Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-05-14
THE EPISCOPAL COUNCIL.
1T GETS DOWN SOLIDI.Y TO
WORK TODAY.

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Reports of COImmittees-ShaI
women Vote I'm the ParOchia
Meetings?
Bishop Lyman called the Episcopa
convention to order at its afternoon ses
sion yesterday, and introduced Mis-.
Julia D. Emory, Of New York, secretary
of the Woman's auxiliary to the board o
missions of the Protestant Episcopa
church.
Miss Emery is a modest, soft spoker
woman, but earnest and forcible. Sh.
said it would have been easier for her tc
have addressed few women ia privat.
body than to undertake to speak before
a diocesan convention, but she wanted tc
try and direct the minds Of the womer
away from home, around which they
were SO 10th to cling, and point them tc
those far away fields where few patient
faithful ones were striving to do Their
duty, Notwithstanding their isolation
from friendship and their contact with
heathenism and savagery. She spoke Of
the faithful women who were teaching
the Indian schools in the northwest
where even their pupils would jest con.
cerning the possibility of an outbreak
upon the part of the wild savages.
She spoke of the missionary work in
Alaska where there were only two men,
one an American and the other Hotten.
tot convert.
There is one city in China, said the
d eaker, which has population of 6OO,-
900 people, and only one missionary has
been sent to save these thousands who
are waiting for the light of Christ to
shine upon them.
There are three kinds of help needed
by the mission work, said the speaker:
The help of the body. which the tired feet
of so many women give testimony of be-
ing furnished, the help ofintelect, which
enables the women to look abroad into
the great field and sec what is needed
and the help of the soul. which lifts the
miserable ones into higher life.
The Womans Auxiliary, under the
leadership of Miss Emery contributes
annually between three and four hundred
thousand dollars toward the missionary
work OF the Protestant Episcopal church.
Miss Emery has secretaries reporting to
her from almost all the SO dioceses and
some IL missionary jurisdictions, and
keeps well up with them all. Mrs. John
Wilkes. of Charlotte, is. the secretary for
the North Carolina diocese.
REV. w. S. LANKFoRD, D. d.
This gentleman, secretary of the mis-
sion board, resides in New York. He
was elected bishop to Japan, but declined
to accept, upon the ground that he could
do more good where he is.
DR.. Lankford said he had come to the
meeting of the convention expressly to
meet its members and catch the inspira-
ton that comes Of personal contact. He
said he was the peoples secretary, and
the people had a right to know what he
was doing. II came down here, said the
speaker, ito place the whole burden of
missions upon the diocese of North Caro-
lina." He wanted every diocese, every
church, and every individual, to feel that
the whole burden was upon them. If the
money was not raised, he would be
blamed, the church would say he was no
good and would have none of him. The
people are disposed, said the speaker, to
divide into churches and forget the do
cese, and the diocese forget the country
outside. If that policy had been pursued
from the first, said he, the gospel would
never have gone beyond Jerusalem.
Christ had projected a kingdom, and it
was to be pressed above and beyond all
other enterprises until it was preached
over the whole world. Bishop Hare,
said the speaker, had spoken of the per-
sonnel of the Episcopal missionaries in
Japan as the finest he knew. II the
church in this country and England, said
DR.. Landlord, will join hands. Japan will
be taken.
Four bishops. sixty.three clergymen
and two hundred and fifty native mis-
sionaries in China, said DR.. Lankford,
cost less than $500 each per year, and
yet there are some who say that mis- sion
aries live in luxury.
Some people said that foreign missions
did not convert. | can remember, said
the speaker, when there was wall OF op-
position to christianity around China,
Japan, India and Africa, but in the past
few years every wall has been removed,
and only a short time ago read letter
purporting to have been written by a
chief of the Congo states to the Bishop
of Canterbury, begging that more gospel
and less rum Re sent to his people. Dr.
Lankford declared that there was more
power here in North Carolina, than sur.
rounded the Saviour at the time of his
ascension, when he issued his command
70 conquer the world.
There was much feeling in DR.. Lank.
fords address, and it was listened to
with profound attention and at its con.
clusion Bishop Lyman vacated the chair
and DR.. NJ. M. Marshall, president of the
body, called the convention to order fol
the transaction of routine business.
Leave of absence was granted w
X. Wetmore, of Lincolnton, who wa,
summoned home to bury parishoner.
On motion of w. l.. London, commit
tee consisting oftwo clergvmen and three
lay delegates was appointed to devils,
ways and means for increasing the Epis
copal fund. The chair appointed DR.. F
]. Murdoch, DR.. ]. Buxton, X. H. Battle
John Wilkes and w. S. London.
On motion of Rev. ]. E. Ingle, visiting
clergymen not delegates, clergymen from
other dioceses, and those standing foi
holy orders, were granted seats on tn,
floor.
On motion of DR.. ]. B. Cheshire, jr.
1000 copies of an address delivered b,
DR.. Murdoch at the last session of tn,
convention at Tarboro, were ordered t.
be printed and circulated throughout th