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Conference At Geneva The National Committee of the Results Of Lambeth Church Service League has issued a $ 1 call to all the women of the Church Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 13, 1920 • relaxation. His presence here is felt to keep a corp orate day of devotion The White Star liner Celtic arrived a most, inspiring sermon on Christian The first day of the preliminary in every circle and his counsel is next Advent. Suggestions for this last week from Liverpool. brotherhood in faith and worship, World Conference on Faith and Or greatly respected. His attitude is des day of devotion are being prepared by Among- those in the first cabin' was during which he frequently referred der has just closed. No one would tined to exercise a most determining the sub-committee on Devotional Life, tlie Right Rev. Charles S. Burch, to the glories of the great Orthodox be bold enough*1 to forecast either'the influence on any contemporary move and will be ready in leaflet form in Bishop of New York, who was one Church of the east, and the victories direction the conference will take/ or ment for unity.; October. An outline of Bible read of the fifty-two American Bishops at which it has achieved for the Faith w hat conclusions it may reach. In .. Possibly the one who elicits more ings' for use during Advent is also be the Lambeth Conference. When even amid the great suffering which it the words of the chairman, “we do sympathy regard than any other pres ing prepared by the same committee. asked what had been accomplished at Lás endured under the Moslem yoke. not know where God’s spirit will lead ent is Dr. Sigmarin Schultze of Ber These, readings will be related to the the conference,. Bishop Burch is re He expressed the hope that the Cath us.” lin/ Fie* is yet a young man but he five-fold field of service, the parish, ported to have said: edral of St. Sophia might soon be But 'some observations - may easily was for two years the pastor to the community, diocese, nation and world.’ “The three most important .results restored, for that heavenly worship be made. Th'e two days'* conference Kaiser. When the war opened he dis These readings will later be followed of the conference were: First, the final which always accompanies the great just preceeding this which was called tributed peace literature, and. was con-:, by other outlines for Bible study. stand taken 'by the Church of Eng Liturgies of the east. . After the ser by the Federal Councils of the world demned with 100 others to be shot. The Church • Prayer League leaflet, land regarding the relation between mon, the Bishop, descending from the 'for practical unity in common tasks Only at the last moment was he saved which has been used widely, especially capital and labor: second, a discussion pulpit, met Fr. Douropoulos in the both prepared the way for this con by the Kaiser’s secretary. He is one by the women of the Church, for a of the reunion of all Christehdom; midst of the chancel, kissing him ference and revealed some outstanding of Germany's. greatest scholars. His number of years, has been taken over third, the higher place fof women in three times upon the cheek, in ac personalities who are to remain. ' In spirit is most humble and gracious and by the National 'Committee of the the work of the Church. cordance with the Greek custom, and fact, without the previous conference despite the violent objection registered Church Service League as the com “In regard to capital and labor the in token of Christian, fellowship. Fr. and its Clarifying sessions, this ■ con by the' French deleegates against' the mon organ of the league. The'editor people generally have to recognize Douropoulos replied by kissing the ference would be overwhelmed by its seating of the Grman delegates until of the quarterly will continue her work that the world is facing a new-future, Bishop's ring. He then went into the almost impossible chasms of thought the invasion of Belgium should be under the auspices of the committee and co-operation and good-will must pulpit and delivered a n , earnest ex and tradition. One glance over the ■repudiated, Dr. Schultze is loved by on Devotional Life of which, she is govern everything. The stand of the hortation to his own people in the delegation of ISO men present tells the all as an outstanding Christian va member. The quarterly offers a Church is first, an appeal tp labor not Greek language, urging them to stand story of centuries of division within scholar. plan of continuous intercession for to make unjust and destructive de fast in those ideals of liberty and his the church.; Here are men from Frapce Yet none of the delegates are so the work of the Church, arranged for mands, and the same appeal will be toric Christianity which are the char and Germany and that distance no „picturesque'nor have such meaning by daily use.. ' ■ / *! ■ / made to capital. The attitude of the acteristics of Greek people. He re man can yet measure. But the de their presence here as the nine patri These announcements have been Church tp work for the suppression ferred to the Episcopal Churph, scendants of the reformers from Hun archal representatives of the Greek made in a Program just issued by the of the spirit of unrestricted competi Bishop Bury and the Rector o'f St. gary are here and so are the pa Orthodox church. They are surpris Church Service League which may be tion. John’s :n terms of the warmest af triarchs- from N.ublt and 'Constantin ingly eager for contact and fellowship 'secured by addressing the Church Ser “The second great matter dis fection. After the sermon, Fr. Dour ople and Alexandria. -One cannot .look and seek every opportunity to ex vice League, .81 Fourth Avenue, New cussed,” the Bishop continued, “was opoulos came t,o the chancel gates, upon this small group without deep press their-hunger for a total unity, of York City. The Program further an the question of reunion of all Chris where, standing facing the, altar, after emotion,'for/it is the first time the the church. They represent officially nounces that the sub-committee on tendom. The program adopted is the the Greek custom he prayed earnest Eastern Church has been willing to 130 millions of Greek Orthodox Chris Cooperation of the National Commit ' most advanced yet taken by any com ly for .all present and for the unity of r sit down in conference with Western tians. They have come with a definite tee suggests that ' th^ women of the munion since the Reformation. The all Christian people in the religion of Christianity since the clavage ot program of action to submit and will Church make* the supply department program takes as a basis the two sac Jesus Christ. The clergy then entered eleventh: century-. follow their proposal with the united^ of -the diocesan branches of the raments of baptism and communion the sanctuary, the rector of the Every country in the wold is rep- effort of the entire Easter nchurch in' Church Service League, or in dioces and takes the Bible as the authority to church and Fr. Adams standing on t resented except South America. securing' its realization. es where-there is norie y et organized, which all matters under dispute will each side of their Greek brother Eighty communions are represented^ If one-were- to express any hope for- •the supply department of the Woman’s -be referred- .Another basis is the -Priest, conducted- him to the Altar*, All Christendom was approached and' this conference the justification for the Auxiliary, their clearing house for all Nicene creed.: The fulfillment of this where the Bishop vested in his cope, only Rome refused to participate.' .hope would lie in the sense of hunger supply (or box) work."' In the same program is to be expressed almost stood to welcome him. The Te Deum Anglican and Puritan, Huguenot and for unity breathed in every utterance way all organizations interested in pro immediately by the interchange of was then Solemnly sung and, as the Lutheran, Quaker and Calvinist, Free from delegates of