The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-10-03
.EPISCOPALIANS'
GREAT CONCLAVE
Distinguished churchmen to At.
tend TrienniaI Convention

New York. oct. 3.-The intellect ana
the power Of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United states are con-
+ oentrating in New York city in autcI-
patton OF the opening mex, "Wednesday
" The forty-third ,rienniaI convention
~ the church. pu every train disliu-
guished bishops. active ller-ymen and
influential laymen from all parts Il
the country are pouring into the city,
Until even the corridors 81 many of
the b.e Broadway hotels Tor once ia
their history might he mistaken Cor
/ The yestllu.es ol churches So numcr-
ous therea bouts are men 20 pr!rstN
mion. At many arlstogratie residences
in upper Manhattan and in Brooklyn
bishops and vlerCymeu have found
splendid quarters.
This Viii be- the frs, time In about
I twenty -four wears that the genera.
convention II The Protestant Episcopal
church is held in This city IL Will
BEGIN on "Wednesday next. in the
mornIrg. With q procession If the h!sh-
cps and clergy and viii remain In ses-
sion 4Dout three weeks About 10
bishops and 500 deputies. aqually d.
yided between clergymen and laymen,
viii take part IN the convention. They
viii come from s. dioceses, % mission
airy districts and 10 foreign jurisdic-
.
more than 600 Q9a commandments.
+ The convention will sit as two houses,
the house Of bishops and the house II
deputies, each havna veto power over
the other The primary object Of these
conventions j. To MAKE laws FOR the
government of the Protestant Episco-
pal church in this country, 10 some eX-
tent in the form II constitutional pro-
visions, requiring action by two sue
f oess!ve conventions, but generally in
the form Of resolutions adopted by
each convention for itself and in the
. termiuology OF ecclesiastical law
I known as canoHs.
The House Of Deputies
In the house of deputies there are
fourteen standing committees appoint
ed by the president always a clergy
man, subject 70 the limitation that
each OF the eight missionary depart
ments in which the church within the
/ United States is distributed must he
represented Besides the fourteen
standing committees there are thirty
\ four committees and commissions Of
the TWO houses sitting between con-
ventions eight Of which were appoint
ed 10 consider ecclesiastic relations
and activities with other communions,
religions and peoples; six 20 revise the
church's services Of prayer and praise
and vistation four 10 provide for the
education Of the cler y; four others to
look after the care and support Of the
clergy, one TO provide for them an ul-
innate court Of appeals; one TO report
upon the question Of provinces, five
for the church's missions of help.
The House Of Bishops, which has a
roll Of ll5 without counting bishops
elect who have not yet been consecrat-
ed. VIII hold its sessions at the old
synod House on the Cathedral grounds
of St. John the Divine. The Right
Reverend Doctor Daniel Sylvester
Tuttle, Bishop of Missouri, who is tn,
senior bishop of the church, will pre-
side. To relieve him, an assistant
president will be selected after III,
opening meeting.
The House Of Deputies will hold It's
H., Ia11
posing new structure south of tn,
choir part OF the Cathedral which wa.
erected FOR such purpose through th'
generosity of the late Pierpont Morgan
! and the late w. Bayard Cutting. Thu
Rev. Or. Randolph II. McKim will pre-
side at the sessions until a new pre-
siding official shall be elected Their
= will be a spirited contest for the homo
/ Of that position and it is expected tina
there will be at least ten candidate
in the field
- Communion Service First
The convention will open on mex
Wednesday morning with a commun
ion service in the Cathedral of 81
c John the Divine. The bishops wi
f meet at the old Synod Hall, the dep
II uties at the new synod Hall. At tn
appointed time "A procession will b
tt formed led by the famous Cathedra
n choir under the direction of Mile
Farrow, the choir leader and organs
of the Cathedral. Following the choi
s will come the members of the Hous
II Of Deputies and these in turn will h
followed by the bishops marching /
reverse order of their rank, carryin
cut the divine command that the la
shall he the first and the first last
From the old Synod House the pre-
IS cession will march To the Cathedra
Al where a solemn communion scrviC
will be conducted by Bishop futile. a:
sisted by Bishop David II. Greer
g.. New York, and several other note
leaders Of the church. The sermon {
d. that occasion will be delivered |
le Bishop William Lawrence, of Mass;
On tho following day anotl