Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-03

Victoria has made the greatest ad
vance, having erected q house of wor-
ship for which 5000 has been raised,
the membership doubled, NOV numbei-
ing 81 and rising in power and enthu-
siasm. Westminster church has risen
from Ave to q, having secured lot and
bricks for building.
Some criticisms of the course of the
pastor at Tacoma and the Superinteud-
ent of Missions with reference thereto
brought q lively discussion aHd some
fireworks, bat the electric current was
quickly turned over to the control of a
committee consisting of Rev. Messrs. G..
J. Buchet, ID. W. @. Butt, A. b. Banks
and j. Q. A. Henry.
Rufus Thomson reported at the close
of the evening service, striking out a
few words of praise in one report and
of blame in another. The discussion
was held with closed doors and showed
deepseated and widespread prejudice
against the office Of Superintendent of
Missions, partly personal but chiefly
from fear of hierarohical principle.
The seminary of tho last two years
work reads as follows:
sour Associational District recognizes
Alaska as a part Of the immense field
belonging to our work, which covers an
area equal to one fourth that of the
United States, containing NJ arly 200, 600
people, OF whom one third are Indians
largely without the gospel. Within this
field Western Washington, British Co
lumbis and Alaska the Puget Sound
Baptist Association is the only repre-
sentative of Baptist principles. IL is
essentially foreign mission ground, and
We call upon our brethren east and west
| to increase their diligence in aiding the
development of this Held, soon to receive
u fresh impetus by the com pletion of
| the Canadian Pacific and the opeEine
of q new tboreu2hfare from England
to China, through the central portion of
this domain. We regard any attempt
| to set aside the deliberate decisions of a
regularly constituted Baptist Association
acting as a District Convention in the
midst of such field az departure from
Baptist principles which deserves an
earnest and continued protest. In con-
clusion, the committee beg lsave to call
the attention of the Convention to the
remarkable development Of our interests
during the two years Of independents 40.
ton as proof of the ability, the loyalty
and liberality Of the people in this dis
trict to Baptist principles
in January, 1888, from which date
all mission funds Of the district have
passed through their hands, there was
not missionary within this entire d =
main. Victoria church, the last station
occupied. had been left to its fate, re-
snlting in the loss Of its finely located
editice, on which over 5000 had been
paid. Rev. Joseph Beaver vas in that
month appointed to Tacoma, and the
position Of general missionary Of Puget
Sound offered TO Rev. J. A. With, bot
never accepted.
"In June, 1883, the Executive Com
mittee vas appointed and efforts made
for Independence, resulting in the pres
ens plan Of work. Pwo Of that commit
tee are still in service. and the other
three we're unanimously reelected the
second year.
during the two and one fourth years
having elapsed since their appointment
sixteen commissions have been recon-
meuded, all but Rev. Banks having been
appointed BY the Home Mission Society,
amounting in all TO abeut &7l35.
Gifts secured from church edifce
fund. $3.50. loan, $500; total Of nearly
$4,000, Of which the Association have
paid about $500. By these aids there
have been secured in permanent in-
prsvenents tl3,66S, (approximate) in.
Guiding the erection OF sew q church
edidces, the complete renovation of an
other, and the regular occupation of
ten new stations. where she Gospel in
regularly presohed.
There were reported IN 1883 sixteen
churches with SS3 members, Of which
six churches and " members were re.
ceived al the annual session. June, 1883.
The minutes Of 1886 show 20 churches
with 592 members. to which should be
added TO the present time ~ received
by bartism. 30 BY experience and letter,
and Dakots Greek church. which failed
10 report in time 10 be received BY the
Association; making q total Of 67S at
the present time. An addition OF ever
loo per cent. In two years, of vhosu III,
or over 30 per cent, we're received by
Baptism
ticn. are united among themselves and
With cash other. pushing forward in
spiritual work.
Clarke coonty, ander charge OF Rev.
Z. H. Harper. though not q portion of
Puget Sound Association, il reckoued
IN cor missionary field, being in Western
Washington. Brother Harper has done
COED work for tvo years, organizing
four churches With &6 members and four
Sunday schools. having IA bapsisms the
past year.
"Tne church at La Csmas 10 on
promising field. Brother Harper should
certainly be continued on the field, and
another man stationed at Vancouver
whenever funds vii justify sash az
advance.
The lower ChekAlis valley, Gray's
Harbof. Shoeisater Bay and river val
ievs seioininc viii receive some asfen-
Z OF when our general mission sry can