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“FOR CHRIST AND HIS G HURCH” VOL. IV. No. 54 CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 4, 1920. $1.00 A YEAR SEVENTY CITIES TO CELE TWO MOVEMENTS TOWARDS l UNVEIL STATUE CONFERENCE AT UNITY A NATION WIDE l BRATE TERCENTENARY OF LINCOLN IN Seventy mass meetings, in as . many SEWANEE A MISSION IN cities of the United States are to be A movement towards Christian re ENGLAND held in celebration of the Pilgrim union, proceeding mainly from those Tercentenary .under the auspices of SUCCESS yngaged in theological teaching, FALL the American Mayflower 'Council should be recorded, for it may have ■■!.. In the ^presence of a distinguished far-reaching results. Dr. A. C. Head- which is composed of one hundred Surpassing' all other sessions in its British and American company, the representative American men and lam, Regius Professor of Divinity at The Executive Council of the Duke of Connaught unveiled the great history, the tenth annual conference Oxford, reports that at a Conference Church announces a nation-wide women and of which Henry' Churchill of the: Sewanee -Summer School for ' bronze statue of Abraham Linfcoln, King is Chairman. These meetings held in the university city, it was re preaching mission to be held in every which is the gift of the American peo-~ Workers, held at the University of solved, in view, of the large measure parish during the first two Weeks of pie to Great Britain—a statue which will be held by twelve-teams each of the South for ten days, Aug. 3-12, which will have with them a dis of unity already attained in the most the coming Advent season. . sets enduringly among" us the figure was attended by over 225 stu essential matters of faith and service, The. following statement has been . of a man whom we in ' England re tinguished Englishman and an emi dents representing thirty-one dioceses nent American as the principal to approach the representative bodies issued by the Presiding Bishop and vere for his wise statesmanship, the and missionary districts, and the opin of the various branches of the Church Council: • impartial and comprehensive quality speakers. The climax meeting will be ion was expressed by visitors who held in New York* City, November in Britain, “and more particularly “There is a wide-spread feeling of • his mind, and his intense sym have j attended the other large con and immediately the Lambeth Con throughout the world today that the pathy with human nature-. The statue 26. The tentative itinerary of the ferences, that.the curriculum was as twelve teams and the dates of meet ference,” to urge the necessity of most, supreme need of the hour is a '. 'is placed in Canning Square, .West-, fine as any training school of the creating a Council as representative as revitalized Christian faith. It is also minster, under the’shadow of the his- ings are as follows: | Church. Every diocese* and- mission Number 1. 'Albany, Nov. 15; Utica, it can be made of our whole Chris clear that there can be no great toric Abbey and the Houses of Par ary district in the Fourth Province tianity, to forward Godfsjj rule among, ►¡spiritual awakening except through liament, and adjacent - to the monu Nov. 16; Syracuse, Nov. 17; Roches sent delegates, and outside of the ter, Nov. i8; Buffalo, Nov. 19-21; men. It will be seen that the terms the constituted channels of the Chris ments of great British statesmen. Province representatives were pres of the proposal could not be more tian Church. ' , Representing Lincoln standing in Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 22; New ent from the Diocese;?., of Montana, Haven, Nov. 23. comprehensive. No doubt the World “On its spiritual side, the recent front of a chair;-Jt is a replica of the Arkansas, Milwaikee, New J ersey, ■Conference on Faith and Order, a pre famous statue in Lincoln Park, Chi Number 2. 'Philadelphia, Nov. 15; Newark, Washington, Pennsylvania, Nation-Wide Campaign revealed the Washington, D. C., Nov. 16; Balti liminary meeting of which /assembled fact that there is a latent potentiality cago, by the American sculptor, the 'Missouri, Virginia, Southern Virginia, at Geneva on August 12, took note of late Augustus St. Gaudens. more, Nov. 17; Pittsburg, Nov. 18; South-west Virginia Dallas, Texas, in our Church that, once called into Harrisburg," Nov. 19-21; Scranton, this effort. An outcome of the great service, would effect results of incal A large body of American Boy and West Texas, and the missionary Missionary Conference held in Edin Scouts lined the enclosure, and prior Nov. 22. districts of Cuba, Honolulu,' and culable value, not only to the Church No. 3. Richmond, Nov. 15.; Nor burgh in 1910, the W. C. F. O. was itself, but to the nation. No one can to the unveiling the statue was hidden Alaska. The number of clergy .regis initiated by the American Episcopal by the British and American flags. folk, Nov. 16; Savanah, Nov. 17; tered was 38,—several others spend observe, even superficially, the trend Charleston, Nov. 18; Jacksonville, Church, which first approached other of things following the world war, Before .the ceremony a meeting ing their vacation on the .mountain* churches in America and then was in was held in the Central Hall, with Nov. 19-21. attending some of the classes and without feeling gravely .. concerned No. 4. Atlanta, Nov. 15; Birming strumental in sending Commissions about the Church and its ministry and Lord Bryce in,the chair. Mr. Elihu lectures, and there were two bishops. •to the Anglican and Free Churches of Root, on behalf of the people of the ham, Nov. 16; -Chattanooga, Nov. 17; their relation to the highest and ho Nashville, Nov. lflf Memphis, Nov. Courses - were given in missions, Britain. Passing through London, on liest ideals of our individual and cor United States, handed over the ' sta with special emphasis on the Church his way from America to Geneva, Mr, tue to the1 British nation, and in his 19-21; Knoxville, Nov. 22; New O r porate life. leans, Nov. 23. Service League*; .social service, and re Robert Robert H. Gardiner, the en address laid stress on the great prin- ligious education, ' the latter including thusiastic secretary, gives a very hope One of the greatest editors in ' ciples animating Lincoln’s career, in Number 5. Dallas, Nov. IS; Hous America said recently that the su ton, Nov. 16‘; Oklahoma -City, Nov. teacher training classes,' the Chris ful account of the progress of the sisting that these principles made it tian Nurture Series and the Church preme need of this hour for Amereia 17; Wichita, Nov. 18; Little Rock, movement whose aim—like that of the was not a'new interpretation of de impossible for the two nations ever Service League. Of special note was Oxford Conference—is the ultimate to be on opposite sides. The Prime ;Nov. 19-21. mocracy, but a larger interpretation Number 6. lSan Francisco, Nov. 15; the course on “The Teacher;” in unity of the whole Church of God on I Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, accepted structed by fhe Rev. Charles \H. Goyq- earth. He says the Conference will of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. On' e gift, and in • Atm well