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NEGLECTED MEN OF THE NAVY C'HAPLAIN F. F. SMART tells in this issue -'of how the Episcopal Church is neglecting men and women of the navy and marine corps

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. £!t Q Story of the Week manders will be forced to retire in 1961. Episcopal Church Fails to Supply Because of the above con- siderations our largest seg- Chaplains For The Navy ment, comprising thirteen out of the twenty-four Episcopal chap- reserve, estimated to retire in By F. F. Smart Jr. is made up of 1960-63. lains, essentially publication. Chaplain in the U. S. Navy "short timers." There are three lieutenant and * At the close of world war The more junior segment, commanders in the navy, esti- of the lieutenant com- two seven percent of the chap- mated to retire in 1964-73. composed reuse manders and the senior and lains on active duty in the navy There are seven lieutenants, for lieutenants, might be con- were clergymen of the Episcopal junior three in the navy and four in the sidered by some to contain the Church. Today less than three navy reserve, with no estimate future Episcopal Church leaders required percent are Episcopalians and, on time of their retirement. in the corps. However, five out unless current trends are re- There is one junior lieutenant of the eleven chaplains are naval versed, within four years our in the navy reserve who will be reservists one of whom is separated before January 1, scheduled for separation within

Permission Church representation is likely 1958. months. Two of the lieu- to drop beiow two percent. three These figures, which illus- tenant commanders began their The ministry of the Episcopal

DFMS. trates the present structure of service during world war two / the men and women of Church to the group of twenty-four navy and all three are very near the the navy and marine corps has chaplains now on active duty, age of forty. Their chances of reached one of its lowest ebbs in Church should be studied with certain promotion to captain before re- many years, as far as percentage facts in mind. tirement are mathematically representation in the navy chap- Of eleven chaplains in the slim. lain corps is concerned.

Episcopal rank of commander, eight are The facts indicate that as far When the present Episcopal regular navy, four of whom have representa- the Church group is analyzed some remark- as Episcopal of failed twice or more of selection, tion in the navy chaplain corps able conclusions are apparent. and three are naval reservists concerned the present situa- They will not support the is who may be released involun- tion offers little comfort and the a v e r a g e Episcopalian's com- Archives tarily at any time. future is dreary indeed. Not- placency about the influence and these eleven com- withstanding the high calibre of leadership which our Church The ages of 2020. and of the two captains some individuals, our leadership traditionally has had both in the manders forty-three to fifty- potential can be described as life of our country and its naval range from makes barren. No Episcopal n a v y service. Former navy chaplains seven. This age bracket

Copyright elimination chaplain has served as chief of too will be disturbed by the them vulnerable to si n c e Sidney Key rather painful change in the by illness or death as well as by chaplains position from picture since they last reported forced retirement. Evans held the 1929 to 1935. Incidently, his to quarters for muster. Inasmuch as promotion attri- predecessor, Curtis The breakdown of Episcopal tion for the group has been high immediate Hoyt Dickens, also was an navy chaplains by status is as since 1951 and as the navy's Eniscopalian. follows: present over-supply of senior of- There are two captains in the ficers constitutes a serious prob- No Episcopal navy chaplain navy, estimated to retire in lem for the planners, it is very has been selected for promotion 1961-63. unlikely that any of the senior to the rank of captain in the There are eleven commanders, chaplains will be on active after last seven years. This is simply eight of whom are in the navy 1963. It is also probable that a statement of fact not intended and the other three in the navy at least four of the eleven com- as a reflection on selection TnTREE NOVEMBER 28, 1957 boards or the individuals con- from the navy only the merest young men are required to do cerned. However, since four of handful of Episcopal chaplains for the security of our country. the most senior of the com- will be left to represent what I am not by temperament a pro- mander-rank group are now in has been for many generations fessional flag waver, but I am the failed of selection category, of navy and marine corps folk convinced that patriotism is not and the next chaplain in order of the Church which seemed to merely a wartime requirement. seniority is six years junior in have the service most in its Our clergy flock to the colors in date of rank, it is apparent to heart. great numbers as soon as a shot anyone familiar with the lineal is fired. They are, by and large, list and present promotion rates Armed Forced Division simply not interested in serving that few Episcopal chaplains The armed forces division of once the ink dries on the treaty now in the rank of commander the National Council has done a documents. can expect promotion until after valiant job in trying to inform 1960. the Church concerning the needs No Sinecure of Episcopalians in the armed The career of a navy chaplain Regular Navy forces. Under the leadership of is no sinecure. In one sense it publication. New Episcopal chaplains who our Presiding Bishop, of men takes more patience and faith to have transferred to the regular like Bishop Harry S. Kennedy stay with this work in peace- and navy since 1950 number exactly of Honolulu, Bishop Henry I. time than is required in war- four, according to the present Louttit of South Florida, the time. The chaplaincy is a lone- reuse list. These are men who have executive secretaries of our ly life, and in some ways, a frus- for decided on the chaplaincy as a armed forces division, an d trating one from the point of op- career. On this basis I estimate others, we in the chaplain corps portunities for really vigorous that by 1961 we shall be required have been supported, guided, and effective Christian leader- fortunate to have as many as and encouraged in our work. ship. And yet it is a wonderful eighteen Episcopal chaplains Nothing I have written should ministry in other ways. Very serving the navy and marine be interpreted in any way as a often if the chaplain is not there

