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more communicants, then it may send two members; and, for every twentyfive communicants, excepting the numbers above specified, the said churches shall be entitled to one additional member.

III. The Convention shall deliberate and act in one body; but shall vote in distinct orders, when any member shall call for such a division on any one question; and, in such case, a concurrence of a majority of both orders shall be necessary to constitute a vote.

IV. A president, secretary, and standing committee, shall be chosen at every annual meeting of the Convention; and, when there is to be a session of the General Convention within the ensuing year, the requisite delegations shall be appointed to represent this state in that body; also, as long as this state shall belong to the Eastern Diocess, a delegation shall be appointed to attend each Diocesan Convention at the next preceding Annual Convention, or at some meeting specially warned for that purpose. Provided, however, that no person shall be a member of the standing committee, or shall represent this state in the General or Diocesan Convention, unless he be a regular commu nicant in the Church. Provided, also, that when the Bishop of the diocess shall be present in Convention, he shall, ex officio, be president. The Convention may, from time to time, if deemed expedient, appoint a prudential committee to superintend the prudential concerns of the Church.

V. If, at any time, a Bishop is to be elected by this Convention, the secretary, by order of the president, or standing committee, shall write to the minister, or one of the wardens of each church, at least six weeks before the election is to take place, and give notice of the time and place appointed for such election, and request, that delegates may attend the Convention for the purpose; and, in every such election, the Convention shall vote in distinct orders the clerical order shall make a nomination by ballot, and a majority of the lay delegates shall approve the appointment, before the per

shall be considered elected. VI. No alteration shall be made in

this Constitution, except in annual Convention; nor unless proposed and reduced to writing at a previous Convention.

VII. The Bishop, or standing committee, shall have power to call a special Convention, by giving six weeks previous notice to the minister, or one of the wardens of each particular church.

Parochial reports, in 1820, were from eleven churches, as follows: baptisms 99-deaths 35-whole number of com. municants 391,

Parochial reports, in 1821, from thirteen churches: baptisms 101-marriages 14-deaths 32-whole number of communicants 592. In several of the churches flourishing Sunday Schools.

Parochial reports, in 1822, from thirteen churches: baptisms 73—mar, riages 21-deaths 32-number of com municants 557.

Standing Committee for the year en suing:-The Rev. Abraham Bronson, the Rev. George Leonard, the Rey, Carlton Chase, the Rev. Joel Clapp.

Prudential Committee:-The Hon. Daniel Chipman, George Cleveland, Esq. the Hon. J. H. Hubbard.

Delegates to the General Convention:-The Rev. Abraham Bronson, the Rev. George Leonard, the Rev. Carlton Chase, the Rev. Joel ClappClerical. Joshua Isham, Esq. George Cleveland, Esq. Mr. Alexander Fleming, and Dr. Elisha Sheldon-Lay.

The Rev. Abraham Bronson was nominated by this Convention as a trustee of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, agreeably to the third article of the constitu tion of said seminary.

A communication, from the secretary of the General Convention, containing a proposed alteration of the constitution of that Convention, relative to the time of holding its triennial meetings, and investing the presiding Bishop, in certain cases, with the power to alter the place where the same shall be held, was read; and the Convention voted, that this Convention does not approve of the proposed alteration.

Resolved, That the clergy of this state he requested to preach in their several

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churches, and to solicit contributions once, or more, in each year, for the benefit of the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society in this state; and that they be requested to perform similar duties in the several vacant parishes in this state.

The Rev. Carlton Chase is appointed to preach before the next Convention, to be holden at St. Albans.

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The following Canons were passed in 1821:

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I. Of the mode of trying Clergymen accused of misdemeanor. ...Whenever the standing committee shall have reason to suspect a clergyman of this Church to be guilty of infidelity, heresy, vice, or irregularity of any kind, it shall be their duty to inquire into the circumstances of the case; and, if, upon investigation, they consider the crime worthy of notice, they shall report thereupon to the Bishop, who summon a council of his clergy, not less than three; a copy of the charge, and due notice of the time and place of trial being likewise communicated to the party accused; and, after a full and fair investigation of the subject, the Bishop may pronounce sentence in the case. And if any minister, degraded agreeable to this Canon, shall consider himself aggrieved, he shall be allowed an appeal to the House of Bishops.