every land. Europe viding books and printed matter are pulpits and the recognition of the or clouds of the incense ascended, we Churchmen and Greek Orthodox are is afraid to wait, for terror sits in the asked to make the Church Periodical ders of other denominations. felt that it was verily and indeed a all here. Too much .cannot be said-for threshold of its tofnorrow. “Evil will Club their clearing house. Since the . “The Roman Catholic Church has united prayer of Thanksgiving, as breadth of view and patient travel and not wait and we must not wait,” cried Girls’ Friendly Society has specialized hitherto refused to reciprocate, but we cending to the throne of the Lanfl>, as correspondence ''of the Episcopal del a delegate from Bulgaria in broken in meeting the problem of lodges and are receiving a great dealof assistance the offering of two great peoples and egation that toured the World in ex English. Yet who can see the age recreation for girls, it is recommended from the Greek Catholic Church, of two great branches of the 'Catholic tending personal invitations. Robert long divergence of language and that any Work undertaken along these which had representatives at the con Church. Gardiner, an Episcopal layman, has creed, of thought and tradition here lines be done in cooperation with the ference. After the service, the congregation given, ten years to this task and is represented without being sensible of G. F,. S. And since the Church Mis “Women are to have a large place adjourned to the Guild Hall, where greatly loved, as he is widely known the need of an infinite patience and a sion of Help has made itself expert in in the ministry and councils of the the people of St. John’s welcomed by churchmen of all lands.. widened sympathy if the hope of many thè problem of the unprotected and Church, although this does not mean their Greek brethren. Coffee and Among the outstanding personali hearts is to become a reality. wayward, girl, those who face this that they will actually become minis cake was served by the Americaniza ties of this conference, Bishop Brent FOR A LEAGUE OF ALL problem are offered the help and ad ters or priests. -They will, however, tion committee of the Woman’s Aux of Western' New York comes fi^st. NATIONS. vice of the Church Mission of Help. have authority to make addresses iliary. It was a most interesting sight He was chosen permanent president Geneva, Aug. 19.—The World It is further recommended that hos from the pulpits. to see the warm and friendly feeling and his introductory address was so Christian Conference on Faith and pitals and'training schools for nurses, Other Bishops who returned on the between the two groups of people, sincere and direct as to win all minds. Order closed today after having especially those under the auspices of Celtic were the Right-Rv. William A. many of whom could not understafid He is very humble, and thoroughly passed the following resolution: the.; Church, be asked to put before Leonard^of Northern Ohio, the Right each others language. It seemed as democratic and is. peculiarly fitted to “This conference, assembled in their nurses the purpose ahd plan of. Rev. Boyd Vincent of Cincinnati, the if the Greeks could hardly find words guide the conference to its greatest Geneva, representing eighty churches the Guild of St. Barnabas for Nurses, Right Rev. J ohn McCormick of Grand to express their gratitude and appre possible conclusions. His'"opening and forty countries, rejoices in' the and occasional conferences between Rapids, Mich., the Right Rev. F. W. ciation, and all the while their faces utterance was significant: “To delay formation of the 1/feague of 'Nations the officers of the Guild .of St* Bar Keatdr, qf Tacoma, Wash., and the were alight with friendship and affec one’s fullest effort to. unite^the^church for the prevention of war and the pro nabas, the Church 'Mission of Help Right Rev. Paul Matthews, of Prince tion. All 'Who shared in the events - of Christ is to impose, on the loyalty tection of Small nationalities. It and the Girls’ Friendly Society are ton, N. J. of the evening felt that a great deal of God.” H e , Unhesitatingly con earnestly desires that those nations suggested. In these ways the Nation Bishop Matthews said the con had been accomplished toward the demned argument aS a means of not yet .within the League will f soon al,'Committee of the Church Service ference went on record irrevocably fulfillment of the great ideal of Cath uniting tlic church, declaring it had al became or be admitted as qi embers League feels (hat a greater degree of against dissolution of the marriage olic Unity arid in the furtherance of ways led to greater division. The only thereof. The confereqce...urges''-the cooperation and mutual help may be contract. The Episcopal Church has that friendiv feeling which has long hopeful method is conference: where ministers of all churches to impress achieved in^the work of the women’s always been against the marriage of existed between the people of our “Irving b'eings in, personal' association upon their people the duty of prom organizations* in tHfe Church. divorced persons. communion and the Greek people of give equal consideration Jo things of ising in every way the objects* of/the Newport who are fapidly becoming League of Nations and of praying that naturalized to beedme our devoted others as to their own.” u r g e s E d u c a t i o n a l AMERICAN-GREEK SERV A man of more dashing’ personality the Holy Spirit may guide its opera ICE AT NEWPORT. and loyal American citizens. and one exercising the most conspic tions and that the Hqly Spirit may DRIVE; uous leadership on the continent * is so influence the hearts of the rulers On Sunday evening, Aug. 22nd, a BISHOP DARLINGTON PRE the Archbishop of Upsala. Arch- and the peoples that disputes between In the Educational Division of the most interesting service was held in SENTS QUEEN OF HOL bishop Soderblpw is'a combination of nations may be peacably settled and Department of Missions the Septem the Church of St. John, the Evange LAND WITH SPECIAL •Lloyd-George and Theodore Roose that the time may be hastened when ber issue of The Spirit of Missions, list, Newport? R. I., Rev. Julien D. BIBLE. velt. He . is "one of the few wars shall end. Mr. Piper writes as follows : Hamlin, Rector. The Greek citizens real Protestants living. .He is The Patriarch of Jerusalem invited “The time is now at hand when in | of Newport were invi^d to St. John’s quick in action and most kind the conference to meet next year in stitutes m the. winter and conferences Church to join our people in a sol-; The Queen of Holland will receive ly in speech. But he is action Jerusalem. ' in the summer should be consistently, emn. act of intercession for the com a special copy of the Bible from the forever^ He cannot be in a meeting systematically and energetically de plete deliverance of the Greek people American Bible Society in connection without dominating eventually and SPECIAL SESSION OF THE veloped for the purpose of training and Church from the yoke of the with the Pilgrim Tercentenary Cele "yet is never offensive. He is liberal HOUSE} OF BISHOPS. workers and leaders, and o* inspiring Turkish oppressor,—and also as an bration. It will be presented by the in thought and without doubt the clergy find laity with the" dominating act of thanksgiving to Almighty God Right Reverend James H. Darlington, most forceful Christian leader ’of Eur The Presiding Bishop has called a purposes and mission of the Church. for all that has been recently ac Bishop of Harrisburg. ope. His entire 'support is thrown special session of the House of Bish Summer conference should be de complished toward that end. Even A handsome copy of the Bible will toward a practical and immediate ops to meet in Christ Church Ca veloped in so many dioceses that it song was solemnly sung by the Rec also be presented by Bishop Darling unity of ¿¿e church. He is impatient thedral, St. Louis, on Wednesday, will be possible for far greater num tor, the Rt. Rev. Herbert