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welcomed us happily, and said that Chinese Christian Tells Story for a long time they had been plan­ ning to capture such a group. He Of Changli Incident said he knew the morning’s trek had been a tense experience but that As One of Those Taken Prisoner He Relates “over the mountain you will feel a What Happened on Much-Discussed Occasion new atmosphere; the only thing you will miss in your new environment By Dr. H. Y. Chang will be the two-story American type Professor at Yenching University of buildings of the mission com­ pound. You will not need to worry Hartford, Conn. :—I have been us they wanted to take us over the about your economic life—you will greatly surprised to see the reports mountain to their main base; they have food, clothing and shelter, more and read the letters from mission­ finally agreed to let us stay over­ than sufficient; there will be no in­ aries in China about the Changli night in a village at the base of flation to worry about because we Incident of May 18th tò 21st, 1947. the mountain, about ten miles from share and everyone produces.” Changli is an important town in Changli; we were given food and It is a mistake to credit our re­ Hopei Province on the Peiping-Muk- accommodation. We returned to lease and the decision not to burn the den Railroad, and the location of Changli on the afternoon of the 19th. buildings to the tact and persuasive one of the Methodist mission sta­ The buildings on the campus had talking we Christians did. The in­ tions. Early in the morning of the been robbed; seven thousand bags credible degree of reasonableness on 18th, just after midnight, the town of UNRRA flour stored in a barbed- the part of the Communists was a was attacked by the Chinese Peoples wire classroom had been taken and major factor in the situation. We Liberation Army forces (Commu­ distributed to the people and the Christians have to admit that we nist), said to number about 20,000 Communist troops. One building have had an impatient, intolerant, men. They took captive three Ameri­ used as an office by the Chinese irrational and unchristian attitude can missionary women, about thirty UNRRA had been burned. (Funds toward the Communists; we have to Chinese pastors, teachers and for the rebuilding of this building admit that within, Church groups evangelists, and five hundred middle were later allocated by UNRRA-Ed.) Communism is not freely and fairly school students, boys and girls. I As a participant in this experience discussed but that an intense feel­ myself was one of the captives. We I want to describe it as it appeared ing of it as a menace does exist. A were informed that they intended to to me, a Chinese Christian. This humble and careful examination of burn down the foreign buildings attack by the Communist People’s our experience with the Communists on the campus. We left the town Liberation Army troops was a part those days leaves us with a feeling about six that morning under guard of a battle stretching about thirty of -shame. When we suggested that of a small detail of Communist miles along Peiping-Mukden Rail­ we rest that night and postpone the soldiers who led us out of the city way, with Changli as a major target decision about going over the moun­ and away from the ^ severe fighting of attack. The attacking forces were tain Mr. Lin, the Communist repre­ that was going on all around us. not an unorganized mob, but well- sentative, said he thought this was They marched us slowly until about trained, able-bodied fighters, highly the middle of the afternoon, telling disciplined and well-equipped, some of them carrying American weapons. To Report Conferences Editor’s NLondon in July to cover the plies, burned one residence and planned to meeting of the Anglican archbishops level the whole set of buildings, forcing the Christians as collaborators with the schools into village rooms without any equip­ and bishops, and will then go to Amster­ ment. Only the presence in the compound of reactionary Nanking Government dam to report the World Council meet­ some unusually wise and tactful Chinese men and American imperialists. They ings in August. Mr. Foust was the who were able to make a fearless and unan­ swerable argument in favor of the work of thought they could carry these cap­ chaplain at West Point from 1933 to the mission, prevented complete destruction of 1937 and was dean of the cathedral the property.” tives away to their area and “ re­ at Bethlehem, Pa., until 1945 when he A different picture of the Incident is here presented by Dr. Chang who recently arrived educate these foolish and semi-re­ became the rector of the Ascension. m the United States to do graduate work at actionary Christian people.” They He has been a member of the editorial Hartford Seminary. Also a Methodist, he was T h e W it n e ss at the Compound at the time of the Incident were eager to get us “over the moun­ board of since coming and was himself taken prisoner. In addition to to New York and has been chairman being a professor at Yenching University, Dr. tain to the main base.” The secretary of the board for the past year and a Chang is editor of the Christian Farmer maga­ of the provincial government met us zine and the head of the literature depart­ half. ment of the Christian Rural Service Union. after we had gone about seven miles,

T he Witn ess — April 29, 1948 page three Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. a good suggestion. He took out his impressed with their discipline in control and none of my relatives or map, studied it to find a village sex behaviour. About midnight three friends had ever suffered from their that could best accommodate this of us, including the principal of hands; but I just hated them as a large group; he chose Changkuo- the school, went around to the houses matter of course.” Then her expres­ chuang, about three miles away, a in which the girl students were ac­ sion changed and she said, “The ex­ village at the base of the mountain. commodated; we wanted to cheer perience of these two days’ captive “There are no troops there and you them with the possibility of a return life with them has changed me like | will feel free as you spend the night/’ to Changli the next day. In the third heaven and earth.” Then she went We arrived there at four o’clock; house a peasant with a long white on feelingly, “There was no reason they gave us food ration slips, the beard was the host. “ Teachers,” he for them to treat me exceptionally same as they issued to their troops; said to us politely as he pointed to generously. At every meal they j they refused the idea that the mission the north with his right hand, “ don’t saved two eggs for me from the nu­ would later repay; rice and flour worry about these men from the trition provided for their wounded were distributed and we cooked it North” ; then he pointed to the soldiers; each time I refused to ourselves, in little groups. south, and in, a changed tone he take the eggs; but they insisted that I must have them, for the good of The Communists listened to our the child.” Then she gaily displayed presentation of the effects of their the bundle of Communist bank } proposed actions. In attacking notes that she had from them as a Christianity they are attacking some­ gift for traveling expenses. thing that is good, not something that stands for wrong. Their attempt to The experiences of those days reeducate this group of captives challenge us Christians to self-ex­ would end in failure; no change in amination; as preparation for such them could be made under such examination, we could well take circumstances; peoples can change, Jesus’ words, “Why beholdest thou but the time and form of change the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, has to be considered; the group had and perceivest not the beam that is in thine own?” left the school under armed guard and under intense gun-fire; the shock I want to go back to the question suffered by the relatives and friends of robbing of the mission, campus. of the captives would also condition Some government school students the captives psychologically; there were carried away as captives too, would be rampant talk and gossip, but their school was not robbed. crystallizing into tales about Com­ The Communists flatly admitted that munist raping of girls; these false the robbing of mission buildings was || tales would be given exaggerated an expression of their anti-American radio and newspaper circulation; the imperialism feeling. They accuse effect on the outside world ought The Rev. Lauriston L. Scaife, rec­ the Christian Church of collabo­ to be considered. tor of Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, ration with the corrupt officials and who is to be consecrated Bishop reactionary militarists of the Nation­ Then there were the three foreign of Western New York on May 13. alists. They say the Church always L women. We suggested that the best The Presiding Bishop is to be the consecrator, with Bishop Davis and sides with and follows the steps of [ policy of a revolutionary group is Bishop Randall as co-consecrators. the Nationalists and pays little at­ to win the people, not only the peo­ The sermon will be by Bishop Par- tention to the needy peasants in the ple %of our own country but the peo­ due of Pittsburgh. The service will liberated areas. One of their pub­ ple of other countries as well. Un- be at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo licity men remarked sarcastically, debatedly, American imperialism is “The formula of the Christian not shared by progressives and de­ said “Those from the South are not Church is ‘Desert the people; Be cent Americans; so a distinction reliable.” This was an old man, Anti-Communist’.” between the decent populace and the completely ignorant about names of reactionary political and military parties and armies; but from his One fact we must note about the groups is highly necessary. A fair personal experience the difference in robbing: it was done also by the deal to those individuals would be the behaviour patterns of the two local people, by the near-by neigh­ convincing evidence of power. contending groups was utterly clear bors. Three days after the Commu­ On the question of burning the to him. The Communist army was nists had left the city the rear court houses, we suggested that it was de­ of the North and the National of the hospital was found, early in structive, contrary to their recon­ troops of the South. One of our the morning, crowded with the re­ struction program and would but fellow captives was a young woman turned furniture and equipment. feed the argument of those who say with a few months’ old baby. On our Strict military orders from the Na­ Communists are destructive, that they way back to Changli we got ac­ tionalist army had forced the people kill, fire, rape and plunder. Here quainted with her and she told us to give back what they had been per­ was a chance to stop these accusa­ that her husband was police head mitted to take under the Communist ; tions by “ removing the fuel from of a certain government coal mine occupation. Some of the Christians the furnace,” as the Chinese proverb area; they had been visiting rela­ wanted to discover and prosecute says. tives in Changli when they were the neighbors who had stolen the The effect of the Communist captured. She said, “ I used to hate goods, not realizing how this vindic­ treatment on our captive group also Communists without any reason. tive attitude would strengthen Com- deserves mention. We were deeply My home was not in the area they (Continued on page 14) page four T h e Witn e ss — April 29, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. EDIT I A L S

