PARTICIPANTS OR PARASITES by Wolcott Cutler

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PERSPECTIVE by E D W A R D S. DROW N Professor at Cambridge Seminary LIVED back in those days when little boys wore I skirts, and one day as I was going home I saw a little friend of mine coming toward me with an expression on his face which made me realize that something very much out of the ordinary had happened. He ran up to me, looked up with a big smile and said, “ I’ve got on pants.” That was the all-important thing for him. And I wonder if God doesn’t look down upon us as we looked down upon that little child, and if some of the things that are very important to us are of very little importance to Him? I hope He has a sense of humor so that when we make so much of little things He can smile and say, “Oh, they are just little children down there. Of course, they will grow up some day in the course of eternity but just now how much they make of little things.” ‘‘0 God, I have made a lot of money. I have been elected to public office. I have built a new house. I am going south this winter. O God, I have put on pants.”

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Participants or Parasites? By WOLCOTT CUTLER Clergyman of the Diocese of Massachusetts SO M ETIM ES wonder if it ever occurs to certain nor the habit of regular giving that are required for the I parishioners of our Church that as a general rule, if keeping alive of any local parish. Such people do not they would only put their pledged offerings in their en­ know it, of course, but what they really are religiously velopes week by week, they could always afford to sup­ is what in the natural world we have to call parasites. port their Church and their Church would never lack support. H IN K IN G that perhaps the past year was unduly In one church known to me where the debts have re­ Thard for some of these subscribers who were seri­ cently piled up to such an alarming extent that the ves­ ously in arrears, I took the time to trace back their try were obliged this year to dismiss the parish sexton record of envelope payments in a dozen cases year by and the organist and choir-master, it has been found year for the past seven years to the year before the de­ that every cent of debt is accounted for by the unpaid pression. The subscribers I studied in this way were pledges of the last few years. No bills would have all old-time or life-long members of this parish and failed of payment had the systematic offering envelopes have been all the seven years actively and happily con­ only come in as promised. I wonder how people can nected with the parish life. Three of them are parish justify themselves in taking their pledges for the sys­ officers. tematic support of their church, local and national, so Here is what I found: Only two of the twelve had lightly. paid more than half of their pledges for 1928, when In this particular parish the parishioners are very times were better; none had paid in full. hard hit by the depression, and some of the families are No. 1 pledged all 7 years, but only once paid as much large, yet the striking feature of the systematic offer­ as half the year; on the average he paid 11 weeks and ings as a whole in that church is that last year 87 sets owed for 41 weeks of each year. His pledges appear to of envelopes were promptly paid to the last penny; and amount to a probable 1% of his income. He has no these offerings amounted to twice as much as any other dependents. element in the parish income. Moreover, these 87 reg­ No. 2 pledged only 3 times during the past 7 years in ular contributors included at least five families or in­ 1928, 1929 and 1934, and paid an average of 23 weeks dividuals subsisting on very meagre public aid, ten on each of those 3 pledges. His pledges amount to a families with serious sickness or other heavy burdens, probable one-third of one per cent (i~300th) of his and fourteen elderly or invalided persons who cannot income. He has no dependents. find work today. Countless others have had most ir­ No. 1/2% , years average paid, 18 weeks. regular and undependable work this past year; but have 3, 5 No. 1/2% , years average paid, weeks. not allowed their church support to get behind. These 4 , I 4 H No. 6 years average paid, weeks. 87 faithful ones realized that unless they did their 5> i m U No. 6, 1/2% , years average paid, 6 weeks. part week by week, they would not have an effective 5 No. 1/2% , years average paid, weeks. church. 7, 4 4 No. 8, 1/2% , 6 years average paid, i i weeks. Why could not the other 95 systematic subscribers in No. years average paid, weeks. the same parish realize that it is their unpaid pledges 9 ’ 1/3%» 3 25 No. 10, 1/2% , years average paid, weeks. that today force the parish to give up vital aspects of 4 3 No. ii, I years average paid, weeks. its reasonable work? For, the other 95 subscribers m 5 5 No. 12, 1 / 2 %, years average paid, weeks. are not in any more trying or perilous circumstances 4 I 7 than the faithful 87. As a matter of fact many of them In all these cases the subscriber might have been ex­ are blessed with steady jobs, reasonably. good health, pected to pledge every one of the seven years and to and not more than one or no dependents. They sim­ pay 52 weeks in each year (or ask to have, his pledge ply have not gained the sense of personal responsibility reduced or cancelled), but when a subscriber pledged

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for only three years, I have averaged his payments as others our good things and our treasured convictions for three years only. Otherwise the averages would and thus to bring nearer His Kingdom. have been very much lower, in fact for the group for If Christian people want to live comfortably or even the seven year period, only eight weeks paid per sub­ expensively, I see no reason to object too strongly, pro­ scriber per year. vided that they come by their money honestly and fair­ I write down these seemingly dry records, because ly and that they share their good things and their seri­ I feel sure that in practically all parish churches today, ous loyalties with a suffering and needy world. I • it is not the depression that is causing our religious simply maintain that a person who gives away less than work to languish, but rather regular and repeated fail­ one-tenth of his income is neither generous nor Chris­ ure on the part of half our membership to contribute tian; and a person who neglects to set aside at least anything to systematic church support, and the addi­ a third of that tenth for the Church’s work in the tional failure of half of those wlio pledge to pay more world, is neither Christian nor religious. than a few weeks a year of their promised offerings. Fortunately it is our poorest people who are the most During boom times, it was usually possible for 25% generous and conscientious in these matters; and for­ of our membership to carry the other 75% on their tunately, also, there are in each community a small backs; today we face the necessity of a more honest number of saints who give much more than a tenth to and democratic Church support—or serious curtail­ the Lord’s work. Otherwise the depression would ment of all religious and much philanthropic work. have closed as many churches as it has banks and fac­ tories. T S IM P L Y feel that for us to spend all of our in- What the Lord always needs and what I believe He come on emulating the Joneses and none of it or asks of every follower every week of his life is a regu­ only one-half of one hundredth of it on furthering the lar and generous share of every income from four dol­ work of our Church is to put God in second Or third lars a week up. I presume that in the Lord’s eyes four or fourth place in our lives. The fact that our lips cents out of a four dollar income looks bigger than still pronounce His name with enthusiasm cannot four dollars out of a forty dollar income. In either mean much to Him so long as our real motives in life case we may doubt whether lip-service is accepted as are pleasure or safety or popularity or conventional a satisfactory substitute for the unstinted generosity of success rather than a sacrificial desire to share with a loving and dutiful heart.

