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ficial delegates are: Bishop Presiding Bishop Calls on Pope Stephen F. Bayne, executive of- ficer of the worldwide Anglican Communion; the Ven. John M. publication. On Way to World Assembly Burgess, Archdeacon of Boston; and * Presiding Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger heads the official Mrs. Sherman E. Johnson of Lichtenberger made a "courtesy delegation of eleven Episcopal Berkeley, California, lecturer in reuse call" on Pope John on his way Church representatives. Two Old Testament and Hebrew at for to the assembly of the World missionary bishops appointel as the Church Divinity School of Council in New Delhi. Plans delegates-at-large are also with the Pacific; the Rev. James W. for such a visit were announced the group. Other Episcopal Kennedy, rector of the Church required in. New York as the Presiding leaders are attending as official of the Ascension in New York Bishop and Mrs. Lichtenberger advisers and staff participants, City, secretary of the joint com- were aboard ship enroute to and the Episcopal youth dele- mission on ecumenical relations; Clifford P. Morehouse, president Permission Rome. gate heads the U.S. delegation The announcement stressed of 20 from the United Christian of the House of Deputies and a that the visit was a courtesy Youth Movement, of which he member of the joint commission DFMS. on ecumenical relations; Bishop / visit and "has no doctrinal is president. J. Brooke Mosley of Delaware, implications on either side." The Nominated by the joint com- visit is intended, the statement and vice-chairman of the joint Church mission on ecumenical relations, said further, "to reciprocate commission; President Nathan appointed by the Presiding the attitude of goodwill and Pusey of Harvard University, Bishop and elected by the Na- since 1954 a member of the friendliness which the present tional Council, the Church's of- Episcopal Pope has always shown toward World Council's central com- the those who are seeking the union mittee; Bishop Lauriston L. of of Christendom." Scaife, Western New York, The announcement called at- chairman of the joint commis- tention to the visit of Arch- sion on cooperation with East- Archives bishop Fisher of Canterbury to ern and Old Catholic Churches; the Pope last December and de- Mrs. Theodore O. Wedel of Cam- 2020. clared that the Presiding bridge, Mass., who just com- Bishop's "visit is in character pleted a term on the Episcopal exactly parallel." National Council and is on the Copyright * The assembly of the World board of managers of United Council of Churches meeting in Church Women; and Dean'Rich- New Delhi, India, which opened ard H. Wilmer, of the Berkeley November 18 and runs to Divinity School. December 6 has a strong Epis- Sent as "extra Anglicans" in copal C h u r c h representation the group of delegates-at-large among it 625 delegates. Henry allowed by the Archbishop of Knox Sherrill, retired Presiding Canterbury are Bishop Benito C. Bishop, was one of the five Cabanban, suffragan of the World Council presidents to lead Philippines. -nd Bishop Plinio the colorful opening procession- ARTHUR LICHTENBERGER: - al. Presiding Bishop calls on Pope on Laue- ' - of Southwestern " . Presiding B i s h o p Arthur tray to New Delhi. Braz in the missionary

NOVEMBER 23, 1961 Three jurisdiction of the American Simultaneous translation fa- title for the book to appear in Church. cilities are being used for the February as the official study Episcopalians serving as of- meetings, in the World Coun- book reporting on the assembly. ficial advisers are Charles P. cil's official languages: English, Its author will be the Rev. Taft of Cincinnati, chairman of French, and German. James W. Kennedy of the Epis- the working committee for the Five Roman Catholic observ- copal delegation, who has been World Council's department of ers are attending under Vatican appointed to this task by the information; and the Rev. The- authority. U.S. conference for the World odore O. Wedel of Cambridge, "No Darkness at All" is the Council of Churches. Mass., as chairman of the work- ing committee for the World Council's department of evan- gelism. Chech Churches Urge Nations Canon Almon R. Pepper, director of the National Coun- Negotiate for World Peace cil's department of social rela- publication. tions, is attending for the * The presidium of the Ecu- ter in their own places the menical- Council of Churches in atmosphere of trust and hope and Church world service sessions, as will Hugh D. Farley of Wash- Czechoslovakia, representatives and by their comprehension of of the Orthodox Church in the contemporary events, by reuse ington, D.C., Episcopalian re- Czechoslovakia and the Czecho- their prayer, advice and work to for cently named executive direc- tor of Church World Service. slovak Church also attending, support statesmen in their dif- The Episcopal youth delegate discussed in its session in Bra- ficult and responsible work. We required is Philip M. Pavlik of Bingham- tislava on September 22nd and are faced not only by political ton, N.Y., president of the 23d, 1961, the contemparary and economic problems or by a United Christian Youth Move- serious international situation, mere contest of power. Human- ment and this year a youth as- and after considering fully all ly speaking, everything is at Permission sociate with the youth division relevant problems they arrived stake today - life on this earth, of the National Council's de- at this unanimously agreed life of our brethren and sisters, statement of its position: of our children, of those who are DFMS. partment of education. He re- / turns to Harvard next Septem- We are aware that we stand to come after us. ber for his senior year, after a in the midst of decisive months In deep seriousness of our

Church year on leave. of the post-war international faith we express the conviction Formed in 1948 at Amster- situation. In this serious mo- that it is possible to find a solu- dam, convened again in Evans- ment there is still time for ne- tion of all difficult and danger-

Episcopal ton, Illinois, in 1954, the World gotiations. As believing mem- ous problems of today which Council bers of our Churches we do not would be acceptable for all na- the is now assembled for its of third full meeting, with "Jesus yield to the fatalistic feeling tions and could create prere- Christ, the Light of the World" that a new catastrophe is un- quisites for the salutary de- as theme. In the sessions in escapable. We rather realize the velopment of all mankind and

Archives Vigyan Bhavan Hall in India's great responsibility of our faith the atmosphere of lasting peace capital city are 154 delegates but also of our common sense to and real creative cooperation of

2020. from 28 U.S. member Churches. cope without fear and prejudice all nations. In this sense we The 625 official delegates from with the realities of contempor- wish to work in our own en- 175 Protestant, Anglican, and ary international relations. We vironment, and we pray our

