ANGLICAN CHURCHES. 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



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recommending the recognition of deaconesses 

 and sisterhoods. Objection being made to the 

 feature of sisterhoods, the synod, " adopting 

 the principle of the desirability of making 

 arrangements for the better employment of 

 Christian women in the work of the Church," 

 but without binding itself to the provisions 

 of the report, referred it back to the commit- 

 tee to prepare a canon on the subject to be 

 presented at the next session. Satisfaction 

 was expressed at the success of the recent 

 Church Congress, with the declaration that 

 the organization and conduct of such bodies 

 ought to be free from any synodical action. 



The first Church Congress of the Episcopal 

 Church in Canada was held at Hamilton in 

 June. The Bishop of Niagara presided, and 

 the meeting was attended by a number of 

 clergymen from the United States. Among 

 the subjects considered were those of clerical 

 education, the attitude clergymen should oc- 

 cupy toward popular literature and recrea- 

 tion, "Lay Co-operation," "the Revised Ver- 

 sion of the New Testament," " Modern Doubts 

 and Difficulties," " Woman's Work in the 

 Church," and " Church Music." 



Anglican Churches in South Africa and Australia. 

 The question whether the Diocese of Natal, 

 South Africa, shall be continued has been raised 

 by the death of Bishop John William Colenso. 

 Bishop Colenso was, in 1863, declared by the 

 Bishop of Cape Town to be deposed from his 

 office for certain heretical doctrines which he 

 was found to have published. The validity of 

 the act of deposition was not established, and 

 the Colonial Assembly of Natal, in 1872, passed 

 an act vesting in Bishop Oolenso the property 

 belonging to the See of Natal. In the mean- 

 time, the Diocese of Maritzburg had been 

 founded in 1869, with jurisdiction extending 

 over the colony of Natal, and conflicting with 

 the jurisdiction claimed for the Bishop of Na- 

 tal. If the bishopric of Natal were allowed 

 to lapse, the conflict of jurisdictions would 

 be quietly terminated. The authority of the 

 Bishop of Maritzburg is recognized by the other 

 South African dioceses, while that of the Bishop 

 of Natal is acknowledged only by those imme- 

 diately connected with the diocese. The Dio- 

 cese of Natal includes seven clergymen, all but 

 two of whom were ordained by Bishop Colen- 

 so after he was excommunicated, with fifteen 

 churches, three of which are closed and two 

 are connected with native work, while two are 

 in the hands of the Diocese of Maritzburg. 

 The latter diocese has thirty-four clergymen, 

 seven of whom are missionaries to the heathen, 

 while three others have native work, superin- 

 tended by themselves, going on in their par- 

 ishes; and thirty-two churches, seven of which 

 are devoted to native work. 



The bishopric of Sydney, which includes the 

 metropolitan ate and the Episcopal primacy of 

 Australia, having become vacant, the Arch- 

 bishops of Canterbury and York and the Bish- 

 ops of Durham, Rochester, and Liverpool have, 



on request, recommended the Rev. Canon Al- 

 fred Barry, D. D., Principal of King's College, 

 London, as a suitable candidate for the office. 



Anglican Church in Norway. The foundation- 

 stone of an English Episcopal church has been 

 laid in Christiania, Norway. The ceremonies 

 were superintended by Sir Horace Rumbold, 

 the British minister resident at the court of 

 Norway and Sweden, and were witnessed by 

 the Norwegian Minister of State and other 

 members of the royal government, and the ec- 

 clesiastical, military, and civil authorities. 



ANTISEPTICS. See SUKGERY. 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Area. Since the set- 

 tlement of the boundary question with Chili, 

 in October, 1881, the Argentine territory em- 

 braces an area of 1,168,682 square miles. Be- 

 fore that settlement, the republic was credited 

 with but 841,000* square miles (including the 

 undisputed portion of the Gran Chaco), Pata- 

 gonia having then been treated as a separate 

 region. 



Population. In no other country in the west- 

 ern hemisphere, save the United States, has 

 the population grown so rapidly as in the Ar- 

 gentine Republic. From 620,730 in 1836, it 

 had reached 1,526,738 (an increase of 146 per 

 cent.) in 1869; and in an official publication 

 issued in September, 1882, it was estimated at 

 2,942,000, as follows: 



Of the total number of inhabitants, as given 

 in that table, the classification by nationalities 

 was as follows : 2,578,255 Argentine citizens; 

 123,641 Italians; 55,432 French ; 59,022 Span- 

 iards; 8,616 Germans; 17,950 English; -and 

 99,084 of various other nationalities. 



* Details concerning territorial divisions, population, etc., 

 may be found in the '-Annual Cyclopedia" for 1872, 1877, 

 and 1878. 



t The new capital of this province, La Plata, was founded 

 Nov. 19, 1882, on the banks of the river of the same name, 

 and thirty miles southeast of Buenos Ayres, the latter city 

 having been constituted the Federal capital by the law of Sept. 

 21, 1880. 



