Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-09-18 | Page 8 | Great Tasks before Church

GREAT TASKS ; BEFORE CHURCH New Executive Body will Be Named at Episcopal Convention ' PORTLAND Ore.. Sept 18. For-I For-I mation of a new executive body known as the National Council of tho ! Episcopal church was one of the im-1 im-1 portant tasks still before the general j convention of tho church here when ; its final week's session began today. This is the body which carries on the activities of the church between Its ; triennial sessions. Twenty-sL members mem-bers comprise the council. President ! Thomas F. Gailor has asked that he j be permitted to retire from the national na-tional council, but it was said there was little prospect of his being re-I re-I leased. I NTH MOVE on riNl ED- Among' Important matters about which there seems certainty of action ac-tion is that of tho world conference on faith and order. The Episcopal church has been taking a lead in this I movement looking toward greater unity between Protestant denominations denomina-tions and sects It will, by action at 'this convention, continue this prodig-, prodig-, lous project which already has resulted re-sulted In the holding of one world I conference and Is to bring about a 'second one at Washington. D. C . in 1925 It is said generally hv convention delegates that the Jr. Rev. Charb.-s J IT. Brent, bishop of western New Vorn. will be released from other duties and made the head of this body. bishops DECORATED, Five bishops have had conferred uvjoa them the Order of the Holv Sepulcher of his holiness, Damlanos, patriarch of Jerusalem, according to cable dispatches received today. Those honored are th presiding bishop of the Episcopal church, the Rt. Re Daniel .Sylvester Tuttle. Bishop James H Darlington of Harrlsburg. Penn .; Bishop William T. Manning of Now York. Bishop Charles W. Anderson of Chicago, and Bishop Waltei T. Sumner of Portland, Ore. Confirmation of the honor, given to theses bishops who have been eon-i Bplcuous In efforts to promote affll-l iatlon between the Episcopal church and the eastern orthodox communions, com-munions, was given by Archbishop Bantalemion', representative, of the patriarch of Jerusalem, who is here attending the general convention. The Cross of the Holy Sepulchre Is a decoration conferred by the pa-1 trfiarch of Jerusalem in recognition I of aid given or encouragement of-' fered in t i:-- ' i '' "'nfli' ,,r i ,, i .ii thej'- Si -pulciier Tiw uni'T i-arne.1 . membership in the i;rotherhOW) the Holy Bepulcher. j -