The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

LETTEUS, TRACTS, tffr.247efl pauper ? qui fthi videtur pauper ; " as Seneca hath'taught us. Learned men, in this age, muft make thebeft fliift they can , they beft deferve, and bell knowthe ufe of riches.It was principally with this fame view of profit thatthought of a chapel, and are now refolved to^we firftbuild one. Some people imagined at firft, that wewere going to fquander away money, purely for thefake of religion, and that we might accommodate thecitizens at an eafy rate, of whom it is faid there arefourteen or fixteen hundred families who cannot getfeats in any of the town churches j but upon fecondthoughts thefe people foon difcovered their own fooliflimiftake. If we build a chapel, it muft yield usprofit. Once we defigned to have a church upon theeftabliftiment ; but after mature reflection, we areconvinced it will be much more profitable to haveonly a chapel, provided it be large enough : A fifteenthpart of it will accommodate us and our ftudents; the reft of it we will let to the citizens, andexpetl 200 1. a-year for the feats ; for the richer andpoliter fort will refort to it. We will raife yearly150 1. colleftion, Vv^hich w^e well know how to difpofeof. We will by way of au£lion fet the featswhich are our property in the Blackfriar church atlool. yearly; 200 1. and 150 1. is 350 1; and 1 00}.more is 450 1. We will raife a capacious and handfomeenough chapel for about 1000 1. which, as ourfecurity is good, we can borrow at four per cent. Bythe bye we get five per cent, for our own money.»This brings down the yearly profit to 4 1 o 1. Wewill give a young lad 30 s. per diem dom'inicumy forpreaching a few Sundays, fuppofe twenty, which willtake away other 30I. This will leave the neat yearlyprofit at 380 1.; and this we will divide amongftourfelves. There are fix fellows of the univ^erfity whoare to preach by turns, and they will no doubt expe£^to be very well paid ; but the reft alfo muft have, a