Sermon of the Week

By the fourth Sunday in May, Episcopalians expect to complete their task of raising $3,000,000 for a hospital and other mission buildings in Tokyo.

The sermon of the week was delivered--on this subject--by Col. William Cooper Procter, whose family, together with the Gambles, makes Ivory Soap in Cincinnati. (The Gambles are famed Methodist philanthropists.) Col. Procter, stern, swarthy and big, was known four years ago as financial "nunky" of General Wood, presidential aspirant. Speaking as chairman of the money-raising committee of which Bishops Talbot and Gailor are honorary chairmen, he said:

"The policy of the Church has been consistent in that the teaching of the Gospel must be accompanied always by tangible evidence of what the practice of the Gospel means. This was the reason for the foundation of that great institution known throughout the Orient as St. Luke's International Hospital, which stood in a fine group of buildings which included Holy Trinity Cathedral and the educational institutions.

"Six months ago it was reduced to a mass of ruins; today it is a collection of barracks, tents and temporary structures ; tomorrow it must be a massive building of reenforced concrete, able to withstand fire and earthquake, to minister to the needs of the poor and the afflicted, and, above all, able to testify to the fact that Christianity is a religion of service and has no limitations of nation or race. With the destroyed churches and educational institutions. rebuilt in Tokyo, and St. Luke's working in cooeperation, we shall be playing no small part in the worldwide task of restoring the peace and tranquillity which is the world's greatest need."