Evening star., 1916-10-13
CITES OPPORTUNITY
FOR MISSION WORK
Western Hemisphere Fertile
Field, Rt. Rev. A. S. Lloyd
Tells P. E. Church Body.
WOMEN AS DELEGATES

ST. LOUIS, October 13.-This is the day
of American missionary opportunity in
the western hemisphere, the Rt. Rev.
Arthur 8. Lloyd OF New York. president
of the board Of missions Of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, told delegates to the
church's tr1ennial convention today, when
he presented the report Of his board.
He said the catastrophe which has
thrown Europe into chaos has brought
North and South America together in
way not hitherto deemed possible. For
this reason, he asserted, the convention
should adopt a recommendation Of the
board of missions. that a bishop be con-
secrated for Panama.
What it would mean to lose our
chance now may be indicated by the dis
tressing conditions in Mexico" Bishop
Lloyd continued. Zone might almost say
that much Of the misery In Mexico today
might have been averted if fifty years
ago, when our brethren there came ask
ing for help, the church had been able to
avail itself worthily of the opportunity"
DR.. Lloyd urged the Church of Eng
land that of Canada and the American
Episcopalians to join missionary forces
in the western hemisphere as parts
of the universal church: He said civ
ilization must follow Christian teach
ngs and asserted the United States
church is amply able to provide for it.
The American Episcopal Church. he
declared, has accumulated a generous
proportion of the wealth of the coun-
try, "and yet important work for the
church is stopped for lack of money"
Cites Progress Made.
Bishop Lloyd announced, however,
that means had been provided to meet
all obligations of the board for the
current year. and asserted that the
differences in raising necessary funds
for the foreign cause have been due
to lack of business methods rather than
to lack of donation. He drew atten-
ton to progress which had been made
in the church in founding a pension
fund for aged clergy on sound financial
principles.
Would Admit Women as Delegates.
A resolution was introduced in the
house of deputies today giving women
the right to sit as delegates. This reso-
luton, which would alter a policy that
has prevailed since the organization of
the church in America, was introduced
by Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, Me.
George Gordon King, treasurer OF the
board of missions. reported that during
the last three years the board of mis-
sions had received $4,000, ,654, that all
payments had been met and that the
reserve on hand was $74s,776.
More than half the mission receipts
came from the parish churches. the con-
tributions from this source amounting
to s2,246,s12. The Sunday schools con-
tributed $560,456. and from legacies,
S184,50 was derived.
The Virginia delegation asked that
the Sunday nearest February % of each
year be set apart as memorial day for
George Washington.
A resolution providing for the crea-
tion of a commission of three bishops,
three presbyters and three laymen to
investigate a plan for the solution of
the problem of collective poverty, in
dustrial antagonism and war was in
troduced in the house of deputies by
j.. H. Gates of Pierre, s. D. The reso-
luton was referred to committee.
Announcement was made from the
house of bishops that the Rt. Rev.
Chauncey B. Brewster. Bishop Of Con-
necticut, had been chosen chairman of
the committee on dispatch of business,
the steering committee Of that body.
The united offering for missions of
the women's auxiliary totaled $685.
14T.40. This is the amount given by
the diocesan treasurer and repre-
sents the missionary contributions Of
the woman's auxiliaries throughout the
Protestant Episcopal Church for the
last three years.
Greetings From the Mother Church.
Rt. Rev. Huyshe Wolcott Yeatman-
Biggs. Bishop of Worcester, England,
and Rt. Rev. Henry H. Montgomery.
secretary of the Society for the Propa-
cation of the Gospel. Church of Eng
land, conveyed the greeting of the
mother church to the convention. and
Most Rev. George Thornloe, Arch
bishop of Algoma. Ontario. and Rt.
Rev. David Williams, Bishop of Huron,
Ontario, expressed the good will of the
Episcopal Church of Canada. The pull
pit from which they spoke was dec
Grated with the flags Of the United
States, England and Canada.
II could not stand here to reply to
your gracious welcome without touch
ing the things which SO deeply move
us and home in the great war;" said
the Bishop of Worcester in his adj
dress, for you have never shown US
your brotherliness of blood and faith
with such acceptableness as you are
doing now in your fellow feeling for
what we have to bear and to achieve.
81 am not here to touch politics for
hell