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REUSCHLE, KARL G. 



and so, if one sin and bring scandal upon the Chris- 

 tian Society of which he is a member. And Chris- 

 tians may often, with manifest profit, confess to one 

 another their sins against God, with a view solely to 

 instruction, correction, guidance, and encouragement 

 in righteousness. But in any and every case con- 

 fession is still to be made to God ; for all sins are 

 committed against him, as well such as offend our 

 fellow-man, as those that offend him alone. Priestly 

 absolution is a blasphemous usurpation of the sole 

 prerogative of God. None can forgive sins as against 

 God, but God alone. The blood of Jesus Christ only 

 can cleanse us from our sins, and always we obtain 

 forgiveness directly from God, whenever by faith in 

 that blood we approach him with our confessions and 

 prayers. 



ART. XXXIII. Of the Marriage of Ministers. 

 Christian Ministers are not commanded by God's 

 Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to ab- 

 stain from marriage ; therefore it is lawful for them, 

 as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own 

 discretion. 



AET. XXXIV. Of the Power of the Civil Author- 

 ity. The power of the civil magistrate extendeth 

 to all men, as well Ministers as people, in all things 

 temporal ; but hath no authority in things purely 

 spiritual. And we hold it to be the duty of all men 

 who are professors of the Gospel, to pay respectful 

 obedience to the civil authority, regularly and legiti- 

 mately constituted. 



ART. XXXV. Of Christian Men's Goods. The 

 riches and goods of Christian men are not common, 

 but their own, to be controlled and used according 

 to their Christian judgment. Every man ought, of 

 such things as he ppssesseth, liberally to give alms 

 to the poor, according to his ability ; and, as a 

 steward of God, he should use his means and influ- 

 ence in promoting the cause of truth and righteous- 

 ness, to the glory of God. 



The Rev. B. F. Stevens, of South Carolina, 

 during the month of July, organized six Re- 

 formed Episcopal Churches among the freed- 

 men, with a total of 539 members. The 

 churches, which were in a small territory, and 

 near to each other, were put in charge of two 

 preachers, assisted by a lay reader. A convo- 

 cation of all the organized congregations was 

 held August 14th. Three delegates were pres- 

 ent from each church. On the 1st of Septem- 

 ber Mr. Stevens, having completed his second 

 round of visits to those congregations, reported 

 them to number seven churches, with 665 

 members. 



By the constitution of the Reformed Episco- 

 pal Church, provision is made for the forma- 

 tion of synods. Any six or more churches, in 

 reasonable proximity, may be formed into a 

 synod, for which a synodical bishop may be 

 elected. Each synod is to be composed of all 

 the ministers within its limits, and as many lay 

 deputies from each congregation as the synod 

 may determine, and is given the power to 

 frame a constitution and canons for its own 

 government, not conflicting with the constitu- 

 tion and canons of the General Council. A 

 meeting for the organization of a synod was 

 held at Chicago, 111., September 28th. Eight 

 churches were represented, six of which were 

 in Chicago, by fifty-one delegates, of whom 

 forty-three were lay members. A constitu- 

 tion was adopted, and the synod organized 

 under the name of the Synod of Chicago. 



Bishop Cheney, already Missionary Bishop of 

 the Northwest, was elected Synodal Bishop. 



REMUSAT, FEANgois MAEIE CHABLES, 

 Comte DE, a French statesman, born March 

 14, 1797 ; died June 6, 1875. He was a grand- 

 son of Lafayette, and a nephew of Casimir 

 P6rier. He studied law and entered public 

 life during the closing years of the reign of 

 Charles X. Associated with M. Thiers, he 

 hastened the revolutionary movement which 

 drove that monarch from power and placed 

 Louis Philippe on the French throne. He 

 was elected deputy by Toulouse in 1830, and 

 represented that city for six years, acting with 

 the Liberal party, and acquiring great fame 

 as an orator. During the parliamentary war- 

 fare from 1830 to 1848, he steadfastly sup- 

 ported M. Thiers, and was Minister of the In- 

 terior in the ministry which the latter formed 

 in 1840. When subsequently his party was 

 overthrown, Count de R6musat devoted him- 

 self ardently to literature, and was honored 

 with membership in the French Academy. 

 When Louis Philippe, striving to maintain his 

 tottering throne, summoned M. Thiers to form 

 a ministry, Count de R6musat was named as 

 one of its members. Under the Provisional 

 Government and the Republic, Count de R6- 

 musat was successively a member of the Con- 

 stituent and. Legislative Assemblies, in which 

 he pursued a conservative course. He was 

 exiled at the coup d'etat of 1851, but soon re- 

 turned and retired to private life. In August, 

 1871, he succeeded M. Jules Favre in Presi- 

 dent Thiers's Cabinet as Minister for Foreign 

 Affairs, and displayed considerable ability in 

 promoting abroad the interests of the French 

 Republic. He fell with the Thiers adminis- 

 tration. Though extremely simple, the fu- 

 neral of M. de R6musat was an imposing one. 

 With scarcely an exception, the Deputies form- 

 ing the majority of the 25th February attended. 

 There were also many belonging to the Right 

 and the Right Centre. The Academy was rep- 

 resented by M. Patin and M. Vieil Castel. 

 Among his principal works are : " Essais de 

 Philosophic" (2 vols., 1834); "Abelard" (2 

 vols., 1845); " Saint- Anselme de Canterbury" 

 (1858) ; " Angleterre au XVIII* Siecle " (1856) ; 

 " Bacon, sa Vie, son Temps, sa Philosophie " 

 (second edition, 1858) ; "Channing, sa Vie et 

 ses (Euvres" (second edition, 1862); "Philo- 

 sophie Religieuse" (1864) ; " L' Angleterre au 

 XVIIIe Siecle " (2 vols., 1865). 



REUSCHLE, KAEL GUSTAV, a German geo- 

 grapher, born December 26, 1812; died May 

 22, 1875. He studied mathematics and natural 

 history in Tubingen, Paris, and Berlin, and in 

 1840 was appointed professor of mathematics 

 and geography in the gymnasium at Stuttgart. 

 His principal work, u Tafeln complexer Prim- 

 zahlen," was published shortly before his 

 death by the Berlin Academy of Sciences. His 

 works "Kepler und die Astronomie " (1871), 

 and "Kopernikus, Kepler und Newton," show 

 his knowledge of astronomy, while his last 



