was no obligation upon the members of the school to do more than they desired to do. The courses were open and all were invited, and, as the event proved, they were constantly well attended.

THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.-On Wednesday in Ember Week (September 18) the General Theological Seminary began another year of its long and useful career, with an attendance of over eighty students, some twenty-five of whom are new men, including several who have come over from the Dutch Reformed, Presbyterian and other bodies. The daily services. (Morning Prayer at 9 A.M. and Evensong at 5.30 P.M.) were resumed on that day, and the Holy Eucharist was celebrated on Thursday morning.

The Rev. Dr. Philander K. Cady, of Garrisons, N. Y., has taken the Chair of Apologetics and will lecture on Evidences and Moral Philosophy. The Rev. Dr. T. Stafford Drowne, of Long Island, will continue in charge of the work in Dogmatics, until the Professor-elect, the Rev. Dr. Walpole, arrives in this country, which will be about October 23. The Rev. Dr. Edward H. Jewett, Professor of Pastoral Theology, is now in residence in the close, occupying one of the professors' houses. The lecture and class work of the Seminary began on Monday, September 23.

The buildings look fresh and neat, the interior walls having been repainted and wood-work re-oiled. All the rooms are now provided with handsome oak furniture, so that the student need not go to any expense in fitting up his room.

PHILADELPHIA DIVINITY SCHOOL.

THE Trinity term of the Philadelphia Divinity School began on Thursday afternoon, September 19, when Evening Prayer was said in the chapel, after which the Bishop delivered an earnest Address, in which he dwelt largely upon the advantages which the Divinity School offered, and the principles there inculcated. He spoke touchingly of the retirement of the Rev. G. Emlen Hare. D.D., LL.D., and offered a cordial welcome to the new professors, the Rev. Flemming James, D.D., for several years a member of the Faculty of the Gambier Theological Seminary, and the Rev. Ezra P. Gould, D.D., who has done distinguished work in his department in the Newton, Mass., Theological SemiThe Rev. Dr. Hare who has been identified with the nary. training of theological students for many years, and a Professor

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in the Divinity School from its earliest inception in 1862, has resigned his post full of years and honors, and has very properly been elected Emeritus Professor of New Testament Literature and Language in the Department of Biblical Learning, with a salary.

S. ANDREW'S UNIVERSITY (Scotland) will soon have a reputation as the Ladies' University. At twenty-six centres no fewer than 536 women presented themselves as candidates for the degree of LL.A. this year. One hundred and sixteen have got through all their subjects, and are entitled to the degree, bringing up the total of lady graduates to over 2,000.

B nefactions and Endowments.

THE will of the late President of Columbia College has been probated, and by it, after the death of his widow, the College will receive, with the exception of two or three small legacies, the entire estate, valued at $800,000. The money will be devoted to the interest of scientific study. A fellowship of $10,000 is to be founded for the benefit of some alumnus engaged in scientific research--a gold medal, valued at $200, is to be given every five years for any scientific discovery or application of science to the benefit of the human race which shall be thought worthy of the honor by the National Academy of Science, and a library fund of $50,000 is to be established for the purchase of needed scientific books. Dr. Barnard's own library and scientific apparatus are bequeathed to the College. He evidently thought there was no clashing between science and religion, for he directed the proposed medal to be inscribed Magna est Veritas, and on the reverse, Deo, Optimo, Maximo, Gloria in Excelsis.

A LEAFLET sent out by the General Secretary, Dr. Langford, shows that the Bishops and clergy in all parts of the country are making remarkably liberal personal offerings for the building of the proposed Missions House. One Bishop gives $500, three A clergyman in Illinois give $100 each, others $25 and $20. and one in Massachusetts each send $100; a Pennsylvania clergyman and a rector's wife each send $25; and an Indiana clergyman sends $5. It is another wholesome example of the desire of the clergy to be the leaders of the Church in missionary work.

It would seem, by a recent decision of the Court, that Trinity Church, Rockaway, L. I., the Rev. T. W. Martin, rector, has come into possession of $135,000, by the terms of the will of the late Abram Hewlett, of Woodsburgh. It was found that out of an estate, real and personal, amounting to $330,000, $270,000 was to go to the heirs next of kin, and the balance to Trinity Church.

A FUND is being raised in Sydney to commemorate the five years' service of Dr. Barry as Primate of Australia. At the Bishop's own request it is to be called "The Ordination Candidates' Loan Fund."

Two donations of £1,000 each have been received by the Bishop of Llandaff towards promoting Church extension in his Diocese.

ACCORDING to the Society's report, S. P. G. grants were voted for 1889 to the amount of £14,509 to the Church of England, in Canada and Newfoundland, viz: Montreal, £520; Quebec, £1,500; Toronto, 32; Algoma, 800; Fredericton, £1,250; Nova Scotia, 1,068; Newfoundland, £2,900; Rupert's Land, £2,060; Qu'Appelle, £2,165; Saskatchewan, £1,414; Caledonia, 200; New Westminster, £600.

MR. JOHN P. MORTON, of Louisville, in his will bequeathed $40,000 to the Church Home already established by him; leaves $10,000, if a similar amount is raised by others in five years, the whole to be expended in buildings on the lot of the Orphanage of the Good Shepherd, with machinery and appliances for mechanical education; $20,000 more if the estate yields it, the income to afford meritorious boys from the Orphanage $250 each on coming of age; and to the Bishop of Kentucky an interest in a fruit grove and town site, on Lake Virginia, Orange County, Fla.

S. PAUL'S CHURCH, Mount Vernon, O., through the generosity of one of its parishioners, Miss Lizzie Ash, has been recently enriched by an important memorial stained glass window. This is the East window, over the altar, and contains the figure of S. Paul, with uplifted hand, represented as preaching on Mars Hill. This has been made very deep and rich in coloring, and is particularly appropriate for its position in S. Paul's Church. The work has been designed and executed by the Messrs. J. & R. Lamb, of New York.