Copyright Orthodox m e m b e r Churches are aware that our Churches brethren in the western coun- around the world represent and the so-called Christian so- tries, particularly in Western some 200-million Christians. ciety had not done enough for Germany, similarly to influence The World Council's course preventing the last war and for their governments. for the next six years is being easing the tense and dangerous Total Disarmament determined at New Delhi, as situation of today. Disarmament and p e a c e delegates consider programs on In the name of our Churches treaty with Germany belong to ecumenical efforts, faith and and in the light of our faith in the most important problems of order, the Church and society, the gospel of Jesus Christ we today. People everywhere de- international affairs, refugee approach members of our own sire peace and eagerly expect work, youth work, cooperative Churches as'well as our breth- that the responsible powers will study, evangelism, and the ren and sisters in Churches agree on the principles of uni- laity. abroad with the petition to fos- versal and total disarmament Four Tn WrrNmss under strict international con- 0 To confirm and guarantee Christian Peace Conference and trol. They are disturbed by the frontiers of Germany as which we desire to continue constant delays in these negoti- they were fixed on the basis of with still greater determination ations, particularly because the the agreement of the four for the victory of world peace, proposals for disarmament have powers immediately after the for removing causes of the cold been submitted to the General end of the second world war war and for strengthening Assembly of the United Nations " To settle the problem of friendship between the nations. by the Soviet Union and it has Western Berlin by making it a We pray our brethren and been agreed in principle that free city with a statute guaran- sisters in other countries to re- they should become the basis of teed by the four powers and the ceive our words with the same negotiations. If some states- UN earnestness with which we men are of the opinion that 0 To include both the neu- address them. We have a bitter those proposals are one-sided, tralized and disarmed German experience of our own with they should submit their coun- states in the zone without fascism and its manifestations. ter-proposals in all sincerity of atomic weapons We never can forget the Munich heart and above all, all parties We are convinced that the catastrophe and the sacrifices of publication. should start concrete discus- peaceful settlement of these lives of our pastors and mem-

and sions, because negotiation is the questions will be to the detri- bers we had then to bring in the fundamental means for dealing ment of no party concerned but second world war.

reuse with all controversial questions. on the contrary to the benefit of Because we do not wish that for We know well that there are the whole of Europe; nay of the anybody should have to make a many potential centers of the whole world including the Ger- similar experience, we ask all danger of war. However, for man people. believing Christians and other required us who belong to the nations of Our situation and our strug- people of good will to join ef- Czechoslovakia, the danger as- gle for peace confirm the work forts with ours in seeking ways sociated with the present situa- which we have been doing in the towards reaching these goals. tion in Germany is the most Permission serious one. We pray our breth- ren and friends in other coun-

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/ tries not to forget that we speak from a region covered by mil- lions of graves from the second Begin in April in Washington Church world war. Our uneasiness is not dictated by local and nation- * Officers of the committee ficial representatives of the four al motives but by fear of a ca- of nine of the United Presby- conferring Churches will be

Episcopal tastrophe menacing Europe and terian Church, U.S.A., and the held in Washington in April. A joint commission on approaches special committee of one repre- the the whole world. Every war of starting in the center of Europe to unity of the Episcopal Church sentative of each of the denomi- would necessarily develop into on Nov. 8th issued an official nations will draft a preliminary a world disaster. invitation to the Methodist agenda. The text of the official

Archives Church and the United Church letter of invitation follows: In this sense we understand of Christ to join with the Pres- "We are writing on behalf of the apprehensions and back the 2020. byterians and Episcopalians in the officially appointed com- desires of our people as ex- fourway conversations "explor- mittees of our respective pressed also in the declaration ing the establishment of a Churches to invite the Metho- of the government of the

Copyright united church - truly Catholic, dist Church and the United Czechoslovak Socialist Republic truly Reformed and truly Evan- Church of Christ to send a com- on the necessity to conclude the gelical". mittee of nine persons to repre- peace treaty with Germany. sent your Churches at a con- The United Church accepted In spite of all differences ference at the College of the invitation immediately. The existing in respect of the prob- Preachers, Washington, D.C., on Rev. Ben M. Herbster, United lem of Germany it is our opinion Monday and Tuesday, April 9 Church president, accepted the that even now it should be pos- and 10, 1962. This conference invitation in a letter to Charles sible to agree on following steps is called to begin formal conver- D. Kean of Washington, D.C., to be taken: sations 'exploring the establish- secretary of t h e Episcopal 0 To conclude a peace treaty ment of a united church - Church's commission on ap- with both the German states truly Catholic, truly Reformed proaches to unity. which are a historic reality to- and truly Evangelical'. day A first conference of the of- "This conference is the result NOVEMBEaR 23, 1961 Five of the action of the General As- both the peace corps and the solve problems facing mankind sembly of the United Presby- Churches to meet human need today. Among these he cited terian Church in the U.S.A. of in Tanganyika "has nothing to "caste-ism, race prejudice, the May 17-24, 1961, inviting the do with particular creeds of the cold war, military dictatorships Protestant Episcopal Church in Christian faith." and revolutions." the U.S.A. to join with it in in- "There's plenty of scope for Another speaker, Samuel Ma- viting the Methodist Church the peace corps outside this thai, secretary of the university and the United Church of Christ area," he said. "On the other grants commission of India and to participate in four-way con- hand, many of the non-religious a member of the Mar Thoma versations. T he Presbyterian social services in that country Syrian Church of Malabar, told invitation was officially ac- are operated by missions." some 160 delegates that the cepted by the General Conven- He was consecrated as the "Christian gospel cannot be tion of the Protestant Episcopal first Anglican Bishop of Masasi identified with European cul- Church at its meeting in last November and is visiting ture, industrial society or po- September, 1961. this country partly for the pur- litical democracy." The gospel, "The officers of the officially pose of interesting Americans he said, was best expressed in publication. appointed Presbyterian a n d in the development of Tan- terms of love. Episcopalian committees have and ganyika which will gain its com- He urged a deeper under- met to implement these actions plete independence in Decem- standing of non-Christian reli- reuse by their respective Church ber. gions and said Christians should

for councils, and hereby invite your Bishop Huddleston noted that become "totally involved in the Church, through you, to join building of ne;v nations with with us in this endeavor. the East African country has no racial problem. humility and concern." required "Will you be willing to ap- "Tanganyika could easily set point one member of your com- FLETCHER ELECTED HEAD the pace in East, Central and mittee of nine to meet with a OF BETTERMENT GROUP representative of each of our even South Africa, in the mat-

Permission * The Rev. Joseph F. Flet- two committees and ter of human relations provided representa- cher profe'sor of social ethics tives of the committees of the that she is given the fullest pos- sible backing and support in the at Episcopal Theological School,

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/ was elected president of the Hu- Church of Christ to plan an coming crucial years of emer- man Betterment Association of agenda for the first meeting?" gence," the bishop said.

