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Show CHGII UNION'S H QUESTIONED Bishop Guerry Objects to Episcopal Participation at Convention. DETROIT, Oct. 13. That the object of the interchurch world movement in North America, an association of evangelical j churches, is to convert the world to Prot- ( estantism, was maintained before the tri- i ennial convention of the Protestant Kpis-copal Kpis-copal church here today by Bishop William Wil-liam A. Guerry of South Carolina. On this, Bishop Guerry based an objection to granting the request that the board J of missions be permitted to co-operate in t the interchurch movement. The request of the board was referred ' by the joint session of the house of bishops and the house of deputies to each body for separate consideration. Serious consideration of the nation- ' wide campaign to finance church ex ten- I sion work wag postponed until Wednesday. Wednes-day. Today the joint session heard tlie reports of the board of missions and its president, Bishop Arthur S. L.loyd of New York, which discussed the mips ion work of the church at home and abroad. Bishop Lloyd stated .that the hip business and duty of the church today Is to extend its power for service and power to help the world solve its postwar problems, and that all other business should be put aside, If necessary, in order that full attention be given this duty. j The financial report of the board of missions showed that during the past three years J4.T.46.239.G9 was contribute.! : by the church for mission work, of which : $2,225,000 came from parishes. $621, OuO ; from Sunday schools and $5uij.000 from individuals. Legacies received totaled j S56S.497. The deficit in the board's treas- ! ury at present is $740,000, according to the report, but this. It is expected, will i be made up before the end of the year. Members of the Virginia delegations j today denied, through J. Stewart Bryan j of Richmond, before the house of depu- j ties, that a threat had been made to se- ! cede from the general convention should i revision of the prayer book be continued ! in tii is meeting. A campaign to postpone post-pone revision at least three years is be-ln;r be-ln;r wasred by antirevisionists. The ' house of deputies this morning adopted a resolution that Cardinal Mor-cier, Mor-cier, who is to visit Detroit next Sunday and Monday, be invited to appear before the convention. The resolution was presented pre-sented by H. Anthony Dyer of Providence. Provi-dence. R. T. Bishop S. Graves. Shanghai, was today named chairman of the nominating committee com-mittee for mission bishops In the house of bishops. Selection of a permanent meeting place for the triennial general convention and acquiring necessary grounds and build- i ings is suggested in resolutions presented 1 in the house of bishops by Bishop George Beecher of western Nebraska. The re:-o- j lution has ben placed on the calendar. The possibility of choosing WashingtQn, D. C, as a permanent home of the triennial tri-ennial conventions has been discussed by delesntes. but it is not believed by churchmen sueh a plan is likely to be worked out for some years. Another attempt is to be made to in- I duce Cardinal Mercler of Belgium to ap- pear, before the convention during his yisit here next Sunday and Monday, and a resolution inviting him was adopted In -the house of deputies. Proposal that insurance protection for church property he supplied, possibly through the organization of a church insurance in-surance corporation, was made in a resolution reso-lution presented to the deputies, and was placed on the calendar. I Another resolution adopted in the. house of deputies was one authorizing the appointnent of a commission to prepare pre-pare a declaration of church principles, to be appended to the prayer book. Concurrence Con-currence of the house of bishops was , asked. i At a meeting tonight Bishop James Wise of Kansas declared that the problem prob-lem of cnpital and labor was not primarily primari-ly a problem of hours and wages, but of human relationship, . and that the church must help create a new relationship. The church, ho said, is the common meeting ground of employer and employee em-ployee and, therefore, the "rented pew system," causing a "class distinction," , must come to an end. Dr. Frederic C. Howe of Washington, D. C, formerly commissioner of immigration immi-gration for the port of New York, discussed dis-cussed "industrialization of the railroads." rail-roads." and indorsed the Plumb plan of railroad control. Dr. Howe also held that "there can be no complete industrial freedom until the land is opened up to , humanity." |