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EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1895.
Rector -- Rev. Robert A. Gibson.
Wardens-Larz Anderson, Frank J. Jones.
Vestrymen-Samuel P. Bishop, Wm. P. Anderson, Percy Proc- ter, Aaron A. Ferris, Edward Worthington, George B. Orr, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Wm. Lytle Foster, Benjamin F. Strader.
City Missionary-Miss H. Fannie Williams.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1896.
Rector-Rev. Robert A. Gibson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. Alfred James Wilder.
Wardens-Larz Anderson, Frank J. Jones.
Vestrymen-Samuel P. Bishop, Wm. P. Anderson, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, George B. Orr, Percy Procter, Edward Worthington, Wm. Lytle Foster, Aaron A. Ferris, Benjamin F. Strader.
City Missionary-Miss H. Fannie Williams.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1897.
Rector-Rev. Robert A. Gibson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. Alfred James Wilder. Wardens-Larz Anderson, Frank J. Jones.
Vestrymen-Wm. P. Anderson, Samuel P. Bishop, Nat'l Pen-
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dleton Dandridge, Wm. Lytle Foster, Aaron A. Ferris, George B. Orr, Percy Procter, Edward Worthington, Day Clifton Shears.
City Missionary-Miss H. Fannie Williams.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL II, 1898.
Rector-Rev. Alexis W. Stein.
Assistant Minister-Rev. Alfred James Wilder.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-Samuel P. Bishop, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, George B. Orr, Percy Procter, Day Clifton Shears, Edward Colston, Michael M. Shoe- maker.
City Missionary-Miss H. Fannie Williams.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1899.
Rector-Rev. Alexis W. Stein.
Assistant Minister -- Rev. Alfred James Wilder.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-Larz Worthington Anderson, Samuel P. Bishop, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, George B. Orr, Percy Procter, Day Clifton Shears.
City Missionary-Miss H. Fannie Williams.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1900.
Rector-Rev. Alexis W. Stein.
Assistant Minister-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-Larz Worthington Anderson, Samuel P. Bishop, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, George B. Orr, Percy Procter, Day Clifton Shears.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1901.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. John Howard Melish. Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-Larz Worthington Anderson, Samuel P. Bishop, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, George B. Orr, Percy Procter, Day Clifton Shears.
EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1902. Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson. Assistant Minister-Rev. John Howard Melish. Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington. Vestrymen-Larz Anderson, Larz Worthington Anderson,
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Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, George B. Orr, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Theodora L. Paine, Miss Margaret S. Lloyd.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1903.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. John Howard Melish.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Larz Worthing- ton Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, George B. Orr, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Theodora L. Paine, Miss Margaret S. Lloyd.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. Thomas Clyman Campbell.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Larz Worthing- ton Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, George B. Orr, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Theodora L. Paine, Miss Margaret S. Lloyd.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1905.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. Thomas Clyman Campbell.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Larz Worthing- ton Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, George B. Orr, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Theodora L. Paine, Miss Margaret S. Lloyd, Miss Margaretta S. Grider.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1906.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. Thomas Clyman Campbell.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Larz Worthing- ton Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, George B. Orr, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Miss Margaret S. Lloyd, Miss Margaretta S. Grider.
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EASTER MONDAY, APRIL I, 1907.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Ministers-Rev. Thomas Clyman Campbell, Rev. William Henry Poole.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Larz Worthing- ton Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, George B. Orr, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Miss Margaret S. Lloyd, Miss Margaretta S. Grider.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1908.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Ministers-Rev. Thomas Clyman Campbell, Rev. William Henry Poole.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Margaret S. Lloyd, Miss Marga- retta S. Grider, Miss Geraldine Gordon, Howard N. Bacon.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1909.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. William Henry Poole.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, John R. Schindel, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Margaret S. Lloyd, Miss Marga- retta S. Grider, Miss Geraldine Gordon, Howard N. Bacon.
EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1910.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Ministers-Rev. William Henry Poole, Rev. H. Boyd Edwards.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Nat'l Pendleton Dandridge, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Fos- ter, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, John R. Schindel, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Margaret S. Lloyd, Miss Marga- retta S. Grider, Howard N. Bacon.
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EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 17, 19II.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. H. Boyd Edwards.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, Oscar E. Rupp, John R. Schindel, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Margaret S. Lloyd, Miss Marga- retta S. Grider, Howard N. Bacon.
(Deaconess Georgia L. V. Wilkie succeeded Deaconess Lloyd and Miss Margaret D. McGuffey succeeded Miss Grider, on October I.)
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1912.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. H. Boyd Edwards.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, Oscar E. Rupp, John R. Schindel, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Georgia L. V. Wilkie, Miss Mar- garet D. McGuffey, Howard N. Bacon.
EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1913.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. H. Boyd Edwards.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, Oscar E. Rupp, John R. Schindel, John Flack Winslow.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Georgia L. V. Wilkie, Miss Mar- garet D. McGuffey, Howard N. Bacon.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1914.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. James Monroe Collins.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, Oscar E. Rupp, John R. Schindel.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Georgia L. V. Wilkie, Miss Mar- garet D. McGuffey, Howard N. Bacon.
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EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1915.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. James Monroe Collins.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, Oscar E. Rupp, John R. Schindel.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Georgia L. V. Wilkie, Miss Mar- garet D. McGuffey, Howard N. Bacon.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1916.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. T. W. Attridge.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-George Mendenhall Anderson, Edward Colston, Aaron A. Ferris, Wm. Lytle Foster, Frederick C. Hicks, Charles Jacob Livingood, George B. Orr, Oscar E. Rupp, John R. Schindel.
Lay Workers-Deaconess Georgia L. V. Wilkie, Miss Mar- garet D. McGuffey, Howard N. Bacon.
EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1917.
Rector-Rev. Frank Howard Nelson.
Assistant Minister-Rev. T. W. Attridge.
Wardens-Frank J. Jones, Edward Worthington.
Vestrymen-Richard W. Neff, Edward Colston, Aaron A. Fer- ris, Charles D. Jones, Frederick C. Hicks, Charles Jacob Livin- good, George B. Orr, Oscar E. Rupp, John R. Schindel.
Lay Workers-Miss Margaret D. McGuffey, Howard N. Bacon.
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ACT OF INCORPORATION.
An Act incorporating the Congregation of Christ Church in Cincinnati.
To all to whom these presents shall come:
GREETING .- Whereas it appears that on the fifth day of Feb- ruary, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen, That the General Assembly of the State of Ohio thought fit to make and pass a law entitled, "An Act for the Incorporation of Religious Societies." And, Whereas the "Episcopal Society of Christ Church, Cincinnati," are desirous of availing them- selves of the benefit of said Act, by being Incorporated agree- able to the terms and stipulations thereof, whereupon not less than ten days' notice was given as required by the first section of said Act, that is to say, on the sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty-one, at the time the congregation was assembled at their usual place of meeting for public worship, that the Reverend Samuel Johnston did then and there proclaim and make known in the presence of the Con- gregation, that a meeting would be held at that place on the en- suing seventeenth day of the same month at Three O'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of holding an election to elect the proper officers, and to perform such other requisites as might become necessary for the incorporation of the said Society. Be it also remembered, that at the same place, and upon the same day, to wit, on the sixth day of May, Eighteen hundred and twenty-one, a written notice was set up in a conspicuous place upon the Door of the Church edifice, giving notice of the in- tended meeting to be held on the said seventeenth day of May, Eighteen hundred and twenty-one as aforesaid, and the object of said meeting.
In pursuance whereof, Be it known, That the members of the Society did assemble and meet together at the place afore- said, and at the time mentioned in the notice aforesaid, and not less than twenty members being present, did then and there agree and determine to make and hold an Election to elect two Church Wardens and nine Vestrymen to serve until Easter Mon- day next, the day appointed by the usage and Canons of the Episcopal Church for holding elections, and which is provided for by an Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled an Act for the Incorporation of Religious Societies." Whereupon Simon Hailman was appointed Judge, and Joseph Cowdin, Clerk of the said election: To all which proceedings I bear Testimony. Given under my hand this 17th May, 1821.
