1 give a "history of American slavery and enfranchisement," and is, in fact, a sort of monograph on the relations of the negro race to the Government until it was merged with the other elements of the population into a common citizenship. Slavery in the colonies is dismissed in a few words. Twenty-five pages bring us to the Missouri Compromise and sixty more to the compromise of 1850, after which the story is told in greater detail. There is a judicious summary of the greatly varying evidence as to the actual condition of the slaves, with good characterizations of the leaders North and South, a spirited account of the Fremont campaign and the struggle for Kansas. Nearly a third of the book is given to the reconstruction period, with the conclusion that the abuses and extravagances were not greater than might have been expected and not nearly so great as is commonly supposed. Mr. Merriam looks to better education of both races to narrow, if not to bridge, the chasm that now di vides them. an "The Philippine Experiences of American Teacher" (Scribner, $1.50) is a lively narrative of work and travel in the Philippine Islands, by William B. Freer, who was first supervisor of school work in Nueva Vizcaya in Northern Luzon, and afterward supervisor at Ambos Camerines in the far south of the same island. Of the cities he has little or nothing to tell, but of life in the village communes, of the habits of mind and thought of the common people, the officials, the native teachers and the children, he has a great deal to say that is fresh and valuable, and he says it with a never failing humor that makes his book entertaining also. How the American teachers went about their task and what they accomplished, something also of what they hope to accomplish, is told with a modest enthusiasm. That Mr. Freer's Spanish is not yet impeccable appears from his translation of a prayer on page 144; but he has been so busy teaching English to children of twenty native tongues that this is no wonder. It is curious, too, to find the assumption on page 264 that Magellan was a priest. Mr. Freer says he "celebrated mass." More important is the conviction that he has brought from his experience that, great as is the progress and bright the outlook for the Filipinos, both would be imperilled by independence. Convinced that the English public has been misled and the American beguiled to a false estimate of the character, achievements, designs and prospects of Japan, Mr. Thomas F. Millard has written "The New Far East." (Scribner, $1.50.) Those who recall Mr. Millard's magazine articles during the late war will be prepared for the elaboration here of his very unfavorable estimates of Japanese political and commercial morality. He believes that there has been on the part of those who supply news from Japan a conspiracy of misrepresentation for which the Japanese Government is in part directly re tains no yellow peril for Europe and America; but it does contain one for Europeans and Americans in Asia unless your nations and people learn to treat Asiatics with more consideration." This, Mr. Millard adds, is the voice of the new China. It is to be heard and considered. Stories of American Life. The East Tennessee coal and iron region is the scene of "The Quickening" (Bobbs, Merrill, $1.50), in which Francis Lynde reaches a very high level of excellence in story-telling, in character-drawing and in portraying the subtle changes by which the religious life of an earnest boy, taught by the hard experience of life and the gentle inspiration of love, grows out of sectarian narrowness, through doubt, to a broader vision. This part of the story is wrought with great care and gives the novel a quite exceptional spiritual interest. Aside from this it has value as a picture of the social changes that accompanied the industrial "boom." It is easy to see behind South Tredegar some such city as South Pittsburgh. The vary ing fortunes of the Chiawassee Consolibeen duplicated dated Company have many a time thereabouts and in the adjacent Alabama district where, as here, cast an economic sheet iron pipe proved anchor. It is easy to pick flaws here and there in this industrial part of the story; the Northern capitalist, and afterward the trust, plays a little too often the part of a tutelary divinity, but one forgets in the rush of the narrative and one would for give even more to the genial creator of the sturdy Scot Gordon and his son Tom; of Colonel Dabney, who represents the old régime, and his granddaughter Ardea, who blends the temperament of the Southron with a shrewdness of judgment and breadth of sympathy learned in her father's Paris atelier. The part that love plays in this story is exceptionally sane and sweet. Sentiment has its full share, but of sentimentality there is hardly a trace. The literary workmanship throughout is excellent. There is a placid idyllic charm about Roy Rolfe Gilson's "Miss Primrose." (Harper, $1.25.) It belongs to the class of fiction of which "Cranford" is the unapproached model and type. The