Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-15
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.


of the siitings OF the House Of Deputies OF
the General Episcopal Convention open
ed 10 Richmond Yesterday with volume
ofbusiness transacted. DR.. Rsece +. AL
SOP, chairman OF the COMMITTEES on new
diocese, offered q resolution asking that
the deputies concur with the House OF
Bishops in accepting the eastern portion
of the State of Oregon as a missionary
jurisdiction. The resolution was ac-
cepied.
The r, solutions of the committee on
divorce offered Friday by DR.. j. ID.
Eccleston, Of Baltimore, we're adopted,
and DR.. Eccleston yesterday tfsred a
resolution TO concur with the House oil
Bishops in suggestion made by that
body. This was that committee OF live
bishops, five clergymen and FIVE lsymen
should be appointed to consider again and
report to The next convention the whole
tject contained in canon 80 re-
eardipg cIergmen of the Protestant
Episcopal Church marrying divorced
psrsoJs. The new commission is one
more tfIort on the part Of Bishop DOane
to pass a canon forbidding Protestant
Episcopal clegymen performing mar
rage ceremony for any divorced person,
no matter fcr what cause they were d.
vorce1 and irrespective of their being
the innocent or guilty party. This is
termed p stringent canon.
The House of Bishops has appointed
he following on the commission: r.
Rev. William @. Doane, Bishop of
Albany; George w. Pelerkiu, Bishop of
West Virgins; William David Walker,
Bishop OF Western New York; William
Paret, Bishop of Maryland, and Arthur
@. A. Hale, Bishop of Vermont. 1t
was voted to concur with the House OF
Bishops, but the House Of Deputies has
NOT yet appointed the clerical and law
members.
The report of the commission of prov
iuces occasioued some stir 10 the house.
A msjority report was submitted with
~ signatures anda minority report bear
ing the signature of Rev. Edwin Barnes
NlVer, of Baltimore. The comparative
merits of the Two commissions was side
tracked by arguments 10 regard to the
wisdom of creating the diocese and mis-
sionary districts into provinces at all. A
province was to consist OF group OF adj
.ooou, J;oao.oa hot ebonl m, not animal.
ly or at fixed dates for federal needs.
The Western doceses appeared to feel
their needs we're not wholly understood
by the central committee on mission ex-
penditure. Others urged that those in
teres!ed in creating provinces were In no
way Interested nor concerned in the ex-
penditure OF the mission funds, but that
they we're vitality concerned in stimulit-
ing enthusiasm in mission work, and
this could bsst be doue by bringing
isolated dioceses In touch the one with
he other.
Mr.. Francis A. Lewis, of Philadel-
phis, opposed the whole proposition. He
he'd that in the creation Of provinces
Iuarrels would be sure to ensue and to
boil the matter down the whole work
you'd he to 60 up and talk about mis-
lions, and he saw no more reason to set
n motion the whole elaborate machinery
IF the church than to call out the State
militia to arrest one man for disorderly
conduct who might easily be managed
" a single policeman.
Rev. William Otis Waters, of Chicago,
made an equally strong address support
ng the province idea, saying that the
ize and distance between dioceses had
orced the diocese into this project for
10 cooperative work.
The matter was taken up again last
light. Rev. DR.. Grsmmer, of Pennsyl-
ania, recommended that the question of
Iiyiding dioceses and missionary districts
nto provinces be finally decided at this
invention AMI not referred tn COM
nittee. DR.. Grammer's resolution was
arried.
DR.. Thomas Nelson Page, 10 arguing |
he creation of provinces, spoke touch
Ugly of the civil war and, 10 closing, |
aid the noise Of battle had failed to dis
upt the church and that the convention |
,as about to do that thing in creating |
rOvinces, which would result 10 rivalry |
mong the various provinces, add the
hurch would consist ofso many branches
ghting for supremacy.
The vote WAS taken by diOceses, and |
ne message as presented by the House
f Bishops WAS defeated.
The committee on expenses reported
ist it had now 10 hand legacy Of $780,
90 left by E. p. Dwight, OF Philadel-
his, which, as set forth in his will, was
, be used by the Protestant Episcopal
hurch, chat the light of the Gospel
tight be made to sbine more brightly"
he fund was to be disposed Of by the
eneral convention.
Deputy Carpenter, OF the committee,
that q resolution lie adopt
i anthofizi0g thst The fond be turned
yer to the Domestic and Foreign Mis-
onary Society and that is be called the
Dwight fund" and be used at the dis
'etion of the society to the b'st adyan-
ge. The res 'lllion was adopted.
Rev. Dr.. Huntington, Of New Yors,
laiIman of the committee on amend
ent 10 the institution, reported that
Is committee had agreed to recommend
Ie version of the Scriptures known as
The King james Edition" as the
andsld Of the church. The committee
tther recommended that the marginal
IDLE, which i, a receptacle of the ver-
on, might be used at the discretion OF
e clergy. The committee stated in
is conn. c.ion that the accepted version
the one sunreme classic of The "Eug-