should be issued when the testimonials were received, as required by the Canons. The consent given by the Bishop to Christ Church mission, Shelbyville, to mortgage the church property for $300 was concurred in. Consent was given to the consecration of Rev. Joseph B. Cheshire, Jr., D. D., as Assistant Bishop of North Carolina, and the canonical certificate was duly signed and issued. It was ordered that regular meetings of the Committee should be held thereafter on the last Wednesday of each alternate month. The Committee met in special session on call of the Chairman, October 9, 1893. Notice was received from the Bishop of the resignation of Lewis B. Martin as Treasurer of the Diocese, that it had been accepted, and that Chas. E. Brooks had been appointed Treasurer to fill the vacancy. The appointment of Mr. Brooks was confirmed. On November 11, 1893, the Committee met and action was taken as follows: The consent given by the Bishop to St. Paul's Church, Richmond, to mortgage the church property for $10,000, was concurred in. Record was made in this connection that in the judgment of the committee the necessity of making such incumbrances should be avoided by vestries whenever possible, and that this case should not be considered a precedent.、 The application of Austin F. Morgan for recommendation for Deacon's Orders was granted and the certificate as required by the Canons was signed and issued. Consent was given to the consecration of Rev. Arthur C. A. Hall, M. A., as Bishop of Vermont. The blank forms and Canons of Ordination ordered at a previous meeting were received and distributed, and the account of $6.60 therefor was approved. The last meeting of the Committee was on March 26th, 1894, at which time consent was voted to the consecration of the Rev John B. Newton, M. D., as Assistant Bishop of Virginia, and the canonical certificate was duly signed and forwarded. All of which is respectfully submitted. WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG, Secretary. David E. Snyder submitted the following: INDIANAPOLIS, June 5, 1894. The Registrar of the Diocese respectfully reports that during the past year he has received the usual number of reports and jounals from other Diocese, but has received no parish histories or other important papers from this Diocese. DAVID E. SNYDER, Registrar. N. F. Dalton submitted the following, and the resolution therein contained, was adopted: The Trustees elected at the last Annual Convention held at Evansville, organized by electing L. B. Martin, Treasurer and N. F. Dalton, Secretary. On October 21st, 1893, L. B. Martin, after a long period of faithful service, resigned as Treasurer of the Board and Charles E. Brooks, of Christ Church, Indianapolis, was appointed Treasurer to fill the unexpired term. ST. MARY'S HALL. The Trustees renewed the lease of St. Mary's Hall for three years to the Rev. and Mrs. Swan, this school under their management is an honor to the Diocese and we commend it to the patronage of all Church people. TUTTLE HOME AND ORPHANAGE. The Trustees purchased during the fall of 1893, 60 by 200 feet on Central avenue adjoining St. Mary's Hall for the Orphanage, paying for this ground $7,500.00 and this spring, owing to the depressed condition of labor and material, deemed it a favorable time to enter into a contract for the erection of the building so far as enclosing it, which has been done at an expense of about $6,000. This is as far as they have the means to go. We urge upon the laity of the Diocese the importance of prompt and liberal subscriptions, that it may be finished this season. EPISCOPAL ENDOWMENT FUND. This fund is invested as follows: Pennsylvania and St. Joe street houses... Episcopal Residence, 242 N. Pennsylvania street.. Bills Receivable..... Cash on Hand... Total amount... $32,246 00 25,000 00 6,540 00 204 41 $63,990 41 A summary of the schedule of all property submitted in our last report was divided as follows: Amount of property held direct or managed by the Trustees.. Amount of property held in trust by the Trustees... Total amount.. $154,506 92 71,880 00 $226,386 92 During the past year there has been added the following: Tuttle Home and Orphanage, increase of this fund..... $4,500 00 AGED AND INFIRM CLERgy. Increase of this fund... $460 23 SUMMARY OF TRUSTS. Amount of property held direct or managed by the Trustees.... Amount of property held in trust by the Trustees.. Grand total.... Increase since last report.. $161,467 15 85,130 00 $246,597 15 $20,210 23 In conclusion the Trustees ask the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That this Convention approve all of the acts and proceedings of the Board of Trustees during the past year, as shown by their report, and hereby ratify and confirm the same. Respectfully submitted, N. F. DALTON, Rev. Douglas I. Hobbs submitted the following: Your Committee on Unfinished business call attention to the following: 1. The organization of the Prayer Book Distribution Society. (Page 58.) 2. Work among young people. (Page 59.) 3. Sunday-school work. 4. The division of the Diocese. DOUGLAS I. HOBBS, Committee. Rev. A. W. Seabrease submitted the following: The Committee on the Division of the Diocese report: That they have had three meetings, in which the subject entrusted to them has been fully discussed, and that various propositions for the erection of new Dioceses have been entertained. They have kept before them the principle that "the law of missionary expansion is the law of the Church life," and that the Episcopate is the order that should lead and direct that life in an Apostolic Church. All that the Church has done must speedily decay unless she continually strives to do more. And this is especially true in this vast missionary field, where there are many towns, and indeed entire counties, where the voice of our Church is never heard, and where countless souls, for whom Christ died, are not yet reached by her ministrations. We should not forget that the Church in Indiana is a Missionary Church, and that it is her imperitive duty to “subordinate everything to that primal law of Church life which her King has inscribed upon her commnission, the law of missionary expansion." The vast area of territory included within the limits of this great State, alive with a population of more than two million souls“a vast caravan passing on toward the eternal world”—with deep spirtual necessities, forces us to ask if a great impetus to the Church growth would not be given if the Diocese were divided. One man can not be expected "to do the double work of the Episcopate and that of a general missionary." The Bishop of the Diocese in his Convention Address of 1892, under which your committee was created, said: "The time is rapidly approaching, it may be said to be at hand, when this great Diocese should be divided into three, corresponding with our present Convocations. I have been working for seven years to secure the endowment that would make it possible, but the response in many parishes has been most feeble, and the work is barely half accomplished. Our wealthy Churchmen do not yet seem to realize what a great advantage endowment of the Diocese would bring, or what possibilities are in it by releasing the effort confined to it, for Church extension. The moment $25,000 to $30,000 can be secured for an endowment of a Diocese in the North or South, we can apply to the General Convention for division, with the certainty that the application will be favorably considered. There are Churchmen in either of these Convocations who are able to do this. I do not believe they could consecrate their substance to better forward the work of Christ's Kingdom than in creating these endowments. The accomplishment of it can not be too soon commenced." To the Convention of 1867, Bishop Talbot, after referring to "many points in the Diocese not yet occupied," said: "I find my time so entirely taken up by the work actually begun; so much of it lost in mere traveling and waiting upon trains, that it is impossible for me to do, as fully as I wish, what I conceive to be strictly a Bishop's work. His commission is to go to the world and preach the gospel. He is to be the I am well 冰 * chief, the leader, in all aggressive missionary work. persuaded, as the result of my own experince and observation in Indiana, that, were it three Dioceses, instead of one, each with an active Bishop at its head-a Bishop filled with missionary spirit, every one of the three would, in a few years, be as large in the number of its clergy, its churches, and its communicants as the whole is to-day.”—Fournal, 1867, p. 60. Your committee gives its hearty endorsement to the opinions herein expressed by both Bishops Talbot and Knickerbacker, that |