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Box 2247 Austin, Texas 78768 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 512-472-6816 Fax: 512-480-0437 JOURNAL OF THE SPECIAL GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE . Protestant Episcopal Church IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA • OTHERWISE KNOWN AS The Episcopal Church Held in South Bend, Indiana From August Thirty-first to September Fifth, inclusive, in the Year of Our Lord 1969 WITH APPENDICES- PRINTED FOR THE CONVENTION 1970 CONTENTS POSITION PAPER OF THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS. V JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS Officers of the House 3 Roster. 4 Journal 9 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF DEPUTIES Officers of the House . 61 Committees of the House and their Officers 79 Journal 83 CONCURRENT ACTION, Alphabetically Arranged by Topics 155 APPENDICES, being Interim Reports of Committees and Commissions and other Matters Pre- sented to General Convention II . 2S1 INDEX 449 iii POSITION PAPER Adopted by the House of Bishops 1969 Drugs: Dependency, Addiction, and Abuse Drug dependency, addiction, and abuse have now become a prob­ lem of urgent, explosive, importance in our society. It is dramatically visible among young people, where, as one perceptive advocate of youth has put it, a "drug sub-culture" has become as characteristic as the alcoholic equivalent is of their parents' generation. But the problem cannot be measured or understood merely in terms of youth delinquency and it cannot be solved merely by more rigorous enforcement of present laws. It invades our whole society; ·it plays a central part in organized crime and in the increase of per­ sonal violence in the streets; it increasingly infects our whole fabric of inter-personal relationships; it erodes the self-understanding and self-discipline on which a civilized society depends. Our concern-the concern of Christians-must, of course, in­ clude the social, legal, and medical aspects of the problem, but also go beyond them to the basic perspective of Christian faith. We must acknowledge at the outset that the growth of knowledge through research has made, and will continue to make, the discovery of new drugs inevitable, both blessing and cursing mankind. Drugs in fact, reveal man's glory and his tragedy-his ability to intrude his will into nature for good or evil, in obedience or disobedience. 1. Man's basic necessity, as he makes new discoveries, is rever­ ence-a profound respect for the laws of nature, which he did not make and from which he cannot escape. Thomas Huxley put it well: The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. In other words, reverence for the given structure of things means awe, wonder, respect, ami fear. When we inject a drug, however innocent-seeming, into the body, effect will follow cause, and no good intentions, or ignorance, or tears, will change that result. And our caution and care should be the more increased when we remember that some effects may not be seen for years. 2. The seco~d principle which applies to drugs is responsibility, the teaching that the world, and our bodies and minds, are v vi given to us for a short time in trust, and that we are respon­ sible to our Maker for the use of them. To corrupt the body and mind is, therefore, not simply an offense against ourselves and those who love us and depend upon us; it is an offense against the God who gave us life. Our growing knowledge leads us to conclude that the dependence upon tobacco and alcohol must, in this regard be taken most seriously. 3. Since the work with those misusing some drug is a specialized field with its own knowledge and skills, we must exercise not only pastoral concern ourselves, but learn to support those rehabilitative agencies and groups dealing with the problem, working through others and growing in intelligence ourselves. Those who abuse drugs have often rejected the society in which we live; and since they will not come to us, speciaIly trained people must go to them. 4. If we understand, at the deepest level, the growth of the de­ pendence upon drugs, we can appreciate the hunger of the soul and the meaning of serious and profound religious dis­ ciplines. The abuse of drugs reveals, on the one hand, a posi­ tive desire for a new quality of life-for contentment, happi­ ness, a greater awareness, ecstasy, a sense of well-being and self-confidence. On the other hand, viewed negatively, the