The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-21

EFFORTS FOR AN AGREEMENT
ON THE DIVORCE QUESTION.
The Issue Made Special Order for
Today Before the Episcopal Con-
vention-Requests for Permission TO
Csc the Revised Version OF the b.
bic Refuscd-Bishop Potter's Re-
port on the Relation OF Capital and
Labor.

Boston, Mass. October 1s.-An at
tempt was made today by the COM
mittee on canons Of the Episcopal
house of deputies to arrange a COM
promise between that body and the
house of bishops. The bishops had
adopted an amendment forbidding the
remarriage of divorced persons, while
the deputies had declined to adopt
so rigid a provision, Notwithstanding
the fact that a majority of them took
stand similar TO that OF the house
Of bishops. The committee on canons
offered resolution compelling divorc-
ed persons seeking remarriage to wait
one year after the decree OF the court
has been issued before the solemniza-
ton Of the ceremony. BY this res
olution which referred to the innocent
person In a divorce for infidelity only,
it was hoped to secure at least a tenn
porary agreement between the two
forces. After some debate the divorce
issue was made a special order for to-
morrow.
The deputies devoted a large part
request from several dioceses for per-
mission to use the revised version OF
the Bible in churches. When the
house was divided the request was
refused by a majority Of both cleri-
cal and lay delegates. DR.. c. E.
Grammer, of Norfolk. Va. was among
those who spoke for the revised YER
sion.
T0I,-
proposed canon establishing courts of
review. The house concurred with
the bishops in appointing a joint
commission to consider the question
of instituting a system of suffrage
bishops.
In the house of bishops. Bishop
Henry G. Potter, of New York..
chairman of the standing committee
on the relations of capital and labor.
presented a lengthy report which
touched upon certain evils. The COM
mittee found and discussed the in
dustrial situation at great length.
The report says in part:
while We condemn the tyranny
and turbulence of the labor union and
call upon the law to preserve the lib
erty OF every citizen to employ whom
he will and to work for whom he
will. we deprecate the ~hasty temper
in which, condemning the errors of
the unions condemns at the same
time the whole movement with which
they are connected. The offences of
the union are as distinct from the
cause for which the organization OF
labor stands, as the inquisition is dis
tinct from the gospel.
Tn ho Of
an hostility for which there are Sc
rious reasons. we are convinced that
the organization Of labor is essential
to the we'll being of the working peo-
pie. Its purpose is to maintain such
standard of wages. hours and con-
ditions as shall afford every man an
opportunity to grow in mind and in
heart. Without organization the
standard cannot be maintained in the
midst of our present commercial con-
ditions.
1.-The employment of children in
factories and mills depresses wages,
destroys homes and deDreciates the
human stock. Whatever 4interferes
with the proper nurture and educa-
tion of a child contradicts the best
interests of the nation. We call, then
on Christian employers and on Chris
tian parents to endeavor after such
betterment of the local and general
laws as shall make the labor of chill
dren impossible in this Christian
country"
The bishops endorsed colored
work In the south and recommend
ed that larger appropriations be made
for it.
Bishop c. K. Nelson. of Georgia,
! spoke tonight at a meeting of the So
| ciety for the increase of the ministry