The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-09-27
Triennial Conven-
ton of The Epis- !.
copal Church

New York, Sept. z5.-Arrange
ments are announced here for the
44th triennial general convention
of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, which will be held in
St. Louis beginning October IL,
to continue for the greater part of
three weeks.
Among the important subjects
which will come up before the
convention are reports from com
missions which have been sitting
for the past three years drawing
up proposals for the revision and
enrichment of the prayer book,
stricter laws for dealing with the
question of re-marriage of divorc-
ed persons, and the provision Of
bishop to have special oversight
of work among the negroes.
Bishops will also be elected for
South Dakota, Western Colorado,
ana Liberia.
Among a number of special
features 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 Episcopal
church and who this year cele-
brates the 50th anniversary of his
election to the episcopate.
Another notable event will be
the triennial service of the Wom-
ans Auxiliary to the Board of
Missions which is to be held in
Christ Church Cathedral, Octo-
Der Il. At this service will be
presented the women's mission
airy offering which three wears
ago amounted to sos, 500 Il is
expected that this amount will be
exceeded this year.
An entirely new feature will be
the staging of a Pageant of the
Church in The Coliseum, a build
ing seating over $4,000 people.
The Pageant will present in pic
torial form the main events in the
history of the church. Over two
thousand persons will take part.
The general convention is com
posed of the House of Bishops
and the House of Deputies, which
sit separately, with each having
veto on the other.
There are now in the church
one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
bishops, and they will all be in
attendance with very few excep-
tons due to the infrmities of age.
Bishope Vincent of Sothern Ohio.
is chairman of the House, and the
secretary is the Rev. DIR. Samuel
Hart, of Middletown, Conn.
The House Of Deputies consists
OF clerical and lay members, and
has membership of six hundred
and ten. Each of the o8 diocese
OF the United States is entitled
to send four delegates of each
order and the % domestic mis-
sionary districts are represented
by one clergyman and one lay
men, as are also the foreign mis-
sionary districts. The President
OF the House is the Rev. DR.. Alex
ander Mann, rector of Trinity
Church, Boston, and the Rev. DR..
Henry Austice, of New York. is
Secretary.
Most of the meetings will be
held in Moolah Temple. The
churchmen of St. Louis have rails
ed $4,000 for 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 Gu
ba. Porto Rico, Honolulu, the
PHILIPPINES, Mexico, China, Ja-
pan and Africa.
The Archbishop of Canterbury
has appointed the Bishop of
Worcester and Bishop Montgom-
cry, formerly of Tasmania, to rep
resent the Church of England at
this convention, and the Canadian
church will send Archbishop
Thornelow to convey the frater-