Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-10-03
EPIsCOPALIANg CENTENARY.
The One Huadredth General Con.
florence sf the Protestant EPssee.
pAl Church Of the Unlted Sastes,

Inc one hundredth General Con vel
tion Of the Protestant Episcopal Churc
in the United States will begin its se
sion In Philadelphia to-day. The forma
opening will take place at 1890 a. m
with services in Christ Church, il
which Right Rev. Benjamin Bosto
Smith, S. T. d., LII. D., irst Bishop o
Kentucky, though in his Goth year, will
participate. The procession to tn
church will comprise the sections of tn
church and chapel in vergers' gowns
the secretaries of the committee, tn
officiating and visiting clergyman, will
the Bishops in the order of their conse
Grafton.
The representatives of the Diocese
Delaware are as follows: Clergy-Th,
Rev. Alfred Lee, LII. D., bishop; Revs
g. w. Dubois, d. d.; T. Gardine
Iittell, d. D.; B. j. Dou uglass, VIM. B
Gordon. Laymen--George II. Bates
Esq, ). M. Curtis, Esq DIR. Horac'
Burr, DIR. Henry Ridgely.
Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, il
writing recently to the Bishop of Edin
burgh, used the following language
October next will be the centenary O.
conservation of Bishop Seabury by the
Scottish bishops at time when not
more than four persons might meet to-
gether in public worship, except mem
bers Of family, without being liable
for first offense to imprisonment for
six months, and for second Offense to
be transported for life. When they re-
mem bered 1t was at that time-.just one
hundred years ago-that their Scottish
bishops, which had been reduced in a
century from IA bishops and ], 900 clergy
to 4 bishops and AZ clergy; when they
remembered that in that period God 30
far honored their small church az to
make her the instrument Of comforting
the episcopate upon the great and
powerful republic Of America, he
really thought 1t was their bounden
duty as a church next year to com.
memOrate in some way in Aberdeen
the conservation of Bishop Seabury."
The convention which meets this
week, will mark the centennial of the
meeting of the Connecticut clergy in
1888. On the 18th day of May, 1874,
several members of the clergy and
laity Of the Episcopal Church from the
Stairs of New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania met at New Brunswick,
N. j. The object of this meeting was
to prepare plan " for forming a re-
presentation of the Episcopal Church
and tor the better management of
other concerns Of said Church"
The convention Of 1885 met in Christ
Philadelphia, on the 9th of
The following clergy and
laymen were appointed at this con
vention a committee to present to the
a form of an ecclesiastical
for the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States, and to
this committee was also assigned the
luty of preparing the necessary and
proposed alterations in the Liturgy"
viz
The Rev. DR.. Provost and Mr.. Duane,
New York the Rev Mr.. Beach and
Mr.. Dennis, New Jersey the Rev. DIR.
White and Mr. Peters, Pennsylvania
The Rev. DIR. Wharton and Mr.. Sykes,
Delaware the Rev. DIR. Smith and Dr.
Maryland; the Rev. MI.
Griffith and Mr.. Payne, Virginia, and
the Rev. DR.. Purcell ard Mr.. Reed,
south Carolina. The same committee
was also empowered to prepare an
address to the Bishops of England re-
luesting the conservation OF certain
Bishops for the church in America.
These gentlemen at once entered upon
;he important work and were able in
'ew days to report the result of their
abors. On Friday, October Z, there
was divine service in Christ Church,
philadelphia, when the Liturgy, as
changed, was read.