Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-26
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH THURSDAY MORNING.


an examination to be passed by candi-
dates for confirmation before they are
| confirmed.
I'm the same connection, l am un-
willing to confirm children under II
unless they are doing the work in their
4 public school of children of II.
| ut should be understood that the
work of bringing candidates to the
! class is not that of the ordained mis-
1 sionary alone. 1t is the very first re-
| sponsibility of every confirmed MEM
ber of the church No doubt many a
man and woman would have to make
some radical changes in their own
! lives before they could do this work
effectively but the need for such
changes is just as pressing even if we
we're to disregard this, our primary,
obligation.
Attention To Transients
/ Last year, you will remember, I
! called attention to the need OF minis
] ter1ng to the strangers in our midst,
| particularly those who are i'll. Like
everything else this work awaits the
!, funds for it but fine beginning, has
been. made in Phoenix. A generous
member Of the cathedral, plus the
generosity of the Rev. Canon Dowell,
who is doing the work. have made
beginning possible. trust like work
can be done in other centers in the
state
Work Among Mexicans
! Nothing further has been accom-
| plished as to work among Mexicans
but the more go about the more con-
vinced I am that it should be under
taken Like the work among tran
i sients, all we require, or, at least, the
| first thing we require, is the money to
pay for it.
Our ST. Luke's Hospitals
| "Acting upon the resolution of con-
! vocation. I have done a little, but not
very much, toward getting a survey
, made &of the whole problem of tuber-
culosis in Arizona by a committee OF
experts. Dr.. H. w. Pritchett, president
of the Carnegie foundation, hopes TO
| be out this way this winter and / ex-
pect to see him, if he is. Until then l
can report no further progress in the
matter.
! Work Among Navajo Indians
From all the information / can Sc
! cure we face a radical change in our
work for those neglected people For
more than a generation, we have OPP
Grated the Good Shepherd hospital
AMONG the Navajo Indians. This Time
/ last year every available place was YAK
en- by patients. Children were put'
J two in a bed, and, where small enough,
even three in a bed Whole families
were under our care. Today all that
| is being changed. Apparently all the
/, children with trachona are being con-
centrated in one school at Ft. De-
! fiance; the appropriation for a big
tubercular hospital is, I understand, IN
the present interior department ap-
( preparation bill and, so far as we can
/ see, the Navajo does not need us III
/ this respect any longer.
..The welfare work among these In
4 dians will take the shape OF teacnlng
the women to sew, care for their babies
and children, furnish them opportun-
ity for bathing themselves and thelr
children and laundering their clothes,
as water is scarce on the reservation; !;
teach them how to cook and to man
age their lives generally. I propose TO
visit Ft. Defiance and then go on to
washington SO as to be as certain DIS
we can that we make as few mistakes
as possible in the beginning ana tnaV
there will be no MISUNDERSTANDING pc
tween ourselves and the bureau OF In
dian affairs.
.sThe goal of all of this will be the
leading Of these people, whom our race
has swindled and otherwise mlstrusteo'
to our Savior and theirs. Fortunately
the Rev Mr.. Heagerty is not only an
ordained clergyman of the church but
/ he is also an up to date and licensed
nhysician of the body and look 20
see great things come out OF this new
venture in the Navajo country
REORGANIZATION of the Cathedral
aIike the suggestions I made as TO
/ the study of our tubercular WORK, we
have not gotten far enough IN the
stIdv of the reorganization OF the
cathedral to do more than to report
Quota and District Assessments
"T thank you from the bottom OF
NV heart for the fine response the
district has made to the expectation
of the national church. Our quotas
this year were larger than they hao
lever been. We have paid our entlre
o,lota for the maintenance OF the pres
ent work and our fair share OF the
new work authorized by the. genera
convention. In addition to that, you
remember; we voted to contribute .S2,OOo
| to the work in the district OF this we
| have given over 81 100.
/ GAS you know, also, the dlstrlct as
sessment has been increased. 1t should
have been last year but, having m
creased the quotas it was felt unWlse
| to do the other.
| Spiritual Healing
| "I have asked Dean Lane to give us
account of the mid-week services ne
has inaugurated in the cathedral with
the matter of health, physical, put
much more also, as their objective. The
church. has come a long way on the
road of restoring her rightful rela-
! ton to the whole matter of sickness
during the past 25 years. Had she
never neglected this side of her work |
am convinced the losses to which l
referred in the first part OF this ad-
dress, would never have occurred. We
! hove nassed the governmental stage and