CHRISTIAN RESPONSIBILITY by Archbishop Temple

to serve God. It means that men are more important than machines. It means that machines exist for men, and not men for machines. It means that bread should be blessed at the altar, in the Church, in the world. We have been able to bless it in the Church, but we have not been able to bless it in the grain elevators to feed the starving and unemployed. Jesus loves the poor, the starving, the unemployed. He shares their humanity. He came here for them. He died for them. He lives for them, and He hates the fact that we have not been able to bless bread in the world. When we begin to apply the Christian religion to the world we shall produce a social order that will make all other proposals look conservative.

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J. ates, offering larger opportunity DAGWELL, BENJAMIN D„ to be conse for specialization. crated bishop of Oregaft on February 13th, Provision for more advanced is to be addressed at 5|l Morgan Building, SHATTUCK work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. Portland, Oregon. » » SCHOOIL . <& « and Th.D. EDWARDS, DEAN B., of Chickasha, Okla., A church school for boys, with high stand has accepted the rectorship of the Holy ing in sound scholarship and development of ADDRESS Communion, Maywood, Illinois. manly character and Christian citizenship. College preparatory. Military system. 18 THE DEAN GARRETT, A. R. E„ formerly of St. Hilda’s buildings. All sports. 74th year. Mission, River Rouge, Mich., is now the Address die Rector, 1 Chelsea Square New York City rector of Christ Church, Flint, Mich. Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. For Catalogue Address the Dean HAYES, JAMES L., is now in charge of St. Mark’s, Waterville, Maine. 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C h r is t ia n R esponsibility By WILLIAM TEMPLE The Archbishop of York

H E R E are times when the Christian conscience chief influences forming the character of the rising T is specially stirred by the prevailing evils o f the generation are the religious beliefs in which a child is world. No doubt it ought to be permanently and uni grounded and the economic order in which it has versally sensitive; there grown up. And we can see why this should be so. The ought to be no subject that economic order largely represents the judgments held by citizens of any country or group of countries con escapes its scrutiny, no time cerning what matters most in life ; it compels a cer when its judgment is slack. tain measure of compliance with its own principles ; But we are ordinary human if self-interest is its dominant motive, it forces men to beings, with limited powers pursue their own interest ; as they act by its prin of attention. It is not possi ciples they unconsciously accept them. ble for us, in fact, to keep O f course it does not follow that if you invert the up this constant vigilance. system you will thereby alone alter men s characters, But this makes it more than though you will in some degree modify them. There ever our duty to act when is a fact about human nature which the Church calls conscience is stirred, to try Original S in ; and if you could establish a system that to quicken the conscience of would be ideal for a nation of perfected saints, and our neighbors, and to see then set half-converted people like ourselves to work that our feelings when once it, the result is likely to be chaos and disaster. But while aroused lead to some more result than talk. the Church labors first for conversion and spiritual Lately the conscience of Christians, in common with growth, it must watch with a jealous eye those factors that of the public generally, has been notably stirred in the situation which make this more difficult than it with reference to Unemployment. It seems hardly need be or, in some cases, impossible without some credible that any Christians who consider what is miracle of grace. Here is an unmistakable challenge actually meant by malnutrition, bad housing, or un to the Church on its own ground. As we look upon the employment should say that these are matters with world, with all its pressures towards evil, we see our which the Church is not concerned. It is not only that own sin writ large. This is part of the meaning that these things involve suffering such as makes an ir should be in our minds as we confess our sins and say resistible claim on sympathy— though if charity is in that “ the burden of them is intolerable.” deed a greater thing than faith, about which the Church ET ME remind you of two resolutions passed rightly concerns itself intensely, that claim on sym pathy should prove our point. But each one of these L by the Lambeth Conference of 1920, consisting, evils makes more difficult the formation of a stable as you know, of all Bishops of the Anglican Com Christian character; they are stumbling-blocks in the munion :— way of Christ’s little ones ; to leave stumbling-blocks ( i ) A n outstanding and pressing duty o f the Church is to convince its members of the necessity of nothing which one knows are there is morally not very differ less than a fundamental change in the spirit and work ent from putting them there; and we know what our ing of our economic life. This change can only be ef Lord had to say about that. fected by accepting as ¡the basis of industrial relations It was not a modern socialist propagandist, but that the principle o f co-operation in service fo r the common good in place, of unrestricted competition for private or prince of the orthodox political economists of the last sectional advantage. - A ll Christian people ought to take generation, Marshall himself, who said that the two as active part in bringing about this change, by which

alone we can hope to remove class dissensions and re working on a bare subsistence wage, and so, at what solve industrial discords. ever cost to their human dignity, made to contribute ( ii.) M em bers of the Church are bound to take an to the welfare of the state. Such a policy can never active part, by public action and by personal service, in be entertained by those who expect their own eternal removing those abuses which depress and impoverish human life. In company with other citizens and organ status to be determined by the Divine Judge saying, izations they should work fo r reform , and particularly “ Inasmuch as ye did it,” “ Inasmuch as ye did it not.” for such measures as will secure the better care of chil dren, including real opportunity for an adequate educa U T here is a most vital point. The dignity and tion, protection of the workers against unemployment, B worth o f a man is not in his value to the state; and the provision of healthy homes. but neither is it in himself. It is in the love of God And these words from the Report of the Conference towards him. Democracy has perpetually tried to build Committee on “The Church and Industrial Prob its social fabric on the rights of a man as a m an; and lems” :— Robert Burns made a poem of it. But that way of W e reaffirm the principle commended in an appendix looking at things sets men asserting their rights against to the 1908 Report: “The Christian Church, which holds each other, man against man, class against class, na that the individual life is sacred, must teach that it is in tion against nation, race against race. It is the way tolerable to it that any part of our industry should be organized upon the foundation of the misery and want through chaos to Hell. The Christian religion does not o f the laborer. The fundamental Christian principle of teach us to regard man, as he is, as possessed of any the remuneration o f labor is that the first charge upon great dignity; the image of God was stamped upon him, any industry must be the proper maintenance of the but that image is sorely defaced. But our religion does laborer— an idea which it has been sought to express in popular language by the phrase ‘the living wage’.” This claim that even in those who seem most unprofitable must not be interpreted as a bare subsistence wage. There we should see children of God for whom Christ died; must be sufficient to live a decent and complete, a clean that is their dignity and status, higher than the status ly and noble life. of emperors and kings. Let no one excuse his conscience by talk about eco This is o f supreme importance when we ask what nomic necessity. Something, quite plainly, has gone it is that the unemployed most need. They need the wrong with the economic system of the civilized world. opportunity to preserve their personality. But much When the very ease with which wealth is produced recent secular thought has conceived this as a principle becomes a hindrance to trade and a cause of poverty, of self-assertion, tempered only by the reflection that because with such abundance no profitable market can as I am a self with a life of my own, so everyone else be found, it is clear that something is wrong. W e may is a self with a life of his own. That is true, but only feel bound to leave it to experts to diagnose the disease a half truth. The Christian doctrine of the true rela and prescribe the remedy; but it is our business to in tion of men to one another is not that they are jostling cite the experts, even, if need be, to badger the ex atoms where each respects some rights of others only perts, until they produce their answer to our problem. because that is the way to win respect for his own For even if the solution is theirs, the problem is ours. rights; it is that they belong to one another in the fel What is the greatest and bitterest evil of unemploy lowship of the community, and each can be truly him ment? There should no longer be any doubt about self only in the interdependence of that fellowship. W e that question; it is the separation of a man from the shall not help the unemployed man much unless we common life. The unemployed man loses the fellow make for him the opportunity to give what he still can ship of the workshop or factory, drops out of his trade — his time and strength and skill— for