The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-01
WITH THOSE WHO LABOR
 IN THE LORDS VINEYARD
BY D. V. FRANCIS

1 cans and Roman Catholics be contra
 vened by generalizations based on part | of the facts Evidences of oordia1ity are
 known to almost every observer. But no
 such effective witness of it's existence has been published, SO far as we know as the volume that has lately been written by the well-known English theologan, MT. Y. A. Lacey. MT. Lacey, when he
 and Father Fuller undertook an informal
 mission, there to confer with some of the | highest authorities of the Roman church
 on the question of Angelican orders. The whole atmosphere of the book shows that
 the struggles. prejudices and antiquities of sectarian fanaticism in the nineteenth century have not been able to destroy | the basic principles of Christian comity and Christian sympathy on either side.' | Under the direction of the assumption fathers the thirty-first pilgrimage of
 penitents will sail for the Holy Land
 aboard the Fabre liner Sant Anna on
 March 4. Already 40 prominent Canadian
 and American Roman Catholics have
 booked passage and there is now room
 for only 10 more to make up the American
 delegation.
 The first step in the itinerary of the
 pilgrims will be made at Marseilles,
 where the Court De Piellat, commander of the Order of St. Sepulchre and St. Gregory, and founder of the hospital of St. Louis. will meet the party. Jafra, Je- | rusalem, Caiffa, Nazareth, Mt. Carmel. | Galilee. Tiberiade, Mt. Tabor, Damascus, Baalbek, Beyrout, Constantinople, Mt. | Athos. Athens, Malta and Naples. At Naples the Etoile will be blessed by a | representative of the pope. and at Rome | the pilgrims will receive the blessing of the holy father.
 Those of the DarfV who wish tO return to America from Naples will sail on the l Sant' Anna on May g; the others will complete the 90-day pilgrimage by going
 on to Paris, London and Liverpool
 The first triennial report of the sS, . | 900 general clergy relief pension fund
 commission of the Episcopal church has just been issued. Owing to difficulties in- 1 cident to organization, 1t is pointed out | that the commission actually had less | than two years for the active prosecution | of it's work; yet results are reported as | follows Fifty-nine diocesan auxiIiaries were established; more than 150O00 leaf lets were distributed, more than 5000
 miles travel was recorded, 209 sermons
 were preached and 49 addresses were de- livered:i and cash contributions and pledges were secured from S4 'dioceses and
 missionary districts-"literally from
 Maine to Panama and from Alaska to the gulf" All this was in addition to creat- ing a new and deeper interest in the
 whole subject of clergy pension and reliew and to obtaining the practical co-opera- ton of many bishops and other clergy. Reports are summarized thus: Total cash contributions and pledges paid, slls, OPS; individual pledges not yet due s35,O16; conditional pledges, $46,000; due on di- ocesan resolution. $109, ,654 making total of cash and pladges of SSOS.697. Of this sum. $105000 has been paid over to the treasurer of the general clergy relief fund sFF &l These figures, the report says. while far from the total estimate, are encour- aging: We have not attained the $5.Oo0.-
 GOO goal; no sane man supposed we would attain it in the triennum. But we have begun to attain 1t. Foundations have
 been laid. a beginning has been made.