Permission corps since the number leaving reflection upon the accomplish- the Church will not be there. the service will exceed the indi- ments of our Church's civilian One discovers an ecumenicity cated total of new regulars and leadership. in the chaplain corps which is a DFMS. / temporary reservists combined. This is written from the point rich and valuable thing. He When one considers that even of view of one close to a single meets men and women who are the convocation of Richmond on aspect of the problem of relating fine Christians and great Ameri- Church tiny Staten Island has twelve or the Church to the armed forces. cans. He learns from experience more -EpiscopaL clergy and that Its purpose is to assist the that travel does broaden the the diocese of New York, of National Council in its constant mind and the heart. He who Episcopal which it is a part, can muster efforts to recruit chaplains for leaves home, parish, friends, and the more than four hundred, the the naval service. family to serve as a chaplain of contrast between the Church's My own conclusion from a admittedly leaves a great deal, representation in the civilian study of the present situation but also he gains from the community in which I now re- with sixteen years of active duty service more than he as an in- Archives side and in the naval service be- as a background, is that the dividual ever is likely to give. comes all the more stark. Truly, Episcopal Church must search I believe the situation facing 2020. most Episcopalians in navy and for and recruit vigorous, manly, our Church with respect to the marine uniforms never meet one and patriotic men to serve in the navy chaplaincy is a challenge, of our chaplains during their naval chaplaincy both as career one which the National Church Copyright entire service, except for a pos- chaplains and as active duty re- will be forced to present ever sible brief contact at training servists willing to give from more urgently in the course of stations. three to five years of their min- the next five years. However, We who have served the istry to the men and women of unless the reasons for the chal- Church and the nation since the the United States navy and lenge are understood now, and days of the Axis and Pearl marine corps. We shall con- unless some good men come for- Harbor as regular navy chap- tinue for many years to need ward to meet it now, by 1961 the lains or as career reservists, are both the regular navy chaplain Episcopal Church will have all nearing the end of our active who will stay with service life to but bowed out of the picture as duty. We have seen our num- rise to positions of leadership far as her ministry within the bers shrink steadily since 1946 within the corps, and the re- naval establishment is con- so that today we anticipate that servist who will hold the line for cerned. when our time comes to retire a few years as so many other No one who loves the Church Four TuE Wrnma and has a concern for her min- tion is allowed to drift to its tional activities carried out by istry to the naval service wants logical conclusion for want of the migrant ministry for as to see this happen. But, there is many as possible of the 100,000 respond to the no apparent way to avoid this men who will migrants who fill Arizona in the consequence if the present situa- challenge. winter months, working in co- operation with t h e Arizona Council of Churches. Through 300 volunteers guided by mi- Migrant Workers Taught Rights grant ministry staff, a compre- hensive program was offered By National Council Agency covering religious and health * An ambitious three-year vest months and will train the education, child care, play, home educational project to teach mi- permanent 30-man migrant min- management, home visitations, co- istry staff throughout the referrals and inter-agency grant agricultural workers their operation. rights and responsibilities as United States how to make use publication. citizens, as well as to train com- of the new teaching techniques REPORT ON HOMOSEXUALS so they can carry on this phase and munities to extend help and APPROVED BY CHURCH understanding needed by these of the work regularly. * The Church of England As- reuse million or more homeless people Through Councils of Churches sembly-by a narrow margin of for is being launched by the Nation- and of Church Women this min- 155 to 138 votes-approved in al Council of Churches. A grant istry staff functions in 31 states principle proposals to m ak e -the only nation-wide program required of $112,500 from a foundation homosexual conduct between will underwrite the program. aiding the crop pickers and their consenting adults no longer a Announcement of the new families. criminal offense: project was made by Miss Edith In announcing the project, The proposals were made by Permission E. Lowry, national director of Miss Lowry said that it would a government committee headed the migrant ministry for the center at first in the central by Sir John Wolfenden, vice- National Council's division of states. chancellor of Reading Univer- DFMS. / home missions at the third an- "Hopefully, it will produce in- sity. nual migrant luncheon. Miss formation and methods which The assembly's endorsement Cal., will help migrants better their Church Elsie Farris, Long Beach came after an unusually stormy attorney and expert on world lives," she said. "Often mi- debate. It is believed to have affairs adddressed t h e 400 grants have no idea where to greatly strengthened c h a n c e Church and civic leaders attend- turn to get medical services or for the Wolfenden recommenda- Episcopal ing the luncheon. schooling for their children or tion to become law. the William H. Koch, Jr., state themselves. Such simple, every-

of Strong support for the recom- director of the migrant ministry day matters as how to file for mendation came from the Arch- in Arizona, has been named to social security, where to get a bishop of Canterbury who told head the new migrant citizen- child vaccinated or how and why Archives the assembly that while homo- ship training proj e c t, Miss to pass a driver's test are com- sexuality violates manhood it is Lowry noted. pletely outside their ken. We 2020. unjust to make the homosexual want to help them know their With offices in Chicago, Koch a criminal. staff in dis- rights and how to exercise them. will direct a field He argued that it is unfair to covering new ways of arousing "As our new project leaders

Copyright brand such a person as a so that they will develop leaflets, posters, visual communities criminal "while the man who make available to migrants their aids etc. plus ways of approach- up a home by adultery, or health and education ing the problem, these tech- breaks total by habitually seeking his own services. The new unit will also niques will be passed on to the indulgence by fornication, is re- work out techniques for educat- 300-man summer staff who form garded as still a respectable man ing migrants in how to make a link between the migrant and of society, guilty of no offense." use of these community aids. the community all over the coun- Further, project directors will try. This will enrich their The Wolfenden committee also de v e 1op leadership inherent training and help them work made far-reaching proposals for among t h e various migrant toward long-term goals." the control of prostitution in groups, as they move from the For the past three years Koch Britain. These proposals, how- southern border states and fan guided the rapidly expanding ever, were not considered at the out northward during the har- educational, religious and recrea- Church Assembly meeting.

