efforts. The Territory of Dacota, on the other hand, which counts only 10,000 whites, in addition to 24,000 Indians, has as yet but two presbyters at work in it, one for the whites, the other for the Indians. There are, however, three chapels erected, while the sects have not raised one meeting-house. An Associate Mission is to be set on foot at Yankton, and several parishes might at once be established, if only a sufficiency of clergy to undertake them were forthcoming.

Montana, Utah, and Idaho.—Missionary Bishop Tuttle, who was only appointed last year, states that Utah has a population of 100,000, with no "Gentiles "outside of Salt Lake, Fort Bridger, and Stockton. At Salt Lake we have two clergymen, who have a "hall" for its services, which are excellently attended, and a good school, the latter conducted by the wife and sister of one of them. Montana has two parishes, with one clergyman and one lay reader; but no church is yet built on this territory. There are in it, however, nine Romish priests and three Methodist preachers. In Idaho, "one Church clergyman and one Methodist preacher are the only Protestant ministers." Bishop Tuttle calls for men, and prefers married men, for the ministry in his diocese.

Colorado and New Mexico.-Missionary Bishop Randall has not been able as yet to visit the latter territory, by reason of the Indian troubles. It contains as yet scarcely any whites but Roman Catholics, speaking Spanish. There is only one Anglican clergyman here. In Colorado, the Bishop has travelled, chiefly in his wagon, more than 1,200 miles, and found the people everywhere ready for our services; everywhere ready, according to their ability, to aid in the erection of churches; and anxious, too, for good schools. "He has now four Missionaries here; he has consecrated two churches, and two more are in a forward state." "In several other places the people are ready to engage in the erection of churches, if he had the clergy to send them."

From another source we append a sample of the work and life of a Missionary Bishop in the United States:

"Idaho city is a town of three thousand inhabitants, one-third Chinese, and possesses a Romish church, a Chinese joss-house, gambling saloons fitted up with princely elegance, and no Protestant minister. The Chinese priest keeps his institution open at all times, is always ready to sell little slips of paper with the idols' 'talkee' on them, and devotees go through their antics of worship oblivious of the curious eyes of Christian barbarians gazing at them. The Bishop held services in the Court-house, a building erected by a Methodist minister for a meeting-house, but who is now sadly fallen from grace, being engaged in selling goods, and, like all the rest, doing his heaviest business on Sunday. Although there was a horse-race in the main-street of the town, turning the Sunday into a shouting pandemonium, a large congregation attended the services morning and evening. A marked impression was made by the Bishop's sermons. Two persons were confirmed, and two infants and one adult baptized. At a meeting of the citizens, a thorough-going interest in building up a parish was manifested, and put into practical shape by circulating a subscription for the clergyman, which reached the sum of nearly $2,000 in five minutes, with the promise of making it $3,000."

VISITATION BY THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA IN THE NORTH-WEST.

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BISHOP MILMAN returned from Burmah on the 1st of July. where he called the laity into council, and endeavoured to interest them in the work of the Church, and to stir them up into heartier co-operation with the clergy. The reason for this endeavour does not arise entirely from lay indifference, but the Indian layman is usually a hardworked official, who has little time to devote to anything beyond his official duties. Hence in the large stations the chaplains are compelled to undertake many works which would be better performed by the laity, and to 66 serve tables to an extent which must interfere with their spiritual labours. It is the object of the new Church Association which has been set on foot under the Bishop's auspices to organize the lay element throughout the diocese.

The Bishop, on his return to Calcutta, commenced the custom of giving occasional literary and scientific soireés, such as were set on foot by Bishop Cotton, to which native gentlemen, Hindus and Mohammedans, as well as Europeans, were invited. The Bishop again left Calcutta, on the 26th of August, on a Visitation of the North-west Provinces, according to his announced intention, although his health was at the outset so poor that he had to rest for a few days at one or two places.

