IN BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 24 February 1912, Page 3

IN BRIEF.

Tho. Bishop of Chichester has been presented in Chichester Cathedral with an embroidered cope and mitre, the gift oi 338 Sussex parishes. The Bishop, in expressing thanks to the deputation ot clergy and laity who made the presentation, maintained that tho cope and mitre had always been legal garments of Anglican Bishops, but added that he should never use them in episcopal functions at parish churches unless asked to do so by the vicar and churchwardens. At Winchester Cathedral on Day Canon Stemiing (hon. treasurer) and Dr. I'reston-Joy (hon secretary) prcsenltd an offertory of over -£7CO to defray tne cost of one of the buttresses now being erected on tho south side ol the Cathedral nave as a support to tho underpinned south wall. This buttrcfs is to be inscribed "In Memory of John Keble. The church at llursley was rebuilt by Keole out of the profits of "The Christian \ ear. The sum appealed for was JaiO, am rather over .£7OO has been subscribed. 01 this .£IOO has been contributed by tm> Winchester High School for Girls. Dr. Jowctt, having put in three months of continuous work at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, toon a fcun day off on December 31, and his pulpii was occupied by Dr. Hubert K. Speur, <it the Presbyterian Board of loreign Mis. sions. Dr. Jowctt has changed the haul of his afternoon service from i to ■!.■)». He savs he cannot help feeling anxious about Carrs Lano\ and it will greatly ail" to his happiness in America to know .hat a suitable successor has been found loi his old church. Mr. John Wanarnaker declares that "the coming of Dr. Jowett will do more for New \ork than wuld the coming of any other one man. The Rev. Charles Geeson, who was re, oently ordained deacon by the Bishop o Durham, was formerly Congregational Minister at Stockton-on-Tees and ac Leeds. The Rev. W. Norman Blakf, Nesiejan minister, has tendered his resignation on tho ground that ho is about to be admitted to the Church of England. he ov George Knowlson, pastor of Dukinheld Old Hall Congregational Church, informed his deacons on a recent Sunday that ho had decided to join the Church ot England. Mr Gladstone Dowic, the only son of the founder of Zion City, has not oniy abandoned "Dowicism," but is about to become a candidate for ordination m the Protestant Episcopal Church, lie was originally trained for the legal profession, and has practised law in Michigan for several years.