Daily Republican., 1883-10-26
The Episcopal Convention.

The Episcopal Convention, now in
session at Philadelphia, will adjourn
sine die tonight at 9 o'clock. The con-
ference committee Of tn" two Houses
agreed upon that time, and its report
has been accepted by each. Yesterday
morning an interesting addendum to
the report Of the COMMITTEES on the
State OF the Church was read, showing
its progress for the past fifty years. 1t
is stated that the most complete mea-
sure of that progress is in the increase in
the number of communicates. Group
ing the triennial periods, it is found
that the ratio of increase has been 70
per cent. per annuin upon each trienni-
al report, and for the whole period the
increase has been more than tenfOld in
the number of communicates.
From 1889 to 1883 the growth of the
church has been such as to more than
double the number of diOceses, eighteen
to forty-eight to increase the number
of parishes in large ratio, but less dis
tinctly defined to increase the number
of clergy tive-fold, 592 to 3,572, and the
number of communicates more than
tenfold, 3O,939 to 372,4S4 also the
number of baptisms in nearly the same
proportion. For the more complete
statistics of the recent part of this
period the number of missionary juris-
dictions shows gain Of 100 per cent.
since 1871 ; the number of missions th-
like gain, and the offerings a gain OF
100 per cent. in the short period from
1868 to 1880. The increase in the nun
Der of communicates is very striking,
but the progress in resources, as shown
by the incre ease in ofierings,is still more
remarkable, being now $23, ,2lS, 900 az
compared with 81, ,472, 600 in 1866.
The amendment to the Constitution
proposed by the Committee on Canons
to give Missionary Bishop the right
if he had no diocese, 10 become the
Bishop of any diocese erected in his
jurisdiction, was adopted by the Hous'
of Deputies after long and very ami
mated debate
The House then, after passing a reso
luton thai no motion should be mad
TO make any changes in the Book 0
Common Prayer except such as sug
gested by the joint committee, went in
to Committee of the Whole to furthe
pass upon the Joint committees report
Considerable progress was made in tn
afternoon, and very few of the propOset
changes recommended by the committe
were rejected.
| Late in the afternoon message wa
received from the House of Bishops, in
forming the House of Deputies that tn
Bishops did not concur in the resolutio
selecting Chicago as the place of tn
next meeting Of the General Convel
tion, and a conference committee wa
appointed to reconcile the difference
betw the two Houses.
Such progress was made in tn
House OF Deputies in the disposal Of th
Joint committees report upon til
Prayer Book last night that there /
every reason to believe that the entii
report will be gone over before tn
, final adjournment. and as the House {
Bishops has completed its work on tn
report it will be sent down as amende
to the dioceses for their approval.
The two Hous ), through the confer
enCe committee, have reached basis c
agreement on that portion alread
considered hy both Houses, and viii
find no difficulty in agreeing upon ii
balance as soon as it is ready for its col
: sideration.