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ART. 12. The names of all those who make voluntary donations to the Socie- ty, shall be recorded, and published with the amount of such donation, whenever a publication is made of the state of the funds of the Society.
ART. 13. It shall be the duty of every member to exert himself to increase the strength, and extend the usefulness of the Society; and the better to effect this, the Society shall have power to receive the aid of auxiliary Societies, which arc recommended to be formed in every parish.
ART. 14. The Board of Managers shall unite with the Bishop of the Diocese, in selecting one or more persons, to make personal representations to the Bish- ops of the respective Dioceses of the United States, and elsewhere, if they may think proper, of the destitute state of the Church, within the Diocese of Ohio; and to obtain proper authority to solicit donations for the support of Missiona- ries within the same.
ART. 15. This Constitution shall not be altered, except at an anniversary meeting, by the consent of two-thirds of the members present; and alterations so made, shall have no effect until approved of by the Convention.
The committee appointed to consider the propriety of an address to our brethren in the Atlantic States, soliciting aid and assistance towards the support of Missionaries in this Diocese, reported as follows :-
WHEREAS, There are many vacant congregations of the Church in this State, which are unable to support ministers, and numcrous members of our com- munion, scattered over an extensive country, destitute of the ministrations of the word and sacraments; therefore,
Resolved, By this Convention, that the Rt. Rev. the Bishop be requested to prepare and transmit to the Bishops of the respective Dioceses in the United States, an address setting forth the great necessities of the Church within the Diocese of Ohio, and soliciting their aid and assistance in procuring Missiona- ries to reside therein.
Resolved further, That should a Missionary Society be organized upon the plan
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proposed by this Convention, the Bishop communicate the fact and objeet of such Society, to the several Bishops of the United States, and request their aid in fur- thering and promoting the objeets thereof, in such manner as shall be deemed most expedient.
Read and unanimously adopted.
The committee on the preservation of piety and purity in the members of our communion, to whom was referred. so much of the Bishop's address as relates to the resolution of the House of Bishops, adopted in 1817, reported as follows :-
That the resolution referred to is in the following words :
"The House of Bishops, solieitous for the preservation of the purity of the Church and the piety of its members, are induced to impress upon the elergy, the important duty, with a discreet, but earnest zeal, of warning the people of their respective eures, of the danger of an indulgence in those worldly pleasures, which may tend to withdraw their affeetions from spiritual things. And especial- ly on the subject of gaming, of amusements involving cruelty to the brute creation, and of theatrical representations, to which some peculiar circumstances have called their attention,-they do not hesitate to express their unanimous opinion, that these amusements, as well from their licentious tendency, as from the strong temptations to vice which they afford, ought not to be fre- quented."
· In respect to this resolution of the House of Bishops, the committee reeom- mend, that the Convention adopt the following resolutions :
Resolved, By this Convention, that the foregoing resolution should be consid- ered obligatory upon the consciences of the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; and that they ought not to omit any opportunity of urging it upon their respective eongregations.
Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that all sports arising from severe and cruel exereises, imposed upon animals of the brute creation, besides their evil tendency in a moral point of view, are inconsistent with the humane precepts and doetrines of Christianity ; and ought not to be in any manner countenanced by the members of a Christian Church. And as theatrical amusements, besides that they are frequently eoarse and indelicate, tend rather to exeite the feelings, and inflame the imagination, than to enlighten the mind in matters of vital con- cern, or to correct the evil passions of the heart; they cannot, therefore, supply any thing proper for Christian improvement, and ought not to be frequented. especially by communieants.
Read and adopted.
The Convention adjourned till three o'clock, p. m.
[THURSDAY, 3 O'CLOCK, P. M.]
The Convention assembled pursuant to adjournment.
Mr. Collier and the Rev. Mr. Osborne, asked for, and obtained leave of absence during the remainder of the session.
The Canon for the trial of Clergymen in this Diocese, proposed by the Standing Committee yesterday, was called up for consid- eration, amended, and unanimously passed. (See Canon 4, in the Appendix.)
Resolved, That the Constitution and Canons of the Church in this Diocese, as
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amended by the present Convention, be published with this Journal and trans- mitted to the several parishes in the State.
