The evening world., 1919-10-29
Church LEADERS
GREET NEW BISHOP
AT CLUB BANQUET
Among Guests Are Many Who
Have Adventured in All
Parts of the World.

The Right Rev. Charles Sumner
Burch. DID. the new Episcopal
Bishop Of New York, was the guest
last night Of the Church Club Of New
York at a banquet In the grand ball
room OF the Waldorf Astoria The
banquet was unique in many respects.
An organ. augmented by brasses.
furnished the music. The walls were
destitute Of the usual display OF fiags
and banners. Men and women Of the
diocese in evening dress surrounded
the tables and filled the galleries.
while the upper tiers were crowded
with dencons and deaconesses, the
latter In their robes giving an air Of
Bolemnity 20 the occasion. There was
the atmosphere Of the church. fire.
quently disturbed by gay laughter, as
II the door OF the church during ser
vice had been swung open by a gust
of wind. admitting the sounds OF the
outer world.
Men OF the Industrial world. men OF
might and millions were there; wom-
en- leaders of settlement work, OF So
cial and charitable election, and OF
New YoriS's Four Hundred But the
greatest interest was manifested in
the men OF the cloth. men OF the
church, soldiers OF the Cross, who
bad done their work not only in the
church. but in the vast beyond, in
the Icy confines Of the frozen North
and on the battlehelds Of France.
Adventures they were in the true
sense OF the word, real adventurers
In the service OF the Lord and in the
service Of their country. Their con-
Eregations listened 20 sermons
through which they could feel the
breath Of the white Silence and hear
tbe rattle OF musketry and the roar
OF artillery.
Bishop Burch, big man in stature
and big man In brain, but humble In
hls calling, has had a career OF ro-
nance and danger He was not or
dainedO Ountil he had reached the age
OF forty and had lived the life OF the
man OF the world. He had been a
newspaper man and had run the ga
NUT OF the game from reporter 10
publisher. HIS sudden elevation TO
fhe highest position in the Diocese Of
New York was a surprise to many.
From an obscure parish priest he had
been shot like star sheil into the
head Of the church in New York.
A FRIEND OF PERsHiNo's A
STRIKING BANQUET FIGURE.
A striking figure at the banquet,
and one Of the speakers. was the
Right Rev. Charles II. Brent Bishop Of
Western New York. He was Chap
lain General OF the A. E. f.. sent
across the seas at the request OF Gen.
Pershing and attached TO the latter's
headquarters.
The Right Rev. Edwin s. Lines.
d. D.. President Of the Province OF
New York and New Jersey. was one
of those who put out the glad hand Of
welcome TO the new Bishop OF New
York. The Episcopal Church In
America is divided into eight prov
tnces. and DR.. Lines presides over
thar which includes New York.
The venerable Hudson Stuck. Arch
deacon OF Alaska, was one OF the
fhurch's heroes at the banquet board.
FOR twenty-five years he has been
doing the work OF God In the wilds OF
Alaska, going into the little known
country with the Klondike boom, see-
ing both the picturesque side and the
bleak side OF the land OF ice and the
midnight sun
DIR. Percy Stickney Grant is pastor Of
the Church Of the Ascension, which Is
N the heart OF Greenwich Village. He
meets as varied an assortment OF men
and women as does the Archdeacon OF
Alaska. 1hey don't come to his ser
vice. all OF them, on Sunday nights,
dhen he turns the church into a
fVrum, the deniEens OF the village
khe long haired men and short haired
women, the mouthing Bolshevih and
the fierce spouting Anarchists-and
tbey give utterance To sentiments
which TO breathe them outside the
church would mean n hurried ride in
me hurry ap wagon.
DR.. Bernard IddinBs Bell. called by
many the Socialist pastor is a well
known character In the cause. He is
President OF ST. Stephens College at
Annadale- on-tN - Hudson. which was
always a favored school for the nam
pered sons OF their wealthy fathers.
The college was wabbling with decay
when he first took charge, and now
the enrolments are far In excess OF
the accommodations. He woke that
college up.
AN OLD MAN IN THE CHURCH
AND HE'LL BE OLDER.
SIen. w. w. Skiddy Is Treasurer OF
the Episcopal General Convention and
has been for twenty-five years, dur
ing which time he has never beer
absent from a session He feels quite
sure that he will attend the next IN
J922 al Portland, Ore, notwithstand.
ing that both the convention anC
portland are a long way on,
DR.. Horace Percy Silver. rector OF
the Church OF the Incarnation a
sSth Street and Madison Avenue, wai
foromerly Chaplain A. West Point an,
at Fort Leavenworth, after serving
AZ Chaplain in the Regular Army 10
twelve years. He was elected BiBhol
Of Kansas and Bishop Of Texas. bu
refused both calls. preferring 20 re
main a simple rector.
Col. Arthur III. Woods, former Po
lice Commissioner, was one OF tn
SyEeSts at the banquet. The ColonC
has been made one OF the Commission