Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-15

Ject that concerns all-the education Of
our children sermon of great ability
evincipg those rare qualities SC seldom,
found combined-that of the accomnlisbed
scholar, the close, logical reasoner, united
with remarkable gift of language, and
uttered with the voice of the true orator
It received the warm appreciation of tbo
prominent Clergy and Laity present, md
the desire was expressed that it should no
published, which hope IS still entertained
as it is believed that it's dissemination. inet
at this time, would do great good
Having modestly alluded to the fact that
he had been selected to deliver the annnaI
Convention Sermon, and to his dutv %
complying, the speaker said that both tbo
condition of the Diocese and the Sioto
seemed to prescribe the subject, which was
that of the religious education of the whit,
children of the land-the great question or
The dag. He said that we saw, on every
side, the efforts that are made to educatn
negro children OF the South. The Gov.
eminent was lavishly expanding its money
to give them secular knowledge; and the
Church with great liberality was sendinc
out her teachers and contributing her treas,
ure to establish and maintain free schools
for their education; while not a dollar WAS
given-not school house was built where
the children of the impoverished and helm.
less whites of the South might receive in
struction.
The question was, How the Church in
North Carolina should fulfill Her Divine
mission to the rising generation of Whites
Whether, unfaithful to Her mission, She
should stand idle, while the Government
WIS educating the inferior race, ard the
race Of Christianity was left in its poverty,
to pursue its downward course to ignor
ance and ruin Then with deep emotion,
and burst of true eloquence, he said, -
stand here to-day, Brethren of the Clergy
and Laity, to plead for childho I'd; to plead
for the children of the South to plead for
them in their ignorance; to plead for them
in their poverty; to plead for them in Their
hel plessness; and in pleading for them, |
am pleading for ourselves-for our coun-
try-and for our Church u
Then following closely the text, arguing
the necessity of educating our children in
religious faith and principles, saying that
they were the g oracles Of GoG-the silent
teachers of His truth-the bencfactOrs Of
mankind" he closed with stirring appeal
first to the Lalty, to build the school-houSt
and sustain the Minister in his labor O,
love and duty; and then to the Clergy
saying that If there were q subject that
should engage all their sympathies and
tax all their efforts, and demand their most
fervent prayers, it is the cause of the chill
dren of the land, in their helplessness and
poverty.
On the second day of the Convention,
the Committee appointed to memorabilia
the General Convention on the subject Of
relaxing the General Canon affecting the
division of Dioceses, made through their
Chairman, the Rev. A. A. Watson, an clab-
crate and learned report, which was order
ed to be printed
The Bishop then read his interesting
Annual Address, to which you have already
alluded, and which will appear in its usual
place in the Journal of the Convention.
On Friday the Committee on Canons,
through the Rev. DIR. Hubbard, Chairman
made report recommending some changes
in the Canons of the Diocese, and the
Committee on Unfinished Business, with
other standing committees, made their
reports.
The Committee on the Endowment Of
the Episcopate, consisting of Col. Ere
mont, Chairman, Gen. Cox, Gen. Martin,
Jno. Wilkes, Jno. Hughes, r. Il. Fulghum
and W. A. B. Norcum, Esqs.. were re-
elected, and Kemp p. Battle added, with
power to appoint general agents.
The Committee upon that portion of the
Bishops Address abiding to the deaths Of
the Presiding Bishop and the Bishop Of
Missouri, then presented through the
Chairman, the Rev. r. E. Terry, the fol-
lowing resolutions:
almighty God having removed from the
scenes of their earthly labors to the intermediate
state, there to await the resurrection of the Ist,
our Right Reverend Fathers in God, John Henry
Hopkins. D. D., l.. L D., D. 9. l., Presiding
Bishop Of the Church in the United States Of
America, and Bishop Of Vermont; and Cicero
Stephens Hawks, d. d., l. l.. D., Bishop of Mis-.
souri,, and native Of this Diocese
ResOlUed, That we desire to place upon the
Records of the Church of North Carolina an e2-
preston of our love and generation for the de-
ceased Prelates, the late Bishops of Vermont and
Missouri, and our sense Of the great loss the
Church has to endure in their deaths
ResOIUed, That copies OF these resolutions BIZ
forwarded to the families of the deceased Bishops
with assurances that the Diocese of North Caro-.
lima mingles her sympathes with the tears of tue
bereaved families.
When the above resolutions were submit
ted the whole House arose, and with fit
ting solemnity they were unanimously
passed.
The Committee on the election OF an
Assistant Bishop made the following re-
port:
"The Committee appointed to consider that
portion of the Bishops Address having reference
to the election of an Assistant Bishop, beg leave
to report that, while they concur with the Bishop
in that portion of his address in regard to the
election Of an Assistant, that the progress Of the
Church in the Diocese would be promoted by H..
appointment of an Assistant Bishop yet, in Their
opinion, the necessity contemplated by Section
Of Canon XIII of the Church Of the United State
in reference to the election Of Assistant Bisnop,
does not seem to exist; and, therefore, they re-
commend that no action DO taken in the matter
for the present.
"Signed, L. Z. TERRY, Chairman
On motion, the above report was made
the order of the day for Saturday at II
o'clock-at which time the report Of the
Committee was concurred in, thus dispos-
ing of the matter Of an Assistant Bishop
at present.
In the afternoon the usual elections were
held, the Old Boards and Committees be-
ing generally re, elected.
At this Convention our Clergy and Laty
we're well represented, nearly all the form
er being present; while among the latter,
were many names of which we may justly
be proud-that distinguished jurist, Judge
Battle; the accomplished ex-Minister at
the Court of Spain, Gen. Barringer. Mr..
Wilkes, of Charlotte, Gen. Cox, Colonel