PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



era Thought and Life," and papers were read 

 or addresses made upon it by Bishop Lay, of 

 Easton, Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, the 

 Rev. F. Courteney, the Rev. Noah Hunt 

 Schenck, and the Rev. J. G. Armstrong. The 

 second topic of the day, "Christianity and 

 Modern Amusements," was considered in ad- 

 dresses and papers by the Rev. W. W. New- 

 ton, the Rev. John Vaughan Lewis, D. D., the 

 Rev. T. G. Addison, D. D., and Prof. Cowing, 

 of the University of Louisville. On the fourth 

 day, the topic of " The Organization and Ad- 

 ministration of Charity " was presented by the 

 Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., and the discus- 

 sion was continued by the Hon. John "Welsh, 

 the Rev. J. W. Brown, D. D., Mr. Lewis Dela- 

 field, and the Hon. Erastus Brooks. The other 

 topic of this day's session, and the last con- 

 sidered by the Congress, was " The True Pol- 

 icy toward the Indian Tribes," and was dis- 

 cussed by Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, 

 Bishop Hare, of Niobrara, Bishop Tuttle, of 

 Montana, the Hon. Felix A. Brunot, and Bish- 

 op Clarkson, of Nebraska. The Congress was 

 closed with an address by Bishop Potter con- 

 gratulatory of its success. 



The League in aid of the Mexican Branch of 

 the Church, or the Mexican Mission League, is 

 a society of women which was organized in 

 March, 1876, with the object, as denned in its 

 constitution, of enlisting the interest of the 

 churchwomen of New York and other cities in 

 the work of the Church in Mexico, and of fur- 

 nishing a yearly contribution for its support. 

 Its meetings are held annually, on the Wednes- 

 day after the third Sunday of Lent, and the 

 meetings of its executive board are held month- 

 ly. Diocesan secretaries have been appointed 

 in several dioceses, and many of the bishops 

 have given the society their approval. The 

 report of the corresponding secretary for 1877 

 gave the following statement of the condition 

 and work of the Mexican Church: "Three 

 congregations in the capital and sixty-eight in 

 other parts of the republic of Mexico, with 

 from six to eight thousand worshipers, have 

 already been gathered ; these are ministered to 

 by a faithful, able, and eloquent band of native 



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missionaries. Eight church schools have been 

 established, where a very large number of chil- 

 dren have been carefully taught the Bible, and 

 have received a good secular education. A 

 theological seminary has been preparing yonng 

 men for the ministry, and seven candidates are 

 now awaiting holy orders. An orphanage has 

 been started in which are forty girls of from 

 four to fifteen years of age ; a periodical, called 

 The Truth, is regularly published, and many 

 other religious works have been issued. Tens of 

 thousands of copies of the Spanish translation 

 of the Holy Scriptures have been circulated." 



The Board of Missions, in 1876, notified its 

 missionaries in Liberia that the appropriations 

 for the support of their work would be discon- 

 tinued. The clergy and laity of the Church 

 held a meeting in November of the same year, 

 to decide what course they should pursue. 

 After making an acknowledgment of the debt 

 of gratitude which they owed to the "mother 

 Church " in America, for planting and sustain- 

 ing their churches and stations up to the pres- 

 ent time, the Convention resolved to organize 

 a diocese, to be called "the Diocese of the 

 Protestant Episcopal Church in Liberia," which 

 should be in union with all branches of the An- 

 glican communion in doctrine, discipline, and 

 worship. The new diocese, according to a 

 statement made by its secretary, begins under 

 many disadvantages, with no money to support 

 those engaged in preaching, no schools of its 

 own, its church edifices in bad condition, and 

 its membership for the most part very limited 

 in pecuniary circumstances. 



The eleventh annual convocation of the 

 Episcopal Church of Ilayti was held at Port- 

 au-Prince, May 27th. All of the clergy were 

 present but one, and lay representatives at- 

 tended from six out of ten missionary congre- 

 gations. 



PRUSSIA, a kingdom of Europe, forming 

 part of the German Empire. King William I., 

 German Emperor and King of Prussia. (For 

 an account of the Royal family, tee GERMANY.) 



The Prussian ministry was composed in 1877 

 as follows: President, Prince von Bismarck, 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chancellor of 



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