Church The Episcopal Church was The Christian Church in Tan- represented at the Nov. 8th ganyika must concern itself meeting by Bishop Gibson of with such "unspiritual" matters as running water, decent roads,

Episcopal Virginia, chairman of the com- mission on approached to unity; electricity, improved farming the methods, hospitals, schools, and of the Rev..Powel M. Dawley, vice- chairman, and the Rev. Charles social services of all kinds, D. Kean, secretary. Bishop Huddleston said.

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2020. WITH THE UNSPIRITUAL full part in these things," he said in an interview. * Bishop Trevor Huddleston of Masasi, Tanganyika, East CHRISTIAN YOUTH URGED Copyright Africa, said in Chicago that he hopes the United States peace TO SEEK PEACE corps will cooperate with * A plea t h a t Christian Churches and other voluntary young people serve as "pioneers agencies in the colossal job of for peace" around the world developing Tanganyika. was made at a youth meeting at Some groups in the U.S. have New Delhi, sponsored by the JOSEPH F. FLETCHER: - elected president of national organization objected to the peace corps World Council of Churches. working with Churches because Elia Peter, associate secre- America at its annual meeting they say this would violate the tary of Christian education for on November 14. The organi- principle of Church - state the South A s i a Methodist zation is devoted to education, separation. But Bishop Hud- Church, called on Christian research and direct aid on vol- dleston said the opportunity for youths to help world leaders untary sterilization. six TH Wrnwss THENAME 'OF......

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2020. away!" It makes you feel uneasy; 'hat'stoo, too bad. Oh, praise the name of man! But remember, this story is true-... "Well, I tell you, Sam. Our car and television set As true as the grass of green, the sky of blue, Copyright cost so much that we won't be able to pledge at The swollen river's mighty rush, the mountsaim' all this year. Besides, I don't feel the need of snowcapped peak; Church. Why, I'm as good as the next guy... The myriad stars shining in infinity. and probably better!" Yes, man made a choice and got a rotten apple Instead of a firm, ripe, refreshing fruit. . .. Oh, praise the name of man! A worm is a small snake which is simply-a syt bol .... "I tell you, for sure, that I don't know what's hap- rotten... pened to the younger generation today. So the apple was We never did such things when we were that age Yes, man made a choice ... .. no, neverr" And so God made a choice, too: Oh, praise the name of man! But hear what comfortable words our avi saith unto all who truly turn to him: "Yes, sir. I believe in education ... but if you Come unto me, all ye that travail and are hea think I'm going to let my kids go to school with laden, and I will refresh you! Ei&kt loved thnworld, that he gave I hUonly-be- Pray ye Uxearefore the Lord. of the harvest, that 4. n _Son, .to4Jr. end4 that. all who belio~ye in he would send' forth lab'orers'into his harvest; ;hould not perish but -have ever]lasting life. Therefore said lie unto them : ir what 'comfortable words ouir Saviour 'Except the' Lord build the house, their labor is t °saith"unto all 'who truly turn t~o him! but lost that build it. d made achoice-too., .acho ce to come 'Therefore -said he unto °them: 1 o .and do thou likewise.. em, to strengthen, to comfort, to refresh; ige hate-to love; The story you have heard is .true... ring '.fear to :understanding; As true as the grass of green, the sky of blue, The swollen 'river's mighty rush, the mountain's snowcapped-peak; *$.P4ateness. to commnuty; The myriad stars shuining in inf iiy Pl~vdedness to fellowship; "Any .sinuilarity , between these characters :and To make lambs intoalous events And followers, into leaders; And persons and incidents you. have known Ta turn ,the hearts' of men' from pride and vain- Is more than intentional .... glory' and- selfishness It isnecessary.. publication. 'To lowly repentence and humiliation. Beceause this story deals with man and his- God . . and .T~hus, it was ,in the beginning, is now and ever It deals with you . and you .. and you :.. and .~shall be, -World without. end! me?. reuse Therefowe said he unto them : As we are, for The harvest :truly is, great, but- the ,a lorersare As eve have been, few: As we might be-! required NEW DELHI: - A NTEW .BEGI N'IG Permission By, Norn Goodai Secretary of Joint Comnmittee of the InternesonwJ DFMS.

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Church THE SIGNIFICANCE Oh THE INTEGRA- TION OF THE WORLD -COUNCIL .AND THE INTERNArnONA1. MISSIONARY Episcopal COUNCIL IS EXPLAINED BY , A LIEAf- the ER OF -TE RCM N(AL MOViUNT . of

