Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-01-04
HOLD UNION
SERVICES At HIGH SCHOOL
Bishop krator Delivers Address ON
IrUnouuCCmcHt of Lambeth
Conference.

Conference.
The union service &C the churches
Of Oil mpia at the High School AUDI
forum last Sunday evening was
attention by splendid audience anG
the address by Bishop kea,or was
masterpiece of timely discuss on of
modern times. The address was
based somewhat upon the pronounce-
ments of the Lambeth Conference in
London the past summer, IA meeting
at which all the bishops of the Angel
can church were in attendance.
Owing to the results of the war and
the entirely new conditions created
prepare the church TO meet its obi
cations to the public and thus per-
form its duty to mankind
Bishop keator is a logician and q
keen observer of men and of social
tendencies. His address was thern.
fore startling in some of it's state
ments and conclusions, but so fault
less was his recital of facts and de
auctions therefrom that he was most
convincing
Selfishness and Force caused the
war Not all of these evils were in
one nation-though we are apt to
say that one autocratic nation caused
the war. The same evils of selfish
ness and force cause all disturbances
in the industrial world
Fellowship is the real secret OF
human life. Fellowship which God
first and then with man. The failure
to have fellowship with one anothur
always follows the failure to have
fellowship with God.
The Commandment " Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
might and thy neighbor as
thyself" is the answer to all the mod
ern chaos in the political and indus
trial world.
Those who talk of going back to
normal are prating idly of an i'm
possiblity-pre-war social structure
was destroyed and we perforce must
look for the coming Of new day.
He gave definition Of the practice
of democracy, as follows: ITO do
justly. love mecry and walk humbly."
The key to the industrial situation is
, the restoration of fellowship. The
stewardship idea of the ownership OF
property was enlarged upon. Prop
erty, he said, belongs to men only so
long as they are using it.
Pay for service must include re.
spect for the man who does the SER
vice.
Industry is and ought to be fell
lowship between employers and en-
ployed. No man has right to take
human life and use it as machine to
: grind out more dollars. Neither has
J labor organization the right to force
) more thon they can given in return.
. The first principle the church must
; insist upon is brotherhood.
Democracy is not a form of gov
} eminent it is spirit; the right of
man to live life up to the best of
J which he is capable.
Human life is of vastly more i'm
portance than property. Neither
: capital nor labor has right to control
regardless of the other
These were some of the salient
points brought out by the mastery
address.
The union service was presided
over by Rev. r. H. Edmonds, presi-
dent of the Ministerial Alliance. The
music by the high school orchestra
was directed by J. c. Gerwick, and
congregational singing !, was from
hymns printed on the programs.
Rev. r. Franklin Hart of st. Johns
Episcopal church. Rev. Charles True
Goodsell of the First Baptist church,
Rev. A. H. Lathrop Of the First NJ. Il.
church, Rev. F.. B. Huffman of the
Christian church, and Rev. T. H.
Simpson of the United Churches also