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T he Ministry An Editorial by BISHOP WILSON N T H E June issue of the Reader’s Digest is an ar 5. Restricted self-expression—haunted by fear of I ticle (reprinted from The Forum) written by a what his people will say about him. That sounds like clergyman entitled “ I Don’t Want My Son to Be a a politician playing up to the public for votes. Anyone Minister.” Seven reasons are cited for the “ don’t in public position is bound to be criticized by someone. want.” The curious feature about it is that thru the I believe there is less of that surrounding the ministry entire article there is not a single mention of spiritual today than ever before. values. It is all social, economic, and personal. With 6. Small salary—limited income. True enough. No very few changes the article might just as well be man ever enters the ministry to make money. Some entitled “ I Don’t Want My Son to Be a School are scandalously underpaid—often to a point which Teacher or a Social Worker.” What about the privi ought to make the layman’s conscience writhe. But lege of administering sacraments, of developing and God save the Church, indeed, if the ministry were guiding the spiritual faculties of people, of training ever opened up as a field for financial exploitation. children to a knowledge of God, of bearing witness 7. Impoverished old age. Who would dare apply to Christ? The Apostles would not even recognize that peculiarly to the ministry? How many business a Christian ministry in the whole article. It is a sad men are free from a like prospect? Look at the reports collection of trivialities. of the Church Pension Fund and see how the Church i. Utter loneliness of the ministry. The minister is setting an example in this respect to the whole busi has a flock but no intimate friends for fear of being ness life of the country. exclusive. And people never give him a chance to In modern society any business or profession has talk or think about anything but religion. All of its difficulties and its hazards. The clergyman is, or which is absurd. In twenty-five years as priest and should be, concerned with eternal values. The above bishop I have always had warm intimate friends with objections are ephemeral beyond words. Look hard out neglecting others and have never found any objec at financial ambition, petty gossip, and tiresome rou tors. I often spend an evening at bridge with them or tine—and you get the blind staggers. Look at Christ a day on a trout stream without any clerical formali —and that is something else again. ties. Conversation runs the normal gamut of politics, travel, or personal anecdote. Superficial piety need never be a burden. 2. He wants a home where he can return for peace and relaxation instead of perpetual interruptions to his Avoid Anarchy family life. This might just as well be said of the An Editorial by family physician or the school teacher in a smaller BISHOP JOHNSON community. Sometimes it is irritating but if the minis N T H E W IT N E SS of May 31st was printed the ter has a sense of Christian service, he finds it packed with opportunities. I following statement: “ I was walking down a side 3. The petty and trifling things with which he must be street in New York the other day and I saw chalked concerned. Ask the merchant about that, as he strug upon the side of a building in huge letters this mes gles to pacify unreasonable customers. Ask the land sage, ‘They won’t let us work for it. They won’t give lord about his ever-demanding tenants. Ask the con it to us. The only thing left to do is to take it.’ ” The gressman about the ridiculous letters that crowd his writer goes on to say that he can’t find anything the desk. That’s not the ministry—it is human nature, to matter with the logic of the statement. be dealt with patiently because God loves people even As usual in such Cases the fallacy lies in the rfiajor when they are queer. premise. Who are “ they ?” Does it refer to the Cap 4. The Church has need for laymen of strong and italists who refuse to employ men because there is no courageous faith. This is the most valid of all the rea demand for goods? Does it refer to the labor unions sons noted. But the Church also needs clergymen of who will not let any man work unless he is a mem vision, spiritual devotion, and Christian perseverance ber? Does it refer to the administration which is which will not be dismayed by trifles. sweating blood in an effort to create employment?

Does it refer to the millions of men, women and chil Gilbert Chesterton and Alfred Noyes have become dren who . are helpless to remedy a situation which they Roman Catholics if the Anglican Communion had ac did not create? cepted them with joy and put them really to work, as And what is the conclusion? Manifestly that if literary laymen, doing creative service to our Church? ■‘they take it” there will be an era in which they and Possibly they would, but possibly not. Just possibly we will have plenty, or else they will destroy the ma they felt there was no room for a genius in the Angli chinery by which four-fifths. of the population are can Churches. Let us thank God that there is more earning their living and the other fifth are kept alive by room for such persons than was once the case. the dole. The fallacy in the logic is the assertion that there are persons who could remedy the situation if they would and that by substituting chaos for order everybody Hearts and Spades would be employed and nobody would starve, whereas the direct opposite is the case. By If the- Unemployed were to “ take it” everybody CAPTAIN B. FRANK MOUNTFORD would be unemployed, many would starve and there Church Army would be nothing left to take. T W IL L be a great day for the Church when her It is true that it is distressing to be without food I laity consider themselves to be the normal Church or the means of securing it, but to fix the blame for Extension Society. such a situation is what is baffling the best minds in It should be the primary duty of the laity in every the world. The answer is not to be found in anarchy. parish to co-operate with the Incumbent in the initia tion, conduct and development of church work, both within the parish and outside, and particularly should they be concerned about such church-less areas as are to be found in many of our counties. Casual Comment But most of us are not really anxious about these By “ other sheep.” There have been, and are, glorious ex BERNARD IDDINGS BELL ceptions of course. Such was that missionary-hearted, R. T. S. Eliot, that poet and master of prose style pioneering layman of Tarboro, N. C., the late Mr. Mwho has long so ably edited the Criterion Maga Nash; and others could readily be named. zine in London—born in St. Louis and educated at Har The tendency of the laity to imagine that aggressive vard before he migrated to Oxford and an English ca evangelism is the task of Generals and Colonels in the reer—has written a poetic pageant drama called “ The Army of God, is to be viewed with apprehension. Rock,” which was produced early in June at the Sadler’s It was not thus that the early Church made its ad Wells Theatre in London and, in the opinion of critics, vance. The men in the ranks must be willing in the thereby greatly advanced the development of con day of God’s Call. temporary poetic drama. The work is deeply religious Every man a missionary of sorts, must be our aim. and deals with the building of the Church (which is But sparetime missionaries and lay-pastors cannot be the rock amid the shifting sands of modern vapidity). produced automatically. The clergy must give us a It was produced under the patronage of the Bishop of chance, must teach us how to fulfill our obligations to London. Dr. Martin Shaw wrote the incidental music. the regions beyond the parish. The laity, the male- The success of this liturgical drama of today, with communicants, have been called and chosen (it is char its medieval beauty and its ultra-modern atmosphere, itably assumed), by the Holy Spirit, and by that same reminds me of the amusing desertion of Mr. Eliot by power, can be equipped for service, no less than our his admiring agnostic friends, when he came out of the leaders the clergy. bewildered despair in which he wrote “ The Waste The gifts of the Holy Spirit are bestowed upon the land,” accepted Anglo-Catholicism and became an en laity, as upon the clergy, in order that we may have thusiastic member of the Church of England. When power and courage to bear our witness to Christ. he was content to be a disillusioned cynic and nothing The witness of the laity is absolutely vital, for there more, all the chaps who cry aloud that Christianity is are lots of men and women who can only be won for dead and even decency decadent sang his praises until Christ, by the laity. one might suppose they thought him the greatest genius There ought to be in most county centers, and in of our age. But Mr. Eliot has a mind. He would not other places too, a small group of men, average, but stop as they did with negations. He worked his way, enthused men (“ enthusiasm” really means—having logically and inevitably, to Christ and the Catholic God inside), working men, business and professional faith. Then all these literary cynics turned on him men who know their Lord, men in whom are the foun with disgust and even with venom. The New Republic tains of life; men who have had simple training at discovered he was shallow ; the Nation mourned his their rector’s hands; in leadership, in approaching men, bourgeois degeneration. It was all very funny. Of in conducting informal services and making articulate course Mr. Eliot did not mind in the least. their own faith. And another thing thiè brings to mind, namely that There would be no need to sound the “ Alarm” , if apparently our Church is now more ready to use its the laity were men of vision. “ Advance” would be literary geniuses than it was a few years back. Would our word.

