Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-15
TO MAKE
REPORT ON CHOICE
Right Rev. L. C. Sanford of
California Will Tell Conven-
ton of Work in Orient.

Armed with first-hand facts with
regard to the situation in China, Right
Rev. Louis ChiIds Sanford Missionary
Bishop of San Joaquin, Calf, will
represent that district at the forty
ninth triennial general convention of
the Episcopal Church, which will as
semble here october 10.
With John w. Wood, executive sec
rotary of the department OF missions
of the church, Bishop Sanford recently
went to China, where he and DR.. Wood
travelled widely through the revolution
ary area and made an exhaustive study
of conditions. They will make COM
plete report on China to the conven-
ton. in which the future Of the church
in the Orient will be one Of the fore
most topics discussed. Bishop Sanford
is a member of the national council
of the church.
Another noteworthy figure in the
House of Bishops at the convention
will be Right Rev. Frederick Focke
Reese of the Diocese of Georgia. Born
in Baltimore, of family which settled
there in 1719, he graduated from the
University of Virginia and Berkeley
Divinity School. His entire life has been
spent in the service OF the cnurch IN
the South. He was elected Bishop Of
Georgia in 1908. Bishop Reese is
member of the national council Of the
church, representing the province Of
Sewanee. =,
A member of the national council
representing the province of New Eng
land. and Bishop of Rhode Island,
Right Rev. James De Wolf Perry will
be among the outstanding representa-
tives of New England in the con-
vention Bishop Perry also is chair
man of the executive committee OF the
Army and Navy commission OF the
church. He was one of the organizers
of the World War commission OF the
Episcopal Church, under which he saw
active service abroad during the war.
puished laymen in church work will be
illustrated in the presence at the trien-
NAL general convention in Washington
next October of three men of large
interests who find time, nevertheless,
for important effort in the religious
field.
house of deputies at the convention,
for instance, will be George w. Wick
ersham, Attorney General in the cab
met of President Taft. Sitting beside
him will be Samuel Thorne, former
assistant district attorney of New York,
now engaged in private practice, but
active in New York Diocese. as well
as in national church affairs. Mr..
Thorne was one of the leaders in the
bishops crusade of the church two
years ago and, with Mr.. Wickersham. is
now engaged in promoting the endow--
ment fund for st. Lukes international
Hospital, Toxic, conducted sin the
japanese capital by the church. Both
Mr.. Wickersham and Mr.. Thorne have
been unusually large contributors to the
work of the church.
A third layman who will be present
at the convention. though not as
delegate. will be DR.: Larkin W. Glaze,
brook of Washington, who a year ago
abandoned a large medical practice In
washington to devote all his time and
energy to the position of field repre-
sentative of the national commission
on evangelism, a post which, was
created for him in order that. the
church might have the benefit OF the
striking appeals to men which DR..
Glazebrook is making at laymen's gath
erings in all parts of the country.