NOVEMBER 28, 1957 and in particular what it is like Enforced Racial Segregation at Bexley Hall. Lecturers included the Rev. W. Chave McCracken, rector of St. Opposed by Ulergy Group Peter's Church, Lakewood, 0.; * Eighteen clergymen in ples," t h e Bethesda pastors Professor Thurston Manning of Bethesda, Md., white suburb of said. "We must stand up for the department of physics at Washington, D. C., issued a the spirit of democracy and Oberlin College; the Rev. Huns- statement declaring that "t h e speak out for justice and don Cary, rector of St. John's principle of enforced r a c i a l humanity. Church, Youngstown, 0., and segregation is a contradiction of "Recent events have demon- Dean Corwir C. Roach of Bexley our Christian faith." strated the decisive influence of Hall. The address of welcome by F. Edward Lund, Eyeing the spreading network public opinion and the wisdom was made new president. Mr. of segregationist g r o u p s in of preparing for emergencies Kenyon's Lund is a former president of Maryland and neighboring Vir- which strain the human re- the Tennessee Valley convoca- ginia the clergymen declared: sources of a community. There tion of Episcopal laymen. publication. "We pledge ourselves to resist is always the possibility that, the topics considered any organization which incites even in the most unlikely places, Among and the minis- race prejudice and undermines violence, hatred and discord may were preparation for vocation, the respect for law." break out." try, the Christian reuse They warned that "neutrality call of the ministry, the minis- for The signers represented all 14 and indifference" by churches try's work, and the layman's churches which are affiliated be view of the ministry. At the with the Bethesda Council of toward social issues "can The Christian Church concluding session a senior at required costly." Churches. The statement was the school, Robert Yonkman of read from the pulpits of all the is deeply involved in issues segregation, Grand Rapids, Mich., described churches and also distributed in arising out of racial the ministers said, because they "A Student's View of Seminary printed form. Life." Permission are "essentially moral and Entitled "Our Ministry of Re- spiritual in nature." conciliation," it was prepared ECUMENICAL LEADERS Christianity "teaches that no DFMS. after two months of discussion TO MEET / man can love God and hate his by the clergymen. The Rev. * Executives of seven world Lloyd G. Brown, president of the brother," the group said. They added, "We are painfully aware Church bodies who have just Church Council of Churches, said the held a consultative meeting at ministers felt events in Little that the Church in America, Geneva, Switzerland, agreed to Rock, Ark., and cross burnings both in the past and even in the present, does not live up to its meet again informally next year. Episcopal in southern Maryland indicated It will be held during sessions of that racial disorders could break own standards of conduct." the the central committee of the

of where out even in communities Council, which will meet CONFERENCE ON World they were not expected. on the Island of Rhodes next Racial segregation existed in THE MINISTRY August.

Archives Maryland public schools until * A conference on the minis- Participants will exchange, the 1954 Supreme Court decision try held at Bexley Hall, Gambier, statements of purpose, constitu- 2020. outlawing it. Since then in- Ohio, on the weekend of Nov. tions, progress reports on study tegration has made gradual pro- 8-10 drew the largest attendance projects and information on gress but housing remains large- in the history of this annual future denominational meetings.

Copyright ly segregated, particularly in event. More than fifty young Maryland suburban areas. men came, not only from par- NAT KING COLE The Bethesda cler g y men ishes in Ohio but from Penn- GIVES BENEFIT spoke out on the race issue at a sylvania, West Virginia, Dela- * Nat King Cole gave a bene- time when Protestant clergymen ware, Michigan and Kentucky. fit in Los Angeles on November in Arlington, Va., a Washington The conference was designed 23rd for the youth camp which suburb across t h e Potomac to offer men who are consider- brings together 1,700 young River, are under fire from ing the ministry as a vocation people each summer. segregationists because they ad- some help in reaching a decision. Also benefitting was t h e vocate peaceful acceptance of The occasion was set in the con- youth program of Mr. Cole's own the Supreme Court decision. text of actual seminary life in parish, the Advent, Los Angeles, "This is a time for clear think- order to give visitors an idea of in which his two daughters par- ing about fundamental princi- what that life is like in general ticipate. Six TiHE Wrras EDITORIALS

Include Us Out on in shall not have to use them. But it is not clear to FORGET just what big deal was W EHollywood which Sam Goldwyn turned down us that Mr. Baldwin accepts this line. It is true, in the deathless words, "Include me out". And he says that "unless we develop a military we are not wholly clear what deals the princes philosophy built upon restraint there is no hope of this world currently have under way: all we for future civilization"; and he follows this up know is, we don't want any part of them. This with concrete suggestions (which we are happy is a sweeping and perhaps, at first sight, ir- to see) about how to fight small wars and keep responsible line to take. It is usually thought to them small. But what is this business about publication. be at least a debatable matter how far Christian "death rather than domination"?

and people can be permitted to withdraw themselves Perhaps it is just rhetoric for "sending troops from politics, national or international. But our to another Korea rather than lose our advance reuse impression now is, that there is nothing to be bases". We hope so. We ourselves see no cer- for gained from getting involved in the affairs of the tain reason for holding that small wars can be world, and everything to be lost. kept small. Nothing we know about the masters Our opinions on this point were focussed by a of the Kremlin-especially now that they are required recent article by Mr. Hanson W. Baldwin in the supreme over the army also, with Mr. Zhukov's New York Times Magazine. We quote Mr. Bald- ouster-leads us to believe that they would have win particularly because he has consistently scruples about risking the future of civilization

