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priests are now at work in this Episcopal Workers for the Deaf lield and they must cover huge geographical areas. Lay read- Hold Workshop at Gallaudet ers and others also work with publication. the deaf in diocesan programs. * What government rehabili- to gain Church help in bringing Continuing today is the pro- and tation services can do for the state and federal services to gram of the Conference of deaf and what the Episcopal those needing them. When Church Workers Among the reuse Church is doing and hopes to do trained and made independent, Deaf, organized in 1888 and fi- for further for them were em- those handicapped by deafness anced by individuals and di- phasized at the workshop for can become self-sustaining and oceses. Episcopal Workers for the Deaf, no longer require public mone- required When the National Council in held at Gallaudet College, in tary aid. 1958 delegated the home depart- Washington, D.C. Work for the deaf is a wide- ment to minister to the deaf, A mutual exchange of infor- open field, it became evident, as some funds were provided for Permission mation, the three-day workshop workshop members heard of clergy in this field and for edu- was the second annual confer- state rehabilitation programs cation materials prepared espe- ence held at the college for reli- and discussed cooperation be- cially for the deaf, and this pro- DFMS. / gious workers, under a grant tween such public agency per- gram is now growing. Home from the U.S. office of voca- sonnel and Episcopal Church Department scholarships are available for clergymen training

Church tional rehabilitation. More than workers. 100 clergy, members of religious Only nineteen Episcopal to go into deaf work. Similar orders, seminarians and lay people participated. Among Episcopal them were five bishops. the

of Mrs. Spencer Tracy, wife of the actor and mother of a deaf son, and Bishop Daniel Corri-

Archives gan, director of the home department of the National Coun-

2020. cil, spoke at the principal din- ner. The Episcopal program for the deaf is in the province of the Home Department. Mrs. Copyright Tracy described the work of the John Tracy clinic for the deaf in Los Angeles, a project named for her son and claiming much of her time. Because deaf people are often reluctant to seek special education or the help of agencies, or simply are unaware of the serv- BlSHOPS Lawrence of Massachusetts, Doll of Mary- ices available to them, the U.S. land and Higley of Central New York all play lead- office of rehabilitation is organ- in th. /k of the Episcopal Church among izing such workshops in order

JANUARY 4, 1962 Three aid is furnished by the Co-ii'er- a charter signed by Abraham guages, but not to speak them.. ence of Church Workers among Lincoln and operated on a Graduates often become teach- the Deaf for others to enter lederal grant, it is open to U.S. ers, clergymen, scientists, civil seminary training in order to and foreign students, who pay employees, statisticians, ac- go into such work. tuition. countants, artists, draftsmen, li- Of the seminarians attending All classes are taught by the brarians, etc. the workshop, all had learned simultaneous method, because The Kendall School nearby is sign language in preparation some students read lips and preparatory for Gallaudet, of- for the deaf ministry. One him- others know the more universal fering primary and secondary self was deaf. Several clergy sign language. Some are adept education for deaf children and said their interest in the field at both. Not all the students giving Gallaudet students a began through knowing deaf were born deaf. Some lost their laboratory for practice teach- people while at seminary. hearing through disease or ac- ing. Gallaudet acts also as an The simultaneous method cident or some other difficulty information center on schools (use of both spoken words and developing later in life. and services available to the sign language) was employed The curriculum includes deaf in other parts of the coun- publication. often at the workshop, and speech education, vocational try. especially at Holy Communion counselling, and help with per-

and A highlight to those attend- each morning. sonal problems, along with ing was a modern dance recital Members learned more about regular college courses. All reuse given by the Canterbury Club Gallaudet College itself, the only faculty members use the sign of Gallaudet College. While an for college in the world for de*vf language. Students learn only instructor spoke the Lord's people. Founded in 1864 under to read and write foreign lan- Prayer, deaf students inter- required

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BOOTH of the Conference of Church Workers Among the Deaf at the Detroit Gen- eral Convention. The poster on the left shows the Rev. James R. Fortune, president, preaching in the sign language Four THE WITNESS preted it by dancing to music in perfect rhythm, conveyed to them by vibrations. Sign language expressions for the prayer concepts were extended into the dance. Bishop George M. Murray, Coadjutor of Ala- bama, gave the benediction by the simultaneous method — orally and in sign language. Coordinator of the workshop These in- THE REV. JAMES R. FORTUNE, president of was Dr. Powrie V. Doctor of formal snap- Gallaudet College, editor of the the Conference of Church Workers Among the Deaf, American Annals of the Deaf. shows his pleasure as the Rev. Stanley Light, shots were LICHTENBERGER GIVES treasurer, holds up contributions made at a recent taken by publication. VIEWS ON UNITY conference to support the work and K e n n e t h * Presiding Bishop Arthur reuse Lichtenberger, recalling his Van Dyke of

for private audience with Pope John last November, lauded the St. Louis at Roman Catholic pontiff's hos- required pitality at the Vatican. the conven- In South Florida for two consecrations, he told report- tion of the ers: "I walked into his private Permission Confer- study and he rose and came to me with his arms wide in greet- ence of

DFMS. ing, saying 'Bravo.' We had a / 40-minute talk, through inter- THE REV. WILLIAM LANGE, who ministers to Church preters. We didn't discuss the dsaf in a large New York area, takes minutes Church specifics." W o r k e r s Commenting on the World at a recent conference, assisted by Gunnar E. Council's assembly he said its Ral.li, editor of "The Deaf Churchman" and a Among the

