The Washington times., 1921-02-02
CHURCHES TO
GET $25O,0Q0
D. C. EpiscopaIian Convention
To Accept Bequest Of Samuel
Louis Phillips.

A resolution authorizing the
Diocese of Washington TO accept the
bequest OF approximately, s260,Ooo
year made by Samuel Louis Phillips,
prominent street railway masnate
and Episcopal Church layman who
died recently. was offered this after
noon at the first days session OF the
annual convention of the diocese.
CONVENE IN CHURCH.
The convention, presided over by
Bishop Harding, met this morning IN
st. Stephens Church, Fourteenth
street near Columbia road. The con-
vention will adjourn tomorrow night.
According TO the resolution. IL Is
urged that a committee to be known
as the Committee on the Philips
Foundation" consisting OF the bishop
and two clergymen and two laymen'
one of whom shall be a member or the
Cathedral Chapter and another the
treasurer of the diocese, be appoint
ed to secure for the convention the
benefits to be derived from the Will
The committee is authorized, under
the terms of the resolution, to re-
ceiye from the trustees under the VIII
any income which may accrue for the
benefit of the convention and to re-
port u tHt ntht HltctihS VI thN W.
vention in 1922.
MISSIONS TO BENEFIT.
Discussing the will at this morn
ing's session. Bishop Harding said the
terms of the document authorize the
bequest to the church to be expend-
ed for missionary purposes. Mission
churches and edifices in rural dis
tricts will be benefited under the
terms of the will, Bishop Harding
said.
The section of the Phillips will af-
fecting the church was quoted by the
Bishop as follows:
Item 5. The devise and bequests
herein set forth to said convention or
the Protestant Episcopal Church or
the diocese of Washington are to en-
able said convention to carry on mis-
sionary work, and to that end in its
discretion to buy land and build for
cash only and to establish thereon
new mission churches; to aid rural
churches and to maintain therein the
worship of God: to aid in the educa-
tion of missionaries for the diocese
of Washington.
"The said churches are to be open
daily for the worship of God and the
preaching of the Christian religion in
which persistent prominence, but not
exclusively, shall be given to such
subjects as the Immortality of the
Soul; the Necessity of Repentance for
Sin; the Certainty of Death to all
persons and the uncertainty OF the
time to each one of this human ca
tastrOphy; the greater value or the
salvation of the soul in comparison
to worldly possessions and pleasure,
the second coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ to judge the quick and the
dead, when the righteous shall be re-
warded with Life Eternal and the
wicked sentenced to everlasting pun
ishment; that Christ came to save
that which was lost, and to give rest
to all that labor and are heavy laden: /:
that blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God; and to such
other religious subjects as Will show
that it is mans best interest to love
God with all his heart and his fellow
men as himself-all of which wor-
ship and preaching shall be under the
direction and subject to the rules of
said convention.
SET ASIDE INCOME.
at is advised that as each mission
church is established that there
should be set aside out of the income
herein provided for said convention
income producing real and personal
property as reasonable endowment
with which to maintain such mission
churches in a first-class physical con-
dition and to secure and pay for the
services of such ministers OF the
Christian religion as the said conVen-
ton may from time to time select or
appoint to conduct such worship and
preaching. Also in cases where there
are established parish churches in the
rural districts of the diocese, and
which are not able to maintain the
worship of God by their own efforts
to aid them from the income herein
provided in the same manner as in
hereinbefore recommended for new
mission churches as long as their min
listers give persistent prominence in
their sermons and addresses to the
fundamental and inspiring subjects
of Christianity mentioned before.
'I am moved to make the above de-
vises because / want to return to God
something Of what He has allowed me
4 accumulate, because 1 want to bene-
tit my, fellow-men, and because I have
a do 70 hot tcA