Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-25
General Convention Favors
Legislative Action to
Repress Traffic.
PLANS IMMIGRATION
BOARD HELP ALIENS
Report by Committee on State Of
Church Shows Healthy Growth,
and Endowments Aggregating
Hundreds Of Millions.

time in the history of the church, &C.
cording to we'll informed leaders, a
stand on the liquor question was taken
here today in the general convention
of the Protestant Episcopal church. A
resolution adopted by the house Of
deputies placed the church on record
as favoring "such action in our legis-
lative assemblies as will preserve the
interests Of temperance and the
suppression of the liquor traffic" ihe
action was the outgrowth of a men,
orial asking the convention to record
itself as favoring nationwide prohi-
bition, submitted by the church tenn
perance society thru FRAMES l.. Stat
son of New York. The saloon was
scored in the report of the committee,
headed by the Rev. James Freeman Of
Minneapolis, which considered the
memorial.
Church Controls Millions.
A report showing that the church
has more than 1,080,000 communicates
and $500 clergymen was presented to
the house Of deputies by the commit
tee on state of the church. The re-
port also showed that about 100 of
the clergy are not engaged in par
ochial work, and there are about 3d.
900 school officers and teachers un-
der the church with approximately
100000 pupils. Baptism, the report
said, has increased about 10000 and
confirmation by about $4,000 of the
preceding triennium. Parishes and
missions number 8,341, and the total
number of church buildings is 1910.
The report added that the church con-
trolls endowments aggregating $4,000,
600, many educational and charitable
institutions, and has an average in
come of more than $20,00O,0OO year.
Endowments for the support of the
church for the triennium totalled $780,
O78,112O9, as against $14,320,147 in
1913. Endowments for support of
bishops totalled $4,491 ,O37 as compar
ed with $4,626,884 given in the pre-
ceding three years. Contributions for
the aid of the infirm clergy came to
$3,295,052, and for other purposes en-
dement's totalling $28,063,411 were
given.
Sittings in the church in the trien-
mum just ended totalled 1,5O4,89O, an
increase of 194,672 over the triennium
ending in 1918. Church hospitals, &C.
cordilng to the report, number 135 as
against 70 accounted for in 1913.
Homes for the INDECENT at present
number x, an increase of one. The
report outlined the work done in mis-
slonary fields, and asserted taht the
commission appreciated that the
Christian ideal includeds the salvation
Of the individual and the salvation
OF society: It added that there are "a
theological institutions, "a collegiate
institutions and 1913 academies under
the control of the church.
To Aid Rural People.
several steps looking ahead to the
next general convention were taken
today in the house of deputies. A
commlttee was appointed to make an
investigation of the conditions of liv-
ing IN rural communities, the study of
tne spiritual and economic problems of
tne farming people. This committee
Will report at Detroit in 1919. The
mouse OF deputies also took steps to
appoint a commission of three clery-
men me! and three laymen to gather sta
tlstlcs concerning the number of COM
church. '
Cooperation of the church with Or
carnations. throughout the United
o . seeking to protect the interests
OF investors was advocated by the Rt.
ne Key. Benjamin Brewster, bishop of
Name, speaking in the social service
forum OF the general convention. He
asserts that the church should help
make the welfare of the worker the
ann rather than the private profit of
temperance was discussed for a
second sec. time in the house of deputies
M lSte IN the session when the Rev. E. L.
tucker tucker OF Houma, La, introduced a
aesoiutlon, which, if adopted, would
appeal to call of the people of the
cnurch to set the example of self
control and Temperance by abstaining
from the use of intoxicating liquors
as as beverage, especially at public
functions and social gatherings" The
ttesolutlon was referred to the commit !
'ee on social service.
TTIrtal! Powers of Mission Board.
Inc missionary canon of the church