New Britain herald., 1927-05-17
BISHOP BREWSTER
 DELIVERS REPORT
Reads Annual Message at Epis-
 Copaian Convention

l Hartford. May 1T RrClerical and lay delegates from various par ishes of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Connecticut assembled in Christ church cathedral this after ! noon for the annual diocesan con- vention.
 During a brief service in the cathedral Bishop Chauncey B. Brew ster made his annual address. He was followed by the Bishop Coadju- tor E. Campion Acheson. The business session this after noon was to be held in the parish house. Among business to come up at that time will be the report of the committee named last conven- ton to prepare a roll of lay dele gates, the election of secretary, re- ports of the various officers and boards and the appointment of vari- ous committees.
 The diocesan dinner will be held tonight following the reception for delegates at the Hotel Bond. The Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, can- on Of the cathedral of St. Peter and Paul. Washington, D. C., will be the principal speaker at the banquet.
 The convention will continue to- morrow. closing in the afternoon.
 Bishops Address.
 Bishop Brewster in his address re- called that notable events during the year had been the diocesan confer- ence Of the Young Peoples Fellow ship at Watertown last June and the conference of clergy in September at Choate school. The latter. he said. had been made memorable by the munifcent hospitality Of the head master. the Rev. George C. St. John. The Bishops crusade" where thor oughly prepared for. as notab bly, at Bridgeport and New London. and faithfully followed up. has, we may trust. been fraught with blessing to the diocese"
 The first New England conference on social service will be held in that diocese on June 15 and Is at Camp Washington, he announced.
 Let me ask you to remember in your prayers, public and private, the world conference on questions of faith and order. for which will as- semble in August at Lausanne, rep resenafives of s7 Christian con- munions," he said.
 Bishop of Aberdeen.
 Bishop Brewster told of the com- ing to America in the autumn of the Bishop of Aberdeen and the provost, with the hope of securing funds for memorial to Bishop Seabury in the reconstruction of the cathedral at Aberdeen. "I have assured them" he said. "of our unfailing remem- brance and grateful appreciation in this diocese. of what the Scottish church there did for us and for the American church not only consecrat- ing the first bishop for the new world, but giving us the richest con- tribution to our prayer book. The date of Seaburys consecration they expect to spend in Connecticut. I have promised them hearty well come. Many Of you. trust, will greet them. if not at the cathedral on the Sunday, then on Monday. November 14, when we hope to receive them at the Glebe house."
 Berkeley Bicentennial.
 After mentioning that the church scholarship society was founded in Hartford one year ago. Bishop Brew ster spoke of the approaching 220th anniversary of the events which link up Connecticut and Rhode Island with name illustrious in the his tory of philosophical thought, Dean. afterward Bishop. George Berkeley. so deeply interested in American ed ucation."
 This bicentennial anniversary of Berkeley's memorable visit" he continued, land the association of his generosity with Yale college give an added touch of interest to the projected removal of the Berkeley divinity school to New Haven.'
 Bishop Brewster urged flor the credit of the diocese. which in its place in the first province heads the list Of all the dioceses," that leach and all Of you do your part toward reaching the amount expected of us for the church's missionary work"
 Tt will mean" he said. that we all get beyond any mere devotion to the parish, which would make 1t a kind of club, and rise to concep- ton of that to serve which the par