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Editoriarl and Publication Office, Eaton Road, Tunkhannock, Pa. Story of the Week tion and strengthening of World Council Secretary Presents Church life, of building national and regional councils has been Challenge of Present Situation essential for the health of the movement and that period is By W. A. Visser't Hooft common action of the Churches not over. On the contrary. We General Secretary, World Council with regard to the world issues need to intensify and especially of Churches of our time. to deepen our cooperation, so publication. that it becomes a real sharing
and SThe World Council is still Common Calling of the charismata such as is a very young organization. Al- The Council seeks to serve described in I Corinthians 12. reuse though the ecumenical move- the churches in the fulfilment This is all the more important for ment began fifty years ago, it of their common calling. In a since we enter into a period in took 27 years before the plan report such as I have to give which the structures of our for a World Council of Churches there is a certain danger to Church life-unchallenged dur- required was even formulated and then emphasize the issues which have ing many centuries-are called it took another 11 years to the greatest news value and to in question. If the Church is bring the Council into being. neglect the many less conspicu- not to retreat, but to advance Now this inexperienced body the WCC's work. new form of Church life must Permission ous aspects of which needs still to give a great We hear today many voices be found, new types of evan- deal of attention to its own in- which speak-of the cooperation gelism, of youth work, of lay
DFMS. ternal life and organization were activity. And the World Coun- / of the Churches as if that finds itself in this period of ac- a matter of minor importance. cil of Churches must be a place celeration of history confronted But such cooperation in inter- where those who do the new Church with a host of world-problems church aid, in the realm of thinking and pioneering may and crises. Since one of the studies, in the mobilization of get encouragement and inspira- main reasons for its existence the laity, in youth work and ecu- tion. The two youth confer- is to give the Churches an ef- Episcopal menical education is essential ences which will meet this sum- fective instrument for dealing mer in Lausanne and Stras- the for the upbuilding of the ecu- with world problems it cannot of menical fellowship and creates bourg will be of special signi- refuse to deal with these. Thus the confidence on the basis of ficance in this respect. the life of the WCC has been which the issues of unity can of Church Archives characterised and is character- be faced together. The period of Oneness ised by the fact that it must learning to work together in the The Council stands for a clear
2020. often act before there has been missionary task, of seeking a manifestation of the oneness of sufficient time to prepare such common attitude to social and the Church of Christ. Coopera- action. In these circumstances international problems, of tion is important, but coopera- it is essential that the circle of not enough. The WCC Copyright mutual assistance in reconstruc- tion is those who participate in the can by its nature not be satis- working out of World Council fied when the Churches work policies be widened. It is not together and maintain fraternal enough to have the problems of contact. For the question re- ecumenical life discussed by the mains - and it comes to us in central committee and the staff, the first place from the Lord not even by an Assembly. We himself and in the second place need in all Churches men and from the world: why are you women who share fully in the not fully united in faith and responsibility for working out order? what must be the common mes- It is, therefore, fundamental- sage and which must be the ly a healthy sign that this ques- MAY 12, 1960 Three tion of manifest unity has again the Council. My own hope is missions and evangelistic bodies become a major issue in our that this will be done in order that freedom to pioneer with- discussions. The Faith and that the issues of unity may be out which they cannot live. Order working committee has constantly before our eyes and The second objection is that proposed to reaffirm the pur- that the Churches may be re- by concerning itself with mis- pose of faith and order in such minded of the deepest challenge sions the WCC will in fact be- a way that it become quite which the existence of the come involved in various forms clear that the unity for which it WCC brings to them. of proselytism from which some stands is the unity of corporate of the Churches have already Meaning of Ecumenism life of all in each place who con- suffered a good deal. The an- The Council means by ecu- fess Jesus Christ. It has at the swer to this objection is that menism the whole task of the same time made proposals con- the question of prosolytism can whole Church to bring the cerning the place of faith and only be answered in a fully ecu- Gospel to the whole world. order in the WCC and concern- menical setting. There can be This expression was coined by ing its methods of operation. little doubt that in that respect the central committee in 1951. These proposals will be dis- the situation between t he In other words the WCC has cussed this summer by the faith Churches and missions which been aware for a long time that publication. and order commission and by have participated in the ecu- an introverted concern for unity committee. menical movement has already
and the central is neither biblical nor ecumeni- greatly improved. The question which we have cal. Thus the missionary and reuse to face is the following: Has evangelistic dimension of the Begin At Home for the time come when we can give common calling of the Churches The Council believes that a more precise definition of the has become one of its major ecumenism begins at home. The kind of unity which we seek concerns. This together with US. Conference for the WCC is required together? So far we have been the practical necessity specially an illustration of that principle. able to say (at Toronto, at felt by the Churches of Asia East Asia has given another Lund, etc.) that we stand for and Africa to simplify and clar- illustration by setting up the manifest unity. But we have Christian Conference. Permission ify ecumenical organization lies East Asia not been able to formulate to- behind the plan to integrate the In Africa and Europe similar gether what we mean by such International Missionary Coun- developments are taking place.
