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Trinity students, 750 Hobart Episcopal Church Colleges students, and 500 each at Ken- yon and Sewanee, but all four Vital to Church Life welcome young men of all denominations. On a 11 four campuses classes are small and publication. HAVE SUPPLIED LARGE PERCENTAGE OF CLERGY students and faculty merge and DURING LONG YEARS OF SERVICE into the common denominator of friendship - facuty-student reuse ratios are one to 12 at Hobart, for * "Let us give our Church and in more than a century of one to 11 at Trinity, one to 10 Colleges the resources and tools Christian liberal education on at Sewanee, and one to nine at for they are vital to the life of their campuses the Church has Kenyon. All four have chap- required the Church and through the been formally and informally ters of Phi Beta Kappa and air Church to the civilization of affiliated. force units. Intramural sports our day." So states Presiding Sewanee on i t s secluded with high percentage of partic- Bishop Henry K. Sherrill in mountaintop in Tennessee is di-

Permission ipation help round out the cur- endorsing Hobart, Trinity, Ken- rectly owned and governed by riculum, and varsity playing is yon and Sewanee-four under- 22 dioceses in 13 Southern open to everyone with no finan-

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/ cial strings attached. have provided 14 percent of the ern shore of Seneca Lake in English influence is appar- of the clergy and 25 percent Geneva, N. Y., founded in 1822 ent on all four campuses in the Church bishops of the Church. and the oldest college associ- Gothic architecture, the ivied On national Christian college ated with the Episcopal Church walls, the quadrangular ar- day, April 25, designated by the in the United States, by char- rangement of buildings, and

Episcopal National Council of Churfies ter names the bishop of Roches- most of all in the ideal of lib- ter an ex-officio member of its the as a day to focus the nation's eral education that emphasizes of attention on the importance of board of trustees. Kenyon in teaching men how to live, not "Christian colleges for a free Gambier, 0., founded in 1824 just how to make a living. At America," these schools will and the oldest men's college Trinity, Kenyon and Sewanee, Archives ask the Church's interest and west of the Alleghenies, has English aid helped put the col- devotion as they join in a serv- the bishops of Ohio's two dio- leges on their feet. For Trin- 2020. ice at the Cathedral of St. John ceses on its governing body, ity (known as Washington Col- the Divine in New York. Trin- with Bishop Henry W. Hobson lege from 1823-45) the Rev. ity's President Albert C. Jacobs of Southern Ohio chairman of Nathaniel S. Wheaton, rector of

Copyright will deliver the address at the the board for 1953-54. And Christ Church, Hartford, in morning service, to be followed Trinity at Hartford, Conn., the 1824 secured donations from by a coffee hour for alumni and only small college for men in England for a library. A year friends of the colleges. In the New England, whose 80-acre before for Kenyon (first known afternoon a similar service will campus combines the advan- as The Theological Seminary be held at the cathedral in tages of a college in the coun- of the Protestant Episcopal Garden City, Long Island. try with those of one in the Church in the Diocese of Episcopal bishops and clergy- city, names on its board Bishop Ohio), Bishop Philander Chase men founded these four schools Walter Gray of Connecticut. of Ohio set sail with a letter of 100 or more years ago (the College chapel services cen- introduction from Henry Clay youngest, the University of the tered around the Book of Com- to Lord Gambier, a distin- South at Sewanee, will cele- mon Prayer today play a vital guished British admiral who brate its centennial in 1957),. part in the lives of about 900 led the way to other English

THE WITNESS - APRIL. 22, 1954 Three benefactors including L o r d ern man is indeed a hollowed chapel, the numerous discus- Kenyon for whom the college reed easily broken in the face sions formal and informal, the is named. And in 1867 Se- of danger and tossed by the games, lectures, and concerts wanee's first vice-chancellor, winds of doctrine." bring these important matters Bishop Charles Quintard of President Albert Jacobs says out of the printed book and Tennessee, attended the first of Trinity's students: "We aim into talk, activity, and expe- Lambeth Conference and ap- to train them to be qualified rience." peared in English churches on effectively to meet the com- And Sewanee's Vice-Chan- Sewanee's behalf to bring home plex problems of the exciting cellor Edward McCrady thinks 2,500 English pounds that world in which they live; to that "in the present troubled opened the University of the develop character, which is the state of the world there are South to its first nine students proper blending of wisdom, in- no more crucial needs than a year later. tegrity, responsibility, and hu- those of Christianity and lib- Trinity's name was picked man understanding with spir- eral education. We can hardly in emulation of famous colleges itual values; to think and to expect integrity and moral re- in England and Ireland and in act for themselves, to think as sponsibility in public office or individuals in private life unless we do all publication. token of the close informal and not as a group; relationship between the col- and lege and the Church. When the college moved to its present reuse site in Hartford in 1878, Eng- for lishman William Burges was chosen architect of the new

required buildings, and with Oxford and Cambridge in mind he created at Trinity the first collegiate Gothic in America in an elab- Permission orate plan of closed quad- rangles. Sewanee's most famous architectural landmark, DFMS. / Breslin Tower that adjoins the university library, is modeled

Church after Magdalen Tower at Ox- ford. Sewanee and Kenyon both

Episcopal have forested campuses, the former on a 10,000-acre do- the

of main on the Cumberland Pla- tcau, the latter on a 485-acre hilltop 1,100 feet above the

Archives sea and 200 feet above the Kokosing River. 2020. Protecting their college's BRESLIN TOWER is the most famous landmark Christian liberal heritage is at Sewanee the concern of all four presi-

