THE MORNING OREGONIANV MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1922
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1913
ORGANIZED JANUARY 2, 1913
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Number of depositors. 2,400
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From far-away China, as a rep
resentative of the diocese of Han
kow, comes Bishop Logan H. Roots,
Ti-ho abounds in information of the
progress of Christian forces in
China and is interested in a new
organization which is being per
fected there, with- the object of
bringing the various denominations
shoulder to shoulder in the promo
tion of the Christian faith and to
bring about a feeling of ac
cord between the many Protestant
churches. v
Bishop Roots lias been honored
lv an invitation from the newly
organized national Christian coun
cil of China to become one of the
full-time officers of that body. The
national Christian council was or
ganized by the national Christian
conference, which consisted of about
1000 Chinese and other delegates
meeting in Shanghai last May. The
conference represented aoout 14"
different Protestant organizations
throughout China. The council i:
the executive body of the confer
ence.
Jfew Force Nourished.
The ' movement in which the
bishoD is interested sponsors the
creation and nourishing of a new
intellectual . and moral force
China, the need for which has been
created by the revolution seen
political, moral and social circles
throughout the nation. Two meth
ods of dealing with the movement
presented themselves - to the con
ference.
One was to establish ecclesiastical
unity, particularly in the organic
phases of the church. This was
rejected, however, and it was de
cided to take the alternative of
creating a feeling of mutual under
standing between the Christian
forces, and co-operate in a gen
eral way in matters where a church
.working alone would be inadequate.
Others who have been invited with
Bishop Roots to accept full-time po
sitions with the council are an Eng
lish Quaker clergyman, Henry Hodg
kin, a clergyman in the Chinese
Episcopal church. Rev. K. T. Chung,
and a Miss Fan, secretary of the
Chinese T. W. C. A.
Army Largely Christian.
Illustrative of the hold which
Christianity is taking on the Chi
nese people is the tale which Bishop
Roots tells concerning a division of
the Chinese army in which probably
8000 out of 10,000 of the soldiers are
dyed-in-the-wool Christians, led by
General Feng Tu-Hsiang. whose
personality has led to the strength
ening of the Christian faith with
countless numbers of Chinese who
have not merely accepted Christian
ity in a remote sense, but have ac
tually become imbued ' with the
creeds and are putting them into
practice.
"Tu-Hsiang, who travels from
place to place among various of the
dioceses said the bishop, "has be
come reputed as a fearless reformer,
and has with sternness, but not
harshness, put an end in various
communities to the amount of vice
which is above all a menace to Chi
nese life. He has managed to wipe
out quarters of cities which have
teen set aside as gambling abodes
and opium centers, and he has erad
icated the houses of prostitution.
"Had we more Chinese leaders like
this man, China would not be in the
state it is today. He has made the
power of Christianity felt in the
army, an especially out-of-the-way
place for it to show strength."
Bishop Roots will present the plan
of co-operation to the convention
and seek to be released for a period
of years from his present activity in
China to devote time to the co
operative work.
njTCRJS RESTS OX CHURCH
60,000,000 in America Not Mem
bers ot Religious Bodies.
Little optimism was held out for
the future of the world and human
ity unless there comes a realization
of the folly of society, brought
about by a greater spiritual under
standing and an active responsibil
ity in the affairs of the church and
religion, in a sermon delivered by
Bishop Gaylord G. Bennett of Du
luth, Minn., from the pulpit of St.
Shephen's Pro-Cathedral at 11
o'clock yesterday morning. The
speaker decried the fact that of the
110,000,000 people in . the United
States today there are more than
60,000,000 who do not profess affilia
tion with any organized religious
body.
"The people on the outside with
, leanings and sentiment cannot bring
the world to a realization of its
folly," he said, saying there were
thousands who claimed religious
leanings but who failed to take an
active part in the church. "Ethical
or moral consideration of life must
have a spiritual understanding," he
declared. "And morality is a by
product of religion; if there is no
religion there is no morality, and if
there is no morality there is no so
cial life."
There are three . great principles
in the church today, in the opinion
of Bishop Bennett, which' must be
considered in the ultimate solution
of present conditions. The first of
these is to realize that man is a
spiritual being not a child of time,
but a creature of eternity About
this theory hinges the second fac
tor, that if man is a spiritual being
he has a moral work to do and the
completion of this work will make
society a thing to endure. The third
resulting principle makes it xneces
sary that man live to exercise his
moral responsibility for the benefit
of humanity and life as a whole.
