New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-08
FOR CHURCH MEMORIAL.
BISHOP GREER'S IDEA.
Suggests Raising of Fund to M@k
TercentGndry.

A movement to promote a great missionary
thank offering concentrating the 3Ooth anniver-
sary of the establishment Of the English Christian
Church I'm America was launched at the annual
dinner OF the Church Club at Delmonico's last
night Bishop Greer made the address in which
the idea formally presented TO the club. and
through II to the clergy and laity OF the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church.
Bishop Greer's announcement was not entirely
unexpected. as the matter has been unofficially
talked Of before but IT the first public pres
entation OF the plan. 1t IS the intention to have
the offering completed by the annual convention
OF the Church clubs in September. IN Richmond.
Va.
The dinner, which was held in the Red Room OF
Delmonicos was attended by about one hundred
OF the most prominent clergymen and laymen Of
the Episcopal Church in the city and Vicinity. At
the guests table George MacC'ulOch Miller.
the Rev. DIR. George Christian. Frederick Cook
Morehouse. the Rev. William ]. Manning. Dean
Van Amrlnge of Columbia, George F. ZabrsHie and
the Rev. W. r. Query
Others present were William J. Schiefrelin George
F. Crane. James ]. Goodwin and Professor Burr.
Bishop Potter sent his regrets.
The list of speakers included. beside Bishop
Greer. the Rev. William T. Manning. the Rev. F.
w Kinsman and Frederick Cook Morehouse,
editor Of THE Living Church
The president OF the club Dean Van Amringe.
spoke of the object of the club and its immediate
duty in the mems thank Offering of 1907, intro
ducing Bishop Greer to speak on that topic Bishop
Greer said. in part
When tho general convention shall meet this fall
In Richmond. Va, three hundred years VIII have
passed since the first communion was celebrated
In Jamestown in 1901 thirteen years before the Pill
grims landed in New England and In c9mnlem9rai mora
ton OF that event the men or the Church are ASKED
unite in making grand missionary Offering or
fund for in furtherance of the missionary work
of the Church, though II any man wishes MS glft 10
be applied to any particular work he is at liberty
TO have IL applied
This Is going to be eventful movement in the
history of the American Church. 1t may become
the turning point in it's history. Not because IL Will
at least as the men are concerned, although II may
be that nor because it Will increase the Churcns
mission fund although 1t will do that; but these
are not the chief ends OF it, There others deeper
and far more important in bearing.
There IS. first of all, what call the unity value
Church into unity of action and purpose, lest the
cleavage lines of the social structure become cut
with party note or church note. not with par
tisau action or suggestion. but that all the OF
the Church clergy and laty alike, simply church
men. stand together In one unbroken line, shout
der TO shoulder, uniting in offering Of thankful
ness TO God for what the Church has done to
establish on this American Continent the Church
Further it is intended to be a great religious
movement 10 deepen the religious faith and life Of
should be2 There is not enough of the spirit OF
sacrifice in religious He; 1t doesn't enough;
enough Investment in IT, And SO an Offering Of
money IS the only in this commercial age
when money is the blood flowing through all the
vast commercial organization in which We may
make sacridcial offering-an offering which costs.
TO extent.
II is not for the sake OF the money which the
money invested. but the investment OF the man.
II Is going to need something more than the
need deeper than statutory enactment to re-
strict the tendency to certain laNuess in social
the interesting Of the men in higher plane Of
religious life that there is hope for the future