The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-26 00:00:00

THE BISHOP

011 LONDON'S FUND.
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A Maim of tra board of ranagemeet of this
fund re rail es Tarr. eissiag, M 460, Miran, to
neer the first arsenal rep= el the emotive oesoiosities,
which MI, • the ism of a few day; be rued to the
earmilises Thlßt wse e eery fall Modems, amongst
Mae pm= brag Lied airy, Lord Saodon, Lord Bed-
✓ock, ffer rheum Waller, ffie J. J. Hamilton, hart., Sir
Grego Barer, Nast, the Hes. Arthur Rionaird, /cc.
The Lehr of LONDON midst.
Mr. T. BODLIT, the secretary to the fund, reed a
volumineee repeat. It stated that the origin of the fund
e.t.a from May, 1863, A., however, it woo focal
to mature arrangement, for raising contributions
Ulan the close of the Loudon sesson in 1863, god as it lied
bees My within the put year that the distribution
et Ow tondo ale the disposal of the committee
had hess pre= ea • settled hods, they *smoldered it
viable to defer their Mt annual report until try could
include in it a statriont of their oparatious to the end of
the year 1864. Having described the measure taken to
inhale the movemer, the committee raced the means
hit eres used for Wein re fund. It has alters bees
aseriseed that it wee fee= impracticable to riser any
110001111 &ppm; to the public beton the close of tbe Loads
ems is 1863. And as so large a number of them who
were hest able to =tribute to the =owe of the fund were
about to leave tom for some month., it we. reiched to
defer any seek systematic effort to a Wei period. Is is!ay
pins et Leers, her sad the bishop's letter to the lefty,
and err appear, , sod the objests of the
eche= were advertised in most of the leadies sewspapera
Medan =reales addressed to all the parochial Mambo=
et re disc= Ming thou to endeavor to =ore
the Istegent cad esopoiries et the laity. la the
nyeisr, et the invitation of the hrp, re at
• et
of the dery err held in the dime
ea Much 3rd at Willies Rooms, when the sta-
rer! report, afterwards referral to, was read, and the
bishop defied the worse of =ion which the committee
=sftesteps. At a meting of A=n wardese held
111
afterwards, Meg Ow porde= of the biahop, a cor-
dial Meer ia the rat et the fund was also Amor.
The committee hare further to add that the Pastoral Letter
which the bishop addressed last April to the clergy, with
ilie request that it might he reed in the churches of the
dime, esetribneed bag* tp ramie the Manor to the
tend, sad to ereed the pahlie interest ia it. Ohs= col-
heroes sad offertories Me hese resolved howl 300 Mures
in the diocese ; sod the comittes dere to expose their
best thereto the rev he the opportunities which have
thus bra afforded to all clam to aret is this
work. Approdim have bean addressed to the Oily era-
pares sod other pair* hod= from soma at who., hop
docabirs have been received. As may of tie corporate
bodies and other public companies are large ewers of pro-
perty is the =cm, the esesmittee believe My may gaped
increased support teem this mon Within the past year
loos' sasociatious in aid of the fond dews be.. termed in
various pa= of Leader sad is some of the outlying
parrs ;is almost all cars public eneriap were held far
the parpces of establidnag than. The total rendre of the
food to Dec. 31, 1864, are 100,456!. 130. 6d., and a further
sum of 72,0031. Is. 10d. has been promised. About eight-
orris of the meant 'received has bre prod at
the disposal of the., cesiontre, to be appro-
Eaisted, at the digestion, to the several ob-
ts comprised Lthe Mom of the fund. The income
been Maier from three sourer ; first, cootributlons
from individual dorm, or how repents or other public
bodies, mode direlyved lie re central ortnittee ; secos ndly,
eostributire recei ehromh local ampeciatioes, at a ed-
leconos in pariahs, or district, where se motor ariliary
essosistioushave bees farmed ; thirdly, church collections
and offertories. trader the first heed the amount received
to Dee. 31,1861. is 74,7811. Nearly 12,0001. has bees paid
by load emerations ; mod a further sus of A 4771. has bra
reeved ae parer= sellerione ; Lod nearly 9,0001. has
barn obtared from oho= *offeror and offertories. That
at the close of laA year or-teeth of the fund should her
been obtained, and that a considerable portion of soother
teeth should have hese premised to meet the murmur
of future years, will, they believe, be felt es • matter for
coapetulatioe sad nurturer. The income hitherto r-
insed, however, includes various large basofeetior made
at the Mast of the movemest, some of which poodUr
represent the whole amount which the doctors will be able
to or tribute The omega amour at We time oostributed
by individual sabseribers is alined Mimi precedent in
onheariptiou lire ; it Garet be expected to be maintained.
And the semperries for any decreer in the amount
received as large aubseriptions ear clay be seeot in an
increased number of soreribers. If at a cost hardly ap-
pier= to themselves. all would unite their aid who have
at beset the social and Mesas inters= of this mot sad
core et the national power. sad are moon= that the
knowledge sod corolstioce of the Christina faith should be
erred astange the poor and uoiastructed. lord in such
hip mama the midst at oar wealth and tivili-otion, the
work would be acoomptired. To enable the committee to
administer the feuds far wick they had appealed to the
public on as equitable basis, and 0410 duly adjusted to the
relative wars of ditfort =rico, they appointed a sub-
committee in July, 1863. to peepers a statistical tabulated
report of the wants if Or dime. la the erne
of • tri autumn the sub-committee appointed for this
purpose sent a &radar Mgr ofinquiry to all the parochial
clergy r the direr reportiog sserstiod iffornsatios as
to the populates in their parishes °editing* the number of
affiliating clergy sad of lay agents, the aecommodaticia of •
forded is their churches or toots, sad also is the chapels
and Mors of other religiose communitier, and inviting sag-
germ es WM ter mode et applyingthe special wars of
their reamer dishier A trainable me of information
wag thus obtained, for whir the committee axe deeply in-
debted to the clergy who mphed it. The Mired report
of the sub-commerse, bred on the returns, and es Orr-
emir drawn hoes other sourer, has been published
shed eiroalred, and the committee refer to it for
a detailed statement ot the dresser of the diocese.
and of the remedies mooed for applying them.
