go into the Sunday-school with other children to be taught in the usual way. Several have been brought to confirmation by the rectors. REV. T. B. KEMP, D. D., MISSIONARY AT Garrett. Rt. Rev. Father in God: Up to the 30th day of November I had charge of St. Thomas's, Plymouth, when I resigned the rectorship. A synopsis of the work is herewith inclosed, the full details are recorded in the parish register. During the conventional year I have visited Rochester and Kewanna alternate week evenings up to August last, and have officiated on eight occasions since, in the former. Baptized four in Kewanna, one in Rochester; buried three in Kewanna, and given eight services, administering Holy Communion on alternate visits. In Kokomo I have officiated on eleven occasions, baptized three, buried one, and visited in each of the above missions all those interested in our work. My last visit to Kokomo was in March, when I visited from house to house. We need there a stationed clergyman, and must have, to accomplish any permanent good. Since assuming charge of this and adjoining missions, I have concentrated my chief efforts in Garrett, but have visited Albion, in Noble county, where I give alternate week evening services, have baptized three, presented one for confirmation and am somewhat encouraged, although the growth will be slow. In Angola, I think, we may perhaps succeed sooner than in Albion or Columbia City in securing a building to worship in, although we have a lot in the first named (Albion). Columbia City, the people have been so long neglected that it will take time to convince them that, with their assistance, a permanent work may be assured. Of one thing they seem to be quite positive, viz.: that there is little hope for the Church there. I do not view things just as they do; if only I can correct them so that they will not give preference to everything before the demands of the Church are thought of or considered. We have paid our own expenses thus far, but have given notice that alms will be taken at each succeeding service, and D. V., we will go on in faith, believing that if we do not faint by the way, that the word shall not return unto our Heavenly Father void. What we appear to want is an increase in the number of Rural Deans, and a return to the duties which the name indicates, viz.: the continuous going from place to place, and holding up the Church and her beautiful services, polity and worship before them, the missionary that follows them will not be considered such a wonderful prodigy. Who ever heard of a Rural Dean in Indiana in the waste places, and yet, this is what they are commissioned for. Point to a single report where we find anything of this kind, outside of Convocation sessions. Of course there are exceptions, but they are few and far between. Let us once get men who assume the office to perform the inherent functions, and we shall at least be known and listened to in places where we are anything but welcome guests. I do think that the duties ought to be enumerated in canonical form by our noble leader, and let none accept the position unless he could and would perform the duties. I trust we may have some stirring work in behalf of missions in our Convention, for that is where we must strengthen the foundations from. God grant it to us for His mercies sake. Amen. Amen. REV. WILLIAM WILLSON. LAFAYETTE, June 3d, 1890. In June, 1889, I was appointed missionary for one year from July 1st, 1889, to fill such appointments as the Bishop might designate. I was requested by the Bishop to take charge of the parishes of St. James's, Crawfordsville, and Grace Church, Attica, and the mission of St. Philip's, Covington. I held a week-day evening service at Attica on June 12th, and again, June 26th. On July 21st, I commenced monthly Sunday services, and continued them until January, 1890. This parish has no vestry and only twelve or fifteen communicants. The Church building is rented to the Campbellites. I could not arrange for services this season. Indeed, the parish is in a hopeless condition. At Crawfordsville I commenced semi-monthly Sunday services on Trinity Sunday, June 16th, and continued them until January, 1890. This parish is in a low state, having no vestry and less than thirty communicants. I have failed thus far in arranging for services this season. The parish needs a thorough renovation, and a permanent rector, to bring it again into a living state. In St. Philip's mission, Covington, I held monthly Sunday services, commencing August 4th, and continuing until January, 1890, and opened them again this season on Easter Sunday, April 6th. This is a small, but live mission with eleven communicants. They are ready and willing to do all they can. During the year I held five funeral services, all in Lafayette during the absence of the rector. I have also assisted a number of services in St. John's, Lafayette. Owing to the state of my health, with the consent of the Bishop, I rested from my ministerial work from January 1st to April, 1890. INDIANAPOLIS INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG LADIES. DIOCESAN SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. To the Rt. Rev. D. B. Knickerbacker, D. D.: DEAR SIR: I herewith report the continued