Evening star., 1928-10-11

Rev. DR.. Herbert H. Powell, dean Of Etle
Theological School of the Pacific, Was
considered a victory for the LIBERAL
evangelical wing of the church, etnce
DR.. Stewart in particular was ooEsid-
cred the candidate of the high adurch
and Anglo Catholic groups.
DR.. Phillips was supporter tsn the
first ballot by most of the Eastern dio-
ceses and picked up strength Ssoru the
West and Middle West on the lIeXt two
ballots.
A solution of the problem Of the reg
istration of Episcopal Church schools
with the educational department of the
new Chinese government, upon which
the missionary bishops in China are di-
vided, was reached at meeting of the
National Council yesterday afternoon in
the unanimous adoption of the follow
ing resolution.
"Whereas, it is not the function of
the church, as it endeavors to make our
Lord known in nom Christian lands, to
build up system Of purely secular edu-
cation; and
Whereas, under the various regula-
tions for the registration of schools in
China both the academic and religious
liberty of the schools is seriously cur
tailed:
Therefore, the National Council
considers that the following are essen
tial conditions for the registrations of
schools supported in whole or in part
by the aid of the church in the United
States, namely:
THAT nothing in the regulations or
other requirements under which regis
tration is to be affected shall:
"(a) Forbid an open declaration of
the Christian character and purpose of
the school,
"(b) Involve the surrender of title to
or of the control Of property.
"(c) Impair the authority of the Ma
tional Council as trustees, through its
representatives in China, to appoint
and remove directors of the school, to
determine its conduct and to select its
principal and faculty,
"(d) Impair the right of the school
to teach Christian religion and to pro-
vide Christian services as regular part
of the school life.
Whenever the bishop as the repre-
sentative in China of the trustees finds
that all of the foregoing conditions can
be fulfilled, the National Council con-
siders that the bishop, with the con-
sent of the Council of Advice, would
be justified in registering the school"
This action by the council is supple
mentary, but not contrary to it's ac-
ton of last April, when the bishops of
the church in China were informed
that 1t was regarded as inadvisable un-
der conditions then existing in China
to register the Episcopal schools with
the Nationalist department of educa-
ton. Members of the national council
and the missionary department, and
particularly the Right Rev. Frederick
Rogers Graves, D. D., Bishop of Shang-
hal, and the Right Rev. Logan H. Roots,
d. D., Bishop of Hankow, between whom
there have been marked differences of
opinion with regard to registration, both
expressed themselves as satisfied with
this new arrangement, which leaves the
question OF registration largely to the
Judgment of each individual bishop in
conference with his council of advice.
Gen. John j. Pershing, who for the
past year has been leading an army
of lay workers in nationwide cam
paign for the completion and endow-
ment of Washington Cathedral, will be
the principal guest at a dinner ten
dered by the CathedralS executive
committee at the Carlton Hotel Sat-
urday, at which reports on progress
made since last October will be pre-
sented and important plans for action
during the coming months discussed.
Preparation will be made at the
dinner for inaugurating new plans in
the Cathedral campaign which has for
its immediate objective, as announced
last October, the raising of $4,000, 900
for the construction and endowment of
the choir, crossing, north and south
transeptS and the north porch of the
edifice. Ultimately it is planned to
raise total of $30,000000 for the COM
pletion and endowment of the entire
Cathedral and its several associated
institutions.
Urge Christian Unity.
Renewed efforts to achieve Christian
unity following the World Conference
at Lausanne a year ago are urged in
the report of the Episcopal Joint Com
mission on Faith and Order, which was
presented to the House yesterday.
The report Is sponsored by Bishop
Charles III. Brent of western New York,
who presided at the Lausanne Confer
ence. Bishop William T. Manning of
New York, president of the commission;
Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode
Island, its executive secretary; George
Zabriskie of New. York, its treasurer;
Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee,
former president OF the episcopal Ma
tional Council, and other noted leaders
of the church recommend that the
continuation committee, composed of
representatives of 100 participating COM
munions, "be informed that in the
judgment of the General Convention of
the Episcopal Church the World Con-
ference should be continued, care being
taken to preserve its educational nature
by excluding schematic action, and
that when the opportune time arrives
this church will gladly participate in
another meeting of the conference"
The convention is also requested to
continue the commission with instruc-
tions Ito appoint In the near future a
special committee of theologians and
scholars, not confined to the members
of the commission, for the purpose Of
assisting the commission to consider
and report to the next General Convell-
ton on the Lausanne report, and to
confer as opportunity occurs on ques-
tions of faith and order with other
Christian conimunions."
Noting the fact that 1t was a resolu-
ton Of the Episcopal General Conven-
ton of 1910 which launched the move
ment for Christian unity, the report
details the successive steps which led to