Archives ~AT THE FIRST swsjON of the third assembly pectedl of .it? In one. sense the step ;is. only; the , .o the World' Ooundil of Churches in New -Delhi, natural cuhliation of a proess 1049 since begun. 2020. Ida a vote will be taken on the proposal to When the central .committee -of the World Coun- 8g together - .iuoe organUlatiop the World eil met in Scotland last year, its program ineluddd wed~cl of Churches and the lIternational Mis- a&great servle-of commemoration in -St. Giles Copyright aiinay Coic : he ropo.dlalregdy carries Cathedral. Thte .event being commt~emorated 'was .with it the assent, of the 'World Council's central the historic. World Missionary Conference. held-1n committee and. has been -well received 'by'-the Edinburgh in .the year 1910. The World Conn- Member Churchues. It also has, been approved: by cil of ;Churches gave thanks for this because it

the International Missionary Council. It seems could trace to this meeting fifty. years earlier the A certadn,' therefore, that the assent of the Delhi origins of. its own existence. assembly *ill be' given to it.. From the moment Although the WCC was only formally ejonsti- -when this vote is recorded, the~New Delhi meet- tuted in 1%98, it was lairgely the produtct of tri- ~ ings will constitute the first assembly of an in- butary movements which -grew out of the 191 2~ *ugrated World- Council of Churches and Interna- conference. But the immediate outcome of Eldin- *)rnaal Missionary Council. burgh 1910 was a new body which became- known r . ?at does this signify: and what may be ex- as the International Missionary Council~ a worldwide organization through which the great missionary agencies _of the Churches worked to- eeets within ther toluta ln of the gether in the interests: of the world mission ,of Theft have remi~nded ;tae lol church wtoo the Church. When, the WCC was launched at its jnd ate situation andI ,bowever demanding Amsterdam in 1948 there was appended to its its "loeal task, the 'world is' its parish: It~hs title the phrase "in association with the Interna- obligation, as far, as the ends of the ea-b-= A tional Missionary Couucil". Ever since then the obligation bound up with tho divxie with association has become more intimate, affecting Cod's way of :bringing -in his, ki . -46C almost every aspect of the life and work of the -pel must first be preaced.. to -al natins ; tl two organizations. Jt is because of this intimacy shall the end come." Where this ia epteit, in history, calling and purpose, that at New -e ceases .to be merely obligatin; it is discn r y, hi association will become identity be privilege and a liberatio4 Qp ower. Marching Orders Again,. missions have given viid exrsso to the supra-nationality 'of the (0i4it1 aln BUT NEW DELHI will also be a beginning. publication. new When missionaries ' leave, home", learn. tQ ;tb* -The logical end of one process becomes the start- in mnother leaguae begin .to ideuhlty and amspeak ing point of a fresh chapter. Some features of themselves with people of another countiy "and; the new beginning can be. expressed in purely reuse culture, they become. "at, bome" in a new senIseZ _organizational terms. For example, as an. ipitegral for They realize as well as demoiiatrate- the -Chrii- part of its. structure the WCC after Delhi will tiana's solidarity with the whole; family of, (od's. have a commission, on world mission and evan- people. Yet -again, missions have stood ,for ac- required gelism, and alongside the existing divisions (of ceptance of the radical demands of Christian dis-: studies ; inter-Church aid =and seTiceto refugees; cipleship, the- callilng =to "lesve all and follow". ecumenical action) there:.wiNll e a new division But in this acceptice' they have also been able of world mission and evangelism.. But organiza- Permission to testify that this is the way of fulfilhonent, 'not tion is secondary; the importance of the, new: loss. It is the life that is life indeed. h event will not lie in the creation of _a new com-

DFMS. Insights / mission and an extra division. What is sought of" this kind have not, of course, e through these changes? What end will the re- absent from the life of the World4 Council of

-shaped organization serve? Churches.. It is partly because of their presence; Church } ~"The Church lives by mission as a fire exists: and their recognized centrality that the new step, by burning." This dictum of Emil Brunner, ex- is being taken.' What is hoped for and expected presses one of the great rediscoveries of our-time.. is that,' by this 'explcit conjunction of the-'for Episcopal Biblical studies, theological emphases, reflectioni eignI isionary movemenxt" (as this has :found' the upon expresionin' hIterna.tional Missionary Coun- of the nature of the Church and the meaning of Christian discipleship, all keep converging cil) with all the responsibilities of the WiCC, the upon this great and liberating truth. accent oni missioni will be more decisively sounded

Archives "All power is given unto me in heaven and on and the varying elements in the. total mission, of- earth: therefore go and teach all nations." .the Church be seen in living abd fruitful relay-; 2020. "As the Father hath sent me, so send I you." tionship with one another. "Ye shall receive ,power when the Holy. Spirit The unity that is sought primarily becauust A shall come upon you and ye shall be witnesses is, the will .of Christ will also, be sought in Copyright unto -me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria nition that a divided Church is imoversed t and to the uttermost parts of the earth."' its witness -to the reconciling workd of Chifrt: These 'marching orders belong to the whole Service that is given to the needy for their oVrn company of Christ's people. They are integral to sake will also touch greater depths, -in JId6 the Christian rev~elation. They lie at the heart need and divine sufficiency, when it is of of the gospel- which the Church proclaims; they for Christ's sake and in the name of the Saic t point to the dynamic, outward-moving character of the world. The' proclamation of the pMit of the Christian fellowship. The Church lives by word in speech will not be separated ?roan ' ission. articulation in the- fife of a witessing oma This mission of the Church is more than "for- nity; and going into all the world of eign missions" : it involves the whole range of the races and cultures will mean more than go Church's life and activity. But foreign missions cal-expansion. It will. be. related more "vwor .f GWo n evey area gelization of the world, and- for- unity for the sake of the gospel. This sorely should. help to remove misunderstandings about: the movement and to f,New Churches promote fruitful prc nin it- on the part T~UTS cani be ach~ieved within of some who, because of the nature of their evan- ss that >the =resolu- tin-is tObewjat to an .aemblyr -which meets in Asa; at a t1me when the state. the world, the needs of mete and -the- fories. operuting -against the Cbzistlan- conception of life's ineaaihg, 41i LP4ac _V_-aavtat :XUVVUa8?IZUUA gsvuua5 -WI - give new urgency to the call to, missionaryl-Obed ing much from this new step wjsin, the enm. How, potent will this, action, at New" Defllu publication. growing awareness within the new in- ,fpw e? ITbis depends on what haensafterw us Churches of Asia and Afrimain-W id and -No Delhi- in~te; Chtothes themselves. tew mrnnbers of the WC .f I-f; in any of the World 'Couuicir s nebr

reuse t0 worldwide mission. They a se~d ltumbs 3M oua"~ i e thought -of aspei for 'sin ussonary obedience, not rgctpns pheral or of seondary4 tportanice; if they treat e#a apobeW hobbies of a paicular type of Cher ground of expectacy;- les ,in the con- required enthusiast~ tf, they- are assumed to be outmodedl an to the understanding of the nature of relics of a colonial er'a or merely a one-way tr~affic liurch's mission, (icluding- ~the< *fonter- from -West- to Fast, ,the integration of the'tw b g operation of .foreign : missions) -which world bodies will fail of its pur~ose. Permission -and is benning _to cone~ from Only by a' new perceptioni of the fact that be- r lationship- in MjIsiary obedience be- cause of the Icrntion'-an the Atoniement :and~

