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cïwis’rrAN îifciiAtt) ance may be needed. 2. That said evangelists shall re port their labors monthly to their respective bbaf<&,oh Blanks uniform in all the States, on which report each Board shall preserve an ab stract, from which the respective annual report^ shall be made up. 3. That each State evangelist ____ shall-furnisk io-Uxe ganeral e-va»«^- list, hereinafter provided for, an abstract of his annual State report, the footings of which shall appear in the annual report of the general y—pu^iisBed nTthe minutes of General Convention. 4. That a permanent financial system, each State shall induce every church possible to pledge a definite amount of money to be paid annually for an indefinite f « time, to the State treasury, for evangelistic purposes, not less than ten per cent, of which shall be paid (provided this be not construed as interfering with the other finaneia) plans now used by the G. C. M. C.) to the General Convention. .... 5. That the General Convention shall elect a general evangelist, whose duty shall be to cooperate with existing State organizations, to organize the weaker States, and to aid them in securing State evan gelists, and to superintend whatever other work his board may under take. 6. That the State and general evangelists be exofiicio members of the General Board. A. B. J ones , Mo, I saac E rrett , O., D. R. V an B uskirk , Ill., »-Corn. | D. R. D ungan , la., L. L. C arpenter , Ind., We are in favor of trying the above system and ascertain how it works. This is the great test of all of our schemes to spread the gospel. Any plan however feasible will meet with objectors. Let the brethren everywhere give this careful consideration, and at least test its practical qualities. and Christian lives of the coming branches. Reading-rooms, libraries, generation. parlors, amusement rooms, bath rooms, classes, for instruction, and hospital equipment, are among the paper before the Canada Baptist Christian agencies employed. The Union, at Toronto, on the “ Present work has commanded the interest Outlook of Mission Work,” has and approval of railroad managers coined an apt word to describe to such an extent that these secre mission methods as they should be. taries are moat of them on the pay- “ While__t^ French churches are rolls-of*fhc-eonipftnTt^;-tlYe corpora crying concentrate,” said he, " we tions thus cooperating with their must practice ‘ scatteration!’” It employes in making the work is not by any means a handsome efficient in all its branches, social, looking word, but it has a rugged, educational and religious.- -forcefu 1 sOTrnd~~trr it, that ~is very expressive. Rev. Dr. William Josiah Irons, of the Established church, and the Not long $go it was generally author of sevwaf works on religious thought that the Wesleyan and subjects, died at London last week Episcopal churches were in the at the age of seventy-one years. position of two lovers who had had The memorial of Dr. Coke, the a tiff, and would soon make it up again. Now, however, one of the father of Methodist missions, is to former is allowed to say in the take the form of a new church and Wesleyan organ, that “ there is the manse at Warrenpoint, a fashion widest and greatest possible-diver able resort in County Down, Ire land. gence between the two churches.” ----- # Rev. Dwight Spencer has ob Princeton conferred this year only one degree of LL.D., and that tained the $10,(MX) needed for the was upon Rev. William M. Taylor, erection of a Baptist house of wor D.D., of the Broadway Tabernacle, ship at Salt Lake City, and returns every way well worthy ^of the at once to Utah to superintend the honor. - Among the degrees confer Section of the building. ----- red by the-University of tho City * There are about 30,0G0 Christian of New York was that of D.D Indians in the United States, and upon Rev. Samuel M. Hamilton, of one-half of these are Baptists. Ten the Scotch Presbyterian Church on millions of American Christians Fourteenth street. It is not always ought to be able to Christianize that honors are so fittingly and this remnant of a departing race. worthily bestowed as in these two instances. Bishop Spaulding corroborates the statement that the archbishops Right Bev. John William Colenso, of the United States have been D.D., Bishop of Natal, died at commanded to assemble at Rome in Durbar on the 20th ult., at the age of sixty-nine. He was appointed October next to arrange the pro gramme for the Plenary Council to Bishop of Natal, South Africa, in be held in America. 1854. He was the author of several works, including some on algebra It is reported that Queen Victo and arithmetic. In 1862 he pub ria will soon abdicate. The reasons lished a work on “ The Pentateuch are: Her MageBty’s fast-failing and Book of Joshua.” This work health and increasing unwillingness was condemned by the Convocation and sometimes an inability on her of Canterbury, and be declared to - — — ' - • ♦ • —————— part to perform the duties incident be deposed by the Metropolitan, current Religious News. to government. Since the death of the Bishop of Cape Town. The There are 2,000 Indians in Dakota validity of his deposition, however, her favorite servent, John Brown, that belong to the Cathdlic church. was denied in 1865 on an appeal to she has been very much depressed, and finally it was necessary to re Two thousand, two hundred and the Privy.Council. move her to Balmoral, where some fifty-two new schools organized last The ^.Young Men’s Christian of her happiest days were spent year by the American Sunday- Association has paid much atten with the lover and husband of her school Union, with 10,376 teachers, tion to work among railroad em youth. She is said to be afflicted and 82,749 scholars; and this grand ployes throughout the country. with melancholia of a pronounced work has been done mainly in This work, begun only a few years type. For some years the'Qyben field« where no other Christianizing ago in a very small way, has grown has been a mild believer in Spirit- agency is laboring. Truly, such a until it has branches on many lead- ualism. She tjjought the spirit of broadcast Bowing of the seed« oU ing roads, with fifty-six secretaries her dead husband used to assist her -Uristia .»ty must show itself in or supeiintendents* devoting all in working out the questions which the future in the good citizenship their time to the care of these perplexed and sometimes annoyed her ; and it is said that of late she has seemed to feel the actual ** presence of. the dead Prince^ and talked as though he were by her side. This and other occurrences frightened and alarmed her daugh ter Beatrice very greatly, and sho insisted that some of the other mem bers of the family should come down at once. It w- needle.'ss to say-that the abdication of the Queen and suc cession of the Prince of Wales as Prince Regent would change tho whole condition of English politics. MARRIE» - At the-residence oTL. P. Pratt, on Fifteen Mile creek, Wasco Co., Oregon, July 1, 1883, by P. P. 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