Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1926 — Page 7

APRIL 17, • 1926

BISHOP LEETE WILL ATTEND CHURCH MEET Methodist Bishops Will Convene Next Month in Washington. Bishop William Fraser McDowell, resident bishop Washington. D. C.. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, In announcing today the program of the meeting of the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Foundry Church, Washington, May 4 10, said: "This meeting of the board of bishops will be outstanding and significant in the fact that the entire membership of the board of bishops will he present, not only from the United States, but Including the bishops from foreign lands." Dr. Frederick Drown Harris, the pastor, and Dr. .1. Phelps Hand, superintendent of Washington dis. trict, are assisting Bishop McDowell In the details of the program. The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church meets once every four years and at its last meeting in May 1924, at Spririgfleld, Mass., the board of bishops voted to hold a meeting of its entire membership of bishops about the middle of the quadrennial, so that the bishops could elect one of their number to prepare and read the Bishops address to the general conference which will meet in May, 1923. The most emphatic note to be stressed at the Washington meeting will be the reports and the series of meetings with addresses from the bishops overseas. These bishops are returning after making extensive surveys and will report on the religious, social, moral and economic conditions of the nation In which they represent the Methodist Episcopal Church. Social Session "On Tuesday. May ,” said Bishop McDowell, "the Washington Methodist Social Union will give a. banquet and welcome to the bishops. At this banquet two or three of the bishops will briefly respond to the words of welcome. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings there will be public meetings with bishops from the States present and the bishods from foreign lands speaking. Hie bishops will report for Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Latin America and Africa.” "It is possible," said the bishop, "that one night also will be given to Europe. No such presentation of the work of Methodism In foreign lands has ever been presented. At these meetings prominent public and government officials will be asked to preside. This program Is practically arranged and will be announced later. These bishops will give a complete report of the state of Christianity In those countries and the general condition In the countries themselves. On Thursday, April 6, at 12:30 noon, President and Mrs. Coolldge will receive the bishops and their wives at the White House. Bishop Berry, the senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will present a brief address to the President from the Board of Bishops and the President. will respond This Is following a former precedent when Bishops Cooke and Asbury called on Gen. George Washington when President. Their addresses to the President, and President Washington's reply were published and are preservey by Methodists. All addresses to Presidents and Presidents' replies since have been carefully preserved In the files of Methodists. A special feature by the bishops will be a pilgrimage to the Asbury statue on Sixteenth St. Also to the American University, and possibly to the grave of William Waters, the first native Itinerant preacher. A wreath will be placed on the statue of Asbury by the bishops. Foreign Bishops Here Bishop McDowell la slso planning to accompany the bishops from abroad to call upon the diplomatic representatives at of the nations In which the bishops are officially doing their work. The board of bishops expects to hold Its first meeting on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. All the bush ness meetings of the bishops are executive, but all the evening meetings will be open to the general public. At the executive meetings each bishop reports the administration of his conferences and the work In his area. The board of bishops decides such questions of law as may come In a. particular way to the board for decision. It makes a. list of the bishops who will preside and confirms the dates and places of meet•ng of the annual conferences for the text. six months. "Unquestionably," said Bishop Mef>owell, "the bishops will give much

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Dr. Gilroy Pictures the Beginning of Sin on Earth

The International Inifarin Sunday Srhonl I,<tsson for April 18. The Ilecinjiins of bin.—Genesis 3:1-11. By H AT. E." GILROY, D. I). Editor of The Congregational Ist From the loftiness of the creation of an orderly universe out of chaos, and of man made In the Image and likeness of God himself, we turn very quickly to the tragedy of history In the marring of human life by sin, and in the shadow that, through sin, has fallen upon the universe. The fall of men and the doctrine of human depravity have been discussed at great length. Scientists and theologians have discussed it Interminably, and In modern times, largely under the Influence of the doctrine of evolution, there has tended to be a reversal of former conclusions. This has found expression in the claim of some that “the fall was a, fall upward,” that Instead of lapsing from a condition of loftiness of character and of conscious goodness man’s apparent fall marked really the perceptions of moral distinctions and the dawning of moral freedom. Even though tills involved human error and the sad consequences of sin, the teaching of those who held this view is that man’s freedom and Ills consciousness of the impulses to ward goodness made progress possible. Such a conception will be found worked out in many books. One might mention particularly the late .Tohn Fiske’s portrayal of "Man’s Rise From the Innocence of Brutehood.’’ Evidence of Degonerai ion Over against this conception there is the opinion of those who, not denying the evidences of evolution, find that the evidence is equally strong for degeneration. They see a sad and terrible reality in sin which is too often neither merely the negation of good nor the error through which one discovers his mistake and improves upon Ills experience to come to higher things. They see in sin a damning, overwhelming, terrible, cataatrophio

time to the general state of the church, besides listening to the reports from the bishops at home and abroad. The board will also give much time to discussion of the woyld service commission and its program, which Is of great Interest and importance to the entire Methodist Episcopal Church. Some time also will be given to a discussion of the various benevolent, missionary, educational and social work of the church, Including temperance, prohibition and public morals, and to geneml work of the church at home and abroad.” Since the general conference In May, 1924, four bishops have died, and memoirs of them will be read —Bishops Homer S. Stuntz. Omaha, Neb.; William A. Quayle, Baldwin. Kan.; George H. Bickley, Phlladel phia, Pa., and China, and Thomas B. Neely, Philadelphia, Pa. Bishop Frederick D. I>eete of In-

