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Show BISHOPS VOTE TO ERASE 'OBEY' i (Marriage Ceremony Change Referred to Deputies For Concurrence. PORTLAND Ore, Sept. 13. Recommendation Rec-ommendation thru Lhe Kt Rey. M Brown, retired bishop r Arkansas, be brought to trlni ph a charge of heresy and If convicted be deposed of the ministry waft made to the house of bishops' of tho Protestant Episcopal church In convention here today. The report on Bishop Brown was made by a committee, .headed by Bishop Bish-op j. w. Winchester of Arkansas which recommended that such ation be taken "In view of the antagonistic antagonis-tic attitude toward "hrlst lanity " which Bishop Brown has recently shown Bishop Brown retired from his Jui isdlctlon as a r.esult of criticism or o hook he published lately dlscussini Christia nity. (T THRKl lvKS HFM E POUTIAM), ore.. Se.pt. 13 The house of bishops, o the Protestant Episcopal church laf- Tuesday voted in favor of faking the word "obey" from the marriage qcrcmony of thai church. The bishops voted to refer the proposal to eliminate the phrase ! "With my worldly goods J thee en dow, ' from th-- cereriioin b.-u U I . to commission which had submitted it. I The bishops were generally in favor fa-vor of the phrase, but objected to its wording, it was said. The vote to eliminate the word "ohey" was 36 to If the house of 1 deputies concurs In the action the proposed change will be subject to ap-proval ap-proval at the genera) convention three ! years in nee before becoming effective In the debate in the nOuse of bish- j ops on the omission of the word ' "obey" from the marriage CCH mon , I Bishop Jame; it. Winchester of Arkansas, Ar-kansas, led in atiai king the & solution providing for the change. "I don't see any reason why wc should leave the word 'obey' inn." bo said "I want to register m protest. ' Anybody who hag had experience- ' knows that this makes for solidarity of the family ' Said Bishop Thomas Q, Qailor, r,f Tennessee: "I can only repeat my p. sitlou of emphatic, determined and continued opposition to the omission of that wor.l." Proponents were equally zealous in their s'and. "Obedience is the relation bSttween parent and child, and not between partners." explained Bishop Charles P. AnderSon of Chicago. ' fills' country Is the only one in the j World where rnis old form of promlso re mams," declared Bishop James n Darlington, Ot llarrisburg-. "Ours is the only service in many of the Cath- ! olic. churches which still has this me- I dleva phraseology'. ' WORLD lKi ; MEETING An international conterence tor tho control of the narcotic traffic is asked for by a resolution adopted today by tin- house of deputies. The resolution which was introduced introduc-ed by the Rev. W. H. Bliss of Seattle. I provided for tho appointment nf a I committee of one bishop, one presbyter, presby-ter, and one layman to call upon Bi c-retary c-retary of State Hugh's to ask him to take steps to make effective the provisions pro-visions of a protocol adopted bv the on r'crence at The Hague in 1914, The Rev Bliss addressed the house oe scribing the extent of the drug traftic. declaring that wnlie it is generally supposed th;ir drug users are principally princi-pally In the underworld the truth is that most of them are til the families of ordinary circumstance kc declared de-clared that narcotic were a much greater menace than lienor ever was. ! Ill sairl there were between one million mil-lion and two million dru- addicts in ' i the l nlted states. j Religious instruction of public i schoolchildren under a By stern where-I by at the r. quest of parents, the children chil-dren might he given such training as ' part of. the regular school time un- I cler tedchcrs of :my ncnomlnatb n tiic-parents tiic-parents may designate, is asKed In a j resolution ndoptcu by the house of deputies The resolution was Introduced Intro-duced by th Rev. ir. A. B. Kinsoh-ing Kinsoh-ing of Baltimore. LICENSING WOMEN j The movement for greater recognition recogni-tion ot women In the cnurch, which ' i hai. alrcauy resulted In a report ry a 1 i joint commission, tavorln admission of women to the house of deputies.' brought about the aaoptlon by the i house of deputies In the cen.-ral convention con-vention of an amendment to a canon I which will mane it pc-rlhle i,, ;trc-n;:e I women as la.y readers. Under this new rtife it win be p-s-slble for ltumcn to reail certain por- j lions of tin serlces of the church! where no male clergyman' is avail- 1 able or they may assist clergymen. Women, howccr. will not bl permit-; ted to administer the sacraments Of the church, if the hon.se of bishops, n.n ts this amendment it will go into effect the first of next year. |