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C0c0ec0c00 00000 CLERGYMAN dramatically fell- | | ing of his poverty and a layman advising the clerygmen how to carry out part of their duties were the important and rather startling features of yesterday's work of the con- | | vention of the Episcopal Diocese of Cali- | fornia at Grace Church The wearer of thé ministér's garb who | told of his humble surfoundings was Rev. Herbert Parrish of the Church of the Ad- vent and the layman who undertook to se the clergymen-how to perform part f their duties was Major W. B. Hooper of the Occidental Hotel, who is a lay dele- | gate to the convention Both the confession of poverty and the | advice to the clergy were calied ‘forth by the discussion which followed the re- f the Diocesan Board of Missions appeal for $8000 to carry on the | report was pre- | b ssion of%he con- | v i while certain parishes re-| ceived praise for the past year's records, all ed upon to contribute an were equal share to the money needed for mis- sion work for the coming Herbert Parrish ¢ Rev gh for me to keep my he said, “and as for bear- ing our quota of the sum needed by the mission board, it will be impossible. ¥ | ve in a cellar beneath my church and I do not know but dny day I may have to go forth to beg my daily bread.” hese startiing words, spoken in magnificent edifice of Grace ce of men representing some of t congregations in the State, | Sympathy for -the was freely ex- Mr. Wilson, | the tion. nan young pressed on aii sides, the Rev. secretary of the convention, leaving his seat at the chancel rail and putting his | arms affectionately the Rn\i. around the heck of Mr, Parrish. Bishop Rev. Mr. Parrish for his re- ks anc there was no need to rattle the bones of a skeleton. r Hooper, in discussing the report | d of missions, said that he had | heart for the work of uing, Major Hooper The results achieved by the board are | creditable to_all concerned. We all re- | member the opposition to the ereation of the office of archdeacon and the incum- | bent. The Master has surely aided in the ood work, but is that work to stop? fou clergymen must educate the people in this rezard. Your tactics must be changed. Don’t depend too much on preaching to raise funds. The mental dlet requires change. None of us ean carry our means away with us. High and low, rich and poor are lald low by the Master. If you clergymen will approach the laity in the right way you will have no difficuity in ralsing the required funds for mission work. 1 am not delivering a ADVERTISEMENTS. THE CHANGE OF LIFE s the most important period in a wo- man’s existence. Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand approaches this perfect'y natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and some- times painful symptoms. Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until it seems ready to burst, and the faint | feeling that follows, sometimes with | chills, as if the heart were golns‘mw | stop for good, are symptoms of a - | gerous, mervous trouble. Those hot ashes are just so many cells from i pature for help. The nerves are ory- ° .~/ \iBISHOP /7 S Nenors | work. - \ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1901. SAYS HE SLEEPS IN THE CELL. HAVE TO BEG HIS BREAD Rev. Dr. Parrish Startles Episcopal Con- vention by Pleading Poverty of Church! When Call Is Made for Mone 5 4 MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY AND LAY DELEGATES OF THE EPISCO- PAL CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA WHO TOOK PART IN CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS YESTERDAY. X 20 sermon, T am only giving you a layman’s adyic of Rev. 1. Parsons of San Ma the jealousies The clergyman, he said, more of the name of salvation. pered by in its s ish. work not for h“f entire church, an cease. Rev. Burr M. sions. Nearly Thirteen parishes had 2600 in taxes and had only $2151 to the mission board. asked for tors woul full share the assessment. its full the boar: Rev. of missions. =aid that wealthy parishes sum. An enthusiastic jedges made by Ri ev. Mr. church themselves to ralsy teo existing among the clergy as being detrimental to mission thinks a f th 1 R e [ does of the souls aroun e of Tre Bourd of misstons 18 ham: narrow-mindedness and limited e by the boundary of the par- Every clergyman, he added, arish alone but for the all petty jealousy must | Weeden of San Jose Nichols | auoted figures to show that the rich par- 3 ishes of the diocese were not bearing their are of the expense of the board of mis- 00 had been paid in taxes on church property in the diocese and $5647 contributed to the board of missions, aid of this amount contributed The board and