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FORMER ROMAN PRIEST, now rector of St. Mary's, Charleroi, Pa., writes in this issue on the much debated question of whether a Roman Catholic should be President of the United States

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"We find it deeply humiliat- Vanderbilt Seminary Faculty ing that a board of trustees should so act as to constrain a Backed by Other Schools faculty to resign lest the in- tegrity of Christian faith be compromised and a violation of * Members of the faculties of for the continuation of teach- be further condoned." two seminaries issued state- ing, justice research and study by your- At Vanderbilt ments commending the dean selves and your students as the publication. At this writing (6/16) the and 12 faculty members of developing emergency may re- and Vanderbilt University Divinity quire and as our resources and board of trustees have reversed School, Nashville, Tenn., for those of o t h e r theological its action of accepting the

reuse of the divinity their resignations in protest schools that may be disposed to resignations

for school faculty, consisting of over the university chancellor's join us will make possible." refusal to readmit twelve of the seventeen faculty a Negro stu- The E p i s c op a 1 theological dent expelled for leading sit-in members. The board also agreed required faculty adopted a resolution at to confer a degree upon Lawson demonstrations last M a r c h. a faculty meeting expressing (Witness, 6/9). in the fall, on completion of "fraternal greetings and sym- the work he is now doing at the The statements were signed pathies" to Vanderbilt's dean, school of theology at Boston Permission by 19 members of the Harvard faculty and students "who have University. Divinity School faculty and found themselves obliged to All of the 12 who have re- Dean John B. Coburn and 10 DFMS. resign their posts out of loyalty signed have been offered posi- / other educators at the Episco- to Christian theological teach- tions at the Chicago Theological pal Theological School. Both ing." A copy of the resolution Seminary. One of them, Pro-

Church statements were sent to J. also was sent to the trustees of fessor Arthur Foster, said of Robert Nelson, Vanderbilt dean, Vanderbilt University, u p o n this latest action of the trustees the first to resign. whom it said "now falls the that "it puts upon us the onus

Episcopal Sixteen students also with- grave responsibility for a de- of withdrawing our resignations drew and three recent graduates cision which will affect the

the within ten days and in effect of returned their degrees after standing of the Christian invites us to crawl back." Chancellor Havie Branscomb re- churches in the eyes of a world Other faculty members were jected the divinity faculty ad- far wider than America." out of town and hence unavail-

Archives missions committee's recom- "It is to be hoped and prayed able for comment. mendation that the Rev. James for," it added, "thatthe trustees PROTESTANT SERMONS 2020. M. Lawson, Jr., 32, he read- of the University will now take CAN BE DANGEROUS mitted for completion of his action to authorize policies * A Roman Catholic should, senior studies this summer. guaranteeing all members of the as a matter of prudence, avoid

Copyright Praising t h e "courageous school of divinity the freedom listening to Protestant broad- resignations" at Vanderbilt, the necessary to Christian brother- casts. Father Raimondo Spiazzi, Harvard statement cited "the hood and Christian scholar- speaking over the Vatican radio, integrity of witness you have ship." said that sermons by Prot- made as Christians in the midst The Harvard statement ob- estants which may influence of the grave crisis that has served that the Vanderbilt conscience were especially to overtaken your university owing faculty's "willingness to bear be avoided. to the present struggle in the the pain and deprivation im- He did say however that a United States to achieve justice posed by self-justifying power Catholic did not comit a sin by in race relations." bespeaks the power of Christ listening to a Protestant service "In endorsing your action," which here transcends the if he considered it simply as a it said, "we pledge you our sup- dilemma of choosing between cultural program and not an act port by endeavoring to provide complacency and violence." of worship.

JUNE 23, 1960 Three impaired our heritage of the Southern Editor Asks Churches free exercise of religion for all persons and all faiths." Lead Survival Movement BISHOP CARRUTHERS * Protestant Churches were coexistence, said Williams, "we DIES AT SIXTY called on by Aubrey Williams of get no peace and the notion of * Bishop Thomas N. Car- Montgomery, Ala., former New coexistence is subjected to cold ruthers of South Carolina died Deal official and now publisher winds in the wake of U.S. spy on June 12 following a cerebral of the Southern Farm and flights and abusive blasts from hemorrhage. He was 60 years Home, to lead a "movement for Khrushchev." of age and served as diocesan since 1944. survival" of, not only civiliza- "Now, peace with its notions tion, but human dignity and of friendship and goodwill give COMPANIONS SPONSOR integrity throughout the world. way to the overpowering need SCHOOL OF RELIGION He urged that Roman Catho- for survival - and we can sur- * The Rev. Donald J. Par- lics and Jews also join in pro- vive only in a world where, al- sons, professor at Nashotah viding leadership for mobilizing though there is no peace, there House, is to lead a school of publication. such a "crusade," which he is no war," he stressed. "We religion, sponsored by the Com- and described as "overshadowing in must call a survival movement panions of the Holy Cross. It its urgency" all other problems into being, a movement in which will be held July 5-9 at Adelyn- reuse of mankind today. we insure that our children and rood, conference center at South for Williams, who once studied to our grandchildren will be here, Byfield, Mass. be a Presbyterian clergyman alive and not soiled by genetic Further information can be but decided against entering the damage or radiation blast - obtained from Miss Agnes Dick- required ministry, spoke at a meeting alive to win a peace." son, Wawa, Pa. sponsored by the Religious Free- The Religious Freedom Com- dom Committee, honoring Wil- CORRECTION mittee, with headquarters in The date on the cover should Permission lard C. U p h a u s, Christian New York, was founded in 1954 be June 23. The next issue will pacifist who has served six by a national group of Prot- months of a year's sentence in be July 7 since we publish every

DFMS. estant and Jewish clergymen

/ other week until September 15. a New Hampshire jail on a con- and laymen to "maintain un- tempt of court charge for re- fusing to reveal names of guests Church at his World Fellowship summer camp. "There can be no more fitting Episcopal time, no more appropriate place, the for of to launch this mobilization survival," Williams said, "than at a meeting for Willard Up-

Archives haus. He is standing up for the right of every independent man

2020. and woman to find in his or her own way the path to peace and freedom. He is a true monu-

