The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-18
CHURCH NFLUENCE WILL HEAL WAR TORN
 NATIONS OF WORLD
Inspiring Addresses Made at College of Bishops-ViSi- tors to Occupy Local
 PuIpitS Sunday

Tn programme emphasizing Christian education, Bishop W. N. Ainsworth and Bishop E. D. Mouzon delivered inspiring messages last evening to an at- tentive audience at the First Methodist church.
 1 The opering devotional was inpres. siVely conducted by Bishop Collins Den ny, who presided over the second open session of the college of bishops. As a first consideration Bishop Denny paid loving tribute to his colleague. the late Bishop Joseph Stanton Key. which was followed by the beautiful memoir read by Bishop Ainsworth
 Introduced as the first speaker on ..'The Christian Education Movement,' Bishop Ainsworths address stressed the fact that the world is opening it's doors wido today in invitation to the church to ap- ply Christianity to a world problem.
 Though easy to deplore the confusion and degeneracy that seem to follow in the wake of war, the bishop believes that the nations will he healed and bound together. not merely by a league of nations, but by some vital process that comes out of the gospel and doc Urine of Jesus Christ
 
 and appropriate the life of Jesus Bishop Ainsworth eloquently proclaimed sthe urgency of the Christian church under taking the education of the race through the home. the pulpit, the Sunday school and the college.
 The speaker suggested that Germany's ideal of education that brought culture without Christ was a false ideal, and that Christian schools were the only of c1rn for briS lea ship in the church and in state. As a confession of faith, the bishop said, in substance. that he believed in the Methodist campaign for s33,000,0o0 as the response of the church to meet the present world crisis by bringing the up- rising generations under the influence of Christian education
 Further emphasizing the need for the church to take a greater part in the ed- ucation movement were Bishop Muzon's clear and convincing statements based upon the commission given by the great teacher. Jesus, when He said;
 Go ye and make disciples of all men, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and 10. I am with you always. even to the consum mation of the age" The "teach- ing" church, the bishop pointed out. is the church that is to live, because the perpetual presence of Christ is prom sed to it alone.
 Bishop Mouzon expressed the belief that Christian education is method Of evangelism in bringing men under the power of the gospel of the Son of God As chairman of the local committee Rev. John D. Simpson caused a ripple of merriment when he read the ''ap- pointment" his committee had made for the bishops. He stated that the Method- ist pulpts of the city Sunday morning and evening will be filled as follows
 Morning services: Highlands, Bishop Hendrix; First church, Bishop Me- Murry; Eleventh Avenue, Bishop Ains- worth; Woodlawn, Bishop Mouzon; Nor wood Bishop Darlington; Avondale, Bishop Cannon; Walker Memorial, Bishop Atkins; Ensley, Bishop Murrah. Evening services: West Woodlawn, Bishop Ainsworth; Highlands. Bishop Mouzon; First church Bishop Atkins The public is invited to attend these services.
 An invitation was also extended the public by Dr. George R. Stuart to att tend the reception this afternoon from to o'clock given by the women of the city mission board at the Eva Conner Co., operative home in honor of the distin- guished visitors represented in the col lege of bishops.