Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-20
Confound their politics.
On thee our hops we fix.
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GOQ save us Ill.
When the Book OF Common Prayer
was compiled. so The Living Church
reminds us, 1t was left that this verse
was crude and perhaps somewhat un-
christian 1t was therefore omitted
from the hymnal. the third stanza be-
came the second, and stanza begin
ing Our loved dominion bless" be-
came the third stanza. Some members
of the debating synod at Toronto seem
to think that the times warranted a
restoration of the verse to the hymnal,
since il has been sung quite freely in
the country at large. Dean Evans, Of
Montreal, moved it's restoration, but
tho the suggestion was applauded.
many opposed. 1t seemed to smack
too much Of Germany's Hymn Of
Fate" An amendment was offered
for it's authorization during the war.
Soberer counsels interviewed with the
suggestion that those who wished
might use it without authorization.
The amendment and the original mo-
ton We're eventually lost, and that
seemed to dispose of the question, but
the Manitoba Free Press informs us
to the contrary:
anglican bishops assembled at the
general synod in Trinity College on
Saturday unanimously declared them
selves in favor of calling upon God to
confound the crooked politics of the
kaiser and to Illustrate the knavtsh
tricks of his servants in air, land, ana
sea, The declaration was sent In the
following message to the lower house
in the midst of the morning session:
1.-The president of the upper house
hess to inform the prolocutor that the
upper house has unanimously adopted
the following resolution:
..'"That. in the Judgment OF the up
per house. in time of war and tumult.
the second verse OF the national an
them beginning o Lord our God,
arise) may be sung with perfect pro-
priety.'"
The message came like thunder
bolt when every one had thought the
storm which had ragged over the verse
had subsidized The delegates were so
astonisheG that they rose en- masse and
sang the words that the majority OF
them had two days before declared
they would not sing Two or three
delegates remained seated Rev. DR..
Patterson Smythe, who had called the
verse "A proclamation of hate. jumped
up. but when he came to the line
.confound their politics. he sat down.
Catholic Feeling Over Carranza.
Despite the fact that the Carranza
government. now recognized by Presl-
dent Wilson. has given its pledge to
respect everybody's life, property ana
religious beliefs without limitations
than the preservation OF public order
and the observance of the institutions
In accordance with the laws in force
and the constitution of the repuniic,
the officials OF the Wilson administra
ton are said to know that influential
Catholic interests in this country do
not regard this pledge as sufficient
The Catholic view as understood in
Washington. so a dispatch to the New
York Sun makes clear, is that Car
ranza's pledges leave it altogether to
his own whim as to the degree of re-
hgious tolerance which he will ex-
tend" Furthermore, the pledge, 1t IS
commended. while holding out some
promise of religious liberty to the in
diyidual. does not contain satisfactory
assurances of CarranZa's future attl-
, tude toward religious orders in Mexico
or toward the priests and nuns
Catholics insist that more definite
pledges are necessary before they can
entertain hope for real tolerance. and
| they desire the state department te
obtain from Carranza definite assur-
I ances of the religious tolerance In
! eMxico such as exists in the United
+ States
/ The Preacher and The Dollar.
| The effect of Dr. Hills misfortunes
| and his frank public confession VII
! prove wholesome and illuminating
| turnout the ranks of the christian min
| istry. SO declares the Christian Cen
| tury, which points out that the tragedy
/ of DR.. Hills has often been enacted
without the victim of it ever becom
| ing aware of the undermining OF hi:
prophetic powers by the insidious ef'
+ feet of private ambition and the lus
of wealth" DR.. Newell Dwight Hills
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
apparently put to the whole preaching
fraternity the question whether pas
tor ought to divide his activities 81
as to engage in enterprises outside hi
church work that will supplement thu
generally insufficient income which
that work affords. DR.. Hills was
large Garner and invested his own ant
other peoples money in timber specu