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power of evil that destroys the souls of men. There Is plenty of evidence In life that the fall of men was real enough and though the doctrine of total depravity may have been pushed to great extremes, the world in which we live reveals every day horrible evidences of the degradation to which man can descend. Nor Is this power of evil manifest merely In the poor, the weak, and the Illiterate. We find men of Intelligence and of great power of will who put their strength Into ways of selfishness and tyranny. Where great men have not been moved with the spirit of compassion that Inspired Christ, and that pure unselfishness that made hint mindful only of the life of service and of devotion to his Father’s will, they have too often been almost fiends incarnate, who have scourged humanity with the lashes of their ambition and their greed for wealth and power. Even where such men have not been fiends Incarnate, selfishness and false ambitions have made them powerful In antisocial and unjust ways. It is a great w-eakness of our age that we do not always dare to face sins as sins and call things by their plain names. Just at present psychology is helping In some measure in the false emphasis that science has sometimes given, and there is a tendency to condone and explain away as “complexes" the things that our plain spoken forefathers knew to be gross and vile sins. Calls It Allegory Need we say much concerning the interpretation of this story of the

dlanapolls will attend this meeting of the board of bishops. • • • DR. FRANK S. C. WICKS of All Souls Unitarian Church announces the following order of service at 11 a. m. Sunday; “Japanese Sunset" Deppen “Bprin? Flowers'’ bade Hymn 330 Tr.it-d Service. Covenant. Anthem. Words of Aspiration Responsive Reading—lßth Selection, Scripture. Hytnn 94 (Pleyel). Notices and Offering. “Flower Song’’ Gounod Address: “Burbank the Creator.'' Hymn 65. Benediction. I’oetlude. “March of Priests" Mendelssohn • * • MR. E. W. MUHLENBRUCH, the organist at Second Reformed Church, will give an organ recital Sunday evening at the time of the regular evening service. 7:15 p. m. He will he assisted by the choir and by Carl Schmidt, a violin soloist. The following program will be presented: “Marche Religouae." Op. 15. No 2 , . . Alex. Gullmant “Spring Song" Alfred Hollins “Prelude and Fume C Minor".J. S. Bach Anthem. “Hark. Hark, My 50u1'.... H. R Shelley "Prelude " Eduard Naprownik “MenUPtt” Jowph Hayden Violin rolo by Carl Schmid, with organ. The Lost Chord” ....... Arthur Sullivan "Andantino In D Flat".,Erwin H. lc-nmre "Jubilate Deo" Alfred SMvfcr • • • "PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES OF BEING A CHRISTIAN” will be the

beginning of sin? Manifestly it Is an allegory. If we had not been obsessed with undue liberalism and with false theories of verbal Inspiration In our reading of the Bible, we should never have regarded it in any other light. Anywhere else in literature we would immediately regard as an allegory a story in which a serpent spoke and acted as the serpent Is represented as acting In this record. So also the very terminology, “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," etc., brings us Into the world of allegory. The mistake, of course. Is in imagining that a mythical or allegorical story may not be a very real statement of truth. One would not think of calling John Runyan's ‘Pilgrim Progress’ untrue because It Is an allegory. On the contray, it Is a figurative and literary conception of the greatest of all truths. So here though we should do an Injustice to the narrative If we Interpreted It with crude and narrow literalness, we should also do a great injustice to it if we should fail to grasp Its truth. The writer was accounting for tne fact of sin In human life, and the teaching of this narrative is that the consciousness of sin arose with the consciousness of disobedience. That Is exactly where sin arises today. It is in the discovery of the true laws of God and in obedience to them that man finds life, just ns it Is In the failure to discover these laws, and In the failure to obey them when discovered, that man enters upon the path of sin that leads to death.

subject of the Sunday evening "People's Service" at 7:45, at the First Evangelical Church. New York and East Sts. It will be a “Men’s Platform Meeting,” conducted by Edmond Kerlin, the subject presented In brief addresses by business and professional men. Music by the Evangelical Double Quartet and the

