The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-02-14
BISHOP BURNS
T0SPEAK HERE
AT N. E. CHURCH
His Address Tonight One of
Features of the Three-day
Conference of Church
MANY FINE SPEAKERS
"World Politics and Shantung
Question" is the Subject of
Perry o. Hanson
M A N Y FINE SPEAKERS

The peak of the three-day confer
ence of Methodists of tire Bismarck
district will be reached tonight at
the McCabe Methodist Episcopal
church when Bishop Charles Wesley
Burns, of the Helena area OF the
church, delivers an address at $3.50
p. NJ. on the subject, Forces in King
dom Building" Bishop Burns has
spoken in Bismarck before to large
audiences, and it is expected that the
auditorium of the McCabe Methodist
church will be filled tonight. At 7::3O
P. M. there will be an illustrated ad-
dress, "The Challenge of an Awaken
ed Church" Rev. S. F. Halfyard, pas
tor of the McCabe church, will pre-
side at tonight's session.
Reports made to the conference by
the various pastors of the Bismarck
district, Of which DR.. H. Styles Har-
riss is superintendent, reflected a
splenlid condition of the church gen.
orally. Reports made of the Centen-
ary drive and the church as whole
have been we'll received.
One Of the interesting speakers at
the conference is Perry 0. Hanson,
who has resided in Shantung, China,
since 1908. He was director Of Meth
odist educational institutions in the
province. Mr.. Hanson was to speak
late this afternoon on "World Poll
tics and the Shanturg Question" He
is familiar with the political, com
mercial and religious life of the Chin
ese province which was the seat Of
the most perplexing problem before
the recent disarmament conference.
Another interesting speaker is R. r.
Gornall, recently pastor at Pendleton,
Ore. He is a very forceful speaker,
and is home mission representative
of the area.
Bishop Burns said in part in an ad-
dress today. -, q" "''ss 80 4 - ~@-''s. a.
"Marquard speaks of the eternal
pathos of changing world A tragic
picture in modern life is the man from
whom the times have rolled away,
leaving him poor pathetic an
achronism,' bolstered up by the ideals
of another age. It is of such a man
that Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote,
who travelled on the strength of a
dead fact
eff we lived in a static world, there
would be no need to advance beyond
the methods and messages of the yes
terdays. This dynamic new age and
it's demands of the ministry.
Minister of Tomorrow
"The Minister of tomorrow will be:
Il. Narrow enough to be deep: His
narrowness, the narroWness Of the
prophet and the Christ who globed in
himself all life; sphered in himself
all racial hopes and dreams; He was
the one true cosmopolitan, yet was
narrow. He definitely delimited his
ministry, his kind of work, his field OF
work, his goal. Intellectuals disap-
pointed because of his narroWness
Men of patriotic ideals sneered be-
cause he did not adopt their pro
grams for reform. Became mighty
by limiting himself. Generated a
world power because generated in one
place His very narrOWneSS was
breadth. Not otherwise, the minister
of tomorrow gains large efficiency by
self limitation. Modern peril of doing
too many things. Scattered energies;
become pack horse of community
Major modern need, the stressing Of
the prophetic note. His supreme
task to bring God down to man and to
lift man up to God.
Will be Broad
2. He will be broad enough to he
social. He will recognize that Jesus
was the most modern man that ever
lived. Our world larger than the world
of the Fathers Accenting social char
acter of Christianity. Social ministry
in content and spirit. Church out
spilled in community. A church no
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