Tte WITN MAY 14, 1964 10* publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Copyright

THE WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL Showing the Gloria in Excelsis Tower which has just been completed

WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL DEDICATION SERVICES The Witness SERVICES In Leading Churches For Christ and His Church In Leading Churches NEW YORK CITY EDITORIAL BOARD CHRIST CHURCH 1 HE CATHEDRAL CHURCH 'OITN- MCGILL KBUMM, Chairman OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Sunday: Holy Communion 7, 8, 9, 10; Morn- \V. 15. SPOFFORD Sr«., Managing Editor ing Praver, Holv Communion and Ser- EDWARD 1. MOHR, Editorial Assistant The Rev. Gardiner M. Day, Rector mon. 11; Evensong and sermon, 4. O. SYD_NEY BARR; LEE A. BELFORD; KENNX-TU Sundav Services: 8:00, 9:30 and 11:15 J.m Morn i ng Prayer and Holy Communion 7:15 R. F on TIES; ROSCOE T. FOUST; RICHARD E. Wed. and Holy Days: 8:00 and (and 10 Wed.); Evensong, 5. GARY: GORDON C. GRAHAM; DAVID JOHNSON; 12:10 p.m. HAROLD R. LANDON; LESLIE J. A. LANG; ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH BEXJAMIK MINIFIE; W. NOHMAN PIT- Park Avenue and 51 st Street TENGER; WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW. CHRIST CHURCH, DETROIT Rev. Terence J. Vinlay, D.D. 976 East Jefferson Avenue K and 9:30 a.m. Holv Communion 9:30 and EDITORIALS: - The Editorial Board holds The Rev. William B. Sperry, Rector 11 a.m. Church School. 11 a.m. Morn- monthly meetings when current issues before ing Service and Sermon. -5. p.m. Even- the Church are discussed. They are dealt 8 and 9 a.m. Holy Communion (breaktasl song. Special Music. served following 9 a.m. service) 11 JL.IT. publication. with in subsequent numbers but do not Weekday: Holv Communion Tuesday at Church School and Morning Service. 12:10 a.m.; Wednesdays and Saint? necessarily represent the unanimous opinion Holy Days, 6 p.m. Holy Communion. and Dav.. at 8 a.m.; Thursdays at 12:10 p.m. of the editors. Organ Recitals, Wednesdays, 12:10. Eve. Pr. Daily 5:45 p.m.

reuse ST. THOMAS' CHURCH 18th and Church Streets for CONTRIBUTING EDITORS CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY Near Dupont Circle 316 East 88th Strce: THOMAS V. BARRETT; JOHN PAIRMAN BROWN; WASHINGTON, D. C. NEW YORK CITT GARDINER M. DAY; JOSEPH T. FLETCHER; ftundnvff: Holv Communion 81 OiU'^'i * : •<•'>! The Rev. John T. Golding, Rector FREDERICK C. GRANT; HELEN GKANT; GOD- required 9:30; Morning Praver and Sermon 1 1 :00. The Rev. Walter E. Neds I lolv Communion 1st Sundav in Month WIN C. ROACH; BARBARA ST. CLAIR; MAS- The Rev. Walter J. Marshfield SEV H. SHEPHERD JR.; W. B. SPOIFORD JB. Sundays: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion. 11.00 GENERAL THEOLOGICAL a.m. Service r.nd Sermon. 7:30 p.m. SEMINARY CHAPEL a Evening Prayer. Holy Days: 12:15 p.m. Holy Communion. Permission Chelsea Square 9th Ave. & 20th St THE WITNESS is published weekly from Thursdays: 7:30 a.m. Holy Communion. NEW YORK September 15th to June 15th inclusive, with Dailv Morning Praver and Holv Communion. 7 (7:30 Saturdavs and holidays) the exception of one week in January and

DFMS. Da ilv Choral Evensong, 6. bi-weekly fiom June 15th to September 15th TRINITY CHURCH / by the Episcopal Chuxch Publishing Co on MIAMI, FLA. -OLUMBIA UNIVERSITY behalf of the Witness Advisory Board. SAIN"I PAUL 'S CHAPZI Rev. G. Irvine Hitter, STD., Rector

Church N£w YORK Sunday Services 8, 9, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Tne Rev. John M. Krumm Pi;.D-, The subscription price is S4.00 a veal; :n Chaplain v (except Saturdav), 12 noon: Su buiiules for sale in parisnes tne rruigazinc pe-1* I To! \ Communion. 9 and 12:?0. Mo rnnj: ior 10c a copy, we will bill quarterly at ?t a FRO-CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY Episcopal PiTtver & Sermon. II a.m.- Wedne d . up\. Entered as Second Class .Matter, August Holv Communion, 4:30 p.m. 5. ]94S, at the Post Office at Tunkhanno^K. 23 Avenue, George V the Pa., under the act of March 3, 1879. PARIS, FRANCE of ST. THOMAS Services: S:30, 10:30 (S.S.), 10:45 5th Ave. & 5 3rd Street Boulevard Raspaii Rev. Frederick M. Morris, D.D. Student and Artists Center Sundav: HC 8, 9:30, 11 (1st Sun.) MP 11; The Rt Rev. Stephen Bayne, Bishop

Archives Ep Clio 4. Daily ex. Sat. HC 8:15, HOLY MATRIMONY HC Tues. 12:10, Wed., 5:30. The Very Rev. Sturgis Lee Riddle, Dean Noted for boy choir; great reredos By Hugh McCandless

2020. and windows. THE MEANING OF CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE THE CHURCH OF THE FPIPHANY THE REAL PRESENCE Ycrk Avenue at 74th Street ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

Copyright Xeai New York Memorial Hospitals By G. A. Studdert-Kennedy The Rev. J. Francis Sant, Rector Hugh McCandless, Lee Belford, David The Rev. ]ack E. Schweizer, Wtnne, Philip Zabriskie, clergy SHALL I BE Assistant Rector Sundays: 8 a.m. HC: 9:30 Family (HC 3S) Sundays, 8 9:30, 11 a.m. 1 1 MP (HC IS). A CLERGYMAN? Wed. HC 7:20 a.m.; Thurs. HC 11 a.m. One of New York's By Gordon T. Charlton Jr. most beautiful public buildings. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH THE PRAYER BOOK Lafayette Square ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH Its History and Purpose WASHINGTON, D. C. Tenth Street, above Chestnut The Reverend John C. Harper, Rector PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. By Irving P. Johnson Weekday Services: Mon., and Thurs., Holy The Rev. Alfred W. Price, D.D.. Recto* Communion at 12:10. Tues., Holy The Rev. Gustav C. MeckUng, B.D. 25i- a copy Ten for $2 Communion is 7:30 a.m. Wed., Fri., Minister to the Hard of Hearing and Sat.r Noonday Prayers at 12:10. Mi ncinv: 9 and 11 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Sundav Services: 8 and 9:30 Holy Com- Weekdays: Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., tri., THE WITNESS munion; 11 Morning Prayer and Sermon 12:30 - 12:55 p.m. CChuich School); 4 French Service; 5:30 Services of Spiritual Healing, Thurs., 12:30 Tunkhannock. Pa. Evening Prayer. and 5:30 p.m. VOL. 49, NO. 19 The WITNESS MAY 14, 1964 FOR CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH

Editorial and Publication Office, Eaton Road, Tunkhannock, Pa.

