members of the Church, may require baptismal, funeral, or marriage services.

To every home missionary £100 a year.

To every sister of charity £26 a year, with food and clothing.

And to other office-holders as the Ecclesiastical Council may recommend.

The above stipends are only meant to be approximate, and may be increased or diminished as the Ecclesiastical Council may recommend, and as the Temporal Council may find it in their power to provide. But in all cases, the claims of a minister for increased remuneration are to be considered first of all in reference to the number of his family. No rights of lay presentations are possible in the ministry of the Church, and any such falling within the jurisdiction of the Church authorities, are to be transferred to the Directorate by mutual arrangement to that effect.

We again repeat it, the Church desires that neither wealth nor power should be obtainable by any minister; but that all ecclesiastics should be placed in such independent and good circumstances as will enable them to do their duty, and exercise the offices of their ministry, earnestly, zealously, devotedly, and effectually, not from interested motives, but impelled by a deep sense of the important and sacred nature of their vocation, without a sincere feeling of which it is better they should not enter the ministry at all. On this account every minister, from the curate upwards, before he accepts office, will be required solemnly to declare in the presence of the Directorate, by whom he will be invested, that it is his sincere desire and intention zealously to work for the advancement of true religion, and the spiritual welfare of all who are placed under his care.

As regards the permanency of a rector's or dean's position, we would recommend that it should be, as a rule, for life, allowing naturally for such changes as may arise from advancement, from agreement between the minister and his parishioners, and the ordinary effects of time. The affectionate respect, and the mutual interest in each other's welfare, arising from a long-continued connection between the minister, his parish, and his congregation, are productive of excellent results, and tend to

produce a warmth and kindness of feeling between them, which is in every way to be encouraged.

On the other hand, it must be admitted, that human nature likes timely change; novelty stimulates and attracts souls, which without it, are apt to become indifferent and sluggish. Motion and constant circulation in all bodies prevent stagnation. For the above reasons, whilst we decidedly approve of permanent rectories, etc., yet we do as decidedly desire to see a body of unattached preachers formed, who, either by request from the rector himself, or by direction from the Ecclesiastical Council, are always available as preachers in any locality where their services may be required. This fresh blood constantly permeating the body of the Church, as it were, will tend to keep it active and vigorous, and form an important impelling element in the advancement and spread of religious feeling and knowledge. Our wish is to unite the advantages of the systems, practised respectively by the Roman Catholic, Greek, and English Churches, and by the Dissenting Churches, especially the Wesleyan Methodists, who, in many matters relating to Church policy, present various points worthy of attention, if not of imitation.

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A fine and powerful preacher should never be allowed to confine his mission to one spot, or to form as it were a pet and special congregation for himself; it is bad for both preacher and people; he should be kept moving by the council, that all may derive benefit from his abilities. he desires to have a chapel to himself he must leave the Church (as a paid minister), and will then inevitably place himself in the degrading and revolting position of those popular preachers of the day, in this country and in America especially, who sell religion for gold to the highest bidder, and, like street mountebanks, send the hat round for a certain sum to be collected, without which they assure their beloved audience they cannot really afford to perform before them, or attend to the good of their souls.

THE UNIVERSITY

Consists of two main divisions-the College of the Ministry and the College of the Mission.

The College of the Ministry is open to students at the

age of fifteen, who, after passing the necessary examinations, can be inducted into the ministry at the age of twenty-three. After their induction, and before they arrive at thirty years of age, it is desirable that ministers should be married men.

The various educational classes will be regulated by the Ecclesiastical Council, but may be broadly separated into those of the dead languages, living languages, science, philosophy, and theology.

Degrees are only given in the last named three classes, and are respectively :

Student of Science (S.S.), Student of Philosophy (S.P.), and Student of Theology (S.T.), Master of Science (M.S.), and Doctor of Science (D.S.), Master of Philosophy (M.P.), Doctor of Philosophy (D.P.), Master of Theology (M.T.), and Doctor of Theology (D.T.). In connection with the College is a School of Sacred Music in which the degrees of M.S.M. (Master of Sacred music) and D.S.M. (Doctor of Sacred Music) are obtainable by competition. There is also a School of Preaching attached to the College in which only one degree is obtainable-P.C. (Preacher of the Church).

