every church in the Dominion has joined more or less heartily in this co-operative enterprise.
The following is the statement of the Fund from June, i, 1903, to December 31, 1905.
Churches for local debts, $140,616.96; churches for Cen- tral Fund, $16,256.03; S. H. C. Miner, $20,000.00; G. B. Bur- land, $5,000.00; various individuals, $1,148.25; Total, $183,- 021.24. English money, $19,440.00; interest, $148.00; Grand
Total, $202,609.24.
LIST NO. 1.
The following are the unaided churches and amounts raised for their own debts: Brantford, $2,400.00; Burford, $270.00; Cobourg, $1,350.00; Cowansville, $572.65; Danville, $58.00; Frome, $565.89; Forest, $648.13; Fergus, $70.00; Guelph, $2,150.00; Hamilton, First, $3,800.00; Lanark, $1,- 500.00; Maxville, $300.00; Melbourne, $1,080.00; Montreal, Emmanuel, $11,000.00; Sherbrooke, $4,751.75; Toronto, Northern, $10,000.00; Waterville, $1,500.00. Each of these 17 churches is now entirely free of debt. They gave $42,016.- 42 to that end.
LIST NO. 2.
Aided churches which raised allotted sums, receiving help from the Central Fund to the extent of ten to fifty per cent, of amount raised: Barrie, $950.00; Bowmanville, $1,000.00; Brandon, $1,153.20; Fitch Bay, $450.72; Hamilton, Emman-
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uel„ $650.00; Kingston, First, $3,440.00; London, First, $5,- 000.00; London, Southern, $2,361.01; Montreal, Zion, $9,200.- 00; Ottawa, First, $7,000.00; Ottawa, Zion, $656.13; St. John, $2,900.00; Stratford, $2,302.29; Toronto, Broadview, $3,136.- 00; Toronto, Olivet, $11,459.68; Toronto, Western, $10,322.90; Vancouver, First, $2,500.00; Vancouver, Knox, $7,500.00; Victoria, $2,u00.00; Westmount, $4,000.00; Winnipeg, $9,- 350.00.
These churches, 21 in number, have raised the amount set before them by the Committee and would have been entirely free if the Central Fund had been adequate to give the prom- ised aid.
The following six did not reach the figure set before them : Liverpool raising $707.25; St. Catharines, $233.00; Truro, $591.50; Toronto, Bond Street, $4,775.75; Toronto, Parkdale, $811.11; Toronto, Zion, $4,150. Liverpool and Truro have very small debts. Woodstock did not enter the Jubilee Fund work.
To summarize: 17 churches gave $42,016.42; 21 churches gave $87,331.93, with claim on the Central Fund of $56,238.- 03; 6 churches gave $11,268.61, with claim of $10,319.86. Total amount raised for local debts,, $140,616.96; total claim on Central Fund, $66,557.89.
The contributions to the Central Fund according to the returns sent in are as follows: Alton, $45.00; Brooklyn, $68.00; Beach Meadows, $40.00; Belwood, $50.00; Brandon, $25.00; Brigham, $63.50; Bowmanville, $10.00; Burford, $75.25; Barrie, $1.00; Churchill, $47.25; Chebogue, $45.00; Cowansville, $234.33; Danville, $367.26; Embro, $135.82; Economy, $35.25; Edgar, $13.00; Forest, Central, $154.50; Forest, Ebenezer, $55.00; Forest, Lake Shore, $25.00; Frank- lin, Centre, $49.00; Frome, $52.00; Garafraxa, $15.00; Guelph, $6.85; Granby, $3,650.41; Georgetown, $71.83; Hope- town, $4.45; Hamilton, Emmanuel, $9.67; Hamilton, First, $73.50; Kingston, ?) ; Kingsport, $9.33; London, First, $150.- 00; London, Southern, $19.25; Lanark, $100.00; Middleville, $30.55; Margaree, $46.00; Maxville, $1,100.00; Montreal,
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Emmanuel, $3,406.57; Montreal, Calvary, $3,880.32; Mon- treal, Point St. Charles; $175.00; Keswick Eidge, $102.50; Wilton, $86.00; Noel, $50.50; Pleasant River, $18.50; Roset- ta, $4.10; Speedside, $150.00; Sheffield, $72.00; Stanstead, $172.80; Selmah, $60.00; Scotland, $115.12; St. John, $10.67; Tilbury, $117.00; S. Maitland, $95.00; Toronto, Western, $100.00; Toronto, Olivet, $16.00; Victoria, $60.00; Watford, $62.00; Warwick, Zion, $100.50; Westmount, $5.00; Yar- mouth, $127.75. There has been paid from the Central Fund up to June 5, 1906, the sum of $48,141.71. Of this the churches have received $44,724.44, and the balance for expenses, $3,- 417.27.
The magnificent giving of so many of the indebted churches has made a very heavy draft upon the Central Fund. At the Union meeting last year the forecast was made that we would be able to pay practically all the promises of aid from the Central Fund. During the autumn, however, the unex- pected again happened in connection with this work. The fire of enthusiasm broke out afresh. Churches that we had regretfully ticked off as having reached their limit of giving rose up and did the seemingly impossible. The giving of the last few months was in some quarters as superbly heroic as at any time of the Fund's history. Of these Stratford and To- ronto Olivet were conspicuous examples.
It will be seen that this unexpected advance upon the part of the churches enlarged the claim upon the Central Fund. When the year closed the Central Fund required $8,600 to meet in full the conditional promises made to the churches and under the incentive of which they 'had done so well. Had they done less nobly the Fund would have been nearly suffi- cient. We are in fact embarrassed by our success.
Including the unpaid subscriptions, English or any other, the Central Fund will be able to pay at least 85 per cent, of the amount promised. This will be paid as soon as the money comes in and the churches have given liens.
The assets and liabilities of the Central Fund stand thus : Assets, including English subscriptions, $61,992.28; Liabili-
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ties, claims of cliiirclies, $66,557.89; estimated expenses, $4,- 041.11, a tptal of $70,599.00. There is therefore required to pay in full all claims, $8,606.72.
Regarding' the English contribution to the Central Fund it may be said that their gift so generously oft'ered has been delayed through the deaths of two Secretaries of the Union of England and Wales since the offer was made. The English Committee is making strenuous efforts to raise the amount. They confess to us that we have done better than they expect- ed, so that they also have been embarrassed by our success. Of the whole amount, which by the way will be not $20,000 but £4,000, that is, $19,440, more or less, there has been re- ceived $10,935.79.
At the request of the Union and the importunity of your committee. Rev. J. W. Pedley and his church, the Western of Toronto, consented to his taking up work as Financial Se- cretary for two months, beginning October 1st. Mr. Pedley's special work was with those churches that had not enthusias- tically tackled their debts. He proved himself the man for the time and the work, and none other could have done it as well. The churches whom his enthusiasm, aggressiveness, tact and business good sense brought up to blood heat, such churches as Guelph, Kingston First, Sherbrooke, Westmount, Olivet, Stratford and Brantford, will unite with us in thank- ing Mr. Pedley for the help he gave in bringing every one of these inside the fold of the free.
In order to help the churches in a service of thanksgiving and consecration your Committee prepared an order of service and sent out 11,000 copies. This was generally used and much appreciated. In most of the churches the thanksgiving ser- vice was held at the usual hour of meeting, in most cases in the evening, but in a number our people met in a glad and solemn hour at the very close of the old year, the last year of financial bondage. There was considerable interchange of congratulations by telegram and letter which still further ex- pressed and cemented that unity which has been so marked a feature of the whole movement.
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THe Lien : According to the terms passed by the Union in 1904 every aided church agreed to give some sort of lien upon the property to the extent of the amount received from the Central Fund. This lien should not bear interest and should not be pressed as long as the church building was used regularly as a Congregational church. Through the courtesy of Hon. Mortimer Clark, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, a form of mortgage was prepared and sent to the churches in April last. At our request the churches in most cases are giv- ing a lien for the full amount expected from the Fund.
The preparation of the Jubilee Eoll is in the hands of Eev. W. T. Gunn. All names of donors are to be enrolled in one large volume to be placed in the College Library at Mon- treal and a beautiful souvenir card is sent to each giver. Your Committee recommend that a duplicate of the Eoll be pre- pared and sent to Memorial Hall, London, England, as a re- cognition and remembrance of English aid,
"VVe also recommend that your Committee be requested to do their best toward securing the balance of $8,600 required
for the Central Fund.
J. K. TJnsworth,
Secretary.
The report was laid on the table for discussion.
Eev. Wm. Ewing, Lansing, Mich., was invited to sit as corresponding member.
The Union adjourned at 11.15 a.m.
"Wednesday Evening.
The Eev. J. B. Silcox presided. Eev F. B. Harrison read the scripture. Eev. T. B. Hyde led in prayer.
Eev. W. T. Gunn welcomed the Union to Embro.
Eev. J. W. Pedley replied on behalf of the Union.
The chairman delivered an address on "The Eevival of Eeligion."
The meeting was closed with the benediction.
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Thursday Morning, June 7.
Prayer meeting was conducted bj^ Rev. A. R. Schrag. Rev. J. P. Gerrie preached a sermon on "Grappling With the Difficult."
The business session opened at 10 a.m. The minutes of preceding meetings were read and adopted.
An invitation to meet next year at Hamilton was referred to the Business Committee.
A communication from Listowel was read. It contained the ofter of communion set and library to any church needing such equipment.
The Rev. J. W. Schofield, Rev. J. W. Newbery and Mrs. Newbery, of the "United Brethren in Christ" church were in- troduced and invited to sit as corresponding members.
The ballot for chairman resulted in the election of Rev. W. T. Gunn, M.A., B.D., on the first ballot.
The Rev. D. Macallum appeared on behalf of the First Church, Kingston, asking the co-operation of the Union in their present pastorless condition. A committee composed of Revs. Wm. Mcintosh, H. Pedley and Dr. Hill was appointed to confer with the church.
The Rev. J. T. Daly presented the statistical report.
The report was adopted and the Business Committee asked to provide a time for further discussion.
The Union adjourned.
Friday, June 8th.
The morning prayer meeting was conducted by Rev. G. H. Craik, and the sermon preached by Rev. T. B. Hyde.
The minutes of last meeting were read and adopted.
The Membership Committee presented the following re- port :
1. When a minister retires from the active work of the
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ministry and follows some other calling- by which he makes his living his name shall be dropped from the roll unless he makes a request that his name be retained.
2. That transfers be granted to Revs. F. B. Harrison to Townsend, Mass.; Robert Hopkins, to Cleveland, Ohio; Thos. Leggette to South Dakota; H. A. Morton to Barnstable, Mass.
3. That the names of Revs. A. F. McGregor, A. E. Muir, A. Secord, John Schofield, H. E. Mason, D. D. Hambly, W. J. Hindley, Churchill Moore and J. McKinnon be dropped as they have connected themselves with other associations.
4. That Rev. Thomas Hall's name be retained on the roll.
5. That the Secretary be authorized to grant letters to Revs. H. W. Stillman and W. P. Jackson, when they decide what association they will join.
The report was adopted.
The Business Committee was asked to prepare resolutions touching, (1) The prevalence of gambling; (2) The grant of the Dominion Government to sufferers in San Francisco; (3) Our sympathy with Congregationalists of San Francisco.
The Committee was further instructed to arrange for ex- tending the fraternal greetings of the Union to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada now in ses- sion in London.
The Rev. Wm. Ewing addressed the Union on Sunday School work.
The question of Union with the United Brethren in Christ was next taken up. Revs. J. W. Newbery and J. W. Scho- field were invited to a seat on the platform and the hymn "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" was sung.
The Rev. W. T. Gunn, on behalf of the Committee, pre- sented the following report :
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UNION WITH UNITED BRETHREN.
The Committee appointed by the Congregatoinal Union to meet a similar committee from the United Brethren in Christ, with a view to arranging a basis of union for the two bodies in Canada, met in First Church, Hamilton, on Thursday, Nov. 23rd.
The committees decided to meet jointly. Rev. J. K. Uns- worth was chosen as chairman, and Revs. Schoiield and Gunn as secretaries of the respective sections. There were present representing the United Brethren, Revs.W. A. Robins, J. W. Schofield, J. W. Newbury and Mr. A. Main, of Shef- field; and representing the Congregationalists, Revs. J. K. Uns worth, W. T. Gunn, D. S. Hamilton, W. E. Gilroy and Mr. H. O'Hara. Mr. I. Hilborn, of Elmira, a member of the U.B. Committee was unable to be present through illness. Rev. John Morton was asked to sit as a corresponding member. Chairman Unsworth, and Presiding Elder Robins set forth the movements leading up to the desire for union and the ap- pointment of committees for that end. On the part of the Un- ited Brethren it was shown that their churches in Canada had suffered from the fact that their associations and interests were almost entirely linked with the parent body in the United States. They had come to the conclusion that it was necessary either to separate and become a United Brethren Church pure- ly Canadian or to unite with some other religious body on this side of the line The result had been an unanimous decision to seek union with the Congregationalists. The discussion at first followed the lines of certain proposals formulated by the U . J3. Committee. These were as follows : —
1, To enter the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec retaining their identity as a group of churches to be known as " The United Brethren Association of Congrega- tional Churches."
2. To retain the principle of superintendency.
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3. lo retain ministerial itinerancy.
4. To retain the right to establish courses of study and standards for the ordination of the ministry.
5. Td retain the right to establish the Financial standard of Benevolences.
The meeting of the two committees continued all after- non, was broken at tea time to accept the hospitality of the First Church, Hamilton, and after tea a Sub-Committee met till 8 o'clock, when a public meeting was addressed by repre- sentatives of both Committees. The meeting continued next morning and decided to issue through the Congregationalist the following "Letter to the Churches."
LETTER TO THE CHURCHES.
To the Churches of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec and to the Churches of the Ontario Conference of the United Brethren in Christ.
Dear Brethren, — We, the Joint Committee of the two bodies above named, appointed to consider the question of their union, desire to report as follows : —
TLis movement for union originated in the larger move- ment for union on the part of our respective bodies in the Un- ited States, which suggested the possibility of a similar union in Canada, and this suggestion was furthered by many con- siderations, both ecclesiastical and patriotic, on the part of the United Brethren.
With this possibility of union in mind a delegate was ap- pointed, by the Annual Conference of the United Brethren in 1903 and again in 1904, when Rev. John W. Schofield attend- ed the meeting of the Western Association of Congregational Churches in Forest, Ont., and in 1905 Rev. M. I. Comfort at- tended the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec in Toronto, which at that meeting responded to these approaches
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by appointing a special union committee, and sending as a fraternal delegate, Eev. J. K. Unsworth, chairman of the Un- ion, who attended the United Brethren Conference following.
The United Brethren, at their Annual Conference at Shef- field, Ont., committed themselves to the general principle of union with the Congregationalists and also appointed a com- mittee to carry through the negotiations. This committee, af- ter several preliminary meetings, met with the Congregational committee in joint session in the First Congregational Church, Hamilton, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 1905.
After a full, frank, prayerful, discussion we arrived unan- imously at the following conclusions.
First. We recognize that in polity both denominations are fundamentally, and essentially democratic, that the Unit- ed Brethren, though using the form of an Episcopacy, have in reality simply delegated leadership and brotherly co-operation, while all authority centres in the local church.
Secondly. The principles and polity of the Congregation- al Churches are sufficiently broad and free to admit of the re- cepti 'U of the churches of the United Brethren Conference as an Association of Congregational Churches and as members of the Union while still retaining those methods of supervision and co-operation so valued by them. These were detailed by the United Brethren Committee as follows :
In uniting with the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec we would desire : —
1. That we retain our identity as a group of churches and suggest that such group be known as "The Unjted Brethren Association of Congregational Churches."
2. That we retain the principle of superintendency.
3. That we retain our itinerancy.
4. That we, as an Association, have the right to establisu our courses of study and standards for the ordination of the ministry.
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5. That the Association establish a Financial standard of Benevolences.
After a long and careful discussion these proposals were unanimously approved by the Congregational members of the committee.
In explanation of the proposals we would say that accord- ing to United Brethren usage the superintendent, while of great value and assistance to the churches m an advisory capacity, has no authority coercive of the will of the local church. Also that under their "itinerancy" the pastorate, though of yearly appointment, is unlimited in time, and the stationing committee of the Conference acts only as an advisory board which strives to bring churches and pastors together in a connection pleasing and helpful to both. Also that while de- siring to keep control of their standards of ordination, the Un- ited Brethren would accept a course in the Congregational Col- lege, Montreal, as equivalent to the four years' course of study now set their candidates and anticipate with pleasure the edu- cational opportunities afforded by the College.
Also the " Standard of Benevolences " usually known as " The Assessment " in the United Brethren Churches, is sim- ply a standard to which each church is expected to approxi- mate in their contributions to the general benevolences of the demonination.
Thirdly. The theological statements and creeds of both churches are in substantial accord. While the position of the United Brethren is theologically conservative, there can be hearty co-operation with the position of the Congregationalists because of the supreme importance attached in both churches to Christian life.
Fourthly. As to the Benevolences of the Churches, it was agreed that it would be best at present that the United Breth- ren should collect and administer their own Home Mission Fund, but in regard to other work it is expected there will be immediate and hearty co-operation in Foreign Missions, the college, denominational paper and other general church mat- ters.
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Fifthly. We record with hearty gratitude to God our happy fellowship in this committee meeting, our surprise at finding how close we were together, our joy in the earnest spiritual tone prevailing, and our very great gladness in our being now, after full discussion, able to recommend to both denominations the taking of steps necessary to a full union.
REV. J. K. UNSWORTH REV. VV. A. ROBINS
REV. W. E. GILROY REV. J. W. SCHOFIELD
REV. D. S. HAMILTON REV. J. W. NEVVBERY
REV. W. T. GUNN MR. AARON MAIN
MR. HENRY O'HARA Members of the United Breth-
Members of the Congrega- ren Committee, tional Committee.
This letter was printed in the Congregationalist of Dec. 7, 1905, and a number of copies distributed among the United Brethren by their committee.
A vote upon Union on the basis provided in this letter was taken in the United Brethren Churches in April, with happy results as announced by the secretary of their committee, E-ev. J. W. Schofield, of Sheffield, Ont.
Editor of The Canadian Congregationalist :
It will be a matter of interest to your readers to learn that the United Brethren Churches of Ontario have just taken a vote of the question of uniting with the Congregationalists on the basis drawn up by the Joint Committee in Hamilton last November.
The results of the vote are just to hand and indicate a large majority in favor of union.
There was but half of the enrolled membership voting, namely 710 — but out of this 609 have voted to favor of union. This is a much larger majority than the two-thirds required by our (Teneral Conference.
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As the matter now rests so far as our churches are concern- ed, the result of the vote and the proposed basis of union is to be submitted to the General Home Mission Board of the church at large for their ratification. This Board meets on May 1st, next in the City of Dayton, Ohio.
No difficulty is anticipated as a result of the action of this Board, and if the proposal meets with acceptance by the Con- gregational Union, the way will be clear for the consummation of the matter at the meeting of our Annual Conference next October. During the discussion of this question amongst our people, there has been no disposition on the part of any one to unduly influence the vote in favor of union, so that we believe we have secured an unbiased expression of their desire.
Art analysis of the vote shows that a majority of those vot- ing against the proposal are found in one church, the remain- ing votes (49) being distributed amongst the rest of the 27 churcLes, thus showing how general is the sentiment in favor of union. We regard it as a matter for congratulation that any serious opposition to the proposal should be centered in one church, and do not anticipate any serious problem in conse- quence of this isolated instance of an adverse vote.
As a people we come placing emphasis upon success in our work and not upon fixedness in church polity. We are per- suaded that God has led us in this movement.
J. W. Schofield, Sec'y U.B. Com.
Sheffield, Ont., April 16, 1906.
Since that time the Home Mission Board at Dayton has miit and approved the action of the Ontario Conference. There remains, therefore, on their part only the formal vote of the Conference meeting at Sheffield next October.
Expenses of the Committee of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec appointed to meet with the Committee of the United Brethren in Christ, Ontario Conference.
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Traveling expenses:
Rev. W. S. Hamilton $3 85
Eev. W. T. Gunn 2 45
$6 30 Respectfully submitted,
W. T. GUNN,
Secretary of Committee.
Moved by Rev. J. K. Unsworth, seconded by H. O'Hara ; That the report be adopted and that immediately on the adopt- ion of thf plan of Union, outlined in the report by the Unit- ed Brethren Conference next Autumn, the ministers and churches of the Conference become members of the Congrega- tional Union of Ontario and Quebec, and shall be duly enroll- ed by tbe secretary.
After discussion, in which Revs. J. W. Schofield and J. W. Newbury took part, the motion was put and carried unani- mously by a standing vote after which prayer was offered by Rev. D. S. Hamilton.
It was moved by Rev. W. T. Gunn and seconded by Rev. T. B. Hyde and carried.
" That this resolution be presented to the Union Brethren Conference by a fraternal delegation who shall also visit in- dividual churches as arrangements may be made."
The naming of this delegation was referred to the nomina- tion committee, and the committee on Union with the United Brethren was discharged with the thanks of the Union.
The Committee on Re-organization reported through Dr. Hill. The committee recommended :
That the motion before the Union providing for the change of clause I. of the constitution of the Union, so as to read : "That the name of this Association be 'The Congrega- tional Union of Canada, " be adopted. This was carried.
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The committee brought in a further recommendation in reference to the appointment of Mr. Gunn as general secretary, but this was referred back to the committee for further con- sideration.
The Union adjourned.
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 8TH.
The Eev. E. Munson Hill, D.D., presided. The Eevs. Wm. Ewing and D. Macallum assisted in devotional exercises.
The Rev. Professor H. A. Youtz delivered an address on *' The Gospel for an Age of Hesitation."
The. Rev. T. B. Hyde introduced Miss S. L. Seymour, M.A., M.D., and Mr. Wm. Cammack, M. D., prospective medical missionaries to Cisamba. They briefly addressed the Union.
Rev. W. T. Currie, B.A., spoke on "The General work of Missions in Africa."
The meeting was closed with prayer.
. SATURDAY, JUNE 9th.
Prayer meeting was conducted by Rev. J. B. Silcox. Rev. W. R. Harvey preached a sermon.
The minutes of preceding sessions were read and con- firmed.
Miss S. L. Seymour, M.A., M.D., Mr. William Cammack, M. D., Rev. Professor Youtz, Rev. F. A. Steven and Rev. J. E. Millyard' were invited to sit as corresponding members.
A communication from the Dominion Alliance was re- ferred to the Temperance Committee.
Letters from Revs. Chas. Pedley, J. D. Jones and Dr. Rowland were ordered to be placed on file.
A letter regarding the coming of Rev. E. R. Weeks,
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delegate from the Union of England and Wales, was referred to tke incoming Union Committee.
Revs. W. H. A. Claris, D. S. Hamilton and W. T. Gunn were appointed to convey fraternal greetings to the General Assembly of tlie Presbyterian Churcb now meeting at London.
Revs. Hugh Pedley and Dr. Hill were appointed to con- vey greetings to the General Conference of the Methodist Church at Montreal in September.
Revs. T. B. Hyde and H. Pedley presented the report of the Committee on Church Union.
The Committee submitted the following resolutions :
Resolved : 1 . That we have heard with great interest and profound thankfulness the report of progress that has been presented to us by the Congregational section of the Joint Committee.
2. That while we prefer and would instruct our committee lio urge a simpler, experimental and practical summary of Christian doctrine as a declaration of the faith of the United Church, we rejoice that so catholic a statement should have agreed upon and welcome it as an important step towards the statement of faith to be incorporated in the basis of Union.
3. That in regard to the relation of the ministers of the church to its confession we quite agree with the recommenda- tion that the duty of enquiry into the personal character, doc- trinal beliefs and general fitness of candidates for the ministry shall be laid upon the District Council, which corresponds to our Association, and as to questions addressed to candidates for ordination we approve of those numbered (a) and (b), but as to those under (c), v/hich specifically relate the minister to the doctrinal statement of the church we would urge that they should be so framed as to make the determination of a man's soundness in the faith rest as closely as possible with the liv- ing church. We would also take the ground that in order to the full recognition of the possibility of progress of thought under the guidance of the spirit of God, the most ample con-
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stitutional provision be made for welcoming and giving due consideration to any proposal for tlie revision of the standards of tlie cliurcli.
4. That while accepting the report of the sub-committee on polity as containing valuable suggestions, we recognize its preliminary and tentative character. Inasmuch as it is desir- able that each of the negotiating churches should bring into the United Church substantially that which has been distinc- tively its contribution to the progress of the Kingdom of (phrist; inasmuch also as the special glory of the Congrega- tional Churches has been the ideal of full responsibility, and large Christian duty set before the members of the local church we would urge that ample opportunity for the preservation of this ideal be guaranteed in the constitution of the United Church.
The part of the report that preceded the resolutions was adopted and the resolutions were considered one by one.
Resolution (1) was adopted unanimously.
Resolution (2) was adopted as above.
The Finance Committee submitted their report. It was adopted.
Discussion of resolution (3) of the Committee on Church Union was proceeded with but not concluded.
The Union adjourned until 2 p.m. Rev. H. G. Rice to have the floor.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
The Union re-assembled at 2 p.m. The minutes were read and confirmed. In the absence of the Minute Secretaries Rev. T. A. Mun- ro was appointed to act during the remainder of the meetings.
At 2.25 p.m. the Union adjourned to accommodate the C.C.M.S. andC.C.F.M.S.
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Union re-assembled at 3.40 p.m.
Tlie Membership Committee reported recommending :
1. That a letter of transfer be granted to Rev. A. B. Ross, to Congregational Convention, Vermont.
2. That the application of the Carlton Church Union, Sask., for membership be granted.
3. That Rev. Benjamin Ralph, LL.D., pastor of said church, be received in accordance with standing rule.
The report was adopted.
Discussion of resolution (3) of Committee on Church Un- ion was resumed. The resolution was adopted.
Resolution (4) of same Committee was adopted.
A motion to reconsider resolution (2) was carried.
Rev. J K. Unsworth, seconded by Mr. Charles Cushing, then moved that resolution (2) be amended to read as follows :
" "We believe that any summary of Christian doctrine of the United Church should be simpler than the proposea state- ment and should lay greater emphasis on Christian experience and conduct. At the same time we rejoice that so catholic a statement should have been agreed upon, and welcome it as an important step towards the statement of faith to be incor- porated in the basis of Union."
The amendment was carried.
The report of the Committe as amended was adopted.
The Rev. H. Pedley was called to the chair, whereupon the Charman, Rev. J. B. Silcox, gave the following notice of motion.
1. That the necessary expenses of the Union for printing the Minutes of the Year Book, etc., be raised by an assessment levied on the churches on the basis of their membership.
2. That each church shall be responsible for the traveling
expense* of its own pastor and delegates.
3. That the entertaining church be not expected to pro- vide more than bed and breakfast for the delegates who are entertained.
The Union adjourned.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1906.
The Union assembled at 11 a.m. for public worship. The chairman presided. Rev. W. T. Gunn led in responsive read- ing. Rev. Galen H. Craik, B.A., preached from the text Luke 9.23. Subject : " The Privileges and Responsibilities of the Christian Life."
The communion service was conducted by Rev. W. T. Gunn, assisted by Revs. G. C. Milne, H. A. Carson and J. L. Alexander, with the deacons of the Embro Church.
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 11.
Prayer meeting was conducted by Rev. J. T. Daley. Rev. D. Macallum gave an address.
At 10 a.m. the chairman took charge of the meeting.
Rev. J. P. Gerrie, B.A., reported on behalf of the Busi- ness Committee recommending :
1. That we express our gratitude to Rev. J B. Silcox for his splendid address from the chair and vote that a summary be requested for publication in the Year Book and the Cana- dian Congregationalist.
2. That we also express our high appreciation of the scholarly address by Prof. Youtz, and request it for publica- tion in the Canadian Congregationalist, which edition should be considerably increased.
3. That we record our great pleasure in the attendance of Rev. Wm. Ewing, and thank him most cordially for his words of counsel, fellowship and inspiration. We would also thank the Sunday School Publishing Society, with which he is connected for his coming and wish them continued and in- creased prosperity in our common work.
4. That we have noted with great satisfaction the action of our Dominion Government in voting $100,000 for the suf-
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ferers in the San Francisco disaster. We view this action primarily in its splendid humanitarian and christian expres- sion, and incidentally as another tie binding the two nations more closely together.
5. That we hereby express our most cordial sympathy with our Congregational brethren in San Francisco, who have suffered so greviously in both their church and personal prop- erty. We pray that they may rise from the great disaster and carry on a yet greater work for God and Humanity.
6. That this Union pronounce its most emphatic con- demnation of the gambling practice all too prevalent at Fall Pairs and like gatherings, and would call upon all officials connected with these fairs to use their most earnest vigilance for the suppression of these pernicious habits.
7. That we expres our hearty thanks for and concurrence with the communication received from Professor Warriner on behalf of the College Senate in relation to outside courses of study, and that inasmuch as the principles of the memorial are incorporated in the college reports, we recommend that the communication be filed by the secretary.
8. That we ask our secretary to acknowledge the com- munication received from Mr. Climie, of Listowel, and also make public through the Canadian Congregationalist the offer of a Sunday School library, hymn books, communion set and organ for any church or churches desiring the same.
9. That we recommend the adoption of the report by the Committee on Sunday Observance, and agree to their sug- gestion that our hearty thanks be given to Pev. J. G. Shearer, B.A., Secretary, and P. N. McPherson, LL.B., Counsel of the Lord's Day Alliance, for their earnest efforts on behalf of the Dominion Act.
We would adopt the further suggestion that a message of gratification and good-will be sent to the Premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, for his great success to the country in the same con- nection.
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10. That we gratefully accept tlie cordial invitation of tlie First Church, Hamilton, for the meeting of 1907.
The report was adopted.
Rev, E. D. Silcox and W. T. Gunn were added to the Membership Committee.
Rev. J. K. Unsworth, seconded by Rev. W. T. Gunn, moved that the following resolution be added to the report al- ready submitted by the Jubilee Fund Committee :
" Whereas the sum of $8,600.00 is required for the Cen- tral Fund in order to met in full all promises to the aided churches, which, under the the incentive of the promises, have given so nobly. We believe that every possible effort should be made to raise this amount and request the committee to do their best toward this end."
■' That the thanks of the Union tendered Mr. and Mrs. S. H. C. Miner and Mr. G. B. Burland for their splendid finan- cial assistance to the Jubilee Fund and to individual churches during the financial strain of the Jubilee Year."
That the following be the committee for the coming year :
Eastern section — Revs. H. Pedley (Convener), Dr. E. M. Hill, Dr. Warriner, Wm. Mcintosh, G. E. Read, H. G. Rice, J. T. Daley and 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. H. O'Hara, (Convener), Revs. J. L. Gordon, J. W. Pedley, E. D. Silcox, J. B. Silcox, J. K. Unsworth, T. B. Hyde, R. J. Drysdale, W. T. Gunn; Messrs. W. Woodley, H. Yeigh, J. W. Lyons, Lyman Lee, A. Wick- Jion, and G. C. Cousins.
That the report as thus enlarged be adopted.
The motion was carried and report adopted.
Moved by Rev. J. K. Unsworth, seconded by Rev. D. S. Hamilton, that the report of the Committee on Church Union be placed before the members of our churches either in pam-
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phlet form or througli the Canadian Congregationalist. Carried.
Moved by Eev. J. K. Unsworth, seconded by Rev. J. P. Gerrie, that as the sum of $250 should be placed at the disposal of the Committee on Church Union for the proper conducting of negotiations the Committee be requested by the Union to provide for that amount for this purpose.
The motion was carried.
Moved by Rev. J. K. Unsworth, seconded by Rev. H. G. Rice, that pending the carrying out of the proposed changes in the constitution and methods of the Union, and in view of the general desire that there should be some person connected with the Union whose whole time should be devoted to the worS of the denomination, we request the chairman-elect, the Rev. W. T. Gunn, M.A., B.D., to give himself wholly to the work of the churches, serving as a pastor at large, to exercise a fraternal oversight of the churches, to assist in pastoral set^ tlements or any other occasion of need and to act in conjunc- tion with the various societies for the furtherance of all denominational work.
That the arrangements with Mr. Gunn be entrusted on behalf of the Union to the Committee of the Union with the chairman and secretary. Carried.
Moved by Mr. F. Waters, seconded by Rev. E. D. Silcox, that appreciating our fellowship with the English Congrega- tionalists, and especially the aid they have given us in con- nection with the Jubilee Fund, our Missionary operations and the College, the Committee on Church Union be instructed to present the mattefr and proposals with reference to Church Union to the Colonial Missionary Society and the Congrega- tional Union of England and Wales for prayerful consideration and counsel. Carried.
The union adjourned to meet at 3 p.m.
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MONDAY AFTERNOON.
The Union re-assembled at 3 o'clock.
The Minutes of last meeting read and adopted.
The Nomination Committee presented the following nominations: — Secretary-treasurer, E,ev. J. T. Daley; Statis- tical Secretary, Rev. J. T. Daley; Union Preacher, Rev. J. L. Alexander; Alternate Preacher, Rev. Wm. Munroe.
Committee on Incorporation of Churches — Messrs C. Pushing, Lyman Lee, S. P. Leet, Rev. E. D. Silcox.
Committee to confer with Anglicans on Bible in Schools — Revs. J. W. Pedley (Convener), J. B. Silcox, Hugh Pedley, J. K. Unsworth, J. P. Gerrie, W. H. Warriner, W. E. Gilroy, John Morton; Messrs. J. B. Dougall and H. O'Hara.
CoTnmittee on Sabbath Observance — Revs. H. I. Horsey (Convener), W. E. Gilroy, Wm. Munroe and Mr. E. G. Mal- colm.
CoTnmittee on Svjiday Schools and Young People's So- cieties— Revs. J. B. Silcox (Convener), D. S. Hamilton, J. P. Gerrie and H. W. Barker.
Representatives on College Senate — Revs. J. K. Uns- worth, G. E. Read, D. C. Mcintosh and Dr. F. A. Stevenson..
CoTnmittee on Church Union — Revs. Hugh Pedley (Con- vener), W. H. Warriner, J. T. Daley, J. L. Gordon, E. M. Hill, J. W. Pedley, J. K. Unsworth, F. J. Day, J. P. Gerrie, W. T. Gunn, D. S. Hamilton, T. B. Hyde, Wm. Mcintosh, Prof. H. A. Youtz; Messrs. T. B. Caldwell, J. R. Dougall, Jas. Hendry, T. B. Macaulay, S. P. Leet, A. McA. Murphy, C. R. Black, C. Cushing, H. O'Hara, B. W. Robertson and A. Wickson.
Union Committee — Revs. J. W. Pedley, J B Silcox, J. T. Daley, T. B. Hyde, E. M. Hill, T. K. Unsworth, Hugh Pedley, Wm. Mcintosh, H. G. Rice; Messrs. C. Cushing, S. H. C. Miner, B. AY. Robertson, T. B. Macaulay.
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Delegates to Union of N.S. and N.B. — Revs. Wm. Mc- intosh, Hugli Pedley, R. K. Black, W. T. Currie, W. R. Harvey and Jolin McKillican.
Delegates to Union of England and Wales — Autumnal meetings 1906. Rev. W. E. Gilroy.
May Meetings 1907, Rev. Dr. Warriner.
Delegates to United Brethren Conference — Revs. J. P. Gerrie, D. S. Hamilton, W. T. Gunn.
Committee on Temperance — Revs. E. D. Silcox (Con- vener), G. H. Craik, John McKillican, R. G. Watt, W. H. A. Claris, D. S. Hamilton; Messrs. R. W. McLaughlin, S. P. Leet, Mesdames Sanderson and Leet.
Committee in Re-organization — Western section — Revs. J. P. Gerrie, E. D. Silcox, A. R. Schrag, W. T. Gunn, H. F. Thomas, Mr. G. H. Wilson.
Eastern section — Revs. Hugh Pedley, G. H. Craik, Wm. Munroe, J. L. Alexander; Messrs. A. McA. Murphy, Geo. E. Williams, W. H. Smith.
The report was adopted and the appointments made.
The report of the Temperance Committee, presented by Rev. D. S. Hamilton, was adopted.
Moved by Rev. John McKillican, seconded by Rev. H. F. Thomas, that the Union expresses its appreciation of the valu- able service rendered to the Temperance cause hj the "Pioneer" in the education of the voters respecting the rights of the people. It is a valuable fund of information on Tem- perance life and work. Carried.
Moved by Rev. W. T. Gunn, seconded by Rev. J. P. Gerrie, that our delegates to the Union of N. S. and X. B. notify the churches in those provinces of the change of name of our Union; that they be invited to become members and that on the passing of a resolution by them indicating their wish to join this Union they be received into membership. Carried.
Rev. Hugh Pedley gave notice of motion :
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That article VI. of the Constitution read as follows : —
That the officers of this Union be a Chairman, General
Secretary, Treasurer, Recording and Statistical Secretary
and Committee, the duties of this Committee being as follows :
(1.) To act as an Advisory Board with the General Sec- retary.
(2.) To prepare business for, and to make reports to the Union.
(3.) To carry out instructions of the Union.
Moved by Revs. J. K. Uns worth and E. D. Silcox, that in order to facilitate the re-organization of the Congregational Union of Canada, the constitution as a whole be considered as under revision and that the publication in the Canadian Con- gregationalist before March 1st, 1907 of any recommendations of the Committee on Re-organization be considered as due notice of motion to change the Constitution and Standing Rules. Carried.
A communication was received from the Sentinel Review with offer of free copy of paper to members of Union. The offer was accepted and the thanks of Union returned.
Rev. J. P. Gerrie, on behalf of Business Committee, moved :
(1.) That the report of the Union Committee be adopt- ed and incorporated in the Minutes.
(2.) That the Statistical Reports be printed in the Year Book, and that our thanks be given to the Secretary for his painstaking labors in this connection.
The report was adopted.
The Statistical reports were discussed.
The Union adjourned.
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MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1906.
The chairman presided.
Rev. J. K. Unsworth addressed the Union.
The Secretary read a message containing the greetings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
Th Rev. W. T. Currie gave an illustrated address on the work in West Central Africa.
Moved by Revs. Wm. Mcintosh and J. K. Unsworth, that Mr. H. O'Hara and Rev. W. E. Gilroy be a committee to ar- range for printing the chairman's address on "The Revival of Religion. Carried.
Rev. J. P. Gerrie, on behalf of the Business Committee, presented the following report :
We would recommend that our most cordial thanks be given : —
1. To the pastor and members of the Embro Church for their kind and generous hospitality. It has been a great plea- sure to meet in this village, and we gratefully recognize the special opportunities which have been afforded us for a full and frank discussion of business and all matters relating to our churches.
2. To the organist and choir for their appreciated assist- ance, the former at the morning meetings and both at our evening gatherings.
3. To Mr. Geo. Forbes for his thoughtfulness in providing the comfort of the church building, both for the personal use of delegates and the meetings of the Union, and to Mr. Nacy McKenzie for his courteous and faithful attention to all calls at the office.
4. To our chairman for his wise and efficient occupancy of the chair.
5. To our secretaries for their painstaking attention to the business of the Union.
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6. To E,ev. Galen H. Craik for his excellent sermon on Sunday morning.
7. To Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Currie, Cisamba, Africa, for their presence with us and inspiring messages on the work of our mission field.
8. To the railways for their transportation privileges which we have greatly appreciated.
The report was adopted.
The Minutes were taken as read and adopted.
The Union adjourned to meet next year in Hamilton.
JAMES T. DALY, Secretary
Wm. MUNROE, J. W. PIERCE, T. A. MIJNRO,
Minute Secretaries.
