connected with the carrying out of the preparations for the Congress have worked in a most harmonious way. The way in which Mr. Jackson and Mr. Crowder had wired into the Reception Committee business, and the amount of letters they wrotesome of them very troublesome letters-must have swelled the revenue of the Postmaster-General for this year; and the way in which Mr. Dobinson looked after the Post Office Orders and cheques showed that he was fully qualified to take the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. I must say a word in regard to the great care which my brother, the honorary Architect, has taken in preparing a good ground plan for the hall in which the meetings were held; for once given a good ground plan, the rest follows as a matter of course; and I will also say, on behalf of one person who has not yet been mentioned, I mean the contractor, Mr Davidson, who has carried out his contract with a generosity that we rarely find in business men. There are others to whom we are also deeply indebted, and I can only say that we have never made a request which has been refused or even discouraged. We have always in our requisitions upon the Corporation, and upon public and private individuals, been met with a ready and quick response and without hesitation.

ALDERMAN F. P. DIXON, Esq., the Mayor of Carlisle.

THE last resolution has been placed in my hands-"That the Congress desires to express its heartfelt thanks to the Lord Bishop of Carlisle for the able and genial way in which he has performed the duties of President of the Church Congress.' I am sure that this resolution is one that speaks for itself, and will have a most cordial reception in this assembly. I may say in any assembly of Cumbrians, the Bishop of Carlisle's name is one that is revered, and I am sure that the genial way in which he has presided over the meetings will never be forgotten by the members of the Church Congress. Whether we consider his spendid opening address or his admirable discourse to the working men, I am sure we shall find nothing but what is worthy of praise. This is a resolution which I need not ask any one to second, and therefore I will put it to the meeting at once.

The motion was carried with acclamation.

The Right Rev. the PRESIDENT.

We have

Mr. MAYOR,-I thank you for the kind and cordial manner in which you have proposed this resolution, and I thank you, who are now assembled, for the hearty way in which you have received me. It has been to me a time of great happiness, though of course it has also been a time of some anxiety, and a great deal of labour. had a very happy time; but, as in most human affairs, there have been some dark clouds. When I remember the day when we met, for the first time, to arrange the proceedings of this Congress, and when I think what has taken place with regard to several of the members who were then present, I feel a sadness of heart which you will quite understand when I make my meaning a little more clear. There was present then Mr. Charles Fetherstonhaugh, who is now lying upon a sick bed, and, I fear, upon a bed that he will never leave. There was also present, or at all events was amongst our numbers,-a very good man-Mr. Hugh Mackenzie, of Distington, who also, I fear, is in a very critical condition. Canon Ware was also present then; but he is not here to-day, because he is suffering under the heaviest affliction that a man can sustain in this world—namely, the loss of a beloved wife. Lastly, none was more kind or active, there is no one to whom I feel that my personal thanks are more due than to our dear fellow-citizen, Mr. Miles MacInnes, who, I need not tell you, for you know the reason why, is not amongst us this evening. A heavy blow, in God's providence, has fallen upon him. I am sure that you will understand that it is impossible for me not to allude to that circumstance on an occasion of this kind, and I am equally sure that the manner in which you have received the remarks that I have made, and the fact that they have been made, will be a satisfaction to the almost broken heart of our beloved absent friend. Lastly, let me congratulate you upon two circumstances which have added to the comfort of our Congress. I congratulate you upon the weather which we have had. The waxing moon has been of great service. It is the grandest moon in the year; it is the harvest moon; it becomes full to-morrow, and then it suffers a total eclipse, as if sick of grief that the joys of the Congress have come to an end.

The Church Congress of 1884 was thus brought to a successful close.

APPENDIX A.

SOCIAL PURITY.-Text of his father's letter referred to by the Rev. R. W. RANDALL.