The Need for Sentiment By FRANCIS B. CREAMER Rector of Christ Church, Detroit H IS is definitely not an age of sentiment. In com­ snare. We debunked war propaganda, the institution T parison with other periods, it is quite a hard-boiled of democracy, educational systems, patriotic orders, age—an age when people attempt the difficult art of Judaistic morality, Orthodox Christianity and the age- human relationships with a minimum of manners, a old sanctity of the home. In our new state of emanci­ lack of discreet silence or poise in the face of irrita­ pation everything sacred or profane was put to the tion and a psuedo-intellectual attempt to justify under test of ruthless analysis and with the fury of reformers the garb and guise of straightforwardness and honesty we cast overboard much of the dross bequeathed to us a marked tendency to play the boor. by our ancestors; but, unhappily, with it went a great Our Victorian ancestors practiced to such an absurdi­ many of those social graces which mark a civilized peo­ ty the other extreme of pretense and casuistry that we ple and give them the attributes of gentility. Gentility, have risen up in honest wrath and cast overboard all the I insist, is a Christian Virtue, and in its finest sense is subterfuges of an artificial conventionality to the extent just as much an integral part of Christ’s character as that there appears to be nothing left. Now this is honesty, chastity or fearlessness. either an emancipation from the slavery of deceit or a Now a gentle person is a person of sentiment. There reversion to type; and rather an unpleasant type, for has always been a distinction between sentiment and it restores man to the level of the beast and brands him sentimentality; sentiment means “ fine feeling,” and once again a barbarian. I for one long for an age that sentimentality “ affectation of feeling,” or the spilling will not take us backward into another era of Victorian over of the emotions into an expression of feeling that graces and commensurate shortcomings, but forward suggests nothing fine in the human personality and to a time when we may clothe our new-found honesty usually inspires the recipient of such demonstrations with the habiliments of decency, reserve and gentility. with disgust and righteous contempt. Immediately following the war there was coined Fine feeling is what the world needs very sadly to­ along with President Harding’s new word “ normalcy,” day. 'We’ve heard much on the subject of straight a verb, the infinitive of which I believe is “ to debunk.” thinking and I subscribe to this intellectual heroism To debunk meant exposure of certain conventional with all my heart. We read reams and reams on co­ practices that have since proven to be a delusion and a operative effort in industry, politics and social relation- Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 25, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Five ships. Great strides have been made in educational Fine feelings are immortalized by music, but there fields and methods evolved vastly superior to the ones ; seems to be very little I can whistle to my offspring un­ used by preceding generations. All progress in these less I skip a generation or so. categories of human endeavor is most commendable, I am not romantic enough to take as gospel Charles but unless we can feel finely they are but futile ges­ Major’s “ When Knighthood was in Flower,” and tures. Coarse natures can never usher in the land of compare the stenographer’s unhappy lot of hanging to the heart’s desire. A world devoid of sentiment will a subway strap while fat drummers sit smoking foul­ harden like the very rocks that make the earth, for smelling cigars and read their morning Journal ob­ petrification is just as evident in the life of the spirit livious to the distress of America’s business woman. as in matter, and I pray God that in our zeal to destroy The days of chivalry as portrayed by Julia Marlowe idols and bury fetishes we do not lose sight of the are gone, and I would not call them back, but with reality and power of things unseen. Sentiment, or fine them has departed a sentiment that somehow kept alive feeling, is that delicate mechanism which keeps us in a fine feeling in the heart of man for womankind, and tune with the Universe, and opens our ears to the women made an heroic effort to live up to that standard. whisperings of God. Edna Ferber in an editorial described the Hauptman trial with all the pathos and revulsion that one endowed UCH fine feeling has been stifled in the modern with her deep sentiment and brilliant pen could portray. M home that made it a haven for both children and The most disgusting element in the whole revolting parents in days gone by, and we cannot blame it all on picture, according to Miss Ferber, was the number of distractions that beset us from the busy workaday young matrons and debutantes in mink coats and j ewels world outside. Movies are not the only unholy agency who haunted that sordid scene each day to gloat over that has seeped in to destroy the sanctity of our the unsavory evidence. ' Like the women who packed homes. I don’t want to bring kerosene lamps and plush the Colosseum in Pagan Rome to see the ferocious table covers back into the home today, for they cer­ beasts devour slaves, these modern barbarians sat in tainly were not indicative of fine feeling. But the hooked a stuffy country courtroom determined to be in at the rug with “ Welcome” woven into the center was a con­ kill. Fine feelings! Sentiment! When mothers of men stant reminder of Christian hospitality that in many become birds of prey, God pity civilization and future instances has vanished. Subconsciously its greeting was generations. reflected in the attitude of the hosts of yesterday, and I ’m an advocate of their revival. Framed samplers H Y has the Church marked time for the past two with mottoes of virtue and gentle admonition have Wdecades? Why has she not lead the world out of burned their messages permanently in the heart of her chaotic bewilderment into a new land where many an adolescent child, and though I was not fa­ brotherhood, mutual forebearance, and understanding vored with such a boon in my youth, there seems no among groups and individuals prevail ? There are many reason why “ God Bless our Home” should not be part reasons, and yet her most grievous error has been the of the mural adornment in-any household. These relics lack of emphasis on the necessity of training the emo­ of the past seem trivial and worthless to the modern tions along principles of true sentiment, which is the parent, yet Albert Wiggam, not a mediaeval theologian embodiment of fine feeling. The personality of Christ but a disciple of the new psychology, says in His attitude toward God and humanity is a rare and delicate expression of sentiment so pure and deep that “ Hang your habit maxims on the wall, then hang one marvels. We hear much of the mind of Christ, them in your heart and mind and think about the parables of Christ, the courage of Christ and eter­ them, flood them with a tide of emotion, try to nal verities which He crystallized and enunciated. picture concretely how they ought to fit into vari­ ous situations that are likely to arise as besetting How did He feel toward the woman taken in adul­ sins, and it may happen that having the right motto tery? What was His emotional reaction as He stood ready at the right moment will be your immortal by the grave of Lazarus? He wept. What stirred His salvation.” heart when He lifted little infants from the arms of adoring mothers and said, “ suffer little children to The absence of fine feeling or sentiment is most not­ come unto Me.” Try to analyze the sentiment of Jesus able in our popular songs of this day and age. “ Carry in the face of His enemies. What well-spring of di­ Me Back to Old Virginia” has been replaced by “ I vine compassion caused Him to cry from the depths of Cover the Waterfront” ; “Annie Laurie” by “It’s My His own agony on the cross, “ Father, forgive them, Night to Howl” ; “The Merry Widow” for “Let’s for they know not what they do.” Why did the sick, K-nock K-nees” ; and “Sweet Alice” for “Anything the, troubled, and the oppressed seek Him out so con­ Goes.” I thank God for the sentiment in my youth stantly? Not by what He said to them—Jesus was no that put snatches of Gilbert and Sullivan in my head, Plato; not because of His manly beauty—no contem­ refrains from Victor Herbert and Richard Strauss and porary ever likened Him to an Apollo. He was a He­ even “ The Man on the Flying Trapeze,” when I com­ brew of the Hebrews. They came because they sensed pare those tunes of my childhood which persist today, how He felt toward them and the sentiment He ex­ and which I will carry in my head for the rest of this pressed was a perfect revelation of Divine Love. natural life, to the modern child who is victimized by You who would find an open sesame to God, re­ such jingle-mongers, jazz back-timers as Irving Berlin, member this, religion is not primarily an intellectual at­ George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Gordon and Revel. tainment, it is neither a Utopian scheme whereby every

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man may have the opportunity to share and share alike. capacity toward fine feeling return once more to stir These are but the outward expressions of how deeply the finer passions of mankind and then God in His a man really feels; feels first toward God, next toward own good time will be felt once more as the guiding himself and finally toward his fellowmen. May the presence of the Universe.

