Divine blessing on our undertaking; but because, through the means of your pecuniary contributions, we perceive one facility providentially vouchsafed to us for advancing the object we have in view. It is by pecuniary aid that our school-masters and mistresses must be transported to their distant fields of operation; and there be maintained and remunerated. It is by pecuniary aid that schoolrooms must be erected and furnished; and the many contingent expenses of such institutions be provided

And whence is this aid to be procured, but from the liberality of those whom God hath blessed with the disposition and the power to furnish it? He evidently proposes that you should contribute to the funds of this Institution; and are we then to be censured for soliciting you, even importunately, to comply with His purpose? It is not the will of our Father which is in Heaven, that one of those little ones, for whom I plead, should perish.' Yet, without your assistance, their danger of perishing will apparently be great indeed.-But this assistance you can seasonably render. Is it not then our duty to ask it? Taking into account the infinite value of these souls, and the inestimable price which has been paid for them, are we not constrained to urge, to entreat, to importune you not to be backward in giving your assistance, not to withhold this good, when it is in the power of your

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hand to do it? Give it then, my brethren, this evening, and give it not with a sparing hand. Give it-not to the Society-but to the Lord. Give it to Him who gave himself for you. Give it as a small expression of your gratitude to Him, who hath done and suffered so much for you: and who in reference even to such unworthy proofs of our love, has graciously condescended to say, 'In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto ME.'

THE

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

NEWFOUNDLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.

YOUR Committee have much satisfaction in presenting the Report of their Proceedings during the last twelve months; a period in which they have been favoured by a gracious Providence with such a measure of success, as fully justifies the hope, that The NEWFOUNDLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY may be permitted to accomplish in due time the important Objects for which it has been instituted.

In the summer of last year, three additional Masters with their wives, and George Browning, an Apprenticed Monitor, having duly qualified themselves at the central National School in Baldwin's Gardens, sailed for Newfoundland, where they arrived in safety, in the month of August, and immediately proceeded to their respective destinations, viz. Mr. and Mrs. Kingwell to Harbour

Grace, Mr. and Mrs. Teulon to Carbonnierre, Mr. and Mrs. Martin to Petty Harbour, and George Browning, to Quidi Vidi.

ST. JOHN'S.

At St. John's, the purchase of the central School-House has been completed on advantageous terms; and although the expense of alteration and repairs has somewhat exceeded the original estimate, your Committee have no reason to regret such a necessary application of the Funds of the Society. The building is of stone, and fireproof, and is calculated to contain between four and five hundred Children: it is situated in Duckworth Street, in the most populous and central part of the town, and is commodious, well ventilated, and, in every respect, adapted for the purposes of the Society, as a permanent establishment.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeynes continue to fulfil their important duties with increasing approbation and success, and they have received, on several occasions, very gratifying proofs of the general esteem in which the Schools are held. The number of Children now educating in the central School is 244, of which 117 are Boys, and 127 are Girls.

Mr. Jeynes has likewise opened an Evening School during the winter months, for Adults, at which they receive free instruction in the common

branches of education; ;

"this School," Mr. Jeynes

observes," is increasing fast." The present number on the books is thirty-five.

The Sunday Schools at St. John's and Quidi Vidi are going on well.

QUIDI VIDI,

Quidi Vidi is situate in the neighbourhood of St. John's, and the free daily School there is conducted by George Browning, under the superintendence of Mr. Jeynes, to whom he has proved "a valuable assistant," and according to the last information received, he had 43 Children under his

care.

TRINITY HARBOUR.

Your Committee having received last year, pressing applications for a School-master from Trinity Harbour, which lies to the north of St. John's, and having ascertained that no provision existed there, for the free daily instruction of the poor, they determined upon appointing Mr. Fleet to that station. Upon this occasion, he thus expresses himself in a letter to your Assistant Secretary:-" Central School, St. John's, May 27, 1825. You will be glad to hear that I am now preparing for Trinity, according to instructions, and expect to go on Monday, May 30th. It is indeed a most important undertaking, and one that lies