Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-26

most informal way this congress to
Washington and to express the hope
that your deliberations may result in
good for your church and in good for
the country.
1.-THE head of your executive commit
tee, Judge Lurton. is an old fellow-cam-
paigner of mine. We sat together on the
circuit bench for eight years. and so
came to know of his love of his church.
his interest in it and his influence in it,
sort of fraternal relS tion-that when 1
was on the bench ! liked to cultivate
between bishops and judges. The lawn
of the bishops sleeve and the silk of
the judicial robe seemed little bit alike.
And as you go back into the history OF
your church, into the days of Henry
VIII and before Qaughter)-I do not mean
TO involve myself in a disputed point of
hands-there was close connection be-
tween the church and the administration
of justice. when the lord chancellor, or
lord keeper, as he then was called, was
not only an officer in the church. but ad
ministered that which came to be the
pride of the administration of law in
Observation-Disclosures equity. / am not
sure. but it might improve some of our
judicial decisions if we had a little more
infusion of the episcopal in them now.
Compliments Bishop Brent.
congress of a church with which I have
had much to do in the far-distan, Philip
pines under your distinguished bishop,
Bishop Brent There was a time when I
though Bishop Brent had only one fault.
I don't think now he has any. But then
he seemed to think that 1t was absolutely
essential that he should work SO hard in
the Philippines that he should promptly
die there. ] think now he has found
that that would be a great mistake. and
that he can be much more useful by con
tinuing to live there than by seeking mar
tyrtlom. Certainly. he is doing a great
work; but ! hardly have to tell you that,
who hear him every three years when he
comes back to Your convention to give an
account of his stewardship.
II am here tonight to welcome you be-
cause yours is congress OF a church
of God, and I conceive 1t to be the duty
of the chief magistrate of this nation to
welcome and express sympathy with
every one OF the churches. without which
We could have no government and no
civilization worth the having.
Calls for No Explanation.
There is an impression sometimes that
because we have no state church The at
titude Of the government is in some way
hostile to churches. think this prevails
among foreigners. but it calls for no ex-
PLANTATION to us. We know that we have
no state church, because all churches that
are working for the uplifting of man and
the spirit are state churches within the
protection, but not within the guidance
OF control of the government
Now, my friends. have spoken longer
than l intended to speak. but the pres
ence of an old judicial colleague of mine
on the platform and the recollection of
the long opinions that we used to rem
carried me beyond my appropriate limit"
Value of Professionalism.
In the discussion Of THE Value OF
Professionalism Rev DR.. Leighton Parks
of New York declared that when you
struck the words democracy and Protes-
tantism the same tone rang forth. Lib
erty, equality. fraternity" He believed
the name Protestant should be retained
as part Of the title of the Episcopal
Church.
Rev. Selden P. Delany Of Milwaukee
spoke Of the value Of the Anglican refor-
nation, contrasting it with that Of con-
tinental Europe The greater recognition
of the laity as an integral part OF the
church was one value, he said. OF the
English reformation. Human liberty in
place Of spiritual tyranny was another;
the scriptural rather than the scholastic.
dogmatic way of looking at things an
other.
Benefit to Humanity.
Josenh Packard NJ Baltimore. in a naner