he hoped that ten ree- o?ledge themselves to bear a | 1 Kaseif that bis parieh woald ey edge himself that his parish would pay Tis “full quota of the money required by F. W. Clampett followed in tha same strain as the previous speaker and should pay more than their quota of the money re- quired. The poor parishes could not be expected to carry on thelr mission work | without the ald of the wealthy parishes. + He pledged his church to subscribe $1000 toward the $8000 and if one parigh could do this the others in the diocese should be able to ralse more than the required scene followed the ‘Weeden and ev. Mr. Clampett. From all parts of the clergymen arose and pledged tiie money required. o to make his apj Henry E. Highton delivered an ad the Episcopal church in California. Bishop Moreland of delivered a short address, must County. of a minister residing among them. Bisho; work o which parishes so that would be a grand success and glory on God. year. for the Pacific Coast and the vention with shown in that convention. clergy to rise above work for_the bodies in the affairs not be encouraged. as follows: Nichols, appoint a number of committees to take charge of the work to be arranged for the General Convention of Episcopa ans throughout the country to take place in this city during the present year. The Bishop stated that he would not be able intments for some time reing the cl d laity & 't Ehe | | urging the clergy and laity to support the | Pacific Churchman, the officia. paper of | Sacramento also teling of his experiences among tne Indians in Trine He painted a gloomy pictura the moral and spiritual conditions of the Indians, and dwelt upon the need of Moreland paid a tribute to the Bishop Nichols and the officials of the chyrch and dwelt upon the benefits 1 accrue from the General Con- | vention to be held in ihis city. He urged all present to stir up enthusiasm in their the next convention reflect Bishop Nichols then read his annual ac- count of his official acts during the past He reviewed the work done in the church and predicted a remarkable era church | workers in its boundaries. He looked for- ward to the meeting of the General Con- great pleasure. -The spirit of liberty, loyalty and fidelity would be | He urged the h rtisan feeling and [g00d of the entire church. A narrow spirit should be avoided and those outsiders®who weuld act as busy- of the church should The afterncon session was mainly taken up with the election of officers and was not concluded at the evening hour of ad- | Journment. Those elected yesterday wera XXV. 1 (Concluded.) | Benedick, it may be said, was not put to the figal test of heroism. But the next in | ’(he number of Shakespeare’s heroes is | tried In the flercest fire ana proves pure {gold. It has become the fashion with | commentators nowadays to call Shakes- peare’s Brutus an unpractical idealist, to | describe him as the man of books forced | by necessity into the world of action and | failing in that world; the twin-brother of Hamlet. But this is by no means Shakes- | peare's conception . of his character. Brutus has, indeed, certain traits In com- mon with Hamlet; but he has one great i and distinguishing difference, the capacity for reasoned and deliberate action. H falls, it is true, In the task he has under taken, ' the restoration of republican Romey Hamlet, it is equally true, succeeds in his, the avenging of his father's death. | But if we look to the inner man, what.a difference between Hamlet, rumed by the conflicting elements .of his'own nature, and Brutus, glorified even fn the hour of | his death by his unwavering devotion to the ideals typified in his life. The play of “Jullus Caesar” opens the great cycle of Shakespeare's tragedies, and. in this | period Shakespeare deals not so much with the question of worldly success or | failure as with the inner struggle of the | scul toward victory or defeat. And Brutus alome of all the great characters | |of these tragedies, Halmet, Macbeth, Othello and the rest, comes off supreme victor. In every point wherein his char- acter is tested Brutus rises exalted from the trial. He is the darling of the great usurper—for in the study of the play we must regard Caesar as Shakespeare and his age regarded him—and a splendid career was opened to him under Caesar’s protection. But it has no temptation for him: | Brutus had rather be a villager | Than to repute himself a son of Rome | TUnder these hard conditions, as this time | Is like to lay upon us. He loves Caesar, but his personal af- fection cannot for a moment stand in the | way of the common weal. The question | that agitates his mind, dispels his slum- bers, and disturbs the serenity of his temper, is