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VOL. IV. NO. 18. CHICAGO, JUNE 5, 1920. $1.00 A YEAR MR. FRANKLIN ON THE N.W. ARMENIA.ASKS THE PROGRAM OF THE SUM- RED CROSS IS TO LIVE SUBJECTS CAMPAIGN EÈî MER. SEMINARY FOR CHURCH FOR YOUR OLD EXTEND ITS Mr. Lewis Franklin, Treasurer of The pro j ect of a Summer School the N. W. Campaign, the chief of Theology to be carried on as a ; CONGRESS speaker at the Convention of West­ CLOTHES joint enterprise by our Church sem­ WORK ern Michigan, declared the Nation- inaries had long been in the minds Wide Campaign both a success and a “There is nothing new under the of some of those engaged in the work What the American Red Cross has The Church Congress is expected failure. He said that the great finan­ of theological education, and the end­ to meet this year in Rochester, N. ciers who were, entrusted with the sun,” remarked a relief worker just, contributed in social development to;* returned from the Near East, as he ing of the war made the need of such the South was strikingly, shown at Y., from December 7th to 10th, in­ Church’s campaign had failed, while a school very urgent. Accordingly, clusive, the first session occurring on those mot versed in high finance had glanced over the first American pa­ the National Conference of Social pers had read in many ‘ months. last summer a school, offering ten Work held in New Orleans. Places Tuesday evening,* December 7th. On been wonderfully successful. The weeks of intensive study, was pro­ Wednesday morning there will be a Church as a whole had obtained only “Making old clothes fashionable. never before known to have taken Why, in Armenia, rags have been the vided by the united action of four the slightest organized notice of com­ celebration of the Holy Communion. little over a third of the amount of the Seminaries, intended espec­ Three classes of meetings will be named by the central committee, yet ‘dernier cri’ since 1915, and old clothes munity welfare, sent a Red Cross from America the envy of belles ând ially to meet the needs of returned representative to this national gather­ held during the Congress—^popular, some localities “had gone gloriously service men whose preparation has over the top.” Cold-blooded business beaux alike on the promenades. ing to learn how to attack the per­ ¿round table,; and platform—and the “Oh, yes, they have promenades been interrupted or whose entrance plexing problems which confront a tentative programme, is as follows : men doing everything with the pen­ upon their divinity courses had been cil and nothing with the heart deemed out there,” he continued in answér to town or county seeking to make life Topics: a surprised question. “I wish more delayed by the war. healthier and happier for its people. Tuesday Evening (Popular; Meet­ it a hair brained and impossible of you could see those promenades! ing) ^—Topic, The Desirability of scheme to try to raise six or seven A Summer School for such students The range of problems on which times as much as the Church had ever There would be more old clothes to will be held again this year, its head­ these Chapter people were seeking Communication with the Dead. Two parade in. It generally takes place light compassed everything the ten writers, twenty-five minutes each and before obtained. But men who took quarters being once more at the Ber­ on the road to the Near East Relief keley Divinity School, Middletown, divisions of the Conference had to one speaker. the great campaign to heart and were station that long, long line of strag­ offer. Wednesday Morning, (Platform/ determined the prograihme should not Conn. The session will consist of gling refugees, clad in filthy, name­ two terms of a trifle mote than four A luncheon for Red Cross people Meeting) —Topic., Value of the Holy fail, were successful. What we • hfed less rags, some of the young girls in the campaign of the Church of weeks each, the first term running was arranged. One hundred people Communion as Compared with other without enough to cover them, many were expected but one hundred and Means of Approach to God. Four God is that we do less with the point from Thursday, July 1 to Monday, a child without any clothing at all— August 2, inclusive; the second term eighty came. Harry L. Hopkins, As­ writers, twenty minutes each. ’ of our pencils and more With the and this in December, with snow on Wednesday Evening (Popular knees of our trousers. The SURVEY from Wednesday, August fourth to sociate Manager of the Gulf Division the mountains and the chill winds bit­ Friday^ September 3 inclusive. The presided. James L. Fieser, of Nation­ Meeting)— Topic, Is ^Capitalism a alofie, for the first time revealing ing into one’s marrow — women with Controlling Influence .in the Church- the whole Church to herself, is schoôl is primarily designed for stu­ al Headquarters, Walter Davidson, dresses having patch upon patch, and dents who were in the national ser­ of the Central Division and Miss Four speakers, twenty minutes each. worth all the cost and labor, and the the patches in shreds, bosoms and Thursday Morning (Round Table) ■ Missionary funds have reached a fig­ vice, and who, since their discharge Amelia Worthington of the field staff bare legs to ¡be seen through the have resumed or begun their prepara­ of the Gulf Division, presented the —Topic, The Pastoral Office in the ure undreamed of three years ago. frayed holes; the people crowding in problems of the Red Cross from the Light of the Ministry of Healing. The Campaign is not' a "drive” but tion for the ministry. By special ac­ such hordes that we have to keep the tion of the Committee of Manage­ national, divisional and local points Three speakers, fifteen minutes each, a “call.” It is a call to practice what ¡ gate locked and let in at one time of view. Team play with other or­ and informal discussion from the we profess to .believe, and its basic ment a limited number of" other ap­ ' only those from some certain village ; plicants may be admitted. ganizations and genuine, understand­ floor. idea is “Stewardship.” The most that is a promenade in Armenia. ing helpfulness to the Chapters from Thursday Afternoon (Platform pitiable object is the man who does “There will ¡be even greater need Students who were in the national the national organization were the Meeting);—Topic, Principles Involved not like his job. There is,no joy like this winter,” he added. “The situa­ service will be receive«! on terms sim­ high points of the addresses. in the Approach to Unity with Con­ the service of Jesus Christ. On one’s tion out there is pretty serious for ilar to those under which training Owen R. Love joy, President of the gregational Churches. Two writers, knees one learns the joys of steward­ our refugees. I guess-the promenades, for such service was given. That is, National Conference,‘commended the twenty-five minutes each; two speak­ ship. will be rather well attended this year. board and lodging will be provided by policy of the Red Cross in helping ers, twenty minutes each. > Has America sent out her fall fash­ the school without charge and an al­ the small town and the county dis­ Thursday Evening (Popular Meet­ ions yet?” lowance . will be granted towards tricts to attack the serious problems ing) ^-Topic, What is the Judgment MORE MONEY NEEDED. America is going to collect her ad­ travelling and other incidental ex­ of country life. He pointed out that of the Christian Conscience on the vanced fashions for Armenia this penses. Other students will be ex­ no conditions threaten the welfare of Relation between Stronger and Juiie. The Near East Relief is plan­ pected to pay* for their board and our country more than the movement Weáker Nations? Two writers, Dear Mr. Editor: ning a campaign for old clothes to be lodging, which is fixed at $70 for the of population away from the country twenty-five minutes each; two speak­ I have received from a few people shipped out to these unfortunate peo­ whole sessidn, with a n . additional into the city and the rapid substitut­ ers, twenty, minutes each. only $648.62 towards the sum - of ple early in August, which will just charge of $25 to meet the overhead ing of tenant farmers for the land­ Friday Morfiing (Round Table)— $25,000 for which I asked through reach their destination in time for expenses. owning farmer of a generation ago. Topic, A More Effective Lent. Four the papers some time ago, to enable the mid-winter promenades. The Committee in charge of the Dr. E. A. Peterson, head of the speakers, fifteen minutes each,y can me to help the poorer Churchds in A cablegram recently sent from the management is made up of Dean Department of Health Service at Na­ take part in the discussion. various parts of the world to meet Berut area to headquarters, 1 Madi­ Bartlett, of the Philadelphia Divinity tional Headquarters, presented the Friday afternoon (Platform Meet­ the expenses of .their^delegates to the son Ave., New York City, states: School; Dean Fosbroke of the Gen­ health program of the Red Cross and ing)—Topic, To What Extent Does meeting at Geneva next August^ “The whole situation points to in­ eral Theological Seminary, Dean answered questions and cleared up the Consecration Of a Church Build­ which will settle the .details of fur­ creasing need,’1 while Colonel Wm. N. Green of the Virginia Theological doubtful points generally. ing Remove it from Secular Uses? ther procedure in the World Con­ Haskell, Director General of the Cau­ Seminary, Dean Ladd of Bèrkelèy, The Red Cross Information desk, Two writers, twenty-five minutes ference movement. While it is now casus for the Near East Relief, sends and Dean Washburn of the Episcopal under the. direction of Lewis E. 