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BROWN, FRANCIS T., has resigned as vicar of St. Mark’s, Mesa, Arizona, to retire General tK^eologtcai from the active ministry after a service of K e m p e r H E l J^emmarg 46 years. BROWN, WILLIAM A., Bishop of Southern KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Three - yea r undergraduate Virginia, preached the baccalaureate ser mon at Roanoke College, Salem, Va., and Episcopal Boarding and Day School. course of prescribed and elective received an honorary degree of doctor of Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual study. laws. opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu CURRY, MATTHEW A., of the diocese of Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity Arkansas, was ordained priest on June 12th School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. by Bishop Manning at the Cathedral, New York. SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced JONES, HAROLD, first full-blooded Indian Box W.T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. to graduate from Seabury-Western Semi and D.Th. nary, returned to South Dakota on June Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin 17th for ordination. He is to work with his ADDRESS own people under the direction of Bishop Roberts. CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL Nem York City KENNEDY, HOWARD S., 2ND, was ordained THE DEAN priest on June 12 at St. Paul’s, Troy, N. Y., A boarding school for the forty boys of Chelsea Square New York City by Bishop Oldham. Formerly a Methodist the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the pastor Mr. Kennedy is now a curate at Divine. Careful musical training and daily Far Catalogue Address the Dean St. Paul’s. singing at the cathedral services. Small MACON, CLIFTON, after two months in classes mean individual attention and high California, has returned to his residence, 90 standards. The School has its own building Morningside Drive, New York City. and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 Episcopal Theological School per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice MEARS, JOHN, was ordained deacon on June test and scholarship examination. Address CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 12 by Bishop Manning at the Cathedral, The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School. Cathe Affiliated with Harvard University offers New York. He is to go to the Philippines. dral Heights, New York City. unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as NILES, WILLIAM PORTER, has resigned philosophy, psychology, history, as rector of the Good Shepherd, Nashua, sociology, etc. N. H., effective September 15th. HOLDERNESS For Cataloge Address the Dean In the White Mountains. College Preparatory NIXON, EUGENE L., was ordained deacon and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For on June 12 at St. Paul’s, Troy, N. Y., by boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 The Protestant Episcopal Bishop Oldham. He is in charge of St. acres of woods. New fireproof building. In Mark’s, Green Island, N. Y. dividual attention. Home atmosphere. Theological Seminary in Virginia PURDY, JAMES ELLIOTT, was ordained deacon on June 8 at Trinity, Lansford. Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector Ftor Catalogue and other information Pa., by Bishop Sterrett. He was present address the Dean ed by his father, the Rev. Charles E. Box W Plymouth, N. H. REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. Purdy. Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. RATH, GEORGE E., was ordained deacon on June 12 by Bishop Manning at the Cathe dral, New York. He is to be assistant to Chaplain Knox at Columbia University. Stuart IfaU Berkeley ROGERS, ARTHUR, for many years rector of An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old St. Mark’s, Evanston, Illinois died on June traditions and high standards in the beau Divinity School 10th after a long illness. tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara New Haven, Connecticut tory, general courses, and secretarial SCAMBLER, JOHN H., rector of St. Chris Affiliated with Yale University courses. Two years beyond high school. topher’s, Oak Park, Illinois, was re-elected Music, art, expression. Graduates success Address DEAN W. P. LADD president of the Chicago clergy’s round table (clericus) on June 6th. ful in college. Well-equipped buildings. 86 Sachem Street New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid SNELL, WILLIAM W., was ordained deacon ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. on June 7 by Bishop Creighton at St. Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. TRINITY COLLEGE Paul’s Cathedral, Detroit. He is to become a member of the Order of the Holy Cross Hartford, Conn. with hope of serving eventually in Liberia. I Offers a general cultural education, with STROHSAHL, VINCENT H „ was ordained The Church Divinity School of the Pacific I special emphasis on the Classics, Modern deacon on June 12 by Bishop Manning at BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil the Cathedral, New York. He is to serve at Dean, Henry H. Shires 2457 Ridge Road osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, St. Mary the Virgin, Chappaqua, New Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. York. For information apply, The Dean. VAN DER HIEL, PETER C., staff of the chapel of the Incarnation, New York, was SCHOOL OF NURSING ordained priest on June 12 by Bishop Man General Hospital for Men, Women and Chil ning in the Cathedral, New York. dren provides experience in medical, surgical, VOSSLER, ARTHUR B„ diocese of Bethle and obstetric - nursing, with affiliated courses hem, died on June 7 in Pasadena, Cali in psychiatric, communicable disease and vis fornia, following a long illness. iting nursing included in three year program. Class enters in September. An Honor Christian School with the highest WALTER, ARTHUR G., staff of All Angels, Apply to Director of Nursing academic rating. Upper School prepares for New York, was ordained priest on June 12 Hospital of St. Barnabas and for Women university or business. ROTC. Every mod by Bishop Manning at the Cathedral, New and Children ern equipment. Junior School from six years. York. Newark, New Jersey Housemother. Separate building. Catalogue. Dr. J. J. Wicker, Fork Union, Virginia. WICKERSHAM, GEORGE W., 2nd, was or dained deacon on June 12 by Bishop Man ning at the Cathedral, New York. He is MARGARET HALL Virginia Episcopal School a student at Philadelphia Seminary. Under Sisters of St. Anne WILDING, CHARLES W., was ordained dea (Episcopal) Lynchburg, Virginia con on June 12 by Bishop Manning at the Prepares boys for colleges and university. Small country boarding and day school for Cathedral, New York. He is on the staff girls, from primary through high school. Splendid environment and excellent corps of of Christ Church, Rye, N. Y. teachers. High standard in scholarship and Accredited college preparatory. Modern build athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in WILLIAMS, JOSEPH B., was ordained dea ing recently thoroughly renovated includes the mountains of Virginia. con on June 12 by Bishop Manning at the gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of Cathedral, New York. He is serving at six acres with ample playground space, For catalogue apply to the Mediator, Kingsbridge, N. Y. hockey field and tennis court. Rate $650. Rev. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D. D., Rector For catalog, address: Sister Rachel, O.S.A., Box A, Versailles, Kentucky St. Faith’s School VESTMENTS ERNEST W. LAKEMAN Cassocks - Surplices - Stoles - Scarves Secretarial, Art, Music, French, Winter Silks - Altar Cloths - Embroideries Sports. Regents Examination. Tuition Custom Tailoring for Clergymen $550 yr. Protection, Care, Health. DESIGNER AND WORKER IN Priest Cloaks - Rabats - Collars Some scholarships available. STAINED & LEADED GLASS 1 O Q 7 Markini 101 yean service-| A Q Q Apply to lOOf tc the Church and Cleny. REV. DR. F. ALLEN SISCO, Principal 336 EAST 28 ST. NEW YORK Saratoga Spa, N. Y. CD COX SONS & VINING, INC. I 131 EAST 2 3 rd STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. |