Copyright dents. At Hobart President and to make sound value judg- that we can to cultivate these Alan Willard Brown feels that ments. In essence, we want qualities throughout the edu- "we, today, are looking for- the student to develop as an cational process. And we must ward to a period of ever more individual, to attain his full look to a broad education in- devoted service to the Church stature as a person created in stead of narrow specialization and to the great cause of Chris- the image of God." for the basis of wisdom in deal- tian education." He points out Kenyon's President Gordon ing with the complex interna- that "without deep and meas- Chalmers feels that college in- tional problems of our times." ured emphasis upon the natural struction is not only intellec- All four would agree with sciences, the social sciences, tual, "it is social, moral, and Trinity's chaplain, the Rev. the humanities, and philosophy religious as well. College life Gerald B. O'Grady, Jr., who and religion, considered not in the dormitories and in the states: "We need colleges separately but together, mod- commons, the services of the which are not ashamed to pro-

Four THE WITNsss - APRIL 22, 1954 claim the Jewish-Christian clue In Hobart, Trinity, Kenyon JOHN HEUSS HITS to real understanding-that all and Sewanee the Episcopal TRIVIALITIES of reality is God's." Church has such colleges. * The Rev. John Heuss, rector of Trinity Parish, New York, told those at the annual meeting of the National Reli- gious Publicity Council that "the constant parade of trivialities which the typical local church offers to the public" is the reason for the indifference to religion in America. The average person, he said, is not impressed by the publication. Church's "proper and constant and claim that the Christian religion alone can save the world reuse because he simply cannot im- for agine the local church in his SCHOLA CANTORUM of Hobart College will sing at community in any such heroic the New York and Garden City services on April 25th and revolutionary role." required

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KENYON COLLEGE stresses small classes and seminars He indicated that the school would be given until the end Archives CHURCH ACTS IN JAPANESE WANT of the year to meet require- LABOR DISPUTE ATOM CONTROL ment before it is dropped from 2020. the accredited list. * The Rev. A. Peter Carroll, * International control of rector of Christ Church, Ad- atomic power with the aim of NIEMOELLER VISITS using it exclusively for peace- Copyright rian, Mich., served as moder- PRAGUE ful purposes was urged in a ator at a meeting of 1,000 resolution issued by the inter- * Martin Niemoeller, foreign persons when a dispute be- national affairs committee of secretary of the Evangelical tween a manufacturing concern the National Christian Council Church in Germany, is in and the United Auto Workers of Japan. Prague, Czechoslovakia, at the w as discussed. He repre- The committee also said that invitation of Dean Joseph L. Hromadka of the Comenius sented the local council of the injury to Japanese fisher- men as a result of the U. S. Theological Seminary. B o t h churches which is seeking to H-bomb test has "caused much men are expected to play lead- settle a disagreement o v e r uneasiness among our general ing roles at the forthcoming seniority rights of about 50 public and threatens to affect assembly of the World Council employees. the life of the nation." of Churches.

Fin THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 CONFERENCE ON MATTHEWS HEARING faction with traditionhl pro- URBAN CHURCH POSTPONED grams; declared that materials of their Churches needed over- A conference on the urban * That on - again - off-again * hauling, and predicted that new church is to be held, June 17- hearing for J. B. Matthews be- courses on family life would 18, at Emmanuel, Cleveland, fore the Un-American Com- be instituted at summer con- sponsored by the urban church mittee has been "indefinitely ferences, laboratory schools commission of the diocese of postponed" by a 5-4 vote of the and local church workshops. Ohio. Leaders will be the committee. Matthews was to Rev. G. Paul Musselman, head air his charge that 7,000 Prot- POLISH PRIESTS of the urban division of the estant ministers h a s "sup- URGE REVOLT National Council; Howard W. ported the Communist appar- Green, a demographer; the atus over a period of 17 years." * The organ of the priests Rev. Laurence H. Blackburn, The committee thus over- of Poland who support the rector of Emmanuel. ruled its chairman, Harold H. Polish government has called Velde, who wanted to set a for a revolt against the Roman DEACONESS HOUSE publication. date for the hearing. Congress- Catholic hierarchy in that AT SYCAMORE * The central house for and man B. W. Kearney of New country. The editorial stated York, Republican, joined with that when the hierarchy im- deaconesses in Sycamore, Ill.. has begun a program of activ- reuse the four Democrats is calling plements views different from ities, directed by Deaconess for off the affair. theirs on social and political Ruth Johnson, who was given Congressman Velde, current- problems that they would fol- ly having a busy time in low an independent course. a leave from the New York required Illinois where he is seeking re- The article also called upon deaconess training school to in- nomination, said he regretted progressive Catholics to seek a itiate the program. She is to return to her New York posi- the committee's decision. So reform of the "internal organ- tion the first of May when did Congressman Kit Clardy ization of the Church, its activ- Permission Deaconess Edith Booth takes of Michigan and Congressman ities, rituals and other mat- charge Donald Jackson of California. ters." ofthe central house. DFMS. / AUXILIARY HEARS TO RESTORE OLD APRIL 25 IS ABOUT UN CHURCH Church * Luella Reckmeyer, ob- * A nationwide campaign is _ NATIONAL server at the UN for the coun- under way for $300,000 to re- cil of Church women of the Episcopal store St. Luke's, Smithfield, CHRISTIAN National Council of Churches, Va., one of the nation's oldest the was the speaker at the meeting of churches. Originally known as of the Newark Auxiliary on the Old Brick church, it dates COLLEGE DAY April 7. back to within a few years of Designated by the National Archives the founding of the first settle- FAMILY WORSHIP ment at Jamestown in 1607. Council of Churches as a CONFERENCE 2020. Bishop Gunn of Southern Sunday for remembrance of * If you are to be up to date Virginia is head of the direc- the importance of 'Christian your home worship will include tors of the project and the Colleges for a Free America.'