The Southern Cross gives a full account of this remarkable Visitation, which begins as under:-" Bhagulpore was made the first halting-place. Next day he reached Patna, where he stayed five days. On the 30th he held his first confirmation in Hindustani, at the Civil Church in Bankipore. There were twenty-nine candidates. The whole of the service was in the vernacular, and included the Eucharist. The Bishop delivered two addresses (written) in Hindustani. His success in so quickly mastering the language to such an extent was the cause of admiration from all. The Bishop immediately visited the S. P. G. Mission, conferring with the Missionaries. In the afternoon he attended service in the Mission Chapel and visited the Orphanage, catechising the boys, with whose intelligent replies he was pleased. There are thirty-six children here, boys and girls. Next day he visited Goolzarbaugh,' the opiumfactory, and held service in the little church there. His visit to this secluded community in the heart of the city of Patna was much appreciated. On Sunday, September 1st, he proceeded to Dinapore, where he confirmed forty candidates, twelve being soldiers, and afterwards administered Holy Communion. After breakfasting there, the Bishop returned to Bankipore for the 11 A.M. service, when, as also in the evening, he preached. Monday was employed in inspecting cemeteries and in visiting the Patna Government School and College. There are 370 students, and in the Normal School 130. In the evening he presided at a lay meeting, when the spiritual condition of the station was discussed, and a desire expressed by the majority for the appointment of Lay Trustees or Churchwardens. This is a subject upon which the Bishop is collecting the opinions of the communities he visits, with a view to bringing the question proposed to Government by Bishop Cotton, as to the desirableness of Churchwardens,

to a practical issue. After the meeting broke up, the Bishop, with the unwearied industry which is fast becoming proverbial, proceeded at once to an assembly of above 200 Bengalee inquirers, whom he addressed at some length on the nobility of inquiry as befitting men as God's creatures. He also dwelt on the comfort of belief in the doctrine of the Trinity, in connexion with the advance of science."

The report of the Visitation, of which the above is the commencement, is far too lengthy for us to be able to continue it with as much detail as we should wish. What we have quoted may serve, however, as a specimen of the hard work which the devoted Bishop thenceforward continued to pursue day by day without intermission throughout the remainder of his journey. From Patna and Dinapore, he passed through Cawnpore and Delhi to Umballa and Simla, confirming, inspecting schools, holding lay meetings, &c. He proceeded thence to do the like at Subathoo and Kusowlie-where is the Lawrence Military Asylum, with 500 soldiers' children as inmates-to Umballa again, to Mussoorie, and to Landourwhere there are two "Bishop's Schools." On October 8th, the Bishop reached Annfield, a flourishing Christian colony under Budraj in the Western Dhoon :

"This visit to Annfield was especially interesting. No Bishop had ever been there before, Bishop Cotton's intention of visiting it in 1864 having been prevented by an accident. Bishop Milman arrived on the morning of the 9th, and at 11 officiated in the barn at present used as a church, confirming twenty-nine candidates. The service was hearty and wellarranged, the music being excellent. The Bishop, as usual, gave two addresses in Hindustani, which were listened to by a large congregation. In the evening he consecrated the village cemetery. He also visited the schools, where he found 140 pupils. The colony comprises only 300 people, but it is rapidly increasing, and the need of a church is pressing. The foundation of one exists, and it seems a pity that the Government should leave the church unfinished. Major Rind, an extensive landholder in the district, is exerting himself to procure a further grant. Certainly, with a large and increasing Christian population in the neighbourhood, and European families about tea plantations year by year covering the Dhoon, such a church should be erected in this spot as would distinctly mark the religion of the inhabitants, and attract by its form and beauty the heathen around. Annfield is in such an out-of-the-way corner of the land, that unless its claims are strongly urged they will not meet with much attention; yet these agricultural bodies of self-supporting Christians are surely more satisfactory and more promising than some of the nominal Christians who are oocasionally met with."

From this interesting colony the Bishop proceeded to Dehra, Roorkee, Meerut, and thence to Delhi-everywhere performing the like duties with the like unwearied zeal and universal acceptance. At Delhi we read that large efforts are being made to introduce a system of Female Mission work, chiefly for the zenanas; but that ladies and funds are still wanted. We must especially notice, too, the consecration here of the Memorial Church of St. Stephen the Martyr :