W ho Owns the Sheep? An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON .F CO URSE, the answer to this question is ob­ Well, let a bishop treat the members of a parish as Ovious : The Lord owns the sheep. The rector, war­ his sheep and he is at once reminded that they belong dens and vestrymen have the title to the parish property to the rector. Instead of the bishop shepherding the and they are very much inclined to include the sheep sheep through the rector, the rector shepherds them in their proprietorship and to regard anyone as an in­ oblivious of the bishop. Of course the president of a truder who in any way disputes the title. Are they not corporation usually issues his orders through the heads the ones who shear the sheep and handle the returns of departments; but suppose the heads of departments from the annual roundup, known as the Every Member flout the admonitions of the bishop, then what becomes Canvass? The time has come for using the regular of an ecclesiastical system? It is a scrap of paper and machinery of the Church to do the Church’s task. That like scraps of paper it is thrown into the waste paper regular machinery consists of a National Council rep­ basket. resenting General Convention, acting through their set­ We advocate a theory which breaks down in its up at 281 Fourth Ave., New York; the bishops and operation. Passing the issue further up, we have the their diocesan agencies; the parishes and their concep­ same lack of coordination. Does the bishop control tion of their obligations. the diocese? If he does what becomes of General A temporary result can be secured by creating special Convention? Is it a jest or at best a gesture? I have machinery to accomplish some specific purpose, but if watched General Convention through its designated the Church is to function year after year it ought to agents try to break into some dioceses for the past depend upon the ecclesiastical agencies which already twenty years without success. Those rights and priv­ exist. Special machinery is costly; it can accomplish ileges which inhere in a rector are often destructive only a temporary result and it creates a certain resent­ of any rights and privileges that inhere in a bishop. ment which is always incidental to outside pressure. If The bishop often asks himself, What am I a bishop the Church is to support its program year after year ic of? And the answer is “ Candidates for Holy Or­ must depend upon the regular agencies for carrying out ders.” its plans. The trouble is that General Convention sets The Presiding Bishop has never yet been able to forth a program which is frequently repudiated in ef­ state of what he is the Presiding Bishop. The answer fect by those whom the deputies represent. is, the ceremony of consecrating bishops. The Gen­ In a way we have a congregational soul in a consti­ eral Convention, being composed largely of bishops tutional body. When it comes to confirmations and and rectors, has never been willing to delegate to the ordinations we repudiate our congregational tendencies Presiding Bishop any such powers as are exercised by but when it comes to quotas and assessments we revert the President of the United States. We often pride to our congregational status. Bishops act as though ourselves with the resemblance of our constitution to they had a proprietary claim to control of their that of the nation, but the joker lies in the fact that we dioceses. Rectors act as though they were the owners left out Hamlet. The Executive power exists in of the wool and mutton. Both are apt to look upon the fancy. We are told by those who would have it so that demands of General Convention through its accredited they believe in state’s rights. Of course they do. Be­ agents as an intrusion in their proprietary rights, which ing interpreted it means that the bishops control dio­ brings us back to the query, Who owns the sheep? ceses and the rectors control parishes and the vestries control both; so when the federal government runs up E L L , we will all agree that the Lord owns against the state, the state is the final arbiter and when Wthem, and operates the sheep-ranch through stew­ the state runs up against the county it is told to keep ards. Then the question at once arises, Who is the out, and so the smaller the unit, the greater the power. chief steward ? Subconsciously the rector says “ I am. It is this topsy-turvy situation which forces the Na­ The sheep are committed to my care.” Are they? tional Council to set up extraordinary machinery to get That is the congregational idea. In the Congregation­ results in an extraordinary way because' the regulaf al Church, the congregation controls the situation and circuit is blocked. It is about time that we faced the the minister as head of the congregation does as he reality and stopped proclaiming an ecclesiastical sys­ pleases providing the congregation doesn’t object. But tem that does not exist except in theory. is that our system? It is in fact but not in theory. We have bishops—what are they? Are they confirming E H A V E adequate machinery for doing the work machines or, as- the ordinal says, shepherds of the Wof the Church if we will permit it to operate. flock ? ; Little as you like it, the bishops owe their existence to

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 25, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Seven and are the' servants to the General Church for the settle back into their customary obscurity and the more purpose of carrying out the orders of General Conven- j regular worshippers begin to feel the touch of spring tion in their respective dioceses. They have no right to lassitude. “ Low Sunday” thereupon sinks below nor­ repudiate the source from which they received their mal in Church attendance. orders and therefore whose order they ought to respect. The Forward Movement proposes to bridge over this In the same way the bishops operating with and spring sag by placing a special emphasis on post- through diocesan conventions have a prior right to the Easter observance. The Lenten devotional leaflets, rectors as shepherds of the sheep. The alternative is which have already proved to be so very helpful, are that they are subject to the will of rectors and vestries. now followed with others covering the period from But of course in the world the power of the purse is Easter to Whitsunday. It’s a fine idea. the source of control. It was the intention of the The Easter Season includes the forty days immedi­ Church to put spiritual things first and temporal things ately after Easter and they are called the “ Great Forty subject to them. It was no less a person than Bishop Days” . Each year the Church commemorates that Anderson of Chicago who told me once that the office period following our Savior’s resurrection when He of a bishop was an impossible one, not because people was putting the finishing touches on His ministry be­ did not treat him respectfully but because he was in a fore His ascension. The Gospels tell of several occa­ position of authority without the right to use that au­ sions when He was with the apostles during those days thority. Being a bishop is a good deal like the nursery but it seems quite clear that He must have been with- rhyme— them many more times which are not so recorded— for “ O mother may I go out to swim? St. Luke says “ being seen of them forty days, and O yes my darling daughter. speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, God” . But don’t go near the water.” There is one significant distinction about these Great We have the clothes all right, but we must hang them Forty Days. In His earlier ministry our Lord circulated on a hickory limb and depend upon our personal freely among all kinds of people but in the post-resur­ pulchritude for our power to swim. rection ministry He confined Himself to the apostles. It is about time that we stopped running a congre­ Before that first Easter Day He had laid the founda­ gational organization in Episcopal garb. When we tions and erected the frame-work of His Kingdom- really do that we will not have to have extraneous ma­ Now it only remained to give final instructions to those chinery to accomplish the work that the regular ma­ whom He had chosen for leadership. That was con­ chinery could operate. Let us have a Presiding Bishop cluded on Ascension Day when He said His final who can give reasonable orders, with the expectation Good-bye to them. Then came Pentecost and the that other bishops will get busy in seeing that they are Church went into action. carried out, and let bishops have such access to the It all fits together very logically. Christ proclaimed’ sheep, through rectors and vestries, that the flock may His Gospel in a public ministry, ending in His cruci­ know what it is all about. Under the present hit or fixion. Then He instructed His picked leaders, in a miss, the average communicant lives in abyssmal ig­ private ministry, as to what was to be done about it, norance of what the Church is doing, and the officials ending in His ascension. Then the leaders proceeded are indifferent. You can’t have an effective corpora­ to carry out their instructions and the Church has been tion run from the bottom up. It is as perverse and as doing it ever since. As the Rev. Dr. Little put it many complicated as Anthony Adverse. It takes too long to years ago in his book “ Reasons for Being a Church­ reach the objective. We need to revert to the master’s man” . warning to ecclesiastics that we are here not to exercise “ Christ Himself left no written word; what He com­ lordship but to minister. This is antithetical to our manded can be learned only from what the Apostles present feudal system, which pays a nominal tribute but did. If, at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington had been denies any personal submission to authority. known to summon twelve generals to headquarters to receive instructions from him; and forthwith the twelve generals, in all parts of the battlefield, had begun and L et’s Know carried out a definite plan of concerted action, who would doubt that that was what the great leader had By commanded? Behold then, in the concerted action of BISHOP WILSON the Apostles, and in the uniform faith, order and wor­ F orty D ays ship of the early Church, the mandates of the Church’s H E Forward Movement seems bent on performing Head.” T a minor but very helpful operation on the Church That’s why we talk so much about the early Church, Year. The Sunday after Easter has long been known the apostolic Church, the primitive Church. Our con­ as “ Low Sunday” , throwing it into contrast with the nection with the Church in its beginnings means our great High Feast of Easter Day. But in practice “ Low corporate connection with Christ Himself. I f not Sunday” tends to become something not quite so good. through some sort of apostolic succession, how is any­ Everybody goes to Church on Easter Day—it becomes one to know what Christ wanted done? the high point in Christian observance in every year. This is also why the Great Forty Days are important Then the occasionals, having done their annual duty, in the Church Year.

