Evening star., 1922-09-08
CUT
BIG MISSION DEFICIT
Expenditures Under Presid-
ing Bishops and Council at
Same Time Increased.
PRAYER FOR PRESIDENT
House of Deputies Replaces Present
Petition Declared Based on
Prayer for British King.
BY the Associa ted Press.

By the Assoctate ted Press.
PORTLAND. Ore, September a.
Review of the work of the past three
years of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States and plans
for the coming triennium occupied
joint session Of the house Of bish-
ops and the house Of deputies today
at the forty-seventh triennial con-
vention of the church here. Ad-
dresses were to be made during the
day by Bishops Burleson of South
Dakota. Tucker of southern Virginia.
Brent Of western New York. by Lewis
B. Franklin. vice president and treas
urer Of the council. and by John
Stewart Bryan. proprietor and edi-
tor of the Richmond, Va. News
Leader
Bishop Thomas F. Gaylor. who has
been president of the house of bish-
ops and the council. had a detailed
report on the work OF the council,
which was created at the last trien-
NAL convention at Detroit.
Work Is Reviewed.
He reviewed the work of the de-
partment Of missions, church extern
sion. religious education. Christian
social service. finance. publicity. the
! nationwide campaign and the wom-
ems auxiliary.
The church pension fund. he said.
reported that salaries Of clergy dur
ing the year 1920 were increased ST.
4lS.000. and during 1921 by $4,000.
total of S2.415.ooo. He said that
during the two and half years of
work Of the presiding bishops and
council the deficit inherited from the
old board of missions had been re-
duced from $s20.246 to S5s7.2s1.
The receipts for general projects
applying on the quota for 1920 showed
an increase Of lit per cent over the
year 1919. and In 1921 the receipts on
the quota showed only slight de-
crease from the preceding year.
Finances Domestic Missions.
The council financed in large part
ten cooperating organizations. The
council. he said, also underworld the
entire budget of the continental do
mestic missionary bishops. causing
expenditure In 1920 of $sss. .e63. and In
1921 Of s76s.1ss. as against $2ao,es6.47
in 1919.
1t was estimated that for 1890. in
addition to the increase above, the
dioceses for themselves increased ap-
preparations for diocesan mission
work to the amount Of more than
s2.150.000, and the parishes for pa
rochial work to more than $500. 900.
The department Of missions report
ed having sent to the domestic and
foreign fields during 1920 eighty mis-
sionaries, in 1921 seventy-two mis-
sionaries, and in 1922 fifty-one mis-
sionaries.
New Prayer Adopted.
Adoption by the house Of deputies
of a new prayer for the President OF
the United States. to replace the one
in the prayer book, which was de-
clared to have been an adaptation of
and rejection by the house of bishops
Of a constitutional amendment which
would have given suffragan bishops
the right to vote In the house OF
bishops were developments of the
afternoon session.
Action followed sharp debate. In
the house Of deputies there was lively
discussion Of the new prayer for the
President.
The deputies took up a series of
amendments to the book of common
prayer, adopting certain changes in
wording and rubrics.
Changes Are Defeated.
DR.. Floyd w. Tomkins Of Philadel-
phia argued against the proposed
changes of certain versicles and re-
sponses from the evening to the morn
ing prayer. He said:
''What Is the use Of changing these
versicles which the people have learned
to love? 1 do not see any good doing
thing and spending our time debating
over rubrics while we should be con-
sidering the troubles Of the world
The house Of deputies then rejected
the proposed change in these versicles
and responses.