JO U R N A L
OF THE
NINETIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF THE
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN THE
Diocese of North Carolina
HELD IN THE
CHURCH OE THE HOLY INNOCENTS
HENDERSON
JUNE 13-16 A D 1906
RALEIGH
EDWARDS A BROUGHTON PRINTERS AND BINDERS
1906
JO U R N A L
OF THE
NINETIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF THE
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
IN THE
Diocese of North Carolina
HELD IN THE
CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS
HENDERSON
JUNE 13-16 A D 1906
RALEIGH
EDWARDS & BROUGHTON PRINTERS AND BINDERS
1906
The Ninety-First Annual Convention
OF THE Diocese of North Carolina
is appointed to meet in
Calvary Church,
Tarboro,
Wednesday, May 15, A. D. 1907,
AT 10 o'clock a. M.
DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
1906.
DIOCESAN OFFICERS.
BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE AND CHAIRMAN EX-OFFICIO OF THE CONVENTION.
The Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D., Raleigh.
PRESIDENT OF THE CONVENTION.
The Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D., Raleigh.
SECRETARY AND REGISTRAR.
The Rev. Julian E. Ingle, Henderson.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY.
Mr. G. C. Lamb, Henderson.
TREASURER.
Mr. Charles E. Johnson, Raleigh.
HISTORIOGRAPHER.
Mr. John S. Henderson, LL.D., Salisbury.
STANDING committee.
The Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D., President.
The Rev. Julian E. Ingle. Mr. P. E. Hines, M.D.
The Rev. I. McK. Pittenger, D.D. Mr. Richard H. Battle, LL.D.
EXAMINING CHAPLAINS.
The Rev. Francis W. Hilliard. The Rev. I. McK. Pittenger, D.D.
The Rev. Wm. H. Meade, D.D. The Rev. A. Burtis Hunter.
The Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D. The Rev. Walter J. Smith.
The Rev. Francis M. Osborne.
ARCHDEACONS.
The Rev. George M. Tolson, Archdeacon of Raleigh.
The Rev. Edwin A. Osborne, Archdeacon of Charlotte.
The Rev. J. H. M. Pollard, Archdeacon for work among Colored
People.
4 Officers and CommUtees.
EXECUTIVE MISSIONARY C0:MMITTEE.
The Bishop of the Diocese,
The Eev. E. A. Osborne. Mr. John Wilkes.
The Eev. J. H. M. Pollard. Mr. William L. London.
The Rev. Sidney S. Bost. Mr. Richard H. Battle, LL.D.
The Rev. Francis Joyner. Mr. William A. Smith.
Mr. John W. Graham.
COMMITTEE ON CANONS.
The Rev. Edwin A. Osborne. Mr. Richard H. Battle. LL.D.
The Rev. I. McK. Pittenger, D.D. Mr. John S. Henderson, LL.D.
The Rev. A. B. Hunter.
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.
The Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D. Mr. William L. London.
The Rev. Sidney S. Bost. Mr. C. M. Busbee.
Mr. A. B. Andrews.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE.
The Bishop of the Diocese.
The Rev. Edwin A. Osborne. The Rev. Walter J. Smith.
Mr. Stephen F. Lord.
TRUSTEES OF THE DIOCESE.
The Bishop of the Diocese.
Mr. Charles E. Johnson. Mr. Richard H. Battle, LL.D.
DIOCESAN TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH.
The Rev. Francis J. Murdoch, D.D.
Mr. William L. London. Mr. William A. Smith.
DIOCESAN TRUSTEE OF THE GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
The Rev. Walter J. Smith.
DIOCESAN TRUSTEES OF ST. MARY'S SCHOOL.
The Bishop of the Diocese.
The Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D. The Rev. Julian E. Ingle.
The Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D. Mr. R. H. Lewis, :\LD.
Mr. Charles E. Johnson. Mr. D. Y. Cooper.
Mr. William E. Erwin. Mr. R. H. Battle, LL.D.
Until 1909. Until 1912.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906.
TRUSTEES OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL AT SALISBURY.
The Bishop of the Diocese.
The Rev. E. A. Osborne. Term expires 1907
Mr. John S. Henderson, LL.D.
Mr. Gowan Dusenbery.
The Rev. I. McK. Pittenger, D.D.
Mr. Stephen F. Lord.
Mr. T. B. Marsh.
The Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
The Rev. Sidney S. Bost.
Mr. Theodore Buerbaum.
MANAGERS OF THE THOMPSON ORPHANAGE AND TRAINING INSTITUTION
The Bishop of the Diocese.
The Rev. Isaac W. Hughes.
Mr. James J. Crosswell.
The Rev. Armand DeR. Meares.
Mr. William A. Smith.
The Rev. Edwin A. Osborne.
Mr. J. G. Shannonhouse.
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1910.
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1912.
1912.
DEPUTIES TO THE GENERAL CONVENTION.
The Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D. Mr. Richard H. Battle, LL.D.
The Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D. Mr. John Wilkes.
The Rev. Julian E. Ingle. * Mr. William L. London.
The Rev. I. McK. Pittenger, D.D. Mr. J. Cameron Buxton.
SUPPLEMENTARY DEPUTIES.
The Rev. F. W. Hilliard. Mr. J. C. MacRae, LL.D.
The Rev. Wm. H. Meade, D.D. Mr. John S. Henderson, LL.D.
The Rev. Edwin A. Osborne. Mr. Samuel S. Nash.
The Rev. Harris Mallinckrodt. Mr. R. H. Lewis, M.D.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE CLERGY.
JULY 1906.
Those whose names are printed in italics were not members of the Convention.
The names of those who were not present are marked thus*.
The Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese;
P. 0., Raleigh.
Alston, Primus P., Priest in charge of the Chapel of St. Michael and
All Angels, Charlotte.
Arthutis, Francis W. Ross, Deacon, officiating in Missions at Anson-
ville and Olive Branch; P. O., Ansonville.
*Avirett, James B., residing at Buena Vista, Va.
*Bailey, Thomas B., Deacon, officiating in the ;Mission of the Holy
Cross, Statesville.
*Bame, Richard Louis, Deacon; P. 0., Salisbury.
Barber, Milton A., Rector of the Church of St. Athanasius, Burlington.
Berkeley, Alfred R., Priest in charge of Missions at Mayodan, Madi-
son and Stoneville; P. 0., Mayodan.
^Bland, Charles T., residing at Hickory.
Blackwelder, Locke W., Deacon, officiating in St. Paul's Church,
Chestnut Hill, and the Chapels in Salisbury; P. O., Salisbury.
Bost, Sidney S., Rector of St. Philip's Church, Durham.
Bronson, Benjamin S., residing near Warrenton.
Brown, Simeon J. M., Deacon, officiating in Christ Church, Cleveland,
St. Andrew's, Woodleaf, and the Good Shepherd, Cooleemee; P. 0.,
Salisbury.
Cheatham, Thaddeus A., Rector of St. Timothy's Church, Wilson; in
charge also of Holy Trinity Church, Elm City; P. 0., Wilson.
Cocke, Henry T., Rector of St. Paul's Church, Winston.
Crosby, John H., Deacon, officiating in the Chapels of St. Andrew and
Hope, Charlotte.
*Da^is, J. C, D.D., Rector of All Saints' Church, Concord; in charge
also of Grace Church, Lexington; P. 0., Concord,
*Dean, H. Baldwin; P. O., Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 7
*Delany, Henry B., Vice-Principal of St. Augustine's School, Raleigh.
GivEGORY, Henry T., Priest in charge of Emmanuel Church, Southern
Pines.
GuiGNARD, Sanders P., Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Greensboro; in
charge also of St. Mary's Chapel.
Hanff, Samuel M., Deacon, officiating in Missions at Duke and Smith-
lield; P. 0., Duke.
*Harding, F. Harriman, Rector of Calvary Church, Tarboro; in charge
also of Missions in Edgecombe County; P. 0., Tarboro.
Hilliard, Francis W., Principal of Hilliard School, Oxford; in charge
also of St. Peter's Church, Stovall, and St. Paul's, Goshen; P. 0.,
Oxford.
Hoover, Homer L., Deacon, officiating in the Churches at Enfield, Hali-
fax and Ringwood; P. 0., Enfield.
Hunter, A. B., Principal of St. Augustine's School; in charge also of
St. Augustine's Chapel, Raleigh.
Ingle, Julian E., Rector of the Church of the- Holy Innocents, Hen-
derson.
.Joyner, Francis, Rector of the Church of the Saviour, Jackson; in
charge also of Missions at Littleton, Gaston and Roanoke Rapids;
P. O., Littleton.
King, James E., Rector of the Church of St. Ambrose, Raleigh; in
charge also of St. James', Pittsboro; P. 0., Raleigh.
London, John, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Louisburg, and St. James',
Kittrell; P. 0., Louisburg.
Male, Charles H., Priest in charge of St. Cyprian's Mission at Oxford
and St. Simeon's, Satterwhite; P. 0., Oxford.
Mallinckrodt, Harris, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Charlotte.
Marshall, M. M., D.D., Rector of Christ Church, Raleigh.
Martin, James L., Rector of Calvary Church, Wadesboro.
Meade, Wm. H., D.D., Rector of the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill.
Mellichampe, Wm. L., Rector of St. Thomas' Church, Reidsville; in
charge also of Missions at Milton, Cuningham and Thomasville, and
of Epiphany Church, Leaksville; P. 0., High Point.
Murdoch, F. J., D.D., Rector of St. Luke's Church, Salisbury; in charge
also of the Missions in Rowan County; P. 0., Salisbury.
Ogilby, Edward L., Priest in charge of St. James' Church, Iredell
County, Trinity, Statesville, and St. Mark's, Bristow; P. 0., States-
A-ille.
8 List of the Clergy.
OsBOENE, Edwin A., Archdeacon of the Convocation of Charlotte.
Osborne, Francis M., Priest in charge of the Chapels of St. Martin
and the Holy Comforter, Charlotte.
Owens, Robert B., Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rocky
Mount; in charge also of St. John's, Battleboro; P. 0., Rocky Mount.
Perry, John W., Rector of St. Luke's uhurch, Tarboro.
Perry, Robert X., Deacon, ofRciating in St. Mark's Chapel, Wilson.
*Phelps, Girard W., Rector of Trinity Church, Scotland Neck: in
charge also of Mission at Tillery; P. O., Scotland Neck.
*Piielps, Richard R., Deacon, officiating in St. Paul's Church, Monroe.
Picard, William T., Deacon, officiating in the Church of the Saviour,
Jackson.
PiTTENGER, I. McK., D.D., Rcctor of the Church of the Good Shepherd,
Raleigh.
Poindexter, James E., Rector of Emmanuel Church, Warrenton, and
St. John's, Williamsboro ; in charge also of the Mission at Middle-
burg; P. O., Warrenton.
Pollard, John H. M., Archdeacon in charge of Work among Colored
People; P. 0., Littleton.
*Pruden, Aldred a.. Chaplain U. S. Army; P. 0., Fort D. A. Russell,
Wyoming.
*Saunders, John L., Deacon; P. O., Salisbury.
* Schubert, Louis H.; P. 0., Glenham, New York.
Simmons, James D., Rector of St. Bartholomew's Church, Pittsboro; in
charge also of the Mission at Sanford; P. 0., Pittsboro.
* Smith, Walter J., Superintendent of the Thompson Orphanage and
Training Institution, Charlotte.
ToLSON, George M., Archdeacon of the Convocation of Raleigh, and
Rector of Grace Church, W^eldon; P. 0., Weldon.
Trott, Thomas L., Deacon, officiating in St. Philip's Church, Durham,
and Ascension Mission in Davie County; P. 0., Durham.
Walker, William, Priest in charge of Missions at Mount Airy, Ger-
manton and Elkin; P. O., Mount Airy.
Watters, S. Paxson, Rector of St. Matthew's Church, Hillsboro; in
charge also of St. Mary's, Orange County; P. 0., Hillsboro.
*^YiUiams, James H.; P. 0., Warm Springs, Virginia.
LIST OF THE CLERGY
ACCORDING TO DATE OF ORDINATIOX.
BISHOP.
The Pit Eev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D.
COXSECRATED OCTOBER 15, 1893.
PRIESTS.
Charles Theodore Bland ordained Xov. 17, 1850.
Francis William Hilliard '• March 25, 1857.
Benjamin Swan Bronson
Henry Trowbridge Gregory
William Hopkins Meade, D.D. "
Julian Edward Ingle
Matthias Murray Marshall, D.D.
William Walker
Girard William Phelps
James Henry Williams
Francis .Johnstone Murdoch, D.D.
Johnson Carmon Davis, D. D.
James Edward Poindexter
James Battle Avirett
John London
Isaac McKendree Pittenger, D.D.
Samuel Paxson Watters
Edwin Augustus Osborne
Herman Baldwin Dean
Aaron Burtis Hunter
Walter Johnston Smith
Louis Hector Schubert
John Henry Mingo Pollard
John William Perry
William Lawton Mellichampe
Edward Leslie Ogilby
Primus Priss Alston
Henry Beard Delany
May
31.
1857.
May
10,
1859.
Nov.
20,
1864.
June
11,.
1865.
Sept.
3,
1865.
Jan.
27,
1867.
^lay
23,
1869.
June
25.
1869.
May
8,
1870.
June
30,
1870.
June
4,
1871.
May
23,
1875.
May
4,
1876.
^lay
0,
1880.
Sept.
19,
1880.
May
22
1881.
May
1,
1882.
May
1,
1882.
Nov.
15,
1885.
May
31,
1886.
Dec.
14,
1886.
April
J
1887.
Dec.
15,
1889.
March
21,
1891.
Jan.
26,
1892.
:^Iav
2
1892.
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List of the Clergy.
Aldred Adino Pruden
Sidney Stuart Bost
Robert Bruce Owens
George Meredith Tolson
Sanders Richardson Guignard
Harris jMallinckrodt
Francis Joyner
:\Iilton Augustus Barber
James Dickinson Simmons
Frederick Harriman Harding
Henry Teller Cocke
Thaddeus Ainsley Cheatham
James Edward King
Francis Moore Osborne,
James Luther Martin
Alfred Rives Berkeley
Charles Henry Male
DEACONS.
William Thomas Picard
Thomas Burke Bailey
Simeon Jeremiah Michael Brown
Thomas Lee Trott
John Linker Saunders
Richard Louis Bame
John Holland Crosby
Locke Winfield Blackwelder
Samuel ISIerrill Hanff
Homer Leach Hoover
Francis Wellington Ross Arthurs
Robert Nathaniel Perry
ordained May
May
*' May
Oct.
" June
• , Dec.
" June
Oct.
" June
May
May
May
" June
" March
" June
" June
July
ordered May
June
" Nov.
Feb.
" June
Sept.
March
''' Aug.
July
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
CANDIDATES FOR HOLY ORDERS.
William Fanes
*Richard Roseoe Phelps
admitted Sept.
Aug.
18. 1895.
31, 1896.
31, 1896.
3, 1897.
12, 1898.
22, 1898.
21, 1899.
8, 1899.
10, 1900.
26, 1901.
29, 1901
4, 1904
12, 1904.
25, 1905.
18, 1905.
18, 1905.
25, 1905.
11, 1887.
9, 1895.
17, 1897.
26, 1899.
10, 1900.
22, 1901.
6, 1904.
7, 1904.
23, 1905.
13, 1905.
13, 1905.
20, 1905.
7, 1902.
13. 1903.
*Ordained Deacon June 3, 1906.
LIST OF PARISHES AND MISSIONS
IN THE
DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
WITH THE NAMES OF CLERGY IN CHARGE AND LAY DELEGATES TO THE
CONVENTION.
Parishes in small capitals. Organized Missions in italics. Missions
entitled to representation marked ]. Lay delegates present marked
thus *. Names of alternates are placed under those of the clergy in
the right-hand column.
Ansonville,
Battleboro,
Bristow,
Burlington,
Chapel Hill,
Charlotte, (Dil.
Charlotte,
Charlotte, (Sev
Charlotte,
Charlotte,
Charlotte,
Charlotte,
\All Souls.
B D. Nelme.
St. John's,
]St. Mark's,
*C. W. McCoy.
St. Athanasius,
E. A. Holt.
J. C. Squires.
Chapel of the Cross,
M. C. S. Noble.
*K. P. Battle, LL.D.
J. C. MacRae, LL.D.
W. DeB. McNider, M.D.
) Holy Comforter,
Chapel of Hope,
) St. Andrew's,
St. Martin's,
St. Mary's,
\St. MichaeVs, (col.)
A. Myron Cochran.
St. Peter's,
*John Wilkes.
Ernest Field.
Heriot Clarkson.
J. L. Sexton.
Rer F. W. R. Arthurs.
L. L. Little.
Rev. R. B. Owens.
Rev. Edward L. Ogilby.
Albert McCoy.
Rev. Milton A. Barber.
*J. Zeb. Waller.
A. Bradley.
Rev. Wm. H. Meade, D.D.
R. S. McRae.
T. J. Wilson, Ph. D.
N. C. Curtis.
Chas. H. Herty, Ph. D.
Rev. F. M. Osborne.
Rev. John H. Crosby.
Rev. John H. Crosby.
Rev. F. M. Osborne.
Rev. Walter J. Smith.
Rev. P. P. Alston.
O J. Jackson.
Rev. H. Mallinckrodt.
J. Renwick Wilkes.
Charles Bland, M.D.
W. A. Avant.
Waldo B. Ryder.
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Parishes and Missions.
Chestnut Hill,
Cleveland,
Concord,
Cooleemee Mills,
Cuningham,
Davie County,
Duke,
Durham,
Edgecombe Co. ,
Elkin,
Elm City,
Enfield,
Gaston ,
Germanton,
Goshen,
Greensboro,
Greensboro,
Greensboro,
Gulf,
Halifax,
St. Paul's,
S. R. Harrison.
F. M. Tarrh.
T. B. Moore.
Edward Burgess.
Christ Church,
All Saints,
Gowan Dusenbery.
Wm. H. Gibson.
A. Viola.
Good Shepherd,
Chapel,
Ascension Mission,
St. Stephen's,
St. Philip's,
*W. A. Erwin.
*W. L. Wall.
C. M. Herndon.
AV. A. Guthrie.
St. Mary's,
Gallavvay Memorial,
Holy Trinity,
Advent,
Ivey Watson.
R. B. Parker.
j;St. Luke's,
tSi. Philip's,
St. Paul's,
St. Andrevv^'s,
D. H. Blair.
P. C. Pope.
*W. J. Anderson.
O. W^illiams.
St. Barnabas.
St. CuthberVs.
St. Mark's.
St. Mark's,
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D
Rev. L.W. Blackwelder.
Isaac Lyerly,
P. H. Henley.
C. M. Higgins, M. D.
J. W. Pinkston.
Rev. S. J. M. Brown.
Rev. J. C. Davis, D.D.
Rev. S. J. M. Brown.
Rev. W. L. Mellichampe.
Rev Thos. L. Trott.
Rev. Samuel M. Hanff.
Rev. Sidney S. Bost.
Rev. Thos. L. Trott.
*Charles Burcham.
J. M. Manning.
H. a. Bost.
W. B. McGary.
Rev. F. H. Harding.
Rev. William Walker.
Rev. Thad. a. Cheatham.
Rev. H. L. Hoover.
A. S. Harrison, M D.
C. E. McGuigan.
Rev. Francis Joyner.
Rev. William Walker.
Rev. F W. HiLLIARD.
Rev. S. R. GUIGNARD,
J. G. Lambert.
Chas. Magill.
J. H. Schenck.
Joseph Dean, Jr.
Rev. H. L. Hoover.
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Henderson,
High Point.
Hillsboro,
Holy Innocents,
*D. Y. Cooper.
*G. C. Lamb.
*J. A. Moore.
*A. C. Zollicoffer.
St. Mary's,
*Thomas M. Robertson.
Joseph D. Smith
A. T. Beacon.
St. Matthew's,
*John W. Graham.
D. H. Hamilton.
W. H. Webb.
Wm. Snow.
Iredell County, j;St. James,
Jackson,
Kittrell,
Laurinburg,
Lawrence,
Leaksville.
Lexington,
Littleton,
Littleton,
Louisburg,
Louisburg,
Madison,
Ch. of the Saviour,
R. B. Peebles.
R. H. Stancell, M. D.
J. B. MacRae
G. P. Burgwyn, Jr.
St. James,
Geo. A. Kittrell,
Spotswood Burwell.
*George W. Dow.
Thomas Capehart, Jr.
St. David's,
Grace,
Epiphany,
*John J. Robertson.
Oliver Cox.
James B. Ray, M.D.
Grace,
St. Alban's.
St. Anna's, (col.)
St. Matthias, (col.)
St. Paul's,
*F. S. Spruill.
William Bailey.
W. P. Neal.
*Wm. H. Ruffin.
jSt. John's,
Rev Julian E. Ingle
M. J. O'Neil.
S. P. Cooper.
J. H. Brodie.
George Gilliam.
Rev. S. Paxson Waiters.
E. A. Rosemond.
Sterling Ruffin.
W. A. Hays.
A. J. Cameron.
Rev. Edward L Ogilby.
j Rev. Francis Joyner.
'i Rev. Wm. T. Picard.
G. P. Burgwyn. Sr.
E. J. Peebles.
H. W. Lewis, M. D.
C. G. Peebles
Rev. John London.
Geo. W. Kittrell.
Thomas Capehart, Sr.
Armistead Capehart.
John Leigh Hunt.
Rev. E, A. Osborne.
Rev. F. H. Harding.
Rev. W. L. Mellichampe.
Rev. J. C. Davis D.D.
Rev. Francis Joyner.
Rev. J. H. M. Pollard.
Rev. J. H. M. Pollard.
Rev. John London.
T. W. Bickett.
W. H. Yarborough. Jr.
R. H. Davis
John W. Kirrg.
Rev. Alfred R. Berkeley,
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Parishes and Missions.
Mayodan
Middleburg,
Milton,
Mocksville,
Monroe,
Mount Airy,
Noise,
Olive Branch,
Orange County,
Oxford,
Oxford,
Pittsboro,
Pittsboro,
Raleigh,
Raleigh,
Messiah^
Heavenly Rest,
Christ Church,
St. Philip's,
\St. PauVs,
*J. M. Fairley.
Trinity,
St. Philip's, Ccol.)
St. Timothy's,
\St. Mary's,
St. Stephen's.
J. G. Hall.
*J. L.Erwin.
*J. C. Horner.
*B. M. Haubold.
St. Cyprian's, (col.)
St. Bartholomew's,
*Wni. L. London.
*Henry A. London.
G. R. Pilkington.
*H. M. London.
^St James, (col.)
Christ Church,
*R. H. Lewis, M.D.
*V. E. Turner, M.D.
*Chas. E. Johnson.
*Charles M. Busbee.
Good Shepherd,
*R. H. Battle, LL.D.
*A. B. Andrews.
A. B. Hawkins, M.D.
*F. T. Ward.
Rev. Alfred R. Berkeley.
Rev. J AS. E. Poindexter.
Rev. W. L. Mellichampe.
Rev. E. A. Osborne.
Rev. R. R. Phelps.
J. D Parker.
Rev. William Walker.
Rev. J. H. M. Pollard.
Rev. F. W. R. Arthurs.
Rev. S. Paxson Watters.
A. S. Hall.
R. W. Lassiter.
C. H. Easton.
Robert J. Kittrell.
Rev. Chas. H. Male,
Rev. James D. Simmons.
Rev. James E. King.
Rev.M. M.Maeshall D.D.
F. A. Olds.
B. F. Ellis.
Chas. H. Jones.
E. N. Spencer.
Rev.I.McK.PiTTENGER,D.D.
Fred. W. Mahler.
Geo. T. Norwood.
Leigh Skinner.
S. Brown Shepherd.
Raleigh,
St. Ambrose, (col ) Rev. James E. King.
W. J. Latham. T. L. McCoy.
Thomas Williams. J. G. Dunn.
Raleigh,
xc^ A ^- , / 1 X ( Rev. A. B. Hunter.
Wt. Augustine's, (col.) ] ^^^^ ^ ^ ^^^^^^^
Raleigh,
St. Mary's Chapel, Rev. McNeelyDuBose.
Raleigh.
St. Saviour's, Rev.M.M. Marshall,D.D.
Rev. H. L. Hoover.
Rev. Francis Joyner.
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Reidsville, St. Thomas, Rev. W. L. Mellichampe.
John Oliver.
*Robert Hairston,
Robert Mobley.
Ridgeway, Good Shepherd.
Ringwood, St. Clement's,
Roanoke Rapids, Misaion,
Rockingham, Messiah.
Rocky Mount, Good Shepherd,
E. G. Muse.
Jacob Battle.
*Thos. H. Battle.
J. W. Philips.
St. Jude's,
St. Mark's,
St. Matthew's.
Rowan County,
Rowan County,
Rowan County,
Rowan Counry,
Salisbury
Salisbury,
Salisbury,
Sanford,
Satter white.
Scotland Neck,
Smithfield,
Sou hern Pines,
Spencer,
Statesville,
St. Mary's,
W. L. Harris.
J. H. McKenzie.
I. J. McKenzie.
G. A. Ramsauer.
St. Luke's,
'^■John S. Henderson, LL.D.
S. F. Lord.
Theodore Buerbaura.
Joseph McNeely.
St. John's,
St. Peter's,
St. Thomas,
St. Simeon's, (col.)
Trinity,
A. L. Purrington.
John Y. Savage.
R. H. Smith.
Stuart Smith.
Mission,
Emmanuel,
St. Joseph's,
Holy Cross, (col.)
Rev. R. B. Owens.
O. D. Cuthrell.
*E. F. Arrington.
L. L. Staton.
J. P. Bunn.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
John Owens.
Julian McKenzie.
W. Hoke Ramsauer.
W. Locke McKenzie.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
White McKenzie, M.D.
J. O. White.
Thomas Marsh.
T. F. Young.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
Rev. L.W. BLACKWEi^DER.
Rev. James D. Simmons.
Rev. Charles H. Male.
Rev. GiRARD W. Phelps.
J. E. Shields.
J. T. Applewhite.
E. W. Hyman.
Gideon Lamb.
Rev. Samuel M. Hanff.
Rev. Henry T. Gregory.
Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
Rev. Thomas B Bailey.
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Parishes and Missions.
Statesville.
t rrinity,
Rev. Edward L. Ogilby.
Stokes County,
Knowlhurst Chapel,
Rev .Alfred R.Berkeley.
Stone ville
Emmanuel,
Rev. Alfred R. Berkeley.
Stovall,
\St. Peter's,
Rev Franc:sW.Hilliard,
Richard T. Gregory.
Herbert Gregory.
Tarboro.
Calvary,
Rev. F. H. Harding
*S. S. Nash.
M. A. Curtis.
J. J. Phillips. M.D.
"Frank Hart.
Whitney L Bridgers.
George Pennington.
*J. G. M. Cordon.
Henry Johnston.
Tarboro,
St. Luke's, (col.)
Rev. John W Perry.
CM. Dancy.
*N. B. Brown.
Robert Shield.
E. E Bryan.
Thomasville,
Mission.
Rev W. L Mellichampe.
Wadesboro,
Calvary,
Rev. J. L. Martin
Walnut Cove,
\Christ Church,
Rev Alfred R.Berkeley.
Warren County
St Luke's, (col.)
Rev. J. H. M. Pollard.
Warrenton,
All Saints, (col.)
Rev. J. H. M. Pollard.
Warrenton,
Emmanuel,
Rev. Jas. E. Poindexter.
*W. G. Rogers.
J. A. Goodwyn.
R. J. Jones.
Thomas Peoples.
B. S. Feilds.
Weldon,
Grace,
Rev. Geo. M. Tolson.
A. R. Zollicoffer, M.D.
*T. C. Harrison.
"Wm. H. S. Burgwyn,
J. T. Evans.
Edward T. Clark.
Wm- Cohen.
William sboro.
St. John's,
Rev Jas. E. PoiNDtxTER.
W. T. Hardy.
W. B. Thomas.
*N. D. Boyd.
John S. Royi«ter.
Wilson,
St. Mark's, (col.)
Rev. Robert N. Perry.
Wilson,
St. Timothy's,
Rev. Thad. a. Cheatham.
*J. C. Hales.
H, G. Connor.
*E. G. Rawlings.
C. M Jones
T. C. Davis.
W. J Boykin.
Winston,
St. Paul's,
Rev. Henry T. Cocke.
*J. C. Buxton.
P. R. (ireer.
R. T. Steadman.
L. P. Tyree.
A. B. Daingerfield.
David McGinnis.
D. D. Schouler.
R. E. Lassiter.
Woodleaf,
St. Andrew's,
Rev. S. J. M. Brown.
JOUKXAL OF PKOCEEDIXGS.
The Xineteentli Annual Convention of the Diocese of
Xorth Carolina assembled in the Church of tlie Holy Inno-
cents, Henderson, on Wednesday, June 13th, 1906.
The I\t, Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D., Bishop of the
Diocese, opened the meeting with prayer at 10 o'clock a. m.
The roll having been called by the Secretary, it was found
that the required quorum of both orders was not present and
a recess was taken for Divine service.
At 11 o'clock the Litany was siaid by the Rev. James
Luther Martin. The Holy Communion was celebrated by
the Bishop, asskted by the Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D., the
Rev. Francis W. Hilliard, and others. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Robert B. Owens, from the text : ''He
sent them to preach the Kingdom of God." St. Luke ix: 2.
The offerings of the congregation were received for the
Xew York Bible and Conmion Prayer Book Society.
At the conclusion of the sendee the Bishop took the chair,
but a quorum being still lacking, a recess was taken until 4
o'clock.
Wedxesday^ June 13, 4 P. M.
The Convention reassembled, the Bishop in the chair.
A quorum of both orders being found present, the Bishop
announced the first business to be the election of a President.
The Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D., having been nominated by
Mr. Wm. L. London, the Secretary was instructed to cast for
him the ballot of the Convention, and he was declared elected.
Mr. John Wilkes nominated as Secretary the Rev. Julian
E. Ingle, and the Chairman, being requested to cast the ballot
of the Convention, declared him elected.
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18
Journal of Proceedings.
On motion of Rev. F. M. Osborne, the reporter of the
Charlotte Observer was invited to a seat upon the floor.
The Secretary announced the appointment of Mr. G. C.
Lamb as Assistant Secretary.
Applications for the admission of certain delegates whose
certificates of election were not in the hands of the Secretary
were, on motion, referred to the Committee on Elections
about to be appointed.
On motion of the Secretarv it was
Resolved, That the daily sessions of the Convention begin with Morn-
ing Prayer at 9:30 o'clock and continue until 6:30; and that a recess
be taken from 12:30 to 3:30 o'clock.
The Bishop announced the appointment of the Eegular
Committees, as follows:
On Canons:
The Eev. Ed^Yin A. Osborne.
The Rev. I. McK. Pitteuger, D.D.
The Rev. A. B. Hunter.
On the state of the Church:
The Rev. John London.
The Rev. Francis Joyner.
The Rev. John H. M. Pollard.
Mr. R. H. Battle, LL.D.
Mr. John S. Henderson, LL.D.
Mr. J. Cameron Buxton.
Mr. Wm. H. Ruffin.
On Finance:
The Rev. F. J. Murdoch, D.D.
The Rev. Sidney S. Bost.
Mr. Wm. L. London.
Mr. Chas. M. Busbee.
Mr. Alex. B. Andrews.
071 Elections:
The Rev. Francis W. Hilliard.
The Rev. W. L. Mellichampe.
Mr. John W. Graham.
Mr. Frank T. Ward.
Mr. Wm. A. Erwin.
On Keiv Parishes:
The Rev. S. Paxson Watters.
The Rev. Sanders R. Guignard.
Mr. John Wilkes.
Mr. Thos. H. Battle.
Mr. W. H. S. Burgwvn.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 19
On Unfinished Business:
The Rev. Edward L. Ogilby. Mr. E. F. Arrington.
The Rev. Thos. L. Trott. Mr. J. C. Hales.
Mr. W. J. Anderson.
The Eev. M. M. Marshall, D.D., presented the following
REPORT OF THE STAXDIXG COMMITTEE.
The Standing Committee elected by the last Convention met at Christ
Church Rectory, Raleigh, on the 7th day of June, 1905, and was organ-
ized by the election of the Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D., as President and
the Rev. Julian E. Ingle as Secretary. At this meeting also the fol-
lowing Deacons were recommended for ordination to the Priesthood:
Alfred Rives Berkeley, James Luther Martin and Charles Henry Male
( col. ) . George Crummell Pollard ( col. ) was also recommended for
admission as a candidate for Holy Orders.
On July 6th, 1905, the Committee recommended for ordination to the
Diaconate, Francis Wellington Ross Arthurs and Homer Leach Hoover.
The Committee also gave its consent to the election of a Bishop Coadju-
tor for the Diocese of Southern Virginia and to the consecration to the
Episcopate of the Rev. Frederick Foote Johnson, elected by the House
of Bishops to assist the Bishop of South Dakota.
On July 17th, 1905, Samuel Merrill Hanif was recommended for ordi-
nation to the Diaconate.
August 17th, 1905, Robert Nathaniel Perry (col.) was recommended
for ordination to the Diaconate.
On December 9th, 1905, consent was given to the consecration of
the Rev. Edward Melville Parker as Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese
of New Hampshire. At this meeting a request from the Rector and
Vestry of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, was presented
for the consent of the Committee to the issuing of bonds to the amount
of $25,000 for the completion of the new church, and the execution of
a deed of trust upon the church property for the security of said bonds.
The request was granted, with the following condition, viz.: That if a
sale should ever occur for the payment of the debt, in whole or in part,
the new church shall be held in reserve until all the other church prop-
erty included in the deed of trust shall have been sold.
On January 10th, 1906, the consent of the Committee was given to
the consecration of the Rev. John Newton McCormick, D.D., as Bishop
Coadjutor of the Diocese of Western Michigan; the Rev. William Wal-
ter Webb, D.D., as Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of Milwaukee, and
the Rev. Charles David Williams, D.D., as Bishop of Michigan.
On the 16th of May, 1906, Foster Nugent Cox was recommended for
admission as a candidate for Holy Orders, and Richard Roscoe Phelps
was recommended for ordination to the Diaconate, with the further
20 Journal of Proceedings.
recommendation that the canonical requirement for three years to
elapse between the date of his admission as a candidate for orders and
his ordination be, for satisfactory reasons, shortened by three months.
The President of the Committee was requested to make the usual
report of its proceedings for the past year to the Diocesan Conven-
tion, and the committee adjourned sine die.
Respectfully submitted for the Committee.
M. M. ^Marshall,
President.
Mr. R. H. Battle presented tlie following
EEPOET OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE DIOCESE.
The Trustees to hold property for the Diocese of North Carolina
respectfully report :
That they have received the following deeds for real property since
the Convention of 1905:
1. Deed from Miss Kate D. Cheshire to the Trustees for a lot of land
in the town of Lawrence, Edgecombe County, 50 by 100 feet, with build-
ings thereon, in trust "for the maintenance of a School of Christian
Nurture, to be known as 'Grace School,' " with condition to be held for
other purposes if it shall become impracticable or undesirable to main-
tain said school. Deed dated April 29th, 1904, and registered in Edge-
combe County, July 11th, 1905, in Book 128, p. 36.
2. Deed for a lot on Church street in the town of Laurinburg, Scot-
land County, and adjoining lands of R. E. Lee, A. L. James and R. R.
Covington, to the Trustees, from Mark Morgan and his wife, Margaret
L. Morgan. Dated September 27th, 1905, and registered in said county,
in Book "E,"' p. 273, September 29tli, 1905.
3. Deed from John A. Boyden, his wife, Mary L. C. Boyden, and Mrs.
Sue Cole Smith, for a lot of land of about one acre, in Rowan County,
on the Sherill Ford road, to the Trustees, "to be held in trust for a
congregation of the Episcopal Church to be gathered in a chapel to be
built on said lot, to be known as St. Stephen's Chapel." Dated October
24th, 1905, and registered in Rowan County, in Book No. 105, p. 214,
October 28th, 1905.
4. Deed from S. J. Torrence to the Trustees for a lot of land of about
one-fourth of an acre, in Charlotte Township, Mecklenburg County, ad-
joining the lands of the Thompson Orphanage and on the Providence
road. Dated November 28th, 1905, and registered in said county, in
Book 202, p. 1G2, December 19th, 1905.
5. Deed by the Charlotte Consolidated Construction Company to the
Trustees for lots Five and Six, in block 'No. Six, in Dilworth, near Char-
lotte, in Mecklenburg County (100 by 150 feet). Dated January 4th,
1906, and registered in Mecklenburg County, in Book 204, p. 609, Janu-
ary 23d, 1906.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 21
7. Deed by B. P. Thorp to the Trustees for one acre of land in Gran-
ville Ccmnty, adjoining the lands of said B. P. Thorp and others. Dated
April 20th, 1906, and registered in Granville County, in Book 60, p. 150,
May 21st, 1906.
At a meeting of the Trustees held on the 14th day of May, 1906, the
following action was taken:
Resolved, That the Trustees of the Diocese give their consent to a
request from the Rector and Vestry of St. Matthew's Church, Hills-
boro, that the chapel and lot of St. Jude's Mission, near Hillsboro, be
sold and the proceeds used for the benefit of St. Mary's Chapel, Orange
County, it appearing to the Trustees that the few church people who
attended at St. Jude's have removed, and it is not practicable to con-
duct services there further to any advantage.
Respectfully submitted. Jos. Blouxt Cheshire,
R. H. Battle,
Chas. E. Johxsox,
Trustees, etc.
On motion of the Eev. Alfred E. Berkeley, the Report
was referred to a Committee which was appointed by the
Bishop, as follows: Messrs. Kemp P. Battle, Edwin G.
