Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-19
RELIGIOUS CONTEST
Lively Debate in the Episcopal
 Convention.
SHARP FIGHT ON A RESOLUTION
The Short Office of Prayer Encounters a
 Good Deal of Opposition.

It Was Proposed by Dr. Huntington in the
 Houses of Deputies and Einaliy Passes.
 The Bishops Refuse to Concur In the Me-
 n'"ri"i to Congress to Regulate the Laws
 of 'ia,r,age and Divorce.
 NEW YORK, Oct. IDA determined effort was made in the House of Depu- tics Of the Episcopalinn Convention to kill Dr. Huntington's resolution for n ''Short office of prayer for sundry occa- sions" to bc added to tho Book of Com mon Prayer, which was especially de- signed for missionary meetings and the like.
 The House. as a Committee of tho Whole, on Thursday, had considered the same resoluti tion, and, after a heated debate, 1t passed by a small majority. Yesterday tho Committee of the Whole reported Prayer Book revisions, with recommendation that they pass and go into the ratification books for final &C., tion at the next General Convention. It was in cou1se ef considering these recommendations that the fight was made over Dr. Huntington's resolution.
 Rev. Dr. Egar of Central New York led the opposition. A dozen or more speeches were made, and every step and motion known to skilled parliamentar- AaAS "oSe laheH III Cne eUort to got rid of tho matter. At times dozen speak CTS claimed the attention of Dr. Dix, and more than ten times did that gen. tlcman have to use his gavel to pre- serve order. Motions to amend, by striking out tho meat of tho resolution, to lay on the table, to postpone, follow ed each other in rapid order. And when the Chair decided against some of the motions, or the House voted them down by general vote, there were calls for division and a taking of the vote by diocesos. When all other means failed, Dr. Egar made hot fight to kill it by claiming right to have the resolution divided-that Is, to first take up the office and then consider too, was defeated. and the vote was taken. Following are the figures which send the addition to the Prayer Book to the House of Bishops for con currence:
 Clerical Dioceses voting, 4o; ayes, as; nays, Ii; divtdea,7.
 Lay dioceses voting, Al: ayes, A; nays, IA; divided, 3.
 All tho proposed revisions recoln- mended by the Committee of the Whole were adapted, save oue. Ihe ono re- jected was a prayer of intercession for those who labor in the Gospel"
 The Committee on Canons reported adversely on proposed canon erecting missionary Episcopal jurisdiction over associated parishes of the colored race. The committee held that such a canon would be unconstitutional, and believed that the Church, in its law of parochial or diocesan organization, should not draw or recognize line of distinction between the white and colored mem- bers. The committee therefore asked to be discharged from further consid- eration of tho matter. Tho report went upon the calcI:l Jar.
 A joint committee is to be named, consisting of two bishops, two clergy men and three laymen, to determine upon the place for holding the next General Convention. and 1t was resolv- ed to ask tho House of Bishops to con- sider in their pastoral lotter the impor- tance of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into various languages, work which tho Deputies gratefully acknowledged we'll done on the part of the American Bible Society.
 The bishops refused to concur in the proposed memorial to Congress, passed by tho Deputies, asking for a change in the District of Columbia. and the Terri tories. committee also reported that there is no authority for the placing of the cucharist!c bread upon the tongues of the people instead of in their hands.