turning to drugs reveals a rebellion against a quality of life in our society which many find to be barren and oppressive. At the deepest level, we must understand the misuse of drugs as a rebellion against emptiness, futility, pessimism, anxiety, disappoint­ ment, insecurity, and a poor opinion of the self, whether in the ghetto or the affiuent suburb. It is not easy to be a man; and, in contrast to the animal world, men fight unseen battles in their own souls and have spiritual needs. Denied the peace, power, joy, and even ecstasy, that are given to the soul by communion with God and man, they will attempt to fill the void. It is interesting that in this, the first period in which people have cut themselves off from religion and socially acceptable mystical experiences, drug-taking has become a major prob­ lem ... It seems likely that many young people use LSD, mari­ juana, amphetamines-to fill the void 20th cenutry living leaves inside the mind. (From Drugs, by Peter Laurie, a Penquin Special) We commend to you, for your study, the handbook, "On Pills and Needles, a Christian Look at Drug Dependence", by Kenneth W. Mann.! 1 This may be obtained at 50¢ per copy ($40.00 per 100) from the Seabury Bookstore, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017. OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS CHAIRMAN The Right Reverend John Elbridge Hines, D.D., D.C.L., L.H.D. Presiding Bishop VICE-CHAIRMAN The Right Reverend Frederick John Warnecke, D.D., LL.D. Bishop of Bethlehem SECRETARY The Right Reverend Scott Field Bailey, D.D. Suffragan Bishop of Texas ASSISTANT SECRETARY The Reverend Charles J. Dobbins Corpus Christi, Texas 3 HOUSE OF BISHOPS MEETING OF 1969 AUGUST 31, 1969 • Not present at the Meeting THE RIGHT REVERENDS "'Bennett, Granville Gaylord, Bishop "'Sterrett, Frank William, Bishop "'Campbell, Robert E., O.H.C., Bishop "'Mitchell, Walter, Bishop "'Sturtevant, Harwood, Bishop "'Hobson, Henry Wise, Bishop "'Scarlett, William, Bishop "'Gooden, Robert Burton, Bishop "'Sherrill, Henry Knox, Bishop "'Bentley, John Boyd, Bishop "'Gribbin, Robert Emmett, Bishop "'Clingman, Charles, Bishop "'Ziegler, Winfred Hamlin, Bishop "'Roberts, William Payne, Bishop "'Peabody, Malcolm Endicott, Bishop "'Kirchhoffer, Richard Ainslie, Bishop "'McKinstry, Arthur Raymond, Bishop "'Blankingship, Alexander Hugo, Bishop "'Gray, Walter Henry, Bishop "'Craighill, Lloyd Rutherford, Bishop "'Conkling, Wallace Edmonds, Bishop Loring, Oliver Leland, Bishop "'Hart, Oliver James, Bishop "'Page, Herman Riddle, Bishop "'Heistand, J. Thomas, Bishop "'Jones, Everett Holland, Bishop Voegeli, C. Alfred, Bishop of Haiti "'Boynton, Charles Francis, Bishop "'Walters, Sumner F. D., Bishop "'Kennedy, Harry Sherbourne, Bishop *Pardue, Austin, Bishop "'Dun, Angus, Bishop Horstick, William Wallace, Bishop of Eau Claire Gesner, Conrad Herbert, Bishop of South Dakota Gooden, R. Heber, Bishop of Panama and the Canal Zone 4 5 Louttit, Henry Irving, Bishop of South Florida Mason, C. Avery, Bishop of Dallas *Banyard, Alfred Lothian, Bishop of New Jersey Wright, Thomas Henry, Bishop of East Carolina Hines, John Elbridge; Presiding Bishop Moody, William Robert, Bishop of Lexington Emrich, Richard S. M., Bishop of Michigan *Barton, Lane Wickham, Bishop Quarterman, George Henry, Bishop of Northwest Texas Bayne, Stephen Fielding.Vice-President of the Executive Council Donegan, Horace W. B., Bishop of New York Gunn, George Purnell, Bishop of Southern Virginia Hall, Charles Francis, Bishop of New Hampshire *Hunter, J. Wilson, Bishop Bloy, F. Eric I., Bishop of Los Angeles *Scaife, Lauriston Livingston, Bishop of Western New York Gordon, William Jones, Bishop of Alaska *Hubbard, Russell Sturgis, Bishop Henry, M. George, Bishop of Western North Carolina West, E. Hamilton, Bishop of Florida Sherman, Jonathan Goodhue, Bishop of Long Island *Jones, Girault McArthur, Bishop Claibourne, Randolph Royall, Jr., Bishop of Atlanta *Gibson, Robert Fisher, Jr., Bishop of Virginia *Miller, Allen Jerome, Bishop *Burroughs, Nelson Marigold, Bishop *Stark, Dudley Scott, Bishop Welles, Edward Randolph, Bishop of West Missouri Smith, Gordon V., Bishop of Iowa Campbell, Wilburn Camrock, Bishop of West Virginia Burrill, G. Francis, Bishop of Chicago *Baker, Richard Henry, Bishop Hatch, Robert McConnell, Bishop of Western Massachusetts Watson, Richard Simpson, Bishop of Utah Richards, David Emrys, National Co-ordinator, Committee on Counsel to the Clergy Powell, Chilton, Bishop of Oklahoma Hallock, Donald H.