Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-07
'1Y0RCH CONCLAVE
FINDS SWOMENBUSY
..v.raI Auxiliary Meetings Are
ecbsduIed at Episcopa|ian
Convention
thusjDER AMENDMENTS

a,...,and. Ore, Sept. Z. - Actual
i II the forty seventh tricnnial con.
s.,tion vi Of the Protestant Episcopal.
much % in the United States was faced
vnI y .he House of Bishops and the House
:; Deputies assembling today following
-. orgonization and election of officers
..Sov. Consideration Of amend
-, "a The constitution adopted at the
% u .onvcntion was the first business
,..,ortance ~, for the House of Depu-
~ uspr.a6catIon of such portion of re-
~ thc prayer book as was
gnon ot the 1910 convention also
suvp, -. on the program for the day.
A. noon the deputation from the
n.nsdian Church was to be formally
.s.siyed BY the convention.
Tns report of the Committee on
,.irt Sessions provides for five joint
:...ions .Uds Of both houses. the first to be
Ts;dsy when tile report of the pre-
adiur bishop and council is to be pre-
''I, IR,ssistration of late arrivals con.
u,nsS 70 increase the attendance. At
ssstsrday's sessions there were lis
{.hons out Of n possible 1873, and there
~.rs f,1O members Of the House OF
Nsiesates present. Four clerical and
E,r Inv delegates attend from each
iDcese and one clerical and one lay
Elsrste from the missionary districts.
Activities of women's organizations
.oday included meeting of the Church
Ssryice League, a federated organiza-
Nm Of the seven national women's Or
s.ni,ations of the Church. Tonight
A. vonen's auxiliary is to hold mass
nsetinr 10 be presided over by the Rig ht
Rsy. Arthur Selden Lloyd, Suffrngan
Bishop Of New York.
. DR., Mann Chosen President
The House Of Clerical cnd Lay
Deputies was called to order Yesterday
afternoon by the secretary. The Rev.
nr. Anstice, of New York, who has been
assistant secretary and secretary of the
House forty five years, nnd shares with
L. Bradford Prince, lay deputy from
New Mexico, the distinction Of being the
senior member of the convention.
After calling the roll of deputies the
House proceeded to elect a president.
Df. Alexander Mann. rector Of Trinity
Church, Boston. was nominated by DR..
Powell, Of California. and seconded by
Stephen Baker, of New York. The
nomination was seconded by deputies
from Washington, Pennsylvania and
Western New York. The election was
made by acclaniation and DR.. Mann was
escorted to the chair by the Rev. DR..
James Il. Freeman. of Washington, and
Frederick c. Morehouse, of Milwaukee.
The Rev. DR.. Ernest NJ. Stires, Of
New York, nominated the Rev. Henry
Anstice for secretary of the House, but
Dr.. Anstice intimated his inability to
accept the appointment. lowing to the
fact that he had reached his eighty
first year. On the motion of Mr.. Bur-
TN Mansfield, of Connecticut, the Rev.
Carol NJ. Davies, secretary of do
mestic missions, New York, and for
thirty. three years an assistant secre-
tlry, was nominated and unanimously
elected secretary Of the House of Depu-
ties.
Bishops Elect Chairman
Auc llouSc VI DlSlopS uSStlllDifu Iva
oiganization under the craftsmanship OF
Bishop Thomas +. GailOr, whose term
@ ONCE terminates at this convention.
II was announced that the ltt Rev.
William Cabell Brown. Bishop of Nir-
kiania. had been elected chairman.
Bishop Brown was born at I.ynchburg,
Va. November 90. 1861.
The Rev. Charles l.. Pardec. secre-
tdry Of the American Church Building
Fund, was elected secretary Of the
House of Bishops.
The assistant secretaries of the
House Of Deputies are the Rev. Frank
LIN ]. Clark. of New York; the Rev.
James G. Glass. Of Florida. and Miss
Helen j. Smith. of New York. This is
the first time a woman has been ap-
pointed to any Office in the general con =
vention.