Eawlings and Henry A, London.
Mr. Chas. E. Johnson presented his ammal Eeport as
Treasurer of the Convention. ( See Appendix C. )
The Eev. L McK. Pittenger, D.D., presented the following
report :
In behalf of the Committee on Finance, I have this day examined the
report of the Treasurer of the Convention and found it correct.
I. MCK. PiTTEXGEE,
Chairman of Committee on Finance.
Dr. Pittenger also presented the Bishop's account of Di-
ocesan Eunds placed in his hands. (See Appendix B.)
The Eev. Francis Jovner presented the following'
I^EPORT OF COMMITTEES APPOIXTED TO COXSIDEE MEAXS OF
EXGAGIXG OUE LAYMEX' IX THE WOEK OF DIOCESAX
MISSIOX^S.
The two Committees appointed on this matter— one for the Convoca-
tion of Raleigh, consisting of the Rev. Francis Joyner and Messrs.
Samuel S. Xash and Henry A. London, and one for the Convocation of
Charlotte, consisting of the Rev. Edwin A. Osborne and Messrs. Wm. A.
22 Journal of Proceedings.
Smith and J. Cameron Buxton, both being under the chairmanship of
the Bishop, and having co-operated one with the other, and having
secured mutuality of action between the two Convocations — beg leave to
submit a common report to this Convocation.
They have to report that as the result of their several meetings and
conferences, the following action was taken by the two Convocations
represented by them. It was
Resolved, 1. That it is desirable to effect a missionary organization
of the men of the Diocese, with a local branch in each parish and mis-
sion.
2. That a lay "Secretary and Registrar" should be appointed for each
Convocation to secure the co-operation of the men of the Convocation.
He shall make an annual missionary enrollment of all the male mem-
bers of the church within his Convocation of the age of sixteen years
and upwards, who shall annually contribute the sum of fifty cents each
to the missionary work of the Convocation.
3. That in each parish and mission, with the consent of the minister
thereof, one or more persons be appointed as a Missionary Committee
of such parish or mission to represent the cause of missions. Such
Committee shall endeavor to secure an annual contribution (by way
of an enrollment fee) from each male member of the congregation of
the age of sixteen years and upwards, and shall send the names ob-
tained to the Registrar and the money to the Treasurer of the Convo-
cation.
4. That each clergyman be requested to call an annual meeting of
each congregation under his charge for the appointment of local Com-
mittees and for carrying on the scheme proposed, and that the Arch-
deacon and Registrar of the Convocation be invited to attend such
annual meeting and to co-operate in organizing and carrying on the
work.
5. That the travelling expenses of the lay Secretary and Registrar
while engaged in this work be paid by the Treasurer of this Convention.
The above scheme having been devised and adopted by the two Con-
vocations interested, the Bishop was requested to appoint the person
in each Convocation to be Lay Secretary and Missionary Registrar. He
thereupon appointed for the Convocation of Charlotte Mr. J. Cameron
Buxton, and for the Convocation of Raleigh Mr. Henry M. London.
Your Committee report further that the above plan has been put in
operation to a limited extent and the Convention will probably hear
in the reports of the Archdeacons of Charlotte and Raleigh to what
extent it promises to effect the purposes intended.
Respectfully submitted. Jos. Blount Cheshire,
E. A. Osborne,
For Convocation of Charlotte.
Francis Joyner,
For Convocation of Raleigh.
Committees.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 23
The Bishop read the following
EEPOET OF THE TRUSTEES OF ST. MARY^S SCHOOL.
In compliance with requirements of their charter of incorporation, the
undersigned, President of the Trustees of St. Mary's School, Raleigh,
in the aJbsence of any specific provision by the Board, submits on behalf
of the said Trustees the following report for the year ending May 1st,
1906. The report of the Treasurer of the corporation is as follows:
Dr.
Balance on hand May 1st, 1905 $390.82
Collected on principal of notes 460.00
Collected on interest of notes 34.36
Treasurer Diocese X. C, Mary Ruffin Smith Fund. . 2,500.00
Rector of St. Mary's, for interest on debt 600.00
Legacy of Miss Eleanor Clement 5,112.50
$9,097.68
Cb.
Paid on principal of debt $8,000.00
Paid on interest of debt '. 882.48
Travelling expenses of President 30.35
Telegrams 1.81
Stationery and postage 5.00
Advertising, etc., for plans 10.50
Salary of Secretary and Treasurer 100.00
Balance May 1st, 1906 67.54
$9,097.68
The payment on the mortgage noted above reduced the balance due
for the purchase of the property to the sum of $5,000. The Executive
Committee thereupon made an earnest effort to raise this balance and
to free the property from debt. Cash donations have been received to
the amount of $3,490, and subscriptions as yet uncollected to the amount
of $575. The amount necessary to supplement the sum raised was
taken from the school funds, and on the 27th day of March last a check
for $5,007.50 was paid to the receivers under the mortgage and the last
note in their hands was taken up and cancelled. It will be observed,
however, that there is due the funds of the school in this transaction
the sum of $1,517.50; and even when the above-mentioned subscriptions
of $575 shall have been collected and paid over, there will remain nearly
one thousand dollars due the school funds which ought to be returned,
as it is urgently needed for necessary repairs and improvements in the
school.
It should also be mentioned that the mortgage has not been can-
celled. One of the mortgage notes for $5,000 is held by the President
of the Board of Trustees in trust to secure the principal of the fund
given for the establishment of the "David R. Murchison Scholarship."
24 Journal of Proceedings.
The report of the Rector of the School makes a most satisfactory-
financial exhibit, all expenses having been fully met, and a balance
remaining on the right side.
During the past year the School has enjoyed the loyal and generous
support of the Dioceses associated in its maintenance. There was a
total enrollment of 215, of whom 136 were boarders. The health of the
pupils has been exceptionally good. All the teachers and officers of the
School have been faithful and exemplary in the performance of their
duties. Since the close of the Rector's report the School has lost one
of its most devoted friends and loyal servants in the death, May 29th,
of IMiss Anne Saunders, daughter of a former eminent presbyter of this
Diocese, at one time head of the "Episcopal School," which preceded
St. Mary's in the occupancy of the present school buildings; herself a
noble woman, widely known and honored.
It is proposed during the present summer vacation to install a steam
laundry adequate to the necessities of the School family.
The "Eliza Battle PiTTMAk Memorial" Auditorium is in process of
erection with funds left by the late Mrs. Mary Eliza Pittman, of Tar-
boro, but devoted to this special purpose by Mr. Frank B. Dancy. The
contractor is to finish the building by next November.
As President of the Board of Trustees, and expressing, I believe, the
feelings of the Board, I would impress upon the Convention the chief
and pressing needs of the School at this time:
1. We need a new building to afford a better and more commodious
dining-room, with kitchens and serving rooms fitted with the best mod-
ern appliances. This is the first necessity. Incidentally and secondarily,
such a building could also be made to provide additional dormitories
and other needed accommodations.
2. We should have an endowment of not less than one hundred thou-
sand dollars to give stability and scope to our work. We should be
able to raise the standard of scholarship and of requirements, and to
maintain our departments in a high state of efficiency and command
and retain the services of able and experienced teachers, without refer-
ence to the pecuniary profit or loss. Only thus can we maintain an
educational institution of a high grade; only thus can we keep St.
Mary's School in a position to command success; and these things can
be done only by means of an ample endowment. One hundred thousand
dollars would be a fair beginning towards such an endowment.
3. We are giving now, upon established scholarships, the funds for
which have all gone into the property and yield us not one cent of in-
come, not less than twenty-five hundred dollars annually in free tuition
and board. Assuming that we could collect all our bills, this is equiva-
lent to paying a rent of $2,500 a year for the property. I speak my
own judgment in saying that we shovild not further add to this burden,
but from this date should invest all money given for scholarships, and
only bind ourselves to the extent of the income to be received.
4. The time has come when we should appeal to our men and women
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 25
of wealth to come forward with their large gifts. They have joined the
many in giving moderately, and the first stage in our journey has been
accomplished. The property has been bought and paid for. The poor
widow has cast in her mite. Have ^ye not rich men and women who
will now count it a privilege to cast in their great gifts into the treasury
of God?
We, your appointed Trustees, hold this property in trust for you.
It is not ours to exploit after tne manner of promoters and financiers.
If it is to be developed and carried onward to its due development and
usefulness, you must provide us the means.
Respectfully submitted. Jos. Blouxt Cheshire,
President of the Board of Trustees.
On motion of the Rev. Echvard L. Ogilby, the report was
referred to a Committee which the Bishop appointed, as fol-
lows : The Rev. R. B. Owens, tlie Rev. Dr. W. H. Meade,
and Messrs. Thos. H. Battle, F. S. Sprnill and A. C. Zolli-
coffer.
The Rev. Francis W. Hilliard presented the following
EEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE OX ELECTIOXS.
The Committee on Elections, to wiiom were referred the applications
for admission of delegates to seats in the Convention from St. Mark's
Church, Bristow; St. Timothy's, Wilson; St. Thomas', Reidsville, and
Epiphany, Leaksville, respectfully report that notwithstanding some
irregularities, they find the following persons duly elected, viz.: From
St. Mark's, Bristow, Mr. C. W. McCoy; from St. Timothy's, Wilson,
Messrs. J. C. Hales, E. G. Rawlings and T. C. Davis; from St. Thomas',
Eeidsville, Messrs, Robert Hairston, John Oliver and Robert Mobley;
from Epiphany, Leaksville, Messrs. John J. Robertson, Oliver Cox and
James B. Ray, M.D. The committee therefore offer the following reso-
lution:
Resolved, That the persons named in this report be admitted to seats
in the Convention. Fkaxcis W. Hilliard,
Chairman.
The resolution appended to the report was, on motion,
adopted and the names of the delegates so admitted were
recorded and called by the Secretary.
The Rev. S. R. Guignard presented the following report
of a Committee appointed at the last Convention :
The committee appointed at the last Convention to consider the expe-
diency of making the "Messenger of Hope" a weekly paper and the
organ of the Church in the whole State, respectfully report that, in
26 Journal of Proceedings.
pursuance of the purpose of the resolution, they promptly sent com-
munications to the secretaries of the Diocese of East Carolina and the
District of Asheville, and received in due time a reply from East Caro-
lina stating that the matter had been brought before their council, with
the result that it was considered not advisable to have as the official
organ of the Diocese a paper published without her bounds; while from
the latter we received only a letter from the Rev. Francis Willis, Jr.,
saying he had been appointed on a committee of conference from his
district, and asking for information, which was given, but with no fur-
ther reply.
Therefore, in view of a lack of co-operation on the part of the other
Dioceses, we must report that the proposition for a State weekly
Church paper is inexpedient; and further, in the absence of a man with
both money and time to devote to a Church paper, we deem it also
inexpedient to attempt to publish the Messenger of Hope weekly.
The committee offer the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Convocations of Raleigh and Charlotte be requested
to appoint each an assistant editor of the Messenger of Hope, whose
duty it shall be to gather and send to the managing editor items of
local interest in the Church, and that the Bishop be asked to make the
paper his official organ by publishing in it not only his appointments,
but also, from time to time, a summary of his official acts.
The resolntion appended to the report was, on motion,
adopted.
The Eev. Mr. Gnignard also presented a petition from the
parish of St. Mary's, High Point, to be admitted into unio'n
with the Convention of the Diocese. The petition was, on
his motion, referred to the Committee on ISTew Parishes.
The Key. A. B. Hunter presented the foUoimng report of
the Principal of St. Angiistine's School, and on his motion
it was referred to the Committee on the State of the Church :
During the year there have been 346 pupils under instruction. There
were five graduates from the collegiate department, seven from the nor-
mal, three from the training school for nurses, one from the carpentry
and thirteen from the cooking course. The organization of the Ameri-
can Church Institute for Negroes gives promise of a brighter future.
The corner-stone of the new St. Agnes Hospital was laid on May 29th
by Bishop Cheshire. Mr. George C. Thomas has deposited with the
Board of Missions the sum of $25,000, the income of which is to be
divided between St. Augustine's and St. Paul's Schools.
Respectfully submitted. A. B. Hunter,
Principal.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 27
The Rev. E. A. Osborne presented the following
EEPOET OF THE COMZMITTEE 0:^^ CA^TOIS'S.
The Committee on Canons respectfully submit the following resolu-
tions :
Resolved 1. That Chapter III, Canon I, line 18, be amended by in-
serting after the space assigned for the names of vestrymen the follow-
ing words : "That we have the ability, and it is our purpose, to employ
and support a regular minister. It is also our purpose to provide and
maintain a suitable house of worship, and to bear our proportion of the
expenses of the Church in this Diocese."
2. That the same canon be amended by the addition of a fifth para-
graph, to read as follows: "Two or more small contiguous congrega-
tions may combine to form one self-supporting parish under the fore-
going provisions."
3. That Article IX, section 4, be amended by inserting after the word
represented, in the first line, the words "by a lay delegate."
4. That the same section be amended by inserting after the words
two successive years, in the second line, the words: or failing during
such period to support a minister, or to employ a minister for at least
one Sunday service a month during such period.
E. A. OSBORKE,
Chairman.
The first two resolutions were, on motion, adopted, and
the third and fonrth by permission of the Convention, with-
drawn.
In behalf of the Mecklenburg District Conference of the
Convocation of Charlotte, the Eev. Harris Mallinckrodt pre-
sented the following resolutions which, on motion of the
Eev. H. T. Cocke, were referred to the Committee on Fi-
nance :
Resolved, That in assessing the Episcopal and Contingent Fund upon
the parishes and missions of the Diocese for the ensuing year, the
Finance Committee adopt as a basis the schedule of apportionments
made by Bishop Cheshire for the cause of General Missions.
Resolved, That in other years following, the Finance Committee be
requested to work out assessments for the Episcopal and Contingent
Fund after the same plan of calculation employed by the Bishop in
making his apportionments for General Missions, so that the apportion-
ment of these two funds will bear to each other the same ratio in every
parish and mission.
The Rev. Francis M. Osborne presented the following re-
port:
28 Journal of Proceedings.
The Committee on Church Work at the University of North Carolina,
appointed by the Convention of 1905, respectfully report that they have
had three meetings — one at Chapel Hill, another at Greensboro, and the
third this morning to adopt this report.
At the first meeting the Rector and Vestry of the Chapel of the Cross
were present by invitation, and expressed themselves as fully in sym-
pathy with the desire of the Convention to extend the influence of the
Church among the University students, and especially among those who
were members of the Church,
At the first meeting no practical work was undertaken, as the Com-
mittee wished to obtain the views and co-operation of the three Bishops
in North Carolina, and especially of our own Bishop.
At the second meeting, held at Greensboro in October, 1905, during
the session of the Convocation of Charlotte, the Bishop of North Caro-
lina was present and the Rev. F. M. Osborne ( chairman ) , the Rev.
Alfred R. Berkeley and Mr, James C. MacRae, of the Committee.
After discussion and consideration, the Bishop gave his ready con-
sent to an appeal by the Committee to the Churchmen of the Diocese for
aid in this work, and the same permission was given by the Bishops of
East Carolina and of Asheville.
A report was made by ]\Ir. MacRae, by which it appears that, at that
time, there were eighty students at the University either members of the
Church or belonging to Church families, and that the number was nearly
equally divided between the two Dioceses, with several from other
States and the District of Asheville.
During the year the Committee have endeavored to present the matter
to those especially interested in these students, and in response a num-
ber of pledges have been made for annual subscriptions, and cash sub-
scriptions to the amount of $94.25 have been paid in, and the Vestry
of the Chapel of the Cross have increased the amount pledged by them
to the support of the Rector (in addition to the use of the rectory)
from $400 to $500 per annum, beginning at Easter, 1906.
The Committee have in hand written subscriptions to the amount of
$154, payable as follows: In 1907, $41; in 1908, $41; in 1909, $31;
in 1910, $31; in 1911, $10.
The Committee therefore offer the following resolutions:
Resolved 1. That the Convention continue its effort to solicit the
support and sympathy of the Church people of North Carolina in the
Church work at the University, under the direction of the Rector of the
Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill.
2. That the Bishop appoint a permanent Treasurer of the Fund for
the support of the Church work at the University of North Carolina;
this Treasurer being empowered to collect from congregations and indi-
viduals money for the aforesaid Fund, and to disburse the same under
the direction of the Bishop of North Carolina.
3. That this Convention recommends that every congregation in this
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 29
Diocese take a collection for the said Fund on the first Sunday, or some
other Sunday, in September each year.
4. That the parents of Episcopalian students at the University and
other individuals be urged to make an annual contribution to the
Church work at the University, either through the Treasurer of this
Fund or through the Treasurer of the Chapel of the Cross.
5. That all money now in the hands of the Committee making this
report be paid at once to the Rector of the Chapel of the Cross.
6. That each year the Treasurer of the aforementioned Fund, under
the direction of the Bishop of the Diocese of Xorth Carolina, pay the
money he has in hand, up to the amount of $500 annually, to the Rec-
tor at Chapel Hill.
7. That a Committee be appointed to assist the permanent Treasurer
in these matters, and to secure the further co-operation of the Diocese
of East Carolina and the District of Asheville.
Francis M. Osborne, Chairman.
The resolutions offered bv the Committee were, on mo-
tion, adopted, and in accordance therewith the Bishop ap-
pointed the Kev. Francis M. Osborne permanent Treasurer,
and the Kev. A. R. Berkeley, Mr. J. C. MacRae, Mr. Bur-
ton Craige and Charles E. Johnson, Jr., a Committee to
assist the permanent Treasurer in his work.
The Rev. Geo. M. Tolson, Archdeacon of the Convocation
of Raleigh, and the Rev. E. A. Osborne, Archdeacon of the
Convocation of Charlotte, presented their reports, which
were, on motion, referred to the Committee on the State of
the Church. (See Appendix B.)
The Convention then adjourned to meet at 9 :30 o'clock on
Thursday morning.
After Evening Prayer at 8 :30 o'clock, addresses upon
Sunday School work Avere made by the Rev. Harris Mallinck-
rodt, Mr. S. S. Xash and the Rev. Sidnev S. Bost.
At a preliminary service on Tuesday evening, a sermon
on the subject of Missions was delivered by the Rev. R. W.
Barnwell, of Petersburg, Virginia, and an offering was re-
ceived, as on all succeeding evenings during the session of the
Convention, for Diocesan Missions.
30' Journal of Proceedings.
SECOIS^D DAY.
Church of the Holy I^n^xoceis^ts, Henderson,
Thursday, June 14, 1906.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Morning Prayer was said by tlie Eev. Messrs. E. A. Os-
borne and S. R. Guignard.
The Bishop having taken the chair, the minutes of yester-
day were read and approved.
The Bishop then read his Annual Address. (See Appen-
dix A.)
On motion of the Bev. Dr. Marshall, so much of the ad-
dress as related to the Mary Buffin Smith Fund was referred
to the Committee on Finance.
On motion of Mr. B. H. Battle, the statistics were referred
to the Committee on the State of the Church.
So much as related to the need and sufferings of the people
of San Francisco were, on motion of the Bev. Dr. Pittenger,
referred to a Committee which the Bishop appointed, as fol-
lows: The Bev. Dr. Pittenger, the Bev. A. B. Berkeley,
Messrs. Chas. E. Johnson, W. H. S. Burgwyn and John
Wilkes.
The portions in regard to the Men's Thanlvoffering of 1907
were, on motion, referred to a Committee as thus appointed :
The Bev. Messrs. H. Mallinckrodt and Milton A. Barber,
and Messrs. Heriot Clarkson, W. A. Erwin and B. H. Lewis,
M.D.
Oil motion of Mr. Wm. L. London, the portion relating to
St. ]\Iary's School was referred to the Conmaittee on the
Beport of the Trustees, who then presented their report, as
follows :
The special committee to whom was referred the report of the Trus-
tees of St. Mary's School respectfully report that they have carefully
examined the report, and recoimnend that it be approved by the Con-
vention and spread upon its records. This report is most gratifying, as
showing the great work that our beloved school is carrying on go sue-
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 31
cessfiilly and the extent to whieh we are indebted to the broad-minded
and conscientious trustees.
We recommend that the Convention take steps to impress upon the
entire Church the importance of the work, and endeavor to carry out all
the suggestions made by the Chairman of the Trustees, all of which
appear to us very wise and proper.
In the limited time at our disposal we find it impossible to discrimi-
nate between the various suggestions of the report. The raising of the
school standard is of the utmost importance. New buildings are impera-
tively called for.
All that we can say is that we should be most thankful for the work
now being done, and that the Convention should take steps at once to
raise the funds necessary to equip the School as it should be equipped.
The School is unquestionably in good hands, and it should be a pleasure
to us to rally to its support.
We call especial attention to Recommendation 3 of the report, which
states that in accepting legacies and trust funds the School has assumed
obligations to the amount of $2,500 a year forever. Too much import-
ance cannot be given to this statement. As $2,500 is a fair net return
on $50,000, this means that the school debt is just where we started nine
years ago, that we are mortgaged to the public equally as heavily as
we were mortgaged to the Cameron estate. We think that this should
be borne in mind, that great care should be used in increasing this
insidious form of debt, and that every legacy and donation should be
scanned upon business principles and not accepted as a matter of senti-
ment unless it is beyond question a good business proposition.
We do not mean to criticize. Necessity knows no law. The mortgage
had to be paid and $40,000 improvements had to be made. We know
that the trustees have done all that was possible. But from now on it
seems absolutely necessary to adopt the Bishop's idea that no trust
should be accepted that really amounts to a larger burden than the
income from the gift. And the condition caused by the attempts to pay
the mortgage would indicate that further mortgages had better be
avoided.
We are glad to note the bequest of Mrs. M. E. Pittman for the Eliza
Battle Pittman Memorial Auditorium; and we would suggest to the
clergy that from time to time, as they may have opportunity, they
impress upon their people the importance of aiding our own Church
institutions, not only by gifts outright, but also in their wills.
It is needless to say that no more suitable memorial could be made
for any person.
Respectfully submitted. R. B. Owexs,
Chairiyian.
The Rev. Messrs. Mc^eely DiiBose and Benjamin S.
Bronson, and Mr. Y. S. Sprnill, addressed the Convention on
the same subject.
32 Journal of Proceedings.
At 12 o'clock the Convention was bidden by the Bishop to
prayer for Missions.
At 12 :30 a recess was taken until 3 :30 o'clock
Thursday, Jnne 14, 3 :30 p. m.
The Convention was called to order by the Bishop.
The Rev. S. P. Watters presented the following
EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE OX XEW PARISHES.
The Committee on Xew Parishes, having carefully considered the
application for admission into union with the Convention made by the
congregation at High Point, and finding that all canonical requirements
have been complied with, offer the following resolution:
Resolved, That St. Mary's Parish, High Point, be admitted into union
with the Convention.
On motion, the resolution was adopted, and Mr. Thomas
M. Robertson, a delegate froin the Parish, appeared and took
his seat.
Mr. Henry A. London presented the following report :
The committee to whom was referred the report of the trustees to
hold property for the Diocese of North Carolina respectfully report that
they have duly considered the same, and recommend the adoption of the
following resolution, to-wit:
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are hereby tendered to
the persons named in said report who have so generously given lots for
the use of this Diocese, and especially to Mr. Mark Morgan and wife
for the gift of the lot and church at Laurinburg.
H. A. LoxDOX,
Kemp P. Battle,
E. G. PvAWLIXGS,
Committee.
The resolntion was, on motion, adopted.
]\[r. John Wilkes presented the reports of St. Peter's Hos-
pital and the Hospital of the G-ood Samaritan, which on his
motion were referred to the Committee on the State of the
Chnrch. (See Appendix B.)
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 33
The Rev. J. H. M. Pollard, Archdeacon for work among
Colored People, presented his report, which, on motion of
Mr. R. H. Battle, was referred to the same Committee.
( See Appendix B. )
The Rev. E. A. Osborne offered the following preamble
and resolutions, which, on his motion, were referred to a
special Committee of one clergyman and three laymen, to be
appointed by the Bishop :
Whereas, the present financial prosperity of the country has increased
the cost of living, and yet has failed to produce a corresponding general
increase in the salaries paid the ministers of the Church in this Dio-
cese; and
Whereas, the Bishop's address has called attention to this condition
of affairs, and has pointed out the consequent hardship which has
thereby been placed upon the clergy; therefore, be it
Resolved 1. That this Convention is of the opinion that the salaries
of the clergy should be increased in proportion to the general cost of
living and support.
2. That this Convention is of the opinion that the stipends of all mis-
sionary clergymen of the Diocese should be increased at least 30 per
cent.
3. That a Committee of one clergyman and two laymen be appointed
by the Bishop to devise and execute means for accomplishing this pur-
pose.
The Bishop appointed as members of the Committee called
for by the second resolution, the Rev. Dr. Pittenger, Dr.
R. H. Lewis, and Mr. D. Y. Cooper.
On motion of Mr. R. H. Battle, the following resolution
was referred to the Committee on Finance :
Resolved, That all arrears charged against mission stations reported
to the Convention of 1906 be remitted.
The Rev. S. R. Guignard offered the following resolution,
which was adopted :
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be requested to submit to
the next Convention a plan by which the Permanent Episcopal Fund
may be increased to a sufficient endowment for the purposes of the fund.
The annual elections being next in order, the members of
ling Committee we:
3
the Standing Committee were re-elected.
34 Jounuil of Proceedings.
Mr. Clias. E. Johnson was elected Treasurer of the Con-
vention for the ensuing year.
The Diocesan Trustees of St. Mary's School and Managers
of the Thonij)Son Orphanage^ whose terms of service expire
at this time, were re-elected, as were also the Trustees of the
Boys' School at -Salisbury and the members of the Education
Committee.
The Rev. Messrs. E. A. Osborne and Geo. M. Tolson, and
Messrs. John Wilkes and John S. Henderson were appointed
as Special Delegates to the Missionary Conference of the
Third Department.
On motion of Mr. Wm. L. London, the Rev. Isaac W.
Hughes, Mr. J. J. Croswell and the Rev. A. DeR. Meares
were elected to fill vacancies in the Board of Managers of the
Orphanage caused by the resignation of the late members
from East Carolina and the death of the Rev. James A. Wes-
ton, of Asheville.
The Rev. Dr. Pittenger presented the following report:
The Committee to whom was referred that portion of the Bishop's
address concerning relief to the Church in San Francisco, offer the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That on the first Sunday in July next, or on some subse-
quent Sunday, a collection be taken in all congregations in the Diocese
in which it has not been already taken, the sanie to be sent to Mr.
George C. Thomas, of the Board of Missions in New York, and by him
forwarded to Bishop Nichols, to be used in his discretion.
Notice of this action is to be sent to the clergy and congregations at
once by the Secretary of the Convention.
I. MCK. PiTTEXGER,
Chairman.
The resolution was, on motion, adopted.
The Rev. E. J. Murdoch, D.D., presented the following
EEPOET OF THE BOAED OF MAXAGEES OF THE THOMPSON"
OEPHAXAGE AXD TEAINII^G INSTITUTIOX.
The Board of Managers respectfully submits the following for the
last fiscal year:
The report of the Superintendent and the report of the Trustee of
the Permanent Fund to the Board of Managers are herein incorporated
as part of this report. This fund in 1905 amounted to $7,454.38, and
Diocese of North Carolirm, 1906. 35
it was increased this year to $1,052,08, a fraction over 14 per cent,
indicating a good, healthy growth. The Board would stress the im-
portance of this fund and commend it to the benefactions of the benefi-
cent. The report of the Superintendent has been published in the Mes-
senger of Hope and has been circulated among the members of the Con-
vention, showing, to our great gratification, the prosperous condition
of your institution, demonstrating the deep-seated and abounding in-
terest of the people in these children of the Kingdom, the wheat of
Christ's own planting. The new matron is a superior woman, who said
to the writer: '"I try to be a mother to all the children, but it is hard
to do, there are so many of them.'' The remark made me think of
"The old lady that lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn't know what to do;
So she gave them some broth without any bread.
Then gave them a whipping and sent them to bed."
These familiar nursery rhymes do not apply, however, in full to her,
as she, in charge of Thompson Hall, and Miss Capehart, in charge of
Bronson Hall, certainly succeed in managing — '"doing" — them nicely.
The children gathered around me fearlessly, affectionately and famil-
iarly, evidencing the fine, correct family training received, and they
talked with me openly and freely of their plays, pastimes, recreations,
waywardness and punishments. The shadow of the raven's wing is
over us all, and these inmates of the Orphanage are not exceptions and
need and must have restraining influences. The naughty, the disobedi-
ent, the wayward and reckless are usually reached by denial of their
cherished wishes; for instance, prohibition of the pleasant walk, the
playground, the swing or other amusement has often a most salutary
effect. I quote the language of the matron: "The disobedient are pun-
ished by denying them that which each most desires."
One bright boy of — say eleven — told me he ran away — " 'way out in
the country, ten miles," said he, and his eyes sparkled with the adven-
ture, I turned to the matron and asked how she punished him on his
return. "Oh," said she, "he was glad enough to get back,"
If the officers of this institution fail to uphold the rules and regula-
tions, if they fail to command the respectful obedience of these children,
if they fail to win their love and confidence, if they fail to train them
in the right way, they will be held in the eyes of God and man respon-
sible. Oh, what a fearful responsibility ! But they will not fail : of this
I am assured. Our minds and hearts are gardens — weeds will grow in
gardens, and unless we cut them out will injure and damage, probably
destroy, the beautiful flowers. The sour gooseberry and crab-apple
must be uprooted, that luscious fruit may be produced.
The earnest endeavor of the Superintendent, matrons and teachers is
to make the Orphanage grain into fine flour of wheat — a nursery of the
Church — cheerful workers. How well they have succeeded is attested
by their contributions, reminding you of, if not equalling "the widow's
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mite." How well they have succeeded is manifestly and convincingly
attested by fourteen confirmations at the last visitation of the Bishop.
No, they will not fail to convert the children committed to their care
into Children of the Kingdom.
Care of orphans is civilization in the highest; it is Jacob overtaking
Esau. And we bid our Superintendent and his efficient co-helpers God-
speed in this pure, excellent, unselfish work for the Master. "Deal
courageously, and Jehovah shall be with the good."
We confidently ask of the laymen of the Church the bread and butter
to sustain them. W. A. Smith,
For the Board of Managers.
STATEMENT.
Charlotte, N. C, April 27, 1906.
Eeport of J, G. Shannonhouse, Trustee of the Permanent Fund of the
Thompson Orphanage and Training Institution, for the year ending the
above date.
Interest Account.
To receipts to date $407.22
By cash paid Eev. W. J. Smith $407.22
The following bequests compose the Permanent Fund, as per memo-
randum below :
From Mrs. Mary E. Fonville's estate $196.75
Mr. Frank Wood 2,000.00
St. Agnes' Guild, Christ Church, Raleigh, N. C, to en-
dow the Ada Foster Cot in the Infirmary, Thompson
Hall 1,000.00
The Mary Louise Cowles Memorial Fund 50.00
Bishop Lyman's estate 2,104.80
Mr. Thomas Puffin's estate 2,262.00
Mrs. Mary A. Southerland's estate 104.34
Dr. D. a'Donoghue's estate 250.00
The Girdwood Memorial Fund 1,250.00
Mrs. T. M. Marsh, one share Salisbury Cotton Mill
stock 100.00
Cash taken from interest account to make loan to Kur-
lee even $3,500 78.49
Rev. Dr. Wetmore Memorial (unknown) 10.00
Total $8,506.38
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 3Y
The following loans represent the full amount of the Permanent
Fund:
Note (secured) H. L. & J. W. Tillerv $225.0n
W.W.Ward 2,262.00
T. A. Kurlee was formerly $3,500.00
Paid Dee. 12, 1905 1,500.00
2,000.00
K. S. Finch 1,117.30
J. G., J. Victor and W. T. Brown 2,750.00
Certificate at 4 per cent interest, M. & F.
National Bank, Charlotte, N. C 52.08
One share Salisbury Cotton Mill stock 100.00
$8,506.38
The following additional amounts have been added to this fund since
the last report:
From the Girdwood Memorial Fund $1,000.00
Mrs. Mary A. Southerland's estate 39.58
Marv Louise Cowles Fund 12.50
$1,052.08
J. G. Shaxxonhouse,
Trustee.
REPORT OF THE REV. W\ J. SMITH, SUPERIXTENDEXT OF THE THOMPSON
ORPHANAGE AND TRAINING INSTITUTION.
To the Board of Managers — Greeting:
It is again my pleasure to report to you that the Orphanage is in a
healthy condition, both financially and physically. The doors of the
institution were opened nineteen years ago by the Rev. E. A. Osborne,
and eight years ago I became his successor. At no time in its history,
I feel warranted in saying, has the institution, on the whole, been in a
better condition than at present. Many additions have been made to
the comfort and convenience of the buildings; the supply of food is
more abundant and better prepared, and the children are apparently
happy and contented. On the retirement of Mrs. Argyle as matron of
Thompson Hall, on May 15th, Mrs. Morton, the housekeeper, took her
place temporarily, while her own place as housekeeper was filled by her
daughter, Miss Alice. Both were faithful in the discharge of their
duties till September 1st, when they returned to their home in Vir-
ginia. At that time Miss Anna L. Dade, of Beallsville, Md., former
matron of the Church Orphanage at Frederick, Md., succeeded Mrs.
Morton as matron and entered upon her duties with an energy and
devotion which she has maintained ever since. On October 16th Miss
Nannie E. Gregory, of Granville County, took charge of the kitchen
and pantry at Thompson Hall and has proved to be a very efiicient
housekeeper. The salary for that department of the work is guaranteed
38 Journal of Proceedings.
by the Thompson Orphanage Guild, of St. Peter's Parish, Charlotte.
Miss Capehart, now a veteran in the work, still presides with satisfac-
tion over Bronson Haft, while the school has been in the hands of Miss
Bishop, our former teacher, and Miss Edwards, one of our old girls from
Edgecombe County. They both have been faithful to their duties, and
Miss Edwards has also acted as organist very acceptably, but has not
felt competent to give general lessons in music, which it was hoped she
might do. The Board of Managers at its last meeting emphasized tiie
importance of training the children in music, and some provision ought
to be made to meet this want. Miss Edmunds is still in charge of the
sewing room and also assists Miss Dade in the care of the sick, when
necessary. She is always ready and willing to do her part. Dr. Wright
continues to look after the health of the children, and I am glad to
say that the cases of sickness during the year have not been many nor
of a serious nature. Mrs. Johnston, our agent for the Messenger of
Hope, has been interrupted in her work by long spells of bad weather
and her own personal indisposition, but still the receipts on account
of the paper show a decided net gain over the disbursements. The
paper is an indispensable agency of the work of the Orphanage, and it
is earnestly hoped that our clergy w^ill do all they can to increase the
circulation amongst their people. The small subscription of fifty cents
a year will certainly not interfere with any other paper nor with any
other work. Miss Early, our stenographer, left us in November and
went to Norfolk to be with her sister, and her place has been filled
very acceptably by Annie Jones, one of our girls who had been attending
King's Business College for a few months.
During the year we have received into the institution twenty children,
sixteen of whom came from the Diocese of North Carolina, three from
the Diocese of East Carolina, and one from the District of Asheville.
Twenty-three have either been placed in suitable homes or returned to
their friends or relations, and of this number eleven belonged to the
Diocese of North Carolina, seven to East Carolina, three to the District
of Asheville, and two were from Virginia. The present number in the
institution is sixty-eight — thirty-seven being from North Carolina, fif-
teen from East Carolina, fourteen from Asheville, and two from South-
ern Virginia, grandchildren of the Eev. George B. Wetmore, for many
years a faithful missionary in North Carolina. The Thompson Orphan-
age Guild, of St. Peter's Parish, Charlotte, ever active in behalf of the
Orphanage, has, during the past year, besides many other benefactions,
installed in one of our bath-rooms in Thompson Hall three shower-
bath arrangements, and has had Bronson Hall shut in beneath with
brick-work. St. Agnes' Guild, of Christ Church, Raleigh, also ever
active for the Orphanage, has placed a bath tub in Bronson Hall in
memory of iMrs. ]Mary Gray Ryan, the first president of the Guild. A
neat bedstead complete has been given to Thompson Hall in memory
of Mrs. Elizabeth Palamountain, late of Tarboro, by her three daugh-
ters. A set of carpenter tools has been given by the Juniors of the
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906, 39
Church of the Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount, and we hope some day to
turn out some skilled mechanics.
A strip of land adjoining the Orphanage property, said to contain
one-eighth of an acre, has been donated by Mr. S. J. Torrence, of Char-
lotte, and the deed has been turned over to the Trustees of the Diocese.
The additions to the endowment fund will be noted in the report of the
trustee of that fund. Two cows have been given — one by Mr. T. C.
Davis, of Charlotte, and the other by the missions under the care of the
Rev. A. R. Berkeley, of Mayodan. In justice to the farm, it ought to
be stated that the hea\^ disbursements are due partly to the purchase
of two new wagons and partly to the outlay in getting out three or four
hundred yards of rock, which have not yet been disposed of. Some of
our immediate wants are a new slate roof on the chapel and the re-
laj-ing of the main sewer, each of which will cost about three hundred
dollars. Then the kitchen in Thompson Hall needs a new cement floor
and a larger range, for which another hundred dollars will be required.
And, lastly, a crying need for the whole institution is a steam laundry,
the cost of which has not been estimated.
In concluding this report I wish to express my deep appreciation of
the continued favors shown the Orphanage by the railroads and ex-
press companies of the State, and also to thank the physicians and
dentists of Charlotte for their professional services, freely and cheer-
fully given. I wish also to thank the City Water Works and the
Standard Ice and Fuel Company for a continuation of their highly
valued favors.