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/ cil and the World Council of These regional developments a new stage? The issue is not Churches. Nearly all Churches must not be understood as the whether we can agree now which have expressed them- development of an introverted Church about the specific doctrinal con- selves on the subject have or even separatist regionalism. sensus and the form of order spoken in favor of the plan of At none of the inaugural meet- which are required for full integration. We may, therefore, ings of these bodies was there
Episcopal unity. The question is only hope that the central com- any sign that they wanted to whether all are agreed that the mittee and the Assembly will go off by themselves. And all of manifest unity means visible, take positive action on the have shown that they attach corporate, local unity. My own subject. much significance to their re- feeling is that before even going Two main objections have lations with the ecumenical Archives that far it is necessary to have been made in some quarters. movement as a whole. this issue fully discussed in the The first is that the missions Their raison d'etre is of a 2020. member Churches so that no may lose their flexible, spon- functional character. They have member Church may feel that taneous character. It is up to jobs today which the WCC as it is forced against its will. This the Churches and the WCC to a whole cannot and should not
Copyright discussion may at the same time show that this is by no means undertake. In continents like help to make each Church inevitable and that there is Asia and Africa where there realize its spiritual responsi- enough Christian imagination has been almost no interchange bility as a member Church of and statesmanship in the leader- between the Churches, that in- the Council. ship of the Churches to give to terchange must be stimulated The other conclusion from and organized. We need and we the new discussion of the role This address, given at the US are getting far more "inner of faith and order may well be Conference for the WCC, meeting mission" in these continents in that without severing the link April 27-29, was presented in outline the sense that Asian or African between faith and order and the last week. We consider it of such evangelists and other Christian division of studies the concerns importance that we present the workers are sent from one Asian of faith and order should be a address in full even though it requires or African country to another. more central place in the life of most of our news space to do so. There are also specific prob-
THE WITNESS lems in these continents to the Church lives under constant longer expected that repre- which the regional bodies can internal pressure; we appreciate sentatives of other Churches and must give attention. And more deeply the powers of will be invited to attend. when t h e s e continent-wide spiritual endurance operating in bodies work on these problems these Churches; we see more From the point of view of the they will be able to speak more clearly how much these WCC there is no reason to re- clearly in and to the ecumenical Churches have to give out of gret this development. For it movement as a whole. their hard experience. At the is more than doubtful that of- same time our fraternal con- ficial or semi-official discussions Russian Church tact with them is a clear sign concerning unity b e t w e e n and non-Roman The Council seeks to extend that the WCC seeks fellowship Roman Churches can lead to any other the ecumenical fellowship of the regardless of any political con- result than a "non possumus" Churches. It belongs to the siderations with all Christians on both sides. Our experience nature of the WCC that it who are willing to take their of last summer when through seeks to widen the area of fel- stand on the basic principles of the voice of a Roman Catholic lowship between the Churches. ecumenism. And as we discuss journalist at Rhodes and later Slowly but surely its member- on the basis of the common through Radio Vatican the im- publication. ship increases. faith the issues of international relations, we have a chance to pression was given that the time and It is for this reason that the had now come for official con- Evanston Assembly decided to contribute to the resolution of the east-west tensions. versations show precisely that reuse communicate its appeal for there is no real basis for such for communication also to the conversations and that no good churches in the USSR. The Unity Developments purpose is served by creating resulting correspondence showed The Council is concerned with -the expectation that a wholly required that there was a sufficient basis all developments which have a new situation has arisen. But for closer contact. In 1958 a bearing on Christian unity. that does not mean that we are delegation of the WCC met with Since the creation of the Coun- indifferent about the work of a delegation from the Orthodox cil it has never made an over-
Permission help at nor has the the Council. It could Church of Russia in Utrecht and ture to the Vatican im- to some important points to proposals were worked out for a Vatican made any approach the that prove relationships between DFMS. program of increased fraternal it. But this does not mean
/ Church of Rome and other in order to get to know the WCC is not interested in the contact Churches. This would be the This led to question of the relationship be- one another better. case if the Council would take a
Church Catholic a visit of Russian churchmen tween the R o m a n liberty which clear stand for religious to Geneva, to the presence of Church and the Churches along the lines of the thinking Orthodox are members of the WCC. There observers from the of many prominent Roman are two reasons why this mat- Episcopal Church of Russia at the meet- Catholic theologians. ing of the central committee in ter is much on our minds at the the time- second important de- of 1959 and to the sending of a present The WCC delegation to the USSR The first is, of course, the velopment is the phenomenal in December 1959. calling of the Ecumenical Coun- growth of interest in the ecu-
Archives These contacts h a v e un- cil of the Roman Catholic menical movement among doubtedly led to greater under- Church by Pope John XXIII. Roman Catholics in several
2020. standing between the Churches The very widespread interest in countries. It has become al- in the USSR and the WCC. We this event has largely been most impossible for anyone to are more deeply aware of the based on the expectation, large- master all the literature written of these by Roman Catholics on the sub- Copyright very real desire ly created by the Roman Catho- Churches to share the experi- lic spokesmen themselves, that ject. And the opportunities of ence of ecumenical fellowship; this Council would be directly informal contact b e t w e e n we understand better their concerned with Church unity Roman Catholics and members specific situation characterised and that an attempt would be of other Churches are constant- by a form of religious liberty made to associate leaders of ly growing. Our role is surely which is restricted by the de- other Churches with it as to make full use of this new mands of the official communist visitors or observers. In the situation and to explain patient- ideology, so that (as has been meantime it has become clear ly and persistently what we shown at Easter-time when a that this Council will be es- mean by real ecumenism namely strong newspaper attack was sentially concerned with the that the Churches (as the made on the remarkable the- internal affairs of the Roman Toronto statement puts it) ological academy at Zagorsk) Catholic Church and it is no recognize each other as serving Five MAY 12, 1960 the one Lord and that each mittee. In the light of that ing the apartheid policy have Church in the movement must report the committee adopted been heard from Christian listen and learn as well as speak a resolution saying that the leaders, including some in the and give. first and foremost contribution Dutch Reformed Churches and which the Churches can and there is certainly more frater- Responsible Society must make to the situation of nal interracial contact than The Council seeks to help in the race problem is to manifest there used to be. But these building a responsible society in in their own life that in Christ changes do not go far enough lands of rapid social change. all racial division is overcome, and are too slow to meet ade- The Churches have far too often affirming that all political, quately the present fast de- lagged behind when a new social social, economic discriminations veloping situation. and economic order was being based on the grounds of race It is now ten years ago that born. The significance of the are contrary to the will of God a conference of the Dutch Re- WCC project on the Christian and calling upon the member formed Churches said: "No responsibility in lands of rapid Churches to engage in the people in the world worth their social change-in Asia, Africa Christian ministry of recon- salt will be content indefinitely and Latin America - is that ciliation and to do all in their with no say, or only an indirect publication. the Churches seek to make their power to end such discrimina- say, in the affairs of the state contribution to the shaping of and tion. Here we have the three or in the socio-economic organ- the new industrial societies ways in which the ecumenical ization of the country in which which begin everywhere to re- reuse movement can act and has decisions are taken about their place the simpler rural societies. for acted: manifestation of inter- interests and future." And I important This is all the more racial unity in the Church, per- wrote in my report of 1952: "It governmental and in- since the suasion to end discrimination, seems to me that this psy- required tergovernmental bodies can in reconciliation. chological fact that the Africans the nature of the case not deal In 1954 the Evanston As- are not given any tangible adequately with the problems sembly received and commended reason to hope for an increase moral arising from the religious, to the Churches a report on the of their civic rights, is extreme- Permission cultural disruption arising and Churches amid racial and ethnic serious. For it is almost in- in these situations. The re- ly tensions and adopted a resolu- evitable that they come to the sponse to this project has been DFMS. tion declaring its conviction conclusion that they will never / extremely encouraging. From that any form of segregation get such rights except through very many countries requests based on race, color or ethnic form of resistance. This have come for aid in analyzing some Church origin is contrary to the Gospel then seems to be the real chal- social situation and in the new and urging the Churches to re- lenge to statesmanship in South Churches can defining what the nounce all forms of segregation Africa: how to avoid that the and must do. It is important
Episcopal or discrimination. The World Bantu masses become permeated able that to this work so many Council has, therefore, a very by a sense of frustration which the laymen in east and west have of definite position in this matter. only have the most danger- given unsparingly of their time can It has sought to implement this ous results for the future of and energy. Especially in Africa position by urging its member the country." it is indispensible that the
Archives Churches to overcome segrega- of politi- The tragedy is that the younger generation tion in their own life and in the cians - most of them men of majority of the white Chris- 2020. life of society. Special visits not Christian background - will tians in South Africa have for this purpose have been ar- faced these obvious facts. We discover that the Church is ranged to South Africa and to neither indifferent nor reaction- must hope that after the tragic
Copyright parts of the USA. ary in its attitude to social events of recent weeks their justice. We are glad to find that eyes will be opened before it is many churches in the USA have too late. Our task is to help in Race Relations taken definite action in this this as much as we can. Mere The Council seeks to imple- field. condemnation and threats will ment the stand which the Situation In South Africa hardly improve the situation. Evanston Assembly has taken In South Africa at certain And in any case the ecumenical on race relations. The Council points there has been progress way is the way of fraternal has been concerned for a long in the Church situation. Thus it conversation, of persuasion and time about race relations. In is no longer maintained by any of reconciliation. That is why 1952 the general secretary was Church in South Africa that the World Council has sent one sent to South Africa and made apartheid is to be defended on of its associate general secre- a full report to the central com- a biblical basis; voices challeng- (Continuea on Page Fifte en) TH WITNESS HOLY MATRIMONY THEY SHOULD NOT ONLY HAVE A HEALTHY RESPECT FOR THE DANGERS THAT CAN THREATEN THEIR MAR- RIAGE BUT ALSO A STRONG FAITH IN HIM WHO CAN CARRY THEM THROUGH ALL DIFFICULTIES, AND WHO WILL REWARD THEM, IF THEY ACCEPT
publication. HIS HELP, WITH AN EVER DEEPENING and LOVE AND HAPPINESS reuse By Hugh McCandless for Rector of the Epiphany, New York required YOU wish to get married. Well, all the a community is of importance to the community SO world loves a lover, and you hie to your and it should be represented at the wedding.