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Christian Endeavor Chorus. Mr. ] Kerlin preaches at 10:40 a. m. on the subject; “Godliness and Brotherly Kindness —How Are They Related?" Sunday school at 0:30 a. m. Christian Endeavor Service for Young People at 7 p. m. • • • THE REV. THOMAS .1. HART of the Barth Place Church announces the following services Sunday: —Morning Sirvlre,' 10:45 t oluntary and silent prayer. Hymn No. 1. Apostlr's Creed. Prayer (people kneeling). SpeHal music. Psalm for 16th Sunday morning. Gloria Patna. Lesson from N. T. Luke 24:13-35. Hymn No 631 Sermon—“ The Emmaus Event.” Hymn No. 180. Benediction. One minute silent prayer. —Evening Service. 7 :30— voluntary and silent prayer. Song No. 38. Prayer Scripture Lesson. Song No. 41. Offertory. Special music Sermon—“Eijrht Days After." Song No. 135. Benediction. One minute silent prayer. Boost, your church by helping by singing in tiic choir. • • • THE REV. THOS. J. HART, pastor of Barth Place Methodist Episcopal Church, will preach Sunday morning on the subject, “I go fishing.” At the evening service he will preach on “The Salvation of Thomaa.” Inter-Easter-Pentecost subjects until Pentecostal Sunday. Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. * • • AT THE RIVERSIDE PARK M. E. CHURCH the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society will have charge of the morning service, the pastor, E. F. Prevo, will preach on “Be Ye Thankful." At the evening service the Rev. C. H. Lininger of the Speedday M. E. Church will preach. * • • AT THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH the pastor, the Rev. H. R. Waldo/will speak In the morning on “Vents of Glory" and at night on "Environments and Life.” Chorus choir, and solos by Mrs. Francis Barlet at both services. • # • THE ST. CECILIA PLAYERS will give Charles Lauck’s play, ‘‘The Last Words.” Sunday at 3 and 8:15 p. m. at the new St. Roch’s Hall,

8500 S. Meridian St. Patrons arriving by way of the S. Meridian car line will be met with automobiles and delivered to the hall in time for each performance. St. Roch’s Church will receive the proceeds. • • • AT THE CAPITOL AVENUE M. E. CHURCH the Rev. Joseph G. Moore will preaoh In the morning on "Bring My Soul Out of Prison,’ and at night, “Today and Tomorrow." • • • THE REV. HOMER DALE of the Hillside Christian Church will preach In the morning on “And Peter Went Fishing." At night, “Honest Doubts About Jesus.” • * • THE REV. G. L. FARROW of the Victory Memorial Methodist Protestant. Church will speak In the morning on ‘‘Christ For Us, With Us and In Us.” at night, “The Victorious Life.” * * • A MEN’S BIBLE CLASS has been organized at the Wheeler City Mission to meet every Sunday afternoon at the Mission bldg., 241 N. Delaware St. The class will be taught regularly by Governor Ed Jackson. v • • • THE MEAD LAWN CHURCH OF CHRIST will meet Sunday at 3817 Hoyte Ave. with B. L. Allen speaking in the morning on The Church, His Bride. At night, "Beginning and Going On in the Christian Life.” * * * AT THE NORTH SIDE NASSARKNE CHURCH services will be held Sunday as follows: Sunday

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Mr. Walker will have a company at the Grand Opera House. Cincinnati, again this season. The coming summer will mark the fifth Cincinnati summer season of the Stuart Wayker company. Alexander Dean, well known syn-

School at 9:80: Mrs. C. W. Jay, preaching at 10:30; Young People's meeting at 6:30 and Miss E. W. Jay preaching at 7:30. A revival will begin at this church on April 25. with E. P. Cassidy of Ky., in charge. • • THE REV. ELMER JONES will preach at St. Paul M. E. Church Sunday morning on "The Uplift of Christianity” and at night on “The Vineyard.” Vinson H. Manifold will address the men at 9:30 a. m. on “The Beginning of Bln." * • • Dr. Ernest N. Evans, secretary of the Church Federation, will speak at the First. Friends Church at. 10:45. His subject will be "The Ultimate Discovery.” At the 5:30 vesper service Mrs. Elizabeth Furnas will speak on "The Peace Pact.” HUSBAND RETURNED Rollle Metz of Indianapolis was returned late Friday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff John Sands from Ban Diego, Cal., where he was held as a fugitive. Metz was Indicted by the grand Jury for child desertion. He is held In the county Jail under $2,600 bond.

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dlcate writer nnd stage director, has been announced as the director of the Rtuart Walker Company, which will begin its Indianapolis engagement at Keith's. Stuart Walk6r. assisted by George Somnes, will stage the Cincinnati productions of the company. Charles Elrod will be the local director, while Charles Pat Wood will devise and create the settings In Cincinnati, Mr. Elrod, as many theatergoers will doubtless recall, was the art director for the Stuart Walker Company when it. was at the Murat Theater three seasons ago. “Applesauce,” a comedy by Alan Dinehart, lias been announced as the opening attraction of the Cincinnati company. The cast will include Ms.rlon Coakley, leading woman; Aldrich Bowk or, Judith Lowry, Elizabeth Patterson, Katherine Francis, Ralph Glover and others.

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