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The N eed of More T hinking By WILLIAM TEMPLE The Archbishop of York H R IST IA N S who are convinced that their faith State should shut a man up for ten years, which it C demands application to international and indus­ would be intolerable that any individual should do. trial affairs must recognise that this enterprise calls Probably what the formula sought to express was for a great deal more hard thinking than has yet something like this: political expediency cannot jus­ been given to it. We are at tify the State in doing what it is morally wrong that a perpetual disadvantage be­ it should do, or, in other words, that ethical consid­ cause those who disagree erations must override considerations of expediency. with us, and regard religious But this does not help us to determine what it is considerations as irrelevant, wrong that the State should do. Moreover, it is have a perfectly clear and hardly possible to exclude all questions of expediency, coherent position, while we as for example, the securing of markets whereby are floundering in confusion. unemployment may be reduced, from the grounds on They reach their clear posi­ which the State’s moral duty is to be determined. tion, as we believe, by ignor­ We need not have great doubt about our ultimate ing one group of facts, as principles; our trouble is with what would once have Physics in its early stages been called the “middle axioms,” by which ultimate reached quite clear positions principles become applicable to actual situations. Let because it had not as yet to us say that the ultimate principle is Goodwill as ex­ take account of such disturb­ pressed in the Golden Rule. There is no difficulty so ing phenomena as those of long as this is universally observed. But what are radio-activity. But in practice it is a very great dis­ we to do when it is not being observed? The whole advantage to have nothing to offer except a well problem of applying our principles to life arises, of grounded protest; men must act either hap-hazard •course, from the fact that we live in a situation or on some principle. If our opponents have a prin­ created by the lack of such application. If all men ciple and we have none, they will be more effective loved their neighbours as themselves, there would than ourselves however thoroughly we demonstrate be no quarrels to adjust. And it cannot be too the insufficiency of their principle. strongly stated that the primary function of religion The difficulty may be illustrated by reference to a is to point men to that far-distant goal. But it can formula often employed to express the view that hardly, after that, refuse to point out where the road religious, or at least ethical, principles should govern starts which leads to that goal from where we are. ' political action, namely, “ What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.” If this means that it OW, if goodwill fails between individuals there cannot be right for the State to do what it is wrong Nare various alternatives? They may arrange for the State to do, it is hardly worth saying. If not to meet, and may in various ways diminish the it means that it cannot be right for the State to do occasions of friction. Even in the extreme case there what it would be wrong for an individual citizen are alternatives. Neither Cato nor Brutus could live to do, it appears to be untrue. For example, it may in the same world with Caesar; Cato killed himself, be right—or at least, we act as if it were—that the Brutus killed Caesar. France finds a serious diffi-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS February 25, 1932 culty in living at peace with Germany. What is her of the one group that is tolerated—the nation. duty? She cannot migrate to the Sahara; she cannot Jacobinism in France issued in the Napoleonic wars, consent to extermination. She wants security as a Communism in Russia is creating an unwholesomely basis for goodwill. Is that wrong? No doubt Good­ exaggerated nationalism in Russia. will is itself the only sure basis for security. But As I am not, in the accepted sense of the word, a how is it to be got? Pacifist, I may illustrate my difficulty from the Paci­ Again, the representatives of the employers and fist controversy. Some pacifists (I do' not say all) of a trade union confront each other in an industrial argue that it must be wrong for a Christian to fight dispute. Both want a settlement, but on each side as a soldier because it is wrong for him to kill his there are considerations still more weighty than that fellow-man. That is an argument from his duty as desire.' If work is continued on existing conditions, an individual to his duty as a member of his nation. only total failure can follow, with disaster for all. I am quite clear in my own mind that the argument If wages are lowered, other wages will follow suit, is invalid. But I am aware that I have no doctrine and a standard of living laboriously established is of the duty of the citizen as such which is anything surrendered. Are those representatives to deal with like so clear and definite as this transferred doctrine each other as if they were detached individuals and of individual morality. not representative at all? The object of this article is to raise questions, not The ethics of group-relationship have not been to answer them. So far as I see my way to an worked out. Idealists have tended to cut . the knot by trying to eliminate all other groups less than the answer, that way lies through the establishment in national community. Then all relations (apart from all such relationships of arbitral authorities as im­ the international) are either of individuals, or of the partial as can be got, and the creation of r^diffgss to one (national) community to its members. But this accept the decision of the appropriate authority what­ is an impossible enterprise. The groups remain— ever it may be. That, I believe, is the practical way family, school, union, etc.—all the more unmoralised to love one’s neighbour as one’s self. We must learn for having no clear moral status. Incidentally also to desire and work for the ordering of things whereby this effort to ignore one factor in human nature ends “ I” and “ he” each count for one and only one. That like all such efforts in exaggerating the consciousness won’t happen if either “ he” or “ I” does the counting.

The Christian W ay Out By V ID A D. SCU D D ER Professor Emeritus of Wellesley College OW obvious it is ! Substitution of love and trust of 1891 and 1931, based on St. Thomas Aquinas, H for rivalry and fear, in world-politics, in social make perhaps the best try. The Social Creed of the relations, in the religious situation: that’s all; Libra­ Churches, issued by the Federal Council, is a fine ries of books on the social gospel, myriads of sermons document now under revision; There are in our own every year, reiterate the po­ Communion sundry brave and illumined announce­ sition : and they do well. But ments, dating from 1919 to yesterday, so advanced nothing happens. For alas, that Christian radicals in our Church now act and truths have a way of turning speak with the whole weight of official Church au­ into platitudes unless practi­ thority behind them. But the Roman statements seem cal inferences from them are pretty static and inflexible to the American mind, and relentlessly drawn. Applica­ both the Social Creed and the pronouncements of our tions, there’s the rub. The own Church jump from general principles to special Christian way will never be issues with little searching thought or organizing reached by repeating truths power. A reasoned social philosophy which shall untie till they become formulae, qr our knots instead of slashing at ffem helplessly is by applying them solely in still to seek. private life; Wanted: a vi­ Certain leads we can welcome. It is well that 9000 sion of procedure : wanted, a ministers went on record last year as inalterably

VlDA SCUDDER program for the modern opposed to war; it is well that the Church recognizes world based on a carefully the right of labor to organize, still disputed by back­ thought out Christian sociology; Can any one give us ward employers. And certain positions still con­ this? troversial would seem evident to Christian common- Well, there are attempts. The Papal Encyclicals sense; Old Age Pensions for instance and Unemploy-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 25, 1932 TH E W I T N ESS Page Five ment Insurance in some form. But we need to get to say to statesmen, to employers, to financiers? Must deeper, to feel our way toward a system as intricately they not learn that through loss may come redemption and exquisitely balanced as the present, in which the and thraugh^sacrifice -life is .fulfilled? What one inward energy shall be love and trust, not search for wants to see is* all these people if they are Christians profit and defensive fear. (Some claim to be) instinctively taking the initiative tin legislation opposed to the interests of their class. TT IS hard to find that system. Our formulae, One wants to see the Church, while she need not take -*■ secular as spiritual, are cracking. For instance, sides in special issues, urge this general attitude on socialists were always talking about the State as” a them, earnestly' cultivating in her children a presump­ Dea E x Machina. “ Nationalize” 'industry,—blessed tion of distrust toward any policy which would be to word,—and all would be well. Then' came the war, their personal advantage or to the advantage of their and the would-be omnicompetent State revealed itself group; That is always the safest sort of presumption; as prime enemy of the Prince of Peace;' and. so on, for pure disinterestedness is hard to attain and self- and so on. Who can be sure that governments as deception perilously éasy; Especially is it the safest now constituted would manage1 industry with more sort if one happens to belong to the privileged class. freedom from graft and more respect for the human Foot Christian ethic, like the modern world, has its face factor than private corporations ? The old Socialist set toward greater social equality and the Christian position needs defense at a deeper level and on fresh heart longs to see progress in this direction hastened lines. and inspired, less by the self assertion of those below * ' If we are bravé enough however we can certainly than by the self abnegation of those in possession. define the direction at least toward which the Church Of course, if the Church is to take this line, it should try to impel modern civilization. The sole Clue means that she must be preaching an unpopular to our intricate social and political problems lies wait­ gospel ; the Christian