A COLONY OF ENGLISH CUT-STONE COTTAGES LOCATED ON THE WEST PARK ESTATE Where the Smaller Boys Were Billetted Last Summer for Fresh Air Periods

W iltwyck—A N ew Country Institution By ELIZABETH B. CANADAY U ST a year ago last month it was announced that Located among scenes of great natural beauty, it pre J a great estate at West Park on the Hudson, for sents possibilities not only for physical restoration but merly owned by the late Col. Oliver Hazard Payne, mental and spiritual convalescence as well. had been presented, through Bishop William T. That these possibilities are rapidly being realized, Manning, by Mr. Harry Payne Bingham, nephew of may be judged from the report. the late owner, to the New York Protestant Episcopal When the estate was accepted, states the report, it City Mission Society. had been idle for twelve years. While its buildings This month the Society is rendering its report of were in good condition for the most part, there were the first year’s service accomplished toward its relief certain adaptations necessary for dormitory purposes; program through the acquisition of this great holding. certain repairs to be made in electricity and plumbing; Incidentally, the report announces that the West Park much to be done in gardens and farmland and park. estate is from now on to be known as “Wiltwyck,” Within a short time after the estate was given, the a name given to the territory near Kingston by Peter Society had sent to West Park unemployed carpen Stuyvesant in the days of the early Dutch settlements. ters, plumbers, painters, masons, electricians and gar deners, as well as unskilled men in need of out-door This report of projects undertaken at West Park work-exper ien ce. records a concrete effort toward relief that is con Many of the men sent up during the summer had structive as well as ameliorative. been too weakened physically from months of priva Coming at a time when social workers throughout tion to do anything but light work. But there were the city were feeling desperately the need for rehabil others, many of them skilled in their trades, who itation facilities for unemployed men and boys, the needed only the mental rest of having work to do. gift was a veritable answer to prayer. All turned to the task of making the finely con Wiltwyck comprises over 500 acres of farmland, vir structed farm buildings and the beautiful little colony gin forest and landscaped grounds. There is a spa of English stone cottages ready for occupancy, and of cious mansion and over twenty accessory residences, preparing the vegetable gardens. The skilled trained shops and farm buildings, all modernly equipped. As the unskilled. a center for work-relief, work-training, convalescent On July first, 200 boys, ranging in age from eight care and Fresh Air camps for men and boys, it could to sixteen, arrived in the first, summer party from the scarcely have been better equipped, h^d it been hot streets of the city, to spend two weeks in the two planned for this purpose. Fresh Air camps.

Throughout the summer, the men in the work-relief boys in their late ’teens and young men who are re groups continued to equip other buildings for winter ceiving training. With these there will be a sprinkling use. of men for whose families we are caring and who are As a result of their work, it was possible in the fall receiving work-relief. to establish a convalescent department for men and to “All this program depends on the income available. take groups of older unemployed boys and men for We are trying to save boys and men to decent living, training in various trades and vocations in which they at a time when the economic situation is depressing were especially interested. their spirits and forcing them to idleness.” With the beginning of January, more careful in struction was established. Now there are regular classes where are taught the fundamentals of carpentry, farm machinery, electrical trades, farming, plumbing The Church and the Negro and gardening, as well as the care of trees and auto mobile repair. By w i l l i a m McDo w e l l Surveying the year as a whole, approximately 1,300 boys and men have received this healing country ex The Bishop of Alabama perience at Wiltwyck. Of these about 600 boys, most H A V E a serious concern for our Negro work. of them under-nourished or convalescent from severe I With the exception of the American Church Insti illness, have found health and “ a more abundant life.” tute, the work of the Episcopal Church among Negroes During the summer the daily average census in the all over our land is disgracefully inadequate. Most of camps and in the work groups was 300. Throughout it is subsidized from missionary funds. In theory, all the wintertime it has averaged 100. Nearly 200 men races and classes of people find their home within the who had just left hospitals where the City Mission So Church; all have equal access to her sacraments, wor ciety maintains its chaplains, or who came from Epis ship and work and share responsibility for spreading copal families under the care of the organization, have the Gospel, and their rights of membership are sacred been re-strengthened or re-established in the work- ly guarded. In the laws of the diocese of Alabama habit, and as a result have been able to return from there is no mention of race or class, but high and low, West Park to find work. About 200 younger men, rich and poor, white and Negro and Indian, are looked from seventeen to twenty-two years of age, have been on as God’s children and therefore of God’s family the learning the fundamentals of some trade, when they Church. Yet our Negro work does not thrive. There would otherwise have spent these past months in idle are many reasons for this on both sides which require ness. time and patience to work out, but there is one reason that must be mentioned and that can be helped; most “ For many people today it is not privation so much of our people are indifferent to our work among as idleness which carries the real curse,” states the Rev. Negroes, and some are hostile. A fair and thoughtful Dr. L. Ernest Sunderland, superintendent of the City consideration would bring understanding and sympa Mission Society. thy instead. “ Many of the men chosen to he sent to West Park The white and Negro races live side by side in had been forced to live in idleness for months or even Alabama; what affects one affects the other. The years. Trained hands were losing their cunning, and Anglo-Saxon owes all he has to the Gospel of Christ, younger men scarcely knew what it was to be employed. which found him an ignorant barbarian and made The latter know now as they did not before what is him a man of worth. The Gospel can do the same for involved in being a carpenter, machinist, an electrician the Negro or for any other who accepts it fully. It is or a farmer. They know what it is to do a good day’s the duty of the Church of the Anglo-Saxon to give work. They understand the pleasure of a job well the full Gospel to the man whom he brought from done. Africa to work in his home and field and factory, and “ Subsistence farming is being talked of as an im who constitutes his greatest missionary opportunity. portant aid to self-help for able-bodied men, but the It is the Church’s duty to help the Negro assimilate city-trained man or boy knows little of life in the coun this Gospel through the same long process of genera try. If he could learn gardening, the care of chickens tions trying to attain the Christian way of living, as and pigs, how to cut trees, use carpenter’s tools, paint, the history of the Church of England shows. The mix cement, repair automobiles—in short, to live off Church can give training for character to the leaders the land—he could practice at least partial subsistence in this struggle to give moral stability to the great activities for self and family, if he had only part-time masses of their race, and it can support those leaders employment in some other income-paying activity. We with understanding and counsel in their difficult and hope to train city boys to just such activity at Wilt discouraging task. , wyck. When false friends try to lead the Negro astray, it “ As this article goes to press, plans are being made is the Church’s business to combat these misleaders and for this summer. Beginning July first, we expect to to support the better element in their efforts to stay in have a population at Wiltwyck that will average over the right path. It can help to overcome ignorance and 300 each day. These will include nearly 200 boys in misunderstanding with fact, and to answer bigotry and the Fresh Air camps, 75 convalescents, and about 60 prejudice with the affirmations of Christian principle.

