The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-05

AN APPROPRIATION or $4,000
YEAR FOR WORK AMONG
THE NEEROFS.
PROGRESS In CUBA AND BRAZIL

A Church Has also Been Erected In
Toxic, Japan, and the Field in Alas
ka Has Been Entered-A Memorial
| Presented, Asking that the Western
Portion of the Diocese of North Car
olina be- Erected into Missionary
Jurisdtction-Oakley Swipes S4I 200
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 4.-The two
houses of the Epis opal Convention held
| brief sessions today before going into
joint session as the Board of Missions.
In the House of Deputies, morning
prayers were conducted by Bishop
Worthington, of Nebraska, and Rev DR..
J. Lewis Parks, Of Philadelphia A
| memorial was presented asking that the
western portion of the diocese of North
Carolina be erected into a missionary
jurisdiction. A long list of memorials
to deceased clergymen followed.
Ry. Dr.. d 9. Roberts, Of Concord,
II. Il offered a resolution commanding
the Governor ana Logis' ature Of 1cX2s
for Us stand on the pr:z3 fighting qe-s
ton. A white haired delegate f@o.n
| Pen Sy!gania, Jam ). Riddle, objected
| IN n m@6ialeIy to tie consideration He
said he had no knoN ledge @hatavar of
the acton Of the T-xas people Heo used
a roar cf laughter in the staid coavGn
! tion aud the re@o.utjcn was ras@ei With
a few faint pays.
The House OF Bishops transacted little
business before the j0i1t session, save
the announcement Of the standing com
mittee ar d the reference to the proper
committee on the memorial IF tGe diocese
| Of California, asl'1g the cansgnt of the
| house 10 the erection Or EsW diocese
| within the limits Of thC present Sae
One of the principal reports presented
to the Board Of Missions wa tue report
Of the Executive Committee Of the Amer
lean Church Missionary Society. read
by s cretary ] Thompson Cole II vas
the first public and official utterance es
to the embezzlement of $4f 900 by the
former treasurer, Henry A Oakley, aud
the former secretary, J Newb0ld. It
has been hoped to avoid All public re
ference to the affair, but this was
found impos ible The amount taken
by Oakley has been computed TO be
s2t 1873 "a aud by Eewbold $19, 034 16,
from September /, 1887 The defaica
ton was made possible by th9 fact that
there was no check on the accounts Of
either gave of the other officer and upon
this they relied for safeey The treas
| urer has re imhnrsed the scclety, but the
| secretary had no money nor any one
sufficiently interested in him TO
make IL good The c0mmiGtxo had
decided not TO prosecute either Of
them. 1t would be impossible TO prose
| cute the Treasurer without returning the
| money made good as it had come from
another source. No promises had been
made but prosecution seemed impossible
The Secretary was disgraced To pro
| ceed against him and not against the
Treasurer would be justly open to
| charge that the prosecution was not be
cause he took money but because he had
not friends to pay it back.
The society has charge Of the domestic
missions as well as those in Cuba and
| Brazil. It was reported that wonderful
progress had been made in Brazil, but
| that the outbreak of the war in Cuba had
| stopped promising work around M; tan
zas The society, which is supported by
| voluntary contributions, has received
| $11 692 since August 81, 1894 It has
| balance now of 81 708.
The Board of Managers presented a
lengthy printed report to tbs Board of
Missions Among other matters it had
| adopted resolution that it was inc0n-
| sistent to receive grants in money from
the United States for any of its schools
The field in Alaska had been entered
with the assistance of Bishop Barker, Of
| Olympia The erection Of the church Of
the Holy Trinity at Toxic, Japan, under
guarantees as the tenure of the property,
was reported, together with an agree
ment as to conflicting Jurisdictions CT
Bishop Bickersteth, of the Church Of
England, and Bishop McKim, Of the
American Church in Japan.
An appropriation of $40, 900 year
has been made for work among the col
ored people, and commission named to
supervise it,
Rev. Henry Forester has been com
missloned as presbyter to the mission
The s0ciety's gross receipts for the fiscal
year wee 1927, 284, a handsome in
crease.
Ofthe 8, ,484 parishes under missionary
control, $500 made contributions.
Following the managers report brief
addresses were made on their work by
Bishop Ferguson, (coloreO of West
Africa; Bishop Graves, of China; Bishop
McKlm, Of Japan; Bishop Nelson, of
Georgia and Bishop Brooks, of Oklahoma
t The fea ure of the afternoon M citing
OF the Board Of Missions was the adop-
tion of several resolutions and the first
indication of the coming contest as to
whether there shall be bishop elected
to Alaska. The work of the churc1 in
Alaska was presented by Bishop RaI.sou
and Barker,
Resolutions were then adop Cd axpros-
sing horror at the atrocities practiced on
the missionaries in China and on the
ArmaDians who have suffered for The
truth as well az for the courage and
steadfastness with which thew have
borne their unspeakable auguishes and
the heroism of their appeals to secure
redress as far as possible for the wrongs
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