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to the "awful materialistic en- Communion Service Celebrated vironment we live in" and called on Christians to become "meek With All Baptized Receiving torchbearers to the Light of the World." publication. * More than 1,500 persons Both at the earlier meetings Assembly delegates have been and participated in the first official and at the New Delhi As- invited to participate in a com- World Council of Churches sembly provisions were made munion service arranged by the reuse communion service celebrated for separate communion serv- Federation of Evangelical Lu- for according to the Anglican rite. ices for those groups that did theran Churches in India. They The service was an "open" not participate in the open have also been invited to attend one since the host Church, the service. but not to receive the sacrament required Anglican Church of India, Bur- Some 30 archbishops, bishops, at communion services con- ma, Pakistan, and Ceylon, in- metropolitans, and priests ad- ducted according to the Syrian vited "all who are baptized com- ministered the sacrament at and Greek Orthodox rites. municant members of Churches" the service held in the multi- Permission to take part in the communion. colored tent adjoining the con- ARCHBISHOP STRESSES Most delegates to the As- ference hall where the Assembly HOLINESS AND TRUTH

DFMS. sembly received the sacrament, / is being held. * The Archbishop of Canter- but the Eastern Orthodox and Anglican Bishop Frederick bury warned that the Church some of the Lutheran dele- Willis of Delhi was the cele- must be wary of accepting the Church gates did not. brant with Metropolitan Ara- world's conception of unity - Orthodox churchmen believe bindo Nath Mukerui of the host a conception that leaves out that there is only one true C h u r c h presiding. Presiding both truth and holiness. Episcopal Church, one communion, and Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger Speaking to the assembly at the therefore there can be no was one of the churchmen who one of the public meetings, he of "inter-communion." Some Lu- administered the communion. said that a world which is long- therans, especially the more con- Among other officiants were ing for unity is "shocked when servative groups, teach that metropolitans of the Mar Thoma the Church fails to manifest it." Archives doctrinal agreement between Syrian Church of Malabar and The world's criticism "must Church groups is a prerequisite the Orthodox Syrian Church of

2020. rightly humble us," he said. to inter-communion. Malabar. But the Archbishop declared Although traditionally An- The Archbishop of Canter- that Christians should not "ac- glicanism has not favored open bury was present in the chancel cept the world's conception of Copyright communion, there have been but did not administer. the matter." Anglican-sponsored open com- In the sermon, Anglican "The world does not hear the munion services at ecumenical Bishop Lakdasa de Mel of call to holiness and does not gatherings in recent years. Ceylon urged Christians not to care for truth in Christ," the At the two previous assem- become so busy with God's work Archbishop said. Both holiness blies in 1948 in Amsterdam and that they have no time for God. and truth are essential to in 1954 in Evanston, Ill., the of- He said many churchmen have Christian unity, he stressed. ficial communion services fol- lost the necessary sense of The world, he continued, "de- lowed the form of the Reformed reverence and quiet in "this sires that men and nations shall Church in the Netherlands and strange age of hearty back- be joined to each other and the the Methodist Church, respec- slapping and first names." forces which separate them re- tively. He attributed this situation moved. It is not just unity - DECEMBER 7, 1961 lfre togetherness with one another and East to discover those gifts present and future?" he asked. - we seek. It is for unity in of God which authentically be- "If we will be patient, true truth and holiness we work and long not to any one age or phase theology, good theology is some- or culture or continent, but to thing which unites, but it will the one holy, catholic, apostolic not be true unless it keeps it- Church of Christ and to receive self and us near the cross them not, indeed, as a return to whence the call to holiness any past age but as a media of comes," the Archbishop con- Christ's dynamic power for the cluded. Ways to Resolve World Problems Outlined by Frederick Nolde

* An authority on inter- in Geneva on Nov. 28, "temper national affairs said the defeat- encouragement with uncertain- publication. ism implied in the "better red ty and caution." than dead" slogan is a denial and "We shall dffer every ap- of the faith of Christianity. propriate support, by prayers reuse O. Frederick Nolde of Phil- and by personal consultation, for adelphia, Pa., said the wise and for the speedy conclusion of a the courageous reject the idea legally binding national inspec- of trading freedom for life be- tion and control," Nolde added. required cause they know this kind of "In the crucible of this nuclear ARCHBISHOP RAMSEY: - a new thinking "merely postpones the space age God is testing the president of the World Council urges evil day." worthiness of his creatures to holiness and truth in seeking unity At the same time, Permission Nolde continue their existence upon called for an end to the "mad- earth." pray, for that is Christ's super- ness" of continued nuclear

DFMS. natural gift to us." He suggested seven ways in

/ weapons testing. "There sure- which Christians He declared that a "move- ly could be no justification could help to resolve the ment which concentrates on either in the sight of God or the complex problems

Church which confront the unity as an isolated concept can eyes of men for explosion in the world. The measures are: mislead the world and mislead atmosphere of a nuclear bomb us," just as a movement con- in the 50 megaton range or * Facilitate rather than ob- Episcopal cerned solely with truth or holi- above," Nolde said in his speech struct indentification with the the ness would be misleading. to the assembly of the World whole human family of He also warned against a Council of Churches. He is director of the commission of • Give impetus and content tendency to distrust theology to the development of an inter- because theological the Churches on international

Archives differences affairs and national ethos - a common created schisms in both Eastern one of the four as- sociate general secretaries of standard of international be-