scene might be in some upland Massachusetts or Connecticut town; Miss Primrose, the central figure, is introduced to us as a young girl matured by responsibility and the care of an aging and soon-to-be invalid father, himself a delightful specimen of the old-fashioned scholar, with something more than the name to sug gest the Vicar of Wakefield. A gleam of young love comes to Miss Primrose, only to be renounced for duty and to give a pale light of romance to the rest of her beneficent life. The closing scene, where by chance she meets the orphan daughter of her only love, and finds that he has dians are real, few of us have any means of knowing, but that they are "different" will be obvious to any reader of "The Way of an Indian." (Fox, Duffield, $1.50.) White Otter, otherwise known as the Bat and Fireater, lives not merely in an environment outside of ordinary experience; he is radically different in his whole attitude toward life. He not only is not a white man, you never could conceive of him as one at any moment. This aloofness is remarkably well maintained in all the episodes of his career from ardent boyhood to discouraged old age. The illustrations are of exceptional inter est. "The Spirit of the Pines," by Margaret Morse, is a story of love and renunciation carried on partly by letters, while the man is in invalid seclusion, partly by conversations that have something of the sombre tone of the forest in which they are held and from which the little story takes its name. Young readers may not quite see the necessity for the tragic close, but experience teaches that it was better So. The story is carefully thought out; there is a commendable economy of material. Slight as the little book is, it leaves the impression of artistic balance and completeness that are as rare as they are gratifying. A curious survival, or one might rather say recrudescence, of the type of fiction that we associate with "The Castle of Otranto" or the "Mysteries of Udolpho," is Frances Powell's "Prisoner of Ornith Farm." (Scribners, $1.50.) We have here once more a "House on the Hudson," which in this case is provided also with a circus tent in which the heroine passes the brightest moments of her bespangled girlhood. On reaching what were not in her case years of discretion, she is abducted by a counterfeiter and his band to Ornith Farm, whence, after a regimen and treatment that would have wrecked the constitution of a Spartan, she is rescued to live happy ever after with the faithful companion of her youthful escapades, though she admits that the knowledge she got at Ornith Farm of life's shadows "must ever remain to dim its sunshine." This book may well be the twentieth century limit of garish romance. "The Girl from Tim's Place," by Charles Clark Munn (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, $1.50), is a story of New England woods and villages. The heroine is a little drudge who runs away from a life of horror in a lonely farm-house in the woods, and is rescued by kindly campers. In spite of the fact that the book contains a hidden treasure, a murder and other equally sensational details, it preserves a crude, quaint, countrified tone, and an air of pointing a moral; it might well find a place in some Sunday-school libraries. Miss Bertha Runkle has laid the scene of her new novel, "The Truth about Tolna" (Century Company, $1.50), in twentieth century New York. The tale is all froth, but froth without the sunshine on it; it does not sparkle. The central sponsible; that by means of this mis- named his child for her, is very effective figure is a mysterious young opera singer; representation bankers have been enabled to sell Japanese bonds in England and America, the proceeds of which have been used to forestall and hinder English and American trade, and that for us commercially it would have been better to have Russia in Korea and Manchuria than Japan. His position is extreme; it seems prejudiced, but it is well presented and it is always worth while to hear the other side. Of the awakening of China he has much of interest to tell, and toward the Chinese he is more sympathetic. In respect to the "yellow peril" he recalls that a Chinese official of progressive tendencies recently said to him: "The future con in its artistic simplicity. "The Golden Greyhound," by Dwight Tilton (Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd, $1.50), suggests in a far-off way, both in title and in scheme, Drake's "Golden Hind." This modern ocean liner, however, is golden for the treasure that she carries, not for that which she captures. The pirate plot to capture the gold is interwoven with the adventures of a wealthy New Yorker, who has chosen for his valet a Yankee youth who enlivens the narrative with his sportive humor. Of course there is a bewitching lady in the case, indeed, the whole is suffused with a genial sense of youth. the heroines are wealthy and emptyheaded young women. The conversation is interlarded, but not spiced, with slang. "Judith," by Grace Alexander (Bobbs, Merrill), is a homely tale of life in the Middle West in the decade before the Civil War. has been educated in Paris, and a MethA young farmer, a girl who odist parson, are the chief actors in a rather commonplace little drama of love and misunderstanding. The young farmer gets the worst of it, because of his own stupidity, but he dies at an opportune moment and the other people are happy ever after. A classified and descriptive list of books received during the week will be found on pare 634. In the diocese of Albany there were large congregations and large offerings for missions and church debts. St. Ann's church, Amsterdam, the Rev. E. T. Carroll, rector, after weeks of individual and concerted efforts for the final clearing off of the debt, Easter Sunday saw its successful accomplishment. At the reading of the notices the rector told of the kind and generous offer of Mr. Sanford to give whatever was lacking that the debt might be cleared off. The amount of the debt thus cleared during Mr. Carroll's rectorship $17,000. was St. John's church, Ogdensburg, the Rev. E. L. Sanford, rector, contributed a large amount for various works of charity and for cancelling its debt. Christ church, Troy, marked the first Easter of the rectorship of the Rev. Henry Little by paying off its debt.. St. Paul's church, Albany, the Rev. Roelif Brooks, rector, paid its entire debt, giving its new rector courage to enter upon his work. Large congregations have attended the Lenten services and the various organizations in the church are planning for a vigorous campaign. There in four services were St. Luke's church, Ypsilanti, Mich., the Rev. William Gardam, rector, on Easter Day. Lewis The Ann Arbor Commandery of usual Knights Templar made their Easter Pilgrimage and attended the evening service. The offerings for the During Lent day were over $1,200. the rector has given a daily address, and there has been a marked gain in the attendance over last year. The Church of the Redeemer, Biloxi, Miss., on Easter Sunday was the recipient of two cut-glass cruets, the gift of Mrs. Wm. Rudolph, and a silver ciborium as a thank-offering for recovery from sickness, the gift of Mr. E. Emanuel. The offerings from the Sunday-school for general missions This is the second amounted to $40. offering for general missions from the Sunday-school in the past six months. At the Easter services at St. Ann's church, Nashville, Tenn., the music was of a high order and the offering was the largest ever made at any one service in the history of the church, and was more than sufficient to pay off all indebtedness of the parish, which included a debt on Martin Hall and on the rectory. The Rev. Dr. Logan preached from the text, "Ye shall be witnesses unto me." The Easter services at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., were as usual simple, yet dignified. A feature of the early celebration was the large attendance of students. At eleven o'clock occurred the second celebration, and a forceful sermon by the chaplain, the Rev. William A. Guerry. The customary evensong choral service was held at 7:30, including Stainer's "Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis," arranged to the Parisian tones. The chapel was decorated not only with the usual Easter blossoms, but with masses of wild flowers from the forests. The most beautiful of the Holy Week services were the At Trinity church, Newark, O., the Rev. P. Franklin, rector, the Easter offering was the largest in the history of the parish, being between $6,000 and $7,000. This will much the remaining indebtedness upon the church, which will probably be consecrated in the near future. The offering in the Sunday-school was over $100. more than cover At St. Luke's, Marietta, O., the Rev. George Davidson, rector, the offering was one of the largest in many years, the people responding with half as much again as was asked by the rector for the purpose of church improvements. Easter Gifts and Memorials. At St. Stephen's church, Cohasset, Mass., on Easter morning there was dedicated a chancel window which was presented to the church by Mr. C. A. Welch as a memorial to his wife. The design is divided into panels making a series of pictures illustrating the Passion of Christ. On the morning of Easter Day a brass chandelier was consecrated at the Church of the Saviour, Providence, R. I., by the rector, the Rev. Arthur Washburn. It is presented to the church by the parish society of the Daughters of Hope, in memory of Mrs. Phebe Anna Mathewson, wife of the senior warden. also paid for the alterations necessary to adapt the chancel to the new organ, which have greatly improved the interior of the church. A beautiful brass eagle lectern six and one-half feet in height was placed in St. Mary's, Roland avenue, Baltimore, Md., on Easter Sunday by the Ladies' Aid Society. The cruciform church has a chancel thirty-five feet long and thirty feet wide, one of the largest in the city, hence the massive lectern does not seem out of proportion. A window was unveiled in