the welfare of union; even at home he is a burden on his wife and his neighbors. Even in his state of need we help him family instead of being their chief support. The worst most, not by making him a recipient of benefits, but evil is not bodily cold or hunger; it is not mental va by enabling him still to make his contribution to the cancy and boredom ; though these in all conscience are general good. Never, till I began to study and compare bad enough. But men face such things with good-will the different methods adopted for helping the unem and courage for the sake of a great cause. The bitterest ployed, did I understand how deeply penetrating are evil of unemployment is its corrosion of personality the words “ It is more blessed to give than to receive.” itself. But once supply to the unemployed man the oppor Here we have something which ought to touch us, tunity to give what he can— time and strength and skill as Christians, to the quick. For Christianity lays upon •—while others give what they can— money or material personality a stress unknown in any other religion or — so that all are co-operating in some public service, philosophy except so far as that other has learnt from and the sting of unemployment is largely gone. W e the Gospel. This is the special and characteristic fea must find the way to make of unemployment itself a ture of Christian ethics. And the human personality, tolerable alternative life ; and this means that we must on which such stress is laid, is rooted in the relation not allow “ work” or active- service of neighbors or of every human being to God as his Father and to community, to be either limited to or identified with all other men and women as brothers and sisters in commercial employment. the family of God. This is the Christian’s answer to And if unemployment or involuntary leisure thus every scheme of society which would make each citi comes to be a real alternative life, not only will the zen valuable only so far as he is of service to his misery of their state be largely remedied for the un earthly state. That is not true; if it were, our unem employed themselves, but the hideous menace of it for ployed might be dragooned into labor regiments, those in employment will be largely removed. No one

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 6, 1936 T H E W I T N E S S Page Five can tell how deeply our social life is infected with a place for him and that he should seek his discharge poison which has its source in that fear of unemploy as soon as possible, she would be subject to a prison ment. It drives the weaker to servility, the stronger sentence. A newspaper that carried an editorial sug to bitterness, and affords to petty tyranny an instru gesting either an increase or a decrease in the army ment and a threat. Cure this, and the whole body would be subject to its provisions. A paper that sug politic will feel a new glow of health as from the re gested that the navy didn’t have the best battleships moval of a septic gland. in the world would be in trouble. As for criticising I have spoken of these things by way of example brutality, mistreatment, bad food, unsanitary condi only. The challenge of social evils is a challenge to tions, or anything of that sort, it would be met with our Christianity, both because those evils involve mis brutal suppression, searches and seizures, leading to a ery and hinder growth in virtue, and because our re prison sentence. Or if you happened to be bold ligion itself contains the principles by which they may enough, in time of strike, to deplore the shooting of be cured. strikers by the armed forces, the big boys would get But above all it supplies the power. If we can learn you out of the way in a hurry under the provisions to see Christ in His suffering and needy brethren, and of this bill. There is also the Kramer Sedition Bill, if there is any true love of Christ in our hearts, we introduced into the House of Representatives, which cannot rest till a great change is made. “ The love of is of the same order as this Senate bill. Christ constraineth u s /’ It is that love which urges What can you do about them? This Congressman us onwards; it is that love which will carry us over all said that he was convinced that both bills would be de obstacles to the removal from our common life of its feated, providing Senators and Congressmen received cruelty and its injustice. letters from home expressing disapproval and asking them to vote against the bills. “You mean to tell me that Senators pay attention to letters ?” I asked. “ Posi tively”, was his reply. “Letters from home in the main Talking It Over determine their votes. So if you want to defeat these bills, which I’m telling you show a reckless disregard By of every American principle of liberty, you better see WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD that your friends write their Congressmen and Sen E A L L F E E L that there is little that we can do ators at once.” Thus the matter is left in your hands. W as individuals to express our approval or dis You can do something if you care enough. There is approval of the things we know are happening all a lot of talk these days about the constitution—here’s about us. We are insignificant individuals caught in your chance for action. the wheels that are grinding out ruin, without anything GAIN TAKE THE CASE of the sharecroppers much that we can do about it. W ell, let me tell you in the Southwest. W e all know at least some there is a great deal we can do, if a Congressman with A thing about them, but most of us are either not suffi whom I had a session the other day knows what he is ciently concerned or informed to do anything about talking about. Did you ever hear o f the Tydings- their plight. I received three telegrams from that area McCormack Bill that passed the United States Senate last w eek; one informed me that hundreds of families without consideration or record vote, and is now on had been evicted from their shacks. They are now the calendar of the House of Representatives? It is on the highways, without shelter, without food, and thought very highly of by Mr. Hearst and the army without the right even to cut wood with which to keep and navy crowd—and that’s a big crowd. It provides their children warm. The second telegram informed that any person who suggests, either in writing or me that two leaders had been shot. W hy? Because speech, to a soldier or sailor that an order issued by they spoke at a meeting protesting against the condi a higher authority might not be for the best interests tion of these poverty stricken sharecroppers. The third of all concerned is locked in jail. It prevents you from informed me that Howard Kester, a minister friend writing a pamphlet, a letter to the newspaper or even of mine, had been taken out of a meeting with a rope a private letter in which you express such an opinion. around his neck and nearly lynched because he has W hat’s more the bill provides that the authorities may given effective leadership to these people. And what search your home or your person for such a letter. was I asked to do? To send a telegram to President If enacted into law this bill will deprive the press and Roosevelt and to Secretary Henry A. Wallace, both the people o f this country o f their constitutional right Episcopalians, demanding a Congressional investiga of free speech. W hat’s more (and this is a legal opin tion of the situation. Certainly that is asking little. ion) it would unquestionably suppress all agitation If my friend cares enough about these people to take against the huge army and navy appropriations and his life in his hands every minute of the day, certain would silence all criticism of the big army and navy ly I ought to be willing to write a couple o f letters crowd who 'are bent on getting the same power here from the security of my office in New York. I hope that their brothers have in Germany, Italy and Japan. you will feel the same way about it and will address O W D O N ’T T H IN K that this is unimportant— a letter to these gentlemen in Washington and inform N assuming as I do that you want constitutional them that in your opinion it is time for the federal government in the United States. I f a mother wrote government to take a hand in the situation before there her son, a soldier, and told him that the army was no is a bloody massacre.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six THE WITNESS February 6, 1936 T h e C h r is t ia n T a s k T o d a y By FRANCIS B. SAYRE Churchman and Assistant Secretary of State E ARE experiencing today a period of discour ity upon material force. We have largely ceased to util W agement and of growing pessimism. We seem ize the matchless power and strength that comes to be slipping backwards in the long march of through religion. We have failed to advance in our progress. We are in danger of losing part of the preci comprehension and understanding of spiritual realities. ous heritage for which our ancestors fought and gave W e are losing our faith, and with it our sense of their lives. Human liberty, democracy, parliamentary spiritual direction. We have acquired prodigious ma- government, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, teral power without a corresponding spiritual under tolerance, faith,— these in important parts of the world standing and restraint. have ceased to exist. Today the tide is running strong If the social and economic order in which we live for autocracy and dictatorship, for censored speech is of our own making, surely the road to recovery and writing, for riotious intolerance, for crass material must be of our own making also. Permanent recovery ism. The tragedy is that these fundamentals upon will never come by chance. Order does not flow out which our Western civilization has been slowly and of disorder without directing intelligence. Deep-seated painfully built are being sacrified without a struggle,— and lasting recovery can come only as the result of nay, that whole peoples today are enthusiastically wel conscious effort