258 PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL. 



liberally encouraged in the establishment of 

 schools, throughout the Province, by a grant 

 of twenty pounds per annum, from the Pro- 

 vincial Treasury, to each parish where a school- 

 house is provided, and the sum of twenty 

 pounds is raised annually by the inhabitants. — 

 Through this enlightened, and liberal system 

 of policy, the settlers are enabled to engage 

 efficient teachers, in the important duty of 

 educating their children. A mighty mass 

 of intellect is thus called into action, and as 

 ever stirring and awake, it requires some better 

 guide in matters of religion, than the common- 

 place precepts, which may be taught by the 

 schoolmaster. — The rising youth call loudly 

 for increased ministerial w T atchful care, while 

 the destitute state of numerous settlements, 

 formed far back in the interior, present to the 

 active devoted Missionaries of the Gospel, vast 

 fields of usefulness, already ripe for the harvest. 

 The labourers, however, of the Church of Eng- 

 land, who are sent out, or supported by the 

 Society for 6 the Propagation of the Gospel in 

 Foreign Parts,' occupy but few stations, com- 

 pared with the spiritual wants, of the many 

 thousands, who are stated in the census, to live 

 in the Province. And the national Kirk of 