Permission church, or at least some near-by church, with "Holy Matrimony . . . is an honorable estate the happy news. The clergyman's reaction, .... and is not to be entered into unadvisedly or especially if you are a stranger to him, is rather lightly." The Church - represented by the DFMS. / sober. He informs you that it is his duty to have clergyman and the other witnesses - is going to a conference with you and your intended because pray for the couple, that God may give them his so deep, Church the implications of a church wedding are grace. It is more possible for him to confer grace and its contract so complete. If people simply when the couple is prepared to receive it. went through the service for the first time at They should come "reverently." They should and self- Episcopal the actual wedding, their nervousness not only have a healthy respect for the dangers consciousness would prevent their realizing much the that can threaten their marriage but also a strong of of what the clergyman was declaring and they faith in him who can carry them through all dif- were promising. It will be necessary to go over ficulties, and who will reward them, if they ac- the service line by line. cept his help, with an ever deepening love and Archives The service starts with a declaration by the happiness. clergyman. His first sentence tells us that the The Church 2020. They should come "discreetly." ceremony is taking place "in the sight of God." recognizes the fact that great disparity between It is a religious service, not a preliminary to a the ages, backgrounds, races, conditions, or fin- party, and is suitable only when one or both of Copyright ances - while in a perfect world these would be the contracting parties is a baptized and believing no bar - do present added difficulties in our Christian. Promises made in the name of a God 'present society. They should come "advisedly." in whom one doesn't believe are not very good Parents and contemporaries should approve, if promises. the prognosis of a marriage is to be good. "In the face of this company." The Church Occasionally the possessiveness of parents wreaks assumes that there will be some assemblage, and havoc in forcing an unwise marriage or prevent- the hasty or clandestine appearance of weddings ing a good one. But it is usually better if they with only two witnesses is to be avoided. A re- approve. ception is not indispensable. The couple may They should come "soberly." This depends a greet their friends at the church door or in the good deal on their parents. If one has been parish house. But the marriage of members of shielded from the harsh practicalities of family
MAY 12, 1960 Seven cooperation and home economy, or if one's educa- The Betrothal tion has been sentimental or unrealistic, or if, EXT come the betrothal declarations. They on the other hand, marriage spells escape from parallel the nuptial promises pretty closely, an unhappy home-under any of these circum- but the difference is that they are made to the stances one may be led to feel that all one has clergyman and the company, and are statements to do to live happily ever after is to get married. of intention, not promises made to one another. This is not so. A happy marriage is achievement. The Church's idea of Holy Matrimony is made While married people are often rewarded with pretty clear here. It is a life lived together in happiness beyond their deserts (at least one mar- full confidence and self-giving, terminated only ried person is, to my sure and certain knowl- by death. Separation is a tragedy, and divorce edge), nevertheless it takes will power on the is rarely a solution. Divorce is hard on the chil- part of both. Newlyweds hope they are "soul- dren. Fortunately, divorced persons do not have mates." They can become perfectly mated after children in over ninety per cent of the cases. some years of living together, but they will find Divorce is often merely an opportunity to make at first that not all their preferences, prejudices, the same sort of mistake again, under less and possibilities fit perfectly. It is adaptation glamorous circumstances. People are frequently publication. to one another that makes married people grow. attracted only to one general type of person of and They should come "in the fear of God." At the opposite sex, and psychologists can tell amaz- least one of them should believe in and respect ing tales of people who have picked a succession reuse of consorts of certain identical characteristics,
for his maker. If the other qualifications are not indispensable for Holy Matrimony this one is. without realizing it. Divorce can be an escape This qualification can make the most unpromis- from practically everything except oneself. required ing marriage a success, even if it be a hard-won However, every one knows of marriages after victory. divorce which have improved the characters of the people involved, which have lessened the ten- The clergyman then says that if "any can show sions the children felt in their first unhappy Permission just cause why they may not lawfully be joined homes, and which thus seem to the earnest ob- together, let him now speak, or else hereafter server to have been blessed by God as the first
DFMS. forever hold his peace." This challenge, formerly / marriages were not. These are not many, per- uttered on the church porch facing the village haps, but they exist. square, was necessary in the old days. The mar-
Church The mind of the Church is not clear about this. riage license has rendered it more or less obsolete. Life is very big, and people vary greatly. When The clergyman then challenges the couple, I say that the mind of the Church is not clear, "If you know any impediment, confess it." The in Episcopal you may reply that the Church has spoken, responsibility is theirs, not his. They are the definite and unfaltering words, at such and such the of officiants of this sacrament, not he. He merely a time, through this priest or that saint or that puts the vows to them and prays for them. If council. But you and I are the Church, too. It the ministers of the sacrament are not valid, the is not limited to the clergy or to bachelor saints Archives sacrament itself will soon prove to have been in- who lived centuries ago. Life has not changed valid. very much in the intervening time; nor have 2020. In fact, the institution of a "church wedding" people changed much; but our opinion of the is less than a thousand years old in most parts worth of individuals has changed. Next, the father hands over the bride. Pos- Copyright of Christendom. (This is one reason the Eastern and Western marriage rites differ so. They were sibly this is the main reason for bringing the developed after the split between Rome and the service into the Church. In ancient Germanic East. It takes a mighty healthy couple to stand nations, women were property, and had no status up to a Greek Orthodox wedding, which lasts for in court. Women whose fathers were dead, and hours.) In the first thousand years of the Church, whose brothers or sons were either dead or too people were married by whatever the secular young to appear for them were helpless in press- customs of their country might have been. Then ing any case against their husbands; if their they went to church for the Holy Communion. husbands and kinsmen were dead, they had no We shall see traces of these old secular customs, one to plead for them in the courts. The case of and of the way marriage entered the Church, a orphans brought up in convents was different; little later on in the service. the chaplain of their old convent could state that