Our Rural Work equal amount of truth in the contention that the TATISTICS tell us that there are more people country cleric has a peculiar job which requires a in the country than there are in the city; more special talent? If we think that this is true, then people who are eager for the gospel of redemption. we must want to do something about it. There is But the work of a priest in that field is a special­ a way to do something about it, but it is a way ized ministry. The system for organizing a rural which eliminates competition among parishes and parish or mission is not “ the city system cut down clergy: competition among the parishes because to the scale of the country.” It is rather a peculiar the offer of an outstandingly large salary would type of work. By placing a premium on the city be made impossible, and among clergy because ministry, that is to say, by making the city ministry they will not all be competing for the few large the goal of every priest, we negate the purpose parishes in a diocese. of the Church, which is to bring souls into contact For many years we have cloaked under the with the kingdom of God. The heading of humility the idea average salary offered to a that clergy in smaller parishes rural clergyman in one of our “QUOTES” and missions should not com­ larger dioceses is $2,328 a r 1 ''HERE is nothing more delightful pete for position because they year with a house while in that than men who are learned gentle­ are called to serve the master. same diocese the salary offered men and also humble Christians, but But each of these men is the to a city cleric averages the Church has suffered from those head of a family, and his $3,438 a year with house and who have felt that it was enough to family must be fed and certain other benefits such as be the one without concerning them­ clothed. If a smaller parish selves, much as to whether they were telephone and utilities. Taking cannot afford to feed and pro­ the standard of values current­ attempting to be the other. One can never quite get away from those vide a living for him and ly applicable, it would appear verses in the song of the Blessed his family, then he must seek that the most important minis­ Virgin, when she f^xultingly sings a larger parish which will be try in the eyes of the Church of the time when, God shall exalt the able to do so. You can counter is that of the city parish. Why humble and meek and send the this argument with the state­ do we have so many clergy haughty empty away. The words to ment that no parish should changing jobs in the country me have a very real meaning and I rather fancy Europe would be a have a minister who cannot with short average tenure in a joyous place today if prelates and afford to pay him, but do you parish or mission while the princes had spent more time on mean that? Do you mean that normal turnover in city the significance of these words and none except those who can parishes is so much less with less on the pomps and vanities of afford it should hear the gospel a correspondingly longer av­ their respective official positions. of Christ? erage tenure? —Irving P. J ohnson We go even further to im­ If we devise a system The late Editor of plement this inequality in the whereby the country cleric is T he Witness Church today, because the made a “ country cousin,” the Church Pension Fund, which country cleric sooner or later provides a pension for an aged gets the idea that his ministry is the less important cleric upon his retirement, bases its assessments in the eyes of the Church. You say that that is and pension payments upon what the man’s average not what the Church intends— and perhaps you are salary has been for the years of his ministry. In right. But if we do not make the rural ministry other words, the measure of the reward which we as attractive as the city ministry, we shall not be mete out to one who has served faithfully as a getting rural experts in the country, but simply priest is how much he earned during his ministry. men who could “ not make the grade in the city.” No other factor is taken into account in the calcula­ Is it necessarily true that a man who cannot do a tion of the pension of a clergyman. That does good job in a city parish is good enough for the seem a bit unjust, does it not? rural ministry? It would appear that that is pre­ There are certain questions which must be faced cisely what we are saying when we allow such a unequivocally. Is the city ministry more impor­ wide discrepancy in the salaries of the clergy. tant than the rural ministry? If not, why do men True as is the statement that “ there is a peculiar tend to gravitate toward the city for their ministry? talent to running a large parish,” is there not an Why is it common thought in our dioceses today

T he Witn ess — April 29, 1948 page five Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. that after a young priest is ordained, he will go Anthem does not mean “ something offered,” any to the country for experience, experience to be more than “ tedium” derives from Te Deum. used in his later ministry not in the country, but in False etymologies sometimes teach false lessons. the city? What are we going to do to overcome You don’t have to be blithe to be blessed. You can the wide discrepancy in clerical salaries? relax the flesh at a carnival without planning to At least one solution is offered in the basic give up meat. Liturgy means “ public work,” and salary schedule now under study in several dio­ this true meaning has rich connotations. ceses of the Anglican Communion and already in I hope no one will ever ask us to believe that its first stages of operation in one— Johannesburg since an umbrella-stand is where you stick umbrel­ in South Africa. We cannot offord to ignore this las, Hindustan is where we should stick all Hindus. positive step toward the correction of a fault which has become increasingly more glaring through in­ attention on our part. We Were Thinking ... Pecusa WERE thinking about a story that we heard ARE happy to present this week an inter- diich dealt with a Roman priest who had " - esting and properly disturbing article by one been invited to speak to a group of Protestant of the foremost theologians and leaders of the clergy on the subject “Dead Heresies.” He re­ Church of England. Alec R. Yidler is librarian at marked, following the question period, that it was St. Deiniol’s Library at Hawarden in Cheshire, evident to him that many of the heresies were hot England. This is the library at Gladstone’s old as dead as he thought! This story has a point to home and is a place where clergy and others may make to those who are planning the evangelization come for periods of study. He was at one time a program for our Church. member of Selwyn College in Cambridge and a In Ephesians it is said that our strength as priest of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd. He Christians lies in “ one Lord, one faith, one bap­ has written a number of books, including The De­ tism, one God and Father of us all,” and it struck velopment of Modern Catholicism (in collabora­ us that the reason why our Church needs evan­ tion with Dr. Wilfred Knox) which is a study of gelization is that no longer do we preach “one the development of liberal Catholicism in the Lord,” nor do our laity abide by “one faith,” and Anglican communion. He is also the editor of as a result we do not present to our world the Theology, the leading Anglo-Catholic theological solid front of a community living within the con­ journal. fines of “ one baptism, one God and Father of us all.” It is a fact of history that where Jesus Christ is truly preached, and where one faith is truly believed, there is no necessity for evangelization, A Word With You for the good news is there in that preaching and By in. that belief. This unity is essential to our faith, HUGH D. McCANDLESS and once we venture outside these bounds, no long­ er do we preach good news, but rather we preach Rector of the Epiphany, New York old gossip that, in one form or another, man has Pardon Me , But Your E ntomology articulated ever since he realized that he was dif­ Has Bugs in It ferent from the animal that pulled the plow. When we step outside of this unity, we step right into N ARTICLE in a diocesan magazine by one of heresy. my favorite religious educators contains the To the thinking clergy and laity, this point need bland assertion,that Beatitude means “Be-attitude.” not be labored further, but let us proceed to what Ever since people discovered that Atonement was we would suggest as at least a partial solution. really derived from “ At-one-ment,” we have been We think that an inclusive questionnaire should treated to this sort of uplift by way of inspired be compiled by the theologians of our Church but fallacious etymology. which would cover, in terminology understand­ I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun, but it spoils able to the layman, the basic points of our faith. mine when I am told that bliss means “blessed,” The questions should be simple and either multiple that carnival means “ farewell to meat,” that a choice or true-false. These should then be sent belfry without bells is no true belfry, or that to every parish in the country to be presented to liturgy means “the work of prayer.” Boon does not our confirmed members. With adequate presenta­ mean the thing I pray for, but the prayer itself, tion, honest answers would be received. No names and it has nothing to do with jovial companions. would be required, the only stipulation being com- page six T h e W it n e ss — April 29, 1948

