The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-29
WELCOMED BY CHURCH CLUB
ON THEIR RETURN FROM THE
LAMBETH CONFERENCE IN
ENGLAND.
THE TRINITY-TTDE
MEETING.
Eloquent Addresses by Bishop
,Whipple mad Bishop Gilbert
Justice Brewer Speaks.


at the Trinity-tide meeting Of the
church club Of the diocese of Mime
sofa held at the Ryan last night.
Bishop Morrison, of Duluth, was I'M
fortunately unable to be present.
Covers were set for nearly one hun
dred. Among the guests present were
United States Supreme Court Justice
J. D. Brewer, and United States Cir
cult Judge A. M. Thayer.
The Minnesota bishops have just re-
turned home from the Lambeth con-
ference recently held at the Canter-
bury cathedral in England. They were
right royalty welcomed and in return
they spoke entertainingly and elo-
quently of the work accomplished, and
the inspiration that the church has de-
rived therefrom Venerable Bishop
Whipple spoke with a fervor and a
vigor that astonished his hearers. He
related "reminiscences of the conference
that proved vastly instructive and sig
nificant in the light of the historical
associations that have made these
gatherings so celebrated. The bishop
greatly interested his audience by read
ing an extract from a private letter
received by him from William E. Glad
stone, in which the renowned states
man expressed the hope that the An
glican church would always take pre-
cautions to prevent the Archbishop of
Canterbury from growing into d
pope
Judge r. r. Nelson presided. At his
right sat Bishop Whipple and at his
left Bishop Gilbert. After the menu
had been exhaustively discussed
Judge Nelson inaugurated what proved
10 be the most enjoyable feature of the
church club gathering. Judge Nelson
said it gave him more than usual
pleasure to see at the Trinity tide meet
ing the familiar faces of the Mime
sofa bishops and some of the clergy
men who ACCOMPANIED them to the
Lambeth conference Judge Nelson
congratulated the bishops on looking so
well and quoted the opening lines of
Goldsmiths THE Travellers" to ex-
press his sentiments. Judge Nelson
then introduced the Rt. Rev. Henry
Benjamin Whipple, bishop of Mime
sofa. Bishop Whipple looked well-bet-
ter and stronger in fact than he has for
some years past. In response to the
tribute paid to him as a man and as
the father OF the Minnesota church.
whose children held him in reverent
esteem. Bishop WhipDle opened his
address with these words:
You are always kind and 1 knew that you
loved me, but L love to have you tell me so.
l have gone in and out among you for thirty
eight years, and God knows that the thought
was nearest my heart that we should recO-
gnize that saying of the Savior, Love one
another, --==<
Bishop Wkipple related incidents that oc-
CURED on the other side at the Lambeth
conference. He described the occasion when
he was called upon to preach the sermon
at the l300th anniversary of the baptism of
Ethelbert. 1t was an inspiring scene. There
were 1,4G0 choristers in surplces. 7G9 clergy
men in robes, and an audience of 1900 people
Bishop Whipple referred to the memorable
occasion when he oficiated at the Church Of
st. Saviours. 1t was in this church that
the bishop of Worcester. John Rogers ard
other martyrs, were condemned to De burned
at the stake. The bishop was asked to preach
the sermon before the University of Cam
bridge. When the bishop looked in the faces
OF LOCO young Englishmen receiving Chris
tan education, he then knew why God had
placed the English speaking race in the fore
front OF civilization.
Bishop Whipple declared that there was
new life in the Church of England At no
the bishop:
"A Wesleyan bishop said to me, if the
Church of England had displayed such ac-
tipity of old there would have been no Wes-
be back on mothers BOSOM" (Ap-
rlause.1
The bishop briefly reviewed the his
tory OF the Lambsth conferences, begin
ming with the first one held in 1868
which was founded by Bishop Seiweyn.
He traced the growth of the move
ment. The subjects which came be-
fore the last conference all had refer
aence to practical WoTk-not to theolo-
gical dogma or ritual. The church of
Jesus Christ would prove it's apostolic
character by doing apostolic work?
The first question discussed was pur-
ity, then temperance, then the sanctity
Of marriage, then social questions.
Bishop WhipDle here declared that
the bishops sent by America to repre-
sent the country were the peers of any
bishops at the conference.
In conclusion Bishop Whipple said
he would not detain his hearers with
an account of the mission work report
ed to the conference. That he would
reserve for the meeting of the Wo-
mans Auxiliary in St. Paul tonight.
The bishop said that it behooved his
hearers 10 consecrate themselves
anew 10 the Masters work, and then he
read an extract from a letter he had
received from William E. Gladstone,
which is as follows:
Il hope you will take with you to Amer
lea a satisfactory remembrance of the con-
ference. We can look for no great results
influence in extending. spirit OF unity must
be great. As l look back, the condition CT
the Anglican church, as it was in my
youth | can hardly represS my establishment
at what God has wrought in our church. l
suppose it is much the same in the United
States. Certainly the position of the arch
bishop of Canterbury is a very great one,
but L hope and believe that precautions will
always be taken against his growing into
pope"
Prolonged applause followed, and
when it had subsidized Judge Nelson in
troduced Bishop NJ. N. Gilbert
Bishop Gilbert said he would far
rather sit and listen TO an address that
made fer history than to speak him
self. Bishop Gilbert paid at the out
set, graceful tribute to the bishop
OF Minnesota, when he said that had
Bishop Whipple been but a junior
bishop, at the Lambert conference, he
would have been listened to with equal
attention He stood not only for the
love OF Jesus Christ, but as the true
representative of American churchman-
ship. Any Increase OF power on the
part Of the archbishop of Canterbury
was viewed with alarm. Bishop Gilbert
raid tribute to the eloquent speech
of the bishop CT Missouri, and to the
history making-speech of the bishop
OF Albany.
Bishop Gilbert said that it was an
inspiration to listen to and look into
the faces of the men who had periled
their lives fer their great cause. 1t
seemed to him that at that conference,
he looked cut into the larger influence
of God He saw the church, in the flu
ture rising to its own grand destiny.
He saw no sectarian division. He saw
the prophetic vision that St. John be-
held at Patnlos.
Bishop Gilbert spoke of the impress
;,-o caI,,ica hold at Glastonbury with