Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-23
CONCLUDED ITS BUSINESS.
Last Day of the Session of the Episcopal
Convention.

A>s~c~ AssJ
Convention.
The second days session of the sixteenth
Convocation of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Northern California opened at 9
A. NJ. yesterday at st. Paurs Church.
Prayer was said by the Bishop, after which
the reading of reports of the different cler-
gymen was resumed.
The project of placing general mission
airy in the field was discussed at some
length, but no definite action was taken.
The relation that the Sunday-school
bears to the church. and the general con-
duct of Sunday.scho were also dis
cussed, after which the delegates proceeded
with the routine business of the session.
The Bishop then made the following APP
pointments:
Standing Committee-1ev. ]. Avery
Shepherd of Santa Rosa, Rev. G. L. Fitch
EFT of Marysville, A. A. Van VOORHEES, of
Sacramento and S. c. Grey Of Benicia.
Examining Chaplains-Rev. ]. Avery
Shepherd and Rev. A. B. Spaight.
Chancellors-W. B. Lardner of Auburn,
Placer county. and Rev. J. F. Won Herrlich,
of Sacramento.
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A special feature of the Convocation was
the music, which was rendered BY the boy
choir. The choir has improved wonder
fully of late, and the solos sang by Masters
Sachs and Kaufman prove that the boys
possess voices that would do credit to some
of the aspiring sopranos.
In his address the Bishop paid a high
tribute to the late James Lawrence Eng
fish, who had labored so hard and accom-
plished so much for the church in the juris-
diction.
Rev. ]. F. Shurtleff reported the bright
prospects of his church at Auburn.
Rev. c. NJ. Hoge, of Woodland. made
some humorous remarks on the subject of
Missourians and the difficulties OF an Epis-
copal clergyman when the Campbellites
had their grip on nearly everything. Mr..
Hoge stated that Christmas, Easter and the
prominent church festivals, symbols, liturgy
and music was. to great extent, appro-
priated by all the religious bodies
Rev. DR.. Shepherd, of Santa Rosa, re-
ferred in glowing terms to the record of the
rector of st. Pauls Church, not only in
identifying the church. but the saving of
the elegant Washington Irving Memorial
Church at Tarrytown, on the Hudson, BY
paying off a debt of $4,000 Dr. Shepherd
reviewed the history of St. Paul, down to
its almost finished and perfect condition.
Rev. Robert Richie, of Red Bluff, stated
that he thought that California was quite
different from the East in regard to the
power of the Catholic Church to keep its
strong hold on its members, as he had had
several come into his Church at Red Bluff.
Rev. John F. Won Herrlich stated that he
did not believe in PROSECUTING. He did not
believe that in the long run anything was
gained by II. If man or woman is in a
Church, let them stay there. He had
known many who, by persuasion or influ-
ence, were attracted into another body, and
after while they were little or nothing of
anything. "Let us put our religion on
broad basis, said the speaker, "as wide
and as broad as Christ made it. For my
part, l will give my help, sympathy, aid,
money or encouragement to anything that
will make men and women nobler, better
or more spiritual. Our purpose and aim is
the same-to lift humanity up toward God
and make them realize what they were Gre
ated for, and the higher life lying beyond
the few tieeting years of this earthly ex-
istence. When people are easily influenced
from one religious body to another that is
nothing to congratulate ourselves about.
for 1t denotes laxity, want of fixed prin-
ciples or deep convictions. And often
these lightly-converted people, who can
De wheedled about by little attention or
the power of some supposed social advan-
tages, do not turn out so as to make us feel
proud of them for they can be influenced
again by higher bidder in the same d.
rection. / never go very much on the per-
son whose devotion to their church or
their Sunday attendance on the services is
regulated by the special attention of the
minister in their direction"
The Bishop and clergy gave a vote of
thanks to the kind people of st. Paurs
parish for their great sociability and hos
pitality.
The Convocation adjourned to meet at a
place to be designated in the future by the
Bishop of the jurisdiction.