from Texas for the purpose of referring it to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

The PRESIDENT. Mr. Burgwin's resolution is first in order, and it will now be read.

The Secretary read as follows:

"Resolved, That the memorial from the Diocese of Pittsburgh be referred to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, to report whether a change in the Constitution be necessary in order to the establishment of a Court of Appeal."

The resolution was agreed to.

AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE V. OF CONSTITUTION.

Rev. Dr. MEAD, of Connecticut, from the Committee on Canons, submitted the following report: "The Committee on Canons, to whom were referred certain memorials from the Dioceses of California and Texas, respectfully report that before discharging fully the duty devolved upon them it will be necessary to have acted upon a preliminary question referred to in the following resolution, which they respectfully submit for the consideration of the House.

"Resolved, That the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution be requested to enquire and report whether the suggested amendment to the Constitution, found on page 201 of the Journal of this House of 1871, and in Message 67, page 360 of the Journal of the House of Bishops, has been proposed to the Dioceses, according to the Constitution, and whether, if so proposed, due notice of such amendment has been given to the Diocesan Conventions, in pursuance of Article IX. of the Constitution, and of Section 3 of Canon 1, Title III., of the Digest."

Rev. Mr. ROGERS, of Texas. I move the reference of that to the Committee on Constitutional Amendments.

The PRESIDENT. It is moved that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

The motion was agreed to.

NEW DIOCESE IN WISCONSIN.

The Rev. Mr. HAFF, of Wisconsin, presented a memorial of the Diocese of Wisconsin, and accompanying papers in reference to the erection of a new Diocese therein, which were referred to the Committee on the Admission of New Dioceses.

Mr.

DISSOLUTION OF PASTORAL CONVENTION. Rev. Dr. BURGESS, of Massachusetts. President, at the late Convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts, held in May of this year, the following resolution was passed:

Resolved, By the Convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts, that the Deputies to the General Convention be instructed to request the General Convention to consider whether any modification of Canon 4, Title II., of the General Canons, be necessary or desirable."

On behalf of the Deputies of the Diocese of Massachusetts I present this resolution to the General Convention. The Canon is the Canon "of differences between ministers and their congregations, and of the dissolution of a pastoral connection." As we understand it, the design of the resolution was to request the Convention to consider if, by the provision of the Canon, the rights of rectors and assistant ministers are secured and sufficiently guarded. I move that the resolution of the Convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts be referred to the Committee on Canons, with instructions to consider and report accordingly.

The motion was agreed to.

LORD BISHOP OF LICHFIELD.

The following message (No. 5) was received from the House of Bishops:

"The House of Bishops informs the House of Deputies that it concurs in Message No. 2 of the House of Deputies relating to a Committee to wait upon the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, and that it has appointed as the Committee on the part of this House the Bishops of Michigan and Maryland."

NEW DIOCESE IN NEW JERSEY.

The following message (No. 6) was received from the House of Bishops :

The House of Bishops informs the House of Deputies that it has adopted the following resolution:

"Resolved (the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies concurring), That this Convention hereby consents to and ratifies the formation of a new Diocese within the limits of the Diocese of New Jersey, to be composed of the seven northern counties of the State, viz., the counties of Sussex, Warren, Morris, Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, and Essex, together with the township of Summit in Union County."

Mr. OTIS, of Illinois. I move the concurrence of this House in the last message. I ask if we

Rev. Dr. MEAD, of Connecticut. have not the subject before a committee of our own House, and would it not be more respectful to our own committee to wait until they report, and if they report for concurrence then to concur?

Mr. OTIS, of Illinois. They have reported. Rev. Dr. MEAD, of Connecticut. Very well. Rev. Dr. FARRINGTON, of New Jersey. I hope the message just sent down will be concurred in. The PRESIDENT. The question is on the motion to concur in the message relating to the Diocese of New Jersey.

The motion was agreed to.

BOARD OF MISSIONS

Mr. McWHORTER, of Central New York, submitted the following resolution, which was agreed

to:

"Resolved, That this House proceed to ballot, at 12 o'clock meridian on the 12th of October (Monday next), for a committee of three clergymen and three laymen to act with a Committee of the House of Bishops to name a Board of Missions."

DROPPED CANONS.

Rev. Dr. FARRINGTON, of New Jersey. I offer the following resolution.

"Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee on Canons to consider and report whether Canon 8, Of Ministers officiating in a Foreign Language,' and Canon 9, 'Of the Admission of Ministers ordained by Bishops not in communion with this Church,' being Canons of Title I. of the Digest of 1868, but not found in the Digest of 1871, are not still a part of the Canon law of this Church."

These two Canons are omitted in the last Digest, but having not been repealed, I therefore make this motion, which is a proper one, that the Committee may report upon the matter.

The resolution was referred to the Committee on Canons.

DISSOLUTION OF PASTORAL CONNECTION.

Rev. Dr. FARRINGTON, of New Jersey. I offer the following resolution :

"Resolved (The House of Bishops concurring), That the words 'Bishops and,' in the third line of Section 3, of Canon 4, of Title II., be omitted."

This is the Canon to which attention was just called by the Deputy from Massachusetts, the Canon "Of the Dissolution of a Pastoral Connection." This Canon was amended at the last General Convention in this House; the amendments were sent up to the other House and certain words were stricken out there. It was intended by our Committee that the Bishop should be one of the Board of Reference, and

so the language was, "the Bishop and five Presbyters." The House of Bishops, through their Committee, struck out the words "Bishop and," leaving the matter to the Presbyters. They did so in every instance except in this third section; so that it is necessary, in order to make the Canon consistent, that the words "Bishop and," in the third section, should be stricken out. It now reads, "If any rector or assistant minister shall refuse to comply with the recommendation of the Bishop and Presbyters." The Bishop has made no recommendation. The Bishop may be opposed to the finding of the Presbyters, but still he has to carry out their recommendation. It is, therefore, necessary that these words "Bishop and " be removed. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Canons.

NEW DIOCESES.

Rev. Dr. FARRINGTON, of New Jersey. I offer the following resolution:

"Resolved (the House of Bishops concurring), That Section 2, of Canon 6, of Title III., be amended by inserting after the words 'standing committee' in the sixth line, the following words: 'of the Diocese within the limits of which the new Diocese is to be erected, or of the Standing Committee.'"

Rev. Dr. FULTON, of Alabama. I rise to a point of order. It is whether discussion of the subjectmatter is in order on a mere question of reference?

The PRESIDENT. The gentleman moving a resolution of reference has a right to speak five minutes on it.

Rev. Dr. FARRINGTON, of New Jersey. I will not speak three. The title of the Canon is "Of the Organization of New Dioceses." It is provided in the first section of the Canon that a new Diocese may be formed within the limits of another Diocese, or by the junction of two or more Dioceses, or parts of Dioceses, the same to be ratified by the General Convention and the Bishop of the Diocese within the limits of which another is formed; or, in case of the junction of two or more Dioceses, or parts of Dioceses, the Bishop of eldest consecration over the Dioceses furnishing portions of such new Diocese shall thereupon call the Primary Convention of the new Diocese, for the purpose of enabling it to organize, and shall fix the time and place of holding the same, etc. The second section provides:

In case there should be no Bishop who can call such Primary Convention, pursuant to the foregoing provisions, then the duty of calling such Convention for the purpose of organizing, and the duty of fixing the time and place of its meeting, shall be vested in the Standing Committee of the eldest of the Dioceses by the junction of which, or parts of which, the new Diocese may be formed."

This section omits to make a provision for the calling of a Primary Convention in a new Diocese, erected within the limits of an existing Diocese the case which we just had before us of the new Diocese of New Jersey, formed within the limits of an existing Diocese. I will illustrate the matter. If a Convention in one of our existing Dioceses should agree to the formation of a new Diocese within its limits, and the Bishop should give his consent; if all the papers should be properly perfected, yet if, in the providence of God, the Bishop should be taken from the Diocese-even though the General Convention gave its consent to the erection of the new Diocese-a Primary Convention of the new Diocese could not be called; there would be no authority to call it. It is a singular omission. I thought at first it must be an omission of the printers, but I went carefully back through Digest after Digest, and through all the Journals to 1838, and I found that this section stands in the Canons of 1838 precisely as we have it here. There is no provision for

the calling of a Primary Convention by a standing committee of a Diocese, when a new Diocese is erected within the limits of an existing Diocese. Rev. Dr. MEAD, of Connecticut. The eldest Diocese has a standing committee. But

Rev. Dr. FARRINGTON, of New Jersey. that is in the other case, when a new Diocese is formed by the junction of parts of two or more Dioceses. Section 2

Rev. Dr. MEAD, of Connecticut.

says:

In case there should be no Bishop who can call such Primary Convention pursuant to the foregoing provisions, then the duty of calling such Convention for the purpose of organizing, and the duty of fixing the time and place of its meeting, shall be vested in the Standing Committee of the eldest of the Dioceses"

Rev. Dr. FARRINGTON, of New Jersey. But go

on :

"By the junction of which, or parts of which, the new Diocese may be formed."

