The herald., 1897-05-21
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
RHoW A PROSPEROUS CONDITION
OF THE WORK
Election of Standing Committees.
Business for the Year
Finished

Episcopal denomination opened AT s.S
yesterday morning with a prayer ser
vice, held in ST. Paul's Church. conduct
ed by Rev. Henry ]. Camp of Murietta
and Rev. Edmond Walters of Escon'
dido. The members then adjourned tc
Guild hall, where the meeting was called
to order by the presiding officer, Bishop
johnson.
After the resding Of the minutes, Rev
w. b. Burrows, chairman Of the board
Of missions read a comprehensive re-
port of the diocesan missions in last
fiscal year: Baptisms, SO; marriages,
80; buriale. 81; communicates. 761; re-
ceipts of missions, s9O9OS 81; aid receipts
of the board, $2S147S; total. s11, ,9O5. So
The expenditures of the board were
115s1.91. Seventeen missionaries have
held services during the year.
DR.. Easter added the report Of the mis-
eion of Morena, which contains 13 COM
municants, and is in every way prom
ising.
The financial committee reported
tuIOu6 IL INCN DdhS W eli lApS VI I q Cd
dena, showing a satisfactory financial
condition. OF last years assessment on
the parishes for missions only 242 re-
mains to be paid. The bishops salary
has already been fixed at $4,000 per year,
and those of the secretary and treasurer
at 800 each. The committee suggests
that incidental expenses should not eX-
coed $500. If the convention ie prudent in
its printing bills. The total amount to
be raised for diocesan expenses and con-
vention fund for the coming year is
$500. The treasurer of the diocese
must give bond for $4,000, which, by a
resolution of the convention, is to be
made to the bishop of the diocese and
the standing committee. ssnents
were recommended from each parish
In a supplementary report of the
board of missions the following reeolu-
tions were offered:
Resolved, That the bishop and con-
vention or convention of each dio-
cese and missionary district be request
ed to constitute, in euch manner as they
think best, an auxiliary board of gen.
eral missions to act in behalf of this
board, within their own limits, and
whose duty it shall be in the behalf Of
their respective diocesan districts to
notify this board before the time of its
annual appropriations. what sum they
expect and will endeavor to contribute
for the next fiscal year.
Resolved, That the resolution of the
domestic and foreign missionary society
herein contained be complied with, ard
that the board of missions of the diocese
of Los Angeles is hereby constituted for
this diocese an auxiliary board of gen.
eral missions in the above mentioned
resolutions"
DR.. Easter reported for the committee
on canons, and pr. Browne spoke to the
the canon on Sunday schools, which was
discussed at some length.
George w. Parsons treasurer Of the
board of missions, reported that the
sum total of the pledges for missions
from the parishes of the diocese were
$4337.11; offerings, $1715.35: total, $7663. 40;
total disbursements, S7963 40.
DR.. Dotten spoke at some length on
a proposed change in hhe canons, con.
cerning the election of vestrymen.
AS the canon now stands any man of
suitable age and of good business ability
through non-church member. may be
elected to this official position, DR.. Dot
ten urged that the canon be changed
providing that vestrymen shall be men,
bers of the church and of avowed Christ
ian character. DR.. Easter urged that
they shall be communicates of the
church, and other members spoke to the
question.
Rev Mr.. Restarick reported for the
special committee of the Episcopal fund
recommending special efforts be made
toward increasing the fund, also that the
committee be discharged and new one
appointed consisting largely of laymen.
DIR. Trew addressed the convention on
the Eastman fund for the education os
theological students. This related to a
common fund held by the diocese of Cal
ifornia before that Of Los Angeles was
formed. A diversity of opinion was ex-
pressed, Col. Heath holding that the
division of the fund is a matter for the
courts to decide and not for committee
A motion prevailed that the committee
be continued, to report at the next an
nual meeting.
Rev. B. Hartley reported for the special
committee on Sunday schools giving an
account of methods used to increase en-
thusiasm in the work and suggesting
plans for the future. which was adopted
Rev B. w. Tayler made a lengthy re-
port as chairman of the committee on
the state of the church. The substance
of the report was that the various de-
partments of church work in the diocese
of Los Angeles show most gratifying
increase. THE church seeems to be
stretching out her hands to do that work
which God has placed her in the world
to accomplish. The laity are realizing
the responsibilities which attach to them
and are recognizing that the church
needs their ministry as much as she
needs her own priesthood This is evil
denced in the increase of lay readers.
Sunday school workers and womar's
auxiliaries and guilds
The speaker discussed at length the
proposed establishment of a diocesan
paper, and summing up the opinion OF
the committee, said unless some person
financially responsible could be found to
stand back of the enterprise to protect
the diocese from a deficit, the expert
ment would better not be made. The
committee called attention to a thinly
veiled attempt of the bishop of Rome
to throw discredit upon the Protestant
Episcopal church by the promulgatio,i
OF bull on the subject OF Anglican or
ders, which has been met by strong and