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Story of the Week Archbishop of Canterbury affront to human dignity and ipso facto an insult to God himself. It is for this reason Challenged On Africa that I feel bound to oppose not

publication. only the policy of the present government of the Union of

and HUDDLESTON WRITES MOST CHALLENGING BOOK South Africa, but the legisla- YET WRITTEN ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA tion which flows from this reuse policy . . . there is no room for for By L. John Collins Here is no abstract or the- compromise or fence-sitting." of the Canon of St. Paul's, Loudou oretical assessment of t h e What then, are some main points which emerge required policy of apartheid and the "Look thy last on all things legislation which flows from it, from this intensely personal, lovely, every hour." Since no impartial evaluation of the this partisan approach to the Father Huddleston's recall to relationships which exist be- present racial struggle in Permission England by the Community to tween white and black, but a South Africa? which he belongs these words, frank and vital account of the Briefly they are these: first, he tells us, have haunted him. however people of goodwill

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/ in And his book, "Naught For o f persons, an assessment may "bend over backwards Your Comfort" written from based upon personal experi- their efforts to interpret the heart of the Africa he Nationalist legislation in a Church ence, a moving and a compas- of the policy loves, is set in the context sionate response of a loving favourable light," wholly wrong "this sudden, unwanted but shepherd to the sufferings, to of apartheid is reckoning which takes inevitable departure." That the fears and the hopes, to the on any Episcopal humane, let alone is a reason why, perhaps, it is woes and the joys, of the into account the the so incomparably the most vital whom he Christian, values; and of sheep, each one of legislation which flows from and the most challenging book knows and loves personally. which has yet come out of the this evil policy is wholly disas- South African melting-pot. "I have tried in this book," trous in its effect upon the Archives What does the agony of his Father Huddleston tells us, Africans. Why "to confine myself to examples Whether he speaks of the 2020. parting really mean? does it cost him so much to of the working out of a race- effects of the Pass Laws, of leave? It is because he seeks domination policy which I have the Suppression of Com- to answer t h e s e intensely actually seen or experienced." munism Act, of the new Pass- Copyright personal questions and because "What I shall try to avoid," he port regulations, of the Bantu he seeks to answer them out of says, "is that most common Education Act, or of the the fullness of a heart brim- and persistent error in all such Western Areas re m o va 1 ming over with love, as well accounts-the attempt to be scheme, or of the life of the as under the wise judgment of impartial. By this 1 mean that Tsotsi Boys (a class of youth a head well qualified by experi- I shall write this book as a which resembles what w e ence and training to distin- partisan, for I believe that might call Teddy Boys or guish wheat from chaff, that Christians are committed in Juvenile Delinquents) or of his book gives so clear a pic- the field of human relation- the growth of Shanty Towns, ture of the real South Africa ships to a partisan approach in every story he tells there of to-day and challenges the . . . . Any doctrine based on emerges in stark outline the discerning reader to face up to racial or color prejudice and same underlying pathos-the the real issues involved. enforced by the State is an tragedy of a ruthless disregard "1hree Slh Witness - April 19, 1956 for the dignity and liberty of intolerable. But it is not. speeches made by cabinet min- African persons and of their The Christian drawing rooms isters (and often enough by terrible and needless sufferings at Parktown or lHough ton Opposition leaders too). .. .It endured under the terror of would, for the most part, is these things which are the white supremacy and the sup- shudder at the idea of friend- weapons of the white race .... posed upholding of so-called ship and affection existing be- And, certainly, they are politi- Western and Christian civiliza- tween persons of different cal weapons." tion and standards. colors." "I do not believe it to be And so the lie is given to wrong, or foolish, or un- Racial Domination the contention, so forcibly Christian to try to strike from Secondly, with few excep- presented by false propaganda the hand of White South tions the White South Africans from South Africa House and Africa the weapons which not do not encounter in a personal other official sources, that only only hurt and wound the way, the Africans; they are the man on the spot is in a African every day, but must blind to or ignorant of the position to criticize South also ultimately destroy civiliza- social and home life, the dis- African racial policy and legis- tion on this sub-continent.

publication. abilities and the poverty of the lation. I would, in fact deny absolutely individual black man. "The that 'political weapons' are not and truth is that the overwhelming A Police State to be used by Christians, for majority of South Africans of Thirdly, "there is no time I believe that the Christian is reuse the white group have no con- to lose in breaking the present bound to act politically, for ception whatever of human government." The time and wherever he may be: that if relationships except that based patience asked for by Church the Church refuses to accept

required on racial domination. The leaders here and in South responsibility in the political only Africans they know, they Africa during which theolo- sphere as well as in the strictly know as servants or employees. gical discussion mig h t at theological sphere, then she is The greatest tragedy, in one length bring about a change of guilty of betraying the very

Permission sense, of the present situation heart in the Nationalist Party foundation of her faith: the is the total ignorance of those is just not available. South Incarnation . . . . And in South in responsible positions of Africa is already a police state; Africa, if we wait to impress DFMS. / government of the way in the black peoples' sufferings Afrikaners with the truth of which young Africa thinks, and privations are already too Catholic theology, and English- talks and lives." grievous to be borne and grow speaking South Africans with Church And, following u p o n a worse as day succeeds day. the need for religion, we might moving passage concerning his Fourthly, t h e r e is an as well give up the struggle for own work of compassion in urgency about the present human rights altogether." Episcopal Newclare, a passage which situation in which immediate The Archbishop of Canter- the emphasizes the warmth and political action alone is ade- bury, when he met Father of friendliness of the people and quate to stem the tide of tyran- Huddleston, spoke to him what joy he found in their ny. Protests, pronouncements strongly against the use of friendship, Father Iuddleston against a policy of apartheid "political weapons" and urged Archives comments "Strange i n d e e d and the legislation which flows persistently the exercise of that such chance encounter from it, theological discussion, patience. This is strange in 2020. should warm the heart! . . . It these are all valuable contri- one who is himself the head is because, in Johannesburg, butions in the battle against of a state Church and whose the white and the black worlds color pre j udice. But "the recent pronouncements about Copyright which jostle one another on the weapons used to impose a Cyprus would seem to suggest same pavement are yet farther racial discrimination policy his purposeful intrusion into apart than the stars them- upon the African people are, our own political affairs. selves. And present policies of course, political. Prejudice Father Huddleston c o m- only make explicit, only harden and fear are doubtless the ments on the Archbishop's this evil division between man motive forces behind the conversation with him in the and man: make it more im- policy, but it is such measures following words: "Certainly in possible for friendship to grow as the Native Urban Areas this the Archbishop would find or even to be seen as desirable Act, etc., which translate that much support from Christian in any form at all. The loss is prejudice and that fear into leaders in the Union. The cry so great that it is inexpres- hard reality. It is the propa- has been that it is useless, if sible. For the Christian it ganda put forth by the State not wrong, to urge Christian ought to be so great as to be Information Office: it is the action from outside, and that

