THE UPPER HOUSE. The Upper House held its meetings in the Library of Trinity College, Toronto. The following Bishops were present during the Session : The Most Reverend His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Ontario The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Toronto, The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of New Westminster, The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Fredericton, The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Saskatchewan and The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Quebec, The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Columbia. The result of the deliberations of the Upper House is seen in the Messages sent to the Lower House. JOINT SESSION. At the hour agreed upon by both Houses for proroguing the Synod, both Houses met in Joint Session in the Convocation Hall of Trinity University, where His Grace the President read the following Schedule of the work accomplished by the Synod: SCHEDULE OF ACTS OF SYNOD. 1. The Solemn Declaration, Fundamental Principles, and Basis of Constitution. 2. The Permanent Order of Proceedings. 3. The Provisional Articles of Constitution, Order of Proceedings of the Lower House, and Rules of Order. 4. Telegraphic message of welcome to His Excellency the Governor-General. 5. Designation of each Metropolitan as Archbishop of his See. 6. Appointment of Standing Committees : (1) On Constitution, Order of Proceedings, and Rules of (2) On Doctrine, Worship, and Discipline. (5) On Inter-Diocesan and Provincial Relations in (6) On the transfer of Clergy from one Diocese to another. (7) On the Education and Training of Candidates for Holy Orders. (8) On an Appellate Tribunal. (9) On Finance. 7. Resolution on the promulging of the Constitution and Acts of Synod in the various Dioceses. 8. Resolution providing that no change be considered or made in the Basis of Constitution except on certain conditions. 9. Resolution appointing next meeting of Synod. 10. Resolution affirming the Lambeth Conditions of Re-union. II. Resolution on religious teaching in schools. 12. Resolution allowing Standing Committees to add to their number. 13. Resolution of thanks to the Primate for his sermon with request for publication. 14. Resolution for the appointment of a Delegation to the Genera] Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. 15. Various votes of thanks. R. RUPERT'S LAND. The Doxology was then sung, His Grace the President pronounced the Benediction, and the Synod was prorogued to meet at Winnipeg, in September, 1896. GENERAL SYNOD. FIRST SESSION. APPENDICES. (A) SOLEMN DECLARATION. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. We, the Bishops, together with the Delegates from the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada, now assembled in the first General Synod, hereby make the following Solemn Declaration : We declare this Church to be, and desire that it shall continue, in full communion with the Church of England throughout the world, as an integral portion of the One Body of Christ composed of Churches which, united under the One Divine Head and in the fellowship of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, hold the One Faith revealed in Holy Writ, and defined in the Creeds as maintained by the undivided Primitive Church in the undisputed Ecumenical Councils; receive the same Canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as containing all things necessary to salvation; teach the same Word of God; partake of the same Divinely ordained Sacraments, through the ministry of the same Apostolic Orders, and worship One God and Father through the same Lord Jesus Christ, by the same Holy and Divine Spirit Who is given to them that believe to guide them into all truth. And we are determined by the help of God to hold and maintain the Doctrine, Sacraments, and Discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded in His Holy Word, and as the Church of England hath received and set forth the same in "The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites "and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the "Church of England; together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and "the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating "of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons ;" and in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion; and to transmit the same unimpaired to our posterity. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. We declare that the General Synod when formed does not intend to, and shall not, take away from or interfere with any rights, powers, or jurisdiction of any Diocesan Synod within its own territorial limits as now held or exercised by such Diocesan Synod. We declare that the constitution of a General Synod involves no change in the existing system of Provincial Synods, but the retention or abolition of the Provincial Synods is left to be dealt with according to the requirements of the various Provinces as to such Provinces and the Dioceses therein may seem proper. BASIS OF CONSTITUTION. 1. (a) The General Synod shall consist of the Bishops of the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada and of Delegates chosen from the Clergy and the Laity. (b) The Delegates shall be chosen by the several Diocesan Synods according to such rules as they may adopt, or, in a Diocese which has no Synodical organization, may be appointed by the Bishop, such Delegates to be in all cases resident in the Diocese from which they are elected or appointed; provided that, until circumstances permit of its being otherwise ordered by the General Synod, the Bishops of the Dioceses of Moosonee, Selkirk, Mackenzie River, Athabasca, and Caledonia, and such other Dioceses as may be formed out of them, be permitted to elect or appoint nonresident Delegates to the General Synod, provided only that the said Delegates be resident within the bounds of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land or the Civil Province of British Columbia respectively. Provided further that until 1896 these Dioceses may elect their Delegates from any Dioceses whatever. (c) The representation shall be as follows:-Dioceses having fewer than twenty-five licensed Clergymen, one Delegate from each order; Dioceses having twenty-five and fewer than fifty licensed Clergymen, two of each order; Dioceses having fifty and fewer than one hundred, three of each order; Dioceses having one hundred licensed Clergymen and upwards, four of each order. 2. (a) The Synod shall consist of two Houses; the Bishops constituting the Upper, and the Clergy and Laity together the Lower House. The two Houses shall sit separately except by the consent of both Houses. (b) The Clergy and Laity shall vote by orders if required; and if the proposition be carried in the negative it shall be conclusive; but if in the affirmative any six Delegates (two from each of three different Dioceses) may then demand a vote by Dioceses, |