The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-05
SAYS s[hsUA[I7i
IS LEADIRG VICE
Latin Americans Don't Need
Divorce Laws. Declares
Bishop Kinsolving
MISSIONARY DELIVERS
ADDRESS IN CITY
This Country. He Asserts. is
Setting Brazilians Bad Ex-
ample ln~Drunkenness-
keIates Experiences

There are no divorce laws in Latin
American countries, because there Is
no occasion for them under existing
conditions. according to the Rt Rev.
LSoAan L. kinsolving. Episcopal Bish-
OPP OF Southern Brazil. Few OF the
people, he says, have any regard for
marital laws. and believe II their priv
ilege to raise as many families a. they
please. Sensuality is their leading
vice. and against 1t he and his CO.
workers are battling with all tho force
at their command.
Drunkenness, the national vice OF
this country, as tho Bishop declares.
is not a prominent vice among tho
Latin Americana. In fact, many a
bad example Is set them by official
representatives OF Uncle Sam and 9TH
ers who frequently land at South AM
erica ports with aggravated cases OF
delirium tremens.
Gives His Experience.
These are some of the statements
made by Bishop Kinsolving Sunday.
when he told Episcopal congregations
In Richmond some Of his impressions
gathered on the Southern American
continent during the twenty-one years
he has labored there as missionary.
When he established a certain post
in the Rio de Janeiro country nine
teen years ago he told the congrega-
ton at Monumental Episcopal church,
Sunday morning. a priest was the only
person there attempting to preach the
gospel. and he was handicapped by
the fact that he had stolen the wife
of a member of his flock and was liv-
ing with her A year later. the priest
had disappeared. after the Protestant
church had begun to get a foothold
Nj t,r4N hnn Ex,
ton rather than the rule.
Many Of the people in their sensu-
aIity. he Says. have come to believe
that Christ himself did not live n mo-
rally pure life.
Cant Accept Doctrines.
Personally. he wished Gods blessing
on the Catholic church in South Am
erica, although IL was impossible for
him to accept its doctrines. believing
that to do 30 would he to .'stnltify
his intellect. incaroerate HIS conscience
and destroy his manhood"
The need for missionaries i'll Brazil
IL particularly urgent, he sayS and II
in essential that they be above the
ordinary type Of minister in order TO
I'll their role az leader Of the foreign
people among whom they are to work,
Just as ST Paul, the intellectual attn
iete of ancient.. went forth 10 preach
of alien lands. leaving Peter and
James and other disciples behind him
10 labor at home.
AZ present, there are twenty ne
clergy Of the Episcopal faith working
the Brazilian field and Of this num-
her only four are Americans, the re-
rnainaer being Rrazilians converted to
tho faith. In the whole continent OF
south America there are only three
bishops
Brazil alone as the bishop explain
Ell, ia 40 large ~ the United States
uius twice the are Of Texas and the
Jurisdiction of his diocese extends
over many miles of territory. In
one instance he sayS. the route ira
versed by n package or Bibles sent up
toward the head 81 the Amazon WAS
moro than 5000 miles.
Blessed by Bishop Whfttfe.
Bishop kinsnting told how he and
kRey James w Morris. rector Of Monu-
1Yneutal went out 10 Brazil together
#nearty a quarter of n century ago Mt
III tiYne " hen his church looked with