Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1928, Page 5

DEPUTIES REJECT [MMIGRATION PLAN ; Episcopal Bishops’ Stand for Oriental Quotas Meets Strong Opzosition. The House of Deputies of the Epis- copal Church this morning refused to concur with the House of Bishops in a Tesolution calling for modification of ' the immigration laws affecting orientals, largely on the ground that some politi- cal partisanship might be read into the action. Introduction of the bishops' resoiution created a lively controversy among the deputies in the closing hours of tne bus- iness session, with the fight for concur- rence led by George W. Wickersham ot New York, formerly attorney general and the opposition by the few members of the California delegation who are still in Washington. Vote to Table Questioned. It first was voted to lay the resolution on the table—at least Rev. Dr. Z. B.| Phillips, pastor of the Church of the Epiphany, so declared the vote in an effort to prevent controversy in the closing hours. No attention was paid to the calls for “division” from all parts of the house. A few minutes later Mr. Wickersham demanded that the matter be re-opened, questioning the legality of passing it without a definite stand. If Japanese were admitted under the quota law, he said, it would mean only about 146 a year. “Surely,” he said, “this is not enough to cause a nation of 115,000,000 to shudder. If we can't treat the civilized Japanese people as if they were brethren, how can we ex- pect them to respond to the Christian appeal. I can't reconcile the wisdom of Christianity with an action like this. We talk about not taking a stand on a political question. But we already have spoken. for participatica in the World Court, spoken kindly of th: League o! Nations and approved the Kellogg treaties. Talk to any educated Japanese gentleman and see how it wrankles in his heart. When the new Chinese na- tionalist government gets under way we will fiear from them.” Western Opposition Stated. ¢ -, “This measure will be misunderstood.” declared Rev. Dr. George H. Powell, dean of the Divinity School of the Pacific. “We are not here to tell the Congress of the United States how to do its business. There are factors such as economics, race assimilation and education which we know nothing % have 1 “I have lived among these people and yield to none in my respect for them,” declared H. C. Wyckoff of the California ¢ delegation, “but we don't want another great problem of race assimilation in the United States. If you put them on & quota basis the quota can be tampered with. We have no more right to tell Congress what to do about immigration than Congress has to tell us what to do about the prayer book.” No Interference Seen. “There are more Japanese going home or dying every year than possibly could come in under the quota,” said F. C. Morehouse of Milwaukee. “This is not 8 question of interfering with Congress, but merely of expressing ourselves on what is keenly felt by the people of Japan.” “It's all very well for us to agree that Isaac and Rebecca be kept. out ot the marriage service,” said the Rev. H K. Sherril of Boston, “but when it comes to a live issue we are told it mustn't come before the church. That's why thousands of young people are leaving the church. The church too long has blindly followed the State, ‘When the State calls to war the churcn follows, Some of these issues are spirit- ual. I hope the church has courage enough to face modern problems.” ‘The final vote was 76 for concurrence and 157 for non-concurrence. ‘The House of Bishops yesterday after- noon completed their approval of the for the triennium which calls for a maintenance budget of more than $4,000,000 a year and the raising of ;8.‘%?0,000 for equipment in the mission el Immigration Change Asked. ‘The bishops also adopted a resolution presented by Right Rev. Logan H. Roots, Bishop of Hankow, urging that immigration and naturalization laws be modified so as to remove the existing discrimination aganst Orientals. These laws, Bishop Roots explained, are a serious detriment to the work of the church in the mission field. The house also voted to name a commission to confer with the so- called “Holy Catholic Church of China,” whigh has petitioned to become a wholly independent church. It is composed of the missionary districts of the English, Canadian and American Episcopal churches. For some years it has been organized as a national church, The present convention, it was inted out yesterday, will pass into story as one of the most important in the career of the American church, since it has marked the final accept- ence of the revised Book of Common Prayer, which will serve as a standard for the policies of the church for years to come. Concessions Are Made. The final revision contains conces- gions to both the low church and Anglo-Catholic wings. It includes a prayer for the dead and sanction for the practice of unction and the laying on of hands. On the other hand, the 39 articles of reiigion have been kept in the book, demand of the low churchmen. The marriage service has been changed so that the bride no longer promises to “obey” and the man no longer says “with all my wordly goods 1 thee endow.” “In general” says Right Rev. C. L. Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who was chairman of the commission on revision, “larger responsibility is placed upon the officiating minister and many opportunities for shortening the service are given. bishop Cranmer's English remains. to- gether with the liturgical treasures of the past, the book becomes distinctly a book of our own time.” EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONVENTION ENDS IN PLEA FOR UNITY (Continued From First Page.) ., in the good providence of God suc- ceeded during 400 years in holding to- gether in some fa: emental types of religious experience end expression. But the extremes are far apart and often seem impossible to reconcile, The tension severe. Sense of Strain. “Here in America, as throughout our today a | One group seeks a | fuller measure of what it counts Cath- | Another group is sick at h!nr[“ lest some of those great values which we gained at the reformation may be for reunion the other seeks continually closer relations with In all this and much indicate | whole communion, there is sense of strain. olie. lost. One prays hopefully with the Church of Rome: Protestantism. more which, on the surface, in accordance with the; While the genius of Arch-| is at times 1 Columbian Women are sponsors. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, . THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, Crowd that yesterday marked the opening of the advanc> sale for “The Kingdom of God.” to be presented at Poli's | October 29, with Ethel Barrymore and Robert Mantell heading the cast. The performance wi t for which will be used to improve living conditions for co-eds at George Washington University. Sorority girls and the be a benefit, the proceeds with terrifying rapidity. “We see witnessed the great truth |that Christianity is not a narrow, one- sided, carefully codified section of life, but a divine creative force sweeping into human history, seizing upon hu- man souls with immeasurable power, resistless in its grip upon every aspect of life, making partisans as well as statesmen, prophets as well as priests. A church which did not have new movements continually stirring its depths; in which there were no old hearts in despair and no young hearts aflame with indignation or kindled by visions of the city of God, would, we venture to believe, be a dead church. “The divisions among us are not to be mourned over, They are to be con- quered, They are not causes for de- spair. They are challenges to the width of our vision, the depth of our love, the soberness of our wisdom, and the stead- fastness of our loyalty. If Catholic and Protestant cannot find a way to live to- gether and to worship together the one Lord whom both adore. “then is our faith vain. We are yet in our sins.” “Two practical considerations are im- portant. One concerns especially the clergy. There is little or no excuse for individualistic extremes such as often disturb the peace of the church and its normal life. Let us have prophets, let us have life and initiative, but let us remember that there is a form of teaching and of worship in the Prayer Book. The ordination vows of the clergy pledge them to loyalty to ‘the doctrine, discipline and worship’ of this church. These great words are nowhere accurately defined, but for a loyal priest desirous of doing his work hon- estly, not obscure in meaning. Loyalty does not consist in meticulous obedience to the letter of rubrics and canons. Such obedience may be rendered, ac- companied by real disloyalty to the spirit of the church. Loyalty Is Defined. “Loyalty means the honest attempt to understand, to enter into and to ex- press in one's ministry that spirit. It means the use of Prayer Book lan- guage, and the careful distinction be- tween what is church law or doctrine and what is merely the individual's wish or opinion. It does not forbid reaching out to the best in Christian experience wherever found. It does for- bid the submerging of established usage in alien rites. It does not forbid free- dom of criticism. It does forbid sub- versive conduct. Honest loyalty among the clergy breeds confidence and a sense of security among the jaity. It is one great contribution to *he task of unity. “But the responsibility for unity rests upon laity as well as upon clergy: and for all there is, to use St. Paul's phrase, a ‘still more excellent way,’ the old way Fof love. We have no right to distruct one another. No group of men is try- ing by insidious propaganda to wreck the church. There is and ought to be the frank effort upon