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held several of these the past year with good effect. few places where there are Church families where such services might not be established monthly and serve as a nucleus of permanent organizations and Church buildings.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

I have, in all my annual addresses, urged the importance of Christian education and the establishment of Church schools. Much sooner than I could have reasonably expected, the fruit has come and two grand Diocesan schools, one for boys and one for girls, have been founded, that promise glorious results in the future of the Diocese. Mrs. John B. Howe, of Lima, has carried out the plan intimated in my last address, of erecting a substantial group of buildings for the Howe Grammar School at Lima, that will enable this school to receive double the number of pupils it has hitherto been able to accommodate, and there are not wanting indications that this room will be needed almost immediately. We shall have room for sixty boarders. The school has done a good work that is being more and more appreciated by parents. The consecration of her means, by Mrs. Howe, for this noble work is worthy of all imitation, and we hope that scholarships may be endowed by individual Churchmen that will enable the sons of our clergymen and our postulants for Holy Orders to avail themselves of the advantages the school affords. The school, with its endowment of $10,000, and its buildings and property that have cost $35.000, is well equipped to do a most important work for the Church in Indiana. My hope is that Churchmen will appreciate the advantages here offered for the best training of their boys under the fostering care of the Church, and that the increased room will all be occupied by our own children. The children of Mr. Burnell, the lately deceased Warden of St. Mark's Church, Lima, carrying out an intention expressed by their father, intend to furnish $500 for the foundation of the library of the school. So far the greater portion of the income of the $10.000 endowment has been used for the material development of the school, in the increase of its accommodation.

The Indianapolis Institute for Young Ladies has had a prosperous year. The day scholars have been fifty in number and the full capacity of the house has been taken by fourteen boarding pupils. Professor and Mrs. Lyon have devoted themselves most unsparingly for its welfare, and have given the best of satisfaction to its patrons. Realizing its limited capacity in its present location, the Trustees of the Diocese and of the school, after careful consideration, deemed it wise to secure more room for its development further up town, purchased in February four lots, 200 by 225 feet, at the corner of Seventh street and Central avenue, at a cost of $11,000. This they intend to pay from the proceeds of sale of the present property, leaving a surplus to apply to the erection of a suitable building for the accommodation of fifty boarders. Plans have been made and it is hoped to erect the building the coming year. To do this at least $8,000 will need to be raised and this we are not without hope of securing. There we hope to have a school that will be an honor to our Diocese and to the State. Grace Cathedral will be removed to this site, and land is also reserved in connection with it for a site for an orphanage and home for the aged. I do not think any work for the Diocese is more important than that of building up Christian schools.

Barker Hall, Michigan City, has continued to do a noble work for education during the past year. Its able corps of teachers have furnished instruction to one hundred boys and girls and its scholarship is not behind that of the best schools of the State. The generous founder of this school has it in his heart to do much more to promote its usefulness.

Through the generosity of Major W. P. Gould, the Mission Day School of St. John's, North Vincennes, has continued its good work with two teachers, under the watchful, pastoral care of the Rector, Rev. A. A. Abbott, furnishing instruction to sixty children. Its usefulness for the whole locality has been greatly increased by the fitting up by Major Gould of a free reading room and furnishing it with a library to be opened every evening for the large working population adjacent to it. The

generous founder of the school has provided for its continuance another year.

The Rector of St. James's, South Bend, has maintained an excellent school during the year.

NEW CHURCHES.

On May 21st, I consecrated to the service of Almighty God the neat mission church of St. Paul's, Rochester, secured through the indefatigable efforts of our faithful missionary, Dr. Kemp. It is a neat wooden church, centrally located on a corner lot with land sufficient for a future rectory. The property is deeded to the Trustees of the Diocese. Thus another county seat in Indiana is occupied for the Church of the Living God. At Albion, county seat of Noble county, we have secured a valuable lot and hope, ere the summer passes, to have a neat chapel sufficient for the needs of that growing county town.

At Covington, county seat of Fountain county, where twenty-five years ago we had a prosperous mission which was allowed to die out, the little seed left of the former mission has begun to revive and grow and develop a desire for a restoration of Church services. It has culminated in securing a neat brick church, that will make a most desirable home for the Church.

