Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-15
Euiscopal Conference.

Episcopal Conference. | The Mission Work in Various Fields. t
 The closing sessions of the Episcopal Mis- sionary Conference were held yesterday at I Trinity church. The principal features of I the morning, after the devotional exercises, were first discussion of missionary topics, , of two hours' duration, in which number { of gentlemen participated with suggestive re marks and effective addresses on the mission cause, the discussion being opened by Rev. Joshua Kimber, secretary of the Foreign committee, followed by the Rev. Wm. Tat
 lock, D. D., of Stamford. The second no-
 table feature was an interesting account of the work in Mexico, given by Rev. Abbott
 Brown, general secretary of the League.
 A letter by Bishop Prudencio G. Hernandez, Bishop-eIect of Cuernavaca, was referred to, which spoke with faith and hope of the work | in Mexico, which had already been crowned with marvellous success achieved in spite of | the loss of its first founder, Presbyter Aq uilar, in its most critical moments. and in
 the face of great opposition from the Romish |
 church.
 The church in Mexico has one bishop and | one bishop p-elect twelve other presbyters, l twenty theological students, twelve lay read |
 CTS, five teachers in orphanage, five profes- | sors in the seminary, and thirty-two other Christian workers and missionary work in | interior places is receiving impetus from | the extension of railway communication,
 connecting distant points with the capital
 The different educational institutions are prospefous.
 Rev. MT. Brown gave an interesting de-
 scription of the mode of worship in the Re- |, formed church of Mexico, and told of the , struggles of the Protestant missionaries in | contending with the scholastic power of the ! clergy of the Roman Catholic church, partic- l ularly in the City of Mexico.
 al At the conclusion of Rev. Abbott Browns address, Rev. George W. Douglass, an assist F ant minister at Trinity church, New York, opened the discussion on Home Missions to l Colored People" giving some valuable hints t ! connected with the subject
 Among recent labors of Bishop Williams in . this diocese were the ordination to the priesthood of Rev. D. l.. Sanford, of Thomp-
 sonville, and the consecration of St. James n church at Danbury, which has just paid of a n debt of upwards of $13,000.
 T EVENING SERVICES.
 IS At the evening session, Bishop Williams . presiding, after devotional exercises, a0 exz if cellent address on the missioRu n country was deliysn work in th1 " ton. rector cred by Rev. James Haugl q q >yf St. Johns church, Yonkers, \
 fl Y. He was followed by the Rev. Albert ( Ing Bum, M. D., formerly missionary physicia of at Wuchang China. He spoke with dee his e1;,, e tI ;,,,.a .l .- Ia of the Bishop in China, and of the medici the and hospital philanthropic work of th ed church in China and Japan. Two more mi, '' sionaries were at once needed at Shangha
 The door was open for'God's work in thos nel countries. The speaker closed with a quots for tion from one of the old sages in China wh axe lived several hundred years before Christ 1ha was almost prophetic of the coming of Chri CIV and was clothed in purity and beauty of e1 CIV precision like fine passage from Holy Wri m. The Bishop next introduced Rev. Cortland a- Whitehead, D. D., rector of the Church rk, the Nativity, South Bethlehem, Penn. D ok. Whitehead said it was notorious that an al TX nouncement of a missionary meeting was 8
 advertisement which kept many away frol
 the meeting. The speaker felt disqualife
 to speak after real live missionary had SD, ing ken like Dr. Bum. He regretted that thel son was not more of the missionary spirit. Thei ma should be more missionary preaching. 4 lch Advent how singularly appropriate is sue and preaching. At Epiphany how appropriate be- discourse on the work in foreign fields 'nd What few subjects for preaching which d dg- not suggest the missionary spirit Chris uld mas-how suggestive of the need of Dreac] ter ing the gospel to all people Epiphany su, ed. gests it. Then Easter-when we preach abo, ay, the newly risen Lord, how we immediate 's feel that we want all to share in o, TO- joy, and then Ascension comes, telling lew that God reigns the king of the universe ;- at how appropriate to tell all men to bend u nd knee and eonsecrate their lives to Him. No ces Pentecost comes-a day most suggestive , and the missionary spirit. Trinity Sunday, to
 when we learn of God, being whose oW
 happiness was enhanced by sending first h y only begotten1Son and then his Spirit as mi use sionsries;- "a God who spared not himsel inc but sent his only begotten Son. So ever ish phase of doctrine will lead to some trutl all This the speaker illustrated. Further, u hen speaker remarked on the exclamation ofte on- heard about the stupidity of sermons, b, mt sermons full of the missionary spirit are n
 stupid. There were two evidences of u few Christians assurance of peace with Go ing They were the practice of private prayer ar of the possession of the missionary spirit IT be- speaker made an appeal for subscriptions ing the Spirit ef Missions and devoted atte1 of tion to it's contents, however dry they migl ~, be, would bring blessing to the soul Nor ~ over, secular blessing also would inure fro ol it's faithful perusal, it involved an increa, re- of geographical knowledge-knowledge to far away lands.
 The exercises closed with the Gloria in E. 0". celsis and the benediction.