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3 CENTS $1.00 A YEAR VOL. II, NO. 84 HOBART, INDIANA, AUGUST 10, 1918 PER COPT Dr. Stires Becomes “Y” A SPLENDID TRIBUTE TO DEAN WHITE ROUND ABOUT THE PARISH Worker in France A Scries of Articles by Just before starting for France the This is what “Trench and Camp”, his religious direction, he apparently GEORGE P. ATTWATER Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires, Rector of published at Camp McArthur, Texas, understood just their difficulties, and made the way easy for wandering Rector, Church of Our Saviour, Akron, Ohio St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, Fifth says of Dean White, as he leaves Avenue and Fifty-third Street, sent camp to take up his duties in New feet. a letter to each of the 236 hoys on York City as domestic secretary of “For several months he has acted A MID-WE ST CONFERENCE ed men, an appréciation of the spir the Honor Roll of the Church, the the Board of Missions*/Our readers solely as a camp pastor1 for the itual treasures of thç past, and an as great majority of whom are in know Dean White well through his Episcopal Church. Here again he For a féw days I have been privi similation of the unseen, yet pervad France. At the head of the letter is “Missionary Messages from the made plain his human understanding leged to enjoy a rare, treat, a sojourn ing, atmosphère of courage, hope and a small picture of the entrance to Church’s Holy Days”, as they appear and laid the foundations broadly and m one of the most delightful spqts faith, on which the giants of preced St. Thomas’. Dr. Stires addressed week after week on our second page, with a strength that has proved the in the heart of the Hid-West-^Racine ing generations fought their good each létter “My dear friend and com and we are glad that he has been ap safeguarding of many men. College* Summoned thither to share fight. Men of the Middle-West, im- rade.” He sent them from his summer preciated by our soldier boys and has “Dean White has had his own les in the Summer Conference for Church merséd in things that perish, do not home at Bolton Landing,, Lake won this well-merited' tribute: sons, and takes from McArthur the Workers of-the Province of the Mid- let thé sacred fires die out in such George, and says in part: true reward of his unselfish service. Wést, I left home With littlepremoni- consecrated places : as Racine and “The little picture above will re “Francis S. White, known to Waco His profit lies in the fact that there: tion of the pleasures that were in Kenyon, or the world will be poorer call a spot dear to you, where heart people and beloved by McArthur sol are- but two things now wrong with store for me, • The trip westward to; for your riches. felt prayers are constantly offered diers as Dean White, will leave today humans —* prejudice and self-suffi Chicago whs the usual; sleepless The " Conference itself was a nota for you and the glorious cause in to assume his new high duties as sec ciency. He says that; the first prevents nightmare on a sleeper, for one who ble success; Too much cannot be said which you are engaged. retary of the Mission, Board of the men from getting on the fight high looks on a night in a Pullman gs a for the committee who managed it, “You can easily .see the number,. Episcopai; Church. way simply because they'will not per jail sentence in a warming oven re and for those who by. their attendance 236, on the Service Flag, though you “Dean of the Cathedral at Granii mit. themselves to be convinced. , Dean alizes what it means to have a night assured its value. Not to the. faculty cannot see what inspires many who, Rapids, be left his work to come to "White says that self-sufficiency is mare when, half awake1; for ' eight alóne, who were giving of their best pass—the" "~four ; gold -stars of the McArthur with the Michigan Guards even a greater cause for error, be hours. From Chicago a comfortable in these quiet surroundings, but to a deathless ones who have already of men. Here he has served, and with cause the individual cheerfully ad ride north gave me my first glimpse devoted assembly , of learners, stu fered ‘the full measure of devotion’. distinction, in every capacity as a Y. mits that he has nothing to learri, and, of Great Lakes /. our graining station dents, :. workers, must a tribute be ‘‘You have'been sorely missed, but M; C. A. secretary. "When the athletic: is therefore Hopeless. for the, navy: It. seemed that for a paid. ¿The earnest attention of thè stu our; pain has been conquered by\our director of a building was absent, “Dean White has been the faithful mile we passed' the. barracks which dents inspired the. faculty;,, and the pride in you. You are in the front line Dean White put sporting blood into servant of many, and he now goes to sheltered the white-clad hoys who regi contributions of the I faculty of true Americans.f You understand all the tired soldiers, and made them a larger field. Camp McArthur will swarmed the open spaces--another aroused the attention of the. students. the issue'; your intelligèneé, your relish thq fun. If they wanted to sing, wish him GodAspeed, and hope that evidence of the determination of our The faculty came from without the character, your humanity have filled; he was there. ;As an educational di his ways will be crowded with people to make the Highways, of the Province as ; Well as ' from withiri it, ■you with the clean wrath of God rector, he has made many soldiers re friends who will Jove him and value seat Safe from The murderous deeds and the willingness of the teachers against the biggest;: and basest war alize the need for reading and writ him as he has been loved and valued of a people debauched and inhuman. from New York State and elsewhere ever begun to rob and enslave man ing, and helped them on their way. In here.” My mind reverted to a trip from to give of - their ripe experience to kind. Portsmouth;' England, to the Isle of the ' Conference was hut an evidence “Some weeks ago a cable message . Wight, in 191'f/);during which I saw of how Worthily they thought that; from the Y. M.; C. A. headquarters in THE “RELIGION OF THE TRENCHES” the Solent dotted with English war their best was Hest.pwed. Bishops," France invited twenty clergymen by ships, that mighty amj valorous ele- parish priests,: laymen and women ;. ment in the defense of humanity, and name to come over and help by talk workers in auxiliaries and Sunday ing to the men at the front. I expect BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES I realized that these hoys, on. similar schools assembled hefie to: :gather in- ships, would Soon he the guardians to start within two days, and I will piration for their scattered works:.. perhaps * be : greeting some of our St. of the liberties of the world. Unfortunate:-indeed was that person The world is hearing a great deal standing and ancestry melt away In Thomas’ men before this lettér reach these days about “the religion of the the presence of genuine manhood and Brit the train: sped onKand soon we, who might have attended that Con es them. If I should be so fortunate reached Racine, a splendid little ;City ference and did not. trenches”./ spiritual power, or with His contact as to find you, I shalV count upon with the materialism of Prussian on Lake Michigah. A craft of the. u It is hot my purpose to “report” The' young men of all nation^ now your telling me cf vany way in Which at war, we are ‘told, when they re philosophy, out; of which have come .mosquito fleet (with Which Detroit, the sessions.