The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-10-10
THE
Work of the General Convention in
minneapolis.

minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Oct. 5.-rhe ~triennial
convention Of the Episcopal church is
now well under way. The work of the
house Of bishops was largely of "A
routine nature to-day, but in one par
ticular, at least. the house turned from
the discussion Of ordinary matters.
The reverend bishops did n thing that
was not eve suggested in the house
Of deputies. They adopted a resolu-
ton commencing the governor and leg
islature of Texas for their action IN
preventing the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
prize fight.
The bishops expressed themselves as
being highly gratitied with the APP
poin,m"rt ~ IiShup DOano to the
charge Of the foreign churches.
Tho a~rgumentative temper of tie
house Of deputies was evinccd to-day
IN n lengthy debate upon the much
mootrd report Of the committee ON re-
vision. Beyond Il few inconsequential
verbal changes, however. nothing was
| accomplished. A joint session with
the house OF bishops, while receiving
the Canadian guests OF honor, was a
pleasant diversion from the heat of
debate, which was thereby interrupted
a very pleasant little controversy
arose in the house this morning re-
garding the wording Of the invitation
10 the delegation from the synod OF
Canada to meet the convention. The
resolution of invitation contained the
words THE American church." 1t was
moved to strike out these words and
insert the protestant Episcopal
church of the United States" 1t was
explained that this amendment meant
nc insidious theological differences, but
it took n division vote to show that
the adherentS of the American church
were overwhelmingly in the majority.
Minneapolis, Oct. 6.-In their capaci-
ty rs a board of missions the two
houses Of the general Episcopal con
vention met to-day in joint session.
Business meetings of both houses pre-
ceded the missionary gathering. but
at 1870 the bishops notified the depu-
ties of their readiness to join in the
mission gathering, and in a short time
the dignified 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
ficers 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 Whipplc offered an
impressive prayer while the whole
congregation knelt.
After that the greeting. With the
voice of a Ia of a score less years
the senior bishop welcomed the con-
vention in its missionary character.
He began with q 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.
cit 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.
| 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 Il 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.