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cese. During my visit, there was a meeting of the vestry and friends
of the church, and measures were taken for the erection, at an early
day, of a suitable church edifice.

Saturday, 11.---I read prayers and preached in the evening, in Ope-
lousas.

Sunday, 12.---I read prayers and preached in the morning in the
same place, and baptized eight adults and three children. In the af-
ternoon, I baptized one child.

On the following day, I met the friends of the cause, when it was
resolved to organize a congregation, and take steps for the building
of a church. Here too our prospects of usefulness are very inviting.
In and around Opelousas, there are many families of wealth and influ-
ence attached to our church, either from having been reared within
her pale, or for other reasons, who are not likely to connect themselves
very readily with any other. These need only the aid of a clergyman
of the proper qualifications, to be united in a congregation, in which
I doubt not there would be speedily found many humble and faithful
followers of Christ.

In the afternoon of Monday, May 13th, I administered the ordi-
nance of baptism to three adults and four children.

On the morning of the 14th, I administered the same rite to three
children, one white and two colored.

On the evening of the 15th, I read prayers and preached in the
Court-House at St. Martinsville.

On the morning of the 16th, after a few preliminary remarks, I
administered, in the same town, the ordinance of baptism to five
aduls and twenty-seven children,seven of whom were colored. Here
too there are families enough attached to the church to form quite
a respectable congregation. A parish has probably before this
been organized, in which I have appointed two gentlemen to act as
lay readers. In this place and Newtown, a village about nine miles
further down the Te{circumflex}che, which I next visited, there is full employ-
ment for a clergyman; and I know of no field in the diocese, of
the same extent, where a clergyman, particularly if he spoke the
French language, could do more good. In Newtown, on the
morning of the 17th, I administered the ordinance of baptism to
three adults and three children.

Sunday, 19th---I read prayers and preached in Franklin.

Tuesday, 21st.---Baptised two infants in that neighborhood.

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In Franklin and its vicinity there are many persons who prefer
the services of our church to those of any other, and who have
resolved to take measures to erect a church edifice, and provide
means for the support of a clergyman. This town is in the
midst of one of the most fertile districts in the diocese; and
the character of the population warrants the expectation, that the
day is not distant when a flourishing congregation may, under the
Lord's blessing, be established there.

Sunday, 26.---Read prayers and preached for the colored people
in Lafourche.

Trinity Sunday, 2d May.---Read prayers and preached in St.
John's parish, Lafourche Interior, in the morning for the white
congregation, and in the afternoon, for the colored people. I also
at the same time administered the ordinance of baptism to seventy
children.

On the last Sunday, May 9th, I read prayers and preached for
the colored people in Lafourche, and administered the ordinance
of baptism to six adults.

I closed my labors for the conventional year by administering
the holy communion in Christ's Church, New Orleans, on yester-
day morning.

The following is a summary of my labors since the last Conven-
tion:

I have preached on 102 different occasions. I have baptised 43
adults and 159 children, in all 202; ordained one clergyman; con-
secrated seven new church edifices, and laid the corner-stone of
one other; admitted one candidate for orders; received two cler-
gymen by letters of dismission from other dioceses; transferred
one; administered the holy communion 17 times, and confirmed
210 persons.

The clergyman ordained was the Rev. John L. Gay, of the
diocese of Alabama. He was, for the sake of convenience, trans-
ferred to this diocese for the purpose of ordination, and has since
been re-transferred.

The clergymen received into the diocese are the Rev. A. H.
Lamon and the Rev. Charles Fay. The former was transferred
by Bishop Kemper from the diocese of Indiana, and is officiating
in a newly organized parish in West Baton Rouge. The latter
was received from the diocese of Georgia, on letters of dismission