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vision made in the Book of Common Prayer 

 for the relief of troubled consciences." The 

 report " On the Relation to each other of Mis- 

 sionary Bishops and of Missionaries " involved 

 the consideration of some of the questions 

 which have been in dispute between agents of 

 the Church Missionary Society in Ceylon and 

 the Bishop of Colombo. The report recom- 

 mended that books of common prayer should 

 be framed suitable to the needs of native con- 

 gregations in heathen countries; that they 

 should be based upon the " Book of Common 

 Prayer," with only such deviations in point of 

 form as should be required by the circum- 

 stances of particular churches; and that such 

 books when prepared should be submitted to 

 the approval of boards regularly endowed with 

 authority for that purpose; that every mis- 

 sionary clergyman, whether appointed by a so- 

 ciety or otherwise, should receive the license 

 of the bishop in whose diocese he is to labor ; 

 that in case of refusal to give a license to a 

 clergyman, the bishop should, if desired, state 

 the reason of his refusal, transmit them to the 

 metropolitan, or to the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury, if there is no metropolitan, and make 

 them accessible to the person whose license is 

 in question; and it recommended a similar 

 course of procedure in the " case of revoca- 

 tion of license, which it advised should not take 

 place except for grave ecclesiastical offenses." 

 Further, it suggested: "The bishop would prob- 

 ably find it desirable, where the clergyman is 

 connected with one of the great missionary so- 

 cieties, to communicate with the society or its 

 local representatives before taking steps for re- 

 vocation of a license." It held that lay agents 

 employed in more important spiritual func- 

 tions should have the license or other express 

 sanction of the bishop, and other lay agents 

 should be considered to have his implied sanc- 

 tion ; that the authority of the bishop in ap- 

 pointing places for public worship had been 

 always admitted in the Church ; and that every 

 place in which the holy communion is regularly 

 celebrated should have his sanction. Another 

 report expressed the sympathy of the Confer- 

 ence toward the Old Catholics, and the churches 

 and individuals protesting against the claim of 

 the Papal Court to supremacy over all men in 

 matters of faith and morals on the ground of its 

 infallibility. The report " On Voluntary Boards 

 of Arbitration " indicated the principles which 

 might be applied in cases where an appeal is 

 sought from the decisions of the tribunals of 

 the several ecclesiastical provinces, and under 

 similar circumstances in the case of the trial 

 of a bishop. The " Committee on Infidelity 

 and the best Mode of meeting it" reported 

 that it was impossible to give adequate con- 

 sideration to that wide subject within the lim- 

 ited time allowed for their deliberation. 



The eighteenth Church Congress met at 

 Sheffield, October 1st. The introductory ser- 

 mon was preached by the Bishop of Ripon. 

 Ihe Archbishop of York presided, and deliv- 



APPLETON, GEORGE S. 



ered the opening address, in which he defend- 

 ed the Congresses as a useful medium for the 

 exchange of thought, and pointed out the good 

 results which he anticipated would follow the 

 meeting of the Pan-Anglican Conference at 

 Lambeth. Papers were read on " Foreign and 

 Colonial Missions, their Condition, Organiza- 

 tion, and Prosperity," by the Bishop of Penn- 

 sylvania, the Rev. Mr. Maclear, and the Rev. 

 Thomas Green; "Modern Doubts and Diffi- 

 culties in relation to Revealed Religion," by the 

 Rev. Prof. Wilkins, the Rev. Stanley Leathes, 

 and Dr. Thornton ; " The Just Limits of Com- 

 prehensiveness in the National Church," by 

 the Hon. Charles L. Wood, President of the 

 English National (Ritualistic) Church Union, 

 the Rev. Llewellyn Davis (Low Churchman), 

 the Rev. Canon Ryle (classed as a Broad 

 Churchman), and others ; " The Church's 

 Work among the Rural, Urban, and Commer- 

 cial Populations " ; "The Attitude of the Church 

 toward Popular Literature and Recreation," in 

 connection with which head the moral aspects 

 of the theatre were discussed by the Earl of 

 Musgrave, the Bishop of Manchester, and other 

 speakers ; " Woman's Work in the Church," 

 by the Bishop of Ohio, Miss Whateley of the 

 mission at Alexandria, Egypt, and the Rev. F. 

 Pigou ; " Church Property and Endowments " ; 

 "Ecclesiastical Patronage"; "The Marriage 

 Law as affecting the Church " ; " Parochial 

 Councils"; "Cathedrals and Cathedral Insti- 

 tutions, how to increase their Influence " ; 

 "The Supply, Training, and Examination of 

 Candidates for Holy Orders." The question, 

 "What definite results as to the interpretation 

 of Scripture have been produced by the dis- 

 coveries in Egypt, Nineveh, and the Catacombs 

 of Rome?" was discussed by Canon Rawlin- 

 son and Canon Tristram. A " Workingmen's 

 Meeting" was held in connection with the 

 Congress. 



APPLETON, GEORGE SWETT, member of the 

 publishing firm of Daniel Appleton and Com- 

 pany, died July Yth, at the age of fifty-seven 

 years. He was born at Andover, Massachusetts, 

 August 11, 1821. Both by his inherited tastes 

 and by education he was eminently well fitted 

 for the vocation in life which occupied all his 

 manhood's years that of a publisher. Having 

 studied for some time in the Phillips Academy 

 a noted educational institution in his native 

 village he, at the age of about nineteen, wont 

 abroad for the sake of study and travel, and 

 passed four years at the University of Leipsic. 

 These student years* were devoted especially to 

 literary and historical research, and in the 

 mean time he gained an intimate acquaintance 

 with the languages of Germany, France, and 

 Italy. With the literatures of these countries, 

 as also with that of England, he was fully con- 

 versant. But while literature was for him an 

 object of close and systematic study, fine art 

 occupied his leisure moments, and he culti- 

 vated it with distinguished success. In partic- 

 ular he was a connoisseur of painting, and at 