paradox which runs counter to ing discovery in the profound mysteries of the the instincts of the natural man. But pray, what else Christian faith. These Mysteries are eternal, but it is she' for ? is for each generation to apply them afresh to its special needs. Like the stars, they shine with steady Yes, we have already enough vision on which to guidance above the tossing welter of the sea of time. proceed. But when a concrete issue arises, again and Shall wé ever see a Christian world? God knows. But again we are baffled, we are helpless. Ah, we need let us at least keep our vision clear. To socialize the not only vision but power. To remould this sorry great Christian truths is the supreme challenge to our scheme of things nearer to the heart’s desire, we must day, though the more one bends to the task the more have not only code but dynamic; And a supernatural stubborn and occult opposing forces are manifest. dynamic is ours for the asking, it can not only enable Christian principles must enter the organic life of the our blinded eyes with perpetual light, but it can give race, to penetrate and transform all human activities; peace at home. To repeat the Teaching of Jesus will and the Church must find a chief function in teach­ avail little ; we have the Guidance of the Living Christ. ing this transformation. Life must be lost if it is to “ And behold I am with you always, even to. the be found ; therefore individual initiative in industry end of the world.” must yield to social control, if it is to realize its true freedom : “ I will run the way of Thy commandments QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION when Thou hast set my heart at liberty.” Defense 1. Can ethical codes for individuals be applied to the state also? of national rights and prerogatives must be sur­ For example; it is wrong for an individual to kill a fellow. Is it equally wrong for the state to do so? Another example: a state in rendered : “ He that will be greatest among you let him order to secure employment for its people creates a market by keep­ ing another country in bondage. Is this ethically justifiable? be your minister.” Will the time ever come 2. Japan is aggressive in China because she believes she must have a market for her ' surplus goods in order to care for the people of “ When each Christian nation shall take upon her Japan. Is Japan wrong? If Japan is wrong is she alone condemned of the _ nations upon earth? Has the United States ever justified The law of the Christian soul in vast, aggression on the same grounds ? Seek not her own but her neighbor’s honor, 3. With millions of Japanese in want why should there be any surplus goods seeking a market? Till the last shall be first and the first shall be last” ? 4. Do you agree with Archbishop Temple that the practical way of dealing with controversies between groups is by arbitration? Can Probably I don’t quote correctly; I write in mid- you give examples where it has worked successfully? 5. If possible have members of the class read the pronouncements Atlantic and I do not carry Mrs. Browning’s poems of our own Church on social questions, including the statement of the committee of twenty-one o f the last General Convention. (All but m my suit case. But is she not right that a Christian the latter will be found in “ The Church and Industry’’ by Miller and Fletcher, probably in ypur public library. The , latter was printed by nation should observe what Dante calls the high the Church weeklies in October). courtesy of God, and be able to subordinate its own 6. It is frequently said that the churches issue fine pronouncements but that they seldom translate them into action. Do you agree? advantage to the interest's” of the world state? The 7. Do you believe that the churches are hampered in dealing with social questions because their supplort is derived largely irom people nation that should first do this might be the saviour of wealth? Discuss. of the modern world. jj 8. Miss' Scudder states that individual initiative in industry. must yie.ld to social control. Do you agree ? Discuss proposed methods of social_ control. Members o f the class might préparé briëf papers, on OR the Law of the Holy Cross abides forever. unionism, fascism, socialism, communism. 9. Do you believe that the defense of national rights and preroga­ F In many ways, the doctrine of the Atonement is tives must be surrendered ? 10. Just .what does Miss Scudder me.an when she says that the dim and alien to the modern mind. Yet has it nothing doctrine of the Atonement must be applied to all of life?

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The Story of the Church HI. That There Was a Church By BISHOP JOHNSON H E philosopher is chiefly interested in what Christ known as the Church from which such regular order Tsaid. The disciple should be equally interested in could subsequently emerge. What can be demonstrated what He did. Did He found a brotherhood ? Did He is that there was an order of the apostles and that there institute a Household of Faith? were other officers who were officially designated, as It is not necessary to assume that Christ created a for example the seven deacons. We know that there complete ecclesiastical organization with liturgy, par­ were certain sacraments ; baptism, by which “ were be­ ishes and bishops in order to believe that His plan in­ ing added to the Church such as were being saved;” cluded a corporate body which should carry out His confirmation, by which those who had been baptized purpose and to which He intrusted His gospel. We “ received the gift of the Holy Spirit;” the Lord’s Sup­ do not have to assume that when God made man and per, in which those who had been thus admitted bore breathed into him the breath of life that man suddenly witness in a corporate way to their faith. We know appeared in human form. The evolution of man’s body that there was a council at which St. James presided, is one thing and his endowment with a soul quite an­ at which certain rules and regulations for the admission other. of Gentile converts were established, and the decrees When Christ told His disciples that He was about to were sent to the Church by certain chosen emissaries. leave them He assured them that He would send His (Acts X V ). Holy Spirit who would guide them into all truth. Did It is one thing to say that there was not such and He prepare a body which was to receive this gift? such a Church at this time, and quite another thing to We know that He began His ministry by choosing say that there was no Church at all. Moreover it is in twelve apostles; that He spent much time and labor in the nature of established governments that they con­ teaching them; that when Peter acknowledged His di­ tain within themselves the power of legislation and of vine nature He promised to build a Church upon this adapting their constitutions to their needs as they arise. rock and that He subsequently commissioned the apos­ This seems to be the very thing that Christ did when tles to go f orth in His name and to do the things that He spoke to the little band that surrounded Him during He commanded them to do. the forty days between His resurrection and His as­ We know that acting upon this teaching the apos­ cension. In a closed room Jesus said to His disciples: tles elected Matthias to take the place of Judas as an “ Peace be unto you; as my Father hath sent me, even apostle, and when they were gathered together they re­ so send I you. Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whoso­ ceived the gift of the Holy Spirit, which they in turn ever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them and distributed to others by the laying on of hands. We whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained.” (St. John know that when this had taken place that “they con­ XX). tinued steadfastly in the Apostles’ doctrine and fellow­ And on another occasion He had said to His disciples, ship, in the breaking of bread and in the prayers.” We when He bade them to go to the Church with their know further that St. Paul, who was not present at disputes: “ Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall Pentecost, spoke of the Church as the pillar and ground bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever of the truth; that it was built upon the foundation of ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.” (St. Christ and His apostles, that it was the body of Christ Matthew X V III). I f all the words of Jesus meant so and that He would present it to the Father as a glorious much, then these words seem to indicate the bestowal Church without spot or wrinkle. of legislative power upon this group, for the words I am not contending what the Church was in those “binding” and “ loosing” in'that day referred to enact­ days but rather that the Church was, and that there was ing laws and to repealing them. It is difficult to read a clear distinction in the apostles’ mind between “ those these words on the assumption that Christ did not in­ without” and “ those within,” and that the disciples tend to incorporate His gospel in a body which pos­ were to “ do good unto all men but especially unto those sessed the powers of government. Moreover, it is dif­ who were of the household of faith.” ficult to understand why Christ should not have organ­ Now I can understand why scholars may say that the ized His Kingdom. Church was not this or was not that, but I cannot un­ While corporations are liable to great abuse and the derstand how they can maintain that there was no such Church has been no exception to this rule, yet corpora­ thing as the Church, or how they can confuse the writ­ tions are a sign of organized society in contrast to the ten gospel (which was not then in existence) with the lack of organization in primitive races. It is well there­ Church which had already been established. Let us not fore in considering what the Church must have been be confused. Because we can not prove that there was, in its elemental form to consider somewhat the prin­ as yet, any regular order of the ministry, such as later ciples of organization for the purpose of perpetuating appeared, is not to say that there was no organization a gospel. Indeed it is impossible to imagine how the

