Evening star., 1946-09-11
Episcopal Women
To Give S1,O00,0OQ
Offering Of Thanks
By Cospor Nonnes
Sfor Stoff Correspondent


stor stoff Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. H.
Women of the Episcopal Church
were to give a united thank offer
ing of more than 100000 to the
church at a corporate communion
service this morning in Convention
Hall. The presentation was to be
made in connection with the 55th
trlennial general convention of the
Episcopal Church now being held
on the University of Pennsylvania
campus. The meeting will continue
through September %.
The Right Rev. Henry st. George
Tucker, presiding bishop, was cele-
brant at the communion service to-
day He was to be assisted by the
Right Rev. Oliver J. Hart, Bishop OF
Pennsylvania, and the Right Rev
William P. Remington, suffragan
bishop of Pennsylvania.
A joint session of the House of
Bishops and the House of Clerical
and Lay Deputies today will heaI
the report of the national council
and receive survey of the general
church program for the next three
years. 1t is also scheduled to re-
ceive missionary reports from the
Right Rev. Alfred A. Gilman, Bishop
of Hankow, China, and the Right
Rev. Robin S. Chen, assistant bishop
Of Marking.
Roberts Upsets Precedent.
There was drama at the House
of Deputies yesterday when former
Supreme Court Justice Owen j. Rob-
erts, lay delegate of Pennsylvania.
upset precedent of 161 years orbe-
come the first lay president of the
house. Preparation for this history
making step occurred a few min
utes before Justice Roberts was
placed in nomination for the post
when the deputies, by q decisive
voice vote, decided to admit its
first woman deputy, Mrs. Randolph
H. Dyer of st. Louis, to member
ship.
LJustice Roberts was senior
warden at st. Johns Church in
Washington for many years.
The expected strenuous battle ovel
the admittance of Mrs. Dyer to the
House of Deputies did not ma
terialize. Judge A. D. Cochran
OF Oklahoma, following the read
ing of the names of the depu-
ties by the convention secre-
tary,' moved that the question oi
Mrs. Dyer's admittance be referred
to the Committee of Canons fol-
clarification. Charles P. Taft ol
Cincinnati, chairman of the Ad.
visory Committee for Voluntary
Foreign Aid, in a point of order
noted that the credentials of Mrs
Dyer had already been accepted
and the only question to be raised
would be an appeal from that rul'
ing. Mr.. Taft's point was upheld
and approval of Mrs. Dyer's seat.
ing was quickly given.
A recommendation by the Com.
mission on the Presiding Bishop.
See, appointed by the 1943 conven.
ton, that the site for such sex
being located in Arlington, Va.
was defeated by the House oi
Bishops yesterday by a vote of n
to 80. The Rev. DR.. Clyde Brown
missioner of the Washington do
cese, was secretary of the commits.
sion presenting the report.
Bishop Paul Matthews, retired
Bishop of New Jersey, presented
the report. He recommended thai
territory be set aside for The
presiding see Or diocese and sup
ported the Arlington site for this
purpose. Bishop Noble c. Powell
of Maryland also spoke in favor o.
the Virginia location.
| Opposition to the site was voicet
by Bishop Henry w. Hobson O.
Southern Ohio, who termed a Sc,
in Virginia and an Office in New
York impracticable. Bishop G..
Ashton Oldham of Albany, N. Y.
said he favored a see for the pre-
siding bishop but opposed the choic,
of Arlington as having no ecclesi.
astical significance.
The Very Rev. John Suter, dear
of Washington Cathedral, wa
nominated yesterday as custodian
Of the prayers book
DR.. Sheerin Gives Talk.
The Rev. DR.. Charles w. Sheerir
rector of the Church of the Epiph
any, made the speech nominatin,
Justice Roberts DR.. Sheerin, VIII
had been mentioned prominentl
1 among the candidates for the Hous
Of Deputies presidency, refused t
allow his name to be presented t
the meeting in Difference to tn
former Supreme Court justice.
| In his talk, DR.. Sheerin declare,
Justice Roberts was fitted pre-e,ni
nently "by experience and ability /
preside in fairness Of judgment an,
Integrity Of life" Declaring the gen
leral convention was facing q critica
point in church history. the Wash
ington clergyman said Justice Rob
erts had been called on by his coun
try to serve when the qualities cite,
above were needed by the Nation.
The Very Rev. Claude w, Sprous
of Kansas City was placed in nomi
nation by the Rev. DIR. r. H. Brook
OF New York Backers OF Deal
Sprouse cited his experience an,
theological knowledge to advanc
his candidacy.