All appointments to office are, as before stated, made by the Directorate on recommendation from the proper authority of the Ecclesiastical Council, and are to be decided on from character principally, and not by competition.

The College of the Mission forms the most important division of university education.

The courses consist of modern languages, each class being specially dedicated to a particular language, or to such languages as are calculated to be most serviceable for particular missions, which missions are to be included under the four main heads of European, Asiatic, African, and American.

Theology also forms a special course of education, according to the destination of the student for any mission included under either of the above headings. For Europe, Christian theology; for Asia, Brahmaic, Mahometan, and Buddhist theology, and so forth; for it is imperatively necessary that the missionary should be thoroughly informed as to the religion of those he seeks to convert, that

he may be able to attack them on their weak points, and understand the character of the men he addresses, as formed by their respective creeds.

Schools of preaching and literary composition, of argument and discussion (dialectics), are also annexed to this College, open to the students of the College of Ministers as well.

Classes also for rudimentary instruction in medicine, by which the missionary may obtain a knowledge of the nature and use of the most important drugs, such as may stand him in good stead for his own and other persons benefit in distant missions. Classes for bodily training, swimming, horsemanship, farriery, carpentry, etc., are also desirable, as calculated to be of use in the course of the missionaries' expeditions to remote lands and savage

races.

The degrees obtainable in this noble army of soldiers of the true faith, of the church militant, correspond to those of the ministry, and are S.C.M., Soldier of the Church Mission; K.C.M., Knight of the Church Mission; G.C.M., General of the Church Mission, of which last there is one appointed for every separate mission, whose post will be at the principal city of any country to which the mission is sent. By him the country will be divided into districts, each having a central station, under the charge of a knight. An annual report of progress must be furnished by every soldier, to the knight of each station, and from the knights to the general of the local mission, who is responsible to the council of the mission at home, as constituted by the Ecclesiastical Council, by whose decision the missions are to be extended or re-arranged, as may seem most serviceable for the advancement of the Church, only subject to the approval of the Directorate.

It is desirable that not less than two missionaries should, as a rule, commence the preaching and spread of the faith, the one mainly to preach and minister, the other to write and look after the distribution of tracts, establishing a journal, or any similar means of spreading the doctrines of the Church, and especially superintending a weekly illustrated cheap paper, on the model of the old "Saturday Magazine," to explain ordinary scientific truths, and inculcate good moral and religious principles. From such a

journal we expect important results, for uneducated and ignorant people are like children, and it is from our own experience of the great benefit we received when children, from such papers as the "Penny" and "Saturday Magazines," that we desire to see similar publications addressed to the grown-up children of Asia and Africa. No missionary is to be admitted into the service under twenty-five years of age, and every such missionary or soldier of the Church must enter on his duties prepared for any sacrifice of self, even to the loss of life, in the discharge of his office, and must make a declaration to that effect, before he is sent as a missionary on active duty.

It is desirable that every foreign missionary should be unmarried at the commencement of his work; but as each mission is intended to be permanent, and when a sufficient number of proselytes are obtained, a church will be established on the regular plan, as before described: marriage, under such changed circumstances, is equally desirable abroad as at home, for the missionary will then become a minister, and, as a married man, may find, perhaps, the sphere of his usefulness extend. Still, it is evident that the main body of the army of missionaries should commence their labours and warfare, for such it really is, without any encumbrance.

The stipends of the foreign missionaries will be settled by the Directorate on the recommendation of the General of each Mission, and it is most desirable, when possible, that the soldiers and knights of each mission should be natives of the country which is the scene of their labours, as it is clear that they will better understand the character of the people with whom they deal, and possess greater advantages in preaching and discussion than any foreign missionaries are likely to enjoy.

A complete history of former missions, including those of the apostles of Jesus, should be written, showing the grandeur and nobility of their aims and results, eloquently set forth; and the art of success in this holy war should be deduced and systematised from past experience.

It is clear, that at the commencement of the good work, when the Church is not yet organised, the first duties will devolve on the ordinary members, who must regard themselves as missionaries for the time being, and will have to