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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



the league. The Iron Chancellor, who intended 

 to make use of the league as a prop for the 

 principle of absolutism and for his reactionary 

 and repres>ive mot hods of government, had no 

 in t.. work with a statesman who not only 

 was his e<|iial in the field of high politics and 

 diplomacy, hut was u conspicuous representative 

 of parliamentarism and modern liberalism. In 

 Au-triu Andra>s\'s position was impaired by his 

 unpopular Oriental policy. He had been always 

 disliked in tin- Conservative court circles as a 

 rebel, an advocate of subversive ideas, and he 

 .rred the active hostility of a large number 

 of inlluontial people during the period of his 

 ::d-ncy over the mind of the Emperor by 

 Working out a groat plan for the reorganization 

 and invigoration of the civil departments and 

 military administration that would drive a host 

 of Bleepy placemen from their sinecures. That 

 he had "lost his complete ascendency, was re- 

 iiim when Fran/ Josef refused to make 

 public the German alliance, and still more 

 '\v when the Emperor expressed displeasure 

 and annoyance at Andrassy's having signed a 

 convention reaffirming the Sultan's suzerainty 

 over the occupied provinces and permitting 

 Turkish troops to share the duty of garrisoning 

 the frontier towns. The minister, wishing to 

 retire to private life for a while, in order to re- 

 his fortune, which he had seriously im- 

 paired by Ins magnificent hospitalities, resigned 

 in the confident expectation of being recalled. 

 All Europe wondered at the unaccountable 

 withdrawal of one of the directing minds in in- 

 ternational politics, and in the Hapsburg do- 

 minions no one could understand how the affairs 

 of the monarchy could be carried on while the 

 towering personality who had acted as chancel- 

 lor and adviser of the ruler on all important 

 matters stood idly by. Every one looked for 

 his recall ; every one knew that if he raised his 

 voice in Parliament or in the delegations, he 

 might have returned to the palace on the Ball- 

 nlatx with the whole Hungarian nation at his 

 back. The foreign policy of the empire fol- 

 lowed the course that he had marked out for it. 

 When Italy entered the league of peace, Prince 

 Bismarck found himself compelled, after all, to 

 act with the ministers of a modern constitution- 

 al state. Count Kalnoky did not combat the 

 designs of Russia as vigorously as he would have 

 done, yet he refrained from every word or act 

 that could cause embarrassment, and awaited 

 with dignity and patience the moment when 

 tin- Emperor should call him back to his old 

 When difficult questions came up, the 

 Emperor always called him into consultation. 

 In is^i he rendered Tisza an important service 

 by Inducing the Hungarian aristocracy to accept 

 the reform of the House, of Magnates, and in 

 <!>0, while tortured with the fatal malady of 

 cancer of the bladder, he sent his son to urge in 

 hi- name the pjis<:ig- of the new Ilonved bill. 



AN<;U< AN CHURCHES. Statistics of 

 Benevolent Contributions and Confirma- 

 tions. -Tin- Fear-Book of the Church of Eng- 

 l:md irivr-s from year to year tables and reviews 

 snowing the condition and advance of the nu- 

 merous institutions and enterprises connected 

 r ith the Church of England, and usually con- 

 tains new matter concerning interests not before, 



or only briefly noticed. The eighth volume, 

 for 1890, includes enlarged reports of convales- 

 cent homes; a new table of Sunday-School as- 

 sociations, containing a list of two hundred such 

 bodies arranged by dioceses ; and a digest of the 

 discussions and acts of the various Church bodies 

 convocations, the House of Laymen, and di- 

 ocesan conferences during the past four years. 

 Its tables show that the Church spends a million 

 sterling or more every year on fresh enterprises 

 of church extension, while also increasing near- 

 ly every year the sums raised for home and for- 

 eign missions, elementary education, hospitals, 

 and other educational and benevolent objects. 

 Since 1811 nearly 33,000,000 have been de- 

 voted to the building and maintenance of train- 

 ing schools and colleges, 17,500,000 having 

 been spent in this manner since 1870, when the 

 first education act was passed. In 1888 the 

 sum voluntarily given to these purposes exceeded 

 888,000. The increase in the number of per- 

 sons confirmed, as recorded in former Year- 

 Books, is maintained and enlarged. From 1874 

 to 1876 the number averaged 144,000 a year ; in 

 the past three years the average was 220,000, 

 showing an increase of more than 50 per cent. 

 This growth appears to have been concurrent 

 with the establishment of six new dioceses, and 

 with an increase in the number of centers in 

 which confirmations were held from less than 

 1,700 to more than 2,300. Of the 38,240 con- 

 tributed in 1889 to the Metropolitan Hospital 

 Sunday fund, the Church furnished 30,611. Of 

 the whole amount of the collections for this 

 fund for seventeen years, since it was instituted, 

 512,476, the Church has given 389,542, or fully 

 75 per cent. The record of a movement for pro- 

 moting higher religious education among all 

 classes, and more particularly among those who 

 have some leisure on week days, is noticed in the 

 Year-Book for the first time. It began in the 

 diocese of Oxford, and has extended to the dio- 

 ceses of Winchester, Salisbury, Exeter, Bath and 

 Wells, and Hereford. Its method of operations 

 consists in providing popular lectures on a 

 Scriptural or other ecclesiastical subject for a 

 term of weeks or months, giving individual help 

 in classes, inviting candidates to examination, 

 and generally inducing people to seek precise 

 and definite knowledge on religious subjects. 



Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 

 pel. The annual meeting of the Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts was 

 held May 1. The Archbishop of Canterbury pre- 

 sided. The gross income of the society for the 

 year had been 125,038. There were now on the 

 list of the society's agents, including 10 bishops, 

 646 ordained missionaries, of whom 205 were 

 laboring in Asia, 147 in Africa, 14 in Australia 

 and the Pacific, 210 in North America, 35 in the 

 West Indies, and 35 in Europe. Of the whole 

 number 121 were natives laboring in Asia, and 

 26 in Africa. There were also in the various 

 missions about 2,300 lay teachers, 2,650 students 

 in the colleges, and 38,000 children in the mis- 

 sion schools in Asia and Africa. A mission to 

 North Borneo had been added to the society's 

 enterprises in the previous year ; the new feat- 

 ures of the present year had been the departure 

 of the first Episcopal Missionary to New Guinea 

 and the consecration of the first Bishop of Corea. 



