The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-30
WANT HEAD FOR CHURCH,
SOME EPISCOP\LINNS WOULD
HAVE DIGN'TARY SIMILAR TO
POPE.
biShop futile Opposes Plan-IIc De-
clarcS Danger Turks Along The
Line of Its DcyciOpmcnt-COny
ton to Consider.

Shall it take step now that may
lead to having one generations
hcncc?"
This question will come up i'm tn"
Episcopal General Convention. mcc,-
ing in this city in October. 1t is not
SO wordcd but it is 50 regarded Bish-
op Tuttlc, of Missouri, has so char
actcrizcd it, and declared himself yp-
posed to the scheme, and some years
ago in previous general convention
Rev. DR.. w. NJ. Grosvcnor, of tins
city, Il deputy from New York, shout
cd out the inquiry when the scheme
was up:
will he be Leo XIV, or Plus KIP
Everybody laughed and the plan for
the moment was dead. 1t is coming
up again, and a good many Eplsco-
pal leaders think it will pass.
Presbytcrians are commissioning
scmblies Congregationalists author
iZe their National Council Modera-
tor to do the same. Epscopalians
give that bishop who has been long
est in bishops orders the work of
all Presiding Bishop, which does not
at all mean that he shall preside, for
the House of bishops elect another
bishop to do that, but that he shall
represent the Episcopal Church in
many functions of its work
The trouble is that it is usually
found that the senior bishop is an
old man. Sometimes he is not fitted,
whether old or young, to discharge
the duties. Besides, it is desired by
many to put upon him many moro
duties, making him head of the great
official societies, like missions, relig-
ious education and the rest. such Of
flee means big pay, big staff of help
ers, an official residence, and some
profess not to know what it may
mean in the course of time.
The present senior Episcopal bish-
op is TT. Rev DR.. Daniel :. Tuttle,
Of Missouri. Although II years OF
age, he is vigorous and able, and will
be one of the great figures of the con
vCntiOn in this city six weeks hence
1t is not proposed to displacc him.
The three bishops next in rank to him
are Rishop Niles, of New Hampshire;
Bishop Scarborough, of New Jersey.
and Bishop Garrett, of Texas. All
are past so years of age. Five or six
next in rank are much past 20.
law will be brought forward in
this convention making the Office
elective, and there is talk of locating
a young and vigorous bishop as head
of all at Washington. From there he
is to manage many vast interests. He
will be free from local duties, and
will give all of his time to general
ones. y somewhat similar PROPOSE
ton is made by Congregationalists in
the selection of Il secretary of their
national council. While far apart in
policy, both bodies are confronted by
the same needs, an official admins
traitor, and both are talking about
clccting such officers
Bishop Tutlc, the present presid-
ing bishop is out with a statement in
opposition to the scheme He points
out the danger as he sees it, He
says:
This would be a new Departure
Danger turks along the line of it's de-
vclopmcnt. The bishop elected would
he young man. He would be Il
strong man, probably. 1T were a
strange thing if he were without am
bition. 1t were a stranger thing if
he were to fail to see manifold op-
portunitics to he seized for the good
of the church. If he did not seize
them his sclf-rcstraint would take
on quite the shape of sclf-reproach.
II he did seize them, up rises Il
briStling army Of opposition.
THE scheme looks to the introduce
ing of a mOnarchial plan which in
time might take on Il Hildcbrandian
touch and tone"
Bishop Tuttle then points out the
oxpense-$1O,O 900 year at least
with pension later ON, ana adds
that with many other taxes upon
Christian people this one moy, he
thinks, be decided without danger or
damage.
y problem, a very real one, con-
fronts all religious bodics--how to
have a head, and have it effective,
yet not sec it grow with the genera
tionS into what they regard as
m"narchical ana away from dcmoc-
raCy.
Remarkable Cure OF Dyscntcry