New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
EP|SC0PAL|ANS TAKE
CHRISTIAN UNITY STEPS
Decide to Cooperate with
Other Boards of Missions
Here and Elsewhere.
EXPRESSION OF AN IDEAL
DR.. Manning Causes Surprise
by stand-Deputies Also Vote
to Send Delegates to
Federal Council.

The House of Deputies OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church gave itself up yester-
day 10 what Judge George f. Henry, OF
Iowa. would call the practice" OF Chris
ton unity IL was an inspiring day, be-
cause the two subjects which divided
practically the whole session between
them. that OF church federation In the
morning and that OF missionary cooper
alton in the afternoon, called forth the
vigorous expression of great ideal from
some OF the strongest members OF the
House
The galleries were crowded with visitors
as they were the day before when the
negro problem was debated. But yester-
day these visitors went home assured that
the question before the deputies had founo
a definite issue in legislation, and that II
could not come up again in the same
form in l9l6-a fate undoubtedly reserved
for the proposition TO create negro
episcopate. Fusion-religious fusion-tri-
umphed
The opposition to the programme of
Christian cooperation. both in the mat
ter OF worship and of missionary en-
desvor. was identified with the High
Church wing of the House. Not all High
Churchmen opposed It. however. George
Wharton Pepper Of Philadelphia. being
a conspicuous exception.
DR.. William T Manning. of Trinity. an
other leader of this party. opposed the
resolution TO send delegates TO the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of Christ in
America while acquescing in that TO per-
nit the Church Board of Missions to CO.
operate with the missionary bodies OF
other denominations.
Surprise for Deputies.
Or. Mannings course was indeed rather
a surprise TO his fellow deputies, for they
had identified him completely with the
movement for Christian unity. 1t was he
who presented to the house the report or
the commission on faith and order, In
which the almost insuperable difficulties
in the way Of Church union were ac-
knowledged. but in which also the conf
'dence was expressed that God would
show those who persevered way through
them to victory.
The report urged upon all persons nav
ing at heart the accomplishment of Chris
tian unity the efficacy of prayer; that
PRAYER. constant prayer, alone could lead
10 a solution
Judge Henry, Of Iowa, an ardent advo-
cate of the cooperation proposed in the
resolutions before the house yesterday,
referred to this advocacy of prayer in DR..
Manning's report
Il want TO read to you" he said in the
course of the debate on the measure
granting the Board Of Missions permits
sion TO cooperate in the mission fields
with other denominational agencies, Il
want to read to you something on the
subject of Christian unity written for
quarterly review devoted to the subject.
I'VE are in the habit Of priding our
selves that this old Church occupies
commanding and enviable position in this
movement for Christian unity. But this is
a publication Of one Of the youngest
Christian sects in the United States-l
think YOU may almost say 1t is the young
est-a quarterly review, published by the
youngest denomination in this country
and solely devoted TO Christian unity.
And this is what a contributor to the
review wrote:
AFTER all. we shall have to learn
Christian unity in the way in which we
learn everything else (some OF us here
would say by praying for iD-by practis-
ing it,
Let me read that over again. so that
every one here may appreciate its sgnih-
canoe: After all. we shall have to learn
Christian unity in the way in which we
learn everything else-by practising it.
THE passage of this harmless resolu-
ton I should call mild form of practis-
ing it,"
Reads Resolution.
The resolution under discussion. intro
duced by the Rev. DIT. w. A. X. GOODWIN
of Rochester. was as follows:
Resolved. the House Of Bishops con-
curing, that the Board of Missions Is In
formed that in the Judgment OF the Cen
eral Convention it has full authority 70
take such steps as 1t may deem wise 10
co-operate with other Christian boards OF
missions in this country and elsewhere
IN the united effort to arouse organize
and direct the missionary spirit and &C
tivity of Christian people to the end that
the people Of this Church may be enabled
10 discharge their duties TO support the
mission of the Church at home and
abroad. through prayer, work and giving;
| provided that the expense incurred IN
such cooperative educational efforts shall
not be a charge upon the FUNDS raised
through apportionment."
The wording Of this resolution however
renresented a compromise. effected largely
by DR.. Manning himself. II had been SUBJ
stituted for the original resolution, which
read:
Resolved. the House of Bishops con-
curing. that the Board Of Missions OF the
Church be and hereby is authorized to CO.
operate with other Christian boards or
missions, in America and elsewhere as
occasion may offer. in such matters ana
10 such extent as in the judgment OF the
Board of Missions Of this Church may
seem best within the limits OF the con-
stitution and canons of this Church. and
that the said Board of Missions be and
hereby is authorized and empowered to
spend such money as may be necessary
in it's Judgment 10 make such cooperation
effective"
Fears Territory Division.
The difference is a subtle one. Brieny'
the original resolution directs the Board
of Missions to cooperate with the other
r,,bc caN may