the part of clergy and laity to further truth as they see i*. But we are all Christian brothers. We have the same Heavenly Father and the same Master Christ. Instead of setting ourselves in opposite camps and labeling ourselves with partisan names we need to worship and work, to study | and_confer together. “Our differences can be overcome not | by the victory of one side over anothez, not by driving out the Catholics or feating the Protestants, but by the readjustment of the relation of truths and the discovery of new perspectives. We must seek the conscious and intel- ligent reconciliation of apparently ir | reconcilable views. Hitherto we have | made an insecure reconciliation through jour instinctive desire to hold together, but in many parts of the church were in earnest fellowship our Christian talks have been undertaken as common tasks, i the goal we are seeking has come ap- preciably nearer. Let us move on and with the guidance of the Spirit of Truth making unity secure by clear- ness of thinking warmed by the power of love, and complete trust in one an- other. Reunion Movement Gains. “Next to our responsibility as Chris- tians for the strengthening and deep- ening of the unity of our own church lies our responsibility for advaneing the unity of the Church of Christ through- { out the world. Of all the great move- | ments which have stirred men’s imag- | ination and captured their allegiance durine the last generation none has | gained more rapidly than that of re- union. Thirty years ago men spoke | of it as a mere dream. It has becom= a matter of practical and immediate | concern. The Edinburgh Conference in 1910, the Lambeth Appeal of 1920, the Stackholm Conference of 1925. the Lausanne Conference of 1927, the Jeru- salem meeting of the Iniernational Missionary Council in 1928, all witness the fact that Christians are beginning to understand that a divided church 1: by the very nature of Christianity an indefensible—yes. an impossible thing To the extent that division exists Christ is absent. If we tolerate division (agam let ns sav it), ‘we are yet in our sinz’ | “This is not the place to discuss in | detail the various problems which must | be met and overcome in the difficult search for unity. But three princip'es | should be borne constantly in mind by every loyal churchman. ~The first is that every baptized Christian belongs to the Catholic Church. Whatever his | ecclestastical name. he belongs to_the | of The Star. It is doubtful if better ever been offered the in the Class ditions of a world which moves forward | ‘, advertised in the Sale . | something of “the love of God in the Person of Jesus Christ. Saintship is the monoply of no communion. The unnamed saints of some obscure group of Christians may know as much of God as those whose names adorn our calendars. Such a truth must drive from our hearts arrogance and exclu- siveness. It must make us hospitable to all truth, charitable, of comprehen- sive thought, with a vision of the Catho- lic Church big enough to include the full range of Christian life and experi- ence. Where Christ dwells there must we be content to be found. “But as we move toward unity in this spirit of Christian love we must move | in practical ways. And we must move. We cannot wait for a day when through some miraculous divine intervention unity will drop upon us like a new Jeru- salem from the heavens. We must seek for unity where the response is likely. Other Doors Open. “In some directions the doors are for the present closed. But others are open. We must try these doors. We must be ready to go forward, to do something. We must dare to be mis- understood. We have heard it said that in America the Episcopal Church has led in the movement toward unity until now other Christians are ready to go forward, but that facing such a prac- tical possibility, the Episcopal Church holds back. That must not be. “But that brings us to our last point in reference to Church unity. No work of the leaders can bring unity without the co-operation of the people. Al- though unity cannot come without the careful scholarship of theologians and the wise statesmanship of responsible officials; neither can it come without the warm and vital interest, the loyal prayers, the sacrificial purpose of the rank and file of Christian people. Our Lord Jesus Christ summons us to unity. We must obey the summons. “The summons to unity is no less clear when we look out upon our task in the world. Church, as we have already said, is the discovery to men of their relation of sonship to God, and therefore of the unity which must be achieved if that sonship is to be made a living thing. The forces which divide men, selfish- ness, greed, lust. must be overcome by the power of God's love in Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God is come when | human society has achieved its unity in Christ. “This mission is no mere voluntarily