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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1901 EMINENT ENGLISH PRELATE WRITES A MEMORIAL POEM UPON THE DEATH OF THE LATE LAMENTED PRESIDENT REV. DR. HUNTINGTON IS A VERSATILE RECTOR Leader in House of Deputies Is an Author of Renown and an Orator Who Ranks Among the Foremost in This Country S of the central figures in the Episcopal Church Convention is Rev. Dr. Willlam Reed Huntington, rector of Grace Church, New York City, who delivered a brilliant speech yes- terday afternoon in the House of Deputies. Dr. Huntington fathered the amendment to the constitution of the church which caused the debate on Saturday and yes- terday. After ten years of faithful work he has finally put through the House of Deputies an amendment so that the Bishops of the Episcopal church may, if the House of Bishops also passes the measure, give spiritual oversight to cer- tain congregations not in union with the denomination and whose forms of wor- N ship are not those of the American church Rev. Dr. Huntington was born in Lowell, Mass, Setember 20, 188, and graduated from Harvard in'1859. He is a doetor of divinity of Columbia, Princeton and Harvard unive of civil law of the Ur ties. He is doctor versity of the South DEPUTIES AME.hiD THE CONSTITUTION PR Continued from Page Three. not for the fact that he was interested in one class of people who are in great need of the liberty which the amendment af- forded. i colored I come from a Imost and sometimes classed , in which there is a col the church has been hold- a Southern i people whic ing out its arms and so far, Mr. President, almost in vain, and I do sincerely belleve the passage of this amendment will result in bring- g a large number of that population to the m of our beloved church. We find that are not able to reach the illiterate because y cannot follow the forms of their inability to read and lack of We want such a form that this The president read the names of the committee that will, with & like repre- sentation from the House of Bishops, act 2s a deputation to the synod that meets in Ottawa, Canada, mext year. he com- the service; | | | | printed in the Journal. | States for confirmaticn by the mittee is co ed of the following mem- bers: Rev. Dr. Parl New York; Rev. Dr. Lawrence, Massachusetts; Mr. Miller, Michigan, and Mr. Mynderse of Long Is- | land. Debate Grows Warmer. L. Stetson of Newark followed and vered a strong argument in favor of option of the amendment. In part s been my privilege to vote in favor of solution or its equivalent in 1882, 1595 nd I am not able to emulate the r to vote or to speak With scorn upon this amendment or claim it will be destructive of the church. The reverend gentleman referred arose and indignantly denied that to he used the word scorn or spoke scornfully. | Mr. Stetson created some mirth by with- drawing “the scorn.” Continuing he he said: This _resol adopted during these three conventions, which has been fully discussed y the learned depuiy from > 50 I believe it is fully under- stood. In its principle as in its subject matter it is the very best of its kind that was ever to this church. Its principle wae rstood, and while I recognize to the t extent the pr: reverend from Alaban each convention T itsel bility the questions that are presented for it: decisions, 1 do believe that it is not asking 100 much of this convention to consider t 1 s possible ot loyal, that the co earnest vention of 1598, ma gentiemen, may not have been entirely indifferent to the interests of the church nor ent! ignorant of what was good its welfare n they voted for the prin- ple of this r n. The only diocese that voted againet the principle of the resolution was the diocese of Newark. When we voted on this subject we knew what we were doing. on its own responsi- | | he reverend deputy from Dallas | | We may have erred and you may so decide by | ydur vote, but we showed loyalty to this church, intelligence and unanimity, which has not been paralieled in its history. Asks for a Delay. Rev. Dr. Fuller was next recognized and gave an interesting and succinct history of the amendment. He told of the Lambeth. platform which was adopted by | the House of Depu he would be willing to vote for a resolu- tion that would refer Dr. Huntington's amendment -to a joint committee of both houses to report back to the conventi three years from now. He said the House of Deputies had put in six years in weighing the question, and he thought it wa day was.en Dr. s in 18%. He said Huntington's side. ADVERTISEMENTS. There have been, times when the wild beasts have been more merciful than human beings, and spared the woman cast to them in the arena. It is astonish- ing how little sympathy women have for women. In the home the mistress sees the maid with the signs of suffering she recognizes so well, but she does not lighten the sick girl’s load by a touch of ber finger. In the store the forewoman sees the pallor and exhaustion which mark womanly weakness, but allows nothing for them. It is work or quit. Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well, by curing the womanly diseases which undermine the health end sap the strength. *Favorite Pre- scription” establi regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceratjon, and cufes female weak- ness. “Whes I first commenced using Dr. Pierce's medicines,” writes Mrs. George A. Strong, of Gansevoort, Saratoga Co., N. Y. - I was suffer- ing from female weakness, a disagreeable drain, bearing-down pains, weak and tired feeling all the time. ] dr: around in that way for two years, then n taking your medicine, After taking the first bottlc 1 began to feel better. 1 took four botles of Dr. Pierce's Favor- ite Prescription. two of ‘Golden Medical Dis- covery,’ onc vial of the ‘ Pleasant Pellets.’ also used one bottle of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, Now xfigun:ge: p;rgon,ulldea:h: thank you encug] advice Teditine has done e » e =Favorite Prescription ” makes weak women strong, sick women well. Ac- <ept no substitute for the medicine which works wonders for weak women. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the most desirable laxative for delicate women, 2 ~ Lers bave been looking at it not only from that | by keeping it at the masthead of his journal | for a wonderful that the house at this | He { | Crocker house during the convention. | Bish | best years of my — and doctor of literature of Hobart Uni- versity. He ‘was marrfed in 1863 to Theresa. | youngest daughter of the late Edward Reynol M. D, of Boston, Mass; a niece of Wendell Phillips. He was ordained deacon in 1861, priest in 1862, curate in 1862and was rector of All Saints’ Church, Worcester, Mass., from 1862 to 1883. Since 1883 he has been rector of Grace Church, New York City. Rev. Dr. Huntineton has written many works, including the following well known books “The Church Idea”; ““Conditional Immortal- Populer Misconceptions of the Episco- pal Church”; “The Causes of the Soul'’; ““The Peace of the Church'’ Short History of the Book of ‘ommon Prayer'; ‘The SD(rRuA\I' House; National Church”; “‘Psyche, a Study of the Soul”; ‘‘Four Key Words of Re- ligion™ ; “*Sonnets’” ‘and “A Dream.” He has also written many pamphlets | on liturgical revision, church unity and woman’s work in the church. - Rev. Dr. Huntington is a personal friend of J. Pierpont Morgan and came with the millionaire to this eity in his special train, being one of his guests at the | il @ asked if it 1 vould not be worth three | years' more waiting in order to have the Wwhole church vote and then get this amendment of Dr. Huntington in its per- fected form. A message was received from the House of Bishops Informing the House of Depu- tes that it had recefved the report of the hoard of trustees of the general clergy rellef fund, and had directed its being A message was reccived from the House of Bishops informing the deputies that it had adopted the following resolution: Resolved. the House of Deputies concurri That the following change be made in the (‘ug- stitution, and that the proposed alteration be made known to the several dioceses in order that the same may be adopted in the next eral convention in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, as follows: Substitute for section 3, article I, of the con- itution as finally agreed to and ratified by his convention, the fol ing: Section 3. The House of Bishops, by vote of a majority of all the Bishops entitled to a seat in the sald house, shall elect one of the s having jurisdietion within the United House of Depu- Ues, to be the presiding Bishop of the chure The presiding Bishop shall hold office for thues years. He shall discharge such dutles as may | | be prescribed by the constitution and the canons of the General Convention. But If the presiding Bisho hall resign his office as such, or if he shall resign his Episcopal jurisdiction, or it for any other cause a vacancy in the office shali occur, the senior Eishop by con- — secration having jurisdiction within the United | % States Bishop shall thereupon become the presiding until the House of Bishops shall elect ing presiding Bishop who shall hold office | until the next meeting of the General Conven- | xlI : :]1( which the presiding Bishop shall be The proposed amendment was referred - RIGHT REVEREND CHARLES W. STUBES, DEAN OF ELY CATHEDRAL, A LEADER IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHO LOWERED THE FLAG ON THE MINSTER TOWER WHEN PRESIDENT McKINLEY WAS RECEIVED. 