ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



ARCHEOLOGY. (AMERICAN.) 



resent a lives of the different religious bodies in the 

 c-itv held at the beginning of the year, at which 

 a basis tor cooperation between nonconformists 

 and Church people was laid in a resolution 

 "tint it is the duty of Christians who may be 

 separated by ecclesiastical division to unite when 

 circumstances permit (a) to promote spiritual edi- 

 fication ami a healthier and more friendly rela- 

 tion-hip: and <M for the furtherance of practical 

 Cooperation in matters which affect the moral 

 well-being of the civil community in which they 

 live" The mayor presided, and the addresses 

 were made by ministers of the Established, J<ree 

 Methodic Congregational, and Baptist Churches. 

 The Bishop of Salisbury, in closing the meeting, 

 MI id that while he was not there at present with 

 anv definite plan for reunion, such movements 

 ought to tend in that direction ultimately. He 

 lelieved that the whole counsel of God in this 

 matter would not be revealed to any portion of 

 the people, however large, while it was separated 

 in spirit from the rest: but when the different 

 parts were brought into touch and moral and 

 spiritual harmony by such meetings as this and 

 by similar act ion' elsewhere, they might expect an 

 outpouring of the spirit of wisdom and under- 

 standing, as well as of holiness and joy, upon 

 the whole Church, which would lead it to a re- 

 union. 



The Church Congress. The Church Congress 

 met at Brighton. Oct. 1 to 4. The opening ser- 

 mon by Bishop Welldon, of Calcutta, read, in his 

 absence on account of illness, by the Vicar of 

 Brighton, embodied an appeal to the Church to 

 face the question of reconstruction of religious 

 belief. The Bishop of London preached at a 

 second place of meeting in favor of cultivating 

 unity rather than struggling after an impossible 

 uniformity. The opening address to the congress 

 was by the Bishop of Chichester, who likewise 

 put foVth unity rather than uniformity as the 

 object to be sought. The subjects discussed were : 

 Church Autonomy, how exercised by Established 

 and Non-Established Churches, and how it should 

 be exercised in the Church of England, Regard 

 being had to the Restoration of the Church's 

 Synods and to the Convocation Bill of 1900; 

 Authority in the Church of England; The Refor- 

 mation Settlement the Appeal to Antiquity as 

 a Principle of the English Reformation of Pres- 

 ent-Day Application the Standard of Catholicity 

 with Reference to Doctrine and Ceremonial; The 

 Empire with Reference to Church Work the 

 Victorian Era at Home, in India, and the Col- 

 onies, and the Possibilities and Dangers of the 

 New Century. Other subjects related to the 

 Church and the schools; temperance and tem- 

 perance legislation; the Church in relation to 

 journalism, literature, the drama, and art; cov- 

 etousness as exhibited in commerce, employ- 

 ment, and the excitement of chance; the bap- 

 tismal vow; social reform with regard to the 

 housing of the poor; Hooliganism; Prayer-Book 

 enrichment and supplementary services; the 

 work of the Church in the army; the cause of 

 and remedy for abstention from divine service; 

 the virtues of faith, hope, and love; assessment 

 and taxation of clerical incomes; difficulties of 

 country churches contrasted with those in towns; 

 bells, Mfries. and bell-ringers; and music as an 

 aid to devotion in the services of the Church. The 

 concluding service of the congress was held in 

 Chichester Cathedral, where the Bishop of Exeter 

 preached. For twenty years the sessions of the 

 congress have been followed by a Christian Con- 

 ference at which men of all denominations have 

 been given opportunity to compare their views. 



At the Christian Conference following the present 

 congress, the subjects of religious indifference and 

 moral apathy were discussed. 



The Australian Synod. The Provincial 

 Synod, meeting in Sydney, New South Wales, in 

 August, adopted a resolution hailing with de- 

 vout thankfulness the announcement of the union 

 of the Presbyterian Churches in the common- 

 wealth, and the contemplated union of the Meth- 

 odist Churches, as indications of an approach to 

 Christian unity. It also, declaring itself "pro- 

 foundly conscious of the evils of disunion, and 

 believing that the unity of the Church is agree- 

 able to the will of God," urgently prayed the 

 Australian bench of bishops to consider the whole 

 question of Christian unity, and to approach the 

 various Christian communions with an invitation 

 to their leaders for united prayer and deliberation 

 on the subject. The synod also considered a 

 number of social questions, and passed resolutions 

 expressing its mind on various questions, such as 

 those of lotteries, gambling, street solicitation, 

 the suppression of immorality, and Sunday rest 

 for the police. 



ARCHEOLOGY. American. The Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History has undertaken 

 the exploration, under the direction of Prof. Fred- 

 erick W. Putnam, of former Indian sites about 

 New York city. One of the objects of the ex- 

 ploration is to prepare a map showing the various 

 towns, camp sites, and burial places, and, so far 

 as possible, to trace out the historical Indian vil- 

 lages. Another purpose is to bring together the 

 domestic utensils, weapons, implements, and orna- 

 ments of the different tribes who lived in the re- 

 gion, and to make models of rock shelters and 

 earthworks, so as to present as full a history as 

 possible of the old Indian life in New York. Old 

 -Indian sites on Staten Island, Long Island, and 

 Pelham Park, near Westchester, and at Croton 

 have been explored, and considerable material has 

 been secured from shell-heaps, village sites, and 

 burial places. Pottery vessels, implements of 

 stone and bone, pipes, and other pieces of native 

 work, arrow points, ornaments of brass obtained 

 during the early contact with white settlers, a 

 number of Indian skeletons, and the bones of 

 animals, including those of the Indian dog, have 

 been secured. Numerous village sites, shell-heaps, 

 rock shelters, and earth embankments have been 

 described, photographed, and located on a map. 



Other work described in the report of this in- 

 stitution for 1900 includes the continued explora- 

 tion by Mr. Marshall H. Saville of the ruins of 

 Mitla, Yucatan, and its vicinity, with successful 

 scientific results and the discovery of many im- 

 portant facts relating to the architecture of the 

 buildings. Several cruciform structures were 

 found, the walls of which were in several in- 

 stances as elaborately ornamented with mosaic 

 work as those of the great palaces. 



In his explorations of ancient tombs in the 

 vicinity of Lake Titicaca, Mr. Adolphe Bandelier * 

 found many trephined skulls, together with speci- 

 mens of pottery and other objects from tombs and 

 village sites. By the large additions thus ob- 

 tained, the museum's collection, showing different 

 forms of trephining practised by the prehistoric 

 Indians of Peru and Bolivia, is made one of great 

 importance. 



In continuance of his explorations of the gla- 

 cial gravel and other deposits of the Delaware 

 Valley, N. J., in behalf of the American Museum 

 of Natural History and under the patronage of 

 Dr. F. G. Hyde, Mr. Ernest Volk has found a 

 number of specimens of the handiwork of man 

 under such conditions as show that they are of 



