JOURNAL

OF THE

BISHOPS CLERGY AND LAITY

ASSEMBLED IN

General Convention

IN THE CITY OF

SAN FRANCISCO

ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY IN OCTOBER

A. D. 1901

WITH APPENDICES

PRINTED FOR THE CONVENTION

THE REV. CHARLES L. HUTCHINS, D.D.

Residence, CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

To whom, as Secretary of the Convention, all communications relating to the general work of the Convention should be addressed; and copies of the Journals of Diocesan Conventions, together with such Episcopal Charges, Addresses, and Pastoral Letters as are issued in each Diocese, should be forwarded as soon as published. Duplicates of the same should be presented to the House of Deputies, as required by Title I., Canon 20, Sections iii. and iv. A certified copy of the testimonials of members appointed as Deputies to the next General Convention should be forwarded to the Secretary as soon as may be practicable.

SECRETARY OF THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS.

THE REV. SAMUEL HART, D.D.
Residence, MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

To whom communications relating to the House of Bishops should be addressed.

TREASURER OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION.

MR. WILLIAM W. SKIDDY.

Office, 133 Front Street, NEW YORK CITY.

Title III., Canon 1, Section v. In order that the contingent expenses of the General Convention may be defrayed, it shall be the duty of the several Diocesan Conventions to forward to the Treasurer of the General Convention, at or before any meeting of the General Convention, three dollars for each Clergyman within such Diocese.

The Secretary and the Treasurer of the Convention are authorized to make an additional assessment of one dollar for each Clergyman, if the needs of the Convention so require.

The GENERAL CONVENTION will meet in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, on the first Wednesday in October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four.

ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, BOSTON.

COMMITTEES

APPOINTED TO REPORT TO THE NEXT GENERAL CONVENTION, AND PERMANENT COMMISSIONS.

HOUSE OF BISHOPS.

Commission on a German Version of the Prayer Book.

The Bishop of Nebraska, the Bishop of Ohio, the Bishop of Lexington, the Rev. Charles T. Seibt, D.D., the Rev. Charles C. Tiffany, D.D., the Rev. Johannes Rockstroh, the Rev. John P. Peters, D.D., and Mr. Benjamin W. Wells.

Committee on a Central Board of Examiners for Holy Orders.

The Bishop of Dallas, the Bishop of Southern Virginia, the Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio, the Bishop of Tennessee, and the Bishop of Massachusetts.

Committee on the Reconciliation of Alienated Congregations.

The Bishop of Missouri, the Bishop of Pennsylvania, the Bishop of Kentucky, the Bishop of Western Michigan, and the Bishop of New York.

Commission on the Church in Mexico.

The Bishop of Chicago, the Bishop of Maryland, and the Bishop of Los Angeles.

Committee to arrange for the Opening Services of the General Convention. The Bishop of Kentucky, the Bishop of Dallas, and the Bishop of Fond du Lac.

To prepare the Pastoral Letter of 1904.

The Bishop of New York, in consultation with the Bishop of Albany and the Bishop of Southern Virginia.

Committee to act with the Secretary in the Publication of the Journal. The Bishop of New York and the Bishop of Connecticut.

HOUSE OF DEPUTIES.

Standing Committee on Expenses.

Mr. Arthur J. C. Sowdon, the Rev. A. W. Knight, the Rev. E. S. Lines, D.D., the Rev. R. D. Roller, D.D., Mr. Samuel Mather, Mr. P. K. Roots, Mr. Joseph Wilmer, Mr J. R. Triplett, Mr. J. N. Carpender, Mr. James J. Goodwin, Mr. Peter White, Mr. E. Morgan Wood, Mr. W. W. Frazier, and the Secretary of the Convention.

Committee to prepare a body of Canons establishing Courts of Appeal.

The Rev. F. P. Davenport, D.D., the Rev. John H. Elliott, D.D., the Rev. John Brainard, D.D., the Rev. E. S. Lines, D.D., Mr. Charles Andrews, Mr. Robert Earl, Mr. Miles F. Gilbert, Mr. Melville W. Fuller, and Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson.

Committee on a Standard Bible.

The Rev. W. J. Gold, D.D., the Rev. Lucius Waterman, D.D., and Mr. Charles G. Saunders.

JOINT COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS.

Commission on Ecclesiastical Relations.

The Bishop of Central New York, the Bishop of Springfield, the Bishop of Western New York, the Bishop of Delaware, the Bishop of Fond du Lac, the Bishop of Michigan, the Bishop of California, the Bishop of Washington, the Bishop of Quincy, the Rev. E. A. Hoffman, D.D., the Rev. R. J. Nevin, D.D., the Rev. W. H. Vibbert, D.D., the Rev. J. S. B. Hodges, D.D., the Rev. F. S. Jewell, D.D., the Rev. F. A. DeRosset, the Rev. Lucius Waterman, D.D., the Rev. Carroll M. Davis, the Rev. Henry L. Jones, D.D., Mr. Melville W. Fuller, Mr. Henry Chauncey. Mr. William Bayard Cutting, Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry, Mr. William Keyser, Mr. Francis P. Nash, Mr. George E. Copeland, Mr. Cortlandt Parker, and Mr. Bluford Wilson.

Commission on Christian Unity.