chosen .Los-^ Angeles, JNoy^, 16-17; Portland, everyvhand there is a clamor for the Oregon^.. Nov. "18; Seattle, NoV. tii-iij.vft—B-ryi-ob the-”Diocese-».of l Ne be composed of at least'150 represent . words' declared that the world to-day wark. The Kev. W. H. Miitón,-D. D., atives of fifteen great groups of vital things of religion, and it is" be “needed the help of the America of Spokane, Nov. 23; Missoula, Montana, coming increasingly ' clear that, if Nov. 29; Billings, Nov. 25'. executive secretary of the Depart ichurches, Rome being the only con Abraham Lincoln.” . ment of the Nation-wide Campaign, spicuous exception, and will be the thfs age of reconstruction is tp wit After a ' dedicatory prayer by Dr. Number 7. Minneapolis, Nov. .15; ness a vital and vitalizing spiritual St., Paul, Nov. 16? Fargo, N. D., Nov. -gave two fine addresses on the1' for first great step towards presenting ev Darlington, Bishop of Harrisburg, the ward program of his department, and ery section of the Christian Church to awakening, it must come through the L Duke of Connaught paid an eloquent 18; Des;
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It is this idea which causes many to* “do this”, in memory of Him. INDIAI* BISHOP ON VALUE EDITORIAL A child of God gets up in the early morning and goes to service, not OF MISSIONS By Bishop IRVING P. JOHNSON. because he is animated by a utilitarian motive, but because his love is new every morning and sleeks some form of expression. What form Preaching at Southwark »Cathedral, of expression is better than that* which we are commanded to make? on Sunday evening recently the Bish GIFTS NOT BARGAINS; We hear a great deal today of a business man’s religion, but I fancy op of Dornakal (India) said that men God is not impressed as much by it as he is by the faithful service of a like himself—visitors from non-Chris little child. tian lands—-felt / on landing in Eng In the New Testament the word “wages” is coupled with “sin” land a Christian atmosphere which and the word “gift” with “eternal life.” We are sophisticated to a point where God’s House is not a House was the creation of hundreds of years of Prayer but one of bargaining, and we do not hesitate to throw in a When the Church was a-'militant body, the idea of obedience was of Christian influence. Englishmen bargain counter for souls who desire salvation at small expense. were courteous and unselfish and particularly stressed; when it became a department of state, the Idea ready to show kindness to the visitor. of emoluments became prominent; when the bourgeoisie siezed upon ECCLESIASTICAL / eler with but meagre time to be in No doubt this' was not realized by it, the prevailing idea wias that of rewards for respectable living; when I PUNCTUALITY' church and soon to catch the train people who had never known any the business world dominated it, religion became a matter of dividends ; or boat for his or her destination, and th ing else, but it was very obvious' to and if labor ever siezes the Church, as it well may, they would serve God so on, ad infinitum. If these per those who came from parts of the To the Editor: sons are desired at our church’s serv world where the Gospel message was for wages and strike if the Church failed to produce. Probably were “alle hearts. . . . open, ices, why “not try and make it easier hardly known. * If church people , We have already read articles which indicate that the religion of all' desires known, and... .no secrets for them to attend "by at least start could realize the contrast they would . .,. hid,” it might be found that un- ing on time? It seeihs to me theo show much more enthusiasm for the Jesus Christ helps to make investments safer; and we have also read punctuality in , beginning services is articles complaining that the Church failed in helping the working man logical students should have punctual evangelizing of the drirk places of more responsible for the prevailing ity impressed upon them as a sort of the earth. God has given the Anglo- to get higher wages. slim attendance on them-that ifcay be •sine qua non. Saxon race a great opportunity; as He $ * * generally imagined. v Though off the subject, let me urge had given the Jewish people an oppor Most people have duties to perforin,, It has frequently occurred to me that God offers man, through that at least one door to every church tunity centuries ago. The Jews had making punctuality on their daily be open, or at least unfastened, say, failed God. They had been narrow Christ and the Church, something that man is not big enough to appre- rounds and at their common tasks twenty minutes before all services’ and insular. The British peoples iate. He offers us love and we want information; He offers us a gift imperative. And, if attendance, es should'awake to their privilege. Mil^j pecially at early morning weekday beginning times. The reasons seem and we want wages; He offers us eternal life “and we demand physical rather too numerous, > various and lions in India were asking for.’Chris-1 services,’ be expected or desired, • the tian teaching. The outcast tribes comfort; He wants us to be sons and we begin to bargain. utmost care should be taken to se suggestive to need mentioning. Wm. Stanton Macamb (Layman) were looking to Christianity to free He asks us to accept His promises on the trust of friendship and we cure punctuality in beginning them, them from the oppression arid slavery letting all preliminaries, preparations 256 S. 38th St., W. Philadelphia, Pa. wish to make it a purely business transaction. He does not offer us im St. Barholomew’s Day, 1920. under which they suffered. It was the and the like, precede the .announced bounder*, duty of those who had seen/ munity from poverty, pain and punishment, but rather that, in spite of services’ beginning hours. If the these sorrows, we may inherit eternal life. With a trader’s instinct we By treating our neighbors as they the light to hand it on to those who Church is for all sorts and conditions lived without light and without hope. disregard the promises and demand^present payment. of men and women—including busy deserve, we only make them worse. By treating, them as though they were : We take God’s promissory notes, given us for a nominal considera people—surely her services should be gin right on and1' not the least after better than they really are we force tion, and we want to discount them at once idr cash. . lime. them into becoming better. .. Bishop Burton, of the Diocese of Verily, we have our reward, if we receive only ten cents on the ■ The “Martha- who oversees the Lexington, is taking a much needed preparation and serving df breakfasts, A man who is in love with himself rest at Blueridge"Summit, Pa. Dean dollar. , I l v i has few rivals. * * * to say nothing of the man-servant and R. K. Massie is at Charlottesville, Va. the maid-servant and the stranger, or 'The Rev. H. P. Manning will spend It is an age in which our charities are run upon the principle of guest, within the gates, should not be c The Christian Refines greatness in his vacation in Baltimore and on ¡West business efficiency. overlooked; neither should the trav- terms of