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Show annunlly, on a dp.y of commemoration, fitting servicrs and observances may be held In suitable buildings erected for that purpose. Says Cigarets Must Go. CINCINNATI, Oliio, Ocr. 17. Pr. Clarence Clar-ence True Wilson, temperance secretary of the Episcopal church, told the International Inter-national Convention of Disciples of Christ today that "the ciarets must zo." as one of the "next moves of the reformers." re-formers." Others piven are Sabbath observance ob-servance and world prohibition. Dr. Arthur Ar-thur Holmes, president of Drake university, univer-sity, Des Moines, Iowa, said college decrees de-crees are worth $40,000 at 5 per cent every year, and high school diplomas are valued at J1S.O00 at the same ratio. The preachers' preach-ers' salary is below the average, because ministers are not paid according to their earning power. Dr. Holmes explained. When the church pays more the ministry will be more attractive and the present dearth of preachers will be more nearly mot, he stated. lly resolution the convention paused for prayer for President Wilson this afternoon. after-noon. Copy of the resolution will be forwarded for-warded to the White house. Unitarians Honor Taft. BALTIMORE, Oct. 17. For the third consecutive term, former President William Wil-liam Howard Taft was today elected president of the general conference of the Unitarian church societies. Discussion at the closing session of the proposed federation of the Unitarian churches with those of the Universalists and CoiiKregationalists, brought to light the fact that there was a feeling against such a union, due to certain denominational denomina-tional preferences, and the unwillingness of the older members of the Unitarian conferences to sacrifice any of the traditional tra-ditional denominational ldentltv. A resolution reso-lution providing for the appointment of a commission of the Unitarian church, which will confer with similar commissions commis-sions from the other two denominations looking to some mutual understanding between the three churches, was finally adopted. The conference adjourned tonight. DIVORCE ::;!it DISPOSED OF BY Remarriage of Innocent ! Party Permissible; Dele- gates Support Proposal. i Older Churchmen Carry Points Against "Constant Nibbling" at the Liturgy. DETROIT. Mich., Oct. 17. Through the notion of the laymen of the Protestant Kplscopal church in the 1916 general con- vention, sustained by both clerical and lay delegates today, the innocent party to a divorce, may be rewedded In the church. Amendment of the canons to prevent remarriage re-marriage by an Episcopal priest of a person per-son who has a divorced husband or wife living, v.-as defeated, despite desperate efforts by many of the clergy and a faw of the laity to secure Its adoption. Both orders registered a majority against tire amendment. Under the canon the Innocent party to a divorce may be remarried in the church If the bishop, after examination of court record 3 and with legal advice, cpnsents, 1 although no priest is compelled to offi ciate. The amendment defeated would make no distinction between guilty and ; Innocent, and would absolutely prohibit i an Episcopal clergyman's officiating in the j marriage of persons divorced for any j cause. g Page Leads Older Churchmen. j In their battle to prevent what former Ambassador Page today characterized as "continual nibbling away at the liturgy that has grown into the hearts of our people," the o'tder churchmen In the house of deputies have carried many of their points. Yesterday they prevented the shortening of the "te deum." Today they prevented the adoption of a new prayer for the president of the United States, which would leave out the petition for the continuance of his ''health and prosperity'' prosper-ity'' contained In the present prayer. They lost their fight today, however, to prevent revision of the "Gloria In Excel Ex-cel sis" by dropping the repetition of a phrase, and for the retention of which Thomas Nelson Page, prayer book In hand, almost tearfully pleaded. The new prayer for tha president today failed of adoption when the laity declined, by one vote, to sustain the clerical delegates in their approval of it, a reconsideration also failing to carry. Status of Women. Women do not want representation in the legislative bodies of the church, in the opinion of the constitutional amendment amend-ment commission, expressed to the convention con-vention today. On recommendations of the commission, an amendment that would make It possible to elect women delegates wag defeated. Leaders In the church expect the enfranchisement of women by the church will be one of the big questions to come before the 192J convention, however. To promote "nearer approach to social righteousness. " the house of bishops today to-day asked concurrenoe of the house of deputies in plans to send forth to every part of the Episcopal world "social prophets" to speak on social service topics. At a Joint session today of the two houses, the report of the general board of religious education and addresses on the needa of the work were heard. The report re-port said a survey showed many of the clargy were underpaid and overworked, and asked consideration for these ministers. min-isters. Many Native Americans. It also showed that during the past three years 77 per cent of the clergy ordained or-dained were native Americans. Twenty-four Twenty-four of theso ordained had previously been clergymen of other churches. The houae of bishop.3 today asked the concurrence of the house of deputies in a resolution for the establishment in France of "an American field of honor as a consecrated con-secrated central spot and monument for our sacred dead," and where the bodies of those who "sleep overseas" may, as far as possible, be gathered, and where |
