The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
shop Burch Differs With Harrison as to Worlds Morals
Prelate Sees Many Evils CHASING Immodest
Dress of Women as the Worst, But Scouts
Idea of Civilizations Ruin

view. The venerable thinker amplihed 1t
by the following articles:
1.-The boom IN education has not
brought any nobier literature. any greater
art any purer drama. any finer manners.
ia leisured class able to study In
peace and to produce from its learning IL
being abolished by the mad whirl of mod
ern existence
HI.-eerious literature Is being choked
out by the increased cost Of printing
IV.-The churches have not shown any
power to restore religion to its true place
as the guide OF human life.
Then the pessimistic philosopher draws
conclusions in the words that follow:
The result of this chaos In spiritual and
moral training is manifest loosening of
the canons Of moral life defiance of discp-
line by the young md ambitious mockery
Of age and all the lessons of age. Worst OF
all, the sacrifice of the family as a moral
institution and the degradation OF marriage
to be temporary partnership entered into
as frivolous mode of getting a good time
and to be cast of as easily as lodging
which is not convenient"
Bishop Declares Evil Cannot Triumph.
1t was to be expected that Bishop Burch
should single out from the interview the
points that Viewed the churches with the
eye Of criticism. And he said:
Two hundred and flfty-two bishops, rep
resenting the most diverse dioceses from all
over the world. studied the moral problems
confronting the world. some of them peren-
NAL. some Of them outgrowths Of the war
studied them faithfully and prayerfully
having no personal ambition to foster, no
propaganda except true Christianity to
xuhi lob
for human document is well-nigh perfect
In that it proposes remedies for the unrest
the uncertainty that 1t discovered every
where. A body OF finer statesmen than was
present at Lambeth Palace has never as
sembled, and its utterances show how pure
and unselfish are the aims Of the churches.
These aims are not comprehended in the
Episcopal clergy only; non-conformists of
every creed, Of every shade Of belief (all
being processing Christians), share these
aims.
And the churches after the return of their
leaders to their homes are doing all that
they can do to carry out the programme to
better conditions spiritual and moral In the
world.
II consider the present to be a time Of
anxiety. period Of unrest, perhaps unprec-
edented in degree. but we have passed
through such periods before and we shall
pass through THIS one. i regret the peSS1-
mistic view: 1t is both false and unsafe. The
world, however slowly 1t progresses, does
progress-upwardi
Sometimes we cannot see this upward
tendency; our eyes are gifted but with finite
vision. but we have history to read. and it's
lesson is one that teaches this certain safe
and sure Improvement of the world
THE church is doing everything 1t can to
help the world to rise and throw off its rest
lessness. Its aim is inspiration and that feel
ing 1t does not lack now any more than at
any previous period.
There is no question but that evil powers
are abroad in the world, but they are not
getting the upper hand. and these powers
never will triumph. Beside the forces of good
which 1t is the object of the church to call
into battle with them the forces of evil are
ephemera."
1t was suggested to Bishop Burch that he
should go into detail and describe some Of
the ways that the churches are adopting to
counteract the evils 'et loose by the war.
more concrete statement. it was hinted