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— as if all experimentation with GC II Deals with Other Matters liturgy is not confusing, and al- though many deputies were probably unhappy with the Trial publication. After Debates on Manifesto Liturgy they were loath to fly and By John M. Krumm spread even among quite sophis- to worse evils they knew not of. Rector of Church of the Ascension ticated deputies was shown by The proposed trial use of the reuse New York COCU liturgy was also chal- for the outspoken opposition of Pro- lenged, but survived by a hand- * After the emotional exhaus- fessor Massey Shepherd and some majority. After Dr. Shep- tion of the debates on the re- Professor A. T. Mollegen. Ap- herd's superb conduct of the required sponse to the black manifesto, parently we are going to live for House of Deputies' devotions, the convention turned with an an indefinite future with our one deputy declared that per- air of anti-climax to other mat- present theological confusion haps if Dr. Shepherd could read the Trial Liturgy on a tape more Permission ters, not less important perhaps and permissiveness without any because they were less news- effort to confront it seriously or people might be converted to it! worthy and less charged with to reduce it to some sort of order His choice of devotional pas- DFMS. tension. A first step was voted sages from the gospels was / or pattern. for a new clergy deployment faultless, and his prayers — system with authorization given On two matters the conven- even though they addressed God

Church for establishment of a New York tion felt the heavy hand of the as "You"—were supremely mov- office and for a data bank com- establishment — one was theo- ing and searching and timely. puter. Account was taken of logical education and the other was liturgical reform. An effort One general observation of Episcopal men who wish to combine a ministry in the church with con- to broaden the membership of the General Convention of 1969 the the joint commission on educa- —the old lines of division and of tinuing secular employment, and changes in the canons to make tion for holy orders, presently difference in the E pis c o p a 1 this easier to do were voted. including only one member of a Church have been swept away theological faculty, and to pro- Archives Major medical and life insurance and a certain confusion and dis- coverage for the clergy was au- vide for confirmation of the organization is the result. The membership by the General Con- 2020. thorized, based upon a plan pre- tightly organized minorities — sented by the Church Pension vention was decisively turned Anglo- Catholic and Liberal- Fund. Assessments for this pur- down. Apparently this is to con- Evangelical—once kept things in pose will begin to be assigned ef- tinue to be the preserve of a line, imposed a pattern upon the Copyright fective January 1, 1971. rather elite group of congenial always potentially turbulent experts, even though it prom- House of Deputies. Now the Overwhelmingly defeated was ises to have enormous power issues lie elsewhere, and except the proposal to establish an ad- over the theological schools of for the blacks, who did not visory council on the church's the Episcopal Church. The demonstrate any very smooth teaching. One deputy was blunt House of Deputies also refused organization either, no one real- enough to announce that he to concur with the bishops in ly knows where responsibility wanted to be free to teach and permitting a wider use of litur- lies. gies from other parts of the An- preach whatever he understood There was in addition an ap- to be "the Catholic religion" glican Communion in the "trial without any interference from use" period. Dr. Shepherd raised palling amount of carelessness an 815 Inquisition or Holy Of- the alarm that such extension and clumsiness by some of the fice! That this fear was wide- was likely to prove "confusing" secretarial assistants and com-

II SEPTEMBER, 1969 Tbree mittee chairmen. The platform brisk? And the patient and de- voted down with a roar of voices, group were almost entirely new liberate style of Dr. Coburn in when questions were put to vote. to their tasks — president, des- the chair and the quite unusual So who got what? patch of business and parlia- competence of Hugh Jones of mentarian. All of this made the Central New York at the helm If my sense of what I hear is business of the house somewhat on despatch of business deserve still good, the blacks got more less crisp and brisk than it has highest praise. This was a con- than they ever expected to get. sometimes been. But who cares vention for the history books. They shot for the sky and over- if a revolution is not crisp and How can Houston top it? stated their case, knowing from the past that to ask for reasoned judgment would probably get them little or nothing. You gam- ble when you overstate your Life Will Never Be The Same case, but at times you have to do it and take the risks involved. Again After Special GC II The risk was taken, and conven- tion cut through the over- publication. By Robert L. Curry sentatives who were in our work weighted words and phrases, and Headmaster of Lenox School committee sessions — this was a and made a break-through to lead the churches of the nation.

