The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-08-30
OUTLINE PROGRAM FOR GENERAL
CONVENTION EPISCOPAL CHURCH
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ing VIII be the beloved William
Lawrence, retired Bishop of Mas
sachusetts; Thomas Frank Gailor,
Treasurer of the Church, who il
of Tennessee, friend and adviser
of Grover Cleveland and William
Howard Taft; Logan II. Roots,
Bishop of Hankow China, veteran
of a score of Chinese wars and
confidant of war lords and states.
men; Geroge Allen Beecher,
Bishop of Western Nebraska, one
time big game hunter with Buffalo
Bill who was a member Of his
church at North Platte, Nebraska;
Frederick Focke Reese, Bishop OF
Georgia, representative of the old
order in the Southland. still ac-
tive at so; Henry st. George Tuck
er, Bishop of Virginia, for many
years Missionary Bishop of Kyoto,
Japan, before he assumed spiritual
administration over the Old Do
minion. Also from the extra con
tinental districts there will be pres
ent Rt. Rev. William NJ. M. Thorn
as, Bishop of Suothern Brazil; Rt.
Rev. S. Harrington Littell, Bishop
of Honolulu; Ri. Rev. Efrain Sal
mas Y Velasco, native Bishop OF
Mexico; Carson of Haiti, Hulse OF
Cuba, and Colmore of Porto Rico.
Other distinguished leaders at
tending will be Manning of New
York and Freeman of Washington
both noted as cathedral builders;
Rogers of Southern Ohio, Bishop
Alexander Mann, of Pittsburgh.
and Bishop Ernest M. Stires OF
Long Island. aA
Younger Bishops
The old order is passing in the
House of Bishops and moving
steadily up into the front seats
are a generation of younger bish-
ops who are expected to be heard
from when the problems arising
out of the New Deal come before
the house for an expression of the
church's attitude toward the
changed order. Among them will
be William G. Mcdowell, Jr.,
Bishop of Alabama; George Craig
Stewart, Bishop of Chicago; Ed
ward NJ. Cross, Bishop of Spokane
Henry Knox Sheriff., of Massachu-
sets; Frank w. Creighton, SUI
fragan of Long Island and Henry
Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern
Ohio.
| In the more democratic House
of Deputies there will be among
| the clerical delegates priests
whose names are househld words
all over the country, while IN
Guided among the lay deputies viii
be representatives of every fielt
of activity in the commercial, fl
nancial, manufacturing, industrial
and professional life of the United
States.
! Meeting in the historic diocese
of New Jersey. out of which came
the first call for a General Con
vention of the independent Amer
lean Church following the close
of the Revolutionary War. the
Convention will include upwards
of $50 bishops, while in the House
of Deputies there will be -four
clerical and four lady deputies
from each of the IA dioceses il
| continental United States, anC
one clerical and one lay deputy
from each of the 20 domestic anC
IL foreign missionary districts
Like the Congress of the Unitet
States, these houses meet sep
arately and reconcile whatevel
differences arise between them il
conference.
! The volume of work which viii
come before the Atlantic City
Convention is illustrated in The
fact that since the Denver Trien
NAL of 1881 there have been III
joint commissions and committee
considering the problems en-
trusted to them for study in thu
interim and report when the Con
vention gets down to business
The work of these commission:
embraces every phase of Church
work and does not include new
business which will be introduced
by any bishop or deputy at thu
conclave.
| Auxiliary To Join In
,, While the Convention proper i
| in session. the Woman's Auxiliar!
of the Church will gather at thei
| triennial meeting in a nearb.
! hotel. This is an organization o
world wide activity representa-,
the womanhood of the Church
whose Executive Secretary, Mis-!
Grace Lindley, is a member of tn,
Board of Executive Secretarie
which meets weekly with tn,
Presiding Bishop. Triennially i
presents to the Church for mis-
sionary purposes a United ThanI
Offering which has averaged I
million dollars during the pas
five triennial General Conven
tiOns. A high light at the At
lantic City Convention will be tn
missionary mass meeting at whicl
the amount IF tba IIpifad Tho >.