Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-17
SPREAD OF GOSPEL
TOPIC OF SYNOD
Episcopalians Discuss Missions
on Opening Day of Great
Conference.
SOCIAL SERVICE TO-DAY
John M. Glenn to Speak To-
Night in Mass-Meeting
at St. Paul's.

Spread Of the GOSPEL by mission
work featured the first day of the first
annual synod Of the Province or wash
ington. begun here yesterday, and In
tho mass-meeting held last night in
ST. James Episcopal Church Right
REV. William Loynli Gravatt. ID. D.,
bishop coadjutor OF West Virginia. and
Rev. William ~ Milton. D. D.. of Will
mington, y. c.. told OF the great need
which had been found by the workers
OF the Church ard the way In which
;hat need was being met.
The morning business program was
confined 10 tho reading and receiving
Of reports. and the meeting At night
was devoted to speaking of tho ur-
Eency Of tho appeal which tho Episco-
pal churches arc now making In be-
half OF the Gospel as II was taught
hy the First Teacher and as IL was
carried into new fields by his twelve
disciples. Tho mass-meetinr was pre-
sided over By Right Rev William Ca
boil Brown. y. -, bishop coadjutor Of
virginia, and chairman Of the standing
committee on missions. The president
of the synod is Righ, Rev John Card
ncr MURRAY. d. D.. bishop of Mary
land who presided at the business ses-
sions held during tho day.
BISHOP BROWN URGES
FORWARD STEP IN MISSIONS
IN introducing tho two speakers Of
last night. Bishop Brown said that the
Eoal set by the primary synod held III
Pittsburgh last year was sl.ooooOo
which had been considerably passed by
the contributions already received and
IN hand. However. there was s.iil
much 10 be done. and he expressed the
desire OF the Church that tho mission
spirit bc carried forward until the
Christian teachings were known of all
the world. IIo said that one-haIf OF
the 100000 communicates in the
Province q. Washington had failed to
sc" the vision Of a world saved. and
that tne defects in the present system,
q, spreading the Gospel ought to be
discussed He introduced Bishop Gra-
watt rs rho first speaker on tho as
signed subject o; The undeveioped
uesourcea Of the Church
The Bible, Sunday school teaching
and the proper Influence Of money were
the cardinal things which EI6hop Gra-
'att thought needed Christian cSpioi-
,ation. Ii' rocltcd the history of the
Church. IL which it's RESOURCES were
;dministered without method aud said
that tive need OF to-day was not fully
understood or appreciated
GOING INTO HIGHWAYS
TO REACH OUTSIDERS
IT then the custom he said.
referrinE to tho past. TO confine the
activities OF the Church TO the chill
drcn o! the families then in the Church
i;ut "c have gone beyond that. for We
realize that necessity impels US TO so
forward into the highways and by
WAYS IL We would DO the work which
has been assigned 10 US To-day We
Should Try toi rnissiuns-missi
cyoryu here.
What are the resources which are
yot undcvelopedf One is the Bible
But arc VIC grounding the child in tho
precep;s OF tho Bihlc as We should
II not where does the blame lie? We
have been teaching the history OF the
Church. hut We are doing this AT the
loss OF teaching the word OF the living
God. We are learning now. after a
long and vague unrest. that here then
is one Of the richest resources OF the
Church. which we must try more and
more TO use. We need more and more
knowledge of the Bible I'm its bearing
our personal life. The greatest
power can have is the man who
is consccrated with the spirit OF God
We do not need the man who talks
religion. but the man who really puts
Gods calls first. who consecrates his
life to those spiritual duties which
have been assigned to us all. the man
who sacrifices his time and means to
tiod"
URGES THOROUGH
TEACHING Of CSTECHISM
Bishop Gravatt said that one of .he
other undeveloped resources was the
sunday school. Training at home he
said. had largely been neglected. and
Il was for the Sunday school to take
the place Of this neglected training. 1t
IS the duty Of the Sunday school. he
thought. TO teach the catechism, in
which the fundamentals are found. and
TO keep them In the minds OF tho pupils.
so that they would form an anchor for
the later period OF life.
we must face this need" ne said
and We must feel the responsibility
which rests upon us. We must realize
there Is shortness OF time, and that
wc must labor earnestly to teach the
catechism, so that when the children
grow older they will have something
on which to base their beliefs and the
action or their lives. would also
stress the need of Billie class for
men and women, who Will need as much
for their guidance as the little chill
dren When tho foundation is laid all
other machinery. he said "will move
smoothly"
Ills third nndeveloped resource was
money. He said that the people have
not becn told the need of mission work
that they had not hcen taught the re-
sponsihiiity which rested upon them.
and which they could properly exer
else IL tho truth could he shown 10
them,
1T is only when we use all these
resources" said Bishop Gravatt. "tha,
our mission work will be extended into
She fields which so badly need it."
Or. Milton spoke on "Thc Eyery-
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