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THE HALE MEMORIAL SERMON, 1919 ork for at ar By THE REV. BERNARD IDDINGS BELL, S.T.B. Sometime Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral Church, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; personal aide to the Senior Chaplain, Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 19171919 Published for the Western Theological Seminary CHICAGO By wn Morehouse Publishing Co. Milwaukee, Wis., U. S. A. The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 11 The Church's Work for Men at War By The Reverend Bernard Iddings Bell, S.T.B. Sometime Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral Church, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; personal aide to the Senior Chaplain, Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 1917-1919 Preached in St. Andrew's Church in the City of Chicago, on the Second Sunday after Easter, May 4, 1919 (Together with Appendices giving the Names of all Clergymen of the Episcopal Church and all Laymen of the Brother- hood of St. Andrew engaged in War Work.) Published for the WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CHICAGO By MOREHOUSE PUBLISHING CO. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U. S. A. TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF ANNA McK. T. HALE A LOVER OF EVERY GOOD WORD AND WORK THE PREACHING AND PRINTING OF THIS SERMON WERE PROVIDED FOR BY HER HUSBAND C. R. H. The Faith By Which We Live By the Rt. Rev. Charles Fiske, D.D., LL.D., Bishop Coadjutor of Central New York. BISHOP FISKE'S latest book has had an enthusiastic recep- tion among all schools of thought in the Church. TTVO Seminary Deans recommend it to their students as a model of how to present the religion of Christ to every-day people. An American Bishop writes: "It is just what I need for my clergy and just what they need for their people. I wish I could have written it myself." "BISHOP FISKE THOROUGHLY UNDERSTANDS THE AVERAGE MAN." "HE HAS MORAL ORIGINALITY—THE POWER OF FILLING FAMILIAR BUT LITTLE COMPREHENDED TRUTH WITH THE FIRE OF HIS OWN REACTION TO IT." Here are specimen sentences out of many long reviews: The Living Church says: "This is a book for a father to hand to his grown-up son. It is a book for teachers of Bible classes. It is a book for any man or woman who would sterilize the atmosphere of their ninety per cent, secular lives.** The Montreal Churchman says: "He writes fully and with refreshing frankness and definiteness. This book places us under still greater obligations to the devout scholarship of the Church in the United States/* The Southern Churchman says: "The author presents the great fundamentals of the faith lucidly and convincingly. The book is spiritual in tone, earnest and devout, and in every part has passages of great power and beauty." $1.50 NET; PLUS POSTAGE, ABOUT 12C Morehouse Publishing Company Milwaukee, Wis. EXTRACTS FROM THE Wiw, OF THE ,RT. REV. CHARI.ES REUBEN HAI,E, D. D., LL. D., BISHOP COADJUTOR OF SPRINGFIELD, born 1837 ; consecrated July 26, 1892 ; died December 25, 1900, In the Name* of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 1, Charles Reuben Hale, Bishop of Cairo, Bishop Coadjutor of Springfield, of the City of Cairo, Illinois, do make, publish, and declare this, as and for my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. First. First of all, I commit myself, soul and body, into the hands of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Saviour, in Whose Merits alone I trust, look' ing for the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to come. Fourteenth. All the rest and residue of my Estate, personal and real, not in this my Will otherwise specifically devised, wheresoever situate, and whether legal or equitable, I give, devise, and bequeath to "The Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois," above mentioned, but neverthe- less In Trust, provided it shall accept the trust by an instrument in writ- ing so stating, filed with this Will in. the Court where probated, within six months after the probate of this Will—for the general purpose of promot- ing the Catholic Faith, in its purity and integrity, as taught in Holy Scrip- ture, held by the Primitive Church, summed up in the Creeds and affirmed by the undisputed General Councils, and, in particular, to be used only and exclusively for the purposes following, to wit:— (1) The establishment, endowment, printing, and due circulation of a yearly Sermon, to be delivered annually forever, in memory of my dear wife, Anna McK. T. Hale, to be known as "The Hale Memorial Ser- mon," and (2) The establishment, endowment, publication and