Arizona republican., 1913-10-06
Intellect and Power of the Church ill the United States Are Concentrating in New York City for Sessions
MANY DIGNITARTES
 TO BE PRESENT
Will Begin on Wednesday in the Morning With a Procession of Bishops and
 Clergy and Remain in Ses- sion About Three Weeks
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 and the power of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States are concentrating in New York city in anticipation of the opening on Wednesday of the fOrty-thir trien- nial convention of the church. On every train distinguished bishops. ac- tive clergymen and influential lay men from all parts of the country are pouring into the city, until even the corridors of many of the big Broadway hotels for once in their his- tory might be mistaken for the ves- tibules of churches. so numerous therea bout are men of priestIy 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 twenty four years that the general convention of the Protestant Episco- pal church is held in this city. It will begin on Wednesday next, in the morning, with a procession of the bishops and clergy, and will remain in session about three weeks. About 110 bishops and 500 deputies, equally divided between cIergymen and lay men, will take part in the convention. They will come from sixty eight dio- ceses, twenty three missionary dis tricts and ten foreign jurisdictions of the church and will represent more than 1,000,000 cOmmunicants. The convention will sit as two houses, the house of bishops and the house of deputies, each having veto power over the other. The primary object of these conventions is to make laws for the government of the Protestant Episcopal church in this country, to some extent in the form of consti- tutiOnal provisions, requiring action by two successive conventions but generally in the form of resolutions adopted by each convention for itself and in the terminology of ecclesiasti- cal law 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- partments in which the church with in the United States is distributed must be represented. Besides the fourteen standing committees there are thirty-four joint committees and commissions of the two houses sit ting between conventions, eight of which were appointed to consider ecclesiastic relations and activities with other communiOns, religions and peoples; six to revise the church's services Of prayer and praise and visitation; four to provide for the education of the clergy; four others to look after the care and support of the clergy; one to provide for them an ultimate court of appeals; one to report upon the question of pro- Vinces; five for the church's mis- sions of help.
 The house of bishops. which has a roll of 115 without counting bishops elect who have not yet been cOnse- crated, will hold it's sessions at the old Synod house on the cathedral grounds of St. John the Divine. The Right Rev pr. Daniel Sylvester Tut tie, bishop of Missouri, who is the senior bishop of the church. will preside. To relieve him an assistant president will be selected after the opening meeting.
 The house of deputies will hold it's sessions in the new Synod hall, an imposing new structure south of the choir part of the cathdral which was erected for such purpose through the generosity of the late Pierpont Nor gan and the late w. Bayard Cutting. The Rev pr. Randolph H. McKfm will preside at the sessions until new presiding officer shall be elected. There will be a spirited contest for the honor of that position and it is expected that there will be at least ten candidates in the field.
 The convention will open on next Wednesday morning with com munion service in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine The bishops will meet at the old Synod hall the deputies at the new Synod hall. At the appointed time a procession will be formed, led by the famous Cathed- ral choir under the direction of Miles Farrow, the choir leader and organ ist of the cathdral. Following the choir will come the members of the house of deputies and these in turn will be followed by the bishops marching in reverse order of their rank, carrying out the divine com mand that the last shall be the first and the first last"
 From the old Synod house the pro-
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