Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06
ESPECIAL rrLEenAM TO THE p1srArcH.i

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, October 5.-When the Epis-
copal Triennial Convention reassembled
this morning, the Rev. DR.. Eunting-
ton, of Grace Church, presented to
the House of Deputies the memoir
ial framed by colored clergymen
at their meeting, ten days ago, asking for
recognition and praying tnat discrimina-
tion against Christians on account of
their color, such as now exists in the
South. should no longer be tolerated
in the church. He moved that the mem-
orial be referred to joint committee of the
two Houses, to be composed on the part of
the House of Deputies of five clergymen
and five laymen.
The Rev. Paulus Moore, colored, delegate
from Cape Palmas, Liberia, called on tie
convention to see that colored Episcopalians
got fair play. DR.. Huntington's motion
was adopted.
The Rev. DR.. Hankel, on behalf of the
Committee on the Admission Of Dio-
ceses, now presented report authorizing
the admission of the missionary district of
Oregon as a diocese, and moved its adop-
tion. It was referred back to the Committee
on Admission of Dioceses, for the determi-
nation of Oregon's canonical fitness for ad-
mission.
ANOTHER OBJECTION.
When DIR. Hankel read the committees
report, authorizing the admission of Col
orado as a diocese, DR.. Goodwin made q
similar objection. A delegate declared,
with petitioners, that Colorado had 81 cler-
gymen who had been installed year. The
report was adopted, and the Centennial
State was declared diocese by the Centen-
NAL Convention.
The question of making the reading OF
the Nicene creed compulsory on Christmas
day, Easter Day, Ascension Day,
Whitsunday, and Trinity Sunday,
came up again for discussion.
This compulsory reading is enjoined
in a rubric added to the commu-
nion service by the twelfth of the IS resolu-
tions embodying the changes proposed
in the general convention Of 1886 for
ratification by the present convention
The House of Bishops has already adopted
all the resolutions, while the House of
Deputies has rejected the eighth, which per-
mits the omission of the litany on Christ
mas, Easter and Whitsunday. The House
adjourned on Thursday, while the debate on
the twelfth resolution was in progress. The
Rev. Mr.. Vaulx, Of Arkansas, who had the
floor when the debate closed on Thursday,
opened with the declaration that he opposed
the passage OF the twelfth resolution.
WHY HE IS OPPOSED TO IT.
H"The creed which it compels us to use,"
he said, "is not Catholic creed. 1t was
forced on the Church by the civil
authorities. It is q crown creed and
not a church creed. and the
-
not be compelled to accept what is not the
What is called the Nicene creed is Roman
the lnfallibility of the Pope is q Roman
dogma"
Said Mr.. Vauix: "I am giving reasons
why we should not be compelled to use that
creed. Not only is it not catholic, but the
Church of England and the church OF the
United States have never called it the Nicene.
Nowhere has she branded this as the Cath
olic creed. This creed is not Nicene. We
should not be compelled to accept this creed,
because both English and American
bishops have declared that nothing
should be required of belief which is not set
forth by the general councils. What is only
accepted by Rome we are therefore
NOT COMPELLED TO ACCEPT.
"Supposing it is accepted by the English
Church? Are free American citizens to be
bound by the state church of England? 1
call on you as American churchmen, as
freemen, to preserve the liberty you still
possess"
The Rev. DR.. r. A. Holland, of Mis-
souri,, argued nearly as follows: 'The creed
called Nicene is a creed of the church.
1t has been authorized and said BY
the Christian churches from the beginning.
Although we inherited it from the Western
church, we cannot uncatholicize ourselves
by calling it Roman. If we repudiate it,
we repudiate what gives US warrant for our
worship. Are we coming together for few
days, once in a lifetime, to settle
by our common sense the creeds
which have been produced BY
the wisdom of the ages? To attempt to un-
derstand the doctrine of the Trinity re-
quires especial thought, which we are not
ready to give to it, while we cannot go
wrong if we approve what the bishops have
DONE"
The resolution was put to vote by
dioceses and adopted by the following vote:
Clerical, 38 ayes, 9 noes, divided; lay, 20
ayes, IA noes, divided. The House of
Deputies then adjourned till Monday.
The House of Bishops at their session
took up the question of dividing the church
territory into provinces, and notified the