Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-19

Rev. E. A. Bradley. d. D., of Brooklyn. the
second writer, treated the subject of paro-
chial methods from a historical point of view.
He announced that he would devote the most
part OF his paper to consideration of the de-
fects in the methods He then went on TO
criticise the financial methods that maintain in
churches today. Many a person will spend lib
orally in sales and fairs and in taking chances
in priestly vestments who would not give
a cent to Christ direct. The finances of the
old-tlme parishes were better managed than
this. The desire for making the services more
attractive with fancy music and other namby-
PANTY methods is spreading rapidly, but the
church should realize that it can never sue
coed in competing with the world in the field
of entertainment. Many churches try for an
attractive minister who will make the
pews pay" This is all a delusion The
church is to conquer the world by fighting:
never by coaxing, iattering and attracting
The methods of the church today are not ag-
gressive enough. not evangelistic enough. The
Episcopalian church has the richest the most
respectable and the LATEST laymen on earth.
The responsibility is an enormous one. As
goes America so will go the Anglo-Saxon race.
If the church fail Romanism or Satan will take
possession of the world.
DR.. Bradley severely criticised the ornate
methods that prevail in the churches them
selves as well as in the church services, and
told of Catholic priest who attended an es-
pecially elaborate high church service. He was
asked how he enjoyed it. well" he replied.
Il like the simplicity of our own mass much
better"
Edward A. Bradley was born at TROY. n Y.
November 26, 1sl1 In the fall of 1852 he was
placed in a church school whose master he
speaks of as san execrable tyrant." After three
years study he entered the New York Free
Academy, now the College of New York He
was inclined to study for the medical profess
sion. but toward the close of his life at the
free academy his health gave way, and on his
recovery he entered the General Theological
Seminary of the p. Z. Church in New York
city and took there the ordinary course of
preparation for the Protestant Episcopal priest
priest at St. Philips Church at Wis
casset, Me-, having accepted its rector
ship in the early part of that wear
In January, 1863, he became rector Of st.
Mark 8 Church. Minneapolis, Mimi, and during
his term of service there built large stone
church. September 10, 1870, he accepted call
to st. Matthews parish, Kenosha, Wis, and
there planned and started new church edifce
September %, 1872. he was made rector of
Christ Church, Indianapolis, Ind. IN 1885 he
was president of the Protestant Episcopal
standing committee Ct the state. Kenycn Col
lege gave him The degree Of d. d. the same
year. December "a, 1887, he resigned this
charge and accepted that of st. Luke's Church
Brooklyn, N. Y. DR.. Bradley has been fire.
quentiy named in connection with the episco-
y
REV. LANaDoN sTEwARDsoN.
DR.. Bradley was followed by Rev. Landkon
Stewardson Of Worcester, Mass, who took the
ground that the distinction between the old
and the new parochial methods was best seen
in the simplicity of the former as compared
with the complications that mark the latter.
He went on to show to what an extent the differ
entlatlon OF church work had gone along the
line of guilds andclubs. He was of the opinion
that spiritual growth had in no wise been
nourished by this mass Of machinery. Organi-
cation has been carried to an extreme within
the churches, and has no good result when new
societies and clubs are introduced, not because
there IL spiritual demand for them, but sim
ply for the reason that the pastor or the people
have an idea that no properly conducted parish
should be without them.
Much Of the organization within the church
today, according to DIR. Stewardson, 30 far
from promoting spiritual growth 10 . positive
detriment and drag upon the religious work of
the church The church Is mot supposed to
cater eater. 70 ~ the pnyc inssliscs..i and :Sei.i
Geld for work fOr many Of these church