The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-02

/ life spent In that country are the
worthiest testimonial to his Intellectual
| ability, unfaltering purpose and deep
piety. Under his successor, theSnow
venerable Bishop Williams, the justly
celebrated Boone College was founded.
/ Chinese Missions.
! The labors of China's third bishop
! the Rt. Rev. Samuel S. j. Schereschew-
sky. are indeed of monumental proper
! ton. He founded st. Johns College,
/, which toby. under the wise manage
ment of DR.. Potts, is recognized as a
| foremost means for educating the boys
| and young men of China. In spite of
partial paralysis, which forced him to
| resign the episcopacy III 1883, this pro-
1 found Christian scholar and devoted
missionary labored withQtireless energy
in his Chinese translation of the Bible.
(, whose completion marks an epoch in
/ the history of Chinese missions. 81
! The second Bishop Boone proved n
worthy son of his father. During his
lepiscopacy new stations We're opened
4 and st. Mary's Orphanage, at Shanghai
! was established. Under the wise ad-
! mnlstration of Bishop Graves the work
has steadily extended. necessitatlng o
division of the district of Shanghai
The new district of Hongkong was
first served by the sainted Bishop Ingle,
after whose death the Rev. Logan L.
! Roots was consecrated, and has faith
4 fully continued the work. ST Paul's
divinity School, St Hilda's School for
Girls. the hospitals of st. Lukes, St.
! Elizabeths, Elizabeth Bum Memorial,
and st. Peters, are skilfully conducted,
and minister to thousands of patients
annually. The total number of com.
munlcants in the church's two districts
is little more than 1000. The inn
press upon the character of it's Chinese
n m :, 10 mi to 40 btiS f,le W.
the general secretary of our missionary
ociety. Rev. DIR. Arthur Lloyd in his
recent visit to China: II was particu-
larry struck by the clear apprehension
these men had of the need for the
church in China to support itself, as
we'll as to supply its own workers.
feel sure, indeed, that II the church in
America cs n provide proper plant at
some central point in each province
the Chinese will themselves be equa
to bearing the lighter burden of taking
4 care Of the work as it radiates from
| these"
Sunrisc Kingdom.
TO the Protestant Episcopal Churcl
Is accorded the distinction, under God
Of being the first to enter the "sunris,
Kingdom" in modern times. In May
1S54 five years after Commodore Perry
sailed into the Bay Of Yeddo, the Rev
John Ltggins came as missionary Il
Japan. The next month witnesses tn,
arrival of the Rev. (afterward Bishop
Williams. Our one missionary distric
there has grown into two, which, to
gether with the present four district
of the Church of England, constitute
The Holy Church of Japan Bisho,
Mckim presides over the District O
Toxic and Bishop Partridge over tn
District Of kyoto st. Paul's College
at Toxic. with almost 600 students
one OF the larOpSt tn,
~ empire. The president Is the Rev. 81
~ George Tucker. Trinity Divinity Schoc
J. Is located at Toxic, as is also ST. Mar
I'd garet's School for Girls. st. Agnes
School at Kyoto has an enrolment Q
= about 200 girls. Large hospitals an
as tricts. The influence for Christianit
I'd exerted through the missionary hos
pitfalls Is perhaps best expressed in tn
,g words of ali old japanese. lady to tn
OF head nurse Of st. Luke's, Toxic: sure
~ the religion is divine which, throug
"a. It's influence, sends out to stranger
ne and people Of another nation such hel
~ and messages OF love and comfort g
~ your religion has brought to me-" TT
49, total number of foreign workers
- the two districts is SO; and OF natl,
- workers 123 Services arc held in {
-. places. and the communicates Iii
" numbers 2,540.
y
.. Palmas, West Africa, has been serve
llc in order by Bishops Payne, Aue
a Penick. and the present Bishop Te
ne guson (colored). At present there a.
We nearly 1900 communicates and Il
TN total contributions exceed $1,000
ia Brazilian Mission.
in The Brazilian mission was a child Z
his Virginia. 1t was founded by two vi,
nj GINA Seminary graduates, Revs L,
nd Glen Kinsolvlng and Cabell Brown, tt
his former OF whom was consecrated bisht
me in 1893. Its growth In power and i,
ost fluence has been sure and permanen
BIZ winning the profound respect Of II
ex- native population on tie one hand al
MT OF the members of the other foreie
ION missions on the other. It's clergy no
Ing numbers ten and It's stations twelve.
ole church paper IS published and tn
oil illogical school has been establishe
Tho The communicates approximate II
uld and the annual contributions are 81
not 900.
the Third. Organization. AS noted abo
his every baptized member of the chur