Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-28
Convention of Iowa Diocese Of the
Episcopal Church Opens.
ADDRESS BY BISHOP MORRISON
Review Of the History Of the Church
in lewa-StrussIes and Successes
Schools Founded-Future Outlook is
Bright.

the Episcopal Diocese OF Iowa was op-
ened IN Grace Cathedral at Davenport
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock by
Bishop Morrison. There was large
gathering to attend the opening exer-
cises which were entirely devotional
and preliminary in character. They
were led by Bishop Morrison and
were participated in by number of
the visiting clergymen The principal
feature of the morning was the con-
vention sermon preached by Rev. ].
Everist Cathell, d. D., of Des Moines,
who has been one of the prominent
ministers of the Iowa diocese for many
years.
AT the afternoon session the commit,
tee on credentials reported eighteen
parishes represented by 80 clergymen,
giving majority of both the parishes
and the clergymen and leaving the con
vention qualified to transact business
Rev. s. r. j. Hoyt, D. D.. of Daven-
port, was unanimously elected secre.
tary and Rev. Felix H. Pickworth of
Anamosa was renominated by DIR.
Eoyt, and unanimously endorsed for
assistant secretary.
Bishop Morrison announced the ap-
pointment of Rev. c. H. Bohn, Rev. j.
B. Van Fleet and Thos. L. Hanson as
the committee on admission of new
parishes
Bishop Morrison delivered his an
nual address to the convention at 2
o'clock. 1t was very interesting de-
scription of the diocese of Iowa be-
ginning with it's establishment fifty
years ago and tracing it's growth
through reverses and triumphs until
it has developed into the powerful or
ganization that it is today He said
in substance:
To the Clergy and Laity of the Do
cese of Iowa: My Dear Brethren: =
This is the fifty-first annual con-
yention of the diocese of Iowa, but it
! is the fiftieth anniversary of the or
ganization of the diocese, which took
place in the chapel of Trinity church,
Muscatine, Aug. II, 1858. l am not
able to speak with certainty but ]. p.
Walton's History of Trinity Church,
Muscatine," published in 1902, leads
me to believe that the words chapel
of Trinity Church" refer to the nave
of the present church building occu-
pied by Trinity church. Muscatine.
| The First Convention.
| The convention was called to order
at p. m. The missionary bishop,
Jackson Kemper. d. D., being absent
the Rev. Alfred Lauderbeck, rector of
Trinity church. Davenport, was APP
pointed chairman and S. G. Bever, of
Grace church, Cedar Rapids, was APP
pointed secretary.
The following is the list of clergy:
The Rev. John stakeholder, mission,
airy, Des Moines county; the Rev A.
Lauderback. missionary, Davenport
the Rev. William Adderly, rector St
Johns, Burlington; the Rev. R. D.
Brooke, rector of st. Johns Dubuque;
the Rev. John Ufford, missionary, Mus
catine; the Rev. Samuel Goodale, rec
tor Grace church, Cedar Rapids; the
Rev. G. G. Towen, missionary at Iowa
/ City, Washington and Tipton. In adj
dition to these representatives of the
clergy there were a number of lay
delegates.
The First Bishp.
j Tho first annual convention was held In
Davenport In the lecture room Of the Pres
i byterian church At this convention the
Rt Rev, Jackson Kemper presided. ant
the Rt. Rev. William Henry Lee, ID. D..
was elected the first bishop of the diocese
of Iowa. He was consecrated Oct. is
1854 and immediately began his work, ii,
labored faithfully until Sept &C. 1874
when called to his rest. his episcopal,
was remarkable one He came to n do
!, cese without resources, without visibl,
means of support, but he threw himself
into the work with all zeal and energy
and soon had established 1t upon firm
basis. He secured an endowment of 6,50t
acres of land; he founded college; h,
Ih,,iIt ont A1po1 at ongf "a ~. \,
erected bishops house, and he left tn,
diocese of Iowa all bnt foremost among
the dioeeses of the west
Rev. Perry's Episcopate.
BY the will of God, the Rev. William
Iowa. He was learned man; he hat
, been a college president; he was alread,
distinguished as student, a writer of lit
erature and was influential in the council
oil the church. He labored for twenty-tw
years, and passed to his rest May 49, 1895
New Institutions Organized.
ii During Bishop Perry's episcopate two In,
portant institutions We're started. Gu
!, school for girls, now under the care o
! the sisters o. Saint Mary, was establishe
by him in 1888. It has been successful
school from the beginning and has done
noble work for education, for the home
and the. church. In 1896 Saint Luke's hos
pital in Davenport was opened. 1t ha
steadily grown in import, reputation nm
resources, and has vet long and usefu
, future before 1t.
Bishop Morrison's Eplscopate.
4 Bishop Morrison then entered into hi
annual report in which he renewed til
work Of the diocese for the past year TIL
report was encouraging and indicated tina
| he had done vast and untirng work dul
Ing the time that he has been the bisho
OIL the diocese Of iowa.
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