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SEPTEMBER 21 1897.

M NS IN NORTH AMERICA.

Pape | Before the Missionary Confer- ent ' Charlottetow., Sept. 16th, 1897,

Kev. James Simpson.

1 TING OF THE CHURCH IN CANADA. Nuva Scotia bas the dignity of being the « ‘olonial Diocese of the Church

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Ti neworthy epochs in the history of Novs Scotia must be kept In mind as one studies the history of the Church in

this province, (i) The period of the final cessive of Acadia to England by the Treaty of U recut in 1713, (ii) the founding of Halitsx ander Lord Cornwallis in 1749 and (ii) the Loyalisis’ emigration from the revoiling colonies—chiefiv New York and Massachusetts between 1775 and 17384. The tis.ory of the Church does not prop- erly gu turther back than the second of there periods, but for neariy 40 yearsbefore that, in the garrison et Annapolis, English chaplains bad ministered to the troops and tbe British and French eettlers who lived about the fort.

in 1749 the Home government offered a@ free passage, and a years sub~istence to all who would emigrate to Nova Scotia. About 2500 responded, mostly soldiers and mechanics, and were led by the newly appointed governor, and accompanied by two priests and a schoolmaster, arrived at Chebucio Bay early in July. They began at once to build houses and one of the first acts of the surveyors who planned the new town was to mark outa site for a church, which was soon erected and named St. Pauls, the mother church of the whole of Cauada. The settlement was called Halitax after the then head of the British Board »: Trade The emigrants soon increas- ed to over 4000 (exclusive of the military) and the Rev.Mr. Tutty had 50 regular com municants. During the nex: year the pop- ulatiou rose to 6000, over one half being

rofessed members of the Church ot Rigiond, and between 300 and 400 com- rounicaits. Missions were soon opened in other places, nor were the Indians neglect- ed. ‘Ihe Rev. Mr.Morcan, of Lunenburg, besides serving his three European con- gregations, English, French and German, each in theirown languages, so extended his operations that in 1764 he could report the success of his labors in bringing over the ledian savages to our holy religion havin’ vaptized several of their children. The Rev. IT Wood of Halifax also had considerable inffuence over the Indians, and 45 most of them understood only their own lirguage, the Micmac, he devoted three cr four hours aday to acquiring it, aud wit such success that in 1767 he was alle to preach in Micmac, which he did in St. Paul’s Church in the presence of the govenor, officers of the garrison and the inhabitants. On this occassion the Indiao~ +ang the Anthem before and after the service, andthe chief came forward from the rest, and kneeling down prayed for the king, the governor and the clergy. Mr. Wocd explained his prayer in English tothe whole congregation, upon whicn His Ex -ellency turned to the Indians and bowed to them.

At the request of the Governor of P. E. I. R-y. Mr. Eagleson of Cumberland ( who bad formerly been a Presbyterian minister ) spent 11 weeks here in the autumn of 1773, visiting Charlottetown, St. Peters, Stanhope, Trucadie and Mal- peque at which places he baptized 29 children and married one couple ; a num- ber of well Aisposed persons rejoicing in the Opportunity ot hearing an Anglican clergyman for the first time since the Island was made @ separate Government.

At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war in the older American colonies, there were missionaries of the S. P. G. at work among the English people of Halifax, the Swiss and Germans of Lunenburg, the New England settlers in the Annapolis Valley, the Indiaus about Port Royal gar- rison, and the Scotch-Irish and other in- habitants of Cumberland County.

With the war an entirely new element came into Nova Scotia. Among the United K mpire Loyalists were many of the foremost men of the leading colonies, who as the strife grew fiercer found themselves proscribed and banished, their property ¢ »nfiscated, and in some cases even their lives endangered. In this state of things a movement toward the settlement of Nova Scotia was begun, and by 1784, be- tween 35 and 40,000 Loyalists, it is estim- ated had found refuge in the Province With the coming of these,Halifax developed into a prosperous and buey city with signs taste in the mouth, coated mot weaken, but have tonic effect. 25 cents.