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Church could have contended with the Roman Em­ the Church is that every step forward increases our lia­ pire; could have survived the Dark Ages; could have bilities. When a parish builds a Church it is creating penetrated into all lands ; could have produced the a financial liability. That Church must be heated, books of the New Testament; could have formed lighted, cleaned, repaired. Its very use creates ex­ them into a constituent whole; could have differentiated pense. It may well be that the use of the Church opens between the teaching of the apostles and the inventions up new resources which, as assets, may offset liabili­ of men; could have maintained its fellowship or dis­ ties. But the liability is constant while the assets may charged the obligations which Christ placed upon it, if fluctuate. If the assets fail, then the liability becomes it had not been just what it was—a brotherhood, loyal so burdensome as to menace the enterprise. to its apostolic origin, possessing a continuous contact This is true of missions. Every mission is a lia­ with its charter members, having rites of initiation bility. To multiply missions faster than assets grow and of testimony, extending hospitality to its members to sustain them, is to invite trouble. and aiding one another in distress. It was the posses­ This principle seems clear, and yet it is constantly ig­ sion of corporate identity which made such things pos­ nored. To create a liability that can only be met under sible. It would have been impossible for a group to the most favorable conditions, is to place the enterprise have all things in common if they were unorganized. in jeopardy. The last words of Christ to His disciples were, “ Be How should our National Church proceed to ex­ ye witnesses unto me.” And in that sentence He placed pand our work with full recognition of this principle ? upon the body of the faithful exactly that responsibil­ The abstract answer to that question is that the Na­ ity for which the Church primarily existed. Through tional Church should create assets, as well, as incur lia­ its teaching, its sacraments, and its missionary activity, bilities. To create assets means first to carry out no the disciples of our Lord became a compact brother­ program which affects unfavorably the strength of the hood. Unless they had done exactly this thing the units which provide the resources, that is, the parishes. teaching would have been garbled, the sacraments The National Church needs a fixed and certain in­ would have been perverted and the missionaries would come. To subject the work of the National Council to have been deprived of any moral or material support. the uncertainty of a fluctuating income is to court trou­ Let us not imagine because we cannot tell just what ble and loss. the Church was in the apostolic days that therefore With the rights and needs of both parishes and the there was no continuing body which was particular as National Council fully in mind, the following solution to its membership and loyal to its obligations. Without of the problem is suggested. such organization religion becomes merely a philosophy, F ix e d I n c o m e for t h e N a t io n a l C o u n c il with no other obligation than that of thinking and argu­ The General Convention should settle upon a fixed ing. Men do not give their lives for their opinions. and invariable sum which the National Council will re­ Neither would the authorities have been concerned ceive from the dioceses. This sum should be well within about philosophies. the giving capacity of the Church. Judging from the It was the existence of an organization which had to published figures, and from the general conditions, it be secret which was the cause of its persecution and might seem reasonable to set the sum of $2,500,000 as the strength of its marvellous preservation. the amount which the diocese should collectively pledge. It is because organization implies obligations that This pledge should be the first obligation of the Dio­ academic minds would dissipate the body of the cese and not be subject to fluctuation. Church, reducing the gospel of Christ to a mere theory The National Council would have in addition to the about life instead of a way of life with all its responsi­ amount, these sources of income: bilities and its fine loyalties. (1) Interest on Trust Funds. This being a per­ (Continued next week) manent asset, the income could be expended each year. (2) United Thank Offering. One-third of this should be invested as a permanent endowment. (3) Legacies. These should all be invested in en­ Safe Financing dowments unless designated. By (4) Designated Legacies. These, of course, must go GEORGE PARKIN ATWATER to the work for which they are designated. But if that course should involve an additional liability, it should H E Church Pension Fund in its latest report, and not be undertaken until a corresponding asset from the Tin the interesting pamphlet intended for laymen, income of undesignated legacies was assured. sets an example to the whole Church of safe and sane The National Council should then inaugurate a never financing. We all have the greatest confidence in that ceasing effort to secure perpetual endowments. Fund because it is based on sound principles. (This is a matter of such importance that it will be The work of the National Council is not founded on considered carefully in the next article.) any such financial rock. In consequence, it is subject Such endowments would give the Council a fixed in­ to disaster which results in the suffering of mission­ come with which to expand the work without placing aries and the destruction of capital values. it in jeopardy. The most obvious truth about progress and growth in Such a financial program might temporarily dimin-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page tight THE W I TN ESS February 25, 1932 ish the extent of National undertakings, but a principle of increment and momentum would be established that L e t ’s K n o w would for all time add to the fixed resources of the By Church, and would establish. our work upon an abso­ BISHOP WILSON lutely sure foundation. Within a-few years we would be increasing rapidly A P ioneer in strength. We should have the spirit of victory, of achievement, instead of the spirit of uncertainty and P E A K IN G of pioneer forefathers, there is one fear, which today pervades the Church. Within a gen­ Swhose record ought to be known and preserved. eration we should be powerful, and could expand with The Rev. Clement Hall was a product of North increasing usefulness and security. And both parishes Carolina in the colonial days. He went to London for and missionaries would rejoice that our work was not ordination in 1743, returning the next year to devote based on the speculative element of uncertain margins, his life to a gruelling missionary work at a salary of but was on the firm rock of real assets and investments. one hundred and fifty dollars a year. He was consti­ tutionally delicate in health but after eight years of continual travelling he was able to report that he had covered 14,000 miles, had preached 675 sermons, and J u st Souls had baptized more than six thousand persons. The difficulties of travel are quite beyond our com­ By prehension today. Scarcely ever did he have a church C. R U S S E L L M OODEY building in which to officiate. He used court-houses

P u l l m a n or P ow er H ouse and similar buildings with more room than a dwelling, Thank God for a Sanctuary— and generally they were crowded for his services. For the holy altar— In 1753 he reported that in thirty-five days he had For the newness of life travelled 536 miles, had officiated in 23 congregations, That comes from the Christ baptized 467 white and 21 black children and two Through frequent communion. white women. Nothing ever seemed to discourage him. He had nothing to work with— except people. He E H A V E a phonograph record over at our house had long roads to travel paved chiefly with hardship. Wthat seems to be the favorite with the children. He never had an increase in salary and was absolutely And when I say “ favorite” I mean that it is played innocent of the comforts and conveniences even of his from morning to night. The name of the record is own early day. Yet he was consistently an apostle of “ All Around the Mulberry Bush.” My memory is hope and goodwill. very bad so I cannot write down all the words but in Here is a description of the kind of thing Clement general it goes this way— “ this is the way we wash our Hall had to face—“ Compelled to lodge,, when at home, clothes so early Monday morning; this is the way we in some old tobacco-house, and, when they travelled, to iron our clothes so early Tuesday morning; this is the lie oftentimes whole nights in the woods, and to live way we scrub the floor so early Wednesday morning; for days together upon no other food but bread mois­ this is the way we mend our clothes so early Thursday tened in brackish water; journeying amid deep swamps morning; this is the way we sweep the floor so early and along broken roads through a wild and desert Friday morning; this is the way we bake our bread so country, and finding themselves at the distance of early Saturday morning; (at this point the machine in­ every twenty miles upon the banks of some broad river variably begins to run down and Sunday comes in which they could only cross by good boats and experi­ rather dolefully.) You know what a record sounds enced watermen, neither of which aids were at their like when the victrola needs winding! It is difficult to command . . . forced to work hard with ax and hoe and do justice to the dying lament unless perhaps we use spade to keep their families and themselves from a graph' and this can only show the rise and fall of the starving.” awful groans. You need to hear the rendition to un­ After eleven years of it Clement Hall was obliged to derstand fully what I am trying to describe. “ This . . . give up his missionary field because of broken health. is . . , the , . . way . . . we . . . go . . . to . . . church Instead, he took charge of St. Paul’s parish, Edenton. . ... so .... early . . , Sunday...... morning...... V* Scarcely had he arrived than a fire destroyed his house, The old-fashioned victrola thus gives us a true pic­ books, and his personal belongings. But he wasn’t the ture of your attitude and condition of mind regarding sort to give up. For four more years he courageously the Sanctuary of God. carried on in the name of his Master and then quietly Modern life functions on a very wrong basis. So­ ciety believes that the week leads into Sunday. But it succumbed. doesn’t. Sunday leads into the week. Sunday is sup­ We talk about hardships and discouragements these posed to mark the beginning when man takes his soul days. What really do we know about them when we to the altar of God for newness of life and consecra­ think of a man like this ? Without him and his kind, tion. The church isn’t a Pullman but a Power-house the Church would be a dead issue today. Question— where in holy contact man receives from the Christ what are we passing on for our successors two cen­ new vigor and a new grip on life. turies hence?

