St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-11-09

BISHOP ALEXANDER P. SHAW
Bishop Alexander P. Shaw of Bal
timore, Md.
Bishop Shaw declared that the
San Francisco Charter, or no other
charter will be more than a scrap
of paper unless there are Christian
men and women who will make it
real. He lauded the statement of
Douglas Macarthur, who did not
give credit to the might of military
force in bringing the war to an
end, but who declared that religion
is the hope of the world. Then said
the Bishop, 81 was made to feel
sad when President Truman made
his plea for peacetime military
training. How are we going
to have peace when we act as
though we do not believe in peace?"
Earth Important, Too
At the beginning of his Wednes-
day morning address, Bishop Shaw
said that many people have made
a Transportation system" of re-
ligion. They are concerned only
about getting to heaven, and pay
little or no attention to heavenly
conduct and attitudes here on earth.
'"The sphere of Christianity is
here on this earth and has to do
with achieving perfection here" he
declared. "Why don't we try for
perfection in moral and spiritual
things as we do in intellectual and
scientific pursuits 2" the Bishop
queried. Materially, we live in the
electric age, but spiritually, we are
living in the horse and buggy age"
In his address at the luncheon
on Wednesday, Bishop Shaw de-
clared that the great work Of the
church is to help create heavenly
conditions on earth. eve can
never have a Christian world until
we have Christian families" he
said.
The Bishop gave a resume of the
various current political philoso-
phies that are striving for leader
ship in the world today. Commun-
ism was characterized as "God-
less" and Fascism, with it's idea
of dictatorship, cannot be trusted.
Even democracy in and of itself,
will not be able to really rule the
world until, or unless, true Christian
principles undergrad it, the Bishop
said. He declared that he was not
a Democrat, nor Republican, but
a theocrat-one who believes in the
rule of the God of righteousness,
justice, goodwill and love on this
earth.
Two Addresses Daily
Bishop Shaw came to Mime
apolis Monday night, and was a
guest in the Nicollet Hotel. He
delivered two addresses daily, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday be-
fore the School of Evangelism. He
preached Wednesday night in the
Border Methodist Church, and bap-
tiled the infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Moultrie, members of
the Border Church, during the
service.
Bishop Shaw, who is the son of
ex-slaves, is one of the four active
bishops who are natives of the
State of Mississippi. Bishop Lor-
EMO 81. King of Atlanta, Ga, of
the Methodist Church, Bishop B.
G. Shaw, of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church, and Bishop
Greene, of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, are the other
three Negro bishops who were born
in Mississippi.
Bishop A. P. Shaw is the senior
bishop of the Central Jurisdiction
of the Methodist Church. was
present at the General Conference
of the former Methodist Episcopal
Church held in Columbus, Ohio, in
1886, when Bishop Shaw was elect
ed. For several years, he had been
the editor Of Southwestern Chris
tian Advocate, and before that for
fourteen years, he was pastor of
Wesley Methodist Church in Los
Angeles, California.