The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-08-01
To BE Held in New York Oct. 3,
For First Time in Twenty
Years
IN SPLENDID CATHEDRAL
OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Ii Will Bring Together Many
Eminent Men of the Coun-
try. Clerical and Lay

lea will be assembled in this city ioT
a period of three weeks, beginning
OCT. 8. For the occasion the Diocese
OF New York has appointed a general
committee OF eminent clergymen anu
laymen. The Rev Canon George +.
Nelson, ID. d.. is general secretary OF
the committee, whose headquarters 10
10 be at the Diocesan house, NO. 4lo
lafayette-st.
Already 10 OF the ll5 bishops VINO
will sit In the House OF Bishops nave
accepted invitations. This does not
include those newly elected prelates
: who have not been cohsecrated. IN
the House of Clerical and Lay Dep
uties-305 are clerical and 300 lay.
Missionary bishops VIII come rom
many distant lands-Africa, china
Japan. Brazil. the Philippines. As
Francis Lynde Stetson puts Il in the
Introductory address 20 the list OF
committees made public. Here VIII
come Rowe from Alaska AYES from
Mexico. Kinsolving from Brazil, Res
tarick from Hawaii Mckim from
Japan, Graves and Root from CHINA
and Brent from the Philippines"
Ii has been twenty-fOur years since
the general convention OF this church
sat in New York The sessions then
were held in old ST. Georges and the
Presiding Bishop was Right Rev John
Williams, now dead.
The sessions OF the 1918 assemblage
will be held in the beautiful Cathedral
OF st. John the Divine. The presiding
bishop, whoever he may be, is, ex
oficio, the chief executive Of the gen
eral convention, but ii is customary TO
elect a chairman for each house in
order to relieve the presiding prelate
of continuous occupation Of the chair.
The presiding bishop at the present
time Is the Right Rev. Daniel s. Tut
tie, Of ST. Louis. Bishop j. Boyd VIM
cent, of Southern Ohio, who was chair
man of the upper house at the last
convention, Is the choice OF a consid-
cradle number OF his colleagues for
that office during the coming meeting.
The convention will open Wednes-
day morning, Oct 8, with the celebra-
ton OF a communion service, which
will be attended by all the bishops
and the deputies OF the lower house.
The sermon will be preached by
Bishop Lawrence.
The Two Houses.
The old SYNOD Hall OF the Cathedral
Choir and the sessions of the house
OF clerical and lay deputies will be
held in the new Synod Hall. on the
south side Of the choir, erected by the
late J. p. Morgan and w. Bayard Cut
ting. Mr.. Morgan's seat as deputy
from the New York diocese will be
taken by Everett p. Wheeler, who re-
he s<I
of any OF the four alternates at the
last annual diocesan meeting. Mr.
Morgan was senior lay deputy and
had attended all the conventions dur.
ing the last q years OF his life. The
ether lay deputies from New York
VIII be Henry Lewis Morris and
Stephen Baker. The clerical deputies
are Rev. DR.. William T. Manning,
Rev. DR.. Henry Lubek, Very Rev.
Rean William NJ. Grosvenor and Rev.
DR.. Leighton Parks.
The triennial conventions have be-
come In recent years occasion for
meetings of the numerous auxiliary
bodies. such as the Domestic and For
eign Missionary society, the Woman's
auxiliary and the Daughters of the
King. The Woman's Auxiliary will
mold Its meetings In St Michael's par
ish house, No. 225 West Ninety.ninth-
ST.. and the Daughters of the King in
ST. Agnes parish house. West Ninety
second-st., near Columbia-ave.
Tne Domestic and Foreign Mission
airy society was organized in 1920. and
reorganized ten years ago In eight de-
partments and a governing board con-
sisting OF an equal number of bishops
OF clergy and OF laymen. AT the last
convention IL was reported that this
body had gathered $4,000. 900 in the
three years previous to the meeting
Or this sum the Woman's Auxiliary
contributed s250.OO0.
These are the heads OF the chief
divisions of the general committee IN
arrangements:
General executive committee
President, Right Rev. David " Creer.
chairman. X. Fulton Cutting. treasur.
er, August Belmont: general secre.
lazy, Rev. Canon George r. Nelson
Onairman OF special committees
Right Rev. Frederick Courtney very
Rev. Dean William M Grosvenor
Hev. canon George William Douglas
fev. DR. Ernest NJ. Stires. Stenben
Baker Miles Farrow. William
Hawk. William H. Truesdale. WiIIiam
Z. Fargo, j. Van Vechten Olcott I y
Morgan, Francis Lynde Stetson' Hen.
ny Lewis Morris. Nicholas MURRAY
Butler, Everett T.. Wheeler. David u
ogden. George Gordon King. Alton u
Parker. DR.. T.. X l.. Gould. Edmond
l. Baylies, Richard NJ. Pott. Villa m
v. Curtis. William Barclay Parsons
Thomas p. Fowler and Haley Fiske
Services. meetings and pulpit sun.
plies-Very Rev Dean w. NJ. Grosve.
nor, Rev. Or. William r. Manning
Rev. DIR. John =. Peters, Rev. Dr
George r.. Van DE Water. Rev. How
lard G. Robbins Justice Vernon NJ
Davis. Robert l.. Harrison. John w
Wood. William Foulke, Mortimer NJ
Singer, Hiram NJ Davis.
Music-Miles Farrow, Canon Mel
son, DIR. Victor Baier, Arthur & HYDE
James NJ. Helfenstein, DR.. G.. Edwa rd
Stubbs. Felix Lamond, Richard Henry
Warren, Walter Henry Hall.
Finance-Stephen Baker. Canon
Nelson. j. p. Morgan. August BEL
mont, Francis Lynde Stetson. George
Gordon King, Henry Lewis Morris
Cen. w. w. Skiddy. Haley Fiske. vii
liam A. Greer.
Railroad transportation--Wi II
Triesdale Canon Nelson, Thomas p
Fowler. William G. McAdoo. William
Barclay Parsons. John Cars nnsen.
D0coDtion and entertainments