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bration of the Holy Com- munion. This service will be Christmas Celebrations Vary repeated as many as four times by mid-day. We believe that In Anglican Churches we should greet our Lord at his altar as the first thing we * Christmas is a family England in Canada, how are do on Christmas Day. So our publication. occasion, because it is centered your people spending Christ- people will go hurrying down around a family of three very mas ?" the road to their churches as and simple people, even though one "Well, we here in Canada are early as 6 o'clock on Christmas in many ways like you in the morning, and those churches reuse of them was the Incarnate Son States. We have enormous will ring to the rafters with for of God; also because that same congregations at our midnight their carols of praise. The Son of God was born into the celebration of the Holy Com- rest of the day will be spent family of humankind, and be- munion, and at that hour, as oqu'etly at home, the children required cause when his work on earth on Sundays, the street cars will open their presents, we was done he left behind him a have special "church stops"- shall sit around the fire and family he had gathered to be they will stop outside of any crack nuts, and we shall not the Permission means of carrying on his church, whether or not they do forget to leave our Christmas work amongst men until the so on weekdays. This reminds gifts outside our doors for the whole world is his family. our people that the Church milkman, the postman, and for DFMS.
/ We belong to that part of the matters in their lives. 0 u r the poor." family of Christ which is called standard of Christmas church- Scottish Christmas the Anglican Communion or going is very good indeed. The next visit is of especial Church Fellowship. How will the ab- What is even better is that it i'terest, for it concerns our sent members of our Christian is not confined to that day sister Church-The Episcopal family be spending Christmas? only, they will be back next Church of Scotland, which
Episcopal It is our duty to think about Sunday as well. This is true of gave us our first bishop here our remote country the them on this great festival, for districts in the States. of though more than miles may just as much as of Toronto, "How shall we spend Christ- divide us"we in this Lord Jesus Montreal or Quebec. Some of mas? At church, of course. are for evermore one," as the the most picturesque Christ- The witness of Episcopalians
Archives old bidding prayer for an mases you could ever share in to the feast of the birth of our ancient Christmas carol service are to be found in the simple Lord was what kept that day
2020. says. One broadcasting com- Christmas ceremonies of our from dying out completely in pany has for a number of years country churches, and partic- this country. There are still put through calls to a family ularly of our Indian settle- places where the shops are of nations on Christmas after- ments in the more remote Copyright open, and only the slightest noon, asking them how they north. How shall we spend cbservance of the feast is kept, are spending Christmas. As the rest of the day? Much for, you see, there were those in you sit back in your chair, let the same as you are doing, a our country who for hundreds us in imagination call-up some good deal of fun in the family of years regarded Christmas as of our brothers and sisters in circle." popery and idolatory. Oh, yes, the family of which the Epis- they believed in the coming copal Church is a part and ask Ireland of Jesus just as much as we Now across them how they are spending the seas to Ire- do, but it just didn't seem Christmas. land. "Hello, Church of Ire- right to them to set apart one land, what are you going to do Canada day when they should give at Christmas ?" thanks to God for 'his un- First, our neighbors to the "In our Churches the day speakable gift.' near north. "Hello, Church of will begin very early with cele- Now, that is changed, and
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 Th ree we are so thankful that the these is given to know the hung close to the fireplace simple, faithful witness of our mystery of the kingdom of just the same, so that Santa church people to the meaning heaven. To watch them wor- Claus shall not have too much of Christmas helped make that shipping is to know that they trouble in finding it when he change possible. Ours is a are back with the Holy comes down the chimney. small Church in numbers, but Family themselves. T h e s e "Before the war, we used to we have no 'passengers.' Every people have the grace of a have lots to eat at Christmas, man, woman and child who deeper spiritual insight than but now all the ingenuity of can walk will attend the mid- almost any other people in the the housewife is required to night service of Holy Com- world. make both ends of the food munion, in churches ranging Then, tomorrow we shall situation meet. But, you from the tiniest chapel in the have our Haggis, our tradi- know, th a t shortage has heart of some hunting forest tional Scotch dish, consisting helped our people to see the to the great cathedrals of of nearly every kind of spice really good thing a b o u t Glasgow and Edinburgh, of and meat that you can put Christmas-Christmas itself. Perth and Inverness. into it. Plum-pudding will com- There has been a noticable in our congregations lona Island plete the feast. And we will increase publication. certainly for we "We wish you could come complete the day as at Christmas services, only Scotsman can-with real have learned to see a little and to be with us and worship the Scotch!" deeper into the privations Christ-child in our tiny little which surrounded the birth of reuse church on the Island of lona, England Jesus. All of our churches for the cradle of Christianity in Now, south of the Border, will h a v e at least three this country, to which you too, to England. services on C hristmas are closely bound. It is a tiny 'We here in England have a morning, and it will be a real required little church, simple and un- great many customs connected family homecoming. We wish adorned. Its walls are pure with Christmas, in fact, every you could see what a village white, and against the ever- county has its own pecul- Church looks like when all the greens with which they will i a r i t ies. Many of our
Permission members of the various be decked on Christmas Eve churches will hold a midnight families, separated for the they will look so pure that you celebration, though there is a rest of the year all over the would feel you are back at divided opinion here now as DFMS.
/ country in their various jobs, Bethlehem. The atmosphere to its value. Some of us think come to adore the infant of this little church on Christ- that a better preparation is Christ on Christmas morning.
