The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-12
THE DIOCESAN CONVENTION
EPISCOPAL CLERGY AND LAITY or
 CONNECTICUT IN CONTENTION.

Williams Annual dress-EncOuragine
 Reports From tho Cheshire Academy. The annual convention of the Eplsco-
 pal diocese of Connecticut was held in St. Paul's church yesterday, the ses-
 sions beginning at 9:80 o'clock in the
 morning
 The opening service was religious in
 character, and was read by Bishop Will
 Hams, assisted by Arch Deacons George
 and Tatlock, Rev. Dr. Hart of Hart
 ford and Rev, MT. Lines, rector of St.
 Paurs church. this city.
 The sermon was preached by Rev,
 w. H. Lewis of Bridgeport and was
 from the text, "As the Ministers of
 God" The rite of holy communion
 closed these exercises.
 Then the convention organized for
 business by electing Rev. r. w. Harri-
 man secretary, and he appointed Rev Arthur 1T, Wright as his assistant. The
 reports of the trustees, registrar and
 the trustees of the various funds were
 then made. The fund for aged and in- firm clergy, which amounts to about $40,0O0, was reported to be in sound condition.
 Rev MT Harwood of this city intro duced an important measure in the shape of a report of a committee ap pointed at the last convention to organ iae a diocesan clergy fund. He ex- yNIo 1,n t,-Ir s,F [ Et,,A faa
 The canon which he submitted and which was adopted with two slight amendments provides that the trustees of the fund for aged and infirm clergy and widows and orphans shall consti-
 tute the trustees of the fund and any clergyman of the diocese who shall be over sixty-five years old and not in receipt of a stated salary shall be en- titled to its benefits. Each parish in the. diocese Is required to pay to the treas urer of the fund $1.25 on every $1OO which it pays annually for regular clerical services.
 After acceptance of this report notice was served of various new measures which the convention win consider lat CT. Rev. Dr. Mallory of the Churchman. New York, proposed the appointment of a committee to revise the constitution of the diocese.
 Lunch was served in the parlors by the ladies of the church.
 The special order fnrtthe business of the afternoon was the consideration of proposition to transfer back to the Christ church their property, which is held in' trust by the trustees of dona- tions and bequests. This, 1t is under stood, is for the purpose of facilitating Christ church to raise more money for the building of their new edifice.
 In the afternoon the standing commit tee and the, clerical deputies to the gen eral convention will be chosen. The tickets to these are made up as follows:
 Standing committee-Rev. William Tatlock, D. D., Samuel Hart, D. D., Ed win s. Lines, Henry M. Sherman, Rich ard H. Nelson.
 For clerical deputies to general con Edwin Harwood, D. D., Edwin s. Lines, Louis N. Booth, Charles E. Woodcock.
 synopsis of Bishop Williams ad- dress to the convention was as follows:
 DbIOIlO1 w lLlLlAA1S AIOREiSS.
 The bishops address was devoted en- -irely to the statistics of the conven- -ional year, with a full statement of laoes visited, persons ordained, changes lmong the clergy, etc The following S summary:
 During the year the bishop made g visitations: preached and made ad- iresses 116 times; and confirmed 1,438 persons. Three clergymen have died, l Ind 12 have been received from other lioceses. while eight have taken let 1 CTS dismissory. Seven persons have | ,een ordained to the diaconate, and | ix deacons have been advanced to | he priesthood; the number of candi- | lates for holy orders is 23 One church, l he Church of the Transfigurati ton, | Norfolk, has been consecrated. Of the | lergymen deceased during the year, he bishop said: Three names no long T appear on our clergy list; those of lev. Samuel Fuller, D. D., Rev. Will am L. Bostwick, and Rev Elihu T. ianford. Rev. Dr. Fuller went to his est full of years and greatly honored | nd beloved, having the testimony of
 good conscience, i'll the communion the Catholic church, in the confi- ence of a certain faith, in the com Ort of a reasonable, religious and oly hope, in favor with his God, and l perfect charity with the world" .lmost to the end of his life he con nued with unabated zeal in those LUdies of the word of God to which he ad so long given all his mental powers, 5 well as the devotion of his heart ! ong will his name be held in remem- rance by those to whom he ministered pastoral life as minister of Christ nd a steward of the mysteries of God' nd by those to whom from the pro- ssor'S chair he uUfolded the scrip lres which contain the words of eter- al lffe.
 Rev. MT. Bostwick had been long from active duty in paro- lial life, but his willing heart and and found something to be done in lrious ways for the glory of God and le good estate of the church, and such l pportunities he was always ready to l spond to. S The sudden death of Rev. Mir. San z I'd, in the full strength of his matur- 1
 manhood and in the midst of his ithful labors, was shock to us all I Id also one of those mysterious prov { ences that task ones faith and send
 to the only refuge amid such perplex- q es. "He doeth all things we'll" and 1 ose further words of deep import, No C