Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-07
BROWN HEADS
BISHOP HOUSE
0FEP|SCOPALS
Gailor of Tennessee Is
Relieved After Six
Years in Position.
Secretary Quits His Job
After IS Years, Has
Reached Age of 81.

Portland, Ore, Sept 6.-Bishor
William Cabel Brown of Virginia was
elected chairman of the house OF
bishops, succeeding Bishop Thomas F
Gailor of Tennessee, when the forty
seventh triennial convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States formally convened late
Wednesday. Bishop Gailor had served
six years.
The Rev. DR.. Charles L. Pardee OF
New York was elected secretary OF
the house of bishops, succeeding the
Rev. DIR. George f. Nelson. who re-
tired owing to advanced years. Rev
DR.. Alexander Mann of Boston, who
was unanimously elected president OF
the house Of deputies, endorsed the
keynote sermon of the convention
which had been delivered by Bishop
Edwin S. Lines of New Jersey.
Woman Put Into Office
A features of the election of Off
GERS of the house of deputies was that
for the first time woman was elect
ed as an assistant. She was Miss Helen
J. Smith of New York. Her election
however, did not make her q member
of the house.
The Rev. DIR. Anstice of New York
was nominated to succeed himself as
secretary of the house of deputies, but
pleaded that because of having served
in a secretarial capacity for 45 years
he be allowed to retire. He received an
ovation when he mentioned that he was
in his eighty-first year. The Rev. Car
roll NJ. Davis of Missouri, who has
been a member of the secretarial staff
of the house of deputies for 33 years,
was then unanimously elected secre-
tary. The house by resolution ordered
expression of appreciation of the serv-
ices of DR.. Anstice.
w. w Skiddy of New York was
elected treasurer of the convention.
The Rev. Franklin J. Clark of New
York, James G. Glass of Florida and
Helen j. Smith of New York were
chosen as assistant secretaries.
The first meeting of the house of
bishops WAS featured By the formal
greeting of the bishops who had been
consecrated since the last session and
by memorial services for those who
had passed away in the interval.
Address to BISHOPS.
Presiding Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle,
in welcoming the new bishops, said:
you are bishops in your own field
you have the rulership and the author
ity. Guage those terms Alright. Ruler
ship means service. and duty is a
shorter way of saying authority. Re-
member your parts.
You are members in this house of
bishops. Look upon it as a sacred
thing. Be dutiful and loyal
You are also bishops of the church
of God. and the mind expands and the
heart swells as we use that term. There
is cathoiicity in those terms, and
strengh of unity and wide wordness in
the phrase bishop Of the church of
God.
In behalf of the house Of bishops, ]
have the pleasure and honor to bid
you warm welcome and to admit you
sponsibilities that come along the lines
of your Episcopal investiture."
The new bishops received were f.
Mosher of the Philippines, George W.
Davenport of Easton. w. Bertrand
Stevens of Los Angeles. David L. Fer
ris of New York, H. III. Fox of Mon
tana, Gaylord G. Bennett of Duluth,
Robert ii. Mize of Salina, Kirkman
G. Finlay of South Carolina, William
Thomas Manning of New York, Fred
Ingley Of Colorado, Theophilius NJ
Gardiner of Liberia, John d. LaMothe
of Honolulu, John c. Ward of Erie
and Herbert Shipman of New York.
The bishops for whom memorial
services were held were Charles Sum
ner Burch of New York. died Decem-
Der 20, 1920; Bishop Roger Israel of
Erie, died January IL. 1921, and
Bishop Trop Beatty of Tennessee, died
April %, 1922.
The Rt. Rev. William Cabel Brown
bishop of Virginia, the new chairman
of the house of bishops, was a mission
ary in Brazil from 1891 TO 1914. In
that time he translated the prayer
book into Portuguese. He was elected
bishop coadjutor of Virginia in 1914.
Feature Women's Work
Women's work of the church and
renewed mention of the movement for
equal representation with laymen in all
councils featured report of the ex-
ecutive committee of the wemen's aux
iliary at the opening meeting of the
auxiliary in connection with the CON
vention.