Hereto I append my statement as Treasurer for the past year.
W. J. Smith, Treasurer, In account with
The Thompson Orphanage and Training Institution,
From April 1, 1905, to April 1, 1906.
Balance brought forward from last year $1,000.93
Contributions, etc 5,931.45
Farm products sold 299.97
^Messenger of Hope 650.03
Rents 23.77
Farm products consumed 400.50
Dairy products consumed 652.50
$8,959.15
Payments.
General expenses $5,145.97
Farm expenses 1,037.99
Messenger of Hope 597.34
Farm products consumed 400.50
Dairy products consumed 652.50
Balance on hand 1,124.85
$8,959.15
Respectfully submitted, W. J. Smith,
Superintendent.
40 Journal of Proceedings.
The Keport was, on motion^ referred to a Committee which
the Bishop appointed, as follows: The Rev. Messrs. J. L.
Martin and J. E. Poindexter, and Messrs. D. Y. Cooper,
V. E. Turner and J. G. M. Cordon.
On motion of the Rev. Dr. Marshall, the Secretary was
requested to send to the Rev. Walter J. Smith an expression
of the aifectionate sympathy of the members of the Conven-
tion in the illness which prevented his attendance, and also
their thanks for his excellent report of the Orphanage^
On motion of the Rev. H. T. Cocke, the Secretary was re-
quested to convey a message of sympathy to the Rev. H. Bald-
win Dean in his recent bereavement and present illness.
The Rev. Dr. Murdoch renewed the offer of the resolutions
contained in a report of a Committee at the last Convention
limiting the membership of the Convention to white people.
(See Journal 1905, page 31.)
The Rev. H. T. Cocke offered the following amendment,
which was accepted by the mover of the resolutions:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this Convention that the membership
of the Convention be limited to white clergy and white delegates from
congregations of white people, conferring on the colored Churchmen the
greatest measure of self-government consistent with Catholic princi-
ples and retaining them as an integral part of the Church in the Dio-
cese.
The hour of adjournment having arrived, Mr. H. A. Lon-
don moved that the session be continued until 7 o'clock, but
an amendment offered by Mr. Chas. M. Busbee prevailed,
providing for immediate adjournment and making the mat-
ter under discussion the order of the day at 10 o'clock
Eriday morning.
After Evening Prayer at 8:30 o'clock, addresses upon
Diocesan Missions were made by Archdeacon Tolson, Mr.
Henry M. London, the Rev. Alfred R. Berkeley and Mr.
J. C. Buxton.
Diocese of North Carolina^ 1906. 41
THIRD DAY.
Church of the Holy Ixxocexts, Henderson,
Friday, June 16, 1906.
The Convention assembled at 9 :30 o'clock.
:\rorning Prayer was said by the Rev. E. A. Osbome and
the Rev. W. H. Meade, D.D.
The Pi-esident having taken tlie chair, the minutes of yes-
terday were read, corrected and approved:
The Order of the day being the matter under consideration
at the close of the session on Thursday afternoon, pending the
discussion of the resolution limiting the membership of the
Convention to white people, the Rev. Dr. Murdoch moved a
postponement until next Convention in view of the fact that
the Bishop had informed him that the Convocation of the
Colored People desired at their next meeting at an early day
to take this matter into consideration.
The motion having been agreed to it was, on motion of Mr.
Chas. M. Busbee,
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Resolved, That the matter be made a special order for 11 o'clock on
the second day of the next session of the Convention.
The Rev. Dr. Murdoch, Clerical Trustee of the University
of the South, presented his report, as follows :
The amounts sent through me to the Theological Department in 1905
were :
St. Barnabas, Greensboro $4.26
St. Paul's, Chestnut Hill 50
St. Mary's, Eowan 100
St. Matthew's, Rowan 30
St. Jude's, Rowan 30
St. Luke's, Salisbury 7 25
St. Peter's 33
St. John's 30
Mr. W. A. Smith, Ansonville 5.OO
$19.29
These amounts, together with what was remitted by the Treasurer of
the Diocese. $122.94, and some amount.s remitted directly to the Treas-
urer of the University, amount to more than $158.
42 Journal of Proceedings.
The Eev. Dr. Murdoch presented the following
EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE OK" EIXAXCE.
The Finance Committee, to whom was referred a resolution concern-
ing the Mary Euffin Smith Fund, respectfully recommend its passage,
amended as follows:
Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Diocese transfer to the Perma-
nent Episcopal Fund all money and securities on hand belonging to the
Mary Euffin Smith Fund, and also all additional amounts received from
that estate.
They also recommend the passage of the following resolution in place
of the one referred to them concerning remitting the arrears of Mis-
sion Stations:
Resolved, That the Finance Committee have power to compromise,
settle and remit the present arrears of all Mission Stations at their
discretion.
They also recommend the passage of this resolution:
Resolved, That the assessment for the current year be fixed at 12 per
cent of the salaries promised, or, when none were promised, on those
paid, and the amounts reported as Current Expenses, as indicated in
the Journal of 1905. F. J. Murdoch,
Chairman.
The resolutions offered bj the Committee were, on motion,
adopted.
Mr. R. H. Battle moved a resolution that the Treasurer of
the Convention be authorized to borrow, if necessary, on the
security of the Episcopal Fund, for the payment of the an-
nual salary of the Bishop ; but it was withdrawn after a dis-
cussion calculated to impress the representatives of the con-
gregations of the Diocese with the importance of greater
promptness in the pa^mient of their dues.
The Bishop took the chair.
The members of the Woman's Auxiliary having come into
the church, their Annual Report was read by the Rev. Mr.
Mallinckrodt, on whose motion it was referred to the Com-
mittee on the State of the Church. (See Appendix B.)
At 12 o'clock the Bishop said the Litany and prayers for
Missions.
On motion of Mr. R. H. Battle, the thanks of the Conven-
tion were tendered to the members of the Woman's Auxiliary
for the excellent work of the past year.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 43
The Eev. ]\Ir. Mallinckrodt presented the following report :
The Coniniittee on Sunday School Work, appointed at the last Con-
vention, respectfully report that, owing to the removal from the Diocese
of its Chairman, the Rev. Mr. Dean, they are unable to make any
report on details or any well-considered suggestions ; but, in view of the
fact that in their opinion no branch of Church work is more important
than that of the Sunday School, they suggest that the committee be
continued till next Convention, or a new committee appointed.
The Committee ask that the subject be made a special appointment
for next Convention, so as to give opportunity for the discussion of
some means of increasing the interest of the Church in this vital mat-
ter—the improvement of our Sunday Schools.
Harris Mallinckrodt,
For the Committee.
On motion, the Committee was continued and instructed
to report at the next Convention.
The Rev. Francis Joyner then presented the following
EEPOET OP THE COMMITTEE O^ THE STATE OF THE CHUECH.
Your Committee beg leave to report that, owing to the fact that many
of the Parochial reports have not been sent to the Secretary, they are
unable to give a full and detailed statement of the affairs of the Diocese.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
Your Committee are greatly pleased to find from the Bishop's address
great activity on his part, and the amount of work which he has done
sets a good example for all the laborers in the field. The increase of
four in the Clergy list during the year, the organization of the Men's
Missionary League, the building of new chapels and churches, the large
increase in Missionary offerings from all sources, and the increase of
8 per cent in confirmations mark a distinct spiritual advancement and
great liberality on the part of the Church.
ST. MARY'S SCHOOL.
Your Committee feel thankful to Almighty God that our Diocesan
School has had such a prosperous year and is now free from debt, and
trust that the years which are to come will bring new energy and added
income to carry on the great work for the Church. We recommend that
this Diocese and the State unite in pushing this important work of
educating young women, and hope that with the raising of the intel-
lectual standard of the school, a thorough teaching of the Scriptures
and the doctrines of the Church will never be lost sight of. Knowing
that the school is in the hands of competent educators, we feel assured
that it will succeed and prosper. Your Committee recommend that the
44 Journal of Proceedings.
Dioceses of North Carolina and South Carolina endow St. Mary's School
with not less than $100,000 as quickly as possible, so that the school
may keep abreast with the progress of the times.
ARCHDEACOXS' REPORTS.
The reports of three Archdeacons show a steady and prosperous
Church growth in the three Convocations of the Diocese.
In the Convocation of Raleigh, by the report of Archdeacon Tolson it
is shown that during the past year the Missionary work in this Con-
vocation has been most successful, and this Committee recommend that
the Archdeacon should be freed from the care of a parish, as it is
impossible for a Missionary who has charge of a number of mission
stations to give his time and thought to parish work. He should be
free to advance the work of the Church at new points and in new
fields, as his Missionary work must necessarily be hindered and handi-
capped by Parochial work.
In the Convocation of Charlotte the Committee are glad to note
advance along all lines, as is shown by the report of Archdeacon
Osborne, the direct results of his commendable activity. Your Com-
mittee urge the support of the Archdeacon in all his new enterprises
looking to the advancement of the Church in his fields.
COLORED WORK.
The report of Archdeacon Pollard of work among the colored people
is very gratifying. It shows the sum of $3,525 raised exclusively by
the colored people — an increase of about 200 per cent in this respect.
The Mission Schools — ten, exclusive of St. Augustine's — have enrolled
974 pupils during the year, in which schools the Church's services are
held daily for eight months of the year, and thus the Church and her
teachings are brought to the knowledge of eight hundred families out-
side of the Church. The Sunday schools show an enrollment of 1,162
pupils.
The laying of the corner-stone of St. Agnes' Hospital in Raleigh, on
the morning of May 30th, 1906, marked an advance in the work of the
Church among the colored people in this Diocese.
HOSPITAL REPORTS.
St. Peter's Hospital in Charlotte shows the care of more patients for
the past year than any previous year. The institution is out of debt
and has a balance on hand, after the payment of all expenses, of
$144.08.
The report of the President of the Board of Managers shows that a
great work has been done.
The report of the Good Samaritan Hospital, for colored people, shows,
after the payment of all expenses, a balance of $57.52 on hand. The
colored people have shown great appreciation of this work, and your
Committee desire to commend the good efforts made by the Board of
Managers of both institutions.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 45
treasurer's report.
It is gratifying to note the improvement in the contributions as
reported by the Treasurer of the Diocese, and also to note the decrease
in the amount in arrears April 30th, 1906, as compared with last report
of unpaid assessments; but we still desire to impress upon the Clergy,
the several Parishes and Missions of the Diocese the canon which
requires the assessments to be paid quarterly, upon the dates named,
and we urge that all assessments in arrears be paid as soon as possible!
It is gratifying to the Committee to know that the stipends of all
Missionaries have been paid in full. Our Missionaries are faithful, con-
scientious and self-denying men, who labor uncomplainingly, while their
stipends are much too small; and only those who have tried to live and
provide for their families and supply themselves with the facilities for
doing the work committed to them know what hardships they have to
endure, and how they have to deny themselves under existing condi-
tions, with the increased price of living and other necessary demands
which are made upon them in this time of general prosperity in secular
affairs. We earnestly recommend that not less than $800 per annum
be provided and promptly paid to each Missionary in this Diocese. Out
of this amount we must remember that the necessarv traveling ex-
penses of these Missionaries must be paid, besides answering numerous
calls which are from time to time made upon every worker in the
Church.
THOMPSOX ORPHANAGE.
This institution continues to fill a most useful place in the work of
the Church in the State. It has received and deserves the generous
support and confidence of all charitable. Christian people.
ST. AUGUSTINE'S SCHOOL.
We commend the good work done by those in charge of St. Augus-
tine's School, and note with appreciation and gratitude the recent gift
toward an endowment placed at its command.
AUXILIARIES.
Your Committee gladly note the gratifying increase of $258.41 in the
contributions of the Woman's Auxiliary over the past year.
The report of the Babies' Branch shows a steady increase as to num-
ber and contributions.
Your Committee are very sorry to find that the Junior ±>ranch has
decreased in membership and also in contributions, and hope the mem-
bers will renew their activities and make an earnest effort to keep
abreast with the other departments of the Auxiliary.
We heartily commend the faithful efforts and splendid work of the
officers of the different Auxiliaries.
In view of the fact that the Sunday schools, by resolution of General
Convention, are recognized as auxiliary to the Board of Missions, it is
the sense of this Committee that a report should appear along with the
46 Journal of Proceedings.
report of other auxiliaries in the Journal of the Convention. There-
fore we offer the following resolutions:
1st. That it is advisable that a Sunday School Secretary be ap-
pointed to collect and report to the Convention statistics of Sunday
school membership and offerings, especially the Advent and Easter
offerings for Missionary purposes,
2d. That this resolution be referred to the Committee on Sunday
School Work. Johx London,
Chairman.
The Eev. Francis M. OsboTne read a letter from the local
assembly of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at Memphis,
Tennessee, inviting a large attendance at the meeting of the
K'ational Convention in that city in October next.
The Rev. J. L. Martin presented the following report of
the Committee on the Report of the Managers of Thompson
Orphanage :
It is with great pleasure that the Committee on the Report of the
Thompson Orphanage and Training Institution report that it is entirely
satisfactory, and they wish to congratulate the Superintendent and
Board of Managers upon the most admirable manner in which the
institution has been conducted during their administration, and espe-
cially during the past year.
And we desire to bring before this Convention one clause of this
report — i. e., the urgent need of a few of their wants, to-wit: "Some
of our immediate wants are a new slate roof on the chapel, and the re-
laying of the main sewer, each of which will cost about three hundred
dollars."
We therefore recommend and urge that this Convention raise three
hundred dollars before its close; but, should the Convention fail to raise
the three hundred dollars, then the Clergy bring the matter before
their respective congregations with a determination to raise the neces-
sary amount to supplement the amount, which may be raised by the
Convention, within the next thirty days; and that the Diocese of East
Carolina and the Missionary District of Asheville be requested to raise
$300, making in all $600, which amount is necessary to be able to have
these wants attended to, which are so necessary and important for both
the comfort and health of the little ones whom God has put in our care.
The Committee, in behalf of the Convention, wish to express their
sincere regrets at the absence of the Rev. W. J. Smith from this Con-
vention, and extend to him their greatest sympathy.
Respectfully submitted. J. E, Poindexter,
J, L. Martin,
D. Y. Cooper,
V. E. Turner,
Committee.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 47
Within a few minutes after the reading of this report,
$300 was subscribed upon the floor of the Convention to^
Avards the cost of the required improvements.
On motion of Mr. E. H. Battle, the following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of the Convention are tendered to the Rec-
tor and congregation of the Church of the Holy Innocents, and to the
citizens of Henderson generally, for their generous hospitality in the
entertainment of the members of the Convention and of the visitors in
attendance on its sessions, as also to the railroad authorities for the
allowance of special rates for the occasion, and to the telephone com-
pany for the free use of their lines.
On motion of Mr. S. S. A^ash, the next Annual Convention
was appointed to meet in Calvary Church, Tarboro, on the
15th day of May, 1907.
The Bishop read a letter from the Bishop of Asheville in
regard to the Xorth Carolina Children's Home Society, and,
on motion, the matter was referred to a Committee consisting
of the Rev. Messrs. E. A. Osborne and Mallinckrodt, and
Mr. Ernest Field, with instructions to report to the next
Convention.
The Eev. Edward L. Ogilby presented a memorial praving
for the reduction of the Parish of St. James, Iredell County,
to the status of an organized Mission in union with the Con-
vention; and on his motion it was referred to a special Com-
mittee which the Bishop appointed, as follows: The Rev.
E. L. Ogilby, the Rev. E. A. Osborne and Mr. John Wilkes
On motion of Mr. Chas. M. Busbee, from the Committee
on Finance, the arrears due from All Saints' Church, Con-
cord, were remitted, and the assessment was reduced from
fifty to forty dollars.
On motion of the Rev. S. S. Bost, it was
rvf T.'rl^''"' '""" '^'"^■' "' '^^ Convention be tendered to the
Charlotte Observer for the full and excellent reports, through its special
representative, of the proceedings of the Convention, as also for the free
distribution of copies among its members.
48 Journal of Proceedings.
On motion of the Treasurer of the Convention^ he was
authorized to pay the expenses of clergymen of the Diocese
attending the Convention but not entitled tx) seats in the
same.
On motion of the Rev. Dr. Marshall, the Secretary was
authorized to have printed 1,000 copies of the Journal of the
Convention.
The Secretary presented the following Report of the Di-
ocesan Trustee of the General Theological Seminary :
For the first time since I have had the honor of representing the
Diocese as Trustee of the General Theological Seminary in New York,
it was my pleasure and privilege to be present at the Commencement
Exercises in 1905, and at the same time attend the annual meeting of
the Board of Trustees. While there was no matter of great importance
brought before the Trustees, yet I want to say that I was very favor-
ably impressed with the exercises of the Commencement. The three
essays of the graduating class showed clear thought, well expressed,
and breathed a spirit of true Christian fellowship.
The Alumni essay and also the Baccalaureate sermon were of a high
order and full of practical suggestions. The present Dean, Dr. Rob-
bins, impressed me as being a man of deep learning and thorough con-
secration, with a genuine love for the Seminary and perfect loyalty to
the Church. A late move on his part is intended to provide for lecture-
ships which will bring the outside public into closer touch with the
Seminary. x\t the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees during the
Commencement of the present year, the Rev. C. C. Edmunds (Class of
'80 ) , Rector of Grace Church, Newark, was elected "Glorvina Russell
Hoffman," Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the New
Testament, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor
Beckwitli, and the Rev. C. N. Shepard, Adjunct Professor of the Litera-
ture and Interpretation of the Old Testament, was made Professor of
the Hebrew and Cognate Languages.
Respectfully submitted. W. J. Smith,
Trustee.
The Convention then took a recess.
Feiday, 3 :30 P. M.
The Convention having been called to order by the Bishop,
the Rev. Mr. Mallinckrodt presented the following report :
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 49
The Committee appointed to consider the Men's Thank Offering for
1907 beg leave to report that in their estimation this is a most com-
mendable object, meriting the full endorsement of this Convention, and
that the matter should be pressed home to the hearts of the people by
the laity of the Diocese, the Clergy giving their hearty co-operation.
Be it therefore
Resolved, That this Convention gives its hearty endorsement to the
Men's Thank Offering to be made at the General Convention which
meets in Richmond in 1907; and that the Clergy are urged to explain
fully this matter to their several congregations, and to give their cor-
dial support and co-operation to the Diocesan Committee appointed to
take charge of this efi'ort.
Respectfully submitted. Harris Mallinckrodt,
Chairman.
Mr. John Wilkes, from the Committee to Avhom was re-
ferred the petition of St. James' Parish, Iredell County,
presented a report and offered the following resolution, which
was adopted:
Resolved, That the petition of St. James* Parish, Iredell County, re-
questing a change of status in connection with the Convention from a
Parish to an Organized Mission in union with the Convention, be
granted, the facts presented to the Committee being sufficient in the
opinion of the Committee to authorize the change, and the Constitutional
provision (Article I, Section 4) having been waived by the Rector.
The Secretary read the following report of the Executive
Committee of the Diocesan Association of the Clergymen's
Retiring Fund Society :
Friends of the aged Clergy will be glad to learn that the funds of the
Clergpnen's Retiring Fund Society have at last passed the quarter
million mark, and that the increase of $15,000 within the past six
months gives promise of continued and rapid growth. There has been
a falling off in the number of congregations in the Diocese making pub-
lic offerings and a delay in the offerings of the Woman's Auxiliary;
but in spite of these facts, the sum of contributions is larger than ever
before, the amount being $585, while the annuities received by the Dio-
cese in November last amounted to $551.
At the time of the meeting of the Convention in this place seventeen
years ago the capital of the Fund was about $40,000, and there were
but four clergymen in the whole State who were members of the
Society. Since that time the only survivor of that number has seen the
Fund increased, as already stated, to more than $250,000, and the num-
ber of clerical members in the State to 70, of whom 31 remain in this
60 Journal of Proceedijigs.
Diocese, 9 in East Carolina, and 6 in the District of Asheville. The
rest are no longer clergymen of Xorth Carolina, twelve having died and
others having been transferred to other Dioceses or otherwise with-
drawn from our roll.
In view of the value of the work and the possibilities of still further
advantage as the Fund increases, it is warmly commended to the gen-
erous consideration of our people, and the Clergy are earnestly urged to
promote it by calling to it the attention of their congregations and ask-
ing for an annual public offering for its treasury.
Respectfully submitted. Jos. Blou^-t Cheshire,
Julian E. Ingle,
John London,
Sidney S. Bost,
Executive Committee of the Diocesan xissociation, C. R. F. S.
There being before the Convention no fnrther business, it
was, on motion,
Resolved, That after the reading of the Minutes and the conclusion
of Divine service at 8:30 o'clock this evening the Convention shall stand
adjourned.
The Convention then took a recess.
At 8 :30 o'clock, Evening Prayer was said by the Rev.
Messrs. R. B. Owens and Homer L. Hoover, a sermon was
delivered by the Rev. Francis ]\L Osborne on the Call to the
Ministry, the Bishop pronounced the Benediction, and the
Convention was declared adjourned sine die.
Jos. Blouxt Cheshike,
Bishop of North Carolina.
Attest :
JULIAX E. IXGLE,
Secretary of the Convention.
[A communication from the Joint Committee of the General Conven-
tion on Special Missionary Bishops, asking an expression of the opinion
of the Diocese in regard to a Memorial of the Annual Conference of
Church workers among the Colored people, having failed through inad-
vertence to be presented to the Convention, the Bishop has requested a
Committee consisting of the following persons to take the matter into
consideration and to report to the next Convention: The Eev. Messrs.
M. M. Marshall, D.D., Julian E. Ingle and S. Paxson Watt^rs; Mr. Kemp
P. Battle and Mr. John Wilkes — Secretary.]
APPENDIX A.
ADDRESS OF THE BISHOP.
Brethren of the Clergy and Laity :
We rejoice to meet again in Annual Council, to exchange
greetings of Christian love, and to confer together for the
furtherance of God's cause in the ^wrld.
We have just been observing a most interesting armiversary
of the Church in E^orth Carolina. The first recorded ad-
ministration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within
the limits of the State of Xorth Carolina was in Pasquotank
Coimty, on Trinity Sunday, in the year of our Loird one
thousand seven hundred and six, by the Reverend Rich-
ard Marsden, who was jDassing through that section on his
way to South Carolina. This service is mentioned in a letter
to Bishop Compton, of London, from Governor Glover, who
states that it was the first time that Sacrament had been
administered in that country so far as he could learn.
The Bishops of East Carolina and of Asheville united ^vith
me in calling the attention of all our isTorth Carolina Church-
men to this interesting anniversary, and in setting forth and
authorizing a special Prayer of Commemoration and Thanks-
giving to be used in all our congregations upon Trinity Sun-
day, just passed, the bicentenary of the service mentioned by
Governor Glover.
I take this occasion to say that in my judgment very great
injustice has been done to the memory of our Colonial clergy,
not only by writers whose religious opinions may be thought
to have excused some prejudice in the matter, but also by our
own. Church writers and historians. We know something
like forty names of clergymen who ministered in the Prov-
ince of Xorth Carolina before the Revolution. Some of them
had been sent out from England by the Society for the Prop-
agation of the Gospel, some seem to have come over of their
own motion, some went from l^orth Carolina, in order that
they might receive Holy Orders and return and labor in the
Province. They exercised their ministry under many and
great disadvantages. They enjoyed absolutely no supervis-
^9
Address of the Bishop.
ion or opportunities of receiving counsel or advice from any
superior. They were frequently unable to avoid being in-
volved in the bitter and violent personal and political con-
tentions of tlie times. They were much as we are; and
through the weakness of this mortal nature they did not al-
ways preserve the highest standards of character and of con-
duct. This is certainly true of some of them. But as far
as I have seen, I recall only two cases in which we are justi-
fied in saying that they were really unworthy men; while a
very considerable proportion of them maintained a high
standard of Christian and ministerial character, and by
their saintly virtues shone 'as lights in a dark place. There
have been in our later history no nobler or more heroic ex-
amples of Christian faith and patience than are furnished
by the annals of the Church in the Province of ]N"orth Caro-
lina. We shall do well, my dear brethren, if in our day of
greater advantages and of lesser perils and trials, we show
equal zeal and faithfulness in the service of our Master.
My services during the past year have been as follows:
May 15. Greensboro, St. Mary's Chapel: Confirmed two persons, and
made an address.
16. Charlotte, Mission of the Holy Comforter: Confirmed three
persons, and made an address.
17. The Eighty-ninth Annual Convention of the Diocese, held in
St. Peter's Church, Charlotte.
10 a. m. Called the Convention to order.
11 a. m. Opening service of the Convention; administered the
Holy Communion; presided at the business session, and so
throughout the continuance of the Convention.
8:30 p. m. Charlotte, Church of St. Michael and All Angels:
Confirmed six persons.
18. 6:30 a. m. St. Peter's Church: Administered the Holy Com-
munion.
19. 6:30 a. m. In St. Peter's Church: Administered the Holy
Communion.
19. 10 a. m. In St. John's Chapel: Opened the annual meeting
of the Diocesan Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary and
made an address.
8:30 p. m. Conducted the closing service of the Convention.
21. The Fourth Sunday after Easter, Raleigh: 11 a. m. Chapel
of St. Mary's School; officiated at the "Commencement
Sunday" service.
5 p. m. Chapel of St. Augustine's School: Made an address.
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May 22. Conferred with Bishops Burgess, Greer, and Lines, a Com-
mittee of the Board of Missions, and with them visited and
inspected St. Augustine's School, and made an address.
23. With the same Committee visited St. Mary's School.
12 m. Presided at the annual meeting of the Trustees of St.
Augustine's School.
24. 11 a. m. Presided at the annual Commencement of St. Au-
gustine's School, and made an address.
4 p. m. Presided at the annual meeting of the Trustees of
St. Mary's School,
25. 10:30 a. m. Presided at the annual Commencement of St.
Mary's School.
11 a. m. In the Chapel of St. Mary's School: Conducted
closing service of the School, and made an address to the
graduating class.
28. The Fifth Sunday after Easter, Burlington, St. Athanasius'
Church .
10 a. m. Visited and addressed the Sunday School.
11 a. m. Preached, confirmed eleven persons, and made an
address.
June 15. Henderson, Church of the Holy Innocents: Officiated at a
marriage.
17. Examined candidates for Priest's Orders.
18. Trixity Sunday, Raleigh.
11 a. m. Christ Church: Ordained two Deacons to the Priest-
hood; preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
July 3. Burlington: Had conference with the Rector, the Wardens,
and the Vestry of St. Athanasius' Church; who submitted
certain questions to me for settlement, and who subse-
quently conformed promptly and loyally to my judgment in
the matters in question.
6. In the new town of Duke, Harnett County, I said Evening
Prayer, and preached.
9. The Third Sunday after Trinity: 11 a. m. Wei don, Grace
Church. There being no minister in this parish, I said
Morning Prayer, confirmed one person, preached, and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
8:15 p. m. Roanoke Rapids, All Saints' Chapel: Preached
and confirmed one person.
13. Raleigh, Christ Church: Officiated at the funeral of the wife
of the Rector of the Parish.
16. The Fourth Sunday after Trinity, Raleigh.
11 a. m. Christ Church, preached.
22. Examined a candidate for Deacon's Orders.
23. The Fifth Sunday after Trinity, Raleigh.
54 Address of the Bishop.
July 23. 8 a. m. In Christ Churcli: Administered the Holy Commu-
nion; and in the same church at
2:30 p. m. Officiated at a funeral, and at
6 p. m. Said Evening Prayer.
11 a. m. In the Church of the Good Shepherd: Confirmed
one person, ordained a Deacon, and administered the Holy
Communion.
24. Examined a candidate for Priest's Orders.
25. 8t, James' Day, Raleigh: In St. Ambrose' Church, ordained a
Deacon to the Priesthood, and administered the Holy Com-
munion.
30. The Sixth Sunday after Trinity, Raleigh.
8 a. m. In Christ Church: Administered the Holy Commu-
nion; in the same church at
11 a. m. Said the appointed services and preached, and at
6 p. m. Said Evening Prayer.
Aug. 6. The Seventh Sunday after Trinity, Raleigh.
10 a. m. In the Church of the Good Shepherd: Officiated at
a funeral.
11 a. m. In Christ Church: Said the appointed service,
preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
6 p. m. Christ Church: Said Evening Prayer.
8. Union County, St. Timothy's Church: Preached, and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion.
12. Cleveland, Christ Church: Preached, and administered the
Holy Communion.
13. The Eighth Sunday after Trinity, Salisbury.
11 a. m. St. Luke's Church: Ordained two Deacons, and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
8 p. m. St. Paul's Church (Chestnut Hill): Confirmed four
persons.
15. Statesville, Trinity Church, preached.
16. 11 a. m. Iredell County, St. James' Church: Confirmed one
person, preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
8 p. m. Mecklenburg County, St. Mark's Church: Officiated
at Evening Prayer.
17. In the same church, officiated morning and evening.
18. In the same church, attended meeting of the Mecklenburg Con-
vocational District, administered the Holy Communion at
11 a. m., and conducted the evening service.
19. In the same church, confirmed three persons, preached, and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
20. The Ninth Sunday after Trinity, Charlotte.
11 a. m. Church of St. Michael and All Angels: Ordained a
Deacon, and administered the Holy Communion.
8 p. m. Chapel of Hope: preached.
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Aug. 22. Raleigh, Christ Church: Confirmed one person.
24. St. Bartholomew's Day, Louisburg: Annual meeting of the
Colored Convocation, in St. Matthias' Church.
11 a. m. Administered the Holy Communion, and presided at
the business sessions of the Convocation.
4 p. m. Read an address to the Convocation.
25. x\ttended the morning and afternoon sessions of the Convoca-
tion.
8 p. m. Conducted the closing service; made an address, and
confirmed two persons.
27. The Tenth Sunday after Trinity.
11 a. m. Easter, St. Paul's Church: Preached and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion.
4 p. m. Satterwhite, St. Simeon's Church: Preached, and
confirmed five persons.
30. Person County, Cunningham's Chapel: Confirmed three per-
sons, preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
8 p. m. Milton, Christ Church, preached.
Sept. 1. At Spray had an open air service, and made an address,
8:15 p. m. Leaksville, Church of the Epiphany: Preached
and confirmed two persons.
3. The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.
11 a. m. Leaksville, Church of the Epiphany: Preached, and
administered the Holy Communion.
8:30 p. m. Reidsville, St. Thomas' Church; preached.
8. Warrenton: In the Chapel of All Saints'- Mission had a con-
ference with the congregation upon matters of importance
to the mission.
10. The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, Wilson, St. Timothy's
Church: Confirmed four persons, preached, and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion. Had a conference with the
Vestry.
17. The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity, Raleigh.
11 a. m. Christ Church; preached.
6 p. m. Church of the Good Shepherd; said Evening Prayer.
21. Opening of St. Mary's School; made an address in the Chapel,
and presided at the service.
Oct. 3. ]\Ieeting of the Executive Committee of St. Mary's School.
8. The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, Raleigh.
11 a. m. Chapel of St. Mary's School; preached.
9. High Point, St. Mary's Church: Preached, and confirmed
eight persons.
10. Meeting of Convocation of Charlotte, in St, Andrew's Church,
Greensboro.
10:30 a. m. Opening service: I administered the Holy Com-
munion. I attended the afternoon session, and at
56 Address of the Bishop.
Oct. 10. 8 p. m. Officiated at the evening service, and confirmed one
person.
11. In the same church, officiated morning and evening, and made
an address.
15. The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, Burlington.
11 a. m. St. Athanasius Church: Instituted the Rev. Milton
A. Barber as Rector of the Parish, preached, and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. Officiated in tlie same church.
21. Battleboro, St. John's Church: Preached, and confirmed four
persons.
22. The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity.
11 a. m. Rocky Mount Church of the Good Shepherd: Con-
firmed two persons, preached, and administered the Holy
Communion.
7:30 p. m. Enfield Church of the Advent; preached.
24. Wilson, St. Timothy's Church: Meeting of the Convocation
of Raleigh.
10:30 a. m. At the opening service I administered the Holy
Communion. Presided in the afternoon at the business
meeting of the Convocation.
7:30 p. m. Officiated at the evening service.
25. In the same church.
7:30 a. m. Administered the Holy Communion.
10:30 a. m. Officiated at the service, and at
3 p. m. I baptized an infant.
3:30 p. m. Presided at the business meeting.
7:30 p. m. Conducted the closing service.
27. St. Mary's Chapel, Edgecombe County, preached.
28. St. Simon's and Saint dude's Day, Lawrence, Grace Memorial
Chapel: Preached, and confirmed one person, and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion.
29. The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, Scotland Neck, Trinity
Church.
11 a. m. Confirmed two persons, and administered the Holy
Communion.
7:30 p. m. In the same church: Preached. Had a conference
with the men of the congregation upon missionary work.
31. Ringwood, St. Clement's Church: Said Morning Prayer,
preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
Nov. 1. All Saints' Day: Oxford, St. Stephen's Church: Preached,
and confirmed seven persons. Had a conference with the
Vestry.
2. Jackson, Church of the Saviour: Preached.
5. The Ticentieth Sunday after Trinity.
11 a. m. Jackson, Church of the Saviour. Preached and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
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Nov. 5. 7:30 p. m. Weldon, Grace Church: Preached.
12. The Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity, Hillsboro.
11 a. m. St. Matthew's Church; preached and administered
the Holy Communion.
4 p. m. Officiated at Evening Prayer.
15. Gaston.
10:30 a. m. Officiated at a marriage.
11 a. m. St. Luke's Church; preached, and administered the
Holy Communion.
16. Littleton, St. Anna's Chapel; preached.
17. Littleton, St. Alban's Church; preached, and confirmed three
persons.
19. The Ticenty-second Sunday after Trinity: Warrenton, 11 a. m.
Emmanuel Church; confirmed two persons, preached, and
administered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. All Saints' Chapel; preached, confirmed one per-
son; also made an address to the congregation.
20. Warren County, St. Luke's Mission; preached, and confirmed
two persons.
21. Ridgeway, Church of the Good Shepherd; preached, and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
22. Middleburg, Church of the Heavenly Rest; preached, and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
23. Williamsboro, St. John's Church; preached, and administered
the Holy Communion.
26. The Sunday next before Advent, Stovall, St. Peter's Church:
Preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
30. St. Andrew's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Raleigh, Church of the
Good Shepherd; preached.
Dec. 3. The First Sunday in Advent, Raleigh, Christ Church; preached,
and administered the Holy Communion.
6. In the same church, officiated at a marriage.
8. Meeting of Board of Trustees of St. Mary's School.
10. The Second Sunday in Advent, Pittsboro.
11 a. m. St. Bartholomew's Church; preached, and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. St. James' Church; preached, and confirmed three
persons.
12. Winston, St. Paul's Church; preached, and confirmed five per-
sons.
13. Sanford, St. Thomas' Church; preached.
17. The Third Sunday in Advent:
11 a. m. Laurinburg, St. David's Church: Consecrated the
church; preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
8 p. m. At Hamlet: preached in a public hall.
58 Address of the Bishop.
Dec. 24. The Fourth Sunday in Advent, Raleigh: Officiated at the
Church of the Good Shepherd.
25. Christmas Day. In the same church, preached, and adminis-
tered the Holy Communion.
1906.
Jan. 1. The Circumcision of Christ, Raleigh, Church of the Good Shep-
herd; administered the Holy Communion.
3. Meeting of Executive Committee of St. Mary's School, in con-
ference with architect.
6. The Epiphany: Chapel of St. Mary's School; preached.
7. The First Sunday after the Epiphany, Greensboro, St. Barna-
bas' Church.
11 a. m. Administered the Holy Communion.
12 m. In the same church, officiated at the funeral of the wife
of the Rector of the Parish.
10. Meeting of Committee on Men's Thank Offering for 1907.
12. Administered the Holy Communion in private to two aged and
sick persons in Edgecombe County.
13. Conferred with Wardens of St. Timothy's Church, Wilson.
14. The Second Sunday after the Epiphany.
11 a. m. Wilson, St. Timothy's Church: Said the appointed
service, preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. Raleigh, Church of the Good Shepherd; preached.
20. Raleigh, Christ Church; officiated at a funeral.
21. The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Durham.
11 a. m. St. Philip's Church: Confirmed nineteen persons,
preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
4 p. m. East Durham, St. Andrew's Chapel; preached, and
confirmed one person.
7:30 p. m. West Durham, in a public hall; I preached.
22. Lexington, Grace Church; preached.
25. The Conversion of St. Paul. At the residence of Mrs. Hairston,
Cooleemee Plantations, Davie County, 7:45 a. m., adminis-
tered the Holy Communion. At 11 a. m. preached to a con-
gregation assembled in the hall, and confirmed one person.
26. Thomasville: In a private house confirmed five persons.
28. The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Greensboro.
11 a. m, St. Barnabas' Church; said the appointed service,
preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
3:30 p. m. St. Andrew's Church: Meeting of Men's Mission-
ary League; made an address.
7:30 p. m. In same church, preached, and confirmed five
persons.
Feb. 1. Meeting of Executive Committee of St. Mary's School.
4. The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany.
11 a. m. In a public hall in Pinehurst; preached, and admin-
istered the Holy Communion.
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Feb. 4. 3:30 p. m. Southern Pines, Emmanuel Church; preached.
5 p. m. Administered the Holy Communion in private to a
sick person.
9. Southern Pines, Emmanuel Church: Officiated at the funeral
of the wife of the Priest in charge.
11. Septuagesima, Oxford.
11 a. m. St. Stephen's Church; preached, and administered the
Holy Communion. In the same church at
7:30 p. m., preached, and confirmed seven persons.