Rev. Wm. Ewing
Of the S. S. Publishing Society of the U.S. A former g-raduate of the Cong-regational College of Canada, who was prescntand addressed the Union as w«ll as the Missionary Society, and who has gone to visit the Northwest on behalf of the Missionary Society.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from last year $i57 oo
Collections during the year i6 oo
Collections from churches . . ^^ 280 95
Minister's fees 24 00
Personals 10 00
Wednesday evening- collection 12 35
Friday evening collection 12 04
$512 34
DISBURSEMENTS.
Printing in Year-Book , • . $ 80 75
Expenses Com. on Church Union 58 15
Printing 6 00
Secretary's expenses, postage, etc., 11 80
Secretary's honorarium 50 00
Expenses Com. on United Brethren 6 30
Expenses Rev. W. T. Currie 7 50
Ministers and Delegates (on claim $315 76) 185 50
Balance on hand 106 34
$512 34 THOMAS MOODIE,
Chairman of Committee. Embro, June gth, 1906.
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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CHURCHES.
IN 1905 AFTER REPORT:
Montreal, Emmanuel, . . $ i oo Sherbrooke 1500
$16 00
REPORT FOR 1906.
Barrie $ 4 00
Bowmanville 6 00
Brantford 9 00
Cowansville 7 04
Cobourg- and Cold
Springs 5 00
Danville 5 00
Edgar 2 00
Franklin Centre 3 00
Forest and Plympton . . 5 00
Frome 1 60
Guelph 5 00
Granby 13 30
Hamilton, First 10 00
Kingston, Calvary, 4 85
Kingston, Bethel, 5 00
London, Southern, i 75
London, First 5 00
Lanark 6 25
Maxville 12 80
Middleville H & R 7 05
Montreal, Zion, 10 00
Montreal, Emmanuel,.. 40 85 Montreal, Point St.
Charles 10 00
Montreal, Calvary, ... 15 00
New Durham 5 00
Ottawa 10 00
Pine Grove . . i 00
Paris 5 00
Scotland S 00
Stanstead, South 5 00
Toronto, Olivet, 5 00
Toronto, Northern, .... 10 00
TorontOj Zion, 5 00
Toronto, Broadview.... 3 00
Toronto, Bond St 10 00
Toronto, Western 10 00
Toronto, Parkdale, .... i 86
Waterville 5 00
Woodstock 5 00
Total for 1906 $280 95
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
Mr. Chairman and Brethren. — In response to my appeals for statistics I have had replies from all the Quebec churches but one, and all the Ontario churches but six. All of those not reporting are without pastors. So far as I have learned there is no change in the number of churches.
The following churches are vacant or ministered to by supply. Burford and New Durham, Barrie, Speedside and Fergus, Forest and Plympton, Forest Lake Shore and Eben- ezer, Garafraxa and Belwood, Pine Grove and Humber Sum- mit, Kincardine, Kingston First, Scotland, Tilbury and Ren- wick.
Some have been vacant two years and a half and still struggle on. How much longer they will continue to do so has been the question before me quite frequently. We have surely learned at a great cost the result of having no one to look after churches that become vacant and are left uncared for to fall into the hands of some adventurer or to close their doors for long periods, or even permanently. Of our former pastors Revs. T. Leggette, John W. Pate, George Skinner and 1). M. Solandt have gone elsewhere. Rev. C. E. Bolton has retired and Geo. A. Lowes gone into evangelistic work.
The new men reported are : Revs. W. S. Stranahan, Ham- ilton, Emmanuel; F. B. Windros, Kingston, Calvary; A. Ma- caulay, Middleville; W. Herald Stacey, Parkdale; J. L. Sker- ret, Woodstock and A. W. Main, Point St. Charles.
The membership of the churches is always an interesting feature of these reports. It is needless to say that figures can- not tell the result of the year's work. It is gratifying, how- ever, to note that the additions to membership are above those of last year, being 678, of these 477 on profession of faith and 201 by letter. Over against this we must place the fact that 708 have been removed from the roll, thus showing a net de- crease of 30. The number of removals is large on account of the extensive revision of the roll in Bond St. Church, where 416 have been dropped. Were it not for this exceptional case
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the showing would be somewhat better than for several years.
Our churches have been feeling the migration to the West. Many of them are now represented in that newer Canada in which we have so few churches to welcome them.
The additions to the churches have been shared by most of the churches. Special mention may be made of a few. Barrie, although pastorless, received 32 on profession; Ottawa, Wel- come-Zion, 25; Hamilton, Emmanuel, 25; Stratford, 20; To- ronto, Northern, 30; Western, 40; Broadview, 31;Parkdale, 30; Woodstock, 17; Montreal, Zion, 26; Ernmanuel, 22; West- m.cunt, 21; Amherst Park, 26; Point St. Charles, 64, Water- ville, 17.
The Sunday Schools appear to be well sustained and good work has been done in them. On the other hand the Young People's Societies have been seriously neglected. There has been a movement away from the Y. P. S. C. E., other kinds of societies having been substituted or the work allowed to cease entirely. It is to be hoped there may be a decided change for the better in the near future.
This has been a good year financially. Only one church in Quebec and fourteen in Ontario report a debt remaining on their property. The total debt reported is $52,403, part of which is provided for.
The amount raised for all purposes is $173,995, or an in- crease of $28,225 over last year and probably the largest amount ever raised in one year by our churches.
I have not included in the report thus far any of the fig- ures in connection with the churches in the Western Prov- inces. The appearance of reports from some of these will be interesting to the readers of the Year Book. We hope that next year all the churches will be reported. So far as heard from these Western churches appear to be doing well. Mr. Sanden has as assistant Pev. B. T. Persen, and the work has been extended so that they now hold services in seven different places.
E/Cspectfully submitted,
James T. Daly.
Statistical Secretary.
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R Ev. J. B . SiLCOX
Chairman for 1906
CHAIRMAN'S ADDEESS.
THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION,
The Revival of Religion is tke theme on which I am em- boldened to speak in this address that you demand from one you elect to be Chairman. The importance of the theme is my justification for its selection, rather than the possession of any special qualifications for its illumination. The theme is as old as Eden, and what I have to say is as commonplace as the gospel. The conditions that confront us as men and women concerned for the extension of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, compel us to give to this then our clearest thought and devoutest consideration.
The comparatively few additions to the membership of the churches the last few years ; the failure of the churches to in- terest the masses in religion; the estrangement between or- ganized Labor and organized Church; the decreasing number
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of young men offering themselves to the work of the Christian ministry; the monotonous mediocrity and dignified dullness of a good deal of what is called religious worship and work; the consciousness that the divisions of the church are unjustifi- able, and yet the unwillingness or inability to heal these divis- ions by making the church one in organization as it is one in faith and purpose; the low ethical standards that prevail in business and in the management of great financial enterprises ; the spread of an insidious worldly spirit that is making the people lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God are some of the things that emphasize the need of a revival of religion.
It is not merely a denominational need. It is a national need. It is not the revival of an ism that is needed, there is too much of that sort of thing existent already. It is the revival of religion, reading into the word religion all the nobler mean- ings that the gospel message imports into it. It is the revival of spiritual life in the souls of men. It is the revival of right- eousness in all the relations of man with man. It is a revival of faith in the great teachings of Jesus, a revival that will lead the church to prize anew the great worth to the world of the truths Jesus commissioned her to teach and preach. The church must deepen its hold upon the great regal doctrines that Jesus taught, and translate these doctrines into the life and thought of the people. There is nothing this world needs so much as the sweet religion of Jesus. There is nothing that will give human life such large and beautiful meanings, such su- blime and divine ambitions as the religion of Jesus The reviv- al of religion is the revival of everything that makes life worth living This revival waits on the action of the church It must begin where judgment begins, at the house of God. "If my people who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." These words reveal a divine and eternal principle of moral reform. They show the divine method of elevating the ethical life of a people. The responsibility of the church for the moral health of the community and the nation
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could not be expressed in language more felicitous and force- ful. So the moral life of the nation is dependent on the spirit- ual life of the church. As the flow of the fountain depends on the fulness of tKe reservoir. The church is the pillar and ground of the truth. If the foundation is faulty, if the pillars are weak, the whole structure of human society will collapse and tumble into ruin. Ye are the salt of the earth. The church is the centre and source of moral purity to the commun- ity and to the nation. The responsibility of the church for the moral health of the nation, and of the world, is a truth em- phasized all through the Bible. The salvation oi the world de- pends on the revival of religion in the church. " For behold darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people, but Jehovah shall shine upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon tliee." And as a result of this, "Nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." The re- vival of religion in the church means the revival of righteous- ness in the nation. It means the salvation of the world. "We will go with you for we have seen that God is with you."
The need of a revival of religion is impressed on us, not from a backward look, but from a forward look. I do not join the chorus of those who say that the former times were better than these in which we now live. No good is gained by mini- mizing the real religious life that prevails in our midst. When Jesus was calling the seven churches in Asia to a higher life he did not minimize the many virtues that already thrived there. The progress we have made, the heights we have gain- ed in things religious are elevations which beckon us to heights of holiness and truth. It is light that reveals darkness. It is truth that exposes error. Knowledge gained creates hunger for fuller knowledge The reward of service is increased desire and increased capacity for service. It is because we have made conquests that we desire to still widen the empire and extend the dominion of our King.
We should be thankful for the divine discontent that characterizes the church.es of Christ to-day. It is a hopeful sign that they are pleased with themselves. Discontent with
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present conditions of things is a sign of healthful life, and is evidence of the presence of the Spirit of God in our midst. The church's criticism of itself is prophetic of splendid achieve- ments in days to come. When a church becomes satisfied with itself and its attainments, deterioration has begun. Mortfi- cation has set in. The church does not criticise itself, that does not reach out after fuller life and clearer knowledge is the church of the graveyard, and will go to the graveyard. And the sooner the better, lest it cumber the ground.
The church of Christ to-day is a larger church, a more spiritual church, a more ethical church, a better doctrined church, than any church of the past. The church of to-day holds its Bible with a more intelligent and appreciative grip than it ever held it. It is doing more to translate and circulate its Bible among the languages and nations of the world than of any period of the past. Criticism, higher and lower alike, has helped instead of harmed men's faith in the Bible's divine- ness. Criticism has simply helped to distinguish the earthen vessel from the heavenly treasure, so that the heavenly trea- sure, the revelation of God in the gospel of His grace is more to men than it ever was.. The Bible has revealed to us the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and therefore it has made us wise unto salvation, and therefore we revere it and cling to it.
The church to-day is more loyal to Jesus Christ and un- derstands Him better than at any period of the past. The div- inity or deity of Jesus is held to-day more firmly than in the past, and by an increasing number to the ends of the earth. More and more men acknowledge that His name is above every name. No mortal can with Him compare among the sons of men. To Crown Him Lord of all, to make Him supreme authority in religion, to make His kingship re'gnant over the thrones of the world, to make His laws operative ON EARTH as in heaven, is the purpose and passion of millions of His fol- lowers throughout the whole world.
The Cross is more to the church to-day than it ever was. The sacrifice of Jesus as a revelation of the grace of God to sin-
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ful man, is more and more becoming the hope of salvation to man, the world over. When the world asks what great thing Jesus did for man's salvation, the church answers, He died for men, the Just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. The glory of the Cross is the grace of the Cross.
" Forever here my rest shall be,
Close to Thy bleeding side, This all my hope and all my plea.
For me the Saviour died."
We are reading, not smaller meanings, but larger mean- ings into these great declarations of the gospel. The Cross is not only a revelation of the atoning grace of God, it is the revelation of a law of life, for "except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit."
In pleading then for the revival of religion, we mean that religion already exists as a blessed hope and as a beneficent power in the world, so blessed and beneficent that we wish to see its power intensified and benefits extended. We want the individual christian to come into closer fellowship with God, and into more fraternal comradeship with man. We want the church, now doing so humane a work in the world to fill a larger sphere of service. We want the altruistic spirit already at work to be augmented so that men everywhere shall be hu- mane, after the plan and pattern of Jesus, who came not to be ministered unto but to minister. The revival of religion we plead for is the revival of that spirit which exclaims :
"0 that the world might taste and see,
The riches of His grace. The arms of love that welcomed me,
Would all mankind embrace."
This yearning desire for the good of humanity, this faith that God would have all men share His saving grace, is in- cluded in this term, the revival of religion.
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To be more specific, let me emphasize the things that will be revived in a revival of religion.
First, the revival of religion will be a revival of ap- preciation of and devotion to the Church of Christ. We are in the Church of Christ because of the conviction that the best love and service we can give to Christ is love and service to His Church. It is in the Church and through the Church that we can render the best service to God and humanity. There is no avenue or agency, no institution or organization through which we can do such rich and varied beneficent work for our fellowmen throughout the world, as through the Church of Christ. Its broad-visioned outlook on the needs and possi- bilities of humanity, its many-handed philanthropies elicit and give scope to all the energies of our being. The best in- vestment a man can make of his life is to invest it in the Church that Jesus loved, and gave Himself to, that He might make it a glorious Church, beautiful "as a bride adorned for her husband," as John saw it in his divine dream at Patmos.
I am a high Churchman, in the sense that I give the Church of Christ the highest place in my affectionate regard. I spell it with a capital C, in italics, underscored. The Church stands for something in the community and in the world. It stands for the highest things of God, and for the highest good of man. It is the medium through which the manifold wis- dom of God is made known to the world. It is the pillar and ground of the truth. It is the household of faith. It is the body of Christ. It is the Bride of Christ. Paul bankrupts rhetoric in the use of similes and symbols to figure forth the splendor and glory of the Church that culminates as the "City of God," the "Church of the First-born who are enrolled in heaven."
I know something of history. I do not minimize the ser- vice tendered to humanity by other instrumentalities and fra- ternities, but I affirm that no organization can come within astronomcial distance to the church in beneficent service to humanity. There is no organization that believes so intelli-
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gently in the Fatherhood of God, and believes so practically in the Brotherhood of man, as th,e Church of Christ. The Church plants itself on the oneness of humanity and proclaims to all men alike, the one message of God's redeeming grace revealed in the Cross of Jesus. It overrides all racial differences, ignores all social differences, oblit- erates all differences of color and caste and clime, and binds in one divine fraternity all people that on earth do dwelj. The Church of Christ calls no man, and no race of men, common or unworthy the redeeming, refining grace of the Gospel. At its Cross, at its Communion Table, all differ- ences vanish, and man meets man on one broad basis that all are alike in their need, and that all are equal in access to the impartial grace of God's salvation. There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free. There is no organization on earth, there never has been any, that gives such practical ex- pression to the oneness of humanity as the Church of Christ. It sends its ministers and missionaries into the darkest corners of creation and bids tkem preach the gospel of love to every creature.
Let us renew our faith in the worth of the Church to the community, to the nation and to the world. Macaulay was right when he affirmed the Church of Christ to be "tKe chief instrument that has made for man's progress in knowledge and culture." Think what the Church has been to you personally. Think what it has done for your family and community. Who would care to live in a community where no church spire pointed the people to a higher life and a diviner destiny. Who would care to bring up a family where no instruction was given in the Commandments of God, where no reference was made to the Beatitudes of Jesus. Imagine a community with religion eliminated, the name of God proscribed, and all the sweet humanities nurtured by religion, erased from the soul. Think of a community without an altar, without a Bible, without a Sabbath, without a prayer. That would be the con- dition of a community without a church. Emerson may well ask, ''What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the
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loss of worship. Tlien all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate. Science is cold. The eye o± faith is not lighted by the hope of other worlds. Age is with- out honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die we d'^ not mention them." Henry Drummond might well say as he did, "If it were mine to build a city, the first stone I should lay would be the foundation stone of a church." In this age when commercialism is fixing men's minds on material things, the greater the need of the church to remind them that man cannot live on factories and warehouses alone, that pulling down barns to build greater and neglecting the house of the soul that is to live forever, is poor economy. There was never a time when the Church was more needed to lift up its voice in strong and tender tones and say to men in the market-place of the world what shall it profit if you gain the whole world, and LOSE that eternal life, the life of the soul.
The Church costs ; yes, it costs. From the day that the Cross was set up at Calvary the church has cost much. It has cost tears and blood. All down the centuries it has cost, and it costs to-day, but it is worth all it costs. It pays back in noble dividends for all the thought and time and tears and talents we inv.est in it. It is the mother and nurse of all humane and beneficent organizations. What the genial atmosphere of Spring is to flowers and fruits, that the church is to all the hu- manities that sweeten and gladden and beautify the life we live.
The Church I know is not perfect. It is often weak where it should be strong. It is often tamely silent where it should be fiercely eloquent. It is often worldly and frivolous where it should be spiritual and serious. It is often wracked by dis- seniong where it should be united in love. It has smiled up- on practices that it should have denounced, and tolerated evils that it should have eradicated. Too often it has bent down to the low motives and fashionable follies of the world around it. Too often it has merited the rebuke of the Master, "I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love." But when all this is confessed and admitted, it
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must also be admitted that tile Church is the best institution that we have for promoting personal religion and social right- eousness; for honoring God and helping humanity. Jesus lov- ed the Church, and to it committed His grace and truth, with the command go preach to every creature, go teach all na- tions. To this high task the Church, from the beginning, has been dedicated. To this world-wide service, men and women of highest culture and rarest talent have gladly given their best. In the church we are linked with the choicest and you meet Paul and Priscilla, Peter and Dorcas, Chrysostom and Athanasius, Augustine and Monica, Thomas k Kempis and Savonarola, Luther and St. Francis of Assissi, Catharine Booth and Senta Teresa, Wycliffe and Francis Xavier, Calvin and Milton, Wesley and Bunyan, Spurgeon and Channing, John Knox and Tolstoi, Livingstone and Shaftesbury, Crom- well and Beecher, Moody and Whittier, Raphael and Handel, and a great multitude of every nation and order of genius who have counted it their highest joy to be linked with Christ and the Church in service to humanity.
As "fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household of God" let us fill our minds and souls with exalted concep- tions of the worth of the Church to the world, and let us real- ize that membership in any church, however small, means membership in this great cosmopolitan company that is filling the world with the hope and joy of the gospel of Christ. And as we think of these churches let us pray the prayer of Christ, "that they may be one," one in organization as they are one in faith and purpose. The things that unite us to Christ and to one another are a thousand times more important than the little, infinitesimal, microscopic minutee that separates us. The man is not far wrong who affirms that our diii'erences are about as important as the difference in the way of sharpening a lead pencil.
I submit, that churches that practically stand in the same relation to Jesus Christ that practically hold the same views of sin and salvation, whose pulpits every
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Sunday practically proclaim the vsame great doctrines of grace, whose people every Sunday sing the same great hymns of salvation, whose missionaries carry to the heathen world the same Bible and the same gospel, ought to be able to come together in an organic union that would make visible this unity and forever eliminate the waste and weakness occasioned by our divisions and separations. The task of arranging a basis of union may have its difficulties, but the task of justifying ourselves in holding aloof from each other, is a harder and more serious task than to devise a way of coming together.
Let us renew our faith in the worth of the Church to the community, and resolve to make it an increasing power for good among men. Put more love, more thought, and more labor into your own individual local church. Make it the centre and source of all that refines and beautifies human life in the com- munity. The desert can be made to blossom as the rose, and harvests will wave where barrenness prevailed.
The great revival which began with St. Francis of Assissi, and which illumined all Italy with celestial light, began in a very simple but significant way. With the love of Jesus in his soul, St. Francis went over the Umbrian hills, and with his own hands gathered stones from the quarries and repair- ed the dilapidated walls of the neglected chapel, so that faith should no longer be an outcast from the sanctuary. The res- toration of that village church, making it a fit place for the presence of God, was the beginning of a movement that spread in benediction over all Europe. Many a church, now weak and dying, would be revived into vigorous life if the member- ship would come together and resolve to give themselves no rest until they had made their church a praise and power in the community. 'Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time to favor her is come, yea the set time is come, for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favor the dust thereof." A revival of interest in the church on the part of its members would be the beginning of a revival of interest in
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things religious that would revolutionize the entire commun- ity. There are places where the people have allowed the church building to deteriorate until it is about the cheapest, meanest and least attractive structure in the community. In the homes of the people your feet fall on the plush of richest carpets, in the church you stumble over old, faded, rotten matting that would not be allowed on the floor of a third-rate saloon. Many a church needs a revival that will enable its members to stand up honestly with David and say, "I have set my affection on the House of my God." The word of God to many a congre- gation is "Beautify the place of My sanctuary." Bring into the church the best in art, the highest in music and the noblest in oratory and compel the outside world to confess that these people do in fact and truth give Religion the first place in their affectionate esteem. Another specific form that the re- vival of religion will take is a revival of concern for the sal- vation of men's souls.
The Church is a means to an end. Jesus organized the Church to carry on the work that He began. The mission of Jesus and the mission of the Church of Jesus are one and the same. "As the Father hath sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world." Now it is one of the commonplace truisms of our religion that Jesus came to seek and save the lost. "It is a faithful saying," and it is a tre- mendously important saying, and worthy of more considera- tion than is usually given to it, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to SAVE sinners." The Church of Christ cannot give that saying too great prominence. It cannot make too much of it in her creeds and confessions. It cannot make this truth too conspicuous in her teaching and preaching. It can- not too highly exalt it in holy hymn and jubilant anthem. It is impossible to unduly emphasize the Saviourhood of Jesus. By no pleonastic redundancy, by no tautological repetition, by no hyperbole of exaggeration is it possible to give too great perspicuity and force to this colossal truth of divine revelation. There is no truth that deserves nobler expression or demands more eloquent emphasis than the truth that God's heart of
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love goes out in yearning desire and saving grace to every lost soul on tlie face of the earth.. This is the message of the gos- pel. This is the evangel of J.esus. The ultimate aim and end of preaching is the salvation of men. We are sent to save men, and there is a sense in which it is true that a lost soul is an ac- cusatoin against the church.
If we are to be real messengers and interpreters of this evangel of salvation, then must we rightly apprehend the great Bible words that Jesus used, and taught His apostles to use. Take those two charter passages of the Church, which declare in explicit terms why Jesus came, and notice two significant words. "The Son of Man came to seek and save that which was Lost." "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him might not PER- ISH." We must read scriptural meanings into those words LOST, PERISH, if we are rightly to appreciate the evangel of Jesus. Those words LOST and PERISH ought to ring in our souls with the sadness of a funeral knell. On the dark and mysterious background of those ominous words, God, in letters of gold has written the message of saving grace.
"But none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed;
Nor how dark was the night our Lord passed through,
Ere He found the sheep that was LOST."
Read again some of the great Bible words. "The GRACE of God bringing SALVATION to all men hath appeared." And again, "He will have all men to be SAVED." We can- not unduly magnify those words GRACE, SALVATION, SAVED. The apostles took that word GRACE, the richest and most beautiful word in the Greek language and made it the key-word of the gospel. Over against man's sin they put God's grace, and grace erased the sin, blotted it out so that it ceased to be. 'Where sin abounded GRACE did abound more exceedingly. "GRACE saved the LOST. GRACE brought SALVATION to souls ready to PERISH. All that we LOST
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through sin is restored to us through GRACE. To "testify the gosepl of the Grace of God" is the glad privilege of every member of the Church of God.
Those words SAVED and SALVATION are the biggest words in our language. We must not minimize them. We must read into them the large and divinely beautiful meanings that God's great gospel always gives them. They are picked and packed words. In that word SALVATION there is packed ail the good that God has for man, here and hereafter.
When Portia in her pleading with Shylock reminds him that if cold, bare justice was followed, none of us should see SALVATION, she declared a great gospel truth, the truth that the nan who misses the salvation of God misses the highest boon heaven can bestow. Higher eulogy was never paid to Paul and his associates in the gospel than when from the lips of that devil-wracked, hell-tortured soul there came the testi- mony, "the«ie are the servants of God who show unto us the way of salvation" 0 preacher go and preach, singer go and sing, so that you may compel the outside world to acknowledge that you are showing lost souls the way of salvation.
What must I do to be saved, is a question that has tKe right of way over every other question. He who can answer that question helps men where help is most needed.
One day as Stanley was pushing his way through the tangled forests of the darli continent, the wife of one of his native helpers lay in the tent dying. In her helplessness she looked up into Stanley's face and said, "Master, this is a dark world and we have lost our way." To multitudes around us, this is a dark world. They have lost their way and need some one to guide them in the ways of sweet religion. The guide must know the way.
A wounded soldier in the American civil war looked up into the face of the chaplain who was speaking to him of sal- vation, and said to him, "Make it so plain that I can get hold of it. "There is nothing on which men need clearer teaching
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than on the way of salvation. The conditions of Christian discipleship need to be made plain to the people. There is force in the saying that more people would be Christian if they knew how to go about it.
Jesus put a high value on the individual soul, in his es- timate a soul outweighs a world. The highest joy of heaven is the joy of winning back to God a lost soul. That crown and pearl of all the parables, the joy of the shepherd finding the lost sheep, the joy of the woman finding the lost coin, the joy of the father finding the lost son, illustrates the joy of heaven when a sinner turns to God. The church needs to realize anew the joy and the glory of evangelism. The revival we need is a revival of interest in the salvation of souls. "We must go out and make converts. We must win souls to Christ. We must get men and women committed to His service. We must be so absorbed in this that we can say with Paul, "I am become of all things to all men, that by all means, I might save some. That this desire for the salvation of souls exists in the church I admit, but it needs to be deepened and intensified. Relative- ly we are cold and apathetic where we should be fervorous and enthi'siastic. As ministers and members we do not sufficiently realiz'» the great truth that "he who conv.erteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death." Not the minister alone, but the whole church must be concerned for the salvation of souls. The church will never do this work aright until this spirit of evangelism possesses the entire membership. When minister, Sunday School teachers, deacons, finance com- mittee, choir. Endeavor Society, Ladies' Aid Society, with the entire membership are concerned for the salvation of souls, souls will be saved and the church enlarged.
Much is said in these days about the indifference of the masses to the church. The indifference of the church to the masses is the primary and colossal indifference that fronts us to-day. It is comparatively easy to break up the indifference of the people to the church when once you have brokeixup the indifference of the church to the people. When the church re-
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spends to the call of God, the world will respond to the call of the church. The whole church must glow with the spirit of evangelism. "0 that my Saviour were your Saviour too" must be the longing heart-prayer of the entire membership. Every saved soul must seek, with definite intent, to save another. He who receives the gospel and does not impart it turns a living stream into a stagnant pool. The Christian man or woman who is not trying to make converts to Christ may question the genuineness of their own conversion, and needs to seek the grace of God anew. Many people are doing what is called church-work, but relatively very few are definitely aiming and working to bring souls to Christ. Phillips Brooks said, "It is a terrible thing for a rich man to pass through the world with- out having out of his abundance, helped a poor man, but it is a far more terrible thing for a Christian to die without having brought another soul to Christ." Your concern for the salva- tion of others is the truest expression of your appreciation of the salvation that has saved you. The church that has. lost concern for the salvation of souls has lost the secret of Jesus.
Carlyle speaking of the church of his boyhood said, "If any one happened to awake to the fact that he had a soul to be saved he would go to that church, for there were saints of God there, and the real gospel of the grace of God was preached ther=!.'' He spoke a great truth when he said that, Men will go to the church that shows most concern for their salvation. Saving men's souls will make a church popular, and its the only popularity a church should care for or pray for. If it should get abroad that people could not attend our churches without receiving a great spiritual uplift, they would be thronged with worshippers every time the doors were opened. iN'ations shall come to the light, if you have any light for them to come to. It is not the polity that attracts, it is the gospel. God pity and forgive the church that is zealous in propagating a polity where it should have been proclaiming a gospel. It is about time that some churches quit talking about their "'peculiar pol- ity" and "distinctive principles" and began to prove them-
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selves apostolic by apostolic zeal for the salvation of the souls of men.
The people do not care whether the church is Methodist or Presbyterian or Congregational in its polity, so long as it is Christlike in its zeal for the souls of men. The multitudes did not crowd into the Tabernacle because Spurgeon was a Baptist, or throng Plymouth church because Beecher was a Congrega- tionalist. The people did not pack St. James Hall because Hugh Price Hughes was a Methodist, or -push into Trinity Church because Phillips Brooks was an Episcopalian. They did not press to hear Henry Drummond because he was a Pres- byterian. They went in shoals to hear Moody without know- ing or caring to know what church he belonged. It was a great, warm, strong, tender, helpful gospel that drew the people. "If I be lifted up will draw." The best church is the church that does most to bring men and women into saving relatoins with Jesus Christ. It makes little difference who preaches the gospel, so that the gospel is preached, or by whom men are brought to the Saviour so that they are brought. The revival of religion for which I plead will be concerned for the salvation of the individual soul, and will be equally concerned for the salvation of society. Social salvation is as much a part of the evangel of Jesus as individual salvation. The program of Jesus includes the Christianizing of society as well as the Christianizing of the individual. A saved world was in the mind of Jesus as well as a saved soul. These two purposes of Jesus, the regeneration of the human soul, and the regenera- tion of human society must ever be before us. They must never be disassociated. The problem of a better and diviner type of man lies in the problem of a better and diviner type of human society. It is also equally true that back of the social problem lies the problem of the individual. There is a reci- procity of influence between these two great companion prin- ciples that we do well to recognize and act on. The commun- ity cannot be elevated only as the individuals that compose it are elevated. A pack of wolves will be no more humane than the individual wolves that compose the pack. Jesus dealt prim-
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arily with the individual. As a social reformer Jesus began not with the institution, but with the individual. Men are where they are because they are what they are. But remem- ber a bird cannot fly with one wing, and the Church of Christ cannot live and thrive and do its work in this world on a half- truth. I know that individual salvation lies back of and must precede social salvation, because I know that you cannot build a marble palace out of mud bricks. I know that you must have clean Cnristian men and women to make a clean Christian commonwealth. I know that J.esus was not primarily concern- ed with the formation of a new social order, but was the quick- ener and Saviour of individual souls. I know that Jesus taught men that death did not end all, that there was a life be- yond the grave as well as a life this side the grave, a heaven of inexpressible bliss in the Father's house of many mansions. I know He taught that, and thankful should we be that He did, for man must die, and he wants a religion that will plant the lamp of an immortal hope in the darkened tomb, and enable him to take the death angel by the hand and go out saying to die is to gain.
I know all that, and will emphasize it. But I also know that Jesus came to establish a kingdom of heaven on earth. He came to reconstruct human society. He came to overthrow everything that hindered the growth of righteousness and holi- ness in the individual soul. The social organization that en- virons every soul born into this world has a great deal to do with the salvation or damnation of that soul. It is the busi- ness of tlie Church of Christ to labor as diligently for the re- generation of human society as for the regeneration of the hu- man soul. It is our business to create and foster an industrial and political organism that will make it possible for every child born into the world to become what God intended it to be. The Christianizing of human relationships is the task that God has committed to the Church of Christ. The making of the nation Christian is as much our duty as the making of the in- dividual Christian. To incorporate the principles of Jesus into national life is the business of the church as much as to incor-
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porate those principles into individual life. The nation must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe on Him in such a way that it embodies His teachings and principles into its laws and intsitutions, else it cannot be saved and is not safe. He who is King of kings must rule the nations of the earth. The nation that does not build on The Rock of Ages builds on sand and invites disaster. Go to the graveyard of buried nations, and on thir tombs read the cause of their downfall, in the in- scription written by the pen of inspiration, "The nation and kingdom that will not serve Thee shall perish; yea, those na- tions shall be utterly wasted." Morley in his life of Glad- stone says, "Mr. Gladstone cared as much for the church as he cared for the state. He believed the attainment by the mag- istrate, of the ends of government to depend upon religion; and he was sure that the strength of a state corresponded to the religious strength and soundness of the community of which the state is the civil organ." He further says that Gladstone "sedulously strove to apply the noblest moralities of religion to the affairs, both of his own nation and of the commonwealth of nations. It was a supreme experiment." Gladstone was Christian enough to see that Jesus intended His principles to rule men in their national relationships, and he was statesman enough to know that the highest statecraft is the rule of Christ.
The kingdom that was so much in the thought and speech of Jesus was a kingdom of heaven ON EARTH. It was not a postmortem kingdom. The Beatitudes He taught, the prin- ciples He proclaimed were not for a far-off heaven beyond the grave. They were for the governance of men and women here and now in this world. It was not a beautiful, visionary Uto- pia, an impossible, unattainable dream, that was flung out by teh Poet of the Gallilean Lake, in the Sermon on the Mount. That sermon is the constitution of the Republic of God that Jesus came to establish among men. The realization of right- e(>usness in the common life of humanity is the theme of that matchless discourse, and must be the aim of all who accept the Leadership of Jesus.
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Jesus believed, and we must believe, that His principles are practicable and realizable bere on this planet Blessed are the meek, blessed are tbe merciful, blessed are tbe pure in lietirt, blessed are the peacemakers bere and now in tbis world. Tt i,-! bere on eartb that men and women of this type are needed. Jesuf- created men and women of tbis type that they might act as salt to purify the world, as leaven to leaven the world. Jesup taught that this is God's world, and God's children are bere to establish God's kingdom, a kingdom wherein dwelleth rijrhteousness. Jesus never intended His religion to divert men Vs aitontion from the problems and politics of this world. Not emigration from the relations of humanity, but affiliation with the interests of humanity was what Jesus enjoined on His followers. His prayer was not that they should be taken out of the world, but that remaining in it, they should not yield to its evil, but overcome evil with good. Read again the say- ings of Jesus and note the significant fact that He spoke more about man's relation to man in this world, than about man's relations to God in another world. Religion as Jesus taught it IS not merely or mainly the winning of a passport to Para- dise. It is the consecration of one's life to the doing of the will of God in service to humanity. The revival that we plead for, tJ e revival that is coming, that is already knocking at our door'5 is a revival of faith in the practicableness of the teach- ings 01 Jesus in their application to the industrial, commercial and political problems that confront us to-day. It is a revival of righteousness in human relations. It is an ethical revival, and it is ethical because it is spiritual. It is a revival of the Christian conscience. It is a revival of thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself when you do business with him and when you go into politics with him. We need the churches filled with reverent worshippers We need more zeal in the work of Christianizing the nations beyond, but more than all, we need that quickening of the Christian conscience that will make men just and true in all the varied relations of business and politi- cal life.
Recent disclosures made with the muck rake, and the muck rake was needed because there was so much muck, show
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that we need a religion that will enable a man to pack a barrel of apples honestly, and carry to the ballot box a vote untainted by bribery. We need a religion that will give a contractor grace enough to take ovit and fulfil an honest contract, and give the director of a Life Insurance Company conscience enough to administer the sacred funds entrusted to him, with- out gorging himself with wealth plundered from widows and orphans, so that he will no longer practice as a pirate while posing as a philanthropist. Jesus was terrific in His denun- ciations of social wrongs. He arraigned the leaders of society in that address reported in Mat. 23. They were zealous to make converts but, etc. Savontrola did it. Beecher did it. Luther did it. Indulgences. L. Al)bott says, "We need a church that will fasten on men their sins."
We want a religion that will smite with the condemnation it deserves the gambling of a race track, even though it be lindi'r the patronage of royalty's representative, and attended by the judges of our courts and the members' of our ;.i!iia- nirnls. We want a religion of righteousness that will not jKr- mit offence's gilded hand to shove by justice, but will mete out equal justice and equal punishment both to the criminal who is so rich that he can buy the court, and the criminal so poor that he cannot hire a lawyer. We want a religion of right- eousness that will prevent parliaments from taking the land that belongs to the people, and handing it over to plutocratic corporations, already rich beyond the dreams of avarice, and who take this gift of power and use it to the further impover- ishment and oppression of the people. The tyranny of despots like the Pharoahs is tender as a mother's hand compared with the tyranny of many modern corporations that "grind the faces of the poor," and turn aside the needy from justice. The church must stand in the community as an organized, incar- nate. Christian conscience, lifting up her voice against iniquity in high places and low, calling on corporations and individu- als to repent of their sins, do justly and keep the command- m.ents of God. The church must learn to use the whip of small cords, and drive out of God's temple and out of God's nation all unholy traffic and all unrighteous traffickers.
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The chiii'cli must coucern itself with everything that af- fects the life of humanity. The more spiritual it is, the more will it be concerned for the uplift of human societj-. The nearer it gets to God, the closer it must get to man. The more heavenly its vision, the more earthly its service. It is well to climb the Mount of Transfiguration and be rapt in holy ecstasy in the contemplation of its glorified Redeemer, but becau-e we have been on the mount with Jesus the more ready and better prepared we should be to go down to the dull plain below and take the poor devil-possessed boy by the hand and lift hiui up; taJ<e the ill-requited woman working in the sweat- ers' don and lift her up; take the stunted and dwarfed children toiling in the factories and lift them up out of the factory into the school; take the immigrant that lands on our shores, bent down often with the burden of centuries of inherited wrongs and ignorances, and lift him up to intelligent, Christian citi- zenship ; take the needy and unfortunate and oppressed every- where and lift them up to healthy, happy, human life. This is the work of Jesus, and because it is His work, it is the work of the Church of Jesus.
We do well to remind ourselves that the men and women who are doing this work in the world to-day are largely mem- bers of Christian churches. Statistics recently gathered show ihat of the men and women engaged in reformatory work on this continent, in Social Settlement work, in Charity Organi- zation work, in work for the betterment of those in the slum regions of the cities, leaders in humane and benevolent enter- prises, seventy-six per cent, of them are communicants in Christian churches, and a large proportion of the remainder are nominally Christian. Make out a list of the men and women who for the last hundred years have stood at the head of great humane movements, and you will find that almost all of them were educated and inspired for their beneficent work in the Christian church. The church creates the men who create the reforms. We are in the midst of a great, world- wide revival that is pushing back and pushing out the brutali- ties and cruelties of paganism, and exalting the beneficent
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ideals of Jesus over the eartli. This is a better world than it was when Jesus came into it nineteen hundred years ago, and it is better because He came into it. All through the centuries the people who have gathered around His name, and shown forth His spirit have been the helpers and reformers of the world. CTbristianity has not been a failure and it is not plaj'^ed out either. All the great movements that occupy the thoughts of great thinkers and great statesmen to-day are movements for the uplift of humanity, and owe their inspiration to the truths that Jesus preached and commissioned His church to preach. That word HUMANITY is coming to the front every- where and it is Christianity that is putting it there.
This revival of interest in humanity, this revival of a philanthropy that ignores racial barriers and over-rides na- tional boundaries in the faith that all men everywhere are alike dear to God, and that therefore no man and no race of men are to be called common or unclean ; this revival of belief in the Fatherhood of God, and therefore in the Brotherhood of Man, and therefore that we are our brother's keeper, and therefore that the good of each should be the law of all; this revival of conviction that the love of God and man are one, so that wrong done to man is insult offered to God and service rendered to man is worship offered to God, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these My brethren ye have done it unto Me ; this revival of spiritual vision which sees the divineness of all humane service, the sacredness of all honest toil, and which therefore manifests concern for all who do the world's hard work, who ''Labor and are heavy laden"; this revival of pur- pose to bring about a more just and equitable distribution of the good things that God's impartial love has so bountifully provided for all His children; this revival of the altruistic spirit which moves men and women to deeds of loving service after the imitation of Him who went about doing good ; this revival of humane sentiment and sympathy which leads the nations of the earth to come full-handed to the relief of the stricken city in the day of its desolation and ruin, nations bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of
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Christ ; this revival of desire for the dawning of the day when war-drums will th^ob no longer, when battle-flags will be for- ever furled, "in the parliament of Man the Federation of the world"; this revival of the application of the spirit and teach- ings of the gospel to the social needs of mankind is the revival of the religion of Him whose advent to this world was cele- brated by heavenly choirs singing "peace on earth and good will to man," and who in His inaugural sermon declared that He came "'to preach the gospel to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives, the recovering of sight to the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised." This is the revival of the religion of Jesus that is knocking at our doors for full recog- nition and nobler expression.
