The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-05-08
Committeeman in Report to Bos.
ton Convention Will Say Pres
emf Change Is Inexpedient.
EsNY DESIRE ALTERATION.
Bishop futile and Six Others,
However, Maintain That Pres
ent Title Is No Hind
rance to Progress.

Boston. May THE committee of fftecr
ryhich was appointed by the National Tri-
ennial Convention OF the Episcopal Churc.
at Sal Francisco in 1901 70 consider The
advisability of changing the legal name
of the denomination has prepared an ex.
tended report. in which the opinion is ex-
pressed that any change at this time is
inexpedient.
The report Is to be submitted to the
general convention. which will assemble in
this city next October. The committee will
ask to be discharged from the further con-
sideration of the subject.
The report is signed by all fifteen men,
bers of the committee. although three ap-
pendices. one signed by seven members. a
second signed by five. and a third BY one.
are attached; The second appendix rec
ommends that the words Protestant Epis-
capfi on the title page OF the book Of COM
NOR prayer be stricken OF.
Although. officially. party lines were not
drawn In the investigation of the senti-
ment In all of the seventy-eight dioceses
and missionary districts. a change was
generally favored by the h~igh-church par
y. and with one or two exceptions the
committee. while agreeing on the report
itseif. divided on the supplementary state
ment.
ORIGIN OF DEBATE.
AT the San Francisco convention the do.
eeSe OF presented a memorial
requesting that the name Protestant
episcopal Church" be changed 10 that of
The American Catholic Church in the Uni
ted states" The request was. not passed
upon directly by the convention. hut a
committee Of five Bishops. 1--WE priests and
Sne mind Of the church and report to the
Boston convention.
Inc first appendix to the report is
sour, Geors sng ~ P Pe1eeki s p ~ M. Of Mis- Mis-
E1hia and David H. Greer Of New York
yne reverend s. s. Moore of Parkersburg,
Ros,o.i rglnia; Arthur J. {. Sowden o.
Packard. ~
They observe that the present name can
hardly be considered as a hindrance 10
growth. since all growth has been in CON.
necuon with the name. With respect TO |
me objection that the catholic character |
other catholic commuters by the name.
It l. said: Our relations with the Old
Catnolcs have not been strained by rea-
son OF the title and In view of the LATE 4
Pope's denial of the validity of our orders
mere change of name is not likely to
change the attitude of the See Of Rome to-
ward u.s."
EXPRESS DISSATISFACTION.
oSNSAA4 dRpcnulA Is signed hy L
Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead of Pittsburg.
NE Reverend George McClelIand Fisk. D.
%, OF Providence: Bishop Coadjutor-elect
or Springfield. the Reverend g. Talbot
Rogers of ~Fond-du-Lac, Wis; w. L
Morthouse Of Milwaukee and Daniel n
Lyman. They say:
The indications shown are most sbund-
~ mat the majority of our Bishops,
nfer9y and iaity are pronouncedly dissat-
1snea with our present title. and many
Spply to Ii more or less deroea tory al
It is perceived that IT is a monu-
ment OF division and perpetuates memo
rles of which all earnest Christian people
would gladly rid themselves In the Chris
tan world. 1t Is a wall OF separation on
the one hand against our Roman brethren
and on the other dif~ferentiates us from the
initiating that we must forever be measure
Ing our longitude from the Pope of Rome
as the meridian and our polity be made
Of our fellow Christians at every mention
Of the name"
The statement concludes with the suR-
sss.1n mat the Boston convention enact
ant Episcopal shall be eliminated from
the ute page of the prayer-book until
~ tune as the people can be brought
70 favor a suitable legal designation.
The third statement. which is brief, is
signed by the Reverend John II. Egar of
e zone, y; =. and suggests that the name
United States of America" The two re- |
naming members of the committee, Bish-
DDS john Scarborough of New Jersey and
lions. ~
In New England the diocese of New
was the only one to vote for
n Immediate change. although the clergy \
1f Vermont expressed a similar opinion
the laity favored n correction at some |
lsture time. The large Eastern dioceses
sat, but the high-church stronehclds of
West held opposite views