Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-08
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
SECOND DAY-WEDNEsDAY.

The delegates from the Episcopal church
in Maine, assembled in convention at Port
land, re-assembled on Wednesday morning.
Rev. w. ii. Washburn was chosen to fill the
vacancy in the clerical delegates to the Gen.
eral convention.
Re solutions of respect were passed to the
memory of the late Rev. DIR. Edward Ballard
Of Brunswick.
The report ofthe Trustees of St. GATHERINGS
Hall shows that the average number of board
ers during the first school year was &c, of
whom were inhabitants of other States; the
second year, average 30, from without the
State, IL; for the fourth year, commencing
the 18th of September, applications have been
received from 54; 45 are actually engaged
of these, are from other States Not more
than AZ boarding pupils can be comfortably
provided for in the present quarters. Some
enlargement of the building has been made,
by putting third story over one of the wings.
If third story be extended over the original
building, accommodations will be afforded for
twenty additional pupils. During the year
5000 has been received for the library fund
by the liberalty of J. III. Simonds of Conn.
The cost OF the corporate property is $28, 269.-
As; the amount of Indebtedness Sl4, 44062.
The Board of Trustees of St. GATHERINGS
Hall were elected as follows The Rt. Rev.
Henry A. Nicely. ID. D., Messrs. Allen Lam
bard, Henry ingalls,, James Bridge, Dudley
f. Leavitt, Thomas Lambard, John Marahall
Brown, Eliphalet Mott, G. L. b. Jackson,
Francis G. Richards, James T. Patten, Josiah
z. Wyman, Chas. b. Merrill, Robert II. Gar
diner, James II. McMullen.
The Finance committe was instructed to
assess upon the parishes the same sum as
Bishops salary as was assessed last year, and
such sum as may be found necessary for con-
tingent expenses and to hear representatives
of the parishes as to the proportion of assess
ments.
Very interesting and cheering reports were
listened to from Rev. Mr.. Marsden of ST.
Johns Church, Dresden. Rev. Mr.. Alger
of Saco, in relation to church work and pros
poets in Saco and Biddeford, and Rev. Mr.
Ogden of Grace Church, Bath. The Bishop
read the report of the Rector of Trinity
Church, Lewiston, in regard to the church in
Lewiston, and the occasional ministrations at
Auburn and Sabattusville. He made the
gratifying statement that the teachers and
young ladies of ST. GATHERINGS Hall had con-
tributed $500 toward the support of an itin-
Grant missionary.
Mr.. Washburn, of st. Paul's Mission, Fort
Fairfield, gave an extended account of the
missionary work in Arosstook County, which
showed good degree of success. The ex-.
pendtures for missionary purposes in the
county had been about 900, of which
about $4,000 had been contributed by the
people of the county, and there is about 3d.
900 of church property there.
The convention then resolved itself into the
Maine Episcopal Missionary Society, and Mr..
r. II. Gardiner, the Treasurer, made his re-
port, stating the amount of expenditures for
the year to be S27l8.72. Mr.. Gardiner was
reelected Treasurer.
AFTERNOON.
The Finance Committee reported that the
Bishops salary be fixed at $1,000, and the
contingent fund at $500, with list of assess.
ments.
Messrs. J. NJ. Brown, James Bridge, r.
II. Gardiner, M. ID. L. Lane, and Henry
Ingalls,, were appointed a committee to con-
slider the whole matter Of apportionment for
Bishops salary and contingent expenses, and
specially to inquire into the rights and obi
cations of the convention and the Parishes
with respect to the same and report to the
next convention.
The Bishop then addressed the convention,
and after evening prayer the convention ad-
journed to meet in st. Luke's Cathedral,
Portland, on the first Tuesday of September,
1872.