DFMS. ~t4 historic. Orthodox -Clurches and the the nature of our, rec eiptiqn and fellowship, -in / Cuerhurceseof the -WCC. Yet -again, Chist, the Chrhis seorth to the wrld a . by ts very nature, °declares that it is witness 'and' bearer of the Light, will the inten- Church ible to be ecumeanical without being mins- tionoftis ew Delhi, resoltion. be fulfilled. Will r, with' , passionate concern for the evan- it, in this sense, be "carriedunaimously" ? Episcopal the of THE PT-W "UR~GIO1J$ BOOM

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2020. i%0Ov om- Rl was talking plc in a building just s *: to fo w'blocks, ay, and the clergy were duly dif - eWWcusn a ma~tter whieb~ presumably .must have Copyright I't eon- weighed hreaVdly upon their minds on such an o he.rlY esion The' 'subject of their disacussion __. t~he xe exact, correct color of stole to Awear upon particular 1 i, ini 191_7, . It is- sad 'that=in that year: the ceremonial occasions. ~were r otiigin the streets ofi 5ev,, and If that-story is indeed. true, and if it is in aty were risking- what liberty they had, and -way typical, need we be surprised that that -re self, in a blind revolt against the, tyranMy of volt soon came to be-dominated atd exploited -hy l regime. At the very- same timea ameeting unscrupulous and godless meh T And -need 'w+" h The austhor ae a~ Presbsgterfani mimi etr a surprised that these unscrupulous andiugodless - ,htes ix Seotjmnd, Ma&*jUz Insdit, Ck siant men had little difficulty in persuading others to tin. He was receivedJ intto the Episcopal C.hurch in dismiss as out-dated and utterly unreal the Chris- the ihaop of. Edinsburgh and was Flturng.ea°'by th )-i#AQp of Mat whsi tian Church and all for

I say that story haunts and terrifies me. I the ground, while all the while hod is cad 'I have so often been reminded of it when in much to higher things. lesser ways I seem to have seen the same sort of Surely that is the essential point of Jesus' c thing happening. When great issues are at stake, demation of the tithing practices of the Pha- when the world is being shaken to its very sees. He made it clear ;hat he was not oppb01 foundations, clergy and good Church people alike to tithing as such, nor to-anything which wo tt l in many different countries do to this day, dis- help to bring home to men -thatall that they ha play an astonishing ability to become engrossed they owed to God. But the Pharisees were fiss- in matters which are in comparison trivial. ing about trivialities, tithing even the most eon- I think of what happened in Peking during the mon little garden herb. Can't-you picture them months immediately before the Red Army took with their scales, weighing even. the very mint over, when it was quite obvious to us all that the (not forgetting the stalks), as though to be sure. day of drastic change could not be long delayed,. that everything was done precisely and in order I judge myself as much as any other when I say so that God wawjiven his exact tenth? that I know in my heart that we who were Church And all the while, says Jesus, they are so busi publication. leaders in the city at that time somehow failed ly occupied' that they are overlooking the things.

and in large measure to relate the Gospel to the situa- which really matter, justice, mercy and gord tion which we were facing. God forgive us for faith. This, he says, in his telling phrase, is to reuse our failure, and for our concern with matters strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. Could for which now seem so wholly unimportant. there be any more vivid way of depicting An -t- If you want to know why I say that and what terly false sense of values, and a complete lack of I mean, listen to the words of an American Pres- any proper sense of proportion? required byterian missionary - a personal. friend of my I write on this subject today, because my,-mipd own - as he describes his experiences in China was again turned in this direction by a article in that fateful year 1949. the New York Times, also featured in Time.maga-

Permission zine. It spoke of the lack of candidates for -the The Communists were coming. Fear and revolt had gripped our whole community... ministry, which is apparently regarded by-some

DFMS. as one of the signs that the "post-war religious

/ A revolutionary committee of the students boom" in this country may well be pAst -its eret ~.; had challenged the authority of the Presi- One of the .reasons given for this- lack dent, Dean and all of his staff, including the ua cand- Church dates was that young people are said to find it. missionaries. The leaders of the Student hard to see the relevance of religion in -a world Christian Fellowship gathered in a deserted courtyard to share with each other their dominated by science, politics, and the atom Episcopal bomb. perplexity. One young woman stood out at the that meeting. She poured of out with tears Who Fesp s her bitter complaint for all her Christian NOW THIS RAISES an immediate and all-impo - teachers and pastors had failed to prepare tant question. Is the trouble, as.we are perhaps

Archives her for that hour. She expressed all the immediately apt to assume, that young people of lostness which was in everyone's heart, leav- the rising generation have become blinded by th-e 2020. ing us with nothing but prayer to a hidden materialism which is so typical of,our age? Ts God. (1) it the enviroment in which they 9re growing the godlessness which runs through so much of

Copyright Fussing About Details life today and the basic assumption of mon' I HAVE ALSO BEEN REMINDED of that Kiev power to look after himself, which is respo ible1 story on other occasions, in Europe and America. Have these factors made it difficult for our young Not that I would like you to think that the issues men, not necessarily through any fault of thir which so easily take up our attention are neces- own, to appreciate the significance of the ChQ r S sarily trivial. Often they are not, but the point and so to hear the call to: the ministry? Doulw is that they fade into insignificance compared to less that is part of the story, and we shall be wj the real issues at stake. So they lead to our fuss- advised to make it a matter of urgent priority to ., ing about details, never able to lift our eyes from do what we can to open their eyes and their But there is anotherand some ways a (1). "Communism and the Theologui ns - Study of an factor which comes much nearer home, and li ncounter" by Charles West. so easy to face. Doesthe fault in somei

