Arizona republican., 1916-10-19
EP|SCOPAL|ANS DEN NY WOMEN
 EQUAL RIGHTS
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

ST. LOUIS. Oct 1S.-Women were denied equal rights with men in two actions taken today by the house of bishops of the Protestant Episcopal general convention in session here.
 A proposal to permit women to sit as delegates in the general convention was rejected while a request from the Right Rev. Logan H. Roots bishop of Hankow, to be allowed to admit women to membership in his advisory council was denied. The house suggested to the bishop of HanlIow, it was stated, that he might create an auxiliary coun- cil of women.
 The proposal to give women equal rights with men in the convention was sponsored by Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner Maine. A similar resolution is now on the calendar of the house ! of deputies. and, it was pointed out 1 today's action in the upper house does not preclude it's being discussed in the [ lower body. Since concurrence of the | two houses is necessary. in the event | the house of deputies should approve | the proposal it will go to the house of 1 bishops for reconsideration.
 The house of bishops, which also i considered changes recommended in the | communion service by the commission on the book of common prayer will sug l gest in it's report to the house of dep 1 uties that the Ten Commandments be printed in the prayer book in both their | shortened form and in their full form
 and that elergymen be given optional
 use of either in the service, it was | said. The commission had recommend
 ed that five of the commandments be l shortened as read fn the communion | service by the elimination of the req i sons. Efforts to have the prayer of | George Washington, uttered upon the l occasion of his laying down the su- preme command of the federal armies, adapted and substituted for the pres
 ent prayer for our country" in the
 book of common prayer, were inaug- urated in the house of deputies by Ro-
 land $. Morris of Philadelphia. MT. Morris introduced a resolution which
 resulted in a prayer, which had been
 recommended by the commission on
 the prayer book, being recommitted to
 the commission with the suggestion
 that it consider the Washington pray
 CT. This pleads for Gods holy protec-
 ton for the United States. obedience
 for it's citizens, for their brotherly af-
 lection for each other. particularly for their brethren who have served in the , field" and that God will dispose us ] v
 The prayer suggested by the com mission asked that "our land be blessed
 with honorable industry, sound learn 1 ing. and pure manners It also asks
 that We be saved from violence. dis
 cord and confusion; from pride anC
 arrogance" and that our liberties b, i defended and our unity preserved
 Discussion of the revision of tn, evening prayer was concluded today
 a number of minor changes being
 agreed upon.
 In the main these looked toward greater lturgical flexibility and th
 dropping of archeic phrases, enablin;
 the clergy to adapt the service eithe
 to the ordered worship of metropoii
 tan cathedral or to that of d frontie | mission Discussion of new prayer
 resulted in the approval of one fo
 state officers and another for court of justice.
 ! The house of deputies confirmed tn election of the Rev. James Wise of St
 Louis as coadjutor bishop of Kansas. a Establishment of q permanent churcl publicity bureau because of the in |, creasing dependency of the church up | on the press" was urged in a resolu . ton adopted by the house of deputie 9 of the Protestant Episcopal genera
 convention.
 f The bureau, according to the plal e announced, is to study means of get 7 ting the co cooperation of the newspaper n of the country in carrying on the worl
 of the churches. In presenting tn ! resolution together with the report 0 f, the joint commission, Francis l.. Stet i son of New York asserted that tn Q church is under the greatest obligation Q to the press.
 f "The newspaper is the greatest pub d licity medium,' said the report Q Through the press we can accompls n great religious work in reaching tn n man outside the walls of our churches
 AltrIstic organizations of all kind O are depending more and more on tn r press for support of their work. As q matter of business efficiency thi
 church should follow the lead and es IF tablish a permanent publicity bureau. Q The house adopted a resolutio f thanking the press of the country fo e it's support in the present convention e Establishment of seamen's institute
 under church auspices in all importaI
 ports of the United States was urge
 in the report of the board of the Sea N mans Institute of America. This re
 port. presented by Edmund L. Baylis 2. of New York, reviewed the work the commission and said that institute n are now flourishing in New Yorl o Philadelphia. Baltimore, Charlesto IT and San Francisco.
 e "Furthering of this work is neces Tt sary with the increasing growth n. American commerce" said the repOT n The general convention went on rec r. ord as favoring movements looking |, -O ward the referendum and requests u l. clergy and the laity of the church h work for the enlightened and Christia
 trea frnenf of Irisnners