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I A m Bewildered By WILLIAM LAWRENCE An address by the Retired Bishop to the Massachusetts Convention T AM a somewhat bewildered man in these fast-mov- the budget: why, some twenty or thirty yeairs ago Vice- ing days. I have lived a long life, and now so many President Dawes swept a platform with a broom and things are discovered to be just the opposite of what shouted that all waste should be cleaned up and that they used to be, that I do not understand. I am be every government department, every civil officer, and wildered. every householder should have a budget and balance it Let me give a few instances. on the evening of every 31st of December. The Presi We used to be told that betting and gambling were dent, Congress, and the whole country shouted their economically unsound both for state and individual, approval and passed laws to see that that was done. I that they were demoralizing and created a disdain on was the chairman of a committee of our Church which the part of the people for the earning of steady wages, created a uniform system of accounts in every diocese and discouraged that backlog of wealth: thrift. In of the country and insisted on balanced budgets. The deed so wrong and wasteful were they that the people Church is still doing pretty well at it, though not as of Massachusetts passed laws forbidding them,—laws well as it ought. But the nation! Why, who thinks of which have been generally obeyed for a generation. balancing the budget? That is not what budgets are Now, however, we are told that certain forms of for. I am bewildered. gambling and betting are not only harmless but really beneficent; so the old laws nave been repealed and, last U SED to be told that marriage was a sacred ordi Saturday at Suffolk Downs, half a million dollars I nance and of life-long duration; and now, why changed hands. The commonwealth is now richer and every eighth couple looks up with amused surprise and better able to support its institutions for the feeble says, “ How old-fashioned you are! You don’t keep up minded and insane. Indeed the bigger the total, the with the times.” richer will be the commonwealth of Massachusetts! I am a supporter of Church Unity, though I have Why not boost the figures up to a million, or better, more interest in a unity of the spirit than of organiza to five million? No one except the loser will be the tion ; and now I am told by certain earnest Churchmen poorer; everyone will have had a good time; taxes will that I must not allow a good Presbyterian to receive be lowered and the state enriched. communion at an altar of this Church until a visible Speaking of “thrift” , we used to be told that debts unity has been completed. This is not, it seems to me, were hazardous,—they might catch us in a tight place; a very hopeful lead towards Unity. that running into debt was a bad habit. We then had Perhaps I have no perception of the value of rigidity; the habit of distrusting and even despising a man who —at all events, I hope that I have some sense of humor spent more than his income, mortgaged his property, and of right proportion. The fact is that I have been a and left his children—who had been brought up to member of this Church for over eighty years and have spend money—without a dollar. lived through many efforts to narrow its faith and Today we are told that the way to make money is standards; but its historic heritage holds it steady, to spend it before z you get it, and that will create a strong, and broad in its interpretation. hunger to make more money in the same way. Brainy I mention one more illustration, more serious than men who have never earned five thousand dollars a the others perhaps because not quite so clearly defined year tell us in a very blithe and easy fashion how to and recognizable. In 1914, the phrase, “ a scrap of borrow billions; it will all come out right in the end. paper” , shocked the moral sense of civilized nations; I have no final objection to paying heavily for what it was a blow to the sanctity of treaties. In these days, I borrow but I have a mean sort of-feeling in passing there seems to be a vague, unspoken sentiment that a those debts down to my children and grandchildren to great nation, a mass of people, cannot be held to the pay—if, by great sacrifice, they ever can. And as for fulfilment of its treaties made, perhaps, years ago and

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS June 23, 1938 by officers of government and people now dead. ples by the millions; of cannibalism, of racial w ars; of Changed conditions may justify national change of murders by the thousand; of China and India with their mind. If this be once recognized in international rela hordes of starving peoples; of Russia and its serfs; tions, the world and civilization are surely in a perilous of Italy and its paupers. Rapid transit, industrialism condition. Confidence in national word and honor is the and other conditions have suddenly thrown us all into bulwark of civilization. I am bewildered. close contact; we do not know each other; we dis Because of these changes in one lifetime, I have the trust each other. Throw a dozen men of different feeling that a man over fourscore years of age ought races and habits, from savage to civilized, without not to be allowed to speak in public. His talking license warning into one pit and you will have a pretty fight on should be withdrawn and I have told Bishop Sherrill your hands; but in time and after a few broken heads so; but he will not listen. At all events, such a man is and deaths, they will come to an understanding. wise to confine his remarks to the simplest terms. I I believe that with patience, self-restraint, and a de recall one illustrious example of a man thus discreet. termination to keep the peace, this country and other As a young man, he was narrow and belligerent, de countries will gradually come to some mutual under termined that men should think as he did; he once standing. And here, I believe, comes into play economic wanted to call down fire from Heaven upon those who wisdom, trade agreements, diplomacy, and statesman taught not as his leader taught. Later, he became a ship; but also and especially the pressure of the Spirit Bishop and an octogenarian, and when, as the retired of Him whose birth was hailed with the song, “ Peace Bishop of Ephesus, the aged John was carried through on earth, good will towards men.” his see-city, he did not express his opinions on the To mention just one illustration: who can measure questions of the day; he did not criticize the govern the influence of St. Luke’s Hospital in Tokyo, with ment or scold the social leaders, he played safe and officers, doctors, nurses, partly American, largely Japa wisely when he confined his remarks to these few nese? Thousands of Japanese, cured at the hospital, words: “ Little children, love one another; little chil are spreading the good news of an American Christian dren, love one another.” hospital throughout the land. So far from these being Following the example of that retired, aged Bishop, years when missions should be abolished, they are just I am going to speak briefly and in personal terms, lay years when, by the mingling of the finer spirits of dif ing down principles and action only for myself. ferent races, there grow up mutual understanding, true In these days of bewilderment I am not going to as of trade, of education, of industries,—the one essential sume that I know much of anything about politics, or being mutual confidence, the sense of brotherhood. The government, or finance, or peace, or war. I have enough leaders’ voices are heard through the streets: “ Little to do to mark out the habit of my own behavior. Children, love one another.” The process of Interna tional Understanding will take years; it may take gen N T H E first place, I am going to carry a grateful erations ; wars may intervene; but it will come. I heart that I am an American; and I am going to be Phillips Brooks on being asked why he was such an a good American. I am grateful to God because I optimist, answered, “ Because I am a Christian.” believe that this country has a very great opportunity Finally, a few days ago I saw what was to me a very to be happy and to have a great and happy future, and moving picture. It was of two boys, each holding a to be very helpful in making other nations happy. hand of that mystic egoist, Adolph Hitler; all three The duty of an American, as I understand it, is to pressing forward, hundreds of boys following, none of do his utmost to see that those who are to represent him them knew where they were going but they had full in the government are worthy, and truly representative; confidence in their leader, Hitler. Therein is the power and, with that done, to trust them. If they are unworthy, of the German people today. he may work for their replacement by better men, Many years ago, I made the decision of the Great and he may work hard and sharply in that job; but so Adventure. Am I a bit of material thrown off from the long as they are in office and make the laws and ad mass, subject to the inflexible laws of nature, with a minister the government, the loyal American obeys will hopelessly determined by material forces? Or am and, without grouching or evasion, leads others to I a man, made in the image of God, a child of my Heav obey. enly Father, recognized by Him in the life of His Son, I have wondered sometimes whether the influence of Jesus Christ, my Saviour and Leader? The choice the Church is not weakened when members of the could not be evaded. It cannot be evaded by any man Church, sometimes prominent citizens, so baulk at and or woman. I chose the latter: an adventure of faith: evade the acts of government as to give cause for the a will to think and act: a man: with complete confidence suspicion of disloyalty. in God, my hand in His. I do not ask where I am Second: I shall try and be patient while the various going; I do not know; but I have complete confidence nations are struggling out of these years of astounding in Him, His power, His wisdom, His love. Therein and almost overwhelming difficulty. In my younger is power: a power that overcomes: a power that gives years, the various nations and races were far separate serenity and peace. and, as I think of their conditions, I am convinced that, It is that power which the youth of this country must as a whole, the world is better off today than it was have if we are to take our part in the happiness of the then. I recall the awful pestilences that swept off peo nation, in the coming of the Kingdom of God.

