We rejoice to hear of the vigorous life which the Church in your diocese has manifested in the remarkable growth which the past century has seen it make. We pray that it may continue to receive God's blessing in rich abundance, and bring forth much fruit to His glory. We have a lively sense at the same time of our Lord's great mercy to ourselves in lifting us up from our poor and despised estate, in bringing us to comparative honour, and comforting us on every side. We trust that through His grace the work, still future, for which He has been training and strengthening us through so many generations, may be thoroughly and faithfully done by us and by those who will come after us. You allude approvingly to the Concordate drawn up and signed by Bishop Seabury on the one part and his consecrators on the other, which was, in the language of its framers, to serve as a "bond of union between the Catholic remainder of the ancient Church of Scotland and the now rising Church in the State of Connecticut," and you assure us that it "shall continue to be maintained and cherished by you, as it has been by your fathers." We have heard with gratification that the desire to be closely allied in the matter of similarity of offices with our own Church, which has prevailed in your diocese ever since the American liturgy was, under your first Bishop's influence, enriched by some of the most valuable of its present features, is still strongly felt by you. That for all time to come we may be all of one heart and of one soul, united in one holy bond of truth and peace, of faith and charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify the one and only God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is our hearty prayer and our confident hope. To His love and blessing we commend you. CHARLES WORDSWORTH, Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; HENRY COTTERILL, Bishop of Edinburgh; WM. S. WILSON, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway; HUGH W. JERMYN, Bishop of Brechin; ARTHUR G. DOUGLAS, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney; J. R. A. CHINNERY-HALDANE, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles; For the Bishop of Moray, Ross, and Caithness, _Primus_, ROBERT A. EDEN, M. A., _Commissary_." [Seal of the Primus attached.]