The Bishop of Central New York, the Bishop of Pennsylvania, the Bishop of Western Michigan, the Bisnop of Chicago, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, the Bishop of Delaware, the Bishop of Michigan, the Bishop of Tennessee, the Rev. H. C. Duncan, D.D., the Rev. A. W. Little, the Rev. F. J. Murdock, D.D., the Rev. James S. Stone, D.D., the Rev. Arthur Lawrence, D.D., the Rev. George S. Bennitt, the Rev. R. J. McBryde, D.D., the Rev. Alfred Harding, the Rev. S. D. McConnell, D.D., the Rev. G. Woolsey Hodge, D.D., the Rev. H. H. Oberly, D.D., Mr. J. H. Stotsenburg, Mr. Arthur Ryerson, Mr. George C. McWhorter, Mr. Edward L. Temple, Mr. H. D. Forsyth, Mr. George R. Fairbanks, Mr. Bernard Carter, Mr. A. T. Mahan, and Mr. L. Bradford Prince.

Commission on the Revision of the Canons.

The Bishop of Albany, the Bishop of Chicago, the Bishop of New York, the Bishop of East Carolina, the Bishop of Maryland, the Bishop of North Carolina, the Bishop of Vermont, the Rev. E. A. Hoffman, D.D., the Rev. James S. Stone, D.D., the Rev. William J. Seabury, D.D., the Rev. F. P. Davenport, D.D., the Rev. J. H. Eccleston, D.D., the Rev. Edwin A. White, Mr. W. H. Lightner, Mr. Edward G. Bradford, Mr. F. B. Swayne, Mr. Charles G. Saunders, Mr. W. S. Laidley, Mr. John A. Beall, and Mr. Frank H. Miller.

Commission on Archives.

The Bishop of Albany, the Bishop of New York, and the Bishop of Delaware; the Rev. Alfred B. Baker, D.D., the Rev. Samuel Hart, D.D., the Rev. C. C. Tiffany, D.D.; Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Asa Bird Gardiner, and Mr. J. Grant Wilson.

Commission on Marginal Readings in the Bible.

The Bishop of New Hampshire, the Bishop of Kentucky, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, the Bishop of Tennessee, the Bishop of Vermont, the Rev. Joseph Carey, D.D., the Rev. C. W. E. Body, D.D., the Rev. John Binney, D.D., the Rev. Thomas J. Packard, and the Rev. Lucius Waterman, D.D.

Committee on the Orders of the Reformed Episcopal Church.

The Bishop of Missouri, the Bishop of Pennsylvania, the Bishop of Kentucky, the Bishop of Western Michigan, the Bishop of New York, the Rev. Joseph Carey, D.D., the Rev. W. B. Bodine, D.D., the Rev. S. O. Seymour, D.D., Mr. George C. Burgwin, and Mr. William H. Lightner.

Committee on the American Churches in Europe.

The Bishop of Albany, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, the Bishop of Delaware, the Bishop of Ohio, the Bishop Coadjutor of Rhode Island, the Rev. Alex. Mackay-Smith, D.D., the Rev. Arthur Lawrence, D.D., the Rev. W. R. Huntington, D.D., Mr. F. L. Stetson, and Mr. A. J. C. Sowdon.

Committee on a Permanent Place of Meeting for the General Convention.

The Bishop of Springfield, the Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, the Bishop of New Mexico and Arizona, the Bishop of Ohio, the Bishop of Louisiana, the Rev. W. R. Huntington, D.D., the Rev. John S. Lindsay, D.D., the Rev. R. C. Foute, the Rev. J. G. Murray, the Rev. William C. DeWitt, Mr. James M. Woolworth, Mr. J. C. Bancroft Davis, ?r. Joseph Bryan, Mr. John R. Triplett, and Mr. W. W. Frazier.

Commission on a Swedish Version of the Prayer Book,

The Bishop of Marquette, the Bishop of Minnesota, the Rev. O. A. Toffteen, the Rev. C. A. Nybladh, Mr. R. T. Ely, and Mr. I. F. W. Woodbury.

Commission on Provinces.

The Bishop of Albany, the Bishop of Fond du Lac, the Bishop of Texas, the Bishop of Vermont, the Bishop of Los Angeles, the Rev. F. P. Davenport, D.D., the Rev. John Williams, the Rev. W. M. Grosvenor, D.D., the Rev. B. W. R. Tayler, the Rev. C. M. Beckwith, Mr. Charles G. Saunders, Mr. J. H. Stiness, Mr. M. F. Gilbert, Mr. R. H. Battle, and Mr. G. C. Burgwin.

Committee on Change of Name of the Church.

The Bishop of Missouri, the Bishop of New Jersey, the Bishop of West Virginia, the Bishop of Pittsburgh, the Bishop of Ohio, the Rev. D. H. Greer, D.D., the Rev. G. McC. Fiske, D.D., the Rev. J. H. Egar, D.D., the Rev. S. S. Moore, D.D., the Rev. B. T. Rogers, Mr. F. A. Lewis, Mr. D. B. Lyman, Mr. Joseph Packard, Mr. A. J. C. Sowdon, and Mr. L. H. Morehouse.

Committee on the Translation of Bishops.

The Bishop of New York, the Bishop of Maryland, the Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio, the Rev. S. D. McConnell, D.D., the Rev. J. H. Hopkins, the Rev. W. M. Grosvenor, D.D., Mr. J. W. Randall, Mr. W. H. Adams, and Mr. M. W. Seymour.