Episcopal two most historic actions were candidate for Holy Orders Deaf, held

the the integration of the Interna- of tional Missionary Council with last summer the WCC and the admission of the Russian Orthodox Church. at Bishop Archives Bishop Lichtenberger noted that the World Council's new M c Lare n 2020. division of world mission and evangelism, which resulted from Cent e r, the integration, will strengthen

Copyright the world Church organization a S y c a m o re, .great deal. The admission of the Russian II 1 i n o i s. Church, he said, "was a brave move for the Church because in Russia the war against the Church has broken out again very strongly." LA.Y MINISTERS and Seminarians working with "I think it's inevitable that the deaf. I. to r. first row; Miss Bortner; Sem- the Church will be influenced inarian Don Jones; Church Army cadet Don Slater. somewhat by the political situation in the Soviet Union," the Top row: James Williamson; Seminarians Robert bishop continued, "but this Kley and Roger Pickering

JANUARY 4, 1962 Five should not affect its actions in a member of one denomination clear reactor given to St. Paul's- the World Council." to be received as a communicant University in Japan is now pos- At the same time, he em- by a Church of another de- sible with the gifts received, he phasized that the Russian nomination. said. It is now in operation and Church came into the WCC be- "I do not see a unified will be dedicated later tnis cause "Russians are Christian Church, as such — a church month. people," and not because of any with immense power," he said. Widows of missionary clergy "Communist ruse." "There still will be many dif- of home and overseas depart- Speaking generally of Chris- ferences in Church government, ments will have their annual tian unity, Bishop Lichten- doctrine and ceremony — but pensions increased by the berger said the movement may essentially the Churches will be Church Pension Fund from $900 make it possible some day for together." to $1,200 beginning January 1, 1962, it was voted. This will not diminish the payments also provided for them by the Na- Money Matters Chief Business tional Council. publication. Of National Council Session Although the Church won the

and case, it had to pay $12,716 in attorney fees, reported Mr. -k The National Council, hold- United States will take place in

reuse Franklin, for resisting efforts ing its final 1961 quarterly February, reported Bishop Don-

for of family heirs to obtain the meeting at Seabury House, ald H. V. Hallock of Milwaukee, principal of the John W. Bawn Greenwich, Conn., voted to join as promotion department chair- trust fund. Placed in trust for "One Great Hour of Sharing", man. The speakers division required the Episcopal Church in China, a united appeal for relief funds will send seven Latin American clergy and lay people to speak the money was being used for led by Church World Service. Chinese of the Dispersion (refu- Parishes, dioceses and in- in 23 dioceses over a three-week period. gees from the mainland of Permission dividuals are asked to support China since the Communist this united effort. Gifts will be Turner Reports regime took over) and the heirs sent to the Presiding Bishop's had contended that the money DFMS. In a report on management / fund for world relief, marked should revert to them since it "One Great Hour of Sharing." aspects of life and work of the National Council, Warren H. was not used for its original They will be used within the purpose. Church framework of the Episcopal re- Turner, Jr., second vice-presi- lief program which is used in dent, summarized details of ad- UTO Report emergency situations and also ministrative planning. He em- phasized that in the 1962-64 Requests for United Thank Episcopal for continuing relief and re- triennium the Council should Offering grants at the first

the habilitation work. extend the principle of budge- meeting of the general division of An appropriation of $10,000 tary responsibility within each of women's work after General was made to the Japan institute department, review its entire Convention far exceeded the of Christian education, upon total amount of $686,690.81

Archives program of fringe benefits for recommendation of the Council's employees, and enter into more available for the entire trien- department of education. nium for new buildings and

2020. mid-range planning of its work property, repairs, equipment, To assist the diocese of South and goals from three to ten and undesignated uses. Florida in its task of aiding years ahead—in addition to the Cuban refugees who have short-range planning for the So reported Mrs. John Foster, Copyright thronged into the area, the immediate triennium and the speaking as the first woman home department was allowed long-range planning done by the member of the Council to appear an additional $9,000 annually Presiding Bishop's strategic ad- as a direct representative of the for the next three years, for use visory committee. division. in collaboration with the over- Each request was a real need, seas and social relations depart- Franklin Reports she said. Working from priority ments. This will go toward the There still remained $1,800.- lists submitted by Council de- whole program of pastoral care, 000 to be received by January partment heads, the UTO com- relief and resettlement. 15 for the 1961 diocesan quotas, mittee made recommendations A blitz program of bringing reported Lindley Franklin Jr., for grants which were then au- the Episcopal Church of Latin treasurer, as of December 12. thorized at the meeting of di- America to Episcopalians in the Complete payment for the nu- vision members.

Six THE WITNESS EDITORIALS

ward war. The new nations look eagerly to us After One Year for creative leadership, and fail to find it. That AS OFTEN AS A NEW GOVERNMENT comes is the picture today. It is, however, encouraging to power in the U. S., the Christian citizen—and that our government is providing some practical especially the recognized leaders of our numer- help for the undeveloped countries, but it is tiny publication. ous communions — begins to ask himself the old- in comparison with our military budget, and in and time question about God or Caesar; which shall tco many of these countries our gifts are the we support, on whom shall we put our money? providing of arms. reuse Our Lord answered it explicitly: "Render unto for Probably the most valuable thing our new ad- Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God ministration has yet done in the foreign relations the things that are God's". But in today's com- field is the Peace Corps. Free from any taint of required plicated civilization it is not easy for our politics, ideology or a quid pro quo attitude, consciences to tell us what we rightly owe to America has already put millions of dollars into Caesar. Let us see the problem in terms of to- it and the few places where, as yet, active work Permission day's America and the new government's an- is in progress the beneficiary nation has cordi- nounced ideals and programs. Are they putting ally welcomed the Peace Corps workers. DFMS. / our money (our taxes) on Caesar or on God? One fact for which all Americans should be Our President speaks eloquently of civil rights thankful is the youth of President Kennedy, Church and racial integration—an ideal every Christian combined with a rich cultural education. We can would admit to be in accord with God's will — regret the lack of any spiritual New Deal, an- but law enforcement is required to make the ideal nounced with courage, but at the same time Episcopal a reality and now is the time for Christian leaders have hope that youth may mean flexibility and the —and a host of individual Christians — to speak that ultra-conservatism today may be trans- of out with vigor, demanding racial and other civil formed tomorrow into radical undertakings for rights. As long as our prisons are housing poli- peace and disarmament in the world and militant tical prisoners and our courts preparing to make campaining for racial and other minority civil Archives more of them; as long as even one Negro is a rights at home.

