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in order that they may be faithfully preserved for the perpetual use of 

 the House of the General Convention of this Church, to recur 

 to as occasion may require;" appointed again on the Standing 

 Committee.* 



In the convention of 1804 he is a member of a committee "to pre- 

 pare an office of Induction in the Rectorship of Parishes; " Chairman 

 of a committee to settle "a very unhappy difference," subsisting be- 

 tween the Rev. Uzal Ogden, D. D., and the then congregation of Trinity 

 Church, Newark, which appeared to threaten the existence of that 

 church, and which its vestry brought before the convention, asking it 

 "to devise some means for their relief;" Chairman "to manage, on 

 the part of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, a Conference with 

 the House of Bishops on certain points where differences of opinion 

 prevailed," but where perfect harmony was arrived at by patience and 

 learning of the committees of the respective bodies. f 



He was Treasurer both of General conventions and of State conven- 

 tions; his plentiful fortune and his liberal disposition making him a 

 very acceptable officer in situations like these then were, and still are, 

 where funds were limited and demands upon them large. 



For fifty-nine years he was an active and valuable member of that 

 beneficent corporation, now so opulent, but long very feeble, and for 

 some years after its organization scarce existent, "for the Relief of the 

 Widows and Clergymen in the Communion of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church; " becommg a member of it a. d. 1773, and ending his services 

 to it only with his life. From the year 1S03 until 181 4 he was its 

 Treasurer, for Pennsylvania. As late as 1828 Bishop White, in an 

 address to the convention of the clergy and laity of his State, speaks 

 of the assistance which that "reverend brother, then present," had 

 rendered to him "after the shock received by the fund from the cur- 

 rency at the Revolutionary war," not only in reorganizing the society, 

 but also in rescuing the remnant of the fund from the further danger 

 into which it had fallen. He was a Trustee from its origin, a. d. 181 2, 

 of that useful institution of the church in Pennsylvania, the Society for 

 the Advancement of Christianity, and a constant contributor to its 

 funds. 



He was a Manager of " The Philadelphia Dispensary," a beneficent 

 institution established a. d. 1786, and still beneficently existing for the 

 relief of the indigent sick, and early and long a contributor to its 

 funds; a "Visitor" — personally interesting himself — of the incorporated 



* See Minutes of September 12, September 17, September 18, 1795. 

 f See Minutes of September 13, September 15 and September 18, 1804. 



