The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1902 \_\"ED.;\' SD.%“ JANUARY 29, 1902 JOHN D SPRECKELS, Proprietor %o W, 5. LEAKE, Mansger. Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Teiephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS, . 217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weel. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including .m,% DAILY CALL (& as . i'm DAILY CALL (including L DAILY CALL— s ,'F‘ 1.00 ters nre authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample eopies will be forwarded when requested Mail subscribers in or change of address should be ticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their reque: OAKLAND OFFICE ...111S Broadwa C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building. Chicago. (Long Distance Tel e “‘Central 2619.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON...... . +++s.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. 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Doyle—This day, 1 street at 11 o'clock, Horses, day, January 30, 1 Howard street. at 11 o'clock, G. Layng—Th A DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME. Y slight degrees and by a slow and tortuous B process the Democrats of Congress seem to be developing for their party a programme of t h respect to the Philippine Islands. It is a clearly. defined programme, and probably lefinite programme could be fashioned which would be acceptable to all factions of that confused party, but none the less it will probably grow into ape through evolution and be accepted by tHe Democracy of the country as an inevitable conse- quence of its position as the party of opposition to the administration. As presented by some of the leading Democrats, both in the Senate and in the House, the programme will be to treat the Philippines in much the same way as it is proposed to treat Cuba. Congress will be asked to formally relinquish any claim to sov- ereignty over the Philippines. The islands will be established as foreign territory having an indepen- dent government but under temporary protec- torate of the United States. proposed act the Filipinos will have no rights as citi- zens of the United States nor -any privilege of free- f trade. The United States will do nothing in the islands than reserve to itselt a naval sta- tion, promote the establishment of stable government and guarantee their independence. How far such a policy would be acceptable to the party at large remains to be scen. Were it proposed in a Democratic caucus at Washington it would cer- tainly lead to a bitter factional fight, for there are a good many “imperialists” among the Southern rep- resentatives. who are by no means willing to release our hold upon the islands. Indeed some of them are in favor of annexing Cuba Jtself. “The apinions’ of these men, however, “are likely to be oyerruled by the necessity of formulating some sort of an issue on which to oppose the administration, and at present the Philippine question is about the only onc it presents itself as an available issue. It is true there has been much talic of a fight on the question of “as- a do more set currency,”and there is a bare possibility that the | controversy concerning the isthmian canal route may become a party question. Those, however, are mere possibilities, not probabilities. for the Democratic leaders to formulate a policy on which to ask the confidence of the people at the Con- gressional elections next fall, and at present, while the Philippine issue doesn’t promise much, it prom- ises more than anything else. —_— The heavy sentences which the Superior Judges of this city have been imposing on footpads will be ac- cepted, it is hoped, by that gentry of the night in the spirit in which they are given. “We like our midnight | marauders well enough to keep them with us for the term of their natural lives—within penitentiary walls, A Cornell professor has organized a society each member of which signs a pledge to will his brain for dissecting purposes after death. The only disappoint- ing feature of the affair is that ail who are ready to make the coveted wills have no brains of value to bequeath. With a stately delegation of Americans attending King Edward’s coronation and the people 4t home giving a genuine American welcome to Prince Henry of Germany, it would seem that we are going to have 2 royal enough time this year to suit the highest taste. A letter was recently recei d at the United States Senate addressed te “The perviest man in the Sen- ate.” It was offered tc Penrose of Pennsylvania and he took it, but the incident must have happened at a time when Billy Masor: was absent. What does it profit a young inventor to devise a wireless telegraph and lose his girl? The next time Marconi gets a fiancee he had better put a barbed wire cinch on her. You can’t hold the modern maiden by the wireless process. _ | that cannot be ignored.” By the passage of the | The time is at hand | PERSISTENT CLEVELAND. MR, CLEVELAND has the quality of , per- sistence and judgment as to time fos show- ing it to a degree not excelled by any other American statesman. The Republican protectionists who have been teaching the country recently that protection is not a stable and scientific ec-onomic principle, but a rule-of-thumb expedient, subject