The Washington herald., 1911-03-05

burg; Mr. William Jennings Bryan; Mr..
Marion Lawrence; Hon. F. w. Parker,
of Chicago; Judge Colt of New London,
Conn.,; former Commissioner Macfarland.
Of washington: Mr.. Charles T. Thomp-
son, -of Minneapolis, and Mr.. Fred B.
Smith, of the International Y. M. G. A.
There are ninety OF such men foremost
| in business and the professions, often
MEN of wealth who give themselves as
well as their money and identified more
or less closely with spiritual and educa-
tional work of the churches.
| Sixty per cent of the LOO 0Oe,O00 of Amer
| leans and Canadians belong to no
churches, and even more, say the pro-
| moters of this campaign, fail to take
real part in religion. The alarming
prevalence of divorce. jobbery in af-
| fairs of business combines, graft in pub
lie contracts, disputes between capital
| and labor with attendant strikes, cor
ruption in politics-these and other wide
/ spread sins cry for cure. This cure, say
these promoters, lies in personal religion.
America-Regardeda as Leader.
! With all its faults. Christianity of
North America, its hustle its gifts, its
| missionary zeal, and its remarkable
strides. is looked upon by the rest of the
Christian world as a leader. Hence it
must not tail, but lead, and such leader
ship implies knowledge of the Bible, faith
in God, and work for other men. Help
| to avert national disaster and downfall
| is the plea. There are said to be 1000 600
fewer men in the churches than women.
Cities here named are to be searched for
| these missing men. to swing them into
| life and line.
The methods to be employed in this
campaign are both economic and I'D to
| date. Speakers will go as teams, losing
little time between cities. Euncheons
| With men at MONDAY, dinners at night
when men come direct from work, Bible
| study in shops. parlor conferences with
leading men-an these are covered in the
| method, and the teams will be in effect
colleges with travelling facilities. There
will be experts in Bible teaching, evan
gelism, shop addresses, street preaching.
| social service, and work for boys, bill
boards, restaurant bills of fare laundry
| lists. newspaper display advertising-aIl
these proper schemes for publicity are to
be made use of. Getting ready to work
is to be done between now and next Sep
tember. Then the real campaign is to
cover September of this year to May,
1872, but churches are not being enrolled
in a list of those pledged to a fve-year
campaign straight with no let up.
creased memberships in Bible classes,
100000 men and boys on church rolls of
membership, new missionary enterprises
at home and abroad, organized efforts
for civic and social betterment, and pos
sibly the foundation of a real college
whose faculty may go about the country
all of the time, reaching numbers COM
pared with which the college located in
one place is small
Bishop or Elder, which:
Rather fevered gossip obtains among
Episcopalians. especially the highs, con-
corning statements made by the vener-
able Bishop Doane of Albany, in a SER
mon just preached at the conservation of
the first bishop suffragan under the new
law of that church
Speaking of the Office of bishop, he |
said: 1T is difficult to define within posi-
tive lines the episcopal office or the epis- |
copal order of apostolic times Some |
times 1 fear we Episcopalians lay too |
much stress upon technical terms"
Speaking, on the other hand, of the |
validity of the orders of Presbyterians, |
Baptists, Congregationalists, and others |
he saia that with the abundant results |
OF ministries which are quite apart from |
Episcopal ones only blind 0an or an
Episcopalians are putting the query as
to whether Bishop Doane alone has
changed attitude or has the whole Epis-
copal Church done so? Bishop Doane
concluded that the time is coming when
more accurate study of words will OBJ
tain, and out of such study there may
come a drawing together of disunited
Christendom-" The utteranceS go TO thei
root of the differences between Episco-
pal1ans. and all other non-Roman Catho- l.
lie bodies. Bishop Doane is, next to
Bishop Tuttle, of Missouri, the Oldest
bishop in the Episcopal Church in Amer
lea in date of conservation, and among L
the most influential II
Possible Step Toward Union. Il
If the Episcopal Church in America. so
leaders are saying, follows the new ideas
Of Bishop Doane of Albany, just uttered
in a sermon preached at the conservation
Of Bishop Burch, of New York, that !,
church's stumbling block to unity will i
roll away. In 1888 an Episcopal general
held in Chicago adopted four
of Christian unity. and in
1856 these were indorsed and made its
OWN by the Lambeth Conference, a de-
seminal assembly of the Anglican bishops
IF the world. Since then the four planks
have been known as the Lambeth quad :
lateral. Three were readily accepted by {.
Protestant bodies, but the fourth. the
historic episcopate none would have
md the qUadrilateral some years ago
leased to be a factor in unity plans.
SOW Bishop Doane rises to say that
bishops are historic ''in this church"
meaning the Episcopal, and that from
which it comes, but they may not be in
others, and he wonders if it is .worth
while asking others to be ordained the '
Episcopal way. His utterances jNst made !,
ire held to sweep away the contention
# the Episcopal Church for his historic
,piscopate plank as something others I
must take if they would unite. Some y
Episcopal and good many Presbyterian | (
eaders, especially those who are work Y
ng for unity, declare that amid so many :,
startling changes of base they cannot
'egin TO wonder what is next to come.
Starting Unity Plans. \
Bishop Anderson, of Chicago, as presi- 4
ent of the Episcopal Commission on b
'hurch Unity, to which Mr.. j. Pierpont d
dorgan gave 100000 to pay expenses, has 6
ssued public statement in which he !,
SKIS the prayers of Christian people for
nifty plans and calls for preliminary con- |, &
erences that may lead up to a world I
difference on faith and order some years S
ence. He announces that the coommis- i
ion Will hold a meeting soon after 8
,aster. when, it is stated. a programme b
work will be drawn up and published. t.
ishop Anderson calls upon leaders in ali n
eligious bodies who are interested in tho b
ubject of unity to get together and hold {
differences, even If only two or three =