Church mas Eve is past description. secured if we get up and go to Then there are such things as It is as though church as the very first thing St. Columba, the nine lesson carol service who founded the Church of we do on Christmas morning. which is broadcast from the Christ here, and who was such Certainly, many of us will be
Episcopal Chapel of King's College, a simple soul, and St. back in church for the 11:00 Aidan, Cambridge, every Christmas the who left here to found the a. m. service on Christmas of Eve and which has one of the Church in wild Northumbria morning. Meanwhile, there largest listening congregations 1,215 years ago, telling his will have been excited whoops of the year, or the local carol brother monks that he would from the younger members of
Archives singers who go from place to give 'these babes in the Gos- the family as they have opened place around the town or pel the milk before he gave their stockings and discovered
2020. village 'waissailing' (that's the them the meat of Christ'- their presents, for even if Old English word) Christ's were with us. their presents are too large Birth. "Nearly all of the wor- and numerous to be accom-
Copyright shippers will be simple modated in the traditional Nativity Plays islanders, and truly to such as stocking, the stocking will be "Many of our Churches will
Four THE WITNESS DECEMBER 20, 1956 produce nativity plays on the going to bed, with the memory most interesting Australian or chancel steps, just as they cf our happiness. It seems New Zealand Christmas if you used to do hundreds of years strange here to eat Christmas could wait outside one of our ago. Some of them will time fare, of course, with the tem- country "bush" c h u r c h e s them so that they lead perature at 80 degrees in the around 11:00 on Christmas straight into the midnight shade, that is if the monsoon Eve. The air will be pleasant, Eucharist. Then, on Christmas has already broken, but we that nice relaxation th at afternoon at 3:00 o'clock we enjoy Christmas just as much comes after a hot day. The shall tune in the wireless as you do. Many of us will go larger part of the country- to o u r cathedral - graga side will be unspoilt. There bazaar, (big church), as the will be felt that great silence people of the land call it- of the bush. Gradually along where there will be a mid- the road, there will come the night celebration of the Holy l'ghts of farm carts, ancient, Communion, at which possibly very ancient motors, lorries, 1,000 people of all races will be station wagons-all of them present, representing about congregation of 11 bringing the publication. 200 more than our normal con- that little church.
and gregation. Our choir is led by a Chinese girl-organist of 18 The Bush Church reuse years of age, whose work for "Many of those people will the war is for the Church during never have met each other for one of the heroic deeds of months, for Episcopal parishes modern Church history. For in Australia can be as large as required some of us it will seem 400 square miles. But there strange, being away from they all will be on Christmas frost and cold for Christmas, Eve. The service will be Dnec eere. ift but we shall enjoy it just the simple, the altar decked with Permission same." masses of summer flowers, (radio) and hear the Queen and instead of carols about ice broadcast as a family woman Christmas Hot!! DFMS. Now, on and snow, we here in Australia / to his family. As our time is "Calling Australia, are gradually collecting new five hours ahead of yours, you and also New Zealand." carols, which bring into their will be just about having "The conditions of these
Church meaning the thanksgiving that breakfast, we imagine. We countries are much the same, we give in high summer for shall join in lots of fun in our Christmas will come at the the birth of our Lord. Be- family parties, singing carols, height of our summer, possibly cause, you see, deep down it Episcopal pulling crackers and wearing it will be the hottest day of the year. Imagine eating ;s the same joy, winter or the paper hats that come out the summer, God has sent his Son, of of them, and we shall not for- your traditional Christmas and we 'proclaim his holy our turkey and plum dinner with the heat outside get birth.'" pudding either." at 110 degrees, and with hose As we say "Happy Archives "Thank yo u, Enoland!" playing on the varandah! But Christmas, Australia" we Now we go overseas, calling in that's what we shall be doing. leave with that same con-
2020. would see the at many ports where our Perhaps you seamen's chaplains are work- ing with their lay helpers for
Copyright those who will have to work all through the Christmas season - lighthouse keepers, ccast guards and others whose job is to protect that we can be safe. Malaya Time is getting on, so we must hurry to our next call. "Hello, Malaya, what are you doing this Christmas Day?" "When your Christmas Day begins we shall be thinking of
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 viction. If we could visit Night is left out of the large cities, the divided de- China, where it is hot in the foundations of men a n d nominationalism of Prot- South and icy in the North, nations. estantism has rendered its and where the same conditions Word Made Flesh total moral-and dare I say are intensified in Japan, or So we come back home, and political?-influence of much Korea, it would be the same what is the result of our trip less consequence than that of joy we should know. which we can bring with us the Roman Catholic Church." As it is, our last call must to the altar as we make our be on Bishop Kennedy of our own Christmas Communion? Dr. Blake praised recent Church and his people in Surely the words of the Book pronouncements of Pope Pius Hawaii. We shall see them of Wisdom, "While all things XII and the Catholic hierarchy preparing their cathedral in were in quiet silence, and of the United States. Queen Emma Square, Honolu- night in the midst of her lu, with palm trees providing swift course, thine Almighty "But surely it is only fair cooling shade overhead, in all Word leaped down out of Thy and right that the majority that lovely color that goes to Royal Throne" and as St. Christian position should be
publication. make that beautiful island. John says, "The Word was heard and read and pondered There is a wonderful sense of made flesh and dwelt among as fully as that of the Roman and peace around St. Andrew's one of the us," so that as Church," he said. Cathedral, Honolulu, e ven Fathers of the Church has reuse though not far away at Pearl said, "The sons of men might The council president called for Harbor there, are the visible become the sons of God," for upon members of Protestant signs of the ruin that man can it is in the worship of that and Eastern O r t h o d o x bring upon his civilization Son of God that all that is
required Churches to strengthen and when the peace of the Child best in our Christmas ob- who was born on this Holy servance begins. support their local, state, national and world councils in order to make their collective Permission voice heeded. Increased Budget Adopted "As Christian Church mem-
DFMS. bers," he said, "we need to / By National Council think of these organizations as necessary and valuable ex-
Church * The 1957 budget of the to all areas of the common tensions of our own Churches. National Council of Churches life." Then when we criticize them it is $13,290,000. an increase of Home mission extension was will be self-criticism leading to $275,000 over this year. improvement, rather than at- Episcopal budgeted for $1,147,000. The Included in the new budget work embraces ministries tack, which can lead to
the to destruction." of was an item of $7,636,000 for migrant farm laborers, Indians relief rehabilitation and world and others, plus development missions. of cooperation among the
Archives Francis S. Harmon of New Churches, including activities York, vice-chairman of the of United Church Women and 2020. council's business and finance United Church Men. committee, said it was About $1,538,000 is ear- expected that the growing de- marked for publishing oper-