on the part of those who have the coming their discard, and that youth in whose hands vision and the courage to hew new pathways in a lies the shaping of the future, are the staunchest back changing civilization. ers o f the newly developing order. The world today is recoiling from the disastrous During the past hundred years we have been living effects of the gross materialism which has followed our through an age of unprecedented material develop loss of faith. Humanity is yearning now, as seldom ment and progress. New and hitherto undreamed-of before, for surer foundations on which to build. There power was generated by the creative inventions and is only one way. From widely shifting beliefs and ideas o f the nineteenth century. W e of the W est be differing faiths we must sift out life’s fundamental values. W e must get back to the eternal verities of came drunk with the quest of money and more money; human experience,— for instance, that self-seeking and our generation gave itself over to the winning of wealth and material power. We have harnessed nature and self-indulgence, unrestrained, ultimately lead to suf made her serve us with the wealth-producing power of fering; that dishonesty, whatever the apparent gain of a hundred million slaves. W e have lavishly increased today, inevitably undermines confidence and saps the the physical comforts of life. We have made ourselves possibility of rewarding relationships tom orrow ; that masters of the material world. But we have lost the force and violence, however tempting to gain quick spiritual values which alone give to life its satisfying results, destroy the very foundations of social security and thus ultimately delay the march of human prog rewards. ress; that understanding and love have more potency The results speak for themselves. W e have brought to achieve lasting results than material force. about a cataclysmic war which has drenched the world in blood. We have generated an economic catastrophe Humanity is not now athirst for more inventions without parallel in history. It is not honest thinking and scientific discoveries and improved methods of to regard these as visitations of God which we were manufacture. These things will not stop heart-aches powerless to prevent. They are clearly of our own or broken lives or suicides. What men and women are making,—the result of a social and economic order yearning and groping for today are spiritual values, which we ourselves have built up, founded on acquisi such as inner happiness unconquerable by outward cir tive instincts and making for social injustice and eco cumstances, joy in daily work and satisfaction even in commonplace labor, the affection of a chosen few and nomic insecurity. the respect of all, some objective of existence which Today we are reaping the fruits. Economic collapse colors all life with beauty. Values such as these can threatens on every side. Security, which forms a rough not be built upon material foundations. index of the advance of civilization and which the nineteenth century thought had been permanently won Every great civilization of the past has had its rise, after the turbulent days of feudalism, is in our day its noon-time brilliance, and its gradual decline into fast losing ground. Yet on top of all this we are build the sunset. W e can scarcely expect our own to prove ing up armaments to a point never before touched in an exception. We are beset today with dangers to our history. Nations are preparing for war—and the civilization of the gravest sort. The time is at hand system which we ourselves have created seems to leave when either we must commence a new chapter of for ward progress or watch a slow decline. The outcome no room for escape. depends not upon blind forces outside of our control, UT we have not found the way to win and make but upon ourselves. B secure the enduring and really precious values of life. We have become essentially a materialistic civil URTHER progress demands building anew upon ization. We have sought happiness through acquisi F spiritual foundations. The amazing and splendid tion. W e have placed our ultimate reliance for secur- advance in material progress of the last century must Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 6, 1936 T H E WITNESS Page Seven now be matched by spiritual progress and understand For the most part the title was applied to Bishops in ing. It is not that we must accept arbitrary, unreason the early days because they were the authoritative able or fruitless religious dogmas or traditional moral teachers of Christian doctrine. In some countries the codes. What Western civilization needs is a mastery term was eventually applied to all priests because the and a practical utilization of physical laws. teaching office was delegated to them by the Bishops. The one solution that I can see, the only solution “Pappas” (Pope) was an affectionate abbreviation that seems really practical, lies along the teachings of used for especially eminent Bishops and gradually was Jesus Christ. He sensed, as no one else before or reserved for those we now call Patriarchs. There was since, the heights and depths o f human nature, knew a Pope of Alexandria and a Pope of Antioch as well how to satisfy its fundamental needs. He understood as a Pope of Rome. the secret of power. His life at the time was looked I know it is sometimes said that Christ directly for upon as a failure and He died a felon’s death. And bade such a title when He said “ Call no man your yet, through His life and through His death, He gen father upon earth; for one is your Father which is in erated a power which has fundamentally changed hu heaven” . But it hardly seems likely that He had any man history. such thing in mind. In this 23rd chapter of St. Mat I do not mean more ritualism. I do not mean more thew our Lord is sharply rebuking the Pharisees for ecclesiasticism. I do not mean more dogmatic theology. their uncharitable habits. One o f their particular de I mean that if our civilization cannot be brought to un lights was to appeal to “ the Fathers” , meaning the rab derstand more clearly and to believe more strongly in bis whose hedging of the Law had made it a system the fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ and the of absurdities. They had reduced the Heavenly Father principles upon which he staked His life, our civiliza to the proportions of an exaggerated rabbi. They were tion cannot survive. I mean that men must of their forever appealing to their spiritual privileges as chil own consciousness come to perceive the utter folly of dren of Abraham. Their conception of God was a dried- trying to build a civilization on materialism and brute out formula. Christ tells them to stop appealing to force, and come to realize, perhaps through suffering, the deadly traditions of their Fathers and to approach that the enduring values that humanity will always the Heavenly Father as the source of all revelation. crave grow out of understanding and love and self- Our Lord was not given to condemning a word here sacrifice. and there. What He condemned was wrong spiritual There is only one way to make men realize that. attitudes. H e Himself used the term “ father” when We must go back to the living Christ,— to the audaci He commended the Fifth Commandment— “ H onor thy ous, thrilling, winsome figure that actually lived. U n father and thy mother”, or when He warned His dis less men learn to love Him, they will not follow Him. ciples that the time would come when the father would Neither will they come to understand how to master take sides against the son and the son against the life. father etc. That is the mission o f Christianity to the present As far as I can see, neither the Bible nor the Prayer world, as I see it. As one catches the vision o f all Book have any more to say about “Father” than they that hangs upon the outcome, the call o f Christ be have about “ Mister” or “Reverend”. Some people like comes the most exciting challenge in the world today. it; some people don’t. I can’t see any very good rea son either for forbidding it or for insisting on it. Perhaps you have heard of the priest who came as the new rector to a parish and was beset by a fussy old L e t’s K n ow lady who asked: “Would you mind very much if I By called you ‘Father’ ?” To which the rector smilingly BISHOP WILSON replied, “ M y dear lady, call me Arthur if you want to” , Father L E T T E R from one of our readers asks— “ will A you please publish the authority for the use of The Versatile Man the term ‘Father’ as applied to the clergy of the Epis copal Church” . H A T little old man with the bald head, who sits Some years ago I wrote an answer in this column T in the third pew from the back, at St. Jude’s every to practically the same question and I cannot do much Sunday morning, is very ordinary looking, but he is more than repeat what was said then. really very talented. He is not only an able financier There is no particular authority for it unless you find but an artist, actor and preacher, at the same,time. a bit in the Confirmation service and the services of It takes a clever financier to bring up a large family Ordination in the Prayer Book where the Bishop is on a small salary and he has done that and kept out of addressed as “Reverend Father in God”. The use^of debt. Having the artist’s sense of beauty he has felt the term rests chiefly on custom. the beauty o f God’s love and has tried to make his life In the New Testament it is sometimes used to de fit into the picture. He is an actor because, no matter note a teacher in spiritual things, as when St. Paul how tired or worried or discouraged he has been, he writes to the Corinthians, “ for though ye have ten has never complained but, holding to his inward faith, thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many he has kept a smiling face to the world. He is a fathers” . It became something o f a custom to speak preacher because his Whole life has been a sermon. of the early Christian leaders as the Church Fathers. T h e C h u r c h m ouse.