AN anonymous donor has given 10,000 towards the establishment of a new Bishopric in South Wales, conditional on the headquarters of the new See being at Swansea.

Statistical Information.

DIOCESAN STATISTICS.

ARKANSAS.-Clergy, 15; parishes and missions, 26; confirmed. 200; communicants, nearly 2,000; offerings, $41,72,592.

ALABAMA.-Parishes and missions, 59; clergy, including the Bishop, 41; deaconesses, 7 ; lay readers, 18; parishioners, 10,550 ; families, 2,296; communicants, 5,608; a net gain over last year of 121⁄2 per cent., of which one-third or more are male; Sunday School pupils, 2,813, who raised last year, $3,639,63; Guild Society members, 1,334, who raised last year, $10,707.16; Baptisms, 465; confirmed, 500; total contributions, $88, 180.58, being an average contribution of $83 from each parishioner; total valuation of church property, $536,671.

CONNECTICUT.-Confirmed, 1,444; ordained to the deaconate, 7; priesthood, 6; candidates for Orders, 20; church consecrated, I; chapel opened, 1; churches re-opened, 2; families, 16,803: whole number of individuals, 48,649; Baptisms, infants, 1,678, adults, 318; total, 1,996; communicants, whole number registered, 24,906; Marriages, 687; burials, 1,525; Sunday School teachers. 1,915; scholars, 16,407; studying for the ministry, 23; churches or chapels, 157; number of sittings, 51, 160; offerings, $503.724,56.

DELAWARE.-Clergy canonically resident, 32; parochial and missionary, 26; having more than one charge, 4; dismissed, 4; received, 10; candidates for Holy Orders, 1; postulants, 2; parishes, 28; churches and chapels, 38; Baptisms-infants, 236; adults, 61; total, 297; confirmed, 272; communicants-present number, 2,416; Marriages, 62; funerals, 160; Sunday Schools, teachers, 240; scholars, 2, 129; contributions, total, $59,422.04.

FLORIDA. From Easter, 1888, to Easter, 1889: Number of families, 1,974; persons not so included, 1,604; total of persons, 8,407; lay readers, 34; Baptisms-adults, 88; infants, 616; total, 704; confirmed, 367; communicants, present number, 3.438; Marriages, 201; burials, 353; Sunday School teachers, 288; scholars, 2,546; parish school teachers, 10; scholars, 193; number of services, 5,290; Holy Communion, times, 809; value of church property, total, $358,051; insurance, $84,410; indebtedness, $24.529.34; contributions, $52,038.03.

IOWA.-Clerical-Bishop, 1; priests, 47; deacons, 4; total, 52; Ordinations, deacons, 3; candidates for Holy Orders, 6; lay readers licensed during the year, 13; whole number of lay readers, 50; churches consecrated, I; parishes or congregations in union with Convention, 49; organised missions, 31; unorganised missions, 26; families, 3,727; individuals, 14,018; Baptisms, 769: Confirmations, 507; communicants, 6,007; Marriages, 168; burials, 261; public services, Sundays, 3,720; other days, 2,905; total, 6,625; Holy Communion, public, 1, 142; private, 85; total, 1,227; Sunday School officers and scholars, 4,076; church sittings rented, 3,395; free, 11,660; total, 15,055; contributions for religious purposes, $147,260.26; value of church property in the Diocese, $1,271,725.

KANSAS.-The Journal of the Twenty-ninth Annual Council of the Diocese gives for the conciliar year, ending December 12, 1888, the following statistics: Clergy, 35; parishes, 27; missions, 36; stations where occasional services are held, 73; total, 136; Baptisms, 401; Confirmations, 354; communicants, 3,501; offerings for all purposes, $69,075.46. In comparing these figures with those of the preceding year, it appears that the number of Confirmations and reported communicants has been increased about forty per cent.

MARYLAND.-Confirmations, 293: churches consecrated, 2; candidates admitted, 2; postulants admitted, 1; clergy received into the Diocese, 7; clergy transferred, 5; Baptisms-adults, 38; infants, 389; total, 427; communicants added, 346; died, 42; removed, 141; present number, 2,969; Sunday School teachers, 307; scholars, 2,198; contributions to the Church at large, $1,413.95; for Diocesan purposes, $3.748.45; for parochial objects, $34,924.74; total, $40,087.14.

MASSACHUSETTS.-May 1, 1888-May 21, 1889: Lay readers; 62; candidates for Deacon's Orders, 3; candidates for Priest's Orders, 11; Ordinations-deacons, 7; priests, 3; total, 10; Clergymen, present number Bishop, 1; priests, 176; deacons, 9; total, 186; corner-stones laid, 3; churches or chapels in building, 4; churches consecrated, 3; churches and chapels newly gotten, or opened without consecration, 9; parish houses gotten, 5; parishes in union with the Convention, 113; organised parishes not in union, 19; chapels and missions, 50; total of parishes, chapels, and missions, 182; Baptisms-infants, 2,648; adults, 413; total, 3,061 ; Confirmations, 1,731; communicants, 25,879; Marriages, 1,124; funerals, 1,675; Sunday School officers and teachers, and scholars, 20,986; aggregate of contributions, $733,803.36.

MISSISSIPPI.-Clergy actively employed in the Diocese, 27; clergy not so employed, 4; whole number of clergy, 31; candidates for Holy Orders, 2; lay readers, 24; parishes in union with Council, 35; organised missions, 22; unorganised missions, 20; churches and chapels, 60; parish buildings, I; rectories, 16;