The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-05
EPISCOPAL MISSIONS.
Triennial Report of the Secretary Of the Board
Needs of the Dfoceses.
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Triennial Report of the Secretary Of the Board
Needs of the Dfoceses.
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NEW YORK, Oct. AT to-day's session of
the General Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Rev. DR.. Franklin sub
mitted a report of the committee on mar
riage and divorce, and asked that it be
read. The house decided against this, and
the report was presented without being
read. DR.. Franklin then moved that the
report be printed, aud that its discussion
be made the order of the day for Thursday
next, or as soon as the present subjects that
have precedence have been disposed of
He said that the report .would make only
one printed page. The motion was carried.
DR.. Hoffman. of New York. presented a
report from the committee ON canons of
ordination, and had it made the order of
the day for Wednesday next. Petitions
and memorials were then received, and
several memorials favoring and opposing
prOportionate representation in the general
convention. The delegation from Nebraska
presented a memorial, approved by the
bishop of their diocese. asking
that the limit of the present area of the
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shall resume control over the western part
of the diocese. Memorials from the Mary
land and Michigan delegations protesting
against a change of the name of the church
were presented.
The house of deputies then transferred
itself into q missionary council. and Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota, In black robes and
purple velvet skg'l-cap, took the presi-
dents chair. Rev. DIR. Langford. secretary
of the board OF missions. then presented the
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was referred to q special committees. 1t
shows that the gross receipts of the society
for the past year were $3.50, 121, of which
S66.031 was the proceeds of legacies. OF
this sum, .S113.342 was devoted TO domestic
missions, Sal. 1872 to Indian missions. S3l, GAG
to colOred missions, and to foreign missions,
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DR.. Langford offered a motion that the
board of missions indOrse the efforts of the
board of managers to secure a site n build
cost of about 500, 600. Rev. DIR. Holland. of
st. Louis. and Bishop Brewer, of Montana,
spoke in favor of the resolution, and it was
unanimously adopted. Missionary Bishop
Morris, Of Oregon, was then invited to ad.
dress the board, and he spoke at some
length on the work under his charge in
Oregon.
When the afternoon session opened,
Bishop Pierce, of Arkansas and the Indian
Territory, took the platform. and told the
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diocese, and of the work done there during
the last three years. Rev. Ii. ID. Payne,
delegate from the mission of Japan, spoke
of the work done there, and entreated that
further aid be given them. Missionary
property of the church there had grown in
value from $780, 900 to 81 ,00O.OO0 since he had
been stationed there. The number of com
municants, he said. bad increased from SCI
to 5000 during the same period. BishoI
Garrett, of Texas, said they needed there
sixteen more churches. a chapel for tn.
female seminary at Dallas. men as mission
aries. and money. to support them. MIS-
sionary Brewer. of Montana, told of the
need of aid in that field. He said the
church bad kept In advance of the growth
of the State there. but it needed help
Missionaries imbued with the spirit Of
Christ were wanted there. They would re
ceive salary sufficient for their support
but they must be reconciled to hard work
and to many deprivations.