Copyright presiding Bishop as a sponsor. the use of TV, radio, record- Your Colleges deserve your ings, films and newspapers, as well as the Bible and other understanding and support: religious books. MEANING OF THE This was the conclusion of REAL PRESENCE HOBART experts on family life from By G. A. Studdert-Kennedy A famous essay by the number one chaplain eighteen denominations that of world war one. So popular that thou- TRINITY met for a three-day conference sands have been printed each year since at Mitchell, Indiana, sponsored it first appeared over 20 years ago. by the department of family 10c a copy - $4 for 100 KENYON life of the National Council of Churches. The WITNESS SEWANEE Delegates expressed dissatis- TUNKHANNOCK - PENNSYLVANIA

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of teaching besides. Nor is it simply a matter of the authority that the clergy should exer- Churchmanship cise: some of our most masterful and efficient bishops are among those reckoned by the P. Protestant NE of our contemporaries, The E. Standard as "Evangelical." Nor is it a Episcopal Standard, in her editorial matter of corporate versus individual religion: 1954) entitled "We need full, frank (January, it is not generally the Anglo-Catholics who in- debate of disagreements" has come down sist on the primacy of parochial "fellowship," against people who "accuse Anglo- strongly nor the Evangelicals who write us books on of creating dissen- Catholics and Evangelicals "How to make a meditation." Nor is it a mat- publication. These people usually call themselves sion. ter of fidelity to legal standards: it is the "middle-of-the-roaders' and they usually feel and "highest" and the "lowest" parishes that violate They like to that they are above dissension. the most rubrics. reuse say 'a plague on both your houses' and not The disagreement, which we all know to be

for out what concerns either Anglo- bother to find a deep and real one, would be a lesser thing if Catholics or Evangelicals. Such people prefer it were over any of these matters; it would also thinking and wistful harmony to the wishful be more difficult to solve, because it would have required - in facing of facts much less participating to do with differences of human opinion. The debate." difference most fundamentally is one in the Another contemporary, the American Church content of our faith, in the coloring of our

Permission Union News (December, 1953) in similar terms imagination about divine things, in the way defends its recent criticism of various epis- we would expect God most characteristically to copal actions : act; it is therefore both a more serious and a DFMS. / "The Bishops do not claim infallibility, nor more hopeful difference than we are accustomed do we. We, therefore retain the right to raise to assume.

Church questions as to their actions and to raise them The Catholic, then, expects God to work in within the fellowship of the Church and for the way in which he has generally worked in what we feel to be the welfare of the fellow- the past, and through means which he has

Episcopal ship." already brought into being; the Evangelical, in the Who could have guessed (if he didn't know some quite new way, through means which are of it already) that the Standard calls itself still in the womb of time. The Catholic there- Evangelical and the News Anglo-Catholic? We fore attaches the greatest importance to the are very sorry that we cannot chime in with divinely-sanctioned institutions already in ex- Archives this happy accord between Low and High; but istence-the hierarchy, the sacramental sys- we feel we must present our reasons for be- liturgy and devotions- 2020. tem, canon law, a fixed lieving that a controversy over Churchmanship and naturally suspects any novelty of being a would at present neither further true knowl- wanton innovation. edge nor benefit the whole Church. The Evangelical is inclined to hope that any Copyright What is at the bottom of the disagreement novelty will be a true movement of the Spirit; between Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical, High and naturally suspects that an institution of a and Low? This is one of those questions previous age has already become a worship of people are surer they know the answer to be- the letter. The deepest imagination of the fore they think about it. Catholic is of the glories of Christendom, of the The difference is not simply over matters of Christian civilization of the age after Constan- ceremonial because the two sides agree that tine, of thirteenth-century Europe, of seven- ceremonial is only important because of the teenth-century England. The Evangelical sees doctrines that it stands for. Nor yet is it Christianity at its truest when there is a fresh simply over matters of doctrine; because by Spirit blowing through it which is despised, and large both sides are able to accept the persecuted, or ignored by the surrounding alien Creeds, the Catechism, and a considerable body and corrupt civilization: his heart is fixed on

THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 SeneM the Apostolic age, and on the new vision of a off with more or less embarrassment the par- Francis or Luther or Wesley. tisans who want to tidy up our position and This analysis shows that, contrary to the make it more consistent. opinion of our sister periodicals, there is solid What we are here urging is that we should truth in both positions; shows we need the get rid of that embarrassment and to recognize things they both ask for. The historian must that an inconsistent position is at present the recognize that God works both ways-there is only one a self-respecting person can adopt. a natural rhythm in the motions of his spirit; Most of all we must trust the Spirit of God first a fluid and creative period among a small to move among us at what time he will and in group of converts; and then a period in which what forms, or absence of forms, he chooses; the spirit takes up its dwelling in fixed forms and then we will be certain to recognize Him so that it can fill a whole society. But there when he comes. The very few parishes and is always danger that the forms will fossilize; movements in the Episcopal Church where and so there is always a need of new action by something of the sort seems to be happening the Spirit, which will breathe new life into the are places where Anglo-Catholics and Evangel- publication. old forms, but must also in part coin new ones. icals feel equally at home, and equally strange. and believe that sometime And this analysis also shows why a knock- We must undoubtedly there will again exist a Christian down and drag-out debate over Churchmanship in the future reuse even in America; and we in America today would be wholly calamitous. civilization, perhaps for cannot doubt but that it will be the outcome of We are living in an in-between age when some- and fresh movement of the Spirit. thing other than Christianity (not everywhere a new Whether we shall pass from this age to that required the same something) is the religion of the dominant nations; but when most Christians, one gently, or through destruction and rebirth, say. But it is certain that we in America at least, haven't yet discovered this. no man may speaking) only because of And the reason why the polemics of both Anglo- shall pass (humanly Permission men instructed in the kingdom of Catholics and Evangelicals seem so fatuous the lives of like good householders, faithfully and so irreconcilable, is that they are both heaven who, of the Spirit the DFMS. brought out of the treasures