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for vention which helped to create Convention got the satisfac- House of Deputies of a morning, tion of knowing that it could one never knew what "special attitudes and to change them. On a pool which was taken at face the issue — and many dele-

required events" — not scheduled on the the end of the session, the dep- gates did more soul-searching agenda — would be enacted be- during the week than they had fore the end of the evening. uties and additional representa- done in a lifetime — and take From the "takeover" on the sec- tives were 5-1 in favor of this the gamble to invest in a group Permission ond night of convention by Ken- representation and the contribu- about which it knows little as yatta and his demands for rep- tion which they made. For some to composition or program. We did not withdraw — we did not DFMS. arations, to the final evening reason which I cannot fathom at / when the young people turned this point, only 13 bishops out of stand still—convention revealed about 58 responding to the poll the courage it waa not sure it their backs on the House of Dep- had. The question will not be: Church uties for refusing to pass a reso- were in favor. will it pay off? It has payed off lution regarding "sanctuary", The greatest problem for this in the single accomplished fact this convention was filled with General Convention was the that we listened, cut through Episcopal events bearing upon discussions, press. What happened was not much of the verbiage and came the debate, and decisions — it was accurately reported and often to a decision which is helpful to of power-packed, and the conven- not the sense of the meetings, God's people — more than in tion spoke its mind. and all delegates in both houses terms of dollars. of the convention have their Archives This was a turning point in work cut out for them to try and The youth got more than it the history of our church, and explain and interpret what actu- expected. It was heard and given 2020. never underestimate what hap- ally happened. a lot of time. In work committee pened at South Bend. As a na- The single most important sessions, young people had their tional church, we are repre- issue as the whole church now say and were listened to care-

Copyright sented by people from all parts knows was race. The House of fully and with patience. Youth of the nation, all points-of-view Deputies took the better part of was given time in a busy agenda •—almost, and to go as far as we three days on this — some thir- to present their views on the went in a time of rigid polarities teen hours to pass four resolu- war in Vietnam; to present two was no mean feat. Unless you tions, and staying in session young men who are AWOL from sit in the House of Deputies, until after midnight on Tuesday the armed services; to conduct and listen carefully day-after- of convention week. Let no one for three and a half days a "me- day, you don't sense the many talk about a lack of concern morial" service in the gallery by currents making up the stream about this issue. Hundreds of reading the list of the war dead of this legislative body. deputies at their places for four in Vietnam. Convention passed I am sure that what helped and a half hours on Tuesday legislation whereby youth will deputies to face the issues this night to face this issue, and all be elected to the Executive year was the additional repre- attempts to side-track it were Council. Many deputies went to THB WITNESS youth's "happenings" after ses- through Houston many will was felt about them. It will sions were over at the end of the watch to see if minority groups come up again in Houston in evenings. Even when youth and youth will be as responsive 1970. turned its back on the House of and responsible as convention The methodology of the con- Deputies for not passing a reso- was — we acted with a sense of vention, involving work discus- lution favorable to the idea of responsibility, and the burden sion groups on major items, sanctuary, it did not turn off of proving that we did a good seemed to win the favor of the the deputies. thing now moves over in some deputies and they expressed degree to others in a way which warmth towards the idea of con- The women were heard and was never done before. fronting the special delegates indeed this was good prepara- It is a short time to Houston from women, youth and minori- tion for Houston if they are and there is much to be accom- ty groups to hear and confront. seated, and I cannot conceive plished — we are in times of The bishops were less sanguine that we will ever turn the clock much movement — the chances about the method, according to back on this one by 1970, for we are good that when Houston is a evaluation sheet. Much of this saw what they contributed in concluded the face of the in- was due to the fact that, when publication. the work committee sessions at stitutional church will be the issue of the black manifesto South Bend. and changed, and marks of the and the church's response to it So what's next? From now Spirit will be shining through. came up in the nature of the

