684 REUNION OP CHRISTENDOM. 



K11 ODE ISLAND. 



ran-hing for a suitable location in Missouri for 

 A colony of Mormon* to be gathered in Cali- 

 fornia. Arizona, and Utah. The promot. 

 liere thai ihc time prophesied for the gathering 

 together of Zin has come, and that 



Iht colour will in part carry out the plan "in- 

 lined in 'the revelation of 1830 for the order 

 of Enoch, and erect factories and shops for tlu> 

 of i hose among them who are me- 



It I 1 MON OP CHKIsl | MM>M. The 



Iwald Conference for the Promot 

 the Reunion of Christendom opened for 1895 at 



Iwald, Switzerland. Sept 1. The open- 

 ing address of the president. Dr. II. S. Lunn. 

 contained a retrospect of the work done and the 

 results achieved by the 3 reunion conferences 

 that had already been held. Tin- gcoefftj service 

 of prayer for reooioa held on Whitsunday m re- 

 sponse to the appeals of the conference and the 

 co-operati.m of many churches in it and ino\v- 

 .:ii"H among British and Australian 

 Methodist Churches and among Scottish 1'n-i.v- 

 ten'an Churches were cited as evidences of prog- 

 ress. The principal discussions of the confer- 

 ence touched upon questions of union between 



.ins and nonconformists in England, the 

 i loly See toward reunion, and the 

 possibility of an educational concordat (con- 

 cerning religious instruction in state schools). 

 An address was adopted in answer to the letter 

 on reunion which the Pope had addressed to the 

 English people. In this letter the Pope, after 

 referring to the early history of the Church in 

 England and the subsequent relations of that 



y to the Holy See, had remarked with 

 gratification on the attention given there to 

 social questions, in the shape of movements for 

 the benefit of the working classes, in behalf of 

 religious instruction, temperance, social purity, 

 the defense of religion against rationalism and 

 materialism, various forms of charity, the strict 

 public observance of Sunday, and the general 

 spirit of respect to the Scriptures; recoju r ni/ed 

 the influence of the British nation as a civili/.ing 

 agency and champion of liberty ; and emph 

 the power of prayer as supplying the roost di- 

 rect and efficient means of leading to the unity 

 desired. The address in reply of the conference 

 avowed the persuasion that "our Lord Jesus 

 Christ himself is the only possible center of 

 Christian unity, and that the indwelling Spirit 

 of the Father and of the Son in every Christian 

 heart not only constitutes a spiritual unity which 

 MM can neither create nor destroy, but fotnlshei 

 the conditions of that manifested unity for which 

 our blessed Lord prayed " ; and the belief > t hat 



nt be obtained not by the absorpt 

 Christian* in any one communion of t 

 Catholic Church, but by jMu-h a union as will 

 TOsJI the elements of Christian truth and 

 practice which in the providence of God the 

 vvtoiM pin. -inn communions have severally 

 eskibtod and defended." The president of the 

 ggy^^ag'^missk^ to present this a<l- 



2TJ!SltL^53*f XpPe-8e ' ! ^"MnSnSI 



him in a private capacity, but ti 



u f a religious body outside of the 



t* r** *!* addressed an en- 



eydioal to U* Eastern Churches on the subject 



of reunion, the and 1!<>U 



antinople answered it in an :M< 



Eastern Churches. Tin- addiv-- consist* 

 chuiM->. in which tin- portion of the I 



1 iivh with re-perl to tin- IV) 

 Church of Koine is set forth. ll.i\m- 

 tin- impo>il.ility of accepting the 1'oprs ; 

 tion to reunion, t In- address proceed : 

 And as regard* the sacred <>>. 



I und Catholic cimn-l. 

 ready, it \ -r. -liaiu-e nho have allowed an 



r lowt, to accept ever} thii 

 crn iiiul Western Chur 

 tin- ninth c.-ntury ; ami it' the \\ - 



!n>m tin- teaching* >f the liol\ 1 



diviiifly aHMMiihli-d i-i-uiiifu'n-al COUOi 



<'lmn-h, tlifii rtli<il,.x in tin- \\ 



dilionul (Jilioqu),or u*ed unU-av< n< .1 i 



.u-!iiiiL' n--.. 



klin.iT insli-a-1 <>f iuniuT>i<.n, tin- iin:. 

 >t ihc KvtT-Vir^in, the- tniijM.rn! 

 fullibility, or tlu- uhsolutc rule .f f 

 \vc have niitliin/ U) siiy : but it', "i. 

 <'U'arly ^h(u the lovers of trui 



.i.linit. that tin- Eastern Catholic and O 



Church of Cliri>t hoi. Is the primitive tra-1 



doctrines then corainonly acknowlc<li/e.l i..ti. 



East and the West, and that 



rupted them hy various innovati"ii>. i' 



dent to ohildren that the in-.n- natiii.. 



reunion is the return -of tin 



primitive, doirniatie, and driiini>trati 



seeing that the faith is in no way e handed l>\ 



circumstances, but remains al\va\ 



the aiiic, that there- is "one !.< M Sj^H 



idled in one ho] 



one Lord, one faith, one baptism, <>i 

 <!' all, who is above all and through all aii'i 

 all." 



RHODE ISLAND, a New En-la. 

 of ihc original thirteen, ratifu-d the < 

 May -JU. 1790; area, 1,250 sqnan n 

 Imputation, according to each decennial 

 was 68,825 in 1790; 69,122 in 1800: 7;.!::i j n 

 1810; 88,015 in 1820; 97,199 in 1K::<>: 

 in 1840; 147.51.-, i,, isr,o : 174,20 in IWO: .' : 



D 1870; 27(5,->:n in 1^( : MI1 ,| 

 1890. By the State census of l* ( .'"i it w. ; 

 758. Capital-. Newport and IV 



i.o\, TII in cut. The followiiiL 

 officers during the year: Oovcn. . l. I, 

 Brown, -uccer.led iii May by Char 

 |>itt; Lieutenant Governor, Edwin u'. All.n; 

 Secretary of State, Charles P. Bennett : 

 ney-Genera). Edward ('. Dulioi- : 

 urer, Samuel dark: Adjutant General 

 D\( r. succeeded at his resignation, i 

 l.v Frederick M. Sackett ; Auditor. 

 ders; Superintendent r.f Edm-aiion. T. 1',. 

 well; Commissioner of Roads. Cha?-;. 

 Shellfish ('o:nnii>-ionor^. .1. M. \\'riL'lit. 

 Brown. -I.e. Church,. I. T. Northrup. ! 

 id Coinrni^ioner. V. 

 lie Supremo ('(.i, 

 ARociftte Justices, .John II. S: 

 Tillin_ \. Will, in-. ! l.'ogers, 



\V. \V. Donplas. all liepnhlir-,, 



The- si.il.-i nsns. Thepopnlnti 

 denco : of I'awtur-ket 



f Warwick. -J1.ir,s : of ' 

 so<- kef. 24.468; of Central I 

 ston, 11.203 : of Cranston, 10,57 

 dence, 10,170. 



