New-York tribune., 1922-05-18
School History
Under Fire Of
Church Leaders
Protestant Episcopal Con-
vcntion Calls Attention Of
Education Board to Inac-
curacies as TO Henry VIII
No Vote for Women Yet
Resolution for Eligibility in
Diocesan Meetings Is Not
Approved by Committee

The New York Board Of Education
and the committee on revision OF
history textbooks will have brought
to their attention forthwith the fact
that Henry VIII did not establish the
Church of England.
This was settled yesterday in the
annual convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese OF Long Island after
the Rev. Frederick Stevens. of St
Marks Church, Brooklyn, announced
that five in confirmation class Of six
teen told him Henry VIII was the
creator of the church, which, as a mat
ter Of fact. dates back to $40 A. d.
committee was appointed to wait or
the school bodies and get the matter
Strengthened out
A resolution by DR.. Stevens making
women eligible to vote IN the dioce san
convention was lost. The committee
which considered the proposal reported
hack with the suggestion that it "bc
not asked to further consider this
question"
Delegates Are Chosen
A great part Of the day was taken
up in election of delegates TO the gen
eral convention in Portland, Ore, next
September Those chosen as clerical
delegates were f. J, Wrigley, r. T. Duf-
field, Robert Rogers and Henry c.
Swentzel. The lay delegates elected
are o. S. Seymour, ". j. Tully, W. NJ
Baldwin and r. F. Bonds.
The Newark Episcopal Diocesan Con-
vention, in session at Newark, yester-
day voted, 3 TO |, against elimination
Of the word male from the diocesan
constitution. thereby refusing women
the right to vote. The vote was SO
to 10.
Albert A. Baldwin. of Maplewood
vas reelected diocesan treasurer. and
John G. Crawford, of Bloomfield, regis
trar. The balloting for clergymen and
laymen to attend the general conven-
tion resulted in the election of the Rev
Edwin A. White Of Christ Church
Bloomfield; William Read Howe, the
Rev. Edwin S. Carson. of Ridgewood; ;
the Rev. Charles NJ. Gomph, of Newark
and James Barber, of Englewood.
Three women are attending the con-
yention as delegates, but have not been
permitted to vote. Mrs. William
Mitcham. of Hackettstown, and Mrs
Otto Wittpen, of Hoboken, were given
official positions yesterday. Mrs.
Mitcham was appointed member OF
the board Of religious education and
Mrs Wittpen member of the board of
Christian social service.
Blow at Sunday Golf
A protest was filed in both conven
tions against the employment of cad
dies on golf links in Long Island
during church and Sunday school
hours.
Clerical deputies on the Provincial
Synod elected last night are Rev. War
rem V. Fl. Filkns, Arlington; Rev. Rob
ert F. Lau, Bayonne; Rev, Charles e.
Hutchinson, East Orange; Rev. j. r
Lynes, Englewood; Rev. Dr. Reazor
Hoadley, Upper Montclair; Z. G. Wash
burn. Allendale; Alfred L. Mills, Nor
rlstown; George Maclagan, Boonton;
Henry J. Russell Jersey City, and
Halsey T. Tichenor, Montclair,
HARTFORD, Conn. May 17.-Dr.
Richard S. Lull, professor Of verte-
brate paleontology at Yale University,
explaining his organic evolution theory
OF life yesterday, exploded W. j. Bry-
ans assertion that man is made of
mud. DR.. Lull spoke before the annual
Episcopal convention in session here.
"The age old warfare between re-
ligion and science has been renewed
by emotionalism born of war;" DR.. Lull
said. "Anti-evolutonists say that
theory puts God so far away as to re-
move him as a personal factor in life
The fact is that the evolutionary God
IS an imminent and moro potent God
! than the wonder-working conception OF
! older theologV.