Permission represented at least as moderate and well- for a surprise victory. And, we may say, nothing informed opinion as can be found anywhere in we know about the masters of the Pentagon and He does not, like various generals, the State Department leads us to have such con- DFMS. the Pentagon. / go around muttering about preventive war; he fidence in their wisdom that we can be sure they knows, as Mr. Charles Wilson did not know, that will not provoke the Russians to all-out assault. over Mr. Dulles' brink Church technological progress must be based on pure re- We only have to be pushed search. (We could wish that neither Mr. Baldwin once. nor anybody else would blab this last secret STRONTIUM 90 Episcopal abroad, but that is another matter.) Here is hope, of choosing the part of what he says: WE MIGHT be capable, we of "And we should make it amply clear that we death for ourselves so that our children shall choose death rather than domination. John might be free from domination: Foster Dulles has been much criticized for his dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Archives famous 'brink-of-war' statements. But, whether But we will choose domination any day rather advisable or not, his statements were true. Un- than death if death means that there will be no 2020. less we are prepared to risk war we cannot win patria or children left to enjoy freedom. We peace with freedom. If we put peace at any should be much happier to see healthy grand- price as our goal, we shall have neither military children under Soviet military occupation than Copyright philosophy nor military power; Moscow will be grand children with leukemia under a nominal supreme." freedom. The rolling roads of the Cumberland Now some commentators have been taking the fells, which your bicyclist traversed three years line that if we keep our military technology ahead ago, today run white with discarded milk because of Russia's at every point, she will not dare at- of a minor accident at the Windscale plutonium tack us full-scale; the only possible wars will be works. The maximun concentration of strontium local wars, fought with more or less conventional 90 in babies' bones in England went up 30% in weapons; the greater weapons on both sides will 1956. And these are just the inadvertencies of cancel each other out. We do not believe that peace and weapon-testing. this line is ultimately defensible, but at least it We ourselves, as our readers from time to time gives a sane reason for the development of new complain, have a deficient sense of the mercy of weapons; if we develop them fast enough, we God. But we have never for an instant doubted

NOVEMBER 28, 1957 Seven the justice of God, or anyway of Justice plain should arise in America, not all the powers of the and simple. We have been reading history re- Kremlin could hide it from the Russian people; cently, and we are well convinced that if the they might stop being afraid of us, and believing Soviet sets up a world empire it will not keep it their leaders. At the very least, the nations of forever. We ourselves would accept with some the Far East would for the first time have good enthusiasm a commission as a guerilla lea-er to reason to trust us. harry the occupying forces of the Ozarks. But But we are not overestimating our influence for all the words of the Eisenhower administra- on public opinion in America; we are simply re- tion about God, we are not at all sure that they cording our determination not to associate our- believe in his justice in that sense. And because selves with the present madness. We shall not, they do not trust corrupt power to destroy itself, under prevailing conditions, encourage the pur- do not trust American freedom to defend itself in suit of nuclear physics or aerodynamics. We shall adversity, they are willing to take the gamble of do our best, week by week, to convince our readers making life impossible in America, Russia, or of the magnitude of the danger and the folly of elsewhere. American military preparations. And, we trust, We have no reason to feel that a Democratic ad- not underestimate the recuperative power publication. we do ministration would do much better. Mr. Steven- of the human race. and son has not, since his campaign, started a one- We are simply doing what in us lies to prepare man movement to bar the testing of nuclear as many people as possible for the debacle, if it reuse weapons. We ourselves are convinced that if a comes; so that they will have started to prepare for general popular revulsion against nuclear weapons their physical and emotional defences beforehand. required Faith and The Space Frontier By Alfred B. Starratt

Permission Rector of Emmanuel, Baltimore

realize that we are now beginning to push through

DFMS. very recent times no man in history / UNTILever traveled at a speed much greater than the space frontier toward mysterious denizens of ten miles per hour. Many men now living remem- outer space who will one day be our not-so-distant to break Church ber the first time man reached an hundred miles neighbors. And if we are beginning per hour. In the last ten years men have traveled through the space barrier on our side to reach out more than a thousand miles per hour, and during toward them, there is no reason why some of that a them, who reached our stage of scientific and Episcopal recent weeks we have been given proof living organism can travel in outer space at technological development millions of years ago, the

of speeds exceeding twenty thousand miles per might not cross the same frontier in the other hour. It may now be considered a sober and direction. realistic possibility that with the development of It is this realization that lies behind the vague

Archives more efficient atomic engines men will be able fears that have haunted vast numbers of people to travel in outer space at speeds approaching six since the Russians were successful in launching 2020. hundred million miles per hour. their satellites. If we can get out of our envelope Along with this rapid increase in possible of atmosphere, those others out there can get in. speed, we are in an age of rapidly increasing as- Hence the appearance of the first two Sputniks Copyright tronomical knowledge. Our own galaxy is but one was followed by a rash of flying saucer stories of millions of clusters of stars. If only one star and tales of mysterious lights that travel around in every hundred in our galaxy has a planetary above the surface of the earth. Hence, too, the system like our own, then there are more than a feeling of anxiety that one senses in many a con- billion stars in our galaxy which have planets versation about those two new speeding objects that revolve around them in the same way that in the sky. It no longer seems foolish to worry our planets revolve around the sun. Since our about intelligent beings who dwell in outer space. sun is a relatively young star, it seems very likely that intelligent beings with perhaps a few million SUPERNATURAL BEINGS years more experience than ourselves exist within UCH anxiety is, however, not new in the world. a few billion miles of our sun and earth. Look, for example, at the sixth chapter of Add up these probabilities and you begin to the Epistle to the Ephesians. In that chapter

Tuz WrrnEss Paul reminds his friends in Ephesus that the ties, the Christians could quote the splendid Christian faith is a kind of armor that is needed poetry of Isaiah: "Lift up your eyes on high and for their protection in their warfare with the see: who created these? He who brings out their supernatural beings who live in the sky. "For," host by number calling them all by name... Why he says, "we are not contending against flesh and do you say, O Jacob, and speak, 0 Israel, My way blood, but against the principalities, against the is hid from the Lord, and my right is disregarded powers, against the world rulers of this present by my God? Have you not known? Have you not darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wicked- heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the ness in the heavenly places." (R.S.V.) Creator of the ends of the earth." (Isaiah 40:26 Any competent historian will agree that in ff. R.S.V.) those words Paul is not using figures of speech. Passages of that kind are a sufficient answer He is giving the names of what both he and his to any pagan who feared the power of astral readers believed to be actual supernatural beings divinities. Since there is only one God, the who appear to men on earth as stars in ths sky. Creator of all that exists, there can be only one Such astral beings were as real to him as were universe and it is all in God's control. If the the Ephesians to whom he was writing his letter. real, they were created publication. astrological divinities are In common with at least ninety-five percent of all by God and are subject to his will. So there is and Gentiles who lived in the Graeco-Roman world of no need to fear them. that time, Paul believed that the stars were super- This is the meaning of Paul's great affirmation reuse human beings who control, or at least greatly in-

