Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-21
CHURCHMEN ADJOURN.
Diocesan Missions and Personal
Religion the Last Topics
DISCUSSED AT THEIR CONGRESS.
Arguments for ard Against Crowding Into
Occupied Fields.
A FULL-BL0ODED ESKIMOS SPEECH

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The general
subject of discussion at this morning
session of the Episcopal Congress was The
True Policy of Diocesan Missions. Rev.
Gustave A. Carstenson, of New York, read
the first essay. There is danger every
where, he said, of forgetting that the Wis
dom that first selects forms and carries
them to the highest usefulness may be just
as divine in later change of them for the
newer freedom. to which the life of the
spirit is ever calling.
The early Church took the world as it
mad been divinely prepared for its use, en-
tered the cities and worked along the great
highways of the Roman Empire. Chris
tianitv never did more lasting work than
when it went into the country and fastened
its truths on the Germanic tribes The re-
covery of the waste places Of Christian
civilization at the close of the nineteenth
century presents far different problem
than that of spent heathenism in the be-
ginning of the Christian era
The Hold-Back Policy a Poor One.
Rev. DR. Lindsay did not agree with the
first speaker that where the field is small
one and already occupied by struggling
churches it is not wise for the Episcopal
Church to crowd in. MANY times this is
Just the Church that will succeed when
others fail The speaker bewailed the fact
that the Church does not possess stronger
hold upon the rural communities, and said
that the only way the remedy could be
brought out was through the better support
by the diocese of diocesan missions. What
is needed is men and money.
The first invited speaker of the morning
was Rev. j. T. Zorn, of Morristown, n. Y.
The Church, he thought, had never paid so
much attention to the matter of diocesan
missions as it shouts. 1t ought to claim
everything. and yet it seemed half afraid to
claim ANYTHING. 1t il in the position of
great house that will not advertise for fear
of hurting tn. feelings of another house
across the way. The Church should not
claim to be one of dozen methods, all of
which are good. 1t is the one and only
true way.
The second and last invited speaker was
Rev. George C. Foley, of Williamsport. He
said one of the most important needs of
missions is an Improvement of methods.
The Pauper Spirit of Missions.
There is no way in which there can be
such a sentimental waste of money as in the
matter of diocesan missions. A serious
fault TO be found with things as they are is
the continuance of sJipends for years in
places where there is no possibility of
spiritual or churchly growth. This pauper
spirit is either the natural and logical re-
suit OF mission work, or else there is some
radical defect in the system. Mission work
has been defined as the sending of the gos-
pei at the expense of the sender. As it
should be it is the spread of the gospel at
the expense of the recipient.
The first volunteer speaker of the morn
ing was Rev. James Mulcahey, d. D.. of
New York The Church, he said, laid
special value upon its episcopate. Catholic
ijy and Professionalism are only two sides of
the same truth. 1t is not true that the fol-
lowers of one come directly and of the other
indirectly to God. The highest ritualist
and extreme Protestant come direct to God.
Rev. Mr.. H. P. Nichols, of New Haven,
for the sake of cities, urged his hearers
never to give up the country parishes, for
he characterized the wickedness of the coun-
try as vastly worse than the wickedness of
The city.
Fun-Blooded Eskimo Speaks.
Rev. S. Gibbons, of Nova Scotia, full
bloOded Eskimo, spoke briefly on the sub
iect of missions He believed that the mis-
sionaries should be adaptable men-men
who can put up with plain expressions of
opinion from the people with whom they have
to work. In proof of this latter opinion,
he recounted number of interesting in
cidents of his missionary work among the
Eskimos
Right Rev. o. W. Whitaker, of Philadel-
phis, read the only paper at the afternoon
session, his theme being personal Re
ligion." Brief addresses were make on the
same subject by Rev. d. Parker Morgan, of
New York; Rev. n. w. Baker, of Cincin-
natl, and Rev. Henry Mottlet, of New
York
Bishop Dudley, in closing the last DAYS
session, referred TO the success of the Con-
gress and the good work accomplished, after
which the body finally adjourned