Show EPISCOPALIANS IN I j 4 TRIENNIAL MEET i f Rev Dr Mann l and Bisho Bishop P Gailor Are Chosen as asI I Presiding Officers 1 RELIEF PLEAS LEAS HEARD ARD Opening Sermon Delivered 1 ry hy by y Daniel S. S Tuttle II II S. S Senior B. B Bishop IS 1 lOp fJ I Jt JI II I t. t St St. Louis Louts Oct 11 Tho n.-Tho Tho Rev Rc Dr t Alexander Mann of ot Boston Mass was re elected president of ot the house of or I deputies of ot tho the fourth forty Protestant I Episcopal general convention In triennial triennial tri trl- session hero today Ho lie was waa opposed opPosed op- op I j Posed b by the Rev James E E. E Freeman Froeman ot of f Minneapolis Right Hight Rev Rey Thomas Thoms IT F. Gailor of ot i 1 Memphis bishop of ot Tennessee was 1 elected chairman of ot tho the house of ot biah- biah 1 ops succeeding Bishop Boyd Bord Vincent of ot I J southern Ohio who has served the the proscribed proscribed pro pro- pro pro-I j scribed six years ears I I Tho The Rev Samuel Hart of Middletown Middle Middle- town Conn was re-elected re secretary and the Rev George Georgo T T. Nelson of ot NewYork Now New York was chosen assistant secretary Tho The Rev fey Henr Henry Anstice of ot New York was as elected secretary of ot the house of ot deputies tho the lower house house of ot the convention convention con con- while tho the Rev C. C M M. Davis of ot fit St Ix uis the Rev ne W. W C. C Prout of or Herkimer N. N Y and tho the Rev nev Tames James i J G. G Glass of ot Anniston A Ala la were chosen assistants ts hl Joint Sc Setton Ion Held HeM I L Following r the organization org of ot tho two hOll houses es the they met late lato today tOlla in the first pint Joint session of ot the convention Henry It II r Kiel Klel mayor mavor of or St. St Louis Lows welcomed J 1 l' l them on behalf of tho the city George Georgeh h w W. W Pepper of or Philadelphia and the thc Ret Rev Re M i Reginald II H Weller bishop of ot Fond Fondl t Du Lac replied for tor the convention con It It was announced that tomorrow the two houses will wU take up tho the regular business business busi busl- I ness of ot the convention In the house of ot bishops meeting behind be- be I hind closed doors resolutions of symPathy symPathy sym sym- I Pathy path for tho families of ot bishops who have died during tho the ve year ir und Bend for the tho the II Right Rev Rc Frank rank R. R bishop bishop bishop bish bish- op of ot Kansas who Is ls confined 1 to his home nomo with Illness were adopted A resolution drafted today toda b by RobI Robert Rob Rob- j I ert ern H. H Gardiner of ot Gardiner Me Ire JIe to bo be presented l to the general convention would lift lUt the bar against women sits sit sit- ting as af s delegates on the floor of ot the tho convention Con prodded pro they icy are chosen j nv by their dioceses or missionary dis- dis Tonight the tho delegates attended a mass meeting fOr or the discussion of tho the e condition of o Assyrians A and antI Armenians I The RI Right ht Rev Re William Lawrence Lwrence op OD of ot Massachusetts Paul of f Persia and Dr James McNaughton j of Constantinople were o the speakers Dr McNaughton described the conditions conditions condi condl- of Armenia Christians In Turkey as ns comprising the d darkest d' page In Christian hl history tor an and said that more than native Christians Christiana In Asia Minor were e facing facin death from starvation starvation starvation tion and exposure Dr Ur bic McNaughton aughton made an nn appeal for tor forthe I tho the observance of October 21 and 2 22 1 as I Armenian and Assyrian relief relle da days dars s pointing out that President Wilson re recently ro- ro ro-I ro Issued Issue a proclamation asking the people of or the United States to sot set aside this late date to I Bishop Tuttle Delivers Sermon Sennon I The opening sermon of tho the convention convention convention conven conven- tion was delivered by Bishop Dishop Daniel S. S Tuttle senior bishop Taking as his text Acts 27 31 Paul Pul said ld to tho the Centurion Centurion Centurion Cen Cen- and t to the soldiers Except these abide In the ship ye cannot be saved sl the tho bishop discussed tho the contribution the tho Episcopal church could coul make mako to unity and enumerated rated reverence truth I catholicity and American flavor lavor and o othe of ot t the latter said saidI I r do not want to presume Canadian Canadia n brethren are here and they are arc Americans Ameri ns cans cang as well hell as we Representatives Representative s of the mother church of or England ar are 0 here Wo We 0 revere her and we love lo them She Sho fostered our youth In a a. long continuance continuance con con- of nursing care and ana protection protection tion There is nothing but a n. heaped heaDed up fullness of or gratitude In our hearts and we are humbly roud of ot our kinship kinship kinship kin kin- ship with the Church of England and antI the church In Canada But nut under Gods God's providence adolescent years have sent us out from Crom under our mothers mother's roofo roof Wo o e are housekeeping now In a home of or our own Asking permission to use the word American for short we want I Ito to have an American flavor Javor In our church Anglican precedents We wo will study stud and respect and admire But Dut in our respect and admiration n we c will leave lea them them- alone unpracticed If Ie Amer Anier- American ican spirit and American and American habit do not take to them Then In that good g time when an approaching unity seems somewhat to materialize W we e want to offer oCler to our follow fellow Christians of ot other names roundabout round roundabout roundabout about us an American rell religion with an American flavor or as our contribution While In attendance on a n. session of or orthe the house of or bishops today Bishop Dald Da- Da ld II o of New York was stricken with a severe attack ck of or neuritis Attending At Attending Attending At- At tending ph physicians said his condition was not serious o |