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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



ANTI-POVERTY SOCIETY. 



tianity" (the Archbishop of York and Mr. A. 

 Balfour) ; " Gambling and Betting " (the Rev. 

 Nigel Madan, Prebendary Grier, the Dean of 

 Rochester, and the Rev. Charles Goldney); 

 "The Foreign Missions of the Church of Eng- 

 land and the Protestant Episcopal Church of 

 the United States of America " (Rev. F. H. Cox, 

 on " Missions to English-Speaking People," 

 Rev. Dr. Coddington on "Missions to Sav- 

 ages," the Rev. R. Bruce on "Missions to Co- 

 lonial Lands," and a number of the colonial 

 bishops) ; " Atheism " (Mr. R. H. Button) ; 

 "Agnosticism" (the Rev. H. Wace, D. D., and 

 "Pessimism " (the Rev. A. W. Momerie) ; 

 "Temperance; the Demoralization of Unciv- 

 ilized Races by the Drink-Traffic " (Dr. J. 

 Grant Mills, the Hon. T. W. Pelham, Sir 

 Charles Warren); "Disposal of the Dead" 

 (F. Seymour Harlen, the Rev. H. R. Haweis, 

 Mr. A. Sington, and the Bishop of Notting- 

 ham) ; " The Sunday-school System in its Re- 

 lation to the Church " (Canon Elwyn, Canon 

 Trotter, the Rev. J. W. Gedge, and Mr. J. 

 Palmer); "Social Purity" (the Bishop of 

 Newcastle, Mr. G. S. S. Vidal, and G. B Mor- 

 gan, D. D.) ; " Hindrances to Church Work 

 and Progress " (the Bishops of Carlisle and 

 Wakefield and Archbishop Farrar) ; " Adapta- 

 tion of the Prayer-Book to Modern Needs" 

 (Canon Meyrick, Archdeacon Norris, Dr. Lum- 

 by, of Cambridge, and the Bishops of Sydney, 

 Jamaica, and Grahamstown) ; " Maintenance 

 of Voluntary Schools; Should the Education 

 in them be Free and Religious ? " (Prebendary 

 Roe, the Rev. Dr. Cox, Canon Gregory, and 

 Mr. J. Talbot) ; " The Bearing of Democracy 

 on Church Life and Work " (Rev. C. W. Stubbs, 

 Rev. Llewellen Davis, Mr. T. Hughes, Q. C., 

 and Archdeacon Watkins) ; " Lay Representa- 

 tion in Church Councils and Statutory Paro- 

 chial Councils" (Lord Egerton, of Patton, 

 Canon Fremantle, and Mr. R. D. Uslin) ; 

 "Free and Open Churches, Reserved Seats, 

 and their Influence on Attendance" (Preben- 

 dary Hannah, the Earl of Carnarvon, Earl Nel- 

 son, and the Rev. H. D. Burton) ; " The Va- 

 rious Phases of Christian Service Worship, 

 Almsgiving, Work, and Home Life" (Canon 

 Furse, the Bishop of Wakefield, Canons Hoare 

 and Jelf, and the Bishops of Glasgow and Gal- 

 loway, and of Mississippi) ; " Church Finance " 

 (Rev. W. A. Whitworth, Mr. Stanley Lei<;h- 

 ton, M. P., and Mr. H. C. Richmond) ; "Escha- 

 tology " (Canon Luckock, Archdeacon Farrar, 

 Rev. C. H. Waller, and Rev. Sir George W. 

 Cox) ; " Increase of the Episcopate ; " " The 

 Desirableness of Reviving the Common Relig- 

 ious Life of Men " (the Dean of Lincoln) ; and 

 "Lay Help. 1 ' At " Workingmen-'s Meetings," 

 held in the evenings during the session, the 

 subjects were presented, in popular addresses, 

 of "The Needs of Human Nature, and their 

 Supply in Christianity " (the Archbishop of 

 York and Mr. A. J. Balfour); " Hindrances to 

 Church Work and Progress " (the Bishops of 

 Carlisle and Wakefield and Archdeacon Far- 



rar) ; " Competition, Co-operation, and Over- 

 Population " (the Bishop of Bedford, Hon. 

 and Rev. A. T. Lyttleton, Archdeacon Farrar, 

 and Prof. Syines) ; and " the Several Aspects 

 of the Question of Sunday Observance," in- 

 cluding the questions of the closing of public 

 houses, the opening of libraries and museums, 

 and Sunday recreation and traveling (Sir W. 

 Houldsworth, M. P., Canon McCormick, and 

 the Bishop of Newcastle). 



The Irish Synod, The General Synod of the 

 Episcopal Church in Ireland met in Dublin in 

 April. The report of the representative body 

 said that the total assets of the Church at the 

 close of 1887 amounted to 7,313,838. The 

 total contributions received during the year 

 footed up to 136,963. The total expenditure 

 for the year had been 438,848. About 12,- 

 000 had been received by the treasurers of the 

 "Victoria Jubilee Fund" for the education of 

 the sons and daughters of the clergy. About 

 3,300 had been received for the purchase of 

 the palace at Armagh, as a residence for the 

 primate. 



ANTI-POVERTY SOCIETY, an organization that 

 grew out of the candidacy of Henry George 

 for Mayor of New York city in November, 

 1886. The number of votes polled for Mr. 

 George on that occasion was a surprise to poli- 

 ticians, and the result was accepted by the mem- 

 bers of the United Labor party, whose candi- 

 date Mr. George was, as an indication that they 

 should push forward their peculiar doctrines 

 by other means and in other fields. On the 

 26th of March, 1887, a few men assembled in 

 the city of New York and organized the Anti- 

 Poverty Society, with the following brief dec- 

 laration : " Believing that the time has come 

 for an active warfare against the conditions 

 that, in spite of the advance in the powers of 

 production, condemn so many to degrading 

 poverty, and foster vice, crime, and greed, the 

 undersigned associate themselves together in 

 an organization to be known as the Anti- 

 Poverty Society. The object of the soci- 

 ety is to spread, by such peaceable and law- 

 ful means as may be found most desirable and 

 efficient, a knowledge of the truth that God 

 has made ample provision for the needs of all 

 men during their residence upon earth, and 

 that poverty is the result of the human laws 

 that allow individuals to claim as private prop- 

 erty that which the Creator has provided for 

 the use of all." The presidency was accepted 

 by Dr. Edward McGlynn, who had become 

 prominent by his connection with the candi- 

 dacy of Mr. George. A high authority from 

 within the society declares that its indications 

 are " to do God's work. We band ourselves 

 together to do the work of God ; to rouse the 

 essentially religious sentiment in men and 

 women, which looks to the helping of suffer- 

 ing. We want to do what churches and creeds 

 can not do abolish poverty altogether ; to se- 

 cure to each son of God, as he comes into the 

 world, a full share of God's natural bounties, 