tP relaxation, fluctuation or abolition, whenever senti- mental considerations require, will be pleased to find themselves under Mr. Cleveland’s leadership and placed in an attitude of approbation of his tariff mes- sage of 1887. He is a free-trader on principle, and with the steady zeal of a doctrinaire is ready to seek what he wants by the action of either party. In the Cuban tariff issue he sees his opportunity and uses it with the promptness of a skillful leader. In a letter to Mr. Farquhar of York, Pa, in answer to an inquiry about the demand of Cuba for free trade, the ex-President warmly, indeed wvehe- mently, indorses that demand, declaring that it in- volves “considerations of morality and conscience With the true spirit of the free-trader he says that “the arguments used in oppo- sition to the tariff concessions Cuba implores, based upon our own material interests, are fallacious, mis- taken and misleading.” It will be remembered that this was exactly the tone of his message in 1887. It was written in disregard of the claim that our material interests depend at all upon protection, and it re- quires no miracle of memory to recall what happened when that principle of his message was put into oper- 2tion during his second administration. Our material interests were stricken into disappearance, and be- came, in fact, just as immaterial as he seems to think they are now. The Republicans who have been affirming our duty to make Cuba prosperous raising sugar, rather | than make our own people prosperous by raising it at home, will find themselves now under Mr. Cleve- [land’s orders, and must hay-foot and straw-foot at the command of their new captain. And all the world will wonder why those who obey him now op- posed and denounced him in 1887 and until the close of his last term. He has not changed. He shows absolutely Bourbon inflexibility. Therefore they must have changed. The members of his own party, who have had no leader since they deserted him, are in an equally em- barrassing position. As free-traders they stand for Cuba against their own country. They can see no merit in giving the profit of raising sugar to Ameri- can farmers, but find the highest principle in giving it to Cuban planters. The password of free trade is “Poverty at home, prosperity abroad.” But these Democrats, who have squirmed and wriggled out of Mr. Cleveland’s leadership, and who for very hate of him have even been willing to sup- press their free trade instincts in the last two Presi- dential campaigns, suddenly find themselves under his leadership again and unable to escape it. They may pray toward Nebraska, but they must march to the order of New Jersey. One can see the victory in the eyes of the ex- President when he returned to the subject of sugar. He wanted free sugar in the Wilson tariff and had | promised it to the country, but Gorman outheld him | and amply protected raw sugar, with a differential on | refined that was quite up to the Republican idea of | protection. For that reason Cleveland refused to sign the bill and returned it to the House blighted by { his curse, in a message denouncing it as “merely a ’record of shame and dishonor.” Yet it had enough | free trade in it to ruin the county, but, as it had no free sugar it failed to command his approval. Writ- ing now upon sugar again he returns to the old in- | vective, saying of the arguments against free trade with Cuba, “Their source and the agencies of their propagation and spread cannot fail to be recognized by every honest, patriotic citizen with shame and humiliation.” We hope that the Republican free- traders will paste that in their hats and, frequently | reading it, remember that it applies to every Repub- lican argument for protection as much as to ‘sugar. Mr. Cleveland closes the remarkable letter with a | pathological remark to the effect that if we do not give Cuba free trade “our embrace of her means the contagion of deadly disease.” - Let us draw the cur- | tain, with the remark that the less said about that the better. Mrs. William Astor has applied at Newport for citizenship in Rhode Island, for the purpose, it - is said, of escaping New York taxation. This is not so bad as Waldorf Astor’s expatriation of hithself by be- coming'a British subject, but just the same it leaves New York without an Astor to run society, and now with the political capita] of the country. at Washings ton and-the secial capital at Newport New. York City sin.:s to the level of a way station. TRANS-ALASK AN RAILWAY. A BILL Nac bocn inteadmeerd in Cangress grant- ing alternate sections of land in Alaska“to aid in the construction “of a certain rajlway in said Territory and for other purposes.” While the | route of the proposed road has not been definitely | settled, it is announced that it will start at Cooks | Inlet and run in a northwesterly direction to a point | on Bering Strait, thus opening up communication t with St. Michae], Nome and the lower region of the | Yukon. The introduction of the bill is an evidence that large capitalists are ready to engage in the task of de- veloping the Territory. The construction of such a line even when aided by the proposed land grant will require the expenditurc of a vast sum of private capi- | tal, for it is by no means certain that the land grants will be worth much. Of course