New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-07
THE EPISCOPAL CONTENTION
BOTH HOUSES PREPARED FOR BUSINESS.
THE REV. DIR. MORGAN DIX. PRESIDENT OF THE
CLERICAL AND LAY DEPUTIES.

TnY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRrBrSE.1
CHICAGO, Oct. G.-DignIty, imDressiveness
and simplicity marked the opening services OF the Fps
copal General Convention NJ 81. Jamess Church ms
morning There undue attempt at display and
no ornate ritual The hymns were old and familiar the
service clearly aud distinctly read and the congre
CATION which inch Of the church Joined In the
responses with vigor and an earnestness that would
snrnrise ,one Cassrn people The faces OF this
CATION were an erestng study The clerical type. or
course larg ly predominaei The devout ecclesastlc
was there TO whom dogma something almost divine,
who lives in a devont revery Tnen there was the Amer
lean Anglican type with its love OF everythne churchly
hut with an equal hatred OF every Roman Catholic
The American Anglican wears clerical garb OF fash
ion able cut speaks with strong English accent and
views with alarm efforts OF tho ritussts to improve
upon modern Augcanisn. 1t Is hard to distinguish
the Broad Church men, who are scattered here
and there. from the ordinary laymen Tho
fashioned Low Church men are not so numerous as
they used to be- many OF them are here and their
devotet enthusiasm will give healthfu tone to the
proceedings OF the convention Many young High
Church cergymen. With their smug races ana correct
church uniform make the scene CHARACTERISTIC. Iney
know great deal than they VIII ten years hehce'
and politics OF the church prove themselves to be
accomp wire-puers The Chicago residents. too
In tue church n noteworthy body The faces OF
n any OF them they are moro familiar with
the OF the grain pit than with the responses 10
the tany but neless they fulfil their part In
the service perfect proprety and reverence For
working city like Chicago there is alarge number OF men
present. and they evidently impressed with the SER
vice
In the absence OF extravagant ritual the service was
a typical Protestant Episcopal one. and the preacher
for the day. Bishop Beie OF Ohio, stood forth as the
very genius Protestant Epscopalanisn In his ser
continuity OF the Churcn ne struck the sey
note the Old Evangelical Party, OF wuch hs Is shch
conspicuous member. When he DECLARED that Iorhs
aaf he
b- changed at will prayrr-book revisonists looked
pleased When ne reierre 10 the nrn.n, OF moIsrn IN
1ienty felt that the Radical church men wrre re-
buked i'm plication, an when ne urcaied tha even
rou.ca Inc alert interest Of al the High Church men
present They felt thst the gauntlet had been thrown
down them. Bishop BedelFs reference to the qnrs-
ton OF an organic unity OF Christeniom was sgnIhcdn
for he is "a prominent member oil the committee which
OF that question: IL Is thousht indeed that
ths committee viii present some scheme Of church
UNITY by which Protrslantisn NAV be united.
When the Lower House met In CehtrA MUSIC
Hall in the afternoon It presented a sLr,x i
ins appearance Never before, was so., s,1u
by many. has the Convention been 80 conVen'
iently housel Nearly all tue body OF IN" hall II re-
the hall and small room are leu Iot tne use o t
varIous committed. The iepuu1s were IN no mood Tor
Iol-e, which proceeded with after the rocal.
II vas "A once evident that the Rev Dr DIX. OF New
York was the LEADING candidate for the presidency, Al
tnou. 1t We'll known that his name was u-ed
against hs earnest protest But us brilliant aphty'
HI, SKIN as an great and deserved rin
hence IN tue Church well as his prominence
The lii<h Church party all nar2ed MIN OUT as tnr
NAH for the place. tn han lsOuue majority or hOth
clerical lay which he rrceivci showed tht
seriously before the House
The announcement ~ his e.ecton was r-ceiv-d win
great AMI general applause. ana Ms tie speech gu a
Ing the char dsarDrd crcS by its mohesty, It's
simp lcity aud Its tone OF religious DEVOTION Inc
IIish Church naturally in0ant over his cleo,
ton, The rc-rectOn OF the Rev. C. L. Hulchlb- OF
Medfori, Mas, Secretary would have been ny ac
c,naiion had not mr'nDrr foosnly nominated IN"
Rev Dr. Austice vino received only about adozh voes
On motion ~ the Rev. DIR. Huntington. o New YORK;
the appointment of Joint committee to take INTO con
leratOu ali uemosas IN rtgri 10 IA" REVISION Oh INC
prayer book Will come up for discussion tomorrow.
TN. amendment OF tue Rev. Dr. SwOpe TO appoint a
nurgtcal comm ssion nfteen to take the whOe SUD
ipct of Or INTO consideration VIII 80
come M to- morrow On FRIDAY two houses viii sit
as Board OF Missions ant ntrresuls rep"rts oi Tue
missionary bishops will he made. In" convention us
decided to get To o'clock every mOrnn1, anu
necessary will sit At night In tnis way IL hopro
that II will possible to adjourn hnaly IN two or, at
most three weeks Bishop Sweatniah OF toronto, anu
Bishop nney. OF Nova scotia, are WISHING thr conven
Ton ana are rcclpients Of much attention. Few
members OF the convention Will be absent from the ses
aInn