The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-27
Protestant Episcopal Convention.

Convention Of the Protestant Episcopal
| church resumed business to-day.
Immediately after the morning prayer
William Welsh, of Philadelphia, on be-
half of the Committee on unfinished
Business, reported that at the last meet
ing q committee had been appointed to
promote civilization among the Indians,
and read letter from General Custer on
the subject. The committee entered o
protest against the sale of Indian reser-
vations or territory, and recommended
the appointment of a Committee on In
dian Affairs. The old committee was
continued.
Rev. Mr.. Getz, of Pittsburgh, offered
a resolution requesting the House of
Bishops to SET apart appropriate religious
services to be celebrated on the Centen-
nial anniversary of American Indepen-
dence. Laid over until tomorrow.
1t was resolved to appoint commit
tee to act with similar committee
from the House Of Bishops, to determine
upon place for holding the next Cen
eral Convention.
The Committee on the General Theo-
logical Seminary reported that it was
in satisfactory condition. In
1872 the number of students was 7S;
in 1873, 20, and in 1874 there were 73.
The finances of the institution were in
creasing, but the salaries paid the Pro-
fessors were utterly unfit for their sup
port. The report was referred back to
the committee. The order of busince on
the calendars was taken up where it was
left of on Saturday, it being the cOnsid-
Grafton of the Committee on Canon No.
:, respecting the proposed amendment to
sections 2 and 3 of canon Is title l of the
digest, with regard to the confirmation
ofBishopS a vote was taken on the amend
mcnt offered by Mr.. Streams Of EaSton,
that the confirmation of Bishop be COM
mitted to standing committee
instead of the House of Deputies.
\ vote was taken by the
diocese and orders, and was lost as fol-
lows: Clergy, ayes, 10; nays, %; divided,
i; laity, ayes 9; nays, 2G; divided, |.
A substitute was offered by Mr.. Bar
tholomew, of Kansas, for the report of
the committee, which was also lost. The
original report Of the committee WIS
then adopted.
A resolution was offered by DR..
Schcnck, Saturday, calling for the APP
pointment of committee to consider the
age and infirmities of the presiding Bish-
ops, and taking what action might be
deemed necessary, was adopted.
The report of the Committee on Can
ons No. 10 on ritual, being the order of
the day for noon, came up for discussion,
which was opened by Rev. Geo. Leeds, Of
Maryland.
The following resolutions were received
from the House of Bishops:
Rcsotrcd, the House of Deputies con-
curing, That paragraph l Of section !,
of Canon = of title II, be amended by
adding after the words "crlmc or immor-
ality" these words, "and if he be pre-
sented under paragraph of this section,
the Bishop may, with the advice and con-
sent of the standing committee, at once
inhibt the minister so presented from all
functions of his ministry till trial be held
and verdict given
Resoircd, That paragraph of section
of canon 2 of title !, be amended by
striking out the words ION being found
guilty" and inserting in their stead the
words, IF he be found guilty"
Resotred, That the House of Deputies,
concurring that section of canon i of
title II, be amended to read as follows:
Ifany presbytcr or deacon shall, without
availing himself Of the provisions of
canon j of this title, abandon the COM
munion of this church by an open renun-
citation of the doctrine, discipline and
worship of this church by a formal ad-
mission into any religious bod y not in
communion with the same, or in any
other way, it shall be the duty of the
standing committee of the diocese to
make certificate of the fact to the BiSh-
on of the diocese. or if there be no Bishop,
to the Bishop Of an adjacent diocese.
which certificate shall be recorded, and
shall be- taken and deemed by ecclesias-
tical authority, as equivalent to the re-
nunciation of the minister by the minis
ter himself; and said Bishop may then
proceed to suspend, for six months, the
presbyter or deacon so certified as
abandoning the communion of this
church. Notice shall be given to
said minister by said Bishop, receiving
certificate that, unless lhe shall, within six
months make declaration that the facts
alleged in said certificates are false, he
will be deposed from the ministry of
this church.
The resolutions We're referred to the
Committee on CanonS.
The Secretary read communication
from the Convention Of Canterbury,
England, transmitting the chronicle OF
the last convocatiou, and returning
thanks for documents received from the
General Convention.
He said the sooner men knew what was
allowable in the Prayer Book the better.
Persons would be allowed thcirpriyilegcs
within certain boundaries, but the
church and its members must be pro-
tectcd by well defined, elastic and
thoroughly sound boundaries.
The Church Uneasy About the Action
orthe Committee.
Rev. DR.. Fulton spoke on behalf ofthe
committee He said there had been great
uneasincSs in the church itself to see
what they would do with this vexed
question of ritual. Great numbers of
documents have been sent in to the COM
mittee relating to the ritual which rcquir-
ed careful study, but hethought the fears
of the public were exaggerated, as the
church was not so near destruction n they
thought several of the committee, if not
the majority, would rather not present
the canon on ritual TO them al all. 1t
WINS true that innovations on ritual might
have changing effect upon the doc
trine of the church. He, rs the youngest
member Of the committee, took it upon
himself to say they had examined the
matter in all its bearings most thorough
". They had sat five days before they
could put word on paper; The rubrlcs
of the prayer book had their roots
away down in the earlier days