The Spirit of missions . rained in the Theologioal School herein Rio Grande for the past six years, except Mr. Guido Zumbuhl, who cameto us from England two years of the candidates, Mr. Miguel daCunha, like his brother before him, tookhis theological course at his own charges,rather an unusual occurrence, it isthought in the mission field, if not quiteunique. The ordination sermon was preachedby the Rev. William Cabell Brown, ,now senior missionary in Rio deJaneiro. The preface to the Ordinal wasread by the Rev. A. V. Cabral, of Trin-ity Church, Porto Alegre. CandidatesJose Sever
The Spirit of missions . rained in the Theologioal School herein Rio Grande for the past six years, except Mr. Guido Zumbuhl, who cameto us from England two years of the candidates, Mr. Miguel daCunha, like his brother before him, tookhis theological course at his own charges,rather an unusual occurrence, it isthought in the mission field, if not quiteunique. The ordination sermon was preachedby the Rev. William Cabell Brown, ,now senior missionary in Rio deJaneiro. The preface to the Ordinal wasread by the Rev. A. V. Cabral, of Trin-ity Church, Porto Alegre. CandidatesJose Severe da Silva and Miguel Bas-cellas da Cunha were presented by theRev. John G. Meem, President of theStanding Committee, and dean of theTheological School. Candidates JoseBrazilieuse Leao and Guido AdolphoZumbuhl were presented by the Thomas, while Nemesio deAlmeida and Ignacio de OliveiraMachado were presented by the Mello. Communicants to the number of 150or more made their communion, per- (17). (18) The Brazilian Church in Council 19 vaded seemingly by a deep sense of theirown fleshly kinship and spiritual fellow-ship with those who that day buckled ontheir armor. To the bishop especially, the Gloria inExcelsis held a deep note of joy andthanksgiving, as he tihought of how thetwo pioneer missionaries had grown byGods increase into twenty, all of whomwere present except the Rev. Mr. Sergei,detained by his work in Rio de lest this day of small things pro-voke a smile among those accustomedto larger numbers, let it be sadd, thatwith the possible exception of BritishGuiana, this was the largest gatheringof clergy of the Anglican Communionever held on the South American conti-nent. Ihe ^ening Services On each evening during council, aservice was held and a sermon waspreached by one of the visiting bishop and all the clergy, except oneor two absent on committee or othernecessary work, were unfailingly present,robed in the chancel. In
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