This hope of a better day that grows broad in the heart of men, this vision of "a new heaven and a new earth," this dream of a divine commonwealth, "A Holy City coming down out of heaven, from God," to men on earth, this faith that the kingdoms of this world, the kingdom of industry, the kingdom of commerce, the kingdom of art, the kingdom of literature, shall in fact and truth become the kingdom of our God, this ideal of a regenerated human society is the faith and the vision and the ideal of Jesus for He inspired it when He taught us to pray. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven.
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THE WESTERN ASSOCIATION.
The Western Association meets in October and April.
Officers. President — Rev. J. P. Gerrie, B.A., Stratford. Secretary— ReY. D. S. Hamilton, B.A., 428 Dufferin Ave., London.
Treasurer— ReY. W. H. A. Claris, 343 Maitland Street, London.
H. M. Representative— ReY. M. Kelly, Watford.
Members.
Rev. W. H. A. Claris, London, Ont. Rev. John Morton, Hamilton, Ont. Rev. W. W. Smith, St. Catharines, Ont. Rev. J. K. Unsworth, B.A., Hamilton, Ont. Rev. J. P. Gerrie, B.A., Stratford, Ont. Rev. C. E. Bolton, Scotland, Ont. Rev. P. C. L. Harris, Guelph, Ont. Rev. W. T. Gunn, M.A., B.D., Embro, Ont Rev. D. S. Hamilton, B.A., London, Ont. Rev. C. C. Claris, Edg-ar, Ont. Rev. F. B. Harrison, Brantford, Ont. Rev. W. H. L. Marshall, Frome, Ont.
Associate Churches.
Belwood
Brantford
Burford
Embro
Fergus
Forest (Central.)
Frome
Garafraxa
Guelph
Hamilton, First
Hamilton, Emmanuel
Howick
Kincardine
London, First
London, Southern
New Durham
Paris
Scotland
Speedside
Stratford
St Catharines Tilbury- Woodstock Watford Warwick, Zion Warwick, Ebenzer
(Forest P.O.) North Plympton,
(Forest P.O.) Lake Shore (Forest
P.O. )
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TORONTO DISTEICT ASSOCIATION.
The meetings of this Association, according to the Consti- tution, 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 Quebec. The min- isterial members are received on conditions similar to those required for admission to above Union. Churches are requir- ed to contribute an annual collection to the funds of the As- sociation. Three meetings were held last year in Zion, Western and Broadview Ave. Churches, on Oct. 10th, Feb. 13th and April 18th, respectively.
Officers. President — Rev. R. J. Drysdale, Georgetown. Treasurer — Mr. W. J. Stibbs, 55 Charles St., Toronto. Secretary and Registrar — Rev. H. F. Thomas, M.A., 73 Collier St., Toronto.
Home Missionary Representative — Mr. H. O'Hara.
Rev. E. Barker " C. C. Claris " R. J. Drysdale " W. E. Gilroy, B.A. " W. Hipkin
Ministers.
Rev. T. B. Hyde Rev. A. B. Sherk
" A. R. Schrag " W. H. Stacey
" J. W. Pedley, B.A. " H. F. Thomas,
" E. D. Silcox M.A.
" J. B. Silcox " Joseph Unsworth
Alton
Barrie
Bowmanville
Churchill
Cobourg
Dalston
Associate Churches.
Edgar
Georgetown Humber Summit Pine Grove Rugby Toronto, Zion
Toronto, Bond St. " iNorthern " Western " Olivet " Parkdale " Broadview
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CONGEEGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF QUEBEC.
THe object of the Association is to promote ministerial im- provement, tlie harmony, fellowship and efficiency of the churches, and their co-operation in Christian work. It in- cludes the Congregational churches in the Province of 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 year, at Cowansville, Oct, 10th and 11th, 1905, and at Montreal (Zion Church) April 17th and 18th, 1906.
Officers.
Moderator — Rev. W. Mcintosh, Ottawa.
Scribe — Rev. R. Geo. Watt, B.D., Melbourne.
. Representative on Executive C. C. M. S'. — Rev. Hngh Pedley, B.A., Montreal.
Members.
E. M. HILL, D.D 6o McTavish St., Montreal.
W. H. WARRINER, D.D., 7 Shuter St., Montreal.
HUGH PEDLEY, B.A., 177 Drummond St., Montreal.
HARLAN CREELMAN, Ph.D., .. 58 McTavish St., Montreal.
JOHN McKILLICAN, Dorchester St., Montreal.
H. G. RICE, B.A., B.D., .... 491 G. St. Urbain St., Montreal.
REV. E. H. TIPPETT Montreal.
REV. WM. MUNROE Westmount.
REV. THOMAS HALL Island Pond, Vt.
REV. GALEN H. CRAIK, B.A Waterville.
REV. G. ELLERY READ Sherbrooke.
REV. F. J. DAY, B.A., B.D.
REV. W. R. HARVEY Rock Island, Que.
REV. A. F. POLLOCK, B.D., Danville, Que.
REV. B. W. DAY St. Andrews, Que.
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REV. R. K. BLACK Granby, Que.
REV. WM. COLLINS Brooklyn, N.S.
REV. W. H. WATSON Cowansville, Que.
REV. W. McINTOSH 285 McLeod, Ottawa.
REV. JAS. T. DALEY, B.A Maxville, Ont.
REV. J. L. ALEXANDER, B.D Granby, Que.
REV. EDWIN ROSE Westmore, Vt.
REV. R. GEORGE WATT, B.D Melbourne, Que.
Associate Churches.
Ayer's Cliff
Brig-ham
Cowansville
Danville
Eaton
Fitch Bay
Franklin Centre
Granby
Montreal, Emmanuel " Calvary
" /.ion
" Point St. Charles " Bethlehem " Amherst Pk.
Melbourne
Alverton
St. Andrews
Stanstead South
Sherbrooke
Waterville
Maxville
St. Elmo
Canada Congregational Missionary Society
OFFICEES AND COMMITTEES for 1905-1906.
PRESIDENT. MR. CHARLES GUSHING, B.C.L Montreal, Que.
SECRETARY.. REV. W. McINTOSH 285 McLeod St., Ottawa, Ont.
HONORARY SECRETARY. REV. E. MUNSON HILL, D.D Montreal, Que.
EDUCATIONAL SECRETARY. REV. J. LAMBERT ALEXANDER Granby, Que.
TREASURER. MR. CHAS. R. BLACK . . Bank of Toronto Chambers, Montreal, Que.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
THE OFFICERS, with
REV. MR. KELLY Western District
MR. H. O'HARA Central District
REV. HUGH PEDLEY Quebec District
REV. J. W. COX N.S. & N.B. District
GENEPRAL COMMITTEE THE EXECUTIVE WITH
REV. J. B. SILCOX REV. J. W. PEDLEY
" D. C. McINTOSH MR. B. W. ROBERTSON " H. F. THOMAS " T. B. MACAULAY
" W. H. WARRINER '' THOMAS MOODIE
" F. J. DAY " H. J. ROSS
" E. D. SILCOX " W. H. WOODLEY
" WM. MUNROE " J. D. NASMITH
" W. H. A. CLARIS " C. I. SPENCER
" J. T. DALEY " F. W. HORNSBY
" R. J. DRYSDALE " W. I. AITCHESON.
" W. R. HARVEY " C. SEALL
" JOHN MORTON Mrs. J. B. SILCOX
" J. W. COX " A. WILLETT
REV. D. MACALLUM <' B. W. ROBERTSON
" A. F. POLLOCK " L HOLT
" R. G. WATT MISS LANG
" G. H. CRAIK
AUDITORS.
MR. E. A. HANNA Mr. A. McA. Murphy
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NOTICE
It is becoming more tlian ever a practice among Christian people to recognize tlie Lord's portion in their Last Wills and Testaments, whereby, though they be dead, they speak and act in the furtherance of Missionary, Educational and Benevolent objects. American Congregationalists are among the most wise and generous in this day, and have left legacies of bless- ingj: 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 Kke be- quests, the following legal form is subjoined. The amount be- queathed 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 purposes of the Society.
FORM 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. 1855, the sum of $ uui ol
my estate, to be paid without any charge or
deduction whatever ; and I direct that the receipt of the Secre- tary and Treasurer of the Society shall constitute and be a suf- ficient discharge thereof.
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CONSTITUITION.
ARTICLE I. NAME.
This Corporation shall be called *' The Canada Congrega- tional 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 Incorporation, namely, to plant and to foster Congregation- al Churches in suitable localities ; to aid churches in sustaining their pastors where required.
ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP.
AH persons being members or adherents of Congregational Churches, paying 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 dollars 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 an- nually to the funds of the Society ten dollars or more, may be represented by one delegate. The above mentioned subscrib- ers and delegates shall constitute the membership of the Cor- poration.
ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE :.
■^^Le officers of the Society shall be a Presid^^nt, a Secre- tary, a Treasurer, a Superintendent and two auditors, and an
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Educutional Secretary maj'^ also be appointed. The Standing Committees 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 mem- bers of the Corporation. The General Committee shall consist of the President, Secretary, Treasurer, Superintendent and Edu- cational Secretary, and not more than twenty-five members. The Executive Committee shall be composed of the President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the Superintendent, the Honor- ary Secretary, the Educational Secretary, and one member from each District Association within the bounds of the oper- ations of the Society, who may be nominated by the As- sociation.
ARTICLE V. DUTIES.
The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society and its Committees, when practicable, and shall seek to pro- mote the general interest of the Society's work.
The Secretary shall have charge of the books and corre- spondence of the Society, shall call the meetings of the So- ciety and its Committees, and shall exhibit the records of the proceedings at each meeting.
The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Society, disbursing them as directed by the General or Ex- ecutive 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 Congregational order within the bounds of the Society's operations with a view of deepening their in- terest in its work, and of securing liberal contributions for the Society, and shall explore new mission fields, secure mission- aries for vacant churches, and have a general oversight of the interests and work of the Society.
TEe Auditors shall examine the accounts of the Society when required, and make an annual audit of the Treasurer's books previous to the annual meeting of the Society.
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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 of the work of the Society at each of its annual meetings.
The Executive Committee shall have full charge and power for the administration of the affairs of the Society dur- ing the interval between the annual meetings of the General Committee ; shall receive all applications from churches for aid from the Society, and report thereon to the General Commit- tee, to whom they shall make an annual report of their pro- ceedings.
ARTICLE VI. MEETING .
The Corporation shall meet annually on the first Wed- nesday after the first Sunday in June, at the place where the Congregational Union of Canada assembles. A pub- lic annual missionary meeting shall be held on the even- ing of the next day. Special meetings for the despatch of special business may he called by the Executive Committee at such time and place as may be deemed desirable, provided that a month's notice be given thereof. The General Com- mittee shall hold their meeting at the same time and place as the Corporation, at the call of the Secretary; and the Ex- ecutive 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 bequeath- ed for the purpose, together with the proceeds received from the sale of disused church property, shall form a Church Ex- tension and Building Fund, which shall be invested by the Corporation, who may apply the income thereof, by the Gen- eral or the Executive Committee, by the way of loans, or otherwise, for the organization of churches in new fields, and
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for the erection or enlargement of places of worship where they maj' be required.
ARTICLE VIII. AUXILIARY SOCIETIES.
Auxiliary branches of this Society may be formed in churches and localities, to co-operate in the work of the Soci- ety. 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. MISSIOKT ARIES.
Each missionary in the employment of this Society must be a regularly accredited member of a Congregational Church, and shall endeavor faithfully to promote all the in- terests of the Congregational 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 Gen- eral Committee must make application therefor through the Secretary, at least one month previous to the annual meeting of the Society, according to the printed forms provided in which a certificate to the effect 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 an- nual collection for the funds and to keep their property suf- ficiently insured; and such churches acquiring property shall have inserted in 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
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carry out the recommendations 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 Exe- cutive Committee must be obtained before a settlement or dis- missal 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 mort- gages; and the Treasurer shall be the duly authorized person, on behalf of the Corporation, to accept conveyances of real estate, and to receive mortgages. The Treasurer shall affix the Corporation seal to all documents which may require it.
ARTICLE XIII. AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION.
This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any annual meeting of the Society, one day's notice having previously been given of the proposed amendment, in writing.
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MINUTES OF THE FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MIS- SIONARY SOCIETY.
The 53rd Annual Meeting of the C. C. M. S. was held in the Congregational Church, Embro, Ont., on Wednesday, June 6th, 1906, at 11 a.m.
In the absence of the President, Mr. Henry O'Hara occu- pied the chair. The meeting was opened by prayer and Rev. P. C. L. Harris was chosen Minute Secretary.
The Secretary read the 53rd annual report, which showed a year of successful work and a bright outlook for the ensuing year. In the absence of Mr. C. R. Black his report was read by the Secretary. The Educational Secretary, Rev. J. L. Alexander, read his report. On motion these reports were, after discussion, received and adopted.
On motion by Rev. W. R. Harvey, seconded by Mr. B. W. Robertson, the following were elected officers and committees for the ensuing year :
President — Mr. Charles Cushing.
Secretary — Rev. W. Mcintosh.
Hon. Secretary — Rev. E. M. Hill, D.D.
Educational Secretary — Rev. J. Lambert Alexander.
Treasurer — Mr. Charles R. Black.
Executive Committee.
The officers, with :
Rev. M. Kelly, Western District. Mr. Henry O'Hara, Central District. Rev. Hugh Pedley, Quebec District. R©v. J. W. Cox, N.S. and N. B. District.
General Committee.
The Executive, with Revs. J. B. Silcox, D. C. Mcintosh, H. F. Thomas, Dr. Warriner, F. J. Day, E. D. Silcox, Wm.
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Munroe, W. H. A. Claris, J. T. Daley, E. J. Drysdale, W. R. Harvey, John Morton, A. F. Pollock, E. G. Watt, G. H. Craik, D. Macallum, J. W. Pedley, Messrs. B. W. Eobert- son, T. B. Macaulay, Thomas Moodie, J. D. Nasmith, F. W. Hornsby, C. Seall, W. J. Aitcheson, W. Woodley and Mrs. J. B. Silcox, Mrs. A. Willett, Mrs. B. W. Eobertson, Mrs. J. Holt and Miss Lang.
The meeting adjourned to meet at 11 a.m. next day, Thursday, June 7th.
The adjourned meeting of the C. C. M. S. convened at 11 a.m. Mr. Geo. H. Wilson, of Toronto, moved that the Society raise $10,000 for work in the Northwest and that a Superintendent be appointed to raise the money. And he, the mover, would be responsible for $500 from the Western Church, Toronto. This motion was seconded by Mr. Geo. E. Williams, of Montreal. After much discussion, in which many took part, and offers of contributions, among which was that of Mr. B. W. Eobertson of $500 a year for four years, and of Eev. G. C. Milne, of Aberdeen, Scotland, of $10 a year for four years, the resolution was adopted.
The Society was favored by the presence and advice of Eev. Superintendent Ewing, of Lansing, Mich., who is de- voting some months to a survey of our Canadian Northwest with a view to planting of missions there.
The meeting adjourned.
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EDUCATIONAL SECRETAEY'S REPORT.
In presenting tlie Educational Secretary's report I may say tlie duties of this office were not very clear to me when I accepted the appointment one year ago. I, however, infer from the title "Educational and Information Department" the purpose of ^l^" Department is to keep the churches inform- ed of the work being done by the Canada Congregational Mis- sionary Society; keep the work of the Society before the churches; and in so far as possible furnish such information as shall be stimulating to the churches.
To accomplish this work your Secretary has attended the i*egular meetings of the Executive and reported the proceed- ings in the Weekly Column of the Congregationalist, prepar- ed a circular presenting the claims of the C. C. M. S. to our churches, appealing for increased contributions in the annual offering in view of the urgent need of enlarging our work in the rapidly growing Northwest. Seven thousand five hun- dred of these circulars, with an equal number of envelopes, were mailed to the pastors or Secretaries of the Congregation- al churches in Canada.
In August a circular was sent to each church in Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick asking the pastor or secre- tary to prepare a short historic sketch of their church that it might appear in the Congregationalist and be preserved by the C. C. M. S. for future reference and possibly be worked into an illustrated lecture. Replies to these circulars have been .slow in coming in. Up to the present time Pine Grove, Humber Summit, Embro and Burford have been forwarded for publication.
The lecture "A Century of Congregationalism in the Province of Quebec" has been used during the year at Fitch Bay, Quebec and Guelph, Ont. In each place the pastor of the church delivered the lecture. The lecture is typewritten and beautifully illustrated and is well adapted to interest and enlighten any Congregational church in Canada.
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A paper on ''The Future Policy of the C.C.M.S." read by Rev. Galen Craik, B.A., at the Quebec Association meet- ing, was printed and mailed to the churches for distribution, the Quebec Association meeting the expense of printing and mailing. The paper provoked considerable discussion and no doubt quickened the interest in our Home Missionary work.
Our evangelist. Rev. Geo. A. Lowes, was introduced to our churches through the Home Missionary Column of the Congregationalist, and in so far as reports of his work came to hand these were also published.
The importance of the work of this Department as a bureau of information for all the churches is evident. If pas- tors and secretaries of churches would furnish the Education- al Secretary such facts as they consider valuable to th^ churches, and on the other hand make application for such in- formation as the Secretary may be able to give, the usefulness of this Department will grow. I repeat Mr. Day's words in his reportof last year, "The work ought to be in the hands of someone who has a great deal of time to devote to it." Your present Secretary has not a great deal of time to devote to it and would, therefore, gladly vacate the office if a man with time to give to tke work will take it up. It is true that facts are fuel for fire, and through this Department the facts re- lating to our denomination may be gathered and spread throughout our churches and increase enthusiasm in our work.
Respectfully submitted,
J. Lambert Alexander,
Educational Secretary.
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FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
It may have been expected that this 53rd annual report would have shown more of our assisted churches reaching self- support, because of the removal of debt, but the effort put forth to reach freedom was such as to rather weaken some for a time. Then many of them had and are having special out- lays on their property so as to occupy all their attention for the present year. So the past year has not been one of failure, nor stagnation, but one of considerable progress.
In the Maritime Provinces the losses from emigration are rather on the increase, yet our churches have more than held their own.
Margaree has had a good year, the Secretary and Dea- cons write : " This field being an isolated country district the conditions for the greater part remain the same. Owing to lack of the remunerative employment we lose cne best of our young people every year. Although we have received no new members during the year we confidently feel that a good work has been done and God's blessing has rested va our labors. We paid $41 into the Jubilee Central Fund. On or about June 17th we hope to open and dedicate a new church, free of debt, worth $3,000. The church has been built and paid for during the year, and we hope by the end of the Summer to have added a hall and reading-room for our young people." Rev. S. J. Wilson has gathered some outside help from Ire- land and the United States, with this exception the people have paid for their own building.
Truro reports a quiet year. The pastor, the Rev. J. W. Cox, has recovered his health and is at work, which is not with- out results. Their debt is reduced from $750 to $100, which by some unpaid subscriptions and the expected help from the Central Fund, will be entirely cleared very shortly. A
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troublesome law-suit has been defended by the church and a legacy of $4,000 will be available to the church in the future.
MAiTLAJffD, Selmah and Noel are now happy in the settle- ment of the Rev. Robt. Barron, who is taking hold of the work with a will and the people are greatly delighted. It is too large a field for the strength of one man. It incurs a waste of time and nervous energy in driving over the country roads that are none too good, but the exodus to the United States and our own Northwest precludes the possibility of great growth, yet it is a field well worthy of our sympathy and support.
Pleasant River. The Rev. I A Rose is trying to over- take the impossible, for it is impossile for smy man to do full justice to such a field, yet our young brother is coming as near the accomplishment as any man I know of could. The report of the pastor is so good that I cannot help giving an extract, after referring to some heavy losses by debt he says : " I believe what we need now are special services by one who can give his whole time to that work, there has been so much to do along material lines that I have not been able to give attention to other than my regular appointments. We ex- pect to organize the Bakers' Settlement Church on the 27th May, with about 20 members. A Y.P.S.C.E. is soon to be started at Hemford. We have made a request for a grant $50 less this year than last. Mrs. Rose and I offered to meet the people in the $50, and it proved to be the proper incen- tive. I have been trying to instil into their minds the need of independent self-support, as well as helping others, and that the Home Missionary Society is not a permanent endow- ment fund, but simply a financial help for weak churches. I feel encouraged to know that the people are taking hold in this direction, and we will reach the goal even though it cause some sacrifice in the parsonage."
This is from one who luxuriates in the munificent salary of $500 a year and has to keep a horse. Heroism is not dead, even among Congregational ministers.
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KiNGSPORT has been served for three years by the Rev. D. W. Purdon, who retires at the end of this month to return to England, his old home, and there to spend the remaining years of his long life of faithful service. Although depleted by emigration there is scope in this field for the energy of a young man.
Liverpool is still under the pastoral care of the Rev. G. W. Ball, who for twelve years has held the esteem and con- fidence of not only his own people, but of the community at large. The church has had a year of progress, the debt has been reduced from $1,167 to $350 within the last fifteen months. All branches of church work are in a healthy con- diti')a. The membership has been greatly revived, three have been added on profession of faith. The new car shops being erected will give employment to a large number of peo- ple and the prospects for the town jire brighter than they have been for years. Both pastor and people express the hope that self-support will soon be reached.
Milton, N.S. A note of cheer comes from this church. A papermill is being built in the village; business matters are improving. The Rev. S. W. Anthony writes hopefully of his work. He was ordained and settled there a year ago. A large outlay for repairs on the church and parsonage has taxed the people heavily, but in another year they hope to reduce the grant. Our young brother is doing well there.
Sr. John, N.B. had a grant last year as the conditions were somewhat special; it was for one year only. The Society came to the help of the church and greatly encouraged them. The Rev. W. S. Pritchard is having a change and rest in the Northwest during the Summer. Mr. J. G. Hindley sup- plies the church in his absence and does it with great accept- ance.
Coming to Quebec, Ayers Cliff and Fitch Bay are as- sisted by special provision in the Shurtleff bequest. Rev. C. S. Pedley is pastor in Ayers Cliff, and Fitch Bay is at present supplied by a student from our College.
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PoiN r St. Charles is the only church in the Quebec dis- trict rcceiying help from our General Mission Fund. The llev. A W, Main entered the pastorate in August last and since tliat time 64 new members have been added to the church. A movement is on foot to obtain a new church build- ing, which is an urgent necessity. It will be a heavy burden for the people to carry, but they are facing it with courage.
Zioif Church, Ottawa, reports the best year in its his- tory. 23 have been received on profession of faith. They have reduced their grant this j^ear and would have reached self-support had it not been for the debt, which is being re- duced, and will doubtless be cleared off during the ensuing year.
CoBOTJRG AND CoLD SPRINGS are two Separate churches un- der the care of one pastor. Here success also has marked the work for the last year. They report steady progress all along the line. The grant has here also been decreased. In Cold Springs new sheds have been built and paid for; a new organ has been bought and the property is now in first-class condi- tion. The help of a student is required during the summer months in Cold Springs, as this is in the terms of agreement between the two churches.
Kingston, Calvary is prospering under the pastoral care of the Rev. T. B. Windros. A new Sunday School Hall is much needed and a building fund has been started with good results. Both church and pastor are giving a good account of themselves.
Bowmanville has honored the confidence the executive placed in her, and also gives promise of future success. The Rev. W. Hipkin worthily represents our cause in the town. Both pastor and people exert an influence far beyond what their numerical strength would represent.
ZiON, Toronto. A grant was given for this church last year, but no application has come for a renewal. It is for the Brethren in Toronto in consultation with the members to ad-
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vise as to the future of this old church that has been a power in the City of Toronto.
Parkdale has for the past year had the services of the Rev. W. Herald Stacy, and the church has taken on new life. The short report says, "During the past six months thirty have been added to the membership of the church, 75 to the Sun- day School roll. A Young People's Society has been formed. A new organ has been purchased for the church, and the lec- ture room has been repainted." Sabbath morning congrega- tions are encouraging and the people are in a state of harmony.
Barrie has been without a regular pastor during the year. Our evangelist, Mr. Lowes, spent several weeks there in the Autumn. A student, Mr. Pierce, is supplying the church at present. All our students .give a good account of themselves in their mission work among our churches.
Alton. The pastor writes, "This church would not have been in existence to-day but for the timely help of our Home M:s&ionary Society." Now they own a new parsonage, the church is in good condition, and $600 has recently come to the funds of the society as bequests from that field. The Rev. A. R. Schrag is the energetic pastor there.
Stratford. Stratford has had a hard fight. An un- fortunate strike among the employes of the Grand Trunk Railway lasting for some fifteen months has robbed the church of some of its most valued workers, and has weakened those remaining because of lessened income, yet the church goes on. They met the Jubilee Fund condition in a way that sur- prised even themselves, as it did their friends outside. The attendance at services has largely increased. A vigorous La- dies' Aid Society and an Auxiliary of the Women's Board have been organized and are at work. 23 have been received into the church since the new year. A few years more with- out a change of pastor and Stratford will be one of our strong churches. The Rev. J. P. Gerrie is pastor.
Our evangelist, the Rev. Geo. A. Lowes, has been at work for eight months with good results. He is giving the
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present month to Y.M.C.A. work in the Militia Camp where he has been so successful.
We hav.e little more to report of our Ontario churches ex- cept that several of them have suffered from lack of pastors. The scarcity of men is the serious problem we have to face. The lack of funds for anything like adequate support is doubt- less the cause.
Our work in the Northwest is to be brought before the new Committee. We have with us the Rev. T. A. Munro, of Brandon, and the Rev. H. A. Carson, of Victoria, B.C., two of our young men who have done, and are doing, solid work in their respective fields. The grants to these churches are being reduced year by year because the churches are grow- ing in strength and self-reliance. Mr. Munro has acted as our superintendent in the Northwest and in that capacity has rendered valuable aid to the society.
Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Our Scandinavian work has had a second man, and the latest reports indicate that both are working harmoniously with good results.
The Welsh church in Saltcoats, Sask., is still ministered to by Rev. W. T. Morris and is making headway. The people are improving in their conditions year by year.
It was the good fortune of your Executive to have the counsel of the Rev. Ftank K. Sanders, D.D., Boston, the efl&cient General Secretary of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society of the U. S., and his advice in regard to our Northwest work has been valuable. He has named for us the Rev. Wm. Ewing, Superintendent of Michi- gan, and placed him at the service of our Society to enable us to survey the Northwest and plan regarding extension work there. In a few months we hope to have a definite plan whereby overlapping will be avoided and needy districts of that great country occupied.
The thanks of this Society are due to the Colonial Mis- sionary Society for their timely and efficient help rendered through the years.
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I need not add words regarding the large opportunities that confront us, and the portentious times for our country in which we live. History is being made rapidly as nejfver before. A man who is in touch with the times to-day lives a longer, broader, fuller life, though he die at thirty, than those in the past who have lived four-score years. I may say that your Committee have not been unmindful of the demand for strong and definite action, but neither the men nor the money for the work have been in sight, and your Executive did not see the way clear to incurring large pecuniary obligations while the struggle of the Jubilee Debt Fund was on. Now that that great work is about completed it will be for your new Committee to face the question with faith in God and a de- termination that it shall be settled. It requires that grants to our older churches be cut down to the irreducible minimum and the gifts to the work be raised as high as full consecration and daring courage can make them.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
W. McIntosh,
Secretary.
TREASUREE'S REPORT.
In the financial statements herewith submitted there is nothing calling for special comment, except the fact tJiat there is a slight increase of $282 in the church subscriptions over last year.
In view of the great work laid upon us as Congregation- alists, to do our share in providing Christian privileges for the thousands who are pouring into the Canadian North- west, the Executive looks for large things in the coming year. In order to do this at all adequately the contributions to the Society ought at least to be trebled — and it can be done.
Charles R. Black,
Treasurer.
Mfmtreal, 31st May, 1906.
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TREASURER'S CASH STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDING MAY
31st, 1Q06.
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand, June ist, 1905 $ 8,464 14
Loans repaid 15,871 57
Loans repaid by Churches and Jubilee Debt Fund 7,933 99
Revenue Account 3,446 72
Gorham Trust Revenue 737 39
Contributions 4,81 1 76
Colonial Missionary Society 806 98
Capital account C. E. and B. Fund — Listowel Ch. property Q74 63
Special receipts on account property 375 00
G. R. E. Fund account Evangelistic Work 154 87
i,577 05
DISBURSEMENTS.
Loans $28,518 94
Grants and special payments 7,060 01
Special payments on account property, etc 2,811 83
Shurtleff Mission Fund 200 00
Church Extension and Building- Fund 1625
Evangelistic Work 491 15
General Expense Account 741 55
Balance 3,737 32
$43,577 05
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 115
THE GENERAL MISSION FUND.
Balance, June ist, 1905 $ 667 26
Contributions :
British Columbia $ 20 00
Saskatchewan 10 00
Ontario Western District $391 25
Ontario Central District 488 44
Ontario Eastern District 543 19
1,422 88
Quebec $ ,,324 S3
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 483 57
Leg-acies 550 00
Personal subscriptions 326 00
Collection, Annual Meeting 26 40
3,260 98
902 40
C. C. Woman's Board of Missions 648 38
Gorham Trust, Revenue 737 39
Shurtleff Mission Fund, Revenue 2,099 01
C. E. and Building Fund, Revenue 215 00
Special Interest 6 87
Colonial Missionary Society
Grants :
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario — Western District $31000
Ontario — Central District 768 30
Ontario — Eastern District 811 25
1,889 55
Quebec 147 50
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick i,333 33
Ayer's Cliff and District i ,087 00
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5,670 01
Missionary Superintendent Northwest 175 00
Special payment for Vancouver, 1st Church 995 69
Special Ottawa, "Welcome Zion" Church 150 00
Special Pine Grove Church 65 00
Proportion of Expense Account 494 37
Balance 794 20
$9,344 27
116 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
SHURTLEFF MISSION FUND— REVENUE ACCOUNT. Interest from Investment $2,2qq oi
$2,299 OI
G. M. Fund for Grants to Ayer's Cliff and District $1,087 00
G. M. Fund for General Distribution 1,012 01
Administration 200 00
$2,2QQ 01
CHURCH EXTENSION AND BUILDING FUND— Revenue Account.
Balance June ist, 1905 $ 713 05
Interest from Investments 1,081 96
$1,795 01
One-sixth of General Expenses and Insurance $ 139 84
Gen. Miss. Fund for Special Gift to Pine Grove Church 65 00
Gen. Miss. Fund for Special Gift to W. Zion Ch., Ottawa .. 150 00 Balance 1,440 17
$1,795 01
GEORGE ROBERTSON EVANGELISTIC FUND— Revenue Account.
Balance, June ist, 1905 $1,408 71
Interest from Investments 445 43
Receipts from Churches for Evangelist's services $241 25 Receipts special subscription — B. W. Robertson.... 100 00
341 25
$2,195 3Q
One-sixth of General Expenses $ 123 59
Evangelist's Salary — 8 months 600 00
Evangelist's Expenses 77 53
Balance i ,394 27
$2,195 39
CHARLES R. BLACK, Treasurer. Montreal, 31st May, 1906.
Audited and found correct
A. E. HANNA, A. McA. MURPHY, Auditors.
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 117
SUMMARY OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Victoria $20 00
SASKATCHEWAN.
Glyndwr $io oo
ONTARIO— WESTERN DISTRICT.
Brantford $46 57
Burford 42 67
Embro 29 00
Forest 10 20
Garafraxa 4 40
Guelph 3481
Hamilton, First 87 06
Hamilton, Emmanuel S. S 4 00
Kincardine 1 5 00
London, First 22 07
London, Southern 20 10
Plympton S. S 2 00
Scotland '. 25 62
Speedside 4 00
Stratford 20 00
Tilbury, East 17 00
Warwick, Zion 4 00
Watford 1275
Woodstock 10 00
Total ^391 25
ONTARIO— CENTRAL DISTRICT.
Alton $ 4 00
Barrie 28 60
Bowmanvile 35 10
Dalston 3 55
Edgrar 2125
Georgetown and Churchill 22 uu
Humber Summit 4 50
Parkdale 13 Si
Pine Grove 7 50
Rugby 1763
Toronto, Bond Street 70 00
" Broadview 11 05
" Northern 114 65
" Olivet 12 so
" Western 10000
" Zion 2260
Total , $488 44
118 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
ONTARIO— EASTERN DISTRICT.
Cobourg $ 34 32
Kingston, First 22 80
" Calvary 14 75
Lanark 34 50
Maxville 86 75
Middleville 11 10
Rosetta 7 92
Hopetown 6 05
Ottawa, First 300 00
" W. Zion 25 00
Total $543 19
QUEBEC.
Ayers Cliff 50
Cowansville 40 50
Danville 27 40
Franklin Centre 7 50
Fitch Bay 22 T^
Granby 126 41
Melbourne 64 25
Ulverton 22 00
Montreal, Emmanuel 404 67
' ' Calvary — 270 00
" Point St. Charles 59 10
" Westmount 3835
" Zion 68 00
Sherbrooke 63 10
St. Andrews 52 80
Stanstead South 2007
Waterville 37 15
Total ..,. $1,324 53
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK.
Beach Meadows $ 18 00
Brooklyn 13 50
Chebogfue 16 00
Economy 16 00
Keswick Ridge 13 25
Kingsport 19 cX)
Liverpool 9 00
Lower Selmah 16 50
Margaree 10 50
Milton 1475
Noel 9 90
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 119
Pleasant River 17 76
Scotch Lake 4 00
Sheffield 71 60
South Maitland 20 25
St. John 30 40
Truro 23 35
Yarmouth 75 00
Women's Board, N.S. and N.B 7608
Union collection 8 73
Total ..'. $483 57
SPECIAL AND PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION.
Legacy Chas. Alexander, Montreal $500 00
" Catharine Muir, Middleville 50 00
B. W. Robertson 200 00
H. B. Donovan 100 00
J. D. Nasmith 10 00
"Friend, W. S. A." 10 00
"Basswood" 3 00
T. K. Bremner 2 00
Rev. W. W. Smith i 00
Collection, annual meeting 26 40
Total $902 40
C. C. WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS.
For General Work $600 oc
" Northwest Work 4838
Total $648 38
120
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CANADA CONGREGATIONAL
MISSIONARY SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR ENDING
MAY 3 1ST.. 1906.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
VICTORIA Victoria $20 00
SASKATCHEWAN Glyndwr $10 00
ONTARIO— Western District.
BRANTFORD
E L. Goold $2 00
F. Rouse I 00
Mrs. Ott 4 50
I. Clyne i 00
Mrs. I. Thompson .' i 00
Mrs. I. Wilkes 4 9°
Mrs. M. Robertson i 00
Misses Woodyatt i 00
Mr. and Miss Henry i 00
Mrs. Oles 2 00
Mr. Yeigh 6 00
Sunday School 5 00
J. Robertson i 00
Mrs. R. Kerr i 00
Mrs. Hartman i 00
Mrs. F. Wisner 3 00
Mrs. I. H. Oldham i 00
Mrs. W. S. Wisner i 00
Miss A. Wilkes i 42
Sums under one dollar . . 6 75
Total $46 57
BURFORD
Burford, for 1905, $11 02
Burford, for igo6 31 05
Total $42 67
EMBRO Embro $29 00
FOREST
Miss F. B. Rawling-s $2 00
Mrs. W. Gammon i 50
Mr. W. Scott, Sr., i 00
Mrs. and Miss Prout i 00
Miss Livingston i 20
Mrs. Jas. Sutcliffe ...... i 00
Friend 1 00
" I 00
" 50
Total $10 20
GARAFRAXA Garafraxa $4 40
GUELPH
Church collections $26 60
S. School 5 51
Miss Hogskin's Class for
N. West 2 70
Total $34 81
HAMILTON— FIRST. Hamilton, First $67 06
HAMILTON— EMMANUEL . SUNDAY SCHOOL
Hamilton, Emmanuel S.S. $4 00
KINCARDINE
W. Gilchrist $2 00
A. R. Bell 2 00
Alex. Bell i 00
Wm. Slesser i 00
M. McKinnon i 00
A. McKinnon i 00
Mrs. Capt. McKinnon . . i 00
Alex. Cameron i 00
Wm. Sheane i 00
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
121
D. S. McKinnon $i oo
Mrs. McCallum i oo
Small Sums 2 oo
Total $15 00
LONDON— FIRST
London, First, 1905 $ 7 00
London, First, 1906 15 07
Total $22 07
LONDON— SOUTHERN London, Southern $20 10
PLYMPTON Plympton S. S. for Alta. . . $2 00
SCOTLAND
Mr. and Mrs. H. W
Foster $3 00
Mrs. and Mrs. E. Arm-
5tr)a? 3 00
Wm. Foster i 00
Horace Foster 1 00
Robert Taylor i 00
Gertrude Malcolm i 00
S. Milliard i 00
C. Baldwin i 00
Mack Malcolm i 00
Jacob Missecar i 00
Joseph Taylor i 00
Mrs. D. W. Malcolm .... i 00
A Friend i 00
Sums under one dollar . . 6 70
Sunday School i 92
Total $25 62
SPEEDSIDE Speedside $4 00
STRATFORD Stratford $20 00
TILBURY EAST Tilbury, East $17 00
WARWICK— ZION. Warwick, Zion $4 00
WATFORD
Watford, 1Q05 $7 50
Watford, 1906 5 25
Total $12 75
WOODSTOCK
Woodstock, Miss Sooly ..$10 00
ONTARIO— Central District
ALTON Alton $4 00
BARRIE Barrie $28 60
BOWMANVILLE Bowmanville $35 10
DALSTON Dalston $3 55
EDGAR
Edgar Church $19 00
Edgar S. S 2 25
Total $21 25
GEORGETOWN & CHURCH- ILL.
Rev. R. S. and Mrs. Drys-
dale $5 00
Dr. L. L. Bennett 2 00
F. R. Ruddell i 00
A. Smith I 00
C. Schwackhammer .... i 00
Miss L. Lasby i 00
I. W. Leslie i 00
E. Atkinson i 00
Harold Griffin 1 00
I. H. Denny 1 00
Smaller Sums 2 00
Sunday School 5 00
Total $22 00
122
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
HUMBER SUMMIT Humber Summit $4 50
PARKDALE Parkdale $13 51
PINE GROVE
Mr. Smithers $1 00
Mr. W. Jeffery i 00
Small Sums 3 00
Sunday School 2 50
Total $7 so
RUGBY
Mr. Andrew Robertson . . $5 00 Mr. and Mrs. D. M.
Harvie 3 00
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Ball.. 3 00 Mr. and Mrs. James
Johnston i 00
Mrs. John Langman .... i 00
Small Sums 4 63
Total $17 63
TORONTO— BOND STREET Toronto, Bond Street . . $70 00
TORONTO— BROADVIEW AVE.
W. E. Gilroy $2 00
H. W. Barker i 80
Mr. and Mrs. Prettie .... i 00
W. Cave I 40
H. McMann i 00
E. D. Otter i 80
Rev. E. Barker i 00
Small Sums i 05
Total $11 05
TORONTO— NORTHERN
H. O'Hara $20 00
Collections 84 65
Sunday School 10 00
Total $114 6s
TORONTO— OLIVET Toronto, Olivet $12 50
TORONTO— WESTERN
Rev. J. W. Pedley $5 00
Mr. Geo. Wilson 5 00
A. Z 5 00
Sunday School 5 00
Mrs. Robert Bond 2 00
Miss A. Hill 2 00
Miss H. D. Milne 2 00
Mr. F. R. Sweeney 2 20
" J. M. Robertson . . 2 00
" E. H. Arms 2 00
" W. White 2 00
" W. Woodley 2 00
" E. W. Hough I so
" J. W. Clark i 25
" E. J. Cousins i 00
Mrs. E. J. Cousins i 00
" J. W. Pedlev i 00
" R. G. Wilson i 00
" R. E. Moore i 00
" Bottomly i 00
", B. Dean i 00
" J. Hollinger i 00
" Ball 00
' ' Crew I 00
" T. B. Johnston i 00
Mr. T. B. Johnston i 00
Miss A. McNair i 00
" S. Mole I 00
" A. Meldrum i 00
" K. Lucas I 00
" E. Holmes i 00
" M. Dunn i 00
" M. E. Holmes i 00
Mr. F. G. Lawrence .... i 00
" C. Whitfield i 00
" F. W. Donaldson ... i 00
" M. Paton I 00
" M. Brown i 00
" Geo. Roper i 00
" Thos. Douglas .... i 00
" J. D. Jones i 00
" J. W. Hewitson i 00
" C. Riddy i 00
" Geo. Nutt I 00
" W. J. Burton i 00
" W. Bottomly i 00
" Hy. Wright i 00
" W. Dunn i 00
" Geo. Lovevs 1 00
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY
12:
Mr. H. Honeyford .... $ i 00
Small Amounts 7 75
Women's Society 16 30
Mr. Thos Tressam i 00
Total $100 00
TORONTO— ZION
Rev. E. D. Silcox $5 00
Mrs W. J. Stibbs 5 00
John Adams 5 00
Miss L. M. Silcox i 00
Mrs. McMuUen i 00
Wm. Freeland i 00
Smaller Sums 4 60
Total $22 60
ONTARIO — Eastern District.
