Evening journal., 1912-11-22
BISHOP FREDERICK J. KINSMAN.
A guest at the Church Club. Dinner.


Three Episcopal Bishops were the
guests of honor Of the Church Club
OF the Diocese of Delaware at its mr.
tieth semi-annual dinner, held in the
parish house OF Trinity Church Del
aware avenue and Adams street. last
evening They were the Rt Rev
Frederick j. Kinsman. d. d.. Bishop
of Delaware; the Rt Rev Alfred
Harding. d. d.. Bishop of Washington,
and the RI Rev. John Gardner Mur-
ray d. d.. Bishop Of Maryland. II
was one OF the nose delightful and en-
tertaining functions ever held under
the auspiccsof the club Bishop Hard
iing delivered an address on ideals of
American Chrisianity' ana BiHhQp
Z sAi,utay zpsilsdlsofs Fa ceufth's ~
I peal TO business Men"
William Windcr Laird. president OF
/ the club. presided At his right sat
Bishop Harding and Archdcacou Han
Bishop kinsmau and Bishop Murray
sat at his left. The other officers and
committeeman OF The club are.
George r. 1Ofieckcr. cc-prcsidcnt.
/ George A. Elliott, secretary and treas
lurcr. r. G. Hattnn. Richard Reese.
]
/ lie GEORGE members of the executive
committee, and Franklin J Murphy,
Wilkes Bowen and John VI. Rice,
! members OF the membership com
mittec
The only business transacted was
! the election OF Judge WoOlley as a
member Of the influential church or
ganization Mr. Laird, the toastmas-
ter then introduced Bishop Kinsman,
who spoke brieIy, and at times Joe
ularly. relative 70 the feeling of re-
gret which prevails i'm the diocese Of
Maryland owing TO the fact that "the
three Lower Cornties on the Della
ware are not part Of the State Of
Maryland He intlmated that the
Marylanders always have entertained
a grudge against William Penn be-
cause he prevented that State rom
acquiring possession of the territory
/ Delaware He added that George
Washington once thought that VIII
mington would be good site for the
nations capital
Had IL been selected he said
"the handsome new Episcopal Cathe-
dral that now is being built in Wash
ingtOn probably now vould be in
course of construction on one Of the
hillsc overlooking Wilmington"
Bishop Harding discussed the great
national cathedral project I'm Wash
ington and displayed photographs OF
the cathedral work on which is al
ready under way. He spoke az length
of the work being done by the Roman
Catholic Church, and the Eastern
Orthodox churches, whose members
: are coming 10 this country in large
numbers, and to the work of the vari-
GUS Protestant secis. and added
that the Episcopal church stood he
tween these bodies. The bishop re-
ferred to the looseness Of doctrine
from which some branches of Chris
tianity in this country suffer. and
the low standard Of morality He
saiG he had much experience with
= various schools in Washington and
hardly one out Of one hundred pupils.
If asked. could give an intelligent and
definite answer as TO what Christian
ity is. The Episcopal church, he
thought, had treasures as a historic
church that American Christianity
needed. One of the messages of the
church is to teach reverence for holy
things and to make Worship uplifting.
re IlAOukMl iilt iHuNNuf MNNfNNhf AciAi-
ed to reach the masses, and this
should not be so. The bishop de-
scribed the new cathedral project at
Washington. and declared that Il was
to be a common meeting place for
worship. and would be a symbol OF
Christianity in the capital city From
it would radiate missionary work
which would reach all classes and
conditions of people IL would be a
peoples church. house OF prayer,
and would exercise an uplifting in
fluence in the capital
Bishop MurTay's appeal to business
men in behalf of the church was lis
tened to with close attention and un-
{ qualified approval. He said that II
. the church did not gain the ground
It should gain. this would be owing
to negligence of the men Of the
church He referred to the position
the church. now called the Protestant
Episcopal holds and said he believed
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