The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-24
THE EPISCOPAL coNvocATIoS.
Laymen and CIergymen From All Over
the State at st. Marks.

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the State at st. Marks.
The eleventh annual convocation for the
Episcopal church of the state opens today
in st. Marks church, Fifth and oiIve
streets. Morning prayer Will be said az
O'Clock At 10 80 there will be Iitany ana
III oily Communion with a sermon by Kew.
DIR. Law, of Walla Walla. The afternoon
will be occupied with business. In the
evening at 20 a missionary service VIII
be held with addresses by Rev. John DoWs
Hills, of Tacoma; Rev. L. IL. Hehs' OF
Tacoma, and Rev. l.. w. Appiegate. Az
the close of the service reception VII, DC
given the bishop. clerical and lay dele
| oates bv the Women's Guild at the Hotel
| Rainier. Friends as well as the members
of the church are invited TO the services
and reception.
The following is the list of clergymen
who are known to be present with the
names of those who entertain them:
RI Rev. DIR. Paddock, bishop of Wash
ington, and Rev. DIR. Nevins, are the guests
of Colonel and Mrs. ]. C. Haines, Seventh
and Union streets; Rev. and Mrs. John
BOWS Hills, of Tacoma, at Mr.. John A.
Bakers, $50 Eighth street; Rev. L. IL.
Wells at Mr. J. II. Kuuzie's; Rev. Mr.. Hy-
land at Hiram Burnett's; Rev. DR.. Law,
of WaIla Walla, at the Hotel Rainier.
the guest of DIR. A. p. Mitten;
Rev. L. w. Applegate. of Fairhavcn, at
Mr.. c. w. Turner's, Ninth and Alder;
Rev. Mr.. Nicholson, Rev. V. Brooks
Baker, of Port Townsend, and Rev. Mr..
Gray will be the guests of Mrs. Gund, Mrs.
Eversole and Mrs. Lambert, at the Rainier.
Mrs. Thomas Ewing will also entertain
delegate at the same hotel. Mr.. and Mrs.
Pulford, of Puyallup, will be at Mrs.
Langridge's, Temperance and Gaylor
streets Rev. NJ. ID. Wilson, of Vancouver,
will stay at Mr.. Edward Louderback's;
Rev. and Mrs. 7. \. Wilson, of Tacoma,
will be at Mrs. w. II. II. Green's; Rev.
and Mrs John G. Fort are at the Griffith;
Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Miles. of Tacoma, will
be the guests of Mrs. James L. Lentzy,
2.204 Second street. Lay members will be
entertained by Mrs. J. NJ. Wrestling, Mrs.
DIR. Harrell, the Misses Cheal, Mrs. d. A.
Spencer, and by church ladies at the Hotel
Vendome The convocation will probably
close Thursday afternoon, when the mem
bers will be invited to an excursion on
Lake Washington.
This convocation is the general annual
gathering of the Episcopal church of this
state. Each church sends its rector and
three lay delegates, if it chooses.
The Episcopal church is not yet as strong
as some of the other denominations in
this state; and Bishop Paddock, who was
elected something over ten years ago, is a
missionary bishop in charge of a jurisdic-
ton, not diocese. A self-supporting
diocese elects its own bishop and pays his
salary and expenses. Its convocation can
make canons for church government, pro-
vided they be not in conflict with the gen.
eral canons of the church. The diocesan
convocation can regulate such matters as
allowing women to vote or hold the office
of vestryman. In short, diocese has
something of the powers of the state in the
general government.
A missionary jurisdiction, on the other
hand, has in the church about the stand
ing of a territory in the government 1t
does not elect its own bishop, but has one
chosen by the general convocation of the
church. He is not paid by the iurisdic-
ton, but draws his salary from the general
church fund. The convocation of a iuris-
diction cannot frame canons, but must
abide by those of some diocese agreed upon
by the convocation. The Washington
jurisdiction follows the diocese of New
Jersey.
movement is now on foot to erect this
jurisdiction into diocese.