Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-07-24
A PAN-ANGLICAN.


week ago. l have it irst-haEd from the
hero of the episode himself-a certain
colonial bishop who is now over here in
connection with the Pan-Anglican CON
gress 1t will be sufficient to refer
to him as the Bishop of "Roberstiand.
You win not find Robertsland anywhere
in the atlas of the world Nevertheless,
the place is there. though the name is
imaginary. 1t is a coming place, too
or rather coming district: for it COM
prises a very large area. Not lung ago
the total population was under 10000
souls. Now it amounts to 100000. Tie
reason is not far to seek. Gold, silver,
copper and various other metals have
been discovered in Robertsland. and adj
ventures from all parts of the world
have for the past few years been flock
ing thither in search OF fortune. Decent
men there are among these fortune hunt
| ers, but they only form sprlnkiDg.
| The large majority are adventures, IN
the less complimentary sense Of the
| word-desperadoes. thieves, scallywags
and ruftians of every description.
1t is upon this unpromising material
| that the bishop has to work. And, as he
has told me himself, however little the
shepherd has succeeded in opening the
| eyes of his flock to the truths of religion,
there can be no question but that the
| flock has opened the eyes of its shep-
! herd very widely indeed to the facts of
life. Briefly, if he hasn't taught much,
he has learned a great deal-not, it is
true, always very agreeable or edifying
knowledge, but still knowledge ealculat-
ed to stand a man in good stead in deal
ing with the many knaves and rascals
with whom this wicked world abounds.
iya hyro aal oh tobf
have imposed upon him. Now the cut
est and oldest hand in all the Roberts
land mining camps would have his work
cut out to hoodwink, my friend the
bishop. Yet it must not be imagined
that he has become hard, cynical or
worldly, His religious earnestness is
unabated. his love for mis- fellow men
unimpaired. His once ideal enthusiasm
has become tempered by practical com
mon sense. but that is all. His zeal in
trying to convert men, no longer the zeal
of pious ignorance, is the zeal that is
according to knowledge" the know
edge of the. world, knowledge of life,
knowledge of human nature as it really
is. / myself liken the bishop of five
years ago 10 an eager, ignorant novice
fisherman, setting out to catch trout, of
which he knows little, with all sorts of
fancy flies, about which he knows less.
/ liken the bishop of today with the
same uSHeTIudll dILSE S6N6Tdl SedS1IlS
of disillusioning experience. He knows
his trout now-knows all their little
ways and wiles and wickedness, knows
that they are by no means so easily
caught as he had supposed. He has
long thrown away all his fancy flies and
other patent eontrivances and come
down 10 a humdrum March Brown or
er depresses him. A good day no longer
puffs him up. He takes the days and
the fish and the luck just as they come
He is thankful for small mercies, and
doesn't grumble at no mercies. In him
patience has had her perfect work As
it is with the fisher of fish, so also with
the fisher of men.
Now, one Of the objects which our
bishop had in view when he came over
to London to participate in the Pan
Anglican congress was the raising of a
fund to enable him to build decent
cathedral for his diocese. AT the pres
ent time the edifice which serves that
purpose is little better than a shanty,
constructed of logs. What the bishop
wanted, and is now in fair way to see
realized, was an adequately eommodi0us
building of brick and stone. His de-
! signs were not ambitious. He did not
aim at anything elaborate or ornate--just
plain, decent structure, capable of
seating 600 or 700 persons and estimated
to cost about $4,000. Toward that
amount $4,000 had already been sub
scribed on the spot. The remaining
$4,000 the bishop hoped to raise in Eng
land. 1t was not a large sum in itself
More than one of the Weather parishes
in London would make light of it. But.
with so many other funds competing, the
bishop knew that the money would take
some raising, and that he should have
to put his best foot foremost TO get ii
together. However, he managed 10 in
duce various incumbents of West End
churches to place their pulpits at his
disposal This was the first step. His
own eloquence and persuasiveness must
do the rest.
His opening sermon, preached at st.
Agatha's, Belgravia, proved decided
success. The ffertory exceeded 400
His second sermon, delivered at Holy
Trinity, Westminster, produced f125
odd. These were handsome sums. and
some of the newspapers Commented
upon the results of the bishops elo-
quenee. But it was to his third an
peal from the pulpit that he looked for
ward as likely TO bring him the largest
return; for that appeal was TO be made
at st. Augustine's, Mayfair, a church
frequented, as everybody knows, by the
wealthiest congregation in London. And
his expectations We're not disappointed.
The offertory, on being counted. was
found to contain several bank notes. aud
me total worked out at just over 1000.
Nor was this all. There was an added
ssurprise--a very pleasant surprise. too
IN store for the bishop.
When he emerged from the church.
carrying in his hand, as he always did. |
ms servleeable. well-worn leather hag.
ne was aecosted by a stranger who stood |
waiting for him outside the vestry door. |
Inc latter was a middle-aged man. with
gray side whiskers, of gentlemanly APP |
pearance. very well dressed in that quiet. |
SOBER style which carries with if the |
stamp of solid material prosperity. COM |
oined with a serious mind on religious !
matters; You know the sort of cut ! 1
mean. Though difficult 10 describe. there |
rs no mistaking it. When Won come
across such man you size him IN at /
once as an evangelical banker, a Quaker |
merchant or something in that line
something in all respects eminently sound /
and solid, no less in religious views than
IN financial stability; the kind of man. /
IN tact, who Is equally well qualified 10 4
take the chair at a committee of the