The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-10
.EPISCOPALIANS HOLD
 GREAT MASS MEETING
UNFOLDING OF THE sANorI1Y
 OF THE MARRIAGE FOND.


 Bishop DOnne Declares He Think. Time
 Has Arrived When His Own Church
 should Deal with the Question of Re
 marriage-DiHerence Between Mar
 rIage Canon of English Church and
 Church in This Country.
 Boston. oct. s.-Great crowds went to Trinity church to-day to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury preach, and to the Church of the Advent. where mass meeting in the interest of uphold ing the sanctity of the marriage bond was addressed by several well-known leaders in the Episcopal church. At both places the crowds were so large that the doors had to be closed some time before the opening of the services. At Trinity many of the deputies at- tending the general convention were ad- mitted through a private entrance and furnished with seats which had been reserved for them.
 At the Church of the Advent this af ternoon Rt. Rev. William croswelf Doane, D. D., bishop of Albany, deliv- cred an address and introduced the speakers who followed.
 1 Bishop Doane is chairman of the in- terdenominational committee Of church. es which is endavoring to secure con- persons who have been divorced. HIS report was made few days ago to ths Episcopal convention. Tn his address to-day the Bishop said in part:
 T think that the time has arrived when my own church should deal with the question concerning remarriage. Ai- though the Church of England does not permit the remarriage of persons who have been divorced, the Episcopal church of this country allows the mar riage of the innocent person in a case Of infidelity. Many of our clergymen decline to marry any person divirced for any cause and an attempt is be- ! ing made at the present convention to have their views embodied in canon which shall displace the present one.
 Bishop Doane then quoted from the marriage ritual of the prayer book to show that nothing but death could sew Ter those who have been united in holy l1natrimony, and continued: T think it lis time that the canons of the church Iagreed with the prayer book.1
 Rt. Rev. David + Greer, bishop CO., adjutor of New York, said 1t was not lonly the duty of society but of the offi- icers of the Christian church to preserve lthe sanctity of the home and keep 1t lpure and inviolate,
 The last speaker, Chief Justice J. H. Stiness, of Rhode Island, thought that if man abused his wife there was no treason why she should not have a sep- 1 aration. Many of the states had sep- |aration laws. But he said, 1t is not this phase of the question that is bring ling disgrace upon the country. Not lone case in fifty is an application for lseparate maintenance, but nearly alI leases of domestic difficulty are for ab- lsolute divorce, many of them brought |so that the applicants can marry Eagain." The chief justice laid empha- Isis on the grave dangers which com front the coming generations as q re- Esult of the present day system of di- Evorce
 The pulpits of the Episcopal churches lin Eastern Massachusetts were filled to-day by the bishops and other leading preachers. Bishop Potter of New York preached at St. Papl's, this city, Rt. 1 Rev. William Boyd Carpenter Lord sl Bishop of Ripon, at Appleton chapel Harvard college; Bishop Charles c. Grafton of Fond du Lac at St. Johns, Roxbury, and Rt. Rev. John PervciaI, Lord Bishop of Hereford, at the Church of the Messiah, this city.
 l HENRY E. SIMMONS WANTED.