whether Caesar’s death is nec- essary to the state. And when this is once decided, he proceeds calmly and | steadily to action with a loftiness of tem- per that turns a murder to a sacrifice. Brutus is blamed for his refusal to kill Antony along with Caesar, and it Is easy to blame him after the event. But the grounds on which Cassius urged the deat of Antony, his love for Caesar and power to harm the conspirators, e | from the standpoint of unseifish morality whence Brutus viewed them weak and | even blameworthy. It is true that he | underestimated the capacity of Antony men of the Brutus type are apt to despise | the gay, pleasure-loving man of genius But even had Brutus foreseen the dan- ger, it Is hardly likely that he would have acted otherwise. He loved honor more than he feared death, and his homor was concerned in making the slaying of Caesar a solemn sacrifice to the republic and not the signal for a general massacre. Tt was against the spirit of Caesar that he fought, and had it been poséible to crush this spirit without shedding any blood, he would have rejoiced. Again after ihe death of Caesar, when the civil wars break out Brutus finds | himself at the head of an agrmy, he is ex- posed to what is perhaps the’ strongest temptation that can assail a man_ol action, the seeming necessity of yielding | to the consequences of his own acts, and of grasping at any means that will lead him to his goal. It is this necessity that drives Macbeth_step by step through a sea of blcod. But Brutus still remains master of himself—he will not stoop to | wring_ their hard-earned coins from | wretched peasantry or sell his offices for | sold. He punishes injustice and bribers | even in his own ranks, and almost breaks | with his one ally because the latter is less | scrupulous of ways and means than he. Unpractical the critics call this, teo, but even in this life Brutus has his reward. It is no little thing that a Roman of the perfod of the civil wars should be abie to say as his day is closing: My heart doth joy, that vet in all my lite | I found no man but he was true to me. It is the common failing of such men as Brutus, of the puritan as of the stofc, to be cold, reserved _and self-sufficient, “faultily faultless.” But Shakespeare was | to0 warm-blooGed himself to draw any | such icy figure of perfection. Brutus is| uj to the red ripe of the heart, cour- teous, tender, loving. His kindlinéss ex- | tends’ even to his siaves, over whom he | watches like a father. At the very height of his quarrel with Casslus an appeal to his old affection stops him in his just re- proaches. And his relation with his wife i8 the most beautiful to be found even in Shakespjeare. Well may Anthony say of this noblest Roman: His life was gentle: and the elements The clergymen an: rishes which prom- | standi A 3 8o mixed in him that nature might stand up | ised to raise the e J. T. s.—fw me | SpAIpE committescRey, R Foute, Rev. | And say to all the world “This was & man Oakland; Stockton parish; Trinity Chureh, | Ritchie, W. Babcock, A. N. Drown, C. D, | _And after Brutus there is but one heroic Oakland: 8t. Matthew's Church, 8an Ma- | Haven and Major W. B. Hooper. figure among all the protagonists of teo; Grace Church, San Francisco: St. Board of missjons—Rev. T. J. Lacey, Rev. C | Shakespeare's great tragedies, but he is Stephen’s Church, San Francisco; Trinity E. Swan, V. . Sanford, Dr. H. C. Davis, | the “noblest man of man's making,” the Church, Menlo Park. gfllifl e ,D&’f:fr‘:':*o%efi«nfm;zrc‘;:: splendid Ifime; mg pessimllléc lover, - - - v 2 < 3 o el | The business transacted yesterday Rev. B. M. Weeden, who had the g g oo(tl:;lllo e the other great c! Aracters’ as follows: Presentation and reception of ; report of the report of the rated parishes and organized missions; report of the commit- tee on Christian education with a recom- as much as possible in schools and colleges; report of the committee on church charities; report of the committee on the state of the certificates of lay delegal registrar of the dioces: committee on incorpo; mendation that it be sp: church. A. cellor of the dlocese and St g&eplm e salary from $1500 to 8an Joaquin statin of his district mus district Francisco. wver by club women. . “‘colonial” in every re- looked N. Drown was reappointed as char ohn’s Church, San Francisco, was selected as for holding the mext convention. of the archdeacon was raised per year. The deans of the various congregations reported on the conditions of their districts, the dean of that the dissolution oceur through of funds unless it was merged into {ha of San . A resolution was passed that the chairman, Bishon L e CENTURY CLUB LADIES - GIVE A COLONIAL TEA presents % Hmd m% plcture l.blnkfl:;d .flco- Lass.” g elody The ladies of the Century Club gavefia Colonial tea yesterday - afternoon and evening that was, without exception, the most artistic entertalnment ever presided ber of votes as Rev. latter's favor. A. N. Drown, Rev. J. A. ev. D. Kelly, I A ‘Deiegates to missionary 1 3. V. D. Eo T, ey W. B W. A. M. Van Major ooper. morning clude its duties to-day. A recej was ai thy Bldgentar Mrs. guhwx- the iscopal pariors of &hg orately with flags and flowers an num! of guests wexo'grmf. An chestra was In _attendance and younger guests indulged in dancing. want zl.muu %fii‘&?