The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-10-16
BISHOP TUrTLE.
Bis Able Discourse IN This City Last Sunday
Deeply Moved his Hearers.

ms hDie DlSc0urSe N IhiS lily LaN sunday
Deeply Moved his Hearers.
By II. G. Turner.
Leaning upon the pulpit in the
Episcopal church in this city,
Bishop Tuttle, with tears In his
eyes, yet hale and hearty at this
time, told an appreciative audience
yesterday that OF the two hundred
and Atty bishops present at the
Worldwide conference recently
held in London "that your hum BILE
servant was the oldest bishop of
that great body Of hoary heads"
The bishop did not mean that he
was oldest in years, "but strangely
enough the Missouri bishop was
the oldest in poiut of service of
that great International oody."l
The bishop would not have his
hearers coustrue these remarks
that this would perhaps be the last
time that he would visit the church,
es in Missouri diocese, but that it
meant he was fast closing his days
of usefulness and that ere long
"morning with it's hopes and noon
tide with its labors" would only
be pensive memories of bygone
days.
The bishop said that today if
he were not mistaken that Parlia-
ment would convene in London to
consider the advisibility of teach
ing Christianity in the public
chools in Great Britain. and that
the plan proposed he feared would
not be as successful as the plan
now in vogue in the United States
which separates not only the
church and the state, but the
churches and the schools. The
Bishop said Great Britain was not
satisfied to leave the Bible out of
the schools and in his presence
some of the bishops of this con-
ference charged that America was
Saising up generation OF atheists
by leaving Christian teaching ou,
Of the public schools. Bishop
Tuttle said he could not let this
false charge 60 unchallengeds and
that he rose and made a speech in
which he told the Great Britain
conference that notwithstanding
the Bible was not taught in the
American schools, the Christian
influence was there because q
large majority of the teachers were
of the Christian faith. He said
furthermore that the American
plan of leaving the teaching OF
Christianity to the home and tho
church, where it should be taught,
worked admirably, and he believed
If Great Britain at its meeting this
week decided to have each de-
nomination come into their schools
one day in each week and for an
hour teach their respective Chris
tian faiths. it would destroy the
harmony Of the schools and work
confusion instead of the good ef-
fects great many in Great Britian
and America expect to come from
teaching the Word OF God In the
public schools.
The Bishop's remarks in Mont
gomery on this subject which has
been widely discussed were 60 pro-
found and comprehensive that II
had : great tendency to convince
those who have been contendine
for the Bible In our schools in
Missouri, that they had better
leave we'll enough alone ana . ma
|jority Of the audience seemed to be
in hearty ACCORD with the Bishop.
that the place to teach the Bible
and respective creeds Of the peo-
pie Va around the freside and in
tho churches built for that pur-
pose.
| Bishop Tuttle also told his oon-
| grcgation III Ct while Gieat Britain
had great respect and admiration
tor ssher American oousins" ye,
II VA very evident 70 him that
the East Wa very much alarmed
and vsFy Jealous because of The