Synod of the Church of Bermuda, which has been autocephalous since the death of Bishop Feild, has now asked the Bishop of Newfoundland to assume episcopal charge of their islands, and that his lordship intends to spend the first three or four months of 1880 among them. SOUTH AFRICA.-Wars have played an important part in the chronicles of the South African Church during the past year. In Zululand the missionaries, having been driven into Natal, have in several instances acted as army chaplains, interpreters, and mediators between the English and the natives. One of the missionaries of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, Mr. George Smith, refused to leave Rorke's Drift when urged to do as many did, and through the hours of that terrible night (January 22) was with the troops keeping up their spirits and winning their hearts. His valour has been recognized by a medal and by the offer of a permanent appointment on the Chaplains' Staff of the British Army. It will be a strange thing if, as the result of a war of a great Christian nation against a heathen race, Christianity shall be made a contraband thing in Zululand, except through the precept and example of such men as Mr. John Dunn. We have noted with much regret that, where and when internal differences are most to be deprecated, there have been grave dissensions at Maritzburg and at Grahamstown. At the former place they have, we trust, been settled by mutual good feeling, and in the latter we hope the deposition of Dean Williams will be a final act. The legislative powers of the Church's Synod are in better working order now than when Mr. Long dragged Bishop Gray from court to court and when we hear that the despirited Colenso faction in Natal, despirited spite of the accession of that wonderful personage Dean-Archdeacon Colley, are inviting the Grahamstown malcontents to join with them in founding an Established Church of England in South Africa,' our feeling is simply one of curiosity to see how they will set about their Herculean task. From Madagascar Bishop Kestell-Cornish has come home to tell of five years of steady hopeful work, and to ask for 5,000l. to enable him to replace his bamboo and thatch cathedral, which has fallen down, by a stone church which shall compare not disastrously with the sumptuous buildings of other bodies, which give to the natives an impression of a prominent spiritual work among them, which a Bishop without such aids cannot give. Among minor matters of interest we must briefly mention Cyprus. Whatever be the future of that island politically, we cannot discover that as yet it has justified the money which the Church has spent on it. For the 200 soldiers who garrison it we imagine the Military Chaplain can adequately provide spiritual administrations. The enterprising civilians, who flocked to the island at first, have long since disappeared. Meanwhile two societies, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Colonial and Continental Church Society, have each sent a clergyman to Cyprus, the former proclaiming that their representative was sent ' as a friend, not a rival,' to the members of the Eastern Church, the latter making no secret that the enlightenment of the idolatrous Orientals in the principles of pure Protestantism was their great motive. Of their proper work to English Churchmen they can have very little to do. The Rev. J. Spencer, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel chaplain, is making himself very useful to the Greek ecclesiastics by inspecting their schools and suggesting improvements in their very imperfect method of teaching. The Church of the United States has done a bold thing in extending a helping hand to the reforming congregations in Mexico, who claim to be the Catholic Church in those regions, and protest against the Ultramontanism of the Roman system. Bishop Riley was consecrated on S. John Baptist's Day, 1879, as Bishop Holley was consecrated for Hayti three years before. The Liturgy, which has been approved by the American Church for the use of these 'Old Catholics' of Mexico, is founded chiefly on the ancient Mozarabic Ritual. The sister Church has lost two of her greatest prelates during the past year: Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey, who was a leading member of the Lambeth Conference in 1867, and Bishop Whittingham of Maryland, admitted to be the most learned Churchman on that side of the Atlantic. Bishop Potter has completed twenty-five years of hard work as Bishop of New York, and the event was commemorated by both clergy and laity in a manner as unusual as it was gratifying. Of one branch of mission work, whose head-quarters are at our own doors, and whose beneficent influence is felt wherever English ships are found, we should like to write a word of commendation. The S. Andrew's Waterside Mission works in the most unobtrusive way, in thorough loyalty to Church principles, and its very success, by extending its field, has proved all the more painfully how inadequate are its resources. To the indefatigable Canon Scarth, on whom the whole burden falls, and to whom all this care is a labour of love, we recommend our readers to send an annual subscription. His address is, The Vicarage, Gravesend. INDEX TO VOLUME IX. ABA ABATE, Church of S. Antonio, in Rome, 29 (note) Abbott, Dr., his Oxford Sermons, Aberdeen, Lord, 81 Abraham, Bishop, on the Old Latin Ælfred, King, 28 (note) Albertinus, on the Real Presence, Altar relics, 30 Alton endowed school, 100 Andrew's, S., Church, Wells Street, Angeli, Church of S. Maria degli, Angelini, Padre, 33 (note) Anstie, Dr., on alcohol, 376, 383 Ashwell, Canon A. R., obituary no- BABUINO, Via di, in Rome, 2 Baldwin, Archbishop, 55, 56 Balfour, Mr. A. J., his Defence of BUR Barnabas, S., Church of, in Pimlico, Bede, Venerable, 35 Bedford County School, the, 112 Bentley cited, 325 (note) Blessed Virgin, cultus of, 31 sqq.; Bougaud, Abbé, his Grand Péril de Brent, Mr. J., his Canterbury in the Brinckman, Rev. A., his Notes on Broglie, Prince E. de, his Fils de Browne, Bishop Harold, on dio- Burials Question.-Mr. Marten's BUT Butler, Bishop, cited, 320 (note) CANNING, Mr. 70 sq.; becomes Prime Minister, 71; deserted Canonization of new Saints, 35 sq. the position of celebrant, 288 Carthusians, the, 47 sq.; at Wi- Catholic Question, the, 71 sq., 75 (note), 326 (note), 334 (note) Chételat, M. Paul, his biography of Child's (The) New Testament Nar- Christison, Sir R., on alcohol, 378 sq. Church, Dean, his Life of Spencer, Church restoration in Rome, 14 Church Unions, English, 273 sq. Church of England Temperance Clare election, the, Si sợ. DIO Clarence, Duke of, his conduct as Cobbe, Mr. J., his Workman and Cockburn, Sir G., 83 Coleridge, S. T., on Apostolic in- Confirmation, as administered by Synod See Diocesan Coutances, Bp. Walter of, 54 Cyprian, S., 175 sq., 488 sq. DIALOGHI ISTRUTTIVI in Roman Churches, 16 sqq. Dickinson, Mr. F. H., his List of DOL sition of the laity, 161 (note), 171, Druon, M., his Œuvres complètes Duff, Dr. A., biography of, 264 HOS Gaudenzi, Padre Tommaso, 10, II sqq., 34 George IV. See Wellington Des- Giorgio in Velabro, Church of S., 6 Giraldus Cambrensis cited, 42, 51, 58 Goldziher, Dr. I., on Hebrew my- Greeks, rebellion of, 76 Grey, Lord, attacks Canning, 74 Guildford endowed school, 100 РР HANNAH, Dr., his Bampton Lectures cited, 325 (note) Hebert, Dr., cited, 219, 224 Hefele, Bp. See Petrine Claims Henderson, Dr., his York Manual Henry, Mr. L. E., his Last Days of Hérauts d'armes de France et d'An- Holy Week in Rome, 20 sqq. |