Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-10-08
PRAYER BOOK REVISION.
4 Question That Agttates the Pr0tes.
tant Episcopal C0nventi0n.

Bishop Scarborough. of New Jersey. presided
at mathis In Chicago on Thursday, and the
Rev. Hobart Chetwood, OF Oakland, CAL. read
tn e service prior to the opening OF the conven-
ton Of the Protestant Episcopal church. At
ten O'Clock DR.. Dix, clad In an academical gown,
called the convention to order. The Rev. Edwin
Harwood, Of New Haven, CT, moved that the roll
call be dispensed with, which was carried. DR..
Benjamin Franklin, ofNew Jersey, presented q
memorial, referring to the proper committee the
restoring of the Office OF the holy communion
to its natural order, as in the arst book of King
Edward vi. This committee is the committee
on the prayer book, but the memorial was tabled.
DR.. Dalzell. OF Louisiana, presented q memorial
urging the convention to abandon the passive at
titude hitherto assumed by the church towards
the Protestant bodies Il was referred to the COM
mittee on the state of the church. William Corn
wall of Kentucky, presented a memorial on the
revision of the prayer book, which was also
tabled. Mir. Burgwin, of Pittsburg, presented q
memorial looking toward q uniform judicial sys-
tenn throughout all the dioceses. On his own
motion the memorial was tabled. Dean Hoff-
mans memorial for supplemental hymnal
and permission to use the Hymns Ancient
tee. DIR. Shattuck, of Massachusetts, presented
memorial from the Free aud Open Church as
ISOLATION, laying down the doctrine that
ownership In pews does not give owner
ship in the church property. Referred TO the
committee on canons. The Rev.. Cornelius
buttons from the New York Diocesan conven-
ton, declaring, among other things, that it is
eApeOlent 10 consult the conversations OF Can
terbury and York and the episcopate OF SEQ +
land to secure uniformity Of use throughout
the Anglican communion. MIR. Swope also pre-
sented memorials requesting uniformity in the
marriage law through the United States. A
number OF memorials were presented relative
70 the proposed changes OF the prayer book and
laid upon the table, the intention being 10 refer
them to the committee appointed on the revi-
sion OF the prayer book. DIR. Hopkins, OF Gen.
tral pennsylvania, presented a memorial for
the establishment OF an appellate court.
The hour for taking up the order OF the day
having arrived, DR.. Huntington, OF New York,
arose. Be defended the appointment of a COM
m1ttee to consider the revision of the book, and
referred 10 dispatch in a New York paper, in
which the action OF the committee of revision
was forecast, to the effect that the committee
would require ten years to complete its labOrs
and ten years more to conclude negotiations
with Canterbury and York. He agreed with
the journalist The one qualification which
the commit on revision ought not to lack
should be Americanism. (Applause.l
DR.. Swope's amendment that a commission
or nve bishops, five presbyters and five lays
take the revision of the prayer-book in hand,
then called up. He said: IL am not an Obstruc-
ZIONIST. /, like my colleague, am for peace, but
L am for lasting peace, not that of to-day or to-
morrow. Longer time Is required for such
church in this country within the last eighteen
months have expressed themselves SO as to
make 1t certain that Book Annexed will never
be adopted by the church. On all sides there
something totally different from the Book
Annexed will be presented. Action now
would stave of anything desirable for fifty
years to come"
James Parker, of New Jersey, proposed as a
substitute for both DIR. Huntington's resolution
and DIR. Swopes amendment that the subject
OF the revision of the prayer-boOk be made The
order OF the day. This caused a long debate.