Resolved, That for the purpose of defraying the expenses of stationery and printing for the Convention hereafter, the parish of Christ Church, Cincinnati, shall pay $5; the parish of St. Thomas' Church, Dayton, $3; the parish of St. Paul's Church, Chillicothe, $5; the parish of St. John's Church, Worthington, $5; the parish of St. James' Church, Zanesville, $4; the parish of St. Thomas' Church, St: Clairsville, $4; the parish of St. Paul's Church, Steubenville, $5, each annually : and all other parishes, each $2, annually; to be collected in such man- ner as the Wardens of each Church may direct, and forwarded to the Secretary of the Convention by the clerical or lay delegate attending the same.
And for defraying the expenses, aforesaid, of the present Convention, and for payment of a sum due for printing the Journals of the last Annual Convention, it is further resolved, that the several parishes pay each the sum above specified, to be collected as aforesaid, and forwarded to the Bishop as soon as may be practicable.
Resolved, That the Secretary, annually, at the meeting of the Convention, shall lay before them an account of the receipts and expenditures, upon the account aforesaid.
Resolved, That the Convention now proceed to elect four Clergymen and four Laymen, as the Standing Committee for the ensuing year.
Whereupon the following persons were elected :
Clergy-The Rev's Roger Searle, Medina ; Samuel Johnston, Cincinnati ; Intrepid Morse, Zanesville ; and Thomas A. Osborne, Cincinnati.
Laity -Mr. Benjamin Gardiner, Columbus ; Bezaleel Wells, Steubenville ; Joseph H. Crane, Dayton ; Noah M. Brunson, Me- dina.
WHEREAS, The members of this Convention do, with great sensibility, recipro- cate the sentiments of the Right Rev. the Bishop, in his address at the opening of the Convention, on the appointment of a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, for the purpose therein mentioned, therefore,
Resolved, That the Right Rev. Bishop be requested to appoint a day for the above purpose.
Whereupon, the last Friday in August of the present year was so appointed by him.
The Convention adjourned without day.
PHILANDER CHASE,
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, and President of the Convention.
Attest :
INTREPID MORSE, Secretary.
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APPENDIX No. I.
[The Constitution, Canons, Form of Certificate, &c., being the same as those found on pages 8, 25, 26, 29, and 44, are omitted in this edition, with the exception of Canon IV, which was adopted at this Convention, as follows :- ED.]
" CANON IV. If a minister offend, in any one of the respects specified in the third Canon, application in writing, signed by his accuser, or accusers, shall be sent in the first instance to the Standing Committee, and if it appear to them that there is ground for the charge, they shall report thereupon to the Bishop, who shall nominate four Presbyters, (no one of wliom shall be a member of the Standing Committee, who joined in the report aforesaid, provided, a sufficient number of Presbyters can be had without such member,) out of whom the party accused may choose threc, or if he neglect, or refuse to do this, the Bishop shall appoint three, who shall be constituted a board for trying the accused person. The Bishop shall appoint the time and place for trial, of both which, at least a montli's notice shall be given to the party accused; and should he neglect, or refuse to attend, the trial shall proceed. The board thus constituted, or a major- ity of them, shall examine fully the charges alleged, and keep a minute and accurate record of the testimony of witnesses, and of every question and proceed- ing that comes before them. No charge shall be substantiated on a testimony of less than two witnesses. On the examination of any witness, should the accused party require it, an oath or affirmation shall be administered by a magis- tratc. In all questions, a majority of the whole board shall be necessary to a decision. The board having come to a decision on the charge, or charges, re- spectively, shall communicate this decision to the Bishop; and also, in case they have found the accused party guilty, the sentence which, in their opinion, should be pronounced. A certified copy of the record of their proceedings shall be laid before the Bishop, and his judgment in the case shall be final."
APPENDIX No. II.
At a meeting of the members of the "Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, within and for the Diocese of Ohio," during the recess of the Convention, on the 7th instant, the following persons were chosen Managers of the same, viz:
Rev. Roger Searle, Medina; Rev. Samuel Johnston, Cincinnati ; Rev. Thomas A. Osborne, Cincinnati; Rev. Intrepid Morse, Zanesville; Rev. Philander Chase, Jr., Worthington ; Bezaleel Wells, Esq., Steubenville; Benjamin Gardiner, Esq., Columbus; Charles Hammond, Esq., St. Clairsville; Henry Brush, Esq., Chilli- cothe; Ezra Griswold, Esq., Worthington ; Mr. John Hall, Ashtabula; Mr. Rufus Murray, Ridgeville.
