The daily gazette., 1883-03-30
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Meeting OF the General Council In BATH
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Baltimore SUM-
The General Council of the Reformed
Episcopal Church will assemble in Cummins
Memorial Church, Lafayette Square, Balti-
more, on Wednesday, May %. There will
be present 200 delegates, about equally,
divided between ministers and laymen.
Every part Of the United States and Canada
will be renrekented. The presiding officer
will be Bishop william r. Nicholson, OF
Philadelphia, and Mr. Charles ID. Kellogg,
of New York, secretary. The council will
probably lest a week. Arrangements are
being made by members of the Baltimore
churches for the entertainment of the dele
gates.
The Reformed Episcopal Church was es-
tablished by Right Rev. George ID, Cum
MINIS, Protestant Episcopal Bishop Of Ken
tucky, and for many years rector Of st.
Peters p. e, Church in Baltimore. At the
meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in Few
York city, In October, 1873, Bishop Cum
Minis took prominent part in meeting
with ministers of other denominations
in Rev. DR.. Adams's Presbyterian church.
His action aroused a strong senti-
ment OF opposition In the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and he was charged BY
some Of the church papers and prominent
individuals with having violated bis ordina-
ton vows. Calls were also made that he be
tried by the authorities Of the church. In
November, one mouth after the meeting In
Dr. Adams church, Bishop Cummins issued
a call to all persons in TIE Protestant Epis
copal Church who were dissatisfied with 1t
to meet him in New York December 2,
1873. Twenty-one ministers and laymen
responded, and the meeting adopted for
temporary use the Bishop White prayer
book. This book was prepared for the use
of the Protestant Episcopal Church In
America and submitted to the Church Of
England, when, at the close Of the revolu-
tionary war, the American Church asked
for bishops. The English Church, how
ever, declined to furnish the bishops un-
less a prayer-book more in accordance
with that of the Church of Engl and
was adopted. That was done, and the
present Protestant Episcopal Prayer Book
is the result. The Rev Chas. E. Cheney
was elected bishop at the same meeting
In May, 1874, the second General Council
was held in New York, at.which a coHstitu-
ton, cannons and a revised prayer-book
were adopted The council numbered Ia
ministers and 40 laymen. General
Councils were held In Chicago
in 1875, Ottawa, Cahada, in 1876,
Philadelphia in 1877, Chicago in 1878, New
ark, N. j., in 1879. New York in 1881. At
the Newark council the time of meeting was
maze biennial instead Of annual. There are
now in the United States about 10000 com
municants of the church. Iu Baltimore
there are three Reformed Episcopal
CHURCHES Among the Important
matters to come up before the approaching
general council is the election of presiding
bishop, revision Of the canons aud the
ok.ls a. a A. A
Mr.. Martin of New York has offered the
church tract of land in the suburbs OF
Chicago worth 5000, 900 upon which to build
a seminary, to be called the MARTIN School
OF Theology" 1t is probable the offer will
| be accepted.