-. Worthier pens than I may really serve you or the .others.” has covered the earth, and whose turn to their homes, will take back the hofrible> practices of the warfare mine will do that, and I urge you to of the Hun of the Twentieth Century. sting is apparent when its driver read the report^. My purpose ih this with them something entirely new in conducts fbe charge) took mo • to the' paper is to touch the things that pos Fiftieth Anniversary theology, a conception of the Deity Opposed to the selfishness and bru edge of .the city and into the precincts sibly the reports will not touch, and and of man’s relation to the Creator tality of the Hun, the man/in the of that spot, Racine College, hallowed record that which we do not put into in W yoming different from anything hitherto im trenches will set up the altruism and "by the names Of Kemper ¿and DeKo- reports, so that;those who Were there pressed upon the human intellect. the ¡charity of; the Christ,, and against ;■ ven. The: first glimpse of the plage is inay see it all with another’s eyes, / This has a refreshing, sound and'is the bestiality of the German soldiery impressive. Situated on a high bluff, and that those who were not there- The Eleventh Annual Convocation pleasing toi the ears of naen and wom he will invoke that beatific pro overlooking Lake Michigan, is a very may be prompted, next year, if rail-: was held at Christ Church, Douglas. en everywhere who are struggling nouncement, “Blessed a.re the pure in long row of" irregular bpildings, so road fares Are too high, to walk The occasion was also a celebration with their own. spiritual problems, heart, for they shall see God.” arranged as to. present one continu tp Racine for tiie enjoyment of it all. of the fiftieth anniversary of Church and at the same time trying to har The prediction that the man in the ous front to the1 beholder, "and sug First, we had the Bishops. I re life in the Missionary District' of Wy monize the theories and, practices _ of trenches will bring back with him a gesting at once the traditional Eng-, alize that it is a little risky 1» write oming/.; ethers with their own feeble concep new, a more robust, a more positive lish schools. On the other Side of this in this intimate fashion about Bish The Convocation was opened by a tions of religion. theology, is based, no doubt, upon group is a spacious -fgrove, with: no- ops. It might tend to develop an opin celebration of the Holy Communion. ’Some of us are old-fashioned the feverish, search for a remedy for i hie trees/and, beyond, several other ion that Bishops are quité hujnan The sermon Was preached ¡by ; the Rt. enough to doubt that.the men in the present day spiritual ills. The ten detabhed buildings, with the "charm, members of the human family, in Rev. N. S. Thomas, S. T. D || Bishop trenches will discover in the horrors dency pf humanity has been away of reasonable age upon them. In the stead of ecclesiastical dignitaries, of Wyoming, .Who.; gave a resume of of war and bring back with them any from/ the landmarks of Christianity. midst of the grove.; directly in the whose presene» at such -an occasion the accomplishments of fifty years 'in thing that is essentially , new Al They are too exacting* they interfere heart of the group, as its substance .is :iS“‘nécessary to make it canonical, or Wyoming, reading extracts from let though they may return to the work- too much with the freedom of that in the heart of those who teach and part of the: presiding furniture of an ters of former workers in the Dis a-day world possessed of deeper and degree of inherent depravity which is who learn there, is the Chapel of St. assembly,; like ;tbe gavel, for example, trict. Following the service, prelim finer religious convictions than they supposed to lurk in the frame of man ■John, a simple yet impressive .church. New be prepared for a little gasp; inary organization of the Convoca entertained before they went forth to kind generally. The first "notion that arises- in this: my reader, when I say, hot too loud- tion was effected; , Which was com kill and destroy. A large part of the world is seek- 'quiet and cool place,- away from ..the hy-,for some Bishop inay overhear, pleted in the afternoon. » There are some of us who believe hng a religion that will soothe and ■clamor and the tumult of the cities/is that our Bishops are! princes of good The Bishop’s address, which was that these hoys., , instead of di'scov* satisfy the conscience without disar .that Racine is 'an expression of the j 'crossed out the word “fellows”) read in the afternoon, dealt with the ering something new in theology. Will ranging the plans of the flesh.: There spiritual aspirations of eonsecrated j compailjong go with the Bishops a vital statistics of the year, and point- find something that is very old indeed is nothing new or strange about this. ’ men, and also that it is a place which the Conference. There was its presi- i.epriest cpnseciuencé of being face to ' face behind whom they have concealed partly fop new realization of . its j an ornament to his high office.. hood pri Sunday morning. As a spe with death, as a result of'his min-" their brutish and selfish designs ¡ and -truth, partly for a renewal of. our old j Those who Were there' know5 who I cial act of courtesy, the pastors of eling mari to man with his fellows on purposes* and German materialism. ■first impressions—a hook v Whose mean, and those who were not there the Methodist and Congregationalist a plane where wealth and' social has brought down upon it the fury thumb marks and underscorings - and should ■ come/and get acquainted. ' Churches closed their services and (of mankind. Its death, knqll is requested their congregations to at penciled- notes do not disfigure:.it, but May I mention one name,, Dr. sounded. which actually add to its attractive Rogers, warden of Racine College, tend the ordination. | The pastors, gulf between us, so "that those who ■ness. '■'/■/; upon whose shoulders rests the great were invited to vest and take part in Would pass from us to you cannot. The religion of the trenphes will- That was my first impression of responsibility for the future of the the procession, ‘which they gladly Now, unless thè Convocaton can pass riot be new. It is as old as Calvary. It cbllege? His position made him host did.. // ■;//;// ; :,/ /■/;/, ■ |$| from you to us. wo are afrad we will dates hack to the Cross. If mankind Racine, an impression which grew is saved, it must he by that sign. The deeper as I talked with those who to the Conference in a special sense, The ¡ great regret of thé Convoca not hear our Moses and the Prophets and the delightful way in which he tion was that so many of the -clergy at ths time. Express our rqgrets, and man. or the nation that forgets God knew it “and loved it. In all these re and closes the eye to the Crucified spects it is like my own college, Kem impressed his guests with his con- and lay delegates were prevented, by -Ay to the Convocation that yon. It will be one oLthe disasters of | corn for their comfort, and his con ■floods and washouts, from being pres not trouble to send any water. We -are Christ can have no pèaee. stunt participation in ali their ac ent, The followng telegram was re not dry. That must be the religion of the cur modern life if such places are trenches and of . the universe. Every Apt preserved in their full efficiency, tivities, both educational and recrea ceived by Bishop: Thomas,. and was T. S. TALIAFERRO. JR., tional, did much to enhance the feel greatly enjoyed by the members of “LUCY R,: TALIAFERRO. man’s conscience tells him | what, it to givp of their spirit to many gener means. He can neither deceive him ations. They are sacred spots, real ing of the visitors that they, were the Convocaton : - “MRS. FRANK WAXET/BERGER, about his hearthstone, with equal “Lander, Wyo. “MRS, JOSEPH W. ARMSTRONG, self nor anybody else about, its obli sacraments of true learning, in which gations.—Harry Glovanolli, in thé the mental training is reinforced by freedom to, work, pray and play. “Through flood arid mud, about, 20 “AIMEE SCHEPP, | the mightiest forces that ever mold- (To be continued) of us are here, but there is a great / “DR. SCHEPP, Etc., Etc.” Lexington (Ky.) Leader.

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Page Two T H S WITNESS « 5. “Give us this day our daily THE MISSIONARY MOTIVE AND bread!* To get good out of God’s gifts we must work for them. To ask PERSONAL RELIGION-AIDS with the tongue only, and expect that THE MISSIONARY PRAYER unreliable member to bring the food AND HELPS BY THE WAY By the Rev. Francis S. White which will nourish and upbuild is childish and unthinkable. Jesus Edited by Bishop Reese of Southern Oliio t - ——— I „ . f . 41 Christ worked for the bread that real “That tliey all may be onè.” Out The parish is to be a Holy Name par ly nourished Him: “I have bread to and rest and joy. Lift up my soul ish; the parishioners are to remem of the heart of the seventeenth of eat that ye wot not of.” And Jesus Peace is not silence or the absence above the, weary round of h arass St. John sounds tips cry to heaven: ber that “a good name is better than Christ earned * His daily bread with ing thoughts to Thy eternal Presence. riches”, but a boly name is the pass of noise. Mbn find the peace of God in “As Thou, F ath er/art in me, and I His hands as well as ilis head. “He the suffering and hell of battle. Peace Lift up my soul to the pure, bright, in Thee, that they also may bë one port to eternal blessedness. The mis went about doing good.” We can well serene, radiant atmosphere of Thy sionary realizes that a nation, a com is not a quality of life peculiar to the in us: that the world may helieve believe that the Truth did not live next world, as is suggested by our Presence, that there 1 may breathe that Thoti hast sent me.”