'each; two speakers, twenty minutes too late for me to spend to advantage urgent word that: theological School, Cambridge. The Stein of National Headquarters, did a each. the full sum, the need of help is in­ “A . continued obligation remains Registrar and Bursar is the Rev. “big business,” answering all kinds of The Rev. Duncan H. Browne of creasing daily, as I hear from others with the Near East Relief to house, Prof. Charles B. Hedrick, and the questions of Chapter people and oth­ New Brighton, N. Y., is general-sec­ which have been appointed or are feed and furnish medical care for 30,- Treasurer to whom contributions er visitors to the Conference. retary of the Congress. ready to appoint delegates, but are 000 orphans, now totally supported may be sent for the support of the It has long been known that the obliged to say that the delegates by us, and for whom there is no one school is Mr. George Zabriskie, of greatest value of this Conference lies cannot go on account of the expense. but America willing or able to carry New York. in the opportunity which it affords With the siftall sum at my disposal THE CHURCH AND ITS the burden. This obligation cannot Courses are offered in Old and New for informal meetings and for get­ IDEALS. I have tried to help Moravians, the be shifted and is in additional to Testament, Systematic Divinity, ting better acquainted generally, Church in Japan, a German who emergency relief now carried on. Church History, Ethics, Pastoral •both yrith those who are doing thé has been much interested and very Continued finance must be assured.” As was announced in last weeks Theology, Apologetics, Missions, Lit­ same kind of work and those who helpful and the Presbyterian Church are tackling the same problems from issue the Witness has been able to in Scotland. I could use promptly urgies, Canon Law and Ecclesiastical make arrangements with Longman, Polity. other angles. It is from such con­ and to very great advantage a great DELAWARE AND EASTON ferences as these that the lesson is Green. & Co., to print the remarkable deal more money. NOT TO MERGE. The Faculty will be made up of the following: The Rev. J. Cullen Ayer, learned that, after all, social welfare Church instructions written by Don­ Of the seventy-seven Commissions is a jewel with m4ny facets, all of ald Hankey, which they have pub­ which have now been appointed all Professor of Ecclesiastical History, .Easton, Md.—In compliance with Philadelphia ; Burton Scott Easton, which are more or less interrelated; lished in book form under the title over, the world, twenty-eight have al­ the request of the special convention and he who would make a contribu­ “The Lord of All Good Life.” We ready notified me of their appoint­ Professor of Interpretation and Lit­ of.the diocese the Standing Commit­ erature of the New Testament, Gen­ tion must not only polish away on his consider ourselves very fortunate in ment or of their readiness to ap­ tees of Easton and Delaware met last own facet, but must do it with full . being able to reproduce the work of point delegates. These ¿over Japan, eral Theologiqal Seminary; W. H. P. week in Wilmington, Del., and after Hatch, Professor of Literature and knowledge of what is being done on this remarkable man, the author of India, Australia, the continent of a lengthy debate .decided that a mer­ the other surfaces. To new Red the most popular of the -many war Europe, Great Britain and Ireland, Interpretation of the New Testament, ger of the two dioceses was unwise. Berkeley; F. C. Lauderbum, Profes­ Cross workers the National Con­ books, “The Student in Arms.” The New Zealand and the United States, ,Both committees were well represent­ ference is an important adjunct to series will continue throughout the with the Eastern Orthodox Churches sor of Pastoral Theology, Berkeley; ed and the piany details of the plan Dickinson S. Miller, Professor of their.education; to the older ones, it summer months.—Editor’s Note. in Europe and Asia. , were thoroughly discussed. means keeping up with the procession A world-wide representation at the Christian Apologetics, Général Theo­ The principal reasons for the re­ logical Seminary; J. A. Montgomery, and meeting the new comers. Geneva meeting is essential to the jection of the plan were those of sen­ DELAWARE CONVENTION welfare of the World Conference Prof, of Old Testament Literature timent and a feeling by both dioceses and Language, Philadelphia; Norman HAITI MISSIONER DEAD movement; and Churches might have that thé identity of one must even­ Wilmington, Del.-^The 134th an­ been more or less isolated from the B. Nash, Assistant Professor of New tually be absorbed in the other. This Testament, Cambridge; Percy V. Word has been received at the nual convention of the Diocese of rest of Christendom,, particularly settles that matter for all time, it is those in central Europe and the Norwood, Professor of Liturgies, Church Missions House of the death Delaware was held in Immanuel now conceded, and the discussion of in his eightieth year of the Reverend Church in this city. The Standing newlyrformed countries to the east Berkeley; Ralph B. Pomeroy, Pro­ available men is again resumed. The fessor of Ecclesiastical Polity and Alexander Battiste, familiarly known Committee was reelected. | and south, will benefit greatly by the election of a bishop for Easton will attendance of these delegates if funds Law, General Theological Seminary, as thé “Grand Old Man” of our Hai­ The report of the Committee on be the first order of business at the ti mission. Mr. Battiste began his Constitution and Canons, creating a •for their expenses can be made avail­ H. H. Powell, Professor of Systematic rgular convention which meets June Divinity, Divinity School of the Pa­ ministry in Haiti in 1874 as an as­ new candh on the bishop and execu­ able at once. \ ; ■ 1 a# St. Andrew’s Church, Sudlers- sistant to Bishop Holly; A faithful tive council, furnished material for Gifts may be sent to Robert H. cific; H. M. Ramsey, Professor of ville. New Testament Exegesis, Seabury Di­ and devoted minister of the Gospel, discussion, and was made the order Gardiner, 174 Water Street, Gardi­ his memory will be held in affection­ of the following day, when, aftqr ner, Maine. vinity School; and W. E. Rollons, Sincerely yours, Help us- keep the people o f the Professor of Ecclesiastical History, ate remembrance by the people Morning Prayer, the convention re­ among whom he spent his life. assembled. Robert H. Gardiner. Church informed. Virginia Theological Seminary.