Story of the Week

sentations. Beauvoir Elemen- Washington Cathedral Passes tary School presented "The Life of St. Francis", and students Milestone in its History of the National Cathedral

publication. * The completed Gloria in and young women in the native School for Girls and St. Albans Excelsis tower of Washington costumes of 72 countries. School performed Christopher and Cathedral was dedicated on As- For the evensong service at Fry's "The Boy with the Cart". cension Day last week in the the dedication of the peal of reuse The group which came from course of five festive services bells a procession of choir boys for Great Britain for the ringing of inside and outside the building. and clergy moved from the changes are members of the Chief Justice Warren of the south portal to the pilgrim Ancient Society of College required Supreme Court was the speaker steps, where new music com- Youths, founded in 1637. They at the assembly of dedication at posed by Stanley Hollingsworth, gave instructions in the ringing midday, held on the pilgrim Ned Rorem, and Leo Sowerby to boys of St. Albans School, steps. was sung by the glee clubs who have been trained to carry Permission Several of the services had from the balcony on the south on the practice at the cathedral. music especially composed for facade, accompanied by wind the occasion, and the dedication instruments. The ringing of the The completion of the tower, DFMS. / of the 10-bell peal of swinging peal of bells at the highest level which took two years of build- in the tower followed. ing, finishes a large portion of bells in the tower was accom- the contruction program. The panied by a ringing of the Church A Te Deum Laudamus writ- next phase, under a $1,050,000 changes by a group of ringers ten for the occasion by John La contract, is proceeding im- who flew over from Great Montaine marked the festival mediately, financed by special Britain for the occasion. morning prayer for all the

Episcopal gifts and legacies. This will The early eucharist for the cathedral schools. consist of the completion of the diocese of Washington, at which The schools also participated

of three bays on each side of the Bishop Creighton, Suffragan in the day with dramatic pre- nave at the clerestory level, and Bishop Moore, and Dean Sayre vaulting between them, bring- of the cathedral, officiated, was ing the interior of this section Archives begun with a chorale for brass to a height of 150, the same as instruments written by Samuel that of the transepts. At 2020. Barber. Basil Itathbone pre- present these bays are only up sented a dramatic narration to the level of the triforium, accompanying the lighting of with temporary roofing. The Copyright the tower at dusk. This was contract does not make provi- preceded by a performance of sion for stained glass for the the Gloria from the Bach B six large windows in the bays. minor mass on the south tran- When construction under the sept steps by the Cathedral new contract is completed one- Choral Society, the Howard third of the nave, and three- University Choir and the glee quarters of the entire cathedral clubs of the cathedral schools. structure, will have been fin- The procession preceding the ished. In addition to the rest dedication assembly was led by Dean Sayre chats with Chief of the nave the largest remain- Scottish bagpipers and drum- Justice Earl Warren who was the ing features of the plan are the mers, the flags of all the states, speaker at the dedication ceremonies two west towers, each 265 feet MAY 14, 1964 Three high. The estimated construc- quire as much as 20 years. The than 100 tons, is on the level tion cost for each of these is financing of the work done so below. It's music is heard in $2,000,000. far has taken 57 years. The the vicinity of the cathedral Although the eventual com- $15,000,000 spent on this con- close. pletion of the cathedral will be struction has been obtained in sight when the present build- from legacies and gifts from The material for the tower ing commitment is finished, people of many Christian had to be hoisted to the roof of Dean Sayre estimates that all churches and from many out- one of the transepts, and then of the work planned may re- side organized religion. along the roof, all the while the regular use of the cathedral, The Gloria in Excelsis Tower with its daily services was Dedicated on Ascension Da maintained. 7 The builder of the tower and By Edward J. Mohr the rare book wing now under from ground level, the tower construction is George A. Fuller publication. Witness Editorial Assistant stonework is dotted with Co., who also built the Episcopal and •*• When a visitor passes the numerous carvings, including Church Center completed in grave of John F. Kennedy on 380 angels and the 24 elders of New York last year. Founded reuse the way from Washington na- Revelations, singing praises. over 80 years ago, the company for tional airport he may look If the tower conveys a living has been working on the cathe- across the Potomac and see message through its bold and dral for 50 years. It is cur- there against the green back- dominating exterior, it does so rently building the new Metro- required ground the Gloria in E?

Permission veys that in life and death, in hope and decay, the Lord God both. The highest level of the vice president of the Fuller Co. whom he does not see reigns. interior, the one containing the in Washington, while Fred J.

DFMS. swinging bells, is reached by Maynard is the company's pro- / The tower, dedicated last ject manager. Thursday, can be given a two elevators. When rung the variety of physical descriptions. 10 bells can be heard for a dis- Richard T. Feller, assistant Church Standing 301 feet tall, it is the tance of miles. The carillon of business manager of the cathe- highest structure in the city, 53 bells, with a weight of more dral is the clerk of the works, on the highest point in the dis-

Episcopal trict of Columbia, Mount Saint

the Alban. of The highest Gothic central tower in the world, and the only one in the western hemisphere, Archives it is only the second one to be constructed since the middle 2020. ages. Rising from a point where the transepts and nave of the Copyright church cross, the tower took two years to build. Although the plan and style is Gothic the methods and material used in all the cathedral construction is the most modern available. It was the first building in Wash- ington in which a rotating cen- tral crane, which rises with the construction as it goes higher, was used. The cost of construc- tion was $1,600,000. At Washington Cathedral on the first Sunday of the month the eucharist is celebrated at a large altar-table in the crossing with the Though not readily noticed clergy facing the congregation Four THE WITNESS supervising the construction on The stone carving, an es- Cathedral Association, compris- behalf of the cathedral. sential element in the design, is ing some 10,000 people in all The painting for the tower done by nine carvers perma- states and many foreign coun- was done by Edward W. Minte nently on the cathedral staff. tries. Co., Inc., Washington, while for Of them, 7 are natives of Italy, Each year a quarter million the rare book wing the stone one of Greece, another of people visit the church, which has been supplied by The John Germany. at present seats 3,000, the Swenson Granite Co., Inc., Con- The construction and minis- capacity going to 6,000 when it cord, N. H.; the slate and mar- try of the cathedral has been is completed. When that stage ble by Standard Art Marble and substantially made possible by is reached it will be the sixth Tile Co., Inc., Washington; and support from the National largest cathedral in the world. lath and plaster by R. Floyd Jennings & Son, Inc., Bethesda, Md. Important Committees Appointed The idea of "a great Church for national purposes" was first For Coming General Convention conceived by George Washing- publication. ton, and provision was made for * A joint committee to pre- man, and Harrison Garrett of

and such a building in L'Enfant's sent nominations for the elec- Maryland. plan for the seat of the federal tion of a new Presiding Bishop Province IV — Bishop M. reuse government. The scheme lay has been appointed. George Henry of Western North for dormant for more than a cen- The names of three Episcopal Carolina and Will S. Keese Jr. tury until the creation of the bishops will be placed before the of Tennessee. Protestant Episcopal Cathedral House of Bishops when it meets Province V — Bishop John P. required Foundation in 1893, two years in General Convention October Craine of Indianapolis and the before the organization of the 11-23 at St. Louis. Nomina- Ven. Charles D. Braidwood of diocese of Washington. Some tions may also be made from Michigan. five years after the organization the floor. Province VI — Bishop Con- Permission of the foundation the 57 acre A Presiding Bishop is elected rad H. Gesner of South Dakota site on Mt. St. Alban was ob- by secret ballot and two-thirds and David E. Bronson of Min- tained. DFMS. majority vote. The election is nesota. / Since the laying of the subject to confirmation by the Province VII—Bishop George cornerstone in 1907 work on the House of Deputies. H. Quarterman of Northwest Church cathedral has progressed in Before the election is held, Texas and Gill Miller of West various stages, the most recent however, a nominating commit- Missouri. before the tower being the tee is appointed jointly by the Province VIII — Bishop Rus- south transept, completed in Episcopal Presiding Bishop and the Presi- sell S. Hubbard of Spokane and 1962. The completion of the dent of the House of Deputies the Dean John C. Leffler of rare book wing is scheduled for of — Clifford P. Morehouse. The Olympia. this year and the upper levels 16-member committee consists and vaulting of the six bays in of the president bishops of the Program and Budget the nave for 1965. Archives eight provinces and four lay The cathedral architect is and four clerical deputies, one Twenty-four persons — six bishops, six priests and 12 lay- 2020. Philip Hubert Frohman, sole from each province. Chairman successor of the firm of Froh- is Bishop William Crittenden of men — have been appointed to man, Robb and Little which pre- Erie. a joint committee on program pared revised designs and draw- Appointed to submit nomina- and budget. The committee Copyright ings since 1920. The original tions for a new Presiding Bish- serves as an agent of General plans were drawn by George op are: Convention for the study and Bodley of London, who died Province I — Bishop Walter evaluation of a proposed pro- soon after, and Henry Vaughan H. Gray of Connecticut and the gram and budget for work dur- of Boston, who continued the Rev. Robert S. Kerr of Ver- ing the next three years. The work until his death in 1917. mont. proposed budget and program is While there has been no radical Province II — Bishop Horace developed by National Council departure from the original W. B. Donegan of New York members and staff. plans, Frohman's work on them and the Rev. St. Clair Roger Final programming and allo- has been such that the present Desir of Haiti. cation of funds for the com- structure is essentially his Province III — Bishop Wil- munion's work will be deter- creation. liam Crittenden of Erie, chair- mined by General Convention