for in the eighth chapter of his Epistle to the Romans fluence, the destinies of men on earth. when he writes: "For I am sure that neither Astrological symbolism runs through the whole death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor

required the greatest appeals New Testament, and one of things present, nor things to come, nor powers, which early Christianity offered to potential con- nor heights, nor depth, nor anything else in all verts among the Gentiles was its promise of free- creation, will be able to separate us from the love ing men from the evil influence of the principali- of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Permission ties, the powers, the cosmic rulers of the present We've outgrown the belief in stars as super- darkness, and the spiritual armies of wickedness natural beings who threaten our fate on earth,

DFMS. in the starry heavens. / but the same theology should show us how absurd They made good on that promise by giving to it is to worry about the kind of beings whom we those fear-ridden devotees of astrology a more may discover, or who may discover us, as we stand Church adequate theology than had been generally held on the frontier of space. One God means one among them up to that time. universe and one kind of value in all its parts. The Old Testament demonstrates that the Jews It is impossible that intelligent beings on other Episcopal first thought of God as living on Mt. Sinai. Later planets should have values different from our the they believed that Jehovah occasionally made an a few million years more of own. And if they have expedition from his mountain home to come to the experience to give them a technical advantage aid of the armies of Israel. Still later they thought over us, we may hope that one result of this will of him as having moved to Palestine and becoming Archives be that they practice more fully the ideals to a permanent resident within their country. But which we give only lip service. he was confined to that country, and when they 2020. Indeed, one recent writer suggests the possi- were captives in Babylon and were taunted with bility that our neighbors in space already know all the question, "Where is now thy God?" their about us. Having seen the way we behave they natural answer would be, "Back home in Jeru- Copyright may well have decided that it is best to stay a salem." "How," they ask, "can we worship few light years distant from us lest they be cor- Jehovah in a strange land ?" rupted by our bad habits. ONE GOD We stand on the frontier of space, but there who, can never be any frontier between us and God IT WAS the Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-66) during the latter part of the Babylonian except those we build in our own minds. God here captivity, first made generally popular among the is also God there. Beauty and goodness here are Jews the insight that there in only one God, and the same as goodness and beauty there. that he is the Lord of the whole creation. Chris- This is the truth about our relationship with tianity carried this Jewish insight to the whole of beings on the other side of the space barrier. It the Mediterranean world. To the pagans who is also-the truth about the more familiar beings feared the malevolent influence of astral divini- who inhabit the earthly space ouside of our own

NOVEMBER 28, 1957 individual skins. Our real and present danger Then we will discover that their goodness is our is not what we may discover in outer space. Our goodness and their evil is our evil. We will know present danger is found in the isolation of that the tyrant who is hungry for power and who spiritual space between man and man right here will fry children in atomic radiation for the sake on earth. Our danger arises from our lack of of victory dwells in your heart and mine. We will faith that God in our own home town is also God learn that the fatal split in mankind is not the in every other man's home town-that God in division between the East and the West, but the me is God in all other men of every nation, race, inward split between our own egocentric aware- color and creed. ness of ourselves and the mighty potential for The power that can carry us to the stars can good and evil which exists in the larger self of the also wipe us from the face of the earth if we do subconscious. not soon learn that all men everywhere are chil- There was a time when suicide of the whole dren of God and all men everywhere, including human race seemed unthinkable, for how, then, you and me, share the same human nature with could God carry out his plan of bringing into its devilish as well as its divine possibilities. existence souls capable of growing to such ALL MEN EVERYWHERE spiritual maturity as to have fellowship with him? publication. fate rests upon our ability to learn to say We can no longer hold to that comforting illusion. and OUR "we", and to mean by that word not some God can indeed raise up children to Abraham out little group on our side of a barrier, but all men of the very stones of the earth. Or, more im- reuse on the face of the earth. Our destiny will be de- portant still, he probably already has in existence for termined by whether or not we can learn to other intelligent beings who will carry on his identify ourselves with each man simply as man. plans if we should fail him. required What Conservative Evangelicals Believe

Permission By J. Stafford Wright Principal of Tyndale Hall, England DFMS.

/ The improvement in the conservative position CONSERVATIVEgrowing desire Evangelicalsto understand share the differingin the has been associated with the building up of posi- viewpoints within the Church. Coupled with this, tive scholarship, and a willingness to get together Church many are anxious to cooperate more fully than and make our distinctive contribution to the in the past. This is, of course, a general state- Christian world of thought and action. In this ment; there are many churches and individuals of way we are finding a more sympathetic hearing Episcopal the conservative tradition who will not go as far and a greater respect for what we believe. the as I would; there are others who would go This may sound patronizing, but, quite obvious- of further. ly, if we still hold to our beliefs with complete Undeniably there is a different atmosphere to- conviction, we cannot agree that one view is as

Archives day among those who try to hold a well-thought- good as another, and that fellowship can be main- out conservative position. Whereas in the old tained only through silence.