St. Paul's church, Richmond, Va., on Easter Day. It was presented by Mrs. R. P. Snelling, of Newton Upper Falls, Mass., as a memorial to her mother, Mrs. Ella de Treville, and was executed in the Tiffany studios. The design is the Angel of Hope, a life-sized figure in whose robes the soft colorings are beautifully blended. A window was recently placed in the chancel of St. Mary's School chapel, Raleigh, N. C., in memory of Mrs. Sarah Lyell Smedes, wife of the Rev. Dr. Aldert Smedes, founder of the school, as the gift of Mrs. W. A. Erwin, youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Aldert Smedes. It is of Tiffany glass, and has in its central panel the Angel of the Annunciation, the two side panels showing, one the open Book, the other the Cross and Crown. Many relatives and friends were assembled for the dedication, Mrs. Smedes's favorite hymn was sung, "While Thee I seek, protecting power," and an able sermon was preached by the rector of St. Mary's, the Rev. McNeely DuBose. A handsomely carved bishop's chair has been presented to the Church of the Redeemer, Chicago, by Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Gardner, in memory of their Florence granddaughter, Beatrice Sprague. A solid silver ciborium was also presented to the Church of the Redeemer, Chicago, by this year's confirmation class. A window of beautiful design and workmanship has been placed, by Mrs. George Warren Brown, in the north wall of the Mary E. Bofinger Memorial chapel, overlooking the chancel, in Christ church cathedral, St. Louis, Mo. The window is the work of Mayer & Co., and its subject, "The Annunciation," is reverently and artistically treated. It is inscribed "To the glory of God, and in loving memory of Mary Elizabeth Bofinger." Recent gifts to Trinity church, Newark, O., include a carved oak Litany desk and a Litany book, choir vestments, white altar vestments, and bookmarks, which were used for the first time on Easter Day, and two brass alms basins, in memory of the late organist, C. E. Reynolds. A carved wood altar rail has been recently added as a memorial in St. Paul's church, Beloit, Kan. (district of Salina). Four windows were unveiled in Trinity church, South Norwalk, Conn., the Rev. Romilly F. Humphries, rector, on Easter Day. They were designed and executed by the firm of R. Geissler, of New York. Three, representing "The Baptism of Jesus," "The Return of the Prodigal Son," and "Jesus Blessing the Children," were given by Mrs. Leslie Another gift, a handsome pair of brass Smith and her brother, Mr. Harry Allen, candlesticks, was used on the altar for the first time at Easter. A double manual Odell organ, presented to Christ church, Sharon, Conn., by Miss Emily O. Wheeler, Miss Laura Wheeler, and Mrs. Caroline Wheeler Schwao, in memory of their sister, Eleanor Wheeler McClurg, was dedicated and used for the first time on Easter Day. The same generous donors as memorials to their father, Thomas George Allen, their sister, Georgiana Josephine Dickinson, and a thank-offering for the long life of their mother, Adelaide Bicknell Allen. The fourth, "Jesus Driving Out the MoneyChangers," was given by Colonel Leslie Smith, senior warden of the parish, to complete the south side of the church. A memorial baptistry was unveiled on Easter Day in St. Andrew's church, Providence, R. I. It comprises an oak platform, with brass kneeling rail, and an Italian marble font. The church wall in the rear is sheathed with oak. The font bears the inscription: "To the Glory of God, and in Loving Memory of Alva Carpenter, a Founder and LongTime Official of this parish. 1829-1905. Easter, 1906. From Those Who Hold Him Dear." A memorial pulpit of brass and oak was placed at Easter in St. Andrew's church, Phoenix, R. I. It is the gift of Mr. James Gee, in memory of his first wife, Mrs. Nancy Booth Gee. A processional cross of brass and gold was presented by the men of the parish. A set of chancel service books and a Bible were also given. Trinity church, Pawtucket, R. I., received at Easter the foundation of an Endowment Fund, in memory of an unmentioned member of the parish. Two handsome brass vases were also reIceived as a memorial of Mrs. Sarah H. Harrison from her children. At the early morning service in St. Luke's church, Marietta, O., the Rev. George Davidson, the rector, assisted by the wardens, unveiled a beautiful memorial window with an appropriate ceremony. The window is a memorial to Mrs. McLaughlin Devine, and was designed and made by Mayer & Co. It is a representation of the Ascension of our Lord, and occupies a prominent place in the sanctuary above the new reredos, which, with many other improvements, has recently been placed in the church. A full set of embroidered altar and chancel vestments was used for the first time at Mt. Calvary church, St. Louis, Mo., on Easter Day. They were the gift of the "Girls' Club." A brass alms basin has been presented to St. Paul's church, St. Louis, by the Forder family, as a memorial of a faithful communicant lately entered into rest. A