Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-15 | Page 20 | Episcopal Church Convocation Opens

'EPISCOPAL GHURCil , ! ncm opie I Bishop Frank Hale Touret Reviews Progress of Work for Year. 'The twelfth annual convocation of tlie Episcopal church in Utah opened i in St. Fuul'3. parish bouse yesterday morning. Tlie Kight Tie v. Frank Hale Touret, bishop of western Colorado, and acting bishop of Hie district uf t" t ah, celebrated. At 11 o 'clock the session was called to order by the bishop and convocation was opened for tlie transaction trans-action of business. All the clerjxy of the district and lay members from most of the parishes and missions were present. After the appointment of the usual committee?, Bisliop Touret read a report re-port of work attempted and accomplished accom-plished by him since becoming acting bishop of Utah, at the request of Hi shop Tuttle. presiding bishop of tlie church. In tlie last year, owing to a variety of troubles, Bishop Touret said lie had not been ablo to give as much attention atten-tion to Utah as he had planned, and many of the tilings hoped for had not materialized, though tlie year has showu a real progress. Bishop Touret has been able to make but three hurried visits to Utah and each of them came as a result of special spe-cial needs. Tlie influenza stopped the visit planned in the fall and the need for a visit to the Mayo Brothers hospital hos-pital postponed the intended winter visitation. Rowland hall and St. Havk 's hospital received the chief attention on two visits, and as a result of this the usefulness use-fulness and prosperity of both ware enhanced. Two clergymen left the district and will probably be replaced by men from the east. The great need of co-operating with the nation-wide campaign for the fuller accomplishment of the work of world advancement and growth was emphasized. empha-sized. Tho bishop showed that the loy- ally and efforts of the workers of the district had accomplished much and pointed out that all this gave full promise prom-ise that with the more active co-operation between th'e 'workers and the I bishop that ahould come in tlie future should make for really great results. Luncheon was served in the gymnasium gymna-sium at 1 p. ni. by the ladies of bt. j Paul's. . The convocation in the afternoon re- i ceived the reports of the standing coni- ; mi t tecs, all of which showed some ad-vance ad-vance and improvement in the work. At ; 4 o 'clock the meeting ad.journed to ; meet at 9:o0 this morning, when the time "will lie taken up by a. series of ; papers and talks by the clergy and workers on Tural work, the proposed : union of the Congregational and the Episcopal churches and the reading of a clergyman. The afternoon session will be devoted devot-ed to reports and plans for the future. In the evening a pageant will be presented pre-sented by the woman 's auxiliary.