Copyright ment to our ideal." Scoring what he called "legis- lative inquisitions (that) have sought to cripple every inde- pendent man and woman so they will not be able to stand up," Williams asserted: "Es- sentially that's what they are trying to do to Willard Uphaus -to burn out of him his BISHOP BANYARD laying the cornerstone of the new $350,000 courage and his integrity. They educational building for St. Paul's, Westfield, N. J. With him are the fail because he will stand up." Rev. Robert H. Wilkinson and the Rev. Charles R. Lawrence, associate rectors, with the Rev. Richard J. Hardman, rector, standing over the Despite hopes for peace and stone. The parish has 2,200 communicants and a Church School of all the talk about the need for about 900. Four THa WrrNESS tion to the Detroit and Chicago Laymen's Political Ad Brings ports, the ship will make stops in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada Protest from Bishop Henry 4nd Mackinac Island, Michigan. The Great Lakes area has * A political advertisement Church's National Council. The now had the experience of one sponsored and paid for by Church has gone on record as entire shipping season since "Episcopal churchmen" backing opposed to racial segregation the opening of the St. Lawrence a segregationist gubernatorial both inside and outside the de- Seaway. By July it will be well candidate was attacked by nomination. along in a second season. Bishop M. George Henry of Putnam pointed out that his The conference is part of an Western North Carolina. group did not claim to have an overall strategy and study pro- He said the group had no official standing in the Episco- gram being sponsored by the official standing in the Church pal Church, but was simply a National Council's department and that "there is no organiza- committee of members of Epis- of social relations, and will tion within the Episcopal copal congregations in Western give . those attending a basic Church which is supporting any North Carolina. orientation of the operations publication. of the candidates for any Lake, the subject of the con- and needs of the whole Great and office." troversial ad, ran second the Lakes area. It is hoped that "I regret exceedingly that day after its publication in a from this conference definite reuse any Episcopalian is using his field of four candidates for the steps and measures to imple- for Church membership to further D e m o c r a t i c nomination for ment the Church's ministry in any political candidate or ide- governor. He now will enter a this area will be put into ology," he said. run-off primary June 25 with action. required The ad appeared in local news- the high man for the nomina- papers in support of I. Beverly tion, which in North Carolina GLENN LECTURES Lake, former North Carolina is equivalent to election. IN ENGLAND

Permission assistant attorney general. It was signed by the "Western * The Rev. C. Leslie Glenn lectured during May at St. North Carolina Episcopal UNIQUE CONFERENCE DFMS. Augustine's College, and / Churchmen's Committee for I. ABOARD SHIP Beverly Lake," with Robert J. preached at Canterbury and Worcester Cathedrals and at Putnam of Asheville listed as * A three-day floating con- Church in the Fields, London. the group's chairman. ference will take place on the St. Martin is presently a member of Putnam, commenting on the Great Lakes, July 6-9, on board He bishop's statement, pointed out S.S. North American. The the mental health research

Episcopal of that "our committee members theme of the conference will institute of the University Michigan. the ... are all Episcopalians and be: The Church's ministry to of we feel that we have as much seamen in Great Lakes and St. right to speak out on issues as Lawrence Seaway port cities. do such groups as 'the Episco- Boarding at Detroit and dis- Archives " FINDING pal Society for Cultural and embarking at Chicago, will be Racial Unity' - the principle of about twenty clergy and laymen 2020. the use of the word 'Episcopal' from the United States and GOD is the same." Canada. They will represent INSCIENCE "Moreover," P u t n a m con- the fourteen Great Lakes Copyright tinued, "since integration has bordering dioceses, r a n g i n g by C. A. Coulson been the sermon theme in so from the dioceses of Eau Claire A stimulating approach to life in the many of our churches and pro- on the West to Albany on the physical world and its relationship to the Creator-Father, discussed by the famous integration actions taken in East. Also present will be the Dritish PROFESSOR, ATOMIC SCIENTIST and some instances despite over- port chaplain of Toronto, MArHOMT LAY PREACHESR. One of 16 titles In the "Finding God whelming opposition of lay Canon Guy Marshall and au- Series" by such noted authors as Nels people, we believe that it should thorities in shipping, govern- F. S. Ferre, D. Elton Trueblood. and Ernest Trice Thompson. Each booklet 15€; com- be known that not all members mental maritime administration, plete set of 16 booklets $2. Write for have accepted such political and seamen's agencies. description folder or order from dictates of our national Those attending will have an Church." He said he was re- opportunity to see working con- 10 - A N IL T ferring to the "endorsement of ditions aboard ship, and some Th w-Wen a widely u..d d..d..l gid. the sit-downers" by the of the ports in action. In addi- 1908 GRAND AVE., NASHVILLE 5,TENN. JiSa 23, 1960 still limited knowledge of ocean- Mutual Security Pact with Japan ography, we urge our govern- ment to encourage international cooperation on waste disposal in Condemned by Church Leaders off -shore and other ocean * Some 400 Protestant and the statement to withdraw its waters," t h e pronouncement Jewish clergymen sponsored a troops from Japan and "turn said. statement urging the United the preservation of peace inthe "In the choices our nation States to reconsider its mutual Orient over to the United may make for the use of both security pact with Japan, not Nations." public and private resources, yet ratified by the Senate, on It also asked America to re- either separately or in coopera- the grounds that it will lead to distribute aid funds now being tion," it continued, "the over- more militarization instead of spent on military measures into riding concern should be the toward disarmament. a program of economic assis- maximum development of the Released by the Fellowship tance for Japan and other Asian public interest and the potential of Reconciliation, an inter-de- nations. for human well-being." nominational religious p e a c e "If we can assist Asians in Noting that the use of nu- publication. group, the statement called on eliminating illiteracy, raising clear energy for peaceful pur- and the U.S. to press for "total the standards of living and re- poses raises questions of health world disarmament" and to "at ducing the social tensions," the and safety hazards, the board reuse least postpone this treaty which clergymen concluded, "we can recommended the establishment for moves in the opposite direction." thereby encourage democracy and enforcement of safety and and at the same time make by national Signers of the statement in- exposure standards totalitarianism of the left or governments and international required cluded Dr. John M. Swomley, right far less likely." b a s e d u p o n Jr., the fellowship's national co- organizations, Among other statement sign- leaders in secretary, who prepared the recommendations by ers were: Roland Bainton of the radiation field. declaration; H a r r y Emerson Yale University; retired Epis- Permission Fosdick, pastor emeritus of copal Bishop Walter Mitchell of BISHOP MOSLEY SPEAKS Riverside church, New York; Rancho Santa Fe, Cal.; Rabbi AT BERKELEY of DFMS. the Rev. Donald Harrington * Bishop Mosley of Delaware

/ Isadore Hoffman of New York; Community church, New York; and the Rev. Allan A. Hunter was the speaker at the com- and the Rev. Henry Hitt Crane of Mount Hollywood Congrega- mencement of the Berkeley Church of Detroit. tional church, Los Angeles. Divinity School when twenty- The statement pointed out Other denominational affilia- nine men graduated. He stressed that the treaty will require tions of the clergymen included: that since God is Lord of all

Episcopal Japan to have "sufficient mili- Baptist, Brethren, Evangelical life, the Church must be able to speak for justice and free- the tary capability for modern and Reformed, Lutheran, Men- of war" and to "resist and re- nonite, Moravian, Presbyterian, dom in all spheres. taliate against any attack on Reformed, Unitarian and United Bishop Warnecke of Bethle- U.S. bases." Church. hem and the Rev. Charles W. Archives "There is no provision against Wilding, rector of St. Martin's, introduction of nuclear weapons NUCLEAR ENERGY A Providence, received honorary 2020. into Japan and presumably GIFT FROM GOD doctorates. opens the way to Japan's be- * Hailing nuclear energy as coming a nuclear power." the gift from God, the general

Copyright a clergymen said. board of the National Council They asserted that adoption of Churches declared it was not of the pact by Japan would to be used by one nation to violate its post-world war con- dominate or terrify another. stitution which states that the The board went on record Japanese people "forever re- favoring a national policy in nounce war as a sovereign right the disposal of high and low of the nation and the threat or level radioactive wastes which use of force," and that "land, will exercise a high sense of re- sea and air forces, as well as sponsibility toward later, as other war potential, will never well as present, generations. be maintained." "Because of the international BISHOP MOSLEY urges stand for This country was urged by flow of ocean waters and our justice and freedom in all areas THE WrrNEms SHOULD A ROMAN GATHOLIC BIE PRESIDENT?

TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THOSE WHO COMPLETELY ACCEPT THE VATI- CAN DEMANDS AND THOSE WHO HAVE DEVELOPED A DEGREE OF PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE, THE WRITER CON- TENDS, IS AN OVER-SIMPLIFICATION

By Joseph Wittkof ski publication. Rector of St. Maryj's, Cha~rleroi, Pa. and

reuse cause they appear to believe that members of for I N possibilityTHE current of discussions,electing Roman dealing Catholics with theto the Latin Church also lightly regard their reli- the nation's highest political office, there has gion. On the other hand, there are also some existed a strange blindness to a most solemn serious Churchmen who favor the election of required pronouncement of Pope Pius XII which was Roman Catholic candidates. These Episcopalians issued on November 3, 1954. On this occasion, look upon the religious beliefs of individual the Pontiff maintained that the power of the Roman Catholics and they correctly see a mirror- Permission Church not only comprehended the field of reli- image of their own faith. These Churchpeople gion but also extends to the social order and to are not Romanizers and they are completely

DFMS. political affairs. The Pope, at the same time, honest. In the field of Church-relations, they / claimed for himself the right to determine the are walking in an unexplored area which must be limits of his own sovereignty with reference to considered in any discussion about the selection Church other states. In spite of the many protestations of a Roman Catholic candidate for president. of American Roman Catholics to the contrary, the Vatican newspaper on May 16, 1960, in slightly Heresy of Amnericanism Episcopal different language repeated the claims of that the effects the well recognizes Pius T HE Vatican of XII. of Anglo-Saxon institutions upon the Catho- The question of electing a Roman Catholic to lic religion is the production of an Anglican be president or vice-president of the United mentality. American Episcopal leadership has Archives States has no easy answer for Episcopalians. rarely appreciated this fact. From the begin- Here is no simple choice of bigotry versus fair- ning of the American Republic, the Papal Curia 2020. mindedness. Obviously, the American Roman has been acutely aware of American deviation- Catholic, who accepts any Vatican sovereignty ism. The concern finally reached such a point over nations, should never be elected to high that Pope Leo XIII formally warned Archbishop Copyright political service. But, if a Roman Catholic re- Gibbons, the Cardinal Primate, of the heresy of j ects some important demands of the Church, Americanism. When the Cardinal returned a does he not place his own religious sincerity in rather flippant reply, the Vatican appeared to jeopardy? Recently, a politically active Roman be sure that the American primatial see of Balti- Catholic, in western Pennsylvania, was reported more was in danger of becoming an American as saying that he was opposed to the election of Canterbury. In this situation, American Roman a Roman Catholic president because he did not Catholics must be prevented from developing wish his Church to dictate to the president of any particular loyalty to the primatial see. the United States. Since a Cardinal Primate is automatically the There are some Episcopalians, who do not take head of a national branch of the Roman Com- their religion very seriously. These possibly urge munion, the Vatican has never named another the election of Roman Catholic candidates be- Cardinal to the see of Baltimore. This is an un- Juxs 23, 1960 Save, realized slap in the face for American members this and returns Christ to his proper place in of the Church but the mere Archbishop Primate man's affections - the God of love and mercy." has little significance and the senior cardinal, Thinking Roman Catholics, like this lovable elsewhere, is the titular head of American woman, are not rare. For these, the Episco- Romanism. This, a continually shifting arrange- palian will feel a close kinship. But we cannot ment, prevents the growth of loyalty to one find the answer to our question here. Bishop centralized focus-point. Pike, in his consideration of a Roman Catholic Episcopalians often sense the Anglicanism to candidate for president, seems to distinguish be found among Roman Catholics. This mutual between those who completely accept the Vatican association frequently produces a subtile fellow- demands and those who have developed a degree ship. The Roman Catholics, of Irish extraction, of personal independence. I believe, however, have often tried to escape the influence of that the distinction is an over-simplification. Anglo-Saxon institutions upon their religion. Al- Ecclesiastical Blackmail though, still possessing wide influence, they are NY thought of electing a Roman Catholic to often isolated and even disliked by their fellow the American presidency demands that the churchmen. The Vatican seems to count heavily well developed publication. Latin technique of ecclesiastical upon the ancient prejudice of the Irish elements blackmail be fully explored. The Roman Catholic and in the American hierarchy to maintain Papal apparatus has created many methods to force its jurisdiction in the United States. will upon people. reuse This facet of Church authority

for Although, in America, Latin authorities, with and power is artfully concealed but it can be few minor exceptions, have been able to force easily experienced. Several examples will illus- external conformity in the Church, they have trate the manner in which the oppressive tech- required widely failed to force inner assent. This situa- nique is employed. tion must be seriously considered. Recently, one * Louise was a fine Roman Catholic teenager. of the nation's outstanding Roman Catholic She planned to attend a two day Episcopalian

Permission women wrote, "I do so agree with you that au- youth conference which was social in nature. thoritative religion leads to unhappiness - It When her pastor heard of her intention, he ap- proached her parents and threatened to DFMS. has for me - Christ himself is love - why not have her / then his religion be love - He preached love father fired from his job if Louise had any fur- He led a life of love - whence all the decrees ther association with her Episcopalian friends.

Church and dogmas - It is so easy to be a Christian and * Last year, The Witness reported the news- to follow his example when one is motivated by story in which the writer led a drive to remove a love - and not mortal sin, Purgatory, or Hell - popular Roman Catholic from the presidency of Episcopal My main points of difficulty with my own Faith the local joint school board. This man's wife, the are - The Holy Eucharist - I don't feel we father, and uncle were on the payroll of the of should have changed the way Christ instituted school district but he, president of the board, it - The Friday fast and abstinence - I don't sent his own children to parochial schools. He was defeated for Archives object at all to practicing it (in fact I always re-election. Another Catholic will) but I don't feel that it is a matter of mortal board member sought to explain the defeated