chosen policy. It is the very life of the Church. The body of Christ has no other mission than to make all men part of Christ. Whether the Church works in New Yorz or in Hankow: whether it preaches social justice or teaches little children, its aim is tha same. Whether it concerns itself with the great problem of peace among the nations or_the lesser problem of peace in a New England mill strike, or in the intricate personal problem of peace in a quarreling family, its aim is the same. The love of God in Christ must bring unity. Divisive forces must be overcome. “The most momentous task which faces the world of today is the warfare against war. Again and again the voices of prophets and statesmen have been raised to tell us that if war is not destroved, Christian civilization must . That we believe is exaggeration. Christ is too strongly intrenched in human society to be conquered by war no matter how worldwide. God's pur- poses are too stable to be made mock of in the end by man's ignorance and wickedness. But war is destructive of what Christ stands for. War is de- grading. brutal, bestial, like the devil the father of lies and hatred. It as- saults all that dignifies and beautifies human life. It violates the sanctities of the soul. It hurls defiance at the Christian faith that men are the family of God. It challenges the Church of Christ to action. Must Guide Conscience. “Now it is not the business of the Christian church to control govern- ments. It cannot lay down in detail these plans and projects which it is the business of governments to formu- late and carry out. But it is the buginess of the church to speak in no uncertain way concerning the Christian view of life and the relations of men and nations to one another. It is its business to guide the Christian con- | science in its approach to all such mat- | ters. It cannot therefore look on in- differently at war or what makes for war. It must put moral force behind the “efforts for peace and a law-gov- ' erned world. Christ summons us to world unity as He does to church unity. | Such efforts we would have you see is | but part of the great mission of the ! church. great company of the elect: he knn\\‘:-l The mission of the| church to grow up in full knowledge of what their sonship really means The social service worker is revealing the unity as well as the dignity of | human life. The evangelist on the city | streets is stirring the sleeping sense of kinship which lies hidden in all men’s souls. Varied messages and varied efforts they are, which through support of its program’ we make possible for the church, but all are guided by the same great ideal. All soring from the love of | God which we His children know in Jesus Christ. All aim to transform this world of hating, covetuous, warring men, dishonoring in their strife the Heavenly Father—all aim, we say, to put love for hate, peace and law for strife_and chaos. All would create out of this bitter competitive struggle the co-operative life of the family of od. “These efforts are our efforts, dear brethren of the clergy and laity. This is all our task. In private life and public life, in the support of the church’s program and in our in- fluence upon the wider life of Christian people throughout the world Christ calls us to release the power of love that men may be gathered into the unity of the sons of God. Only thus can God have His way among us Only thus cen He answer our daily prayer. thy kingdom come. Only thus can the Christ who died for us see led.” of the travail of his soul and be smisAl CHARACTER , FURNITURE “In conirast with the vast reaches of the task of ending war or of restoring | the unity of Christ’s church our own church’s mission as expressed in wha* we call its program seems small. It is as measured in numbers. be they of persons or of dollars. It is not if meas- ured in eternal values. It is the same task of bringing unity in God's great family. i “The money which we contribute for earrying out the church’s program in | Nation, diocese and parish is our part in that task, The missionary whom we thus send out is preaching every- | where as he preaches the Gospel, th~ | message of the unity of men in God | The teacher in the parish school at| heme is helping the children of the t| Transportation at Low Cost ion those two fund- | Means a good used car selected from those Automobile classification values in used cars have people of Washington and vicinity than those featured day by day fied Section of The Star. HE most money is not always the least amount of dol- lars is spent — perhaps an added dollar may mean many more years of addi- tional usage ment. advocate K Character Furniture be- fore you sav dollar. KAUFMANNS 1415 H STREET N.W. Use this pure olive oil shampoo made from the famnous Conti Castile Soap. Contains no alcohol. Rinses easily and completely. 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