Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-05-17
CONVENTION PLANS ARE OUT
Annual Meeting of Episcopal
Diocese on June 20.21.
Pension Fund May Reach se,soo. 1000
Bishop Coadjutsr's Appointnents fer
visitations during May and June
diocese Bvents.

The annual convention Of the Episcopal
diocese Of Vermont will convene at nine
o'clock on the morning of June 70 at et.
PauIs Church parish-house. A feature
OF the meeting will be an explanation ia
delegates Of the clergymen's pension plan.
The new business methods canon will be
discussed. A candidate for holy order
will be ordained, Il Is expected. The con.
vention usually lasts over into the sec.
ond day.
Only one clergyman that Bishop Coad->
jutor George Y. Bliss knows OF has ~.
piled for aid from the pension fund. He
Is the Rev. Thomas Ockford Of North
held. To obtain the beneft . minister
must be at least g years old, ana the
beneft dates from his retirement. The
diocese has had two pensioners under NJ
own FUND. The general fund at last ~
ports amounted to $7,500.O00 In round num-
bes. It b not an endowment fund, but
Will be exhausted In about 70 years.
The diocesan fund provides an annual
endowment Of about $780, which is be-
ing Increased slowly from time to time.
This fund Will save clerEymen Of the
diocese. so far az II goes, from paying
small percentages Of their salaries toward
the pension fund. to which all oetive min
listers who hope to share IN It muut con-
tribute. Bishop Bliss believes that whan
returns are all in the general fund WIN
total about 100000
| A retired clergyman to beneft must
hereafter apply when he retires. At prss-
ent OF course he may enjoy the benefit
from the date Of his retirement, even
though he In much over 6.
/ The following facts announced BY Bishop
Hall in reference to the annual assess-
ments or deferred sdpends. which began
I NJ int
The diocesan funds agree to pay four
and one-half per cent. Of each asBoss-
mant on stipend and rectory, the congre-
cation paying three per cent. on its con-
tribution to the stipend. and the mission
airy committee paying the same on its
grants.
The additional assessment for q rectory
of one-sixth Of the whole stipend must b
paid by the station where the rectory is
located.
Clergymen regularly employed in Yer
mont. though not economically belonging
to the diocese. will be treated az Vermont
clergymen for pension purposes: but We
asusme no responsibility for any not en-
ployed here, though on our canonical roll.
We cannot undertake to pay premiums
during vacancies in rectorship-any
more than stipends.
The diocesan funds will help an sources
of stipend Congregations, missionary COM
mittee. Episcopal fund.
The missionary committee Is recon-
mended to make 1t a condition for any
grant that the aided egation shall
pay it's premium.
The bishop will ask in the certificate Of
every call to a parish for a pledge to pay
the pension assessment as we'll as the sti-
pend itself
Aid towards the assessment in any year
from the diocesan pension funds il con-
ditional on compliance with the canonical
requirement Of an offering from the con-
gregation during the past u months for
the diocesan aged and infirm clergy fund.
BISHOP CoADJUToR's APPOINT
MENTS.
DR.. Bliss has arranged the following
schedule Of visitations, subject to possible
change:
May II, Ascension day. Lyndonville: May
49, Friday. Barton; May 20. Sunday after
Ascension day, a. M. Canaan: p M.
Beecher Falls; May q. Monday. Island
Pond; May .. Wednesday, trustees meet
ing. New York; May q. Whitsunday. a.
m. Wells; p. m. Middleton Springs; May
g. Monday in Whitsun-weea, couitney;
May =. Tuesday in Whitsun-week. q m.
Fair Haven; p. M, Hydeville: May 30.
Wednesday. p. M. Castleton; May q,
Thursday. p. m, West Rutland: June as.
Hannah More Academy. Reisterstown,
Md: June TO- Sunday. first after Trinity,
to Wednesday LamoiIle Cure; June Il,
Sunday. second after Trinity, Sherburne
Cure; June 20. Wednesday. the diocesan
, convention, Burlington; June "a. Sunday,
third after Trinity. st. Johnsbury; p. m.
concord.
OTHER MEETINGS.
The annual meeting Of the Vermont
Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary to the
Board Of Missions for 1917 will be hold at
, st. Johnsbury. probably early In October
? The exact date will be announced later
The semi-annual meeting of the execu.
, tive council. and such delegates to ths
last annual meeting as may md 1t con.
; venient to be present. will be held in Bur.
3 lington at the time Of the diocesan con-
3 vention. Members of the council who De.
sire entertainment will please notify the
] corresponding secretary: Mrs. George r
Bliss. D4 South Union street. Burlington
as soon as they can.
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