Evening star., 1925-01-24
EPISCOPAL Church
TO PICK DELEGATES
Four Lay and Four Clerical
ENJOYS to Convention to
Be Named Here.

The clerical and lay delegates from
the several parishes of the Episcopal
Church in the diocese OF Washington
now are considering the matters
which will come before the annual
diocesan convention. in st. Alban
Church. Wisconsin avenue, February
T. The convention will elect four
clergymen and four lay deputies to
the general convention of the Epis-
Copal Church, which viii be held in
New Orleans in October.
Prayer book revision. the status of
women in the church. divorce, the
youth movement and important prob
lens of faith and doctrine will be
considered in New Orleans, and IL is
important that the deputies from
Washington truly represent the SEN
timent OF the church in this diocese.
In large measure all of the impor-
tant proposals for prayer-book revi-
sion were favorably acted upon at the
last general convention, which met in
Portland, Greg, September. 1922. Ca
nonical provisions require, however,
that these propositions shall be ap-
proved at the next succee eding con-
Yention, to make their adoption final
and legal; so that, once more, the
delegates now to be elected will have
to pass upon the plans to omit the
word 'obey" from the marriage cere-
mony, as well as for the provision
eliminating the phrase in which the
bridegroom endows his bride with all
his worldly goods. Another question
which the New Orleans convention
will have to decide finally is as to the
use OF the shortened form of the Ten
Commandments.
Other vital questions which will
come before the convention at New
Orleans are the plan for licensing
women as lay readers and the estab-
1ishment of an order of deaconesses
who shall be formally ordained to
their office.
The youth movement in the church
has reached such proportions as to
give leaders occasion for grave
thought.
VIII Adopt Program.
One of it's most important tasks
will be the adoption of a program for
the ensuing three years Following
, serious agitation within the church
for curtailment of expenses, a joint
meeting of the House of Bishops and
the National Council in New York last
october, while recommending the ut
most economy, decided against any
curtailment of its activities, and it Is
expected that a world program framed
along these lines will be submitted
Dy the council 10 the convention.
With a membership of 40 in the
House Of Bishops. SIS in the House of
Deputies and $50 delegated repre-
sentatives of the Womans Auxiliary,
more than 1000 leading churchmen
and churchwomen will thus be in at
tendance from all parts of the United
States when the convention is called
to order in New Orleans. with the
families of the delegates, deacon
! esses, lay workers and missionaries
from China, Japan, the Philippines
West Africa, Alaska, Hawaii, South
America, Mexico and the West Indies.
as well as continental United States
1t is estimated that the Crescent City
will entertain 1000 people during the
three weeks the convention is in ses-
sion.
New Orleans is making extensive
preparations for the entertainment Of
the convention under the leadership
of Right Rev. Davis Sessums, D. D.,
Bishop of Louisiana, and a commit
tee of leading business men and clergy
of New Orleans, of which Warren
kearny is the chairman