The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-21
EPISCOP PALIANS
 TO BE STRICTER > WITH DIVORCED
General Convention Will. Discuss Establishing of
 More Stringent Laws.

New York, Sept 21.-Arrangements are announced here for the 44th tri- enniaI general convention of the Pro- testant Episcopal church, which will be held in St. Louis, beginning Octo- | Der II, to continue for the greater part of three weeks.
 Among the important subjects which will come before the convention are reports from commissions which have been sitting for the past three years drawing up proposals for the re- vision and enrichment of the prayer | book, stricter laws for dealing with the question of re-marriage of divorc- cd persons. and the provision of a bishop to have special oversight of work among. the negroes. Bishops will also be elected for South Dakota, | Western Colorado, and Liberia. Among a number of special feat ures of the convention there will be an opening sermon by the Right. Rev. | Sylvester Futile, Bishop of Missouri, who is the senior prelate of the Epis- copal Church and who this year eel ebrates the 50th anniversary of his election to the episcopate.
 Another notable event will be the triennia1 service of the Woman's Aux Hilary to the Board of Missions which is to be held in Christ Church Cathe- dral, October 12. At this service will be presented the women's missionary offering which three years ago amounted to s265,0O0. It is expected that this amount will be exceeded this year.
 An entirely new feature will be the stag ging of a Pageant of the Church in The Coliseum, building seating four teen thousand people. The Pageant will present in pictorial form the main events in the history of the Church. Over two thousand persons will take | part.
 l. The general convention is compos- i ed of the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, which sit sepa- rately with each having veto on the other,
 There are now in the Church one hundred and twenty-two bishops, and they will all be in attendance, with very few exceptions due to the mfr mites of age. Bishop Vincent of Southern Ohio, is chairman of the
 House, and the secretary is the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart, of Middletown, Ct
 
 an equal number of clerical and lay members, and has membership of six hundred and ten.> Each of the 6S | dioceses of the United States Is en- titled to send four delegates of each order and the 23 domestic missionary districts are represented by one ,cler. gyman and one layman. as are also | the 10 foreign missionary districts The President of the House is the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, rector of Trinity Church, Boston, and the Rev. Dr. Henry Anstice of New York is | Secretary.
 | Most of the. meetings will be held I in Moolah Temple. The churchmen l of St. Louis have raised $25,000 for 1 the entertainment of the delegates. In addition to the official representatives, some thousands of church people will be in attendance from every state in the Union ,and from Cuba. Porto Rico, Honolulu, the Philippines, Mexico, i China, Japan and Africa.
 1 The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Bishop of Worcester and Bishop Montgomery, formerly | Bishop of Tasmania to represent the Church of England at this convention. and the Canadian Church will send Archbishop Thornelow to convey the fraternal greetings of the Dominion of Canada.