The Temporal Council meets every three months, electing such secretary or secretaries as it may require, who are also ex officio members; their salaries to be fixed by the council.

There is one Annual General Meeting of the three councils above-named, for the purpose of preserving common and harmonious action, for hearing complaints, appeals, etc., and for discussing matters not already decided upon by the Directorate; decisions to be valid by a majority of votes obtained by ballot.

The duties of these three councils are to be performed honourably, faithfully, impartially, and gratuitously.

Every three years a convocation of the entire Churchthat is, of the councils, ministers of all grades, and the laity shall take place, at which the members of the Temporal Council will be elected by ballot, on the recommendation of laymen only. Free discussion to all is allowed. The opinions and suggestions of the laity are to be requested and received; and the three councils of the church, through their secretaries, will furnish complete and full accounts of the proceedings and position of each council since the period of the last convocation. If the numbers of the various congregations should become inconveniently great for the purposes of convocation, each congregation is at liberty to elect such a number of members as it deems necessary to represent it in convocation.

In fine, three main objects are to be kept in view; and any modifications of system which may appear to be in their favour are always desirable, and are to be carried out in the most prudent but efficacious manner possible. These objects are:

1st. That the entire body of the faithful should be fairly represented in the government of the Church; and that the final exercise of power should be vested in the laity, subject to whose approval, obtainable in general convocations assembled every three years, the authorities of the Church are constituted, are confirmed, and make laws.

2nd. That such constituted authorities should answer well the purpose of their formation, viz.—the successful propagation of truth; i.e., the doctrines of the Church and its permanent establishment and assured advancement throughout the world.

3rd. That the ministers of the Church should be kept free from worldly interests and cares, free from possible suspicion of interested motives, obtain office from personal character only as far as possible, and be placed in a position to perform their duties in a manner honourable to themselves, and satisfactory to their congregations.

This constitutes the form of government for every national church, modified, as may be found necessary, in each particular case. The great principle of free and popular government must, however, in every instance, be sacredly preserved; nor can exclusive power, or wordly aggrandisement, be permitted to the clergy on any account. The laws and proceedings of the Church are not to be all cast in one mould, but to vary in form, as may be found best suited to various nations: only its fundamental principles and rules of life are to be strictly preserved, taught, and inculcated in each. Thus is it modelled on the example of Nature herself, in which the greatest latitude and variety of development is permitted, but all tending to a common end-that of utility, for each and for all, and the reciprocal interdependence of all forms of life, of beauty, and of use.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHURCH.

The congregations of the Church are arranged under three heads, constituting in succession-1, a Parish; 2, a District; 3, a Diocese.

Each parish consists of 2,000 members, possessing. a parish church, for Sunday service only, served by one minister, who is called the Rector, and one assistant, the Curate, one home missionary, and such Sisters of charity as may be found necessary. In each parish the rector must see also that one public pulpit be erected in such a spot as he may consider best suited for the purpose of open-air preaching, to be used by himself or his curate during the week days, or at such times and seasons as the rector may deem best. In each parish is an Infant school and asylum connected with the church building, to be served by Sisters of charity, under the direction of the rector, and a Home for the aged poor, also tended and looked after by the sisters of charity.

Each district consist of ten parishes, containing 20,000 members, possessing one district church, capable of containing about 5,000 persons, and to be as centrally situated as possible. It is served by one minister with the title of Dean, and one assistant, a Vicar, with such other assistance as they may find necessary, and as the Ecclesiastical Council judges fit. Under their charge is placed the general inspection of the ten parishes forming the district, and through them communication is kept up between the parish ministers and the Bishops of their several dioceses; the said ministers to assemble every three months, under the presidency of the Dean, for the purpose of mutual information.

Services are performed in the district church on week days as well as on Sundays, as the dean may think best, under the approval of the bishop; and such services may be arranged between the dean and his vicar as may best suit themselves.

Each diocese consists of five districts, containing 100,000 members, to be under the charge and supervision of a Bishop, who, with his assistant ministers, as appointed by the Ecclesiastical Council, shall officiate every Sunday and every week-day as may by the said council be required.