II. Of the mode of forming and

organizing Churches.

Whenever any number of persons in this state shall form themselves into a regular society, of the persuasion of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in such a manner, as that they will become a body corporate according to law, and their proceedings shall be sanctioned by the Bishop of the diocess, or, in case of no Bishop, by the standing committee of the State Convention, they shall be admitted to all the rights and privileges of a regular church; subject, however, at all times, to the authority and discipline of said Bishop, or, if there is no Bishop, of said standing committee.

Convention of New-York, THE Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of New

York, met in St. Paul's Church, Troy, on Tuesday, October 15th, 1822, and closed its session, after the despatch of much interesting business, on Wednesday evening. Previous to the assembling of the Convention, there were two ordinations by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart: Mr. Richard Bury, and Mr. William L. Johnson, were admitted to the holy order of Deacons. Sermon by the Rev. William B. Lacey, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Albany.

Several sound and eloquent discourses were delivered by different members of the clergy, on different days during the week.

On Thursday morning a sermon was delivered by the Rev. William Berrian, Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, New-York, before the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Protestant Epis copal Church in the State of New-York.

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Episcopul Acts.

AT an ordination, held in St. John's Chapel, New-York, on Friday, the 25th of October, 1822, by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, the Rev. Lawson Carter, Deacon, Rector elect of St. John's Church, Ogdensburgh, was admitted to the holy order of Priests. Morning Prayer was conducted by the Rev. William Berrian, and an address, appropriate to the occasion, delivered by the Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Assistant Ministers of Trinity Church. And, on the fourth Sunday in Advent, Decem ber 22d, the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart held an ordination in St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, Long-Island, and admitted the Rev. James P. F. Clarke, Deacon, Minister of St. John's Church, Canandaigua, Ontario county, New-York, to the holy order of Priests.

On the 25th Sunday after Trinity, November 24, 1822, in Trinity Church, New-York, Seth W. Beardsley was admitted, by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, to the holy order of Deacons.

On Sunday, the 29th of September, 1822, at St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, the Rev, Peter Van Pelt, Deacon, Minister of St. Luke's parish, SouthCarolina, in consequence of letters dimissory from the Bishop of that diocess, was admitted to the holy order of Priests by the Right Rev. Bishop White. Morning Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Tschudy, and a sermon by the Bishop.

At an ordination, held in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode-Island, on Friday, September 6th, 1822, Mr. Alexander Jones, jun. and Mr. Charles Henry Alden, were admitted to the holy order of Deacons by the Right Rev. Bishop Griswold. Divine service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Taft, and the sermon by the Bishop. And, on Thursday, September 19th, at Christ Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, the Right Rev. Bishop Griswold admitted to the holy order of deacons Mr. Benjamin Clarke Cutler, of Boston, a graduate of Brown University. Morning prayers by the Rev. Dr. Gardiner, of Boston, and the sermon by the Bishop, from the text, "We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us," 2 Cor. iv. 7. The holy communion was then administered by the Right Rev. Bishop, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Gardiner.

The services on this occasion were very interesting and impressive. Many of the clergy, and a great number of the laity were present.

This ordination is an event of peculiar interest to the Church at large, and particularly to the Society at Quincy. For many years, that parish, having been destitute of a Rector, has been in a low and depressed state, though they have sometimes been supplied with lay readers, and have occasionally had the services of clergymen. We trust, however, they are no longer to be dependent upon occasional assistance; but that the gentleman now admitted to orders will long continue with them, and

prove to them, and to those who may hereafter become connected with them, a faithful watchman upon the walls of their Zion. May the great Head of the Church bless them.

It may not be amiss to state, that the venerable John Adams, late President of the United States, has given to this society the privilege of taking from his quarry a sufficient quantity of stone to erect a church, whenever they are disposed to avail themselves of the gift. We were gratified to see him at the church on the day of the ordination.