Let’s Know Talking It Over By BISHOP WILSON By WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD ITY THE POOR Presbyterians. According to the L etters N 1935 the United States Government sold thirteen P press their New York pastors have agreed to give up their vacations next summer in order that they be and a half billion stamps in this country for the I on hand to entertain and guide members of their de handling of mail through 45,687 post offices and at a nomination in the big city to attend the world’s fair. cost of nearly seven hundred million dollars. Quite a It all sounds horrible to me—tramping over fair large business and, as time goes, a comparatively recent grounds all summer, pointing with pride to Grover development. Whalen’s commercialized show. The clergy would do To be sure, letters have been written for a long time. better in retreat, either to pray or to fish or both. In the thirtieth chapter of II Chronicles we read about letters sent by King Hezekiah and “ so the posts went ISH O P OLDHAM of Albany in a letter to the with the letters from the king” . There are other refer B New York Times protests against the shipment of ences in the Old Testament but they do not indicate war supplies to Japan. He asks, “ Why cannot our anything like a postal service. Letters were sent by law permitting the President to declare an embargo be special royal couriers and for a long time there was put into effect ?” And the answer is, “ The President no provision for public mail in any of the ancient lands. himself.” I am not familiar with the state papers of The first postal system dates from the Persian empire many of our Presidents, but I will hazard the guess that of five centuries before Christ when stations were es there have been few to occupy the White House who tablished for the transfer of official reports to and from have consistently given utterance to more noble aspira various provinces of the empire. Such service was very tions than President Roosevelt. But there is no ac well organized by the day of Julius Caesar but it was complishment in words. He called for the quarantin Diocletian, at the beginning of the fourth century, who ing of aggressor nations. Yet the implements of war first opened the service for private citizens. Before that have gone from the United States to Franco with time private correspondence had to be sent by slaves which to crush democratic Spain, while an embargo or placed in the hands of casual travellers. has been effectively declared against the Loyalists. Now The first real postal service was inaugurated at the authorities state that 54% 'of the supplies that Japan University of Paris in the thirteenth century and grad receives with which to wage war on China come from ually was extended from country to country in Europe. us, allowed, according to Mr. Roosevelt, because Japan Similar tentative beginnings were made in the Amer has not officially declared war. A war not having, been ican colonies, originating in Massachusetts in 1639. declared no war exists is the formula of our President During the Revolutionary War Benjamin Franklin was and his state department. Here at home he declares made Postmaster at a salary of a thousand dollars a that “ Our conception of freedom embraces complete year. In 1794 Congress passed the first law for the liberty of conscience and of thought, freedom of edu proper regulation of the postal system in the United cation, freedom of the press, the right of free speech States. Cash was paid for every letter posted. In 1840 and assembly” and he does so at the very time that the first postage stamp was printed in England and a Hague, the vice-chairman of his party’s national com few years later the system was introduced in our own mittee, is enforcing with thugs and hoodlums his state country. They were of five and ten-cent denominations ment that “ nothing shall be said in Jersey City that 1 bearing likenesses of Franklin and Washington re don’t like.” One can understand a man playing poli spectively. Not until 1863 was the free delivery system tics a little and overlook discrepancies between words established and receiving boxes placed at strategic points and deeds. After all we are living in a practical world, for public use. as I am frequently reminded. But when the discrep With his “ Epistles” St. Paul introduced a new kind ancies are as glaring as in these instances some good of letter—somewhat in the form we would now call an friend ought to whisper in his ear. “open letter” . It was written not to an individual but to be read to a congregation of Christians and E R E IS the resolution passed by the ministers of passed around to other congregations. Of course, his HNewark, which is a significant document—all the epistles had to be sent by the hands of travelling dis more so because it was not passed to ease their con ciples, since the postal service of his day was restricted sciences and then buried in the files, but read from to official government use. People in those days knew practically every pulpit in the city last Sunday. There nothing of pamphlets such as we find crowding our is just one question that comes to mind: why is it that mails today. The New Testament epistles are a mixture the ministers of Newark will at once pass such a resolu •—partly in proper letter form with greetings from in tion immediately following just one outrage, whereas dividuals to individuals and at the same time contain the ministers of neighboring Jersey .City, ruled by ing teachings and exhortations after the manner of ser Hague, remain completely silent in the face of repeated mons. Other such epistles passed around among the denials of fundamental American rights? Christians which are not included in the New Testa “ The Newark Ministerial Association in Special ment Scriptures. Some of them have been preserved Session Thursday, June 9, 1938, for the purpose of and contain much valuable historical information. considering certain occurrences in Military Park Sat-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS June 23, 1938 urday evening, June 4th, is moved to express its deep necessities; so much to provide for old age; so much for sense of indignation, alarm and solicitude. pleasures; so much for gratitude to God and so much “ It is filled with indignation because of a disgrace for the aid of our fellow-men. Some people think that ful performance at the hands of a mob which wreaked a money is the root of all evil. It isn’t. Money is the hoodlum violence upon an American citizen, in whose symbol of our time and labor and genius. It is the love behalf a permit to speak in Military Park had been of money for its own sake that is the root of all evil. duly issued. The presence and practically unchecked The use of money may become a sacramental medium, activities of such an ugly mob becomes an event of sin “ the outward and visible sign of our inward and ister significance. spiritual grace” or it may become an instrument of self “ In order that the fair name of our city may be indulgence. If we think of money as a way by which cleared, so far as possible, we demand a thorough and we can show our love for God and man, it becomes a impartial investigation, preferably by an accredited holy thing. If we think of it merely as a means of Grand Jury, of the whole occurrence in which the liber self gratification it is a sordid thing. In any event it ties of American citizenship were trampled in the dust. is the acid test of the sincerity of our convictions. We demand that the investigation shall not savor of a The danger is that our attitude toward virtue is one white-wash at the hands of those directly or indirectly of mere sentimentality without sacrifice. To illustrate: involved in the affair, nor will we consent to have pub many a man will pay a goodly sum to see a prosperous lic attention diverted from the real issues involved by actress portray the misfortunes of an orphan girl. The the drawing of any red herring across the trail. We ab spectator is so moved that he sheds tears and con hor the event at issue and deeply deplore the shame it gratulates himself that he is really soft hearted. As a casts upon the good name of our city. matter of fact he is soft headed for nobody is really “ We would sound the note of alarm as well as in suffering and he knows it. The real test of his tender dignation. The rise and prevalence of partisan force ness is to be found in his willingness to spend money and the brazen effort to bludgeon into silence an Amer for the real orphan in the alley over whom he sheds ican citizen attempting to exercise his Constitutional no tears. rights are a direct attack upon the citadel of our Ameri If money is to be regarded as a sacrament then can institutions, namely the right of freedom of public gambling is a sin. Curiously enough savages and society assemblage, freedom of speech and freedom of worship. folk have a flare for gambling It is due I think to the Even more an occasion of alarm is the persistent im fact that having a superabundance of spare time, men pression upon which conclusive judgment will be based seek to fill the vacuum with some sort of excitement when all the