The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

To All Saints' district, Habergham

And additional p,Tat
den, to Cli

of .tlO6 each to Welsden, in Todmor-
stown, in Ashton-und9r-Lyrae, and of 50 to East

Crompton.
The cases of Shnttleworth, in Bury, of St. Matthews, Chad-
derton, St. John's, Chadderton, in Oldham and of Whitworth,
in Rochdale, being deferred, for further explanation.

The above are the only additional grants which your commit-'
tee have ventured to make during the year 1846.
Throughout this period your committee have endeavoured to
render their grants less inadequate to the object to which they
were given, by impressing on the parties applying the absolute
necessity ofi economy in the plan and style of building. They
regret to feel that their endeavours in this respect have been
less successful than they wished, and that some, if not most,
of the building committees are, in consequence, engaged in
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liabilities of i most painful and injurious character. Your
committee feel that the dignity of the church is far more
deeply compromised by debt than by the want of spire or

and much as they would

rejoice to see tile IliCe or sae IAJ y +l,nce.
beautiful memorials of the nation's faith; they would prefer
supplying what was actually needed as a house of prayer, and
waiting till the piety and zeal of another generation, if it should
be necessary to wait so long, shall supply what is wanting in
the present structures.
To this they must add, that while our old parochial churches
exhibit so many beautiful specimens of ecclesiastical architec-
ture, it seems sufficient for us to meet the present demand for
accommodation by buildings of a different order. It does
not seem necessary that the newly-formed district should
at once pretend to raise a fabric capable of vieing with
the mother church. A sense of order and propriety would
alone suggest a difference in the style and character of
the building. A correct taste, and a judicious reference
to ancient models, will easily furnish forms Purely eccle-
siastical and of a simpler nature, and on that account
more adapted to such localities; and the tower and the spire,
the porch or the chancel, may.be subsequently added, in pro-
portion as the con^Tegation is formed, and may thus be made
the testimonies of increased attachment to the church, from
those who shall have been born and brought up within the pale.
In making this statement of their convictions, your committee
do not wish tolimit these remarks to the gentlemen whose zeal
Prompts them to take the lead in such measures, and who must

be regarded with respect as the instrument in God's hand of
supplying the spiritual necessities of his people. They feel that
this desire of architectural ornament is frequently forced upon
the Building Committee, by the indiEcreet and unreasonable
requirements of the subscribers ; they know that assistance is
sometimes procured under conditions which cannot be. fulfilled
without risking the failure of the whole scheme from the ex-
pense implied, and that the gratification of the eye of one is
more considered than the benefit to the souls of men. Your
Committee have often bad occasion to sympathise with the
embarrassments of those who were exposed to this painful

dilemma, through the capricious fancy of their supporters ; and
beg leave, with all humility, to remonstrate against such an abuse
of wealth, and such a forgetfulness of the purposes to which it
ought to be applied, and hope that those who give will be willing
to do it with simplicity. In the course of the ypurcogi-

mittee have to record with thankfulness to Him who is the
author of all good and holy purposes, some valuable donations
for the general purposes of the society. They have to acknow-
ledge a donation of .t SOO from G. Horrocks, sen., Esq., of
Preston, which, with a previous donation 0f,200, makes him
a donor of .el,OOO. They have to acknowledge a gift from It.
Newsham, Esq., of Preston, of .t 100; and they may anticipate
the substance of the report for 1847, by adding, that since the
closing of the account for 1816, a donation of ,t'so has been
received from the Rev. R. Richardson, and .'25 from Messrs.
Wardell, both of Chester.

Mr. GROVES, the treasurer of the society, stated, that
in consequence of the indisposition of his clerk, he was
not prepared to lay before the meeting a digested state-
ment of his accounts, but that he would give an abstract
of them, and the full statement would be published with
the printed report. They had received something like
£4,300 or £4,400, about £2,000 of which, as the report
, stated, was for church erection, £l,OOO as donations. and
about £1

,zuu in subscriptions. Their grants had been
something less than that; for although they began the
year with an apparent debt of £7OO, they ended it with a
surplus of five or six hundred.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN inquired the date to which the

accounts had been made up:to?

Mr. GROVES stated that hitherto the accounts had been
made out to the date of the report ; but he was not just
certain at what date this balance was in hands. However,
it would be shown when the statement would be made
out ; but he was of opinion that it was brought down to
the present time.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN sugg
to fix the date at the Ist of January
After some consideration this wa