The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-17
THE EPISCOPALIANS.
General Convention Of .he church.

General Convention of the Church.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 16-At to-day's session
in the house OF deputies Rev. DR.. Harwood of
Connecticut, from the committee on amend
ments to the constitution presented a report
which was placed on the calendar.
Rev. DR.. Hines of New Jersey, from the
committee on the state of the church, reported
relative to q memorial from the diocese OF In-
dana to revise the work of evangellsts and
authorize them employmentin the church in
America, that the committee did not deem it
expedient to make any Recommendation ON 80
grave subject.
At request, the committee was discharged
from further consideration of the subject.
Rev. DR.. Weller of Honday, offered reso-
luton that the work among the coored people
of the South does not require extraordinary
ecclesiastical machinery, and that $4,000 be
annually appropriated for the work III the diff
erent dioceses. Referred to the committee on
work among the colored people.
The house then discussed the question rela-
tive to concurring with the house of bishops
who had adopted the report of the committee
on the sectionary after having amended 1t by
restoring the story of Balaam aud his Ass in
the 22d chapter Of Numbers. 1t was a agreed to
restore the chapter, the vote being yeas 234
nays 49,
Lev. DIR. Knight moveSVan amendment to
the rubric so that it shall read as follows:
"Then shall follow portion OF the Psalms as
they are appointed, or one of the selection of
psalms, and at the end of every psalm may be
sung or said, and after every cauticle of Morn
ing and Evening Prayer, excepting Te Deum,
and also at the end of the whole portion or
selection from the Psalter, shall he sung or
said the Gloria Patri or Gloria in Excelss.'
Consideration of the above amendment was
| postponed in order to take action on section
| j, regarding the Gloria in Excesis.
Mr.. Wilmer of Maryland offered an amend
| ment to section I, so that it shall read, "Then
| shall follow portion of the Psalms, or one of
| the selections of Psalms, as they are appointed,
| Agreed to. The section was then agreed to as
| amended.
An amendment to strike out section j was
| lost-7S yeas, 163 nays.
| Rev. Dr. Huntington moved that tho rebric
| in section be adopted as reported by the
| committee, and that the following permissiye
| form of Gloria Patr, sAt the end of the whole
| portion of the Psalms or selections from the
| Psalter, the Gloria in Excesis may be sung or
said instead of the Gloria Patri." Adopted
| Section x was adopted. The next section
| considered was L, as follows. "Insert between
| the Te Deum and the Benedicte, as an alter
| native canticle, the Benedictus Deus Domino
as printed, with the rubric preixed, Or this
| csntcle." Agreed to.
| Sections M, N and 0 were agreed to.
| Section P was next considered, as follows:
| Change the wording of the rubric preixed to
| the Apostles Creed SO that it shall read /,
"Then shall be said by the minister and peo-
| ple standing, the Apostles Greed, or else that
| commonly called the Nicene Greed, as IT is set
| forth in the Communion and churches, and
may-omit the words, "He descended into Help
or may instead OF them use the words, HE
| went into the place of departed spirits, which
are considered as words of some meaning in
| the Creed
Several amendments we're rejected, but final
| action was not taken before adjournment.
At the meeting Of the House OF Bishops to-
| day Right Rev. Bishop Clarkson, of Nebraska,
rendered his resignation as Bishop OF the juris-
diction of Dakota. The reason TOR this action
| was that Dakota was yesterday divided into
| north and south Dakota. the title of Bishop
| Hare being that of Bishop of South Dakota.
The House refused to adopt the report of the
| joint committee on rules of order, and asked
i for another conference.
/ The House then went into committee on re-
vision of the prayer book, and finished the
i litany.