Eight Tm WITNESS he stood in loco parentis - in the place of a par- we cannot call less than sacramental, even if the ent - to the woman and could represent her Church rite does not go back to the earliest cen- cause. turies. So perhaps some thoughtful priest decided to Next follows the giving of the ring. This is hold the ceremony on the church steps, which the relic of a secular wedding custom in Latin often faced the village square. He had the father countries, where the man gave the woman a coin give the girl to him, and he then gave her to the or jewel as a token gift of his property. Finally bridegroom. The Church has maintained this the ring-which might at first have been a coin custom. Women are no longer barred from law beaten into a circle-became universal. courts, but the Church has a right to expect that In countries where the bride brings a dowry, couples who are married in her precincts, and a double ring ceremony is often used. The two- who later differ, owe it to her to consult a clergy- ring idea has come into this country during the man before they consult lawyers. They owe it war, and was at first inspired by rather serious to themselves, too. Many couples who differ seek motives on the part of young men who wished out lawyers. They find that the best ones shun constant reminders of their marriage. The use marital cases or urge reconciliation. Even the of two rings is not expected in the Prayer Book, publication. best lawyers will handle property settlements; but may be made permissive in the future, if this
and but, if they can afford to, they will refuse to take custom maintains itself. the case itself, or will hire other lawyers to do Marriage does have a financial side. No woman reuse the pleading. should want to be merely "kept"; she should be for The object of hiring a lawyer is to win one's her husband's partner in his personal business case. People are often shocked at the exagger- affairs. She should share his worries as well as ated charges which some lawyers tell them are his decisions in money matters. Men who have required necessary to make a good case. Sometimes these kept money worries or speculations secret from people come together again. It is a miracle, when their wives have been known to commit suicide you realize that they now have to buckle down rather than break the news of reverses. That
Permission and pay two lawyers' fees of considerable size for kind of widowhood is no compliment. Women are the privilege of calling each other names - in often as practical as men, and while the home is
DFMS. public-that they will always bitterly resent or the woman's sphere and the job is the man's, / bitterly regret. each should cooperate with, and consult, the The custom of handing over the bride is not a other in both fields. Marriage should be a com-
Church mere antiquarian fancy. It points up the right plete partnership in which neither party shall of the Church to be consulted, and the right and deprive the other by being silently secretive or duty of the couple to do so, if need should arise. too unselfishly uncomplaining. Episcopal The Vows The Prayers the of NEXT, the groom leads the bride to the altar. HE prayers follow. First the Lord's Prayer, (This custom sometimes varies.) The mar- because no better prayer could be made for riage vows are made to one another. Or, at the bride and groom. Archives least, they should be; some brides and bride- Then comes a prayer that they may keep their grooms look at the clergyman when they make vows. This prayer is required, and rightly so. 2020. these promises! They should be repeated after Innocent people sometimes get into apparently the clergyman in tones loud enough for the wit- compromising situations, or into social groups nesses to hear. Read them over. They are very which seem all right until it is almost too late. Copyright complete and specific, and they mean exactly Curiosity, greediness, boredom, misunderstand- what they say. Only thus can complete trust be ings, separations, - all these can be dangerous. the basis of a marriage. There is no need to be Self-discipline is needed; God's help is needed frightened by these pledges. A firm and disci- more. plined intention is the main thing. If the troth A choice may be made of either, both, or is pledged with sober, prayerful, sincerity, people neither of the prayers which follow. It appears can keep their word under the most trying cir- to me that the choice is up to the officiants. cumstances, in the face of the most insidious Before the war, most brides-to-be (the grooms temptations. People are weak, but God is strong, usually feel the brides should decide this) would and marriage can be an opportunity for people says: "Of course we want children, but it seems to receive his grace - his strength - in a way a rather personal thing to pray for publicly."
MAY 12, 1960 Nine During the war, the answer was usually: "Of bridegroom are the only officiants mentioned) course we want children, and what better time I pronounce that they are man and wife, in the or place to pray for them ?" Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Married clergy tend to be less dogmatic on Holy Ghost. Amen." The clergyman solemnizes this score than unmarried clergy. It is custo- the marriage in the name of our holy faith; they mary to regard procreation as God's primary perform it, and validate it by their future living. purpose in instituting marriage. Sex (a charac- Surely it .is not right, where neither of the two teristic we share with animals and plants) was are believers in God, for them to perjure them- instituted for procreation; marriage, and especi- selves by promising mutual love and fidelity in ally Holy Matrimony-for there can be a differ- the name of an idea neither of them can con- ence-was "for this purpose, that they twain sciously believe in. Such people should limit should become one"; in other words, for the themselves to civil weddings. spiritual growth of all concerned. The Church says one or both must be baptized A marriage in which people who can have persons. The clergyman must ask if they believe children do not intend to have children seems to the faith into which they were baptized. Those lack that element of complete allegiance that who believe in God can be baptized, and should publication. makes a perfect match, and the divorce statistics be: that is easy; but there are many who are and bear this out. baptized who are agnostics. The happiest children are those who are The minister then gives them the blessing of reuse wanted; and the happiest marriages are between the Church. This is the only time anyone kneels for people who want to have children, or who would in the service, and it is only they who kneel. The have them if they could. rest of us are there as witnesses. As to the limitation of families, I can only say The words are tender and touching, and the required that the unrealistic attitude of the Roman blessing asked of God is even more complete than Church has made more liars in confessional the promises required of the couple. Here the booths than any of the devil's inventions. purpose of marriage is clearly stated, and we Permission The final prayer is that the home of the couple can assume that the Church is trying to describe may be a haven of blessing and peace. God's will and purpose for each marriage: "that
