The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-19
MORE DIVORCE RESOLUTIONS.
NEW PROPOSITIONS MADE AT
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
One Is to Try to Get State Legislatures to
Reduce Statutory Grounds on Which
DEGREES Are Glven-AnOther for
Commission to study the Question.

BosToN, Oct. 1S.-Three more resolutions
on the question Of the marriage of divorced
persons were introduced in the Episcopal
House of Deputies to-day, but they went
to the proper committees without debate.
A proposition came from the committee on
state of the church in the form of favora-
BILE report on a resolution recommending
that a Joint committee be appointed to
petition the Legislatures in the different
States and Territories to consider the great
curse of divorce" and to reduce the statutory
grounds on which divorce can be granted
Francis Lynde Stetson of New York
said such petition would be useless be-
cause no Legislature could be induced to
adopt a law unless the general convention
could agree what the law should be- The
matter was referred to the joint committee
on united action with other religious bodies
on question of marriage and divorce.
The Rev. Edward A. White OF New ark
presented an amendment to the divorce
canon providing not only for the so-called
rigorous" canon forbidding the remar-
rage of divorced persons. but adding also
these words:
"But this section is not to be considered
as the expression of an opinion by this
Church as to the Interpretation Of the ninth
verse Of the nineteenth chapter OF the
Gospel according to St. Matthew, nor as
pronouncing upon the Validity OF the re-
marriage OF the innocent party divorced
for the cause of adultery
The third resolution was that offered
by George Peabody OF Brooklyn, calling
for the appointment Of twelve members
from both houses to consider the entire
question and to report to the next general
convention 80 az to confer with other re-
ligious bodies to try to obtain some
uniform standard OF legislation on mar
rage and divorce.
The house considered at length the canon
providing for the establishment Of courts
of review. Upon motion of the Rev. Robert
Strange Of Richmond, the deputies adopted
the appointment OF a joint conference DOM.
mittee consisting Of five Bishops, five pres.
byters and five laymen, to consider the con-
dtions existing among the negro people
and that the mind of the Church be asoer-
tanned as to the needs of these people. One
feature of the resolution was that negro
Bishop be appointed for the missionary
districts in the South.
Some amusement was occasioned by the
introduction of a resolution by T. L. Ring
walt, of Omaha that Congress be petitioned
to erect a statue to Edmund Burke in this
city as memorial to the present conven-
ton, as Mr. Burke was foremost Church.
man of his day and friend of American
ipdcprudence. The resolution went to n
committee.
The Rev Robert B. Nelson of Davenport,
Ky, had referred to committee a pro-
p osal to strike out the rule which forbids
a clergyman to Use the burial service over
a suicide, an accommodated person or
unbaptized person.
The House Of Bishops to-day nominated
the following candidates for the Bishopric:
The Rev. Logan II. Roots, now missionary
at Hankow, China. to be Missionarv Bishop
of the district of Hankow; the Rev. franklin
Spencer Spalding, rector Of ST. Paul's
Church, Erie. Pa, to be Missionary Bishop
OF the dist riot OF Cuba. These nominations
will come up for approval in the House OF
IDENTITIES later.