The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

DI0CEsANs OF ANGLICAN COMMUNION
TO MEET NEXT MONTH
Important Matters to BE Considered
Beer Making and the Missions
Among the Hop Pickers.
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NEW YORK. Sept 26.-Bishops of the
Anglican Communion. who are 10 meet in
Washington at the middle of October, will
number about seventy, and will include
nearly all diocesans and coadjutors in IN
United States and Canada, and the bishop
of Honolulu, Jamaica, Bermuda, Hayti AM
Porto Rico. The many new names of dio
ceses indicates how rapidly the episcopatt
IS extending. The meeting will be in the
nature of the Lambeth conference, which
Is held in London every ten years, and will
be the first OF the kind ever held on this
side OF the Atlantic. Being the first, much
OF its time win be taken UP by the rela-
tion of details OF work as carried on by
different diocesans. and among different
peoples. Most OF the sessions will be, like
those at Lambeth, behind closed doors. and
the hard work OF the conference will be
done by committees. Social functions will
be somewhat numerous. Plans are in the
hands. almost excessively, OF Bishop Dudley,
OF Kentucky. and Bishop Satterlee. Of
Washington.
The total receipts Of the Episcopal Board
OF Missions for the year were 81 i,sl2
Under the apportionment plan now being
tried by this board. contributions from the
Woman's Auxiliary, from the Sunday
school children and from specials are ex-
Guided, so that the total applying on the
fund OF $4,000 asked for is ss77aoo The
women gave $4,000 more than last year, and
the sunday-schocl children $500 more
Under the experiment OF the apportionment
plan there has been a gain of $4,000 In
receipts from parishes during the past two
0x.l -
parishes contributing OF 1857. In no re-
llgious body do all churches contribute 10
all missionary or general purposes, and in
this respect the unofficial organization, as
an Baptist and Congregational churches,
make quite good showing as do those in
Episcopal and Presbyterian. where mission
boards are official In the Episcopal Church
Id the United States there are l.Soo parishes
and missions that contribute nothing TO
general missions.
In England missions to hop pickers and to
cranberry gatherers are still maintained.
but In this country hop raising is being
abandoned by the farmers. and the cram
berry pickers OF Cape Cod are more ne
elected since the death of the famous Glib
bud than they once were. The hop pick
ing season In England brings into the CEN
trail shires two hundred thousand men,
women and children. representatives of
about the worst specimens OF humanity
that England can show. Sickness, starva-
ion and immortality follow. and each year
thousands OF pounds are spent trying to
rare In some measure for their physician re-
icf, and also to reach some OF them with
bpirituaI truths. Some years ago hops
were so high In price i'm this country that
brewers resorted to chemical substitutes
Row some use part hops and part cherni-
Gals, and some all chemicals. The out
eoms Is that the great hop-raising regions
bf central New York are changing In char
aees q cultivation. Farmers are blowing