The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-24
There are Seven Major Questions to
be Settled at the Convention
Which Meets at Detroit
Soon.
UNITY ACTION OPPOSED
Revision Of Prayer Book and AdminIs-
tration of Pension Fund are
Two of the Disturbing
Elements.

When the nine hundred bishops,
priests and laymen of the Episcopal
church meet three weeks hence in De-
troit they will have at least seven
major questions to settle for their con-
stituency Of million and half mem
bers writer in the New York Sun
says.
Unrest attributed to the reconstruc-
ton period, the ancient differences
between high church and low church
followers and questions of policy con-
confront the delegates, according to
church authorities, who declare that a
division is threatened throughout the
country On some of the issues under
discussion.
Charges of one man domination, OF
unfairness of administration and OF
commercialism are made in connection
with the $S,500,000 pension fund,
which was raised under the leader
ship OF Bishop Lawrence of Massachu-
sets. This fund, of which Mcneil
Sayre Of New York is expert adviser,
was aided by the sale of hymnals, and
new ones were then published and
churches urged to buy. The pension
fund committee will report at Detroit.
prayer book is reported to have Of
Tended large numbers Of churchmen by
preparing virtually new prayer book
and eliminating Trinity Sunday ana
! season and substituting the Catholic
observance Of Pentecost. A third ques-
ton before the delegates will be the
subject of the proposed unity or
churches to be effected later at Gen
eva. The Episcopal church led In
this movement, and j. Pierpont Nor
gan contributed 100000 to aid in its
accomplishment. With the exception
of the Roman Catholic church no
churches objected to the plan How
ever, following an attempted unity
with the Congregationalists. certain
groups of Episcopalians are openly de-
claring that they will form a new
church If these endeayors are not
ended.
Efforts begun ten years ago to have
the sessions of the house of bishops at
, the general convention open to the
public will be renewed this year, 1t Is
reported, when several newly conse-
Grated bishops are expected to vote
for open doors. A fifth question will
be whether the eight provinces adopt
ed by the Episcopal church after the
Roman Catholic plan are to have sep
arate legislative houses with real
power. Opponents contend that the
next step would be archbishops, metro
politans and the accoms Anying train
Of ecclesiasticism.
Adjustment of the missinary squad
BILE resulting from the practice of
ritualistic and doctrinal departures at
the Igorrote mission, founded in the
Philippines by two st. Mary and Eir-
gin representatives, under Bishep
Brent, now of Buffalo, is also to come
before the convention. Bishop Graves
of China ordered the practices stopped
at the mission, and the ministers
there replied that they would resign
first A question involving the funda-
mentals of Episcopal doctrine is
bound up in this matter as well az
whether Bishop Brent or Bishop
Graves shall be upheld according to
church members.
The board of missions is projecting
a business plan to take over the
church functions of education and
social service. and this subject Will
make a seventh question for the con'
vention to decide, it is said, Those
who are in opposition to the plan al