The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-06
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
NEWS AND COMMENT.

NEWS AND COMMENT.
In some of the Holy Week union com
munion services Baptist churches partic-
ipated, some for the first time.
Right and proper Is 1t that the revival
of interest In Livingstone, due to the
widespread observance OF his centennial
should fruit into action calculated to ex-
tend and perpetuate the work in Africa
which he began. This movement for q
memorial fund proceeds on the principle
so frequently enLnciated by the late
William James, who said, in substance
that only harm results when the feelings
are stirred without corresponding and
speedy expression. He would have, for
example, every one whose emotions are
stirred by a missionary meeting take
pains after leaving the hall either to give
up a seat in the car to some one else or
to be kind to his grandmother after ar
irving home. The particular form OF
memorial which our enterprising Eng
lish friends have devised Is the estab-
lishment OF a Livingstone station In
Central Africa, well equipped with evan
gelistical, medical, and educational agen-
cies and destined to stay to some extent
the progress Of Mohammedanism, which,
just now, Is menacing many parts of
Africa. Much yet remains to be done
to secure the utter abolition of the slave
trade for which Livingstone labored and
prayed, as well to degenerate the
Africans themselves Therefore the Lon
don Missionary Society is seeking to
raise $4,000 for this particular purpose,
contributions ranging from shilling up
70 large sums being solicited. Undoubt-
eddy some persons in America will be
glad to share in this worthy enterprise.
For the first time in nearly a quar-
ter of a century the general conven-
ton of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in this country is to be held in New
triennial convention. 1t Will open on
Wednesday, October s, 1918, and will last
about three weeks.
Once in every three years diocesan
conventions choose four clerical deputies
and four lay deputies, and missionary
districts choose one clerical and one
lay deputy, to the general convention.
Upon the morning of the first day of the
general convention about ITO bishops
and 800 deputies. equally divided between
clergymen and laymen. representing
about 1,00o,00 communicates, will gather
for service in the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine. They will come from sixty
eight dioceses, twenty-three missionary
districts. and ten foreign jurisdictions Of
the church.
The convention sits as two houses
the house of bishops and the house of
deputies-each having a veto upon the
other. Its primary object is to make
laws for the government of the Protes-
ant Episcopal Church in this country, to
some extent in the form of constitutional
provisions, requiring action by two sue
cessive conventions, but generally in the
form of resolutions adopted by each
convention for itself, and in the termi-
nology of ecclesiastical law, known as
canons.
In the house of deputies there are
fourteen standing committees appointed
by the president-always a clergyman
subject to the limitation that each of
the eight missionary departments into
which the church within the United
States is distributed must be represent
ed. Besides the fourteen standing COM
mittees. there are thirty-four joint COM
n1ittees and commissions OF the two
houses, sitting between conventions,
eight OF which are appointed to con-
slider ecclesia stical relations and activ-
tiles with other communions. religions
and peoples; six to revise the church's
services OF prayer and praise and WISH
taticn; four to provide for the education
of the clergy; four others to look after
the better care and support of the
clergy; one to provide for them an ulti-
mate court OF appears, one TO
rpon the questions OF provinces; five for
the church's missions of help-to the
seamen,. the blind, the deaf, and the
foreign-born: and, finally, the social
service commission.
The house of bishops will meet in
Old Synod Hall. but its sessions are pri-
vate. The house of clerical and lay
deputies. of which the sessions are pub
Gc will meet in the New Synod Hall,
presented to the New York Diocese by
the late Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan, and by
the late W. Bayard Cutting, at their
joint expense, the estimated cost being
$3.50, coo. The Woman's Auxiliary will
meet at st. Michaels Church, and mis-
sionary meetings will be held in the
cathedral unless otherwise announced.
AS announced in The Washington Her
aid yesterday, Rev. DR.. Forrest ]. Pretty
man, chaplain of the United States Sem
ate and for four years presiding elder
of the Washington District Southern
Methodist churches, will not serve as
pastor of Epworth Church, but will take
up the pastorate of the Mount Pleasant
congregation. He was assigned to the
Epworth Church at the recent Confer
ence of Southern NJ. E. Churches, but
a change was decided upon by Bishop
Kilgo, following the close OF the con-
ference.
In the list Of changes OF pastors made
by Bishop Kilgo he selected Rev. r. L.
Fultz, the pastor of Epworth Church. to
become presiding elder of the Moores-
vile, Md, District churches, despite the
fact that DR.. Prettyman, as presiding
elder of the Washington District, had
stated that the people of Epworth |
Church desired the pastor returned to |
them for another year.
After the assignments were made pub |
lie DR. Prettyman made an appeal to the |
Bishop for the change, and he at once
assigned the chaplain Of the Senate to |
the. Mount Pleasant congregation. Rev. |
]. c, Copenhaver goes to Front Royal, |
Va, instead OF to Mount Pleasant; Rev. |
Mr.. Fultz returns to Epworth Church, |
and Rev. H. A. Brown, of Front Royal, |
becomes presiding elder of the Moores- |
willie District.
to have a worlds convention at Sydney, |
Australian March a year hence! !
Meanwhile the Sunday school folks, be-
cause their great convocation is the |
nearer. are working just now much
harder than the Endeavorers to get |
ready. The lure of the Swiss Lakeland
mountain city, Zurich, is a spell under |
which hundreds of eager American Sun
day school people are dreaming of de-
lightful June journey across the Allan
tic. Over 700 have already registered
for the trip with Mr.. Hartshorn, In
Boston. 1t is a bit OF sidelight on the
ubiouitv of the American in this round /