facts are truly known, that the forces of which needs to be stimulated by something more than local government designed to promote public order were the game. The love of games is a healthy condition but actually used to over-throw it and that the mob was when the game is commercialized it resolves itself into aided and abetted by such public forces. the love of money. Three or four friends assemble in “ We are finally moved to solicitude lest the Ameri the house of their host. If you accused them of desir can people will permit their dearly bought and highly ing to pick the pockets of their host or the host to filch prized liberties to be taken from them by unchecked and money out of his guests, there would be an indignant unchallenged resort to subversive violence. It is the denial. But what happens? They sit down to play a true American way to settle public issues by free dis game but in order to gratify their commercial instincts cussion and final determination at the ballot box, hon they proceed to extract money from one another. It estly employed and with its contents sacredly guarded frequently happens that the loser cannot afford to pay against fraud. We are solicitous lest by the subtle en his losses. It sometimes happens that he is not playing croachments of tyranny, such as that which hold cer with his own money but with that which belongs to his tain nations in its grasp, we may lose our birthright employers or his creditors. Women particularly are and become enslaved. often compelled to hide from their husbands the amounts “ We call upon all our fellow citizens, irrespective of that they can ill afford to lose. The whole thing is a race, religion or political opinion, to rally to the sup perversion of hospitality and friendship. Unfortunately port of our endangered free institutions, and we pledge gambling has the same effect as a drug. People be ourselves, without rancor and hatred, but at whatever come addicts and when they are under the spell are in cost, to continue to oppose the spirit and influence of different to the needs of their families or the trust of those who are responsible for the scandalous occur their employers. Gambling is bad enough in a resort rence in Military Park last Saturday night.” but it is worse when masqueraded in the guise of hos pitality. The Use of Money T IS worse when games of chance are fostered by the I Church. At best it is the frivolous use of a sacred By trust. At worst it is the approval of a mania which is BISHOP JOHNSON disastrous to human character. If Christian ethics mean H E R E is no better index of character than that anything to us, we are stewards to whom the good God T displayed in our expense account. It would be a has intrusted certain talents. Our gratitude for our revelation to many if they would analyze the way in mercies should display itself in our use of the money which they spend their monthly income. So much for that we receive. Even the self righteous Pharisee gave

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 23, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Seven a tenth of his income for uses other than his own self the valiant popular Spanish government, and gave in indulgence. The orthodox Jew, whom we are apt to stead to the Society of Friends to help in their strictly look down upon as the embodiment of self seeking, will impartial work of alleviating suffering wherever and put to shame the sentimental Christian who feels sorry however it occurs. For we did not want to do anything but does little or nothing of an altruistic character. The to prolong the suicidal civil war that apparently can ancient Greeks were better sports than we are. They not possibly benefit any living being except for a tempo contended for an olive wreath while the purse forms rary and costly commercial gain to Hitler or Mussolini. the great incentive to our sporting contests. Our prayer has been that the fratricidal warfare We ruin everything by our commercialism in which should stop, even though for the time being, democracy our anxiety to get is out of all proportion to our eager-, suffer one more in her series of European defeats; even ness to give. We begrudge that which we do give be though we seemed to be going back on the Spanish sons cause we do not give on principle. and daughters of the American and every other demo As a woman once said to me, “ I first made up my cratic revolution. In our hearts, we cheered on the mind to give away a tenth; since I have done that giv almost hopeless cause of a people’s right to a govern ing has been a joy because instead of finding reasons ment of their own choice even while with our minds why I need not give, I merely choose to what I shall we could see that the cost of further bloodshed would give and so there is no back-fire to my giving.” spell certain ruin to their country. How seldom is giving in proportion to our blessings. Then when the editor of our leading Boston maga For example the church treasurer can tell you that re zine and other American gentry of note began to join gardless of the great differences in income, the aver the present British government in daring to side with age person pledges one dollar a month—a goodly sum the murderous legions of Mussolini and Hitler and for some and a pitiful amount from others. We do not Franco, we still said nothing—fondly supposing that like to hear appeals for money made from the pulpit every intelligent believer in democracy would recognize and the minister who does it often will lose the influence the fascism of Franco and all his apologists for what it that he has. And yet the public expects the clergy to really is. And when in recent weeks, word began to pay their bills and the church to pay its bills and get abroad that in important parts of Canada, no one one knows of no other method by which this can be was being allowed to utter one word in public in favor done except with money. When a minister’s salary is of the only legal or popularly-desired government of behind one can hardly expect him to be joyous over it. Spain, even then we quieted our rising resentment with It is not remarkable that he loses heart, When this the wishful thought,—“ It can’t happen here” . shortage is due to the poverty of the people one can But here at last it is, right in our supposedly demo understand it but when it is due to the indifference and cratic midst, right where the suffering poor abide in carelessness of Christians it is not inspiring. exemplary patience the worst rigors and frustrations I am inclined to think that our returns in religion of long continued unemployment. Here at the very are directly proportioned to our investment therein. A foot of Bunker Hill Monument where rebellious farm casual interest will inevitably produce a casual char ers once renounced the mild tyranny of a distant mon acter. What we give is a real index of what we really arch and defeated the silver tongues as well as the believe. bloody swords of his emissaries, right here in the home At any rate check up on yourself for one month and of the assertedly brave and the land of the supposedly sum up your ledger in the terms that we have sug free, we are being asked to do reverence to the con gested. The love of money is the root of all evil and quering enemy of freedom and justice and popular gov the misuse of money is the fruit of such love. ernment in Spain as the “ Man of the Hour” . All I can say is that when the “ Hour” comes to -Spain or to Austria, to Czechoslovakia or to our own fair land, liberty will be no more, and no man will call his A t Bunker Hill soul his own outside of a concentration camp or a six- By foot plot of ground. People will think they are having WOLCOTT CUTLER a good time, licking the hand that feeds them, and Rector of St. John's, Charlestown, Massachusetts mumbling the formulas of a dictated religion, but they ORDS cannot express our distress to come upon won’t be free, nor just, nor decent,—not if present- W a large placard today in the window of a Charles day Italy and Germany are fair samples of Franco’s town store selling religious objects, displaying a photo “ Hour” . graph of “ Franco, the Man of the Hour” . May God1 save us from violence and bloodshed even For all these long anxious months of horror in Spain, in defence of our long-cherished liberties, but may God we have suffered in silence while Hitler’s ruthless aero save us also from the blindness of soul which enables planes and Mussolini’s proud legions enabled Franco the selfish or the unthinking to bow the knee to the and his Moors to overwhelm the first really democratic Baalim of earthly power and sink to the level of pup and popular government that suffering Spain has ever pets in the hands of secular or ecclesiastical privilege! enjoyed. We have suffered in silence-lest this country God made man in His own image—that he might be led to take up arms for the defense of a liberty or a rise above the natural dictates of self-intei est or cor democracy in Spain that arms can never quite defend. porate power, to love his neighbor as himseVf, and even We even refrained from sending money to the aid of in chains to keep his soul free.

