The illness and death last month of Wilbur of Mr. Wright, with some biographical details. Wright, one of the two famous brothers who did so much to make human flight possible, was a matter of national concern and grief. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a portrait

One of the two dignified cartoon tributes to the great aviator reproduced on this page is from his home city of Dayton, Ohio, and is the work of Mr. Evans, of the News.

The Kaiser sends a new ambassador-a veritable "dread

Do you naught" to his cousin, John Bull, with the hope that he will be able to keep the peace.

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THE NEW METHODIST BISHOPS

BY FERDINAND COWLE IGLEHART

HERE are six million members of the Of the 150 or 200 candidates for the episMethodist Church in the United States copacy at the recent General Conference, and from twelve to fifteen millions of church held at Minneapolis, eight were elected. population in that denomination. More They are all men of piety, training and wide than half of this number belong to the Meth- experience, and well fitted for the great work odist Episcopal branch of the church, whose before them. The briefest of sketches of General Conference has just been held at these new bishops will show their equipment. Minneapolis. The session marked the one Homer Clyde Stuntz, one of the best known hundredth anniversary of that legislative of all, was born at Albion, Pennsylvania, body. The first session had ninety delegates in 1858. He began the study of law in Iowa. representing 184,000 members; the last 815 Then, however, he finished a course at the delegates, making laws for 3,500,000 members. Garrett Biblical Institute and took a number John Wesley, the founder of Methodism of appointments in Iowa. He then went as in the world, never left the Established a missionary to India and the Philippines. Church, although his followers were organized He was assistant corresponding secretary of by him into societies outside of its pales. the Missionary Society of the Methodist He was never ordained a bishop, but actually in his appointment of ministers, in his promulgation of education, in his widespread benevolences, in his ceaseless preaching and in his statesmanship, he did the work of a number of bishops. He was a presbyter in the Church of England and put his hands in consecration upon the head of Thomas Coke and sent him over to America to be a bishop for the Methodists there. Coke laid his hands on the head of Francis Asbury and made him bishop, and so the episcopacy for the new church was created, which has been Theodore S. Henderson is a native of New marked by a long line of singularly able men Jersey, and just past his forty-fourth birthday. and preachers, patriotic citizens, educators He is a graduate of the Wesleyan University and reformers. It is claimed that Coke was and Drew Theological Seminary. He was the first Protestant bishop in the Western Field Secretary of the General Conference Hemisphere. The most important work of the bishop is that of holding annual conferences and assigning appointments to the ministers.

Episcopal Church at the time of his election. Doctor Stuntz, while a missionary, was editor of the India Witness at the same time that Rudyard Kipling was on the staff of an English paper at Hyderabad. They became fast friends and have been ever since and Doctor Stuntz in his lectures on Kipling has perhaps been the best interpreter of the author's thought and sentiment. Bishop Stuntz is a large man, physically as well as intellectually and morally. He is one of the best preachers and platform orators in the country.

commission on aggressive evangelism and was taken from the pastorate of the Hanson Place Church in Brooklyn for the Episcopacy. He has traveled much and is widely known,

especially amongst the colleges of the country, as a successful evangelist. Clear in his intellect, strong in his executive ability, he is tireless in his industry and able and popular as a preacher. One of the events of the General Conference was his address on "The Evangelism Needed To-day."

William O. Shepard has for several years been Superintendent of the Chicago North District. He is a cool, calculating, levelheaded man and successful preacher, pastor and administrator, who commands the esteem, not only of the members of his own, but of all denominations in Chicago. He was born on April 11, 1862, in Whiteside County, Ill. Naphtali Luccock, the finished product of Methodism in the Middle West, was born at Kimbolton, Ohio, in 1853. He was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, afterward serving churches in Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Three years ago he was sent to Hyde Park, Kansas City, from which he was chosen Bishop. As a preacher he is brilliant and witty and strong.

where he had a very successful administration and from which he was made bishop. He is a popular preacher, a good organizer and is an exponent of the brotherhood idea in the church. He was identified with the Brotherhood of St. Paul's from its beginning and later with the Methodist Brotherhood. He was born in New York State forty-six years ago.

Richard Joseph Cooke is the only cityborn man among the new bishops and also the only one selected from south of Mason and Dixon's Line. His Conference home is at Knoxville, Tenn. He was born in New York City in January, 1853. He was educated at the East Tennessee University and in Berlin. He had been for eight years book editor of the church at the time of his election. He is approachable and affable, and has marked literary instincts. He is noted for his knowledge of the discipline and polity of the church,

Wilbur Patterson Thirkield was born at Franklin, Ohio, in September, 1854. He is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan and Boston Theological School. He has given much Francis John McConnell, the youngest time to the education and betterment of the of the eight Bishops elected, first saw the southern negro, having been secretary of the light in a Methodist parsonage at Trinway, Freedmen's Aid Society and of the Epworth Ohio, in 1871. He was graduated at Ohio League. At the time of his election, he was Wesleyan and Boston Universities. For president of the Howard University of Washseveral years he was pastor of the strong ington, D. C. Bishop Thirkield, by his abilNew York Avenue church, Brooklyn, from ity and character, has succeeded everywhere which he was taken to the presidency of in his ministry, and the development of De Pauw University, where he has had phe- Howard University under his leadership, has nomenal success. In his clearness and origi- been marvelous. nality of thinking, in the depth, breadth and The conference took advanced ground on eloquence of his sermons, good judges of va- sociological questions demanding the abolirious denominations have counted him one tion of many industrial abuses and oppresof the ablest preachers of the entire country. sions, insisting that the church must meet Frederick DeLand Leete, another child of a these conditions and return to the primitive parsonage, was graduated from the Syracuse championship of the poor and oppressed and University. He had important pastorates common people, which was such a strong in northern New York and was transferred factor in the marvelous progress of early to the beautiful Central Church in Detroit Methodism.

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WILBUR WRIGHT

ESS than a decade ago two brothers, at on the brothers without stint,-honors richly Dayton, Ohio, began making flights in deserved, for everything that the Wrights heavier-than-air machines of their own de- achieved in the development of the aerovising and construction. On May 30, last, the elder of the brothers, Wilbur Wright, died at his home in Dayton at the age of forty-five, a world-figure in the new science of aviation, recognized in Europe, even more fully than in his own country, as one of the imperishable names of the new century. The French Academy of Sciences had awarded a gold medal to this modest American inventor, and other honors had been conferred

plane had a scientific basis. The whole weight of their influence has been thrown against recklessness in flight and the needless risk of life and limb. Their efforts, especially of late, have been centered on the securing of stability, and hence safety, in aeroplane flight. To the masterly self-restraint, not less than to the invincible genius, of Wilbur and Orville Wright, is this age of human air-flight indebted.