MAY 14, 1964 Five when it convenes October 11 in Serving on the committee are Dakota, Chippewa and Navajo St. Louis. three bishops, three priests and languages. Hymns were sung Convenor of the committee is three laymen. They are: in the Dakota language. Bishop G. Francis Burrill of Bishops:—Thomas H. Wright Archdeacon Vine V. Deloria Chicago. Others named to the of East Carolina; Russell T. of the missionary district of committee by the Presiding Rauscher of Nebraska; and South Dakota, celebrated. Dr. Bishop and the President of the Lane W. Barton of Eastern Deloria, a full-blooded Sioux, is House of Deputies, are: Oregon. a former staff officer of the Bishops: — Harry Lee Doll Priests: — David R. Thorn- National Council. of Maryland; Hamilton West of berry, archdeacon of Southern An afternoon service at the Florida; Chilton Powell of Okla- Ohio; Gardiner M. Day, rector Cathedral began with a proces- homa; Anson P. Stokes Jr. of of Christ Church, Cambridge, sion of American Indians in Massachusetts; Russell S. Hub- Mass.; and Kenneth W. Cary, full dress, carrying banners and bard of Spokane. rector of St. Matthews Church, other identifying symbols of Pacific Palisades, Calif. their respective tribes. Secre- Priests: — George T. Masuda tary of the Interior Stewart L. of Montana; L. Skerry Olsen of Laymen: — George H. Greer, publication. Udall was the principal speaker. Kansas; Morris F. Arnold of Owensboro, Ky.; Carl E. Sponsors of the conference and Southern Ohio; John Heuss of Steiger, Oshkosh, Wise; and cited President Johnson's state- New York; Merritt F. Williams Ernest W. Greene, Washington, ment that American Indians reuse of Western Massachusetts; D. C. "suffer more from poverty for Thomas J. C. Smyth of North National Council members, today than any other group in Carolina. during the three-year interim America." The President said Laymen: — J. L. Caldwell between sessions of the Gen- required that family income of the McFaddin of Texas; Houston e r a 1 Convention, administer 400,000 Indians living on reser- Wilson of Delaware; John H. policy, program and budget for vations is less than one-third of Leach of Missouri; Dr. George Episcopal Church work. Stated the American average. Gibbs of Los Angeles; Arthur Permission purpose of the Episcopal Na- W. Platt of Florida; B. Franklin tional Council is "to unify, de- NATIVES SHOULD Miller of Olympia; Charles B. velop, and prosecute the mis- RUN CHURCHES DFMS. Grouse of Michigan; E. Hol- sionary, educational and social / combe Palmer of Virginia; John work of the church." * Archbishop Hugh Gough of B. Tillson of Massachusetts; Al- Sidney, Australia, said that the Church bert L. Hancock Sr. of New INDIAN PROBLEMS leadership of the Anglican Jersey; Reginald M. Sutton of DISCUSSED Church in Africa must soon be Nebraska; Phillips Lyon of handed over to the Africans. * An American Indian con- Christian churches in Africa Episcopal West Missouri. ference on poverty was held are being regarded as forces the May 9-12, at the Washington seeking to disunite Africans, of Council Members Cathedral to discuss problems the archbishop said. When the General Conven- of education, employment, hous- The church must "walk very tion holds its meeting October ing, health and community carefully" if it is to avoid- Archives 11-23 in St. Louis one of its mobilization as they relate to offending nationalistic feelings numerous agenda items will be Indian communities. of the developing African na- 2020. to elect nine new National Coun- Sponsored by the council on tions, Dr. Gough said. He made cil members. Indian affairs, which includes his remarks on his return from Of these, two will be bishops, seven church agencies among its a conference of Anglican arch- Copyright two will be priests and five will membership, the conference bishops in Canterbury, England. be lay persons. All will serve brought together some 200 On his way to that meeting the six-year terms with the excep- American Indians and 100 Indi- prelate spent ten days visiting tion of one layman, who will an field workers from religious, African countries. serve a three-year term. secular and governmental According to the archbishop, Recommendations for new agencies. the Church of England's present National Council members will In conjunction with the con- policy in Africa is to give the be made to General Convention ference, the Washington Cathe- leadership in church affairs to by a nine-man committee just dral designated May 10 as the Africans. This policy is ap- appointed by Arthur Lichten- American Indian Sunday. A plied to every African nation berger, Presiding Bishop, and service of Holy Communion was except South Africa, Dr. Gough Clifford P. Morehouse, presi- celebrated by American Indian said, where the state policy of dent of the House of Deputies. ministers in English, Sioux, apartheid makes it impossible.

Six THE WITNESS EDITORIALS and the awareness of transcendent reality which The Cathedral it creates on earth. The juxtaposition is not accidental. "Glory to God in highest heaven, and In Washington on earth his peace for men on whom his favour rests." WITH THE DEDICATION of the central tower This is the other ministry of Washington — Gloria in Excelsis — a milestone has been Cathedral, one which every Christian institution passed in the history of Washington Cathedral. should not fail in some measure to discharge. The ministers of the cathedral, not least Dean Sayre, know very well that, as the Apostle says, he, "who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by men". That is why the Says the Dean: — ministry of the cathedral, described extensively in this number, is as wide as its resources will THE EXQUISITE CHURCH glimpsed in this allow. It is a ministry of education, witness and issue of The Witness is built of love. In some- publication. proclamation. one's heart there glowed a prayer of thanks- and But the Christian church does not apologize for giving or praise or special remembrance. Each the fact that material forms, rightly composed, stone, each carving, each lovely window, was reuse can themselves be witness and proclamation. The born of such a prayer. For more than half a for very stones can sing out a "Glory be to God on century the people of our country have been high", the very best name a tower can have. raising this Cathedral in their capital as a sign A visitor to Washington Cathedral cannot fail of faith and a people's gratitude to God. required to sense that there is a uniqueness about it in It is not, therefore, a local church. It has no contrast with the general environment. It is not congregation of its own, no local members. Ra- that it has anything new or different to say. ther, it is built to reflect the overarching majesty Permission There are the same symbols — of church doc- of God upon a whole nation. If the nearness of trines, of creedal descriptions, of biblical figures, God is found in the many little churches among of saints old and new — which are seen in great- DFMS. the hills and valleys of our land, it is eternal / er or lesser quantities elsewhere. glory which a cathedral is meant to bear—God's The difference lies in the inescapable sense of providence beneath and beyond our history;

Church good quality, cultivated taste, concerned crafts- God's leading in the hard decision of fate that manship, restrained artistry, and dedicated care. statesmen are called upon to make. The great These are characteristics so obviously lacking tides of destiny are guided by grace just as are

Episcopal in our mass and amassed society, and a witness our private prayers. the to them is no less needed in the seat of the This is why these arches have been planted of federal government than elsewhere in the here, and the tower lifted above the federal city. nation. In behalf of all, it proclaims Gloria in Excelsis. It will be said that this costs money. So it As the angel to the shepherds when Christ was Archives does. It has cost $15,000,000 for Washington born, the bells of Washington Cathedral sing to

2020. Cathedral in the last 50 years, and it will cost a the nation of God's love and his glory forever. like sum to complete it. The Cathedral is not finished. Perhaps it But this is indeed a paltry sum compared to never will be. But God, whom the Apostles once the 50-billion dollars a year Americans, most of Copyright called the "author and finisher of our faith," is them Christians and church people, have been leading us to that end. And meanwhile a host driven to waste in sustaining the "military-indus- of people are learning how to use this great trial complex" on which society has become so church: men and women of all races and shades economically dependent, and which consequently of belief, the young and the old, the powerful has become a powerful intellectual and cultural and the poor. For somehow the Cathedral em- determinant. The neurotic response to propa- bodies in its infinite aspiration the faith of all ganda of delusion and fear will lead people to — all of America. suffer anything gladly. — Francis B. Sayre Jr. There is a noble place for the beauty of quality Dean of Washington Cathedral

MAY 14, 1964 Seven WORSHIP IN WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL By William G. Workman Canon Precentor of Washington Cathedral

EXPERIMENTS WITH CUSTOMS OF THE PAST AS WELL AS DEVELOPING USAGES VALID FOR THE PEOPLE TODAY ARE POS- SIBLE AT THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

publication. THE PREFACE to the American Book of Com- activity of a society bound together in common mon Prayer enunciates a principle which needs belief, understanding, motivation, and practice. and continual evaluation: "It is a most invaluable Such expression includes both ritual (words

reuse part of that blessed 'liberty wherewith Christ used), and ceremonial (actions accompanying

for hath made us free,' that in his worship different ritual). The Prayer Book is a tapestry of both forms and usages may without offence be these things: words spoken and actions per- allowed ..." The recognition of this holy free- formed to express the faith and praise of the required dom is essential in the study and practice of church. worship in a Gothic cathedral. The temptation It has been said that heirs of great tradition to be satisfied with the artistic and aesthetic are subject to great blindness; our Lord said "To

Permission merits of magnificent architecture is dangerous whom much is given, much is required." Daily and constant. The challenge to study the proper and weekly the liturgy must strive to be creative, and effective use of even a superb instrument is expressing the relevance of Christ in our time, DFMS.

