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WARNE, BISHOP FRANK W. " " >I !I "! I ,\ Registered No A. b4f> ndian itu~ss VOL. LVJIJ Lucknow. I nd1a W "!rlnesday, January 18, J !l:tfl Ne. 3 .January 18, l\!26 (;l) 38 l'H 1£ IN UlAN WI l'N ~SS \\"il:te':; Bible ~chuol. It was the delignt of my stay "Mrs. \\iarne and Edith" there, to gt>t a telephone n e,sage almost every week that they nt'eded me tu come and laugh with them. EDITED By RUE SELLAW:l Tne tiip never sec·med too long even in the cold and A Chorus of Admiration rain for l knew what a warm welcome I should re On the first of December I received the following ceive and what a humev time I should have. Mv from the Editor of the IN,JIAN W1TNESS, -" I want heart grows heavy, when I think that they will so to publish a Bishop Warne special numler of the soon leave India not to return. INDIAN \VJTNES::; to commemoratP his fur<\' years of "One of the most happy times I have had in the wonderful service to India and the Indian Church and hills wa!' the summer I spent with the Warnes at Ai· I am eager to get a thoroughly good article about mora The walks out around the hills, the Junchu Mrs. Warne and Edith. I wonder if 'uu would not uut 111 the beautiful spots known so well to Mrs. like to write that article. · \Varne and Edith, will ever be with me in my little private art gallery of !"weet memories. Of course i - •. Hishop \\'ar11e iigures in all these mcmorie~ too, but I ~·~ n:ustn't mention hi.11 a» I was not asked to write ab•'Ut him and 1t would lll'Ver<lo to sa;' how" I thank God for every remembrance of him•· but he figurt>s '·' large in all the good things I can say about evt'ry member of t1:is family, who have done so much io make India what it is to me to-dav ·· Miss Ho)!e seem$ to have tried to keep the Bishop out of her article but her ill success is evident. Whe ,. ther in the following, :\!rs. Chitambar tried or not. I ' do iwt know, but if she did, she had no success at all. \\'ho can blame tllem, for a more perfect three-in-one few have ever seen " b:ver since we have known Bishop, :llrs. and ..,_ . Miss Warne, we have all found them to be vcr\' kind, , .... ~ sympathetic, sincere. helpful, loving and deep!;; spirit ual, always ready to share the burdens of others and to give a cheerinv; word of encouragement. Often we had the pleasure of being entertained at their table. Mrs. Warne was a fine hostc~s and Bbhop Warne in his genial way enterta\nC'd us with many an interesting story and it makes my mouth water now just to think of tl1e delicious sweets made i.iy :lliss Warne Their table was full of good cheer, and n~'·, .. r ·~ '''n1·d 1lid l hP·-11~ (tp·ai11"t Bny n.,dy. 011rin1r :\1 \\ all the years of their stay al Lucknow. not once tlid I!~. AH~E. we return from a visit with them with dejected feel . _'!'he ::.enior a :d 1110~1 ur port ant mt.~mb~ r of tht~ Bishop' cabinet, and bi> hop in her own right hy ings. Invariably we would remark " \\'hat Jovel) many unan1m.1us elect.ions to µresi. 1c 'ver the folks they are ··or words to that effect. \Vo1nen'~ Conff:lrence. "Durmg my serious illness in 1!!14, when the do<:· I was of course flattered that the Edi tor inferred tor had given orders that no visitors we1 e to see that I mii::rhl be able to write a "thoroughly i.rnod" me, Mrs. Warne was often on the verandah 111quiring about me and llliss Warne came daih· to be lll\' nurse article, 'tlthough I knew that I c'.luld not do the sub and oh, wi:at a splendid nurse she was, I shall. never Ject justice under the most favourable circumstances but, puffed uµ with conceit, I replied that I would do forget, she looked after me so lovingly. Not wanting my best to "edit" an article. The time was so short to bother my husband to find thrngs, she often and I was so busy with my last school closi1.g and my brought along with her a fresh change of c]o,nes for final packing before retirement that I did not even me and linen for my bed. llow well she batned and get letters sent out to friends who would have been massaged me daily! It soothes me e\·en n<J\'' to think glad to send me happy inrident> and expressions of of it. \Vhat lovely appetising di:;hes. cooked by her appreciation and some that I did ask were so busy self and temptingly ar- 1 with Christmas preparations that they could not find ~~11dg~te~;1 el b~,?;sg~irt<l~~ :d ~~,,~·/~ ~ the time to write, so when on .January seventh, I be gan to iook over my material, 1 found that my contri to the hills and we had no . ~~~±:, ,,. .. butions were few and the artlcle was due at the press money to meet the ex- " ;::~.:;..::· . _ '\\~ on the tenth. 