. A mission munity, is only a whole nation, a off the bounty of a few good women. freely, there repose in Thy Love, healthy nation, a holy nation, as its cemetery inscriptions. Peace is here ary is one sent. So with reverence let The man who lives only by his wits is and now, at the heart of all enduring there be at rest from myself, and 1 us repeat the truth that in His earth parts and portions are whole, healthy not the person who daily grows “in from - all things that dishearten me; and holy; -So the priest and peòple struggle for righteousness, the pres ly life Jesus Christ was the ideal mis favòr with God and man”. It is true ent possession and. inheritance of the and thefice return, arrayed in Thy sionary and the missionary’s ideal. who pray “Hallowed be Thy name” :that God is the author of every true Peace, to do and near what, shall should add, “by me”. Wherever God sons of God. Peace is the product of In this ejaculation of Jesus Christ and perfect gift; hut gifts from God, right relationships'. Sin and wrong please Thee. Amin- we find ; the Christian’s objective. puts His name, that person, place or' whether temporal or eternal, materi thing has the capacity for radiating doing take man out of his’ true rela This tells us why the Church should al or spiritual, are -given us in the tionship with God and man. The re 6 God Eteiuial Spirit, grant us to he the Church of the Reconciliation, holiness. S.o not only the Book-and raw state, so to speak. “Bread” im live in the consciousness of Thy In the Rite and the Minister should .be sult, is friction, remorse, mental suf and why the ministry is empowered plies the working up of rawm aterial fering. Forgiveness is' the- resetting dwelling Presence, that we may ever to say, “We, in Christ’s stead, do be reflecting the name, hut the daily into a finished product. So, whatever word, and the household and busi bf our life in right adjustment -with I know and follow the path Thou'hast; seech you”; This throws light on why meaning. we | give to “bread’V and it God. The result is pardon and. peace. prepared for us to walk in. Help us to the average man 6r woman who re ness etiquette, and the ordinary and must, be a meaning large enough to learn from Thy dear . Son, Jesus extraordinary acts of kindness and cf Peace is,' therefore, ' the basis of th fuses to do his or her share in the include , fopd for heart and mind as; most intense service to the needs of Christ, meekness- aiycl ' lowliness of unifying process is, in God’s sight, love, in the. place of the market and Well as body, remember, that God 'heart; in the doing of Thy will, .and the place of the forum, should shine others. It is life set out on its true “good for nothing’’.. And having this gives us the grain with the- chaff, and course, drawing all its strength; and; to Thee ascribe all' the power and objective, shall not the earnest . Chris with, the beauty of holiness. Why not, it is “up to us” to separate the wheat glory. Grant iis the vision to hope pray? ; 't energy from God. Peace, is thus 8n tian make Vail things, from his words from the chg.ff and grind and. bake; inner serenity of life which, passes for those things w eNsee not, ,and the and phrases, down through his house the grain before we can eat and as the understanding and keeps the patience to wait Thy time of fulfill-, hold benevolences, into his Church 3. “Thy Kingdom come.* One -king similate. it. .Notice, too,. that bread whole life, heart and niind close to ment, rejoieeing in 'everything 'Thou activities, illuminate his life with this dom! one ruler! Not a federation, not making is a social act—it involves God. hast given wJth the joy that no man hope? The, missionary is a praying a combination held together by elas co-operation and interdependence. PEACE I LEAVE WITH Y )U,VM¥ can take Prom us; that, living accord map. With him or her it becomes, as ticity and ruled by slackness, but a The right kina of bread-making PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU. ing to Tnjf laws, we may daily find natural to pray as to breathe, and well organized, rightly articulated, draws all people; into closer and more; peace, in tlie fulfillment of all Thy when he is praying there comes un royal household, presided* over; by harmonious relations,, from the Giver FBAYERS j promises given hs by Thy Son, our bidden. the voice that, breathes in un “the King of kings and. Lord of j of the seed, through; the tiller of the O God, may I find in Thee peace Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen. utterable longing for the fulfillment soil, and the harvester of the grain, lords”; Jesus' was practical; He be- DAILY BIBLE READINGS of the Divine mission—the vision of lieved-in method and system, but only and the grinder at thè mill, and the unity. Too many of the people are not man who. carries the flour, and the L m j as means to an end. A kingdom is nbt Isaiah 55. yet enamored of that vision. Too the external, trappings of royalty, nor j maker of the oven, and- the he we- of Psalm 4. many parishes, and' missions, and dio the wood, and the builder of the fire, j Psalm 122. Proverbs 3:fi-26.' - the court language, nor the ritual of Luke 1:68-80. ceses, too many officials of the Church, one “to the manor born”,; but a king and the maker o‘f thé pans, -and the; Psalm 85. have not yet learned' that the se fomenter, of the . yeast, to the mixer, Psalm 72. Luke 2:25-33. dom is: a company qf people iwhose Philippians 4:1-10. cret of ultimate success dies in the. hearts are tied to the heart of theirs, and the baker, and the distributor of Psalm 37:23-41. right use of prayer for the accom the bread. “Give us' our bread.” It Ephesians 2. p John 14:25-3i.; leader, whose spirits respoiid to' the;' John 20:19-31. plishment of that vision of unity. spirit of thé leader, Whose lives are is a unifying prayer, and was meant Romans i 8 :i-8. Our blessed Lord taught men the the lives of men held together by the to level - all sorts and conditions of roots of prayer—the secret of the life of love for each other, and for men to that platform where the peo Bishop Goes to France branches, and the flowers, and the tjhe leader. The kingdom which will ple with common needs shall find fruit of prayer, when He taught men themselves co-operating, in depend The Rt. Rev. James DeWolfe Perry, tie men together in outward union is D. I)., Bishop of Rhode Island, has the Lord’s prayer. It is the tap. root th# kingdom of spiritual ideals rooted ence on the Giver of the original gift,( of all prayer. When one absorbs spir and interdependence; on one another, sailed for France, to take the place in a love of truth. This Kingdom for of thè Rt. Rev. Dr. John N. McCor itual power-through'the right usepif whose coming men pray and work to create the. bread by which man that prayer, he has? ^become a full- satisfies this mortal existence. This mick, Bishop of Western Michigan, must be in the hearts of men. That .is who. was incapacitated' for service at fledged missionary. That is one rea why the Holy Spirit is needed; that is the social phrase of the #mlssioh- son for its frequent use in all. our ary’s petition;-" arid the cléarer your the front in a gas attack,-and has re WAGES is why the Church is the abiding turned to his diocese. services. Let. us take the praye'r as place of the Holy Spirit. Men’s hearts vision of “our Father”, the more in Glory of warrior, glory, of oratoi, pur Mother Church gives it to us, and must, be touched, inspired, inflamed, clusive Svili be your embrace of those glory of song, ■ see if it has not some message for 'us The Rt. Rev. Dr. , Theodore Irving fused together by the action and unc whom you will - gather together in Paid with a voice flying by to be ■ which will make better Christians, your plea for. “our daily bread”. Reese, Bishop. Coadjutor of Southern; tion of God the Holy Ghost to see that Ohio, who has succeeder Bishop Perry lost on an endless sea— that is, better missionaries, of us. Jesus-is the Way, the Truth, the Life. You will recall that the prayer has 6. “And forgive us our trespasses as Chairman of tht Church War Com Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, When, men ysee this, then they come mission, visited the various canton to right the wrong— séven petitions, apart from the ad together for good, and fhat coming as wë forgive thosé who trespass dress and the ' ascription. Of these against us.