Evening star., 1922-08-05
Sunday Moviies and Base Ball
All Right, Says Bishop 7uttle
Women Changed But
Little in 90 Years,
He Claims.
Veteran Prelate to
Preside at General
Convention Soon.


THE young women of today do not
differ greatly from those of sixty
years ago. Give them your hand: give
them your heart, and pray God to
bless them.
Go to the graves of the brave.
honored dead. and learn that the
world constantly grows better.
prohibition has worked great good.
and the sense and sanity CT the
American people can be depended
upon to adjust what loss OF personal
liberty it has entailed.
Why not; if their devotees have first
discharged their religious obfiga-
tions? Do not let US make religion
repellant.
United States? take it from
Shakespeare: Let all the ends thou
aimst at be thy country's, they Gods
and truths, then, If thou fallst. y
Cromwell, thou fallst blessed mar
tyr
thus Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tut
tie. D. D., oldest active churchman In
the United States, and st1ll an optl-
mist at eighty-five, says.
When the gavel falls at Portla nd,
Ore. September s, calling to order the
forty-seventh triennial general con-
Nention of the Episcopal Churcn, OF
which he is the presiding bishop.
there will be no more picturesque
and commanding parsonage IN at
tendance than this venerable prelate.
alert, vigorous, hardy, and as up-to-date
and progressive as the youngest blsn
op in the church. In that great BODY
of the princes of the church known
nt hi
the Oldest in age as well as in serv.
ice. 1t will be the nineteenth or
these triennial conventions that ne
has attended. and the event VIII
mark the rounding out OF the hity-
i've years of his ep;scopate.
Bishop Tuttle was born near Elmira.
n Y In his seminary days he was
noted alike for his studious ways ana
his great physical strength; whlcn
has not vet departed from the tan;
broad frame Of the waite-bearoeo ana
pasriarchal bishop.
We get an idea of the Kind OF man
he was from an incident which occur
red just after he had taken orders.
back in the middle sixties. while he
was riding in Il New York bus. "A
woman among the passengers OBJ
iected to the cigar OF netghbor.
When the latter persisted, young Tut
tie requested him to stop when the
smoker still persisted. Tuttle took his
cigar away lTOit Ill -
out of the window. Half an hour
later on Fulton ferry boat the
smoker approached the black. .garbed
priest with IL companion ana aimed
blow at his head. Two minutes later
both the smoker and his companion
lay PROSTATE on the deck.
Il merely meant to push them
aside" exclaimed young Tuttle, Il
wasn't aware that had put so much
strength into the effort"
ing a stage-coach journey through
the wilds of Idaho western bully.
obiecting to the sanity appearance
of the bishop. announced ms lntention
to kill Tuttle at the next STOP Wnen
the stop vas made Iuttle was intlteu
and seized the bad man by the collar
out of him by dousing him in water
ing trough.
Made Missionary Bishop.
This was the sort of man whom the
Episcopal Church elected in 1867 to
take charge of the newly created mis-.
sionary district of Utah, Idaho ana
Montana. He was but twenty-nlne
years old and had to wait a year until
he could qualify as, a bishop.
Bishop Tuttle was recently asked
about the progress of the world In
those fifty years which have elapsed.
Has the world made good? he re-
peated rs 1t a better world tnan
it was? Go to the graves OF our
question. Dull. indeed. will be our
ears and miserably blunted our ap-
prehension, if we hear not from the
deeps within. If not with our outward
cars. that self-devotion and self
sacrifice have brought upliftings into
life. and have bettered and broad
ened and ennobled and blest human
existence.
Folks say The young people are
going astray. they turn away from
the sober and Thoughtful things and
to the pleasures and excitements OF
life as to things worth while Some
do doubtless. Go into homes, the
schools and churches and take note.
You will find, l dare avouch, among
the boys. strong and sound notions
toward adventure for the good and
outstretchings and to do something
TO help On in the strange job Of
human life. and in the girls. even
from the time of their dollies up
springfngs Of motherhood that Is
shut within them, the desire to be Of
selfish and helpful. The young are
not all going astray.
Not a Teetotler.
and about prohibition. I am not
teetotler, I never have been. But
let US walk a bit through the streets
of st. Louis or New York. Do you
see any drunken men? Do any
drunken men jostle against; US?
Five years ago on such a walk to-
gether our eyes would have been
offended and our persons would have
been jostled on almost every block.
Is not such a change a foundation
fact in favor of prohibition? And
If you and l will go into homes and
watch women and children, where
the demon Of drink did its worst
havoc. will we not score one with
firm hand in favor Of Prohibition
He vigorously decried the divorce
evil. at breaks up homes" he
thundered. 'it hurts children. 1t en-
bodies in itself a maglignant force
well fitted, not only to ruin their
lives. but even to put in danger the
life OF the state. Church and state
alike should do all that may be law
fully possible to protect children in
their helplessness and to save to the
home it's sacredness"
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