The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-01
ALL IS READY
 FOR CONVENTION
 OF THE CHURCH
Rev. Guy D. Christian Gives an Advance Arti- cIe on Episcopal Church
 Convention
(Hy REV. GUY DEAN CHRISTIAN

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 30.-Tht oldest national religious Legislative body in the United States is the Triennial General Convention of lhe Episcopal church, which assemblies in this city October 8, to continue in session three weeks.
 The first general convention date! back to 17S4, only eight years aftel the American Declaration of lnde pendence However far back of tEa the church itself had a foundatiot dating from the first permanent Eng fish settlement in these states. il 1907, at Jamestown, Va.
 Descended From English Church
 The Episcopal church is the linea descendant of the Church of England It's parishes were first missions II all of the colonies, ministered to by the mother church until the revolu ton made a separate organization necessary. But, while it owed its first foundation here to the English church. it is distinctly an American church.
 Nation Laid Out on Church's Lines
 It is fact that the same body o men, largely, met and drew up the national constitution and tht churchs constitution-or rather, tht same men who had the church's con stitution in mind also adopted con stitution for the states which cuIi ,usly follows the same general lines Thus, corresponding to Congress witt it's two houses Senate and Repre- sentatives) is General Convention with it's House of Bishops and 1t: House of Clerical and Lay Deputies from each diocese, corresponding tt states). Somewhat corresponding tt the President is the presiding Bishop Every diocese has it's Bishop, as eacf state has it's governor Each dio cese is divided into parishes, as the state into counties. Each diocese has a diocesan council, respond ing to the state legislature; eacf parish sends it's delegates, as eacf county has its representatives.
 Nation Founded by Chur :hmen
 John Fiske says: There were tive great men who made this nation They were Washington, Jefferson Hamilton, Madison and Marshall.' All five were sons of the Episcopal church.
 More than two-thirds of the fran ITS of the Constitution were Episco oanians. as were two-thirds of those who signed the Declaration of lnde' ,endence: so, also, were all the chief justices but two. It was the church of the Harrisons, the Living stons, the pinckneys, of Cas-. Henry Clay, Patrick Ha6ry, John Jay, Web ster, Franklin, Justice Story: of Win field Scott Admirals Farragut Mahan. and Dewey; of the Lees, Jef ferson Davis, Leonidas Polk, and hosts of others: Of Washington lrv Ing. Cooper, Gladstone, John and Charles Wesley, Florence Nightin gale. Chancellor Kent, Francis Scot Key. Lord Kitchener. Lord Roberts General Pershing, Admiral Sims, and of numberless other world-noted names.
 Will Face Vital Problems
 The one thousand clerical and lay deputies to the convention in De- troit is composed of many ofthe most prominent. men in the country ness men, lawyers, physicians. pro- fessors, governors, congressman army and navy officers, judges-and will face some of the most vital for the future of religion and the social and economic life or the world that has ever come before the convention in its 13O years of history. The convention faces a new world struggling to realize in it's so- cia! and economic existence some of the principles of human brotherhood for which Jesus Christ lived and died. One of the great tasks of the is to afford light ana leading that will help turn these as pirations into the channels Of con structive evolution.
 The Woman's Auxiliary, with it's delegates from all over the church. holds its sessions at the same time. The Triennial United Offering of the women is one of the great features of this gathering.
 St. Johns church has been set apart for the exhibits, study classes. and conferences of the junior auxil- low Uauaral hoa rd Of religions edu-