Copyright mands upon the Churches for ations and film productions assistance in the resettlement and $360,000 for administra- of Hungarian refugees may tion of the council's over-all mean budget increases during program and supervision of Read the offer of books by December and in 1957. general services. Bishop Johnson on page four- A total of $2,441,000, or The Rev. Eugene Carson teen, then use the order form about 18 per cent of the 1957 Blake, president, warned the on the back cover page budget, is designated for "in- general board, meeting in Los terpretation of the Christian Angeles, that a divided Prot- message" through Christian estantism threatens its in- The Witness education, evangelism, radio, fluence in the nation. Tunkhannock - Pennsylvania films and television " and ap- He said that "for a gener- plication of Christian ethics ation or more in most of our
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 The Prince of Peace
By Francis 13. Sayre Jr. Dean of Washington Cathedral
of the political and international outlook is the E OFTEN forget the import of that dis- W quieting saying of Jesus: "New wine Prince of Peace. The world seems like an old must be put into new bottles". The wine he old bottle. Indeed, cracked and chipped by its meant was himself, and the new containers ancient prejudice, its scar-torn battle. Not are ourselves! If Jesus comes, then we shall the bottle at all for the new wine of Jesus have to be transformed-made as if brand new Christ-"Peace on earth"-"Joy to the world". -to receive him, else, as the Bible says, "the Some there be that would take that old new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, bottle and heave it against a rock-put a fire- and the bottles shall perish". cracker inside and see it pop! Drop a few H
publication. If you relate words like these to what an bombs where they would do the most good, and impatient friend of mine once called "the great may the Devil see to the explosion. Others, and pre-Christmas disturbance", the shallow panto- wise to the self-defeat of preventive war, by building walls ever reuse mine of this hectic season is clearly revealed. occupy their despair
for Here we are all b u s i l y preparing for higher and higher by which, at the same time Christmas: making ready with neon lights and they keep the enemy out, they hem them- recorded hymns for the coming of Christ-but selves in. Little wonder then, that few required doing next to nothing to prepare ourselves for Christmas cards today have much to declare his ever-new appearance in the depths of our of the Prince of Peace, but convey instead hearts. I think all of us have a certain sym- merely a snapshot of the family or a sprig of pathy for the sales girl who before the Third holly! Permission Sunday in Advent was passed said she was al- Holy Cause of Peace ready sick of Christmas. The worldly side of S PART of our Christmas preparation this DFMS.
/ it is such an old old tiresome ritual: the poor year we ought to remember what we can dead trees piled in gas stations, the tinsel in do as our private part in the holy cause of the drug store, mailmen and policemen and peace. Church firemen making their begging rounds. And First of all, let us begin with God. Forget Santa Claus, who by the way, has been banned the bustle and rush of the department-store in a place or two for the first time this year. Yule-tide, and pause long enough to make a Episcopal But what has it all to do with Christ? fresh beginning within. For it is there that the Forgiver of sins, liberator of truth, ferment of God's little Son steals in, in the quietness of of sacrificed spirits, and the Saviour of the humility. Peace begins with him: bearer of world ? God's love into life. What else but the mighty
Archives Nay, more: What has it to do with us? We, caring grace of God can overcome the ancient who perhaps escape into the commercialized barriers dividing men? All else has failed,
2020. orgy, dreary as it is, precisely lest we have to though men have twisted and turned in every gird ourselves to meet that living Lord whom conceivable direction, even if only out of the others than ourselves have found to be the mere desire for self-protection.
Copyright Prince of Peace. All the old bottles are broken, but God's way Ah, perhaps you will think this last an al- is breath-takingly new: the way of self-denial most cruel reference-to speak in these and of a Cross. The way of giving instead of agonized times of the Prince of Peace! That keeping. Each step of that way God trod is the claim of Christmas that cuts us to the himself in Jesus Christ, who is ready still to quick more than any other. With what wist- set our feet upon that faithful path. We have ful foreboding-like some orphan waif looking first only to turn and walk with him, who is in at a lighted window-do we recall the scene the author of peace, even though it be "past of the shepherds and hear, as in some remote our understanding". But for that we must be play, the angels singing "on earth peace, good ready to be transformed lest this goblet too will toward men". For we seem so far from be broken. that in our world. So dim and unreal in terms If we begin thus by letting God plant his
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 Seven peace deep within our souls, then the next Only so will the decanter be sufficiently girded step that we may expect is that the inner to contain the heady wine: the demanding peace will emerge in a calmness that can be responsibility of peace. neither frightened nor stampeded. Ethics Prayer are rooted in faith. If there be an inner ANOTHER thing is Prayer. Certainly the radiance there will follow an outward as- deepest contribution we Christians can surance that will constitute the only solid make is to underwrite the political and social support of any leadership for peace. It is here that we shall make our best contribution leadership of statesmen with the spiritual force which through us God is ready to send to the peace of the world. For we will not be so frightened by the horrifying extent of into the world. Peace can never be simply a matter of technical formulae; treaties can only atomic armaments as to forget that it is still groundswell underlying. possible within the providence of God and the grow out of a moral reason of man to patiently discover the means And prayer is the means of bringing this to of living together. A million bombs only ac- focus and to power. publication. centuate the problem of one bomb, and we Prayer begins with communion with the Father. It ends with community among men. and shall never believe that what man has invented he cannot control-and even learn to use The one gives reality to the other. And reuse serviceably and constructively. ultimately, as our latterday cynics so keenly
for have And neither will we be stampeded. One of perceive, there is no other reality. Men the most dreadful indications of the amorality striven for peace all through these centuries, (and therefore of the faithlessness) of our but never has it been securely realized when required God has been forgotten. Christ is indeed the time is the recent display of the theory that there can be no kingdom righteousness is simply a matter of telegrams. prince without whom Wholly apart from the merits of any given of understanding or forbearance.
Permission issue, whether it be one of the personal Who knows how that prince will come? integrity of a United States Senator, or one of The kings of Orient never imagined that it would be as a tiny child, and the shepherds
DFMS. foreign policy, it is a sinful mistake to think / that right and wrong is to be decided by how never dreamed the star would lead them to a big a flood of opinion can be curried up on stable. Our prayer, in contrast to our wish,
Church this side or that. How easily people are will never seek to direct the living Lord, but stampeded. In a way this is the modern only to beseech his mysterious mercy upon equivalent to the practice of primitive peoples our perplexity.