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Two T H E WITNESS June 5, 1920 if we had to enrich the thousand in order that they might have our profession—that of the ministry, sufficient reserve capital with which to do business. and so different as to strike at the EDITORIAL , very root of its efficiency Generally By Bishop IBYING P. JOHNSON. Now the labor union of today is passing through the stage speaking, the minister, immediately which the corporations have passed through in which thè public on his. ordination, steps out into com­ RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. is divinely condemned, so long as wages are high. parative affluence. He has an assured It is perfectly true, as Mr. Babson well says, that laboring men salary, and does not have to struggle Some years ago, under the persuasive eloquence of Daniel and plan to build up a “practice” and will be satisfied with wages just as soon as financiers are satisfied an income, as does the young doctor, Webster, a decision was rendered in the famous Dartmouth Col­ with dividends. or lawyer, or engineer. His salary, lege case which gave to corporations all the rights of individuals, The predatory instincts are not peculiar to any one class of for perhaps four or five years, quite but it failed to place upon them all the responsibilities that belong humans. We are all born with it as the sparks fly upward. surpasses. what is usually earned by to a person. And there is no program of human life which will produce the beginner in other professions’. Following that decision, corporations have been organized, This probably is a misfortune in dis- an equal chaos of discontent as that which makes loot the prin­ guse. It is good for any man to bear but the power that created them was unable to endow them with a ciple of life instead of service. the yoke in his youth; good for the conscience or with a soul. After all a man gets more satisfaction out of the fact that beginner to realize that he is only a Since then the legal profession has been retained, in frequent he has fought a good fight and rendered a good service, than lie beginner and worth only a begin­ instances, to enable corporations to capture wealth by skillful eva­ possibly can out of thè fact that he has gained large loot which ner’s wage; the lesson, even if sharp­ sion of the letter of the law. ly put, sobers and strengthens him. he has not Earned. But with the minister the tide soon In the realm of public lands, mines, oil wells, Indians, forests, It must be apparent to the veriest tyro that unless union will turns. In some also of exceptional railroads and public concessions, corporations have skillfully assume the same care in the character of the work rendered that merits and in cases of exceptional captured enormous wealth for the individuals composing them, they do in the amount of the wages received, that the industrial good fortune, his career leads him without in anyway compromising the virtue of those who com­ fabric will be pulled down upon their head. from cure to cure, with a regularly and properly growing income—as his posed them. It is as much a law of economics that high wages will competence and his personal obliga­ If a corporation stole timber or made false entries of public not and cannot produce industrial prosperity unless the service tions increase. With the average lands, or unfairly stifled competetion, no one person was to blame. rendered is such that the wealth produced will be in proportion clergyman, however, indeed with the True it was a legal fiction, that the President of the Cor­ to the wages paid as it is that a farmer who mortgages his .fàrm large majority of clergymen, noth­ poration, or the Board of Directors, or more frequently the tool ing of the sort occurs. He promptly* instead of working'it will come'to grief. reaches a dead level. No effort of who represented these interests, was ihdicted for Some offense, his* own lifts him above it, and no but seldom could the blame be successfully attached to any partic­ The fallacy in Unionism today is not that it gets too much system of promotion, devised land ular individual. „ but that it gives too little. carried out by the Church he serves, The Corporation existed to capture wealth for its promoters, When any union starts with the assumption that a poor work­ comes to his rescue. The result is not to create values for the public. and is bound to be tragic and disas­ ingman deserves the same pay as a good one and that the good trous—not to the individual minis-, Under this system, men frequently were made immensely rich, one must retard his work so that the poor one will not be envi­ ter alone but to the Church. For the who did nothing commesurate with the wealth attained. ous, you have introduced a principle which by the law of least dead level of salary, for ministers, Foxiness was more profitable than industry. resistance sets a premium on inefficiency. is so low as to curtail efficiency. A Nor was it an infrequent thing that criminal methods were used The tragedy, today, is not that workingmen are tbo well paid man starved in body and in mind, with no hope of betterment before by pious directors and officers, and the loot thus acquired after but that they are as a rule poorer workingmen than were their him, cannot by any heroism or devo­ having been stamped with the image and superscription of the fathers. tion keep himself virile and vital for benevolent bandit, was set free to endow great institutions of And the mania is so pronounced that it seems to be a vir­ such work as the true minister must learning, religion or art. tue that labor shall get even with capital by producing as little do. The whole Church the whole ■ It has been a curious illustration of, the alchemist’s art by cause of Christ, suffers as a result. as it can for as much as it can get.’ The world is complaining today that which real wealth, feloniously acquired, has been diverted to pub­ ’ This is as though a farm hand should expect to get large re­ it has too little of real leadership lic benefactions. “Let us do evil that good may come,” has been turns from a farm in which he did all he could to cripple | the from the Church and the Ministry; the principle in which society has been largely educated. productiveness.' SB and it promptly brings the wholesale '/v*'". ': * charge that the Ministry is manned v weaklings. Probably there is But whenever, in the course of human events, such a motto The same principle is true in the effort to unionize the sal­ some truth in the charge. But there has become a principle of action, the result has been sadly injur­ aries of the clergy. is more truth in the counter explan­ ious to individual righteousness...... It is all right for a Diocesan Council to pass a resolution ation that the Church’s treatment of ' that the clergy shall receive a certain minimum salary but it is the majority of its ministers is that Whether it is an Italian bandit who may have robbed a travel­ of one who thrusts an extinguisher ler to endow a shrine, or an American financier who has robbed absolutely ineffective unless there is some provision by which over.the candle flame: tl|e light flick­ the public to further scientific research, the effect has | been the the clergyman shall produce certain results^ ers if it , does not go out. Herein lies same; and the little fish have followed in shoals to feast upon the This may seem harsh, but who is to pay the bill? the utter and criminal wastefulness killings which the big fish have made. Supposing a Diocese sets a minimum salary of $150* per of inadequate clerical salaries; they month. ? • defeat the very purpose and func­ Under such circumstances a whole people may become cor-* tion of the ministry. rupted and public morals warped and distorted to such an extent Mr. A. is working in three small towns which under his ,A moment’s thought should make that religion and morals become divorced, and whole nations be­ predecessor paid half of this salary. this clear. The clergyman, to do his come apostate from the righteousness of God. But Mr. A. is indolent or eccentric or disagreeable, and the duty, must be possessed of a genuine After decades of malpractice the. public conscience becomes local income is reduced to little or nothing: spirit of independence. He must be Shall the Diocese continue to subsidize this inefficiency, un­ able to face , life four-square. He dulled so that it will believe a lie and follow false gods, serving must be morally capable of speaking the creature mote than the Creator; til the whole of the salary is paid from the Diocesan treasury. hot sfnoofh nothings only but true * ■ * * It is all right to say that the Bishop shall discharge him, but things. He must have the vigorous The organization of capital, and the methods which we are shooting would be more humane than starvation. power of spiritual leadership. Are Or the Bishop may send him to another diocese with an eva­ these qualities likely to grow, or even now assured belong to a former generation, have had their effect to survive, in a man harassed by on the common people. They, too, have created organizations sive eulogy, but that is not honest. debt, unable to pay his way as other which were at first protective, then profitable and now are be­ Or he mlay be put on the Pension Fund, but this wquld