2020. sin- The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin - candidate's position. He said, "Protestants just I certainly don't say Almighty God couldn't have can't understand the pressure which the Church taken her to Heaven body and soul, but I don't uses against us who serve in public office." Copyright think it should be a matter of mortal sin if we * A Roman Catholic priest was received into don't believe it - Birth control is a matter of the Episcopal Church. His foreign born mother conscience in which one answers to God and not had a small insurance policy to cover her future to his fellow man - I can't feature Heaven full burial expenses. This insurance was with a of Protestants who have practiced family plan- Church beneficial association. He wrote that au- ning and Hell full of Catholics who have prac- thorities of the Church threatened to cancel the ticed the same thing - Purgatory has always policy unless she was able to force her son back terrified me; the thought (in my childhood) of into Latin obedience. 10 or 12 year old children dying with perhaps Religious Blackmail venial sins on their souls and being condemned HE above cases are some examples of the to the fires of Purgatory (likened to Hell) made countless types of pressures which the me afraid to die - Belief in Paradise changes all Roman Church employs to control its member-

THE WITNESS ship. There also are the ultimate forms of reli- In spite of vociferous protestation to the con- gious blackmail which are, of course, the threats trary, recent pronouncements of Vatican sources of excommunication and eternal damnation. indicate that the Papal Curia has not yet moved Actually, these kinds of pressure can be applied very far away from the condemnation of Pius IX to both the docile and to the thoughtfully inde- pendent members of that Church. The most for many of our American liberties. brave thinker will have some point at which The Roman Church has not been able to adapt pressure can be applied against him. A candi- itself to any real democratic situation in which date like Senator Kennedy loudly proclaims his Latin Catholicism will renounce claims to special rejection of Vatican power over his own political privilege and accept equal status with other action but the well known case, in which he forms of Christianity. There is indeed much yielded to pressure of the Cardinal Archbishop affection in the Episcopal Church for Roman of Philadelphia, indicates that he is clearly vul- people. nerable to pressure from the hierarchy. Catholic It is most difficult to imagine a situation, at The charity of Christ, however, forces us to this time, in which a Roman Catholic should be protect our good Roman Catholic friends from publication. elected to the American presidency. Is it fair to the destructive pressures of their Church which and place any person in a position in which he can would deprive them and us of our freedoms be used to limit and even destroy historic Ameri- under the claims that the Church's authority reuse can concepts of democracy? extends into the political order. for required The Mind of God for His Creation : Series Permission NONE OTHER GODS BUT ME DFMS. / By Terence J. Finlay Rector of St. Bartholomew's, New York Church reminds us that to date there have been twenty- DOESning it notof theseem great strange Christian to you, service at the ofbegin- the one great civilizations of the world. The stern Episcopal Holy Communion, that we should listen to the historical fact is that, of this number, fourteen the to the time have disappeared because, through their dis- of words of an ancient law, dating back of Moses? It would seem that this is out of its obedience of him, they had become instruments context; yet if we take a moment to read some which God could no longer use. Having broken

Archives of the instructions given for the conducting of and cast aside the Ten Commandments, these the services of the Church, in what we call the civilizations became monuments to man's self- 2020. rubrics, we will find, just preceding the Deca- sufficiency. When man exists only for himself, logue, these words: he can not understand or take his place in God's "Then shall the Priest, turning to the People, economy. Copyright distinctly The Ten Commandments; rehearse A Lost Word and the People, still kneeling, shall, after every Commandment, ask God mercy for their trans- T IS true that these commandments are gressions for the time past, and grace to keep couched in what has been described as nega- the law for the time to come." tive terms, "Thou shalt not," and we do not Therefore, this is an essential part of the ser- care for prohibitions of any kind in this country. vices of the Church. I ask you to study with In fact, we have almost reached the stage where me the Ten Commandments; for I believe with the word "obedience" has disappeared from our my whole heart that if we, as a nation and as vocabulary. Have you heard it used recently? individuals, forget the commandments of God, Have you seen much obedience in the life of our then like other nations before us, we shall perish. people on this North American continent? Do Arnold Toynbee, the notable Christian historian, children obey their parents? Do students readily

JuNE 23, 1960 Nine obey their teachers? Do people readily obey the a God who is one, a God who is just, but a God laws of their country? Do people, by and large, who cares-and this is the "added plus" of Chris- obey the laws of God? tianity. When you look at Jesus in the New Because of our insatiable insistence on free- Testament, you see one who cares for people. dom, we have forgotten that the freedom we en- When you see him visiting the sick, relieving the joy was given to us because certain people obeyed suffering, raising the dead, going through the certain laws in this country; and we have allowed streets of Jerusalem under the weight of a heavy our freedom to degenerate into selfish license. cross, and finally hanging on a cross on Calvary, I know that you are just as concerned as I am you see your God - and how can you have any with the appalling tendency in this country to other god? Here is a God who is no longer dis- depart from the fundamental laws which must tant, but accessible; a God to whom we may turn be obeyed if we are going to endure as one of the in our every need. I can see no higher interpre- civilizations of the world. tation of the Creator of this world than this same Let us, then, look at the Ten Commandments, God. Here is the note of certainty for you and which are better described, not as laws, but as for me in this bewildered and confused age. Down The Law. It is interesting to note that these through the ages, from Mount Sinai to the publication. commandments are not the work of statesmen, present, we see a vast army of people-prophets, and or of politicians, or of economists. They were priests, kings, ordinary men and women like our- not devised by councils of the Church or issued selves - who have gone from this world into the reuse by any gathering of bishops. next, committing themselves into the keeping of for They are the ex- pression of the mind of God for his creation. this one God. Let us think for a moment of their origin. The Obey And Serve required children of Israel, having been freed from their JF THAT is the God you worship, then you must bondage in Egypt, now found themselves faced wish to keep his laws. Let me make this with temptation, with travail and suffering, in very simple. If I love my father and my mother,

Permission the midst of the great and terrible wilderness. I obey them-not because I am always convinced One writer has said, "It took God but one night that they are right, but because I love them. to take Israel out of Egypt, but it took forty

DFMS. This is the whole essence of our approach to God: / years of wandering and discipline to take Egypt We obey and serve him because we love him. St. out of Israel." These people had been surrounded Augustine once said to the people of his day, "You Church by an idolatrous nation; they had lived a life of are always talking about the laws of God. I tell slavery, and now they were free, but not free of you this-love God; then do as you please." This their bondage to idolatrous worship. They needed is what we mean when we talk about the Chris- Episcopal a law, a code by which to live. tian life of freedom. If first of all we love God, the Taking Moses into a mountain apart from his we shall not want to put any one else in his of people, God gave to him the Ten Commandments. place; we shall not want to do anything that will Moses then brought these commandments back offend him or our fellow men. They, too, are

Archives to his people. The first is of paramount im- God's children; and because we love God, we will portance: "I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt love them also.