‘ T Fosed by DY their prettiest of more than one silver, There laces, 13 {i S Mr. Sanford, retired in the Board of diréctors of dlocesan eonfporg(lono A. H. Phelps, W. A. M. Van Bokkelen, A B Pheips n, . Drown, kkelen and ‘The election will be continued this at 10 and the convention will con- | and laity of | b;locmflmulfomu. e | hotel - were ds -elab- tragic period, his soul is caught in | the storm of sin and driven to hopeless | ruin. But unlike the others his eyes are opened at the last, he sees his fault and | the agony of nis repentance forces f him the most brokenhearted cry that ever | passed the lips of man. one could | write an epllogue to Othello after the | manner of the last act of Faust, what other place in it could be assigned this noble sinner than one among those to whom much was forgiven because they | loved much? One sees him drawn upward | to the heights by the hand of Desdemora, | better loved and less wronged than ever | Gretchen was by Faust. | The chief feature in the character Othello is his elemental simplicity. He is | so direct, so stralghtforward and sincere | himself that he cannot even imagine de" Bar- | of | ceit or dishonor in his surroundings. barian as he is by birth. he is at heart a | very perfect, gentle knight—brave, cour- | teous, loving, gifted with a simple but overmastering elo?uenoo. and cherlnhlnll a spotless {deal of honor. He is not as is too often sup) of a jealo ure. | The;le ll‘ “51‘[“ u;l':elmngd base de- | ng in this passion, and one f:‘comp-n Othello with Shy s true portrait of the jealous king th the “Winter's Tale" to gee how far the Moor is exalted above its meanness. Even in his darkest hour it is not so much jeal- ousy that feeds u his heart and drives him to madness and murder as the The conflict that rages | between passionate yet deyotion, and a sense of er shame brought upon him by the ruin of his spotless ideals of wedded love and vouun‘:L purity. In the bitterness of the strife self- so hardly won maintained breaks down, and | has ‘once HOME STUDY CIRCLE FOR CALL READERS A Shakespeare Evening for the Consid- eration of the Character of Brutus. Copyright, 1901, by Seymour Eaton. !the very sea-mark of | was enough of a practi follower. All his life henceforth is bound up in his lord's: he follows him from place to place, accepts disgrace for him with cheerful resignation, tends him in his madness, restores him to his daughter and in the last dread scene, when the stand- ersby vainly endeavor to recall Lear from the grave to which he is drifting with Cordelia_in his arms is Kent who speaks the solemn va n: Vex not his ghost! 1 m pass! he him ¢ hates That would upon the rack of this toush Stretch him out longer. After Lear's death his true servant's life has no further purpose; he has re X his utmost What ar@ the well-meant offers stored rank and power in the state t him! He waves them back with the quiet world answer that there is no time for the things: I have & journey, sir, shortly to g0 My master calls me. Kent is one of Shakespeare's noblest men, the true picture of the hero as serv- ant. One more name may fittingly close this catalogue of Shakespeare's heroes, that of a character in many ways the most wenderful of them all. For in Prosper Shakespeare has not only given us a pic ture of the hero as philosopher and poe he has thereby unconseiously gi portrait of himself as he w. of his life. “Conscious ed by arrogance, €an and base, mercif contempt entered very | ¥, X ng passionate affection wh mitting tende: ss, intellect overtop morality, but in no way blghting or verting ft—such,” says Dr. Garnett, “are the mental features of him in whose de- velopment the man of the world kept with the poet, and who now sh the consummate perfecti these features as the are the lineaments of the b the tender father and the Noohear t ed prince, great magician It IS not certain whom we call P that “The Tempest” is the last in date of Shakespeare's plays, but certainly it is in spirit the most fitting conclusion to his work, the best representative of that last period which