soon honest folk do—a man who has no coming predatory. ; , exhaust that fund.. practicable hope of betterment be­ I refer to alliances, unions and other organizations where la­ The Diocese must, in order to protect itself, and to stimu­ fore him a.nd who sees, day after late effective work, place a limit upon its stipend and place day, tirât the conditions of his life bor is corporate rather than personal and individual. and his employment are bearing hard- ■ There can be no question that if money can organize and upon the man and his local constituency some sufficient respon­ est of all upon the family for which function, that labor may do likewise. sibility, else both he and they will be reduced to a condition of he is responsible? Trials and anxi­ It is as fair for one as it is for the other. pauperism, and funds given to advance Christ’s kingdom will be­ eties’ come to all men: it is only when come pensions to retard it they are chronic and hopeless, only But unfortunately the same principles which characterized when they cling closer than the, the former are now prevalent in the latter. The theory that because a man is ordained by the Church, breath he draws, that they break the \ A labor union is a necessity for the protection of human he is entitled to a certain salary is academically ideal and prac­ strong man’s spirit.. And to the cler­ rights, but it may also become an instrument for the furtherance tically impossible. gyman they are irremediable; noth­ of predatory instincts. You cannot eliminate the personal equation of a man’s abil­ ing that he can do for himself, no add-r ity to do the job, and at the same time miaintain your organi­ ed industry or effort, will increase, If unions are to perform their function of protecting the his remuneration and so lift the bur­ laboring mans’ rights, then they have an equal responsibility for zation. ; : den. ' That this should be, means insisting on his responsibilities. I have become firmly convinced that certain men are not tem­ more than suffering—it means slow If labor is no longer to be a personal service, but one in peramentally capable of earning a living in the ministry. sure paralysis of those personal which time, wages and character of work done, is to be estab­ Some do not work enough and some do not work effectively qualities upon which the mans effi­ enough to produce an income, ciency as a minister depends. lished by a corporation, then, if labor unions are to ..be protected We who issue this paper feel that by public sentiment, they must set themselves to the task of in­ It is impossible to unionize the ministry under our present we cannot too often or too strongly sisting upon the character of the services rendered. system of financing the Church, and we might as well face the emphasize that our one concern is If, for example, the Standard Oil Company can regulate the fact that the Church ought to recognize this fact and make some the Ohurch we love. It is our con­ viction that a ministry adequâte in price of gasoline, it must see to it that the quality of the gaso­ provision by which, either the ministry combines tent-making with preaching, or else that we finance the period between a min- numbers and quality, well-trained, lene is such that public sentiment will endure the regulation. strongly, supported, is not a luxury It is probable that we get good oil much cheaper from a ster’s leaving the ministry and ¿acquiring some other vocation. but a necessity if the Church is to go forward. single large corporation than we ever could have secured it under are hard, for then he has to struggle a multiplicity of organizations each with its expensive overhead SALARIES AND EFFICIENCY We ourselves in the «nature of the wgj ■" "■ V- ' * 1 : •. ■■ ' . ;■ . />■. ’■ f often painfully, for economic inde­ case, are peqpliarly interested in the charges. pendence. Bqt when once his foot­ problems of training and recruiting.' So that there is a benefit to the public, which the public In the professions, a man pommon- ing in the community is won, he But we are persuaded that these understands, although it will not acknowledge. ly reaches the height of his efficiency commonly finds himself possessed of problems are only parts of a larger in middle life. He may no longer a steadily even if a slowly growing problem, and only capable of solution There was a time perhaps when this was not true of corpor­ then he so active and untiring as in income; his affairs are hopeful, he is when this larger problem is boldly ations, but today, it is probably true that the old system of a earlier years; but cumulating expe­ less and less the prey of that corrod­ faced by an awakened Church. Is multiplicity of corporations would mean even higher prices fol­ rience wisdom and sureness of touch, ing anxiety about the mere means of the Church resolutely determined to lowing the war than we are called upon to endure. And unless combine to give a ripeness of power, livelihood which if chronic, most of all have a strong ministry? saps a man’s strength In short, in this were so, and the subconscious mind of society realized this which make the years from forty- Beyond doubt, the matter of sal­ five to sixty—or above-nhis time of the professions generally, granted aries has vital bearing upon this larg­ fact, there would have been a revolution long ago against the greatest usefulness to the commu­ that a man is moderately competent, er question. It must be faced for the existence of corporations. nity And the fortunes of the com­ the economic conditions of his career Church’s sake; and until it is faced, It is trug that it enriches one man now whereas under the petent professional man tend to make are such as to ensure full vigor in largely and constructively, our work and keep him fit for the utmost pro­ those ripened years of greatest use­ in the Seminaries will prove increas­ old regime it would have enriched a thousand, yet the per capita ductive service in this period of rip­ fulness ingly discouraging,- if not increasing­ assessment for enriching anybody is far less than it would be ened mastery. Etis first years indeed The ease is radically different in ly vain.—The Church’s Ministry.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 5, 1920 T H E W 1 T N I b b Page Three of efficiency. Nor do I depreciate Fortunately it is a church with a AN UNPRECEDENTED OPPOR. the service that these people are do­ NEW YORK LETTER good many sides to it. TUNITY Wp H t t a a a ing in bringing order out of industrial THE CONVENTION. A well-intentioned resolution was PabUtibed JKvery Katar day, 41 a. Tear chaos. But I do shout from the presented favoring preaching, teach­ Probably few people realize that house tops that man does not live by It Was officially announced to be a ing and healing missions, but some there ; are forty thousand white THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO. opposition to the healing part „devel­ (JSTpt Incorporated) bread alone. Efficient management, three days’ session, but the profes­ Americans in the Canal Zone who are *21# Cottage Grove Ave. Yes. We have’nt nearly enough of it. sional steerers did their best to make oped and the resolution was’ after in either a civil or military capacity T elephone, M idw ay 3938 But efficiency for what? I asked it end on the second, and they suc­ some debate referred to the future. connected with the administration, Chicago, Illinois several present the question without ceeded, though it had to be done by A good many still prefer. “old-fash­ whch is centered in Ancon and Bal­ a satisfactory answer. With them it slighting some later work and refer­ ioned” ways tp any supernatural boa.