In addition to airy important repairs which
Or report costars, its peculiar value) consists in Cring-
ing out with mon yyrede= than had hitherto been doer
Or feet of the utteriiadequacy of the provision for religious
worship and ireerustion is • large area of the diocese as
compared with the swims of the population. As the
work has worded it has appeared to the committee that
there were three modes is which the for Meld be dis-
pensed : lat. In providing certain risesg weir= with
means to make their machinery more widely available ;
2041 y. In meeting particular spplicstions for aid repaired
from various parts of Masao* ; 3edly. In °figurer( sew
work, with re saucer et the iocribeets, in lie Lapse
and most MOM padres ; ouch work, I. molt oar.
being so designed se to 'apply immediate remedies, and, at
the same time, to be the red.., of future pnreasest or-
vibration. As it issued to the committee the first and
most urgent work before them is seed forth inioneory
clergy and lay smote scrag nadir the parochial clergy, into
the at segretedquartors of London, they greeted. sesoon
as hods =replaced at their disposal, 2.0001. persona to the
Diocesan Church Bad* Berty, 2,0001. per annum to the
Diem= Hama Yiedw, and 1,0001. per rem to the
Scripture Readers' Aseggiatico, to be applied by Mr
sortie is dirtier when they had aeon teised toot reli-
giose inetrustiee set =dotal mieleteados were most
needed. The dirtier se seeded, and the froliess of the
mimiamy elsrp this appointed, appear In rho Statement
of Omits appeededie this report. It Is sufficient to explain
here that the Dietwor Month Burden Society had oip
aimed, sad, se tar as Sc rumor allowed, worked out
in= ellefeet seems fee employing missionary curates in
dither peters of overgrown parishes, with a view to
'vernal parochial gredivisiou ; while the Diocesan Home
throe supplying as adjunct to the parochial enter,
and wishing to sapplemet, and so to strengthen it,
sought to penetrate dense masses of the population,
both settled sods , who were living reside re
Wankel' of any 0009SenniOn. Nor did the cm-
mitre doubt that they materially promoted the porper
before them ie esabling the Berlpteu'e Readers' =Maros
to widen its field of settee, sad to rod forth readers into
the meet dietitate parries, to meek out those whom physi-
cal sod moral were had Maw= escaped notice, to draw
them reds the ere eel Obrietian lollurees sod =true.
tic., and to read bride bumble hearths, and not odd= to
tree on whose ears it bad sot before fair, the mem of
the eternal gospel of Him who Himself dwelt amongst as
in poverty and is went. With the views indicated above,
mote have also been made to the Additional Curates'
Satiety, and to the Church Peateral Aid Society, to be
upended in supplying parochial curates in the poor and
parlous pariahs, of the diocese, as 'Wirral to the
curates already provided by those societies. A grant
has also been made to the Diocesan Board of Edertioe to
'sable ft to reader are efficleat assistam in setablishlog
new Meer. i.e Mess these grants, mg well as in the
deer:mike el their funds through sormies, the secimittee
have acted asifortaly ea the prinerie that their aid should
only be aWied to promote new work. Is oddities to the
Block granb I. MIMI fee miesiceary dew and readers,
other sums bare Me reed far the same objects for
tyke Motel by the comodres, where a special demand !
for room= Aerial and lay arm bed bar ascertained.
(haste have also bees made tor the stipends of parochial
mires 'weersen—a form of personal *grey placed distinctly
near the dinwtioa of the
_pmerial clergy, and one which, I
though small in is or, has been trod =areal and stn.
cent in the parishes and mission =trier when it bee been
introdored. The vows hitherto made for parsonage's=
Momenta are inersidionade as compared with those
for ether ride= of the Siblene. The scanty rower of
mast of the Leedom clergy for whom resiiimer
are not provided make it most desirable that ale
indinert form of Mores= should be *applied. Mee eau
it be toi stragly urged lore rook the ProollK
=rear is err where tie clergy are argeolider • ••
parishes node: their charge ; and bow allaerragemible tt
is that in such parishes the eke= of Regred ess he re-
garded es an ranee= eve r$ hied is her pmelesliellses to
=Mir to the pisysical and Mere waste mad bar.
Baehr regard to the my .atrial aid Wait the 111014•1110.
ticalreamiedos is now eerie& to give la mop!
meta, the committee have not aessidend it ildvtsebls t.'
oared goy large port= of the lead on this object. It is a
great resemermer to Mimes, art, end sew whir
the eommittes are most arises that refer* shield Wan
in mind, Oar the large and Meads( resollieSS ed the
relielastioal comminskows amble them to supplement and
Areeglitess the work of the tend by prerifog endemesta,
ter the support of the clergy, where new Merida wMord, and now churches heir. In Omar
otiesion efforts .c
am
pew parishes eliforte it lies