The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-07
English Prinate Delivers FoTci- bIt Address in Boston,
DIVORCE QUESTION COMES UP
Address of the Archbishop Was Made Before Joint Session of House of Bishops and House of
 Deputies.

Boston, October 6-The archbishop of Canterbury, speaking before joint ses- sion of the house of bishops and house of deputies of the episcopal church at Emmanuel church today, delivered mes sage to the American body in which he urged that the church take steps to guard the religious life of the home.
 The archbishop's address was forcibly delivered.
 At today's session of the house of dep uties several resolutions to make more stringent the canon on the remarriage of divorced persons were presented. One resolution was to prohibit the remarriage of a person during the life of former partner. The whole question will come up later.
 After reporting against a change in the legal name of the church at this time, the committee appointed by the last con- vention to consider the matter was dis charged
 An attempt was made by I. Cameron Buxton of Winston, N. C., to present resolution deploring the action of Bishop Potter of New York in participating at the opening of the subway tavern in New York city, but the resolution was ruled out of order
 J. H. Stotzenberg, of New Albany, Ind, introduced resolution condemning lynching. A number of southern dele gates voted to table the resolution. but eventually it was referred to q special committee.
 At noon the house of bishops adjourned and escorted the archbishop of Canter- bury into the chamber of the house of deputies, where the archbishop addressed the combined bodies. He said:
 The Archbishop's Words.
 q come to tell you of the absorbing interest with which we in England watch your gathering strength, your con stantly increasing use of the apparently boundless opportunities which are multi plying daily to your hands and our fel- lowing in your prayers for the spirit of wisdom and understanding, of council and of strength. It is not for nothing that l have been in touch during the last few weeks with a daily succession of your foremost men and have learned so much about the things which are at issue.
 Your problems are not all of them our problems. of some of yours, and especial ly of some which concern the southern states. we have no experience whatever. Of course, we have ample Knowledge but under conditions so different rom vour own as to render the comparison academic rather than practically service able Anyhow, this at least Is certain that beneath them all we find an un- deriving element. which Is absolutely common to us both. an atmospheric strat- um, peculiar I think to religious lire and energy, wherein we have our or ganisms, perplexing and even banefuL as well as organisms healthful and ac- tive for good.
 Subvert "End" to Means"
 Among them is the temptation com mon to ecclesiastics, lay and clergieal III every cline and in every century the temptation to give means rather than ends the main place in our thoughts the temptation to lose the true proportion between large matters and small.
 "And on the other hand i. is in that same atmosphere, happily common to us all that we find the invlgorating and } healthful forces on which we can thank fully rely. the high enthusiasm ana the
 pure resolves which spring from our definite and unswerving hold on the church creed I suppose il is terse to say that the business of any convention or counsel of the church consists largely in their asserting their superiority or the end over the 'means-in f1rmiy subordinating machinery to that whlch machinery is intended to produce-ano III readjusting and adopting that machinery so as to insure what we are strlNlhs ar ter. shall be really attained, and that neitber inside nor outside our walls shall there be any doubt as to what our main purpose is
 Identical on Either Side.
 And that purpose large and deep and high. is surely iden--cal on which sver side of the ocean the work of the field lies. Naturally we want by all means to make certain thGl our church system and our church rules and eanons, and our church services loyal and orthodox are coherent and straightforward, ars reverent and helpful to those for whose
 good they are devised and that our man
 ner of worship is of the sort to evoke thu
 very best that man can offer. But a
 this iuncture. as it seems to me. thu
 paramount necessity of all is that whicl concerns the family and the home, tn t common work day life, that is of tn christian people at large
 q ''It would be vain to ignore the warn
 ing voices which tell us, on either sid of the case of a certain decadence in tn
 
 home-a falling off, that Is, in the yer 8 force which gives it's distinctive impress 4 sion and ts distinctive power to rnuc o of our grandsre's life If that be true e 1t surely behooves every gathering O
 churchmen to consider well what the e can do to safeguard the men and women @ and above all, the church of America an r England, from peril whose gravity 1t ] f impossible to over-estimate, because l . affects the very foundation of our chris
 tian life. "Be 1t ours, be 1t yours when an ecciesi e astical assembly, big or little, meets TO
 high delib aration and executive resolve f to ourselves to estimate and deal witi
 the abiding level of our common lire n As One Identity. n People speak sometimes or the 'ues : and links which unite our church ID f England with yours in the United states n But are the words appropriate? f We are learning l hope, to regard th' . relationship, in all essential things, al = one of identity rather than as fllial ol
 fraternal. Our spiritual ancestry dowr n to very recent days is absolutely one n Our power of mutual society, help ane
 comfort, has been proved and proved