Episcopal in trying to cajole the benevolence of the deity We will pray first of all for our enemies-
the by an abundance of sacrifices. We may not for the Christians behind the iron frontiers of slaughter rams upon some bloody altar. We with whom we secretly share the Christmas do it instead with telegrams! gladness. Perhaps peace will come through Yet righteousness is something knit into them as much as us. May not God use the Archives the very nature of the universe. So is peace. faithful nameless martyrs of Russia and Red China to somehow leaven those oppressive
2020. We cannot break the laws of God; we can only break ourselves against them. lumps? Christians have been true against more than One of the fruits of faith therefore is a terrible odds in both those lands for a thousand years. Pray that their witness Copyright certain calmness which makes its contribution to peace by refusing to let our support be may be strengthened now and their courage to dragooned by any ambitious demagogue for find the way. some ill-considered and hasty panacea. Peace Then let us pray for ourselves. Not merely will depend upon that kind of self-discipline that our horizons be enlarged instead of and trusting patience which the Shepherds narrowed, but that we may be transformed; showed as they too "kept watch over their made into new bottles for the new wine. flock by night", waiting for the star that would Pray that we may have the humility to co- appear. Let the faith of our people, then, lend operate with the other peoples of the world, substance to the hope of peace by steadfastly and not merely to choose the easier course of refusing to countenance that sort of shallow domination. impetuosity which can so easily shatter it. Pray that we may show forth our goodwill
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 in loyal support of our leaders rather than in right wrong. Let them have Santa Claus if the petty opposition of pride. they will, but let's keep "the little town of Pray that we may make ready in our lives Bethlehem" out of the cash register. The for the coming of the Prince of Peace who is Church does not take its cue from the ever ready to pour out the grace of his peace Chamber of Commerce. upon all mankind. Radio and TV stations are also strictly commerical projects, in addition to being a reflection of community standards. They are Advent & Christmas not themselves concerned with the historic Christian year. The Church does not take her By HoWard R. Kunkle cue from them, either. Rector of St. Augustine's, La Brea, In many of our smaller communities it is British West Indies assumed that the public schools are synon- HERE is a family in our community that ymous with the Protestant churches, and was involved in eight "Christmas" publication. therefore their misconceptions of Advent pre- parties and programs this past season, between vail. Since the course of least resistance for and Thanksgiving and December 24th. This the music department is to seize upon family is likely typical rather than exception- Christmas carols for public programs anytime reuse al. For weeks they saw "Christmas" decora- during December, children and parents have for tions, heard Christmas songs and carols, heard their Christmas appetites further dimmed. the Christmas story read from one of the Some of our own people are bound to say, (or required Gospels, and "exchanged" Christmas gifts. think); "the schools do it; it must be right." Other families had their Christmas trees up as But the Church does not take its cue from the early as the first week in December and were public schools. eating special "Christmas" foods all the while. Permission When December 25th and its Eve finally We Know Better arrived, what was left? Nothing-exactly Most Protestant churches have little under-
DFMS. standing of the Christian year. They do follow
/ nothing. It was a hollow anti-climax. the lead of the Chamber of Commerce, the Over many, many centuries the Church radio and TV stations, and are both a re- evolved the Christian year, beautiful and Church flection of and an influence upon the schools. meaningful in its symmetry. Advent ("the They are only now dimly beginning to get the coming!") is a season of anticipation and pre- point of the Christian year, and as yet have it paration. It repeats annually in a condensed Episcopal rather confused. Three or four major Church way the whole Old Testament period of antici- the bodies in this country do know better, in
of pation and preparation for the Messiah. And theory, and we are one of them. it solemnly reminds us to prepare today for the Lord's return. In either case it em- Then how should we celebrate these two
Archives phatically is not Christmas, and to celebrate it seasons as intelligent Christians? as such is to ruin both. You prepare for the First, Advent. At home, with your neces-
2020. birth of a baby weeks ahead, but you don't sary domestic and personal preparations for celebrate the birth until it is born. You pre- Christmas. But you won't neglect t he pare for a marriage weeks ahead, but you spiritual preparation. This may include special
Copyright don't celebrate the marriage until after the family devotions aided by an Advent calendar marriage service. (the stationery stores are now selling them) It is necessary to shop, bake, clean, send or the Advent wreath, and the singing of greetings, make things, rehearse music and Advent hymns, if you have a piano. drama ahead of time. That is all necessary, as You will not decorate your home for part of the preparation. But one should stop Christmas until the last possible opportunity. there. You will do all in your power not to participate The Chamber of Commerce is concerned in semi-religious "Christmas" parties during about selling merchandise. This is not to be Advent. Make it a quiet season, socially. criticized, except that the wearisome use of At church you will notice the different spirit sacred Christmas carols and hymns for weeks of the hymns. Violet or blue is the liturgical for the purpose of stimulating trade is down- color. The Te Deum and Gloria in Excelsis
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 are not heard. Preferably flowers are not of the Nativity and the Epiphany separate and used. The Advent wreath is lit at the reading in focus. of the Old Testament lesson (it is prophetic, Used rightly and intelligently, the grand anticipatory) at Morning Prayer which pre- trilogy of Advent-Christmas-Epiphany can be six weeks of spiritually rich Christian drama cedes the Eucharist. And no service or church in both home and church. activity will be "Christmassy" before the afternoon of December 24th. This includes the church school. Your parish church ought to offer you special Advent services as prepara- NOW HEAR THIS tion for the Feast of the Incarnation. The By Frederick A. Schilling Church has planned well for your Advent worship. Gospels for Christmas Day Christmas 1. St. Luke 2:1-14 publication. "Unto you is born . .. a Saviour." HOME you'll put up your Christmas and AT decorations on the 24th or as late as The Advent ring is closed. The one who possible. You'll include a manger scene with was last said to be standing unrecognized reuse your Christmas tree-or even instead of it. among us has now come into view. But his for You'll thoroughly enjoy the decorations, the way of appearing is a surprise. He comes as special foods, the gifts, the carol singing a new born infant. The environment is ordi- because nary and unpromising. The place of birth is required you have waited for the great event. Therefore you won't feel like throwing out uncomfortable. The family has no standing. your tree on December 26th and thinking, They are poor. The birth is a back-country "glad that's over once more." episode that takes place while the ponderous Permission Instead, you'll enjoy all these fine things for imperial tax machine is regimenting people. a week or ten days or more. You won't want The birth itself is passed over so quickly that we get the impression that St. Luke is DFMS. to stop. You'll want to share the spirit with / trying less to your relatives and friends during these days. draw a manger scene than a Here is the proper time for Christmas parties. drama of the announcement. His artistry is Church Having them here will not exhaust you before conveying the meaning of the birth, and in the very way Christmas. it accomplishes this we can discern also the steps by which he himself found his At church, you will find that the feast of