processional cross has been given to the Church of the Good Shepherd, St. Louis, in memory of the late rector, the Rev. B. F. Newton, a token of affection from personal friends. At the presentation of the cross the bishop of the diocese said a prayer of dedication. In Grace church, Cherry Valley, N. Y. (diocese of Albany), the Rev. C. O. S. Kearton, rector, on Easter Even, blessed a new stone font given in memory of Mrs. Alice White Wilkin and Miss Mary White Wilkin, by the two surviving daughters of Mrs. Wilkin. The Easter service for the children was of its usual joyous character and espe cially devoted to missions, the children giving in their mite chests $33. Among the gifts to St. Hubert's at Newman (Lake Placid), N. Y., the Rev. William Sidener, rector, were a valuable silver communion service and a solid gold emergency spoon set with a jewel, and a pair of three branch candlesticks. The offerings were unusually large and all for missions. Since the present rector, the Rev. H. G. Buisch, assumed charge of Trinity church, Middleport (Western New York), last July, many improvements have been made in the parish. A new pipe organ has just been installed at a cost of $1,200, one-half of which sum was contributed by Mr. Andrew Carnegie. By unanimous vote of the congregation the organ was made a memorial to the late Rev. G. W. Southwell, founder and first rector of the parish. The church has been thoroughly renovated and newly decorated in old ivory. On Easter Day a brass and oak Litany desk, a memorial of their mother, given by Mrs. John Benson, Mrs. S. W. Jackson and Mr. Ray De Lano, was put in place and an alms basin for the Sunday-school given by Mr. and Mrs. Ray De Lano, in memory of a little daughter. Owing to deaths and removals within the past two years, the communicant list of this parish has been reduced one-third. On the occasion of the bishop's visitation he confirmed fifteen persons. On Easter Day in Christ church, Rochester (Western New York), the Rev. A. J. Graham, rector, there was unveiled a handsome credence, a memorial to the late Mr. E. H. Scranton, the gift of his widow. The credence was made by Tiffany, of New York, and cost $500. St. Andrew's church, Milwaukee, has been enlarged 50 per cent. by the addition of a wing to the south. The gift came as a memorial to Mrs. W. C. Clarkson, sister of the rector, the Rev. G. F. Burroughs, from Mr. and Mrs. George Burroughs, her parents. The furnishings made necessary by this improvement all come as Easter gifts from the parishioners, amounting to over $600. The addition and furnishings were dedicated by the Bishop Coadjutor at a special service, held on Saturday evening, April 21. In spite of this addition it was impossible to seat the congregation at any of the services on Easter Day. All Saints' church, Frederick, Md., received on Easter Day a beautiful basrelief in Italian marble, of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," given in remem Be brance of the late Miss Alexina Pigman, by her sisters. Placed in the reredos and framed in the dark Gothic facing of the chancel, the beauty of the masterpiece is greatly accentuated. low is a brass plate on which in red and black Lombardic lettering is inscribed, "To the glory of God, and in loving remembrance of Alexina Pigman, entered into life April 28, 1904." The bas-relief is nearly six feet long and two and a half high, giving the figures sixteen inches height; the groups of three being marked by an appreciation of the character of each apostle. Miss Pigman was a devoted and loyal Churchwoman, her enthusiasm for missions made her personality most inspiring and her loss a deep one to this parish. The memorial is the work of Leland & Hall, of New York, and executed in their studios in Carrara, Italy. A very beautiful altar book, bound in white and gold, was presented to Epiphany parish, Chicago, Ill., on Easter Day, as a memorial to the late Mrs. St. John. The book is from the studio of Miss Agnes St. John, of Boston, whose work took the gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition. It is one of the choicest specimens of artistic binding to be found in the diocese, and will be used only on great festivals. The confirmation class recently presented at Christ church, Woodlawn, Chicago, Ill., presented the parish with a beautiful chalice of sterling silver, handsomely ornamented. In St. Stephen's church, WilkesBarre, Penn., on Easter morning there was dedicated a memorial tablet, given by Mrs. E. G. Scott, in memory of Sarah Elizabeth, wife of the Hon. George Washburn Woodward, who died in 1869, and who worshipped in St. Stephen's from the time of its organization as a parish. The tablet, which was designed by the Tiffany studios, consists of a slab of highly polished Siena marble with an inlaid border of Favrile glass. In the centre, within a circle of white and gold mosaics, is a cross surmounted by the Alpha and Omega. The inscription is also inlaid in glass mosaic. Two stained glass windows, from the studios of Charles Hogeman, one given