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covered that many hundreds of them had been ba «tized. Some were constant com-

| municants, and others showed a great de- | sire to receivethe truths of

Christianity. The re almost without exception Church people, who in the new communities where thev now found them- ancient

to the Book of Comzon unsettled period of the Revolution was tius the real beginning of n Nova Scotia. During the whole of it the few older missionaries were

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met, and the constant appeals for more pathetic, as the settlers, deprived of their property as they bad been, and obliged to begin the world anew, were years betore they were able to suj por: clergy themselves. —

At thistime New Brunswick formed a part of Nova Scotia a few English settle-

;ments were to be found along the banks of the St. Jokn and Miramichi Rivers, but most of the settlers were of

Puritan stock and Strongly antagonistic to the Church of England. Tbe missionary

from Annapolis had made one tour of the

settlements and had baptized a few white persons and Indians in 1769, but no far- ther steps appear to have been taken until 17383, when & great change came over the scene. The first baad of Loyalists, num- bering 3,000 souls, arrived in May of that year and landed near the month ef the river St. Joho,where the city of that name now stands, Several clergy of the Church of England accompanied the new seitlers. The refugees built more than 500 houses in ten weeks, and the Rev. 8. Cooke, from New Jersev, was appointed to the congre- gation; and when nine months afterwards hewesremored to Frederict-n he left behind him “a decent, well finished church, tho’ small, and a very respectable, well behaved congregation.” ‘I'l e com- municants had growa from 25 to 46. At St. Andrews before the advent of a mis- s'ouary, “the civil magistrate has regularly called the people togetber on Sundays and read the Church liturgy and sermons -to them since the beginaoing of the settlement. A church was built, chiefly with the Government allowance, and opened on St. Andrew’s Day, 178%, and named after that

apostle. On one occasion, in travelling a distant part of his parish, che rector was invited into a _ lonely

house, where he found a large family collected and waitiug for him. After proper examination he baptized the ancient matron of the family of 82 years, her son. of 60,two grandsons and seven great-graad children. The church in New Brunswick was indeed fortunate in having as her pioneers men who had already witnessed a good confession, who were accustomed to eudure hardships aud who combined with an Apostolic Zeal, discretion and general good sense.”

Old Canada, or what is now the pro- vinces of Quebec and Ontario, was ceded to England by the King of France in 1763. Two years later the population war® eati- mated by General Murray to be about 69,- 000 and all Roman Catholics except some 19 families in Quebec and Montreal. The first Anglican clergymen in Canada sailed up the St. Lawrence in 1759 as ctaplains of the British Forces, and whether we re- gard the military as nmiusterivg for prayer On the warships or on the Isle of Orleane, the first Anglican ee:vices began in the vicinity of Quebee three months before the memorable battle of the Piaius of Abra- bam and have been continued wi:hout interruption until the present time. Im- mediately after the conquest theS. P. G. took up the missionary work and the Rev. Dr. Brooke held regular services in Quebec during the sutsmer of 1760, Dr. Ogilvie at the same time taking charge of the con- gregation in Montreal. As there were no English churches the services took place in the various Roman Catholic Churches, which, however, were duly purified each time before being used again by their owners.

As soon as the British Government had got the colony into something like order, it sent out three French clergymen, under the expectation that an impression might be made upon the Fresch Canadians, by priests who could perform the Anglican service in the French language, and the English clergy were recalled—a movement which Coil Claus subsequently declared had been a fatal measure.

In 1767 we find Rev. Mr. Deslisle writ- ing to the S. P. G. on the sad and neglected state of the Church in Montreal. He dee clared that the R.C. priests availed them- selves greatly of this neglect, and persuaded the people that the English bad not relig- ion so much a: heart as they had, and alleging this neglect as proof of their assertion. Mr. Veyssiere, a former monk, was ordained and appointed to the charge of Three Rivers in 1766, and altho’ he apparently changed his faith from convic- tion and brought good testimonials from the commissary of his monastry,he did not turn outa success. The Bishop of N. 8. reported to the suciety in 1789 “he does us no credit and is almost uceless as a clergy- man.”

From Quebec the Rev. Mr. Montmolii ve wrote 1770 that hia congregation ‘“‘daily grows smaller, religion being little regard - ed in those parts.” Thus it will be seen that all three of these clergy were failures acd the explanation is not far ‘o seek. They tried without success to convert the Canadians, and they were un- a'le te minister to the English settlers as they did not know their language. The English inhabitants in Montreal in 1784 being weary of attending the ministry of a man they could not understand, and for other reasons entered into a liberal sub- scription for a Presbyterian Minister and

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chose Mr. Bethune, a man of liberal een- timents and vot uofriendly to our church baving regularly attended Divine Service and joined in it until be obtained thi- appointment. “Mr. Bethune’s two sons took Holy Orders and one became Bishop of Torenro, and the other Dean of Montrea', thus the Church of Eng!aod was simply in @ state of stagnation until 1777 when many refugee Luyalists from the revolted

colunies to the South of the St, Lawrence, came to Canada and with them three priests. A numberof Mohawk Indians who had served in the Royal Army a!so

settled about Montreal and Niagara, and while the white people were borrowing the Roman Catholic churches to hold service in, and writng to Kogland for funds com- plaining of the governments remissness in providing them with places of pyblic worship, these warriors erected mostly at their own expense the first Anglican Church in Canada, or what was then call- ed Canada. Later on these Mohawks were rejoined by their old pastor the Rev. John Stuart, who for some years made his head- quarters in Montreal where he visited bis Ludians in that neighborbood and in Upper Canada, where he permanently settled in 1785.

