Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-16
VIRGINIA DIOCESE
Annual Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
BISHOP WHITTLE'S ANNUAL ADDRESS
Report by Bishop Gibson and APP
pointment of Committees.
S NDAY OBJ S E r V A n G. E
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| ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 16, 1901.
The second days session of the 106th an
| nual council of the Protestant Episcopal
Church for the diocese of Virginia opened
| this morning at $50 o'clock in Christ
| Church with q large attendance Of dele
| gates and parishes. Prior to the business
session devotional services were held at Z
| o'clock in St. Paul's Church. The services
| in Christ Church opened with a prayer by
| the presiding officer, Bishop Gibson. Then
| followed the reading of the minutes of
yesterdays session.
resolution was offered and unanimously
adopted thanking the trustees Of the Theo-
! logical Seminary and the ladies of the re-
| ception committee for Seminary Hill for
entertaining the delegates yesterday after
| noon.
| Rev. Everard Meade. rector of Pohick
| Church, offered resolution indorSng the
movement recently made by the Mount
Vernon Chapter, d. A. R, of this city for
| the restoration of Pohick Church. The
! motion was unanimously adopted.
The address Of Bishop White, bishop
of the Virginia diocese, was read by Bishop
| Gibson.
Bishop White was not able to be pres
ent owing to Ill health His address was
| in part as follows:
| 1T is a great grief to that 1 cannot
be with you in our annual council. But a
I long and severe illness, commencing about
| the middle of January, has left me in such
| q condition that I am not able to stand
| the fatigue which my attendance on your
| meeting would involve. Sickness at other
periods of the year prevented me from fill
| ing appointments which 1 had made, and,
| being in the seventy-eighth year Of my
age and the fifty-fOurth and the thirty
| fourth Of my episcopate. cannot hope in
time to come to do much in the way of
| visitation to the churches, but must lay
nv burden chiefly my brother bishop,
| who is so able and willing to bear it,
The summary of the address was as fol-
| lows:
| ''Visitations IS; confirmed At; postulants
| received, 4; candidates for priests orders
| admitted, 4; present number, II; deacons
| ordained, g.; letters dimissory given, 8; let
| ters dimissory accepted, 10; lay readers
| licensed, IA; present number of minister's
| SO; engaged in parOchial work, 60.
| TN q former address I spoke Of the
great and steady decrease in the number
| Of our candidates for holy orders during
| the past few years, a fact which causes
| me the deepest concern, being in my tudg-
ment q most significant indication of the
| spiritual and real condition Of the church.
| I have Just reported two white postulants
| only received last year, a much smaller
| number than ever before in my experience
| of more than thirty years. And Of the six
/ young men reported as having been or
| dained deacons, only one is a native Of
Virginia, and three Of the six were trans
ferred to other fields Of labor.
| II had hoped that many members Of the
Brotherhood Of St. Andrew throughout the