2020. second - class citizen the President's eloquent Every Christian citizen can help the cause of words are vapor, his (and our) ideals are with- world peace and of U. S. civil rights — racial and out reality and our tax money has been placed political.

Copyright on "Caesar". All the religious forces of our land have hoped • By writing and mailing to your President a that the new administration, in its foreign poli- brief note stating your belief on major issues cies and relations, might strike a new, clear note such as racial desegration, economic aid without —in contrast to the fear-inspired slogans of the strings attached, civil liberties, and an honest cold war. But we have yet to hear it. Seeming- search for agreement on disarmament—nothing ly, in spite of the deadly danger of nuclear war, long or elaborate. It is the total number of these nothing new, nothing brave, nothing challenging notes on a controversial subject which influences has been heard from the President or his as- him, not the eloquence of any one voter. sociates. We are still trying to play safe, we • By supporting and working with one or build our hopes on huge armaments — which more organizations actively devoted to these will never save us — and yet drift steadily to- causes.

JANUARY 4, 1962 Seven JUDGEMENT AT THE HOUSE OF GOD By William H. Jefferys Jr. Rector of St. Martin's, Radnor, Pa.

BLOW YE THE TRUMPET IN ZION, AND SOUND AN ALARM IN MY HOLY MOUN- TAIN: LET ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND TREMBLE: FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, FOR IT IS NIGH AT HAND; A DAY OF DARKNESS AND OF GLOOMINESS, A DAY OF CLOUDS AND publication.

and OF THICK DARKNESS (Joel 2:1 and 2a)

reuse "BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION, sanctify a Lord's Supper, which was intended to be the en- for fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sign of our fellowship, the very stonewall of par- sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, tition that divides us one from another. gather the children, and those that suck the Jesus said, "By this shall all men know that ye required breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the But in the name of Christianity we have made a priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between Churchianity, dividing brother against brother

Permission the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare in mutual fear and distrust. Christianity is thy people, 0 Lord, and give not thine heritage unity, yet we present a divided Christ to a lost to reproach, that the heathen should rule over and divided world. DFMS. / them." (Joel 2:15-17a) What sort of God do we worship in our pleasant The sombre note of this warning uttered by suburban American communities? In the secret

Church the prophet Joel echoing across the centuries is recesses of our hearts do we not all too often en- sounded again in the First Letter of St. Peter, vision him as a White Protestant Gentile God who (4:17), "For the time is come that judgment has clearly elected the financially successful

Episcopal must begin at the house of God: and if it first Anglo-Saxon to be his chosen people? the begin at us, what shall the end be of them that Jesus said, "How hardly shall they that have of obey not the gospel of God?" riches enter into the kingdom of God!" But if the Church of Christ comes under We might well ask, "How hardly shall they judgment first, what shall be her defense? What that have white skins enter into the kingdom of Archives might some dispassionate historian from another God?" world conclude from a study of the record of Is it possible that heaven might be filled with 2020. those who have claimed to be the followers of the Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, black, brown, yellow, humble carpenter of Nazareth? and red men thronging around God's throne? But where is the "Pure Aryan"? Have you not Copyright Busy With What? heard? Has no man told you? He has segre- WE CHRISTIANS HAVE BUSIED OURSELVES gated himself from heaven. He has built a White too often with trivia. We have quarreled among Gentile Hell for himself on the edge of the uni- ourselves about candles, vestments, and altars. verse. We have bickered over whether men must be From the day when the Roman emperors first dunked or sprinkled to make a valid baptism. We made room for Christ's Kingdom within their have excommunicated those who did not have own, made the world safe for Christianity, the upon their foreheads the imprint of the hand of Church has been repeatedly seduced into becom- a "genuine" bishop. We have parted Christ's ing Caesar's concubine, whereas she was destined vesture among us and cast lots for the possession to be the bride of Christ alone. She has yielded of his seamless robe. We have made of the to that same temptation which the Lord resisted

Eight THE WITNESS in the wilderness, when Satan showed him all the fire"? It is not expedient to run the risk of of- kingdoms of the world and said, "All those things fending those who are financially able to sustain will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and wor- the Church's work. Let us beware of stirring ship me." people up from comfortable blindness to wrongs The Church has filled the seas with blood and that cry out for redress, or disturbing con- fertilized the land with men's bodies in the name sciences that slumber gently within soft cocoons of Christ. Her history has been one of inquisi- of prejudice. These changes must come slowly. tions and crusades. In the name of the Prince of Perhaps in fifty or a hundred years we might Peace she has blessed the fratricide of man. begin to rectify this wrong. Meanwhile, let us preach, "Peace, peace, when there is no peace". Built on Conquest And so we go about our business, piously OUR WESTERN CHRISTIAN WORLD was built pocketing fees for marrying young lovers, bap- on conquest and upon the betrayal and oppression tizing children to insure for them a salvation in of native peoples. We helped enslave the Afri- which their parents have but a rudimentary be- can. We piously shouldered the white man's bur- lief, and burying the beloved dead of those who publication. den in the Orient. Oil for the lamps of China, doubt Christ's promise of eternal life beyond the