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for which became known as the Co- Setting the Scene at GC II burn report, since the president of the deputies had chaired the required By William B. Spofford Jr. will, the Spirit blew and a com- council's committee which drew Bishop of Eastern Oregon promise solution came out. it up — the deputies had to battle it out and little business * This has been a convention In the house of bishops, Bish- could get over to the other Permission of great confrontation, agony, op William Moody of Lexington, house. wavering, fear, reaching out and Bishop Robert Brown of and some expressions of love. Arkansas, were movers to con- This was symbolized in the DFMS. / The issue, of course, was colored cur with the resolution of the Wednesday morning session, black and white, and the deputies. This was done after a when the tired deputies were in- last effort was made to give formed that message one from

Church "damned if you do and damned if you don't" focus was money $200,000 to the BEDC directly the bishops was to inform them to the Black Economic Develop- as a sign of trust in the church's that a Bucharest statement on ment Conference. Never, per- black members, whose efforts in relations with the Orthodox had Episcopal haps, have parliamentary snarls the convention were primarily been approved. The statement the been greater; parliamentary led by the Rev. Paul Washington had originally been proposed in of maneuvering more in evidence; of Philadelphia, who had been 1935 and, because of political and, in most cases, honest ef- chaplain of the house at the St. factors in Europe since then — forts made to listen to the Louis convention in 1964; Canon war, revolution, invasions, politi- Archives crisis of our time. On Wednes- Junius Carter of Pittsburgh; the cal instability, etc. — it could day morning, Sept. 3, the House Rev. Joe Pelham of Detroit and not come up until now. The in- 2020. of Bishops adjourned to listen the Rev. Jesse Anderson Jr., of congruity drew a big laugh from to the debate in the House of Philadelphia. all. Deputies since the feeling was There seemed to be a general * After the House of Bishops Copyright that such a critical issue could feeling at the close that the voted the compromise resolution not be fought on just one floor reality of the racial crisis, and on the Coburn report, Mrs. Sal- without both houses going its agony, had hit in a gutsy lie Eckert of Birmingham, through the same feelings of way to most of the participants. Michigan, staged a demonstra- pain, confusion, trepidation, All knew that there was a job tion of her own in the house. anxiety and hope. of education and interpretation She interrupted the Bishop of The black caucus cried, most confronting them at home. Georgia in mid-speech by seizing eloquently and powerfully, Much of the house-keeping a microphone. After the P.B. "trust us, brothers"; the white business of the church, such as ruled her out of order until the majority felt under the gun. clergy deployment and restruc- end of the items in hand, the Words were heated and feel- turing, was looked at but, given house voted her permission to ings were high. Somehow, as he the main item of business, little speak. There was some feeling

