Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-06

| Boston. oct. 5-Trclltts from five
| continents ana from distant islands of
! tie sca. representatives, of the .trgli-
! can communion throughout thc world
F! holurnd tie Episcopal chulch in th.
| TnitCi States by participating in tin"
| opening cel c"lorics OF the tri"nuial
: GCprl-t conventions in this city.
, Wctl. .es,i:iy F'or TIE first time III
ecclesiastical History tn occupant o,
! the c'Fiir Of It. Augustine, the ArCh-
| bishop Of Carte bury. rrimat" of all
| ENGLAND ard metropolitan WAS pres
! cut at !; formal :ls +rmi.ly Of the Amer
| lean Episcorli Epl,. lie w"s received
With Ill n, donors ,I"o lis raf'; rEG
as the guest of tn" Amer ican church
F.; was accorded 4 Ecnrtv welcome by
| foursroic bishops Of domestic dio-
( ccsrs.
The 1onvcntion is REGARDED rs The
! }lost important Yer t.Id by the Eris-
! on!p"l 4, nnniI.at'or in View Of tho
F, large Volu,le Of pressing business
whic!! viii come before it for consd-
or.It;"n. Tho proporcj Legislation en-
ht'cr questions of mor3l reform. al
, tciltI"ns in tic cccIt tSilsticnl dennmI-
o" IT,. chu ch itself
The hnuSe OF tIshors .nd the house
ot drnut;cs. the legislative bodies, will
d..rntc three weeks to the consideration.
~ business. ana on several topics. such
as TIE movement to prevent the re-
| intiriIc, hy the clergy Of Il divorced
'c,Sol while the former partncr is
living, ana the demand from certain
Glr'rt"rS to omit the word "Protcstant"
; from The churrh's iey;.l title. The
III 't"st"nt Episcopal Church in TIL"
'nitrl St@tes" Il protracted discussion
il anticipated.
y proposal to group the dioceSes into
provinces With :. senior bishop of pri-
mrte at the head of each proposed dis
trt,t ami i plan to have Il final court
NJ review established for the pur! ose
~ Fearing @pleaIs from diocesan
'p'lIt.; will also be warmly debated.
Miss oas at home and abroad will form
.tn rther live subject for consideration.
both Dy the convention itself and by
several specially arranged missionary
UleS meetings, at several of which the
Archbishop of Canterbury and promi-
nent Americans will speak.
The features nf Wednesday We're the
presence NJ tho English primate.
procession of diG1itHres which formed
The most imposing spectacle ever seen
in the Episcopal church in this country.
ana a sermon delivered at the opening
service in Trinity church from the
unlpit of Phillips Brooks. by the RI.
Rev. william CrosweIl Doane. d. d..
Ii. d. bishop Of Albany y. Y.
Rishcp Doane's discourse Gealt with
the visions of Christendom. He refer
red 20 the barriers which separate thu
Anglican cnurch-il church totl! Catho- |
Iic and Protestant-from the other de-
nominations and considered how the |
barriers might be eliminated in some
6cerea He thought that m ATTEMPT \
sro,ld be made to find the starting H
MONT Of disagreement and thus be in a 1
ositirn to reach better understand Il
ing with the church of Rome and the
arious Protestant bodies Bishop
noane added that the recognition Of
,,,nal supremacy was impossible but
.toreh, that the church might readily i
aooo1,ize the primacy of the bishop
- pome on account Of the antiquity
- the Roman See. His sermon was a
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