* What a wonderful thing ments in the Diocese of Southern Vir Nay,*but sh e aim’d: n o t at glory, no together for good is a hastening of ginia with Bishop Tucker the- later; seven, three are for God’s glory, and the Kingdom. , is forgiveness! Who .can forgive, lo v e r of g lo r y she! - four for man’s needs. Let us start however, but God only? That is- to part, of July; At, Camp Lee' with the Give h e r the g lo r y of going on, and guidance of the Rev. Robert B. Nelson with the address :. 1 say:, who ban “Mot out* but'God only? ' Still to be. 1. Our Father who art in heaven. 4. “Thy will he done on earth as it The most forgiving of human moth assisted by Mr. Percy .J. Knapp of the If “mother” is the;-: dearest word in is in héavén.* How is God^s will done ers, ..fathers or friends" may forgive Brotherhood of St. Andrew, a minis The: Wages of sin is death: if th® any tongue, surely “father” is a close in heaven? “He spake and it was freely—may even rise to such - heights terial alliancee of thexhaplains of the wages of Virtue be dust,;.;) second. The word was very often and done, He commanded and it stood of Christl ikè compassion as to wish army and the civilian chaplains was Would sWb have heart to endure for very sweet on the tongue of our Sav fast.” Obedience is the way to work their offenders; God’s Messing and formed. The Bishop' •; visited Camps the life of the worm and the fly? iour. , In its use He found comfort and ouf; the will of the One who com happiness, but they; - cannot forget!; Sturat, Hill and Eustace on the pen She : desires no i'sles of: the blest, no strength and stimulus. And these mands the heavenly ranks and or Only God ban mercifully pardon and insula between Fortress Monroe and quiet s carts of’ the just,' qualities came to our Lord not, iron?" ders. So by us men must God’s will blot out all transgressions,; because Lee I-Tall, and conferred as to the To rest ill a golden grove,, or to lip usage, nor from dn attitude of be done; “Thy will be doné, by us, by He only can weigh all causes contrib Church’s work with the Rev; Henry G. bask in a 'summer sky: mind, but from a manner of lifeÉHe me.”: “I have manifested Thy name,” uting ; to thè sinner’s fall..; Here. in Lane of Newport News, ; Archdeacon Give her the wages of gbing; on, and lived a -Son’s life ; He did His Fa says our Lord, “unto the men which this prayer - does Jesus Christ stamp- Einest A ..Rich, and. Mi. Bain of the not to die. ther’s .business; He identified Him Thou gavest Me, * * * for I have giv 11 is Cross and passion. Here, - every Brotherhood of St. Andrew, The york self . with . His. Father. What a differ- sinner should pause and mourn and of the voluntreer chaplains and of thé . —Alfred Tennyson. en unto them the. words-which Thou (This argument of immortality Was * ence there is between that word “Fa gavest Me.” When we say this peti yet rejoice ; here every wronged soiil Brotherhood representatives in these ther” on the lips of Jesus Christ, and tion we say it ignorantly and unwise is made to prase,-' if his mind be. camps,has brought, gratifying results. i first printed in 18685 the same word on the lips of His ly if we do not realize that God ex working with his lips, for he has to children by adoption and grace ! As pects to work out his jvill on earth, say- that little word “forgive us say,- “Lord, I am so weak, so tired j reach the Deliverer that we draw individuals and as members of the through us, not in spite of us: There as we forgive those who trespass fighting! Please do not test me this, closer to one another. A growing cir family of God, let us resolve to say fore, ; how very necessary it is for against us”. When men begin to. re day with' things which will prove j cumspection rings the crowd about that word “Father” with greater rev men tò know that will of God; how alize the awful level to which sin re my downfall”. It is the içry of the a common, c'en ter. Fighting a bom-, erence and affection; let us resolve important that they gather; .together duces them, they will come together creature to the Creator; of the help-' mon foe,.' we pool our plans,: and find to act as sons; let us show by our in one place to learn- more of that, to the one mercy seat. One family of less to the Helpful One; of .tlie bat a . common working policy, with a acts that we really believe that God will; and to,plan for the working-out restored chUdreUiVnet restored crim- tered sinner to the, strong. Saviour. common Captain for the, forcefe; The is our Father— our Father, mind of that will, in efforts that shall hot- ifials, is ¡what God wants us to form. Tt is the natural cry of a tired child entire.' Lord’s' prayer draws, men to-, you! That word “our” should be the' reduplicate, and cut across, and You who by tradition and the grace to the parent whb knows that the up gather. It is a unifying prayer. The cry of the clan ; we should be eager slacken, and retard that will. What of God have been able to l?cep close hill path-mhst be trocL in order that j more we pray it in our heads, the to say it and live it. Just the proper humility and heart-searching this to the fair life of Christ have it in the home and home comforts may be; more we will live it in our lives, the, use of those two words, “Our f Fa phrasé should produce in us who are your heart to make the repentant reached before nightfall. Jesus Christ closer will we come together. God ther”, could change the whole atmos bound to pray that prayer. God help ones feel that they have a welcome makes provision fot his weak and lit help us . to realize the importance of phere of a parish; barriers would us to study God’s will as it is reveal place in the one Church. You - who tle. children in this petition. .Tie the missionary’s motive- It will - give naturally tumble down; ' affectations ed by the Church, through the Bible, have sensed God’s pardon'“and pea ce makes allowance for the ignorant added meaning to the missionary’» wo.uld cease; pretensions would drop : more seriously than ever before. How through forgiveness, spend your life and foolish, as well as the faint prayer. To recognize the danger of we would become spiritually natural necessary it is, also, for us to sanc in bringing that atmosphere of a tru hearted and footsore pilgrims of the thé evil one is to solidify and unify and naturally spiritual, tify ourselves, in order that those -to ly penitent life;into the household of night. As we utter , the petition; we the Christian Church. And for this “Who art in heaven.” This phrase, whom we go may , bèi sanctified God. Let. God use you to speak his can see them all—the hesitating, the we may believe our Lord works aria qualifying the Father’s life, shows us through the truth ! Obedience will message of forgiveness strong and weak, the weary, tho despondent— prays, in His- Father’s home. ‘Why what the grain of our life should be: bring fednetiiloatioh1 Let us realize clear. Especially s eek but those who who do not recognize the temptations not resolve to do the same thing in We Christians are not unworldly but that this petition for God’? glory is fall by the way of your own weak in those attitudes; because of the orir earthly homes?! other worldly «.people. Our lives, worthily repeated only when we re ness,' and as you sense God’s forgive of or who do see words, deeds, thoughts are to bear solve to obey God’s word and to do ness) help them to find it, too. Thus these human frailties as temptations 9. “For tMne is the kingdom and the hall mark of “our own true native His commandments immediately we can we hope to make the cross; the and pray that this day they may not the power and the glory, forever and land”. “Heavenly” men and women learn them. An obedient following of rallying point for a united Christen have to encounter them. It-is the cry, ever. Amen.* Joining with the angels are not really and truly “star gaz the spirit of this petition would fill dom : and, in a small measure, -con of one who founded His Church not and archangels, we end our petitions er's”, “fanatics”, “qu’eer” ; they are missionary coffers, build ut> parishes, tribute to thé peace of the world. alone for the stern, sèlf-contained with an echo of the heavenly song. It the people who hear about them an stop Church feuds, prevent waste in rigorist, but for the easy-going, sim is a flash of worship, hut it shows us atmosphere which is not affected nor thé administration of God’s gifts 'to 7. “And lead us not into tempta ple-minded, double-minded man who is trailing clouds of glory that make assumed, but is distinctly other men. bring about Church union, tion.