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. plete parish coverage. The forms would then be elimination of their known weaknesses. Periodic sent back to the diocesan or national headquarters, polls would indicate success or failure, gain and where the results would be tabulated. Each parish loss, and our evangelization would then be a di­ would be notified of its own particular weaknesses, rected, concentrated effort of a united Church and its clergy could then concentrate sufficient striving for a common goal. I energy towards their remedy. Both the diocesan —Donald T. Oakes a and national Church would benefit greatly in that —Robert B. Hall they also could redirect their efforts toward the Seminarians at E.T.S. I The Protestant Episcopal Church j In the U.S.A. f by Alec R. Vidler Priest of the Church of England W H A T E V ER doubtful or disputable statements A visitor from the C. of E. finds himself much I am about to make, I can without fear of more at home in the P.E.C. than ought to be the contradiction assert that the title of this Church is case. The extraordinary hospitableness of his hosts cumbrous. It is a title to which other objections heightens the impression, but, quite apart from also can be and are raised. But it is difficult, things that, it is remarkable to find an institution so much being what they are, to propose an acceptable alter­ like the C. of E. in the U.S.A. I remember attend­ native, and I did not hear of one. The title is then ing evensong in the General Theological Seminary | likely to continue in use for some time. I do not in New York soon after I had disembarked, and know how to account for the absence of a familiar reflected how pleasant but how odd it was to find abbreviation of it. The Americans have reduced something so familiar in that incredibly strange the practice of referring to their institutions by oc- and cosmopolitan city. But was it right that an I cult groups of letters to so crude an art that it Englishman should find himself so much at home? seems curious that they speak of the P.E.C. or of The force of this misgiving will not be felt by any PECUSA much less frequently than in England who retain the illusion that the U.S.A. is an we use the abbreviation C. of E. for the Church of Anglo-Saxon country. It is only when you realize England. It will however be convenient if I may of what an astonishing variety of races and k use one of these abbreviations here. nationalities America is made up that a Church This article does not purport to be a report on as predominantly, if not as purely, Anglo-Saxon the present condition of the P.E.C., based on a as the P.E.G. will strike you as incongruous; that comprehensive survey of the facts. It is a piece is, if the Church aspires to be, as I presume it must of rank ecclesiastical journalism. I shall record aspire to be, the Church of the whole American some observations and reflections that are the re­ people. This Anglo-Saxon flavor of the P.E.C., sult of my tour in the U.S.A. I shall be prepared which is most evident in, but by no means confined for my American friends to tell me that some at to, the Eastern States, is recognized as a serious least of my observations are superficial and of my handicap by discerning members of the Church, reflections rash. Both anyhow are subject to the and it will not be easy to overcome it. I met one limitations on which I insisted in an earlier article exceptional rector who told me that his congrega­ in Christianity and Crisis entitled The Appalling tion consisted chiefly of Italians, to whom the char­ Religiousness of America and which therefore I acteristic stock-in-trade of Anglicanism means pre­ need not repeat. I cannot say that the principal cisely nothing. This is then a Church that will observations in that article were not intended to have to become more of a fellowship of recon­ apply to the P.E.C., since they were the outcome of ciliation and to develop a capacity for bold ex­ experience acquired chiefly within its frontiers and periments and imaginative pioneering if it is to by a critic who was being entertained not altogether transcend its present refined, restricted and char­ unawares. While those observations are here pre­ acteristically suburban appeal. supposed, I can thankfully add that I found much Not only are these experimenting and pioneer­ more comprehension of the questions I asked under ing qualities at present inconspicuous, but there the heading “ Sect- versus Church” among Episco­ is less in the tradition of the P.E.C. than of some ' palians than among other American Christians. other American Churches to inspire them. It was The Witness — April 29, 1948 page seven Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. through lack of these qualities that the P.E.C. lost pronouncements; in .the anxieties of Anglo-Cath­ its opportunity during the drive to the West in the olic orthodoxy, and in the slowness of the younger last century, when it left other Christian bodies evangelicals (who as with us' show most signs of to evangelize the new settlers. It is commonly said life) to steal the thunder of Catholicism. that the Methodists went out West on horse-back, So much for the lack of enterprise which is the Baptists by coach, while the Episcopalians acknowledged and deplored by the most sensitive \ waited until there were Pullman cars. Consider­ minds in the Church, and I hasten to add that able efforts have since been made to capture the there is promise of better things in the air, if not lost ground. They would perhaps be more suc­ yet in print. The P.E.C. cannot be altogether cessful if the P.E.C. in its upper ranks were less unresponsive to the restless and surging vitality conservative. As is well-known, this is on the that is everywhere characteristic of the U.S.A. It whole a Church of the privileged classes. Its is pertinent here to remark that this Church’s in- r bishops, I was told, are usually selected from the fluence in the universities is out of all proportion successful rectors of fashionable city or suburban to its size in the country, and there is a rising gen- | parishes, though there has recently been some im­ eration of ministerial and lay students who have a provement in this regard. A rector, who himself deeper vision than that of perpetuating the Ameri- / had leftist sympathies, lamented to me that the can way of life and who are ready for radical P.E.C. is becoming increasingly “the Republican changes. Party at prayer,” and I found that many others, With a bolder leadership and a clearer sense in whom those sympathies were less apparent, al­ of its vocation the P.E.C. might quite rapidly be lowed the justice of the description, though one transformed and make a vigorous impact on the queried the words “at prayer.” life of the whole people in which it is set. At Perhaps “conservative” is not the apt term; lack present it is bogged in party feuds much as the of enterprise would be better. This comes out in C. of E. was twenty years ago. An alarming fea­ the Church’s architecture and in its theology. It ture of the P.E.C. is the tendency to develop mono­ is exceedingly disappointing to find that even to­ chrome dioceses: that is, dioceses of one ecclesias­ day the P.E.C. is still tied to imitation Gothic. tical color. There is an area in the middlewest If it can do no better than imitate, it would do well known to the sophisticated churchman as the to revive the eighteenth century architecture as “biretta belt.” This is possible because each dio- j has been done, for instance, in the chapel of the cese elects its own bishop and a bishop has so j Yale Divinity School, which is enchanting. As it much direct or indirect power and patronage that, is, the C. of E. has produced far more in the way if he is sufficiently narrow-minded, unwise and of new and living and exciting forms of ecclesiasti­ determined, he can pack his diocese with clergy­ cal architecture, although the P.E.C. has resources men of his own views. which we cannot now-a-days emulate. This ap­ Members of the P.E.C. resignedly mutter and | pears to be a distressing sign of sterility. even on occasion shrilly shout the old Anglo- ( The Church’s theology seems to have been Catholic, Modernist or Evangelical phrases which similarly, though less dismally, afflicted. The we used to know so well, but which—'although the P.E.C. has more than its share of scholars of out­ Church Union, the Modern Churchmen’s Union standing learning and ability, and a supply of and the Church Association still survive—have competent theologians of which we might well be ceased to signify for most of us. But deliverance envious; its theological seminaries are much more might come and spread more swiftly in America adequately staffed then our theological colleges, than here, once the theology of the Bible is re­ and more encouragement is given to promising leased and the contradication between a religious young scholars. But there is nothing like as much party or club and a Church is perceived, and un- i as one might expect to show for the advantages. It less I am mistaken these things are beginning to was disconcerting to discover with what veneration happen. English theology is regarded when one knows how At the moment, unfortunately, the Church is 1 little warrant there is now for that sentiment. suffering from the way the negotiations for union There are plenty of native resources in America with the Presbyterians were handled or mis- 1 that are not yet being properly tapped and worked. handled. There seems to have been a grave lack of Theology in the P.E.C. is generally sound and solid ecclesiastical statesmanship in these proceedings of its kind, though it has its section of stale and in consequence nerves have been left sadly j “ Liberal Protestantism,” but either way there is frayed. I got the impression that the Episco­ lack of movement and fresh air. Men are fearful palians are not yet ripe or qualified for union with j of breaking new ground or of thinking dangerous Presbyterians or anyone else; it would be to their thoughts. In every direction “ safety first” seems credit if they were. I will venture the mad hope to be written up— in the moderation of episcopal that when the time for an act of unification comes