2020. and Western Churches. the WCC. havior Those who insist that only "a The clergyman took issue • Fashion a witness to the few simple facts and principles" with those who contend that world of nations which is un- Copyright are needed to achieve unity the testing of multi-megaton aligned with any political or na- "commonly make large theologi- nuclear weapons will promote tional force but committed to cal assumptions which they do security. "The reality in the the promotion of peace with not pause to examine. Beware case is that it (testing) accele- justice and freedom of them," he cautioned, "for if rates the armaments race and * Encourage the building of the East cannot find unity in enlarges the risk of catastro- an open society in every land confessional systems which the phic destruction," Nolde said. and throughout the world West brought to it in an earlier He said conditions apparently epoch, no more will it find unity attached to the Soviet Union's 0 Define more sharply op- in any twentieth century simpli- acceptance of the United States portunities for peaceful coopera- fications." and British proposal for re- tion as a means of living to- "Is not the need for the West sumption of three-power talks gether in a divided world Fos T= WrrNESS " Give a prominent place to Nolde reported that he and slum areas, it knocks also at the the claims of social justice for Sir Kenneth Grubb, chairman of doors of quiet, perhaps placid, all men everywhere the commission of the Churches village churches in Europe or * Emphasize the political on international affairs, sent a rural areas in North America." value of world public opinion and telegram to U Thant, the new The church cannot avoid the moral pressures as a counter- United Nations secretary gen- world, de Vries explained, be- weight to cynicism and despair eral, assuring him of the sup- cause the social environment in about the possibility of effec- port and prayers of the commis- which church members live tive international action sion. shapes "their aspirations, their attitudes, their behavior . .. " He called on Churches in the East and West Urged to Meet West to take the world serious- ly, to understand the implica- Challenge of Social Change tions for the Church of develop- ments in science, economics, * Churches in both the East the forces of disintegration of politics, and all other social and West must become involved traditional society." They did forces. in the political a n d social this, he explained, through the publication. changes going on around them, influence of patterns of the FUND NEARLY RAISED and delegates to the assembly of the mission compound and by mass- FOR WCC BUILDING World Council of Churches were movement conversions. These reuse told. Speakers at a program on forms of the Church are now ir- * The World Council of for Churches has $2,329,203 raised "The Challenge of S o c i a l relevant, he said. - Christian Change" were M. M. Thomas, Churches today, must "make or assured for its proposed new associate director of the Chris- their contribution to the spirit headquarters building in Gene- required tian Institute for the study of and form of the new secular va. This leaves a little over religion and society in Banga- society." $420,000 still to be raised on the lore, India, and Egbert de Vries, estimated cost of $2,750,000. "This is a harder task than Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill re-

Permission director of the International building segregated Christian Institute of social studies ported these figures to the as- at communities," he told the The Hague, dele- Netherlands. gates. DFMS. "It means that Church / Thomas said Christian con- members need training to pene- cern for politics in the new na- trate secular social and cultural tions is the task Church "most ne- institutions with the spirit of glected by Churches in Africa Christ and his kingdom without and Asia and most urgently seeking to control them." needed for the fulfillment of Episcopal Thomas expressed the hope their total social mission." He the that "within the context of urged Christians especially in of Christian partnership with non- the newer countries to support Christians in building nations and strengthen the idea. of a . . there will naturally develop secular or neutral state and to Archives a real dialogue on the nature help these new nations build a and destiny of man among ad-

2020. sense of national unity. herents of Christianity, the de Vries said it is "utterly non - Christian religions, and impossible" for the Christian secular faiths."

Copyright Church to stay aloof from social de Vries warned that "any changes in the twentieth cen- Church which is static or purely tury. The Church, he said, introspective is committing sui- must help nations to understand cide in this dynamic, other- BISHOP SHERRILL: - a retiring they can live and prosper only in directed society. There is no president of World Council reported the context of a world com- escape for any Church, what- money nearly raised for new WCC munity and world economy. ever its structure, from think- headquarters Discussing the impact of ing, praying, and acting in glo- sembly. Bishop Sherrill, former Christianity on non - Western bal terms." Presiding Bishop, is in charge cultures, Thomas said that The world, de Vries declared, of fund-raising for the project. Christian missions and institu- is not only "at the doorstep of He said the headquarters will tions "have both been part of every church in metropolitan cost $2,750,000 instead of the DECEMBER 7, 1961 $2,500,000 estimated originally lay delegates elaborated on the vation through Jesus Christ is because of the increase in con- responsibilities and opportuni- to be spread throughout the struction costs. ties of Christians in the work-a- world, this cannot be done More than half the money day world. Each spoke in the merely by a few full and part- raised has come from the context of his or her own work time missionaries." United States, Bishop Sherrill and experience. "It has to be done," he said. The next largest amount Mathew, a member of the stressed, "through the living, came from West Germany. Ap- Mar Thomas Syrian Church of practical witness of Christians peals are still going on in the Balabar, said there was no in a non-Christian, secularized United Kingdom, the Nether- Christian basis whatsoever for environment." lands, and other countries, he any lawyer to wash his hands reported. of "dirty cases." He said the POPULATION GROWTH stand behind the Church must IS NEGLECTED MINISTRY OF LAITY lawyer who is duty bound to URGED AT ASSEMBLY fight seemingly hopeless cases * A rapidly increasing popu- of notorious criminals and law- lation is the most neglected ma- * A plea to the clergy to "be- breakers and who, in the pro- jor social problem in the world publication. come our partners and let us be cess, becomes someone with today, Richard M. Fagley of and your partners" was raised by "soiled fingers." New York, executive secretary three lay delegates who agreed He was sharply critical of of the commission of the

reuse that "the penetration of the Church members in India who Churches on international af- for world with Christ's word is have compiled a "very poor fairs, said at New Delhi. The more a ministry of the laity world's population doublal be- than of the clergy." record of active political work." He said that too many sensitive tween 1890 when it was 1,500,- required Taking part in a panel discus- Christians, in their revulsion 000,000 and 1960 when the sion on "The Church in the against the corruption a n d figure was 3,000,000,000 and he World" presided over by Lu- compromises found in politics, predicted that the population theran Bishop Otto Dibelius of Permission now "swear by a partyless will double again by 1930 if the Berlin were E. Varkey Mathew, democracy, whatever t h a t present rate of growth con- edvocate of the supreme court means." tinues.