usefulness. River, Md. We give our alms to a corporation which guarantees-to distribute them scientifically, if not sympathetically. This may result in more physical comfort to the ;poor, but it does not result in more human sympathy for the well-to-do. It unquestionably results in hardening both the rich and the poori , “I Will Now Turn Aside I presume God allows poverty because of spiritual benefits, and wç treat it as though it were an end in itself. and See This Great Sight ” I have always maintained that the parable of Dives and Lazarus teaches us clearly that the poor do more for the rich than the rich do for the poor. Moses and the Burning Bush -• For Lazarus could have given Dives eternal life if he had had the OW Moses kept the flock of Jethfo his' father- decency to know it. But the piost that Dives could have given Lazarus B in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the was temporary relief. , flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the 'N o one maintains that our hcaritable organizations are concerned mountain of God, even to Horeb. I about giving eternal life to anyone. They exist to minister temporary ! 2. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and relief—-possibly to effect a permanent cure. Certainly if I were a poor he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, man I would hurry to get-away from bureaucratic charity, by becoming . and the bush was not consumed. rich. 3. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and The fine sympathetic relation between those who have and those see this great sight, „why the bush is,not burnt. who haven’t is lost sight of. The stomach is filled but the soul is starved, 4. And when the Lord saw that hè turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst: of the as is intended. \V':; "■ i ' '‘'L -V ¡. bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Sere sfc * * ; am I. . • ■ ... " - : . -1 ■'.« pur Churches, too, are run on business principles. This is well. It 5. And he said, Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the#place wherèon certainly is not a manifestation of piety tovbe lacking in common sense. thou standest is holy ground.- The harmlessness of the dove is not injured by the wisdom of the 6. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, serpent. the God of Abraham, the God of Is'aac, and the God v of Jacob. And Moses hid his face ; forme was afraid But the Church does not exist for business purposes. Its'end is not l to look upon God. Exodus 3:1-6. attained when immaculate ushers have filled the pews with perfect gen Moses and the Burning Bush tlemen and ladies who, in their turn, have filled the treasury with spot less cash. Such sign of prosperity is well, but in all times of our pros Moses’ attention was arrested. He turned aside, found he was perity may the good Lord have a care for us. The Church in prosperity is even more prone to fail than in adversity. on holy ground and received a divine message. We say that we are rich and do not realize that we are poor and Jeremiah and the Potter’s Vessel Ezekiel and the Hole in the' Wall St, Paul on Mars’ Hill naked. y ^_ 'J'lIB word which came to Jeremiah 'T'HE word of the Lord also came unto 19 And they took him, and brought ■ * * * . from the Lord, saying: . *■ me, saying: ■ | . jj - him unto Areopagus, saying, May we 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the know what this new doctrine, whereof It is the fashion of the day to carry the principles of trade into the 2 Arise -and go down to the potter’s midst of a rebellious house; which have thou speakesf is? hor.se, and there I will cause thee to .eyes to see; and see not they have House of God, so that it becomes a house of merchandise in which we ears to hear, and hear hot; for they are 20 For thou bringest certain strange hear my words, _ a rebellious house. make bargains with God. things to our ears: We would know . 3 Then I went down to the potter’s 3 Therefore, thou son of man, pre- therefore what these tidings mean. We ask ourselves whether what we are doing is useful? house, and behold, he wrought a work ■ pare thee stuff for removing, and re move by day in their sight; and thou 21 (For all the Athenians and stran We have no conception of giving God something, because it ex on the wheels. slialt remove from thy place to an other place in their sight; it may be gers who were theife spent their time presses our love rather than because we think God needs it. 4 'And the vessel that he made of they will consider, though they be a in nothing else, but either to tell, or to clay was marred in the hand of the rebellious house. \* hear some new thing.) We are like the man who confines his Christmas presents for the potter: so he made it again another 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of family to vacuum cleaners and washing machines. vessel, as seemed good to the potter removing: and thou shia.lt go forth at Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, We do not go to the early service, or teach in Sunday School or to make It. even in their sight, as they that go I perceive that in all things ye are too forth into Captivity. 5 Then the word of the Lord came superstitious. serve in the Altar Guild, because we say, “What’s the use ?” INN**5» f . 5 Dig thou through the wall in their If the Church could furnish everybody with a utilitarian job, every to me. saying: sight, and carry out thereby. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld 6 0 house of Israel, cannot I do with 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it your devotions, I found an altar with body would at once feel that he had a job for which he might hope to you as this potter? saith .the Lord. upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN in the twilight:/ thou shalt cover thy GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly receive a reward in heaven.' > Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s face, that than see not the ground: for When our Lord commended the widow who gave her two mites, h^nd^ so are ye in mine hand, O house 1 have set thee for a sign unto the worship, him declare I unto you. > tAets of Israel. Jeremiah 18:1-6. house of Israel, Ezekiel 12:1-6. 17:19-23. I do not fancy that he had estimated the helpfulness of those two mites to pod. All God’s prophets, ancient and modern, have been compelled to secure attention before they The treasury of the temple under Annas and Caiphas was not dis could deliver their message. * tinguished for the bénéficient way in which it was administered. It was not the usefulness of breaking the box of ointment that To call attention to religious truths and facts in a striking manner on the printed page is only one Christ commended. : x of the ways of applying the same principle under modern conditions. It is not the commercial value of a gift »that makes it acceptable, but j Only that to which we give attention makes any impression on us. rather that someone is thinking of us. I wish that our people would do more things because they are think ing of God and want to express that thought in some kind service, i I am sure God does not need the money of a multi-millionaire half / Presiding Bishop and Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church as much as he longs for the gift of a little child. Publicity Department, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York Unless love' is behind oUr science it is worthless to God, and if love be there, any gift is worth making.
