The sun., 1919-10-15
BISHOP LAUDS JAPAN
!. IN SHANTUNG ISSUE
Prelate From Toxic Declares
Chinese Government Is
Untrustworthy.
NIPPON KEEPS IT'S WORD
Episcopal Church Convention
/. Faces Fight on Marriage.
! Of Divorced Persons.

DETROIT, Oct 14,-Shantung, returned
to China by Japan, would within two
years be bartered to some other nation,
declared Bishop John McKim OF Tokio
to the Triennlal General Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Church here to-
day. during discussion of mission needs
abroad. He maintained that the recog
nized Chinese Government Is corrupt and
untrustworthy and that there is no stable
government to which Japan could return
Shantung.
Bishop McKim also said he believed
Japan had some good reason for holding
Shantung. Japan says she will return
Shantung I'd China" he continued, "and
Japan always keeps her word 1 wish
,sould say the same for the United States
lGovernment"
Bishop McKim declared that the
unjust acts credited to Japan in Corea
were not the acts of the Japanese Gov
ernment or the Japanese people, and that
the guilty soldiers are being court
martialed
Bishop Frederick r. Graves Of Shang-
hal, China, declared that 1t Is the opin-
ion OF every Chinese that his nation
IS being torn from him." On questions
from the floor touching the Shantung
and Corean situations DR.. Roswell Page
OF Virginia declared that 1t was not
'.meet to bring up such political bicker-
ing when the greatest man in the world,
perhaps the greatest Christian the
world has ever known, is on his sick
bed and may perhaps give his life for
the cause of peace and civilization"
Bishop H r. Hulse of Cuba. in a
plea for continuance of church acuvi-
ties to bring about closer relations be-
tween the United States and the southern
countries, declared that Latin America
looks upon the north with admiration
and suspicion" He declared the churc
can allay these suspicious
Both the House of Bishops ana the
House of Deputies to-day approved the
plan to separate from the Diocese OF
Southern Virginia the thirty-two West
ern counties, with 5000 communicates
and to create a new diocese.
A dual report on the proposed revision
Of the canons to prohibit the marriage
by an Episcopal minister of a divorced
person whose husband or wife Is living
was presented in the House OF Deputies.
The majority report suggested that tne
adoption of the revision was "1nexpedl-
emit" while the minority report favored
the amendment. A spirited battle In
the house Is anticipated.
PRAYERS for President Wilson were Of
fered in the House of Bishops by Bishop
Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee.
Declaring he was "revolutionist'
the Rev. Mercer G.. Johnston, FORMER
rector of Trinity Church. Newark. n. j.,
startled churchmen at the daily Social
Forum. The sincerity of his attitude
was questioned from the floor. The
Newark man, a returned chaplain from
overseas. who now has no pastoral
charge, said he would be ashamed TO
be an American" were he "not Just as
much of revolutionist as George Wash
ington," and that he held with des-
perate hands to representative govern
ment-"
The first public utterances on the
proposed concordat with the Congrega-
tional Church were made tonight In
an address by DR.. William T. Manning
of New York, and Bishop Charles p
Anderson OF Chicago, of the Episcopal
Church, and DR.. Joseph A. Vance oil
Detroit, representing the Presbyterian
Church.