RECAPITULATION Methodist Presbyterian Congregational Roman Catholic SUMMARY Names reported in this list.. Names reported in the Living Church Annual 1919.. 5 1 1 1 8 8 14 10 11 24 30 Names reported in the Living Church Annual 1916 (less error of 2) The 97 summarized above have been received from the following communions: (Heretofore known as The Board of Missions) The General Convention which met in Detroit in October 1919, created a body known as "The Presiding Bishop and Council" to coördinate and administer the work done by the various organizations in the Church. The distinctly missionary work of the Church will, after January 1, 1920, be under the care of this Council through its Department of Missions and Church Extension, which will take over the work of the Board of Missions. Having in mind the need for reconstruction in a world torn asunder by war, the Board of Missions, at its February meeting, made appeal to the Church through its bishops and other clergy to set aside three days-March 26, April 30, and May 28-to be given up to fasting and intercession for those to whom the Church has been sent, as well as for those who have gone to interpret her message to them. Five thousand leaflets containing suggestions for these intercessions were sent to the clergy and the three days of prayer were very generally observed throughout the Church. To the deep regret of the Board, and of all who have been his associates in the Church Missions House, Mr. George Gordon King, treasurer of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society since 1910, felt obliged to resign his office. The General Convention elected Mr. Lewis B. Franklin as his successor, who thereby becomes automatically treasurer of the Council. The Board has suffered a severe loss in the death of the Bishop of New York, the Right Reverend David Hummell Greer, D.D., who had been a most valued member for thirty-eight years. THE MISSIONARY EPISCOPATE Three of our missionary bishops celebrated last year the twentieth anniversary of their consecration—Bishops Kinsolving of Brazil, Moreland of Sacramento, and Horner of Asheville. In the past year the Church has lost by death three of the missionary bishops within the United States. Two, Bishop Brooke, of Oklahoma, who died October 22nd, and Bishop Funsten, of Idaho, who died on December 1st, were veterans in the missionary work of the Church. Bishop Sage, of Salina, whose death occurred on October 2nd, had been consecrated but two years when he was called to his rest. When the General Convention met in 1919 six missionary episcopatesIdaho, Oklahoma, Salina, Utah, Liberia, and the Philippines-were vacant through death or resignation. Bishop Touret of Western Colorado was translated to Idaho, the Bishop of Colorado being asked to take oversight of Western Colorado for three years; Bishop Thurston of Eastern Oklahoma was translated to Oklahoma, taking his district with him. The district of Oklahoma will henceforth be coterminous with the state, the eastern district ceasing to exist. No bishop was elected for Salina but Bishop Beecher of Western Nebraska was asked to take care of the district for the next three years. Bishops were elected for Liberia, the Philippines, Utah, and Canal Zone. THE NATION-WIDE CAMPAIGN At the meeting of the Board of Missions in December 1918, a committee of five with power to inaugurate a Nation-wide Campaign, should it appear feasible, was appointed. The committee reported favorably and the Rev. Robert W. Patton, D.D., was appointed director of the campaign, with the Rev. R. Bland Mitchell as manager of the central office. The space at the Church Missions House being too limited, headquarters for the campaign were secured at 124 East Twenty-eighth street, New York. A survey of the whole field, domestic and foreign, was put in motion in order that a budget might be submitted to the General Convention. The convention approved the budget and appointed a joint commission of five bishops, five presbyters, and five laymen to direct the entire campaign. Mr. Lewis B. Franklin was appointed treasurer. At the close of the year an every member canvass of the whole Church is to be made. On January 1st the Church Missions House in New York celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday. Erected by funds contributed for the purpose, it has housed the Board of Missions and many Church societies in the past. Now it is growing too small for the varied missionary activities of the Church. Notwithstanding the increased cost of publication, the Spirit of Missions has maintained its standard without raising its price, and despite the "high cost of living" its subscription list has not fallen off. The chief events of the year in the various departments of the Board's activities follow under their respective heads: DOMESTIC A New Department. One of the most important steps forward has been the creation of a bureau for work among immigrants in the United States under the name of The Department of Christian Americanization. The Rev. Thomas Burgess has been elected secretary and is actively at work. At a conference held in New York in September, seventeen of the twenty-two Italian clergy in active service were present. Work among Indians. Bishop Burleson of South Dakota has inaugu rated a system of instruction among the hundred or more Indian congregations in his field which seems likely to prove one of the most valuable ways yet adopted for disseminating the Church's teachings among these people. With the aid of Dr. Bradner, of the General Board of Religious Education, and some of the South Dakota clergy, a series of simple lessons have been prepared and translated into the Dakota language. These interlinear lessons are used in every Indian chapel in the place of a sermon on Sunday. The result of this experiment, which is to cover a period of three years, is awaited with much interest. Miss Eliza Thackara, the founder and superintendent of the Hospital of the Good Shepherd at Fort Defiance, Arizona—indeed for many years the cook, nurse, and housekeeper as well, and the teacher, friend, and "mother" of the Indians on the reservation-has resigned after twenty-four years' service among the Navajos. Work among Negroes. The work among Negroes has received a new impulse since the consecration of Bishops Demby and Delany. The Bishop Payne Divinity School at Petersburg, Virginia, has just completed forty years of useful service in the education of a Negro ministry. Seventy-three of the eighty-six alumni are in orders and are at work in twenty-eight dioceses in this country, in Cuba, the West Indies, and Africa. LATIN-AMERICA In March the formal transfer of episcopal jurisdiction in the Virgin Islands from the Church of England to the American Church took place. Politically the Virgin Islands have been under the Danish flag, but religiously a large majority of the inhabitants eighty per cent. of whom are Negroes— belong to the Anglican Communion. The Church of England has been at work in the Islands for seventy years and there are three large and selfsupporting parishes with substantial buildings and adequate equipment. In spite of the troubled condition of the country some progress has been made in Mexico. At Xochitenco, a small town on Lake Texcoco, there had been no school whatever for four or five years. A graduate from Hooker School volunteered as a teacher, the chapel was utilized as a schoolroom, some furnishings were provided by the government, and a school was started with 140 pupils. In March Dr. Gray, the secretary for Latin America, at the request of the Board, visited Haiti to gather information about our missions and the opportunities for extension. After twenty-seven years of service Miss Mary Packard has retired from the mission in Brazil. FOREIGN Dr. Wood, the Foreign Secretary of the Board, returned to his office in July, having spent the previous nine months in visiting the missions of the Church in China, Japan, and the Philippines. Since 1913 we have had no white clergyman in Liberia until the appointment of the Rev. William H. Ramsaur, who left for Africa last January and has taken up his residence at Cape Mount. On December 14, 1918, the Church General Hospital, Wuchang, China, was formally opened. The former S. Peter's and S. Elizabeth's hospitals are combined in one building. It is one of the finest institutions in China and contains the only tuberculosis sanitarium in the province of Hupeh. The new buildings of S. Paul's College, Tokyo, Japan, the cornerst recognition as Units. Sixteen organizations are in the process of formation, most of them coming into being as a direct result of the presence of the Coun. cil in the college world. NEBRASKA To succeed the late Rt. Rev. Arthur L. Williams, D.D., as Bishop of Nebraska, the council of that diocese chose the Rev. Ernest Vincent Shayler, rector of St. Mark's Church, Seattle. Mr. Shayler was elected by the clergy on the second ballot, and the election was unanimously confirmed by the vote of the laity. The first ballot stood: Rev. A. R. B. Hegeman, Syracuse, New York.. Rev. E. V. Shayler, Seattle, Wash. Rev. John C. White, Springfield, Ill.. Rev. Charles H. Young, Woodlawn, Ill. 239112 2 1 21 Dean Tancock had repeatedly asked that his name be not considered as a candidate; on announcement of this ballot Dean Tancock withdrew his name, and the clergy proceeded with the second ballot which resulted: The election was then confirmed by the lay vote. Mr. Shayler was consecrated on September 11, 1919. NECROLOGY, LAY RELIGIOUS MARY A. LE COMPTE, ALICE J. KNIGHT, deaconess, died in France. deaconess, died