Evening star., 1928-10-16
BISHOPS APPROVE
SPECIAL SERVICE
Spirited Debate on Inclusion
of independence Day Pre-
cedes Close Vote.
Continued from First Page.)

on the good, and sendeth rain on the
just and on the unjust. For if We love
them which love you. what reward have
ye? do not even the publicans the same?
And If We salute your brethren only
what do We more than others? do not
even the publicans so? Be ye there
fore perfect, even as your Father which
is in heaven is perfect"
Create New Diocese.
The House of Bishops this morning
voted to create the new diocese of Eau
Claire, comprising Northwestern Wis
consin, which will take parishes from
the dioceses of Milwaukee and Fond
| du Lac.
The designations of the bishops of
Connecticut, Lexington, KY, Albany
and Southern Brazil were accepted.
| The House received a memorial from
| the Daughters of the King asking that
a challenging call be issued to the
women Of the church for active
evangelical work.
China's Status Discussed.
China is suffering from banditry
opium, ignorance, political corruption
militarism and revolution, Right Rev
Logan H. Roots, missionary Bishop OF
Hankow, told the mass meeting of the
missionary department at the Washing
ton Auditorium last night.
Political revolution" he said, "is
overturning 1000 years of imperialistic
tradition, and there is social revolution
in which the widest theories meet the
age-long conservatism of the Chinese
and the confusing, even though con-
Structive, theories of the moderates
| ho 1u oil
tered both the subject matter and man
ner and spirit of study. Moral revolu-
ton is affecting especially the family
and the position of women, the strong
holds of conservative China The Chi
nese find themselves incurably religious,
| like the rest of mankind, but radically
| dissatisfied with their traditional Con-
fucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
China suffers also from disruptive
| propaganda, prompting class war-the
union of the peasants and the workers
aiming at the dictatorship of the proe-
tariat, promoting atheistic and material
iStic communism.
Praise for Sun Yat-Sen.
There are constructive forces in
China. Sun Yat-Sen and his writings
although disruptive in some aspects OF
their influence, and lending them
selves to destructive perversion, are
| fundamentally opposed to the disrup-
| tive propaganda. The national hero
lived and died a protesting Christian
and had Christian funeral in Peking
The moderate NationalistS are now in
control of the central government
which processes principles and pur-
! poses we are bound to admire. Western
nations, with the exception of Russia,
are for the most part constructiyelv
friendly to China, and some idealistic
forces come even from Russia It is to
be noted that Christ is the inspiration
OF all these constructive forces.
How can America help? BY under
standing, sympathy. patience and CO.
operation in all our relations with
CHINA, political, commercial and cul-
tural. Much already is being done in
tneSe seVera! nelds. the obvious initia-
tive in which is Christian
The story of the Episcopal missions
IN Alaska was told by Right Rev
Peter T. Rowe, missionary Bishop Of
Alaska. who went into the Far North
two rearS before the Yukon gold rush
when there was white population of
only about 1000. The establishment
now consists of 80 missions and sta
| lions. A 100000 foundation fund has
been placed at the disposal of Bishop
Rowe.
Opportunity in West.
The church has a splendid oppor-
tunity In the changing order of life
in the West, said Right Rev. Middleton
| S. Barnwell, missionary Bishop of Idaho.
The whole country today is new"
he said. Life is yet in a formative
stage. The habits of thought of new
communities are being formed. 1t re-
mains for us to say how they shall
be shaped. For the church to fail to
build itself into the lives of communi-
ties while they are yet new will mean
| that Goddess communities will arise
But we have chance, if we will ac-
cept it, to cause cities to arise whose
builder and maker will be God"
A stirring appeal for more mission
| ary endeavor In the colleges was made
before the joint session of the conyen-
| ton yesterday afternoon by Rev. C.
Leslie Glenn, secretary for college work
| of the National Council.
Sees Need Of Missions.
"The number of college students"
he said, has increased five times since
l9O0 end there are more students in
the colleges today than there were
in the high schools 10 years ago. MANY
OF the colleges designedly are neutral
| in religious tone. If we depend on
higher education alone to make bows
| and girls Christians we arc going 20
be disappointed. They usually quit the
church when they go to college and
never come back until they bring their
own children to Sunday school, years
| later"
Social work among college students
| in an effort to keep them in touch
with the church means wasted money,
Mr.. Glenn said, since the colleges
| themselves provide them with all they
! want. He urged that more student
| pastors be appointed with small
! churches just of the campuses.
THE idealistic age" he said, lis from
IS to %. The most popular figure in
| the student world of today is that OF
| st. Francis. The students demand
| humanizing church"
Local Jails Criticized.
"The local Jail still is the breeding
| place of criminals and the forgotten
plague spot of the nation" the conven-
ton was informed yesterday in the re-
port of It's department of Christian So
cial service. Prison reforms" the re-
port continued, 'are concerned with
penitentiaries where long-term prison.
ers are confined and now with the local
jail, where they get their introduction
and training in life of crime. Into the
local Jail comes the first offender, the
material witness held without bond, the
hardened criminal and the criminally
insane. Herded together day after day,
cut off from society and dependent on
each other for fellowship, they become
welded together into solid group-the
criminal class. A noted penologist re-
ports that at least so per cent of first
offenders become habitual criminals.
"There are more than million peo-
ple confined at any one time in our
county and city iails. One person in
| for longer or shorter time in the lock-