New Britain herald., 1922-05-16
BISHOP BREWSTER
 DELIVERS ADDRESS
Is Attending EpiScopalian Confer.
 enCe at Hartford

Hartford, May l6.-Thc annual lconNention of the Episcopalian diocese of Connecticut Is being held today and will continue tomorrow at Christ church cathedral in this city. The hour of opening was at o'clock with prayers and address by Bishop Chaun- cey E. Brewster. as follows;
 Authority of Law.
 The outbreaks of crime that now shock the public are largely the result of mere lawlessness. It is a time 10 recall our people to the right attitude toward law. A certain law 1t may be, is in some particulars not 10 your lik- ing. That is no reason for opposing or evading its enforcement We must stand today for the authority and ma iesty of law.
 Multiplication of Machinery.
 When all is said. chief matter Is the service of all our people, including laymen and women, each in his or her vocation and ministry, Let me again express my own personal apprehen- sion of what may, unless we take care that it shall not, result from the ln- creasine tendency to organization. The tendency may be traced perhaps to the reaction from individualism to- ward collectivism and to the prevail ing regard for efficiency. At any rate, the machinery of organization has come to he q most conspicuous object of attention and endeavor. This We cannot he blind to in the church at large today. In the diocese 1t has been my endeavor faithfully to carry out, so far as in me lay. the action of our last convention We have had a num- Der of meetings of the executive coun- cil Its members have applied them selves diligently to their duties, not always found plain. as prescribed by the canon adopted year ago. Conf1- denty l hope in time to see results to vindicate the institution of the coun- cil. ....#
 Personality Essential.
 It will not be amiss however, to re- mind ourselves what is the main fac tor in human life and in the life of the church, namely, the personal fac tor. Personality is not realized in iso- lation. It is fulfilled in social rela tions, which naturally involve organi zation. Yet let us make sure that in developing and running the machinery of organization and seeing that the wheels go round, we do not forget the spirit in the wheels, but remember the essential factor. which is spiritual and personal. Amidst all our effort 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 Tree dom of personality which comes of obedience to Christ and likeness to Him. In that great passage touching the church and it's ministry, the pur- pose of all the offices. the end of the organization and its operation, the work of ministering, the building up of the body of Christ, is clearly the development of personality; It'll we all attain unto the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son Of God unto a full grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ"
 Must Recognize God.
 Turning from the individual person to human society we find that per sonal tissue is the stuff whereof so- ciety is composed. Amidst the confu- sion and unrest, the dsquieting and bewildering perplexities of our time. sounds the voice of the personal Christ to men and women. The solution of our problems lies primarily in recog hilton of His authority. These prob lems begin to be solved as there are applied to human life the principles He laid down. We have had recent at Washington disclosed a vision of international relations as they might be regulated by the principle of hu- man brotherhood taught by Christ.
 Industrialism
 The questions arising in social and industrial relations have not only their economic but also an ethical import, an aspect not merely ma teral but, moreover, human and so, personal Essential in Christ's teach ing is the dignity of human nature and the priceless value of personality irrespective of circumstance or condi- ton. This means that the industrial system is not to be an end in itself.