New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-13
EPISCOPALIANS
HIT AT DIVORCE
Session Asked to Extend
Prohibition Against
RemarriageS
lBy telegraph TO The Tribunsl

ST. Louis, Oct. ia Church law
which would make it impossible for
person divorced for any cause arising
after marriage TO be married again by
an Episcopal clergyman was recon-
mended to-day to the Triennisl Con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church by the Joint commission on
legislation on matters relating to holy
matrimony. The report of the com
mission, which must be ratified by both
houses Of the convention TO become a
law of the Church, was presented by
Joseph y. Cheshire, of Raleigh, Bishop
of North Carolina.
After several vain efforts to bring to
a vote Bishop Cheshire's proposal fur
Their discussion Of the issue was post
poned until next Saturday. The House
Of Bishops, the upper house, announced
it would consider the proposal when
the report of the action OF the lower
house is presented to them.
Careful instruction in the response
bilities and obligations of matrimony
should be given much more frequently
by the clergy, the commission de
clared II was also suggested that the
refusal Of the Church TO bless and
solemnIze G marriage need not be fol-
lowed by permanent exclusion from
the sacraments. At present the Church
permits clergymen to perform we'd
ding ceremony if one of the parties TO
the contract has been the innocent
party in a divorce.
The Most Reverend George Thornloe,
Archbishop of Algoma, Ontario, was
cheered when he reminded the conven-
ton that the Canadian Church had a
canon similar TO the one recommended
by the commission.
Greetings from the Mother Church
were brought by the Right Reverend
Huysche WolcOtt Yeatman- Biggs, Blsh-
op of Worcester, England, and the
Right Reverend Henry H. Montgom-
cry, secretary of the Society for the
Propagation Of the Gospel, Church OF
England. Archbishop Thornloe and the
Right Reverend David Williams. Bish-
op Of Huron, Ontario. expressed the
good will Of the Canadian Church.
81 am not here to touch politics for
one moment" said the Bishop OF
Worcester. 81 can believe that Ameri-
cans may not have approved OF every
move which we have been Obliged TO
make in our most comptlc&Jeu issues u
war on sea, land and in the air, but
one thing is clear: You have always
stood for justice, for humanity, for
freedom and for selfgoyernment. You
have stood for dignity of nations, and
these are the principles which we think
Justify US of the Church Of England,
who are men Of peace, in supporting
the cause Of war"
A resolution permitting Jews who
become communicates of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church to retain their
racial customs was introduced in the
house Of deputies by the Rev Floyd
Tomkibs, of Philadelphia, and referred
to committee. -,
The Very Rev. Barnard |. Bell, OF
Fond du Lac, Wis, urged the passage
OF resolution calling for the consid-
Grafton Of strict justice TO the indi-
vidual in a scheme Of social service.
Union men, he declared, were miles
on miles ahead in the spiritual path
way" of unorganized workmen.
Progress was being made in convert
ing Mormonism," the Rt. Rev. Paul
Jones, Missionary Bishop OF Utah, told
the convention. :,
The Rev. f. A. White, Of Newark, n.
j.. was made chairman of the commit
tee on canons.