Cocktails & Kingdom

Protestant Episcopal Bishop Philip Cook of Delaware, 55, has lived and worked in the sprightly city of Wilmington since 1920. He was born in Missouri on the 4th of July, schooled in Connecticut (Trinity College), has been a missionary on the Dakota plains, a vicar in Manhattan, a rector in San Antonio, Tex., a Y. M. C. A. secretary in France. Last week he preached a lenten sermon at St. Stephen's Church at loth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia. Excerpt:

"Many of us would be astonished if we knew how many surgeons, lawyers, actors and men in many other professions are accustomed to use stimulants before they are to perform an operation or when they want to key themselves up to meet an important situation.

"Hostesses serve cocktails, not only to whet the appetites of their guests, but to insure the dinner being lively. But people are forgetting the biggest thrill in life. If we want to be lifted out of the commonplace and monotonous we should help to put over the Kingdom of God. He holds a monopoly on thrills for us, in working out His eternal concepts."

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