Rector did not find it necessary to deviate, in any degree, from the forms of our Church; but by more frequency in the use of them, and by greater assiduity in his parochial duties and instructions, he was happily instrumental in increasing the piety of his flock."

Since the period embraced in the last report, twenty-nine persons have been admitted by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, to the holy order of Deacons, viz. William B. Lacey, Harry Croswell (since removed to Connecticut,) John Brown, William Creighton, George Boyd (since removed to Pennsylvania,)AlpheusGear, of Connecticut, Eli Wheeler, of Connecticut (since settled in this Diocess,) Alanson W. Welton, of Connecticut (since settled in this Diocess,) George Y. Morehouse, of New-Jersey, at Perth-Amboy, New-Jersey, where, previously to the election of a Bishop in that Diocess, Bishop Hobart was invited to hold an ordination, by the standing committee of the same; Gregory T. Bedell, William Hawley (since removed to the city of Washington,) William H. Hart (since removed to Virginia,) Abiel Carter(since removed to Pennsylvania,) William J. Bulkley, of Connecticut, Charles W. Hamilton, Henri L. P. F. Péneveyre (from the Protestant Church of Luzerne, in Switzerland,) Henry U. Onderdonk, Thomas C. Brownell, Professor in Union College, Schenectady, Ravaud Kearney, Petrus S. Ten Broeck, George Weller, James F. Hull, of New-Orleans, Samuel Johnston, Joshua M. Rogers, Hugh Smith, Henry Anthon, Richard F. Cadle, Nathaniel Bruce, M. D. and Charles Smith, of Connecticut.

Nineteen Deacons have been admitted to the holy order of Priests, viz. the Rev. James Thompson, the Rev. David Huntington, the Rev. Eli Wheeler, the Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard, of New-Jersey, at Newark, (N. J.) where Bishop Hobart was invited prior to the election of a Bishop in that state, by the standing committee of the same, to hold an ordination; the Rev. Alanson W. Welton, the Rev.

John Brown, the Rev. William B. Lacey, the Rev. Henri L. P. F Péneveyre, the Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, the Rev. John P. K. Henshaw (since removed to Maryland ;)the Rev. James F. Hull, of New-Orleans; the Rev. Thomas C. Brownell; the Rev. Walter Cranston, of Georgia, at NewHaven, in Connecticut, in which Diocess Bishop Hobart had been invited by the Convention of the same, agreeably to the 20th Canon of the General Convention, to perform Episcopal offices; the Rev. Evan M. Johnson, the Rev. William Creighton, the Rev. Ravaud Kearney, the Rev. Petrus S. Ten Broeck, and the Rev. George Weller.

Since the last General Convention, the following Institutions have taken place in this Diocess: of the Rev. John M'Vickar to the Rectorship of St. James's Church, Hyde-Park, Dutchess. county; of the Rev. Henry J. Feltus, to that of St. Stephen's Church, NewYork; of the Rev. Samuel F. Jarvis, to that of St. James's Church, NewYork; of the Rev. Charles Seabury, to that of Caroline Church, Brookhaven, Long-Island; of the Rev. Eli Wheeler, to that of St. John's Church, Johnstown; of the Rev. John P. K. Henshaw,(since removed to Maryland,) to that of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, Long-Island; of the Rev. Parker Adams, to that of Trinity Church, Lansinghurgh, Rensselaer county, and Grace Church, Waterford, Saratoga county; of the Rev. Joseph Prentice, to that of St. Luke's Church, Cattskill, Greene county; of the Rev. David Moore, to that of St. Andrew's Church, Staten-Island; of the Rev. James Milnor, to that of St. George's Church, New-York; of the Rev. William Creighton, to that of St. Mark's Church, New-York; of the Rev. Henri L. P. F. Péneveyre, to that of the French Church Du St. Esprit, NewYork-where the services of our Church are celebrated in the French language.

The Right Rev. John Henry Hobart, D. D. has been appointed Rector; the Rev. Thomas Y. How, D. D. Assistant Rector; and the Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, an Assistant

Minister, of Trinity Church, NewYork. The Rev. Evan M. Johnson has been settled as Minister of St. James's Church, Newtown, LongIsland; the Rev. Gregory T. Bedell, Deacon, of Christ Church, Hudson, Columbia county; the Rev. John Brown, of St. George's Church, Newburgh, Orange county; the Rev. William Powell, of St. John's Church, Yonkers, West-Chester county; the Rev. Henry Anthon, Deacon, of Church, Redhook, Dutchess county; the Rev. Ravaud Kearney, of St. Paul's Church, East-Chester, WestChester county; the Rev. Petrus S. Ten Broeck, of Trinity Church, Fishkill, and St. Philip's Church, Philipstown, Dutchess county, and St. Peter's Church, Peekskill, Putnam county; and the Rev. Daniel Mc Donald, of Trinity Church, Fairfield, Herkimer county.