* Temptation hère cannot mean apt to he unstable in all his ways until one loathe to close the praÿer “for worldly. But we can never be hither hasten the day of that humble, holy those trials and tribulations which in he is endued with power from on ever and ever”. We say: Mind cannot worldly people until God has become and obedient following of Christ resisting give one strength of charac high. Let us say the phrase' as an in take it in, this eternal song,; hut th® to us a true Father; and that rela which will make the unbelieving ter. We do not ask God not to lead us tercession as well as a petition. It tongue hangs on to the word in or tionship begins when we yield to His world believe that God did truly send where muscles and fiber, moral, men will result in drawing the strong, and der to establish the heart of the one calling, and turn ourselves “about His Son into the world to redeem the tal, spiritual, will grow strong and weak together in the. bonds of; help who prays it. It is for this, too,; that face” toward Him and His house in world. Let us pray this petition very-, powerful by reason of résistance. But arid assistance, and so help fulfil thé the Church must work and struggle a whole-hearted manner. humbly, but with intense earnestness, we do pray Him not to lead us into missionary’s ideal of unity. here in time; it is for this; heavenly realizing that to make its -apnea! bear paths of life where the temptations worship that ‘she must- make her 2. “Hallowed be Thy name”. The fruit we must, as individuals, be will hurt us because we do not recog 8. “But deliver us from the evil earthly worship a preparation. It is missionary who knows his business ready to do our individual part in nize them as temptations, or- this one.* Sin involves a separation. The, for the Kingdom' and the power and aims to name the whole family in' doing God’s will on earth in a whole might be the cry of a wounded soul devil is a divider. Flying from such a the glory of the Lord that she must heaven and earth a “holy” family: hearted manner. for help. To paraphrase it, we might one, we will find in oqr effort to éver pray ! And so must you. v

T H E WITNESS Page Three The man on the street loves neither his work nor his God, but j -S T . ALBAN’S SCHOOL- has an infatuated idea of the importance of his own. opinions and , i f jq jo x v iLLB, ILL. tCtje W itness a bitter envy of those who, have succeeded in the game that he For Church Boys and. Others, would have • liked to have played, but couldn’t. So he proposes to ‘ Certificate admits to University, A National Weekly Church Newspaper for the people, intended to he break up the game and start another,- in which he will have the ! Moderate Rates for Board and Tuf- Instructive and devotional rather than controversial. A plain paper aiming important part. ; j;;;': ’'/;;v/, tion. Write the Rectors to reach the plain person with plain facts, unbiased by partisan and sectional REV. L. B. HASTINGS views. ' n lie will be the leader of a party, of a sect, of a cult, and he asks me to follow his game. I" question his disinterestedness in my wel 117 N. 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Boarders for transmission through the mails. , the present are limited to :Seventy-eight., mandment, “Thou shalt not Mil”, our part to sustain them as Thou One-hundred and six. acres of land. ln e with our participation in this war? feedest us.” /, / tsession beg'insi September 19, 1918. Apply for information and Catalogue to the EDITORIAL The Teh Commandments were giv * At evening: “For these and all our • Rev. Robert Carter Jett,. D. D., Rector. en to the individual Jew as the guide mercies throughout this day makers Rev. Thomas Kinloch Nelson., Vice Rector. for his moral conduct' He Who lave .truly grateful ; through Jesus Christ Panaceas the .Ten Commandments to the He our Lord.” Rational Catkebral ikijool brews also told them to /exterminate ——;— !' A Boarding and Day School for Girls. Fire proof building in Cathedral Close of 40 the Philistines. Will you please explain /the para acres. College certificate privilege. Music, , , if. every disease to which mortal man is subject there are those Art, Advanced, and Special Courses. who have an infallible, panacea, - This seems an inconsistency at ble of the unjust steward? T H 1 BISHOB OF. WASHINGTON, first, hut Christ, gives us the expla In the first pla-ee, the translation. President, of the Board of Trustees For many years-the proprietors did a thriving business, in this nation in the Sermon on the Mount, JE SSIE C. MCDONALD, M. S., Principal eountry^by^clfiimm^ to heal anything, from a lame foot to a -sore |is a poor one. St."Luke xvi:9 should HELEN L. WEBSTER, Ph. D.» « when He tells us that this command read: “Make to yourselves friends Academic Head |heaa. Most of these patent medicines have gone the way of all ment means thou shalt not hate thy by means of the mammon pf un- lilt Moiint St. Alban, Washington,!). C. rogues, because they have been exposed I Often after much harm brother.. In private conduct we have I righteousness, that when it fails they has been done),, and folks have: returned to thb old reliable family no right to hate, and so we must not may receive you into everlasting Catijebral ^>cijool for #irls! doctor, , who was too modest to aijvertise and too truthful to " Claim kill, because in doing these things habitations. - ORLANDO, FLORIDA, . that he could heal everything and anything that was • submitted to we destroy, our souls. But war is not High class. Boardifig i and - Day ^School.- . There are three .things to be ob College Preparatory and General Courses. him. for treatment. • ' , an ¡Individual act which is the result served in reading this parable : Capable Teachers. Careful Home Life. De of personal malice, but it is the ac lightful Climate. , Low Rates. S^ e of cheap' panaceas are offered us for other ills 1st. That the parable is intended Rev. Roderick ¿P. Cobb, than those of the, body. tion of the state for thè preservation to illustrate just one point. Our Lord Rector. ■ of the liberty of its citizens. Of is not commending the morals of the 19th year opens Oct. 2. , course the state would have no right | There are those who have never made a success at any little unjust steward,", but his resourceful to "wage a . war of aggression for its ness. In fact, in verse 11, our Lord business who claim that they can solve the most stupendous of all cwr personal profit, but when the Ear tnt (Erilkge I repudiates the morals of -the steward. RACINE, WISCONSIN business viz: the wrongs of society. Like Mr. Trotzky, they have a state is "threatened by Philistines; -ori His own master, not our Lord, com panacea for the, Russian Empire. Now, Mr. Trotzky nevef did any- Huns, it has the right to protect itself mended the unjust steward. A Church School for your boy. ... his life to g&ve one the impression that he could run a boys’ from the invasion of /its;- enemies, as Academy and Junior College. God told the Israelites to do. 2nd: Our Lord evidently tells I-Iis . B. Talbot Rogers, M. A., D. D.» ;. boarding school, but he- has a panacea, for all Russia, and unfor- apostfes that a little worldly wisdom W arden. ,-tunately tor that poor victim; there was some one to hold her while Thè:, rules of private cònduot .have j would save worldly people from suf their purpose in preparing men for eoncoetion of- envy, malice and all unchari fering the' results of their own m is-1 -THE- tableness down h§r throat. The poor illiterate Russian peasant eternal life. The laws. of the state use vof God’s treasure, of which they I ..,9J1,ail'd applauded, for was he not able now to revenge him have their purpose in safeguarding j are stewards, for HANNAH MORE ACADEMY; the life, and- liberty of its citizens in Simplicity and Excellence self on those who had been his masters? with what result? The this world. The. laws of morality are, 1 / 3rd. By using some of their wealth patient is doing as well as could be expected. * Thé operation was a alike for the individual »and >for the for God’s poor, they would, make Maryland Church School ^for Girls» success, but poor Russiatis dying of starvation. . True,¿little could state, but the state is a creafien of friends whose prayers and interces Catalogue. ; Reisterstown, Md. be said for fhe Russian aristocracy, but less can be said, not merely, God for the; preservation of its citi sions would avail with God, and these .