The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-24

WE1sS 4lL4g0 WA@AtJ ILL sRu 1<3rs@1NHA-s Any such idea never entered my mind. My own idea of this occasion was that it was a time for the taking up of lnatters of important moment to you in this. the second city of our state
 By the way, ss iflterpo1ated the blSh- Icp, you know how the Hartford Gol1r- amt said that New Haven might he I expected to resent that claim on the .t part of Bridgeport-.sb being the second icity in the state?'
 ipIeasure for me to meet with the men. It is a great thing to see all these men together here tonight. It is quite the reverse of the occasion, out west where they had been having something for the support of the church, and \ next day the country paper came out .l and said it was a great social suc- cess.-sit was attended by all the Epis- Ecopa1ians of the town and their hus- Ebands.'
 ssThe men belong here. My friends, I it is a great thing for the clergy and I the 1aity to get together. I am glad i to see my brothers of the clergy sand lwiched in here between the 1aity. Itween the c1ergymen and the 1aity but
 there should be nothing like separa-. f ton, such as sometimes seems to be
 threatened.
 THE MISTAKEN VIEW l Then Bishop Brewster told the story lof a Sunday school boy. When the little fellow heard Of the mans falling among thieves and Of the indifference
 of the priests and levites. the teacher lquestioTed him
 s.Why didn,t the priest help him ?'' lasked the teacher
 I Because 2 replied the child, s.he had
 been robbed already
 Bishop Brewster said that the same
 feeling seems to exist among some of
 the Iaity towards the clergy We 1 have common interest,", said he We have a common interest in the
 church. You and both should be about our Fathers business l He defined the word laity, as orig finally having meant the whole people. It is only in the later
 use of the term that it came l to bear it's present significance,
 s.the people as distinguished from the public officials.
 sBut my idea is entirely different from that said he There is some thing for the Iaity to do as well as for us of the clergy
 THE STAGE DRIVERS HORSES
 Then he brought in another story
 to illustrate his poind. He told of western stage coach driver who dis cl1ssed the names of his horses. ssThis one fathers, said the driver l call him AIethodi This one
  Baptist. This one is suIly call
 him .Presb yter1ala This one is q fine
 horse, high stopper. the best look CT. T call him Episcopa1ian. Don't l ssThat may have been true a few years ago. said Bishop Brewster, when the laughter s1lbsided. But it's not true today The outstanding fig ure of the recent great council of the church, was a Iayrnan, a Philadelphia F<,v had been selected to give lectures in Yale University on the subject of preaching.
 Finding such a gathering. the bish- l op said he was almost at a loss. sI was going to- speak on the business methods of your parishes It is your duty to see that the affairs Of the parish are run on sound business
 basis. But there is more than the outward she'll There is something for you to do more than the business of the parish. THE oNE-NGAN-BAND. He told of seeing a .sone-m -man-band,' ? an organ grinder who played the or gan, rang a. bell, sounded clappers, beat a drum and clashed cyrnbaIs all l at once. That's the idea,s' said the bishop, that some people have Of the
 parish--one man. a rector, to do it all. l You choose one man rector, who is to be the leader, but he ought to have
 the men of his parish behind him in every work He ought to see the men I in their places every Sunday. But
 some men ask. What is the good of my going to cElurch2' What a mean ignoble, selfish way that is to look
 at the matter! As if you go to church for what you get, whereas you go to church for what you can give; to put
 yourself in line with the more onward movement of the work
 | ROOSEVELT, THE CHURCHMAN.
 Then, too. perhaps you are going 1 to church But are you thinking of the stranger2 recall the story of a young man who entered the Episcopal church. Nobody ever shook lhin by the hand. Nobody ever welcomed
 him. Then he went to a Dutch Re- formed church and he was treated as | a young man ought to be treated. So he chose to remain there. If Theo- dore Roosevelt had stayed with us we might have been obliged to have a pope, but then, don't like to think l of his having been frozen out. T be- now sometimes with his wife. But
 from that story let us draw. lesson to take the right hand of the strang- | CT within the gates.
 PARSIMoNIoUs CHRISTIANS Passing briefly over the subject of missions. Bishop Brewster told of the three men who described the closest
 races they had witnessed. One spoke lSof a, race where the judges were oblig- ed to use telescopes to distin nguish which horse won. The second told of a horse who won a race by sticking out it's tongue. The third said. I've just been in Scotland and I've seen the closest race in the worId.'' Some
 people, said the bishop, are mean
 enough to turn that story around so
 as to apply to Connecticut people.
 But I am a Connecticut boy said he. and want to feel that we never
 have such a reflection deserved1y cast upon us here.s'
 CALLING THE NEW RECTOR.
 Not only is it a good thing said he, for the clergy and the laity to