THEIR OBJECTS AND MAGNITUDE. 141 



administration of the charities over which they 

 possess necessary power of control. 



The principal objects to which the funds 

 w r ere appropriated by the founders of the 

 charities are education, apprenticing, and ad- 

 vancement of orphans ; endowment of clergy, 

 lecturers, and for sermons ; Church purposes 

 and repairs ; maintenance of Dissenting places 

 of worship and their ministers ; public parochial 

 uses ; support of almshouses and pensioners ; 

 distribution of articles in kind and money ; 

 medical hospitals and dispensaries. The pro- 

 perty which has thus in the past been volun- 

 tarily devoted by benevolent persons as an 

 endowment for charitable objects in England is 

 equal to more than one-half of that possessed 

 by the Established Church. If we add the Their 



magnitude 



amount annually expended in the United compared 



with the 



Kingdom on the relief of the poor and in aid of cost of 



the civil 



education, it appears that the annual expendi- adminis- 

 tration. 

 ture on objects of charity exceeds the whole 



cost of the civil administration of the country. 