Episcopal Saviour. From the message he moved back to the Saviour's birth is celebrated for eight days the manger, the or, inwardly speaking, by the (see the Book of Common Prayer, pages 77 of message the Lord was born in him. The holy and 96) with Eucharists expected for Decem- birth is delicately covered against curiosity, ber 26th (St. Stephen), December 27th (St. but the proclamation of it is bathed in brilliant
Archives John), December 28th (The Holy Innocents), light. ard the Sunday after Christmas. There may When St. Luke wrote this part of his Gospel
2020. be two Sundays after Christmas some years. he was probably in Rome with St. Paul Here is the time for Christmas hymns, carols (Col. 4:14), and in Rome the radical contrast and anthems. Here is the time, too, for church between Caesar Augustus and "Christ the
Copyright auxiliary organizations to have their Lord" of Judean stock must have been felt Christmas parties. more strongly even than in the remote prov- As Epiphany is just as truly the sequel of ince. The night is dark. The message comes Christmas as Advent is its forerunner, the to such as are not present at the birth. It decorations (trees and manger) can well carry bursts like a strange, fearsome light in the over to the Sunday within the Octave of the sky. But when the meaning is perceived fear Epiphany, for the Feast of the Epiphany it- turns to rejoicing. self is bound to be badly neglected. Some St. Luke's picture describes the normal way parishes emphasize this Sunday with a chil- by which people become Christians. Christ is dren's procession to the manger bearing gifts born as a baby so he can grow in us and we for overseas missions. It helps, too, to keep grow up together. The prior event, however, the two distinct, yet related, historical events is the message. Its radical nature, so often Ten THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 at variance with our usual state of mind, is 17 where the name, Jesus Christ, is given- frightening. It is startling with a light that and that is materially important for the betokens a new day. There is hope in a new evangelist's purpose. The dividing point of day and in a baby. We are not challenged to this poem is verse 14. There the pre-incarnate the sudden acceptance of a full-grown Christ Word becomes the particular person, Jesus, in the full light of an intellectual high noon. and Christian history begins. The name is But we are bidden to get up and set out on a not given until verse 17 in order to set it be- search. "You shall find." The announcement sides that of Moses both as historical succes- wants to be verified by discovery. Two direc- sor to Moses, as it were a second Moses, and tions are given for the search. The one as one greater than Moses ("grace and truth" pertains to scriptural history: "the house and above "law") The name of John the Baptist lineage of David," and "the Christ" (i.e. Mes- (v. 15) is used to designate the spokesman of siah), and the other to the condition which the World before the birth (v. 6.) Thus,
publication. results from accepting him as "Saviour" and while John of Verse 15 is the immediate fore- "Lord," that is, peace and good will among runner of Jesus, the John of verse 6 is a type. and men. People have found him by one or both In pre-Christian history (verses 1-13) people of these lines of study and experiment, but the reuse became "children of God" (verse 12) by re- final mature for understanding (and preaching) of ceiving the Word as it came especially through him combines both. the witnesses, the "Johns" of those times. The birth of Jesus is the focal point of Such birth was not one of race but of spirit. required human affairs, and the Christmas message, as As a whole the people of Jesus' race did not St. Luke so effectively illustrates it, combines receive the Word that came through the the elements of factual history, scriptural in- prophets (v. 11). Now, however, since the
Permission terpretation, and ethics. Word came in the person of Jesus, God is In the heavenly host we hear the joyful known as he could not be known before. The chorus of those who have found the Lord Jesus. glory, the grace and truth, we not only see DFMS. / Because they know him they are able to sing but we receive in increasing measure (v. 16). praise to God and to devote themselves to "We all" (v. 16), says the Evangelist, and means himself, his churches, people without Church proclaiming him as the ground for peace among men. The genuine Christmas message racial distinction, people who did not see Jesus therefore illumines and heartens and gives in Palestine. direction and ethical effectiveness for the new This Hymn of the Incariation sounds Episcopal day. philosophical, and it is. But it is the wisdom the of II. St. John 1:1-14 of seer and poet. There is no analysis, no "The Word was made flesh." abstract dualism. Mind and matter, creation Some seventy years after the crucifixion, animate and inanimate, past and present, man Archives St. John of Ephesus gathered up his long re- and God are united. Only light and darkness flections and preachings about Jesus and are in opposition, and these are moral forces, 2020. published them as the fourth of the Gospels. not metaphysical essences. It is a vision of His perspective was that of one who stood far the entire orbit of Efe with Jesus Christ the off in time from the holy events that had personalized creative word from whom, as Copyright transpired in Palestine, but was intimately from a point of radiation, all things take their involved in the continuing action of the Lord being and purpose. in the wide pagan world. He saw the life of For the Christmas feast this selection an- Jesus as an eternal fact and heard the word nounces the universal significance of Jesus of Jesus as speaking ever, everywhere, bringing Christ. It also proclaims the divine destiny things into life since primordial beginnings. fciman in him. God became man so that man This is the large circle of existence that St. may become child of God. The incarnation of John viewed when he composed this prologue. God is for the sublimation of man. Word be- This Christmas G o s pe 1 should extend came flesh so that flesh become Word. through verse 18. All of these verses together This hymn has all the positive force of a compose St. John's Hymn of the Incarnation. The confessional affirmation. Christmas is the personal specification is not made until verse time for a strong witness: "We have beheld
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 Eleven his glory" .. .. "from his fullness have we all ation, its national pride and its unemploy- received" ... . "the only Son . . has made ment." (God) known." "The intellectuals should have resisted him," Now we, in our own years, can not only see declared Buffers. what really happened for the world when Jesus "At the price of exile like Thomas Mann ?" was born, but also what has always been going "At a concentration camp like Niemoller?" on between God and his creation-and always asked Gilbert. will. "Decidedly," affirmed Buffers. "Perhaps they should," conceded Emerson. "Would our intellectuals have made a better showing?" Pointers for Parsons "Protest against wrong is not the duty of By Robert Miller intellectuals alone," said the Dean. "It is the duty of every Christian," Buffers Episcopal Clergyman of Campton, N. H. told us. publication. "Let's come to the meat of the article," pro- and The Deanery was meeting but the speaker posed the Dean. "It says-and it uses the had not been able to come so the Rural Dean editorial 'we'-that our country is embarked reuse suggested that the brethren might read and on what is potentially a more destructive and for discuss the editorial "Treason of Intellectuals" inhumane course of action than the Nazis were. in the Witness of Dec. 6th. Gilbert ?" "I found it confusing and disturbing," "I suppose it refers to our bombs and nu- required he said. clear weapons ?" "The Witness editorials are often dis- "Yes. And further on it says 'we hold it to turbing," remarked Gilbert Simeon. "What is be the duty of every thinking person . .. . ab- Permission this one about?" solutely to disengage himself from the making "It is called 'Treason of Intellectuals.' " and use of atomic weapons.' " "Does the editorial object to armed forces DFMS.
