PLAN.—The Church Pastoral-Aid Society strictly regards the wants of the Church on the one hand, and the order of the Church on the other. It would make the Church efficient; it would carry the Gospel, by means of the Church, to every man’s door, but it never intrudes its aid: the Incumbent must apply for aid, or sanction the application; and until this is done, the Society cannot move. When aid is sought and granted, the Parochial Minister must say how it is to be employed—he must nominate the persons to be employed—he must engage them, as well as superintend and entirely control them. All that the Society does, is to provide for their remuneration; and, while so doing, to ask satisfactory proof of their qualifications. OPERATIONS. RESULTS OF AID. Incumbents aided 275 Grants now in operation: Population under their 2,035,556 for Clergymen 230 charge Average population to each 7,375 Lay- 40 Assistants Average income of £163 Additional Churches and Incumbents Chapels: Without Parsonage-houses 138 Opened 67 The Society’s aid is to provide Proposed 59 for Clergymen 293 Addit. Licensed Places used as Chapels: Lay-Assistants 42 Opened 106 Total charge on the £26,198 Proposed 20 Society, when all are in operation, per annum Charge of those now in £20,908 Additional full Services operation established: Income of the Society for £16,176 On the 401 the year 1839–40 Lord’s-Day On Week-days 172 Additional 161 Cottage Lectures LETTER _&c._ _&c._ THE Rev. Dr. Molesworth, a Clergyman favourably known for some time past by the publication of a periodical called the “Penny Sunday Reader,”—who is likewise (as I perceive by the Advertisement appended to his Pamphlet) Author of “Family Sermons for every Sunday in the Year,” and whose promotion from a small benefice in _Canterbury_ to one of the largest in the North of England was not long ago announced to the public,—has lately signalized his zeal in another way, by coming forward in the character of public prosecutor {3} against the “Church Pastoral-Aid Society:”—this he does in a printed Letter addressed to his own Diocesan, and our respected Vice Patron, the Bishop of Chester, containing serious charges affecting the whole character and management of the Society.