page eight T h e W it n e s s — April 29, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. the P.E.C. will be! united first with a Church that Parochial finances in the P.E.C. are managed is comparatively poor and socially inferior, even with enviable efficiency. Each autumn a budget if theologically more remote. A union between for the coming year is made out; then fifty or a two Churches as superior and prosperous as the hundred laymen canvass the whole congregation Presbyterian and the Episcopalian is more than and find out what each member will promise to pay somewhat awful to contemplate, if I may say so. week by week. They continue the canvas until the whole budget is met. Moreover, budgets are very R U T I do not want to give the impression that much larger than those to which we are accustomed, the C. of E. has nothing positive to learn from and there are comparatively few endowments. The the P.E.C., which in fact seemed to me far ahead budgets are so large because churches are much of us in many practical aspects of Church life. I more adequately staffed and equipped. For ex­ have already alluded to the fact that its theological ample, no American congregation of any size and seminaries are much better staffed than ours, and standing would leave its rector to deal with his on the intellectual side can do a much better job. correspondence and other routine work, without V They seem to be comparatively weak however on the assistance of a professional secretary. Each the side of training in the spiritual life. A similar church maintains offices and club rooms, etc., that contrast is apparent if you compare the Anglican make a corresponding church here look mean and and Free Church colleges in England. shabby. They reckon that if you are going to run Then the P.E.C. has actually got or is doing a a church you should do it efficiently, and surely lot of things that we wistfully or vaguely talk they are right. Nor do they waste their resources, about. In the College of Preachers at Washing­ as we do, by trying to maintain a great many ton, for example, it has an instrument of post­ superfluous and obsolete establishments. Likewise ordination education which we should do Well to they aim at making the Sunday Schools even imitate, since it is unlikely that we shall be able more efficient, attractive and up to date than the to start anything more efficacious. day schools: indeed they have much to teach us And it has a revised Prayer Book, and all the about the technique of religious education. editions are identically paginated. Thus worship­ All this is not accounted for merely by the fact pers can easily be helped to follow the services, that the average member of the P.E.C. is better and the Church shows much skill and care in the off than the average member of the C. of E. The way it gives this help, as it does also in the wel­ truth is that they support the Church in a much come it extends to visitors. The C. of E. by more business-like and handsome manner. The comparison appears to be cold and grossly indif­ clergy find that emigrants from the Church of ferent about whether people participate intel­ England, and faithful ones at that, have to be lectually in its worship. The American clergy told that where in England you may feel quite extend much more careful preparation upon their satisfied if you give one shilling a week, you are services than we do as a rule, though I should say expected in the P.E.C. to give the equivalent of that modes of worship in the P.E.C. are too elabor­ at least five shillings. ate and ornate. There is much carrying of flags; I can do no more than make the barest mention usually the stars and stripes and the Church flag. of a few other points that struck me. The clergy This looks rather too nationalistic. On the other keep regular office hours in the well-equipped hand, the custom at Washington Cathedral of inter­ offices in their churches so that everyone knows ceding on each Sunday for a different state in the when they are available for interviews. The P.E.C. union and of displaying its flag seems admirable. is also much more ambitious and thorough than the There is also a superfluity of candles, and an in­ C. of E. in its work in universities and colleges; terest and a taste in ecclesiastical millinery which every church near a university— and universities did not appeal to me. It was Bishop Johnson of abound has a Canterbury Club for college stu­ Colorado, the first editor of The Witness, a high dents. Last but not least, American Episcopalians churchman and a great bishop, who said: “ The have gone much further than we have in the prac­ trouble with the Episcopal Church is that there tical recognition of the value of psychiatry. are too many solemn asses celebrating solemn In short if the P.E.C. at present has serious masses.” I failed to discover why it is that when shortcomings, it also has great assets. It is im­ receiving Holy Communion an American high possible to move about in it for long without be­ Anglican genuflects four times, where an English coming eager to see it developing its resources high Anglican does so only once or twice, and an and rising to its opportunities, for the language Irish Roman Catholic not at all. A reformed of “the great opportunity,” which trips so lightly movement in this Church will probably have a cer­ but with such futility off the lips of some eminent tain note of austerity. ecclesiastics here, this really means something.

The Witness — April 29, 194S page nine Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Warns Against Disaster Canterbury College Trustees Boston:—War with the weapons at present available to mankind would be so destructive of life and civili­ Vote to Carry On zation that it would be a disaster for both sides and would constitute Previous Action to Close the Institution a true divine judgment upon us all, Is Rescinded Due to a Determined Effort Bishop Norman Nash warned in an Edited by Sara Dill address which opened the con­ vention of the diocese of Massa­ chusetts, meeting at Trinity Church Indianapolis, lnd.:—The trustees of the Church. The real needs of the here April 14. The Bishop, address­ of Canterbury College, meeting here college were not known but the crisis ing about 1,200 clerical and lay on April 12, unanimously rescinded produced by its closing brought to delegates, lashed at those Church their previous action to close the the attention of dozens of lay lead­ members, some “far from perfect, college taken a week before. The ers all over the country the des­ who act in un-Christian ways, though new action was taken because a small perate need the Episcopal Church claiming to act and speak for God. group of laymen, led by a member has for a co-educational liberal arts Self-righteous claims are being made ] of the church in Danville, where institution of higher learning.” by American Christians that in the Canterbury is located, and a priest Bishop Conkling, in commenting present conflict between capitalism of Chicago, had previously met and and communism; between America established a foundation which has and Russia, we have God on our side for its purpose “the raising, invest­ and that war with Russia would be ing and holding of funds to stabilize a holy war. Since some of our ideals the financial structure of the col­ are Christian, such as the dignity lege.” and worth of every man because he This group met with the trustees is a child of God, we too easily over­ and in the words of Bishop Mallett look our own violations of this ideal of Northern Indiana, the president of while condemning communism’s re­ ^ ' trustees, “ presented a plan with jection of it. so much faith, enthusiasm and com­ “There is so much of this sort mon sense that the trustees felt that of self-righteousness in the utter- an entirely new element had been added.” The foundation will have the A Translation of the broader base of the entire Church to work with, it being the purpose New Testament Epistles of its directors to integrate the col­ lege into the life stream of every LETTERS parish and diocese of the Church. The sum of $20,000 is the immediate need to complete the semester, after YOUNG CHURCHES ! which larger funds will be sought Mrs. F. Eric Bloy is the attrac­ to build up and enlarge the college. tive wife of the newly conse­ By J. B. Phillips In the meantime President Edgar crated Bishop of Los Angeles Cumings has resigned as president Introduction by C. S. Lewis of Canterbury, effective August 31, on the closing of the college, said “To those who wish to know to take a position at DePauw Uni­ that “ it is utterly unthinkable that what St. Paul really said the versity, and the Rev. Douglas R. this college should be closed before present volume will be of very MacLaury of Chicago has been made the wider Church has been given great help,” writes C. S. Lewis vice-president by the trustees and an opportunity to give its support.” in the Introduction. A transla­ will take over the presidency on It was also announced that bish­ tion from the Greek, the book September 1. ops, lay leaders and students from contains the Epistles of Paul, all over the country have wired and Bishop Mallett, in his statement, James, Peter, John and Jude, written of their hope that funds says that the “crisis produced by the each letter prefaced by notes on will be forthcoming to keep this announcement of the closing of the the author, the date, the desti­ college for the Church. college raised a most unusual re­ nation, and the theme. This sponse from all parts of the Church, Mr. Skyler Mowrer, chairman of translation presents the letters and we found that there was much the newly organized Canterbury Col­ in the language of today with more interest in our college than lege Foundation-, has announced that astonishing vitality and force. was ever imagined. . . . The fact the incorporation will be completed $2.50. that Canterbury College had not yet within a few days; that gifts and captured the imagination of the bequests will be tax free and that MACMILLAN offerings are acceptable immediately entire Church as being one of the 60 Fifth Avenue, New York 11» greatest opportunities for missionary at the foundation’s office located in New York enterprise in the country was not the administration building of the to be held against the laity or clergy college at Danville, Indiana.