DFMS. of India at Bangalore; Klaus von / Mathew complained that the Fagley said that Christians Bismarck, director in Cologne Church is "so much engrossed are thankful for the successful of the West German broadcast- in the running of its own insti- public health programs which Church ing service; and Edith M. Bat- tutions and in the maintenance have cut death rates and helped ten, principal of William Temple of its personnel that it has Fitee.) College, Rugby, England. failed to emphasize the enorm- (Continued on Page Episcopal They urged the Churches to ous importance of the vocation the spend at least as much money of Christians within party or- of for the training and equipment ganizations." of Christians who "try to do Miss Batten, an Anglican, God's work in secular jobs" as criticized C h u r c h programs Archives they do for the training of which do not confront laymen clergymen a n d professional with the relevance of the gospel 2020. helpers. in their professional lives. Un- The panel members called less the situation is changed, also for "opportunities within she warned, "we may see new Copyright the life and structure of our lay movements springing up Churches where we can criti- with little regard for the faith cally reconsider accepted cri- or order of t h e existing teria, norms and customs in the Churches." Church and the world." von Bismarck, a member of "We need occasions," they the Evangelical Church in Ger- said, "when our ethical imagina- many, reported that in his tion can be trained and exer- country there was "little con- cised so that in the thick of our vincing expression of faith in daily life, we may make fewer people's working lives, outside RICHARD FAGLEY: - calls for wrong and disobedient choices." the Evangelical academies." He massive extension of family planning Earlier, in separate talks, the said that "if the message of sal- to help meet world problems TaE WrrmnS MENTAL ILLNESS, DEPTH COUNSELLING AND THE PASTORAL MINISTRY By Joseph Wittkofski Rector of St. Mary's, Charleroi,Pa. publication. and reuse for required Permission

THE LATE CARL JUNG will be remembered for malcy. The case of Sylvia can serve to illustrate DFMS.

/ his efforts to reintegrate religion and psychology a common situation. For eleven years, this mid- for humanity. In frequently quoted words, he die-aged woman had been a victim of severe in- wrote that among all his patients in the second

Church volutional melancholia. She failed to respond to half of life, there was not one whose problem in any psychiatric treatment. In desperation, her the last resort was not that of finding a religious psychiatrist requested Dr. T. J. Freeborn, head outlook on life. He thought it safe to say that of staff at Braid Institute, Episcopal Pittsburgh, to accept every one of them fell ill because they had lost the case. After a preliminary interview, Dr. the

of that which the living religions of every age have Freeborn asked the writer to work with Sylvia. given to their followers and none of them has At first, due to the severity of her condition, been really healed who did not regain a religious progress came very slowly. After a few weeks, Archives outlook. The sentiments of Jung suggest an however, when rapport and transference had obvious pastoral function in the area of mental been fully established and her Ego strengthened, 2020. health. Sylvia gradually began to show improvement. At Recently, the writer spoke to a group of the end of a four month period, she was almost psychologists and psychotherapists. During his completely recovered. She now is able to work Copyright remarks, he stated that he was more and more and she holds a responsible position. convinced that mental illness, not resulting from In the case of Sylvia, the combination of reli- disease, injury, or malformation, was frequently gion, hypnotic technique, and pastoral counsel- induced by self or autohypnosis. An educational ling achieved a break-through which was beyond psychologist sprang to his feet and shouted, ordinary psychiatric endeavor. The same result "Hurrah, I am glad that somebody has finally can be seen in the case of Garnet, a member of said this." the writer's parish. Here was a lovely young In working with many forms of mental illness, woman who had a schizophrenic break. In con- in both early and in fully developed stages, the sequent paranoia, she attempted to kill her chil- writer has often been able to substantiate Dr. dren. After hospitalization, her mother insisted Jung's thesis about the role of religion in nor- that Garnet visit the pastoral study. A few ses-

DECEMBER 7, 1961 sions of hypnotherapy produced remarkable im- suggests that the common forms of psychosis provement. She told her psychiatrist about this find their beginnings in a complex and un- depth counselling or hypnotic experience and he analyzed process of self hypnosis. Mental illness foolishly ordered her not to see her rector again. is today usually categorized into manic-depres- Subsequently, she went into a severe relapse and sive psychosis, involutional melancholia, and appeared to require further hospitalization. At schizophrenia. this point, her mother took matters into her own The manic-depressive personality is character- hands and suggested that Garnet stop seeing the ized by variations of mood which extend from uncooperative psychiatrist and return to the pas- deep depression to wild destructive elation. Pro- toral study. Following about six weeks of intense vocatively, the symptoms of this disorder can be effort, Garnet's diseased condition was complete- produced in the normal person by the use of ly remitted. hypnotism. The victim of the disease, however, before the onset of the illness, usually has pos- The Psychotic Condition sessed a strong parental fixation, EXCEPTING AREAS of disease and injury, lacked emotion- al maturity, and held self to be of little value. there have been no fully acceptable explanations Actually, the sick personality has not been able publication. for the development of the psychotic condition. It is generally accepted that severe mental ill- to free itself from the dependency of early child- and hood. The precipitating element of ness brings about the complete collapse of Ego the disease is usually a geuine or a fictitious blow to Ego pres- reuse resources so that the affected personality can- tige such as loss of wealth, ability to earn, posi- for not cope with the external world and/or with own internal states. In these difficult circum- tion, self valuation, or marital partner. Except in endogenous forms of depression, stances, there is a retreat from ordinary rela- somewhat akin required to involutional melancholia in which tionships with other people while there is also hormone dis- turbance is involved, weakened a falling back into a primitive behavior pattern. Ego esteem has some responsibility in the disorder. Commonly, an interior interference with repres-

