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

the pioneer Protestant church on the Pacific
| coast.
On another hill opposite, and about half way
through the Park is the Prayerbook Cross where
in 1877 Sir Francis Drake is supposed to have
| held the first Prayerbook service in America. If
| the Episcopal Church maintain its lead in
San Francisco and convert the 10000 Cinnamon
as well as her foreigners from all parts of the
world from their erroneous ideas about God and
! teach them TO regard God Almighty, merci
| full and just Father, and all men and nations as
their brothers in Gods sight, then the Church
will not need to remodel her name so that men
will better understood her. All the world will
acknowledge her to be the teacher and servant of
| the living God.
Right or wrong, the Convention will
be known as much for what it refused to do
as what il did. 1t refused to withhold Baptism,
| Confirmation, marriage and the Lords Snpper
! from divorced persons when the Church is salts
fled that they the innocent parties to divorces
! granted for adultery 1t refused to allow Bishops
to exercise spiritual oversight over congregations
| which did not use the American Prayerbook. 1t
| refused to elect Bishop for Foreign Missions
until satisfied that he was American citizen.
1t refused to sanction at this time the printing of
any new translation of the Bible. II refused to
known as high and low churchmen and it refused
to allow the State of Illinois extra Bishop un-
less the churches OF that State would guarantee
all his expenses. On the other hand it adopted
several important amendments to the Consti-
tuition and Canons allowing the House of Bishops
to select any member of their House to act as
presiding Bishop for definite term OF years, his
election to be subject to the approval of the House
of Deputies.
1t raised the acceptable age Of Deaconesses from
twenty-five to thirty years. accepted as American
territory and elected Bishops for Porto Rico
Hawaii and the PHILIPPINE Islands.
The Committee on translations of the Bible, on
changing the name of the Church, on the Forma-
tion of Provinces and on Amendments to the
Constitution were all continued, to report at the
next meeting which will be held in Boston in
1904.
The question on Marriage and Divorce was
most happily referred to joint committee with
instructions to meet with duly appointed com
mittees from the other religious bodies and with
State Legislatures for the purpose of agreeing on
u uniform law for all states and churches. Re-
cognizing the Churches great duty to ali classes
and conditions of men, the Convention also ap-
pointed special joint Standing Committee from
9th Houses to consider the subject of the rela-
lions CT Capltal ana lIRbOr ana the uuty OF the
Church to all parties in labor troubles. First
last and all the time nights and Sundays there
Mission and Labor and Sunday school
meetings. Our own Bishop Whitehead was
chairman at large meeting at Oakland and
every church in the City and near by towns had
a number of Bishops and prominent clergymen
well as laymen at their various services, not
for the purpose of raising money, bu. to stir up
each other and the people to realize that the
church existed solely and only to act as messen-
ger, bearing the news of the comfortable gospel
of Christ and teaching thai true duty to man
cannot exist when duty to God is neglected and
that neglect and wrong actions surely drift into
wrong thinking. With these and many other
things to her credit one of the largest attended
and most earnest Conventions in the United
States adjourned.
Ofcourse there were receptions and suppers
Graduates of different colleges had an evening to
themselves and delegations of the various dio-
ceses arranged to have dinner together at some
hotels inviting their Bishop to join them. Then
there was the general reception to all Church
people and their friends at the Hopkins Institute
Building and the free trip around the Bay on q
Government tug, and it would be hardly fair not
to mention DR.. Saml. Hart, Secretary of House of
Bishops and DR.. c. L, Hutchins, Editor of the
Church Hymnal and Secretary OF House of
Deputies, both of whom have long served many
Conventions in these capacities.