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ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



fined dioceses as the expansion of the Japanese 

 Church may in future demand. Reasons con- 

 sistent with these considerations are given in 

 the paper why both episcopal residences should 

 for the present be in Tokio, with delimitations 

 of the boundaries of their jurisdictions. 



The General Synod of Canada. The An- 

 glican Church in Canada comprises the ecclesias- 

 tical provinces of Canada, consisting of the nine 

 dioceses of Nova Scotia, Frederickton (New Bruns- 

 wick), Quebec, Montreal, Ontario, Toronto, Niag- 

 ara, Huron, and Algpma; and the province of 

 Rupert's Land, in which are included the seven 

 dioceses of Athabasca, Mackenzie River, Selkirk, 

 Moosonee, Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, and Cal- 

 gary ; with the three unattached dioceses of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, Caledonia, and New Westminster. 

 The subject of consolidating these provinces and 

 unattached dioceses into a single jurisdiction has 

 been under discussion for several years. At a 

 conference of delegates from the various dioceses 

 held at Winnipeg in September, 1892, a scheme of 

 union or conference was drawn up, which, having 

 been submitted to the provincial and diocesan syn- 

 ods, was approved by them with several amend- 

 ments. In pursuance of arrangements made at 

 this conference, the delegates to the proposed 

 general synod including 14 of the 19 bishops 

 and about 80 other representatives met in To- 

 ronto, Sept. 13. After discussion a report was 

 adopted declaring the assembly to be the first 

 general synod of the Church in Canada, to con- 

 tinue an integral portion of the great Anglican 

 Communion, holding and maintaining the doc- 

 trine and sacraments of Christ and the order and 

 government of the Church as set forth in Holy 

 Writ, the Book of Common Prayer, the Psalms 

 of David, and the Thirty-Nine Articles of Re- 

 ligion. The General Synod, exclusive of New- 

 foundland, is to consist of two houses, the House 

 of Bishops and that of the Clergy and Laity. 

 The president of the general synod shall be 

 styled the primate, and shall be selected by the 

 House of Bishops from among the metropolitans 

 and the bishops of dioceses not in ecclesiastical 

 provinces. Further declarations were adopted 

 " that the General Synod when formed does not 

 intend to and shall not take away from or in- 

 terfere with any rights, powers, or jurisdiction 

 of any ecclesiastical synod within its own terri- 

 torial limits as now held or exercised by such 

 diocesan synod " ; and " that the constitution of 

 a general synod involves no change in the exist- 

 ing system of provincial synods, but the reten- 

 tion, or abolition of provincial synods is left to be 

 dealt with according to the requirements of the 

 various provinces as to such provinces and the 

 dioceses therein may seem proper." It was or- 

 dered that delegates shall be residents of the dio- 

 ceses from which they are elected or appointed, 

 provided that certain dioceses in the northwest 

 may for a time, under certain conditions, appoint 

 others. The synod insisted on the necessity of 

 religious teaching in the public schools, and 

 adopted the " Lambeth Conference Articles " 

 " as a basis for negotiation with any of our sepa- 

 rated Christian brethren with a view to union." 

 The lower house requested the bishops to bring 

 the burial service into haimony with the Cana- 

 dian climate, the present procedure at the grave- 

 side being condemned as leading to many deaths 



from exposure. The title of Archbishop was 

 given to each of the metropolitans, and the Met- 

 ropolitan of Rupert's Land Bishop Machray 

 was appointed primate of the Dominion and 

 president of the svnod. 



The Church Congress. The Church Con- 

 gress met at Birmingham, Oct. 3. The Bishop 

 of Worcester presided, and gave prominent at- 

 tention in his opening address to the relations 

 of workingmen with the Church. The present 

 was the first meeting of the Congress in that im- 

 portant industrial center, and it was more than 

 any other one a workingmen's congress. For 

 the first time workingmen had been placed on 

 the Subjects Committee had been invited to 

 choose the subjects for discussion at the work- 

 ingmen's meetings and a special effort had been 

 made to enlist their sympathies by Sunday -after- 

 noon meetings in the town hall. The regular 

 proceedings opened with a discussion of the sub- 

 ject of " The Increase of the Episcopate," with 

 special reference to the needs of the diocese of 

 Worcester and the city of Birmingham, in which 

 the principal speakers were Wilfred de Winton, 

 J. D. Goodman, and the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury. In a discussion on education the Dean of 

 St. Asaph considered religious education under 

 the three heads of "The Study of the Holy Scrip- 

 tures," "The Doctrines of the Church of Eng- 

 land," and " Church History " ; the Hon. and 

 Rev. E. Littleton, of Haileybury School, spoke on 

 " Education in Secondary and Public Schools 

 and Education in the Home " ; and the subject 

 was continued by the Rev. J. Percival. Head Mas- " 

 ter of Eton School. Papers on " Church Services 

 and Symbolism " regarded the position of the 

 holy communion in worship, and " Symbolism, 

 its Use and Abuse," and were presented by Vis- 

 count Halifax, President of the English Church 

 Union ; Sir R. Lighten, the Dean of Winches- 

 ter, Archdeacon Farrar, and Canon Venables. 

 The papers on the subject of '' Preaching and a 

 Preaching Order " were mainly pleas for the es- 

 tablishment of a preaching order. " The Rela- 

 tive Duties of Employers and Employed, and of 

 the Clergy toward both," was the subject of an 

 extended discussion by A. M. Chance, of Bir- 

 mingham, Sir William E. Houldsworth, M. P., 

 Archdeacon Wilson, of Manchester, and several 

 other speakers. The relations of the Church of 

 England with the Church in Ireland were de- 

 scribed by the Right Hon. R. Warren, of Dub- 

 lin ; with the Episcopal Church in Scotland, by 

 the Bishop of Edinburgh ; with the Church in the 

 colonies, by the Rev. Morris Fuller and Sir Ar- 

 thur Hodgson ; and with the American Church, 

 by the Bishop of Minnesota. The subject of 

 the Church of England in relation to other 

 bodies of Christians included the topics " Lines 

 and Limits of United Action with Christians 

 outside our own Communion " and " Proposals 

 for Corporate Reunion." The speakers were G. 

 W. Child, of Oxford, the Rev. Charles Gore, the 

 Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishop of Edin- 

 burgh. The subject of " Science and Faith " 

 was discussed by Sir George Stokes, the Bishop 

 of Peterborough, and T. Lauder Brunton. On 

 the subject of " The Church and the Poor," Mr. 

 Lyttleton Gell, one of the founders of Toynbee 

 Hall, the Rev. F. A. Winnington-Ingram, and 

 Mr. Edward Clifford, honorary evangelistic sec- 