page ten T h e W it n e ss — April 29, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. ances of the statesmen and pub­ that “Bishop” Sommerfeld ever re­ Methodist conference. Bishop Ox- licists of both Russia and America ceived valid episcopal consecration. nam of New York stated that lead­ that one would hardly suppose that Consecrate New Church ers of the two Churches had recently in both countries the prayer is of­ conferred informally on the question. fered by millions: ‘Forgive us our Americus, Ga.:—Bishop Barnwell trespasses as we forgive those who consecrated the new Calvary Church No Negro Delegates ^ trespass against us’.” here on April 11th. He also con­ The next day delegates passed a firmed the second class presented Beauford, S. C.:—-The convention resolution warning people to be “ on this year by the rector, the Rev. of the diocese of South Carolina their guard against hysterical fear of William C. Baxter. turned down the second reading of communism,” declaring that such a proposed amendment to the con­ fear “may lead to fighting that Urge Unity stitution which would allow Negro danger with weapons destructive to Saratoga Springs, N. Y. ( r n s ) : — communicants representation in di­ the treasure we seek to guard.” A resolution urging that the general ocesan conventions. The clergy conference of the Methodist Church, voted for the measure, 20 to 2, but Presiding Bishop Lectures opening this week in Boston, appoint there was sufficient lay opposition New Haven: — Presiding Bishop a commission to “explore a possible to prevent proponents from muster­ > Henry K. Sherrill, giving the Lyman merger with the Protestant Episcopal ing the necessary two-thirds vote. Beecher lecture at Yale Divinity Church” was adopted by the Troy The motion passed last year, as School, deplored Church complacen­ cy about the urgency of the times. He said that “we are not going to solve the problems by purely economic, political or military measures. Such SaveCanterbury College methods have never permanently solved any issues. The gospel of Christ supplies the only answer en­ For the Church tirely germane to the needs of the Surely there must be $50,000 somewhere in present world.” the Episcopal Church for Christian education He asserted that a divided Church j made impossible any united attack Canterbury College is the only co-educational liberal arts college upon paganism, and that the. power in the Episcopal Church. to present the central truth of Christi­ It is only two years old. anity is limited by disunity. He stated however that there is a grow- It hasn’t even had a chance yet to be integrated and infiltrated into i ing unity among Christians. the life stream of the Church. Paper Licensed Even without adequate housing it has 350 enthusiastic students and 30 completely loyal qualified faculty. Berlin ( r n s ) : —Authorities in the Soviet zone have licensed a new It needs a girls’ dormitory, a new heating system, and a college monthly magazine of the Evangeli- building which was destroyed recently by a tornado. All these * cal Church in Germany which is to things can be remedied in due 'time. But by June 1st the college be devoted to promoting religious will close its doors forever and the Church will have failed once more instruction in schools. Each issue is (remember Racine, Jubilee, and others) if $20,000 is not forth­ expected to have 300,000 copies coming from somewhere. $20,000 is needed immediately. The which is far more circulation than Trustees reluctantly voted to close the college two weeks ago. The any other religious periodical rumor and alarm flashed over the Church. A student uprising, a licensed by the western powers vote of confidence by the faculty, and nationwide reaction to this in Berlin. Religious relations of­ crisis caused the Trustees to reconsider in order that the entire ficers of the British, French and Episcopal Church might be allowed a chance to save Canterbury. American zones are said to be The Episcopal Church needs this College. We believe you will “greatly interested” in the action. confirm this if you know the facts and the immediate need. Organizes Ex-Catholics Imagine—only $50,000 a year! Certainly some of you can send Berlin ( r n s ) : —A new Church large gifts and all can send small offerings. Be fearless in making movement called “New Catholic our needs known. Episcopal Office” has been an­ nounced here by self-styled Bishop Can we not have an immediate and generous outpouring from all Claus Sommerfeld, a former mem­ over the nation in response to this crisis in Christian Education? ber of the Cistercian Order who was Write or telegraph us today what you can or will do. Remember, excommunicated from the Roman by June 1 we must have $20,000. Church in 1927. He explained that the aim of the movement is to gather Send all communications and make checks, money orders, etc. payable to together former Catholic priests and laymen who have been separated CANTERBURY COLLEGE LAYMEN’S FOUNDATION from the Roman Church “for any (TO SAVE CANTERBURY FOR THE CHURCH) reason whatever.” Danville, Indiana There appears to be no evidence I