/ crucial. our day, our world. This is not always easy to Such a study embraces a functional examina- achieve, nor is it readily accepted by those who are entranced by the maintenance of antiques.

Church tion of architecture, light, art, color, music, and movement. The availability of the finest physi- To quote again from the Prayer Book preface: cal surroundings only increases the responsi- "And now, this important work being brought to bility to use them effectively in a modern and a conclusion, it is hoped that the whole will be Episcopal creative way. To reproduce what was meaning- received and examined by every true member of the

of ful in the past does not necessarily reflect the our church, and every sincere Christian, with a relevance or the application of Christian faith meek, candid, and charitable frame of mind; to contemporary man. without prejudice or prepossessions; seriously

Archives Washington Cathedral is particularly blessed considering what Christianity is, and what the with a liberty which makes it possible to experi- truths of the Gospel are; and earnestly beseech- 2020. ment with the customs and practices of the ing Almighty God to accompany with his bless- past, as well as develop usages valid for the ing every endeavour for promulgating them to people of our time. Within the established tradi- mankind in the clearest, plainest, most affecting Copyright tions of the Prayer Book and Anglican customs, and majestic manner, for the sake of Jesus there is room to experiment, to elaborate, and Christ, our blessed Lord and Saviour." to enlarge the corporate expressions of prayer- This twofold responsibility shapes and sustains ful praise. the worship of Washington Cathedral: to pre- Liturgy literally means "the work of the serve and to perpetuate the finest Christian prac- people." This definition provides valuable in- tices, and to adventure into new and affecting sight into the purpose and nature of liturgy as forms to proclaim the meaning of Jesus Christ. the instrument of expression of the corporate life of the Christian society. Liturgy is not a Special Events specialized performance by professionals, to be MANY SPECIAL EVENTS and state occasions observed by an audience; it is rather the united observed in Washington demand forms not con-

Eight THE WITNESS effective manner the beauty and importance of the King James Bible was dramatized and com- memorated. Another unique experiment was conducted one Christmas Eve, when the world premiere of an original Christmas opera by a modern composer, John Montaine, was presented on a stage in the crossing of the Cathedral. The opera formed a fifty minute prelude to the midnight celebration of the Holy Communion. The Gospel was read from the middle of the same stage where the Christmas story had been enacted in words and music earlier. The finest quality of music and drama was offered as an act of worshipful pre- publication. paration for the celebration of the Christmas eu- and charist. reuse The insights of the growing liturgical move- for ment are especially significant for a Gothic cathedral, where most people cannot see or hear

required what is done in the choir or at the high altar. For over twelve years the eucharist on the first Sunday of the month has been celebrated here Washington Cathedral is the scene of many at a large altar-table in the crossing, with the Permission special services, including the graduations for the clergy facing the congregation from the east schools that are the subject of an article in this side.

DFMS. number. Pictured here boys of St. Albans School / are about to receive their diplomas after completing As a prelude, the Decalogue and Kyrie are their studies at the famous school where Canon sung in procession around the church, incorporat-

Church Charles Martin is Headmaster ing the whole congregation in this devotional preparation for the holy eucharist. Various tamed in the Prayer Book. Some occasions are methods of including the laity in the offertory are used, the better to dramatize the corporate

Episcopal outstanding, such as a service of thanksgiving nature of the service.

the for the independence of Ghana. A procession of of members of the embassy from that country, clad Liturgical improvement is a pervasive influ- in national costume, entered the Cathedral to the ence, involving every aspect of aesthetic and beat of "talking drums"; the 150th Psalm was artistic creation. A cathedral, by nature of its Archives read alternately in English and Tui, interpreted size and elaboration, demands careful use of

2020. by the drummers. The Old Testament lesson vestments and color to focus attention on the was read by the Ambassador from Ghana. The center of liturgical action. The evolution of a whole service was climaxed by a celebration of system of colors for frontals and vestments in

Copyright harmony with the Gothic motif, yet modern in the Holy Communion shared by the Christian fabric and design, is part of the liturgical study. people from that country around the Cathedral Vestments made of modern fabrics, cut with altar. ample fullness, and ornamented with bold de- On the 350th anniversary of the King James signs, greatly enhance the dignity and effective- Version of the Holy Bible, a special service of ness of the drama of worship. Evensong was presented with accompanying The concern to enrich the worship of the music of that century. Outstanding literary and church, and at the same time interpret it effec- scholarly figures read the lessons, and a promi- tively to Episcopalians and other Christians, is nent biblical scholar preached the sermon. Wor- imperative for a cathedral administering to shippers later saw a display of ancient Bibles "all sorts and conditions of men" in the nation's from the Cathedral archives. In a simple yet capital.

MAY 14, 1964 Nine '

EDUCATIONAL MINISTRY AT CATHEDRAL

By H. Evan Snyder Director of Development St. Albans School THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDUCA- TIONAL MINISTRY HAS PARALLED THE GROWTH OF WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL

WITH THE COMPLETION and dedication of WHY IN 1899 did the element of education ap- publication. the Gloria in Excelsis Tower, Washington Cathe- pear so important in the mind of Henry Yates

and dral stands out in more vivid relief than ever Satterlee, first bishop of the Diocese of Wash- against the skyline of the nation's capital. Its ington, through whose imagination and vigor the reuse witness for the church, both in the community Cathedra] Foundation was originally chartered? for of Washington and in the nation, has grown in Why have his successors and countless other magnitude just as have its physical dimensions persons who, through the years, have devoted required over its 57 years of life. The ministry of the so much of their energy and substance to the Cathedral, too, has expanded in dimension from work of this Cathedral in Washington, been the first services of worship held in Bethlehem especially concerned with the educational pro- Permission Chapel on May 1, 1912. gram carried on in this place? In other words, One of the most important dimensions of the why have Cathedral schools? DFMS.

/ influence of Washington Cathedral may be found Angus Dun, retired bishop of Washington, has in its educational ministry. Seven years before stated the answers to these questions very the laying of the corner stone of the church it- Church clearly: self, The National Cathedral School for Girls was "This thing we call education is a peculiarly in full operation at the northwest corner of the close, in a beautiful limestone building provided Episcopal through the generosity of Phoebe Apperson the

of Hearst. On Ascension Day, 1907, those who witnessed the laying of the Cathedral's corner stone could look down the southwest slope of

Archives Mount Saint Alban to the newly completed Lane- Johnston building of the National Cathedral

2020. School for Boys, later renamed St. Albans School. In the fall of 1932, with the east end of the Cathedral nave rising- to impressive height above

Copyright Washington, 14 acres of land adjacent to the close and a large manor house were bequeathed to the Cathedral Foundation by Canon James Townsend Russell. With the urging of Mabel Turner, then headmistress of the National Cathe- dral School for Girls, the Cathedral chapter estab- lished on the new property a school for younger children. Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Ele- mentary School, opened its doors to 60 students Mutsuko Ikenouchi of Tokyo and Lucy Baines and eight teachers in September, 1933. Through- Johnson, daughter of President and Mrs. Johnson, out its history, then, the development of the in front of the main building of the National Cathe- Cathedral's educational ministry has paralled the dral School for Girls. Cathedral education is inter- growth of the church itself. national and interracial in character Ten THE WITNESS human activity. Whenever in time or space you vidual schools are able to offer, many different find that interesting two-legged creature, man, segments of society as well. Each student con- you find him or her trying to give some shape tributes in his or her own way to the life of the and direction to the lives of their young. And Cathedral close, and each carries away with him this education-business, however primitive and some values of this total life which are not en- elementary, is never purely practical or a mere tirely academic in nature. apprenticeship in the ways of getting things done. It always seeks to awaken the sentiments The three Cathedral schools are, however, and to feed the hungrily inquisitive imagination only a few of the expressions of the educational which is one of childhood's best gifts. ministry of Washington Cathedral. The Col- lege of Preachers was envisioned by Bishop Sat- "Education is our most deliberate effort to terlee in 1899 as "A School of the Prophets pass on to our children what we consider most where devout and intellectual students may important in our inheritance, and so to feed the ponder the questions of the day side by side with maturing minds and tastes and wills of growing the facts of the Gospel." Under James E. Free- persons that they may live their own lives and publication. man, third Bishop of Washington, this vision be- take their places in the ongoing common life. came a reality with the opening of the College and "A Cathedral is a great utterance of faith in of Preachers in 1929 under the direction of Philip sculptured stone and radiant glass. A Cathe-

reuse M. Rhinelander, retired Bishop of Pennsylvania, dral reflects and seeks to awaken in men that for as its first Warden (1929-1938). 'deep, disturbing sense of the living God' which has been and can be such a power in personal College of Preachers required life and in human history. Therefore, a school which is to be in any true sense an outreach and THE COLLEGE, under the jurisdiction of the instrument of a Cathedral Foundation must be bishop, the dean and the chapter of Washington one whose whole life and thought reflect and Cathedral, is an integral part of the Cathedral's Permission seek to awaken a 'deep, disturbing sense of the life and work. Although the College has its own living God.' " chapel, the Cathedral chapels are also used, both DFMS.