It must stand for the same right to justice before the religion in their home and business contacts with Ne law, to life and property and decent living conditions, groes, by protecting the weak against injustice and to respect for character achieved and responsibilities wrong, and by requiring of the Negro that he be well borne, as is the right of other Christians. It must honest, moral and self-respecting. Our Negro congre withstand exploitation and brutality and mass hysteria ; gations should be helped, not by money but by per it must replace fear with mutual confidence. Such is sonal interest, by cooperation, by backing for the lead the task of the Church, readily recognized as regards ers and an opportunity to share the means of training its missionary duty overseas, but not so readily ac and improvement enjoyed by the rest. Our leaders' cepted as regards the Negro at home. should study the Negro problem with a determination! Episcopalians can commend their religion to Ne to change a static into a vigorous work of which the groes by fair and considerate treatment, by living their Church need not be ashamed.

N ews Value in W orship By IRWIN ST. JOHN TUCKER H E word “ gospel” is better translated “good news.” You may object that news frequently consists in the TBecause of a life-long interest in news gathering information that a certain person is dead. Just so; and news spreading, arising out of the fact that I have but they had been living, or you thought they were, up always earned my living that way during twenty-one to the time you heard they were dead. years in the priesthood, certain reflections have come The interesting fact, not previously known, must to me as to violations of the ordinary principles of have a vital import to those who heard it. Sometimes news value in the way we conduct our services. There in a newspaper we get at the same time two messages are certain principles of news-telling. Our function as of exactly equal length; one saying that 60,000 people ministers of the gospel is definitely that of publishing were drowned in a flood in China, and the other that glad tidings. We are witnesses; reporters who are the governor of the state was injured in an automobile engaged in proclaiming a first-hand story. collision. We play the accident to the governor all over The one thing which makes anything news is that page one, and put an obscure one-line head on the it is interesting. Droning over familiar statistics is not 60,000 Chinese drowned; because so few of us know publishing glad tidings. In fact, it is a waste of time. the Chinese, while all the readers of the paper know I have often heard the Bible read in a way which re the governor. vealed all too clearly that the man who read it con A list of the Presidents of the United States is not sidered the reading an insufferable bore. I have often news, unless a new one has been added to the number- heard sermons preached which, revealed all too clearly By the same token, neither is a list of the kings of Is that the sole object of the preacher was to fill a certain rael and Judah of any news value,—unless a new king; amount of time. He had nothing to say, was not in should arise. Neither is the list of the twelve apostles terested in the message he was giving, and simply of any news value—unless a new apostle is consecrated. served as a sort of a buffer between the prayers and Novelty is a matter of life and death. New air is the collection. imperative, or the breath becomes poison. To breathe This, to put it briefly, is blasphemy. It is taking in the same old air means death. To drink stale water God’s name in vain. It is not bearing witness. It is is to drink poison. obtaining money under false pretenses. It is dishonest It may sound a little rough; but from a fairly wide almost to the last degree. The final degree, perhaps, in experience, I have derived the impression that the fresh dishonesty is that of pretending a violent interest in air offered to a large number of congregations of the something which does not mean anything; in shouting Episcopal church simply consists of the mephitic fumes and raving to simulate interest; like a yellow journal of the sepulchres of the dead. The water of life hand which puts a misleading headline on an insignificant ed out in many cases is stale, stagnant, foul. story, merely to coax someone into paying a nickel for an “ extra” which is a fraud. H E order of service of our Book of Cornmora News may be either good or bad. Bad news natur TPrayer was carefully framed and put together to ally induces a certain amount of solemnity, of hesi defeat this tendency of formalism. Yet we fell al tancy, of sympathy, in the telling. Good news, how most immediately into the same old error. Let us see ever, should cause joy both in the bringer and in the if we cannot have a regulated system of air-conditione- receiver. Certainly, if the news is news at all, both ing, which will keep the news of the gospel fresh with should be interested. out turning in such torrents of wind as to blow things What then is news? It is an interesting fact told from their moorings. about living people by living people to living people. At the Holy Communion there is this fresh contaeffc

