Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-10
WOULD TIGHTEN
DIVORCE CANON
Of FEP|SCOPALS
Bishops Asked to For
bid Remarriage Ex-
cept in One Case.

Portland, Sept. 9.-The divorce
canon of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States would be
frightened, forbidding all members to
marry persons divorced for any cause
except infidelity of the offending party
in divorce case if a resolution intro
duced in the house of bishops Saturday
by Bishop Charles II. Brent OF west
ern New York is adopted by the gen
eral convention of the church now in
session here.
Bishop Brent's proposed amend
ment tightens the divorce canon which
now forbids clergymen of the church
from marrying divorced persons and
only by implication forbids the mem
bers remarrying.
The convention had its busiest day
since convening here Wednesday. In
the house of deputies reports of com
missions were presented favoring
divine healing in the church and favor
ing the seating of women delegates in
the house of deputies. The deputies
also took definite action in the matter
of prayer book revision in rejecting an
effort to postpone consideration of re-
vision for at least three years. Follow
ing, the house finally acted upon one
prayer book revision, the elimination
of a repetition phrase in the Gloria in
Excelsis. The house of bishops finally
adopted the new alternative prayer for
the president which had been finally
adopted by the house and it now be-
comes part of the prayer book. The
bishops rejected, as did the house two
Ia nf
versicles from the evening to the
prayer. These had been ap-
proved by the convention three years
ago and were up for final approval
or rejection.
Other completed legislation was the
by the bishops of a resolu-
tion passed by the house of deputies
providing for a custodian of archives
and the admission of the missionary
district of southern Florida as a new
diocese.
The matter of the Asheville dis
trict was approved by the bishops and
referred to committee on new
dioceses.
of bishops for recovery of Mrs. Hard
ing, wife of the president of the
United States, and messages of sym
pathy were ordered sent by both houses
Of the convention to the president.
That prayer book revision is to have
the right -Of-way in the house of
bishops was indicated. said clergymen,
by the action of the bishops in fore
Stalling an attempt to introduce a re-
port of the commission in concordat,
which deals with relations between the
Episcopal church and other denomi-
nations.
The question of the right of suf-
,ragan bishops 10 a vote in the house
was automatically re-opened by the
outline introduction of the second part
IF the original amendment to the con-
'tltuton in which such right was pro-
rided for.
After a short debate it was decided
o make the question a special order
It 3 O'Clock Monday afternoon. Bishop
f. +. Reese of Georgia, chairman of
he committee on dispatches of bust
less, offered an amendment that a
yote be taken at q o'clock thus limiting
iebate. This resolution carried.
Bishop James H. Darlington of Har- !
'isburg, Pa, presented q report of a !
pecIal committee on relations of the |!
Episcopal church with eastern ortho-
Iox churches.
The convention received greetings |
rom the church of Armenia. through }
Bishop Tierayre, primate of the church |
q Armenia.