Iowa; and Odenheimer, of New Jersey. Morning Prayer was read by Rev. Drs. Leeds, Suddards, Killikelly, Rev. Mr. Perry, and others. After singing the 21st Psalm, the Ante-Communion Service was read by Bishop Lee, of Delaware; the Epistle by Bishop Lee, of Iowa; and the Gospel by Bishop Hopkins. A part of the One Hundredth Hymn was then sung. The Sermon was preached by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, from St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians, 5th chapter, 20th verse: "We are Ambassadors of Christ." At the conclusion of the Sermon and the Episcopal Charge, the candidate was presented to the presiding Bishops by Bishops Potter, of Pennsylvania and New York. The reading of the usual testimonials here followed. The testimonials of the Standing Committees of the several Dioceses were read by the Rev. Dr. Morton; those of the Bishops, by Rev. Dr. Howe; that of Bishop Brownell, presiding Bishop, by Dr. Ducachet; and that of the Convention of Pennsylvania, by the Rev. Mr. Childs. After the promise of conformity on the part of the Bishop-elect, the Litany was read by Bishop Odenheimer. The presiding Bishop then proceeded with the Consecration Services; Dr. Vaughan and Dr. Dorr assisting in robing the Bishop-elect; Bishops Hopkins, Clark, Odenheimer, Lee, of Delaware, Lee of Iowa, Potter, of Pennsylvania, and Potter, of New York, uniting in the imposition of hands. This Service concluded with the administration of the Holy Communion.

ALABAMA.

It is stated that the Consecration of the Rev. Richard Wilmer, D. D., as Bishop of Alabama, took place in Richmond, on Thursday, March 6th, and that Bishop Meade, of Virginia, was the consecrator, assisted by Bishops Elliott and Johns. Bishop Johns preached the sermon.

PENNSYLVANIA.

DEACONESSES IN PENNSYLVANIA.-At the Convention of this Diocese, at St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, May 27th, Bishop Potter in his Address uttered the following encouraging and timely words.

"Hence the need in our hospitals (not in them only) of trained, enlightened, and devoted Christian ladies. Their presence in St. Luke's Hospital, New York, under the supervision of the Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, has contributed vastly to diffuse through that institution the refined and healing religious influence by which it is distinguished. The same influence goes to some extent into the hospitals and orphan houses of the Roman Church. It has been recently organizing itself among the Reformed of Germany, Switzerland, and France. Without vows or superstitious practices, the Protestant sisters, or Deaconesses, pass through a course of pupilage, and being approved, they devote themselves, without pay, wherever they are needed, to the relief of the sick and sorrowing. In England, hitherto, a like success has not crowned efforts to introduce this benign and powerful element into the working of the Church.

What on this subject, shall be the course of our Communion in this country? For years it has occupied the thoughts of many among us. In 1850, at the General Convention at Cincinnati, the Bishops called for "some plan by which, consistently with the principles of our reformed Communion, the services of intelligent and pious persons, of both sexes, might be secured to the Church, in the education of the young, the relief of the sick and destitute, the care of orphans and friendless immigrants, and the reformation of the vicious." In 1856, a committee, reporting to the Bishops on the best methods of making our Church more adequate to the spiritual and social necessities of the world, say, among other things, "We are constrained to call attention here to the wasted or misdirected energies of the women of the Church. The Sisters of Charity, in the Roman Communion, are worth more perhaps to their cause than the combined wealth of their hierarchy, the learning of their priesthood, and the self-sacrificing zeal of their missionaries. What has been with us so long, a theoretical conviction, ought to become, without much more delay, a practical reality. No time could be more auspicious for a commencement than the present."

A committee on the part of the Bishop's Address, which refers to organizing the services of Christian women, was appointed, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Leeds, the

Rev. Dr. Howe, and the Rev. Mr. Coleman, Mr. F. R. Brunot, and Prof. Coppée, who are to report at the next Convention.

DIVISION OF THE DIOCESE.-In the Convention the following Resolution was adopted by an almost unanimous vote.

