in the Diocese only until the middle of February last when he removed to the Diocese of Quincy. At his removal, Frank J. Mallett, late a Methodist minister and candidate for Holy Orders, was appointed lay reader and is still serving the parish acceptably. On the 1st of October Rev. Walter H. Bamford came to us from Minnesota and was appointed Missionary at New Castle, where he is rendering acceptable service. August 1 Rev. B. F. Miller, of the Diocese of Western New York, entered upon the rectorship of Trinity Church, Logansport, where he is serving faithfully and acceptably. Rev. James A. McGlone at the same time took charge of the vacant mission at Worthington, where he is doing excellent work. Rev. A. A. Abbott, on the 1st of July last, came from Minnesota to accept the rectorship of St. James's Church, Vincennes, and his work there is being greatly blessed. August 1st Rev J. T. L. Hynes was received from the Diocese of Kentucky and placed in charge of our mission in Cannelton, where he rendered acceptable service until April 1st, when, because of ill-health, he was compelled to resign and remove to the Diocese of Easton, his old home. In November last the Rev. George D. Adams was appointed missionary at Marion, coming to us from Louisiana. He is rendering most acceptable service. In December last Rev. Belno A. Brown, M. D., came from Western Michigan to take charge of St. Paul's, Columbus. He is greatly encouraged with the progress of his work. Rev. W. D. Engle having resigned Columbus and New Castle, his mission was enlarged to take in Anderson and Knightstown, where his labors, as in other parts of his field, are greatly blessed and full of promise for the future.

Rev. Benjamin S. Lassiter, of the Diocese of Tennessee, has accepted the vacant mission at Frankfort, and expects to enter upon his labors in June. Rev. William G. Woolford, ordered Deacon and Priest, since the last convention, was appointed January 1, to the vacant mission of St. Andrew's, Warsaw, and the prospects of this long vacant mission are once more encouraging.

Rev. J. H. Ranger, of the Diocese of Long Island, has been received into the Diocese, and was instituted rector of Christ Church, Indianapolis, on Sunday last. He is a welcome accession to the ranks of the clergy.

THE MISSION WORK OF THE DIOCESE.

The General Board appropriates to Indiana, $1,700 per annum the American Church Missionary Society $200. This $1,900 is apportioned toward the support of eleven missionaries, supplying twenty-four stations with regular ministrations. Our Diocesan Board has granted stipends to thirteen missionaries at a cost of less than $3,000 dollars, supplying twenty-nine stations. We could easily employ to advantage a half-dozen more missionaries at promising openings, if we had the means in hand to warrant their appointment. Besides this it would be of very great advantage could we employ a general missionary in each convocation. The Diocese would then be in good position to do the work open to her.

DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING FUND.

This important fund is proving a real help in the extension of the Church to new towns, and in building modest mission churches and rectories. It has aided the past year in building rectories at Elkhart and Garrett, and in paying off a mortgage upon the. rectory at Aurora. It has aided in securing sites for churches at Albion and New Carlisle; in the erection of the church at Wilkinson, and St. Philip's Mission Chapel for colored people, in Indianapolis, and the purchase of valuable church properties at Rochester and Brightwood, and in paying debts upon the churches at Rockville and Warsaw.

In the three years since the fund was started it has aided in building ten churches and three rectories, and in securing three sites for three churches yet to be built. This fund should, therefore, receive liberal contributions from all our parishes and missions.

CANDIDATES FOR THE MINISTRY.

I am glad to be able to report additions. At this time we have two postulants and five candidates for the ministry. In the education of our candidates, I have been greatly aided by the contributions for this purpose made in our churches. We shall need this aid more and more, and the Bishop would ask for an annual offering, as heretofore, for this important object.

ST. STEPHEN'S HOSPITAL, RICHMOND.

This institution, under the care of St. Paul's parish, Richmond, has continued its useful work. The Thanksgiving and Harvest Home offerings from some of our parishes have aided somewhat andtestified the sympathy of Church people to our brethren there in this their good work. We urge a general remembrance of this work at those seasons. There is a strong probability that a determined effort will be made at an early day for the purchase of a suitable building for a permanent home for the Hospital. This will make a saving of $400 per annum in the expense of maintaining it, now paid for rent, and will be an assurance of permanency and stability most desirable. The Child's Cot Fund, for the endowment of a bed in the Hospital, now amounts to $223.66, and is steadily increasing. The number of patients admitted to the Hospital the past year is 22, to whom 713 days' care have been bestowed, 193 of which were on account of charity.

ORPHANAGE FUND.

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The Children's Orphanage Fund has made good progress. our last Convention the Treasurer reported $363.08. It has now in the savings bank to its credit $1,152.26. We shall go on adding to it until the way opens to found the home. It may be that God will put it into the hearts of some of his servants to give a suitable building in which to begin the work in an humble way. With the orphanage might be associated a home for the aged. God's providential ordering for the beginning of the work.

