Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-19
CHASE ON NEW CENTURY
Oms ha Man Addresses the Minnesota
Church Club at Minneapolis
Concernins Opportunities.


MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 1s.-The Church
club Of the diocese of Minnesota held its
annual dinner at the Hotel Nicollet this
evening. preceded by reception. Over
$50 guests sat down to the banquet. which
was very handsomely served. Prominent
lsymen and clergymen from various points
In Minnesota were present. There were
three speakers: Mr.. Frederick Cook Moor
house OF Milwaukee. editor of the Living
Church. who took as his subject, THE
Church Press" Rev. A. MEG. Beede of
Rolla, N. D., whose subject was "Aborig-
inal Originals and Mr.. Clement Chase
of Omaha, whose address was entitled,
"On the Threshold OF the Century"
Mr.. Chase first called attention to some
curious facts connected with the opening
years of each century since the fifteenth,
showing that we are thus prepared to find,
on the threshold of the twentieth century,
another subtle shifting of the threads that
are ever weaving In the loom OF life, and
then pointed out the results that are al
ready accruing to the world from the OPEN
ing drama of this century-the Russo
Japanese war. making for universal peace.
settling definitely vexed naval problems,
adjusting boundary lines, advancing Russia
fifty years on the pathway toward a con-
stitution, giving Asia to the Asiatics
knighting japan as overload of the orient
and shifting to the Pacific ocean the i'm
portance that attached in ancient times to
the Mediterranean and in later days to the
Atlantic He then said:
1t is small wonder that. the citizen of this
new century finds 1t difficult to get his
bearings. The gospel of SUCCESS says
leaoing Journal has been preached so
persisten!ly and success has been SO COM
pletely identined with wealth in the public
mind that our point of view as nation
has become hopelessly distorted" Charles
-. Hughes, the lawyer who has been con-
Quoting the life insurance Investigations,
speaks on this subject with the apprecia-
ton OF experience. He demands a revival
of the army of honor. He says we want
and amassed riches and more about the
man who lived unsulied. though he died
poor. We want baptism of self-respect
SO we can stand upright in the presence of
the almighty dollars. as did Benjamin
Franklin. whose bicentenniai we cele-
brated yesterday.
Here opens a vital opportunity for the
church 1t must not rest content to be a
temporal power in matters spirtual: il
msst again isn become spiritual power in
condemn the offense committed; 1t must
discover the danger and cry anathema be-
fore Its children may be tempted A bold
stand will rally the support that is always
flying to the banner on the outpost Every
sermon preached to business men In the
dealing with this Unsuitable ambition 10
amass wealth. every resolution introduced
in our church conventions that points out
specific evils in the body polite and de-
mands remedy, must meet the instant
approval OF the layman who believes that
his church has a message on earth not only
to man as human being and an integer
OF salvation, but to man as a citizen and a
taxpayer. .- -erft 49,. tIT ~ =
Herein we take issue with the bisbop of
Albany in his recent declaration that II is
not the duty of the clergy and latty as
sembled in diocesan conventions 10 deal by
resolution with either the morals or the
manners OF the time. / am sorry Blshop
Doane said that, and am not quite willing
TO believe that he meant IL. For II il be not
the duty of the church to have a mind and
to speak its mind on secular subjects, to
what, pray, shall II devote its energies ?
Surely discussion in this direction were
more profitable than discussion OF the orna-
ments rubric with all the pretty details as
to vestments and altar lights and the use
of incense that agitate the Anglican com
munity. A positive stand on the questions
of the day; a position at least not behind
that of our monthly magazines now doing
so much to call attention to glazing evils
will not be without its influence upon both
the lukewarm member of our community
and the stranger by whom the Episcopal
church Is too often considered to be con-
SENTATIVE self-centered and sometimes
coldly careless OF the swinging of the grea t
pendulum that marks the heartbeats OF the
con, n,onwealth