Resolved, That a committee of three clergymen and three laymen, from the Western portion of the Diocese, be appointed, whose duty it shall be to report to the next Convention where a line may be drawn which will include within the Western portion of the Diocese the constitutional number of self-supporting parishes and resident ministers requisite for the formation of a new Diocese; and also, whether it be the desire of a majority of the clergy and laity of Western Pennsylvania that the Diocese be divided; and whether a competent support can be obtained for the new Episcopate.

We take the liberty of expressing our admiration of the tone and temper of Assistant Bishop Stevens' Address at this Convention. It is manly, modest, sensible and earnest.

NEW YORK.

The New York Bible and Common Prayer Book and the Protestant Episcopal Tract Societies, have removed their Office and Depository to No. 5 Cooper Union, Fourth Avenue, near Eighth street. Mr. James Pott has been appointed Agent and Treasurer, in the place of Mr. Thos. C. Butler, lately deceased.

CHURCH BOOK SOCIETY.-At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Sunday School Union and Church Book Society, held May 6th, Mr. Edward M. Duncan was unanimously chosen to be the Agent of the Society. Mr. Duncan has long been connected with the Depository, is familiar with the Society's operations, and held the position of Assistant Agent before and since the resignation of Mr. Harriman.

SOCIETY FOR THE INCREASE OF THE MINISTRY.-The fifth Annual Meeting of this Society, was held at the Church of the Ascension, New York, April 27th and 28th. Under the efficient services of its Secretary and General Agent, the Rev. Mr. Harriman, the Society is beginning to realize the best hopes of its friends. Its receipts during the last year were $5,888.74. It has thirty-seven beneficiaries on its list, who have been studying in the General Theological Seminary in New York, in the Virginia Seminary at Alexandria, and in the Berkeley Divinity School, at Middletown, Conn., at Trinity College, Hartford, Jubilee College, Illinois, Griswold College, Iowa, Racine College, Wisconsin, and at Nashotah and Faribault, besides several studying privately with clergymen, and others preparing for Hobart College, Geneva, and Kenyon College, Ohio. Nineteen of our Bishops have become its patrons. The Society of course strikes at the root of one of the greatest of all our difficulties in the way of Church growth, to wit, the want of a Clergy thoroughly educated in the doctrines of the Church, imbued with her spirit, and zealous for her weal. Great as the Church's indebtedness is to that wonderful Providence which has hitherto largely recruited her Ministerial ranks from the Sects, yet it will not, for many reasons, be wise to depend on such a source for men to do her work in such a field. Nearly all our Romish perverts, &c., &c., have come from this list of converts. They have joined the Church without becoming Churchmen. Cœlum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt. To unlearn Sectism, to become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the Gospel as the Church holds and teaches it, is not the work of a day or a year. It does not come as the result of mere volition. It is a growth, a habit. If the Church has a work to do, she must train men to do it on whom she can rely.

ILLINOIS.

THE NORTHWESTERN CHURCH.-A Church Newspaper, with this title, has been commenced in Chicago, taking the place of the "Chicago Record," with the Rev. Thomas Smith as Editor and Proprietor. The new paper starts exceedingly well. The editorials are genial, sensible and practical; and at the same time thoroughly VOL. XIV. 62*

Churchly; and the whole tone of the paper is infused with that young, fresh life, and vigorous elasticity, and bold daring enterprise, which so emphatically characterizes the Great North West. We predict for the paper success and great usefulness. To mould the mind of that country after the Christian pattern, and to save it from the darkest Infidelity, is a noble work; and we are glad to see men there with hearts and heads equal to the emergency.

"CHURCH PRINCIPLES" AND THE EPISCOPAL RECORder.

The Episcopal Recorder, edited it is said by a layman, in noticing the fact that two Methodist preachers, who not long since came over to the Church, and almost immediately went back again to Methodism, has the following comment. "The fact is, that nothing can be more ephemeral than conversions to Episcopacy on what are called "Church Principles." So illusory and illogical these principles are, that there are few minds of sagacity that can accept them except as a temporary delusion. The consequence is, that when the visitor, allured by these false pretences, awakens to his senses, he takes flight. Anglo-Catholicism would make our Church, not a home to dwell in, but a mere inn for transient guests. If Episcopacy is to be sustained, it must be on the principles of evangelical Protestantism."