COBOURG
Mrs. J. C. Field $5 00
John T. Field 5 00
Rev A. Margrett 2 00
Mrs. J .T. Field 2 00
John P. Field 2 00
Mr. Beare i 00
J. C. Rosevear i 00
Mrs. Stewal-t, Sr. , i 00
A. Curtis I 00
Miss Daley i 00
Geo. Greer i 00
F. J. Baker i 00
Miss M. Hornbeck i 00
M' Cotton I 00
Mis Reynolds i 00
Miss Martha Field i 00
Harry Field i 00
Miss Sarah Field . . i 00
Frank W. Field i 00
Miss Emma Field i 00
Small Sums 3 32
Total $34 32
KINGSTON Kingston, First, 1905 . . $22 80
KINGSTON— CALVARY. Kingston, Calvary $14 75
LANARK— ZION.
Collection $29 50
Sunday School 5 00
Total $34 50
MAXVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mc-
Dougall $10 00
Mr. and Mrs. John W.
Kennedy 10 00
R. F. McEwen 3 00
Thomas Munro 2 00
D. C. McDougall 2 00
Mrs. J. P. McDougall . . i 00
A. P. McDougall i 00
J. A. McEwen 1 00
Donald Sinclair 5 00
Donald McEwen 3 00
J. W. Weegar 2 00
P. A. McDougall i 00
R. Giitsell i 00
Rev. J. T. Daley 5 00
S. J. McEwen 5 00
J. F. McEwen 5 00
D. A. McDougall 3 00
Findlay McEwen 2 00
D. H. Kennedy i 00
Mrs. A. A. McEwen .... i 00
D. A. McEwen i 00
Thomas McEwen 2 00
Peter Munro 5 00
John Sinclair 2 00
Mrs. Duncan McEwen . . i 00
J. J. Robertson i 00
G. Stiles I 00
Sunday School 8 00
Small Sums i 75
Total $86 75
MIDDLEVILLE
R. R. Affleck $2 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Mc-
Intyre 2 00
Mrs. Wm. Croft i 00
Archibald Rankin i 00
Anonymous i 00
Small Sums 4 10
Total $11 10
124
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
ROSETTA
R. G. Love $2 oo
Wm. J. Readey i oo
Jas. D. Rodger i oo
Adam W. Craig i oo
John Thompson i oo
Small Sums i 92
Total $7 92
HOPETOWN
Hopetown
05
OTTAWA— FIRST
Dr. D. C. McLaren $50 00
Wm. Thackeray 50 00
A Friend of Home
Missions 49 00
Rev. Wm. Mcintosh .... 10 00
A. J. Stephens & Son. . . 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm . 10 00
Miss H. Wood 6 00
Mrs. J. Ruthven 5 00
Mrs. H. Hume 5 00
W. Hay 5 00
W. A. Lamb 5 00
Robert Addison 5 00
S. Hutchison 5 00
J. B. Lamb 3 00
Y. P. S. C. E 3 00
J. L. Payne 3 00
J. J. Wallace 3 00
Mrs. G. E. Chisnall .... 2 00
Miss Edna Shearman . . 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. Mumford 2 00
Miss E. M. Mumford . . 2 00
Mrs. A. J. Stephens .... 2 00
Mr. Hargreaves 2 00
A. Ballantyne 2 00
H. Fraser 2 00
Cecil Dempster 2 00
Mrs. G. B. Caldwell 2 00
A Friend i 00
Cash 3 00
Walter Lamb i 00
A. H. Jarvis i 00
J. E. Andrews i 00
J. A. Murray 1 00
F. W. Gervan i 50
J. H. Gervan i 00
H. Moreland i 00
Miss Lea Keir i 00
A. G. Bailey $ i 00
Mr. and Mrs. Dillinger 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. Shirley . . 2 00
Wm. Young i 00
Mrs. Sutherland i 00
Mrs. McPherson i 00
Mrs. McEwen i 00
Mr. Vogle i 00
Mrs. R. Thackrey i 00
Miss Watkins i 00
Mr. Bearpark i 00
Mrs. A. Fraser i 00
Mrs. Cooch i 00
Mrs. Falls 50
Franklyn Falls 50
Mrs. O'Connor 50
Mrs. Tyers 50
Mr. E. Lamb 50
Lyman McEwen 50
H. G. Tyers 50
Mrs. Langdon 75
Sunday School 725
Prayer Meeting 12 05
Small Sums 2 70
Total $300 75
Less cost of money order 75
$300 00 OTTAWA Ottawa, Welcome Zion.. $25 00
QUEBEC
AYER'S CLIFF
Ayer's Cliff, additional,
1905 $ 50
COWANSVILLE
H. H. Cotton $20 00
W. F. Vilas 5 00
W. N. Hawk 5 00
Mrs. W. H. Molson 2 00
F. E. Draper i 00
L. Turner i 00
Miss M. Cotton i vX)
Geo. E. Ford i 00
Small Sums i 50
Sweetsburg 3 00
Total $40 50
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
125
DANVILLE
James Riddle $4 00
Rev. A. F. Pollock 3 00
L. L. Pope 2 GO
A. E. Stockwell 2 00
Wm. Carson 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. Messenger i 50
Anonymous i 00
W. K. Leet i 00
Isaac Morrill i 00
Geo. Barlow i 00
J. Brady i 00
Mrs. Sanderson i 00
W. H. Philbrick i 00
Mr. and Mrs. Oilman . . i 00
G. W. Fullerton i 00
Small Sums 3 90
Total $27 40
FRANKLIN CENTRE.
Franklin Centre $7 50
FITCH BAY
Dr. and Mrs. Tourney . . $2 00
Mrs. A. L. Rider i 50
Mrs. Berwick 5 00
Mrs. Clark ". . . i 00
F. H. Barber i 00
F. H. Rider i 00
Mrs. P. C. Riddell i 00
Mrs. Melvin Cass i 00
Brig-g-s Waite i 00
Anonymous i 00
Small Sums 5 21
Proceeds Lecture 2 02
Total $22 73
GRANBY
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. C.
Miner $25 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mc-
Kechnie 10 00
Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Alex- ander 5 00
Rev. R. H. Black 5 00
J. H. Alexander 5 00
Geo. D. Fuller 5 00
W. R. Horner 5 00
J. G. Fuller 5 00
Mrs. Alice M. Keogh . . 4 l^j
S. G. Elkins 3 00
E. C. Willard 2 00
J. H. McCanna $ 2 00
Wm. Neil 2 00
W. W. Miner 2 00
W. H. Miner 2 00
Dr. Cowley i 00
P. Kramer i 00
Henry Pickard i 00
James O. Boyd i 00
Mrs. Horace Ball i 00
J. M. Elkins i 00
Dr. McCurdy i 00
M. E. Bowker i 00
O. B. Streeter i 00
Mrs. M. C. Warren i 00
D. M. Mitchell i 00
James Duncan i 00
Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
Sums Under One Dollar 26 05
S.S. and Kindergfarten . i 36
Total $126 41
MELBOURNE
Rev. R. G. and Mrs. Watt $10 00
Alex. McDonald 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wales
and Friend 10 00
Dr. F. E. Skinner 5 00
Geo. J. Alexander 5 00
John Alexander 5 00
Misses E. and S. P.
Lewis 2 00
Miss Duffy 2 00
Mrs. J. W. Bartlett i 00
Alex. McLeay i 00
Mrs. J. W. Jones i 00
Mrs. W. Kelley i 00
Mrs. J. A. Bothwell .... i 00
E. C. Atkinson i 00
H. A. Jones i 00
Mrs. James Alexander . . i 00
W. H. Skinner i 00
N. W. Smillie i 00
Mrs. Crombie i 00
Mrs. Luther Stimson .... i 00
Wm. Burrill i 00
Mr. and Mrs. E. Stimson i 00
Smaller Sums 1,25
Total $64 25
ULVERTON
A. H. Hepworth $5 00
Mrs. Wm. Mountain .... 4 00
126
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
Esau McMannis $i oo
Miss M. Graham i oo
Rich. Lyster i oo
Albert Smith i oo
Mrs. Jos. McMannis .... i oo
E. F. Johnston i oo
Miss L. Reed i oo
Alex. Alexander i oo
Smaller Sums 5 oo
Total $22 oo
MONTREAL— CALVARY.
T. B. Macaulay $ioo oo
Rev. Dr. E. M. Hill . . 25 oo
J. R. Doug-all 20 00
C. Cushinp: 10 00
Mrs. R. Macaulay 10 00
Mrs. E. M. Hill 10 00
Mrs. H. Maxwell 10 00
Rev. E. H. Tippet 5 00
Rev. J. and Mrs. McKel-
lican 5 00
Mrs. Cross 5 00
W. A. Wood 5 00
R. M. Cushing- 5 00
Sunday School 5 00
Rev. Dr. Creelman .... 4 00
F. E. Doug-all 3 00
Prayer meeting- collection 2 85
Geo. McGarry 3 00
S. P. Rowell 2 00
D. Hargreaves 2 00
W. J. Hornsby 2 00
R. W. McLachlan 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. Powter . . 4 00
Miss E. A. Munroe .... 2 00
" Jessie Smith 2 00
" C. Richardson 2 00
John Britton i 00
A. Cushing i 00
D. Cushing i 00
E. W. Duke I 00
Mrs. A. Kerr i 00
" G. McLeod i 00
" F. Jones i 00
" Toller I 00
" R. W. McLachlan i 00
Miss Knight i 00
Anonymous 3 00
Anonymous 2 00
Anonymous 2 00
Anonymous $2 00
Anonymous i 00
Sums Under One Dollar 4 15
Total $217 00
MONTREAL— EMMANUEL
Ernest Alexander $ 4 vo
Miss M. Baker i 00
D. C. Barker i 00
Arthur Birks 10 00
Mrs. Arthur Birks 5 00
Miss Annie L. Birks ... 5 00
Henry Birks 10 00
Mr. & Mrs. C. R. Black 25 00
The Misses Blackader . . 3 00
W. B. Blackader 5 00
E. G. Brooks 5 00
R. H. Bryson 5 00
Miss Cochrane i 00
Mrs. A. W. Cochrane . . i 00
Mrs. L. Cushing i 00
W. E. Cushing 2 00
Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Cribb 3 00
H. M. Cribb i 00
G. R. Dewar i 00
R. Donaldson i 00
A. H. Duff I 00
Mrs. J. W. Duncan . . . : i 00
Mrs. Alex Douglas .... i 00
Jas. R. Ferguson i 00
Mrs. Dr. Fisher 25 00
Mr.& Mrs. A. R. Grafton 2 00
Chas. Gurd 15 00
Miss M. M. Gurd 2 00
Miss O. F. Gurd, 2 00
Dr. C. C. Gurd 2 00
W. R. Gurd 2 00
Dr. D. F. Gurd 10 00
Harrington Dr. J. B. . . . 5 00
Gus. Harries 5 00
Mrs. Harries i 00
Miss J. E. Haight i 00
Mrs. R. C. Jamieson . . 5 00
Gilbert Johnston 2 00
Mrs. G. Johnston i 00
Alice Ketchen i 00
H. A. Layton 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lear-
mont 10 00
Mrs. Leishman i 00
Miss Leslie 2 00
Mrs. Henry Lyman .... 25 00
FT. H. Lvman 25 00
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
127
Preble Macintosh $ 5 oo
Mrs. McLachlan 5 00
Miss Kate Mills 2 00
Thomas Moodie 25 00
Mrs. T. Moodie 2 50
Mrs. G. W. Morrison ... 5 00
Mrs. G. VV. Moss 3 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Owens IS 00
Miss Hattie M. Owens.. 5 00
Rev. Hug-h Pedley 10 00
Mrs. F. E. Phelan .... 3 00
F. Ross Phelan i 00
E. Ramsden 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Reid 5 00
Mrs. W. Reid i 00
B. B. Stevenson 10 00
Dr. F. A. Stevenson ... 10 00
Mrs. Joseph Savage .... 2 00
A. H. Thompson 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Williams 10 00
C. T. Williams S 00
H. C. Williams 2 00
Miss A. Walker 2 00
Anonymous (3 subscrip- tions) 4 00
Small Sums 5 05
Sunday School 18 12
Total $404 67
MONTREAL— POINT ST. CHARLES
Church subscriptions . . $34 10
Sunday School 25 00
Total $59 10
MONTRiEAL— WESTMOUNT;^ BETHLEHEM.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Box $3 00
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Climie i 50
C. E. Cross I 00
Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Davidson 2 00
Mr. & Mrs. A. E. Hanna 5 00 Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Light- hall 2 00
Mr. & Mrs. Geo. Luck- hurst 1 00
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall ... $1 00
Miss A. P. Moodie 3 00
Rev. Wm. Munroe 3 00
Mr. & Mrs. A. McA.
Murphy 2 00
Miss M. E. Richardson., i 00
Mr. & Mrs. H. J. Ross . . i 00 Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Val-
lance 5 00
Wm. Watson i 00
Small Sums 85
Sunday School 5 00
Total $38 35
MONTREAL— ZION Church Subscriptions . . $18 00 S. S. for North-West . . 50 00
Total $68 00
SHERBROOKE
J. S. Mitchell $10 00
Miss S. A. Mitchell c 00
M. J. Mitchell 5 00
Mrs. Nourse 5 00
S. F. Morey 5 00
W. H. Abbott 3 00
N. Dinning 3 00
Mrs. McKechnie 2 00
C. H. Foss 2 00
C. McKechnie 2 00
Rev. G. E. Read 2 00
J. A. McKechnie 2 00
T. M. Craig 2 00
Mrs. Drysdale i 00
A. M. Sangster 1 00
James Sangster i 00
A. N. Blue I 00
Miss E. W. Abbott i 00
Mrs. Wm. McCullough . i 00
J. H. Armstrong i 00
J- Fales I 00
Anonymous i 00
Small Sums i 10
Young People's Miss.
Asso 5 00
Total $63 10
ST. ANDREW'S. Church Subscriptions . . $37 80 S. School for Northwest 15 00
Total $52 80
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STANSTEAD SOUTH
Church Subscriptions . . $i8 07 Rev. W. R. Harvey .... 2 00
Total $20 07
WATERVILLE
Church Subscriptions . . $30 15 Ladies' Miss. Society . . 7 00
Total $37 15
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK
BEACH MEADOWS W. B. M. Aux $18 00
BROOKLYN W. B. M. Aux $13 50
CHEBOQUE
Church Subscriptions . . $10 o^ Ladies' Miss. Society . . 6 00
Total $16 GO
ECONOMY W. B. M. Aux $16 00
KESWICK RIDGE
Church collection $7 25
W. B. M. Aux 6 00
Total $13 25
KINGSPORT
Church collection $6 00
Sunday School i 00
W. B. M. Aux 12 00
Total $19 00
LIVERPOOL W. B. M. Aux $Q 00
LOWER SELMA
Andrew Anthony $1 oc
Mrs. W. Anthony i 00
Mrs. David Pratt i 00
A. M. Anthony . . , i 00
F. E. Anthony i 00
C. E. Crane i 00
Rev. R. and Mrs. Barron i 50
Small Sums 2 00
Collection i 00
W. B. M. Aux 6 00
Total $16 so
MARGAREE
Church collection $5 50
Donald Ethridge 5 00
Total $10 50
MILTON W. B. M. Aux $14 75
NOEL
Church collection $7 40
W. B. M. Aux 2 50
Total $9 90
PLEASANT RIVER
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Colp $2 00
Mr. and Mrs. H. Colp . . i 00
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Colp i 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fancy i 00
Mrs. J. A. Rose i 00
Mrs. G. A. Colp i 00
J. W. Waterman i 00
Small Sums i 36
Collection at Hemford . . 2 40 Collection at Baker's
Settlement i 00
W. B. M. Aux s 00
Total $17 76
SCOTCH LAKE W. B. M. Aux $4 00
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SHEFFIELD
Church Subscriptions . . $i6 oo
C. E. Society 1600
VV. B. M. Aux '. 39 60
Total $71 60
SOUTH MAITLAND
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cam- eron $1 25
Cyrus Fisher i 00
Stewart Rose, Jr i 00
David Rose i 00
John Jackson i 00
Mrs. Wm. Hamilton .... i 00
James Dimock i 00
Urbania Y.P.S.C.E i 00
Sums Under One Dollar 6 50
Collection i 25
W. B. M. Aux 4 25
Total $20 25
ST. JOHN \V. B. M. Aux $30 40
TRURO
Jas. Williamson $ i 00
Malcolm Mclnnes i 00
Ross Archibald i 00
John D. Ross 1 00
J. Lewis Chisholm 1 00
•Jas. Buchanan i 00
Harry Smith i 00
Geo. Mclntyre 1 00
Hector Bruce i 00
Rev. J. VV. Cox I 00
Wm. E. Cox ■. . . . I 00
W. B. M. Aux 12 35
Total $23 35
YARMOUTH
Church Subscription . . . $25 00 W. B. M. Aux 50 00
Total $75 00
Women's Board, N. S. &
N. B $76 08
Union Collection, July,
190S $8 73
THE
Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society.
OFFICERS FOR 1906-1907.
PRESIDENT. REV. T. BRADLEY HYDE.
VICE-PEE SIDENT. REV. E. MUNSON HILL, D.D.
SECRETARY. REV. D. S. HAMILTON, B.A., First Congregational Church, London.
TREASURER. REV. W. T. GUNN, M.A., B.D., Embro, Ont.
DIRECTORS.
REV. HUGH PEDLEY, B.A. MR. J.- W. LYON « D. MACALLUM " GEO. WILSON
" W. H. WATSON REV. A. W. MAIN
" J. K. UNSWORTH, B. A. MR. S. P. LEET " W. H. WARRINER, D.D. " C. T. WILLIAMS
" C. C. CLARIS " HENRY YEIGH
" J. B. SILCOX " H. W. BARKER
" A. F. POLLOCK, B.D. " C. DUFF
MR. H. B. DONOVAN MRS. T. MOODIE
" C. McD. HAY MRS. L. W. READ
" B. W. ROBERTSON MISS F. ROBINSON
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE OFFICERS, TOGETHER WITH
REV. J. K. UNSWORTH, B.A. MR. CHAS. DUFF
" H. F. THOMAS, M.A. " HENRY YEIGH
MR. H. W. BARKER " C. McD. HAY
SUPERINTENDENT OF DEPARTMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE' S SOCIETIES
MR. H. W. BARKER, 12 Simpson Ave., Toronto, Ont. MR. E. C. AUSTIN, Assistant, 117 Carlton St., Toronto, Ont.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PRAYER UNION. MISS F. B. RAWLINGS, Forest, Ont.
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CONSTITUTION.
I. NAME.
The Corporation shall be called The Canada Congrega- tional Foreign Missionary Society.
n. Object. The object of this Society shall be to spread the knowl- edge of the Gospel among the heathen and other unenlight- ened people.
ni. membership. The members of this Society shall be persons subscribing $2 annually, ministers of all contributing churches, one other representative from each church contributing $10 an- nually, and two representatives from each church contribut- ing $50, or over, annually, and each year the delegates ap- pointed from any church to the Congregational Union of On- tario and Quebec shall be delegates to this Society, provided that church be entitled to be so represented. Every bene- factor making a donation of $40 at one time shall be a life member.
IV. OFFirvRS.
The officers of this Society shall consist of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Board of Directors, to be elected at the annual meeting of the Society.
V. MEETINGS.
An annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the Thursday following the first Sunday in June, at the place where the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec as- sembles.
VI. AMENDMENTS.
This Constitution can be amended by vote of two-thirds of the members present at any annual meeting of the Society, notice of the proposed alteration having been given in two successive numbers of the Canadian Independent *
* Now The Canadian Congregationalist.
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BY-LAWS.
I. FUNDS.
AH funds arising from donations, legacies, subscrip- tions, or otherwise, shall be lodged by the Treasurer, as soon as collected, with some chartered bank, to be named by tKe Executive Committee. Money can be drawn from such ac- counts only by cheques, signed by the Secretary and Treas- urer, but the President or Vice-President may sign for either in their absence.
II. MANAGEMENT.
The Board of Directors shall consist of not more than twenty-five members of the Society, including the officers, and shall be elected at the annual meeting, who shall havei full charge and power for the administration of the affairs of the Society. Immediately after their election they shall appoint an Executive Committee, and such other committees as they shall deem expedient for the interests of the Society. The Executive Committee shall have all the powers of the Board of Directors between the meetings of that Board, and shall consist of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, ^nd six other members, together with two members of the Woman's Board, to.be appointed by that Board, and who are members of this Society.
III. MEETINGS.
The Board of Directors shall meet at least once during the year, immediately before the annual meeting of the So- ciety, at the call of the Secretary, to prepare reports, and a list of officers and committees to be nominated at the annual meeting, as well as to transact any other business connected with the interests of the Society.
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IV. PRE SENT ATIOlf TO CHURCHES.
The work of the Society shall be presented, and a For- eign Missionary sermon preached in each of the churches of the constituency at least once in each year. The Executive Committee shall see that news from the Society's work is distributed to the churches.
V, DONATIONS FOR SPECIAL WORK.
When money is donated for missionary work outside the Societj-'s missions, it may be forwarded to societies work- ing in that field.
VI. AMENDMENT.
These By-laws may be altered in the same manner as the Constitution.
FORM OF BEQUEST.
I give and bequeath to the Canada Congregational For- eign Missionary Society, incorporated by Act of the Parlia- ment of the Dominion of Canada, A. D. 1889, the sum of
out of my estate, to be paid with all
convenient speed after my decease, without charge or deduc- tion whatever. And I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer and Secretary for the time of the Society, shall constitute and be a sufficient discharge of said legacy.
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MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETING.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Canada Congrega- tional Foreign Missionary Society was held in Embro Con- gregational Church, Embro, Ont., on Thursday afternoon, June 7th, 1906. Rev. T. Bradley Hyde, the President oc- cupied the chair. After singing of the hymn, "Christ for the World We Sing," Mr. Henry Teigh led in prayer. The Presi- dent made a few introductory remarks regarding the work of the Society, after which reports were presented as follows : — Secretary's report by E-ev. D. S. Hamilton; Treasurer's re- port by H. W. Barker; Mission Study Class and Young Peo- ple's Department report by Mr. E, C. Austin (read by Rev. W. T. Gunn) ; Prayer Union report by Miss F. B. Raw- lings. On motion, the reports were all duly received and adopted. Miss F. B. Rawlings presented the greetings of the C.C.W.B.M., and asked the C.C.F.M.S. to consider the fol- lowing resolution passed at a recent meeting the Women's Board.
Copy of resolution passed at the annual meeting of the C.C.W.B.M., Scotland, June 1st :— Moved by Mrs. Nasmith, seconded by Miss Copp, and carried unanimously: "That the Woman's Board, in convention assembled, having heard through Mrs. Currie, of the great need for gospel in the vil- lages lying to the east of Chisamba, and believing that the in- habitants of these villages could be most easily reached by the Christian natives of Chisamba and its neighborhood ; be- lieving also, that the C.C.F.M.S. has in Mr. Currie a mis- sionary particularly fitted, both by natural gifts and exper- ience in pioneering work for this extensive movement, res- pectfully request the C.C.F.M.S. to take into earnest and prayerful consideration the opportunity which seems to offer such possibilities of spreading the good news. The W.B.M. believes that under Mr. Currie's wise guidance and with his supervision, ueful work could be done by native agency; and
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its members assure the C.C.F.M.S. of their sympathy and co- operation in this extensive work should it be undertaken."
The resolution was referred to the incoming Executive, and the Secretary was instructed to acknowledge its receipt and to thank the Woman's Board for their promised co-oper- ation,
Mrs. Currie then addressed the meeting very briefly and was followed by E,ev. Mr. Currie, who gave a masterly review of the work already done and outlined a plan for future effort. Discussion upon the address resulted in the presentation of two resolutions by E,ev. J. K. Unsworth as follows: —
1. " That having heard Mr. Currie on the general plan of a Central Institute for the training of native workers and oversight of stations, we pledge ourselves to a forward move- ment to that end.
2. That in order to provide for the deficit and to make a substantial beginning towards the Institution a sum of about $10,000 will be required, therefore we aim at that amount during the year."
Both resolutions were on motion received and laid on the table for future action. The Business Committee was asked to provide for a half hour's discussion of the resolutions at a later session.
On motion of Rev. Dr. Hill, seconded by Rev. D. S. Hamilton, the incoming Executive was asked to confer with other denominational societies regarding a "plan of appeal" for funds.
On motion of Rev. H. F. Thomas, seconded by Mr. J. D. Nasmith, officers were elected for the ensuing year.
On motion of Mr. H. W. Barker, the usual grant of $100 was made to the Publishing Society.
The meeting then adjourned with the understanding that a later session would be held at such hour as the Business Committee would arrange.
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Saturday, June 9tli.
An adjourned meeting of the C.C.F.M.S. was held this afternoon in the Embro Congregational Church, President Hyde in the chair. After devotional exercises the resolutions laid over from the previous meeting were presented by Rev. J, K. Unsworth. Resolution (1), as recorded above was car- ried unanimously. After discussion of resolution (2) it was moved by Rev. Dr. Hill, seconded by Rev. W. T. Gunn, that Mr. Unsworth be allowed to amend the resolution to read : " That in order to provide for the deficit and to make a sub- stantial beginning towards the Institution, an additional sum of about $4,000 will be required, therefore we aim at that increase during the year." Carried. The amended resolu- tion was then adopted.
The method of raising funds was discussed and on motion of Rev. J. B'. Silcox, the following resolution was adopted : " That the C.C.F.M.S. prosecute its work of securing funds as it has done until a reorganization of the societies of our churches has been effected."
On motion of Rev. W. T. Gunn the Secretary was in- structed to make the usual announcement next year calling the Corporation to meet at the same place as the Congrega- tional Union of the Dominion meets.
The meeting was closed with prayer and duly adjourned.
SUMMARY OF THE SECRETARY'S REPORT.
The Secretary's report briefly reviewed the work of the Executive during the year; expressed regret at the delay in securing a medical missionary, and spoke of the year as one of waiting rather than one which marked definite action re- garding many important matters. The report spoke with satisfaction of the presence of Rev. W. T. and Mrs. Currie, and the honored missionaries would tell the story of develop- ment in the work in Africa, which made it necessary for the
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officers to give the usual lengthy review. E egret was express- ed at the illness of Mrs. Moffat, who with her husband, was obliged to return home. The report contained the following recommendations from the Executive, which were adopted along with the report : —
1. That Rev. Mr. Currie be asked to visit some of the Western Churches, going as far as Brandon, at least.
2. That we be guided by the recommendation of the American Board with regard to the appointment of Dr. Cam- mack as our medical missionary at Chisamba.
3. That the incoming Executive be asked to formulate a plan for future work after consultation with Mr. Currie.
4. That Miss Rawlings be given an opportunity to pre- sent a resolution from the C.C.W.B.M. regarding a forward movement in Africa.
D. S. Hamilton,
Secretary .
YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEPARTMENT.
Report of Literature and Mission Study Class Work. The work of this Department is still largely one of seed- sowing preparation, but there are indications of life and pro- gress that augur well for the future. The first work under- taken since the last annual report was a visitation of several of our churches in the Western Association by the writer.
Twelve churches in all were visited during the early part of July and addresses were given on the work of the Young People's Missionary movement illustrated by charts, maps, text-books and other literature on missions and mission study. Though the meetings were held during the holiday season the interest and attendance was very gratifying. Special thanks is due to the friends who so kindly extended hospitality and assisted in many ways. Following this came the annual con- ference of the Y. P. M. M. at Silver Bay, N.Y., July 21-30.
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At this gathering we were represented as a denomination by two delegates from Broadview church, Toronto. A report of the proceedings appeared later in the columns of the "Con- gregationalist. "
In the Fall the work was not resumed as early as had been intended owing to illness of the leader. At the end of October a circular letter was sent to correspondents, outlin- ing the work for the coming winter and drawing attention to the new textbook, "Daybreak in the Dark Continent." A pamphlet entitled 'Young People and Missions" and a leaf- let containing an announcement of a "Reference Library on Africa" were also sent with each letter. Later in the winter a further letter was sent containing a list of literature and other helps on missions and mission study which could be supplied through our own Young People's Department. Ar- ticles have appeared from time to time in the Young People's column of the Congregationalist, including an announcement of the books contained in the Africa Reference Library. The "Story of Chisamba," our own text book on Africa, has been kept to the front and in the fall of last year a supply was or- dered by the American Board for use with other text books in the study of African missions.
With regard to the formation of classes it is a pleasure to be able to report, if not a large number, at least an increase over last year. Three classes have been newly organized. One reports nine members and meetings held fortnightly and using as a text book "the Price of Africa." "The study," says the Secretary, "we found to be very interesting and instruc- tive." Reports from others at time of writing are not to hand, but no doubt they have been equally successful and profitable. Preparations have been made for the holding of a Canadian summer conference of the Young People's mis- sionary movement at Whitby, Ont., (July 9-16), similar in character and purpose to those held at Silver Bay and other parts of the United States. A letter has been sent to each pastor and missionary correspondent in our churches and also to the Secretaries of the Women's Auxiliaries, drawing at-
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tention to the value and importance of this gathering and urging the appointment of one or more representatives from each church. There was enclosed with each letter an an- nouncement containing all necessary information, also a card for the use of prospective delegates in making application. In conclusion we would express the hope that as a result of this conference a further and more marked development of the work of our Young People's Department may take place and that the Missionary spirit and purpose may become a controlling factor in the lives of both young and old in all our churches. The above is respectfully submitted,
E. C. Austin,
Assistant Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF PEAYEE UNION EEPOET FOE
1905-1906.
The Prayer Union was organized to secure for the West Central African Mission the blessing of definite and united prayer. More and more it is felt that one of the greatest needs of mission work is the need of prayer. Our member- ship consists of those who consider it a privilege to enroll themselves as members of the Union for the purpose of prayer.
The pledge calls for daily prayer, but it is optional. There is a fee of ten cents to cover the cost of the card.
We now have a membership of over three hundred. Fifty membership cards have been given out this year. Mrs. Eeade, of Montreal, has done much to increase our membership. Through her efforts the greatest gain in any one church this year has been in Point St. Charles Church, Montreal.
Last year a desire was expressed that the work of the Union be enlarged, but owing to changes in our work and the hope of a forward movement no new plan has been out- lined.
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God has heard our prayers and greatl;^ blessed us in our work. Correspondence bearing on the purpose of the Union or inquiry concerning the objects of prayer is invited.
How can we make the incoming year the best that we have ever had. New blessings will be received both at home and abroad, if, as a people, we give ourselves to prayer. If as individuals and churches we recognize our source of help and strength and in response to our workers' appeal to "pray for us" we do continually remember them before our Heaven- ly Father's throne for He is far more willing to give than we jire to ask.
We hope that many may be led to unite themselves in the service of prayer for our work and workers.
Respectfully submitted,
F. B. Eawlings.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
It is a quarter of a century since our Foreign Missionary Society was organized, the date being May 13th, 1881. Dur- ing these twenty-five years, the Society has received and dis- bursed over $64,000, the bulk of which has been contributed for our own work in Africa; and who will dare say that it is not an investment of the highest order — an investment which will bear fruit for eternity — to plant in dark Africa Chris- tian villages from each of which the "Light of the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ" radiates through the re- deemed and consecrated lives of our missionaries and of the native converts ?
The financial statement for the year ending May 31st is before, you and we would commend it to your careful atten- tion. Last year we were gratified to be able to report an in- crease in the regular income of about 23 per cent, over the previous year. The statement presented to-day shows a fur- ther gain of 8 per cent, for the year just closed, the amount
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being $3,137.22, as compared with $2,915.28 of the preceding year; while, taking the total amount received for all pur- poses, the inciose is 10 per cent, from $3,804.50 to $4,- J81.68. This is encouraging. It will be noticed that On- tario and Quebec both sliow a substantial gain, while the Maritime and Western Provinces are somewhat behind the record established last year.
One very interesting feature is the large number of churches which have shared this year in the work. In the older Provinces, 88 per cent, of our churches have contri- buted, while last year 82 per cent, were found on the list. I do not know, but I fancy we have never had more than 88 per cent, of the churches give through our own Society for the foreign work. But should not 100 per cent, of them be on the list ? Why should not every one of our churches be helpers together in the giving, and thus sharers together in the blessing attending this work which is so near our Saviour's heart ?
An analysis of the returns so far as the separate churches are concerned is interesting. Toronto Northern again heads the list as the largest giver, the amount being $456. Mon- treal Calvary tried hard to beat them, but the total fell short by nearly $100. Montreal Emmanuel again comes near the head of the list with $250. The other churches over $100 are, Winnipeg, $127; and Hamilton First $110. Brantford, Granby, Montreal Zion, Yarmouth and St. Catharines all come between $90 and $100. Little St. Andrews, with its membership of 39 (nearly three-quarters of them women) de- serves special mention again this year. "The Lord giveth the word," but truly "the women that publish the tidings are a great host." Stouffville, supposed to be dead, gives $70, $20 more than before. Maxville apologizes for sending only $61, but we have no apology from the much larger and stronger churches which send less. We congratulated Toron- to Broadview last year on its $53. A word of cheer is a good tonic, and this year Broadview gives $74. Brantford has also increased $20, Forest $22, Burford $14, Guelph $43, Rugby
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$22, Scotland $19, Cowansville $42, Westmount $17, Brook- lyn and Beach Meadows $19 and Sheffield $20. Some few, not many, are behind last year's contributions. Several churches appear on the list this year which we missed before. We are glad to welcome them, and hope they will stay with us. All the Toronto churches have been heard from, while last year two of them were missing.
One very pleasing gift was the $10 received from the Young Ladies' Sewing Circle of our Swedish Church in We- taskiwin. We would also gratefully acknowledge the gift of $200 from Mr. B. W. Robertson for the Chiyuka Church building. Another of our friends remembered the Society in her death, a legacy of $50 having come from the estate of the late Mrs. Catharine Muir, of Middleville.
The contributions for special objects show how far-reach- ing our work is. The Society acts as forwarding agent for all missionary enterprises, receiving and transmitting to their destination moneys contributed for missions in all parts of the world. This year, as the report shows, money has passed through our hands for our Brother McEwen and his good wife in Brazil, for our Brother McCallu'm in Turkey, as well as for special purposes in India, in Japan, in China and for the Deep Sea Fishermen under Dr. Grenfell's care. While we welcome contributions for outside objects, yet the West Cen- tral African field is our oiwn special care and we would crave for it the first place in the hearts and thoughts of our con- stituents. Treasurers of Mission Boards all tell the same story, that it is less difficult to get people to give for any spe- cial work than for the maintenance of the general work. Our own work must be supported — the missionaries' salaries must be paid or they cannot live, and the other necessary expenses must be met.
Not only has our income exceeded that of the previous year, but the expenses of the Society have also been greater, as we anticipated in our last report. A year ago we looked forward to the home-coming of Mr. and Mrs. Currie, and we are glad to have them with us to-day, God bless them! We
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estimated $800 as their travelling expenses, but missionaries are not extravagant, like some people, and the amount was less than $700. And while we are on travelling, it might be remarked that the Executive Committee have also been spar- ing in their travelling expenses, for they amount to only $10.10. The President has wisely endeavored to arrange the meetings at a time when special railway rates have been on, and none of the members of the Committee are out for graft. But in spite of all this economy, the deficit of $1,900 reported last year remains about the same to-day, and at the present moment we are indebted to the American Board in the sum of $2,000. This, brethren, ought not to be, and if we were fully alive to our responsibility of gi^ving the gospei to those who sit in darkness, it would not be. We have not really gone behind during the year, but w.e have not gained much. As explained in the foot-note to the printed statement, the station expenses are paid to Dec. 31st last, while we have settled with the Board for Mr. Currie's allowance to Feb. 28th; so, for purposes of comparison, our deficit this year is $1,850 as against $1,900 of a year ago. $1,850 is a large amount, but what is it to the people! who raised 100 times as much recently for their church debts ? Why not plan to-day for such a financial campaign that before we meet again in annual assembly we shall not only be able to report this defi- cit removed, but a balance of at least $10,000 on hand for ex- tension work ? To use the memorable words of Samuel J. Mills, 'We can do it if we will."
Respectfully submitted,
H. W. Barker,
Treasurer pro tern.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1906.
RECEIPTS.
Balance brought forward . $i ,282 83
Contributions by Provinces, 1905-6 : —
Special Regular
Objects. Funds. Total.
Ontario $31729 $1,46024 $1,75763
Quebec 20160 975 48 1,17708
Maritime Provinces 203 37 309 92 533 29
Western Provinces 139 77 139 77
Miscellaneous and Personal.. 322 10 201 81 523 91
Legacy 50 00 50 00
$1,044 46 $3,137 22 $4,181 68 $4,181 68
Contributions by Provinces, 1904-5 : —
Special Regular
Objects. Funds. Total.
Ontario $322 21 $1,168 31 $1,490 52
Quebec 20360 86437 1,06797
Maritime Provinces 337 66 415 23 752 89
Western Provinces 5 00 305 40 310 40
Miscellaneous and Personal.. 20 75 86 97 107 72
Legacies 75 00 75 00
22 $2,915 28 $3,804 50
$5,464 61
EXPENDITURE.
Paid American Board : —
On regular account $ij909 49
Dr. Massey's allowance in full to June 9, 1905 217 50 Rev. W. T. Currie's traveling expenses Cis-
amba to Toronto 685 90
$2,812 89
(This leaves $2,000 still owing to Dec. 31, '05, and Mr. Currie's allow- ance paid to Feb. 28, '06). Paid for Special Purposes at Station : —
For support of boys $190 17
For use at station 50 00
For freight on boxes 39 83
For use of missionaries 77 00
For school supplies 20 22
$377 22
Paid Travelling Expenses : —
Executive Committee $ 10 10
Mr. Currie's Tour of the Churches 103 87
$113 97
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Paid for Printing : —
Subsidy to "Congregationalist" $ioo oo
Special number "Congregationalist" 17 So
Year Book Account 46 30
Sundry Printing- Accounts 49 22
„ . , , . ; $213 02
raid postage, commission, etc 26 75
Paid lantern expenses 20 15
Paid Specially Designated Objects : —
Rev. J. D. McEwen, Brazil $173 75
Mrs. J. D. McEwen, Brazil 52 qo
Rev. F. W. McCallum, Turkey 15 00
Orphan in India 1 5 00
Orphan in Turkey 5 00
Work in Armenia 20 00
Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen 5 00
Native Preachers in India 100 60
Work in Japan 12 00
Japanese Famine 2 1 74 ,
Teacher in China 25 00
$445 99
Balance on hand : —
Special Funds : —
Kindergarten Building $252 13
Hospital Cottages 723 00
Grist Mill and Power 230 75
Tools I 19
Chiyuka Building 232 00
$1,439 07
Undesignated 1 5 45
$1,454 52
$5,464 51 H. W. BARKER,
Treasurer, pro tem. Audited and found correct.
