The Christian World: The Magazine of the American and Foreign Christian Union

details of the business and operations of the Society, and report to the Board at each regular meeting thereof.

ARTICLE VIII.--The Board of Directors may admit, as an Auxiliary, any Society or Association organized to labor in the same field, according to the principles and upon the plan proposed by the Society, which shall agree to pay its surplus funds into the treasury of the Society, which shall send to the Corresponding Secretary a copy of its Constitution and Annual Reports, giving the names of its missionaries and fields of their operation. And every auxiliary which shall pay the whole of its funds to the Society shall be entitled to a missionary or missionaries to labor in such fields as it may designate, at least to the amount of its contributions, provided such designation be made at the time of payment. The officers of all auxiliary Societies or Associations shall be, ex-officio, Directors; and the annual contributors to their funds shall be members of the Society. ARTICLE IX.-The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held on the Tuesday preceding the second Thursday of May in each year, when the Directors shall be chosen, the Treasurer's account presented, and the proceedings of the foregoing year reported.

ARTICLE X.-No alteration shall be made in this Constitution, except by the Society, at an Annual Meeting, on the recommendation of the Board of Directors, and by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION has taken the place and assumed the responsibilities of the Societies known as "The Christian Alliance," "The Foreign Evangelical," and the " American Protestant" Societies. In conducting its affairs, the following principles are faithfully preserved, namely:

1. All donations made specifically for the work in the Home or Foreign Field are faithfully expended in that field, in strict accordance with the wishes of the donors.

2. In the employment of laborers at home and abroad, sincere piety, proper talent, and the possession of other qualifications necessary for the place and the work contemplated, determine the choice of the Board, irrespective of the ecclesiastical connections of the candidate.

3. In its operations abroad, the Society acts, wherever it is practicable, through the organizations, societies, boards, and committees on the ground.

4. In publishing Books, Tracts, etc., the Society neither publishes, nor circulates, nor aids in publishing or circulating, anything that is of a sectarian character.

5. When it becomes necessary for the Society's Missionaries to organize churches, whether at home or abroad, those churches are at liberty, when fully established in the faith of the Gospel, to connect themselves with such evangelical denominations as they may prefer.

6. In prosecuting its great work, THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION cheerfully extends its aid to the several branches of the Church of Christ which are found within the sphere of its labors.

IMPORTANT FACTS.

1. "The Society presents to the observation of the world a practical union of Evangelical Christians, of different denominations, harmoniously engaged in the defense and propagation of the Gospel.

The Society occupies a field of great extent and importance, to whose culture no other Society is exclusively devoted.

3. "The Society seeks the salvation or people whose numbers are immense, and whose religious condition is extremely unhappy.

4. "The Society is fitted for the work for which it was designed.

5. "From the nature of the case, the hope of comparatively early and valuable returns to the cause of evangelical religion is warranted for all the outlay on the part of the Society.

6. "Past experience has demonstrated that other agencies patronized by the Christian community were not fully adequate to the work which needed to be done."

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

PRESIDENT:

REV. THOMAS DEWITT, D. D.

VICE-PRESIDENTS:

Rev. Wm. Adams, D.D., New York.

Rev. M. B. Anderson, D.D., Rochester, N. Y.
Rev. S. J. P Anderson, D.D., St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. L. T. Beecher, D.D., Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Rev. J. F. Berg, D.D., New Brunswich, N. .T.
Rev. N. S. S. Beman, D.D., Troy, N. Y.
Rev. Albert Barnes, Philadelphia.
Rev. Walter H. Bidwell, New York.
Rev. Milton Bird, D.D, Louisville, Ky.
Rev. Wm. M. Paxton, D.D., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Josiah Blackwell, Esq., Astoria, N. Y.
Rev. Henry A. Boardman, D.D. Philadelphia.
John A. Brown, Esq., Philadelphia.
Rev. E. Burgess, D.D., Dedham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Butler, D. D., Rome, Italy.
Rev. T. W. Chambers, D.D., New York.
Aristarchus Champion, Esq., Rochester, N. Y.
Rev. Rufus W. Clark, D.D. Albany, N. Y.
Rev. G. B. Cheever, D.D., New York.
Rev. William Collier, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rev. Nath'l Colver, D.D., Cincinnati, O.
Rev. Howard Crosby, D.D., New York.
Rev. John B. Dales, D.D., Philadelphia.
Rev. John Douglass, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rev. J. P. Durbin, D.D., New York.
Theodore Dwight, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. W. W. Everts, Chicago, Ill.