If the writer of such a paragraph is capable of appreciating the logic of history, we would ask him to read the record of the conversion to Episcopacy, and their own statements of the reasons for their conversion, and the results, reaching even to the present day, of that conversion, of such men as TIMOTHY CUTLER, and SAMUEL JOHNSON, and DAVID BROWN, and JAMES WETMORE, who, at the Annual Commencement of Yale College in 1722, publicly avowed their disbelief in the validity of Non-Episcopal Ordination, and their belief in the divine institution and perpetual obligation of Episcopacy. While thousands on thousands of the best minds of the country are looking about them for something different from, and better, and stronger, than the noisy, censorious, loose, disjointed, jangling, evanescent sectism of the day, such a sentiment as we have quoted above from a professedly Church paper, deserves pity and rebuke.

THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND THE ARMENIAN CHURCHES.

In our last No. we noticed at length the serious troubles which have already sprung up among the Missions of the A. B. C. F. M. in the Oriental Churches. The late Dr. Dwight, one of the Missionaries, on his return from the East to this country, when in London published a reply to the Declaration of the converts at Pera, which appeared in our pages. To this, the converts themselves have made answer, a portion of which only is given in the London Colonial Church Chronicle for February last. Dr. Dwight had said that "the Pera Church is acting entirely alone" in this matter. Mr. Eutujian, Pastor of the Pera congregation, says, can produce many letters, written at different dates, and under different circumstances, in strong and vehement language, complaining and protesting against the course persisted in by the missionaries." He adds, "the voice of the Pera Church is but a feeble echo of the universal feeling of the Churches."

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What is very remarkable is, that the American public who have contributed such vast sums for the support of that mission, up to this day have not been allowed to hear a single whisper of all these troubles; and we can only gain our information through the English Press. The false principles, the more than questionable policy, and the disastrous results which have marked those Missions, all teach a lesson which ought to be echoed and reëchoed throughout the length and breadth of our land.

THE MAY ANNIVERSARIES.

The month of May used to be signalized in New York City by the Anniversary Meetings of several of the religious societies connected with and under the leading control and management of various denominations. Of late years the public interest in these Meetings has nearly subsided, and they have become little more than occasions for the transaction of business. In the important question of

Finance, the societies are largely in arrears this year. The managers generally lament that the civil convulsions have affected their treasuries. The reports of the most important associations make the following exhibit as compared with the reports of Anniversary week last year.

The Ven. CHARLES CAULFIELD, LL. D., was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishops of London and Winchester, in Lambeth, Palace Chapel, on Sunday, Nov. 24. He is the first Bishop of the new colonial See of

Nassau.

The Rev. THOMAS NETTLESHIP STALEY, D. D., the first Bishop of Honolulu, and the Rev. DR. THOMSON, the new Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, were consecrated on Sunday, Dec. 15, at Lambeth chapel, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishops of London and Oxford. The service was said throughout, owing to the death of Prince Albert a few hours before. The offertory was devoted to the Hawaiian Mission. The Queen's license for the consecration of Bishop Staley was read at the usual place in the Service.

The Ven. T. E. WELBY, late Archdeacon of George Town, in the Cape of Good Hope, who has been appointed to the Bishopric of St. Helena, in the room of the Right Rev. Dr. P. C. Claughton, (who has succeeded to the Bishopric of Colombo,) was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace, in January, and almost immediately afterward proceeded to his distant diocese, which was formed in 1859 out of the Bishopric of Cape Town. The jurisdiction of the Bishop extends over the islands of Ascension and Tristan d'Acunha. It is worth £1000 a year, payable from the Colonial Bishoprics' Fund. The new Bishop was formerly Rector of Newton, near Folkingham, Lincolnshire, to which benefice he was presented in 1847 by his relative, Sir G. E. Welby. On resigning that living he engaged in missionary work in connection with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and was, three or four years since, raised to the Archdeaconry of George Town.

The Rt. Rev. WILLIAM FITZGERALD, D. D., Bishop of Cork, has been transferred to the See of Killaloe.

NEW BISHOP OF CORK, CLOYNE, AND ROSS.