"YOUNG men at college are too often profligate in their doings; but the profligacy of their talk is absolutely dreadful. You cannot help hearing this. If you would avoid it, you must go out of the (Undergraduate) world. But you may refrain yourself from talking of vices, which God preserve you from practising. It is not necessary for you to be known as a man ready to join in such conversation, whenever it is started. Rather, if you can, draw it off to other subjects; and let it be seen that there may be fun and jollity, without ribaldry and blasphemy; though these two latter are so often made companions of the others. Lewd conversation naturally leads to contempt of the virtue of chastity; a subject upon which it is difficult to enlarge with propriety, and embarrassing to be obliged to speak at all. But it would be false delicacy in me to leave you without a warning upon this point. The conversation and example of too many of those about you will go to persuade you that breaches of chastity are hardly sins; that they are indulgences all but permitted to youth; that it is a ridiculous strictness not to partake of them. Believe it not, my boy! Not all the wit of the scoffers, not all the sophisms of the logicians of Oxford, can set aside the sentence, that because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.' Whether you, by watchfulness over yourself, under the superintending providence of God, held over you in answer to your and my prayers, will keep yourself free from these contaminations, is more than I can foresee, and probably more than I shall ever know; for the subject is obviously one not to be talked about, except under the pressure of extraordinary circumstances. But this I know, for I have had abundant occasion to observe it, that of all sins, there is none that is more certainly followed by its appropriate punishment in this life, than that of unchastity. And, to my mind, that is a great corroboration of what the Scriptures tell us of the heinousness of the sin, and of the wrath of God against it; which wrath it certainly does most eminently deserve, as one of the greatest troublers of the peace and good order of the world, and greatest hindrances to true religion. It is apparent enough, that a vice so pernicious in its practice ought not to be made the subject of conversation. Men ought not to excite their sinful propensities by dwelling upon the thoughts of gratifying them, nor to lessen their fears of transgression by having the pleasure of it continually before their imaginations."

APPENDIX.

The Rev. LUKE RIVINGTON, Mission House, Cowley St. John, Oxford.

WHEN the Bishop of Minnesota entered the room, I could not resist the temptation of asking to say a few words, as it reminded me how, some years ago, his Lordship asked me to conduct these parochial missions throughout his distant diocese. I was then engaged to India, and to India I went. But the same kind of missions have been found useful in India, showing how movements in the Church at home affect us out there. These missions had something to do with the ultimate success of that great movement which took place in the South of India after the famine. The people who then flocked into the Christian Church were in no sense "rice Christians," as the contemptuous term goes; but joined under the following circumstances. Bishop Caldwell had seen the possible value of parochial missions, like those which were first started in London, on such a large scale, by the energy of the late Simeon Wilberforce O'Neill; and he invited me to assist in some such effort amongst the native Christians in Tinnevelly. The Bishop had all the centres to which we went well prepared for the advent of the mission, writing to them a letter of advice as to how they should prepare, even suggesting such a practical detail as whitewashing the church, if it needed such a measure. The result of these missions was twofold. In the first place, a great many people were convinced, in perhaps a vague way, that they ought to become Christians; and when the famine came, and the English people showed their benevolence towards the perishing multitudes, such people felt that the occasion had come for their stepping forward and avowing their convictions. In the second place, bands of men and women were formed, full of new zeal for spreading the faith which they had long enjoyed themselves, but had too much kept to themselves as a private treasure; and thus a machinery was in existence for dealing with the new accessions. When the numbers came flocking in they were, in many cases, persons who were known to have been previously affected; and it was due to a happy inspiration on the part of Bishop Caldwell that they were neither sent away to wait awhile, nor received too readily within the fold; but they were placed under the care and attention, in many cases, of these members of the Church who had been stirred to more missionary zeal through the special efforts made by means of something like parochial missions. And surely the sequel of such missions, which is the point on which we have been asked to lay special stress, ought in all cases to take the shape, amongst other things, of an increase in numbers, or deepening the character; of associations, or guilds, to help one another to persevere in the spiritual life, or to assist in gathering in new sheep to the fold of the Church. At this present time a mission would naturally lead to either an extension, or to quickening the zeal, of such an association as that called the Girls' Friendly Society. I was much struck with a little incident that occurred to me on landing on the Riviera, on my way from India. A girl had come some way to see me about some trouble, but we had missed. A lady, however, who, I feel sure, would not have guessed this, or dreamt of doing what she did, unless she had her powers of observation trained in this direction, succeeded in bringing about the interview which had been sought in vain. This lady I found to be a prominent member of the Girls' Friendly Society. The incident struck me as indicating a new feature in our Church life, since I was last in England; or, rather, the extension of a principle which had been but feebly grasped, and fitfully carried out, until of late.

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