and light for her eyes, went hand in hand with opium grave. to plunge her people's minds into darkness. We In South Africa with its apartheid policy, in reuse opened Japan's harbors to our trade with threats Franco's Spain, in Portuguese Angola, in the dic- for of ships of steel at cannon's point. We taught tatorships of Central and South America, in the Asiatic world to kneel in awe before the Czarist Russia, and in segregated America, the power of armed might. The Orient has learned Christian Church has been associated with op- required her lesson well. We in America have a heritage pression. Religion became a tool for keeping men of freedom for ourselves and of wealth created docile under oppression. by the sweat of black backs in a land stolen from What would the dispossessed of earth want Permission red men. with such a Church? What would they want with When we could no longer bear the sorrowful such a Christ? Small wonder that when they

DFMS. sighing of the slaves, we gave to those of color rise in righteous wrath to strike the oppressor / a paper freedom. We said, "All men are equal down, so often they strike down also the Church in God's sight", and then leaned back in our easy and her hypocrisy.

Church chairs, with hands folded across our well fed Thus saith the Lord, "It is written, my house stomachs, and shut our eyes in placid satisfac- shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have tion that did not let us see the breaking hearts made it a den of thieves."

Episcopal of men who wanted only human dignity, a decent

the home, a decent job, and an opportunity in life of for their black babies born in black ghettos stink- - POINTERS For PARSONS - ing with ancient garbage, crowded together in By Robert Miller lousy tenements from which investors reap a Archives handsome profit. THERE IS NO DOUBT that both busy-ness and Jesus said, "Behold, I stand at the door and 2020. idleness are temptations that easily beset the knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the clergy and sanctimoniousness is another. The door, I will come in to him, and will sup with parson punches no time clock, and it is taken for him." He also said, "Inasmuch as ye have done

Copyright granted that he is a godly man. No one is great- it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye ly surprised if a layman breaks some of the com- have done it unto me." mandments but they are strangely surprised if Jesus is knocking at the door of his own the parson does. The parson, it might be said, Church in the person of his Negro brothers. is under observation. Sins of the spirit under- Should we not invite Christ in to partake of the mine his work and sins of the flesh, if known, bread and wine of his own supper at his own end it. He does not want to commit either kind table? Must Christ be forever locked out, barred but he knows he is weak, even if everybody from our residential areas, from our clubs, from thinks he is strong. our homes, from our hearts, from our lives? Thomas Stubbs never could decide whether this AND WHAT OF THE PASTORS and priests of was a good thing or a bad. He remembered Dr. that God "who maketh his ministers a flame of MacNeal giving an address on preaching and say-

JANUABY 4, 1962 Ntoe ing that when he listened to a sermon he wanted valid communication and dialogue with other the preacher to talk to him as a sinner. Young persons. Mr. Adams had said it would be out of the ques- A college chaplain knows well the depth and tion to talk to him that way. If he was really a complexity of the breakdown in communication sinner he wouldn't be holding down his present between father and son, mother and daughter. job. Thomas felt that any minister was in that Why is there such a breakdown? A distin- kind of position. He had to put on godliness just guished new movie, Splendor in the Grass, intelli- aS he put on a surplice. gently and resolutely poses the question and goes But how could one pretend to a godliness he did on to provide some answers. It is directed by not have or even let people suppose he had it. Elia Kazan and written by William Inge. One couldn't, but the parson couldn't go about Wilma Dean Loomis (played by Natalie Wood proclaiming his unfitness. He must do the best in her best screen role to date) is a high-school he could and count on God's grace. "And any- girl in a small town in Kansas. The time is 1928. way," he reflected, "it is God who truly sees me She is in love. She tries to discuss with her and it is to him that I must give accounting, but mother the feelings raging within her as she is publication. it will never do to be over-busy or to stand idle torn between desire "to go all the way" in love-

and in the market place." making with the boy in her life and, too, a deep Thomas thought a good deal about this and and real sense of responsibility about trying to reuse even drew up a set of resolutions. relate the forces of love and sex within marriage. for • I will not be a Martha. (At least, not all Her mother is unable to engage in honest com- the time.) munication with her on the subject. Her mother says that no nice girl ever has such feelings and required • I will try to be more holy. (I will make choirs and vestries aids to holiness.) that a decent woman never enjoys sex but rather • I will put more work into my sermons. (But yields to it — as something necessary but always how will I get time?) inherently painful. Wilma Dean's father per- Permission ceives the pitfalls within the relationship between • I will try to be fervent in prayer. (If only his wife and their daughter but is too dominated my mind wouldn't wander so!)