The Board of Managers then proceeded to elect, from their own number, the officers required by the 6th article of the Constitution of the Society ; whercupon, the following persons were duly chosen, viz: Rev. Roger Searle, Vice President; Rev. Samuel Johnston, Corresponding Secretary ; Rev. Philander Chase, Jr., Re- cording Secretary ; Benjamin Gardiner, Esq., Treasurer.
At a subsequent meeting of the Board of Managers, held at the house of the Rt. Rev. P. Chase, on the 8th instant, there were present-Rt. Rev. P. Chase, Presi- dent; Rev. R. Scarlc, Vice President; Mr. Morse ; P. Chase, Jr. Recording Secre- tary ; B. Gardiner, Esq., Treasurer; Henry Brush, Rufus Murray, John Hall, and Ezra Griswold.
The Rev. Philander Chase, Jr., Deacon, was nominated and unanimously chosen, to be recommended to the Bishop to carry into effect the objects of the resolution by the Convention of this ycar, providing for a personal application to the bish- ops, clergy, and laity of our communion, at the eastward, for aid in furthering and promoting the objects of this Society.
It was tlien
Resolved, That the President of the Society be requested to compensate tlie aforesaid Rev. Philander Chase, Jr., for his agency and services-1st, by allowing to him his reasonable traveling expenses; 2d, such reasonable compensation as he would otherwise receive in the employment lie will be taken from in the Sem- inary at Worthington; and 3d, the aforesaid be paid out of any funds in the treasury of the Society.
Resolved, That, in pursuance of tlic 13th article of the Constitution of this Society, there shall be printed the Constitution and Proceedings of the Board of Managers, and immediately forwarded to each of the parishes in this Diocese; and,
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Resolved, further, That a blank form of the contemplated auxiliary Societies be forwarded in the same shect.
[Agreeably to the foregoing resolution, a blank form of the contemplated aux- iliary Societies accompanies this communication, on a separate sheet.]
APPENDIX No. III.
To the Ministers, Congregations, and Members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, their affectionate Bishop and Pastor sendeth greeting :
DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD: Whereas, the Convention of this Diocese, commiserating the deplorable situation of many thousands of Christians, who, in this new country, are so scattered and destitute as to preclude them from the enjoyment of anything like stated ministration of the word and sacraments of the Gospel, did, at their late session, unanimously recommend the appointment of A DAY OF HUMILIATION, FASTING AND PRAYER, UNTO ALMIGHTY GOD, wherein to supplicate his mercy and goodness, in the forgiveness of our sins, and sending forth and maintaining his faithful ministers, to preach his Gospel and feed his people; and did also recommend the last Friday in August next to be that day : therefore, be it remembered that the same, the last Friday in August, in this year of our Lord, 1821, is recommended, and hereby appointed, to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer, unto Almighty God, in which the ministers and people belonging to the congregations and parishes in communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, are earnestly requested to assemble themselves together, in their several places of worship, for the purposes aforcsaid, then and there to pour out their hearty desires and prayers unto the fountain of all goodness, and the giver of all grace, in the devout usc of our primitive liturgy, and such forms as are liereunto an- nexed, and directed for that purpose.
(Signed) PHILANDER CHASE,
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Ohio.
Lessons appointed .- 1. Jer. 3d, verse 12th to the end. 2. St. Luke, 21st chapter. Proper Psalms .- 3d Selection.
Epistle and Gospel and Collects, to be used as on Ash-Wednesday.
A Prayer appointed to be used by all the ministers and parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio, immediately before the General Thanksgiving, on the last Friday in August, 1821, and on all Sundays and holy days succceding, till the meeting of the Convention of 1822:
Almighty and Everlasting God, Heavenly Father, who hast purchased to thy- self an universal Church by the precious blood of thy dear Son, we humbly bescech thee that thou wouldst mereifully look upon the same, especially that part of it which thine own right hand hath planted in these regions of the west. Pity our desolate and dismembered state, we humbly beseeeh thee, O Lord. Hear the prayer of thy people for the bread of life, and let their cry come unto thee. Send forth ministers and stewards of thy manifold grace, to feed thy ehildren famishing in the wilderness. Stir up, we entreat thee, Almighty God, the hearts of thy faithful people of the laity, throughout our country, to give liberally of the abundance which thou hast given unto them, in support of the laborers wliom thou mayst be pleased to send among us. Cause them, through the influence of thy blessed Spirit, to feel for the wocs of others, now perishing for laek of spirit- ual food.
