Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-10-08
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
Addresses by Missionary
Bishops.
AN EXPLOSION IN BRIDGEPORT.
Boston's Guests Make a
Tour of inspection.
THE AMENDMENT BURIED.
Knights Templar Invade
the National Capital.
THE AMENDMENT BURIED.

THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
The state OF oregon Admitted as a
observation-disclosures From MissIonary
Bishops.
NEW YORK, Oct. TAT the Episcopal con-
vention this morning Rev. Mr.. Beatty of
Kansas, of the committee on unfinished bust
ness, reported the following to come before
the conventions:
Marriage and divorce, oanons of ordins-
ton and evangelistic work. The State of
Oregon was then admitted as q diocese and
Bishop Morris is the DIOCESAN. There was
then presented by Rev. DR.. Hsncke q report
recommending the admission of diocese in
Missouri and it was adopted with but one
dissenting vote. The delegation from Fon
du Lac presented memorial asking that no
further revision be made In the prayer book,
and 1t was referrsd to the committee on lit
urgical revision. The delegation from Rhode
change in the name of the church was mex
pedient.
The house of deputies then adjourned and
with the house of bishops went into session
as board Of missions.
At l1:30 the beard of missions convened
with Bishop Tuttle of Missouri, in the chair.
After the singing of the hymn "Glorious
things of Thee are Spoken" and the reading
of the minutes the chair announced the hear
ing of addresses from the missionary bishops
of the country. Bishop Hore, of South
Dakota, was the first to make an address and
report upon the condition of his diocese.
The report showed an encouraging condition
of affairs Notwithstanding the poverty of the
Inhabitants and ruggedness of the existing
civilization. There was great field for
work among the Indians, he said, and the
church needed full blooded active Christian
ministers to take up this work.
Bishop Paddock of Washington and Bishop
Walker of the missionary diocese of North
Dakota told of the work in their dioceses.
Before adjournment Secretary Hutchins
announced that the Rev. DR.. Samuel Hart OF
Connecticut, the Rev. John N. Blanchard of
Michigan and Mr.. w. n. s. Burgwin of
North Carolina had been named as the repre-
sentatives of the house Of deputies on the
conference committee Of the two houses,
which will consider the unsettled eighth reso.
luton of the report of the committee on
iturgical revision.
A resolution was passed to the effect that
the board of missions requests the board of
managers to appropriate, in addition TO spe-
cisl offers, $40, GOO for the work among the
colored people of the South the coming
year, and that the commissioners be in
structed to report at the next triennial
meeting what changes should be made in the
canon law to make the work of the commits
sion more successful. Bishop Paddock of
Washington and Bishop Walker of North
Dakota gave encouraging reports of the work
in their districts. Rev. Drs. Hines and
Byrnes, two of the oldest clergymen in the
church, aged IS and SO years respectively,
were then introduced and made short ad-
dresses. Rev. Mr.. Locke, of the China Mis-
sion, and Rev. Paulus Mort, the colored
delegate from Cape Palmas, Liberia, de-
scribed the work being done in those places.
Bishop Talbot, o the diocese of Wyoming
and Idaho followed in a similar strain. The
board of missions then adjourned.
The house of deputies then convened and
took suitable action upon the death of Rev.
Thomas Hubbard Vail, bishop of Kansas.
The house thea adjourned out of respect to
the memory of the deceased.
The convention will meet again tomorrow
morning.