Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-02
Ending Of the Episcopal Convention

Ending OF the EplsCoPai convention.
The general convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church at Philadelphia, after
session of twenty. enc days closed on Friday
18th. After prayer and singing, the pastor
al letter was read by 1t. Rev. Bishop Hunt
ington. After speaking cheerfuny OF the
church, the letter says:
Pastoral LETTER.
We had better confess on the score of
theological education. in ample Libraries,
in strong endowments, in multiplying
branches of research, in even pace with the
best students abroad, we have no boasts to
make before one il not two or three OF Chris
tan bodies working and wo'shipping OF our
side, in fact nothing at all worthy of our >u-
perior heritage and traditions, under the
same double law, permanence and move
ment, the church finds the motive and joy
of her missionary action. las the father
hath sent me. so I send YOU" Foreign
missions, home missions, missions Ito men
of any tongue or color are but the unf lding
and spreading OF the pow of one incaraste
lie that j. universal, and so
mus, our missionaries be. There is
no difference between Jew and Gentle
humanity, dead or dying in sin, always the
foreign laid. All souls covenanted with
the church are at home with Our elder
brother, and the conventlon's never-ceasing
! unprecedented repor 8, evaugelizlng toll.
stirred our hearts. Strong voices told us oi
boil! enterprises, SO Vast that our weak
faith hardly knows whether they mus
arouse or discourage u.s. that have been ex-
posed all over the earth in twenty years and
| never more censpicuously thao 81 ice our
last trienniaa meeting. This church has
been awakened TO increased l,ractie al sympa
thy with the weaker and suffering CLASSES
victims OF social wrong, unequal laws. in
tenn perance III drink and MISCONCEPTIONS tr f.
| 6c IN them and sometimes OF merCiless
wealth.
The letter treats of emigration and says:
In the action Of this commission, taking
| measures to provide Christian care for the
| immense number Of European emigran,s
daily arriving at our seaports and lakeports
and distributed over the co tinent, there is
| pointed out line of usefulness pee. liar to
! our condition, open to the clergy and laity
alike.
! The bishops next take up the question Of
! the dissertation of the marriage vow and
handle It roughly. Public schools are also
referred to and great Care in their admins
| tratlon is advocated. Containing the letter
be says:
Thinking and studying men, who ere
also believers, are everywhere looking for
grou~ ds OF Christian unity, and it is the
glorious hope OF our time. We hold that
! the vantage ground "a with US, because tx
! perienca, Christ's words, and right and
! reason affirm together that unity must ap-
| pear if we will by growth form historic
! roll, not by construction or wedding of
! platforms. Recently, as fit prelude t"
broader stfllations of friendship between
the mother church and ourselves has been
| made more vital and more conscious than
ever before not only by welcome visits of
beloved brethern of the English bench to
our council and homes.
The letter ends in a trium plant reference
to the success of the church, spiritually
and financially Glorea in Excels1s was sung.
the dictor benediction pronounced by Dish
op Lee, and the convantion adjourned sine
die