Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-24
WOULD ALLOW JEWS
TO RETAIN CUSTOMS
Deputies Make Ruling in Regard
to Those Who Are Commune
cants in Episcopal Church.
Reject WOMEN AS DELEGATES
Resolution Changing Present Sys-
tenn of Equal Diocesan Repre-
sentation Is Refused.
rBy Associated Press. ]

f'y associated Press
81. LOUIS, October 23.-Jews who
nave accepted Jesus Christ as the
Messiah and have become commuri-
cants OF the Protestant Episcopal
church may retain. If they desire, the
Je"ish national and racial customs and
ieasts. according to ruling of the
house Of deputies of the church's gem
erai convention, in session here to-day.
1t was asserted that there are in the
United states hundreds Of Jews who
nave accepted Christ, and yet have
hesitated TO affiliate with Christian
denominations because they do not
care 10 abandon their racial customs.
EHorts 10 have women permitted to
SIT as delegates in the house of depu-
TIES OF the general conference we're
abandoned to-day when. on the heels
Oh rejection at the hands of the
mouse OF bishops. n lower house COM
hittecrep1/ted the proposal adversely
II. III. Gardiner, of Gardiner. Me-,
sponsor for the movement. consented
to his resolution being tabled
Inc house of deputies refused by dio-
cesar vote to adopt the resolution of a
special committee proposing the pres
ent system of equal diocesan repre-
sentation I'm the house of deputies to
be changed to one Of proportionate
representation. Several hours of de-
bate preceded the vote
REFUSE To GIVE VOTE
TO SUFFRAGAN BISHOP
The lower house refused to confer
with the house of bishops in its action
giving vote in the upper house to
suffragan bishop. Concurrent action is
necessary However, the lower house
adopted resolution providing for :,
constitutional amendment allowing
sufrasans TO substitute in the event
OF the death or disability of the
bishop.
The house of bishops to-day rejected
proposal to open to the press and
public their sessions, which have been
heid behind closed doors since the first
triennial convention in 17Sa
Employers of the United States
Should give larger consideration to
the problem of the unemployable. Rev.
Ernest NJ. Stires, of New York, said In
an address in the social-service forum
OF the Protestant Episcopal General
Convention here to-day. DR.. Stires
distinguished between the unemployed.
those able to work and unable to
obtain employment" and the ''unem-
ployable. those who would work. but
are incapacitated by physical or mental
infirmities"
He urged that Christians through
out the country follow the lead of the
Morgan Memorial, of Boston. and the
goodwill industries of Brooklyn in
saving the self-respect of the unem-
ployable by giving them three or four
hours work daily. such ms they can do
despite their infirmities.
over some opposition the reelection
OF Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd as presi
dent of the board of missions, the most
important board of the church. was
confirmed in the house of deputies to-
day. He previously had been reelected
by the house of bishops
OPPOSITION AS PROTEST. TO
PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
The opposition, according to state
ments made on, the floor Of the house
was intended as a protest against the
action of the board in sending repre
sentatives TO a Pan American Mission
AIRY Conference of Protestant denomi-
nations in Panama last February over
the objections of several members. Re-
election of George Gordon King. of
Newport. r. L., as treasurer of the
board of missions and the elections Of
the members by the house OF bishops
also were confirmed in the lower house
resolution offered in the house Of
deputies by Rev. Martin Aigner. OF
Franklin. Pa. and referred to the COM
mittee on prayer books, would substi-
tute the words "of the Holy Catholic
church" on the title page Of the PRAYER
book for the words "of the church :"
Leaders of the convention asserted~fhat
since the church is named in it's con-
stitntion The Protestant Episcopal
Church of the United States OF Amer.
ica," the proposed substitution can
have no effect on the church title
Earlier declarations that there prob.
ably would be nc attempt in this con-
vention to change the church name
were reiterated.
The fifty years of service as a bishon
OF the Right Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle. OF
st. Louis, presiding bishop of this
church, was commemorated to-day at n
Joint session of the two houses. The
Right Rev. Davis Scssums, Bishop of
Louisiana, pad tribute to the work of
Bishop Tuttle, especially that OF his
earlier days i'm the missionary fields Of
Montana. Idaho and Utah.