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POTTER, HENRY 0. 



PRESBYTERIANS. 



English Government manifested a disposition 

 to oppose the establishment of French power 

 over the Congo mouth. In November Chi Lo- 

 ango, as far as the river Luisa, which lies 

 north of 5 12', was taken possession of by the 

 Portuguese, with the object, as was said, of 

 having a river boundary, which would clearly 

 define the limits of the territory claimed by 

 Portugal. The Luisa flows ten miles south of 

 the new French station of Ponta Negra. The 

 entire territory, from the Massibi river to Mo- 

 lembo, was subsequently taken possession of, in 

 virtue of a treaty which was signed September 

 29th with the Cacongo chiefs. 



POSTAGE. See page 185. 



POTTER, Henry Codman, an American clergy- 

 man, born in Schenectady, N. Y., May 25, 

 1835. He is a son of Bishop Alonzo Potter, 

 of Pennsylvania, and grandson of Rev. Dr. 

 Nott, President of Union College. His edu- 

 cation was obtained chiefly at the Episcopal 

 Academy, Philadelphia, and on leaving this in- 

 stitution he entered upon mercantile life. Not 

 long after he relinquished business, studied for 

 the ministry under his father's direction, en- 

 tered the Theological Seminary of Virginia, at 

 Alexandria, and graduated therefrom in 1857. 

 He received deacon's orders at his father's 

 hands in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, May 

 27, 1857, and priest's orders in Trinity Church, 

 Pittsburg. at the hands of Dr. Bowman (As- 

 sistant Bishop of Pennsylvania), Oct. 15, 1858. 

 His first pastoral work was as rector of Christ 

 Church, Greensburg, Pa. In May, 1859, he 

 became rector of St. John's Church, Troy, N. 

 Y. In 1862 he was elected rector of Christ 

 Church, Cincinnati ; in 1863 was elected Presi- 

 dent of Kenyon College, Ohio; and in the 

 same year he was elected rector of St. Paul's 

 Church, Albany, N. Y. all of which he de- 

 clined. But, after seven years' service in Troy, 

 he accepted, in 1866, the place of assistant 

 minister of Trinity Church, Boston, Mass. In 

 May, 1868, he became rector of Grace Church, 

 New York, which office he filled with singular 

 success for fifteen years. In 1875 he was 

 elected Bishop of Iowa, but declined. He re- 

 ceived the degree of D. D. from Union College 

 in 1865, and LL. D. from the same college in 

 1880. He was secretary of the House of Bish- 

 ops from 1865 to 1883, and also for many years 

 was one of the managers of the Board of Mis- 

 sions, in the domestic department. 



In 1883, Bishop Horatio Potter having called 

 for an assistant, the convention, which met in 

 September of that year, acceded to his plea of 

 age and infirmity, and with promptness and 

 unanimity elected Dr. Henry C. Potter, the 

 aged bishop's nephew, to the office of Assist- 

 ant Bishop of New York. He was consecrated 

 in Grace Church, Oct. 20, 1883, a very large 

 number of bishops and clergy being present 

 and taking part in the solemn services. By 

 formal instruments, soon after executed, the 

 bishop made over the entire charge and re- 

 sponsibility of the work of the diocese into 



the assistant's hands. The new bishop's cor- 

 dial sympathy with clergy and laity and with 

 every good work, and his signal success in con- 

 ducting the affairs of a large and important 

 parish in New York city, indicated a future of 

 honor and usefulness to the Church. 



Bishop Potter's published works include: 

 "Sisterhoods and Deaconesses, at Home and 

 Abroad : A History of their Rise and Growth 

 in the Protestant Episcopal Church, together 

 with Rules for their Organization and Govern- 

 ment " (1872); "The Gates of the East: A 

 Winter in Egypt and Syria " (1876) ; and " Ser- 

 mons of the City " (1880). 



PRESBYTERIANS. I. Presbyterian Church in 

 the United States of America. The following is a 

 summary of the statistics of the (Northern) 

 Presbyterian Church in the United States of 

 America, as they were reported to the General 

 Assembly in May, 1883; to which are added, 

 for comparison, the statistics for 1881 (in which 

 year the synods were consolidated) and 1882 : 



The several boards and permanent commit- 

 tees reported to the General Assembly con- 

 cerning their financial condition and the prog- 

 ress of their work, of which the following sum- 

 maries give the principal facts : 



Board of Home Missions. Receipts, $504,- 

 795, or $81,406 more than the receipts of the 

 previous year. The report of the board calls 

 attention to the growing importance of its 

 work in the Eastern States, where, in conse- 

 quence of the constant changes of population 

 by the removal of old inhabitants, the influx 

 of foreigners, and the starting of new kinds of 

 industries and of new manufacturing centers, 

 nearly as great a demand for missionaries ex- 

 ists as in frontier regions. Thirteen hundred 

 and eighty-seven missionaries and 133 mission- 