/ It is the working out in practice of this philoso- for worship and for the sermon disciplines of the phy of education that is the daily and yearly task several conference groups. The administrative of the three Cathedral schools. Working and staff of the College consists of a warden, a di- Church living in a Christian context, or, if you will, rector of studies, and of the resident Cathedral family, these schools seek to offer opportunity canons, who, in addition to their Cathedral for 1,175 boys and girls — from pre-school duties, share in the task of sermon criticism and Episcopal through senior high school — to grow in the the conduct of the conference worship hours. the spirit of one who nurtures them into the full- of The purpose of the College of Preachers can ness of adulthood for which they have been be seen as one answer to the question, "How can created. This task is accomplished in a number the Gospel be most effectively communicated in

Archives of places and in a number of ways — in the class- the tangled and tragic world in which we live?" room, in the library or study hall, in games and Each week from September to June, approxi- 2020. on the athletic fields, in services of worship in a mately 25 clergy of the Episcopal Church come little chapel or in the great Cathedral itself — to the College for a consecrated and concentrated but it is always supported and influenced by the time of worship and work. The program they Copyright presence of the church which is the physical and find here endeavors not only to provide them with spiritual focal point of life on the close. fresh insights into the meaning and relevance of The Students the Gospel, but also, through both formal and informal discussion, to facilitate the sharing of NOR IS THE EFFECT of this branch of the experiences, insights and convictions of those Cathedral's ministry limited to those children engaged in the vocation of the ordained ministry. and young people who happen to live in the vi- cinity of Washington, D. C. Each year students from many parts of the United States and from Newest College many foreign countries come to learn and live THE MOST recently established (1962), and in this environment. They represent many dif- perhaps the most unusual, of all the educational ferent religious and cultural backgrounds, and, institutions related to Washington Cathedral is through such financial assistance as the indi- the College of Church I.lusicians. Hailed in both

MAT 14, 1964 Eleven secular and religious musical circles throughout separate and distinct program, attempts to fill the country as a unique achievement, the Col- the needs of a different group, but all work in lege offers to its resident fellows advanced train- this place for a common purpose: namely the ing in all aspects of church music, and encourages work of a church, especially of a Cathedral creative and experimental work in this important, church — and especially of a Cathedral church but often sadly neglected, field. With the Pulit- in the capital of our nation — may not be cir- zer prize-winning composer, Dr. Leo Sowerby, at cumscribed or limited to services of worship the head of a distinguished faculty, a program dutifully attended by devout churchmen. The of exacting courses of study is supplemented by church cannot expect to have devout and in- the opportunity to learn through active partici- formed churchmen and women without educa- pation in the extensive musical facilities of the tion. This is the process through which we Cathedral, which include one of the finest choirs "pass on to our children what we consider most of men and boys in the world. important in our inheritance." It is one of the These, then, are the five principal expressions ways in which this Cathedral church seeks to of what we have called the "educational minis- awaken "a deep, disturbing sense of the living try" of Washington Cathedral. Each, in its own God." publication. and reuse

for A CATHEDRAL COMES OF AGE By John C. Chapin required Communications Warden Washington Cathedral VARIED ACTIVITIES AT WASH- INGTON CATHEDRAL MAKE IT Permission UNIQUE IN AMERICAN LIFE DFMS. / A CATHEDRAL is like many things in our com- program of ministry with continuing building mon life; after a seed has been planted, there progress. The key leadership comes from a dean

Church comes a period of slow development, then a who is unusually qualified by background, train- coming of age, a fuller realization of its potential. ing, and temperament. Now a staff team has This is such a time in the life of the Washington been built up around him to help him in this

Episcopal Cathedral. Today it has started to bear fruit "ministry of outreach" to multiply his hands and

the from the seeds so lovingly and faithfully planted hours, to be his eyes and ears. of in the years gone by. For here in Washington there has arisen a What then is this ministry? What is the unique instrument for the Lord's work. But what justification for a medieval cathedral in our Archives kind of a tune does it play? Those who have modern age? How do you serve as "a great church for national purposes"? There are gone before have given to all of us a channel, a

2020. several valid answers. tool, a symbol. True, it is not finished, but enough has now been done to enable the Wash- ington Cathedral to stand as truly a great center Ecumenical Center Copyright of our faith, high atop our nation's capital, "a WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL serves as an ecu- House of Prayer for All People", a national cathe- menical center, crossing all denominational lines. dral. How does it seek to fulfill this great re- Five different churches call this their temporary sponsibility? How may our ministry reach out home and, on a Sunday morning, one may hear a to witness and to serve and show the relevance variety of tongues worshipping the Lord in a of our faith amidst the crucial issues that face variety of liturgies in its chapels. The Cathedral our country in its daily life? served as a home for several years for one of the Slowly the answer to these questions is emerg- city's Jewish congregations until their syna- ing. This is an exciting and fateful period in gogue was built, and in its courtyard stands a the life of the Cathedral, as it starts now to stone given by the National Cathedral. The dean use its resources to balance equally an expanded and his staff members are actively involved with

Twelve THE WITNESS the National Council of Churches, and each year navy, the air force and the marines gather—each the Cathedral is the gathering place for the for its own special service. Council's service of dedication for the aid that Special services are also held for a wide range goes overseas to the needy of the world. Here, of national organizations: the Y.W.C.A., Opera- from time to time, come throngs for great na- tion Crossroads Africa, Episcopal Colleges, the tional and international services of witness of all American Indians, the United Nations, Church the denominations. World Service, the International Congress of the Deaf, etc. Ministry of Music Strange as it may seem to some, a cathedral is THE CATHEDRAL has a special ministry of a place to dare, an instrument to experiment music, too: The men and boys' choir — recitals with, a resource to strengthen the pioneering by famous visiting organists — a choral society edge of the church. Since it has no regular con- of 250 members performing the great works of gregation of its own, the Washington Cathedral religious music — glee clubs of the schools — is freed to develop close ties with much of the all these contribute to making this a unique cen- most creative, experimental work being done in ter for the praise of God through music. The the church today — e.g. Detroit Industrial Mis- publication. College of Church Musicians, under the direction sion, Church Society for College work, the Over- and of a Pulitzer prize winning composer, draws the seas Mission Society, the Parishfield community, finest young church musicians regardless of de- etc. Similarly, we are in constant touch with reuse nomination from all over the country. They re- the newest developments in the fields of liturgy, for ceive fellowships for a year or two and then are religious art, and Church drama. In fact, one fed back into the life of the church to enrich it of our staff has been given a free rein to experi- required with their skills. ment here at the Cathedral in developing a full range program in this whole field of music, The Cathedral has a strong ministry of educa- plays, sound and light, etc. tion: generations of students have passed

Permission through its schools, knelt at its altars, and walked With its location in the nation's capital, the Cathedral close in the shadow of its great the Cathedral has a natural ministry to the walls. The College of Preachers provides a government of our country. The dean and his DFMS. / specialized post-graduate training for clergy that staff participate in a constant ebb and flow, is available nowhere else. going out to the complex power structures that

Church guide public affairs — the White House, the The Cathedral has a particular function as a Congress, the Pentagon, the foreign embassies— "mother church for the diocese". Here is the and then bringing back into the church's life the seat both of the Bishop of Washington and of the people they meet, the ideas they hear, the in- Episcopal Presiding Bishop. Here are held the great di- sights they gather. the ocesan services of the confirmation of the laity, of the ordination of priests, and the consecration of Special Ministry bishops. FOR EXAMPLE, we live in the space age. How Archives Preaching and Worship symbolic of the special ministry of this Cathedral

2020. AT THE HEART of the life of the Washington that its "team" should go to the space flight cen- Cathedral is its ministry of preaching and wor- ter of the national aeronautic and space adminis- ship. From its pulpit speak the outstanding tration, should see and hear what they are doing

Copyright preachers of the country, drawn from all de- there, then should bring back to the Cathedral nominations. The sacraments of baptism, of the key leaders who direct our country's space marriage, and of burial are administered to the program, and should discuss with them the famous and to the unknown. Here are buried moral, ethical, and human issues upon which President Woodrow Wilson, Admiral George their decisions ultimately rest. Dewey, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, and Today the issue of racial justice confronts our others. From all corners of the country and the country and the church with almost overwhelm- globe come tourists by the hundreds of thou- ing urgency. The Washington Cathedral is ac- sands to look, and to listen — and to pray. For tively seeking ways in which the axioms of man's many members of our armed forces this is their brotherhood and Christian fellowship may be "home church," and each year the army, the brought to life in a ministry of reconciliation.