/ playing "let's pretend" but can't agree to play commissioned to bring, with- the same game. things they were out inquiring whether they were old or new. The Anglo-Catholics pretend that America Church is medieval Europe (where everybody found himself at birth being led by the institutional- ized Church, with more or less sure footsteps, POINTERS FOR PARSONS Episcopal to his eternal destiny); except that a few By Robert Miller the to Episcopal Clergyman of Campton, N. H. of of her citizens have forgotten this and need be reminded. Whereas we all know that America is dominated by large impersonal

Archives forces of economics, politics, military necessity, T WOULD be pleasant indeed if all parsons and mass-communication, and that the Church Swere intelligent and good preachers to boot 2020. is an optional extra in most people's lives. and if they were also fine pastors and, indeed, The Evangelicals, on the other hand, pretend had all the gifts of the Spirit. The Holy that the Church has again become a Spirit-filled Spirit, however, did not so arrange it nor did Copyright community of red-hot Christians rather like he so inspire congregations that they would St. Paul's church at Corinth, only perhaps a seek such men and such alone. We have to do little more genteel; whereas perhaps the major- our work with what might be called a meagre ity of Americans who conform to the Church equipment and we have to remember that the do so as one more way of expressing their con- grace of God is sufficient for us. One would formity to the American way of life at large. think that this was the easiest thing in the These criticisms only apply to the partisan world for us to remember but it is one of the Churchman who is determined at all costs to hardest and we seek to rely on the assiduous be thorough, logical, and consistent. Now most use of our talents rather than on grace. The of us are in the position of having gotten used end result is breakdowns for us and disillusion- to some modification of Evangelicalism or ment for the congregation. Anglo-Catholicism, and then of having to put So much is asked of the minister today and

Eight THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 so little is expected. Thus the congregation The parson is apt to minister to its desires wants a good short sermon, a good little prayer, and not to its needs and the result is stupify- a good little visit and, of course, flourishing ing, nay, mortifying. He fritters away his organizations. What it does not want is a soul spiritual strength and the congregation does searching discourse. What it does not like is not muster its own. a bold admonition. What it does not love is a There is only one cure and it will frighten challenge to decision. most of us. It is-live with God.

CHRISTIANITY AND COMMUNISM By W. Robert Hampshire Rector of St. Thomas Church, Farmingdale, N. Y. not expect anything but lies, and military con- editors of the Witness, while recogniz- THEing that Communism is a word highly tainment from those whom they so sincerely publication. charged with emotional content today, believe distrust and the only way we can make a real growth is to display a and that it is good for Church people to think about response to their rapid what the word really means. sounder faith and a better program to meet reuse A psychiatrist writing recently stated that human needs. So much of our capitalistic- for the reaction to the word "Communism" is centered "Christianity" is unwilling to see in similar to the reaction to the -word "homo- Communism a judgement upon our own failure sexual." We think it unwise, nonetheless, to be Christ-centered. We are called upon to required merely to be against Communism as one is support missions throughout the uncurtained against cancer and other serious disorders. It countries to prevent the rise of Communism. is good to know why that faith is not in you, Christianity thus is treated with a political

Permission just as it is most necessary to be able to give weapon, and the large numbers of clergy willing a reason for the faith that is in you. To com- to go along with movements to give Christian competing faiths, Christianity sanction to every capitalistic inequality, leads DFMS. bine the two / and Communism, in one discussion is to do a the Communist to suppose that we think we then good work-to invite Christ, the light and the have arrived in a Christian sense. If not, why do we give sanctity to the status quo? Church truth, to illuminate a subject too little reasoned with. Similarities In getting together these preliminary re- BOTH the Judaic-Christian tradition and the Episcopal marks I have leaned heavily upon the book, Communist philosophy place great im- the Christianity and Communism, by Prof. John portance upon history and its meaning. Both of C. Bennett. In stating his point of view he profess a passion for social justice. Great says that Communism is a compound of half- Christian leaders of thought like Archbishop truth and positive error and that it is a threat referred to Archives Temple and Jacques Maritain have to both our personal and political freedom. Communism as a "Christian heresy." As stressing our obligation to 2020. However, while Christian Science belatedly awoke the Church resist its growth he points out clearly that "the to its healing mission, so Communism has acted errors of Communism are in large part the as a reminder to Christians of their responsi- of the failure of Christians, and of Copyright result bility for more equal justice. The book of the Christian Churches, to be true to the revolu- Acts of the Apostles reminds us that the early tionary implications of their own faith, that Church practiced an "all things common" the effectiveness of Communism lies chiefly in economy, an idealistic Communism, and many the fact that it seems to offer the exploited of our Lord's sayings about the rich man and and neglected peoples of the world what has the kingdom. of heaven; our Lady's Magnificat been denied them in a civilization that has with its sending of the rich empty away, and often regarded itself as Christian." filling the hungry with good things; St. James' Obviously a campaign of negative propa- strong denunciations of the wealthy, all of these ganda, religious hostility, or armed power will serve to indicate that classic Christianity cer- not change the course of those who find in tainly tends toward the classless society pro- their cause the one true God. Clearly they do fessed by the Communists.