Four The Witness - April 19, 1956 the only right weapon to use is man of the highest integrity life in order to save its soul. that of arousing Christian and of excellent character: he "In order that we may live opinion and the Christian con- comments "It seemed to me unmolested; in order that we science inside the country. then and it seems to me now may be free to minister to our But if, for twenty years and quite intolerable that the great in order that somehow more, people; the Church has tried this mass of Christian people in we may retain control of our latter policy without success, South Africa should remain schools, our institutions and is it really so wrong to suggest ent'rely unmoved when a man our buildings, we are tempted a different and more powerful of Oliver's stature was victim- to say 'yes' to the state and to method of atttack ?" ized in this way .... Here find good reasons for doing so. was, it seemed to me, a unique That is our peril to-day, for life Policy and People opportunity for the Church to and freedom and the right to And, lastly, the tragedy of protest and to demand to be possess what we have built at the present situation in South heard on behalf of one of her such great cost is too high Africa cannot be blamed upon most faithful sons. She did a price to pay for the loss of the Afrikaner alone. "The nothing .... The Church our soul. I pray God that we sleeps on. White Christianity may yet choose death-the publication. whole purpose of this book has been an attempt to demon- is more concerned to retain its destruction, if needs be, of all and strate, out of my personal, day- character as a law-abiding our external works: the loss, to-day experience, the effect of force than to express its abhor- if it is a loss, of all those Chris- reuse a policy upon a people: of a rence of such attacks on per- tians who cannot accept the for policy which I believe to be sonal liberties. In spite of oneness of all men in Christ: basically sub - Christian, and constant synodical resolutions the ostracism, poverty, and imposed by a government and episcopal pronouncements, loneliness which could be our required whose motives are clearly and the Church as a whole does not loss as the result of such a unmistakably racial. But this care." choice." policy could not be imposed, And "The Church is con- The Church sleeps on. Per-

Permission neither could the government niving at a policy which open- haps Father Huddleston's re- which imposes it remain in ly proclaims itself one of racial turn, for all its sorrow to him power, if the majority of white discrimination, of white supre- and his African friends, may DFMS. / South African Christians did macy, of 'baasskap,' because be God's means of waking us not approve of it. The doctrine it fears that any effective or up--But let us beware lest of white supremacy is common determined opposition will lose may join the band- Church those who to both Afrikaner and English it the allegiance of its white wagon do so in order to change sections of the population." members." the tune. What has been the contribu- Nor is the Church without Episcopal tion of the Anglican Church blame in its own house. A NURSING HOME the in this situation? - Father "Within the Anglican Church FOR EAU CLAIRE of Huddleston expressly states as it exists in South Africa to- * Bishop Ilorstick of Eau that he reserves his criticisms day there is enough color pre- judice, enough uncharitable- Claire is hoping to get funds to

Archives for the Anglican communion, add a fireproof wing to the not because it has offended ness and enough sheer blind- ness to lose it its influence present Home for the Aged and

2020. more than others, but because thus convert it from an old it is the communion to which over the African people in the people's home to a nursing he himself owes allegiance. next generation or less." The answer is best summed up home for the aged. Copyright Dilemma in Father Huddleston's own Christian At present those in the words "the Church sleeps on." The chapter entitled "The home are taken care of in com- fort but if one becomes sick Speaking of the shocking" Christian Dilemma" makes sad she has to be taken to a hos- loss of personal liberty for the reading: it establishes beyond pital. le states; "We see the African under the present reasonable doubt that the need and know we can do a legislation, Father Huddleston Church is, despite all efforts better job with the new wing refers to the banning under to put its own house in order so we are seeking $90,000." the Suppression of Commu- and to witness to the truth, there will nism Act, of Oliver Tambo, a still riddled with color pre- It is hoped that the diocese devoted Churchman, an intel- judice and discrimination, still be those outside will contribute to the ligent and well-educated leader hag-ridden by the sin of racial who in the African Congress, a pride, still afraid of losing its fund. Fire I he \Vitncss - April 19, 1956 ANOTHER FIRE A Tentative Basis for Unity AT ST. PAUL'S

* Fire struck St. Paul's, Is Drafted By Students Chicago, Easter Eve for the second time in two weeks, * Leaders of college student Studies also are to be pre- causing an estimated $100,000 organizations from four Prot- pared on the imperatives for damage to the parish house est a n t denominations, and union, campus situations, the which had escaped the first their adult advisors, drew up backgrounds and limitations of fire March 16. a tentative basis of union at the four denominations, and The second fire was dis- a meeting in Chicago. ways to assure that students covered by the members of the Represented were campus understand all the issues in- altar guild as they were pre- groups of the Congregational volved. paring the altar for Easter Christian Churches, Evangel- The basis of union will be services in the gymnasium, ical and which the parish had been publication. Reformed Church, studied by local campus as- Disciples of Christ, and Pres- sociations of the four fellow- using for services since the and byterian Church in the U.S.A. ships during the 1956-57 destruction of the church. The The Congregational and E & R academic year. It will be sub- women noticed sparks coming reuse groups already are merged as mitted to official boards of the from the dumbwaiter and ran for the United Student Fellowship. respective denominations about downstairs to find the first The projected merger involves 1958. floor in flames. a total of 300,000 students. Residents of nearby build- required Proponents of the merger A declaration unanimously seek to form a United Student ings and passersby aided the adopted by the student leaders Christian Association "wherev- parishioners in removing to said: er possible" on campuses with safety the organ-which had

Permission been loaned by a piano com- "We affirm that in the I e s s than 1,000 students. Merger of existing groups on pany-and the Prayer Books Church of Christ we are mem- and other equipment that had

DFMS. bers of one body, and we are campuses of from 1,000 to / just been purchased as replace- called to the union of our 4,000 students was suggested, and united ministry for cam- ments for articles destroyed campus Christian movements two weeks earlier. Church as a more adequate expression puses that now have no church groups. The second fire destroyed of our unity in the Church to the recently modernized proclaim the Gospel in campus For campuses of more than kitchen, the classrooms, the Episcopal and community life." 4,000 students, the leaders guild rooms and dining rooms, the It added, however, that "our here agreed that "at present and all the vestments. of union movement must not we would continue our existing St. Paul's held its Easter allow our 'togetherness' to groups but would take steps service in nearby Church of cause us to become shallow in to grow together in unity and the Redeemer. The vestry, Archives our depth of spiritual convic- improve the ministry." meeting April 3, voted to tion and concern." It was decided to meet in begin work immediately on 2020. "We must strive for greater Chicago again Nov. 2 and to the restoration of the gym- depth while at the same time invite observers of eleven other nasium in order that services we broaden our inclusiveness campus groups to see if the could be held there while the Copyright and relatedness and enjoy the scope of the proposed merger church was being rebuilt. richness of sharing our diverse can be increased. heritages," the statement said. "Most students feel there are DEAN KELLEY GOES The declaration will be sub- so few differences between TO ENGLAND mitted "for consultation and denominations that the bene- * Dean Alden Drew Kelley exploration" at conferences fits of unity will be greater of Seabury-Western has re- this summer of the Westmin- than the differences," said signed to become sub-warden ister Fellowship N a t i o n a 1l Richard N. Johnson, 21, a pre- of St. Augustine's College, Council (Presbyterian), the ministerial student at Pennsyl- Canterbury, England. The col- Disciples Student Fellowship,. vania College, Lexington, Ky., lege is the official college for and the United Student Fellow- who represented Disciples of post-graduate study of the ship. Christ students. Anglican communion.

