twenty-fifth year of Episcopal work by the consecration, on All Saints' Day, of the nave, tower, and transepts of his cathedral, the design of which was prepared by the late Sir Gilbert Scott. The Bishop of Honolulu, who has spent ten years in hard work in his islands, contemplates a short visit to England in the coming summer. THE OLD CATHOLICS. The work of the German and Swiss Old Catholics in the past year has been rather that of improving and confirming their foreign relations than of extending themselves within their respective countries, though they have held their own both in Germany and Switzerland, and can even count some increase in numbers. Bishop Herzog had been present at the American Convention in October 1880. He was received with open arms, appointed to read the Epistle, and to administer the Cup in the opening service of the Convention, and, with the Bishop of Edinburgh, offered an honorary seat in the House. On his return he published a Pastoral Letter on Communion with the Anglo-American Church, which is of singular interest. It begins with a reference to the two Conferences of Bonn of 1874 and 1875, recounts the joint reception of the Holy Communion by the Bishop of Edinburgh, Bishop Reinkens, himself and M. Loyson at Berne in 1879, and makes mention of the ecclesiastical fellowship exhibited by his invitation to participate, and his participation, in every act of public worship in the Church of the United States in 1880. In October 1881 Bishop Reinkens and Bishop Herzog together visited England. They were received at Cambridge by the Bishops of Winchester, Ely, and Lichfield, the Vice-Chancellor, the Right Hon. A. J. B. Beresford Hope, M.P. for the University of Cambridge, J. G. Talbot, Esq., M.P. for the University of Oxford, the Deans of Ely and Chester, the Masters of Christ's and Pembroke Colleges, Professors Lumby, Mayor, and Paget, and Archdeacon Emery. A meeting was held, at which the Bishop of the Diocese presided, largely attended by the members of the University and of the neighbourhood. The speeches of the three Anglican Bishops and of the other English speakers contained a most cordial recognition on the part of English Churchmen, while those of the Old Catholic Bishops showed that Bishop Reinkens was in full sympathy with his Swiss brother in his appreciation of the Anglican Church. On Monday, November 7, they were present at a meeting of the Committee of the Anglo-Continental Society, at which the two Bishops once more made addresses. Bishop Reinkens, after speaking of the great satisfaction his visit to England had afforded him, and the pleasure he had had in attending the services of the Church of England, recognized in the Church of England a great bulwark of the Christian faith. The Old Catholics in Germany had had to make great sacrifices, but they remained firm. It was difficult for them to maintain some of their congregations; but as an example of what they had done he stated that in Cologne the Old Catholic congregation had since. 1872 raised 5,000l. in English money for their own support. The Bishop had now in Germany ninety-five congregations under his jurisdiction, but only half of these were supplied with priests. Had he more means at his disposal, he could easily supply men ; for there were many priests willing to join the movement if a maintenance could be secured for them. He asked for the sympathy and prayers of his brethren of the Church of England. Bishop Herzog enumerated with gratitude the benefits derived by his flock from the Anglo-Continental Society's co-operation. The first act of Bishop Reinkens on his return home was to issue a Pastoral Letter to his flock, conveying to them the brotherly salutation of the Church of England, and expressing the gratification that he had derived from his visit as a Bishop of the Church of Christ. Thus the bonds have been knit close between the Churches of the Old Catholics of Germany and of Switzerland on one side and those of America and of England on the other. The above would be no unimportant result of the year if it stood alone. But it does not; for the quiet work of the Church has been going on week by week and day by day in Germany and Switzerland, and present statistics show that the Church which has passed over from submission to Rome to communion with the Anglican Church consists of two Bishops, 120 priests, and 120,000 of the faithful. The Biennial Synod of the German Old Catholics has been held this year at Bonn, and the Annual Synod of the Swiss Old Catholics at Basle. At the former a committee of five was appointed for the compilation of a Book of Common Prayer, containing the office of the Mass, Matins and Evensong; and the Catechism was ordered to be revised. At the latter the French translation of the Prayer-Book, already adopted in its German form, was authorized, and the Catechism was also ordered to be issued in French. The Old Catholics in Austria are still frowned upon by the Government, and every impediment is put in their way which official vis inertia can contrive. They held their annual Synod at Vienna on September 8, and elected Pfarrer Nittel as Episcopal Administrator. They are in great need of funds. In Russia, strange to say, there is a considerable body of Old Catholic German and Bohemian immigrants, amounting, it is said, to no fewer than 30,000. They held their Synod on September 28 at Kwasiloff. A flourishing offshoot of the Old Catholic Church may, it is hoped, arise in Volhynia. INDEX TO VOLUME XIII. AAK AAKER, S. van den, De Katho- 480 sq. Affleck, W., his translation of Paul • Alleluia victory,' the, 8 sq., 159 Anivitti, Vincenzo, Roman eccle- siastic, life and sketch of, 141- Arrivabene, Count, story of his life, BRA Augustine, S., arrival of in Britain, Ayscough, Bp. of Sarum, murder of, BAR ARONIUS, his version of the Basle, Council of, 341 Bastian, Dr. H. C.: the Brain as Baxter, Richard, on the Sacra- Bede, on the early British martyr- Bell, Dr. C. D., his Life of Henry Berger, M. Philippe: Notice sur and Answers on the Church Cate- BRA entific teaching, 107 sq.; inquiry CUR Inspiration of the New Testa- Buonaparte, General, described by ness, 116 sq.; Mr. Cyples' Inquiry CEL into the Process of Human Expe- 128 Brainerd, D., the American mis- Bright, Dr. W., his Early English sq. Browne, Mr. W. R.: Essay on the ÆLESTINE, Pope, said to Cajim, Jacob ben, his edition of Carr, Mr. A., on the Hellenistic Chalcedon, syncd of, 358 sq. Claudia Rufina, her supposed con- nexion with the introduction of Colenso, Bp., reply to his strictures Conder, Lieut. C. R., Tent-work Cox, Mr. E. W., his What am I? Curci, Padre, his La Nuova Italia ed i Vecchi Zelanti, 159 sq., 477 sq. CYP Cyples, Mr. W., his Inquiry into the DEACONS and Sub-deacons, Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, Durham, Bp. of, on the University EASTER question, the, ancient British usage, 13 sq. sent missionaries to Britain, 19 sq. England, Church of, in the fifteenth Ephesus, the Robber Synod of, Eugenius IV., Pope, 342 Ewald, Dr. G. H. A., his Com- GLO sq.; the intermediate state and Felix III., Pope, 369 sqq. Ferrier, Dr. D., his Functions of Flavian, S., murder of, 355 GA AIRDNER, Mr. J., his edition Gaul, early Liturgy of, 10 Gildas, on the early British mar- foundation of the church of, 17 |