The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-05

duet series Of meetings. Early last sum
meE Rev. George G. Needham was sent 70
Japan under direction Of Mr.. Moody. He
spent two months there and conAuctet
over 100 meetings. In December, Rev. f;
81. Never of Christ Church.. London. Will
start for India with q similar mission I'M
der the auspices Of the Keswick move
ment. He viii spend two months hold
ing meetings at India mission Stations
There is a good deal of opposition TO the
Congregational Committee of Fifteen.
This body was recommended, 1t VIII be re-
mewbered, by the last Triennial Council
of the denomination. and nine MEMBER OF
the committee were named. The remain
ing six are TO be chosen by the benevolent
be affected, if anybody is, and the Execu-'
tive Committee of at least one of them
has tabled a resolution TO name a confer
ence committee to act with the other So
cieties in appointing the benevolent socie-
ty representation. Discussion is going OH
within the denomination, and criticisms
are everywhere heard. The province Of
the Committee of Fifteen, if it ever be
named, will be to secure for the churches
a larger control of the d-enominationalf
-benevofences.
are under diligent inquiry. Radical.
changes are imminent both in the secre-
taria1 and business conduct. The society
has had a Methodist, a Presbyterian and
a Congregationalist In its secretaryships.
The odd secretaries representing the first
two denominations named have died. Re-
EceDllI dill GitGlloII III d ETGSDyt6ElGdt WdS
sought to be made. The man proposed
is a Liberal from a Western city. Fm-
mediately the Conservatives protested,
and the outcome ne is a new Nominatlng
to have but one secretary, with such as
sistants as might be required, but to this
he Methedists objected, and they have
named a committee to select a man 10
succeed the late DR.. Hunt. The charge is
made that a business man of modern ideas
can realize much more for the society
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tanned. It is generally conceded that ting
affairs of the venerable society are ripe
for an o~verhauling- Owing to the protest
against the Western man chosen for the
Presbyterian representative a new COM
mittee has been named, and it is said an
other nomination will be forthcoming.
No general convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church ever held created so
many new Bishops. The meaning of this
is that the Episcopal Church, as never be-
fore, is alive to its commission. to go into
the world and preach. Seven new Bishops
are the result of the convention. -Four
of those go into fields that never had
Bishops before. One. that of Northern In
LANA, was not chosen by the convention
because the jurisdiction was created an
independent and not a missionary see.
In consequence it elects its own Bishop.
1t is understood that the State of Indiana
is simply divided into two d~foceses instead
of being Included IN one. as heretofore,
in which case Bishop White MAJ elect
which jurisdiction he will retain. The
~ OpOSlliOl1 Btt0iG tllG CO1}ClillOlt Hab IL
have a missionary jurisdiction only, but
the convention was even holder, had even
more Of the expanding spirit, ana created
Luclon Lee Kinsolving, who will be
conseerated The first Bishop of Brazil.
has been cabled to and is expected
to arrive by way of England in about SIX
weeks. His conservation will be an event
in which the whole Church will take a
deep interest Bishop-elect Kinsolving
comes from Virginia. He is a graduate
Alexandria, and was selected by his fell
Iow-missienaries IN Brazil for the honor
which the general convention conferred
upon him. The presiding Bishop of the
Church will attend to the details of his
conservation, but according to custom, ne
will be given a voice in saying where he
desires such to take place.
1t is a remarkable fact that all of The
new Bishops are young men. The new
Bishop of Asheville is not above thirty
five years old. He is associate principal of
a church school at Oxford, N. G.. He is a
gradual of the General Seminary in New
York. The new Bishop of North Dakota
began life as a lawyer in Chicago. He and
another young nan went into a suburb of
that city n started a mission. The mis-
sion pr0spered and the young layman for
sock the law. studied theology and be-
came rector The church has new 100 COM
m~unicants. The Rev. Mr.. Edsall Is about
forty. The new bishop Of Sacramento was
formerly located at Nashua, N. H., and
has been in San Francisco only about a
year dItti q ldl1. ItC - q ScACAf5
man. The Rev. Mr.. Funston. who was
chosen Bishop of Boise. is about thirty
eight years old. The American Church has
heretofore had only one Bishop in Japan.
He was stationed at Toxic. The English
Church had a jurisdiction that extended
across the middle of the empire Hence
the American jurisdiction was divided in
to two parts. The new Bishop of Toxic
goes to Southern Japan. and to a cat1e-
draI already erected. He is ~forty-eight.
1t is understood, of course, that any of
these men are free to decline elections to
these sees. but. it is very rare, indeed,
that men chosen by the House of Bishops
refuse to accept.
The Rev. A. N. Taft, who is to go at
once 10 Porto Rico, is the senior assist
art at ST. Georges Church, New York,
where he has been for about four years.
HIS ability lies in pastoral work. st.
Georges is 4 parish of nearly 1900 COM
municants, and it is said he can call each
by name. At any rate he knows nearly
all of the personally. their family aft
fairs. troubles and triumps. He IS only
about thirty-two years of age. but is af-
fe~ctionaIiy styled Father" Taft by a
very large proportion of the eengrega-
ton. He is sent at the expense OF St.
Georges parish. the Rev. DR.. w. Fl.
Rainsford, rector.