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world police force and place it under CLERGYMAN IS THE AMERICA’S VOICE the jurisdiction of an international IS HEARD AT GREAT agency sponsored by all the nations. HEAD OF CENTRAL WORLD CONFERENCE Disarmament, contended M. Tar­ PLANNING BOARD dieu, would naturally result from By W alter W . V an K irk the added security achieved by the Greenfield, Mass., Jias formed a central council comprised of repre­ nations through the functioning of The voice of the United States sentatives of the fourteen social the proposed world police force. has been heard at Geneva, Stand­ service organizations which work in Judging from the comment heard ing on the speaker’s rostrum of the that city and the surrounding coun­ thus far, we are led to believe that World Disarmament Conference, try, and has selected the Rev. John the French thesis is wholly unac­ Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, tem­ B. Whiteman, rector of St. James ceptable to the great majority of porary head of the American dele­ Church, as chairman of this cen­ the powers represented at the Con­ gation, presented, on 'February 9, tral planning committee. The pur­ ference. Poland thus far has been the proposals of the United States pose of the committee is to increase the only nation to give its support for the reduction and limitation of the efficiency of each group and to to M. Tardieu’s proposal. the armaments of the nations. prevent overlapping in the work of The fourth of the great powers to The leader of the German Reich, the various organizations. It is a be heard thus far at Geneva is Eng­ Chancellor Heinrich Bruening, had plan that has worked well in many land. Sir John Simon, the British just asked for a general arms cut other cities and should have a place spokesman, as in the case of Mr. in keeping with the disarmament in every city of any importance. Gibson’s proposals, recommended pledges contained in the Treaty of He . $ ;)i the abolition of submarines and Versailles. “ The government of the poison gas and bacteriological war­ While the Atheists’ Society is ap­ German Reich and the German peo­ pealing to the Supreme Court of the fare. He also advocated the limita­ ple demand, after their own dis­ tion of those military weapons pecu­ United States to prevent the Bible armament, general disarmament,” being read in the public schools of liarly designed for offensive war. said Herr Bruening. “ The German New York State, it is interesting to people expect of this conference the The Italian Foreign Minister, note that the various Bible societies solution of the problem of general Dino Grandi, deeply impressed the still report that more Bibles are disarmament on a basis of equality Conference when he announced that sold than any other book. The Rev. and equal security for all peoples.” the program of his country would Samuel S. Drury, rector of St. Herr Bruening, according to press include the abolition of capital Paul’s School, Concord, N. H., who reports, received a tremendous ova­ ships, submarines, aircraft carriers, is president of the New Hampshire tion. bombing aircraft, tanks, and heavy Bible Society, reports that the so­ Mr. Gibson then mounted the artillery; the outlawry of chemical ciety put into circulation 10,216 rostrum. He was listened to with and bacteriological warfare ; and the copies of the Bible, printed in eight rapt attention. It was felt by many revision of the laws of war so as to languages, in that relatively small that the policy to be laid down by insure complete and effective pro­ New England state. the United States would determine, tection for noncombatants. * * * in a measure, the failure or success Japan’s spokesman, Tsuneo Mat- A mass meeting of women was of the Conference. Mr. Gibson pro­ sudaira, assured his hearers that his held on the morning of Lincoln’s posed on behalf of the United country would work for the success Birthday at St. Paul’s Caflhedral, States a nine point program, includ­ of the Conference. He specifically Bloston, as one unit in a world-wide ing the following: (1) Proportional advocated limiting the size of capi­ program for a day of special prayer. reduction of naval tonnage below tal ships and aircraft carriers. This world day of prayer is ob­ the figures laid down in the Wash­ From the foregoing, it will be served every year and links together ington and London Treaties; (2) seen that two general programs innumerable groups, small and the abolition >of submarines com­ have been laid before the Confer­ large, from the coldest points of pletely; (8) total abolition of lethal ence— the one sponsored by France Alaska to the hottest points of A f­ gases and bacteriological warfare; and Poland, providing for a compre­ rica. Fifty countries are repre­ and (4) special restrictions on hensive system of security through sented in the program. The leader tanks and heavy mobile guns, de­ mutual military aid, and the other, of the day’s program in Bloston was scribed as “ arms of a peculiarly sponsored by the United States, Miss Eva D. Corey, who is so well offensive character.” Mr. Gibson, Great Britain, Italy, and Germany, known throughout New England contrary to the position heretofore providing for the limitation of arma­ for her splendid work among women taken by the United States, stated ments particularly designed for and young people in the church. that the American delegation would offensive combat. It is expected be willing to consider placing a that other nations will take posi­ No one can tell where men’s definite limitation on military bud­ tions for or against these two meth­ clubs may flourish the best. Of gets. ods of achieving disarmament. course in a large city like Boston At three points the American Of particular interest to the peo­ the Episcopalian Club, which is the program, as outlined by Mr. Gibson, ple of our churches and to the pub­ diocesan club, always flourishes, as as far as it goes, coincides with the lic generally is the fact that on does also that of Trinity Church, position taken by many of the February sixth disarmament peti­ iso centrally located on Copley church bodies throughout the United tions containing the names of mil­ ¡Square. One of the most successful States, namely, the further reduc­ lions of people were presented to men’s clubs is one which is con­ tion of naval tonnages, the reduc­ the conference leaders by repre­ ducted by the Rev. Arthur Murray tion and limitation of military bud­ sentative© of the churches, schools, at St. John’s Church, North Adams. gets, and the abolition of poison women’s and youth groups, and It is now in its eleventh year. Each gas and disease germ warfare. business and labor organizations. week the club meets every Sunday morning for a series of talks and The French suggestion for an in­ If the official representatives of discussions of religion. This year ternational police force was the first the nations gathered at Geneva will the talks are being given by Mr. of the proposals to be laid before but listen to the voice of their re­ Grover C. Bowman, the superin­ the Conference. M. Andre Tardieu, spective peoples, as reflected in this tendent o f schools, and the subject the French War Minister, and head outpouring of public sentiment, of the French delegation, recom­ progress towards the disarmament is “ Religion as a Basis for Values.” G. M. D. mended that the nations create a goal will be swift and certain.