MAY 14, 1964 Thirteen Last summer, for example, the eyes of the whole you and your church in the nation's capital. It nation focused on the march on Washington, and gathers up the prayers and love and support of the Cathedral was there. It was there in plan- thousands of people, and brings it all into focus ning, it was there in cooperation, it was there at here, as an emblem of our nation's faith. the local regional level, it was there at the top- most level of national strategy, and finally it was there on that fateful day, taking its place in the A Service in Signs line of march. Another example — key leaders of our govern- A UNIQUE SERVICE, mentioned by John C. ment make up the President's committee for Chapin in the above article, was held in Wash- equal employment opportunities, originally under ington Cathedral during the International Con- the leadership of Vice President Lyndon Johnson. gress on Education of the Deaf. There were Meetings have been held in strategic centers about 1,500 delegates attending from all over the across the country to work on the problem of world. eliminating discrimination in employment. Help- Bishop George M. Murray, coadjutor of ing to lead the workshop sessions amidst a bevy Alabama, preached to the large congregation of ranking governmental officials is a clergyman simultaneously in the language of signs and

publication. — the dean of the National Cathedral. speech — a rare feat which he learned to do be- cause of his great interest in the ministry to the and Again — the leading Negro organization of Washington has its annual dinner and makes its deaf. The choir of the deaf from Gallaudet College, reuse awards to national leaders who have played out- for standing roles in the battle for racial justice — host to the congress, signed all the hymns, after citing Robert Kennedy, the Rev. Martin psalms and anthems, and the lessons were also Luther King, Ralph McGill, and A. Phillip Ran- signed as well as read. required dolph the final award went to a clergyman — One of the most striking parts of the service the dean of Washington Cathedral. was an interpretation of the Lord's Prayer given by a dance chorus from Gallaudet. Consider two final quick illustrations of the

Permission Gallaudet, which is the only college exclu- Cathedral's special ministry to the life of the sively for the deaf in the world, celebrated its world. The number of community and national 100th anniversary on February 9th, when again

DFMS. organizations that have headquarters in the

/ a special service was held at Washington Cathe- nation's capital are almost limitless it seems. dral. Think of the role that they play in influencing The Episcopal Church carries on a vigorous Church the fiber of our national life! In their midst, work at the college under Chaplain Douglas S. keeping contact, listening, reporting back to the Slasor. Cathedral, keeping us in touch with this world

Episcopal is the full time work of one of our canons. We the call him our "outside man". of Similarly, consider the all-encompassing reach of mass media today. Every aspect of our in-

Archives dividual and corporate lives are touched and in- fluenced by the power of radio, t.v., newspapers,

2020. magazines, etc. Our communications warden seeks to interpret this to the Cathedral and equally the Cathedral to the powerful forces of

Copyright these mass media. These, then, are some of the facets of the special ministry of this Cathedral. These are some of the functions it performs in ministering to the great issues of our daily life. Set in this particular location, free to do a unique job, built on a scale commensurate with national events, the National Cathedral supplements the work of The Lord's Prayer is interpreted by a dance the local parish church. chorus from Gallaudet College at the unique service This is your Cathedral and mine, representing held in Washington Cathedral Fourteen THE WITNESS vertisements that throng the Sunday When his sister comes to visit him, Book Review of the New York Times, years later, and she was the head of and the reviews in the popular ma- a religious society of women, Augus- - NEW BOOKS - gazines. But sex is not just what tine insisted that a chaperone must E. John Mohi one person thinks or does, affecting be present during their conversa- his own soul or that of one other tion. This is not Christianity, the Book Editor person. There is no mention of true gospel, but a warped and per- children or the family—and yet sex verted Manichaeism posing as Chris- is deeply involved in these, and so are tian devotion. Our theology must get THE CHRISTIAN UNDERSTAND- they in sex. Further, the whole rid of it, if it is to survive, for the ING OF HUMAN NATURE by character of a person, viewed sexu- world is growing sick of abnormality ally, is not explainable from the in religion. W. Norman Pittenger. West- point of view of the Kinsey reports; I do not accuse Dr. Pittenger of minster Press, $3.95 a person changes within the setting sharing these views; but I wish he and life-giving situation of the fam- had said something more on sex than Dr. Pittenger's new book is on a ily and the home. His very "nature" par with all his earlier ones, and is the traditional theology maintains. expands and he is a different person, One could almost credit him with the characterized by the same scholarly to some degree. As Westermarck, acquaintance with the classical view enunciated by an eminent the great Finnish anthropologist who Roman Catholic leader at a recent Christian theological writings and wrote the History of Human Mar- an equal familiarity with the litera- conference on birth-control: "The riage and the History of Moral Ideas, first thing to get straight is the fact publication. ture of today. He always tries to concluded, even marriage is "rooted find the positive and constructive that the Christian ideal of life is and in the family, not the family in mai-- virginity!" elements in the latter, even in ultra riage." left-wing novelists and poets. He is Since when? — FREDERICK C. GRANT reuse like Paul Tillich and one or two So profound is this relation that other systematic theologians, in for sex cannot be understood in separa- Dr. Grant, professor emeritus of being totally au courant the modern tion from this relation. The uprooted biblical theology of Union Theologi- scientific, sociological, psychological individuals of today, with their cal Seminary, New York, and honor- view of the world and man's place in baffling problems, frustrations, and ary canon of New York Cathedral, required it. He does not write for 1850 or desperations — and desperate reme- is the author of numerous books, the 1550, but for 1964. His work has dies—are not normal human beings; most recent being "Roman Hellen- accordingly much to say to us about they often lack the complement of a ism and the New Testament." the meaning of the gospel for today. true human nature, viz. membership in a family (a lateral relation) and Permission The book treats man as a crea- as a link in a chain (of descent, turely, dependent being, with a pur- parenthood and childhood). Our pose to be fulfilled in his life; as a theologians are missing something EVERYTHING DFMS. creature meant for community, a / when all this is overlooked. body as well as a soul, a person "embodied" and therefore naturally Too much of our theology is de- IS YOURS living in two worlds which inter- rived from St. Augustine, with his Church penetrate, and therefore requiring a Neoplatonist individualism, the lone- sacramental religion; a sexual being, ly soul on its way to God. For exam- a creature in defection from his ple, Augustine abandoned his mis- raison d'etre (we call it sin), but re- tress, virtually his common law wife