I move that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Canons.

The motion was agreed to.

RITUAL UNIFORMITY,

Rev. Dr. LEWIN, of Maryland, submitted the following resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Canons :

"Whereas, The General Convention of 1871 declined to enact any restrictive law on Ritual Uniformity, but in lieu of it passed the following resolutions:

"Resolved (the House of Bishops concurring), That this Convention hereby expresses its decided condemnation of ceremonies, observances, and practices which are fitted to express a doctrine foreign to that set forth in the authorized standards of this Church.

"Resolved, That, in the judgment of this House, the paternal counsel and advice of the Right Reverend Fathers, the Bishops of the Church, is deemed sufficient at this time to secure the suppression of all that is irregular and unseemly, and to promote greater uniformity in conducting the public worship of the Church, and in the administration of the Holy Sacraments.

"And whereas, Our Right Rev. Fathers, the Bishops of the Church,' did draw up and cause to be published a Pastoral Letter to the members of the Church,' which Pastoral Letter, after Divine service duly celebrated, was read in the presence of both Houses of the General Convention by the Right Rev. the Bishop presiding in the House of Bishops;

"And whereas, In the aforesaid Pastoral Letter, 'our Right Rev. Fathers, the Bishops of the Church,' gave their paternal counsel and advice, using the following words:

"We counsel you to bear in mind that while, on the one hand, we must not suffer ourselves to deny any real good by reason of mere popular outcries against Ritual forms, so we are never to allow professions of self-denying labor and service to blind us to the actual dangers of any movement in the Church. What is known as Ritualism is mainly a question of taste, temperament, and constitution, until it becomes the expression of doctrine.

"The doctrine which chiefly attempts as yet to express itself by Ritual in questionable and dangerous ways is connected with the Holy Eucharist. That doctrine is emphatically a novelty in theology. What is known as Eucharistic adoration is undoubtedly inculcated and encouraged by that Ritual of posture lately introduced among us, which finds no warrant in our office for the administration of the Holy Communion.'

"And whereas, The above solemn words of counsel and warning of our Right Reverend Fathers, the Bishops of the Church,' have not proved sufficient to check and suppress ritual practices and ceremonies which have been thus most emphatically characterized as 'questionable and dangerous,' and 'which find no warrant in our office for the admin- | istration of the Holy Communion. Therefore,

"Resolved (the House of Bishops concurring), That the following Canon of Ritual Uniformity be enacted :

"Canon of Ritual Uniformity.

"Sec. 1. The Elevation of the Elements in the Holy Communion in such manner as to expose them to the view of the people as objects toward which adoration is to be made, in or after the prayer of consecration, or in the act of administering, or in conveying them to or from the communicants; bowings, crossings, genuflexions, prostrations, reveren ces, bowing down upon or kissing the Lord's Table, and kneeling, except as allowed, provided for, or directed by Rubric or Canon; and any gesture, posture, or act, implying such adoration, and any ceremony not prescribed as part of "the order for the administration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion"; likewise the use at any administration of the Holy Communion of any Hymns, Prayers, Collects, Epistles, or Gospels other than those appointed in the authorized formularies of the Church, are hereby forbidden.

"Sec. 2. In all matters pertaining to the Public Worship of the Church, to the ornaments, arrangements, and appointments of the Holy Table, and in everything connected with Ritual in the performance of Divine Service, including the vestments to be used, about which there is no specific direction in the Book of Common Prayer, or the Offices and Ordinal thereto appended, or in any Legislation, General or Diocesan, of this Church, the admonition or judgment of the Bishop of any Diocese, given in writing, shall be regarded as binding, to be followed and obeyed by every minister of that Dio

cese.

ENGLISH CHURCH CONGRESS.

The PRESIDENT. Just now a letter was handed me directed "to the President, if Mr. Edwards is not present. Mr. Edwards not being in the House, I have opened the letter, and find it to be from the Bishop of Lichfield in these words:

"Please to request the President to obtain the consent of the House of Deputies to allow you to present the enclosed invitation from the Congress at Brighton to the Bishops and Clergy to attend the Congress proposed to be held at Stoke in 1875. "Yours most truly,

"G. A. LICHFIELD.”

structed to report a Canon or rule of order for the proper organization of the General Convention at the commencement of each regular session thereof; and that it consider and report upon the election of one or more Vice-Presidents to preside in the absence of the President from the Chair."

