St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-10
THE WORK IN THE WEST
The Episcopal Convention Hears Re-
ports From the Territories.
F1attering Progress, Despite Combi-
nation Of Adverse circumstances.
The Episcopal Convention.

CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-The fourth days session
OF the house of deputies OF the Protestant
Episcopal church began at the Central Music
hall at o'clock
Bishop Dunlap, missionary bishop of New
Mexico, reported the result of three years
labor in New Mexico and Arizona. He said
the business interests of the two territories
had been in a measure paralyzed by the muir
der of nearly four hundred white people by
the Indians. In the past six years the value
OF church property had increased from
$4,000 to $4,000, all but $1,000 of which was
raised among the people there. The bishop
said he could not but feel that the Eastern
cities had not contributed their share toward
the spread of the Gospel and to aid the
growth Of the church. There were only four
missionaries in the field. and the annual ap-
preparation, $780, was divided equally
among them. The support from the board
averaged smaller than that of any other de-
nomination. Still the church membership
had grown rapidly and it proper aid was eX-
tended. the church
WOULD BE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED.
Right Rev. Brewer, missionary bishop Of
Montana, said the number Of communicates
had increased TO 927 in the territory. The
church had now eleven church instructors
and four rectories. The people of the terri
tory had been very LIBERAL but the means at
hand had been inadequate for church work.
Many of the missionary workers were COM
PEELED to enter upon the work without any
promise of salary, but nevertheless they had
remained in the field and had succeeded in
materially aiding the ohurch's growth He
acknowledged with feeling the aid rendered
the missionaries :in the field by the ladies'
auXiliarleS of Massachusetts and PennSylva-
MIA Bishop Paddock,
MISSIONARY OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY,
said the last three years had been ones Of
great monetary depression on the Pacific
coast. AS a consequence, some small mis-
sionary stations had necessarily been
abandoned, and the missionaries had
| returned to Eastern fields of labor.
Some of their places had been filed, yet in
many respects the work had been carried on
only by the exercise of great deprivation.
Nevertheless the number of communicates
had increased largely. New towns were
springing up all over the territory, and it
was almost impossible to meet the demands
for the establishment of chapelS. Bishop
Walker, of North Dakota spoke of the mar
He said the white population was intelligent,
school houses had been built, more than in
fifteen other states of the Union, and eleven
Episcopal churches had been built during the
past three years. The bishop spoke of the
lamentable condition of the Indians in Turtle
mountain, who were continually on the verge
of starvation. He intended to make per-
sonal appeal to the governor for the proper
care Of these people. The feeling OF the
white people was not very kind towards
them, still, the speaker said, he had found an
imperative need of missionary work among
them, and he asked for aid for the church to
this end.