Ni"e THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 It was Berdyaev, an exile from Communist munity if it seeks to realize what it prays for. Russia who said: "Christians, who condemn Furthermore, the promise that this movement the Communists for their godlessness and anti- alone can and will bring in the ideal society is religious persecutions, cannot lay the whole itself a false one and does not prepare the blame solely upon these godless Communists; people for the many forms of evil still all too they must assign part of the blame to them- prevalent in every Communist society. The selves, and that a considerable part. They change over from the capitalistic theory of must be not only accusers and judges; they property and means of production does not must be penitents. Have Christians done very touch the remaining sins, personal and corpo- much for the realization of Christian justice rate. While ruthlessness and fanaticism may in social life? Have they striven to realize the not be essential in future generations of Com- brotherhood of man without that hatred and munism they are all too apparent today. violence of which they accuse the Communists? The Communist world points out that like- The sins of Christians, the sins of historical wise militarism and discrimination against the Churches, have been very great, and these sins Jews were characteristics of the Golden Age of bring with them their just punishment." publication. Christianity in the pre-Communist world. These This much is said, not to suggest that were no abiding part of Christianity. Still the and Christians should steer a middle course some- fact remains that for the Communist, the Rus- how but that, realizing sian Revolution ushered in the new age, and reuse something of our any means to further the revolution is accept- for sharing of ideals, and something of our Chris- tian failure, we should approach the problem able. For the Christian, the life and death and with a different spirit. The Christianity, so- resurrection of Jesus Christ ushered in the new required called, of individualism, or of extrication from age and its method is love. Here is the irre- a naughty world, will not prove any answer to concilable difference. the vital social involvement of Communism. How do Communists-and Christians-deal Only the real thing-the religion of the with their opponents? Permission Word Here comes the whole made Flesh, the redemption of men and matter, problem of means and ends. the belief that God is acting in history through DFMS.

/ the Body of Christ, the belief in the reality of Methods the sacrifice of Christ, the relevance of the S JUST mentioned, the Communist idolizes offertory and the offering of the Holy Sacri- Church Communism, and believing as he does fice-only this kind of Christianity can have that the revolution will rid the world of exploit- anything to reply to the powerful gospel of ation and all social evils he accepts any means Communism which is today producing converts Episcopal to promote and martyrs in great numbers. that end as legitimate. Terror, the starvation, firing squads-any and all means of to rid the world of those who would defeat Differences or betray the revolution is justified because it HE fundamental issue is that Communism speeds the day of Utopia. Archives regards itself as the absolute movement What difference is there between the Com- cf redemption in history, and that this move- munist methods 2020. and those that have been used ment knows no God other than itself, and allows by Christians in times when they have carried no place in its self-knowledge for understand- on persecutions and purges? The Christian ing of the persistence of human sins of pride answers that however misguided Copyright such historical and self-centeredness and the will to power. episodes as the Inquisition were, the bloody This is definitely an idolatry. While the Church work was carried on not to rid the world of at its worst still cries out "Lord, have mercy heretics but to try to save the soul of the in- upon us" the Communist cause admits of no dividual heretic from eternal death. The motive criticism. This is why the Church can never was redemption not obliteration . . . Today no really be itself (although it may maintain a Christian believes in cruel forms of persecution, kind of shadowy existence) under the Com- and where any forms are carried out they can munist state. be classed more as discrimination against oppo- The prayer "Thy Kingdom come on earth" nents (e.g. Roman Catholics in Spain and is itself a criticism of every system and thus Peru) rather than destruction. imperils the existence of the worshiping com- When the Christian is at war does his con-

THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 duct differ from that of the Communist? The Discussion In conspiracies, such as those against the Nazis and against the Communist countries now by Members Christians in undergrounds, does their be- haviour differ from the Communists? We C:-Clergyman HW :-Housewife calmly accepted obliteration bombing where as L:-Lawyer many as 200,000 persons were killed in a single Teacher night. We were a bit more aroused, as Chris- ST:-School tians, about the atomic bombs released over S:-Salesman Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet good practicing B:-Businessman discussion was wire recorded and edited Christians defended all these acts on the ground The that the end--shortening the war-justified the for brevity. means-total indiscriminate destruction. C:-Communism regards itself as the abso- in history-above One difference is that the Christian does not lute movement of redemption look upon approve of face-to-face slaughter, such as the criticism-itself God. Communists publication. and war mongers; Chris- Communist would approve of in slow starvation enemies as capitalists

and a redeemable of a pen full of humans. tians look upon every person as soul, whose dignity must always be respected Another difference, a n d one thoroughly reuse and not made subservient to the state. Christian, is that though there be on the for ST:-The Christian approach is always to political level a break in the relationship with develop and appeal to the best in a person. people of another country at war, still both HW:-In wartime is this always so? required countries' Christians can and will carry on a S:-Communism shows no regard for the campaign of prayer for their enemies, which individual but for the mass of people. Chris- makes possible an easier reconciliation when tianity considers the individual more important. the conflict is past. Some fruits of this may Permission C:-That was often the teaching of our already be seen in Japan today. For the Lord-leaving the 99 and seeking the one that Christian whatever is done, in peace or war, was lost. DFMS.