growth of the Diocesan School for Girls. The advantages offered by the school have been largely increased and the number of pupils has been greater. The receipts have been thirty per cent more than last year. Although we have been very much crowded, most excellent work has been done in every department by thoroughly qualified teachers. In both the Preparatory and Collegiate Departments that attention has been given to the ordinary English branches their importance demands. In a young lady's education however, the accomplishments are very important and we believe few schools in the country offer equal facilities for their acquisition. A superior artist has resided in the school the past year, giving her whole time to the studio. The Exhibit shows what has been done in the school of art, but does not show the influence created. In the Conservatory of Music most thorough work has been quietly done. In music as in the other accomplishments, we have merely used the opportunities at our hands to offer advantages that can not be offered by girl's schools located in small cities and country towns. Morning and evening the teachers and pupils have assembled for worship, using the prayer book as the manual of devotion. They have also regularly attended services at the Cathedral. From the start, in every way possible, both direct and indirect, quietly and persistently, that prominence has been given to the Church that rightly belongs to her in education, and, I believe, that in no school is there a healthier moral and religious tone than in the Indianapolis Institute for Young Ladies, and that no school in proportion to its size is doing a greater work for the Church. With increased accommodation afforded by the new building in course of erection, it is reasonable to expect that the advantages of the school will be still more widely sought, and the increase, I have annually reported, still coutinue. Most respectfully, yours, JAMES LYON, Principal. HOWE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. LIMA, IND., May 15th, 1890. To the Rt. Rev. D. B. Knickerbacker, D. D., Bishop of Indiana: I submit to you the following report of the Howe Grammar School. IST.-AS TO ATTENDANCE. Since my last report to you the attendance upon the school has increased from twenty-two boarders and seven day pupils, to about forty boarders and six day pupils, in all, forty-six. 2D. AS TO INSTRUCTION. The school has employed, during the last year, four instructors besides the rector, who has given much of his time to the class-room, and has used for instruction, part of the time of two other officers. Of those, four are graduates of distinguished institutions. It is believed that rarely do pupils of an institution of no greater numbers enjoy like advantages. 3D.-AS TO RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION AND CARE. Religious and moral training are made the basis of the work. There are held the daily morning and evening prayers of the Churh, shortened to meet the needs of a school. The family attend Church twice on Sunday, and, on Sunday afternoon a brief, but careful, religious instruction is given to all the pupils in classes. Every effort is made to induce the youth committed to us to devote themselves to an upright and earnest performance of duty under the forms and in the faith of the Church. Fourteen of the pupils are communicants. Since my last report, four have been confirmed. Two have been baptized. There will be four baptized on the approaching Whitsun Day; and from fourteen to eighteen will be confirmed on your approaching visitation. Our surpliced choir is greatly improved since my last report, and to all the pupils, constant instruction in sacred music is given. 4TH. AS TO PHYSICAL TRAINING. Our gynamsium is in constant use. Our grounds afford the best advantages for atheletic games, and base ball and kindred games are constantly and zealously played. The property purchased by you npon Twin Lakes, ten acres of which were at first designed by you for the school, is constantly used for boating, fishing and bathing, under careful oversight. 5TH. AS TO IMPROVEMENTS IN PROPERTY SINCE MY LAST REPORT. We are in full enjoyment of the outlay of about $35,000, given by Mrs. F. M. Howe for the welfare of the school, and of about $3,600 given by myself. We have elegant new school rooms, dormitories, bath rooms, recitation rooms and dining room. Mr. James B. Howe has just furnished us with a bell weighing above 1,500 pounds, and by the liberality of Mrs. Howe, gas is to be put in a great part of our buildings, while I will put it in the rest. 6TH. THE PROSPECTS FOR THE COMING YEAR ARE BRIGHT. There can be no doubt that the Diocesan School for boys in Indiana has been established, and that the gifts to it have been to make a deserving work more effective, and not to bolster up with money a work which pride or personal motives had an interest in. The gifts promised for a library by the heirs of the Burnell estate, have been paid over. One hundred dollars additional have been given by D. F. Dwight of Detroit to place the rooms in order, and now, with rooms ready for the reception of the library, $520 are on hand to purchase books. Respectfully submitted, C. N. SPALDING, Rector Howe Grammar School. |