Arizona republican., 1912-05-08
EP|SCOPAL|AN
 CONVOCAT|ON
Bishop Atwood Delivers An nual Address and Charge; Church in Arizona Flour ishing; Local Conditions Discussed

ConvocatiOn of the Episcopal district of Arizona met yesterday in Grace church, Tucson for a two day session. The first order of business was the de. livery of the bishops annual address and charge to the cOnvocatiOn.
 The address deals with the history of the church in Arizona during the past year and finds that the time has been one of profit and advancement along nearly every line Of Phoenix Bishop Atwood says:
 Trinity parish, Phoenix, now the pro- cathedral was long vacant though it had the acceptable services of the Reverend Arthur w. Moulton, rector of Grace church, Lawrence, Massachu- setts.as locum tennens for the periol of about six months. MT. Moulton rend- cred q splendid service and endeared himself to manly. He was q power ia the church life of Phoenix, through his preaching and his winning personality l The Reverend William J. Scarlett. a member of the staff O1 St Georges church. New York. became vice-rector of the parish in october of last year 1 and the work has responded to his i fine leadership. The congregations 1 have grown. New organizations have been started. new methods adopted in i the Sunday school. and a spirit Of un- i ity and good will peVade the parish 1 The church has felt the financial de | pressiOn that has been experienced 1 here in Arizona, and so has not de- veloped as strongly as it is expected it l will in the future along material lines. 1 Tn addition to the charge of Trinity 1 parish. the vice rector has conducted | services each Sunday evening in st. l Marks mission, Mesa Here an attrac- 1 tive church building, that was opened for service in December by the bishop, | has been built. at cost of d little over | S3000. exclusive of the ground that was 1 given. Good congregations have at tended the services, and it is hoped that during the coming year the work 1 will develop in every direction, if We can secure a clergyman for a morning service who will also DC able to do pas i toral work and to oversee the Organiza- tions of the mission.
 Tn this connection, grateful appre- citation ought to be rendered to the par
 sh of Trinity, for their generous action in the past three or four years in ali 1 lowing their rector to develop and car ry on mission work in the Salt River valley.
 Tn addition to the work at Mesa, there is an organized mission in Tem pe, the work of which has languishe1 somewhat during the past year, owing mainly to removals ol communicants and there are also unOrGanizel mis- sions at Glendale and Florence and Ray But the increasing work of Trinity parish will demand. in the fu- ture, the entire time of the vice rector and dean.
 The report of St Luke's home will show steady progress for the past year
 A new house for the resident physiciar
 has been built and q bactcriologica
 laboratory established. A house has
 also been built for the chaplain, tht Reverend Frederick Bennett the funds having been secured for this purpose
 bv the Woman's Auxiliary. Prescott
 An automobile has also been added tC
 our equipment. which IS used for tho 1 home and also for missionary work 1T . the neighborhoOd The home is nov
 kept open for the entire year. Som'
 patients do unusually well in the sum
 mcr months, but l wish We could have
 summer camp among the mountains
 near Prescott where those who canno
 spend the not months in Phoenix could
 escape the neat. There is a possibility
 of our being able to extend our worI
 bv the establishing of a small tent san
 itariun1 in the neighbOrhOoI of Tucson
 which has long been a cherished wisf | of mine, and where it is sadly needed
 5000 has been given recently by Rev i crend Dr. EndicOtt Pea body, head mas
 ter of GrOton school in memory of hi.
 father and mother, for the endowment
 S2O0O has also been promised from an
 other source, which will rObably D,
 devoted to the increase of the endow
 ment fund It is gratifying to know
 that much interest is being taken T
 the work locally, as shown in the con ! tributiOns from Arizona, and especial,
 from Phoenix. The superintendent i
 showing himself indcfatgable ii
 spreading abroad the knowledge of tn 1 work It ~ indeed source of grati ! ficatiOn that we can do so mucl through the bungalows for those in th early stages of the disease, and througl 1 the hospital for advanced cases, fO which few sanitariums are willing t
 open their GOOrS'