New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-02
PLANS FOE TIE CONVENTION.
TICKETS OF ADMISSION ISSUED TO THOSE IN
TEREsTED IN THE PROTESTANT
EPISCOPAL MEEING.

So great has been the desire to attend the openinr
service Of the Protestant Episcopal General Conven.
ton, which begins at IL O'Clock this morning in St.
georges Church. In stuyvesant Square, that II has
been deemed advisable to Issue tickets OF admis
sion, nearly AL Of which are given out II Will
therefore be useless for those who have no tickets to
try 10 get in as the rule viii be strictly enforced
The service will be under the general direction of the
organst Of st. Georges Church, and will be simple
and devotional In character Tho bishops in their
Episcopal robes will march through slxteenthst from
the Memorial Building TO the main entrance of the
church. where they will be met by the full choir Of
st. Georges Church and by the clergy who are acting
as Committee on Arrangements together with the
rector of ST. Georges Church. They will then 20
to the chancc, the choir singing a professional
After the sermon by Bishop Whipped, OF Minnesota,
the Holy Communion will be administered. Whom
the service is closed luncheon will be served 10 the
bishops and deputies in tho Memorial Building the
bishops being served in room by themselves. This
arrangement will be observed during all the sessions
Of tho convention.
In the afternoon nothing will be done, except to
organize the House Of Deputies by electlng presi
don't, secretary and treasurer After this the conven-
ton Will Immediately adjourn, TO give the new pres-
dent time TO make up the various standing com
mIttecs which will do much to shape the legsla.
ton Of the convention. During the stay OF the
bishops and deputies In the city they will be the
recipients of many couresics from the Episcopal
clergy and aity of this city, and numerous eceptlons
and dinners will be given In their honor
On Thursday or Friday most of the important
questions to come before the convention will be re-
ferred TO the appropriate standing committees which
will report the to the convention soon
possible. There are some able paramentarians and
debaters in the House OF Deputies, and the
General Convention viii easily take rank as one of
the NEST important and wepghty parliamentary bodies
V.
that the actual legislative work accomplished by It
Is usually small. All measures affecting the con-
stltuhon Of the Church must first pass both houses
Of the convention. then receive the assent Of ma
jOrity Of all the diocesan conventions and finally pass
both houses of the ncxt General Convention. IL will
easily be from this how difficult II not I'M
possible. Is to effect any radical changes in The
Fundamental character of the Episcopal Church
In connection with the coming meeting Of the
General Convention, several meetings 70 consider the
work o. missions will be held. One of the earliest
Of these is 10 assemble 70 morrow. OF p. m. In
Holy Trinity Church. onc.hundreda twenty second,
ST. and Lrnox- ave. The now enterprises In Cuba and
Brazil will he discussed IN al their bearings.
Tho American Church Missionary Society, pat
termed after the English Church Missionary Society Is
the organization which has chargn of these miss ions.
A number of the bishops OF the Church will be
present, and expected 10 speak.