On motion of the Rev. Dr. Ashley, the nomination to the Laity was made unanimous; and the Laity voted their approval, on the first ballot, by a vote of 19 to 1; which vote was then made unanimous.

The following resolution was offered by James Kneeland, Esq., of Milwaukee:Resolved, That a Committee of three Clergymen and three Laymen be appointed to prepare a memorial to the General Convention, at its next meeting, to so change the Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church, &c., as to remove the present restrictions upon the erection of new Sees within the limits of Dioceses already organized.

Which resolution was carried, and the Committee appointed consists of the Rev. Drs. Adams, Ashley, and Passmore, and Messrs. Kneeland, Smith, and McGregor. The said Committee are to report at the next Diocesan Convention. It was also Resolved, That this Convention is unanimously in favor of a division of this Diocese, and that the Bishop be respectfully requested to give his consent to the division of the same, and to place his consent on the records of this Convention.

The Convention then adjourned to meet at half-past seven o'clock; at which time the Convention re-assembled, the Bishop being in the Chair.

The Rt. Rev., the Bishop, having called the Convention to order, then read the following paper, which was ordered to be put on file and printed with the Journal of Convention:

"In accordance with the unanimous request of the Convention of this Diocese, and with my own conviction, repeatedly expressed, I, JACKSON KEMPER, D. D., LL. D., by the grace of God Bishop of the Diocese of Wisconsin, hereby declare and place on record my assent and consent to the division of this Diocese, and the erection of a new Episcopal See therein, now, or as soon as practicable hereafter. . Dated June 14, 1866."

MINNESOTA.

Bishop Whipple is doing a great work in the West, and doing it in the right way. "The following are extracts from the Address. The allusion to "Christian Union," gives the true note.

"The Diocesan work in Faribault is in a prosperous condition. The Bishop's Church, which bears the name of "The Cathedral Church of Our Merciful Saviour," is slowly growing into a fair temple for the worship of God. The Bishop Seabury Divinity Hall is complete, furnished, and has a valuable library of 4,500 volumes. The Bishop of Chester, Rev. Dr. Jacobson, the parish of St. Giles, Professor Goldwin Smith, and a few other friends in Oxford, presented me with valuable copies of the works of English Divines. The Emperor of Russia, through my friend, Hiram Sibley, Esq., presented me with the valuable copy of the Codex Sinaiticus. We have about one hundred and twenty-five acres for our Divinity Hall, boys school. college, girls school, Bishop's Residence, Orphans' Home, and Church Cemetery, all of which is paid for. It is my purpose to open a St. Mary's Hall during the present year, for the training of the daughters of the Church."

"Churches have been commenced at Wilton, Warsaw, Morristown, Cannon Falls, Basswood Grove, Mankato, Ottawa, Lake City, Northfield and St. Paul. It is hoped that all these will be completed during the coming Conventional year, and Churches commenced at Mantorville, Pine Island, Saint Charles, Chatfield, Austin, LeSueur, Owatonna, Hader, Dundas, Preston."

"There are, among all Christian people, deep longings for Christian union. The Christian world begins to realize that the dissensions and divisions of Christendom are a hindrance to the progress of the Gospel. Men of deep piety and high-toned earnestness, feel that it is wrong that disciples of Christ should be separated. These longings have led to rash experiments and specious reasonings, to promote union without unity. There are those, who try to harmonize the teachings of the Church with the doctrines of Rome, or with the teachings of religious Sects. They hope to create a kindly feeling of Christian sympathy, by surrendering or keeping in the back-ground, some positive teaching of the Church, or by the violation of its Rubrics or Canons. I have no hope of anything but mischief from these efforts. Until the Church gives up her Primitive and Apostolic Faith, she must protest against the errors of the Church of Rome, her unlawful terms of communion, her human worship, and her additions to the Faith. And until the Church gives up her primitive Episcopacy, and thereby separates herself from the Catholic Church, she cannot ask others to minister at her altars. We may and ought to love all who love Christ, and be careful not to say one word to wound those from whom we differ, and whose organization we believe is defective. But charity never can ask any man to surrender truths, which he believes are taught by the Word of God, and have always been the heritage of the Catholic Church."

