Evening star., 1907-08-18

| HeltneT STRENUOUS HOE SAISSSiSSAS
| IA popular with the masses, but
Il there are some exceptions to this
| rule, and the most notable OF
| them is the Rt Rev. Arthur Foley Win
nington Ingram, Bishop of London. He is
| by long odds the most popular and the
Understanding bishop in England. AS
will be generally known in America before
this is printed, he is crossing the Atlantic
shortly and will attend the general Epis-
| copal convention, which opens at Rich
! mond, Va, October 2. He has the most
| picturesque personality of any of the digni-
taries of the established church. and in
| view Of his approaching visit some account
| of him may be of interest to American
readers
| The popular notion of bishop is a man
| with @ pompous manner, portly frame
and spindle-shanked legs clad in CATERS
| Barring the CATERS, DR.. Ingram does not
| look a bit like this type which irreverent
English cartoonists have made SO familiar
He is slight. spare and lean. He is always
on the move, which keeps him trained down
fine like an athlete. He is too rushed to
bother about dignity. For the same rea-
son he is Indifferent to his personal appear
ance. His hat always looks though it
would extinguish him. His collars don't
fit. Enthusiastic maiden ladies describe
his face as that of a medieval saint. If
the typical face for a medieval saint is
thin and brown and expresses mingled
keenness, kindness and humor, then the
bishop has one. In all probability he has
never thought about it himself.
He has the well-merited reputation of
| keeping buster than any other man in Lon
| don. Certainly no cabinet minister or
| member of parliament works so hard for
his country as DR.. Ingram does for his
church. But hard work never troubled
him. He is used to it, He is one of the
few men who owe their positions on the
Episcopal bench entirely to hard work
He worked hard at Oxford, taking both an
excellent degree in the schools and on the
river, for he a fine oarsman. He
| worked hard as a clergyman in the west of
England, where he showed that he was a
man to be -eckoned with. He worked
harder still when, at the age of thirty he
became the head of oxford House, one of
| the pioneer college settlements in the East
| End-the slum end-of London.
| 1t was there he developed his organizing
| capacity. 1t was there he learned how to
| use men to up!ift their less fortunate fell
| iow-creatures 1t was he who induced many
| settlement work." so that they each un-
| dersook, in part, at least. to support a
| club. Personal, not vicarious, work was his
| method of getting hold of people in the
| East End, and they are a particularly diff
| ficult lot to get hold of.
| The "foot-and-door trick" as he called it.
| was one that he then learned to perform
| with considerable success, and which, he once
declared every bo
| stands not only his own business but what
| is more important, his Masters business.
| must learn to practice" 1t is an example
| of getting an inch in order to take an ell
| When the clergyman calls, as DIR. Ingram
| once explained, after some time a little
| girl opens the door, and you hear a voice
| from the washtub at the back ask: Who
| Is that, Sally? Sally shouts back, Please.
| mother, it's religion "a phrase which the
| bishop believes needs all mans presence
| of mind to combat. With the door opened