Rev. E. R. Fairchild, D. D., Fort Jervis, N. J.
Rev. Isaac Ferris, D.D. New York.
Rev. John Forsyth, D.D., Newburgh, N. Y.
Rev. A. D. Gillette, D.D., Washington.
Hon. Nathan Green, Lebanon, Tenn.

G. S. Griffith, Esq., Baltimore.
Rev. R. D. Harper, D.D., Xenia, O.
Hon. Daniel Haines, Hamburgh, N. J.
Rev. L. F. Halsey, D.D., Chicago, Ill.
R. T. Haines, Esq, Elizabeth City, N. J. `
Rev. William Hague, D.D., Philadelphia.
Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D., New York.
Rev. Joel Hawes, D.D, Hartford, Ct.
Thomas R. Hazard, Newport, R. I.
Rev. J L. Hodge, D.D., Bridgeport, Ct.
Rev. M. S. Hutton, D.D., New York.
Bishop E. S. Janes, D.D.,

Rev. Duncan Kennedy, D.D., Troy, N.Y.
Rev. Henry Kendall, D.D., New York.
Rev. G. W. Blagden, D.D., Boston, Mass.
Rev. John M. Krebs, D.D., New York.
Hon. Jacob Sleeper, Boston, Mass.
Rev. Alexander Mann, Trumansburg.
Rev. E. L. Magoon, D.D., Albany, N. Y.
Rev. Joel Mann, Morrisania, N.Y.
Rev. John McLean, D.D., Princeton, N.J.
George W. McLellan, Esq., Philadelphia.
Rev. S. B. McPheeters, D.D., St. Louis, Mo.
Charles Merriam, Esq., Springfield, Mass.
Rev. J. G. Morris, D.D,, Baltimore, Md.
Prof. S. F. B. Morse, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Rev. W. R. Nicholson, D.D., Boston, Mass.
Rev. C. B. Parsons, D.D., Louisville, Ky.
Rev. W. S. Plumer, D.D., Alleghany City, Pa.
Rev. Henry N. Pohlman, D.D., Albany, N.Y.
Rev. T. M. Post, D.D., St. Louis, Mo.

Rev. J. F. Pressly, D.D., Alleghany City, Pa.
Rev. Daniel Reed, Alton, Ill.

Rev. George C. M. Roberts, M.D., Baltimore, Md.
Rev. S. S. Schmucker, D.D., Gettysburgh, Pa.
Bishop Smith, D.D., Louisville, Ky.

Rev. Wm. B. Sprague, D.D., Albany, N.Y.
Rev. H. M. Storrs, Cincinnati, O.

Rev. Gardiner Spring, D.D., New York.
Hon. Jeremiah Sullivan, Madison, Ind.
Rev. Henry P. Tappan, D.D., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Rev. M. L. R. P. Thompson, D.D., Cincinnati, O.
Rev. S. H. Tyng, D.D., New York.

Rev. A. Webster, D.D., Baltimore, Md.
Hon. Samuel H. Walley, Roxbury, Mass.

Rev. Francis Wayland, D.D., Providence, R.I.