JOHN LEWIS. June 2nd, 1906.
N.B. — It is gratifying to note that an increase of $200 over last year in contributions to the Regular Fund. Our last annual report showed a deficit of $1,900.00 with the American Board, who had paid salaries, etc., to December 31st of the previous year. To-day, although the churches have responded more liberally, and a greater number of them have shared in the work, we are practically in the same position. We now owe the Board $2,000.00 to December 31st, 1905; but, for purposes of comparison, it must be pointed out that Mr. Currie's fur- lough allowance is paid by us to February 28th, igo6 which puts us $150.00 ahead and actually makes our deficit $1,850.00 now.
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY— SUMMARY OF CONTRIBUTIONS.
ONTARIO
ALTON
Church $4 35
BARRIE
Church $9 oo
BELVVOOD
Church $io 70
BOWMANVILLE
BRANTFORD
F. B. Harrison $25 50
E. L. Gould 3 00
Mrs. Ott 5 00
Mrs. J. Wilkes 2 90
Mrs. Oles i 00
Mr. Yeigh 4 00
Mrs. H. H. Hamilton.. 10 00
Sabbath School 5 00
Mrs. Hartman 1 00
Mrs. F. Wisner 4 00
Mrs. J. H. Oldham 2 00
Mrs. W. S. Wisner .... i 50
Miss A. Wilkes ....... 90
Mrs. Hamilton 3 00
Church 22 00
Total $90 80
BURFORD
Mr. and Mrs. Tennant $ 2 00
Kenneth Tennant i 00
L. and C. Tennant .... 2 00
Henry Cox 5 00
Adam Oliver i 00
Aaron Rutherford i 00
Georg"e Armstrong .... i 00
Small Amounts 75
Sunday School 15 00
Church 1 1 90
Total $40 65
CHURCHILL
Church $ 2 62
Other Sums 10 75
Total $13 37
COBOURG ji
Mrs. Field $25 00 ^
COLDSPRINGS Church $22 00
DALSTON
Church $625 '•
EDGAR Church $32 25
EMBRO
Auxiliary $30 00
Sunday School 3 75
Church 5 39
Total $39 14
FERGUS
Ladies' Aid $4 00
Church 5 76
Total $9 76
FOREST
Miss Alice Gammon . . $ 5 00
W. Scott, Sr I 00 «■
Jos. Sutcliffe I 00
Miss F. M. Rawling-s . . 2 00
Miss Livingstone i 20
Small Amounts i 00
Church 20 27
Total $31 47
CANADA FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
147
FROME
C. E $5 oo
Church 4 43
Lawrence Congregation. 5 00
Total $14 43
GARAFRAXA
C. E. for Orphan in
Turkey $ 5 00
Church 1075
Total >... $15 75
GEORGETOWN
Dr. H. G. Reed $5 00
Dr. L. L. Bennett .... 3 00
Rev. R. J. Drysdale .... 5 00
Church 2 go
Total $15 go
GUELPH
Church $52 64
Church, for boy, 15 00
Total $67 64
HAMILTON FIRST.
Church $100 00
Miss. Band for Chi- yuka 10 00
Total $1 10 00
HAMILTON, EMMANUEL Church $4 00
HUMBER SUMMIT Church $635
KINCARDINE
S. S. for Jap. Famine . . $3 00
KINGSTON, FIRST Church $22 80
KINGSTON, BETHEL KINGSTON, CALVARY
LANARK
Rev. D. C. Mcintosh . . $5 00 Mr. and Mrs. C. P.
Grierson 2 00
Geo. J. Hunt 2 00
\V. M. Dorway i 00
Miss Mag-gie Watt i 00
Miss Janet Watt i 00
Miss A. L. Peacock .... i 00
James Watt i 00
R. W. Robertson i 00
John A. Watt i 00
Mrs. W. W. Craig 50
Mrs. Robert Watt 50
Robert Wilson 50
William Stead 50
Nelson Affleck 50
Smaller Sums g$
S. S 5 00
Total $24 45
LONDON, FIRST.
Church $28 00
Y. P. Ass'n 425
Total $32 25
LONDON, SOUTHERN.
Church $10 00
"Little Girl" for Jap. Famine x ^o
Total $11 00
MAXVILLE
P. A. McDoug-all $ 50
P. F. McEwen 3 00
Donald McEwen 2 00
D. C. McDougall 3 00
D. A. McDougall 3 00
Thos. McEwen i 00
G. H. McDougall i 00
J. W. Kennedy . 5 00
D. and C. R. Sinclair . . 5 00
Mrs. D. K. Sinclair ... i 00
D. J. McEwen 50
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
Donald McDougall 500
Geo. Stiles i 00
S. S 8 GO
D. T. Munro i 00
J. A. McEwen i 00
S. J. McEwen 2 00
Peter Munro 2 00
J. J. Robertson i 00
A. A. McEwen i 00
John Sinclair i 00
J. W. Weeg-ar 2 00
D. A. McEwen i 50
Thos. Munro 2 00
A. P. McDougall 50
John F. McEwen 4 00
Rev. J. T. Daley 3 00
Total $61 00
MIDDLEVILLE
NEW DURHAM Church $8 27
OTTAWA, FIRST
C. E., for boy $15 00
S. S 8 00
Total $23 00
OTTAWA, WELCOME ZION
C. E $5 00
Church 4 50
Total $9 50
PINE GROVE
William Jeffery $1 00
Small sums 2 00
Church 2 15
Total $5 15
PLYMPTON Church $8 00
PARIS Church • $23 75
S.S. , for boy 12 00
Total $35 75
RUGBY
Mr. and Mrs. John John- ston $ 3 00
D. C. Anderson i 00
Chas. Harvie i 00
Joseph Langman i ou
Mr. and Mrs. D. M.
Harvie 3 00
Mrs. W. Johnston i 00
Edward Johnston 3 00
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Ball . 2 00
Small sums 3 50
Andrew Robertson 5 uo
For Mr. McCallum .... 15 00
Total $38 so
SCOTLAND
Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Foster $ 3 00
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Arm- strong 3 00
Wm. Foster 2 00
C. A. Baldwin 2 00
Miss G. Malcolm 2 00
Elvise Bolton i 00
Mrs. J. H. Taylor i 00
J. A. Messecar i 00
Eb. Eadie i 00
Mrs. Eb. Eadie i 00
H. Foster i 00
E. L. Smith i 00
Charles Eadie i 00
Mrs. Alonzo Foster .... i 00
Robert Taylor 1 00
Small sums 8 75
D. W. Malcolm i 00
Church 4 20
M. Band, for boys .... 15 00
C. E., for boys 15 00
S. S I 93
Total $67 88
SPEEDSIDE.
Church $6 96
ROXBOROUGH
C. E., for Mr. McEwen $71 50
STOUFFVILLE. For Mr. McEwen $70 25
CANADA FOREIGX MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
149
ST. CATHARINES
For Deep Sea Mission . $5 00
S. S 3 00
S. S., for Japan Famine . 2 29 Church, for Japan Fam- ine 4 00
Church 2 00
Total $16 29
STRATFORD
Church $14 82
T. K. Bremner 2 00
Total $16 82
TILBURY Church $18 00
TORONTO, BOND ST. Rev. J. B. Silcox $10 00
TORONTO, BROADVIEW.
Rev. W. E. Gilroy $ 5 00
Dr. McKichan 4 00
H. W. Barker i 80
W. Care i 20
Rev. E. Barker i 00
R. E. McKay i 00
Small sums 4 83
S.S., for boy 15 00
S. S., for Chiyuka
Church 10 00
C. E io -.u
Mr. Barker's class for
Japan Famine i 35
Auxiliary, for Chiyuka . 12 00 Friends for Mr. Mc-
Ewen 7 00
Total $74 18
TORONTO, NORTHERN.
Church $398 00
J. D. Nasmith 20 00
Rev. R. Robinson 10 00
S. S 10 00
Y. P. Assn 18 55
Total $456 55
TORONTO, OLIVET. Church $5 50
TORONTO, PARKDALE. Church $18 00
TORONTO, WESTERN. Church $20 00
TORONTO, ZION.
John Adams $ 5 00
Rev. E. D. Silcox 5 00
Mrs. Stibbs 5 00
Wm. Freeland i 00
Small sums . . S 1 5
C. E 10 00
Total $31 15
WARWICK, ZION. Church $3 09
WATFORD. Church $4 28
WOODSTOCK
Church $10 70
Total for Ontario, $i,757 63
QUEBEC.
AYER'S CLIFF.
BRIGHAM.
COWANSVILLE.
J. C. Hawk $ I 00
H. B. Goddard i 00
Joshua Bull I 00
Mrs. C. L. Cotton 2 00
H. L. Turner i 00
C. W. Johnston 1 00
W. T. Vilas 5 00
Miss A. Muir i 00
W. H. Cotton 1 00
150
COXGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
Geo. E. Ford i oo
F. E. Draper i oo
W. N. Hawk 5 oo
W. H. McFarlane i oo
P. F. Ferguson i oo
H. A. McElroy i oo
G. W. Beach :^ ^>o
Mrs. W. H. Watson ^ uo
Small sums 3 5o
S. S. and C. E., for boy 15 <X)
S. S., for boy 7 50
Sweetsburg i 00
Church 8 00
Total $63 00
DANVILLE
Church $24 80
C. E., for boy 10 00
Total $34 80
DURHAM, ULVERTON.
Mrs. T. McManus $2 00
Miss E. J. Bogie i 00
Richard Walker i 00
Mrs. N. A. Johnston . . i 00
Mrs. Norman Bothwell . . i 00
A. H. Hepworth 5 00
A Friend i 00
Mrs. E. F. Johnston .... i 00 Mrs. W. Mountain and
family i uo
Richard Lyster i 00
Miss L. Reed 5 00
Small sums i 45
Total $25 45
EATON FRANKLIN CENTRE
GRANBY
Mr. and Mrs. Miner . . . $25 00 Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Kechnie 10 00
Rev. and Mrs. Alexan- der 5 00
Rev. R. K. Black 5 00
W. R. Horner 5 00
W. W. Miner 2 00
M. E. Bowker 2 00
Henry Picard i 00
Wm. Neil i 00
J. G. Fuller 1 00
O. B. Streeter i 00
D. M. Mitchell i 00
Mrs. M. Warren i 00
J. H. McCanna i 00
Dr. Cowley i 00
P. Kramer i 00
C. E 5 00
Small sums 22 85
Church 5 50
Total $96 35
MELBOURNE
Mr. and Mrs. rl. P.
Wales $1000
Alex. McDonald 3 00
John Alexander 2 00
G. J. Alexander 2 00
Rev. R. G. Watt 3 00
E. and S. P. Lewis .... 1 00
H. A. Jones i 00
Mrs. Crombie i 00
Small sums 2 30
Total $25 30
MONTREAL, CALVARY.
Rev. J. McKillican $ 2 00
Miss Jessie Smith i 00
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Mc-
Lachlan 2 00
E. W. Duke 50
C. Gushing S 00
Miss Munroe 2 00
Miss C. Richardson .... 2.00
S. P. Rowell I 00
Rev. Dr. Hill 20 00
Mrs. Hill 10 00
Mrs. Toller 2 00
F. E. Dougall 15 00
J. R. Dougall 25 00
Mr. and Mrs. George Mc-
Garry ... ... i 00
Mr. and Mrs. Kerr 2 00
T. B. McCaulay 25 00
W. A. Wodd 2 00
Mr. Eraser 2 00
Rev. E. H. Tippett 2 00
CANADA FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
151
Miss Smyth i oo
Mrs. and Miss Powter . . i oo
Miss Moeser 4 oo
James Duff . . 50
Mr. Hargreaves 2 00
Collections and small
sums 10 00
R. W. McLachlan i 00
Rev. J. McKillican i 00
C. Gushing- 5 00
Miss Munroe 2 00
Miss Richardson 2 00
Lois Hill 05
Rev. Dr. Hill 25 00
Mrs. Hill 10 00
Mrs. Toller 2 00
J. R. Dougall «5 00
F. E. Dougall 15 00
Mr. McGarry i 00
Mr. and Mrs. Kerr .... 2 00
W. A. Wood 5 00
D. Fraser 2 00
Rev. E. H. Tippett 2 00
Mrs. Powter 2 00
Mr. Hargreaves 2 00
J. C. Luttrell i 00
Mrs. Cross 5 00
Mrs. E. F. Taylor 1 00
Miss Green 2 00
Miss M. Moeser 4 00
Friends 12 00
Collections 7 80
Small sums i 15
For teacher in India . . 60 60
C. E 20 uo
Total $358 60
MONTREAL, EMMANUEL.
Mrs. H. Lyman $25 00
T. Moodie 25 00
Mrs. H. H. Lyman 1 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. Owens ... 10 00
E. G. Brooks 10 00
A. Birks 10 00
H. C. Williams S 00
F. A. Stevenson a 00
B. B. Stevenson 5 00
A. H. Thomson b v^^
C. T. Williams 5 00
Mrs. McLaughlan 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Black 5 00
W. B. Blackader 5 00
H. A. Layton 5 00
G. Lyman 5 00
Mrs. Savage 5 00
Rev. H. Pedley 5 00
B. J. Harrington 3 00
Mrs. T. Moodie 2 50
The Misses Blackader . 2 00
Miss Kate Mills 2 00
Mrs. G. W. Morrison ... 2 00
G. Harris 2 00
Miss Kennedy 2 00
Mrs. R. E. Phelan 2 00
Miss A. Walker 2 00
Mrs. Moss 2 00
W. E. Gushing i 00
Mrs. L. Gushing i 00
Miss Cochrane i 00
H. M. Gribb . uo
Miss M. Baker i 00
G. Johnston i 00
Mr. and Mrs. G. S.
Wilson I 00
D. O. Baker 50
Sunday School 28/2
Small sums 2 02
For Chinese teacher ... 25 00
Church 10 00
Total $249 74
MONTREAL, POINT ST. CHARLES.
MONTREAL, WESTMOUNT. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Box .$2 00
Geo. Glimie i 00
A. E. Hanna 5 00
Rev. and Mrs. Munroe . . 2 00
Miss A. P. Moodie 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. McA.-
Murphy 2 00
Mr. and Mrs. H. Mason . i 00
S. S 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. H. Val-
lance 5 00
Small sums 2 50
Total $27 50
MONTREAL, ZION.
Church 22 70
S.S 50 00
S. S. for Armenia 20 00
Total $92 70
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
SHERBROOKE
C. A. McKechnie $ 3 oo
Miss Dickenson i 00
Mrs. E. A. Powers i 00
R. A. Ewing . . . 2 00
Miss M. E. Steere .... 2 00
Miss M. J Mitchell 5 00
Mrs. A. T. Nourse 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. VV. H.
Abbott 3 00
T. M. Craig 5 00
Anon I 00
C. H. Foss 2 00
V. E. Hawes 2 00
N. Dinning 3 00
Mrs. McKechnie 2 00
J. R. Sangster 2 00
J. A. McKechnie 2 00
C. E. Knowlton 2 00
J. S. Mitchell 5 oo
H. Rausehausan i 00
Mrs. Drysdale i 00
Mrs. L. Farwell i 00
S. F. Morey 5 00
A. M. Sangster i 00
Rev. G. E. Read 2 00
Small sums i 80
Y. P. Missionary Assn.,
for boy 1 5 00
Total $75 80
STANSTEAD, SOUTH.
ST. ANDREW'S EAST.
Church $44 24
For Japan 12 00
For Boy 1 5 00
For boy in India 15 00
For Japan Famine .... 5 50 Martintown, foi siates . 1 (.0
Total $92 74
WATERVILLE
Church .... $5 10
Total for Quebec, $1,177.08.
MARITIME PROVINCES
BROOKLYN
Church . . $10 00
Miss Taylor 5 00
James Taylor 5 00
Mission Band 5 00
Church II 00
For Mrs. McEwen 10 00
Total $46 00
BEACH MEADOWS. Church $12 00
CHEBOGUE
ECONOMY Church $ 5 00
KESWICK RIDGE
Church $ 6 00
Mission Band 24 00
Queensbury 2 00
Total $32 00
KINGSPORT
For Japan Famine $4 60
S. S , 3 10
Total $7 70
LIVERPOOL Church $9 00
LOWER SELMAH Church $6 15
NOEL
Mr. O. O'Brien ^5 ^
O'Brien children 3 00
Church 4 85
Total $12 85
SOUTH MAITLAND
Church $15 50
Church, for Miss Bell 2 20
Total $17 70
CANADA FOREIGN
MARGAREE Church $5 oo
MILTON
"Little Hughes Fund" . $50 00
Church 27 02
Mission Band, for Miss
Bell I 00
Total $78 02
PLEASANT RIVER Church $5 ou
ST. JOHN
Church $38 00
C. E., for boy 7 67
Mrs. Dearborn, for boy 10 00 Mrs. Elliott, for boy ... 10 00
Total $65 67
SHEFFIELD
Church $55 45
C. E 3 85
Mission Band 10 00
Church, for Mrs. Mc-
Ewen 1 2 90
Total $82 20
TRURO
Church $10 00
Church, for Miss Mel- ville o 00
Total $18 ou
MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 153
YARMOUTH
Church $11 oo
Church, for Mrs. Mc-
Ewen 30 oo
Church, for slates 15 oo
Church, for native
preacher in India . . 40 00
Total $96 00
Woman's Board of N. S.
and N. B $20 00
Women's Board of N.S. and N.B. for Mrs. Mc- Ewen 1 5 00
Total $35 00
Total for Maritime Prov- inces $533 29
WESTERN PROVINCES.
VICTORIA, B.C. C. E $2 45
WETASKIWIN Sewing- Circle $1000
WINNIPEG, FIRST. Church $127 32
Total Western Provinces, $i39-77-
154 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
MISCELLANEOUS AND PERSONAL.
H. Langlois, Toronto 25 00
Freight Account 29 08
Mrs. F. R. Sinclair, Calgary 10 00
Bank interest 44 11
Am. Pres. Mission, Montreal 10 00
T. B. Macaulay, for Mr. McEwen 10 00
Chas. Duff, Hamilton, Life Membership 40 00
B. W. Robertson, Kingston, for windows in Chiyuka Church 200 00
Collection Toronto District Ass'n Meeting 27 15
"Story of Cisamba" sold 9 55
R. Davis, Kingston 10 00
Mrs. Camp's Mission, Chicago^ for slates, etc 4 22
D. McP. , Basswood, Man 4 00
W. C. Bell, for support of boy 13 00
M. M. C. Mission Circle for special work 11 50
Mr. Jeff ery, for special work 5 00
W. H. Birks, for Mr. Currie's travelling expenses 35 00
Proceeds Mr. Currie's lecture W. B. M., Montreal 10 00
Mr. Learmont, for special work 24 30
Error in Mr. Currie's statement 2 00
$523 91 LEGACY. Mrs. Catharine Muir, Middleville $ 50 00
SUMMARY :
Ontario $i)757 63 Miscellaneous and per-
Quebec 1,17708 sonal 523 9'
Maritime Provinces . 533 29 Legacy 50 00
Western Provinces . . 1 39 77 "Z Z 72
q>4,ioi' 00
S. H. C. MINER. ESQ.
Chairman Board of Governors, Congregational College of Canada, Montreal
i
Congregational College of Canada.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS.
CHAIEMAN. S. H. C. MINER, ESQ., Montreal.
SECRETARY. ALEX. McA. MURPHY, ESQ., 43 Jurors St., Montreal.
TREASURER. THOMAS MOODIE, ESQ., 30 St. John St., Montreal.
DIRECTORS.
Term Expires in 1907 Term Expires in 1908
CHARLES R. BLACK, ESQ. T. B. MACAULAY, ESQ., CHARLES CUSHING, ESQ., F.LA.
B. C. L. CHARLES McD. HAY, ESQ.
REV. HUGH PEDLEY, B.A. REV. J. T. DALEY, B.A.
Term Expires in 1909. Term Expires in 1910.
THOMAS MOODIE, ESQ. LT.-COL. J. H. BURLAND.
B. W. ROBERTSON, ESQ. CHAS. GURD, ESQ.
W. D. LIGHTHALL, ESQ., ALEX. McA. MURPHY, ESQ. M.A., B.C.L.
Term Expires in 191 1.
S. H. C. MINER, ESQ. J. R. DOUGALL, ESQ. REV. WM. McINTOSH
156 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD.
HOTJSE COMMITTEE.
MR. CHAS. GURD. MR. T. MOODIE.
MR. CHAS. GUSHING.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
MR. S. H. C. MINER. MR. CHAS. R. BLACK.
MR. T. B. MACAULAY AND TREASURER.
ladies' AUXILIARY COMMITTEE.
MRS. W. H. WARRINER, President.
MRS. E. MUNSON HILL, Secretary.
MRS. C. GURD, Treasurer.
MRS. C. R. BLACK MRS. A. E. HANNA
MRS. R. W. McLACHLAN MRS. J. H. BURLAND
MRS. S. H. C. MINER MRS. E. MUNSON HILL
MRS. W. D. LIGHTHALL MRS. JOHN LESLIE
MRS. H. PEDLEY MRS. H. CREELMAN
MRS. C. GUSHING MRS. W. H. SMITH
MRS. HERBERT A. YOUTZ MRS. R. MACAULAY
THE SENATE.
PRESIDENT. REV. E. MUNSON HILL, M.A., D.D., 60 McTavish St., Montreal.
REGISTRAR.
REV. W. HENRY WARRINER, M.A., D.D., 7 Shuter St., Montreal. THE GOVERNORS.
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY.
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ALUMNI.
REV. WM. MUNROE REV. H. G. RICE, B.A., B.D.
REV. R. G. WATT, B.D. REV. G. H. CRAIK, B.A.
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNION OF ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.
REV. G. ELLERY READ REV. D. C. McINTOSH
REV. J. K. UNSWORTH, B.A. DR. F. A. STEVENSON
D.M.D., LL.S.
RIPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNION OF N. S. AND N. B.
REV. S. W. ANTHONY REV. W. S. PRITCHARD
CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE OF CANADA. 157
OFFICEES or INSTRUCTION.
PROFESSORS.
Eev. E. Munson Hill, M.A., D.D. Principal and Professor of Practical Theology.
Rev. W. Hexry Warriner, M.A., D. D.
Professor of New Testament Literature, Exegesis and Ec- clesiastical Theology, and Registrar.
Rev. Harlan Creelman, B.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Hebrew, Cognate, Languages and Biblical Literature. {Miner Foundation).
Rev. Herbert A. Toutz, M.A., Ph.D.,
Professor of Systematic Theology and the Philosophy of Religion.
ASSOCIATE EXAMINERS.
Rev. F. J. Day, B.A., B.D. Rev. D. S. Hamilton, B.A.
LIBRARIAN.
Prof. H. Creelman, Pli.D.
158 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
FOEM or BEQUEST FOE THE COLLEGE.
I give and bequeath to the Treasurer, for the time being, of the Congregational College of Canada, a body corporate, by Act of Parliament of the Province of Canada, A.D. 1864,
the sum of (either without
designation, or ''to he added to the Endowment Fund of said College") out of my estate, without any charge or deduction whatever, to be paid with all convenient speed after my de- cease; and I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer, for the time being, of the said College, shall be sufficient and valid discharge of said legacy.
BY-LAWS. Chapter I.
1. The Corporation shall be called " The Congregation- al College of Canada."
2. Its objects shall be the education of ministers of the Gospel, and the encouragement and inauguration of all desir- able educational methods and movements whereby the effi- ciency of the churches may be advanced.
3. Contributors of two dollars annually to the Funds of the College shall be members of the Corj)oration. A con- tributor in arrears one year shall not be qualified to vote at the meeting of the Corporation, or to exercise his other rights of membership. The Treasurer's subscription list shall be taken as evidence of contribution.
4. Churches contributing for the previous year to the current expenses of the College the sum of ten dollars and upwards, may be represented at the meeting of the Corpora- tion by one delegate for each church; those contributing
CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE OF CANADA. 159
twenty-live dollars or upwards, for the previous year, by two delegates; and those contributing fifty dollars or upwards for the previous year, by three delegates.
5. Persons by whom or on whose behalf one hundred dollars or more shall have been contributed at any one time to the funds of the College, may be chosen life members of the Corporation.
6. A regular meeting of the Corporation shall be held annually, for the reception of the report of the Governors, the election of a new Board according to provisions herein- after named, and the transaction of other necessary business.
7. The annual meeting shall be held at the same time and place as the Congregational Union of Canada.
8. Special meetings of the Corporation may be held for the transaction of special business, at the call of the Board of Governors, or on a requisition to that effect to the Chair- man of the Board of Governors, signed by at least twenty members of the Corporation ; provided always that no such special meetings be held without one month's notice thereof in an accredited newspaper in Toronto and Montreal, and also in the Cariadian Congregationalist
Chapter II.
BOARD or GOVERNORS.
1. A Board of fifteen Governors, having power to choose their owm oJB&cers, shall be elected from members of the Cor- poration. Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum.
2. Three members of the Board shall retire annually, in rotation, but shall be oligible for re-election.
3. The powers and duties of the Board shall be :
{a) The administration of the property of the Col- lege and the management of its finances.
(6) The appointment and removal of all officers of the College.
160 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
(c) The general oversight and management of the affairs of the College, and
(d) The presentation of an annual report of the gen- eral condition of the College to the Corporation at the next regular meeting.
4. Any member of the Board absent from its meetings for a year shall be held ipso facto, to have vacated his seat, but may be re-appointed or re-elected thereto.
5. Vacancies in the Board, whether occurring by death or resignation or otherwise, may be filled by the Board when- ever it may see fit.
6. It shall be competent for the Board of Governors to appoint annually an Executive Committee from its member- ship, which committee shall exercise, between the meetings of the Board, such powers as may be delegated to it by the Board of Governors.
7. The Board of Governors shall be called together at the close of the annual meeting of the Corporation, for organiza- tion ajid other needful business. They shall hold an annual mieeting at a convenient time before the annual meeting of the Corporation; a special meeting may be called at any time by the Chairman and Secretary, or by the Secretary, at the request of five members.
Chapter III.
THE SENATE.
1. There shall be a Senate composed of — (1) The mem- bers of the Board of Governors; (2) The Faculty; (3) Four representatives chosen annually by the Alumni Association; (4) Four representatives chosen annually by the Congrega- tional Union of Ontario and Quebec; (5) Two representa- tives chosen annually by the Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Seven members of the Senate shall constitute a quorum.
2. The Senate shall frame regulations for and supervise all matters of education, honors and discipline.
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3. The Principal shall be a member of the Faculty and ex-officio President of the Senate.
4. The Registrar shall be a member of the Faculty and ex-officio Secretary of the Senate.
5. The Senate shall meet annually within one month preceding the close of the Session, at the College, in the City of Montreal, and at such other times and places as the interests of the College may require, and shall make an annual report to the Corporation through the Board of Governors.
Chapter IV.
1. The Principal and Professors, with such members of the Senate as from time to time may be appointed by the Board of Governors, constitute the Faculty, and as such are entrusted with the .educational work of the College and the enforcement of its regulations, under the direction of the Senate.
The Principal shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Faculty.
2. Members of the Faculty must be members of a Congregational Church.
3. Members of the Faculty shall not be members of the Board of Governors, but the Principal shall be a consulting member of the Board of Governors, and of all standing com- mittees appointed by the Board or the Senate.
Chapter V.
THE OFFICERS.
1. The Chairman of the Board of Governors shall be the Presiding Officer of the Corporation.
2 The President of the Senate shall preside at all public functions of the College.
3. The Secretary of the Senate shall be Registrar of the
College.
Chapter VI.
AMENDMENTS.
Amendments to these Bylaws may be made at any reg- ular meeting of the Corporation, provided that notice of such amendment has been given at the meeting next preceding.
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MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING.
The meeting of the Congregational College of Canada was duly called by E,ev. Principal Hill. The members pres- ent then elected to the chair Rev. J. P. Gerrie, B.A., and as minute secretary Rev. A. R. Schrag.
After singing several hymns and offering of prayer by Rev. W. H. A. Claris, the following business was transacted :
Voted that "the minutes of last regular meeting be taken as read."
The following reports were received :
(1) That of the Board of Governors reviewing the whole work of the College for the year, presented by Principal Hill.
(2) That of the Senate, presented by Prof. Toutz.
(3) That of the House Committee, by Principal Hill.
(4) That of the Ladies' Auxiliary, by Mrs. Stevenson.
(5) That of Librarian, by Principal Hill.
(G, That of Treasurer, by Mr. Thos. Moodie. Moved by Rev. E. D. Silcox, seconded by Mr. George Williams, that these reports be adopted. Carried.
Discussion was opened up by Mr. Charles Gushing, deal- ing with the prospect of consolidation of teaching of the various Theological Colleges in Montreal, referring especially to the great advance made by the Presbyterian College in their intent to have students take the greater part of their training in our own college.
Rev. J. B. Silcox laid special emphasis upon the need of aggressive propaganda for the recruiting of students for the ministry, and that special appeal be made to the local churches.
Rev. J. L. Alexander spoke in reference to the students* room as specially in need of re-furnishing, and also of loyalty of the graduates to hard places of our denomination.
Rev. Wm. Mcintosh made reference to the receiving of young men from Great Britain who will finish off their train-
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ing in our college and enter the Canadian work, and also eix- pr.essing high appreciation of the work of the graduates in the churches.
Moved by Rev. W. T. Gunn, seconded by Rev. J. K. TJnsworth and carried :
That the services of a chartered accountant be employed to audit the accounts for the ensuing year, and that the choice be left with the Board of Governors.
Moved by Rev, D. C. Mcintosh, seconded by Rev. D. S. Hamilton and carried :
That the following retiring members of the Board of Governors be re-elected — Messrs. S. H. C. Miner, J. R. Dougall and Rev. Wm. Mcintosh.
Various motions of thanks were voted.
(1) That the very hearty thanks of the Corporation be tendered to the Treasurer and to other officers of the College; also to Ladies' Auxiliary Committee.
(2) To Mr. and Mrs. Miner and Mr. G. B. Burland for generous gifts to the Library endowment of the College.
Principal Hill then delivered an address upon the Col- lege work, touching upon the various points brought out by the Senate.
Prof. Youtz was then introduced and delivered a short speech.
Rev. Wm. Mcintosh moved, Rev. H. A. Carson second- ed, "that the College appropriate $200 for the use of the Can- adian Congregationalist." Carried
Rev. W. T. Gunn moved a notice of amendment to chap, sec. 7, to read after word 'place,' 'Congregational Union of Canada' ; also of such other changes as may be made.
Adjourned.
(Signed) A. R. Schrag,
Minute Secretary .
164 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
ANNUAL REPOET OF THE BOAED OF GOVEENOES.
To the Corporation of the Congregational College of Canada.
Tlie Board of Governors have pleasure in presenting its annual report for 1905-6, which includes the reports of the Senate and other departments of the College.
The year has been momentous in two respects, 1st as to the retirement of Prof. Lyman from the chair of Systematic Theology and the Philosophy of Eeligion. The Board was fortunate in providentially securing the services of Eev. Dr. Herbert A. Youtz as successor without any interruption in the classes.
Dr. Youtz has not only proved his fitness scholastically, but by his personal magetism and spirit, has already won the admiration and affection of the officers and students of the College and of the members of the local churches generally.
The other matter of special moment was the granting of a one year's furlough to Dr. Warriner for the purpose of further study and Biblical Eesearch in Europe.
This action follows a long consideration of the principle of granting each professor what has been termed " a Sab- batical year." The proposition and governing conditions being as follows :
That each professor be granted one year's leave of ab- sence in each seven or eight years' service. The distinct un- derstanding being that this year shall be for the purpose of advance study and not for recreation.
There shall be seven years of service previous to this privilege being granted to any professor.
There shall be a guarantee of two years service on the part of each professor after his return.
The Faculty shall be in a condition satisfactory to the
Governors.
At least one year shall intervene between each furlough.
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Each furlough shall be subject to the will of the Gov- ernors in all respects.
The Board feels that the members of the Corporation will see the large wisdom of this plan carried out under the conscientious conditions which are assured by the personalities at present involved.
The departure of Dr. Warriner furnished the occasion for a warm testimony of his worth, which was very gratify- ing.
The Governors have consented to the training of the students of the Presbyterian College and the Congregational College in same classes by Dr. Creelman and Dr. Toutz. This arrangement is a double testimony to the growth in interde- nominational harmony and the recognition of the merits of professors, whom we ourselves so highly esteem.
The Board would express thanks for the many evidences of personal interest and for the support of the churches, but would impress upon all Canadian Congregationalists the necessity of still further appreciating and evidencing the great importance of the work and the responsibility of its maintenance.
The retiring Governors are Messrs. S. H. C. Miner, J. E. Dougall and Eev. Wm. Mcintosh.
Alex. McA. Murphy.
Secretary.
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REPORT OF THE SENATE TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS.
The Public Exercises in connection with the commence- ment of the Sixty-Seventh Session of thje College were held in the Assembly Hall on the 5th October last, when the Rev. G. Ellery Read, of Sherbrooke, of the class of '93 gave a very in- teresting and valuable address on "The Ministry and the Man."
The classes had been in session for some time, professors and students having assembled on the 21st of September. Four new students were enrolled, namely, Wilbur H. Hindley, Geo. J. Hindley, John M. Dickson and Wm. Rice. The two former matriculated into the University intending to take the Full Course. Mr. Emerson Youtz was also in attendance on the classes in New Testament English Bible, Psychology and Logic.
PROF. HERBERT A. YOUTZ, PH.D.
A year ago we were regretting that Prof. Lyman had felt called upon to leave this College to accept a similar position in Bangor Seminary. The governors however were fortunate in securing the services of Prof. Herbert A. Youtz, Ph.D., who entered upon his work at the beginning of the session. We are glad to report that the interest and efficiency have been fully maintained in his hands, and rejoice that he has accepted a call to the permanent occupancy of the chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion.
THE SABBATICAL YEAR AND PROF. WARRINER.
The Senate is pleased that the Governors have instituted what is known in some Colleges as the Sabbatical Year, being leave of absence for travel and study abroad after seven years' service. Prof. Warriner is the first to enjoy this privilege by right of seniority of service. He will spend the Summer
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months of this year in Jena, furthering his studies in the Ger- man language. During the winter most of his time will prob- ably be spent in Holle or Leipzig prosecuting special studies in the New Testament Department, and in the spring he in- tends to visit England and Scotland in order to become better acquainted with the work of our churches there.
This absence has been made possible by a temporary re- arrangement of classes, for example, the Junior year antici- pated the usual work of the Middle year to the .extent of taking lectures in Congregational History and Polity, and the Middle year covered the work of the Senior year in the New Testa- ment Department. A proportionate amount of the usual work of the year in other departments was postponed and will be taken up next year.
It is believed that this arrangement will prove of great advantage in enriching the courses of instruction in this col- lege and in making it increasingly attractive to professors and students alike.
YOXTNG people's ENGLISH AND BIBLE LECTURESHIP.
Prof. Irving F. Wood, Ph.D., of Smith's College, Massa- chusetts, gave a course of lectures on "Types of Thought and Literature in the New Testament." These lectures, which were largely attended, dealt very thoroughly with the subject and presented the New Testament Literature in new and sug- gestive aspects.
SOCIOLOGY.
The Principal has conducted a class regularly throughout the session in the study of Christian Sociology. This is an addition to the regular and permanent courses as heretofore constituted and we believe it will be of great value in fitting the students to meet the problems of the pastorate.
ELOCUTION.
The Senate has had under consideration for some time the possibility of increasing the facilities for the study of elocu-
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tion. Some years ago an attempt was made to unite the vari- ous theological colleges in a common effort but it was not suc- cessful. In the meantime the Principal inaugurated classes for voice culture and has maintained these to the present. These classes meet three times a week for the theory and prac- tice of elocution, and the Senate does not feel it wise at pres- ent to recommend any departure from the existing order of things. In this connection the Senate gratefully acknowl- edges the interest which Mrs. Hill has shown in this work by offering year by year generous prizes to the successful students.
LIBRARY.
One of the most interesting features in the development of the efficiency of the College is the growth of our Library. Of recent years this has been greatly enriched by the addition of the newest and best books in every department of Theology. Students and professors are becoming proud of our Library, and our pastors are frequently seeking its advantages. A large number of books, as well as a splendid bookcase came to us by the bequest of our friend, the late Charles Alexander, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. C. Miner have again shown their warm interest in the College by a gift of $125 which has secured some much-needed and valuable books, while to G. B. Burland, Esq., we are indebted for the gift of $600, bringing our per- manent Library Endowment to the sum of $1,005.
EXAMINATIONS AND AWARDS.
'Dieological Classes— T]ie usual Christmas and Sessional examinations were held with gratifying results.
James John Hutchinson finished his course and passed all his examinations to the satisfaction of the Faculty and re- ceived the diploma of the College. He also won the Steven- son Memorial Medal (gold) with a percentage of 84 marks on the work of his final year A Robert Anderson bursary of the value of thirty dollars was also awarded to him. Mr Hutchin- son has since been ordained and settled pastor of the Church at Brigham, Quebec.
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Eobert Anderson Bursaries of the value of Thirty Dollars each were also awarded to G. J. Hindley, B.A., of the Middle Year, end to John M. Dickson, of the Junior Year.
Th-y prize in elocution offered by Mrs. Hill was divided equally between John M. Dickson and G. S. Gervan, both of the Junior Year.
Arts Classes.
The proportionate n-amber of students taking the Arts Course is we are glad to say larger than it has been for some j'ears previously. We regret, however, that the standing of our men has not been in every instance all that we could de- sire, though some have done very well. A special award of $20 was granted to Mr. G. J. Hindley, B.A., who took First Class standing in his second year work proceeding to the de- gree of M.A.
A Robertson Macaulay bursary of the value of $60 was also granted to Mr. Leroy Rice on the successful completion of his second year in Arts.
Other awards are conditioned on further examinations.
B. D. Examinations.
We are glad to report that the Rev. W. R. Harvey has successfully passed several examinations in two departments of the B.D. course., also the Revs. J. R. Drysdale, A. R. Schrag and Mr. G. J. Hindley, B.A. The Rev. G. H. Craik, B.A., has also passed one examination in Dep. VII. The thanks of the College are due to the Rev. D. S. Hamilton, B.A., for kind assistance in these examinations.
The Mrs. Henry Sanders' Fellowship.
This Fellowship has been enjoyed by Mr. Davey during the past year and has been given to aid him in his work in Amherst Park. Under his earnest efforts the mission has steadily increased in power and numbers. He has undertak- en the work for another year, and at the request of the church the Principal of the College has consented to take the oversight of the wor£ in the absence of Prof. Warriner, who has been its pastor for the last six years.
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COLLEGE EXTENSION WORK.
Reading Courses for Ministers and Others.
The Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec referred to tke Senate the question of supplementing the inadequate theological training of some men seeking ordination and of others who are in pastorates. The Senate has prepared and forwarded to the Secretary of the Union its report, in which has been set forth the supreme need of a College training for those who are to minister to our churches, and yet meeting ai the same time what appears to be a need and is evidently the desire of the Union.
The professors have outlined a number of courses of theo- logical reading which they are prepared to guide as may be possible by correspondence or otherwise and on which they will give examinations, it being clearly understood that "these courses shall l^ad to no degree and to no formal recognition beyond a certificate of actual work done, signed by the pro- fessor in whose department the reading is done."
The report further recommends that the persons to be ad- mitted to these courses shall be "ministers of our denomina- tion and any other person who may be recommended by the Association."
ACTING REGISTRAR.
Prof. Youtz has been appointed Acting Registrar for the period of Prof. Warriner's absence.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. Warriner,
Registrar.
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EEPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
Montreal, April 16, 1906.
The Governors of the Congregational College of Canada.