3 NEWS OF THE DEATH OF to the committee on amendments, M. F. Giibert of Springfield, Il estly protested that the convention had no right to pass a on like that pro- posed, infringing up the rights of the episcopacy. He protested further that they had no right to inject even into the nic Jaw of the church “anyvthing which would detract from that divine right given our most holy fathers, the episcopacy of this church.” Dr.Huntington’s Speech Rev. Dr. Huntington was then invited to close the debate. In part he sai Let me say in advance, by way of allayi: anxiety, 1f possible, and removing misappre hension, that in casé this amendment be adopt- ed both houses it is my intention at the ear possible moment to bring in a canon which shall embody all of the provisions con- tained “in the amendment superseded by Dr. Faude's resolution. I cannot, of course, guar- antee that that canon shall be passed; that is for you to say. But I can pledge myself, if pledge be needed, to bring in a canon whi shall embody all those features, for I am as much convinced to-day as I was three years ago that they are necessary features, [ shail not try to produce a substitute, be- se I see the truth of what my colleague in all., the law desutation from New York has so - powerfully set forth, that constitutions are for = the enumeration and not for the detail of the account of rights and duties. Moreover, speak- ing directly to the clerical deputy from Penn- sylvania, whose courtesy and kindness I cannot acknowledge in too warm terms, and whose fidelity to the principles of the quadrilateral, earn- board of missions: at =2l country, | 1 en years, Do one appreciates more ¥ than I do, I would remind him, for he is a lawyer of either law, as well as historian and_theologian—1 would remind him that the constitution is not the place for sanctions; a canon is the place for sanctions, nd here I want to dwell upon a point which been already touched upon, but not per- s properly emphasized: that the reason why we want this thing in the constitution is that @ canon may become possible. Everybody 3 knows that the parallel is perfect, or almost perfect, between the constitution of the United | | States ‘in its relation to statute law and the ;unflnuhun of this church in relation to canon avw. . Canon Is Paramount. They are parallel, the only difference being | | that, whereas, the Upnited States possesses a Supreme Court which' can Dbass upon the con- stitutionality of statutes, we have to Tall back upon-the public opinion of the church and the expressed_opinion of the two houses in con. vention. That is the only difference. Therefore a canon which s unconstitutional—and any canon of the character to which I have referred would be unconstitutional unless this amend- ment be added to the constitution—a eanon of the General Convention which Is unconstitu- tional is not worth the paper it is written upon. Therefore in order to have the canon which I have pledged myself to bring in, it is necessary in advance to provide that it shall be_constitutional. The me§ who are promoting this measure are-so comifortably aseured in their own minds & that fitty years from now they will by, justified In their sepulchers by what shall be’ done by resolution of the two houses of the Joint con- vention that they are not much disturbed by the little acrimonies of debate. They remem- ber what the star said to the orator: ““Why %o hot, little man?” And they comfort them. selves with the thought that though their work to-day may be opposed—and it has been con. Mr. George C. Thomas—Dear Mr. Thomas: : FLAG ON ELY CATHEDRAL, ENGLAND, LOWERED FOR THE LATE PRESIDE\T HE following letter and poem written by the Right Reverend Charles W. Stubbs, dean of Ely Cathedral, Eng- land, were received in this city yesterday by George C. Thomas, the millionaire banker of Philadelphia, is in attendance at the Episcopal General Convention as a lay deputy and also as the treasurer of the/ character was held in the afternoon. This morning’s papers are full of the accounts of the - services throughout the at ‘Westminster Abbey, at St. Paul's, everywhere. send you some lines of mine, “In Memoriam,” Gazette, in which I have freely tried to express my sympathy. God have you all in his great comfort and overrule this sad death for the hallewing of vour nation My wife joins me in warmest sympathy. Ever most sincerely yours, IN MEMORIAM. ] “Good-by all, good-by. It is God's way. His will be done.”