The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-30
ADJOURN SINE DIE.
The Episcopalian Convention Comes to an
End-The Pastoral Letter.

| The Episcopalian Convention Comes to an
End-The Pastoral Letter.
Minneapolis, MIMI, Oct. g.. The
convention, on it's last day Tuesday,
| showed an apparent minority of dele
| gates remaining, evidently only enough
| to constitute a quorum for the winding
up of necessary business details.
The Pennsylvania delegates offered
resolution recognizing the uniform
| dignity, courtesy and kindness of the
presiding officer of the house, DIR. Nor
gan Dix, of New York. The resolution
was adopted by rising vote and DR..
| Dix responded in graceful and touch
ing manner.
Following is an abstract of the
bishops pastoral address issued at noon
Tuesday by the secretary of the house
of bishops:
In discussing church unity the bish-
| ops are not hopeful of immediate or
general results save in the spreading of
the sentiment for unity throughout
Christendom. They complain that
while the theological schools are turn
ing out many graduates, and candl-
dates for orders are about as numerous
as ever, there is lack of self-sacrifcing
men willing to spread the faith in for
eign and heather lands.
Speaking of the recent assault upon
Christian missionaries in China, the adj
| dress says:
missions in China have recently suf-
| fered a great disaster. When least expect
| ing 1t, the church has been shocked by an
| outbreak of hostility and violence, which
| in the worlds estimation has revived the
question of the church's right to be there
at all Devoted missionaries have sealed
| with their blood the faith they were sent
| forth to teach.
''Such a crisis in missionary work will
| not be without it's use and purpose If, as
| like ones have done in the past, it brings to
| the front and sets in battle array larger
measure Of the heroism always latent in
the militant host of Christ For the pres
emit, then, the moral Of this calamity is,
| more, not less men in the field, and larger
| offerings by the church to sustain them"
Speaking of Sunday observance, the
| address says:
Recent events in some parts of our
| country compel us to call your earnest at
| tention to a widely spread and determined
attack upon the use and purpose of the
weekly day of rest known from the be-
ginning of the Christian era as the Lord 8
I'VE exhort you, dear brethren, to meet
| this menace with unfaltering courage and
| resolute determination, and in no oppor-
| tunity that may be presented to decline
| battle with the insatiate greed OF the
| liquor traffic. and the growing desire for
popular pleasures and amusements, which
with increasing boldness claim all days
| alike for their uses. In this connection
! the house of bishops, in view of recent &C.
currences in several of our states, de-
| sires to express it's hearty approval of the
| prompt and courageous applicati ton of the
powers of civil government for the re-
| preston of barbarous, brutal and indecent
exhibitions and recreations of whatever
sort"
In regard to Turkish atrocities in
! Armenia there is the following:
by the tender mercies of our God, and
| the infinite compassion of our common
| Saviour, we beseech you, brethren, to re-
member in your prayers and with your
prompt and liberal help, that long suffer-
ing and down-trodden people of the ancient
| and faithful church Of Armenia. To vast
ing oppression and prosecution extending
| far back into the past, has now been
| added, by the fanatical violence and hatred
| tiles of to-day. Such cry for sympathy
and aid has seldom been heard in all the
| ages Of christendom."
The spirit of unrest in the land is
commented on and the remedy for it is
declared to be accessible in the church.
Fully third of the letter is devoted to
discussion of certain tendencies in
the church toward ritualism, and, on
the other hand, toward too great iber-
| atty. Unauthorized methods of cele-
brating communion and other offices
of the church are severely rebuked
and the letter makes this significant
statement:
I'VE are indeed between two perilous ten
| denotes. On the one hand there is demand
for & ,ncessions which will make it easy for
| mem Jers of Christian bodies not in COM
mum on with the church to enter her minis
| try, to transfer themselves bodily as con-
| gregations, with faint and feeble guards
of soundeess in their forms of wor-
| ship On the other there is plea put forth
| by some to enter into negotiations with the
| bishop of Rome with view to reunion, which
| is now known to be possible only by absolute
| submission to his unscriptural and unlawful
| demands. The wise thing for US to do is to
| hold fast to our position
Gethsemane church was crowded at
| the joint meeting of the two houses
| Tuesday afternoon at o'clock. The
| pastoral letter was read and the Epis-
copal general convention for 1895 closed
sine die with the usual services.
SIXTY ARMENlANS KILLED.
Turkish Authorities Claim the Armenians