DFMS. The minister now joins the hands of the (now ye may so live together in this life, that in the / married) couple together, and says, "Those whom world to come ye may have life everlasting." God hath joined together, let no man put To which we can all say: Amen; So be it; and Church asunder." thus make the blessing of the priest truly that But are they married yet? Has God joined of the whole Church. them yet? Undoubtedly they are married in a Episcopal sense, but God will continue to join them more the and more until death parts them in this world. of Should a marriage appear not to have been the Don Large will of God - and I cannot feel reasonably sure
Archives that every marriage is the will of God-those The Jazz Age who do not oppose its termination need not feel
2020. they are flouting their maker. But let every HEN, at the age of fifty, you look back at man beware when he does step between man and the Roaring 'Twenties, you think of flap- wife. Such a step should not be taken without pers, bootleg gin, and wild parties, along with Copyright fervent soul searching. the yellowing cartoons of John Held, Jr. and the Blessing of The Church jazz novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald. priest then declares: "Forasmuch as John Anent those nostalgic days of the charleston THEand Mary have consented together in holy and the speakeasy, it's worth noting that the wedlock (the proposal and acceptance) and have daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald has edited a witnessed the same (the statement of intention) volume of her father's Six Tales Of The Jazz before God and this company, and thereto have Age. Of even more interest is her reaction to given and pledged their troth, each to the other these stories, which were so representative of (the nuptial promises) and have declared the Fitzgerald's generation. same by giving and receiving a ring, and by "Puzzling to me - and I assume to all readers joining hands: (you will notice that the bride and who were born too late to remember the Jazz
Ten THE WITNESS Age - is how my father came to be a symbol of supportive to his gallant efforts, can be the same it all," she says. "After you've read the stories, man who will teeter and crack up, as soon as perhaps you'll ask yourself, as I did, 'Well, it's society takes these suppbrts away. Whereas, absorbing writing, but what's jazzy about it?' other men-welcoming the support of the Ever- The people seem so innocent, somehow, so earnest lasting Arms - will manage to get from one end and well-meaning... of the rope to the other, unaffected by the mani- "If you search closely, you may discover two fold distractions around them. flappers between these covers; the girl who F. Scott Fitzgerald was a man upon whom the washes her shoes in gasoline in The Jelly-Bean Jazz Age, mild or wild, had put its tragic stamp. and the one who dances on top of the table in Not long before he died, broken and bereft, he Pulpat's restaurant in 0 Russet Witch! And an- wrote a kind of farewell for Esquire, in which other thing which may surprise some youthful he said something like this: readers of this collection is the fact that nobody I've been an indifferent steward of the in it kisses anybody else unless they're related talents entrusted to my keeping. So now I by marriage or parenthood-again with the find myself walking about gingerly like a single exception of the gasoline girl, who rewards piece of cracked china, from which the price- publication. Jim with a brush of her irresistible lips .... less water of life seeps out, drop by irrevo-
and Where, oh where, is this wild and brassy Jazz cable drop. Age ?" reuse Well, maybe the Jazz Age was, in retrospect, Of course, no one knows what Judas himself for a better-behaved and more conservative genera- would have done in a climate more kindly to tion than is our. own hectic age today. And may- Christian stewardship. But it's always true that be it wasn't. But in terms of Christian steward- a man can be a bad steward in a good age, or a required ship, it doesn't much matter either way. faithful one in times which try men's souls. It's admittedly true that we tend to reflect- And on judgment day, the final verdict will or to become products of - our times. The man surely depend less upon the kind of age a man
Permission who can successfully walk a moral tightrope lived in, than upon the kind of man he was in when everybody and everything around him is the first place, irrespective of his generation. DFMS. /
Church CHURCH IN ASIA By Hla Bu
Episcopal Former Principal of Judson College,
the University of Rangoon, Burma of THE Asian scene today is marked by a Along with political revolution, profound mighty revolution. Tremendous changes changes are noticeable in Asian society. Through
Archives are taking place in political, social, cultural and the impact of the west, the social structure of religious life of Asians. It has been truly stated Asian peoples is breaking down. The old social 2020. that we are witnessing in Asia the greatest up- structure comes into conflict with new social heaval in this revolutionary age. ideas with the result that a new social revolution The most impressive historical phenomenon is taking place. Copyright in Asia is the political emancipation of the erst- Religious Revival while colonial countries. Within the last decade THE cultural and religious revival is another or so, practically all Asian colonial countries impressive feature of the Asian revolution. have achieved independence. The sudden change The ancient religions which have for decades re- of political status causes the release of contending mained static, have regained new vitality. forces making for internecine conflicts. As a Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam are once again result Asian countries are in a state of instabil- on the march. The revival of these ancient reli- ity. The pains of growth are not yet over. gions is partly a cultural renaissance. However, the Asian culture is largely a religious culture, An address at the U.S. Conference of the World and culture and religion are so closely intertwined Council of Churches on April 29, 1960 that it is impossible to separate them.
MAY 12, 1960 Eleven These mighty movements which are sweeping in numbers is matched by its weakness in over the whole of Asia are inspired and moti- economic status and political influence. On the vated by nationalism. National consciousness is whole, the Asian Church lacks scholars, the- responsible for the struggle for political inde- ologians and writers who can give high quality pendence, the movement to adjust social life to leadership to the Church. All this is aggravated contemporary situations, and the revival of cul- by the restrictions imposed upon missions in ture and ancient faiths. Asian nationalism tends many Asian countries. The flow of missionaries to adopt a critical attitude to western countries is not as free as before world war two and the and everything associated with the west. Asians number of missionaries has been so much re- therefore tend to look with suspicion and hostil- duced that the number of trained leaders, both ity upon Christianity and Christian missions. national and missionary, is fewer now. There is The survey of the Asian situation is incom- as yet no adequate number of younger leaders plete without reference to communism which has coming forward to fill the gap. swept over a great part of mainland Asia. Its To this survey of the Asian Church must be influence is felt all over Asia and the spectre of added the presence of unfortunate divisions in communism haunts as well as fascinates Asia. the Church. In a number of Asian lands we are publication. While its irreligious ideology and dictatorship witnessing a divided Church in a divided country.
