Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1937, Page 23

- CHURCH SESSION | SENDS MESSAGE Canon Stokes Reads World Conference Report at Cathedral. A message from the World Confer- ence on Church, Community and State, urging application of Christian principles to end “injustices of the social order and the menace and horror of war,” was read at the Wash- ington Cathedral yesterday by Canon Anson Phelps Stokes. One of nine representatives from ‘Washington at the conference held last month in Oxford, England, Canon Stokes returned Saturday with copies of the message to all Christian churches, which was drafted at con- clusion of the conference by a com- mittee of nine, headed by the Arch- bishop of York. Canon Stokes said the Oxford con- ference was the most representative held in more than a thousand years. It was attended by more than 300 dele- gates from 90 churches in 45 different countries, representing virtually all branches of the Christian church ex- ecept the Roman Catholic Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. Fellowship of Christians. The world fellowship of Christians, the conference message declared, of- | fers hope for overcoming the ‘“per- plexity and fear” oppressing man- kind. In such a world of “chaos and |- disintegration,” it said, “the church | is called to be in its own life that ! fellowship which binds men together in their common dependence on God | and overleaps all barriers of social | status, race or nationality.” It branded “national egotism tend- ing to the suppression of other na- | tionalities or of minorities” as a “sin | against the Creator of all peoples and races” Condemning war, the report added that “Christians must do all in their power to promote among the nations justice and peaceful co-opera- tion, and the means of peaceful ad- Justment of altering conditions.” The existence of economic classes, it continued. “presents a barrier to human fellowship which cannot be tolerated by the Christian conscience.” It blamed blindness of Christians to economic evils as partly responsible for the anti-religious character of | communism and naziism. Relation of Church and State. Regarding the relation of church and state, the message said “We recognize the state as being in | its own sphere the highest authority. | It has the God-given &im in that | sphere to uphold law and order and | to minister to the life of its people. | But as all authority is from God, the | state stands under His judgment * * * The Christian can acknowledge no ultimate authority but God. His loy- | alty 1o the state is part of his loyalty to God. and must never usurp the | place of that primary and absolute loyalty.” In the economic sphere the message aaid “the first duty of the church is | to insist that economic activities, like every department of human life, stand under the judgment of Christ.” | Canon Stokes told the Washington | Black Cursuade Sheer with shawl and sash of shining satin fashions a frock that should be your first for Fall. It has three sparkling clips of rhine- stones that rival jewels, and a new yoke effect that's .very flattering. $16.95 Dresses— Second Floor. Cathedral congregation that some of the delegates to the conference, espe- cially those from America and Eng- land, wished the church to go fur- ther in interesting itself in “improv- ing the conditions of living and in advancing certain fundamental prin- ciples which Christ's teachings of the fatherhood of God and the bretherhood of man imply as to the social struc- ture of society.” Misuse of Speed Disastrous. Modern cars are capable of speeds of 70 miles an hour and up. The highway and other conditions of traf- fic seldom permit the use of this maxi- mum speed. The tendency of many drivers is to travel at speeds faster than are reasonable and proper. Ac- cidents result from this misuse of speed. The consequences of accidents of this nature are usually disastrous because of the terrific impact. Hear Jean Abbey Women's Home Companion Radio Shopper, tell of Semi-An- THE EVENING In the Hunt Country STAR, WASHINGTON, Activities Among the Horse-Lovers of Virginia and Maryland. BY NINA CARTER TABB. RS. FLOYD HARRIS of Stoke, Between Aldie and Middle- burg, Va., who died at Win- chester Memorial Hospital last week, was buried in the Middle- burg Cemetery on Saturday, after services at the Episcopal Church in Aldie, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The Church of Our Redeemer was overflowing