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htast lie with the Church of today itself, and they have precisely the opposite effect from that th'efore partially with you and with me? Have which is intended.. we-become too concerned with matters of lesser That is why, if I may be ruthlessly honest, in miortance at the expense, of those which really my cynical moments, whenever under present count? Are we perhaps in part responsible for world conditions I hear of some new scheme of Mig our young people feel that the Christian church building, beautification or improvements gospel is irrelevant, because we have failed to on the North American continent, or of some new let them see that it has anything to say about elaboration of ceremonial, I sometimes find it the issues which most deeply disturb and chal- hard to be sure whether the fact is likely to lenge them? Is it possible, although they would bring more pleasure to Qod or to the devil. never put it in such words, that they regard us as Let me give you one small concrete illustration pre-occupied with. the tithing of mint and dill of my meaning. -In a book which contains in- and cummin, leaving undone the weightier mat- structions with regard to the care of a tabernacle ters of the law, justice and mercy and good-faith? in which the reserved sacrament is kept in some If that is in any way true - and I am not sug- churches you will find these words - "Under no publication. gesting that it is the whole truth, but 1 do be- circumstances should the tabernacle key ever be and lieve.that it may well prove to be a part o it- left in the church: carelessness in this matter we would be well advised to make it a matter of may result in the gravest sacrilege." Now I do reuse urgent priority to do what we can, with. God's not wish to give the impression that things which for help, to open our own eyes and our ears. For it have been set apart for such a sacred use as the may be that the passing of the so-called "post- consecrated elements should ever be treated with war religious boom" is in no way to be regretted, required other than the utmost reverence; but I do sug- Ibt rather than in its going we may see the hand gest that to speak on the subject so very strong- of God at work and hear his voice calling us to ly, and to use the expression "the gravest sacri- higher and better things. lege", is to lay oneself open to being charged with Permission This at least we can say fairly and with truth. a grave lack of proportion. At least such Janguage 'The "post-war religious boom" has lead to an in- would only be tolerable .t -

DFMS. if it were accompanied by infinitely greater / tense concentration upon essentially ecclesiastical con- externals. This has shown itself in a vast pro- cern about the infinitely greater sacrilege that in gram of church building, probably unequalled in this world of ours today literally millions of Church history, and in the varied improvement of the bodies which were created to be temples of the physical plant connected with worship, religious Holy Spirit are permanently stunted and under- instruction, social activities and recreation. It nourished, that milliops of men and women for Episcopal bias also shown itself in a widespread stress upon whom Christ died are nothing less than starving, the and that every six seconds - day and night - of ceremony, particularly so far as the Episcopal Church is concerned; and upon what is worn and somewhere on earth a child of God dies of mal- done during the conduct of public worship. I nutrition. Unfortunately we cannot honestly Archives think it is generally recognized -that our Chirch claim that the post-war religious boom has al- ways shared adequately in this second and wider

2020. concern. While straining fussily at gnats, it has at times shown a surprising ability to consume camels on a very large scale.

Copyright .There is, a forceful- story told by a dis- 1,L THESE MATTE RS, be they questions of tinguished Scottish preacher, George MacLeod, ilding or decoration, of vestments or ritual, are of an occasion when he was to address a big pub- ternals To say that is not to say that they are lic meeting in Durban, South Africa. "I hope you important - far from it, in so far as they pro- are going to give them the gospel red hot," said le the means .whereby men and women are an enthusiastic visitor just, before its beginning. ought into touch with the living God, and sent "Yes, I am speaking of its social implications here t in renewed strength in his service. But when in Durban." "Social implications ?" he repeated ay become regarded as ends in themselves, suspiciously, "what is wanted is the gospel red ken they lead to men and women becoming pre- hot." "But is it npt the gospel that by the right :upied with secondary details to the exclusion of Christ all men have an equal dignity?" "Yes," those which are central, the end result is that he said, "that is of the gospel." "Then what are ,- ".* "

you gospellers doing about the 10,000 Africans such a dawn haes d~wned. Undobtedly wat h and Indians who have not got a decent shelter .m find that in and through it all e i$ calling YADI Durban this cold night.?" - "Them",replied f'the men to a truer and wider concaeption of the Cai hot gospeller, "I wish the whole' damif 'lot were tiiin iiitry -a ne calling: usaell to a trurw sunk in the harbor!" (2) wider- encptlon-of the Christian COhsr~b. Don't judge our South African friend too I don't want to suggest that we should wea~ harshly. Suppose he were to visit the cities of to whst"was known in pre-war drya the ec the United Kingdom or North America. Suppose gospel, whih sometimes .unde it: seem, esy 1 he were to point ou~t that we too, are °in know God's will. for our time. It isn't sla *k the process of devising a' system ,whereby we e~sy, and we' mnust often 'advance utncertainly ar segregate ourselves in exclusive residential areas, in~ darkness - hiti do

Church beautiful surroundings, possible, and -with ade- quate parking facilities? And we have not by any means stressed to the

Episcopal same -degree that essential! aspect of the Chris- the tian message, concern for the underprivileged of children of Godt in our own, land and throughout the world. If the shortage, of candidates for the ministry, Archives and the passing of, the "post-war religious boom"