and repel Asian peoples, its advocacy of social justice, While there is present in the Asian countries a race equality and economic prosperity has an at- strong desire for unity, the Church which is reuse tractive appeal, particularly to idealistic youth founded for the healing of divisions itself pre- for and intellectuals. sents a spectacle of disunity. Asians are in the grip of these mighty forces Church Assets and are confronting tremendous problems. Be- required for a proper assessment of the situa- in Asia one can discern HILE neath the restlessness tion we have to mention the liabilities of a deep desire for a new kind of society where the Church in Asia, we must also note its assets. justice prevails, race equality is recognized, Although the numerical strength of Christians Permission economic prosperity realized and the good life compared with the total populations is small, yet the lot of all. There is a yearning for peace and there is a sizeable number of Christians in every
DFMS. brotherhood. In all these aspirations, demands
/ Asian land. The influence of Christians is out and restlessness, can we not discern man's of all proportion to their number. The Church's spiritual hunger and the activity of God among education, medical and social services have gained Church men? Are not men reaching for the things of high prestige and are much appreciated and emu- the spirit which alone can satisfy their deep lated. Individual Christian have held high posi- yearnings? tions in government and have made their influ- Episcopal Christianity Set Apart ence felt in national affairs. The Church in the of young Asian Church is set in the midst Asia has taken root in the soil and it is the faith THEof a revolutionary situation fraught with of the Asian Christians that no adverse storm danger to its existence. In many Asian countries can eradicate it. One of the most encouraging Archives the Church is like a foster child unsure of accept- phenomena in the Church today is to see the ance by its parents. Since the political emanci- spirit of Church unity abroad in Asia. Move- 2020. pation of the Asian lands, the situation has ments for Church unity are going from strength somewhat improved. Christianity is now recog- to strength in the Church in Asia. Many united nized as a faith of the peoples. While this is so, Churches have been established and some are in Copyright the Church's foreignness in its worship and the process of negotiation for Church unity. witness and its aloofness from the non-Christian The young Asian Church is thus encountering majority community sets it apart from the rest tremendous challenges. But these can be taken of the nation. For practical purposes the Church as opportunities. To meet the challenge of in Asia is still regarded as alien in character. nationalism the Church in Asia feels the need to Besides, because of its connection with western make the Church really indigenous. It desires missions, the Church is looked upon with lurking to get rid of unnecessary western graftings, and suspicion. keeping to the essential faith, it seeks indigenous Except in the Philippine Islands the Church in ways of worshipping and witnessing. The seed Asia is a minority group surrounded by an over- of the Church must be allowed to grow and de- whelming non-Christian majority. Its smallness velop in its native habitat. The Asian Christians
Twelve THE WIENESS need to identify themselves with the aspirations special services and most urgent need effectively and culture of their countrymen, transforming met. This is considered by many Asian Church these by their faith. The Church's teaching and leaders to be the most economical and effective message must be in the language and thought mission strategy. forms natural to the culture of the land. The East Asia Conference Church should witness through the demonstra- THE East Asia Christian Conference is another tion of a united fellowship of mutual love and significant trend of the Asian Churches. concern where there is no dividing wall of race Although it was established as recently as 1957, or class or denomination, and it should communi- it has already proved to be meeting a real need. cate the Gospel with challenging relevancy It provides opportunity for common consultation through indigenous forms. In these ways the and for mutual fellowship. In the past the Asian Church in Asia can face the challenge of national- Churches knew very little about other Asian ism by removing misunderstandings and by Churches. But now through the EACC the meeting the real needs of the Asian peoples. Asian Churches are discovering one another. The Theology Needed EACC has not only led to mutual discovery but also to mutual help among the Asian Churches. publication. THE problems of indigenization and church unity require the leaders of the Church It has given impetus to Asian Churches to send and in Asia to make deep study and think profoundly. missionaries to other Asian countries. Through providing means for regional consultation in reuse Theological thinking is needed for Christian con- matters of common concern among Asian for frontation with the resurgent religions. For these and various question facing the Church in Churches and for cooperative Christian advance Asia study centers have been established in a in this vast hostile and suspicious continent, the required number of Asian countries with a view to pro- EACC promises to be a bulwark and a beacon for moting their study and research in order to help the Asian Church in its mission to the peoples the Church to meet them wisely and well. Con- of Asia.
Permission sultations and institutes on a number of matters The Asian Church is facing tremendous prob- of importance to the Church in Asia are also lems. Alive to -the challenges of the present being promoted. situation, it seeks to meet them and turn them DFMS. / One of the most significant trends of the into opportunities for its mission. The Church Church in Asia is the changing relationship be- in Asia is young and weak. But it is a part of is its head. Church tween the Church and missions. Following the body of our Lord Jesus Christ who Whitby's call for "partnership in obedieice" So long as it receives its light and life from its many missions have accelerated the implementa- Lord, the Church in Asia will be a Church
Episcopal tion of the policy of integration of the Church Triumphant.
the and the mission. However, the change from of paternalism to brotherly relationship still lags behind the declared policy of the missions. Im- mediate integration of the Church and the mis- Pointers for Parsons Archives sion is the need of the hour. Responsible Church By Robert Miller
2020. leaders are also coming to feel that missions should adopt a multi-lateral policy rather than a R. BUFFERS had decided opinions and was bilateral policy in their relations with the always eager to state them so the deanery
Copyright Churches in Asia. According to multi-lateral had to thank him for many a discussion. He policy, the resources of men and money will not took a high view of the Church and of the priest- be deployed along denominational lines between ly office and he felt that the Christian witness a particular Church and a particular mission should always be urgent and vocal and clamant. which is the bilateral policy of today. On the "We ought to speak out," he declared at one contrary, missionaries from various denomina- meeting. "We ought to make known our abhor- tions and countries will be sent to Asian rence of war, our condemnation of crime, our dis- Churches, irrespective of their historical denomi- approval of segregation and our opposition to national or racial affiliation, to a situation where secularism." they can be most effective. In this way it is "Hold on, Buffers. Hold on," said Tompkins. thought that overlapping of personnel and work "That's quite an order. And just who are 'we'?" can be eliminated, best qualified men found for "We parsons. The clergy."
MAY 12, 1960 Thirteen "And to whom would you speak out? And Thompson said that Buffers was talking in how? And where?" generalities and Buffers indignantly denied it. "In our sermons. In our conversation. Every- Thompson insisted. where." "Take a phase like the Catholic faith," he "But what about our congregations?" asked argued. "A Roman Catholic wouldn't believe Gilbert Simeon. "They wouldn't want us to be that you held to it and a Presbyterian would feel always abhorring and condemning and disap- he was just as Catholic as you are." proving." Buffers started to talk about apostolic succes- Buffers said that congregations must be sion, orders, the first four councils and the awakened and aroused. It was far too easy to sacraments, but Thompson and Tompkins kept slip into indifferentism. Was the Church doing challenging his statements and the discussion all it could, he asked. began to get heated. The dean could hardly call I said that the Church always abhorred war off the disputants but he managed it at last by in time of peace and it both practised and dis- saying how stimulating it was to examine the approved segregation and I wanted to know just different views and approaches. Then he asked how it was to express its opposition to secularism. publication. Fr. Timmons how he would define the Catholic This drew down Buffers wrath and I gathered and faith. that I was an Erastian, an Armenian, a time- server and an opportunist. Of course Fr. Timmons gently refused. He reuse "In short, an Episcopalian," quipped Tompkins. suggested that the faith was something to be for Buffers said there was no occasion for levity. lived and if it was to be lived it had to be both It was the very comprehensiveness of our Com- loved and believed and that meant it would be required munion that made it so difficult. He himself expressed in action. Both word and deed were stood for the Catholic faith, pure and undefiled needed. Perhaps that was what Fr. Buffers which had been so providentially preserved for meant when he said the Christian faith should always be urgent and vocal.