/ "Does it say who the intellectuals are?" I or only to forces armed with nuclear asked. weapons ?" "No. It seems to refer to Church professors and "I think the objection is to the bombs. It scientists, possibly poets and artists. I don't argues that only the United States and Russia think it means clergymen." 'have it in their power to destroy by radio-
Episcopal "What does it mean by treason?" activity the steel and brick of human society, "The term is used loosely. The the writer seems and the flesh and blood and chromosones.' of to feel that the intellectuals are betraying And it says that if one of these two powers their ideal." were to 'forego the use of such weapons' the "What ideal?" other would have no need of them." Archives "Well, really. It's hard to say. I suppose "If we destroyed our bombs," I broke in, the ideal of humanity." "would we bring about Russian domination of 2020. "Has humanity an ideal?" the world?" "Of course it has an ideal," broke in Buffers. "We should have the moral approbation of "It's ideal is Jesus Christ." the world," asserted Buffers. Copyright "I wouldn't say that," said Charlie Emerson. "I am not sure," I said. "If our rejection of "I think he is the ideal man, but I should be the ultimate weapon resulted in Russian con- one of the minority." trol of Middle Eastern oil, Russian dominance "Let's read the article," suggested the Dean. of India, Russian leadership of the world, I Gilbert read it for us and when he had think we should get little approbation and finished the Dean went round the table asking plenty of condemnation." for comments. "The Witness seems to be proposing "Charlie?" he said. unilateral semi-disarmament," reflected Gil- "I don't think Nazi-ism can be blamed on the bert. "I think the election showed that the professors, the poets and the artists," said country would not stand for it." Charles. "I think Hitler captured the state "What has that to do with it?" asked Buf- because he capitalised on its hatred, its humili- fers who was beginning to be annoyed. "The
Twelve THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20. 1956 Witness has always seen in the bomb a threat against the teaching of Christ? Take our to the very existence of man. How can a American way of life. The Witness thinks Christian tolerate it?" something is wrong with it. But who would "How can a Christian put an end to it?" exchange it for the Russian way of life?" asked Emerson. He paused, but no one spoke, and he went "The article seems to be addressed to intel- on: lectuals," I said. "But it says the bomb sprang "Men are not sanctified. Evil and wicked- from the American way of life. What of ness are ever present. I think of the parable European science? Did it play no part?" of the tares. I reflect that God often saves Tompkins had said nothing as yet so the us from evil. Sir Winston Churchill has said Dean called on him. that safety is the sturdy child of terror. Fear "The Witness feels that the bomb indeed of the bomb is a deterrent to war. If we dis- threatens the very existence of humanity and carded our bombs would the deterrent still it maintains that something has gone wrong deter ?" with the way we live 'and the one necessary "Then you'd do nothing," Buffers almost thing is to set it straight.' Our friend Buf- shouted. "You'd sit by while the world blew publication. fers would trace the thing gone wrong to up?" and original sin and the one thing necessary to "Oh come, Buffers," said the Dean. "You redemption through Christ. Not many will know Gilbert has tried all his life to follow the reuse listen to him." way of Christ. He hasn't blamed the intel- for "They should be made to listen. The Church lectuals. He hates war but he is not a should proclaim its message from the house pacifist."
required tops," said Buffers. "You all ought to be pacifists," Buffers told "What message?" asked Emerson. them. "Even if you oughtn't before you "Why, the gospel of peace and love." ought now." "Who takes that seriously except the Permission saints?" "Has the bomb made war more immoral?" "You are nothing but defeatists," cried Buf- I asked. Tompkins laughed. DFMS. fers angrily. "The Church should apply the / teaching of Christ to every human situation "Not more immoral, only more destructive. even though it meant we were attacked and What we don't like to admit is that men are
Church persecuted and thrown to the lions." sinful and our society is a sinful society. "What do you think, Gilbert?" asked the Atomic power was born in war but we pray Dean. that it may be used in peace. I do not think
Episcopal "I don't think it is easy to apply the teaching it is for the intellectual to lay down the terms the of Christ to every human situation. Take of its use. He may warn but it is not his to of slavery. How long did it take the Church to decide. In America the people must decide, decide it was wrong. Take war. Has the and I think they have decided. No unilateral Church made up its mind that war is always abandonment of the bomb." Archives