The Witness — April 29, 1948 page eleven Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. it had also four years ago, but in the rector and the associate rector will be held this October, with each each case it was killed on second by writing them directly and these participating Church represented by reading. “votes” were not included in the two delegates. This group will con­ above tabulation. tinue to serve as a planning commit­ Peace Plané Also That’s where the matter stands at tee for the larger conference a year Los Angeles: — Fifty clergymen this writing, though it is likely that later. Douglas Horton, secretary of and laymen left here on April 25 on Dr. and Mrs. Melish will issue an the general council of the Congre- ^ a Peace Plane for Washington where answer presently, as they did on the gational Christian Churches is the they will confer with President Tru­ occasion of the first letter of the chairman. vestry. man and other government officials. To Study Conscription It supplements the Peace Train Hubbard Accepts (rns) (Witness, April 22) which left on London : — The British the 20th carrying large numbers of Detroit: The office of the diocese of Council of Churches is to make a Church people from western states. Michigan announced on April 21 that study of the “educational, social and The main objective of the pilgrim­ the Rev. Russell Hubbard, rector moral implications” of peacetime age is to emphasize proposals to at Bar Harbor, Maine, has accepted conscription. Anglican Bishop Les- j strengthen world organization. his election as suffragan bishop of lie S. Hunter of Sheffield, stated that the diocese. “there is a too easy identification of ’ Equality Provided Support UN national service with military serv- I Prague (rns) : — Legal equality ice.” He suggested that the experi­ Spokane, Wash.: Christians should ence of countries where conscription for all religious groups and the support the United Nations as the right to practice religion freely, sub­ has been long established shows that only hope for world peace, Bishop it is “ a corrupting influence in ject only to “the public order and Arthur W. Moulton, retired bishop good morality” are specified in the of Utah, told the convocation of the society.” proposed new constitution of Czecho­ district of Spokane, meeting here Pray for Peace slovakia. It provides that “everyone April 11-12. He made an impas­ Grand Rapids, Mich, (rns) :—All has the right of subscribing pri­ sioned plea for study and under­ of the Protestant Churches here have j vately or publicly to any religious standing of the international organi­ issued a united1 call for prayer to | creed or to no religion” and also zation which he described as one of prevent “the ominous drift of civili­ states that “ all religious creeds and the greatest achievements of Chris­ zation toward another world con­ non-religion are equal before the tian idealism. flagration.” law.” The constitution states further Bishop Cross announced to the ' that “everyone is free to carry on convention that for the first time since functions related to his religion or before the war all congregations of non-religion.” the district are supplied with clergy. Brooklyn Battle Religious Education Brooklyn:—The controversy at Harrisburg, Pa.: — The executive Holy Trinity Church here between council of the diocese of Harrisburg, the Melishes,'father and son, and the meeting at St. Stephen’s Cathedral vestry again got front page billing here on April 8, adopted a resolu­ on April 22 as a result of another tion in which they urged clergy and statement released by the vestry laity to intensify efforts in weekday (Witness, April 15). This time the religious education and “ to continue vestry declared: “We do not wish to to make use of the released time op­ deny Mr. Melish the right or the op­ portunities as provided by the de­ portunity to express his views as a partment of public instruction of private citizen if he believes them the state. to be correct. We do object, and a A copy of the resolution was sent great manv other members of the to the U. S. Supreme Court. parish object, to the inference given the public, even if unintentionally, Church Unity that his views have the support of the N ew York:— A committee of parish of which he is the assistant Protestant leaders, with Presiding minister.” The statement also widened Bishop Sherrill present as an ob­ the controversy to include all clergy­ server, met here last week to make e men by stating that “ the issue here plans for a conference on unity to be is whether it is proper for a minister held in the fall of 1949. All . . . with a hand- of the Church to lend support and churches interested in union will be give weight to his views. This issue invited to participate. A conference engraved Cross. Illustrated goes far beyond the Church of the in its actual size. $12. Holy Trinity.” J. M. HALL, Inc. The vestry received 306 replies After serving the clergy, churches and the laity out of 550 parishioners to whom they uninterruptedly for the past twenty-three years, J. M. Hall, Inc. regrets to have to ad­ E C C L E S IA S T IC A L STUDIO sent a letter. Of these 156 stated vise its friends that it cannot accept orders for specially-made vestments after May 15th. ESTABLISHED 1810 that the views of the younger Melish Materials by the yard and other products in were detrimental to the parish while stock may be purchased as long as they are available, up to June 30th, 1948. If anyone 136 said they were not, and 14 had is interested in purchasing this productive business as a going concern, please write to FIFTH AVE. AT 43th ST., NSW YORK 19, N.V. no opinion. It is learned however Mr. James E. Bennet, 140 Nassau St., New WHITE PLAINS EAST ORANGE that a considerable number supported York 7, N. Y. T h e W it n e ss — April 29, page twelve Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Prayers for Peace with perfect freedom of choice, dif­ Clergy Wives Meet Philadelphia: — Bishop Hart and ferent peoples in different places, Bishop-Suffragan of the diocese of with different past experiences, will Dallas, Texas:—A conference for Pennsylvania, issued a “call to work their problems out.” the wives of the clergy was held in prayer for peace” to be observed the diocese of Dallas for: two days He went on to say that “ if there \ April 12-17. The call asked “ the in Easter week, with 28 of the 36 is any nation in the world whose God of the nations to preserve us, present. They started off with a ideas you hate, the only way in the both friends and enemies, frpm the luncheon at the home of Mrs. C. world to defeat that nation, is to have consequences of stupid and senseless Avery Mason, then, appropriately f hate.” better ideas,” later on in his address enough, they went to see the movie stating that “you do not add force The Bishop’s Wife, after which there Liturgical Conference to an idea by putting a gun in its was a dinner party at a country club. hand. Fighting tells who is the A retreat followed, with the Rev. Dallas, Texas: — Leaders of the stronger, but it does not tell who Samuel West of Wichita, Kansas, the second liturgical conference to be is the wiser.” leader. Following the holy com­ held in the diocese of Dallas, May munion service, the second day was 11-13, are Dean William H. Nes of Bishop Barnwell also spoke of the devoted to a series of meditations. y Nashotah House, the Rev. William need of larger giving for missions The conference ended with a talk by H. Dunphy of Philadelphia and Bish­ which so inspired the Auxiliary that plans were made for a campaign for Bishop Mason, followed by discus­ op Mason of Dallas. Another con­ sion. ference will be held in September new mission churches and for the with the Rev. A. G. Hebert of Kel- repairing of others. The convention The whole affai r was financed by lum, England, as the leader. also voted to have a survey made Mr. George Beggs of Fort Worth, of the diocese, to be followed with who was pleased enough with the South Carolina Meets a campaign for $75,000 for new whole thing to promise to do the churches in the missionary areas. Beaufort, S. C.:—A rotating exec­ same thing next year. utive council was approved at the A highlight of the meeting of the convention of the diocese of South Auxiliary was a discussion led by Clergy Seminar Carolina, meeting here at St. Hel­ various experts of religious edu­ Orkney Springs, Va.:—A seminar ena’s, April 13-14. Members will be cation, with special stress on the ef­ for the clergy will meet at Shrine j* elected for three years and will not fect of the recent Supreme Court Mont here, July 26-August 6, with be eligible for re-election until after decision outlawing religious instruc­ Bishop Henry St. G. Tucker, former a lapse of a year. Addressing the tion in the public schools. Presiding Bishop, the honorary dean. convention was Lewis B. Franklin, treasurer of the National Council, I who spoke on evangelism. Bishop Carruthers in his address placed three objectives before the diocese: The Wellesley Conference the building of a camp-conference FORTY-FIRST SEASON center; wholehearted participation { p the program of evangelism; a June 20-26, 1948 I substantial contribution toward the restoration of world peace. You are invited to attend one of the oldest Church Con­ ferences in the nation. Elected Bishop New York:—Dean Stephen Tsang Department of Christian Education for teachers and di­ of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Hankow, rectors of religious education. ! China, has been elected Bishop of Hankow, according to radio to the National Council. He is now in the School of Church Music. Courses in Church music and < United States but plans to return to Special Lecturers. ! China soon. He will succeed Bishop Alfred A. Gilman who retired upon General Courses in Personal Religion, Christian Social ] attaining the canonical retiring age, Relations, Liturgies, Women’s Work. ' but has been in charge of the diocese pending election and consecration of his successor. Faculty composed of leading churchmen led by Canon | Theodore O. W edel. i Convention of Georgia Thomasville, Ga.:—Bishop Henry One week spent in the cultural environment of Wellesley j! Louttit of South Florida preached at College. jj the service which opened the con­ vention of Georgia, held here at St. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND PROGRAMS W RITE: J Thomas’ Church, April 6-7. Bishop Barnwell gave his address the follow­ Miss Ruth Cheyne, Corresponding Secretary I» ing day, giving the opinion that 233 Clarendon Street, Boston, Massachusetts !' with the passage of time and with, patience and with sympathy, and