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E W T N E S S June 21, 1934 with reality each time; each communicant is brought every Roman Catholic service. A long list of masses into vital living contact with the eternal Life. But and special prayers is read out before the sermon, fol Morning and Evening Prayer likewise are news lowed by a special petition after each. services. They can be, and should be, made of tingling It is to take care of this natural human need that the importance in every phrase and act. Let us see. All Prayer Book provides the Prayer for All Sorts and reality and vitality are instantly destroyed, to be Conditions of Men and the General Thanksgiving. Pe gin with, by the whining of the Confession and Abso titions and thanksgivings are the climax of the daily lution in “ choral” morning and evening prayer. One offices. simply‘cannot get any sense of reality out of a con So many times I have heard the rector give out fession which is sung on a single nasal note. Besides, notice after notice of buncos, card parties, picnics, and the point of the versicle which follows, “ Praise ye the all sorts of money-raising schemes, without once men Lord,” is lost when the confession has been intoned. tioning names of the sick, or anniversaries of weddings, The confession’s value is the testing out by each or birthdays. It turned the act of worship into a pure individual worshiper in a personal experience of the money-raising rally. It defeated the purpose of the act promise that those who truly repent, and unfeignedly of worship as laid down by the Prayer Book. How can believe, are forgiven. The news is “ If you do this, you this tendency to dead meaninglessness be overcome? will receive a cleansing of the soul” ; the impact of the Well, will you, on the basis of a long and successful experience on the worshiper is, “ I tried it, and it’s true; experience, try this method of conducting a service? I feel so happy I want to sing about it.” So then we Put your sermon in the middle of the prayers, after sing. The Venite, if correctly translated, means tre the prayer for the Church. In giving your notices be mendously more. “ For the Lord is a great Judge, and fore the sermon, ask all who have requests for prayer supreme above all judges” is what those familiar words or causes for thanksgiving to write them on slip's of really mean. Why can’t we have them say something paper, and give them to the ushers at the time of the that means something? And why—oh, why—is it collection of the offering. After you have received necessary to divide the Venite, and the Magnificat, and the alms basin, gather these slips. Then say: so many of the canticles, into odd numbers of verses, so that vocal gymnastics are necessary to make them fit “ We have a request for prayer for Anna May Smith, a double chant? who is ill with scarlet fever; for Richard Hall, who is Morning and Evening Prayer repeat the three-fold in the hospital after his operation for appendicitis; a baptismal vow in a three-act drama. Repent, Believe, commemoration of John and Mary Brown, departed Obey is the vow ; the versicles divide each office into this life ; and we have thanksgivings for birthdays of Repentance, Faith and Obedience. The Obedience the following, and wedding anniversary thanksgivings section recapitulates for us our duty—personal devo for these couples.” After the names have all been tion; duty as citizens to the state; duty as believers to read, say the petition for each, like this: the Church; duty to our fellow men; the supreme duty “Let us offer a prayer for Anna May Smith; ‘O of thanksgiving, and the summing up of all petitions in Savior of the world, who by thy cross and precious the prayer of St. Chrysostom. blood hast redeemed her’ ”—and let the congregation In any newspaper there are columns devoted to respond: “ Save her, and help her, we humbly beseech births, and columns devoted to deaths; there is a page thee, O Lord.” for foreign news, a page for local news; the front page, Then, in the prayer for all sorts and conditions of the society page, the feature page, all are fixed and de men, offered at the altar, put in the names : “ Especially termined. What makes them news is the filling in of for thy servants, Anna May, Richard, John and Mary,” those columns with new events. and in the thanksgivings likewise. So what makes the prayers news—good tidings— People have a lively interest in one another. Every evangels—is the putting in of personalities. Try once time such a thanksgiving is offered, you will find it in a while putting in the name of the president, and followed, after the service, by a lively outburst of con governor, and mayor, in the prayer for the state; “ thy gratulations. The same is true of prayers for the sick; servant Franklin, or Herbert, or Calvin, President of they are followed by a wave of sympathy. Such a sys the United States” ; the personal name of the governor, tem makes your service of worship real, human, vital or of your alderman. It sends a sort of electric thrill and significant. If you are a lay-reader in charge of a through the congregation. Put in the name of your mission, you will find that to do this is of much more own bishop; “ send down upon our bishops and other value than the second-hand sermons that you read. clergy, and in particular thy servant George (or You will find, in fact, that the people can dispense with ‘James’ or ‘William’), bishop of this household, the the address, if you will only put in the prayers. That healthful spirit of thy grace.” is what they come for. They know in all probability quite as much as you do about doctrine. But you are U T the main interest about the news value of the there to lead them in prayer. Do it. Make the prayer B prayers is the same as the news value of a paper; real. From time to time, just before the final prayers, what has happened to' people whom we know; spe I have asked for personal thanksgivings and personal cifically, the neighborhood news. Thanksgivings and requests for prayer. The effect is electric. It trans prayers for neighbors and friends, commemorations forms a routine into a live, powerful, dynamic act of and anticipations, form a vital and prominent part of worship of the living God.

WELLESLEY POET And waited in a luminous abstrac NEWS NOTES OF tion W RITES VERSES Impassive and unseeing, while the THE CHURCH IN ABOUT INDUSTRY Boss BRIEF PARAGRAPHS

B y G a r d i n e r M . D a y Tightened his leather belt and Edited b y W. B. S p o f f o r d We expect to hear from econo shrugged himself Into his coat, and caught up his Elsewhere in this issue is an edi mists, brain-trusters, business men torial by Bishop Johnson taking ex and nearly every other kind of in Panama hat. ception to a paragraph that ap dividual, analyses of our present ‘Don’t it,’ said Jones. But Jesus on economic disorder, but the last per His Cross peared under my name in the issue son whom we would expect to write Was nothing but a gesture.— Any of May 31st. First off it may be about these things would be a poet. parson well again to point out that each Yet none other than a poet, Miss Will back me up;- and all Jerusalem editor of this paper is alone re Florence Converse, in a remarkable Was wagging heads and saying, sponsible for what appears under his one volume poem, entitled Efficiency ‘What’s the use’ ?” name. Bishop Johnson, Bishop Wil Expert published by John Day $2.50, The perplexing question used to son and the rest certainly are not “ cracks down”—and I use the term be whether a strong peace advocate to be held responsible for the things advisedly—on our modern social would fight in a defensive war as I write. We are all free men, ex chaos, combining the keen observing distinguished from an aggressive pected to write what we really think. eye of the poet with the penetrating war. Now the distinction is largely If other editors object to anything insight of a Companion of the Holy theoretical and unreal; like arguing that appears in the paper, and think Cross. And, if I understand the order about the number of angels who can it sufficiently important to say so, rightly, a Companion of the Holy take up residence upon a needle. The as Bishop Johnson does in this case, Cross is one who so deeply realizes question perplexing peace lovers it is their privilege to do so. This the social and economic implications now is whether, although they re has been the policy of the paper of the Incarnation that she must fuse to fight in international or capi during the fifteen years I have been work and pray without ceasing for talist wars, they might feel bound connected with it, and is one of the the establishment of His Kingdom to take up arms in a class war which delightful things about the work.' on earth. Of course there was only would be an anti-capitalist war. It It is a policy that has its weaknesses one companion to whom such a vol is the real iceberg which the good possibly. Readers may not know ume had inevitably to be dedicated; ship F. O. R. struck a few months just what to think where editors dif that indefatigable disciple from ago. Appropos of this discussion I fer, but after all we are serving an Wellesley, Miss Vida Scudder, whose want to pass along a delightful ex intelligent and cultured group, quite life and teaching have been not cerpt from “ The Topics of The capable of arriving at their own only the inspiration of this volume Times” Column in the N. Y. Times'. conclusions. but the inspiration of innumerable “ And who is that distinguished As for this particular matter, lives, some of whom have listened to looking person on the platform?,” what I was writing about was the her in college while others have read said Alice. war and peace issue, which has admiringly at a distance. The March Hare stared at her. “ Efficiency Expert” is the symbol played such a large part in recent “ I am surprised at you, Alice,” he diocesan conventions. There are of a manager of a modern factory. said. “ Don’t you know a classifist those in high places who are saying At the opening of the poem the de when you see one?” publicly with booming voices that it pression is at the factory door. We It was Alice’s turn to stare. watch its effect on people, on Mr. is sometimes necessary to use force “ It’s the first time I’ve heard the to correct evils. I merely pointed Expert and above all on the latter’s word,” she said. “ And, what’s more thinking. We watch Mr. Expert out in the issue of May 31st and I believe it’s a new one to you, too.” floundering hopelessly in trying to again in the issue o f June 14th that “ Naturally,” said the March Hare. face changes unforseen, yet obvious we cannot have our cake and eat “ Seeing that I have just made it up it too. If a bishop is fight in saying ly inevitable, and we watch him myself. I made it up out of class war evade and avoid, until he can con that there are situations that can and pacifist. A classifist is a pacifist tinue to do so no longer. Yes, in the be corrected only b$; the use of who adores class war. He adopts a force then, certainly, the communist end he is converted; but not as in resolution denouncing foreign wars the case of so many conversions, to agitator must be right in saying of all kinds without exception. Then identically the same thing1'. a peculiar piety, but rather to real he adopts another resolution in favor work that costs. He is converted to It is my earnest hope that they of the dictatorship of the proletariat. see that Christ calls him to fight not are both wrong. As trying as an in A dictator of the proletariat is a for himself against his workers, but ternational situation may be, it man who shoots people who won’t let for his workers against his baser should be possible for statesmen to him dictate them out of the profit work out a solution without send self. system into the non-profit system.” Jones the working man says to ing boys into trenches to blow each “ Of course,” concluded the March other into bits. Likewise, as trying him: Hare, “ it is a shame to use such “ There some that’s betting, ten to as domestic situations may be, it difficult words in such warm wea should be possible for free citizens one, ther. Perhaps I could have put it The younger men that’s reckless with with a democratic form of govern more succinctly by saying that a ment to correct evils without re their money, classifist hates trenches but dotes on That if we have to go you’ll walk course to violence. barricades.” out with us, It is no secret, I presume, that I And bring the management to terms believe that a fundamental change that way.” NOW IT IS DR. HOBBS in our economic life is needed. It Mr. Expert protests that it won’t The Rev. Warfield Hobbs, execu may not be out of place to point do any good for it would only be a tive secretary of the publicity de out that our Church also, express gesture and concludes “ A gesture partment of the National Council, ing its mind through General Con doesn’t get us anywhere.” was awarded a doctor’s degree by the ventions, believes the same thing. “ They both stood up and Jones said University of the South at the com The system we know as capitalism mildly, ‘Don’t it?’ mencement last week. has done a grand job in solving the