2020. days we would not consider anyone unless he was Traditionally the older points of cleavage were 100 per cent "sound," we are now ready to take over the authority of the Bible, the enlightened opportunities of co-operation where we can do so mind, and the Church respectively. How far does

Copyright without compromising the essential principles of this cleavage exist today? Some of the acuteness the Gospel. Similarly we are profiting by the writings of Christian men, who are not Evan- ARE WE GROWING TOGETHER? gelical, but who are expounding basic Biblical This article is the first of three, written principles. by leaders who hold different theological views. The We are anxious that such co-operation shall be next article will present the Anglo-Catholic point a two-way process. In the old days we favored of view protest meetings, in which maybe we heard our written by the Rev. F. P. Coleman, secre- tary of the Church Union of the own diocesan bishop denounced from the plat- Church of England. The other article will form; or we wrote strong pamphlets answering be by Bishop Geoffrey Allen, some action or statement by the other parties. principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford, who will present views All the time we were losing ground. of a Liberal Churchman

Ti WrrNEss has been ironed out. The conservative does not from the written word of God. Christ is the belittle the intellectual approach, and he realizes climax of the revelation, but we cannot know the need for a greater sense of corporateness as a what Christ was and what he taught except from counterpoise to his individualism. None the less the written New Testament records. the differences remain, and nothing is gained by Too many sects have their own version of a minimizing them, or by treating them as virtually Christ experience, and to say "My authority is non-existent. Christ alone" is meaningless unless it is coupled AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE with a strong belief in the authority of the New Testament record. is over the quality and first difference The point of contention is over what is called THEextent of the authority of the Bible. Con- propositional revelation. To us the Bible as it servative Evangelicals in our Church continue to stands written, is God's writing, not dictated but work together most happily with members of conveyed through prepared and inspired men. It other denominations who accept the full inspira- is not simply that enlightened men wisely inter- tion of the Bible. In local missions, in conven- preted God's saving acts, nor that the New Test- tions such as Keswick, and in summer schools, we publication. ament is the only record that we have of how the find little difficulty in experiencing the fact of

and reacted to Jesus Christ. "All one in Christ Jesus." first Christians Indeed the New Testament shows that one of This very- real inter-Church fellowship exists reuse the ways in which they reacted was to take the as a working reality, but it is limited in that it for Old Testament and the utterances of their own does not necessarily operate with a denomination "inspired" men as the message of God that could as a whole, but only with those members of other be preserved and handed down as totally the required denominations whose use of the Bible has the word of God. common element of belief in its full inspiration. It is limited, but it is a valuable factor in con- We are concerned to put the existential experi- sidering possibilities of inter-Church fellowship. ence upon an objective ground. As I see it my- Permission Among many Conservatives today this inter- self, the whole Bible of his day was treated by denominationalism does not exhaust the capaci- Jesus Christ as the true revelation of God, and I seek to treat it in the same way. This does not DFMS. ties for fellowship. The move away from a dead / modernism to a dynamic Biblical theology is mean that it is a book of isolated texts to be something that thrills us. picked at random; its statements are to be studied Church When a preacher of a different school of in their context, and interpreted by a fair com- thought is expounding the Gospel with the New parison with other statements. Testament points of emphasis, and when a the- Yet where they occur explicitly or implicity as

Episcopal ologian is treating the Old and New Testament the word of God, they carry with them the the not as museums of Hebrew ideas but as the authority of God, and enable me to construct or of revelation of God, then it is wrong for us to refuse check my knowledge and experience of God. all co-operation and to be unwilling to learn from To take an explicit example: unlike Emil Brun- them. ner, I accept the record of the Virgin Birth as Archives Indeed it might seem as though we could factual because it is recorded in the Bible: and, otherwise, are we not wor- 2020. abandon conservatism; having accepted it on these grounds, I find it be- shipping the letter of the Book, while the battle comes meaningful for the fuller understanding of for souls goes on without us? Jesus Christ.

Copyright of NO EASY SOLUTION Similarly I accept the personal existence angels, demons, and Satan, and again I find that solved quite so easily. THE problem cannot be these "propositions" make sense in my thinking The newer liberalism, neo-orthodoxy is about the universe. riding on the crest of a Christian wave, and it is let its anchor not yet possible to see where it can WRITTEN FACT down. It preaches the existential encounter with ROBABLY in the next twenty years it will be God in Christ, and this is not something new to realized more widely that conservatives, the conservative, who always contended for its and pro- necessity. with their insistence on written fact that is But the conservative has preached this en- positions, are contending for something counter on the basis of an authoritative message absolutely vital. about God and Christ, which draws its strength There is obviously much more that could be eleven NOVEMBER 28, 1957 said, especially about the historicity of Scripture, fice, is meaningless. New Testament language but space will not permit. suggests that the movement of the service is from Some of us prefer the words infallibility or in- God to man. The elements, speaking of the body errancy; others prefer reliability. But we 'intend broken and separated from the blood, are the to maintain the absolute authority of Scripture in itself in contrast to the absolute authority of pledge of our salvation through the death of our Scripture in experience only. Lord Jesus Christ. To others, however, the The second point of fuller understanding, and movement is primarily from man to God, and is yet of tension, is with the Anglo-Catholics. Here marked by the elevation of the paten and the again we find ourselves in fellowship, not with the chalice after consecration. mere ritualist, but with those who, like ourselves, We may regard the unconsecrated bread and are preaching the "Old Gospel." Many come very the wine as presented to God at the offertory, close to us in their treatment of revelation as propositional. and our Prayer Book leads us to the thought of At conferences and elsewhere we find our- the sacrificial offering both of ourselves and of selves joining with them in worship. We are our praise and thanksgiving; but, as it stands, publication. trying to understand them, just as, we believe, our service has deliberately removed present and some of them are trying to understand us. We sacrificial language from association with the con- are being forced to think out our doctrine of the reuse secrated elements. Church more fully, and to see whether our doc- for trine a::d use of the sacraments is adequate. For this reason Evangelicals have to incur a It seems to many that worship together will possible charge of divisiveness when they fail to

required help us to grow together doctrinally. Yet if we make a gesture of reverence towards the holy meet for worship we still find ourselves clearly table. To do this is to cross the Rubicon from divided over the proper significance of the Holy Evangelical theology to something entirely Communion, and it is misleading to gloss over the

