Tic Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society O F T H E P r o t e s t a n t E p i s c o p a l C h u r c h IN T H E UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PROCEEDINGS PF THE MISSIONARY COUNCIL. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS, REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES, RECOGNIZED AUXILIARIES, MISSIONARY. BISHOPS, ETC., WITH ANNUAL TABLES. NEW YORK : P u b l is h e d a t N os. 22 a n d 23 B ib l e H o u s e . Second Floor, Fourth Avenue Entrance 1887. p n A n * 7 Contente. Sermon by the Right Rev. Daniel Sylvester IAnnual Repon on the Foreign Missions of the Tuttle, S .T .D .;..:............................................. 1 Protestant Episcopal Church.... .................... 8! Proceedings of the Missionary Council................... 7 Statement of the Receipts and Payments for For­ The Report of the Board of Managers to the eign Missions, 1886-87, facing page 98. First Meeting of the Missionary Council.... 13 Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop of Yedo. 99 Report of Treasurer of Board of Managers 25 Annual Report o f the Bishop o f H aiti........................104 Appropriations and Resources, 1886-87 ................... 27Third Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop of Treasurer's Reports on the Stated Publications... 28 Shanghai .*.................. 106 Annual Report on Domestic Missions of the Board Second Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop of Managers.......................................................... 29 of Cape Palmas and Parts Adjacent ... 108 List of Domestic Missionaries..................................... 38Statistics African Mission ............................ .113 Statement of Receipts and Payments for Domes­ Statistics China Mission ...........................................114 tic Missions, 1886-87, facing page 38. Statistics Japan Mission ............................. llf> Fourteenth Annual Report or the Missionary Statistics Haitien Church........................................ 116 ^ Bishop of Colorado.............................................. 42Report of the Standing Committee on TrustFunds 117 Seventh Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop First Annual Report of the Commission for Work o f M on tan a.......................................... Among48 the Colored People........................... 12~ Bishop Whittaker’s Report on Nevada..................... 51Proceedings 'of Church Commission for Work Seventh Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop Among Colored People..................................... 128 of New Mexico and Arizona.......................... 54 Memorial of Workers Among the Colored People. 145 Fourth Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop Sixteenth Annual Report of the Woman’s a u x - • of North Dakota................................................. 56 iliary to the Board of Missions....................... 147 Thirteenth Annual Report of the Missionary The Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Execu­ Bishop of Northern California................. .. 59 tive Committee to the American Church Thirteenth Annual Report of the Missionary ' Missionary Society, September 1st, 1887 — 187 Bishop of Northern Texas .. ....................... 63 Annual Report of the American Church Building Fifteenth .Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop Fund Commission .............................. ............. 191 o f South Dakota....................................................... 71The Ninth Annual Report of the Church Society Twenty-first Annual Report of the Missionary for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Bishop of Utah ......................................... 76 Jew s................................................ 195 Visitation of Western Texas by Bishop Garrett... 79 Annual Tables............................................................... 201 First Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop of A ct o f Incorporation.................................................... 236 Wyoming and Idaho ........................................ 81 Missionary Canon of the General Convention 237 Nineteenth Annual Report of the Missionary By-Laws of the Board of Managers of the Domes­ Bishop of Oregon ........................ 82a tic and Foreign Missionary Society................. 240 Seventh Annual Report of the Missionary Bishop The Missionary Council, 1886-89.............................. 