DFMS. by his wife to act. / • I will make no pretenses. (Only I so easily The boy is Bud Stamper. He is portrayed by slip into pretenses.) Warren Beatty in perhaps the year's most

Church He thought this out while listening to a memorable acting debut. Bud belongs to a rich speaker at the Clericus and it was just as well he family in town which more or less dominates the did not hear the speaker say to the Bishop, when local scene. His father is a lonely, driven man

Episcopal the meeting was over, "Who was the clergyman whose defensiveness and desire for compensation

the who listened with such rapt attention?" have molded him into a domineering brute of a of Nor did he hear the Bishop's reply! "It must business tycoon who also acts like a tycoon in his have been Stubbs. One of our best men." own family circle. This father knows best always as to what his Archives son should become, his daughter should do, his wife should be. One by one, he takes their lives 2020. No Communication and is a powerful instrument in driving them to By Malcolm Boyd ruin or madness. Finally he stands in front of a New York hotel- Copyright Chaplain at Wayne University room window looking out at the skyscraper OURS IS AN AGE of many psychological fox- lights. He has never understood himself, his wife, holes, marked stridently and tragically by a his daughter or his son. He is a "success" in the breakdown in simple, fundamental communica- most devastating sense of the vulgarity of amas- tion between persons. sing material fortune while dying spiritually in We find this breakdown at many levels. A man the process. and his wife find that they have not been able He has never been aware of the feelings either really to communicate with one another for many of other persons or himself. He has been the years. A person in the business or social world loud mouth, the organization boss, the fixer by resorts to wearing masks in a perpetual Mardi force. Finally, facing himself—even if this is in Gras to compensate for the seeming total lack of a kind of fantasy—he is utterly confused at who

Ten THE WITNESS he sees and he is without resources spiritually to A PARAPHRASE OF THE cope with it. He leaps out of the window to his TEN COMMANDMENTS death. By George F. Tittmann Healing Action HE HAD REFUSED to grant permission for Bud Rector of Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, Illinois to marry Wilma Dean. He had insisted that Bud (1) I alone am God. Do not "play God" by go to an Ivy League university to be groomed for pretending otherwise in your total reverence for business leadership when Bud had simply wished any other power, good, goal or being. to marry and to learn how to become a rancher. (2) I alone am God. Do not "play God" by He had been unable to listen to his son when his ascribing divine worth to anything made by son most desperately needed to communicate with creatures. No factitious gods, nor the symbols his father. which suggest and represent them. Like Wilma Dean's mother, he had harbored (3) I alone am God. Do not "play God" by ideas about sex and love which could break a sen- placing the signature of my name under any un- sitive, honest personality. He had always reached reality and worshipping it. To lie is to assume, publication. out and taken sex when he wanted it, never in vain and arrogantly, the place of God, who and learning to relate it to love itself. alone can declare what is and what is not. Wilma Dean, trapped in a jungle of no com- (4) I alone am God. Do not "play God" by reuse munication seemingly anywhere, suffers a break- operating under any hopes of rescue or fulfill- for down and is placed in a sanitarium. Bud, at his ment other than those based on my promises. lowest moment of emptiness and futility in a The Sabbath — both as promise of my complete similar but separated jungle marked by no com- required rest for creation and as reminder of the first and munication, is fortunate enough to meet a girl the final Passover — shall forever serve to sym- with whom he can make a life. She is a girl who bolize that deliverance and consummating power accepts herself and him, and has a healthy outcome from me alone. Permission look upon the living of a life. Zohra Lampert (5) I alone am God. I alone am Creator. But makes this role quite an unforgettable one. within the created order I have delegated to par-

DFMS. At the conclusion of the film Wilma Dean — ents the work of "pro-creation." Their role of / about to be married to a young man she has met bringing-to-life on my behalf makes them, their in the sanitarium and also about to be discharged status and authority, closest to me. Next to me,

Church because she is well — meets Bud once again. let them be honored most above all relationships. There is a healing action in their meeting. What When the children move out to become parents is past is past. There is now only the present and themselves, let their pro-creators still be ven-

Episcopal the future, and a responsibility in each. There erated. Do not "play God" by neglecting — in the is an honesty in their outlook and in their meet- favor of others — those closest in function to me. of ing. (6) I alone am God. Do not "play God" by Will they be able to communicate clearly and taking human life — which is exclusively the intelligently and compassionately with their own prerogative of him who alone gives it. Archives marriage partners and, too, with their own chil- (7) I alone am God. The unity of man and dren when they grow up and are in high school, 2020. wife is a pro-creative unity which expresses my struggle with the meaning of sex, grapple with own oneness. Do not "play God" by destroying the profundity of love, and try to communicate it — once cemented by vows before me; by adul- with their parents ?

Copyright terating the supreme symbol within creaturehood It could be painful for some parents and their of the unity of the Creator. children to go together to see this film. Perhaps (8) I alone am God. Do not "play God" by they should go. the false redistribution of what he alone is the giver. (9) I alone am God. Do not "play God" in I AM AN EPISCOPALIAN relations with men by lying attempts to construct By John W. Day created truth out of unreality and falsehood. Dean Emeritus of Grace Cathedral, Topeka (10) I alone am God. Do not try to "play 25f? a copy $2 for ten God," even inwardly, by wanting illicitly to alter The Witness Tunkhannock, Pa. the possessing of my gifts according to the creaturely desires of the heart. Eleven JANUARY 4, 1962 PEACE AND HOLY JUSTICE By J. L. Hromadka Dean of the Comenius Seminary, Prague publication. and reuse for required

Permission WE LONG FOR A PEACE which would be deep- love. If v/e speak about justice as the believing ly anchored in justice and which would secure and professors of the gospel, we must begin here.

DFMS. maintain justice. We know that a new war in This justice is for us also the light and the / the present situation, when destructive weapons criterion of our decisions in public, secular and are piled up would only intensify inhumanity; political life. Church that is, injustice beyond the point of endurance. We know well that we cannot attain this jus- It might be said that peaceful living together and tice by our own decision, by our programs and peaceful competition among nations is, taking plans. But we must never lose the vision of it

Episcopal into account all circumstances, the only way to as the deepest motive of our humanity. I my- the overcome injustice and to establish at least rela- self personally do not believe that the sphere of of tive justice. the gospels is divided from the sphere of the so- What justice are we concerned with? As the- called secular world. We find ourself in a con- ologians and representatives of Churches we must stant dialectic [sit venio verbo!] tension between Archives not loose sight of God's justice. Our faith, the reality of the holy love revealed in Jesus Christ on the one hand, and between the reality 2020. grounded in the message of the prophets and of the Apostles, professes the God of justice. Our of our distored life in the world on the other God, the Lord over life and death, is a just Lord. hand. What does this assertion mean?