Gentlemen, — The following report of tlie Librarian for the year i\i)ril 17, 1905 to April 16, 1906, is herewith res- pectfully submitted.
There are two facts of special importance to be chronic- led in the history of the library this year. One has been the increase in the permanent endowment of the library fund to $1,000 by the gift of $600 from G. B. Burland, Esq. From this amount there will be realized annually $50 for the library's use.
The second fact of interest has been a special gift of $125 from Mr. and Mrs. S. H. C. Miner for present expenditure for books in the different departments.
The Librarian, on behalf of the Faculty, desires to ex- press their thanks to Mr. Burland and to Mr. and Mrs. Miner for their generous and timely gifts, which have so materially Kelped the library.
In addition the library has received funds from the customary collections at the opening and closing convocations of the College, and the interest on the original permanent en- dowment fund of $405.
In addition to the books purchased for the library during the year, the following have been received from different sources — Mrs. Haight, Montreal, 8 vols. ; Prof. Eugene W. Lyman, 7 vols. ; bequest of Mr. J. Burt Sutherland, 50 vols. ; Mrs. J. J. Blaisdell, Beloit, Wis., 1 vol.; Rev. J. W. Pate, 1. vol.; bequest of Mr. Charles Alexander, 170 vols.; Mr T. B. Macaulay, 10 vols.; ''Craig Ruie," 1 vol.; Prof. Irving F. Wood, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 1 pamphlet; Rev. W. H. Watson, Cowansville, 5 vols. ; Mr. George S. Gervan, 1 vol. In all 255 vols.
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The books purchased this year were 135 in number, mak- ing the total additions for the year 390 books.
Besides these, various publications and reports hav,e been received from the Eoyal Society of Canada, tlie Department of Agriculture, Ottawa; the Minister of Education, Ont., and the American Board.
Respectfully submitted,
Harlan Creel man,
Librarian.
RECEIPTS. 1905
April 17, Balance on hand $ 13
April 18, Collection Closing- Convocation 25 35
From Mr. and Mrs. S. H. C. Miner 12500
Oct. 5, Collection opening- Convocation 8 30
Due bill at Pilgrim Press 80
Dec. Allowance on express by Pilgrim Press 75
Book returned to Pilgrim Press 2 00
One year's int. on Library endowment 20 25
I copy Sabatier's Religions, etc., sold 2 00
$184 58
Deficit for the year 2 06
DISBURSEMENTS. 1905
June 30, Pilgrim Press bills $49 61
Expresses ($1.10 and .50) i 60
Sept. 21, Mucilage 05
Oct. 13, Sabatier's Religions, etc 2 00
Princ. Hill's bill for books purchased 24 29
Oct. 2f. Grafton's bill 10 65
Nov. 22, Booklovers Library bill 2 83
Dec. 8, Amer. Journal of Theology 2 70
Dec. 5, Express on books from Boston i 75
Dec. 20, Mucilage, .05, express from New York, .25 30
1906
Jan. 3, Pilgrim Press bill 87 80
Draft . 15, Postage on book returned, .16 31
April 3, Express on Congregationalists 40
April 4, Labels for the Library i 75
Postage for the year 60
$186 64
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HOUSE COMMITTEE EEPORT.
Your committee would report that tlie property has been well maintained.
The expenditure for the year has been exceptionally light.
The steward and stewardess have fulfilled their duties creditably and agreeably.
Rev. Principal Hill has exercised his good offices in a helpful and effective manner.
The ladies by their untiring and valuable efforts have earned the deep appreciation of the committee, which is here expressed.
The permanent flagstone sidewalk referred to in the re- port of last year, is not yet laid, but your committee is hope- ful that it will be completed during the present Summer.
Your committee does not anticipate the necessity for any alterations of serious consequence during the coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
Chas. Gurd,
Convener. May 28th, 1906.
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REPORT OF LADIES' AUXILIARY COMMITTEE.
YEAR ENDING MAY, 1906.
During the past year one committee meeting has been held, this being a fruitful one. During the year our Treasurer has received the sum of $30, this being made up of ten dol- lar contributions from Bond St., Toronto; Emmanuel, Mon- treal, and Bethlehem, Westmount. We have also to acknow- ledge bedding from our church in Brantford.
The time has come when special and direct appeals must be sent to the individual churches to contribute to a fund for the refurnishing of the students' sitting room.
The room, in its present condition, is shabby to the ex- treme, and may properly be known as "the orphan," as no church or churches have as yet undertaken its care.
Nearly every gift received for the furnishing of the Col- lege is designated, so that it sems imperatve that we start a special fund for the refurnishing of this room.
We regret that two newly-elected members of our com- mittee have been unable to act, viz. : Mrs. Eugene Ly- man, owing to absence from Montreal, and also Mrs. C. T. Williams, and beg to suggest that Mrs. Herbert Youtz and Mrs. Robertson Macaulay be appointed to fill these vacancies.
Trusting that during the coming year this dear institu- tion, with its present and great needs, may so appeal to the women of our denomination, that they may give of themselves- of their silver, and of their prayers.
This report is respectfully submitted by
Jeanie Cora Hill, j
Secretary. \
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TREASUEEE'S REPOET.
The Financial Statements for the past year are not as en- couraging as the previous one.
In Ontario 36 churches contributed $421.59, a falling off of one church in number and $94.42 in amount, and 10 churches that remitted $126.87 last year have not sent any- thing this year.
In Quebec 18 churches contributed $850.86, an increase of three churches, but a falling off in amount of $16.02 and two churches that remitted last year did not this.
In the Maritime Provinces 11 churches contributed $101.33, a falling off of 2 churches and $1.19 in amount.
We have no church contributions from the Northwest Churches this year; last year Winnipeg and Brandon contri- buted $66.50, but we had the annual personal gift of $300 from 0. McP.
We are indebted to Principal Hill and Mrs. Miner for per- sonal subscriptions towards the deficit amounting to $800, and to Mrs. Hill for a gift of $20 for a prize in elocution and to Mr. Eobertson Macaulay for $120 for business.
On behalf of the Trustees of the Endowment Fund I have to report an increase in assets of $2,133.90.
The interest on subscriptions is being well met and pay- ments on account are also satisfactory.
By the death of Mr. Charles Alexander the $1,000 don- ation, on which we paid him interest during his lifetime, is now freed from that liability. He also remembered the Col- lege in his will for a further amount of $1,000.
The Illinois Traction Co., in which we hold preferred shares, gave a bonus of one preferred share and two shares common stock, the latter as yet not paying dividends.
The investments are all entered at cost price in the state- ments, but most are worth considerably more at present.
I herewith present the Financial Statements duly audit- ed by Messrs. E. S. Eoss & Sons, Chartered Accountants. The whole respectfully submitted.
Thos. Moodie,
Treasurer.
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TREASURER'S STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1906.
CASH ACCOUNT.
RECEIPTS.
Interest from Trustees Endowment Fund $5,461 91
Interest from Subscriptions igo ^7
Contributions from Churches, etc 43O46 78
Room Rent 273 00
Prizes and Bursaries 140 00
Students' Loans repaid 75 00
Travelling Expenses, Prof. Lyman 133 31
Y. P. S. Lectureship English Bible 50 00
Loan from C. P. F. S 246 45
Balance 190 38
$10,807 70
DISBURSEMENTS.
Balance last year $ 35 19
Teaching 8,400 00
Students 668 71
College Buildings 495 1 7
Management 506 12
Interest 181 19
Prizes and Bursaries 375 00
Insurance 89 25
Convocation 13 75
Sinking Fund Ogilvie M. Co 43 32
$10,807 70 REVENUE ACCOUNT.
Interest from Trustees Endowment Fund $Sj46i 91
Interest from Subscriptions 190 87
Coilectious — Ontario Churches $ 421 59^
" " Personals 50 00
" Quebec Churches 850 86
" " Personal 1,80000
«« " For Current Deficit 800 00
5.652 78
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Collections, Maritime Churches loi 33
'' Northwest 3 00
*' United States 10 00
" Chisamba, Africa 10 00
$ 4,046 78
Room Rent 273 00
Prizes and Bursaries 140 00
Students Loans Repaid 75 00
Travelling- Expenses Prof. Lyman 133 31
Y. P. S. Lectureship Eng. Bible 50 00
Balance 401 64
^ , . $10,772 51
1 eaching- :
Principal's Salary $2,500 00
Interest on Residence 400 00
Professor Warriner 1,800 00
Professor Creelman 1,800 00
Professor Lyman, three months 450 00
Professor Youtz, nine months '. i ,350 00
Prof. Wood 100 00
$8,400 00
Students :
Proportion of Maintenance $ 603 71
Loans 65 00
668 71
College Buildings : —
Proportion of Maintenance $ 350 00
Repairs 14b »7
495 17
Interest : —
On Floating Debt, $2,400 $ 120 00
On Loans 94
On Donations 40 00
On Library Endowment 20 25
181 18
Management : —
Office Expenses $ 378 33
Travelling 127 79
$ 506 12
Prizes and Bursaries 375 og
Insurance 89 25
Convocation 13 75
Sinking Fund Ogilvie Milling Co 43 3*
$10,772 51
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ENDOWMENT FUND CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE OF CANADA.
TRUSTEES' STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1906.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from last year $ 4073 58
Subscriptions paid 233 90
Legacy late Chas. Alexander 1000 00
Loan to C.P.F.S. repaid 400 00
Library Endowment 600 00
Sinking Fund Ogilvie Milling Co 43 32
Mortgages Repaid S400 00
$14,750 80
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid Home Investment and Savings Ass'n $ g,ooo 00
Cash in Bank ■ 5,75o 80
$14,750 80 ASSETS.
Mortgages on Real Estate $42,362 00
" " Principal's Residence 8,000 00
Danville Urbana & Champaign R'way Co. 5 per cent. Bonds 6,475 00
Illinois Traction Co., 6 per cent, preferred Stock 600 00
Illinois Traction Co., 6 per cent. Common Stock 200 00
St. Lawrence Investment Co 250 00
Colonial Investment and Loan Co 500 00
American Woollen Co,. 7 per cent. Preferred Stock 3, 741 31
Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co. 5 per cent. Bonds 3,980 00
Ogilvie Milling Co., 6 per cent. Bonds I3ji47 95
Dominion Coal Co., 7 per cent. Preferred Stock 12,643 35
Home Investment & Savings Ass'n. 5 per cent. Bonds 9,000 00
Loan to C. C. C 2,400 00
Cash in Bank S,75o 80
$109,050 41 Assets, 1905 106,916 51
Increase $2, 133 90
THOMAS MOODIE, Treasurer.
Audited and found correct.
P. S. ROSS & SONS, Chartered Accountants. Montreal, June i, 1906.
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COLLEGE CONTRIBUTIONS, 1905-6.
QUEBEC AVER'S CLIFF Ayer's Cliff $6 64
BOYNTON Boynton $5 86
BRIGHAM Brig-ham $6 25
COWANSVILLE
Mrs. W. H. Watson $2 00
P. F. Ferguson i 00
F. E. Draper i 00
Geo. E. Ford i 00
W. N. Hawk 3 00
No Name 2 50
Total $10 50
DANVILLE Danville $26 60
FRANKLIN CENTRE Franklin Centre $13 00
GRANBY
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. C.
Miner $25 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mc-
Kechnie 10 00
Rev. R. K. Black 5 00
Mr. J. H. McCanna ... 5 00
Mr. W. R. Horner 5 00
Mr. J. G. Fuller 5 00
Rev. J. L. ad Mrs. Alex- ander 5 00
Christian Endeavor Soc'y 5 00
Mr. Geo. D. Fuller 2 00
Dr. D. K. Cowley i 00
Mr. Peter Kramer i 00
Mr. Gordon Streeter . . i 00
Mrs. Warren i 00
Mr. D. M. Mitchell i 00
Mr. James Duncan i 00
Mrs. Horace Ball i 00
Mr. James Coupland ... 50
Mr. John Scott 50
Mrs. John Allan 50
Mr. Samuel Parker 75
Mr. John Ryder 50
Mr. Henry Picard 50
Mr. Fred Baird cq
Mr. J. M. Elkins Iq
[[ G. S. Elkins 50
Stephen Horner . . 50
" James Topp 50
" James Prack 60
" C. A. Walker .... 50
" James Roeder 50
Mrs. John Lincoln 50
" Ross 50
Mr. R. B. McComiskey 50
Mr. H. C. Craig 50
Mrs. E. M. McDonald . . 50
Mr. R. McLeod 1,0
Mr. Thos Ferguson .... 50
Mr. Geo. Hunter 50
Small Sums 12 80
Total ^8 IS
MELBOURNE
Rev. R. G. Watt $1 00
N. W. Smillie i 00
Alex. McDonald i 00
H. A. Jones i 00
W. N. Skinner i 00
Mrs. J. Alexander 1 00
John Alexander i 00
H. P. Wales i 00
Smaller Amounts 4 00
Total $12 00
MONTREAL— ZION
Montreal, Zion $25 00
S. S 10 00
Total $35 00
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
MONTREAL— EMMANUEL .
Mrs. Henry Lyman $25 00
Henry H. Lyman 25 00
Thos. Moodie 25 00
B. B. Stevenson 20 00
Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Black 15 00
Chas. Gurd 15 00
Rev. Hugh Pedley 10 00
A. Birks 10 00
Mrs. McLachlan 10 00
Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Reid 10 00
Gus Harries 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Owens 10 00
A. H. Duff 10 00
Mrs. Fisher 10 00
J. B. Learmont 10 00
Chas. Alexander 10 00
Alex. Scott 10 00
Mrs. and Miss Moss ... 8 00
Preble Macintosh 5 00
E. G. Brooks 5 00
J. S. Sorley 5 00
A. H. Thomson 5 00
Dr. F. A. Stevenson .... 5 00
H. A. Layton 5 00
Mrs. Wm. Reid ........ 5 06
E. T. Williams 5 00
Wm. Seath 5 00
James Robinson 5 00
Dr. D. F. Gurd 5 00
No Name . 3 75
Mrs. Geo. Robinson .... 2 00
Misses Blackader 2 00
W. E. Gushing 2 00
Mrs. Jos. Savag-e 2 00
Dr. C. C. Gurd 2 00
J. E. Cribb 2 00
G. Ramsden i 00
John Anderson i 00
Mrs. A. A. Murphy .... i 00
D. C. Barker i 00
Miss Kate Mills i 00
H. M. Cribb i 00
Miss M. Baker i 00
" Muriel Gurd 1 00
" Olive Gurd i 00
Walter R. Gurd i 00
A. G. S. Murphy i 00
Suiiday School 10 64
Total $335 3Q
MONTREAL— CALVARY
L B. Macaulay $25 00
J. R. Dougall 20 GO
Mrs. R. Macaulay 10 00
Dr Hill 10 00
Mrs. Hill 10 00
Chas. Gushing 8 00
Geo. Hood 5 00
W. A. Wood S 00
Miss C. Richardson .... 2 00
Rev. E. H. Tippett 2 00
R. W. McLachlan 2 00
Miss E. A. Munroe .... i 00
Miscellaneous 2 25
$102 25 Less Y. P. S. 1904-5 .... ID 00
Total $92 25
MONTREAL— BETHLEHEM
Anonymous $1 00
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Box 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Climie 2 00 Rev. Wm. and Mrs. Mun-
ro 3 00
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Ross i 00 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Val-
lance 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Hanna 5 00
Total $22 00
MONTREAL— POINT ST. CHARLES
Mr. Chas. Gushing $10 00
Mrs. G. Ellis i 25
Mr. David Stoba i 00
Mr. W. Armstrong .... i 00 Mr. and Mrs. W. Car-
michael i 00
Mrs. W. H. Sargeant . . i 00
Mr. A. W. Main i 00
Messrs. R. and A. and
Miss Surgeon 75
Messrs M. H. and W.
Pritchard 75
Mr. H. Marshall 50
CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE OF CANADA.
181
Mr. and Mrs. J. Davies 50
Mrs. M. E. Main 25
A. W. R I 00
Friends i 15
Total $21 15
AMHERST PARK Amherst Park $7 00
SHERBROOKE
W. H. Abbott $3 00
Miss M. I. Dickenson . . i 00
J. A. McKechnie 2 00
V. E. Hawes 4 00
J. S. Mitchell 10 00
A. S. Hurd 5 00
E. X. Somers i 00
Dr. W. A. Farwell 2 00
Mrs. A. T. Nourse .... 5 00
Thos. Craig, Sen i 00
Miss S. A. Mitchell .... 5 00
J. Coley I 00
A. C. Skinner 5 00
W. McCulloch 2 00
H. Ransehousan i 00
Mrs. M. McKechnie .... 3 00
C. A. McKechnie j 00
Mrs. E. A. Powers i 00
T. M. Craig 5 00
M. J. Mitchell 2 00
N. Dunning" 2 00
Rev. G. E. Read 2 00
Thos. Cowan 2 00
Total $68 00
STANSTEAD SOUTH Standstead South $13 07
ST. ANDREW'S St. Andrew's $20 00
ULVERTON
R. Lyster $1 00
Mrs. Mountain and Family
and Miss Read 5 00
E. J. Bogie I 00
A. Smith I 20
E. F. Johnston i 00
Wm. Ramsey 50
W. J. Bothwell so
Mrs. L. Walker 50
Other subscriptions .... 7 30
Total $18 00
WATERVILLE Total, 1904-5 .# $4000
PERSONALS Total $2,600 00
MARITIME
BROOKLYN Total $7 00
BEACH
Total $6 so
CHEBOQUE Total, 1904-S $5 00
KESWICK RIDGE
Keswick Ridge, N.B $4 35
Scotch Lake i iS
Rev. Churchill Moore . . 2 so
Total $8 00
LIVERPOOL
Total 3 00
KINGSPORT Total $4 25
MILTON
1904-5 $4 00
1905-6 II 00
Total $15 00
PLEASANT RIVER Total $1 19
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOdk.
HEMFORD Total $2 39
ST. JOHN Total $15 75
SHEFFIELD Total $25 50
UNION N.S. and N.B.
Total $7 75
NORTHWEST
PERSONAL Total $3 00
ONTARIO
ALTON
Rev. A. R. Schrag $1 00
J. M. Dods I 00
W. T. Scott 25
Mrs. McQuarrie 25
Unspecified 60
Total $3 10
BELWOOD Total $4 38
BRANTFORD
F. P. Adams $1 00
Friends i 50
Mrs. Ott 3 00
Mrs. J. Wilkes i 45
Mr. Yeigrh 3 00
Mrs. Hartman 30
Mrs. F. Wisner 4 00
Mrs. J. H. Oldham i 00
Mrs. W. S. Wisner i 00
Miss A. Wilkes go
Total $17 IS
BURFORD Total $3 31
CHURCHILL
Mr. Robert Kerr $ 50
Mr. Albert Smith 50
" C. Swackhammer . . 50
" Joel Leslie 50
Miss Minnie Burton 60
Mr. Georg-e Russell 50
Miss Edna Russell 50
Mrs. J. Kerr 50
Mrs. Albert Smith i 00
Miss Maude Kennedy . . i 00
Mrs. John Denny i 00
Mr. John Smith 50
Mr. Henry Denny 50
Smaller Sums i 85
c 11 . ^ ^5
Small sum' 05
Total $10 00
DALSTON Total $2 30
EDGAR Total $12 00
FERGUS Total $625
GARAFRAXA
Eotal $7 20
GEORGETOWN
Dr. L. L. Bennett $1 00
Mrs. Barnes i 00
Mrs. Bessey 25
Rev. (and Mrs.) Drysdale 5 00
Mr. Mark Maw i 00
Sabbath School 5 00
Total $13 25
GUELPH Total $6 45
HAMILTON FIRST Total $22 45
CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE OF CANADA.
183
KINGSTON FIRST 1904-5 $15 20
KINGSTON— CALVARY Total $2 05
LANARK
Rev. D. C. Mcintosh . . $10 00
Geo. J. Hunt 2 00
Miss Maggie Watt 2 00
Mrs. W. W. Craig i 00
John A. Watt i 00
Mrs. Jennie Knowles ... i 00
R. W. Robertson i 00
William Stead i 00
William Dorway i 00
James Watt i 00
William Drysdale 50
Robert Wilson 50
Mrs. Robt. Watt 50
Smaller Sums 25
Total $22 75
LONDON SOUTHERN Total $12 50
MAXVILLE
John F. McEwen $4 00
D. A. McEwen i C)o
Mrs. Donald Kennedy... 5 00
John A. McEwen i 00
A. A. McEwen i 00
Peter F. McEwen 2 00
D. T. Munro i 00
John W. Kennedy 5 00
Thos. Munro 75
D. C. McDougall i cmd
Mrs. P. P. McDougall . . i 00
Joseph Hamel 50
J. J. Robertson i 00
Peter Munro 2 00
A. P. McDougall 50
D. J. McEwen i 00
J. W. Weegar i 00
John P. McDougall 2 00
Donald McDougall 5 00
Thomas McEwen i 00
C. R. Sinclair i 00
S. J. McEwen 2 00
John Sinclair i 00
Rev. J. T. Daley 2 00
Fred Daniels 50
D. M I 00
D. A McDougall 2 00
Tcia' $46 25
NEW DURHAM
Tjtai . $2 CO
OTTAWA— FIRST
Mrs H. Moreland $5 00
R'rs. K. E. Hume 5 00
Rev. W. Mcintosh 5 00
Dr. D. C. McLaren .... 3 00
A. I. Stephens & Son . . 3 00
Mr. W. Thackeray 3 00
" I. M. Hargraves ... 2 00
" W. A. Lamb 2 00
Mrs. I. I. Wallace 2 00
Mr. Robert Addison .... 2 00
" LB. Lamb 2 00
" H. I. Eraser 2 00
Mrs. T. E. Chisnall .... 2 00
" A. I. Stephens .... 2 00
A Friend 2 00
Mr. Fred W. Gervan .... i 00
" E. I. Malcolm i 00
" Walter Lamb i 00
" A. B. Imrie 1 00
" A. H. Jarvis 1 00
" A. I. Bailey i 00
Mrs. Tyres i 00
Mr. F. Dillinger i 00
Miss H. Wood i 00
Miss Watkins i 00
Mrs. W. H. Hay i 00
Mr. and Mrs. C. Mum- ford I 00
Miss E. M. Mumford . . 1 00
Mr. F. Shirley i 00
Miss E. M. Shearman . . i 00
Mrs. Jas. Jarvis i 00
Mr. H. Connell i 00
" A. Sutherland .... i 00
" J. H. Gervan i 00
Mrs. Cooch i 00
Mr. C. H. Vogel i 00
Mrs. T. W. Kier i 00
Mr. A. E. Revell i 00
Mrs. W. Young i 00
Mr. C. W. Dempster .... r 00
Mrs. S. McPherson .... 50
Mr. A. R. Lamb 50
184
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
Mrs. Ruthven $ 50
" Hudson 25
Miss A. E. Kerr 25
A Friend i 00
Mr. A. Ballantyne i 00
" I. E. Andrews i 00
Total $72 00
OTTAWA— WELCOME ZION Total $9 00
PINE GROVE Total $6 40
PLYMPTON Total $6 00
PARIS Total $4 95
RUGBY
James Johnston $1 00
Mrs. D. M. Harvie s 00
Mrs. John Lang-man .... : 00 D. C. Anderson ...... 2 00
Jas. Ball 2 00
Small Sums 3 30
Total $11 30
SCOTLAND Total $7 85
SPEEDSIDE Total $3 25
ST. CATHARINES Total $2 00
STRATFORD T. K. Bremner $2 00
TILBURY Total $4 00
TORONTO— ZION Total $15 15
TORONTO— NORTHERN Total $42 50
TORONTO— OLIVET Total $4 so
TORONTO— iiKOADVlEW
Rev. W. E. Gilroy $2 00
E. D. Otter 2 20
H. W. Barker 90
H. G. Salisbury 25
Total $535
WARWICK— ZION Total $2 50
WATFORD Total $4 25
WOODSTOCK Total $10 GO
PERSONAL B. W. Robertson $50 00
Total $471 59
LONDON— FIRST Too Late.
CONGREGATIONAL COLLEGE OF CANADA. 185
ENDOWMENT FUND
Subscriptions received for year ending- 31st May, 1906.
Theodore Lyman, in memoriam $ 10 00
Dr. F. A. Stevenson, 8th payment 50 00
Mr. James Goldie, 5th & 6th payments 100 00
Mr. A. McA. Murphy, 4th & 5th payments 20 00
Rev. J. T. Daley, final 5 00
Sheffield N. B. Church 4 00
Mr. B. B. Stevenson 5 00
Charles Alexander, Legacy i ,000 00
Dr. D. F. Gurd 5 00
Mr. W. D. Lighthall 2nd payment 14 QO
Mr. Lyman Lee, 4th and final 20 00
Mr. G. B. Burland, Library Endowment 600 00
Total $1,833 90
CONGREGATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND SOCIETY
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD, 1906-1907.
CHAIRMAN. CHARLES R. BLACK, ESQ.
VICE-CHAIRMAN. CHARLES GURD, ESQ.
SECRETARY. H. J. ROSS, ESQ i8o St. James St., Montreal.
TREASURER. THOMAS MOODIE, ESQ 30 St. John St., Montreal.
DIRECTORS.
Charles Cushing, Esq., Mon- treal
T. B. Macaulay, Esq., Mon- treal
H. O'Hara, Esq., Toronto
Alex. McA. Murphy, Esq., Montreal
B. W. Robertson, Esq., King- ston
W. W. O'Hara, Esq., Montreal
AUDITORS. G. H. O'Hara, Montreal A. A. Hanna, Westmount
LATE CHARLES ALEXANDER. ESQ. Chaiiman at his death and for many years of the Congregational Provident Fund Society.
PROVIDENT FUND. 187
MINUTES OF PROVIDENT FUND SOCIETY.
Embro, June 7, 1906.
Prayer by Rev. J. T. Daley. Rev. J. T. Daley was ap- pointed Minute Secretary. Mr. Thomas Moodie read the Secretary's report in absence of Mr. McA. Murphy. The Minute Secretary was authorized to cast one ballot for the election of Rev. R. G. Watt. The Secretary reported that Mr. Watt was elected. The Secretary's report was then adopted. Mr. Thomas Moodie read the Treasurer's report. The report was adopted. The Directors were elected as follows : — C. R. Black, A. McA. Murphy, Thos. Moodie, Charles Gushing, Chas. Gurd, T. B. Macaulay, H. J. Ross, W. W. O'Hara, H. O'Hara, Toronto; B. W. Robertson, Kingston. The Auditors were elected, G. H. O'Hara and Albert Hanna.
B. W. Robertson, J. T. Daley,
Chairman. Minute Secretary .
FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CONGREGA- TIONAL PROVIDENT FUND SOCIETY.
Your directors have pleasure in presenting this forty- ninth anual report.
There have been added to the Society's membership the following: — Rev. Geo. Ellery Read, W. and O.B. and R.M.B.; Rev. H. G. Rice, W. and O.B.
Rev. R. G. Watt is an applicant for membership in W. and O.B., and has been received by the Board, subject to con- firmation at this meeting.
The financial report shows a satisfactory increase to the credit of both capital accounts, but unfortunately a dimin- ished measure of support by the churches.
188 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
There were 23 contributing churclies during the year. There are sixteen beneficiaries in the W. and O.B., viz.
Rev. C. E. Bolton " W. W. Smith
" W. T. Gunn, M.A. '' S. Sykes
" D. Macallum " M. Kelley
" J. McKillican " J. T. Daley, B.A.
" A. Margrett " W. Mcintosh
" G. Skinner " W. Collins
" W. H. Warriner, D.D. " Hugh Pedley, B.A.
" Geo. EUery Read " H. G. Rice
There are seven beneficiaries in the R.M.B., viz.
Rev. W. H. Warriner, D.l). Rev. J. T. Daley, B.A.
" W. Mcintosh " Hug-h Pedley, B.A.
" A. Margrett " C. C. Claris
Rev. Geo. Ellery Read
The annuitants in the W. and O.B. remain as before, vi:.i. Mesdames — Climie, Peacock, Sanderson, Hindley and AUworth .
Those in the R.M.B. are:
Rev. J. K. Unsworth Rev. D. Macallum
" R. K. Black " W. W. Smith
" S. Sykes
The following extract from the minutes of a meeting of | Board held on Jan. 18th last, conveys its own message.
" A t a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Congrega- tional Provident Fund Society which was held to-day, it was resolved that record be made of the sense of loss sustained by the death of the late Mr. Charles Alexander, who for so long a period had been a Director; and who previous to the time of his death had occupied the position of President for almost twenty years.
The Directors would also record their gratitude for tho tangible expression of his interest as donated by the terms of his will.
PROVIDENT FUND. 189
His record of punctuality could hardly be duplicated, while the kindly graces of his character were so widely mani- fested and so generously bestowed that words fail to pay proper tribute to his memory.
His surviving co-Directors take delight in witnessing the testimony so universally tendered by the citizens at large of his adopted city.
Montreal, Jan. 18, 1906.
Following the death of Mr. Alexander the Board elected Mr. Chas. R. Black, Chairman; Mr. Charles Gurd, Vice- Chairman, and Mr. W. W. O'Hara, Director.
The attention of its members and friends is directed to the fact that the Society is now entering upon its fiftieth year — its Jubilee. It is suggested that some fitting recognition follow this announcement. The aim and scope of this Society is both sentimental and practical in the highest sense.
Before it enters the next half century of its history a new incentive should be given to its life and a larger appreciation of its committee expressed.
Respectfully submitted,
Alex. McA, Murphy,
Secretary.
190 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
TEEASURER'S REPORT.
Your Treasurer has to report that while the receipts for the last year are not equal to the previous one, it was a fairly good 3'ear.
In Quebec three churches that contributed last year, Gran- by, Danville and Fitch Bay, have not done so this year, and Sherbrooke has been added to the number contributing this year.
In Ontario, nine churches, Fergus, Frome, London, Southern, Maxville, Speedside, Toronto, (Broadview), AVarwick (Zion), and Kingston (First), sent contributions last year and not this. And five, Dalston, Edgar, Hoptown, Kingston (Calvary), and Toronto (Bond St.), have remember- ed us this year. St. John, N.B., is a new contributor.
Of the churches remitting both last year and this five have sent less, eight more and two the same.
Total collections last year to both branches, $446.66, this year, $353.82. Decrease of $92.84.
In the W. and 0. branches we have opened contingent accounts as per By-law III., Clause I. to which has been carried a total of $1,118.80, Leaving $142.25 to credit of revenue account.
In the R. M. branch $340 has been carried to capital ac- count, leaving $181.02 at credit of revenue account.
The legacies of $500 to each branch from the late Charles Alexander have been added to the two capital accounts.
I have to report all the investments are in good shape.
The Financial Statements, duly audited, are herewith presented .
The whole respectfully submitted,
Thos. Moodie,
Treasurer
PROVIDENT FUND. 191
CONGREGATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND SOCIETY. TREASURER'S STATEMENT FOR YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1906. WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' BRANCH.
RECEIPTS.
Interest and Dividends $i,590 15
Collections 63 70
Beneficiaries 140 00
Mortgages repaid 3>i7i 83
Legacy late Chas. Alexander 500 00
$5,465 08 DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid Annuitants $ 750 00
" Expenses 97 79
■' Loan repaid to College 400 00
" Interest on above 2 05
" Mortgage 2,500 00
" Bond 500 00
" Loan to C. C. C 246 45
" Legal Exps. on Sale 18 00
" Loan repaid to R. M. B 107 26
Balance 844 13
$5,465 68 ASSETS.
Danville Urbana and Champaignj 5 per cent. Bonds $ 925 oc
St. Louis and Springfield Railway, 5 per cent. Bonds 3)400 00
Home Investment & Saving Association, 5 per cent. Bonds . . 500 00
540 Shares Montreal Loan and Mortgage Co. Stock 13,500 00
14 Shares Real Estate Loan Co. of Canada, value at 385 00
Mortgages on Real Estate 7>433 43
Loan to College 246 45
Cash in Bank 844 13
$27,234 01 Assets, 1905 25,762 67
Increase $ij47i 34
192 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
RETIRING MINISTERS' BRANCH.
RECEIPTS.
Balance from last year $519 iQ
Interest and Dividends 574 04
Collections 2Q0 1 2
Beneficiaries 64 00
Loan to W. & O. B. repaid 107 26
Legacy late Chas Alexander 500 00
$2,054 61
DISBURSEMENTS.
Paid Annuitants $500 00
Paid Expenses • 34 23
Paid Bond 5oo 00
Balance Cash in- Bank 1020 38
$2,054 61 ASSETS
Danville, Urbana & Champaign Railway, 5 per cent. Bonds . . $925 00
Home Investment & Savings Ass., 5 per cent. Bonds 500 00
56 Shares Mont. Loan and Mortgage Co. Stock 1,400 00
13 Shares Real Estate Loan Co. of Canada, valued at 357 50
Mortgages on Real Estate 5j593 4o
Cash in Bank 1,02038
$9,796 28
Assets, 1905 8,957 35
Increase 838 93
THOMAS MOODIE, Treasurer.
Audited and found correct.
VV. W. O'HARA, Auditor.
Montreal, ist June, 1906.
PROVIDENT FUND
193
WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' BRANCH.
Toronto, Bond St $1000
Brantford 11 30
Sherbrooke 3 00
Montreal, Emmanuel ... 10 50 Montreal, Bethlehem ... 18 50 Cowansville 10 40
Total $63 70
RETIRING MINISTERS' BRANCH
Granby, 1904-1905 $10 00
St. Andrews 10 00
Melbourne 7 00
Ulverton 11 00
Sherbrooke 17 35
Montreal, Bethlehem ... 7 50
Montreal, Calvary 25 50
Montreal, Zion 6 00
Montreal, Emmanuel ... 62 00
Cowan.sville 4 05
King'ston, ist, 1904-5 ... 7 60
Lanark 18 19
St. Catharines 7 38
Toronto, Bond St 5 00
Toronto, Northern 21 65
Watford 5 40
Kingston, Calvary i 50
Hamilton, ist 20 00
Edgar 4 50
Dalston i 25
Hopetown 6 00
Victoria, B. C 5 00
St. John, N. B. 5 00
Union Communion Coll. 21 25
Total $290 12
CANADA CONGREGATIONAL
WOMEN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS
OFFICEES FOE 1906-7.
PRESIDENT. MRS. (Rev.) D. MACALLUM 260 Alfred St., Kingston.
VICE-PRESIDENT AT LARGE. MRS. MOODIE 185 Mance St., Montreal.
VICE-PRESIDENTS (eX OFFICIO). The Presidents of Branches.
SECRETARY. MRS. H. W. BARKER 12 Simpson Ave., Toronto.
TREASURER. MISS EMILY THOMPSON 27 Linden St., Toronto.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF DEPARTMENTS.
Organization— MRS. MACALLUM AND MRS. WATSON.
Home Mission Supplies— MRS. MACALLUM.
foreign Mission Supplies— MISS EDITH CLARKE, 207 Bloor St. East, Toronto.
Literature— MISS L. M. SILCOX, 31 St. Vincent St., Toronto.
Missionary Reading— MISS RICHARDSON, 4909 Sherbrooke St.,
Montreal.
Scattered Members— MRS. ROBERTS, 543 Dovercourt Road,
Toronto.
Temperance— MRS. SANDERSON, Danville, Que.
Systematic and Proportionate Giving — MRS. RITCHIE, Darling
St., Brantford.
Editor of Leaflet— MRS. SAVAGE, 22 Seymour Ave., Montreal.
Librarian— MRS. MOODIE, 185 Mance St., Montreal.
women's board of missions. 195
ANNUAL MEETING.
The 20th Annual Convention of the Woman's Board as- sembled in the Scotland Church on Thursday morning, May 31st, at 9.30 o'clock, 53 delegates being present, chiefly from ])oints in Ontario, only ten of these representing the Quebec Provincial Branch. The chair was occupied by Mrs. Macallum, the honored President of the Board.
After the devotional exercises, by which each session was opened, reports were called for from the various branches and unconnected auxiliaries of the Board.
The following branches were heard from : — Toronto, Paris, Guelph, London, Quebec, Word was received from the auxiliaries of Ottawa, Maxville, Middleville and Kingston. These reports, with scarcely any exception, show steady pro- gress during the year, and many references were made to the successful culmination of the Jubilee Fund Movement, by which so many of the churches may realize their desire to en- large their sphere of labor. Some of the special features not- ed were, increased attention to the instruction of young peo- ple on topics related to Mission Work, and a more thorough and systematic study of Missions at the auxiliary meetings.
Thursday afternoon was occupied, first with the Presi- dent's address, in which Mrs. Macallum called attention to the vast opportunities for Christian service presenting tJiemselves on the foreign field and particularly in the Canadian North- west.
Following this came the Secretary's report, which also showed progress in almost all departments of work. In review- ing the conditions at Chisamba, Mrs. Nasmith referred to the great burden falling upon the few missionaries remaining on the field and of the urgent need of a physician.
The Treasurer's very encouraging report showed con- tributions amounting to $3,315.34, as against $3,106.59 for the preceding year.
196 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
Much sympathy was felt for Mrs. Savage, the editor of the "Leaflet," who, on account of illness, was unable to be present. Her report showed a slight increase in the subscription list, al- though the price of the paper had been raised during the year.
The reports of the Superintendents of the different de- partments of work were next given, and the Department of Systematic Giving, discontinued last year, was restored, with Mrs. Ritchie, of Brantford, as Superintendent.
The evening meeting was presided over by Mrs. Macal- lum, and the principal address given by Mrs. Currie, whose presence throughout the meetings was of great inspiration. Mrs. Currie gave an interesting account of her own and Mr. (■urrie's journey into the interior of Africa.
After the opening exercise on Friday morning the follow- ing plan of work for the year was adopted :
1. The work in Chisamba, West Central Africa, including the support of the Misses Melville and Miss Diaden Bell, the Board's share of the station expenses.
2. The work of Miss Macallum's Sunday School, Regina, to which the sum of $75 was voted in continuance of the schol- arship.
3. Bible instruction to four Government Schools in Cey- lon, $60.
4. The usual grant of $600 to the C.C. M.S., to be used as they, in their judgment, deem best.
5. The Forward Movement in the Northwest, $200.
A conference on Home Mission was held in which the needs of the Northwest were discussed. As an outcome of it, a resolution was passed by the Board, in which it was agreed to co-operate with the C.C. M.S. in any plan they might adopt at their annual meeting.
The election of officers took place in the afternoon, re- resulting in the return of the former officers, with the excep- tion of Mrs. Nasmith, who, through the pressure of many
women's board of missions. 197
otln:r duties, felt herself obliged to resign the Secretaryship It is impossible to estimate the value of Mrs. Nasmith's ser- vices to the Board, and her resignation was accepted very un- willingly and with the deepest regret.
The question, "Shall we extend the work at Chisamba?" was discussed which also resulted in the passing of a resolution urging the C.C.F.M.S. to consider an extension movement east of Chisamba.
At the evening meeting the chief feature of the pro- gramme was another instructive and highly interesting ad- dress by Mrs. Currie on the work at Chisamba. After devo- tional exercises the Convention adjourned to meet in Ottawa in 1907.
CONGREGATIONAL
PUBLISHING COMPANY.
PRESIDENT. MR. H. O'HARA 30 Toronto St. , Toronto.
VICE-PRE SIDENT . MR. W. VVOODLEY Toronto.
SECRETARY. MR. H. W. BARKER 12 Simpson Ave. , Toronto.
TREASURER. DR. CHAS. J. COPP 96 Wellesley St., Toronto.
DIRECTORS.
MR. H. O'HARA MR. C. J. COPP, M.D.
" JAMES SMITH " WILLIAM WOODLEY
" GEORGE PIM " H. W. BARKER " CHAS. GUSHING, B.C.L. " C. McD. HAY
REV. J. K. UNSWORTH, B.A.
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. 199
ANNUAL MEETING.
