“_He was bound_, _then_, _in the spirit of unfeigned thankfulness_,
_to add his testimony and expression of gratitude to those already
given_. He, too, could refer to that part of the country over which
he presided in spiritual things, as furnishing, to his own knowledge,
an amount of obligation to the Society for the timely aid it had
afforded to his clergy; and in many respects he could testify both to
its direct and indirect usefulness. He could point to the stimulus
to good works which it had given in many quarters of his diocese, by
the aid afforded through its instrumentality: he could point to
subscriptions raised on behalf of additional churches; to
school-rooms erected, and soon, as his Right Rev. Brother had
expressed it, to be converted into places of worship, and endowed
according to the use and form of the National Church.” . . . “_I
rejoice in the existence of this Society_, _and am thankful to God
for having put it into the hearts of many to aid this work of faith
and labour of love_.”