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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



Joseph Barker Lightfoot, Canon of St. Paul's 

 and Margaret, Professor of Divinity at Cam- 

 bridge, was nominated to be the new Bishop 

 of the diocese, was duly elected by the Dean 

 and Chapter, and was consecrated Bishop at 

 Westminister Abbey, April 25th. The new 

 Bishop was born in Liverpool, is a little more 

 than fifty years of age, was graduated from the 

 University of Cambridge in 1851, and is one of 

 the most distinguished Biblical scholars in the 

 English Church. 



Bishop Samuel Gobat of Jerusalem died 

 May llth. The Bishop of this diocese is ap- 

 pointed under a joint arrangement of the Brit- 

 ish and Prussian Governments, by the terms 

 of which he is designated by either alternately. 

 The appointment of the successor of Bishop 

 Gobat falling to the British Government, the 

 Rev. Dr. Joseph Barclay, rector of Stapleton, 

 Herts, was made Bishop. The new Bishop 

 had already spent ten years in Jerusalem as 

 examining chaplain to Bishop Gobat, whereby 

 he had acquired a close acquaintance with the 

 East. He is versed in the Hebrew, Arabic, and 

 German languages, and has translated and pre- 

 pared commentaries on parts of the Talmud. 



The Eight Kev. Dr. Reginal Courtney, Bishop 

 of Kingston, Jamaica, having resigned his of- 

 fice, to take effect in April, 1879, the Right 

 Rev. George William Tozer was appointed 

 Bishop of Kingston in August. Bishop Tozer 

 was for several years Anglican Missionary 

 Bishop of Zanzibar, but retired from that po- 

 sition in 1873 on account of his health. 



The fourteenth annual report of the Council 

 of the Church Association was made in March, 

 1879. Thirty-three branches had been formed 

 during the year, and the whole number of 

 branches was now 358. Branches of the As- 

 sociation had been established at Edinburgh, 

 Glasgow, and Montrose, in Scotland. In ac- 

 cordance with the object of the Association, 

 which is the maintenance of Protestant princi- 

 ples in the Church of England, organized oper- 

 ations were being made throughout the coun- 

 try to bring the subject of ritualism before can- 

 didates for Parliament at the coming election. 



The annual meeting of the English Church 

 Union was held at Hereford, August 21st. The 

 annual report and the address of the President 

 of the meeting, Major Thomas Palmer of Here- 

 ford, represented that the Union and the prin- 

 ciples it represented were gaining ground. 

 Thirty years ago, it was claimed, crosses, sur- 

 pliced choirs, candles, etc., were ruled out ; 

 now they had all these. The people in attend- 

 ance at their churches and the number of com- 

 municants had increased, and the observance 

 of the services appertaining to Lent had been 

 more numerous. Resolutions were passed, stat- 

 ing that the Union regarded with surprise and 

 alarm the decision of the Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury, and some of the bishops, to displace 

 the Athanasian Creed from its present posi- 

 tion in the Prayer-Book, and that it should be 

 left as it is ; that the Union disapproved of the 



action of the Lower House of Convocation in 

 the matter of the ornaments rubric, and they 

 were astonished that the House should accept 

 an addition which contradicts the rubric itself; 

 and that the Union will do all it can to pre- 

 vent any alteration in the Prayer-Book, as 

 dangerous to the interests of the Church. The 

 holding of a mass meeting in London in No- 

 vember was advised. 



The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament 

 is an association for propagating the doctrine 

 of the real presence in the Lord's Supper, for 

 promoting the administration of that ordinance 

 with a full ritual, the offering of prayers for 

 the dead, the increase of daily celebrations, 

 the receiving of the sacraments for the sick 

 and dying, and auricular confession. Accord- 

 ing to the report for 1878, 61 priests had been 

 enrolled as members during the year, 53 had 

 withdrawn, and the whole number of priests 

 associate was 933 ; 759 lay associates had been 

 admitted, 47 had withdrawn, and the whole 

 number of lay associates was about 10,563 ; 

 making the total of members in England 11,499. 

 Twenty-one new wards had been formed in 

 England, one in India, one in Canada, and one 

 in South Africa, while six wards had been dis- 

 continued; and there were now 147 English 

 and eight colonial wards. The " Intercession " 

 paper was regularly issued, 10,500 copies being 

 required each month. The income of the 

 Society had been 1,161, and its expenditures 

 892. 



A new society, called the Church and Stage 

 Guild, has been established in connection with 

 the Church of England, with the object of pro- 

 moting religious and social sympathy between 

 the members of the Church and the stage. 



The annual meeting of the Society for the 

 Liberation of Religion from State Patronage 

 and Control was held in London, April 30th. 

 The expenditures of the Society for the year 

 had been 13,249, after defraying which a 

 balance of 579 was left in the treasury. 

 About eight hundred meetings had been held 

 in England, Scotland, and Wales, and 3,148,000 

 publications had been circulated. The report 

 dwelt upon the advance which had been made 

 in the cause which the Society was intended 

 to promote, as shown in the movement for 

 the disestablishment of the Scottish Church, in 

 which the Society cooperated; the agitation 

 on the subject of burials, in the case of which 

 it was claimed that the principles insisted upon 

 by Mr. Osborne Morgan had been acquiesced in 

 in the bill of Mr. Balfour ; and other events. 

 The scheme for the endowment of an Irish 

 Roman Catholic University would meet with 

 strenuous opposition. Resolutions were passed 

 expressing confidence in the success of the 

 movement for disestablishment in Scotland, 

 commending the question of disestablishment 

 to the support of electoral constituencies, and 

 urging preparation to oppose the project to 

 establish a Roman Catholic University in Ire- 

 land. Resolutions were passed at the public 



