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WORLD RECOVERY I by JAMES E. FREEMAN Bishop of Washington 'T 'H E members of the Church must make it clear that, as followers of the Master, they cannot give their support to any program of reconstruc­ tion which does not recognize the fact that na­ tional recovery depends upon world recovery. No mere re-establishment of an old economic order will suffice. Christ demands a new order in which there shall be a more equitable distribution of material wealth, more certain assurance of secur­ ity for the unemployed and aged, and, above all else, an order which shall substitute the motive of service for the motive of gain. Christians should face the fact that this new order can suc­ ceed only as the followers of Christ sacrifice and suffer greatly. It is not enough for us to do our M part. The Master calls for us to consecrate our all. For us the Cross stands as the symbol of a world recovery act. It demands that we become world recovery agents who dare to carry the Cross. It demands that through loyalty to our King we serve as leaders in bringing to pass a national and world recovery and redemption. a

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T ) R A Y E R BO O K R E V ISIO N is up again. The In conclusion Dean Grant writes: “ It would cer­ recent convention of the diocese of Chicago passed tainly require an extremely temerarious person to ask a motion unanimously, urged by the Rev. Irwin St. John for the privilege of the floor for the purpose of pro­ Tucker, to memorialize General Convention to trans­ posing a further revision of the Prayer Book, six fer the prefatory matter in the Prayer Book to the years after the completion of the last revision! How­ back of the book and print it as an appendix. The ever, that is by no means our purpose. A Church point made was that the table for finding Easter, infor­ with a living liturgical tradition ought certainly to have mation about the Golden Number and the cycles of a standing body capable of dealing with suggestions the moon is a bit disconcerting to the stranger in the for the interpretation, improvement, or ‘enrichment’ pew who opens the book expecting to find prayers. of its Prayer Book — a commission with far more This proposal led to others until finally the convention extensive powers than those of the present Liturgical selected General-Convention-Deputy Frederick Grant Commission of the General Convention, whose chief to receive and collate other suggestions for the improve­ duty appears to be to see that the 1928 edition is ment of the book and to present them at Atlantic adequately printed. It is to this body, with, we ven­ City. Dean Grant, with customary energy, has already ture to hope, sufficiently enlarged powers, that we received a number of suggestions and has also written beg to submit our suggestions; and in the meantime, a piece to meet the objections of those who say, “ Why as matter for discussion, to the judgment of the whole further revision when the job has just been com­ Church.” pleted ?” Briefly his answer is that if the Prayer Book can be further improved why not tackle the job. ST A T E M E N T expressing the hope of finding a To this end he suggests that supplemental devotions, A way toward a “ free, national Church in America” interpolations and permissive uses be authorized and has been issued as a result of a series of conversations tried out experimentally for some years before a new between Episcopal and Congregational clergymen meet­ revision is attempted, and he presents precedents for ing in Chicago. They found “ a profound similarity doing the job that way. of culture in relation to the thought processes and The suggestions that he has so far received, in addi­ social orders of our time and a similar conviction of tion to transferring the prefatory matter to the back, the responsibility of the Church for seeking the com­ are the following ( i) Omit “ we are bold to say” in ing of the Kingdom of God into the total life of the Holy Communion and substitute “ Let us say” . mankind. The sense of identity of spirit in these (2) A briefer service of Holy Communion for use matters thrills us with a new hope that our ecclesias­ as a children’s eucharist. (3) Permit the use of a tical conviction and practice may be capable of pro­ hymn before the Prayer of Humble Access as well gressive readjustment. We also clearly recognize in as after. (4) Print the Holy Communion in the middle our two communions a deep yearning for the greater of the Prayer Book once more; or at least bind it unity and unification of Christ’s Church and the grave up in that place in large-size Prayer Books for use peril there is to Christ’s cause in prolonged disunity. at the altar. (5) Introduce the Benedictus at an appro­ We further feel that these two communions, with cer­ priate place. (6) Insert “ The Lord be with you. And tain outward diversity finding a way to integration, with thy spirit” before the Sursum corda, in accord­ might turn the tide toward a true, free, national Church ance with ancient usage. (7) Revise further the trans­ in America.” lation of the Psalter. This part of the Prayer Book, The Congregational group recognized that their according to Dean Grant, was most inadequately dealt churches are historically in direct descent from the with in the last revision and does little credit to the Anglican Communion and that the causes of their scholarship of the Episcopal Church. (8) Make better separation are no longer a living reality; they recog­ choice of certain Epistles and Gospels. (9) Print the nized the values in confirmation and are prepared to Private and Family Prayers at the beginning rather practice the same, and they also recognized the value than the end of the Book. (10) It is also suggested of order, ritual and liturgy in worship. They recog­ that a better selection of lessons might be provided. nized the wisdom of the organized diocese, and while (11) Another proposal is that a brief preparation, to insisting upon the validity of their own ministry they be said at the foot of the altar by the priest and other nevertheless stated that the order of deacon, priest and ministers and perhaps also by the people, might be pro­ bishop should be maintained. They further state that vided. the principles of lay responsibility and representative

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democracy have been preserved in parish organization, their rector to the officers of the National Council, diocesan convention, provincial synod and general informing them that they were happy to report that convention. the missionary quota had been raised and had been As for our clergy who took part in these conver­ sent to the diocesan headquarters for forwarding to sations they admitted that the separation of the Con- New York in line with the customary arrangements. gregationalists came in part from an unfortunate lack Yet the National Council received less money that of charity and Christian patience on the part of the year from that particular diocese than was raised in Church of England. They also recognized the reality this one parish alone for missions. It rather looks of the prophetic and pastoral offices of the Congrega­ as though policemen were needed rather than extra tional ministry. “ We record our sense of the great treasurers. values of Congregationalism, especially in the field of education and missions___We recognize in the Con­ H E R E V . C H A R L E S L. W E L L S, dean and pro­ gregational Churches a mind and spirit that has made Tfessor of ecclesiastical history in the University them leaders in cooperation with other communions. of the South, has just published privately a pamphlet . ..We deprecate the spirit of aloftness at time appar­ on English Church history, based upon recent scholar­ ent in our Communion and assure our brethren of ship and research, which will revolutionize the gener­ our earnest desire to share reciprocally the treasures ally accepted views of early English Church history. of Christ___We look forward eagerly to the time when It is shown that the English Church is not a continuity clergymen of both communions, sharing the same of the old British Church and that the only relation apostolic faith, may be free canonically to exercise between them was one of controversy, opposition and their prophetic ministries in the pulpits of either open warfare. It is also shown that the origin, unifi­ Church.” cation, organization and protection of the English There were ten clergymen of each communion taking Church, until the reign of Henry V III, was due to part in the conversations, with Dean Frederick Grant, the earnest and efficient activity of the Roman Papacy, the Rev. Percy V. Norwood and the Rev. John S. and that the Church of England accepted and earnestly Higgins representing our Church on the committee supported the Papacy as supreme head of the Western which drew up the concordat. Church until forced by Henry and the English Par­ H E W OM AN’S A U X IL IA R Y , at their meeting liament to renounce papal allegiance. Tin New York the other day, urged by resolution that each parish have two treasurers, one for the parish E A R E A N X IO U S, like most journals, to have offerings and the other for missionary offerings. They Wmore subscribers. There is an offer printed else­ also urged similar arrangements in dioceses. A little where as an advertisement in this issue which we hope story will give you an idea of what they have in mind. will prompt a good many of you to subscribe for some A large parish in the middle west sent word through friend.

