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of the Connexion, and its efficiency not only affording a temporary relief to the Trusts of burdened chapels, but for totally removing, in due process of time, all the cases of real embarrassment which exist among us, (except where

the case may be very peculiar,) having been demonstrated; little remains to the Committee except to report the Proceedings of the Meeting for Distribution, held at Bristol, July 25th, 1825, and to commend a Fund which is yearly producing so many benefits, to the kind activity and liberality of our friends in every Circuit.

The amount of the subscriptions and collections in support of the ChapelFund for the year ending August 1st, 1825, was 45707. 17s. 10d., being an increase of 1761. 8s. above the preceding year.

The general result of the examination of the cases of Chapels recommended from the District Meetings was, that nineteen fewer Chapels this year required the aid of the Fund than in the last; in which year also a similar diminution of the cases was experienced: a circumstance which shows, that the Fund, if duly supported, must operate with accelerated efficiency in succeeding years; and renders it morally certain that the whole difficulty will, by the blessing of God, be subdued at no distant period.

The amount of the claims for deficiency of interest, which passed the Committee after the examination of each case, was about 38001., which being more than the rule of distribution allows to be appropriated for this purpose, was subjected to an equal deduction of 20 per cent. The sum of 14601., exclusive of a small sum reserved for printing and incidental expenses, was then left to be applied to reduce the debts on several Chapels, whose Trustees and other friends connected locally with them, were prepared to make offers of subscriptions to meet the grants of the Committee, and thus to place the said Chapels out of embarrassment, and generally to give up all future claim to relief from the Fund.

They are as follows:

Springfield Chapel. This Chapel is in the vicinity of Chelmsford. It was built in 1813, and cost 7341. To lessen the debt, one benevolent individual had given in former years 1507., and the other Trustees 501.; hut as the amount was still more than the annual income would meet. viz., 4417., they determined to reduce it to 3002, towards which the Committee granted a final sum of 402. Three small grants were made to this Chapel in the years 181920-21, amounting together to 207. 10s. The Society connected with this Chapel are generally poor.

Eastbourne. This Chapel is now situated in the Hastings Circuit, and has

been annually assisted by the Fund with various sums, amounting to 1251. It was built in 1810, cost 10067., and had a debt at the last Conference amounting to 9204. The seat-rents producing only 231. per annum, the Trustees determined on reducing the debt 4507, provided the Committee would grant them one third the amount as a final sum. To this offer the Committee ac; ceded.

Market Street. In this place, which is near Luton in Bedfordshire, we had once a flourishing Society of eighty members, but these are now reduced to thirty. The Chapel was built in 1809, and cost 4001.; and at the last Conference, the debt was 3207. This has been reduced by a farther sum of 1507, towards which the Fund made a final grant of 501. One Trustee gave 701. towards the 1007. raised in the Circuit towards the reduction. The debt is now 1701., with an income from seatrents and anniversaries, of between 71. and 87., which will nearly meet the demands for annual interest, &c. Two small grants were made to this Chapel in the years 1823 and 1824, amounting to kl. 2s. 6d.

Troston.-This is a village in the Thetford Circuit, with only fifteen members in Society. The Chapel was built in 1811, and cost 3321.; but the debt had increased to 418. The Trustees of this Chapel are mostly labouring men, who support themselves by their weekly earnings. They have, however, by the aid of more opulent friends in the Circuit, raised 100%., and have received from this Fund a further grant of 501., as a final sum, to reduce the debt. The grants previously made to this Chapel amounted to 371. 5s.

Tewkesbury. This Chapel was built in 1814, and cost 14007., and the debt previous to the Conference was 1100/. The annual amount of seat-rents has been seldom much above 201., so that the deficiency of income has been added to the principal for several years. The original number of the Trustees has been considerably reduced by death, and the circumstances of others so embarrassed, as to render the burden exceedingly heavy on the few who remained capable of affording assistance. The Trustees engaged, on receiving a sum of 1507, as a final grant, to raise. among themselves a further sum of 2501. towards the reduction of their debt. This reduction, they anticipate, will place their Chapel in such circumstances as their annual income will be sufficient to meet. The sums previously granted to this Chapel amount to

1001. 2s. 6d. The Society connected with this Chapel is about ninety members.

Prestbury. This Chapel, situated in the Macclesfield Circuit, was built in 1815, and cost 5061. In consequence of the large debt of 4661. 16s. being upon it, and no sitting being let, the Conference directed it to be sold; but the District Meeting having received the following offer, transmitted it to the Committee, viz. "We unanimously recommend that the present offer of the Trustees to raise among themselves 2061. 16s., to be applied in paying off the debt, on condition they have a final grant of 60, be accepted by the Chapel-Fund Committee." This was accordingly granted. The debt is now, therefore, only 2007. to meet the interest of which there is a rental of 61. 10s, and the Anniversary collection. The amount of the former grants was 661. 158.