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Reviewed by P. T. Shultz, Jr. Edited by W. B. Spofford God and the Social Process by The Forward Movement printed Louis Wallis, ($2.00, University of 200.000 copies of the new folder, .Chicago Press) is a book which Disciples of the Living Christ, figur­ makes the Old Testament understand­ ing that since it was for the great able and as such it fills a long-felt forty days from Easter to Pentecost need on the part not only of clergy­ that there would not be the demand men and scholars but also of church for it that there was for the Lenten school teachers and the laity in gen­ folder, 675,000 copies of which were eral. For years the results of Old distributed. But they were wrong. Testament scholarship have been The first printing is all gone and coming to us in bits, seeping through 320.000 more copies have been run to us slowly and gradually. And the off to take care of the orders. result has been that many of us have There is a lot of other encourag­ become confused in our thinking ing news about the Forward Move­ about the religion of the ancient ment; rectors write in to say that it Jew. We have received a new in­ has brought new life to their par­ sight into the creative thinking of . ishes; and lay people are writing to the prophets and have learned to see the headquarters in Cincinnati to them as the founders of ethical re­ express their enthusiasm. One rector ligion and the vehicles of God’s reve­ writes of a corporate communion lation of Himself. But we have not for fathers and sons that brought known either how to account for out 190; of a Church school doubled their apparently sudden emergence in size; of the best attended Lenten on the stage of history or where to services in years; and of increased fit them in. giving and pledging on the part of BISHOP CROSS his people— all of which he credits This book sets us straight. Work­ Visits in Montana to the inspiration received from the ing together into a single unity all Forward Movement. the disparate strands of Old Testa­ ment research, the author gives a cording to the author has any solu­ The Movement indeed has reached comprehensive picture of the rise of tion ever been found. On this same out into other denominations, with the Hebrew state, the amalgamation rock both the Oriental and the letters received from Baptists, that took place in Canaan between Classic civilizations were ship­ Methodists and others requesting the nomadic Israelites and the orig­ wrecked ; there is danger that the the literature and for information inal inhabitants of the land and the same fate awaits modern civilization. as to what it is all about so that resultant tension between two diver­ The significant thing about the work they can start a similar movement gent social philosophies. From their of the prophets is that through their in their churches. nomadic pre-history the Israelites in­ struggle for social justice God re­ herited the ideal of “mishpat” or so­ vealed His true nature. And this is the outstanding contribution of this Laymen Respond cial justice which for them meant a to Rector’s Appeal type of clan-economy in which the book: the demonstration that the very conception of God on which our That laymen will respond to a tribe owned the means of wealth. In frank and convincing presentation religion is professedly founded was Canaan this idea of “ mishpat” came of the financial needs of a parish born out of social travail. To which into conflict with “ baalism” or the was demonstrated last Sunday at the corollary seems to be that if we idea (natural in an agricultural the Church of St. John the Evan­ would truly find God today we too country) that the land belonged to gelist, Lansdowne, Pa., where the must seek Him through the struggle the individual. As the Hebrew state Rev. Charles E. Tuke is rector. Fol­ for social justice. matured the same processes that lowing a sermon that presented the have taken place in modern history The man who is looking for a solu­ needs of the parish, fifty-four lay­ took place in Canaan: more and tion to our social ills will not find it men attended a meeting in the par­ more land fell into the hands of here; but he will find an answer to ish house. There it was pointed out fewer and fewer people with the re­ the important question “ How did our to them that during the past four sultant disinheritance of the many. religion begin?” , an answer that is years the parish had accumulated a The result was a denial of “ mish­ clear and convincing and, perhaps deficit of $5,500. It was explained pat” or the primitive ideal of equal­ best of all, an answer that is con­ exactly how this deficit was incurred. ity for all the members of the tribe, tained in a very readable book. And, There was action, before discussion and a conflict which lasted several unless I altogether miss my guess, he and in two minutes $2400 was centuries and ended only with the will also find new inspiration to con­ pledged. Then came the discussion, annihilation of the Hebrew state. It tinue seeking that solution of the all centered on the best and fastest is the fact of this conflict which ac­ problem of social justice which has way of wiping out the deficit. The counts for the appearance of the thus far eluded every age but must entire group volunteered to go out prophets. They were the champions lie somewhere in the mind of God. immediately for pledges. So far of the poor, the adherents of “ mish­ $3600 has been pledged and they pat” in the struggle against “ baal­ The Illusion of Immortality by have not yet completed the canvass. ism” . They identified God with the Corliss Lamont. (Putnam’s Sons, What’s more the volunteers have ideal of social justice and history, New York. 1935. $3.) created a permanent organization, by vindicating their judgment, made Reviewed by Bradford Y oung calling themselves “ Second Milers” , them orthodox. The arguments against the self- taking their cue from the rector’s The prophets found no solution for conscious survival after death of an sermon, and are to do parish visit­ the problem of social justice. Nor ac- (Continued on page 15) ing, contact new families, teach in