3:30 p. m. In St. Cyprian's Chapel, confirmed six persons,
and made an address.
12. Henderson, Church of the Holy Innocents; preached, and con-
firmed one person.
16. Kittrell, St. James' Church: Baptized an infant, preached,
and administered the Holy Communion.
18. Sexagesima. Louisburg, St. Paul's Church:
11 a. m. Confirmed three persons, preached, and administered
the Holy Communion.
4:30 p. m. After Evening Prayer, I preached.
25. Quinguagesima. Chapel Hill, Chapel of the Cross.
11 a. m. Preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. After Evening Prayer, I preached.
Mar. 1. 11 a. m. Meeting of Trustees of St. Augustine's School.
7:30 p. m. Burlington, St. Athanasius' Church; preached,
confirmed seven persons, and made an address.
4. The First Sunday in Lent.
11 a. m. Lexington, Grace Church. Said the appointed ser-
vice, preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. Concord, All Saints' Church; preached, and con-
firmed two persons.
6. Cleveland, Christ Church: Confirmed seven persons, made an
address, preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
7. Woodleaf, St. George's Chapel; preached, and administered the
Holy Communion.
8. Cooleemee Mills, Church of the Good Shepherd; preached.
10. Mount Airy, Trinity Church: Made an address.
11. The Second Sunday in Lent. Mount Airy.
11 a. m. Confirmed two persons, preached, and administered
the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. After Evening Prayer, I preached.
12. Elkin, Galloway Memorial Chapel; preached.
14. Germanton, St. Philip's Church; preached.
15. Stoneville, Emmanuel Church; officiated at Evening Prayer.
16. In the same church, confirmed one person, preached, and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
17. Knollhurst Chapel; preached, and administered the Holy Com-
60 Address of the Bishop.
Mar. 18. The Third Sunday in Lent.
11 a. m. Walnut Cove, Christ Church; preached, and admin-
istered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. Mayodan, Church of the Messiah; preached, and
confirmed eight persons.
25. The Fourth Sunday in Lent. The Feast of the Annunciation.
11 a. m. Smithfield: Confirmed four persons, preached, and
administered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. Wilson, St. Mark's Church; preached, and con-
firmed four persons.
27. Meeting of Executive Committee of St. Mary's School.
April 1. The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Ealeigh.
11 a. m. Christ Church; confirmed seventeen persons, preached,
and administered the Holy Communion.
7:30 p. m. Chapel of St. Augustine's School; preached, con-
firmed seventeen persons, and made an address.
3. Raleigh, Church of the Good Shepherd; oflBciated at a funeral.
4. Raleigh, St. Saviour's Chapel; preached, confirmed one person,
and made an address.
8. Pahn Sunday, Raleigh.
11 a. m. Chapel of St. Mary's School; confirmed six persons,
made an address, preached, and administered the Holy Com-
munion.
8 p. m. Church of the Good Shepherd; preached, confirmed
twenty-seven persons, and made an address.
10. ]\Ieeting of Executive Committee of St. Mary's School.
11. Wednesday before Easter, Raleigh: St. Ambrose Church;
preached, and confirmed three persons.
12. Thursday before Easter: Roanoke Rapids, Chapel of All
Saints; after Evening Prayer, I preached.
13. Good Fkiday.
11 a. m. Weldon, Grace Church; preached.
8 p. m. Enfield, Church of the Advent; I baptized an adult,
confirmed nine persons, and made an address.
14. Easter Even, Halifax, St. Mark's Church; preached, and ad-
ministered the Holy Communion.
15. Easter Day, Tarborough.
11 a. m. Calvary Church: Confirmed thirteen persons, made
an address, preached, and administered the Holy Commu-
nion.
3:30 p. m. In the same church, at the Sunday School service,
I made an address.
8 p. m. St. Luke's Church; preached, confirmed seven per-
sons, and made an address.
16. Duke, St. Stephen's Church; preached, confirmed six persons,
and made an address.
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April 18. Tarborough, Calvary Church; officiated at a marriage.
21. Rockingham, Church of the Messiah; preached.
22. The First Sunday after Easter.
11 a. m. Wadesboro, Calvary Church: Said the appointed ser-
vice, confirmed five persons, preached, and administered the
Holy Communion.
8 p. m. Ansonville, All Souls' Church; preached, and con-
firmed two persons.
23. Conference with vestry of Calvary Church, Wadesboro.
24. Monroe, St. Paul's Church; preached, confirmed five persons,
and made an address.
25. St. Mark's Day, Charlotte, Church of St. Michael and All
Angels; confirmed six persons, and made an address.
26. Charlotte, Chapel of Hope; confirmed ten persons, and made
an address.
27. Charlotte. Annual meeting of Board of Managers of the
Thompson Orphanage.
11 a. m. Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin: Confirmed fourteen
persons, and made an address; administered the Holy Com-
munion.
28. Charlotte, Mission of the Holy Comforter (Dilworth) ; con-
firmed five persons, and made an address.
29. The Second Sunday after Easter, Charlotte.
11 a. m. St. Peter's Church: Confirmed forty-seven persons,
preached, and administered the Holy Communion.
5:30 p. m. Confirmed a sick man in private, belonging to the
same parish.
4:30 p. m. St. Martin's Chapel; confirmed three persons, and
made an address.
8 p. m. St. Andrew's Chapel (Seversville) ; preached, and con-
firmed two persons.
30. Salisbury, St. Luke's Church; preached, and confirmed twelve
persons.
During the year covered by this report I have within the Diocese
officiated at one hundred and eighty-one services, administered the Holy
Communion sixty-six times, preached one hundred and ten sermons,
made thirty-six addresses and confirmed three hundred and ninety-three
persons; have baptized two infants and one adult, and have officiated at
four marriages and at seven funerals. I have consecrated one Church,
ordained four Deacons, and advanced three Deacons to the Priesthood.
Beyond the bounds of the Diocese I have officiated but seldom, ex-
cepting for ten days during the month of June, when I visited a number
of country parishes in Charles and St. Mary's Counties, in the Diocese of
Washington, at the request of Bishop Satterlee, who was sick and
absent from home. Beyond the Diocese I officiated at ten services, ad-
62 Address of tlie Bishop.
ministered the Holy Commmiion four times, preached eight times, and
made three addresses. Also baptized one infant, and officiated at one
marriage. In the Diocese of Washington I confirmed forty-one persons.
A summary of the whole, within and without, gives one hundred and
ninety-one services, one hundred and eighteen sermons, thirty-nine ad-
dresses, four hundred and thirty-four Confirmations, and seventy cele-
brations of the Holy Communion.
August 6th I organized a Mission under the Canons of the Diocese in
the town of Duke, Harnett County, by the name of St. Stephen's
Church; and appointed as officers of the Mission, Richard F. J. John-
son to be Warden, Thomas H. Webb, Clerk, and Edward P. Davis,
Treasurer.
The Third Sunday in xldvent, December ITtli, I consecrated "St.
David's Church," Laurinburg. This church, with lot on which it
stands, is the gift to the Church of a godly layman, Mr. Mark Morgan,
of Laurel Hill. The Petition for Consecration was read by the Rev.
James Luther Martin, and the Sentence of Consecration by the Rev.
A. B. Hunter. The Rev. Walter J. Smith also assisted in the services.
I preached the sermon. The unavoidable absence of Archdeacon Os-
borne, whose faithful labors in this section had much to do with inspir-
ing the generous act of Mr. Morgan, w^as much regretted.
TRirsiTY Sunday, June 18th, in Christ Church, Raleigh, 1 advanced
to the holy order of Priesthood the Rev. Alfred Rives Berkeley, and the
Rev. James Luther Martin, Deacons. The Candidates were presented
by the Rev. Dr. Marshall. I preached the sermon. Archdeacon Os-
borne, the Rev. Dr. Marshall, and the Rev. Dr. Pittenger joined with
me in the Imposition of Hands.
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity, July 23d, in the Church of the
Good Shepherd, Raleigh, I ordained to the Diaconate Samuel Merrill
Hanff. The Candidate was presented by the Rev. Dr. Pittenger, in
whose parish he had grown up. The sermon was preached by the Rev.
Herman Baldwin Dean, Rector of St. Barnabas' Church, Greensboro.
The Rev. McNeely DuBose and the Rev. James D. Simmons also assisted
in the services.
St. James' Day, July 25th, in St. Ambrose Church, Raleigh, I ad-
vanced to the Holy Order of Priesthood the Rev. Charles Henry Male,
a colored Deacon. The Candidate was presented by the Rev. James E.
King; the sermon was preached by Archdeacon Pollard. The above
named Priests, together with the Rev. McNeely DuBose, the Rev. H.
Baldwin Dean, the Rev. Henry B. Delany, and also the Rev. Montra-
ville Spatches, a colored Priest of Southern Florida, united with me in
the Imposition of Hands.
The Eighth Sunday after Trinity, August 13th, in St. Luke's Church,
Salisbury, I ordained to the Diaconate Francis Wellington Ross Arthurs
and Homer Leach Hoover. The Candidates were presented by the Rev.
Dr. Murdoch, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Sidney S. Bost.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 68
The Rev. Robert Bruce Owens and the Rev. Locke W. Blaekwelder, also
assisted in the services.
The Ninth Sunday after Trinitij, August 20th, in the Church of St.
Michael and All Angels, Charlotte, I ordained to the Diaconate a young-
colored man, Robert Nathaniel Perry, of that parish. The Candidate
was presented by the Rev. Primus P. Alston; the sermon was preached
by the Rev. Henry B. Delany. Archdeacon Pollard, the Rev. Walter J.
Smith, the Rev. Eugene L. Plenderson, of Connecticut, and the Rev.
John R. Logan, of Asheville, assisted in the services.
September ITtli, 1905, in Christ Church, Raleigh, in the presence of
the Rev. Dr. Marshall and the Rev. McXeely DuBose, I deposed from
the Ministry Gaston Battle, Deacon, at his own request, and for causes
not affecting his moral character. *
I have given letters dismissory to
The Rev. Cary Gamble, September 11, 1905, to the Diocese of Virginia.
The Rev. Horace Thornburgh Owen, March 1, 1906, to the dFoccsc
of Xew Jersey.
We have gained during the year:
Rev. Samuel Merrill Hanff, ordered Deacon July 23.
Rev. Francis W. R. Arthurs ordered Deacon August 13.
Rev. Homer Leach Hoover, ordered Deacon August 13.
Rev. Robert Nathaniel Perry, ordered Deacon August 20.
Rev. :\Iilton Augustus Barber. Priest from Western Texas, October
24, 1905.
Rev. William Walker, Priest, from Vermont, November 29, 1905.
Rev. Thaddeus A. Cheatham, Priest, from Texas, March 23, 1906.
We have thus lost three and gained seven, our net gain being four,
which gives us upon our Clergy list at date of May 1 one Bishop, forty-
five Priests and twelve Deacons, a total of fifty-eight. I am sorry to
have to add, however, that of these, four Priests are retired from active
service on account of age and bodily infirmity, and two of the Deacons
are engaged only in secular work; so that our actual working number
is one Bishop, forty-one Priests, and ten Deacons, an active force of
fifty-two.
The work of the Clergy remains as at our last Convention except as
noted hereinafter.
The Rev. Samuel M. Hanff is serving very acceptably the missions at
Smithfield and at Duke. At the latter place a very commodious and
attractive church has been built and is now almost or quite ready for
consecration. Both missions are giving promise of growth and develop-
ment, and if the labors of our Missionary can be continued here for a
year or two w^ithout interruption, we may hope to see foundations laid
for great usefulness in the future.
The Rev. Francis W. R. Arthurs has since his ordination been re-
siding at Ansonville, having charge of All Souls' Church, and giving
one Sunday each month to St. Timothy's Mission, Union Countv.
64 Address of the Bishop.
The Rev. Homer Leach Hoover I placed at Enfield. He gives one
Sunday each month to Halifax and one to St. Clement's Church, Ring-
wood.
The Rev. Robt. N. Perry is serving St. Mark's Chapel, the colored
Mission at Wilson, where he teaches the mission school, in addition to
his work in the Chapel.
The four Deacons are under the direction of their respective Archdea-
cons, Mr. Arthurs under Archdeacon Osborne, Mr. Hanfi' and Mr. Hoover
under Archdeacon Tolson, and Mr. Perry under Archdeacon Pollard.
The Rev. Francis Joyner a year ago resigned the work of Archdeacon
of Raleigh, but at my request continued his services until November
1, 1905, at which time the Rev. George M. Tolson succeeded him. At
my suggestion Archdeacon Tolson resigned his charge at Oxford and
removed to Weldon, accepting the rectorship of Grace Church, which he
serves in connection with his wider duties to the Convocation.
The Rev. Francis Joyner, having resigned the work as Archdeacon,
and also the church at Ridgeway, has accepted, in connection with his
other missionary work, the charge of the Church of the Saviour,
Jackson.
The Rev. Cary Gamble has been succeeded as Rector of St. Timothy's
Church, Wilson, by the Rev. Thaddeus A. Cheatham, whom we are glad
to welcome back from the Diocese of Texas.
The Rev. James D. Simmons, having resigned the rectorship of St.
Athanasius', Burlington, last August, became Rector of St. Bartholo-
mew's Pittsboro, in September; and I have also put under his charge
the mission of St. Thomas, Sanford.
The Rev. Milton A. Barber, transferred to us from the Diocese of
West Texas, was instituted as Rector of St. Athanasius", Burlington,
the loth of October. We are glad to get back our young men from
those distant fields of Texas, and to see their energies devoted to the
work in our old Diocese.
We are also no less grateful for the presence of another of our
brethren, long identified with the Church in North Carolina, the Rev.
William Walker, formerly an Archdeacon of this Diocese, and now in
charge of the Mission at Mt. Airy, Germanton, and Elkin.
The Rev. Thos. L. Trott has been removed from the Churches in
Rowan and Davie counties, after his most faithful service there, and
has been placed at Durham, to do most important missionary work at
that point, under the direction of the Rev. Sidney S. Bost. He retains,
however, the charge of Ascension Mission, Davie County, giving that
work one Sunday in each quarter.
The Rev. Simeon J. M. Brown, under Archdeacon Osborne, is serving
Christ Church, Cleveland, St. George's, Woodleaf, and the Good Shep-
herd, Cooleemee, while the Rev. Locke W. Blackwelder, under the Rev.
Dr. Murdoch, is supplying Mr. Brown's congregations in Salisbury.
The numerous ordinations during the past year have all but ex-
Diocese of North Carolina^ 1906. 65
hausted the list of our Candidates for Orders. May 1 we had only two
left on the list, Richard Roscoe Phelps and William Eanes, and the
former of these has since that date been ordained to the Diaconate.
Our Postulants are only three, George C. Pollard, Morrison E. Bethea,
and Foster Nugent Cox.
In this connectioiL, I would again remind our brethren of
the Clergy that there seems to be a too prevalent neglect of
the proper observance of the Ember seasons, the very purpose
of which is to supply this need of a faithful and efficient
ministry. In my judgment, and as your Bishop I believe
you will feel that my judgment in suoh a matter should
weigh with you, — in my judgment, it is not a sufficient per-
foi-mance of our duty to read the appointed prayers on the
Sundays preceding the Ember Days, and upon such of those
days as may happen to coiucide with a regular week-day ser-
vice ; though I can affirm of my own knowledge and observa-
tion that even this meager observance is often omitted. The
Prayer Book appoints these days, and such an appointment
imposes upon us the obligation of observing them. If we
caimot observe them publicly, though certainly most of us
can observe them publicly, we must at least observe them
personally and in our families and teach oiir people to do so.
The Prayer Book requires the Clergy each Sunday to '^de-
clare unto the people what Holy-days or Easting-days are in
the week following to be observed.'' Thus it is provided
that where circumstances may not allow of public services
on such days the people may be at least reminded of their
duty. The importance of such public notice and warning,
given to the people, is specially great in connection with
these days when we call upon God to send out laborers into
His vineyard. Calling upon God in a matter of such vital
concern to His Church, the people may be thereby reminded
of their own responsibility, and be made to feel that the
answer to their prayer can only come through the operation
of God's good Spirit in their hearts quickening in them the
love of His service, making them responsive to the necessities
of His Church, so that to the call for laborers they may reply,
'*Here am I: send me." I have more than once called your
attention to this subject. Let me pray you, my dear breth-
ren of the Clergy, to ask yourselves seriously whether you
are coming up to the full measure of vour duty to God and
to God's people in this matter of supplying this crying need.
66 Address of the BisJiop.
The same neglect of the Rogation Days prevails too com-
monly thronghont the Diocese. We are so largely an agri-
cnltural people that these days of special prayer for God's
blessing npon the labors of the husbandman should appeal
strongly to our people. I trust we may have a revival in the
observance of these days.
DIOCESxVX MISSIONS.
In these annual addresses to the Convention, I have usually
dwelt at some length upon the missionaiy work of the Diocese.
It is at present not less interesting or important than hereto-
fore, but within the past two years, it has come to be less
closely related to the business of this Convention. We never
had to give the work proper consideration, and I think we
have done wisely in dividing it out to the three Convocations,
under the respective Archdeacons. I believe their reports,
with the reports of the treasurers of the Convocations, will
show that we raise much, more money than we did under the
old arrangement and that it has been brought somewhat
closer to the minds and hearts of the people. Indeed, at
present, we find more difficulty in supplying the men to do
the work than in raising the money for their support. Ac-
cording to the best information at this moment at hand, we
have during the past year raised for Diocesan Missions,
including the amount used for that purpose from my collec-
tions, the sum of thirty-nine hundred dollars, a considerably
larger amount than any I remember to have been raised be-
fore for the same purpose in the Diocese as at present con-
stituted.
But there remains much still to be desired in the direction
of increased interest and liberality in the support of this
very important branch of the work. I prefer to retain the
name, ^'Diocesan Missions," for it is only a change in the
method of the work, not in its character. Our clergy should
take more pains to interest the laity in the work, and to secure
an attendance of the laity at the principal meetings of the
Convocations one each year, where appropriations are made
and means provided. !N"either the Clergy nor the laity have
fully realized the importance of these annual meetings of the
Convocations. When they shall have done so, we shall see
new life and greater success in our missionary work.
Let me a2:ain call the attention of these Convocations to
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the scheme proposed some years ago — but not put into opera-
tion — of asking offerings in all the Sunday schools during
the season of Advent for our Diocesan Missions. I commend
this matter to the Archdeacons of the several Convocations.
Perhaps a resolution of this Convention endorsing this recom-
mendation would help the Archdeacons and the Convocations
in enlisting the co-operation of the people.
In connection with this subject of Diocesan Missions there
will be submitted to the Convention reports from the Com-
mittees appointed a year ago to consider some method of
securing the greater interest of our laymen in this work and
their more effective co-operation. I ask the earnest attention
of the Convention to these reports.
Perhaps there can bc' no better place than this to speak of
the general duty of tli© Church to her Clergy. We hear and
see on all sides that this is an era of unexampled wealth and
prosperity throughout the country. The material and finan-
cial improvement is visible on all sides. I ask you, my
brethren of the laity, if you have been careful to see that
your faithful pastors have partaken of the general prosperity
and good fortune which have come to you. Along with this
general prosperity has gone its inevitable accompaniment,
an increase in the price of commodities. Unless you do see
that with the rise in the price of the necessaries of life, your
pastors receive an increase of income, then your prosperity
brings loss and suffering to those whom the Apostle exhorts
you to esteem veiy highly in love for their work's sake. Let
me ask you to think of these things. I can see many evi-
dences of your increasing wealth. I enjoy your gracious
hospitality, and have my part in your welfare and rejoice
with you. Let me see in the reports of our faithful Clergy
that you make them sharers of your joy and partakers of the
good things which Grod has sent so abundantly to many of
you.
THE MEX'S THAISi^K OFFEKING OF 1907.
Acting upon the request of the Board of Missions, which
has my most liearty approval, I ask your attention to this
important matter. I have appointed a. Committee of men
to co-operate with like Committees in all the Dioceses in
promoting the plan for a great Thank Offering to be presented
at the General Convention of 1907 at Kichmond, from all
68 Address of the Bislioih
tlie men of the Church, to express our sense of the blessings
we have enjoyed in three centuries of Christian civiliza-
tion. This Committee will doubtless bring the subject prom-
inently before this Convention.
AN OFFERING FOR SJfN FRANCISCO.
I am sure all must have felt a dee2> sympathy for our breth-
ren of San Francisco in the awful calamity Avhich has so
re<2ently befallen them. There were reasons why I thought
it best not to make any appeal to the Diocese upon the first
announcement. Eelief poured in to their aid from all sides,
and without doubt our own peojDle gave liberally through
those open channels of general sympathy and helpfulness.
But I believe we all feel that as a Diocese we should make
some special manifestation of our love for our brethren in
this their time of need. I suggest that the Convention ap-
point some Sunday on which they shall ask that a collection
be taken in every Church (where this has not already been
done) for the Churches of San Erancisco; the proceeds of
such collections to be sent through the Board of Missions to
the Bishop of California, to be used at his discretion.
ST. mart's school.
I can most heartily and unreservedly congratulate the
Convention and the Diocese upon the condition of St. Mary's
School. We have for years been under such a stress of feel-
ing and effort in regard to this institution, that it is hard to
realize that the situation which produced that stress has
completely ceased. The goal of our desires was to see that
valued property of the Church freed from debt. That goal
has been reached. The purchase-money has been paid in
full. There is practically no debt whatever resting upon
the property. One of the mortgage notes for the sum of five
thousand dollars remains uncancelled, being held in trust by
the President of the Board of Trustees to secure the princi-
pal of the David R. Murchison Scholarship. This, however,
does not constitute a debt in the ordinary sense of the word,
since it is not demandable, so long as the school stands ready
to afl^ord the opportunities and privileges designated to the
beneficiary of the Scholarship.
This work, which lias been accomplished during the last
nine years, is little short of amazing in its proportions when
Diocese of North Carolina], 1906. 69
we remember our situation at its beginning. In purchase-
money, exclusive of interest, in additional buildings, in per-
manent improvements to existing buildings, in adding to the
equipment of the School, a total of sometliing like seventy-
five thousand dollars has been expended. Add to this the
thirteen thousand five hundred dollars in hand for the erec-
tion of the Auditorium, and the establishment of the Eliza
Battle Pittman Memorial Scholarships, and we closely ap-
proximate the sum of ninety thousand dollars! I believe
that no man in the Convention of 1897, which endorsed the
proposition of the Trustees for the purchase of St. Mary's at
the price of fifty thousand dollars, would have believed such
a result to be within the limits of possibility.
This was made possible in the first instance by the courage
and generosity of the Diocese of ^orth Carolina. More than
half the cash payment of ten thousand dollars, required to
secure the property in the first instance, and in the aggregate
no less than the sum of $10,135.63, w^as paid out of the
treasury of this Convention towards the $50,000 purchase-
money ; and a large proportion of personal subscriptions and
donations came from the lay men and women of the Diocese.
And we have our reward in seeing this noble institution
secured to the Church, to remain through all generations, as
we trust, a school of Christian nurture for our daughters,
and an unfailing source of supply to the life of the Church.
And what has been done should be only an incentive to doing
better still. We should only raise our hopes and our projects
for the extension and development of this most important
work. If I say no more in this place, it is only because in
the report of the Trustees of St. Mary's School, already
before this Convention, I have set forth my hopes, and ven-
tured to submit some suggestions upon this most important
and interesting subject.
There is one matter incidentally connected with the action
of the Convention on behalf of St. Mary's School, which, I
think, should iDe mentioned. Our exclusive devotion of
thought and effort to this work, has caused some perhaps un-
avoidable difficulties in our proper Convention affairs. Funds
which might have been used for diocesan purposes have been
devoted to the purposes of the school. I think we have done
well and wisely in thus subordinating our diocesan interests
to those of the school during this critical period. But the
TO Address of the Bishop.
purcliase-money is now paid. The property is secui^ed. In
my judgment we should not further deplete ouj treasury by
taking of our limited diocesan funds for the school. I see
by the report of the Treasurer to this Convention that there
is remaining of the bequest of Miss Mary Euflfin Smith some-
thing over thirteen hundred dollars in money and securities.
I do not know whether anything more remains to be received
from the executor of the estate. I suggest that the balance
of this fund, whatever it may amount to, be devoted to in-
creasing the permanent endoA\Tnent fund of the Diocese. If
this be done, and if our other uninvested funds can be in-
vested at a fair rat© of interest, a moderate assessment upon
our congregations will, I believe, produce a sufficient revenue
for our very moderate annual expenditures.
I have not usually concerned myself in these Convention
addresses with financial matters, and I do not propose to
enlarge upon the subject now. I think I can assure the
Convention that, except in the matter of our proper diocesan
expenses, the year just past has been satisfactory in a busi-
ness and financial way. And even in these diocesan expenses
the Treasurer is able to show a real improvement in our
affairs. I have already pointed out that we have raised an
unusually large amount for Diocesan Missions; we have very
nearly paid in full our increased apportionment for Foreign
and Domestic Missions ; the Woman's Auxiliary is extending
in its work and enlarging its gifts, and becoming every year
more useful; the Thompson Orphanage continues to deserve
and to receive the generous support of our people. All de-
partments of our work show signs of healthy vigor and de-
velopment. Let the Convention but put its o^vn immediate
financial affairs upon a practical basis, and we may look
forward hopefully to a year of faithful and efficient work and,
with God's blessing, to advancing power and usefulness.
It seems to be expected that the addresses of our Bishops
this year should devote much space to those theological con-
troversies and to those sad exposures in great financial and
business institutions, which have occupied so much of the
time and attention of readers of the newspapers for some
months past. I am doubtful how far such matters can be
made a profitable part of our discussions. We are not our-
selves disturbed by dissensions in regard to the fundamental
articles of the Christian faith. Recognizing in Christianity
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 71
tlie imequivocal assertion of the intervention of the divine
purpose and operation in the affairs of this world ; and seeing
in our Lord Jesus Christ the manifestation of the divine in
the human, we accept the Creeds of the Church and the
Scriptures of the 'New Testament as the testimony of credi-
ble witnesses to amazing facts. Whenever and however the
divine comes into connection with the human it must tran-
scend our comprehension. If w^e reject the Catholic Faith
as to the fact and method of the Incarnation, while retaining
a belief in the Incarnation, we have only shifted the position.
We have solved no difficulty. Given the presence and the
power of God, and one method of its manifestation becomes
as easy to believe, and as impossible to understand, as an-
other. And so we are content with that which was from the
beginning delivered by those who were eye-witnesses, and who
were the commissioned messengers of Him who is the Truth.
And we hold it a breach of faith and of loyalty for those
who have received that commission to deny the message.
And in the sad exposures which have brought shame and
ruin to honored names and to many otherwise worthy men, I
see first of all a warning against self-confidence. We dare
not minimize the guilt of selfishness and dishonesty, and the
breach of trust which uses stewardship for others as a means
of personal profit for ourselves. No degree of wealth or
power can save from final ruin and degradation, in this life
or in the next, the man who succeeds in appropriating to
himself that which should rightly go to another; or who
refuses, whether personally or through the intricacies of cor-
porate management, to give to those depending on him a
just reward for their service. All this is true, but while we
admit its truth, I fear we may be falling under its condem-
nation. What I have to say is that we must not exhaust our
virtue in condemning the great offences of others, but so
economize this quality that it may first of all search out and
condemn in us the like sins.
Modern life and business is so marvelously intricate and
complicated that it is difficult even to state its moral prob-
lems ; much more difficidt to solve them. We have been ac-
customed with an easy self-complacency to assume that only
our colored population divorce morality from religion, and
indulge the pleasing emotions of spiritual fervor, without
troubline: themselves too much about the Ten Commandments.
72 Address of the Bisliop.
Has it not been forced \y^\\ our consciences during these
last few years that many of tlie most highly cultivated and
most respectable religious people of the country exhibit in a
more refined form exactly this same moral paradox? And
are not we ourselves even as others ?
Let us then not so much busy ourselves with condemning
others. Let us seek to ever have before our eyes the highest
standard of Faith and Practice, and remember that it is the
business of the Church to save the world by exhibiting the
presence and the power of God in its members. The Church
in Korth Carolina has a power and an influence out of pro-
portion to its numerical strength. Let us thank God for
what He hath done for us in the past, and go forward to the
work which He commands us to do for Him in the world that
lies open before us.
Jos. Blofxt Cheshire,
Bishop of North Carolina.
The following circular letter was issued by the Bishop and
the appended prayer licensed for use on the occasion re-
ferred to:
To the Clergy and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
State of ^'orth Carolina.
Dear Brethrex: — The approaching holy feast of Trixity Suxday
will be the two hundredth anniversary of the first recorded adminis-
tration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within the territory of
North Carolina. Some may conjecture that earlier instances are prob-
able, as certainly they were possible; but the first of which we have
any record is that mentioned by Governor Glover in a letter to Henry
Compton, Bishop of London, dated September 25, 1708 (Hawks's N.
C, II, 301, and X. C. C. R., I, 689), in these words: "The Reverend
Richard Marsden, waiting here for a passage to South Carolina,
thought it convenent to administer the Sacrament of the Lord's Sup-
per, which is the first time I can learn of its being administered in this
poor country; this was done on Trinity Sunday, 1706."
We, your Bishops and servants in Christ, feel that so interesting an
anniversary should not be allowed to pass unnoticed. It marks in a
special way the feeble beginnings of our ancient Church in this new
country; it recalls the pathetic and heroic memories of those faithful
men who brought into the civilization of a new continent the leaven
of our historic faith, worship, and polity. We call upon our brethren
Diocese of North Carolma, 1906. 73
of the Clergy of North Carolina to remind our lay people of these
sacred memories and associations of our past, and especially on this
coming Trixity Sunday to remember before God with devout grati-
tude those of His servants departed to whom we owe so much, the
Clergy and Churchmen of our Colonial days.
We therefore set forth and authorize for use in all our churches on
Trinity Sunday, June 10, 1906, immediately before the final Blessing,
or after the General Thanksgiving in Morning and Evening Prayer,
the special form of prayer printed on the following page.
Your brethren and servants in Christ,
Jos. Blount Cheshire,
Bishop of North Carolina.
Robert Strange,
Bishop of East Carolina.
Junius M. Horner,
Bishop of Asheville.
Raleigh, K C, May 30, 1906.
Prayer of Special Commemoration and Thanksgiving,
Trinity Sunday, June 10, 1906.
God of our fathers. Who, through the labors of Thy servants in
past ages, hast built up Thy Kingdom in this great country and nation,
we give Thee hearty thanks and most high praise, as for the lives and
labors of all those faithful missionaries and pastors who gave them-
selves to Thy service in the Thirteen American Colonies, so especially
at this time, for those who in the Province and Colony of North Caro-
lina ministered Thy Word and Sacraments to the people. Into this
strange land they came, the messengers of Thy Truth and Love, and
through many trials and dangers they sought Thy wandering sheep.
We thank Thee for their faith and patience, for their sufferings and
labors, and for the fruits of their sacrifices which we to-day enjoy.
Thou didst water with the dews of Thy grace the little vine which on
these shores they planted; Thou madest room for it, so that when it
had taken root it filled the land.
Continue, we pray Thee, Thy love and favor to Thy Church and
people; pardon our sins, fill us with Thy Spirit, sustain us with the
heavenly food of Thy holy Word and Sacraments, keep us faithful to
Thy Truth, make Thy Church a light and a guide and a sure founda-
tion: bless our State and our country, and hasten the coming of Thy
Kingdom; through Christ Jesus, our Lord. Amen.
The foregoing "Prayer of Special Commemoration and Thanks-
giving" is hereby licensed for use on Trinity Sunday, June 10, 1906.
Jos. Blount Cheshire,
Bishop of North Carolina.
74 The Bisliop's Account.
THE BISHOP'S ACCOUNT
Of Diocesax Fuxds ix His Haxds, May 1, 1905, to May 1, 1906.
Dr.
Balance in hand May 1, 1905, page 133 of Journal.. $12.40
Balance in hand on special account for St. Cyprian's
Chapel, Oxford, page 133 58 . 90
$71.30
Receipts during the year:
Collections from Parishes and Missions $587.77
Eeceived from the Woman's Auxiliary 303.22
Eeceived from individuals — Mrs. Lanier. $5.00
Rev. C. T. Bland 2 . 00
Mrs. Walter J. Smith 20 . 00
"Special"' 5 . 00
32 . 00
For Relief of Aged Clergy, etc 245 . 00
For Chapels at Oxford and Satterwhite, "Specials"'. 300.00
For Colored Mission at Littleton, "Specials" 100.00
1,567.99
Advances returned:
Convocation of Raleigh $110 . 00
Treasurer of Diocese, on account of Education
Fund 110.00
220.00
Total of Receipts during the year $1,859.29
Cr.
Payments on account of Diocesan Missions:
Rev. James E. King $50.00
John S. Simmons, catechist 25 . 00
Jordan T. Fuller, teacher 20 . 00
Rev. A. B. Hunter, Treasurer of Colored Convo-
cation, for use of that Convocation 156.21
Rev. Oliver J. Whildin, Missionary to Deaf
Mutes 50 . 00
Rev. Homer Leach Hoover 25 . 00
Rev. Samuel M. Hanff 25. 00
Rev. Francis W. R. Arthurs 36.00
Rev. Alfred R. Berkeley, travelling expenses .... 7 . 40
Paid on account salary of teacher at Roanoke
Rapids 25 . 00
On account of expenses of Miss Kate Cheshire
while working at Mayodan, etc 55 . 00
Rev. James D. Simmons 75 . 00
549.61
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. Y5
Payments on account of Education Fund:
Homer Leach Hoover, Candidate $50.00
Robert N. Perry, Candidate 25 .00
Eichard R. Phelps, Candidate 35.00
Payments to Aged Clergy:
Rev. James H. Williams 75 . 00
Rev. Chas. T. Bland 50.00
Rev. James B. Averitt 50 . 00
Rev. Benj. S. Bronson 25 . 00
Rev. Thos. B, Bailey, on account of sickness. ... 20.00
Mrs. Phelps, to aid daughter, on account of loss
by fire 10.00
Payments on account of Church buildings and property:
Chapel of Hope, Charlotte $100.00
St. Cyprian's Chapel Oxford 365 . 00
St. Simeon's Church, Satterwhite 88.80
On account of the property of St. Anna's Mission,
Littleton 112.00
On account of the Church at Smithfield 25.00
Sundry incidental expenses:
Travelling expenses $19 . 20
Printing, envelopes, postage, etc 22.36
Parchment for Letters of Orders 2 . 55
110.00
230.00
12.80
44.11
$1,616.52
Balance on hand Mav 1, 1906 242.77
$1,859.29
The above is a full and true account of all funds which have come
into my hands during the time specified, excepting such as come from
the General Board of Missions, and are accounted for to that Board.
Jos. Blount Cheshire,
May 1, 1906. Bishop of North Carolina.
I have this day examined the above account and found it to be cor-
rect. I. MCK. PiTTEXGER,
May 29, 1906. Chairman Finance Committee.
APPENDIX B.
PAROCHIAL, MISSIOIs^ARY AND OTHER
REPORTS.
Ansonville, All Souls' Church; the Rev. Francis W. R.
Arthurs, Minister in Charge.
Families 9. Baptized persons 38. Baptisms: infant 1. Confirmed 2.
Communicants: last reported 19; removed 1; present number 20. Sun-
day school teachers 6; scholars 38. Public services: Sundays 28; other
days 36. Holy Communion: public 2; private 1.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $1,275; other church property $400 — total $1,675.
Salary pledged Minister $300. Indebtedness on property $45; Minis-
ter's salary $100.
Receipts — Communion Alms $14.54. Sunday-school offerings $6 —
total $20.54.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $107.50. Current ex-
penses $2.50. Sunday-school $8.37. Improvements $275.00 — total
$393.37.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $25. Diocesan Missions
$20. Relief Fund $30. Thompson Orphanage $6. Other objects $1.49—
total $82.49.
General: General Missions $10. Domestic Missions $9.30. Sewanee
$5 — total $24.30. Aggregate $500.16.
Battleboro, St. Johns Church; the Rev. Robt. B. Owens,
Minister in Charge.
Families 13. Baptized persons 48. Baptisms: infant 1. Confirmed 4.
Communicants : last reported 29 ; admitted 4 ; received 1 ; removed 1 ;
present number 33. Sunday-school teachers 1 ; scholars 13. Other
Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary. Public services: Sundays 15;
other days 20. Holy Communion 6.
Salary pledged Minister $100.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $1.51. Woman's Auxiliary $24.
Other sources $156.32— total $181.83.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $98.65. Current ex-
penses $4.45— total $103.10.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $20.95. Diocesan Mis-
sions $14.77. Education Fund $2.15. Relief Fund $2.20. Thompson
Orphanage $27.01— total $67.08.
General: General Missions $9.75. General Clergy Relief $1.90 — total
$11.65. Aggregate $181.83.
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Bristow, St. Marh's Church; the Rev. Edward L. Ogilby,
Minister in Charge.
Families 14. Baptized persons 75. Baptisms: infant 1. Confirmed 3.
Communicants: last reported 44; admitted 3; present number 47. Sun-
day-school teachers 5; scholars 36. Parish school teachers 1; scholars
27. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary. Public services: Sun-
day 19; other days 8. Holy Communion 7.
Value of church $2,500; school house $450; rectory $750— total
$3,700. Salary pledged Minister $140. Insurance $1,000. Indebtedness
on Minister's salary $50.
Receipts— Qommwmow Alms $2.80. Sunday-school offerings $2.60.
Parish societies $41.50. Other sources $136.89— total $183.79.