NEWS NOTES OF Robert H. Little of Auburn Semi nary; Justin W. Nixon of Colgate- THE CHURCH IN Rochester Divinity School; Henry S. Leiper of New York; Albert W. BRIEF PARAGRAPHS Beaven of Colgate-Rochester; Mrs. Edited by W. B. Spofford Edwin Allen Stebbins, Churchwoman of Rochester and Auxiliary leader The present benefits being paid by and Angus Dun of our Cambridge the Church Pension Fund are 42% Seminary. greater than originally promised ac Hi ^ ^ cording to the 20th annual report, is sued June 20th. There are assets Philadelphia CLID with a book value of $32,908,538 and Chapter Holds Meeting The annual meeting of the Phila a market value that is $1,200,000 in delphia chapter of the CLID was held excess of that figure. The annual on June 17th, with a new statement pension roll is now $1,306,000 com of purpose the chief matter under pared to $670,000 ten years ago ac consideration. There was also con cording to Executive vice-president sideration of the relationship of the Bradford B. Locke. During the past chapter to the Philadelphia Council year 255 new pensions were granted of Churchmen for Social Action, an of which 85 were age allowances, 38 interdenominational group. were for disability, 88 went to widows and 44 to minor orphans. The total new grants during the year Consecration of amounted to $144,157 in addition to Bishop for Alabama 28 immediate death benefits of $1,000 The Rev. Charles C. J. Carpenter each to widows of clergymen dying is to be consecrated Bishop of Ala in the active service of the Church. bama tomorrow, June 24, in the The fund had assets of $8,750,000 in church he has served as rector, The 1917; today it has $33,000,000 and Advent, Birmingham. Presiding Bish has paid out in benefits during its op Tucker is to be the consecrator history over $15,000,000. with Bishop Bratton of Mississippi The Church Life Insurance Corpo and Bishop Mikell of Atlanta as the ration, subsidiary, had assets' at the MARY VAisr kleeck co-consecrators. He is to be presented end of 1937 of $4,424,000 compared to Sees Need for Cooperation by Bishop Clingman of Kentucky, $3,895,000 at the end of 1936. As formerly rector of the Advent, and Bishop Gribbin of Western North sets exceed liabilities by over a uncertainty. Feudalism had to go, Carolina and Bishop Barnwell of million dollars. The corporation, not because there were subversive Georgia is to read the Litany. which offers insurance to clergymen elements attacking it, but because it and Church workers at low rates, could not feed the people. Capital * * * wrote 18% more insurance in 1937 ism took up the task of creating All Safe in than in 1936 and has a total insur abundance. Why are we shackling Anking ance in force of $22,430,000. It now the productive life throughout the A cable from Shanghai to the Na is offering, as I presume you all world? Can we create the conditions tional Council states that the staff know, a retirement plan for em which will enable human nature to in Anking are all safe following the ployees of the Church who do not survive? Japanese occupation. The cable in come under the provisions of the “ We can conceive of a totalitarian cludes no information as to damaged social security act. state or a mammoth corporation buildings so that it is assumed and The Church Properties Fire Insur which might feed the people. But hoped that they are unhurt. ance Corporation, another subsidiary it would not free the people. It * Hs * of the Pension Fund, has $81,300,000 would not satisfy the desire for easy Windham'House Has of insurance in force, covering 2,900 social relations. Smart Girls churches. “ There are many untouchables in Six girls who have lived this The Church Pension Fund, a the subject of industrial relations, academic year at Windham House, pioneer of pension systems operated but we must find a way to utilize New York residence for graduate on an actuarial basis, has been so our differences by a competitive students maintained by the Auxiliary, successful that many denominations spirit to excel the other fellow in received master’s degrees from Co have modelled their systems along the well doing.” lumbia University last week. Mag same lines. The Mayor then declared that dalene Ball of Charleston, S. C., * * * “What Miss Van Kleeck has recom goes to do rural Church work in mended is not impossible to accom South Carolina; Caroline Hines of The Mayor and plish, if we have the leadership, and Mary Van Kleeck Bowling Green, Ky., will be student unless there is a getting together The Mayor got the headlines and worker at Winthrop College, Rock along those lines there will be chaos Mary Van Kleeck made the speech. Hill, S. C.; Marion Dunlap, Co and disorder in the country.” lumbia, Mo., has an appointment for It happened last week at St. Law Hi * H< rence University which awarded the summer work in the New York honorary degrees of doctor of laws Conference On YWCA Camp at Bear Mountain; to Mayor LaGuardia of New York Life and Work Martha Trippe of Easton, Md., joins and Mary Van Kleeck, director of in A conference on Life and Work Miss Marga^t W. Teague for rural dustrial studies of the Russell Sage was held June 10th by the Rochester work in Western Massachusetts; Foundation. Miss Van Kleeck de N. Y. Federation of Churches, with Emily Wilson from LaGrange, Ga., clared that “there is a change com nearly 300 clergymen present. The is to be field secretary for the Girls’ ing over this country and we must speakers, all of whom attended the Friendly Society; Annie Yui, former all work together in these days of Oxford-Edinburgh conferences, were principal of St. Lois School, Hankow,

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 23, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Nine is to attend the Wellesley and claims is untrue. Mr. Spencer states Kanuga Conferences and return for that he has made repeated efforts to another year at Windham House. see officers of the national Church in Gwendolyn Seng, a teacher from St. order that they might correct the Hilda’s School, Wuchang, will also mistake, and made a special trip to attend the Wellesley Conference and New York at great expense to him go to Brent House, Chicago, for part self for this purpose, but that he was of the summer. unable to see anyone in authority. Windham House, presided over by Recourse to law, he declares, is Miss Mary Ladd, will be open for the therefore the only method left open Columbia summer school session by which he can clear his name of and for the seminar organized by false charges. the National Council’s religious edu cation department for women who Cancels All are professional Church workers. Engagements ^ ^ * Word comes from Chicago that Educational Workers Bishop Stewart, stricken with an of the Church heart attack (Coronary trombosis) Miss Elizabeth Yundt has been ap just before he was to deliver an ad pointed director of religious edu dress at the synod of the diocese of cation for the diocese of Lexington. Algoma, has cancelled all engage „ . . Deaconess Bernice M. Cartwright Chaplain of Evergreen Conferences ments for the summer. At this writ has sailed for Brazil to be principal ing, June 11, physicians have been o f St. Margaret’s School. . . . Mrs. Snyder of Trinity Church, Boston, unable to determine the location of Genie Daly is now the educational is to assist as leader of the young the clot which causes the difficulty. worker for the diocese of Maine. . . . people. It is further announced that They report further that in taking A questionnaire sent to diocesan de in the course on world problems, of up work again, it is hoped in the fall, partments of religious education re fered by the School of Christian he will have to gear his life to a veals that 25% of the dioceses now Social Ethics, under the direction of much slower pace. Meanwhile Di employ a full time educational work the Church League for Industrial ocesan Secretary Edwin J. Randall er. Salaries range from $1080 to Democracy, motion pictures will be has arranged with other Bishops to $3150 plus apartment. Part time shown in place of two of the nine fill certain necessary engagements. secretaries are employed in 12 di lectures. One of the features of the Bishop Paul Jones ordained several oceses. Wellesley Conference always is the men at St. Luke’s, Evanston, on Special Interests Meetings, held af June 13; Bishop Essex of Quincy and Colored Church Worker ternoons, at which the various na Bishop White of Springfield are tak Is H onored tional organizations of the Church ing confirmations and Bishop Zieg Miss Esther Brown, Colored field present their programs. There is also ler of Wyoming is to lead at the secretary of the national Woman’s to be a round table meeting on The forum for laymen to meet in Mich Auxiliary, was honored recently at Press, which is an innovation at igan July 2-4. Bishop Stewart is at the Church of St. Simon the Cyre- Church