Copyright But the essence of his justice is holy love which is # Our whole life, our human existence moves earnest and unconditional, which restores along the level of what we call repentance. This strength and infuses life. The gospel is the mes- is not a mere sentimental expression. It is the sage about the holy God who descends into the knowledge of our injustice — or to say it better, lowest depths of human sin and human guilt and of our unrighteousness towards God and man. through his own sufferings in Jesus of Nazareth We must never point to our rights and put our- brings justice to a victory. Holy justice is no- selves among the so-called righteous ones. where else so startlingly revealed and so ap- • We find ourselves in a chain of solidarity parent as it is in the Son of Man, who identifies of human guilt, which backwards and forwards himself with the darkest injustice of man only to reaches far beyond our personal life. We are overcome it in love. The gospel means the oneness of unconditional justice and unconditional An Address at the Christian Peace Conference, Prague

Twelve THE WITNESS marked by the guilt of our fathers and grand- tion. It understands the problems of the present fathers, nay, even of all the generatipns far re- ("ay more or less superficially and it tries to heal moved from us. We must not start to lament the ultimate causes of the present crisis by and complain if this affects also us in our own cheap remedies. political and personal life. The proclamation of The danger in which we find ourselves is to be the Decalogue "for I the Lord thy God am a s:ujjht in the fact that the deepest depth of the jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers present danger is being ignored, or is not given upon the children unto the third and fourth gen- recognition to, and that phenomena which are eration of them that hate me" startles us. The not basic are exaggerated and demonized. The verity of this statement was ever again revealed majority of Christians who still profess their al- by history and it is also confirmed by the present legiance to the Church and to tradition, live in times. It must be taken seriously and appropri- an unwillingness to repent and want to deal with ated by faith. We are not isolated in our per- real dangers by moralistic remedies, which give sonal lives. We are reaping what our fathers had satisfaction only to themselves. sown and sowing what our children and children It is a very serious question for me personally, will reap. This is a perturbing reality, but it publication. whether traditional Christianity is spiritually gives sense and meaning to much that otherwise capable of understanding the need of the world, and remains meaningless. To understand this reality of finding the correct diagnosis so as to be able in repentance and humility means also the libera-

reuse to help eifectively in the tremendous struggle for tion from much vain bemoaning and empty self-

for peace. Are we not all in the danger of medioc- pity. rity, self-righteous impatience and painful ignor- # In this perspective we see our antagonists ance of the situation? And yet it is just the required or enemies in a different light than we would like message of the Apostles and of the gospel which to see them. The witness to the holy love of a ought to liberate and deepen our understanding. just God does not make the truth of righteous-

Permission ness relative, but helps us to see the man who is Hard to Understand our enemy in the proper perspective within this ALL OF US HAVE A TENDENCY to under- chain of solidarity and leads us to suspend our DFMS. stand the concept of righteousness and of / condemnation. The gospel frees us from our righteous order of the world in the light of an impatience, from our hate, from self-righteous- epoch that has gone by. European tradition of

Church ness which ever again sets up false prophets and the last two centuries leads us to understand and interrupts conversation where it should begin. deal with the problem of justice only on the level • This attitude does not, however, mean an of ideology and politics. This also conditions our Episcopal obviation of contradictions and systems. It does individualistic attitude and our more or less the not lead into the night in which all cats are black. static or moralistic mode of thinking. Our faith of On the contrary: it sees all the facts, all contra- and our vision of faith hardly take in the tre- dictions and all differences in a clearer light mendous perspectives of the human and the his- than any secular philosophical ideology, but torical situation. Archives looks beyond traditions, inherited standards, Here we meet an evidently difficult task, to

2020. fossilized formulas and social political dogmas. understand the revolutionary change of Eastern Europe and the new ways of Asian and African Need For Repentance nations, and to help them to solve their problems THE PRESENT WORLD SITUATION does not Copyright in the spirit of inner freedom. We need not only by any means make it easy for us to see clearly to re-examine the inherited standards and con- and independently and to make decisions freely cepts of justice and of social, political and cul- and joyfully. The cold war. which still goes on, tural order, but also to re-think and formulate has contaminated the atmosphere and caused anew all the customary forms of the so-called great damage, created confusions, misunder- Christian forms of personal and social life. I standings and prejudices. I am able to repeat know how difficult and complex is the problem here what we have already declared and heard of justice. Be it far from me just to throw the at the first two conferences: we ourselves and traditional concepts and orders on to the refuse our fathers are responsible for this situation. dump. I only want to assert and emphasize that Christendom as such has not grasped the depth it is necessary today to understand in a new and of the present crisis, upheaval and world revolu- courageous way the springs of the noble and pro-