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spite of all efforts to the contrary, sinuations is the fact that one man FAREWELL SERVICE FOR WOMEN AND THE LAY enjoys and profits by conferences, un connected with the investigation of MISSIONARY MINISTRY W itn ess derstandings' and agreements which the steel strike in the capacity of a Published Kvery Saturday, fl a Tear have all the value of combinations and worker for the Commission was sus • At old Wickliffe Church, Clarke A meeting was held in the Great THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO, trusts; the' opportunity extended to pected of sympathy with certain of County, Virginia, on Thursday, Aug the workers to share to some equitable the labor groups regarded as dan Hall of the Church House, England, (Not Incorporated) ust 12th, a “farewell service” was on “The Admission of Women to all , #219 C ottage Grove A re, extent in the profits and the defection gerous. by the capitalistic press. * Mr. Telephone; Midway 8831 held for Miss Mary Jacquelin Smith, the Lay Ministries of the Church,” Dr. of the industries in which they are con Lewis does not venture to offer a who sails from San Francisco, with Chicago, Illinois tributing; and such reasonable safe word of criticism of the Commission Simpson, of S. Paul’s, being im the five other missionaries, for China on chair. The other speakers were Miss guards as shall protect them from itself, of which Bishop McConnell was August 21st. HoJy Communion was needless accident; from indigence in chairman, nor does he even challenge Maude Rayden, the Rev. F. M. A NATIONAL CHURCH NEWS celebrated by the Rev. Messrs. Mal Green, Dr. Dearme'r, the Rev. G. Hud PAPER for the people. Intended to old-age. In other words, the laborers a single statement presented in its colm S. Taylor and R. C. Cowling, are asking for a true measure of de report. The impeachment . of the son 'Shaw, Mr. Holford® Knight, and be instructive rather than" controver and the final prayers said by the Rev. Dr. Letitia Fairfield. Dr. Helen Han sial. A plain paper, aiming to reach mocracy in industry as in politics, Interchurch, and the reason for what B. D. Chambers. Each of the clergy he calls its failure, is alleged to be the son, -who has just returned from the the plain person with plain facts, unr education and religion, and the in made a short address, bidding this telligent portion of the public is rap connection with the Commission, in a East, where she has been working biased by partisan or sectional views. new volunteer for the foreign field a since the early days of the war, and idly coming, to share his view. subordinate capacity, of a man dis safe journey and godspeed in her It is against this wholesome and pleasing to the editor and his support is now hon. sec. of the ‘ League of * BOARD OF'EDITORS: ers. It is fortunate that reprint was work. Miss Smith is a native of Clarke the Church Militant, read letters of Bishop IIBVING P. JOHNSON, Bdltor- inevitable tendency that a certain and a communicant of old Wickliffe. ta-C hief. section of the employing and capi made of that copy of “Industry,” and ¡sympathy from the AreWhishop of REV. WII.L.IAM B. SPOFFOBD, Man circulated widely, among the ministers She received her *early education fin Armagh and other distinguished per talistic class is setting itself with nearby schools and was graduated aging Editor. alarm "and indignation.» The desire of of the different denominations. Noth! sons. Dr. Fairfield, indeed, said the Contributing Editors: ing could provide an open-minded from Goucher College, Baltimore, in Bishops wanted the women to fee free this group is to get -back as quickly June. Bishop Graves cabled his ac Bishop Henry J. Mikell as possible 'to*the days of complete map. with a more satisfactory proof to serve the Church; the opposition Bishop James Wise of the competence and trustworthi ceptance of Miss Smith as a teacher, came from obscure people who rested Rev. George P. Atwater ' control of the processes of industry tut it is not yet known whether she , Rev. Janies Sheerin by the men who furnished the initial ness ' of present Christian leadership in the background, and would not Rev. jPrahcis S. White in its solicitude for social justice than will go to St. Faith’s or St. Mary’s. come into the open and state their Mrs. Cftace Woodruff Johnson investment and the directing. 4 It has A large congregatibn attended the M r. W . S. Silver, Adv. M gr., * B lb l« been complacently assumed by many such attacks as the journal mentioned reasons. Several speakers pointed out House, New York City, N . Y . is projecting. service, membiers pi several other par that it was extraordinarily difficult to of these men that the 'supply of funds ishes besides Wickliffe being present. to start a manufacturing enterprise The second type of voice, which in find any arguments against the minis Entered as second class matter at ,the sists that the church ought not to try of women except the vague preju »est office át Chicago, HI., under the Act entieled the stockholders to perma •f Congress of March 8,1878. nent control, irrespective of the facts concern itself with problems ^of in PREPARES HANDBOOK ON dice excited by anything n^w. People that the workmen contribute^ an dustry, is illustrated by a recent com PILGRIMS used to say “the Bible is against it,” equally essential factor in the pro ment of the^ New York Outlook upon ------v v but this argument faltered now that cess, and that in many, perhaps most, th e. same Interchurch report. The “In the Name of God, Amen!” and the classic texts in the First of Corin WHAT WILL THE CHURCH cases, the proceeds of the industry go character of the report was commend “A Little Journey to Plymouth— thians were shown to be capable of SAY ON LABOR DAY to its gradual enlargement until the ed, th e. facts which i$ brought to Where the Mayflower Landed,” are several meanings, that of forbidding ____‘ i original investment is lost out’ of sig light were thought to be important, the titles of two illustrated booklets women to preach being little probable nificance in the process which has and the conditions revealed, both as written by Charles Stelze for the since1 St. Paul in the same Epistle It is one of the imperative duties been made possible by thfe combined to the sins of capitalism and of labor, American Bible Society for use in mentioned women both praying and of the church to provide a timely and activity of workers $n'd management. were regarded as. demanding atten connection with the tercentenary cel prophesying. It was in any case fool dependable interpretation of the spirit I-t is past just and considerate sh^re of the pro interest has sought' protection since men with flesh and blood inclinations a word was said about the central fact few years to make use of ‘Labor Day ceeds of great' industries, and