with sorrowing friends, come to pay their last respects to the greatly beloved Mrs. Harris, who came to Virginia to live 30 years ago. In nual Selling savings on the Fine Furniture you want for your home. Station WJSV—tomorrow morn- ing at 8:30 o'clock. that time she made an enviable place here, not only in the hearts of her family and intimate friends, but with the whole community. She was recov- ering from an operation performed two weeks ago. and expected to return home in a few days when a heart at- tack proved fatal. Her death was a great shock to every one, Before her marriage to Col. Floyd Harris, U. 8. A, (retired) in Hong- kong, China, in 1900, she was Miss Eleanor Truax, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sewell Truax of the State of D. O ‘Washington. Col. Harris at that time was a captain stationed at Manila, a8 aide to Gen. Wood. From 1901 to 1905 the Harrises lived in Vienna, Austria, where Col. Harris was sta- tioned as military attache at the court of Elizabeth. He resigned from the Army in 1906 and they came to Virginia and bought Stoke, a large estate that had belonged to Morborne Berkley and had been in that family for generations. They remodeled and added to the old house, making it one of the loveliest in this part of Virginia. The garden there, planned and worked over by Mrs. Harris with her own hands, is one of the most beautiful in this State of noted gardens. It is always open to the public for Garden week in Virginia, | when it is a riot of color. You wander MONDAY, A UGUST 9, 1937. of the Fauquier-Loudoun Garden Club, vice president of the Garden Club of Virginia and a member of the Royal Horticultural Society of England. She founded the Aldie Hor- ticultural Society and was chairman of the Narcissus Test Committee. Mrs. Harris was considered the most up-to-date woman grower in the East, was well known in all garden clubs and frequently lectured before the Garden Club of America. She was noted for her collection of lilies and for her boxwood. There are acres of land . at Stoke, with box bushes of every size growing. She was public spirited and took an active part in everything that went on, not only in her community, but in many affairs of the State. She played the organ at the Aldie Episcopal up and down the many lovely walks, | trying to take in all she accomplished in so short a time. 10™11™ F AND G STREETS | lifts the cu&ain on the Autumn Fashion Scene - . . with a print preview, with all the verve of crisp days ahead. Of seal Crepe, woven of Enka rayon yarn—soft and easily cleaned—in sizes for misses and women. We show three from o group significantly styled ._ INEXPENSIVE Darssts, TH®p FLOOR. $6‘50 S el f | Bracelet Church, did much for the church, started and taught in a SBunday&chool had never been to a Bunday school, and was one of the most capable and | outstanding women in Virginia. Aside from this, Mrs. Harris was a most charming and graclous hostess. Stoke, with its spacious lawn, large spread- ing trees and homelike air, has been & meeting place for old and young the | ie had lived there, her | personality and true hospitality at- tracting persons of all generations. many years « B_S§ Butler of Millwood, Joseph Walker of | Woodberry Forest and Gardner Boothe of Alexandria | Bishop Goodwin assisted the Rev. Campbell Mayers, rector of the Aldie | church, with the church services and |at the cemetery in Middleburg. Peo- ple from all over Virginia and many from Washington came for the funeral, one of the largest ever held here, Their presence revealed the full ex- This community is distressed, having |tent of the love and respect held for lost a friend who did much for others and lived & happy, useful life to the fullest. Surviving Mrs. Harris are her hus- band, Col. Harris, and five children Miss Eleanor Harris, Miss Morison and Floyd Harris, jr. Pallbearers at the funeral Martha Harris, Mrs. Duval Tyler, Mrs. Holmes were Thomas U. Dudley, G. Basil Hall and Gwynne Tayloe of Middleburg; George own the mountain near Watson for |Carter, Frank Littleton, sr., and Col. Mrs. Harris was a former president ‘the many children near there who |William Clifford of Leesburg; Edward | | Eleanor Truax Harris, who occupied \such a big place in our hearts, .| RUG Beanty Our Duty CLEANED AND STORED (all Mr.Pyle na.3257 SANITARY CARPET & RUG CLEANING €O. 106 INDIANA AVE. - WOODWARD & LOTHROP PronNE DIsmricr §300 . 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