690 



PRISON DISCIPLINE. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



useful trade or business. The lectures delivered to' 

 them must have a practical bearing. The prisoners 

 must be allowed some liberty in their choice of em- 

 ployment: nothing will tend more than this to de- 

 velop manhood. When the work of reformation is 

 completed, we will have a well-organized band of 

 Christian men and women to care for the prisoner, 

 shield him from the too violent assaults of tempta- 

 tion, find work for him, and, in every possible way, 

 surround him with good influences. Who can doubt 

 the result under such a system of training and care- 

 taking ? 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

 The general statistics of this Church, in 1872, 

 were as follows: 



possible temper. These discussions at the same 

 time supplemented by large additions the informa- 

 tion furnished by official reports mentioned in the 

 preceding paragraph. It was not to be expected that 

 a body, coming together literally from the ends of 

 the earth for the remotest states of South America 

 and the most distant of the British colonies were 

 represented in the congress could deliberate upon 

 social problems so profound and recondite as those 

 which fall within the purview of penitentiary sci- 

 ence, without developing wide differences of opinion, 

 and with a result most remarkable, and as gratifying 

 as it was extraordinary. It was able in the end to 

 agree, and did agree, with scarcely a dissenting vote, 

 upon a declaration of principles, at once comprehen- 

 sive and fundamental, relating to prison reform and 

 prison discipline. One of the most important re- 



sults of the Congress of London was the creation of Dioceses ............ ............................. 41 



a permanent international committee on peniten- Missionary jurisdictions. ........................ 



tiary reform, composed of ten members from as many Bishops? .......................................... 51 



different nations, including the United States. This j? eB . t8 and Beacons. .................. ........... 2,938 



committee will hold annual sessions in different KjesTlJSt * ......................... 1'ron 



countries and another general congress will proba- Ordinations-Deacons ' in ' thirty4hree' dioceses 



bly be called in the course of three or four years, and one missionary jurisdiction.. 133 



thus giving a character of periodicity to these inter- Priests in thirty dioceses and two 



national reunions, and making of them a regular in- missionary jurisdictions ......... 80 



stitution. Dr. Wines is the chairman of this com- Total in thirty-six dioceses and tw9 



mittee which is to hold its first session at Brussels, Candjdateg for ^^U^^iS^s and 



in September, 1873. two nii s gion ar jurisdiction* ..... 317 



T . , -.-, , . , ,, , ., T-, . r. Churches consecrated in twenty dioceses and one 



It Should be Said that the Prison Congress missionary jurisdiction .......... 52 



at Cincinnati, in October, 1870, was, to a COn- Baptisms-Infants in thirty-two dioceses and five 



siderable extent, international in its character ; AdTitTmihirt^ and five 



papers being communicated to it from the missionary jurisdictions ........... 6,050 



manager of the Port Blair Penal Settlement, ^iKS^lSeTLi nine 



on Andaman s Island, already referred to, giv- missionary jurisdictions ............ 38,759 



ing an account of that immense establishment, C ^^^-^^ *^* 22;12T 



With its nearly 8,000 prisoners; from MlSS Communicants Number reported in forty-one 



Mary Carpenter, of Bristol, England, author dioceses and seven missionary 



of "Our Convicts;" from M. Bonneville de Marriages in thir^-sixdioceleV and five misVion- 247 ' 863 



Marsangy, a Councillor of the State Imperial a ry jurisdictions ..... " ......... 10,120 



Court of Paris, giving an account of his inge- Burials in thirty '- n ^S^ 18 223 



nious "Criminal Register," and from Other Sunday-school teachers in thirty-seven dioceses 



distinguished publicists and philanthropists J? 1 ^ ei ^ ht missionary jurisdic- 



abroad. Gaylord B. Hubbell, a former warden Scholar*. Yn forty-one dioceses and 



Of Sing Sing Prison, and one of the very best eight missionary jurisdictions.. 232,07!) 



nriqon-ofnWrq in flip TTnitf>fl Sfotp in an Contributions in forty-one dioceses and nine mis- 



btates, in an sionary jurisdictions ....... $6,518,269.60 



address delivered at tins congress, thus por- 



trayed his idea of a model prison : A s P ecial meeting of the Board of Bishops 



was held on the 31st of October and the 1st 



b rtt'zFssg&zsszs asuMfta of . '>* *_ PT~ <> f t f c ? ing t a 



means of perfect drainage, an abundant supply of missionary bishop of Cape Palm as, Africa, to 



pure water, and supplied with all needful appliances "11 the vacancy caused by the resignation of 



for thorough reformatory work. We will have our Bishop Paine, and a bishop of the new Dio- 



arrangements for classification, labor, discipline, re- ces e of Niobrara, who should have supervi- 



entertaining books. Our board of managers is se- 

 lected from the best men of the State, whose hearts 

 are in the work. Our warden is a man of experience, 

 integrity, humanity, judgment, and firmness. Our 

 clerk is sober, honest, and capable Our medical 

 officer is kind! gentle, 'and skilful. Our chaplain L 

 a man of deep-toned piety, and apt to teach, with his 

 whole being absorbed in his work. The 'corps of 

 is composed of men carefully selected and 



. 



ans - itie . Kev - J - "" Auer, missionary at Ca- 

 valla, Africa, was elected to the former station, 

 and the Rev. J. William H. Hare was elected 



bishop over the work among the Indians. 



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An application was received at this meeting 



* the Board of Bishops from a number ot mm- 

 isters of the German Evangelical Church in 

 , asking that a German-speaking bish- 



large-hearted, patient, unselfish, sympathetic men 

 hard to find, but we have found him. Our whole 

 band of officers work so harmoniously together for 



fare at heart. With such force in operation sucess 

 is assured, failure impossible. The prisoners must 

 share in their earnings. They must be taught some 



German ministers and congregations desiring 

 to become connected with the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church. The petition was referred 

 to a committee of five members of the House 

 of Bishops, who were instructed to make a 

 re ply to it, expressing the profound interest felt 

 by the Board of Bishops in the suggestions, 