ETHAN STONE, Moderator, Appointed by the Meeting.
Attest, JOSEPH COWDIN, Clerk, Appointed by the Meeting.
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I, Simon Hailman, do hereby certify that on this seventeenth day of May, Eighteen hundred and twenty-one, an Election was made and held at the Edifice of Christ Church, Cincinnati, by the Pew-holders and members of said Church for the purpose of electing two Church Wardens and nine Vestrymen, to man- age the affairs of the Society until Easter Monday next; when on closing the polls and counting the ballots, it appeared that the following named Gentlemen were duly elected, to wit, Ethan Stone and William Ruffin, Wardens. Griffin Yeatman, John Jolley, Edward Hallam, Edward C. Smith, Samuel Bor- den, William Oliver, Luman Watson, B. E. Bliss and Richard Fosdick, Vestrymen.
JOSEPH COWDIN, Clerk.
SIMON HAILMAN, Judge of said Election.
Hamilton County, to uit,
Be it remembered, that on the seventeenth day of May, 1821, before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared Ethan Stone and William Ruffin, Church Wardens, Griffin Yeatman, John Jolley, Edward Hal- lam, Edward C. Smith, Samuel Borden, William Oliver, Luman Watson, B. E. Bliss and Richard Fosdick, Vestrymen of Christ Church, Cincinnati, who, severally took an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices agreeable to the third section of the Act, entitled "An Act for the Incorporation of Religious Societies."
Witness my hand and Seal the day and year above written.
JOHN MAHARD, Justice of the Peace.
( Seal )
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CERTIFICATE OF CONSECRATION of the NEW CHURCH EDIFICE Fourth Street, Cincinnati By BISHOP MCILVAINE October 30, 1835.
WHEREAS the Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ Church, City of Cincinnati, in the Diocese of Ohio, have by an instrument this day presented to me, appropriated and devoted a house of Public Worship, erected by them in the said city to the worship and service of Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, according to the provisions of the Protest- ant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in its doctrines, discipline, and worship, and by a congregation in communion with said Church and in union with the convention thereof in the Diocese of Ohio:
And whereas the same Church Wardens and Vestrymen have by the same instrument requested me to take this said house of worship under my spiritual jurisdiction as Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio and that of my successors in office, and to consecrate by the name of "Christ Church, Cincinnati" and hereby separate it from all unhallowed, worldly and common uses and solemnly dedicate it to the Holy purposes above mentioned :
Now therefore know all men by these presents, that I, Charles P. McIlvaine, by divine permission Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, acting under the protection of Almighty God, have, on this thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord One thou- sand eight hundred and thirty-five, taken the above mentioned house of worship under my spiritual jurisdiction as Bishop aforesaid, and that of my successors in Office, and in presence of divers of the Clergy and Public congregation therein assem- bled, and according to the form prescribed by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America have conse- crated the same by the name of Christ Church, Cincinnati. And I do hereby pronounce and declare that the said Christ Church, Cincinnati, in the city aforesaid is consecrated accordingly and thereby separated henceforth from all unhallowed, worldly, and common uses, and is dedicated to the Worship and Service of Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for reading and preaching his holy word, for celebrating his holy sacraments, for offering to his glorious majesty the sacrifice of prayer, praise and thanksgiving; for blessing his people in his name, and for the performance of all other holy offices agree- ably to the terms of the covenant of Grace and Salvation in our
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Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, according to the provisions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in its doctrines, discipline, and worship. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal and signature at Cincinnati. the day and year above mentioned and in the third year of mv con- secration.
CHAS. P. MCILVAINE, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Ohio. ( Seal. )
KENYON COLLEGE AND BISHOP CHASE.
FROM BISHOP MCILVAINE'S ADDRESS AT THE LAYING OF THE COR- NER-STONE OF BEXLEY HALL, NOVEMBER 23, 1839.
