Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-01-09

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at the closing services of the Convention with a
special call for oferines to make up the defici.
ency in the Missions account, stating that many
persons had expressed a desire to place their
checks and due-bills on the plate, and motion
I to that effect was made. but was ruled out OF
order by Chairman Lindsay, who said that the
meeting would be in charge of the House oi
/ Bishops and that he did not think they would
/ even consider petition from us as it was con-
trary to all precedents to allow anything detract
| from the interest In the reading of the Pastoral
Letter and that he hoped all would send their
subscriptions to the Treasurer, Mr.. Thomas.
This would seem practical even if they had
TO forego the sentimental enthusiasm and pleas
| ure of having them placed on the altar by the
, Bishops, and the money would go just as far, if
they were enough in earnest to send it. Speaking
of the Pastoral Letter, it was fine, and full
good ideas, but to me it seemed too long and thef
language too glib and smooth, SO much of it
seemed 800 weak, or the words did not seem to
ring with the triumphant consciousness of being
right and authoritative.
once attended the play of "Thc Iwo Vag-
rants" and one of the climaxes in the play was
where one boy who had just picked ladies
pocket declared boldly and firmly, that stealing
was wrong and he would never steal again. He
might have said the same thing meekly and
penitently with equal force and just in the op
poste way it seems to me that the good words of
the Pastoral Letter, lack both the power of meek
ness and of bold force in much ofits construction.
In fact was a little disappointed in the House
of Bishops. This may have been entirely due
to my fault or lack ofacquantance, for I thought
Bishops Potter and Dudley, with others whom
aurda nd
exemplars of grand Christian thought, but judg-
ing from the messages sent out by the House of
Bishops to the House of Deputies for acceptance
and confirmation, they seemed too willing to
compromise and listen to public clamor on what
the House of Deputies thought were important
points of principle, and the Committee on the
revision of the Scriptures freely criticized be-
cause the Bishops, or someone of the Committee,
had not asked or employed the assistance of
number of the most eminent scholars of the
world outside the church in their efforts to i'm
prove the expressions aud meaning of the Bible,
and so emphatic was the House of Deputies in
their disspproval that all changes in the transla-
ton made by the Committee solely on their own
opinion or scholarship were thrown out and only
such transations made by the American and
English revisers some twenty years ago as were
approved by the Committee were authorized by
the House to be printed as marginal reading to
the King James version. Just here might add
that the Convention was truly democratic and
American, for while the whole House of Deputies
stood up to honor the Bishops when they came
over to House in body to visit us or sit with
us, just as we would honor the President of the
United States, still the Bishops and Clergy were
no robes or signs of distinction, and when q vote
was taken each vote was only and always tailed
as one, whether of Bishops, Clergy or Layman.
One of the finest experiments of the Convention
was the spirit of respect and liberation. The
rules governing debate not only most liberal
to the minority and also to members, but,
they do not show the least favortism to the more
able, and do not allow applause under any cir
cumstances This spirit was not only shown to
the Bishops and officers but to each and every
deputy even in the heights of the animate dis
cussions on the Huntington amendment and the
Marriage and Divorce Canon. The question
might arise insome minds which section of the
country was best or most ably represented.
We would say the East had the largest
delegation, that New York represented
the most wealth, that the West was
( most alive, although Pennsylvania, New York
and Massachusetts,, to say nothing of Rhode
Island and Maryland were not asleep. Pittsburg
and large heartedness were about evenly dis
tributed.
F Each diocese was allowed two pews, one for
/ the Clergy and one for the Laity, and it would
have been impossible for stranger to distinguish
southern, or northern or western delegation
by their looks or speech; they were all Americans
and all churchmen; some large but very quiet,
some small and noisy. 1t was one grand illu-
stration ofthe fact that the size and shape of a
persons mouth does not determine this quantity
and quality of his talk. Another grand thing
about the Convention were the Missionary meet
ings and the fact that no collection subscrip-
tion was taken at any of them. On the road out
q great many of the excursion trains stopped
over Sunday at Salt Lake City, and in the even
ing there was missionary mass meeting which
filled the big Salt Lake theatre to overhowing,
and although the Lord Bishop of Newcastle,
England, and several American Bishops spoke
there was no collection asked or taken, nor was
there any collection made at Mechanics Pavilion
when the House of Bishops and House of Depu-
ties with about 900 other people listened to the
ablest men in the Church. They might have
raised 100000 then and there, but they were
helping the surpliced choir of 500 voices sing
''The Churches one Foundation is Jesus Christ
her Lord"
San Francisco with her many high hills, steep
streets and mild climate is a fine, large wealthy
and busy place, well governed, but perhaps some
what dirty during the dry season. They have a
very fine park with ball grounds for men and
swings and other Fairgrounds for children. All
the coast towns OF California from San Francisco
south are well supplied with Spanish Catholic
Missions, some dating back 200 years, and San
Francisco itself has perhaps as many churches OF
all kinds as our Eastern towns, in proportion to
its size and like most large cities, the Episcopal
Church predominates. 1t was not always SO. In
1s49 when the gold fever was at its height and
the only law administered by Judge Lynch
forty men met in San Francisco and signed a
paper that they would stand by one another and
held religious services and send for a minister
They did so and the result OF their labors is the
largest congregation and finest Church building