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This week, its bishops and deputies meeting respectively in Masonic Temple and Taft Auditorium, the convention was to tackle some of the problems which have been on its docket not only since the last convention three years ago, but for two or three years before that. Among them:
Name. The Missionary District of the Philippines has urged the General Convention that the word "Protestant" be deleted from the Church's name, a proposal perennially made by high churchmen as a means toward unity with Catholic sects.
Presiding Bishop. A commission appointed by the last convention recommends that the Church's presiding bishop be elected permanently (to retire at 70) instead of every six years, be relieved of any diocesan jurisdiction and be made president of the Church's National Council, its business and missionary...
Marriage & Divorce. A commission headed by Bishop Herman Page of Michigan voted last month, 10-to-1, to recommend that the convention liberalize the Church's canon on marriage and divorce, which at present provides that only the innocent party in a divorce for adultery may be remarried in...
The most surprising fact about the U. S. artificial limb business is not that it is a $6,000,000 industry engaging 300 firms, but that no less than 58% of U. S. manufacturers wear artificial limbs themselves. Last week when the Association of Limb Manufacturers of America met on...