Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-15
THE EPISCOPALIANS.

Rev. A. B. Warner, of Brooklyn,
yesterday, in Cincinnati, read before
the Protestant Episcopal House of Depu-
ties selection from book by Cardi-
nal Gibbons, in which the cardinal is
said to have argued that the Protestant
are trying to usurp the word
Catholic.
For two days the House OF Deputies
had been considering the matter OF
changing the name of the church. A
special order Of business was made to
take up this matter again at O'Clock
this afternoon.
Rev. DR.. J. L. Parks, rector OF Cal
vary Church, New York city, yester-
day offered an amendment to the reso-
luton under consideration, which was
brought up by George Wharton Pep
per, of Philadelphia, and in which Mr..
Pepper proposed to change the name to
THE Holy Catholic Church.
DR.. Parks argued that to use the
words Holy Catholic Church" would
only bring to the church more COM
plications and he thought the present
title an excellent one and would vote to
retain it.
R. s. Morris, OF Philadelphia,
warned the church against any fur
ther conflict with the Roman Church.
Rev. F. A. Derossett, of Springfield,
ILL.,, spoke against the word protes-
tant" and said that it stood only for
destruction and impertinence.
On the subject Of ritual for the
healing OF the sick by prayer, Rev.
L. A. Waterman, of Hanover, n. H.,
asked the House Of Deputies to vote
against the measure, and said it will
be brought up for consideration ut
the next convention in New York in
1918.
The matter of emitting from the
prayerbook the references to Jews,
Turks, inidels and heretics," was
reported out from the committee,
which asked that it be held over I'M
til the next convention for passage.
The House OF Deputies passed a
resolution offered by Francis Lynde
Stetson, of New York. asking the
State Department at Washington to
assist the church in retaining posses
sion OF St. James Church, at Florence,
Italy, which is now in danger OF being
sold by the Italian government for
taxes.
Ri. Rev. w. A. Query. Bishop of
Sonth Carolina, spoke before the house
OF bishops in the afternoon on the
negro question. He said that the
north has formed wrong impression
Of the facts in saying that the southern
people do not believe in negro educa-
ton. He would have all the negroes
educated along industrial and Christian
lines, but he looks with alarm on the
educational uplift of the black race
without any moral or religious
training.
When the speaker advocated the
parochial school system for the south,
in which the negroes might be educat-
ed, he did not receive the ordinary
handclapping that usually goes with
query bishops speech.
The third joint session of the house
OF bishops and the house Of deputies
was devoted to missionary topics.
No decisive action was taken on any
OF the leading questions now before
the convention, but the afternoon was
given over to addresses by bishops.
The House of Bishops at its morning
session discussed the vacancies that ex-
ist in the bishoprics OF the church
the formation Of the several
diocese and missionary districts.
The committee on the prayer book to
which the matter had been sent back
reported that it was unable
to agree on a substitute phraseology,
and recommended that commission
Of three from each order represented in
the convention be named to draft a new
collect and report at the next convention
The convention has decided to adj
journ at IL m. on October 81.
Bishop Lloyd, bishop coadiutor of
Virginia, is scheduled to give series
Of addresses today in Quiet Hour
for the Junior Auxiliary, in the Cath
sdrai at Cincinnati.