Permission sive mechanisms releases unconscious conflicts, Neurotic Defenses strivings, and fears. In a purposeful confusion INVOLUTIONAL MELANCHOLIA, seemingly of reality with imagination, the mentality turns on the increase, widely occurs in females in DFMS. their / back to that of the early kindermind. late forties and among men in their upper fifties. The fact that heterohypnosis can be used to Quite probably, the decreased activity of the en-

Church remove many symptoms of psychosis suggests docrine and reproductive systems is involved. that an involved psychic mechanism of hypnosis First symptoms usually include free floating of some type entered into the evolution of the anxiety, fatigue, inability to sleep, and lowered

Episcopal illness. Research indicates that a very thin line self regard. The declining physiology is compli- the separates suggestion from hypnosis. In his cated by current ideology which often assumes of dealings with psychoneurotic people, the writer that the world belongs to people under forty-five. has found that the disturbances can usually be Employment opportunities and other like factors traced to gradual acceptance of negative sugges- enter into the picture. The negative state of Archives tion by the prelogical kindermind. Beginning in mind forces withdrawal of interest from environ- early childhood, 2020. the imbedded suggestions may mental components and focuses concentration induce a deepening hypnotic state which weakens upon self. With the loss of personal security and the Ego and produces a horribly warped view of with the growing devaluation of the Ego, delu- reality. Copyright In later years, without internal strength sions of sin, disease, and misery flourish; the vic- to face its own twisted apprehension of reality, tim may approach a state much like paranoid the personality may seek refuge in neurosis or schizophrenia. psychosis. Although childhood experience may The schizophrenic tendency, relatively common create a predisposition, the writer's experience in every population group, seemingly finds its indicates, especially in cases of involutional cause in the frustrations and hostile experiences melancholia, that the devastating suggestion may of infancy before the full development of self be implanted in later life. consciousness. The fractionating factors of early While there has long existed controversy about environment create such a weakness in person- the origin of mental illness whether it be psy- ality that the Ego tends to break into pieces be- chogenic, organic, or constitutional, the theory, fore internal difficulties or external stress. In a here postulated, based upon years of observation, protected environment, the tendency to disease

T=u Wrrmm may remain dormant. Sometimes, neurotic de- Salter proposes his six rules to make the weak- fenses create symptoms which serve to protect ened and inhibited personality excitatory. Un- the individual from more severe mental illness. doubtedly, each disabled mentality represents a A study of Paul illustrates such coverage. Paul separate problem but, in Salter's conditioned re- had been rejected by the armed forces on psycho- flex therapy, the purpose toward all is always the neurotic grounds. A few years later he married. same; this is to create a freely outflowing per- He built a beautiful home which put him under sonality in which real emotions are expressed in heavy obligation. He took a job which he came speaking and action. to detest. He had no opportunity to find a new Dr. Salter's six principles to strengthen the position. In the face of his tension, he became Ego are; a victim of a nervous breakdown. He developed a * to indulge in much emotional small talk multitude of conversion symptoms. He could drive " to use the muscles of the face as a form of his car except in the town where the dreaded self expression factory was located. When he tried to drive in * to contradict others when so inclined the neurotically forbidden area, he would faint. " to employ the pronoun, I, frequently After some treatment, his doctor sent him to the " to express gratitude and even agreement publication. writer's study. It would have been easy to re- when praised and move Paul's symptoms but this procedure would * to plan daily actions so that as much free- have nakedly exposed him to his schizophrenic dom as possible may be enjoyed reuse tendency. After many weeks of depth counsel- To for the rules of Dr. Salter, the writer usually ling, he developed important resources and he was adds a seventh which, of course, is derived from capable to begin dealing with his bothersome Dr. Jung's proposition. In the hypnotic state,

required symptoms. the subject is continually reminded that he was Clergy Role created by God and he has great value in the IN CASES OF MENTAL ILLNESS, except in sight of God. Depending upon circumstances, the very rare circumstances, the doctrines Permission clergyman should of forgiveness, redemption, and new- never work except with a medical doctor. Ex- ness of life can be taught in the intensely per- treme caution should be used when paranoia sonal situation. When a newly conditioned reli- DFMS.

