"CHURCH WORKER" REPORT. In the early fall Bishop White announced to the Executive Board of the Woman's Auxiliary that he had entered upon an agreement for the printing of the Diocesan paper, which he hoped would prove advantageous in several ways. For several years Dean Hunter had labored most faithfully, both in editing and managing the circulation of the "Church Worker," but for some time he had been unable to make the amount paid in for subscriptions cover the expenses of publication. Year after year there was a deficit which the Bishop had to meet. Therefore, he welcomed the proposition which was made to him by one of the local printers to take the problem of the cost of publication off his hands. A contract was entered upon whereby the printer was to secure a sufficient number of advertisements to defray his own expenses, and all money received in subscription was to be left to the disposition of the Bishop. At this point Bishop White was prompted to ask the aid of the Woman's Auxiliary. The Auxiliary is, as we all know, primarily a missionary society, and the Bishop believed that in its hands the "Church Worker" might become an efficient missionary agency. Certainly those who know most about the Church's work are those who are most interested in the Church, and the object of all good Church papers is to stimulate and arouse such interest. Among the 7,000 or 8,000 communicants in the State it is safe to say that only an insignificant number ever see a Church periodical or know anything about current Church matters outside of a single parish or mission. The "Church Worker" is designed to keep all in touch with the fuller life of the Church at large (with its monthly bulletin of Church conditions in Indiana and its clippings from the more ambitious publications). Bishop White feels that it should be read in every Church family in the State, and he has hoped that the Woman's Auxiliary could do much toward bringing this about. He therefore asked the Executive Board to take charge of the "Worker's" subscription list and to use every effort to increase its circulation. At the same time he was enabled by his new printer's contract to give to the Auxiliary all the receipts from paid subscriptions, with the understanding that these be devoted to the most important single object now before the Auxiliary, the Archdeacon's salary. The effort has been made to secure the services of some one devoted woman in every parish and mission in the State-of some one who would make every effort to bring the people of her Church home to an appre ciation of the importance of informing themselves about the Church in Indiana and of the value of a monthly Diocesan paper as a means to this end. Upon the mailing list of the "Church Worker" are many people who have never paid a subscription, but whose names have been added from time to time in the hope of interesting them. It is not the purpose of the Board to remove anyone from the list, although there is no doubt that those who pay the exceedingly small subscription price care more for the paper and its news than those who get it for nothing. But the Board has wished to appeal individually to everyone, hoping that many would be moved to subscribe and thus indirectly to add to the Archdeacon fund— or whether they paid a subscription or not if the "Worker" came to them that they would receive it graciously and read it. Within the last three months a department of parish notes has been added through the efforts of the Board. This also has been done by enlisting the aid of some one woman as correspondent in each parish or mission. It is hoped that this will add materially to the efficiency of the "Worker" as an index of Church activity in the State. Because the Board thoroughly appreciated the efforts of the faithful women who have made the appeals and the collections for the "Church Worker" during the past winter, I read the names of those who have charge of the subscription list in the several parishes and missions; and I wish to express to them gratitude for their help. Their task has been no easy one. It has had to be in a large degree educational, for in many places there seems to be no conception of the value or the aims of a Diocesan paper. By the end of next year it is to be hoped that the entire Auxiliary will be interested in the effort to scure for the "Church Worker" a careful monthly reading in every household connected, however remotely, with the Church. Such an effort falls well within the province of the Auxiliary, which is missionary, not only in the sense of providing support for those who go forth to preach the gospel, but also in the matter of spreading information concerning the work that is being done by the Church in Indiana or elsewhere. I have received in subscriptions since November, when the Executive Board took charge of the subscription list: Christ Church Grace Cathedral Holy Innocents' St. Paul's .... Jeffersonville Kendallville Kokomo Lafayette Laporte Lawrenceburg Logansport Michigan City Muncie ... New Harmony Peru Princeton Plymouth Richmond .Mrs. George C. Duy. . Mrs. Fred R. Mott.. . Mrs. Jennie Robertson.. . Mrs. C. H. Hubbard.. .Mrs. A. R. Hale...... .Mrs. G. C. Burton. Mrs. W. L. Boyce.. Miss Cornelia Bowman. Mrs. Winfield W. Robb.. Miss Mary Mitchell...... Mrs. A. P. Twincham. Miss Cornelia Ellis.. 10 00 4 50 I 00 3.00 3.00 2 50 2 50 13.00 3 00 650 9 50 2. 00 5 50 18.25 5.00 I 00 50 5 50 17 25 3 00 9.00 7 50 7 50 2.50 4 00 2. 00 9.00 850 Mrs. E. B. Simons.. Shelbyville .Mrs. G. G. Jennings. 600 Washington Worthington From. Collector. .Mrs. G. H. Read.... Received from single subscriptions where there is no collector... Total receipts I 50 3.00 28 25 280 75 A great deal of correspondence has been entailed by the effort to secure local collectors. I have written 357 personal letters, 21 postal cards and I have sent out 200 printed circulars. The postage has amounted to $11.10. I have secured some one to take charge of the list in 56 places. I have failed to do so in Frankfort, South Bend, Aurora, Franklin, Lima, North Liberty, Crawfordsville, Valparaiso. Is there not some one who can tell me to whom to turn for assistance in these towns? From the Auxiliary everywhere the Board would ask hearty co-operation in this effort to increase the effectiveness of the Diocesan paper. Respectfully submitted. MRS. MEREDITH NICHOLSON. Clergy, List of, in Order of Canonical Residence Committees, Appointment of..... Constitution, Amendments to, Action on. Credentials, Report of Committee on.... Deans, Appointments of...... Deans, Reports of..... Deficiency, Pledges Toward Paying.. Delinquent Parishes and Missions. Diocesan Officers Diocese, Division of.. Elections ... Endowment Fund, Statement of...... Examining Chaplains, Appointment of... Howe School Knickerbacker Hall Loans Authorized Minutes .... Missionary Meeting Recommended Missions, List of.... 87 75 68 12-39 40 47-52 30 67 .41, 42, 43, 44 76 |