The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-11
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will preside, and is staying at the
home of Mrs. 3. NJ Davies, 800 West
Sixth street.
In an interview today, Bishop Leon
ard explained the manner in which
the Methodist church has divided the
work into areas, for greater conven-
fence in promul eating the work of the
church. Southern Africa is one area,
western Africa another, China, Japan
and Korea forming another, South
America another. etc.
Bishop Leonard has charge of what
is termed the San Francisco area,
comprising California, Arizona, Ne
vada, the Hawaiian Islands, and a
small strip of northern Mexico, along
the southern line of California. In
this area, there are thirteen Oriental
and Anglo-SaXon races represented.
The San Francisco area is develop
ing hospital and orphanage work,
Bishop Leonard says. He recently
laid the cornerstone to a 100000
hospital in Phoenix, Ariz. The Meth
odist church is SOON to erect $780,
600 building in Los Angeles in the
Spanish plaza, which will be the CEN
ter of the Latin American work of
that vicinity, and in San Francisco. a
100000 building is to be erected
within a short time, in the Market
street district, probably the most cos
mopolitan district to be found any
where, which will serve for evangeI-
isttc and social work,
Bishop Leonard's father was A B.
Leonard, once the pastor of the Meth
hodist church of Leavenworth. and the
presiding elder of the Leavenworth
district. Later he became pastor of
the Central church at Springfield and
during his pastorage was offered the
! candidacy for governor of Ohio on the
Prohibition ticket. and received the
largest vote for governor of any can
dldate OF that party in Ohio. Later he
was elected corresponding secretary of
foreign missions, which position he
| held for 30 years, becoming one of the
greatest leaders in the work of foreign
missions the world has ever pro
duced.
81 suppose Bishop Leonard said
in speaking of his father, that have
! inherited some of his hatred of the
saloon and liquor traffic since have
been identified with a number OF
movements that have been significant
| While L was pastor of the Methodist
church of Seattle. the meeting was
held in that church which launched
the prohibition movement which re-
suited tr making Washington a dry
state" ~
| FavOrs Social Life in Churches.
When asked what he regarded as
the essential thing in the churches to-
| day, Bishop Leonard replied, "Y re-
| gard as essential, two points of en-
| phasis. The first is the social. Every
| church should have some kind of a
| deflnlte, social program, and a def
mite evangelical program. Hereto
fore, social service experts, and mo-
| lntrequently, ministers who have beer
sympathetic with social service work
have stressed the social side of their
/ work exclusively, and they have
lacked the evangelistic emphasis
others have emphasized the evangeli-
] cal side of their work to the exclusion
OF the social. The new day demand.
! or the ministers and churches thai
they shall give emphasis to both, a nj
IN well balanced manner. In other
/ words, Evangelism in Social Service
should be the slogan. The old worIt
/ needs Jesus Christ more than it need.
anything else, He is the hope of the
! world"
Church and War.
The reporter asked Bishop Leonard
what effect in his opinion, the recon
I Structlon work contingent on the war
and the new religion of the trenche!
would have on the church. II think,
he said slowly, that those people wht
think that there is going to be am
| radical changes in the church arr
deceived. The church had not failed
before the war, and remains the same
| 40 oelleve that closer cooperation
between the churches will result, blu
1t will not mean the elimination of de
nominafionalism. There will be great
er emphasis put upon service, which
has grown out of the war, but Their,
will be no new religion"
In point of years Bishop Leonard 4
the youngest bishop of the twenty
eight or thirty of the Methods
church.