The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-29
Diocese of Episcopal Church
Decides 1t Is Inexpedient
CONVENTION is ENDED
Delegates and Advisory Board
Were Selected

at the present liIIle 10 ciId4l5C 1iiN --N-''N
of the church in this country from the
Protestant Episcopal, to the American
Catholic.
The committee appointed Wednesday
evening to discuss the matter reported
Yesterday unfavorably and the resolution
was passed at the time the report was
adopted. Rev. Crum. during the discus
sion. made strong speech against max
ing the change He said substantially as
fellows:
On the proposed change Of name Of
the Church Rev. DR. Krum, OF Grace
Church. Ottawa, said in part:
i have at home a very precious docu-
nent. Ii contains my family record for
many generations. It enables me to
trace my ancestors on the one side TO
Germany and on the other side to tn
French Hugenots, who found a refuge
from persecution in Holland. In the whole
line there has not been one whose name
has been stained. Why should 1 change
my name? If l change it what name
shall / take? Among the Smiths and
Jonescs and Browns there has been
their names.
why any more should our church
change its name? It's name exactly de
scribes it. it is Episcopal; it is protes-
tant. because it owes its very existence
as an individual church 10 the Protes-
1ant movement Of the 10th century,
ITO disown the title Protestant would
cut Us off from all the progress that has
been made in church and State for three
hundred years. Professionalism has made
England what it is today Catholicism
has made France what it is. Protestant
r. ism has made Germany what it is.
Catholicism has made Austria and Italy
what they are Professionalism has made
Scotland what it Is. Catholicism has
made Ireland what it is. Professionalism
has made this country what it is. Catho-
licism has made Spain what it is. and
with a single flap of one of its wings
the American Eagle beats down and
destroys the title OF Spain to the last
OF its possessions on this continent,
which for centuries had been victims of
its religious misrue
IF it were some little thing l would
not mind it. \ church up in Wisconsin
divi led over the question whether Adam
was all right when he was created and
efterward fell from grace or whether he
had been a skunk from the start If il
were mere academic distinction. like
that question Of Supra-laDsarian or
Sub-lapsarian. for the sake of peace
might favor it, Bat when YOU ask me
to disinherit myself from everything that
has been great and glorious i'm the past
and 10 make myself the heir at law Of
all the error and deceit and treachery
and faisehood that have been the shame
of Christianity in the past; of its perse-
cutions and burnings and stranglings,
and St Bartholomew nights; Of its Mariol-
itry and Papal infallibility; Of its infalii-
bic decree that Angelic orders and there
fore our orders are not valid. you ask
too much
Whether right or wrong the fact is
that the Church Of Rome has pre-empt-
ed the title Catholic and We cannot
adopt it without the result Of endless
confusion.
Some of us have had the consoling
hope that in our time the divisions in
the church might DC healed and the
prayer of our Lord for unity of his peo-
pie answered. If that is done it must
be aIons the alignment of Professionalism.
1t cannot be along that Of The body
whose head denies the validity Of our
pTic~tly orders at the outset.
md then look a. the splendid progrs IS
GU ohorch has made under its present
name To change that name would az
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'-." 'iii'" away
c'il'o2lN f'r an uhceitalhtN-
GeoigiauHa, the Duchess of Devon
shire aDoStat.zed and went over TO Rome.
Archbishop Land called her 10 account
ana asked for her reason, sbs sail
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ilet answer was peIteiNeu your grace
ah' q large Number or your clergy about
to start for Rome. and / thought | would
20 on ahead. for 7 dc~'t like to travel in
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my io' ''i' .-'0 soi's 70 iNoi-le III an
large company.
For some years the members of the
church have been considering the pro-
position To chan the name To the Amer
lean catholic q n. yea~ the delegates %
the convention OF each diocese were i'm
struc,ed to Nete on the matter and this
would be taken as the recommendation of
the dioccse- The general convention Of
the church meets next year in Boston and
the nnal action u be taken at that time.
Many OF the conventions have declared
against the change and il Is believed that
the name VIII remain the same for
number of years