"God is not interested in saving
business or society," the Bishop
said in explaining the relationship
of the spiritual understanding to
life of today. "His interest is in the
kind of men who make up the busi
ness and social life."
The method of bringing about this
salvation, whether it be in the set
tlement of labor disputes, the dis-1
tribution of wealth or the preserva
tion of the peace of the world, must
be to perfect a more complete real- i
ization of the relationship of the
life of Jesus Christ and of man, he
said. ' -
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New York Bisbop Indorses Prac
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Cures Bodily Ills. '
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To question the efficiency of. such
healing is to question the efficiency
of prayer. It is beyond me to see
how any Christian who believes in
faith and prayer can question heal
ings of this sort.
"I have given my indorsement to
the Rev. Mr. Hickson . without
Qualification or reserve because of
what I have seen with my own eyes.
He held his first service in Trinity
church in New Tork and many other
services were held in my diocese.
Several of these now hold regular
healing services. His work is not
to be confused with psychotherapy
or mental healing. The principle of
mental therapeutics is the power of
mind over matter.- But the spiritual
healing urged by Hickson is the
power of the healing Christ brought
directly to bear.
Healing Revision Favored.
This is quite a different thing
from Christian Science. It doesn't
deny the existence of sickness. It
doesn't deny the skill of physicians,
but works right along with the
physicians. As a matter of fact JL
personally escorrted Rev. Mr. Hick
son into the homes of three New
York physicians where he minis
tered to members of their families.
"I want to see the ministry of
healing revised. In this our com
mission is entirely agreed so far
as I ever discovered."
The Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent, bishop
of southern Ohio, is chairman or
this commission. The other mem
bers
Rt. Rev. . Philip M. Rhinelander,
bishop of Pennsylvania; Rev. Dr.
Arthur B. Kinsolving, rector of St.
Paul's church, Baltimore; Rev. Dr.
Z. B. T. Phillips, St. Louis; Dr.
George F. Henry, Joseph G. Minot
and F. Si Edmonds. The three lay
men represent educational and legal
interests.
Vlxiting Bishops Speak.
Visiting bishops spoke in all the
larger - Episcopal churches of "the
city yesterday at both morning and
evening services. There were no
conferences r activities relating
directly to the convention. Some
few delegates arrived, but the heavy
influx of those who" plan to reach
here in time for opening of-the gen
eral convention will come today and
tomorrow. Registration headquar
ters will be established at the mu
nicipal auditorium this morning and
permanent registration of all dele
gates to the two houses of the con
vention will be started. Those who"
enrolled earlier will re-register at
this headquarters. The pre-conven-tion
conferences of the house" of
bishops will be resumed this morn
ing. Memorial Is Unveiled.
Perhaps most notable among serv
ices of yesterday morning was that
at Trinity church, where nearly 25
bishops were within the chancel or
congregation. The unveiling of a
memorial tablet in tribute to youths
of the church who gave their lives
in the great war was a feature of
the service, with General R. M.
Blatchford of Vancouver Barracks
unveiling the bronze. Four bishops
assisted in the services. They were
Bishop Darlington, of Harrisburg,
who preached the sermon; Bishop
Reese of Georgia, Bishop Brewster
of Connecticut and Bishop Tucker of
southern Virginia.
Left to right Mrs. Louis V. Montcagle, premdent woman'n auxiliary of
the eighth province and member national executive Hoard; is nop
Walter T. Snmner of Oregon and Bishop Thomas C. Darat of East
Carolina, known as the "twin bishops" because consecrated on the
same day January 6, 1013; airs. William Ford Nichols, wife of Bishop
Nichols of California and honorary president woman's auxiliary of the
eighth province. Below at left Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, executive,
secretary of the department of Christian social service. At Right ;
Rev. R. Bland Mitchell, field secretary of nation-wide campaign of
the Episcopal church.
schools. Attention was called to the
fact that the repertoire of music for
church services is immense, the
choice and maintenance of standards
resting with the choirmasters under
the direction of clergy. It was point
ed out that standards are hot well
defined and that training in church
music has suffered great neglect.
