Evening star., 1923-11-21

| SOui HdU no 1ur1SQlcIlOn.
! along Its unchristian way and aban-
| dons the world beyond our own con-
hnes to a situation that grows more
| perllous with each succeeding hour
Difference Of mind we may have
as to method. Judgment we must
| exercise as to the conditions under
| which our aid shall be given, but to
deny the principle Of some form of
| federation of great sovereign pow
ers In the interests OF harmony and
| good will means to impertl our own
| security and ultimately to deprive US
of both the privileges and oppor-
tunities Of leadership among the ma
| tlons Of the world.
"A great moral issued is presented
! to US of America today. 1t is social
service expressed in world terms;
social service that may approximate
| more nearly the ideals Of Christ than
anything that has gone before.
Shall il be lost because IT is made
| the sport of selhshly ambitious poll
| ticfans. lost because the Christian
church is too timid to give it's whole
| hearted support to some plan. whether
\ it be a court for the adjudication of
international differences or a finely
conceived association of nations in
the councils of which angry and hot
! tempered disputapts shall find that
which reconciles and restores har-
mony?
"The voice of united church, un-
| trammeled by party or racial sec
this very critical time. in the interests
of universal brotherhood than has
! been afforded it at any period in
human history.
BE ii said to our shame that many
| of the reforms that have been effected
in our day have come into being
without the church's aid" he con-
tinued.
IF we would recover the influence
| that has largely passed from us. we
must with fixity of conviction and
unity of purpose, cost what 1t may,
align ourselves with those who are
| seeking to make this world a better
and filter place in which to live" he
said. The church must either do
| this or abdicate its place as a direct
ing and controlling factor in the vital
| concerns of men"
Prohibition Indifference.
Bishop Freeman declared that as a
great agency the church was con-
spicuousiy supine and Indifferent to
the evils which the liquor traffic had
brought upon this country.
mo defniteness of purpose or unity
[ of action characterized the church's
course" he said. AT length. for rea-
sons other than those the church
avowed, this blighting curse was ex-
tirpated and for the first time in
human history great sovereign
power enacted law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicant
liquors.
True. there have been difficulties
attending its enforcement. even as
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opinion concerning the law itself.
Notwithstanding all this, the law ex-
lists and finds its authority in a con-
Stitutional amendment.
| Here is a field of action worthy
of our best statesmanship and our
finest generalship. While our ideas
and ideals OF social service are
tempting us into fields in which the
very complexity of the situation calls
for expert knowledge. fields in which
we frequently blunder and tragically
fail, here is one that affects every
fireside, every man, woman and
child in the nation, yet we remain
strangely silent If not deliberately in
different.
"As matter of fact. our very
supineness may be justly taken as
to those who fiaunt our laws and
make travesty of so-called con-
stituted authority. If the Christian
church in its conception OF social
service has no voice. no hHed con
viction on this vitality important
question. it hardly behooves her TO
| enter other domains where neither
her vice nor her authority is acknowl-
edged"
a reception 70 the visiting bishops
and deputies is TO be held at 5 o'clock
this afternoon at the bishops house.
followed by buffet supper in the
ST. Alban parish hall.
Reports of the conference of exam
| ,irc oh received
morning session of the synod at
Epiphany parish hall. Resolutions on
the death of the late Bishop Harding
of this diocese are being drawn up by
a special committee.
There will be mass meeting at
o'clock tonight at the Church of the
Epiphany in the interests OF social
service Rev. Dean Charles y. Lathrop
will speak.
Urge L. s. to Enter World Court.
The synod. at the afternoon session
yesterday, following the appeal made
by Bishop Mann of Pittsburgh at the
communion service opening the ses-
| sions in the morning, adopted resolu-
| tions urging the entry of the United
States into the international Court OF
Justice.
"This synod urges upon the Presi-
dent and Senate that the United
States become signatory~ to the Per-
manent Court of International Justice
! Ine ftdSue, thereby th'
moral support of this country to the
side of the appeal to reason rather
than the appeal to force in the set
| tlement of international disputes"
! Messages of sympathy were ordered
| sent to the Greek orthodox bishops of
| Moscow and Constantfnople. deprived
of their positions by the soviet and
the national Turks.
| At the mass meeting held last night
at the Church of the Epiphany. in the
Interest of religious education Bishop
| William Cavell Brown of Virginia
presiding, Rev. William l.. Gardner.
speaking on The Youth Movement"
said that the church must MAKE
young men and women know they
can think as freely about religion as
about radio.
Young people today are tired of the
belief that good times and religion
will not mix, and that one must wear
a long face to be good. The present
youth movement" he said. is fac
ing the equality of sex, the old segre
cation of the sexes in young peoples
organizations having passed out. He
recommended the fostering OF young
lpeople's organizations by the churches
Religious Education Among Ne
groeS' was discussed by Rev. James
S. Russell, archdeacon for colored
; work in the diocese OF southern Viz
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