PRESENT PROGRAM will eventually result in a changed labor policy for the entire university. FOR THE ANNUAL * * * C. L. I. D. MEETING Movies at Convention of Southern Ohio The present trends of political and Something new at a diocesan con economic life in America, and the vention was shown last week when attitude the Church should take to the convention of the diocese of ward them, will he discussed on Feb Southern Ohio met at Cincinnati. ruary 22-23 when the Church League The local chapter of the C. L. L D., for Industrial Democracy holds its of which Mr. Stanley Matthews is annual conference in Baltimore. the head, in the hours between ses Under the general theme, “ The sions exhibited moving pictures show Church, Democracy and Fascism” , ing conditions among the share four local chapters of the organiza croppers in Arkansas, and by way of tion are to present reports on vari contrast also exhibited movies show ous phases of the subject, based upon ing the conditions among the work studies they have made this winter. ers at the Norris Dam. A minister The conference is to open with a who had taken the pictures lectured luncheon at the Y. W. C. A. at which while the pictures were shown. There the executive secretary is to report were also lectures on the work of on the year’s activities. This is to the C. L. I. D. delivered by the Rev. be followed by a general conference, Joseph Fletcher, the head of the to be held in the parish house of School of Applied Religion. The Emmanuel Church, with the Balti meetings were so well attended that more chapter presenting a report on overflow meetings had to be held. the political situation and the Phila * * * delphia chapter a report on the trend Boston C. L. I. D. toward fascism. Holds Meeting Following a devotional service in A meeting of the Boston chapter Emmanuel Church, the annual din of the C. L. I. D. was held at St. ner is to be held in the ballroom of Paul’s Cathedral on January 24th, the Y. W. C. A. at which the Rev. MARY VAN KLEECK presided over by Miss Vida D. Scud- Norman Nash, professor at Cam To Speak in Baltimore der of Wellesley. Plans were made bridge Seminary, is to present a re for the year; speakers in various port of the Boston chapter on the sell Sage Foundation and the Rev. parishes and before Church groups labor movement and its relationship Daniel McGregor are to speak on on the activities of the League; co to the Church, and Mr. Stanley “ Religion’s Part in Building a New operation with secular groups such Matthews a report of the Cincinnati World” . as the American Civil Liberties chapter on the cooperative movement The public has been invited to at Union, the Fellowship of Recon and its relationship to the Church. tend the conference but since the ciliations and kindred organiza There is to be time after all the re facilities are limited the office of the tions; and a committee was appointed ports for discussion. The day will League has requested that any plan to call to the attention of members close with a summary to be presented ning to attend should notify them at such matters as the sharecroppers by Mr. Spencer Miller Jr., consultant 154 Nassau Street, New York City. situation, the gag bills, etc., in order on industry of the National Council. sH v that they may write letters to the February 23rd is to be Industrial authorities urging action. Sunday in the Baltimore churches Churchwoman Aids * H: * with the following clergymen preach in Settling Controversy New Chapters of ing in the various pulpits of the city: There was much to-do at Teachers the .C. L. I. D. Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine, College, Columbia University, last Several new chapters of the C. L. the Rev. Norman Nash of Cam spring when a number of workers in I. D. have recently been organized. bridge, the Rev. Daniel McGregor, the cafeteria were fired. The charge In New York a new group has been executive secretary of the national was made that they were discharged organized, composed for the most department of religious education, for their union activities and some part of students at the General the Rev. Malcolm Peabody of Phila of the students felt so strongly about Seminary, Union Seminary and Co delphia, the Rev. Joseph Fletcher of the matter that they picketed the lumbia University, which is meeting Cincinnati, the Rev. Bradford Young dining room and started a boycott. (Continued on page 16) of Brooklyn, the Rev. Guy Emery Finally a faculty committee was ap Shipler, editor of The Churchman, pointed by the dean to investigate the the Rev. Fleming James of the Berk situation. On the committee was Miss ARE YOU A MEMBER eley Divinity School, the Rev. El- Adelaide Case, consultant for the na of the wood Haines of Glendale, Ohio, the tional Woman’s Auxiliary and a CHURCH LEAGUE Rev. Paul T. Shultz of West Rox- member of the executive committee for bury, Mass., the Rev. Clifford Stan of the Church League for Industrial INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY? ley of the Alexandria Seminary, and Democracy. They did a thorough and painstaking job, with hearings the Rev. Edmund L. Souder, mis You Should Be and You Are sionary to China. through most of the summer. Their Invited to join The final meeting of the confer report was presented a few weeks ence is to be the Baltimore Open ago to the dean with the result that Information on Request from the Forum, where there is an average the workers were reinstated, with League Office weekly attendance of 1,200 people, at compensation for their lost time. It which Miss Mary van Kleeck, direc is also at least within the realm of 1 54 Nassau St. New York tor of industrial studies of the Rus- possibilities that this faculty report

WHERE TO GET NEWS NOTES OF INFORMATION ON FOR LENT THE CHURCH IN SOCIAL ISSUES N PAGE FIFTEEN of this BRIEF PARAGRAPHS O paper is a second announce By Gardiner M. Day ment of the special articles that Edited by W. B. Spofford We wish to answer at least par are to appear in T he W itness There was a lot of ballyhoo a year tially the question: How do you keep this Lent. We are to present first ago about a proposed merger of the np with what is going on in the field hand, informative articles on the dioceses of Kentucky and Lexington. •of Christian Social Action? missions of the Church in Latin The matter came up again at the America, which are being studied convention of Kentucky, held the First of all, I naturally want to this year by the entire Church. other day in Louisville, when a com know what the Church League for Also we are happy to present a mittee presented a report. It seems Industrial Democracy is doing as it series of eight articles, “ The that the Kentucky committee was en is part of our own Church and in Christian Voyage” by Bishop tirely favorable to the merger, pro consequence of being a dues paying Johnson. In order that this ma viding the original agreement could member I receive several times a terial may be in your hands for be carried out, calling for the resig year a pamphlet entitled “ New Notes use with study groups the first nation of the bishops of both dio of the C. L. I. D.” , and various letters week of Lent, the first Lenten is ceses. Bishop Woodcock carried out from its ever-active secretary telling sue will be February 20th. This his end of this agreement, but it me how I ought to spare a dollar or means that orders for Bundles seems Bishop Abbott of Lexington 'more in behalf of some sharecrop must be received in our Chicago has not done so, as he had expressed pers who are almost at the point of office not later than next week. his willingness to do when he himself starvation or in behalf of