JANUAKY 4, 1962 Thirtean found concepts and orders of human liberty, valued by the old standards of justice which were dignity, humanity and justice, as they are ever valid in the past epochs. That, what is sometimes anew created and reshaped under the influence regarded as justice, is often nothing else but of the gospel and to remould them into new unctious canonization of human selfishness, of forms and orders. All that which is most es- property and special, political or international sential and most profound of what we have in- privileges. herited during the course of history of the The tragedy of the Christendom of today is in- Church of Jesus Christ cannot be saved by fear, herent in the way it is unfortunately and dis- Toy selfrighteousness, by cowardice and or by an astrously intertwined with the rich, wealthy, attempt at some kind of restoration. highly developed nations, which for long cen- New Forms Needed turies, nay for thousands of years have regarded JUSTICE IS NOTHING STATIC, least of all the themselves, and still regard themselves, as the justice as it is anchored in the depths of the gos- flower of mankind and as a valid, unsurpassed pel. Liberty and justice to which the prophets model for humanity. and the Apostles bear witness are not identical It is not always easy and possible to overcome publication. with liberal, positivistic, democratic concepts and this historical fact. We find ourselves in a long

and institutions, whatever noble function they might historical process which might render Christen- have had in the past. The terrible world-wide dom helpless, but which might also lead to its

reuse upheaval, the struggle of the working classes and rennaisance and to a new lease of creative power. for of the so-called underdeveloped nations call for It is a mighty struggle: struggle for peace, new forms and orders. This struggle, this revolu- for peaceful living together but at the same time tionary movement must not be measured and also for a new basis of freedom and justice. required THE NEW BOOKS Permission The Design Of The Scriptures by Kenneth R. Forbes David, and David to Elias, and so Robert C. Dentan. McGraw-Hill. on down to our blessed Lord himself; $5.00 Book Editor so at the end we have indeed covered

DFMS. the story of the Bible". / The author's sub-title — "A First the reader to study well before going The Bible, as we all know, is full Reader in Biblical Theology"—makes on to the next chapter. This is a of abominable doings and gross im- the reader aware at the start just novel and provocative sort of essay

Church moral actions, judged by our present what sort of book this is and if he on Biblical theology which will re- standards, and this has set innumer- be a layman or woman he will be en- pay careful study. couraged to plunge in, knowing that able people against it as having anything of spiritual value to say to us. he will not encounter the theologian Witnesses To God by Leonard Johns-

Episcopal But as this author points out with or the critic who speak a language ton. Sheed & Ward. $3.50 of their own, incomprehensible to the convincing eloquence, the crudeness the unscholarly. This is the kind of book that every and blatant immorality which parades of ordinary Christian layman ought to shamelessly in the pages of the early Tht. first reader, then, is the au- Old Testament are precisely what thor's successful attempt to teach his read and be thankful for. The author has succeeded in presenting the God's actions in history are designed readers the spiritual principles which to transform. But as the reader Archives Bible as a bona fide history of God's the scriptures as a whole set forth. moves on to regard the later Old To accomplish this he divides his actions in this world with the con- stant purpose, in all the long, varied Testament prophets — preeminently 2020. book into three parts, — "History", Elijah and Isaiah —• he will readily "Doctrine" and Life". The History history, of rescuing us earth-dwellers from our sins and stupidities — all see what changes God's actions have is of the Chosen People and their wrought in the peoples' behaviour covenant with God, the crucial events the way from Adam and Eve to our ov.n selves. All these actions pic- patterns and moral quality. Copyright of Jesus' earthly life and the mission of the early Church culminating in tured in the Bible are sacramental, On the whole, an unusual and St. Paul's life. that is through human persons and worth while book. No parish priest groups, and some of the persons are will regret possessing a copy and Doctrine is a record of the dy- far from lovely characters. most of them will have their copies namic power of God in the life of the The author himself is that rare showing signs of wear from hard Chosen People and in the Christian usage in preparing for confirmation fellowship. combination — a profound Biblical scholar and at the same time a sim- groups and study classes. Life is a record of what individual ple human being with a sense of hu- men and women can do in the mor which appears in all his narra- Hurricane From China by Denis present world because of God's tives and interpretations. He writes Warner. Macmillan. $3.95 creative power expressed in history in his introduction: "As we move This is a strange mixture and very and doctrine. from one great figure to another, The author has included in each of unlike most books on China and her putting each one into his historical undeveloped neighbors which we are his 78 very brief chapters appropri- context, they link up together — ata Bible references which he urges Abraham to Moses, and Moses to (Continued on Inside Back Cover')

Fourteen THE WITNESS acceptable for a householder to Ten Top Religious News Stories use force to defend his family's fall-out shelter against invasion Named by NCC Newscaster by unprepared neighbors. Father L. C. McHugh's article -k The debits over federal aid Council of Churches at the becire ^he center of a debate to parochial schools was picked Third Assembly in New Delhi, among Protestant, Catholic, and as the top religious news story India. Jewish theologians over the in 1961 by a leading Protestant • Fidel Castro's expulsion of ethics of building and protecting reM^ious newscaster. Richard T. foreign-born priests and mem- shelters. Sutcliffe announced his eighth bers of religious orders from • A suggestion by Edgar S. annual list of the ten outstand- Cuba. Brown Jr., director of worship ing religious stories of the year • Approval by the United for the United Lutheran in his weekly transcribed pro- Presbyterian Church and the Church, that churches "cancel gram, "Church World News," Episcopal Church of talks lead- all plans for Christmas services which is produced by the United ing toward a possible four-way this year" as a protest against Lutheran Church in cooperation the "orsy of commercialism" publication. merger suggested by Presby- with the National Council of terian chief executive Eugene surrounding the holiday. and Churches. Carson Blake. The other two • Israeli Prime Minister His selections, in order of Churches included in Blake's David Ben-Gurion's declaration reuse their listings, were: proposal were the Methodist that Jews living outside Israel for • Controversy over federal Church and the United Church are godless. The statement drew aid to parochial schools. of Christ. a great deal of criticism from

required • Admission of the Russian • A Jesuit priest's state- Jewish groups, and Ben-Gurion Orthodox Church to the World ment that it would be morally later modified his stand. ® Dropping the name of "St. Philomena" from the Roman Permission Catholic Church's roll of saints An interested, friendly source of compe- because of lack of historical

