The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-15
BAN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE DIOCESAN CONVENTION DE-
NOINCES SICH THINGS.
AppIauds Bishop Potter for
Address on Crspsey case -Censures
LeopOId's Administration OF the Congo
Plan for Church Pr 81 Get DRY Approved

Addres on Crapsey case -Censures
LeopOId's Administr alton OF the Cong
Plan for Church Pr 81 Get DRY Approved
The Protestant Episcopal Convention OF
the Diocese Of New York, in session yester-
day in Synod Hall, denounced perform
ances in theatres ON Sunday nights, and
applauded Bishop Potter when he gave
voice to rather more orthodox utterances
than had been expected from him concern-
ing the Crapsey heresy case.
II also censured the King OF Belgium for
his administration Of the Congo. 1t COM
mended a plan put forth by Bishop Greer
to turn what used to be Priory Farm in
Duchess county into a Church protectory
where children coming from the Children's
Court may be cared for. The convention,
which sits again to-day, was one OF the
~liveliest in years, and contained most of
the we'll known men who usually attend.
The convention admitted four new
parishes. They were Trinity at New Dorp.
st. Adams at High Bridge, All Saints at
Mariners Harbor and the Divine Love AT
Montrose. Bishop Potter's address related
mostly to details, but near the close he
brought in the Crapsey trial for hereey.
At the close he WAS cheered more loudly
and for q longer time IN an has been the
case in years.
1T is impossible" observed Bish op
Potter, -in the minds Of people who noEd
fast to the principles Of common honesty f.,
to respect either the consistency or the
integrity of one who eats the Church,
bread, accepts the Church. dignities,
enjoys the Church Is honors, and impugns
the Church's faith. II he must assail ner
beliefs, then the dictate OF ordinary up
rightness would plainly seem TO be that
he must, first OF all withdraw from a fellow
ship to whose fundamental beliefs he can
not candidly assent.
rs it said that the spirit of our times
is prominently a sordid spirit Then
believe me, men and brethren, the calling
OF he Church il to illustrate a herolsm
which can rise superior TO il; and if there are
those who can seek the priest : Office for a
piece OF bread, let us al least demonstrate
that there il no man who has surrendered
his faith in her funda mental verities who
can be guilty Of the baseness Of clnging
to any holy office in which he is not honestly
entitled to that bread"
Late in the afternoon Bishop Greer gave
his formal address, II dealt with the crea-
ton of the Church protectory in Dutchess
county, the need for longer time with the
children, to the end that they might be
better instructed in the Bible, and a plan
for a Church extension society.
Yesterday was the anniversary OF the
conservation Of Bishop Seabury of Con-
n~ecticIt as the first American Bishop, and
80 Bishop Brewster. his successor in the
Connecticut diocese, preached an historical
sermon. The service was held in the
Cathedral crypt, Bishop Potter, Bishop
Greer. Bishop Courtney, Archdeecons Nell
son, Van Kleeck and Thomas taking part.
Bishop Brewster WAS not complimentary
in his description of Church conditions.
especially in the manner in which the
Episcopal Church is to-day meeting it's
opportunities.
A mass meeting in the interests of the
Mems Thankoffering movement in the
Episcopal Church was addressed last even
ing by Bishop Talbot of Central Pennsyl-
vania, the Rev. Hiram r. Hulse, general
secretary Of the Thank offering, DIR: James
II. Garfield, librarian of Columbia Uniyer-
sity, and Bishop Greer, who presided. The
Mems Th~ankoffering is designed to express
the gratitude OF the men of the Episcopal
churches for 800 years of the English Chris
tianity in America. The tercentennial
anniversary is to he celebrated a year
hence in connection with the Episcopal
General Convention at Richmond.