Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-24
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.

THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
The Deputies Refuse to Reconside,
Their Action ON tho Colored CUES.
Observation-Disclosures of Marriage and
Divorce Laws-The Rev. Edward A b.
bots Elected Bishop OF Japan.
NEW York, Oct. 23.-The drst business
at the morning session of the Episcopal con-
vention was the report of the committee on
canons, in relation to the organization juris-
diction into dioeeses, deciding that consider
alton of the subjec was impractioable at this
late stage of the proceedings.
The colored question was reopened by the
committee on conference appointed by the
house of bishops, who recommended that the
deputies accede to the desire of the upper
house and pass the resolution defining the at
titude of the Episoopate toward the, negro
race. The deputies declined to reconsider
their action.
The house proceeded to discuss the ques.
ton of Liturgioal revision. A motion was
made by DR.. Hart, that the house reconsider
its action and concur with the house of
bishops in adopting the additional offertory
ness" "Nelchizidsk, King of Salem,
brought forth bread and wine, and he was a
priest of the Most High God, and Abram gave
him."
A vote was taken and the house refused to
concur.
The motion to change the title page of the
prayer book was referred to the convention of
'92.
Ne. 20, which was composed of two parts,
was taken up. The FIRST provided that the
rubric following the prayer for the President
of the United States and all the others in au-
thority be transposed so as to follow the
collect tor grace. A motion was made to
strike out the words for the President of the
United States end to confne the prayer to
those in authority only. DR.. Goodwin Of Penn
sylvania said in such a case no one would
know for whom they were praying and that
zach o"aan prayer would apply just as well to
The vote of the question was:' Clerical,
ayes 4. nays Al, divided 6. Lay, ayes 8,
nays 81, divided 8.
At the afternoon session the house of dep
uties sat with closed doors to consider the
canon reported by the committee on marriage
and divorce. The canon was taken up Sec
ton by section. The first section was adopted
and amended reading as follows: eff any
persons be joined together otherwise than as
Gods word doth allow, their marriage Ia not
lawful and such marriage is hereby prohibits
ed" The second section as reported by the
committee read as follows: marriage is pro-
hibited by the word of God and by this
church within the degrees of consanguinity
and affinity specified in Leviticus xviii, 618."
After much discussion involving the propri.
ETY. Of marriage with deceased wife's sister,
this section was stricken out bodily, the
proposition contained in the FIRST section be-
ing considered as sufficient. A proposition
to insert a pfohibitive table as contained in
the canon of tho Church of England was
tabled. Section 8, reading as follows, was
then taken up: ttIt shall be the duty of min
listers to admonish the people from time to
time that tho church forbids clandestine
ought not to be dispensed with except for
After several propositions to amend had been
made and discussed, motion to strike out
the whole section was adopted by a vote of
90 to ~.
A recess until o'clock WAS then taken.
Upon the reeonvening of the house of
deputies, on motion of DR.. Davenport, action
upon the canon of marriage and divorce
laws was postponed till the next general con-
vention in 1899.
DR.. R. Y. Neven then took the floor in be-
half of his resolution that fair representation
should be accorded to the jurisdiction of the
church in foreign lands in accordance with a
memorial adopted by the convention held in
Paris last June. After debate the matter
was referred to the committee on canons
with instructions to report tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o'clock. The house Of bishops to-
day completed the work of iturgieal revision
and adopted the canon relating to the crea-
ton of an order of deaconesses. They de-
clined to recede from their position regarding
the division of the diocese of Michigan as
recommended by the conference committee.
The bishops gave their consent to making
the lines Of boundary between North and
South Dakota the lines of the missionary
jurisdiction.
The house of bishops, with the concur
renee of the house of deputies, have elected
church, Cambridge, Mass. as bishop of the
jurisdiction of Japan, vice the late Bishop
Williams, and the Rev. Arson R. Graves of
Minneapolis, Mimi, as missionary bishop of
the new diocese of Platte or west Nebraska.