Episcopal The Spirit of storable; and one still impossible to (she had borne him a child), when the cram into a merely material world; the time came to marry — a cold and God in the Life

of a moral being and therefore free and heartless act of desertion; the boy compelled to make choices. was named Adeodatus ("gift of of the Church God") — the name implies someone's All this is summed up in advance, love, perhaps his mother's; but the Archives in chapter one, so that the reader saint refers to him as "carnally be- by has a map to guide him through the gotten by me in my sin" (Confessions argument. At the end the author 9:6), and that is almost all he says G. Don Gilmore 2020. has wise words on the use of poetic of him — how could a normal man language in religion, especially in be so wrapped up in self-contempla- the liturgy (e.g., "pour thy grace" tion and frozen indifference to a can only be poetry for a mystical child, his own child, as that7 The Holy Spirit is the most Copyright process that is like the flow of powerful element in the Christian something, but transcends the figure life, but it has been pushed into used). And he pleads for /w-mytho- the background. G. Don Gilmore logizing rather than Z)e-mythologiz- REPORT AVAILABLE declares that it is time we recog- ing, a deeper infusion of this poetic nized the power of the Holy Spirit spirit and the poetic understanding Mrs. Donald Campbell's graphic to transform human lives. In of such poetry. The whole book is report from St. Augustine, which compelling terms, Mr. Gilmore sane and sound, and both interesting ran in two issues, is now avail- urges Christians to wake up to and illuminating. able. Send 25^ and the two the power of the Holy Spirit. $2.50 I only wish the chapter (five) on copies will be sent postage paid. sex had taken a more inclusive view. Order from your Bookstore Sex is treated as almost exclusively The Witness abingdon press private and personal, the way the sexology experts and psychiatrists Tunkhannock, Pa. 175 YEARS insist on treating it — see the ad- MAY 14, 1964 Fifteen with the U.S. have undergone Bishop Voegeli of Haiti Ousted considerable strain due to Dr. Duvalier's power tactics, has in From District by Government recent months expelled 16 • Fear that he might not be "about a dozen" American mis- Canadian Jesuit priests on permitted to return to the flock sionaries of the church in the charges of subversion. he has ministered to for the island nation. Most are en- past 21 years has prompted gaged in educational and medi- Bishop C. Alfred Voegeli to ask cal work. The church, which the U.S. state department to re- began its mission work in Haiti Standard Art, frain from protesting his ouster in 1861, operates a number of to the Haitian government. schools, hospitals and welfare Marble and Tile Co. The bishop was whisked out institutions. of the country April 23, flown The Negro republic is large- (INCORPORATED) ly Roman Catholic, but many of to Puerto Rico, and now is in SCAGLIOLA - MARBLE - MOSAIC New York. The bishop's two the people combine voodoo superstitions and practices with TERRAZZO - TILE publication. American assistants were per- mitted to remain. the tenets of Christianity. CERAMIC - SLATE and Official sources at the state Bishop Voegeli is credited department said a formal order with playing a prominent part Specializing in Domestic and For- reuse for his expulsion was not in development of so-called eign Marbles and Mosaics for the for primitive painting in the coun- issued by the Haitian govern- Modern Church — Communion Rails ment. "They just took him try. He decorated the Cathe- down to the airport and got him dral of Sainte Trinite in Port- Side Altars — Pulpits — Steps required au-Prince with the colorful Crypt Chapels — Terrazzo Floors out of there," a department paintings of native artists. spokesman said. The bishop Ceramic Floors and Walls was given only a few hours in The bishop had kept out of the political turmoil going on in Permission which to pack and set the 117 D Street, Northwest affairs of his church in order. the country. Recently Dr. Du- The government of President valier proclaimed himself presi- Washington, D.C.

DFMS. dent for life, and an indoctrina- 20001

/ Francois Duvalier said the mis- sionary, who arrived in Haiti tion program has been put in motion to gain popular accept- in 1943, left voluntarily. This TELEPHONE NATIONAL 8-7413-8-7414 Church was denied outright by the ance of the idea. state department. The country, whose relations Bishop Voegeli told the state Episcopal department he fears for his the flock and longs to return to be of with them. Any official pro- Edward W. Minte Co., Inc. test by the U.S., he fears, would jeopardize any chances he Archives has. Painting - Decorating Under the bishop's long ten- 2020. ure, the Episcopal Church there has been "Haitianized," that is, adapted to the culture of Haiti Painting and Service Copyright and mobilized insofar as pos- THAT SATISFIES sible under Haitian clergy in- stead of foreign missionaries. The church had 25 Haitian priests, serving some 60 con- gregations. Total church mem- bership in Haiti numbers 1213 12th Street, Northwest 34,623. WASHINGTON 5, D.C. In addition to Bishop Voege- li's three assistants, one of ADams 4-1173 whom was on furlough at the time of the incident, there are

Sixteen THE WITNESS RECTOR OUSTS COUPLE John's, in a letter to the local MIXED MARRIAGES OVER DISPUTE daily. IN ENGLAND * The Rev. Raymond E. Bier- It said, "We know we speak * Protestant talks with for a great many of our congre- lein, rector of St. John's church Catholic leaders on the contro- Ionia, Mich., announced the ex- gation when we say we are not communication of a parish in accord with Father Bierlein's versial question of "mixed mar- couple after they had attacked archaic beliefs and moral knowl- riages" may be expected to his criticism of a dance in a edge. We can no longer re- take place in England, accord- public high school musical pro- strain our feelings concerning ing to a report to the British duction. the objections voiced by our council of churches which ended rector to the dancing in the Bierlein had termed the dance current high school musical its half-yearly meeting in Lon- "salacious and immoral," and don. an "inexcusable act of arrogance Play." and effrontery on the part of Subsequently Mr. Bierlein an- The council was told by the the director." nounced from his pulpit that he chairman of its executive com-

publication. had excommunicated Mr. and mittee, Ernest A. Payne, that a The dance had been per- Mrs. Clore. delegation had met Roman and formed in "Damn Yankees" by 16-year-old Kristi Honson, who Bishop Charles Bennison of Catholic Archbishop John C. Western Michigan upheld Bier- Heenan of Westminster to dis- reuse wore a short split skirt and a lein. cuss marriages between Catho- for cocktail dress top. She played the part of Lola, a character "There are too many clergy- lics and Protestants. assigned by the devil to seduce men today who pussyfoot," the With young people of differ- required a ball player. She also danced bishop said. "We need more e n t ecclesiastical affiliations into the audience and pinched clergymen like him so that he coming into more frequent con- cheeks. would not seem so unusual." tact with one another the num- The minister's criticism was The Episcopal minister has ber of such marriages is likely Permission attacked later by Mr. and Mrs. agreed to reconsider his action to increase, focusing wider at- Robert Clore, members of St. if Mr. and Mrs. Clore write a tention on the problems in- "letter of clarification." The

DFMS. volved, he said. The council's / letter was suggested by the delegation which met Archbish- church's vestry to give the op Heenan had expressed its

Church Clores a chance to explain their concern, and members would no objections to Bierlein's criticism doubt wish to have further dis- of the dance. cussions with him after the Episcopal the of R. Floyd Jennings and Son, Archives Incorporated 2020.

LATHING • PLASTERING • ACOUSTICAL Copyright Foundation CONTRACTORS for the Future We are proud to have supplied granite for the steps and base- work of the Washington Cathedral. 4934 ELM STREET The JOHN SWENSON BETHESDA 14, MARYLAND GRANITE COMPANY, Inc. Concord, New Hampshire OLIVER 2-7690 2-5818

MAT 14, 1964 Seventeen close of the Vatican Council, he ferences; and when, for some SOUTH DAKOTA'S added. particular reason, a bishop BISHOP ROBERTS might give his permission. It was later reported that In the debate leading up to * Bishop Blair Roberts, 83, representatives of the Church of retired of South Dakota, died Scotland (Presbyterian) were this decision Archdeacon K. among the deputation which Liggett complained: "It doesn't April 23 in Sioux Falls, S. D. had talks on mixed marriages go far enough ... It is a little patronizing . . . We are extend- He was consecrated on with Archbishop Heenan. An- December 6, 1922, as suffragan other delegation of ministers of ing the hand of fellowship with gloves on." of South Dakota. In 1931 he the Church of Scotland is also was elected bishop of the di- But layman Harold G. Miller to discuss the subject shortly ocese and served in that capaci- commented: "The proposal will with Catholic Archbishop Gor- ty until his retirement in 1954. don Gray of St. Andrews and bring chaos into the Church of Edinburgh. England." Bishop Roberts is survived A proposal rejected was for a by his wife and a brother. Paul, NEW ZEALAND college to train lay workers for former dean of the Cathedral in

publication. HOLDS SYNOD the church. Even though the Denver. provision for mandatory fin- and * The national synod of the ancial support for the college Anglican Church in New Zea- from the dioceses was deleted THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH reuse land has agreed to allow bap- early, the bill continued to re- New York for tized communicant members of ceive the support of clergy and REV. JOHN HEUSS, D. D., RECTOR non-Anglican churches to par- laity. But it failed, on the TRINITY ticipate, in special circum- Broadway & Wall St. third and final reading, to ob- required stances, in Anglican communion Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicar services. tain a majority of the bishops' Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. votes. EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser. 12:30 Tues., Wed. & Thurs., EP 5:15 ex It has also agreed to enter Pressure was exerted in Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt.

