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which had been promised through Mr. Robert 

 Bunch, so soon as the church building had been 

 roofed in, and which in due time was paid, one-half 

 by mutual arrangement going to St. Luke's Hospital. 

 After this every effort was made to carry on the 

 Parish, but without success, and it having been fully 

 demonstrated that there was no need of a separate 

 church for Englishmen, and as a free church it hav- 

 ing proved a failure, the pews were all rented on No- 

 vember I St, 1 86 1, except one-third, which were re- 

 served for British emigrants. The resources of the 

 church being then exhausted in the payment of 

 current expenses, the rector resigned and the prop- 

 erty was sold. In 1867 the Rev. Frederick Sill was 

 appointed minister in charge, and the Parish again 

 accepted an invitation to worship in the church at 

 the corner of Thompson and Prince streets, now 

 called St. Ambrose. Subsequent misfortunes having 

 dissipated the balance of the funds held in trust, 

 in 1873 the Senior Warden resigned, and his place 

 was filled by Mr. Robert Waller, the present Senior 

 Warden, and the continuance of the Parish there- 

 after was maintained solely by the direct assistance 

 of St. George's Society, through an annual appro- 

 priation made up from its Contingent Fund for that 

 purpose, from which time the Senior Warden de- 

 voted his energies to preserving, through the church, 

 the valuable rights in St. Luke's Hospital, to which 

 we have already referred. It seems hardly neces- 