is in any measure -. - 1b41 ._", iLTTTI 2020. even inconsc1ously a pro-- .test against this:. if members of the ising 'gen- sOY eration are not prepared to spend their lives keep- ing A RECTOR Copyright the ecclesiastical, wheels turning, doing the right thing, in the right way in the right:place, ". 1y Wibt: Nl... Bek and at the right time, then God be praised that Bishops will want a supply on (2). "Only One Wavy Left" by Dr. George F. Macleod. hand to send to vestries about to ecll a rectar. ' Others will find it a most valuable leaflet I AM AN EPISCOPALIAN ' whether or not their parish faces the- task By John W. Day of finding a new rectr. , Dean Emeritus of Grace Cathedral, Topeka 2 5 cacasw $2 9r 7 ea 250 a copy $2 for ten Wtness - The Witness -Tunkhannock, Pa. The Tunkhano*, Pa. THE NEW BOOKS Human Personality and its Survival the residue of spiritual reality faced. of Bodily Death by Frederic W. Kenneth R. Forbes As the long study comes to its Myers. University Books, Inc. Book Editor finish, the author sums it all up by $10. stating the three things which he be- lieves have been proved: Here is a really great book, which Witness reviewed in its issue of The 1. "In the first place they prove was first published in 1903, two March 6, 1958.) "Genius", "Sleep," survival, pure and simple; the per- years after the death of Frederic "Hypnotism", "Phantasms of the Myers. He was a classics scholar sistence of the spirit's life as a struc- living and of the dead", "the prob- tural law of the universe. 2. In the of distinction and as he grew older lems of mediumship" and "Trance, his mind became dominated by the second place they prove that between Possession and ecstasy" are all dealt basic principles of modern science. the spiritual and material worlds an In the company of his old friend and with at length, the fakes exposed and avenue of communication does in teacher, Henry Sidgwick, Mrs. Sidg- wick and Edmund Gurney he founded publication. the British Society For Psychical

and Research which from the beginning pursued its investigations and re- searches controlled by the most reuse rigorous scientific principles. This for fact is responsible for the seriousness with which the younger men of science in England and America re- work and opinions. required garded its The substance of this great vol- ume is a detailed record of the mul- titude of psychic happenings in- vestigated by the Society which Permission Myers classified under eight heads which is about everything that is known today of the super-normal. DFMS. two vol- / The original book was in umes and ran to some 1300 pages. It was rather difficult reading be- content and Church cause of its enormous the fact that the story itself was the first part while the details of the multitude of psychic phenomena present Episcopal formed the appendix. This edition then should be welcome, as it the is a somewhat condensed text, with of the most valuable of the records now appearing in the body of the book. The author's basic purpose is made

Archives clear from his first words of the introduction: "In the long story of man's endeavors to understand his 2020. own environment and to govern his own fate, there is one gap or ommis- sion so singular that its simple state- ment has the air of a paradox. Yet Copyright it is strictly true to say that man has never yet applied the methods of modern science to the problem which most profoundly concerns him - whether or not his personality in- volves any element which can sur- vive bodily death." Myers then proceeds at once to do that which had never been done be- fore. He and his companions began a rigorous examination of all the major products of psychic research, beginning with weird disintegrations of personality, one instance of which Dr. Morton Prince described in his book about Sally Beauchamp (which

NOVEMBER 23, 1961 Fifteen fact exist. 3. In the third place narrative, but in much of it revolt- any literate teen-ager, while the they prove that the surviving spirit ing and shameful reading of torture, blase grown-up is likely to find him- retains, at least in some measure, beheadings, imprisonments and hang- self intrigued to a surprising extent. the memories and loves of earth". ings. There are not many ambitious au- All this was written 50 years ago Brought up in an atmosphere of thors who can do a job as good as and nothing of importance in that Protestant or Anglican religious life this. period has occured in psychic re- search to doubt or upset and history-as probably a majority Eastern Religions And Western the conclu- of The Witness readers have been - Thought by S. Radhakrishnan. sions of Frederic Myers, but on the it is important to realize that contrary, Myers himself has con- "Bloody Mary" and Oliver Cromwell Oxford Press. $2.25 veyed to his former fellow workers had no monopoly of what we should The original edition of this book convincing messages of his own "sur- call "atrocities" today - frightful was first published twenty years ago vival". The story of this and much cruelties exercised in the name of and was recognized by scholars of more of similar interest one can read religion. The Elizabethan age, right- East and West as a masterly an- in a recently published book, - ly considered of high quality in the alysis of Indian philosophy and re- Beyond The Reach of Sense, by Rosa- realm of English culture, was never- ligion and its probable profound in- lind Heywood, long time worker in theless an era of religious abomina- fluence on Greek thought and upon the Society For Pyschical Research,. tions for which Anglican Christians Christian theology in its early which was reviewed in The Witness should ask forgiveness and re-read stages. Judaism in its Alexandrian of June 15, 1961. phase and Christian Gnosticism were publication. their Elizabethan history, of which the present volume can be a useful closely related and all owed much

and The Other Face by Philip Caraman. part. to the mystic elements of early Sheed & Ward. $4.95 Indian thought. The sub-title of this book gives the Mystery of The Unwelcome Visitor This present reprint in paperback reuse clue to its nature: Catholic Life by Helen Girvan. Westminster format should be welcomed by for under Elizabeth I. It is an admirable Press. $2.95 scholars because of the notable and unique job of careful research Among the writers of good fiction growth in awareness of the East and the utilizing of its documentary for adolesents, the author of this during the past twenty years, since required sources in the text of his book - in whodunit yarn has struck twelve. the first edition was published. fact the book's text is 100% the ori- The vocabulary, the plot and every- ginal documents. It is an eloquent thing else about it is sure-fire for Living Thankfully edited by Harold R. Landon. Seabury Press. $3.75 Seabury Press is going in for books

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DFMS. about the Church's spiritual life. The / result so far has been two volumes published for the dean and chapter of the New York Cathedral and Church edited carefully by two of the Cathedral staff. In 1958 appeared FOR CHRISTMAS-YOUR PEW BOOKS This Church of Ours in eight chap- fORDER ters by able and well-known Church Episcopal leaders. Our Now, the Prices Must Go Up In January in 1961, Living Thankfully; of The Christian and the Sacraments The prices of our books will have to be increased, effective appears as the second cathedral book January 1, 1962. Manufacturing costs have risen 20-25% since of twelve chapters written by eight well-known religious leaders-among Archives the prices were last increased in 1956. Orders for books received them Don Large, writing pungently by the company in the remaining months of 1961, however, will and convincingly under the title The 2020. be filled at the current prices. Healing Hand; Unction; Tom Bar- rett, the creator of Rev. Samuel THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER Entwistle, is, in this symposium, responsible for an admirable - and