Report of tke Annual Meeting of the C. C. Publishing Co. held in the Congregational Church at Embro, Ontario, on June 8th at 4.30 p.m.
Mr. Henry O'Hara, the President, occupied the chair and presided.
Rev. E. H. Tippett opened the meeting with prayer.
Rev. H. A. Carson on request acted as Minute Secretary. The minutes of the past Annual Meeting, having been pub- lished in the Tear Book were taken as read. The Annual Re- port was then presented and read which was as appended :
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1905.
The Directors report active effort and advancement of our paper, especially in the improvement in workmanship and read- ing matter, which has been made possible by securing full control of the columns under Mr. W E. Mortens as PublisKer and Rev. W. E. Gilroy as Editor.
Many of the editorials and selections are much appre- ciated ; there must of necessity be a certain amount of latitude given to the editor of a paper in conducting the same; your Directors of course cannot hold themselves responsible for either editorials or selections. What may please one person holding certain views may not be satisfactory to another and we have therefore to trust to the editor to avoid as much as possible any controversial subject that would injuriously af- fect the paper, and yet to express his views in the interests of
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the Denomination. It is our duty to sustain tlie editor of our paper and yet at the same time it is desirable that our brethren should write to him should they differ with him in his views, the columns of our paper being open for correspondence and criticism of the editor if deemed necessary. The value of our Denominational organ no one can doubt, as it is the means of communication between our various churches throughout the Dominion. We deeply regret that our paper is not better sus- tained and that the efforts of your board are not sufficiently appreciated or there would be double the number of subscrib- ers for our paper. The list of subscribers is about the same as last year, but the number of paid-up subscriptions is less. This, of course, affects the receipts of the Company and shows a lack of interest in persons not paying up their subscriptions more promptly. We trust that the pastors of our various churches will see that a proper person is appointed to canvass for new subscriptions in each church; with determined effort the number might be doubled. If our Denomination is to prosper we must loyally support our paper. Your directors have to thank the Canada Congregational Missionary Society, the Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society, as well as the Jubilee Fund Committee for their financial sup- port, but we regret that we have received no subsidy from the College Board, nor the Associations. We trust that they will do so yet, as it is absolutely necessary that we should have fin- ancial support. Your directors give their time and attention to the support of the paper without an/^ remuneration, and they feel that they should be better sustained. We trust that all will co-operate and do everything in their power to increase the circulation of the paper, as suspension would mean very great injury to the denomination.
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YEAR BOOK.
We regret that only 40 churches have shown their appre- ciation of the Year Book, some of them taking only a few copies. The circulation this year is no larger than that of last year, quite a number of the edition not having been sold. The Year Book supplies a much needed want for all the mem- bers of our churches, as it gives a great deal of important in- formation with reference to our churches throughout the Do- minion.
The price of the Book is just about half of what it costs. We would remind pastors of our churches that it is th.eir duty to see that some active member be appointed to canvass for orders, so that we may know how many to issue. We trust that those who have not made returns for the books received will do so promptly.
C. J. Copp, M.D. Henry O'Hara.
Secretary. President.
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING CO.
RECEIPTS 1905-06.
Bal. on hand less year
bk. bal. 1904-05 $340 99
Can. Cong-1. Foreign
Mission Soc. subsidy 250 00 Can. Congl. Foreign
Mission Soc. subsidy 100 00 Special subscriptions '
Zion Ch. Mtl. .. $10
Emmanuel $20
Hy. Yeigh $10
Rev. W. Mcintosh $05
45 00
Subscriptions 505 35
Advertisements 341 98
Bal. from Yr. Bk. Acct. 122 69
DISBURSEMENTS.
Editor 9 128 00
Printer 1,367 07
Postage, Exchange,
etc 30 35
Bal. on hand 180 59
Total $1,706 01
Total $1,706 01
YEAE BOOK.
RECEIPTS. Bal. from 1904-05 .... $ 26 15 Printing reports 1904-
05 (bal due) 33 50
Printing reports 1905-
06 311 25
Advertisements 45 00
Sale of books 140 20
Total $556 10
DISBURSEMENTS.
Editor $ 70 00
Printing and binding
book 340 00
Postage, Exchange,
etc 23 41
Bal. to Pub. Co 122 69
Total $556 10
H. W. BARKER,
Treasurer.
Mr. S. W. Robertson moved and Geo. E. Williams seconded, tliat the financial statement be adopted and publish- ed in the Year Book, which was unanimously adopted.
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A suggestion was then made in regard to the appointment of an agent in each church to solicit subscriptions for the Con- gregationalist.
Mr. W. Woodley moved and Mr. Geo. Williams seconded that the thanks of this Corporation be tendered to Mr. E.J. Jos- leyn, for his services as auditor during the past year, and that he be requested to act in the same capacity for the next year.
Rev. Wm. Mcintosh then moved and Mr. Geo. Wilson seconded that the following be directors for the coming year, and that the President cast a ballot :
Mr. Henry O'Hara Mr. J. C. Copp, M.D.
" James Smith " Wm. Woodley
" George Pirn " H. W. Barker
" Chas. Gushing-, B.G.L. " G. McD. Hay
Rev. J. K. Unsworth, B.A.
Rev. W. E. Gilroy spoke at some length "re" his work as Editor of the Congregationalist.
Rev. K. R. Schrag moved and Rev. Cecil Claris seconded the motion that the following resolution of thanks be sent to Miss Alice Tatton, also to Rev. Frank J. Day for their splen- did services as correspondents to our paper.
Resolved "That the thanks of the Congregational Publish- ing Company be formally tendered to Miss Alice Tatton, of Bushey, England, for the excellent service which she has free- ly and willingly tendered as English correspondent to the Canadian Congregationalist, and that we assure her of our ap- preciation of the articles contributed monthly and of our con- viction of their value at the present time in binding more tightly the ties that link us to our brethren in Great Britain." And that a similar resolution be tendered Rev. F. J. Day for his services as correspondent.
The business having been finished the meeting adjourned.
Benediction was pronounced by Rev. D. Macallum.
Herman A. Carson,
Secretary (pro tern) .
The Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
CHAIRMAN. REV. W. S. PRITCHARD, B.A St. John, N.B.
SECRETARY. REV. J. W. COX, B.A Truro, N.S.
TREASURER. MR. CHAS. E. MacMICHAEL St. John, N.B.
STATISTICAL SECRETARY. MR. J. W. FLEWELLING, St. John, N.B.
UNION COMMITTEE.
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" L. A. EDWARDS " HENRY A. MOUZER
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The Sessional Roll was formed as follows :
Rev. J. W. Cox, Truro, N.S.
" Geo. M. Whyte Sheffield, N.B.
" Geo. W. Ball Liverpool, N.S.
" I. Adams Rose Pleasant River, N.S.
CHURCHES AND DELEGATES .
Brooklyn, N.S Mr. H. Smith
; Mr. Alexander Godfrey
Beach Meadows, N. S Mr. H. A. Mouzer
j Miss Sadie Chandler
Chebogue, N.S Rev. W. E. Baker
Economy, N. S Miss M. Moore
Miss McLaughlin
Hemford, N.S Mrs. Jas. Faulkner
j Miss Daisy Mailman
Keswick Ridge, N.B Arthur S. Jewett
Wm. H. Moore
Kingsport, N.S Owen O. Davison
Liverpool, N. S Henry Rose.
Lower Selmah, N.S Andrew M. Anthony
Milton, N.S Geo. H. Bell.
Margaree, C.B Rev. S. J. Wilson
Noel, N.S Rev. Robt. Barron
Pleasant River, N. S Arthur J. Fancy
I J. W. Waterman
St. John, N.B Miss Alice Fowler
, Miss C. O. Flewelling
South Maitland, N.S Mrs. Geo. Cameron
Sheffield, N.B Ernest C. Burpee
Truro, N.S Mrs. Ross Archibald
1 Miss Lenora Mclnnes
Yarmouth, N.S Capt. Eben Scott.
Baker's Settlement, N.S Mrs. Eliza. Bolivar
Mrs. B. Bolivar.
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MINUTES OF THE UNION.
Milton, July 5, 1906.
The fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and Ne^w Brunswick met with the Con- gregational Church at Milton, N.S., Thursday, July 5th, at 7.30 a.m.
The first hour was occupied with prayer and praise. The Chairman, Rev. Geo. M. Whyte, conducted the service and gave a very helpful address on the privileges of living in the presence of God. The Scripture readings were. Psalm 27 and Hebrew 12, 1-3.
At 10 a.m. the chair was taken. The business of the Union began.
Rev. W. S. Baker, of Chebogue, and Student G. J. Hindley, were appointed Minute Secretaries, and J. W. Flewwelling and Rev. I. A. Rose and A. M. Anthony Nominat- ing Committee.
The pastor. Rev. S. W. Anthony gave the address of wel- come which was responded to by Rev. W. S. Baker.
The Sessional Roll was formed, which showed that the Union of 1906 was a record breaker is as much as every church was represented by a delegate.
The newly-organized church of Bakers' Settlement was added to the roll. The following committees were appointed : —
Business — Rev. I. A. Rose, G. W. Ball, S. J. Wilson, L. A. Edwards and Messrs. J. W. Flewwelling and A. M. An- thony.
Membership — Rev. J. W. Cox and Earnest C. Burpee.
Finance — C. E. MacMichael, Owen 0. Davison and Ar- thur S. Jew.ett.
Public Services — Rev. S. W. Anthony, G. W. Ball and Mr. Fred Freeman.
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New Members — The following pastors were received into membership of the Union in the usual manner: — E.ev.S. W. Anthony, Milton, N.S.; Rev. S. J. Wilson, Margaree, C. B. ; Rev. L. A. Edwards, Yarmouth, N.S.; Rev. W. E. Baker, Chebogue, N.S.;Rev. Robert Barron, Lower Selmah, N.S.
Corresponding Members — Rev. W. T. Currie, B.A. and Mrs. Currie, of Chisamba, West Central 'Africa. Rev. Robt. K. Black, of Granby, a former pastor of Milton Church.
The Secretary, Rev. J. W. Cox, gave his annual report which was most encouraging in its character. He reported that during the year of the three debt-burdened churches, one had been wholly set free and the other two very nearly so.
One new church had been dedicated free of debt, that of Margaree, C.B.
One new parsonage, that of Liverpool, had been given over to the pastor's use.
Five parsonages had been renovated and put in up-to-date repair, Milton, Pleasant River, Plympton, Margaree and Chebogue.
Two pastors have been settled, Rev. L. A. Edwards Yar- mouth, and Rev. Robert Barron in the Maitland, Selmah, and Noel field.
Keswick had enjoyed a season of spiritual revival, a good- ly number being thereby added to the church.
Reports were read from the churches which were more than usually encouraging.
Rev. S. J. Wilson, of Margaree, then delivered a stirring address on, "The Church at Pentecost and the Church To- day."
Thursday, 2.30 p.m.
The Treasurer, Mr. MacMichael, read his report which showed a balance on the right side of $629.
The Statistical Secretary, Mr. J. W. Flewwelling, read his annual report. There are reported members on the roll, 1,057, baptisms, 72; property value, $80,050; debt on property, $1,275; money raised, $17,821; membership gain, 33
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The balance of the reports of the churches were then read.
On recommendation of the Business Committee, the of- ficers of the ensuing year were then elected as follows : Chair- man, Rev. W. S. Pritchard, B.A., St. John, N.B.,; Secretary, Rev. J. W. Cox, B.A., Truro, N.S.; Treasurer, Mr. Chas. E. MacMichael; Statistical Secretary, Mr. J. W Flewwelling. Union Committee : The officers with Revs. Geo. M. Whyte, Churchill Moore, Geo. W. Ball, I. A. Rose, S. W. Anthony, L. A. Edwards, W. E, Baker, S. J. Wilson, Robert Barron and Messrs. W. H. Moore, E. C. Burpee, Capt. Scott, 0. 0. Davidson, A. M. Anthony, A. J. Fancy, H. Rose, Henry A. Mouzer, Capt. Godfrey, G. H, Bell, Mrs. Eliza Bolivar and Miss Melissa Moore
REPRESENTATIVES.
To represent Nova Scotia on the Executive of the C. C. M. S.— Rev. G. W. Ball.
New Brunswick — Rev. W. S. Pritchard, B.D.
The General Committee of the C.C.M.S.— Rev. J. W. Cox, B.A.
Delegate to the Congregational Union of Canada — Rev. J. W. Cox, B.A.
Member of College Senate^Rev. W. S. Pritchard, B.D.
Union Preachers for 1907 — Rev. S. W. Anthony, prim- ary. Rev. Robert Barron, alternate.
Programme Committee — Rev. J. W. Cox and Rev. S. J. Wilson.
Rev. L. A. Edwards then led a very animated and inter- esting discussion on Church Union. As a result a committee was appointed to draft a resolution on that subject to report later. Also, it was resolved that the Committee on Church Union of last year be re-appointed and that a special collec- tion be taken up in all the churches on the first Sunday of Sep- tember to defray the travelling expenses of the Committee.
REV. W. S. PRITCHARD
Chairman elect. Congregational Union Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 1907
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Thursday Eveniwo.
Rev. W. E. Baker led the devotional service. There was B, full house.
Rev. Geo. M, Whyte delivered the Chairman's annual ad- dress, his subject being "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit."
Mr. G. J. Hindley, B.A., then addressed the meeting on "The College from the Student's Standpoint."
Friday Morning,
Friday was the Field Day of the Woman's Board.
At 9 a.m. a prayer meeting deeply spiritual in its char- acter was led by Mrs. Williams, of Liverpool. The brethren as well as the sisters seemed heartily to enjoy it and mlany took part in it by prayer and testimony.
At 10 a.m. the Union Committee met.
Friday Evening.
The President of the Woman's Board, Mrs Wm. Collins, presided.
At this meeting the pleasing announcement was made that the Board was now closing the most successful year of its his- tory and was likely to begin the new year with a balance on the right side.
Rev. L. A. Edwards, of Yarmouth, delivered a most in- spiring address from Is. 62, 1. 2. At its conclusion Rev. W. T. Currie and Mrs. Currie and Rev. R. K. Black arrived and were received with great enthusiasm.
Saturday.
At 9 a.m. the meeting for prayer and praise was led by Rev. J. A. Rose.
At 10 a.m. the business of the Union was resumed. The following recommendations of the Union Committee were un- animously adopted :
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THE UNION OF CANADA.
1. That the matter of the Congregational Union of Can- ada be left iii the hands of the Interim Committee.
ECONOMY.
2. That Rev. L. A. Edwards and Eobert Barron be a dele- gation to .visit Economy to help the church by means of evan- gelistic services and to report.
MAITLAND CHURCH PROPERTY.
3. That Rev. Robert Barron and Mr. Andrew M. Anthony be a committee to take charge of the Maitland Church prop- erty and dispose of it as they shall see fit.
KINGSPOET.
4 That Rev. L. A. Edwards be appointed to visit Kings- port on his way home on Monday next and ascertain the fin- ancial condition of the field with the view of the settlement of a suitable pastor in the near future and to communicate with the executive of the C.C.M.S. and the Secretary of the Union.
THE GRANT TO KINGSPORT.
5. That we recommend that the Executive of the C.C.M.S. be asked to continue the same grant to Kingsport this year if as suitable a man be found as was given last year.
REFUND TO MARGAREE.
(i, That the expenses of Rev. J. W. Cox, the representa- tive of the Union at the opening of the new church at Mar- garce on June 17, 1906, be refunded to Rev. S. J. Wilson on behalf of the church at Margaree.
THE PLACE OF OUR NEXT MEETING.
7. That the Union accept the invitation of the church at Margaree to meet with them next year.
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REV. D. W. PURDON.
A letter was read by the Secretary from Rev. D. W. Pur- don formally announcing his resignation of the pastorate of the Kingsport church and asking for a letter of transfer to the South Staffordshire Congregational Association. On motion it was referred to the Membership Committee, by whose re- commendation it was granted and the Secretary instructed to send it to Mr. Purdon without delay with the best wishes and prayers of the brethren.
LETTER FROM REV. W^M. MCINTOSH, SECRETARY OF THE C.C.M.S.
A letter was read by the Secretary from Rev. Wm. Mcin- tosh conveying the greeting of tke C.C.M.S. and also the Con- gregational Union of Ontario and Quebec.
Rev. R. K. Black brought the greetings of the Congrega- tional Union of Ontario and Quebec be having been appointed by that body as one of their representatives.
Rev. Mr. Currie and Mrs. Currie also brought greetings from the missionaries and church at Chisamba.
Rev. Wm. Collins, of Brooklyn, N.S., then delivered a short, crisp address on "The Mid- Week Prayer Meeting and BEow to Make it More Efficient." This was followed by a lively discussion taken part in by many of the brethren.
Saturday afternoon was given up to recreation.
Saturday Evening.
A praise service was held, led by Student Hindley.
Mrs. Currie gave a very interesting address on the Women of Cisamba.
Rev. R. K. Black then gave an address upon reminis- cences of his former ministry in Nova Scotia, he having been pastor of Milton church for twelve years and Secretary of the Missionary Society.
Rev. W. T. Currie, B.A., followed in an able address on the progress of the Christian work in Cisamba and the gre^t
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need of a forward movement and an extension of the work east- ward along the track of the route travelled by the missionaries in their notable journey last year.
The following resolutions were recommended by the Busi- ness Committee and unlanimously adopted.
THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF CANADA.
Whereas we have received through the Canadian Congre- gationalist and Mr Mcintosh's letter intimation of the pro- posed amalgamation of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec and the Congregational Union of N.S. and N.B. in a Union that shall embrace all the Congregational churches of Canada. Resolved, that we declare ourselves in favor of the idea but regret that we have not received information in time to take definite action at this session of the Union.
THE FORWARD MOVEMENT:
Resolved that we heartily endorse the action of the C. C. M. S. in the proposed advancement of the work in the North- west and that our churches be asked to contribute for that pur- pose $100 additional to last year's contributions.
The following special resolutions were unanimously adopted :
The usual resolution in favor of Total Abstinence and Legal Prohibition was moved by Rev. S. J. Wilson and J. W. Flew welling and carried unanimously.
CONDOLENCE.
Whereas, this Union has heard with deep regret of the deep sorrow through which Rev. Geo. W. Ball and his dear wife have been called upon to pass through the death of Mrs. Ball's father, Capt. Dunlop, of Liverpool. Resolved, that this irnion extend to our brother and sister and to the' bereaved widow and all the members of the family of the deceased heart- felt sympathy in this the hour of their sorrow.
Moved by Revs. W. E. Baker and Robt. Barron.
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That we express our pleasure at the quality of service our College is rendering our denomin»ation through the efficiency of its training and instruction.
That our churches be ever on the alert to encourage their promising joung men to enter the splendid calling of the Groy- pei ministry in this country and bring the attention of all such to what our College is offering.
That we regret the absence of a representative from the College staff -at the meetings of our Union.
Moved by G. J. Hindley and A. M. Anthony.
CHURCH TJNIOIf.
Itesolved that we declare ourselves heartily in favor )i the proposed Union between the three branches of Christ's Church, the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational.
But we hope as a result of the future action of the Joint Committee of the said bodies thjat a simpler and more liberal expression of doctrine (than that now undei- consideration) may be settled upon and that of Polity and Adminisuaoiuii there may be preserved in the new organization the best ele- ments of three great systems.
Sunday Morning.
At 10.30 a large audience assembled for public worship. Rev. L. A. Edwards preached the Union sermon. The text was from 1 Cor. 3, 9. ''For we are laborers together with God." The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was observed, the pastor. Rev. Silas W. Anthony, presiding, assisted by Rev. Walter T. Currie, B.A., and Rev. J. W. Cox, B.A., and the venerable Rev. R. K. Black, whose address at the table so tender and appropriate will long be remebered. The deacons assisting were Capt. Eben Scott and George H. Bell. It was indeed a hallowed season. At 3 p.m. a Sunday School mass meeting ■^•'as held. Helpful addresses were made by Revs. Robert Barron and L. A. Edwards and Mrs. W. T. Currie,
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who gave a most vivid word picture of child life at our far-off African mission station and especially the Sunday School there. At 7 p.m. there was a full house. The preacher was Rev. R. K. Black, of Granby. The text was Ps. 6, 1. 2. "Lead Me to the Rock That s Higher Than I." At the close of the sermon, Rev. Geo. W. Ball, of Liverpool, led a most powerful and heart-searching consecration service. The customary re- solutions of thanks were passed and the hymn, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," sung.
The chairman, Rev. Geo. M. Whyte, of Sheffield, N.B., gave a brief farewell charge. Rev. Mr. Black pronounced the Benediction and the Congregational Union of N.S. and N.B. adjourned to meet in Margaree, C.B., in July, 1907.
J. W. Cox,
Secretary .
Women's Board of Missions of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
OFFICERS FOR 1906-1907.
HONORARY PRESIDENT. MRS. A. JENKINS Yarmouth, N.S.
PRESIDENT. MRS. COLLINS Brooklyn, N.S.
1st vice-president. MRS. HUTCHINSON Milton, N.S.
2nd vice-president. MRS. J. A. ROSE Pleasant River, N.S.
3rd vice-president. MRS. EDWARDS Yarmouth, N.S.
secretary. MISS IDA BARKER Sheffield Academy, N.B.
treasurer. MISS F. ROBERTSON St. John, N.B.
SUPERINTENDENT MISSION BANDS. MISS MARY MITCHELL Keswick Ridge, N.B.
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WOMEN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS OF N.S. AND N.B.
The session of the Board opened in Milton, July 6th with devotional service conducted by Mrs. Williams of Liverpool.
Regular meeting called to order by Mrs. Cox, First Yice- President.
The following committees were appointed : Nomination Committee — Mrs. Dunlop, Mrs. Hutchinson and Mrs. Rose. Plan of work — Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Tanner, Mrs. Williams. Resolutions Committee — Mrs. Edwards, Miss Moore, Miss Whyte. Finance Committee — Mrs Willard Godfrey, Mrs. Anthony, Miss Robertson.
Address of welcome, Mrs. Hutchii son, responded to by Mrs. Whyte, her address being read by Miss Eva Whyte.
Secretary's and Treasurer's reports read and adopted, also Superintendent of Mission Bands
President's annual message read by Mrs. Hutchinson. At 2.30 p.m. devotional service, led by Mrs. Tanner ot Truro, after which regular business was resumed.
A very interesting letter was read by Mrs. Ames Tupper from Miss Bell, of Chisamba.
Miss Robertson reports annex organized at Margaree. Paper, "Our Four-fold Need," by Mrs. Collins.
The following recommendations were adopted :
(1) That we pledge the sum of $275 to our African worker.
(2) That we pledge the sum of $300 to our Home Missions.
(3) That $13 be expended for printing 200 and that Mrs. Dearborn be asked to look after this work.
(4) That Mrs. S. R. Hilton be requested to receive dress- es, etc., for Chisamba Mission, the charges to be paid in ad- vace by auxiliary sending same.
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At 7.45 praise , service, led by Mrs. Rose.
Paper on "Home Missions," by Miss Flew welling.
Recitation, Miss Hattie Gardner.
Report of Treasurer of Foreign Missions, read by Rev. J. W. Cox.
Solo, Mrs. Newman McLeod.
Address, Rev. L. A. Edmonds.
Solo, Miss Eva Whyte.
Revs. W. T. Currie and R. K. Black, having just arrived, they were given a hearty welcome and made a few remarks. Recitation, Mrs. Hattie Gardner.
After the usual hearty votes of thanks and singing, "Go Labor On," etc., meeting adjourned to meet at Margaree C. B. in July, 1907.
Ida Barker, Secretary .
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FINANCIAL REPOET FOE 1906.
KECEIPTS.
Balance from 1905 $ 34 00
Contributions 801 37
Union collection 7 50
Interest, December 64
Interest, July 1 58
$845 09
DISBFKSEMENTS.
Home $243 35
Africa 262 37
Mrs. McEwen '. 77 90
Indian Preacher 40 00
Deficit 1905 102 00
From Union for deficit 40 00
Eeports 13 00
Year-Book, Congregational 7 00
Stamps 1 oO
Bank Drafts 1 61
Balance in Bank (June) 54 78
Interest (July) 1 58
$845 09
FLORENCE M. ROBERTSON,
Treasurer. Audited and found correct.
LOUISA C. DEARBORN.
Eeceived $65 after account was closed.
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MANITOBA AND BEITISH COLUMBIA.
WINNIPEG, CENTRAL REV. JAMES L. GORDON.
In 1905 the Central Congregational Church, Winnipeg, found that with the coming of their new pastor, Rev. J. L. Gordon, and the incoming of thousands to our city, the old building was too small and that if we wished to accommodate the people who wished to come to us there must be a new build- ing or enlarge the old one. After careful consideration we decided to enlarge the old one so that we would be able to seat with the use of the schoolroom, etc., 2,300 people.
This is now accomplished and we have a handsome, com- fortable, easy-to-speak-in auditorium. We expected to have op.ened it December 1st, 1905, but on account of a fire that partially destroyed the roof we did not open it till February 4th, 1906.
We had hoped to have had two of our former pastors, Rev. J. B. Silcox and Rev. H. Pedley, at the opening, but Mr. Silcox found it quite impossible to leave his work in Toronto at that date. The church was delighted that Mr. Pedley was able to be with us and our opening services will long be re- membered by our people. Our average Sunday morning con- gregation is about 1,200 to 1,500 and the evening from 2,000 to 2,3000 and often hundreds are turned away. This has been our experience even during June and July when many of our people are away.
Our enlarging cost $35,000. Towards paying this off we have promises for $24,000. Sunday collections average $240 per Sunday. Membership nearly 700. We are aiming to have a thousand members fully alive to their duty to Christ and His church. All the societies of the church are doing good and growing work. We have an enthusiastic people, ready for every good work, united to each other, and loyal to their pastor.
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Brandon.— Rev. T. A. Munro, B.A.; settled 1903. Build- ing frame, valued at $3,000. Roseville also supplied.
Saltcoats, Man. — Rev. W. T. Morris, pastor. Welsh churcli.
Wetaskiwin, Alta. — Rev. G. A. Sanden, pastor. Swed- ish church. Other appointments also supplied. Rev. B. T. Persen, assistant pastor.
Carlton Union, Sask. (Address Parkside.) — A group of several churches. Rev. Benjamin Ralph, LL.D., pastor.
Yancouver, First. — Pastor, Rev. John Simpson. Build- ing frame; sittings 500.
A' vNConvER, Knox. — Rev. Merton Smith, pastor. Mem- bers] lip 300.
Victoria. — Pai>foi, Rev. H. A. Carson, B.A., settled 1904 Membership of chui(b 64; building valued at $1,200.
The churches of this district are formed into the Canadian Northwest Congregational Association. Officers : Chairman, Rev. Merton Smith, Vancouver; Secretary, Rev. John Simp- son, Vancouver; Treasurer, Mr. Thomas Duke, Vancouver; Executive, the Ministers in churches and Messrs. Kirkland and Duke (Vancouver), Spragge (Victoria.)
Ministerial Members.
Herman A. Carson, 32 Rae St., Victoria; John Reid, Tacoma Wash., U.S.A.; John Simpson, 1065 Pacific St., Van- couver; Merton Smith, Central Park, Vancouver.
Churches.
First Congregational Church, Vancouver; Knox, Van- couver; Emmanuel, Congregational Church, Nelson; First Church, Victoria.
NEWFOUNDLAND.
221
NEWFOUNDLAND.
Home Missionary Soceett in coiiiiection with the Colon- ial Missionary Society. President, Rev. J. Thackeray, St. John's; Treasurer, Mr. John Cowan, St. John's; Secretary, Mr. W. J. Barnes, St. John's. Population, 1901, 220,984.
FORTUNE BAY
DATE OF FORMATION.
Belleoram, igoi
Pool's Covfe, 1875
Turnip Cove, 1875
Lake's Beach, 1875
Bay du Nord, 1901
Doctor's Harbour, 1901 . Little Bay East, 1888
Anderson's Cove, 1901 . . St. John's, 177s
MINISTER AND DATE OF SETTLEMENT.
Rev. J. Middleton, 1901.
Rev. H. J. A. MacDermott, 1904.
.... Rev. J. Thackeray, 1897.
TRINITY BAY
Middle Lance Cove (E), 1872. "^ Middle Lance Cove, (Welsh), 1900
Snook's Harbour
Burgoyne Cove
Quarry
Twillingate, 1877
Rev. H. D. Whitmore, 1902.
Vacant.
The mission yacht, "Endeavor," works along 200 miles of co*ast in Fortune Bay.
222 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
CHURCH LETTERS.
Of Dismission
This certifies that is a member in good and reg- ular standing of Church of As such
is at own request, hereby dismissed, and af- fectionately recommended to the fellowship <and care of the
Church of , and, when received by it,
membership with this church will cease.
By vote of the church.
, Clerk.
, A.D. 19—.
(Please inform this church as soon as the bearer of this letter Has been received into membership.)
Letter of Introduction
To whom it inay concern
This may certify that the bearer, , is a member
in good and regular standing of the Congregational Church in
Expecting to be (absent from us tor some time,
and desiring Christian intercourse during absence,
is hereby affectionately commended to the occasional
communion and fellowship of any Church of Christ with which , in the providence of God, may desire to worship.
, Pastor or Clerk.
(Date.)
CHURCH LETTERS. 223
To Ordain oh Reorganize or Install a Minister
The Congregational Church in to the Congregational
Church in sendeth greetings.
Beloved Brethren, — The Great Head of the Church hjas kindly united us, and the congregation statedly worshipping with us, in the choice of Mr. (Rev.) A. B. as our pastor and teacher, and he has accepted our invitation to that office. "We, therefore, affectionately request your attendance, by pastor
and delegate, at , on the day of
next, at o'clock, , to examine the candidate,
and advise us in reference to the same; and if judged exped- ient, to assist in the ordination (recognition or installation) exercises.
Wishing you grace, mercy and peace,
We are fraternally yours, ....
(Here insert the names of committee of the church, also the names of the churches invited.)
(This form may be altered and used for the ordination of one to the ministry, but not as a pastor.)
Order of Procedure in Council
Good order requires proper organization and procedure, that the best interests of all parties concerned may be secured. The following order of procedure may be observed.
(1) Reading of letter missive, usually by the oldest pastor present.
(2) Election of temporary moderator and scribe.
(3) Making Roll of Council.
(4) Election by ballot of permanent moderator land scribe, provided a quorum be present; if a quorum be not present, adjournment to a fixed time and place.
(5) Devotional exercises.
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224 CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
(6) Eeading records of action of parties touching the call- ing of the Council,
(7) The business specified in the letter missive.
If it be the ordination, installation or recognition of a minister, then :
(8) The candidate's certificate of church membership, his licensure or credentials of ministerial standing, and in case of recognition or installation, his call, and acceptance to the pas- torate. If these are found satisfactory, then :
(9) The examination of the cjandidate in beliefs, Christian experience and fitness.
(10) The Council vote to be by themselves for action upon the examination, and the advice to be given. If the Council advise the church to proceed, a committee is appointed to arrange with the church and candidate the parts in the public services.
(11) Announcement to the church of the action of the Council. •
(12) Reading and approval of the minutes.
(13) Order of public services. a. Reading of minutes.
6. Introductory Prayer.
c. Scriptural Lesson.
A. Sermon.
e. Prayer of Ordination, Recognition or Installation.
/. Riglit Hand of Fellowship.
g. Charge to the M^inister.
li. Address to the People (omitted, except in cases of
pastors, and sometimes then.) i. Benediction.
(Hymns interspersed as desired.)
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CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
STATISTICS FOR YEAR
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW
NAME OF CHURCH.
Brooklyn
Beech Meadows. . .
Chebogue
Economy
Keswick Ridge . . . . Scotch Settlement.
Scotch Lake
Bear Island
Queensbury
Douglas
Kingsport
Medf ord
Liverpool
Black Point
Lower Selmah
Noel
South Maitland. . . .
Margaree
Milton
Pleasant River. . . .
New Elm
E. CHfford
W. Clfford
Baker's Settlement.
Hemford
St. John
Sheffield...
Truro
Yarmouth .
NAME OF MINISTER.
Wm. Collins
Wm. Collins
W. E. Baker. . ..
Vacant
Churchill Moore.
Vacant
Vacant
Geo. W. Ball.
Robert Barron.
Robert Barron . . . . Robert Barron . . . . Samuel J. Wilson. S. W. Anthony.. . I. A. Rose
W. S. Pritchard, BA../
B.D [
Geo M. Whyte
T. W. Cox, B.A.
1893 1893 1905
1890
1905 1905 1905
1904 1904 1905
1905 1905 1905
1885 1902 1877 1900
L. A. Edwards 1902 1905
WHERE TRAINED.
6t
Halrey Coll., Lon., Eng C.C.C
Religious Services.
C.C.C.
/Londonderry and Bel- fast, Ireland
London, E., & Belfast I
C.C.C
C.C.C
C.C.C, McGill, iChic. T. Sem.
C.C.C
C.C.C
C.C.C
50
10
175 200 75 prt 400
250 240
57
100 79 250 120 100 50
100
250 260
60 150 460
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STATISTICS 1906. |
OF CHURCHES. |
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27 |
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Bap- tisms. |
Sunday Schools. |
(2 1 |
Y.P. Soc's |
1 « § |
Name of Church Secretary. |
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Re- movls. |
Re- maining. |
Rela- tive. |
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1 "o 6 2: |
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5 2 0 13 |
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17 |
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8 1 |
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20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
33 |
34 |
35 |
36 |
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7 1 |
2 i |
5 7 1 |
2 i |
40 9 13 |
50 22 34 |
90 31 47 |
2 |
6 1 |
6 1 |
4 |
6 5 |
13 8 4 |
100 50 30 |
60 30 15 |
6 |
$50.00 5.00 |
12 23 |
8 |
20 23 |
$ 5.00 |
W. P. Godfrey Henry A. Mouzes . . . Miss M. Pinckney. . . |
1 2 |
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14 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
39 |
70 |
109 |
13 |
10 |
7 |
17 |
2 |
10 |
60 |
45 |
20 |
15 |
35 |
J. W. Jewett |
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2 |
2 |
1 |
51 |
1 |
31 |
6 |
50 |
40 |
22.48 |
W |
g. |
B. |
174.00 |
Mrs. C. W .Bigelow.. |
6 |
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3 |
1 |
9 |
47 |
56 |
2 |
22 |
3 |
8 |
14 |
82 |
60 |
16.00 |
24 |
10 |
34 |
10.00 |
Mrs. A. H. Dunlop. . |
7 |
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1 3 1 |
1 i i 3 |
2 i |
i |
5 7 26 8 10 3 |
17 17 42 35 19 5 |
22 24 68 60 43 29 8 |
1 1 3 4 |
6 7 22 4 2 |
4 |
'4 |
i |
2 U 10 7 8 7 |
20 n 50 65 53 25 |
12 io 45 45 43 20 |
n |
3.00 |
18 |
7 |
25 |
MissB. S. Anthony. Martin O'Brien Mrs. Cyrus Fisher. . . Walter R. Cranton.. Fred. R. Freeman. . Mrs. A. J. Fancy. . . |
8 Q |
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i 2 1 |
2 1 i |
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8 14 47 20 10 |
16 21 81 26 32 |
24 35 128 46 42 164 |
is 3 1 13 |
1 2 |
45 15 14 |
5 io |
1 2 4 i 2 |
1 2 9 i 12 |
u |
n 13 15 3 4 12 |
ion 72 60 12 45 75 |
65 44 8 65 |
14 |
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49 .'so 20.00 20.00 |
17 26 |
io 2 |
27 28 |
29.96 20.00 |
T. W. Johnston J. W. Flewwelling. . E. C. Burpee Victor J. Cox T. D. Dennis |
15 16 17 18 |
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20 |
6 |
26 |
19 |
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228
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
QUEBEC-
NAME OF CHURCH
NAME OF MINISTER.
Ayer's Flat, Boynton
Brigham
South Ridge
Cowansville
East Famham ....
Danville
Durham (Ulverton)..
Eaton
Franklin Centre
Fitch Bay
Brown's Hill
Crystal Lake
Granby
Melbourne
Montreal, Zion
" Emmanuel. . . .
" Calvary
" Westmount. . .
•• Pt. St. Charles
" Amherst Park
Sherbrooke
Stanstead South ....
St. Andrews
Waterville
Eustis
Charles S. Pedley, B.A James J. Hutchinson . .
W. H. Watson.
1880 1906
A. F. Pollock
R. G. Watt, B.D.
John W. Pate.
J. L. Alexander, B.D..
R. G. Watt, B.D
H. G. Rice, B.A., B.D.
Hugh Pedley, B.A
E. H. Tippett, B.A.... Wm. Mimroe
A. W. Main
W. J. Davey
G. Ellery Read
Wm. R. Harvey
B. W. Day
G. H. Craik, B.A
1897 1897
1905 1904
WHERE TRAINED
Reug- I
lOl'S
Servi
CES.
1897 1897 1901 1877 1896
issi
1893 1900 1862 1892
1901 1900
1904 1900 1901 1900 1902
1905
C.C.C.
Glasgow.
C.C.C. and Oberlin... C.C.C. and Oberlin...
East Keswick, Eng
1905 1905 1898 1892
C.C.C. and Chicago... C.C.C. and OberUn... C.C.C. and McGiU. . . . C.C.C. and McGiU.... Meth. Col., Montreal. C.C.C. and McGiU. . . .
Bangor
Student C.C.C
C.C.C
C.C.C
C.C.C
C.C.C. and 'McGill . . . .
^C
340 200
200
600 250 500 800 400 350 500
73 385 280
90 500
5993
Church
Addi- tions
9 10
Re- movals.
n pq
72
CHURCHES IN WESTERN PROVINCES—
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WHERE TRAINED |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
|
1 |
Brandon, Man |
T. A. Munro, B.A |
1900 |
1901 |
C.C.C. and McGill |
1 |
250 |
18 |
5 |
1 |
I |
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? |
Highland Park, Alta. : Lewisville, Alta |
B. T. Person |
1905 |
1898 |
1 |
110 |
3 |
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?, |
G. A. Sanden |
1901 |
1896 |
Chicago Seminary |
300 |
8 |
3 |
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4 |
Victoria, B.C |
H. A. Carson, B.A. . . . |
1904 |
1905 |
C.C.C. and McGill |
300 |
6 |
6 |
1 |
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S |
Wetaskiwin |
1901 |
1896 |
Chicago Seminary |
3 |
800 |
24 |
3 |
i 2 |
3 11 |
2 2 |
i |
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1760 |
56 |
14 |
i |
STATISTICS OF CHURCHES.
Table No. 1.
229
Membership.
Remain- ing.
17
Rela tive.
18
19
Sunday Schools.
20
22
23
24
Young People's Societies.
Bap- tisms.
32
NAME OF
CHURCH
SECRETARY.
Mrs. J. F. McCoy. T. Smith
34
32
18
F. E. Draper.
149 38
123 48
54.00 16.00
60.00
James Riddle
Miss Lou R. Mountain
15
30
73.00
Mrs. Otis Brown.
214 95
170
338
190 99
193 73
210 86 33
100
80
52
183
101
190
130
237
86
85
98
54
90
44 30
142 89
130 72
166 55 65 70 19 60
125.00
52.00
296.00
125.00
158.00
73.00
190.00
73.00
103.00
46.00
85.00
75.00
85.00 32.00 100.00
'64!66 33.00 63.00 13.00 58.00
J. G. Fuller
John Alexander
W. W. Brewis,203Pr.A A.R.Grafton 100 St. F. G.McGarry,208 A. St.A W.D.Lighthall M'y Av. M.E.Pritchard.lSO Con W. Parker, 1099Hunt'y
A. S. Kurd, K.C
J.M.Baxter.Der. L., Vt
W. R. Hibbard
Lars Larson
1672 1093
$1483.00 267 112 379
38 $646.00
87
91
Table No. 1.
