New Britain herald., 1919-05-20
BISHOP BREWSTER
 TALKS 0N LEAGUE
For America to Stay Out Is
 I6noble, He Says

New Haven. May 2o--Bishop 1 Brewster addressing the Episcopal ! convention here today, spoke in favor of a League of Nations.
 Tn his address Bishop Brewster said relating to league of nations: "The worlds hope of a righteous and abid- ing peace lies in the reconstruction of the law of nations in a new au- thority. Such authority can be se- cured only through cooperation of 1 the nations. It has been demon- 1 strated that international law must 1 be invested with an authority more | binding than the conclusions of the Hague conference. The cooperation of the nations. therefore, must be in some association together having the character of covenant or league.
 The opinion that America should hold aloof and let the rest of the world go to destruction is ignoble. It is also futile, for the fate of this na- ton is for good or ill bound up with that of the rest of the world. Amer lea can no longer be isolated. Con- ditions differ widely from those under which Washington warned against 'entang gling alliances This is a dis entansling covenant which aims at freedom from the ills he feared for his country.
 To this idea of a covenanted CO., operation of nations in the securing of righteousness and peace the church IS bound to render support, bound to do so in simple loyalty to it's own Catholic ideals of a human fellow ship transcending national and racial limits.
 The Church Work in the World.
 AS we look off upon the world at large, let it be without dismay or faithless foreboding. A world upon which had been precipitated such a, catastrophe could not recover at once from it's effects. It is truly a tre- mendous time, fraught with terror for timidity but to the courage of faith bright with the vision of spIen- did possibilities
 Tt is just now the popular fash ion to caricature and then criticize l the temper and attitude of the ! church. Criticism is an easy substi- 1 tute for constructive thinking. Ger | tatnly in time like the present pe- l r1od ot transition and reconstruction It IS not for the church to have the backward look of an antiquarian so- clety or to cherish the istless com plaisancy of a comfortable clug. It l is a time for the church to be awake and alert to imperative demands of l opportunity, and sensitively respon- l sive to the prophetic spirit brooding l over the chaos and out of its con-
 fusion bringing in the better things l to come. It is the time for thorough l survey of the situation confronting us 1 and of our means and methods. Ac- l cordingy for the mems dinner to- 1 night l announce as the general sub- ject: The Church and Industrial Re l lation.' It is a time to be empha- | sizing a great essential principle of ! Christianity and to be ready to move l forward in the light and the might
 Of Christian truths regarding God ! and man.
 1 Tt is, I am convinced, a time to 1 be aware of putting over much de- l pendence upon financial resources
 and worldly methods. An officer re- 1 gently returned from France a 1 churchman, telling of the various { agencies at work there, at length said: Ahead of them all, better than
 the Y. M. c. A., the Red Cross and all
 the agencies with all their money
 was the Salvation Army Some | thing of this we have heard before l The reason however, the officer gave was this: Because, he said, the Sal ! vation Army always had back of what
 it did, deep and high spiritual con-
 victons.'
 To-day for the churches work in
 the world 1t is not much money that
 we are to depend upon. it is the pow
 CT of profound conviction. We need
 more of faith and of prayer Not by
 might nor by power, but My Spirit ] saith the Lord of Hosts. May He
 give us of his spirit to know His will and do it.
 Necrology Roll Call.
 In opening his address Bishor
 Brewster read the necrology of the di- | ocese for the year mentioning a 1 length the pastoral relations of eacf
 clergyman and layman to the diocese
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