/ seems to be present. Normally, the paranoid gious outlook is coupled with Dr. Salter's ap- should be institutionalized. But, in many cases proach, the Ego often gains enough stamina to of mild psychosis, the doctor will welcome accept challenge while Church the as- the stimulated frame of sistance of the psychologically orientated minis- mind develops some capacity to overcome long ter. time disability. Dr. Jung's observation about the religious fac- If neurosis and even psychosis Episcopal are really the tor in mental illness almost proposes that, in this results of a devious process of self hypnosis, the of area, the ministry has a function for which there then, on many occasions, counterhypnosis would is no substitute. If, as stated, the common forms seem to be the answer. That many here have of mental disease arise from a meandering stream failed with simple counterhypnosis may b a re- Archives of suggestions which eventually create a defi- sult of the neglect of the Ego strengthening reli- nite hypnotic state in which the Ego is depreci- gious overtones ordinarily necessary in human 2020. ated, it follows that activity toward strengthen- life. In a personality's successful adjustment to ing personality tends to mental health. Growing dependence upon God, the Ego can succeed in faith in God and in his regard for the individual gaining powerful new resources for its struggle. Copyright creates a powerful new undergirding for the de- Obviously, the care of the mentally ill requires bilitated Ego. both the services of the medical doctor and of the In pursuit of the pastoral function toward men- properly trained priest! tal illness, the cleric must reject basic Freudian ideas and he is called upon to master depth coun- In this article, Fr. Wittkofski goes a step be- yond his new book, The Pastoral Use of Hypnotic selling or the hypnotic approach. Dr. Andrew Technique, which is being released by the Macmillan Salter has provided a splendid technique which Co. When a sixty year old Presbyterian minister in the writer has slightly modified and has often Philadelphia heard of Fr. Wittcofski's revolutionary thesis, he wrote he wished that he had been born used with considerable success. From Dr. Sal- thirty years later. With reference to Fr. Wittkof- ter's viewpoint, Freud teaches only what not to ski's suggestions in this article, an Ohio State em- do. Against the background of hypnosis, ployment security specialist reports that his outlook Dr. toward mental illness has been changed. DECEMBER 7, 1961 WORLD COUNCIL - UNITY IN WITNESS

By Paul R. Carlson Staff Writer of the World Council of Churches

NEW AND REWARDING EXPERIMENTS IN REACHING PEOPLE ARE BEING WATCHED AND ENCOURAGED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EVANGELISM

THE EVANSTON ASSEMBLY sought to chal- those streets," Margull remarked recently. "I publication. lenge the Churches to enter into a bold encounter did not have to introduce him because he was and with the world about them. The assembly's re- there in spirit. My obligation - or my privilege port on the mission of the Church to those out- - was simply to articulate what was already reuse side her life declared: there." for "The Church must break out of its isolation Margull was well aware that the nearest pub and introversion, meeting the individual where was the first stop for most dock workers after he is with the compassion and comprehension of required they left their jobs for the day. So often he would Christ. While this initial demand applies to all join them just to chat about the affairs of the evangelism, it is particularly relevant to workers day. and intellectuals, many of whom are conspicously Although religion was not a topic of conversa- Permission outside the life of the Church. No social group tion at the outset, Margull was surprised one day lies outside the orbit of the compassion of when all of the men made contributions to a Sal-

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/ vation Army lassie who had entered the pub. The report noted that evangelistic efforts often When he inquired why they had made the dona- are impotent because they have not been em- tions, the men replied: "Because they are the only Church bodied in works of service, compassion and iden- Christians who look us up in our everyday life." tification. "It is not enough for the Church to "Through long contacts, the men found that speak out of its security," it observed. "Follow- other Christians cared about them other than on Episcopal ing our incarnate and crucified Lord, we must Sundays or when their children were baptized," the live in such identification with man, with his sin, of Margull recalled. "I was invited to their homes his hopes and fears, his misery and needs, that and asked questions about politics, labor condi- we become his brother and can witness from his tions, but, first of all, about family life. They

Archives place and condition to God's love for him." did not ask me how they could escape hell but how "Those outside the Church," it added, "make they could escape hell in their own families. What 2020. little distinction between faith and works." hit them was the fact that they could talk to a Hans J. Margull, executive secretary of the man who himself had hope. These lords of the WCC's department on evangelism, learned the world they come and go. But there is one Lord Copyright truth of this statement while still serving as a who comes." lecturer in missions and ecumenics at the Uni- In time, many of these men came to accept versity of Hamburg. Christ, although they could not yet accept the Dock Workers Church which their fathers had left years ago. LOOKING AT THE FACES of those who walked This fact made it clear to Margull that it was the streets of this important German port city, necessary to establish a new congregation in a Margull was struck by the fact that a Christian secular, atheistic environment and allow Christ witness must be made to these people, the ma- to work in his way among these new Christians. jority of whom were completely outside the life "If a bishop or minister agrees to this pro- of the Church. cedure, I am sure that his view of evangelism is "Since Christ is the living Lord, he was on free of proselytism and self-aggrandizement," T=i Wmmns Margull remarked. "And if this course is fol- The House Church lowed, there eventually will be a reconciliation be- THE STORY OF HALTON PARISH in Leeds, tween the Church and these men - since they England, serves as an example. There are some already are in the faith - and they will turn out 12,000 people who live on the 99 streets within to be the best evangelists." the confines of the parish, an area far too large church attendance. However, the Out of his experiences in Hamburg, Margull to encourage former vicar, the Rev. Ernest Southcott, now has come to certain basic conclusions regarding Provost of Southwark, has remarked: the evangelistic task of the Church. Moreover, "We have discovered that we must stop talking they reflect the thinking of many other serious about getting people inside the church building Church leaders and the ecumenical movement as and that we must start talking about how to get a whole. on speaking terms with the vast majority of Christ the Evangelist people who are almost completely outside the "If it is true that Jesus Christ is himself the worshipping community. We have discovered evangelist - and I underline Christ to dis- again and again that it is no use trying to take tinguish him from just a teacher or prophet - people from where they are not, to where they publication. then every Christian congregation is not just an- don't want to be. and other religious group, but a colony of heaven Halton's answer to this dilemma has been the where the Kingdom of God begins," Margull said. "house church", such as that which came into reuse "The Word of God cannot be limited to a visible being in the home of Philemon. The justifica- for congregation, since it is meant to be believed and tion for taking the Church into the home lies in followed by all mankind. The congregation is the belief that where Christ is, there is the

required meant to be the city on the hill and the salt of the Church. In Halton, this belief has met with out- earth, making witness the most obvious task of standing results. every one of its members." "What is happening is a revolution in the way To Margull, the fact that we do things," says Southcott. "It is a revolu- Permission Churches sometimes feel that they have to schedule special evan- tion that is leading to meeting - not meetings- gelistic campaigns means that something is in fresh ways. Meeting of regular worshippers, DFMS.

