The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-24
EPlSCOPAIIAN CHURCllIEN HAIL THEIR BISHOP AND PAY
 TRIBUTE TO GEORGE WASHINGTON AT yESTRYMENS BANQUET

| - lady has seen a clergyman at a fash iona1ole watering place two seasons ago That decides iti He must be called! Perhaps he's not the man they really wanted. They get rid of him, but I don't get rid of him, sChurchmen in city like this make one hock-divtded. it is true, for con- Ivenienee-but one flock I hope that I've can see more and more of this fspirit-the getting together of the men fof the parish. want. it said of me, when my work is done. that I did Iof the chuTch's progress. pauchialisna, land think that gatherings like this make against parochial1sm.
 NEXT CONVENTION HERE Next June will be held tho couven- ltion of this diocese. In rotation it will Icome to Bridgeport I have hesitated F to announce the place of meeting of l the convention because of the vacan- l cies of the parishes in this city. But tion will meet, God willing, at st- Johns church in this city. It will tdevoIve upon the churchnnen of this lefty to get together and act together in arranging for that convention.
 Bishop Brewster then spoke of the throughout the diocese. He recalled the history of Norwa1k. When he as stunned his duties, he said, there was not only division in the different par lishes, but worse than that, even en- 1nity. When I first came to this dio- Icese: he recalled, there would be no thought Of a clergyman of one parish there being sent to another" He spoke of thes disappearance of these feelings, and told of the uniting of the parishes in the publishing of a paper. why could you not have some + Tn urged them to take up some aggress- |iveywork in Bridgeport such as is done by the churchmen of New Haven THE HYDE PARK ORATOR.
 Bishop Brewster kept up his flow Of anecdotes. He said he did not want to leave himself open to the sally
 made upon an orator in Hyde Park The man was pleading for land re- form, and tax reform and law reform. Up spoke man in the crowd, What you need is chIoroforn,' Z shouted the tired auditor.
 THE LAYMANS ORDINATION.
 He reminded the churchmen that in their confirmation they should see the 1aymen's ordination just as the clergy man, in his ordination, sees his con secration to the ministry in the great univ ersaI priesthood which is so esS sentia1ly characteristic of the church.
 There is also the responsibility upon the Iayman to represent the. church in his character, :, said he. Along f1is line he told a story of an architect who visited an Episcopal church and on discussing his visit with lady friend, said ssI went to your church, and was so interested. 2 could not help looking at that great nave
 Don't speaki'' echoed the lady. .sI know just whom you mean. z
 CIVIC REsPoNsIBTLITIE IFS.
 He spoke of the Fchurchman's s civic duties. There is something for us to put forth as an example, he said. Are you shirking your part in na-, tIonal state of municipal dffairs2 Are you doing all you can to make. this city what it ought to be? Things do not run themselves. Wrongs doIft right themselves. There are great social questions pressing down upon lis today, questions that have not only their economic side but their et11i- cal side In it's corporate capacity the church must be sure that it is on the right side in these questions. There Is the diffused influence of the church today. The churchmen ought to be interested in these great questions with an intelligent interest and also with. a sincere sympathy for the plight Of their fellow men and they ought to. be actuated bg a desire to help better their conditions. If that spirit were manifested byS all the men of the church why, against such a manifes tation of the gospel of Christ nothing could stand, and the church would go forward in Wond derfuI manner
 BETTER MEN NEEDED.
 Bishop Brewster said that the need Of the church is not more church. men, but better c14urchnnen men who will ask what there is for them to do, what He would have such men their tasks will be shown.
 But more important than doEis what we are, he said More i'm portant than what we say is what we are and what makes eSn1an and his words of value is the manh ood back of them.
 T think that Christ,s service and Christ's discipleship means simply the realization and fulflllment of our mar. hood. Sworn to be Christ.s soldiers, for ChFist, do let us be nsn.a
 Bishop Brewster was appla1lleda with much yigor.
 The toast1naster spoke briefly Of the relations of the clergy and the 1aity before introducing the next speaker Too many of the laity expect the cler- gyman to become social feature of the parish, said he. Personally he had no time for that sort of thing; life is too short The crying need is unity, he said-a little self f-sacrifce for the welfare of the whole. He told a story of a Scotchmans whose pastor had urged him to study himself.
 What you need,'' said the clergyman tIs introspection self-exarai ination do so. lest. looking into his own char acter too closely, it might cause him