conferences, started last present in a hospital at Sault Ste nian, Philadelphia. There was a serv year at Wellesley by Miss Marian Marie, Michigan. ice of thanksgiving followed by a re DeC. Ward, one of the directors. The ception, sponsored by the parishes report on June 18th states that the Bishop Jones to and missions in which she has recent attendance this year will be larger Visit Europe ly worked. than in 1937, which was twice that of Bishop Paul Jones, formerly bish Hi ^ H« 1936. But there is still room. Better op of Utah and now chaplain at Institute in sign up by writing at once to Mrs. Antioch College, sailed yesterday, Western New York V. Kenah Davis, 1352 Beacon Street, June 22nd, with the American Semi The Rev. Otis R. Rice of the Brookline, Massachusetts. nar to study conditions in ten Euro faculty of the General Seminary is $ $ $ pean countries. He is to be gone un leading an institute this week at the til the end of August. Another with Slander Judgment diocesan house, Buffalo, on the Men the party, composed of about fifty Against Bishop White tal Hygiene Approach to Pastoral clergymen, social workers and edu A judgment of $8,000 was im Relations. It is sponsored by the cators, is the Rev. Joseph S. Ewing, posed on June 8th against Bishop social service department of the rector at Brookings, South Dakota. White of the diocese of Springfield diocese. He Hi * (Illinois) by the Circuit Court sit * * * ting at Salem. It was the outcome Pilgrimage to Additions to Faculty of a $100,000 slander suit filed Historic Shrine of Wellesley Conference against the Bishop by the Rev. The Rev. Oliver J. Hart, rector of The Wellesley Conference opens Franklin H. Spencer, former secre St. John’s, Washington, D. C., was next week, with several new persons tary of the Brotherhood of St. An the leader of the pilgrimage on June added to the faculty, previously an drew and later executive secretary 18 and 19 to the Robert Hunt Shrine, nounced. Miss Evelyn Spikard, who of the diocese. The jury deliberated Jamestown, Virginia, where the first for seven years served as director of less than an hour in finding for communion service was held on religious education under the late Mr. Spencer who alleged that Bish American soil on June 21, 1607. Rev. Alfred Newbery, is to give a op White accused him of immorality. course for church school teachers; T he W itness is now reliably in Auxiliary Meets Mrs. Elizabeth Hadley Hunt, who is formed that Mr. Spencer plans to At Shrine Mont to offer a course on comparative bring suit against the general The Auxiliary of the province of symbolism is to have three assistants Church (General Convention) for Washington held a conference at ¿11 from the school of applied arts stating in the Convention Journal Shrine Mont, Orkney Springs, Va., at Utica, N. Y., and Miss Eleanor that he had been deposed, which he June 13-17, with the Junior Aux-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS June 23, 1938 iliary meeting from the 20th through editor of the Roman Catholic paper; one denominations and twelve inter the 24th. The lecturers were Canon Ogier Preteceille, trade union repre denominational agencies are cooper Everett Jones of Washington Cathe sentative and Carmen Meana, social ating in plans for the convention. dral; Rev. M. B. Hitchcock of Fair worker. All the speakers are natives $ :{: $ mont, West Virginia; Mrs. A. M. of Spain, now touring this country. Student Work At Chapman of New York and Miss University of Washington Mary L. Pardee of New Haven, Con Social Problems Stressed To close a successful year of work necticut. At Conference $ * * among the students of the Universi The church’s attitude toward in ty of Washington, Seattle, a well at There Are Jobs dustrial problems; the whole subject tended corporate communion was for Clergymen of gambling ; race relations ; world held on Whitsunday, the last Sunday Dean Frederick Grant stated at peace and visual education will be of the academic year. The previous the commencement of Seabury- foremost among subjects considered Sunday the Canterbury Club, new Western Seminary on June 17th that by the 20th international convention ly formed organization for members every man in the graduating class of the International Council of Re of the Church, held a tea for Episco have received appointments for ligious Education, to be held in Co pal graduates of Seattle high schools. work. The same reports come from lumbus, June 28 to July 3. Forty- During the year practically all o f General, Berkeley and Cambridge. Apparently there are openings for clergymen . . . at least for young ones. * * * Colorado Bishop Heads South Dakota Cqnference Timely Tracts Bishop Ingley of Colorado was the chaplain of a well attended summer conference held in the district of 'T 'H E following have been added to the Wit- South Dakota, June 14-22. Another ness series of Timely Tracts. They sell for headliner was the Rev. LeRoy Bur roughs, chaplain for Episcopal stu 5 cents a copy; $3 for 100 copies, assorted if de dents at Ames, Iowa. sired. ^ ^ $ Women Meet in THE IN N ER LIFE by Bishop Cross South Dakota PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON RUN The women of the district of NING A PARISH by SouthDakota met in Sioux Falls, W. Appleton Lawrence June 17, for an all day conference CH RISTIAN ITY AND W A R by Frederick C. under the leadership of Mrs. W. Grant Blair Roberts, wife of the Bishop. * * H« THE CHALLENGE TO YOUTH by C. Leslie Presides At Meeting Glenn fo r Spain The Rev. Franklyn Cole Sherman, THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS MONEY by rector of Grace Church, Cleveland, Bishop Washburn presided at a meeting recently in that city to raise funds for Loyalist Tracts previously published Spain. The speakers were Ramon Sender, novelist; Jose Bergamin, Why Believe in God? by Samuel S. Drury Why Believe in Jesus? by Albert H. Lucas The Disciplined Christian by Charles L. Street THE STORY OF What Christianitv Demands of Me by Edric THE CHURCH A. Weld By Bishop Johnson What We Demand of Society by G. Gardner A revised edition of this book Monks which gives the history of the Why Missions? by Edmund J. Lee Church from Apostolic times to Why Pray? by Oscar DeWolf Randolph the present. Written briefly and interestingly for the average lay Why Worship? by Charles Herbert Young man. The Meaning of the Real Presence by G. A. 50c for singles copies Studdert-Kennedy $4 for a dozen copies Why I’m for the Church by Charles P. Taft THE WITNESS he itness 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue T W Chicago, Illinois 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 23, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven the bishops of the northwest have the Divine, with Bishop Manning of Church school of the province of visited the campus and celebrated at ficiating and the Rev. Frank Dean New England. The Rev. G. Gardner services and addressed the students. Gifford of Mamaroneck preaching. Monks, headmaster, reported on new The work is in charge of Miss Ethel After luncheon at the bishop’s house building plans. Livesley, United Thank Offering sec the newly ordained men went with * * H: the Bishop to Welfare Island for the retary. The baccalaureate at the Secretary Morgenthau annual visit to the Chapel of the university was preached this year by on Civil Liberties the Rev. H. H. Gowen, professor and Good Shepherd. The choirs of sev Secretary of the treasury Morgen one of our clergy, before a congre eral New York churches supplied the thau, in speaking last week at the gation of two thousand persons. music and following the service vis commencement at Temple Universi ited in the wards where Bishop Man ty, Philadelphia, spoke pointedly on Diocesan Confirmation ning confirmed those unable to leave the subject of civil liberties. “ Fail their beds. in Albany ure to defend the liberties in one A service of confirmation to take $ ^ ^ city, or county or state strikes at the care of those unable to be present Commencement At liberties of us all. When we are in at the bishop’s regular parochial vis Lenox School, different to repression, when we tol itations, was held at the cathedral in Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence of erate the curtailment of constitu Albany, N. Y. on June 13, at which Western Massachusetts and the Rev. tional rights in any place by any in twelve rectors presented thirty per Remsen Ogilby, president of Trinity dividual or group of individuals, no son to Bishop Oldham. College, were the speakers at the matter how powerful, no matter how Commencement of Lenox School, close to the seat of government, we Ordinations in New Y ork The Trinity ordinations in the dio cese of New York were held on June 12th at the Cathedral of St. John T h e C u p The Christian Way Out o f Essays on the Christian answer to the perplexing social, economic and inter C o ld national problems of the day.