® Our only place of worship in A NATIONAL CHURCH NEWS­ was efficiency for its own sake. Just ring the final decision as to who was methods. Ancon has been a little frame chapel PAPER for the people. Intended to that sort of . a system which we have elected in some prolonged cases to Everybody was pleased with the which, however, is. most beautifully be instructive rather than controver * learned to call prussianism—a vast the decision of the Bishop, which re-appointment of the Rev. Win. H. situated on the grounds of the great machine which is busy grinding might some day prove a dangerous Pott, Ph. D„ as Archdeacon. It government hospital. Through the sial. A plain i»aper, aiming to reach might not have hurt anybody and the plain person with plain facts, un­ “things,” war, intolerance and en­ precedent. newly-consecrated Bishop of Panama slavement. ■ • '"V , £ The matter of first interest was would have helped administration if the governor of the Zone has offered biased by partisan or sectional views. Here’s the job for the Church. And what should be done to aid the Bishop this wise executive had been made us the lot on which St. Luke’s now it is a tough one., But it is up to us in administration of the diocese. As Suffragan. He does everything a stands, together with the adjoining BOARD OF EDITORS: was forecast in a former issue, there suffragan can do how, except confirm. Blehop IRVJQiG P. JOHNSON. Kditor- to make these people realize that God lot, provided we put up permanent la-C h iei. has a more noble destiny for His were advocates of two suffragans, or He and Bishop Lloyd would have buildings in harmony with those the rtav, wrt.T.TAW ». SPOFFOBD, Man­ children than to be cogs in a mighty; of one suffragan and a co-odjutor, made an excellent team of suffragans. government has erected. No frame aging Editor. machine. These people last week but the Bishop himself disowned any As a matter of fact both are doing construction is allowed in the Zone. Contributing Editora: couldn’t see the forest because of the immediate demand for -such assist­ the work regardless of the titles. That The Council at its meeting on May Bishop Henry J. Mlkell trees. They were, so absorbed with ance on his own part, professing ¡him­ they are willing to do so suggests 10th authorized Bishop Morris to ac­ Bishop James Wise that they are Christians after the : • S e t, George . P. Atwater ■' their.own particular tasks that they self ready to accept any plan the con­ cept. this offer in the confidence that Rev. James Sfieerln had completely lost sight eff the pur­ vention proposed. The result was a heart of Him who said “Be ye not there are many who will be glad to Rev. Francis S. White called masters.” Maybe their kind Mrs. Grace Woodruff Johnson pose of it all. It is our job to give simple resolution to allow the Bishop contribute toward the erection of a Mr. W. S. Silver, Adv. Mgr., * Bible them the vision. And it won’t he nine thousand dollars to secure such of bishop would satisfy even Dr. church which is going to assure for House, New Turk City, N. I . ■: easy. They already look upon us as assistance as he desired in the com­ Grant, who expressed his fears of all time an adequate place of wor~ impractical visionaries. Yet with vis­ ing year from bishops able to respond. the evil effect of calling our Ameri­ ship for the garrison apd the civif Entered as second class matter at the can bishops “My Lord” while at the post office at Chicago, HI., under the Act ion gone the people perish. We know There is many a clergyman who employes of the government in the mt Congress of March 8, 1878. that man does not live by bread would willingly share' that amount Lambeth Conference! And, apropos Zone. alone. They too, must be made to of money /¡as salary with somebody of that fear, there are few less as­ realize it.—W. B.V§. else for fhe sake of enforcing the hon­ suming gentlemen and democrats BREAD ALONE ors and duties of a bishop ip the than the average Colonial bishop of NEW HEADQUARTERS Church of God, even if it were only the various far-flung branches of the 216 PERSONS CONFIRMED Church of England, who love neither Chicago, 111.—The headquarters of That the human race will revert as suffragan. But the members of WITHIN A YEAR. tke convention, evidently preferred gainters nor lordly titles! the Diocese of Chicago have been to type and eventually return to the \ JAMES SHEERIN. moved from the Heyworth Building savage state is a theory held by not time in which to find out what the The Rt. Rev. James DeWolf Perry, Holy Spirit really prefers in the mat­ to the Cathedral clergy house, ad- a few people. As Christians we be­ Bishop of Rhode Island, made his an­ jainirig the Cathedral of Sts. Peter lieve that humanity is moving the ter of episcd)>al assistance for Bishop nual visitation Sunday Evening, May Buijch. 279 BISHOPS WILL GATHER AT and Paul, on the corner of Washing­ other way—rthat we will in time be­ 16, to St. Luke’s Chprch, Pawtucket, ton Boulevard and Peoria street. The come truly the children of God. Yet The second matter to occupy the LAMBETH which was crowded to the doors and, convention, in some cases with no lit­ entire second floor has been given one is constantly bumping up against despite an over-fiow service in the tle anticipatory excitement, was a London, May 1.—The Archbishop over for office room, the third, floor facts which make one realize that we Sunday School . Auditorium, many series of resolutions. One of them of Canterbury in addressing the up­ being reserved for the use of the have a rèal job on our hands to keep were unable to get in. The Bishop concerned the election of women to per house of convocation stated that cathedral clergy. The new executive the world from slipping back. I confirmed a class of 105, 82 of whom official plaee in convention and ves- up to date 279 bishops were expected secretary of the Bishop and Council, realized it last week. I attended were adults: 54 of the number were This was referred to a commit­ to attend the Lambeth Conference. the Rev. E. H. Merriman, who is the annual convention of the Indus­ males, 8 of whom were service men. tee for report next year. One that Of these, 72 American bishops have living at the clergy house, has office trial Relations Association of Amer­ The class included 9 former Meth­ urged efficient enforcementN of the accepted -the invitation to be present. hours every day, as has also the Rev. ica, which was held in Chicago. I odists, 5 Congregationalists, 4 Bap- 18th amendment was adopted with There are still serious transportation Merton Ross, the social service sec­ expected great things. Why shouldn’t tists, -3 Romanists, I United Breth- an amusing addition which postponed difficulties. Even the Metropolitan retary of the diocese. Bishop Ander­ I? Those attending the conference, erin, and 1 Unitarian. Last June the action until the Supreme ¡«Court had of India could, not get a passage. The son is in his office on Tuesday and were hailed as the brains of the coun­ Bishop confirmed 111 persons, mak­ properly construed the law. Three archbishop announced that he had Thursday from two to four, and try—the men and women who were ing a total of 216 communicants that dealt with Dr. Grant’s forum asked 47 bishops to take part in the Bishop Griswold has office hours on hired as experts by the owners of within a year. When the present in­ problem were lumped into one by the discussion of particular subjects. He Monday, Wednesday and Friday af­ manufacturing establishments to op­ cumbent, Rev. Arthur J. Watson, committee that commended forums in has also invited sixty-one experts to ternoons. The rear room on the sec­ erate their plants for them. Certain­ took charge of the parish, Jan. 1, general, but said that they must be write papers in advance (for the gui­ ond floor, which was formerly the- ly one should expect something 1918, the communicant list numbered conducted according to the princi­ dance of the various committees. clergy house common room, has been great from such a group. But if the 180. ples laid down by the Bishop of the This has always been found to be ex­ fitted up by the Church Club as great god Mammon ever showed his Diocese. This blanket resolution ceedingly useful with a view to con- their temporary headquarters,1 and is ugly head he did here, and the pleased neither Dr. Grant’s friends, centrating the discussions. The arch­ used as a general meeting place fer pathetic part of it was that he held NEW MISSIONARY FOR SANTO DOMINGO. nor the ritualist party that was anx­ bishop also made the interesting an­ the clergy and for the committee sway practically unchallenged. Judg­ ious to have him disciplined more se­ nouncement that a representative of méetings. ; ing from the speeches and discussions verely as an outstanding exponent the Greek Orthodox was expected to of these efficiency experts, man is In Santo Domingo the opportunity of what -they insist ih illegal paro­ has come to the Church to buy a very be present. concerned with just one thing— chial action. There is a sense in This is the first occasion on which THE MIDIWEST CONFERENCE Bread. The aim in life is to get as desirable property which would fur­ which the whole action of the con­ nish accommodations for the work a representative of any church not many “things” as possible—food vention was in reality a decisive vic- actually in communion with the ' clothing and a roof. In order to be there as well as a residence for the Religious education as a part of tory for Dr. Grant His enemies Church of England has been invited. the religious cpriculum of the Na­ sure to have enough of these “things” missionaries. There is no need of hoped to have him rebuked. He was sending additional missionaries unless It is an important and significant tional schools arid given as such on industry must be efficiently man­ not only, not rebuked, but no man step. aged. And then Jhe experts pro­ a placé can be provided for them in ever had a more complete and favor­ work days is to become more and ceeded to fight with each other as to which to live as even in : this remote able welcome in any convention than more a matter of Church policy, for what methods made for the greater place the same difficulty is found in he did in this. His speech in defence it has everything to redommend it renting property. As there are be- DR. CADMAN DEFENDS THE that makes secular education worth efficiency. They were busy for three of himself and his> forum was almost PURITAN whole days figuring out Ways of tween 12,000 and 15,000 Church of unanimously pronounced the ; best while. H&nce, very definite atten­ creating a huge machine—with every England negroes looking to us for ad­ ever heaird ini the New York conven­ tion is to be given to this phase of cog a human life. Get the boys and ministration there is an urgent call tion; and, though the vote indicated The Puritan is often the object of the Church’s business at the Mid- girls young. Train -them to be ef­ for us to meet this opportunity. Thq a desire to stand by the Bishop in attack in these latitudiri’arian days West Conference to be held at Ra­ ficient at some one thing, putting the Rev. A. H. Beer has been appointed. his pronouncement of last winter, when many men are mòre concerned cine, Wisconsin .from the 6th to 16th nut on the left rear wheel of an auto­ By a re-adjustment of the items al­ there are signs pointing to the plain about motors, and golf than about the July. mobile, for example. And then by ready appropriated in the Santo Do­ inference that neither the Bishop nor religious welfare of the community. What is being done in various par­ means of welfare associations, pen-; mingo schedule, the Bishop would be the convention Oared to proceed fur­ Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn ishes will be told in detail, together sion funds, insurance, a home that able to secure a residence for him. ther in disciplinary measures,—if, in­ recently preached a sermon on thó with further plans based on exper­ the company never permits them to The Council has approved this. deed, they did not feel that the public­ Puritans in which he set their vir­ ience, and every parish with a vision entirely own; so hind them to the job ity and seeming rebuke of last win­ tues against their faults. He summed should have at least one delegate that they will be yours for life. WORK IN ALASKA.* ter had not gone beyond the hounds of up nicely the contribution of these present, interested in the matter. And Efficiency, efficiency, thàt was the wisdom or necessity. men and women to the world’s life the parishes not yet interested, or battle cry. Efficiency that is rapidly In the District of Alaska the Bisht The chief thing overlooked by del­ as follows: “You cannot pass content vfith a school held on Sunday, turning mankind into a monstrous op has been obliged to ask for ad­ egates was that the convention had through a land where Puritanism has might do worse than have a represen­ machine that is independent of hu­ vances on account of money he hoped neither disciplinary nor advisory pow­ operated without being impressed tative at .the conference who will man needs or human happiness. to receive from specials in order to ers in the affair and that the only with the prevalent decency of be­ carry away the idea and spread it. Never once during the entire three enable him in the early summer to one who could reduce or increase the havior and moderation of conduct, days did I hear a word spoken for send in supplies needed through the effort at' discipline was the Bishop highly indicative of a disciplined the things of God. Except my own people. Th^ problem of blending au­ COUNCIL HOLDS AN IMPORTANT winter. The accumulation of such himself As for Dr. Grant, he walked MEETING feeble attempt that was ridiculed. It amounts for severa/ years totaled out of ithe convention a greater and thority with freedom and unity with was at a session on Industry *and the dissimilarity presents fresh phases at over $49,000. It is now almost im­ better-liked man than the came into The regular meeting of the Pre­ Schools. The speaker contended that possible for the Bishop to secure this it. Even some of his ardent friends every stage of our evolution. But it was the business of educators to think hd made a mistake the next qone has come so near to its solu­ siding Bishop and Council and its amount from special givers as most various departments was held in New turn out boys and girls who would fit contributors have included their.spec- Sunday in allowing it to be adver­ tion or deserved better of the social into factory organizations. If man­ tised that he would preach on the order than has the Puritan.” York May 10 to 13. Twenty out of ial gifts in their pledges to the Na­ the twenty-six members were present. ufacturers were wise, he said, they tion-Wide Campaign. The Council subject “Will the Episcopal Church would / put down on paper exactly Split in Two ?” The next morning’s The organization of the new Na­ has decided to liquidate this charge in DEAN LATHROP MADE SOCIAL tion-Wide Department was completed what they wanted a boy. to learn in recognition of the Bishop’s fine* newspaper headings and selections school. Of course the subjects which from the sermon, in some cases, were SERVICE HEAD and the Rev. W. H. Milton, D. D., heroism and consecration through the was ‘elected executive secretary, The would make him a good worker— twenty years of his espicopate, the neither just to him nor the Church, arithmetic, geometry, physics, chemis­ and they served chiefly to renew the The Department of Christian So­ following members of the Council anniversary of which he will cele­ were elected members of the new de­ try, and enough English to enable him brate on St. Andrew’s day next. antagonism of conservatives who are cial Service of the Presiding Bishop to understand orders. Educators easily upset. It is worthy of note and Council elected as executive partment. Bishop F. F. Reese, of should be made to understand that it that judicious listeners of the sermon secretary of the department the Rev. Georgia, the Rev. J. E. Freeman, D. was their business to supply this THE GUILD OF THE HOLY found in it a faith in the future of C. N. Lathrop, dean of the Cathedral D., the Rev. E. M. Stires, D. D., Mr. knowledge. I protested, stating that GOST THE COMFORTER the church that newspaper reports in Milwaukee, the Rev. F. M. Crouch Harper Sibley, Mr. John S. Bryan, I thought it might have a tendency to rather ignored. It would lend a more having resigned, his resignation hav­ and- Mr. Lewis B. Franklin. The crowd out cultural studies and the A Devotional Guild open to all sanguine hope to the outside critics ing taken effect Feb. 1, since which Council elected an additional mem­ training necessary for an apprecia­ communicants of the Anglican of the rector’s strictures on present time the department has been with­ ber, the Rev. Robert W. Patton, D. tion of the ultinfete things in l if e - Church. The chief aim of the Guild church conditions if they would re­ out a head. D. 1 Further organization was effect­ truth, righteousness, beauty. I was is to honor God the Holy Ghost in member the elderly man’s injunction Dean Lathrop has had a wide ex­ ed by ¡electing the following: The laughed down as a sentimentalist the Holy Catholic Church and to help to an impetuous youth: “It is safer perience in social work. He is a Rev. R. W. Patton, D. D., as cam­ who lacked the technical education carry out His Divine purposes. Su­ to be in love with 40 girls than with graduate of Harvard of the class of paign director, the Rev. L. G. Wood necessary to understand the subject perior-General. The Rev. D. F. J.' one at your age!” If the Episcopal 1896. From 1901 to 1904 he was as one of the general field secretaries under discussion. Barwell-iWalker. Box 67, La Porte, Church ever splits it will be into first assistant at the Church of the and the Rev. R. Bland Mitchell as I do not underestimate the value Indiana. forty instead of two. Mark the “if.” Advent, San Francisco. % corresponding secretary.