Be pleased, O Lord, to guide and govern the minds of thy servants, the bishops and pastors of thy flock, that they may lay hands suddenly on no man, but faitlı- fully and wisely make choice of fit persons to serve in the sacred ministry of thy Church generally ; and especially here, where the sheep are so scattered, and the shepherds so few. And we beseech thec to give to those who are, or shall be, ordained to any holy function among us, thy grace and heavenly benediction, that both by their life and doctrine they may show forth thy glory, and set for- ward the salvation of thy people.
Hear us, O Lord, in Heaven, thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, for- give, and grant these our earnest petitions, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.
The next Annual Convention will be held at Worthington, on the first Wednesday in June, 1822.
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JOURNAL
OF THE
FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION,
HELD AT WORTHINGTON, JUNE 5TH, 6TH, AND 7TH, A.D. 1822 .*
LIST of the Clergy and Lay Delegates who attended the Convention. CLERGY.
The Right Rev. PHILANDER CHASE, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese, and Reetor of St. John's Church, Worthington.
The Rev. ROGER SEARLE, Rector elect of St. Paul's Church, Medina; St. John's Church, Liverpool; and Trinity Church, Brooklyn.
The Rev. SAMUEL JOHNSTON, Minister of Christ Church, Cineinnati.
The Rev. INTREPID MORSE, Minister of St. Paul's Church, Steubenville, and St. James' Church, Cross Creek. [Zanesville.
The Rev. PHILANDER CHASE, Jr., Deaeon, Minister of St. James' Church, The Rev. EZRA B. KELLOGG, Deacon, Minister of St. Paul's Church, Chillicothe;
All Saints' Church, Portsmouth; and St. Philip's Church, Circleville.
The Rev. SPENCER WALL, Deacon, officiating at St. Thomas' Church, Dayton, and at Springfield and Piqua.
LAY DELEGATES.
St. John's Church, Worthington-Ezra Griswold, Stephen Maynard, Arory Buttles. St. Peter's Church, Delaware-Chester Griswold, Joseph L. Webb.
Grace Church, Berkshire-William Smith.
St. Philip's Church, Circleville-Guy W. Doan.
St. Paul's Church, Chillicothe-Richard Douglas.
St. James' Church, Zanesville-Arius Nye.
St. Paul's Church, Steubenville-Briee Veirs.
St. James' Church, Cross Creek-Abner P. Pinney.
St. Thomas' Church, St. Clairsville-John M. Jones.
St. Paul's Church, Medina-Noah M. Bronson, Rufus Murray.
St. James' Church, Boardman-Trial Tanner.
St. Peter's Church, Ashtabula-John Hall.
St. Paul's Church, Norwalk-Samuel Sparrow.
St. Peter's Church, Morristown-Lemuel G. Humphrey.
WORTHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 1822.
THIS being the day appointed by the Constitution of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church in the State of Ohio for the meeting of
* " Delaware, O. : Printed by Griswold & Howard, at the office of the Delaware Patron. 1822."
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the Annual Convention of the same, several of the Clergy and Lay Delegates attended at half-past 10 o'clock, A. M., in the hall of the College edifice, which had been appointed by the Bishop as the place of meeting.
Morning Prayer was conducted by the Rev. Intrepid Morse ; and after an appropriate sermon and the administration of the Holy Communion, by the Bishop, the following Clergy took their seats :
Right Reverend Philander Chase, D.D.,
Rev. Roger Searle,
Rev. Samuel Johnston,
Rev. Intrepid Morse,
Rev. Philander Chase, Jr.,
Rev. Ezra B. Kellogg,
Rev. Spencer Wall.
The following Lay Delegates presented certificates of their respective appointments, and took their seats :
Ezra Griswold, Stephen Maynard, Arory Buttles,
Chester Griswold,
Joseph L. Webb,
William Smith,
Guy W. Doan,
Richard Douglas, Arius Nye,l
Brice Veirs, Abner B. Pinney, John M. Jones,
Noah M. Bronson,
Rufus Murray, Trial Tanner,
John Hall, Lemuel G. Humphrey, Samuel Sparrow.
Agreeably to the 45th Canon of the General Convention of 1808, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Chase delivered the following Address :
REV. BRETHREN, AND GENTLEMEN OF THIS CONVENTION :- Since our last meeting, I have performed but little Episcopal duty; but that little, though mixed with much imperfection, has been the extent of my abilities.
