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PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES. 



but the States of New York and Pennsylvania 

 will not be thoroughly covered because of an 

 alliance with the Patriotic Order of the Sons of 

 America (see "Annual Cyclopaedia" for 1890, p. 

 703), and with the United Order of American 

 Mechanics, both of which organizations have 

 somewhat similar objects. The association works 

 through councils, which are instituted in every 

 important center of population. The State of 

 Indiana, for instance, has 26 councils. The em- 

 blem of the association is a white banner, bearing 

 the picture of a schoolhouse that flies the Amer- 

 ican flag and carries the motto, " Teach patriot- 

 ism in the public schools." It is claimed that 

 the work of the association has been seen in the 

 overthrow of several municipal governments in 

 the Western States, and in the result of the 

 election of November, 1893. in Buffalo. The 

 claim is also made that the association was a 

 factor in the mayoralty election of Dec. 19, 1893, 

 in Chicago, and that it had much to do with the 

 result of the general elections in November, 

 1894. This organization is the one that is gen- 

 erally referred to as the A. P. A. It must not 

 be confounded with the National League for the 

 Protection of American Institutions, which is 

 described in the "Animal Cyclopaedia" for 1890, 

 page 579; nor with the American Patriotic 

 League, same volume, page 702. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN 

 THE UNITED STATES. A review of the 

 diocesan statistics for the year shows that, ex- 

 cept in the amount of money contributed, the 

 Church has made steady progress. For the de- 

 crease in contributions the extraordinary finan- 

 cial depression is responsible. The general sum- 

 mary of statistics for 1893-'94 is as follows: 

 Number of dioceses. 53; missionary districts in 

 the United States, 18; foreign missionary dis- 

 tricts, 7 ; clergy (bishops, 81 ; priests and deacons, 

 4.493), 4,574 ; parishes and missions, 6,037 ; can- 

 didates for orders, 558 ; ordinations, deacons, 

 221 : ordinations, priests, 156 : baptisms, 61,815 ; 

 confirmations, 43,711; communicants, 596,031; 

 marriages, 16,178; burials, 30,857; Sunday- 

 school teachers. 45,461 ; Sunday-school scholars, 

 417,592; total of contributions, $12,281,126.50. 

 The number of marriages and the number of 

 burials was fewer than in 1893. The next Gen- 

 oral Convention will be held at Minneapolis, 

 Minn., on the first Wednesday in October, 1895. 



Among the interesting events of the year was 

 the unveiling of the "Prayer-Book Cross" at 

 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in commemora- 

 lion of the service held about St. John Baptist's 

 day, June 24, 1579, by Francis Fletcher, priest of 

 the Church of England, and chaplain to Sir 

 Francis Drake, that being the first use of the 

 Book of Common Prayer in America, and the 

 first Christian service in the English tongue on 

 the Pacific coast. The missionary conference of 

 the Anglican Communion held in St. James's Hall, 

 London, at the end of May, was also noteworthy. 

 At this conference, held under the auspices of 

 the boards of missions of the provinces of Canter- 

 bury and York, a committee of the American 

 Church Missionary Society was officially present, 

 and all the bishopsof the American Church were 

 vice-presidents of the conference. The comple- 

 tion of the Church Missions House in New York, 

 and its freedom from all indebtedness, is a mat- 



ter for congratulation. Correspondence and 

 negotiations looking toward the reunion of Chris- 

 tendom have been continued. 



Missions. The annual meeting of the Mis- 

 sionary Council was held in Christ Church, Hart- 

 ford, Conn., on Oct. 22, 1894. and adjourned on 

 Oct. 24. Among the resolutions adopted were 

 the following: 



That this Missionary Council repeats the recom- 

 mendation made by it last year at Chicago, and 

 heartily indorsed by the missionary conference held in 

 London in May, in regard to the noonday prayer for 

 missions ; and requests that, where it is practicable, 

 the bell of each church be rung at that hour to re- 

 mind the people of their duty to pray for the coming 

 of Christ's kingdom. 



That this council urge upon the clergy and laity of 

 the Church in America the observance of the annual 

 day of special intercession for missions, 'on the eve 

 of St. Andrew. 



Tnat this council reaffirms the judgment declared 

 by the Board of Missions in 1891 as to the impropriety 

 of the appropriation of money from the Treasury of 

 the United States for the support of schools among the 

 Indians in part or wholly under the control of any re- 

 ligious body, and is pleased to recognize the obedience 

 of the Board of Managers in refusing to receive the 

 subsidy heretofore given by the Government to the 

 schools ; and the council calls upon the authorities of 

 all Indian schools to give like obedience. 



That this council solemnly protests against further 

 misappropriation of public funds by the Congress of 

 the Lnited States, and earnestly calls for the adoption 

 of the proposed constitutional amendment which shall 

 make such misappropriation in future impossible. 



The Board of Managers reported that on Jan. 

 1, 1894, the board removed from the rooms in 

 the Bible House to the Church Missions House. 

 At that time the money for the completion of 

 the building had not all been subscribed. A loan 

 for $65.000 on the credit of the society was 

 secured without any lien upon the property. On 

 St. Paul's day, the whole amount of the defici- 

 ency having been pledged or guaranteed, the 

 building was dedicated. It reported also that, 

 since the adoption of the resolution of the 

 Chicago Council looking to the publication of 

 the Book of Common Prayer at such prices as 

 should enable the Church to make free distribu- 

 tion of the book, the American Prayer Book 

 fund has put upon the market a substantial 

 prayer book, which is sold at 15 cents a copy in 

 plain binding, with the result that the corre- 

 sponding editions of the book of all publishers 

 were reduced to that price from 25 cents. 



It further reported that, by a resolution of the 

 board, a provision for retired bishops had been 

 made. The resolution is as follows : 



That whenever a domestic missionary bishop, who 

 has served as such for not less than ten years, shall 

 be permanently disqualified from performing the 

 duties of his office, and shall resign his missionary 

 jurisdiction, and whose resignation shall have been 

 accepted by the House of Bishops, he may receive a 

 pension, the amount of which shall in each case be 

 determined by the board ; but such pension shall in 

 no case exceed two thirds of the annual salary paid to 

 him by this board before his resignation. 



The gross receipts of the society for the fiscal 

 year ending Sept. 1, 1894, including those for 

 " specials " and for miscellaneous purposes, 

 amounted to |837,899.83. The contributions for 

 the work of the society were $370,174.05, the 

 analysis being as follows: For domestic mis- 



