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Show RAGE SUCK DOUBLY STRUCK I Episcopal Delegates Take Action to Encourage Large Families PORTLAND. Ore, Sept lfi. Race suicide was hit a doublp blow Friday by the general convention of the Protectant Episcopal church here In the approval by the house of bishops of a report of tne commission on home and family life, in which emphasis em-phasis Is placed upon the duty of Chrlstlons to rear families and th adoption by the house of deputies of an entirely new pr&yer In tne marriage mar-riage service which the house of bishops bish-ops proposes to inuert in the prayer book and which has become known in convention circles aa an "unt-race sul-lcldo sul-lcldo prayer." It follows: "Bless. O God, we pray Thee the union of those, thy servants, that It i may re iruuiui, cumins iu uj purposes, and enable them to train In health of body and of soul. hJ children whom Thou glvest tllfim, through Jesus Christ. Thy son, our Lord, Amen." PRINCIPLE ENDORS1CB Th principle of Christian healing was Indorsed by the house of deputies Friday. Resolutions adopted at t ii Lambeth conference in l'V.'O. which recommended recommend-ed that churches t.ik. up Christian healing und that clergymen make a r I i . J y ..: it. v. t-n r-at'flr:r' and the deputies adopted anoth". resolution providing that a jolm comnilMelon Of i lx bishops, six prespyters and six lay mn, three of whom ac to b jihysl-j jihysl-j rians. shall malte a furthbr sfudv of, healing and report at 'he nest insn-niai insn-niai convention-. GOOD kl.su ts vcTr:i) The Rev Franklin C Sher.nai of Akron. Ohio, rpsaklng for resolutions he had pressotodi .NatJ: "l'am well a.varo that there Is great danger of i.inatlelim and of making claims that cannot be substantiated but I w'.oh 10 make the BtOiemcnt that the prln-iolo of healing Is a Wlal part ctf "he reaching of Christ. Wo do not ask th-it fh general convention conven-tion give in epves4io.i regarding f ny particular ciothod, but to rrj.'.kfl an i n-i n-i qulvocal deu'artton of the power of Christ to heal toda and to lecoin-mend lecoin-mend to tho clergy to malM a ftuBy of the subject " The Rov. y, V Umon Abbott of t tlmore, declare that had practiced prac-ticed hea'lng In his parish for .;ceral years and that it had caused a spiritual spirit-ual uplift. "Morf than 5200 persons have askofl for treatment' ha fiild, "and 30 pr c-nt have reported 1 nc-nt. nc-nt. - havi affidavits si. owing this. Only on-: has cxorjdjcl tuppolpJ-mcnt." |