The report, which covered 57
printed pages and may well stand as
a valuable text book on the whole
subject of church music, is signed.
among others, by Rt. Rev. William
Cabell Brown, D. D.. bishop of' Vir
ginia, who is the chairman of the
commission, and by Bishops Johnson
of Missouri, 'Perry of Rhode Island,
Du Moulin of Ohio, Stearly of New
ark and Johnson of Colorado, Rev,
Dr. John Lewis of Connecticut, Rev.
Z. B. T. Phillips of Pennsylvania.-
Very Rev. Edmond S. Rousmamere
of Massachusetts-, Rev. Ernest M.
Stires of New York, the Rev. Floyd
W. Tompkins of Pennsylvania, Rev.
Edward S. Travers, D. D of Pitts
burg, and by Dr. Wallace Goodrich
of Massachusetts, Dr. Miles Farrow,
New York city; Dr. Peter C. Lutkin,
Chicago; Walter Henry Hall of New
York; Ralph Kindser of Pennsylvania
and James M. Helfenstein of New
York.
resDonding secretary for the cam
paigns department, tells of the great
work which has oeen accompiisnea
through the departmental organiza
tion which was created at the last
triennial convention of the Epis
copal church at St. Louis in 1919.
The financing of the worK or the
church has been more efficient
since the establishing of the budget
system throughout-the dioceses and
missionary, districts, he says. Rais
ing of funds has been on a thor
oughly sound basis and most of
the responsibility for the requisition
of necessary money has not reverted
in Iq-ia voot-q tr fh individual field
besides Bishop Manning, are: ; mission workers.
"Our particular department," said
Rev. Mr. Mitchell, "acts as the field
department of the council to carry
on the financial campaign, and .to
organize the .work of the - church
so far as it relates to the functions
and -duties of the presiding bishop
and council, it is an agency for
field strategy, promotion, and co
ordination. "We have seen remarkable suc
cess in interesting a larger per
centage of our people in the work
of the church. Three years ago per
haps one-third of the people were
interested" to an extent that they
were willing to contribute some
service or aid to the understandings
of the church. Now at least one
half of our .people have been inter
ested to this extent. The policy of
our department is to give informa
tion as to the work of the church.
When this is circulated and made
perfectly comprehensible, interest is
created. Then comes conviction on
the part of the church member of
the value of the tasks undertaken?
Following this is consecration to
tasks on their own part in the giv
ing of their services and money to
the church, and later expression on
the part of the individual through
various forms.
"Our plan for the coming three
years is the raising of $21, 000,000
for the financing of the work of
the church."
CIIRTST 'ALONE IS PERFECT
More Powerful Vision Said to Re
veal Greater Glory.
"The brightest and best of the
sons of the morning do not invite
close inspection. There are defects
in all the saints," said Rev. Thomas
J. Villers, pastor of th First Bap
tist church (White Temple), in his
sermon yesterday morning on the
subject, 'The Man Worth Consider
ing." He took for his text, "Consider
Christ," Hebrews 12:3.
"The more delicate and powerful
our vision of Jesus, the more beauty
and glory are revealed. When our
thoughts are occupied with him, our
hearts become enamored and our
souls enraptured. In the word
'consider,' we find also the thought
of comparison. The word is one of
those which staggers under the
weight of its own meaning. It
suggests that we are to acquaint
ourselves with Jesus not only by
scrutinizing and comparing, but also
by pondering.
"He is spoken of as creator.
Through him the worlds were made.
Grasp the comforting truth that the
voice which rolls the stars along
speaks all the . promises. Ponder
him as the heir of all things and
remember that we are joint heirs
with him. Ponder him as the ex
press image, the precise reproduc
tion, of God's person and find in his
humanity a visible peg on which to
hang your conception of the invis
ible God. Ponder him as the one
who is able to succor them that are
tempted, recalling that this word
'succor' contains the figure of a
mother's quickness in responding to
the cry of her child. Ponder him as
our-forerunner, who has taken our
ture, as John Newton said, and
gone Into Heaven to represent us
before the Father, leaving us on
earth with his nature to represent
him before men.
Phone your want ads to The Ore
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CHURCH SEEKS $21,000,000
Budget System Increases Effi
ciency of Financing.
Rev. R. Bland Mitchell, the, cor-
AVAR TABLET IS UNVEILED
Memorial at Trinity Episcopal
Church to Heroic Members.
