The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-05
CANTERBURY
IN BOSTON
Primate Of All England
Warmly Welcomed in
the American Athens.
CONVENTION OPENED TODAY
One Hundred Bishops in the
Church Procession Dis
tinguished Delegates.

| BOSTON, Oct. 5. 1904. The Arch
bishop of Canterbury DR.. Davidson and
party arrived at the Back Bay station
at 2.45 p. NJ. yesterday. The Arch
bishop comes to attend the Triennial
General Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of America. which as
sembled in Emanuel Church today; a
conclave which leading bishops and lay
delegates anticipate will be the most i'm
portant in results ever held in this coun-
| try.
The special train conveying the Pri-
mate of all England, J. Pierpont Morgan
and their party left the Grand Central
Station, New York. at $50 A. NJ. Mon
| day Necessarily, carrying such passen-
gers. the train reached Providence a lit
tie ahead Of time Nor was it late at
Boston. The Right Rev. William Law
| renee. Bishop of Massachusetts, Richard
/ II. Dana, chairman Of the committee on
arrangements, and others met the tram
Archbishop and Mrs. Davidson will be
/ Archbishop Lawrence's guests at his
residence, No. 10 Commonwealth ave-
nue.. Mr.. Morgan and those who accom-
panied him went to j. Montgomery
Seeor's fine house, Arlington street and
| Commonwealth avenue.
| About two-thirds of the bishops cler-
| gymen and lay delegates to the conyen-
ton had arrived last night. Anory Law
renee, of this city, gave dinner to the
Archbishop Of Canterbury and forty
guests at the Tuilleries~in the evening.
Before the opening session, a service was
held in Trinity Church with nearly one
hundred bishops in the. procession. Bis
hop Doane, Of Albany, n. Y, preached
4 at the service.
The convention will chose several new
bishops. as the questions of first import
ance to be acted on is that Of changing
the divorce canon to prevent the religious
marriage of any person whose once life
1 partner is still living.
/ Among the delegates are Chief Justice
/ Fuller. United States Supreme Court;
Rev. Dr. Huntington, Rev. ?. Morgan
Dix, Rev. DR.. J Lewis Parks, Rev. Dr.
NJ. w. Grosvenor William Bayard CUT
ting, New York. George Foster Pea
body, Brooklyn; Wayne Macveagh, Of
Philadelphia; George Gordon King, Of
Newport, R. I.
j The Canadian delegation includes
4 Right Rev. Charles Hamilton, Bishop OF
Ottawa. Right Rev. James Carmichael,
Bishop Coadjutor of Montreal; Hon. 5.
II. Blake and Hon. J. A. Worrell. Of To-
ronto; Rev. Jshn De soyres' Rev " 9.
Raymond and Rev. G. F. Scovil, Of ST.
John. n. B. While the Canadians will
4 attend the sessions, services and recep-
tions during the convention, they will
not vote in either the House of Bishops
u or House of Deputies. {.
The archbishop is to address q mis-
sionary meeting of the Woman's Auxil-
iarT of the Board of Missions III fremont
Temple tomorrow afternoon andw III also
speak at a rallysto bejheld under the aus
piees of the Board Of Missions on the. eve
ming of Oct. 10. Next Friday evening he
is to address meeting of Harvard stu
dents at Sanders's Theatre, Caplbridge,
and next Sunday will preach at Trinity
Church. The supply of tickets issued for
these events became exhausted some
time agde
4 The public has been invited to attend
7 reception to the archbishop at Faneuil
Hall, at noon, Friday, and for this func-
I tion no tickets win be required. Major
4 Henry L. Higginson. will preside at the
reception, and there will be several short
addresses, to which DR.. Davidson viii
reply.
The Catholic Club, Of Massachusetts,
an organization of ritualistic clergymen,
met yesterday and arranged for the re-
ception of friends of the club from other
States.
The first national Organization afiill-
ated with the Episcopal Church to meet
III connection with the convention was
the Guild Of st. Barnabas for Nurses.
Bishop Right Rev. Charles r. Brent, OF
the Philippine Islands, delivered ser
mon to the national council Of tia guild
at the Church of the Advent.
Ala ~ systh Hlsn.
You had y high old time IN Eu-
rope!''
sYes,s replied the returned tourist;