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WOMAN’S AUXILIARY OF address as president was, as her ad­ THE PUBLICITY DIRECTOR dresses always are, interesting and THE CHURCH AND ITS IDEALS OF THE CHURCH WESTERN MICHIGAN. helpful, and the reports of officers and I heads of departments, and par­ The annual meeting of the Wo­ ish branches werè full of encourage­ I.—“ The Church is the «Body of Christ” The Rev. Robert F. Gibson ap­ man’s Auxiliary of the Diocese of ment. After the noon-day prayers* pointed some time since as Executive Western Michigan was held, in Trin­ Dean White made one of his illum­ DEFINITION OF THE loving fellowship with their neigh­ Secretary of the Publicity Depart­ ity Church, Marshall, Tuesday and bors, as a great family whose in­ inating and inspiring addresses filling CHURCH. ment of the Presiding Bishop and Wednesday, May 11 arid 12. Thirty- his hearers with enthusiasm and new terests are the same, which includes Council, assumed the duties of his delegates and nine officers otf the all ages and nations and classes, and resolve. At the business meeting in “Tlie Church is the body of Christ.” office at the time of the recent meet­ organization, besides a large number the afternoon Miss Tillotson gave the This means that the Church, which is whose father is God. And if therè is ing of the Presiding Bishop and of visitors from out-of-town par­ a God this must be true. If there is ^women a lucid account of the scope an association otf a large number of •Council, presenting at that meeting ishes were in attendance. Holy Com­ and purpose otf the Church Servicè men and women, who differ from no God, it is perhaps best to be a a proposed programme and budget munion was celebrated at 9:30 by cynic for then one will be in har­ League. Her charm atid earnestness each other in race and language, and for the department. The depart­ Bishop McCormick assisted by Arch­ deeply impressed all whose good for­ qualities and occupation and tem­ mony with a meaningless and pur­ ment will have offices in the Church poseless nature. deacon Vervoe, both of whom made tune it was to hear her. per, has got to embody thè person­ Missions House and is being organ­ addresses. Business began at 10:30 The awakened interest was indica­ ality of Jesus Christ. Its members But Christianity takes its stand on ized as rapidly as possible. . with Mrs. James P. Brayton, Pres­ the love of God, and even goes a step ted by the number of invitations ex­ have got to remain different, just as Mr. Gibson was born in New York, ident of the Diocesan Auxiliary, in tended for the next annual meeting, the members of a human body are further. It says that Jesus of Nez- Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of , areth was a man who was a true Sori the chair. Greetings were extended among which Ionia was chosen for different; but they have got to be Yale.- He studied law, partly in New to the delegates and visitors by Miss 1921 and Battle Creek tfor 1922. Per­ parts of a single life, to be obedient of God, who lived His life in perfect York, where he attended lectures at obedience to the loving will of God, Julia Brown, President of the local haps by another year interest will be to a single will, and to combine with Columbia, arid partly in York, where Branch. The roll call was resporided so widened and deepened that evèry eabh other so as to carry out the pur­ and that therefore He was the perfect he was admitted to the bar and prac­ man. This means that the person­ to by Representatives from Kalama­ parish and Mission will be represent­ poses of that will, just as the mem­ ticed law until he was admitted' to zoo, Battle Greek, Coldwater, ¿Hast­ ed. The women in small places are bers of a healthy and well-controlled ality of Jesus was in perfect har­ the' ministry. For five years he was mony with the will of God, and that ings, Niles, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, * beginning to realize what they lose human body do. managing editor of a daily paper, the and from as far north as Traverse by their isolation and the importance The businèss of a body is to ex­ His personality had perfect control York Gazette, and for one year he of His human body. It means riiore City. The guest of honor and spec­ of sending delegates who will brrig press a personality. Through the was on the New York World. ial speakers were Dean Francis S. home some of the enlightenment, body a personality makes itself heard than that. It means that the person­ ality of Jesus, which once showed the In 1899 Mr. Gibson became a can­ White otf Cleveland, and Miss Tillit- earnestness and enthusiasm still -so and felt and understood, carries out didate for the ministry, conducting son, of New York. Mrs. Brayton’s greatly needed. scheipes, and gets into touch with will of God through the human body his studies under the Rev. Charles other personalities so as to under­ that was bom of Mary the Jewess, could also show the will of God James Wood, rector of Saint John’s stand and be understood by them. So Church, York, n He spent one year the business of the Church is to en­ through any other human body, and of his preparation at the Virginia able Jesus Christ to make Him­ that His personality is the sum of all NOTICE! the goodness of all the men and wo­ Seminary. While preparing for the self heard and felt and understood ministry and while conducting two • Below is a subscription blank. You can do one of four in the world, to carry out His work men that ever have been or ever will missions he was eleq^ed mayor of the of giving to men the knowledge of be. Christianity says that if men and city of York, and served in that of­ things with it:. ^ -- ’ .. God and so freeing them from the women can embody in their own lives the personality which wias once re­ fice two years. Until 1&17 Mr. Gib­ (1) Resubscribe. Look at the expiration date printed tyranny of false ambitions and pas­ son’s ministry was in the Diocese of with your address on the corner of this paper. If it is nearly sions and fear, to give Himself to vealed in Jesus, they will become the Harrisburg. || He was for eleven méh and to reoeive from men their best that they are capable of becom­ years rector of Trinity Church, Wil­ due, cut out this form below and send it to us with $1.00 for ing. And Christianity says that all liamsport. For the last three years another year’s subscription. love and obedience. men and woriien can to some extent If à man’s body is. inefficient he he has been rector of Christ 'Church, (2) Secure a new subscriber, in cáse you cannot use cannot make himself understood, or embody the personality of Jesus, be­ Macon, Georgia. get into touch with other men. If cause He is alive and not dead, and the form yourself. * through prayer, and the sacraments While in the Diocese of Harrisburg he is blind and dumb and deaf and they can receive the Holy Spirit he served as a member of the Board (3) Have The Witness sent £o a friend for a year.' crippled and insane, his personality of Missions and was founder and ed­ which will make them one with Him. (4) Ignore it. remains shut up out of the world. Christianity says that just as the itor of the Harrisburg Churchman. So with Jesus Christ, unless His body In the Diocese of Atlanta he served the Church is healthy, He cannot members of a body are living and We do not believe you will do the last.' We all know useful when the blood circulates free­ on the Board of Mission^ and the that the Church needs The Witness. Help make it go. It is make Himself understood by men ly through the veins, and makes Board of ¿Religious Education. He or carry on His work in the world, or them part of one single.life, and just wa sa deputy to the General Con­ not a great deal that we ask. But think olthe result if you get into touch with men at all, He ventions of 1907, 1913, 1916. and all respond. Please help. remains unknown, except as a per­ as the members of a body are numb and dead if the valves are choked up, 1917. son in history, like Caesar or Soc­ and the circulation of the blood im­ Last year he served as Chairman rates. So we churchmen have got peded ; so men and women are living of the Nation-Wide Campaign Com­ T H E WITNESS to try and make the Church healthy mittee in the Diocese of Atlanta and and useful when they are animated 6219 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, 111. * arid until we can do that, our Lord by the spirit which was in Jesus, and for four months he was associated will not be able to increase the king­ with Dr. Milton in the Publicity De­ are dead and useless when the Spirit For the enclosed $1.00 please, send The/Witness for onfe dom of God on earth. does not make them alive. partment of the Campaign at the Now in the body of a man there According to Christianity, the per­ New York headquarters, his vestry year to are many members, and each mem­ sonality which was once shown to having granted him a leave of ab­ ber has a desire for its own develop­ men in the body of Jesus of Galilee sence for the purpose. . ment and gratification. The organs is the all-embracing personality of Street ,______:.