The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
REPLIED TO HIS CRITICS.


Bishop Cleland K. Nelson entertained an
audience at st. Johns parish hall last
night with an account of his visit TO
! England last summer to attend the Lam
! beth conference. While in England Bish-
! op Nelson witnessed the queens jubilee
| besides seeing and hearing many other
! things of interest.
| One of the first things taken up by the
| bishop was the reports which have been
! circulated by the Atlanta papers that he
! had made many harsh criticisms and said
| many unkind things OF the people of Eng
| land and their manners and customs. He
| denied that he was either an Anglophobist
| or an Anglomaniac He Is a thorough
| paced American, he said, and had brought
| back no new fads from the other side At
| the same time he had nothing unkind to
! say of England or the English people. He
| was very kindly treated while in England
! and had formed some warm friendships
| while there. The articles which had been
| published in the papers, he said, had led
| many English people I'm this country to
| write cards, attacking him and reproach-
! ing him for exhibiting such ingratitude for
| the hospitality he had received. As a mat
! ter of fact, Bishop Nelson said there was
no foundation for such a thing. The AT
! lanta Constitution, he said, had simply led
! the English people in Georgia on snipe
hunting expedition and left them to hold
! the bag.
Bishop Nelson said that he was greatly
| impressed with the English custom of
| afternoon tea, for the simple reason that il
| was so constant and so universal that it
| was impossible not to be impressed with
| It, The point that especially impressed
him was that the afternoon tea in Eng
| land is not stiff and formal society func-
tlon as is usually the case in this coun-
| try, but pleasant informal gathering of
the members of the family, guests and
| friends and is of daily occurrence. The
custom is universal in England, and pre-
walls from the palace of the queen to the
| scuiiery. He considered it a good thing
| as a'pleasant relief to the cares and bust
I ness Of the day.
The features of the queens jubilee, and
| especially the jubilee procession, had evil
| IDENTIFY made a deep impression upon the
| bishop, and he related a number of inter-
| esting incidents connected with it, He
| and Mrs. Nelson had exceptional oppor-
| tunltes for viewing the PROCESSION, having
! positions upon the porch of st. PauPs
| church, with the other visiting prelates
| and their families, where they not only
| witnessed the procession, but were present
| at the religious ceremonies taken part in
| by the queen. The whole affair was a
! wonderful spectacle, he said, and was
most admirably conducted The immense
| procession started on time and arrived at
| st. PauPs church on time. The best of
| OIueI was preserved, ana the hundreds OF
| thousands of people who witnessed the
| procession, conducted themselves in the
| most orderly manner. The splendid dis
| cipine of the London police force especial
| ly impressed him.
The London police force is the best or
| ganiZed and the best disciplined army I
/ have ever seen, for it is an army" he said
THE order was perfect and I did not hear
| an unkind word. Out of all those thou
| sands of people ] only saw one drunken
/ man. The crowds were simply unspeak-
| able. 1t never entered my mind before
that such a number of people could posi-
| bly, be gotten together in one city. After
the procession begun The streets in its
| neighborhood were impossible"
! Bishop and Mrs. Nelson were also for
! tunate in having a splendid opportunity to
view the naval review and fireworks dis
| play at night from aboard private yacht
| The naval review he declared Abe the
/ grandest spectacle he had ever Witnessed.
An interesting description of the grand
| cathedral at Canterbury, and the services
| conducted there was given. A visit to such
a cathedral was helpful to a mans church
manship, the bishop declared. The nave
| of the cathedral is between 425 and 45O feet
| long, he said st. Johns church might be
set down in it several times. In fact the
church might be placed in the chancel and
| another like it alongside of it. and still
| leave room for visitors to walk around
them While in London Bishop Nelson
had the pleasure of preaching to a very
large audience at st. Paurs.
Having finally reached the Lambeth
conference, Bishop Nelson proceeded to
| give some account of that body and the
| occasion. 1t was composed of all the bish-
| ops of the Anglican church in the world
| who had met together at the invitation of
the Archbishop of Canterbury. The con-
| ference had no legislative power and could
| formulate AZ 4
| but could simply resolve and suggestions
| Naturally the opinion of such an august
body, however. would have it's weight with
the different branches of the Anglican
| communion throughout the world The
| meeting was held behind closed doors and
was not reported by the newspapers. It's
proceedings We're only made public upon
their publication by the secretary, which
| has since been done
| The meeting was model one he said
| the proceedings being marked by extreme
courtesy Some of the subjects discussed
were the brotherhood of man and tbe
| fatherhood of God, the visible unity of the
church as fact of divine revelation, ar
| bitration between nations for the purnose
OF doing away with war, the relations Of
the classes and the masses and co-opera-
tive work. On the question of arbitro
ton Bishop Nelson said that the confer
ence was very strongly opposed to war
ana some very sharp criticisms were ne s.
| ed upon the American congress for ito
failure to adopt the arbitration treatv
with Great Britain. Some revela tons OF
the influence brought to bear upon con-
| gress TO prevent the adoption of the treaty.
We're made, which were not very pleasant
| for the American bishops present TO hear
| and were in fact, humiliating to them
Bishop Nelson said. He seemed to CON
| cede that these revelations were true.
AT the close of the lecture Rev. j. L.
! Scully rector of st. Paurs church
said that as an Englishman and sub
1ect or the queen, he wished to express
| mis- thanks to Bishop Nelson for the leo
ture, and especially his appreciation of the
refutation of the unkind remarks attrib-
uted to him concerning the English peo-
pie.
CONFERRED WITH THE chimney