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 25, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Nine the Church school and do other jobs as the guests of honor. Bishop Stew­ the rector assigns to them. So I am THE GREAT FORTY DAYS art will be the headliner. Following writing Mr. Tuke suggesting that the dinner the million dollar cam­ they introduce one of the Church T T WAS during the forty days paign, already well under way, will papers to each family in, the parish. A from Easter to Ascension that officially start. Already the organ­ And I have a hunch they will do just Jesus was with His apostles ization work has been completed, that. “ speaking of the things pertain­ with about 2,500 workers and soli­ ❖ * * ing to the Kingdom of God” . Will citors lined up. The drive is in Interparochial it not be well, during these forty charge of the firm of Gates, Stone Fellowship is Prom oted days, instead of allowing the usual and Co., of New York. At St. Peter’s, New York, where after Easter let-down, to gather the Rev. Richard Beaty is rector, your people together once a week Story of the they had a series of services on to discuss with them the things Praying Hands Sunday afternoons during Lent at pertaining to the Kingdom of Albrecht Durer, as the legend which various parishes of the city God? It is with this hope that goes, had a friend who all his life were represented by their clergy, T he W itness is supplying you time, with infinite patience and in­ organists and choirs. Among them with the six articles dealing with dustry, had striven to become a were St. Ann’s; St. Peter’s, West­ Christianity and the modern great painter. Though no fame at­ chester; Grace Chapel; Good Shep­ world, written by that outstanding tended his efforts, he worked on herd, Bronx and the students of the English theologian and economist, with care and conscience— ever Berkeley Divinity School of New the Rev. W. G. Peck. The first of worked, hoped, and prayed. One Haven. these articles will appear in the day Durer looking at the hands of H: ^ ❖ issue for next week. Orders for his obscure, unrewarded friend, saw A Story About bundles must be received at our in them the embodiment of an ideal, Easter Day Chicago office, 6140 Cottage labor for labor’s' sake, the incarna- I suppose a real live reporter Grove Avenue, not later than nation. of the courage and dignity would take this morning’s papers— Tuesday morning, April 30th. The of eternal hope and patient toil. “ Put Saturday— get the weather forecast Forward Movement is making an your hands in the attitude of pray­ “ Fair and Warmer,” look at the effort to prevent the usual after er,” said Durer, “ and I will draw Church Service Notices with the list Lent let-down. To that end they them, so that, as they have inspired of preachers and the special music, have issued a fine folder for the me they may also inspire others.” and then write a piece in the past Great Forty Days. These six The picture became famous. A tense about Easter Services and the articles by Dr. Peck are in line variety of superstitions grew around Easter Parade on Park Avenue. It with the suggestions contained in it. After a time among the better is a fairly safe bet on the weather. that folder. Gather a group to­ classes of Europe it became well It has rained for a week so the sun gether once a week, using these known that the picture of the unsuc­ will most surely shine. Or perhaps articles as the basis for discus­ cessful hards brought success and better still we might turn to last sion. T he W itness in bundles is happiness. The belief was the found­ year’s newspapers and base a cur­ 3 cents a copy; single six months ation of a custom, which began in rent story on them. But I take it on subscriptions are one dollar. Place the families of the nobility, of pre­ the whole it is better to be quite your order at once. We delayed senting the picture to brides. Though honest and say that these words are presenting the first article of this the story and the tradition are now written on Saturday in Holy Week series to give you an opportunity nearly lost, no case has ever been and merely express the hope that to get in your order. known in which the Praying Hands the Easter Services will be as glor­ have failed to insure happiness and ious as everything indicates they prosperity in marriage. Expressing will be. in the Bible are possible, that “ the Truth, Devotion, and Piety, this pic­ sun may have stood still for Joshua,” ture has been described as “ the most beautiful drawing” ever made. The Long Island Endorses that “ an angel may have provided original is in the Albertina Collec­ Birth Control Joseph Smith with miraculous spec­ The department of Christian so­ tion in Vienna. tacles” and that “ the soil from the He H« ❖ cial service of the diocese of Long grave of Father Powers may have Island has approved in principle the healed a thousand ailing bodies.” Awards for Chicago bills now before Congress which will Aggitated intellectuals are not bat­ Normal School modify the existing laws concerning tling over the matter, with every The normal school for the diocese the dissemination of birth control indication that Mr. Parshley raised of Chicago, attended by teachers information. The action was taken an issue that will be a live one in and clergy, closed one of its most after careful consideration at two the little state of Rhode Island for successful sessions the other day regular meetings at which people weeks to come. It is not a matter with the awarding of 150 National properly qualified to speak both for that lacks a practical side since Accredited Leaders Association and against the bills were heard at Mr. Parshley also said that God credits. There was an enrollment of length, and after unrestricted de­ could step into the modern world at 210 leaders from 46 church schools. bate. any time He wished and straighten * * * out our badly muddled affairs. And Church Life Continues Rhode Island Rector if He can, why should we worry Business Increase Starts a Battle about them? Annuity and life insurance busi­ The Rev. A. R. Parshley, Bristol, * ❖ * ness of the Church Life Insurance R. I., recently read a paper on “ The Diocesan Dinner Corporation of the Protestant Epis­ Illimitibility of the Supernatural” in Chicago copal Church showed a continued before a Providence club composed The centennial of the diocese of rise during the first three months on liberal clergymen throughout the Chicago will be formally opened on of the year, according to the quarter­ state. He argued that God’s powers April 30th with a dinner, with the ly report published April 12. Ordi4 are unlimited, that all the miracles Bishops of Springfield and Quincy nary insurance increased 52 per cent