In the year 1817 was organized the Diocese of Ohio. Two years after, the Right Rev. Philander Chase was consecrated its Bishop. After nearly four years of the most fatiguing and self-denying missionary labor in all parts of this extensive coun- try, then so much more unsettled and uncultivated than at pres- ent, endeavoring not only to seek for Christ's sheep that were dispersed abroad in this wilderness, and call others to the same fold, but to obtain and send forth other laborers into a field so vast and destitute; and after having urgently addressed the other dioceses through their Bishops in behalf of the great ne- cessities of the West, supplicating assistance in procuring and supporting missionaries; at length, in the year 1823, he had the pain to find that for all the wants of Ohio (the farther west being entirely destitute of an Episcopal ministry) there were only six clergymen of our church, and scarcely any hopes of their increasing for a long time to come.
Under the pressure of this want, the necessity of an effort to raise up laborers for the destitution of the west, from among the sons of the west, upon western ground, and in western habits and circumstances, 'and with all possible economy to themselves, became most evident, and was deeply impressed upon the mind of Bishop Chase. It seemed an only refuge. The first project of a Theological Seminary was then formed. An improved farm, with buildings on it, situated near the town of Worthington, offered by Bishop Chase for the purpose, was the first endow- ment of the institution. There it was intended that a course of education for the ministry, such as is now commanded in our present preparatory schools, carried on in our collegiate branches and completed under our theological professors, should be conducted under one roof until more enlarged means and accommodations could be obtained. "It is understood," says Bishop Chase, writing at that period, "that this institution is to
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be under the immediate care of the Bishop for the time being, or his substitute, assisted by two or more professors of sacred learning, and a grammar-school teacher." It was not intended to exclude from that infant Theological Seminary, students who were not contemplating the ministry to whom, however, the studies preparatory to theology would be as applicable as if they were. Thus was established on the estate of Bishop Chase, near to Worthington, the institution of which the present is not, in any essential respect, an alteration, but only a growth and expansion. That was the child, this is the man; the features of the latter being different from those of the former, only in their greater strength, development and prominence.
In the latter part of the year 1823, the prospect of securing the necessary means of sustaining the Theological Seminary thus projected, from contributions in this country, was so discourag- ing, that, with the advice of the Convention of the Diocese, Bishop Chase departed for England, hoping to find in our mother land and Church, a more effectual, if not a more ready help. His mission was most warmly welcomed by our brethren of the Church of England, and his object liberally patronized. He returned in 1824, with about $25,000 for the contemplated Seminary, bestowed on the express stipulation that the essential features of the original plan, particularly that of entire identity with the Episcopal Church, through the Bishop of the Diocese, should be the basis of all subsequent arrangements.
ADDRESSES AT THE BANQUET GIVEN BY THE CEN- TURY CLUB ON THE EVENING OF MAY 17, 1917, AT THE HOTEL GIBSON.
Extract from address on "Jesus and Nationalism," by Dr. W. S. Rainsford.
There has unfortunately been built up the belief in all these ages that Jesus Christ was the greatest man that ever lived, be- cause in him alone was the spirit of God. That is all nonsense. You can not separate man from God, for the spirit of God is in all men. And Jesus sought to teach them that the life of God would express itself in man as it never expressed itself before. We have all made the mistake, as I see it now, of limit- ing God's power to express himself in man, of showing forth the holiness and beauty of God in man. He spake in a new and matchless tongue ; he said, "Ye will express God in you; ye will do things that I can. not do; ye will live lives that I can not live." This was the realization that he felt was to come to his disciples and which to-day is being worked out in the world as it never was before. This is the real incarnation.
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Incarnation does not mean that God was resident in one man long ago only, but that God is resident in every man; that is the meaning of the incarnation, that God is in man working out his will in this world. That is the meaning of incarnation that we are just beginning to understand. That is the meaning of democracy.