—The President’s last words, “It is God’s way!” Take comfort, 0 my soul! His path of peace lies ever through the land Of sorrow. Yet for all, with saving hand, He holds the wheels of life with strong control, Brave heart! “It is God’s way!” Christ’s creed in truth ‘Was thine. His prayer “On earth the reign of God” ‘Was thine, and thine the dolorous way He trod, Victim of senseless folly, void of truth. “It is God’'s way. His will be done!” Thy Kin 8 Hath called thee, and for hard-won heavenly wage Gives nobler work, and loftier embassage, To be through Death thy nation’s hallowing. O Heart of Mercy! come with healing light. Shine on her soul who sits with sorrow crowned Chase far the shadows, till the day be found And cherished memories merge in perfect sight. Thou King of Nations and their heart’s Desire; O Cornerstone, man’s starting place and goal, Our manhood’s faith in history’s unread seroll, Enhearten with Thy Spirit’s holy fire. O Sovereign Lord of Love, in hell’s despite, Bid war’s black death and madman’s rage to cease; Oh, guide Thy peoples by the Way of Peace Througlh cleansing $plendors to the Gates of Light! Deanery, Ely, September 16, 1901. ‘When Queen Victoria died you most kindly sent me a tele- gram of sympathy and followed it by a letter containing a service paper of your church, which touched me much. will have seen by the newspapers how the tragic death of your President has touched the heart of England. our services in the minster the special prayers of our people were asked for the President. death the flag of England floated at half mast from the minster tower, and yesterday a special servi which I wrote and which appeared in You may care to see them. who DEANERY, Ely, September 20, 1901. You Last week On the day of his ice of a mourning last night's Westminster and the good of CHARLES W. STUBBS. 3 CHARLES W. STUBBS. scientiously as well as ably opposed upon this ?nu;*;hekllrl;ehwlrl‘l c:;nel when -the church will ock back with thankfulness to th the action was had e Aalied “Show your servants thy children thy glory.” While for the reason I have gl\‘:n I have nf disposition whatever to express annoyance at any acerbity that m: have characierized this discussion, 1 fimp} may be pardoned if 1 express an emphatic sur- prise that, after having given twelve of the life to a laborious effort, perhaps not a wholly ineffectual one, to placs the standard Book¢of Common Praver on & level where it could remain untouched for generations, 1 should fall under susploion of wishing to deprave and disparage a work upon which £0 much labor had been bestowed, 1 can truthfuily say, with Robert Hai, that next to the Bible the Common Prayer s the book of my understanding and of my heart. And it is for the very reason that I desire ts see the spirit of that book leavening the whole mass of American Christianity that T jim 2dvocating this amendment to our organic Questiorfis of Century. Four great questions confront the American people at this solemn hour when we are pass- ing Zrom an old century to a new one. Thess questions are the custody of the sanctity . of the family, the training of the youth to good citizenship’ and good character in the pusile schools, the purification of the municipal life of our’great cities, and the relation betwees capital and labor. ' Towering up above all of them as a smow mountain towers up over less conspicuous but more important foothills thay cluster about its.base rises the question for every American cifizen who is a bellever In the jeligion of Jemus Christ, How may we corre- atc and unify and consolidate the relf forces of the repubic? g One reason why we have not been able in this debate to see eye to eye has been because some of us have been Jooking at this question wholly from the standpoint of the interior iife of the Protestant Episcopal church, while oth. o point of view, but also from the point of view of the patriotic American citizen. 1f 1 may in the brief time at my command bring out by a few illustrations the truth of what I have said, and if I shall persuade You that any legislation that does ever so lit- tle—and O how little it will seem to our brethren of other communions when they read 1t—if I can show you the connection between the question of Christian unity and those four other questions that T have mentioned, and can demonstrate by illustration the superiority of the one over the four I shall have carried my point. It s superior to them all because they are In & measure independent of onme another; whereas the question of the unification and correlation of the religlous forces of the repub- lic touches upon every one of them infinitely, vitally. The question of the family. There 18 on our table_at the present moment a memorfal from the dlocese of New York asking us to take steps to see whether we cannot procure united