Show of 3 EPISCOPALIANS Pr Ir SALOONS j 1 J I Stand on nn L. L Liquor Tr T. T Traffic 1 f Taken n f for or First Time in in r r l History of Church REPRESSION DEPRESSION E ES SIGN IS URGED f Report Submitted to Convention Con Con- en ii Shows Member Membership D. D 1 sl ship iii p of SL gl Oct OcL 24 For For the first time in th the history of or tho church church accordIng accord- accord P. P 1 Ing InS to well informed d leaders a stand standon I on the tho liquor traffic was onas taken here I today In n the tho general convention Of C the Prot Protestant stant Episcopal church A resolution adopted by tho house of or deputies placed the tho church on record as such L action in our legisla- legisla 1 tIre the as win VIII preserve me the Interests of ot temperance and tho the repression re reo re- re of ot the liquor traffic The saloon was scored In the report 10 of or the committee headed by the Rev fey Jeans James E. E Freeman of or Minneapolis k which considered the prohibition ques ques- j tion This said a Our age ape Is witnessing vast ast and universal readjustment with reference t r I to tho the manufacture an and d sale a lc of or liquor and ud It Is generally recognized that the O Of r. r Joon has b become more mora and more mora a menace to tho the best Interests of our ourt t 1 corporate and Individual life j A report showing shot that tho church L JIM Dos more than communicants r Md lid was presented to th the house Douse of deputies b by tho the committee commit commit- 1 tee on the state of or the church The Tho re reV report re- re II V t port aleo also showed shot that about 1000 of 11 1 the clergy are not engaged cd In parochial 1 Jt I work and that there are about i ft i officers and teachers under the church which approximates 4 r PU pupils t Total Baptisms tho report showed have 17 11 t Increased b by about l and confirmations confirma confirma- r dons by br about over or the preceding preceding- 4 triennium Parishes and missions num- num I Ct Ce lu ter S U and tho total number of ot church I 0 t buildings is Tho The report added that the church controls endowments a. a Aggregating man many educational educational educational and charitable Institutions ki t and has s an average income of ot moro mom than a a. year ear to for tor the support of ot churches for tho the It triennium ending with the general Jeneral r I convention con totaled as ask k against 1 In the triennium b 1 ending In 1912 Endowments for tor the h f support of oC bishops totaled k as against ag given In n the pros pro s K Ious Iou three years cars carsA A commission w was appointed b by the boulo of oC deputies to make an Investigation investigation fi of or the conditions of or living JIving in inI I rural communities and a Ii stud study of ot the spiritual and economic problems of or the farming people This commission will report In Detroit In 1919 t The house of ot deputies also took steps t to appoint a committee of or three clergymen clergy clors' L men mea and three laymen to gather statistics statis statis- re tt tics concerning tho the number of or communIcants communicants com com- corn corn- and th the number of or baptized p persons rons In the thc church The missionary canon of ot the church A was TU as amended in the house houBe of ot deputies n I to 10 transfer much of or the tho responsibility of oC the board of or missions to the general Convention If Ir the house of ot bishops concurs tho general convention hereafter hereafter here here- after aCter will determine the amount of or I i j to be raised f mosey money by hr the tho board the I met method od of ot raising it It anal anil the field of ot its work Previously the hoard board has settled these questions itself Upon motion of ot tho the Rev Ho Henry Lubeck Lubeck Lubeck Lu- Lu beck of or ore New e York the house of or deputies deputies deputies ties voted toted to create a a. l commission to work toward to the establishment among amon tho the nations of oC the thc western hemisphere a a. mutual under understanding similar to the agreement between the thc United States and Canada The Tho world Is no no longer Ions to bo be styled miserable and naughty naught In tl prayer book the lower house also decreed when It substituted sin sinful cur for tor tho the phrase In the commendatory prayer which was objected to on n the tho ground round that It It Is la archaic L fn Loving Cup up Gin Git Given en n Tnt Tuttle tie u h The O or of bishops io today ay presented presented pre pre- to the Right flight Rev Rov Daniel S. S Tuttle of or St. St Louis presiding bishop of ot tho the church a silver sliver loving 10 cup In I commemoration of ot his fifty years years' service as a a. bishop operation Co of or the church with or organizations organizations or- or throughout hout the United States seeking to protect the interests Interests interests Inter inter- ests of or Investors was advocated b by tho the Rt RU Rev Benjamin Brewster bishop of or Maine speaking toda today In th the social service forum of or the general convention convention conven cOIn tion lie asserted also that the church should help mal make e tho the welfare of or the thc workers rather than private profits tho the aim of er e every industry Bishop Brewster reviewed the work of the Consumers' Consumers league and other such organizations and gave them cre credit for much effective work lie He said however er that such purely purel voluntary voluntary volun ohm tary lary organizations org cannot accomplish for social Justice as much as will b be accomplished when the principle of the tho responsibility of the whole social body for tor the thc well being of er e every member shall become woven Into the tho structure of society itself I |