Proposed Renaming of the Episcopal Church
According to the Oswego, New York, "Daily Palladium" of May 26 the diocesan convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Central New York at Syracuse, which adjourned May 25, adopted a resolution urging legislation for the renaming of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The resolution declares that "this convention desires to place itself on record as favoring such legislation as will lead to the adoption of a title of our church that will adequately set forth to the world her claim to be a true branch of the Holy Catholic Church." This was decidedly opposed by some. One clergyman declared that it would place them in a wrong position, because they had already been accused of standing between the Roman Catholic Church on the one side and the great Protestant body on the other. Former Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, Charles Andrews, moved that it be laid on the table, but this was lost by a large majority. An effort was then made to refer the matter to a committee, but this was lost, and the resolution carried unanimously, as the opposition did not vote. It will come up at the general convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. It will be worth while to see how the general convention will consider it.