Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07
READY TO TACKLE
prayer REVISION
Bishop Brown Elected New
Chairman of Episcopal
House of Bishops.
WOMAN PAID TRIBUTE
Amendments to Constitution In
cluded in Early Business Of
Vital Import.
WOMAN PAID TRIBUTE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. September T.
Actual work of the forty-seventh
; triennial convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States
was faced by the house of bishops
and the house of deputies assembling
today following the organization and
electing of officers yesterday.
Consideration of amendments to the
constitution adopted at the last cor
! vention was the first businsss 81 ~ :
portance for the house Of der"ti~s
Ratifcation of such portion Of tlsa "a
; vision of the prayer hcpS - &rs
was on the program for the day.
At noon the deputat:on from the
! Canadian church was to be formally
received by the convention The aft
! ernoon's business was to include con-
/; sideration of prayer book revision.
| Five Joint Sessions Planned.
F! The report of the committee on joint
| sions of both houses. the first to be
Friday, when the report of the pre-
| siding bishop and council is to be
| presented.
Registration of late arrivals con-
| ttnued to swell the number present.
| Al yesterday SESSION there were 10
bishops of a possible 1913, and there
! were $40 members of the house of
delegates present. Four clerical and
four lay delegates attended from each
| diocese, and one clerical and one lay
delegate from the missionary dis
tricts.
+, Activities of women's organizations
! today included a meeting of the
| Church Service League, a federated
Organization of the seven national
, women's organizations of the church.
] Tonight the woman's auxiliary is to
over by Ri. Rev. Arthur Selden Lloyd.
suffragan bishop of New York.
| Virginia Bishop Elected.
Bishop William Cabel Brown of
Virginia was elected chairman of the
| house of bishops, succeeding Bishop
Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee at
the election late yesterday.
Rev. Charles L. Pardee of New
York was elected secretary of the
| DR. George F. Nelson. who retired
owing to advanced years.
Rev. Alexander Mann of Trinity
| Church, Boston. was unanimously
elected president of the house of
deputies.
Reelected After 33 Years.
| Rev. Carroll NJ Davis of Missouri
\ who has been a member of a Secre-
tarial staff of the house of delegates
! for thirtythree years. was unan:-
rnously elected secretary: W. w. Skid
dey of New York was elected treas
| urer: Rev. Franklin J. Clark of New
! York and James G. Glass of Florida
| were chosen assistant secretaries.
| Among the new bishops received
were David L. Ferris of western New
| York, William Thomas Manning of
New York, Theophlus NJ. Gardiner of
Liberia, John c. Ward of Erie and
Herbert Shipman of New York
| Bishop Brown of Virginia, the new
chairman of the house of bishops. was
missionary in Brazil from 1891 to
! 1914. In that time he translated the
prayer book into Portuguese. He was
! elected bishop ooadjutor of Virginia
in 1914.
! Woman Specially Honored.
/ feature of the election of officers
: of the house of deputies was that for
| the first time a woman was elected
J as an assistant. She was Miss Helen
]. Smith of New York. Her election
however. did not make her a member
Of the house.
| Rev. DR.. Henry Anstice OF New York
was nominated to succeed himself as
! secretary Of the house of deputies.
| but pleaded that because he had
| ser. ed in a secretarial capacity for
! forty-five years he should be allowed
to retire. He received an ovation
! when he mentioned that he was in
his eighty first year.
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