The Loyalist clergyman Mr. Doty, who paid two visits to Kigtand, laid before the S ciety the needs of Canada, and pointed out that while there were not more than 2() Canadians belonging to the Church of Kaglaad, in the whole Province they had three priests 10 minister to them while the Kaslish seulers were destitute of all spiritual ministrations. ** The paacty of French hearers “he writes’? hath eo far eet aside the performance of Divine service and preaching in Freach tnat during four years residence in Canada,the writer of the minutes doth not remember to have hear.i offour sermons in thatlanguage. Catechiz- iog, however important in its caneequences, is a practice unknown in that country; and the ead effects of so great au omission are visible—too many of the rising generations fall an easy prey to Popery, irreligion and infidelity. The evening service of the Church of England is not performed; The weekly daily praver-, Saints days are totally neglected; And the Sacrament of tiie Lord’s Supperadm nister- ed no above three or four times # year in Montreal, not so often in Quebec, and not at all at Three Rivers.

Mr. Doty was appointed to the Mission of Sorel by ths S. P. S, and found about seventy families of Loyalists in the town. Within two years the communicants in- creased from twenty-n ne to fifty and having purchased # house for fifteen guineas he had it fitted up as a church, 80 as to accommodate one hundred and twenty persone, and it was opened for service Xmas day 1795 when it;was crowded with worshippers. This brings us to the time of the first Bishop of Nova Scotia.

(To be Continued.)

The viltage blacksmith is usually 2 considered the type of good health,

‘v Even he sickens and by dies frequently in

early youth. No NY * man, not even the ef most robust, can af- ) ford to neglect his health, which is his . most precious en- dowment. The man who does so Pwill sooner or later pay the @ penalty in some serjous or fatal maledy. When a man finds that he is losing his ap- jpetite, that he passes restless nights, that he awekens in the morning unrefreshed and without ambition or mental or bodily vigor, when he is troubled with headaches, nerv- cusness or biliousness, it is time for him to take serious thonght for his health.

These symptoms are by no means trivial, and are ind cative of disorders that may lead to consumption, nervous prostration, malarial troubles or some serious blood disease. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery is the best of all medicines for men and women who suffer in this way. It re- stores the lost appetite; it gives sweet. re- freshing sleep; makes the digestion perfect, the ltver active and purifies and enriches the blood. It is the greatest of all nerve tonics. It is the ereat blood-maker and flesh-bnilder, It cures 98 per cent. of all cases of consumption, weak lungs, bron- chitis, spitting of blood, obstinate coughs and kindred ailments. It is also an unfail- ing cure for nervous exhaustion and pros- tration. At all medicine stores.

Mrs. Rebecoa F. Gardner, of Grafton, York Co., Va,, writes: ‘When I was married I weigh s pounds. T was taken sick and re- duced in health and broke out with a disease which my doetor said was eczema. I fell away to go pounds. I began using Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discorery, and now I weigh 140 pounds and am well.”

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A silver coin is usually in currency for 27 years.

Porcelain coins were for a long time current in Siam.

The notes of the Bank of England cost about 1 cent each.

The London people are computed to spend $6,000,000 daily.

The wealth of New York grows by $100, 000,000 every year.

Two hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars’ werth of gold is added to the world’s stock every week.

Only 37 per cent of the gold in cur- rency is of the proper weight.

Leather money circulated in Russia so recently as the time of Peter the Great.

The present cent is composed of 95 parts of copper, 4 of tin and 1 of zine,

Standard gcld contains’. eleven- twelfths of fine metal and one-twelfth of alloy.

It is estimated that cn an average each cent in circulation changes hands 11 times a week.

The amount 6f money actually in cir- culation in this country is estimated to be $1,600, 000,000.

At the last census a number of people described their religious faith on their census papers as dollars and cents.

On every quarter turned out the mint makes a profit of about 5 cents. On every ton of pennies produced there is a profit of over $1,200.

APOTHEGMS.

Every noble activity makes room for itself. —Emerson.

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.—-Sir T. Brown.

Those who school others oft should school themselves. —Shakespeare.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.—Bul- wer.

Loving kindness is greater than laws, and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. —~Talmud.

Who does the best his circumstances allow does well, acts nobly. Angels could do no more.— Young.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.—Col- ton.

Never shrink from doing anything your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. —Drew.

There is a maxim of unfailing truth, thet nobody ever prics into another faan’s concern but with a design to do or to be able todo him a mischief.— South,

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