The Rev. Dr. Grammer offered the following resolution, which, on motion, was adopted:

Resolved, That in the form of parochial report the separate item "Colored People" be added to the Diocesan objects, after the item "Seamen's."

The order of the day at 3.30 o'clock being the Bishops' addresses, the Rt. Rev. O. W. Whitaker, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of the Diocese, read his address, as follows:

THE BISHOP'S ADDRESS.

Dear Brethren of the Clergy and Laity:

Another year has passed full of God's mercies, and of our unworthiness. It is with a profound sense of both that I welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth annual convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. On these occasions it is not my custom to refer to our Bishops who have died in the preceding year; but two of those who have been lately called away sustained such relations to many of our Clergy and people that it seems a duty and privilege to express appreciation of their character and faithful loving service to the Church.

The Right Reverend Leighton Coleman, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Delaware, died December 14, 1907. His departure was to me a great personal loss. From his early associations with this Diocese he knew it almost as well as his own, and he was always welcome to exercise his office here. From 1898 to 1902, he took a large share of my appointments for Confirmation. He did this gladly. He was never so happy as when his time was closely filled with engagements and he found a special joy in doing anything which gave relief to his brother bishops in their sickness or other time of need. I cherish his memory with gratitude and affection.

The death of the Right Reverend Henry Yates Satterlee, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Washington, D. C., was not only a personal loss to hosts of warm friends, and to his Diocese, but it was a loss to the nation. Never was a man more entirely consecrated to the work to which God had called him, and few men have been more admirably fitted for their place in life than was he for the exacting position which he filled. He felt that he was called of God to lay the foundations of a national cathedral in the capital of his country, and to this end he gave the intense devotion of his thought and effort, and his unceasing prayers. He was permitted to see the foundation laid, on the site which he had chosen, ample in extent, and beautiful for situation. I deeply feel that he has left the building of that cathedral, not for his successor and the Diocese of Washington alone, but as a legacy to all the Dioceses of this Church, and to the nation. It is a work in which not only every Churchman and Churchwoman should be interested but in which every citizen may take part with propriety and profit to the national life.

died:

Since the Convention of 1907, six of our Clergy have

The Rev. Leighton Hoskins, died August 17th, aged fiftyseven years.

The Rev. William Budd Bodine, D.D., died September 28th, aged sixty-seven years.

The Rev. Robert Evans Dennison, died October 1st, aged sixty-eight years.

The Rev. Cassius Marcus Roberts, died January 7, 1908, aged fifty-one years.

The Rev. Joseph R. Moore, died March 4, 1908, aged seventy-four years.

The Rev. William Bryce Morrow, died May Ist, aged sixty-nine years.

Many of our faithful Churchmen and Churchwomen have been called away during the year, whose names I have recorded; and in all probability many others equally worthy of mention to whom my attention has not been called.

Francis W. McDowell, of St. Peter's, Germantown, and

Holy Trinity, Lansdale.

Henry Whelen, Jr., of St. David's, Radnor.

Mrs. Peyton Skipwith Coles, of the Church of Our Saviour, Jenkintown.

tion.

Miss Mary H. Stilson, of the Church of the Transfigura

Dr. Charles E. Cadwalader, of Christ Church.

Mrs. Mary L. Paul Morris, of Holy Trinity.

Mrs. Cadwalader Evans, of St. Paul's, Chester, aged ninety-eight years.

Mrs. Thomas H. Bull, of St. Mary's Warwick, aged eighty-four years.

Mrs. George R. Miller, of St. Nathanael's.

John E. Creth, for twenty-five years a Vestryman of Christ Church.

Robert Patterson and Walter C. Timm, both Vestrymen of the Church of the Atonement, Morton.

town.

ties.

Mrs. Abbie J. R. Burk, of All Saints' Church, Norris

James McCullen, of St. John's Church, Northern Liber

Mrs. Mary Hay Wescott Silvester, of the George W. South Memorial Church of the Advocate.

Miss Laura B. Hard, of St. Paul's Church, Chester. Joseph G. Darlington, of Holy Trinity, and the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr.

John Scholes, aged seventy-two years, for twenty-one years Rector's Warden of the Church of St. Simeon.

Reed A. Williams, for many years most helpful Warden of St. Luke's Church, Germantown.

Col. Edward R. Bowen, of the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr.

ton.

Mrs. John C. Lewis, of St. Andrew's in the Fields, Somer

Miss Thornley, of St. Paul's, Chester.

Mrs. William Marshall, of St. Stephen's, Norwood.

"I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord: even so saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labors."

"Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity; We give Thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those Thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labors. And we beseech Thee, that we, with all those who are departed in the true faith of Thy Holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in Thy eternal and everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord."

I present herewith my official journal of the past year, with lists of Clergy, Candidates for Holy Orders, Ordinations, Confirmations, etc., all of which will be printed in the JOURNAL of the Convention, but of which I will now read only the summary:

The past year has been one of faithful work throughout the Diocese, and I believe there is not a single parish or mission whose present condition is less encouraging than it was a year ago, and in many instances there has been growth in all the elements of parochial life. There is great cause for thankfulness in this, when we recall that in a large part of the Diocese there has been financial stringency, and many members of the Church have been deprived of their accustomed employment and means of support. In noticing some improvements that have been made, I will refer only to the organized parishes, leaving to the Bishop Coadjutor the full report concerning the Missions, all of which are under his charge.

A great improvement has been made in Grace Church, Mount Airy, by building a transept which extending across the Church lengthens the nave, increasing the seating capacity by two hundred sittings and, by erecting a new and much larger chancel, which makes the architecture of the edifice harmonious in all its details.

The appearance of the interior has been also much improved by the erection of a new altar and reredos. The Parish Building was also enlarged and a new three-story