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ST. LOUIS, Oct. It). — The opening
sermon of the forty fourth triennial
* convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church was delivered at the Moolah
Temple by Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle,
senior bishop. Taking ns his text
Acts 27, 21. “Paul said to the Cenutr
ion and to the soldiers, except those
abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved,"
the bishop dismissed the contribution
the Episcopal church could make to
unity, and enumerated reverence,
truth, catholicity and American flavor,
and of the latter he said:
"I do not want to presume. Can
adian brethren are here, and they are
Americans as well ns we. llepresenta
tives of the Mother Church of Eng
land are here. We revere her and we
love them. She fostered our youth in
a 'long continuance of nursing care
and protection.’ There is nothing but
a heaped up fullness of gratitude in
our hearts and we are humbly proud
of our kinship with the Church of
England and the Church of Canada.
But under Hod's providence adolescent
years have sent us out from under
our mother's roof. We are house
keeping now in a home of our own.
Asking permission to use the word
'American' for short, we want to have
an American flavor in our church.
Anglican precedents we will study and
respect and admire. But in our re
spect and admiration we will leave
spirit ami American taste and Ameri
can habit do not take to them.
“Then in that good time when an
approaching unity seems somewhat to
materialize we want to offer to our
fellow Christians of other names round
about us an American religion with
an American flavor as our contribu
tion.
“Are we presuming too much? We
grant to the layman with freedom of
thought and opinion, only tying him
down to the bond of faith in the sim
ple votaries of the Apostles' creed.
“is that not American?
“We give to the layman full par
ticipation ill the deliberations of the
church and a voice and a vote in de
termining the results of such delib
erations.
"Is that not American?
“We have dioceses corresponding to
the states with their state sovereign
ties, and the general convention cor
responding to tile federal government.
“is that not American?
“We have a church penetrating into
all parts of the United States and its
possessions. There is not a rod of
ground over which the Stars and
Stripes wave in sovereignty but that
is under the cure and guidance of a
bishop of our own.
“Is that not American?
"We are a united church. We have
no north, no south, no east, no west.
There is no cleavage of separation on
sectional lines of latitude or longi
tude. or for differences of race or col
or or class or caste.
"Is not that American?
"And. with a quick beating of the
heart and a firm treading of the feet
we are catching up — we have not yet
caught up — hut we are catching up
with the Congregationulists and Pres
byterians and Baptists and Methodists
in the blessed work of missions, ex
pending one million and a half dollars
per year upon them, and sustaining 2,
700 missionary workers on our pay
roll — besides all that is given and
all that is done in the dioceses and cit
ies in their home work.
“is that not American?
"I get enthusiastic as I record—will
you not he enthusiastic as you hear—
about the $30,000 given for the emer
gency fund for missions last year —
about the constantly swelling $187,000
given by the children of Sunday
schools and the $200,000 and more giv
en by the Woman's Auxiliary—about
the $3,000,Oflo given to the splendid
clergy pension fund, to swell itsfdf,
'tis hoped, to $2,000,000; and over the
facts that we have 120 bishops now
where he had 11 fifty years ago; and
a million of communities instead of
150,000; and one out of ninety-nine of
the whole population a communicant
now against one out of 175 then?
“Ay, when the coming day of unity
draws near, wafted by the precedent
forces of love and allowance making
and brotherly kindness and sympathy
and by the appreciation that we have
tried to play the game fairly, we will
lift up our heads and from the warmth
of our hearts and through the tears
in our eyes will reverently say —
'What hath God wrought? And praised
he His holy name, for ever and ever,
amen.’
“Brother shipmen, let us stand by
the ship and help to save others, in
stead of rowing away in the lifeboat
to save ourselves. If we stay some
will be saved. If we run away some
will not be saved.
“Brother churchman, let us play the
game fairly. Give and take with good
will and love. Hold the trusts com
mitted to us firmly and patiently and
be ready to turn over, by and by, to
brethren who may be willing to re
ceive them, helps of reverence and
roundedness and historic anchorage
and American flavor.
“Brother Americans, the dreadful
war is blotting out or maiming or
blinding almost all the young man
hood of Europe. How gloriously those
young men gathered to the colors,
and how bravely they have fought and
died! But the exhaustion of men and
money there will be put added respon
sibility on us here to stand by the mis
sions. In awakening China. In en
terprising Japan. In outcrying Africa.
In devastated Armenia. God help us
in our strength, which He gives us, to
stand by for help when our brethren
of Europe, exhausted, distracted, al
most destroyed, cannot well continue,
at least for a time, to do so!
“Brethren all, I do not want to mar
this sermon by personal patchings.
But it is not personal, Is it—it is lifted
out of the personal, isn’t it—for me
to say to you my thanks and give you
my love and to ask you to take my
blessing?"
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A WIFE'S PLEA.
The entire state of Tennessee is
"dry"—that is, unadulterated liquor
can not be sold openly. But bad whis
key and other injurious substitutes
may be obtained in “blind tigers."
The following is a letter from a
heart broken wife to the Minneapolis
I’ress;
Editor Press;
Why don't the administration close
the dives in this city? Why don't
they stop the sales of whiskey? You
ran t*pt it in rpstanranta all vmi want
Gambling is going on in every cor
ner, and the police know it. The chief
knows it.
My home is wrecked and my life
is ruined. My husband has drank un
til he has lost his mind and left his
home and wife without one bite to
eat, or one cent to buy anything with
—running after those gambling hells
and rotten whiskey.
Will the good people of this town
stand for it. My husband was one
of the best men in the world until this
“blind tiger" business started.
For God's sake close these gambling
hells and "blind tigers."
From a wife who has suffered and
is today without a dollar.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT MEETING.
A meeting of the Cordova fire de
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on Thursday evening, and a full at
tendance of the members is requested.
J. B. O'NEILL, Secretary.
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Arthur McKillican was taken off
the steamer Selkirk recently at White
horse in an unconscious condition, and
died in the general hospital there a
few hours later. He was on his way
from Fairbanks to the state, having
been sent out by the Fairbanks Igloo
of Pioneers for treatment. He had
been in the'country for twenty-one
years.
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their city.
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