Evening star., 1898-10-14

| laws on the subject of bankruptcy through
out the United States, there can be no rea
son why it should not have the power to
establish uniform laws on the subjects of
marriage and divorce:
Now, therefore, be it resolved, That it is
the sense of this convention that the inter
ests of the entire country would be sub
served, the social order thereof SafeguardeQ
and the existing evils and abuses remedied
by the establishment of said laws.
Be in further resolved, the house of bish-
ops concurring, That a joint committee of
| the two houses be appointed TO prepare
! suitable memorial, to be submitted to the
| Congress of the United States and to the
| legislatures of the several states. express
| ing the sense of this convention and urg-
ing that appropriate steps be taken to Sc
cure amendment TO the Constitution
which shall give power to Congress to es-
| tablish uniform laws the subjects of
marriage and divorce throughout the United
| States.
! Members on the part of the deputies of
the joint committee to nominate trustees
| of the fund for the relief of widows and or
| phans are: Rev DR.. w. B. Bodine of Penn
sylvania, Rev. L. w. Saltonstall of Connect
icut, Rev. DIR. ]. S. Reed, of central New
York, Mr. J. N. Brown of Rhode Island.
Mr. ]. v Merrick of Pennsylvania and Mr..
| E. L. David of Massachusetts.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Old of
southern Virginia in the house TINS morn
! ing will be watched with great interest by
| missionaries of the church. In full 1t pro-
vides that committee be appointed to
| consider whether it is not possible to guar
| antee small salary to every missionary or
| the church. so that the missionary may be
| kept above actual want and mendicancy.
| For the present it recommends that the
minimum salary should be S460
Yesterday Afternoons Session.
The afternoon session of the house of
deputies yesterday was devoted to a con-
tinuance of the discussion of DR.. Hunting
| tons proposition to insert in the constitu-
| ton a provision empowering any bishop,
| acting with the consent of the standing
! committee of his diocese, to take under his
spiritual oversight any congregation of
/ Christian people, not heretofore in COM
munion with the church, which accepts the
| apostles and Nicene creeds, and whose
| minister, having received Episcopal ordina-
| ton, shall covenant may be prescribed
by canon to in public worship such
| form or directory as the bishop shall set
| forth and authorize. The debate was ex-
| ceeding1y interesting, and the arguments
| for and against the motion showed, like
| those that had preceded them. the vast
! Importance with which the question was
| invested. The debate was participated in
| by Rev Cameron Mann of Missouri. Rev.
Morgan T. Dix of New York, chairman of
| the constitution revision committee. and
| president Of the house of deputies, Mr.. c.
! G. Saunders, Mr.. George r. Fairbanks, Mr..
James S. Biddle and Mr. E. I. Wilder. in
| opposition, and Rev B. A. Rogers, Rev. B.
| W. R. Taylor, Mr.. w. r. Butler, Judge ].
| H Stiness and Rev. DR.. Randolph H. Nc
| Kim, in support. DR.. McKim strongly IA
| vored the proposition. In reply to the
charge that 1t did not comport with the
| dignity of the church, he asked if it was
| more or less consistent with that dignity
| to follow up the declaration of the Lam
| beth conference in behalf of church unity,
| and to take step in the direction there
| indicated.
| For the Sake of Dignity.
| Continuing, he said:
| For the sake of the dignity of this
| church let us do what it is asked that we
| should do along the lines of catholic adj
vance. We love and reverence the Prayer
| Book, and it is not to put the Prayer Book
on the shelf, but to take it down from the
! shelf and to give 1t to the ignorant that
| they may learn to love it. Loyalty to the
] Prayer Book! The proposition is not to
| touch line a principle of the Prayer
/ Book, but we want to see it the prayer book
| of the whole country. This movement is
in the interest of the truest and the broad
est catholicity. What We listened to this
morning was not mere eloquence, save the
4 eloquence that comes from the heart, in
spired by the spirit of the Living God. 1t
has been said that If we pass this measure
| it will seem though We had made mis-
| take, though we were leaving former
narrow ness. l hope We do have broader