-tor the -ability, j^ut for the kindliness, of the illiterate peasant. ' zens, and there are some things worldly people would ¡find that their What Do Yon. Know of the Work of use of God’s treasure would avail Your m He was the victim of the misrule of the aristocrat; he is,now the which the state, .may -dd? which indi-.; CHURCH TEMPERANCE SOCIETY viduals may not do, although in the them much in their eternal habita Rt. Rey. Frederick Courtney D. DI, victim of (his own improvidence and incapacity. In Russia today tions. ; President. it is a crime to he refined-and cultured. It is a virtue to be brutal matter ' of killing the state has al William:- Jay Schiedelin,. Esb-, Ph. D., lowed the individual to kill in self- / In; short, the wealthy man is God’s Treasurer. and incompétent. 'Rev. Jam es . Empfingham. D.; D., defense. • steward. He has conducted his busi : ¡General Superintendent. ' , , r^r}lei all the cultured were'not kindly, but-many of them were. ness badly; God is going to put' him ' Send for .free sample copy of , , Now kindness has fled, and there is not even the remnant that there out of his stewardship. But he ha “TEMPERANCE”. was before. Will you kindly publish two., or fused some'of this -treasure the j This ma azine has sthe largest circulation of any ..magazine , of its kind in America. three brief forms of blessings before | benefit of the poor. So they pray t6 Address': \ meals? God for him, /and God hears their CHURCH TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, , We have the same brood of incompetent theorists' and 'malicious I would suggest: prayers. / - 1611 Flatiron Building New York City opponents of order, who do nothing well but hate. *And they tell At breakfast: “Bless, O Lord this -None of our wealth is pur own. If us that" the panacea of society is/to be found in the rule of the mob! food to our use, and ourselves to Thy wo will not use it in God’s service, ST. STEPHEN’S COLLESE service; for Christ’s sake,’ Amen.’’ Annandale-on-Hudson,' New York AOne Russian said to me, in defense of Lenine, that “ of every, then use , it for God’s people;/ and Offers a thorough classical course leading hundred Boishevki,” Lenine had said, “ sixty-five were rogues, thir .At- noonday: “111ess, O Lord, those their prayers will have power with to B, A. Also two/ years’ preparatory in soldiers in Church and . state who God. Greek, Latin and.. Mathematics. Fees,- In-' ty-four were incompetents, and one was an honest man.” '.■» eluding' room, board, ete., are moderate. Scholarships awarded to highly recom But what a confession of imbecility. If that is a true . estimate,, mended and well Qualified young men. who would favor -the rule of such a majority? What can the one Sanctuary of Prayer culiar danger. Give patience, courage Address, the Reverend- the President ors and aviators,' and those of bur Rodgers. .man do? There can be nojrémcdy;fdr society that -does not begin and faith to tho wounded and dying. with .the kindness of the individual. When a- man -comes with a A PRATER FOR yi0TORY Watch over our physicians and panacea for human fils, one must firat ask Whether, he himself is ALL SAINTS SCHOOL Unto Thee, O Lord, we ' cry in the nurses; bestow upon them wise judg free from bitterness. ment and skillful hands.' a ciiuecji school f o b - g ir l s night of the world’s darkness, for All Saints’ School, Sioux Falls, S. D., ■ No one can gather figs from thorns, and your bitter-rOot will the coming of the dawn of peace. Grant victory to the cause' o,f Church School for girls’;'.College prepara have no fruit but wormwood and gall.. And if behind Jhim is a righteousness., and enduring peace tion, general course, music, physical traln- v We know that thé earth is Thine, with honor. malicious mob, in which dishonesty and stupidity are in the over arid that the hearts of all men are RT. REV. H. L; BURLESON, President. whelming ascendancy, what form of social order can produce figs? 1 All of which; we ask in the Name of MISS HELEN S. PEABODY, Principal. in 'Thy keeping. the Prince of Peace, 'Thy Son our V- 0 one }£ more cognizant of the ills of human society than your Remember, we pray Thee, the deso Rumble, servant, but because a member of my family is sick, I am not Saviour,;. Jesus Christ. Amen.—St. A thorough pre late homes, the long suspense, of Peter’s (Chicago). Chronicle. HOWE paratory school foil ^oing to call fiy either dhe quack, or the mob that listens to the waiting, the sorrows of the exiled and a limited 'number quack, to heal him of his wounds. /the/ poor, 'the growth of hate, the hin SCHOOL of well-bred boys. drance of good—and make an end of PerM ey ffitin'ntip gxfiooi For illustrated circulars, address tho Rec* war. ' tor, ■ In religion it is the same. I was in Nantucket recently, when Middletown, Conn. REV. JOHN H. McKlnzle, D. fifty-two whales gwam ashore and lay stranded on the, beach, like By the love we bear to fathers, Address REV. WILLIAM PALMER LADD, Dean Box w .; 'v//-'.'. How«, Indiana» logs, except that their tails were thrashing. As I looked upon these ¡brothers, loyers and sons, by the long pitiful objects being harpooned by those who wished to try out their agony of trench and battle field and oil, I could not help saying to miyself, ‘ j You look like whales, but hospital, by the woe brought home to KENYON COLLEGE THB ONLY CHURCH COLLEGE you act-like Russians.” the hearts of mothers, and by the or '/ FOUNDED 1824 • m THE WEST phaned children’s . cry, hasten Thou Why they,' got themselves into such a plight no One could tell the coming of the ages of good will. Offers to young men foui’-year courses, leading to the Baeheloi^s Degree nfe, but there they were, by their own act, delivering themselves Grant that our own entrance as a Military training under Government Instructor is officiaHy rec* in to...the rendering tank. nation into this world/ strife, in sol ognized. by the War Department» 1 * So the Lord called us sheep. I have heard of sheep, following emn obligation to duty, may lead to For information, address /President William F. Peirce, Gambler, Ohio. some leader, going by the hundreds over a precipice. So men rush its more speedy conclusion. Raise up from their folds, led by foolish rams, into what? Not green pas in every nation leaders, who, even in tures nor still waters) but rocky precipices and muddy Waters. the dark day of battle, shall be plan So the reformers of all ages have been distinguished by two ning for the work of peace. Show us ÄiK targ Araìtrmg each our part in the redemption of A National School A CHURCH SCHOOL Founded 180? qualities—the dissensions of their own households and the glit- 242 boys froin 25 States and four foreign countries. Preparation for college or - terjng promises of millenial bliss. > - the world from Cruelty and hatred/' business by'sympathetic tutoring and under the strongest influences, for Chris and make us all strong and faithful tian manhood. Habits of obedience, promptness, cleanliness and self-reliance Y'“ Pardon me if I am skeptical." Wisdom is not born with us. We are inculcated by the strict but stimulating military discipline. An R. Q. T. C. and make us all faithful and strong School. Mild, healthful climate permits out of door sports all! year around. inherit most of the blessings that’we enjoy from the industry and and brave. Gymnasium and swimming pool Unusually liberal terms. A broader prepara piety of our ancestors. We live in a world which is unfair to them tion that the public school can give. A Lower School for smaller boys. Guard and gutde our soldiers): sail- Rev. Walter Mitchell, D. D., Rector ^ in both qualities. allies, especially when in posts of pe- Box 604, Charleston, S. C.

