The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-03
CHURCH MEN IN RICHMOND Episcopal Convention
 Begins Work. MANY IMPORTANT PROBLEMS Bishop of London and Other Not
 ables Present. auestion of Negro Bishops May Cause A Lively Discussion And Court
 of Appeals wfn Rs Con-
 sidered.
MANY IMPORTANT PROBLEMS

the PF0teetanc Episcopai CuurCH SOh- vention in the United States convened today and organized for business. Of the 102 members of the House of Bish- ops only ten were absent and the att tendance of clerical and lay members of the House of Deputies was nearly complete. A large Eumber of foreign high church dignitarfes were present. including the Archbishop of the West Indies and the Bishops of London. St. Aibans. Montgomery. Niagara. Quebec. Ontario and Mackenzie River
 The business of the two houses was confined to organization and both bodies reelected all of their officers by ac- ciamatfon. Routine business. sprelimi- nary to the general business that w,ll come before the convention was then disposed of.
 By far thes most interesting of the proceedings today was the Holy Com- munion at Holy Trinity Church. where the Right Rev. Wilmington Ingram, Bishop of London. preached the ser- mor and all of the visiting bishops par ticipated In the processional.
 The Bishop said in part:
 First undoubtedly the future can only belong to q church which be- lieves and breaches the far reaching. energizing and active love of God. God forbid that I should deny the difficult ties which surround belief in the love of God, orr ignore the stern side Of the New Testament, but no church will save the world and especially those thousands of millions who have not yet had chance of making up their minds as to the truth of Christianity except q church that believes and proclaims and lives out the love of God to every child that He has made
 ax - Al H.s .1..su khx trend of religious thought in the Unit ed States but from my experience of east. north and west London. the fu- ture lies with no church which sinks iR what has been called the new the- oagy.
 .saod forbid we should say $ word against any individual man, wif6 be- liaves as much as he can Of the Chris- tian creed but what we n1us1 beware on hoth sides of the Atlantic is losing the power of our message by trying to make it easier to be believed.
 Thoausands of spectators surrounded the church and filled Monroe Park, op- posite the church, where numner of the service inside.
 An adapted form of the morning prayer service was used to open the convention. After singing by the choir, the ten commandments were read by Bishop Futile and extracts from the -Scriptures by Bishop Potter and Bishop Saterlee of Washington. The choir sang hymn and then came the sermon of the Bishop of London.
 The session of the House of Bishops. which was held in the Virginia State Capitol building were executive and will continue to be so during the con- vention. At the close statement of the proceedings was made by Dr. Sam uel Hart of Connecticut. secretary of the house
 New Bishops Presented.
 After the House was called to order by Bishop Futile. eleven bishops were presented. They were Bishops Strange. North Carolina. Roots, Hankow: Spald- ing, Salt Lake; W. F. Johnson, South c. D. Williams, Michigan; Par ker. New Hampshire; Mccormick. West ern Michigan; Webb. Milwaukee; scad- ding, Oregon: Tucker. Southern Vir- ginia. and Guerry, South Carolina.
 Rishop Futile then announced the deaths that had occurred in the mem bership since the last convention: Bish- op William Lawrence of Massachusetts was re-elected chairman and Dr. Sam uel Hart of Connecticut. secretary of the House. After this business had pGSnt QASQOocu OI tIOVeTnOt swanson was ushered Into the House and well comed the convention. He was given an ovation.
 Archbishop Nuttall of the West In- dies and Bishop Ingram of London were escorted to the house by a spe- cial committee and both received an welcome and responded by making brief remarks The House of Bishops then adjourned until to- morrow at ? o'clock.
 Simultaneously with the assembling of the House of Bishops. the House of Deputies was holding it's preIimi- nary gathering at St. Paurs Church. The sessions of theoHouse of Deputies are open to the public and the gal leries of the church were crowd ed today chiefly with ladies. The delegates were assigned to stations fin the church in the manner of a political 
 Dr. Randolph McKim, of Washington. D. C.. and Rev Henry Anslie, of Nsw York. were reelected president and secretary respectively, the elections be-. Ing by exclamation. Dr. AIckIm made a brief address accepting the honor and thanking the convention. He re- lerred to the fact that sincs the last in Richmond. fOrty-eigh, l years ago, the numbers of connnuni-
 
 States had increased more than six hundred per cent and now numbers s50.O00. He compared the two con- ventions and showed that a number of he questions now before tine ~onven- ion were waged furiously in 1859. The 1nly matter of debate in ths house of deputies came up over an invitetion rom Bruton Parish Church. Williams ,urg, Va, that the convention send a delegation there neAe sunday to at- end the services in connection with he acceptance of a Bible presented to he parish by King Edward, and q lec- tern presented by President Roose- yelt, pr: William R. Huntington. of New York City offered a resolution ac. ,epting the invitation and providing for he appointment of one clerical and one ay delegate each by the original thirteen colonies,
 Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington. lesIred that each of the sixtythree dio- ,eses be represented by one clerical and me lay delegate. It was brought out hat the church could not accommo- late SO many and M-. Pages amend neut was lald on the table. II was