RADETZEJ, FEODOR. 



REFORMED CHURCHES. 671 



RADETZKI, FEODOE, a Russian general, was 

 born July 28, 1820. He received his mili- 

 tary education in the Academy of Engineers 

 and in the Academy of the General Stall', and 

 in 1839 was appointed to a command of engi- 

 neers in Warsaw and afterward in Grusia. In 

 1849 he was attached to the staff of General 

 Riidiger in Hungary, but in 1852 was again sent 

 to the Caucasus, and here distinguished him- 

 self on numerous occasions in the actions with 

 natives. In 1860, he was appointed chief of 

 staff of the Cossacks of the Terek, was created 

 major-general in the same year, and lieutenant- 

 general in 1868. In 1876, he was appointed 

 to the command of the Eighth Army Corps, and 

 with this corps was the first to cross the Dan- 

 ube on June 24, 1877. This brilliant feat was 

 fully equaled by his subsequent heroic defense 

 of the Shipka Pass, by which he undoubtedly 

 saved the Russian forces from a serious disaster. 



REFORMED CHURCHES. I. REFORMED 

 CHURCH IN AMERICA (formerly Dutch Re- 

 formed ChurcK). The following is a summary 

 of the statistics of this Church as they were 

 reported to the General Synod in June, 1877 : 



poses, $200,539 ; amount of contributions for 

 congregational purposes, $810,043. The con- 

 dition of the trust-funds and benevolent enter- 

 prises of the Church was exhibited in the re- 

 ports which were made to the General Synod 

 by the several boards having them in charge. 



Foreign Miions. The total receipts for the 

 year had been $58,152.53, and the expendi- 

 tures $57,100. The indebtedness of the trtM 

 ury was $33,000. The steady diminution of 

 the missionary force in India and China was 

 mentioned. The following is a summary of 

 the work of the missions : 



Number of candidates for the ministry, 7; 

 of baptisms of infants, 4,851 ; of baptisms of 

 adults, 1,601 ; number of families connected 

 with the Church, 43,380; number of catechu- 

 mens, 23,411; of Sunday-schools, 642; of 

 scholars in the same, 77,203 ; total amount of 

 contributions for religious and benevolent pur- 



The seventy -first annual meeting of the Gen- 

 eral Synod of the Reformed Church in Amer- 

 ica was held in the city of New York, begin- 

 ning June 6th. The Rev. Dr. R. W. Clark 

 was elected president. A question which ex- 

 cited general interest came np early in the 

 session, in the case of the Rev. Augustus Ulan- 

 volt, D. D., of the classis of Kingston, charged 

 with the utterance of views contrary to the 

 standards of the Church. Dr. Blauvelt had 

 written an article entitled " Protestant Vati- 

 canism " for Scrilmer'i Monthly magazine, in 

 which the views objected to were expi ciMd. 

 He had acknowledged the authorship of the 

 article, and that he held the views in question, 

 but had asserted that it had never occurred to 

 him to ask himself whether these views were 

 in accordance with the standards of the Church, 

 or whether he was violating the promises which 

 he made when he signed the formulas of doc- 

 trine. He also stated that ho disagreed funda- 

 mentally with certain specified article* of the 

 Confession of Faith. The classis of Kingston, 

 having taken the case into consideration, de- 

 cided that Dr. Blativelt's declarations nbowed 

 that he did not feel bound by his subscriptions 

 to the standards, that his views upon the Sa- 

 cred Scriptures were thoroughly in conflict 



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