New-York tribune., 1907-10-14
LORD BISHOP HOPEFUL.
Tells Yale hen Unity of Religion
VII Come an a Generation.

New Haven, Oct Is (speciaD.-Lord Bishop Win
ninston-Ingram OF London spoke in the WOOlsey
Hall auditorium to-day. his audience numbering
25CO. including mere than thousand Yale under
graduates. His address was alA Apst a missionary
address to the students TO their vgor and edu-
cation for the service Of their fellow men. Touch
ing on unity of religion. ne said it would come in
a generation. He spoke entirely without notes. ex-
hc crtns his hearers. through the beliefs OF OrthO
doXy, to Danish the skepticism which pervades the
untversi les Of England well America Bishop
Ingram said. in part:
l said that could not cross the ocean without
see.ns me Cam6Tt-Se and Oxford OF America
speak at both oxford and Cambridge, and they
a-.o" me 70 talk with the utmost franInes5. So,
When came 10 America, to bring a meSsase nom
the mother Church 10 her daughter IN America
st tss.t llat must also Orng one hOm the older 70
Of Oxford and Cambridge 10 tie university men OF
i'I7d- 49, W,I'Ii1 ~ ~ icy SIeAty i5iLIe anu % hoh9r
further nan in q university Boys &C me up 10 the
formed They are accustomed to say their prayers
4hd 70 the forms of worship OF the Church to which
fnely belong they md their ideas thrown into con.
5TSlPn, m Ior they NEE agnostics and disheevers OF
boys will come to fling to the winds their teachings
coming up in the universities with chiidlike minds
WI VINO go go bacK with heir convictions solid There IS
a word taken from the Holy Spirit may so decide
why are We alive to-day: @ e a We Sas IN the sun
sni9e i .,l simply because the Supreme Being. God;
any other reason why we are alive than that the
Eternal God said ''let there be light
And from the same the gift of health.
of sleep, the gift of another life, gift of happy
sisters. perhaps sOre day the perfect gift OF a
woman love. Is the conviction of St James that
OF yours, that you look up TO your Father and
II tie loves you better than you know?
Our Father meant to enjoy life that way. But,
you say. ] used 20 believe that. but God has got
very tar away from to-day But how could the
world just have happened it is? How could a
bundle of letters have been thrown together and
produced Shakespeare? There must be a mind be-
hind the universe. And if there is a mind there
must be a conscience. and who put II there? How
could God have placed in the unfailing breast OF
every man an eternal witness, unless He were
good God.
But. you say, that's not my difficulty You say.
how can there be those piteOus deathbeds? say.
if God had not come into this world and dropped
His hands in anguish, how could believe in the
october sunshine and the good things Of religion?
You viii md the Christian religion matter for
the imagination rather than for The reason simply
because you cannot take in so great thing And
II God has done so much for mankind. has He
stopped at the grave?
To-day Of different religions are separated.
but within a generation shall pray ourselves
back into unity We have to-day unity OF
spirit well the unity OF races we shall have
some day. There ought TO be more fellowship be-
tween the elders and the young men OF the univer-
sity; between the students and the tutors and in
structors- Have You ever had man point out TO
YOU the millions % the poor. and say 10 you, How
there be equality
We have these things trust. TO keep for others.