Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-02
CHURCH CONVENTION
The Great Episcopal Triennia]
 Meeting Opens To-Day.
A NUMBER OF BISHOPS PRESENT.
Radical Changes Proposed in the Prayer
 Book and Hymnal Service.

A Now Name for tho Church-Reappotnt-
 ing Representatives to the Convention.
 Names of tho Prominent Bishops. Cler-
 gymen and Lay Delegates P<esest-Tho
 Convention to Last One Month.
 NEW YoRK, Oct. e.-The Triennial General Convention of Episcopal Churches was opened this morning at St. Georges Memorial Church in East Sixteenth street, with full service. Trinity and St. Georges choirs, consol- dated, furnished the music.
 The convention will be in session for about three weeks or a month and will fe one of the most important ever held in the history of the Church. The questions which will come up for con. sideration are of great importance and affect the welfare of the Church very materially. Many radical changes are proposed, and as there is great ia expected that some red-hot discus sfons will arise.,
 The attendance on the convention Is unusually large. There are from sev- enty y-ive to a hundred members of the House of Bidsops and about 400 lay delegates. In addition to these mem. bers, who come from all parts of the country, there are also present distin. guished members of the Church from England. Ireland, Scotland and Canada. Among the many important matters none will excite greater inte2est than the proposed prayer-book revision. In li4e with this will be the revision of the Episcopal hymnal and tho question of missionary work.
 The Church of the United States.
 It has also been proposed to effect a change in the name of the church to the 'sChurch of the United States" An other important matter will be that of reapportiontng represenseavea M to the be l the present system representation is not fairly in proportion to the strength, in l numbers, of the churches. Under the l system now in vogue small churches have as much voting strength in the convention as churches in the large l cities, which is manifestly unfair to the l latter.
 The names of the more important bishops in attendance are as follows Doane of Albany, Bishop McLaren of Chicago, Bishop Galleher of Louisiana,
 Bishop Whipple of Minnesota, Bishop
 Starkey of Newark, Bishop Leonard ot Ohio, Bishop Clark of Rhode Island,
 Bishop Whitaker of Pennsylyania, Eltshop Coxe of Buffalo aud Bishop 1 Potter of New York,
 1 Among the clerical delegates present
 are Rev. w. II. Vibbert of Chicago, Rev
 Dr. Harwood of New Haven, Revs.
 Browne and Baker of Brooklyn, Rev.
 Phillips Brooks of Boston, Rev, Dr. l McViokar Of Philadelphia, Rev. Dr. Richards of Providence, and from this city Rev. Morgan Dix, E. A. Hoffman, l w. R. Huntington and c. E. Swope. | some "r the Lay Delegates. | Of tho prominent lay dcpu ties present
 are Hon. Erastus Corning of Albany
 Henry Coppec of Lehigh University
 Benjamin Stark of Connecticut, ex
 Governor A. II. Rice of Boston, J. M
 Woolworth of Omaha, Cortland Parker
 of Newark, James $. Biddle and Lemuel l Coffin of Philadelphia, Columbus Delanc
 of Ohio, and from this city Stephen P. 1 Nash, Hon. Hamilton Fish, J. Pierpon,
 Morgan and w. Bayard Cutting. l Among the distinguished visitors from
 abroad are Bishop Courtney of Nova
 Scotia, formerly of St. Pauls, in Boston,
 and Lord Plunkett Bishop of Dublin. l The visiting bishops will be cared fo,
 and entertained by Bishop Rotter. A
 luncheon will also be provided daily fol
 all members of the convention at the
 expense of the diocese of Now York l city.