The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-21
MORGAN AS A MoRAL1sr.
VIII Oppose the Proposed Anti-Di-
vorce Canon of His Church.
V-orI-

New York JOurnaL)
san Francisco-This city is to be
hopored by the temporary residence of
J. Pierpont Morgan. His agents have
concluded q. lease, it is stated, of the
Charles Croker mansion, on the corner
of California and Taylor streets.
The Episcopal general convention, the
triennial council of that church in the
United States. begins here on Oct. 2
next. Mr.. Morgan wiz read the lay
delegates to the con Feu-iJl from New
York. His occupanCE Of he Croker
maEsiOn viii give him opportunity to
distinguished laymen who viii take
part in the council.
Mrs. Morgan will accompany her huS-
band here, so that a hostess viii not
that Miss Morgan, who is now hunting
in Colorado, viii join her father and
mother.
The Croker mansion stands on Mob
Hill" and is one of the handsOmest
houses erected there by the California
money kings; fit residence even for
the greatest of the milliOnaireS. 1t
contains a fine art gallery which in
creases its spaciousness as a plaza of
entertainment
J. PierpOnt Morgan is very prominent
in the affairs of this Protestant Epis-
copal diocese and has given most gem
erOuSly to religious purposes. With
Bishop Potter Mr.. Morgan is deeply in
teTested in the erection of tho new
cathedral. Mr.. Morgan has been a lay
delegate to several general conventions
OF the church.
The convention will be a most i'm
pCTtant one. The joint commission on
the revision of the canons Of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church, whose exist
ence was continued from the last gen
eTal convention in Washington in 1898.
viii report to the October convention
the proposed canOns touching the mar
rage of divorced persons and ill-ad-
Vised marriages.
One of the proposed canons govern
ing remarriage Of the divorced reads
thus;
NO minister shall sOlemnize a mar
rage between any two persons unless
or until, by inquiry, he shall have sat
lsiled himself that neither person had
been nor is the husband or the wife
OF any other person then living, unless
the marriage was annulled by decree
o. some civil court of competent juris-
l dlct1on for cause existing befUre such
former marriage
The strongest opposition to the pro-
posed new canOnS on divorce is expect
ed from the richest New York members
! of the church in the October conven-
ton. And il is anticipated that this
opposition viii be led by J. Pierpont
Morgan Canon H. B. St. George of All
Saints cathedral, Milwaukee. who has
made a close study of the attitude OF
the church to divorce, said lately:
From what I have learned. there is
but one sentiment among the clergy
| and that faVors the proposed changes
/ IN the canOns on divorce. But. if the
changes are made, they will prove avvIx-
ward to many wealthy and prominent
lay members of the church.
The Nanderbilts, the Belmonts and
other families OF New York prominent
/ in the Episcopal church have been i'm
plicated in divorce proceedings. Both
Mrs. Perry Belmont and Mrs Oliver
d P Belmont are divorced women
Perry Belmont has been quite an ac-
tive factor in church affairs
Those who would be directly af-
fected by new canons in divorce car
bring powerful influence 10 bear.
The head of the New York law dele
gation-J PierpOnt Morgan-can be
counted on to oppose them, and his in
/ fluence is considerable. Besides this
| the power Of the VanderbiIts and Bel
monts in the church is not confined
/ 10 the New York diocese 1t will be no.
/ ticeable in delegations from various
/ parts Of the country when the general
/ convention meets"