T H E WITNESS Page Four gered by war. ; Everywhere Church schools are hard pressed, and some MISSIONARY NOTES AND NEWS IN A NUTSHELL FROM are giving up the struggle. Unless re- enforcements - arrive, many more EAST,; WEST, NORTH AND must give way. . All Saints’ shares ITEMS OF INTEREST this serious situation. The cost of our By G. W. J. largest items of expenditure has of the South and the Sewanee Military Thirteen states have ratified the Na doubled in four years, and this finan It is said in London that a permit speakable sufferings and losses, is Academy. l4 ! É , cial burden—the heaviest which the tional Prohibition Amendment this has been* granted to the Rt, Rev. readily enough conceived. ’ But its year. fl Bishop has to bear—increases with meaning to their blasted yet unyield each passing week. What shall we Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford since- The Rev. Dr. Sumner, Bishop' of 1911, to visit the United States. The ing hearts. is inevitably beyond our The Rev. Dr. William Mercer Green, Oregon, and Mrs. Sumner are /mjoy- do? Bishop of Oxford and lather British power oi' full comprehension, and rector of St. Andrew’s Church, Jack- a visit in the East. / “Three courses of action might be. public men and Churchmen were in herein is the story’s dramatic gran son, Miss., declined his election as suggested: vited last January to make a speak deur. This is à romance of the, human Bishop Coadjutor \>f the Diocese of The Rev. J. W. Bleker of Fitzger “1. Close the school. Impossible! ing tour of the United States, under , spirit which will doubtless glow in ^ Mississippi owing to error in the bal ald, Va., has received a call to the Unthinkable! Neither South Dakota the coming literature of Franco, Italy nor the Church at largo would con the auspices of the National Commit loting at the recent Special Council. Rectorship of St. Peter’s Church, Fer- tee on Churches and the Moral Aims or Belgium, of England... or racy Scot Another meeting of the council will nandina, Fla. sent to see the home of Bishop Hare land, some day when the widely vari Wfhe place where, most of all, his of the War. The committee announc probably be held at an early date to ed that its purpose in seeking to ant genius of those lands shall have coorect the.error. The Rev. Harry Lee Virden, Rector spirit still lives and works—fail and bring to America prominent British recovered power to gleam- forth in of St. Mark’s Church, Winfield, Kas., fall. ers, including ex-Premior Asquith, full splendor. Let the strange securi has been appointed, a chaplain in tb “2. Increase the tuition. The very Bishop Tucker of [Southern Virginia Viscount Bryce, Viscount Grey and ty of a child’s mind against disabling has four sons in the sacred ministry United States army, with the rank of large increase necessary might be Arthur Henderson, was to promote gloom serve to give token of what of the Church, three of whom are in lieutenant and is on duty at Fort made and the work go on, but the unity between America and her Eu may find ffill expression» by and by. A war service, and the Missionary Bish Funsten and Fort Rley, Kas. He tried school would have failed its founder. ropean allies during the war, and thirteen-year-old girl in France was op of Kyoto. Five other sons are in , four times to enlist ih the aviation It would no Ion get be the place to prepare public opinion for a asked by her teacher to write a theme corps hut was rejected because ot a Where families of modest means- on the coming of the Americans to the United States army, and another league of nations after the war. weak heart. the rank and file of our Churchfolk help drive out the invaders. This is son, Dr. Augustine Tucker, who mar Boston Herald. ried Bishop Cheshire’s daughter, is a in' South Dakota—could send their what she wrote: medical missionary in China. The The Rev. George G. Ware, Rector daughters. . “It was a little river--—almost a . Rev. .Luke Matthew White, rector of of St. Luke’s Church, Kearney, Neb 3. Enlarge the endowment. This'.isMilton, Shakespeare or Ilomer, brook?- It was called the Yser. Que St. Luke’s Church, Montclaire, N. Y., gave the address at a union Chautau the one proper solution. With $100,- even, should be living now. Material could talk'from one side to the other is a son-in-law of the Bishop. qua service in his, city on Sunday 000 more we could be safe, and the for an epic such as^ their hands alone without raising one’s voice. The birds morning, July 21st, taking for hi; fine work of this splendid school have ever fashioned fills the air these could fly over it with one sweep of theme, “The New Christianity.”, would go on unhindered.” their wings. And on its banks. there A beautiful English flag was pre days. We fain would entrust such a } Already a few small bonds have magic task to attested powers like were millions of- men, /the one turned sented by Englishmen to Trinity The Rev. S. Ezra Neikirk, Rector been given locally, and a Church- toward the, other, eye to- eye. But the Church, Tyrone, Pa., and dedicated on theirs. But lacking their return, may of St. James’ Church, Pittston, Pa., woman in Philadelphia has taken out we not hope that an adequate soul difference which separated them was a recent Sunday morning. Mr. Thomas has taken summer duty in Trinity a $500 bond. In closing his appeal, will yet arise to envisage the epic of greater than that between the stars A. Mathers carried the flag in the Church, Geneva, ;N. Y. (the Rev. C. Bishop Burleson says: “Make the our day. Such a voice must be looked in the sky. lit was the difference procession following the Cross and M. Sills, Reefer), and with his. fam war help to repair the damage which which separates justice from injus the Stars and Stripes. Ih presenting for, in all probability, on the other ily will occupy Trinity Rectory until the war has wrought,” side of the Atlantic. For no one in tice. The ocean is 'so great that the the flag, Mr. Mathers paid a high September 1st. Amprica can fully realize what tlie «,se v. a g u lls do - .. not dare to cross a it. Dur- ,, tribute to the American colors, the com TiS of bur troops, now a million ing seven dayp and seven nights the parish service flag, the Red Cross ‘The Rev.. John A. Collins, a recent Nevada Convocation sSo^g -over - there”,: with millions great steamships of ^America, gong bahner, and the British emblem. The recent graduate of 'the Church Divin- soon to: follow, has meant to peoplesat full speed, ™ ^t drive Rev.xi.u,r. Frank T. - Cady, —v, — Rector, gracious i ity School Of the Pacific and assistant whose homes are, or once were, indeep waters before the lighthous^ ly accepted and blessed the gift, and to the Rev. A, W.. N. Porter, Rector The Eleventh Annual Convocation, of Nevada has just closed its -sessions. the war’s maelstrom. The practicalof France come into view. But Dm in a forceful address reviewed our j oi ,gt ja p e s’ Church, Los Angeles, military aid which this event achiev-one side^to another hearts R e touch many reasons for gratefulness as A fQal., is now: in charge of the Church All the : clergy canonically Resident . ed across torpedoed leagues of sea,ing. — Odette Gastmel. Ext _ i? j- — i.i.n /»Airnfvtr ,!Ptivrl tTio ‘ .. • __ - nation to the mother country and the of the Holy Saviour, Santa Clara, a? and ..working in the state were pres affords nations long wasted by um-frorn Editor.al, Boston Herald. indebtedness of the American to the St. Thomas’ Church, Sunnyvale, Cal. ent; also lay delegates, representing English Church, more parishes and missions than us- The Rt. Rev,, Dr. Gailor, Bishop of ‘ Dr, Walter Rauschenbusch, the emi Tennessee, quietly celebrated the uah ,;-b: OF JAPAN HONORED nent sociologist, Presbyterian divine, twenty-fifth anniversary of his eleva At the opening service, a. selebra- Professò* of History ; ih -the Roches- IHNHtion to the v,,, Episcopate11HMHVR.....RM on St. James’ . M tion of the : Holy Communion, the The Founder of St. Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo, Ap* ter (N. Y.) Theological Seminary, and Day, July 25th. He was the recipient Bishop read his annual address. He author, died July 25th. In the early 0f many affectionate congratulations pointed Head of Red Cross Unit in Siberia days of his ministry he worked for j in person and by telegram and re- made an earnest appeal that all work eleven year's in a tenement section of membered in prayers of thanksgiving for prohibition, as the Church in Ne New York City, refusing several in- : at services held in many parishes of vada began the present campaign in vitations to editorial and educational the Diocese. He was consecrated Bish- the state; that we “clean up” Nevada i lit fl|É¡ op Coadjutor of ; Tennessee in 1893, positions, In 1897 he became profes against the time. the soldiers return has been asked by th e American Redfriends in Japan a n d - sor at Rochester Theological Semin and succeeded the late Bishop Quin ary, first of the New Testament, and tará as Diocesan in 1898. from the war; that an effort be made to get the next Legislature to enact serve as head of the Red Cross unita great expansion of St. Luke s. Nean since 1902 of Church History., He had accompanying the American forces go-ly $500,000 have t'VV r 'l'\ published several books during his The Rev. Charles Carver, a well laws concerning the reading of, the j Unhed l a t e s in Tokyo, no qtherand in this country., Land has beem missionary years, but he first came known actor and playwright, at pres Bible in the - public schools, and -to j united ouiLfcib _ , R/rw rmrphased near tlie present hospital into public notice in 1907 through ent a member of the Yaughan-Glase change the form of marriage license the hearty; approval of When Dr. the publication of “Christianity: and Co. has announced his intention of r.