The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
Bishops From Abroad Told Of
the Manner in Which They
Are Hampered.
LARGER FUNDS NECESSARY
Division to Be Made of the California
See by a New Diocese at
Los Angeles.


for Missions" was the all-day theme of the
two houses of the Episcopal Convention,
and which, in accordance with the consti-
tuition, sat together as the General Board
of Missions. From Darkest Africa and the
Flowery Kingdom, from the colored iuris-
diCtiOns of the South, from Territories as
yet but sparsely settled, from the happy
hunting grounds of the Indian and from
the republic across the Texas border, the
fathers of the church came together to tell
OF the work that had been done, of the
difficulties surrounding them, and the need
Of finances without stint and ministerial
recruits without numbor, to the end that
the church both abroad and at home
might be pushed forward in the name of
the Master.
Some of the variations were pathetic,
others we're pleading, but the majority
briStled with criticism of the failure of the
American church to adequately hold up
the hands of its representatives in other
lands. The meetings drew an audience
that overfowed the church and the
galleries were crowded with women from
all over the country Identified with the
Woman's National Auxiliary.
Following the action of the House of
Bishops yesterday DR.. Daniel Roberts of
Minneapolis submitted a resolution thank
ing the Governor and Legislature of Texas
for its action in preventing the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons mill. 1t read as follows:
ResOyUed. That this house record its cordial
approval and hig appreciation of the courage
and faithfulness to exacted trust with which
the executive and Legislature of the State OF
Texas have used the sacred powers of govern
ment vested in them for the suppression of
prize-fghting, making it a crime before the
law as it is a crime before the moral sense of
q Christian community.
Objections to immediate consideration
were made by Lay Delegates J. S. Biddle
OF Philadelphia and George r. Fairbanks
of Florida, and under the rules it went on
the calendar. This was not satisfactory to
q majority of the convention, and when ex-
Governor Prince of New Mexico moved
that the resolution be taken from the cal
endar for immediate consideration more
than the necessary two-thirds voted in the
affirmative. Roars Of laughter were pro-
voked by the earnest declaration of Dele
gate Biddle that he did not know what
had been done by the Texas Governor and
Legislature, and had not the remotest idea
OF what was intended by the resolution,
and Rev. DR.. Frank Page of Texas under
took to enlighten him by briefly narrating
how far the preliminaries Cor the mill had
gone when Governor Culberson interfered.
and eulogized the young executive for pre-
serving decency and good order in his
commonwealth.
Delegate Fairbanks again objected that
it was an irrelevant subject for such a
body to consider and opened the door to
grave departures from established prece-
dent. 1t was explained by DIR. Roberts
that the resolution was submitted in be-
half of the entire delegation from New
Hampshire without consultation with the
brethren from Texas, and being put to
vote it was carried by an Overwhelming
majority, only 20 vocal ''noes" being
heard.
After the adoption of the resolution two
voluminous printed reports on foreign and
domestic missions were presented in be-
half of the board of managers. Ii showed
that the gross receipts of the board for the
year were, including the balance Of last
year and q personal loan of $65, 900 from
George Bliss, 1874, 800, and the disburse-
ments SIG, 278, leaving balance of $6S, SOL
on hand on September l.
The loan from Mr.. Bliss had been re-
turned. Comment was made upon the
fact that In not few instances the Lenten
offerings OF the children, which for the
fiscal year aggregated $4,000, had taken
the place of the gifts of the congregations
for missions, and it was suggested that it
would be unworthy of any parish to per-
NIT the youth to usurp its privileges and
discharge its duties in this regard. The
report of the Women's Auxiliary showed
that it had collected S167, ,643 for the fiscal
year, of which 800, 833 had been disbursed
without coming into the central treasury.
The report was referred to committees.
and then the missionary Bishops were pre-
sented in regular order. Bishop Ferguson
OF Africa, distinguished looking colored
man, protested against the disposition of
the people to put the lives sacrificed and
the money contributed on one side of the
scale and the number Of converts on the
other and declared that the African work
was but an experiment, and unsatisfactory
at that. The sole question was whether
the church had done its duty in regard to
the foreign missions. Had it fully eouipped
the African Bishops for that work? 1t
had not.
Bishop Graves of China was next pre-
sented. His diocese, he says, has a
population of 6o,0O0.000 souls, ministered
TO by one Bishop and six laymen, while
the Church of England had six dioceses
in the same territory. They wanted
more money. The missionary Bishops
had something else to do besides going
here and there among the church and
among its women and asking for funds.
He was cut off politically from the
church in this country, and when he
crossed the ocean he knew not at whose
door to knock or whose influence to seek.
Bishop McKim of Japan said that in
his diocese, with a population of 16, ,000. 900,
there were three dioceses of the Church
OF England, and he had united with
them in forming the Holy Church of
Christ in IanaO Thav uara now