In R e b u t t a l An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON H A V E read with a great deal of interest that which not see much difference between them and Jay Gould, I Mr. Spofford had to say in our issue of April 26th except that he had the money and they didn’t. They about the present capitalistic system and its faults. had no more sympathy for those outside the union They are undoubtedly all that which he has pointed than the capitalists had for them. out. I am not so clear as to what is to take its place I agree that our present system which destroys pro­ and just how the readjustment is to be made. duction in order to conserve profits is stupid. I wish It is true that under the present system thousands I could be told just what is to take its place. have suffered hunger and evictions but under a read­ It is true that Christ wanted the kingdoms of this justment there would be other thousands whose life world to adopt His ethics, but on the other hand He savings would be sacrificed if the corporations should used language which indicated the improbability of cease to pay dividends and insurance companies should such an outcome. “ I pray not for the world.” “ The fail to pay widows and orphans. It is one thing to world hateth me because I am not of this world.” diagnose a case and it is quite another thing to pre­ “ When I come shall I find faith on the earth” . scribe the remedy. I do not fault my co-laborer for The way in which Christ’s rule can prevail is not his indignation at what is. I merely am unable to through external force but by internal conversion to visualize what is to take its place. I agree that cor­ His standards. I look in vain for an influential group porations have little vision beyond profits. I have yet on either side whose personal character is such that to find labor unions that have much vision beyond they would take very much interest in His care for wages. I was once a member of the Knights of Labor the forgotten man. In Russia they have eased the and I remember saying in open meeting that I could burden for one group and pressed down most cruelly

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. May 10, 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Five on another. In Germany they have been most unmerci­ capitalistic regime would have been followed by suffer­ ful to a large group of citizens. In Italy the Fascists ing equally acute and far more general. have been less brutal but fully as unmerciful to those who oppose them. In America to whom would we E T us then be ready to consider the ways and look for kindness and mercy if the present group were L means by which we can rid ourselves of the profit to be superceded? I imagine we would add fifteen system without an ill considered adoption of a theoret­ more millions to the outcasts and just that much acute ical nature. It seems to me that the Christian is caught suffering to the whole. between two forces neither of which has very much I am distrustful of much kindness from any people of the mind of Christ and neither of which has a who do not worship God, or much fairness from either spiritual outlook. I am not impressed by the wisdom capital or labor in its present personnel. It seems to of college professors even though I concede that they me that the trouble lies with the individual rather have knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom until ap­ than with the system and I find as little hope in the plied. I wonder if the Socialist is any less theoretical anti-capitalists as I do in the capitalistic group. Of and whether his wisdom would have been sufficient course the outs are always virtuous and the ins are for this crisis. always insincere. I do not expect Godly counsel or wisdom to emanate I can see the justice in the statement that Mr. from any self centered group, whether it is chiefly Roosevelt is trying to save the capitalistic system but concerned with profits or wages. I wish that I had I cannot visualize what would happen if he were to more confidence in the real altruism of either force scrap it. The problem is so intricate, with the needs but in any case deliver us from sudden upheavals even of widows and orphans in the balance on either side, if the patient is very sick. I do not believe he will that I wonder whether there would be less misery or recover by the beating of a tom-tom but by a profound more suffering if the Socialists were to prevail. It is statesmanship that will take into account all the bewil­ a gigantic problem and one on which more light is dering implications of any action. Perhaps it is a needed before any drastic action could be otherwise choice between lingering death and sudden destruc­ than tragic. It has had tragic results whenever a tion, but there is always some ray of hope in a pro­ change has been suddenly made. longed illness. As for me and my house we will continue to serve ND yet I agree that the present system puts money the Lord without any great hope that the materialists will ever be considerate of human needs, and I am A making before human needs and such a system of the opinion that neither group will welcome the must either adapt itself to new conditions and be Church’s Gospel as a final solution of the world’s prob­ more concerned with human salvage or it must perish. lems. Nor am I impressed in any emergency with the I wish that I had more faith in the group that would “ God Sakers” who, seeing the present evils, cry, “ for supplant the capitalists and more light as to just how God’s sake let’s do something” , when no one perhaps they would proceed in overturning the existing system. has the wisdom to do the right thing. In short I have no confidence that selfish men who It is the policy of T he W itness to hear both sides do not glorify God will ever do anything but tip the and even the editors do not promise to agree among boat so far the other way as to engulf myriads on themselves. I am profoundly convinced that no real the other side. In my judgment a God fearing group liberty will ever be possible until more men seek the is alone capable of conserving liberty for all. glorious liberty of the Sons of God. But let me say And one must give praise to the present adminis­ in conclusion that I do not fault Mr. Spofford for tration for its unprecedented efforts to feed the hungry championing the cause of the laboring classes. I may and to relieve suffering. No government in any period, not agree with his program but I do approve of his unless it be Great Britain, has ever conducted such sincerity. And I trust that our readers are broad­ a gigantic effort to relieve human misery. One is minded enought to read what either of us has to say impressed with its inadequacy but one is also impressed on this question, regardless of their agreement with with the fact that the government is straining its credit our views. It is only in fair argument that we can to the very utmost to meet the situation. And again arrive at truth. wherever it breaks down it is through the failure of the individual instruments to carry out the program honestly and intelligently. If the present administration is taxing the public Casual Comment to the limit the bulk of the proceeds is being circulated By throughout the country. Possibly this circulation of BERNARD IDDINGS BELL money has prevented a nationwide catastrophe, how­ ever inadequate it may have been to relieve the entire ROM here and there I am informed that the sug­ situation. The task that was handed Mr. Roosevelt Fgestion is being made that, in order to economize was a colossal one. He has met it with courage and in these days of million dollar deficits, the Church the best counsel that he could secure. It may be that ought, as a matter of course, to abolish all departments there was no solution which could have been adequate. of social service and of Christian education. One Some situations are fatal. presbyter here in New England said quite frankly, in I am certain that a sudden transition to an anti- a conference in April, that these works were mere

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luxuries and in no way comparable with missions in not quite so easily detected. In the first place the en­ importance. I cannot help saying that in my opinion gines are much more quiet and when idling they can such talk is worse than foolish. Those who propose scarcely be heard. If a plug is missing however it will such measures are honest and good men, but do they eventually be discovered by the engine heating up, es­ know what they are saying? pecially on a long pull. The motometer will send its In Rhode Island, for instance, the social service tongue of red up into the danger zone. But here is the department headed by Miss Ann Vernon, is the one thing I want to emphasize. If the engine is only hitting great means of contact by which the Church in south­ on six of the cylinders the other six must go through ern-most New England touches every angle of gov­ the motions. They are dead weight doubling up the ernmental and civic activities. Shall we abolish those work of those that are firing. The car will go but the contacts and use the money for some tuppenny- ride is anything but pleasant! hapenny mission in Podunkus? And the national Today society is on a twelve cylinder basis. Man department, with its contact with the world of industry, has deliberately stepped up the power of his system. is that to be given up to preserve an infant school in There was a time when people lived in a much simpler some Chinese village? In Heaven’s name let us keep way, they were satisfied to get along on four cylinders our sense of proportion. Better close down a mission­ or less. Circumstances do not permit us to go back to ary jurisdiction or two than cut ourselves off from those days. We have outgrown the days of isolation the poor, the workers, the dispossessed, and thereby when humanity was content to share its destiny in advertise that we are either afraid of social problems small groups. With the increase of cylinders, figur­ or, worse, indifferent to them. atively speaking, we find ourselves lined up with the A s for religious education, everyone who reads this crowd. We are facing mass effort and purpose. If column knows how we have poked ridicule from time one group fails to function we can get along. But in to time at the absurdities and vague nonsense occa­ this interrelation dereliction in the way of usefulness sionally emanating from that national department. But only increases the load of those units that are firing. now, when things have at last taken a decided turn for For the missing cylinders must turn over even though the better, there is no time to hamper further a half- they do not do their duty. And in the light of these starved and important work. For religious education facts is it any wonder that man is delayed in his move is indeed important. As a matter of fact, as Bishop for better days ? Murray said shortly before his death, the real trouble This is exactly the trouble with Christianity. Con­ with the Episcopal Church in this country is that it secrated souls are carrying the load of all those who has failed to build its entire program on an educational go through the motions but lack the fire of the Christ basis. Instead it has built it on a missionary basis, in their souls! Truly it is a miracle that any progress although missions cannot be carried on save as the is made. But before we blame the other fellow let us result of education—constant education—of our people ask ourselves this question, are we a dead cylinder in things religious. Dr. Murray wanted that readjust­ merely turning over, or are we a unit of power, doing ment and recentering to happen. No one would listen our part in putting the Christ motives into motion, and to him. Now our people know so little that they care backing them up with forceful usefulness in the daily too little to support the missions program. Yet there turnover ? apparently are people who still call religious education a luxury. It is a jolly good thing they never tried running a secular business. If we had sense we should make as our slogans for General Convention, “ more and better religious Need For Aggressive Action education” and “ more and better social work” . Instead By of that we are being urged to sacrifice both in order to keep a few relatively inconsequential missionaries KARL M. BLOCK at some outposts of occidental culture. If we do it Rector of St. Michael and St. George’s, St. Louis will be because, as usual, we Episcopalians have our thinking narcotized by sentimentality. E A R E assuming that at General Convention a WPentecostal fire will fall upon us. I cannot believe that people will be transfigured by figures. As I have talked with Churchmen in the field, I have discovered J u st Souls serious question in the minds of some of our Church By leaders, not excluding bishops and other clergy, as to the essential and continuing validity of the missionary C. R U S S E L L M OODEY motive. I am wondering if we can hope for the adop­ OR every cylinder there must be a spark plug. And tion of a larger budget at General Convention by sit­ Fevery spark plug must be firing otherwise the en­ ting supinely, believing we have done everything in gine will labor. In those days when the four-cylinder our power to inform and inspire our people. engines were in vogue one could easily discover that a The wide publicity given to selections from Re-think­ plug was missing, the engine pulled in jerks, especially ing Missions, especially those which are critical of mis­ on a grade But in the more modern cars with their sionary work and its motivation in the past, and the twelve cylinder motors this dereliction in the ignition is sometimes tragic financial situation in parishes and