Bagslate. This Chapel is in the Rochdale Circuit, and has a Society of seventy-five persons connected with it, It was built in 1810, and originally cost 12591.; but the debt had increased to 1590, beside which there was a ground-rent of 101. 16s. 6d. The average income for the last seven years has been only 391. 2s. 6d., consequently, notwithstanding the grants made to this Chapel heretofore, amounting together to 2071., the debt had increased from 14851. to 15907. during that period. The Trustees, therefore, after united efforts with the Preachers to raise a subscription for the reduction of the debt, addressed the Committee as fol. lows:-"Encouraged by the liberal plan on which you, as a Committee, have proceeded in several cases mentioned in your las: Report, we have neen induced to make great exertions, in order entirely to remove the heavy and increasing burden of Bagslate Chapel from your Fund. The generosity of our friends (through the indefatigable labours of our Preachers, the Rev. Messrs. Pilter and Harris) has enabled us to raise a subscription amounting to 6501, which we propose to give, in order to reduce the very heavy debt now upon the premises, on condition of our receiving from the Fund 3507., to be added to it for the same purpose." The Committee acceded to this request as a final grant, by which nearly two thirds of the debt being cancelled, the Chapel will be placed in easy circum

stances.

Tattershall.-This Chapel is near Spilsby, in Lincolnshire. It was built in 1811, and cost 2001. By the erection

of a gallery, and arrears of interest, this debt had increased to 3301. while the amount of seat-rents was only 57. per annum. The Trustees, therefore, engaged to raise 1201, on receiving 601. as a final grant from the Fund. This having been accomplished, that amount was paid from the Fund, and the debt is now reduced to 1501. This Chapel has been annually relieved since the Fund was established, with sundry grants amounting to 521, 10s. There is a Society connected with this Chapel of thirty-seven members.

Parkhead. This Chapel was situated in the Glasgow Circuit, It was built in 1819. For some time the congregations were good, and a promising Sunday-School was connected with it. The cause, however, suffered through some unhappy divisions which took place in the Circuit. Some of the Trustees emigrated to America, and the number was reduced to four. To complete their misfortunes, about two years and a half ago, the ground on which the Chapel stood gave way, as it is thought, by the working of the coal mines below. By this disaster, the building was rendered totally unfit for use, and was ultimately sold for 2501. The original cost was 4501. Towards this loss of 2007., the Committee granted a sum of 501. as a final grant.

The only case on which, from its particular circumstances, the Committee did not think it right to insist as the condition of its grant, that no future application should be made, was that of St. George's, in the East London Circuit, which, like that of Worcester the last year, is entitled still to apply for help for deficiency of interest, should such deficiency occur, as it is likely it may for a few years, the resources of those Chapels having been entirely exhausted by former exertions, and their embarrassments having been most threatening in their aspect. By the arrangement which has been made as far as it has gone, an annual claim for deficiency of interest of 501. from Worcester, and 751. from St. George's will be extinguished. The following is the case of

St. George's Chapel.-This Chapel is situated in the London East Circuit. It was erected in 1811, and cost 79007. The debt, by arrears of interest, had increased at the last Conference to 8150, notwithstanding the annual grants from the Fund. For a full account of this Chapel we beg to refer our readers to the Fourth Report of this Fund, and shall only now state, that the Trustees having raised by

Subscription a Thousand Pounds, Five Hundred of which were subscribed by themselves, the Committee granted them a further sum of Five Hundred Pounds towards the reduction of their debt. This liquidation of 15002. of the debt will greatly assist them, so that a much smaller annual grant will be necessary for a few years, till their present embarrassments are further relieved by the falling it of annuities.

Thus, in the case of ten Chapels, and some of them of very considerable importance in their relation to the work of God, an arrangement has been come to between the Committee and the Trustees, by which the large sum of 46871. of debt on the said Chapels, has been cancelled,-14604. having been advanced by the Fund; and 32271. having been raised by the local Subscriptions of the Trustees and their Friends.

This arrangement, like that of former years, presented many instances of honourable liberality and sacrifice on the part of Trustees and their friends, which the Committee witnessed with great gratitude and admira tion; and they trust that these examples will lead to efforts in other places as praiseworthy, and as cheeringly indicative of warm attachment to the prosperity of the work of God in our native land.

It will be seen by reference to the List of Chapels relieved this year, that the Oxford Chapel, to which 301. were granted last year, and which has received assistance from the establishment of the Fund, has no longer any claim upon it. This bas arisen from a most munificent donation, from a benevolent individual, to that, and two other Chapels in the same Circuit. By this liberal offering, the Fund has been relieved by the amount of its yearly graut to the Oxford Trust; and the friends there, who have uniformly shown excellent management and public spirit under their pressures, are set free from all anxieties as to the work, in that important station.

The Committee have the pleasure to notice an instance of that sympathy for the case of embarrassed Chapels, which they are persuaded springs from a sound estimate of the religious im'portance of placing them as far as possible out of their difficulties. Mrs. Charlotte Wilson, late of Oldham, kindly presented to the Chapel-Fund the sum of 101., to be applied to increase the grant made by the Committee to the most distressed case before them, which sum was voted to increase the grant to the Worcester Chapel.

It is a natural inquiry, and one, we believe, often made, by what means future difficulties are to be prevented, provided the present are subdued? The answer to this is, that a control is placed on the building of Chapels by the institution of the Chapel Building Committee, whose consent must be obtained to the erection of every Chapel, and its advice regarded, or such Chapel can at no future périod, should the hopes of the parties be frustrated, have any claim upon the Fund. Most of the cases of distress which exist, took place previously to the adoption of this regulation in 1818; and all obvious improvident cases will be prevented by it. In some instances, as formerly, indeed, a rapid change of public local circumstances may disappoint the best founded hopes, and the most prudent and advised measures ; but these can be but few, and are, at all times, the proper and direct objects of Christian charity.

The following is the amount of Subscriptions and Collections raised each year towards this Fund :

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560 Chapels.

1820

586