Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-05
IN PERENNIAL SESSION
Opening of the Episcopal Con.
 vention at Baltimore.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO COME UP

The Question of LIturgical Rsvisfon-Can. ops of fOrdination--About5 800 Delegates, Lay and Clerical, Present--Bishop Will Hams, of Connecticut, Will Preside.
 BALTIMORE, Oct. 5.-The general con- vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America is now in session in Emanuel Church in this city. The ser- mon was preached this morning by Bishop Winner of Alabama. The church was filled with clerical and lay delegates to the number of nearly 800.
 The convention is the governing body of the church, and it meets once in three years. It consists of two bodies, the House of Bishops and the House of Delegates. Seventy-three bishops com prise the upper house and four clerical and four lay delegates from each of the 52 dioceses in the United States make up the lower house. The delegates are elected by the conventior of each diocese, but the bishops hold their places by virtue of their office. All told there will be POS clerical and POS lay delegates in the lower house.
 The venerable Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, presiding bishop of the church by reason of his seniority, will preside, providing his health will per init. In his absence Bishop Nealy, of Maine, will occupy the chair. Bishop Nealy was elected to this place at the Church, New York, three years ago.
 Anumber of important questions will be discussed by the convention. Among these, and first on the list, is Liturgical Revision. At the convention held twelve years ago a committee was appointed to consider and report upon this important question. A report was presented to the two succeeding conventions, which was discussed and sent back to each diocesan convention for approval. It is now ready for acceptance or rejection by the general convention of '92. The work, which has been under the able supervi- sion of Rev. w. R. Huntington, rector of Grace Church of New York, has been completed, and it is believed that the re- port in it's entirety will be fully and speedily endorsed by both houses of the convention.
 The changes are chiefly in the direc- tion of giving greater latitude to the minister in the conduct of public wor- ship, so that both morning and evening prayer can be considerably shortened at the will of the clergyman. The new book will resemble more nearly the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Eng
 
 States. Another notable change is the setting of Aug. as the date for the cele- bration of the Transfguration in the Church Calendar.
 One of the features of the conventio n work will be the missions among the Ne groes.
 Action will be taken in regard to the canons of ordination. This action will be in the direction of giving the clergymen -I,o Iox, S,,to from other Christian bodies freer range than they now have. The bishops have passed an amendment regarding this question, but so far the House of Depu- ties has failed to concur in the action of the bishops.
 The 39 articles are proposed to be given separate title page and placed at the end I of the "Book of Common Prayer" as showing that the 39 articles are not an integral part of the church's doctrine in the sense that the primitive creeds are | Such