Rev. Francis Whittle, Louisville, Ky.
Ichabod Washburn, Esq., Worcester, Mass.
Hon. Samuel Williston, East Hampton, Mass.
Rev. Thomas Wickes, Marietta, O.
Rev. W. R. Williams, D.D., New York.
Rev. Dr. J. White, Cincinnati, O.
Hon. Joseph A. Wright, Indianopolis, Ind.
Rev. T. W. J. Wylie, Philadelphia.
Rev. Robert A. Young, Lexington, Mo.

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Rev. Paul D. Van Cleef, D.D., Jersey City, N. J. Rev. T. Ralston Smith, New York.
Richard J. Thorne, Esq., New York.

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Rev. E. N. Kirk, D.D., Boston.

Rev. J. N. McLeod, D.D., New York.
Rev. John Dowling, D.D.,

Isaac Bronson,

E. L. Corning,

REV. PATRICK LEO.-Many of our readers will doubtless remember the above named individual. He labored many years for this Society, with great zeal and efficiency; and under his faithful labors in this country, a large number of indi viduals were convinced of the errors of Romanism, and brought to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. In 1857 he returned to his own land, and for some time has been preaching in the parish of Annsdown, under the jurisdiction of Bishop Daley. In October, 1864, he was called from his labors here to enter upon his reward. He was a faithful, laborious pastor, a truly eloquent, evangelical Christian minister. He died in the triumphs of faith, and his end was peace.

NEWS OF THE CHURCHES.

OUR ANNUAL REPORT is so full of Mission- | ought to replace Hindooism, or is able to do ary intelligence that we do not deem it nec- so. He enforces the doubt by giving exessary to occupy with it much additional pression to a second," not unless it is really space. From the Report it will be seen that true and able to prove its truth against all our work in Italy, and other parts of the comers." field, have been highly prosperous. In Italy we have employed during the year thirty-two laborers; and, had we the means, we could easily have employed twenty more: but the high rate of exchange precluded it. The field in Mexico and South America is assuming great importance. The work of reform has been commenced among themselves, and they are earnestly stretching forth their hands for help.

TURKEY.

The Hon. Henry S. Maine has introduced into the Imperial Legislature a bill to legalize, under certain circumstances, the remarriage of native converts to Christianity whose wives or husbands have deserted them or repudiated them exclusively on religious grounds. No minister of religion will be compelled to avail himself of the liberty permitted by the bill.

Dr. Leitner, Principal of the Sahore College, has induced several native gentlemen of the city to unite in establishing a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge through the vernaculars, and for the revival of oriental learning.

CHINA.

Mr. Jessup, of Beyrout, writes that two Mohammedans have become Christians in Damascus, and that one of them has been brought to Beyrout in chains, and is now confined in the barracks there, exposed to insult and suffering. Chains are on his neck, The baptism of fourteen Chinese converts and he will probably be speedily put out of is reported by the missionaries of the Engthe way. No one is allowed to see him.--lish Presbyterian Church-thirteen men and These cases of converted Moslems are multiplying all over the East. There are forty in one part of the Empire inquiring in secret.

INDIA.

A missionary from Bennares writes: Only a few days ago, two of the chief priests of a renowned place of pilgrimage, attended by seven or eight disciples, visited the mission, for what reason do you suppose? To abandon idolatry and to embrace Christianity.

Rev. E. Porter, of Credalapah, reports the baptism of fifty Teloogoo villagers on his last visit to the out-stations of that district. Forty were baptized on one occasion. The London missionaries have lately ordained two native pastors, one at Cudderpah, the

other at Bennares.

one female. Many of these have not only given evidence of their sincerity by a long course of consistent conduct, but what is more convincing still, they have suffered either in person or estate for the name of Christ. Two of them were beaten shamefully because they refused to give even the smallest sum for idolatrous purposes.

At Ningpoo, two Baptist missionaries, one English, the other American, have labored together with success. They lately baptized sixteen persons. One of the members of the English missionary's flock recently went into a Buddhist nunnery, and preached the Gospel with such fervor that the abbess, one of the nuns, and a neophyte, about to take the veil, were converted and added to

the church.

