The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-05-23

John Stewart, of Richmond.
The Council then adjourned until to-mor.
row morning.
Bishop Johns's Report.
The following extracts from the annual
| report OF Bishop Johns, made on Thursday,
| will be read with interest:
WORLDLY CONFORMITY.
We have reason to rejoice at the numbers
| who during the past year have been lad
| mitted to the fellowship of Christ's reli-
gion," and often to pray that they may
avoid those things which are. contrary to
their profession, and follow such things as are
| agreeable to the same" Happy and prosper
Gus is the parish where this is the case. On
the contrary, few things more hinder the
| Word and neutralize the ministry than
worldly conformity on the part Of profess
sorS. When the solemn vows, made with
the lips before God and His people in His
house are deliberately disregarded by
INDUCING in those pomps and vani-
nounced it is not surprising that such
no credit TO the Church, and only afford to
votaries of the world plausible preteXt for
pronouncing personal piety mere sham ;
and so our dear Lord is wounded in the
| house of his friends. How far such cases
may beattributed to ministerial delinquency
presume not to judge, but surely their eX-
istence, which is notorious, may we'll stir us
| up to very careful discrimination in aiding
those who come to be partakers Of the privi-
leges of the Church, untirng vigilance for
| their steadlastness and growth after they be-
| come part of our care, faithful monitors when
occasion requires, and, if need be, the firm but
tender use of the discipline Of Christ as the
Lord hath commanded, and we have prom
| ised to minister so that His Church and peo-
| pie receive no damage through our culpable
omission.
I could not excuse myself if / failed to
notice the extending and intense interest
| which is felt in reference to the suppression
| of one Of the great evils of the day. mean
| the vice of intelnperance. The people all
| the country over are rising to resist its pro-
gress and prohibit the abuses to which Its
fearful prevalence is ascribed. .
State Legislatures are devising stringent
| measures, and our National Congress is serl-
ously considering how our country may be
protected against this terribly degrading and
destructive evil, more ruinous than war,
pestilence, famine, and flood. Where these
| slav their thousands, intemperance Stays its
tens of thousands. In England the concern
extends from the people to the highest
ranks i'm Church and State, determining to
continued effort to arrest the spreading ruin
and at least save the rising generation. FMS
diocese has early, often, and loudly uttered
its warning voice, and l trust it will con-
true to speak from its pulpits, through lts
press. and in its Annual Council in words
of compassionate concern and Christian
fa;thfulness .g. III IF
THE SEMINARY CENTENNIAL AND THE REV. DR..
..,. SPARROW. F., e-s.
During the past year our seminary, TO
which so many of the clergy OF THIS ana
other dioceses of our foreign missionary sta-
tons have been indebted for their training
for the service of the Church, celebrated It's
fiftieth anniversary. The attendance was
large. the services were appropriate, the re-
union too delightful to be soon forgotten.
Rnt the hallelujahs had scarcely ceased when
we were plunged in grief by the death OF the
honored and beloved Dean of the Faculty,
the Rev, William Sparrow, D. D., who, Tor q
third of century had adorned and Diessea
our seminary by his eminent piety, extraor-
binary intellectual endoWments, ana hnsui-
passed skiIl and devotion in the services OF ms
nrofessorship. Such bereavement must nave
nnnerved and discouraged us but for the as
curonce that the interests at stake were inc
Lords. and that because He lives they snail
live also: and therefore we bow down not
in despondency, but in hopeful prayer tnat
He who has hitherto so signally favored tnis
;nstitution will in its advancing age crown IL
with blessings SURPRISING those by WHICH us
youth has been distinguished.
s.a,@. aEssRs. LATANE AND MCCORMICK.
,-.,o.odarossad tn me by the Rev. j.
A, Latane, late rector Oh 81. Ma a 1e1a
church, Wheeling, dated January IL; i s.ass
he announced to me bis -Wltnara M!. .aaU.n
the ministry of the Protestant hplseop 81
Church; and ina letter datea feDrua r'
1874, addressed to me by the hes. ~ ~ : -
Me- ormick, who had been onciating ~ .
missionary in Petersburg, ne maze . silpiiai
| announcement. :, so,or 7
have In each Of these cases deemed iL PTopasal
to suspend action for SIX months, tle nen &c
of IS forbearance +" allowed by section POI
canon 5, title 2. i. .' ...,s
PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Tn reportine the events and services OF tnt
| ,,ost wear T cannot refrain from acknoWlens
mo mo anew the goodness Of God in my con
naStion with o diocese with Wnlch may:
ever found myself in cordial sympathy, an.
where everything that kind consioelas:isVnL
could do TO further me In my respoustsD a
WORK anf, alleviate it's unavoidable CARES Ia 70
been 80 readily and .delicately renaere9 J! y:
INV ;nrethren OF the clergy aud laity. IS
cc.rd fhis testimony now and mere sus sl
! o fh similar opportunity may mol occus' &
80 rHr CHURCH N THE DIOCESE - + :. .s
II -. - thu Catholic r',anroh In Oh