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ceses and ten missionary jurisdictions ; while 

 the number of clergy engaged in it had nearly 

 doubled, having been for the past year two 

 hundred and twenty-two. The Jews in two 

 hundred and one cities and towns were now 

 directly reached by the society. 



THE CHURCH CONGRESS. The eighth annual 

 Church Congress was held in Richmond, Va., 

 October, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th. The 

 opening address was delivered by the Bishop 

 of Louisiana. Papers, to which were added 

 extempore addresses in the general discussion 

 of the several subjects, were read as follows: 

 " The Position and Work of the Laity in the 

 Church," Rev. George 0. Shattuck, Boston, 

 Mass., and Rev. Arthur Brooks, New York; 

 " The Priestly and Prophetic Functions of the 

 Christian Ministry," Rev. William R. Hunting- 

 ton, D. D., Worcester, Mass., Rev. S. D. Mc- 

 Connell, Philadelphia, Pa.; "The Relation of 

 the Church to the Colored Race," Right Rev. 

 W. B. W. Howe, D. D., Bishop of South Caro- 

 lina, Rev. J. E. C. Smedes, Raleigh, N. 0., and 

 Rev. Henry Dunlop, Savannah, Ga. ; "The 

 Powers of Standing Committees," Rev. Hall 

 Harrison, Ellicott City, Md., Hugh W. Sheffey, 

 LL. D., Stanton, Va. ; " Inspiration of the 

 Scriptures," Rev. Frederic Gardiner, D. D., 

 Middletown, Conn., Rev. A. M. Randolph, 

 D. D., Baltimore, Md., John Dunlop, Esq., 

 Richmond, Va. ; " Christianity and the Crim- 

 inals," Rev. H. C. Potter, D. D., New York 

 city, Charles H. Kitchel, Esq., New York; 

 "Requirements for Confirmation," Rev. H. Y. 

 Satterlee, D. D., New York city, Rev. C. W. 

 Rankin, D. D., Baltimore, Md. 



PRUSSIA. (See GERMANY.) 



PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE, D. D., D. C. L. 

 Born in 1800, he was second son of the Hon. 

 Philip Bouverie (who assumed the name of 

 Pusey by royal license), and nephew of the first 

 Earl of Radnor. His early training was re- 

 ceived at Eton. He entered Christ Church, at 

 Oxford, was graduated with honors in 1822, and 

 the next year was elected a Fellow of Oriel Col- 

 lege. He took orders in the Church of England 

 in 1824, and devoted himself assiduously for 

 some years to Biblical studies, both at home 

 and in Germany. In 1828 he was appointed 

 Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University 

 of Oxford, to which is attached a canonry in 

 Christ Church. This professorship he held con- 

 tinuously until his death, and did good service 

 to the cause of Hebrew learning and inter- 

 pretation. The early associates of Pusey at Ox- 

 ford were John Henry Newman and R. Hur- 

 rell Froude, elder brother of J. A. Froude, the 

 historian. To these should be added Keble. 

 VVhately, Jelf, Hawkins, etc. In company 

 with Newman and Froude, Dr. Pusey began, 

 in 1833, that movement in the Church of Eng- 

 land which is usually called by its admirers 

 "the Anglo-Catholic movement," and which 

 has had so marked and wide-spread effect up- 

 on both doctrine and practice in that Church. 

 Pusey joined with Newman, Froude, and oth- 



ers, in preparing and putting forth the some- 

 what famous "Tracts for the Times"; and 

 though he contributed only four to the series, 

 yet he was looked upon as the leading spirit, 

 and as giving character to the entire move- 

 ment. He worked efficiently for the end had 

 in view by his elaborate treatise on "Holy 

 Baptism" (1840), his "Letters to the Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury" (1842), and to the 

 " Bishops of Oxford and of London " (1851), 

 and his numerous single sermons and pam- 

 phlets. The party badges, "Puseyite" and 

 "Puseyism," were coined and vigorously em- 

 ployed, and though Dr. Pusey earnestly protest- 



EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY, D. D., D. C. L. 



ed against this use of his name, as if he were 

 the originator of a new sect in the Church, yet 

 the epithets were persistently applied, and have 

 continued to hold their place in current reli- 

 gious literature. On the publication (1841) of 

 Newman's "Tract No. 90" (the last of the se- 

 ries), which taught that subscription to the 

 Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England 

 may be made by any clergyman who maintains 

 his right to interpret them according to " Cath- 

 olic " doctrine, Dr. Pusey was called upon to 

 defend Newman's course and views. This 

 he did in a letter to Dr. Jelf (1841), which ex- 

 cited much attention at the time. In 1843 he 

 preached a sermon before the university in 

 which he advocated the doctrine of the real 

 presence in the Lord's Supper. For this ser- 

 mon he was brought before a board of judges, 

 under a university statute, was condemned by 

 them as holding substantially the Roman dogma 

 of transubstantiation, and was suspended from 

 the office of university preacher for three years. 

 Although on most intimate terms with New- 