Permission into a concordat with the Phil- favor of Prayer Book revision ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL ippines Independent Church, and the use of the newer Bible Broadway & Fulton St. under which each of the two translations, and in particular Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, Vicar DFMS. / communions agrees to admit permission was given for an in- Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Ser. 10; Weekdays; members of the other to par- vestigation into liturgical prob- HC 8 (Thurs. also at 7:30) 12:05 ex. Sat.; Int. & Bible Study 1:05 ex. Sat.; EP 3; C ticipate in the sacraments. lems faced in the missionary di- Fri. 3:30-5:30 & by appt.; Organ Recital Church These steps were in addition to oceses of Melanesia and Poly- Wednesday 12:30. the synod's earlier decision to nesia. CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION seek negotiations for union Broadway & 155th St.

Episcopal with New Zealand's Methodists, Leslie J. A. Lang, Vicar Sundays 8, 9, 11; Weekdays: Mon. Fri. the Presbyterians, Congregational- CASSOCKS Sat. 9; Tues. 8; Wed. 10; Thurs. 7. of ists and Associated Churches of EUCHARISTIC VESTMENTS Christ. All Embroidery Is Hand Done ST. LUKE'S CHAPEL ALTAR HANGINGS and LINENS 487 Hudson St. The circumstances in which Materials by the yard. Kits for Rev. Paul C. Weed, Jr., Vicar Archives non-Anglicans are to be ad- Altar Hangings and Eucharistic Vestments Sun. HC 8, 9:15 & 11; Daily HC 7 & 8. mitted to Anglican communion J. M. HALL, INC. C Sat. 5-6, 8-9, by appt. 2020. services are: When the minis- SURPLICE - CHOIR VESTMENTS ST. AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL trations of their own church are 14 W. 40th St., New York 18, N. Y. 292 Henry St. for long periods not available to TEL CH 4-1070 Rev. Wm. Reed, Vicar Copyright them, or when access to them is Rev. Thomas P. Logan, (Priest-rn-charge) Sundays: 7 a.m. Low Mass, 8 a.m. Low Mass, difficult; at ecumenical con- 9 a.m. Morning Prayer, 9:15 a.m. Solemn High Mass, 10:30 a.m. Low Mass in Spanish SHARING 5 p.m. Evening Prayer; Weekdays: 7:15 a.m. Christian Healing in the Church Morning Prayer, 7:30 a.m. Low Mass, 5 p.m. Write us for Evening Prayer. Only Church magazine devoted to Spiritual Therapy, $2.00 a year. Sample on request. ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHAPEL Founded by Rev. John Gaynor Banks, D.S.T. 48 Henry Street Organ Information This paper is recommended Toy many Rev. William W. Reed, Vicar Bishops and Clergy. Sun. MP 7:45, HC 8, 9:30, 11 (Spanish), AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. Address: EP 5:15; Mon. - Thurs. MP 7:45, HC 8 6 Thurs. 5:30; Fri. MP 8:45, HC 9; Sat. FELLOWSHIP OF ST. LUKE MP 9:15, HC 9:30; EP Daily 5:15; C Sat. Hartford, Conn. 2243 Front St. San Diego 1, Calif. 4-5, 6:30 - 7:30 & by appt.

Eighteen THE WITNESS Schools of the Church

NORTHWESTERN THE WOODHULL SCHOOLS THE NATIONAL ACADEMY Nursery to College CATHEDRAL SCHOOL HOLLIS, L. I. (For Girls) LAKE GENEVA. WISCONSIN Sponsored by Rev. James Howard Jacobsnn ST. GABRIEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ST. ALBANS SCHOOL under the direction of the rector, (For Boys) Superintendent and Rector THE REV. ROBERT Y. COND1T An outstanding military college p*e Two schools on the 58-acre Close of paratory school for boys 12 to 18 the Washington Cathedral offering a grades 8 through 12. Fireproof Christian education in the stimulat- buildings, modern science depart- ing environment of the Nation's ment, excellent laboratory and aca- Capital. Students experience many demic facilities. 90 acre campus with Shattuck School of the advantages of co-education extensive lake shore frontage, new yet retain the advantages of sepa- 3 court gym. Enviable year 'round The oldest Church School west of the Alle- rate education. — A thorough cur- environmentpublication. . All sports, including ghenies integrates all parts of it? program — riculum of college preparation com- religious academic, military, social — to help bined with a program of supervised ridinand g and sailing. Accredited. Sum- high school age boys grow "in wisdom and mer Camp. Write for catalogue athletics and of social, cultural, and stature and in favor with God and man " religious activities. Write reuse 164 South Lake Shore Road. CANON SIDNEY W. GOLDSMITH, IR Day: Grades 4-12 Boarding' Grades 8-12 for Rector and Headmaster Catalogtte Sent Upon Request 664 Shumway Hall Mount St. Alban, Washington 16, D. C. SHATTUCK SCHOOL FARIBAULT, MINN.

required MEMBER: THE EPISCOPAL LENOX SCHOOL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for One of Church Schools in the Diocese of boys 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideal and Virginia. College preparatory. Girls, grades charactePermission r through simplicity of plant and "-12. Curriculum is well-rounded, emphasis :s individual, based on principles of Chris- equipment, moderate tuition, ihf. co-operative HOLDER NESS tian ciemocracv. Music, Art, Dramatics, Sports. Riding- Suite-plan dorms. Established 1910. self-help system and informal, personal rela- The White Mountain School tor boys 1 J-19. DFMS. MAIGABET DOUGLAS JEFFERSOX. Headmistress tionship/ s among boys and faculty. Thorough college preparation In small classes ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmaster Student government emphasises responsibility Team sporu, skiing. Debating. Glee Club. Art. Charlottesville 2, Va. LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS New firepioof building. Church DONALD C. HAGERMAN, Headmaster Plymouth, New Hampshire SAINT JAMES Episcopal THE CHURCH SCHOOL the FARM SCHOOL FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA of 0K0L0NA COLLEGE FOUNDED 1901 GLEN LOCH, PA. A Country Boardins School for Boys. OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI Grades Four through Eight A School for Boys Dependent on One Parent A Unique Adventure in Christian Education One of the few schools in the Afiu'wcs: Co educational, Private. Episcopal Diocese specializing in only the elementary griwe: Archives Grades — 5th through 12th of Mississippi (1'iotcstant Episcopal Church; Small Classes - Individual Attention - Home College Preparatory and Vocational Train- \tmosnhere - Thorough preparation for lead- ing: Sports: Soccer, Basketball, Track, Established 1902 ing secondary schools - Athletics includjn? Cross-Country High School and Junior College. 'Iradei •?it!erv and Riding — Competitive sports m 2020. and Industries. Mus;c. football, basketball and hockey. Learn to study, work plav on 1600 ai.re For information wrn^. Summer School-Camp Combination. Grades farm in historic Chester Vallev. One thtrwgh Eight. June twenty-first "> The President July thirty-first. BOYS Choir Religious Today's Training for Tomorrow's Opportunities MARVIN W. HORSTMAN. Headmasfr

Copyright REV. CHARLES W. SHRE1NER, D.D. Headmaster Post Office: Box S, Paoli. Pa. DeVEAUX SCHOOL ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL Niagara Falls, New York FOUNDED 1853 COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR GIRLS ST. AGNES SCHOOL A Church School for boys in the Diocese of Fully accredited. Grades 8-12. Music, Western New York. Grades 8 thru 12. Col- An Episcopal Day and Boarding lege Preparatory. Small Classes, 50-acre art. dramatics. Small classes. All School for Girls Campus, Resident Faculty. Dormitory for sports. On beautiful Rappahannock Excellent College Preparatory record. Ex'en- 80, School Building, Chapel, Gymnasium and River. Episcopal. Summer School. sive sports fields and new gymnasium. Board- Swimming Pool. Write for catalog Box "A". Write for catalog. ers range from Grade 9 to College Entrance. DAVID A. KENNEDY, M.A., Headmaster Viola H. Woolfolk, MRS. JOHN N. VANDEMOER, Principal THE RT. REV. LAOKISTON L. SCAIFE, D.D., ALBANY NEW YORK Pres. Board of Trustees Box W, Tappahannoch, Virginia publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of

Air view of Washington Cathedral focuses attention on the construction of the Archives Gloria in Excelsis Tower. 2020. GEORGE A. FULLER Copyright COMPANY

Builders of the Cathedral and College of Preachers

Los Angeles Boston New York Dallas Chicago Washington Pittsburgh