due circula- tion of Courses of Lectures, to be delivered annually forever, to be called "The Hale Lectures." The subject of this Sermon shall be some branch of Church Work, in any part of the world, which, in the judgment of the Trustees of "The Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois," deserves to be better 5 6 EXTRACTS FROM THE WILL known, in order that it may be more adequately appreciated. These ser- mons shall be preached at such time and place as the said Trustees of The Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, may appoint, and shall be printed in a style similar to the Sermons of this kind already published under my direction, viz: "Confucianism in its relation to Christianity," and "The Religion of the Dakotas." One hundred copies of each of these Sermons are to be given, so soon as they come from the press, to the preacher thereof, and one copy of such Sermon is, so soon thereafter as may be, to be sent to each Bishop in the Anglican Communion, and to such other Bishops as may be in full communion with these Bishops, to the Patriarchs and other chief Hierarchs of the Orthodox Eastern Churches, and to the chief Public Libraries throughout the world. Should it be, at any time, deemed expedient to offer any of these Sermons for sale, the entire receipts, over and above the expenses incurred in such sale, shall be given to "The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America," a Corporation existing under the laws of the State of New York, for the uses of said Society. The preacher of the Hale Memorial Sermon shall always be a clergy- man of the American Church, commonly called "The Protestant Episco- pal Church," or of some Church in communion with the same, or of one of the Orthodox Eastern Churches. The Western Theological Seminary has accepted the Trusteeship as outlined in the above extracts from the will.of the late Bishop Hale. It will be the aim of the Seminary, through the Hale Sermons, to make from time to time some valuable contributions to certain of the Church problems of the day, without thereby committing itself to the utterances of its own selected Preachers. CONTENTS I—THE CHURCH'S WORK DEFINED . 11 II—DIFFICULTIES 16 III—THE PLAN OF THE ORGANIZATION . 18 IV—THE COMMISSIONED CHAPLAINS . 19 V-THEY.M. C.A 22 VI—THE CIVILIAN CHAPLAINS . .24 VII—THE BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW . 25 VIII—OTHER SORTS OF WORK 29 IX—THE WAR COMMISSION OF THE CHURCH 31 X—EESULTS 32 APPENDICES A—PRIESTS WHO DIED IN SERVICE . 37 B—COMMISSIONED ARMY CHAPLAINS OVER- SEAS 38 C—OTHER COMMISSIONED ARMY CHAP- LAINS . 41 D—COMMISSIONED NAVY CHAPLAINS . 43 E—CIVILIAN CHAPLAINS 44 F—CLERGYMEN IN ARMY NOT AS CHAP- LAINS 48 G—RED CROSS CHAPLAINS 50 H—Y. M. C. A. SECRETARIES (Clergymen) 51 I—CLERGYMEN SERVING OTHERWISE . 54 J—BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW WAR WORKERS 56 K—MEMBERS OF THE WAR COMMISSION . 63 The Church's Work for Men at War "The Church's Work for Men at War" "Behold, this Child is set for the fall and the rising again of many in Israel"—S. Luke 2:34. I-THE CHURCH'S WORK DEFINED We are to consider the service rendered by the Church in the camps, cantonments, and naval sta- tions of our country, on ship and in trench, among soldiers, sailors, and marines, during the war which we now hope has ended. If we are properly to estimate that service, it is necessary first of all that we remind ourselves what the business of the Christian Church is in this world. The work of the Church in camp ought, of course, to be the doing of the Church's work in camp. The Church might, arguably, be a most excellent agency for the doing of the work of other organizations—the war recreation board, the Eed Cross, the Y. M. C. A.—and still be a failure in doing her own work. It is by the way that she fulfils that special obligation which is hers alone that God judges her and us her members. Let us, therefore, state for ourselves what is the Church's peculiar busi- ness in this world. The Christian religion is not a mere obedience 12 THE CHURCH'S WORK to an ecclesiastical organization. It is not a conformity with certain legalistic formulae for con- duct. It does not consist primarily of the observ- ance of ancient, fixed, and formal liturgies, however beautiful. Nor, on the other hand, is the Christian religion a mere sentiment, gently per- vading the world. Christianity is a life, a life lived by those who come into personal contacts with Jesus Christ, God-made-man-for-us, and who from those contacts gain impetus to the living of lives different from those of men who know not Jesus. The Christian prays to Jesus and is confident that it is God who hears.