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time that the synod has met in this NEWS NOTES OF PLEASE missionary district. Bishop Perry THE CHURCH IN plans to be present and there will BRIEF PARAGRAPHS TF YO U are buying your copy of be reports on various phases of im­ A T he W itness at the Church portant provincial work. By W . B. Spofford each week, inquire if they are to * * * The diocese of Massachusetts, led be on sale after Easter. If they A t St. John the Baptist Church, by Bishop Henry Sherrill, has been are not to be, then send us your Brooklyn, the preacher at all the the first to respond to the call for name and address so that the Lenten services is to be the rector funds to make up the $400,000 de­ paper may be mailed to your of the parish, the Rev. John Lewis ficit to the National Council. Bishop home regularly. We will start Zacker. Had the merit of novelty Sherrill, a member of the National your subscription the week after at least. Council, -upon his return /to his dio­ Easter, sending you a statement cese after the meeting in New York later, at $2.00 a year. Buy your United Lenten services for the the first of this month, put the mat­ copy at the church if possible; ter squarely up to his clergy. He Episcopal Church in the “ hill zone” but since many bundles are of Brooklyn are being held, each told them of the need; told them ordered merely for the Lenten parish entertaining one week in that missionaries throughout the season, the paper may not be Lent. The preachers: Dean Fos- world had taken a cut in their sala­ available for you after Easter. broke of the General; Archdeacon ries of ten per cent; he reminded We are, of course, anxious to add them that they also were mission­ you to the thousands of Church Scott of Alaska; Rev. E. H. Foster aries and asked them if they did not people throughout the country of China; Rev. B. I. Bell; and Bish­ want to share in the sacrifice the who are regular readers of the op Stires. * * * missionaries were making. He asked paper. Incidentally the series them to reply by the fifteenth of on THE STORY OF THE The Young People’s Fellowship of February. On that day he was CHURCH, by Bishop Johnson, is St. Michael’s Cathedral, Boise, therefore able to write the Presid­ to continue for some weeks after Idaho, have taken on the responsi­ ing Bishop that $26,527 would be Easter. Won’t you please act on bility of publishing a parish paper, paid to the National Council, as a this suggestion? to come out twice a month. Nothing contribution to the deficit, from the like the courage of youth. salaries of the clergy of the diocese of Massachusetts. The offering is called the Brotherhood Fund. program for the conferences being An Episcopal service, said in a * * * held each Sunday evening during Presbyterian church, with the music The photograph on the cover this Lent in Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Sac­ by a vested Baptist choir, in the week depicts the centre window of ramento. Started out with Dea­ presence of a Methodist congregation a. group of three recently installed coness Newall of St. Margaret’s ...... who can beat that? The Rev. in Christ Church, Manhasset, Long House; Judge Thompson, who spoke Girault Jones has been pioneering in Island. The windows are treated in on “ George Washington the Chris­ the mission field of south Mississippi. full color and the richness of effect tian” ; Parent-Teacher Mrs. B. C. In Poplarville he found three Epis­ has been maintained throughout by Clark, who talked about children; copalians. He held a service for the judicious use of blues and reds. Lawyer J. W . S. Butler, who spoke them. It attracted others. The other The subject embracing the entire on churches in England; Pastor night they had the service described group is “Healing by Faith,” the Lawrence Wilson, who raised the above. There were 130 people keynote being the sending forth of question as to whether Russia can there, with but four of them Episco­ the disciples on their mission of survive without religion, and Su­ palians, including the priest. Next preaching and healing. The compo­ preme Court Chief Justice Waste, day “that service last night” was sition includes much symbolism and who is to wind up on March 20th the talk of the town. interesting details. It is the work with an address on “ Christianity the of Ernest W . Lakeman, whose work Underpinning of Our Social Struc­ may be seen in many churches ture.” Bishop Moreland is to pre­ A special service for the “institu­ throughout the country. Some of side at the last meeting. tion” of new vestrymen is used by his best work is in St. James and in the Rev. Theodore Ludlow, rector of the Holy Communion, South Orange, the Cathedral of St. John the Di­ Did you ever hear of Warren Bil­ vine in New York. N. J. All the vestrymen take part lings? You know, the man of in the service, renewing their alle­ * H« * Mooney and Billings fame. He was giance to their office. The Rev. William G. Ivie a couple visited the other day in prison of Sundays ago celebrated his 41st at Folsom, California, by Bishop anniversary as the rector of Grace Gooden. The Rev. Sherman Coolidge, one Church, Brooklyn. He ^ H* of our pioneer Indian clergy, who Hi Hi Hi carried the flag in the procession at St. Mark’s, Louisville, Kentucky, the opening service of the General Among the Lenten preachers at on Thursday evening in Lent is hav­ Convention in Denver, died recently. St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, are Bishop ing a series of services with preach­ He was a full blooded Arapahoe, Burleson, Chaplain Knox of Co­ ers from several denominations. A bom in 1862. His parents were lumbia and Professor Hatch of fine spirit of fellowship has arisen killed in an Indian war when he was Cambridge Seminary. among the different churches as a Hi Hi Hi a small boy and he was adopted by result of these services which have Army people whose name he took. The Rev. George H. Thomas, been held in other years. rector of St. Paul’s, Chicago, was Later he studied at Sha'ttuck, Sea- the preacher at the annual memorial bury and Hobart. He was ordained service for Bishop Charles P. Ander­ Council of the Province of the in 1885 and has been serving as a son, held in the Anderson Memorial Northwest met at All Saints’, Omaha, missionary to his people since then. Chapel of the Western Seminary, Nebraska, with plans for the synod Hi H« * Evanston, on February 24th. in the Fall being the most impor­ Bishop Cook of Delaware was the ♦ * * tant business before them. It is to guest of the archdeaconry of Har­ Prominent speakers are on the meet at Casper, Wyoming, the first risburg, held at St. John’s, Lancas-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 25, 1932 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven ter, Pennsylvania, February 3rd. destroyed. Other gifts include sev­ He preached at a well attended serv­ eral stained glass windows. The ice in the evening. Rev. John H. Lever is the rector. * * * H* *£• LITTLE Ground has been broken for a Up around Traverse Bay, in new parish house for St. Barnabas’, Michigan, twenty parsons came to­ Marshallton, Del. And who do you gether last Fall and organized a ministerial association. On Ash BOOKS suppose is doing the excavating— the Boy Scouts. One good turn a Wednesday, on invitation of the day? ^ | Rev. Edward S. Doan, Petoskey, The Personal Christ these pastors, including Methodists, By Bishop Johnson Presbyterians, Baptists, Congrega- To afford a fitting place for the tionalists and Evangelists, attended N ow 25c (formerly 50c) special services to be held during our service and received the Holy the George Washington Bi-centen­ Communion in a body. Never be­ History of the Church nial, the main floor of Washington fore has the Episcopal Church in ishop ohnson Cathedral will be opened for the first By B J time on Ascension Day, March 5, for that part of the country had such Now 20c (formerly 35c) permanent public worship. Services a service, and there is real en­ thusiasm over it. on the main floor will accommodate * ❖ * Evolution a seated congregation of 1,300, By Bishop Stewart One hundred Church school teach­ with provisions for hundreds more N ow 20c (formerly 35c) standing. This Ascension Day serv­ ers attended an institute held at St. Andrew’s, Albany, on the 14 th. ice will take place on the 20th an- Foundation Stones niversay of the beginning of daily There were teachers there from worship in the Bethlehem Chapel. parishes throughout the region of By Bishop A bbott * * * Albany. The Rev. John W . Suter Now 75c (formerly $1.25) Mrs. F. A. Habersham, Holly­ Jr. gave an address, as did also Miss Mildred Hewitt of the department wood, is making quite a hit in the Quest of the Sangreal of religious education of the Na­ south exhibiting movies of the By Irwin St. John Tucker tional Council. Mr. Suter is, as I Church’s work in China, Japan and Now 25c (formerly 50c) Alaska. Her most recent visits have presume you know, the boss of that department. been in, the diocese of Southwestern «iJ H» H» The Way of Life Virginia. She spoke in a number of places, arrangements having been Bishop McElwain of Minnesota By Bishop Johnson made by the Woman’s Auxiliary of held a quiet day for the clergy of Now 20c (formerly 35c) the diocese. the diocese on January 26th in the H» H* H» Church of St. John the Evangelist, Lenten Addresses St. Paul. The Rev. George P. Gunn has re­ * * * By Dean H igh Moor signed as rector of Moore Parish, Now 25c (formerly 50c) diocese of Southwestern Virginia, St. Stephen’s, Chicago, has some­ thing new in the way of quotas. to accept