in memory of Eleanor Parrish Bradley, and the other in memory of Charles Abbott Miner, for years a warden and vestryman of the parish, were also dediIcated at this service. St. Luke's church, Marietta, O., has been presented with a beautiful brass altar cross, one side of which is richly ornamented in symbols of the Resur rection, while the other side is perfectly plain, with the exception of a Chi Rho embossed at the point of intersection. It is the generous gift of Mr. T. B. Bosworth, who for many years has been the junior warden of the church. ing the same lesson on Thursday which There will be no money obliga- Mrs. Mitchell's address is 1505 Spruce street, and she will be glad to communicate with any of the clergy who may desire to have mission classes organized. W. M. Pettis, who gave as three reasons for a decreasing church attendance: (1) Our churches are not free; (2) They are not adequately supported and the money problem is too constantly to the fore, because of the abandonment of the tithe system; (3) The people are not drawn to their churches by the compelling Presence of their Lord in the Reserved Sacrament on the altar. Few of the clergy agreed with Dr. Pettis's second and third reasons, though many agreed that his first is a contributing cause. All felt that the coldness of our own people, and their failure to welcome strangers is an almost universal hindrance. Lack of freedom of opinion was earnestly urged as a cause by some, while others with even greater fervor asserted that the lack of definite, positive teaching of the truths of the Gospel is the most common cause. The present transitional age in which we have broken away from all authority while The Bishop of Florida on his recent visitation to Trinity parish church, St. Augustine, the Rev. L. Fitz-James Hindry, rector, blessed the new choir stalls, pulpit and chancel rail that have recently been installed. During the past year many improvements have been made in this, the oldest church in the State. A Tiffany window has been placed in the baptistry, the gift of Mr. J. H. Hewson, a devoted Church man, who is a winter resident in St. Augustine. The baptistry has been newly painted and the floor laid in mosaic, the gift of the Woman's Guild, forming a fit setting for the window and also for the beautiful marble font, a memorial to the late Bishop Rutledge. The new choir stalls, Report of the Committee on the Boston struggling to free ourselves from undue pulpit and chancel rail are in quartered oak, specially designed to harmonize with the furniture of the sanctuary. The work has been most satisfactorily carried out by the ecclesiastical department of the Manitowoc Seating Works. The choir stalls are the gift Josiah James, a life-long parishioner, in memory of his wife, Mrs. Rosalie Meeker James, who died March 7, 1905; the chancel rail is erected by Mr. Albert of Mr. Lewis, also a parishioner, in memory of a son, while the pulpit is the gift of one of the guilds of the parish. Funds for the Philippines. Through the enterprise of some of Bishop Brent's friends in Philadelphia and Boston, about $14,000 in cash have been given toward the liquidation of the mortgage of $27,500 on the ground purchased for the erection of the Cathedral of St. John and St. Mary, Manila. Arrangements have been made to carry the remainder of the obligation upon terms more favorable than could be secured in Manila. The cable message conveying this news to Bishop Brent reached him on Easter Day at the Bontoc mission, among the mountains of Luzon. His reply reads: "Your great deed of love challenges us to redoubled efforts for God's kingdom. God reward you." This indebtedness has caused Bishop Brent great anxiety and he feared it might be necessary for him to return to this country to appeal in person for the money. Although an immediate need has been so worthily met, about $13,000 are still required to free the property entirely. Mr. George C. Thomas, as Treasurer of the Board of Missions, is acting as treasurer of the fund, and the Board itself, several of whose members have already given largely for this purpose, has commended the fund as one worthy of the special gifts of Church people. An Educational Secretary for the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Bishop Whitaker has appointed Mrs. J. Nicholas Mitchell Educational Secretary of the diocese of Pennsylvania, under the direction of the Rev. Everett P. Smith, Educational Secretary of the Board of Missions. Mrs. Mitchell has long been deeply interested in missions and during the past year has organized a number of mission study classes in different parishes with the most encouraging results. The following extracts from her report illustrate the thusiasm which she has awakened: "There have been three classes in my house this winter. We took Africa for our subject, and used Naylor's 'Daybreak in the Dark Continent' as the text book. In each of the classes there were seven sessions of one and a half hours each. There was one ten-minute paper allowed, and the rest