II SEPTEMBER, 1969 MM that permission should not be * The House of Bishop ap- prophet stands with his right granted but Bishop Campbell of proved: A proposed new type of arm holding the tablets and his West Virginia said that the life and major medical insurance left arm raised with index house had "been subjected to all for clergymen and lay workers finger pointing high. Bishop sorts of interruptions and in the church, to be mandatory Brown of Arkansas, who claims demonstrations and we ought to on all jurisdictions on January the "Razorbacks" may be tops give her the same courtesy 1, 1971. One of the appealing in the country this fall, reports we've given others". features of the plan, according that, in Notre Dame, it is said Mrs. Eckert said: "It's hard to many bishops, was good that Christ is shouting: "We to find words to the kind of out- coverage in the psychiatric field, score again", and Moses is rage that has gone on here this which is turning out to be a shouting: "We're number one". week. You lost hope. You let us most costly item in the pastoral A black delegate reported, how- down. You rubber-stamped the care of clergy. ever, that Moses seems to be incredible action of the House Gave permission to ordained saying: "Up against the wall." of Deputies by refusing to open- clergymen of other denomina- * Starting on Tuesday, the ly grant money to black develop- tions to read morning and Episcopal Peace Fellowship, co- evening prayer in Episcopal publication. ment movements and failed to ordinated by Nat Pierce and show trust or love to blacks. churches. An amendment to al- Lyle Grosjean, started a peace and The House of Bishops has been low them to pass the chalice at service-vigil by reading the replaced with another IBM ma- holy communion, with the con- names of the Vietnam war dead reuse chine. I have no voice. You pre- sent of the bishop, was narrowly quietly in the galleries. A quiet, for sumably speak for me. But you defeated. colorful and prayerful demon- apparently were afraid you were Because of the debate on the stration on the issue was held going to be hurt. You kept say- black manifesto in the House of on the podium, introduced by required ing what will people back home Deputies, however, the bishops Bishop Myers of California, and think. You were called to lead had to sit tight on their legisla- during it two absent without people back home. But you have tive schedule and preoccupied leave service men, Louis Jones, itself with its committee meet- Permission abdicated your responsibility." marine corporal and Vietnam ings. veteran, and airman Louis * The Gathering Place, which * The Notre Dame football Parry, were introduced to the DFMS. / featured classical guitarists, folk squad is practicing out back of convention. They explained why, singers, and lots of relaxing dis- the conference center. The field for reasons of conscience, they cussion, proved a popular item. is enclosed by curtains, presum- were AWOL and asking sanctu- Church Each night, the youth delegates ably because of fear that many ary. The youth delegates then would have a discussion on some deputies and bishops, might be surrounded them in the gallery, issue pressing to them, such as moon-lighting as scouts for wearing blue armbands. Episcopal the draft, war and peace, race, their local universities. As a and always concluded with an * Indians got some attention the result, in order to see what N. D. of agape eucharist of one type or is coming up with this fall, one at the convention but nothing to another. has to stand on a hill and evalu- compare with the blacks. There ate from a long way off. We did is now an executive officer for Archives * Each morning, the coalition see five straight perfect field- Indian affairs at 815. Kent Fitz- of youth and blacks put out goals from what looked like the gerald of Arizona was intro- 2020. Issues, as was done by others at 45 yard line, but the defensive duced and will head up all mat- Seattle. It challenges, pushes, line wasn't charging. ters having to do with Eskimos probes and prods — and people as well as Indians. He is of the read it. Copyright * The bishops moved to evalu- Chippewa tribe and has served All of Tuesday was involved ate the canons on remarriage for 29 years in the U.S. bureau with backing-and-filling parlia- after divorce in light of societal of Indian affairs. mentarily in the House of Dep- mobility. It goes to a study com- mittee. * And so it went. Did the uties. At one point, such a snafu church take a great step for- developed that all items were * The Millard Sheets mural of ward under the pull of the fu- tabled and a new start ordered. Christ and history of the church ture or did it polarize itself. The only issue of the day was on the library has Christ stand- Some feel one way and some the response to the black manifesto ing tall with arms up-raised. other. Nobody, however, leaves and the giving of §200,000 to the Outside the library door is a South Bend with the feeling Black Economic Development powerful sculpture of Moses by that they've been involved in a Conference. Joseph Turkolj. 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made when it seemed on Tuesday night that no Miracle Convention special new money for the Black Economic De- velopment Conference would be voted, stunned of 1969 the deputies who sat in silent disbelief at the bitterness of the black clergy's disappointment By John M. Krumm and sense of betrayal. It must be acknowledged, Rector of Church of the Ascension, New York however, that the black clergy failed, in the opinion of many convention deputies, in com- GENERAL CONVENTION of September, 1969 municating their sense of urgency about the at Notre Dame has been the most bizarre, the issue to the house. No black clergyman spoke in most boisterous, the most abrasive, the most emo- debate. tion charged, the most strenuous, the most mi- But the miracle convention of 1969 may claim raculous convention in the memory of any partici- that title not only for what it did — though that publication. pants, and it has produced a spectacular and al- is reason enough — but for the character of the and most unbelievable positive response to the issues people attending, the mood of the participants, of America in the last third of the 20th century. the revelation it has given us of what the Epis- reuse The climax came on Wednesday morning, Sep- copal Church really is. It is not the right wing for tember 3 in the House of Deputies when it was of the Republican party at prayer. It is not the finally agreed to direct new money in the amount comfortable upper middle-class version of re- required of $200,000 to the National Committee of Black spectable Christianity. It is the most diverse, Churchmen — an ecumenical agency — for them motley, wildly varied group of human beings to expend on projects which in their discretion that could be imagined. Here were young people seemed likely to promote economic self-determi- who cared enough to come and cheer and ap- Permission nation for the black people of America in accord- plaud, to talk and demonstrate, to keep close ance with the guide-lines laid down at the Seat- tabs on voting, posting occasional signs about

