The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-29

| familiarity (that b1ShOp'S), one Whlc1 | sheds such modesty that even the children do not know whether or not he is a great man. Rather common, however, that old story of the "pro- phet not without honor" We know who our bishop is in Alaska. I am far from citing him as the particular aforesaid prophet We value him highly, so does the author of Heroes of Today" now does the little girl. It would be presumptuous for me to write an article pitying him. Fools pity great men. It wouldn't look well for me as editor of The Alaskan Church man to exploit the bishop. Neverthe- less, I'm doing it, come what may. He'll probably tell me to GO Easy" | But before he comes I'm going strong, that is as strong as I am able. We read good deal during the past year, of recruiting the ministry and many reasons are given (from cush- toned seats), why strong young men do not enter it. The articles which have come to my notice have been ] written by prominent parish priests or by professors or deans of theologi- l cal seminaries. Probably they are better writers than I and I am quite sure, bigger men. But take the prob 1 lem quite as seriously, have the oppor tunity of expressing myself also and write with hope of offering construc- | tive criticism.
 1 If you are a professor in a New England theological seminary or New York rector, possibly your req sons for young men not entering the ministry may apply-but supposing l that you are someone else. l am, view gained from the churches frontier may be enlightening. l hope that it is a clear one and that the voice from the wilderness will be heard. Dr. McComb says in The | Churchman for March 4th that "The y to be an ecclesiastical business man, ardently busy in serving tables. He touches his parishoners at one or | two points and these mainly external. Along such lines, no wonder the cleri- | cal office often proves a dire futility, | flat, stale and unprofitable. Young men today hesitate to enter the min
 istry of any of our churches not pri- marily because of the meagre material outlook but because the work seems hardly to measure up to the standard of virile. heroic manhood. It can ap- peal to the spirit of youth, of courage, 1 of high adventure only when it is seen to be the medium by which spiritual ! energy is transmitted nightly to the | overflow of the standing discourage ments, the crippling and depressing maladies that beset the frail life of man." Since this paragraph has creat- ed no furore it must be taken as the truth, that is so far as Cambridge, l Mass, and the N. Y. Churchman read CTS are concerned.
 The clergy which the young men" mentioned therein see, do not meas ure up to the standard of virile, heroic manhood.
 You do not often see men occupying the pulpits of our most prominent churches, fail. They make good bishops, they are big enough for l the jobs. Theological professors die in their chairs, seldom in the mission field. The strong young men look 1 up to them and turn away, the vision does not thrill them. Admittedly, in the quotation above, they lack virility and heroism sufficient to fire with Christian enthusiasm the ambitions of young men.
 read a few days ago somewhere, that Bishop Brooks recommended as a tonic for weak parish, that it take up a collection for foreign missions. This would be his first step towards bringing it to life. Here we have an outstanding figure, one which would fire young men and one which said something. Massachusetts knew ill his time what was the matter, for he told them, but they have evidently for gotten it or didn't believe it.
 1 The reason why young men are not going into the ministry today is that we are lacking in missionary enter prise. Some big men are in the mis- sion field, but most of the big men are not. Some are pretending to try to find out why young men do not enter | the ministry. The mission field is still