Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-03
THE FUTURE CHURCH
The Bishop of London Outlines
 Its Characteristics.
IS AGAINST NEW THEOLOGY"

Visiting PreIate at TrienniaI Episcopal Convention In Richmond Makes Plea For Gospel of Free Salvation. i Bishops and Deputies Elect Officers. l Richmond, Va, Oct 8. With the Church of the Holy Trinity, which was formally consecrated with imposing ceremonies, crowded to its very doors and in the presence of one of the greatest gatherings of churchmen this country has ever seen the forty-fifth i triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States was launched under bright auspices. The Right Rev. Daniel s. Futile, bish- op of Missouri and the senior bishop of the American church, presided, and Right Rev. and Right Hon. A. r. Win I nington-Ingram, bishop of London, de livered the sermon.
 | Opening the convention was preceded by an imposing parade of bishops from every state in the Union and from many mission fields, including several representatives of the English church, from which church the church in America sprang.
 Many Bishops Take Part. Following the recitation of the Lords Prayer extracts were read from the Scriptures, Bishop Potter of New York and Bishop Satterlee of Wash | In rtp nra1.inrcIxy Incin mated for this service. Bishop Gibson of Virginia announced that the sacra- ment of the holy communion would be administered at the close of the exer- cises only the bishops and the regu- larly appointed delegates partaking thereof.
 The bishop of London then delivered the sermon of the occasion. First, un- doubtedly the future can only belong to church which believes and preach es the forthreaching, energizing and active love of God" said the bishop. God forbid that I should deny the difficulties which surround belief in the love of God or ignore the stern side of the New Testament, but no church will have the world and eSpe cially those thousand millions who have not yet had chance of making up their minds as to the truth of Christianity except church that be- lieves and proclaims and lives out the love of God to every child that he has made. .----.---
 And with the gospel of the love of God must go what we call in England the message of free salvation. It may be that in the past we may have allowed a legalizing spirit to creep over the church, but today high church and low church vie in England to preach gospel of a free salvation that the eternal son of God came into this world and gave himself for his brothers; that the Christian religion, does not consist in a~belief in good Il fnhn named Jesus Christ dying on the cross, but consists in a belief in the sacrifice of God himself
 Against "the New Theology"
 'I have no means of knowing the trend of religious thought in the Unit ed States, but from my experience of east, north and west London the flu ture lies with no church which sinks to what is called the new theology.
 God forbid we should say a word against any individual man who be- lieves as much as he can of the Chris tian creed, but what we must beware of on both sides of the Atlantic is los ing the power of our message by try ing to make it easier to be believed.
 "To run a church as a man runs successful business, to depend upon cleverness and management rather than the grace of God. to neglect pray CT and intercession in favor of influ- ence with the press, to lower the teach ing of the church or its moral standard in order to suit a self indulgent age, is to spell ruin and failure and shame for the most orthodox church in the world. In a voice which still rings down the >centuries Jesus Christ him. self proclaimed, My kingdom is not of this world.'"
 Officers Reelected.
 In the house of bishops all of the old officers were reelected, as follows: Presiding bishop, Daniel s. Futile of Missouri; chairman of the house, Will liam Lawrence of Massachusetts; sec retary. Samuel Hart of Middletown, Conn.,; assistant secretaries, c. F. Mel son of New York and T. J. Packard of Rockville, Md.
 The house of deputies also reelected the old officers: President. Randolph H. McKim of Washington; secretary. Henry Anstice of New York; assistant secretaries, Henry W. Worthington Of Cleveland. Carroll H. Davis of St Louis, William c. Prout of Herkimer, N. Y., and James G. Glass of Annis- ton. Ala. William F. Skiddy of New York was elected treasurer of the con- vention.