/ must be brought under the judgement of God. L :-If you had the choice of improving the The Cross is now and always must be above the lot of 99 or 1, you would choose the 99. I often flag. And charity is a virtue not a deviation. Church hear that Communists have no regard for the A third distinction we would make between individual. I wonder if Communism as a con- Christianity and Communism is the status of cept has no regard for the individual, or

Episcopal individual persons. To be sure the long view whether it is just the way it is practiced by theory holds that with the ulti- the of Communist Communists. of mate withering away of the state there will be C:-That is the big problem all the way greater freedom for the person. In the mean- through: theoretical Christianity and Chris- time it is fair to say that in Communism the tianity in practice: Communism in theory and Archives individual is depersonalized. The person is Communism in practice. sacrificed to the community. The dignity of HW :-I think we all feel that it is the prac- 2020. the human person is unrecognized and he is tice that we call Communism today. It is a always expendable. dictatorship by a small group drunk with The Christian view is a radical individualism power, with Communism their god. I do not Copyright (value of the lost sheep; "the hairs of your call it Communism-to me Communism means head are numbered," damnation for despising owning and administering by all for the good "one of these little ones") placed in the context of all. of community (the concepts of the Kingdom of C:-Government of the people, by the people, God and the Church attest to the dual em- for the people? phasis). For the Christian no amount of L:-You first have to discuss the economic Economic progress for the masses can be con- side of Communism, then the political. The sidered an adequate substitute for the value of economic theory of Communism approaches the the individual, able to develop in a free society Christian concept more than Capitalism does. of souls understood to be made in the image Christianity does not have to have the profit of God. motive behind it. It has the idea of sharing

THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 and stands for more social and economic equal- competing against one another for material ity. Communism in the economic sense has things everyone would be happy. We are living that too. Politically however you have a in competition with each other, trying to outdo dictatorship. each other to get those things we want to make HW:-Is a dictatorship essential to Com- life easy. The Communist says that the man munism? is entitled to get them without work. He C:-It is supposed to be a means to an end, should be handed these things-divided equally. with ultimately an idealistic utopia where there C:-I would like to return to the business is complete freedom, with everybody good and man: I think he would like to feel that if he constructive just because they are living in began to practice brotherliness with his cus- that ideal society. tomers that he would not be taken advantage of a sucker. Isn't there some ST:-The conflict of good and evil is in the or be played for individual and by making a group all-supreme truth that you have to be a pretty shrew oper- is to fall away from reality. All evil is because ator to get along? of the greed of some groups. B:-That is an excuse many people use. But publication. C:-When things did not go right in the you can go a long way in becoming more Chris- and state, Hitler blamed it on the Jews. Com- tian in running a business before you run into munists look at society and see that it is not conflicts. reuse good so he blames it on the capitalistic system. C:-What about the role of the Christian in for Actually these are not comparable beyond the the struggle with Communism? Some are for fact that they are both scapegoat solutions. a preventive war; others are for disarming and making the gesture of approaching the Com-

required ST:-Rather than facing the fact that the real battle is in man himself, individually and munists with nothing behind our backs. Both collectively. points of view are held sincerely I think. What C:-Unredeemed men, if left alone, are not do you think? Permission going to live the ideal life because the problems HW:-What is a preventive war? are themselves. We have the supernatural C:-Starting a war with the hope of exterm-

DFMS. belief that the association with, knowledge of, inating them before they do you. / and reliance upon God and the redemption B:-God would not be pleased if one group which can come only from God, is necessary to blew up the world just to get ahead of another. Church rid man of his anti-social traits. Little credit can be given to a country that L:-The difficulty with all these utopias is believes in that. that people think that all you need is a good I:--By preventive war you kill 100,000 in-

Episcopal system and people will be happy and dwell in stead of 20,000,000. the peace, which is ridiculous. No matter what C:-Some said Korea was a preventive war of system you have, if man is no good, any system since it was an attempt to stop Communist is no good. On the other hand, even the old aggression in a small area. This police action, system with a king who is an absolute ruler, so-called, they say has prevented other out- Archives if every man lived up to the teachings of reli- bursts. gion, frcm the king right down the line, you 2020. ST:-There is a difference between police would have a happy society. The king would action in Korea and staging preventive aggres- not live in a palace and take most of the wealth sion, with bombs. for himself and the aristocracy, but he would

Copyright C:-Does anyone think anything can be said distribute the wealth for the common good. for preventive war? Lawyer intimated that if Let religion work on the individual and you can you value individuals, 20,000,000 is worth more have a kingdom of God on earth. than 100,000. C:-We do hear sometimes that the individ- 1:-I do not believe in preventive war. I do ual business man or professional man is not not believe there is any such thing. As soon able to be as good as he wants to be, because as you have "prevented" a war you have got he thinks he must sacrifice principles in order your war. It is only a question of who gets in to get ahead under the conditions in which the the first blow. business world operates. Preventive war is trying to first knock out S:-That is true. That is the theory the the other fellow before he does you. If you can Communists work on-that if we were not do that by surprise with a minimum amount of