The Witness - April 19, 1956 EDITORIALS

of the genes, the interchange of matter and SPRING energy. "Interchange" is one of the keywords of Charles Williams, probably the greatest Eng- SPITE of an awful lot of snow, at least in IN our part of the world, Spring slushed in lish-speaking theologian of this century. In some weeks ago: and we are happy to report his wonderful manual of Church history, "The that daffodils are doing fine. It is remarkable Descent of the Dove", at the beginning of that every year about this time it should again chapter two stands the name of a slave-martyr seem possible "who in a sentence defined the Faith. Her name was Felicitas; she was Carthaginian; she Tosee a World in a grain of sand, lay in prison; there she bore a child. In her publication. And a Heaven in a wild flower, pain she screamed. The jailers asked her how, and Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, if she shrieked at that, she expected to endure And Eternity in an hour. death by the beasts. She said: 'Now I suffer reuse Blake's marvellous lines are really a defini- what I suffer; then another will be in me who for tion of the principle which lies behind the will suffer for me, as I shall suffer for him'. whole New Testament: that in every way we In that, Felicitas took her place for ever among the great African doctors of the Universal required can follow the pattern of the Christ, who being in the form of God didn't insist on keeping it, Church". but voluntarily took the form of a man, a And in fact as the spring-words of the Seed creature which grows from a single invisible illustrate the sacrament of the Supper, there is Permission -cell, and that predestined to death. (Phil. a birth-word which illustrates the other Sac- 2.5-11). rament (Jn 3.4-5). Nicodemus: "How can a

DFMS. man be born when he is old? Can he enter / Women understand this better than men: a women can spend a lifetime keeping a single a second time into his mother's womb and be set of china clean in a one-room cottage or born?" Jesus: "Amen Amen I say unto you, Church a three-room apartment. From that cottage except a man be born of water and spirit, he or apartment can come a man who will change cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven". On the face of nations; and yet his strength is these two words, we might say, hang all the Episcopal only a specialization of hers. Everything is law and the prophets-not only of Israel, but the as important as everything else, if you look at of all mankind. For like the two better-known of it right. Because everywhere you are in touch words, they are one. The birth of a child from with the reality which has now been shown the water of the womb is, to the historical emergence Archives willing to enter fully into the smallest things biologist, identical with the first there are; and the greatest scholar may stand of life from that primeval sea, governed by the

2020. or fall in the last day on the care with which same moon, where life first arose. The he has transplanted a bed of anemones. Sumerians had some inkling of this connexion; and in their myth of creation combined it with St. Paul goes on to describe to the Philip-

Copyright the yearly fact of the emergence of the grain- pians the glory which follows upon the death of crop from the mud by the receding Euphrates. the Son; and in another place (I Cor 15.36) he defines the necessary connection: "That which Ours is an age in which many people get thou sowest is not quickened, except it die"; a bad education, which among other things and St. John (12.24) ascribes almost the same perverts their natural understanding of poetry; saying to Jesus. In these two great spring- and perhaps some such detour as this is neces- words of the New Testament we can feel our- sary for most of us to see how it can be nothing selves grubbing around the taproot of life or more nor less than Truth to say that Heaven where protoplasm, the stuff that could become is in a wild flower. But really spring is not the carrier of Being itself, is reduced to the the time for speculations about the flower, but next thing nearest inanimate matter, and is for admiring it: and we hereby enter a plea renewed by the union of the protein molecules that Americans should learn a little reverence

The Witness - April 19, 1956 Seven towards the natural processes that, both in recorded their joy in the birds and flowers, the structure of the world and in the words of the woods and meadows. In Tudor times the our Lord, have been made a symbol of the popular songs of the day give the impression deepest mysteries. that the whole people has gone a-maying. Did not some such response to nature's loveliness NATURAL SYSTEM move dimly in the hearts of the Saxon pio- by neers, when primrose or bluebell rushed out LIVE in the midst of a people who, WE and large, are not offended at a cigarette over the sward of the clearing they had made butt in a garden or a tincan in a mountain in the tall trees? stream; in fact, they probably chucked it Today that biosphere is in the greatest there themselves. Please don't! If we must danger of all time; it is all our fault; and build papermills on our prettiest rivers and cut so far as we can see nobody in a position of down our forests to print "Superman" on, at authority in Washington cares two bits what least we can all keep our own backyards in happens to it. And we just wish to go on order. A natural system has a good deal of record as saying that we care very much, and publication. stability built into it; the crayfish and bac- we wish they would please just let it alone. and teria will take care of a lot of garbage, that's Because this earth and atmosphere, and these what they're there for: but if they get an seas and rivers and the variable icecaps, and reuse overdose and die, the whole watershed goes the evolutionary lines currently going on, the for out of whack, and you will have the dickens of admirable birds and butterflies and the a time restoring order. animals we are so fond of in the zoo and even We hope we are not fanatics about this, but the useful insects, the solemn trees and the required we prefer to mulch our garden with the leaves wildflowers we hope our grandchildren are and grass it grew itself than with guano and going to pick: these are the only ones we're chemicals. We eat fresh food instead of can- going to be given, and if we spoil them we're

Permission ned as long as the pricetag doesn't get out of not going to be given any more. sight. Because we like the whole biosphere, And if we insist on going ahead spoiling from the deepest deposits of soil right up to

DFMS. things, we hope, we really do, that the works / the top of the atmosphere, just the way it is- of civilization go first, before the damage gets or rather used to be, before people started beyond the power of the white corpuscles of

Church shoving all the junk into it. There is a mar- this planet to repair. vellous description of that world in Saxon And if God in his mercy leaves us a remnant, times in Trevelyan's "History of England" we most earnestly charge them to have better (I. 1.6): Episcopal sense next time. the What a place it must have been, that virgin -Nuntius of woodland wilderness of all England, ever en- croached on by innumerable peasant clearings, but still harbouring God's plenty of all manner Archives A Blind Man Groping of beautiful birds and beasts, and still rioting in a vast wealth of trees and flowers,-trea- 2020. By W. B. Spofford Sr. sures which modern man, careless of his best inheritance, has abolished and is still abolish- HE American Churchmen who went to the ing, as fast as new tools and methods of Soviet Union agreed that the leaders of Copyright destruction can be invented, though even now the Orthodox Church "have accepted the Rus- the mere wrecks of old England still make a sian propaganda line 100%"-as Bishop Sher- demi-paradise of the less inhabited parts of rill put it in a meeting with the Episcopal the island. We conjure up the memory of what Church press. Whether the Russian church- we have lost in speaking of Robin Hood's men, following the conversations, believed that Sherwood or Shakespeare's Arden, but it was the Americans have accepted the U. S. propa- older than Robin Hood and vaster than Arden. ganda line 100%, there is no way of knowing. It was the land not merely of the outlaw and It could be, and maybe if there is a chance to the poet but of the whole Anglo-Danish people. meet them when they come here in June, we . When Chaucer and the late medieval can find out. ballad-makers at last found a tongue for the In any case, Eugene Carson Blake, the chair- race, the first use to which they put it has man of the American delegation, asked the

