The daily gazette., 1883-10-06
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION
FULL REPORT OF YESTER-
DAYS PROCEEDINGS.
BISHOP THoRoLD's COMPLIMENTS
Protestant Episcopal Growth in the Far
West-Bishop Hare's work Among the
Indians.

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| PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.--Dr. Thorold, the
Bishop of Rochester, England, was intro
duced to the Episcopal Convention this
morning, and addressed the house. all the
deputies remaining standing. Let no one
persuade you, he said, that England has
ceased TO love America. The English Church
Is proud of the life and activity of her
daughter. We in the old country do not
Ieel as II we are In our decrepitude yet. The
American Church is foremost among the re-
ligtous bodies of which he might truly call
a religious land. In less than 100 Years SO
sees have been created in this country with
out asking the permission of Legislature.
In the words of Cardinal Newman and John
Bright, only be united among yourselves
and you will be invincible. When the house
met with the House of Bishops as the Board
| OF Missions, the rules were suspended in
| order that The Bishop of Rochester might
present a communication from the Arch
bishop of Canterbury. DIR. Thorold said
that the Archbishop desired to con-
| graduate the American church on the ap-
| preaching centenary of the conservation Of
the Right Rev. Bishop Seabury. He said
| he would do all in his power to persuade
Archbishop Benson to visit the United
states. He knew what progress this blessed
cnurch was making in this great country.
The American church is not guilty of that
Infinite baseness of telling us because there
is work to DO at home, the work abroad
must not be done. Although his diocese had
been founded 200 years ago, 1t was mis-
sionary diocese. He had heard that the
| Episcopal Church was the church of the
althy and not of the masses.
He did not believe it. The conditions
| In this country are different from those
OF England, but the needs are the same.
He considered the United States as the
| Kingdom of common sense Much of our
preaching is unintelliglble to the masses,
but must we leave them to themselves? The
key to the problem is: 'tLet a mission
church be annexed to every wealthy hurch,
| and see that the congregation are cared
ior." There are some who, If asked to
mount chair in the open air and preach to
the working people, would reply that they
| would rather be banged. He did not wish
to be considered guilty of impertinent fat
terry, but when he went home he always said
that the Amelic people were the most
religious people in the world, and
he considered any religion better than none.
He wished the laymen in America to reflect
that their Master might have work for
them to do here that they never thought of
before. You are all of you born speakers,
and If you can speak on politics, and tenn
perance and other subjects, why cannot you
speak in the service of the Lord jesus
Christ. Another subject was the battle with
intemperance. We may have as many free
churches and free libraries as we please, but
as long as the demon of fntcTnpoI auccs
haunts our homes the churches will be use
less. At st. Louis recently he heard some
of the best speakers he ever heard in his life,
A man got up at that meeting and stated
that all the raVages of fire, civil war, ETC.,
were not equal to the evil caused by intem-
perance. If you want to earn the eternal
will use your energies and prayers
In this battle against intemperance.
The letter from tie Archbishop of Canter-
bury was then read by Bishop Lee, the
deputies standing. 1t congratulated the con-
yention on the approaching centenary of the
conservation of Bishop Seabury, the first pre-
late of the Episcopal Church In America.
Congratulations were also read from the
society for the propagation of the Gospel in
foreign parts. The second triennial report
of the Board of Managers to the Board of
Missions stated that the total income was
81 ,169 ,65S, being an increase of S22O,73l,
Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska, reported
that his diocese was able to support its own
bishop. 1t has SO clergy, 35 churches, 1890
communicates, the church institution,
cathedral, a hospital, bishops residence
oh0 a LhOuSldLO ILplhCOpdl 6uuOWmeuba
Bshap Clarason pleaded for bishops for
Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and even
Alaska. Bishop Williams, of Yedo, re-
ported that since the last convention the
number of catechists and assistants had
doubled and foreign teachers had increased
from two to five, the number of schools
from four to eight, scholars from 10 to 90,
and there are now 10 chapels.
Bishop Hare, of Niobrara, maintained
that the Indians were mentally and morally
a superior people, but with any bargain un-
dertaken with our people they have been
egregiously swlndled. II an outbreak OF
Indian violence should make us shudder
we must remember that with sense of
their great wrongs they are apt to forget
themselves. There are in his diocese Is
clergymen of who five are natives. They
have several books in his own language. If
any one thing has made the Indian the prey
of the white man, it is that they have lived
on little reservations and constitute an in
digestlble mass of which the social body
was anxious to get rid. The sooner the In
dians are like our people, the sooner they
will cease to be Indians. In Niobrara there
are 13 ministering women and 13 clergymen.
During the past three years Se4 adults and
46S children have been baptized and in the
past ten years 900 persons have been pre-
sented at confirmation. The Board of Mis-
sions then adjourned.