To this date, sir, neither the Constitution nor Canons nor the rules of order that have been adopted provide for the organization of this House. Only in a rule of order made in 1847, prescribing the duties of the Secretary, is the office of President mentioned, and then merely incidentally. It is with a view to correct this omission that I offer this resolution.

Rev. Dr. BEACH, of New York. I move to insert "House of Deputies" in place of "General Convention."

Mr. CASS, of Pittsburgh. I mean of course the House of Deputies, and I accept the amendment. I did not propose that we shall organize anything that we do not have the control of.

The PRESIDENT. The resolution will be so modified. The question is on the motion to refer the resolution to the Committee on Canons. The motion was agreed to.

ADORATION OF THE ELEMENTS.

Mr. CHURCHILL, of Kentucky. I offer the following resolution :

"Resolved by the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies (the House of Bishops concurring), That every minister in this Church shall be liable to presentment and trial for using any ritual acts or observances which teach or symbolize any doctrine contrary to that held by the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, and that the authorities of the Church shall take steps with all reasonable promptness to suppress all ceremonies, services, or ritual acts which symbolize or teach the doctrine of the adoration of Christ corporally present in the Elements upon the Altar."

I merely move to refer the resolution to the Committee on Canons. I shall say nothing about it. The motion to refer was agreed to.

VIRGINIA ON RITUAL UNIFORMITY.

Rev. Dr. NORTON, of Virginia, submitted the following resolution :

"Resolved, That the preamble and resolutions of the Council of the Diocese of Virginia, in response to so much of the Bishop's address as related to Ritualism, adopted on the 22d day of May, 1874 (a copy of which is herewith submitted), be referred to the Committee on Canons, with instructions to enquire into the expediency of reporting a Canon in conformity with the suggestions therein contained." Copy of the Preamble and Resolutions of Virginia.

"The Council of the Diocese of Virginia, viewing with great concern the introduction of Romish errors in the Protestant Episcopal Church-viz. : in the open avowal of a doctrine of the real presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper, differing from the Romish doctrine of transubstantiation by distinctions which to the common understanding seem merely 'speculative and nugatory,' and which, by means of accessories of lights, music, vestments, incense, postures, genuflexions, and adorations,' tends to change the Holy Communion of the Prayer-Book into the Romish Mass; in the encouragement given to members of our Communion by their pastors to practise auricular confession, and to receive private absolution, in imitation of the Romish Sacrament of Penance; in the offering of prayers for the dead, invocation of saints and angels, and worship of the

Resolved, That our Deputies to the next General Convention be instructed to use their earnest endeavors to obtain efficient legislation for the removal of Romish errors and practices from the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the enforcement of such legislation by proper discipline."

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Resolved, That this Council does not believe any legislation would be effective for removing the doctrines and practices referred to, which shall not expressly forbid, in the administration of the Holy Communion and on other occasions of public worship, the acts hereinafter enumerated, to wit: "1. The use of incense.

"2. Placing or retaining a crucifix in any part of the church.

"3. Carrying a cross in procession in the church. "4. The use of lights on or about the Holy Table except when necessary.

"5. The elevation of the Elements in the Holy Communion, in such manner as to expose them to the view of the people as objects toward which adoration is to be made, in or after the prayer of consecration, or in the act of administering them, or in conveying them to or from the communicants. "6. The mixing of water with the wine as part of the service, or in the presence of the congregation.

"7. The washing of the priest's hands, or the ablution of the vessels, in the presence of the congregation.

"8. Bowings, crossings, genuflexions, prostrations, reverences, bowing down upon or kissing the Holy Table, and kneeling, except as allowed, provided for, or directed by Rubric or Canon; it being provided that reverence at the mention of the name of the Lord Jesus is not intended to be disallowed; and it being further provided that private personal devotion, before or after official ministration, is not to be understood to include or justify any of the acts prohibited.

"9. The celebration or receiving of the Holy Communion by any Bishop or Priest when no person receives with him.'

"10. Employing or permitting any person or persons, not in Holy Orders, to assist the Minister in any part of the order for the administration of the Holy Communion.