At morning services yeesterday at
Trinity Episcopal church a me
morial tablet to the young men of
the church who paid the supreme
sacrifice in the world war was for
mally unveiled. The-unveiling was
done by General R. M. Blatchford
from Vancouver barracks.
The sermon of the morning was
preached by the Rt. Rev. James H.
Darlington, bishop of Harrisburg,
here to attend the triennial general
convention of the church. Bishop
Darlington stressed the thought
that the lasting satisfaction of life
rests in religion, speaking from the
phrase of II Corinthians, iii:4, "But
our sufficiency is of God."
' The experiences of two medical
college graduates and the impres
sions of life forced upon them with
the passing years were related as a
background for the truths of the
sermon. These young men left their
college as agnostics. Each ten years
they returned for a reunion.
At the end of the first ten years
the young men, having suffered
hardships, were united in declaring
that life is "rotten rotten to the
core." Subsequently they agreed
that life is not so bad as it is sad.
In the end they decided that life is
heroic, chivalrous and Christian.
"After viewing and experiencing
life from its varied angles they
were won back by the force of
Christianity to the feet of the
Christ," said the speaker. "Peace is
found by those who give up other
things and find their satisfaction in
Christ." , '
Four things are needed to make
people happy in life, the bishop said.
These are something to love and
draw us out of ourselves, something
to do, something to hope for and
memories to dwell upon.
The religion of Christ fills all
these needs. "Let us turn' to
Christ," he reasoned, "who said, "L
if I be lifted up, will lift all men
unto me.'"
David's Episcopal church yesterday
morning.
Bishop Vincent was chosen as the
convention preacher for St. David's
because he had confirmed and or
dained Rev. Thomas Jenkins, the
pastor of the church, and because,
he said, .he felt himself to be the
religious godfather of the local
minister.
Bishop Vincent took his text from
the 18th chapter of the Third Epis
tle to the Corinthians.
"The idea of family life comes
down from heaven," he said, "and
links all humanity iii the family and
the fatherhood of God in heaven. .
"The savage man, who saw a
god in every force of nature made
himself various gods, all as ugly
and -as bloodthirsty as himself. The
classical religions peopled heaven
with hundreds of gods, deified hu
mans. The Jews were the -first to
see the idea of one God, but their
God was a personal God, their
leader in battle, a sort of powerful
oriental sovereign who punished the
disobedient with all manners of re
lentless torment.
"In Malachia, the : last of the
Hebrew prophets, we saw the first
idea of the universal God. Then,
in Jesus Christ, the son made man,
we received the full revelation of
the true God.
"In this God we have the religion
of the family life. What a tragedy
it is that even Christians themselves
should overshadow this divine doctrine."
PHEAGHER ALSO COWBOY
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HIGH-PI CHOIR RIPPED
EPISCOPAL COMMISSION RE
PORTS ON MUSIC.
More Extensive Training Urged
for Theological Students
at Seminaries.
HOME IS UPHELD AS IDEAL
Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent Speaks at
St. David's Episcopal Church.
The true ideal of Christianity is
the home. Without the family, re
ligion is meaningless, contended the
Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent, bishop of
southern Ohio, in a sermon at St.
Plans for giving the clergy more
extensive training inmusic and a
suggestion that highly paid choirs
are not always essential were em
braced in the report of the joint
commission of church music "Which
will be presented to the Episcopal
general convention. The report
made an earnest plea for the main
tenance of standards of music com
mensurate with those of the liturgy
and the high office of music in the
church.
The report has been prepared by
Dr. Wallace Goodrich of the New
England Conservatory of Music and
secretary of the commission. Other
noted musical authorities, such
Dr. Miles Farrow of New York and
Dr. Peter C. Lutkin of Chicago, col
laborated on the report, which is an
exhaustive history of church music
covering a period of more than 1500
years.
It is Tecommended that the music
conform to the spirit of religion
and that its standards be defined
through education in the history of
church music, its relation to liturgy
and an appreciation of quality, prac
ticability and fitness.
The report suggested that the fa
cilities for such education be pro
vided for the clergy through the
systematic instruction all candi
dates for holy orders in the theo
logical schools and that organists
receive authoritative specialized in
struction in conservatory and college
musical departments and through
diocesan conferences.