Bight The Witness - April 19, 1956 Russians how they could expect them to join "general disarmament and the banning of all in a Christian effort for world peace when the weapons of mass destruction." Orthodox leaders supported the World Council And so around the world-India, Burma, of Peace. And Bishop Sherrill said in his Japan, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Holland, In- interview that "the Church cries 'peace, peace', donesia, Rumania, China. and leaves it up to the state to implement it." In Mexico, a tremendous mass meeting to But this is precisely what the World Council honor General Lazaro Cardenas, former presi- of Peace, to which the Americans objected, dent of the country, who is now vice-president does not do. It is a peoples' movement which of the World Council of Peace. "At the pre- makes demands of governments all over the sent time," he said, "there is not a single world, as the monthly Bulletin of the organiza- people that does not want peace, that is not tion, available to American churchmen if they striving to consolidate it. The climate of in- want it, abundantly shows. security created by the supporters of violence Last month the German Peace Assembly was is an obstacle that must be firmly overcome to held in West Germany, presided over by Pastor show people in all latitudes that friendly under- Kurt Essen of Duisburg. Present were 500 standing between peoples is more lasting than publication. delegates representing Social Democrats, Chris- the illusory triumph of war." and tian pacifists, Communists, conscientious ob- The United States does get into the back jectors, members of the German Peace Associa- of the Bulletin of the reuse pages of the April issue tion, the Fellowship of Reconcilation, the for World Council of Peace. Women's Peace Movement, several youth There is a little item reporting that an organizations. They were "people" - not enthusiastic audience of 2,800 attended a con- required government officials. They demanded of their cert given in Toronto by Paul Robeson, with government general disarmament throughout the comment: the world; declared that the rearming of West "Canada is a country that Paul Robeson Germany was a threat to economic and social Permission can visit without a passport." progress; proposed that direct negotiations this should be opened between the two German But we, here in the U. S., condemn

DFMS. world wide movement for peace because of our

/ states, seeking reunification. deeply ingrained "guilt by association" hokum. There was a delegation present from East for the nine Germany, enthusiastically received. There And this goes, apparently, Church were telegrams and messages from Peace official delegates of the World Council of who visited Russia-two of whom Councils in Belgium, Hungary, J a pa n, Churches are avowed, doctrinaire pacifists. R u man ia, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, at least Episcopal Austria, Czechoslovakia. Perhaps, at the end of the visit of the Rus- the sians here in June, these two men will give of The fact is that there is a peoples peace us a minority report. movement in practically every country in the world-except the United States. I go through Archives the Bulletin every month-rarely is there any report of any action for peace here. 2020. In France, rallies attended by thousands, Pointers for Parsons demanding peace in Algeria. By Robert Miller

Copyright In England, meetings everywhere "in favour Episcopal Clergyman of Campion. N. H. of our government's warmly taking up the proposals of the Pope and the Premiers of India and the U. S. S. R. as a favorable de- UR Lord told Martha that she was cum- parture point for international negotiations." bered with many things but Mary had And a considerable number of clergymen of chosen the better part. I do not remember the Church of England playing leading parts knowing a churchwoman who did not feel that in these rallies. this was a little hard on Martha even though In Sweden last month the conference of their they would not dispute the word of the Lord. Peace Council was held, with demands of their "The work has to be done," they think. "How government that they stand "for peace in our is it going to get done if the Marthas don't country and in the world" and that there be get after it?"

The Witness - April 19, 1956 There are times when the parson feels a something. Still, he needs the Marthas. Even little harried by the Marthas and rejoices in though Mary chose the better part he feels the Marys who come so faithfully to Com- Martha played a very necessary part. munion and listen so raptly to his sermons. He "Meenisters !" exclaimed an old Scottish can speak to the Marys out of the fulness of lady. - Meenisters ! Guid men, but puir feck- his soul while the Marthas will want him to do less bodies. They need looking after."

PLACES OF HEALING By Beatrice Haden Savage Episcopalian of New York City with what is called IHansen's disease. Author- publication. A FRICA'Snews-readers problems today, hold thebut attention neither of theall ities differ on this point. But it is conceded and Church nor the secular press has given as that inasmuch as no scientific diagnosis was much space as might be allotted to more than available, ancient peoples, including the Jews, reuse three million Africans afflicted with leprosy with scabies and all sorts of skin diseases were for (Hansen's disease). The appalling tragedy is classed as "lepers". that ninety-eight or ninety-nine per cent of Hansen's disease is only mildly communi- these unfortunates receive no medical attention cable, and then only after long intimate (not required whatsoever, and are at the mercies (that is, sexual) association with an infectious case of the abominable abuses) of the African witch- the lepromatous or skin-type. The germ enters doctors. the host through the broken skin or through Permission The oldest records of the disease, or a very the mucous membrane of the nasal passage. similar disease, , the P apy r us E b er s About 85 /, of cases are contracted in childhood,

DFMS. (c. 1350 B. C.), written before the biblical according to common medical opinion. Many / account, were discovered in Egypt, but Asia sick people are walking around freely today and all backward areas of the world share this who are much more dangerous than the Church continuous calamity with Africa. An esti- victims of Hansen's disease. mated ten million persons suffer from leprosy. In South America are relatively few cases, and Church Concern Episcopal the United States and modern Europe have no HE Church from the first Christian era has the serious leprosy problem. T concerned itself with the care of these of These "tainted" ones are, and have been unfortunates. Their nursing was undertaken since time immemorial, outcasts; impoverished by the Order of St. Lazarus, founded in A.D.

Archives and cruelly treated by society and even by their 79. In West Africa the Episcopal Church own families. This attitude was largely due to carries it on, today, and our medical mission-

2020. fear of contagion of a malady which ravishes aries have at their command modern drugs. and cripples the body, destroys the extreme- The sulfones (a class of organic compounds ties, and may cause blindness, mutism and containing the bivalent S02 group united with

Copyright paralysis. But the attitude was intensified by two hydrocarbon radicals, not to be confused total lack of scientific knowledge. with the sulfa drugs) and notably the parent Leprosy is caused by the Hansen bacillus substance, diamino-diphenyl-sulfone or D.D.S., (also known as mycobacterium leprae), dis- have brought new hope and excellent results. covered and first isolated by Gerhardt Hansen It can be said today that juvenile and early- in Norway, where the disease was still pre- detected cases can be cured. Advanced cases valent, in 1874. Use of the term Hansen's can generally be decidedly improved, and fre- disease by the public is encouraged by workers quently in the lepromatous-type are arrested. in this field because this term is not associated However D. D. S. is not a cure-all or white with unwarranted fear and horror. Today the magic. Some old cases do not respond. Also word leprosy is the medical term. Biblical relapses are far too frequent. leprosy may or may not have been identical About 1936 Dr. Werner Junge of St.

The W~itness - April 19, 1956 Timothy's Mission Hospital at Cape Mount, Missions makes an annual grant for mainten- Liberia, determined to found a settlement. ance. In 1955 this amounted to $2,700. The The Liberian government gave the property on amount depends on the need. In 1954 a special Massateen Island in the vicinity of the hos- building grant of $2,000 went to Mbalomah. pital. The initial set-up was a small dispensary In 1952 the fathers of the Order of the Holy and three native huts, already the living Cross established another place of healing near quarters of a handful of cases who lived by the Holy Cross Mission and Hospital at Bola- begging. hun, also in Liberia. Originally called Mbalo- The work grew, and in 1951 fifty patients mah its name was recently changed to Mbalo- were removed to their present community, tahun ("town of healing") to distinguish it Mbalomah, "a place of healing". Here the from the one near St. Timothy's. This venture government generously provided beautiful, began with a small clinic, a relatively short fertile farming land, 500 acres, with good rice distance from the borders of Sierra Leone and paddies and suitable fruit growing opportun- French Guinea. No other leprosarium lies ities. The patients, now about 100 adults and within a radius of 150 miles. The victims of

