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He says, that "in his arrangement of the existing Churches of Christendom, he has followed no guide but the ancient Catholic Law." We have, therefore, a statistical and tabular acount of, I. The Oriental Churches; II. The Latin Churches; III. The Anglican Churches; IV. Abnormal Churches; V. The Tridentine Church

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There are, also, lists of the Bishops of the English, Irish, Scottish, Anglican, Colonial, Swedish and American Churches, with the dates of their consecration. There are, also, scattered throughout this little volume, scraps of history, pertinent and valuable. Hereafter, tabular views of the various Christian Sects will be given. In order to keep up the series permanently, this Calendar should also, we think, include a full Clerical list of our own Church, and such Diocesan Intelligence as the great mass of our own Clergyman and Laymen need to have, and will have before them; that the work should be issued promptly; and then published so cheaply, that it can be scattered almost gratuitously. In other words, make the "Churchman's Calendar" a necessity, and then issue it in as cheap a form as pos

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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of the American Printing House for the Blind.

Published

by order of the Mississippi Board, Louisville, Ky. 1860. 8vo. pp. 48. The enterprise brought before us in this Report is a new and most important one. While nearly all of the States provide for the instruction of their Blind, no especial provision has ever been made for printing books, either for school purposes or general improvement. All printing, thus far, has been done by private means, or by the Institutions themselves; and it is entirely insufficient in quantity and variety. For some time past, Mr. D. SHERROD, formerly a pupil of the Mississippi Institution for the Blind, has been, and is still, engaged in the endeavor to establish a Publishing House, through the instrumentality of which it is proposed, permanently and adequately, to supply the Blind with books. The enterprise is solely of his own conception and execution; and it is gratifying to state that he has met with encouraging success. Mississippi, which has taken the lead in this matter, has granted a Charter of Incorporation, and so also has Kentucky. Mississippi and Tennessee and Louisiana have each given $2000 to the object, and pledged $10 annually for each white blind person in those States. In all, $25,000 has already been raised, and the Printing House is to go into operation at once in Kentucky, at Louisville. By Charter, every school for the Blind, located in a State whose Legislature or citizens contribute to the funds of the American Printing House, shall, in proportion to the funds contributed, be entitled to copies of every book published by said House, to be distributed gratuitously to such blind persons as are unable to purchase them. The lists of the Boards of Trustees comprise names of the highest reputation, and entire confidence may be placed in them for the wise disposal of funds. The address of Mr. D. Sherwood is at Louisville, Ky.

REV. DR. W. W. LORD'S SERMON in Christ Church, Vicksburg, Miss., Apr. 21, 1861: "Our True Government: and our obligation to maintain it."

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REV. DR. W. W. LORD'S SERMON in Christ Church, Vicksburg, Miss., Feb. 17, 1861: 'The Clergy and the Civil Power; and the moral proofs of a true Government." REV. J. H. PADDOCK'S SERMON in Christ Church, Detroit, May 13, 1861, before the Detroit Light Guard. "Our Cause, Our Confidence, and our Consequent Duty." REV. DR. CHARLES MASON'S SERMON, in Grace Church, Boston, on the National Fast Day, Jan 4, 1861.

REV. H. W. BELLOWS' SERMON, in All Souls' Church, New York, Apr. 21, 1861. "The State and the Nation-Sacred to Christian Citizens."

GENERAL R. K. CALL'S (of Florida) LETTER to John S. Littell, of Germantown. Penn. "Union-Slavery-Secession."

THE NECESSITIES AND WISDOM OF 1861. A Supplement to the Sixth Edition of "Slavery and the Remedy." By Samuel Nott: Boston: 1861.

Of the above pamphlets and Sermons called forth by the present Civil War, the two last, General Call's Letter, and Mr. Nott's Supplement, enter directly into the real merits of the whole question; and both of these contain statements of important facts which it is impossible to ignore, and which will have to be considered and provided for, before our domestic difficulties can be settled. Millions on millions of money and rivers of blood must be the price of the present exasperation and bitter prejudice, North and South, and then there will come cool reflection and sober deliberation, and there will be heard, we believe, the voice of true patriotism and Christian philanthropy.

SECOND REPORT of the "House of Mercy." New York, March 1. 1861.

STRICTURES on the Two Letters of Provost Whitaker in answer to charges brought by the Lord Bishop of Huron against the teaching of Trinity College. By a Presbyter. London, Canada West. 1861. 8vo. pp. 96.

Having, in our April No., given a full account of the origin and nature of the charges brought by the Bishop of Huron against Trinity College, it seems unnecessary to notice at length the defense of the Bishop by a Presbyter, in the pamphlet before us. The whole question is a simple one. It is whether the Standards of the Church of England are to be received in a Scriptural, Primitive and Catholic interpretation, or as frittered and explained away by modern Protestantism. That the English Reformers, in the great work to which they were called, did take for their guide, the old rule, the "Semper, ubique, ab omnibus," is as certain as any fact of history. And yet it is easy enough to torture individual expressions of some of those Reformers into the support of almost anything. But such attempts are neither fair nor honest. We are sorry to see some of the statements of this pamphlet; they indicate a reading thoroughly one-sided and a bad temper.

NINTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Missionary Society of St. Paul's Church, New Haven, Conn. 1861.

The report thus states the results of the missionary labors of this parish during the last nine years. "This Society, through the blessing of God upon its efforts, has gathered two large Sunday Schools, two flourishing Congregations, and erected two Church edifices. Through the labors of its Missionaries, seventy-five adults, and four hundred and fifty one children, have received the Sacrament of Baptism; and one hundred and eighty-five persons have been admitted to the Communion of our Church. through the rite of Confirmation. And finally, this Society, as the almoner of your charities, has disbursed for Church extension, at home and abroad, more than $21,000."