An ordination was held in St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, on the 6th of September, 1822, by the Right Rev. Bishop Kemp, when the Rev. Joseph Spencer was admitted to the holy order of Priests. Morning prayer was read by the Rev. Mr. Mason, of Newbern, North-Carolina, and an elegant and appropriate sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Barry. Mr. Spencer leaves the diocess of Maryland immediately, in consequence of his being appointed Professor of languages in Carlisle College, and also Minister of the Protest ant Episcopal Church in that place.

At an ordination, held in Trinity Church, Newark, New-Jersey, on Wednesday, the 16th of October, 1822, by the Right Rev. Bishop Croes, the Rev. Henry P. Powers, Rector elect of said church, was admitted to the holy order of Priests. The Bishop was assisted, on this occasion, by the Rev. James Chapman, and the Rev. John Croes, jun. of that diocess, and the Rev. Cave Jones, of the diocess of NewYork. On the morning of the succeeding day, the Bishop instituted the Rev. Mr.Powers into the rectorship of Trinity Church aforesaid; and, in the afternoon, administered the holy rite of confirmation to twenty persons. The discour ses delivered on these occasions were appropriate and impressive, and the whole exercises solemn and interesting. During the present year, confirmations have also been administered, by the Right Rev. Bishop Croes, in Christ Church, New-Brunswick, on the third Sunday after Easter; in St. George's Church, Pennsneck, on Whit-Sunday; and, in St. Andrew's Church, MountHolly, on Wednesday, the 5th of June.

On Wednesday, the 16th of October, 1822, St. Andrew's Church, Northford, Connecticut, was consecrated to the service of Almighty God, by the Right Rey. Bishop Brownell.

On Friday, the 1st of November, 1822, the festival of All-Saints, the holy rite of confirmation was administered by the Right Rev. Bishop Bowen, in St. Michael's Church, Charleston,SouthCarolina, to fifty persons. Morning prayer was read by the Rev. Dr. Dalcho, and an appropriate sermon, from Proverbs iii. 17, delivered by the Rev, Mr. Lance, of Georgetown. The services were impressive, and the whole scene was peculiarly interesting, It is the practice of the Bishop to administer this rite about once a year, or thirteen months, in each of the city churches, in order that the persons presenting themselves, on each occasion, may not be more in number than to admit of the most satisfactory pastoral preparation of them.

On Thursday the 19th of December, 1822, the Rey, Edward Rutledge, minister of St. Thomas's parish, Charleston, South-Carolina, was admitted to the holy order of Priests by the Right Rev. Bishop Bowen.

At an ordination held, on Thursday,

the 28th day of November, 1822, in St. Mary's Church, Newton, Lower Falls, Massachusetts, the Right Rev. the Bishop of the Eastern Diocess promoted the Rev. Alfred L. Baury to the holy order of Priests. Morning prayer was read by the Rev. Isaac Boyle, Rector of St. Paul's, Dedham, and a sermon preached by the Right Rev. Bishop, from Heb. v. 4, "No man taketh this honour unto himself but he that is called of God, as was Aaron," Immediately after morning prayer, confirmation was administered to six persons. Mr. Baury has accepted the rectorship of the interesting church at Newton, and, we understand, is shortly to be instituted. It was a pleasing circumstance that he was ordained in the church where he is appointed to serye. Situated as we are in this country, many of the members of our Church having been educated dissenters; so little being thought by our dissenting brethren of the sacred nature of the ministerial office; and so

little known, in most places, concerning the solemnity of our ritual on these occasional services; there seems to be a peculiar propriety in holding the ordination of a Priest in the church where he is appointed to minister. In the infancy of the Church, the apostles Paul and Barnabas, as they passed through the churches of Asia, "ordained them elders in every church,” Acts xiv. 23.

New Church.

ber, 1822, the corner stone of a new ON Thursday, the 17th of Decem church, to be called St, Matthew's Church, was laid by the Right Rev. Bishop White, at the junction of Schuylkill North Fourth and George and Powell streets, in Francisville, near this city. The order of the ceremony was as follows:-An address and prayer by the Bishop; the laying of the stone; a few verses of the 84th Psalm sung, and an address delivered by the Rev. Mr. Allen, Rector of St. Paul's Church: the whole concluded with the benediction of the Bishop. This church is the result of the exertions of the Protestant Episcopal Association of Penn township, under the direction of the Rev. Norman Nash, employed by them

as a missionary in that neighbourhood. ---Church Record.

