The Detroit times., 1911-05-17
Bishop Williams Pleads
For Increase in StipendS

In his address before the delegates
to the convention of the diocese Of
Michigan. Bishop Williams said in
part:
Il herewith submit asummary OF my
official acts and record of my work
during the year since the adjournment
OF the Diocesan convention held IN
Trinity church. Bay City. May IL and
II, 1910. | have made 70 visitatlons
In the diocese. confirmed 1,046 per
sons, delivered 100 sermons and sd-
dresses, offciated at five funerals and
four weddings and baptized, four in
fants. Outside OF my regular episco-
pal work In the diocese, have attend
ed one meeting Of the bishops of the
fifth department In Gambler, o., In
June, and all the sessions OF the gen
eral assembly convention held In Gin
cinnati, o., during October, 1910. ]
have officiated as university or college
preacher at Kenyon college, the Uni
versity OF Chicago, Harvard univer-
sity, Cornell university and Williams
college, delivering "a college sermons
and addresses.
Il have ordained three deacons; six
clergy have been received, four clergy
have been transferred. and two clergy
men have died We now have IT
priests and five deacons economically
resident In the diocese making a to-
tai of SO. There are 10 postulants. six
candidates for holy orders. 90 licens-
ed lay readers, GO parishes, 38 organic
ed missions and Is unorganized mis-
sions.
There are many grounds for en-
enlargement in the work OF the do
cese. In fact, the general condition OF
the diocese and its immediate pros
poets seem TO be better and more
hopeful than at any time since the
beginning of the present episcopate.
Services have been maintained
with more or less regularity in all our
missions, save two, during the last
year. The only stations which have
been vacant for over six months are
Corunna and Gagetown, though tenn
porary vacancies exist in Bad Axe,
Midland and Coleman and East Tawas
and Au Sable. Two of these are to
be filled within the next month and
the other, II is hoped, within a short
time"
Speaking OF the reasons the diocese
had to feel encouraged. the bishop
drew attention first OF all to the COM
pletion OF ST. Paul's cathedral The
edifice was a credit to the diocese and
the city Of Detroit. He was proud and
grateful to have 1t as an ecclesiatsti-
cal home for himself, something he
had long desired. The bishop then
mentioned the fact that St Johns
church. Detroit. had accumulated an
endowment of $4,000 for the purpose
of holding it's present location against
the encroachment Of commercial in.
terests. He drew attention to the fact
that the mission parishes of Epiphany,
Detroit, and ST. James, Birmingham.
we're applying to the convention to
be constituted self-supporting par
ishes. Birmingham was also planning
to take Royal Oak and Rochester of
the diocese as dependent churches. st.
Johns, Durand Grace Mission, West
Bay City; st. Adams, Highland Park;
Grace Mission, Standish. and Trinity.
West Branch, were also mentioned as
making good progress, in the way OF
erecting new buildings and doing well
spiritually and financially, most OF
them having undertaken the erection
Of new churches. For much Of the
advancement in the mission work. he
gave credit to the Woman's Auxiliary
and the Michigan Church club.
I'VE thank God for the women"
said the bishop. Without them the
church would look small indeed, both
in it's worship and In its work"
Il give notice." said the bishop,
that l shall not give my consent
hereafter to the admission OF any mis-
sion as parish in union with this
convention, unless a minimum sup
port OF $1,000, with rectory, or ST.
200 without a rectory, be guaranteed
by the congregation applying for such
admission"
Salaries and stipends in this do
cese are below the average paid in
most OF the adjoining dioceses. For
example, in Ohio and Southern Ohio,
and far below what they are in the
east My whole difficulty In getting
clergymen for this diocese Is with
money, not with men. | have on my
list the names OF many men who are
willing and anxious to come into this
diocese, and some Of them men Of the
finest character and ability. | have
few parishes and mission stations
vacant. But when | tell the men.
whom | want what the stipends are,
they are often constrained to decline,
for the simple reason that they can
not live as they ought to and must
live on the support offered
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