Evening star., 1903-10-24
RELATIONS TO ROME
Defined by All-American
Episcopal Bishops.
THE RESOLU TIONS
ADOPTED AT CLOSING SESSION OF
CONFERENCE.
Church Attitude Toward Protestant
Communions Outlined-The Question
of Divorce and Remarriage.

| The last of the secret sessions of the ALL
American Conference of Bishops of the
| Episcopal Church. at the Pro-Cathedral,
| this afternoon was one of the most import
ant held during the week.
| After adjournment the bishops of the
| United States held a session, at which af-
| fairs of interest to the Episcopal Church
| In this country were considered. After
luncheon the bishops enjoyed a drive in
| carriages about the city, the particular
place of interest being the cathedral
grounds on the Tenleytown road.
| The press committee gave out the follow
ing official statement of the deliberation of
| the conference at This forenoon's session:
| ION Saturday morning papers were read
| by the bishop of New York, DR.. Henry C.
| Potter. and the bishop coadjutor of
| southern Ohio, DIR. Boyd Vincent, on The
| Incubation of Political and Commercial
| Morality and the Maintenance of High
| Ideals
'Afterward the following resolution was
| unanimously adopted by the conference:
| Resolved, That it be commended to all
| bishops and other clergy, first, to familiar
| iZe themselves with those great political
| and economic questions which today in all
| lands are dividing men, md then to point
| out how their solution can be found, not
so much in organization or legislation as in
| the application to daily life of the princi-
| pies and the example of Jesus Christ
| The following resolutions were also
| adopted, having been recommended by COM
| mittecs appointed after the reading and
discussion of papers in earlier sessions of
| the conference concerning the attitude of
| the Episcopal Church toward churches sub
| ject to the Roman obedience:
Attitude Toward Roman Church.
| The bishops of the Anglican COM
munion in America, who are assembled in
| the all-American conference of bishops at
| Washington, have considered, among many
| important matters, the subject of it's re-
| lation ana attitude toward the churches of
| the Roman obedience.
| Assured of our rights and RESPONSE
| hilities a true and living part of the
| holy Catholic church. with unbroken sue
| cession and authority from our head
| through His first apostles, we feel that our
| attitude should be that of clear and out
| spoken consciousness of our Catholcity
alike in the maintenance of the ancient
creeds and in our possession of apostolic
| order.
| That while no witness can be borne
| for truth without antagonizing error,
| whether of excess defect. this earnest
contention for the faith once delivered to
the saints should be with unlimited charity
| to the Roman Catholic clergy and people,
| rather in the spirit of maintenance, de-
| fense ard proof, than of controversy and
| attack.
THAT the right of this church to enter
| countries where there churches subject
| to the Roman obedience, such as the Phil
| ippines, Porto Rico and Honolulu, Cuba,
Mexico and Brazil. rests partly on the
| ceSSity of m1niStering to it's own people in
| these countries, and partly on the duty to
give the privileges of the church to Chris
| tian people deprived of them unless they
| submit to unlawful terms of communion
| That we should be more ready and out
| spoken than we have been in teaching our
| young people in our congregations to the
! important matters on which there is differ
hat 10
selves. and in guarding them against being
misled.
That we most earnestly urge that in
the case of marriages between members OF
our own church and those of the Roman
church, our own members should be warned
by no means to promise, they will be
asked to do, that their children shall be-
brought up in the faith and worship Of the
| Roman church.
Protestant Communions.
1.-THE attitude eef the Episcopal Church
toward the PROTESTANT communions around
her was set forth in the following resolu-
ton adopted by the conference:
Resolved the bishops present in the all
American conference held in the city of
| Washington having had under discussion
the atttude}of the church to which they be-
long toward, the Protestant communions
around them have been aroused anew to the
manifold evils ofit that unhappy condition of
disunion within the church Of Christ with
which we are eScFy Wnere confronted To-Day.
"'While aEdenily desiring the co-opera-
ton of all Protestant communions. yet hav-
ing regard to The paper read before US by
the bishop-co -coadjator of Montreal, as to the
points of argument and disagreement (but
especially the former), between our Presby-
terian and Methodist brothers and our
selves, we would respectfully suggest to the
general convention of the United States, the
general synod of Canada and the synod Of
the West Indies the advisability of consti-
| tuting committees to lay before the general
assembly and the general conference the
contents of that paper, and to invite them
to take such other steps as to them may be
deemed best to draw the attention of the
several congregations to them.
1--WE would also affectionately commend
this whole most grave subject anew to the
consideration of these Protestant COM
munions and ask them t. sder it Sc
riously with a view to At inter-
communion and possible g acm and
u.s. through the compoSr p some or
the differences and the re 6nition that
Others do not constitute sufficient reasons
for creating or continuing rupture of that
visible unity of the church for which our
| Lord Jesus Christ prayed.
| "'We are very thankful to believe that
notwithstanding differences between Chris