Disbursements— Parochial: Alms $2.80. Minister's salary $91. Cur-
rent expenses $6.04. Improvements $29. Other objects $2.34— total
$131.18.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $12.25. Diocesan Missions.
$12. Eelief Fund $1. Thompson Orphanage $5.52. Other objects $2.05
—total $32.82.
General: General Missions $3. Domestic Missions $2. Foreign Mis-
sions $10. Sewanee $2.08. General Clergy Relief $1.80— total''$18.88.
Aggregate $182.88.
Burlington, Church of 8t. Atlianasius; the Rev. Miltot^ A.
BaebeRj Rector.
Families 35. Baptized persons 157. Baptisms: infant 4; adult 2—
total 6. Confirmed 18. Communicants: last reported 86; admitted 6;
received 2; died 3; removed 4; withdrawn 1; present number 91.
Burials 3. Sunday-school teachers 4; scholars 40. Other Parish Agen-
cies: Auxiliaries; Altar Guild. Public services: Sundays 75; other
days 95. Holy Communion: public 49; private 2.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $1,400; rectory $2,000, other church property $2,200
—total $5,600. Salary pledged Minister $1,200. Insurance $2,400.
Receipts — Communion Alms $49.30. Sunday-school offerings $69.06.
Woman's Auxiliary $50. Subscriptions $1,536.55. Sunday morning
offerings $138.62. Special $362.15. Other sources $166.50— total
$2,372.18.
Dishursements— Parochial: Alms $15.80. Minister's salary $1,149.98.
Current expenses $303.29. Improvements $100. Sunday-school $162.80
—total $1,731.87.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $114.60. Diocesan Mis-
sions $70. Education Fund $7.35. Relief Fund $44. Thompson Or-
phanage $37.62. Other objects $40.98— total $314.55.
General: General Missions $97.85. Domestic Missions $58.35. Ashe-
78 ParocJiial Reports.
ville District $5.15. St. Paul's School, Beaufort, $10. Scholarship in
China $50. American Church Building Fund $5. Tuttle Memorial $5 —
total $231.35. Aggregate $2,277.77.
The record of services and communion alms dates from October 15,
1905, when I assumed charge of the Parish. I have not included value
of the box which the Auxiliary sent to Valle Crucis — only the $50
scholarship. The special offerings taken since I assumed charge here
have been very good. The attendance upon the Sunday morning ser-
vices excellent, for the most part. The attendance at the evening ser-
vices, while better (I am told) than ever before, has not been what it
ought to have been.
Chapel Hill, Chapel of the Cross; the Rev. William H.
Meade, D.D., Rector.
Families 27. Baptized persons 57. Baptisms: infant 1. Confirmed 1.
Communicants: last reported 38; admitted 1; received 5; present num-
ber 44. Sunday-school teachers 3; scholars 15. Other Parish Agencies:
Parish Guild; Chancel Guild; Woman's Auxiliary; Brotherhood of St.
Andrew. Public services: Sundays 88; other days 61. Holy Com-
munion 27.
Church sittings 225.
Value of church $5,000; rectory $1,500; other church property $700 —
total $7,200. Salary pledged Minister $400. Insurance $2,500.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $9.09. Parish Guild $73.25. Wo-
man's Auxiliary $48. Other sources $813.35— total $943.69.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $400. Current expenses
$187.72. Improvements $107.29. Insurance $3.75. Other objects $22.80
—total $721.56.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $55.10. Diocesan Mis-
sions $66.69. Relief Fund $10. Thompson Orphanage $33.48— total
$165.33.
General: General Missions $55.02. Domestic Missions $14. Foreign
Missions $7. Jewish Missions $3.42. Sewanee $4.25. Clergymen's Re-
tiring Fund Society $18. General Clergy Relief $29.46— total $131.15.
Aggregate $1,018.04.
The Rector has officiated on nine (9) other occasions within the
Diocese elsewhere, and served seven (7) weekly t^rms in the Univer-
"sity Chapel Prayers.
Charlotte, (Dilworth,) The Church of the Holy Comforter;
the Rev. Feaxcis M. Osboexe, Minister in Charge.
Families 35. Baptized persons 100. Baptisms: adult 1. Confirmed 8.
Communicants: last reported 52; admitted 3; received 3; removed 8;
present number 50. Marriages 2. Burials 3. Sundav-school teachers
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 79
6; scholars 40. Other Parish Agencies: Parish Guild; Auxiliaries;
Men's Missionary League; Girls' Friendly Society; Brotherhood of St.
Andrew; Chancel Guild. Public services: Sundays 59; other days 95.
Holy Communion: public 26; private 1.
Church sittings 50.
Value of church property $3,250. Salary pledged Minister $500. In-
surance $125.
Receipts — Communion Alms $67.89. Sunday-school offerings $60.68.
Parish societies: Woman's Auxiliary $24.55; St. Elizabeth's Guild
$139.25; Chancel Guild $37.62. Collected for lot and building $2,000.
Other sources $506.14 — total $2,836.13.
Dishursements — Parochial: Alms $12.02.. Minister's salary $441.66.
Current expenses $70.25. Sunday-school $25. Building lot $2,000.
Furnishings $34.22— total $2,583.15.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $43.87. Diocesan Missions
$9.05. Education Fund $1.36. Relief Fund $1.06. Thompson Orphan-
age $10.66. Other objects $8.75 — total $74.75.
General: General Missions $40.58. Jewish Missions $1.16. Sewanee
$2.60. American Church Building Fund $2.41. Special to Japanese
student $5.55. Bell for a Tennessee mission $16. To Central Fund
Woman's Auxiliary $1.20 — total $69.50. Aggregate $2,727.40.
Charlotte, Chapel of Hope; the Rev. Joh^ Holland
Crosby, Minister in Charge; Cyprlin P. Willcox,
Lay Reader.
Families 8. Baptized persons 58. Baptisms: infant 10; adult 10 —
total 20. Confirmed 15. Communicants: last reported 20; admitted
15; removed 8; withdrawn 1; present number 26. Marriages 3.
Burials 5. Sunday-school teachers 7 ; scholars 78. Public services :
Sundays 68; other days 13. Holy Communion 8.
Chapel sittings 175.
Value of chapel $1,000; other church property $250 — total $1,250.
Insurance $750. Indebtedness on property $4. Other debts $21.
Receipts — Communion Alms $1.60. Sunday-school offerings $36.40 —
total $38.
Dishursements — Parochial: Alms $28. Minister's salary $20.65.
Current expenses $16.50. Sunday-school $4. Improvements $50. In-
surance $9 — total $128.15.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $3.87. Thompson Orphan-
age $3 — total $6.87.
General: General, Domestic and Foreign Missions $6.87. General
Clergy Relief $0.25— total $7.12. Aggregate $142.14.
In addition to the foregoing, a nice organ has been placed in the
Sunday-school room by the congregation. A nice large Bible has been
presented to the Chapel, and also a handsome little font in memory oi
so Parochial Reports.
the late ]\Iariah Ann Harris. On November 30, Harvest Home festival
was held in the Chapel; goods and fruits of the earth were presented
for charity, a large contribution, and also $8 in cash.
Charlotte, (Seversville,) St. Andreio^s Chapel; the Rev.
JoHX Holland Crosby, Minister in Charge.
Families 4. Baptized persons 30. Baptisms: infant G; adult 2 —
total 8. Confirmed 2. Communicants: last reported 10; admitted 2;
present number 12. Burials 2. Sunday-school teachers 2; scholars 28.
Other Parish Agencies: Ladies' Aid Society. Public services: Sundays
52; other days 11. Holy Communion 9.
Chapel sittings 200.
Value of chapel $1,200; other church property $250— total $1,450.
Salary pledged Minister $50. ' Indebtedness on Minister's salary $8.
Receipts — Communion xVlms $2.90. Sunday-school offerings $10.40.
Parish societies $17— total $30.30.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $0.40. Minister's salary $42. Cur-
rent expenses $16. Sunday-school $7. Improvements $17 — ^total $82.40.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $0.32. Diocesan Missions
$1.01. Relief Fund $0.25. Other objects $2.04— total $9.62.
General: Foreign Missions $1.22. Sewanee $0.40. General Clergy
Relief $0.25. American Church Building Fund $0.35— total $2.22.
Aggregate $94.24.
In addition to the foregoing I have preached three sermons at Chad-
wick Mills, twelve seimons at Elizabeth Mills, two sermons at St.
James, Iredell County. Baptized 3.
Charlotte, St. Martins Chapel; the Eev. Feaxcis M. Os-
BORXE, 2Iinister in Charge.
Families 17. Baptized persons 45. Baptisms: infant 1. Confirmed 3.
Communicants: last reported 17; present number 17. Marriages 1.
Sunday-school teachers 8; scholars 32. Other Parish Agencies: St.
Martin's Guild; Girls' Friendly (Junior) ; Sewing Class; Girls' Penny
Club. Public services: Sundays 62; other days 66. Holy Communion:
public 11; private 1.
Chapel sittings 100.
Value of chapel and lot $3,000; other church property $100— total
$3,100. Salary pledged Minister $100. Insurance $500. Indebtedness
$2.71.
Receipts — Communion Alms $15.39. Sunday-school offerings $41.87.
Parish societies and gifts $55. Other sources $121.39— total $233.65.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $100. Current expenses
$3.95. Sunday school $15.75. Improvements $50. Debt paid in full
$11.09— total $180.79.
Diocese of North Carolina,, 1906.. 81
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $10. Diocesan Missions
$10.95. Education Fund $0.75. Relief Fund $1.06. Thompson Orphan-
age $8.07. Other objects $1.51— total $32.34.
General: General Missions $12.66. Jewish Missions $0.75. Sewanee
$0.90. American Church Building Fund $1.16. Special to Japanese
student $3.45— total $18.92. Aggregate $232.05.
Charlotte, Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin; the Rev. Wat.tek
J. Smith^ Chaplain.
Families 3. Baptized persons 88. Baptisms: adult 2. Confirmed 14.
Communicants : last reported 32 ; admitted 8 ; received 1 ; died 1 ; re-
moved 8; present number 32. Sunday school teachers 7; scholars 70.
Orphanage school teachers 2; scholars 61. Industrial school teachers 1;
scholars 33. Other Parish Agencies: Junior Auxiliary. Public ser-
vices: Sundays 80; other days 256. Holy Communion 19.
Chapel sittings 200.
Value of church $2,500. Insurance $2,250.
Receipts — Communion Alms $1.60. Sunday-school offerings $25.57.
Junior Auxiliary $6.40. Other sources $48.89— total $82.46.
Disbursements — Parochial: Other objects $1.60.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $5. Diocesan Missions
$12.45. Education Fund $1.02. Relief Fund $2.06. St. Augustine's
School $2.04. Chapel of Hope, Charlotte, $3.61. Other objects $3.33—
total $29.51.
General: General Missions $32.13. Domestic Missions $0.59. For-
eign Missions $1.83. Jewish Missions $2.20. Sewanee $1.16. Clergy-
men's Retiring Fund $1.29. American Church Building Fund $2.28.
Deaf mutes $1.74. St. Paul's, Tokyo, Japan, $1.31. San Francisco suf-
ferers $2.30. Other objects $2.21— total $49.04. Aggregate $80.15.
In addition to the above, my official acts have been as follows: In
Charlotte, administered the Holy Communion twice in St. Peter's
Church, once in St. Martin's, once in the Chapel of Hope, and held one
service each in Dilworth and St. Michael and All Angel's Church; in
Trinity Church, Statesville, four services, with the Holy Communion
twice; in All Saints', Concord, two services; in St. Andrew's Parish,
Greensboro, four services, with Holy Communion once; in St. Mark's,
Bristow, one service, with Holy Communion; attended six Convoca-
tional meetings, one ordination, one consecration of Church, and took
part in two funerals. I also visited All Souls', Biltmore, and Grace
Church, Waynesville, and made addresses in the interest of the Orphan-
age.
XoTE. — Some of our communicants are non-resident, and the l at services $7.50. Other
sources $50 — total $59.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $50. Other objects $9 —
total $59.
General: General Clergy Relief $0.75. Aggregate $59.75.
For several months I could not give regular Sunday services here, but
have been giving them again recently through the help of Mr. Eubanks.
Davie County, Ascension Mission; the Eev. Thos. L. Trott,
Minister in Charge.
Families 4. Baptized persons 15. Baptisms: infant 1. Confirmed 1.
Communicants: last reported 7; admitted 2; present number 15. Sun-
day-school teachers 3; scholars 45. Public services 15. Holy Commu-
nion 3.
Salary pledged Minister $40.
Receipts — Communion Alms $3.61.
Disbursements — Parochial: IVIinister's salary $51.25.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $5. Diocesan Missions
$9— total $14.
General: General Clergy Relief $2.50. Aggregate $67.75.
Duke, St. Stephens Church; the Kev. S. M. Hanff, Minis-
ter in Charge.
Families 6. Baptized persons 22. Confirmed 6. Communicants 18.
Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers 5; scholars 43. Public services 3
each month.
Church sittings 175.
Salary pledged Minister $300. Indebtedness on property $275.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $225.
We have been at work in Duke only since October 1st. We have been
in a new chapel now for about two months. The work has progressed
from the start and points to further development.
Durham, St. Philip's Church; St. Andrew's Chapel, East
Durham; and West Durham Mission; the Rev. Sid:n"ey
S. BosT^ Eector ; the Eev. Thomas L. Trott, Assistant
Minister.
Families 105. Baptized persons 450. Baptisms: infant 16; adult 7 —
total 23. Confirmed 20. Communicants: last reported 296; admitted
20; received 9; died 2; removed 10; present number 313. Marriages 2.
Burials 6. Sunday-school teachers 25; scholars 300. Other Parish
Agencies: Brotherhood of St. Andrew; Auxiliaries; Ladies' Aid So-
86 Parochial Reports.
ciety; Altar Guild; Men's Missionary League. Public services: Sun-
days 350; other days 200. Holy Communion: public 37; private 4.
Church sittings 250; chapel sittings 200.
Value of church $3,500; chapel $600; rectory $3,000; other church
property $2,500 — total $9,600. Salary pledged Minister $1,320. Insur-
ance $4,550.
Receipts — Communion Alms $57. Sunday-school offerings $46. Par-
ish societies $863. Other sources $3,185 — total $4,151.
Dishursements — Parochial: Alms $52. Parish Missions $550. Min-
ister's salary $1,320. Current expenses $230. Sunday-school, $25. Im-
provements $450. Insurance $40. Other objects $985 — total $3,652.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $149.15. Diocesan Mis-
sions $124.75. Relief Fund $7.39. Thompson Orphanage $124.25. Other
objects $30 — total $435.54.
General: General Missions $176. Domestic Missions $45. Foreign
Missions $15. Jewish Missions $6.36. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $12 —
total $254.36. Aggregate $4,341.90.
Edgecombe County, St. Mary's Chapel; the Eev. F. Harei-
MAisr Haedii^g, Minister in Charge; Mr. S. S. IS'ash,
Lay Evader.
Families 9. Baptized persons 25. Communicants 12. Sunday-school
teachers 4; scholars 50. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary.
Public services: Sundays 52; other days 2. Holy Communion 1.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $1,000.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $8.50. Woman's Auxiliary $9.
Other sources $28.49— total $45.99.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary, $3.08. Current ex-
penses $6.25— total $9.33.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $7.50. Diocesan Missions
$4.50. Thompson Orphanage $5. Other objects $1.66— total $18.66.
General: General Missions $10.50. Aggregate $38.49.
A box valued at $7.50 has been sent to Thompson Orphanage.
Elkin, Gallaway Memorial Church; the Rev. Wili^iam Wal-
KEE, Minister in Charge.
Families: white 2; colored 1. Baptized persons: white 5; colored 4.
Communicants — last reported: white 4; present number: white 4; col-
ored 2. Public services: Sundays 3; other days 2. Holy Communion:
private 1.
Church sittings 175.
Value of church $1,350.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary (4 mos.) $10.37.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 87
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $12.50. Diocesan Mis-
sions $1. Education Fund $1. Relief Fund $2. Thompson Orphanage
$6. Other objects $1— total $23.50.
General: Sewanee $2. American Church Building Fund $3— total $5
Aggregate $38.87.
My first service was held in this Mission in February. By agreement
of the Bishops of Xorth Carolina and Asheville, I have taken charge of
Pvonda (Chapel), in the District of Asheville, temporarily. This I
serve on the same Sunday that is given to Elkin.
Enfield, Church of the Advent; the Eev. Homer Leach
Hoover, Minister in Charge.
Families 19. Baptized persons 63. Baptisms: adult 1. Confirmed 9.
Communicants: admitted 8; received 4; present number 47. Marriages
I. Sunday-school teachers 4; scholars 22. Other Parish Agencies:
Guild; A. S. Smith Branch; Woman's Auxiliary. Public services: Sun-
days 37; other days 42. Holy Communion 3.
Value of church $1,000. Salary pledged Minister $330. Insurance
$900. Indebtedness on Minister's salary $30.
Dishursements— Parochial: Minister's salarv $300. Current expenses
$32.33— total $332.33.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $34.25. Convocation
$11.42. Relief Fund $7.57. Thompson Orphanage $2.40. Other obieets
$7.22— total $62.86.
General: General Missions $10. Aggregate $405.19.
Since the above report, all assessments have been settled in full.
^Euto, St. TimotJu/s Chapel; the Rev. Fraxcis TV. Ar-
THURS, Minister in Charge.
Families 8. Baptized persons 43. Communicants 22. Sunday-school
teachers 2; scholars 25. Public services 7. Holy Communion 1.
Chapel sittings 100.
Value of church $150. Salary pledged Minister $11. Indebtedness on
Minister's salary $7.40.
Receii)ts— Communion Alms $0.91.
Dishursements— Parochial: Minister's salary $3.60.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $0.30. Thompson Orphan-
age $0.25— total $0.55.
General: General Missions $0.88. Foreign Missions $1.10— total $1.98.
Aggregate $6.13.
* P. O. removed to Olive Branch.
88 Parochial Reports.
Gaston, St. Liil-e's Chapel; the Rev. Feai^cis Joyxee,
Minister in Charge.
Families 6. Baptized persons 19. Communicants: last reported 13;
received 1; present number 14. Marriages 1. Sunday-school teachers 2;
scholars 16. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary. Public ser-
vices: Sundays 4; other days 1. Holy Communion 5.
Chapel sittings 150.
Value of chapel 1,000.
Receipts — ^All sources $39.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $5. Current expenses
$1.50— total $6.50.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $4.41. Diocesan Missions
$5.99. Relief Fund $1.25. All Saints' Mission School $5. Other ob-
jects $7.32— total $23.97.
General: General Missions $4.70. General Clergy Relief $1.50. Other
objects $2.33— total $8.53. Aggregate $39.
Gerumnton, St. PJiilij/s Church; the Rev. William Wal-
KEEj Minister in Charge.
Families 3. Baptized persons 14, Communicants: last reported 13;
removed 1; present number 12. Public services: Sundays 10; other
days 3. Holy Communion 5.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $800. Salary pledged Minister $50.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $19.38. Current ex-
penses $2. Improvements $2— total $23.38.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $5.25. Thompson Orphan-
age $6.50. Other objects $1.58— total $13.33. Aggregate $36.71.
I visit Germanton and give one Sunday in the month.
Goshen, St. Paul's Church; the Rev. Feais^cis W. Hilliaed,
Minister in Charge.
Families 5. Baptized persons 17. Communicants 10. Public ser-
vices: Sundays 7; other days 1. Holy Communion 8.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $800.
Receipts — All sources $21.75.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $15.50.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
$2.50. Other objects $1.25 — total $6.25. Aggregate $21.75.
The congregations have improved during the past year. The new
Mission at Berea gives good promise. A lot has been given by a lady
not of our Communion, and a vacant store is to be fitted up by her for
present use; the school-house in which services have been held being
no longer available.
Diocese of North Carolina^ 1906. 89
Greensboro, St. Andrew's Church; the Rev. Sanders Eich-
ARDsois" GuiGXAKD, Re<?tor.
Families: white 60; colored 3. Baptized persons 235. Baptisms: in-
fant 2; adult 2 — total 4. Confirmed 8. Communicants: last reported
141; admitted 8; received 21; restored 3; died 3; removed 13; sus-
pended 2; present number 155. Marriages 4. Burials 8. Sunday-
school teachers 10; scholars 70. Other Parish Agencies: Auxiliaries;
Ladies' Aid Society; Brotherhood of St. Andrew; Junior Brotherhood;
Men's Missionary League; Guild of the Holy Cross. Public services:
Sundays 151; other days 95. Holy Communion 42.
Church sittings 250; chapel sittings 150.
Value of church $4,500; chapel $1,500; rectory $2,000; other church
property $1,200 — total $9,200. Salary pledged Minister $600. Insur-
ance $3,100. Indebtedness on property $1,500. Other debts $159.
Receipts — Communion Alms $18.35. Sunday-school offerings $101.25.
Parish societies: Woman's Auxiliary $122.56; Juniors $43.30; Ladies'
Aid $246.94. Other sources $1,432.34— total $1,964.74.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $22.45. Minister's salary $615.
Current expenses $250.90, Sunday-school $32,25. Improvements
$355.84. Insurance $36,80. Interest on debt $80.05. Other objects
$24.19— total $1,417.48.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $77.80. Diocesan Missions
$16.11. Education Fund $3.92. Relief Fund $3.27. Thompson Orphan-
age $72.01. Clergy Relief Fund $12. Scholarships in schools $22.50.
Other objects $28.61— total $236.22.
General: General Missions $67.27. Domestic Missions $15. Foreign
Missions $11.13. Jewish Missions $2.52. General Clergy Relief $5.30.
American Church Building Fund $4,20. Deaf mutes $3,48. Periodical
Club $3.50— total $112.40. Aggregate $1,766.10.
This report includes all services at St. Mary's Chapel, near the State
Normal College. The service is for the students at the College. There-
fore there is no Mission organization. The Chapel is within St. An-
drew's Parish. Our congregation is growing, and the general work and
interest during the past year has been good.
Halifax, St. MarVs Church; the Rev. Hozsiee Leach
Hoover, Minister in Charge.
Families 10. Baptized persons: white 33; colored 8, Communicants:
last reported 20; died 1; present number 19. Burials 1. Sunday-
school teachers 2 ; scholars 4. Other Parish Agencies : Woman's Aux-
iliary; Parish Guild. Public services: Sundays 15; other days 5. Holy
Communion 3.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $1,500. Salary pledged Minister $75.
90 Parochial Reports.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $1.75. Other sources $52.64 — total
$54..39.
Dishursemenis — Parochial: Minister's salary $51. Current expenses
$8.64— total $59.64.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $15. Diocesan Missions
$10. Thompson Orphanage $6.60. Other objects $4.60 — total $36.20.
General: General Missions $5. Foreign Missions $3. Clergymen's
Retiring Fund $3— total $11. Aggregate $106.84.
The statistics given are from September 10, 1905. There were no
services at St. Mark's after April, 1905, until September. A handsome
carpet was given to St. Mark's by a lady communicant in March. The
ladies have ordered a substantial woven wire fence for the church yard
and also for the cemetery. The money was made by the ladies of the
congregation.
Henderson, CJnircli of the Holy Innocents; the Eev. Juliatt
E. IxGLE, Rector.
Families 67. Baptized persons 280. Baptisms : infant 1 ; adult 1 —
total 2. Confirmed 1. Communicants: last reported 173; admitted 4;
removed 5; present number: whit€ 170, colored 2. Marriages 2. Burials
1. Sunday-school teachers 9; scholars 68. Other Parish Agencies:
Auxiliaries; Brotherhood of St. Andrews. Public services: Sundays
136 other days 279. Holy Communion: public 69; private 1.
Church sittings 300.
Value of church $13,000; rectory $3,000; endo^\Taents $725; other
church property $800 — total $17,525. Salary pledged Minister $900.
Insurance $9,000. Indebtedness on Minister's salary $36.84.
Receipts — Communion Alms $89.50. Sunday-school offerings $116.
Parish societies $351.07. Other sources $1,516.54 — total $2,072.11.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $54.49. Minister's salary $863.16.
Current expenses $283.72. Sunday-school $35.01. Improvements $23.50.
Endowments $42.47. Other objects $39.10— total $1,341.45.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $103.60. Diocesan Mis-
sions $135.09. Education Fund $6.50. Relief Fund $10.30. Thompson
Orphanage $136.91. Other objects $26.56— total $418.96.
General: General Missions $185.83. Domestic Missions $32.33. For-
eign Missions $16.68. Jewish Missions $7.22. Sewanee $6.25. Clergy-
men's Retiring Fund $45.57. General Clergy Relief $6.50. American
Church Building Fund $6. Other objects $13.47— total $319.85. Aggre-
gate $2,080.26.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 91
High Point, St. Mary's Church; the Kev. W. Lawtois- Mel-
LiCHAMPE, Minister in Charge ; E. Peecy Eubanks,
Lay Reader.
Families: white 25; colored 1. Baptized persons: white 100; colored
6. Communications: la«t reported 40; removed 3; present number 37.
Sunday-school teachers 4; scholars 20. Public services: Sundays 80;
other days 70. Holy Communion 12.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $8,000. Salary pledged Minister $350. Insurance
$1,500.
Receipts — Communion Alms $20.34. Sunday-school offerings $19.65.
Parish societies $100. Other sources $474.13— total $614.12.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $20.34. Minister's salary $350. Cur-
rent expenses $32.05. Sunday-school $10. Improvements $100. Other
objects $78.29— total $590.68.
Diocesan: Diocesan Missions $4.75. Eelief Fund $3.25. Thompson
Orphanage $6 — total $14.
General: General Missions $9.44. Aggregate $614.12.
Mr. Eubanks has received $100 in money and about $20 value to his
household expenses within about the last two months, during which time
he has been actively engaged with me in the entire field. He was work-
ing in Thomasville and High Point a few Sundays prior to that time.
The amounts in the several places are reported under the head of Other
Parochial Expenses.
Hillshoro, 8t. Matthew's Church; the Rev. S. Paxsox Wat-
TEKs^ Rector.
Families 24. Baptized persons 100. Communicants: last reported
76; removed 10; present number 66. Sunday-school teachers 3; scholars
12. Other Parish Agencies: Auxiliaries; Aid Society. Public services:
Sundays twice; Lent daily; Holy Days, Wednesdays and Fridays. Holy
Communion 18.
Church sittings 250; chapel sittings 70.
Value of church $7,000; chapel $300; rectory $1,200; endo^vments
$7,117; other church property $1,000— total $16,617. Salary pledged
Minister $550. Insurance $5,500.
Receipts — Communion Alms $76.96. Sunday-school offerings $41.50.
Parish societies: Woman's Auxiliary $190; bequest from Mrs. Shepard
$5,000; Junior Auxiliary $40.31; League of Baptized $7.10. Other
sources $1,270.87 — total $6,626.74.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $31. Minister's salary $610. Cur-
rent expenses $101.21. Improvements $591.54— total $1,333.75.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $65.32. Diocesan Missions
$41.37. Education Fund $3.76. Relief Fund $7.49. Thompson Orphan-
age $88.35— total $206.29.
92 Parochial Reports.
General: Greneral Missions $66.71. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $20.
General Clergy Relief $17. American Church Building Fund $11 — total
$114.71. Aggregate $1,654.75.
Iredell County, St. James' Church; the Rev. Edward L.
Ogilby, Minister in Charge.
Families 19. Baptized persons 91. Baptisms: infant 6. Confirmed
1. Communicants: last reported 47; admitted 1; died 4; present
number 44. Burials 4. Sunday-school teachers 2; scholars 22.
Parish school teachers 1; scholars 43. Public services — Sundays 16;
other days 3. Holy Communion: public 7; private 1.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $700; school-house $300 — total $1,000. Salary
pledged Minister $57. Indebtedness on Minister's salary $22.50.
Receipts — Communion Alms $2.12. Other sources $65.17 — total
$67.29.
Dishursements — Parochial: Alms $2.12. Minister's salary $35.50.
Current expenses $2.05. Sunday-school $7.50. Other objects $6 — total
$53.17.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $3. Diocesan Missions
$2.50. Education Fund $0.40. Relief Fund $0.50. Thompson Orphan-
age $2.60. Other objects $0.80— total $9.80.
General: General Missions $2. Sewanee $0.82. General Clergy Re-
lief $1— total $3.82. Aggregate $66.79.
Since the close of this report the Diocesan assessments have been
paid.
Jacl'son, Church of tlie Saviour; the Rev. Feak-cis Joy^^er,
Rector; the Rev. W. T. Picaed, Assistant Minister.
Families 12. Baptisms: infant 2. Communicants: last reported 44;
received 1; present number 45. Sunday-school teachers 2; scholars 6.
Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary. Public services: Sundays
55; other days 61. Holy Communion: public 8; private 4.
Church sittings 240.
Value of church $2,800; other church property $250— total $3,050.
Salary pledged Minister $200.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $5.59. Parish societies $64.64. Of-
ferings $301.95. Other sources $166.50— total $538.68.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $166.50. Current ex-
penses $40.31. Other objects $24.39— total $231.20.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $19.30. Diocesan Missions
$13.70. Education Fund $1.83. Relief Fund $2.15. Thompson Orphan-
age $15.86. All Saints' Mission School $5. Other objects $5.21— total
$63.05.
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General: General Missions $37.76. Domestic Missions $4. Foreign
Missions $3. Sewanee $3.04. Clergymen Retiring Fund $5.14. General
Clergy Relief $4.34. American Church Building Fund $1.74. Famine
sufferers in Japan $3.01. United offering $13.90. Trinity Orphanage,
Japan, $1— total $76.93. Aggregate $371.18.
I began services in this Church as Rector, June 1, 1905, and this
report is from that date.
Kittrell, St. James' Church; the Rev. John Lois^DON-/Rector.
Families 14. Baptized persons 53. Baptisms: infant 1. Communi-
cants: last reported 31; died 1; present number 30. Burials 1. Sun-
day-school teachers 3; scholars 11. Other Parish Agencies: Parish Aid
Society. Public services: Sundays 30; other days 1. Holy Commun-
ion 12.
Church sittings 125.
Value of church $1,200; rectory $700; endoAvments $3,700— total
$5,600. Salary pledged Minister $200. Insurance $1,200.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $4.70. Parish societies $15. Other
sources $258.26— total $277.96.
Disbursements — Parochial: Ministers salary $200. Current expenses
$8. Insurance $21.60— total $229.60.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $10. Diocesan Missions
$7.50. Other objects $1.84— total $19.34.
General: General Missions $5.16. Aggregate $254.10.
Laurinburg, St. David's Mission; the Rev. Edwiis- A. Os-
borne, Archdeacon.
Families 4. Baptized persons 44. Baptisms: infant 9; adult 3—
total 12. Confirmed 12. Communicants: last reported 12; admitted 1;
received 1; removed 2; present number 12. Burials 3. Public services:
Sundays 14; other days 9. Holy Communion: public 10; private 1.
Church sittings 175.
Value of church $1,300.
Receipts — Communion Alms $52.91. Individual offerings at Rich-
mond Mills $7.40. St. David's, Laurinburg, $15.95. Individual offer-
ings $37— total $113.26.
Disbursements — Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50.
Diocesan Missions $95.26. Education Fund $3. Relief Fund $2.50—
total $103.26.
General: General Missions $10. Aggregate $113.26.
This Mission includes the work at the Richmond Mills and other
mills near Laurel Hill and known as the Laurel Hill Mission. It also
includes all the members of the Church in Scotland County. The con-
tributions also include the offerings taken at the several places of wor-
ship, the object being to have only one organization in the county for
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the present, and that to be known as St. David's Mission, Laurinburg.
The Church was consecrated by the Bishop, December 17, 1905, assisted
by the Rev. Messrs. A. B. Hunter, W. J. Smith, E. A. Osborne and
James Luther Martin.
Lawrence, Grace Memorial Cliapel; the Eev. F. Haeriman
HardixGj Minister in Charge; Mr. S. S. IsTash, Lay
Header.
Families 12. Baptized persons 44. Baptisms: infant 3; adult 3 — •
total 6. Confirmed 1. Communicants: last reported 20; admitted 1;
received 1; present number 22, Marriages 1. Sunday-school teachers
5 ; scholars 75. Parish school teachers 1 ; scholars 38. Other Parish
Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary; Ladies' Improvement Society; Busy
Workers. Public services: Sundays 52; other days 2. Holy Com-
munion 3.
Church sittings 250.
Value of church $1,500; other church property $250 — total $1,750.
Insurance $1,250.
Receipts — Svmday-school offerings $11.75. Parish societies: Woman's
Auxiliary $18.38; Ladies' Improvement Society $29; Busy Workers $16.
Offerings not designated $5.70. Other sources $64.69— total $145.52.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $5.70. Improvements
$33.54. Insurance $19.15. Other objects $12— total $70.39.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
$4.82. Thompson Orphanage $5. Other objects $2.61 — total $14.93.
General: General Missions $8.75. Aggregate $94.07.
A box valued at $20 has been sent to Thompson Orphanage.
Leahsville, Epiphany Church; the Rev. W. Laavton Melli-
CHAMPE, Rector.
Families 25. Baptized persons 95. Confirmed 3. Communicants:
last reported 40 ; admitted 1 ; received 2 ; restored 2 ; present number
45. Sunday-school teachers 5; scholars 40. Public services: Sundays
25; other days 27. Holy Communion 6.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $1,500; endowments $1,500 — total $3,000. Salary
pledged Minister $200. Insurance $750.
Receipts — Commrmion Alms $15. Sunday-school offerings $5. Other
sources $359.83— total $379.83.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $15. Minister's salary $200. Cur-
rent expenses $37.79. Sunday-school $4. Improvements $46 — total
$302.79.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $25. Diocesan Missions
$13.02. Thompson Orphanage $11. Other objects $13.02— total $62.04.
General: General Missions $15. Aggregate $379.83.
The foundation of the Spray Chapel, with part of frame, has been
built, amounting to about $50.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 95
Lexington, Grace Church; the Rev. J. C. Davis, D.D., Min-
ister in Charge.
Families 7. Baptized persons 25. Communicants: last reported 23-
received 1; removed 1; present number 22. Sunday-school teachers 4-
scholars 20. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Guild; Woman's Aux-
iliary. Public services 24. Holy Communion 13.
Value of church $3,500. Salary pledged Minister $260.
/?ecejp^s— Sunday-school offerings $18.20. Parish societies $5. Other
sources $328.69— total $351.89.
Disbursements— Parochial: Minister's salary $200. Current expenses
$3. Sunday-school $19.10. Improvements $28.19— total $310.29.
Diocesan: Diocesan Missions $20. Relief Fund $10. Thompson Or-
phanage $5. Other objects $4.25— total $39.25.
General: General Missions $20. Aggregate $369.54.
Littleton, ^ St. Alhan's Church; the Rev. Feancis Joyner,
Minister in Charire.
Families 14. Baptized persons 74. Baptisms: infant 1; adult 1—
total 2. Confirmed 2. Communicants: last reported 39; admitted -^ •
present number 41. Marriages 2. Sunday-school teachers 3; scholars
10. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary; Ladies' Guild. Pub-
lic services: Sundays 26; other days 54. Holy Communion 13.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $1,000; chapel $1,000— total $2,000. Salarv iDled^red
Minister $100. ^ 1 o
Receipts— Commxmion Alms $0.55. Sunday-school offerings $9.64.
Parish societies $284.75. Other sources $301.90— total $596.84?
Dishursements— Parochial: Alms $0.55. Minister's salary $104 75
Current expenses $64.75. Sunday-school $3.79. On Rectory debt $135 07
—total $308.91. ■
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $12.16. Diocesan Missions
$12.04. Education Fund $2.29. Relief Fund $6.63. Thompson Or-
phanage $25.58. All Saints' Mission School $57.56. Other objects
$2.99— total $119.25. '
General: General Missions $40.85. Jewish Missions $0.97. Sewanee
$9.19. General Clergj- Relief $1.24. American Church Building Fund
$1.48. Other objects $29.86— total $83.59. Aggregate $511.75.
Littleton, St. Annas Chapel (colored) ; the Rev. J. H. M.
PoLLAED, Minister in Charge.
Families 7. Baptized persons 38. Baptisms: infant 1. Communi-
cants 16. Sunday-school teachers 3; scholars 61. Parish school teach-
ers 2; scholars 7. Industrial school teachers 2; scholars 42. Public
services: Sundays 61: other days 160. Holy Communion 4.
Chapel sittings 150.
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Value of chapel $800; other church property $1,200— total $2,000.
Insurance $600.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $17.25. Parish societies $35.
Chapel offerings $40.60— total $92.85.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $25.50. Sunday-school
$5.25. Improvements $40.60 — total $71.35.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $8.07. Other objects
$2.50 — total $10.57.
General: General Missions $5. Other objects $5.93— total $10.93,
Aggregate $92.85.
Louisburg, St. Matthias' Chapel (colored) ; the Rev. J. H.
M. Pollard, Minister in Charge; Mr. Geoege Crum-
MELL Pollard, Lay Reader.
Families 9. Baptized persons 99. Baptisms: infant 5. Confirmed
2. Communicants: last reported 30; admitted 2; removed 1; present
number 31. Burials 8. Sunday-school teachers 4; scholars 88. Parish
school teachers 1 ; scholars 53. Public services : Sundays 68 ; other days
52. Holy Communion 12.
Chapel sittings 250.
Value of chapel $2,000; other church property $600— total $2,600.
Insurance $600.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $13.82. Parish societies $40.32.
Church offerings $23. Other sources $15.45— total $92.59.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $40.32. Sunday-school
$8.04. Improvements $23. Other objects $9.19— total $80.55.
Diocesan: Other objects $2.
General: General Missions $10.04. Aggregate $92.59.