action on the part of the religious bodies of this country to bring about uniformity in the legislation relative to marriage and divorce. Could there be a more sensible suggestion? Do we not all know that it is a truly vital one. Are we not all perfectly sure, as sure as we are sitting here, that nothing will come of 1t? Why? Because of our unhappy divi- sions. Did you notice that the Bishop of Mis- souri, In opening the missionary meeting the other day, chose that prayer which refers to our unhappy division as the one petition which ought to lie at the threshold of any consid- eration of missionary work? He did that with a purpose, I am sure. Suppression of Anarchy Next, the question of educatfon. The jour- nalists’ and the publicists of this country are turning their attention to-day almost exclu- sively to the consideration of the question of anarchy. How may we suppress anarchy? Can we do it by more restrictive immigration laws? Can we do it by heavier penalties for works and their attempts upon the life of the Chief Magls- trate? Can we do it by banishment? Ah! my brethren, there is no hasty cure for anarchy. You may try your prisons and your electric chairs, and all that. What does that mean 0 a man who has persuaded himself into the conviction that he is a martyr? The only thing that will eradicate anarchy— and it will not do it in a moment, it will take years—is a_system of public education that ghall embody cthics. The children of the, re- public to-day are taught at the public expense almost everything except the simple truth summed up’ in the church catechism in an- swer to the questions *‘What is thy duty toward God? And what is thy duty toward thy neighbor?” In neither of those answers Is there a single sentence that need disturb the sus- ceptibllities of any Christian man, Roman Catholic or Protestant; nay, the Hebrew might assent. Why is not that simple teaching Instifled into the tender minds of the children of our land? You know perfectly well why. You know per- fectly well why it is that the little knot of asnostics can defy the armies of the living God. It Is because those armies are divided and’ distracted. Again, the question of municipal purity. Who that recalls the influence exerted within_this past vear in the chief city of our land by a protest addressed by the Bishop of the diocese In which that city lay to its chief magistrate; who that has studied the effect of Bishop Pot- ter’s pronunciamento upon the civic life of New York during the past year can hesitate for a moment to_believe that If that utterance had come not from the representative of a mere fraction of the Christian_ population of the city, but from its whole Christian population, New York would have been shaken to Its center? Again, the question of labor and capital One of the most respected, if one of the earli- est of the now countless army of writers on industrial problems—I refer to Thornton, than Whom there is no higher authority—expressly records his conviction that in the Christian church—and in the Christian church alone are lodged the forces that can control the selfish — interests rampant on both sides of that con- troversy. And is there anybody here doubts what will befall the admirable resoiu. tions introduced into this house a few days ago by the clerical deputy from Washington? What will the argument against these resolu- tions be? 1t will be, Ah! we are a feeble folk, our voice goes for nothing, this is tos large a contract; lay it on the tabie. TY to enter into the conscientious o - tions ‘that are brought forward hers by tes opponents of this measure, but it fs ditfioult for me in all instances to estimate their value. I heard a humorous definition the other day ?f a pessimist: A pessimist is one who, find- ing himself confronted by a_choice between two evils, chooses both. (Laughter). The opponents of this measure had open to them two distinctly marked lines of opposition: One, that this was superfluous legislation, inasnract as the bishops already possessed amply the powers that it was proposed to bestow upon them; and the other line, that the adoptiod of the amendment would imperil the citadel of the church’s life. Having been offered the chotce between these two legally contradictory positions, they de. liberately chose both. I can quite understand persons who start from definite convictions With regard to a position mistaking the line that the opposition has taken. If we can con- celve of a church whose members, where not comprised potentially of the whole body of the public throughout the entire limits of the country, thereby recognizing that the only di- visions of Christendom ought to be geographi cal divisions, if such a one, repudiating