, 1877-04-01
PERSONAL,

Prof. Dclitzsch, Of Leipsic, the we'll known
scholar, has recently translated the New Testa-
mcnt i2to Hebrew.
Mgr. Dupanloup, Bishop Of Orleans, has gone
to RoHe, for the purpose, it is said, Of urging
the canonization Of Joan Of Arc.
The Rev. Dr.. Hepworth has succeeded in rails
ing the whole sl00,o0 the debt on the Church
OF the Disciples, which he personally assumed.
The Rev. DR.. ". Morley Puusbon. the dis
tfnguished Wesleyan minister, has gone to Italy
for the benefit Of his health; SO also has the
Rev: Arthur Tooth, the Hatcham Vicar.
Exactly what displeased the Swedenborsians
in the Rev. John Chadwick s lecture on Swedcn-
borg, was his desert iptfon of that enthusiast as
man OF bIaneless life, albeit Of disortiercd
mind, the patios of whose terrible delusiou is
one OF the EauLcst chapters III the history OF
abnormal genius.''
The Rev. Isaac E. Beach, who died recently at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, in his 18th year, never rode
on q railroad nor sailed III steamboat, and was
never outside Of the State Of Connecticut. He
read through the Bible in course nincty-nine
times, each reading being noted on the hy-leaf
Of the copy he most used.
Mr.. Moody has now been in Boston two
mouths. III his conversations with his friends
he has expressed himself satisfied with the
progress of the work up to this point, though
earnestly relying upon seeing it greatly surpass-
ed In the time to come, It is thought that the
cyangelists will remaiu in Boston till June.
The Rt. Rev. Benjamin Bosworth Smith, Of
Kentucky, Is the presiding Bishop OF the Epis-
copal Church in the United States. He has held
thc episcopate longer than any prelate in tue
and Brownell, who held it respectively forty
nine years aud half mud forty-tiye years.
Bishop Smith will complete the fotty-tifth year
Of his episcopate Oct 81, 1871.
Mr.. Samuel W. Hail. millionaire Of Water
bury, Conn, who died 4 lew days ago, be-
qucated S25, ,0W for the improvement OF the
Riverside Cemetery at that city. SIS, COO for st:
Johns protestant EpiscopaD Church Sucicty OF
Waterbury, Of which SIC, OGU is for the poor in
charge OF the parish; $4,000 for j new church
US memorial Of his wife, SIC, 600 to the Prot
es1aut Episcopal Church Missionary Society,
a similar amount is raised in three years, and
IS, 0U for soldiers monument.
Members Of Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, will
remember the Rev. Alfred J. Bray, I'LL eloquent
young preacher from Manchester, who filled its
pulpit last summer, md was subsequently
called to Zion Church, Montreal, the leading
Congregational Church in thu Dominion. He
has just stirred up theological hornets nest by
a sermon on ''Vietims OF Fate" Ill which hc
took decided Uniyersalist ground, declaring
that ii there WIS one soul finally unsayed in
eternity it would render the light Of heaven as
black Us night, aud lie should think the lore OF
God had failed in its completeness OF effect
upon the human soul; further, that the sacrifice
OF Christ was not to appease an angry deity. but
to draw lnen up to Him. His Deacons have ill-
yitcu him to reconcile these views with New
Testament teachings.
The Catholic Bishop OF Vancouver's Island is
about to take trip to the frozen regions. OF
Alaska, and will be gone about year, travelling
alone. He writes to the Catholic Indian Bureau
ut Washington asking for aid, and saying: s. You
are probably aware that since 1S6S, fn which
year Alaska was ceded to the United States, We
began to visit Sitka and the southern part OF
thut Territory, which has always been under the
spiritual jurisdiction oil the Bishop OF Fancou-
yer's Island. In 1873. Immediately after reccly-
ing the Episcopal consecratlon. I Travelled in
Sitka. and thence !, 10 miles west as far As tue
Islands Kodiac and Unaaska, while at the same
time the 1t. Rev. Bishop Clut and Father
Lecorre, who did not know under whose juris-
diction that Territory had been placed,
trayersed it in its northern portion. Since 1878
I have closely watched every opportunity to
reach the northwestern coast OF Alaska, but in
vain. Last year the Alaska Commercial Com
pauy informed me that their vessels woulu not
proceed further than Unalaska, one OF the Aleu-
tian islands, The Bishop has now made ar
ra,gemcnts to bo conveyed to st. Michael,
whence he starts on his episcopal journey.