The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-19
EPISCOPAL CONGRESS.
Interesting Topic at Yesterdays
Session.

A'oi toiN, NOV. lO.-Ine EplScopal
Church Congress was called to order for
it's second business davis session Mt 10: 40
a. m. by Bishop Randolph, who conduct
ed the devotional exercises. The hymn
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty
was then sung by the choir anu audience
standing.
The topic for this session was '.Do We
Need Hierarchy in This Church, The
1irst writer was TO have been Rev. j. j.
Faade, of South Minneapolis, and the
first speaker was to have been Rev. G. w.
Dumbell, d. D., of West New Brighton,
n. u, but neither of these dvines were
present, having been unavoidably de-
tanned
The first paper read was by Rev. Fran
els NJ. :. Taylor, of Mt. Vernon, n. Y.
who had been down on the programme as
the last speaker, but was substituted as
the first writer--the topics being dis
cussed first by writer's and then by speak
ers.
The next writer was Rev. Geo. l..
Locke, ID. d., of Bristol r. l. He said
in part:
What the church already has it can
hardly be said to need. In its present
bishops, priests and deacons it has a
hierarchy; but the question is, is tevel-
opnent of this hierarchy needed or dcsr.
able by reviving offices not now in use?
The hierarchy as z close corporation
would he antagonistic to the principles of
Amercanism and to the policy of this
church. The cultivation of the hierarchal
idea would be mischievous, unwise and
perverse.''
Tie hymn 1.-The Church's One Founda-
ton is Jesus Christ, Our Lord was
then sung.
DIR. Tiffany then announced that beside
the regularly appointed speakers on the,
topics others would be allowed ten min
utes each if they so desired
Bishop Newton was the first speaker
on the topic. He said in part
Il nave heard to-day for the first time
that hierarchy is ~ God-given term, and
until my good Presbyterian (?) brother (u
previous speaker) shows me that he has
higher authority for the statement than
his own, | will not take it. 1t has be-
come the fad i'll the church as we'll rs in
the world to be Anglomaniacs. The OBJ
lection | would make to the hierarchy is
that 1t Is I'M American. 1t is against the
genius and institutions of our people,
Rev DIR. w X. Huntington, Of New
York. then spoke. He said in part:
with proposition that the hierarchy
means peacock feathers, yellow Jackets,
etc, have no patience; but Bishop
White would be surprised to wake up and
find that wherever he wrote State we
have written diocese. | believe the time
will come-when every State in the Union
will have its house of bishops with its
presiding bishop, and that the Union will
have its house of bishops with it's presid-
ing bishop. do not believe this is n rev
olutionary idea. The church was intend
ell to conform to the form of government
of the country, and believe it will The
change of attitude of the Church of Rome
makes it necessary for us to have IL phil
osopy of our own
The hymn Sing, My Soul, His Won
drous Love-" was then sung.
At 1890 O'Clock the congress adjourned
Tor the session, the benedction being
pronounced by Bishop Randolph
NIGHT SESSION.
Long before the hour set for the COM
mcncement of the evenings proceedings
OF the congress, the Academy of Music
was filled with II vast audience, fully
alive to the rich and rare oratoral treat
III store for them. The second nights
business session was opened with prayer
and expressions of sympathy were ex
tended To Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page. who
is III attendance in New York upon n sick
child.
The first written contribution of impor-
lance was delivered by Rev William
Wilberforce, of Pittsficld, Mass
The topic of meeting was 1.-The Ideal
aid the Real in I.teraturcn and the sub
ject was ably handled by half II dozen
clever speakers
The best address of the number was
made by Hamilton w. Mabie, assistant
editor of the Outlook, New York, who
handled The topic in most mastery
manner, and was accorded frequent and
hearty applause. His effort was unani-
mously voted the finest speech yet made
in the Episcopal Congress.