1 make no apology for the contribu penses, a cheque from the ·_,,,_;\~ ·. ;o<! Bishop made the trip µos- ;· ~7:\-'"°>. .LJ tions. the~· are just what I wanted, only I wanted more. sible! lt has been a priv- · ~··~·,:.,1~:.t::: i\liss Hoge, who knew the111 must rnLimately in Calcutta, J .urknow and America writes: 1lege, a blessing and an ""' •· "lf I were to tell all I should like to abo·ut :\!rs. honour to know and have Warne and Edith I would fill the WITNESS and there : he friendship of th is dear wouldn't be room for any thing else. \Vhen I tirst godly family and we thank came to l ndia, I was asked to go to Ca\cu tta to start God for them. a Kinder).(art<'ll. I went and learned thert> what "I must mention their friends the Warne family could be. Edith was one love for children. Bishop of the "Charter .\]embers" of rnv Kindergarten Warne liked his little .class. and a bright interesting child sne \\'a~. :\!rs. frknds, European and In Warnl' made me feel at home from t1e very begrn dian, to call him "Uncle ning and made me welcome to her home \\ hene\ er I Frank" and jJiss \\"arne went there. I have always counted them among my was "'.\! iss Edith•· to the children as Jong as they <learest friends in this land and man~· a Christmas lived here. Their parties MI~~ EnITH M. WARN!,. have I spent with them. :\!rs Warne halo' such a way -0f making me feel that I am really wanted and that to the children and their Her father's Secretary and Christmas gifts will long "Guardian Angel" and tne Editor they feel that I belong. be remembered. They are of the Wom.,u's FricHd. 1 Hll!J, "When was at home in Edith and her mo (Continued on pa.r1e JO.) ther were Jiving in 8rooklyn and I was staying at ~·lJt J]Rdian illitntss 0FFICJ,\L ORGAN OF 'rtlE METBOUIS1 EPISCOPAi. CHURCH IN SOUTHERN ASIA J. w ASK OM PICKETT, Editor LUCKNOW, JANUARY 18, 1928 Page :i --- - ------· -- - -· - A character such as Bishop Warne's has a pecu Indian Methodism's "Great· liar charm for India, and for no reasJn more than that he exemplifies in a marked way the lovely grace heart"--· Bishop Frank of numility. No one ever made him hapoy by mak W.Warne ing a fuss over him or turning the "spot-light" upon ni111. He would permi•_ such d tribuce ,is this onl\' because ne k 10-vs that we are happy in express:ng By BIS II UP BRENTON THO BU R'.'J BADLEY. ourselves thus, or bec,wse he feels that suc.1 th,rni:;hts "The outstandi11g fi!-(ure of our triumphant Indian may be helpful to someone ~lse. He has been an l\Jethodism," 1s l:lishop \V. F. Oldham's description of ideal "guru" always approaeha11le, never, under any Bishop Frank iV. Warne, and the words, written in circum:;tances, initated or exhibiting impatience', 1!!15, are equally true today. self-controlled because un<ler the d11rnmation ·1! the When Frank W. \V arne was elect1.•d a Bishop of our spirit of the .\Jaster. '.\lot even the poorest or hum Church for India in moo the .\Jethodist Bpiscopal Jlest worker ever had cause to feel that he was Church counted 78,000 members on its rolls: twenty intruding when asking for time in Bishop Warne's years later the me:nbers'1!p had reached a total of office or home, in the midst of busy hours at con 421,000. During these two decades Bishop Warne ferences or even during meals. " Spend and be was the conspicuous leader in a revival movement spent" must have been his motto through the fonv and a campaign of soul-winning among the lowly years since he first reached India's shores. · classes of Hinduism's outcastes that has no parallel lt is not possible here to make an exhaustive list in any other field of missionary endeavour. How of all the elements that have combined to give un many thousands of these people Bishop Warne him usual strength and beauty to Bishop Warne's life, self baptized, there is no way of determining, but but no one who knows him could fail to make re the remarkable increase in our membership came ference to his vital, practical faith, and the spirit of almost wholly in the great rural areas, and it was prayer that always accompanies him.