Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-17
BISHOPS ASKED TO CONDUCT
STUDY OF DIVORCE CAUSES

theology are the real basis or unity. /
have proposed the Methodist and Pres
byterian churches for special reasons"
The Methodist Church, Bishop Brent
said practically had been forced out of
the Church of England by the GOODNESS
of that body, and it was only just that
the first overtures toward reunion
should come from the daughter COM
munon in America Eminent Presby-
terrain theologians. he said. differ very
slightly from the Anglican viewpoint on
some important issues. although these
differences are such as prove very Diff
ficult Of solution.
Requests Commission.
He asked for the appointment of
commission consisting Of three bishops,
three priests and three laymen, repre-
senting the younger generation of Epis
copal theologians. to act with the Epis-
copal Joint commission and present a
report to the next general convention.
The house voted to give a portion of
the Good Friday offering each year for
work among the Jews of the United
States This followed an appeal by
Moses Shapiro, a missionary worker,
who declared that while many Jews are
becoming Christians they are turning
to other churches. notably the Christian
Scientist, and that irrelieion was in
creasng rapidly among others One re-
suit of this. he said. is mounting sui
side rate and the founding of "bolshe-
vik" Sunday schools.
The House of Deputies voted to eX-
purge from the revised prayer book
blessing of the wedding ring, which
reads:
Bless this ring, O gracious Lord, and
grant that these Thy servants may
faithfully keep their solemn pledge and
abound evermore in love and holiness;
through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen"
The convention committee who re-
vised the marriage ceremony had no
sense of humor," DR. George H. Foley.
dean of the Philadelphia Divinity
School, told the house. The word
obey has been removed. he said. but
any bride who gets any consolation
from this fact is due for rude awaken
ing since the commission has left in
the service an epistle which declares
that wives shall be subject to their
husbands"
This revision" said DR. Foley, "only
leaves an excuse for further revision at
some future time"
The deputies approved revision of
the penitential office. which strikes out
such phrases as vile earth" and
miserable sinners" and provided a
new baptism service which combines
the services of the old prayer book for
infant, adult and private baptism.
Approach Extreme Unction.
Considerable discussion took place
when the services for visitation of the
sick were considered The rubric
finally adopted provides for the first
time in the Episcopal Church for the
laying on the hands and amounting with
oil. This was regarded by some of the
deputies as long step toward the
Catholic practice of extreme JUNCTION.
The rubric now used is as follows:
When any sick person shall in hum
BILE faith desire the ministry of healing
through amounting or laying on Of
hands, the minister may use such por-
ton of the foregoing office as he shall
think fit and the following forms:
Il anoint thee with oil Clay my
hand upon thee) in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the
our Lord Jesus Christ, that all pain
and sickness of body being put to
flight. the blessing of health may be
restored to thee. Amen"
Only one-flfth of the rural popula-
ton of the United States attend any
church and only one-tenth of the
children in rural communities receive
religious training of any kind, Right
Rev. Irving P. Johnson. Bishop of Col
orado, told the mass meeting on rural
work at the Church of the Epiphany
last night. The bishop declared that
the ecclesiastical policy of the church
was an urban policy. He said that the
cities of America owe it to the rural
stock from which their populations
come to redeem the religious situation
in the country.
More than $4,000 has been expend-
ed for the work of the American Church
Institute for Negroes during the last
three years. according to the report of
Rev. Robert w. Patton, director of the
institute, at mass meeting at Memo
rial Continental Hall last night.
Every nervous breakdown is a moral
breakdown, Dean Victor Hoag of Christ
Cathedral, Salina, kans, told the So
ciety of the Nazarene, the aith-healing
group of the church, at a meeting in
Trinity Diocesan Church last night.
Psychoanalysis has been overdone,
Dean Hoag said. and insisted that ST.
Paul knew all about 1t long before the
days of Freud and Jung. The only
real solution of personality difficulties,
he said, is to be found in religion.
I'm more advanced stage of educa-
ton" he declared. "a nervous break
down. due to the secret life of the in
dividend, would be considered a shame
full thing"