Bury, D. D., ton to each member of the Pilgrim ®f .delays And thmks the present con October 27th, at 11 A. M., to take bers to attend. Intensive week-end Bishop of Northern and Central Eur Fathers’ Commission as a part of the ference on’, Faith and Order too cum acjion upon the suspension, of the late course? for men might be developed. ope pontificating and reading the les American Bible «Society’s Pilgrim pro bersome to be effectual. Bishop of Delaware; and upon the A few regional conferences could then sons: The Rev. Raymond Dow Adams gramme. This commission includes A more quiet personality but one oroffered resignation of the Bishop of offer a high type of normal work for of St. Peter’s, Tiverton, R. I., and the the burgomasters of Leyden, Rotter- recognized as one of the most capable Honolulu; and upon vacancies in the training of leaders and experts. Rev. Father Douropoulos, Rector of dom, and Amsterdam; the President Christian statesmen |of the world is missionary districts; and upon any Ft might be possible to make these the Greek-Orthodox church in Bos of'the Free University; Lord Bryce, Bishop Gore of Oxford. Hie is essen other matter that may lawfully come courses ldtiger than the customary ton, were in the chancel and took part Lord Percy, and ambassadors from tially a scholar and reads Horace for before the meeting. ten days.” in the service. Bishop Bury preached various countries.

Wide Campaign. It calls us to a real sense of strengthening* our own THANK YOU. EDITORIAL forces. Then, when we have demonstrated oar faith in our own cause, By Bishop IRVJNG P. JOHNSON. we will be in a position to give something worth while to the alliance The cost for sending out expira of Christian forces. tion notices Is a little over five cents THE ACID TEST. for each subscriber—a two cent stamp But a Church as prosperous as ours, which is*so indifferent to the an envelope, a* notice slip and mere crying needs of its own children, that .it is unwilling to contribute a labor »than most people realize. When few million .dollars to strengthen its oWn works is in no position to a weekly paper is’ trying to serve the It is very difficult to preach a gospel of self-sacrifice in an era of Church for $1.00 for 52 issues, these self-indulgence. • ’ K ■ make any other alliance than that of capitulation to other bodies who pennies count. It is by saving these It seems not to occur to those who criticize the Church for its have shown enough faith in their cause to finance their forces. pennies—by cutting ‘‘necessary costs” failure to reach the people, that the people and not the Church may be I have been told somewhat petulantly by some o f our own people, —that we are able to continue at so that the Nation-Wide Campaign is nothing but an effort to raise money. low a price. And we are able to save to blame. j| H | | | p | | on “necesáary costs” (expenditures It would have been a difficult task to preach a gospel of righteous-; That is not true as the diocese in which I .serve, can testify, but even that- are ordinarily essential in con if it was—is there not a cause ? ness to Sodom and Gomorrah where there were not1 ten who would ducting a business) simply because we form the nucleus of a congregation. • Until we give of our wealth to pay decent salaries to our clergy, have the cooperation of our readers. can we hope to have the abilities that we demand? Last week we requested^ each reader And it was said by the great prophet Isaiah in the palmiest days to glance at the date, of the expira of Jerusalem, the city of God, that if it were not for a very small rem-' And if we refuse that, of which we have the most, what, hope is tion, printed under his address, anjd nant Jerusalem would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah. there that we will carry op with that of which we have the least. to renew promptly if it was due, thus I f we refuse our money to our cause, will G$d be persuaded that Moreover, Jesus Christ emphasized the same principle when He saving The Witness time and money. The response to the request has been gave the commission for the apostles to go forth and preach. our heart is there, for where our treasure is there is our heart and our pocket-book as well. * * very gratifying. rIt convinces us that “ Into whatsoever city or village ye shaU enter, search out who in there- are many people who under It is natural that those who esteem elegance and comfort of greater it is worthy. . . . and whosoever shall not receive you nor hear stand what our aim is, and are willing value that charity and grace will hesitate to give the substance by your words as ye go forth out of that city, shake off the dust of your to cooperate to help us realize it. There are still people on our lists feet. Verily I say unto you it shall be more tolerable for the land of which they secure the former to help build up an institution which will spread the latter. \ whose subscriptions have expired. Of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.” course ‘bills will be sent them before j It is also strange that those who regard money as of the highest He realized that the men who shut their ears to the message of His their ñames are dropped. But we importance in all other matters should be so quick to esteem it of the apostles would have no alibi in the day of judgment. feel sure, after this explanation, that ’least consequence in the realm of religion. Why? such reminders will be, necessary in It is just this difficulty that confronts-the Church today in deliver Not because they have suddenly lost faith in the power of money very few ca'Ses. ing its message. V to further any cause, but because they do not like tp part with money ■ * * & $ -Vi'. fæ in furthering ,a cause in which their heart is lukewarm. CHAPLAIN TO SISTERHOOD It is not merely that the Church lacks a brilliant prophet; it is that When we believe in the instrument, we will be anxious to ade the people will not hear charm he even so wisely. V' The Rev. Leicester C. Lewis, Pro quately finance the same. fessor at the Western Theological Nor is this at all surprising. Seminary, has been elected Western în the days of the pioneer, men lived hard, earnest lives of self- CHINA CALLS FOR bounds. The particular need is for Provincial Chaplain of the Communi sacrifice. RECRUITS. additions to the teaching staff so that ty of St. Mary and will assume that It was a healthful, vigorous life and it produced men who over well-trained, efficient Chinese nurses position upon his reurn from Europe in January.. Prior to that date the came obstacles and women who bore children without a protest of self- The executive committee of the may he giaduated’ from our mission, Nurses’ Association of China has is Chaplain General will continue to act martrydom. The blessings of motherhood were esteemed highly by hospitals. Those who are interested sued au appeal for ' recruits. Within are asked to write foriparticulars to for him.-:f|i these mothers in Israel. the last five years the opportunities Dr. John W. Wood, Foreign Secre Iii the early days of this republic people were long on work and for skilled nursing in this great coun tary, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York, It is not virtue, but ä counterfeit short on cash. This situation produced a large share of earnest, God try have increased by leaps and of it, if . we are led to do our duty fearing men. '}, by the promise of a reward. Today we have greater wealth than any other nation and fewer hottîès in which God is thanked or remembered. American children do not grow up in the fear and admonition of the Lord because their home background is utterly destitute of spiritual atmosphere. Make Wem Sit The nation is not spiritually hungry because it is materially full. This is the situation that confronts the Church. People are not 'Du« TL HI WÊÈÊ._.