Permission us. He felt that there were many who did not realize how important it was to express that "0 yes," beamed Buffers. "That is exactly faith, not merely by word but by action. what I meant." DFMS. / Church THE NEW BOOKS
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Archives Grollenberg. Thomas Nelson. enlightening text explaining the Neill. Abingdon. $4.00 $3.95 smaller exhibits. Biblical teachers A Dominican monk, a notable and students ought to own or have A delightful and much needed book 2020. archeologist, a competent Biblical access to this Shorter Atlas. It de- about the ecumenical movement. and scholar - all these three in one, L. serves to be a best seller in religious Bishop Neill has been active H. Grollenberg, is the author of an and historical quarters. loyal in this for thirty or forty years already successful book, - Atlas Of What Baptism Means by John W. and a passionately interested ob- Copyright The Bible - which used a novel Meister. Westminster. $.50 server for still more. He has chosen method of Bible study; 400 illustra- This is one of the six latest Re- to record the history of the movement tions of places celebrated in the Bible flexion Books being published under by means of ten short biographical (some of them never seen by present- the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. Each sketches of the leaders of this move- day man until modern archeology of them aims to express in brief com- ment in Protestantism over a period revealed them), many of the arti- pass some of the beliefs and prob- of fifty years beginning with John facts of Bible times, 35 maps of the lems of the Christian life. This little R. Mott and the World Missionary makes clear what Conference at Edinburgh in 1910, Palestine region indicating migra- book on baptism plus four chapters of incisive com- tions and other journeys and a long, might be called the lowest-common- detailed explanatory text. denominator of belief about baptism. ment and interpretation. The success and wide use of this It is done in an irenic spirit and It is all a very good job which book has led the author to condense simple language. Most of the chap- tells most of us lots that we didn't it in a smaller volume, available for ters will convince both active and know. The author is reticent about a much lower price. The result is nominal Christians of all sects. The his personal part in all this, which the present book with half the num- two remaining ones are an exposition was, and is, extremely important for ber qf beautiful plates, a third of of the reasons for infant baptism. the cause. He became the second
Fourteen Ti Wrrzmss Bishop of Tinnevelly in the Church years after the author's death. To- campaign. Senator Kennedy has of South India in 1939 where he day's American preachers will find faced that fact frankly and stated served for six years and was chosen suggestiveness and inspiration for his position explicitly in print and in by an electoral body which was 96% their own efforts in mulling over this interviews. Bishop Pike - himself Indian and 4% European. extremely good book. once a Roman Catholic - has tried The chapters on Bishop Brent and to marshal his evidence, pro and con, Archbishop Temple will make a A Roman Catholic In The White objectively and to give his own inter- special appeal to Episcopalians. House by James A. Pike. Double- pretations fairly. And when all this What the author has to say about day. $2.50 has been done thoroughly, he con- Pope John is interesting and well This is obviously a timely book by cludes his essay with these words: informed. All the book is worth the Bishop of California, collaborat- "In closing, we will answer our careful reading. ing with Canon Byfield of his diocese. initial question as best we can. A The religious issue was bound to be Roman Catholic for President? It Peace With Russia? By Averell Har- a factor in the present presidential depends." riman. Simon & Schuster. $3.00 A book by the former Governor of New York which every ardent capitalist, timorous diplomat and Report of World Council Secretary satisfied military man ought to read. The author is one of their own kind (Contnued from Page Six) representatives in this delicate and - which is much more to the taries, Dr. Bilheimer, to South operation a solid foundation in publication. point - is probably better equipped Africa to consult with the enlightened, well-informed, the- than any American today to talk ologically well-founded Chris- and about Soviet Russia. He knew Trot- Churches. When Dr. Bilheimer sky in 1926 when Harriman himself will have given his report it tian opinion in the member was conducting a capitalist business reuse will be decided what further Churches. in The Caucasus. He negotiated the for steps the WCC should take to- lend-lease agreements in Russia with Stalin and accompanied Winston gether with the member Conclusion Churchill in conferences on war-time Churches in South Africa. This short and incomplete required strategy and from 1943 to 1946 he was ambassador to the Soviet Union. International Affairs survey shows that the WCC is During the next several years he was The Council seeks to give ex- confronted with tasks of over- generally regarded in this country pression to the convictions of whelming magnitude. We do as an outstanding hater of Com-
Permission munism and a militant opponent of the Churches on the main issues not pretend that we carry out the Soviet Union. of international relations. The all these tasks with sufficient Now he has just returned from a Commission of the Churches on wisdom and energy. On the
DFMS. six-week trip to Russia where he / traveled 18,000 miles, seeing parts of International Affairs is an in- contrary we are deeply aware Central Asia and Siberia which had creasingly effective instrument of the discrepancy between the long been closed to Americans. Con- for the increase of Christian in- calling and opportunity given Church ferences with Khrushchev, other fluence in the field of inter- to the WCC and the human government officials and with hun- dreds of Soviet workers and citizens national affairs. It is in no instruments through which it filled most of his time. This book is sense a lobby which can exert works. Whether the WCC will Episcopal his detailed account of his experi- political or other pressure. But in the long run make that ences. the it is listened to because it significant difference in the re- He is still the convinced capitalist of and an enemy of terror and tyranny, represents convictions widely lations between the Churches, but he reports great changes of held and formulated in the light and in the relation of the policy, of understanding, of accom- of a competent and objective Churches to the world which we Archives plishment - in every part of the analysis of the facts. all hope, will depend in the first Soviet Union and the careful reader Thus we of his book will be convinced that he may feel that the positions place on the willingness of men 2020. answers the question in his book's adopted by the CCIA and by our and women in the Churches to title in the affirmative and for the central a n d executive com- make this cause their own, in future he heartily believes in what he describes as All-out Competetive mittees on the cessation of nu- intercession, in hard thinking, Copyright Coexistence. clear testing which have been in readiness for sacrificial ser- brought to the attention of the vice, and in providing the fin- The Great Sermons of George H. governments c o n c e r ancial means. Morrison. Harpers. $3.50 n e d and many For the reader of sermons this is times discussed with the Since I have not had the op- a totally different climate from the leaders of the delegations in portunity for some time to atmosphere of the Kennedy and Luc- Geneva have been a real factor speak to members of the US cock ones. Here is the Scot's in preparing the way for the sobriety, intellectual discrimination Conference for the WCC I and eloquence of the literary sort. international agreement which should like to use this occasion These are unquestionably great ser- is now likely to be arrived at. to express the gratitude of the mons, all of them short, most of And this is only one of the WCC to the American Churches them stressing one point only and many irons which making that convincing. If they the CCIA for all the support they have were not of rare quality we shouldn't has in the fire. At this point given to the Council during be reading this new volume, thirty our greatest need is to give our these difficult years. You have MAY 12, 1960 Fifteen often reason to wonder whether your Churches have done since other planets, improved "disease the rest of the world really the beginning of the WCC in control" through which the wants you to make a strong con- contributing the time and population w i ll automatically tribution. I should like to say energy of some of your strong- age and thus limit the birth- that there are many in the ecu- est leaders, in participating in rate, and the thesis of a Brazil- menical movement who ap- the thinking of the WCC and ian nutritionist that a high preciate at its true worth what in providing financial support. protein diet impairs fecundity. "If we clear away some of the fantasies and illusions about Fagley Tells of Need of Balance what increased food production can do," he continued, "the im- portant point that stands out is Of Food and Population the critical significance of the * Protestant