publication. twelve children, live in a village which they the disease come from all directions and over built themselves, African style and where they two borders . Now Mbalotahun is a villege and work out their lives-in a normal African man- with a God-palaver house (chapel) and some in as far as this does not interfere with 165 adult reuse ner twenty-five huts, the dwellings of some elemen- for their medical care-and includes patients. representing three quite different tary conceptions of hygiene which the mission nationalities, each with its own language, teaches. culture and habits, but willing to share the required New-born babies (always uninfected; the common bond of suffering and ostracism, and disease is not inherited) must be immediately live in Christian fellowship which the Holy separated from their mothers. Recently it Cross missionaries stress by example as well considered wiser to place the children Permission has been as teaching. in foster homes in the neighboring town of The work is growing fast, which makes the Robertsport until they are old enough to go to situation difficult without enough trained DFMS. / the mission school. assistants to bandage as often as desirable. Thomas Haines, a Liberian medical worker Old sheeting is used in place of gauze; when it with many years of experience with leprosy Church is soiled the patients often replace it with rags patients, and who does a good deal of the actual which do not show the dirt. The community nursing himself, is in charge of the Mbalomah needs a trained worker to supervise daily. One Community. Dr. J. F. H. Stewart is the as Episcopal young male patient is doing splendid work medical director. dresser or bandager. the a agriculture was of In 1954 Mbalomah's Learning to read and write is a part of the of orange broadened; especially by the planting life of the colony, and means a great deal to trees, coconut and oil palms. groves, cocoa the very handicapped who can do little or no Archives the diet, but in time These will not only enrich physical work. One young man who has been to have enough to sell may allow the growers sent back, symptom-free, to his home in Bola- 2020. more so, to the outside world. Work, and even hun comes out to the community regularly to by the sweat of the brow cash profits, earned teach his old friends. Likewise boys from Holy with which to com- are the mightiest weapons Cross Mission High School give their time to Copyright adult leprosy victim must feel bat what every teaching at Mbalotahun-with no fear of the a sense of useless- most of his waking hours, disease. ness and dejection. Fr. Sidney J. Atkinson, O. H. C., from its Project Cooperative beginnings the director and moving spirit at Mbalotohun, has returned to the United States. be considered a three- should Rev. Joseph H. Smyth, M. D. is the medical MBALOMAHfold cooperating project: the staffs are director. Miss Jeanette Davis is the laboratory supported by the National Council of the Epis- technician. copal Church; the sulfones are supplied by the received a special grant United States public health mission, organized The community has Leprosy some years ago to improve the health condi- of $2,000 last year from American The first install- tions throughout Liberia; American Leprosy Missions for a dispensary. Eleven The XVitness - April 19, 1956 ment of $350 will be used for the purchase and organization to devote itself to this particular transport of zinc roofing material. Trans- problem. The two societies still cooperate in portation is an expensive and formidable pro- financial aid to leprosy hospitals, colonies, etc. blem. Air transport (the air strip only four The American society aids in the building and or five hours walk from Balohun) is the maintenance of about 160 of these institutions simplest but costly. The nearest railroad where missionaries of 62 Protestant Church terminus and post office are 50 miles away in mission boards and similar agencies serve Kailahun, Sierra Leone, and so even more throughout the world. The society has a new costly! Other materials for the building are development plan by which it hopes to in- purchased from local dealers. crease its budget from half a million, its pre- The Order of the Holy Cross in Liberia "is sent annual income, to two million dollars. accepted and trusted" to quote Fr. Atkinson. Money is raised through churches, Sunday This fact not only makes medical work possible, schools, woman's auxiliaries, etc. American it is the foundation of all the spiritual comfort Leprosy Missions will on request send any and religious teaching. Unless leprosy is de- organization publicity material, films, and the tected and the treatment begun before the de- like which will tell the story. Also Pete-the- publication. structive processes of the disease have become Pig banks are to be obtained for a small sum. and incurable, too often the case in Africa, the Pete should be in every Sunday school, so emotional distress and agony is greater than children will learn to give to less fortunate reuse the physical pain. And physical pain is a children. In fact every churchman and woman for part of leprosy. The nodules in the leproma- should have Pete on his or her desk to remind tous type become open ulcers. In the neutral him that the Episcopal Church at present is

required type the germ attacks the nerve fibre beneath giving medical care in only these two the skin, and cause pain until the nerve is Liberian colonies. It is very little for us to do killed. when more than nine million sufferers are All men need the love of Christ and faith entirely uncared for. Our hard-working fellow Permission and hope, and surely these gravely afflicted Christians such as the Roman Catholics, the ones find a special comfort in the faith the Presbyterians and the Methodists are working

DFMS. mission fathers teach. The fathers are wise- in this field in far larger numbers and with / the emotional side of religion is not allowed to far greater zeal than we are. But there is take hold of a sufferer merely to give him plenty of room for Episcopalians, men and Church temporary relief. Regular instruction week in women. and week out sitting on the floor of the God- And no one, now that many governments in palaver house is a long hard way to God. Asia, Africa and South America are establish- Episcopal Often the candidates for baptism wait two to ing leprosaria (colonies), should rest in peace the four years until the missionaries feel sure they with the idea that it is a government problem of are ready. Those who are too sick and weak and not the Church's. These governments are to go to the chapel are privilaged in having the not attacking leprosy with any great dispatch. to their bedsides. Archives Holy Communion brought Some are doing nothing at all. Besides, it is the policy of most government-

2020. American Leprosy Missions owned and directed leprosaria to welcome reli- AMERICAN Leprosy Missions which assists gious work. Chaplains or visiting clergymen this work, has headquarters at 156 in the secular institution have a great respon-

Copyright Fifth Avenue, New York, and field representa- sibility and a great opportunity. Such as the tives in Ridgewood, N. J.; Carlisle, Pa.; Boston; Rev. Samuel Akiyama, a Japanese priest, who Chicago; Dallas; Atlanta; Los Angeles and divides his time between the government hos- Seattle. This society is an outgrowth of the pital for leprosy at Kagoshima and at Kuman- Mission to Lepers of London, and was original- soto, working among 2500 people. American ly the American Mission to Lepers. The name Leprosy Missions has provided funds to build was changed in 1950, because the word leper chapels at both hospitals. In the Panama carries so great a social stigma that no one Canal Zone American Leprosy Missions makes should apply it to any human being. a yearly grant which in part supports the The British society was founded in 1874 as services of Venerable L. B. Shirley whose flock a result of an address given by an India mis- numbers about thirty in the government sionary in Dublin, and was the first Protestant sanitarium for leprosy victims in Palo Seco.

