New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-17

waukee editor of 1.-THE Living Cnurch'
one of the few High Church men VINO
opposed it. made this plain
"All we have to do" said Mr.. More
house. ito change the name OF the
Church is TO amend the constitution No
constitution can be adopted without
name TO begin with. Simply by amend
ing the constitution itself without toucn-
ing the prayer book, something we shaii
still be allowed to do by bare major
ity, we can change the name or the
Church.
by the adoption of DR.. Mannings
resolution you are Handwriting only one
of our hands. You have got TO handcun
both or you are not reaching the OBJECT
at all. l, for my part, intend to agitate
for a change of name by amendment OF
the constitution. That should be the first
step in any event.
my friends If you are going to tie
back this movement, you must tie BACK
the whole Church to a dead past. Tie us
II you will, but I want TO point out 10
you that the gentlemen on this side of
the house, IL | may use an expression
which don't lihe, are perfectly alive to
the evil Of adopting a resolution for
change of name by bare majority. You
must tie up the Church or you must
trust us. Do what you will"
Lions Of House in Vortex.
1t was a discussion which drew the
lions of the house into its vortex. DR..
Manning defeated candidate for presi-
dent, began IT. DR.. Il l. Parsons. OF
California, prominently mentioned for
the office; Or. James II. McIlvaine. of
Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, the reformer
who attacked DR.. Manning's citizenship;
DR.. Randolph II. McKim, Of Washington,
former president of the house; Mr.. More
house. George Wharton PEPPER, Of Phil
adelphia, and DR.. Arthur =. Kinsolving,
OF Baltimore-these men and others held
the strained attention Of their colleagues
the entire afternoon. an attention pune
tuated here and there by an approach to
disorder more typical Of purely political
| bodies.
DR.. Alexander Mann. himself, the pres
ident by his rulings In favor of a free
discussion of the question Of name, in
spite of repeated risings TO points of
order, contributed In no small way to
| the liveliness of the session.
at seems to me to be Of the utmost
consequence" said Dr. Manning at the
outset, mot only to our own life as
Church, but to the cause Of Christian
unity. and for the sake of the fulfilment
of what I believe 10 be our divlnely ap-
/
ciliation that this Church shall never take
any but the largest and most inclusive
position which is consistent with revealed
truth and that we shall never allow our
selves to be narrowed 10 the limits of
sect.
MY objection to our present name Is
that Il is too sectarian. 1t seems, in my
humble judgment, not sufficiently TO ex-
press the splendid catholic comprehensive
ness of this church. its tolerance-yea,
its much more than tolerance-its deliD-
crate, glad inclusion of views and appre-
hension Of the common truth which are
widely dissimilar.
ITO me our present title does not seem
to be big enough for the mighty tasks and
opportunities to which we are now called.
/ wish we were ready to go as far as the
Federation of Churches went in Chicago
and to omit the word Protestant from
our title as they omitted it from theirs.
on the ground that 1t is a word suggest
i've of theological controversy, and which.
| although II expresses a certain aspect of
our position, is not now suited to be EN-
blazoned upon the very forefront OF our
banner.