Twelve THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 their communism? Why are bloodshed, the other fellow cannot retaliate and ocracy against to fight the bring on a larger war. the Indo-Chinese so reluctant Communists? Why is it that the French can- HW:-It seems unethical to me. I would not assert their authority? Because the aver- almost rather we be attacked. age fellow does not care. The Communists are Russia dropped 20 atom bombs L:-Suppose promising a lot more than we are. We are Would that be a preventive on our key centers. giving them planes and tanks but what other war? kind of aid are we giving them. Are we saying C:-Presumably. to the French: Let these people alone-let them L:-Do you say that we have committed any establish their own freedom and give these aggression or what do we have to do to commit fellows a better break. That is where the aggression ? Communists are strong. We ought to attack ST:-The one who instigates the preventive them with a better program-a Christian war is an aggressor. program. L:-That is true but he might feel that he is HW :-I think now you say something that publication. acting in self-defense. is very true. All the "Christian" countries an idea that the natives and HW:-In other words, I have have taken over colonies to exploit you are going to attack me, so I marshall my and help themselves to their resources. People reuse forces and attack you. labor under oppression, not Christian love, and for L:-The Russian gets up and he sees bases they have done so for a long time. All we want everywhere, supplied with atom bombs. These is to make sure that we get our cut on every- bases are not there to drop pamphlets to urge thing. We don't say, OK, we will stand by required the Russians to come over to our side. They while you establish a workable government of are to launch attack. We say that we will not your own; develop your own resources and attack, but the Russians do not know that. produce for yourself. We simply say this other

Permission Suppose they start a preventive war before we fellow, the Communist, is offering you some- use these bases. What about the ethics of thing that is evil and bad for you. You have that? got to take these guns and help the French DFMS. / C :-I think it is completely indefensible. The keep them out of here. Christian theology of war is not applicable be- C:-What happened to the picture of the It involves not Church cause war today is total war. Christian regard for the individual? but the whole community. simply belligerents HW:-The Christian did not regard the in- was thought out in the middle ages would What dividual when he has brown or yellow skin. It only those under arms. So it is an Episcopal involve meant money in pockets if they were taken for entirely different theology or philosophy of the slaves. Christians have done a great deal of

of The only war justified then was to warfare. offending against their fellowman when he was and a punitive war was not correct a wrong not of their color and language. Somewhere permitted. we will have to pay for it. Archives Bennett in his book has something which I ST:-That is getting back to the original note in this fearsome world think is a calming the mis- 2020. premise that Communism has fed on picture. He says the basic drive of Commu- takes-the sins of Christians. If we are going nists is to establish their society and that a to do anything about it we have to work at country desolated by bombs would be the last

Copyright being better Christians. place to do this. So he thinks they would be Christianity loathe to use the bomb. What they are intent C:-It would seem to me that on doing is moving in and taking over so that is beginning to grow up. life can go on under their social and economic HW:-We have been a long time growing set-up. up but when we get discouraged we can think L:-Communists scoff at our democracy be- of the dirt, brutality and ignorance of 2000 cause they say, what are you giving the people; years ago, and know that we have come a long the right to vote, but you are missing economic way. democracy. They ask people what good is the C:-And our theories are better. What a vote if a country is in the grip of large indus- man believes is what he will act upon. There trialists. So they offer economic, not political has been a bettering of man's regard for man freedom. What appeal do we have-our dem- and his treatment of his fellows. We realize

THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 Thi"e" the sinfulness of the way we mistreated people In the first kind the choir marched into the of other lands. church, usually from somewhere in the base- L:-But what about the way people within ment, carrying palms. They sang, breathlessly a country have been treated? The established and hurriedly, Bach's "All Glory Laud and Church in Italy is hated by a majority of the Honor" and Dykes' "Ride On Ride On." For people because it has done nothing for them. sure, they sang "The Palms" at the Offertory, C:-There you get the same kind of idolatry or if it was Morning Prayer, at the collection. that you get in Communism-worshipping the There was a recessional, again with palms, Church as a worldly institution, and that is back to the basement and a final sepulchral exactly where Christianity goes out. Amen. At the door palms were distributed to S:-In border line countries, like Italy, where the faithful and the service was over. people are apt to go either way, is where Chris- In the second variety of celebration the tianity has to be at its best. We can offer people as well as the choir received palms in people the same thing that Communism offers. church and then some of the choir went outside If the Church in these countries worked for a to the front door. After some publication. and around better economic life and better education, the antiphonal singing back and forth between and people would not accept Communism because those outside and those in, there was a loud they could have these things with the love and knocking at the door and the choir came back reuse charity of the Christian belief. into the church singing. It was probably the for C:-It would be desirable. People who are same hymns as were found in the first kind, so anti-communist should be actively pro- and almost certainly they were taken too fast taking this negative atti- required Christian instead of as Americans are becoming chronically habitu- tude which is getting us nowhere. I do not ated to hurriedness. Or, it may have been all think that the motive for sending missionaries plainsong, which words and music the people to any country should be to win out against did not know so that the crowd-effect of the Permission Communism. It should be just a part of the entrance of the choir was not apparent. The concern of Christianity centuries-old worldwide palms which the people held over their shoul-

DFMS. to tell the story of God and how much God loves taken home / ders during the procession were us and the ethical content of Christianity, and at the end of the service. also the power that is given through Christ to

Church live up to this state. We should not feel that In this latter rendition the procession into we are impelled now to get busy about missions the church was the important thing. The anti- just because we fear the Communists. phonal singing in and outside suggested an approaching parade and when the doors were Episcopal HW :-It would be a step forward in the fight suddenly thrown open, it was, at it were, as if the against Communism if we cleaned up our own of political house. We ought to free people of the parade had burst into the church. It was those things that Communists promise to free a triumphant entry. The Palm Sunday proces- them-poverty, hunger, desolation. sion is the triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Archives C:-Our time is running out. We agree, I It is a liturgical enactment of the chief event think, that we should present Christianity in of the first Palm Sunday. A procession has 2020. such a way that Communists will say: See how been staged by the church because Christ these Christians love one another; see how staged a procession into Jerusalem. generous, how unselfish. I think the experi- If ever the word "challenge" can be used, Copyright ment would be worth it. then this is it. By this jesture Jesus chal- lenged the powers-that-be to a show-down. He made the particular point of drawing such In Season and Out attention to his coming up to Jerusalem that neither the Jewish or Roman authorities, the By Gordon C. Graham crowds of pilgrims in town for the Passover, nor his own hesitant disciples, could mistake T IS not unfair to say that Palm Sunday his intentions. He was the Messiah coming to was celebrated in two different ways; one the Holy City to establish the Kingdom of the emphasizing the palms without the procession, Father. If not that, he was a deluded fanatic and the other the procession more than the or an imposter. Either way he was dangerous palms. to the authorities and a challenge to the people.