OHIO.

We commend the following, which we find in the papers of the day, to Ohio Churchmen:

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"The United States Marine Hospital in Cincinnati, O., has been purchased for seventy thousand five hundred dollars, by Mr. Joseph C. Butler and Mr. Lewis Worthington, wealthy Protestant gentlemen of that place, who have presented it in fee simple to the Cincinnati Sisters of Charity. The conditions of the conveyance are, that the institution shall be open to the poor sick, without distinction of religion, language, or birth-place, preference being given to women and children. Rooms will be reserved for strangers and others who can pay, and for those who may be injured, and require the services of a surgeon. The building is a fine structure, possessing all the modern improvements. It cost the government about three hundred thousand dollars."

Such a statement as this, is one of the severest and most mortifying rebukes which the Church in our country has ever received. Sensible men are turning in disgust from mere Sectism, and from political priestly demagogues of all sorts. Had the Church in that City and State done half her duty; had she proved herself something else and better than a mere, miserable Sect among Sects, such a state of things would never have existed.

Decline of PRESBYTERIANISM IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, AND ITS CAUSES.—A printed Circular has recently been distributed among the Presbyterians of Cincinnati, calling attention to the fact of the decline of Presbyterianism in that region. We make the following extract:

"Look at the condition of Christ's cause in our City, so far as it is represented by the churches of our denomination. For one thing. we have evidently been losing ground, as compared with former years. Twenty years ago, the Presbyterian Church had the controlling religious influence in Cincinnati; but it is far from being so now. On the contrary, we have but few, if any, more members in our Churches now, than we had then, while the population of the City has probably more than doubled in that time. Our churches furnish sittings to probably less than four thousand people, and the average attendance, including both Sabbath services the year round, does not reach more than half that number, while the attendance upon the lec ture and prayer meeting services, in the four churches together, does not average five hundred."

To this alarming statement, a Presbyterian replies at length. The following is a specimen of his explanation of the mortifying facts, which all admit.

"The same leanness mentioned as characterizing the Presbyterian Churches, characterizes all the Protestant Churches. But it is not astonishing; for the Churches

are only considered a part of the machinery of the Republican party, employed for advancing its interests. (See Deliverances of the church Courts). All who would be in good standing in the Churches, must be in favor of the Civil Rights Bill Freedmen's Bureau Bill, Constitutional Amendment, &c. These qualifications are insisted upon, more than those of common decency, not to say piety. Behold, also, the outrageous conduct at a meeting for the election of elders, held in one of the churches this spring, when, by the outrageous conduct of the parties engaged, every feeling of propriety of even the people of the world was shocked; and even a court of the Church is accused of sustaining trickery, fraud and violence.

During the time of Christ and His Apostles, as well as after, when the church enjoyed its greatest purity and prosperity, the affairs of the world were in as tempestuous a condition as now. Revolution was following upon revolution. Nation was divided against nation, people against people. What was the secret of success in those days? Why was it that the Holy Spirit accompanied the preaching of the gospel with such great power? The answer can only be, that the church kept itself pure and unspotted from the world.

They, in no instance, defined who were by right "in authority," who were properly the "higher powers." We know, in fact, that they accepted, as Christians, the position of a country, in which they found it. They submitted to the dominion of Rome over their own land, although they knew she had no moral right in its exercise.