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over the corresponding period of of the parish is a school conducted Rock, the state college for Colored 1934, first year premiums showing annually for teachers, ministers, youth at Pine Bluff and addressed a rise of 178 per cent, while first young people’s advisers, and others, the students, of Lincoln high school. annuity premiums exceed those for called the Yonkers Leadership Train­ He was accompanied by Bishop the first quarter of last year by 45 ing School, with competent speakers Denby. per cent. discussing the problems of youth. He Hi * The parish has a transportation sec­ Two are Ordained News Notes retary who directs four free buses in Montana of New York for members of the large church The Rev. M. A. Cookson and the Thè Rev. Walter K. Lloyd has school living in outlying regions. Rev. Haven P. Perkins were or­ been elected rector of St. Paul’s, dained to the priesthood by Bishop Newburgh, N. Y.— the Rev. Erwin Bishop Cross Fox at St. Peter’s, Helena, Montana, F. Underwood, known to many as in M ontana on April 9th. the attractive young parson who Bishop Cross of Spokane is the worked in the General Convention headliner at the convention of the Slavonic Choir office in Atlantic City, is the new diocese of Montana, being held this in New York Church assistant at Wappingers Falls.—the coming week at Missoula. Another The American Slavonic Choir, Rev. A. V. Litchfield was- instituted guest speaker is to be Mrs. D. D. composed of about thirty young men rector of St. James, The' Bronx, on Taber, field secretary of the Auxil­ and women of Slavonic parentage, March 31st. He has a parish there, iary. There is to be a memorial are to present music of the Eastern if last Sunday’s congregation is any Eucharist for the late Bishop Faber, Orthodox Church at Trinity Chapel, indication. He was kind enough to celebrated by the present diocesan, N. Y., on May fifth. ask me to preach. I was quite puffed Bishop Fox. * * * up over a full church, with an over­ Preachers at flow congregation in the parish A Class on Bethlehem Cathedral house reached by amplifiers. But I Church History The Rev. C. Rankin Barnes, execu­ was put in my proper place when A class on American Church tive secretary of the national Chris­ told it was the usual thing.— Council history is meeting regularly at St. tian social service department ad- / President Bishop Cook was the Mary’s, Eugene, Oregon, where the dressed the April meeting of the preacher at a meeting of the Bronx Rev. H. R. White is rector. Church Service League of the Pro- branches of the Auxiliary which Cathedral Church of the Nativity, met at Mott Haven on April 11th.— Bishop Freeman Bethlehem, Pa., on “ The Church and Wilton Entwistle, twelve years of HeacU Movement Social Security.” age, gave an organ recital at St. Bishop Freeman of Washington is The Wednesday evening Lenten John’s, Yonkers, on a recent Sunday the head of a movement in the na­ services at the cathedral have had evening.—The convention of the tion’s capital to enlist greater in­ the best attendance in their history, diocese is to meet at the Synod terest in church life and the con­ with the preachers including Suffra­ House on May 14th-15th. tribution that religious forces are gan Bishop J. I. B. Larned of Long * Tfc making to the nation. President Island, Bishop Frank W. Sterrett of A Record Class Roosevelt has endorsed the move­ Bethlehem, Dean Arthur B. Kinsolv­ is Confirmed ment. ing of Garden City, Long Island, the When they present a class for Rev. George Trowbridge, All Angels confirmation at St. Martin’s, New Bishop Bartlett York City, believe me it is a class. Visits in Arkansas When CHILDREN This is a congregation of Colored Bishop Bartlett of North Dakota, people, presided over by the Rev. J. secretary of domestic missions, vis­ Need a ited Arkansas April 3-5, primarily H. Johnson and is sponsored by.the LAXATIVE City Mission Society. This year the to inspect the work among Colored When chil­ class numbered about 200, and was people in the diocese. He visited St. Philip’s, and Christ Church, Little dren are bil­ confirmed before a congregation of ious, or have 2,000 people. Since Mr. Johnson be­ sour stomach, came vicar seven years ago he has colic due to presented about one thousand for alvert errick gas, sick head­ confirmation. C -H ache, coated tongue, sallow Yonkers Rector & Riedinger complexion,, or seem sluggish H as Anniversary 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street The tenth anniversary of the so that they do rectorship of the Rev. Oliver S. New . York . City not romp and Newall was celebrated recently at play as usual, St. John’s, Yonkers, N. Y. There a dose or two of SY R U P were about five hundred people at a STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC OF BLACK- reception, with Bishop Manning and D RAU GH T Bishop Larned of Long Island, form-- AND . CHURCH can be relied er rector, among them. DECORATION on to relieve An interesting phase of the work constipation and thereby American Christian Benevolent assist in CHURCH . APPOINTMENTS prompt recov­ Society, Rushford, Minnesota. ery. Purely vegetable, pleasant-tasting— chil­ (An assessment benefit association) IN . MARBLE . STONE Death Benefits to $1500— Average cost only dren really like it. Syrup of Black-Draught $3 to $9 per year. A Christian Society for WOOD . AND is sold at most drug stores. If unobtainable Christian People. Ministers and others ask at your drug store,, The Chattanooga Medi­ for territory. Special offer to Christian stu­ METAL dents. Send only $3— State Age—And Good cine Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee, will send Health— Makes you a Member. j you a 50-cent bottle on receipt of price.

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Church, New York, the Rev. C. Ewing, provincial secretary. A col­ to the Boston Juvenile Court as an Leslie Glenn, Christ Church, Cam­ lege pastor is described as “ a clergy­ example. Five years after leaving bridge, Mass., and the Rev. R. K. man located in a college community the care of the court 88.6 per cent Yerkes, Philadelphia Divinity School. and possessing an undiscouraged of 1000 went back to their old ways. The Good Friday service was con­ love of boys and girls.” Half of the crimes of the nation are ducted by Dean Wallace E. Rollins, committed by youfhs 24 years old and of the Alexandria Theological Sem­ Juvenile Court Work younger. Occasionally it is. possible inary. Held U nsuccess ful to reform young anti-social people Court work is insufficient for the by placing them in Christian homes. Bishop Stearly correction of juvenile delinquency, “Juvenile delinquency is increasing to Resign in Fall even when admirably conducted, by leaps and bounds,” Mr. Barrow Bishop Wilson R. Stearly of New­ Ralph Barrow, secretary of the said. “ Respect for moral codes is not ark has announced that he is send­ Church Homei Society told a group what it once was. The strength of ing his resignation to the House of of social workers in a Lenten series family life is giving way. Preventive Bishops, which will act upon it of lectures under the auspices of agencies and the character building when it meets in the fall. Bishop the Rhode Island department of institutions of the naton, particularly Stearly has been in ill health since Christian social service. He pointed the Church and the home, must 1932. That year Benjamin M. Wash­ burn was elected bishop coadjutor, and he will become bishop of the diocese upon the acceptance of Bishop Stearly’s resignation.