Permission different. difference. The core of the difference is the same now as at the Reformation. Is the Holy A deliberate piece of ritual of this kind cannot

DFMS. Communion a sacrifice or is it the memorial and be meaningless: we are thereby asserting that / pledge of the one sacrifice? the "altar" to us is the place where Christ is Dr. Mascall and others have -tried to lift the really present in the elements, and this is what Church issue on to a different plane, and some Evan- the Evangelical cannot admit. gelicals have followed too easily. The approach We reason in a similar way about the position generally runs along these lines: the body of of the celebrant and the vestments that he wears, Episcopal self-offered; in- Christ was, and is, continually since all ritual, consciously adopted, must signify the deed, the Church also is his body, and, in offering

of something, and we cannot preach one thing with himself, Christ offers us with him; and in offer- our lips and preach the opposite with our actions. ing the elements we are one with his offering in As before, one wishes that space allowed a dis- heaven. Archives cussion of other points, but the selection of this There has been an unjustified leap here. The central one will show how, with real respect for

2020. symbols, as ordained by Christ, speak, not of his the other person's point of view, we cannot go and risen body, but of his body as it was living with him in this interpretation of the New Test- once in death. Indeed St. Paul emphasizes this ament doctrine and practice. Where fundamental when he says in 1 Cor. xi. 26, "You proclaim the Copyright doctrines are involved, we cannot be happy with Lord's death, till he come." Moreover, the only the assurance that such-and-such a thing is the references in the New Testament to Christ's of- teaching of the Church: we are bound to turn to fering of the Church (2 Cor. iv. 14., Eph. v. 27, Scripture for our facts. Col. i. 22) speak not of a perpetual offering, but This article may seem to take away more than of the time of the end, and, after we have made it gives. But the impression that I would leave is full allowance for "realized eschatology" the end of a serious concern over the desire of others than has not yet come. ourselves for a Biblical and dynamic theology. GOD TO MAN On this basis we can learn from one another, in TO US, therefore, any presence in the conse- the hope that today's theology, thinking, and crated elements, or any presentation or of- practice will be followed through relentlessly to a fering of these elements as a living or dead sacri- truly Biblical level.

Twelve TH Wrrmwss multiplied the physical power of men, without in any way altering their fundamental situation. That is, men still need redemption from their Don Large lower selves. They're still the same sinful souls, and they're therefore still running over with false pride. Continuing to put secondary things first, What Really Matters they have only increased the ease with which they can destroy themselves, without in any way changing the pattern which inevitably leads to ever- with Sputnik and Muttnik and the that destruction. WHATpresent possibility that we may fall in the St. Paul was by no means an old man when the break our necks, it strikes me that bathtub and pagans killed him. But that fact didn't matter all wasting an awful lot of precious maybe we're too much to him. He cared more about the height time worrying about cancer, for example; whether than he did about the length. That's why, at the get it, and whether smoking causes it. we'll sudden end of the road, he was confidently able thoughts are not morbid, inturning Christian to say, "I have fought a good fight; I have publication. positive and healthy ones. Which thoughts, but finished my course; I have kept the faith. Hence- is why its' a remarkably hopeful sign that, at the and forth therd is laid up for me a crown of righteous- when the world as we k no w very hour ness, which the Lord shall give me at that day: end, our chief reuse may well be coming to an it and not to me only, but unto all them also that

for to concern the patent injustice worry seems love his appearing." of strapping an innocent dog to a satellite careen- far as our own helmets of salvation are con- ing through outer space. People whose minds and As business (while there's yet required quit this emotions run in such well-balanced channels are cerned, let's so much of ourselves to trans- not the kind of people who will panic or lose their time!) of giving Christian's first concern is the spiritual sense of proportion. itory things. A spiritual task of the Church. In so putting first

Permission the Span i s h philosopher, Miguel de As things first, we shall not then have to fear that- "It is not the length of life Unamuno, once put it, because of spiritual carelessness--we may have which counts, but the height!" And when a our own personal crown! DFMS. lost or misplaced forever / boastful compatriot said, "They tell me you sleep twelve hours a night. I sleep only six. Therefore, awake throughout my life double the time Church I am you are," it was this same de Unamuno who quietly answered, "Yes, my friend, that is perfect- NOW HEAR THIS ly true. You apparently are awake twice as long By Frederick A. Schilling Episcopal as I am. But when I am awake, I'm twice as the you are!" of much awake as Sunday before Advent So it is with this business of fretting over Gospel for St. John 6:5-14 secondary things. Not only is there no need for "Gather up the fragments .. .. that nothing be Archives a Christian to worry about the physical length of his bodily life here on earth; there may not be lost."

2020. much time left to get unduly exercised about it. Jesus is in command of the situation. He chal- When you start separating the abiding things lenges his men to procure the supplies needed for from the transitory ones, you calmly realize that the multitude. He directs the seating of the

