The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-16
Bishop Brewster Declares Prohibition
 Right Attitude

(COnt1nued From Page One) chief matter is the service of all our people, including laymen and women, each in his or her vocation and min istry. Let me again express my own personal apprehension of what may, unless we take care that it shall not, result from the increasing tendency
 to organization. In the diocese it has been any endeavor faithfully to carry out, so far as in me lay, the action of our last convention. We have had number of meetings of the execu- tive council. Its members have ap- piled themselves diligently to their duties, not always found plain, as prescribed by the Canon adopted a year ago. Confidently I hope in time to see results to vindicate the inStitu- tion of the council. Personality is not realized in isolation. It is full filled in social relations, which natur- ally involve organization. Amidst all our efforts to get things done, it is to be remembered that after all we should chiefly aim not at things but at persons and that the purpose of the Church's work should be to'bring men, women and children on and up into the full freedom of personality which comes of obedience to Christ and likeness to Him. Amidst the confusion and unrest, the diSquieting and bewildering perplexities of our time, sounds the voice of the person al Christ to men and women. The solution of our problems lies primar- fly in recognition of His authority. Those problems begin to be solved there are applied to human life the principles He laid down. We have had recently at Washington disclosed a vision of international relations as they might be if regulated by the principle of human brotherho ood
 IndustriaIism
 .'The questions arising in social and industrial relations have not only their economic but also an ethical import, an aspect not merely material but, moreover. human and so, person al. Essential in Christ's teaching is priceless value of personality ire spsctive of circumstance or condition. This means that the industrial system is not to be an end in itself. It may well be that what is to be feared and counteracted is not the capitalism we hear about so much as it is what I may call industrialism, using the word in an unwonted but, I think, legiti- its own sake, that is to say for the sake of the things produced or the gain getting therefrom, instead of in dustry for man, a means of service to his nature and needs, with human in- terestS always supreme.
 '"The teaching of Christ condemns the class interest which puts class and the class antagonisrn which ar rays man against man. Instead, His teaching would bring man in touch with his brother man and putting himself in the others place. The church's best contribution to the life of collective humanity today is to be not in advertising vaunted panaceas and programmes but in touching and moving tho hearts of it's members to look on the burdens of others and in uplifting, deepening and consecrating their personal, that is spiritual life, and furnishing spiritual power to carry forward toward fulfillment the purposes of God for human life and society.
 Religious Training.
 "To say this is to say something that fraught with practical import and demands definite endeavor. There zion which should begin with the young. There is nothing more inn portant for us in America than re- ligious education. Over and above I have long felt and urged that there ought to be time given for religious on some weekdays, either by arrangement with Education boards that the children may be with drawn from public school for an hour or two or by using extra hours
 "Something like training is needed for older persons There is need of much more than has been sometimes aimed at in pulpit discourses. The increasingly felt value of the method of conference ought to increase our faith in the possibilities involved in the World conference on questions of Faith and Order, now appointed to be held at Washington in 1925 For this great event, there should be earnest preparation by prayer and by group conferences about which you may hear in the autumn.
 My Brethren: The thought which underlies this address and which I leave with you. is the soleInnity of personal life today as a stewardship confronted by the inspiring oppor- tunities of a time of momentous crisis"