DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. 



DIXON, JAMES. 



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The protocol between Secretary Fish and 

 Admiral Polo will be found at the end of the 

 President's annual message, under the title 

 PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. The General 

 Missionary Convention of the Disciples of 

 Christ was held at Indianapolis, Indiana, 

 October 21st. The evangelistic work of the 

 society had been prosecuted in, and contribu- 

 tions had been received from, the States of 

 Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, New 

 York, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, 

 Michigan, Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Min- 

 nesota, Maryland, the District of Columbia, 

 and the Territory of Colorado. The total 

 amount of money contribnted was $95,182. 

 Of this amount $839.39 were contributed 

 especially for the Freedmen, $187.85 for the 

 Bible School, and $338.10 for books and 

 papers. The total number of additions to the 

 churches resulting from the work carried 

 on in connection with the convention was 

 8,868, of which 3,000 were among the 

 Freedmen. Bequests amounting to $10,500 

 had been made to the convention during the 

 year. The sums reported as raised and dis- 

 bursed in all the States and Territories were 

 represented to be seventy per cent, larger than 

 the best collections of former years. A prop- 

 osition was made to abolish the Bible School 

 at Louisville, Ky., established for the educa- 

 tion of colored preachers, with a view, as the 

 mover suggested, of promoting the education 

 of white and colored students at the same 

 schools. The convention decided that no 

 change should be made. The convention was 

 offered a tract of land in Missouri, represented 

 to be worth $200,000, for the benefit of this 

 school. Pledges were also made in the con- 

 vention to the amount of about $4,000, for the 

 Bible School and for missions among the Freed- 

 men in the South. The year 1873 marked the 

 completion of the first quarter of a century 

 of the existence of the convention. In con- 

 nection with this fact a committee was ap- 

 pointed to make arrangements to have the 

 Disciples of Christ appropriately represented 

 in the Centennial Exhibition to bo held at 

 Philadelphia in 1876. It was decided that 

 this representation should embrace a history 

 of the Disciples' movements; statistics of the 

 schools, colleges, educational associations, and 

 missionary societies organized among the Dis- 

 ciples, of the number of members in their 

 churches, value of church property, and other 

 matters of interest relating to the society ; the 

 gratuitous distribution of tracts specially pre- 

 pared to set forth the views of the Disciples ; 

 selections from books by representative au- 

 thors ; books, complete sets of the periodicals 

 and catalogues of the colleges of the connec- 

 tion ; and documents relating to its Sunday- 

 school enterprises. It was decided to estab- 

 lish a foreign mission, if possible, during the 

 ensuing year. A report was made of Sunday- 

 schools, which showed the number of such 



schools to be 2,463 ; number of teachers and 

 oflicers, 27,173; number of scholars, 284,470. 

 A general Sunday-school agent is to be ap- 

 pointed. 



The annual general meeting of the Churches 

 of the Disciples of Christ in England, Scot- 

 land, Ireland, and Wales, was held at Wigan, 

 August 12th. One hundred and ten churches 

 were represented, of which seventy were in 

 England, twenty-three in Scotland, one was 

 in Ireland, and ten were in Wales. The num- 

 ber of members reported was 4,025 ; showing 

 an increase from the previous year of 224. 

 The receipts on the account of the work of the 

 Assembly were 930 4*. 8d., and exceeded 

 the receipts of any former year by about 200. 

 Five Evangelists had been sustained during 

 the whole year, and five others during parts 

 of the year, at an expense of 937 4. 1 Jrf. 



The annual Evangelistic Conference of the 

 churches meeting in Scotland was held at 

 Dundee, July 28th. The receipts for the sup- 

 port of the work during the year had been 

 177 6. Id., or double the receipts of the pre- 

 vious year; the expenditures had been 157 

 9s. 5d. Two preachers had been employed 

 during the whole year. This meeting was re- 

 garded as held merely for the purpose of ar- 

 ranging the work of a large district, and not 

 in opposition to the general meeting of repre- 

 sentatives in England. 



DIXON, JAMES, LL.D., a prominent political 

 leader and United States Senator from Con- 

 necticut, born in Enfield, Conn., August 5, 

 1814 ; died in Hartford, March 27, 1873. He 

 was a son of Judge William Dixon, and was 

 fitted for college under his father's super- 

 vision. He graduated from Williams College 

 with high honors in 1834, and immediately 

 commenced the study of law in his father's 

 office. He was admitted to the bar in 1836, 

 and the next year was elected to the Legis- 

 lature. In 1837, he removed to Hartford, 

 where soon after he formed a partnership with 

 William W. Ellsworth, subsequently M. 0., 

 Governor, and Judge of the Supreme Court, 

 and rose rapidly in his profession. He was 

 again a member of the Legislature in 1838 

 and 1844, and in 1845 was elected to Congress. 

 In 1847 he was again elected, and on the ex- 

 piration of his second term was chosen State 

 Senator. He was again elected a State 

 Senator in 1854. Meantime he had after his 

 return from Congress engaged actively in life 

 insurance, and was for several years President 

 of the Hartford Life and Health Insurance 

 Company. He was, by the Legislature of 

 1856, elected United States Senator, and in 1 862 

 was reflected, his second term ending in 1869. 

 He was sent to Congress in 1845-'49, as a 

 Whig, and elected to the Senate, both terms, 

 as a Republican, but in 1867-'68 he espoused 

 the cause of President Johnson, and with him 

 left the Republicans, and at the close of his 

 second term he retired forever from political 

 life. During his sixteen years of congressional 



