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Show R'r T. REV. PAUL JONES, missionary Protestant Episcopal bishop of Utah, who talks at convention of work among the Mormons. . ... "A I ) & V I 2 $ ;' ' 'I 1 BISHOP JONES TELLS OP HIS IHK UTAH Declares Great Change Has Taken Place in Mormon Doctrines and Practices I I in Last 50 Years. EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOLDS CONVENTION Bishop Tuttle Greets Fraternal Fra-ternal Delegates From, Canada and England. Eng-land. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12 Reference to the. European wsr was frequent at the sessions of the general conference of the Protestant Episcopal church here today. to-day. One of the features of the convention con-vention was the address of Missionary Bishop Jones of "Utah. The Right Rev. Huyshe Wolcott Veat-man-Biggs, bishop of "Worcester, England, Eng-land, and the Right Rev. Henry II . Montgomery, secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, Church of England, conveyed the greeting greet-ing of thor mother church to the convention; con-vention; the Most Rev. George Thorn-loe, Thorn-loe, archbishop of Algoma, Ontario, and the Right Rev. David Williams, bishop of Huron, Ontario, expressed the good will. of the Episcopal church of Canada. The pulpit from which they spoke was decorated with the flags of the United States, England and Canada. In receiving the fraternal delegates, tbe Rrght Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle of. St. Louis, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, said: ''You have come from a country scarred and seamed by this gigantic war, a Var begun unselfishly and being be-ing waged unfalteringly in the interests of justice and liberty and for the protection pro-tection and preservation of international rights." No Dividing Lines. Speaking of the American-Canadian frontier, he pointed out that " there are no dividing lines between Canada and us. No warships nor forts lino the boundary between the two countries.?' coun-tries.?' "I could not stand here to reply to your gracious welcome without touching touch-ing the things which so deeply move us in the great war," said the Bishop of Worcester in his address, "for you have never shown us your brotherliness of blood and faith witb such acceptable-ness acceptable-ness as you are doing now in your fellow fel-low feeling for what we have to bear and achieve. 11 1 can say that Americans may not have approved of every move which we have had to make in our most complicated com-plicated issues of war, but one thing is clear: You have always stood for justice, jus-tice, for humanity, for freedom and for self-government. You have stood for the dignity of nations, and these are the principles, which, we "think, justify us of the Church of England, who are men of peace, in supporting the cause of war. "And, in judging England's action in conducting the war, I beg of you to remember re-member how intricate and how complicated compli-cated are the issues." Systems Contrasted. Continuing, he contrasted the American Amer-ican system of voluntary church offerings offer-ings and the British system of endowments. endow-ments. "With us endowments are both good and bad," he said; "bad when they lead the present generation to forget that it has still an obligation to make sacrifices for the support of the ministry. min-istry. Bad because, m most cases, it is miserably inefficient, but good in that they secure an honest teacher against the temptation to piny for popularity pop-ularity and fortify him against the arbitrary ar-bitrary interference of any strong-willed strong-willed or strong-pursed member of his so-called flock. "One of tbe greatest dangers of modern mod-ern religion is the desire to run a successful suc-cessful church. There are few clergymen clergy-men better for being popular. In the main we aro too rosewater in our preaching. preach-ing. ' ' In his address the Bishop of Algoma pointed out the close kinship between the churches of the United States and Canada, citing in proof the frequent interchange in-terchange of cler men. Canon on Divorce, The .bishop brought cheers from the house when he mentioned that among the canons of the Canadian church is oue forbidding a clergyman to remarry a divorced person who has a former partner living. To canon corresponds to the one proposed in the report submitted sub-mitted to the convention today by the joint commission on matrimony. A resolution permitting Jew? who become be-come communicants of the Protestant Kpisfopal rhurch to retain their racial customs was Introduced in the house of deputies by the Rev. Floyd Tomklns of Philadelphia, hut was referred to a committee com-mittee without dhate. It was asserted that such action is necessary, hecause "the attitude of the (Continued on. Page Three.), BISHOP JONES TELLS OF WORK IN WEST i (Continued from Page One.) church universal toward the Jews has caused the opinion to become widespread in the .lewery that loyalty to Christ involves in-volves disloyalty to Israel. Speaking in the social service forum, held in conjunction conjunc-tion with the general convention, the Very Rev. Barnard I. Bell of Fond du Lac, Wis., asserted that adherents of ' organized labor are miles on miles ahead in the spiritual pathway of their nonunion non-union fellows. : Doctor Bell urged Hhe passage by the general convention of some resolution calling for the consideration of strict Justice Jus-tice to the individual in a scheme of social service of their fellow-men. "The social service function of the church." he continued, "Is not primarily to do things, but 'to furnish further power for the individual with which to do things." Bishop Jones Reports. A story of the tattle the church Is waging against Mormonism was told by Right Rev. Paul Jones, missionary bishop of Utah, who spoke at a woman's mass-meeting, mass-meeting, held in connection with the general gen-eral convention. "We are not trying to convert individual indi-vidual Mormons," he said, "we arc trying try-ing to convert Mormonism. It sounds like an Impossible task, but the prospect is hopeful. During the last fifty years great changes have taken place in Mormon Mor-mon doctrines and practice and we feel sure the church has contributed to this result. "Polygamy practically has been abandoned aban-doned and blood atonement is heard of no more. Excellent Sunday schools have been established, the Rlble is used more frequently. Slowly the remaining peculiarities pecu-liarities of Mormonism seem to be disappearing." dis-appearing." Bishop Jones said that church work in the west is unique In that there Is need there to minister to thousands of persons, who are hungering for religion and not particular what kind. "We must satisfy this human longing," he continued, "and that does not mean building up the Episcopal church at the expense of some other. Much of this work lies among the Indians, where It is necessarily slow, but once they grasp the truth of the Gospel they cling to The Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann of Boston, Bos-ton, president of the house of deputies, announced the appointment of committees commit-tees for the convention. The chief committees com-mittees were those on the dispatch of business, headed bv Francis A. Lewis of Philadelphia and canons, of which the Rev. E. A. White of Newark, N J., was chosen chairman. |