, 1883-06-07
Editorial Notes.

b1ohOp oSSSe l. L ech, one Oh Tie
ablest representatives of the NJ. E.
Church, died at his residence in Syra-
cuse, n. Y, May 18th. For about
forty years Bishop Peck has been
known wherever 'Methodism has
spreaadt-and that includes every town
ana hamlet in the United States, as
well as goodly share of places all
over the world In 1874, when the
first mutterings of contention over
the slavery question began to be
heard in the United States, a resolu
luton was introduced in the General
Conference of the II. e. Church, ask
ing Bishop Andrew to desist from
exercising the functions of his Office
so long as he should hold slaves. A
crisis in the history of the Church had
arrived Hitherto not one of the
evangelical organizations of the day
had mustered courage enough to
grapple with the slavery question. It
was so thoroughly engrafted into our
social system that to enunciate anti
slavery sentiments was to invite a
s orm ofopposihon-IE z Peel, eel, then
a young and aggressive preacher, was
the man for tbs occasion. Challeng-
ing the attention of the Conference,
and through it that of the entire
civilized world, he delivered lengthy
argument so telling, able, exhaustive
and searching that it placed him in
the front rank at once, The agita-
ton that followed resulted in the NJ.
T. Church takiug a firm stand in
favor of abolishing slavery, and it nev
er retreated. Bishop Peck labored
largely in the educational work. He
was Principal of 'Goveneur Wesleyan
Seminary in northern New York,
afterwards Principal of the Troy
Conference Academey at Poultney,
and still later served as President of
Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa.
He was stationed at one time as pas
tor in San Francisco, and served one
term as presiding elder there. His
election to the office of Bishop took
place at the General Conference ses-
sion OF 1872, at Brooklyn N. Y, since
which time his efforts have been pow
erful and far reaching. His most en-
during work is thought to have been
in connection with the Syracuse,
IN. w University, of which he was
the founder and to which he made
over all his earthly possessions be
fore his death. He never visited this
Conference but twice, presiding over
the session at Olympia in 1873, and
again ut Salem, Ogn., in 1876. Those
who saw him then remember him as
g whole souled, eloquent laborer in
the Lords vineyard, whose power
consisted not SO much in fiery eIo-
auence as in deep pathos and sledge
hammer logic. Truly his life was
full of labors.
FqR The NoRTH-Judge Swan will
leave this week for Victoria, going
from there ON the steamer Otter to
Queen Charlotte's Islands to make
collections for the q. S. Fish Com
mission and National Museum He
expects to be absent about three or
four months and intends to examine
North Island in particular, where one
hundred years ago Marchand, no
ted French navigator, discovered ev-
licences OF great antiquity. The
Judges collections will consist of
specimens of every kind of device
used by the Indians in fishing, either
full size or models, such as fishing Ca
noes, fish traps, weirs, nets, hooks
and lines, spears, &c; also of various
kinds of Indian work, carved images,
in wood and stone, silver jewelry,
htone utensils, and any ancient eyi-
dence of Haida work-in short, to
make Il full collection for Natural
history. On his return he viii write
out a memoir for publication by the
SIN t-sonian Institution. He will be
accompanied on his cruise by Mr.
James Deans, of Victoria, a gentle