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Tma Wrrmuss Scholars of Church of England Urge More Inter-Communion from (91ford. * A more liberal Church of pate. They said more opportu- England policy on intercom- nities should be created and h5Jook munion was urged by 32 An- recognized for corporate acts of glican theologians in an open communion between members of letter to Arthur Michael Ram- those Churches which are seek- of Common sey, Archbishop of Canterbury, ing unity, and this should be on and Frederick Donald Coggan, a reciprocal basis. Prager Archbishop of York. "We believe," the clergymen The writers said they recog- declared, "that the practice of nized that "indiscriminate inter- concelebration should be per- communion could lead to com- mitted in order to make inter- publication. placency over the external di- communion possible on the part and visions of the Church." How- of Anglicans who do not share ever, they argued that "an in- our standpoint on this matter. reuse crease in the number of oc- But we are convinced that there for casions when Christians of dif- are occasions when fully re- ferent denominations who sin- ciprocal inter - communion is cerely seek union could meet at both possible and desirable." required Holy Communion would prove a The signatories declared that powerful influence toward unit- "a serious over-simplification of ing the Church." the problem of inter-communion

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NOVEMBER 23, 1961 To this statement, the writ- Churches in the East Asian sociate director of the theologi- ers of the letter replied by stat- area. cal education fund, reports on ing that they did not acknowl- Delegates from Churches in his recent examination of the- edge such a duty and knew that South Korea walked out of the ological schools all over the their conviction was shared by meeting when the report was world, and Paul Tate, for thirty- many other Anglicans. presented. two years head of St. Paul's A report on youth work School, Camaguey, Cuba, tells BISHOP LUDLOW DIES urged that Asian Churches ex- of Cubans at home and as refu- AT AGE 78 pand work among young people gees in Florida. * Bishop Theodore Ludlow, in rural areas. It stated. that -The Episcopal Overseas Mis- retired suffragan of Newark, while 75% of Asia's youths live sionary Fellowship, made up of died November 13 at the age of in villages, only about 25% of "o 1d China hands", retired 78 at his home in Wareham, the work of Churches are in workers from Alaska on the one Mass. those areas. hand and South America on the He was a professor at Boone to OLD CHINA HANDS other, has an annual meeting publication. College, China, for five years; old times and catch up on TO MEET renew taught at Episcopal Theological missionary news of today. The and School and later was secretary *Former foreign mission- meeting will take place on of adult education of the Na- aries of the Episcopal Church reuse Saturday, December 2, at 2:30 tional Council. will be brought up-to-date about p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Com- for He was the author of several conditions abroad w h e n on munity House of St. Bartholo- books and served for a number December 2 James Hopewell, as- mew's Church, 109 East 50th

required of years on the editorial board Street, New York 22, N. Y. of The Witness. The Pariah of Trinity Church BISHOP PEAI9ODY VISITS .New URGE RED CHINA York PENNSYLVANIA REY. JOHN HEuss, D.D., RECTON Permission ADMISSION Bishop Malcolm Peabody, re- TRINITY * The East Asia Christian Broadway & Wall St. tired diocesan of Central New Conference, meeting in India Rev. Bernard C. Newsans, S.T.D., Vicar York, is to be the speaker at the DFMS. Sun. MP 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11, / prior to the World Council As- EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Scr Diocesan United Thank Offer- 12:30 Tues., Wed. & Thurs., EP 5:15 ex sembly, urged the admission of Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt. ing service at Holy Trinity, on No v em be r Church Red China to the UN. The re- ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL Philadelphia, port, s e n t to 48 member Bradway & Fulter St. 29th. Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, Vicar Churches for study, said that Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Ser 10; Week- days: HC 8 (Thurs also at 7:30) 12:05 unless -that country is repre- cx Sat.; Int & Bible Study 1:05 ex Sat.; Episcopal EP 3; C Fri. 3:30-5:30 & by appt; Organ CASSOCKS sented anhy agreement banning Recital Wednesday 12:30.

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reuse among the clergy over their a specific idea? I can't get ex-

for theological differences is in it- cited about vague, unexpressed self good. It indicates that the generalities. Probably he is theological c on c ep ts which thinking about something, but ScoolIs required caused all this discord are no what is it ? of thc Church longer considered to be impor- Perry A. House tant. The early Christians got Layman of Hartford, Conn. along without all this involved Permission theological guesswork, and I There never w s a time when ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL don't see why we can't. Yet I the application of Christian COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR GIRxLS

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Episcopal good business than what served out of war. And we know that Christ ? the a nuclear war would result in of Though I have always been world destruction, according to strong for the missionaries, 1 eminent scientists. An aggres- LENOX SCHOOL have come to share the general A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for Archives apathy for the missionary work bins 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals and NORTHWESTERN character through simplicity of plant and of the Episcopal Church because equipment, moderate tuition, the co-operative 2020. of its futility. The reason for Military and Naval self-help system and informal, personal rela- this futility seems to me to be ACADEMY tionsips among b~oys and faculty. that the emphasis has always REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmaster MASSACHUS8rra Copyright been on spreading our peculiar Lake Geneva, Wisconsin LENOx, Christian culture rather than on Rev. James Howard Jacobson spreading the gospel. Superintendent and Rector An outstanding military college pre- Theodore Eastman in a recent DeVEAUX SCHOOL "comunique" told with enthusi- paratory school for boys 12 to 18, grades 8 through 12. Fireproof Niagara Falls, New York asm about the building of a new buildings, modern science department, FoulDmn 1853 Anglican church in Japan. It excellent laboratory and academic Chutrch School for boys in the Diocese of facilities. 90 acre campus with ex- western New York. G~rades 8 thru 12. College will be a beautiful gothic struc- Pre~aratorv. Small Classes, 50-acre Campus ture with nothing about tensive lake .shore frontage, new Resident Faculty. Dormitory for 80, Schood1 it that 3 court gym. Enviable year 'round Buildin CaeGymnasium and Swimming has any roots in Japanese cul- environment. All sports, including 11061. Write for catalog Box "A". ture. How can this exotic for- riding and sailing. Accredited. Sum- flex-n) A. ICENWEDY. M.A., Head master The Rt. Rey. Leusaxors L. SCAr'n. D.D., eign importation we call "The mner Camp. Write for catalogue, 164 South Lake Pres. Board of Trustees Church in Japan" mean any- Shore Road. A- s -s s s Schools of the Church --- " s s--

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