An Historical and Statistica Account of New South Wales, Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony Volume 2; In Two Volumes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...in Sydney; and under all the disadvantages of that attempt--a congregation dispersed, through the repeated absence of the minister in England, and that minister overburdened with extra-official duties, interfering in no small degree with the duties of the ministry--a revenue of 111 was raised with the utmost facility, and the practicability of raising a revenue of several hundreds a year, in more favourable circumstances, sufficiently demonstrated. The practicability therefore of raising sufficient incomes for the town ministers of the Episcopal Church, on the system about to be introduced in the colony, may therefore be considered as unquestionable. In most of the towns and settlements in the interior, the maximum salary, contributed by the Government, will also be procurable for ministers of the Church of Englandand if the Bishop only adopts the right means for training up suitable ministers in the colony, and allows the people their choice of these ministers, their incomes will undoubtedly be made ample enough. As for the Presbyterians, who are considerably less numerous in ihe older districts of the colony, they would seldomer be able to realize the maximum salary for their ministers; hut being already drilled in some measure into the Governor's semi-voluntary system, they will doubtless receive its provisions as a most valuable political boon, and go to work upon them in right earnest, and forthwith. "We shall doubtless betold, that the grand objection to the new system is the admission of Roman Catholics to equal rights and privileges with the Protestant communions. For our own part, as zealous Protestants, we are sorry to find the Government of a Protestant country reduced, as this Government evidently is, to the necessity of supporting an...