Churches have a material level. He needs educa- struggle for better food pro- vital contribution to make to- tion and recreation, some space duction and consumption in the ward the evolution of a strategy in his togetherness, to develop less developed countries for the for achieving a new balance of the kind of personal and com- crucial d e c a d e s immediately publication. food and population in the munity life which God intends ahead." world's underdeveloped areas, for his children." Commenting on the UN food and the annual meeting the the U.S. "To have life more abundant- and agriculture organization's Conference for the World Coun- "Freedom from Hunger" cam- reuse ly from the Christian perspec- cil of Churches was told at Buck paign, which begins in July, for tive," he added, "is to develop Hill Falls. primarily a quality of life rather Fagley said that "a stepped-up "The old and tragic balance than to expand quantitatively effort to accelerate agricultural in the poorer countries required of low food production and high into some kind of dehumanized advance mortality from disease and mal- anthill." is not only necessary but long nutrition" must be replaced with "The population explosion is overdue." "a dynamic balance between in- a demonstrable fact, and not "For the longer range, the Permission ternationally accelerating and merely a future hypothesis," duties of the more developed moderating rates of population Fagley declared, citing United countries to mobilize their tech- nical, educational, and research
DFMS. growth," declared Richard M. Nations projections which indi- / Fagley of New York, executive cate that if present trends con- skills in a world-wide effort to secretary of the commission of tinue the industrialized socie- help the less developed countries accelerate t h e i r agricultural Church the Churches on international ties from 1925 to 2000 will affairs. have doubled to 1.4 billion popu- advance seem very clear," he have a What is needed, he said, is lation, while the pre-industrial said. "The Churches help "a sound development corresponding obligation to Episcopal strategy" societies will have quadrupled which includes both "more ener- to 5 billion persons. the
of getic food policies and wise According to the UN demo- population policies." graphers, he said, 600 years at Select from However, he warned, "en- the present rate of growth
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2020. the extension of family plan- density roughly 20 times great- ning by itself." er than that of New York City. for custom-made A well-known advocate of "re- "Even if chemistry could pro- ALTAR and CLERGY VESTMENTS sponsible parenthood," Copyright Fagley is vide nutriment for such a hu- the author of the recent con- man mass, only the fanatic could featuring our own process of gold outlining which uses a troversial book, "The Population regard the prospect as either traditional non-tarnishable gold Explosion and Christian Re- tolerable or possible," he said. thread to achieve natulral sponsibility." "There is no real escape from beauty equaled only by hand "Even the most optimistic the doctrine of responsible par- craftsmanship. forecasts of expanded food pro- enthood." Complete Custom-made CHOIR VEST- duction," he stated, "do not The speaker scored what he MENT Service provide any permanent escape called such "will-o'-the-wisp" Send for Catalogs on: p Paraments from the necessity of family theories advanced by "fertility E] ClergyVestments ] ChoirVestments limitation and wise population cult" apologists as possible al- J.THEODORE fUTETSON, INC. policy. For man does not live leviation of earth's population 2013 Sansom S. Philo. -W-403, Pa. by bread alone, even at the pressures by space migration to
Sixteen THE WITNES develop the kind of discrimi- the production of armaments. ANOTHER UNION nating and dedicated under- In a message to the nation, pre- ON THE WAY standing required to support a sented to the general assembly * A plan for organic union of persistent and uphill effort." of the Presbyterian Church, the Evangelical United Brethren "Also they can help by com- south, they also declared that and the Methodists may be com- missioning more agricultural access to birth control infor- pleted in two years, it was re- missionaries, a need long recog- mation was the right of all mar- ported at the general conference nized by churchmen closest to ried couples, and that racial dis- of the Methodists in Denver. this problem." crimination cannot be justified. They are "practically identical" "For the shorter range," he in discipline, polity and termin- added, "there is also the obliga- DIOCESE OF CHICAGO ology. What has to be settled tion in the surplus producing MARKS ANNIVERSARY is how the former Church, with countries to share available food * The diocese of Chicago 750,000 members, can merge supplies more generously." celebrated its 125th anniver- with the latter, with nearly ten sary with a dinner held on million members, without it May 3rd, held in connection seeming to be an absorption. KILMER MYERS GOES with the convention. Bishop
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required made aware where he is the head- about 500 persons. and Missionary Districts..in liner at the dinner held in order "that it may be adopted by the connection with the convention, next General Convention .. " The meeting in Harrington, May 11- The Parish of Trinity Church Standing Liturgical Commission was Permission 12. New York
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Eighteen THE WITNESS requested to arrange for publication. are given a place but not Thomas Catholic in our faith and Protestant Resolutions of this nature are gen- More. Thomas a Kempis makes it but in our witness. Propers for lesser erally proposed and carried through not George Fox. feasts and fasts will not make us by determined minorities with most And the First Book of Common more Catholic nor less Protestant, of those voting yea thinking that it Prayer makes the grade but not the but they will please some, puzzle might be a good thing, or at any rate Second. others and leave the majority indif- do no harm, while a small group dis- Is it thus we want the Prayer Book ferent. If the great liturgical skill likes the motion and feels that there supplemented? of the Commission was to be em- is more in it than meets the eye. In Anyone who is familar with the ployed in furnishing propers it should this case, there is. Roman Missal will be aware that it have been employed on a much great- No one is likely to object to special is not only a treasury of devotion er scale. The logical end of adding collects, epistles and gospels for but also a help and guide to the propers to the Prayer Book would be Ember Days and Rogation Days and Mass. It bears rich witness to the a daily celebration of the Mass by for Wednesdays and Fridays in Lent Communion of Saints. This little every priest. But logic is not some- or for Wednesday to Saturday of book is no missal. The propers for thing we can afford. Easter Week. Clergymen who want "lesser feasts and fast days" might The Church Pension Fund has done to celebrate the Holy Communion on be incorporated into the Book of its usual good job in publishing the these days will be pleased and clergy- Common Prayer at its next revision book, and at a price that people can men who don't will not care. So also but those for the fixed holy days afford. All of the clergy will want for the Wednesday to Saturday of raise serious questions. Do we want a copy, and many others also. Whitsun Week. It is when we come to sanction and encourage the invo- - Robert Miller to the Immovable Days that eye- cation of the saints? Do we regard publication. brows will be raised and doubts, and as saints all who are listed in the
and even objections, expressed. No one Calendar? If so, by what authority? will quarrel with the excellent work Do we exclude any saint or worthy of the Commission in choosing who was not of, or in, communion School reuse epistles and gospels and framing col- with the apostolic succession? for lects. In all but two cases it has Does General Convention wish to of the Church used the Authorized Version with a increase the number of days when few minor changes for the sake of the Holy Communion is celebrated? clarity or accuracy. It is the en- Does it merely want to commemorate required largement of the Calendar and the certain Christians? If so, why these ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL inclusion in it of some saints and and not others? Granted that the COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR GIRLS some worthies and some feasts that Church of England and its daughter will excite surprise and even appre- churches are more altar centred Fully accredited. Grades 8-12. Music, art, dramatics. Small classes. All Permission hension. than pulpit centred does our com- What names are added to the munion want to stress its catholic sports. On beautiful Rappahannock Calendar and who are honored with rather than its protestant character? River. Episcopal. Summer School. special collects and even special Or does it, like Queen Elizabeth I, Write for catalog. DFMS. / epistles and gospels? Space forbids want a religious settlement which Viola H. Woolfolk, printing the whole list but some would satisfy most reasonable men Box W, Tappahannock, Virginia ought to be mentioned, although it while banning extremes. Generally,
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