DFMS. tle convention. Among the guide-lines, of course, / deputations of whose vote they disapproved. One was a prohibition against grants to projects fur- delegation who voted "right" received an ecstatic thering the use of violence in social change. Al- note from the special youth representative from Church though the press has been faulted for reporting that diocese — splendid in bare feet, a moun- that the convention bowed to demands for "rep- taineer hat and tattered jeans — saying, "We arations" and in effect made a grant to the love you." Episcopal Black Economic Development Council, organized The blacks came in large numbers and roamed the by James Forman — it is no secret that the of the halls, proud to be a part of the decision-mak- money will in all likelihood end up there — the ing process in such an obvious way. The protes- convention's actions must be accounted to be the tors against Vietnam came and stood throughout

Archives most generous gesture yet made by any religious the entire convention in a section of the balcony, body in response to the black manifesto. quietly reading the list of Vietnam war dead, a 2020. The reason for the decision must be empha- sobering reminder of the background against sized and re-emphasized — it was primarily an which the church lives and prays and makes de- act of trust in the black clergy of the Episcopal cisions in these days. Copyright Church who believe in this movement as an ex- Perhaps the greater miracle is the reception pression of self-determination and who are most these unfamiliar and surely often unwelcome likely to be informed and sensitive in this area. visitors received. They were taken seriously That was the argument that moved the conven- despite their clothes and manners. They were tion, and it moved many men who would never listened to and they made an impact. A few by any stretch of the imagination have endorsed angry shouts were directed at them, but the James Forman, his words, or his deeds. It was great mass of the deputies seemed glad for the in response to the emotional speeches on the signs of vitality and promise they brought with floor of the House of Deputies by men like the them, and they made an effort to understand Rev. Junius Carter of Pittsburgh or the Rev. which ought to be recorded as a remarkable Paul Washington of Philadelphia. The speeches, achievement of the Holy Spirit. This was ac-

II SSPTEMBBB, 1969 Smt* complished in part by the use of small discussion history, and there, over against man, was the groups, called "work committees." But the ca- Lord who had created and redeemed him." maraderie of the dining room and the easy in- We talked about God ruling human history, formality and cohesiveness of the whole conven- but ignored the world of those being ruled. We tion program and setting helped even more. talked about man's creation as if creation were There is every indication that there will be a thing of the past, forgetting that creation con- even more excitement at Houston in 1970, and tinues. We forgot that man grows and develops Bishop Hines deserves the church's hearty in a context of relationships, that redemption thanks for seeing the possibilities all this held occurs in the midst of the world of which man is and leading us into it. very much a part. The concern with a transcendent God on a one- to-one basis did have an effect on personal rela- The Religious Situation tions. The parable of the good Samaritan taught its lesson well. There is a Christian obligation to By Lee A. Belford aid the victims of brutality. For example, it was publication. Director Department of Religion, New York University the Christian consensus when slavery was prac- and FIFTEEN YEARS AGO we were in the midst ticed that one should be kind to slaves. It was of what we called a religious revival. Church at- assumed and still is that charity should always reuse tendance was increasing, contributions were ris- be extended to the needy — those on the verge for ing substantially, new church buildings were of starvation, those dying of disease, and that going up all over the land, religious books were sort of thing. To help someone you know or know about who is in dire circumstances is con- required selling well, and talk about God was au courant. It was a time when Karl Barth and other "most sidered virtuous and a virtuous act adds a jewel quoted" theologians were talking about God's to one's crown in heaven. Poultices or at least greatness, and man's littleness, of God's sov- band-aids are the stock in trade of practicing Permission ereignty and man's helplessness. Did this reli- Christians and Christians have become skilled in gious revival, if that is what it was, have any binding the wounds of the afflicted. But what

DFMS. effect upon our society ? Did it result in a deeper about factors in society that inflicted the ills? / concern for the needs of our fellow men? That was and is the blind spot. If so, where is the evidence? And what hap- Even though there is the consensus that Church pened to all those who were discovering religion Christians ought to help the beaten man, there for the first time? The commitments of some is not a similar consensus in regard to the social were genuine and they are still with us. Others factors that cause the beating. Slavery as an Episcopal were self-centered and perhaps materialistic as institution was upheld as well as opposed in the the they talked about what they wanted to get out name of Christianity. The same can be said of of of religion and they were disappointed that reli- laws opposed to discrimination on the basis of gion was no magical panacea. Others were un- race and ethnic background. It is now commonly

