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Show RACE QUESTION UPPERMOST. Matter of Negro Communicants Both ers Delegates to Episcopal Convention. Con-vention. Richmond, Vn Facing all tho problems prob-lems that havo been discussed and passed over In conventions gone 1y and n number of new questions ot great Importance, tho I'rotcstnnt l.'pln copal church of the United Stales assembled as-sembled here, on Wednesday, for Its forty llfth triennial convention, which Is expectid to bo one of tho most Interesting In-teresting in the history of the church. Of nil the questions ponding In tho convention, thnt of creating negro bishops Is causing tho most heated advance ad-vance Olscussfon. There Is a largo faction fac-tion In the convention that will advo-v cnto the closing of negro missions nnd Biliools and allow tho negro communicants communi-cants to dlo out or scatter nmong othor l elisions bodies Another faction openl) advocates tho creation of negro ne-gro bishops to servo over negro churches nnd still others would consecrate conse-crate negio suffragan bishops to servo under tho direction of tho white bishop of the dloccso nnd still another plan Is to give tho negroes three bishops and let them erect nn autonomoub church. |