' One of the specific recommenda
tions of the commission was that
congregational singing be developed,
and there is a hint that elaborate
and highly paid church choirs are
not altogether essential in a further
recommendation that the "sole test
of the fitness of any choir or musi
cal service shall be in its capacity
to inspire and edify the people and
to justify its work as an acceptable
component part of divine worship."
The restoration of the chanting" of
the psalter by choir and congrega
tion was recommended wherever
practicable after due preparation,
and emphasis was laid upon the de
sirability that the music of the serv
ice of holy communion shall be the
most important of all the musical
services of the church, although not
necessarily the most elaborate.
The report discussed the character
of Organ music at all services, in
cluding weddings and funerals, and
the importance was emphasized of
training the young to good taste in
church music through proper atten
tion to music in Sunday and church
Executive Social Service Secre
tary of Episcopal Church
Has Eventful Career.
A compliment from the late Theo
dore Roosevelt and honors at the
hands of Herbert Hoover are things
cherished in memory by Rev. Charles
N. Lathrop, who lived his boyhood
days in Walla Walla, Wash., and
is now executive secretary of the
social service department of the
Episcopal church.
Though still a comparatively
young man, Rev. Mr. Lathrop has
had an eventful career. His ex
periences range from bronco bust
ing to acceptance of the decoration
of the order of King Albert in Bel
gium; from the forming of Junior
Red Cross societies to the routing
of official graft from the city ot
San Francisco.
It would be impossible to state
just which of these experiences he
enjoyed the most. For instance,
just try tt judge from the following:
"I can ride any bronco they can
find me. I stopped once at Chey
enne to see the Pioneer days per
formances. Gee, it was great. How
'T. R.' would have enjoyed it."
And a moment latere "While rec
tor of the Church of the Advent
in San Francisco I had a most in
teresting experience. One day while
walking along the street a friend
greeted me and said Will Langdon
(district attorney) had broken with
Abe Ruef, the political boss, and
that we ought to do something to
back Langdon up. We organized
the Good Government league, put
in Taylor as mayor and Langdon
as district attorney, and otherwise
knocked out Ruef's graft machine
"Almost before I knew it I stood
in the position of a political boss,
with a remarkable array of patron
age in my power. We absolutely
refused -to utilize this power. I
resigned. After Heney was shot,
however, we held meetings and
framed an abatement bill which
was put over and decommercialized
prostitution in San Francisco."
In 1915 Rev. Mr.- Lathrop was
sent to Belgium to have charge of
the relief work directed by Herbert
Hoover. At Liege for several months
he supervised distribution of sup
plies. It was his responsibility to
see to feeding of 2,000,000 persons.
On his return to this country he
was. sent to one of the most diffi
cult posts in the United States
among the Germans of Milwaukee,
Wis. -He could do little with' the
adult Germans and pro-Germans,
but quickly saw how he could work
through the children. He made it
his business to organize Junior Red
Cross societies. Entertainments
were constantly given by these
youngsters' societies and the older
folk attended. Thus he reached the
adults with the messages he had
for them during the war period,
when the adult Germans could by
no device be inveigled into attend
ing an ordinary patriotic meeting.
. In 1920 he was appointed to his
present job. It is a difficult mat
ter to explain what the social serv
ice department he directs is doing
for the church. Lathrop said its
object is "the awakening of the
conscience of churchmen to t their
responsibilities toward every de
partment of life."
"Do I ever get discouraged over
the trend -of the times?" he re
peated the question of the inter
viewer. "No, not"- at all. Yo.u
average everything up and compare
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the present with the past of 50 or
100 years ago, and you don't find
that the nation is worse off in mat
ters of morality and religion. It's
better." '
Oh, yes, about that compliment
from Roosevelt. The late president
knew of Rev. Mr. Lathrop's part In
the San Francisco and California
graft fights. When in San Fran
cisco he attended service at Mr. Lath
rop's church and hear him preach.
When Roosevelt, many months later.
was shot at and slightly wounded
at Milwaukee, Bishop Sumner, then
in Chicago, was among those who
visited him. It was then Roosevelt
mejitioned the fact that he remem
bered well three or four sermonn
he had heard during his life. One
of these, he" told the present bishop
of Oregon, was the sermon by lirv.
Mr. I.nthrop.
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