The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-03-02
FELLOWSHIP Is
NECESSARY IN
PIETY'-SUMNER
Oregon Bishop Urges Better
Acquaintanceship With
Young People in Sermon

If we have not carried our fellow
ship with one another to point
where we can mlnglc with youth, oui
picty is futile and we have not con
tributed to society what God intend
cd we should, Bishop Walter Taylor
Sumner Of Oregon told congrega-
ton at st. Georges Episcopal church
last night in sermon on Futile
Picty."
ut is happy child who has pray
ing, church-g going parents" BISHOP
Sumner declared. You cannot senC
a child to church--you must brint
him. There is no such thing as
vicarious picty. The child cannot
take the place Of the parents, nor the
parents the place Of the child.
'.if youth today does some start
lingly unconventional things. We
have largely ourselves to blame. We
cannot teach religion in our public
schools. nor should we attempt 1t.
How, then, will our children receive
their religious instruction-how will
they learn that the Ten Command
ments arc not mere fable but the
most real Of truths--if they do not
SO to church,"
Students Bcwiidercd
College students, Bishop Sumner
said, today are often bcwildcred in
thinking Of religion and science and
often think that there is a conflict
between the two. This. he said, is
due to the fact that in college the
scientific work is emphasized by au-
thoritative teachers, while religion
is little noticed. The student, there
fore has much information about
science and only a smatterng of
knowledge Of religion. With this
situation, he declared, it is only nat
ural that youth may believe there is
Il conflict between science and re
ligion and turn from religion in in
difference.
The speaker spoke briefly on what
he called ''the curse of the card
index system" and declared that
much Of the preScnt-day industrial
disharmony is due to this
"Time was" the speaker declared,
''when the employer and the employee
worked together. Today, in the
great industrial plants, men no long
or work together as employer and
employe. A man ceases to have q
personality and becomes simply Il
card in an index system. The break
down of the old camaradcrie in the
large plants is responsible for much
Of the industrial strife
Must Love Each Other
Discussing piety, Bishop Summer
declared: The first step in picty
is to love our brother. Today, there
is little interest in one another
Until we can come to frame OF
mind where we can think of persons
rather than OF material things, We
shall not have any solution to oul
present chaotic state and information
al problems.
''Piety is state Of mind turnec
Godward. 1t calls for the possession
of all Christian virtues and the at
tempt to practice them. Piety neeC
not be conspicuous when it would de
stroy the spirit of humility. Thu
truly pious Christian should be joy
full"
In closing, Bishop Sumner re
emphasized the factors which go t,
make up real piety and urged tina
the feeling OF fellowship be KEEP
foremost
Bishop Sumner, ut conference
this afternoon, spoke on persona
Evangelism and Rev. Z. L. Tull will
talk this evening on "Faith--thc Uni
versal Need" Tomorrow afternoon
at 3 p. III. Rev. Tull will address
conference on Combating Worldli
ness Through Consistent Christia
Living" and tomorrow evening
Bishop Sumner will preach on 9TH
Christian Way of Life"