Sermons By Wireless
Exasperate Clergymen
ADDLESTONE, Eng., July 10 (/P)—
What he describes as “the lazy habit
of wireless” has been strongly de
nounced by the Rev. A. Cuming, vi
car of Addlestone, in his parish maga
zine. “There is no longer the pack
ed church to which we have been ac
customed during Lent, and the rea
son for this is the wireless.
“Anybody who thinks he can wor
ship God by lolling back in an easy
arm chair and listening by radio to
the beautiful singing of the choir at
St. So-and-So’s, or the oratorical ef
fects of the Bishop of Kamchatka, is
simply living in a fool’s paradise. True
worship demands sacrifice. People
who are too lazy to go upstairs and
put their things on and come to the
House of God on God’s Day are neg
lecting their duty.
“We must face the fact that in wire
less has been found another powerful
recruit added to the phalanx of coun
ter attractions which, in their various
ways, continue to keep the people out
of the churches.”
The British Broadcasting Company,
which controls most of the wireless
entertainment in the London area, has
recently declined to broadcast Sunday
sermons, excepting on rare occasions,
because of the objections of ministers
that their congregations would be ma
terially reduced if the practice was
followed generally.
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PACIFIST OF PACIFIC RETIRES
HONOLULU, July 10 (/P)—Alexan
der Hume Ford, widely known in all
the countries bordering on the Pacific,
recently surprised his friends with
the announcement that lie was going
to take a rest. Ford, director of the
Pan-Pacific conferences held in Hon
olulu in recent years, announced his
early retirement from the Pan-Pacific
Club and asked the committees and
members to carry on. He did not
state what his plans were.
FINDS U. S. MUSICAL.
BERLIN, July 10 (TP)—The Ameri
can people are as musical as any in
danzky of the Metropolitan Orchestra,
on a visit here. This applied both to
appreciation of opera and concert. In
America, as nowhere else in the world
he observes, people sometimes go to 1
concerts three times a day. German
opera is popular in America, he said.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
Stated communications first
''jfiofand third Wednesdays of each
/\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting 1
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
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3 the second and
Mondays of each j
in Odd Fellows’ i
.t 8 p. m. Visiting
srs always wel
Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, JJ. G.
MANY ELIMINATIONS
PRAYER BOOK COMES
BEFORE CONVENTION
NEW YORK, July 10. (JP)—Remov
al of “obey” from the marriage ser
vice; a shortened form of the Ten
Commandments; elimination of the
rubric, which forbids the use of the
burial service over suicides, and
omission from the Good Friday pray
er invoking mercy, all reference to
Jews, Turks and infidels are recom
mendations contained in the fourth
report of the commission on prayer
book revision of the Episcopal
Church. Approval of the recommen
dations will be asked by the Trien
nial General Convention to be held
at New Orleans next October.
One of the inspiring causes for the
revision of the Book of Common
Prayer, said Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis j
Slattery, coadjutor bishop of Massa-1
chusetts and chairman of the revis
ion commission, is a purpose to put
rhe Episcopal Church in touch with
present day life.
“We are coming to look upon the
rights of men and women as equal,”
said Bishop Slattery explaining the
dropping of “obey” from the marri
age service. “The pledge of the
man, therefore, should be the same
as the pledge of the woman. The
life which is entered into in marri
age is a life of mutual consideration
and obedience, and not submission of
one to the other on one side only.”
The change is not lowering the mar
riage vow, but rather raising it, he
added.
The proposed change in the form
of the commandments is recommend
ed “so that the mind and heart will
be reached more directly by the
shortened form.” It is pointed out
that the use of the longer or shorter
form will be optional with the cler
6.’ •
Regarding the burial service for
suicides Bishop Slattery said: “The
burial office has been given more of
a Christian hope and confidence;
There is difficulty in deciding wheth
er a person who commits suicide is
responsible for his act. In many
cases we feel sure that the person
is not responsible for for his act,
and that the act is part of a serious
mental disease. A hard and fast
rule which bars all such persons
from the privilege of the burial rite,
adding grief to the sorrow of the
surviving relatives, seems not true
to the spirit of Christ.”
The Good Friday collect which in
vokes “mercy on all Jews, Turks,
infidels and heretics,” and which has
given offense to the Jews, will read,
if the convention gives its final ap
proval, “have mercy upon all who
know Thee not as Thou art reveal
ed in the Gospel of Thy son,” etc.
Another revision of the prayer
book to which significance attaches
is that prayers for the departed are
provided for in the. revised burial
service.
Prior to 1916 there was in the
prayer book no prayer for the de
parted, although many regarded the
latter portion of the prayer of the
church militant in the communion
office as impliedly a petition of this
sort. In 1916, however, with the
World Wrar "waging and world-wide
prayers being offered for those who
were falling in battle, a new prayer
“For Memorial Days” was agreed
upon alter an impressive debate by
the general convention meeting in
St. Louis. This prayer, the use of
which was made merely permissive,
was ratified in accordance with the
provisions of the church constitu
tion in 1919, whereby the principle of
prayers for the departed was recog
nized. It is now used on memorial
days. At the convention of 1922
this prayer "was slightly revised, and
in its new form will be finally voted
on at the New Orleans convention.
FRENCH LIFE SAVERS
ARE REWARDED
FECAMP, France, July 10. (£>}—
A Carnegie prize has been awarded
to the Fecamp life-saving station,
and silver and bronze plaques have
been given to the captain and the
crew of the Fecamp lifeboat.
Last February during a storm the
Danish ship Nordstiernen, dismast
ed and unable to make port, was in
a critical situation. The Fecamp
lifeboat at great risk put to sea and
saved every man on board the Dan
ish ship.
Holy Year Throngs Change
Rome’s Complexion Daily
ROME, July 10 (JP)—Rome cannot
compare with New York, London or
Paris as a cosmopolis but the 1925
Holy Year which is now bringing the
city an average of 10,000 pilgrim ar
rivals daily has given the city a type
of cosmopolitanism of which none can
boast.
Whereas the sidewalks of Times
Square, Piccadilly Circus or the Place
de 1’Opera are thronged nearly every
day of the year with polyglot crowds
representing scores of different na
tions and as many tongues the com
plexion of the main thoroughfares of
Rome in point of foreign pedestrians
changes from week to week almost
from day to day.
One day—when a large group pil
grimage from Warsaw has arrived to
participate in the Holy Year cere
monies—the streets resound with the
harsh accents of the Polish tongue.
Then, within a few days, not a Pole is
to be found and instead German Swiss
with their quaint peasant costumes
walk the streets peering into shop
windows.
The sanctification of a new French
saint at St. Peter’s basilica brings to
Rome scores of thousands of French
men and women and for a week noth
ing but French is heard. Almost over
night the French disappear and they
are succeeded by German and Dutch.
Swarthy Portuguese have their in
ning and are succeeded by blonde
Scandinavians. When the Roman has
become accustomed to hearing the
Spanish language he is greeted by
Lithuanian, or Hungarian or English
with the accent of Dublin.
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