ination gave proof of some im provement.

At present there are eight Teachers, and one Assistant; three Teachers having been prevented from attending during some weeks.

In order to excite the attention of pupils, and to stimulate their exertions, the Superintendent and Teachers have pursued the plan of distributing tickets to the most deserving, and of redeeming them by premiums and rewards. This system has had great effect, and they are gratified at its success. The Scholars have become attentive to their exercises, and more respectful to their Teachers.

In the Male School of Trinity and Grace Churches there have been added, since the last report, 86 Scholars. 46 have been discharged, viz. two for disorderly conduct, three who have been admitted into the Episcopal Charity School, and 41 who have removed to distant parts of the city, or into the country.

The present number of Scholars is 65; viz. 44 whites and 21 blacks. Of this number about 46 are regular in their attendance.

The present number of Teachers is nine, who, with the Superintendent, are permanently attached to the School.

The Schools in connexion with St. Mark's Church have, from various causes, very much diminished since the last report. The whole number of Scholars being now reduced to somewhere about 50. The principal cause of this is the want of sufficient voluntary aid; the number of young persons in that parish, especially of males, quali fied to take an active part in the School, being very small. Of the above Scholars, about 20 are boys, who are under the sole care of Mr.

William Tripler, to whose laudable zeal and perseverance the present existence of the Boys' School is entirely owing. Of the other Male Teachers, some have relinquished from the want of a proper sensibility to the importance of the charity in which they were engaged; and others have become wearied in consequence of the arduous and long continued duty imposed upon them. Much praise is due to several of the young Ladies in the congregation, for their persevering attention to the Scholars in their department. The decline of their School is chiefly to be ascribed to the bad walking in the neighbourhood of the Church, during the late inclement season, which has prevented the Visiting Committees calling upon the parents of the children, to ascertain the cause of their neglecting School.

From the Female School of Grace Church the following report has been received.

"About 150 Scholars have been admitted into the School, since its formation in 1817; of which but a very small proportion has ever attended. The number of Scholars who have been, at any one time, in regular attendance, has rarely exceeded 30. The size of the School may be accounted for, in some measure, by its local situation, in a part of the city where comparatively but a small number of the poorer classes are to be met with; and also by its being the last formed in the lower Churches. Other causes have contribued to depress it, and to render the exertions of the few interested in its growth and prosperity, of lit tle effect. The Superintendents and Teachers have, however, witnessed, with great satisfaction, the eagerness of many of the children to receive instruction, and the visible improvement of all in morals and manners. They have uniformly en

deavoured to inculcate correct sen timents, and to impress the minds of their pupils with a deep sense of their moral obligations, and religious duties.

"The School has been supported, for a long time, by the exertions of a few individuals. It is hoped that the females, generally, of Grace Church, who have been, hitherto, uninterested spectators of the progress of the School, will follow the example given them by those of other Churches, and volunteer their aid in its support. None who have been applied to have withheld their money; but very few have been willing to give their time to the religious instruction of this interesting portion of their fellow-creatures; many of whom have been rescued from the extreme of ignorance, vice, and misery, and afford their Instructors the confident hope of their being thoroughly reclaimed from the error of their ways."

From the above statements it appears that the aggregate number of Scholars at present regularly attending the several Schools in union with this Society, is 654, viz. 273 males and 381 females.

It ought, in justice, to be stated, that the very general change of residence, and the difficulty of ascertaining, for some time, whither the Scholars have removed, always produce a temporary diminution of numbers at this period of the year.

From the Report of the Treasurer, it appears that there is a balance in his hands of one hundred and fourteen dollars and thirtyfour cents. There are demands, however, against the Society for books and other necessary expenses of the several Schools, much beyond the amount now in the Treasury. The Board confidently hope that this fact will be seriously considered by their fellow members of

the Church. Among Scholars of the description usually found in Sunday Schools, the consumption of books must necessarily be very great; while the premiums essential to the proposed usefulness of the Schools form no small item of expenditure. Our Schools must decline and perish, unless favoured with the timely aid of the friends of the institution. An event so repugnant to the feelings of piety and humanity, and so discreditable to our Church, we trust will not be suffered to occur. The limited amount of funds has been found a most serious inconvenience, and a very great obstacle to the success of the Schools. The Board cannot

but hope that it will be effectually removed.

The Reports of the Schools above detailed, afford much matter for commendation and encouragement. The Board are in possession of various particulars, too minute to be here detailed, of a most satisfactory nature, illustrating the religious and moral benefits of this establishment; and the astonishing proficiency, especially in exercises of memory, to which many of the pupils have attained. The Board are not unaware of the respect and gratitude to which these circumstances entitle the Superintendents and Teachers. We recognize among them several, under whose diligent and assiduous labours the Schools were first or ganized. So far from being weary in well-doing, their zeal is una bated, and their efforts unremit ting. May God remember them for good.