the work would not be undertaken without good prospects of profit, and it may be assumed that the men who are promoting | the enterprise have satisfied themselves on that point. Reports from Alaska encourage the expectation that the line will be profitable from the start. The railway from Skagway to the Upper Yukon is said to have paid for itself in a single season. That, of course, was due to, the exceptional rush of business to supply the miners in the Klondike, and a repeti- tion of the success cannot be counted on elsewhere. Nevertheless a line that will bring the rich gold re- gions around Nome into closer communication with the outer world will be almost certain to pay even- tually. There is the further prospect that the con- struction of the road would lead to the deyelopment of gold fields elsewhere and would thus make busi- ness for itseli at many points. Gold is by no means the only product that Alaska offers to reward enterprise. It is believed by some investigators that the copper mines of the country are the richest in the world, and that it woyld be well worth while to construct a considerable railway for the purpose of developing the copper districts even if nothing else were in sight, Up to the present time the men who have been en- lgaged in developing Alaska have had comparativelv wiggled and | small capital. They have been able to do hardly more thart seek out some of the more accessible placer mines, and even to accomplish that the miners have had to undergo great hardships in the work. They have revealed the fact that there are rich gold districts in the interior that cannot be worked under present conditions because of the difficulty of getting sup- plies for the workers. The proposed railway will solve that difficulty in many localities and immensely increase the output of the precious metal. The pro- jected road promises, therefore, to be beneficial in more ways than one, and it is to be hoped its con- struction will be promptly undertaken. An Oakland Judge has made a most serious assault on the vested rights of the male of the human spe- cies. This learned jurist makes the astounding de- cision that a wife has the same liberty as a husband to stay out nights and keep knowledge of her where- abouts to herself. F trial Commission, has submitted to that body ® a careful study of the trust problem and of the various means which have been suggested: for solving it. His discussion is of course carried on from the standpoint of a lawyer. He concerns him- self in no wise with the question whether trusts are or are not injurious from an economic point of view, but devotes his study to a consideration of the legal issues involved in dealing with them under our con- stitution. The objections against trusts which are assumed at the outset ui the report are that large aggrega- tions of capital are destructive of individual initiative; their power is a menace to politics; they tend to be- come a monopoly and they destroy private enterprise by unfair competition. Three methods have been proposed for regulating such combinations and pre- venting their evil effects—first, stricter anti-trust legislation by the States and by. the Federal Gov- ernment without altering the present relations be- ‘tween their respective jurisdictions; second, to have Congress release to the States its interstate jurisdic- tion so far as to allow the States themselves to regu- late manufacturing or trading corporations engaged in interstate commerce; third, to have the National Government take to itself a larger and perhaps exclu- sive control of all such corporations, regulating by act of Congress all that do any business across State lines, After discussing each of the three plans Mr. Stim- son declares in favor of the last. He says: “This system of national or federal control is distinctly the most radical and revolutionary of the three courses, and also by far the most effective. If it be constitu- tional, expedient and wise, such an act of Congress would be a far more drastic and complete remedy obviously than the other two, which are both half- way measures. The constitutionality of such an act rests on that clause which gives Congress power to regulate commerce between the States. The Supreme Court has held that this clause covers the instrumen- talities of commerce as well as commerce itself.” Passing to a consideration of the details of a bill designed to give Congress the exclusive right to deal with trusts, Mr. Stimson recommends that no attempt be made to define what constitutes an interstate commerce corporation. “If you attempt to define,” he says, “you put the objection right in the front, you lose the elasticity of the Supreme Court, which, will define for you far better than you can for your- self, and, finally, any definition narrows the scope of the law.” Holding, then, the belief that such an act of Con- gress would be constitutional, it is urged that the policy should be attempted at first in an experimental way by an act permitting corporations engaged in in- terstate commerce to incorporate under rational in- stead of State law. This would leave them free to do as they choose, and as a consequence those that came under the law would be friendly to it. Thus a large amount of antagonism would be eliminated at the start. In order to encourage corporations