__ H i hungering and thirsting after righteousness. They »are not seeking, asking, knocking. They are willing to have a religion which makes them more com fortable, gives them greater assurance and ministers to their vanity and their selfishness. What is the Church going to do about it? | § |pj * * * 11 W > :.;Lv It is partly a question of strategy and partly of principle. A s a matter of strategy I believe that it is a time to strengthen our stakes. To dig in for the inevitable assault that opulence and% greed have always made on the gospel of Christ. ■ We need as ministers to realize that we ourselves do not- escape infection in an atmosphere that is full of the fever of unrest. * We,need to strengthen the foundations of our own faith ; we need to train the remnant so that it may be faithful, we need to live the self- sacrifice that we preach. It is a day for the intensive quality of our religion to be developed rather than a time for seeking extensive quantities of poor material. ; v> It is not a time for entangling alliances but for falling back upon our strongholds of prayer and sacrament. t * * * ■ * 1 Feeding the Five Thousand We have been passing through a decade in which men have at 12 And when the day began to wear away 17 'And they did eat, and were all filled : then came tne twelve, and said unto Him, Send, and there was taken up of fragments that re tempted to meet the emergency b y . a multitude of organizations., the multitude away, that they may go into* mained to them twelve baskets. Luke 9:12-17. the towns and country round about, and It has been a decade of secretaries, bureaus and movements, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a ; tj \\ desert place. 39 And he commanded them to make all • sit our last condition is worse than the first. Whatever Heaven is, it will 13 But He said unto them, Give ye them to / down by companies upon the green grass. eat. And they said, We have no more but five . 40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds never be reached by a bureaucracy of secretaries. loaves and two fishesexcept we .should go and by fifties. Mark 6:39-40. It has been a decade in which men have indulged in adjectives and buy meat for all this people. 14 For they were about five thousand men. and adverbs, when they needed to give sacrifice and worship. And He said to His disciples, •' Make them. sit 11 And .Tesns took the loaves: and when He down by fifties in a company. ~ jj | % had given thanks, He distributed to the dis* It has been a decade when a department store smile and the glad ! 15 ^nd they did sor and made them all sit ciples, and the disciples to them that were down. Sfj L set down; and likewise of the fishes as much hand of professional interest has been substituted for real sympathy 16 Then he took the five loates and the two ' as they would. and costly ointment. fishes, and looking up to Heaven, He blessed 12 When they were filled, He said unto His them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to disciples, Gather up the fragments that re We are now confronted with a new panacea which is even more set before the multitude. main, that nothing be lost. Luke 6:11-12. acceptable to our Laodicean conceit. It is to be lukewarm in the service of thè ' Church and active in i* ^ 4* y ' ' it * M -jr. a ¡, « / - promoting alliances that will bolster up our courage. Solving a Problem in Distribution What are these alliances ? „ | The loaves and fishes were miraculously mul tion the problem of distributing the* food was A diluting of each by the combination of all on the basis of the tiplied.- They were not miraculously distrib easily solved. least common multiple which can be found. uted. The distribution was by ‘ human means A similar problem of distribution faces the and was systematic and thorough. It was per Church today. It is desired to reach all the W e need to strengthen our status by developing great devotion fectly organized. j 1 .. and self-sacrifice, before we prepare to lengthen our cord. six hundred thousand families of this Church The five thousand, organized into groups, with the monthly paper which will tell of what No one but a tenderfoot would ever attempt to meet a coming storm were all reached by the disciples. “They did the Church is doing to carry out the‘ mission of by such a subterfuge. eat and were all filled.” And no waste was Him Who fed the five thousand.. No better method can be found than his method. * * • * * * permitted. Would it have been humanly pos sible without organization to feed a crowd of To organize the six hundred thousand fam I am not opposed to alliances, providing the elements that compose five thousand? Would not many have gone ilies into groups and to distribute to them by them can each bring to the alliance a contribution of faith and order, hungry? And would there not have been much means of willing -disciples will mean that all waste? will be reached and there will be no waste. but when an alliance is proposed which merely decreases the morale of Is your diocese organized, and your pariUlf? each separate force, it is a presage of further disaster. With willing disciples and thorough. organiza Are you one of the willing disciples? V | Before we ourselves can contribute anything to such an alliance we need to believe in our cause and in our institutions. I have never seen this Church forsaken when it developed the Presiding Bishop and Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church resources that are its godly heritage. Publicity Department, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York We have a splendid opportunity to do this through the Nation-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. September 11, 1920 1 l ì & W 1 - T N ä < s ARTICLE ABOUT LIBERIA. DEATH OF DR. HUTCHINS. Wg*UttnrHH The Rev. Charles L. Hutchins, THE ULTIMATE POWER P«bliBhed JEvery Saturday, fl a Year Bishop Overs has returned to Amer ica from Liberia and will soon have D. D., widely known in the Church THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO. definite plans to place before the as the editor of the Hutchins Hymnal, died at his home on Punkatasset Hill (Not Incorporated) Church at large. In the meantime, A Study of the Ethics of Force •Sid Cottage Grove Ave. Church folk generally will be greatly near Concord, Mass., last Tuesday, Telephone, Midway S93S August 17h. The burial service was By A. H. Gray Chicago, Illinois interested in the article on Liberia, “The Call of a Great Opportunity,” read in Trinity Church, Concord, on I have been asked to try to give Friday by the rector of Trinity, the strength for naught. Is the world in written by the Rev. W. H. Ramsaur, some expression to the fundamental curably à disordered bear garden in A NATIONAL CHURCH NEWS and appearing in- the September issue Revl Smith O. Dexter. The body was faith which must underlie any real which no guiding and redeeming pow PAPER for the people. Intended to of The Spirit of Missions. The ar taken to. Sleepy Hollow cemetery. movement towards peace. In other er is at work? If so, no doubt man Dr. Hutchins was born in Concord, he instructive rather than controver ticle is well illustrated and gives in a words, to lead our thoughts away kind will ultimately destroy the race sial. A plain paper, aiming to reach most intei esting way ah account of N. B., and was in his eighty-third from any concrete details of the pres through the perfection of scientific year. , He was the son of George and the plain person with plain facts, un a trip .which Bishop Overs and others ent situation and to fix them on cer killing. But if ¿he wprld is a stage took back through a part of the coun Sara Rolfe (Tucker) Hutchins. On tain ultimate truths. on which a great drama is being biased by partisan or sectional views. his father’s side he was descended try almost never reached by white It is commonly said that the Brit wrought out, in which the essence of BOARD OF EDITORS: men." The concluding paragraph is from, ancestors who did good service the movement is the progressive in the Colonial and Revolutionary ish distrust ideas, but none the less Mahon IRVING P. JOHNSON, Editor- a striking one: the real danger „ for us just now in triumph of spirit over the brute, and In-Chief; \ “What Uganda is to the English; wars. On his mother’s side he came B®V. WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD, Man connection with war is an idea, of love over lust, why then a peace what the Kamerun is to the Ameri from the Tuckers and Barnards, who aging Editor. j There are, I believe, a few barely movement has, so to speak, the very can Presbyterians;/ what Angola and were known as among the ablest min stars in their courses behind it. Contributing Editors: Zuzuland are to the Congregational- isters in Eastern Massachusetts. sane people in the world who actually . Bishop Henry J. MlkeU ists: this may Liberia become to the He was educated at Kimball Union like war. But they are a negligible It is for this reason that militarist Bishop James Wise quantity. There are also a good many talk so often and so easily becomes Rev. George P. Atwater American Episcopal Church—the Academy and at Phillips Academy at Rev. James Sheer!» brightest spot on the whole map of Andover. Entering Williams he was* people who like the profit which can atheistic talk. He who thinks in Rey. Francis S, White be made in wartime. But though terms of guns can find no room in Mrs. Grace Woodruff Johnson Our missions. We cannot afford to graduated with the class of 61. He Mr. W. J . Silver, Adv. Mgr., * Blbli let this challenge go unanswered, or began his studies for the ministry at they constitute a sinister, aijd gross his scheme of things for God. Those House, New York City, N. Y. to forego the privilege of sharing in the General Theological Seminary in force in the country, they also are whose ultimate security lies in force so Tar-reaching an opportunity. With New York and was graduated in 1865. in a- comjSarativfely small minority. of arms have of course the whole Entere<3 as second class matter at the the unfailing and prayerful support of Following his seminary^ course, he What continues to make the possibil New Testament scheme of life against nest office at Chicago, Hl., ander the Act ity of war a very pressing danger is • f Congress of March 8, 1879, the Church at home, nothing is impos spent a year in a voyage 'around ttye them. (And lest anyone should long sible for the Church abroad. May world. | | | i | that the majority of people, though to break in here with the exclama He was ordained deacon and priesf they dislike war, believe it to be tion “What about militarist sermons BISHOP BURCH WRITES God grant that, we may speedily de molish the strongholds of corruption by the late Bishop Chase, served his necessary. It is a firmly ropted idea from Christian pulpits,” let me say ABOUT HEBREW CHRIS 4ja.cona.te in the Church of the Holy with them that physical force is the. in passing that I share all the aston TIAN SOCIETY. and ignorance, 5 and erect in Liberia ultimate basis of political power and the eternal foundations of the King Communion, New York City, and ishment which anyone can feel when the ultimate guarantee for social or Baal or. Jupiter is/ substituted for the dom of God!” | was rector of St, John's Church, To the Editor: Lowell, and at the same time in der. They believe that military might God, and Father of our Lord Jesus I desire to commend to my breth- charge of All Saints’ mission at is the sufficient insurance against ex Christ.) ren, the clergy and laity of the Church 150TH ANNIVERSARY AT ‘Chelmsford, from 1865 to 1869, when tinction from without and Anarchy Another way of putting this point a cause which- all too long has been GARRISON, N. Y. ;i he became assistant at St. Paul’s within. So long as that belief holds is to remember that the conception neglected. Other Communions have Church, Buffalo. Here he remained the field military preparations are in of the Kingdom of Heaven is the recognized and in some measure' met St. Philip’s Parish-in-the^-Highlands, for thr,ee years. In 1880 he was evitable and wars are also inevitable. conception of a world froth which war the mute appeal which the Jew of to Garrison, N. Y., is planning to cele elected rector, but declined. He was First Principles V ; -. has been eliminated. Now thè real day is making to consecrated Chris brate the lSOth Anniversary of its rector of Grace Church, Medford, On the other hand, it will avail trouble in connection with the con tianity. Will the Church neglect the founding during the whole ,month of from 1872 to 1890, and in charge of St. little for people like us to long for ception of the Kingdom of Heaven call of the day in a city where the October. There are few / parishes John’s Church, Arlington, for part of peace and to become eloquent about is that probably to most men it seems people of Israel .are so rapidly in which can point to so long and so the time. its blessings, unless the above idea a thing too good ever to come true. creasing in numbers and potentiality? notable i history. An interesting pro Dr. Hutchins served as" third assis-' is untrue, and unless we can consti It is beautiful, men say, arid would Can she ignore the gfreat fact that gram has been, arranged by the rec tant secretary of the House of Depu tute a sincere witness to a fudamen- be wonderful; but it is out of rela our Lord was a Jew in the flesh and tor, D r.' E.Clowes Charley, ties in the General Convention oi 1871 tally different truth. The must suc tion to this actual, hard, and muddled that H^s people* are still dear to His with Bishop Gailor, Bishop Nielson, and 1874, and was elected secretary in cinct expression of the truth upon world. And here, again, thé whole heart? " . ■ Bishop Burch, arid Dean Fosbrooke, 1877. He was warden of the Massa which we must take our stand is in question is whether it was the voice In thè Hebrew-Christian Publica among therspeakers. chusetts Choir Guild for a great many the sentence, “The Meek Shall In of God that proclaimed the Kingdom tion Society we have hrt agency which years, and was a trustee of the Gen herit the earth.” We may expand or not. If it was then the world was must inspire confidence and hope. 500 CHILDREN AT VACA eral Theological Seminary arid a that into saying righteousness, justice made for the Kingdom and in work This organization, now in its seventh deputy to the General Convention. Al ing fpr it we. are working with the TION SCHOOL and love, (which involves self-sacri year, seeks to reach the Jewish peo ways interested in Church music, he fice) are the ultimate powers in the eternal nature of things. ple through the printed page. The edited a number of musical books, the world, and of far greater lasting ca As 1 said, too, there arises hère a Hebrew race is conspicuous for its * Phoenix, Ariz.—'More than five best 1 known being the Hymnal that pacity than mere physical force. And fundamental question about the na love of reading; and the leaflet kindly huridred Phoenix' children attended bears his name. if we press on from that point we ture of man. Is man so made that „tendered is„ sure of a tolerant recep the Trinity Cathedral Vacation* School He was^one of the first to become must see that we are really facing the -fear of them that kill the body tion. While the spoken word nfr&y which has just closed its fifth term interested in the boy choiri and here certain questions about the con will always be the strongest emotion arouse antagonism, often because of with a merry costume party held at largely through his instrumentality stitution of the universe and the real within him? If so, he will indeed al the spirit in which it may be offered, thè cathedral house. “Purposeful these choirs gradually found wide fa-V nature of man. Is there a God at ways be the victim of th ose who em thè printed word begs for silent recreation” in many departments of vor. At various times Dr. Hutchins work in the affairs of time whose ploy physical force. Is he so made thought, reason and acceptance. instruction has helped to make pleas was recognized by colleges for. his real nature is love? If so, then those that he must be eternally the slave In the person of Mr; B. A. M. ant ' the hot summer Weeks for child work, arid academic honors