Here, then, we have a Society of the most liberal character, acting with the _full_ concurrence of the Episcopal Bench, _selecting_, and _appointing_, as well as paying Missionaries. It is true, as the Christian-Knowledge Society enlarged its operations, it transferred this part of its business to a separate Society, the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, but the precedent still remains. Before that time, any member of that Society might have sat in judgment upon, and a majority of Lay-members might have put the _veto_ practically upon Missionaries nominated by the Clergy; or, _vice-versâ_, nominated the Missionaries disapproved by the Clergy. So I read the constitution of this Church Society:—if I am wrong, there are many who will be glad to set me right. Members had, and must have had, the same power over Missionaries that they originally had over Tracts; the same power that they had over the appointment of all their officers. Such, I say, was the constitution, whatever may have been the practice of the Society: any Member might have _stood upon his right_ to exercise a vote in the appointment of Missionaries; and, furthermore, if the practice of the Society in this respect had been to delegate its right to the clerical members of its body, as best qualified to judge of the fitness of persons for spiritual offices, this would only make the case more analogous to that of the Church Pastoral-Aid Society, which confides the trust of examining into the character of candidates for its grants solely to the clerical members of its Subcommittee. Follow the case to the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which is likewise, according to the _exact discrimination_ of some gentlemen, a Church Society. Whatever difference may exist between it and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, their constitutions in one respect are similar; viz. that the governing body are a mixed Committee of Laymen and Clergy, in whom must necessarily vest all appointments and distribution of funds: if they should delegate the nomination of Missionaries to their clerical members, they do exactly what the Church Pastoral-Aid Society is doing; only with this difference, that the Church Pastoral-Aid Society exercises a _negative_ and _partial_, the others a _positive_ and _absolute_ voice in their appointments. It is time I should quote the actual Rules of one of these two Church Societies, with whom the whole business of the Missions is now lodged. Rule XVII. of the Society for Propagating the Gospel is, 17. _That no Missionary be employed until the fullest inquiry has been made into his fitness and sufficiency_; _and that all persons applying for Missions shall produce testimonials_, _signed by three beneficed Clergymen_, _and countersigned by the Bishop of the Diocese in which those Clergymen are beneficed_.