New-York tribune., 1904-10-20
A DIVORCE COMPROMISE.
EpiscopaIians VIII Seek to Effect
One TO-day.

Boston. Oct 19-An attempt was made TODAY nv
the committee canons OF the Episcopal House
OF Deputies TO arrange a compromise between that
body and the House Of Bishops The bishops had
adopted amendment forbidding the reuarrisre
OF divorced persons. while the deputies had declined
TO adopt so rigid provision Notwithstanding the
fact that majority Of them took a stand similar
to that Of the House Of Bishops The committee
on canons offered a resolution compelling divorced
persons seeking remarriage to wait one year after
the decree Of the court had been issued before the
solemnization OF the ceremony BY this resolution
which referred to the innocent person in divorce
for infdeity only. il was hoped to secure at least
a temporary agreement between the two forces
After debate the divorce issue was made a
special order for tomorrow.
The deputies devoted large part OF the day TO
the consideration OF request from several diocess
for permission TO use the revised version of the
Bible in churches When the house was divided the
request refused by a majority of both clerical
and lay delegates.
In the House of Bishops. Bishop Potter Of New
York. chairman of the standing committee on the
relations Of capital and labor presented long
port which touched upon certain evils the COM
mittee found. and discussed the industrial situation
at great length The report said in part:
We are agreed in the conviction that the causes
or the violence or the last three in Penusyl-
economical as moral The strike commonly begins
IN slstrust The reason at the heart Of it is that
the master has as little confidence IN the good will
OF the men as the men have in the good faith of
Ine master Where diStruSt and antagOniSm
Church is concerned, except conversion. They
side. against prejudice and passion. and on the
other side against covetousness and the sins which
proceed from the inordinaJe love of riches.
We call attention 10 the analogy between certain
present Of botI I'M oc anu Ae ed IIfce5 ZEN past or
Thus the employers blacklist corresponds 10 the
excommunication- The lockout and the strike
Ia3 are 3I L the same nature The question Of The
Men whose Puritan ancestors stroye TO maintain a
5o nose PtlvIHses sho9id nelohs only 70 mem
the struggle of their brethren maintain a shop
IN which no man shall serve except a member Of
While. then we condemn the tyranny and tur-
bulence of the labor union and call upon the law
TO preserve the liberty of every citizen to employ
whom he will and TO work for whom he will we
deprecate the hasty temper which in condemning
the errors of the unions, condemns at the same
time the whole movement with which they are con
nected. The offences OF the union distinct
from the cause for which the Orga uzation of labor
Gospel '''' i"4''S''O" Is u'9''''' i'0'" 'n9
The report was signed by Henry c. Potter. Will
lam Lawrence. Charles P. Anderson, r H. McFim,
George NJ Hodges. c. D. Williams Samuel Mather
and Jacob Riis. 1t accepted.
At the late afternoon session Of the House Of
Deputies the debate the proposal TO permit the
use in churches Of the revised version of the Bible
was continued. The proposition defended by
the Rev. f L. Parsons. of San Mqteo; Cal; DR., G
Mcconnell, of New-Orleans and others spoke in op-
revisced version was lost. the clergy in twenty
three dioCeses and laty in sixteen voting in favor
of the motion. while the clergy in thirtyOne and lay
delegates in thirtytwo dOceses declared against it,
| The Broad Church element as a rule voted in the
affirmative, while all the High Church and
many OF the Low Church school voted against the
revised version.
The bishops indorsed coIored work in the South.
and recommended that larger appropriations be
made for II.
a meeting Of the Society for the Increase of the
Ministry was held at ST. Pauls Church tonight.
Bishops Brewster, of Connecticut; Burgess. of Long
Island and Nelson of Georgia, and Joseph Packard,
of Baltimore, among the speakers
Twenty-Five bishops. twenty-five other Clergymen
and fifty lay delegates attended concert at the
Sailors Home in CharlestOwn tonight.