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REDDING, CYRUS. 



REFORMED CHURCH. 



Si quis autemhuic Nostrae definition! contradicere, 

 quod Deus avenat, praesumpserit ; anathema sit. 



Datum Eomae, hi publics Sessione in Vatieana 

 Basilica solemniter celebrata, anno Incarnationis 

 Dominicae millesimo octingenteshno septuagosirao, 

 die decima octava lulii. 



Pontificatus Nostri anno vigesimo quinto. 

 Ita est. 



IOSEPHUS, 

 Episcopus S. Ilippoliti, Secretarius Coucilii Vaticani. 



And if any one shall presume, which God forbid, 

 to contradict this our definition ; let him be anathema. 

 Given in Koine, in the Public Session, solemnly 

 celebrated in the Vatican Basilica, in the year of the 

 Incarnation of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 

 and seventy, on the eighteenth day of July, in the 

 twenty-fifth year of our Pontificate. 



Ita est. 

 JOSEPH, BIBUOP OF ST. POLTEN, 



Secretary of the Council of tho Vatican. 



REDDING, CTRUS, an English journalist and 

 author, born at Penrhyn, Cornwall, in 1785 ; 

 died in London, May 28, 1870. In 1806 he 

 went to London and joined the editorial corps 

 of the Pilot, and subsequently became editor 

 and proprietor of the Plymouth Chronicle. 

 From 1815 to 1818 he resided in France, and 

 edited GalignanVi Messenger and the 'Dramatic 

 Review. He also published various literary and 

 political pamphlets during that period. In 

 1820 he joined Thomas Campbell, the poet, in 

 editing Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, and 

 was directly and indirectly associated with him 

 for upward of ten years. In 1830 they assumed 

 the management of The Metropolitan, which 

 soon proved a financial failure. Mr. Redding 

 afterward edited two provincial papers, but his 

 chief services to literature were outside of the 

 editorial sanctum. Among his works are a 

 collection of Poems entitled " Gabrielle," pub- 

 lished in 1829, "History of Wines," 1833; 

 "Velasco," a novel, 1846; "Abstract of Evi- 

 dence on the Wine Duties," 1852; "Fifty 

 Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal," 

 1858; "Memoirs of Thomas Campbell, and 

 Keeping up Appearances, a Novel of English 

 Life," 1860; "All's Well that Ends Well,'' 

 1862 ; "Memoirs of Remarkable Misers," and 

 " Yesterday and To-day," 1863 ; and " Past Ce- 

 lebrities whom I have Known," 1865. He pub- 

 lished a translation of Thiers's " History of the 

 Consulate," with notes ; and "Illustrated Itine- 

 raries of Cornwall and of Lancashire ; " wrote 

 from notes " The Travels of Captain Andrews 

 in South America," and "Pandurang Hari," an 

 Eastern story. He was also the author of a 

 " Departmental and Statistical Account of the 

 Wine Products of France." 



REFORMED CHURCH. This is the col- 

 lective name of a number of churches descend- 

 ing from the reformatory movement which 

 was begun by Calvin. The largest branches, 

 besides the two American, are those of Holland 

 (where there are two branches, one state 

 church and one independent), of Hungary, of 

 Switzerland (where this church has, however, 

 in every canton an independent organization), 

 and France. In Germany, a large portion of 

 the Reformed Church has been absorbed by 

 the UNITED EVANGELICAL CHURCH. 



I. REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA (LATE 

 DUTCH). The following statistics show the 

 number of churches, ministers, and commu- 



nicants, of tho different classes of the Church 

 in North America, for the year ending June, 

 1870: 



The number of families reported is 38,552 ; 

 baptisms (infants and adults), 4,395 ; cate- 

 chumens, 22,476; "in Biblical instruction," 

 23,836; Sunday-school scholars, 48,411. The 

 contributions for religious and benevolent 

 purposes were $281,647.36; for congrega- 

 tional purposes, $906,034.27. 



II. REFORMED CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES 

 (LATE GERMAN REFORMED). The Almanac of 

 the Reformed Church in the United States, 

 for 1871, gives the following as the scheme 

 of the church organization : Over tho Con- 

 gregation is the Consistory. Over the Con- 

 sistories is the Classis. Over the Classes is 

 the District Synod. Over the District Syn- 

 ods is the General Synod, the highest body. 

 There are four District Synods. The oldest, the 

 Mother Synod, commonly called the Eastern 

 Synod, is officially called "The Synod of the 

 Reformed Church in the United States," or- 

 ganized in 1747, and divided into districts or 

 Classes in 1819. In 1820 the Ohio Classis was 

 organized. In 1824 this body became a Synod, 