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Membership. |
Sunday Schools. |
Young People's Societies . |
Bap- nsMs. |
NAME OF CHURCH SECRETARY. |
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Remain- ing. |
Rela- tive. |
1 0 ■d 2 V |
"3 § |
u s < 2 V |
s .a 0 v ■s 1-1 |
•3 >> § |
US S 1 |
2 it a «j < |
3 {2 |
i M U 0 ■s 1 |
•d V 1 V § |
12 |
S "3 |
3 |
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1 15 |
n 1 16 |
1 |
1 18 |
i |
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17 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
33 |
34 |
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42 14 13 24 25 |
32 15 16 38 22 |
74 29 29 62 47 |
12 |
75 |
53 |
12 |
83.00 |
16 |
20 |
36 |
1 |
40.00 |
1 |
1 3 3 3 5 |
2 3 |
J. B. Wilson, Brandon E. Norderen. H'd Park |
1 2 |
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3 G. Budenberg, Lewil'le 3 L.A.Campbell, Victoria 5 C. Eliason. Wetask'w'n |
3 |
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|
11 |
99 |
67 |
162.00 |
18 22 |
10 |
28 22 |
4 5 10 |
54.00 35.00 |
4 5 |
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|
241 |
23 |
174 |
120 |
12 |
$245.00 |
56 |
30 |
86 |
$129.00 |
1 |
12 |
13 |
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230
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
ONTARIO -
NAME OF CHURCH
1 Alton
2,BarTie. .. Belwood.
Bowman ville
Brantford
Burford..
Churchill
Cobourg
Coldsprings
Dalston
Edgar
Etnbro
Fergus
Forest (Central)
Forest (Lake Shore). .
Frome
Garafraxa
Georgetown
Guelph
Hamilton (First)
Hamilton (Immanuel Howick.
NAME OF MINISTER.
A. R. Schrag. J. W. Pierce..
Humber Summit
Kincardine
Kingston (First)
Kingston (Bethel)... Kingston (Calvary).
Lanark
Listowel .
4
5
6
7
8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 London (First) ....
31 London, (Southern)..
32 Maxville
St. Elmo
Bloomington
33 Middleville
34 Hopetown
35 Rosetta
36 New Durham
37 North Erin
38iOttawa (First)
39 Ottawa, Wei. Zion. . .
40 Pine Grove
4l'Plympton
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
Wm. Hopkins
F. B. Harrison, B.A..
Thos. Leggette
R. J. Drysdale
Albert Margrett
Albert Margrett
C.C. Claris
C.C. Claris
W. T. Gunn, M.A.,B.D
Supply
Vacant
W. H. L. Marshall
Vacant
R. J. Drysdale
P. C. L. Harris.. .
J. K. Unsworth, B.A. .
1885 1894 1897 1901 1891 1891 1902 1902 1892
1902
1901 1894 1887
A. B. Sherk
Rev, Dr. McLennon.
G. A. MacKenzie
T. B. Windross
D. C. Mcintosh, B.D.
D. S. Hamilton, B.A.
W. H. A. Claris
James T. Daley, B.A.
A. Macaulay. . . Thos. Leggette.
Paris
Ren wick
Rugby
Scotland
Speedside
St. Catharines
Stratford
Tilbury
Toronto, Zion
Toronto, Bond St
Toronto, Northern. . .
Toronto, Western
Toronto, Olivet
Toronto, Broadview. Toronto, Parkdale . . Warwick Ebenezer. . ,
Warwick, Zion
Watford
Wingham
Woodstock
Wm. Mcintosh. . . Harold I. Horsey.
A. B. Sherk
Vacant
B. B. Williams. . .
C. C. Claris. Vacant
1904 1903 1902 1902 1904 1904 1904 1904 1898
WHERE TRAINED
Queen's and C.C.C. . Student C.C.C
Elmfield and Nott'g'm Amherst and Yale . . . .
C.C.C. Knox...,
Private
Private
C.C.C. Oberlin . . C.C.C, Oberlin . C.C.C, McGill..
1905 Toronto Bible School..
1902 1903 1900
C.C.C, Knox.
W. S. Stranahan 1898 1905
1861
1893 1904 1886
C.C.C, McGill
N. W. Univ., Theo. In.
Supply, Oberlin. Supply
1905 1905 1895
1894 1901 1872 1893 1891 1899
1894 i897
1874 1896 1861
1902
W. W. Smith
J. P. Gerrie, B.A....
Vacant
E. D. Silcox
J. B. Silcox
T. B. Hyde
J. W. Pedley, B.A. . H. F. Thomas, M.A. W. E. Gilroy, B.A. . W. Herald Stacey...
M. Kelly. M. Kelly.
Josephus L. Skerrit.
1865 1888
1873 1876 1890 1885 1893 1900
1906 1902
1894 1896
1904 1904 1904
Private .
Oberlin .
Relig- ious
Servi- ces.
C.C.C, McGill
C C.C c!c'.c!,"Union,'N.Y.'
C.C.C.
C.C.C... Oberlin .
1903 1905
1890 1905
1896 1896
1904 1905 1893 1899 1898 1900
1904 1904
1905
CCC, McGill.
C.C.C
C.C.C
Northfield & Chicago. C.C.C
Knox. Col. & Tor. Un, Toronto & Victoria Un, Chicago Sc. of Science
150 200
100
100 150 200 150
62 275 425
40 150
350
90
200
500 250
150
400 220
C.C.C. C.C.C.
Glasgow, Edin., Lon'n.
350 "266
300 225
Church
Addi- tions
32
450 404 35 106
170 300
50 225 120
1500
800 500 700 150
80
216
. .2
10
. . 11043 320 129 45 79 14 96
STATISTICS OF CHURCHES.
231
Table No. 1
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Membership. |
Sunday Schools. Young People's Societies. |
Bap- tisms. |
NAME OF CHURCH SECRETARY. |
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Remain- ing. |
Rela- tive. |
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i a 0 i2 a o |
V u a « •a R i> bt rt w V > < |
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I |
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50 153 58 75 93 92 38 129 204 26 83 |
2 i 29 8 2 65 4 |
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19 80 |
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30 65 30 16 35 39 |
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50 51 83 146 65 |
98 84 120 130 227 105 |
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55 40 50 93 185 125 |
42 35 32 79 137 100 |
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54.00 40.00 24.00 110.00 239.00 125.00 |
39 9 20 30 23 25 |
9 10 'ii 10 |
48 19 20 30 34 35 |
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65 53 80 |
96 83 115 |
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140 140 90 |
118 100 63 |
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14 |
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130 93 124 |
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74 99 40 |
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21 13 12 8 11 |
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21 15 18 8 12 |
2 |
13 24 60 15 77 |
00 00 00 00 00 |
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F. A. Chapman 91 Dns. N. Imrie, 697 King st. Peter F. McEwen |
30 .^1 |
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25 38 |
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59 |
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104 77 12 22 |
163 120 17 32 90 |
4 23 2 |
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80 171 35 38 60 |
68 130 20 26 50 |
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121.00 155.00 22.00 26.00 49.00 |
21 30 |
8 10 |
29 40 |
2 8 |
50 27 |
00 00 |
0 3 |
6 18 |
6 21 |
W. T. Lamb, Gilmour H. E. Trabum, 4th Av. Mrs. W. Jeffrey, W'b'g J. K. Cairns, Camlachie P. Buckley |
38 39 40 |
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66 |
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48 67 |
80 99 |
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18 110 |
15 61 |
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18 48 26 i46 |
26 80 55 100 315 285 258 177 140 45 |
20 1 ii 33 1 11 |
12 20 429 |
8 18 5 12 33 30 |
32 115 40 50 256 150 |
32 90 20 40 220 131 |
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66.00 125.00 23.00 60.00 1324.00 506.00 |
7 |
14 |
21 |
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8 3 |
12 3 |
G. S. Edgecombe Henry Burgess Wm. Freeland, St. Jos. E. D. Earle E.J.Joselin, 45 Charles D. Eccles, 20 Bellevue.. D. L. Graham, 87 H't'n J. Gregory, 100 DeGra. |
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rganize 57.00 rganize |
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3 ■ '7 8 17 4 |
3 ' S 10 17 4 |
51 52 53 |
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27 25 8 |
229 243 70 |
201 175 40 |
3 12 40 |
404.00 '46.66 |
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55 56 |
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29 |
54 50 |
2 26 |
9 9 |
60 50 |
42 30 |
1 |
21.00 28.00 |
1 |
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P. J. McCormick, W'k. Hattie Williams |
58 |
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93 |
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19 |
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5045 |
597 |
3910 |
2965 |
142 |
$4993.00 |
574 |
163 |
737 |
59 |
$855 |
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24 |
149 |
173 |
232
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW
NAME OF CHURCH
Brooklyn
Beech Meadows. ...
Chebogue
Economy
Keswick Ridge ....
Kingsport
Liverpool
Lower Selmah
Noel
South Maitland
Margaree
Milton
Pleasant River .... Baker's Settlement
Hemford
St. .Tohn
Sheffield
Truro
Yarmouth
1809 1862 1766
Church Property.
1826 1760 1761 1875 1875 1875 1826 1854 1846 1906 1877 1844 1763 1891 1848
••3 li
■Hr!
Wood . . Wood. .
No repo Wood.
Brick. . . Wood..
Stone.
300
200
200
rt
300
300
300
120
300
200
300
400
150
200
250
420
200
200
350
Yes. Yes!
Yes. Yes'.
Yes. Yes'. Yes'.
Yes.
Yes. Yes!
Yes.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes,
Yes.
Yes. Yes!
ni-i .2>> rt rt
M a v o
II
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si
Yes.
Yes. Yes!
Yes.
4000 1000 1000
3000 3000 4000 1000 1500 1500 3500 4000 1800 1600 1500
10000 3000 1200
18000
$1200 1000 1600
1200 750
500
1000
800
1500 2500
„ 3
o
s
$ 5200 2000 2600
4400 3750 4000 1000 1500 1500 4000 5000 2600 1600 1500
10000 8000 1200
20500
$80050
STATISTICS OF CHURCHES.
233
BRUNSWICK— Table No. 2.
Church Finances.
|
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1 I .a a. s "3 u 0 |
a 0 'a |
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1 d d |
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0 1 ii *> ! |
1 |
|
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16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
|
$ 200 |
$389.00 284.00 968.00 |
$7.00 4.50 5.00 |
$7.10 6.56 5.00 |
$12.50 18.00 10.00 |
$29.50 12.00 |
$93.00 30.00 12.00 |
$50.00 46.00 |
$60.00 20.00 |
$ 648.10 421.06 1000.00 |
1 2 3 4 5 |
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|
775.91 495.36 960.00 132.50 |
8.00 6.15 5.00 4.50 |
8.00 4.25 3.00 |
7.30 6.00 16.56 7.50 16.00 10.00 7.00 9.96 1.00 2.40 16.25 32.00 11.00 25.00 |
7.50 7.70 10.00 3.15 3.85 7.50 5.00 |
50.00 12.00 26.00 22.00 12.00 24.00 i26."66 25.00 |
70.00 9.50 12.00 |
'42;66 |
926.71 540.96 1058.00 172.65 23.35 107.50 3404.00 991.00 448.65 103.00 142.79 3871.59 1070.95 777.35 2600.00 |
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350 |
200.00 100.0 , 100 .'66 i56.'66 150.00 [200.00 |
6 |
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400 |
7 |
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8 9 |
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56.00 3325.00 750.00 375.00 100.00 120.00 3668.00 900.00 725.00 2458.00 |
4.00 23.00 7.00 4.00 1.00 3.00 7.00 ' '2.06 |
16.06 1.19 1.00 2.39 25.85 25.50 |
10 11 |
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41.00 86.00 18.50 |
' '5. '66 15.00 |
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12 13 |
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125 |
14 |
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15.00 6.00 |
15 |
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16.25 38.45 8.00 |
125.57 75.00 31.35 117.00 |
6.67 |
300.00 |
16 |
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17 |
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100 |
250.00 |
18 |
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19 |
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$1275 |
$17821.66 |
234
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
QUEBEC-
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Church Property. |
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|
NAME OF |
"i |
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0 |
Ji |
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6 |
CHURCH. |
'S bc o s |
J3 d |
■B c |
•s •a |
a |
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•0 4) •1 V Pi |
3 |
3 > |
01 60 CIS 3 « > |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
|
1 |
Ayer's Flat |
1889 1873 1852 1829 1837 |
2 |
Wood.. . Brick Br. & St. Brick Wood |
450 160 400 250 200 |
Yes |
. Yes.. |
Wood.. . Brick |
Yes.. Yes.. |
Yes.. |
3500 4000 10000 8000 2000 |
1200 |
|
-> |
600 |
|||||||||||
|
1, |
2000 |
|||||||||||
|
2000 |
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|
5 6 7 |
Durham (Ulverton). . . . |
|||||||||||
|
1835 |
300 |
11 |
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Franklin Centre |
1845 |
X |
||||||||||
|
1859 1830 1837 1832 |
Wood.. . Brick.... |
200 350 350 600 |
" |
Wood . . . Wood.. . Brick |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
1500 8000 6000 20000 |
1300 |
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|
p |
2000 |
|||||||||||
|
10 |
2200 |
|||||||||||
|
11 12 13 14 |
Montreal (Zion) Montreal (Emmanuel).. Montreal (Calvary) Montreal, We.stmount. . |
|||||||||||
|
1875 |
750 |
II |
. Chur |
ch Prop |
old. |
|||||||
|
1877 |
Brick |
500 |
• t |
. Yes. |
25000 |
|||||||
|
1896 |
250 |
" |
Brick |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
25000 |
||||||
|
15 16 17 |
Montreal, Pt. St. Charle Montreal, Amherst Park Sherbrooke |
1891 |
" |
500 |
<* |
4000 |
||||||
|
[1899 |
Wood |
175 |
II |
3200 |
||||||||
|
:i835 |
Brick |
400 |
" |
Wood.. . |
Yos.. |
Yes.. |
15000 |
4500 |
||||
|
18 |
Stanstead South |
I18I6 |
Wood.. . |
250 |
" |
Wood . . . |
*' |
*' . . |
5000 |
2500 |
||
|
19 |
St. Andrews |
1838 |
Brick. |
200 |
II |
No.. |
4000 |
|||||
|
1861 |
230 |
. Yes.. |
Brick.... |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
8000 |
2000 |
|||||
CHURCHES IN WESTERN PROVINCES—
|
NAME OF CHURCH. |
•0 V N Ef 0 g |
1 m X 3 ,13 0 i |
Church Property. |
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J3 0 11 -a |
1 6 |
1 1 |
5 |
1 a |
i f |
i 3 a •-< |
3 P > |
J 3 0 1" |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
|
1 |
1889 1901 1901 1895 1898 |
1 |
Wood... |
350 |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
6000 |
|||||
|
Highland Park, Alta. . . Lewisville, Alta Victoria B C |
||||||||||||
|
3 |
1 1 1 |
Wood.. . Brick.... Wood.. . |
150 250 300 |
Yes'. ; |
Yes.. |
800 12000 1500 |
||||||
|
5 |
Wetaskiwin, Alta |
■ |
Wood . . . |
Yes.. |
800 |
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STATISTICS OF CHURCHES.
235
Table No. 2.
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Church Finances. |
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Is Si |
a &t 0 i> |
a o 1 s a 0 X |
1 .a |
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V Is a„ "3 S |
a a. |
11 |
§ 11 |
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a "3 3 U |
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1 |
O |
i2 |
a |
V a |
1" |
6 |
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14 |
15 |
16 |
7 18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
25 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
Z8 |
|
|
4700 |
14 |
50 |
87 |
600 |
$600 |
I |
||||||||
|
4600 |
878 |
8 |
7 |
893 |
287 |
7 |
||||||||
|
12000 |
1589 |
11 |
61 |
21 |
52 |
39 |
1774 |
61 |
.S |
|||||
|
10000 |
1275 |
. 27 |
18 |
44 |
28 |
175 |
26 |
1592 |
37 |
4 |
||||
|
2000 |
396 |
12 |
19 |
15 |
8 |
451 |
80 |
5 6 |
||||||
|
2800 |
891 |
'. i |
23 |
8 |
io |
934 |
523 |
450 |
7 8 |
|||||
|
10000 |
6303 |
2 99 |
95 |
91 |
151 |
3650 |
10413 |
7947 |
9 |
|||||
|
8200 |
848 |
8 10 |
46 |
21 |
27 |
8 |
1804 |
503 |
10 |
|||||
|
20000 |
^ |
50C |
) 3873 |
5 25 |
18 |
23 |
7238 |
1936 |
n |
|||||
|
6196 ; |
1 312 |
432 |
240 |
296 |
11634 |
9902 |
12 |
|||||||
|
25000 |
2592 |
8 |
141 |
160 |
223 |
6700 |
3927 |
13 |
||||||
|
25000 |
4007 |
. 22 |
30 |
10 |
43 |
4151 |
949 |
14 |
||||||
|
4000 |
1227 |
5 21 |
69 |
10 |
76 |
63 |
9 |
1480 |
163 |
150 |
15 |
|||
|
3200 |
440 |
7 |
447 |
39 |
16 |
|||||||||
|
19500 |
6705 |
5 68 |
143 |
115 |
64 |
7111 |
1660 |
17 |
||||||
|
7500 |
1885 |
5 13 |
20 |
75 |
10 |
200 |
25 |
2233 |
415 |
18 |
||||
|
4000 |
518 |
. 20 |
28 |
230 |
53 |
17 |
866 |
47 |
19 |
|||||
|
10000 |
1200 |
8 40 |
35 |
30 |
12 |
65 |
1390 |
161 |
, |
20 |
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|
$172500 |
$450( |
) |
61111 |
Table No. 2.
|
II 11 r |
Church Finances. |
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1i |
d o 'S |
1 lU a o K |
a 1 1 |
i 0 « fl <s a o |
is 0-3 '< 9 0) o O |
•4-> g 1 V a • n ^ •He V B g^ O |
01 (U u u a M |
0 |
13 ii |
6 |
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|
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
25 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
||||
|
6000 '800 12000 2300 |
ioo 400 700 |
831 190 200 1408 900 |
50 io 24 10 |
ii 12 10 |
15 io |
1208 2000 |
24 60 15 |
2128 202 210 2814 1035 |
$700 700 350 |
1 2 3 4 5 |
236
CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK.
ONTARIO—
|
NAME OF CHURCH |
T3 N 1 tt V |
a '3 n u U i |
Church Property. |
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|
6 |
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i •B "0 6 |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
|
1 |
Alton |
1839 1882 1868 1839 1834 1835 1838 1835 1835 1894 1841 1872 1869 1864 1884 1819 1856 1842 1835 1835 1893 |
Brick Wood.. . W" ... Brick.... Wood. . . Brick Stone.... Brick.'. ". '. Wood.. . |
250 250 200 250 450 200 150 350 200 200 250 450 200 225 160 200 200 250 400 500 160 |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
Brick. |
$2500 4000 |
$2000 |
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4 |
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8066 17000 2000 1000 4000 2500 2000 2500 12000 200 3500 |
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■) |
i< |
|||||||||||
|
6 |
,, • ■ |
Brick.... |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
1500 |
|||||||
|
7 |
Churchill |
|||||||||||
|
8 |
•' :: |
Brick.... Wood. . . |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
1200 |
|||||||
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1200 |
|||||||||||
|
10 |
||||||||||||
|
1 1 |
Hdgar |
No... |
Brick |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
2000 |
||||||
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2000 |
|||||||||||
|
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Fergus |
|||||||||||
|
14 |
Forest (Central) Forest (Lake Shore) |
Yes.. |
||||||||||
|
1 S |
||||||||||||
|
16 |
:/.: |
Brick.... |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
3500 1500 9000 10000 17000 2500 |
1600 |
||||||
|
17 |
Garafraxa |
1500 |
||||||||||
|
18 |
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|
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Guelph |
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|
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Hamilton (First) Hamilton (Immanuel).. |
<• |
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|
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||||||||||||
|
?^ |
Humber Summit |
1853 1853 1849 1874 1889 1853 |
Wood . . . Stone.... Brick. . . . Wood.. . Stone, . . . |
150 250 500 400 175 260 |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
400 900 |
|||||
|
'>4 |
800 |
|||||||||||
|
?S |
Kingston (First) Kingston (Bethel)) Kingston, (Calvary). . . . Lanark |
,, ■ • |
Jan's hse |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
|||||||
|
?6 |
8000 1200 6500 |
|||||||||||
|
?7 |
<< |
|||||||||||
|
78 |
" . . |
Wood.. . |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
1000 |
|||||||
|
?<) |
||||||||||||
|
"^O |
London (First) London (Southern) Maxville |
1837 1891 1835 1852 1852 1852 1852 |
Brick. . . . B. & W.': Stone.... Wood.. . Brick |
775 400 250 200 150 150 200 |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
20000 7000 3000 5400 3000 |
|||||
|
■^1 |
||||||||||||
|
3? |
<: |
Wood.. . |
Yes.. |
Yes.. \ |
1500 |
|||||||
|
3^ |
Middleville |
|||||||||||
|
34 |
1000 |
|||||||||||
|
SS |
Rosetta |
J |
||||||||||
|
'^6 |
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|
^^ |
North Erin |
|||||||||||
|
•^8 |
Ottawa (First) |
1860 1896 1841 1891 1848 |
Brick. . . . Wood. .. Brick Wood.. . Brick. . . . |
400 225 200 180 500 |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
Brick |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
17000 6000 2000 800 13000 |
3000 |
|
|
"»<) |
Ottawa (Welcome Zion) |
|||||||||||
|
40 |
,, ■ • |
Wood... |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
800 |
|||||||
|
41 |
Plympton |
|||||||||||
|
4? |
Paris |
" . . |
Brick |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
4000 |
||||||
|
4^ |
||||||||||||
|
44 |
Rugby |
1844 1835 1845 1874 |
Wood.. . Stone... ^ Wood.. . Brick Wood.. . Brick Stone. . . . Brick. . . . Wood . . . Brick |
200 200 350 200 300 125 700 1400 600 800 700 500 325 150 200 300 |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
700 2500 |
|||||
|
4S |
Scotland |
|||||||||||
|
46 |
" :: |
Brick.... Wood.. . Brick |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
||||||||
|
47 |
St. Catharines |
800 12000 950 35000 70000 30000 32000 40000 10000 8000 |
1200 |
|||||||||
|
48 |
Stratford |
1844| 1 1861 1 1834 1 1848 1 18671 1 1875' I |
1500 |
|||||||||
|
49 |
Tilbury |
|||||||||||
|
SO |
Toronto (Zion) Toronto, (Bond St.).. . . Toronto, (Northern).... Toronto, (Western) .... Toronto, (Olivet) Toronto, (Broadview).. Toronto, (Parkdale).. . . Warwick (Ebenezer) . . . Warwick (Zion) Watford |
<■ |
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SI |
•> |
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|
s? |
•• |
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S"? |
■• |
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|
S4 |
1876 1877 1883 1859 1839 1869 |
<< |
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|
ss |
•I |
|||||||||||
|
S6 |
i< |
|||||||||||
|
S7 |
It |
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|
S8 |
,1 |
1000 2000 |
||||||||||
|
SO |
" . . |
Wood . . . |
Yes.. |
Yes.. |
11500 |
|||||||
|
60 |
||||||||||||
|
61 |
1886 |
1 |
Stone.... |
550 |
II |
18000 |
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STATISTICS OF CHURCHES.
237
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Table No. 2. |
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Church Finances. |
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u <» a °2 |
Si |
•s . |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 "o > a ■ (U 3 |
T3 P "3 fc |
n 3 i |
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it |
il |
Urn •^ 0 Up, |
i |
1 |
a 0 |
0) |
.10 ea a |
0 3 Co. ^ 5 U 0 |
a Si |
a; |
0 0 t |
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|
1" |
S" |
OPh |
0 |
0 |
1 |
£■■5 |
0*^ |
0 |
0 a M |
1) |
i^ |
6 |
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|
H |
< |
hJ |
P3 |
0 |
X |
Ph |
0 |
0 |
H |
Q |
< |
iz; |
||||
|
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
2S |
||
|
$4500 |
575 |
558 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
45 |
613 |
211 $: |
>00 |
1 |
||||||
|
4000 |
546 |
5 |
29 |
554 |
1134 |
' '99 |
50 |
2 3 4 |
||||||||
|
8066 |
483 |
'9 |
24 |
i669 |
iiii |
i6ii |
||||||||||
|
17000 |
2143 |
63 |
4i |
iii |
2002 |
'24:2 |
5 |
|||||||||
|
3500 |
491 |
4 |
32 |
14 |
541 |
45 |
6 |
|||||||||
|
1000 |
335 |
10 |
5 |
' '56 |
400 |
■ '7i |
7 |
|||||||||
|
5200 |
1690 |
i |
23 |
25 |
i6 |
10 |
1763 |
521 |
iio |
8 |
||||||
|
3700 |
972 |
18 |
980 |
391 |
9 |
|||||||||||
|
2000 |
170 |
i |
171 |
6 |
10 |
|||||||||||
|
4500 |
393 |
12 |
ii |
i6 |
" '96 |
520 |
72 |
11 |
||||||||
|
15000 |
!66c |
1312 |
6 |
29 |
' "i |
1350 |
i697 |
12 |
||||||||
|
200 |
113 |
6 |
4 |
'7 |
i |
.... |
2 |
157 |
69 |
13 |
||||||
|
3500 |
732 |
'5 |
2 |
14 |
12 |
24 |
3 |
794 |
137 |
'.. 14 |
||||||
|
IS |
||||||||||||||||
|
5166 |
564 |
6 |
' '44 |
' '6i4 |
iii |
16 |
||||||||||
|
3000 |
381 |
'7 |
■7* |
is |
413 |
7 |
17 |
|||||||||
|
9000 |
581 |
"5 |
5 |
17 |
is |
466 |
' 'i6 |
1116 |
'i56 |
18 |
||||||
|
10000 |
3059 |
5 |
6 |
27 |
24 |
168 |
137 |
3366 |
632 |
19 |
||||||
|
17000 |
2448 |
15 |
22 |
71 |
123 |
164 |
27 |
iii |
5171 |
786 |
20 |
|||||
|
2500 |
i6c |
) 800 |
10 |
25 |
1000 |
1000 |
21 22 |
|||||||||
|
400 |
'266 |
'5 |
'5 |
'2i6 |
23 |
|||||||||||
|
1700 |
362 |
15 |
i6 |
■ '9 |
416 |
24 25 |
||||||||||
|
8066 |
iiii |
"7 |
is |
22 |
' '2i |
' '29 |
iiii |
' 'i9 |
26 |
|||||||
|
1200 |
668 |
il |
2 |
17 |
16 |
33 |
800 |
207 |
27 |
|||||||
|
7500 |
978 |
6 |
23 |
32 |
19 |
i6 |
18 |
1106 |
101 |
28 29 |
||||||
|
26666 |
327. |
> 3556 |
"5 |
6 |
"7 |
'7 |
i4 |
' '26 |
ieii |
ii86 |
30 |
|||||
|
7000 |
14( |
) 1447 |
5 |
13 |
22 |
' '21 |
9 |
1516 |
iiie |
31 |
||||||
|
4500 |
886 |
13 |
52 |
67 |
135 |
87 |
376 |
60 |
1676 |
' '9i |
32 33 |
|||||
|
6466 |
866 |
8 |
40 |
'4 |
ii' |
'947 |
263 |
34 35 |
||||||||
|
3666 |
'595 |
'5 |
'2 |
'2 |
ii |
56 |
' 96 |
'879 |
ii? |
36 37 |
||||||
|
26666 |
59i7 |
io |
72 |
135 |
169 |
'eis |
696i |
'656 |
38 |
|||||||
|
6000 |
66( |
) 1366 |
9 |
15 |
1 |
2i |
427 |
1842 |
788 |
>i6 |
39 |
|||||
|
2800 |
104 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
' '2 |
124 |
' ii |
40 |
||||||||
|
800 |
242 |
6 |
8 |
256 |
12 |
41 |
||||||||||
|
17000 |
1482 |
'2 |
21 |
16 |
ie |
1560 |
515 |
42 43 |
||||||||
|
'766 |
'359 |
i |
ii |
ii |
ii |
'i57 |
' 'i9 |
44 |
||||||||
|
2500 |
729 |
8 |
14 |
35 |
66 |
'22i |
' 'ii |
1100 |
126 |
45 46 |
||||||
|
2666 |
866 |
'sii |
i |
6 |
6 |
• -j |
"3 |
556 |
'i86 |
47 |
||||||
|
13500 |
32. |
5 3231 |
5 |
20 |
15 |
3281 |
2347 |
256 |
48 |
|||||||
|
950 |
220 |
2 |
'4 |
12 |
9 |
ii' ' |
260 |
140 |
— |
49 |
||||||
|
35000 |
666( |
) 1656 |
15 |
22 |
20 |
i7 |
4150 |
5900 |
2248 |
50 |
||||||
|
70000 |
2476 |
5 9560 |
25 |
40 |
88 |
' 'so |
9763 |
2168 |
51 |
|||||||
|
30000 |
7682 |
10 |
43 |
163 |
564 |
389 |
' '46 |
20 |
8790 |
ii56 |
52 |
|||||
|
32000 |
395 |
2 11983 |
10 |
52 |
20 |
58 |
12133 |
440 i |
53 |
|||||||
|
40000 |
. 17082 |
'5 |
45 |
si |
17213 |
9753 |
54 |
|||||||||
|
10000 |
1469 |
3 |
i |
11 |
i9 |
33 |
4023 |
308 |
55 |
|||||||
|
8000 |
217 |
3 316 |
14 |
18 |
348 |
566 |
56 57 |
|||||||||
|
i666 |
'. '366 |
'3 |
"9 |
'i66 |
'i99 |
'i44 |
58 |
|||||||||
|
3500 |
677 |
16 |
4 |
8 |
' '65 |
795 |
iei |
59 60 |
||||||||
|
18666 |
226 |
3 1666 |
' '55 |
i655 |
i655 |
61 |
||||||||||
|
$492150 |
$4790 |
i |
112884 |
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S BRONZE MEDALS 18 DIPLOMAS AWARDED FOR SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE
GURD'S
Motto: "THE BEST"
Gurd's
CELEBRATED
GINGER ALE
Gurd's
SARSAPARILLA LEMONADE SCOTCH KOLA PLAIN SODA
Gurd's
SWEET SODA LEMON SODA ORANGE SODA CREAM SODA
Gurd's
APPLE NECTAR CHAMPAGNE
CIDER GINGER BEER
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POTASH
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CHOICE FRUIT SYRUPS in ALL FLAVORS. Etc. AND "CALEDONIA" SALINE, SULPHUR, GAS, DUNCAN
C HARLES GURD & CO.
Leading Canadian Manufacturers of Aerated Waters
MONTREAL, P. Q.
AN OPEN LETTER
To Our Friends and Patrons :
We take this opportunit}' of thank- ing' you for your constant and Hberal patronage for the past forty years. On the I St of May, 1866, we entered the field with the object of assuming the lead in our line qf business, and by reason of constant attention and use of the "best" of ingredients, purifiers, machinery
and formulae we have succeeded in
earning the merit and appreciation of a large clientele. We have relaxed no efforts in our endeavors to keep our business continually in a thoroughly "up-to-date" condition. The business has been under the direct manag'ement of Mr. Charles Gurd for over forty years. Benefiting by this long experience we have been enabled to secure the very best results of manufacture. No expense has been spared in securing the highest class of ma- chinery and other equipments for our new factory, and we believe the re- sult gives us the largest accommo- dation and most approved facilities for the manufacture of Aerated Wateis on the continent.
In purchasing please see that
OUR LABEL LS ON EVERY BOTTLE,
as this is a guarantee against inferior substitutes.
With appreciation of your favors, Respectfully yours, CHARLES GURD & CO.
It has been our aim from the beginning to supply Canadian consumers with an article of Canadian Manufacture, equal to, if not better than, anything imported.
WE HAVE SUCCEEDED
THE...
Harry Webb Catering Co.
LIMITED
Caterers and Manufacturing Confectioners
Wedding Cakes, Wedding Cake Goods Always in Stock . . . .
We ship Wedding Cakes to all parts of the Dominion. Wedding Breakfasts, Dinners, Receptions, Banquets, etc.. Our Specialties.
Priceretc^ HARRY WEBB, 447 Yonge St., Toronto
Alex. Millard
THE LEADING UNDERTAKER
359 Yonge Street TORONTO
Telephone Main 679
Private Mortuary
G. P. FREELAND, W. T. FREELAND,
Photographer. Artist.
-The-
Freeland Studio
of
Art and Photography
Toronto
TELEPHONE, 436 YONGE STREET,
Main 6887. 0pp. Carlton St.
THE CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK
THE YEAR BOOK is published annually and contains all reports of the Unions, Societies, Colleges, miscellaneous information, portraits and illustrations, &c. About 250 pages, 8vo, on good paper, substantially bound in paper board.
THE PRICE IS ONLY 25 CENTS PER COPY SENT POST FREE TO ANY PART of the DOMINION EVERY CHURCH MEMBER SHOULD HAVE A COPY
Send your orders to C. J. Copp, M.D., Treasurer, 96 Wellesley Street, Toronto, or to the office of The Canadian Congregationalist, 166 Queen Street East, Toronto.
H. W. BARKER, HENRY O'HARA,
Secretary Congregational President Congregational
Publishing Co., Traders' Bank, Publishing Co., 30 Toronto St.,
Riverdale, Toronto Toronto
Moulton College,
TORONTO
Academic Department of McMaster University
Building and Equipment
The fine residence of the late Hon. Wm. McMaster, enlarged and adapted to the purposes of" a Girls' School. Good equip- ment for the various courses of study.
Location
One block east of Yonge Street on north side of Bloor Street. Near centre of city.
Character and Aim
The College is designed to be, in the highest sense, a Christian school of learning.
Courses of Study
Matriculation Course, Classical Course, English Course, Modern Language Course, Preparatory Department, Primary Department, Art Course, Music Course, Domestic Science Course.
WRITE FOR CALENDAR DAY PUPILS RESIDENT PUPILS
E. A. HARDY, B.A., Principal MISS CHARLOTTE THRALL Vice-Principal
Music Department
under direction of
A. S. VOGT.
Mus. Doc.
Original Charter 1854
THE
Home Bank
OF Canada
In June, 1906, The Home Bank paid a dividend at the rate of six per cent per annum after five month's operations as a chartered bank. The present management ot "The Home" has had twenty-eig'ht years' experience in banking*. The original charter dates from 1854 through The Toronto Savings Bank and The Home Savings and Loan Co.
General Banking Transacted. Savings Accounts Solicited.
One dollar starts a Savings Account at any branch of The Home Bank of Canada. Interest at chartered bank rate paid depositor, or added to account twice a year.
HEAD OFFICE AND TORONTO BRANCH :
8 KING STREET WEST
City Branches open from 7 to 9 o'clock Saturday nights.
78 CHURCH STREET Cor. QUEEN AND BATHURST STS.
BRANCHES :
Alliston, Bro^vrvsvlIIe. La\vrer\ce. St. TKomas.
SKedden. Walkerville, Ferrvl«. B.C.
1 otal Abstainers
All total abstainers should bear in mind the fact that they should and can g-et life insurance on much better terms than non- abstainers. The Equity Life Assurance Company of Canada guarantees them much better terms than any other company. Ask for rates for 14-pay life policies. ::;::::
H. SUTHERLAND
PRESIDENT
MAIL BUILDING, TORONTO
F. J. SMITH
A. D. PARKER
W. B. UNSWORTH
F. J. Smith & Co.
ESTATE & ^
FINANCIAI.
AGENTS
)C
Established 1885 Telq>hone MAIN 1259
61 Victoria Street
TORONTO
Largest Bedstead Makers
IN THE DOMINION
The finest spring-s are our Cuba and New Dominion guaranteed for fourteen years of ordinary use ; will replace any parts giving out in this time. Geo. Gale & Sons, Limited, Birming- ham, England, are carrying on a very similar business successfully there. Do not fail to ask for our springs and bedsteads, and you cer- tainly will be well pleased.
We have over one hundred and fifty pat- terns in brass, brass and iron, and iron bedsteads, cribs, twin bedsteads, cots, etc., to select from. In our brass bedsteads we have the best skilled English help, so that lac- quering as good as any done in the world can be depended upon. We fur- nish spring beds on wood frames, or on iron or all- steel frames with tubular sides, a very fine thing indeed in steel frames.
Geo, Gate & Sons,
a.nd Upper Dea.n St.,
Birmingham, Eng.
Waterville, P.Q,
The ^^
Colonial Investment and Loan Company
Authorised Capital ----- $5,000,000.00
Assets over - 3,600,000.00
Contingent Reserve Fund - - - 100,000.00
issued for terms of five and ten years. Interest payable semi-annually.
LosLns xnade on atpproved R^eal Esta^te.
DIRECTORS :
Geo. H. Gooderham President
Arthur J. Jackson, General Manager - ( Vice-
Henry O'Hara / Presidents
James H. Mitchell - . . Secretary
Randolph Macdonald
HeaLd Office - - - TOKONTO, Ont.
49 Wellington Street East.
THE.
■'^m
9OAL.
i^KlNGSTEASj^
Best Quality
Coals Wood
AT LOl^EST PRICES
LIST OF OFFICES:
3 KIBIG STREET EAST -
413 YONGE STREET 576 QUEEN STREET WEST 415 SPADINA AVENUE 202 WELLESLEY STREET ESPLANADE EAST ESPLANADE EAST - BATHURST STREET - PAPE AVENUE - YONGE STREET - LANSDOWNE AVENUE -
- - - TORONTO
793 YONGE STREET
1368 QUEEN STREET WEST
306 QUEEN STREET EAST
752 QUEEN STREET EAST
Near Berkeley Street
Foot of Church Street
Opposite Front Street
At G.T.R. Crossing
- At C.P.R. Crossing
Near Dundas Street
Corner BLOOR STREET WEST and HAMBURG AVENUE
-ELMS ROGERS C!
C. GUSHING
R. H. BARRON
GUSHING &: BARRON
Notaries, Commissioners and Conveyancers
Issuers of Marriage Licenses
1 1 2 St. James St. MONTREAL
Henry (XHara. H. R. O'Har^ W. J. O'HAm
W. J. (XHeLra., Resident Member,
Rooms 54 and 55, Copehall Building,
London, E.C.
E O'Hara & Co.
STOCICti DEBENTURE BROKERS FINANCIAL AGENTS
Codes Used A. B. C.
Liebers
Western Union Tel.
Cloughs
Cable Address
"O'Hara, ' Toronto "(XHara," London
Members Toronto Stock Exchange
OFFICES
30 Toronto Street
Office Telephone Main 915
5 Copehall Building, London, E.C.
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Sun Life
ASSURANCE CO.
OF CANADA
HEAD OFFICE. - MONTREAL 1905 FIGURES
Assurances issued and paid for in cash .... $18j612)056.51
Increase over 1904 iJ,70O,152.27
Cash Income ". 5,717,492.23
Increase over 1904 1,155,556.04
Assets as at 3 l»t December 21,309,384.82
Increase over 1904 3,457,623.90
Surplus earned during 1905 1,344,371.80
Of which there v^as distributed to policyholders
entitled to participate that year 166,578.30
And there was set aside to complete the placing ■of all policies on the 3^ per cent, standard
(although the law allows the companies until
1915 to do this) 616,541.35
Surplus over all Liabilities and Capital (by Hm.
Table, with 3;^ per cent, interest) , . . . 1,735,698.59
Surplus by Canadian Government Standard . . 2,921,810.37 Death Claims, Matured Endowments, Profits and
all other payments to Policyholders during
1905 1,648,285.78
Payments to Policyholders since organization . . 13,118,368.35
Life Assurance in force, December 31st. 1905 . 95,290,894.71
Increase over 1904 9,963,231.86
T. B. MAGAULAY, F.LA..
Secretary and Actuary
R. MAGAULAY,
President.
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