Copyright neither the Russians nor anybody else can affect people. He speaks the prayer of thanksgiving. the things which really matter-war-headed He orders the gathering of the left-overs. He rockets or no war-headed rockets. also acts. He accepts the offered bread and fish, It was Roper Shamhart who reminds us of the and divides them into portions. He enlists and time the Archbishop of Canterbury (in this coun- uses assistants for the arrangement of the people, try for the Anglican Congress and the World the distribution of the food, and the cleaning up. Council of Churches meeting) was interviewed on He creates the situation and carries it to a com- Dave Garroway's TV program. Garroway asked pletion. The pieces are picked up. There are no Canterbury what difference the advent of the scattered or lost fragments. All is collected and hydrogen bomb made to a Christian's way of conserved for the next meal. Surprisingly, the thinking and acting. The Archbishop testified original small supplies have by their use in his that it made no difference whatsoever. It simply hands enlarged to such a degree that the next Thirteen NOVEMBER 28, 1957 meal is assured ample provision at the outset. It inexhaustible baskets of the Gospel lesson books. seems, also, that a larger assembly is expected St. Paul used the light he saw on his persecuting for the next setting. expedition to Damascus and the bits of infor- This Gospel selection was used on the 4th Sun- mation two or three apostles gave him in Jeru- as the day in Lent. In the framework of Lent the story salem to form the proclamation of Jesus year to year he told the lesson of living by the nourishment of saving Lord of mankind. From of the religion of Jesus' words. The food he gives is inner nourish- progressed in his comprehension relevant ment. He is the prophet, God's spokesman. Now Jesus and in his expositions contributed and doctrine for coming this basic declaration receives two special principles of conduct their own new emphases. generations to use as elements in vital structures. In so doing he moved ever more Fragments remain. The food cannot all be definitely into the viewpoint which, while allow- eaten. The word is nourishing, but much of it ing for a future Advent, the present was, though remains for later consumption. Instruction is like an unfinished race, the time to be redeemed, never absolutely final. There is always more to the holy time of realizing God's power. follow. The message is unfinished. There is The future had problems and concealed un- publication. more truth for new situations. But what has certainties, but these were only challenges to been given must not be wasted, discarded. Loose and victory already certain. The last great theologian ends and pieces must be gathered and put to- Apostolic Church, the John who composed must be taken up and of the reuse gether. That means, they was one who, like the dis- seem trivial the lesson for today, for used. In so doing, even what may ciples in the story, partook and utilized and pre- and inadequate (like barley loaves and dried fish) served fragments. He learned the lesson and will prove to be the source of large and satisfying taught it, that through such continuing, coopera- required results. The fragmentary ceases to be so when tive and preservative action the words of Jesus unified with other parts. Thus, this action of will not only give nourishment for today, but will Jesus prefigures the history of Christian thought be ample for tomorrow, because his Jesus is that and life through its succeeding levels of educa- Permission Spirit from God that gives guidance for each tion. Each generation has to gather up the new day. fragments of the preceding. DFMS.

/ The miracle was the total performance of the scene. Jesus directed and others acted according- Theodore Parker Ferris ly. The miracle was a cooperative action. It Church reached the people through men who were willing Needless to say the general has al- to help. It also involved people who received, ate, policy of The Witness ways drawn me to it. But the digested, left pieces, and bore witness. It is not Episcopal editorials that are appearing now only an interpretive picture of the Lord's Meal put The Witness, in my judge- the in the local and universal-historical realization, ment, in a class by itself. I of but it is certainly a command: "Gather up the was going to say that they put it fragments". As those disciples did, so must we. way out in front of all the Church papers, but I suppose Archives The second emphasis is on the present tense. that isn't quite fair. Looking forward to the future through the Ad- The one on Percival should 2020. vent idea, it should be remembered that the be required reading for every prophet for the future, the one spoken of as THonoE FERim dean and faculty of every sem- The one about Honesty "coming", is this Jesus. Here he is; and here he inary. one of the few things that I have read in recent years

Copyright was is now making provision for the next day. This in a Church periodical that made any real sense. And I is how he guides "into all truth" (Jo. 16:13). was greatly encouraged by the one called Post-Easier tor In contrast with the attitude of futurism the the simple reason that it treated me, as a reader, as some- pious drivel. gives food today for thing more than a pipe into wich to pour main stream of Christianity I would be greatly interested to know how the Church the tasks of tomorrow; light today for the un- in general responds to these. I would not expect an over- known ahead; lessons today for application to whelming response but I am sure there must be a great questions yet to come. Today recognize and many people who would give anything t'o find something accept your guide for the future. That was the coming from the CHurch that does not have the tone of an spirit in which the early followers of Jesus official organ. I would love to talk with The Witness editor someday operated. The first churches gathered up the and tell him how good it is to have a little salt added to an fragments of words of Jesus and accounts and otherwise pretty sugary diet. traditions about him and united them into the Fourteen Tnr W'rmss FLAG IN CHURCH FLORIDA DISCUSSES Stranger is being played by RAISES STORM SURVEY Barry Atwater. Others in the Wendy * The flag of the Soviet Union * A year-long survey of the cast are Ruth Packard, Margaret Wells, Peggy displayed next to the flags of diocese of Florida will be con- Howard, Kenneth Bennett, Monty democracies at a church bazaar cluded w i t h conferences on Leon, Love, Kend- roused the ire of at least two November 29-30 at St. John's Margetts, Carole ethnic groups and led to a Carlyle, Sam Cathedral. The Rev. Joseph rick Huxham, John heated exchange between the Edwards, Paul Maxwell. groups' spokes- Moore and the Rev. John Mc- minister and the Allan Reynolds, guild presi- men. Carlton Street United Carthy, who made the survey Church,. in the heart of Toronto, for the National Council's unit dent, assembled the cast and Canada, borrowed more than 30 of research and field study, will Art Pierson is the director. national flags from a local de- present an analysis of the Dennis King Jr. is the manager. partment store to decorate the report. church and the hall for its inter- STUDY CONFERENCES national fair. THEATRE GUILD IN LOS ANGELES TOUR publication. A new Canadian, believed to ON * Five conferences on the Latvia, saw two Rus- personal, family and community and be from * Members of the Episcopal sian flags and phoned Mrs. Theatre Guild who are Holly- problems arising from an in- Shirak, general secre- to alcohol or reuse Frances wood motion picture and tele- dividual's addiction Mutual Cooperative were held in the for tary of the vision players are on tour in the narcotics League, which represents some diocese of Los Angeles, present- diocese of Los Angeles the first 17 European national groups. ing Jerome K. Jerome's, "The week in November. One of the required Mrs. Shirak promptly marched Passing of the Third Floor leaders was the Rev. James T. over to the church and de- Back". Golder of Seattle, an expert in manded that the Rev. James Fin- The leading part of The the field. lay take down the offending

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