Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-30

fellow members of the August. rs
wants Club Thursday noon at tho
regular meeting held at the Augus-
ia Girls Community Club. Rev
Stuart B. Purves. pastor of 81
Marks Episcopal church told Of the
recent 4Sth Triennial Convention of
the Episcopal church which was held
in New Orleans and introduced j..
number of pleasing sidelights on the
city itself.
He opened by telling of the history
OF New Orleans, which was first
claimed by France in the name of
their king in 1852, was decided IN
Spain in 1764 and decided again to
France in 1900, only to be included
In the Louisiana Purchase in 1909
this last probably being that Eng.
land might not come into possession
of the region.
Dr.; Purves spoke of Canal street
winch divides the city into two parts
one inhabited by the French and th ~.
other by the Americans. He do
clared that the street is the second
widest thoroughfare in the Tinted
States. The house which was pre-
pared for the use of Napoleon in the
event that he could escape from Ell
pa, still stands in the city. One could
tell that he was in southern. CITY
stated the speaker because of the
imposing monuments to jackson and
Lee.
Traffic officers in the city are the
most eff1cient, few accidents occur
ring. The street car lines were
characterized as the best he had
SEEM with q seven cent fare pre-
vailing.
DIR. Purves was favorably impress
sed with the hospitality which was
shown to- the members of the con-
vention. Temporary cards of mem
bership I'm the various clubs of the
city were issued, and the mere wear
ing of the convention badge was suf-
ficient to cause automobile drivers
of any creed to offer conveyance to
all parts of the city.
DR.. Purves told of the growth of
the convention since the first was
held in 1875 at Philadelphia. At that
time there was one bishop and 16
clericals and lay delegates. Today
ttiCi o Oh 4fU fIcilDSIS III IIe mousse
of bishops and four clerical and four
lay members from each of the 70 do
ceses in the other body. This con-
vention is the nigh legislative body
of the church in the United States
and in order to make changes in the
prayer book or in the constitution 1t
is necessary not only that it shall be
passed by majority of the bishops.
clergy and laity. voting individually
but that it shall be ratified at the
next convention.
He spoke of several changes which
have been made in the prayer book
in the interests of brevity and that
the book may be made more useful
for the American people. The word
'obey" has been left out of the mar
riase ceremony. because tn meaning
of the word is popularity misunder-
stood. Scriptually speaking the hus-
band is the provider and defender of
the home.
The missionary board of the church
faced a deficit of a million and
half in the last triennium, but re-
markable spirit was shown in con-
vention in an effort to make up this
deficiency The Bishop of New York
said that this must be wiped out and
ne DleQCeQ IldI HIS ulOCeSe WOuiu
handle s250,000 of it. A layman from
Ohio pledged 100000 personally.
The Bishop of Haiti declared that
his people were impoverished but
asked that ten percent of his oNn
salary be applied toward this de-
ficiency.
In conclusion DIR. Purves urged I'M
ity among Christian peoples in Am
erica. He quoted Bishop Brent OF
western New York who said. Uni
-ty has become a necessity. There Is
a cloud in the east that threatens
coming storm and nothing can pre-
vent its breaking but unifying
force, something deeper. more in
spring than Communism has to Of
fed. A new religion is rising. the
Christian world must meet 1t with
unified activity. Let us do some
thing that our children may be pre-
pared against the next cataclysm.
Let us not wait the day when we
may be living together like huddied
sheep in the fierceness of the storm
At the meeting Edwin C. Burleigh.
Associate Editor of the Kennebec
JourneI, was introduced as a new
member and he received his instruc-
lions in the ideals of Kiwanis from
Lieut.. Com. Ellison ]. Hayes. Chief
Chaplain. u. S. N, now stationed at