The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-24
WILL HOLD GREAT
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Programs for Several Big Gather
ings, With Noted Speakers
at Auditorium.
NEWS THAux OFFERING
Promises to Be Sensational Fea-
ture Of Convention to Begin
Here Next Week.

Several great popular mass meetings
will be held during the Episcopal Gen
eral Convention in Richmond. and the
City Auditorium will be used on occa-
sions when consecrated church is not
required by the nature OF the service,
and when the public attendance and
interest requires a seating capacity
greater than that of any Episcopal
house of worship in the city.
The opening exercises of the conven-
ton take place at II A. M. on October
Cd, in Holy Trinity, the professional
and occasional at this service being,
perhaps, the most spectacular sights In
the Episcopal Church. The bishops,
delegates. members of the Woman's
Auxiliary and distinguished visitors Will
entirely take up the seating capacity
of the church, and under the instruc-
tons of the Rev. Samuel Hart, ID. D..
secretary of the House of Bishops. who
will act as master of ceremonies, no
tickets of admission will be issued to
any persons not officially entitled TO be
present Practically no Richmonders
other than the local clergy will
be admitted, as the Police Department
will insist on strict compliance with
The police will also see that the streets
are kept clear In front of the church,
so that there may be no accident or
interruption to the service. The crowd
that gathers to witness the procession
Of bishops in their robes enter the
church will probably be kept back to
the line of Monroe Park, allowing pas
sageway for the cars in front, along
Laurel Street.
Great Mass Meetings.
The first opportunity offered to the
general public of hearing the Bishop of
London speak will be at the great his
torical mass meeting held on the eve
ming of October 4th in the City Audito-
rum, where the admission will be pub
lie. The addresses will be by the
Bishop of London and by Bishop Ran
dolph. Of the Diocese of Southern Nir-
Ginia.
The first missionary mass-meeting
is scheduled for the evening of Oc-
tober 18th. The Bishop Of Virginia is
to be in the chair. Among the adj
dresses planned for are "The Church's
Work in the Land of the Midnight
SUM-" by Archdeacon Stuck; "China's
Call TO the West" by Bishop Roots;
in Japan" by Bishop Partridge, and
Asia" by Bishop Brent.
The second mass-meeting, on the.
evening of October 18th, VIII have
Bishop futile as its presiding officer,
with addresses by Bishop Spalding on
"Thc Church's Work in Mormon Com
munitics and Mining Camps; by the
Bishop of St. Adams on THE Present
Work Of the Church of England III
Foreign Lands; by Bishop Restarick
on "Where East and West Meet at the
Crossroads of the Pacific" and by
tho Rev. DR.. Brown on ..The Church's
Contribution to a South American Re
public"
Both Of these great missionary mass
meetings take place in the City Audi
torium, and judging from the promin-
ence of the Speakers the attendance
will tax the capacity of the buildings.
Mems Thank Offering.
Another great popular occasion,
which will have some spectacular fea-
lures, will be on October 9th. the day
given up to the presentation of the
mems thank Offering. The services In
connection with the thank Offering
take UP the whole day, beginning at.
T:3O A. NJ, with the celebration of
HOLY Communion, when the Offering
is presented by the chairman of the
committee from each diocese.
That afternoon there Is a special
session of the General Con-
vention, and in the evening at the City
Auditorium there will be the great
mems thank Offering service, The adj
dresses Will be by bishops Greer, Peter
kin and Randolph and Messrs, George
Wharton Pepperand George CsThomas,
At the close OF the service announces
ment will be made of the amount cons