The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-01
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RADICAL CHANGES
Triennia1 Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal
Church of Mime
apolis..
DIVISION OF NEW YORK DIOCESE.
Far Reaching Alterations In the
Church to Be Dis
cussed.
DIVISION OF NEW YORK DIOCESE.

Right Rev. Thomas A. Starkey. Pro-
~testant Episcopal Bishop of the New
ark diocese, left town a few days ago
for Minneapolis, in which city tomorrow
he will begin the triennial gathering.
The convention will be held in Gethse-
name Church., Minneapolis, Mimi. The
church in the United States at present
consists Of seventy-one dioceses ana
missionary jurisdictions with seventy
one bishops. OF these, Bishop John VIII
liams, of Connecticut, who was conse-
Grated in 1851, is the presiding bishop by
virtue of seniority of conservation.
There are ffty-three regularly organ
lied dioceses, and each one is entitled
to representation in the house of dep
uties b. four clerical and -four lay dep
uties. thus making the total number 42f.
These are elected by the diocesan con-
ventions. The bishops of the dioceses,
both organized and missionary, sit in
the house of bishops by right of their
order.
The delegates from the diocese of
Newark were elected at the diocesan
convention held last May. They are the
Rev. DR.. George NJ. Christian. the Rev.
G.. S. Bennitt. the Rev. Milledge Walk
ar, the Rev. f. B. Carter, (being two
from Newark, one from Jersey City and
one from Montclair). Messrs. Alfred
Mills, Henry Hayes, j.. B. Van Wagon
en- and Cortlandt Parker. Thes- make
what is rightly considered a strong dep
utation. The delegation from New York
is also a strong one, consisting Df the
Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix of Trinity Church;
Dean Hoffman of the General Theologi-
cal Seminary, DR.. Huntington of Grace
Church, DR.. Greer of st. Bartholo-
news Church, Stephen P. Nash, j..
Pierpont Morgan, W. Bayard Cutting
and Francis L. Stetson. The diocese of
New Jersey will have the Rev. Drs.
Alfred B. Baker. Otis A. Glazebrook,
George w. Watson and Charles H. Hib-
bard and Messrs. J.. N. Carpenter. Cliff
ford S. Simms, Howard Richardson and
r. S. Conover.
DR.. Dix has been the president of the
House of Deputies for two previous con-
gentions, and will be again chosen for
hat position. The convention VIII be
.ormally opened on Wednesday morning,
for a celebration of a Holy Communion.
n Gethsemane Church, and this church
will be occupied by the House of Dept
les during the convention. The House
Of Bishops will meet elsewhere.
DIVISION OF DIOCESE.
Several very important subjects are to
come up for consideration. The division
If the State of New York into six, or
perhaps seven dioceses instead of five, as
at present has been discussed for several
Jears, but it must first be adopted by
he Federate Council of New York. But
he Maryland convention has decided to
ask the division of that diocese and the
erection of Washington as. a separate
~itocese, and this will probably be done.
The creation of several more missionary
jurisdictions in the United States will be
strongly advocated aEd several of the
present diocese will ask for a change of
name. Dfoceses used to be named from
he states, but the subdivisions have
made such a nomenclature greatly mis-
9eading: For instance, the diocese of
New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and California
n each case represent only a portion of
the state in which they are situated.
But the most important subject will be
The new constitution of the Church, in
which many and far-reaching changes
are proposed. Some of the changes are
lhese:
by the General Synod.
The presiding bishop is to be elected
BY the synod instead of being such by
The presiding bishop is to be called
Primus. Thus it is recommended in the
new constitution, but there is a strong
title shall be archbishop.
The missionary bishops are to be ex-
Iuded from a count OF a quorum of the
The number OF deputies from each do
sese to be reduced to three, instead OF
-FOUR as now.
Tho two houses +o ha au,,ol in 1ar;e1o
ton for the church.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.
In addition to these, many minor cues
tons are to be discussed, dealing with
The establishing of ecclesiastical COURTS,
the rights OF appeal Of an accused
Church, such as brotherhoods and sister
hoods.
10 note that there seems to be no hint Of
Church on the old lines Of cleavage.
the Church are to be found on both sides
Of the various questions to be considered.
It is in only q few places that the old
IS still found. Both high and low church
against whom they hive united. The
Newton in New York, Leighton Parks
and others of Boston.
~ II 1Oa VII nv w fOlOo I ~ ollA
theftwo houses will convene jointly as a
bodrd of hangers of the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society.
Among the delegates to the convention
will be found the names of very many
men eminent all over the United States.
Robert Treat Paine, of Boston; Judge
Stiness, of the Supreme Court of Rhode
island; w. w. Skiddy, president of the
Stamford Manufacturing Company, and
r.. j. Goodwin of Hartford, from Connecti-
| OUT; Senator Edmunds from Vermont;
Judge j. w. Gilbert, from Brooklyn;
Francis Collirgwood, from New Jersey;
| Judge Robert e. Earl and Spencer Trask
the banker, from Albany; = e Bancroft
from Pittsburg; Arthur Ryserson, from
| Chicago; ex-Judge William e. Maybury,
| of Detroit. from Michigan; o F.. n.
| Wilder. from Minnesota; Chancellor
| Wooiworth, from Nebraska; Silas McBee,
| vice-president of the Brotherhood of st.
Andrew, from North Carolina; James
| Mcconnell, of New Orleans. from Louis
| lana; Columbus Delano, Ohio, and many
/ other ~Well-known mem.
CONVENTION HISTORY.
The first general convention of the
Episcopal Church was held in Philadel-
phia in October. 1875, and conventions
have been held rienniall ever since.
1t is a matter for State pride to know
ton of the Episcopal Church was held
clergymen and six lavmen met in.New
Brunswick, resolved themselves into a
Involuntary Convention, n took the
preliminary steps which resulted In Thu
4 October following iii a Representative
assemblage from eight States in the city