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by the Society upon that sad event, which had been 

 forwarded through Sir Edward Thornton, brought 

 a suitable acknowledgment. At a later meeting in 

 the same year a determination was expressed of 

 founding a Home for aged men and women, and a 

 special committee was appointed to carry the same 

 into effect, but the scheme, though a highly laud- 

 able one, did not meet with the support that was 

 anticipated, and for the time it was allowed to drop. 

 The subject was again revived in 1882, when it was 

 proposed to raise a sum of money to be invested 

 according to the Constitution of the Society in the 

 names of the President, Treasurer and Secretary, 

 as Trustees, the income alone to be used in placing 

 old and destitute English people in existing Homes, 

 and the principal to be allowed to accumulate until 

 a sufficient sum was raised to erect and endow a 

 Home, throuorh and in the name of the Anorlo- 

 American Free Church of St. George the Martyr. 

 While this scheme met with the approval of the 

 Committee, the fund has not yet been started, but 

 it is hoped that the wealthy Englishmen residing in 

 this city may at some time in the near future take 

 up the matter again and carry it to a successful con- 

 clusion. 



St. George's Day in 1883 fell upon a Sunday and 

 the members of the Society attended, by invitation, 

 a special service at the place of worship of the 

 Church of St. George the Martyr, when the Rev. 



