Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-12
ITS WORK IS OVER.
COUNCIL ADJOURNs AFTER A BUSY
THREE DAYS SESSION.
PLEA MADE FOR BIBLE WORK.
Secretary Campbell Makes State
ment and Collections VIII BE
Taken UP-WouId Not Adopt War
Neutrality-suspicious. of Name.

STAUNTON, VA, June u.-(Special.)-
The sixth annual council Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, OF the Diocese Of South
ern Virginia, adjourned tonight. after an
interesting three-days' session. sine die,
though the devotional exercises will be
continued tomorrow, when prominent
clergymen will fill many Of the city pull
pits. BY special request, of the council,
Bishop Randolph will preach to the body
at Trinity church tomorrow night.
This morning the Rev. w. s. Campbell,
Of Richmond secretary Of the Virginia
Bible Society, addressed the council in
the society's interest. Mr. Campbell told
of the great demand for funds to pro-
vide Bibles for the inmates Of poorhouses,
jails, and the State Penitentiary. the last
named institution alone requiring 700 vol
umes a year. His society had furnished
to the Virginia troops at Camp Lee. Rich
mond, $500 Bibles, half Of which were pro-
vided by St. Andrews Brotherhood. There
was pressing need, he declared. for N,oO0
to furnish books to the troops al Camp
Alger and at a camp to be established at
Fredericksburg. The council ordered
that each congregation should take up a
collection to be devoted to this purpose.
GREETING TO BISHOP NEWTON.
Five clergymen were reported by the
Committee on Disabled ClerSymen's
Fund as beneficiaries during the past
year, in the total sum Of s1,453.
Mr.. Fortescue White, Diocesan Urea
surer, was commended for his stewardship
and was reelected.
Rev. Mr.. Goodwin, OF Petersburg, Of
fered a touching resolution expressing the
councils pleasure at the news that Bishop
Whittle, as the result Of a successful ope-
ration, had been restored from blindness
TO perfect eyesight, and congratulations
were sent to him.
The Rev. J. Il. Funston, on behalf OF
the Diocesan Missionary Committee, re-
ported as collected during the year for
that mission. 1854. a decrease Of 1891
from the previous year, and the smallest
collection in the history OF the diocese.
He and DR.. Arthur Lloyd urged the coun-
Gil to see that such a sum be raised as
would expand the work and not rest on
the mere maintenance OF present condi-
lions, and, on the motion of DR.. r. j.
McBryde, OF Lexington, IL was directed
that the above report be read at once TO
all congregations.
The Special Committee on Division OF
Funds held Jointly by Virginia and South
ern Virginia dioceses. through Colonel w.
w. Old, OF Norfolk. made an exhibit,
showing that 1t had successfully fulfilled
It's mission. and asked for a dissolution
OF the COMMITTEES.
THE CONTINGENT FUND.
II was shown that payments on con-
tingent fund were better than last year
and that as Of the LIST of June, there was
a credit balance on that account OF 1912,
vet a large number OF parishes contri-
butte nothing, and many not what they
could contribute. The much-discussed
proposition TO abolish the per capita sys-
TEN Of collecting the contingent fund. and
substitute a sum certain to be assessed
against the congregation, fell through
and IL was finally determined to retain
the old plan, but to raise the per capita
assessment TO 80 cents.
The council refused TO give It's assent
10 the proposed change in the name OF
the Church. which matter Will come ur
in the general convention at Washington
In october. BY many the change is re-
rarded as more OF the ritualists and high
church wing OF the Church. the change
being to call the Church THE Catholic
Church. known In law as the protestant
Episcopal Church OF the United states"
Tho matter Of requiring that only COM
nunicants shall be eligible as vestrymer
was carried over TO the next council
Endorsements of these Church schools