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Show DANCER BANNED BY CHURCHMEN Episcopalian Deputies In Warm Debate Over Communion Com-munion Title PORTLAND. Ore , Sept 21. When 'A .sinner BelOVSd" a pageant presented present-ed under the auspices of the drama commission or tho Protestant Episcopal Episco-pal church was repeated at the auditorium audi-torium Wednesday nlvjht to a packed hmise. the leading dancer In a band of votaries of thegod Baal-Ashtoreth was not In the cast. Protest had been made by clergymen clergy-men attending the general convention of the church here, that the dancer, who led n band of Imre-leeed inui.l-ens inui.l-ens in a dance, which was one of the features of the first production oi the pageant was immodest and the dan was ordered out of the performanc by Dr. W B, Gardner, head of the ' i- ucational (Jepartment ( the church under which the drama comml.-iHion operates. It was announced later that "she" was a boy. joins FEDERAL COUNCIL The house Of bishops voted to make the church a l.i.-mber of the ledei;il council of churches and defeated an attempt to refer back to a commission commis-sion the in itter "i the concordat, a proposed arrangement under Which . ontf i cguuonai clergymen mu-y ot- ji-daincd ji-daincd by EpiscoUplan bishops. The house of deputies has yet to act on the federal council membership member-ship and on the concordat The house of deputies ratified the . .. . lion of the Rt. Kev. William P. Remlnfton Of Rapid City, 8. D . a.s missionary bishop of easier.! Washington. Wash-ington. No action was taken on the missionary bishop to Haiti STORM BR TITLE A storm oer the proposed new ti-1 ti-1 1 1 o of the communion service In the Prayer book of the Protestant Episcopal Epis-copal church broke late Wednesday In the house ot deputies when the repOlt 'of the house oi bishops approving the I new title recommended by the com-! com-! mission on prayer book revision was I taken up. It was not approved So hlgn as the feeling of some of the peakerfl that the Rev. Dr. Alexander Alexan-der .Mann of Boston, chairman of the 'house, stopped the debate nnd read prayers, invoking a i-plrli of charily The proposed new title of the com-Imunlon com-Imunlon service was "The Divine iitui-! iitui-! gy, being the order for the Ixird's sup-per, sup-per, or holy eucharist, commonly called call-ed the holy communion." The matter will be referred to . conference committee . PREDICTS CONFUSION The fight was opened by Henry Hanlej Hug of Newcastle, Del., who ! declared the words "divine liturgy" were medieval, He said there were BO in my alternative titles that confusion confus-ion would be caused "Some will be going to the divine liturgy, some to the l-ord's hUpper, some to the holy Leuchanst and some to the holy coiu-' coiu-' munion." Roswell Page: of Beaver Dam. Va., moved that the title be cnanged to the " Lord's Supper," or the "Holy Com-munlon." Com-munlon." Ho declared there was greut .opposition to the proposed change. "It Is a question to spilt brethn n upon,." he asSi r',ed . Crle3 of "No." canio from the houso. "Oh, you say 'no,' I say yet," he retorted. re-torted. "You speak of union with the Catholic Cath-olic church,' and you speak of church unity, but by just such a report us this you get awaj from the other Protest-'ant Protest-'ant communions and you do not get any nearer to the church of Rome.' I I ULs CHI R4 H .SPLIT G. P. Henry of Dss Moines, Iowa , made ah Impassioned plea against the I change, "ll we c hange the name of tho order, wc will spilt this church from top to bottom," he declared. There were cries ot "No " "You cry 'no,' but you do not realize rea-lize the intense feeling on this subject I In the lalty of the church," he answered. an-swered. It was at this point that the chalr-Iman chalr-Iman Interrupted the debate. He cau-Ittoned cau-Ittoned the house against applause or 'audible expressions of feeling 'We are , , osidering one of tho most at red offices Of the church," he eald. "and we 6hould do so in the right spirit. spir-it. I think it appropriate that I should ait upon tie- suggestion of a speaker that we undertake this work only in a spirit of prayer." At one point in the discussion, the Rev, lr. t. U winner, Atlanta, ua , said "If I had the nerve to buck th machine, I would offer an amendment" amend-ment" Assertion that people nowadays do not believe the biblical statements that heaven and earth were made in six dais and that inhibition against coveting covet-ing one's neighbor's "ox or ass" would be more effective If changed to "his automobile." were made in the house of deputies in a debave on acceptance of a plan to print part of tho ten commandments com-mandments In black face type and the rest in different type, to be read at the discretion of Clergyman. The Rev F M. Klrkus of Wilmington, Del , said the effect Of the commandment against labor by son. daughter, man-servant man-servant and maid-servant on Sunday-was Sunday-was lost when everyone knew that there was some ono at home preparing prepar-ing dinner. Tho Rev. Dr. A B Klnsolvlng of Baltimore said young people are not impressed by what is said In the fourth commandment "I am greatly distressed by hearing priests say things that Scholars know are not true." said George Za-brlfdle, Za-brlfdle, lay delegate from New York. The Rev Dr. H. B St. George of Milwaukee said the Question had been raided about overdoing th.- reading of the ten commandments "It has been said." ho declared. that reading read-ing these at the communion service is like reading the riot act at a meeting meet-ing of peaceful people." oi ' I |