Evening star., 1922-09-22
BISHOPS APPROVE !.
HEALING MINISTRY
Episcopal Church Has Rec:
ognized Power Of Prayer
in Curing Sick.
NEW COMMUNION SERVICE
Revision Adopted Despite Protests
by IVirginian-Bishop Gailor
Reelected. ~
NEW COMMUNION SERVICE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
| PORTLAND. Ore, September 22.-
! The Protestant Episcopal Church in
, the United States has been formally
placed On record in recognition of the
ministry of healing. The recognition
was accorded last night by vote of
the house of bishops ratifying the ac-
ton of the house of deputies at the
general convention here.
The bishops action authorizes
clergy and lay members who believe
they possess powers of healing to
prepare themselves 'by care and
PRAYER and theological and medical
study for their proper and safe exer-
J Fcise"
| Provision is made that wherever
! til is ministry is, specialized those who
exercise 1t shall do so cnly with the
written approval after due consid-
Grafton of their bishop and in sym
pathetic conference with qualified
Christian physicians.
A commission to- consider the matter
of healing further was named.
Protests New Prayer. =.
The session of the deputies last
night was enlivened by an attack by
Roswell Page of Beaver Dam. Va.
upon a proposed new prayer in the
You have introduced into this. the
most sacred of all our services he
sasd. new. prayers and new ceremo-
nals distasteful to many of us. You
pray to the blessed Virgin Mary. 1
don't care what the people of Boston
or New York or Milwaukee think. Il
represent the people of old Virginia
and know what they think. I pro-
test, sir. against this prayer" =
The protest was unavailing. The
whole service as revised was. adopted.
A change was made in d prayer
which read:
Have mercy on all Jews; Turks in
fidels and heretics.'
The new words are:
Have mercy on all kho know Thee
not"
In proposing the change the Rev.
Dr. c. l.. Slattery of New York. secre-
tary of the prayer book revision COM
mission, said:
should show a spirit of charity. Of
Christianity. to the Jewish people: This
prayer is an insult to them. BY re-
moving it we are extending the hand
of Christian fellowship to them
Putting into effect the machinery
arrangement between the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States
and the Congregational Church where
by bishops Of the former church may
ordain such ministers Of the latter as
may ask ordination. was before the
deputies today. The bishops have
adopted the necessary canon amend
mentS.
Bishop Gailor Reelected.
Bishop T. F. Gailor of Tennessee was
re elected by the house of bishops yes
terday as president of the National
Council of the Protestant Episcopal
held the place since the national coun-
Gil was created three years ago. He
received siaty-six votes on the seventh
ballot. Three ballots. were in secret
session.
Unanimous approval was voted by
the house of bishops to declarations
framed by it's social service commit
tee that "the worker who invests his
life and that of his family, in indus
try must have. along with the capi-
talist who invests his money, some
which determines the conditions of
his working and his living"
Plea for Peace.
The bishops Also unanimously affirm
ed that "all nations should associate
themselves permanently for world
peace and good will. We believe in a
warless world and dedicate ourselves
TO It's dCQleVeInenI..-
The bishops stand on the questions
of world peace and international rela-
tions included these declarations.
I'VE believe that nations achieve
true welfare, greatness and honor
lonly through just dealing and unset
fish service.
1--WE believe that the spirit of Chris
tian brotherliness can remove every
unjust barrier of trade, color, creed
and race.
1--WE believe that International poll
cies should secure equal justice for all
races.
I'VE believe in sweeping reduce
ton of ornaments by all nations"