The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-05
PERENNIAL MEETING
INTERESTING SESSION OF THE
 EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
The Missionary Field Claimed . Large Share of Attention-A Committee to Select Next
 Meeting Place.

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 | San Francisco. Oct. 4-Today's delibera- tions of the triennial convention of the Episcopal Church of America were mainly | devoted to the missionary field and of | fered real popular interest. resolution was adopted to adjourn the convention
 sine die on Thursday. October IT at p. m.
 Petitions from representative cities anx- ious to secure the next tri-enniai meet | ing were presented in behalf of Pitts burg, Boston, Cincinnati. Louisville and New Orleans No action was taken, but | on motion of J. Pierpont Morgan. com mittee was appointed to decide where the | next convention should be held.
 The House of Bishops decided to take up the consideration of the constitution as soon as it is acted upon by the House | of Deputies. The House of Deputies de- cided to take up the matter of marginal
 readings, which were yesterday passed on
 by the bishops as soon as 1t had finished | the constitution which it is now consider l ing The proposed canon on marriage and divorce will be considered next. 1 When the time came for calling to order | the Board of Missions there was scarcely | standing room in the auditorium of the church. Bishop Doane of Albany, pre- | sented the annual report of managers. | Although the financial statement reveal
 ed a deficit of s1o2.71s, this has been tenn
 porarily covered by drawing on the re- | serve fund.
 The statement that provision must be made for accruing liabilities, work in | China, Cuba and the new possessions of | the United States, Porto Rico and the
 Philippines. is given special prominence
 in the report. which was referred to a | special committee. | The House of Bishop has by a vote of
 47 to 21, decided to accept the report of | the committee appointed at the last con- | vention to report upon the marginal read | ings that may be substituted for the present reading of the Scripture. With l the concurrence of the House of Deputies,
 the action of the bishops will become a canon of the Church of America. | The resolution in full reads: Resolved, | the House of Deputies concurring, that
 the marginal readings of the English ver- sions of the Old and New Testaments re- ported to this House by the. Joint Com | mission appointed in 1895 and re-appointed
 in 1898, to make such report, be published | under the direction of said conmission
 and are hereby allowed to be used by
 ministers of this church in reading the
 lessons from the Holy Scriptures in morn | ing and evening prayer"
 From the attitude of the bishops on this
 matter it is supposed the majority of the
 higher house Is inclined to be liberal, and | less orthodox as opposed to the desires
 of those church men of both clergy and
 laity, who desire high church forms and
 observances and the changing of the name from the Protestant Catholic
 Church to the Catholic Church of Ameri- | ca.
 Immediately after the religious exercises | of the triennial Episcopal Convention, the House of Bishops and House of Deputies convened in secret session. The deputies
 devoted an hour to the presentation and | reception of reports and petitions. The
 House of Bishops held a brief session. de-
 voted to the consideration of matters to
 come before the convention for action. Shortly before noon the two houses met 1 in joint session with the Board of Mis-
 sions After organization, the greater l part of the first session was occupied by | the presentation of reports the most im- portant being the triennial report of the i Board of Managers. Annual reports on domestic and foreign missions and re- ports of the Bishops of various dioceses throughout the American possessions all
 showed a gratifying increase in the work | of the missionary society. The afternoon | was occupied in the reception of reports relating to missionary subjects and to | full discussion of the report of the Board l of Managers.
 | Invitations from Pittsburg. Massachu- setts, Southern Ohio. Kentucky and Lou Isiana delegations were presented for the general convention, to be held within the cities of their respective dioceses. MT J. Pierpont Morgan moved that a | committee of five be appointed to act
 with a similar committee of the House of Bishops to select the place of next meeting.
 On recommendation of the joint com
 mittee on Order of Buslness. both houses adopted the following. order:
 That the House of Bishops take up the consideration of the constitution so soon | as action therein. in any case Is received from the deputies; that the deputies, upon completing consideration of the constitu-
 ton, take up the matter of marginal read | ings already passed upon by the Bish- | ops; that the proposed canon on marriage | and divorce be 1ext considered, and then | the report of the Committee on Courts | of Appeals; also that the convention ad- | journ sine die on Thursday, October 17. | The deputies then adjourned. In the Board of Missions, the triennial
 report of the Board of Managers was presented by Bishop Doane. It included reports of missionary bishops and finan- | cial matters.
 Rev. Dr. Lloyd. Secretary of the Board | of Missions, said the deficit reported was | caused by the fact that the work had | grown faster than had the zeal and con- | tributions of the church. The least sum, | he said, sufficient to carry on the work | as now planned. will be $625, 900 for the | coming year. while tho utmost sum seem- inRly in sight Is y4o0,OOO.
 The Bishop of Georgia said more thor | olIgh and systematic effort must be made | in raising funds. and offered the follow | ing resolutions:
 sResoIved that the Board of Managers | he and hereby are authorized and in- | atructed to employ district secretaries. | sFirst-To arouse interest in the mis-
 sionary offerings for the church.
 "Second-To solicit parish and personal
 p..Tbird-To impart missionary informa-
 tion and distribute missionary literature | "Fourth--To encourage and assist In | in. formation of auxiliary societies and | to organize supplementary societies when
 The resolutions were referred to a spe- | ciaI committee of two bishops, two cler- | pvmen and two laymen.
 | eThe Bishop of Montana offered a reso- 1 lution proving that special sum be ask | ad For from every diocese and missionary | Jurisdiction toward raising $,OO0,00O this | year The resolution was referred to | committee of htteen-
 Dr. Spaulding of Alabama advocated | svstematic giving by all Christian people. | Adiournment was then taken.
 EXCITEMENT NEAR THEATRE. ! ~. -Is