The diocesan church or cathedral must be fitted to contain a congregation of 10,000 people, and its situation is to be decided on by the Ecclesiastical Council; it is to be kept open to the public all the week, and at such hours of the day as may be decided on by the Ecclesiastical Council. The Bishop has charge of the entire diocese, and is responsible for the effectual execution of the orders of the Ecclesiastical council; and the bishop will meet the deans of the districts within his diocese every six months, to receive information and report the wants of the various parishes to the Ecclesiastical Council. The bishop moreover is bound, once every three months, to visit and inspect, without giving previous notice, the several parishes placed under his care, and to report the result of such inspection without delay to the Ecclesiastical Council.

The bishop also must call together and preside at a general assembly of the deans and vicars, rectors and curates, missionaries and sisters of charity, to give his annual charge and exhortation.

These divisions are intended to apply to cities; but when their adaptation to the country, or thinly-inhabited districts is required, such changes and modifications are to be made as the Directorate and the two Councils may decide upon as most suitable.

In all cases the clergy are subject to the laws of the lands they live in; their conduct, however, in regard to such laws is to be ruled, when difficulties of practice or of conscience arise, by the Directorate. Certain privileges are accorded to all ministers of the Church; such as exemption from the performance of any duties which would interfere with the proper exercise of their office, they are not liable to serve on juries, nor to act in any temporal capacity. They are, on the other hand, not permitted to engage in any business, profession or trade, and cannot serve in any public political capacity.

The remuneration of ministers must, at first, depend on voluntary subscriptions from all the members of the Church; but when once a parish is constituted, a rate is to be levied on the rental of every member's house in the parish.

Those under £50 a year to be rated at 10s. per annum. Those at £50, up to £100, £1 per annum.

Those over £100, up to £150, £2 per annum.

And those over £200, at £5 per annum.

The proceeds to form a general fund for the remuneration of ministers and all other requisite parish purposes connected with the maintenance of the Church.

REMUNERATION OF MINISTERS.

As it is desirable, above all things, that the pecuniary affairs of the Church should not come within the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastics, who, by the nature of their sacred calling, are better kept aloof from any difficulties or abuses which might arise therefrom, it is ordered that all remuneration of office-holders in the Church, and all financial matters generally, shall be placed in the hands of the Temporal Council; who, knowing the state of the Church funds, will recommend such arrangements as to stipends, etc., as they find the funds can best afford. It is also most desirable, and is indeed one great object

in the organisation of the Universal Church, that no emolument should accrue from any post held by its members as would render that post an object of ambition for the sake of the pecuniary advantages attached to it; and, moreover, that all immediate connection as regards money matters, between the ministers and their respective congregations, should be entirely avoided.

But, on the other hand, the Church desires that its ministers of every grade should, all in their respective positions, be duly and decently provided for, so as to be enabled to bring up their families respectably, if they are married, and so as to render them independent of the world, that they may fearlessly, and without hope of gain or fear of loss, perform their duties to their parishioners, and be able to discharge, in a satisfactory manner, those social duties which their position inevitably requires of them.

It is desirable that all ministers above the grade of curate should be married men; and all office-holders in the Church should remember that, though they vary in grade, yet, from the bishop to the curate, all are equally ministers only, in the service and for the benefit of the Church; and all the members of the clergy are equally with the laity subject to the regular recognised laws of the lands in which they live.

PROPOSED REMUNERATION.

To every bishop of a diocese, who must be a doctor of theology, and a member of the order of preachers, the sum of £1,200, to £1,500 a year.

To every dean of a district, who must be a doctor of theology, and a member of the order of preachers, the sum of £800 to £1,000 a year.

To the vicar, who must be a master of theology, the sum of £600 to £800 a year.

To every rector of a parish, who must be a master of theology, and a member of the order of preachers, the sum of £500 to £700 a year.

To the curate, who must be a member of the order of preachers, the sum of £250 to £400 a year.

No fees for the performance of any duties devolving on the ministers are allowed, except from those who, not being