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...easygoing start, the 55th triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church warmed up to a lively boil. In Philadelphia last week the subject in the 150-man House of Bishops was Divorce. In the 700-man* House of Deputies it was Union. The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, had come from England to watch the proceedings. Presiding over the House of Bishops was the Episcopal Church's nearest equivalent (it was not very near) to the Primate of All England: the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Church since...
Leader of the attack on the proposed canon was round-faced Rt. Rev. Wallace E. Conkling, Bishop of Chicago. Cried he: "We must recognize human nature but not yield to it ..." The bishops, seeming to agree with Chicago's Conkling, voted 65-to-44 to scrap the report. But that night a special five-man committee worked until 2 a.m. on a new proposal...
...Protestant Episcopal Church gathered together last week for the sacred act of laying on of hands. The place: All-Saints-by-the-Sea in Santa Barbara, Calif. The occasion: the first consecration in the U.S. of an Oriental bishop. Episcopal bishops are usually consecrated in cathedrals, but China-born Rt. Rev. Quentin K. Y. Huang, who studied for the ministry in the U.S., had deliberately chosen the tiny (300 communicants) church at Santa Barbara. Reason: for several years it had been the only guaranteed source of financial support for relief work he directed in China...
...proposed merger. The minority report deplored the proposal: ". . . We cannot believe that it is right in the sight of God and in loyalty to His Church to ask the Church to study . . . what we are profoundly convinced is repugnant to the mind of Christ." One member, the Rt. Rev. G. Ashton Oldham, bishop of Albany, N.Y., signed neither report...
Last year's lecturer was Douglas B. Copeland, Australian economist. Other appointments to the lectureship went to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, President Charles W. Eliot, Walter Lippman, Lewis W. Douglas, Heinrich Bruening, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert Moses, and Charles E. Merriam. The lectures are usually published in book form at a later date...