more than merely reassert the old law. He changed the whole motive of giving from being a legal obligation into a matter of personal love and loyalty to Himself and His Kingdom. Love will never be satisfied with the minimum. If a tenth is the minimum the gifts of Christians should be much more. Thus Christian giving is the measure of our love to Christ and of our sense of the value of His Kingdom in the world.

But what I want to press home now is the fact that we have not kept pace in our giving with our growth in wealth. The following figures, secured from the office of the Dominion Minister of Finance, are illuminating and astounding, and worth thinking over. And we must think over them if we are to gauge what our present giv-. ing ought to be in order to keep pace with the prosperity with which God has blessed us.

4. The increase since 1910 shows that the deposits have nearly reached one billion of dollars.

5.-Bank clearings of Chartered Banks,

The total amount of British Capital invested in Canada is given as $1,815,267,000. Of this sum no less than $493,266,742 has been subscribed during the past three years, viz.: $152,373,182 in 1908, $183,412,325 in 1909 and $157,481,235 in 1910, the total for these three years being considerably larger than the sum invested during the same period in any other country."

As regards the foregoing figures two points are incontrovertible: First, the material assets of our people, our wealth, commerce, etc., have nearly doubled in money value within the last five years. Our Bank deposits alone, i.e., money lying idle at the people's demand and which they do not know what to do with, has reached the enormous sum of nearly a billion dollars-an increase of about $450,000,000 in five years. Secondly, our own people, the members of the Church of England in the Diocese of Huron, have shared in this enormous prosperity.

But while our wealth has thus increased at the rate of nearly 100%, the gifts of our people for religious purposes have scarcely increased 10%! That is the fact that confronts us. Is not this tempting the Lord? For surely he has not given us this great prosperity and great wealth to be used so entirely on ourselves? When God has increased His gifts to us by nearly 100% and we have increased our gifts to Him by only 10% or less, there must be something fundamentally wrong with us. We need to fall on our knees and pray God to save us from the numbing effect of fulness and prosperity.

Moreover, I think that the Synod ought to take action without delay to bring home to the people the seriousness of our failure in giving, the necessity of going back to fundamentals, and of adopting right methods. The first two points will fall largely to the lot of the Clergy to carry out; but the third-the adoption of right methods-belongs to the Laity even more than the Clergy. Indeed, I think that the Synod ought to adopt a definite policy as regards methods of giving. Let us adopt the

"Every-Member Canvass" and the "Duplex Envelope" as the policy of the Synod, and require every parish to come into line with that policy. The education furnished by a campaign of that kind would be of incalculable value, not only in increasing the support of all the Church's schemes both local and general, but also in placing the subject of giving upon a right basis and would help to roll away our present reproach.

Forward Movement in Foreign Missions.

This subject of giving becomes a very practical question with us just now. For we have undertaken certain definite additional responsibilities in the foreign field. In the sight of God our responsibilities have been always the same—to do our utmost for the whole world; but at the last meeting of the Board of Missions held in London last September, we undertook to provide for the evangelization of three districts among the three great peoples of the non-Christian world, districts for which we undertook full responsibility and from which others will now keep away. By concentration we hope to make our work more effective. One district is in Japan, comprising a population of 6,000,000; one is in China-the Diocese of Honan with a population of 15,000,000; the third is in India with a population of 1,000,000, the district of Kangra.

Of the importance of the work or of the critical and strategic character of Missions among these great and rapidly awaking peoples I shall say nothing now. Probably you will hear that side on Wednesday evening. I shall confine myself to the practical steps which we must take in order to bear our just share of the cost of the Forward Movement.

To begin our work effectively in these districts requires the sum of $20,000 in addition to the present obligations of the M. S. C. C. Assuming this sum to be apportioned to all the Dioceses in Canada, Huron's share would be about $2,000, about one-eighth of our apportionment. Therefore in addition to our ordinary M. S. C. C. apportionment we must raise this year $2,000 besides. In other words every congregation and every individual must give all that was given last year and one-eighth more. Several congregations in the Diocese of Toronto have assumed full responsibility for the stipends of new

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missionaries to those fields in addition to meeting their ordinary apportionment. I regret to say that no congregation in Huron has as yet risen to that height, and therefore we must secure the increased amount by adding oneeighth to the apportionment of every congregation. I urge the Clergy and Lay Delegates who are responsible for the Forward Movement, for they elect the General Board of Missions, to take definite steps in their respective parishes not only to make up the apportionment in full, but also their share of the additional sum required for the Forward Movement and to keep the latter separate from the ordinary apportionment. Having undertaken full and sole responsibility for these great districts and as it were warned other societies away from them, we are in honor bound to see that they are not starved, bound to send a force commensurate with the work. The $20,000 represents only the beginning of what it will cost to evangelize these great districts. Probably before the work can be done efficiently, ten times that amount will be required every year. But if we increased our contributions in the same proportion that God has increased our wealth, we could do it now and have means to spare. It will be humiliating if we fail to make up our share of the modest beginning for which we now appeal.

Turning now from financial and kindred subjects, there are several departments of Church activity and aspects of religious life and thought on which I desire to speak; and even at the risk of appearing thin and scrappy my remarks shall be very brief.

Rural Deaneries.

And first I desire to say a word about our Rural Deaneries. It is a common remark that the organization of the Church into Rural Deaneries is admirable on paper but practically useless. The reasons usually assigned for this are: The absence of power, lack of work, the distances and consequent expense of meeting.

As regards the last, there may be something in it but not much. The distances even in the largest Rural Deanery are not such as to preclude at least two meetings in the year. Absence of power is merely an excuse; voluntary and co-operative work is the largest part of the Church's work. They only will complain of the absence of work who shut their eyes to the local problems which

press upon every parish and which would be greatly lessened if parishes co-operated more in their solution.

A glance at the subjects which may be dealt with at meetings of Rural Deaneries will shew what wide scope for usefulness is afforded to them.

1.-"The furtherance of all schemes adopted by authority for the raising of the apportionment towards Diocesan purposes or the M. S. C. C." As yet we have only one such scheme-the campaign in May. This is a scheme covering the whole Diocese; but if this is all the effort put forth, the work of raising the apportionments will not be done. Why should not the Clergy and Laity at the Rural Deanery Meeting not devise plans to supplement the Diocesan effort? The preaching deputation on Sunday may stir up interest; but the work will not be fruitful unless the Sunday interest is followed up by an active personal canvass of the people while they are interested. Why should not a series of canvassing deputa. tions be organized at the meeting of the Deanery to visit parishes that are behind? Such canvassing deputations could spend two or three days in the parish, disseminating information and soliciting subscriptions and introducing the Duplex Envelope System. This is great work and it is waiting to be done.

2. Then there is Church Extension. There is not a Deanery in the Diocese where the Church is adequately represented. As it is, Church Extension is left to some individual Clergyman who receives little or no help from his brethren in neighboring parishes. Why could not the Deaneries take up the subject, and Clergy and Laity help in the work of extension?

3. Again take the Parochial Assessment for Stipend. By Canon 27 this work is allocated to the Rural Deaneries. Our employment of a Diocesan Commissioner has largely supplemented the Deanery Committees in the Regular Assessment. But the regular assessment is not all. After the regular assessment has been made, the list often suffers by removals and lapses and requires renewal. Why should not the work of renewal be taken up at the Deanery meetings? Many a missionary's stipend would come in with much more certainty if from time to time the list were renewed by help from outside when the Wardens failed to do so.

4. Then the re-arrangement of Parishes and Mis