that view of the matter, says that the Protestant Episcopal church is not such that as it it is a little working model of what a church ought to be (I see some of the deputies are smiling); that was brought forward deliberately by one of the most learned Protestants, that sort of an illustration was urged in the House of Deputies three years ago by one of its most learned and respectable members, namely, that the Protestant Episcopal church is & little work- ing model of what a church ought to be, kept under a glass case, provided with its own little boiler and its own little dynamo, for the ad- miration of those who look at it, by no - BISHOPS WILL ADDRESS MONSTER MASS MEETING Distinguished Visitors Are Scheduled to Deliver Speeches at the Mechanics’ Before a Big Crowd Pavilion This Evening MISSIONARY mass meeting will be held this evening in| Mechanies’ Pavilion, which | the general public is invited | to attend. The feature of the triennial general conventions of the | Episcopal Church are the mass meetings which allow the public an | opportunity to hear the distinguished men | of the church. The speakers at the pavilion to-night; will include the Lord Bishop of Newcas- | tle, England, who is attending the con-| vention as the representative of the Arch- | bishop of Canterbury. The Bishop of | Newecastle is looked upon as one of the foremost prelates of the Church of Eng- land, and there is considerable desire on the part of the members of the convemlon] means and under no circumstances to be con- nected either by belt or cable with the throb- bing, vibrant, religious forces throughout the | land it would wreck the pretty little model. | 1 am not speaking contemptuousiy of that view, There is something to be said for it; but urge this, that whatever -else it is, it is not catholic view. g # Again, there are those who actually believe i that, while admitting the force of what has been sald in regard to the Importance of church unity as such, the true policy of this church is a masterly inactivity; that what we have to do with our strength is to sit still. But do those gentlemen really think that the | time i3 coming when the mandarins of the great denominations will ask tne privilege of | permitting them to kow-tow in the Protestant | Episcopal church? Do they really believe U’a& | the day is coming when those mandarins will | knock at the door of the House of Bishops | and ask the privilege of knocking their fore | heads on its marble floor? Any one who holds | that opinion is entitled to it. T hold the ex- | pectation to be an over-sanguine one. (Laugh- | ter.) | Must Assert Our Dignity | Let us be ready for large things. e have o) launted witl Dotmt 5 Jarks mambers of communities or con- gregations that are desfrous of availing them- selves of this permission, and we have been told that we are imperiling the dignity of the church by taking any such steps, and we are | reminded that when the quadrilateral was put forth it was trampled on, and therefore we must not run the risk of compromising our dignity. | Bishop Griswold is reported to have said, oIt Protestant Episcopal church in the States ever dies it will die of dignity."” | (Laughter.) But It is not necessary for the | well-born to assert dignity. They carry it in | their look and in their gait. And this church to which you and I belong is well-born; well- born to a large heritage of historical tradi- tions; well-born _to a_ boundless wealth of precious opportunity. 'I say build large. mot for the sake of any little group of people that | may be found here or there, but for the sake | of setting this church right with the Chris- o of this land. | e have made in this convention our act of | uniformity—for that is what this article 10 of the new constitution is—more ironbound than it ever was before. Remembering the history of the British act of uniformity, czn Pe 80 home to our constituency and say (X!nl in ]l - PIy to any appeal to open the door ever =o lit- fie to the sevarated brethren of other munfons we refused? 1 say open the door. This s not a question of high church or low | vi a what s vaguely called broa hureh, Tt 15 & question of that far better thing, comprehensive churchmanship, ympathy, of churchmanship of character, of sympathy, the open door, as the open door is defined :n the tenth chapter of the Cospel according to St._John. = Is what we want. I say build large. prajse the foresikht of the Itellizence which here on this western coast is building and en- dowing two enormous universities. People say, what does California need of two universities? Look across the Pacific. ornia. wheth: calizes it or not, is bullding for the ¢ ih¢ a5 well as for the Occident. ~And in those schools of learning who can foresee how man)' of the leading minds of the great empires of Japan and China will In the future be trained to take their part in the orsanization of world. One Fold, One Shepherd s 0 when I was a young man in orders lnY:!?er o:lgy charge I ever had before my l{ll‘el- ent one T caused to be inscribed over the chan- cel arch of lh?)ll(lle w“?dl":c;‘h‘:)‘;:hwg‘rdrglc!n vas my privilege to minister. s also | From nat Siapter of the Gospel of. the Apostie of Love to which I have r»terre}d, ‘There shal | be one fold and on2 shepherd.” " One winter's ch_was burned. nl]x:l(‘hlehino(‘:\’::;! 