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izihulS" Protestant Episcopal Convention to Act on ffsird i Report of Committee, Sweeping Changes The Bishops of 1877 and Two of To-day Recommendations Affeet Vital , Appointed 9 Years Ago, Urges 250 Revisions Portions of Book of that the old Common C.Chorley. D. D. Adam in thia child may Prayer R«v..E. be so buried that the ir »/ the Ejmeopal | new man may be raised up in Be It Resolved: That in sympathy as essentiel. How Church him," may be intelligi- with the resolution thege ronftietinff ble to trained of the Lambeth view* »re to b» it Commission theologians, but convera conference of 1920 we desire to em¬ reconciled is hard HE repwrt of the r.o meaning to modern to say. but a and Enrich¬ mind». It is to phasise <>,,r conviction that the pur¬ way will be found to 0Ti the Revision be changed to read, "Grant that like suit of mere self-interest, whether heal the unhappy division«. One »tep ment of tjh« Book of Comnwn a* Christ was raised individual or corporate, will never forward is I up from the dead to the likely to be taken this year prayer «*'¦ *>«* ,h«' ««tstand- by the of the bring healing wound!« of *o-ei.. by the election of T glory Father, even ao ety. It should be recognized a« an representative» of Triennial G-n- toXxxr* of theMTth this child may walk in newness of outstanding and pressing duty <>f the the Episcopal Churrh to the Federal of the Protestant life." The kindred Church to convince its members of Council of the Churches of Christ in ^onvent.on phrase, "Crucify the of at necessity less than h Churefe» which will open the old man, and abolish the nothing America. Hitherto the convention ha* Z»»m\ Wednesday I utterly fundamental change in the spirit and ¡2ÎÎ Ore?«n, «ext ody of sin," cornea out. working of our social and industrial abstained from «ending official dele- *¦ 8ession f0r three life. This i ..uun'i can ;:nly be ef« ï'.rtf«« to this great body, but it i« Exaggerated Expressions fected Jf>ti.« Of by accepting as th<; basis of underxtood that Influential opposition i Penitence Are Doomed all our relations the principle of co¬ has book of "th. A-r. in murvice for been withdrawn and the proposai *£.** prn-r Such language is and operation the common will '«"*d antiquated its good in of unrestricted com¬ go through. Church «as ;» no place S of the VAnghcan;. j theology longer accepted. The »ame petition for private Of sectional ad¬ What the church !! tosed on that treatment has been »hall do in relation such aeration« as were meted out to those vantage. (o the ministry of will receive XnA, with exaggerated expressions of Resolved Further: That in obedi¬ healing the chan,e penitence ence to Christ's as serious attention at Portland. The con»equ«nt upon which now teaching to covet- ^t*rv wa. abound in the Prayer Book ousness and self-seeking the general healing misaions conducted in New opportunity If thia is convention all r«Wt*r»^bot °lher report adoptedUhe repeateil calls upon membcix York and elsewhere three years f m*ke * ieW confession in the of IIis church to be foremost both by ago by ¡ktn of the ÍV""'Athana- Litany that we "ar* action and Mr. James Hickson attracted va»» th. omisión n ¡semble sinners" personal sacrifice in ÍcUbly the except.on of and the statement maintaining the' superiority of the crowds and resulted in the appoint n With in the Penitential Led m»de from Office that we "art claims of human life to those of ment of a commission which will re -¡tenions vile earth and property. To this end it wouid em¬ TI« «tr of 1789 served miserable »inner»" will the port at the convention. Mr. Hickstvr the book be omitted. The collect phasize duty which is laid upon that íij; J5«. In 1 80 a for Good Fri all Christians of putting human taught ail disease could be cure« forty yea*. «* day where the and ,7 .£. »*» r«V!S'on *nd en- prayer 1,3 offered, "Hav< values first, of avoiding extrava¬ by prayer the laying on of hand«, «tiou» *«««*» mercy upon all gance and waste, and of a and claimed this *nd covered a Jews, Turks, infidel! upholding by method i& enr* ñchmínt w»« "»^e ivhd heretics," has high standard of honor and thor¬ even disease. the long been a source in work. In a organic Eventa have «riod «f fift-*en yf,r8, roovu,ß of offense to the oughness word, they Rev. Dr. William Hebrew race. H i: must set an example in subordinating hardly justified the claim, and there to be to the claim for to the ha* been a marked reaction. «itit^nfth«1-*«reCU,r °f GraC" changed read, "Have niercj rights call of Sober * \S0Sti!l«t<W. upon