The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-11
BISHOP TALKS IN AMERICAN
 PATRIOTISM

ST. LOUIS, Oct TO- - The opening sermon of the forty-fourth trienniaI convention of the Protestant Episcopal church was delivered at the Moolah Temple by Bishop Daniel S. Futile, senior bishop Taking as his text Acts 27, 31, Paul said to the Cenutr- ion and to the soldiers, except those abide in the ship. ye cannot be saved, " the bishop discussed the contribution the Episcopal church could make to unity, and enumerated reverence, truth, catholicity and American flavor. and of the latter he said:
 q do not want to presume. Can adian brethren are here, and they are Americans as well as we. Representa- tiyes of the Mother Church of Eng land are here We revere her and We love them. She fostered our youth in long continuance of nursing care and protection' There is nothing but a heaped up fullness of gratitude in our hearts and we are humbly proud of our kinship with the Church of England and the Church of Canada But under Gods providence adoiescent years have sent us out from under our mothers roof. We are house keeping now in home of our own. Asking permission to use the word American for short, we want to have an American flavor in our church. Anglican precedents we will study and respect and admire But in our re- spect and admiration we will leave them alone, unpracticed, if American spirit and American taste and Ameri- can habit do not take to them.
 Then in that good time when an approaching unity seems somewhat to matoriaIize we want to offer to our fellow Christians of other names round about us an American religion with an American flavor as our contribu- tion.
 Are we presuming too much? We grant to the Iayman with freedom of thought and opinion, only tying him down to the bond of faith in the sim pie yefitios of the Apostles creed.
 "Is that not American?
 "We give to the layman full par ticipation in the deliberations of the church and a voice and a vote in de termining the results of such delib- erations.
 "Is that not American?
 eve have dioceses corresponding to the states with their state sovereign ties, and the general convention cor responding to the federal government.
 "Is that not American?
 "We have a church penetrating into all parts of the United States and it's possessions. There is not rod of ground over which the Stars and Stripes wave in sovereignty but that is under the care and guidance of a bishop of our own.
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 "We are united church. We have no north, no south. no east, no west There is no cleavage of separation on sectional lines of latitude or longi- tude, or for differences of race or col or or class or caste.
 "Is not that American?
 And. with a quick beating of the heart and a firm treading of the feet we are catching up - we have not yet caught up - but we are catching up with the CongregationaIists and Pres byterians and Baptists and Methodists in the blessed work of missions, eX- pending one million and half dollars per year upon them and sustaining 2,- roo missionary workers on our pay, roll - besides all that is given and all that is done in the dioceses and cit ies in their home work.
 "Is that not American?
 "I get enthusiastic as I record-will you not be enthusiastic as you hear about the $3O,OOo given for the emer- gency fund for missions last year - about the constantly swelling $187OOO given by the children of Sunday schools and the $200,000 and more giv. on by the Womans AuXiliary-about the $3.O00.000 given to the splendid clergy pension fund, to swell itself 'tis hoped, to $5,OO0.00O; and over the facts that we have 12O bishops now where he had 4l fifty years ago; and