How different has been the conduct of the Old and New School Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church. The first, in 1861, decided where allegiance was primarily due; namely, to the General Government, and not to the State-a decision adverse to that of the first statesmen of the country. In 1864, the same Assembly made a Deliverance pronouncing slavery a sin, in face of that of 1845, which states, that to declare it a sin, is to accuse the Apostles of Christ of conniving at sin, and that the Bible no where commands slaveholders to emancipate their slaves. In 1865, 'orders' were passed, enforcing these Deliverances on ministers and members coming from the South. This spring, at St. Louis, the New School Assembly passed a number of resolutions, in which occurs the following:-" We rejoice that the active functions of the Freedmen's Bureau are still continued, and especially that the Civil Rights Bill has become the law of the land. In respect to the concession of the right of suffrage to the colored race, this Assembly adheres to the resolution passed by our Assembly of 1865, (Minutes, p. 42,) That the colored man should, in this country, enjoy the right of suffrage with all other men, is but a simple dictate of justice.'

"Christians take a fearful responsibility upon themselves, when they venture to dabble in politics, and force issues upon their brethren, not found in the Bible. These may be incontrovertible truths, but the church has nothing to do with them. They pertain exclusively, to Cæsar's kingdom, and should be referred to him. . . . I only wish to draw your attention to the true causes of the general decline in vital religion, and the evident decay in the Presbyterian Church in particular."

In connection with this subject, we add, that these Presbyterian writers have got hold of a part only of the real obstacles to the growth of their denomination. One great difficulty is, the want of a positive, objective Faith. Men want it, and they will have it in some form, right or wrong. Here is the whole secret of the melancholy, mortifying failure of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ohio, and especially in Cincinnati, where there are four feeble parishes, instead of thirty strong ones, as there might be, and ought to be Here is the explanation of the rapid wonderful growth of such a system as Modern Romanism in Cincinnati. A Uni ted States Senator has lately conformed to that corrupt Faith, and not very long since, a leading Layman of the Church joined that Communion, in Cincinnati, under circumstances which are full of meaning. We discussed this matter in the Oct. Review, 1865, Art. II, and to that Article we refer the reader. If the Church is to save the West, and save the country, from Popery and Infidelity, she has just one work to do, and just one way in which to do it. It is not by denunciation, on the one hand; nor by an Infidel latitudinarian indifferentism on the other. It is by building up, with all faith, and zeal, and love, what she professes to believe and to hold as the Religion of Jesus Christ and His Apostles; to do this, at all times, and in all places; to do this amid good report and evil report. This is Christ's Way, rhe tight way, and the prosperous way.

SUMMARY OF FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

The Rt. Rev. GEORGE TREVOR SPENCER, D.D., late Bishop of Madras, and since Chancellor of St. Paul's Cathedral, died at Edgemoor, Buxton, July 18, aged 66 years. He was born in 1800, was educated at University College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1822. In the same year he was nominated by the Duke of Devonshire to the incumbency of Buxton, Derbyshire, but resigned it in 1829, when he was presented by Lord Lyndhurst, who was then Lord Chancellor, to the Rectory of Leaden Roding, near Chipping Ongar This Living he held until 1837, when, on the death of Dr. Corrie, the first Bishop of Madras, he was nominated by Sir John Cam Hobhouse (Lord Broughton), then President of the India Board, to that See. In 1849 he returned to England. In 1860 he was presented to the Rectory of Walton-in-the-Wolds, and in the same year by the Bishop of London to the Chancellorship of St. Paul's Cathedral.

The Rt. Rev. J. H. SINGER, D.D., Bishop of Meath, and Premier Bishop of Ireland, died at Ardbraccan House, Navau, July 16, at the age of 80 years.

NEW BISHOP OF MEATH.-The REV. SAMUEL BUTCHER, D.D, has been appointed Bishop of this Diocese. He was for twelve years Rector of Ballymoney, in the Diocese of Cork, and has been Regius Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, since 1852. The following is a sketch of his antecedents: "Samuel Butcher (grandson of Thomas Butcher, Esq., of Northampton, and son of ViceAdmiral Samuel Butcher, by Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter of Richard Herbert, Esq., of Cahirnane, Co. Kerry), was educated at home, and at a public school in Cork. He was Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1832, Fellow in 1837, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1850, and Regius Professor of Divinity in 1852. He graduated A.B. in 1834, A.M. in 1838, and D.D. in 1849. He was ordained Deacon, in 1839, by Mant, Bishop of Down and Connor; and Priest, in 1840, by Plunket, Bishop of Tuam. He has published several occasional sermons and introductory lectures as Professor of History and Divinity.