/ wrong with the congregation. "If all was well," from house to house; of regular worshippers with he pointed out, "they would be fulfilling their irregular worshippers, of regular worshippers of own missionary another." Church task." "We have congregations that are spoiled by Crooswijk, Rotterdam an institutionalized ministry and by the errone- A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT APPROACH is

Episcopal ous idea that the pastor is the specialist in reli- paying dividends in Crooswijk, one of the poorest the gion," he said. "The minister should be the serv- Dutch Reformed parishes in Rotterdam. An of ant of his congregation, not that this relieves overwhelming majority of its 15,000 inhabitants the congregation of its own duties, but that it live completely outside the life of the Church, al- helps the congregation though efforts have been made in the past to Archives to carry out its own responsibilities." witness to the people of this area. "Never has the 2020. For Christians to be members of a witnessing gospel been totally lost at congregation does not necessarily mean that they Crooswijk," says the pastor, the Rev. Gijs van preach on the street corner, he remarked. Jesus Veldhuizen. "Many have remained vaguely

Copyright conscious of the Christ rather uses the whole community for the hidden presence of God. It is ministry of evangelism by giving special "charis- this 'rumor', this dim consciousness, that gives mata" or gifts of grace to individual members, us the first point of contact with people in speak- thus giving them a special mission and responsi- ing about matters of faith." bility. Mr. van Veldhuizen and his associates have found it wise to work quietly within existing This means that within the witnessing com- social groups rather than try to form new groups. munity there are individuals who have a particu- Today, some 3,000 people are received in the five lar ability in proclaiming the Gospel to non- parish houses every week, including children, the Christians on differing occasions and in many aged, and members of street corner societies, different settings. But, in any case, personal trade unions, sport clubs, and bands. encounter with the world is always involved. "It has been useful to wait." says van Veld- DECEMBER 7, 1961 rn-u" huizen. "We refrain from trying to christianize those visitors after our own manner. We wait TONGUES for the time when they come and ask us to ren- By Corwin C. Roach der an account of the faith that is in us. The fel- Director, School of Religion, F'argo, N. C. lowship is near to the agape of the first centuries, with a deep understanding of one another and a I HAVE JUST RECEIVED A COPY of a new permanent demonstration of love of God and of magazine devoted to speaking in tongues. There one's neighbor" he added. is nothing new about the phenomenon unless it is its presence in our staid Anglican midst. The New Experiments Greeks had a word for it, glossolalia. It was EXAMPLES OF SUCH NEW and rewarding practised among the pagans, centuries before experiments in evangelism are keenly watched by Christ. That is why St. Paul has to give his the WCC's department on evangelism. Its Corinthian converts a sign by which they could monthly Newsletter then passes on such infor- distinguish Christian from heathen exhibitions. mation to other Churches and encourages them to St. Paul damns with faint praise the entire relate their experiences in seeing to witness to practise. He boasted that he could outspeak any publication. those about them. Corinthian. Yet in the church he would rather and Through such inter-church cooperation, it be- speak five words of understandable Greek than comes clear that evangelism is the task of the thousands of inspired unintelligibility. That is reuse whole Church and not the delegated responsibili- the whole point of his famous chapter on love in for ty of any particular confession. On more than Corinthians 13. Tongues will cease, he tells us, one occasion, the World Council has drawn atten- and they did except on the fringes. But love will tion to the fact that ecumenism and proselytism go on forever. required are mutually exclusive. The same can be said for The author of Acts, perhaps directly influenced proselytism and evangelism. by St. Paul, transforms the experience at Pente- "Evangelism in the Biblical sense is always cost from the familiar glossolalia to the miracle Permission ecumenical," says Margull. "It is never sectari- of intelligent discourse whereby "every man an." heard them speak in his own language". What-

DFMS. "To identify evangelism with 'church member- ever really happened at Pentecost, this remains / ship promotion' can lead to grave misunderstand- the Christian ideal. We are to speak to men in ings of the gospel itself and of the Church's pri- a language they can understand. Church mary witnessing vocation," he remarked. "Chris- I am not worried whether glossolalia of the tians do often give the impression that they are Corinthian and now Californian variety will catch interested in the man in the street only insofar as on in the Episcopal Church. I would agree with Episcopal he may become a man in the pew." St. Paul that if we ignore it, it will perish of its the Margull conceded that it is natural for an An- own accord. However there is a subtler form of of glican or a Pentecostalist to expect others to glossolalia which is widespread in the Church and share their own religious experience. A Lutheran of which we are all guilty. The essence of glos-

Archives might well be disturbed if a new convert joined. solalia, as St. Paul describes it, is two-fold. It the Salvation Army. is to speak with the voice rather than with the

