New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-29
TEXT OF RESOLUTIONS,
The resolutions were as follows:

which surround business mans career, ana are
ate and solemn warning against me haseg TO Og
rich, which often leads men into snare anu
Resolved, That the Church of the Living God
vention cannot afford to pass unnoticed the reveal
ton being made in the daily NEWSPAPERS rs, 80 in
business world constituting a most discouraging
evidence of moral iazity and bad example among
those from whom the Church and the nation nave
Resoived. 4SSt this nvention proclaims anew
that word Of God, which says; :, - found
1T is required Of steward that ne DC Iou'iu
Resolved. That no talent for high fnance. no
useful service to the eQIl5!I3uSy, he car
to the Church or TO OBJECTS OF pI<llli ~
for the rights Of others or disregard OF Ile l-es
Resolved That commerce languishes in the de-
gree and dies the extent. that men cannot trust
ane another. and that this CONVENTION conmenes 10
business the exercise OF that exact ana scrupGtoaS7
fidelity in business which IS not only me esAflal
foundation Of prosperity IN every community ~.
Of f7o AfI7ie6fV Cod and viii be indicated and
warded surely in the due operation or his naturs4
and irresistible laws
Part of the routine business had to be done over
because of complication in the laws governing the
conventions discovered by George zabrlskle Blsnop
Greer had presided at the morning session. as ne
did at one session of last years convention
Mr. Zabrislzie pointed out, when an amendment to
a canon came up giving Bishop Greer oficla4 stand
ing as a member of the convention that he had
presided under no constitutional authority, and,
while no contest ever was likely to come TO make
absolutely safe he recommended that all the acts
and resolutions Of the morning be adopted again
The convention also ratified its acts IN the previous
year while Bishop Greer presided.
Another somewhat similar incident occurred An
amendment to Article Of the constitution, fixing
the methods Of voting in convention, was unaer
discussion. The Rev. DR.. Seabury declared that p5
the wording OF the amendment power was given 10
the Bishop and the Bishop Coadjutor arbitrarily 10
veto sny motion passed by the convention He
declared this was contrary to all custom and the
spirit OF the Church and American institutions
He offered a substitute exactly the same as the
amendment save for the undesirable feature. which
was referred to committee. the original amend
ment had been
TO AID sEAMEN's MISSION.
Following out suggestion in Bishop Greer's ad-
dress of greater efforts help the immigrants.
the Rev. DR.. G. A. Christensen, OF Christ Church,
RiverdaIe offered motion TO have a COM
rnittee confer with the Seamens Missionary So
ciety The Rev. DR.. Parks thought the work
should be rather part of the City Missions So
cietys efforts and recommended committee 10
confer with body and report suggestions to the
next convention. Bishop Potter advocated this
work strongly saying that great centre for deal
ing with the foreign population should be estab-
ushed. which might we'll be a part Of tia City Mis-
sions work. but at present the motion should be
put through in its first form, leaving the Seamen's
society to care for the newly arrived.
The Rev DR.. c. F. Canedy, Of Trinity Church,
Rochelle, declared that the trustees Of the
General Theological Seminary needed more money.
He wanted resolution calling on the trustees to
investigate as to their investments, inqurtng par
ticulary into the income bearing properties Of pro-
fessorship eudowments and report 10 the next con-
vention preparatory to a strong effort to raise
much funds for the seminary.
Articles empowering the bishop coadjutor to act
in place of the bishop instead OF having the standing
committee TO step in were adopted A new canon,
to be known as Canon 10, was adopted giving
to the bishop power Of defining the boundaries Of
parishes and mission fields or to amend or change
the boundaries after due notice. resolution chang
ing the time Of the convention to the second
Wednesday in November was approved, and Will
be acted on next year. An amendment 10 Canon
II was proposed by the Rev. ". n. Wilmot,
providing that treasurers of churches and others
handling church funds should furnish securities for
the faithful performance Of their duties or make
themselves jointly responsible with d trust com
pany.
Reports Of the archdeacoHs showing much &C
tivity in the mission field. were read. The report
of the trustees of the episcopal fund turned in by
7 PierDont Morgan showed a deficiency Of about
S55OoO in the residence fluid, and asked for an as
sassnent TO make up this amount IN the allot-
ment of mission funds to the archdeaconries.
speclal appeal was made for Richmond. The
report OF the treasurer OF the mission funds showed
a deficiency of Ssh 40 which had been made w by
50 COO drawn from the reserve fund.
BISHOP GREER ACCUSES CHURCH
.F3shoD Greers address to the convention was read
at the morning session He took up the question OF
s,1ppIeuentfng public school instruction for the
Young with Sunday school instruction, 10 awaken
the moral nature and apply the ethical principles to
human life He advocated strongly an earnest effort
t. helm the nlutitudes Of immigrants, and similar
mission to the negroes OF this country
Bishop Greer declared that while the average Of
Intelligence was high in this country, the moral in
teigeuce Of the people was not up to their mental
standard He quoted statistics showing the great
prevalence Of crime in this country, which could
nor be- he said If the moral nature were trained 10
resist the subtle evils put forth by the rushing
modern life For this he advocated the Sunday
school TO supplement and widen the scope OF the
great public school system The great church, he
feared was nesectful Of its duty along those lines
Said he;
WIN, for instance does this Church Of ours have
but one faithful chaplain IN TINS great port OF
dreds Of thousands Of foregn speaking peoples are
passing every year 70 pc taheh Up anu -IsOI f e
tors in its development and growth? Why again
does she have but Swedish woman missionary
for the 10000 Swedish speaking people VINO 4LlI-s
TIE Years 1903 CO landed at Ellis Island. and none
at all for the other foreign natioIaLIles, with lle
exception Of the Engllsh2 Why does she not meet
them ali with CHRISTIAN ACT OF service at tLIs-S
Y,9oet in1nortant and most necessitouS time. and
tLTs ma e at the very start Christian impression
uuon them or cause them 70 feel at least ttldt TINS
ny land 10 which they have come Christian
iard" or what again does she do for them after
-, have Gomez Sonnet thing but much.
Again what about the ten million negroes IN thus
country constituting more than cIle-tenth OF tle
nonniaiion What about the problem winch they
yyt6frh there is / think, greater and no harder
i oIIr National Efe-our problem de profundiS,
as an English wIIe5 81 e. nv seci,Iar a5cafion or
irdustTiai education? These indeed are Important.