"11. Using, at any administration of the Holy Communion, any Prayers, Collects, Gospels, or Epistles, other than those provided in the Book of Common Prayer, or under Section 14, of Canon 13, of Title I., of the Digest.

"12. The use of wafer-bread in the Holy Communion.

"The practice of auricular confession and private absolution should likewise be forbidden, and all other practices and usages not sanctioned by the Book of Common Prayer.

"No clerical vestment should be used, except the present Episcopal robes, a white surplice, a black or white stole, a black cassock, a black gown and bands."

The PRESIDENT. What motion is made? Rev. Dr. NORTON, of Virginia. I move simply to refer the matter to the Committee on Canons. The motion was agreed to.

REMOVAL OF COMMUNICANTS.

Rev. Mr. BROWN, of Michigan, submitted the following resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Canons :

"Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee on Canons to enquire as to the expediency of amending Section 1 of Canon 12, Title II. of the Digest, so that the word 'not' shall follow the words be required,' instead of preceding the same."

REDUCTION OF NUMBER OF DEPUTIES.

Rev. Dr. BURR, of Ohio. I offer the following resolution, to be referred to the Committee on Canons :

"Resolved, That the Committee on Canons be instructed to enquire and report upon the expediency of reducing the number of representatives from eight to four, two of each order, from each diocese entitled to representation in this body."

Mr. RUGGLES, of New York. I would ask to add to that these words, "and how far such rule could be passed without an amendment of the Constitution. I believe it does not require an amendment to the Constitution; but I want that question enquired into by the Committee.

Rev. Dr. BURR, of Ohio. Let the resolution be referred to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

The PRESIDENT. The motion now is to refer the resolution to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

The motion was agreed to.

JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE HYMNAL.

Rev. Dr. BENEDICT, of Georgia. I offer the following resolution :

"Resolved (the House of Bishops concurring), That a special Joint Committee on the Hymnal be appointed to enquire whether the instructions of the General Convention of 1871, directing the publication of the Hymnal as expressed in the resolution on page 153 of the Journal of that year, have been carried out. The said Committee shall consist, on the part of this House, of presbyters and laymen, designated by the Chair, and shall make report to this Convention at an early day."

I should like to claim the privilege allowed of a few minutes' explanation. It is with great unwillingness that I rise to this matter, for it involves much that is in itself unpleasant. It seems to reflect upon the fidelity to a committed trust on the part of those whom we admire, and whose character stands in the estimation of no one higher than in my own. That which I have to state was known to me two and a half years ago. I supposed it was known to others also, and would be brought to the attention of the Church. It is now fifteen months since, in two of the most widelypublished papers in the Church, the substance of what I am about to say was made known. Two months ago it was published again, more particularly, under my own signature. It was to the effect that this Hymnal adopted three years ago by an almost unanimous vote has not been, according to the intention of the Convention, published. It has been said in various quarters, and I think proved-it has been proved by the Conventions of the Church-that changes, many unauthorized, have been made in this book. On page 153 of the Journal of the last Convention of the House of Deputies, permission was granted to the Committee on the Hymnal to correct literary blemishes and certain inaccuracies, to omit eleven specified hymns, and to add several hymns. The first lines of something like thirty-one or thirty-two hymns were read. They are not on the Journal, and not on the pages of the stenographic report.

I will not go through all the changes, but the fact stands that the Committee or the publishers omitted the eleven specified hymns, and ten more; they inserted forty-six hymns; they selected and applied over four hundred texts of Scripture which are not in

this book, which was adopted. Not only that, but they have changed hymns over and over again.

A member of that Committee, the Bishop of Western New York, has stated in public that he did not know how the "Rock of Ages" came to be printed as it is. It is in the Hymnal adopted, I think, precisely as it is in the Prayer-Book. It is, in this book, which has been published, in one additional stanza, four stanzas, and many changes in the phraseology. It is necessary only to look to the very first hymn in this Hymnal as printed to see the liberties that have been taken. The first hymn in the Hymnal printed is not the first hymn in the Hymnal proposed. The general arrangement of the hymns has been changed. In this first hymn I have here thirteen changes noted, changes some of them unimportant, some of them in capitalization, some in punctuation, some in the change of a single word; but in the very first hymn in the Hymnal one stanza has been omitted and two have been inserted. The second hymn is somewhat better. I have enumerated there several changes in punctuation and phraseology. The last line of the fourth hymn is changed from "The Nazarene, the Crucified," to "O God! is this the Crucified?" and the fifth stanza has been omitted altogether.