______—.------«------— of sex have (Jesires that demand sat­ the Son of God, the Lord of all good isfaction. So have the appetite and life. And through the Church men WOMAN S AUXILIARY OF Town ------...------the palate. The muscles want to be and women are to come into touch . COLORADO. strong, and demand to be practised. with Him. The church is his body,-, This is a (renewal) (new subscription) , Cross out one. The mind wants to grow and asks for in which He still lives and works and instruction. The eyes and ears The . Thirty-Sixth 'Annual Meeting speaks, through which He still pro­ of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Dio­ ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE clamour to see and hear beautiful claims the love and forgiveness of things. And the badly regulated cese of Colorado was held at St. The only Eastern college officially con­ Confirmation fiod, opening men’s eyes to the vision Mark’s Church, Denver,, on Tues­ trolled by the Episcopal Church and en­ body is the one in which some par­ of God, freeing them from the forces dorsed by the Sypod of any Eastern Instruction ticular member has got what it wants day, May 11th beginning with a cor­ Province. Tuition, $450. of corruption, and giving them the porate communion at 9 A. M- Post-office: Annatodale-on-Hudson, ii: iV By Bishop Johnson of Colorado at the expense of the rest. For in good and eternal life that comes from (Station: Barry town on the New York A very, valuable Manual to place stance, some men arè simply sexual A large number of women were i- Central" Railroad) ; God. » present, from all over the Diocese, “On the Hudson River Facing the in the hands of candidates for Con­ animals and their muscles and minds It is as if a master played a melody Catskils” are sacrificed to the Satisfaction of to attend the meetings which lasted Write to the President, the Bev. Bernard firmation, and others seeking infor­ on a wonderful violin, and then an all day. Tddlngs Bell. mation regarding the teachings and tne organs of sex. • Other men are orchestra under his direction tried to drunkards, and nothing else. Others The business session was opened customs of the Church. play the same melody on'a large' num­ with an address of welcome by the are only learned, and have big heads ber of instruments. They would riot LOANS, GIFTS AND GRANTS Send 25 cents for a sample copy. but weakly bodies. Others again are Presirent, Mrs. Ethelbert Ward," in to aid in building churches, rectories Price $2.50 a dozen. play in unison but in harriiony; and which she urged the women to keep simply strong, and have no know­ and parish houses may be obtained of — o — until the players had all arrived, and on with certain pledges which would the American Church Building Fund ledge or sense. Others spend all theft had caught the spirit of the master, DID HENRY VIII. FOUND THE time looking for beautiful pictures not be taken care of by Nation Wade Commission. Address its Correspond­ and were dominated by him, their Campaign Budgets. She spoke of ing Secretary, 281 Fourth Avenue, "ENGLISH CHURCH?—A four-page and scenery, and listening to beauti­ playing of the melody would be dis­ an earnest appeal from Bishop Rowe New York. leaflet by Bishop Irving P. Johnson, ful music,- and have no kindness or cordant, and would in every way do it of Alaska asking for aid.. In conse­ which should be in the hands of strength or usefulness. But men who less justice than the master’s play­ quence of which a very liberal pledge every Church boy arid girl attending are developed in one direction like ing on the single instrument. But in was made for Alaska and also a THE CHURCHMEN’S ALLIANCE this are never as efficient, even in Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Presi­ High School, and will enable Church­ the end, if they tried loyally each to generous pledge toward the Emery men generally to answer the ques­ that direction, as the man who is play his own part in harmony with Fund in commemoration of the Fif­ dent, 713 North American Building, developed .all over. The sexual mar Philadelphia, Pa.; Chauneey Brewster tion effectively for themselves and the rest and in perfect obedience to tieth Annivèrsary of the W.4 A. The Tinker, Ph. D., First Vice-President, will not beget such fine children as the will of the master, the final result others. 50 cents a hundred. sum of fifty thousand dollars is to Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.; The _ o— - the man who is also strong in his would be a far fuller rendering of I be raised and giveri as a Jubilee or Rev. John Heriry Hopkins, D. D., body and gentle and wise in his the melody even than the original Memorial offering and is called the Vice-President, 5550 Blackstone Ave., JOHN WESLEY AND THE mind. The drunkard will never have playing on the one violin. And in Emery Fund in honor of Miss Julia Chicago, 111.; the Rev, J. O. S. * Hunt­ CHURCH—A four-page leaflet which such good taste in wines as the mod­ that perfect harmony each individual C. Emery and her two sisters who ington, O. H. C., Vice-President, West will be found interesting and helpful erate drinker, or enjoy his drinking player would have got much more Park, N. Y.; the Rev. Frank B. Rea- served the Auxiliary so faithfully for zor, D. D., Vice-President, West to those wishing to inform themselves so much. The opinions of the scholar, out of himself than if he had played so many years. Orange, N. J.; the Rev. Hamilton as to the relationship of thq early no matter how many books he may alone. ‘ It will be used to provide a house Schuyler, Vice-President, 121 Acad­ Methodists to the Church. 50 cents have read, will never be sound and So in the world of men and women. for women missionaries to stay whèn emy St., Trenton, N. J .; the Rev. useful if he has a bad digestion and Jesus is the master who once played on leave. Wm. Harman van Allen, D. D., Vice a hundred. ' a diseased liver: The muscular man thè melody of heaven on the single During the iriorning session the President, 28 Brimmer St., Boston, cannot be a good boxer and gymnast, instrument of His human life in Pal­ members listened to a very fine ad­ Mass.; Henry D. Pierce, Treasurer, Address or even a capable workman, unless he estine; but the same melody needs for dress from Bishop Irving P. Johnson. 210 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y.; “THE WITNESS” has sense and a brave heart and a its perfect rendering the combination At the afternoon session they had Frances Grandin, Secretary, 126 6219 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago knowledge of human nature. of all men and women playing each the privileg of hearing a very inter­ Claremont Ave., New York, N. Y. So in the body each member gets on the instrument of the life that esting missionary address by Miss Purpose: It is the purpose of The the best out of itself by working as God has given, in perfect obediènee Hewitt of St. Agnes’ School, Anking, Churchmen’s ' Alliance to unite loyal ^fyatturk §>rljnnl a part of the whole body, and in co­ to the Master whom God has sent to China, telling of her work there. Churchmen in an endeavor to guard (53rd Year) operation with the other iriembers, the Faith of the One Holy Catholic 'college Preparatory, Military, Episcopal conduct them. Rev. C. C. Rollit of Minneapolis (Applications should be Hied now te and not by simply going for its own The Church is the body of Christ. talked on the Budget of Nation Wide and Apostolic Church, to witness to secure, a place for the year 1920-21) desires. The members of a body are At the centre of the great heart of the efficacy of the Sacraments, to ex­ For Catalogue, Address Campaign and the Church Service C. W. N®WH

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