Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-10
AMERICAN BISHOP
CHEERS ENGLAND
Doctor Brent Called the "Unof-
fetal Ambassador of the
People of the United
States"

ApDey last sunday has made profound
impression in this country Doctor Brent
has been called the unofficial ambassador
OF the people OF America to the people
OF England" on the strength OF his many
m-hearted expressions OF sympathy
for the cause of the Allies. The Abbey
was crowded in all parts. In the choir
were the Archbishop OF Canterbury, the
Lord Chancellor Lord Bryce and Lord
Stamfordham, private secretary TO the
King. Doctor Brent said, in part:
] speak TO you not with the voice Of an
instructor, but with the voice Of sympathy
Indeed, /, would be presumptuous OF me
coming from country in the height Of
prosperity to try 10 teach you, who, day
by day in your great tragedy. are laying
treasure in human lives upon n reeking
altar in order that you may be true to your
ideals and pay your debt of love to the God
Of righteousness
Orttimes he who goes to minister to the
sufferer on a sick bed departs humbed,
because he knows that he has failed in his
minstrations and that the sufferer has inn
parted to him such lessons az only those
who know tho meaning Of trouble are able
to impart It Is no hattery for me 20 say
that you are teaching the world Of men
today and also unborn generations, such
lessons as they need and which having
learned, they treasure, I thank God that
it is permitted me at this particular june
ture to he In your midst, and. though not
commissioned, TO speak as representative
of a nation up 20 a moment ago neutral, but
now "A nation that has taken the first step
70 redeem ita honor and to place itself
upon the side Of Gods cause and Of hui
manity,
Neutrality is sometimes necessary for a
State and possible for the individual, where
no great moral issues are involved, but
neutrality is impossible when every principle
Of righteousness and justice and truth has
been ruthlessly and deliberately trampled
under foot.
The Fight Against Slavery
You know as well as I that in the early
mOuthS--aye, ycars---of the war the SYM
pathy for which Lincoln looked, and later
asked, was not universally, certainly not
officially, given by this country. But wSh
his fine perception and with the recognition
that men will eventually come to the truth
If II Is plainly put before them, he went
so far as to draw up resolution (April Is,
1859, which he placed in the hands Of
Charles Sumner that II might he sent to
England and through John Brights hands, !
communicated to the whole nation. l doubt |
if there is any other instance in history |
where a great ruler has taken such course |
Charles Sumner writes to John Bright in |
these words
Two days ago the President sent for me |
to come to him at once. When | arrived |
he said that he had been thinking of n
av in yI bCb %EH ns GT cd or" SpG he d
rected and that he had drawn up a resou-
tion embodying the ideas which he should
nope to see adopted by public meetings in
England. | inclose the resolution, in his
autograph, as he gave 1t TO me- lie thought
1t might serve to suggest the point which he |
regarded as important"
This was the resolution:
Whereas while heretofore States and
nations have tolerated slavery recently. for
the first time in the world. an attempt has
been made to construct a new nation upon
the basis and with the primary and funda-
mental object to maintain, enlarge and per-
petuate human slavery therefore, resolved,
that no Such embryo state should ever be
recoshiHeu ny OF adnltted mo the tamlIy
oi ,mIISst!an anu clElii%tu hatohs' ana that
".i s..an aIu o,NII'Nen men everywhere
@ sllou'u, py an ldWiul heahS' resist 10 the Ut
mus Su'' 'e'os "i''on OF "urlIsSlon'
The name-the honored name-of John
brlght gives me the opportunity In this Mt
tlns time ana pace 10 express 10 you, his
ielow couhtrymeI' tne deot that we owe
nm, nm iUI "ha' ne ne @ uIu uurlhs tne uaSs OF the
~ ~ "ar, iuousn IN IN " hhnorty IN nhe
S,S 'et " "OiIu' 10 ieaIlNeu 'hc lespo'Sioliy
t1,, d Nv iiS,es 80" e. ~ !" ue'''oc.a'Io hd
an, % .oa.o,I &c +aii LIS ~ e.aso" "iu
s,j,.s -, 49,, ,',,,t , nc 'neg nus
1atIon n Tho Eorih '''''e' u ''' ct
America sympathy Assured
And noyv n 10 ,.o,, WIN, loci, ooros- .Lo
waters and exnect tbo svrnnatb,, oF tho
nation who once Looked n yo,, for S,,,on,tbS,
ord recoiyod II Lot mo tai, ,,o,, as ~,
whose beart tbrobs ,,it[ tbo ba,rt of 49,
ica Iet me toll Won man and u.n,,,o,, 90 |
England Won have had svmnathv fron, tho
bog;rrirg II 10 trro tbat so,,,atir,o. -
renuhlic the oficiaI voice snoaLs With na,'
Mon and In cold terms but tbat na,,ar af-
"armeSt wheh 'he mana Is ooid'