2020. "But we must allow him to make his own understanding. It is to speak to the "in-group" choice," he stressed. "Otherwise, we distort the rather than to the community. meaning of evangelism and interfere with the These two errors go hand-in-hand. So often Copyright work of God. We must always examine our mo- what passes off our tongue has not come from tives: Do we really care about the man, or are we our heart or through our head. Platitudes and primarily interested in filling our pews ?" cliches are one form of glossolalia. Does what The basis for a true understanding of the we say really make sense or are we talking a kind Church's task was clearly defined at Evanston: of sacred nonsense? The apostle tells us to stop "Jesus Christ is the gospel we proclaim. He is our ecclesiastical baby talk and get the mind of also himself the Evangelist." a man. His followers are simply the instruments Secondly how well do we communicate to through which he makes his love known to the others? The New English Bible puts it cogently world as they seek to be obedient to his will "The language of ecstasy is good for the speaker through unity, witness and service. himself, but it is prophecy that builds up a Twelve Tam Wim Christian community" (I Corinthians 14:4). thought was the case today but they should be in When those outside the Church listen to our pro- closer contact with the clergy and the clergy nouncements are they convinced or contemptu- with them. Many parishes never saw a semi- ous? It all depends upon whether we are ecsta- narian and many seminarians had very little real tics talking our own esoteric gobbledegook or experiences of parishes. He wanted us to see if whether we are prophets speaking to our age in there could not be closer connections. It might language relevant to its condition. not be so needed #n a metropolitan diocese with a seminary in its midst, but it was needed in the large and remote rural diocese. Gilbert Simeon was doubtful if we could get - POINTElS For PARSONS - much of a discussion on such a topic, but perhaps we could get someone from the seminary to lead By Robert Miller the discussion. So we put it on our program and OUR PROGRAM COMMITTEE had to meet a departed with the naive hopefulness so charac- second time to decide on four subjects of current teristic of the clergy. interest, and Buffers proposed that pastoral call- publication. ing should be one of them. "I would like to know and what the rest of you do about this," he said. "Do you make a point of calling on every family and Wanted: Heroes of Christ reuse individual every so often or only when there is for By C. Russell Elliott some special need. Do you have any prayers Priest of the Church in Canada when you call? Are your calls truly pastoral or required merely social?" This led to quite a little discus- FROM APOSTOLIC DAYS there have been great sion in the committee so we decided it would be a differences of opinion on what makes a good good topic for discussion. Christian. What is a good Christian like? What

Permission Thompson wanted us to discuss the articles on are his opinions? attitudes? habits? actions? nuclear weapons that had been in the Witness. What should his neighbors expect of him? What ought the Church to do and say about nu- This consideration has nothing to do with de- DFMS. / clear weapons? Should it sanction their use. He nominational differences. A man is not auto- had very little doubt but that it would. As Cae- matically a good Christian just because he is an

Church sar's little brother it would almost have to, but Anglican - though he has a much better chance, ought it to do so? Buffers objected strongly to and a much better reason to be superior! The such language. He hoped that if the Church problem cuts across denominational barriers and

Episcopal ever used the weapons of Caesar it would do so each communion is faced with the same need to

the from the highest motives. We decided on nu- separate sheep from goats. In fact, each year as of clear weapons as a good subject. I report to my own congregation I tell them I urged that we should devote a meeting to the somewhat facetiously but earnestly that I group ecumenical movement. It was certainly affect- them into three categories: souls, half-souls and Archives ing the religious climate. When one thought of heels! the Church of South India, the attitude of the In our search for the pattern of a good Chris- 2020. present Pope, the conjunction of Eugene Carson tian we have over-glamorized the picture of the Blake and Bishop Pike it was clear that we could saints of Apostolic days we get in the New Testa- no longer dismiss the idea of either unity or union ment. Our sentimentalized impression belongs Copyright as wishful thinking. What did we think of it much more to the medieval stain-glass paintings all? Would we just put a toe in the water or than to Biblical sources. I find it hard to make would we plunge right in? effeminate, solemn-faced, weak, other-worldly It was agreed that we discuss the ecumenical characters out of the Biblical pictures. Even movement and we rejected Buffers' suggestion Judas has been grossly misrepresented. But in that the subject should be "the ecumenical move- this day and age we seem to have passed from ment as viewed by the Catholic." both Biblical and medieval concepts of what con- It was Thompson who proposed seminary train- stitutes a good Christian. ing as a subject, and he pleaded that the semi- Let's look at a few types found in the morning naries should not be left to do as best they could congregation. There is Joe Smith, an insurance in a sort of ecclesiastical isolation which he man. He's a hail-fellow-well-met sort, a great

