PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCIL 



The Rev. Samuel Smith Harris, D. D., of 

 Chicago, was elected by the Diocesan Conven- 

 f Michigan, .Iiino -1th, to bo Bishop of 

 Michigan, in tlio place of Bishop MoCoskry, 

 (lcpox-1 in 1878. lie was consecrated in 8t. 

 Paul's Church, Detroit, September 17th. The 

 Right Rev. William Henry Odenheimer, Bish- 

 op of Northern New Jersey, died August 14th. 

 A special meeting of the Diocesan Convention 

 to elect a new Bishop was held in Newark, Oc- 

 tober 29th. Seven ballots were taken, when, 

 on the second day of the session, the Rev. 

 Thonris A. St:irkey, D. D., rector of St. Paul's 

 Church, Paterson, received a majority of the 

 votes of both orders and was elected. The 

 Rev. Henry Chauncey Riley, D. D., Bishop 

 elect of the Mexican branch of the Church, 

 was consecrated to that office in Trinity 

 Church, Pittsburgh, June 24th. The Rev. 

 John N. Galleher, D. D., has been elected 

 Bishop of Louisiana, to succeed Bishop J. P. 

 B. Wilmer, who died December 2, 1878. 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the Evan- 

 gelical Education Society was held in Balti- 

 more, Maryland, November 6th. The Trea- 

 surer reported that he had had funds in his 

 hands for distribution during the year to the 

 amount of $18,848, and had expended $14,846. 

 The permanent fund amounted to $59,000. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Mana- 

 gers of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 

 Society was held in the city of New York in 

 October. The Domestic Committee, having 

 charge of the domestic, colored people's, and 

 Indian departments, reported that its total re- 

 ceipts had been $141,683, of which $97,635 

 had been for domestic missions proper, $13,215 

 designated by the givers for missions among 

 the colored people of the South, and $30,832 

 similarly designated for missions among the 

 Indians. Besides these, $13,162 had been 

 given in special contributions not under the 

 control of the committee. Three hundred and 

 thirty missionaries had been wholly or partially 

 supported by the committee. The receipts of 

 the American Church Missionary Society(which 

 has become an auxiliary to the Board of Mis- 

 sions) for the year ending September 1, 1879, 

 were $20,529. The Society had commissioned 

 39 missionaries, and had 84 missionaries in the 

 field at the time ita report was made. The en- 

 terprises of this Society are mostly of the char- 

 acter of domestic missions. The total receipts 

 of the Foreign Committee had been $148,692, 

 of which, however, only $112,555 were within 

 the control of the Board and Committee. The 

 foreign missions are in Greece, western Africa, 

 China, Japan, Hayti, and Mexico, and return 

 in all 4,499 members and 2,561 day and board- 

 inir scholars. An estate known as the " Jess- 

 fleld Farm," near Shanghai, China, had been 

 bought by Bishop Schereschewsky, as the site 

 for the College of St. John and other educa- 

 tional institutions and missionary residences, 

 and the corner-stone of the college had. been 

 laid on Easter Monday of the current year. 



The Woman's Auxiliary Society had contrib- 

 uted during the year $35,803 in cash and $65,- 

 888 in boxes to supply the wants of the various 

 missions. 



A general Missionary Conference was held 

 during the meeting of the Board of Managers, 

 October 14th-l7th, when the following top- 

 ics were discussed : " Association in Mission 

 Work, one of the Securities of the Church's 

 Peace and Order " ; " What are the Elements 

 which constitute any Branch of the Church a 

 Power ? " " What is wanting to the Successful 

 Evangelization of the Colored People of this 

 Country?" "The Christian Solution of the 

 Indian Problem " ; " The Indebtedness of the 

 World to Foreign Missionary Enterprise"; 

 " Diversities of Operation in carrying on the 

 Work of the Church consistent with Christian 

 Unity " ; " The Claims of the Mining, Manufac- 

 turing, and Agricultural Classes " ; " The Poli- 

 cy of Concentration or Diffusion in Missionary 

 Work " ; " The Peculiar Aptitude of the Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church to meet the American 

 Mind and the Demands of the Age"; and 

 "Medical Missions in China." 



The sixth annual Church Congress met in 

 Albany on October 21st. The inaugural ad- 

 dress was delivered by the Bishop of Albany, 

 who presided. The first topic for discussion, 

 "The Relation, of Social Science to Christian 

 Ethics," was considered in papers by Charles 

 J. Stille, LL. D., Provost of the University of 

 Pennsylvania; the Rev. Wilbur F. Watkins, 

 D. D., of Christ Church, Baltimore ; the Rev. 

 John Steinfort Kidney, D. D., of the Divinity 

 School, Faribault, Minn. ; the Rev. C. Maurice 

 Wines, of St. Paul's, Yonkers, N. Y. ; and the 

 Rev. J. F. Garrison, M. D., of St. Paul's, Cam- 

 den, N. J. The other topics discussed, and the 

 authors of papers and addresses upon them, 

 were as follows: "Positive Christian Educa- 

 tion " papers by the Rt. Rev. F. D. Hunting- 

 ton, D. D., Bishop of Central New York, and 

 the Rev. E. T. Bartlett of Matteawan, N. Y. ; 

 "Communism in its Relations to Republican 

 Institutions" papers by the Rev. J. H. Ry- 

 lance, D. D., of St. Mark's Church, New York, 

 the Rev. R. Heber Newton of New York, and 

 Joseph Packard, Jr., of Baltimore, Md. ; "The 

 Authority of Dogma " papers by the Rt. Rev. 

 W. E. McLaren, D. D., Bishop of Illinois, the 

 Rt. Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D. D., Bishop of 

 Rhode Island, the Rt. Rev. G. T. Bedell, Bish- 

 op of Ohio, and the Rev. John Cotton Smith, 

 D. D., Church of the Ascension, New York; 

 " Non- Attendance at Church: its Causes and 

 Remedies" papers by George B. Keese of 

 Cooperstown, N. Y., Francis Wells of Phila- 

 delphia, and J. Astley Atkins of New York ; 

 "Memorial Art" papers by the Rev. II. N. 

 Powers, D. D., Christ Church, Bridgeport, 

 Conn., the Rev. C. A. L. Richards, St. John's, 

 Providence, R. I., and President E. N. Potter, 

 D. D., LL. D., of Union College, Schenectady, 

 N. Y., and an address by the Rev. Frank L. 

 Norton, St. John's. Troy, N. Y. ; " The Per- 



