Churchmen In Session

MINNBAPOLI9, Oct. 8.- The thirty-slxtl triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of America was begun with solemn ceremoninl. Admission te the service was by ticket only, and but 1,500 tickets of admission to Gethsomane church were issued. At the appointed hour the house of bishops gathered at M-------■ ' - - - - - - - - - - Knickerbocker Memorial hall and formod for the spectacular prooessional with which the service was to be opened. First oame the surplioed choir of Gothsemane church, then Secretary Hutchins of the house of deputics and Secre tary Hart ol the house of bishops, accompanied by Bev. J. J. Faude, rector of Gethsemane. The long line of bishops, ciad in their rich vestments and degree hoods, thon appeared, headed by Bishop F. R. Millspaugh of Kansas, the junior bishop, his apostolic brothers followingin the order ol their consecration. Tlie Pregiding Offlcer. The rear was brought up by Bishop Whipple of Minneapolis, the senior bishop, and henee the presiding officer. With Bishop Whipple in tho place of honor wero visiting Canadian bishops. Arriving at the church the hoad of the procession haltod and permitted Bishop Whipple and his colleagues in order of seniority to pasa through first. Only eight bishops entered with the rial. On the left with Bishop Whipple were the Archbishop of Rupert's Land, the Bishop of Saskatchewan, and Bishop Tuttle of Maine On the right were Bishop Coxe of New York, Bishop Neeley of Maine, Bishop Gilbert of Minnesota, and the Bishop of Saskatchewan. An elabórate musical service was rendered by the Gethsemane choir and the sermón was preached by the Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, bishop of western New York. Sermón of Bishop Coxe. Bishop Coxepreached on "The.Catholic Eoligion for the Amoricau People," froui Act xi, 26, "The disciples were called Christians flrst in Antioch." He sketched graphically the spread of Chrlstianity from Antioch around the globe and maintained that of all Catholic ch jches God had made the Anglican communion the truest representatives of the Antioch Christians, who, if living today, would flnd nothing new or strange in the liturgical rites of the church.