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS June 21, 1934 problem of production. Anyone who The Ministry and ibilities. The amount of the mission has read any one of the many books the Changing Order ary deficit is spent in one week-end recently published on economic life Bishop Moreland, retired bishop by the members of the Episcopal knows that we have arrived at the of Sacramento, was the preacher at Church on trivial amusements. He deplored the dishonesty of parishes age of plenty. Our fellow Church the commencement of the Berkeley man, Mr. Wallace, secretary of which use their missionary money Divinity School. He defended capital for current expenses, citing as an agriculture, is one of the latest to ism by asserting that many of the point out this fact in his excellent instance a test check of twenty-five benefits of our civilization are the Statesmanship and Religion. And dollars, definitely marked for mis yet in this age of plenty there are result of competition and the profit sionary use, which never reached the millions upon millions of people motive. He did declare however that missionary fund of the National there can be little doubt but that who are denied, through no fault Church. of their own, the means of keeping our present system will be modified At the meeting of the alumni the in the direction of collectivism. body and soul together. Rev. G. P. T. Sargent of New York The commencement address was and the Rev. J. Frederick Sexton of Why this misery in an age of delivered by Bishop Gooden of Los New Haven were elected alumni plenty? Certainly it cannot be, as Angeles whose son, Reginald, was a trustees. Bishop Johnson suggests, because member of the graduating class and * * * there is no demand for the goods. was awarded a fellowship for a Fine Conference Millions are demanding the goods. year’s study at the University of But there is no way of getting the at St. Augustine’s Madrid, Spain. Bishop Gooden’s sub About a hundred clergy and goods to. them under a profit system ject was “ The Ministry and the Church workers met for a conference which is the essence of capitalism. Changing Order.” First he denounced at St. Augustine’s, Raleigh, N. C., The surplus is held by the few; this those who say that there is no room college for Negroes, from June 4th they cannot sell because those who in the Church for new ministers to to the 8th, with an unusually able have need are given only sufficient day. “ There is no room for those faculty offering courses on timely wages to buy a part of the goods who are going into the ministry in subjects. The Rev. Gardiner L. produced. If they were given enough search for what the English call a Tucker, known to all Churchmen, in wages to buy all the goods pro ‘living.’ It may be that the minister was there; the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, duced there would be no surplus, of the future will have to return to chaplain of St. Mary’s School; the. and hence no profit for those who apostolic ways of life and grow Rev. Alfred Lawrence of Chapel own the means of production. It vegetables for his own support. But Hill, N. C.; Bishop Penick; Miss therefore seems to me that we must there is plenty of room for those Esther Brown of the national Aux go on from our profit system, which who would ‘proclaim the unsearch iliary and others. has done a grand job in solving the able riches of Christ’ in a land where problem of production, to a col 51% of the people are unchurched lectivist society which alone can and at heart as pagan as any of the Fine Enrollment solve the problem of the moment, inhabitants of so-called heathen for Gambier Conference that of distributing the goods we lands.” Second, the ministry can no Word comes from those running are able to produce in abundance. longer be a “ preferred profession” the Gambier Conference that opens When our Church leaders, meeting in which income and success can be on June 25 and runs to July 5th in General Convention, declared for guaranteed to everyone. “ The young that the enrollment is up to expecta a fundamental change in our eco minister must take his stand with tions. As you know this is one of nomic life I presume this is what the young doctor and the dentist and the top conferences of the Church. they had in mind. In any case, the lawyer, willing to sink or swim This year the chaplain is the Rev. whether they did or not, I am sure on his own merits. In an age in McVeigh Harrison of the Order of we will eventually discover that any which it is possible for a man to drop the Holy Cross, who, among other chance less fundamental will not be dead of starvation in a food market, things, is to meet with the entire fundamental enough. the minister has no right to claim conference for a half hour each There are those advocating such special privilege.” Third, the minister morning. The sunset services are to a change who declare that it can must always be prepared to take the be divided between Bishop Rogers of be made only through violence. I, side of the underdog. The under Ohio and Bishop Hobson of South for one, am not yet prepared to privileged have no effective organiza ern Ohio. There is then an unusually accept that. We at least have reason tion and have no power. The Church strong faculty so that those attend to hope that in America, with its must be on their side, although they ing this year are sure to get the best tradition of democracy and liberty, fear the Church today as one of the of everything. Miss Marie Michael, fundamental changes can be made greatest powers arrayed against 223 E. Seventh Street, Cincinnati, is without going through that period them. Christ said “ Come unto me all thte registrar in case you are plan of violence and anarchy which ye who labor,” and by that he meant ning to go and have not so indicated. Bishop Johnson so much wants to those who labor with their hands. * Hi ❖ avoid. I too want to avoid it. For When the Church puts itself on the Convention that reason I tried to say in the side of wealth and privilege, it is of Marquette paragraph in the issue of May 31st destroying the kingdom of Christ. Bishop Ablewhite in addressing to which he objects, and again in Bishop Gooden told how, in the re the convention of the diocese of the issue of June 14th, that in my cent long-shoremen’s strike on the Marquette, which met at St. Paul’s opinion Church leaders were on very Pacific coast, the Seamen’s Church Cathedral on June 6th and 7th called dangerous ground in stating, as Institute refused to put its employ upon Church people to rally to the several of them have done recently, ment bureau at the disposal of ship support of the National Council and that there are situations that can owners to secure “ scab” labor, al to help in the present financial be corrected only by the use of though taking this position might emergency. The convention also ap force. We ought to have the good have meant the loss of considerable pointed a committee to cooperate sense to know that we are sit financial support. Fourth, the Church with the Everyman’s Offering. The ting on a keg of dynamite and that must not forget that it is a propa Rev. Eric Tasman, general secretary it is therefore rather silly to play gandist organization and that mis of the National Council, was on with matches. sions is one of its primary respons- hand and preached on the Purpose of