Louishurg^ St. PauVs Church; the Rev. John Loxdox, Rec-
tor.
Families 29. Baptized persons 93. Baptisms: infant 0: adult 1 —
total 7. Confirmed 3. Communicants: last reported 53; admitted 3;
present number 56. Marriages 1. Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers
6; scholars 29. Other Parish Agencies: Two Auxiliaries, Parish Aid,
and Altar Guild. Public services: Sundays 66; other days 33. Holy
Communion 21.
Church sittings 225.
Value of church $5,000 ; rectory $2,000 ; other church property $500 —
total $7,500. Salary pledged Minister $600. Insurance $3,400.
Receipts — Communion Alms $33.57. Sunday-school offerings $28.81.
Woman's Auxiliary $80.75. Altar Guild $61. Babies' Branch $17.50.
Parish Aid $10. Junior Auxiliary $14.98. Other sources $1,026.92—
total $1,273.53.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $106.25. Minister's salarv $600.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 97^
Current expenses $62.16. Sunday-school $14.90. Improvements $205.
Insurance $45— total $1,033.31.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $64.90. Diocesan Missions
$17.05. Relief Fund $8.70. Thompson Orphanage $80.75. Parish
building $5. Bishop's collection $10.62 — total $187.02.
General: General Missions $29.80. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $12,
Other objects $15.60— total $57.40. Aggregate $1,277.73.
An addition, painting and other improvements on the rectory are in
progress.
Madison, St. John's Church; tlie Rev. Alfked Rives Berke-
ley, Minister in Charge.
Families 7. Baptized persons 22. Confirmed 1. Communicants: last
reported 16; admitted 1; received 2; died 1; removed 2; present num-
ber 16. Marriages 1. Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers 2; scholars 10.
Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary. Public services: Sundays
19; other days 9. Holy Communion 6.
Church sittings 300.
Value of church $1,200. Salary pledged Minister $150.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $3.40. Parish societies $7.25.
Church collections $47.92. Subscriptions $116.66 — total $175.23.
Disbursements — Pai^ochial: Minister's salary $112.50. Current ex-
penses $4.85 — total $117.35.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $15. Diocesan Missions
$9.45. Relief Fund $1.61. Thompson Orphanage $5.14. Parish House,
Mayodan, $4.46. Other objects $1.50 — total $37.16.
General: General Missions $15.27. Sewanee $2. General Clergy Re-
lief $1.40. American Church Building Fund $2.05— total $20.72. Ag-
gregate $175.23.
Mayodan, Church of the Messiah; the Rev. Alfeed Rives
Berkeley, Minister in Charge.
Families 16. Baptized persons 31. Baptisms: Infant 2; adult 8 —
total 10. Confirmed 8. Communicants: last reported 13; admitted 8;
removed 2; present number 19. Marriages 1. Burials 2. Sunday-
school teachers 5; scholars 100. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Aux-
iliary; Parish Aid; Boys' Club; Girls' Club. Public services; Sundays
27; other days 6. Holy Communion 6.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $1,000. Salary pledged Minister $250. Insurance
$750.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $23.89. Parish societies $3.60.
Collections $47.24. Subscriptions $278.51. Other sources $10.65— total
$363.89.
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Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $218.75. Current ex-
penses $6.85. Sunday-school $14.16. Improvements $31.90. Parish
House $6.42— total $278.08.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $25. Diocesan Missions
$6.25. Relief Fund $1.65. Thompson Orphanage $13.73. Other objects
$4.97— total $51.00.
General: General Missions $25.66. Sewanee $2.70. General Clergy
Eelief $1.40, American Church Building Fund $2.20. San Francisco
Eelief $2.25— total $34.21. Aggregate $363.89.
Middlehurg, Cliapel of the Heavenly Rest; the Eev. James
E. PoixDEXTEK, Minister in Charge.
Families 13. Baptized persons 36. Communicants: last reported 25;
died 1; present number 24. Burials 1. Parish Agencies: Woman's Aux-
iliary. Public services: Sundays 12. Holy Communion 6.
Chapel sittings 100.
Value of chapel $700. Salary pledged Minister $50. Indebtedness
on Minister's salary $9.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $3. Other sources $74.24 — total
$77.24.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $41. Current expenses
$5.50— total $46.50.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $5. Diocesan Missions $10.
Other objects $2.84— total $17.84.
General: General Missions $6. Aggregate $70.34.
Milton, Christ Church; the Rev. W. Lawton Mellichampe,
Minister in Charge.
Families 4. Baptized persons 13. Communicants: last reported 11;
present number 8. Burials 1. Public services: Sundays 8; other days
4. Holy Communion 2.
Church sittings 125.
Value of church $1,000.
Receipts — Parish societies $10. Offerings at services $14.52. Other
sources $22— total $46.52.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $30.52. Current ex-
penses $10. Other objects $4— total $44.52.
General: General Clergy Relief $2. Aggregate $46.52.
MocJcsville, St. Philip's Church: the Rev. Edwin A. Os-
BOENE, Archdeacon.
Baptized persons 7. Communicants: last reported 9; died 1; re-
moved 1 ; withdrawn 1 : present number 6. Public services 2. Holy
Communion 1.
Value of church $600.
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Receipts — Individual thank offerings $20. Special $1 — total $21.
Dishursements — Diocesan: Diocesan Missions $20.
General: General Missions $1. Aggregate $21.
This church has been closed during the past year because there has
been no minister to hold a service. The archdeacon visited the place
three times during the year, but held only two services and celebrated
the Holy Communion once. The only active member having left the
town, is now living in the country and cannot attend to preparing for
services.
Monroe, St. Paul's Church; the Rev. J. Luther Martin",
Minister in Charge.
Families 21. Baptized persons 84. Baptisms: infant 3. Confirmed
5. Communicants: last reported 48; admitted 5; received 3; removed
1; present number 55. Marriages 2. Sunday-school teachers 7; schol-
ars 45. Public services: Sundays 101; other days 84. Holy Commu-
nion 47.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church and lot $4,500; rectory $1,250— total $5,750. Salary
pledged Minister $300. Insurance $1,500. Other debts $10.41.
Receipts — Communion Alms $14.63. Sunday-school oflferings $50.45.
Parish societies $147.55. Offerings $510.61— total $723.24.
Dishursements — Parochial: Alms $14.63. Minister's salary $300.
Current expenses $22.83. Sunday-school $16.39. Improvements $111.44.
Insurance $19. Paid on debts $58.30— total $542.59.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $32.90. Diocesan Missions
$12.23. Relief Fund $4.35. Thompson Orphanage $5. Other objects
$2.37— total $56.85.
General: General Missions $29.21. American Church Building Fund
$1.65— total $30.86. Aggregate $630.30.
Mount Airy, Trinity Church; the Rev. William Walker,
Minister in Charge.
Families: white 10; colored 1. Baptized persons 46. Baptisms: in-
fant 1. Confirmed 2. Communicants: last reported 23; admitted 2;
received: white 2; colored 1; removed 4; present number: white 23;
colored 1. Marriages 1. Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers 3; schol-
ars 15. Public services: Sundays 20; other days 17. Holy Commu-
nion 10.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $2,000. Salary pledged Minister $300.
Receipts — Contributions and offerings in church $120.36.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $100.
Diocesan: Diocesan Missions $5. Education Fund $3.61. Bishop's
Visitation Fund $11.75 — total $20.36. Aggregate $120.36.
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I took charge of this Mission January 7, and the report covers the
time since that date. I give two Sundays in the month here, and the
fifth Sunday.
Noise ^ St. Philip s Chapel (colored) ; the Eev. J. H. M.
PoLLAED, Minister in Charge; Mr. Joel T. Fuller,
Lay Reader and Teacher.
Families 10. Baptized persons 119. Communicants 22. Sunday-
school teachers 3; scholars 37. Parish school teachers 2; scholars 50.
Public services: Sundays 28; other days 140.
Chapel sittings 150.
Value of chapel $600; other church property $400 — total $1,000. In-
surance $600.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $2.35. Other sources $9 — total
$11.35.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $5, Other objects $5.35
—total $10.35.
General: General Missions $1. Aggregate $11.35.
Orange County, St. Mary's Chapel; the Eev. S. Paxson
Wattees, Minister in Charge.
Families 8. Baptized persons 45. Baptisms: infant 1. Communi-
cants: last reported 22; removed 2; present number 20. Other Parish
Agencies: Junior Auxiliary. Public services: Sundays, monthly except
in winter. Holy Communion 1.
Chapel sittings 100.
Value of chapel $1,000.
Receipts — Collections and rent $10.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $10.
Diocesan: Diocesan Missions $1.50.
General: General Missions $1. Aggregate $12.50.
Oxford, St. Cyprian s Chapel (colored) ; the Eev. Charles
Hexry Male, Minister in Charge.
Families 6. Baptized persons 62. Baptisms: infant 14. Confirmed
6. Communicants: last reported 17; admitted 6; present number 23.
Burials 10. Sunday-school teachers 4; scholars 100. Public services:
Sundays 53; other days 58. Holy Communion 13.
Chapel sittings 140.
Value of chapel $416.
Receipts — Communion Alms $2. Sunday-school offerings $6.50. Of-
ferings $18. Other sources $431.47 — total $457.97.
Disbursements — Parochial: Cost of chapel $416.38.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $1.37.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 101
General: Domestic Missions $0.75. Foreign Missions $0.75. Other
objects $38.72— total $40.22. Aggregate $457.97.
St. Cyprian's Chapel was completed in February. Through the Bishop
and the American Church Building Fund we obtained $365. Rev. F. W.
Hilliard, trustee and treasurer, donated $54.50. St. Augustine's School
gave $25. Rev. J. W. Perry and Rev. J. E. King sent smaller sums.
Miss Horner gave a donation and Mr. J. C. Horner presented a beauti-
ful, large Bible to St. Cyprian's Chapel. Mrs. Graham, Mrs. R. W. Las-
siter, and Mrs. Gilliam are true friends of this work, bringing the
church before the colored people as often as they can. Last Christmas
Miss Catharine W. Hilliard sent a beautiful set of toys for the Sunday-
school. During the year I have received much encouragement from
friends in Henderson and $5 to aid two orphans. The IMission is grow-
ing amid many difficulties because ignorance is deified by some of the
colored people. When I came here more than three years ago I found
two communicants — Mr. C. H. Taylor and his wife. We measure our
success by influence and not by numbers. I still go once a month to the
county poor-house when the roads will permit.
Oxford, St, Stephen's Church.
Families 52. Baptized persons 224. Baptisms: infant 6; adult 1 —
total 7. Confirmed 14. Communicants: last reported 138; admitted
11; died 2; removed 3; present number 144. Marriages 2. Burials 4.
Sunday-school teachers 7; scholars 60. Other Parish Agencies: Ladies'
Aid; Woman's Auxiliary; Altar Guild. Public services: Sundays 110;
other days 114. Holy Communion 71.
Church sittings 350.
Value of church $20,000; rectory $2,500; other church property $3,000
—total $25,500. Salary pledged Minister $720. Insurance $6,000.
Receipts — Communion Alms $7. Sunday-school offerings $31.15.
Ladies' Aid $178.45. Woman's Auxiliary $139.05. Altar Guild $27.95.
Other sources $991.72— total $1,375.32.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $7. Minister's salary $475. Cur-
rent expenses $98. Improvements $111.60. Insurance $22.50. Other
objects $27.95— total $742.05.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $106.06. Diocesan Mis-
sions $74.54. Relief Fund $9.44. Thompson Orphanage $13.75 — total
$203.79.
Lreneral: General Missions $77.15. Domestic Missions $50.50. For-
eign Missions $7.50. Church Periodical Club $1.50. Archdeacon Web-
ber Mission $196.50. Other objects $2.20— total $335.35. Aggregate
$1,281.19.
In absence of a Rector since November 1, services have been held by
Rev. Francis W. Hilliard, beginning about the first of December.
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Pittsboro, St. Bartholomew's Church; the Rev. James Dick-
iisrsoN SiMMoxs, Rector.
Families 10. Baptized persons 54. Communieants : last reported
32; died 2; present number 30. Burials 2. Sunday-school teachers 3;
scholars 12. Other Parish Agencies : Auxiliaries. Public services: Sun-
days 60; other days 17. Holy Communion: public 12; private 1.
Church sittings, 250.
Value of church $1,500; rectory $1,000 — total $2,500. Salary pledged
Minister $375. Insurance $1,650.
Receipts — Communion Alms $24. Sunday-school offerings $11 — total
$35.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $24. Minister's salary $237.25.
Current expenses $47.66. Insurance $27.75— total $336.66.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $35.57. Diocesan Mis-
sions $59.60. Thompson Orphanage $18.50 — total $113.67.
General: General Missions $28.95. Domestic Missions $11. General
Clergy Relief $30.82— total $70.77. Aggregate $521.10.
Pittshoro, St. James' Church (colored) ; the Rev. J. E.
KixG, Minister in Charge.
Families 7. Baptized persons 93. Confirmed 3. Communicants: last
reported 32; admitted 3; died 1; present number 34. Burials 1. Sun-
day-school teachers 5; scholars 50. Parish school teachers 1; scholars
38. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary. Public services: Sun-
days 22. Holy Communion: public 11; private 1.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $1,200; school-house $80 — total $1,280. Insurance
$600.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $19.90. Parish societies $5. Other
sources $49.87— total $74.77.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $43.60. Improvements
$6.70— total $50.30.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $3.25. Diocesan Missions
$13.85. Other objects $2.47— total $19.57.
General: General Missions $10.18. Other objects $2— total $12.18.
Aggregate $82.05.
I go to this mission once a month. If there could be more frequent
services I am sure there would be better growth at this Mission. Not-
withstanding this, the Mission school is doing much good and I am glad
to state that this Mission has met all of its canonical requirements.
Raleigh^ Christ Church; the Rev. M. M. Marshall, D.D.,
Rector.
Families 165. Baptized persons 650. Baptisms: infant 15; adult 3 —
total 18. Confirmed 19. Communicants: last reported 345; admitted
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 103
19; received 4; died 8; removed 10; present number 350. Marriages 8.
Burials 18. Sunday-school teachers 7; scholars 100. Other Parish
Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary; Eelief Society; St. Agnes' Guild; St.
Timothy's Guild; Altar Guild; St. Andrew's Brotherhood; Daughters
of the King. Public services: Two or three every Sunday and other
Holy Days; every Wednesday and Friday; daily and oftener during
Lent. Holy Communion: public every Sunday; private 3.
Church sittings GOO; chapel sittings 175.
Value of church $30,000; chapel $2,500; rectory $10,000— total $42,-
500. Salary pledged Minister $1,680. Insurance $10,000.
Receipts — Communion Alms $208.72. Sunday-school offerings $59.51.
Altar Guild $34. Woman's Auxiliary $149.81. Relief Society $140.
St. Agnes' Guild $265.85. St. Timothy's Guild $22.21. St. Andrew's
Brotherhood $35.02. Other sources $4,105— total $5,020.12.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $389.60. Parish Missions $65.02.
Minister's salary $1,680. Current expenses $829. Sunday-school $50.
Improvements $120. Insurance $24 — total $3,157.62.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $223.90. Diocesan Mis-
sions $397.30. Education Fund $10. Eelief Fund $12.90. Thompson
Orphanage $395.48. Other objects $37.81— total $1,077.39.
General: General Missions $100. Domestic Missions $78.16. Foreign
Missions $24. Jewish Missions $21.58. For new chapel at Sewanee
$369.50. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $83.77. San Francisco sufferers
from earthquake and fire $58.50. Xazareth Orphanage $46.58 — total
$782.09. Aggregate $5,017.10.
Since the last Convention I have also for varying but satisfactory
reasons been called upon to oflBciate at the following services: at the
baptism of an infant and the burial of an adult for the Rector of the
Church of The Good Shepherdj Raleigh, at a marriage in Warrenton,
at the burial of a child and an adult in Durham, and at the burial of
an adult in Scotland Neck. «
Raleigh, Church of the Good Shepherd; the Rev. I. McK.
PiTTEXGEE, D.D., Rector.
Baptisms: infant 12; adult 5 — total 17. Confirmed 28. Communi-
cants: last reported 376; admitted 28; received 10; died 5; removed
73; present number 336. Marriages 4. Burials 11. Sunday-school
teachers 12; scholars 99. Public services: Sundays 112; other days
115. Holy Communion 78.
Church sittings 300.
Insurance $5,750.
Receipts — Communion Alms $73. Sunday-school offerings $73.24.
Parish societies $401.08. Subscriptions $1,805.05. Offerings $523.68.
Other sources $650 — total 3,526.11.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $105.06. Parish Missions $27.50.
104 Parochial Reports.
Minister's salary $1,570. Current expenses $548. Sunday-school 30.81.
Improvements $23.47. Insurance $69.50. Other objects $160.59 — total
$2,534.93.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $201.41. Diocesan Mis-
sions $74.77. Thompson Orphanage $57.76. Other objects $30.20 —
total $364.14.
General: General Missions $185. Domestic Missions $44.30. Colored
Missions $5. Jewish Missions $14.61. Sewanee $7.80. Clergymen's
Retiring Fund $12. Other objects $343.36— total $612.07. Aggregate
$3,511.14.
The statistics of St. Luke's Mission, Cary, are included in the above.
Those of the Building Fund are not. Three missionary boxes were
sent, valued at $90. The list of communicants has been revised up to
date. The names of non-residents heretofore retained by special re-
quest, have been omitted.
Raleigh^ Church of St. Amhrose (colored) ; the K.ev. James
E. KixG, Eector.
Families 37. Baptized persons 260. Baptisms: adult 1. Confirmed
3. Communicants: last reported 114; admitted 3; received 2; died 2;
removed 2; present number 113. Marriages 2. Burials 2. Sunday-
school teachers 7; scholars 120. Parish school teachers 3; scholars 160.
Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary; Altar Guild; Rector's
Guild; Junior Brotherhood of St. Andrew. Public services: Sundays
104; other days 75. Holy Communion: public 28; private 3.
Value of church $3,000; school-house $285 — total $3,285. Salary
pledged Minister $120. Insurance $1,800. Indebtedness on property
$350; Ministers salary $23.71.
Receipts — Communion Alms $9.20. Sunday-school offerings $47.
Parish societies $12. Collections $255.77. Other sources $209.05 —
total $533.02.
Disbursements — Parochial : Alms $4. Minister's salary $96.30. Cur-
rent expenses $147.04. Sunday-school $22.05. Improvements $145.20.
Insurance $3.88. Other objects $25.93 — total $418.47.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $26.77. Diocesan Missions
$20.90. Mission at Xoise $2. Other objects $4.70— total $54.37.
General: General Missions $17.21. Other objects $8.13— total $25.34.
Aggregate $498.18.
The Parish school continues to be an important factor in our work.
But we are greatly in need of another teacher for the kindergarten
school. I continue to go to the State Penitentiary the first Sunday in
each month, and preach to the prisoners.
Diocese of North Carolina^ 1906. 105
Raleigh^ St. Augustine's Chapel (coloi-ed) ; the Rev. A. B.
HuxTEE, Minister in Charge; the Rev. H. B. Delaxy,
Assistant Minister.
Families 21. Baptized persons 215. Baptisms: infant 5; adult 9 —
total 14. Confirmed 17. Communicants: last reported 111; admitted
17; died 2; removed 1; present number 126. Burials 3. Sunday-
school teachers 15; scholars 280. Other Parish Agencies: Auxiliaries;
St. Andrew's Brotherhood; Mothers' Meetings; Neighborhood Confer-
ence. Public services: Sundays 144; other days 360. Holy Commu-
nion: public 50; private 3.
Chapel sittings 350.
Value of chapel $3,500. Insurance $1,200.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $52.14, Other sources $1,069.90 —
total $1,122,04,
Dishursements — Parochial: Parochial objects $12,50.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $22. Diocesan Missions
$216,67. Eelief Fund $25.42. Thompson Orphanage $18,68. St. Agnes'
Hospital $177.56. Good Samaritan Hospital $25.99— total $486.32.
General: General Missions $90,04, Domestic Missions $147.14. For-
eign Missions $158,92. Mission for Mutes $8.90. Jewish Mission $28.
Sewanleei Chapel $50. Clergymen's ; Retiring Fund $24, x4merican
Church Building Fund $27,05. Vicksburg Relief $5. San Francisco
Relief $37,08. St. Mary's School, Vicksburg $25. United Offering
$22,09— total $623,22. Aggregate $1,122,04.
Baleigh, St. Mary's Chapel; the Rev. McXeely DuBose,
Rector.
Families 2. Baptized persons 12, Confirmed 7. Communicants:
last reported 9 ; admitted 7 ; present number 9. Sunday-school teachers
4; scholars 136. Other Parish Agencies: Altar Guild; Seven Chapters
of the Auxiliary. Public services : Sundays 85 ; other days 346. Holy
Communion: public 52; private 2.
Chapel sittings 400.
Value of church $5,000; rectory $2,500— total $7,500,
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $60.76. Woman's Auxiliary $114.
Juniors $138.05. Sunday offerings $232.64 — total $545,45,
Disbursements — Parochial: Parish Missions $25. Memorial Altar
$114. Chapel expenses $40— total $179.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $20. Diocesan Missions
$35.25. Education Fund $5. Relief Fund $5. Thompson Orphanage
$25. Benett Smedes Scholarship in same $30.50. Rowan Orphanage
$10.45. Mayodan Mission $9— total $140.20.
General: General Missions $74.86. Domestic Missions $30. Foreign
Missions $30. A, Smedes Scholarship, Shanghai, $30. Morganton Mis-
106 . Parochial Reports.
sion $4. Jewish Missions $4.20. Beaufort School $20. Sewanee $10.
Periodical Club $6. Church Home at Charleston $5. Auxiliary Central
Fund $5.45— total $219.51. Aggregate $538.71.
I have held services in the churches in Raleigh and in various places
in the Diocese of South Carolina.
Raleigh, St. Saviour s Chapel; the Eev. M. M. Marshall,
D.D., Eector.
Families 14. Baptized persons 100. Confirmed 1. Communicants:
last reported 14; admitted 1: died 1; present number 15. Burials 4.
Sunday-school teachers 5 ; scholars 50. Parish school teachers 1 ; schol-
ars 12. Industrial school teachers 2; scholars 12. Other Parish Agen-
cies: Woman's Auxiliary; Sewing Guild. Public services: every Sun-
day night.
Chapel sittings 200.
Value of chapel $1,500. Insurance $1,200.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $17.73. Sunday night offerings
$39.20. Other sources $250— total $306.93.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $29.87. Day school
teacher $250. Other objects $1 — total $280.87.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $3.67. Diocesan Missions
$1.20— total $4.87.
General General Missions $2. Domestic Missions $11.59 — total
$13.59. Aggregate $299.33.
The congregation worshipping in this Chapel have the opportunity of
receiving the Holy Communion every Sunday at Christ Church. This
fact, together with the fact that the Mission is entirely dependent on
Christ Church Parish for its maintenance and on its Rector, with the
assistance of certain laymen, for Sunday services, explains the absence
of some items usually found in parochial reports. The attendance at
the day school has been materially affected by the graded school recently
opened near the Chapel.
Reidsville, St. Thomas' Church; the Rev. W. Lawtoi^ Mel-
LicHAMPE, Rector.
Families 21. Baptized persons 92. Communicants 42. Public ser-
vices: Sundays 32; other days 25. Holy Communion 7.
Church sittings 250.
Value of church $3,000. Salary pledged Minister $225. Insurance
$1,000.
Receipts — Communion Alms $12. Sunday-school offerings $43. Par-
ish societies $55.89. Easter $5.35. Other sources $260.41— total $376.65.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $12. Minister's salary $201. Cur-
rent expenses $30.64. Sunday-school $37.34. Improvements $53.07 —
total $334.05.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 107
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $20. Diocesan Missions
$7.68. Relief Fund $1.50. Thompson Orphanage $4. Other objects
$6.75— total $39.93.
General: General Missions $2.67. Aggregate $376.65.
Ridgeway, Church of the Good Shepherd; the Rev. Fraxcis
JoYXER, Rector.
Families 8. Baptized persons 48. Baptisms: infant 1. Communi-
cants: last reported 32; restored 1; present number 33. Sunday-school
teachers 2. Public services: Sundays 11; other days 1. Holy Com-
munion 7.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $800; rectory $1,000— total $1,800. Salary pledged
Minister $100.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $4. Parish societies $23. Other
sources $77.26— total $104.26.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $75.
Diocesan: Thompson Orphanage $3. All Saints' Mission School $2.
Other objects $5.46— total $10.46.
General: General Missions $4.50. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $2.
Other objects $12.30— total $18.80. Aggregate $104.26.
Inability to get report from the Treasurer of the parish prevents giv-
ing a full financial report. The reports for the Sunday-school and
Ladies' Societies are to April 30. My report of services etc., is only to
February 1.
Bingwood, St. Clement's Clnircli ; the Rev. Homer Leach
Hoover, Minister in Charge.
Families 3. Baptized persons 15. Communicants 10. Public ser-
vices: Sundays 12. Holy Communion 2.
Value of church $1,200. Salary pledged Minister $100.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $41.25.
Diocesan: Diocesan Missions $1.25. Aggregate $42.50.
Such a report as I am able to make begins on November 1, 1905. I
do not know anything of the finances of the church previous to that
time. I go there only once a month, and therefore there is little
organization.
Eoanoke Rapids, All Saints^ Mission; the Rev. Fraxcis
JoYi^EB, Minister in Charge.
Families 9. Baptized persons 22. Baptisms: infant 5. Communi-
cants 9. Sunday-school teachers 3; scholars 22. Parish school teachers
1; scholars 22. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary. Public
services: Sundays 15; other days 2. Holy Communion 3.
108 Parochial Reports.
Value of cliurch property $1,000. Salary pledged Minister $100. In-
debtedness on Minister's salary $33.33.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $8.90. Parish societies $7. Other
sources $140.94— total $156.84.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $90. Current expenses
$22.45. Mission school $25— total $137.45.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $10. Diocesan Missions
$2.21. Other objects $2.50— total $14.71.
General: General Missions $2.68. Other objects $2— total $4.68.
Aggregate $156.84.
Since last report the Mission was organized by the Bishop with eight
members, and Dr. A. C. Hoyt, Warden, and Wm. F. Joyner, Secretary and
Treasurer. The, Mission school has done good work with Miss Sue H.
Hill, teacher. The number of pupils is very uncertain, having ranged from
42 to 22. We have been fortunate in having money to pay the salary
of teacher, and since it has some official recognition in the allowance of
fifty dollars by the Executive Missionary Committee of the Convocation,
we feel that the school is a permanent institution in the Mission. I
append an account of all moneys received and paid out for the school
with grateful acknowledgment to all who so aided our work.
[By direction of the Bishop this account of $206.86 has been for-
warded to the Treasurer of the Convocation of Ealeigh. — Secretary.]
Rochingham, Church of the Messiah; the Rev. J. Luther
Maetix, Minister in Charge.
Families 12. Baptized persons 37. Baptisms: infant 3. Communi-
cants: last reported. 24; died 1; present number 23. Burials 1. Pub-
lic services: Sundays 19. Holy Communion 5.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $1,500. Minister's salary $150. Indebtedness on
Minister's salary $7.25.
Receipts — ^All sources $200.73.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $144.66. Current ex-
penses $4.35. Travelling expenses Rector $29.62— total $178.63.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $16. Other objects $1.10 —
total $17.10.
General: Domestic Missions $5. Aggregate $200.73.
Since July last I have been holding services in Hamlet on the Sun-
days I went to Rockingham. Have held 19 services and celebrated
Holy Communion 4 times. There are 27 Episcopalians there, but we
cannot count them, as they belong to other parishes and have not been
transferred; they may only be there a little while. Have also baptized
one infant. They have contributed toward my salary $115, travelling
expenses $31.75, and other expenses $27.64, Missions $4.25, total $178.64.
We hold service in a hall which we rent.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 109
BocJcy Mount, Churcli of tJie Good Shepherd; the Eev.
RoBT. B. Owens, Rector.
Families: white 60; colored 1. Baptized persons 240. Baptisms:
infant 9. Confirmed 2. Communicants: last reported, white 145, col-
ored 1; admitted 2; received 10; died 1; removed 15; present number,
white 141, colored 1. Marriages 6. Burials 6. Sunday-school teachers
8; scholars 70. Teachers at Bunn School 4; scholars 45. Other Parish
Agencies: Auxiliaries; Ladies' Aid Society; Young Women's Guild.
Public services: Sundays 101; other days 97. Holy Communion: public
51 ; private 1.
Church sittings 200.
Value "of church $6,000; rectory $2,000; endowments $2,000— total
$10,000. Salary pledged Minister $900. Insurance $3,300.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $108.48. Ladies' Aid Society
$316.54. Woman's Auxiliary $50.50. Young Women's Guild $179.06.
•Junior Auxiliary $135. Babies' Auxiliary $13.50. Other sources $1,-
465.30— total $2,268.38.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $900. Current expenses
$122.97. Other objects $127.10— total $1,150.07.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $104.87. Diocesan Mis-
sions $100.02. Education Fund $18.24. Belief Fund $48.55. Thompson
Orphanage $118.06. Other objects $5— total $394.74.
General: General Missions $109.75. Domestic Missions $35. For-
eign Missions $21.34. Sewanee $1.80. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $5.
General Clergy Relief $6.56. Other objects $85 — total $264.45. Aggre-
gate $1,809.26.
I baptized an infant at Christ Church, Cleveland, and buried one
person at Wilson, the Parish being without a Rector. Of the Sunday-
school offerings $63.79 was from the Bunn School. The Ladies Aid
Society has deposited in bank over $1,200 to the credit of the organ
fund, and we are now considering the question of building a new
church.
Rowan County, St. Jude's Chapel; the Rev, F. J. Mur-
doch, D.D., Priest in Charge; the Rev. L. W. Black-
WELDEE, Minister.
Baptized persons 53. Baptisms: infant 1. Communicants 23.
Burials 1. Public services: Sundays 20; other days 10. Holy Com-
munion 3.
Chapel sittings 80.
Value of church $325.
Receipts — Sunday-school Easter offering $3.11. All sources $15.38 —
total $18.49.
110 Parochial Reports.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $8.01. Current expenses
$0.72— total $8.73.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
$1.66. Education Fund $0.25. Relief Fund $0.30. Thompson Orphan-
age $0.34 — total $5.05.
General: General Missions $4.11. Sewanee $0.30. American Church
Building Fund $0.30— total $4.71. Aggregate $18.49.
Roivan County, St. Mark's Church; the Rev. F. J. Mur-
doch, D.D., Priest in Charge.
Families 6. Communicants 13. Public services: Sundays 10.
Church sittings. 100.
Disltursements — General: General Missions $0.46.
Rowan County, St. Mary's Church; the Eev. F. J. Mur-
doch, D.D., Rector.
Baptized persons 51. Baptisms: infant 8. Communicants 27. Public
services: Sundays 18. Holy Communion 3. ^
Church sittings 120.
Value of church $1,000: other church property $700 — total $1,700.
Insurance $500.
Receipts — All sources $127.68.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $95.31.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $12.20. Diocesan Missions
$5. Belief Fund $3.16. Thompson Orphanage $3.01— total $23.37.
General: General Missions $5. Sewanee $1. General Clergy Belief
$2— total $8. Aggregate $126.68.
These eight baptisms were administered by the Rev. B. S. McKenzie,
of Macon, Mo., for me.
Rowan County, St. Mattlieiv's Chapel; the Rev.- F. J. Mur-
doch, Priest in Charge ; the Rev. W. L. Blackweldee,
Assistant Minister.
Baptized persons 63. Baptisms: infant 1. Communicants 41. Sun-
day-school teachers 1; scholars 51. Public services: Sundays 20; other
days 11. Holy Communion 3.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $350.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $2.10. Other sources $15.67 — total
$17.77.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $6.76. Hymnals $1.20 —
total $7.90.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. Ill
$2.08. Education Fund $0.36. Relief Fund $0.30. Thompson Orphean-
age $0.87— total $6.11.
General: General Missions $3.10. Sewanee $0.30. American Church
Building Fund $0.30— total $3.70. Aggregate $17.77.
Salisbury, St. Lukes Church; the Eev. F. J. Muedoch,
Rector.
Baptisms: infant 12. Confirmed 12. Communicants: last reported
141; admitted 1; received 4; died 4; removed 4; present number 138.
Marriages 3. Burials 10. Sunday-school teachers 10; scholars 60.
Public services: Sundays 104; other days 80. Holy Communion: pub-
lic 52; private 3.
Church sittings 300.
Value of church $20,000; rectory $5,000 — total $25,000. Insurance
$1,200. Indebtedness on property $400; other debts $100.
Receipts — Communion Alms $671.73. Other sources $921.75 — total
$1,593.48.
Dishursements — Parochial: Alms $57. Minister's salary $921.75.
Current expenses $71.67. Improvements $14.45. Debt on J Rectory
$68.46— total $1,133.33.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $113.45. Diocesan Mis-
sions $77.85. Education Fund $7.36. Relief Fund $11.37. Thompson
Orphanage $61.41. Ascension Chapel, Davie Co., $35.80. Bishop's col-
lections $26.36— total $333.60.
General: General Missions $113.48. Sewanee $7.25. American
Church Building Fund $5.82 — total $126.55. Aggregate $1,593.48.
Mr. Blackwelder officiated at two of these burials. I buried one
person at Ansonville, one at Christ Church, and one at St. George's
Church, also one at Albemarle. I baptized one adult at Albemarle.
Salisbury, St. Johns Chapel; the Rev. F. J. Muedoch,
D.D., Rector; the Rev. L. W. Blackweldee, Assistant
Minister.
Baptized persons 36. Baptisms: infant 1. Communicants 7. Sun-
day-school teachers 3; scholars 20. Public services: Sundays 20; other
days 10.
Church sittings 120.
Value of church $500; other church property $2,500 — total $3,000.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $3.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
$0.55. Relief Fund $0.30— total $3.35.
General: General Missions $1. Sewanee $0.30 — total $1.30. Aggre-
gate $7.65.
112 Parochial Reports.
Salisbury, St. Peter s Chapel j the Eev. F. J. Muedoch,
D.D.y Rector; the Rev. S. J. M. Beowis^, Assistant Min-
ister.
Baptized persons 51. Baptisms: infant 3. Communicants 16. Mar-
riages 1. Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers 4; scholars 20. Public
services: Sundays 62; other days 15. Holy Communion 10.
Church sittings 120.
Value of church $750. Insurance $400.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $8.18. Collections $8.91 — total
$17.09.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $3.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
$0.97. Education Fund $0.30. Relief Fund $0.30. Thompson Orphan-,
age $0.26 — total $4.33.
General: General Missions $9.18. American Church Building Fund
$0.30— total $9.48. Aggregate $16.81.
Sanford, St, Thomas' Church; the Rev. James Dickinson
SiMMOxSj Minister in Charge.
Families 9. Baptized persons 29. Communicants: last reported 16;
removed 1; present number 15. Marriages 1. Sunday-school teachers
5; scholars 30. Public services: Sundays 12; other days 4. Holy Com-
munion 4.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $1,100. Salary pledged Minister $50.
Receipts — Communion Alms $2. Sunday-school offerings $9 — total $11.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $2. Minister's salary $50. Current
expenses $3.25. Improvements $1.50 — total $56.75.
Satter white, St. Simeon's Church (colored) ; the Rev.
Chaeles Heney Male, Minister in Charge.
Families 15. Baptized persons 60. Baptisms: infant 5. Confirmed
5. Communicants : last reported 40 ; admitted 5 ; present number 45.
Marriages 1. Burials 2. Sunday-school teachers 2; scholars 47. Public
services: Sundays 12; other days 8. Holy Communion 5.
Church sittings 250.
Value of church $800.
Receipts — Communion Alms $3.75. Sunday-school offerings $5. Par-
ish s(](cieties $13.13. Offerings $7.48. Other sources $95.01 — total
$124.37.
Disbursements — Parochial: Improvements $87.32.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.80.
General: Domestic Missions $1.24. Foreign Missions $1.24. Other
objects $2.41— total $4.89. Aggregate $95.01.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 113
St. Simeon's Church will soon be completed, and the crude benches
will be replaced by neatly-made pews. Through the kindness of our
Bishop, we got $80.80 from Northern friends for the building fund. Mr.
John Wilkes also gave $2, Rev. William Walker sent us $2, and Rev.
McXeely DuBose donated $2!. With this sum we hope to make the
church comfortable and attractive. In a short time the cemetery will
be enclosed and laid out in squares under the wise direction of the donor,
Benjamin P. Thorp, Esq. Mr. Thorp is a good friend and a Kind neigh-
bor to the colored people at Satterwhite.
Scotland Necl\, Trinity Church; the Kev. Gikaed W.
Phelps, Rector.
Families: white 39; colored 1. Baptized persons: white 140; colored
2. Baptisms: infant 3. Confirmed 3. Communicants: last reported
113; admitted 2; died 5; removed 6; present number 104. Marriages 1.
Burials 10. Sunday-school teachers 5 ; scholars 45. Other Parish Agen-
cies: Auxiliary; Ladies' Aid Society; Orphanage Guild. Public services:
Sundays 109; other days QQ. Holy Communion: public 32; private 5.
Church sittings 350; chapel sittings 300.
Value of church $5,000; chapel $3,000; rectory $2,000— total $10,000.
Salary pledged Minister $300. Insurance $3,000.
Receipts — Communion Alms $26.50. Sunday-school offerings $40.42.
Parish societies $255. Other sources $606.08 — total $928.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $300. Current expenses
$86.68. Improvements $19.92 — total $406.60.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $38. Diocesan Missions
$40.91. Education Fund $2.35. Thompson Orphanage $25.94— total
$107.20.