Literary Honours.

At the commencement of Columbia College, in August lost, the degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev. Thomas Lyell, Rector of Christ Church, in this city; and on the Rev. John Reed, Rector of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, New-York.

Liberal Donations,

A LADY in Connecticut has trans ferred to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, bonds expected to produce one thousand dollars.

A GENTLEMAN residing in the Northern Neck of Virginia, has made to the Theological Seminary of that diocess a valuable donation in rare old books of the most splendid editions. They have been placed, for the present, in the hands of the Rev. Mr. M'Guire, gi

Fredericksburgh, who will deposit them in the library of that institution as soon as a convenient opportunity is offered.

First Bell in Washington City. THE first Bell erected in the city of Washington, and devoted to the purpose of calling together a Christian congregation for public worship, was placed, on the 30th of November, 1822, in the belfry of St. John's Church. It is from the Boston foundry, is well toned, and weighs nearly one thousand pounds.

Sunday Scholar's Magazine, or Monthly Reward Book. A publication under this title, devoted entirely to the interests of Sunday Schools," was commenced in London in January, 1821; and its republication has recently been undertaken in Boston, by Mr. Joseph W.Ingraham, at the moderate price of one dollar a year, if paid in advance. The first number is before us. It is a neat pamphlet of 24 pages, containing several articles very appropriate for the edification of Sunday school and other children, and not uninteresting to adults. "This work is attached to no particular communion,

and it is not even known to what deno

mination the conductors belong. Its object is to promote the interests of Sunday schools generally; and it is hoped that no matter will ever be found in its pages, which will be objectionable to any denomination of Christians.". Persons in the city or vicinity of New York, who may wish to patronize this publication, will please to leave their names at the office of the Christian Journal. Mr. Ingraham has also recently published a Manual for Episcopal Sunday Schools, highly recommended by several of the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which is likewise to be had at the same place.

Obituary Notices.

DIED, on Friday, the 13th of Sep tember, 1822, after a short illness, at his residence, in Cecil county, Maryland, the Rev. WILLIAM NIND, Rector of St. Stephen's parish. The deceased was in the 45th year of his age-an

humble and faithful minister of the Gospel, universally beloved and respected by all who knew him, and greatly regretted by those over whom Providence had placed him in the pastoral charge. Scarcely had the grave closed over the remains of his aged and reverend father, ere he is also called to give an account of his stewardship. A wife and six children are left to mourn the loss of one of the best of husbands, and most affectionate of parents; but, having been taught, by precept and example, to say "thy will be done," will, we trust, through grace, be enabled to bear this heavy affliction with becoming resignation, and to mourn, but "not as those without hope," having this consolation, that their loss is his eternal gain.

In Maryland, on Sunday, the 22d of September last, the Rev. JOHN BRADY, Rector of William and Mary, and St. Andrew's parishes, St. Mary's county, formerly minister of St. George's, NewYork. Mr. Brady was ordained Dea con in Trinity Church, New-York, by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, on Trinity Sunday, in the year 1811, and Priest, in St. George's Church, NewYork, by the same Bishop, in 1813.

In Delaware, the Rev. JAMES J.. BOWDEN, and soon after his wife, Mrs.

Bowden, and their child. Mr. B. was the son of the late Professor Bowden, of Columbia College. He was ordained Deacon by the RightRev.Bishop Hobart, in St. John's Chapel, NewYork, on Sunday, the 15th of Novem ber, 1818, and soon afterwards removed to Maryland, where it is believed he received Priests' orders from the Right Rev. Bishop Kemp. His piety, talents, and sincere attachment to the Church, gave promise of an useful, and, from his age, a long continued ministry. The

Divine lead of the Church has seen fit to cut it short. For his early loss to that Church, and for the bereavement thus sustained by an amiable and excellent family, strong consolation and support are afforded by the humble trust of his being a partaker of the blessing pronounced on those who die in the Lord.

Lately, in Detroit, Michigan Territory, the Rev. ALANSON W. WELTON, formerly of this diccess.

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