Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-18
EpiscopaIians Adopt the
Amendment to Canon.
Forbids the Re-Marriage Of Any
Divorced Person.
Action Of the Bishops Was Not Unex'
pected.

marriage and divorce, fOrbidding the
re-marriage of any divorced person.
The amendment was substantially the
same as that which was rejected by the
House of Deputies on Friday last. The
action of the bishops was not unex-
pected, as the sentiment of that body
was well known. A conference of com.
mittees representing the bishops ana
deputies will be held to consider the
disagreement, but leading clergymen do
rot anticipate that the deputies will
reced.. from their vote of last week.
In the House of DEPUTIES, today,
proposed canon providing court OF
review. to which appeals may be taken
from diocesan courts, was reported,
ana the main body of it was adopted,
bat several provisions went over until
tomorrow Among those was one
grouping the diCceses and missionary
districts into seven provinces, each
province to have a court of its own.
4 proposal to establish a court of ap-
peals. sort of supreme coGrt. to be
composed of the bishops of the church,
was referred to the next convention.
Boston. Oct 1.-THE business ses-
sions of the Episcopal general conven-
ton were resumed at Emmanuel
church and both the House of Bishops
and House of Deputies took up new
topics on the order paper.
The woman's auxiliary of the board
of Missions held missionary confer
ence, this forenoon, in Pierce hall.
bishops James Morrison of Duluth,
Mimi: Robert A. Gibson of Virginia,
ard Jlnius NJ. Horner of Ashville, N.
g. We're among the speakers.
The attendance was light at the
early proceedings in the House of
Deputies. Rev. VIM Grosvenor of New
York, in behalf of special committee
appointed to consider resolutions con-
deemning lynching presented by Gen.
j. H. Statzenburg of Indianapolis, re-
| ported that as the church stood for law
and order at all times. action on the
resolutions was not necessary but
Gen. Stotzenburg. dissenting, read a
| lengthy report and the whole matter
was placed on the calendar.
| Several resolutions seeking to throw
| additional safeguards around the re-
marriage of the innocent person in a
divorce case for infdeiity We're Offered.
They We're referred to the committee
on canons.
The house adopted a resolution pre-
| scented by Rev. DIR. James r. Winches-
| ter of ST. Louis, requesting the House
of Bishops to draw up a special prayer
for the sick. wounded and dying Of the
Japanese and Russian armies, and for
the restoration of peace between Rus
STA and Japan.
A committee appointed in 1898 and con-
tinued in 1901 to consider the question
of establishing courts of review and APP
peal whereby an appeal may be carried
to a higher body than a diocesan board.
sui mitted n lengthy report recommending
THAI the dioceses and missionary districts
of the country be divided into seven judi
cial departments with court of review
consisting of a bishop, three presbyters
l and three lay communicates: also that a
court Of appeals consisting of all the
bishops of the church be established for
the purpose of hearing appeals from the
court of review upon questions of doc
| trine faith and worship. The report pro-
vides also that should the church adopt
a system whereby the dioceses and mis-
sionary districts should be grouped into
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each new district. each province shall
constitute judicial department and have
Il separate court of review.
The section of the report constituting
the bishops a court of appeal was re-
ferred to the next convention. The house
considered that part providing for courts
of review.
Rev S. S. Moore of Parkersburg, w.
Va, attempted to have the proposition
to establish courts of review laid over
until the next convention, but his efforts
were unsuccessful. The sections in the
proposed canon were considered sepa-
rately and little progress was made dur
ing the forenoon.
The court of review system was at
tackled by Rev. DR.. c. f. Grammer of
Norfolk Va, in lengthy address. He
considered that such courts were not
necessary.
Rev. DR.. Davenport in reply cited
several instances where much mental
suffering could have been prevented
had there been courts of review. One
priest he had known of, he said, had
been convicted on false evidence and
as there was no court of last resort
the adverse decision stood. The man
eventually ended his life by taking an
overdose of chloroform.
When an attempt was made to ad-
journ after 1 o'clock, a discussion de-
veloped over points or order and in
one instance delegate from southern
Virginia appealed from the decision of
the chair. The chair was sustained
and Notwithstanding numerous OBJ
structions which were placed in its
way a section of the proposed canon
was adopted, thus committing the
house to the acceptance of the new
law establishing courts of review.
At the session of the House of Bish-
ops message Of greeting was re-
ceived from the Anglican synod of
Canada which is in session at Montreal.
The bishops placed Guam and other
islands near the Philippines within the
jurisdiction of the bishop of that dis
trict and several islands nearer Hawaii
We're given over to the bishops of Hon.
olulu. The House of Bishops decided
to make arrangements for the care Of
churches on the isthmus Of Panama
1t is thought that the bishop of Hon
duras. who belongs to the English