The record-union., 1895-10-21
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
Only Que Working Day Remains FOL
the Delegates.

Only Que Working Day Remains for
the Delegates.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 20.-Only one
more working day remains to the general
convention Of the Episcopal Church,
which has been in session in this city for
three weeks. Tomorrow will be de-
voted to final clearing up of the calen-
dar and the transaction of such routine
business as may have been left over to
the last moment.
More than one-half of the clerical and
lay deputies, as we'll as a number of
Bishops, have already left town, and
hence no attempt will be made to con-
slider any matters of importance.
The convention will end on Tuesday
with religious service, at which the
pastoral to thu church in America and
foreign lands and upon the preparation of
which the House of Bishops has been en-
gagged at intervals for ten days will be
promulgated. The subject matter of the
pastoral is being jealousy guarded pend
Ing It's reading in joint session, the only
Information vouchsa1ed concerning it be-
ing that it will fill three columns of a
metropolitan newspaper.
Now that the convention, of which SO
! much has been expected by the church.
is nearing its close, the delegates are
looking backward and contemplating
what has been accomplished and what
has been left uDdone. Naturally, there
Is more or less regret or dissatisfaction on
the part OF number of the mem-
bers OF both houses who came here with
pet theories or ideas to advance, and who
have not succeeded In accomplishing
their desires, but the general sentiment
is perhaps fairly voiced by one of the
most distinguished of the clerical depu-
ties, a man of broad mind and ideas and
OF national reputation, who has made his
impress felt upon the lower house. but
who is disinclined to the use of his name
as even conservative critic OF the body
to which he belongs.
10 your correspondent he to-day
summed up the situation thus: ITO tn @
outer world 1t may appear that we have
accomplished but little; that, In fact we
have undone moro than we have done.
1t has been learned on the one hand
that we have played havoc with the new
constitution, finally shelving it with the
canonS for three years: that the PROPOSE
ton TOR the establishment of the pro
vinciaP system has encountered a similar
fate; that the movement toward Christian
unity, approved by the convention OF
1892. has received a et-back, involving a
reputation of the Lam beth quadrilat-
eral; that we have declined to change the
present designation OF the denomination,
and have put Quletus Oh the proposal to
give the church an official head in the
person OF a prlmate or Drlmus, and that
on the other hand we have erected few
more Episcopal sees, changed the limita-
tiOns OF certain missionary jurisdictions
and approved various amendments to
the constitution and canons with which
our committees may grapple, preparatory
to another series of oratorical contests at
the Washington Convention of 1885.
This, | say, ID the way the outer world
may look upon the gathering. The
widely divergent views expressed in the
debates on many of the important mat
ters submitted have broadened and
quickened thought, have created new
ideas, and these will be carried down to
the dloceses and will awaken the diocesan
conventions and the church at large, so
that delegates TO the Washington Con-
vention will be able to act definitely and
intelligently on the many issues that
have been referred to it,"