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. May 1 0, 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Seven dioceses have rather definitely obscured the vision of The Warning is all about the Coming of Christ, the many of our people with regard to the claims of the Doom of Christendom, Judgments, Millenia, the ap­ Church in the foreign field. I am confident that the pearance of Anti-Christ, etc. The texts have to do time has come for us to reproduce in modern terms with prophecies which we are told are now obviously the sort of missionary education which was available being fulfilled—all about wars, tumults, plagues, the at the time of the Nation-Wide Campaign and aided corruption of Christendom, apostacies and tribulations, greatly in its dramatic success. the revival of the Roman Empire, the destructive ac­ There is no romance in the consideration of a budget tivities of the Beast, whose mystical number is 666. as such. The romance comes from the interpretation of sums in terms of human values. We must not There is nothing particularly new about this. Every forget the centrality of the missionary imperative in now and then some such blast comes forth. Indeed, in the words of the Master,—and not alone in the specific some quarters, people seem to be constantly worrying missionary commission,—that the New Testament is their souls' about the End of the World and juggling a book of Missionary Literature, that the Acts of with dates about it. But if conditions today seem to the Apostles is a history of the missionary work of answer these selected prophecies, so did conditions of the apostolic Church, that the letters of Paul are the the fourth and fifth centuries, of the ninth and tenth letters of a missionary to his converts, and that the centuries, and at the time of the Reformation. advance of the Church has been geared to the develop­ This was particularly true of the period leading up ment and emergence of inspired personalities who felt to the year one thousand. An even millenium since the central emphasis of the Gospel of Christ and whose the time of Christ was drawing to a close and a wave biographies constitute the romance of our Church’s of similar hysteria swept across Christian Europe. It history. was the period we call the Dark Ages. Plagues and pes­ I feel that the National Council should seek to tilences were raging with relentless fury. Famines were secure opportunity at General Convention—meeting in persistent and fearfully destructive. Barbarian in­ joint session— for addresses establishing the validity vasions were frequent. Riots, brawls, and wars were and permanency of our Lord’s great Missionary Com­ so numerous that the bishops proclaimed the Truce of mission to His Church, and contemporaneous reports God which forbade all kinds of fighting from Wed­ of inspiring work now being done. Bishops might be nesday to Sunday of every week. A great storm or sent on itineraries throughout the Church, for a month an eclipse frightened people into immediate expecta­ at least, after General Convention, so our people can tion of the end of all things. The western Church was hear their stories (over the heads of indifferent clergy, sunk to its deepest point of degradation and seemed if necessary) and find in them a vindication of that helpless to retrieve its spiritual powers until Hildebrand for which our Lord lived and died. started vigorous house-cleaning in the next century. With the cooperation of the other departments the Convinced that this world was doomed to immediate Field Department could prepare an Advent missionary and irrevocable destruction, people gave away their course of study in which is vindicated the missionary possessions, abandoned their vocations, and wandered imperative in our modern world. The Woman’s about in idleness and destitution. Bequests and in­ Auxiliary has kept missionary interest alive by its struments of donation would begin with the significant continued study, and we must reconvert rhe Church expression—“ The end of the world drawing near— to this type of loyalty by a similar method. Historical records from that period are remarkably Can we legitimately expect the Spirit of God to scarce and fragmentary, probably because nobody overrule timidity and indifference where there is no thought it was worth while to perpetuate a record of a strong conviction, and hope to clear a deficit and make world which was about to be engulfed. Yet somehow substantial advance? I feel sure we must take aggres­ the old world kept on going—and here we are today sive action if we are to lead the Church to a considera­ doing it all over again. tion of the opportunity and the challenge offered us Once I preached a sermon on this subject entitled at the present time. “ Mind Your Own Business,” taking my text from our Lord’s words to the Apostles at the time of His ascen­ sion—“ It is not for you to know the times or the sea­ sons, which the Father hath put in His own power.” L e t ’s K n o w We have no way of knowing when God will conclude the affairs of this world and it is not our business to By twist prophecies to suit our own curiosity. For in­ BISHOP WILSON stance, the number 666 which has been turned to all manner of strange purposes. It is merely a symbol, Solemn W arning like all numbers in the Book of the Revelation. The L IT T L E while ago I received through the mail a Beast in Revelation 13 is the concentration of all evil A large sheet of paper containing on one side A Sol­ and his number is 666. Well, the number seven is the emn Warning and on the other side a long list of proof perfect number. Six, being one less than the perfect texts from the Bible. Most of the texts were taken, number, represents imperfection. Sixty-six accentu­ of course, from the Book of Daniel and the Apoco- ates the imperfection and 666 symbolizes the lowest lypse—two books from which anything can be proven. depths of depravity.

