'the Church of God'".

Besides this pilfering on the part of the prelates, we must not forget
the enormous sums sent into this country to help the proselytising
societies in their work. Let Mr. Cunningham give us a few examples from
which we may gain a fair idea of the working of the rest.

"The Hibernian Bible Society, established for diffusing copies of
the Scriptures, of course in a Protestant interest, has, since
1806, spent L80,000 in this way, and has given away more than
3,000,000 copies. The Primitive Wesleyan Methodist Home Missionary
Society has for its object 'the propagation of the Gospel in
Ireland', and employs fifty missionary agents and upwards of fifty
circuit preachers. The Hibernian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary
Society has an income of L137,000,849 missionaries, 1,000 paid, and
15,000 unpaid agents, of whom 25 missionaries, 54 day-school
teachers, and 166 Sunday school teachers are employed in Ireland.
Besides these there are the Irish Evangelical Society, 'for
promoting the Evangelization of Ireland, by the agency of
ministers, evangelists, town missionaries, schools, etc.'; the
Parochial Visitors' Society, for enabling the clergy near Dublin to
'have the assistance of fit persons to act under their direction in
matters which the spirit and constitution of the United Church of
England and Ireland allow its clergy to depute to such agents'; the
Scripture Readers' Society for Ireland, with sixty-four readers,
each with a regular district; the Incorporated Society for
promoting English Protestant schools in Ireland; the Islands and
Coast Society, 'for promoting the scriptural education of the
inhabitants of the islands and coast'; the Irish branch of the
Evangelical Alliance, under the presidency of the Earl of Roden;
the Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland,
which has educated at its model schools in Kildare Street, 43,000
children, trained 3,000 teachers, and issued a million and a half
of cheap school books; the Church Education Society, maintained in
distinct antagonism to the national system, and to all appearance a
very formidable rival; it has fifteen hundred schools in connection
with it, and 74,000 children on its rolls, of whom, be it observed,
no less than 10,000 are Catholics, receiving 'scriptural
instruct