the rectorship of the Good Meaning of the Real Shepherd, Norfolk, Virginia. Instead of cash they are setting a * * # quota of souls. They set as their Presence goal 1,000 communicants in five By G. A. Studdert-K ennedy Noonday Lenten preachers for the interparochial services held in years, with 200 as their quota for A new edition of a tract Indianapolis are Bishop Francis, this year. This quota has been di­ which has been in great de­ vided up among the parish organiza­ Bishop Wise, Bishop Mikell, Bishop mand. Rogers, Dean S. E. Sweet, and Rev. tions. “ We believe we will be more 5c a copy. successful in preaching the King­ R. E;. Carr. * * * dom of God in terms of souls than American Shrines in in terms of money,” said the pastor, Unusual things have happened in England the Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker. Re­ New Bern, North Carolina. It is By A. Manby Llovd cently he presented a class of thirty- not so big, yet two dioceses were two candidates for confirmation— $1.25 a copy organized there; the diocese of and this in one of the smallest mis- North Carolina in 1817, and East • i • d sions m the city. Cushioned Pews Carolina in 1883. Also Bishop W at­ * * * By Bishop Johnson son was elected bishop here in 1883, and the claim is made that he is A stained glass window in honor Now 75c (formerly $1.75) the only bishop ever to have been of Dr. T. Tertius Noble for his fifty Forty of his editorials select­ elected unanimously in the history years of service as an organist is ed by a committee as being of the American Church. There is to be dedicated at St. Thomas’ his best. Fine for layreaders. to be a celebration there next year Church, New York, on Sunday. A t the same time he isi to be given the in connection with the diocesan CASH WITH ORDERS convention to commemorate the degree of Doctor of Music — the Golden Jubilee of the diocese. The Lambeth Degree, which is conferred PLEASE Rev. I. DeL. iBirayshaw, New Bern,, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Any books reviewed can be se­ is chairman of the program com­ Bishop Manning is to confer the cured from us at publishers honor, acting for the Archbishop. mittee. prices. * * * * * * They are to start at once on a W e are soon to have an article fine new church for All Saints’ par­ here in the series on “ The Chris­ ish, Worceister, Massachusetts, re­ tian W ay Out,” by the warden of WITNESS BOOKS cently destroyed by fire. A gift of St. Stephen’s College, the Rev. 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. $100,000 has been received for a Bernard Iddings B'ell. If it is any­ CHICAGO new chancel, and a new organ has way as interesting as the sermon also been given to replace the one he preached last Sunday at the

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Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, I am sure you will read it with mingled emotions. He said that the E r n e s t W . L a k e m a n World War marked the dramatic Designer and W orker in Stained Glass step in the progressive degenera­ 36-38 WEST TWENTY-FIFTH STREET tion of society and foreshadows the impending collapse of civilization. Opposite Trinity Chapel The decline of culture would not be NEW YORK, N. Y. ChurdiRimiture a continuous and ever-deepening twilight, but would be relieved by Pews, Pulpits, Chancel Furniture brief flashes of “ better times.” Sunday School Seating But each level of subsidence would be lower than the last until the final iGhePavjne Studios Inc American Seating Company breakdown of the social fabric and /•Stained ^ Gi la s s General O ffices: Grand Rapids. Michigan the descent of man to levels “ essen­ ÇttetnoriQ.ls ♦ •Ô'OO'O’O BRANCHES IN ALL | p t | PRINCIPAL CITIES tially animal.” Said he: “ A civ­ o Biterson-Rcw ¿Jersey © ilization led by politicians and bank­ ST. BARNABAS CHURCH ALTAR GUILD, ers deserves to perish and no doubt Eagle Rock, California, will.” Cheerful fellow, what? Yet offers palm crosses ten cents the dozen, prepaid. there is plenty pointing in that di­ rection. CATHEDRAL STUDIO, WASHINGTON, D. C. and London, England. Church embroider­ Edwin S. Gorham, Inc. ies, Altar and pulpit hangings, surplices. Bishop Wise of Kansas, preaching Publishers and Distributors Exquisite Altar Linens. Stoles with crosses in Chicago, has things to say about $f>.-50* up. Burse and Veil $10 up. Silk of Church Literature this so-called depression. “ Some damask cope, $80 up. Silk chasuble, $30 up. 18 West 45th Street, New York Silk Low Mass sets, $60 up. New Handbook people Have an idea that the way for Altar Guilds, 52c. *L. V. 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The true remedy desired. For further particulars address Sister-in-Charge, 30-34 Rohde Avenue. HALL ORGANS must be found elsewhere if we are to restore to man’s life a permanent have gained much prestige because of many outstanding Episcopal stability. We need to repent. Turn installations. around. Change our direction. We The Hall Organ Company are off the main highway and are floundering in the ditch. We need F O R EASTER West Haven, Conn. Prayer Books, Hymnals, Pew Books, to change our minds about the ma­ Litany Books, ..Missals, Bibles. terial facts of life that have en­ ALTAR BOOKS A grossed our interest and recreate SPECIALTY FOR THESE HARD TIMES, out of them some of the real values Lectern Bibles — A NEW RELIGIOUS NOVEL that we have lost, Against the prev­ Oxford, - Cambridge and Nelson editions. alent mealy-mouthed kind of super­ Gold Stamping Free The Macmillan Company of New York ficial religious philosophy we need to Liberal discount to the Clergy, issues a Biblical tale from the pen of face the truth afresh that the re­ Sisterhoods, Deaconesses, etc. Louis Wallis, “By the Waters of Baby­ BEAUTIFUL IMPORTED ligion of Jesus Christ still has teeth lon, A Story of Ancient Israel,” It is the EASTER CARDS, 5e UP in it.” first novel based on Scriptural “higher * * # Send for circular 28 criticism,” and is warmly commended for Consult us on your Church .or Church historical and scientific accuracy by Bishop Stewart, speaking at a School needs and take advantage theological scholars. The plot is cast in meeting of the Camp Houghteling of our discounts. a dramatic period of Israel’s' history, Forum, presided over- by Mr. W il­ TheReddingMasonicSupplyCo.,inc. when ethical monotheism was evolving liam F. Pelham, said that Gandhi, 9 West 23rd St. New York, N. Y. out of paganism through a great struggle Kagawa and Ramsey MacDonald for social justice. In T he Living were leaders who were to be the sal­ Church, Dr. John H. Hopkins writes, vation of the world. Now if some­ “This brilliant book is a most helpful thing can be done to get these three addition to our libraries.” together to straighten out affairs in The author, whose earlier volume, Washington Cathedral the countries where they are leading “Sociological Study of the Bible,” is a I Ï A Witness for Christ in the Capital of the Natiot standard work, says, “The Bible should — India, Japan and England— some­ be re-examined as a literature coming thing might really be accomplished. HE CHAPTER appeals to Churchmen through« Find a good Chinaman to sit in with out the country for gifts, large and small, to out of hard times, which raises the prob­ continue the work of* building now proceeding, and lem of social justice and world peace. them might be an idea, too. to maintain its work. Missionary, Educational, Chari­ The Scriptural conception of one true table, for the benefit of the" whole Church. God entered the human mind as a revela­ The Rev. Romilly F. Humphries, Chartered under Act of Congress. Administered by -a representative Board of Trustees tion taking form through the pressure archdeacon of Baltimore in charge of leading business men. Clergymen and Bishops. of economic and sociological forces of the city mission work, died on Full information will be given by the * Bishop of identical in nature with the forces which Washington, or-th e Dean, Cathedral , Offices, Mount February 12th. He became ill while Saint Alban, Washington, D. C., who will receive and are now influencing religious thought.” preaching on Wednesday, the 10th, acknowledge all contributions. By the Waters of Babylon, by Louis and collapsed. He insisted upon fin­ Wallis, can be had from all booksellers, I Legal Title for Use in Making Wills: ishing his sermon upon being re­ or from the Macmillan Company, New THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL York City, for $2.00.—Advt. vived. His illness was later attrib­ FOUNDATION OF THÉ DISTRICT OF uted to a heart attack. Dr. COLOMBIA

