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Show BISHOP WOULD TIGHTEN DIVORCE I RULE WITHINEPISCO PAL CHURCH Resolution Offered for Vote of Convention Forbids For-bids All Members to Marry Persons Divorced Di-vorced for Any Cause Except Infidelity In-fidelity of Offender PORTLAND. Ore. Spt. 9. TTip divorce di-vorce canon of the Protestant Episcopal Episco-pal church In the United States woul 1 b6 tightened, forbidding nil members to marry persons divorced for ;my cause except Infidelity of the offend-Ingr offend-Ingr party in a div orce case If :i ri solution so-lution Introduced in tho house of Mshops today by Bishop Charles IT. Brent of western New York is adopted adopt-ed by the general convention of tho church now In session hre. Bishop Brent's proposed amendment tightens tight-ens the divorce canon which now forbids for-bids clergymen of the church from marrying divorced persons, nnd only by Implication forbids the members remarry Ins. mfkts risiest r w. The convention put In its busiest day since convening lure Wednesday, In tho house of deputli a reports of commissions were presented favoring iiine heaiinp in the church Bind favoring; fa-voring; the seating: of women deli pates In the house of deputies. The d initios ini-tios also took definite action in the matter of prayer book revision In reacting re-acting an effort to postpone consideration consid-eration of rev ision for at leasl 1 1 r i years. Folowllng this the house finally fi-nally actPd upon one prayer book revision, re-vision, the elimination of a rcpetl-tlontion rcpetl-tlontion phrase In the Qlotia in Excelsior. Ex-celsior. The house of blsliops finally adopted the nevv alternative praj for the president, which had been finally fi-nally adopted by the house and it now J becomes part of the prayer I k Th,e bishops rejected, as did the house two. days ago, a proposed removal of cr-j lain verslcles from th evening to j t hi c mornlnp prayer. These had been: approved by the convention three vears ago and wcr up for final approval ap-proval or rejection. REVISION SPEEDED. Other complete loglslaMon was the approval by the bishops of a resolution resolu-tion passed by the house of deputies providing for a custodian of arch-, Ives and the admission of the missionary mis-sionary district of southern I orlda as a new dioci Be The matter of the Ashevllle dls-, rtlct, which the house has approved, the bishops today referred to a cum-' mlttee on new diocesi 8 Pravers were offered In the house of bishops for recovery oi Mrs. Hart-, lngr. wlfo of the president of the J tJnited States, .and messages sym-j pathy were ordered sent by both liouses of the convention to the president. presi-dent. That prayer hook revision Is to have the right of way in the house of bishops bish-ops was Indicated, said clergymen, by the section of the bi-ihops toilav in forestalling an attempt to introduce i a report of the commission In con- j COrdata, 'Which deals with relations between the Episcopal church and other denominations. on; of si fi k gans The question of the right of suffragan suf-fragan bishops to n ot in the house was automatically Reopened by the (routine introduction of the second ; part of the original amendment to Ihe constitution In which BUCh right was provided for. After a short debate It was decided to make the question a Bpecla! order I at three o'clock Monday afternoon. , Blsliop F. F Reese of Georgia, chairman chair-man ni the committee on dispatch of business offered an amendment thab a vote be taken at four o'clock, llm-Iting llm-Iting debatl This resolution carried. I I BlBhop James H. IXarllngton of I HarrlsDUrg, Pa , presentefl a rejiort j of a special committee on relations of ! the Episcopal church with eastern or-I or-I t hodox churches. The convention today received greetings from the church of Armenia through Bishop Tlrayre, primate of I the church in America WOMEN PROTEST MOVIES Among resolutions introduced today I at the second session of the women's auxiliary of the Protestant Eplseopa! I church in triennial session here, was one Calling for th raising of the tone of motion pictures and the removal of nil objectionable features. Aid for disabled soldiers of the world war was asked In others. A resolulion offered bv Mrs Loriner Clark of Tennessee for a telegram of sympathy to President Harding on the Illness of Mrs. Harding was adopted. The report of the recommendations contained in the executive secretary's report was made by .virs. Klngdon Robins of western New York It carried car-ried 15 recommendations including establishment of a rest room for foreign for-eign missionaries In the church mission mis-sion house. New York, and for a sum for a memorial in the chapel of the missions house to the late MlSfl Jnlfi Emery, who was executive se, retarv for 4 0 years. |