You say that is a jump from religion to politics? Not a bit of it; it is bringing politics where it belongs, into religion. That is democracy. Jesus was the great Democrat. Frank Nelson will bear me witness that one or two of us tried to teach this long ago, that the kingdom of God is in man. That means that God is going to win out in this world; and Jesus was the first that said it, that there is more good in man than bad, that there is more God in man than beast, and therefore it pays to make men democratic. If there is more beast in man than God, then it does not pay. If there is more bad in man than good, then it does not pay to try to educate him, to try to make him free; but if there is more good in man than bad, more God in man than beast, then belief in the name of God, belief in edu- cation, will not make the world bad. That is democracy, that is what the world is in the throes of fighting for now.
And I say, that when man grasps that idea that in the plain, common, poor, broken fellow that walks the streets there is more God than beast, then you will take hold of his hand with new hope in your heart, new warmth in your grasp; you will lift him up and in time will arouse the power within him so that he will try to follow Jesus; and that is the thing that is going to help the world to-day.
But let me leave that for a moment. The subject is so tre- mendous that I have to jump from point to point. We have come to an antithesis in the world to-day. A great superbly organized body of people in Central Europe, a peculiar class of people, have set themselves deliberately to work to give ex- pression to a theory of life that professedly is based on the idea of evolution; their idea of evolution being that the strongest have the right to rule, that might makes right. That is a false idea of evolution. We can see in a moment just how false it is. That might makes right is the idea of the tooth and the claw, "You have got to do what I want you to do, because if you won't, I will lick you." That is the beast overcoming the lesser beast.
So in the development of man there comes a time when a man does not say to his fellow man, "If you do not do what I want you to do, I will lick you;" but he says, "I want to know you; I want to work together with you; and as I get to know you I will trust you a little bit more; and as we trust each other more we will build our homes closer together; and as we build our houses closer together we will begin to commingle
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in a thousand ways." And thus, slowly, through the dark, crude forms of the ages evolving, hand clasps hand, and man finds unity with his fellow man an instrument that is stronger than the claw and the tooth.
Bishop (addressing Bishop Vincent), that is evolution along the line of democracy. Man finds something in his fellow man with which he can unite, with which he can co-operate, with which at last some sweet beginnings of sympathetic life are felt. That beats the tooth and the claw every time. That is de- mocracy.
And those who stand for that, and those who oppose it, are the two mighty forces in the world to-day; and we can not hesi- tate a moment which is going to win; and in a speech for which I profoundly thank God-I wish it had been spoken two years and a half ago-a speech that I believe to be greater than any speech made by any President of the United States since Lin- coln made that immortal speech at Gettysburg, our President has given the mighty keynote of this war as no writer or speaker on this side of the ocean has given it, when in words that will live as long as the American Republic lives, he said, "The world-and I speak for all of the United States-the world has got to be made safe for democracy!" That is the teaching of Jesus; and for that, so help us God, we are will- ing to give our lives; because in that we are standing for what the Master said; we are standing for the truth that there is more good in man than bad, more God in man than beast; and we won't allow the beast with the claw and the fang to come back and say that the superior and final form of human civilization is the form of the claw and the fang. And while we were arguing these things, theorizing about these things, the world seemed to be going on its upward way, then all at once the fury of the combat was on, and from over the land came the response. The churches have all felt, everybody has felt, that through this great war Almighty God was preparing to bring about a great change in the lives of the nations, a vast new birth among the peoples of the earth, so extraordinary that none of us ever dreamed it possible; and there came to us the story of millions of men crushed, beaten, knouted, hounded, shot; and from out of the crushed, beaten and bleeding, and inarticulate mass of men there arose the most wonderful thing the world has ever seen. Some people are turning around and saying, "Why, what makes you talk that way? The conflict will soon be over and men will not then be dying any more. Russia is all divided; the war will soon be over." Yes, it may be so, but you cannot suddenly rearrange millions of men under a new organization in the field under men by whom they have been betrayed to death and suddenly torn asunder. But can not any man see that the vast democracy on the east, the glorious de-
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