The New York herald., 1872-10-30

PROTESTANT

Proceedings neutrality-suspicious., Debates.
Resolutions, Ssc.-Secial Reunion LAST
Night.
The business session OF this Board was held yes,
terday in the Church or the Holy Saviour, In
Twenty-ffth street, near Madison avenue tho
Right Rev. Bishop McCosker presiding. Reports
were read from the missionary dioceses OF Ne
braska and Dakota, the Indian Territory, Mon
tana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington Territory ana
other stations in the far West. The Bishop OF Me-
braska presented an admirably concise aud well
selected synopsis Of his labOrs in that region.
When he went there, seven years ago, there were
seven ministers in 1t; there are now forty-one.
There were then $50 communicates; there are now
1900. The population has increased from $4,000 to
250,o00 In Dakota there are i've churches and six
ministers in population OF 10000. In the Indian
mission, 800 miles north OF Nebraska,
on the Upper Missouri River, there are
nine white and three Indian cergymen
and six Indian chapels, besides schools and parson-
ages During o recent visitation to this mission
ary diocese the Bishop confirmed elghty-rwo In
dians. There are 400 native communicates In the
. Episcopal Church there. A missionary Bishop, ex-
clusively for this diocese is greatly needed. The
Bishop OF Montana gave a rather despondent view
OF the Church in Virginia City, where the Method
lists and Baptists have lately made incurslons, and
he feared the Church would have to withdraw:
They have only five communicates, but no church
building there, and the people had not had time
to get love for the Prayer Book the other de-
nominations entered and drew them away. In
the Territory during the year fortythr hap
tized, seven confirmed and there are forty five com.
municants. In Idaho they have twenty-three conn
municants In Utah the Church is doing better,
but its institutions are greatly in debt. In Salt
Lake City, Corinne and some other places there il
an aggregate debt OF $24 900 the Bishops hands.
In this Territory fity-seven were baptized and
Mexico the late John David WOLF OF this CITY; Mr..
Jarvis, OF Brooklyn, and Mr.. Matthews, OF Boston,
have built churches and schools and colleges fof
the missions There are number Of students train.
ing for the ministry in these Schools and the future
Is propitiOuS for the Church
The report from Oregon and Washington Terri
tory showed plenty OF hard work Tor the Bishop
and the clergy, and only partial success; They
In the small towns and growing villages. The
people are poor, but they do what they can fot
The annual report Of the Foreign Committed
showed that the parish collections which are the
M o ree an ha S ee @
source the year before. The number OF parishea
contributing has increased from 794, in 1871, to
1,063, in 1872 There are still 1000 congregations
In this land who do not contribute dollar to send
the Gospel to the heathen. The total receipts Of
s1lo7 7s2 81 and the expenditures to s1l527O 62 Of
this sum $l7,594 was left by egacies. The foreign
ary; in Africa, thirty. lve missionaries; in ChinaJ
nineteen; in Japan, one; in Hayti, six. Not q
single missionary has been added to the stan in
Africa for number OF years, and comparatively
few to the other missions. Missionarieg
are greatly needed in those helds and
cussion in the afternoon session on delegate
meetings, at which Rev. DR.. Leeds offered o resolu5
tiOn, which was adopted, requesting the missionary
secretaries to provide for at least one such meeting
In every diocese during the coming, year. Dr3
Haight called attention to the lamentabe fact that
SO few parishes ever contribute cent to the misi
si0nary enterprises of the Church. And even mems
bers OF the several committees. while holding post
tions on those committees don't show that they
care one cent whether the missions they represent
succeed or not. discussion the several reporta
took place In the evening. and after adjournmenta
at nine O'Clock, the Board of Missions had recep3
tion and reunion at the residence Of Rev. Dr.
Haight, in Twenty-sxth street, where an hour on
more Of social enjoyment was spent. To-day tho
Board will resume its business session and will COM
clude the unfinished business before the body, sd
that tomorrow the House OF Bishops can sit I'd
elect Missionary Bishop for Africa and probably
also Bishop for Massachusetts, and for the lndiau
Territory, as recommended yesterday by Bishop
CarkSOn.