The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
REVIEWS WORK
Of CONVENTION
Rev. c. E. Perkins Gives Ac-
count of Visit to Wash
ington and Richmond.
NEW DIOCESES CREATED
COMMITTEE TO REPORT ON MAR
RAGE CANON.
NEW DIOCESES CREATED

The Rev. Charles E. Perkins gave some
account of his visit to the east at the
morning service at st. Paurs Episcopal
church Yesterday. A large congregation
was in attendance. Mr.. Perkins was
delegate to the convention of the Broth
erhood of st. Andrew, which met in
Washington. D. c., the last week of Sep
tember and also to the general cOnVen-
ton OF the Episcopal church, which met
in Richmond. Va, from Oct. to IS. He
said IN part:
Never can one forget the impressive
sight upon the Washington cathedral
grounds at the laying of the foundation
stone of the cathedral 1t was on this
occasion that the president of the Unit
ed States and the bishop of London ad-
dressed between 20,0o0 and $1,000 people,
who had gathered to witness the laying
of this stone by Bishop Satterlee of
Washington.
THE historic interest OF the general
convention at Richmond will be more
and more felt the years go by. The
whole proceeding was a worthy COM
memoration of the 800 years of Anglican
Christianity in America The members
of the convention made pilgrimage TO
jamestown island and there historic ad-
dresses were made and service was held
under sails stretched from tree to tree
I'm imitation of that great event when
Robert Hunt first held a service of the
church 800 years ago.
Another trip was made to Williams
burg. TO Bruton parish, where services
have been held continuously for nearly
800 years In this church is used the
communion service presented by one of
England's kings. But the significant gift
of this occasion was the lecture present
ed by the president Of the United States
and the Bible presented by the king of
England, thus uniting the two peoples
by the gifts of the peacemakers of the
old and the new world,
Missionary Gathering.
Primarily the general convention meets
Al. ,fI 81 1Qrrt in
ality this convention was one grand mis-
sionary gathering. The Episcopal church
has reached the stage when Ii does not
iegislate to act, but legislates because il
throughout the proceedings Four bish-
ops for western districts were elected
because of the development of the
church's work and because the men and
women of the church had made it pos
sible to carry forward the work by pre-
senting at this convention the sum of
S1.000000 for church extension.
DIR. McKim, president of the house of
deputies, in his opening address pointed
TO the remarkable growth of the church
since it last met in the city of Rich
mOnd in 1859. During that period the
population of the country had grown 50
per cent, whereas the church's growth
was over 600 per cent.
''As to legislation. perhaps what was
not done was quite as important as what
was done. The canon on marriage and
divorce was not changed, but a commits
sion was appointed to report at the next
general convention, which is to meet in
Cincinnati in 1910. Committees to report
ON an office for the JUNCTION OF the sick,
and to raise 100000 for the aged and
infirm clergy fund, were appointed also
1.-The time is not yet ripe for provinces
to be established in America as in the
English church. The court of appeals,
composed of bishops only, was defeated
But one advance is made in what is
known as the open pulpit canon, which
grants permission to the clergy to in
vite other Christian men to preach with
the approval of the bishop.
The problem of ministering to the
negro was thoroughly considered and suf-
fragan bishops may be elected by any
diocese to minister to a different race in
the diocese, and to those who speak an
other tongue. This seemed much the
wisest way to dispose of this difficult
problem. The dioceses of the south were
far from united as TO the desirahility OF
negro bishops in charge of sections OF
the country. So the legislation enacted
at this convention permits each diocese
to work along its own lines.
Church Has Grown.
las an indication of the growth of the
church, Duluth was made into a diocese;
Wyoming, western Colorado. Nevada and
eastern Oregon were made into separate
missionary districts, and the diocese OF
Georgia was divided into two dioceses.
Bishop Spalding is now the bishop of
Utah, being relieved of western Colorado
and more than half of the state of Ne
vada This must of necessity mean ad-
vancement Of the church's missions.
There are many minor details of leg
islation that are not particularly of local
interest and / will not dwell upon them.
j realize that IL has been a great privi-
lege for me to attend this great, historic
convention, and 1t is with even greater
privilege that come back home again to
take up the work which each of you at
St PauPs has made possible.
1.-The kingdom of our Lord and Master
mill Vz-a nj ha laad Of
such men as the bishop of London, in
simplicity Of life. in devotion to duty,
with a divine trust and broad human
sympathy May God grant these to each
one of US in the work in this commun-
ity."