The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-03-16

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The announcement that Bishop Tuttle I
has accepted the Episcopate of Montana,
and the organization of the Episcopal
society in this city are the premonitory
movements that will culumanate in
building up in our midst, church which
will exert a great and healthful influence
upon the people of this Territory. It's
members, hitherto scattered, here and
there, without spiritual head or shep-
herd will have a leader of eminent ability
and zeal, who will, without doubt, found
among our people "A pillar of strength
and beauty to support the temple of
Deity. The Church Almanac" for 1867
gives some statistics in regard to the
Episcopal church of the United States
that may be of interest at this time, and
which we clip from the OregOnjan.
1t consists of thirty four diOceses, under
the care of Bishops using the same
liturgy and yielding obedience to the
canons enacted by the General Conven-
ton:
The General Convention meets trien-
nially, and is composed of two Houses
the House of Bishops, consisting of the
the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies,
consisting of four Clergymen and tour
Laymen from each Diocese. The Gene
raj Convention legislates for the Church
within the limits of the United States,
| but can make no alteration in the Con-
stitution, or in the Liturgy or officers,
| unless the same has been adopted in one
| Convention and submitted to all the
| Dioceses, and afterwards adopted in
another Convention.
! The Convention maintains, through
the agency of trustees, a fund for the re
| lief of aged and infrm clergymen, and
| the widows and orphans of clergymen
deceased; and a fund for the support of
Missionary Bishops. There are fourteen
| Committees appointed from the mem
| bers of the Convention, who sit for vari-
Gus purposes, during the recess of the
Convention. The next General Conven-
ton, will meet in the City of New York
on the first Wednesday of Oct. 1868.
The general institutions the Church,
as distinguished from those belonging
| to particular DiOceses, are =
The General Theological Seminary at
/ New York. In this Seminary, in 1866
there were 81 students, and Col Alumni,
| of whom 90 are deceased. Number of
students marticulated since 1923, 924.
volumes in the Library, 1898. The
annual CONNIE ncement and meeting of
the Associate Alumni, occurs in June.
The Domestic and Foreign Mission
Society The Home Department of this
| Society numbers five Missionary Bishops
and 202 Missionaries; and the Foreign
| Department two Missionary Bishops,
| eighteen Missionaries and twenty-seven
| Assistants.
The official organ of the Society is the
! lSpirit Of Missions, published at the Bible
House, New York. The Society has or
| ganized distinct Missionary labor-the
Freedman's Commission-The General
Protestant Episcopal Sunday School
| Union and Church Book Society, the
Protestant Episcopal Society, the So
ciety for the promotion of Evangelical
! knowledge, the University of the South,
| the Society for the Increase of the Min
istry, the American Church Missionary
Society, and the Christian Unity Society.
The Almanac furnishes the statistics
of each Diocese in the United States, and
the names and location of all the clergy
of the Church. We limit ourselves to a
general summary. Number of DiOceses,
81; Bishops, A; Priests and Deacons, 3
4SG; whole number of Clergy, 2,530;
parishes, 2,305: for the year 1916, Ordi-
nations-Deacons, 9S; Priests, SO; candi-
dates for orders, 226; churches conse-
Grated, 50; baptisms-infants, 1884;
adults Z, ,527; not stated, sos; confirma-
tions, 1926; communicants,-added H.
13S; present number, 161 ,224; marriages
$500; burials, 16,S2S; Sunday School
teachers, 1850; Sunday School scholars
7S13; contributions, $3,051 500.
This Almanac is published by the
Protestant Episcopal Tract Society,
founded in 1910.