General: General Missions $48.92. Jewish Missions $3.69. Clergy-
men's Retiring Fund $9.34. General Clergy Relief $7.75. American
Church Building Fund $1.26. Other objects $158.74— total $229.70.
Aggregate $743.50.
The report includes all services at mission points. The work in
Scotlank Neck is favorably progressing. While we have no great in-
crease in numbers, there is greatly increasing interest in the services
of the Church. Our Lent services were well attended throughout, and
much interest was manifested in the early Communion, which speaks
well for the people, considering the cold, wet, disagreeable weather we
had in Lent.
114 Parochial Reports.
Smithfield Mission; the Rev. S. M. Hanff, Minister in
Charge.
Families 3. Baptized persons 19. Baptisms: infant 3; adult 2 — total
5. Confirmed 4. Communicants: admitted 6; present number 11. Pub-
lic services: Sundays 17. Holy Communion 3.
Chapel sittings 200.
Salary pledged Minister $160.
Southern Pines, Emmanuel Church; the Rev. Henry T.
Gregory, Minister in Charge.
Families 17. Baptized persons: white 53; colored 1. Baptisms: in-
fant, white 2, colored 1 — total 3. Communicants: last reported, white
24, colored 1 ; admitted 1 ; died 1 ; removed 1 ; present number 24.
Marriages: white 1; colored 1. Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers 3;
scholars 16. Public services: Sundays 62; other days 20. Holy Com-
munion: public 25; private 1.
Church sittings 96.
Value of church $2,000. Insurance $1,000.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $40.53. Parish societies $73.65.
Other sources $441.63— total $555.81.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $341.21. Current ex-
penses $23.60. Improvements $27.31 — total $392.12.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $25.05. Diocesan Missions
$41.59. Education Fund $1.05. Relief Fund $0.50. Thompson Orphan-
age $19.96 — total 88.15.
General: Domestic Missions $27.26. Foreign Missions $20.05. Jew-
ish Missions $8.86. General Clergy Relief $12.82. Other objects $6.55—
total $75.54. Aggregate $555.81.
Pinehurst is no longer connected with this Mission; consequently no
services were held there by its Minister in Charge during the past year.
Spencer, St. Joseph's Church; the Rev. F. J. Murdoch,
D.D., Minister in Charge.
Baptized persons 8. Baptisms: infant 2. Communicants: last re-
ported 11; removed 6; present number 5. Public services: Sundays 24.
Value of church $800. Insurance $400. Indebtedness on property
$200.
Receipts — All sources $8.60.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $3.70.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
$2.52. Relief Fund $0.30. Thompson Orphanage $0.30— total $5.62.
General: General Missions $1.80. Aggregate $11.12.
Services are now maintained twice a month. The people interested in
Chapel are continually moving.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 115
Statesville, Chapel of the Holy Cross (colored) ; tlie Eev.
T. B. Bailey, Minister in Charge.
Families 7. Baptized persons 22. Baptisms: infant 1. Communi-
cants: last reported 11; admitted 1; received 2; present number 16.
Marriages 1. Sunday-school teachers 3; scholars 28. Parish school
teachers 1; scholars 65. Public services: Sundays 68; other days 12.
Chapel sittings 200.
Value of chapel $400. Salary pledged Minister $18. Indebtedness on
Minister's salary $6.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $9.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $12. Sunday-school $3
— total $15.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $1.50, Diocesan Missions
$2— total $3.50.
General: General Missions $1. Domestic Missions $3.30 — total $4.30.
Aggregate $22.80.
Statesville, Trinity Church; the Eev. Edward L. Ogilby,
Minister in Charge.
Families 23. Baptized persons 68. Baptisms: infant 2. Communi-
cants : last reported 35 ; received 4 ; restored 2 ; died 1 ; removed 2 ;
withdrawn 1; present number 37. Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers
3 ; scholars 24. Other Parish Agencies : Woman's Guild ; Junior Auxili-
ary. Public services: Sundays 52; other days 63. Holy Communion:
public 15; private 2.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $2,800; rectory $750 — total $3,550. Salary pledged
Minister $270. Insurance $350. Indebtedness on Minister's salary $66.
Receipts — Communion Alms $26.48. Sunday-school offerings $24.84.
Parish societies $81.38. Other sources $310.49 — total $443.19.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $21.25. Minister's salary $234. Cur-
rent expenses $36.50. Sunday-school $23.89. Improvements $5.50 — total
$321.14.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $35. Diocesan Missions
$24.75. Education Fund $1.85. Relief Fund $1.50. Thompson Orphan-
age $30. Other objects $1.82 — total $94.92.
General: General Missions $14.75. Jewish Missions $1.65. Sewanee
$3.28. General Clergy Relief $3.20. Other objects $4— total $26.88.
Aggregate $442.94.
Stolces County, Knowlhurst Chapel; the Rev. Alfred R.
Berkeley, Minister in Charge.
Families 1. Baptized persons 3. Communicants received 2. Sunday-
school teachers 3; scholars 27. Public services: Sundays 8; other days
1. Holy Communion 1.
116 Parochial Reports.
Chapel sittings 100.
Value of chapel $200.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $9.22. Donations $25. Collections
$4.03. Other sources $5 — total $43.25.
Disbursements — Parochial: Sunday-school $7.50. Improvements and
repairs $30 — total $37.50.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $0.50. Diocesan Missions
$0.83. Thompson Orphanage $1.40. Other objects $0.50 — total $3.23.
General: General Missions $2.52. Aggregate $43.25.
Regular services are held here one Sunday each month. The Chapel
is in the country five miles from Madison, N. C.
Stoneville, Emmanuel Church; the Rev. Alfred Rives
Berkeley, Minister in Charge; Mr. ^. S. Smith, Lay
Reader.
Families 7. Baptized persons 16. Baptisms: infant 4; adult 1 —
total 5. Confirmed 1. Communicants: last reported 12; admitted 1;
withdrawn 1; present number 12. Sunday-school teachers 2; scholars
15. Parish school teachers 1; scholars 7. Other Parish Agencies:
Woman's Auxiliary. Public services: Sundays 20; other days 8, Holy
Communion: public 4; private 1.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $1,000. Salary pledged Minister $25. Insurance
$750.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $7.07. Parish societies $2.50. Do-
nations $38.50. Collections $41.86 — total $89.93.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $22.08. Sunday-school
$2. Improvements $25. Insurance $13.50 — total $62.58.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $2.50. Diocesan Missions
$1.90. Thompson Orphanage $4.30. Other objects $2.60— total $11.30.
General: General Missions $12.68. Foreign Missions $0.50. Ameri-
can Church Building Fund $2.67. Other objects $0.20— total $16.05.
Aggregate $89.93.
Stovall, St. Peter s Church; the Rev. Francis W. Hilliard,
Minister in Charge.
Families 7. Baptized persons 20. Baptisms: infant 2; adult 1 —
total 3. Communicants: last reported 15; received 1; died 1; removed
1 ; present number 14. Marriages 1. Burials 1. Other Parish Agen-
cies: Babies' Branch. Public services: Sundays 12; other days 3. Holy
Communion 8.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $600.
Receipts — All sources $84.88.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 117
Disbursements— Parochial: Minister's salary $62.61. Improvements
$100— total $162.01.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $4.30. Diocesan Missions
$7.44. Relief Fund $2. Other objects $2— total $15.74.
General: General Missions $4.53. Aggregate $182.88.
The church has been painted on the outside, a tin roof put on and
painted, and a beautiful altar cross presented. For these improvements
we are largely indebted to Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Dickerson, of New York
and Stovall. The Priest in charge has been officiating frequently in
St. Stephen's Church, Oxford, during the last five months, the Rector-
ship being vacant. His official acts appear in the report from that
parish.
Tarhoro, Calvary Church; the Rev. F. Haerimatst Harding,
Rector.
Families 130. Baptized persons 427. Baptisms: infant 18; adult 1—
total 19. Confirmed 13. Communicants: last reported 228; admitted
13; received 9; restored 5; died 2; removed 3; present number 250.
Marriages 4. Burials 6. Sunday-school teachers 19; scholars 111.
Other Parish Agencies: Auxiliaries; Altar Guild; Rectory Aid; Parish
Aid; St. Mary's School Guild; Junior and Senior Chapters of St. An-
drew's Brotherhood. Public services: Sundays 141; other days 151.
Holy Communion: public 59; private 2.
Church sittings 500; chapel sittings 125.
Value of church $25,000; chapel $1,800; rectory $3,600; other church
property $1,400— total $31,800. Salary pledged Minister $1,000. In-
surance $6,250.
Receipts — Communion Alms $42.55. Sunday-school offerings $115.44.
Woman's Auxiliary $178.96. Juniors $28. Baby's Branch $17.04. Rec-
tory Aid $73.75. Altar Guild $46.40. Parish Aid $36.90. St. Mary's
School Guild $14.40. St. Andrew's Brotherhood $12. Other sources
$2,497.98— total $3,063.42.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $35.55. Minister's salary $1,000.
Current expenses $225.23. Sunday-school $26.03. Improvements $95.43.
Work of Altar Guild $46.40. Archdeacon Webber, for missions, $167.
Other objects $164.08— total $1,759.72.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $132.50. Diocesan Mis-
sions $113.26. Education Fund $7.15. Relief Fund $9. Thompson
Orphanage $166.44. Special $8.30. Other objects $39.40— total $476.05.
General: General Missions $160.99. Domestic Missions $17.13. For-
eign Missions $31.14. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $12. General Clergy
Relief $7. Other objects $22— total $250.26. Aggregate $2,486.03.
In the above report is included the value of boxes sent from this
Parish to Thompson Orphanage. I have held services and assisted in
St. Peter's, Washington, N. C; Galilee Chapel, Virginia Beach, Va.;
Ascension, Baltimore, Md.
118 Parochial Reports.
Tarhoro, St. Luke's Church; the Rev. John W. Perey,
Eector.
Families 22. Baptized persons 170. Baptisms: infant 7; adult 9 —
total 16. Confirmed 7. Communicants: last reported 84; died 3; pres-
ent number 81. Marriages 2. Burials 5. Sunday-school teachers 8;
scholars 86. Parish school teachers 5; scholars 164. Sewing school
teachers 4; scholars 91. Other Parish Agencies: St. Luke's Guild;
Woman's Aid Society; Mission Helpers; Altar Guild. Public services:
Sundays 103; other days 138. Holy Communion: public 20; private 2.
Church sittings 280.
Value of church $3,000. Salary pledged Minister $120. Insurance
$2,000.
Receipts — Communion Alms $7.30. Sunday-school offerings $63.30.
Parish societies $44.96. Other sources $285.04 — total $400.60.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $6.25. Minister's Salary $120. Cur-
rent expenses $48.60. Sunday-school $18.80. Improvements $80.60.
Insurance $31.60— total $305.85.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $16.20. Diocesan Missions
$19. Other objects $11.05— total $46.25.
General: General Missions $26.50. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $2.
General Clergy Relief $2.50. American Church Building Fund $2—
total $33. Aggregate $385.10.
Thomasville, Chapel of the Good Shepherd; the Kev. W.
Lawtox Mellichampe, Minister in Charge.
Families 4. Baptized persons 14. Baptisms: adult 1. Confirmed 5.
Communicants : last reported 5 ; received 1 ; removed 2 ; present num-
ber 9. Sunday-school teachers 2; scholars 8. Public services: Sundays
20; other days 3. Holy Communion 1.
Receipts — Communion Alms $2.50. Offerings at services $20. Other
sources $55— total $77.50.
Distursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $70. Other objects
$7.50— total $77.50.
Change in this Mission is due to the removal of two of the most use-
ful families of the congregation.
Wadeshoro, Calvary Church.
Families 27. Baptized persons 162. Baptisms: infant 7; adult 3 —
total 10. Confirmed 4. Communicants: last reported 55; admitted 4;
died 2; present number 57. Burials 2. Sunday-school teachers 4;
scholars 60. Other Parish Agencies: Auxiliary; Parish Guild; Church
Periodical Club. Public services : Sundays 8. < Holy Communion 9.
Church sittings 280.
Value of church $5,000; chapel $75; rectory $2,000 — total $7,075.
Insurance $3,600.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906, 119
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $17.50. Parish Guild $20.14.
Woman's Auxiliary $56.90. Juniors $18.20. Babies' Branch $2. Other
sources $397.32— total $512.06.
Dishursetnents — Parochial: Minister's salary $24. Improvements
$4.10. Insurance $35— total $63.10.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $113.50. Diocesan Mis-
sions $69.42— total $182.92.
General: General objects $154.30. Aggregate $400.32.
Two boxes valued at $52.85 have been sent to the Orphanage.
Walnut Cove, Christ Church; the Rev. Alfeed Rives
Berkeley, Minister in Charge.
Families 19. Baptized persons 45. Communicants: last reported 27;
received 1; restored 2; died 1; removed 2; present number 27. Burials
1. Sunday-school teachers 6; scholars 115. Other Parish Agencies:
Auxiliaries. Public services: Sundays 24. Holy Communion 2.
Church sittings 250.
Value of church $1,400. Salary pledged Minister $100.
Receipts — Parish societies $1.25. Subscriptions $97. Collections
$19.71. Other sources $4.98— total $122.94.
Dishursetnents — Parochial: Parish Missions $94. Improvements $2.46
—total $96.46.
Diocesan Episcopal and Contingent Fund $10. Diocesan Missions
$2.49. Thompson Orphanage $2.15. Other objects $3.15— total $17.79.
General: General Missions $6.85. Sewanee $74. American Church
Building Fund $1.10— total $8.69. Aggregate $122.94.
This report includes services and offerings at Blackburn's Plantation,
near Walnut Cove. During July and August Mr. P. R. Phelps, a stu-
dent at the Virginia Theological Seminary, was in charge of this work.
Warren County^ St. Luke's Chapel (colored) ; the Rev. J. H.
M. Pollard, Minister in Charge.
Families 10. Baptized persons 45. Baptisms: infant 8. Confirmed 2.
Communicants: last reported 20; died 1: present number 21. Burials 1.
Sunday-school teachers 1; scholars 47. Public services: Sundays 65.
Chapel sittings 100.
Value of chapel $200.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $8.54. Other sources $11 — total
$19.54.
Dishursements — Parochial: Current expenses $3.04.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $12.50.
General: General Missions $2. Other objects $2.50 — total, $4.50. Ag-
gregate $20.04.
120 Parochial Reports.
Warrenton, All Saints' Chapel (colored) ; the Rev. J. H. M.
PoLLAKD, Minister in Charge.
Families 7. Baptized persons 39. Confirmed 1. Communicants: last
reported 23; admitted 1; restored 8; present number 32. Sunday-school
teachers 5; scholars 46. Parish school teachers 1; scholars 102.
Chapel sittings 100.
Value of chapel $400. Insurance $300.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $12.62. Church offerings $45.19.
Other sources $96.70— total $154.51.
Disbursements — Parochial: Current expenses $21.43. Sunday-school
$4.50. Improvements $7. Other objects $96.70 — total $129.63.
Diocesan: Other objects $17.08.
General: General Missions $3. Other objects $4.80 — total $7.80. Ag-
gregate $154.51.
Warre7iton, Emmanuel Church; the Rev. James E. Poi:s'-
DEXTEE, Rector.
Families 26. Baptized persons 108. Baptisms: infant 8; adult (col-
ored) 1 — total 9. Confirmed 2. Communicants: last reported 63; ad-
mitted 2; received 5; died 1; removed 9; present number 60. Mar-
riages: white 3; colored 1. Burials: white 2; colored 3. Sunday-
school teachers 8; scholars 45. Other Parish Agencies: Auxiliaries;
Parish Aid Society. Public services: Sundays 59; other days 57. Holy
Communion: public 16; private 1.
Church sittings 250.
Value of church $3,000; rectory $2,000— total $5,000. Salary pledged
Minister $250. Insurance $4,475. Indebtedness on Minister's salary $73.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $12.50. Parish societies $127.80.
Other sources $586.43— total $726.73.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $243.33. Current ex-
penses $150. Improvements $250 — total $643.33.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $78.22. Diocesan Missions
$5.75. Relief Fund $5. Thompson Orphanage $21.96. Other objects
$11.69— total $122.62.
General: General Missions $15. Domestic Missions $5.47 — total $20.47.
Aggregate $786.42.
Mr. Walter G. Rogers holds lay services regularly on the third and
fourth Sundays of each month when the Rector is officiating at Wil-
liamsboro or at Middleburg. A box valued at $60 was sent to the
Thompson Orphanage.
'Weldon, Grace Church; the Rev. Geo. M. Tolsox, Rector.
Families 17. Baptized persons 111. Baptisms: infant 2. Communi-
cants: last reported 38; received 2; present number 40. Sunday-school
teachers 6: scholars 23. Other Parish Agencies: Ladies' Aid Society;
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 121
Auxiliaries; Men's Missionary League. Public services: Sundays 48;
other days, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saints' days. Holy Communion:
monthly and on Saints' days.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $2,500; rectory $800; other church property $675.22—
total $3,975.22. Salary pledged Minister $400. Insurance $1,500.
A'ccr/p^s— Sunday-school offerings $29.46. Ladies' Auxiliary $76.35.
Junior Auxiliary $9.92. Other sources $388.46 — total $504.19.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $200. Current expenses
$23.93. Sunday-school $11— total $234.93.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $98.67. Diocesan Mis-
sions $33. Education Fund $2.35. Thompson Orphanage $66.38. Mayo-
dan Mission $5. Roanoke Rapids $5.70. Other objects $2 — total $213.10.
General: General Missions $47.01. Domestic Missions $6.10. Foreign
Missions $1. Clergymen's Retiring Fund $2 — total $56.11. Aggregate
$504.14.
I assumed charge of this Parish Xovember 1st. This report, there-
fore, mainly covers only a period of six months. Owing to the fact
that the Parish was so long without a Rector, the financial statement
is incomplete, though both the former Treasurer and his successor are
excellent business men and have performed their duties well. When I
took charge, the Parish was largely in debt, but we do not now owe
a cent. Though the last payments were made too late to be credited
upon the books of the Treasurer of the Convention. At the time I write
this we are entirely free from all indebtedness.
WiUiamshoro, Sf. Johns Church; the Rev. James E. Poin-
DEXTER, Rector.
Families 8. Baptized persons 28. Baptisms: infant 1. Communi-
cants 23. Public services: Sundays 9. Holy Communion 4.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $1,500.
Receipts — All sources $73.42.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $63.92. Current ex-
penses $2— total $65.92.
General: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $5. Foreign Missions $2.50.
Aggregate $73.42.
During the winter months it was impossible, on account of cold and
rains, to hold services in St. John's.
Wilson, St. Marh's Chapel (colored) ; the Rev. Robt. :N'.
Perey, Minister in Charge.
Families 20. Baptized persons 76. Baptisms: infant 2; adult 5—
total 7. Confirmed 4. Communicants: last reported 18; admitted 4;
received 2; restored 3; died 1; present number 25. Marriages 2.
122 Parochial Reports.
Burials 1. Sunday-school teachers 4; scholars 73. Parish school teach-
ers 1; scholars 73. Other Parish Agencies: Woman's Auxiliary; La-
dies' Guild of St. Catharine. Public services: Sundays 139; other days
44. Holy Communion 3.
Chapel sittings 250.
Value of chapel $1,200. Salary pledged Minister $60. Insurance
$900.
Receipts — Sunday-school offerings $36.28. Parish societies $20. Other
sources $81.21— total $137.49.
Disbursements — Parochial: Minister's! salary $40. Current expenses
$44.21. Sunday-school $2.60— total $86.81.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $18. Diocesan Missions $8.
Other objects $2.25— total $28.25.
General: General Missions $12. American Church Building Fund $2 —
total $14. Aggregate $129.06.
Wilson^ St. Timothy's Church; the Rev. Thaddeus A.
CheathaMj Rector.
Families 67. Baptized persons 188. Baptisms: infant 6; adult 2 —
total 8. Confirmed 4. Communicants: last reported 101; admitted 4;
received 5; restored 2; died 1; removed 1; present number 110. Burials
3. Sunday-school teachers 8; scholars 51. Other Parish Agencies:
Woman's Auxiliary; St. Timothy's Guild; St. Agnes' Guild. Public
services: Sundays 70; other days 45. Holy Communion: public 16;
private 3.
Church sittings 150.
Value of church $3,000 ; rectory $2,000— total $5,000. Salary pledged
Minister $900. Insurance $3,000.
Receipts — Communion Alms $18. Sunday-school offerings $24. Wo-
man's Auxiliary $71.60. St. Agnes' Guild $189.25. St. Timothy's Guild
$50. Both Guilds special $320. Other sources $1,059.04— total $1,-
731.89.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $14.64. Minister's salary $525.
Current expenses $58.31. Improvements $80. Other objects $104.37 —
total $782.32.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $128.65. Diocesan Mis-
sions $14. Thompson Orphanage $23 — total $165.65.
General: General Missions $14. Foreign Missions $29.20. Clergy-
men's Retiring Fund $2.50. Auxiliary work $10.60— total $56.30. Ag-
gregate $1,004.27.
This report is necessarily incomplete on account of a change of Rec-
tors, the Parish being six months without a Rector. It has been defi-
nitely determined to begin work on the new church either in May or
June. A box valued at $25 was sent to the Orphanage.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 123
Winston, St. Paul's Church; the Eev. Henry Teller
CocKEj Re<3tor.
Families: white 74; colored 7. Baptized persons: white 200; col-
ored 8. Baptisms: infant — white 8; colored 1 — total 9. Confirmed 5.
Communicants: last reported — white 147; colored 7; admitted 5; re-
ceived 4; died 5; removed 13; present number 138. Marriages 3. Bur-
ials 6. Sunday-school teachers 7; scholars 70. Public services: Sun-
days 104; other days 76. Holy Communion: public, Sundays and
Saints' Days; private 1.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $2,000 ; rectory $4,000— total $6,000. Salary pledged
Minister $1,000.
Receipts — Communion Alms $57.95. Sunday-school offerings $59.80.
Parish societies $300. Other sources $1,527.59— total $1,945.34.
Disbursements — Parochial: Alms $57.95. Minister's salary $900.
Current expenses $417.92. Sunday-school $60. Improvements $60. In-
surance $48. On lot $50. Other objects $251.89— total $1,845.76.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $71.12. Thompson Orphan-
age $15— total $86.12.
General: General Missions $13.46. Aggregate $1,945.34.
The amount paid on church lot does not appear in the report. The
debt of $900 has been paid since January, 1905. A collection of $750
for new church building was taken at Easter.
Woodleaf, St. George's Church; the Rev. S. J. M. Brown,
Minister in Charge.
Families 19. Baptized persons 88. Baptisms: infant 1. Communi-
cants: last reported 46; received 2; died 1; present number 48. Bur-
ials 1. Sunday-school teachers 3; scholars 22. Public services: Sun-
days 23; other days 2. Holy Communion 1.
Church sittings 200.
Value of church $600; rectory $600— total $1,200. Salary pledged
Minister $120. Insurance $450. Indebtedness on property $200. In-
debtedness on Minister's salary $16.
Receipts — Communion Alms $0.75.
Dishursements — Parochial: Minister's salary $4.
Diocesan: Episcopal and Contingent Fund $1.52. Education Fund
$0.60. Other objects $0.75— tot^l $2.87. Aggregate $6.87.
Having served this congregation two months only, this report is com-
plete only so far as I could ascertain.
121 Report of Archdeacons.
REPORT OF THE ARCHDEACON OF RALEIGH.
Rt. Rev. Jos. B. Cheshire, D.D., Bishop of North Carolina.
Rt. Rev. and Dear Sir: — ^As you know, I was made Archdeacon in
October, but did not begin my work until November 1st, 1905. This
report, therefore, covers only a period of six months. During this time
I have visited and officiated as follows :
Smithfield, 2 visits, 3 services, 3 sermons, 2 celebrations Holy Com-
munion.
Selma, 2 visits, 1 service, 1 sermon.
Enfield, 3 visits, 3 services, 3 sermons, 2 addresses, 2 celebrations
Holy Communion; conducted Sunday school exercises twice, met and
assisted in reorganizing Woman's Auxiliary.
Halifax, 2 visits, 4 services, 3 sermons, 2 celebrations Holy Com-
munion.
Ringwood, 2 visits, 2 services, 2 sermons, 1 celebration Holy Com-
munion.
Lawrence, 2 visits, 2 services, 2 sermons, 2 celebrations Holy Com-
munion.
St. Mary's, Edgecombe, 2 visits, 2 services, 2 sermons.
Speed, 2 visits: made calls on all the homes and the places of busi-
ness.
Tarboro, 1 visit, short address and 1 sermon.
Scotland Neck, 1 visit, 1 address, 2 sermons; met Woman's Auxiliary
and the Men's Missionary League.
Rocky Mount, 1 visit; conferred with the Rector; sickness prevented
meeting with Woman's Auxiliary according to previous appointment.
Roanoke Rapids, 3 visits, 3 services, 3 sermons, 2 addresses, 1 cele-
bration Holy Communion; met both Sunday and week-day schools.
Ridgeway, 1 visit, 1 service, 1 sermon, 1 celebration Holy Communion.
Henderson, 1 visit, 1 sermon.
Oxford, 1 visit, 1 service, 1 sermon.
Littleton, 1 visit, 3 services, 2, sermons, 5 addresses, 1 celebration
Holy Communion.
Durham, 1 visit, 2 addresses, 1 celebration Holy Communion.
Raleigh, 1 visit; attended meeting Executive Committee Convocation
of Raleigh.
At nearly all of these places I have made calls on persons and fami-
lies, and in most instances have made a large number of such visits.
I have conducted two District Conferences — that of the Edgecombe
District having been held in Littleton, and that of Granville in Dur-
ham. Sickness of myself and family has prevented my visiting other
places as I had planned to do — a loss of time to be regretted from many
points of view. In some instances I was kept from going to places
which I greatly desired to visit, because I was unable to suit the con-
venience of the Rectors and parishes. Lenten services also interfered
with making proper appointments.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906, 125
The little experience I have gained prompts me to make the following
recommendations :
First. The Archdeacon should be freed from the care of a parish. I
have been much hindered as Archdeacon by my duties as Rector of
Grace Church, Weldon. The situation is made especially difficult when
the parish treats its Rector exceptionally well, as has been the case here.
I could not have anywhere a kinder or more appreciative people. Natu-
rally my interest and sympathies are continually enlisted in their be-
half. This obviously militates against my work as Archdeacon. Be-
sides, it is emphatically true thai the duties of Archdeacon, properly
performed, are sufficient for one man.
Secondly. What may be called a policy of concentration and expan-
sion ought to be inaugurated in this Convocation. We have too few
missionaries, and they are doing too little work. This is no reflection
on our present staff of laborers. It is the fault of the system we have
been compelled to adopt. The missionaries live, for the most part, with
the parishes that give them the major portion of their salaries. Inevita-
bly, therefore, the most of their work is done at home, to the neglect of
the purely missionary and most needy points. It is unreasonable to
expect large returns from visitations and ministrations occurring only
once a month. As is well known, our missionaries spend only two or
three days at the points which they visit monthly. A business conducted
in like manner would scarcely prove successful. The "Kings business"
ought to be managed, no less than secular affairs, by sound common
sense. We ought to have more men, so as to concentrate upon promis-
ing places, and at the same time reach out effectively to territory not
yet occupied by our Church, or occupied so feebly as to produce few
desirable results. For instance, Lawrence and St. Mary's, Edgecombe,
ought to have a resident young priest. There is much promise in that
field. Roanoke Rapids ought to have a resident minister. There, too,
we have a great opportunity, which is but poorly grasped, since the
priest in charge can be there so seldom. Duke has the same needs as
Roanoke Rapids, and both places should have, in addition to mission
schools, a day nursery and hospital and reading and recreation rooms.
Smithfield and Selma are interesting points and would make an excel-
lent field for some energetic man. Besides these missions, there are
several small but hopeful parishes that ought to have resident minis-
ters who can devote all their time to the home work. I venture to
mention in this connection Weldon, Enfield, Littleton, Jackson, Louis-
burg. Our motto ought to be "One man for one place," and we should
strive for the goal indicated with all the grace, faith and energy at our
command.
Thirdly. But in order to do all this — the freeing of the hands, ener-
gies and sympathies of the Archdeacon, and the freeing of the mis-
sionaries that they may do telling missionary work — we need much
more money than we are at present receiving. Five thousand dollars
126 Report of Archdeacons.
ought to be our annual income. Certainly we cannot have gratifying
progress without an income of twenty-five hundred — and that is too
little if we are in earnest and mean to do genuine church extension
work.
Fourth. I also recommend that increased efforts be made to organize
and make effective the movement known as the Men's Missionary
League. We have only six local organizations of the League in this
Convocation. We have an eflScient and most excellent young man as
our Secretary and Eegistrar, Mr. H. M. London, who earnestly desires
to aid the parishes and missions in* developing this movement, which
has in it so much promise, not only for the men themselves, but for the
whole Church. The growth of the Church really depends, of course,
upon the zeal, activity and liberality of our laity. If the occupants of
our pews and the owners of pocket-books and bank accounts are indif-
ferent, inert and illiberal, there can be no satisfactory progress; the
Church will neither grow in numbers nor expand in any way whatever,
but, on the contrary, will deteriorate and display a pitiful weakness in
the sight of a contemptuous opposition.
I would therefore earnestly suggest that all our parishes and mis-
sions avail themselves, as soon as possible, of the services of our Lay
Secretary and Registrar; and I would add that the Archdeacon stands
ready to give any aid and encouragement that he may be able to render
at any time.
I am ready, sir, to co-operate with you, and with the Convention, in
any way that may be deemed advisable for the furtherance of the views
I have herein expressed. I am profoundly convinced that this is a very
favorable time for a decided advance movement in our missionary opera-
tions, and that we are therefore under solemn obligation to the Great
Head of the Church to make it. The whole State is prospering as never
before in its history, and is growing rapidly. We owe it to God and
our glorious heritage to keep pace with the growth and prosperity of
the Commonwealth.
Thanking you, dear Bishop, for your steadfast confidence and sym-
pathy, and submitting herewith our Treasurer's report, which reveals
sufficiently and effectively our financial status, I remain,
Yours sincerely, Geo. M. Tolsox,
Archdeacon of Raleigh.
ABSTRACT OF TREASURER'S REPORT.
Receipts.
Collections $1,538.92
Dishursements.
Stipends $1,247.81
Archdeacon's expenses 46,31
Other expenses 70.53
Balance on hand 174.27
1,538,92
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 127
REPORT OF THE ARCHDEACON OF CHARLOTTE.
To the Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of
North Carolina:
I respectfully submit this report of my work as Archdeacon during
the past year.
Visited Rockingham four times, held one service, and preached once.
Went to Walnut Cove twice, held one service, and preached once.
Visited Madison three times, held two services, preached twice, cele-
brated the Holy Communion once.
Visited Mayodan three times, preached twice, and conducted one
funeral service.
Visited Stoneville twice, held two services, and preached twice.
Visited Germanton once and Leaksville twice; held or took part in
two services at Leaksville, preached once, and celebrated the Holy Com-
munion once.
Visited Mount Airy three times, took part in three services, preached
twice, and celebrated the Holy Communion twice.
Visited the neighborhood of Mount Mourne, Iredell County, twice, held
two services, preached twice, and celebrated the Holy Communion twice
in a Methodist house of worship called Fairview.
Visited St. Timothy's Mission, Union County, twice, held two ser-
vices, preached twice, and celebrated the Holy Communion once.
Visited Monroe five times, took part in five services, preached once,
and celebrated the Holy Communion twice.
Visited Ansonville twice, took part in five services, preached five
times, and celebrated the Holy Communion twice in public and once in
private.
Visited the town of Cornelius, near Davidson, once, held service, and
preached.; also preached in a Methodist house of worship near Corne-
lius, by invitation of the minister in charge of the congregation.
Visited the Chapel of Hope, Charlotte, eight times; held or took part
in eight services, preached five times, and celebrated the Holy Com-
munion twice.
Went twice to the town of Davidson and visited the Church people
living there.
Held or took part in six services in St. Peter's Church, Charlotte, and
celebrated the Holy Communion once.
Held or took part in three services in the Clarkson Memorial Chapel
of St. Andrew, Charlotte, and preached three times.
Visited St. George's Chapel, Woodleaf, nine times; held or took part
in nine services, preached nine times, celebrated the Holy Communion
twice, and baptized an infant.
Visited Cooleemee Plantation, Davie County, once, held two services,
preached once, and celebrated the Holv Communion.
128 Report of Archdeacons,
Visited Cooleemee Cotton Mills eight times, held or took part in
seven services, preached seven times, and celebrated the Holy Com-
munion three times.
Visited Mocksville three times, held one service, preached once, and
celebrated the Holy Communion.
Held a service and preached in a Methodist house of worship in the
village of Olive Branch, in Union County, where there is a family of
Church people living.
Visited Statesville twice, held a service, preached, and celebrated the
Holy Communion; also conducted a funeral service.
Visited Christ Church, Cleveland County, six times, held six services,
in whole or in part, preached, and celebrated the Holy Communion six
times.
Visited Laurinburg nine times, held five services, preached five times,
and conducted two funeral services.
Went three times to the city of Raleigh, took part in the services at
the ordination of the Rev. Messrs. Alfred R. Berkeley and James L.
Martin, who were ordained priests.
Went to Hamlet five times and visited some of the Church people
living there.
Visited Laurel Hill eight times, held eighteen services, preached
eighteen times, celebrated the Holy Communion eight times, baptized
two adults and eleven children, conducted two funeral services, and
received two persons into membership who had received sectarian bap-
tism.
Took part in a service in St. Mary's Chapel, Greensboro, and made
an address; also made an address to the congregation in St. Andrew's
Church, Greensboro.
Went three times to St. Barnabas' Church, Greensboro ; condvicted, in
whole or in part, six services, preached four times, and celebrated the
Holy Communion twice.
Went to Burlington once, took part in evening prayer, and preached
in St. Athanasius' Church.
Visited High Point twice, held one service, and preached in St. Mary's
Church.
Made six visits to the town of Wades Doro, held sixteen services, in
whole or in part; preached eight times, celebrated the Holy Com-
munion six times, conducted two funerals, baptized four adults and five
children, and made a number of pastoral visits.
Visited St. Mark's Mission, Mecklenburg County, twice: held six
serA'ices, in whole or in part; preached twice, and celebrated the Holy
Communion once.
Held four services, in whole or in part, in St. ^Martin's Chapel. Char-
lotte, and preached twice.
Held three services, in whole or in part, in the Church of the Holy
Comforter, Dilworth; preached once, and celebrated the Holy Com-
munion.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 129
SUMMARY OF THE YEAB'S WORK.
Held or took part in one hundred and twenty services, delivered
eighty-eight sermons and addresses, celebrated one marriage, held six
funeral services, celebrated the Holy Communion thirty times in public
and once in private, baptized six adults and fifteen children, conducted
nine District meetings, and attended one meeting of the Convocation of
Charlotte.
I have held services periodically, as far as possible, in three parishes,
two stations, and three missions where there was no minister in charge;
occasionally in two parishes, eight missions, and one station where there
was a minister in charge; and have held one or more services in as
many as thirty difTerent places during the year.
ABSTRACT OF TREASURER'S REPORT.
Received from congregations $606.61
individuals 129.34
Archdeacon's collections 250.38
" Archdeacon's personals 511.85
miscellaneous sources 119.06
Balance from last year 4]^q 27
$2,027.67
Paid on stipends $1,371.79
Expenses of Archdeacon 176.85
Expense of printing, etc 60,25
Special donations 60,00
balance 353^3
2,027.67
Besides the above services in the Diocese, I took part in a service and
preached in St. Athanasius' Church, Los Angeles, California, by invita-
tion of the minister in charge, and baptized an infant in Bakersfield,
California, by permission of the rector there. I also held a service and
preached in a Baptist house of worship in a village called Emmet,
Xavarro County, Texas, where there is no organized Church congrega-
tion.
The quarterly District meetings have been regularly held and well
attended by the clergy of the Convocation, who have been faithful and
loyal in their efforts to render these meetings helpful to the cause of
religion; and it is very obvious that such has been the result to a
greater or less extent in proportion to the interest taken in their pro-
ceedings by the laity where they have been held. No more useful
means has ever been devised for promoting the growth and welfare of
the Church in a Diocese situated as ours is, if the people will attend
the meetings and carry out the object they are designed to foster and
promote.
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130 Report of Archdeacons.
The report of the Treasurer shows the financial status of the work,
which is a slight improvement on last year, though not in proportion
to the increased demand on our funds and the greatly improved finan-
cial condition of the country.
It is a sad and discouraging fact that the contributions of our people
do not, as a rule, bear anything like a fair proportion to the increased
prosperity of the country and the expenses of living. Consequently our
clergy, as a rule, both parochial and missionary, are not permitted to
share the temporal prosperity of the country which God has so abun-
dantly granted His people. So the missionary work especially is
cramped and limited, and were it not for the generous contributions of
a few great-souled individuals, the work would have to be more seriously
curtailed than it is.
The completion of a neat and comfortable church building in Laurin-
burg, the gift of a generous layman, creates what I trust will soon
become a strong center of Church work in Scotland County. There are
a few Church members in the town, and a much larger number in the
country near Laurel Hill, and it is proposed to constitute St. David's
Church, Laurinburg, the center of all the work in that county, but to
continue the services at Laurel Hill and other places as heretofore. This
arrangement seems to have strengthened the work in that section; and
if we could place an active man there and support him for a year or
two, there would most likely be substantial and permanent growth. The
Rev. S. J. M. Brown has had charge of the congregations at Cooleemee
Mills, Woodleaf and Cleveland, viz., the Good Shepherd, St. George's,
and Christ Church, for the past three months. He has done excellent
work, and the people are encouraged.
