Smyrna times., 1924-05-21
DIOCESAN CONVENTION ENDS
TW0-DAY SESSION AT DOVER
MUCH BUSINESS TRANSACTED
FOLLOWING BISHOPS ADDRESS
All Departments of the Church Show
a Healthy GrOwth-MissiOn Work
Shown in Pageant at Opera House

Shown IN Pageant at Opera House
Following the preliminary opening
and Bishop Cooks annual address, the
139th session of the Protestant Epis-
copal Diocese of Delaware at Christ
Church, Dover, last Tuesday and We'd
nesday, settled down to work. At the
business session reports were read
from the various committees, that of
the standing committee by the Rev. R.
w. Trapnell, of Wilmington, and that
Of the Executive Council, by the Rev.
F. M. Kirkus, of Wilmington, his re-
port closing with a resolution author
izing the paying off of an obligation
of $25OO on improvements at Bishop
stead, which resolution after discus
sions was unanimously adopted and
the obligation ordered paid. A vote
of thanks was also extended to the
committee for their valuable service.
The report of the Department of
Church Extension and Missions, was
read by the Rev. Thomas Getz Hill,
for the chairman of the committee,
the Rev. B. F. Thompson.
The report of the Department of
Education was read by the chairman,
the Rev. R. w. Trapnell.
A resolution was offered and adop-
ted that part of the Bishops address
referring to rotation in office be re-
ferred to the committee on constitu-
tiOn and canons.
The business sessions of both the
mems meeting and Women's Auxil-
larry adjourned at o'clock, all dele
gates going to Dover Opera House,
where a pageant was given under the
direction of Mrs. Henry Ridgely of
Dover, illustrating missionary work.
The principal characters in the page
ant were taken as follows: A Budd-
hist Priest, Henry Vaughan; A Chi
nese heather woman, Mrs. Isaac Stat
ford; her daughter, who is sick, Bertha
Dreka; a missionary physician, Vir-
ginia Brady; Chinese woman, Juse
johnson.
Miss Polly Hoffecker, st: Andrews
Church school, Wilmington, gave a
Chinese monologue. A Japanese kin
dergarten was given by st. Peters
church school, Smyrna. The follow
ing children took part: George Baker
Charles Bartlett, Alice Baker, Anna
Bartlett, Louise Hoffecker, Anna
Rohman, Ruth Lloyd, Julia Robinson
Louise Newsome, Georgia Newsome
Mary Anne Webb, Mrs. Henry Webb
organist.
A Japanese mOnOlogue was given
by Miss Ethel Bartlett, st. Peters
Smyrna, and a number was given by
Miss Frances Rees, Emmanuel, New
Castle. A visit to missions in the
Orient was told of by Mrs. Charles R.
Pancoast.
The cherry blossoms in the pageant
were made by Girls Friendly of I'M
manuel, Wilmington; and wisteris
made by Camp Fire Girls, Christ
Church. A Chinese sketch was giver
by st. Anne's Church school, Middle
town.
Dinner was served at 8 o'clock il
the evening at Hotel Richardson
where the speakers included BishoI
Cook, Rev. Edmund Lloyd Souder, Of
Wuchang, China, and William H. JEFF
ferys, superintendent of Philadelphi;
City Mission, formerly medical mis-
sionary to China.
The second days session of the con
ventiOn of the Protestant Episcopa
Diocese of Delaware opened at
o'clock Wednesday morning, last, il
Christ Church, with celebration of tn
holy communion by Bishop Cook 70
the convention and the members 0
the Women's Auxiliary.
The united thank offering which ha
been taken during the year in the diff
ferent parishes by the auxiliary, wa
presented.
Prior to the taking of the offerin
Bishop Cook made a brief statemen
as to the meaning of the offering, it
purpose and benefit to all those VIII
were interested in its collection an
the good it would mean to the churc
! as well as to the individual in the fl
ture.
The convention accepted an invite
! tion extended by Lewes Church /
!. meet there next year.
The following officers were elected
treasurer, Frederick Bringhurst, {
Wilmington, and Registrar, Henr
Handy Hay, of New Castle.
> Standing COmmittee-the Revs.
F. Thompson, of Dover, the Rev.
w. Clash and the Rev. R. w. Trapnel
of Wilmington; laymen Felix duPon
Of Wilmington, and William E. Vail
ant, of Georgetown.
Members of committee on constitl
tion and canons, Judge Richard
Rodsey, Of New Castle.