Dowden has so aptly bap- tized “On the Heights.” From what a mountain top of caim and lofty wisdom, at last attained after hard tofl, bitter sor- row and painful experience of the base- ness of mankind does Prospero look down upon the world. He is lord of the ele- ments; Ariel, the delicate spirit, and Cali- ban, the fiend-born monster, are allke his servants. His arts have made him mas- ter of men's fates; in his hand are the lives of the enemiés who have wronged, betrayed and robbed him. But the only vse he makes of his power is to open their eyes to their faults and move their hearts to repéntance. Forgiveness, reconcilia- t ment, these are the words that >ugh the harmonies of Shake- spear; test work like the solemn mu- that stole along the airs of the en- chanted island. Over the wretchedness of the men of sin, over the youthful inno- cence of Ferdinand and Miranda the grea figure of Prospero towers like some kindly ancient god. Yet he i3 not unhuman. He knows the littleness of man and foresees the coming end. When his work of re- k. gles once more with to rule his dukedom yre, to see his daughter's up about his knees and s nor melancholy. der of true philos- For ut with the grave wo ophers upon approaching death. Prospero knows that The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe jtself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And Iike the unsubstantial pageant faded Tcave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our litde Wfe is rounded with a sieep There impothing real in this world, such seem to0 Shakespeare’s last words t© us, but love and forgiveness and a calm expectance of the end. T7'ie & very long way from Theseus un- coupling his hounds in the fairy-haunted groves near Athens, or Falconbridge scat- tering his rough Jests and plying his ready hand, to this ripened and serene philosopher. It indicates perhaps the dis- tance that Shakespeare had traveled from his early admiration of the men of action to his final recognition of the world's worth. Yet his ideals are by no means incongruous; there are certain cardinal virtues common to almost all his heroes. Perhaps the most striking of these is that quality which gave to the poet his nick- name of “gentle WIIL"” Gentleness, in its varied forms, of courtesy toward infe- riors and equals, and of reverence toward superiors, is -a virtue that Shakespeare is never tired of extolling. He deyotes a whole drama to proving that the lack of this virtue may ruin an otherwise nobie soul. Closely akin to this quality is a tenderness of heart, quick to respond to an appeal for pity. Shakespeare himseif had sc deep a sense of the sadness of hu- man life that he could not even imagine a hero devold of this tender grace. These qualities are re-enforced and strength- ened in Shakespeare’s heroes by the ac- tive virtues of strength, resolution and decision in thought and act. Shakespeare saw nothing noble in the mere man of sentiment, however acute or refined. He preferred Falconbrwfle to Jacques. Ac- tion rather than feeling is after all the aim of life, and the great poet, with all his sensitiveness and depth of emotion. man to realize the qualities that make action possible. The very foundation of these is self-con- trol—a man must master himself before and in Hamiet's he can act on others, praise of Horatio, A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hath ta'en with equal thanks, We hear the poet himself speaking his mind on the onpeothln needful. With the single exception of hello, all Shakes- eare's heroes are the masters of their ate, the captains of their souls, and the lack of self-control on Othello’s’ part, or. rather the loss of it under the infernai machinations of the demi-devil, Iago. Is. as has been shown, responsible for most piteous trlled[ in all Shakespeare's lays. Yet this seif-control never passes flno selfishness. That is a quality re- served for the most villainous of Shakes- re’s characters—Richard, and [achim.. It is well worth remark that every hero In Shakespears who is domi- nated by one great alm In life sets as his geal an object outside himself—Henry V, his coun sfiory' Brutus, the salva- tion of the republic; Kent, the preserva- tion of his King. Finally, since of aill vices Shakespeare hated deceit most bit- terly, his heroes are all true. had little sympathy with t! “ads at need Simplicity, sincerity. g ready at n ' . sin . gen- uwujhr and speech, fidelity to loyalty to an ideal, mark all t Shakespears deems 1 It is time to bring this st A volume might easily be t of herofc character in signi! to & close. comm brief study enough has been sald to show what manner L S ner of man n i T. M. P. 20T . Princeton University. Pears’