St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-12-18

there will be central places appointed
for persons in the vicinity.
The Congregationalist calls atten-
ton to the educational work of the
Episcopal church in this country.
As rule. it says, there have been
more students from Episcopalian
families at Harvard or Yale than at
strictly church college like Trinity.
Large sums of money, amounting In
the aggregate to $5O,OOO,OOO, have
been contributed by Episcopalian
givers to the cause of Christian edu-
cation, but not always have the
funds been wisely invested, and the
returns have been singularly meager.
A bold step forward is now con-
templated, and the church university
board of regents, appointed by the
last general convention, has on foot
measures which will unity and
broaden the educational interests of
the denomination. Valuable scholar
ships and fellowships are to be
awarded through competitive ex-
amina tons, and a closer supervision
over the establishment of colleges,
especially in the West, is to be exer-
cised. Leading Episcopalian divincs
are behind the movement, and PreSi-
dent Potter of Hobart, brother of
Bishop Potter, is the organizing
head.
Father Ignatius, the founder of
Llanthony Abbey in Wales, has
finished his work in Boston and is
now engaged in evangelistic labors
in New York. His ecclesiastical
standing is questioned and he was
excluded by Bishops Paddock of
Massachusetts and Clark of Rhode
Island from the churches of their
dioceses. Bishop Potter of New
York, on the other hand, pronounces
his credentials satisfactory and has
given him the freedom of the diocese
of New York. Father Ignatius is an
imprisoned speaker, a warm cham
piOn of monasticism and an enthusi-
asst over the work at Llanthony.
He is believed by many to be a Jesuit
in disguise and the opposition to him
in the Church of England seems to
come in part from the fact that he
has not taken full orders and in part
from the fact that he is believed to
practice and to teach rites and Or
dances miSchievOus in their tenden
cies and not in harmony with the
laws of the church. Father Ignatius
in garb and mode of living preserves
the appearance of poverty and self
abnegation and altogether seems to
have brought into the nineteenth
century the manners and traditions
of the mOnaStic life of the Middle
Ages.
A recent dispatch announcing the
massacre of Christians at Long Tuy
TSin, China, created a stir among
the friends of missionaries in Boston,
and there was much anxiety until it
became known that no Americans
were located in that part of the
country. At the headquarters of the
American Board it was aScertained
that no Congregational missions
were stationed nearer than within
one thousand miles of the scene OF
the reported massacre. The Amerl-
can Baptist and the Methodist de-
nomina tions also said that their mis-
sion stations were far removed from
the scene. These reports Quoted the
fears of those who had friends con-
nected with the China missions.
Rev DR.. Merriam, Treasurer of the
American Baptist society, said that
Chung King is one of the hardest
fields our missionaries have visited.
The natives are so far removed from
the coast that they have not felt the
touch of civilization. They are rabid
idolaters and are so bitterly opposed
to the advance of Christianity that
they have frequently sought to sup
press it by savage butchery. Three
or four years ago the Methodist
mission station WIS destroyed and
some of the missionaries were
murdered