The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-11
EPIsCOPALIAN MISSIONARY WORK.
Remarks of Bishop Paddock, of Washing ton

Remarks of Bishop Paddock, of Washington
Territory, at Christ Church.
The union services of the Episcopal congrega-
tions of the city, at Christ Church last evening,
brought together audience that filled the
seating capacity Of the building. 1t was union
missionary meeting. Rev. E. A. Bradley, rector
of the church, in introducing Bishop Paddock,
who has been engaged in missionary work in
Washington Territory for three years, spoke
briefly of the encouraging reports received at the
national missionary conference. held at Chicago
last week, which he attended. At the confer
ence reports were read from missionaries in
every part of the world, and they
showed wonderful progress in the past
three years. Said he ut will be
one hundred years the 10th of next month since
the first General Conference of Episcopalians
met in erica and greenfield. Th1re was then
but handful of them. That it'll, muititude
has increase" 49,: 49,. now we have forty nine
--..eses, seventy bishops, 1000 clergymen and
400, 600 communicates in the United States, with
80 missionaries in the foreign field and 131 in
the home field. Among the negroes and Indians
of these latter fifteen are Indians who have en-.
braced Christianity and are at work among their
own people"
Bishop Paddock, on being introduced,
omitted the usual formalty of taking a
text and began by saying that he
did not expect to preach sermon, but in
tended to talk of the great necessity of mission
airy work in the far West. Jesus Christ, he said.
came down as missionary to the world. He
saw the many difficulties confronting Him in His
vast field for work. but He was not timid. He
knew He would be unwelcome, and despised, and
repealed. Bat He saw the needs of dying world,
and came on. The disciples went out as mission
aries. They, too. were confronted with difficult
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signing men, but they remembered the COM
mand of God: Go ye and preach the gospel
to all the world and they were not
afraid. The Almighty power sustained them,
and He will sustain you and me- Those early
missionaries went unto the end of the earth
trusting God Happy with us is it that they did
trust Him, and did not confne their work to the
city of their nativity. Christian charity should
never end at home for it is as broad as Savior's
love. Happy is it that the disciples did not con-
fine their work to the city of Jerusalem. God
sent them to the uttermost limits of the earth.
If He had not the church of God would have
died in the city of Jerusalem. But
through their courage and endurance the
parts of the world have bad the
glad tidings preached to them. We of America
owe much to the mother church of England.
Their missionaries crossed the Atlantic and
planted the germ of Christianity in our beloved
land and it is our privilege to eXend it further.
"Our work in the West is that of the sower.
It is not time yet to reap. 1t is great field for
missionary work Thousands of young men are
coming into the country absorbed with but one
idea-that Of making money-and unless they
are privileged to hear the gospel preached they
soon become shipwrecked. What we have to do
is to put forth the means to pre-
vent these young men frem falling
into the tide that leads them to
ruin. We have established two Episcopal schools
in Washington Territory, one for boys and one
for girls. In the boarding school for girls this
year we had $50 students, and more in the school
for boys But we must have means, or these
schools cannot be carried oil. They are not yet
self-supportng. indianapolis has helped in
the past, aud we shall look to her for aid in the
future. There are now but comparatively few
churches in the Territory, but see the time near
at hand when there will be church bell re-
sounding in every section. The next ten years
will determine the character of those great States
west of the Rocky Mountains. Unbelief. athe-
ism and communism reign there now. This can
only be checked by the infusion of Christ. Now
is the time to work. Tire harvest is ready, and
the laborers are very few"