DECEMBER 7, 1961 Thft"" mixer, the man who heads up the annual ste- mon among all these types? The Apostolic band wardship program. He has really set up the par- were not all cut from the same pattern but they ish and we owe more to him than we know. He had something in common: they were absolutely attends pretty regularly too. Of course he's no and irrevocably dedicated to the death to our theologian and they say he is shrewd in business Lord and Saviour and worked out that commit- but he does not neglect the Church. ment through his Church. Their fighting spirit, Mrs. Jones runs the W. A., literally runs it, their single-mindedness, their dogged determi- that is, even though she is not president now. nation, their consistency, their persistency, their She works hard, makes everybody toe the mark, worship, their devotional habits, their use of but the W.A. was never stronger. She takes great liturgy and ritual, their asceticism and their pride in it. And Mrs. Brown, well, she never worldliness were all part-and-parcel of their total comes to church and I don't think is even con- saintliness. Some natures were a bit volatile at firmed but she is a great'giver to the church and times but there was nothing contradictory in to every worthy cause. their lives. The parish has a small but very faithful de- That can not honestly be said about Christians votional group too, out to every celebration, and today, at least the run-of-mill Christians, like publication. they appreciate the meaning and worth of candles ourselves. and and vestments and ritual. They seem quite dif- Forthwith ferent from and aloof from the rest of the con- reuse WHAT IS WANTED is the heroic character, gregation. In fact their daily lives seem to be for heroes for Christ. It is time we stopped confus- lived in an entirely different world and they leave ing softness with saintliness, weakness with it totally behind when they come to service. charity, churchiness with commitment, style and required Various Kinds bearing with faith and works. In this world of LAST OF ALL we have two groups, making up unredeemed powers and principalities a host of most of the members: those who are regular in Pygmalions cannot take the place of the hosts of attendance and take part in parish life as if it Permission God. were an obligation, motions of habit more than We have come to terms with the world, we have of conviction. And those who hardly ever attend learned to accept the world, we have made peace DFMS. or support / but they have been baptised and they with the world: and so we have declared our- do good work: they hold public positions where selves as far as God is concerned too. We no they fight well for good things in education, wel- Church longer stand with him who is "trampling out the fare, politics, and so on. vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored". I almost forgot another group - the clergy. Read the Gospel according to Saint Mark: note They hardly can be called a group because there Episcopal the frequent use of the word: "forthwith". Note is no more motley crowd in the whole world. Look the the value of that word. We need people who are at any convention gathering. There of is the busi- "forthwith" Christians of forthrightness. We ness-suit, man-of-the-world; there is the brief- need them in every congregation. The only case committee-type; there is the ascetic high reason the Kingdom of God has not yet been Archives churchman who is not sure what is going on; and realized in full is because we Christians have not the time-server who is absolutely sure he does been Christian: we have been playing 2020. a part; we not know what is going on; there is the stylilized have been wooden soldiers in full-dress on priest with the correct clothes and bearing and a parade, mostly an Easter-parade along Fifth perfect candidate for the part of Hamlet; there Avenue, Copyright but not soldiers of Christ in battle- is the crooked-finger afternoon-tea man who is dress on the battle-field. rector of that posh parish, and of course there is "0, be swift, my soul, to answer him, the uncombed-hair lunatic-fringe priest who is be jubilant, my feet!. Our God is known to have voted labor or chaired a labor marching on!" J. W. Howe. meeting or started a co-op or something. Who best exemplifies the real Christian, the Apostolic type, the baptismal soldier-of-Christ? I AM AN EPISCOPALIAN By John W. Day No doubt a jig-saw Christian could be made as a Dean Emeritus of Grace Cathedral, Topeka composite of all these by taking the best from 250 a copy each but that would make a robot and not a living $2 for ten The Witness saint. Why is it that there is not more in com- Tunkhannock, Pa. 1:owwx~ TUX Wnv. FAGLEY GIVES WARNING Fagley called for more "sub- African diplomats have been re- (Continued from Page Six) stantial research . . . to develop fused service in restaurants. He the delegates that to make this growth possible. more simple and acceptable and, also told be many Church But he warned that the situa- above all, less costly means for there would in Africa if such mat- tion demands agricultural and family planning." mergers ters were in the hands of Afri- industrial development and "a He suggested that countries massive extension of family cans. He called upon European where family planning is ac- and arch- planning." theologians, bishops cepted, such as the Scandinavian being obstacles No branch of Christianity in- bishops to "stop countries, join with nations of the Church sists on unlimited procreation, in the progress which need assistance, such as in Africa." He stressed the Fagley said. He explained that India and Pakistan, in an inter- the controversy arises over the need of training African clergy national group to further tech- leaders so that Chris- methods of birth control used. and lay nical cooperation in this area. tianity on that continent will not continue to be regarded as News Notes from World Assembly a "white man's religion." Africa still needs missionaries, he con- publication. FIRST LAYMAN PICKED elected; the Rev. David G. tinued, but they must be willing and to work as FOR WCC PRESIDIUM Moses of the United Church of partners on equal Northern India and Pakistan, terms with African Christians. reuse * Charles C. Parlin, Metho- and the Rev. Martin Niemoller Missionaries must also believe in for dist layman of New York, is one of the Evangelical Church in the equality of all men and of six men elected as presidents Germany. respect African traditions, Sir of the WOC, and is the first Francis declared. required layman to hold the office. Professionalism Fight Injustice Others chosen to hold office * Paul D. Devanandan, direc- until the next assembly in 1967 tor of the Christian Institute * Masao Takenaka, Japanese or 1968, are the Archbishop delegate, said Churches should Permission of for the study of religion and Canterbury; Sir Francis Ibiam, society in Bangalore, India, said seek the causes of social disease Presbyterian of Nigeria; Arch- that there is so much of the pro- and injustice, and should re- DFMS. bishop vamp traditional service pro- / lakovos of the Greek fessional in the Christian min- Orthodox Church of North and istry that it alienates the com- grams to meet changing world South America, who was re- mon folk in the farm, factory needs. Social workers should Church and market place. Modern man be "mobile tent-dwellers rather has to be met where he is - at than rigid keepers of buildings." work, at home, at play. Speak- Honor Gandhi Episcopal ing of Asian and African na- * The five WCC presidents the tionalism a n d the tension

of and other officials laid wreaths created by the East-West strug- at the Mahatma Gandhi memo- gle, he told the delegates that rial, following one of the As- "we are all involved in a com-

Archives sembly sessions. mon social crisis, tied together by a community of interests" Patriarch's Message 2020. which demands removal of doc- * Archbishop Nicodim, head trinal barriers that separate the of the Russian Orthodox dele- Churches. gation, read a message from Copyright Patriarch Alexei which called Discrimination A Millstone upon the WCC to do "everything * Discrimination, in and out in her power to help mankind to of Africa, is the "largest mill- establish brotherly kindness on stone" around the necks of earth." The message declared African Christians, declared Sir that "the preservation and con- Francis Ibiam, governor of solidation of world peace is the Eastern Nigeria. A Presby- basic problem of the times" and terian, he was chairman of the the Patriarch urged the MARTIN NEIMOLLER: - the bat- All-Africa Church conference in Churches to call upon the heads tling crusader for world peace is 1958. He spoke specifically of of states to start negotiations elected a World Council president instances in the U.S. where "with the aim of achieving last-

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