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LEADING AUTHORS size of their sales, two were definitely NEWS NOTES OF religious novels written with a TURN TO RELIGION spiritual purpose by a Christian mini­ THE CHURCH IN FOR THEIR THEMES ster. These two volumes were The BRIEF PARAGRAPHS Magnificent Obsession and Forgive By Gardiner M. Day Us Our Trespasses. Again, these Edited b y W. B. Spo ffo rd A conference on social and indus­ Who would have dreamed that the books are not great books by any means and we doubt if they have any trial reconstruction, under the aus­ author of Mourning Becomes Electro, pices of the department of social would be giving to us in 1934 a mod­ value as literature, but the fact that The Magnificent Obsession should service of the National Council is to ern miracle play! For such a play is be held at Charlotte, N. C., May 15- Eugene O’Neill’s Days Without End have had the fourth largest sale of any novel in the United States in 1933 16. The aim of the conference is to (published by the Random House, assist the Church and the public $2.50). The central character in the would indicate that there is a tremendous desire on the part of the generally in thinking through the play, John Loving, was brought up economic, social and industrial prob­ as a devout Catholic, but like many ordinary reader for something be­ lems which have arisen as a result of another lad, when a terrific tragedy sides the current realistic vogue. Further, The Magnificent Obsession the depression. A similar conference in the death of his parents struck is to be held in St. Louis May 28-29. him, he gave up his religion and is the only book which was one of The program for the conferences took up one “ ism” after another. De­ the first ten in 1932 as well as 1933, has not yet been completed, but the spite this fact, John Loving’s uncle, a and the book itself has been going plan and scope of the proposed dis­ Catholic priest, kept a watchful eye through editions since its original publication about 1920. cussions is indicated by the topics: over him and* makes him face hon­ “ An appraisal of American indus­ estly the question of his eternal Finally, Anthony Adverse, the try,” “ Social justice and the New salvation. John Loving, tormented much talked of best seller of 1933 Deal,” “ Government and the New by the sin of adultery and the sin novels, we are assured by friends who have covered the last long mile Deal,” “ The Federal Constitution of bitter cynicism, thinks he needs a and the New Deal,” “ The Church new Savior, but Father Baird makes (we have been going it by slow and social reconstruction” and him realize that the old Savior is all stages) is a deeply religious book re­ vealing the author’s light particularly “ Statesmanship and Religion.” he needs and the only One who can * * * help him. In the end, John Loving on the meaning and value of suffering More Assets for turns to the Son of Man and at the in life. The author, himself, in an Church Pension Fundi same moment the alter ego falls article in The Saturday Review of The financial report of the Church dead before the altar. In the light Literature for January 13, states that “ the religious or ethical or philosophi­ Pension Fund submitted last week of Eugene O’Neill’s past life and by the treasurer, Mr. J. Pierpont writing, it is difficult to believe that cal theme, mystical if you will,” is one of the three main themes running Morgan, indicates that during the the religious) experience of the play is first quarter of 1934 the market not in fact at least autobiographical. through the entire work; He also observes how much of the meaning values of the investments of the or­ The play reads well and has one ganization amounted to over $29,- thing which almost all Eugene arose as he was convalescing after “ an all but fatal operation” . “ 1 700,000, and had increased to a O’Neill’s plays lack—some lines and point where they are now above thoughts of real beauty. I do not emerged from the hospital” , he writes, “ prepared to face the labor of com­ cost. The Church Properties Fire believe it is a great play. It lacks Insurance Corporation also added conviction. Too much stress is laid position, determined to carry it through and leave behind me if pos­ materially to its surplus during the upon the single, physical sin. But quarter, and the Church Life Insur­ perhaps Eugene O’Neill will yet give sible a book that would have in it some of the richness and beauty, the ance Corporation, a subsidiary, re­ us a truly great modern religious ported $203 of assets for every $100 drama—an ability most people two enormous complexity, and yet some­ thing of the great and simple prin­ of liabilities. The resignation of years ago would have said was clear­ Mr. George W. Wickersham from ly not his. ciples upon which I conceived life to be conducted. Above all, I desired the board of directors of the life and In the issue of February 22nd we to reassert some of the prime values fire insurance companies, due to ill had a deal to say about religious which I had found in life.” health, was announced. Mr. Origen trends as reflected in current litera­ S. Seymour, chancellor of the dio­ ture. Personally, I believe that this cese of Connecticut, was elected a play of Eugene O’Neill’s is one of CONFERENCE ON PREACHERS director of the life insurance com­ pany and Mr. George W. Burleigh many signs that the hunger of the QUESTIONNAIRE human heart for religion is so great a director of the fire insurance at the present time that it can not be corporation. Mr. Wickersham re­ satisfied by the photographic realism A series of conferences are being mains a trustee of the Church Pen­ that characterizes most of our recent held throughout the country to con­ sion Fund. novels and plays. Another straw in sider the significance of the clergy * * * the same wind is the fact that Philip questionnaire, which was reported in Death of William Barrie’s latest play is also a religious this paper last week. The first was Cooper Procter play and his first religious play. A held in New York May 7-8, with the William Cooper Procter, distin­ more significant straw in this reli­ following taking part: Norman guished layman and member of the gious breeze is the resignation of Thomas, Kirby Page, Allan Knight National Council, died of pneumonia Mencken from his editorship of The Chalmers, William P. Merrill, Harry on May 2nd. He insisted upon at­ American Mercury, which we believe Emerson Fosdick, Reinhold Niebuhr, tending the meeting of the National indicates, as Harry Hansen has re­ Oswald Garrison Villard, Rabbi Ed­ Council that met the last of April in cently pointed out, “ a lessened in­ ward Israel and W. Russell Bowie. New York, though he was then in terest in social satire which offers A similar conference is to be held an enfeebled condition. His last no program nor direction.” Possibly in Chicago May 12-14, with Norman work and thought was for the the most significant indication of all Thomas, Kirby Page, Sherwood Ed­ Church’s welfare. He died in a Cin­ is that of the ten most popular dy, Paul H. Douglas and Ernest F. cinnati hospital next door to the novels of the year 1933, judged by the Tittle among the leaders. Children’s Hospital to which he gave

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. May 10. 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Nine much of his thought, strength and Lewis B. Franklin, vice president of fortune. the Council, was the speaker at the * * * convention dinner held on May Day. Bethlehem Laymen General Convention deputies: clergy: to Promote Offering Guy H. Purdy, George F. Bambach, At a meeting of the bishop and Dean Lewis, C. R. Quinn; laity: J. council of the diocese of Bethlehem S. Conover, C. Wf. Betts, R. R. Ray­ it was decided to inaugurate the lay­ mond, G. R. P. Shackelford. men’s plan of the diocese of South­ * * * ern Ohio to collect funds for the Commencement At $500,000 deficit of the National The General Council. Bishop Sterrett appointed a Bishop Gribbin of Western North committee of laymen to act with the Carolina is to be the preacher at the national committee of laymen, now baccalaureate service at the General being organized. Seminary on May 21st. The alumni * * # essay is to be by the Rev. Frederick Bishop Cook at Burgess and Professor Paul Elmer Washington Convention More is to speak at commencement Bishop Cook, assistant to the Pre­ on the 23rd. siding Bishop, is to be the headliner * * * at the dinner held in connection with Large Class the convention of the diocese of At Savannah Washington, which is to meet May Bishop Reese confirmed a class of 16-17. He is to speak on the Church- 35 on the 4th Sunday after Easter Wide Endeavor. at St. Paul’s, Savannah, Ga., the * * # Rev. W. W. Ware, rector. Dr. Silver Resigns * * * New York Parish New Haven Rector The Rev. H. Percy Silver, ill since Not To Retire last fail, has resigned as rector of BISHOP BOYD VINCENT The Rev. William O. Baker, whose the Church of the Incarnation, New To Have an Anniversary resignation as rector of Christ York City. The vestry meeting on Church, New Haven, has been an­ nounced, is not to retire but is to April 26th accepted the resignation ert D. Smith, field representative of take a summer vacation and then and appointed a committee to select the League who is devoting a large a new rector. Dr. Silver is one of part of his time to work with the again undertake an active ministry. * * * the best known clergymen in the unemployed in New York, and the Church. His early ministry was executive secretary of the League. Education in spent in the middle west, and he was The conference is to be held at M innesota for several years a member o f the Grace Church, the Rev. W. A. “ Diocesan Days” have been ob­ associated mission in Omaha, made Lawrence, rector. served in the diocese of Minnesota up of clergymen who have since be­ A most successful regional con­ from April 15th through the 29th come famous in Church life. He was ference was held in Baltimore on with an idea of giving information an army chaplain from 1901 to 1910, April 26th at Emmanuel Church, at­ on the diocese as the normal unit of and was the chaplain at West Point tended by about 100 Church people. Church life. The plan, which called for a number of years before accept­ Bishop Helfenstein, the Rev. Noble for an exchange of pulpits among ing the rectorship of the Incarnation Powell, the Rev. Don Frank Fenn, the 65 clergy of the diocese, was in 1918. His resignation was the Rev. J. Nevin Sayre and Mr. A. executed by a special committee prompted by the urgent insistence of J. Muste were the leaders. appointed by the bishop and director­ his physicians. H* H* ate. There was no solicitation of * * * funds but the plan did make clear Enthusiasm In Overwhelmed With the function of the diocese as a con­ Western New York G enerosity necting link between the parish and What can be done once can be St. Martin’s, Pawtucket, R. I., is the General Church. done again according to Bishop building a beautiful Bacilican church. * * » Cook, speaking at a dinner of par­ The rector, the Rev. W. T. Town­ send, announced recently that he Scholarships ish representatives held at Buffalo for Kemper Hall would furnish the church entirely on April 30th. The point of that re­ Kemper Hall, Church school for mark was that last fall the diocese, with memorials. The rush has been so great that he has had to warn girls at Kenosha, Wisconsin, has an­ in its canvass, showed an upward nounced two scholarships; one full turn, and he was urging them to do his people that there is no more room. A third of the members of scholarship of $1100, and fifteen as well or better with their Whit­ partial scholarships ranging from sunday offering which is to be split this parish have been on public re­ lief at one time or another. $100 to $500. They are competitive, three ways to help parish, diocesan with the scholarship aptitude test and national Church budgets. * * * being held on May 19th at the * * * Cut Out The Excuses school, though it is announced that C. L. I. D. Conference Says Bishop Oldham arrangements may be made to take In Providence In his convention address Bishop the test elsewhere if distance pre­ A regional conference of the Oldham of Albany suggested that vents one from coming to Kenosha. Church League for Industrial Democ­ his people cut out talking about the * * * racy is to be held in Providence on depression and using it as an excuse A ltars on May 12th. Among the leaders will for hanging on to their cash. He Steamships be the Rev. Julian D. Hamlin, rector endorsed the plan of the laymen of The junior committee o f the New o f the Advent, Boston, Miss Vida D. Southern Ohio to raise a half million York Altar Guild has made arrange­ Scudder o f Wellesley, the Rev. Rob- for the National Council deficit. Mr. ments with the United States Lines