came to who use the weapons of love qre of those lusts out of which wars S diapiro, the Managing Director, the ren of all denomiriations who other him from Trinity College, Hartford, working in line with the Creator and arise? If so, we are wasting our time Society possesses a man of rare qual wise would have found the summer arid the University of the South, as Ruler of the world, but if not then here. But if man was made in the ities. A Jew by birth, a Christian monotonous to say the least. well as from his alma mater, Wil we may indeed be deluding ourselves image ’of God—if there are deeper and a Churchman by Confession, he The thought of this school origina liams. ‘V'lz t witty dreams, and spending our (Continued on Page 4) brings”tc his task a knowledge of H e ted five years ago wih the Rev. \Vil- brew, Yiddish, and of the Talmud liam Scarlett, dean of the cathedral, and Jewish Traditions which affords and each year has grown in interest him a wide field' of thought. His and usefulness through the spontane grasp of the essential doctrines of the ous’ voluntary service of memb’ers of Christian faith is comprehensive and the parish who are expert in the varied convincing. His spiritual insight is, lines of instruction offered in the THE MUSIC OF keen and his devotion to our. Lord1 school. Mrs. Emma T. Jack, the uri- Jesus (tried in the fires) is indicative tiring and enthusiastic secretary of the of his call to His Srvice. He loves parish, has been superintendent of his people and he writes for them with tIiè^s.cbóolfM-| THE N E W HYMNAL apostolic zeal. Eminent scholars have strongly endorsed his works and not WILL HOLD MISSION STUDY ; a" few have personally commended his methods, during the past quarter of INSTITUTE. a century. The music has ‘been selécted on the basis of intrinsic worth, and of perma / The gireat question is an adequate Charlestown, W. Va.—A mission ’supply of this valuable literature for study institute will be held here by nent, rather than a momentary popularity. Great tunes that have voiced the the increasing demands made upon the the Virginia Auxiliaries at St. Hilda’s faith and hope and praise of many generations in many lands cannot be laid aside Society by1 Missionary Boards and in-' School from Sept. 14-17. There will for the products of ephemeral fancy. dividual workers. Hitherto the work be senior and junior classes on the has been supported by gifts from Survey, the former to be led by Miss The choice of new material was made from the many remarkable collec Christians of the, various religious Boyer. Archdeacon Stuck’s new book tions published during twenty years past, and from" many original unpublished bodies. But the Church is now asked on Alaska will be taught, and there hymns.' The result of the work of the Joint Commission, with continuous refer to give it a place in thought, prayer will be Bible class taught on mission and service. If the opportunity is em ary lines. Conferences on church pa ence back to the Churches for criticism and suggestion, is braced and àt once, incalculable good geantry and on methods of teaching must ensue» And * I hope that this are also planned: All correspondence personal plea for a generous support should be addressed to Miss Ed- ©f this laudable undertaking * may find miston, St. Hilda’s Hall, Charlestown, THE NEW HYMNAL a cordial response on all sides by those West Virginia. tb whom God has entrusted Bis WITH BOTH WORDS AND MUSIC stewardship. BISHOP MORRIS’ VISIT AT Charles S. Burch Single copies $1.20 per copy Bishop of New York.. HAITI. In lots of ioo or more $1.05 extended payment CARING FOR BODIES. AS Bishop Morris has recently returned In lots of ioo or more $ 1.00 cash to Panama after a month spent in vis WELL AS SOULS. iting the missionary district of Haiti, Carriage charges extra where he confirmed 225 people at The Cooper Memorial Gymnasium eleven points. He visited practically at St. John’s University, Shanghai, every section of the country and China, is the first modern college gym greatly stimulated and encouraged nasium in China with a pool and full the workers. His visits included one equipment for the floor. • The stu to Cap Hait en, the second largest city Published by dents are taking a greater interest in in Haiti, more than two hundred miles their gymnastics than ever, before. It from Port au Prince, where, unfor is interesting to note that Mr. Sing, tunately, we have no church or clergy THE CHURCH PENSION FUÑO the physical director at St. John’s and man. ,He also visited Conaives, the 14 Wall Street New York, N. a former star in athletics, is the son third city, which he described as much of Bishop Sing, the first Chinese to the most modern in appearance among m be consecrated bishop. the Haitien cities. /

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. f H fi f f 1 T N fi 8 8 September 11, 102t THE ULTIMATE POWER I do not merely disbelieve such is the same spirit that causes the DR. MORRIS WRITES FROM statements. I know that they are not keenness and bitterness of commercial The Donaldson School true. What is true is that there is strife. In both cases it is the lust BRAZIL. (Continued from Page 3) ILCHESTER, MARYLAND -instincts in him than fear and greed a certain risk attaching to the em- of gold that is at work—the vulgar ploymen of the method of love. In and materialistic longing for a larger Dr. J Morris who has recently re flfarif there is something godlike |g§ him Rev. W. A. McClenthen, D.D., Rector. to which appeal can with confidence dividuals with whom jt is used may income and for the power* which in a cently returned to BraziL to take be made ,then it must be in his des every now and then fail to respond materialistic . society comes with charge of the newly opened Theologi Rev. H. S. Hastings, Head Master. tiny to leave behind him. the degrada to it, -and then those employing it money. And the position which I am cal Seminary writes most enthusiastic tions of war and to attain to a society may be killed. History contains the maintaining today is really an unten cally of the advance which has been A Church boarding school for controlled by the forces of love. In stories of hundreds of such martyrs able one unless it is trué that in*the made in the Church in Brazil since boys, in the hills, twelve miles from other .words, the assumptions of our in the cause of love. long run love is a stronger force in he was there sixteen years ago. Al Baltimore. Self-help and self-gov movement must be reality of 'God and But it is also true that the method our humanity thabi even the lust of ready the Theological Seminary has well started ahd for the time being ernment gives the school exceptional the divinity of man. Unless that two never fails in the long run either with gold. Can love cast out avarice? If tone and spirit. , not it cannot end wan Will a so will work in very close connection fold faith is justified, we are attempt primitive peoples beyond the seas or The schooK prepares for college and ing the impossible, ana unless we our ciety organized on • co-operation and with the Southern Cross School in with undeveloped masses of people is limited to sixty boys. $600 a year. selves hold it with a tenacious grasp, at home. Indeed, “love never fail- brotherhood prpve more coherent, Porto Alegre. we can achieve nothing real in the eth.” It has not failed when it stronger and more efficient than one Write for a catalogue and pay the cause of peace. brings men to martyrdom, for in based on the struggle for existence PROGRESSIVE REVELATION school a visit. The True Power of Love such cases it burns up all the brighter and the struggle for big money But now let'me'turn for a moment „ prizes ? That is another way of put Miss Royden preached recently A PLAN FOR CHURCH AND BENEVO because .