NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. 



NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY. 605 



rates. The Governor recommends that the tax 

 laws be amended, that a railroad commission be 

 created, and that a commissioner of agriculture 

 be provided for. 



Elections. Pursuant to the legislative act of 

 this year, a special election was held on Sept. 30, 

 at which two proposed amendments to the State 

 Constitution, adopted by two successive Legisla- 

 tures, were submitted to the people. The first 

 amendment, which would strike from the Con- 

 stitution the provision requiring the Legislature 

 to enact general and not local laws regulating the 

 internal affairs of towns and counties, was de- 

 feated by a vote of 3,328 yeas to 59,050 nays. 

 The second amendment, which would strike from 

 the Constitution a provision requiring the Senate 

 and General Assembly, in joint session, to ap- 

 point judges of the Court of Common Pleas, was 

 defeated by a vote of 10,756 yeas to 45,611 nays. 



At the November election, eight members of 

 the State Senate and the entire General Assem- 

 bly were chosen. The Democrats elected 7 Sen- 

 ators, and the Republicans 1. Of the holdover 

 Senators, 7 were Democrats and 6 Republicans, 

 so that the Senate for 1891 will consist of 14 Dem- 

 ocrats and 7 Republicans. Of the members of 

 the Assembly chosen at the same time, 40 were 

 Democrats and 20 Republicans. In the congres- 

 sional elections the Republicans elected their 

 candidates in the First and Second Districts, and 

 Democrats were elected in the remaining five, a 

 loss of two seats by the Republicans. 



NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. The tables 

 of the United States census of 1890 give this 

 Church 154 congregational organizations in the 

 United States, with 7.095 members. The direct- 

 ory published in connection with the " Journal " 

 of the General Convention of the New Church 

 for 1890 gives in its list of ministers the names 

 of 8 general pastors, 103 pastors, and 10 author- 

 ized candidates and preachers ; 127 societies, or 

 places containing societies, in the United States 

 and Canada, 75 in England and Scotland, 1 in 

 Austria, 4 in Denmark, 13 in France, 8 in Ger- 

 many, 1 in Hungary, 9 in Italy, 2 in Norway, 14 

 in Sweden, 7 in Switzerland, 18 in Australia and 

 New Zealand, 3 in India, 7 in South Africa, 5 in 

 the West Indies, and 1 each in Mauritius and 

 West Falkland Isles. The General Convention 

 includes 11 state associations and 10 societies. 



The seventieth annual meeting of the General 

 Convention was held in Chicago, 111., beginning 

 June 21. The Rev. Chauncey Giles presided. 

 The treasurer reported the amount of $42.651 

 to the credit of thirteen special funds of which 

 he had the charge. The general receipts and ex- 

 penditures of the Board of Publication had been 

 $2,686. The funds in its hands were the New 

 Church Messenger fund of $22.459, and the Mrs. 

 McDonald fund of $7,810. The Merchandise 

 Department, including a book store in New York, 

 had been practically self- sustaining. Besides pub- 

 lishing a number of books or new editions, it had 

 disposed of about 30,000 copies of tracts. The 

 Endowment fund of the Theological School had 

 been increased to $58,487, and its property at 

 Cambridge, Mass., was valued at $16,618. The 

 school, which occupies the "Sparks Estate" in 

 Cambridge, had " taken its place in a quiet, or- 

 derly manner," and was provided with ample 

 and suitable accommodations. Six students had 



been in attendance. The New Church Building 

 fund had a balance of $318, and was credited 

 with securities in the hands of the treasurer of 

 the value of $1,200. The value of the Rice 

 legacy was returned at $9,533, and that of the 

 Rotch legacy (including plates and manuscripts 

 at cost), at $37.286. The receipts for foreign 

 missions had been $4,752, a larger amount than 

 in any former year ; and the endowment, having 

 been increased by $1,125, amounted to $2,125. 

 All the old fields had received attention, and 

 several new ones had been brought to notice and 

 supplied to a limited extent. Of the foreign 

 missions, reports were presented from those in 

 Denmark, Sweden, and Italy, and communica- 

 tions had been received concerning the establish- 

 ment of a mission in Trinjdad. The Convention 

 fixed upon $10,000 as the amount which the 

 Church ought to raise during the year for mis- 

 sions. The committee on the publication of 

 Swedenborg's manuscripts reported that while, 

 for the want of funds, nothing had been done in 

 the matter, there was danger that prolonged de- 

 lay in the execution of the work might prevent 

 its being done at all, for the writing was becom- 

 ing too indistinct to be photographed. Two new 

 volumes of Latin reprints had been published by 

 the American Swedenborg Printing and Publish- 

 ing Society. A series of resolutions defining the 

 position and doctrines of the Church was re- 

 ferred to the Council of Ministers, and by it 

 placed in the hands of a committee. 



The English Conference. The Annual Con- 

 ference in England met Aug. 11, under the presi- 

 dency of the Rev. John Presland. The secre- 

 tary reported that there were 70 societies con- 

 nected with the Conference, having 6,249 mem- 

 bers. A proposition was entertained for the ap- 

 pointment of a permanent committee on build- 

 ing. Suggestions for increasing, improving, and 

 concentrating missionary operations were ac- 

 cepted as the basis for future action. The 

 amount of the funds administered by the Con- 

 ference was reported as being 67,000. A 

 scheme for a Minister's Sustentation fund, sub- 

 mitted in 1888, having failed to secure adequate 

 support, was suspended. A proposition was con- 

 sidered for co-operation with the American New 

 Church Sunday-School Association in undertak- 

 ing the systematic preparation of " Commenta- 

 ries on the Word," similar in form to the Cam- 

 bridge Bible for schools. 



NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY, Cardinal, born 

 in London, England, Feb. 21, 1801 ; died in Bir- 

 mingham, England, Aug. 11, 1890. His father, 

 who belonged to a family of landed proprietors 

 in Cambridgeshire, was a wealthy banker of 

 strong Puritan tendencies. His mother, Jemima 

 Fourdrinier, was of French Huguenot origin, 

 and possessed much culture, colored by deep re- 

 ligious feeling. They had three children two 

 sons, John Henry and Francis, and a daughter, 

 who became the wife of Dr. Thomas Mozley. All 

 three were remarkably gifted, and revealed their 

 superior aptitudes at an early age. John Henry 

 knew the Bible almost by heart, and read, in ad- 

 dition to Calvinistic works, Paine's "Tracts" 

 and Hume's " Essays " before he was fifteen. 

 Then he was converted, and began to experience 

 those strong religious convictions that clung to 

 him through life. 