SCHOOLS.

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The Howe Grammar School for Boys at Lima is steadily developing in usefulness, and its patronage is increasing. It has had twenty-three boarders enrolled during the year, and a number of day scholars. The patroness of the school, Mrs. John B. Howe, after whose honored husband it is named, and of whom it is a memorial, has taken the necessary preliminary steps to secure plans for the erection at once of a suitable brick building to increase the capacity of the school to accommodate at least fifty boys. I do not believe this good woman could expend the same amount of money in any way to the greater glory of God or for a blessing to

the Diocese. She will deserve and receive, I am sure, the thanks of the Church in Indiana for this generous benefaction. Few men have the gift of influencing and moulding youth for good to a greater degree than Mr. Spalding. This school, accessible to the two States of Indiana and Michigan, must command a patronage that will support it and make it one of the best schools in our land.

YOUNG LADIES' INSTITUTE AT INDIANAPOLIS.

This school for young ladies has received an encouraging patronage its second year. The Trustees of the Diocese, in order to enable the school to open a boarding department, placed the Bishop Upfold residence at the service of Professor and Mrs. Lyon, free of rent, thus securing the property for the object for which it was set apart by my predecessor. I was able to furnish the building suitably for its purposes. It has had five boarders its first year, and the testimony of parents and examiners is full and hearty as to the high character of the instruction imparted. We commend the school most cordially to parents having daughters to educate.

BARKER HALL, MICHIGAN CITY,

Has continued to do a good work, and has had a prosperous year. The school has enrolled 100 pupils, and commands the confidence and patronage of the community. Its influence in the town and parish is already felt.

ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL, NORTH VINCENNES.

This day school, maintained by Major Gould, at North Vincennes, numbering 60 pupils, is accomplishing great good among a class of children that greatly needed the blessed training it supplies. Its two teachers have been devoted to their work, and the rector has given it careful attention.

ENDOWMENT OF THE DIOCESE.

When, three years ago, the Convention, by resolution, requested me to canvass the parishes for permanent endowment of the Diocese, I felt that it would be no easy matter to accomplish; yet its importance and desirability determined me to make the effort in good faith, and I felt that when once our people came to realize the advantage of it, they would co-operate heartily in its accom

plishment. I have not been disappointed. There is good prospect of its being completed within the period of seven years allowed for it. The cheerfulness and readiness with which subscriptions have been given has been such as to make the work of personal solicitation comparatively easy. The aim has been to secure in every parish and mission a capital which, at 6 per cent. interest, would produce their annual assessment for the support of the Episcopate. Already this has been accomplished in twenty-nine parishes and missions, their full quota for this object amounting to nearly $19,000.

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They are as follows: Grace Church, Indianapolis; Christ Church, Indianapolis; nearly the whole amount. Grace, Muncie; St. Matthew's, Worthington; Trinity, Connersville; St. Luke's, Cannelton; St. Thomas's, Plymouth; St. Mary's, Delphi; St. Paul's, Mishawaka; St. John's, Bristol; St. James's, New Castle; Gethsemane, Marion; St. Andrew's, Warsaw; St James's, Goshen, nearly; St. Paul's, Jeffersonville; St. Mark's, Lima; St. John's, Crawfordsville; St. John's, Elkhart; Trinity, Michigan City; St. James's, Vincennes; Holy Innocents', Evansville; Trinity, Lawrenceburgh; St. Philip's, North Liberty; St. Mark's, Aurora; St. Stephen's, New Harmony; Grace, Attica; Emmanuel, Garrett; St. Mark's, Lagrange; Christ, Huntington. Others would have been in this list could I have found time to canvass them. It can not be done in a hurry, it takes time and patience and a favorable opportunity. the foregoing list, St. Mark's, Lima; St. Paul's, Mishawaka; St. James's, Vincennes; Gethsemane, Marion; Holy Innocents', Evansville; St. James's, New Castle and St. John's, Bristol, have paid in their full quota, and are entitled to be released from assessment for Episcopal support. The following parishes and missions have made partial subscriptions: St. Paul's, Evansville; St. Luke's, Frankfort; Trinity, Fort Wayne; St. John's, Greencastle; Trinity, Blooming. ton; St. John's, Rockville; St. Paul's, Indianapolis; St. John's, Lafayette; St. Paul's, Laporte; Trinity, Logansport; Christ Church, Madison; St. Paul's, New Albany; St. Paul's, Richmond; St. James's, South Bend; St. Stephen's, Terre Haute; amounting in the aggregate, with individual subscriptions, to $11,000, and making $30,000 pledged to date. There has been paid in cash, $10,000.

Some parishes because of impending parochial improvements or