The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-15
BISHOP JOHNSON
WAS ENTERTAINED
MOSCOW CITIZENS AT THE DIN.
NER IN GUILD HALL HEAR
GOOD ADDRESS

1t 1T takes a sea breeze to move
the Episcopal ark, as has been said
they certainly got it from Bishor
Johnson" said Rev. W. H. Bridge
when telling of the dinner given the
distinguished visitor at Guild hall last
night, which was attended by about
100 persons who sat down to supper
and afterwards listened to number
of instructive speeches.
Abe Goff, Episcopal delegate to the
recent Des Moinne conference gave a
brief informal report of his expert
ences at that conference. Prof. H
Il. Lewis spoke also of the great con-
ference when some 5000 university
students and thousand Christian
workers from all over the world
gathered. Mr.. Lewis said that the
fact impressed upon him was that of
the solidarity of human interests.
I'VE In Moscow are Immediately af-
fected by what happens in the life of
the most backward peoples in the re
motest corners of the earth. Our life
was turned upside down by the muir
der of an obscure prince in Europe in
r 1914. We cannot get away from our
responsibility; the word foreign is
misnomer; the extension of Christi
anity to backward peoples is a con-
cern to US from the point of view of
our national welfare" Mr.. Lewis
said that he and Mr.. Goff had had =
long conference with Paul Nixon, of
New York, who has charge of the
work among students Of the Episco-
pal church and that Mr.. Nixon had
heartily approved the Moscow scheme
to build home for the students and
had promised to do all he could to
forward the proposition.
Bishop johnson commenced a DOW
erful speech with series of telling
anecdotes which put his audience in
very risible condition. "What is
Christianity 2" he asked. "It isn't
playing on the harp of the emotions;
it isn't score of other things. It's
loving the person you don't like and
doing the thing you don't want to.
Christianity isn't on trial; you're on
trial. The world is not offended by
the good deeds of Jesus Christ, or
the beautiful things he said; it is of
tended by the personal demands he
makes. God doesn't want your gifts;
what you do is worth about as much
to him as what your five year old boy
is in your business. When he comes
and says, Dad, l want to help Well,
you give him a job but what YOU
value is not the job, but the boy. If
your factory is burning down, you'd
let the old thing burn to save the
kids life. What you value is the boy
not the business. What God values
is you. What he asks for is you, your
whole self. Religion is just that;
nothing less and the mistake we are
making is in trying to popularize
religion. The man who wants to
make music popular and gets up
Jazz band gets the popularity all
right but he misses the music" Bis
hop johnson spoke of the nationwide |
as an effort, not to raise |
money, or pull crowds but to awake
the Episcopal constituency to an at
titude of devotion to the master; if I
this happened the other things would
follow.
DR.. Lindley spoke on behalf of the
student home plan of St. Marks
church, as the concrete business ex-
preston OF the spirit Of service which
The Bishop had been talking of.
The meeting was very enthusiastic
and the chairman (Rev. W. H.
Bridge) expressed confident hope
hat the visit Of the Bishop would
'ear concrete as well as spiritual re-
suits.