The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-31
CHURCH MOVESON
Bishop MilIspaugh's Review OF
Past Ten Years.
Episcopal Clergy Increased From
26 to 81.
NEW CHURCHES, 10.
CHURCHES, 10.
This in Present Diocese, Ten
More in Western Kansas.
Bethany College Now Has SAL
900 Endowment.

delivered MS annual ADDRESS 10 lle
elergymen of the Episcopal church Of
the Kansas diocese. who are here in
attendance at the forty-sixth conven-
ton
In a summary of his 10 years episco-
pate Bishop MilIspaugh said:
Ten years ago there were 26 clergy
in active work in the undivided dio
cese. Today there are "a in the pres
ent diocese and four more licensed.
Sixteen places which then received
missionary aid now support their
own ministers. Twelve of them are
self supporting parishes, of which
there are in the diocese today 20.
There are IS new places to which
the church ministers with some degree
! of regularity. Ten preaching stations
have become strong missions, and 9TH
er preaching stations will ere long be
missions
There were built or purchased 10
churches in the present diocese, and 10
more in western Kansas, now a new
missionary district, making % in all.
"The only debt in church building
is that upon the church at Fort Scott
The parish is coping with it, and all
other parish debts will not exceed
! $500.
THE large and standing debt of the
! College of the Sisters of Bethany is
/ no more The debt accumulated from
! special taxes upon the Kansas Theo-
logical school has been disposed of, so
that all our diocesan institutions, in
Guiding Christ hospital, are now free
/ from incum brance.
During the past ten years something
over $4,000 was given to Bethany col
/ lege by Mr.. and Mrs. Bruno of Pitts
4 burg, Pa, $4,000 of which was added to
! a total endowment of $4,000 for the in
! stitution.
There has been little increase to the
/ $4,000 endowment of Christ hospital,
i but two new buildings of brick costing
1 $4,000, one the gift of one Of our clergy
/ men Of blessed memory, Rev. Joseph
/ Wayne, and the other by a citizen Of
/ Topeka, and one frame building costing
/ 600. and fve acres of land have been
I added.
1T is proper for you to know that for
4 q long time I have persistently worked
/ for an endowment for the Kansas The
/ ologicaI school. It has nearly reached
! the sum I hoped for. viz: $4,000. The
/ interest is being used for the expenses
/ of the semi-annual sessions.
Through the gifts of loving church
men, interested in church extension the
sum of $4,000 in addition to the gift
/ by Mr. and Mrs. Bruno, has been
turned over to the diocese of Kansas.
THE largest number of clergy con-
{ 0GCLGQ Win the diocese at any one time
! was in 1901, just before the missionary
district of Salina was set off. Then
! there were So Now there are Al.
There have been ordained "A to the
/ priesthood and 26 to the diacOnate. F7if-
/ ty clergy have been given letters dis
1 missory and AZ have been received from
1 other diOceSeS.
I'm SO towns where we now have So
churches and 10 rector1es. and in round
| numbers 5000 communicates have
! r07GapTafad 26 churches r
| 4, 400 persons.
! There has been but one case of dis
cipline and not one deposition"
In his annual address Bishop Mills
| paugh reviewed the conditions exist
ing in the diocese. He presented sta
| tistics showing the number of clergy
received, clergy transferred, clergy
/ licensed, ordinations, deacons. and
priests, diocesan clergy, candidates for
/ holy orders, dispositions, clergy re-
1 stored, clerical changes, baptisins
combinations, churches consecrated,
| improvements to churches in the dio-
cese, rectories needed, salaries in
+ creased, and report on the improve
ments at Bethany college.
| Bishop Millspaugh urged the clergy
/ of the diocese to present the advan-
tages of Bethany college to their
/ charges. The work at Bethany has
been improved and the teaching staff
strengthened, and a number of i'm
provements of modern character
have been made to the buildings, max
ing the school well worthy of support.
The bishop also called attention to
the fact that there is no longer dio-
cesan fund for the aged and infirm.
/ He also gave a detailed report of the
work at Christ hospital
| In closing my report for the year let
me call attention to new laws set forth
oy the last general convention" said
Bishop Millspaugh. First and fore
most and vitality important is canon II
which requires every parish and con-
gregation to make at least one Offering
Tor the general missionary work OF the
/ church as conducted by the board OF
missions of which the presiding blshop
and our honored guest today, IS presl-
dent.
1T is a lamentable fact that $500
| congregations representing 10000 com
municants made no such oftering last
/ year.
THANK God, Kansas last year full
/ filed the expectations of the general
/ board, VIZ 81 900. It also sent the larg-
! est amount from children during Lent,
/ viz S539.4S and this year the WOman'S
auxiliary will make its largest report
Another canon: NO consecrated
! building or any building used solely for
I divine service may now be encum bered
| or alienated or taken down or removed
/ or disposed of without the consent of
the bishop acting with the advice and
consent of the standing committee.
! Zach clergyman may now claim on
one Sunday in the month the contribu-
tions not otherwise designated, for use
in the needed charities of the parish
'When a parish or a congregation
becomes vacant there must be nc
election of a recter until the name OF
the clergyman proposed be sent to the
bishop and he has been given, if he
/ thinks necessary, thirty days to an.
i sWer the vestry.
.'As to the marriage ceremony. II
the first place we must have fhf