T he Witn ess — April 29, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. page thirteen Lecturers will be the Rev. Churchill - « g a s e s W rite us for J. Gibson, rector of St. James’, Rich­ Everything for the n| Organ Information mond; the Rev. George K. Cleave- Episcopal Church ^ ' land, canon at Washington Ca­ AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. thedral; the Rev. Stephen R. Daven­ gitimibott & Company HORACE L VAR IAN Hertford, Conn. port, rector at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and I* 31 S. Frederick St. Baltimore 2, Md. |¡¡| the Rev. William C. Roberts, rector 3K& at Towson, Md. 5.TODIOSOF Chinese Christian PURE IRISH LINENS AND FINEST GGORG6 L.PÄYDG COTTONS one-tee piAcc-PATeRSorx n.J. (Continued from page 4) ' 8 FOUnDéDtlô96 » For All Church Uses CHQRCH ffiQDOHLSLS munist (and local, popular) ac­ 24" Birdseye — 2.50, 36" Surplice linen SIÄ ID G D GLÄSS’WOOD’illG TÄ L cusation that foreigners emphasize 1.75 per yd. Also Cassock cloth, black, red, purple. ALL CHQRCH CRAFTS property rights jather than human Prices stable. Samples free. SO lOSOEHAJSOCUa£Dv>T.HTO.«)«iM6-SPIERS STUDIOS understanding of the people around M ARY FAW CETT CO. them. Box 146, Plainfield, N. J. A L T A R ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED The mission had been established RDEAnc SAINT MARY’S CONVENT BKEADd KENOSHA • WISCONSIN in Changli for decades; why should a hospital which obviously helps CATHEDRAL STUDIOS people in need be subject to looting? Washington, London. Materials, linens, by the MENEELY Quite a bit of popular resentment yd. Surplices, albs, Altar Linens, stoles, burses, veils. My new book Church Embroidery B ELL CO. has accumulated through the years & Church Vestments (1st edition sold out, over the perhaps necessary insistence 2nd edition now re a d y ). Com plete Instruction, 22 RIVER ST., 128 pages, 95 illustrations, vestment patterns on routine and technical procedures drawn to scale, price $7.50. Handbook for TROY, N. Y. Altar Guilds 53c. L. V. Mackrille, 11 W, in running a modern western-style K irk e S t., Chevy Chase, Md. 15. Tel. Wis­ BELLS hospital, giving often the impression consin 2752. that the doctors and nurses were cold and arbitrary toward people; this feeling easily explodes at a time ► R.GEISSLER.INC. of crisis such as civil war conditions CHOIR VESTMENTS 71-79 W. 45th S t. New Tork 19. N. Y. create. Clerical Suits Oïmrrft Pumisïmms The accounts and interpretations Cassocks . . . Surplices IN CARVED WOOD AND of the Changli Incident presented to Stoles MARBLE-BRASS-SILVER American Christians by missionaries FABRICS + WINDOWS Rabats, Rabat Vests, Collars have shown uncritical prejudice Black Clerical Shirts against Chinese who are Commu­ nist; have shown distortion of fact CHURCH HANGINGS based on that prejudging, and have MONEY for your TREASURY Altar Linens Over 1,500,000 shown a perhaps unàvoidable but still unpleasing nationalistic senti­ C. M. ALMY & SON, INC. SUNFLOWER DISH CLOTHS 562 Fifth Ave. New York 19, N.Y. Were sold in 1946 by members of Sunday ment. The pitiless support given by Schools, Ladies Aids, Young People’s Groups, etc. They enable you to earn money for your some missionaries and Church peo­ treasury, and make friends for your organiza­ ple to those who are responsible for tion. SANGAMON MILLS the fratricidal civil war—the Kuo- Established 1915 Cohoes, N. Y. mintang and the United States— TH6 PAYnS-SPIGRS, alienates many non-Christian Chi­ . * STUDIOS , rncL_*_— nese, builds up a hatred of America, ^ E O e a s ia r BRonsseS and deeply disturbs many of us TABI/GTS Chinese Christians. MURAIiS PATGRSOn 16. DGW JGRSGY FOR SA LE sin ce 1 ÔÔ9 Shore linen Chasuble, embroidered Orphreys, also Amice. Reasonable. Mrs. Jennie G. Tuttle, 4422 Paseo Blvd. Kansas City, Mo. ______

The Episcopal Cottage of Chautauqua, New York, Inc., offers to Churchmen and their families simple but comfortable rooms at this famous summer resort. Clergymen J. Wippell & Co., Ltd. especially invited. For rates and reserva­ tions write to Mrs. W. D. McCreery, Presi­ Exeter | England dent, 5840 North Bay Road, Miami Beach, Florida, or Mrs. B. E. Schwartz, Hostess, * 868 Diamond Park, Meadville, Pa. stained glass windows silver, brass, and bronze I church ornaments VESTMENTS embroidered vestments; frontals etc. Cassocks - Surplices - Stoles - Scarves Silks - Altar Cloths - Embroideries Priest Cloaks - Rabats - Collars * Custom Tailoring for Clergymen 1097 Church Vestment Makers IQAR George L. Payne 0 . Over One Hundred Years American representative One Lee Place, Paterson 3, N. J. COX SONS & VINING, Inc; : 131 East 23rd Street, New York IO, N.Y.

e W itn e ss — April 29, 1948 page fourteen Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. BACKFIRE SCHOOLS Readers are encouraged to comment on editorials, articles and news. Since space is limited we ask A three year course in that letters be brief. We reserve the right to abstract ______and to print only those we consider important. NURSING is offered to High School graduates Mr. J a m es D. R o ss truths, and not so much from those who Scholarships available Churchman of New York City have either lost contact with such study, Write to Director of Nursing The April 1 number devoted to the or who have an axe to grind. The semi­ Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship was an ex­ narian of today is the theologian of to­ HOSPITAL OF SAINT BARNABAS cellent piece of work. I am not myself a morrow. Congratulations on your step for­ 685 High St. Newark 2, N. J. pacifist, nor do I agree with some of ward. the views expressed in the number. But in these days of such violent war hysteria MARGARET HALL I am sure we must all be glad that there Under Sisters of St. Helena is an organization in the Episcopal Church Chttrrl^ Srltuuls (Episcopal) that is working vigorously for world sanity. Small country boarding and day school for girls, from primary through high school. * * * CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL Accredited college .preparatory. Modern build­ New York ing recently thoroughly renovated includes Mr. C h a r l e s E. J o h n so n Established 1901 gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of Student at Union Seminary six acres with ample playground space, A BOARDING SCHOOL for the forty hockey field and tennis court. Riding. Board I read the article by the two seminarians boys of the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint and Tuition $850. For catalog, address: in the April 15th issue with great interest John the Divine. The boys receive careful Sister Rachel, Prin. O.S.H., Box A, Versailles, and am in complete agreement with them. musical training and sing daily at the serv­ Kentucky ice in the Cathedral. The classes in the This letter has to do with the footnote at School are small with the result that boys the bottom of the page, in which there have individual attention, and very high standards are maintained. The School has HOLDERNESS was somewhat of an apolegetic attitude its own building and playgrounds in the for the publication of an article by semi­ close. Fee—$350.00 per annum. Boys admit­ In the White Mountains. College Preparatory nary students. ted 9 to 11. Voice test and scholastic ex­ and General Courses. Music and Crafts. Fo* amination. For Catalogue and Information boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 I am a seminary student myself, finish­ address: acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ dividual attention. Home atmosphere. ing my second year now, and going to The CANON PRECENTOR, Alexandria next year to finish my senior Cathedral Choir School, Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector year. Since I have been in seminary one Cathedral Heights, New York City 25 Box W . Plymouth, N. H. thing has struck me decidedly, and never more so than the day I tried to preach on the subject when we were asking our ST. KATHARINE’S SCHOOL CARLETON COLLEGE parishioners to support the seminaries, and Davenport, Iowa Laurence M. Gould, D.Sc., President Carleton is a co-educational liberal arts that is that the lay people of the Church Offers sound college preparatory and gen­ college of limited enrollment and is rec­ eral courses pli^s outstanding fine arts in­ have little or no idea of what goes on in struction. All grades, from four through ognized as the Church College of Min­ a seminary. One is amazed in conversa­ twelve included in boarding department. nesota. tion with the people with whom he works Many sports, including swimming, horse­ Address: Director of Admissions back riding, hockey and tennis. Limited en­ CARLETON COLLEGE to find how little the problems with which rollment and small classes. Write for catalog: Northfield Minnesota the seminarian is confronted means to Mrs. Harry L. Thompson, Box W, Head of them. This is of course only part, and a School, Davenport, Iowa. small one, of the laymen’s fault. It is primarily the clergy’s fault, because those FORK UNION live issues which one discussed with such vigor in seminary are forgotten and filed MILITARY ACADEMY Highest Government rating with strong Christian away with the other forgotten notes. emphasis. Upper School prepares for University The genius ol the Anglican Church has or Business. Fully accredited. R.O.T.C.- Every modern equipment. Separate Junior School from always seemed to me to be that it avoids six years up, housemothers. Students from the rigorism of both Rome and Geneva. thirty states. Catalogue, Dr. J. C. Wicker, As a result of this we are able in seminary, Box 284, Fork Union, Va. as elsewhere, to take quite different opin­ ions on subjects, staying within, of course, Virginia Episcopal School certain limits. It is almost a truism to Lynchburg, Virginia say that this is the only way that the Prepares boys for colleges and university. Splendid environment and excellent corps of Catholic faith can be in an ever continu­ teachers. High standard in scholarship and ous stage of development as it was be­ athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in fore the Reformation. the mountains of Virginia. For catalogue apply to The whole point of this is to say that George L. Barton, Jr., Ph.D., Headmaster, perhaps having more word from semi­ Box 408 narians who are in direct contact with the live issues, both theological and so­ cial, may be quite enlightening. Theology KEMPER HALL is by no means the stuffy intellectualism KENOSHA, WISCONSIN which some people would have us b©' Boarding and day school for girls offering thorough college preparation and training for lieve. It is concerned with the funda­ purposeful living. Study of the Fine Arts mental realities of all of us. It may be encouraged. Complete sports program. Junior of interest to occasionally hear from those School department. Beautiful lake shore cam­ pus. Under direction of the Sisters of St. who are involved in the study of those Mary. For catalogue, address: Box WT. ---- LENOX SCHOOL — CAMP PEQUOT A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for boys 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals and Boys 7-16 character through simplicity of plant and 2 weeks, $45; 4 weeks, $85; 8 weeks, equipment, moderate tuition, the cooperative $170. On beautiful lake in Bear Mt. Park. self-help system, and informal, personal re­ 36 miles from New York. Rugged outdoor lationships among boys and faculty. life. Complete program. Booklet. Rev. Robert L. Curry, Headmaster HOLY TRINITY CHURCH 316 East 88th St., New York 28, N. Y. Lenox Massachusetts

