The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-10
TIME TO ACT
HAS NOW COME
Bishop Cheshire Rings
Clear on Divorce Evil.
THE NEGRO QUESTION
Demands that st. Mary's Must Meet
How Shall Debt Be Paid Off? La
dies Edition of Charlotte Chron-
icIe Cleared $500 for Thomp-
son 0rrhanage.

The feature of yesterdays session
of the Episcopal Diocesan Conven-
ton was the annual address of the
Bishop, Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Ches-
hire. Among the principal subjects
he discussed were the question of the
enlargement of st. Mary's School,
church work among the negroes, and
the divorce evil.
The Bishop referred to his desire
to mark the completion of the ten
years of his episcopate by erecting
IN memory of Bishop Lyman, his pre-
decessor. a library to contain the two
or three thousand volumes left to
the diocese by the late Bishop. BY
the generosity of friends, the build
ing is now nearly finished, in connec-
ton with the Episcopal residence
which he thinks ought to be called
Ravenscroft after the great Bishop
of that name. Four or five hundred
dollars are still lacking, however.
Speaking of st. Mary,s School, the
Bishop said in part:
st. Mary's School.
"At the end of seven years we see
the school prosperous beyond oui
hope, and scores of applicants apply
ing y
our capacity to receive them. Only
fourteen thousand dollars remains due
TO the former owners, to which mus'
be added five thousand dollars given
TO establish a scholarship, and, wiz
the consent of the donor, invested III
our own debt. Beside this, over fifteen
thousand dollars has been spent upon
equipment and permanent improve
ments Something like thirty-hve
y for
MaTy's School in this Diocese alone
directly and indirectly, during these
seven years. When the Rev. Dr. Brat
ton was called from the rectorShip OF
this school to become Bishop of Miss
issippi, we feared that the School mao
suffered an irreparable loss. But III
his successor. the Rev. McNeely Du-
Bose, we have found one entirely cap
able of carrying on the work. and the
past year has not only heIo WHAT llau
been gained under DIR. Bratton. but
has continued the steady upward
movement. and today st. Mary
School is stronger in the confidence
and affection of our people, and in its
organized power Tor doing its work
than ever before.
But it is becoming more and more
evident every year that we can not sl'
down contented with this measure OF
w Ii
success as the school has now attain
ed would have left nothing to be de-
sired But the world has changed
and it's demands have changed. The
standards of education have advanced
New institutions, public schools, en-
bowed schools and colleges, nave
sprung up all around us. The intel
Iectual culture which q quarter OF g
century ago could be found for oul
girls only at St. Mary's, and very
few like schools in this State, can nov
be had in every one of our larger
towns and in innumerable institutions
of higher grade. Almost every one OF
those Southern dioceses from which
our pupils have been drawn, has its
own Diocesan school, or is preparing
TO have it, st. Mary's School still
stands at the head of all our Southern
church school for girls; but it car
rot retain this prominence as mere
matter of sentiment and tradition. To
do the work before it, to maintain its
primacy, and to meet the responsible
tiles of the situation, it must develoI
those courses and those departments
which supplement the training of oul
local schools, whether public school!
or church institutions; and must p'
to them what the college and the uni
versity are to our academies and higl
schools for boys. We have not choseI
this work for St Mary's School; in thu
providence of God it is being forced
upon us by the actual conditions o
our church life. DIR. Bratton foresaV
this. and began to adjust the schoo
to these new conditions the secont
year of his administration. The res