The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-04
HUNTS HIS VICTIMS WOMEN IN LEAGUE
,Episcopalians Organize at State
Convention Here.
Wisconsin Bishop Speaks-May
Fete This Afternoon.

Organization of the Church Service
league was undertaken by Episcopa-
Ian women this morning in the third
days meeting of the sixty-first annual
convention of the Episcopal diocese of
Kansas.
The object of the organization is to
effect Capitalization of the various
groups of women's individual organiza-
tions in order that they may exert a
combined effort along lines of church
policy.
The women's meeting was held in
Bethany chapel with Mrs. John Nc
Even Ames, of Arkansas City. as
chaifman.
Miss Elizabeth Matthews, of Glen
dale, gOhjo. a member. of the national
commission on woman's- work. and
president of the Woman's Auxiliary
diocese of southern Ohio, explained the
object of a centralized organization.
Miss Matthews was to make three
talks on the organization moveme ent
from the standpoints of national or
ganization, diocesan organization and
parochia1 organization.
Individual units to be embodied in
the one main group, the Church Serv-
ice League, include: the Woman's Aux
iliary, Parochial Guild, Girls Friendly
Schools, Church Periodical club. and
hospitals.
The Church Service league will be
formally organized tomorrow and Of
ficers installed.
Third House to Legislature
1t is regarded as a movement of the
utmost significance to the progress of
the Episcopal church. 1t means the
addition of a third house to the legis-
lative body of the church. The clergy
and iaymen form two houses and the
women a third.
Clergymen and laymen met this
morning in Guild hall. George c..
Thompson was elected secretary of the
diocese; Charles Blood Smith, chan
cellor of the diocese, and D. w. Nellis,
treasurer of the diocese. The most i'm
| portant features of the business meet
| ing affecting church legislation will be
| undertaken in tomorrow's meeting ac-
cording to Dean Kaye
The afternoon was to be given over
to general conferences
Rev. E. A Edwards was in charge
! of the college work conference. The
Episcopal church is interested in col
lege work at Lawrence, Manhattan,
Pittsburg and Emporia. Episcopalian
ministers from these places attended
the conference. The conference on re-
!
Miss Helen Bowerman, educational
! secretary. Rev. Carl Nau, of Emporia,
was speaker.
Bishop of Wisconsin Speaks.
The chief speaker of the afternoon
in the conference of faith and order
was the Right Reverend Reginal He
Der Weller. D. D.. bishop of the dio-
cese of Fond-du-iac, Wis, a member of
the commission which visited churches
on the continent and the Near East.
| This commission secured the co-opera-
ton of Ecumenical Patriarchate at
| Constantinople. Alexandria, Jerusa-
| lem and in the churches of Greece
| Rumanfa, Servia, Antioch and Bull
garia.
The Bethany May fete was to be
held at O'Clock this afternoon At
s o'clock tonight there is to be a Girls
| Friendly supper, in charge of Miss
May Case Marsh, field secretary of the
society.
At O'Clock tonight there is to be a
mass meeting in Grace Cathedral.
The Reverend George Craig Stewart,
D. D., L. H. D. rector of St. Luke's
church. Evanston. ILL.,. will be the
chief speaker. Large numbers of per-
sons have been turning out to hear
| Reverend Stewart. who is regarded as
one of the leading speakers of the
| church.
All joint conferences are meeting
in Guild hall. Conferences and bust
ness meetings for women's organiza-
tious are to meet in Bethany college
chapel. Conferences for men are &c
be held in the Guild hall. All mass
| meetings and services will be held in
/ Grace cathedral