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Humphries was a graduate of Trin­ was slated to be closed due to the father, the Rev. Charles Machin, was ity College, the Cambridge and drastic budget reductions of the di­ the pastor of this Presbyterian Union Seminaries, and was the ocese. The vestry of S't. Gabriel’s, Church ninety years ago. * * * rector of Grace and St. Peter’s, Hollis, met and voted to adopt the Baltimore, from 1912 to 1919. mission rather than see it close. Says I never could quite figure out why the rector of St. Gabriel’s, the Rev. the Federal Council of Churches The preachers at the noonday F. L. Barry: “We are trying to re­ should list those states which have services at Christ Church Cathedral, turn some of the blessings bestowed been free from lynching for a year St. Louis, during Lent: W . Russell upon our parish when it was a mis­ and send it out as an “ Honor Roll” . Bowie, Bishop Cross, Bishop Scar­ sion of the Cathedral.” One hardly expects to be honored lett, Bernard C. Clausen, Baptist Now if someone will only adopt merely because he passes through a pastor of Syracuse, N. Y., Karl Japan, China, Alaska, Mexico and a year without killing a fellow human Reiland, James Endieott, United few other places I know a lot of being. Anyhow the 1931 list of Church of Canada. people who would play a better game honor states has been compiled and of golf. there are thirty-nine of them— states Thousands of Church people have * * * in which there were no lynchings. signed the “ Declaration of An Many improvements have been There are five states that never have American Citizen,” which appeared made recently in the R. E. Lee had a lynching; Connecticut, Massa­ in religious weeklies throughout the Memorial Church, Lexington, Virginia chusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode country in January. You will find — new altar, new lighting, remodelled Island, Vermont. Maine has no it in the January 28th issue of this organ, paint inside and out and record of having had one since 1886. paper. If you have not signed it, numerous other things. Incidentally Maybe there is something to that and care to do so, please do so at the rector, the Rev.. Vincent C. New England Puritanism after all. once, as the signatures are soon to * * =H Franks, recently received a letter be sent to government officials in address— to “ The Rev, Robert E. The Rev. William Sheafe Chase, Washington." % «K * Lee.” , - stormy crusader of Brooklyn, has re­ H* H* signed as rector of Christ Church. Chicago reports record breaking The Rev. James F. Root, rector of He is seventy-four years of age, but attendance for their noonday Lenten St. Luke’s, Utica, N. Y ., was the he is not resigning in order to rest. services being held at the Garrick preacher at the celebration of the Rather he is to devote more time to Theatre under the auspices of the centennial of the Presbyterian Church a reform association of which he is Brotherhood of St. Andrew. the head, fighting booze, jazz, prize­ * * * at Oneida Castle. There is a reason he was invited; his great grand­ fights, gambling, birth control, and St. Margaret’s, Chicago, has been awarded the honor shield of the dio­ cesan young people’s association, awarded for constructive work dur­ Dom estic ing the past year. These young Our Mission to the fo r Lenten Services Isolated (through folks turned in more than 2,500 correspondence) pieces of clothing for the poor of Our Work Among the city. The Rev. Hugh J. Spencer the Indians is the rector of the parish. LANTERN SLIDE Our Work Among * * * the Negroes Our Work Among St. Bartholomew’s, Brooklyn, de­ the Southern liberately went after the younger LECTURES Mountaineers clergy of the diocese this year for their Lenten preachers: Rev. J. S. T L L U S T R A T E D lectures on Extra- Haight of Hemstead; Rev. F. L. Bar­ missionary and educational Continental ry of Hollis; Rev. S. G. Sherwood of Alaska, Hawaii, activities are available for par­ Philippines, _ Porto Rockville Centre; Rev. A. R. McKech- Rico, Virgin Is­ nie of Great Neck and Rev. G. T. ish use at nominal cost through lands. Gruman of Brooklyn. the Lantern Slide Bureau of • * * * Foreign St. Martin’s. Mission, Long Island, the National Council. Beauti­ China, Cuba, India, Japan, Liberia, fully colored slides are supplied Mexico with lecture reading for each subject. Other titles are avail­ Church History Six Lectures. From tiumtt S>. (fuirlrant able. Correspondence is invited. Apostolic times to the present day. Jttr. ESTABLISHED 1900 Bible Subjects Publishers, Booksellers, RENTAL CHARGE Old and New Testa­ distributors of Religious ment (no lecture $2.00 notes) Literature and Art, also FOR EACH LECTURE Religious Easter Cards, (Plus transportation) N on-Chr is tian Bibles, Prayer Books Religions and Hymnals. Prompt Mohammedanism, Buddhism - attention given to mail " orders. Lantern Slide Bureau From Damascus C h u r c h M i s s i o n s H o u s e to Bethlehem New Slides with rjt «JlWHiiiaiUliiq IJUIUIIIIIIUI III* ; 281 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. lecture c 18 W* t 4-5* Stmt, KY.

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ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE moving pictures which he considers SUp (general (ideological (Columbia University) unfit for the rest of us to see. The A College of Arts, Letters and Sciences parish he is leaving is in a bad way &?mttrarg infinitely and officially of the Episcopal financially and there has been talk of Three-year undergraduate course of pre­ Church but with no ecclesiastical restrictions scribed and elective study. in the _ selection o f its student body; incorpo­ its closing, but the senior warden Fourth-year course for graduates, offering rated into the educational system of Colum­ stated the other day that they hoped larger opportunity for specialization. bia University and conferring the University Provision for more advanced work, leading iegree. to take care of the $5000 debt very to degrees of S.T.M. and S.T.D. It combines the advantages of University soon. education with small college simplicity and •I* $ T ADDRESS in expensi veness. THE DEAN The College founded in 1860, is equipped to Bishop Jett, worn out, is taking a teach men who, after graduation, are going 4 Chelsea Square New York City into business or into post-graduate schools of rest during February. He and Mrs. For Catalogue Address the Dean medicine, law, journalism or theology, or into Jett left the bishop’s residence of the classical, scientific, social or literary research. The fees are': For tuition, $360 a year; for diocese of Southwestern Virginia on Episcopal Theological School furnished room, $150 a year; for board in January 26th “for parts unknown.” CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS ball, $300 a year. There are some competi­ * * * tive scholarships and a few bursaries for men Affiliation with Harvard University offer» contemplating Holy Orders. The ninth annual service in behalf unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as Address: Bernard Iddings Bell, Litt.D., philosophy, psychology, history, of the work of Holy Comforter sociology, etc. Warden House, Brooklyn, was held at Holy For Catalogue Address the Dean ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. (R. R. Station: Barrytown) Trinity this year, the work receiving the enthusiastic endorsement of the Berkeley Divinity TRINITY COLLEGE rector of the parish, the Rev. J. Howard Melish. There was also read Hartford, Conn. School a message from Bishop Stires who New Haven, Connecticut Offers a general cultural education, wit was prevented by illness from attend­ ■pecial emphasis on the 'Classics, Modern Affiliated with Yale University Languages, English, Economics, History, Phii ing. The mission is located in a large Address DEAN W. P. LADD osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and PhysicB, Jewish district of Brooklyn, and 80 Sachem Street Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. For information apply, The Dean. ministers chiefly to them. The Rev. Harry G. Greenberg has been in DIVINITY SCHOOL IN charge of the work since it was PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL founded. Undergraduate and Graduate Courses in New York, Sisters of St. Mary (Episco­ Privileges at University of Pennsylvanit pal), 405 W. 34th Street. Accredited School of Nursing, two years and eight months. A “ Tommy Tucker Chorus” has Address: Major subject children. Adult and maternity been organized among the unemployed DEAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Streetr nursing in affiliated hospitals. Single rooms. Full maintenance and allowance. Write for men being sheltered and fed by the booklet. diocese of Rhode Island. Each day SEABURY- CARLETON before the meal provided by one of THEOLOGY LIBERAL ARTS KEMPER HALL the six cooperating parishes the men Best Training — Minimum Cost enliven the proceedings by singing For information and catalogue write KENOSHA, WISCONSIN for their supper, as Tommy did, ac­ RT. REV. STEPHEN E. KEELER, D.D. Under the care of the Sisters of Saint Acting Dean Mary. An Episcopal school for girls on companied by a jazz band made up of Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn. North Shore of Lake Michigan, one hour students from Brown University. from Chicago. College Preparatory and gen- »ral courses. Music, Art, Domestic Science. Between 150 and 200 men are fed The Protestant Episcopal Outdoor and Indoor Sports. Address, The Sis­ each day at the parish house of the ter Superior. cathedral. Theological Seminary in Virginie For catalogue and other information address the Dean Virginia Episcopal School Lenten preachers at Grace Church, Hopkinsville, Kentucky; Rev. C. G. REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. Lynchburg, Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria, Vs. Leavell, Bowling Green; Rev. C. F. Prepares boys for college and university. Splendid environment and excellent corps of Wulf, Madisonville; Rev. A. E. Whit­ teachers. High standard in scholarship and tle, Clarksville, Tennessee; Rev. athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in SAINT MARY’S Curtis Fletcher, Paducah; Rev. Har­ the mountains of Virginia. Charges excep­ RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA tionally low. For catalogue apply to Rev. old O. Boon, Owensboro; Rev. H. Oscar deWolf Randolph, Rector. Campbell Dixon, Louisville. Episcopal for Girls. High School and two years College. Academic Courses Fully Ac­ credited Southern Association. Departments: HARVARD SCHOOL They have so many special Lenten