The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-08
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
TO BE DISCUSSED BY EPIsCOPALIAN
BISHOPS NEXT WEEK.
Canadians Received I'm Joint Conven-
tiOn Yesterday-AIissiOn Work
Considered by the Deputies.

WASHINGTON. Oct. THE triennial
council of the Episcopal Church held spe-
cial session this morning at which a deputa-
ton from the Canadian church was re-
ceived.
The house of deputies sitting separate
from the bishops did considerable routine
business later. admitting to honorary seats
representatives from Honolulu and Alaska;
discharging the committee on the PROPOSE
ton to create northern diocese in Cali
fornia, receiving the report of the commits
sion on original readings of the Bible ana
referring to the canons committee PROPOSE
ton by Rev. DR.. Brand. OF Maryland, pre-
scribing the manner Of administering holy
communion.
The house of bishops, meeting separately.
gave leave of absence to Bishop Sessions,
of Louisiana. owing to his feeling that the
yellow fever reports were such as to make
his presence at home desirable. Monday
next at noon was fixed for taking up the
important question of marriage and divorce,
and Wednesday next for electing the mis-
sionary bishops of north California, Dakota,
Wyoming and Idaho.
The bishops and deputies were again in
Joint session at the afternoon session; con-
tinuing the discussion of mission work.
Right Rev. DR.. Barker, bishop of Olympia,
spoke of the great mission work on the
Pacific coast, which by giant strides had ad-
vanced more in the last twenty years than
any other locality. In that period the num-
Der of communicates had increased five
fold, while in all other branches Of church
work, the progress had been five fold. He
urged that the Board Of Missions should
readjust their calculations to the new order
Of things, giving greater attention to the
expanding West. They were making the
same distribution of mission funds now as
examine the facts of the great Vests prog
ress instead of limiting their energies TO
raising funds. Bishop Hare. of South Da-
kota, spoke of the scope of Indian missions.
The work had been begun by two bishops,
but now eleven were engaged in the work.
Great obstacles had been overcome until now
the Outstanding of the Indian was an ac-
complished fact. In the great Sioux nation
the schools were filled with children and he
himself had received as communicating SIX
work was shown in their contributions,
reaching $4,000 year.
Bishop Hare refuted the criticisms that
the Christianized Indian returned to his
blanket. He was neither saint nor sinner.
but was at least advanced from his state of
barbarsm and brought into tea an htea
ton be given by the church to this held OF
Indian work.
BlSnOp Nelson, OF GEORGIA, ulScuSSeu the
field of missions among the negroes of the
South, saying it was the most important
field in the country
The missionary work in Africa was treated
by Rev. DR.. Eggleston, who said the mis-
sionaries are fast pushing from the coast
up the rivers to Central Africa.
The report of the Bishop of Shanghai,
Right Rev. DR.. Graves said the fate of a
great nation was in the balance 1t could
not be said whether the result would be
the cutting up and partition of this vast
empire or the preservation Of the countrys
territorial integrity by Great Britain and
the United States, for these nations, Bishop
Graves said, were the only ones who could
accomplish such a work
The Bishop of Toxic, Rt. Rev. DR.. McKim.
said the action of the Empress of Japan
in appointing two native Japanese ladies
communicates of the Episcopal Church as
delegates to a recent Christian gathering
at Japan was a notable recognition of
Christianity from the imperial family. There
continued however, the antagonistic infiu-
ence of Buddhism and he said that amid
all the progress in Japan the moral sense
among a large class was deadened.
Tonight the members of the council were
received by the President and Mrs. Nc
Kiflley.