Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-15
EPISC0PAk CONGRESS
To Be Held This Week, at Washing
ton, Continuing Four Days.
THE TOPICS TO. BIZ DISCUSSED.
Interesting Religious Questions to Be the
Subject Of Debate
FOURTEENTH MEETING OF THE KIND

Another religious convention, similar In
its purpose to the Methodist Ecumenical
Conference held in Washington last month.
is to meet in the same city next week. 1t Is
the fourteenth congress of the Protestant
Epicopal Church in the United States, and
it will bring together churchmen from all
over the country to discuss the live topics
Of the day.
The first of these congresses was held IT
years ago While the congress has no leg
islative power, its discussions will be inter-
esting, as showing the trend Of thought in
the Episcopal Church on several secular
and religious subjecta No delegates ara
elected to the congress, all churchmen who
desire to attend being welcome
The management of the Church Congress
has been in the hands of an executive COM
mittee whose members fill all vacancies oo-
curing In their ranks This committee,
which is thus a close corporation, makes all
the selections of essayists and speakers at
the session of the congress-
Four Days Of Religious Discussion.
The congress will be in session four days,
beginning on Tuesday. Ex-senator George
F. Edmunds will preside, assisted by
Bishop T. o. Dudley, Of Kentucky, and
General J. R. Anderson. The first service
Is to be at 1890 o'clock at the Church
of the Epiphany, when Holy Communion is
to be administered Bishop Phillips
Brooks, of Massachusetts, will make the ad-
dress. The first 8 ssion will be opened i'm.
mediately after this service by ex-senator
EdmEnds, the President. The regular
sessions are to be held in National Rifles"
Hall, and the first topic is to be "Theism
and Evolution" The writers on this SUBJ
ject are Rev. Dr. Edwin Hanover, of New
Haven. and Rev. DR.. 8. D. Mcconnell, Of
Philadelphia The speakers will be Rev.
DR.. Henry L. Ziegenfuss, Of Poughkeepsie,
and Prof Edward Worcester, Of Lehigh
University.
Socialism" will be the topic for Wednes-
day morning, and it will be treated by Rev.
DR.. R. F. A1sop, of Brooklyn; Rev. Pascal
Narrower, of Staten Island, and Rev. A
M. Bartlett, of Delaware. Rev. DR.. James
Mulcahey, of New York, and Rev. H. l.
Myrick will deliver addresses on the "Re-
lations of the Clergy to Politics"
Topics for the Rest Of tho Session.
'tNew and Old Parochial Methods" and
s'Catholic and Protestant Tendencies in the
Life of the Church" will be the two topics
for Thursday. On the first Rev. DR.. George
w. Shinn, Rev. Langdon Stewartson, Rev.
Henry A. Adams and others will speak,
and on the second Prof Charles E. Gram
mer, of the Virginia Theological Seminary,
and Rev, Drs Arthur Brooks and ]. o. 8.
Huntington, of this city.
''The True Policy Of Diocesan Missions
is one of Fridays topics. Addresses will
be delivered by Bishop E R. Atwell, Of
West Missouri, Rev. George A. Christensen,
of New York, and others. The last session
of the congress will be held Friday after
noon, when personal Religion" will be
discussed BY Bishop O. W: Whitaker, of
ern New York. Rev. Dr. D. Parker Nor
gan and Rev. Henry Mothell will also
speak.
During the congress, officials and ap-