, 1875-09-12
| THE CHURCH, T.
Probable Action of the
Episcopal Diocesan
Convention.
What Dr. De KoVen's Friends
Are Seeking to Do
Letter from Bish-
op Coke.
Moody in Massachu-
setts~-~Life of a sha-
ker Saint.
Sunday-School Convention at e.
gin---Death of a Noted
Mormon.
A New Relgion---M Modern Mir
acles.--Episcopal Statis-
tics in America.
Notes and Personals Mt
Home and Abroad.
Notes and Personals nj
Home and Abroad.
Church Services To-Day.
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.

Tuesday morning the Episcopal Diocesan Con
yention nests in the Cathedral OF SS. Peter ane
Paul, and will undertake, as it did about thu
same time year ago, to elect Bishop for thil
Diocese, and to put an end to the}protracte1
| strife which has in jured the Church at home and
abroad. 1t meets with better prospects of suc-
cess than it did last year or in February Nearly
oil are wcaried of strife, and are moro ready fol
| compromise than at any previous time, and, not
! Wlthstandlng the attitude which has been main
| talned BY the friends Of DR.. De koven aud their
! reiterated declarations Of their intention to
again present his name and again elect him,
there can be but little doubt but
that they are beginning to MeakeD. It
was at one time proposed by them to leave the
Episcopal chair vacant, and to cali in Bishop
from another state-to put the Diocese in CON-
mission. This however, met yvith such storm
Of opposition from all quarters that it bad to be
abandoned. The next proposition, which was to
re-elect DR.. De Koyen. and to trust to the weak
ening OF the Standing Committees which once
rejected him, has also been abandoned. It has
been found that it will not do. in view Of the
position taken by the Church at large as repre-
een.ed By the General Convention OF last year,
and the Standing Committees, to force upon
them person who is obnoxious because ne
represents the Ritualistic or Romish party
in the Church. Though DR.. De Koyen
is man Of decided ability aud
who has been able to inspire members with =
warm, personA attachment to him, yet many
of his most devoted friends recognize the fact
that it will not do TO thrust him upon an unwill-
ing Church and to defy public sentiment, and
they have therefore abandoned him. Such man
as Judge Otis, who understands fully the feeling
Of the laity, has been inpelled to this step, aud
DR.. Locke and several equally prominent clergy |
men have boen Influenced By the same reasons. |
aud are determined not to repeat in September |
the votes they cast for Dr. De Koven in Febru-
nry.
These two and numbers Of othe1B who once
supported De Koyen are now warmly in favor of
some compromise candidate, who shall be free
from all reproach Of Ritualism on the one hand,
or extreme Low Churchism On the other, and |
who may be able BY virtue OF the fact that he is |
entangled in none OF the feuds which have dis
tracted the Church, to restore the Diocese of
Illinois to the high standing that it once pos
sesacd.
There are. however, few of the warnest
adherents Of Dr. De Kovon who will keep up
the semblance in faith in his reelection, yet
know it to bs inpracticable, and are conceu-
trasing their efforts to secure the choice Of =
man who will represent DR.. De Koven's
Rs"s. zsTs BE- sss acceptable to the Warden tSst &
of policy which he would hare carried
out had be become Bishop. As the election of
Dr.. Dc Koren WAS hera1ded as justification Of :
Seymour, SO they now want to put in son4e man
whose choice shall be announced as the vindca-
ion OF De Koveu. Gentleman belonging 10
hat wing Of the Church have given long Lists Of {
lan1es Of persons whom they said they thought !
Eere probable candidates, 1t is believed, how Z
,yor, that those individuals "hom they really ]
lave in contemplation have not been mentioned {
It all, in order that they may be sprung upon
he Convention aud rushed through before an I
inquiry can be made into their ortho- | t
lo1r. A CAUCUS will be held tomorrow :
hing runs smoothly, and the ultra friends OF =
)e koyen don't find themselves in minority, q 3
nan will be selected whose Lame will be pre- | 4
ented to the Convention Tuesday or Wednes- =
AZ. 1t Is believed that one OF the persons who 2
! chiefly favored By this action is the Rev. u
Elizabeth, N. j., who is an educated Ritualist, J
reat friend of the Rev. Dr.. Ever, Of the Igna- -
us Church, New York, and Of the other ad- | Il
anced cle1gynen Of the Episcopal Church. While n
is views arc pretty we'll known, YET be has not 6.
cen as prominent an exponent OF them as Dr.. De y
oven, and consequently might be run through b
10 Convention before there was time to find | .,,
Ut how he really stood, which would necessitate "
1other protest. another circular to the Standing to
ommittees, and another rejection. H
While there is considerable majority Of the DE-
ity and small majority OF the clergy opposed d.
the election OF any person Of pronounced Mas M
ews, yet it ia difficult for that majority to set W W
upon a candidate. Numerous names have NJ
ON the disadvantage Of being too we'll known. VI
ID Of having been connected 1ittlo too proml~ h:
ntiY with doct1ipa views which are not salts -
ctory to q majority Of the Convention. There f. f.
ono, however, who has not hitherto been IN
ects to iii ali tho requirements OF ch
y: 'r Thomas % R. Conrad, Of The Church ~