all who know Thee as duty. second thought has ¥»rk City- Although not Thoi convinced many Ch.Tcb, N«* art revealed in the Gospel of Thy Son.' Plana for Establishment that accurate diagnosis by qualified of that dfty recom- medical men is a the e«»»iï8ioB The proposed changes in the mar Of Social Forum noceaeary prerequi¬ changes and addi¬ Noon-Day site to mended eXíetwi** riage service have been widely her any ministry of healing exer tie tilBe **s not ripe for 8Ucn but it The more radical element interested cist-d by the church. will doubt tion», r.lded, must be remembered tha in Steps «»<. tomporatively few were this has social problems will wish to go fur¬ lesa be taken to secure closer ietiw service remained practical!; these co-op : unaltered since the ther, biit resolutions are about eration between doctors and the adapted. sixteenth century as far a clergy, At tîii convention of 1913, Since that time the as convention, composed of and a clinic for the treatment of func¬ feneral/ legal position o the better law¬ held ia the Cuy o* Ne* York, several woman has been paid clergy, bankers, tional nervous disorders is about to be completely changed yers and prosperous business men, will at .aeaiotJals wereipresented praying for She is no a opened Grace Church, New York longer piece of property be disposed to go, .and the radicals under the t new »viiion of the Liturgy, and in but a human City, guidance of an eminent | being* with rights am will, ï.s at other conventions, establish thereto a joint commission, all specialist in nervous diseases. response privileges her own. In recognitioi a daiiy noon-day social forum. c«iii6ting of seven bishops and an of this fact it is The convention is composed of th» proposed to omit th Kindred subjects will be to ,«¡8-1 number' of clergymen and lay- j word "obey" from the brought House of Bishops, numbering 139, and re- promise made b; the notice cf the delegates in the re¬ the Houvf of a«B, was appointed to report "such the woman so Clerical and Lay Depu¬ that the promises o of the on tisioD and enrichment of the prayer port commission home and ties, elected by the dioceses and the husband and wife may be idéntica family life in its relation to ¡wok as will adapt it to present condi- in religion missionary district». Th«* two house» reading each case, and morals. The strictures in thia re¬ sit $«»." Bishop Cortlandt Whitehead, separately save for rive joint ae» I take these.to have port are very severe, as it sious Pittsburgh, Pa., was appointed and to hold declaring, to consider the general work of of from this day forward, for for does, that the average American fam¬ ttairman of the commission, and worse, for better, the Church. Bishops and deputies will richer, for poorer, in sick- ily goes on as "if God has no existence be .jung the members were the Rev. ness and in health, to love and to present from China, Japan, Cuba. Sunday is a for extra mo¬ Dr. Charles Lewis Slattery, rector of cherish till death do us part. day sleep, Mexico, Honolulu. the Philippine In the of the toring, Sunday papers and comic sup¬ Islands, Alaska and Porto Rieo. One 8rae* Church, New York and now giving ring it is pr« first and posed to omit the English prayer book the Com¬ plements," urges the restoratior deputy is a full blooded Indian bishop coadjutor-elect of the diocese of words, "With all m of priest mandments were omitted from the com¬ "the lost paradise of parental con¬ and there arc three Ha»achusetts; the Right Rev. Freder¬ worldly goods I thee endow," and ther trol. negro biehopg. The is a munion office and in the first catechism Condemning indiscriminate mar convention js the ick Bishop of Island; brief prayer for the c aupreme legislativ«' Barges», Long blessing they were printed in the shortened riages, it adopts the warning of th( body of the church. It*. Dr. Milo H. Gates, vicar of the the ring. In the exhortation the mir Lambeth Changes in canon» form. The revisers are introducing no conference of bishops »gains- come into effect on of the Intercession, New York ister hitherto has said, "If any person January 1, but con Chapel novelty. They have simply birth control. Btitutional must -Professor Herbert M. are joined together otherwise tha recognized change»» he ratified at City; Denslow, the fact that however potent these "Where is the following convention. «if the General Seminary, God's word doth allow, their family life dishonored, Theological marriag reasons may have been in the early wedded unfaithfulness lightiy re¬ The senior I« Daniel Chelsea Square; Mr.