Lenten Preachers in Chicago Preaching at the Lenten noonday Consistent Gains services in Chicago recently, the Rev. Harry S. Longley, Jr. declared that Christianity, like all other time- honored institutions, is at this pe­ riod in history fighting with its back were made during the past year by to the wall, and must be ready for sacrifices to win the battle. Also speaking in Chicago, Dean the Church Life Insurance Corporation Willard Sperry of the Harvard Uni­ versity theological school said that in the common ground of selfless and dispassionate thought and effort, Ordinary Life Insurance issued in 1934 over science and religion may meet and make common cause against the ris­ 1933 increased 43% ing tides of national, racial, and class self-interest threatening this day. Annuities contracted for show an increase of 1 85 % Ball to Assist Cathedral Plans To keep alive the idea for a great civic cathedral for Chicago Gamma LIFE and Retirement Insurance and An­ Kappa Delta, diocesan young peo­ Low Cost ple’s society, is planning a “ Centen­ nuities are available to the clergy, vestrymen, and other nial Ball” for May 17. lay officials and lay workers of the Church, and mem­ Dean Finds Divinity bers of their families. Substantial refunds have been Not Proved Dean Milo Hudson Gates of New paid to policyholders annually since 1924 under all York declared in a sermon last Sun­ day that the existence of God has insurance contracts. not been proved, but that it is the most probable of probabilities. * H* * College Pastors For information and rates please inquire of the Hold Conference The third annual conference o f college pastors of the province of the Northwest is being held on April 24, 25, and 26, with addresses by the Rev. E. F. Siegfriedt, chair­ Church Life Insurance Corporation man of the provincial department of religious education, the Rev. T. 0. Wedel, national secretary for col­ 20 Exchange Place New York lege work, the Rev. Frederick M. Eliot, of St. Paul, the Rev. David R. Haupt, rector of All Saints Church, Northfield, Minn., and the Rev. J. S.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS April 25, 1935 speedily meet this challenge or eral secret political police which there will be dire consequences.” marked two former regimes. “ These measures, violative of KNIGHTS OF STS: JOHN Let the Boys Young People to every principle of civil and political have this Fra- Assist Diocese liberty, should be promptly defeated. t e r n i t y and The young people of the diocese They represent in substance an at­ you will have of Western New York on April 24th tack upon the organization of work­ the boys in held a ball in honor of Bishop Davis ers and of farmers against whom Church. Pro­ with the proceeds going to his work such statutes have universally been vides worth­ in the diocese'. Each parish was used. No present danger to the while things to country’s institutions demands any do. Endorsed represented on the committee, in b y leading this way indicating the unified af­ such summary and drastic measures. Bishops and Clergy. Ritual of Ini­ fection the people of the diocese While speciously aimed only at ad­ tiations $1.00. Headquarters: 3012 have for their bishop and their sup­ vocacies of ‘force and violence,’ ex­ West Coulter Street, Philadelphia, port for his efforts. perience has proved that such laws 1 Pa. become weapons in the hands of re­ Joint Passion actionaries against their opponents in the ranks of workers and farmers. CHURCH FACTS AND PRINCIPLES Service Conducted By the Rev. T. Tracy Walsh, D.D. Under the leadership of the Rev. “ While the undersigned speak for “ The best book on the Church and Chris­ no party or group, we appeal to tian religion that I have ever seen in any­ William Porkess, rector of St. Ste­ thing approaching its compact form and phen’s Church, Wilkinsburg, Pa., you in the interest of democratic size.” — Bishop Bratton. “ Can be unreservedly rights to oppose these un-American recommended.” — Leon C. Palmer. Paper $1.25. there was held in his church on Cloth $2.00. Good Friday a passion service in and unwarranted proposals.” MOREHOUSE PUBLISHING CO. conjunction with members of the Others signing the statement were Milwaukee, Wis. Sherwood Anderson, distinguished Council of Churches of Wilkinsburg. A W A K EN YO U R PARISH from its This was the fifteenth year of this novelist; Professor Chafee of Har­ vard Law School; Dr. Harry Emer­ spiritual and financial iethargy by a service, with ministers of the local comprehensive but dignified money­ churches preaching. son Fosdick; President Neilson of raising campaign. Smith College and Professor Ross of Wisconsin. GATES, STONE & COMPANY Oppose Restriction 8 West 40 Street of Liberties New York Praises Patience Bishop Paul Jones and Guy Emery Of the Unemployed Shipler, editor of The Churchman, RELIGIOUS ORDER Bishop Spencer of Western Mis­ Those interested in the formation of a re­ were among the twenty-six well- souri, preaching last week at the ligious order for women and girls, active, on known people to sign a communica­ new lines, are invited to address Handmaids noonday Lenten services held in a of Mercy, care of The Witness, 826 Tribune tion sent to President. 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J. “ Not in years has the country the orderliness of the vast majority of the unemployed, their tenacity in SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA: Guest faced so determined a drive by re­ House of Sisters of The Resurrection : sunny, actionary interests to restrict the holding on and remaining for the cheerful rooms. home atmosphere, com­ fortable beds, good meals, modern building civil and political liberties of the most part calm, has a religious sig­ on pleasant residence street. Charges reason­ American people. Commercial, so- nificance. It is, indirectly at least, able. Those seeking spiritual strengthening, or merely rest and quiet; convalescents not called patriotic, and military forces one of the by-products of religion.” needing special attendance, will find Rest- are urging a united campaign to Bishop Spencer declared the haven helpful. Neither hospital nor mental cases received. References asked from strang­ enact a federal sedition law, a churches today are infested with ers. Apply to Sister-in-Charge, House of The Nazarene. Resthaven, Saint Augustins. statute to make criminal the encour­ “ stowaways” ; men and women who Florida. agement of disaffection in the mili­ claim to be members of the crew tary forces and to bring back into but who are slackers on the job. The ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. the Department of Justice the fed­ task of the Church today, he said, Saint Mary’s Convent. Kenosha. Wis.

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is to stir these stowaways to life and pointed to the Forward Move­ ment as one of the great opportuni­ Wilbur Herbert Burnham ties to accomplish this task. Bishop Spencer spoke at St. Luke’s pro-cathedral, at St. Elisa­ Designer and Master C rC beth’s church, Glencoe, and St. Craftsman Mark’s church, Glen Ellyn, in addi­ tion to his noonday engagements. * * Stained and Leaded Glass A Letter from the Rev. Edward Maxted Studios 1126 Boylston Street vi 11 be pleased to submi| The Rev. Edward Maxted, the designs and Estimates for rector of a parish down in Mississ­ Boston, Massachusetts ippi, thinks that we know more about the Kingdom of God than some of us are ready to admit. In any case he writes this letter about it, lengthy Embroidery wood but interesting: «RE* Stone-Metal and “ I have been considering very i m H i B i carefully the remarks made by Dr. V S NO-325 s i x t h -awnvivnewyor :- Bernard Iddings Bell about the new ■ STAINED GLASS-MURAL' Stained Glass I social order and the comments made MOSAIC-MARBLES'TONE E 3 by the Rev. W. B. Spofford on these i t m W CAKVED-WGDD-MLT’AL E j remarks, which appeared in T h e EXETER * Cathedral yard W i t n e s s recently. L O N D O N ’ ’ It.Tufton: St.S.V j “ Dr. Bell says it is not for the M AN CN-ESTLR 52,Victorja Street-. Church to outline, much less declare for, any system to take the place of capitalism, which capitalism accord­ ing to Dr. Bell will he dead in a few ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. years. The Church, according to Dr. 147 E. 47th St., New York Bell, should watch developments, CHURCH VESTMENTS and when the change comes see to ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY it that Christian values are preserved Conferences with references to the adornment of Churches. in the new order. Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 “ Mr. Spofford quite reasonably says that if the Church does little more than watch, not much atten­ ELLWOOD POTTS tion will be paid to it when the Master Craftsman in change comes. Why did not this oc­ cur to Dr. Bell I wonder? Stained and Leaded Class “ Of course there are very many 3960 Filbert StM Phila., Pa. who talk as Dr. Bell does and it is rather a puzzle to know what to say Heaton, Butler & Bayne to them. It is so plain that they are so utterly and entirely wrong that tytainrii (SictBH Artists one scarcely knows how to begin to By appointment to the late KING EDWARD VII. ►' R.GEISSLER.I NcT- reason with them. 450 SIXTH AVE.NEAR IOo> SX NEW YORK “ The Church prays daily that Stained Glass Windows Gfturrfi Furnishings God’s Kingdom may come on earth. Memorial Brasses, Etc. We read in the Bible about this IN CARVED WOOD AND Designs and Estimates MARBLE-BRASS - SILVER Kingdom which is destined some day FABRICS * WINDOWS w to supersede all earthly kingdoms, Heaton, Butler & Bayne and we all understand, even though (N. Y.) Ltd., it may be in a dim way, that God’s 15 EAST 40TH STREET The BISHOPS ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS by Paul Kingdom means God’s plan and NEW YORK CITY T. Schultz Jr. The statements on social prob­ God’s pattern for the perfect social lems contained in Pastorals since 1808. order; and yet we are to say nothing 5c a copy, postpaid about it. It passes my understanding FASCISM, a brilliant analysis of the Fascism movement and the trend toward it in that Christian people can think in A m erica. this way. 10c a copy, postpaid “ The Church was sent into the AUSTIN ORGAN CO. Church League for Industrial Democracy world to proclaim the Gospel of the 154 Nassau Street New York City Hartford, Conn. Kingdom of God, and yet we are not to give any clear idea as to what Designers and Builders this Kingdom is.' I can understand of VESTMENTS people talking as Dr. Bell does if Cassocks, Surplices, Stoles, Silks, PIPE ORGANS Embroideries, Cloths, Fringes they do not believe in any destined CLERICAL SUITS Kingdom on earth. If they believe noted for their superior tonal qualities Priest Cloaks, Rabats, Collars and mechanical reliability C hurch Vestment Specialists that all we have to do is to save for over half a century people for the Kingdom in heaven, j COX SONS & VINING- INC. that we are simply passing through Correspondence Solicited SBBi 133 EA S T 23RD STREET , NEW YORK.N.Y. this evil world, and should have