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St. Michael's, Germantown, Pa.

Chapel, Alexandria, Va.
St. Mary's, Burlington, N. J.
Epiphany, New York City.
Chapel, Delafield, Wis.

St. James', New London, Ct.
Chapel, Delafield, Wis.
Epiphany, New York City.
Trinity, New Orleans, La.
St. Luke's, Davenport, Iowa.
Grace, Camden, S. C.

Holy Trinity, Middletown, Ct.
St. Paul's, Richmond, Va.
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Whittingham, Oct. 21, 1860, St. Mark's, Perryville, Md.

May 23, 1861, Epiphany, New York City.

Holy Trinity, Middletown, Ct.
St. George's, New York City.
Chapel, Delafield, Wis.

St. Mary's, Burlington, N. J.
Epiphany, New York City.
Epiphany, New York City.
St. David's, Austin, Texas.

Chapel, Alexandria, Va.
Holy Trinity, Middletown, Ct.
Grace, Berryville, Va.

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Holy Communion, N. Y. City
St. James', Dexter, Mich.
St. Mary's, Burlington, N. J.
St. James', New London, Ct.
St. Luke's, New Orleans, La.
St. Paul's, Brookfield, Ct.
St.George's, Fredericksb'g, Va.
Ascension, Mt. Sterling, Ky.
St. Paul's, Petersburg, Va.

St. Paul's, Brookfield, Ct.
Holy Communion, N. Y. City.
Eugene City, Oregon.

St. Paul's, Brookfield, Ct.
St. Michael's, Germantown, Pa

St. Paul's, Richmond, Va.
Christ, Elizabeth City, N. C.
St. Paul's, Detroit, Mich.
St. Paul's, Petersburg, Va.
St. John's, Buffalo, W. N. Y.

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The RIGHT REV. Benjamin Tredwell OnderdonK, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of the Diocese of New York, died in New York City, on Tuesday, April 30, 1861, aged 70 years. He was born in New York City, July, 1791. In 1806, at the age of 16,

he entered Columbia College, where he graduated in 1810. In 1812, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Hobart, in New York City, and Priest by the same Prelate, in Newark, N. J. In 1814, while Deacon, he was elected Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, New York; at the Diocesan Convention, in October, 1830, he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of New York, and was consecrated in St. John's Chapel, Nov. 26, 1830, by the Rt. Rev. Bishops White, Brownell, and H. U. Onderdonk. In 1844, the Right Rev. Bishops Meade, Otey, and Elliott, presented him before the Court of Bishops for trial, on charges of "immorality and impurity;" and he was tried by an Ecclesiastical Court, in New York City, which remained in session from Dec. 10, 1844, until Jan. 3, 1845, when he was suspended "from the office of a Bishop in the Church of God, and from the functions of the Sacred Ministry." On the first scrutiny, eight Bishops voted for deposition, three for suspension, and six for admonition. On the third and last scrutiny, eight voted for deposition, and nine for suspension. At the Diocesan Convention of New York, in 1859, by a vote of 147 to 19 of the Clergy, and 75 to 46 of the Laity, a vote embracing all shades of ecclesiastical and doctrinal opinion, a Resolution was passed, requesting the House of Bishops to terminate the suspension of Bishop Onderdonk, and restore him, with certain restrictions, to the exercise of his Ministerial functions. The House of Bishops, by a vote which was never published, refused to grant the request. Since his suspension, Bishop Onderdonk has lived in great retirement, rarely leaving the house, except to attend upon the Daily Service of the Church. His last words were those of charity for those who had been most active in his degradation. He was buried from Trinity Church, New York, on Tuesday, May 7, at 3 o'clock, P. M. The Rt. Rev. Bishops POTTER, of New York, DELANCEY, of Western New York, ODENHEIMER, of New Jersey, and SOUTHGATE, of New York City, were present, and great numbers of the Clergy, some of them from distant Dioceses. The pall-bearers were as follows: Rev. Dr. Berrian, Rev. Dr. Creighton, Rev. Dr. Brown, Rev. Dr. Cutler, Rev. Dr. Price, Rev. Mr. Gallaudet, Rt. Rev. Bishop Southgate, Rev. Mr. Mallaby, Rev. Dr. Seabury, Rev. W. L. Johnson, Rev. J. J. Tucker, Rev. Mr. Draper. The opening Sentences were read by Bishop DELANCEY.

After the reading of the Lesson by Rev. Dr. HIGBEE, Rev. Dr. VINTON, Rector of Trinity Church, read the resolutions, which had been adopted by the Standing Committee of the Diocese. Dr. VINTON also read resolutions which had been adopted by members of the Diocese, Clergy and Laity, assembled at Trinity Church on Monday; also the resolutions of the Faculty of the Theological Seminary. Dr. VINTON also alluded to resolutions, that had been passed by the students of the Theological Seminary.

The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. SEABURY, who took for his text John v: 35. "He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoicc in his light."

Dr. SEABURY gave an account of the administration of the communion to Bishop ONDERDONK, just previous to his death. The whole tenor of the narrative was to show that (as Dr. VINTON had announced) the Bishop died "full of penitence for all the errors which he had committed, but still saying, 'With regard to those offences of which I have been accused, and for which I have been condemned, my conscience still acquits me as in the sight of God.'

VOL. XIV.-NO. II.

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