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS May 10, 1934 to place portable altars on their takes its music seriously. As a re­ Rev. John M. Francis, former rector boats for the use of our clergy. sult they have a great choir, special­ of St. James. * * * izing in B'ach and Early Gregorian * * * Preaching Mission music. “ * * Booze Controller in Arkansas City Addresses Clergy Michigan Archdeacon The Rev. Franklyn Cole Sherman, Talks to the Ladies Edward P. Mulrooney, head of the Cleveland, recently conducted a Archdeacon W. W. Poyseor of the alcoholic bureau of New York state, preaching mission at Trinity, Arkan­ diocese of Marquette told the story was the speaker at the clericus of sas City, Kansas. The rector, the of his 42 years among the miners the diocese of Long Island on May Rev. 0. J. P. Wetklo, writes, “ His 7th. and lumberjacks of Northern Michi­ * * * interpretation of God is so practical gan to the Auxiliary of Northern and .intelligent that one must be Indiana, meeting at Trinity, Fort Graduation at thankful for it. His stimulating lec­ Wayne on April 25th. The Auxiliary Diocesan Hospital tures plus his outstanding personal­ decided at this annual meeting to Bishop Gravatt of West Virginia ity made a profound impression adopt one or more definite projects presented diplomas on May 4th to here.” the graduating nurses at Reynold’s * * * each year rather than to raise a cer­ tain sum of money. This year they Memorial Hospital, diocesan institu­ Summer Conference are to raise cash for St. John’s tion located at Moundsville. The of Diocese of Olympia Church, Bristol, Indiana, St. Augus­ hospital and nurses school was The annual summer conference of tine’s Mission for Negroes, Gary, founded and is at present admin­ the diocese of Olympia is to be held and $100 to help the Rev. George istered by the Rev. B. M. Spurr, at Tacoma, Washington from June archdeacon. Jewell of Kokomo buy an automo­ * * * 21 to June 27th. The faculty con­ bile. sists of Bishop Huston; Dean C. E. * * * Summer Conference McAllister of Spokane; Miss Ruth Governor to Address at Negro School Osgood, a representative of the Diocesan Convention Fort Valley Normal and Industrial Woman’s Auxiliary; Frank W. Chace, Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus of School down in Georgia, one of the organist at B'ellingham; Rev. George North Carolina is to be one of the schools of the Church Institute for A. Wieland, who is to lecture on speakers at the convention of the Negroes, is expecting to have even Church history, with several other diocese of East Carolina, meeting at a larger summer school this year courses on religious education. * * * St. Peter’s, Washington, N. C., May than last, when 300 teachers from 16-17. public schools were enrolled. Southern Support * * * * * * for Church Institute Bishop Vincent Locum Tenens of Increasing support for Negro edu­ H as Anniversary Pennsylvania Parish cation by southern people was one Bishop ¡Boyd Vincent, in point o± The Rev. Francis G. Steinmetz, of the encouraging things in the re­ consecration the oldest bishop in the former rector of St. Mary’s, Phila­ port of the American Church. Insti­ Anglican Communion, and for 45 delphia, is to serve as locum tenens tute for Negroes, presented by the years the Father-in-God to the peo­ o f St. Stephen’s, Wissahickon Pa., Rev. Robert Patton, director. Dur­ ple of the diocese of Southern Ohio, pending the calling of a rector to ing the past nine and a half years, is to celebrate his 89th birthday on succeed the Rev. Francis B. Downs which includes the depression years, May 18th. He retired as bishop of who resigned to become rector at people of the south have given $452,- Riverton, Rhode Island. the diocese in 1929 but he is still in H* H* 000 for the support of Institute excellent health and is active in schools. * * * diocesan affairs. Ordination * * * in Pittsburgh Called to Army Chaplain George Edward Long was or­ Florida Parish Is Ordained dained deacon at St. James, Pitts­ The Rev. W. A. Lillycrop, Green­ Major A. K. Mathews, stationed burgh, on April 25th by Bishop ville, N. C., has accepted a call to as chaplain at Fort McClellan, Annis­ Mann. Mr. Long is a graduate of be the rector of the Redeemer, Sara­ ton, Ala., was ordained deacon on DuBose and was a student at Se- sota, Florida. * * * April 25th by Bishop McDowell. He wanee, now in charge of missions at comes into the Episcopal Church Braddock and Duquesne, Pa. Jfc H« He Wilmington from the Disciples. Rector Resigns * * * Large Class The Rev. H. J. C. Dowden, rector Girls’ Friendly at South Bend of St. Mark’s, Wilmington, N. C., Meets in Louisville A class of 38, record, was con­ and dean of the convocation of Col­ The 28th annual festival service firmed recently at St. James, South ored church workers of East Caro­ of the Girls’ Friendly of Kentucky Bend, Indiana. Another class is now lina has resigned and has left for was held on May 6th at Christ being prepared by the rector, the Atlanta, Ga., where he is to make his Church, Louisville, Bishop Woodcock Rev. Lawrence C. Ferguson. home. preached. * * * * * * Student Work Choir Boys Church Cooperation at Texas College Receive Awards in South Bbnd The registrar of Texas Techno­ At Christ Church, Fairmont, W. Greeks and Anglicans continue to logical College, Lubbock, has issued Va., three of the boys in their fam­ cooperate in Northern Indiana. a report showing the religious affi­ ous choir, have been awarded schol­ Bishop Gray and the Rev. L. C. Fer­ liation of the 2360 students there. arships to attend the Bach Festival guson have been preachers recently All but 128 have a preference of which is held at Bethlehem, Pa., at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox one sort or another. The Methodists May 10-13. In the fall there will be Church, while the Greek congrega­ have 840, Baptists 759, Presbyterians three more awards which will entitle tion attended our St. James in a 204, Church of Christ 195, Christian the winners to a week of grand body on Low Sunday. The Greek Church 147, Episcopalians 30 and opera in New York. Christ Church, Church owes its existence largely to Roman Catholics 24. Bishop Sea­ under the Rev. C. W. Brickman, the efforts of Bishop Gray and the man was there the other day to con-

