Show 1 NW NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY TH THE PUE ENGLISH THAT FRUSTRATED A BISHOPS By J E B Edwd Edwards daly daily series of anecdotes nd and incidents that throw non new and frequently on dramatic C light on n famous u events personalities t of time past have o been collected fe r by Mg Edwards nd d during nearly tn forty r cy years of more g or I less r i imato mate mato acquaintance with may many ot of to the faders leaders since the tho War Val Cach anecdote or IncIdent la is fresh t from Mr Edwards and ether either In whole or In ps part It constitutes New News ot of Yesterday garnered from tho men who made the h from equally authoritative O ta I sources u As ita ih iho J portent contributions o of t the Human u I Interest sort to American f these articles have a a distinctive value al all their own Oo One or of te the thinS things for which our n am ambassador t to the court or of St Jame James Rid Bold Is noted is 18 the tho or of his English you may recal tat that two or years 1 ago aU alt England wa was remarking on the tho eloquence aim sim and purity or of speech or of Mr ReIds ads address on delv deIty ered at at on tho oc occasion casion or of a a Shakespeare ao memoria memorial cel 1 there thero But how the ambas anibas I purity ot of speech saved to the rec I tor or of the Shakespeare church fromn rebuke by his bIshop I Is here told In print for tor the tho first time When the tho memorial celebration wa was beIng planned planed the tho committe committee having It ItIn itin In charge communicated wih with Mr Ir Rid Reid asking that ho speak In such manner as Imo ho saw ft fit during the celebration Mr Reid replied replied that he had received from the United States n a wreath to bo be placed upon tomb nt at some somo convenient time durIng the tho cole cele braton bration and that the day ho performed this mission ho would 1 be pleased to say a few tew words In whIch he woul endeavor to express the common senti sentiment I ment or of English speaking people 10 ro s Shakespeare ArrivIng at on on the day appoInted Mr r Rid Reid was a met by bytho bythe the tho local committee whIch took the first opportunity to bring him and and the rector of the Shakespeare church the Rev Dr Melville together The for formal format mat mal greetings over the tho later latter ox ex expressed pressed hIs pleasure that the American ambassador wa was to place a wreath on go grave Then he added And havo I ben been correctly Informed that you 11 are to delver deliver an while hero here Not exactly n a formal addres address 10 ic pied plied Mr Rid Reid But I 1 a mt my y a afew few tew words which I hope wi wilt be ap appropriate to the tho occasion Then sir exclaimed the rector heartily I hop hope that you wi deler deliver r that adre address from the pulpit or of m my church chuIch I can think o of no more ap place than that Mr RId Held ot of coure course wn was pleased plead with the tho Invitation although I a little taken i aback that he a layman and by early traIn training In not or of tile tho Episcopal church should have havo been naked to speak from f fI the pulpit of a church of that nation I ho accepted gt t the t invitation In the tho spirit In whIch It Wr was i given ghen an and when lie ho Soko spoke the tho historic church was wag crowded every word or ef his brief hut but ver very eanest and amid dignified address being heard 11 the tho remotest corer corner or of the edifice A few days das later to the Roy Rov Dr Mel P vIlle was a accosted D by the bishop or of hi liim diocese Mr Melville lie he sad said I 1 understand that you a gentleman though he beto beto de delver deliver lver liver an address from your pUlpit of at the Church or of England Are 10 h hyou YU you aware hother or not lie he Is Ia or of time tho Church or of England r I have no knowledge r f what tho ambassador from the United States s holds denominationally replied the tho rector But what r I am t to think or of this Dr Melville persisted the bishop Are Aro you not aware ot of tho rule ot of tho Church ot of England forbidding tho flie ap ap In Its pUlpits of tho those who vho are aro not or of the tho church What nm am I Ito Ito to thInk ot of thier r I wi wIll tet tell your gace grace answered the rector Tile The from the tho United States spoke In my pulpit In Iii profound sympathy wIth al all that Shakespeare means to the English spang speaking world Furthermore he spoke In English glah which wa Was purer moro more nearl nearly the English ot of Shakespeare than you or I have hao ever used That ThatIs Is what r I think ot of It It your gace grace The Tho bishop passed on with the r re buko buke that ho he clearly had In mind to delvor deliver to Dr Melville unuttered |