1 went out to take account of what was left. The roof had fallen fl!n.l the tower was toppling, the windows were esdr(l:ry’; od, the chancel was gone, but there stoo arch, and on it the inscription “There shall be one fold and one shepherd.”’ Christian unity a* dead issue! The quadrilateral ancient his- tory! Never believe it. They were never so much alive as now, Let us do justice on the right hand and on the left. I credit the evangelicals on this floo; with too much good sense to be In(imn‘la‘l’c in the least degree by the suggestions ll at have been thrown out with regard to the im- portation of the Roman mass. There are many things In the Roman system much more objectionable than the mass. When d‘l o:n up the evening papers Saturday I foun nth of them a notice that we were to have e mass in the Protestant Episcopal church on the next day: it does not seem to me that ‘we are in very much danger from importation. I say build large; not only because we ohwe a debt to the founders of this republic, but also because we owe a debt to that grand communion which has been transplanted to our soil, the Roman Catholic Ch‘"c.h’ Nothing will persuade me that, in the province of God, that great ecclesiastical immigration has taken place without a purpose. I belleve there is a plan in it. I belleve that they are to teach the American people many things they need to learn. 1 also believe, and we see tokens of it all around u&, _that mighty changes are in store for Latin Christianity on the continent of North America; that Latin Christianity will become so leavened with the principles which brought about the English reformation that the time will yet come when the Papal yoke will be thrown off and we shall have a body of Christlans here, catholic, but al. noAtn};l:hlll ‘we not be prepared to meet them on the right as we are prepared to meet the children of the Puritans on the left?. I say yes. 1 believe that both these great repre- sentative elements in American Christianity have their part to play in the Church of the neiliation. R(egecn!lemen of the convention, if what I have sald has weighed with you'for anything I hope that you will lend your influence and your sympathy and your prayers to the success of this measure, and in doing so win the beatitudes of those who in the beautiful language of the ordinance do what in them lles to maintain and to set forth quietness, peace and love among all Christian people. A vote was taken on the much debated amendment and it was carried by the fol- lowing: l—Ayes, 30; noes, 16; divided, 13. lckyfl-cilyes_’fss; Noes, 14; divided, 5. An adjournment was taken until this morning at 10 o’clock. L o ) LOWER HOUSE IN -BRILLIANT DEBATE el o Continued from Page Two. it was a substitute for the resolution of the Rev. Dr. Huntington, and it was brought in at the last moment and seemed to have been passed under the shadow of a great name ana a man who had a reputation for being very conservative, who is now in paradise. There. fore 1 submit that it can hardly be eaid that this resolution ‘lvnldulry;.:lon'h:er:hd.. ‘The second false imp: on is t If i been 5o considered that does mot relieve 1o house from the same careful conslderation of the subject. I think that in acting for the Lord we ought to be at least as careful ag the courts are in regard to the laws that are passed for human government and these v ters ought to be very thoroughly and carefuily considered before we commit them to There is a false principle -under} + resolution; our Bishops do not derive theip authority "from constitutions and canons, b from their consecration. The Bishops " with the rest of the church, can restrict and ‘regu. | siding Bishop, he will | the fact that we cannot ! ™ | | the | and the public to hear him. Bishop Potter of New York will also speak to-night. More than usual interest centers around Bishop Potter at the pres- ent time, as it is generally thought that if the confention decides to change the constitution and in future elect a pre- be the choice of the houses of Bishops and Deputies. The Bishop of Kyoto will also be one of