The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-20
Secretary of the. Mission
Board Speaks.
WORK OF THIS STATE
Mr.. Wood Surprised BY Contributions
in Excess of What Was Asked.
The Convention Closed in the
AfterfOOn With Important
R(DortS.
Reports.

Especial to News and Observer
Charlotte, N. c., May 19.-The third
and last day of the diocesan conven>
ton opened with the usual celebration
of the holy communion this morning
in ST. Peters church at half past six
o'clock. The bishop was celebrant,
assisted by the Rev. Geo. NJ. Tolson,
of St Stephens church, Oxford.
At half past nine o'clock morning
prayer was said by the Revs. Henry
Tellor Cooke, of Winston, and II. NAL
linckrodt, of Charlotte. The conven.
ton assembled at eleven o'clock to
hear the special address of Mr.. Jno.
w. Wood, of Norfolk, secretary of the
board of missions of the Episcopal
Church.
Mr.. Wood is well known throughout
the church, having begun his career a>
a church worker years ago in the
brotherhood of st. Andrews, of which
order he was for a long time presi-
dent.
Feeling his especial fitness for the
work OF the mission board he was ap-
pointed to the responsible and import
ant position of corresponding secre,
tary, which position he filled most ef-
ficiently.
heart and upon his mind and cons
science is the worldwide one of mis-
sions, and il was the missions of the
church that he talked about this
morning, emphasizing especially the
work of the Woman's auxiliary in con-
nection Herewith. -
Mr. Wood began his remarks by
some pleasant references to North
Carolina, not because he was in North
ali h0f 10 TO Slx
something OF the kind, but because
this State had aroused his admiration
in what it had done for missions and
thus compelled him to some just and
due words of praise.
The Woman's Auxiliary is the chief
mission force of the church among
the women, and Mr.. Wood stated that
the Board of Missions owed much to
this organization for the advance Of
the missionary cause.
1t had many claims upon it, some
of them very special, and yet it had
made a splendid united effort and
evidence of its good work could be
seen over a wide area, on the Indian
reservations of the West, in China and
in Japan, in many places throughoutI
the world; and to come nearer home,
a fine work was being done through
the aid of the auxiliary in the noun
taing of North Carolina where not
only clergy were at work, but dea-
consesses, teachers and parish work
ers-all striving in a practical and
definite way to lift the boys and girls
and others of that section to high
ideals of Christian character.
Mr. Wood urged the clergy to look
we'll after the Woman's Auxiliary
to stand by it, encourage it and stim-
ulate it's efforts in all possible ways,
and that he was sure that much Of
the real strength of the auxiliary did
come from the hearty and enthusiastic
support it got from the clergy.
Mr.. Wood asked permission espec-
tally to refer to what North Carolina
had been giving to the cause of mis-
sions, and stated that he felt right in
saying that North Carolina has really
give that if he remembered correctly
the State contributed last year fifty
per cent more than she was asked to
give, and that he was astonished to
see weak missions giving so splendidly
to this department of the
work, and that it was graf
flying to see the strong parishes
and weak missions of the State very
generally side by side in this matter
He spoke particularly of a mission in
Cleveland county which was asked for
$5 and which sent $50 Mr.. Wood
stated that he would like to know how
that mission got that $50, and how
Salisbury gave so much and st. Au
gustine's school at Raleigh. that such
examples were insniring. The speaker
was glad to see the church at large
growing, and spoke especially OF
strides in the northwest and Alaska,
how he was struck with the assembly
of Bishop Hares Indians in South
Dakota. when he saw 1000 of them
build their tent city in a night and
erect a place of worship and go
through the service, and how fine
work had been done in Alaska by Mr..
Hughes formerly of Wilmington. N.
C. The convention viii close with
this afternoon, important committee
reports will be rendered and tonight
there will be evening services in st.
Peters and at st. Michale's church.
At 730 Rev. Richard Hogue, of Will
mington. will preach at ST. Peters, |
and Archdeacon Pollard at st. Mich |
aels.