The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-17
BISHOP ON ExpS'

~ toc fnnuai convention Of ~
Episcopal diocese of New Yorl n:.s
delivered an able annual nddrs..
discussion of the main auest,o,. !.
he said:
l legan by styling that our rv..s..
this morning. on this eastern f,lss*
might almost call 1t, OF this rrs.. NJ
Doubtless seem an apt synbo, y =
In which this assembly stand. !.
current OF life beyond IL. w.
airy. second part a necessarv s.s.l
full adjunct, men tell us--to 49,.
ana more momentous intorests
There could not be more cc,.....
perll0us inversion of the who,. -
political situation. The Natior xl3!lI
during the past few months ~ ~
toyicato 1t. 1t has won nm es - pila
an crete and decrepit adyersosy c
splendors Of individual heroisr,
OF naval skill-and in these W. ~
Just pride-ought to blind our ssss
tn9t We have had very easv ~.
very feeble foe. Aud now. w,ss
fruits OF victory In our hands. ~ e
ash ing, are We going to do win ~,
Nay. rather, the solemn auestss.
ave they going TO do with uss 3.
WHO course OF so-oalled impcri.i,.s.
GONG 70 launch people, nis1v ~ !.
aiz1y oiitaoy with the dream Of ccix1't
ahI WHO expect TO repeat In dissss2
some suce history as our conousse
wrote long ago IN llood and rs,,
colonies here and in South ANN rssna!
indeed, our congress to tliracs ~
eiGrire, and our gaunt and nSs,s.m;
cd sons and brothers BY tens - ~
home to show us how thew S,,s "
such a tine. as never before X
God Is called upon, in the p,iln,, :.
agency at her command, to snssS n
oil truth and soberness, and Ia rsssaa
eousness, temperance and a i,idsrssI
"A judgment for nations as wsji w
at--till impetuosity is sobered 49, Y
ara until a people In peril Of Mo-
upon an untried sea can be mads -
talnk. The things that this cc,ss..
this Nation alike supremeiy mead a ~
territory, more avenues of trads ~
for place hunters, more pens;nr,.u ny
more subject races to prey unon IN y
ing consciousness of what. in ias, MY
III National life, are a peoples ssH1N.
moral foundations, those great ,n,s,aa
on which alone men or nations ~ ' ~,
Fer these forces. men and h.s.s.
for nothing less, does the rbm,at
stand. Let us see to 1t that We IN.
selves with the humility thai NM.
conc us; but let us see to IL. mo ny.
recognize In the august powers ~ :
season and out of season, the Chn,ss
is put in trust, that one suprems x y
eau alone purify and enllghten ana ~
the SOU or man or the fabric 81 n,
ciety! With such trust. in such m.
vigiiant, how fearless, how faithful
20 HIS truth. to our fellow men. VA
nh May ne make US so by the pove
| began this address by invoking +,
tue enostclic blessing OF peace. | ran
ciuhe " without lifting your thourhiI
nioiuent to wider horizon than mir -
ialeer circumference that binds III
family with all the nations OF thc wo,ia
ono of them has lately come a mn
strange. so unexpected, and abarr
profoundly significant, that II door 4,
easy to exaggerate either its importsns
tlneliness. | am speaking, Of course
recent ukase of the emperor Of Rusl
posing a conference of the great M
consider the subject of international III
ment. | am not at all unmindful IL
OF the reception which this memorable
Sltipn has met at the hands OF foreien
mhlists and native pro-imperalish.
ltrle unaware of the gentle ana oftau
sccpticism with which II has been ~
many clever and acute minds IN hotb
spheres, whose attitude to all great
ratured cynicism has come TO one Il
natured Cynicism, and whose great
questions has come to be phllosophy
is summed up In Carlyle's axiom tha|
force Is the master of tine weird.
For myself do rot believe that AIM
think that a Christian ought TO b n
TO believe 1t. No. do believe that,
some People have dismissed the present
sovereign of Russia as dreamer and 1 |
AIRY. you and are called upon to aim
remarkable utterance as unworthy Of
consideration. This world has foreye
divided between the dreamers and the
teal people-the men who have seSa
AMI the herd that has laughed d ths
ana the visionary. But, sooner Of iata
and again. all around the world. Soms n
has struck n great note, the clear IA .
tat'n~ resonance Of which has yxls
reused the nations. Most opportuns
THINK, that in the ear Of a nation alfs11jI
WITT the dream Of what II may achjl
should sound that strong. temperate IN
cogertly reasoned message which
Though the ukase Of the emperor Of n
1t is an unanswerable indictment Of he
rtus folly and essential mudness of n
terhational race for increased afrnan1
ships and forts and men--plled up d
grertening proportions. until at lax
most limit of n nations resources 10 "a
money has been reached; the last "a
bso. dragged from his family; the lat
has been borrowed from reluctant en-
and the empire or the republic makes y
plunge at length into rredeemahle
ruptcy. And this is called "statem11,
and "the wisdom of diplomacy" %
the viHioIary dreams of an inasinag [
mcntnllam! For myself, Il is better ~
in those very recent words Of q IN
clear, ford-heade1 and acute Ennh
man, whom nobody will accuse y
visionary or a dreamer. | mean 81
Vernon Harcourt. who pronounced ~ 4
rivalry of the great powers Of 10 q
the matter Of ships AMI men Is n1pg
sensate folly.'
Has such a folly bewitched ana 49,
Has the lust of empire and ~
conquest made the people 50 ma ~
not see the mischiefs and the Az
src'l n policy Is destined to entail! =
Above all, that followers Of Hin -
to teach men how to beat thell eAp
plot ghshares and their spears inie
hooks are eager, instead OF striving g
tie bloody and brutal duello Of nauen1
entbrone it? Are peace nnd happi9e
and justice, religion and piety" =
among us by cutting one anothert
For ore. I disown so barbarous : g
of our calling in the world as 81 ooU
upon our civilization and q dlshc19
common Lord and Master. ana 70
thus convention will not separate VIZ
expire ssion OF sympathy and Of adn'll.;
an act so truly noble and words
as those of the ruler to whom ! ~
referred. May God give him counp
severe in his high and holy pufpoee, Z
the Ruler of Rulers turn the heafu
presidents and people towards e
SC generous and purpose 30 u1
like
SHORE WOULD.