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF LIMERICK.-The Rev. CHARLES GRAVES, Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin, was consecrated Bishop of Limerick by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Bishops of Down and Killaloe, on the 29th of June, St. Peter's day, in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin. The sermon was preached by Dr. Butcher, the Regius Professor of Divinity, who chose for his text Ephesians iii, 10. The Archbishop of Dublin read the Communion Service, and the Epistle and Gospel were read by the Bishops of Killaloe and Down.

CONSECRATION OF MISSIONARY BISHOPS.-On Friday, Aug. 24, the Rev. ANDREW BURN SUTER, M. A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, incumbent of All Saints' church, Mile End, New Town, nominated to the bishopric of Nelson, New-Zealand, in the room of Dr. Hobhouse, resigned; and the Rev. HENRY LASCELLES JENNER, LL.B. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, vicar of Preston, near Sandwich, who has been nominated to the new bishopric of Dunedin, New-Zealand, were consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral, by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of London (Tait) and Gloucester (Ellicott). Dean Alford preached the sermon.

The Rev. SAMUEL ROBINSON WADDELOW, M.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, curate of Bournemouth, who had been nominated to the new bishopric of Grafton and Armadale, in Australia, was to have been consecrated at the same time and place, and for some reason, as yet unexplained, he failed to appear.

SUCCESSOR TO THE DEPOSED AND EXCOMMUNICATED COLENSO-The Archbishop of Canterbury, on application of the Church in Natal, has nominated the Rev. F. H.. 42* VOL. XVIII.

Cox, Rector of St. John's. Hobart Town, Tasmania, to the Bishopric of Maritzburg, the capital City of that Colony, which will henceforth give the name to the See. Rev. Mr. Cox has been seventeen years at Hobart Town, where the Church attendants, communicants, scholars, offerings, &c., have increased ten-fold. Should the nomination be accepted by the Clergy and Laity of Natal, he will be consecrated immediately.

Dr. Colenso still hangs on to his position, and preaches in the Cathedral at Maritzburg. He also publishes his Sermons, which are full of the most infamous infidelity and blasphemy.

The Rev. JOHN MASON NEALE, D. D., died Aug. 6, 1866, aged 48 years. Dr Neale was best known in this country by his "History of the Holy Eastern Church es." His health, always delicate, prevented his taking parochial duty. By his-pen and his constant exertions, he devoted himself to the diffusion, in the English Church, of a truly Catholic sentiment, and established Catholic methods of labor. The English Church Review says:-"Not only had he the daily service of the Church in the Almshouse Chapel of Sackville College, but the daily celebration of the Holy Eucharist, in the Chapel of the Sisterhood. To the instruction of the Sisters he devoted much of his time, rarely missing attendance at their matin services, said by anticipation at 10 A. M. Sunday was especially a hard day's work. Preaching to the Almspeople and to the Sisters, and catechizing the orphans, with the services and celebrations, would have tired a stronger man than Dr. Neale. What a reflection it is upon the disposers of patronage in the Church of England, that the only tribute he ever received to his talents and work was the Russian Emperor's present, and the American University diploma of D. D.. The Christian Remembrancer has for years owed much of its popularity to his Liturgic and other articles. No one has, indeed, been so laboriously engaged as a writer for the press. Masters, Hayes, Mozley, Burns, have all, in turn, published for him. Then no one has toiled so much to make his brother Churchmen acquainted with the Eastern Communion. The late Emperor Nicholas sent, we believe, 100%, as a mark of his appreciation of Dr. Neale's success in this direction. Sermons for the aged, hymns for little children, songs and ballads for the people, all come and fill up the picture of what Dr. Neale has been working at during a short life."

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