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JANUARY 4, 1962 Fifteen the use of public funds for reli- short of a Red camel's head in- The loss of their possessions in gious institutions. side the Christian West's tent. India, and anti-Portuguese feel- "Discussion sharpened the Finally, to individuals doubtful ing in most countries, we hope, issues clearly, but politics of Christianity's ability to with- would make the whole nation clouded them just as rapidly. stand contact with communism, Congressmen, pinched between Russian membership in the of Portugal change its policy Eoman Catholic and Protestant World Council was the end of as regards its colonies. But constituents, scuttled the par- the world." how can the nation do it while, ochial and public school aid in In 1960, Mr. Sutcliffe chose under the present regime and committee, postponed the in- the election of the country's in the clutches of the old, tradi- evitable decision by extending first Roman Catholic president tional, outmoded influence of for two years legislation already as the top religious news story. on the books." certain classes of people, it The newscaster noted that CHURCH PAPER HALLS remains suppressed and de- the World Council of Churches' GOA INTEGRATION pressed." admission of the Russian Ortho-

publication. ~k The official organ of the dox Church also produced a Methodist Church in Southern ARCHBISHOP URGES and FIGHT ON POVERTY controversy. Asia, the Indian Witness, sup- "To Christians in the West ported India's armed action in •*• Archbishop Arthur Michael reuse who believed that God loves integrating the Portuguese Ramsey of Canterbury, in a for man irrespective of geographi- colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu. Christmas sermon at Canter- c a 1 considerations," Sutcliffe Declaring that there would be bury, called on nations every- said the Russian Church's ad- "general happiness in the coun- where to join in a battle against required mission was "the establishment try over the integration," it poverty. of a tiny piece of common said the Salazar regime in "Christmas has its urgent ground — Christian faith — Portugal "which is still keeping message to the nations," he told from which to build a larger Permission to the outmoded ways of a congregation in Canterbury understanding and sympathy colonialism, must wake up and Cathedral. "It is that their among mankind." withdraw honorably from other true glory is to serve one an- DFMS.

/ To those who believe there countries as the tide of anti- other, to eschew the lust for are no good Russians or that colonialism must ultimately tri- power, to agree together to the Russian Church leaders umph in Portugal's colonies." abandon their weapons of des- Church "are only pawns in a gigantic "In fact," the publication said, truction, to let the rich and the Communist chess game, the ac- "the 35 years of dictatorship strong serve the poor and the tion at New Delhi was nothing in Portugal must itself end . . . weak." Episcopal the of Another Witness Leaflet The Church In Archives Town & Country

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Sixteen THE WITNESS tion in other portions of the Springfield and Missouri Clergy Anglican Communion. Following the meeting the Guests of Bishop Cadigan clergy of both dioceses were guests of Bishop Cadigan at * Two midwestern dioceses of never exist apart from the lunch. The Kev. William Ber- dissimiliar complexion took a world and the environment in ger, president of the standing first step toward understanding which they live they must adopt committee of Springfield, said new plans and policies for mis- recently when Bishop Cadigan he expected a second meeting sionary work in these areas. would take place sometime in of Missouri invited the clergy Willand believes that a new ap- early 1962 in his diocese, and of his diocese and of the diocese proach is being made under that he spoke for the clergy of of Springfield to a joint meet- Archbishop Maclnnes leader- Springfield when he said all ing. The meeting was held in ship. St. George's College and felt this approach to more ade- Thompson House, Missouri's re- Seminary is being opened in quate understanding to be a Jerusalem, pastoral ministry is valid one. treat and conference center. being strengthened, a number publication. The feature of the meeting of villages have been erected ST. MARTIN'S BROADCAST and was a paper presented by the for refugees around Jerusalem, Rev. Pitt S. Willand, rector of and liaison work is continuing THROUGHOUT FRANCE reuse Emmanuel Church, Webster among the ancient Churches of -k Radio listeners in France for Groves, "The Anglican Com- the East. Teachers from the heard a Christmas service from munion in the Middle East to- West are being provided for a St. Martin's Church in New day". Willand was in the Mid- number of the seminaries of the York during the holiday season. required dle East from 1945 to 1957 as eastern Churches. When the French broadcast- liaison with the Anglican ing system requested a tape of Bishop in Jerusalem and secre- Willand referred to the fact a Negro choir, the National tary of the interchurch aid com- that the Protestant Episcopal Council's division of radio and Permission mittee of the World Council of Church makes no budgetary television asked the Rev. Tollie Churches. He outlined the provision for its work of co- L. Caution, associate in the current situation in the area operation in the Middle East. At DFMS. home department's division of / and the present work of the An- least one American priest is al- domestic mission, to arrange for glican Communion which is ways on the staff of the Arch- the recording of a service. The bishop in Jerusalem, and the Church now under the leadership of resulting tape contained Archbishop Angus Campbell American Church contributes to Christmas hymns and carols, Maclnnes in Jerusalem. His his support through the Good plus the spiritual, spoken in jurisdiction includes: Israel, Friday offering. Willand said French. Carillon music from Episcopal Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Iran, the he hoped that some American the tower of St. Martin's con- the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria and the diocese or group of dioceses cluded the broadcast, which was of Island of Cyprus. might offer to enter into a rela- aired throughout France. Recently a new bishopric of tionship with the Archbishopric William King, organist and of Jerusalem whereby an ex-

Archives Jordan, Syria and Lebanon was choir director of St. Martin's, formed with the consecration of change of clergy and ideas might be effected. This sort of

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