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ONTARIO. 



report Mr. Oberlander was removed from the 

 commission, and J. S. Pulliam was put into his 

 place. The last named, with the Democratic 

 member, in less than three hours prepared and 

 filed a report which seemed likely to destroy the 

 success of the Republican local 'candidates, and 

 in accordance with the second report the Gov- 

 ernor issued an election proclamation apportion- 

 ing the Territory. But this action failed of suc- 

 cess, as the result showed. At the election, held 

 on Nov. 6, the vote was as follows : Dennis T. 

 Flynn, 20,449; Ralph Beaumont, 15,988; and 

 Joseph W. Wisby, 12,058. The Territorial Legis- 

 lature elected at the same time is composed as 

 follows: Council 8 Republicans. 4 Populists, 

 and 1 Democrat; House 16 Republicans, 7 

 Populists, and 3 Democrats. 



OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Old Cath- 

 olic Congress was held in Rotterdam in the last 

 week in August. The Old Catholic Archbishop of 

 Utrecht, the Bishops of De venter and Haarlem, 

 Bishops Reinkens and Herzog of Germany and 

 Switzerland, Pfarrer Czech, Episcopal Admin- 

 istrator for Austria, Count Campello and two 

 priests from Italy, Prof. Weber of Bonn, Prof. 

 Losser from Munich, and other Swiss and Ger- 

 man Old Catholic priests and laymen were pres- 

 ent. The Archpriest Janischoff and Gen. Kireef 

 represented the Russian Church, and Bishop Hale 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 

 States, and a deputy from the Petite Eglise in 

 France was present. The following resolutions 

 were adopted : 



I. While Christian morality should be founded on 

 the solid basis of the faith, one can not set forth too 

 plainly the truth that the power of Christianity mani- 

 fests itself rather in life than in doctrine. Old Cath- 

 olics, then, should apply themselves more and more 

 to the practice of Christian morality in all its purity. 

 This implies likewise an overwhelming obligation to 

 fiifht Jesuitism as the destroyer of that morality in 

 the Catholic Church. 



II. Every member of the Roman Catholic Church, 

 whether ecclesiastic or lay, convinced of the falsity 

 of ultramontanism, who lacks the courage to profess 

 his conviction both by word and act, makes himself 

 guilty of grave sin before his conscience and before 

 God. 



III. The names of Jansenist and Jansenism do not 

 carry with them the idea of a sect. These are names 

 invented by Jesuits, and applied by them to the 

 upholders of Catholic doctrine and morality against 

 many dogmas forged by their society. 



IV. The nomination' of Roman' bishops in the 

 Netherlands by Pius IX in 18.~>:5 was an arbitrary 

 a"t and a usurpation, notoriously contrary to the tra- 

 ditions and principles of canon law. Thus Rome 

 consummated the schism which the Pope introduced 

 into the Catholic Church of the Netherlands at the 

 commencement of the last century. 



V. There are no sufficient grounds for the separa- 

 tion between the Kastern and Western Churches. 

 Then Old Catholicism, with its tendency toward 

 true unity, is bound in the first place to take the 

 necessary steps that the reunion of these two 

 Churches, without prejudice to their reciprocal inde- 

 pendence, may be advanced as much as possible and 

 brought to a realixation. The Eastern < 'hurch should 

 co-operate in these etlorts, already inaugurated in the 

 first Old Catholic congress at Munich in 1871. 



VI. Neither antiehristian ultramontanism nor the 

 many kinds of so-called modern ideas, more or 

 less antiehristian, are tenable from the standpoint 

 of science; they can not stand airainst an impartial 

 criticism which' only seeks to discover the truth. It 

 is necessary, then, that those who study science with 



a Christian disposition should strike for the victory 

 of true science over a pseudo science, and particularly 

 should they try to rouse the enthusiasm of studious 

 youth for such true science. 



VII. The social question being, in the first place, an 

 economical question, has to do in consequence with 

 political affairs. In so much as it concerns the pro- 

 gressive improvement of laws and public measures 

 for the benefit of the necessitous classes, it is equally, 

 in the first place, a public affair of an international 

 character. It is here that the Church may and ought 

 to, or that the churches may and ought to, contribute 

 to the solution of this great problem of our times by 

 the development of Christian principles. 



VIII. It is incontestable that societies of women, 

 of girls, of young men, of workmen, and the like, may 

 be of great importance both in contributing to the 

 development of the religious life and in ofl'ering the 

 most convenient means of ministering to the several 

 needs of our modern society. It is therefore desirable 

 that in all Old Catholic parishes such societies be 

 established and sustained. For the development and 

 consolidation of the Old Catholic movement, and at 

 the same time for strengthening the bonds of frater- 

 nity between its members, it is desirable that ex- 

 pressions of beneficence should assume an interna- 

 tional character ; and that to this end, in imitation of 

 the apostolic churches, an annual collection should 

 be made on Whitsunday in all the Old Catholic 

 churches a collection whose total proceeds, upon the 

 suggestion of the bishops or of episcopal administra- 

 tions, be used by the committee of the last congress 

 to provide for the actual needs. The friends of the 

 Old Catholic Church are earnestly asked to co-oper- 

 ate in this work of benevolence. 



IX. Recognizing the many services which a good 

 press can surely render, the congress recognizes an 

 international character in the Old Catholic organs. 

 and it invites its coreligionists to sustain them effec- 

 tually by all proper means. Equally it believes that 

 it has the right of claiming general interest for the 

 building of Old Catholic churches, and of asking to 

 this end that not only those primarily interested, but 

 also our friends generally, should contribute in this 

 way as far as possible, and in the most efficacious 

 manner. 



X. It is desirable that the committee of each in- 

 ternational congress should be perpetuated _as a per- 

 manent committee for the carrying out of its deter- 

 mination until the time of the meeting of the next 

 congress. 



The election of an Old Catholic bishop in Aus- 

 tria is contemplated. 



ONTARIO. Legislative Session. The 

 fourth session of the seventh Legislature of the 

 province was opened at Toronto, Feb. 14, 1894, 

 and closed on May 5. Hon. George Airey Kirk- 

 patrick, Lieutenant-Governor, made the usual 

 opening address, the main portions of which, not 

 referred to in the account of the proceedings of 

 the Legislature, are the following : 



While in the last year the grain crops and the live- 

 stock trade have not been as remunerative as in for- 

 mer years, I am pleased to know that the products of 

 our dairies are steadily increasing, and by reason of 

 their improved quality command higher prices than 

 at any time within recent years. The numerous agri- 

 cultural organizations winch are aided by the Legis- 

 lature have been increasingly active, the attendance 

 at the Agricultural College is larger than at any time 

 in its history, and the large attendance at the special 

 dairy school has fully justified your action in provid- 

 ing increased accommodation. 



The signal success of the province at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition has been a matter of just pride 

 and satisfaction to our people. By our exhibits ot 

 live stock, grain, fruit, honey, cheese, minerals, tim- 

 ber, natural history, and education we have, shown 

 that Ontario possesses great natural resources, and in 