Twelvet The Witness - April 19, 1956 While the governments are making strides uninhibited faith is difficult to win. Without in meeting their obligations they make, except faith, a student's undoubted sincerity is dis- in Brazil, no provision for the healthy children illusioned and he may degenerate into a min- of their patients. Thousands of the children isterial time server. Faith comes first. need our interest if they are to be protected Jesus said, "If I be lifted up I will draw all and educated, loved and taught to love God and men unto me." one another. Besides funds, the willingness to go to the far places of the earth with the in- He must be lifted up for men to see, to know, tellectual equipment to do the work and the to understand, to befriend and love. He must real, vital, and alive. Also he must dedication to do it as Christ would have it done, become are most urgently needed. be close and intimate so that one feels his ac- cessibility at all times. We should be on such friendly terms with him that we are never afraid to talk with him about anything for FAITH COMES FIRST his "property is always to have mercy." We need to make him such a living friend By Austin Pardue publication. that we will do anything for him, knowing that The Bishop of Pittsburgh he will give us the power to do everything. and UR Lord told stories which were so vivid We must approach him, not with a critical set that they became living pictures,- not reuse of rationalizations concerning his life as de- easily erased from imagination of his listeners. for picted in the Gospels. That is no way to make Those who brooded over them were fired with a friend. Read the New Testament for what it new visions, possibilities, and hopes. Their says and "Think on these things" until he is required feelings and emotions were set on fire. Our so alive that he stands beside you. When you Lord knew that once he firmly gripped their known him so well that you can speak to him imaginations to the depths of their subcon- on any subject at any time, you can be in- scious roots, he had them forever. True, they

Permission timate enough to question him concerning his might temporarily be ridiculed sufficiently to Gospels-not before. Critical analysis should be talked out of following him, but the visions never precede faith, love and understanding. DFMS.

/ he gave them would always come back to draw them again to his side. Appeal To Creativeness So, he said unto them, "Hearken, behold." Church He told them to look, see, visualize, imagine RELIGION must appeal to the creative and picture the story. Make it real, live it. faculties if it is to be effective. One Sense it, feel it, smell it, hear it, touch it-the ought to be first steeped in the great stories of Episcopal way Jesuits do in the spiritual exercises of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. The the their founder, Ignatius Loyola. He knew that mighty acts of Abraham, Joseph, Moses, of once they understood him by faith, he could Elijah, Elisha, the Prophets, our Lord, St. trust them to approach him with reason. Had Paul and the Apostles should be living experi- ences of moving vitality, imagination and Archives they come to him on a rationalistic basis first, love would degenerate into a mere analytical spiritual power from the outset. This does

2020. critique, Hie knew that in religion a man not mean a return to blind fundamentalism and must first seek the gift of faith and once he textual literalism. It does mean that the has it, he can be trusted to use such intellectual spirit of the supernatural and miraculous needs

Copyright powers as he might possess. Religion that first be so deeply imbedded in the heart of a operates the other way around often becomes Christian that he trusts God to save any situa- sterile and prideful. Love and understanding tion that is right and to accomplish any wonder are not to be approached with calculus and a that is for the good of man. slide rule. Most of us modern clergy know little about the English Bible. We are trained mostly in Faith Comes First the critical aspects of the origin of the books. We come to the people as trained Biblical critics problem of much theological education THEof the modern school is that young men, rather than fiery spiritual leaders, steeped in with little belief when starting seminary are the fabulous mysteries and powers of God. forthwith exposed to Biblical higher criticism "Hearken, behold." He did not say, "Listen, and from then on their battle for a free and I want to reason and think about God." He

The Witness - April 19, 1956 said, "Attention, look at this picture I am come neurotics. We are so spiritually un- going to paint for you." creative and unimaginative and lacking in The Bible is filled with creative imagination, faith that we become earthbound by mate- supernatural events, fantastic stories and an rialistic worries, fears, anxieties and psychoso- unceasing appeal to one's faith in the all- matic illnesses. A little creative faith would powerful almightiness of God. This book is lift us above the gravitational pull of the the rock upon which we build and prove our earthy materialism we espouse, and carry us faith. It should inspire and propel the Church to new vistas of great spiritual achievement. of our time into ever new and imaginative ex- pansion. Yet, there is little Bible preaching today that lifts people to new heights and visions. Most of the clergy tend to preach in ac- Study The Church cordance with the notes taken in classrooms at By William P. Barnds seminary. Far too many sermons take little Rector, Trinity, Ft. Worth, Texas account of the wondrous events of the Bible. publication. If they do, too often they explain them away, VERY once in a while I hear of an Epis- and so that the "intelligent" will not be offended. copalian who has become enamoured of We forget that just about everyone needs to some other religious group, and becomes a reuse believe that great things can be done by God devotee of it. The reason given is that the for through us. People welcome the Bible stories teaching or emphasis of such a group fills a that lift them outside their limited little need which the Church does not fill. In such a required materialistic thought patterns. case I wonder if a person has ever really grasped the emphasis of the Church itself. Limitations Of Education More times than not, those who wander afield from the Church seeking spiritual help have Permission has occurred in the field THE same problem not been aware of the deep spiritual life which of science where orthodox learning has is really in the Church. They have not gone tended to inhibit creativity. A brilliant pro- DFMS. behind the words of the Prayer Book to the / fessor at M. I. T. has developed a remedy with deep meanings behind the words. startling success and daring imagination. If your Church ever seems inadequate to

Church Professor John E. Arnold has created a new your spiritual needs make a study of the planet, Arcturus IV, about 192 trillion miles Church. Ask the clergy to help you better to away. He gave it strange endowments of at- understand and practice your religion. The

Episcopal mosphere and many odd physical features, chances are a new life will open up for you, vastly different from anything we know. It is the and you will find it as the old familiar phrases of inhabited by an intelligent race of two legged creatures descended from birdlike ancestors. of the Prayer Book come alive for you. He uses this stage-set to pose problems in the Archives design of all kinds of new and necessary equipment. Thus, his students are forcibly un- THE MEANING OF 2020. shackled from the bonds of habit and tradition. His desire is to liberate their minds from THE REAL PRESENCE mental blocks. C. F. Kettering once defined By G. A. Studdert-Kennedy Copyright an inventor as "a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously." Chaplain of World War One Even though the Bible is filled with creative 10€ for single copy scenes and experiences, it is often considered crude or queer to advocate praying with an 50 copies for $2.50 unlimited faith. The first thing that is said by almost any orthodox Protestant is, "But 100 copies for $4.00 don't you think it is dangerous-you might Postage Paid become a fanatic." In reality, there is little THE WITNESS if any danger of modern Christians becoming Tunkhannock Pennsylvania fanatics. There is far more chance that they will be-

Fourteen The Witness - April 19, 1956 METHODISTS ASK CHANGE Henry, the vestry and congre- classes for each age group, IN NATIONAL ANTHEM gation, services were started by including adults. the Rev. Robert B. Campbell, Eight years ago the Hickory * When the quadrennial rector, in a funeral establish- Methodist general conference ment. There are four lay- church had an average at- meets in Minneapolis, April 25 readers who alternate in read- tendance of from seven to ten to May 9 it will be asked to ing Morning Prayer with Mr. people. Today it is the second get behind a move to make Campbell celebrating H o 1y largest parish in the diocese, " America the Beautiful" the Communion once a month. with plans under way for an national anthem of the United There is a Sunday School, with addition to the parish house. States. The world peace committee of the Wisconsin conference has initiated the memorial, saying: "We cannot bring- Episcopal Car Shields about peace by singing about publication. rockets and bombs and their COLORFUL *ATTRACTIVE

and successors - intercontinental guided missiles or A-bombs."

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for military background and tradi- tions of the present anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." required The Wisconsin committee said that in addition to being peaceful in nature "America the Beautiful" has these ad- Permission vantages: It is very easy to sing, an

DFMS. important factor in grade and / high schools. It is easy to understand.

