Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-10

| The vote 252 Against to IL in Favor
The North Carolina Division Granted
The Proposed Amendment to Ar
ticie Eight of the Constitution Re
ported Adversely
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Oct. 9.-Tbe
thirty-third General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the
/ United States reassembled this morning
in the Holy Trinity Church. Prayer was
read by Rev. Elias Birdsall, of the diocese
of California, and Rev. James Rankins.
ID. D.. Of the diocese of Western New
1ork. The benediction was pronounced
by Rt Rev. George DeNormandie Giles
pie, d. D., of Western Michigan. Rev.
John w. Brown, OF Western New York.
from the Committee of New Dioceses, re-
| ported relative to the memorial of the
/ deputies from the dioc eSe of North Caro-
| lima, asking consent for the creation of a
new diocese in North Carolina. The Com
mittee recommended that the consent be
! given, and the recommendation was
adopted.
Rev. DR.. a. A. Watson, of North Caro-
! Ina, from the Committee on CanOns. re-
/ ported favOrably relative to changing the
| name OF the diocese of Illinois to that OF
! Chicago. The report was adopted. Rev.
! Dr. a. I0Omer, a pastor of South Caro-
Ina, presented the report of the confer
/ ence on the relation of the Church to the
! c0l0red people Of the South, held at
! Sewanee, Tenn, July % to 2S. 1t con-
tanned draft of Il canon, to be presented
| TO the convention, providing that in any
| diocese containing large number Of
! persons of color, it shall be lawful
= nj - a.,
| 10 constitute such population into
! special missionary organization under
! charge of the Bishop. 1t was referred to
/ the Committee on CanOns, 5. p. Nash,
! from the Committee on Canons. the
/ House of Bishops cOncurring, moved that
! article OF the constitution be amended bv
| striking out all words standing between
! prayer in the tenth line and 'sshall" in
| the twelfth line, and inserting
! the following words, viz, ''un-
| less majority of all the Bishops
! entitled to seats in the House of Bishops,
! ana majority of both orders in the depu-
tations from diOceses entitled to repre-
! sentatiOn in the House of Deputies shall
! have first approved and allowed the same
| for use during term of three years at
! least, after which every such alteration
or addition" reported that having duly
| considered the same, they are of the opin-
! ION that the amendment of the cOnstitu-
! ton thereby proposed is open to serious
| objection, and they recommended that it
! be proposed to the convention. The re-
! port was placed on the calendar.
A large number of resolutions were
! offered and appropriately referred Then,
after PRAYER by President Beardsev. the
order of the day was taken, viz: the re-
! port of the Joint Committee on the Book
! Of Common Prayer. The discus
! cussl0n occupied the remainder of the
forenoon session, the convention having
resolved itself into a committee of the
whole, with Judge Hugh Y. Sheffev, of
Virginia, in the chair.
The House of Deputies met again at
/ O'Clock, and went promptly into
/ committee of the whole, with Judge Shelf
ley III the chair, and resumed cOnsidera-
| ton of the report of the Joint Committee
on the Revision of the PRAYER Book,
and discussed the first resolution rela-
! tive to the title of the book. 5.
! Corning Judd, Of Illinois, said that the
hrst resolution on the report of the COM
! mltee related to the title of the PRAYER
book. He desired to offer. motion
which ought to meet with the unanimous
| approval of the convention. He moved
10 strike out from the title-page the words
| "Protestant Episcopal" and insert in lieu
thereof the words "Holy Catholic" that
! would be beginning the right way of en-
! riching the book. He for one was opposed
! to Surrendering to ROmanists the
words which mean universal in creed,
which we sometimes recite when we say
| I'VE believe in the Holy Catholic
Church, In the name given to the prayer
book we are made to believe in the Prot
estant Episcopal Church. The HOLY
| Catholic Church protests just as much
against the error of Rome as
any church in this or any
other land. He yielded to no man his op-
| position to the errors of the Roman
Church. lie wanted some sort of consist.
ency in our profession of faith before
Almighty God.
A long and warm discussion followed,
and at its conclusion a division was taken
and Mr.. Judd's amendment was defeated
by 2l yeas to 252 nays. The body then adj
jOurned.