An appendix offers a large number of questions, based on the essays, making the pamphlet ideal for use with discussion groups and young people’s societies.

Contributors: Archbishop of York Nicholas Murray Butler Vida D. Scudder Harry W . Laidler Mary Simkhovitch ^ ^ A RS in China and in Spain give you an oppor V. Auguste Demant Conrad Noel tunity to give a cup of cold water in the name William Green Spencer Miller, Jr. of the Master. All donations are shared equally W . C. Peck W . B. Spofford between the relief work in Spain, carried on by Bishop Parsons Reinhold Niebuhr the North American Committee to Aid Spain, and Daniel McGregor Bernard Iddings Bell the China Relief being directed by Madame Sun Yat Sen and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS June 23, 1938 make easier an attack upon our own borhood and made of the church an constitutional rights.” When asked historic shrine. He was well known RESTHAVEN by reporters if his remarks were in the national Church and was dep Saint Augustine, Florida uty to several General Conventions. aimed at Mayor Hague of Jersey Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened City he replied, “ If the shoe fits let their Rest House in this historic city to guests Support From desiring spiritual peace and strength; physical him wear it.” rest, quiet, and nourishing food. The new India for China location is in beautiful grounds with water More Cracking Down The cathedral in Calcutta, India, outlook, live oaks, palms, flowers. Com fortable rooms. Central heat. Address The in Germ any was packed by a throng of Indians Mother Superior S. R. According to a report from Ger and Europeans for a service of in many under a June 16th dateline, tercession led by the Presiding Bish the clergy are, in increasing num op. During the day Christians made bers, refusing to take an oath of al street collections for Chinese relief. FINE IRISH LINEN legiance to Hitler. It is further re ported that the Nazis are planning to To D iscuss Imported direct from Ireland for take radical disciplinary measures Christian Citizenship vestment and Altar use. Samples free against the refractory pastors. It is A conference on “ The Church and on request. W rite: M ARY FAW CETT also reported that the Nazi regime World Citizenship” is to be held at COMPANY, Box 146, Plainfield, N.J. in Vienna have informed the family Shrine Mont, Virginia, July 26-29, of Baron Louis Rothschild, arrested sponsored by Presiding Bishop Tuck when they took power, that he will er, Bishop Freeman of Washington THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOS be released upon the payment of a and Bishop Hobson of Southern SOCIETY ten million dollar ransom. Ohio. Commenting on the affair the Founded by Bishop White 1838 Rev. Edmund J. Lee of Chatham, Donates to Missions, Institutions, and P&i ishes unable to purchase them, in limited Editors Are Virginia, says: “ The Church must grants, send her members as missionaries The Book of Common Prayer. Sometimes Right The Combined Book (The Book of Comnoi People who loathe the modern into the world of political activity Prayer and Hymnal in one volume) fashing of using a noun or adjective and claim politics for Christ. In this Pew Size the responsibility of the clergy for Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. as a verb may have a new shudder Secretary, 19S5 Chestnut St. at the expression used the other day leadership is paramount. By this Philadelphia, Pa. by an editor speaking of the number we do not mean that we should dis of people who should be on his sub cuss politics in the pulpit, but we scription list. “ We ought,” he said, should urge upon our congregations ALTA R ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED “ to concrete our constituency into the compelling responsibilities of d b c A rte SAINT MARY’S CONVENT B K C A D b KENOSHA • WISCONSIN subscribers.” Having shuddered the citizenship. Render unto Caesar was fact has to be faced that “ concrete” part of Christ’s command as well as CATHEDRAL STUDIO—Church embroidery is a verb in perfectly good diction render unto God. We do not do the Stoles $6 up, Burse, veil, $10 up. Surplicee, ary standing. one faithfully unless we do the $8 up. Exquisite Altar Linens. Cope $70 up. other.” Mass set $50 up. Complete line pure Irish linens and Church fabrics by the yd. Em Death o f broidered emblems ready to apply. Altaj Resigns After Guild Handbook 50c. Address: L. V. Macli- Louis Washburn rille, 11 W. Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Wash The Rev. Louis C. Washburn, for Long Rectorship ington, D. C. Telephone Wisconsin 2752. thirty years the rector of historic The Rev. William Porter Niles has announced his resignation as rector Christ Church, Philadelphia, died on . When Children June 15 of a heart attack. He was in his 79th year. As rector of Christ Need a Laxative Church he carried on a remarkable BRUGLER HOUSE social service work in the poor neigh- on Rye Lake, near White Plains, N. Y., In children’s little bilious at offers clergymen and other active Church workers the quiet surroundings of a small tacks and common colds, a very estate for a holiday or vacation. For important part of information and rates, write' R. P. KENT, Secy. a the treatment is THOUSANDS SOLD! 281 Fourth Ave. New York, N. Y. to keep the bowels active. WHY I’M FOR THE CHURCH Mothers have By Charles P. Taft The D’Ascenzo Studios found pleasant- tasting Syrup of THE MEANING OF THE REAL 1604 Summer St., Phila., Pa. Black - Draught PRESENCE very useful in By G. A. Studdert-Kennedy Respectfully refer you to their stained glass in such cases. In The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, fact, whenever Rectors are buying these by the hun New York City laxative medicine dreds for distribution to their par The Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, Pa. is needed, children will not ishioners The National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. object to being given Syrup of Black-Draught, and by its relief 5c for single copy of constipation, recovery will be $3.00 for 100 copies W rite us for hastened. Sold at drug stores in Organ Information 5-ounce bottles, price 50 cents. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 23, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen of the Church at Nashua, New came so thick that they brought the Conference secretary, Mr. R. H. Ed Hampshire, after a rectorship of car to a full stop. He did his best to win Espy, made a recent visit in the thirty-six years. Always a leader in dig out—no go. Then along came interest of the undertaking. The con diocesan affairs, he has served as a some Indians and with their nelp the ference has received impetus also deputy to eleven consecutive Gen car was jacked up, the mud removed through the fact that the prepara eral Conventions. He is to continue with shovel, pick-ax and knives, and tory conference for the World Coun to live in Nashua following his re soon he was on his way. The follow cil of the Churches which was held tirement in September. ing Sunday after service in an Indian in Utrecht officially commended the chapel he was asked to go to a feast conference. Further plans for the Now It Is of thanksgiving for the recovery of remaining year of preparation will Dr. Fletcher a sick child. He cleaned the bone of be made at a meeting in August in The Rev. Joseph Fletcher, direc a large chunk of sweet and tender Bievre near Paris, which will bring tor of the School of Applied Reli meat. He was later informed that together national youth leaders from gion, Cincinnati, was honored with a the meal consisted of tender young doctor’s degree at the commence puppies. ment of Kenyon College last week. ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. In the citation mention was made of Plans for World his leadership in the field of sociol 147 E. 47th St., New York Conference of Youth CHURCH VESTMENTS ogy, especially in connection with in Preparations for the world con ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY dustrial relations, and the pioneer Conferences with reference to the adornment work of the Graduate School in the ference of Christian youth to be of Churches training of clergymen for ministry held in Amsterdam in the summer of Telephone El-dorado 5-1058 in a changing social order. 