they that time when the Gaderenes de and dispositions. that St. Peter, o n ; the day of the Sunday in the effort to interpret to are led to this conclusion by the os manded that Jesus leave their_bor- Their connection with witches, In Church’s birth, pointed, as the evi those who make up a large propor tentatious ,and outrageous display of ders and cease to* interfere with a dians, “non-believers,” and Puritans dence that the Holy Spirit had been tion of Church membership something wealth made in many instances by profitable industry^. If the church and the description of their charac given, to the fact that the prediction of the ,real situation which confronts people of no greater ability or intel would only behave, and desist from ters is treated in an epigrammatic of Joel was fulfilled. “Your sons and the Church today. $ ligence than themselves.; If there are its investigation of evils and causes fashion. your daughters 'shall prophesy.” It It is but the barest commonplace to just causes of complaint against the of unrest, how many doomed lines Recognizing the fact that the Pil was also assumed in that-" Report, say that in the past the atmosphere' labor groups by reason of their arro of business might. have gone on to grims were in some measure guilty against the verdict of scholars, that of the Church with notable exceptions' gance, insolence, extravagance and in prosperous achievements! of the failings peculiar to the men of no women were present when Christ has been much more congenial to the ordinate ambition, it jmust be, remem- It is for this reason that every min their own times, Mr. Stelzle, who is gave His Commission. Miss Roy den w eàl thy : and - leisure classes than to bered that they have^had a very im ister should desire to acquit himself one of the leading authorities in this made it clear, that though they want those of the labor group. This was perfect and inflammatory type of with faithfulness and courage on La country on the Church and social ser ed the whole question of the ordina not djse to any conscious ^choice of leadership, and have been led to much bor Sunday. He cannot be an inno vice, points out the big things which tion of women considered and dis clientele by the Church,, but to the of the bitterness of their present sen cent bystander when a great contro made the Pilgrims the dominating in cussed ; by the Church, their resolu natural selection by which people of timent by the effrontery and snob versy is going on. He must be no par fluence they haye become in American tion at that meeting was concerned refinement and resources attract simi bishness, of the resourceful classes. tisan; must be no soft and acquiescent history. with the purely lay ministry—that wo lar people to themselves and the or In any event, the' church is bound reteller of other men’s stories. It It is shown that while they were men should do what laymen did, ganization^ to which they belong. to take a hand in the controversy as a is his to speak wih conviction and deeply, profoundly religious, their namely, read the Lessong, preach and The result was that 'the churches in tried anj intelligent friend of both direction on the most vital question ideals of “community service” ^vere lecture in church and serve at the every community came to represent, parties. ¡And this is the reason why of the time.. The church must have a far in advance of the position taken altar. The resolution, which was to the well-to-do class, and the workers évery informed anc? sympathetic min-j voice, and a convincing voice, in such by most churches Pf the twentieth the effect that women sshould not be did not feel themselves much at 'home ister of the gospel is obliged to give an hour.—The Christian Century. ' century. disqualified from the lay ministry of in such congregations. some sort of a timely and discrimi-. The booklets were written primarily the Church,, was carried with great For the past ten years effort has mating %iessage to his people on La for ministers who will preach on the enthusiasm. been made to remedy this condition bor Sunday. The preaching which is DAYTON’S CITY MISSION Pilgrims and the Bible on Mayflower „ through the instrumentality of insti worthy of the timé is the kind that Universial Bible Sunday, November DID HENRY VIII. FOUND THE tutional churches, missions, working offers a discerning and prophetic com On 'September-1st, the Mission be 28x1, and they contain many original ENGLISH CHURCH?— A four-page men’s church clubs, and the like. This ment on -'the -quegfions that directly gan its work under the direction of drawings and«, photographs, besides leaflet by Bishop Irving P. Johnson?, movement had been admirable, and concern the life of the community, fresh data on the problems that con the Rev. Wm. E. Hull, for many years which should be in the hands of 'has accomplished notable results. But and of these questions easily the chief rector of the parish at Mt. Vernon, O. front America today, dealing with the the fundamental fact was still ignored, at the present moment concerns the This clergyman will also have charge history of the-struggle for democracy, every Church boy and girl attending; . that the serious, business of the industrial situation. In studying the of extension work and the looking the conditions, in cities and rural fields, High School, and will enable Church : church includes the creation of a so present conditions the minister who up of the many “unchurched Church the problems of the immigrant, the men generally to answer the ques cial and industrial order in which there wishes to bring to his people a / vital men” who are in that vicinity. Mr. negro, the Indian, the migrant work tion effectively for themselves and shall be no longer the cleavage .which message will understand that there Hull’s experience in social and reli ers, and the exceptional populations others. 50 cents a hundred. now exists between the groups of cap are many voices attempting to per gious work in the State Tuberculoses in this country. ital and- labor. Of late an increasing suade him either to abdicate his func Sanitorium at Mt. Vernon will stand company of Christian leaders has set tion of a real interpreter of the pres him in good stead in Dayton’s public JOHN WESLEY AND THE 4'tseìf to the enlistment of the church ent truth, and to fall back upon the institutions. . DR. STEVENS TAKES UP CHURCH— A four-page leaflet which in serious effort to remove the causes familiar catagóries of yesterday with RESIDENCE IN LOS will be found interesting and helpful of dissatisfaction which have given The Cicinnati City Mission’s many their smug satisfaction in 'the status friend's are now contributing - through ANGELES to those wishing to inform themselves many Of the working class the feeling quo and the doctrine of laissez faire; of sullen- resentment toward tlje the N. W. C. Treasurer, and releasing as to the relationship of the early or to avoid altogether he duty of1 the Superintendent for other work, as Church and the entire social order in pronouncement...upon the living ques After September 1st the Rev. Ber Methodists to the Church. 