Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-06-24
DIOCESAN CONVENTION.
The ii5th Annual Meeting Held Here
Wednesday and Thursday---The
Next Convention to be Held in

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, In spite of rain and cloudy wealth
er there was large attendance a
the ll5th annual convention of thu
Episcopal diocese of Vermont, which
met in Woodstock Wednesday anC
Thursday The delegates began ar
) irving Tuesday afternoon, Bishop
Hall and the delegates from Burling
ton and other northern towns coming
up from White River Junction by
special train.
Tuesday evening services were
held at st. James church, with a
sermon by Rev. s. H. Watkins OF
| st. Adams.
The convention met at the church
at $50 o'clock Wednesday morning
for organization, Bishop Hall pre-
siding at all the sessions, and at 8
o'clock the opening service was held,
the celebration of the holy COM
munion. The delegates and other
visitors numbered nearly one hun
dred: including thirty-nine clergy
all but seven in the diocese, forty
one laymen, and about fifteen mem
bers of the Woman's. Auxiliary
were present.
At IL o'clock Bishop Hall deliver
ed his annual address.
The bishop in his address dis
cussed various subjects of impor-
lance, including the changes in
general canons, clerical changes, the
building of the new church at AL
burgh, the extention of church work
in and about Hardwick. He spoke
of his recent critical illneess and
of his declining the attractive invi-
tation from Japanese authorities to
spend FIVE months in that country
next winter, giving conferences and
addresses and large part of the
bishops remarks was devoted to the
matter of more general Sunday OBJ
servance.
At the close of the address, by
vote of the convention, the bishop
appointed the following special COM
mittee to consider that part of the
address concerning Sunday observ-
ance: Rev. E. T. Mathison, Brattle-
boro; Rev. E. P. Lee, Island Pond
Messrs. G. S. Forbes, St. Adams; G. |
A. Nimmo, Rutland, and Sherman
Evarts, Windsor.
The bishop announced that the
endowment fund for Bishop Hop
kins hall now amounted to &c., |
605.34, in hand and pledged, which
was about three-quarters of the de-
sired sum of 100000. This it was
hoped could be raised in time to re-
open the school in the fall of 1906.
Rev. G. H. Wells of Woodstock
was reelected secretary of the do
cese.
The election of a standing COM
mittee resulted as follows: Rev. w.
F. Weeks of Brandon, Rev. Mr..
Bliss of Burlington, Rev. S. Fl. Wat
kins of st. Adams, Messrs. F. E.
Smith and George Briggs Of Mont
pelier, Charles E. Parker Of YER
gennes.
Hon. E. j. Ormsbee of Brandon
was elected legal adviser of the eccle-
siastical court.
Hon. F. S. Platt was reelected au-
ditor of the trust funds of the do
cese.
A resolution introduced by Rev..
E. P. Lee of Island Pond met with
some opposition and after discus
sion it was laid on the table. The
resolution reads:
Resolved, That the committee on
education be requested to confer with |
representative ministers of other
Christian bodies in Vermont and as
certain if it is possible for all de-
nominations to unite in asking the |
state legislature to prescribe or au-
thorize a course of religious instruc-
ton in the public schools of YER
mont, based upon the Apostles
Greed, the Lords Prayer and the
Ten Commandments.
The report of the treasurer of the
trustees of the diocese showed gross
income for the year of $S49S.75,
which with the undivided interest
May l, 1904, of $4428.18, amounts
to $12,926.93; disbursements to va
rious benefciaries $5419.4l. There
are 60 separate funds, an increase of
eight in the past year, amounting to
1874, O90.09. The amount added to
the several funds was $l969.24.
The total amount of all the dioce-
san funds is nearly 100000.
Evening prayer was said at the