securing Look over the announcement on proposed the merger. Kentucky justice for someone, like Angelo page fifteen and then please act therefore proposed that Bishop Ab Herndon, who got sentenced to some at once. bott should not be considered in the twenty years in a chain gang for hav election of a bishop for the reunited ing some so-called radical literature dioceses. The Lexington committee in his possession. Then in addition, refused to do this. Therefore Ken the C. L. I. D. publishes and sends to spankings and to that end espouse tucky called the whole thing off and its members from time to time Communism or Fascism. went ahead with the election of a booklets designed to stimulate their Returning to the original question. bishop, with Charles Clingman of minds and help to clarify their think Outside of our own Church the best Birmingham, Alabama, elected on ing concerning the relation between general source of information is the the first ballot, as was reported in Christianity and social issues. Some INFORMATION SERVICE of the this paper last week. The consensus time ago a most excellent analysis of department of research and educa of opinion in the diocese of Kentucky one brand of social poison appeared tion of the Federal Council of is that the two dioceses should he in a C. L. I. D. booklet entitled Churches. This is a weekly bulletin reunited but also that the merger Fascism and within the month a new covering all sorts of subjects. For should be decided entirely without essay has appeared, Christian Doc example, a few recent ones have been reference to the person who should trine and Social Action by the Rev. about Current Issues in Civil Lib succeed as bishop of the reunited Joseph F. Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher erties, The , Child Labor Front in diocese. contends that true sociology must be 1935, The Clergy and Social Action, A happy feature of the convention Christian sociology rooted essential Birth Control, The Cooperative Move was the testimonial dinner tendered ly in the infinite value of the soul ment and about once a month an Bishop Woodcock who has served the of man because man is related not issue is devoted to recent books and diocese as bishop for thirty-one merely to his fellow man and nature pamphlets. This is the most compre years. Bishop Bartlett of Idaho- but primarily to God. He further hensive service I know of in the North Dakota and secretary of stresses his conviction that it is not American Church. Every Church domestic missions was a visitor and more brains that we need for social member ought to see it. Some issues delivered several addresses. salvation but rather a more deter naturally may not be of special in * * mined moral WILL. It is a very terest to you, but there will be enough Mission in stimulating little essay. I believe during the year that are indispen Rochester that Mr. Fletcher was unnecessarily sable to make the service worth more A mission under the direction of hard on liberalism. I cannot feel that than the two dollars it costs. Captain Conder of the Church Army the picture is quite so black, and Two denominational social action was held at the Epiphany, Rochester, that “ liberalism in modern culture commissions publish bulletins that N. Y., from January 12th to 19th. has been incalculably pernicious” . I are remarkable for their high excel . . . St. Simon’s mission, Rochester, realize, however, that I am in the lence. The Congregational Council for Colored people celebrated its first minority for it has become the for Social Action, located at 287 anniversary the other day by dedicat favorite in-door sport among radical Fourth Ave., New York, issues twice ing a new chapel. and ex-liberal thinkers to pan lib a month a thirty page booklet on a * * * eralism. I have not space here to wide range of subjects, such as peace, Kagawa Draws place the virtues of liberalism before strikes, cooperatives, child labor, etc. Huge Crowds you by way of defense, but what I The last bulletin was devoted to An enthusiastic crowd of more fear is that when Mr. Fletcher and an essay by Dr. Charles A. Beard than 2,500 persons greeted Toyohiko other good fathers have thrashed this on the Constitution which is the most Kagawa at a dinner in New York child Liberalism to their own satis clarifying article I have read on last Monday evening. So it has been faction, the child unfortunately will that difficult subject. These bulletins during his entire visit to the city. not take Papa’s advice asd grow up cost $1 a year and are more than At St. Bartholomew’s last Sunday happily affirming Christian doctrine worth it. the huge church was jammed and but may to the father’s consterna The Social Questions Bulletin is close to a thousand people were tion decide to be the administrator the name of a four page monthly turned away. He has been pleading rather than the recipient of future (Continued on page 16) for creative drive, courage, aggres-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS February 6, 1936 siveness and fire in Christianity; has faculty members which was ad about, particularly at Harry Ward been unsparing in his criticism of dressed by Sherwood Eddy, who de and Bishop McConnell, president of the capitalist system and ardent in clared that the establishment of R. the federation. As has been re his plea for cooperation. Christians, O. T. C. units in colleges was in line marked, “ to seek to bring the exist he said, are too reserved and might with the present trend toward war ing social order to judgment in terms well learn a lesson from the daring and Fascism. The fight against the of the ethics of Jesus is sure to and aggressiveness of the commun establishment of the unit is being bring charges of being red” . Both ists. Christians, he added, should continued and it is hoped that the these gentlemen, very much in talk less and work harder. matter may receive the considera earnest at this task, are no doubt H: ^ He tion of the university trustees when used to being called names by this Death Takes they meet in June. Incidentally Mr. time. I have been asked to be chair Distinguished Churchman Clarke heard from twenty of our man at a testimonial dinner for George W. Wickersham, distin clergy in the diocese of Southern Harry Ward next week. I do not sup guished Churchman of New York, Ohio, and sixteen of them protested pose there will be many Methodist died on Saturday last of a heart at against the establishment of a mili laymen there, but there will be many tack. He was 76 years of age. He tary unit. of the earth’s disinherited, and when had served the Church long as a * * * I say that I do not despair of the vestryman, a delegate to General Convention of Christian Church as long as there Conventions, and as a trustee of the Diocese of Dallas are men like Harry F. Ward in it Church Pension Fund. He was also The 41st council of the diocese of there will be prolonged cheers. And one of the original incorporators of Dallas met at Christ Church, Dallas, the love of the masses is ample com the Church Life Insurance Corpora on January 22-23 with a record num pensation for the criticisms of the tion and of the Church Properties ber of delegates present. Bishop big-shots. Fire Insurance Corporation and Moore stressed the Forward Move H* H* H* served both as a director. ment in his address. Bishop Spen * * * Clergy to Study cer of West Missouri was the speak M arriage New Trend er at the diocesan dinner. The younger clergy of the diocese in Missions of Western New York are forming Three new trends in foreign mis Charges of a a study group for instruction and sions stood out at the Foreign Mis Red Tie-up preparation