1939 are eliciting widespread sup port. In addition to the preparations by each of the collaborating world Complete Line of The Unchurched bodies within its own constituency, CLERGY AND CHOIR APPAREL in Idaho there are twenty-two countries in Altar Linens, Embroideries, In Idaho, with nearly two-thirds which national committees represent Materials by the yard, Tailoring of the population un-churched, we ing all the movements co-operating in J. VI. HALL, Inc. have eleven missionaries to cover an the conference have now been es 417 Fifth Ave. New York area of 71,000 square miles. The tablished. These committees bring (Bet. 37th & 38th Sts.) population is scattered on ranches, together minority and majority in mining camps and in small towns. * * * Churches, Protestant and Orthodox Churches, state and free Churches, Synod of the Churches of different social mem MENEELYSCO.> - J | ESTABLISHED Midwest Province bership, youth organizations of the The synod of the province of the IN 1826 Churches themselves with independ WATERVUET. N .Y m midwest is to be held at St. Paul’s, ent Christian youth movements not Flint, Michigan, October 18-20. The under direct Church auspices. In Presiding Bishop and Mr. Charles P. many countries the enterprise is pro Taft of Cincinnati are to be the viding for the first time a meeting- headliners. Bishop Stewart of Chi ground and object of common efforts Wilbur Herbert Burnham cago is also scheduled to speak among these different bodies. Among though it may be that his illness will the countries in which national com Designer and Master prevent his appearance. mittees for Amsterdam have been H? H: Hs most recently established are Fin Craftsman A New Problem land, Estonia and Latvia, where the in Travel Stained and Leaded Glass Bishop Roberts of South Dakota TRAGITT, SARAH L. G.. nee Gregory, has tackled all sorts of mud, gumbo passed to life Eternal, Saturday, June 11, at 10:45 p.m., at her home in St. .Tames, and sand in his long journeys across Mo. Beloved wife of the Rev. H. Nelson Studios 1126 Boylston Street the Dakota prairies but he ran into Tragitt, and dear mother of the Rev. H. N. Tragitt, Jr., of Dillon, Montana; a new problem recently. Driving Elizabeth W. of Jacksonville, Florida; E. Boston, Massachusetts along a little used Indian trail the Rowland of Annapolis, Missouri; and Mrs. Max Reese of Grayville, Illinois. tumble weeds covered with mud be- Burial Service Wednesday, June 15, at Rolla and interment in the Rolla Ceme tery. The Rev. Carl Reed Taylor of St. Louis, officiating. WITNESS TRACTS ^ RGEISSLER.INC.^ Why Believe in Cod? by Samuel S. Drury. 4 5 0 SIXTH AVE. NEAR 10 th ST. NEW YORK Why Believe in Jesus? by Albert Lucas. Why Missions? by Edmund J. Lee. Ghurch Furnishings Why Worship? by Charles Herbert Young. IN CARVED WOOD AND What Christianity Demands of Me by MARBLE-BRASS-SILVER Edric A Weld. FABRICS + WINDOWS What Christianity Demands of Society by C. Gardner Monks. SB What It Means to Be a Disciplined Chris tian by Charles L. Street. Why Pray? by Oscar Randolph. The Meaning of the Real Presence by C. A. Studdert-Kennedy. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Fourteen T H E WITNESS June 23, 1938 many parts of the world to consider eral Seminary instructor and Miss to draw together religious groups especially the conference program. Hilda Shaul who directs religious these days in the Soviet Union. These ❖ * * education for the diocese of South efforts to form a “ single front of be Fine Faculty ern Ohio. lievers” are facilitated by the les At Sweet Briar He * % sening of interest in anti-religious A fine faculty has been announced Religion in the propaganda in the organizations of for the advanced conference of the Soviet Union the Communist party and in the province of Washington, to be held The International Christian In syndicates. The Komsomol (youth at Sweet Briar, Virginia, July 5-15. formation Service, Geneva, states organization) no longer concerns it Among those giving courses are that there is a quickening of efforts self with anti-religious propaganda. Fleming James, professor at Berk eley Divinity School; Lewis B. Frank lin, treasurer of the National Coun cil; Mrs. Henry Hill Pierce, Council member of New“ York City; Alex Services in Leading Churches ander C. Zabriskie, professor at the Yirginia Seminary; C. Leicester The Cathedral of St. John Christ Church Parish the Divine Detroit and Grosse Pointe Lewis, Philadelphia rector; Miss Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector Mildred Hewitt, director of religious New York City Rev. J. Francis Sant, Vicar Sundays: Holy Communion, 8, 9 and 11. Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at education of the Redeemer, Balti Morning Prayer, 10. Evening Prayer, 4. Rivard more; Albert T. Mollegen, profes Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7:30. (Also Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard 10, Wed. and Saints’ Days). Morning Services: 8:00, 9:45, 11:00, 7:30 Sun sor at Virginia Seminary; Mrs. Prayer, 9 :30. Evening Prayer, 5. Organ days. Helen W. Mahon of the national of Recital, Saturday at 4 :30. Saints’ Days: 10 :30. fice of the G.F.S.; Otis R. Rice, Gen- Chapel of the Intercession Cathedral of the Incarnation Broadway at 155th Garden City, N. Y. New York City Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar Sundays : Holy Communion: 8 and 9 :30. Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Service and Sermon: 11; Evening Prayer Sunday Services: 7:30 A.M. Holy Com and Sermon, 8 P.M. munion. 9 :30 A.M. Junior Congregation. Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 9:30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. BOOKLETS Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. Class in Religion Fridays at 8 P.M. Prayer and Sermon. 4 :30 P.M. Evensong and Address. AT BARGAIN FRIGES Grace Church, New York Daily services in the Chapel. Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Broadway at 10th St. Trinity Church, New York This is exceptionally fine ma Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Broadway and Wall St. terial to use in parish work. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. urdays. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Have a supply on hand at all Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs days and Holy Days. times. St. Paul’s Cathedral The Heavenly Rest, New York Buffalo, New York THE BIBLE AND EVOLUTION Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. by W . P. Witsell Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10 Weekdays : 8, 12 :05. a.m. Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Service and Sermon 11 a. m .; Choral Eve Days: 10:30 A.M. A MAN’S RELIGION ning Prayer 4 p.m. by J. A . Schaad Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com Christ Church Cathedral munion, 11 a.m. Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. EVOLUTION: A WITNESS TO GOD The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean The Incarnation Sunday Services, 8 :00, 9 :30, 10:05, by Bishop Stewart Madison Avenue and 35th Street 11:00 a.m .; 4:30, 5:30 p.m. The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector Week-days: 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M. (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy ESSAYS TOWARD FAITH Wednesdays and Holy Days, Holy Com Communion on Wednesdays and Holy by A. Q. Bailey munion, 10 A. M. Fridays, Holy Com Days. 12:30 p.m. Noonday Service. munion, 12 :15 P. M. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT St. Bartholomew’s Church St. Michael and All Angels OF THE CHURCH Park Avenue and 51st Street Baltimore, Maryland Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector St. Paul and 20th Streets by Bishop Johnson 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. 9:30 and 11 A.M.— Church School. Rev. Harvey P. 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