Art, Business, Expression, Home Economics, Los Angeles, California preachers at Trinity Church, Toledo, Music. A school for boys under the auspices of that it would take a column to list Catalogue and View Book upon Request the Episcopal Church. Fully accredited. It. O. T. C. Outdoor sports in a fine cli­ them all. There is a special preacher CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS mate. For all information, address the Rev. for each Sunday Evening and also Orlando, Florida Harold H. Kelley, Headmaster. for Noonday preachers. A fully accredited Church boarding school * * * situated in the lovely lake region of central ST. M A R Y ’S SCHOOL Florida. Established by Bishop Gray in 1900. MOUNT ST. GABRIEL There are several Church Army Outdoor classes and sports. Supervised ath­ letics. Primary through college preparatory. Peekskill-on-Hudson workers in Hawaii, with a couple of BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Music and art. An altogether glorious place Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. more now on the way there. They for a girl to spend the winter. Moderate College preparatory and General courses. New are having open air meetings, Sunday rates. The Rt. Rev. Cameron Mann, D.D., modern fireproof buildings. Extensive recrea­ L.L.D., President. tion grounds. Separate attention given to services of course and weekday lan­ Mrs. Alice Bartlett Stoddard, Principal roung children. For catalog address THE tern lectures. They are doing a con­ Box 33, Orlando, Fla. SISTER SUPERIOR. siderable amount of work with the The School of Orientals. HOBART COLLEGE NURSING GENEVA, N. Y. HOSPITAL OF ST. BARNABAS Bishop Robert of South Dakota Newark, N. J. A Church college for men, founded 1822. Fully Accredited School and Hospital. isn’t so much for pacts and treaties, Four year liberal arts course, leading to the High School graduates accepted. and told the Woman’s Auxiliary of degrees A.B. and B.S. High Standards; Classes entering February. Enroll now. faculty of forty. For catalogues and infor­ Rhode Island just that the other day. mation address OrRECTOR, SCHOOL OF NURSING “ Pacts and treaties for peace will do REV. MURRAY BARTLETT, D.D., Preo.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 25, 1932 T H E WITNESS Page Fifteen little good. Our nation signed many Newton; Rev. T. A. Bridges of tically every nation of the world rep­ pacts and treaties with the Indians Brookline and the Rev. Edward S. resented. In Boston, under the aus­ but we broke every one of them.” Drown of Cambridge. pices of the Greater Boston Federa­ He implied that we would be just as * * tion of Churches, a great mass meet­ quick to break treaties with other Bishop Scarlett of Missouri is to be ing was held in historic Fanuel Hall. nations. He described as a scourge the preacher at the fifth of seven The Roman Church also had a special the habit many Indians have acquired Episcopal Church Broadcasts on Feb­ peace service at the Cathedral of of chewing and smoking peota, a bean ruary 28. He is to broadcast from St. the Holy Cress, Boston, and the imported from Mexico and a power­ Louis on a nation-wide hook-up. Time largest synagogue also held a peace ful drug. But the effort to stamp 10 o’clock, eastern time. Jot it down. service. Thus were the religious out the evil has been seriously handi­ •È* H* H» forces of the city rallied to give their capped by the fact that the white Ministers throughout the country support to the conference. man demands liberty to break any gave special recognition, by prayer * * * law he does not like— prohibition for and sermons, to the world disarma­ The Name of our Lord had never instance. been heard, eighteen years ago, in the * * * ment conference which opened on February 2nd in Geneva, with prac- little jungle village of Ta-I among Albany, New York, parishes com­ bine for noonday Lenten services, held at old St. Peter’s. Preachers, Bishop Oldham, and the Rev. Messrs. E. T. Carroll, W . E. Tanner, Luke Services of Leading Churches M. White, E. C. Earp, Charles Town­ send, Edwin J. van Etten, Percy T. I Cathedral of St. John the Divine Gethsemane, Minneapolis Edrop. Then on Thursday evenings New York City Rev. Austin Pardue there are services at St. Paul’s, with Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. 4th Ave. South at 9th St. the following preachers; Dean Edrop, Sundays: Holy Communion, 8, 9, 9 Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 and 7:45. (French) ; Children’s Service, 9:30 A. M .; Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. Bernard Iddings Bell, Remsen B. Morning Prayer or Litany, 10 A. M.; Ogilby and Nelson M. Burroughs. Morning Prayer, Holy Communion and Grace Church, Chicago Sermon, 11 A. M .; Evening Prayer, 4 (St. Luke’s Hospital Chapel) * * * P. M. Rev. Wm. Turton Travis St. John’s and Trinity, Waterbury, Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7 :30 A.M. 1450 Indiana Ave. (Saints’ Days. 10:15) ; Morning Prayer, Sundays: 8, 11 A. M. and 7 :30 P. M. Connecticut, combine for special mid­ 10 A. M. ; Evening Prayer, 5 P. M. Week Days: 6 :40 A. M. except Monday. week Lenten services, alternating: (Choral). Holy Days: 10 :30. the preachers are the Rev. G. C. St. The Incarnation John of Choate School; the Rev. Fr. Madison Avenue and 35th Street St. Stephen’s, Chicago Joseph of the Order of St. Francis; Rector The Little Church at the End of the Road Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D., LL.D. 3533 N. Albany Avenue the Rev. Leslie Glenn of Cambridge; Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M. ; 4 P. M. Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker the Rev. W . M. V. Hoffman of the Daily: 12:20. 11 A. M. 4:30 P. M. Order of St. John the Evangelist; Trinity Church, New York the Rev. Percy Kammerer of Avon Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, S.T.D. St. Luke’s, Evanston School and the Rev. Howard Perkins Broadway and Wall St. Charles E. McAllister, D.D. of New Haven. Sundays: 8, 9, 11, and 3 :30. Sundays: 7 :30, 8 :15, 11 and 4 :30. Daily: 7 :15, 12 and 3. Daily: 7 :30 and 5. From Chicago off at Main, one block east and one north. The Rev. H. Howard Barber of The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Augusta left on January 24th for a Disciple, New York Rev. Henry Darlington, D.Di Christ Church, Cincinnati ten weeks trip to the Holy Land. The Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Rev. Frank H. Nelson Rev. S. B. McGlohon, retired, of Sundays: Holy Communion, 8;00 a. m., Rev. Bernard W. Hummel Savannah, Ga., is in charge of the Church School 9:30 a. m., Morning Serv­ Sundays: 8 :45, 11 A. M. and 5 P. M. ice and Sermon 11:00 a. m., Vespers 4 :00 Holy Days: Holy Communion, 10 A. M. parish during his absence. p. m., Evening Prayer 8 :00 p. m. * * * Saints’ Days and Holy Days: Holy Communion 10:00 a. m. Church of the Advent, Boston There was a report out that an Mt. Vernon and Brimmer Sts. Little Church Around the Corner Rev. Julian D. Hamlin anonymous gift of $100,000 had been Sundays: Holy Communion, 7 :30 and made to the General Theological T ransfiguration 8 :15 A. M. ; Young People’s Mass, 9 Seminary. The secretary of the alum­ 1 East 29th Street A. M .; Church School, 9:30 A. M .; Rev. Randolph Ray, D.D., Rector Matins, 10 A. M .; Solemn High Mass and ni association, the Rev. Francis H. Communions, 8 and 9 (Daily 7:30). Sermon, 10:30 A. M .; Solemn Evensong Richey now reports that no confirma­ 11—Missa Cantata— Sermon ; 4—Vespers. and Sermon, 7:30 P. M. tion of such a gift has been received. Week Days: Matins 7:15 A. M .; Mass Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights 7 :30. Evensong 5 P. M .; additional Mass * * * Rev. George P. Atwater, D.D. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 A. M. Hicks St., near Remsen, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rev. Clarence S. McClellan Jr., Sundays: 8 A. M., 11 A. M., 4 :30 P. M. rector at Fletcher, North Carolina, Church School: 9 :45 A. M. St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California has accepted a call to be the rector Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street Grace Church, New York Near the University of California at Falls Church, Virginia. The par­ Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Sundays: 7 :30, 11 A. M .; 7 :45 P. M. ish at Falls Church, located near Broadway at 10th St. Tuesdays: 10 A. M. Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Washington, once had George Wash­ Daily: 12:30, except Saturday. ington as a vestryman, so you may Holy Days and Thursday: Holy Com­ St. James, Philadelphia be sure elaborate plans are being munion, 11:45. Rev. John Mockridge made this bicentennial year to let the 22nd and Walnut Sts. Grace and St. Peter’s Church Sundays: .8, 11, and 8. world know all about it. Baltimore, Md. Daily: 7 :30, 9, and 6. ^ ^ ^ (Park Avenue and Monument Street) Holy Days and Thursdays: 10. The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers Lenten preachers at St. John’s, The Rev. Harold F. Hohly Charlestown, at the foot of Bunker Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 A. M .; 8 P. M. St. Mark’ s, Milwaukee Rev. E. Reginald Williams Hill, Massachusetts: Rev. A. O. Phin- Week Days: 8 A. M. Hackett Ave. and Belleview Place ney of Lynn; Rev. C. L. Bennett of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11. Milton; Rev. B. M. Washburn of Sundays : 8, 11 and 4. Gamma Kappa Delta: 6 P. M. Boston; Rev. T. C. Campbell of Ja­ Daily: 10:30. Holy Days: 10 A. M. maica Plain; Rev. R. G. Preston of

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