The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-25
LAURIUM
BISHOP C. MOTT WILLIAMS
CAPTURED HONORS AT UPSALA
Episcopal Prelate, Of Marquette, Whose
Jurisdiction is the Upper Peninsula,
Completely overshadowed English
Members Of Commission at Recent
Church Conference.

IL was Rt. Rev. G.. Mott Williams
of Marquette. whose jurisdiction is the
mining region of the upper peninsu-
la. who carried Off the honors at the
recent conference in Upsala, Sweden,
between representatives, of the estab-
lished churches OF England and Swe-
den. Bishop Williams was New
York state farmer boy in his younger
days, who went To Cornell University
and later to Hobart college. After
serving i'm Detroit and Milwaukee, he
was sent to northern Michigan as a
missionary. So well did he do among
the miners that he was later made
bishop of a jurisdiction set off and
called Marquette.
Last year the Archbishop Of Cam
tcrbury named a commission TO go
TO Upsala, in response to an invi-
tation from the archbishop of Up
sala, and talk over better relations
between the two communions. APP
preciatng how great is the regard
of Swedes and Germans for higher
learning, the English archbishop Sc
lected the bishop of Salisbury to
head the English part of the COM
mission that was to go to the great
town of Sweden. The
bishop of Salisbury thought it would
be well, seeing there are so many
Swcdes in America If an American
were a member of the commission.
He had heard that Bishop Williams
knew something about Swedes and
so. assuring himself and the English
that the American was to
hold minor place, he dispatched the
invitation to Marquette.
The commission has just concluded
It's sittings in Upsala where its de-
Swedish and German papers. The in
1uence of the Germans was So great
that, acting through their foreign Of
ice, they induced the Swedish bishops
10 have nothing to do with the meet
ng, save only two of them German
did not want English church
to get any more advantage
han it could help.
The personal triumph of the AM
'rican bishop was according to all |
accounts, complete, says the Boston |
Transcript. And II was won on merit. |
Very early in the deliberations the
English members of the commission
we're noored by the technical points
'elating to Swedish religious history |
rhe only one left was the American, |
md he seems to have been more than |
lble 20 hold his own
Speaking the Swedish language per-
ectly, he soon had the Swedish MEM
,ers Of the commission at attention
'ver his wonderful and intimate
of their affairs. IT seems
le had spent many months searching
swedish archives and going over
hings that the Swedcs themselves
lad not secured. introduced and hon
red by the king and the crown prince,
he American bishop was able to tell
o them stories Of the thirty years
var, of the reformation which they
lad never heard. So marked was his
Iluilpn, IL is Sdlu, lndt ne pccdn'
Iuite the leading figure OF the com
mission, overshadowing easily the Eng
ish commissioners. In scholastic mat
ers. at one OF the most ancient seats
# learning, the American easily car
i"d away high credit for scholarship.
This conference over Swedish orders
las practical bearing for America.
here are here from 100000 to 2,OOO,-
90 Swcdes. While in Sweden prac-
ically all belong to the state church.
oming to America many fall away.
artly from changed conditions but
artly from requirements here. These
include evangelical con-
crsion and prohibition OF Masonry