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In the suggested that systems did not mat­ verted, who are not inspired with Davenport Pastoral they assert that ter, that all that was needed was Christian ideals?” .Christ demands a new social order. conversion of heart and a sincere * * * Well, Christ may demand it, but not desire to serve God, and then the Honored by King we. We are just to watch and let Cathedral would come about some­ for Church Work it come about as it may. how in God’s good time. But for the The King of England’s recent “ Some who really wish God’s Kingdom of God itself we need take honor list, by the inclusion of Kingdom to come even talk like this. no care, good men will bring it Frances Hasell and Douglas Gane, It is God’s Kingdom, and it will come about in spite of themselves. recognized values in work conducted sometime or other, somehow, what “ But I think we need blue prints. by the Church in rural districts and it will be like we have no idea, it is And I think we have all we need if in an isolated field. Miss Hasell, God’s Kingdom, and so He will bring we will only study them. They are starting fifteen years ago with one it about and will fashion it. all in the Bible, and the Church re­ motor van which she drove herself “ All we have to do is to wait and fers to them in the Prayer Book, into the remotest regions of west­ watch. And in the. meantime to but they need to be studied anfl ern Canada, now directs seventeen preach general principles which will understood. Do these people really motor caravans, doing. Church school never get us into trouble. Let us advocate brethren, the Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man, and so long as we do not ex­ Services of Leading Churches plain what we mean, or what God The Cathedral of St. John St. Paul’s Church means, it will be all right. Everyone Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. the Divine Sunday Services: will agree and little by little they Cathedral Heights Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. will become better. New York City Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. “ It is all humbug. You may preach 9:30. Children’s Service. 10. Morning Morning Service, 11:00 a. m. Prayer or Litany. 11, Holy Communion Evening Service, 8 :00 p. m. ‘ thou shalt not steal’ as hard as and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and you like. But until you explain what Sermon. St. James’ Church, New York Weekdays: 7 :30, Holy Communion Madison Avenue and 71st Street stealing is it will inake no difference. (also on Saints’ Days at 10). Morning The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector And you may advocate the Kingdom Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Sunday Services Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4 :30. 8 A. Mi—Holy Communion. of God in general statements and no 11 A. M.— Morning Prayer and Sermon. one will be the wiser. Church of St. Mary the Virgin 8 P. M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon. New York “ Of course I understand that it 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Trinity Church, New York Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. will be said that it is the conver­ Sunday Masses, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Broadway and Wall St. sion of the heart we should be after, Vespers and Benediction : 8 P. M. Sundays: 8. 9. 11 and 3:30. individual conversion, then once a Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. man is converted he will be certain Grace Church, New York St. Paul’s Cathedral to do the right thing. Good men Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Buffalo, New York can make any system work. It won’t Broadway at 10th St. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 and 4. Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Weekdays: 8, 12:05. make any difference what system of Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy society you have, if you only have urdays. Days: 10:30 a. m. converted men all will be well. Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thursdays and Holy Days. Christ Church Cathedral They will somehow bring about Hartford, Conn. God’s Kingdom in time simply by The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Cor. Main and Church Streets practising personal religion. Disciple, New York The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, 11:00 a. m .; 7:30 “ No one ever talks in this way Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. p. m. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. about anything else. I wonder what Sunday School 9 :30 a. m .; Morning Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. sort of a football match it would be Service and Sermon 11 a. m .; Musical Holy Communion. Vespers 4 p. m. if no plans were made, if no one had Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Grace and St. Peter’s Church, any idea as to what constituted the munion at 11 a. m. Baltimore, Md. game or the victory. All they need (Park Avenue and Monument Street) The Incarnation The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers, D.D. to do is to have their hearts in the Rev. Gordon B. Wadhams Madison Avenue and 35th Street Rev. Bernard McK. Garlick Rev. George A. Robertshaw Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. Minister in Charge Week Days: 8 a. m. Yachting Cruises Sundays 8, 10 and 11 a. m., 4 p. m. Daily 12 :20. 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work for Canadian children in rural Child; the jewel of light (the image requires a human body and a world areas. Mr. Gane is a layman, a vol­ of the star, the birth of the sun); not unlike the present, with its un­ unteer worker in London, promoting the gift tree, with apples, nuts, pleasant aspects left out. But the and helping largely to support the bread, the star on the gable, the star modern man cannot conceive of any work of the S. P. G. on “the lone­ reflected on the roof of Walhalla, reproduction and continuance in an­ liest island in the world,” Tristan on Irminsul or Yggdragsil or Irmin- other world of the kind of life we da Cunha. Iring road.” The Epiphany is the lay down at death that is not full * * * day of the three mythological of all sorts of absurdities. This point The New Calendar heroes (Asen) ; Ash-Wednesday is has been neatly stated by Kirsopp In Germ any “ Ash Wodan’s Day” ; Palm Sunday Lake in his “ Immortality and the In the new German Peasants’ Cal­ and the Sunday after Easter stand Modern Mind” , who says that the in- endar, officially published by the for the consecration of youth; As­ dissoluable connection between spirit Reichsnährstand, Christian dates cension Day is the day of Donar’s and body led the Jew to believe in have been omitted. Instead, the entry into heaven. the resurrection of the flesh and the $ $ $ Christian days are linked up with modern to deny the immortality of the old mythological beliefs and the The History of the the soul. old German customs. Good Friday American Church Mr. Lamont’s philosophical bias is reads: “ Good, or Quiet, Friday. Sorry there is no article this essentially mechanistic determinism. Think of the 4500 Saxons murdered week by Dr. Chorley— but you know His discussion therefore of the rela­ by Karl the Butcher (Charlemagne), how it is during Holy Week. The tion of mind and bodily mechanism, and of the nine million other cham­ man just couldn’t find the time to upon which his main argument de­ pions of justice, heroes of the faith, write it. But he has promised more pends, will hardly satisfy other heretics and sorcerers who were and we hope to continue for a num­ schools of philosophy and science. murdered, tortured to death and ber of weeks longer with the in­ The force of his logic rests upon his burnt.” On Easter Day the calen­ teresting series. materialistic assumptions. dar reads: “ The Festival of Ostara, The generality of mankind lives by of the Sunrise end of the Spring; of hopes of the future which are mat­ A FINE NEW BOOK ON OLD young trees and branches, which ters of faith, not knowledge. The awaken and bless life; of Easter TESTAMENT BY LOUIS orthodox Christian puts his hope in water and dew baths, Easter dancing WALLIS a better society in another world: the and springing, and the call o f the (Continued from page 8) orthodox Communist puts his hope in cuckoo; the Easter apple, the Eas­ individual personality presented here a better society in this world. Neither ter hare and Easter eggs.” At are neither more nor less persuasive expectation can be proved or dis­ Christmas, under “ Christmas Eve” , than the arguments in favor of it by proved. A man therefore is entitled the calendar reads: “ Baldur’s light- defenders of the faith. Mr. Lamont to draw what comfort he may from birth and mother night and the visit reasons that the only kind of sur­ either view or both. of the demale yule— and Christ- vival that satisfies the common man It is a good book.

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