The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-10-10
THE EPIsCOPALIANs.
Work OF the General Convention IN
81 MinneapO

Work OF the General Convention In
d Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Oct. 5.-The triennial
convention of the Episcopal church Is.
now we'll under way. The work Of the
house Of bishops. was largely Of
routine nature to-day, but In one par
ltlcular, at least. the house turned from
The discussion Of ordinary matters.
The reverend bishops did thing that
Was not even suggested In the house
of deputies. They adopted resolll-
ton commenting the governor and leg
islature Of Texas for their action IN
preventing the Corbett-Fitzsimmon
prize fight.
81 The bishops expressed themselves as
being highly gratified with the ap-
pointmcnt at bishop Doanc to the
charge Of the foreign churches.
The argnmentatiye temper Of tie
house Of deputies was evinced to-day
In a lengthy debate upon the much
mootrd report Of the committee on re-
vision. Beyond a few inconsequential
verbal changes, however, nothing was
accomplished. A joint session with
the house Of bishops, while receiving
the Canadian guests of honor was q
pleasant diversion from the heat of
debate, which was thereby interrupted
4 a very pleasant little controversy
arose in tile house this morning re-
garding the wording of the invitation
to the delegation from the synod OF
resolution of invitation contained the
words "thc American church." 1t was
moved to strike out these words and
cn,sf t1,o
church of the United States" 1t was
explained that this amendment meant
no insidious theological differences, but
1t took division vote to show that
the adherents of the American church
We're overwhelmingly in the majority.
Minneapolis, Oct. Elm their capaci-
ty as a board of missions the two
houses of the general Episcopal con-
yention. met to-day in joint session.
Business meetings of both houses pre-
coded the missionary gathering. but
at 1920 the bishops notified the depu-
ties of their readiness to join in the
mission gathering, and in a short time
the dignitied body of the upper house
filed up, the broad aisle of Gethsemane
church while the deputies and audi
ence rose in their honor
Bishops Whipple and Doane, the Of
ticers of the house Of bishops, formally
presided, though Rev. W. S. Langford,
New York, secretary of the board Of
missions, virtually conducted the meet
ing. A hymn was heartily joined in
by the whole assemblage. Then the
venerable Bishop Whipple offered an
impressive prayer while the whole
congregation knelt
After that the greeting. With the
voice of a man of score less years
the senior bishop welcomed the con-
ventiOn in it's missionary character
He began with vivid description Of
early missionary work in Minnesota.
From this he passed to the founding
of Seabury divinity school.
"a blessing has fallen upon the work
of the diocese of Minnesota" he said.
1T is partly because the nantes Of
these pioneers have fallen upon the
later workers. And the watchword Of
the diocese has been to preach Christ.
I thank god that this great general
convention has come together to con-
slider the missions Of the church. The
apostolic church has something great
er to do than the passing Of canons."
With this impressive sentence Bish-
op Whipple sat down. Bishop Scar
borough of New Jersey read a pro-
posed order of business and the rules
of order of the house OF bishops as far
as they related to discussion and pro-
cedure, were adopted. Reports of
various officers were read.
Minneapolis, Oct. S.-Yesterday was
q Sunday, which the Episcopalians of
Minneapolis and those visiting this
city from other states will not forget
| in decades. Figuratively speaking, the
| city was full of churchmen of distinc-
ton and renown, and the opportunity
of listening to famous preachers was
| such as the people Of this city may not
have again for years. It was practi-
cally an all-day service in most of the
churches, for the early morning COM
munion was followed by another cele-
bration and sermon later in the fore
| noon. and giving the congregation
| hardly time to get dinner The
| churches were filled again in the after
noon. when several prominent bishops
| spoke on interesting subjects, in at
least one church two afternoon meet
| lngs being on the programme
Minneapolis, Oct. 9-About the first
thing the Episcopalian house Of depu-
ties did was to, accept an invitation
from President Northrop, of the estate
university, to visit that institution
| some time during the convention. Hill
| Bergwin of Pittsburg, Of the commit
tee on rules, reported that the COM
mittee, disapproved Of the resolution
submitted by G. e. Breed of Long
Island that the house offer prayers for
| the missions at noon Of each days SEES
sion. Senator Edmunds secured the
! unanimous consent of the house to re-
fer an amendment to article 1, section
| |. Of the constitution, to the committee.
The bids for the honor of entertaining
the next convention were then present
ed by the cities Of Boston and Atlanta,
LOGS IN A BLAZE. r.
| Fire Swept Through the Murphy
Lumber Yards at Green Bay.