at S. Monica's House, Des Moines, Iowa, December 1918, age 43. LAITY FLORA FENNER ANSTICE, wife of the Rev. Dr. Henry Anstice, died at Montclair, N. J., October 22, 1919. SOPHIA B. BINGHAM, daughter of the first Bishop of Indianapolis, the Rt. Rev. George Upfold, died at Wequetonsing, Mich., August 25, 1919. WILLIAM H. BENNETT, M.D., for forty-seven years president and physician of the Children's Seashore Home, Atlantic City, N. J.; founder and president of the Mercer Memorial House for Invalid Women at Atlantic City; president of S. Christopher's Hospital, died in Philadelphia, May 14, 1919. HON. STANLEY BOWDLE, ex-congressman and prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1919. MAJOR GENERAL J. FRANKLIN BELL, U. S. A., commanding the Department of the East, January 8, 1919. WILLIAM R. BUTLER, secretary of the Diocesan Board of Missions of Bethlehem and deputy to the General Convention for many years, January 27, 1919. COMMODORE FREDERICK BOURNE, benefactor of the choir school of S. John the Divine, New York, March 9, 1919. EDITH M. Bradner, wife of the Rev. Dr. Lester Bradner, February 14, 1919. CHARLES J. COLCOCK, head master in the Porter Military Academy of Charleston, S. C., March 31, 1919. JANE A. DELANO, director of the Department of Nursing in the American Red Cross, April 15, 1919. LAWRENCE EARL EMMONS, SR., prominent in civic and Church affairs in Quincy, Ill., March 4, 1919. WILLIAM HENRY ELLIOTT, M.D., surgeon in the Civil War and for twenty-two years chief surgeon of the Central of Georgia Railway; he served for a number of years as vice-president for Georgia of the Medical Association of the United States, and also served as president of the Georgia Medical Association and Georgia Medical Society; died March 31, 1919, age 79 years. SARAH E. FERGUSON, widow of the late Bishop of Liberia, died July 23, 1919. LUCY STUART FITZHUGH, member of the bar of Kentucky and of the District of Columbia, also counsellor-at-law in the War Risk Insurance Bureau, died at Washington, D. C., August 12, 1919. ELLA REBECCA GLASS, mother of the Very Rev. James G. Glass, Dean of S. Luke's Cathedral, Orlando, Fla., died August 7, 1919, age 84 years. CAPTAIN FRANCIS M. GIBSON, U. S. A. (retired), who fought under General G. A. Custer at the battle of Little Big Horn; January 18, 1919. CAROLINE A. K. GREER, wife of the late Bishop of New York, June 17, 1919. JACOB GREER, brother of the late Bishop of New York, May 25, 1919. GENERAL ASA BIRD GARDNER, deputy to the General Convention from 1892 till 1910, author of many books on martial and civil law, a strenuous advocate of what he called "the rectification of the name of the Church"; died May 28, 1919. CHARLES FREDERICK HOFFMAN, treasurer of the Cathedral of S. John the Divine, and senior warden of All Angels' Church, New York City, died at Newport, R. I., August 28, 1919, age 64 years. MRS. DANIEL HENSHAW, widow of the Rev. Daniel Henshaw, D.D., who had been rector of All Saints' Church, Providence, R. I., for forty years prior to his death in 1908, died July 5, 1919, age 89 years. THOMAS HYDE, a prominent layman of the diocese of Washington and treasurer of the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, one of the organizers of the Cathedral Foundation, trustee of the Louise Home and of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, died July 21, 1919, at his residence in Georgetown, D. C., age 80 years. MRS. PHOEBE A. HEARST, philanthropist, April 14, 1919. GENERAL J. KENT HAMILTON, one time professor of English History and Literature at Kenyon College, for fifty years prominently connected with educational, parochial, and diocesan activities of the Church in Ohio, December 29, 1918. DANIEL HOLMES, oldest living graduate of Yale University, husband of Mary Jane Holmes, the novelist, February 18, 1919. GEORGE B. INCHES, deputy to the General Convention and member of the Corporation of the Church of the Advent, Boston, August 10, 1919, age 63 years. MAJOR GENERAL J. FORD KENT, U. S. A. (retired), senior warden of S. Paul's Church, Troy, N. Y., December 22, 1918. MARY T. KINGDON, many years secretary of the diocesan Woman's Auxiliary of New Jersey, December 14, 1918. LUTHER LAFLIN KELLOGG, prominent lawyer and authority on municipal and contract law, active in many official positions of the Church, December 6, 1918, age 70 years. WOODBURY G. LANGDON, one time treasurer of General Theological Seminary, president of Hospital and House of Rest for Consumptives, Inwood, N. Y., treasurer of the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee, active in philanthropic and educational work of the Church, April 20, 1919. MISS ANNA L. LAWRENCE, principal of Hannah More Academy, Maryland, December 4, 1918. LOUISE C. MASSEY, wife of the chancellor of Southern Florida, August 15, 1919. |