New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-21
URGE EPISCOPAL
AID FOR MASSES
Bishops Call Attention to
Privileged Glasses
an Error

St. Louis, Oct. 20.-Arguing that
without affiliating itself with any "po-
litical schemes" the Church should
take a larger interest in the work OF
improving the masses, leaders of the
Church spoke at joint meeting of
the two houses Of the Protestant Epis-
eopal general convention here. They
said that by such action the great mass
of laboring people, many of whom
have been estranged, can be won back
to the Church"
The Right Rev. Edwin S. Lines, Bish-
op of Newark, n. j., said:
"It's great mistake to bind the
! fortunes of the Church with the privi-
legged classes. There are many men
who tell me they are opposed to so
many movements in the Church, but
that is only because they oppose move
ments of any kind.
"In binding the fortunes of the
| Church of England with the privileged
class its hold on the great body Of the
unprivileged has been lost.
|
"A bishop of the English Church
told me not long ago that now the
privileged people have lost their inter-
| est in the Church and that the unprivi-
legged have long ago been lost by the
lack of interest taken in them by the
! Church. That is why the Church OF
| England is now so weak. Let us bind
| the Church by our interests and our
work with the minds and the hearts
and the lives of the great company OF
the unprivileged and the poor"
| The service of Christianity must be
social service, the Right Rev. Chauncey
B. Brewster, Bishop of Connecticut,
told the delegates.
! "God is preparing a new world" he
said. "Shame on us as a Church if we
| fail to be always on the side of social
! Justice! We are coming to insist that
/ human life must always take prece-
dence of property rights, and that the
primary object of business is not to
produce things and profits, but to pro-
| duce happiness and human character"
Irreverence National Peril
The greatest danger to American life
is irreverence, the Right Rev. 7. F.
Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, declared.
speaking in the interests of religious
education.
"You can't have patriotism without
reverence" he said. ANY nation that
is drifting into disbelief is drifting
into inefficiency, political imbecility
and moral bankruptcy"
The Right Rev, William Lawrence,
/ Bishop of Massachusetts, referred to
the late James J. Hill, of st. Paul, when
he asserted that the crying need OF the
/ Church is such men as he.
| Detroit was selected as the meeting
place of the 1919 convention by the
House OF Bishops, subject to approval
by the House of Deputies.
Mission Head Endorsed
The House Of Bishops also sub
| mitted to the lower house for appro-
/ val the reelection of Bishop Arthur
Selden Lloyd, of New York, as presi-
/ dent of the Board of Missions and OF
| George Gordon King, of Newport. R..
| l.. as treasurer. This board is gen.
! orally considered the most important
in the Church.
The convention to-day approved a
plan of pensions for the clergy. when
! the House Of Deputies concurred with
the House of Bishops in adopting a
plan whereby each parish in the
| Church is taxed for the support Of
the pension fund IA per cent of the
annual salary paid its pastor. The
plan. as adopted, provides for clergy.
men who have reached the age OF
! sixty-eight a minimum pension OF
/ $500, one-nalf the average annual SAL
airy of the clergy, and for maximum
of $4,000 yearly.