The Carolina churchman [serial] . as has been mycustom heretofore, and, I believe, the custom of mypredecessors. Thus April, the most productive monthof the year, is left out of this years report. The Aprilconfirmations, for example, would bring the numberup from 350 to 501. But as the parochial reports runfrom April 1 of one year to March 31 of the next, itseems proper that the Bishops report should conformto the same rule. The most pressing demand of our Diocesan work atthis time is for clergymen to occupy our vacant more important Parishes made vacant by the re-moval of their rec
The Carolina churchman [serial] . as has been mycustom heretofore, and, I believe, the custom of mypredecessors. Thus April, the most productive monthof the year, is left out of this years report. The Aprilconfirmations, for example, would bring the numberup from 350 to 501. But as the parochial reports runfrom April 1 of one year to March 31 of the next, itseems proper that the Bishops report should conformto the same rule. The most pressing demand of our Diocesan work atthis time is for clergymen to occupy our vacant more important Parishes made vacant by the re-moval of their rectors within the past few months willdoubtless be supplied at an early day; but where thefield offers little beside hard work it is difficult to findeffective laborers. We need strong and well-preparedmen in order to supply our smaller parishes and mis-sions. We have had a larger number of candidatesthan usual during the past few years, and have someexcellent men now in preparation, but we need more. DIOCESAN CONVENTION SUPPLEMENT. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, RALEIGH, N. C. Twenty Years of Progress In connection with this annual Convention, I cannotfail to be reminded that it is just twenty years sinceI first occupied this place as your Bishop, presiding inthe annual council of the Diocese; and, I may add,just forty years since I attended my first Conventionas a lay representative of Calvary Church, we. consider the character of the work com-mitted to us, the preaching of the Gospel, and thebuilding up of Christs kingdom among men, its re-sponsibilities seem so overwhelming, our best effortsso feeble and inadequate, and our greatest success sopetty, by contrast with our continual failures, that inall my ministry I have never been able to feel satisfiedwith my work, or to escape altogether from the fearthat I have been a laggard and an idler. I am surethat every earnest minister of the Gospel must be attimes troubled in heart by such reflections. He won-ders how so
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