The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-17
NOTED ORATORS
AT conference
Eminent Speakers of the
Anglican Faith Urge
Breadth in the Policies Of
the Church.
cONcLAVE IS INSPIRING
Kenoshan In Attendance AT Racine
Gathering Reviews the Sessions Of
the Current Weex and Comments
On Their Significance.

That the Church Workers Confer
ance now in session at Racine is one
of the highwater marks in the history
of the Episcopal Church in Wisconsin
and the Middle West is evidenced by
the following account Of this week $
sessions furnished by a Kenosla eler-
gyman Of the Anglican faith:
Sunday was the climax, wonderful
in every way and filled with inspira-
ton. The early service was in reality
a Corporate Communion of the Confer
ence. AT eleven O'Clock. Bishop Bur-
ieso nof South Dakota preached, sum
m.ng up the week visualizing and re-
Iating all the spiritual and material
means which lead and carry US to God
In the afternoon Community Song
Service was held under the trees lead
by Dean Lutkin, and at which Bishop
WISE preached, throwing down the
challenge to the Church, that the
Church should and could protect the
child life Of the nation in it's develop
ment ,spiritualize the home and pro-
teet it, and let the statesmen realize
that the Church demands the founda-
tion of craftsmanship in honor and hon
esty.
In the evening the Rev. Dr.. Geo.
Craig Stewart, of Evanston preache
and threw down the challenge that the
Church demand and lead in spiritualiz-
ing the highest conception Of our
ealth in the nation; that the 1.-THE
belongs to God.
Among the many leaders that Lave
helped to set the Conference on fire
with enthusiasm is the Rev. DR.. Geo.
Atwater Of Akron, Ohio. His course
might be named Face and Facts In
a very keen. analytical and clear way
he has put before the Conference the
Church 8 need of reorganization. He
emphasized the need of National
Federal Council which should be an adj
ninistratiye body. This Council should
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or development Of religious work, I'M
der national control, in industrial and
educational centers. This council
should be continually in session, and
sh' uld secure the services of experts
IN each department. of Church life. He
alsC advocated great training school
for laymen, which should prepare men
for work in the Church, in education,
social service and work for boys. The
federal council should prepare hand
book of information about the Church.
which could be spread broadcast, and
give accurate knowledge of the Church
Zone Of the most forceful Of all
the speakers Of the Conference is the
Rev. Geo. Richardson Of Logansport,
Indiana. His course on the Old Test
ement Brought up to Date, is both
stimulating and most valuable. He
said 1.-THE Church today is facing two
alternatives: Shall we continue to hold
fast to the old view of the Old Teste-.
luent, accepting its various parts as
of equal value, regarding it practically
as the equal of the New Testement. still
saying that it must be accepted as final
in science, history, philosophy and
and morals, thus driving the intelligent
laity out of our church, or shall we fol
low the light Of the new age and teach
our people that in the Old Testament
we have the record Of a revelation
given in the life and history a grow
ING people, q revelation given accord
ing to the intellectual and moral ca
pacity of the peaple. To teach this
latter view is to settle at once the So
called Biblical problems. Lower (text-
Iual) criticism has today given us the
text of the Old Testement almost iden
tically as it left the hand of the first
writer's. Higher (literary) criticism
has enabled us to interpret the Old
Testement literature according to
proper literary canons so that we need
not read poetry for science or folk lore
for strict history, Archaeology has
shed new light on almost every chap
Ter until today we know even the in
cident of the environment of the Old
Testament writer's. The Bible as an
oriental book written in the orient By
crientals of the long ago. How shall
we study ita From our or their stand
points Criticism and Archaeology en-
able US to study the literature from the
Writer'S standpoint
And yet all intellectual study is Of
little value unless it leads a fuller APP
probation of the fact of revelation.
The new view demands moral attitude.
IL God has worked thus and so, how