The venerable JOHN GREGG, D.D., Archdeacon of Kildare, has been appointed to the Bishopric of Cork. Our English exchanges give the following: He was born

about 1805; was elected scholar of Trinity College in 1822, and graduated B. A. in 1825, but did not proceed M. A. till 1860, when he became, per saltum, M. A., B.D., and D. D. He was Ordained in 1826, and his first appointment was to a curacy in Portarlington, from which he was presented by his near relative, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, to the small living of Kilsallagan, in the county of Dublin. He next became Assistant Minister of the Bethsaida Church, Dublin, and when that was burned down, he became the Minister of Trinity Church. The University did not fail to recognize his merit, and reward it by its highest honorary distinction. The degree of D. D." was freely conferred upon him without any solicitation on his part. As a proof of his high scholarship, and the wonderful power of his memory, it may be mentioned, that he delivered his Latin Sermon in the College Chapel on that occasion, memoriter. His pulpit eloquence is reputed to be of a high order. He became Archdeacon of Kildare in 1857. Dr. Gregg has published a great number of sermons to children, which have met with much success,—' -"Children coming

to Jesus," "The Star of Bethlehem,' "The Story of Stories," &c.; "A Letter to Protestant Children, on Missions," of which several thousand were at once sold; a Lecture on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Youth;" a "Missionary Visit to Achill and Erris;" a "Day in Doon," and others.

The new Bishop of Cork will have a wide field for the exercise of his patronage, and, if he lives as long as his friends wish him, the hard-working and deserving curates have a good many chances of promotion. The united Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, contain 200 benefices, and of these the Bishop appoints to 127. Clerical duties are light in that part of Ireland. While the population of the city and county of Cork is 491,681, the Protestants of all denominations number only 45,815. The members of the Established Church in the city are, according to the last census, 9,574, and in the county, 40,531. The Roman Catholics, then, are about eleven to one of the Protestants. The Cork Examiner is apprehensive that the new Bishop is "aggressive" in his zeal; but hopes that, "when he settles down in the midst of a vast Catholic population, he will, for his own honor and the peace of the community, find that the more strictly he imitates the example of those who have gone before him, the more certainly will he leave behind him a name beloved by all good Protestants, and respected and honored by every enlightened Catholic."

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF CORK, CLOYNE, AND ROSS.

The venerable JOHN GREGG, D. D., was Consecrated Bishop, on Sunday morning, Feb. 16, 1862, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, by the Rt. Rev. Richard Whately, D. D., Archbishop of Dublin, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Fitzgerald, Bishop of Killaloe, and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Daly, Bishop of Cashel. The Rev. Dr. Butcher, Regius Professor of Divinity, preached the sermon.

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF ONTARIO, CANADA.

The Rev. JOHN TRAVERS LEWIS, LL. D., was consecrated Bishop of Ontario, March 25th, 1862, in St. George's Church, Kingston, C. W. Morning Prayer was read by Rev. Dr. Lander, of Napanee, and Rev. Canon Bancroft, D. D., of Montreal; the First Lesson by Rev. T. H. M. Bartlett, Military Chaplain, the Second by Rev. Hannibal Mulkins. At 11 o'clock the Lord Bishop of Montreal, and Metropolitan, the Lord Bishops of Quebec, Toronto, and Huron, the Bishop of Michigan, Dr. McCoskry, the Bishop elect of Ontario, and the clergy of the Diocese of Ontario, with several from the other Dioceses, entered the church. The Metropolitan gave out the hymn, "O Spirit of the living God," and after it had been sung commenced the Communion service. The Bishop of Huron read the Epistle, and the Bishop of Toronto the Gospel. A sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Patton, Rector of Cornwall, and Rural Dean, from Psalm lx. 4. The Anthem "Glorious is Thy name, Almighty God," was then sung, after which the Bishop-elect, vested with his rochet, was presented to the Metropolitan by the Bishops of Quebec and Toronto. The Royal Letters Patent constituting the Diocese of Ontario and authorizing the consecration of the Rev. John Travers Lewis, LL. D., as the first Bishop thereof, were then read by Strachan Bethune, Esq., Chancellor of the Diocese of Montreal, from