The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-01-13

The following utterances of the
Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, pre-
siding bishop Of the Episcopal ex-
ecutive council, is an important adj
dition of views on the present con-
dition of the world and the Christian
church, which has been presented in
symposium by the New York Her
aid during recent weeks,
The question of what the church
was doing to counterfeit the wave Of
wickedness sweeping around the
world became pertinent and pressing
when Fredric Harrison on his seth
birthday charged it with failure.
This symposium was started by an
article by the late Bishop Charles
Sumner Burch-7-his last public ut
terance-and continued by Bishop
Fredric Burgess, the Rev. William
T. Manning, the Rev, Percy Stickney
Grant and other New York clerics.
Bishop Gailor expresses his views
in his usual intelligent and forceful
manner:
"The profound unrest and perplexity
that pervade the world are very
largely the aftermath of the great
war. 1t would seem also that in the
presence Of appalling danger and
suffering human beings are tempted
to recklessness of thought and man
ners. Boccaccio and Bulwer have
given vivid pictures Of this effect
upon the minds yof men and women.
"Those who remember our civil
war in America will recall the crime
and license and financial disasters
that followed in its wake. And Prof.
Murray, of Oxford, has recently
called attention to the astonishing
parallel between the conditions Of
our world and those Of Greece and
Sparta after the Plenoponnesian war,
more than 1000 years ago.
"There is nothing in the outlook Of
modern civilization, with all the evils
in it which we must admit. that
should make us despair of the divine
destiny Of the human race. In fact,
there is beneath all the misery and
folly and unhappiness of it much to
cheer and encourage u.s. There were
never so MANY people in the world
who are interested and anxious about
the welfare of other people as there
are today. There was never such
real solicitude for the common good
as there is today, and the develop
ment Of that kind Of unselfishness
Is the hope Of the redemption Of the
human race.
"Of course I am not speaking
from the point Of view of Fredric
Harrison. / am speaking as Chris
tian. NY faith is strong and clear
that in Jesus Christ we have found
a revelation of the omnipotent God,
without whose will we could not
draw another breath and whose very
name is Love. and that call things
bright and dark and glad and sorrow
full are full Of the purposes Of His
COMMISSION
Therefore we look forward with
stout hearts, remembering our Mas
ters command, Don't be afraid; only
believe
"0f course this means work and
discipline and sacrifice for the men
and women who believe that they are
co-workers with God. And the
Christian churches are working as
they never did before. They are
drawing closer together in fraternal
intercourse. They are broadening
their vision Of responsibility and
duty, and they are exhibiting every
where splendid power Of heroic
sacrifice.
"The coming Of the kingdom Of
God may seem to be far off. There
are tremendous obstacles in the
wav There is ignorance to be dis
PEELED and selfishness to be overcome
and suffering to be relieved and sin
to be fought ard vanuuished But
to believe in that kingdom and to
work for it and to get the inspiration
Of 1t IS the only LASTING happiness
and thn n~Ixy xao1 s,.rAsrso,4t 49, -