PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



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The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 American Church Mimionary Society was held 

 i Philadelphia, October SMb. The Rev. 8. H. 

 Tyng, D. D., presided. The receipts of the 

 Society for the year had been $54,550.50. In 

 the field of domestic missions the Society had 

 more than one hundred and twenty-five sta- 

 tions, reim-si-nting fourteen dioceses and three 

 in U-ionary jurisdictions. Forty-three mission- 

 aries had been commissioned, eight had re- 

 signed, one had died, and thirty-three were 

 now in active service. In the field of foreign 

 missions the Society occupied the city of 

 Mexico, with a district surrounding it, having 

 a radius of from two hundred to four hundred 

 miles. More than sixty congregations were 

 officially connected with the Church of Jesus, 

 or, to describe it by its full legal title, "The 

 Mexican Branch of the Catholic Church of the 

 Lord Jesus Christ Militant upon Earth." The 

 worship of this Church is guided in accord- 

 ance with a provisional service-book, entitled 

 " Prayers and Hymns." This work is liturgi- 

 cal and responsive in character, and is to be en- 

 larged and perfected by the legislative body of 

 the Church, under the advice of the bishops who 

 compose the Mexican Commission of the House 

 of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

 Its ministry is constituted of men who were 

 ordained by Bishop Lee, of Delaware, on his 

 recent visit to Mexico, who have also been 

 aided by former Roman Catholic priests who 

 have renounced their Church. Seven candi- 

 dates were awaiting holy oders. Many lay 

 assistants were employed. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Evangelical 

 Education Society of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church was held in Philadelphia, October 26th. 

 Bishop Vail, of Kansas, presided. The report 

 of the Board of Managers showed the financial 

 condition of the Society to be as follows : 

 Money on hand at the beginning of the year, 

 $737.23 ; amount received during the year, 

 $24,536.83. The Society was free from debt, 

 and, notwithstanding the stringency of the 

 times, had aided every worthy student who 

 had applied for help. Forty-six students were 

 on the Society's roll at the beginning of the 

 year, and twenty-four had been added since. 

 The number still upon the rolls was forty. 



The annual meeting of the New York Bible 

 and Common Prayer-Book Society was held 

 in New York City, October 22d. Report was 

 made that during the year the Society had 

 given away about 28,000 volumes of Bibles, 

 prayer-books, and Testaments. The Society 

 was at present engaged in publishing in sepa- 

 rate parts a translation of the prayer-book 

 into German, made under the supervision of a 

 committee appointed by the General Conven- 

 tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 



The forty-third anniversary of the Bishop 

 White Prayer-Book Society was held in Phila- 

 delphia, in October. The Society had during 

 the year distributed 17,965 volumes of Bibles, 

 prayer-books, and hymnals, at a total cost of 



$3,900. The receipts of the Society had been 

 $2.<>20, leaving a deficiency of $1,280. 



The anniversary of the Society for the In- 

 crease of the Minitry was held at Philadel- 

 phia, October 8th and 9th. The report was 

 made for the year ending September 1, 1876. 

 The Society had begun the year with $625.- 

 74 in the treasury, and had received till the 

 date of the report, from 45 dioceses and mis- 

 sionary jurisdictions, the sum of $28,869.66. 

 Its expenditures had been $32,939.50. It had 

 aided 153 scholars, representing 42 diocesen 

 and missionary jurisdictions. One in eight 

 of all the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church now living had received help from the 

 Society. It had assisted students from every 

 diocese studying in every college and seminary 

 of the Church. 



The third meeting of the Church Congret* 

 was held at Boston, beginning November 14th. 

 The opening address was delivered by Bish- 

 op Huntington, of Central New York. The 

 Bbhop of Massachusetts presided, and deliv- 

 ered an address of welcome to the Congress. 

 The following topics were discussed during 

 the sessions: "The True Place of Art in 

 Christianity ;" " Foreign Missions, under our 

 Present Knowledge of Non-Christian Nations, 

 their Morals and their Religions ;" " The Re- 

 lation of the Protestant Episcopal Church to 

 the Freedom of Religious Thought ;" " The Re- 

 lations of Secular and Religious Education ;" 

 " The Morals of Politics ;" u The Just Liberty 

 in the Adaptation of the Services to the Varied 

 Wants of the People ;" " The Prevention and 

 Cure of Drunkenness ;" " Revivals and Chris- 

 tian Nurture." 



The Diocesan Convention of Iowa met in 

 Davenport, May 81st. At a former meeting 

 of the Convention, the Rev. J. H. Eccleston, 

 of Philadelphia, had been elected bishop. The 

 validity of the election was disputed on ac- 

 count of some informalities, and Dr. Eccles- 

 ton declined to serve. A new election was 

 therefore necessary. A letter was read from 

 Dr. Eccleston declining a nomination. On 

 the first ballot, the Rev. W. Stevens Perry, 

 D. D., President of Hobart College, Geneva, 

 N. Y., received a very large majority of the 

 votes, and was elected. A resolution was 

 unanimously adopted commending the action 

 of Dr. Eccleston in the case. Dr. Perry was 

 ordained bishop at Trinity Church, Geneva, 

 N. Y., September 10th. 



The tenth annual session of the National 

 Convocation of the Haytian Church was held in 

 Port-au-Prince, beginning June llth. Confer- 

 ences on religious subjects formed a prominent 

 feature of the meeting. The educational insti- 

 tution set on foot by Bishop Holly was cordially 

 approved. It was decided to celebrate the com- 

 pletion of the tenth year of the existence of the 

 Church by giving a contribution of one hundred 

 dollars to the centennial fund of the Board of 

 Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church of 

 the United States, that Church having been the 



