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dent Cleveland's order setting aside Urge timber 



reservation- u, -. on the ground ti. 



would seriously retard State de\ -lopm, -nt. 



>f $15,000 was made f< 

 - resources at the Omaha 



n'g bills defeated was one for submitting a 

 proposition to permit woman suffrage. 



flu- Treasurer wa od to sell $100.000 



bond* for completing and furnishing the unit. 



ioula. These were sold at private sale in 

 April at a premium of $88. 

 Toward the eloss of the session there wer 



that l>nU-s hnd been HMH! in connection with t he 



ajiUgambling bill and the bills for county divi- 

 sions, and the Capitol-building commissioners were 

 alsoaccu* tpt methods. Committees were 



appc: i vestigate, and most of the charges 



came t nothing. But one mrmU>r of tho lower 

 house, Martin Buckley, of Jefferson County, was 

 expelled, for the rvaxMi that he had confessed be- 

 fore the joint investigating committee that he had 

 received money for supporting one bill and work- 



ing against another. 



TIL- m :-. ' 



secretary of the Senate, John Bloor, was ac- 

 of secreting a bill that passed Loth houses 

 until after adjournment, so that it did not re- 

 ceive the signature of the S|aker of the 1! 

 It was a bill relating; to county salaries, and would 

 have cut down the number of deputies and the sal- 

 aries of officers and deputies about 33 per cent. 

 The secretary of the Senate was tried and convicted 

 on this charge, and was sentenced to one year in 

 the Penitent iarv. 



MOi: \ \ I \ N s. The statistics of the Moravian 

 Church, or I'lut'i* /-'TV/ /rum, for 1897 give it in 

 the American Province 120 ministers, 112 churche-. 

 14.220 communicants, and a total membership of 

 21.882 souls: in the British Province the total 

 membership is 5,866; in the European Province. 

 8.752; and in the foreign missions, 97,812; making 

 a grand total of i:u.7<l2. It will be observed that 

 the total membership in the American Province is 

 larger than that of the British and European Prov- 

 inces combined, and that of the foreign missions 

 exceeds that of all these three provinces together. 

 At the close of the last fiscal year a deficit of $26.- 

 000 was found to have been incurred in the foreign- 

 mission work, and this only a short time after a 

 Urge deficiency previously existing had been ext in- 

 gushed through the special efforts of the whole 

 Church. Thr entire debt was assumed by a single 

 member of the British Province; and he dying be- 

 fore the amount was paid, the executors of his es- 

 irged the obligation. A mission begun 

 in 1895 in Alberta, Canada, now includes three or- 

 ganized churches and many other preaching places, 

 service* are held among English, German, 

 Norwegian, an'! .'innigrants. The number 



of colonists from Volhynia, among whom the work 

 was begun, is steadily 'increasing. 



Reports made at the annual meeting of the !,- 

 don Association in Aid .f Moravian Missions. lUf 

 . represented that the income of the missions had 

 been 9.645, an increase of 1,400. The legacies, 



howc\ ' "it [en i linn in tin- : 



ous)' from the mission fields indicated 



the addition of ;>.tNo members Jo the con^njrations. 



is were being made to ..Main r the 



purchase of a new nu--i.-n -Inp to be used in the 



I" and !r -in Labrador. 



f the profes.s (ir x in the semin;i 

 (Jnadenf. i n certain |.oint> of lielief 



:uised attention to be directed to doctrinal 



'ions in I |,e and Anieri.-.-i. The 



i -\n...| in the North. -ni I'm \ince 



at its regular session adopted resolutions - in \ie\v 



of the iii' It he modern t he- 



. ' in the Church in (ierniany declarini: that it 



nied iinnioval.lv lived on 'the foundation of 



the apostles and prophets. .Jesus <'tn;-l Inm-.-lf lie- 



Ing the chief corner D a- our confession of 



fait h and declarat ion of t he principles of t he Bret h- 

 rcn's Church, sjiven at the(n-nera! .early 



set forth: and that we must heartily indorse the 



resolution lately adopted at tin- conference of lay 



members of tl, '-Church held in Qerlita, 



16 jot or t lit le of t he I |o|y 



Scriptures, Old and New Testaments as the\ 

 i-eeii delivered to us, will we surrender.'" The 

 president of the synod was re.pi. - .:ismit 



t his declaration to I lerrnhut, for t he in form at i<>n of 

 the synod there. 



On' the subject of the theological at t it tide . ,f t he 

 professors at Gnadenfeld the synod of the German 

 Province declared a belief in .lesus ( 'hrist. t he cruci- 

 fied. made for us by God to be wisdom, justifica- 

 tion, sanctification, and redemption. The Christ 

 of the Scriptures remains our way and truth, and 

 no other name is uiven whereby we can be 

 II' only is our Lord, our Shepherd, and our Mas- 

 ter." Emphasis is especially laid in the resolutions 

 upon the personal appropriation of the salvation 

 given us in Cln 



The Brethren's Church, it is further declared, has 

 and will ever stand in an independent and f re- 

 position over against the manifold and varying 

 tendencies of scholastic theology which alter from 

 age to age, especially because it emphasizes the 

 truth that all proclamation of the Gospel i- ., 

 mony of hearts experience, not a scientific disquisi- 

 tion of doctrine. Beside the former the latt.r mu-t 

 always occupy a secondary position. "Neverthe- 

 less, doctrine as such is not a matter of indifference 

 or of little consequence, least of all in our theolog- 

 ical seminary in which our future ministers receive 

 their traininir. After a thorough in\e-ti^;ition ,,f 

 the actual situation the synod has come to th. . -on- 

 viction that the type of theological res-arch and 

 teaching for which" our seminary at present stands. 

 although it has entered upon new paths of scientific 

 presentation, does come within the bounds above 

 described. It places in the center of its conf. 

 of faith and doctrine of redemption the crucified 

 and risen Saviour, Jesus Christ, as the one to whom 

 we are directed in life and death, for time and for 

 eternity." The synod, however, expressly declared 

 that this judgment had reference only to its own 

 si minary. and that it did not thereby attach itself 

 to any school of theology. 



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N \ I I0> \l M \IU M\ HI v, l| M , v Tho 

 officers of the Academy in l#7were: President 

 Wolcott Gibbs; Vice-President, Krai,, is A. Walker, 

 succeeded by Asaph Hall: Foreign Seer. 

 Alexander Agassiz; Home Secretary, Asaph Hall. 

 succeeded by Ira Remsen; Treasurer, John S. Bil- 



lings. Two meetings were held in 1897. The fii 

 or stated meeting was held in Washington cit 

 April 20-22. On that occasion the following paj 

 were read: 



"On Recent Borings in Coral Reefs," by Al 

 der Agassiz ; " On the Variation of Latitude,' 



