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Sympathy and Unity among the Clergy to be desired, prayed for, cultivated, and promoted.

With a view to increased Unity, some special means to be used, as,—

1. A Yearly Gathering of the Clergy at the Cathedral, with an appropriate Sermon, and the Holy Communion.; or
2. Smaller assemblages, first uniting in special prayer in private, and then proceeding to a Public Service.

More Meetings of the Clergy, under an official head, for mutual counsel.

Diocesan Synods.

Convocation to have more liberty of action.

A Reformed Convocation.

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Improvement of the Dwellings of the Poor as essential to the success of any efforts for their spiritual good.

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Suggestions as to the Provision of additional pecuniary means for strengthening and sustaining the Missions of the Church at Home and Abroad.

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The Weekly Offertory.

The same,—with an announcement of the object to which the collection is to be appropriated, followed by an acknowledgement of the amount contributed, on the Church Doors.

An occasional Offertory.

The Offertory sometimes in the Evening.

In any of the above cases, the introduction of the Offertory to to be made with the concurrence of the Congregation.

Collections to be made, in every Parish, and under authority, two, three, or four times a year, and to be compulsory on the Clergy.