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Mining the Minutes

Exploring Different Uses of Historic Congregational Resources

• DR. ANN NORTON GREENE

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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Journal of the Annual Convention Diocese of Pennsylvania

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=jcepis diopa

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The Com m ittee

• n Claim s of Clerg ym en

to Seats w ere, at their ow n request,

discharg ed.

The Rev. Dr. Goodw in

• ffered

the follow ing

pream ble

and resolutions, w hich

w ere read

and seconded: W hereas, There exists in this country, an org anized and arm ed rebellion, w hose avow ed purpose is the destruction

• f our National

Union and the perpetuation

• f Neg ro

Slavery. And W hereas, This rebellion has m ore and m ore assum ed a character

• f

barbarous fanaticism and m urderous ferocity

• n

the part of the enem ies

• f the nation

; therefore, in view of the causes and character of this strug g le, Resolved, That this Convention

• f

the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, as a body of christian m en, pledg e to the g overn m ent of our country,

• ur prayers,

sym pathy, and support in this w ar for existence, union, liberty and peace. Resolved, That the authors and abettors of this rebellion, w herever they are found, are alone g uilty of all the bloodshed and desolation

• n either

side, entailed by this contest upon North and South, now

• r hereafter.

Resolved, That in the long delay of success in suppressing this m onstrous rebellion, w e see w onderfully m anifest the hand of God training by His severest chastisem ents, this reluctant people to a readiness to do justice and show m ercy to a long

• ppressed

and outrag ed race. Resolved, That under present circum stances, the National Governm ent, w hether executive, leg islative

• r judicial,

is in

• ur judg m ent

solem nly bound to use all its pow er, and em ploy every authorized and constitutional m eans for the speedy and toial abolition

• f slavery

throug hout the land, that as patriots, freem en and christians, w e shall hail w ith jubilant g lad ness and devout g ratitude to God the day of its tinal extinction.

Fending the consideration of w hich,

the hour of seven

having arrived,

a

m otion

w as m ade to

adjourn,

w hich

w as

w ithdraw n, upon

the

• Rev. Mr. Childs

stating that

there

w ere certain

m atters

• f

routine w hich required attention before

the House

adjourned. On m otion of the Rev. Mr. Childs,

the Annual Report

• f the Board of Missions of the Diocese of Pennsylvania

w as read

by title, and

• rdered

to be presented

and reatl

1864

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1864

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J

• urnal of 1877.

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Tem poral Relief. Ow ing to a variety

• f obvious

causes, the num bers of the needy w ere g reater last year than any previous year, and constant dem ands w ere m ade upon the City

Mission for

tem poral aid.

Hundreds of individuals

and fam ilies have been relieved.

Money,

coal, g roceries and

clothing

have been liberally bestow ed,

hung ry

m en, w om en and children

have been

fed ; w anderers have been lodg ed and fed ; and the

sick and m aim ed have been cared for.

Daily calls have com e

to the office to attend the dying and to bury the dead, to ad

m inister Baptism

• r

the Holy Com m union,

all of w hich duties have

been done to the best of our ability.

The follow ing

is a statem ent of the g eneral

w ork of the Mission

: STATISTICS.

• No. of Services,

Serm ons and Addresses 3, 202

"

" Baptism s, (adults 19, children 254) 278

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" Persons confirm ed 14 " Marriag es 81 "Funerals 128 " Holy Com m unions 76 " Com m unicants 122 " Sunday School Scholars 836 " Teachers 38 " Bihle Class Scholars 50 " Children sent to Sunday School 57 " Tim es Catechised 99 ' ' Mothers' Meeting s held 25 "Cottag e "

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" Tim es

Bible Reading s 529

" Bibles,

Testam ents and Prayer Books Distributed 469 " Meals and Lodg ing s Furnished 801 " Visits, General and Special 17,718 " Consum ptives Treated 103 " Different Articles g iven from Diet Kitchen 6,831 " Grocery Orders 2,330 ' ' Orders g iven for Shoes 206 " Visits to Hospital W ards 1,499 " Tracts and Mag azines Distributed 16,277

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• urnal of

1878. 49 their exhausted treasuries, and thus equip them afresh for the

w ork w hich

clam ors for help and for m en all around us. There

• ug ht

to be a collection for this Board, in every parish and m issionary station,

• nce

a year, and I fear that the reason w hy so m any parishes have not g iven, is because those in charg e

• f them

have not rem em bered to ask their alm s for the w ork.

I do not believe

that any parish w hich lim its its collections to its ow n needs, can ever be healthful or thriving .

If it w ould

expand and g row , it m ust w ork and g ive. There are m any

• ther

m atters of w hich

I

w ould like to speak, but you have not tim e to hear them now , yet suffer m e

• ne w ord

in reference to an approaching evil, w hich, like the

cloud w hich the Prophet's servant

saw in the W est, as he stood

• n
• Mt. Carm el, thoug h

now no larg er than a m an's hand, m ay soon like that burst in its fury upon us before w e are fully con scious of its approach.

I refer

to the effort now being m ade,

• stensibly

in behalf of the laboring m en, but really by com m unistic infidels, to bring about a conflict betw een labor and capital, the rich and the poor, the w orkm en and corporations,

w hich cannot but result in devastation

and ruin.

W e experi

enced the first fruit of this

• utcropping

evil in the labor strikes and derang em ent of trade and travel w hich so startled us last sum m er.

The pow er

w hich then put itself forth, w as com paratively harm less, because not w ell org anized and con solidated.

That defect

• f last year

is being rem edied by the

party leaders

this year.

W e hear all around

us, and especially at the W est, of associations and g athering s and drilling s w ith

m ilitary m anuals and

arm s, of this dang erous and inflam m able elem ent.

W e

see it show ing its g hastly face in the effort to m ake

their view s and policy

felt in the state and g eneral g overnm ent, and even the sacred seat of justice is being m ade to do the

w ork of law lessness

and w rong .

This

evil, loom ing up in

• ur

m idst, m ay, before w e are aw are of it, darken our sky and redden

• ur fields.

It

can be m et, not by arg um ent, not by leg islative action, but

• nly

by physical force to quell its

• utbreaks
• r
• veraw e

its m ove 4

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(1878) The Committee on Feeble Churches, appointed by the last Convention, presented their report, as follows:

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