Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-13
FUTILE PRAISES ENGLAND
FOR ITS ATTITUDE IN WAR
Declares Contest Is Being Wnged
Unfalteringly I'm Interests OF
Justice and Liberty.
GREETs FRATERNAL DELEGATES
Episcopal Convention Applauls Ref
crcnce to CanonS of Canadian
Church on Divorce Question.
Greetings From Mother Church.

ST. IoriESy A Scfabnr iitsss .fcrepces
TO the European war were frequent at
the sessions OF the General Convention
OF the Protestant Episcopal Church
here to-day.
The RICH, Rev. Iiuyschc Wolcott
Ycatman- BisGs. Bishop of Worcester
England. and the Right Rev. Henry I'll.
Montgomery, secretary of tho Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel,
Church OF England, conveyed the
greeting of the mother church 10 the
convention. and the Most Rev George
Thornloc. Archbishop of AlGoma. Ont.
and tho Right Rev. David Williams
Bishop of Huron. Ont. expressed the
good will of tho Episcopal Church Of
Canada. The pulpit from which they
spoke wns decorated with the nnss
Of the United states. England and
Canada.
In receiving the fratcrnal delegates
the Right Rev. Daniel s. futile. Of
81. Louis. presiding bishop. said:
You have come from Il country
Scared and scanned by IA gigantic war
war begun unscliislily and being
wagcd mfaltcringly in the interests OF
ton and preservation of international
rights"
Il could not stand here 10 reply to
your gracious welcome without touch
ing the things which SO deeply move
us at home in the great war said ting
bishop Of Worcester.
sEGS AMERICA TO REMEMBER
HOW INTRICATE ARE ISSUES
The bishop said America had always
stood for justice. for humanity. for
freedom aud for srlf-govcrnment. and
in concluding he begged that. i'm judg-
ing England'S action in conducting the
war, Americans remember how intri-
cate ana how complicated are the
issues"
The Bishop Of Al=oma brought
cheers from the house when he mem
toned that among the canons of the
Canadian church is one forbidding n
clergyman to rcmarry divorced per-
son who has II former partner living.
The canon corresponds 10 the one pro-
posed in tho report submitted To the
convention to-day by the joint COM
mission on matrimony, OF which
Joseph b. Cheshire of Raleigh, Bishop
OF North Carolina. is chairman.
The commission recommended that
where it is claimed a divorce has been
granted for causes arising before
marriage, and satisfactory evidence is
presented. such a decree being in fact
Il decree Of annulmcnt." is no bar to
the marriage Of either party.
The present canon of the church per-
mits a minister to perform the cere-
mony in the case of the marriage of
the innocent party to II divorce granted
on statutory grounds, provided the
| Clergyman has received the consent of
| his bishop.
The commission recommended also
that the refusal OF the church Ia bless
and solcmnizc Il marriage need not be
followed by II permanent exclusion
from the sncramcnts.
The commission reported that il
would be unwise and "uncalied for
for the Episcopal Church TO protest
against the decree OF the Roman Cath
Ollie Church, declaring invalid the mar
riRge OF II Roman Catholic unless the
ceremony is performed by q priest.
The rcpor, of the commission must
he ratified by the two houses OF the
convention.
WOULD PERMIT JEWS T0
RETAIN RACIAL. CUSTOMS
y resolution permitting Jews who
become communicates OF the Protestant
| Episcopal Church 10 retain their racial
customs was introduced in the house
| OF deputies by the Rev. Floyd Tomkins
! OF Philadelphia, but was referred to
committee without debate. The reso-
| luton offered provided that the Prot
estant Episcopal Church proclaim tC
! the Jews that they are free, il they
| so desire, TO observe the national and
| social customs OF Israel when they
adopt our Lord Jesus Messiah, accord
| Ing to the teaching and practice OF
primitive shurch.
| Funds saved in the mite-boNes by
thousands a. American Episcopal wo-
men in the las, three years TO he de-
voted 10 tho support Of women mis-
/ sonaricS. were collected to-day at Tho
/ united offerings service" OF the wo-
! mans auXiliary, holding sessions stimuli
| convention. After Il communion SER
vice the money, which previously had
/ been placed in the hands OF the sixty
| eight diocesan and the twcnty-one mis-
/ siunarv district officers of The church
was presented ut the altar in Il golden
F., aims basin.
[ COUNTING or MoNEH
CONTINUES TiIUOlGiI MORNING
Counting OF the money continued
through the morning. and the amount
a vuS a uuuOuurcI al