of the session was given to answering questions and general discussion. . . . The normal class had fifteen members, and one of these started her parish class at once, teach en Cathedral. One of the most interesting matters to come before the Massachusetts Con- cree admitting the will to probate, "a The report states that the convention "That the subject be again referred to a committee consisting of the bishop, five clergymen and five laymen, with instructions to propose for submission to the convention, a scheme for a cathedral foundation, and that the bishop have power to add to the number of the committee at his discretion." Result of "The Bishops' Bills" in The bishops' bills, so-called, for the The brewers' proposition to open saloons on part of Sunday had but one vote in the Senate. The agitation in which the clergy of every name are interested has been wholesome. Reasons for Decrease in Church At- A warm discussion of this subject authority, and have not yet realized the sense of responsibility as toward self, A few claimed that our churches are attended as never before: but they drew their conclusions from a few exceptional cases, and not from a broad view of the whole situation, as shown in carefully compiled statistics; none, however, pointed out the unquestionable fact that in the ten years of the existence of the diocese of Washington and of Bishop Satterlee's episcopate, church attendance at the national capital has steadily improved, and many churches have large congregations in 1906 which had small ones in 1896. Annual Dinner of the Philadelphia Plenty On Wednesday evening, April 18, nearly 300 members of the Philadelphia Church Club and their clerical guests attended the the annual dinner at Bellevue-Stratford. In the absence of Mr. Rowland Evans, the president, Mr. as toastmaster. Morris Earle, acted Bishop Darlington was the first speaker; his topic, "The Churchman, Wise and Otherwise." He paid a just compliment to the women for their faithfulness to Church work and urged upon the men the importance of church-going and of reading church papers. of men will back clergymen financially, but they seldom pause to consider that If the clergyman often walks alone. there is any man who needs a friend it is the clergyman. How to be this friend, the layman may soon ascertain from his church paper. The bishop appealed to all to idealize their church; to go back and be boys again, sitting in the old pew, their minds filled with ideals which should not be dimmed by passing years. The Hon. Potter, Director of Public in Philadelphia, spoke in ured terms upon "The Still Voice or a Leather Conscience." civic conscience, he said, is a term without a meaning. It would seem to relate to the things we do, without the use of our personal conscience. It merely enables us to put off on others something we should do ourselves. He referred to a meeting of the city Electrical Committee when the members voted unanimously as the representative of a great Sheldon measSmall The F corporation dictated, regardless of the rights of the people. We need a lot of conscience, he said, particularly among office holders, but we do not need any civic conscience. The Rev. D. M. Steele spoke on "New York and Philadelphia a Study of Contrasts." Death of Pennsylvania Churchman. sons. In the sudden death of the Hon. G. Harry Davis, in Philadelphia, on April 18, the Bench loses a righteous judge, the Bar a noble member and the Church one of her brightest and most faithful Judge Davis was born in Philadelphia, graduated from the Central High School and studied law in the office of Charles Ingersol and William Ernst. He was a past commander of the George G. Meade Post, G. A. R., and for nine years a prominent member of the committee in charge of the education of the orphans of soldiers in Pennsylvania. As a vestryman of St. Luke's church, Germantown, and in the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, of which he was national vice-president, and the Franklin Reformatory for Inebriates, of which he was president, were his noblest works for the Master done, and many were those who have been uplifted in these institutions by his kind influence. New Parishes in the Bronx. A special meeting of the trustees of the Archdeaconry of New York was held on Thursday, April 19, at the Diocesan House, Archdeacon Nelson presiding. A resolution was adopted giving the consent of the trustees to the incorporation of St. Alban's mission, Highbridge, as a parish. A resolution was also adopted transferring to the new corporation of St. Simeon's (formerly St. Simeon's mission), certain real estate. This consists of a lot at the northeast corner of Morris avenue and One-hundred-and-sixty-fifth street, and two lots adjoining each other and comprising the triangular site for the new church at Sheridan avenue and One-hundred-and-sixty-fourth and Onehundred-and-sixty-fifth streets. Clearing the Ground at Bellport, L. I. The Rev. Irving McElroy, of Christ church mission, Bellport, in a report to Archdeacon Bryan, tells