Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-15
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.

of the Episcopal convention in Wash.
ington yesterday. the discussion being
continued on Rev. DR.. Huntington's
proposition to broaden the scope of the
church by permitting bishops to take
under their spiritual guidance outside
congregations not conforming strictly
to the Episcopal liturgy.
Before taking up the main subject
much miscellaneous business was trans
acted.
A delegation which represented the
American church at the last general
synod of the Church of England in
Canada reported in detail CD their re-
ception in Canada, and spoke of the
close sympathy and kinship between
the two daughters of the English
church, separated only by a thin geo.
graphical boundary.
A resolution was adopted creating q
new diocese OF the northern part of the
present diocese of Indiana, in accord
ance with the recommendation of q
committee.
Among the resolutions presented and
referred were those for cooperation be-
tween the English and American
church 10 the establishment of churches
on the continent of Europe, for restor-
ing the original text of Rock of Ages"
and other hymns.
A petition urging q radical change in
the prayer book was summarily tabled,
49, l47, against the protest OF Rev. Mac
kay Smith, of Washington, that in all
constitutional bodies petitions were of
right received and respectfully consid-
cred.
Spencer Trask, lay delegate from AL
bapy, n. Y, presented resolution pro-
vding that joint committee of the
Two houses be appointed to prepare a
suitable memorial, to be submitted to
the Congress of the United States, and
to the legislatures of the several States,
expressing the sense of this convention,
and urging that appropriate steps be
taken to secure an amendment to the
Constitution which shall give power to
Congress to establish Uniform laws on
The subject OF marriage and divorce
throughout the United States"
Rev. DR.. John Fulton, of Pennsyl-
vauia, opened the debate involving
church unity. He supported the Hunt
ington amendment to the constitution
as calculated to facilitate the high aim
of making the church national in char
acter.
Mr.. Arthur Ryerson, of Chicago,
characterized the amendment as revo.
Iutionary, and pointed out that, if
adopted, it would bring into the church
congregations without baptism and
without confirmation.
At this point an effort was made to
close the debate and take vote at /
p. m, but this was voted down.
Under the five. minute rule of de-
bate many clerical and lay dele,
gates took part. Numerous amend
ments were proposed, but Dr..
Huntington secured the defeat of all
that modified his proposition in any
substantial form. In speaking against
the amendment. Rev. John H. Hop
kins, of West Missouri, declared this
move was so radical that it would re-
quire a new kind of baptism, new
kind of confirmation, new kind OF
communion and new kind of clergy
man.
Rev. John Williams, of Nebraska,
said be brought a message from the
Swedish archbishop, denying that the
Swedes were iavoring church unity,
declaring that the Swedish bodies en-
tering the Episcopal Church had been
stolen. Rev. R. II. Weller, OF Fond
du Lac, declared from experience
among the foreigners in Wisconsin
that this movement, when tried, had
proved an absolute failure.
After further debate the final dis
position ofthe question went over un-
til Monday.
The House OF Bishops adopted n
proposition extending the offenses for
which bishops may be tried to include
conduct unbecoming bishop"
Another amendment adopted extends
the provision against alternating church
property. A special committee Of bish-
ops was created, consisting of the bish,
ops OF Chicago, New York and Yer
mont for the examination of caDdi-
dates for holy orders. The bishops dis
cussed and passed articles /, 7 and of
the amendents to tine constitution, al
ready passed by the house. Article
covers the provincial system" Nomi-
nations were made for the vacant bish
oprcs in North Dakota, Sacramento
aud Boise, but the names were withheld
until final action is taken.
At 2:30 both houses adjourned in or
der to permit the bishops and deputies,
some 400 in number, to start on the
pilgrimage to Jamestown Island, near
Richmond, where 800 years ago the
church was first established in America.
Twenty-three Bishops and 800 Cor
more delegates of the general conven-
ton arrived in Richmond last night on
q pilgrimage to Jamestown, under the
auspices of the Churchman'S League OF
the District of Columbia. To day they
will visited the site of the first church
established in this country, and stone
monument will be erected to commend
rate the occasion. Last night the par
ty held reception at the Jefferson
Hotel, which was largely attended by
numbers of all denominations. At
jamestown, on the site of the old
church, the communion was celebrated,
and the service used was that of the
old Jamestown church, and which was
presented to that congregation in 1861.
To KEEP Ice IN A TUMBLdR.-Even
as the weather becomes cooler it will
be found difficult to keep ice from melt
ing when it is needed at night, and it is