Church It embraces the best of major religions. It is easier to memorize,

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'he '\Witncs - April 19, 1956 Fifteenl JOINT CONVERSATIONS the rank and file of Church the American Church Union. ARE PORPOSED members during his year in Dean Littlefield of St. Luke's * Bishop Higgins of Rhode office. Cathedral, Orlando, Florida, is Island told a conference of chairman. PIONEER BISHOP Evangelical pa st o rs and There will be two main HONORED Church w ork e rs, meeting themes; towards continuing April 5 in Providence, that he * A service commemorating ecumenical discussion, in ac- would like to see informal the 150th anniversary of the cordance with the request of talks between the National birth of Bishop Leonidas Polk, the World Councfil of Churches, Council of Churches and the was held at Washington Cathe- and work in planning and pre- National Association of Evan- dral, April 15th. paring leaders for teaching missions. gelicals. Such talks, he said, He was the first missionary could clarify the aims of both bishop to the Southwest and and point ways of working to- BISHOP BURROUGHS was active in Arkansas, Indian IN IOWA gether. Territory, Alabama, Missis- He told the group that the sippi and Louisiana. He was * Bishop Burroughs of Ohio- Evangelicals has "the idea also in charge of the Republic is to be the headliner at the publication. that the National Council is of Texas so that he also had convention of Iowa, meeting at and somewhat of a liberal group the distinction of being the Council Bluffs, May 8-9. theologically," w h e r e a s it first f o r e i g n missionary He will address a luncheon reuse seems to him "to be somewhat bishop. for laymen and speak at the for c on se r va ti ve theologically, convention banquet. though not socially." CHURCH GROWS He told them that the min- IN BRAZIL SEABURY-WESTERN required istry, "'which should be the LECTURER greatest unifying factor," is * Bishop Bentley, director of what keep Episcopalians and of the overseas department of * Bishop Kenneth Riches "more apart than the National Council, has re- Dorchester and canon of Christ

Permission Evangelicals Oxford, En gla nd anything else." turned from a visit to Brazil Church, Pnd Cuba. Speaking of the lectured at Seabuiry-Western Seminary, April 3rd and 5th. DFMS. work in Brazil, he said that he

/ NATIONAL CHURCH He is in this country for a IS PROPOSED was much impressed with the growth of the Church there term at General Seminary * A United National Church

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of ly enlarged program." The proposal was made by ROOM USES the Rev. the new moderator, TIPS OF Kenneth Parry, a Congrega- PRIESTS CONVENTION Archives Church IN JUNE FIR tionalist. He said the PRESWOOD£BR PLYWOOD he had in mind would include * A priests convention will * PLASTICS 2020. MAXILINOLEUM the Church of England as well be held at Wayne, Pennsyl- SEATING STONG, RIGID as the Free Churches. vania, June 4-8, sponsored by MINIMUM TUBULAR The Rev. Copland Simmons, STORAGE STEEL LEGS Copyright retiring moderator, told the meeting that he had found little urge toward unity among MICHL ,I UF CURN CO I

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Sitsee The witness - Aril 12, 1956 COLLEGE WORK their work as a permanent United States to whose order EXPANDS career. and Liturgy, Constitution and It recommended the official canons we hereby promise con- * A new look in th e establishment of a permanent, formity and, obedience." Church's college work was des- national committee on work In less than a month the cribed by the Rev. Arthur among overseas students in the first regularly scheduled ser- Kinsolving, chairman of the United States; recommended vice was held. At the time national commission on college that Episcopalians take an there were 300 people living in work at its annual meeting, active part in establishing Minneapolis. Before a build- held at Seabury House, Green- local committees for work with ing was even started the name wich, Conn., April 3-6. Re- foreign students or in partici- was changed to the Church of placing its former philosophy pating in already existing Gethsemane. that "the Church was going to local committees. The Coin- On April 8, 1956 the parish war with the secular forces mission stated that the overall celebrated its 100th birthday. that are taking virtual posses- general policy in the Church's One of the features was the sion of the academic scene", work among college students presentation of a centennial publication. the new look now recognizes should be governed by the fact hymn written by Dr. Norman and the existence of "well-estab- that the Church has a respon- Johnson, choirmaster, who is lished religious institutions sibility to all foreign students, the son of one of the parish's reuse and purposes on all American not solely to Anglicans or famous rectors, Irving P. John- for campuses" and the Church Episcopalians. son, later bishop of Colorado must not look upon its task as and founder and first editor of a "mission from the outside" MINNEAPOLIS PARISH the Witness. required so much as a redemption from CELEBRATES within, finding ways a n d * On March 17, 1856 people MISSIONARY BISHOPS means to aid administration, recorded: "We the undersigned HAVE MEETING faculty, students, chaplains, inhabitants of the Town of * Bishop Blankingship of Permission and local rectors in "the great Minneapolis, Minnesota Terri- Cuba was the host to the process of building a Christian tory, sensible of the truth of bishops of Mexico, Panama, community and training on- DFMS. the Christian religion, and de- Haiti and Puerto Rico at a / coming generations to take siring to promote its holy in- three-day conference the latter their full Christian part in fluences in our hearts and the part of March. Bishop Bent-

Church the life of the community."' hearts of our neighbors, do, ley, head of overseas work, was In addition to its other busi- to this end, hereby associate also present. They discussed ness, the commission directed ourselves together under the the publication of literature in the National Council's division Episcopal name of the Church of the Spanish and French, recruiting of college work to find means Ascension Parish, Minneapolis; and training for the ministry, the by which bishops and local new of in Communion with the Prot- did final editing of a rectors could obtain well- estant Episcopal Church in the hymnal in Spanish. qualified clergy to serve college

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]'he \Vitness - April 19, 1956 Seventeen ANOTHER REPORT "We were particularly im- Fisher, rector of St. Ambrose's ON RUSSIA pressed on the tour by the Episcopal church, and Rabbi overflowing attendance at mis- Harry N. Caplan of Temple * Swedish Baptist leaders sion halls and the evidences of Beth-Or. reported on their r'eturn from a surging interest in religion, Superintendent Elizabeth B. he a 12-day visit to the Soviet particularly among youth," McCubbin of the prison said said. work on the chapel was begun Union that they had "unex- summer after she had re- "We conducted 14 worship last pectedly" f o u n d "unlimited ceived more than 100 letters services attended by at least freedom of worship" not only requesting it. 30,000 persons during our from inmates in the Russian heartland but trip." The women made the in the Baltic states. chapel's furnishings in the prison craft shop from mate- Erik Ruden, director of the WOMEN PRISONERS rials purchased through their Swedish Baptist Union's mis- BUILD CHAPEL recreation fund. sion board, said missions (con- publication. gregations) in Estonia and * A chapel requested, plan- Latvia as well as in Russia it- ned and constructed by the in- and for LENOX SCHOOL self "are given every opportu- mates of the state prison A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for nity to make contact with and women in Raleigh, N. C. was boys 12-18 enmphasiuing Christian ideals

reuse and character through simplicity of plant work among the people." dedicated by the Rev. William and equipment, moderate tuition, the co- for operativ e self-help sy.stem, and informal, He said there now are some HI. R. Jackson, chaplain of the personal relationships among boys and of faculty. 6,000 Baptist missions in the North Carolina department REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmaster prisons. LE'sux, MASSACHUSETTS required USSR with atotal membership of more than 500,000 and that Ile was assisted 113 the cere- Baptists are increasing there mony by the Rev. George A. Write us for at the rate of about 10,000 a Permission year. Organ Information Membei's of the six-man AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc.

