The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-10-13


Arthur L. Salmon.
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BISHOP DEFENDS YOUTH
. HE October issue of the American Churc
Monthly contains a review of the Pre-
4 ent and Future of the Church, an artic
ritten by the Right Reverend John Gardne
[urray, presiding Bishop Of the Episcop;
hurch. 1t is a most encouraging article insofa
it authoritively offsets much of the preser
~ pessimism against conditions of societ!
S celestial head of the Episcopal Church 9
merica, Bishop Murray speaks with an author
y which merits the respect of even the mos
usual. Certain portions of the article al
orthy of quotation.
"Let me be permitted to say that I
have no common cause with those who,
from platform and in pulpit, press and
personal comment, are proclaiming the
world is worse now than ever before
prophesying the overthrow of democracy,
Whatever that means), condemning the
so-called failure of the Church, lament
ing the decay of good manners and weep
ing over the deterioration and degener-
can be blind to the evils of the age.
God knows they are many and their
nature is vile. But he who records them
opens no new volume of history in the
narrative of human action in any relation
of life. 1t is simply continuation OF
the old, old story of the conflict between
evil and good which has been waged with
varying odds since the world was young,
and will know no truce until the over
throw of Satan is fully accomplished
And the older the world grows the
nearer it approaches this glorious con-
sumaton True, increase of population
has brought increase of evil upon earth
but not corresponding increase. Good
is decidedly in it's favor. And not only
in the temporal conveniences, comforts
and joys of life, but also in the moral
sense of nations and spiritual aspirations
of men, we are living in the best age of
human history, and the Lord continues
his pentecostal practice, and adds to the
Church daily such as should be saved.
"The third cheerful indication is
the further fact that we find the Youth
of the Church and outside of the Church
eager for that information and instruc-
ton that will open up and make plain to
them better way than the present day
world, with all it's advance of the. age,
offers them to walk in. Let no one be-
lieve that our young people are frivolous
and pulled up with prideful sense of
superiority to their seniors in knowledge
of the true concerns of life, temporal
and eternal beyond the precedents of the
youth of former years. 1t is not so.
On the whole, their insistent demand
upon their elders is for leading and
light that will satisfy them that the
Church is abreast of the times and the
claim of religion founded upon facts
eternal as the ages. Instinctively they feel
that the present prevailing fads, fancies
and fashions current among us are but
surface allurements and have no kinship
with the deep things of the soul. Most
of them are wrestlers as was Jacob Of
old, and we cannot rid ourselves of them,
If we would, which God forbid, until we
tell and spell to them the true name they
seek to know They want not weapons
to wage infidel war, but want to lead
them, and the world through them into
the way of everlasting peace. My daily
mail and numerous interviews with
young men and women bring me evil
dence of this, and if know anything of
the spirit striving within them, they
win not rest until they find the object
Of their search"
TIT
Isn't it queer? It's the man who can pc
sctly well afford grand and spiffy new owe
oat who doesn't in the least mind wearing t
d one, while-oh, well, anyway, isn't it queel