The following clergymen are at present employed as Missionaries in this state, by, and under the direction of, the ecclesiastical authority of the Diocess: the Rev. Daniel Nash, the Rev. Samuel Fuller, the Rev. William A. Clark, the Rev. James Thompson, the Rev. William B. Lacey, the Rev. Russel Wheeler, the Rev. Alanson W. Welton, the Rev. Ezekiel G. Gear, Deacon, the Rev. Orin Clark, the Rev. Stephen Jewett, the Rev. Professor Thomas C. Brownell (who performs missionary services on Sundays in destitute congregations in the vicinity of Union College;) the Rev. Charles W. Hamilton, Deacon, the Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, the Rev. George Weller, the Rev. Samuel Johnston, Deacon, the Rev. Joshua M. Rogers, Deacon, and the Rev. Charles Seabury. And here it is proper to mention that, from the Misssionary Fund in this Diocess, a salary is also given to Mr. Eleazar Williams, a young man of Indian extraction, who resides with the Oneida tribe in this state, and performs the very useful offices of lay reader, catechist, and school-master among his Indian brethren. His religious exercises are the services of our Church, and approved sermons, both translated into the Mohawk language. His labours have

been very faithful, and promise great

success.

The Church in this Diocess has experienced incalculable advantage from the faithful labours of Missionaries. Some of the best established parishes, now affording competent support to their pastors, owe their existence, under God, to these labours. They have preserved the services of the sanctuary where, from a variety of opposing causes, there was danger of their loss. They have revived them in churches long vacated; and they are now carrying their consolations and their benefits to the remotest parts of the Diocess. As their happy conse quence, sacred edifices, commodious, neat, not unfrequently elegant, are fast beautifying tracts of our state, which, but lately, were an entire wilderness.

Among the changes that have taken place in this Diocess since the last General Convention, we have to notice the decease of the Right Rev. Samuel Provoost, D. D. the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore, D. D. and the Rev. Elias Cooper, the late pious and useful Rector of St. John's Church, Yonkers, and the oldest Presbyter in the Diocess.

The Confirmations reported by the Bishop in 1814, were 800; in 1815– 400; in 1816-1000. Total, 2200. For the administrations of this ordinance, and for the discharge of other Episcopal duties, the Bishop regularly and frequently visits every parish in this extensive Diocess.

Since the last report, the following parishes have been duly organized in this Diocess, and received into union with the Convention: St. Paul's Church, Oxford, Chenango county; Trinity Church, Coventry, Chenango county; St. Paul's Church, Preble and Tully, Courtlandt county; Trinity Church, Granville, Washington county; St. Andrew's Church, Genoa, Cayuga county; Zion Church, Onondago, Onondago county; St. Stephen's Church, Smithfield, Madison county; and St. Paul's Church, Durham, Greene county.

The following churches have been consecrated by the Bishop: St. Mat

congregation has also repaired and painted its handsome church. The other two congregations remain as before stated.

The congregation of St. Andrew's Church, Mount Holly, has also much increased. Formerly it enjoyed only part of the services of a clergyman; but, within the last two years, it has been able to give entire support to one. The Rev. George Y. Morehouse is now the Rector of that Church.

St. John's Church at Salem, vacant for more than forty years, with the exception of a few months in 1792 and 1793, has, within a short time, revived, and considerably improved. It now enjoys, in conjunction with St. George's, Penn's-Neck, which had also, for a long time, been vacant, and St. Mary's, Colestown, lately much increased, the ministrations of the Pastor formerly of St. Andrew's MountHolly.

The respectable Church at Swedes borough, though still large, has, since the last report, from some cause not accurately known, experienced a considerable diminution in the number of its communicants. The Rector formerly named has still the charge of it. The churches at Jersey, Berkeley, Mullica's Hill, Glassborough, Woodbridge, Trenton, Spotswood, Newton, Knowlton, Hardwick, Piscataway, Alexandria, Amwell, Allen-Town, and Chew's Landing, still remain vacant. The first five have the benefit of divine service, performed by licensed candidates and other laymen and the whole occasionally enjoy the ministrations of the Bishop and the neighbouring Rectors. The difficulty, for some time past, of procuring a suitable clergyman to act as a Missionary, has occasioned the state of the vacant churches generally, to be less favourable than it would otherwise have been. That difficulty will, no doubt, shortly be removed, as means for obtaining one. are progress There is a prospect, also, that a new church will shortly be instituted at the manufacturing town of Paterson.