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firm a class of eleven, made up of St. Louis, Miss Annie Morton Stout, characteristics of the Gospel of Our college and high school students. field secretary of the department of Lord” and there was a discussion one * * # religious education of the province evening on “ Better Pastoral Work.” Death o f of Sewanee, Mrs. James R. Cain, One entire day was given to a dis­ Pittsburgh Clergyman vice-president of the national board cussion of program making for par­ The Rev. John Dows Hills, rector of the Woman’s Auxiliary. The Rev. ishes. of the Epiphany, Bellevue, Pa., for C. P. Sparling of Lexington is the * * * 25 years and the president of the dean. He * * Convention Opposes standing committee of the diocese Block Booking since 1920, died on April 27 follow­ In Charge of The convention of the diocese of ing a long illness. He' served as a Indiana Cathedral South Florida, meeting last month, deputy at three General Conven­ The Rev. James B. Coxe, for 24 passed a resolution opposing block tions and declined election to four years rector of Trinity, St. Louis, is booking fo f movies. Under block others. * * * now in charge of St. Paul’s Pro­ booking movie managers are com­ Church woman cathedral, Mishawaka, Indiana. He pelled to accept practically all the Makes Bequests is to go on the faculty of Howe pictures sent to them— can reject By the will of Mrs. Mary Blodgett School in the fall. but one out of ten to be accurate. several Church institutions receive He * * As a result they get a lot of harm­ bequests. Mrs. Blodgett had given New Church for ful trash. The convention said there more than three million dollars to Norfolk Parish should be a national law against it, Episcopal churches and to philan­ St. Luke’s, Norfolk, Va., has an­ and so informed the president and thropies before her death. Those nounced plans to build a new church members of Congress. benefiting by her will are Zion to cost $125,000. The rector of the * * * Church, Green, N. Y., $72,000; Ex­ parish is the Rev. W. Taylor Willis. Missionary tension society of the diocese of * * * Visits Michigan New York, $25,000; St. Luke’s Hos­ Michigan Clergy Miss Ruth I. Mantz of St. Luke’s pital, New York, $10,000. St. Luke’s Hold Conference Hospital, Manila, P. I., was in the Home for Aged Women, $5000; Ca­ A conference of the clergy of diocese of Michigan from April 30th thedral of St. John the Divine, Michigan was held from April 30th to May 4th addressing church groups $5000. * * * to May 3 on invitation of ¡Bishop on her work and the work in the Page. There were addresses by Paul Ordination at Grace district. Rankin, director of instruction of * * ♦ Church, Jamaica the Detroit schools and by Profes­ The Rev. Eugene Marsden Chap­ Southern, District sor W. R. Henderson of Michigan man is to be ordained to the priest­ Has Convocation University. Bishop Page directed a hood on May 11th at Grace Church, The convocation of the missionary quiet morning on “ Outstanding Jamaica, Long Island, where he is district of New Mexico and South- curate. He is being ordained on his 24th birthday; twenty-four, so I am informed, being the age required by canons for ordination to the priesthood. He is a graduate of the Cambridge Seminary. Be Ready for the He * * Kentucky Dioceses to Hold Conference Autumn Activities The dioceses of Lexington and Kentucky are to unite again this year for a summer conference, to be One way to make clear that the Church func­ held at Margaret Hall, Versailles, June 24-29. Among those on the tions all the year round, even in the vacation faculty are the Rev. Karl Block of season, is to send the parish paper, with mes­ sages from the rector, to all communicants right through the summer. A CHRISTIAN S O C IO L O G Y The PARTLY PRINTED PARISH PAPER FOR T O D A Y makes this possible at small cost. The result: a By M aurice B. Reckitt congregation informed, interested, ready, when This volume, an abridgment of Faith the autumn schedule begins. and Society, is an assessment of the purposes and values of contemporary social living. It examines the idea of Order now. 50c a hundred postpaid; a Christian Sociology and proceeds to estimate its value and significance in or write for samples and information. relation to Politics, a World Order, reality in economics and justice in in­ dustrial relations. $1.50.

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS May 10, 1934 west Texas was held at El Paso, employment. The discussion was led with great rejoicing by a congrega­ April 24th to 26th. It also marked by the Rev. Robert Smith, the field tion that overflowed and stood around the 20th anniversary of Bishop How- representative of the Church League outdoors for the service. Another den’s consecration. During the two for Industrial Democracy who is Shanghai church that was injured in decades of his service the district working chiefly among unemployed has made a gain in population of groups in New York City. 49% while the Church has made * * * HOTEL BRIGHTON gains of 100%. Bishop Spencer of More for Workers ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. West Missouri was the convocation Less for Buildings preacher. The board of the Woman’s Auxil­ On The Beach Front Hs * * iary is to bring a resolution before Special Rates to Visiting Churchmen Pastor Forced their triennial in Atlantic City urg­ from His Church ing that a larger proportion of future The Rev. 'Fred W. Shorter is, or United Thank Offerings be used for was until recently, the pastor of workers and a correspondingly Pilgrims Congregational Church, a smaller proportion for building. large downtown church in Seattle, Sounds like a good idea. Washington. For some time con-t * * * servative members of his congrega­ A Promising Field tion have expressed dissatisfaction with him but no move was made to for Missions Funds received through the Na­ oust him until he allowed an art tional Council enabled some of the class to paint on the walls of their Negro missions in South Florida to class room in the parish house remain open which would certainly murals satirizing the Nazis, Ameri­ have had to close otherwise, so des­ can farmers plowing under their perately hard have conditions been crops while people starved, and capi­ among the Negroes there, but there talists exploiting their workers. A were more baptisms and confirma­ meeting was then called to consider tions last year than in any year pre­ the matter. Their objections to Mr. vious. Bishop Wing says, “ I doubt Shorter were answered by the more if a more promising field of mission­ liberal members of the congregation ary activity could be found.” THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK and by leading educators of the city. SOCIETY * * * Founded by Bishop White 1833 However Mr. Shorter has been forced Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ from his pastorate and the church Rebuild Bombed ishes unable to purchase them, in limited closed until September. Mr. Shorter Church in China grants, The Chinese Church at Kiangwan The Book of Common Prayer. however, not to be idle during the The Combined Book (The Book of Com­ summer, has founded a new church, which was entirely destroyed by mon Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). bombs during the Japanese-Chinese Pew Size meeting for the present in a theatre, Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D. D., with no creed except “ the father­ conflict has been replaced by a new Secretary, S. W. Cor. 5th & Arch Streets, hood o f God and the brotherhood of one, only half as large but opened Philadelphia, Pa. man.” GRACE CHURCH, NEW YORK * * * PLEASURE NOW! Maintains a very homelike and attractive CONVENTION LATER! residence for business girls and students at Called to 94 Fourth Avenue. Rates from $7.50 to $10.50 Texas Parish a week for room, breakfast and dinner. Apply to Miss Theodora Beard, Huntington The Rev. Harry Lee Virden, for­ at HOTEL DENNIS House, 94 Ftourth Avenue, New York City. mer dean and chaplain o f North ATLANTIC CITY A Spring visit to this famous hotel, Texas Military Academy, Dallas, directly on the Boardwalk, offers a THE 1934 GENERAL CONVENTION Texas, has accepted a call to St. double-purpose opportunity to secure Atlantic City, N. J., October 10-28 your accommodations for the October Please apply for information to Luke’s, Denison, Texas. Convention while enjoying the delights Reginald R. Belknap, Diocesan Director of Maytime beside the sea. 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) the Japanese troubles was not rebuilt on the same site, at Santingko, but in a more convenient place at Wilbur Herbert Burnham Yanghaung. The people themselves secured all the money to buy land and erect a church seating 150 and Designer and Master another building with living quarters Craftsm an and parish hall. The Rev. T. H. Tai of St. James, Woosung, is in charge. * * * Stained and Leaded Glass Negro Work in Diocese of Georgia Studios 1126 Boylston Street Parochial schools for Negroes in Boston, Massachusetts the diocese of Georgia have been re­ duced from seven to three, because of reduced appropriations from the general Church, and one of the re­ maining three is supported by special gifts from friends. Here as else­ where among Negroes in the South, ' m m i f l i the Church works not only or chiefly W W k NO-Z25 SIXTHÄVENVEA1EWYORK among the well to do and educated li m STMN1D GLASS-MUKALS but among the desperately poor and ¡ VI MOSAIOMARBLESTONE EES illiterate in country places. HÜ) CARVED -WOSDD MLTÁL ESI * * * ’Cedars of Lebanon Come to America MEMORIAL TABLETS Some cedars of Lebanon have “ of enduring worth been sent to America by people in and attractiveness” the Near East as a mark of their in genuine cast bronze friendship for American people and Moderate in Price - Booklet on Request particularly for the friendly offices ELLISON BRONZE CO., INC. of the Near East Foundation. The JAMESTOWN, N. Y. cedars were planted at Arlington. They are said to be the oldest living things on earth except the California redwoods. The grove from which the MENEELY BELL CO transplanted trees came contains .28® TB RRO O ADWÄY.N Y , N.Y a Y. n CITY. d __ some that were undoubtedly there when King Solomon and his friend Hiram, King of Tyre, had timber cut for the Temple at Jerusalem, as told ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. in the fifth chapter of the first Book 131 E. 47th St., New York of the Kings. CHURCH VESTMENTS ♦ He * Heaton, Butler & Bayne ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Conferences with references to the adornment British Youth gdainrh (glass Artists of Churches Opposes War Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 More than five hundred young peo­ By appointment to the late ple of an age likely to be drafted in KING EDWARD VII. the dreaded “ next war,” have jointly Stained Glass Windows signed an appeal to other youth to Memorial Brasses, Etc. JAMES POWELL SONS unite with them in unbending oppo­ sition to war service. Active in foster­ Designs and Estimates (Whitefriars) £ td B l 1680 ing the movement are Vera Brittain, Heaton, Butler & Bayne LONDON, ENGLAND ù s . whose book, “ Testament of Youth,” (N. Y.) Ltd., is widely read in the United States; P. O. BOX 195 STAINED Rev. Donald O. Soper, and Rev. Al­ TOTTENVILLE NEW YORK bert D. Belden. The statement is­ GLASS sued by the group asserts: “ We, be­ ing of military age (18 to 45 regard­ less o f sex) pledge ourselves to re­ 'Distributors fuse combatant service and to do PAUL S. BUCK everything in our power to oppose AUSTIN ORGAN GO. 724 Fifth Ave., New York City the making of war, and we call upon Hartford, Conn. our fellow-men everywhere to adopt the same policy.” Designers and Builders * * * Of tr .g e i s s l e r .i n c .' 1 Muskrats, Skunks PIPE ORGANS 450 SIXTH AVE.NEAR 10«> ST. NEWYORK and Jackrabbits Muskrats and skunks and jack- noted for ttheir superior tonal qualities Gfturrft Furnishing rabbits figure in current reports of and mechanical reliability 1 IN CARVED WOOD AND U Hi MARBLE* BRASS'SILVER [“] 1“) contributions to the Church’s work. FABRICS * WINDOWS \] \J) In at least one of the rural missions Correspondence Solicited in Louisiana there are pebple whose 1------— ______!______J

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chief livelihood comes from trapping will be able to drive a wartime am­ Tientsin, and other northern cities. muskrats. In an Alaskan mission bulance, run a car, or fly a plane. He addresses large and small groups, recently the alms basin was piled Drill along war lines is used for dis­ holds all sorts of conferences and dis­ high with muskrat skins, the best cipline. Although Commander Al­ cussions, organizes fellowships or thing the people had to give. Church len has asserted that she is not a associations when desired, and, after school boys around Rattlesnake Fascist, she has also declared that a lapse of several months, comes back Mountain in Virginia have been the British Fascists are patriots and home again. catching and selling skunks to earn are not among the “ subversive Just routine? It is good work. Stu­ a generous Offering in the mission forces” against which the country where a Church Army Sister is dents listen to P’eng. That is more must be protected. Commander Al­ remarkable than it sounds. For P’eng, working. And in North Dakota, as len visited Hitler in Berlin at the end we reported here some weeks ago, one from the beginning of the Japanese of last January, at the time when she invasion of Manchuria, has main­ of the young Indian boys went out was busiest launching her new move­ on the prairie and caught twenty- tained an attitude of absolute paci­ ment. fism. Meet aggression only with good three jack rabbits which he sold to * * * St. James Mission, Cannon Ball, will? Some of his audiences will not where they are sold again for the The Best Preacher take it readily; but that does not benefit of the mission. in. China matter to P’eng. * * * Mr. C. C. P’eng (pronounced Pung) P’eng says to his schoolboys and of Peiping is the best preacher in schoolgirls, as to men and women Ministering to North China. For his present job he adult citizens, “ Take a hard course. Indian Children serves as student worker, visiting the Don’t wail and bluster and attack the One of the country’s largest Indian seven high schools connected with the government’s vacillating policy, while schools is the Stewart School near American Board Mission in Peiping, you nervously watch the Japanese ad- Carson City, Nevada. It has about 580 pupils. They come, of course, from many different places and it becomes at once a problem to keep in Services of Leading Churches touch with any Episcopal Church children among them. Cathedral of St. John the Divine St. James’ Church, New York The Rev. M. J. Hersey of St. Cathedral Heights Madison Avenue and 71st Street Peter’s Church, Carson City, goes out New York City The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 and 9 Sunday Services: 8, 9 :30, 11 a. m .; 6, every Thursday evening and has our a. m. Children’s Service, 9 :30 ; Morning 8 p. m. Church children, about sixty-five, for Prayer or Litany, 10; Holy Communion Weekdays: Thursdays and Holy Days: and Sermon, 11. Evening Prayer and 12 M. service and instruction, in a room pro­ Sermon, 4 p. m. vided by the school. Then once a Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7:30 Trinity Church, New York month the children are brought in to (Saints’ Days, 10) ; Morning Prayer, 9:30'; Broadway and Wall St. Evening Prayer, 5 p. m. (choral). Organ Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. St. Peter’s Church for the Holy Recital on Saturdays, 4 :30'. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Communion. When our children leave the school, Mr. Hersey sends Church of St. Mary the Virgin St. Paul’s Cathedral New York Buffalo, New York word to the missionary in charge of 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11, 6. the place where they go. Once a Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Weekdays: 8, 12:05. Sunday Masses, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy month or oftener he has a religious Evensong and Benediction, 6 P. M. Days : 10 :30 a. m. service at the general assembly of the Week-day Masses: 7, 8 and 9 :30. whole school. St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California Grace Church, New York Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street * * * Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Near the University of California Broadway at 10th St. Sundays: 7 :30, 11 a. m. ; 6 :30 p. m. Chinese Parish Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Wednesdays: 10 :30 a. m. Has Anniversary Daily; 12:30’ except Saturday. Holy Days and Thursday, Holy Com­ Christ Church Cathedral If it is news when a Chinese par­ munion, 11:45. Hartford, Conn. ish attains self-support, how much Cor. Main and Church Streets more notable it is when one cele­ The Heavenly Rest and Beloved The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. Disciple, New York Sundays: 8:00i, 10:05, 11:00 a. m .; 7:30 brates the twentieth anniversary of Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. p. m. that event. St. Peter’s Cihurch, Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Daily; 7:00, 12:10, 5:00'. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. Shanghai, self-supporting for twenty Sunday School 9 :30 a. m .; Morning Holy Communion. years past, marked that anniversary Service and Sermon 11 a. m .; Musical Grace and St. Peter’s Church, last year by securing an endowment Vespers 4 p. m. Thursdays and Holy Days:' Holy Com­ Baltimore, Md. fund in order to open a chapel in a munion at 11 a. m. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) newly developed western section of The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers The Rev. Harold F. Hohly the city. Use of a school building The Incarnation Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. Madison Avenue and 35th Street Week Days: 8 a. m. has been obtained and regular Sun­ Rector day services are now held. All the Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D. Church of St. Michael and Sundays 8, 10 and 11 a. m. money was given by the people of A ll Angels St. Peter’s Church. Bishop Graves Baltimore, Md. St. Bartholomew’s Church St. Paul and 20th Sts. told them it illustrates the fact that Park Avenue and 51st Street Sundays: 7:30, 9:30', and 11 a.m.; Chinese Christians can accomplish Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector 8 p. m. 8 A.M., Holy Communion. Week Days: Wednesdays 10i a. m., anything if they will apply them­ 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy selves. The Rev. E. S. Yu is rector. 4 P.M., Evensong. Special Music. Days 7 and 10 a. m. * * H* Junior Congregation, 9 ;30, 11 _ A. M. Church of St. John the 4 P. M. Holy Comm. Thurs. ancT Saints’ Prepare English Days 10:30 A. M. Evangelist Boston Women for War Bowdoin Street, Beacon Hill A new organization entitled the St. Paul’s Church The Cowley Fathers Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. Sundays: Masses, 7:30, 9:30 and 11 Women’s Reserve has been estab­ Sunday Services: a. m. Benediction, 7:30 p. m. lished in England, controlled by Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 a. m. Commander Mary Allen, who has Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 a. m., also. Morning Service, 11:00' a. m. Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 and 7-9 said in public addresses and in the Evening Service, 8 :0O p. m. p. m. press that eventually every member

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vances and prepare to save your own from his racing and yet remains a celebrated from June 6th through skin, scooting for a foreign protected poor man because he has continually the 17th. This is one of the most concession area as the invaders seem helped the less fortunate and has progressive parishes in the diocese dangerously near. Fight, if you must! borne the expense of an institute for with the largest Sunday school and Volunteer. Or else give, for the vol­ the stable boys. a fine week-day school of religious unteers in Manchuria and elsewhere. * * * education. The Rev. Irving A. Evans And if you give, do not give meager- 'Connecticut Parish is the rector. ly; but to the limit. That is patri­ Celebrates * * * otism. That can be respected. BUT— The 175th anniversary of St. Little Helpers Meet if any of you want to be known as John’s, North Haven, Conn., was In Long Island Christians, that is not the Christian celebrated on April 22nd with serv­ One of the most interesting an­ way.” ices and a dinner the night before nual functions in the diocese of “ You don’t find that way,” says at which Bishop Budlong, Lieuten­ Long Island is the service of the P’eng, “ in Jesus’ teaching. The way ant-Governor Wilcox, and just flocks Little Helpers. It was held this year of Jesus is a still harder course; a of clergymen spoke. Bishop Brew­ at All Saints, Brooklyn, with tots longer course. More of misunder­ ster conducted the service and the coming from parishes throughout standing and difficulty will have to Rev. William Beardsley of New the diocese to present their offerings. be met. For me, this is the way, the Haven preached. There was a brief service at which only way. I can follow with my $ * * Bishop Larned preached after which conscience; though I admit that in Rhode Island Parish everyone went to the parish house my heart I probably have just as To Celebrate to see the exhibition; models of much hatred for the Japanese mili­ The 100th anniversary of Christ missions, hospitals and schools in tarists as any of you. Probably I am Church, Lonsdale, R. I., is to be various parts of the world which not a ‘patriot.’ Not a good Chinese. But deeply I believe in the long, long run that this Christian way is best for the Chinese and for the Japanese and for all the children in the world A BOOK FREE who are to follow after us.” To this form of instruction an in­ During the Month of May We Will Give a teresting reaction recently came from some Tientsin schoolboys. They said, Copy of Bishop Johnson’s at the conclusion of P’eng’s visit, “ We don’t care at all for Mr. P’eng’s attitude on religion and the church; but what he had to say on national and international affairs was splen­ With Each N EW Subscription to did.” What had displeased them in his religious approach they did not make clear; but they backed him up THE WITNESS in the difficult question of world prob­ lems, into which he had put the deep­ ❖ < est religion. if you are not now a subscriber send your two When questioned as to how he came to take up such an attitude of dollars with your name and address, with a note: non-violence, P’eng asserted that it “ Enter my subscription and send the free copy of began in his mind when, a few years Cushioned Pews.’’ ago, all the city pastors were being requested to help work up a big wel­ come meeting for Feng Yu Hsiang. If you wish to send a gift subscription to a friend, The “ Christian General” was at that and want the book yourself merely so state in time on a high crest of popularity, your order. both for generalship and for Chris­ tianity! But P’eng thought it over ❖ i and declared: “ No; I can’t stick it. Christianity has nothing to do with CUSHIONED PEW S is a cloth bound book con­ Feng’s kind of triumph, good man though he is in many ways. I’ll have taining forty of Bishop Johnson’s editorials se­ no part in such a welcome meeting.” lected by a committee as his best. You will enjoy And he didn’t. reading them yourself. The book makes a fine * * * gift. Originally published at $1.75 a copy. Always Runs a Straight Race One of the most successful English jockeys riding in France is a lay reader at the English Church in A BARGAIN—ACT AT ONCE Chantilly. He is known in “ the high­ est French racing circles,” as his Vicar expresses it, as the jockey who, THE WITNESS in an occupation peculiarly open to bribery and corruption, always runs 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue a straight race. In the Church he CHICAGO reads the lessons at Morning Prayer. He has earned large sums of money

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Sixteen T H E WITNESS May 10, 1934 have been helped by the offerings of that when he served as assistant. He Dean Nes of New Orleans Bishop these Little Helpers. gave up the job the other day in his Finlay and the Rev. Malcolm S. Tay­ * * sH 86th year, figuring he had held it lor of the national commission on The Thief Had’ long enough and had better give evangelism. A Bad Conscience some young fellow a chance. H! * * The altar cross of St. James’, * * * Elmhurst, Long Island, was stolen Oliver Hart Called the other night. The rector, the Rev. A t Kanuga To Washington Lawson Willard, notified the police Retreat For Women The Rev. Oliver J. Hart rector of and was told that they had received A retreat for women from June St. Paul’s, Chattanooga, Tennessee, a phone call which they were unable 11th to the 14th has been added to has accepted a call to St. John’s, to trace informing them where the the schedule of the Kanuga Lake Washington, D. C. The parish has cross could be found. So Mr. Wil­ Conferences, near Hendersonville, been without a rector since last lard went to the spot and there was N. C. Among the leaders who are to October when the Rev. Robert John­ the cross, all neatly wrapped, with be there during the summer for one ston resigned. Since then the parish a note from the thief apologizing for conference or another are the Rev. has been served by the Rev. Roland stealing from a church. Daniel McGregor, the Rev. Eric Tas­ Cotton Smith, rector of the parish * * man, Bishop Darst, Bishop Thomas, for many years. Death of Founder Of Daughters Of The King Deaconess H. T. Pell-Clarke, one of the founders of the Daughters of the King, died at Ithaca, N. Y., at the age of eighty. She served as a CARDINAL MANNING deaconess in parishes in the diocese of Albany, and at St. John’s, Ithaca, and with her husband was instru­ mental in founding St. Mary’s at defended Life Insurance during the Springfield Center, N. Y. * * * controversy in his day as follows: Anniversary Of Philadelphia Rector The congregations of Holy “God’s providence comes in no Apostles, Philadelphia, and its three chapels tendered a reception last sense as a supervision of man’s week to the rector, the Rev. George duty to himself ... As much H. Toop, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of his rectorship. say he shall not harvest his * * * Bishop Manning To crops or put by food for the Visit Albany winter ... It would appear that Bishop Manning of New York is to speak at a public service on June Assurances, Annuities and the 6th at the Cathedral of AH Saints, Albany, N. Y., when the 50th Anni­ like are measures of this nature versary of the laying of the corner stone is to be celebrated. —and being so, I would to God * ¡¡s * that not some, but all men, Church Women T o M eet should engage their protection The national council of the Fed­ erated Church Women is to meet in and beneficence against the Kansas City, Mo., May 15-17, with Bishop Spencer the speaker at one contingincies of our common of the services. * $ $ lot. .. by removing apprehen­ Long Island sion for the future.” Parish Toi Build St. Andrew’s, Astoria, Long Island, Reprint from the American Conservationist. recently completed a successful building fund campaign, raised $15,- 000 and then some more, and is not to add a superstructure to the pres­ Please send enquiries in regard to low cost ent basement church. The rector is the Rev. J. Langtry Williams. life insurance and annuities to the * * * Diocesan Secretary H onored The Rev. William C. Prout was Church Life Insurance Corporation honored at the convention of the diocese of Albany. And well he 20 Exchange Place, New Y o rk might be for he has been the secre­ tary of the diocese for 55 years, with seven more years tacked on to

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