50 cents which it is implicit. ' he does not now have to make a reg trand Stevens, Ph.D., Bishop Coad a hundred. tions of the time, with the idea that ular appeal for the monthly pay roll. These Christian leaders are not rev it is no business of the. church to deal jutor-elect of Los Angeles, will be in The Bible class for women in the residence at 2277 South Hobart Boul olutionaries. They- have no sympathy- • with technical matters of this order. Work House has been transferred to with anarchy. They are simply con Of the first sort is the capitalistic evard, Eos Angeles. His office will THE WITNESS the County Jail since the closing of be at 5£3 South Olive St. 6219 Cottage Grove Ave. Cricago, 111. cerned that the principles of justice journal called “Industry,” to whose the former institution. and good will shall be exemplified in misleading statements we have had industry as in other relations. They occasion to advert on a previous oc realize the fact that the time has gone casion. . This paper purports to fefe by when the elementary rights of la furnishing the readers with authentic WHO CALLS? bor can be longer denied. Among information regarding the dangerous Church Furnishings these rights are the limitation, of sympathies of the Federal'Council of In a rugged region of the great working days and hours to a measure Churches, the Interchurch World Northwest the Mother . Church has of Gold, Silver, Brass, Bronge, Marble or Wood that is equitable and tolerable, such Movement, and various of the de carved out a diocese, called the Dio as, in general, the eight-hour day and nominational, groups, toward radical cese of “Qu’ Appele,” or “Who the six-day week, with such adjust ism in social and industrial affairs. Its Calls?” ments as particular industries may latest diatribe is devoted to the Inter The French trappers gave the dis make necessary; a wage standard church, and the wholly gratuitous af trict that name on account of the le Stained Glass gend that the spirit of an Indian war commensurate with the advancing firmation is offered that the difficul After Antique Method cost of living, and permissive of such ties which the Movement encountered rior, seen gliding in his canoe over domestic opportunities as shall afford in the attainment of some of its ob the lakes, who died in search of his BRONZE, MARBLE AND MOSAIC MEMORIAL TABLETS. proper leisure, educational privileges jectives were due to public distruct of bride who was lost in the wilderness, and recreational margins for the its leanings toward the radical ele is heard to cry plaintively, “Qu’ Ap Designs and Estimates on Request. workers; protection of women and ment in matters of social reform. pele,;’’; or “Who Calls?” children, not only in industry, but In any informed circle this state A missionary there called attention from such industrial conditi ms as pre ment would be recognized as lacking to the name and suggested that the vent wholesome living, and threaten even the Aving grace of humor. And lonely sèttler, the pioneer family, the Spaulding & Company the citizenship of thej^ nation; the the utmost that Mr. Henry Harrison lumberman, all call in that wild coun fight of collective bargaining, in'con •Lewis, the editor, can offer in sub try for the ministrations of the MICHIGAN AYE. AT VAN BUREN ST. CHICAGC sideration of the fact that capital, in stantiation of his several pages of in Church. .
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in it. Notable was the strong asser ing words: “I have no more doubt tion that Christianity must reclaim that He lives in. His world to-day The Donaldson School THE ANGLO-CATHOLIC CONGRESS the natural order, so that it may not than that I do. Why shoufd I blame ILCHESTER, MARYLAND remain a perpetual challenge to God’s myself because more and more my The Church and Social and Industrial Problems being, and the speaker’s hearty con mind emphasizes the fact that it is Rev. W. A. McClenthen, D.D/, Rector. currence with Westcott that the because He lives, and only so far §ev. H. S. Hastings, Head Master. r By An Eye Witness “wage relation” offered no final ,so-: as He lives in me, that I shall live In these days of disillusionment, lution of the industrial' problem. also?”—St. Andrew’s. Cross, r Thursday Evening. A Church boarding school for when people are talking about “spent A crammed hall. A feeling of ex The Bishop of London, who had forces” and “lost causes,” it is cheer pectancy. Some ‘‘Catholic” hymns come in during Father Talbot’s All communications for The boys,, in the hills, twelve miles from ing and inspiring to note the »con and the organ. Great cheering of the speech, closed the meeting with the Standing Committee of the diocese Baltimore. Self-help . and self-gov fidence and vigour of such a gather venerable Father Russell, of Hol- Blessing. of Tennessee should be addressed to ernment gives the school exceptional tone and spirit. ing of Catholics, breathing the ut- born. An announcement of the dra ' Remarkable scenes were witnessed the president, The Very Rev. F. Du cost charity towards those who differ, matic collection, a “Last-ditch” M. Devall, Office of the Dean, 715 The school prepares for college anti and earnestly pointing to the many at the Thanksgiving , service held’ at speech by the Bishop of Zanzibar. So Southwark Cathedral at the close of Poplar Ave., Memphis, Tenn. i£ limited to sixty boys. $600 a year. marks of resemblance and essential the curtain rises of the closing big the Anglo-Catholic Congress on Fri Write for a catalogue and pay the notes of harmony, rather than to the meeting. day last. Before & p. m., people be school a visit. •questions which separate. Bishop Gore read his speech from KING HALL With such an inspiring catalogue of gan to assemble in the Cathedral gar the chair, and it was in the main a den, and by 7 p. m., a qtteque of peo The Church House for Women at the A PLAN FOR CHURCH AND BENEVO the points of unity existing between University of Oklahoma. LENT ORGANIZATIONS TO RAISE masterly one. Christianity was a life,1 ple stretched over London Bridge, it Rt. Rev. Theodore Payne Thurston, the Roman .Catholic and the English D. D., Bishop. (MONET—MRS. GUTGESELL’S 'CHRIST a certain distinctive moral and social as said, as far as the Monument. MAS NOVELTY GIFT BOOK. Church, the sense of nearness and life. The moral standard of the Rev. Vincent C . -Griffith, Ph. B ., F , A. fellowship becomes very real and our Some thousands must have congrega I. A., Chaplain. Consisting of 100 exclusive Christmas ¡Christian Church in the early cen ted withiri sight of St. Savior’s, most' ' Miss Elizabeth ; A, i Roseoe, House- cards with thoughtful greetings, novel separateness so much the more la Mother. ties for Christmas gifts, enclosure cards turies was kept up by the risk of be of whom failed to ¡find, room in the Room Rentals discounted thirty per and seals, neatly arranged in attractive in eatable. To briefly recite the points ing a ‘ Christian. Boycotted by the building. 1 About two thousandmen cent to Church girls taking University sample book. of harmony kindles a glow and a hope epurses in Religious Education. world, the Christian society was and" women held their own thanks . .Address' the House-Mother, King Hall, The plan offers an easy way to raise for the future. To nourish that hope money, pleasant work and splendid prof obliged to develop a social and eco giving in the open air, and their hymn ;/>;V ^.Uxy^.