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C T IIA D T LI A I I Located in Shenandoah O I UAIt I nH LL Valley—noted for beauty The Church Home and and healthfulness of surroundings. _104th session. ST. AGNES SCHDDL An Episcopal school emphasizing best m An Episcopal Country Day and Boarding Hospital Southern tradition and culture. Effective prep­ School for Cirls SCHOOL OF NURSING aration for College Entrance Boards and for Excellent College Preparatory record. Spe­ Baltimore 31, Maryland colleges admitting on certificate. General Course cial courses arranged for girls not con­ A three year course o f nursing. Classes, for Non-College Girl. Music, Art, Dramatics. templating college. Day pupils range from enter August and Septem ber. Scholarships Definite' religious instruction. New Academic Kindergarten to College Entrance. Board­ available to well qualified high school; building, gymnasium and tiled swimming pool. ers from Grade 8 to College Entrance. graduates. Sports. For booklet, address: MISS BLANCHE,PITTMAN, Principal Apply to Director of Nursing ANNIE POWELL HODCES, M. A. A lbany ______N ew Y o rk (Mrs. Wm. T.) Principal, Box J-L, Staunton, Va.

ST. JAMES SCHOOL ^befUeaux, School Diocesan School of Maryland. Grades 7 to: Niagara Falls, New York 12. Teacher pupil ratio 1 to 7. Enroll-' ' m ent lim ited to 115. Individual attention Founded 1852 stressed. Excellent Low er School. All T h e Church schctol o f th e Diocese of sports, music, dramatics, debating. Fully Western New York. Military form of stu­ accredited. dent government. Grades 7 to 12. Ac­ Vernon B. Kellett, PhD. Headmaster credited. For catalog, address Rev. W il­ St. James, Washington County, Maryland liam S. Hudson, Headmaster.

St. M ary’ s School Danbury, Conn. Sewanee, Tennessee Accredited Cardinal principles are Religion, Intellectual Excellence, Simplicity, Hard Work. A Home School Located in the Tennessee Sm all School. N ear N ew Y o rk . Reasonable M ountains. tu itio n . A ccredited . Individual attention. College Preparatory - General Course Sports - Music - Riding Write Rev. JOHN VERDERY Ridgebury Road; Danbury, Conn. Address — The "Sister Superior C.S.M.

ST. AUGUSTINE’S COLLEGE Porter üiüt& rg Aratonuj Raleigh, North Carolina A Church School for 'Boys Accredited Class A Church College for Established 1867 Negro Youth. Co-educational. B.A. apd College Preparatory and General Courses B.S. Degrees. Teacher Training; Religious Fine Athletic Program Education; Commerce; Music; Physical Edu­ Grades 4 through 12 cation. Address; President. R. T. ELLETT, JR., Superintendent Legal title for bequests: Trustees of St. 167-199 Ashley Avenue Augustine’s College, Raleigh, No. Carolina. Charleston 39, S. C.

Okolona College « ¡2 $ ,,, ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL SCHOOL BRECK SCHOOL FOR BOYS Co-educational, Private American Church OF NURSING, NEW YORK CITY Day and Boarding, Grades 1 thru 12 Institute for Negroes (Protestant Episcopal Offers a 3-yr. course in nursing' to high Preparation fo r college and that experi­ Church) Established 1902 school and college graduates. College grad- ence we call Life under highly trained High School and Junior College - Trades nates may be admitted with 9 months ad­ men. Athletics of all kinds, including and Industries - Music vance credit allowance. For further informa­ horseback riding. For information write: W. MILAN DAVIS tion write to: Chester K . DesRoches, Headmaster President The Director of Nursing, St. Luke’s Hospital, 2477 Como Avenue, W. St. Paul 8, Minn. Today’s Training for Tomorrow’s 421 W . 113th St*; New York 25, N. Y . Opportunities

St. John Baptist School CIRLS Voorhees N. and 1 . School Junior College Denmark, S. C. High School: HOWE MILITARY SCHOOL Offers College Preparatory and General Training young Americans for leadership. Co-educational. Accredited by State Dept, ot courses music, art, outdoor sports, and a Education of S. C. and the Southern Asso­ R.O.T.C. Accredited college preparatory, happy home life, with character building business courses. Junior^ School. Small ciation of Secondary Schools_ and College . extra-curricular activities for resident and Under the two Dioceses of S. C. and classes. Every boy participates in sports. day students, under- the care of the Sis­ m Balanced program. Episcopal. Established American Church! Institute for Negroes. ters of St. John Baptist. In the country Expenses reasonable. Limited scholarship aid, 1884. Summer Camp, boys grammar school near Morristown, New Jersey. Accredited. age. Catalogue: ,o , p „ , i « COL. B. B. BOUTON , For catalog address Box 556 13 Academy Place, Howe, Indiana Thé Sister Superior, Mendham, New Jersey

SAINT MARY’S HALL mercersburg MANLIUS BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY A distinguished preparatory school beautifully Accredited college preparatory and 8th grade,; Boarding and Day School for Girls. located in the mountains of Southern Pennsyl­ tutorial assistance included. Military train Strong Elementary Department vania. Modern equipment. Small classes; ing develops initiative, character, fitness- College Preparatory, and General 10,000 Alumni. Close personal supervision of ROTC. Prepares for Government Academies.. Courses. each boy. 85 miles from Baltimore and Wash­ Skiing. All sports. Golf. 125-acre camp Music - Art - Dramatics - Sports ington on Greyhound route. Beautiful Chapel Visitors welcome. Catalog. Careful attention to individual growth and with famous Carillon. Summer Session. Charles S. Tippetts, Ph.D., Head Master Director of Admissions, progress. Box 228, Manlius, N. Y. FLORENCE LUKENS NEWBOLD, Box W, Mercersburg, Pa. Headmistress

I I 1 M ILITA RY S A IN T M A R Y’S HALL Cathedral School of St. Mary Faribault. Minnesota An accredited Episcopal school for girls. St. John 82nd YEAR Readily accessible to New York. D ay- Bishop Whipple’s famous church boardmg nursery to college. Boarding— fifth grade to Since 1887 St. John’s has been perpetuat­ school for girls, ages 12-19. Thoroug college. Strong college preparatory and gen­ ing the cultural traditions of the Church lege preparation, comprehensive g eral courses. Music, art, and dramatics. by stressing sound scholarship in Christian courses. Beautiful buildings. Healthful All sports. Catalogue. atmosphere. Grades 5 through 12. Fully clim ate. Marion Reid Marsh, accredited. Phyllis M. Newman, M.A., Headmistre55 ^ Box L, Carden City, Long Island, N. Y. COL. R. L. CLEM, Rector

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