2020. What Do You Want For Christmas?
Copyright By Gardiner M. Day Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge
HOW many adults reply, "I really don't want peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, anything"? Yet my contention is that faith, meekness, temperance. as Christians we ought to want at Christmas It is important that we want, for in the time. Yes, we ought to want things for our- spiritual realm unless we desire, we will not selves, but not so much material things as receive. Desire and receptivity are two sides spiritual gifts. We should strive for what St. of the same coin. Desire is the mainspring Paul calls the "fruit of the spirit," love, joy, of man's creativity. Hence the desire to travel
THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 Thirreen swiftly to the uttermost parts of the earth produced the airplane, and the desire to aid suffering produced the first hospital. The desire of Jesus to give men the fullness of life transformed the cross from a criminal to an heroic symbol. The desire of men to share with others the love of God as experienced in p11E Christ has inspired men to go to every corner of the globe. Is it any wonder that Jesus commanded his followers to want, saying, "Ask, and it shall be USE THE COUPON ON BACK COVER given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and FOR ONE CHRISTMAS GIFT SUBSCRIP- it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh TION AND WE WILL ACKNOWLEDGE IT findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be BY SENDING YOU opened." Conversely, if we don't ask, we will publication. not receive, for our desire is the measure of The Prayer Book and our receptivity. There is no such thing as an ITS HISTORY effortless spiritual life.
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Fourteen THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 futility a n d frustration of Church Has Unique Opportunity their lives which are domin- ated by materialism. "A sedative will not do," he In Europe Says Niemoeller said. "They will not accept it. Their criticism is acid and * Martin Niemoeller, Ger- will solve its relations with the sharp and not to be deceived." man pastor, predicted that the Asians ahd Africans." Despite the hold w h i c h return of a Soviet-dominated The white race will inev- materialism has on young Europeans, he said, "if the Communist government in itably have to face the fact, he Hungary will have no ill ef- question of freedom is raised, said, that the so-called colored there is and will be a response fects on Church life there. races are outgrowing them in t h e i r hearts, breaking He said in an interview in fast and the only way to avert through the barrier which New York that as soon as the a catastrophe is to work for materialistic interests normal- good neighborly relations. situation there calms down ly constitute." Niemoeller spoke at New Hungary will find itself in the He called the "spiritual publication. same situation as Poland. York University's school of situation" of young Europeans education on "What Future for and "a tremendous and unique He maintained that Russia Europe's Youth?" The pro- challenge to the Christian is not interested in a return gram was sponsored by the reuse Church and to its message." to Stalinism and that its Christian Association. "If it really has the for action in crushing the Hun- He said young people in answer and if it really will garian revolt was intended "to Europe "embarrassed by the give the answer," he said, prevent Hungary from be- required emptiness of human existence" "then there is an opportunity coming a member of the West- are fighting against the as possibly never before." ern World, as the Soviet Union sees it."
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/ to visit Hungary in the next Religious Gifts few weeks. Following his return to Germany he will visit With the True Spirit of Christmas Church Budapest and several other cities in Hungary on his way The Hymnal, the Book of Common Prayer-few to Romania where he is to gifts will last as long or give as much pleasure. Our Episcopal address German-speaking con- books are sturdy and of high quality;' prices are
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Copyright the United States policy of Whether you are planning a gift of one book to an "handing things over to the individual, or a dozen or more to your parish, write United Nations which have direct. Remember that profit from the sale of these done a good deal to prevent publications goes into clergy pensions. something worse." ...... "The real issue today is not the struggle between East and West as represented by the so- called free world and the so- ale CHURCH ma wat c a lle d Communist world," Affiliated with THE CHURCH PENSION FUND Pastor Niemoeller said, "but 20 Exchange Place • New York 5, N. Y. how the white race, as repre- sented by Europe and America, .**** o*.******...... ***...... Fifteen THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 spoken foe of the government's Opponents of Segregation apartheid policies, w h o s e articles have been featured in the Witness. Arrested as Communists Later a Johannesburg court * The government of South passport. That year police rejected an application for bail African arrested 140 persons raided his manse three times. made on behalf of Mr. Thomp- earlier this month for alleged Among other white persons contravention of the Suppres- arrested were Lee Warden, sion of Communism act. A representative in the South THlE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH broadcasting station in Central African parliament from Cape R1ev. John Ileuss, D.D., r Western Africa stated however that the ; Fred C a rne s on, 'I RINITY former member of the Provin- arrests were a ''crack down"~ Broadwvay & Wail St. on the opponents of the segre- cial Council; Ben Turok, a Rlee. Bernard C. Newman, v gation policies of the govern- surveyor; Mrs. Sonia Bunting, Sun HC 8, 9, 11, EP 3:30; Daily MP' wife of Brian Bunting, a 7:45, HCG 8, 12 Midday Ser 12:30, EP' ment. 5:05; Sat HC 8, EP 1:30; HID H-C 12; publication. former member of parliament ; C Fri 4:30 & by appt. Two Anglican priests were and I. 0. Horwitch, an archi- and almong~ those arrested; the tect. Si'."PAUL'S CHAPEL Rtev. J. A. Calata and the Rev. Among the Broadway and Fulton St.
reuse Non-Europeans W. S. Gawe. The radio stated Rlee. Robert C. Hutnsicker, v taken into custody were Pro- Sun. 11G 8:30, AMPHG See 10. Week- for that they were to be defended fessor Z. K. Matthews of Fort slavs: [IC 8 (Thurs. also at 7:30 a.m.) b~y Bishop A. H. Cullen of 12:0)5 ex. Sat.; Prayer & Study 1:05 ex Grahamstown. Hare University, and Albert Sat., EP 3, C Fri. 3:30-5:30 & by apps. Organ Recital WVednesdays. required John Lethuli, who lost a tribal The Rev. Douglas Chadwick chieftainship by government CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION T h ompso0n, superintendent decree a few years ago and is minister of the Springs circuit [roadway & 155th St. now head of the African )letr. Rlobert R1. Spears Jr., v of the Methodist Church of Sun HG 8, 9:30 & 11, EP 4; Weekdays Permission National Congress. South A f r ica, was also IIG daily 7 & 10, MP 9, EP 5:30, Sat 5. arrested. Police searched the home~s ,lt 11:50; C Sat. 4-5 & by appt. of those arrested and confis- SI'. LUKE'S CHAPEL DFMS. The arrests were carried out / cated books and documents. at dawn throughout the coun- 487 H-udson St. Among the volumes seized was Rev. Patul C. Weed Jr., v try by a special branch of the a copy of the book, "Naught Sun HG 8, 9:15 & 11; Daily HCG 7 & 8; Church police. All those taken into For Your Comfort," written by C Sat. 5-6, 8-9 by appt. custody were charged with the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, ST. AUIGUSTINE'S CHAPEL high treason. 292 Henry St. (at Scammel) former head of the Anglican Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, v Sun HG 8:15, 9:3U, 11; 12:15 Episcopal Mr. Thompson is a British- (Spanish), Community of the Resurrec- EP 5, 1 hus., Sat. HG 9: 30, EP 5.
