The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-30
Protestant Episcopal Annual Council.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Richmond Dispatch


! WHEELING. May 26, 1870.
| Last night the yearly public meeting OF
the Diocesan Slnday-School Union was held
| in st. Matthew's church, Bishop white ID
the chair. After service (read by the Rev
r. G. Dashiell and the Rev. H. Suter), the
regular annual sermon was preached by tne
Rev. Henry Wall, D. D., of Richmond, on
the text, Feed my lambs" 1t was a
vigorous and earnest discourse.
The business of the meeting had special
reference to an extension OF the circulation
of the Diocesan Sunday-Scho0l paper, Earty
Dovs, published in Richmond. A debt OF
$500, incurred for its gratuitous distribution
since the last Council, was provided for at
| once by subscriptions of persons present.
The Recording Secretary, Mr.. j. + Glenn,
of your city, rendering his resignation, the
vacancy was filled by the election of Mr.. L..
NJ. Blackboard, of Nelson.
Several additions were made to the lay
representation in the executive committee
among whom were Professor NJ. Mcdonald,
of the Military Institute, and Eugene DAVIS,
ESQ, of Charlottesville.
At the morning session Of the Council TO-
day the chief features were the annual ad-
dresses Of the bishop and assistant blshop.
1t appears that nearly twelve hundred per-
sons have been confirmed during the last
than in any preceding one. There are other
indications of a healthy state of things in
the diocese. Bishop Johns's address was
marked by even more than usual of that in
comparable grace and Vigor that charac-
teriZes every emanation from his pen, and
exhibited anything but that decline OF in
tellectllal power which might be expected
at seventy-four. 1t will be read everywhere
with interest. The growing practice OF
Protestant parents sending their children
to Roman Catholic schools was strongly
rcprobated. and its evils depicted in elO-
quent terms. The Episcopal Church in
Virginia cannot be understood hereafter as
giving any uncertain sound doctrine on this
momcntous question. Touching reference
was made by the Bishop to the late Rev. Il.
Il. Lippitt, of Fairfax, and William Friend,
ID. D., of Caroline, two aged Presbytcrs, re-
Gently deceased.
The afternoon session was chiefly marked
by the Offering of a new and extended canon
on ycstrics by Rev. j. LII. d. Wingtcld, ID.
D., of Petersburg, chairman OF a committee
appointed at the last Council. The subject
treated is one of great Importance, and The
present statutes regarding it demand tho
rough reconsideration. The Council is for
tunate in having secured in this connection
the services of so able and laborious cler-
gyman as DR.. Wingfeld, and showed its ap-
probation of his pains by ordering the pro-
posed canon to be printed as an appendix to
the journal, and postponing its discussion
until the next Council.
A new canon materially affecting the disci-
plne of the Church in regard to eNcommu-
nication of members, offered by the Rev.
james Grammer, Of Jefferson, was appro-
priately referred, and will be discussed to-
morrow.
About a hundred and twenty-five dele
gates, including fifty lavmen, are present.
The utmost harmony prevails. CLEMENS.