The age-herald., 1901-10-06
CONVENTION
 ADOPTSPRAYER
 BOOK CHANGES Still Discussing Article Providing for Temporary Forms of
 Episcopal Worship MANY DELEGATES OPPOSE II Resolution Introduced Declaring lt Duty of Chairman to Promote Good Citizenship by Exertina
 influence at the Polls.
MANY DELEGATES OPPOSE II

San Francisco, October 5-The fourth day of the triennial Episcopal conven- tion with large attendance at the pray CT service in Trinity church, which was conducted by Bishop Grafton of Fon du Lac, Wis. assisted by the Rev. Dr. Stuck of Dallas, Texas.
 The house of bishops then convened for a half days session, 1t having been decid- ed to hold no afternoon business session on Saturday. Several mem orials and sets of resolutions from the local committee to participate in an excursion on the bay next Sunday was accepted. The consid- eration of amendments to the constitu- tion was then resumed. The house of bishops met at the usual hour and con- tinued the consideration of church mat ters.
 The ninth convention of the Daughters of the King met at St. Lumas, and after the preliminary service an address of welcome was delivered by the Rev. WILL fam Nichols, bishop of California Organ izations was then effected and committees appointed. At noon prayers for missions was followed by greetings from Mrs. D. Wilson, chairman of the hospital commit tee of the Faithful Chapter of San Fran cisco. The afternoon was devoted to the hearing of the presidents report and to the hearing of reports.
 To Select Place of Meeting.
 After calling the deputies to order the chair appointed the following committee on behalf of the Houss of Deputies to se- lect the place of meeting for the next trieunial convention.
 J. Pierpont Morgan, New York; Alex Mackay- Smith. D. D., of Washington; F. F. Reese, D. D., of Georgia; John R. Triplett of Missouri; J. O. Symons. D. D., Connecticut
 The House of Bishops afterwards ap- pointed on this committee the following The Bishops of New Hampshire, West Missouri, Georgia, Lexington and Los Angeles.
 The committee on division of dloceses reported that the application for permis- sion for the division of the diocese of Massachusetts be granted The report was adopted, especial note being made of the fact that $100,000 had been raised as an endowment for the support of the bishop of the new diocese. T. L. Ring walt of Nebraska offered the following resolution:
 Churchmen and the Ballot.
 That the House of Bishops concurring, it is the sense of this convention that good citizenship should be encouraged and promoted by this church and the church. mindful of the great tendency to vice and corruption, throughout the \ United States and indifference to civic honesty and morality, expects her sons to take an active part at the ballot boxes and elsewhere when occasion permits"
 An amendment to Section 8, article 1 was offered by Mir Chase, of Nebraska. providing that there shall be a presiding bishop of the church to be nominated by the House of Bishops from among the bishops having Jurisdiction in the United States to the house of deputies for its action. This will have to be passed upon by the convention and then go through the process provided or to be provided for with amendments to the constitution.
 Article TX was then taken up It pro- vides that the general convention, may by canon, establish a court for the trial of bishops; that courts for the trial of Presbyteries and deacons may be estab- lished by diocesan conventions and that the general convention, may by canon, establish courtesy of review of the deter minations of diocesan or other trial