AFRICA.

The Bishop of Oxford has for the second time charged the government of India with conduct which shows either indifference to A missionary writes, respecting the disChristianity or a fear of the consequences of couragements experienced by those who la doing their duty in spreading it. On the bor among rude barbarians: "Often after other hand, a writer in Frazer's Magazine my work is done and I sit alone in this hut, sadly expresses a doubt whether Christianity I am well nigh heart-broken at the apparent "just as it stands and without modifications', unfruitfulness of my labors. For instance,

no later than yesterday I was astonished to see a great many heathen keepers coming to church. On inquiry, I found that they had been at a drinking party, and after having spent the whole night carousing, adjourned to come to church. One day one old, hardened being walked in, and, in an audible tone, said to his wives, five or six in number, "My wives, walk you right up and seat your selves beside the minister, and I will sit here and admire you." I was nearly tempted to smile when they came marching up and sat with their backs to me, looking towards the door. I had, therefore, at once to order

them to turn round."

ENGLAND.

second failure to bring a verdict home against an acknowledged teacher of error must shake the minds of many as to the possibility of continuing much longer their system of National Churches. We believe that before long, Orthodox Churchmen will say, Give us a Free Church altogether, and allow us to put down error, and expand in our own way. Do not tie our hands before us, and call that liberty and dignity!

MONASTICISM in the Church of England seems really to make some progress. In addition to the order of Benedictine monks, and 66 a third order," which consists of laymen who remain in "the world," Brother Ignatius is now organizing a community of Benedictine nuns. It is reported that Miss Sellon, well known as the foundress of the sisterhood," which has been in operation in England for several years, and obtained the approval of a large portion of the church, is already invested with the dignity of an

sion of Miss Sellon, if true, would be the most important occurrence in the history of this anomalous institution.

The judgment of the Privy Council in the case of the Bishop of Natal, has taken England with surprise. The Court did not refuse on technical grounds to recognize the Bishop of Capetown's right as metropolitan, nor did they allow Dr. Colenso to plead that the case was out of the jurisdiction of the" abbess" of this female order. The accesPrivy Council. They went to the root of the matter they investigate the whole law of the Crown's supremacy, deciding that the Crown had no power either to create such a court as that of the metropolitan of Capetown without the consent of Parliament, or to create bishops at all in a colony without the consent of the legislature of that colony. This truly is a new view of the Crown's supremacy, and one which must totally alter the relation of the Mother Church at home to her daughters in the colonies.

It is thought that the question which the Privy Council have raised will not stop with this case. They have laid down the position that all ecclesiastical acts of the Crown, without the special sanction of the local legislature, are null and void. Now as in the colonies, no sanction will ever be given to any act whatever recognizing any religious body as such, the consequence will be that the present system of church extension in the colonies must end, and bishops go out as missionaries on the voluntary principle.

Dr. Newman, and many of the leading Roman Catholic laymen of England, have been anxious to establish a Catholic College in connection with the University of Oxford. The English Catholic bishops now announce that they have unanimously disapproved the plan, and they dissuade all Catholic parents from sending their children to Protestant institutions.

BENEDICTINE NUNS.-The Morning Post says: "It was reported on Tuesday at Norwich that Brother Ignatius was engaged in serious difficulties with his Third Order.-Some have resigned, and others do not please him, so that the Order is in rather a bad way. The Feast of St. Benedict has been celebrated with great pomp in the monas. tery. The Mother Abbess, the celebrated Miss Sellon, assisted at the service in her fall robes as an Abbess, an acolyte bearing her handsome pastoral staff. The Mother Abbess is on a visit to Norwich to inaugurate a congregation of Benedictine nuns, and she wore the Benedictine frock, scapular,

The decision of the Privy Council in the case of the Essays and Reviews has given the Orthodox Churchmen a shock which they have not yet recovered from. This and head-dress. Two novices have made

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