The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-24

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 He took occasion to criticize the ut terances of irresponsible divines in relation to such broad subject as church, unity and said they were harmful.
 He spoke of the feeling of a great many of the godly Episcopalian churchraen towards Rome and to- wards St. Petersburg and their won der as to how these centers would feel if the Episcopalian church were to take a certain attitude. This he roundly condemned. We must look to our own standards,'' he said. And in this connection, he said, that the literal sense. The history of the church must be understood in connec- ton with the study of the rubic, just as the history of the United States in the time the constitution was drawn. is essential to an intelligent interpreta- ton of that document.
 In introducing Superintendent ohm son, the toastmaster spoke on the evo- lution of Boston. Seventy per cent of the churchmen there are Catholic, said he. The puritan was war ming a bed for someone else to lie in. Ne He said that Mir. Johnson would find his work in Boston attended with many difficulties for the Catholic population is ever fearful that the Protestant charities are trying to proselytize among the Catholic children.
 MT. Johnson spoke briefly, for it was late. In passing, he said that Bridgeport was growing so that it had ned it's long ones, but had not yet gotten used to them. It's 9 big city now, and in 1920.5 he predicted, it
 might be from 13O,000 to 140. 1000.
 The housing problem is vital, he said There is an excellent tenement house law in Connecticut Tn Hart ford and New Haven it is enforced. Here not much progress has been made because facilities for it's en- forcenert have not been provided.
 He spoke of tuberculosis. There is a most magnificent system of state sanatoria. said he, but the basic thing lis the housing. and the people have only got to the fringe of that vital is- sue, here.
 He spoke of the esbig brother movement as exemp1if1ed in the cnari- ties organization and Of the Protective association for women. now under for nation.
 Then. discussing the social evil, he maintained as his view. that of the church Investigators. who, he said, without exception had declared for an enforcement of law, and of relying up- on personal purity as the solution of this great problem.
 As for church unity, he said that the work Of this sort was an ideal method of bringing about harmony in endeavor. His personal view is that the churches, in the past, have given too much thought to tf1e life to come .amd not enough to Gods king-s dom on earth.
 MT Huiginn spoke again, in bring ing the banquet to a. close, and he took up the earlier history of the Christian faith, He said a1e was glad that pr. Acheson had not gone into the idea of the early unity of Christen- dom. He declared that the unity of the Christfans in the early days was a sham, that it was a condition that existed only because of Ignorance and tyranny He referred to the words of Washington condenning the thought of any denomination's seeking to use political influence for that would mean the end of civil and religious liberty.
 With the singing of America and the 1 benediction bestowed by Bishop Brew ster, the banquetters adjourned few minutes before midnight.