"This church has more pretensions to architecture than perhaps any

other in the diocese. It is Lombardo-Gothic, and well situated by the side of a well-frequented thoroughfare. At the main entrance a small portion is divided off by pillars, forming a Narthex or unconsecrated outer court for the heathen, which, at the consecration, was crowded with a quiet and respectful congregation of spectators. There is also in this church a realization of the proper meaning of Baptism for adults, namely, that of immersion in a grave. The design of the bath was Dr. Kay's, represents an open tomb or sarcophagus, and bears the inscription Buried with Him in Baptism.' It merely requires a glance at the Service for the Baptism of Adults to show how this idea of death to sin, burial, and rising to a new life, pervades the whole ceremony, and how without such an arrangement Baptism is, to the native mind at least, apparently defective and unsatisfactory. It is gratifying to observe a graceful baptismal bath substituted for the hideous and meaningless hous, which is generally found in Mission churches. The old error of substituting aspersion for immersion in the Baptism of adult native converts has for some time been gradually corrected. The rest of this church presented nothing requiring notice, unless it be some unsightly mural decorations. The consecration in Hindustani of the church was most interesting: the singing of the choir excellent; the Gregorian tones being peculiarly well suited to the vernacular, and preventing the weary drawling which is so often the character of native Church music. The want of sympathy on the part of the English inhabitants of Delhi, most of whom were conspicuous by their absence, excited the astonishment and regret of many. If any place or church was girt about with associations of a national and Christian character, it was this. The memory of the martyred dead on the terrible 11th May, 1857, the recollections of the sufferings and sorrows that must have crowded on that spot, the remembrance also of the noble endurance, the hard work, the heroic assault which eventually wrested Delhi from the hands of rebels and murderers; above all, the devout reflection that at last, ten years afterwards, treachery, murder, and rapine were here repaid, after the Christian model of forgiveness, by peace, charity, and a burning zeal for the conversion of the very heathen who had wrought such bitter suffering,-all these considerations might have invested the scene and ceremony with some little interest for the Christian inhabitants of Delhi; but, beyond two or three families, none but natives were present. The Bishop preached in Hindustani, and the service concluded with Holy Communion, at which about sixty received. In the evening he addressed about 200 natives (for above an hour and a half), most of whom understood enough English to appreciate his argument."

From Delhi, Bishop Milman proceeded to Ghazeebad, Muttra, Agra. He arrived at Cawnpore on October 29, and left Cawnpore on November 4. Still advancing, we find him ten days later at Allahabad.

Passing over the remainder of this memorable visitation tour, we conclude with mentioning that on December 12th Bishop Milman, having returned to Calcutta, delivered there his Primary Charge. The Southern Cross states that it was short, but contained much that was suggestive, and has given very general satisfaction to the clergy. "Its tone was very conciliatory and moderate. It will satisfy all who read it, who desire to work

earnestly, who desire to see the Church advance-not for self-aggrandi sément, but for the promotion of the best interests of our own countrymen and of the native people of this mighty land-and who desire to seek peace and unity. Those who read a Bishop's Charge with a view to discover lines of ecclesiastical policy, or indications of party bias, must find these things for themselves in its pages if they will; they did not present themselves to the minds of the hearers on its delivery."

THE LATE REV. W. K. FLETCHER, OF BOMBAY. WILLIAM KEW FLETCHER, M.A. Cantab. Senior Chaplain of the Cathedral, Bombay, and who, after labouring in India for thirty-three years, came to England last spring in quest of health, died at Worthing on October 27th, 1867. The manner in which the intelligence of this event was received in India shows in what esteem he was held there. At Trinity Chapel, Bombay, three special services were held. At the first, when Holy Communion was celebrated, and an address by the Rev. C. Kirk delivered, "many of the communicants," says the Powla, “who were attached friends of the departed pastor, had travelled as much as twenty miles to be present." A funeral sermon, at the third service, was preached by the Rev. C. Gilder. Of the biographical sketches before us, we extract the following from the Times of India :

"Mr. Fletcher first arrived in Bombay in 1833, when he was appointed Chaplain of Sholapore, which office he filled but a short time, having been called to a sphere of greater usefulness as Chaplain of Byculla about 1835. Immediately on his arrival at Byculla, he took a great interest in the welfare of the Bombay Education Society's Schools. For several years he devoted much of his time (gratuitously) to the duties of secretary to those schools, and he maintained his interest in them throughout the whole of his subsequent career. In 1849, failing health necessitated his seeking a little repose in England, where he stayed a couple of years, rereturning to his labours in 1851, when he was appointed Chaplain of Kurrachee. From Kurrachee he was transferred to Poona, where he remained till 1855. On the death of Archdeacon Keys, Mr. Fletcher was appointed Senior Chaplain of the Cathedral, an office which he held till his final departure from India. How zealously he laboured in Bombay, both in connexion with the Cathedral itself, and in support of every movement having for its aim the spiritual or temporal good of the community, is too well known to require special mention. The restoration of the Cathedral was almost entirely owing to him, and with the new chancel and organ chamber his name will always be connected. During the thirty and odd years Mr. Fletcher was in Bombay, he saw at least half a dozen Governors come and go, as well as nearly all the friends and colleagues of his earlier years. As to his services during that period, a correspondent says: "I have seen him walking day after day in the burning sun and in pouring rains, and that too with painful disease, hungry and worn out with fatigue, discharging onerous and numerous self-imposed duties for the public benefit.... Nay, to whom do the two great Missionary Societies