Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-08
more and more, it will indeed be well.

more and more, it will indeed be well.
Committees on credentials nomina>
| tons and the selection of the next
meeting place We're appointed.
Tho Church at Work Socially" was
the subject of a long but interesting
and valuable address by Clinton Rog-
ers Woodruff of Philadelphia, which
was followed by discussion of the
| suggestions made.
| Mr.. Woodruff declared that ''it has
become the style in many quarters to
| aSSaii the church: to declare that Sile
| hes lost her grip on the lives of men
and her supremacy among moral ana
| spiritual forces; also that she is de-
clared to be decadent; to be subser-
| Went; to be Indifferent TO the call OF
the problems of the present day
If the church is not to endorse spe-
| cific plans of social regeneration or to
commit herself to benevolent poanacea,
| what is her function" asked Mr.
| Woodruff. Fundamentally it is the
cultivation Of the right attitude toward
social and political and civic questions.
| On the one hand charity and beneVol-
| ence; OF. the other hand a rigid adj
herence to principle and duty, both re-
| ligiops and secular. In short the es-
| Enlistment of love and justice in all
| the relations of all men,"
| Mr.. Woodruff described what the
| Episcopal church is doing to help solve
social problems. through city missions,
| the most Important Of which are in
| New York, Philadelphia and Chicago;
| through the Christian Social Union,
which is the American sister of the
English Christian Social Union, OF
which Bishop Cove is the president;
and through the diocesan committees,
| of which there now are 16. To illustrate
what these commissions are doing and
planning to do. he described the report
of the Social Welfare Commission.
AS illustrating the activity Of Epis
copal churchmen, Mr.. Woodruff cited
| the results of an investigation made
| by the American Institute of Social
| Service Il few years ago. 1t gathered
statistics concerning l0l2 welfare work
ers, 40l charity, 339 settlement and 272
social reform workers.
| He concluded with an appeal to the
church clubs to do more social work,
! that is, more work along social well
| fare lines. I'VE are doing much, it is
| true, but as yet We are barely scratch
| ing the surface of our possibilities
| After the routine organization bust
ness at the opening OF the afternoon
session, Charles F. Chase of the Church
| Club of the Diocese Of Connecticut
read his annual report as secretary and
treasurer of the conference.
IN beginning his report, Secretary
Chase referred to a few organizations
which have been added to the inactive
list of the conference. AT the present
time there are IS organizations ON the
active list. The report showed that
the 2S clubs in the conference had an
aggregate membership of 5607 which is
slight gain over the last annual We
port.
The report recommended that the
secretaries of the various clubs ex-
change notices and publications with
all other clubs, saying that there was
no better way of keeping the clubs in
| touch with each other.
Mr.. Chase then presented his report
as treasurer of the conference. showing
| the finances to be in a satisfactory con-
| dition.
Prof Kenneth c. NJ Stills of Bowdoin
| College said:
| Social Service is too often held out
| as the only religion which the college
| man needs" said PROFESSOR Kenneth
| G. NJ. Stills of Bowdoin College in his
| address on What Our Church Can Do
| For the College. THE second great
! commandment is commonly placed
I,of -
American colleges high regard is given
to the religious side of life. There are
| dignifed services and excellent
preachers. But the lessons of moral
| ity ard religion that are taught in the
| college and Of course necessarily
| taught in general terms need to be
| suppl, mented by the common worship
| of the church at large. And the
| Episcopal Church has d peculiar mis-
sio.i because more thar the Protes-
| tant churches, it emphasizes the cor
| porate nature of the church and
| states its faith in definite terms
| Through it's form of worship and the
Book of Common Prayer it holds its
members who are in college better
perhaps than do the other churches:
| but it has not vet solved the problem
| of its relation with the college and
| schools. This is National and not a
diocesan or parOchial mission The
church needs TO place strong men in
| college towns; it needs to emphasize
| the gift of preaching; it needs to real
ize the necessity of providing church
| home fer it's children in every aca-
| demic community. ABOVE all, it needs
| to study the religious situation in the
various colleges and universities. But
| it ought not to wage q ''campaign;"
it ought simply to live, providing a
home for its own and drawing to it's
fold tnose who are homeless elsewhere
Through its forms and ceremonies and
| the maturity and orderliness of its
| service. it can extend a wholesome
| influence: and it should be glad when
! portions of it's service are borrowed by
other churches. The contribution
| which the Book of Common Prayer
makes to the literary and spiritual
life OF the community is not slight
And by the preaching of the gospel in
its simplicity. avoiding the extremes
of too much evangelism on the one
hand and Of abiding to every up-to-