The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-05-25
Progress of the Episcopal Church
in Florida.

Ill Florida.
The Council of the Episcopal
Church of Florida was held in Jack
sonvllle last week. The following
most encouraging and gratifying ac>
count OF the work going on in the
Diocese is from report which we find
In the Union of Bishop Young's ad.
dress at the conclusion of the SEES.
sion:
The Bishop first spoke of the
ratio of its increase TO that of the
whole population Of this State dur.
ing the last ten years, as shown by
comparing its official published sta.
tlstlcs with the census reports for
1870 and 1880 respectively. The
bishop stated that in 1870 there was
one communicant of the church for
every 322 OF the whole population
Florida, while in 1880 there is one
COMMUNICATE of the church to every
l72 OF the population, proving a gain
OF the church in growth upon the
increase of the population between
1870 and 1880 of $50 per cent, thus
showing that the increase in num-
bers OF the church has not only kept
pace with the increase OF the popuIa
ton, but has doubled, and nearly
trebled, the ratio it bore to the
whole population ten years ago.
But what was much more surpris-
ing than the foregoing statistics is the
proofs that the Bishop gave otthe vigor
and success with which the work of
that church is being now carried tor
ward in this State, as manifest from
the namber OF church edlices that
have been erected, or are now in pro-
cess OF erection, with the funds in
hand TO complete them, within the
last two years The names OF the
places given by the Bishop where
these buildings shaVe baen huilt or.
are now in progress, were as follows
Pensacola, Mariana, Tallahassee,
Lake City, Orange Park, Green Cove
Spring, Federal Point, Welaka, San
ford, Longwood, Maitland, Cedar
Key, Fairbanks, Waldo, Santa Fe,
Ocala, and besides these the Chapel
of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn,
which the Bishop opened Sunday be-
fore last, and the Church of the Holy
Cross at Marguerite, near Sanderson,
which has been consecrated within
the two years Besides these eigh-
teen churches completed within the
last two years, or now advancing to
completion, with the requisite funds
for this now in hand, the Bishop re-
marked that few weeks ago $500
were deposited, subject to his order,
IN bank in New York, for the erec-
tion of church on Fort George Is
land, which will be completed this
summer, and a few days since a
thousand dollars were given him by
gentleman of Hartford, Connectl-
cut,t be appropriated IN the Bishops
discretion to aid in The erection of
churches, maEing twenty church edi-
fees in all, added within two years
to those previously existing in this
Diocese. And these, the Bishop
added, are not ordinary, secular look.
ing buildings of the school house
type, but are all built from designs
by competent professional architects,
and are thoroughly churchly in style,
with open timber roofs, and almost
all, stained glass windows; while
none are encumbered with debt, or
ownership OF pews, the siLtings in
them all being open and free to every
one alike. Besides these, the Bishop
added the church at Milton and the
one at Hibernia, which were COM
menced more than two years ago, are
sufficiently advanced towards compile.
tion to be comfortably used, while at
Madison, Mandarin, Lake Como,
DeLand, Orlando, Yalaha and Fer
nandina, measures are now in active
progress for the erection OF churches
which, it is hoped, will be completed
during the coming year, and which
added 10 the twenty before named
will make twenty. church build
ings erected by the kpiscopalians in
this Diocese, III the briet period OF
three years.
In concluding his most interesting
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