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The Bishop of the Diocess, since his consecration in November, 1815, has visited the churches at Newark, Eliza

beth-Town, Shrewsbury, Spotswood, Mount-Holly, Swedesborough, Salem, Berkeley, Mullica's Hill, and Glassborough, and administered the holy rite of Confirmation in those of them which follow: viz. at Swedesborough, Mount Holly, Elizabeth Town,Shrews bury, New-Brunswick, and Newark. The number confirmed in these churches was 198.

He also admitted to the holy order of Priests, the Rev. George Y. Morehouse, who, shortly after, was instituted Rector of St. Andrew's Church, at Mount-Holly.

Samuel C. Stratton and Francis H. Cuming have been admitted candidates for holy orders since the last General Convention. Within the same time, the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard has been ordained Priest, and instituted Rector of Trinity Church, Newark.

It is with pleasure likewise stated, that the Missionary Fund, which, on the former report, was $ 2307 42, has, by a report made in August last to the State Convention, increased to $2611 4.

The Fund for the Support of the Widows and Children of Clergymen, has also considerably increased.

The permanent Fund of the Episcopal Society has advanced from $ 156, the sum stated in the former report, to $475. The Society has also distributed a considerable number of Bibles, Prayer Books, and Tracts.

It is further stated, and with great satisfaction, that the females of the churches of Newark and ElizabethTown, have established Bible and Prayer Book Societies, auxiliary to the Episcopal Society.

A Missionary Society has also been instituted in Trinity Church, Newark, in aid of the General Fund.

Sunday Schools have likewise been established in several congregations, principally by ladies, which promise much good.

Since the last Convention, the number of officiating clergymen has increased from 8 to 9, and the instituted rectors from 6 to 8.

On an examination of the progress of the Church in this Diocess, since

the termination of the revolutionary war, in 1783, it is found that it has increased, by the addition of Trinity Church, Swedesborough; St. George's Church, Penn's-Neck; St. John's Church, Chew's Landing; St. Thomas's Church, Glassborough; St. Matthew's Church, city of Jersey; and St. Stephen's Church, Mullica's Hill.

Pennsylvania.

The Church in this Diocess has always been small, and principally limited to the city of Philadelphia and its immediate neighbourhood. We have, however, satisfactory evidence, that it is increasing in numbers, strength, and zeal, and, we trust, in piety.

Prayer Books, and many valuable Tracts, have been distributed by the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in this state. The Society has likewise, by means of its Missionaries, supplied several vacant congregations with occasional services, and formed new congregations in the north-western part of the Diocess.

Since the last General Convention, two churches have been consecrated to the worship of Almighty God. The communicants of some congregations have greatly increased, and a growing attention to the best interests of the soul is evidently perceptible.

During last year a new Society was formed in this Diocess, for the express purpose of sending Missionaries into the western states. Under its direction, a young clergyman has visited, with success, many parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

The most gratifying intelligence from this Diocess is, that a very considerable number of young men have directed their attention to the Gospel ministry. There are, at present, twelve candidates for holy orders.

During the years 1814, 1815, and 1916, 487 persons have been confirmed.

Since the last General Convention, the following persons have received Deacon's orders: James Milnor, Samuel Phinney, George Sheets, Jacob Morgan Douglass, James Montgo

mery, Thomas P. May, Charles M. Dupuy, and Joseph R. Walker.

During the same period, the following have received Priest's orders: Rev. James Milnor, Rev. Jehu Curtis Clay, Rev. George Boyd, Rev. Abiel Carter, and Rev. Samuel Phinney.

The members of this Diocess have been zealous in distributing the Bible, Delaware.

This Diocess was once an important portion of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In this small state there are the remains of eleven congregations, which, at no very distant period, were all supplied with the ministrations of the Divine Word by clergymen of our Church. Owing, however, to

causes of which we can now have but a very indistinct view, and which probably cannot, by any, be correctly traced, this Diocess presents a most deplorable picture of departure from its first love. There are but two of the congregations in this Diocess that are regularly supplied by ministers of our Church. From the year 1810 till 1816, there was no regular Convention held. In the last mentioned year, a Convention was called, at which some regulations were entered into, which, should they be carried into effect, it is hoped, and with some confidence expected, that, through the Divine blessing, the situation of the Church in this state will be greatly meliorated. Distressing as is the condition of the Church in this Diocess, still there is every reason to believe that her prospects are brighter than they have been for many years. Among some things which induce this belief may be reckoned this pleasing circumstance, that, within the last eighteen months, there have been admitted, as candidates for holy orders, of this state, four young men of piety and talents, of whom the most encouraging hopes are entertained. Another circumstance in the present prospects of our Church here, and which seems to offer the most effectual means of her restoration, is the establishment of an Episcopal Missionary Society in Wilmington. If the zeal of our members can be excited so as to afford sufficient pecun: