Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-04
THE VOTE ANALYZEO.

The Vote at the Recent Convention ON
| The Question of Changing the Name
Ofthe Protestant Episcopal Church.
| Following is an analysis of the vote by the
House of Clerical and Lay Deputies at the
recent national convention of the Protestant
Episcopal church of this country on the
| question of changing the name of the church.
| It was, as it is understood, proposed by a
| lay member of the house of deputies of the
convention and has excited general attention,
Analysis of the vote of the House of Cleri
cal and Lay Deputies of the general conven-
| ton of the Protestant Episcopal church in
| the United States on the following resolu-
| ton, offered by Mr.. Judd of Chicago:
Whereas, The name Protestant Episcopal. is
branch Gas ours is) Of the One Holy Catholic and
our belief in solemn creed; and
Whereas, Such designation is not only thus in
comprehensive in its significance, but misleading
to the uniformed. and to that extent pernicious
and harmful; therefore
name should be expunged from the present desig-
nation of this church. in her laws and formularies,
to that end
The vote was taken at II o'clock on Satur-
day, Oct. 18th, by dioceses and orders, and
resulted as follows:
Clerical vote-For the Observation-Disclosures
ma, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey,
Arkansas, Fon du Lac, Iowa, Maine, Nebras
ka, Quincy, Tennessee, Wisconsin-17.
Against observation-disclosures, Connect
cut, east Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland,
Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, southern Ohio, Virginia, Cen
trail New York, Delaware, Kansas, Long Is
land, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Pitts
burg, South Carolina, Vermont, West Vir-
ginia-22.
Divided-California, Chicago, Georgia, New
Hampshire, western Michigan, central Penn
sylvania, Easton, Mississippi, New York,
western New York-10.
Recapitulation-For the resolution, II.
Against, %. Divided, 10. Total 40.
LAY VOTE.
The lay vote resulted as follows: For the
resolution - Arkansas, Fond-du-lac, New
Jersey, Springfield, Vermont, Quincy, Flori
da, Missouri, northern New Jersey, Tennes-
see, Wisconsin-11.
Against the esolution-Alabama, central
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, central
New York, Connecticut, Easton, Indiana,
Iowa, Long Island, Maine, Massachusetts,,
Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island,
southern Ohio, Virginia, western New York,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan,
New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsyl-
vania, South Carolina, Texas, western Michi
gan-29. Divided - Albany, Mississippi,
Chicago, Pittsburgh.
For the resolution II
Divided. ............... Observation-Disclosures.
Total. ....... .............. ...... A
The individual vote for the resolution
Clerical deputies. 90
Lay.-....-....-- 5o
Total. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 112
Against the vote:
Clerical 99
Whole number of votes cast 295.
1t will be observed that every diocese
voted in the clerical order. Taking the num-
Der of clergymen in each diocese we find
them represented in the above vote as fol-
lows, giving half the divided vote to each:
Ayes Ayes 5, 1872
Based upon the number of communicates
in all the dioceses the result is:
CLERICAL VOTE.
COMMITMENTS represented by dioceses
voting
Aye with one-half of those divided, lis, 932.
Communicates represented by dioceses
voting
No, with onshalf Of those divided, 81, oss
LAY VOTE.
aye vote. with one-haH divided Q1oceses,
"a, S93
Nay vote, with one-half divided dioceses,
sO8, 64s.
The average of both clerical and lay vote
is thus seen to be:
Commandments represented by the ayes,
80, 403.
Communicates represented by the noes,
$780, $50.
About 234 per cent. of the communicates
of the church being represented by the aver
age clerical and lay vote for the resolutions
and 76A per cent. by the average clerical
and lay vote against the resolution.
As the laity are the chief contributors to
the work of the church. the subjoiied analy-
sis is based solely upon the lay vote by dio-
cese upon Mr.. Judd's resolution:
Aggregate contributions of all kinds
for the year 1684-85 of the several
dioceses voting aye, adding one-half
of those divided. 81 1888 5e3 20
Aggregate contributions of the do
ceses voting no. with half of those
The contributions to domestic foreign
and general missions, reported
from the several dioceses for the
year 1884 IS to the board of missions
shows that the affirmative vote rep
resented. .................... 1924 10 |
Inc negative :--... 24S, l61 "a
The Sunday school teachers in the several |
dioceses recorded in the lay vote are repre-
sented thus:
By the ayes 1919. -..--.-.......-.......--$ 5.34
By the noes ....-........... q, $50 |
All the above figures are taken from Whit |
takers almanac for 1885.