* . . waaa Teusler returned:^*® Japan last April, the Social Crisis,” which immediate leaving the stage with the purpose of ditions, and that all' answers oe That the approval of the Board of he took with him the preliminary ly achieved a remarkable success, and becoming a candidate for holy orders. sworn to before the Clerk of the Missions will be equally hearty is as drawings for the first three units of sured by the fact that last Novem has often been called an epoch mak He gave the address at a special serv Court. | the new plant. It is estimated that ing book. Over twenty thousand of his ice for the Actors’" Church Alliance, The evening of the first day a mis- ber the Board agreed that St. Luke’s these three will cost, about $400,000. Hospital, Tokyo, should be placed at “Social Principles of Jesus” were sold of which he is the vice president, held soihary meeting ‘ was held, with ad • Dr. Teusler’s assignment to Sibe in St. Paul’s Church, Rochester, N. Y., dresses on Indians and on Alaska. the disposal of the Red Cross as a in one year. The “Prayers of the So base hospital, in case troops were ria will necessitate delay in maturing cial Awakening” have been more on Sunday evening, July 21st. In reply to a communication fromj sent into Eastern Siberia. and executing the far-sighted plans quoted and reprinted than any of his Wyoming, suggesting the formation which Bishop' McKim and he have writings. His books are widely read The Rev. Baker P. Lee, who recent of -a' neW Province, Nevada voted to Dr. Teusler is a Virginia Church been so carefully preparing. by Christians of every name in this ly resigned the rectorship of Christ remain with the Province of the. Pa man, who went to. Japan as a medi Church, Los Angeles, and applied for cal missionary in 1900. In the follow One of the American ambassadors and other lands have been a domi cific.. to Japan said^ some time ago that nant force in moulding public opinion. commission in the United States army, The following resolution. was ing year he opened St. Luke’s Hos has been urged to reconsider his pital on a modest scale. By his pro during the. years he represented the- passed : | United States in Tokyo, on other resignation. The parish was heavily in Resolved, That in our present day fessional skill, executive ability and P e r s o n a ls debt and the Church property was winning personality, Dr. Teusler lias American in Japan had done so much preaching there should be a renewed to interpret Japan and America to sold for a consideration reported to and vigorous appeal to “The wrath developed St. Luke’s, until it is now have been over $100,000. At the last one of the leading Christian institu each other, and to cement the friend The Rev. Donald F. Schumann, who of God which is revealed from heaw ship of the two nations , as had Dr.. service conducted by the Rev. Mr. eh against all unrighteousness of tions of the Orient. bas served as curate in St. Thomas’ Lee, the parish treasurer made a Teusler. i ,% :.: ■« . ?' '¡-:. * a, Chapel, New York City, since last No men”, and to God’s love, not only as For the last five years Dr. Teusler, statement to the congregation and benevolent and healing, but also as vember., will take up Y. M. C. A. work asked for an expression on a proposal in American Camps after Sept. 1. a “consuming fire”, and that the Bisk- Give A SAFE, and ATTRACTIVE FLAN to erect a new Church edifice. The f op issue a pastoral in Advent along For Women’s Church Organizations and War response was immediate and enthusi these lines. \ “Give as you would if an angel Relief Societies The Rev. Millward W. Riker of the astic. Pledges were made amounting TO RAISE MONEY. . Chapel of the Intercession, New York [ Also that the Bishop appoint a com Awaited your gift at the door; to over $17,000, and the lots donated mittee to “consider fully and make MRS GUTGESELL’S CHRISTMAS NOVELTY City, accepted a call to the rectorship on condition that Mr. Lee be retained Gnu/ as you would if tomorrow ? GIFT BOOK of St. Paul’s Church, Henderson, Ky., report on. some definite plan of be Consisting of over one hundred EXCLUSIVE as rector, and several other large ginning a Cathedral Foundation for Found you where waiting is o’er; •Christmas Cards and Novelties for Christmas and took charge the Ninth Sunday pledges, including one of $5,000, were Nevada, not only to give the Bishop Give as you would to the Master Gifts. . after Trinity. made on condition that the same NO INVESTMENT SPLENDID PROFITS his own rightful church, but also to If you met His searching look; For information and Testimonials from amounts were raised from other make it a, bond of corporate and of Give as you would of your substance, Churches who have used the plan, address:. The Bishop of South Dakota gives sources. The parish will have about spiritual unity which shall in its If His hand the.offering took.” :;- MRS. A. A. GUTGESÈLL, MINNEAPOLIS, a banner to the Sunday school giving $5,000 on hand from the sale of the growth, in coming time, bind into one 480-402 Sixth Avenue South , the largest per capita offering for property after the indebtedness is all the varied Christian forces of the ‘ Refined young woman wanted to j- missions. This' year it was won by cleared away. state.” assist in parish and. light household THE OFFICIAL DIOCESAN SCHOOL Grace Church, Huron, which gave an Canons were adopted changing the duties. Training unnecessary, hut OF FLORIDA FOR G IR L S__ _ offering of $3.26 per child. Appeal for School convocational year to January 1st, must be willing, giving undivided at GainesviHe, Florida on business «methods and finance and tention. Monthly,' fifty and room. Miss Teabeau, Principal Quentin Roosevelt, pf the American Founded by oh Church Pension Fund. Address, A B, .cane of THE WITNESS, Re-opens September 18,1918. 8-10-13 Aviation Corps, who met death while1 Bishop Hare Plans were started for a celebra Hobart, Ind. engaged ih battle with the Germans, tion next year of the fiftieth anniver was a graduate of Gorton School, of sary of the consecration of Ozi W. which the Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, The Bishop of South Dakota, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Hugh L. Burleson, makes Whitaker as Bishop of Nevada. SHATTUCK SCHOOOL \ Rector of St. John’s Church, Gorton, >The Committee on the State of the Mass., is the headmaster. the following striking appeal to the Has behind ' it the Experience,. .Traditions and h jeap disCmWûe C rider : U.S ¿ friends of the late Bishop Hare and of Church reminded the Convocation that statistics 'covered but eight y rí Grounds, Building and All. Saints’ School, Sioux Falls, both The school is full fc>r"X918^1919,r Enrollment months, 'as at this time we change eqçuipmënt’ is eQuáled by but few^schools, The Rev. Irving Goddard of in and outside of South Dakota, , to should be made now for 1919-20. our .year to January 1st from May Shattuck School, -Faribault, Minn Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has received and help secure a Liberty Loan Endow Box 452. J accepted the rectorship of Emmanuel ment Fund of $100,000 : 1st: The report showed at least some Church, La Grange, 111., a suburb & “If asked what monument best per small growth in almost every phase Chicago, and will enter upon his new petuates the memory of Bishop Hare, of our work. duties the later part of September. would you point to the granite cross • The Woman’s Auxiliary had a cor SETTLEMENT TRAINING SCHOOL beside the Cathedral, or would you porate celebration of the Holy Com La GRANGE SETTLEMENT • LAGRANGE, GA. take the. inquirer ter All Saints’ munion and a special session of the A PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH TRAINING SCHOOL M S t The Rev. D. R. O'ttman, Rector of Convocation. It was reported that the 4 FOR SOCIAL WORKERS f Trinity Church, Trinidad, Col., has School, standing on the crest of its Courses in Settlement Nursing, Kindergarten Work,, and special course A commanding hill? The one is a beau ntimber of branches had more than been appointed First Lieutenant doubled during the past year. of one year in Church and Social Work for graduates. v , A Chaplain of the Field Signal Corps, tiful, cold stone ; the other, a living, RE Vi R. T. PHILLIPS, Warden • J breathing organism, filled with his The next Convocation will meet in and reports for duty at Fort Sill, Reno, on the last Sunday in. January, spirit. Oklahoma, on August 15th. Mr. Qtt 1919. mahn is a graduate of the University “This greater monument is endan-