The plans have been prepared for the erection of a substantial stone parish church in the growing city of Marion. This parish is steadily growing, and numbers now more than fifty communicants, and has a Sunday-school of more than one hundred children.

The mission of St. Paul's, Hammond, organized by Dr. Kemp since last Convention, secured, October 1st, the services. of Rev. R. C. Wall, as missionary and Rector, pledging him $600 and a rectory. His services have been greatly blessed. Two lots have been secured, of 100 by 137 feet, at a cost of $1,100, as site for a church and rectory. The services are being held in a rented hall, and a Sunday-school carried on. I have confirmed here nineteen during the year, at two visitations. The Rector at Hammond has also organized a Sunday-school in the growing town of East Chicago, three miles from Ham

mond, where he has the promise, also, of lots for a church. Here, it is a satisfaction to know, the Church was first to occupy the ground.

At Bloomington the plans have been secured for the erection of a neat wooden church.

Trinity Church, Michigan City, have the plans for the erection of a noble stone church, and ground for the same was broken on Sunday, May 19th, at my visitation.

Trinity, Fort Wayne, will erect a comfortable rectory and parish house.

There have been some discouragements to the Bishop in the lack of cordial cöperation in some of our older missions in meeting their responsibilities in maintaining services, but the few discouragement are more than counterbalanced by the general development and interest manifested throughout the Diocese. as a whole.

Some parishes have accomplished a noble work in paying off their indebtedness.

St. Paul's, Indianapolis, hopes to get rid of an indebtedness that has been burdensome, the coming year.

St. Paul's, Evansville, has determinately set to work to wipe out their entire indebtedness of $10,000, incurred in the erection of their new church.

St. Stephen's, Terre Haute, through the cordial cöperation of the vestry and ladies' society and the congregation, paid off, at Easter, $4,800 indebtedness incurred in building their rectory, and completed their pledges for their proportion of the Endowment of the Diocese, $5,000.

St. Paul's, Jeffersonville, has completed payment for the lots on which they propose to erect their new church, and can count on $3,500 towards a new building.

Emmanuel Mission, Garrett, has erected a neat rectory, adjoining their church, at a cost of $1,200, on which they owe $350. St. John's Mission, Rockville, paid off, at Easter, a debt of $235, on their Church building.

Several Church properties have been greatly improved the past year:

Grace Church, Attica, has had a new roof put on their church, at a cost of $200.

Holy Innocents', Indianapolis, has painted church and rectory.

St. Thomas's, Plymouth, has been painted and put in thorough order, as also, St. Matthew's, Worthington.

Holy Innocents', church and rectory, Evansville, have been renovated and refitted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Viele.

St. Luke's, Cannelton, is also to be thoroughly renovated.

DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING FUND.

In erecting and securing mission churches, the Diocesan Church Building Fund has been of the greatest service. It has aided the present year in the purchase of All Saints', Brightwood; St. Paul's, Rochester; St. John's, Rockville; St. Matthias's, Albion; Covington, and the rectory fund at Garrett, and the purchase of lots at Hammond. Every new mission church needs some help from this fund. The Bishop has been greatly aided in adding to this fund by generous friends abroad, who appreciate the difficulties connected with our work in this central west, and who are willing, for a time, to lend a helping hand to overcome these difficulties. For their aid I desire to place on record my sincere gratitude, and to ask for a continuance of generous offerings in all our parishes and missions for the Diocesan Church Building Fund.

DIOCESAN ENDOWMENT.

Substantial progress has been made in securing subscriptions for the Endowment. Several parishes have been added to the number of those who have subscribed their full quota. The addition of $3,000 from St. Stephen's Parish, Terre Haute, to complete their quota of $5,000, is the largest addition this year. Owing to my long absence from the Diocese, and the pressure of other work, I have not been able to give it that attention I desired, and which I shall hope to give during the coming year. I hope this year to make a canvass of all the remaining parishes and missions which have not yet been called on. I feel grateful to