Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-08
BISHOP MANNING
ASKS DRY CRUSADE
Sees Undue Weight Given
Episcopal Temperance
Body Statement.

Hy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February S.-Bishop
William T. Manning, head OF the New
York Episcopal Diocese. believes the
Nolstead act ought 10 be enforced.
lie favors a crusade by all churches
in support of the law.
OF many Sunday sermons against
the stand of DR.. James Empringham
national secretary of the Church
Temperance Society OF the Episcopal
church. In favor of light wines and
beer, Bishop Manning's attracted
most attention.
At Utica. Bishop Charles Fiske
head of the Central New York Do
cese, favored modification of the
Eolstead act.
Undue importance has been at
tached 10 the statement of the sOci-
ety." Bishop Manning said. 1T has
30 official authorization and no right
whatever TO speak in the name of the
Episcopal Church
Bishop Manning questioned the &C
CuraCy of the society's report that
preponderance of its 10000 members
Savored modification of the NolStead
net He also questioned Dr. En-
pringham's right 10 speak for the
society itself.
Holds Drinking No Sin.
L do not hold that to drink wine
or other intoXiCants in moderation
IS In itself a sin" the bishop said.
but l believe that the prohibition
Jaw properly enforced Will make us
healthier, stronger and better peo-
pie.
II believe that the law can and
ought to he enforced and is being
more and more generally observed in
he country as 4 whole.
There is not the slightest likeli-
mood that the country will ever re-
peal the prohibition laws and we all
know this.
Il wish that the clergy OF our
church and of all churches all over
our land would join in a crusade for
voluntary and noble action in support
OF the law ana that the people of
all churches and al good citizens
would unite in such a movement. 4"
Favoring modification as an irsii-
Nidual. Bishop Fiske said that the
EolStead act had resulted in worse
drinking conditions among young peo-
pie than we had before" had cor
rupted officials and Disseminated in
FAVOR of the rich and against the poor
He said the church should be a moral
teacher and not a moral policeman.
Tvs Cso lIILitt IL y ears dSO lONafu
temperance, he thinks. IS now losing
ground
DIR. Grant Praises Drys.
The Rev. DR.. Percy Stickney Grant,
former rector of the Church of the
Ascension, preaching at st. Mark g.
sn-the- Bouwerie, expressed admira-
ton for the eighteen Episcopal bishops
who had stood by the dry law, and
added
Wait until the 100 per cent protest
ants-the Presbyterians, Methodists
and Baptists-get hold of this question
at the polls and the enemies of prohi-
bition will see a sight to terrify them"
Wayne 3. Wheeler, national coun-
sci for the Anti-Saloon League, praised
Bishop Manning's address.
The Rev. DR.. Gustave a. Carsten-
sen, who was elected president OF the
Church Temperance Society last Janu-
Gry, has aligned himself on the side of
Bishop Manning and said yesterday
THAT he would not accept the presi-
dency until he has a better idea of
he society's aims.
Last week DIR. Christensen said that
when he informed Bishop Manning
he had been offered the presidency, the
bishop told him ito go to it.