interestingly of the results of intensive work at Bellport, where he says, since 1892, "so thoroughly has the ground been cleared, that I know now of only four unbaptized. Three of them I have brought to naming a date about once a month for the past year, and been beaten by adverse influence each time. The fourth will be baptized in the near future, the only child born in my jurisdiction during the year." When Mr. McElroy came to the mission in 1902, there were 16 communicants. To these he has added 21. Five have died, 10 gone away. It must seem, to use the picturesque figure of a mission priest, now bishop, "like having a parish on a ferry boat." And it is the same way with the Sunday-school. Only 7 of the 25 that Mr. McElroy found at Bellport are now in the school; 58 have joined and 58 left. Among the 25 that remain are Italians, Bohemians and Germans as well as Americans. He may well say that he is priest of the town as much as of the mission. The Presbyterian Church seems dissolving; the Methodist is moribund; the people of both turn to Christ church in case of sickness and death. Some are already acquiring the habit of attending Church services and a spirit of comity, looking toward unity, is in the air. Mr. McElroy speaks of it "more as a possibility than a dream," and thinks that events are ripening for a development important for that section of Long Island. First Public Confirmation Service for St. Cyprian's Mission, New York City. St. Cyprian's chapel being too small to accommodate the members and friends of this mission, its first public confirmation service was held on Sun- was excellently rendered. With Rector of Trinity Church, Princeton, Celebrates Fortieth Anniversary. Bishop Scarborough, who was pre- Dr. Beverley Warner Receives Gift from sented to the Rev. Dr. Beverley E. Warner, rector of Trinity church, a beautiful silver set of seventy-two pieces, in recognition of his services to the city in the fight with the yellow fever waged last summer. The presentation was made by Mr. Phelps before a representative gathering in the St. Charles Hotel. Addresses were made by Captain James A. Dinkins, Miss Sophie B. Wright, Rabbi I. L. Leucht and by Dr. Warner, who told of the victory gained over the epidemic and of those who had aided him in the struggle. The New Orleans Times in an editorial comment declares that Dr. Warner's true reward "for the heroic services rendered the city is in the gratitude, devotion and admiration of the citizens of New Orleans, and in the permanence of the splendid example which he has bequeathed to the young men of his own generation and of generations yet to come.' Mentions. The National Conference of Charities and Correction meets in Philadelphia May 9 to 16, and those wishing to attend the Church Congress, which meets there May 15 to 18, may be able, on application to local ticket agents, to secure the benefit of reduced rates arranged for by this conference. Under the auspices of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, a meeting of college students in New England, who are members of the Church, has been called for April 27 to 30, in Trinity church, Boston, Mass. Nearly all the New England bishops and a number of educational leaders are expected to take part in the exercises. The anniversary exercises of the Union Theological Seminary will begin on Sunday afternoon, May 13, at 4:30 o'clock, in Adams chapel. The dinner of the alumni will be in the Hotel St. Denis, Eleventh street and Broadway, at 6 P.M. on Monday, May 14, under the auspices of the Union Seminary Alumni Club. On Tuesday, May 15, at 10:30 A.M., the annual meeting of the alumni will be held in Adams chapel. After the roll of the classes has been called an address will be delivered by the Rev. Professor William Adams Brown, on "The Trinity and Modern Thought: An Experiment in Theological Reconstruction. The graduating exercises will be in the evening, Tuesday, May 15, at eight o'clock. Addresses will be made by the Rev. Professor George William Knox, acting president of the faculty, and by the president of the board of directors. The diocesan convention of Kansas meets at Trinity church, Lawrence, on May 22 and 23. The annual convocation of the district of North Dakota will meet in Gethsemane cathedral, Fargo, on May 27. Bishop Morrison, of Duluth, who was for a time in charge of the district, has promised to be present on Sunday. All communications for the secretary of the diocese of Vermont should after May 1 be addressed to the assistant secretary, the Rev. E. C. Bennett, Burlington, Vt. The present secretary, the Rev. C. H. Wells, leaves the diocese May 1, his future address being 61 Church street, New York. Bishop Mackay-Smith acted as chaplain at the celebration of the Franklin bicentennial held by the University of Pennsylvania on April 20, when honorary degrees were conferred upon King Edward and many others, and also at the unveiling of the Franklin Memorial Tablet erected in Houston Hall by the The people of New Orleans have pre- class of 1906. |