704 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



PRUSSIA. 



mour declined to accept the office, but the 

 Diocesan Convention at its first annual meet- 

 ing, May 28th, having unanimously requested 

 him to withdraw his declination, he did so, and 

 was consecrated Bishop in Trinity Church, 

 New York, June llth. 



Bishop Samuel A. McCoskrey in March re- 

 signed the office of Bishop of the Diocese of 

 Michigan, assigning affliction by disease as the 

 reason for his action. Charges of immorality 

 were afterward made against him, whereupon 

 he withdrew his resignation, and asked that an 

 investigation be made of his conduct,, as pro- 

 vided by the canons of the Church. He after- 

 ward reconsidered his later action, and on May 

 25th renewed the resignation and relinquish- 

 ment of his office, with the request that the 

 same be acted upon by the House of Bishops 

 at some convenient season, after which he 

 sailed for Europe. , A special meeting of the 

 House of Bishops was called, to assemble on 

 August 28th, to consider the case and act upon 

 it. The House of Bishops decided on Septem- 

 ber 3d that, whereas Bishop McCoskrey had 

 abandoned his diocese and left the territory of 

 the United States while grave allegations ex- 

 isted against him, thereby declining to promote 

 any investigations of these allegations, and 

 whereas no action of his under such circum- 

 stances could make effective his voluntary res- 

 ignation, relinquishment, and abandonment of 

 his sacred office except by his deposition from 

 the same, therefore he was deposed from the 

 sacred ministry and from all offices thereof. 

 In accordance with these resolutions the sen- 

 tence of deposition was publicly pronounced 

 by the Presiding Bishop, and was read in the 

 churches. 



The fifth annual Church Congress was held 

 at Cincinnati, O., beginning October 15th. The 

 opening address was delivered by Assistant 

 Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, as Chairman. The 

 first topic for discussion, " The Interpretation 

 of the Bible in Relation to the Present Con- 

 dition of Learning and Science," was consid- 

 ered in papers by the Rev. Frederick Gardiner, 

 D. D., of Middletown, Conn., the Rev. Edwin 

 Harwood, D. D., of New Haven, Conn., and 

 Professor John McCrady, of the University of 

 the South, and in addresses by the Rev. W. P. 

 Du Bose, of the same institution, the Rev. 

 Edmund Rowland, of New Bedford, Mass., the 

 Rev. 0. C. Tiffany, of New York, the Rev. T. 

 8. Bacon, of Oakland, Md., and the Rev. Allan 

 S. Woodle. The other topics discussed during 

 the session of the Congress, with the authors 

 of the papers and the speakers upon them, 

 were as follows : " The Novel in its Influence 

 upon Modern Life" papers by the Rev. W. 

 R. Hnntington, D. D., the Rev. 0. H. Butler, 



'., ^ lladelphia ' Pa -> the Rev - Samuel 

 Osgood, D. D., of New York City ; "The New 

 Testament Doctrine of Absolution "papers by 

 theRev. James DeKoven,D.D., of Racine, Wis., 

 and the Rev. James S. Bush, of West Brighton 

 K. Y., and addresses by the Rev. C. B. Smith, 



of New York City, the Rev. D. R. Goodwin, 

 of Philadelphia, Pa., the Rev. Henry Forrester, 

 of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Rev. S. C. Thrall, 

 D. D., of Cumberland, Md., the Rev. Edward 

 Sullivan, D. D., of Chicago, 111., and the Rev. 

 T. N. Dudley, D. D. ; "The Sunday Question" 

 papers by the Rev. D. R. Goodwin, D. D., of 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and the Rev. E. A. Wash- 

 burn, D. D., of New York City, and addresses 

 by Mr. John W. Andrews, of Columbus, Ohio, 

 the Rev. R. S. Alsop, of Pittsburg, Pa., the 

 Rev. George F. Bugbee, of Covington, Ky., the 

 Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington, and the Rev. Dr. 

 J. H. Hopkins ; " The Mutual Relations of Cap- 

 ital and Labor " papers by Mr. B. E. Green, 

 of Dalton, Ga., Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, of New 

 York City, and the Rev. John W. Kramer, 

 D. D., of New York City, and an address by 

 the Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D. D., of New 

 York City; "Christ in the Personal Life" 

 papers by the Rev. W. N. McVickar, D. D., of 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and the Rev. S. C. Thrall, 

 of Cumberland, Md., and addresses by the Rev. 

 J. M. Pringle, of Henderson, Ky., and the Rev. 

 N. S. Rulison, of Cleveland, O. 



PRUSSIA, a kingdom of Europe, forming 

 part of the German Empire. King, William I., 

 German Emperor and King of Prussia. (For 

 an account of the royal family, see GEE- 

 MANY.) 



The Prussian Ministry was composed in 1878 

 as follows: President, Prince von Bismarck, 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chancellor of 

 the German Empire; Vice-President, Count 

 Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (appointed May 

 29, 1878); Minister of Finances, Hobrecht 

 (March 30, 1878) ; Count zu Eulenburg, Minis- 

 er of the Interior (March 30, 1878) ; Dr. Leon- 

 hardt (December 5, 1867), Minister of Justice ; 

 Dr. Falk (January 22, 1872), Minister of Ec- 

 clesiastical, Educational, and Medical Affairs ; 

 General von Kameke (November 9, 1873), Min- 

 ister of War; August Maybach (March 30, 1878), 

 Minister for Commerce and Public Works; Dr. 

 Friedenthal (September 19, 1874), Minister of 

 Agriculture ; Von Btilow (June 6, 1876), Secre- 

 tary of State in the Foreign Office ; Hofmann 

 (June 6, 1876), President of the Imperial Chan- 

 cery. 



The table on page 705 gives the area and 

 population of the different provinces of Prus- 

 sia in 1875. 



In the budget for the year 1878-'79 the re- 

 ceipts and expenditures were estimated at 

 713,857,764 marks. The sources of revenue 

 were as follows : 



SOTJKOE9 OF EEVE1TTJE. 



Marks. 



1. Ministry of Finance 883,218,215 



2. ofCommerce 272,210,974 



3. ofState 520,680 



4. of Justice 48,115,000 



5. ofthe Interior 8,210,606 



6. of Agriculture 4,167,680 



7. of W orship, Education, and Medicine. 1,409,859 



8. " of Foreign Affairs 4.500 



9. of War 1,000,000 



Total .. 718,857,764 



