New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-22
BISHOP POTTER AN EXAMPLE.
LETTER TO MAYOR VAN WICK RE-
FERRED TO AT THE STATE CON
FERENCE OF RELIGION.

The New-York State Conference OF Religion met
yesterday in the Assembly Hall OF the United
Charities Building Twenty-second-st. and Fourth
ave. The Rev. Samuel T. Carter presided Papers
were read by the Rev. DR.. W c Gannett ana
Professor Walter Rauschenbusch. both OF Roches-
ter. on the subject Religion The Life OF GOD IN
the Soul of Men.
The Rev Dr. Heber Newton read a paper on
possibilities of Common Worship" in which he
said:
The measure Of the possibility. Of common wor.
ship is the measure Of the possioty OF 1 men
Worship as We first and it, common with one
family one tribe one sian gp 1ng had common
worship because they had a common NE Cnlsy Is
the frsa gf Rssion IS S ling is rehd
Mberalizing factors in Cnristeho0i'' arc manning
for it.
The Rev. DR. Henry Berkowttz, rabbi OF Phiia-
delpbia in speaking on the subject made an I'M
passioned and eloquent appeal FOR unity IN spirit
but warned against uniformity / must worship
as Jew" he said. you as Christians. 6ohoase
kills individuality. Genius and the world cannot
IN without the genius of Jew and Gentle alike.
I-nouaI6ed freedom Of conscience is the chief
condition for Christian unity
Other speakers at the forenoon session were
Swami Anakarandha and President Gates Oh iowa
University.
At the afternoon session Professor Nathanlel
Schmidt read paper on the political ideals OF the
Old Testament and Professor Batten on those OF
the New Testament. The Rev. Thomas K sheer
occupied the chair.
Professor Batten held that the New Testament
had no political ideal It tended 10 prove that the
State was something entirely part from the
Church An illustration OF the theory was pre-
scented in the case Of Bishop Potter The speaker
drew the attention of the temporal authorities 10
existing wrongs. but left 1t 10 the authorities to
remedy them. The Kingdom Of Heaven was some
thing entirely distinct from the State. something
it. but Which had no connection with it. Christ
recognized every form OF temporal authority; The
dom Of Heaven; if that had only been begun in
MS city there Toud h pc Deen no e ha 16r b a
The Reg Percy GEant Of NEToEk and PFsa
then spoke on The Demands Of a Nation Con-
Ernest H. Crosby took the place of Jacob Gould
schurman. president of Cornell University, and
spoke on Dangerous Glasses in a Republic" at
AL Souls Church, Fourth-ave. and Twenteth-st..
last night. He said:
# you want to find the dangerous classes in this
city do not go into the East Side among the
ignorant. the criminal and the poor; do go into
them o o or any other her Ken m to md
Tammany Hall or TO the Chief of Police. But if
night as the members OF the Chamber of Com
merce filed in TO sit down to the annual dinner OF
Of this city when the SOUND Money ne '-i paraders
passed by, you would have found them guilelessly
most dangerous classes in this city and in this Re
! It is the desire of people to get something for
H tSf, Men go into Wall Street to get some
/ th!ng tor nothing. There is to be found the sore
/ spot OF the Nation Tammany Hall seems worse
nQt II IS only an indication of the thing in
! " al Street. Without Wall Street there could not
/ have been any Tammany Hall
The Rev, Dr. Josiah Strong presided. He intro
/ ouced DR.. Fred Howard Wines Of the Census
/ ONCE Washington. to read the first paper on
! DANGEROUS Glasses in Republic" DR. Wines said
i1sl me DANGEROUS classes Were not the criminals
me ignorant nor the vicious classes but those who
were intelligent and powerful and used thefr
Meata ana power for the purpose of exploiting the