2020. have none other gods but me." Man is to recog- The first four commandments are concerned nize God and is to worship him, and him alone. with the relationship of God to man, and man's If we may use human terms, in a certain sense, attitude and response toward God. The last six Copyright God is jealous of this relationship. It was dif- commandments are concerned with man's attitude ficult for the Hebrew people to understand this and treatment of man. If you look at the Ten conception of God, for they had been accustomed Commandments in this way, you will understand to worshipping many gods; yet gradually, slow- them better; and you will seek to obey them, not ly, and painfully, they began to climb upward to because you fear God, but because you love him. a revelation of one God. And how can you help but love God? He is not In this day and generation our conception of a tyrant, but a God who, in the fullness of time, the nature of this one God should be much larger. became flesh and dwelt among us. Jesus went in We have not only inherited from Judaism this and out among people, and when he could no idea of a monotheistic religion, but we have the longer show them, by living among them, how Christian interpretation of the nature of God much God loved them, he let them do something through Jesus Christ. He reveals to us not only terrible to him - he let them crucify God, that

Tm TE Wrrmsu for generations to come people could survey the with the activities of Monday morning's market wondrous cross on which the young Prince of place! Truly, I think I'd rather see a man deny Glory died, and say, "That is my God. How can Christ entirely than dismiss him in this insulting I help but love and serve him to the end of my fashion. days?" Senator Mansfield has said, "If we are rejected by the people of the United States in November, it will be because we have rejected our responsi- bility to clarify and unite on the great issues of Don Large public policy and performance." I agree! But whether a man be a Democrat or a Republican or - Religion In Spotlight a Prohibitionist, his performance particularly on the plane of public policy-will depend largely on what he believes. And what he believes is intimately interwoven with his religion! M OST politicians are like most preachers. They're always deploring. The latest thing Yet Mr. Mansfield, still talking about what could cause his party's defeat at the polls next

publication. being deplored is the injection (artificial, Mike Mansfield of Montana thinks) of religion into the Fall, concludes his speech on this significant and current presidential campaign. Kennedy, Hum- note: "It will be because we have rejected this responsibility in a synthetic struggle over such

reuse phries, and Nixon have all deplored, while Mans- extraneous matters as religion, sectional origins, for field had decried. Decrying, you see, is just a verbal variation of deploring. and tv personality ratings." This whole matter of the proper place of reli- So now this all-too-popular opinion is finally required gion in the scheme of things reminds one of a out in the open! Religion in a candidate allegedly cartoon which appeared years ago in The New matters as little as the question of where he happened Yorker. The scene is the opulent study of the to be born or how much charm he manages to project on television. Permission rich rector of a fashionable Manhattan parish. The old priest, smiling benignly upon his callow Honorable sir, please be assured that religion is never extraneous to a man's life - be he

DFMS. curate, says, "Drawing upon my not inconsider- / able experience, Andrews, my advice to a young garbage collector or prime minister-but always man ambitious of preferment in our calling is to wholly central to it. And if this election cam- Church steer clear of two subjects - politics and reli- paign serves no other purpose, it may indeed gion." achieve the laudable end of bringing religion Well, the young sprig of divinity may be able back into the spotlight where it belongs! Episcopal to steer clear of politics-though he does even the that at his peril, especially in a democracy. But of to steer clear of religion (in any area) is to be- tray that God to whom all of life is relevant, and

Archives to whom nothing is foreign. SO YOU'RE CALLING Religion has too long been looked upon as an

2020. esoteric side-show, attached to the main ring on A RECTOR! sufferance only. Too many otherwise intelligent By Robert Nelson Back people act as if one's relationship to God were Copyright merely a vacuum-packed item irrelevant to the workaday world-something to be dusted off and Bishops will want a supply on hand to brought forth for show at 11 a.m. on Sundays, send to vestries about to call a rector. and then put back on the shelf again. Others will find it a most valuable leaflet, Which is precisely why so many men come to whether or not their parish faces the task church with the air of doing the Lord a tre- of finding a new rector. mendous favor. For an hour, once a week, they 25 c a copy $2 for Ten evoke the ancient rituals and ceremonials, thus bolstering the security of the status quo. It is meet and right so to do. But heaven help Al- THE WITNESS mighty God if he should presume to leave the Tunkhannock - Pennsylvania temple with these gentlefolk and concern himself

JuNE 23, 1960 Eleven SPEAKING OF THE-MIGHTY HIPPO By Marion L. Matics Vicar of St. Franc~is, Levittown, N. Y.

N O anyDOUBT spiritual few valueshave givenimplicit much in thethought ostrich, to the bit about lying under the lotus plants is the whale, or the hippopotamus. Yet in the book really not bad; and although it certainly has its of Job these three bizarre creatures appear as humorous aspects - like the tail straight as a one poet's notion of appropriate symbols of the cedar - the poet did not mean it to be funny. glory of God. They come in at the very end of He is deadly serious, and he is telling us that this great poem on the mystery of human suf- there is a way of looking at the world so that fering, in the section in which God answers the even a hippopotamus - which, otherwise, we complaints of Job. might consider an awkward, ungainly and ludicr- "Who is this that darkens counsel by words ous beast - will be seen as an awesome and without knowledge ?" runs the great lines. wonderful creature. The poet is seeing life in publication. "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations another dimension than the ordinary : he is sen- and of the earth? ... Upon what were its foundations sitive to the spiritual overtones of the world in fastened? or who laid its cornerstone? when the which we live. And by implication he is saying reuse morning stars sang together, and all the sons of that if even a hippopotamus is extraordinary, for God shouted for joy ?" the spiritual overtones to be found in the rest of Examples of the divine power are given : those creation should fill us with both continual delight required of the atmosphere-snow, rain, light, heat, and amazement. darkness : those of the animal kingdomthe lion, An It Or A Thou the wild ox, the horse, the hawk, the eagle: and much the same as the famous analysis of

Permission IS finally, man himself. ITSMartin Buber that we can look at the world, The original book of Job clearly was augmented or at anything in it, and especially at any hu-

DFMS. by the contributions of several different writers, man being in it, as either an It or a Thou. If / and the last one to make an addition to it was we see our neighbor as an It, then he becomes an unknown poet who very seriously brought in an object, a thing to be used for one's own bene- Church the ostrich, the whale, and the hippopotamus. fit, and we do not understand him at all. We Commentators all take an exceedingly dim view miss all of the spiritual overtones. But if we of the inclusion of these three creaturcs in the see him as a Thou - not as a thing, but a person Episcopal list which is meant to demonstrate the awesome in his own right, distinguished by a mysterious the majesty of God, and certainly the latecomer was freedom which cannot be explained, and a person of not a great poet in any sense ; but still, perhaps, completely unique in a creation so vast that we he had a valid point to make. Here is what he cannot imagine it, then we begin to understand

Archives says about the hippo: a little. The way of the Thou is human com- "Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made panionship, and the way of the It is complete and 2020. you ; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his frustrating loneliness. strength is in his loins, and his power in the A hippo is obviously not as much of a Thou as muscles of his belly. He makes his tail straight a man; but the point that the poet in Job is Copyright like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit to- making is that the .whole world of God's creatures gether. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs is mysterious and wonderful, and that if we do like bars of iron .... Under the lotus plants he not atune ourselves to its mystery and to its lies, in the covert of the reeds and in the marsh. wonder, then we are sure to miss just about For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the wil- everything that is worthwhile in life. And clumsy lows of the brook surround him. Behold, if the Behemoth is only an example. river is turbulent he is not frightened ; he is Two men pass through the same landscape. confident though Jordan rushes against his One is an artist, or he has the sensitive percep- mouth. Can one take him with hooks, or pierce tion that an artist is supposed to have : the his nose with a snare ?" And there is more of other is just hurrying through on his way to an the same. appointment somewhere else. The landscape It is not a pedestrian passage by any means-- which each of them sees is exactly the same, and

Twelve Tan Wrmass yet in its overtones of values it is entirely rejoice. Life has become an entrancing gift and different. tears and joy and laughter are all part of its Two men look at one of their fellows. One mystery. It is always proving itself to be more may have the critical attitude of the Biblical we had Pharisee: the other man is Jesus. What do they than we had thought and richer than see? The Pharisee observes faults, unworthi- dreamed. ness, uncleanness, limitations, and every objec- The Christian is a lover of life. "I am come tionable quality. What does Jesus see? - the that ye might have life," said Jesus and his way potentiality of immeasurable goodness. It is equally the way of love. 0 The one sees the juvenile delinquent: the is the way of life. other sees the prodigal son. Love makes us free in our Father's house. 0 The one sees the vile outcast of another Plainly, then, the way of love is the way of race and false religion: the other sees a human sense. In that way men tear down the barriers being in need of care, whom the Samaritan between them; they give and receive; they share. should aid and cherish. In the world's way, they snatch and hold; they * The one sees a rough man of no education Christian lives gaily for he publication. fear and fight. The and uncouth speech and manners: the other sees is rich. and the makings of an Apostle. 0 The Pharisee observes a vicious and sinful "Poor," says the world. reuse woman: Jesus sees Mary Magdalene.

for "Poor," we admit. "Yet making many rich." And illustration follows illustration in the Jesus was poor yet he made many rich. It is Gospels. The only difference between the two a paradox of the Christian life, to possess required points of view is that one sees the overtones of nothing and yet have all. From the men who value and one does not. Jesus sees potentiality, follow Christ flow the streams of living water and the Pharisee is blinded to all but failure. and many drink of them and are refreshed. The one says Yea, and the other Nay. The one Permission says Thou, and the other It. The parson especially wonders if he can be In another way the thought is expressed in such a man and has many a moment of doubt. DFMS.

/ Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty": He is so sure of his unworthiness. But God did The awful shadow of some unseen Power not wait until man was worthy before he sent his Son. He sent him, "while we were yet

Church Floats though unseen among us,-visiting This various world with as inconstant wing sinners." What we have to remember is that it As summer winds that creep from flower to is God working through us. That is not a com- fortable thought but it is a comforting one. And

Episcopal flower. we, no less than our people, need to be com-

the Spirit of Beauty, that dost consecrate of With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon forted. Of human thought or form,-where art We have to believe that life, even this life on thou gone?

Archives earth, is a magnificent adventure even though it Once again, the same message as that of our needs faith to say so, courage to keep it so, and friend, the hippopotamus-observer: that 2020. life a high spirit to live it so. There is so much of really is wonderful, and that anything in life is sin and poverty, and we are called to the way of filled with divine beauty, but we must alert our- holiness. But even holiness is barren, nay, im-

Copyright selves and be quick to see it. The only disease possible, without love and so we must make war is spiritual blindness, and the only cure is the against sin and stark poverty, disease and vigorous exercise of that divine gift of grace wretchedness, cruelty and oppression. which lies within ourselves. We would that all men knew the abundant life. But what a struggle to help them to it! It is so easy to slip out of the battle. Evil seems too Pointers for Parsons strong for us to think of fighting it, but if we By Robert Miller do not fight it we betray the Lord. It is not only our little congregation we must care for, but all indeed, for all Christians. It is the men, everywhere. In a very real sense, the world AND,Christian's closeness to God, his awareness is our parish and not for one moment must we of him, his trust in him that makes the heart say the parish is our world. JUNE 23, 1960 Thirte, BOOKS For Summer Reading Kenneth R. Forbes Book Editor

Dr. Schweitzer of Lambarene. By statements on Peace or Atomic War, bors their own. This pastoral work Norman Cousins. Harpers. $3.95. which were released to the world by is similar to what goes on in another There are several rare qualities in radio Oslo in 1957 and 1958. section of Harlem under the leader- this book; it is made up of 250 pages Everything in between is the ship of the rector of St. Matthew of heavy plate paper which enables drama and moral challenge of and St. Timothy, about which an- publication. it to reproduce a wealth of revealing Lambarene, its hospital, its director, other eloquent book was recently reviewed here in our and photographs; it interprets Dr. Sch- its staff and its multitude of patients. published, weitzer more vividly and fairly than I suspect that it will be a rare June 9 issue. any tourist has succeeded in doing; reader - and one not to be envied reuse Bible Stories Retold For Adults. By and, incidentally, gives the reader a -who can remain morally and

for Dorothy M. Slusser. Westminster glimpse of the character and ac- spiritually unchanged by the con- complishments of the author himself. Press. $3.00 tents of this book - its narrative, Ingenious, clever, incisive a n d Mr. Cousins set out for Lambarene its extraordinary photographs, its amusing are all adjectives properly required with the definite purpose of inducing author's interpretations and the al- applicable to this book's content. Dr. Schweitzer to complete the ready world famous Statements. The author has taken the earliest manuscripts of two important books characters of the Old Testament - which God's Colony In Man's World. By he had been working on for Cain and Abel, Abraham and Lot, years. George W. Webber. Abingdon. Permission He hoped, of course, to get $2.75. Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his them published, but when he saw the brothers - and interpreted the his- state they were in - written on Christian leaders and Christian tory of their lives, as Scripture re- scraps of cheap paper, left loose on a are at DFMS. Churches and local parishes cords them, in a very realistic and / table while forest animals roamed last coming to realize that their convincing fashion, and with no re- about the room - he despaired of mission is to people, wherever they course to textual criticism or other ever seeing them in print! But with are, and not to localities. They must implements of modern Bible study. Church the Doctor's cooperation and Mr. adapt the methods of their mission Treatment of her characters is re- Cousin's patience and knowledge of to the types and nationalities of the morseless but fair, convincing to the photography, the great task was people who are becoming their reader because criticism and ap- managed successfully. neighbors. And once these princi-