Archives able to see the relationship between the worship accepted that social security, wages and hours of God and the cares and concerns of the world. laws, child labor laws, and similar types of social

2020. Because they could not, the cares and concerns legislation are for the common good. Did Chris- of the world squeezed out their so-called "reli- tians, as Christians, agree that the legislation gious faith." should be enacted? In fact, if one examines the

Copyright The question is whether a person can be a good social legislation of the last century or more it Christian and still have a care and concern for is difficult to see that Christian beliefs were of the world or whether one has to get rid of such any significance at all. Of course, on a personal a care and concern in order to be a good Chris- basis Christians knew they should be just in tian. In speaking of the traditional position of their personal dealings. There was a lack of con- the church, Gregory Baum, the eminent Au- sensus when matters of social justice were under gustinian priest said: "We tended to regard man consideration. That was quite another matter. as facing two worlds; on the one hand, the world of every day, the human world of personal and Cushioned Pews social history, and on the other, the divine world MANY PERSONS supported the church because of the transcendent God, the merciful Lord who it did not interfere with politics or social mat- ruled human history. Here was a man and his ters. They wished to be undisturbed in their Bight Tm Wmaa comfortable pews. The result was the stereotype to its purpose. Its purposes can be clarified if of a congregation frozen stiff with respectability. the church listens to what is being said in the The church was the place where you met the secular world. In that world there is talk about nicest people in town and a good place to know social justice. There is talk about man's capaci- the right people if you wanted your daughter ty to change things, not just man's smallness. to make her debut. Certainly people like this saw There is a concern with the mystery that is no relationship between their Christian beliefs inherent in every community of men. Attempts and the cares and concerns of the world as are being made to identify the agencies of de- understood in terms of social involvement. Na- struction and the structures of healing. There turally they are unhappy that much of the is a concern with goodness in all of its ramifica- clerical leadership is now concerned with social tions. It is strange that the church should have matters. After all, the clergy do not have to to be taught these things, but it can learn. And earn a living and they are paid sufficiently little we can hope that the twentieth century in what that they ought to be humble and humility is left of it will learn to see these concerns in should lead to spirituality. They are unhappy the context of God's sovereignty, his creation

publication. that some of the laity should start talking in and redemption, and in the shared experience of radical terms. It is not surprising that they the Christian community empowered by the Holy and should feel alienated by the pronouncements and Spirit.

reuse action on the part of the leadership of the

for church, such as we have just witnessed at the General Convention. It would be surprising if their feeling of estrangement were not reflected Episcopalians Lead required in decreased contributions. REPORTING any General Convention is a tough There are those who never had any strong job but it was particularly so with the South Bend ties to the church who are appalled at the social affair. Robert Curry, John Krumm and W. B. Permission ills that are too easily tolerated by professing Spofford Jr. have, we are sure, done an admirable Christians. There is the obvious scandal of pover- job, so if you read this issue and the one that pre-

DFMS. ty in the midst of plenty with opportunities for ceded you will have the complete story. / growth and development for too many people And for good measure we are also giving you simply stifled. They look at Christians still wor- the wrap-up story of the press office of the Execu- Church shipping in a traditional fashion, using archaic tive Council. Repetitions there are in abundance words and thought forms and still talking of sal- but we are letting them stand, first because it is vation as if it were a thing of the past. They ask too big a job to eliminate them, and, two, because Episcopal questions of relevance and are not pleased with our three correspondents, as well as the official the the answers they get. press office, all abound with enthusiasm over the of accomplishments. Church Will Learn It is worthy of note that a week following GC II

Archives CONSIDERING these factors it is not difficult the general board of the National Council of to see why we should be in the midst of a reli- Churches followed the example of the Episcopal

2020. gious decline. Using the same categories that Church by asking its member churches to raise were used in talking of a religious revival, there "immediately" $500,000 of "new money" to go are and will be fewer people attending church, for the economic development of black communi-

Copyright less money contributed, fewer new buildings, and ties. It was also voted to raise "tens of millions that sort of thing. Some of us still believe in the of dollars" to be used for loans and grants to "dis- revelation recorded in the scriptures and in sal- advantaged" groups. vation through Jesus Christ. We still believe in Bishop Hines spoke with great feeling and the efficacy of the sacraments. We hold to our forthrightness about his concern for the divisive- beliefs even though much of the criticism of the ness which has appeared in the church. Lee Bel- church is warranted. Some of us have doubts ford deals with the same matter in the article about our own beliefs. But the church can sur- above — which is our reason for printing it in vive. It survived after Christendom lost over this number. half its number in the eighth and ninth cen- Such a calm and reasoned analysis of the pres- turies and it can survive should there be a major ent religious situation will, we trust, change at defection in the twentieth century, if it is loyal least a few minds.

