Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-04
EPISCOPAL HEADS
 IN HUGE CONCLAVE
Bishops and Deputies Assem-
 bly in New York Will Rep
 resent 100000 Followers

and the power of the Protestant Epis- eopal church in the United States are concentrating in New York City in an-
 tieipatioI. of the opening next Wedn- esday of the forty-third triennial con vention of the church. On every train
 distinguished bishops, syctive clergy men and influential laymen from all
 parts of the country are pouring into
 the city, until even the corridors of
 many of the big Broadway hotels for cnce in their history might be niis- takeE for the yestibules of churches,
 so numerous thereabout are men Of
 priestly mien. At many aristocratic residences in upper Manhattan and in
 Brooklyn bishops and clergymen have found splendid quarters
 This will be the first time in about Itwenty-four years that the general con yention of the Protestant Episcopal church is held in this city. It will be
 gin on Wednesday next in the morn. ing, with q procession of the bishops and clergy, and will remain in session about three weeks. About 11O bishops and 500 deputies, equally divided be. tween clergymcn and laymen, will take come from 6S dioceases, g missionary part iE the convention. They will districts and 10 foreign Jurisdictions of the church and will represent more than 100000 communicants. The convention will sit as two houses, the house of bishops an dthe house of dep uties, each having veto power over the
 other The primary object of these l conventions is to make laws for the government of the Protestant Episco- pal church in this country, to some extent in the form of constitutional provisions requiring action by two successive conventions, but generally in the Borm of resolutions adopted by each convention for itself and in the LfATllttLOlDS. Oi tCtlSSidSlsSeAi idN known as canons.
 In the house of deputies there are fourteen standing committees ap- pointed by the president, always a clergyman, subject to the limitation that each of the eight missionary de- tpartments in which the church within the United States is distributed must be represented Besides the fourteen standing committees there are thirty four joiLt cimmittees and commissions of the two houses sitting between con- ventions, eight of which were ap-
 pointed to consider eecIesiastic rela tions and activities with other com munions, religions and peoples; six to revise the churcn's services of proper and praise and visitst.on; four to
 provide for the education of the cler- gy four others to look after the sale ! and support of the clergy; one to i provide for them an ultimate court of appeals; one to report upon the ques- l ton of provinces; five for the church's
 missions of help.
 The House of Bishops which has
 roll call of 115 without counting i bishops-elect who have not yet been l consecrated. will hold it's sessions at ! the old Synod House on the Cathedral
 grounds of St. John the Divine. The Right Reverend Dr Daniel Sylvester
 Futile. Bishop cf Missouri, who is the cenior bishop cf the church, will i preside. To relieve him an assistant ] president will be selected after the
 opening meeting.
 i The House of Deputies will hold it's
 sessions in the new Synod Hall, an i'm posing nes structure structure south of the choir par. of the Cathedral, which was erected for such purpose
 through the generosity of the late
 Pierpont Morgan and the late w. Bay
 ard Cutting. The Rev. iDr. Randolph | NJ McKim will preside at the session until new presiding officer shall be elected. There will be spirited con
 test fer the honor of that position and ! it is expected that there will be at least ten candidates in the field.
 The convention will open next ! Wednesday morning with a commun- ] ion service in the Cathedral Of St. John the Divine The bishops will
 meet at the old Syrod Hall, the depu-
 ties at the new Synod Hall. At the
 appointed time @ procession will be
 formed led by the famous Cathedral
 choir under the direction of Niles Far
 row, the choir leader and organist
 of the Cathedray. Following the choir
 will come the members Of the Houses
 of Deputies and these in turn will be
 followed by the bishops. marching in reverse order of their rank. carrying
 out the divine command that "the last
 shall he the first and the first last
 From the old synod House the pro
 cession will march to the Cathedral.
 where a solemn communion service
 will be conducted by RishoD Futile,
 assisted by Bishop David F. Greer
 Of New York and several other noted leaders of the Church. The sermon S.oR that oceasidn wilI 5be deIiyered- bE { fsishop William Lawrence of Massa
 chusetts. On the following day an Eothor cpacsaf ee-t-foo .,-srI T.o bera a.