The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-10-12

NEW 1OR =, UC AT the Protestant
Episcopal general 3r,eCtion to-day,
Oregon was made di.Csse and Bishop
Morris was made 5ishon ol The diocese.
There was then presented by Rev. Dr.
Hsuckel report recommending the
admission OF q new diocese in
Missouri and it was adopted with
but one dissenting vote. The
delegation from Fond du Lac
presented q memorial asking that no
further revision he made ia the player
book and 1t was referred 10 toe COM
mittee on liturgicl revision. The del
egatlon from Rhode Island presented q
memorial, ating that any change il
the name OF the church was inexpedj
ent. The House of Deputies then ad
journed and with the addition Of tn,
House OF Bishops, went into session as q
board of missions
Bishop Tutlle, of Missouri, presided
over the session of the board of mis-
sions. He announced that the board
would listen TO addresses by missionary
bishops, each TO speak for not more
than twenty minutes. Tie first speaker
was Missionary Bishop Hare, OF South
Dakota. He told of the difficulties with
which he and the clergy under his
the progress they had made. There
are six self-supporting parishes and
twelve new churches there. The
Sioux Indians in the new state number
only 25,OO0 to $4,000, while the white
population is $4,000, end yet there are
more Indians than white communi-
cants. Among the Indians are 46 mis-
sionarT chapels, ] $50 communicates
and 8 men in sacred orders. Bishop
Hare spoke of the need Of financial as
sistince in South Dakota, but said the
greatest need WAS that of men-stIorg,
Jealous, earnest ministers of Christ who
would be satisfied 10 find their pay
mainly in giving the word of God to
those who are in darkness.
At the conclusion OF Bishop Hsre's
address, Bishop Whipple, of Min
nesota, reported back the report of
the colored commission, accompanied
with an appeal in behalf of their work,
asking that $40 900 be appropriated for
that work during the coming year and
that the diocese of Kentucky be asked
to permit Bishop dudley who, he said,
seemed destined to be the apostle to
the colored people, to give as much
| time as possible TO the work undertaken
by the commission. The report was
made the order of the day to be taken
up as soon as the order OF the day pIe-
ceding was disposed of.
The next speaker was Missionary
Bishop Paddock, of Washington. lie
also told OF the work done during the
past three years and OF the needs of
the diocese for financial assistance He
was followed by Missionary Bishop
Walker, of North Dakota. He said that
when he went 10 Dakota he Was glad to
| hQt y l+T,y al
| mining community. But he had
learned that even farmers might be
| migratory. With the exception Of tw o or
| three towns in North Dakota all the
| other towns have shrivelled during the
| past year and many who have settled as
| farmers there have moved away. One
great cause of this, lie said, might be
| found in the blizzards, during which
| the temperature falls to from so to 40
| degrees below zero, the wind blows at
| the rate of from sixty to seventy miles
| an hour, and the air is filled with
| pellets-not of snow but of ice-that
puncture the skin. Despite the diff
| Culties encountered, the numbe OF
| churches increased from four to seven
| teen, and OF these only three are in
debt. The Bishop said he needed four
| new churches, and also asked
| that he be provided with a car
in which he and other missionaries
could travel and sleep and from the
rear of which they could preach. Along
the lines of railroads in Dakota, he said +,
were numerous so called towns or cities,
many ofthem numbering only seven or
eight houses, and these houses TO
| small that there WeG not room in them
to give accommodation to a visitor for q
night. The exceeding GOODNESS of the
winters made it necessary to build
| houses as small as the requirements of
the family would admit. Bishop Walk
er's time extended to ] O'Clock, when
the board took a recess for an hour.