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Episcopal riists in 1944. Sun IIt 8, 9, 11. EP 3:30; Daily MP CASSOCKS 7:45, FIC 8, 12 Midday Set 12: 30, EP the Mr. Ruden said they also 5:05; Sat IIC 8, 1'P 1:30; III) ITC 12; C 1Fri 4:30 & by appt. of SURPLICES - CHOIR VESTMENTS visited a theological seminary EUCHARISTIC VESTMENTS ALTAR HANGINCS and LINENS S1I'. PAUL'S CHAPEL in Leningrad where 500 young All Ebwsoiderv Is Had Dos Biroadlvs and Fulton St. men are being trained for the J. M. HALL, INC. Rev'. Rlobert C. Hunsicker, v Archives Sun. IIC 8:30, N. Y. NIP IIC Srr 10. Week- Russian Orthodox priesthood. 14 W. 40th St., New York 18, davs: IIC 8 ([hur. also at 7:30 A.M.) TEL. CH 4-3306 12:05 ex Sat; Prayer & Study 1:05 ex Sat, [P 3, C Fri 3:30-5:30 & by aput. 2020. Organ Recital Wednesdays. VESTMENTS (IIAPFL OF THE INTIFRCESSION Casck -- urplces-Stoles--Secas CATHEDRAL STUDIOS l,,-oadw'as & 155th Sr. Silks-Altar Clothss-&nbroid'e. F1 I cv. RloIertI . Spears, Jr., v Priest Cloaks-Rabats-Collars Silk damasks, linens, by vd. Stoles, burses & Copyright Custom Tailoring for Clergymsen 3.,f veils, err. Two new books, Chutch Embroid- Sun IIC S. 9:30 & 11, IEP 4; weekdays ery & Vestments, complete instruction, 128 I IC doils 7 & 10, \IP 9, [P 5:30, Sat 5, 1837 Curch Vest ments Makers 1956 rapes, 95 illustrations, vestment patterns In; 11:50: C Sat 4-5 & byv anpr. irfawn to scale, Price $7.50. Handbook for Altar Guilds, 4th ed., 53 cts. Cathedral SI. I IKE'S Cu LP)!L Studio, 3720 Williams Lane. Chevy Chase 48, I ludson St. 15, Md. lRev. 1'.nfl C. Need, Ir., v Sun HIC 8. 9:15 & 11: D~aily TIC 7 Bt S; C. Sat 5-6, 8-9 & by appt. SI'. Tilt 15I'INF'S CHAPEL Need Extra Money? CHURCH LINENS 292 Ilene'y St. (at Scammel) Unique-Simple-Easy profit R~er. C. Kilmer 1) ers, v By The Yard Sun IIC 8:15, 9:30, I1; 12:15 (Spanish), taking orders for ladies hose Fine Irish Linens made for us in Belfast. II' 5, 1huts, Sat TIC 9:30, [P 5. and men's socks. Transfer Patterns, Vestment Patterns, Ny- lone for Surplics Thread, Needles, etc. SIT. C.HRISTOPHEIR'S CHAPEL ALMAR CO. FE SAMPLES 48 Henry St. Mary Fawcett Company R1ev. William Wendt, p-in-c Sun 8, 10, 8:30; Weekdays 8, 5:30. Box 96, Cliffside Park, N. J. Box 25w, Mi~xa.zmes, Md..

I igb eer -I'hc Witness - pril 19, 1956 and its attendant publicity. And CONSTANCE VULLIAMY now, it seem, the matter is to be ohxrnhomn, of Pa kr'illc, 11o. further pro~longed. It seems clear BACKFIRE that the vast majority of the mnem- I have finished reading the bers of the parish favor Mr. Mlelish. April 5th issue and it surely is a A. E. JENKINS I have wondered in recent weeks good one. I literally read every why those who do not favor him do ,word, including the back page ad. Rectoir of St.3Mat th ios, Wlhittier, Cal. not quietly withdraw and join other All the articles were pertinent; the The cover picture of the Easter nearby Episcopal churches? There (ditorial excellent, as well as the number (3 29) seemed to me to are enough churches in the metro- Blind Man Groping. be wrong. I don't know whether or rolitan New York area for any The N'eed for Compassion by not it was your intention to turn person to find one that best suits Father Huddleston was awfully well the picture sidewvays and to give his spiritual and other needs. done and I wish it could be read the impression that administration by every one in the land. of the chalice was by other than MISS WILMA CROSS the one who appears to be vested. Chifr ch nomoi s of W~ashtington, D.C. From where we look at the with its overwhelming Your editorial lacok cuod White 1The WXhite Mlounraini School for boys Church, 1'-19. 1 horonin colle'ge prepairation in growth andI over- capacity congrega- v: as extremely offensive. As a maiI c lae.i. '.,ude.: *oscrnrn-nz enm- publication. tions, it would be a great help to matter of fact it is the first time 'ni. Dcharine. (.1cc Club. An:. New have administration of the chalice I have k-nown intermarriage to be fireproof building. and openly adlvocated. by properly licensed laymen. DlDe c C. II .( EPSIN, ri..h)1diaser As for white people taking on a Plymounth Neow ..mpshire

reuse Note: playing no tricks. WAe were tan in the summer, it is not be- The picture was of a sick commun- for cause they think browvn a nice lying in ton with the one receiving color for their skins, but because licensed laymen bed. The matter of it gives one a healthy look. THE administering the chalice we be- Tin, Il~itne's suits me very well required lieve has merit andl we wtould like CHURCH FARM SCHOOL to hear from cthers on the subject. cn most questions that are contro- GLEN LOCH, PA. but you went to far with vers ial A School for boys whose mothers ae this one. responsble for support and eduications. T. C. MORGAN College Preparatory

Permission Laqon ii oif Ac,,' Fork + I3U 1313 Grades: Five to Twelve Wholesome surroundings on a 1,200 acre 1 hav e just read yxour account uif CARLETON COLLEGE ferns in Chester Varlley, Chester County, Holy Trinity. wfame boys learn to study, work and play. the annual meeting at LArsxxNCa M. GouLD, Presden D.D. DFMS. Rev. Charles W. Shreiner,

/ Brooklyn, as well as accounts in Carleton is a eo-educational liberal arts cl Headmaster the NewX York papers. A spokes- lege of limited enrollment and is reow- Post Office: Box 662, PAOLI, PA. Colleae of Minnesota. man for the anti-Alelish crowd nized as the Church the Address Director of Admnsssone Church adjourn stated that the vote to CARLETON COLLEGE meeting was passed "overwhelm- NostTAFIELD MUnESOTsA ingly'. This obviously was not ST. AGNES SCHOOL cftloa o&Ooroaoo'O .)C000 true for the same accounts, in- An Episcopal Country Day and Boarding Religious Newxs School for Girls Episcopal cluding yours from Excellent College Preparatory record. Exte- Service, state that fifty left the sive sports fields and new gymnasium.s the meuting and that 200 temained atnd Virginia Episcopal School Boarders range from Grade 9 to College

of Entrance. voted for the new vestrymen un- t.YNCIIBURG. VIRGINIA MISS BILANCHIE PITTMAN, Principal animously- Prepares boys for colleges and university. ALBANY Naw Youi ( ettainly evecry loyal Episcopaliap Splendid environment and excellent coops in scholarsi unhappy affair of teachers. Hi1gh standard Archives must regret this and athletics. Healthy and beautiful loca- tion in the mountains of Virginia. For catalogue, apply to THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL

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