Excerpt from Journal of the Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of North-Carolina, Held in Christ's Church, Newbern, on Wednesday May 4, Thursday May 5, Friday May 6, Saturday May 7, and Monday May 9, 1836 In order to secure the Institution of your respective Clergymen, you have only to notify your Bishop, according to the provisions of the 3oth Canon of the General Convention, of their election as your Rectors. As a final measure calculated to give more stability to the ministrations of the Gospel in your parishes, permit me to suggest the importance of making some provision for the maintenance of the widows and orphans of deceased Clergymen - either by procuring life insurances, - raising a small fund in each parish - or uniting in a diocesan effort for that purpose. A measure of this kind would do much to allay the anxiety of those Clergymen, u ho, from the smallness of their income, are unable to lay up for their families, and from a residence in a sickly climate are peculiarly liable to be taken from them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.