The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-26
LEADERS OF The CHURCH
REV. WILLIAM WILKINSON TELLS
OF ENGLISH PRELATEs.

Last evening the service in Grace
church was read by the rector, the Rev.
w. Ten Brock. The Rev. William VIII
kinson was the preacher. He said there
never was a. time when English speaking
men had need to be united, as they have
now, because the opportunities for these
services alike OF God and men there
were never as great as they now are. 'I
have, as you know, just come from Eng
land, and have met men who stand in
all walks of life, for all which is best,
IN church and in state, and was pleased
to lind everywhere a keen appreciation
of the part the United States of Amer
lea must take in the great progress of
the world. AS churchmen we are inter-
ested In church work. We believe the
world is to be regenerated through the
gospel she Is set to preach, and which
every day she is preaching with more
zeal, and with a wiser and more loving
understanding Of her message and of
her high mission. In no land, at this mo-
ment, is the church at work with a great
er desire to be useful than she is in Eng
land. At no day in all her history has her
leadership been wiser or ADLER, and [, be-
lieve 1t is the common consensus of opin-
ion that it has never been more conse-
Grated to the Lord Christ
1T was my lot to hear the men who
stand In the advance guard Of church
work in Sheffield. 1 was at the meeting
of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gospel, the oldest and l understand the
greatest missionary society Of the church.
The archbishop of York was In the chair.
He is one of the busiest men In England
being one of the two highest dignitaries
in church which has more than 2,40O
clergymen He is man of great refine
ment. No show of any kind marks him.
He is quiet. calm and alert. You see In
all the lines of his face a. reserve power
and in all he does and in all he says
you behold the devotion and the single
purpose Of the man.
THE address was a leadership which in
deed leads. 1t was deeply religious
Then the archbishop introduced the lord
bishop of Ripon, Boyd Carpenter, who is
understood to be one of the queens hon.
ored preachers and who is regarded as
one of the great speakers Of the present
day. He is small OF stature, with g. very
bright eye, and attractive presence. His
voice Is good, and he has a perfect mas
terry of 1t. The bishop had not spoken
two minutes before 1t was evident he
knew exactly what he Intended to say,
and how. The speech was a noble plea
for Christian missions, and an elaborate
statement, though not long one, in expo
sition of the duty of English church men
now in regard to all missionary work AS
l listened l understood the secret OF the
vast advances the church Is making all
over the English-speaking world today.
clearness of statement, earneStneSS OF
spirit, abiding faith and personal conse-
Grafton with an overwhelming enthusi
-asm.
1.-THE archdeacon of Sheffield closed with
a few words fit and good. was also at
the society's annual meeting In the Free
Trade hall, Manchester.
''The bishop Of Manchester was chairman
and made the opening address. The hall
was nearly full of people, although it IS
one of the largest IN the city and the
night was stormy. The great organ made
the hall resound, and the singing for vol
ume and fullness of tone was such as
one hears only In Yorkshire and Ian
cashtre. It is said the warm air In the
largo mills affects the voice In g. way
which nothing else does. The bishop was
for years bishop Of Melbourne, Australia,
before joining there he had great reputa-
ton as a preacher, and administrator.
He did great service in the colonies and
when Manchester had to have a new
bishop it was felt that above all things
he must be a man whose public power
could not for an instant be in dispute.
So Bishop Morehouse was called home to
fill the place. He has more than 500
clergyman under his episcopal care, and
one of the densest populations in all Eng
land, where the church Is making rapid
progress. The bishops speech displayed
all the qualities for which he Is re,
nowned 1t was not so much the speech
of rhetorician as Of q logician, and of u
man who knew how to proceed cumula-
lively from the simple TO the complex.
from the small to the great, and the way
he marshaled the cumulative power OF
the church in mission work was done in
q way to be long remembered by all who
heard. Rev. Canon Gore, looked upon
as ore Of the ablest of the younger men
In the church. was the next speaker