«tome have been willing to pay LENT ORGANIZATIONS TO - RAIS® to what will be said in view of these its utmost price. It was because ting our question.; Manifestly the at the Kensington Town Hall, MONEY—MRS. GUTGESELL’S ^CHRIST statements. I have a number of high Christ was lifted ùp that He has pow ruling classes of to-day say “No,rt London, on ^Christianity and the MAS NOVELTY GIFT BOOH. ly valuèd and truly loveable friends er to draw all near unto Him. For They simply dare not trust to the New Testament.” . The revelation Consisting of 100 exclusive Christmas cards with thoughtful greetings, novel who have militarist minds, and I every martyr in the cause .of love the golden heart of the world. They do of Christ, she said, is final, ties for Christmas gifts, enclosure cards think I know what they would like sacred flame is lit in several other not believe it is there. They dare not and the sum of all other reve and seals, neatly arranged in attractive to say at this point. “For Goodness’ abandon the whip and the spur,. for lations. Bat this does not mean that sample book. ... hearts. It can outlast, out-endure, The plan offers an easy way to raise saké,” they would exclaim, ‘leave out-suffer hate at any time. For hate they sincerely hold that no other force we have come to an end. That idea money, pleasant work and splendid prof your airy generalities and come down is an eAxotion that tends to destroy would keep men in the traces. sometimes made Christianity very its. Order NOW as the sample books are made up during-the early summer months to facts. Do you mean that love its authors. It is a consuming and Abroad, when they get a chance, they sterile. There are some questions to only'. For information and testimonials could 'have proved a sufficient protec killing emotion. But love brings life resort to forced labor. At home they which there is no answer yet, and from clergymen and organizations who have repeatedly used' the plan, address tion for the Armenians against the alike to those who exercise it and to becqme the body guard of a discred some perhaps to which there may Mrs. A. A. Gutgesell, 406-408 iSixth Ave., physical force of the Turks, Do you those who receive it, and renews our ited systepa based on scepticism about never be a complete answer. Our So./ Minneapolis, Minn. not see that what thé Armenians beings at their core. man’s inherent good qualities. Lord’s last words almost were, “I really needed was tanks and machine Personally I believe that the whole have yet many things to say unto guns, and that a nation which has not The War Principle assumption on which the system is you” and that the spirit of Truth Private Prayers got them is in danger of being exter- It is very strange to me that it based is a lie. Of course if we de would lead the Church. Yet people ’ minated. Don’t you see that physical should be necessary to argue this grade men and women by instilling constantly wrote as if the first cen case at all to-day. Contemporary tury was better than any succeeding for the Faithful force can actually kill a man, so that the lies of the system into them as B y Bishop Sage of Salma. he has no more chance either to love history t is not always easy to read. part of their education they become one and b,ad a special gift of the or to hate.” That the militarist But if anything should be plain to susceptible to its baits, and learn to Spirit. Our Lord did not say, “Lo, I would be sure to . say, and he might day I “should have thought it would act according to its principles. Treat am with you for a short period, yea A Manual which thirty-five thous èven. go on to introduce me again to be the truth that the employmen of men on the asumption that they are even, to me end of the first century.” and Church people have found help the burglar who may come to my physical force is disastrous to,/all the just greedy brutes and the day may It has as a matter of fact taken hun ful in their private devotions at home house to insult my wife and remove higher interests of the race ,and, in well come when they will turn on you dreds of years for the Church to and in church. my goods. stead of tending to eliminate murder and show that they are indeed greedy, realise much of Christ’s teaching, Price, 10 cents. Postage, 4c. Well, I do really mean and believe ous rivalries, heightens and intensifies and can act most brutally. and some of it has not been realised . B ¡¡M B r Eh H that one effective way to open to the them. I believe the Germans did such yet. A strange chill struck one on It is not by any fortuitous happen “T H E WITNE S S” Armenians of conquering the Turks wrong to. France after 1870 that they ings that the Labour movement and the very threshold of the infant was to love them. I do really be sowed the seeds of the late war. But the Peace movement are so closely al Church, in the account of 'Ananias .6219 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago with all Europe, lying in ruins, and and Sapphira; ho one had died like lieve that the only effective way in lied. ^For, ‘ truly conceived they are THE CHURCHMEN'S ALLIANCE which to prevent the existence of bur France herself threatened with bank both manifestations of the same essen this of sheer terror, at the presence of Christ—death had flown away Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Presi glars is for a nation to love its child ruptcy, it does astonish me to see her tial faith—the faith that mankind’s dent, 713 North American Building, ren so truly that they will grow up industrially so wronging Germany as true life is a life based on world-wide from, before his face. And onljj Philadelphia, Pa.; Chauncey Brewster into good citizens. But I. do not mean to make it certain that the murderous brotherhood and that the human gradually did the infant Church out Tinker, Ph. D., First Vice-President, that after years of living in a state fued shall not die, and yet another race will come to its best not under grow its notion of an immediate cat Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.; The of hatred and suppressed war it was war be bred; . And yet who are we the compulsions of fear or the crude astrophic Judgment Day, daily ex Rev. John Henry Hopkins, D. D., likely to help the Armenians .to af to throw stones at France! constraints of competition, but in réV pected and daily feared. Only very Vice-President, 5550 Blackstone Ave., fect an attitude of charity,at the last •MThe world in its agonies, and throes sponse to the call of righteousnéss, gradually have succeeding ages Chicago, 111.,; the Rev. J. O. S. Hunt is really ringing with the declaration realized Christ’s teaching of human ington, O. H. C„ VicerPresident, West 'moment; nor do I believe that after justice and love. It is,,that faith alone Park, N. Y.; the Rev. Frank B. Rea- having neglected our slum children so that the way of physical force is a which can give vital force to our brotherhood. Indeed, throughout the nineteen centuries of the Christian zor, D. D., Vice-President, West that they grow up with perverted in way of death. And still mankind hes movement. Orange, N. J.; the -Rev. Hamilton stincts, it is likely to help us in .deal itates ,to try the method of love that . As I look back on what I have said era, God had been- revealing himself Schuyler, Vice-President, 121 Acad ing with burglars suddenly to insist heals and blesses and bringeth life. I I realize that some may feel inclined in era Rafter era: as for instance the emy St., Trenton, N. J.; the Rev. on calling them our dear brethren. /have not wandered from my main to say that I have stated the funda great revelation of beauty in; the Wm. Harman van Alien, D. D., Vice The penalty for having lived in a theme. Physical force cannot be the mental truths which' underly this thirteenth century, and of science in President,. 