The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-17
CLASH OF THE cHURCHMEN.
ANOTHER ATTACK ON THE TITLE
OF THE DENOMINATION.


The House of Delegates Again Re-
fuses To Make Change and Nom
COncurs in the Action OF the Bish-
Ops-The Cnnons ON Marriage an6
Divorce Reported From the Com
mittee ON Canons-The House
shelves the Question of "A PrOvin-
ciaI system.
Minneapolis. Mimi. Oct 16.-when the
house Of deputies Of the Episcopal con-
vention reassembled this morning the
joint committee appointed to consider the
regularity and validity of the order of
the church in Sweden, presented re-
port setting forth reasons why no min
lister Of the Swedish church should be al
lowed to ofiiciate in any church under
American jurisdiction. Objection was
made TO the immediate consideration of
the matter. and it went on the calen-
dar
Another attack upon the present title
of the denomination made itself manifest
in the presentation of report from the
committee to consider the message from
the house of bishops recommending that
the title page of the book of common
prayer be changed by the omission of
the words According to the use of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the United
States of America" and the substitution
Of the words, According to American
use"
There was a minority report signed by
J. PierpOnt Morgan Of New York, Messrs.
Biddle and Blanchard of Philadelphia ana
Perkins of Kentucky, in which the pro-
posed change was characterized as Writ
ual reopening Of the subject of prayer
! book revision. which has already heeU
tied, and therefore unwise and to be de-
precated as calculated to alarm the mem-
bers OF the communion.
disposition TO cut Off debate on the
issue was manifested by the delegates,
and after DR.. Faude of Minnesota had
Shatacterlzed the proposal as one Of bad
laltn, ana Dr. GrOtOn Of Rhode Island
had spoken to the same effect, vote by
doceses ana orders was taken. It re-
suited: Clerical vote. ayes, 10; nays, 30;
dIiiw99ed 3 Lay vote, ayes. Y; nays, 80;
The house again refused to change the
ute OF the church as designated in the
| prayer-bOok, and the formal resolution OF
non-concurrence with the bishops was
ADOPTED by large majority on viva voce
After the receipt of another message
from the bishops announcing that they
had designated the bishop of Milwaukee
ana the coad1utor bishop of Minnesota
as delegates to the next meeting OF the
Canadian general synod Dean Hoffman,
from the committee on canons, made a
maj report, containing the proposed cam
| DAio bli AldiAiaEt anu QlNOiEt. upon WNlGn
the committee has been laboring ever
since the assembling of the convention.
Inc canons, which were received and
paced on nle, read as follows:
NO minister of this church shall SOL
emnize the marriage of any person VINO
mas divorced husband or wife stll liv-
ing but this prohibition shall not be held
to apply to the innocent party in a di-
Torce which the court shall have granted
only divorced from each other seeking
to be united again.
?. If any minister of this church knows
or mas reasonable cause to believe that
a person has been married otherwise
than as the discipline of this church doth
allow. he shall not minister holy baptism
or the holy communion to such person
without the written consent Of the bish-
op OF the diocese. Provided, however
that no minister shall in any case refuse
the sacraments to a penitent person in
imminent danger of death.
For an hour or more the house was in
legal tangle over a request from tho
joint commission that It be continued in
existence to consider such canOns as
may not be acted upon by this conven-
ton, special committee having been ap-
pointed yesterday to deal similarly with
the constitution. The bishops had al
ready decided in favor of continuing the
commission on the canon question only
and after tedious and desultory debate
) the house concurred by a vote Of 1856 TO 59
This matter disposed of. the order of
the day, the establishment of the prov
incial system" or the formation of the
dloceses INTO provinces, was called for
|
lengthy address in it's favor.
The house finally shelved the provin-
cial question by referring IL to a special
committee to report in 1898 and took
recess
on reassembling the house gave its ap,
proyal to a resolution presented by Arthur
Sowden of Massachusetts, setting forth
that the good of the nation demanded that
Independence day be observed religious
/ ly as well as otherwise, and suggesting
that a special form of service be en-
ployed for that day. The resolution went
to the bishops
For the fourth successive time Delegate
} Fairbanks of Florida submitted a resoiu-
tion that the general convention may ac-
cept a cesston of part of the territorial
} Jurisdiction Of a diocese when the bishop
and convention of such diocese shall pro-
pose such cession and three-fourths or
the parishes in the ceded territory and
also the same proportion of parishes in
the remaining territory snail consent
After a long debate the resolution was
sent TO the committee on constitution by
a vote of 1877 to 108.
The decks were now cleared for the hat
tie between the broad churchmen and the
conservatives on the issue of Christian un-
ity. There were two reports one SIGNED
! by DR.. Huntington of New York and five
others, and the other bearing the sigma
lures Of Dr. j. G. Faude of Minneapolis
the leader of the high church party ia the
northwest, and five associate members
of the committee, hence neither
report was minority one The
| report of DR.. Huntingtons commit
tee presents a proposed amendment to the
constitution, and the other opposes any
amendment. Both reports were very
long. The debate was unfinished when the
| house adjourned.
The house Of bishops appointed the
bishops of Western New York. Iowa.
Nebraska, Ohio and the Rev Tbeodore
Zeibert of the General Theological Sem
mary, New York, to make a new transla-
ton in German Of the prayerbook. 1t was
| also decided to prepare an Italian trans
/ lation of the same volume.
1t was decided to readjust the bounda-
ries of the missionary jurisdictions and the
bishops of Springfield, Central Pennsyl-
Vania and California were appointed a
committee for that purpose
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