II 1969 Nin* Both agreed, with countless Notre Dame Convention Broke others, that it had been the openness and candor of discus- Centuries of Tradition sion and the willingness to ac- cept concepts far different from We state on page nine that reports for deliberation, rather than the anything seriously advanced in in this issue are often repetitious. the past that made this conven- The following account repeats much scope of substance or adopted of what has been written by our cor- legislation, that set this gather- tion unique. respondents in this and the I Sep- ing apart from the sixty-three Its essential spirit and colora- tember, 1969 number. It is presented antecedent meetings of the because it is a release of the press tion was to be found early, in office of the Executive Council, mak- church's supreme legislative the presence of the "additional ing it as official as anything can be body. representatives" who came as in the Episcopal Church. Presiding Bishop John E. observers from 81 of the di- Hines, said the South Bend ses- oceses — observers with voice * The special convention, orig- sions amounted to a "pioneering inally called to clear up business and vote in the plenary sessions and monumental convention . . . and working groups. These in- publication. left over from its gathering in which will take its place at the Seattle two years ago, concluded cluded the youth, the minority and very top of such meetings of our after having shattered centuries representatives and the women, church." still substantially disenfran- reuse of tradition while pointing the He declared that he believed church along hitherto unex- chised in their own communion. for that the delegates from both Their free participation in the plored byways of human involve- houses "have gone away with a ment. discussion and voting of the new conception of what confron- working groups and plenary ses- required In the course of its week-long tation with the world truly sessions the Episcopalians, means for the church." among other things, became the The president of the House of first major American religious Write us for

Permission Deputies, the Rev. John Coburn, denomination to recognize the concurred completely with Bish- Black Economic Development op Hines, declaring the conven- Organ Information DFMS. Conference as a valid move-

/ tion had been "one of the most ment, offering "an expression of extraordinary experiences of our AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. self-determination for the or- lives, occurring in a time of Hartford, Conn. Church ganizing of the black community tumult in the world." in America." And while rejecting much of

Episcopal the ideology of the organiza-

the tion's controversial black mani- OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE of festo, the 800 or so bishops, INTERESTED IN THE priests and laymen who made up DEEPER DEVOTIONAL LIFE the body of delegates at the con- A New Book . , . Archives vention gave substance to their WHEN FIRES BURN profession of recognition by Insights into the Devotional Life 2020. committing $200,000 to the ecu- compiled by Wilson 0. Weldon, Editor of The Upper Room menical National Committee of The knowledge, faith and experience of nine outstanding and diverse leaders show "htiw Black Churchmen for communi- the fires bu rri". $1.00 ea. Ten or more 85c ea.

Copyright ty development. A Second New Book . . . Then, at their final meeting, A THEOLOGY OF CHRISTIAN DEVOTION both houses acted to make an Its Role in the Modern Religious Setting by Thor Hall i'X- ••"•,•' : • H&.-'f- .']• additional $100,000 available for A look at Christian devotions from the view-; similar work among the Indians point of theology, the Bible, and the contem- porary mind-set. $1.25 ea. Ten or more and Eskimos of the nation, in- $1.00 ea. . ';•;•• , . <;, structing the executive council SPECIAL CONSULTATION ON ,..;•:••' to give top priority to such work DEVOTIONAL LIFE in the 1970 budget. Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 in Nashville Write for:complete- information: at address But it was in the spirit of the below. , •• convention itself, and the very Order bodks /roiij-THE UPPER ROOM * nature of the priorities bishops 1908 Grand Avtenue.X&shville, Tenrv.37.203 '•' ' and deputies gave to subjects