the speakers and his wide experience in foreign mission fields will give him an op- portunity of presenting forceful reasons for support of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. = Burton leld, 2 prominent citizen of Connecticut, is among those who are scheduled to speak at the pavilion. The Third Artillery Band will be pres- ent and render the musical numbers on the program. The meeting will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. S e e e e late, but even the Ecumenical Couneil ftselt cannot give the Bishop a power that he did not derive from above when he was c crated to the apostolic ministry. In this resoluti there is mo restriction, but it is simply indiscriminate giving of power which council has no right or power to give. Another thing about this resolution is that i s in that it does not restr ays of a most vital character. There quirement which furnishes any guard as to the character of the worship of the con- gregations or that the minister of such congre- gations should have the authority of this church. Opposedto Amendment Rev. Dr. Fiske of Rhode Island did not desire to see the amendment prevail, and re 1 convinced of the wisdem of this measure I should have some misgivings be- cause there is such an ambiguity in mean- t not to go into an ument constitution. It has evidently beem without that due consideration which ht to be given to an article of permanent the want. sion like this we canmot con- es and it ought not be con- cealed in debate that we are not at one among is what we all ceal from ourse ourselves. There are rious . divisons among I submit that im the face of that fact a measure such as is here proposed would pro- | mote not order and unity, but confusion. I believe that the consequence amendment would be fraught i to the peace. the quiet and the order of this church. I earnestly hope that this amendment will not prevail. Rev. ¥. A. de Rosset of Springfield op- posed the amendment. In part he said: The necessity of this resolution has not been shown. Its harmfulness is obvious. This amendment proceeds from a group of the fol- lowing of Rome. Where do we get the idea of this amendment. It comes from a party of the Roman church that has been in existence all through the centuries and seems to have culminated around the councils of Constan Its influence has been most harmful. It has brought no strength to the Roman church and it will bring none of a permanent char- acter to us. Chairman Lindsay here announced that the hour for adjournment had arrived and informed the house that the deputa- tion of churchmen from Canada would be received this morning. he house then took a recess until 3 p. m. @ttt e @ PRELATES PASS ‘UPON AMENDMENTS Coentinued From Page Two. of pa with mi in 1853 and during the last twenty-five years of its existence it has disbursed about $500,000. Following Is an interest- ing extract of the report: ‘Working along the lines dicated in the foregoing paragraphs the trustees are giad to report that notwithstanding the natural de- | crease of rovaities on the Hymnal and a falling off of legacies, amounting in all to about $11,000, the amount standing to the credi the fund is over $15,000 more before; that i s a balance of §i30,3 as against $1 the last report. arateful are the trustees that $I ever before was distributed ame It ought to be noted here tha and bequests received amounts bequeathed and of which we have notice largely exceed that for any previous perlod, also that the royalties on the Hymnal begin to show again a goodly Increase, The financial tables which follow will show many other matters more in detall, The report of the acting registrar of the commission on archives and the custo- dian of the Book of Common Prayer was also in printed form and distributed among the members. Dr. Hart, secretary of the House of Bishops. who holds this important office. rendered an interesting report of his duties and the happenings of the past three years. In the afternoon the Bishops went into council rile legacies 0w a falling off the ADVERTISEMENTS. What this Boy’s Mother Says has been said by the mothers of many other boys and girls, re- garding the wonderful curative and strengthening qualities of v Nervine HasTiNG, Nes. “Our little boy, Harry, had spasms for 'a and we feared the disease :0 affect his mind. Though we loctored continually he grew worse and Our at- ten spasms in one week. tentien was directed to Dr. Mil ine and we its use. had taken the iourthhotdcthe spasms disappeared and_he has not e o HRlati e o fect.” Mgs. B. M. TINDALL Dr. Miles’ Remedies are sold by all druggists on guarantee to benefit or money refunded. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. I’