God for the Church in the world to Augusta, Ga., with three other par before in the city of Louisville, day. General Convention deputies; ishes cooperating, they had a gr&nd passed a nice resolution in which clergy; Maurice Clarke, C. G. Zieg dinner to celebrate the 38th anniver they said, among other things: ler, Thomas Foster and Hupert Wil sary of Deaconess Ruth Byllesby’s “ Though having reached four score liams. Laymen: H. R. Harris, F. H. service to the Church. There were years, like Moses of old, his eye is Haller, C. J. Stakel, C. H. McBean. speeches by clergymen, majors and not dimmed nor his natural force judges, and telegrams from bishops abated, and we wish and pray for Bishop Creighton and sènior wardens. Deaconess Byl- him a long continuance of health, Thank Offering Speaker lesby has been responsible for the vigor and usefulness.” Mrs. Wood Bishop Creighton, suffragan of development of a top-notch bit of cock came in for deserving praise Long Island, is to be the speaker at Church social service work in the also. the United Thank Offering mass city. * * * meeting at Atlantic City on October Printers’ Ink 11th. It is likely that this meeting Bishop Woodcock Evangelism will be broadcast. The Auxiliary also H as Anniversary “ Little drops of printer’s ink,” ob announced that Francis Cho Min Wei Bishop Woodcock of Kentucky serves a parish paper, “ little grains is to make the address on Missions celebrated his 80th birthday on June of fact, make the public sometimes in this Age. There are, you may re 12th. The clericus, meeting the day think, and sometimes even act.” call, to be three addresses which are to provide the main substance of the triennial’s deliberations, with Miss Vida D. Scudder giving one on Christian Citizenship and the Rev. Howard C. Robbins giving the other on Personal Religion. SUBSTANTIAL GAINS Japanese to Study Purpose of God Leaders of the Japanese Church made by the are to hold a conference from August 25 to September 1 on the Purpose of God, carrying out the suggestions of Church Life Insurance Corporation the Church-Wide Endeavor. About a hundred leaders are expected to attend. During the first quarter of 1934 Ordinations in Philadelphia over the first quarter of 1933 Frank H. Moss Jr., a member of one of Philadelphia’s socially prom inent families, was ordained deacon New Ordinary Life Insurance on Sunday, June 16th, at the church in cre a se d ...... 66% in Bala. He is leaving within a few days to serve as a missionary in Annuities Increased .... 51.37% Japan. On the same day Bishop Taitt ordained as deacon the son of the Rev. Philip J. Steinmetz, rector The latest financial statement, as of Decem at Elkins Park. The younger Stein metz, Philip, is to serve as assistant ber 31, 1933, shows that the total assets of to his father. the Corporation amount to more than twice Deaconess all necessary reserves. There are $203 of ad is H onored mitted assets for each $100 of liabilities. We have a lot of reporting to do of rector’s anniversaries but it is se!d>,:.i that much attention is paid Low cost Life and Retirement insurance and to the hard working deaconesses. annuities are available to the clergy, vestry Well the other day at Christ Church, men, and other lay officials and lay workers of the Church, and members of their families. GAMBIER Substantial refunds have been paid to policy CONFERENCE holders annually since 1924, under all insur GAMBIER, OHIO ance contracts. June 25th to July 5th For Information and rates please inquire of the Send in you registration at once to Church Life Insurance Corporation M iss Marie Michael, 223 East Seventh Street, 20 Exchange Place New York Cincinnati, Ohio.