Episcopal preciation alike are by modern But this original motive for the ples are acknowledged by leaders and standards. Her most interesting the author's visit to Lambarene becomes parishes, they find themselves up chapters are concerned with Jacob of a minor matter for readers who find against the tough problems of put- -she's very hard on him-and the thrilling story of the Schweitzer ting them into practice. This book Joseph, the spoiled child. community of overwhelming impor- is an impressive story of a group of In these and other chapters the tance. at work on this Archives Vivid pictures in Cousin's Christians busily author finds striking resemblances appealing p r o s e, - the hospital job. The scene is the East Harlem to our modern culture and civiliza- staff of young devotees, works of district of New York which many tion. She says of Jacob: "His entire 2020. mercy in the lives of innumerable thousands of foreign - born have lifetime had been dedicated to the jungle black folk, the new leper taken over for their homes - chiefly avid and energetic pursuit of mate- hospital - established with the Negroes and Italians. Four young rial success and happiness"-like so money from the Nobel Prize awarded ministers, authorized and supported Copyright much of the western world in the mid the Doctor - presided over by two by eight Protestant sects, have 20th century. young European girls (one of them organized the East Harlem Prot- Illustrating the latter, with tongue- the daughter of a multimillionaire), estant Parish and are preaching the in cheek, she quotes Cleveland the revealing details of the daily life Gospel in several old store-front Amory's parody on the popular song, made impressive and significant by rooms and undertaking more and Home On The Range: the character and philosophy of the more pastoral work with their Oh, give me a home master spirit. All this and much neighbors. Where the millionaries roam more is but a glimpse of the strange It is an interesting and significant And the dear little glamour girls miracle of Albert Schweitzer - tale, throwing light on the peculiar play. musician, organist, theologian, phi- problems inherent in the fact of Where never is heard losopher and physician. The first eight different sects with varying be- An intelligent word fifty pages of this book is a record liefs and quite different types of And we round up the dollars all of the author's visit to South Africa public worship, trying earnestly to day. in its apartheid life, en route to put first things first and success- A delightful book, hampered by a Lambarene; the last twenty-five an fully making the troubles, the suf- stoggy title which you'll forget when appendix containing the two notable ferings and injustices of their neigh- you've read a dozen pages. Fourteen THm WrrNmss The Ten Pains of Death. By Gavin land is poor and the best part of it brutally driven and beaten down, Maxwell. E. P. Dutton Co. $5.00. is owned by the few rich people." would prove to be hopeless indeed. The lives of the people of Sicily are The author pays glowing tribute The strange title of this book is completely controlled by an all to Danilo Dolci, so widely known as a quotation from an Italian poet of powerful trio - the political party Sicily's Gandhi, whom the Christian the 16th century, Giovanni Florio. known as Christian Democrats, the Democrat government has opposed The ten pains may be summed up as Church and the Mafia. The latter and maligned, but actually "the the tragedy and futility of human is a wholly criminal conspiracy of greatest social reformer that South- life. And just this is what the au- long standing, a huge protection ern Italy has ever seen" thor makes one see as precisely the racket, like the gangs in Prohibition This is almost a unique book. It quality of life lived in modern Sicily. days here in America, which rivals will shock you, thrill you, agitate you He is a Scotsman who knows Sicil- the government in power. The -but all in a great cause of helping ians as very few northerners do. Christian Democrat government Max- a much battered people. Living with groups of them for con- well considers to be indifferent, cor- siderable periods' of time, he has rupt and reactionary. Seeing Sicily Varieties of Protestantism. By John studied at close quarters the family then as this well informed man sees B. Cobb Jr. Westminster Press. life, the economic state, the moral it and realizing that southern Italy $4.50. quality and the cultural level of too is in much the same wretched The young theologian who pro- these extraordinary folk, and in this state, one can understand why, in book has learned a lot book gives the reader duced this what he found this land of sunshine, scenic beauty in a short time. He left college to mostly in the words of typical publication. and cultural monuments, the com- the army in 1943 and was dis- Sicilians with whom he consorted. enter munist party there is the largest charged with the rank of captain in and What he discovered is, briefly, and strongest in Western Europe. 1946. Resuming his studies he this : In the large communities of The pictures drawn for us in this climbed the academic ladder in the reuse Western Sicily eight. out of every book are not all of them the dreary, field of theology and is now assistant

for ten adult men have served more shocking and seemingly hopeless professor of systematic theology in than a year in prison; a grinding ones which most of the book's chap- the Southern California School of poverty is the lot of the vast majori- ters record. The stories of the Theology. ty of the whole island while illiteracy Grain Harvest the Vine Harvest, the The author has written an unusual required and sexual vice dominate entire com- Olive Harvest and the all-important and valuable book of reference; un- munities. Says the author: "Many annual Festas are fascinating and usual because the emphasis in today's Sicilians see no point in sending beautiful and without the background theology is ecumenical and this children to school and the schools they furnish one must believe that essay stresses the multiplicity of

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Archives Remember the seminaries annually, on Theological Education Sunday, and for the future, in your will. The Deans of the seminaries will gladly 2020. +. furnish additional information and the proper forms for a bequest. Copyright

BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL, New Haven, Conn.; BEXLEY HALL THE DIVINITY SCHOOL OF KENYON COLLEGE, Gambier, Ohio; CHURCH f OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH in Philadelphia; EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, Cambridge, Mass.; EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL

f EIAY SEMINARY,FTESUTWSAstn New York City; NASHOTeas AH HOUSE,H EERLTE-LOGICAL Nashotah, Wis.; " PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Alexandria, Virginia; SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.; SEABURY- WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Evanston, Ill.

A .4A A..AA..". Ju!~~f23 190Pi Jvxa 23, 96 Fitt"r Protestants ever attain unity it will many years rector of Christ be because its leaders and followers Church, Reading, Pa., was honored alike have come to know intimately recently at a dinner at St. Simeon's, An essential tool for each of its many denominations. Philadelphia, where he was once a the clergy, leaders, teachers The Varieties of Protestantism are curate. The occasion marked the described at considerable length, and 65th anniversary of his ordination. the chief sects interestingly classi- fied as either Reformation Prot- CLERGY CHANGES: estants (Lutheranism and Calvin- JOSEPH W. TURNBULL, rector of ism), Churchly Protestants, (mean- St. Paul's, Honolulu, becomes rec- ing Anglicans and some Scandina- tor of Emmanuel, Lancaster, Wis., vian bodies), Liberal Protestants and August 1. Non Traditional Divisions. SAMUEL RUFF, who received his HOW AND WHAT I think the most valuable feature doctorate at Harvard this month, of this book is its excellent bibli- has joined the faculty of the THE CHURCH ographies which list outstanding au- Berkeley Divinity School as as- thorities on each of the various sistant professor of New Testament. TEACHES divisions. If you want to know just JOHN N. McCORMICK, formerly what makes the Baptist - or Lu- The meaning of the selections assistant to the dean of the Virgin- from the Bible which are ap- theran or Methodist - tick, you will ia Seminary, is now dean of the the Sundays and find out by consulting this book, pointed for Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Holy Days of the Christian Year publication. which tells all about it in sympathe- Bethlehem, Pa. By The Rev. William Sydnor tic and precise fashion. IMRI M. BLACKBURN, formerly and on the faculty of Seabury-Western, is now head of the history depart- IMAGINE ONE BOOK reuse ment at Nashotah House. WHICH IS-- for J. RALPH DEPPEN, formerly in PEOPLE charge of the missionary program ... a handy, valuable tool to min- in the diocese of Chicago, is now isters in suggesting sermon themes archdeacon of the diocese. He will and appropriate Scripture for ser- required HONORS: also be administration assistant to vices on all types of occasions. BISHOP LICHTENBERGER, the ... a source book Sunday School Presiding Bishop, received the bishop. an J. WOOLLCOMBE, fel- teachers in the Episcopal Church honorary doctorate KENNETH from Trinity low of Oxford University, England, cannot afford to be without.