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Sixrteen THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 son, who was one of the first PRISON CHAPLAINS SHATTUCK STUDENTS group of six defendants to HAVE MEETING GIVE GENEROUSLY request bail. * Episcopal prison chaplains * Students of S h att u ck The court denied bail in all asked the Church to set up a School, Faribault, Minn. have six cases. However, the At- continuing c omminit t ee on oversubscribed their goal for torney General informed the prison work with a full time the 1956 campus chest by te _ judge he was prepared to with- director, at the closing session per cent. draw his objections to bail by December 5, of their first Allocations have been made Dec. 24. national conference at Seabury to united fund of Fairbault ; St. Mr. Thompson's application House. Francis' Boys Home, Salina, and those of his co-defendants The chaplains also asked Kan.; Randall House, Chicago; were opposed by the Attorney that a statement be drawn up Hare School, Mission, S. D.; St. General on the basis of an af- Gn standards of the chaplaincy Philip's S ch oo 1, Botahun, fadavit submitted by Lt. Col. and the theology underlying Liberia; CARE. St. Peter's W. C. Prinsloo, head of the this area of the Church's Boys Home, Detroit; Rice security branch of the South mission. Their recommenda- County Junior Red Cross; and African police. tions will be taken up with the Christmas Seals. publication. division of health and welfare "I firmly believe," Col. MARYLAND STARTS and Prinsloo said, "that the in- and eventually with t h e National Council, according to NEW MISSION fluence which the applicants * The diocese of Maryland reuse the Rev. Kenneth E. exert is such that if they are Nelson, has formed a mission in Man- for head of the division. released at this stage, the chester. At present it is meet- police will lose the further Earlier, the Rev. E. Freder- ick Proelss, chaplain of the ing in a prefab building given sources of information which by Gordon Cade on a six acre required penitentiary of the City of are now, after the arrest of lot. Another member, William the applicants, available to New York, Rikers Island, said that the prison chaplain suf- F. Stone Jr., has drawn plans them, and the loss of which for a church, parish house and will seriously prejudice the ad- fers from a sense of loneliness Permission because he is outside "normal rectory. The rector at West- ministration of justice." minister, the Rev. A. F. The cultural a nd denominational police chief further homogeneity." The chaplain's Schildwachter, is vicar. DFMS. stated that the charge of high / compensation, he said, is "the treason arose from the activ- intensity and acuteness of hu- OL0DI1NG ities 4gffl7V5W' EBANQUET of certain organizations man relationships developed TABLES&CIRiSI Church with a large membership, of inside prison walls." r Direct which the applicants are some wrierh!!~~ Prices & Discussing the psychic ef- t Discounts of the leading personalities. atalog To CHURCHES. SCHOOLS.P fects of imprisonment, he The Monroe Company
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THE WITNESS - DECEMBER 20, 1956 Seventeen CRAINE ACCEPTS L The Christian and his America by INDIANAPOLIS Gerald Kennedy. Ha rp e rs. * Dean John P. Craine of BOOKS. $3.00 Christ C h u r c h Cathedral, -- The author of this interesting Indianapolis, elected b i s h o p Kenneth Ripley Forbes book is a bishop of the Methodist Book Editor Church who is "a prolific writer, a coadjutor of the diocese of popular lecturer and an indef at- Indianapolis on the 11th ballot igable traveler," as his publisher's on December 4th, announced byCris-note tells us. This is his twelfth A Year Book of the Stars byCris-book and it reads like a series of acceptance to his congregation tine Chaundler. Morhoue-popular sermons, replete on December 9th. Gorham. $2.40 w it h anecdotes, illustrations and inter- Bishop Hatch, suffragan of This is a pleasant an(I informa- pretations. It does not give ev- Connecticut, r ec ei v ed the tive book. It c o m b n e s an idence of profound thought, but necessary number of lay interesting account of tihe ancient it is highly readable and sug- votes legends of the astrologgers about gestive. on the 4th ballot to elect, but the zodiac with simple itistructions In the final section of the book, was two short on the clerical on how and where to fiend in the the writer deals with the state of side. sky the numerous con stellations, the disillusioned world and with together with the chief stars and America's place and duty in it. It publication. On the final ballot the planets, which means an elementary is very clear-and very unfortunate runner-up was the Rev. John knowledge of modern astronomy. -that the writer seems to have and H. Vruwink, rector of St. The book concludes, veiry appro- no conception of the part which Paul's, Indianapolis. priately, with a chapteer on the this country's foreign policies over reuse Star of Bethlehem and it a long period of years have played signifies to us today hact for of t INTEGRATE CHURCHES heactofin the present tragic impasse in the Incarnation of our L(ord. world affairs. One finds no pro- IN MINNEAPOLIS test against an American economy * Border Methodist Church, Prophecy and Religion in Ancient sustained by colossal spending for required Minneapolis, has been invited China and Is)'ael. by H. H. armaments nor any recognition that to join the Hennepin Avenue Rawley. Harpers. $2.75 our far-flung cordon of military Meth od i st Church. The In this brief study tt he famous bases in Europe have contributed British Protestant Old Testament substantially to t he lamentable
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the gardless of race or cultural research into a few sim~ple sen- of background." tences. The author does not sug- gest that the sages and the CHURCH OF IRELAND prophets bear remarkab le resem- blances to each other; but he HEARING
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