244 of Washington Territory....................................82e SERMON DELIVERED BEFORE THE MISSIONARY COUNCIL AT ITS FIRST ANNUAL MEETING, IN ST. JAMES’ CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA, ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25TH, 1887, BY The Eight Rev. DAXIEL SYLVESTER TUTTLE, S.T.D., B ish o p of M iss o u r i. “ Brethren, my heart’s desire And prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.” —R o m a n s x . , 1 , C a th o lic certainly St Paul was. When his warm heart spoke out in Greek, it was, “ I have love (KaO’ oXovZ) for all.” Of course he was then KaOoXixoi— Catholic. When he planted a Church, as at Thessalonica, he let the people know at once that it was not to be for one nation only, like the Jewish synagogue, but, Had o\ov$, for all, for all races and classes and kinds of men; and so he opened the way for the comprehensive Christian Church, in contradistinction from the re­ stricted Jewish one, to be called soon afterward and rightly called— r/ e KKXrjffia nadoTiixr/—the Catholic Church. The essential meaning of the Catholic Church is, then, freedom for all, opportunities for all, love for all, under the atoning merits and limitless grace of the adorable Master who founded it. And how better can we define the true missionary spirit than by saying it seeks freedom for all, opportunities for all, love for all, under the merits and grace of the- Blessed Lord who gave Himself for us all. v Not that, in the outreach of missionary aim and love, we may allow the vast to be the vague and cold; nor either that we must think it wrong if our hearts _ have a quicker move and a warmer glow toward work for our own. “ Do the next thing,” i.e., the nearest duty, was a wholesome maxim for \ * Christian life writ over an old English fireplace. And it had good right in that s. home spot. Help the next man, i.e., your nearest neighbor, is no violation of the ,' sound interpretation which makes “ neighbor ” of the Catechism to mean all man­ kind. No wonder that some good men and women cling lovingly to “ Home Mis­ sions ” and do not want to hear of aught else wider. They are not entirely wrong. They are beginning right. Grive them time. Lead them on. Nay, the warmth >'■ of their own hearts and the zeal of their souls shall lead them on to realize that the merciful Lord died for all men, and that His body, the Church, is here now ^ for all (Catholic), and that He earnestly asks us to work for all, to reach forth after all, to love all. If some are slow to learn the later lesson, there may be sound method in the ^ slowness. Look round upon the next thing and the next neighbor. Family f altars sadly needed to be set up all over the land that the incense of daily family ^arayer may be offered from them (Oh, what a blessed prophylactic such incense is, W the best that earth has, ministered in the days of sweet childhood, against the \ luring vice and chilling doubt of after years!); parishes anxiously struggling not 2 SERMON. only against their sworn regular enemies, the world, flesh and Satan, but also against their guerilla adversaries, the discouragements and disintegrations which the restless habits and changing conditions of our people induce; cities building up and tearing down, and the tearing, in portions of them, treading with frenzied eagerness on the building, casting population into garrets and cellars or moving it up town, and so, alas! leaving churches stranded and the poor unshepherded because the well-to-do dwell not near enough to provide support; Bishops and dioceses a-face with the flood of immigration settling the lands and towns of the West, and distracted by efforts to meet and mould it and to keep from being sub­ merged by it; good men sorely oppressed by the dark-browed antagonisms and ill-omened conflicts between capital and labor, and sadly perplexed how to make Christian faith and Christian living to be more than sounding brass and tinkling cymbal to the skilled mechanics in their shops and the unskilled toilers out; and patriotic Americans lamenting that as we are rich we are wasteful, as we are en­ terprising we are greedy and tricky, as we are prosperous we are selfish, and un­ grateful to, and unthoughtful of, God; that German industry and thrift imported are not unaccompanied by a materialism that desecrates the Lord’s Day, and laughs in the face of prayer and Sacraments, and that incoming Irish docility and kindheartedness are wedded to a religion that bows to a foreign ruler and glories in an alien name—Ah ! there’s a deal for us to do with next things and next neighbors. Our hearts ache for the inequities, the disgraces and miseries,, the unbeliefs, the errors and hates that our own dear flag flies over. Is it a won­ der that not a few of whom I spake before say they cannot see through and beyond these crowding needs ? and that they must give their loving zeal and generous help to Home Missions now? W e sympathize with them. St. Paul would have sympathized with them, and laid his heart alongside theirs; and he and they and we could join in the earnest cry: “ Our heart’s desire and prayer to God for our Israel, too, is, that they might be saved.” But, St. Paul is the last man in the world to be quoted as seeming to say, W e desire and pray and work for our home Israel only. He was specially set to be the Apostle to the Gentiles, i.e., the heathen. With Barnabas he cried aloud: “ So hath the Lord commanded us, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.” He knew that his Blessed Lord had died to redeem all men. He knew that the Lord had left His. Church to make good the free proffer, and to urge on the world-wide appropriation of that redemption. And not more solicitous was he to “ fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ” “ for His body’s sake, which is the Church ” than to make known to all heathen from the rivers to the ends of the earth the knowledge of Christ and the salvation of Christ.