on marriage. The in sions Conference held last month at Methodist laymen in Chicago are struction is to be given by Bishop Asbury Park, presided over by Dr. again up in arms, this time over the Davis and is to prepare the clergy John R. Mott. First, there was less conference of the Methodist federa to deal with those who come to them emphasis on “ missions” and a con tion of social service, headed by for marriage and to assist them in stant re-emphasis on the principles Harry F. Ward, held in that city re dealing with domestic problems in of Christianity, with the need cently. Charges of “ red” propaganda their parishes. . . . The Rev. Daniel stressed for focusing attention on and “ soviet tie-up” are being hurled McGregor, executive secretary of the teachings of Christ in the United States as well as in foreign lands. Second, the development of churches abroad under native leadership in stead of under the direction of mis The sionaries was reported. Third, under native leadership the methods and GOOD NEWS programs of churches in foreign fields are quite different from those of Lent of Anglo-Saxon countries, with their willingness to “ reach down and live The theme for “Forward— day by day,” the Forward and work with people where they Movement manual of Bible readings and meditations, during are” much more marked than it is Lent is “The Good News of Lent.” with us. The Lenten season offers a great opportunity to reach the * * * casual and indifferent Church members. Ohio Clergyman Place orders for the Lenten number of the manual NOW Keeps up the Fight A couple of weeks ago we reported so you will have your copies for prompt distribution among that the Rev. Lloyd W. Clarke, stu your people. dent pastor at Ohio University, The copies are supplied at the rate of 50 for $1.00. Post Athens, was heading a fight against paid if remittance accompanies order. the establishment of a Reserve Of ficers Training Corps at the univer “ Religion in Family Life” sity. He urged the clergy of the state to protest and gathered pe A new Forward Movement outline course for study and titions, letters and telegrams num discussion, entitled “Religion in Family Life,” has been pre bering over 1,000. However the uni pared. Five cents per copy. versity authorities, though they met The purpose of this course is to arouse the conviction that to consider the matter, would not the fulfillment of the will of God for His world depends on allow the petitions to be presented Christian ideals in the home. and announced that the R. O. T. C. unit was to be established. Immedi ately a resolution of protest was is FORWARD MOVEMENT COMMISSION sued by Mr. Clarke and four other 223 West Seventh Street ministers of the city. Also they ar Cincinnati, Ohio. ranged for a mass meeting which was attended by 700 students and

the department of religious educa of the American Church Institute torical society. The service was at tion was a speaker at a dinner in for Negroes. The Rev. Robert W. tended by a large number of patri Buffalo on January 28th, attended Patton was the speaker at the con otic organizations. * * * by teachers of the diocese. vention dinner. Hi * * * * * Bishop Rogers The Vote in Convention Dinner in Berm uda Western Michigan on Forward Movement Bishop Rogers of Ohio sailed on Last week we announced the elec Two hundred people attended the January 25th for a vacation in Ber tion of the Rev. L. B. Whittemore muda. dinner of the diocese of Indianap * * * of Grand Rapids as the bishop coad olis, held in connection with the jutor of Western Michigan. The vote diocesan convention, in spite of the Bishop Maxon was as follows: fact that a blizzard and sub-zero in Washington Clerical: weather made travel next to impos Bishop Maxon of Tennessee was L. B. Whittemore...... 15 sible. The Rev. Carl Block spoke on the speaker at a Forward Movement W. A. Simms...... , 4 the Forward Movement. mass meeting for the diocese of C. Rankin B arn es...... 3 Washington which was held at Epiphany Church on February 5th. W. L. Forsyth ...... 1 Massachusetts Rector Parishes throughout the diocese W. F. Tunks...... 1 Has Anniversary were represented. Laymen: The Rev. Albion C. Ockenden L. B. Whittemore...... 33 celebrated the tenth anniversary of C. Rankin Barnes...... 15 his rectorship of St. John’s, North Bishop Moore W. A. Simms ...... 11 ampton, Mass., last week. The Rev. in Kansas City W. L. Forsyth ...... 1 Fleming James of the Berkeley Di Bishop Moore of Dallas was the W. F. Tunks...... 1 vinity School preached at the anni headliner at the annual parish meet Bernard Iddings Bell...... 1 versary service. There was a check ing of St. Andrew’s, Kansas City, on of $500 handed the rector by pa January 27th. Mr. Whittemore, after graduating Hs H* H*. from Yale in 1907, served for five rishioners and friends. Mr. Ocken years in the Philippines under Bish den went to the hospital a couple Convention in op Brent. Returning to America he days later for a minor operation Los Angeles entered the Cambridge Seminary from which he is making a good re The convention in the diocese of covery. Los Angeles started with a mission from which he graduated in 1915. * * * He served as curate at Christ ary service at St. Luke’s, Long Church, New York City and Calvary, Historic Service Beach, on January 26th and ended on the following Saturday, Feb Pittsburgh, and was rector of Trin at Detroit Cathedral ity, Detroit, for three years before A service commemorating one ruary 1st, with an all day conference being called to Grace Church, Grand hundred years of the history of the Rapids in 1927. He has been active state of Michigan was held at St. in community and social service Paul’s Cathedral on January 26th. work and has been a leader in dioce The service was led by Dean Kirk Calvert-Herrick san affairs, being the chairman of O’Ferrall and the address was by the standing committee and a dele Mr. Orla B. Taylor, official his & Riedinger gate to several General Conventions. toriographer of the Michigan his 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street * * * Convention of New . York . City Diocese of Chicago On the eve of the convention of DECORATION MURALS the diocese of Chicago, meeting at STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC St. Chrysostom’s, the treasurer of ALTARS STAINED GLASS AND . CHURCH the diocese announced that the dio cese had paid its pledge to the Na LIGHTING FIXTURES DECORATION tional Council, $50,000, in full. It represented an increase of 25% STATIONS ART METAL over 1934. The convention, meet ing on February 3rd, devoted itself CHURCH . APPOINTMENTS largely to the Forward Movement, RAMBUSCH IN . MARBLE . STONE the financial situation and the work Designers Decorators and ^Draftsmen W OOD . AND 2 West 45th St *v New York City METAL Established 1879 R. C. BALLINGER CO. BUILDING CONTRACTORS 112 South 16th Street CHURCH VESTMENTS VESTMENTS STAINED GLASS WOODWORK Philadelphia For ClersY and Choir r-^i \^INDOW^ • SILVER AND BRASS Builders of Materials by the yard T u o at T 1 St. Giles P. E. Church, Parish House, J. M. HALL Inc. . TAILORING W and Sunday -School, Upper Darby, Pa. Write for It AMERICAN St. Mary’s P. E. Chapel, Chester, Pa. AMERICAN M samples*^ O DISTRIBUTOR Church of St. John Chrysostom, Phila. DISTRIBUTOR for and prices for First Church of Christ Scientist, Sc J.M. HALL Inc. JAMES POWELL&SONS Swarthmore, Pa. A. R. MOWBRAY Co. Unitarian Church and Parish House on Ltd. 1 di«1iYJTjTnB (Whitetriars) Ltd. Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia. LONDON * ENGLAND 1 LONDON * ENGLAND Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS February 6, 1936 of the junior Daughters of the King way the rector, the Rev. G. Pauli T. ple at St. John’s, Savannah, Ga., on at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Los An Sargent, described T h e W i t n e s s . January 24th. Bishop Barnwell was geles. In between there were all He urged his parishioners to sub also present and gave a brief ad sorts of events; religious education scribe to at least one of the na dress. In the afternoon Miss Gregg day; Woman’s Auxiliary day, with tional Church papers. addressed the Auxiliary of St. John’s Mrs. William P. Remington as a H= * * parish. . . . The Rev. John A. Wright, headliner; Daughters of the King School of Religion St. Paul’s, Augusta, is giving a day, with a couple of days devoted in Houston series of five lectures on the sacra to the convention itself. Most of the Parishes of Houston, Texas, united ments at Christ Church, Savannah. sessions were held at the cathedral. for a school of religion which was . . . Arthur M. Gignilliat of the H* H« * held at Trinity Church, January faculty of Armstrong College is Parish Dinner 27th through the 31st. Six five- giving a series of lectures on the for Parents period courses were offered. Italian-Ethiopian affair to the young A dinner for mothers and fathers * * * of the parish was held at Grace Bishop Lawrence Appeals THE PENCE BANK Church, Nyack, N. Y., on January for Christian Citizenship 31st, with Dr. Charlotte Munn of the A ringing appeal for Christian CAN GET YOUR Rockland State hospital and Dea citizenship, in which he did not fail PARISH OUT OF coness Claudine Whitaker of Calvary to point a finger at evils within his THE RED Church, New York, as the speakers. own state and city, was delivered The dinner was held in a hotel of Thousands of Churches on January 15th in Ford Hall, Bos 1 are safeguarding their the city and was well attended. ton, by the venerable Bishop Law incomes with this simple H* * 1 -V and unique plan. A dig rence, now well over eighty. The T : “ nified and direct method Preaching Mission occasion was the 16th annual meet of giving. J at Mitchell, S. D. ing of the diocesan Church Service Gold lacquered top and The problems of personal religion bottom and lithographed League. Others on the program ■ g p S labels, ready for distri were approached from the view were William R. Castle Jr., former bution. point of psychology in a preaching under-secretary of state in the Sample mission held at Mitchell, S. D., led Hoover administration, Miss Mar by the Rev. Austin Pardue of Min guerite Ogden, the Rev. W. Brooke Universal Pence Bank Co. neapolis. The church was crowded Stabler and Bishop Sherrill. 11 West 42nd Street at each service with forty per cent * * * New York City of the evening attendance being non- Reinheimer Consecration Episcopalian. Mr. Pardue also had on March 4th CENTER FOR ORAL ARTS services each morning, addressed The consecration of the Rev. B. Founder: ML E. DeWitt four groups in town, and had num Saturday meetings weekly: Prose & Verse H. Reinheimer as Bishop Coadjutor speaking choir, 10 A.M. A few scholarships erous personal conferences. The of the diocese of Rochester is to be are available. Open theatre problems confer Rev. J. Ethan Allen, rector, with the ence at 11:15. First Sat. of each month, open held in the city of Rochester on General Conference at 2 P.M. parish council, is now planning a March 4th. Miss M. E. DeWitt, Oral Art Center, follow-up of the effective mission. Hi Hs Hs c /o Historic Arts Galleries, * * * Barbizon-Plaza Hotel New York City Missionary to China Boost for the Visits Georgia FINE IRISH LINEN Church Papers Miss Alice Gregg, missionary from specially selected for Church use. 36" to A large part of the parish bulle Anking, China, addressed an inter- 54" wide, cut any length. Samples of 12 qualities on request. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 tin of St. Bartholomew’s, New York, parochial conference of young peo Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. was recently devoted to praise of THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK the Church papers. “ Informational, SOCIETY educational and social in its out MOTHERS! 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 6, 1936 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen people of Christ Church, Savannah. is a volunteer group of men and inary. Bishop Remington is a na . . . Bishop Barnwell is planning to women, mostly American born of tive Philadelphian and a member of give a mission at his old parish, the Slavonic parentage. Mr. Peter M. one of the city’s oldest and socially Advent in Birmingham, Ala., dur Fekula, an American business man, prominent families. The general ing Lent. organized the choir in 1934. opinion at the board meeting was H< * H* H: ^ H* New Canons at Rex Ingram to Trenton Cathedral be “De Lawd” The Rev. R. B. Gribbon and the Remember awhile back, the to-do Wilbur Herbert Burnham Rev. Walter Lawrie were installed because Warner Brothers indicated canons of the cathedral at Trenton, that they would cast A1 Jolson as N. J., on January 25th. The preach “ De Lawd” in the moving picture Designer and Master er at the service, which was also version of “ The Green Pastures” ? Craftsman the 21st anniversary of the con Apparently the protests, several of which appeared in this paper, had secration of Bishop Matthews, was Stained and Leaded Glass Bishop-elect Dagwell who had lofty their effect for it is now announced praise for Bishop Matthews and also that the part will be played by Rex for Canon Samuel G. Welles who Ingram, a graduate of Northwestern Studios 1126 Boylston Street has carried on an exceptionally fine University and the holder of a Phi Boston, Massachusetts institutional work in the diocese for Beta Kappa key. Mr. Ingram, a the past twenty years. Negro, starred last year in “ Steve * * * dore” . Convention Meets Services for in Houston WENEELY BELL King George T R O Y , N.Y am o The 86th annual council of the ggo a ROADWAV N Y.CJTV It would fill these news notes to diocese of Texas met in Houston fully report the services held in mem January 19-21. Chief interest was ory of King George that were held in the 1936 budget which not only in Episcopal Churches last week. holds the line but makes certain ad Practically every cathedral and ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. vances. A feature of the meeting many parish churches had such serv 147 E. 47th St., New York was an address by W. J. Battle of CHURCH VESTMENTS ices, all well attended according to the University of Texas on the his ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY the dozens of reports that have been tory of the Church in Texas. They Conferences with reference to the adornmem received at this office. of Churches. are going in for history down there * * * Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 this year since it is the' 100th an niversary of the state. Bishop Remington Elected Dean Bishop Remington of Eastern Ore Unusual Class gon was elected the dean of the Phil in Wilkinsburg adelphia Divinity School on January The largest confirmation class dur 28th at a special meeting of the ing the long rectorship of the Rev. joint boards of this 77 year old sem- William Porkess was presented at St. Stephen’s, Wilkinsburg, Pa., on January 26th. There were thirty- three, including a grandmother, her daughter and two grandsons; a mother and daughter, a brother and two sisters and also a blind woman. •W1PPELL Candidates came from five denom-1 inations besides our own. ¿c COMPANY- LT0 * * * Slavonic Choir EXETER Cathedral, yard. in New York LONDON nfufton St S Wi. The American Slavonic choir is M A N C H E ST E R Street. to give a recital of the music of TORONTO ■ ■ HARCOURTS ■ LTD. the Eastern Orthodox Church at the 103, JQncj Street West. Intercession, New York, on Feb ruary 16th in the evening. The choir

