Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-18
SUNDAY SCHOOL
REORGANIZATION
FOR EP|SCOPALS
Action Taken by Diocesan Con-
vention Most Important,
Says Bishop.
SOCIAL SERVICE ACTION
BIG STEP FORWARD
Permanent Educational Secre-
tary at Fixed Salary to
Be Named.

"The adoption of the Sunday school
canon-that, l think. was. perhaps, the
most important action taken by the
Episcopal convention"
The Right Rev. Bishop Edwin S.
Lines made this statement to an Eve
ming STAR reporter In regard to the
work of the annual convention of the
Newark diocese, just concluded at
Trinity Church.
ut means the organization Of the
Sunday school, he continued, "and
that is something new. The Sunday
school. instead of being a voluntary In
stitution, is ~put~under the direct con-
troll of the diocesan officials.
This new canon provides for a Sum
day school union, composcl Of the
bishop, officers in each local district,
the members of the diocesan board Of
lay delegates. You see. it is a COM
plete organization. Then, too. it pro-
vides for a board of religious education
to study the problems and means of
religious instruction in connection with
work in the Sunday school.
Social Service Plans.
The report of the social service com
mittee, another new feature of the con-
yention, was also of more than usual
Importance and interest. The choosing
of delegates to the Missionary Council
perhaps was another of the more i'm
portant actions taken. because this year
the meeting of the Missionary Council
will be here in Newark in October.
These, In brief. are the most significant
of all that was done by the
ton"
The Rev. Edmund J. Cleveland, of st.
Johns Church, West Hoboken, who
was on the committee which prepared
the new Sunday school canon ex-
planned it's essential features to a STAR
reporter.
at creates" he said, "a board of re-
ligious education in the diocese, partly
appointed and partly elective. Then
1t provides for a Sunday school union
of all the Sunday schools in the do
cese, For this purpose the diocese is
divided into seven local divisions, each
with separate officers. OF course, the
action taken ooks forward to the APP
pointment of a permanent educational
secretary at a fixed salary. We hope
that this will become an actually at
the next convention, and 1t means very
much to the Sunday school life of the
diocese"
At the second days session Of the
annual convention of the Newark Epis-
copal diocese. held at Trinity Church,
the most important business was the
election of officers and committees
Concurrent Vote for Deputies.
BY unanimous resolution. canon 15a
was adopted, after It's presentation by
the Rev. Edwin A. White, chairman of
the committee on constitution and
canons. A resolution was also passed
approving the election Iof deputies by
a concurrent vote instead of a separate
vote of laynen and clergy. but the
matter win not be finally determined
until the convention of 1912. An extra
allowance of $1,000 for missions vas
stricken from the budget, and the Sec
retary's salary was increased to $500.
AS expressing the conventions atti-
tude toward arbitration and interna-
tiona peace. the following resolution
was reported by a special committee
and adopted;
THE convention of the diocese of
Newark Is interested in all efficient eff
forts for the preservation of peace on
earth, do hereby express their cordial
approval of the action President of the
United States in proposing an agree
ment between the United States and
the government of Great Britain that
all questions of difference between
them be submitted to arbitration, it is
hereby resolved that the clergy of the
diocese be urged to ask the interest
and cooperation of their people in this
movement toward permanent peace"