The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-15
The EPISC0PALlANS.
Various Matters oflmportance Trans
acted.
ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO-DAY.
Reports Of Various Committees aud the
Adoption of Resolutions and Transac-
tion of Other business of Importance
st the Annual state Convention.

At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
Episcopal Convention reassembled in
Grace Church Chapel aud was called to
order by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Of the Dio-
cese. The vote i'm reference to purchasing
site for st. Mary's Rectory, East Provi-
dence, was unanimous. and the matter
was referred to the proper committee.
The report of the Board for the Relief OF
Widows and Orphans, ETC., made by
Charles Il. 'Dorrance Is as follows; Dur
ing the past year Si,70o have been paid
TO six benedciaries. The principal Of
the fund is now $25, ,0l3, ,25, having increased
S944. l3 since the last convention, OF the
forty live parishes In union with the con-
vention. thirty-nine have contributed to
the fund, while eight have neglected this
Canonicai requirement. Contributions
have also been received from All Saints
Chapel. Newport, mot In union with the
convention.) The year now commencing
will have six beneficiaries of the fund,
whose annuities will amount TO 81, 200.
The Bishop then read his annual address.
The following resolutions were offered: 1:
Resolved. That that portion Of the Bishops
address pertaining to the election and voting
of lay delegates be referred TO the Committee
on Canons.
So voted.
Resolved, That so much of tho Bishops ad-
dress as refers 70 the Diocesan Missions be re-
ferred to the convention sitting as the Board
OF Missions, TO report, II possible, to this con-
vention.
The convention then resolved itself into
the Board of Missions.
The Rev. S. II. Webb was unanimously
elected secretary.
The Rev. William Sheafe Chase of
Woonsocket presented the following re-
port OF the Board Of Managers of the Dio-
casap Misgiouarv Sociafv The work ha-
gan on June ], 1891. with $S92. 65 in the
treasury and closed on June !, 1852, with
81, ,403 so
The Rev. George Mcclellan Smith,
ID. d., offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That committee of seven be ap-
such changes in Canon and the present Con-
vocational system as shall seem TO them best.
The bishop appointed the following: The Rev.
sheaf Chase, the Rev. William Chauncey
Langdon, ID. d.. William Groton, Rathbone
Gardner, Judge John II. Stiness and Leroy
King.
The Board OF Missions voted to raise
81, 600 during the next year for Diocesan
missions. and authorized the Board Of
Managers TO assign that amount to be
spent by the three convocations during
the next year.
The Bishop announced the appointment
of Rev. George l.. Locke, of st. Michaels
Ecclesiastical Court, in place Of Rev.
George A. Rice. resigned.
The following clergvmen were given
honorary seats to the convention: The
Rev. Alfred Darker of st. AIMS Church,
Dorchester, Boston; the Rev. S. III. Hill
lard, secretary of the Church Temperance
Society Of Boston; also the Rev. Theodore
l. Holcombe Of the diocese of New York
city.
BY the Rev w. 8. Chase:
Resolred, That a vote of thanks be extended
TO Mr.. Rathbone Gardner, the retiring treas
urer of the board Of managers, for the exceed
ing fidelity and efficiency with which for
many years he has managed the Rhode island
Diocesan Missionary Fund.
So voted
Upon the rising Of the Board of Missions
the convention was again called to order.
The report of the committee on Chris
tian education was submitted, ordered
printed and placed on file.
The report Of the Rhode Island Branch
of the Woman's Auxiliar for 1s90-9l was
then presented as follows Foreign
work, S60S 10; domestic work, "a, l34. n !;
diocesan, $685.. 75; freedmen, $50 Indian,
$75: Mexican, 800 total, 81, 7436 value
OF boxes, 81, 100. %: : grand total. e7,933. II.
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