102 CHRISTIAN CONNEC11ON. 



CLAY, CLEMENT C. 



The enlightened Prime Minister, Li-Hung- 

 Chang, upon the death of his mother, peti- 

 tioned, in obedience to custom, to be relieved 

 of his offices during the long period of mourn- 

 ing prescribed, taking the precaution to secure 

 as his deputy a man in sympathy with his pro- 

 jects, Chang-Shu-Sheng, Governor-General of 

 Canton. His request was at first refused, but 

 he was finally relieved of his duties as Secre- 

 tary of State and Governor of the Metropolitan 

 Province, but retained as Imperial Commis- 

 sioner of Commerce, and commander of the 

 forces at Tientsin. Three daily newspapers 

 are printed at Shanghai ; the oldest, the " Shen- 

 Pao, " has a circulation of 10,000. The Eev. Mr. 

 Allen, an American missionary, has founded a 

 university at Shanghai. The cause of prog- 

 ress receives its chief support from Chinese 

 merchants who have acquired wealth in for- 

 eign trade, already a numerous and powerful 

 class. A new decorative order has been created 

 for bestowal on foreigners of distinction who 

 have rendered services to China ; it is called 

 the Order of the Double Dragon. (For legis- 

 lation prohibiting Chinese immigration into 

 the United States, see CONGEESS, UNITED 

 STATES, and IMMIGBATION, CHINESE.) 



CHRISTIAN CONNECTION. The statis- 

 tics of the Christian Connection are very im- 

 perfectly reported, and no attempt has been 

 made to compile them in tabular form for sev- 

 eral years. The Connection has sixty annual 

 or local conferences, ten of which are in New 

 England and Canada, ten in the Middle States, 

 and forty in the Southwestern and Western 

 States, and includes, according to the most 

 recent estimates, about one hundred and fifty 

 thousand members. A kindred organization 

 in the Southern States, called the Christian 

 Church, originated in a separation from this 

 body in 1854, which was provoked by the ac- 

 tion of the General Convention on the question 

 of slavery. The Eev. 5. W. Wellons, a frater- 

 nal delegate from this body to the recent Quad- 

 rennial Convention, stated there that it num- 

 bered about twenty thousand white and five 

 thousand colored members. 



The Christian Connection does not assume 

 any denominational name, but adopts the term 

 Christian in a general sense simply to indicate 

 that it makes a Christian profession. It ac- 

 cepts the Bible as its only rule of faith and 

 practice, granting to every man the right of 

 individual judgment, and professes fellowship 

 with, and admits to its communion, all Chris- 

 tians, without regard to their theological opin- 

 ions or their views or practices in ordinances. 

 It has always encouraged preaching by women, 

 and welcomes them to all the privileges of the 

 church. Its government is stated by the editor 

 of its official newspaper organ to be "neither 

 Congregational, Presbyterian, nor Episcopa- 

 lian. It is neither a democracy, an aristocracy, 

 nor an autocracy, but a brotherhood with one 

 only Master, even Christ, to whom each indi- 

 vidual shall answer for himself." 



MEETING or THE QUADRENNIAL CONVENTION- 

 The Ninth Quadrennial Session of the Chris- 

 tian Convention of the United States and Can- 

 ada was held in Albany, N. Y., beginning Oc- 

 tober 4th. The Rev. Asa W. Coan presided. 

 The Sunday-school secretary reported concern- 

 ing 875 Sunday-schools, with 52,000 members. 

 The financial secretary reported that $25,000 a 

 year were needed for the several branches of 

 denominational work. The publishing agent 

 reported a net gain by the Publishing House at 

 Dayton, Ohio, during four years, besides pay- 

 ing interest on its debts, of $2,286. A weekly 

 general religious newspaper and three Sunday- 

 school papers were published at the establish- 

 ment. The general weekly paper, the " Herald 

 of Gospel Liberty," was originally started in 

 Portsmouth, N. H., in September, 1808, and 

 was the first religious periodical in newspaper 

 form ever published. Outside of the Publish- 

 ing House were published the " Christian Gem," 

 at Suffolk, Va., as the organ of the Christian 

 Church of the South, and the " Christian Indi- 

 cator," at Kokomo, Ind. Reports were made 

 of the condition of the educational institutions 

 of the Connection, including Starkey Seminary, 

 Eddytown, N. Y. ; Antioch College, Yellow 

 Springs, Ohio ; the Christian Biblical Institute, 

 Stanfordville, N. Y. ; the Franklinton School, 

 Franklinton, N. C. ; Le Grand Institute, Iowa ; 

 and Union Christian College, Merom, Ind. 

 Resolutions were adopted in favor of total ab- 

 stinence from the use of intoxicating drinks, 

 and prohibition of the traffic in them. Secre- 

 taries were elected for missions and church 

 extension. Fraternal delegates were present 

 from the Christian Church of the South ; and 

 six fraternal delegates were appointed to repre- 

 sent the Convention at the next meeting of the 

 Southern Convention. 



CIVIL RIGHTS CASES. (See LAW, CON- 

 STITUTIONAL.) 



CLAY, CLEMENT CLAIRBOENE, born in Mad- 

 ison County, Alabama, 1819 ; died near Hunts- 

 ville, Ala., January 3, 1882. Mr. Clay grad- 

 uated at the University of Alabama with honor 

 at the age of sixteen. He was endowed by 

 nature with more than ordinary intellectual 

 abilities, and even when he was quite young 

 was not unmindful of the obligations they im- 

 posed. When his father was elected Govern- 

 or of Alabama, he appointed his son private 

 secretary. He did not, however, forsake his 

 books, but continued adding to the stores of a 

 retentive memory, at the same time contribut- 

 ing editorials to the leading journals of Alaba- 

 ma. After his father was elected to the Sen- 

 ate of the United States, Mr. Clay went to the 

 University of Virginia, and completed his legal 

 studies. Returning to Huntsville, Ala., he com- 

 menced a successful practice of law. Soon his 

 fellow-citizens insisted upon electing him as 

 their Representative to the State Legislature, 

 in which he served in 1842, '44, and '45. In 

 1846 the Legislature elected him Judge of the 

 Madison County Court, where he presided un- 