Cramped in my circumstances, and attacked by a violent and lingering disor- der, last summer, I was unable to perform but a small part of what I had wished to do in the vineyard of our adored Master. I, however, visited Chillicothe, Portsmouth, Zanesville, and Marietta. Near the last mentioned place, in com- pany with the Rev. Mr. Morse, I was seized with the bilious cholic and intermit- ting fever so severely, that I was obliged to be transported in a boat for several miles, to the house of a friend, on the margin of the Muskingum river, whence, after about three weeks' sickness, I returned home; all the appointments at the east and north being thus frustrated, and my weak state of health not permitting a renewal of them. To those persons who, with great kindness and assiduity, min- istered to me, and to the Rev. Mr. Morse, (for he was also my companion in sick- ness,) I beg leave in this way to make my acknowledgments of sincere gratitude. I have since understood that some considerable preparations are making for the erection of a church at Marietta.
During the past year, only the following confirmations took place : At Worth- ington, on Whitsunday, eighteen persons; St. James' parish, Zanesville, August 5th, six ; All Saints', Portsmouth, 24th July, four ;- in all, twenty-four.
On the 12th of September last, by divine grace I was the instrument of conse- crating to the service of Almighty God, St. Paul's Church, in Chillicothe ; which Episcopal act is rendered doubly interesting, by the circumstance of its being the first of the kind west of the Alleghany Mountains. The church is small, but neat and commodious, having already a small organ and good music. Much praise is due to the gentlemen who, under very discouraging circumstances, have perse- vered to the accomplishment of this good work; and I am peculiarly grateful to Divine Providence, in that, with the finishing of their church, the parish have, I hope, permanently secured the services of a pious and able minister of the Lord Jesus. The parish of All Saints' Church, at Portsmouth, I had visited in July, and found their unanimity and zeal in the cause of truth and piety unabated. The Rev. Ezra B. Kellogg, Deacon, having been regularly received into the Dio- cese, by letters dimissory from the Bishop of New York, is fixed, for the present,
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at Chillicothe, Portsmouth, and Cireleville. What congregations, however small and depressed, will not take courage, when witnessing the blessing with which God hath been pleased to crown the efforts of these interesting parishes !
The connexion subsisting between the Rev. Intrepid Morse and the parish of St. James' Church, Zanesville, has been dissolved in grcat harmony : the former will henceforth confine his parochial services to Steubenville and vicinity, and the latter will be supplied by the ministrations of the Rev. P. Chase, Jr.
The Rev. Spencer Wall, Deacon, came regularly into the Diocese, with letters of recommendation from the Rt. Rev. Bishop Kemp, of Maryland. I advised the offer of his ministerial serviees to those hitherto much neglected places at the western part of the Diocese, viz: Dayton, Springfield, and Piqua. At these he labored from the 19th of October to the 24th of March last, when he had some thoughts of quitting his station; from which, considering our destitute situation, I was so happy as to dissuade him, so that he still continues among them. From his report, dated the 27th of March, 1822, I make the following extraets:
"Regular and stated ministrations at these three places, and the country ad- joining them, would, beyond question, contribute much to the prosperity of the Church, in the western part of the Diocese. At Piqua, the prospects are such as to justify sanguine expectations of the permanent establishment and regular growth of the Church. Her friends have already raised a subscription amounting to about six hundred dollars, for the purpose of erecting a church. The donation of a lot has been made, and the deed ready to be executed, as soon as the society receives a corporate form in law. It is intended to commence the building as soon as the weather will permit, and complete it the present year. The services and doctrines of the Church are acceptable to the people generally, and by many cherished with cordiality; but unless they be soon supplied with oeeasional min- istrations, this infant establishment will be entirely lost."
I make the above extraet of the prospects at Piqua, in particular, because it is a place never before visited, neither by myself nor any of our clergy. To lovers of primitive truth how cheering the prospect, to see the divine seed take root in a soil so new, and yet so free from the weeds and briars of modern prejudices. Other places there doubtless are, equally congenial, had we more faithful laborers, who, regardless of toil and hardship, would make the glory of their Redeemer's eause their paramount object.
Though unable, as I have observed, to visit in person the Churches at the north, south-west, and east, during the last year, yet the tidings from them, through the medium of their respeetive elergy, and others, have been, as far as our destitute condition would permit, by no means void of consoling, and even animating prospeets.
The parish of St. Thomas' Church, St. Clairsville, have, mostly through the laudable exertions of a few individuals, been enabled to build and finish a church, respectable for its size and convenience; and I am just now informed that it is ready for eonseeration to the service of Almighty God.
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