Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-05-06

ties of religion we shall not fail to
keep that inspiration which has car
ried US through nearly $50 years.
May l extend to you and TO that
vast body of communicates and ad-
herents represented by you my pro-
found appreciation of their good
wishes and of their support of our
Government and its Chief Executive?
May we all he endowed with the spirit
of our Creator and with His wisdom
TO meet the duties which He has set
for us to perform"
Praising President Coolidge for his
consistent devotion to the duties of
his office. Bishop Berry said: I'm the
name of nearly $4,000 900 members
and adherents of our church we con
graduate you upon your determined
efforts to secure economy in admins
trative expenditures. and thus tighten
the burdens of taxation. Your stead
fast stand in behalf of world peace
and your influential advocacy of a
permanent court of international
justice have our cordial approval.
by your rigid insistence upon the
enforcement of law. especially that
amendment to the Constitution
which is intended to destroy forever
the diabolism which inheres in liquor
traffic, you have earned the gratitude
of every patriotic American. And the
Christian idealism which has been
voiced in all your public utteranceS
and in legislation upon which you
have put your stamp of approval has
placed not only the Methodist Church.
but all the churches. under a debt
which we never can fully repay"
Bishop Berry added that his Organi-
Zation agreed with the President in
his position that America must con
tinue to maintain an attitude of help
fulness toward other nations and op-
pressed peoples. yet carefully avoid
ing entangling alliances land declin-
ing to assume foreign obligations out
of harmony with the best ideals of
the fathers of the Republic"
You were exactly right. Mr.. Presi-
dent" Bishop Berry concluded. when
you declared recently that America
cannot maintain itself in a healthy.
economic and moral condition by turn
ing all its thoughts unto itself: that
selfishness is only another name for
suicide. and that nation that is NOR
ally dead will soon he financially dead
also"
Two Sessions Tonight.
W. HICClUlSS Will Ot 1tItl w
the bishops tonight. in continuation of
a discussion of foreign field problems
Bishop Titus Lowe of Malaysia will
tell of conditions in the Malay States
and Bishop Frederick Fisher will de-
scribe needs in India at meeting at
the Foundry Methodist Church, Six
teenth and Church streets. Rev Fred.
erick Brown Harris will preside. A
second gathering will be held at the
Asbury Methodist Church, at which
missionary work in Africa will be de.
scribed by Bishops Eben S. Johnson.
Robert +. Jones and Matthew w.
Clair. with Bishop Joseph c. Hartzell
presiding.
Stanch support Of the policy of the
Mexican government was voiced last
night in an address by Bishop George
A. Miller of Mexico City. Religious
disturbances in Mexico the last few
months have been caused by refusal of
certain churches to obey the Mexican
laws as written into the constitution
of 1917. he asserted
Ihere is no religious persecution
in Mexico and the Mexican govern
ment is not trying to drive churches
from the nation" Bishop Miller de.
clared.
THE Methodist churches and Meth
odist schools there have not been in
terfered with. except in a few cases
of mistakes that were quickly COR
rected. The Methodist institutions
there have not met with the diff.
culties that the Catholic churches and
schools have because we are obeying
the Mexican constitutional laws"
Law Explained.
Explaining that the new Mexican
constitution provides that the admin.
istrative officers of all Mexican
churches and schools shall be Mexi.
cans by birth, Bishop Miller said this
restriction on outsiders was written
into the constitution ito put to an
end. once and for ALL the interference
of foreign governments in domestic
Mexican affairs.
THE Methodist Church could easily
comply with this new law because in
1917 an indigenous Mexican Meth
odist Church already had ben estab.
hshed."
social renaissance comparable to that
Transformation which
brought an enlivened civilization to
Europe centuries ago, Bishop Miller
said. He pleaded for a sympathetic
by the American Gov
eminent and citizens of the aims,
and progress OF their Next
can neighbors.
Bishop William +. Oldham of Ar
gentina declared that the Monroe doc
trine had outlived its purpose and
should be merged into a larger "pan.
understanding which
would pla. e the South American ma
lions on more equal footing with
the United States.
Bishop Blake of Paris, describing
European conditions. pointed to Ger
n, al M "a the nreliginIIa Ilriza Of the