I think I have said enough. The book is before you, and any one can look at it. The marks of the proof-readings of variations in this Hymnal, printed from the Hymnal adopted, are, I believe, over 1,500. Some of them are very slight, but I submit whether, in any book that the Convention has adopted and sent forth to be used in the worship of the Church, fidelity to a committed trust does not compel the Committee to change not a point or a letter in it, any more than they would in the standard PrayerBook of the Church, without clear instructions to that effect.

Rev. Dr. BENEDICT, of Georgia. I suggest two clergymen and two laymen, and I would ask the President to depart from the usual rule of appointing the mover of the resolution on the committee, because my verdict has gone forth.

The PRESIDENT. The resolution will be modified by so filling the blank.

The resolution was agreed to, and the President subsequently appointed Rev. Dr. Benedict, of Georgia, Rev. Dr. Rudder, of Pennsylvania, Mr. Coppée, of Central Pennsylvania, and Mr. Bennett, of Massachusetts, as the Committee.

AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE V. Rev. Dr. WILLIAMS, of Georgia. I offer the following resolution :

"Resolved, That the Committee on Amendments of the Constitution be instructed to enquire whether the amendment to the fifth article of the Constitution was adopted at the last Convention."

The reason why I offer this resolution is briefly this: The amendment was never passed by the House of Bishops. The House of Bishops never acted on it. The Convention adjourned before the expiration of the three days allowed them in the Constitution. There is a precedent of 1853 which may be claimed for its passage. If it be a precedent I hope the Convention will repudiate it. I think it dangerous in the extreme that when this Convention adjourns before the expiration of three days, and the House of Bishops has not replied to our action, such canons or amendments to the Constitution as we have sent them should be regarded as adopted. I am anxious to see the amendment in this case adopted, but I do not like the mode in which it is proposed to be adopted. I have nothing more to say, except simply to refer

the question to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution to tell whether that principle is the law of this Church.

The resolution was so referred.

HOUR OF ADJOURNMENT.

Rev. Dr. CORBETT, of Illinois. As time is required to prepare this church for Divine service tomorrow, I move that we continue in session to-day until two o'clock, and then adjourn for the day. The motion was agreed to.

THE GENERAL CONVENTION.

Rev. Dr. STEARNS, of Easton, submitted the following resolutions, which were referred to the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution :

"Resolved (the House of Bishops concurring), That the alterations to the Constitution set forth in the following resolutions be proposed, and that the same be made known to the several Diocesan Conventions, in pursuance of Article IX. of the Constitution, viz.:

"1. Resolved, That Article II. of the Constitution be amended by prefixing the two following paragraphs, viz. :

"The General Convention shall be composed of two Houses-the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies.

"The House of Bishops shall consist of all the Bishops of this Church having Diocesan or Missionary jurisdictions, and of the Assistant Bishops of the Church."

"2. Resolved, That resolved that Article II. be further amended by striking out the phrase commencing, viz., "The Church in each Diocese shall be entitled to a representation of both the clergy and the laity," and inserting instead thereof the words following, "The House of Deputies shall consist of a representation of both the clergy and the laity of the Church in each Diocese."

66 3. Resolved, That Article III. of the Constitu tion be stricken out, and the following be inserted instead thereof, viz.:

""Article III. The two Houses shall in all legislative matters be co-ordinate, each having a right to originate and propose acts for the concurrence of the other; and when any proposed act shall have passed either House, the same shall be transmitted to the other House; if concurred in by the said House, it shall become a law. And all deliberations and action of either House on legislative business shall be in open session, and all acts of the Convention shall be authenticated by both."""

MISSIONARY BISHOP'S REPORT.

The SECRETARY presented the triennial report of the Missionary Bishop of China and Japan, which was referred to the Committee on the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.

CONSTRUCTION OF RULES.

The PRESIDENT. I wish to state to the House that it will take us a little while to get into working order under the new rules. A while ago I was under the impression, as stated by one gentleman in contradiction of another, that this order of business prescribed in the fifth rule formed an order of the day that took precedence of the order mentioned in the seventh rule. Having thought the matter over, I came to a different conclusion; and, upon consultation with a gentleman near me who is well acquainted with the proceedings of other deliberative bodies, my second opinion was confirmed as without doubt. Therefore, under the seventh rule, at 12 o'clock each day, unless there is a special order of the day, the Calendar will be taken up. That is the present ruling of the Chair for our future action.