Permission College this month. is now professor of dogmatic the- BISHOP SHERRILL, former ... a long-needed practical guide Pre- at General Seminary. siding Bishop ology for laymen who want to read the and a President of H. BOONE PORTER, formerly on the World Council of Churches, Prayer Book and the Bible with DFMS. the faculty of Nashotah House, is / received an honorary greater understanding. doctorate this now professor of liturgics at Gen- month from Yale S.. a guide for all who seek to ap- University. eral Seminary. Before taking up BISHOP DONEGAN of preciate more fully the nature and New York he will tour Anglican mis-

Church residence received an honorary doctorate meaning of corporate worship. sions in the Far East for six from Columbia University this months for the National Council ... a study book for Confirmation month. and will lead conferences and give classes and Bible calsses. REGINALD H. FULLER of the Sea- This book was inspired by the au- Episcopal lectures at seminaries in Tokyo bury-Western faculty received an and Manila. thor's deep concern that Scripture the honorary doctorate from General read in Church should be clearly of Seminary this month. understandable by the worshipers so BISHOP PIKE of California, that the worship service can fulfill received an honorary doctorate Select from its role as a teaching service. from the University of Southern Archives California this month. 150 NEW Exclusive Arranged for easy use BISHOP MILLARD, suffragan of Part I is a clear explanation of the 2020. California, received an honorary Embroidery DESIGNS way the Church teaches through its doctorate at the commencement services of corporate worship. of the Church Divinity School for custom-made Part II discusses and explains, of the Pacific. Others to receive one Copyright honorary degrees were JAMES ALTAR and CLERGY VESTMENTS by one, all the Scripture passages MULLENBURG, formerly a which the Book of Common Prayer featuring our own process designates (propers and lections) for professor at the seminary who is Nn12 4ow for of gold outlining which uses a use on Sundays and Holy Days. now on the faculty of Union Semi- 5't d' : CC' :5r traditional non-tarnishable gold These are chronologically arranged nary, New York. Rectors so hon- thread to achieve natutal o:S GN ored were PAUL M. WHEELER and printed in two columns for easy beauty equaled only by hand clci ;,AAL G reference. of Honolulu; T. RAYMOND JONES of San Diego; GEORGE craftsmanship. Appendices of Biblical passages and W. FERGUSON of Tucson; Complete Custom-made CHOIR VEST- service themes make the book usable FREDERICK H. AVERY of Van- MENT Service in a wide variety of ways. couver. Send for Catalogs on: Q Paraments At your bookstore JOHN M. GESSELL, rector of Grace $4.00 Church, Salem, Mass., received a SQ Clergy Vestments - ChoirVestments doctorate in course from Yale J.THEODORE C'u rIsoN, INC. LONOMANS, 6REEN &COMPANY University. 2013 Sansom St. W-60o Pla. 3, Pa. 119 West 40th Street, N. Y. 18, N. Y. FREDERICK A. MacMILLEN, for -7 -~------Sixte Tur Wrrmss twenty are "military". How is the weak a base world peace is now military Church school justified? I resting. It is our responsibility as don't think I've ever heard this professing Christians to speak up for -BACKFIRE- argued. friendlier relations between the nations, regardless of their political Elizabeth R. Noice or economic systems. George E. Wharton Churchwoman of Gunnison, Colo. Clergyman of Phoenix, Arizonaz They are all human beings in the In the May 26 "Backfire" a lady sight of God and should be treated An article in the Witness May 26, complains of "highbrow stuff that is as such. Let us show other peoples 1960 on what members of the Church a waste of space" and cites the arti- that as Americans we desire world of Rome may and may not do. cle on Existentialism. I particularly peace and will do all we can to Is the supposed infallable Pope or enjoyed that article and your numer- maintain it. ous think pieces. Our faith must the hierarchy of that group the real Florence Wandless power that controls the Church of concern itself with contemporary Churchwoman of Rid gewood, N. J. Rome? According philosophy, physics and other fron- to the Vatican, It seems to me the Church would newspaper L Osservatore tier knowledge; too often it epito- Romano, a great loss without The Wit- May 16, 1960 as quoted mizes the cultural lag. suffer in the Wit- ness which I read from cover to ness, every member of the Church of We in Colorado are terribly sorry use and quote constantly. Rome must obey the instructions of to lose Bishop Corrigan to the cover and that no one organ of publica- the hierarchy if they would remain National Council but we rejoice that I feel members. his talents will have a wider scope. tion can take the place of the privately This includes not only the papers publication. and supported Church religious teaching but the political In two years he has won our hearts edited and hope The Witness will continue teaching of that religious organiza- and given us a glimpse of the image and many years. tion. of Christ. He can get through to I do not understand how any mem- anyone with an honest heart, be he reuse ber of the Church of Rome can be a solid churchman or skeptic, intel- lectual or naive, beatnik or just for loyal citizen of U.S.A. as well as a zchoo[s loyal member of that religious group, plain folks. His Nashotah House under such a ruling. No member of background and liberal views should of the Church the Church of Rome can obey such make him a good mediator in "high- required rules and make a loyal President of low" politics and his clear vision will the citizens of our country. Will the penetrate the inevitable organization- hierarchy make an exception for the al fog. Follow that man! ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL first one to become President so that COLLEGE PREPARATION FoR GIRLS

Permission Lewis W. Bailey later they can get a man into that Layman of Sims bury, Conn. Fully accredited. Grades 8-12. Music, control? office whom they can fully The maintenance of world peace is art, dramatics. Small classes. All undoubtedly the most important issue sports. On beautiful Rappahannock DFMS. Helen Mears / before the world today. It is our River. Episcopal. Summer School. Churchwoman of New York City Write for catalog. As part of my professional life I duty as sincere Christians to follow read a wide assortment of periodicals the example of our great leader, the Viola H. Woolf olk, Church regularly. Among these, The Wit- Prince of Peace. This is especially Box W, Tappahannock, Virginia ness always has at least one article, important in these times when the and usually several, which are in- possession of atomic and hydrogen bombs by all the great powers would

Episcopal structive, stimulating, and comfort- make a world war most destructive. LENOX SCHOOL ing. The May 26 issue was especially A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for the The satisfactory-so good to have that recent incidents of the U-2 and boys 12418 emphasizing Christian ideals and of its spy pilot and the collapse of the character through simplicity of plant and realistic address of John Nevin Sayre equipment, moderate tuition, the co-operative in print; I was at the FOR dinner summit conference show us on how self-help system and informal, personal rela- where he spoke but hearing is not tionships among boys and faculty. REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmaster Archives so satisfactory, as reading! Litmox, MASSACHUSETTS BUT-there always seems to be a NORTHWESTERN but -' In an issue that spoke so 2020. directly against, military methods for Military and Naval solving international problems it ACADEMY DeVEAUX SCHOOL was a shock to find, in the listings Niagara Falls, New York

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