^NOrnian, : Okla. ■ its. Order NOW, as the sample books are is all to the good, even though we nomic life of its own—where all had singing endangered the peace within nlade up during the early summer months may not see it realized in our days. Offer of Tithing Literature to only. For information and testimonials to work if they were to eat, where the Cathedral. When this became from clergymen and organizations „who Unity of History, 1,500 years of com work of support must be found for Episcopalian Ministers. have repeatedly used the plan, address evident, the Bishop of Milwaukee left Until further notice, we hereby of mon tradition ; Unity of Faith—our all. This sort of communism was his seat within and addressed the Mrs. A. A. Gntgesell, 406-408 ¡Sixth jive.. Creeds art word for word alike; fer to send, gratis,, postage paid, to So., Minneapolis, Minn. voluntary; its effect was the redistri congregation outside the building. all ministers in the Episcopal Church, Unity of Sacramental practice and bution of wealth among 'Christian so Soon after 9 p. m. the procession of enough of the following pamphlets to Worship; Unity of Fruits; Unity of ciety. The Church witnessed also to Bishops emerged from the Cathedral furnish one copy of each to every Private Prayers Holy Order;.. Unity of Outlook and self-control in sexual matters and to and the prelates made their way be family in their congregations: Atmosphere and finally, our Unity courage in the face of death. But tween lines of kneeling people to the “How to Tithe and Why.” for the Faithful with the great body of the saints.. later, when it required more courage ¡Chapter House across the Borough “Thanksgiving Anri.” These were the most striking points “Is the Tithe a Debt?”' a By Bishop Sage of Saliria: not to be a Christian than to be one, High Street. Here a great crowd as “IS Tithing Worth While?” in a most inspiring paper by the Rev. the moral level went down with a sembled. and the Bishop of Kingston E. M. Milner'White, in which he set EPISCOPAL TITHING LEAGUE run. Decline was caused by the in gave his blessing to those who wait ... 2114 West.36th Street • A Manual which thirty-five thous forth in very telling and arresting tellectual dogmatism of the. Greek ed in the streets. And after this the and Church people have found help phrases the essential unity of Rome ¡Church and by the autocracy of the hymn singing began again. It topk ful in their private devotions at home and Canterbury. , m - Church of thh Roman obedience— a considerable time for the congrega Saint Katharine’s School and in church. The Greek Church the moral witness was submerged. In tion within the Cathedral to disperse. v Davenport, Iowa . Price, 10 cents. Postage, 4c. England the Church grew up associa Episcopal Of the three papers on Re-Union, During a quiet portion of the volun ted with a, legal system that set more tary the departing congregation spon Healthful and beautiful situation, not the least interesting was that by value upon property than upon per overlooking the Mississippi. A school “T H E W I T N E S S” Dr. Frere*. C. R., on the Holy. Ortho taneously began to sing a popular son. To-day the revolt was three Congress hymn and the organist gave for a limited number of girls, recom 6219 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago dox Church of the East. “We are be fold": (1) against Church and its doc mended by Eastern colleges. ginning,’ ’he said, “to be alive to the in and took up the melody on the trines—-often ill-informed ■ revolt, and organ. After all, there is a limit to Address: HOWE SCHOOL, Howe, Ind importance of the Holy Orthodox (2) against the moral standards of The Sister Superior, \ Church of the East. This Church, starchiness in the Church of England! y Davenport, Iowa. A thorough and long established the Church. We had to stand un Church School for boys. Unusual suc which in Russia has suffered such per flinchingly for the law of' indissoluble We understand that the receipts secutions ,will emerge and come out MISS, WHITE’S SCHOOL FOR GIBUS cess in college preparation. Lower marriage as the law for Christians; .towards the effort of the Congress to Boarding and Day Departments. school for,boys entirely separate. Be- the stronger for its perils arid suffer and as citizens do our best to keep raise £50,000 for "¡foreign missionary 4146 L indell Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. : fore deciding, upon a school for your ings.” Opens September 15, 1920. The Rev. the State law as near the Christian work exceed £25,000, and the value of James Boyd Coxe, Rector of the Trinity boy, investigate the advantages of Skétching the history of this Church ■. law as possible. And .(3) there was the large quantity of jewellery and Church, St. Louts, Chaplain. For cata Howe. For illustrated circuler address from the earlest ages, he pointed out logue and Information address The Prin REV. J. H, McKENZIE, L. H. D., the revolt of the Labour movement plate given to the fund has yet to be cipal. ' that it was deeply penetrated by semi- against the whole commercial and in ascertained. Rector, Box W tic tradition, and that during the first dustrial system. Its cry was, not THE CHURCHMEN’S ALLIANCE two centuries when it was not Semitic charity but justice. This revolt was DR. GRENFELL’S it was Greek. In those days every rooted in the principles of Christ. Let Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Presi where Christianity ranked as an Eas AUTOBIOGRAPHY dent, 713 North American Building, all men understand that to be a Instruction Philadelphia, Pa.; Chauncey Brewster tern cult. It became naturalized in Christian demanded a deliberate self- By Bishop; Johnson of Colorado North Africain the third century, and Tinker, Ph. D., First Vice-President, surrender and an equality of consid On August 4, 1892, when Dr. Gren A very valuable Manual to place Yale, Station, New Haven, Conn.; The came tinder the influence of African eration of all other men . : . And so fell saw for the first time the Lab-, Rev. John Henry Hopkins, D. D., lawyers, and so became' more and in the hands of candidates for Con the Chairman closed with an eloquent rador coast, there began a missionary firmation, and others seeking infor Vice-President, 5550 Blackstone Aye., more Western in temper and out plea for a more adventurous Chris- service 'seldom equaled apd never sur Chicago, 111.; the Rev. J . O. S. Hunt* look, and out of touch with the East. tianiy—“fewer Christians (if so be) passed in the heroism of its endeavor, mation regarding the teachings and ington, O. H. C., Vice-President, West The African influence was very strong but better”—and for the unity of the character of its persqnal devo customs of the Church. .Park, N. Y.; the Rev. Frank B. Rea- and with the legalism of the leader» (Christians on the. field of social ser tion and the Christ-like quality of its Send 25 cents for a sample dopy zpr, D. D., Vice-President, West of the Church in Africa, and