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Fourteen T H E WITNESS February 6, 1936 that he would accept, which seemed was also reported that the market Louis, was elected bishop coadjutor to indicate that he had been ap value of investments for this corpo of Kansas on January 26th. A com proached on the subject. At the same ration and also the Church Life In mittee of seventeen, appointed last meeting Mr. Charles Christopher surance Corporation are well in ex September, received many nomina Morris, prominent in financial and cess of their cost. The reports were tions for the office but came into the Church circles, was elected president presented by Mr. J. P. Morgan and convention unanimously for the elec of the board of trustees. No official the Hon. Frank L. Polk. tion of Mr. Block. A committee statement was issued in regard to * ¡H * has now been appointed to raise finances but it was learned that there Union Dean to funds to meet the costs, with $5,000 lias been received subscriptions and Lecture at Alexandria of the necessary $10,000 raised in pledges sufficient to warrant the be The Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen, thirty minutes during the conven tion. lief that the school can put into op dean of the Union Seminary, is to * * * eration next fall the new plan of lecture at the summer school of the theological education, previously ap Theological Seminary in Virginia, Lewis B. Franklin proved by the board. Alexandria, on June 8-12. Other Back from China * * * courses are to be given by the semi Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of Carbondale Parish nary faculty. the National Council, returned to his House Destroyed * * * office at the Church Missions House The parish house of Trinity Bishop Sanford Has (Continued on page 16) Church, Carbondale, Pa., was de Silver Jubilee stroyed by fire on January 22nd, re Bishop Sanford of San Joaquin sulting in a loss of $10,000, partly observed the silver jubilee of his KNIGHTS OF STS: JOHN covered by insurance. consecration on January 22-23. Let the Boys * * * There was a reception, a service and have this Fra Protects Churches a banquet at which Bishop Parsons ternity and you will have Against Fire Losses of California was the speaker. Other bishops to attend were Bishop Ste the boys in It was reported at the annual vens of Los Angeles, Bishop Huston Church. Pro meeting of the Church Properties vides worth of Olympia and Bishop Remington of Fire Insurance Corporation on Jan while things to Eastern Oregon. do. Endorsed uary 29th that about one-third of $ $ ? the property of the Episcopal b y leading Bishops and Clergy. Ritual of Ini Church is now insured against fire St. Louis Rector Elected Bishop tiations $1.00. Headquarters: 3012 losses by the corporation. Insurance West Coulter Street, Philadelphia, now in force amounts to $71,630,161 The Rev. Karl M. Block, rector of Pa. as against $64,481,892 last year. It St. Michael and St. George’s, St.,

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(Continued from page 14) WHERE TO GET INFORMATION valiant service in behalf of liberty in New York on January 30th fol ON SOCIAL ISSUES and justice is The American Civil lowing an extended trip to the Liberties Union. For two dollars a Orient. He reported that “ Gratify (Continued from page 9) member of that organization not only ing progress is being made every leaflet issued by the Methodist Fed aids the cause of liberty and justice where in the Episcopal Church mis eration for Social Service. Because but also receives a quarterly bulletin sions toward the self-support of ex of its definite and fearless analysis and innumerable pamphlets which isting churches and institutions.” of actual conditions during the de come from the front line trench of pression this bulletin has received the present modern battle for the more publicity than the others. It right of freedom of speech, of press, News Notes gives facts frequently difficult to get of radio, and free assemblage free from Boston in, a convenient form elsewhere, is dom is in constant danger despite the Sir Herbert Ames, long associated always interesting, and also costs one fact that it is guaranteed under with the League of Nations, has been dollar a year. Its editor is Miss Win Article I of the Constitution. Other elected to the vestry of Trinity: ifred L. Chappell, 150 Fifth Avenue, sources of information we shall speak parish. . . . New lights have been in New York. of in later issues, but these are our stalled in Christ Church, Cambridge, Another organization which does first choices. the gift of Francis B. Sayre in mem ory of his late wife. . . . The rector did not preach at St. John’s, East Boston, on December 8th. Instead the congregation gathered at 10 o’clock, listened to the broadcast of Archbishop Temple from Washing YOU ARE INVITED ton, and then had their own service. . . . Ballots were recently cast at St. to the annual conference of the Paul’s, Malden, on favorite hymns. The five leaders were, “ 0 Master Let CHURCH LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY Me Walk with Thee” , “ Onward to be held in Christian Soldiers” , “ Fight the Good BaSHmoire, February 22 and 23 Fight” , “ Lead Kindly Light” and “ Abide with Me” .

PRESENT PROGRAM FOR THE February 22: luncheon, followed by conference on the politi ANNUAL C.L.I.D. MEETING cal situation and the trend toward fascism, and their relation ships to the Church. (Continued from page 8) Dinner meeting with addresses by the Rev. Norman Nash, regularly at Windham, the Church Mr. Stanley Matthews and Mr. Spencer Miller Jr., on the La center in up-town New York that is bor Movement and the Cooperative Movement, and their re presided over by Miss Mary Ladd. lationship to the Church. In St. Louis a new chapter is unuer way under the chairmanship of the February 23: C. L. I. D. Sunday in the Baltimore Churches Rev. Stephen Bayne. There are two with distinguished visiting preachers occupying the pulpits. new chapters on the Pacific Coast, In the afternoon the League will direct the one in Los Angeles with the Rev. Thomas Marshall as chairman and BALTIMORE OPEN FORUM one in San Francisco where the Rev. Elizabeth Gilman, Director J. C. Leffler is chairman. A student chapter has also been organized at Subject: RELIGION’S PART IN BUILDING A NEW WORLD the Seabury-Western Seminary, with Mr. Jack Schwer as chairman. The Speakers: Mary van KSeeck, director of industrial studies of Rev. Alfred Newbery of Chicago re the Russell Sage Foundation. cently addressed the Chicago chap ter. IDanieE McGregor, executive secretary of the department of religious education. Bradford Young Speaks in Philadelphia William B. Spofford, chairman. The Philadelphia chapter of the C. L. I. D., which is preparing a re port on the trends toward fascism in the United States, recently held a THOSE PLANNING TO ATTEND ARE URGED TO REGIS meeting at which the Rev. Bradford TER IN ADVANCE IN ORDER THAT WE MAY PLAN FOR Young of Brooklyn gave the prin YOUR COMFORT. There is no registration fee or admission cipal address. charge. Information as to trains and hotels will be sent on H: ^ H* request. Cincinnati to Hear Kagawa The Cincinnati chapter of the C. Church League for Industrial L. I. D. is cooperating with other local organizations in sponsoring a Democracy meeting in the city on March 5th to be addressed by Kagawa, the 154 Nassau Street New York City noted Japanese Christian now tour ing the country.