to accept Federal instead of State incorporation he would provide by the act that such corporations should not be subject to taxation under the laws of any State except as tc property actually situated in | such State. Of the effects of such a system he says: “A per- missive law of this sort would work with a bureau to be established which should be the organism in the first place to grant charters, in the second place to direct the operation of them, and in the third place to tax them. They should be regulated more and more strictly under the Federal la.w.v If in the end the system work satisfactorily and the public is con- tent, the permissive feature could then be abolished znd no corporation thereafter be permitted to en-- gage in interstate commerce except under a Federal charter.” Such is the latest suggestion from an authoritative source concerning the solution. of the trust.problem. Tt 18"t imany respects_the best that has yet been of- fered, but can hardly be deenie perfectt Tn fact until further experience with the operation of trusts has clearly shown in what respects they are injurious it is hardly worth while to undertake anything like radical legislation in dealing with them. e — Mrs. Lease, once of Kansas but.who for some time has been lost in obscurity in New York, has bobbed up in that city to take part in the colntroversy over the Sunday closing law, and this is what she says: “I would make whisky as free.as water; I would let the man who wants it drink his fill. It would re- | sult beneficially in killing off a lot of saloon fre- | quenters and’ would bring into practical operation the law of the survival of the fittest.” It is clear Mrs, Lease is mot bidding for the presidency of the WG T THE TRUST PROBLEM, J. STIMSON, advisory counsel of the Indus- Professor Garner, who some years ago set about teaching apes to speak, may have been forgotten by now announces that in a comparatively short time he expects to appear on the platform with three apes, all of them speaking English, so we may as well look cut for a genuine novelty in the way of a vaudeville stunt. A local footpad who received a few days ago a sentence of thirty-threc years in the penitentiary said he didn’t understand the seriousness of his offense. Giving him the benefit of every doubt in reference to the stupidity of his mental apparatus, he certainly has time enough to reach a stern realization that he of- fended somewhat against the law. The very worthy editor of The Independent of Santa Barbara has a case against himself to brush up his recollection of California poetry. He attributes Bret Harte's lines, “For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the heathen Chinee is peculiar,” to Mark Twain, who might naturally wish that he ‘had written them. X the public, but he hasn’t forgotten himself, and he | . seceretary would proceed with the EPISCOPALIANS OF CALIFORNIA MEET IN DIOCESAN CONVENTION . : . [ o5 J: N v N 8’ v N THE BISHOP OF CALIFORNIA WAS SCENE IN THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST WHEN TE OF c ; PREACHING THE SERMON THAT PRECEDED THE OPENING OF THE FIFTY-SECOND CO ENTION OF THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA. | L - = ' 3 y-Se Vi 1 the Auditing——A. H. Phelps, Francis Avery and ‘l)‘.ar{ A days’ written notice thersof and D e % F. H. Elehtaum | stating the purpose of the meeting to be the Eptacopal ' Blocele of /Callfornia {oR e B 1 selection of a rector. The warden shall at e sessi yedterday with Cangns—Rev. H. C. Foute, Rev. D. O.|¢ 1 h E t opened its sesslons ye 4 Db . N. | the same time notify the Bishop of the solemn services in the Church of | Kelly, Rev. J. oo A A o i B g B e g gy fosutlintrect apasIulan Hyey ‘d by the Rev. W. A. Brewer, Rev. J. Lincoln, H. , tion of twenty g ter sugh meeting h Holy communion was celebrated by B¢ | R. Fairiong, Ph.D., and T. R. Kelley. | church warden shall call a meeting of 3 Rey. R. C. Foute, president of the stand-| ““cy . h chasities—Rev. E. L. Parsons, Rev. | ¥estry, giving not less than five days’' w ing committee. The sacred edifice Was| cpoyjey mytchcock, T. W. Cowan, O. E. But- | ten notice thereof and stating the purfo crowded with clergy and lay deputles and members of the congregation. Tln-\ Right Rev. Wilham Ford Nichols, Bishop of| the diocese, preached the sermon. ‘The Unity of the Spirit” was the subject of his discourse. ‘His text was taken from Ephestans iv:3: “Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit In the bond of peace. In part he said: There Is & unity of the Holy Spirit, which is no less than the urity of God. As we speak 0(| the three persons in one God, so in the blessed | Trinity we may speak of the third pereon— | i the Holy Spirit—in one God. Man has nothing to do with making and breaking that divine unity, That is obviously, then, not the sense in which we are to conmsider .'Unity of the Spirit" in our text. There Is also a unity of the Spirit as we have knowledge of his working in the history of mankind, This amounts to a perfect con- sistency—"'as It was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. The same Spirit that brooded over the face of the waters, inspired the prophets, moved holy men of old to write | the Seriptures, co-worked with the second per son of the Trinity in the incarnation of Jesus | Christ, came in the Pentecostal tongues of fire, maketh intercession for us, and is in all the one body of the -ages. the one. Spirit of Christ in his church, But; mgain, the unity. with-itself of that divine agency in its oneness and identity. wher- ever. it is revealed in human -affairs in no sense depends upon, our ‘'keeping.’ and the text cannot -therefore: meam to exhort: us -to anything like that as an object of qur:effort in Jits :bidding to the endeavor to - keep the unily ot the Spirit;: And.eo we.narrow down the apostolic charge to its practicable lmits and: reach its precise point. - The apostle por- trays @ condition of things among those. to whom he ‘was writing which leaves no doubt as to the pith of this appeal. Indeed, in this same fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians. he, as it were, turns the exhortation around to.put it in another way, when he says, {'Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, Let all bittermiess and ' wrath and :anger and -clamor 1} speaking -be-put awsy. from-you, with fam:'{m.‘ana e mm«ro%‘é'«ar:nmm-, tefi der-hearted, forgiving ome another. even as God, for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." This all well explains what he means by keep- ing the uaity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, and o'ir real part in it. Views on Ritualism. The fact that two congregations of the | Protestant Episcopal church do not have their ornaments, or ritual of worship the same, in itself is not a reproach; it Is a simple ex- hibition of the workings of the liberty which is given to the church. And if just now these divergences are especially attracting attention throughout the church it may only be, as I have already intimated, the dawning of an era | of better understanding and of wider-minded- ness, touching both eatholic liberty and cath- olic law In the conduct of public worship, It | may mean not disintegration, but reintegra- | tion, not o much hapless trife as the stir of | larger life. @ But just where does the law come in? you may ask. Is not this liberty, however well up to a certain point, in danger of becoming license? Is not the tendency one, 1f unchecked, liable to run into rank individualism? It must be admitted that such a concern is not without justification. In periods of tramsition there are always men who go too far. The services closed with a hymn and prayer. After the services the conven- tion assembled for organization. Bishop Nichols rapped for order at 1 o’clock, and after announcing the rules governing the seating of delegates announced that the roll call of the clergy. Forty-four responded. The 101l call of, the lay delegates was then held and a quorum was noted pres- ent. The Rev. R. B. Wilson was elected secretary and W. E, Dean assistant sec- retary. A recess was then taken until 3 o'clock. . Committees Appointed. On réconvening Bishop Nichols an- nounced that the first thing in order was the announcement of the standing com- mittees of the convention, including those appointed; before the convention. They are as follows: Credentials=—Rey, M. D. Wilsen, 0. H, Hooke and W. E. Dean. Incorporation and admission of parish mis- | slons—Rev. F. J. Mynard, Alexander Gray and O. E. Bennett. Finances—W. B. Hooper, L. M. Ringwalt, Dr. H. C. Davis, C. D, Slavin and W. A. M. Van Bokkelen: | there be one, ler, A.-S. Bacon. State of the church—Rev. ¥. W. Clampett, D. D.; E, D. Beylard, B. M. Weeder. Unfinished - business—Rev. O. E. Swan, Joseph Sanders and Perry Eyre. Canons Amended. The first report considered was that submitted by the committee on amend- ments to the canons relating to parish meetings and the election of rectors. This committee is composed of the Rev. R. C. Foute, the Rev. J. A. Emery, A. N. Drown, Charles D. Haven and Willlam A. M. Van Bokkelen. Dr. Foute, cha'- man of the committee, read the variou. sections and they were adopted seriatim. The first section favorably acted upon by | the convention is as follows: Resolved, That section 274 of the camons be amended to read as follows: Sec. 274. (1) The election of such vestry- men as are to be elected shall be by ballot. At every election of vestrymen or other parish meetings any whose name shall have been registered on the parish register for twelve months imme- diately preceding such election _or parish meet- ing as a communicant of the pa , and_any other person of like age who has for the sdme period been registered on the books of *he- treasurér as & regular contributor ‘to the: suppoft of-the parish, either by a stafed pledge or pew rent, and.who shal not be in ar- rears on account of such: pledge or pew rent, shall be entitled to vote. Any parish may prescribe a minimum amount to. be contributed to the support of the parish, provided always that such a minimum shall have been fixed at a parish meeting held not less than six months prior. No person shall be entitled to more than one vote or to vote by proxy. After & long' discussion over section 2 of the amendment it was referred back to: the committee for further amendment, General Houghton being added to tha committee., The * following sections after ‘some @isgusetonss . (3 On the written request of any qualified electors the rector, or if there be no rector then the minister In charge or church warden and the treasurer of any par- ish or