The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-08
q 77T--7- 77- 7-7 7.5.77 MISSIONS
 DISCUSSED DiOceSeS Failed to Raise
 Amounts. MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE Archbishop Addressed Har-
 ward Students. Election of Missionary Bishsp For Cuba Was Recommended, But Nc Action Was Taken--Greetings to the Peace Congress. q

Boston, Oct 7.--Missionary matters were considered during the greater part of todays session of the general triennial convention of the Episcopal Church. The House of Bishops and the House of Deputies were in joint session as the Boards of Missions near ly all day.
 The delegates to the women's auxil- iary were also present.
 The presiding bishop, Rt. Rev. Daniel s. Futile of Missouri. presided over the joint session.
 Rev. Hiram Huise, a Cuban mission ary, advocated the election of bishop for Cuba and Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee of Washington, D. C., presented reso- lution asking that a missionary bishop for Mexico be appointed. No action was taken on either proposition today. The convention sent greetings and as- surances of profound sympathy to the international peace congress.
 The Archbishop of Canterbury and several American bishops addressed a meeting of students held under the au- spices of St. Pauls Society of Harvard in Cambridge tonight. There was much interest in the session to consider missions because of the widespread criticism of the apportionment pan for  of the general mission fund. The re- port of the secretary showed that many dioceses had failed to raise their share of the apportionment.
 The total missionary receipts during the year from all sources save legacies were S675,000, an increase over the pre- ceding year of s1g,000. The apportion- ment for last year was $63o.0o0 and the receipts to apply upon 1t were only s41s.O00, or a shortage on expectations of $217,000. The board, however, Is not that sum in debt. but merely fell short of that amount in its requests or the church, A large part of the day was devoted to q discussion of methods or improving the missionary organization and system
 Treasurer George c. Thomas, in his report to the Board of Missions. said:
 1ITnder the apportionment plan, to- wards appropriations of the board s4i2,2l4 had been received from A.lso parishes and missions out of the total number of 6,461 Thisis gain Tor the year of $32,963, and fifteen parishes
 Through all instrumentalities $6O6,- 006 had been received toward the ap- propriation of the board from 5,lI1 parishes and missions out of the total number of 6,45l. This is a total gain of s24,549 and loss of thirty-three parishes and a mission.
 In the 4,110 missions contributing under the apportionment plan there are 6e5, 900 communicants reported. In the 2.360 that were not heard from by parish offerings there are. according to the diocesan Journals. 1900 communi- cants.
 Seventeen dioceses and twenty mis- .tonarv dtatricts completed their ap- portionment.
 The board of managers in their re- port says:
 "In the home field during the year just closed, the board has made ap- nropriation for the entire or partial support of twenty bishops and 1920 other missionaries, clerical and lay working In thirty-nine dioceses and twenty-one missionary districts. The total of these appropriations is $S7S,- 14s.
 Tn the foreign field the board has made appropriations for the support of eight bishops of forty-seven foreign clergy, hfty-six foreign lay workers, men and women. and 533 native work CTS, clergy. teachers. catechists, Bible women and other helpers.
 During the triennium the board has sent fifty-eight missionaries to distant fields.
 While the failure of the income to meet the appropriations for the current wear is from one point of view seri- ous matter, we believe it need cause no permanent apprehension. No one can believe that the church has reached the limit of her ability to give. particular ly when it is remembered that $500 congregations representing 16o,000 com municants contributed nothing to the common expense unless 1t was through the offerings of the Sunday school and the women's auxiliary.
 The report paid a tribute to the Archbishop of Canterbury.