the con Orange, N. J.; the Rev. Hamilton vice. ;; love for men. The wonderful story Price $2.50 a ck)zen. Schuyler, Vice-President, 121 Acad sequent formulating of its theology of this missionary life in the far Address emy i St., Trenton, N. J.; the Rev. in terms of law, was joined the in Mr. G-. K. Chesterton was the next speaker and surely it is- idle to try North is told „by Dr. Grenfell in his “T H E WITNESS” Wm. Harman van Allen,. D. D., Vice fluence of Rome, with its conception recently published biography, under '6219 Cottage Grove Ave.., ChiCags President, 28 Brimmer St., Boston, of government, and its genius fot to report him. Scintillating as ever, now perpetrating, now inconsequential, the title A LABORADOR DOCTOR. Mass.; Henry D. Pierce, Treasurer, law. As a record of faith and a message of 210 Madison Ave., New Yprk, N. Y.; at one momen more sceptical than ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE Frances Grandin, Secretary, 126 There followed what might be anybody else (the relation of Chris courage, this book is of vital interest The only Eastern college officially con Claremont Ave.. New York. N. Y. called Rejuvenation, and dogmas tianity to social conditions “the one to seriously minded' persons. It is trolled by the Episcopal Church and en we re stated in legal terms, the gov the story of á human life lived in dorsed by the Synrid of any Eastern Purpose: It is the.'purpose of The jioint on which on the^whole I would Province. Tuition, $4o0. Churchmen’s Alliance to unite loyal ernment was that of police; as a defend the Christian tradition strong a god-like way. From cover to cover Post-office: Annandale-on-Hudson, N. V corporation the Clergy were the di /(Station: Barry town .ori; the NeW York Churchmen in an endeavor to guard ly”), at another moment preaching it is a narrative of romance and ad Central Railroad) the Faith of tlie Orie Holy Catholic rectors of the Church and the laity the full Catholic doctrine of tradition venture, of a great constructive work % “Oi the 'HudsoB River Facing ¡-.the A its subjects. in behalf of an isolated people. As Cats Idle” and Apostolic Church, to witness to and interpretation and scoring off the Write1 to the President, the Rev. Bernard the efficacy oftfthe Sacraments, to ex In the East the tendency was to chairman to the delight of the uncrit a record of hardship, toil and dan Tddings Bell, • gers, borne with Christian heroism, tend a clear knowledge of the truth, look on the Church as a family, as a ical. t The . mediaeval Church was on LOANS, GIFTS AND GRANTS and to encourage every advance to living body, in the West it was re the way to a better solution of social it has hardly an equal. ■ , to aid in building churches, rectories wards unity consistent with the his garded as a system of polity, with evils than any of those propounded The book is rich in human .touches, toric Faith.—Constitution, Art. II., in beautiful descriptions of the far and parish houses may be obtained of governors and governed: Clericalism to-day. That solution had more of the American Church Building Fund Sec. 1. became the bane of the West. The Liberty than Socialism, more of .¡North, and in simple but convincing Commission. Address its Correspond For further particulars address1 unity in the Eastern mind was an or Equality than Capitalism, and more* expressions of the most exalted faith. ing Secretary, 281 Fourth Avenue, Miss Frances Grandin, Secretary, 126 ganic unity, in the West a govern of Fraternity/ than either. B ut with Dr. Grenfell has interwoven the lives New York. Claremont Ave., New York. mental unity. The doctrine of grace, the break-down of the middle ages we of others with the story of his own in and prayer and communion was were in the hands of the Rationalists an unselfish way, and the chapters viewed from a different standpoint. —and they had made a ghastly .mess. abound in illuminating pictures of dis- East arid West have each their strong He denied the right of the Rationalist tiguished men and of Dr. Grenfell’s points and each their weaknesses, and' who invented capitalism to browbeat co-workers. s . neither church can do without the the religion that abolished slavery . . Dr. Grenfell’s views on m any. sub other. ’ A characteristic speech, from the jects of concern áre naturally and per ¡Since the eighth century the West G. K. C.’s opening expression* of re suasively expressed in the course of ern Church has advanced to a clearer lief and comfort at the fact that no-' his narrative. For example, speaking PLEASE! theology. The Eastern Church has body would hear a word to the of the management of the missionary not felt the thrill of reform which glowing peroration in which he said enterprise, he. says: “And after all is came to the Roman and the English that the ruins of Bolton Abbey and not mission business part of the The date that your subscription ¡Church alike in the sixteenth cen the empty shrine of Glastonbury ,world’s business, and must not the tury. The Great Schism which sep might be the secret of England’s fall. measure of success depend largely on expires is printed on the corner of arated the East from the West Mr. A. Moore, of the Silvertown the same factors in the one case as brought isolation to the former and Rubber Worker’s Union, spoke on be in the other? Has one man more this paper under your address. so ' preserved it from this distur half of what had been a sweated in-’ than another the right to be called bance. It may on that account seem dustry. At once strongly Catholic ‘missionary,’ for of what use is any to us more stable than that of the and strongly Labour, he called upon man in the world if he has no mis West. But either side without the priests to come Eastward, as Dolling sion in it?” Again, he says: “The Will you please renew at once if other is incomplete, it is one-sided. If had done. He reminded those who only real joy of possession is the a whole Catholicism” is to be pre believed in a universal Church that power which it confers for a larger your subscription has run out? You served it must be by each being mu Labour was solidly internationalist. life of service.” “Unless a Christian tually corrective and supplementary. Finally, he thanked the Catholic is a witness in h is: life, his opinions will be greatly simplifying oui work The work of the English Church movement for its help to Labour in do not matter two pins to God or should be to mediate between East darker days. man.” / v jí by doing so, as well as saving us many and West. We can only do that if And what-—having exceeded my This altogether joyful and refresh we hold fast that which East and space—can I say about Father Tal ing record could have been written only pennies. West hold in common. We have bot except that his speech was a very by a lover of “the facts of life,” to much to learn and it can be learnt striking • utterance? It was rather whom the Living Person of our Lord by our growing friendship with^the long, its sentences became para-, is a reality and the consciousness of Eastren Church. graphs; but there was excellent stuff1which is voiced in th'e author’s d o s
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