mission, shall post in a conspicuous place at the entrance of the church a cer- tified list of the qualified electors. Such pos ing shall be made at least thirty days fore the day fixed for the election of vestry- men. or within three days after the request for the same is made, if made within the thirty days; and the same shall remain post- ed until after the election. Resolved, That canon IX be amended by th> addition of a new section, to be number- ed 250, and which shall read as follows: Sec. 280. In accordance with the provisions of title 1, canon XVIII, section 5, of the Canons of the General Conventlon, every rec- tor or minister in charge of a parish or mis- sion, or if there be no minister them one of the wardens, shall keep in a suitable book, to be provided by the officers of the parish or mission, a register of all baptisms, mar- riages and burials solemnized by him or in the parish or mission by another clergy- man, and a list of the persons confirmed fn the parish or mission. There shall be recorded in such register the names and dates of birts ol the persons baptized, with the names of parcnts and Sponsors or witnesses; the names of persons married or buried and the date of every rite performed, and the names three of all communicants, with the date of their reception, death or removal All such en. tries shall be certified by the signature of the person recording the same, with date of recording. This book shall be known as the “‘Parish Register,” and shall be preserved as part of the records of the parish or mis- sion, and it shall be the duty of every roctor or minister in charge, in case of his removal, to deposit this register with the church war. den. This register shall be presented to the Bishop for his examination at each visita- tion for confirmation, and shall at all times be open to the Inspection of the wardens and vestrymen and the Bishop of the diocese and of any person deputed by the Bishon to inspect the same. Resolved, That section 200 of the be amended to read as follows: Sec. 290. Whenever a rector shall resign, or the rectorship of a parish shall otherwise become vacant, the vestry shall mot proceed to fill the vacancy until after a written com- munication from the vestry to the Bishop, it officially advising him of the vacaney. At the expiration of at least ten days thereafter the church warden shall call @ meeting of the vestry, giving not less canons person 21 years of age | were adopted | of the meeting to be the election of & rectdr Tt shall require an affirmative vote of a ma- Jority of the full number of vestrymen to elect = rector. A report on church work and unive | sity centers was read and the committ. | allowed to continue. The Rev. Dr. Kelle | submitted the report of a special com- | mittee to whom was referred by the last | convention certain proposed amendments to section 331 of the canons. The report was adopted. Committee Nominations. l The following nominations were made for various committees and will be voted on to-morrow: Standing _committee: Clampett. Rev. E. Ritchie and Rev. Hooper, George Brace Hing, C. William Babeock, | Reea. General missions—Rev. cent Neale, Colonel Kellogg. Directors of the corperation of the diocese— | Rev. H. Pheips, Rev. W. C. Shaw. Rev. D. O. Kelley. Herbert Folger, William A. M. Van Bokkeles A. Emery, A. N. Drown and Jobm A. Wright. Beard of missions—Rev. Drs. Swan, Lacey, Sanford. Weeden, Davis and Parsons: George. E. Butler, Colonel Middleton and Dr. Davis. An adjournment was taken until, 9 o’clack this morning. —_— POETRY OF THE BIBLE. Professor Gayléey of State University Delivers Interesting Lecture. Professor Charles Mills Gayley, Ph. D. s of the University of California delivered a highly interesting lecture on “The Poe i ;‘ry mcehm\a:ie" in the meeting hall of St, uke’s-Chureh last evening. The lectu wasneof i SRt DeIAEBTven undor Tl auspices of the Diocesan Sunday-school Commission, Professor Gayley proved very entertain- ing. He discussed passages of the Bibic and showed their poetical beauty. H sald the book was filled with sonnets and Iyrica. He believed the Book of Job and Goethe’s Faust were the two greatest books ever written on the mystery of life He considered the Book of Job even supe- rior 10 Faust. He then dwelt at length Clergy—Rev. J. Lien, Rev. Rober: R. C. Foute; lay—Major G. Butleg A. S. Bacon, D. Haven,” A. N. Drown, Vincent Neale and A. J. Dr. E. L. Parsons, Vin- Middleton and J. H. | on the twenty-third Psalm, which he said H was very much like Browning's lyrics. analyzed psalms and passages and lightened his listeners on the idyls to t found in the Bible. At the close of the lecture Bishop Nich- ols called the meeting of the Dioces: Sunday-school Institute to order. As t secretary was absent, Dr. Wilson Viewed the work of the previous meetins Rev. Dr. Parsons read a report of { Sunday-school workers, which was ado; ed. The following officers were elecied for the ensuing year: President, Bishop Nichols; vice president, Rev. Dr. Clam pett; secretary, Rev. Mr. Shaw. —_—— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's." | ———— Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's * —— Townsend's California glace fruits, soc 4 pound, in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. 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