The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-04
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION
DIOCESAN MEETING IN PROGRESS
AT ST. PAUL's CHURCH.
Bishop Francis Makes Report on Last
Years work-Women's Aux
Hilary Affairs.

The opening session Of the Episcopal
diocesan convention Of Indiana was held
last evening in st. Pauls Church. The
Revs. Barnfort, Foot and Cook had charge
of the service. Bishop Francis read his
annual report. II is in part as follows:
There is much in the record of the year
that is cause for encouragement and
thankfulness TO Almighty God. l note the
payment Of the debt on ST. Stephen
Church. Terre Haute. and the payment of
more than 5000 on st. Davids Church,
indianapolis. on its mortgage indebted
ness, leaving balance of only 5000. Holy
Innocents' Church. Evansville. has also
ended the year free from debt. and has
made a substantial increase in the rector's
salary. Holy Innocents Church, Indian
apolis; Trinity Church, Connersville, and
st. Johns Church, Charlottesville have in
creased spiritually and financially. The
combinations of the year are the largest
since the division of the diocese, which
augurs we'll for the future. Several parishes
and missions have been without regular
services for a part of the year owing to
the resignation and removal of five clergy
men-the Rev. Roger Fl. Peters. who left
for western Michigan; the Rev. F. c. Cool
baugh. who resigned at st. Johns Church,
Lafayette, and removed TO the missionary
district of Duluth; the Rev. Gilbert Nj.
Foxwell, who. after eight months work at
Bloomington, returned TO his old parish in
Baltimore; the Rev. A. T. Young, who re-
moved to ST Louis after holding the rec
torship of Holy Innocents' Church, Indian
apOliS, for four months, and the Rev. A. q.
Davis, who removed to Milwaukee. The
Rev. f. o. Grannis, Of st. Pauls Church.
Richmond, has accepted the call TO the
Pro-cathedral in Indianapolis, and will en-
ter on the duties at the beginning of Sep
TENDER.
THE record of my official acts is that /
have made ninety-eight visitations, eighty
nine in the diocese four in southern ONO
and five in the diocese of New York.
have held sixty combinations, forty-four
public and seven private in the diocese,
four in the diocese of southern Ohio and
five in New York. L have administered
baptism to nine infants and one adult, and
two marriages have been solemnized and
six burials for the dead. 1 have ordained
one candidate to the deaconate, john
Mitchell Harper, in the Pro-cathedral In
ceived into the diocese-the Revs. Hobart
l.. Marvin, from the diocese of Tennes-
see; William Crossman Otte, from the do
cese Of southern Ohio; Harry S. Mussman,
from the diocese of Toronto: Z. Z. Ed
wards. from the missionary district of
Asheville; ]. Henry Morton Nodder, do
cese of Rangoon, and William X. Berry,
diocese of Iowa" Bishop Francis also
called attention to the proposed building
of the Episcopal residence at Sixteenth
street and Central avenue.
At the close of the address John w.
Wood, corr esponding secretary of the board
of foreign missions, gave a short address
on the need of mission support. In the
course of his remarks Mr.. Wood said Indi-
ana was among the States that gave the
smallest amounts last year to foreign mis-
sions. Indianas sum was 81, 700 Vincennes
was first and Muncie second. Indianapolis
fell behind these towns.
This morning at o'clock the first bust
ness session of the convention will be held.