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No. 21. SEPTEMBER, 1865. Price 2d. EPORT of the proceedings at the English Association of the Calvinistic Methodists, held in Hope Chapel, Merthyr Tydvil, August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 1865. The Rev. William Williams of Swansea, Moderatob. PREFATORY REMARKS. In issuing the present report of proceedings at the first Associa¬ tion of the English portion of our connexion, it may be necessary to offer a word of explanation, why such an Association has been held. We have at present about eighty English congregations in connec¬ tion with our body, and the officers and members of these congrega¬ tions have long felt the want of some means of conferring with each other upon questions of common interest, but owing to their being scattered over a wide extent of country, reaching as it does from Lancashire on the north to Pembrokeshire on the west, no existing organization was available for such a purpose. The formation of our English churches into Presbyteries has indeed already effected this so far as the interests of particular localities are concerned, but these Presbyteries again wanted the means of communicating with each other on many matters of general interest, matters relating not merely to the existing state of things, but especially to the duties and prospects of English Calvinistic Methodism in relation to the future. Influenced by these considerations, the Presbytery of Lan¬ cashire took up the matter in the early part of the present year, and a scheme was proposed with the view of forming an English Association, such an association as would secure the most abundant opportunities for mutual intercourse between the members of the different Presbyteries, without the least interfering with the juris-