The Rev. L. W. Blackwelder still preaches at St. Matthew's and St.
Jude's, Rowan County. He also takes the place of the Rev. Mr. Brown
in Salisbury, under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Murdoch.
The Rev. F. W. R. Arthurs has charge of All Souls' Church, Anson-
ville, and St. Timothy's Chapel, Union County, and lives at Ansonville.
The Rev. James Luther Martin has charge of Monroe, Rockingham
and Hamlet, and this field, through the good management of the minis-
ter in charge and the generosity of his people, has provided almost a
support for the missionary, thus relieving the treasury to a considerable
extent.
The Rev. William L. Mellichampe has charge of the congregations at
Thomasville, High Point, Leaksville, Spray, Reidsville, Cunningham
and Milton. He has been assisted for some months by Mr. R. P.
Eubanks as lay reader and catechist, who has been doing very accept-
able service throughout this large and most important field.
The Rev. William Walker has charge of the congregations at German-
ton, Mount Airy and Elkin.
The Rev. Messrs. F. M. Osborne and J. H. Crosby have charge of the
Missions in and around the city of Charlotte, viz., the Church of the
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 131
Holy Comforter, St. Martin's Chapel, St. Andrew's Chapel and the
Chapel of Hope.
Two mission schools — one at St. Mark's, Mecklenburg, and the other
at St. James', Iredell — have done good work in the past year.
Miss Cheshire, the Diocesan Secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary, has
spent several months at Mayodan, where she has been doing practically
the work of a deaconess, in which she has most clearly demonstrated the
great need and utility of such a functionary in our mission work.
The Rev. E. L. Ogilby has charge of the congregations in Statesville;
also of St. James', Iredell, and St. Mark's, Mecklenburg.
The Rev. A. R. Berkeley has charge of the congregations at Walnut
Cove, Knowlhurst ( near Madison ) , Madison, Mayodan and Stoneville.
He has improved the work generally in his extensive field, but he greatly
needs more facilities for carrying on his important work.
The Rev. Thomas L. Trott still ministers at the Cooleemee Plantation,
in Davie County, where the Church people are trying to build a chapel.
The Archdeacon gives services once a month at St. David's Chapel,
Laurinburg, and in the vicinity of Laurel Hill; also occasionally at
Mount Mourne, Mocksville, the congregations under the Revs. S. J. M.
Brown, J. H. Crosby and F. W. R. Arthurs, and at other places, as
appears from this report.
It will be observed that every congregation in the Convocation where
i^.ere is a church building is being served at least occasionally. But in
order to accomplish this we have been compelled to stretch our line
until it is too thin in many places to do more than barely hold the
ground we have taken possession of until reinforcements can be pro-
cured; and this can only be done when the laymen of the Church pro-
vide the men and the means.
But what shall we do in regard to the inviting fields still unoccupied
in the Convocation? We have no missionary work in Scotland County
except the little that is being done by the Archdeacon; and neither
church nor minister in the counties of Montgomery, Stanly, Randolph
and Yadkin. Surely it is time for the Church in this Diocese to put
forth some organized and manly effort to improve and enlarge her mis-
sionary operations.
THE ilEN'S MISSIONARY LEAGUE.
A most important movement has been inaugurated in the Convocation
during the year, which is calculated to promote the interest of our
people in the cause of Home Missions. I refer to the Men's Missionary
League. Through the efforts of the Secretary, Hon. J. C. Buxton, four
chapters have been organized, and it is to be hoped that one may soon
be created in every congregation, and that every male member of the
Church of proper age may soon be enrolled as an active worker in this
good cause.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. A. Osborne,
Archdeacon of the Convocation of Charlotte.
132 Report of Archdeacons,
REPORT OF THE ARCHDEACON FOR WORK AMONG COLORED
PEOPLE.
To the Rt. Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, D.D.,
Bishop of North Carolina.
My Dear Bishop: — In making this my ninth annual report, I cannot
but feel thankful to Almighty God for his goodness and mercy to me
and mine during the past year, and for the many blessings poured out
upon us and our work in all parts of the Archdeaconry.
We have been able to add one new building — a chapel at Oxford — to
our number, and the work there is prospering greatly under our faithful
Missionary.
The work of the Archdeacon during the past year has been as follows :
Holy Communions 45 Addresses 136
Services . 190 Burials 1
Sermons 55 Baptisms 14
One of our chapels has laid upon the altar during the year more
than a thousand dollars — an act worthy of emulation by all of our
Missions. I long to see the day when some of our Missions can
stand alone and be numbered among the givers and supporters of the
Church instead of receivers and dependent, as is now the case.
I deem it my duty to lay before you more definite knowledge of the
fire of January 26th, 1906, by which we lost our home and school build-
ing at Littleton. I shall begin with the beginning. In 1900, having
the opportunity of purchasing a small tract of land at Littleton con-
taining thirty-one acres, on which there were two buildings — one an
old residence of nine rooms, and the other a large barn, which could
not be duplicated to-day for less than $2,000 — without hesitation I
closed the ofl'er for $1,000 by paying $200 in cash and giving my per-
sonal notes for one, two, three, and four years, of $200 each, secured
by a deed of trust on the land, with the understanding that the same
would be deeded to the Diocese when suflBcient money had been raised
to cancel these outstanding notes and pay the cash put in by me. With
the exception of the amount due me, the property has been freed from
all indebtedness and is now safe.
The residence served both as a home for the teachers and as a school-
house. Ine building was not suitable for school purposes, yet it was
the best that we could do under the circumstances, and the loss means
a great deal to us.
I left Littleton on the morning of the 2otli of January, after the
regular morning service at the school, and everything was in good
shape. I took a woman to St. Agnes' Hospital for an operation, hoping
to return that night. The train was late and I did not reach Littleton
until 8 a. m. the next day. As I stepped from the cars the first man
whom I met said: "I have sad news for you: the Mission School is in
ashes, but no lives lost." Having my three youngest children — one boy
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 133
and two little girls — over there with the teachers, I hurried over, to
find where the building stood yesterday only a bed of hot, burning
embers, but thei teachers and children were safe, having had a very
narrow escape and losing everything they possessed.
Mrs. Enuna Louise Hogan fled from the burning building with my
two little girls, and to her I owe a debt of gratitude that can never
be paid. When I stood by that ash heap and remembered that in those
ashes lay 1,200 or more books, the accumulation of twenty-five years,
and my dearest and best companions, with whom I at times could steal
away from the outside w^orld and all its annoyances and hold the closest
communion, I leave you to imagine my feelings. Among them were
two valuable scrap-books containing a full account of all my efforts
in connection with the Church for the last twenty-five years, and never
to be recovered. Even imagination is too feeble to give expression to
my feelings. And yet, when I knew that the children and teachers were
safe, I could but cry: "Te Deum Laudamus." We lost only one day in
our work — that Friday. The school was opened on Monday in the
chapel and was carried on without break from that day to the end of
the session. The children and teachers were made comfortable imme-
diately, and in a few days friends from New York, Philadelphia, Wash-
ington, South Carolina and Massachusetts sent us aid in money, cloth-
ing and Prayer Books and Hymnals. Two friends sent us parts of
libraries. St. Mark's Church, Charleston, my old parish before I came
to the Archdeaconry, was among the first to send a contribution. Mr.
H. E. Pellew, a friend of long standing, was the very first. My losses
were great, but need not further be mentioned.
There was an insurance on the home of $600. I will not be satisfied
until our home and school-house shall be restored and we shall again
be equipped for the work, and to do that we must depend on the friends
in and out of the Diocese.
Wilson. — The Rev. Robert N. Perry has been put in charge of St.
Mark's Chapel, Wilson, and by the earnest manner and the energy
shown, and the general interest and advancement made among the peo-
ple in such a short time, gives promise of great success in the work
there. He has had a large school, under great disadvantages, and
progress has been made on every hand. For the successful prosecution
of our work in this place we need a school building, which can be
erected for $400.
Noise. — After several years, with only occasional visits from the
Archdeacon, we have been able to secure the services of a competent
man and his wife for St. Philip's, Xoise, Moore County, and they have
already gathered into the Sunday and day schools a number of children
formerly baptized, and others, and the mission shows evidences of re-
newed life and activity in this field, "white to the harvest."
Warrenton. — The Mission School has been in better condition this year
than at any previous time in its history, and the earnest and faithful
teacher has been able to do a good work in the midst of great opposi-
134 Report of Archdeacons.
tion, brought about by a misunderstanding on the part of some persons
of the management of the Mission Schools.
St. Luke's, Warren County. — The Archdeacon was called by telephone
message on the second Sunday of March to attend the burial service of
John Henry Russell, who died suddenly on Saturday morning, March
10th, without previous illness. He was all day Friday as usual;
came home, ate his supper, played with his children and then went to
bed, never to wake again in this world. He was a strong believer in
his Church, devoted to his wife and children, and had witnessed with
great comfort and satisfaction the confirmation of his two eldest boys.
He leaves a wife and seven children.
In conclusion, permit me, through you and by this means, to return
unfeigned thanks for all the expressions of sympathy in the time of
need and the outpouring of means to aid us in our work, and the many
gracious words of encouragement from friends within and without the
Diocese, and, above all, to Him "in whom we live and move and have
our being," the great "Shepherd and Bishop of our souls."
Respectfully submitted. J. H. M. Pollaed,
Archdeacon.
Report of the Treasurer of the Convocation for Colored People.
receipts.
Balance on hand April 30, 1905 $82.38
Charlotte, St. Michael and All Angels 26.40
Littleton, St, Anna's 1.75
Louisburg, St. Matthias 3.50
Pittsboro, St. James 24.26
Raleigh, St. Augustine's 82.07
Raleigh, St. Ambrose 21.64
Satterwhite, St. Simeon's 1.09
Statesville, Holy Cross 1.00
Tarboro, St. Luke's 5.55
Warren County, St. Luke's 6.00
Warrenton, All Saints 14.58
Wilson, St. Mark's 5.00
Bishop Cheshire 52.22
Convocation offering 3.12
$330.56
expenditures.
Rev. C. H. Male, stipend $150.00
Joel T. Fuller, stipend 100.00
Delegates' travelling expenses 52.55
Printing Annual Report 10.00
Balance on hand ]\Iay 1, 1906 18.01
$330.56
A. B. Hunter, Treasurer.
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136 Report of Hospitals.
THIRTIETH ANNUAL EEPORT OF ST. PETER'S HOSPITAL,
CHARLOTTE, N. C, FOR THE YEAR 1905.
St. Peter's Hospital has cared for more patients than in any previous
year. Many applicants have had to be refused admission for want of
room, and the necessity of an addition to the building has been fully
demonstrated.
The institution is out of debt, its resources meeting its expenses, but
leaving nothing for building. Some improvements have been made this
year and some new work undertaken. A great addition to the charity
work is the district nursing. The Hospital supports the nurse and
pays all expenses except medicines, which are furnished by the city.
The nurses have paid, from February 1st to December 31st, 1905, 1,043
visits to 140 patients. So the work is still advancing and doing the
charity for which the Hospital was first established.
In November the nianagers were notified that Dr. Giles McAden had
left a bequest to St. Peter's of ten shares of mill stock, to be known
as the "Mary Terry McAden Fund," in memory of his mother. This was
most gratefully received and will form the beginning of a much-needed
endowment.
The deaths were noticeably few this year — only one in twenty cases.
The treatment of patients, who come daily for slight cases, is greatly
increased.
Patients carried over from 1904 13
Patients admitted in 1905 303—316
Males 136, females 180.
Total number of days' treatment in Hospital 5,568
Paying patients 254
Charity patients (for 1,128 days) 61
City cases ( for 235 days ) 15
Deaths 16; births 5.
Outside patients for 509 treatments in Hospital.
Patients were registered as follows:
Methodist 88 From Charlotte , 133
Baptist 62 North Carolina 149
Presbyterian- 45 South Carolina 25
9.
Episcopal 33 Georgia
A. R. P 17 Virginia
Lutheran 10 New York
Roman Catholic 8 Maryland
Congregational 2 Massachusetts
Universalist 3 Tennessee
Hebrew 2 Poland
Egyptian 1 Florida
No church 45
Total 316
Twenty-four physicians attended patients.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 137
Balance from 1904 $168.01
Money received during 1905 8,144.50
Total $8,312.51
Expenses during 1905 8,198.43
Balance to 1906 $114.08
Special funds received $546.30
Expended 211.26
Amount special fund in bank $335.04
Eespectfully submitted. Mrs. Johx Wilkes,
President Board of Managers.
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GOOD SA:\L\RITAN
HOSPITAL FOR COLORED PEOPLE, OF CHARLOTTE, N. C,
FOR YEAR 1905.
Patients in Hospital January 1st 1
Patients admitted during 1905 152
153
Males 85, females 68.
Days of treatment in Hospital 2,065
Number of deaths 21
Number of operations 103
Number of outside patients 54
Number of treatments received by them 142
Amount from 1904 $64.22
Cash received in 1905 2,389.12
Total $2,453.34
Expenses in 1905 2,395.82
Balance in hand $57.52
The work has gone steadily on during 1905. The colored people show
more appreciation of the benefits of the Hospital and pay more for the
care they receive.
Forty-one patients were paid for by employers at the rate of
$1 per day for 648 days $648.00
Forty-seven patients paid for themselves for 670 days 283.00
Making a total of $931.00
Sixty five patients paid nothing for 747 days' care.
138 Report of Auxiliaries.
These figures show why the Grood Samaritan Hospital must always
depend largely on the kind help of its friends that this work of charity
may continue.
A number of boxes were received from Branches of the Woman's Aux-
iliary, which are very helpful.
During the year we have been able to insure the building and furni-
ture, which is a great satsfaction. We have also installed a first-class
operating table and have paid all the expenses.
A new undertaking is the training of two pupil nurses, which will
do good to others as well as to the Hospital. The class will be increased
when found necessary.
Generous donations of food were received on Thanksgiving Day from
St. ^Michael's Parish School and the Colored Public School, and St.
Augustine's School always remembers the Good Samaritan.
Drs. C. M. Strong and James P. Alexander had charge of the Hospital
during the year, and have aided largely in establishing the reputation of
the institution.
Respectfully submitted. Mrs. John Wilkes,
President Board of Managers.
TWEXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA
BRANCH OF THE WOIMAN'S AUXILIARY TO THE BOARD OF
MISSIONS.
Rt. Rev. Father in God: — Since our annual report was made at the
last Convention, several changes have taken place in our Diocesan
Branch. Mrs, John Wilkes, the honored President of former years, has
been appointed permanent President, and Miss Mattie Bailey, Vice-
President. The old title of Convocational Secretary has been revived,
Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Winston holding the office in the Convocation of
Raleigh, and Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Van Landingham in the Convoca-
tion of Charlotte. The same change has also taken place in the Junior
Branches, Mrs. Rawlings being Secretary of the Juniors in the Convo-
cation of Raleigh, and Mrs. Bland in the Convocation of Charlotte;
Mrs. Spruill, Secretary of the Babies' Branch in the Convocation of
Raleigh, and Mrs. Walter Smith in the Convocation of Charlotte.
You have thought it best that the Colored work be a separate organi-
zation, with its own officers. By this change we have lost not only in
members, but by the help given heretofore by Mrs. Hunter, of St. Augus-
tine's, one of our Diocesan officers. We have not lost our interest in the
work, however, and trust that this change may greatly increase the
strength and usefulness of the Colored Branch in our Diocese.
Notwithstanding the loss, our old branches have grown steadily and
three new branches have been added. The Secretary has spent some time
during the year visiting the branches in the two Convocations, and
several of these which made no report last year were found to be in
good working order. In nearly every branch there has been some en-
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906. 139
couragement, and in many a noted increase in numbers, gifts and
interest.
We have endeavored especially to emphasize this year the needs of
our own Diocese, and the arduous work our Bishop and missionaries are
doing with comparatively little help from appropriations and less from
our own people. We believe that this help will come when we realize
the great work already done and the greater work waiting to be done.
A deep interest has already been manifested, as shown in an increase
of gifts, in money to the Bishop, in specials to some of our Diocesan mis-
sionaries, and in church furniture and boxes sent to the missionary
fields.
The interest of the various branches in the study of Missions has
been great, and the observance of the days of prayer for Missions
almost universal. The outlook is hopeful, and our progress has been
steady; and yet, so long as there lies work around us waiting to be
done, we cannot be satisfied. It is rather a note of dissatisfaction we
would strike. If our neighbor — at home or abroad — is in need of us,
our duty is not done until we help him. And every one of us can help
him — some of us by going to him in person; more of us by our gifts to
him, and all of us by our prayers for him.
We may ask the question. Am I my brothers keeper? And the
answer may come back from the Master: Ye shall not see My face
except your hrother be with you.
Report of Woman's Auxiliary.
Central Fund $62.42
United Offering 384.25
Diocesan Missions 227.52
Domestic Missions 744.08
Foreign Missions 202.01
Apportionment 149.75
Church Periodical Club 34.53
Clergymen's Retiring Fund 139.90
Specials 559.22
Collected at annual meeting 55.79
Collected at Convocation of Charlotte 6.00
$2,565.47
Value of Missionary boxes 928.69
Total $3,494.16
Number of Branches, 50.
Number of members, 919.
Increase in numbers, 72.
Increase in gifts, $440.39.
Intercessory Days, observed by 31 Branches.
Mission Study Class, 23 Branches.
140 Report of Auxiliaries.
Report of Junior Branch.
Central Fund $15.91
United Offering '. 35.49
Diocesan Missions 104.97
Domestic Missions 241.06
Foreign Missions 65.96
Apportionment 18.19
Clergymen's Retiring Fund 1.00
Specials 6.00
$488.58
Value of Missionary boxes 149.01
Total $637.59
Number of Branches, 33.
Number of members, 713.
Report of the Babies' Branch.
Central Fund $16.00
Bishop Atkinson Cot 36.00
Mary Horner Memorial Cot 8.00
Valle Crucis 15.00
St. Augustine's 2.49
Thompson Orphanage 65.76
ClergjTuen's Retiring Fund 31.75
United Offering 7.00
United Work of Babies 3.00
Apportionment 5.64
Deaconess Henderson 10.00
Alaska 5.00
Japan 10.00
Total $220.64
Number of Branches, 40.
Number of members, 370.
Number of members in Woman's Auxiliary, Junior and Babies'
Branches, 2.002.
Whole amount of offering, $4,352.39.
Branches visited from May 1st, 1905, to May 1st, 1906, by the Dio-
cesan Secretary: The Woman's Auxiliaries of Tarboro, Lawrence, St.
Mary's, Edgecombe; Christ Church, Church of the Good Shepherd, St.
Mary's and St. Saviour's, Raleigh; St. Andrew's and St. Barnabas',
Greensboro; Madison; Stoneville; Mayodan; Walnut Cove; Leaksville;
Hi^h Point; Hillsboro; St. Peter's, Charlotte; Dilworth; Concord;
Winston. The Junior Auxiliaries of Tarboro; Christ Church, Church
of the Good Shepherd, St. Mary's and St. Saviour's, Raleigh; St. An-
drew's, Greensboro: St. Peter's, Charlotte; Dilworth; Winston.
Respectfully submitted. Kate Cheshire,
Secretary.
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906, 141
CANONS AS A^IENDED BY THE CONVENTION OF 1905.
Chapter I, Canon VIII, Section 7, add the words: They shall also,
from time to time, give directions to the Treasurer in regard to the
investment of the permanent and unappropriated funds of the Diocese
in his hands.
Chapter I, Canon XI, Section 1. Omit the sub-section marked [b],
containing the sentence above written.
Chapter II, Canon I, Section 2. Read as follows:
There shall be a meeting of each Convocation at least once in each
year at such time and place as shall be appointed by the Bishop, or by
the Convocation at the next preceding meeting, and such meeting or
meetings shall be attended by the Clergy residing or officiating, and by
two delegates from each congregation, and the Treasurers of all Parishes
and Missions situated, within the limits of the Convocation; said dele-
gates to be elected in such way as the Vestry may determine, and where
there is no Vestry, by the congregation. The Bishop, or, in his absence,
the Archdeacon, shall preside at all meetings of the Convocation.
CANONS AS AI^IENDED BY THE CONVENTION OF 1906.
Chapter III, Canon I, line 18, insert after space assigned for the names
of vestrymen the following words: that we have the ability and it is
our purpose to employ and support a regular minister. It is also our
purpose to provide and maintain a suitable house of worship and to
bear our proportion of the expenses of the Church in this Diocese.
Add a fifth paragraph to read as follows:
Two or more small contiguous congregations may combine to form
one self-supporting parish under the foregoing provisions.
SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
1906.
Clergy — Bishop 1, Priests 45, Deacons 12 58
Ordained — Priests 3, Deacons 4 7
Received 3
Transferred 2
Deposed 1
Candidate for Holy Orders 1
Postulants 3
Lay readers 50
Church consecrated 1
Parishes 39
Organized Missions 28
Unorganized Missions 35
Families reported 2,117
Baptized persons 9,187
Baptisms— infant 337, adult 101, total 438
Confirmed, as reported by the Bishop 393
Communicants 5,651
Marriages 94
Burials 220
Sunday School teachers 442
Sunday School scholars 4,437
Parish School teachers 28
Parish School scholars 1,112
Industrial School teachers 12
Industrial School scholars 368
Churches and chapels 109
Church sittings 21,901
Eectories 81
PAKOCHIAL PROPERTY.
Value of Church buildings $327,291
Rectories 68,350
Endowments 15,042
Other property 52,340
Total $462,923
Salaries pledged to Clergy $22,506
Insurance 133,800
Indebtedness on property 3,924
Other indebtedness 4,488
Diocese of North Carolina, 1906, 143
SOURCES OF INCOME.
Communion alms $1,859.66
Sunday School offerings 2,131.03
Parish Societies 9,870.28
All other sources 52,940.11
Total $66,801.08
EXPENDITURES.
Parochial.
Alms $1,230.35
Parish Missions 851.02
Ministers' salaries 22,325.84
Current expenses 6,314.21
Improvements and repairs 5,717.61
Other Parochial objects 7,102.72
Total o $43,541.75
Diocesan.
Episcopal and Contingent Fund $3,066.47
Diocesan Missions 2,579.71
Education Fund 112.67
Relief Fund 324.49
Thompson Orphanage 2,067.35
Other Diocesan objects 932.45
Total $9,083.14
General.
General Missions $2,397.81
Domestic Missions 676.66
Foreign Missions 527.55
Missions to Colored people 15.00
Missions to Indians 81.58
Missions to Jews 482.53
University of the South 137.95
Clergymen's Retiring Fund Society . . 278.21
General Clergy Relief 153.24
American Church Building Fund 99.29
Other general objects 1,385.34
Total $6,235.16
Aggregate of Disbursements 58,860.05
144 Personal Eeports,
Personal Eeports received by the Secretary too late for insertion in
the usual order:
The Rev. James B. Avirett, residing at Buena Vista, Va., reports to
the Bishop that in consequence of increasing age and infirmity he has
been able to officiate on a few occasions only during the past year.
The Rev. A. A. Pruden, Chaplain U. S. Army, stationed at Camp
Stotsenburg, Pampanga, Philippine Islands, reports for the past three
years as follows: Services 390; Sermons 252; Celebrations of Holy
Communion 37; Baptisms — infant 25, adult 2; Marriages 12; Funer-
als 28.
APPENDIX C.
TREASUKEE'S REPORT.
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING ^L4RCH 31st, 1906.
To the Concent ion of the Diocese of \orth Carolina:
Your Treasurer presents herewith his accounts for the fiscal year
ending March 31st, 1900, showing balances as follows:
|1, 345. 74
Permanent Episcopal Fund
Fund for Relief of Disabled Clergymen, etc
Current Episcopal and Contingent Fund
Relief Fund
Education Fund
Church Building Fund
Increase Permanent Episcopal Fund i
Fund for University of the South I
To balance.. . /. 10, 225. 62
5.54
11, 576. 90
Bv balance
CK.
5, 571. 44
546. 59
230. 34
4.94
2, 220. 55
3.04
11, 576. 90
10, 225. 62
CHAS. E. JOHNSON, Treasurer.
LIST OF SECURITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA
IN THE HANDS OF TREASURER, ^lARCH 31, 1906.
PERMANENT EPISCOPAL FUND.
Par Value.
North Carolina 4 per cent, bonds $2,500 . 00
Two North Carolina 6 per cent, bonds 2,000.00
Nine shares Missouri Pacific Railway stock 900.00
University of North Carolina script (nominal) 10.00
Note and mortgage, Conway G. Harris 500 . 00
Clayton Cotton Mill bond 1,000.00
Atlantic Coast Line certificate of indebtedness 1,500.00
Episcopal residence 7 112.73
$15,522.73
IV
Appendix C.
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Permanent Episcopal Fund
To one Clayton Cotton Mill bond
To Atlantic Coast Line Certificate of Indebtedness.
To balance
51, 030. 00
1, 500 00
8, 571. 44
11, 101. 44
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Dr.
Fund for Relief of Disabled Clergymen and
in Account with
Income Permanent Episcopal Fund,
Di
Increase Permanent Episcopal Fund,
Treasurer s Report for Fiscal Year 1905-06.
in Account with Chas. E. Johnson, Treasurer.
Cr.
1905
April 1
By balance $11, 101. 44
1906 :
April 1 I By balance
11,101,44
8, 571. 44
^yidows and OrpJians of Deceased Clergymen,
Chas. E. Johnson, Treasurer.
Cr.
1905
April 1
Bv balance
$535. 87
10 72
Bv 4% bank interest, 6 months
Bv balance
1906
April 1
546. 59
546 59
in Account with Chas. E. Johnson, Treasurer.
Cr.
1906
Jan. 22
Feb. 6
By dividends M. P. Railway stock
By interest C. G. Harris note
By amount from N. C. 4% bonds
By amomit from X. C. 6% bonds
By amount from int. and profit on money in bank
By amount from Clayton Cotton Mill bond
By amount from Atlantic Coast Line certificate of
indebtedness— July and January,® 4%
S45. 00
30.00
100. 00
120. 00
573. 00
30.00
60.00
958. 00
in Account with Chas. E. Johnson, Treasurer.
Cr.
1906
April 1 1 Bv Balance
$2, 220. 55
VI
Appendix C.
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Current Episcopal and Contingent Fund,
1905
April 1
To balance
To am't paid Bishop Cheshire, salary and expenses..
To amount paid sexton at Convention, 1905
To amount paid Rev. F. J. Murdock's expenses to
General Convention
To amount paid Rev. W. J. Smith's expenses at-
tending committee meeting
To amount paid Clergymen's expenses to Conven-
tion, as follows :
Rev. J. E. Ingle - ._ _.
88.40
Rev. Carv Gamble
9.25
Rev. G. M. Tolson
9.28
Rev. S. R. Gulgnard
4.25
Rev. H.B. Dean
4. 25
Rev. I. McK. Pittenger _
7.00
Rev. T. L. Trott
2.9.T
Rev.J.D.Timmons
5. 20
Rev. J. W. Perry
10.65
Rev. J. C. Davis
1.25
Rev. I. H. Williams
10.00
Rev. J. E.King
7.00
Rev. W. T. Picard
1.5.00
Rev. S. P. Walters
6.40
Rev. C.H.Male
8.20
Rev. McNeely DuBose .
8.60
Rev. J. L. Martin
Rev. R. B. Owens
Rev. L. W. Blackwilder .
Rev. A. R. Berkeley
Rev. M. M. Marshall „. .
Rev. F. W. Hilliard
Rev.S.S.Bost
Rev. J. H.M. Pollard...
Rev. H. T. Cockle
Rev. W. L. Mellichampe
Rev. E. L. Ogilby
Rev. John London
Rev. T. B. Bailey
Rev. F.H.Harding
Rev. S. J. W. Brown
Rev. I. McK. Pittenger..
5fl.35
10.00
2.20
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8.45
6.00
10.00
3.30
3.65
4.15
8.85
2.00
10.65
1.80
4.67
To amount paid printing Journals, etc., 1905
To amount paid Rev. J. E. Ingle, salary
To amout paid Rev. J. E. Ingle, expenses
To amount paid John Laws, copy of deed
To amount paid postage, stationery, etc
To amount paid Treasurer's com'sions on receipts.
1906
April 1 I To balance.,
381. 82
000. 00
5.00
55.00
4 30
202. 55
325. 46
150. 00
9.02
1.50
57.10
255. 05
6, 446. 80
1. 345. 74
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Relief Fund, in Account with
To amount paid Rev. C.T. Bland
To amount paid Rev. S. 8. Bronson
To amount paid Rev. J. B. Averitt ,
To amount paid Treasurer's commission on receipts
To balance
$150. 00
75.00
75.00
21.92
230. 34
552. 26
Treasurer s Report for Fiscal Year 1905-'06.
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in Account with Chas. E. Johnson, T
reasurer.
HI05
Sept. 11
19C6
Mav 1
By amount from lady at Pittsboro. , $2 UO
By amomit from Bishop Cheshire I 13. 00
By amount from Parishes (see tabular statement')... 4, 128. 06
By amount from income Permanent Episcopal
Fu"d 95g ^,0
By balance 1^ 345. 74
6, 446. 80
('has. E, Johnson, Treasurer.
1905
April 1
1
1906
May 1
1906
April 1
By balance
By Amount from Rev. E. A. Osborne.......
By amount from Rev. C. T. Bland
By amount from Parishes (see tabular statement)
Bv balance
Cr.
$113. 92
.50
1.00
436. 84
552. 26
230. 34
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Education Fund, in Account with
1905
July 1
1906
April 1
To amount paid S. M. Hanfl' ! §100. 00
To amount paid Bishop Cheshire 110.00
To amount paid Treasurer's commissions on receipts 5. 32
To balance
215. 32
5. 54
Dr.
Church Building Fund, in Account with
1905
May 27
To amount paid G. C. Thomas, Treasurer
To amount paid Treasurer's commissions on receipts
To balance
$3.89
.26
4.94
9.09
Dr.
University of the South, in Account with
To amount paid Dr. R. M. Dubose.
To balance
$122.94
3.04
125. 98
Treasurer s Report for Fiscal Year 1905-06. ix
Chas. E, Johnson, Treasurer.
1905
April 1 Bv balance
1906
May 1 By amount from Parishes (see tabular statement) ...
Bv balance
Cr.
$103.
40
106.
38
5.
54
215.
32
Chas.
E. Johnson, Treasurer.
Cr,
1905
April 1
Bv balance
$3.89
5.20
1906
May 1
By amount from Parishes (see tabular statement)...
Bv balance
1906
9.09
April 1
4 94
Chas.
E. Johnso7i, Treasurer.
Or,
1905
May 1
Bv balance on hand
$93 31
By amount from Parishes (see tabular statement ^..
Bv balance
32. 67
1906
125. 98
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Appendix C.
KEPORT OF COXDITIOy OF FUXDS IX HANDS
OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE DIOCESE OF
XORTH CAROLIXA, APRIL 1, 1906.
Miss MARY RUFFIN SMITH FUND.
$200.00
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in Account with Chcis. E. Johnson, Trustee.
1905
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$100. 00
ASSESSMENTS FOR 1906-190/
Ansonville, All Saints ,
Battleboro, St. John's .
Bristow, St, Mark's . ,
Burlington, St. Atlianasius
Chapel Hill, The Cross .
Charlotte, Chapel of Hope
Charlotte, Holy Comforter
Charlotte, St. Andrew's
Charlotte, St. Martin's
Charlotte, St. Mary's .
Charlotte, St. Michael's
Charlotte, St. Peter's .
Chestnut Hill, St. Paul's
Concord, All Saints . .
Cooleemee, Good Shepherd
Cunningham, Chapel
Durham, St. Philip's .
Davie Co., Ascension
Duke Mission ....
Edgecombe Co., St. Mary's
Elkin, Gallaway Memorial
Elm City, Holy Trinity .
Enfield, Advent . -. .
Euto, St. Timothy's . .
Fairntosh, Salem Chapel
Germanton, St. Philip's
Gaston, St. Luke's . .
Goshen, St. Paul's . .
Greensboro, St. Andrew's
Greensboro, St. Barnabas
Greensboro, St. Cuthbert's
Greensboro, St. Mary's .
Halifax, St. Mark's . .
Henderson, Holy Innocents
High Point, St. Mary's .
Hillsboro, St. Matthew's
Iredell Co., St. James .
Jackson, Ch. of the Savior
Kittrell, St. James . .
Laurinburg, St. David's
Lawrence, Grace . . .
Leaksville, Epiphany
Lexington, Grace . .
Littleton, St. Anna's
Littleton, St. Alban's .
Louisburg, St. Paul's .
Louisburg, St. Matthias
Madison, St. John's . .
Mayodan, Messiah , .
Middleburg, Mission
Milton, Christ Church .
Mocksville, St. Philip's .
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Monroe, St. Paul's .
Mt. Airy, Trinity
Noise, St. Philip's .
Orange Co., St. Mary'
Oxford, St. Stephen's
Oxford, St. Cyprian's
Pittsboro, St. Bartholomew
Pittsboro, St. James
Raleigh, Christ Church
Raleigh, Good Shepherd
Raleigh, St. Ambrose .
Raleigh, St. Augustine's
Raleigh, St. Mary's . .
Raleigh, St. Saviour's .
Reidsville, St. Thomas .
Roanoke Rapids, All Saint
Rockingham, Messiah .
Ridgeway, Good Shepherd
Ringwood, St. Clement's
Rocky Mt., Good Shepherd
Rowan Co., St. Jude's . ,
Rowan Co., St. Mark's .
Rowan Co., Christ Churcli
Rowan Co., St. Mary's .
Rowan Co., St. Matthew's
Rowan Co., St. Andrew's ,
Salisbury, St. Luke's .
Salisbury, St. John's .
Salisbury, St. Peter's .
Sanford, St. Thomas .
Satterwhite, St. Simeon's
Scotland Neck, Trinity
Smithfield, Mission . .
Southern Pines, Emmanuel
Spencer, St. Joseph . .
Statesville, Trinity . .
Statesville, Holy Cross .
Stoneville, Emmanuel .
Stovall, St. Peter's
Tillery, Mission .
Tarboro, Calvary .
Tarboro, St. Luke's
Wadesboro, Calvary
Walnut Cove, Christ Church
Warren Co., St. Luke's .
Warrenton, All Saints .
Warrenton, Emmanuel .
Weldon, Grace . . .
Williamsboro, St. John's
Wilson, St. Mark's . .
Wilson, St. Timothy's .
Winston, St. Paul's . .
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INDEX
PAGE,
Abstract of Parochial Reports Following 144
Address of the Bishop 51
Admission of New Parish 2G, 32
Amendment of Canons 27, 141
Assessments for 1906-7 Appendix C. xv
Candidates for Holy Orders 10, 65
Circular Letter and Prayer set forth b}" the Bishop 72
Changes in Clergy Lists 66, 67
Clergy Lists 69, 63
Committees — ^Annually Appointed 18
On Report of Trustees of the Diocese 21
On Report of Trustees St. Mary's School 25
On Report of Managers of Thompson Orphanage ... 40
Church Work at the University of North Carolina . . 29
California Relief 30
Men's Thank Offering 1907 30
Increase of Salaries of the Clergy . . .' 33
Sunday-School Work 43
N. C. Children's Home Society 47
Memorial of St. James', Iredell County 47
On Memorial for Special Missionary Bishops 50
Consecration of Churches -62
Elections — President and Secretary 17
Treasurer of the Convention 34
Standing Committee 33
Education Committee 34
Trustees and Managers 34
Meeting of Next Convention 2, 47
Memorial in regard to Assessments 27
Officers and Committees of the Diocese 3
Ordination of Priests and Deacons 62
Parish reduced to Mission 47, 49
Parishes and Missions with names of Delegates 11
Postulants 65
Proceedings of the Convention 17
Reports :
Standing Committee 19
Trustees of the Diocese 20
Treasurer of the Convention Appendix C and 21
Trustees of St. Mary's School 23
Principal of St. Augustine's School 26
Index. xvii
Reports :
■ PAGE.
Manajjers of Thompson Orphanage 34
Hospitals ^r, -iQf>
Trustee General Theological Seminary 48
Clerical Trustee University of the South 41
Committee on Canons .>-
Finance 21, 42. 47
State of the Church ' '43
New Parishes 3-2
Elections 2.)
Report of Trustees of the Diocese 32
Report of St. Mary's School 30
Report of Thompson Orphanage 46
Lay Co-operation 21
Diocesan Organ 25
Sunday-School Work 43
Church Work at University 28
California Relief 34
Men's Thank Offering 1907 49
Memorial of St. James', Iredell County 49
Parochial 76
Personal j^44
Archdeacons and Treasurers of Convocations 29,33,124-135
Woman's Auxiliary 13g
Diocesan Association Clergymen's Retiring Fund Society 49
Resolutioxs :
Daily Sessions of the Convention i,s
In regard to Messenger of Hope 20
Special OflFering for California Relief 34
Of Sympathy for the Rev. Messrs. Smith and Dean 40
Of Finance Committee 42. 47
On Church Work at the University 28
Reducing Parish to Mission 49
Thanks for Work of the Auxiliary 42
Thanks for Hospitality .17
Time and Place of Xext Convention 2, 47
Payment of certain Expenses by Treasurer 48
Proposed in regard to Work among Colored People in the
Diocese 40
Amending Canons 27
On Printing the Journal of the Convention 48
Schedule of Assessments Appendix. C. xv
Statement of Bishop's Account of Diocesan Funds 74
Statistics of the Diocese Following 144
Summary of Statistics 142
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