Honorary Degrees ■ nent bond, but that the parents at Seabury-Western should remain together only until ALTARS The Rev. D. A. McGregor, execu children reached the age of twelve, tive secretary of the department of after which they might better be DECORATIONS religious education of the National turned over to experts for training. Council, was given a doctor’s degree As for religion, there should be one MURALSWOODWORK at the commencement of Seabury- religion for all, without creeds. Western. Others honored with doc In discussing these revelations, STAINED GLASS tor’s degrees were the Rev. W. G. which Miss Scudder assured the con LIGHTING FIXTURES Peck of England, the Rev. Harold ference were made by girls of good L. Bowen, rector of St. Mark’s, moral character, the conference ad Evanston, the Rev. G. C. Menefee vances these opinions: the girls are o f Rochester, Minnesota, and the easily influenced by the radicals Rev. Valentine H. Sessions of Mis among them. They will accept RMBIISCH sissippi. nothing their elders tell them, be 2 WEST 4 5 ST. N EW YORK CITY 9 * « lieving that everything must be .Large Confirmation tested for themselves. While they ------■—— — —b—— b m p Classes in Oregon are intellectually radical on all sub Bishop Sumner has just returned jects, they are nevertheless as much ELLWOOD POTTS from a visitation to twelve parishes subject to social compunctions as and missions in the southern part of were their mothers and grandmoth Master Craftsman in the diocese of Oregon, and re ers before them. Stained and Leaded Glass ports that confirmation classes have The Rev. Gardiner M. Day of broken all records for size. The Williamstown gave a harrowing pic 3960 Filbert St., Phila., Pa. largest class confirmed this year in ture of the mining industry of Ten the diocese was at Grace Church, nessee and Kentucky; Otto Gilmore Portland, numbering fifty-two. of Providence, who lectured on the ROOMS FOR WORLD’S FAIR VISITORS * * * Comfortable rooms at moderate prices. use of leisure, declared that there Garage. Rev. Chas. E. Williams, 7627 Rhodes Opinions of College were many young people, long out Ave. Telephone, Tri. 6496. Girls Revealed of work, who were merely “ hood „W hat do young college girls lums” now and that it was extreme THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY think about? Miss Vida D. Scudder ly hard to do anything with them or Founded by Bishop White 1833 of Wellesley College presented some for them. The Rev. Malcolm Taylor, Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par ishes unable to purchase them, in limited of their ideas and opinions at a con secretary of the province, was dis grants, ference on social standards held at tressed because so many of the The Book of Common Prayer. Adelynrood, Mass., under the aus clergy declared themselves to be op The Combined Book (The Book of Com mon Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). pices of the social service commis posed to war, as revealed in the re Pew Size sion of the first province, and the cent World Tomorrow questionnaire. Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D. D., Secretary, S. W. Cor. 5th & Arch Streets, revelations set everyone to wonder Peace, he said, could not be promoted Philadelphia, Pa. ing and asking questions. It seems merely by refusing to have anything that Miss Scudder asked a class of further to do with war. 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Oxford Groups in Canada Nearly one hundred followers of Embroidery‘Wood the Rev. Frank Buchman are at ■ P H I present touring Canada, at the mo Éivf H ^T>a»xos Stone-Metal and ment being in British Columbia. I / O ! NO.3 2 5 SIXTfï-AVE-NUE-.NEWYQRR Great meetings were held at Van i ( I STAINED GLASS -MURALS Stained Cjlass-i couver with 3100 people attending Vi m o s a i c -m arble-stone ess the meetings the opening night, held U CAKVED-WGDD METAL M i in three different places. The leader was Mr. Buchman himself who de EXETER • • * Cathedral Yard clared that it was only a spiritual LONDON • • n.Tufton St.S.Wi revolution that could solve the prob MEMORIAL TABLETS MANCliEST ER • 32,Victoria Street fSfcl a n d . • lems facing the world today. The ma “ of enduring worth j yor of the city welcomed the visitors and attractiveness” officially and Archbishop A. U. Pen- in genuine cast bronze cier of the New Westminster diocese Moderate in Price - Booklet on Requeot hailed the group as representative ELLISON BRONZE CO., INC. : of the district’s spiritual life. One JAMESTOWN, N. Y. of the stars of the tour is Mr. Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture in the Wilson administra tion, who is telling large audiences MENEELY BELL CO T R O Y , N .Y and that our civilization will decay unless Sffß BROADWAY.N.Y.CITY. it throws off the disease of selfishness and indifference to the teachings of Christ. Meetings have so far been ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. held in Niagara, Toronto, Montreal, 131 E. 47th St., New York Quebec, Halifax, St. John, Ottawa, CHURCH VESTMENTS Port Arthur, Winnepeg, Edmonton, ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Victoria and Vancouver. Conferences with references to the adornmen' * * * of Churches Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 Cooperation With Roman Catholics The Young People’s Service League of the cathedral at Topeka, Kansas, JAMES POW ELL & SO N S joined with the young people of the Mexican Church of Our Lady of (JVhitefriars) J&d* £st. 1680 Guadaloupe in presenting a Mexican LONDON, ENGLAND program in the cathedral guild hall recently. This is the first time that the cathedral parish has been able S T A I N E D to cooperate with a Roman Catholic Church and possibly indicates that GLASS the young people are less inhibited in regard to such matters than their elders. K"Distributor: * * * PAUL S. BUCK Tribute Paid 734 F ifth Ave., New York Citj to Dr. Foley The annual meetings of the gov erning boards and the associate alumni of the Philadelphia Divinity School were held on June 6th. At ** RGEISSLERINC.^ 450 SIXTH AVE.NEAR 10«. St NEW YORK both meetings high tribute was paid to the Rev. George C. Foley who, G h u r c h F u r n is h in g s after 29 years as a professor there, IN CARVED WOOD AND [gi a\ MARBLE-BRASS - SILVER has resigned. His wit, clear think FABRICS + W IN D O W S or ing and unusual power to set others thinking, have made him a notable

figure not only in the life of the and our own House of Bishops have Fenn, “ refused to use unsocial means school but of the Church generally. gone on record placing the Cross to accomplish anything.” Others got Much of the time at both meetings above the flag; and whereas the into the fight which waged for many was given to the financial problems United States has signed the Kellogg minutes. With all ammunition ex of the School,—which has been hard Pact outlawing war; and whereas hausted, both sides claimed the vic hit by the failure of income of a con the armament racket puts profit tory. On the first count too much siderable part of its invested funds. above patriotism, be it resolved that smoke hung over the field to de Much has already been accomplished the convocation of Cumberland go termine the result. A recount was in providing the additional funds on record as refusing to sanction or therefore taken with the following necessayy for the work of the year to support any future war.” result: for the resolution, 45; 1934-35, and the School will reopen The Battle was on. The Rev. W. against, 41. as usual in the last week of Septem B. Stehl rushed to the defense of ★ * * ber, with its normal quota of stu Wars. Armed with Biblical quota Dr. Bell to Write dents. tions he reminded the convocation Lenten Book * * * that power and force are inspired by The Bishop of London has an An Unusual God and as a last resort must be nounced the appointment of Editor Confirmation Class used. Dr. Fenn, still in the field, Bernard Iddings Bell (who seems to Eight persons representing four countered by asserting that Jesus be called Dr. Iddings Bell in Eng generations of a family were pre had all the power of God and that land) to write a book of devotional sented in a class of 40 recently con if physical power had been more reading, issued annually during firmed by Bishop Perry at St. Luke’s, lasting He could and would have Lent. These books have been issued Pawtucket, R. I. This was the 16th used it. “ Jesus Christ,” declared for a quarter of a century now and class presented by the rector, the Rev. Arthur J. Watson, having a to tal number of 991 persons. * * * Services of Leading Churches Ordinations in Western Massachusetts Cathedral of St. John the Divine St. James’ Church, New York Homer F. Bufton, Milton A. Cook- Cathedral Heights Madison Avenue and 71st Street son and Nathaniel N. Noble were or New York City The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector dained deacons on June 8 th by Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 and 9 Sunday Services a. m. Children’s Service, 9 :30 ; Morning 8 A. M.—Holy Communion. Bishop Davies at Trinity, Lenox, Prayer or Litany, 10; Holy Communion 11 A. M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon, Mass. The sermon was preached by and Sermon, 11. Evening Prayer and Sermon, 4 p. m. the Rev. Gardner Monks, headmaster Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7:30 Trinity Church, New York of Lenox School. (Saints’ Days, 10') ; Morning Prayer, 9 :30>; Broadway and Wall St. Evening Prayer, 5 p. m. (choral). Organ Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. Recital on Saturdays, 4 :30>. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. The Battle of St. Paul’s Cathedral Maryland Church of St. Mary the Virgin Buffalo, New York The secretary of the convocation New York Sundays: 8, 9 :30. 11. and 8. 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aveo. Weekdays: 8, 12:06. of Cumberland, diocese of Maryland, Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy reports a lively battle at a recent Sunday Masses, 7. 9, 11 (High Mass). Days: 10 :30 a. m. convocation meeting, following a Week-day Masses, 7, 8 (Thurs., 7, 8, 9 :30). St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California paper on Armaments and World Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street Peace read by the Rev. Don Frank Grace Church, New York Near the University of California Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Sundays: 7 :30, 11 a. m .; 6 :30 p. m. Fenn of Baltimore. A resolution was Broadway at 10th St. Wednesdays: 10 :30 a. m. introduced which read: Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. “ Whereas the Bishops at Lambeth Daily: 12:30’ except Saturday. Christ Church Cathedral Holy Days and Thursday, Holy Com Hartford, Conn. munion, 11:45. Cor. Main and Church Streets The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Sundays: 8 :00i, 10:05, 11:00 a. m .; 7:30 •Ha r c o u r t P l a c e S c h o o l Disciple, New York p. m. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Daily; 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. f o r CIRLS Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. Holy Communion.______Gambier, Ohio Sunday School 9 :30 a. m .; Morning Service and Sermon 11 a. m .; Musical Grace and St. Peter’s Church, Vespers 4 p. m. In picturesque college community. Offers Baltimore, Md. Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com (Park Avenue and Monument Street) pre-high school, general, college preparatory munion at 11 a. m. and advanced courses. Preparation for Col The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers lege Board Examinations. Strong art and The Rev. Harold F. Hohly music departments. Students have opportunity Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. The Incarnation Week Days: 8 a. m. to hear distinguished lecturers and concerts Madison Avenue and 3Sth Street by noted artists. Rate, $800. Rector Church of St. Michael and For illustrated catalog, address Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D. A ll Angels Sundays 8, 10 and 11 a. m. Baltimore, Md. Sarah Bedell Macdonald, Headmistress, St. Paul and 20th Sts. 7 Lewis Hall St. Bartholomew’s 'Church Sundays: 7 :30, 9 :30, and 11 a.m .; 8 p. m. Park Avenue and 51st Street Week Days: Wednesdays 10i a. m., Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy 8 A.M., Holy Communion. Days 7 and 10 a. m.______, GUN5TON HALL vi 9 :30 A.M., Junior Congregation. 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. Church of St. John the School for girls in National Cap Holy Communion, Thurs. & Saints’ ital. General academic and col Days, 10:30 A.M. Evangelist lege preparatory work. Small Boston classes. Special courses in Art, Bowdoin Street, Beacon Hill Music, Expression, Home Eco- St. Paul’s Church The Cowley Fathers nomics, Commercial. Estab. 1892. Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. Sundays: Masses, 7:30, 9:30 and 11 Catalog on request. Mary L. Sunday Services: a. m. Benediction, 7 :30 p. m. Gildersleeve, Mary B. Kerr, M. Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 a. m. Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 a. m., also. Morning Service, 11:00' a. m. Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 and 7-9 A., Principals. Richard N. Ma- Evening Service, 8 :00' p. m. p. m. » son, Business Manager, 1918 1 IFlorida Ave., Washington, D. C. ' Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 21, 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Fifteen