Ten THE WITNESS sions, all agreed, had a profound Special Program, adopted in house been as personal and at effect on the ultimate decisions Seattle in 1967, providing sub- times bitter as some of the of the two houses. stantial support for community words heard in the House of It was in this surfacing of organization among the poor Deputies, particularly at the new and changed attitudes, af- and minority groups. first session when blacks led by fecting even the most conserva- 3. Commended the format of Muhammed Kenyatta of Phila- tive among deputies and bish- this special convention in com- delphia, executive vice-president ops, which struck many observ- bining conference and legislative of Black Economic Development ers as the single most signifi- sessions, including "additional Conference, disrupted the plen- cant fact of the convention — representatives", to the agenda ary session and wrested the mic- a willingness to listen, an open- committtee in planning the con- rophone away from scheduled ness to change, a susceptibility vention in Houston. speakers and in the process to persuasion on the basis of 4. Authorized the licensing of jostled Bishop Hines. solid fact, offsetting precon- women as lay readers. ceived conviction and prejudice. Real Breakthroughs 5. Authorized the liturgy of It was reflected in the willing- Yet it was within the frame- ness of two traditionally con- the Consultation on C h u re h Union to be used with the per- work of such confrontation that publication. servative southern bishops to mission of the diocesan bishop. the 800 delegates responded, as and move to have their house con- one of them put it, "out of cur with action of the deputies 6. Directed a thorough review and updating of missionary understanding and love, rather reuse in accepting and adopting the strategy overseas, with special than to react in anger." for report on which the $200,000 ap- In voting the $200,000 for the propriation for black communi- attention to Latin America. 7. Asked US and UN authori- black community organization ty development was based. effort, the convention did re- required ties to give supportive concern Young People Heard to Okinawa's aspirations for re- quire that the National Commit- tee of Black Churchmen meet And it was to be seen and al- storation of full citizenship stat- us when the Ryukyu Isands re- the criteria established by the most felt in the seemingly end- 1967 General Convention for Permission vert to Japanese control. less series of caucuses and "hap- such allocation, including a com- penings" of the youth and peace 8. Reaffirmed the church's mitment to non-violence. groups on the broad Notre previously-stated stand against DFMS. / Dame campus — open forums capital punishment. While individual black clergy- for the debate of a thousand 9. Endorsed the concept of a men and some others expressed disappointment and even "out-

Church issues within and without the self-supporting ministry where- scope of the convention agenda. by ordained clergymen serve the rage" at the dimensions of the Much of the scheduled agenda church as volunteers while gain- aid, the consensus among the was freely abandoned to meet fully employed in non-ecclesias- majority of delegates and ob- Episcopal situations and subjects as they tical vocations. servers was that the Episcopal the developed out of the discussions 10. Approved a mandatory Church had taken a highly sig- of of the working groups and the group life and major medical nificant and precedent-breaking plenary sessions, with virtually insurance plan for all clergy and step in its action. all of the proposed legislation lay employees of the church, ef- And, as one bishop, Bishop Archives calling for restructure of the fective January 1, 1971. Roger Blanchard of Southern church going over to Houston, 11. Funded the setting up of Ohio, declared: "If anyone had 2020. when the next convention will an office to provide a central told me last May that these convene in October of 1970. clergy employment service. houses would take the actions 12. Appropriated $10,000 to they have here, I wouldn't have Copyright Official Action the joint commission of struc- believed it." The primary actions of this ture, half of which is to be used And, finally, as the conven- convention, in the view of most, to determine standards for the tion closed with its final eucha- could be listed as follows: viability of a diocese, and gave rist shortly after noon on Sept. 1. Expansion of membership a go-ahead for the commission 5, it had marked one final of the church's Executive Coun- to develop proposals for major "first" — it had been the only cil by six members, to include changes in the church's struc- time that a Protestant or An- two between 18 and 25 years of ture. glican denomination had ever age, and four minority repre- 13. Endorsed a plan to hold held such a meeting on the sentatives, two of them to be General Conventions every two grounds of this Roman Catholic nominated by the Union of years instead of triennially after university. It had been another Black Clergy and Laity. 1973. small notch in the yardstick of 2. Expressed confidence in the Rarely has debate in either ecumenic?! jrrowth. Schools of the Church

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