Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. lÉÉâ>fjallTï)e OTttneiöeö ®nto Uctô 1:8 FOR CHRIST AND THE CHURCH 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.