have a circulation of about 25,000 month for collections. “ This is the markable growth in membership copies in all parts of the English first time in a long while,” he says, since the initial meeting of the chap speaking world. Among some of the “ that such a report has been possible. ter in April. The object of the so recent authors have been the Arch Out of 99 dioceses and districts 64 ciety is to maintain the liturgical bishop of York, the Rev. Pat Mc are on the honor roll. Total receipts uses of the Anglican Communion Cormick and Miss Evelyn Underhill. to date are $6,795 ahead of last through a rigid adherence to the Dr. Bell is £o write the book for year.” Prayer Book. Lent, 1936, with Dean Inge doing the * * * jJ: % book for 1935. The only other Ameri Fifty-two Dioceses Our Paragraph can ever asked to do a volume was Are In Line on Sports the late Bishop Brent. The office of the Everyman’s Of The diocese of New York has given * * * fering in Cincinnati reports that 52 official recognition to sports. The International Church dioceses have lined up. The objec Rev. Frank Dean Gifford of Mamar- Conferences to Meet tives of the Offering, in case you do oneck has been appointed Tennis The Universal Christian Council not know, are to clear away by Captain of the Diocese of New York is to meet for a week in August in special gifts from men the half mil by Bishop Manning. No empty honor Denmark under the leadership of the lion dollar deficit of the National either for a tournament was held re Bishop of Chichester, Archbishop Council for 1934, and to achieve a cently with entries not only from the Germanos and Dr. S. Parkes Cad- higher standard for laymen in the diocese of New York but from Long man, joint presidents. Of central im Church through information, co Island and Newark as well. Who won portance on the agenda are practical operation, giving and worship. The was not reported. problems of the relationship of plan is heartily endorsed by all sort? ❖ ❖ * of people, with quotations sent to us Church and state. The fact that the Ordination in from letters received from a flock of churches in Germany are to be fully Southern Brazil bishops which we really ought to represented gives an added import Martin S. Firth and Raymond E. present to you, but there simply ance to the meeting. At the same Fuessle were ordained priests at time the management committee of isn’t the room. H® H® H® Porto Alegre, diocese of Southern the World Alliance for International Brazil on May 13th by Bishop Friendship through the Churches is Anglican Society Thomas. These two young men were to meet, with a number of Americans to Have Conference appointed missionaries last year attending, including the Rev. Frank Arrangements were made at a after having graduated from the Gavin of the General Seminary. meeting of the executive committee H* Virginia Seminary. Beginning in the of the Philadelphia chapter of the fall they are to devote their time Rector Tells Them Anglican Society to hold a general mainly to the preparation of candi About Relief meeting at the Philadelphia Divinity dates for orders. The Rev. William Banks, rector at School, November 30-31. There will Henderson, Kentucky, has been ap be papers and discussion and a cele Where to Stay at Atlantic City pointed by the Red Cross to teach a bration of the Holy Eucharist ac class on how to administer relief. cording to the strict Anglican rite. About 25 leaders of the community The secretary reported at this June PRINCESS HOTEL are meeting with him for instruction meeting that there had been a re- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. twice a week. Special Weekly Conference Rates H» H® H* Where to Stay at Atlantic City Running With $20 Water Bath $25 Money Still Including Excellent Table Com ing In A Christian Family Atmosphere Prevail« Convenient to Convention Headquarter« Mr. L. B. Franklin, keeper of the Fireproof Garage H. Rae Scull, Owner cash at 281 Fourth Avenue, reports that the collections to June 1st were in excess of the proportion due on expectations after allowing one Where to Stay at Atlantic City

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Saluting the Flag at the Older Boys’ “ Camp” Last Summer at Wiltwyck

A New Country Institution for Men and Boys P A T West Park on the west shore of the Hudson, the great estate known as U W iltwyck was recently presented to the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mis sion Society by Mr. Harry Payne Bingham through Bishop William T. Manning. It has already welcomed over 1300 boys and men in need of country convalescence, Fresh- Air care, work-relief or work-training. A daily population of 500 can be accommcdated during the summer, and over 200 during the winter. Wiltwyck Waits to Welcome Discouraged Men and Boys — If Funds for Their Care Can Be Secured will provide two-weeks in provides co n valescen t ^ I w the boys’ camps at W ilt $450 care for twelve months. wyck for some under-nourished little chap. C H A H endowment would rnakes possible one month’s «P I J j U U U assure six boys each convalescent care or work year a two-months’ period of phys training for some young man in need of physical rebuilding or ical rebuilding and preparation for preparation for re-employment. employment. endowment1 would provide each year a recuperative period $180,000 at Wiltwyck for 100 discouraged boys and men. (Make all checks toward the work of the current season, to Eugene W . Stetson, Treasurer. For further information about gifts or endowments, consult Bishop Manning, President, or the Rev. L. Ernest Sunderland, Superintendent.) The New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society 38 Bleecker Street, New York, N. Y.