We regret to find circumstances of qualification to the general pleasure and encouragement we feel, in the very unpromising state of the Female School of Grace Church, and the Schools of St. Mark's Church. To a few individuals, we greatly indebted for their conti

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nued existence. The want of interest in their behalf on the part of the respective congregations, we are sorry to be obliged to regard as the cause of the too well ground. ed fear of their extinction. We would humbly and respectfully appeal to their feelings of benevolence, and their wish for diffusing religious and moral instruction. Measures are about to be taken, under the authority of this Board, with a view to improving the condition of these Schools. We earnestly solicit the co-operation of the congregations of those churches.

The Board gratefully acknowledge the receipt of 144 Bibles and 343 Prayer Books from the Auxiliary New-York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, and of several Tracts from the First Female Juvenile Tract Society of NewYork.

It has given the Board much pleasure to hear of a very considerable improvement in the management of the School of St. Paul's Chapel. To the Superintendents and Teachers of that, as of every other School, much credit has been uniformly due. But it is impossible for them, however assiduous, to do all that the care and conduct of a School require. They are, accordingly, here aided by the Directors, who, by successive committees of three, assist in the care and superintendence of the Scholars during divine service, seek out absentees, and procure addition. al pupils. The zeal manifested by several gentlemen of the congregation in this excellent work, is truly admirable, and worthy of imitation. Several Schools might be greatly enlarged, if there were not such a backwardness in the offer of services as Teachers. Sunday School instruction is an eminently useful, and a self-rewarding work of piety and Christian charity. We would

earnestly solicit increased attention to it in behalf of the Schools under our care, particularly of the young members of our several congregations.

To our brethren, generally, we would address ourselves in the spirit dictated by the sacred character, and the temporal and eternal im portance of the work we have in hand. We confidently appeal to their judgment in favour of the principle of our institution, that re ligious instruction-the grand ob ject of Sunday Schools, and the only one which can justify their occu pying time and care on the Lord's Day-should be imparted under the direction of the Church, and should embrace, not efforts to form a bigotted and sectarian spirit, but guidance in that faith, and those religious and moral precepts which the Gospel enforces, and which characterized the days of the primitive purity and unity of the mystical body of Christ. We would ask them not to be indifferent spectators of the efforts making under the auspices of this Society, to raise fellow beings from the degradation and awful danger of ignorance and vice, to the sanctifying faith, the cheering hope, and the eter nal recompense of pure and undefiled religion. We would ask their aid and encouragement in every way in which Providence may fit them to extend it. We would earn. estly solicit their prayers, that he "who, as at this time," did "teach the hearts of" his "faithful people, by sending to them the light of" his "Holy Spirit," would "grant us, by the same Spirit, to have a right judgment in all things;" that we may faithfully and successfully promote the pious and interesting design of our establishment; and that it may be blessed as an useful handmaid to the Church in her legitimate peculiar work, of advancing

The following gentlemen compose the Board:

The Right Rev. John H. Hobart,

Diosess of Virginia.

Bishop MOORE's Address to the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, delivered before them at Petersburg, (Virginia,) on Saturday, the 15th May, 1819. BRETHREN,

To effect great and important objects, great and continued exernot be permitted to paralyze our eftion is required. Difficulties must

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forts, nor to unnervė our arm. mind, fixed upon a legitimate point, must put forth all its energies in the attainment of the contemplated design. To press forward towards the mark, and to persevere with firmness, can alone secure to us success, and

Rev. Thomas Breintnall.

Male Superintendents of the different Schools, ex officio, Managers -Trinity and Grace Churches, J. Smyth Rogers-St. Paul's Chapel, James Swords-St. John's Chapel, Charles W. Sandford-St. Mark's Church, William Tripler-Zion Church, Joseph Moore.

Delegates from the different Boards of Direction-Trinity Church, Joshua Jones, Philip Hone -St. Paul's Chapel, Anthony L. Underhill, John R. Wheaton→→ St. John's Chapel, Col. Richard Platt, Jonathan H. Lawrence-Zion Church, John Heath, Thomas Jennings.

Managers for Life-Henry Rogers, Richard Whiley, John Watts, jun. Abijah Hammond, Henry Fisher, Ezra Weeks, Nehemiah Rogers, Moses Rogers, David R. Lambert, Benjamin W. Rogers, Thomas N. Stanford, Francis Panton, Edward J. Ball, John Anthon, and Jonathan Goodhue.

Visiting Committee to the different Schools-J. Smyth Rogers, Thomas N. Stanford.

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tensive diocess, fatigued with the laWhen travelling through this exbours peculiar to the station which I occupy, my spirits are always revived by recurring to that noble principle which forms the soul of this convention, and which animates the bosom of each individual member. It is to raise our Zion from the dust, to build up her prostrated altars, and to furnish the people of our communion with the bread of life, that we are labouring, Jehovah, from his throne of mercy, looks down with approbation, done, good and faithful servants." and whispers to our hearts, "well

When the ruins of our desolated

temples meet my eye, and the religious privations of the people are presented to my view, my soul is overwhelmed with those reflections peculiar to the case. Considering the enemy of mankind as the origin of the desolation and distress which I behold, a new impetus is communicated to my mind; the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ is presented to my view, and "lo! I am with you always," revives my heart, and impels me to renewed exertion. To labour in the vineyard of the crucified Saviour, has formed the chief delight of the last thirty-two years of my life; and though the power of doing good is in a de