28 Brimmer St., Boston, state of suppressed war is that a time ultimate power, because it defeats its movement, but that I have not proved the nineteenth. “We can see in the Mass.; Henry D. Pierce, Treasurer* own ends-—defeats, indeed, all intelli words of Christ to-day a meaning 210 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y,; may come, and is almost sure to come* them. Well, I am content if I have Frances Grandin, Secretary, 126 when you have no choice but either gent and intelligible ends. But' love that we could not have seen before shown that those truths are involved the modern growth of science. We Claremont Ave., New York. N. Y. to employ the methods of open war never fails even when its price is in all true religion and all sound mor great. That is our faith. Love is the are beginning to understand his mir Purpose j It is the purpose of The or to die. That would seem to me the ality. I am content if I have shown Churchmen’s Alliance to unite loyal essential truth ‘taught by European ultimate power. acles. that they are identical with Chris If we really grasped the meaning Churchmen in an endeavor to guard history of the last ten years. Eleventh I hardly think, however, that this tianity. But as I close I would like the Faith of the One Holy Catholic hour repentances certainly do not of Christ’s teaching—if we only paper would be complete if I were to add this—that we might most grasped that of “God is love” ! We and Apostolic Church, to witness to avail in international affairs. ;■ After not to turn before closing to another justly turn to the other side, to the say we believe in itKa little—but we the efficacy of the Sacraments, to ex you have outwitted your enemy for a aspect of this subject. We shall never militarists and the commercial mag can hardly imagine what it will mean tend a clear knowledge of the truth, generation in what are called the arts be in a position to offer to the world nates and say, “All the^proof we need in the world a few centuries hence. and to encourage every advance to of peace, he. may be pardoned if he any sincere witness to the power of lies for us in our current history. Y ou It. is high time to awake out of sleep, wards unity consistent with the his has doubts about the depth of your love or to. our belief in it until we and your principles have made of the out of the stupefying dream that we toric Faith.—Constitution, Art, IL, sentiment if you profess to love him have ceased to organize our own in life of the world a mess and a misery have all the truth, and to be ofs those Sec. H after he has taker the covers off his ternal affairs on the war principle. so hideous ahd tragic that the heart to whom the love of God is a living For further particulars- address guns. We have accepted the principles of can barely endure to contemplate ,it. and growing tiling. We want Miss Frances Grandin, Secretary; 126 T would gladly, however, go fur strife as the very root principle of You have brought the human race Christianity that is not only ashamed Claremont Ave., New York. ther with my militarist friend. I our industrial and commercial, life. I into danger of ultimate humiliation of its humble beginnings, but also would admit that physical force can am not thinking primarily of such and overthrow. The civilization of unafraid of its glorious future. kill the body. I remember that men things as strikes. They are only the which you have boasted is tottering. Saint Katharine’s School killed Christ, and after that killed inevitable outcome of a" far more deep It is not conceivable that there should Davenport, Iowa The Survey of the needs of the Episcopal many thousands of early Christians. ly rooted struggle. I am thinking of ever be a stronger or a more complete Church, at home and abroad, calls for But I would call history to witness the fundamental opposition of Labour proof that you are wrong—utterly 1470 more workers, nearly half of Healthful and beautiful situation, that physical-force was quite unable and Capital, and of that fierce and and murderously wrong. The- state them clergy, and millions for build overlooking the M ississippi.A school to lessen the power of Christ, and that remorseless commercial strife which of the world is the real proof that ings, equipment, salaries and main for a limited number of girls, recom me Christian church became stronger is sometimes called healthy compete truth must lie in the very opposite tenance for ' three years. mended by Eastern colleges. tnan the empire in spite of all that tion. The competitive principle is to direction to that in which you have Address: day working towards its inevitable been traveling. The present agonies The Sister Superior, physical force could J do. By force Davenport, Iowa. ; you can kill enemies, but you cannot result. It is plainly beginning to kill of mankind are all the proof that is Confirmation both industry and commerce. Some needed that the way of life must con kill enmity; you rather give it pois Offer of Tithing, L ite to oned material to feed upon. But by thing like a reductio ad absurdum is sist in committing ourselves to those Instruction By Bishop Johnson of Colorado Episcopalian | Ministers. love you can both kill enmity and going on; and by insisting oh allow very principles which you have so Until further notice, we hereby of win living men. During several gen ing competition to be free, and, on studiously denied, and in repudiating À very valuable Manual to place fer to send, gratis,, postage paid, to erations we allowed enmity to grow the whole, unrestrained, we are allow those which you have taught. You in the hands of candidates for Con all ministers in the^Episeppal Church, in Europe like a poisonous weed, ing it to strangle the commercial and have at least shown conclusively that ftrmation, and others seeking infor enough of the following pamphlets to scouting the idea that a nation should industrial prosperity of the nation. ^ militarism and competitive commer mation regarding the teachings and furnish one copy- of eaoh to every - And the defence of all this that is cialism are the supreme enemies of family in their congregations : show love to another nation. Since customs of the Church. “How to Tithe and Why.” then we have tried the plan' of kill sincerely offered by ..many is essen the human race.” 4 : V; ■■ > V ■' Send 25 cents for a sample copy “Thanksgiving Ann.” ing enemies, with this, so far as I can tially the same as, the defence offered “Is the Tithe a Debt?” for war. Once again it is maintained Price $2.50 a dozen. see, as its chief result—that enmity in GENERAL CONVENTION Address “Is Tithing Worth While?” Europe is. more bitter than • it has that sheer compulsion is the only JOURNAL “T H E W I T N E S S" EPISCOPAL TITHING LEAGUE ever been, and more pregnant with thing that men understand or will re 2114 West'36th Street Any clergyman desiring a copy of 6219 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago the possibility of disaster. spond to. Under the whip of com the Journal of the last General Con pulsion, which takes the form of fear The Militarist Point of View vention can secure it by sending 50c HOWE SCHOOL, Howe, Ind. * ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE But there again the militarist will pf starvation, men, it is maintained, in stamps or money order to the Rev. will work; otherwise they will not. A thorough and long established The only Eastern college officially con want to break in on me. He will as Dr. Anstice, 281 Fourth Avenue, New Church School for boys. Unusual suc trolled by the Episcopal Church’ and en sure me that there are lots of peo Or again, at the bidding of avarice York. If the cloth edition is desired dorsed by the Synod of any Eastern men will do their very best, but not cess in college preparation. Lower Province. Tuition, $450. ple who will never respond t<» love the cost will be 75c additional. The school for boys entirely separate. Be Post-office:-- Annandale-on-Hudson, N, Y. and who cannot understand anything for any other consideration. Here price to the laity is $1.25 for paper fore deciding upon a school for your (Station: Barry town on the New York but physical force. Indeed, that, stu again is exactly the same view of copy and $2.00 for cloth. The sep boy, investigate the advantages of Central Railroad) man with /which the militarist works “On the Hudson River Facing the pendous lie was very recently uttered arate edition of the Constitution and Howe. 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