Fourteen THE WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 They had either to be with him or against him. And they were mostly against him so that on Contentment Good Friday he was put out of the way. By William P. Barnds The reason for emphasizing the Palm Sunday Rector of St. Jamee, South Bend the lives procession into the church is that it -declares THERE is too little contentment in that Christianity must function actively in of many of us. We tend to want things order to accomplish its mission. If our Lord different, to find fault with the circumstances had remained outside Jerusalem or entered the under which we live, and the people whom we city surreptitiously then he would not have got know. We are restless about our lot in life. into trouble. The love and goodness of Christ There seems to be the feeling that there is were not the negative sort of characteristics some kind of stigma attached to a person who that we usually associate with these virtues. is contented, because contentment seems to Jesus was not just the "Lamb of God." He was imply that a person is not ambitious to get aggressive and was largely to blame for what ahead. happened to him. It is all right to be ambitious but that should not keep us from enjoying life as we go along publication. Nothing much will happen to us because we are careful and cautious. Our ethic is pruden- or being thankful for the present advantages and tial and our tactics are fearful. Christian wit- we have. There is no necessary conflict be- ness is so weak that much of the battle for tween normal ambition and being happy and reuse human welfare has passed beyond the Church. reasonably content with life as we have it. for Yet the Passion of Christ is the attack upon Indeed the person who is not contented un- evil. It begins on Palm Sunday. It results in der one set of circumstances is apt not to be a required Good Friday. But its conclusion is on Easter. under another set. Contentment is largely matter of inner attitude. Learn to appreciate fine values in LAMBETH CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS OF 1948 the present and do not lose its An important document, particularly in view of the forthcoming yearning for a mythical tomorrow which will Congress and Assembly of the World Council of

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THi WITNESS - APRIL 22, 1954 Oak Ridge. He will remain as ORGANISTS : director of the Institute of Nu- CHARLES BYBEE, director of clear Studies but will also be asst choral work in a Denver high PEOPLE at St. Stephen's. school, is now organist and director of the senior and high DAVID HILL was ordained priest, school choirs at St. Michael and March 10, by Bishop Block at All All Angeles, Denver. CLERGY CHANGES: Saints, Carmel, Cal. He is now Seaside, Cal. JOHN HARPER, formerly ass't at vicar at St. Matthias, HONORS : R. I., New Grace Church, Providence, CORTLAND R. PUSEY was or- JAMES A. PIKE, dean of the Fox- hon- is now rector of St. Mark's, dained deacon March 12 by Bishop York Cathedral, received an Col- boro, Mass. Powell at the Redeemer, Balti- orary doctorate from Dickinson he is ass't. lege, March 7. IRMI M. BLACKBURN, rector of more, where St. Paul's, Evansville, Ind., is to DAVID C. STANLEY was ordained be professor of Church history at priest by Bishop Higley, March S ER V IC ES Seabury-Western commencing in 25, at St. Paul's, Antwerp, N. Y., In Leading Churches the Fall. where he is in charge. He is also charge of churches at Evans WILLIAM F. MAXWELL, chaplain in CATHEDRAL OF OUR MERCIFUL publication. to Episcopal students at North- Mills and Great Bend. SAVIOUR FAIRBAUL.T, MIN. western, becomes ass't instructor and GEORGE E. STEIGLER was or- "First Cathedral in the and tutor at Seabury-Western in American Church" dained priest by Bishop Higley, Very Rev. Charles R. Allen, Dean Fall. the at Trinity, Camden, 7Ahe Rev. P. H. Kramer, reuse March 22, the Rev. S. W. Goldsmith, Canons T. CHAMBERS Jr., rec- N. Y., where he is in charge. He Sunday: 8, 9:30, 11. Wed, and Saints

for CHARLES tor of St. James, Magnolia, Ark., is also in charge of St. James, Days: 10. the Chapel of Cleveland, N. Y. ST. PETER'S becomes rector of i~orth Tlryon at 7th Street the Cross, Rolling Rock, Miss., CHAMLOTTra, N. C. required May 3. The Rev. Gray Temple, Rector VESTMENTS Sunday: Holy Communion, 8. Family Cassocks-Surplices-Stoles-Scarves Service, 9:45. Morning Prayer, 11; AINSLEY M. CARLTON, formerly Noon-Day, Mon:-Fri.; Holy Communion, Silks-Altar Cloths-Embroideries Wed. 10:30; Fri. 7:30. canon at St. John's Cathedral, Priest Cloaks-Rabats-Colara Zjs of All Denver, is now rector Custom Tailoring for Clergymen ST. PAUL'S Permission Saints, Long Beach, Cal. Church Vestment Makers 15 13 V'ict Park B 13OvrOne Hundred YearsIJt ROCHESTaR, N. Y. C. RIGHTER, formerly The Rev. George L. Cadigan, Rector WALTER Sunday: 8, 9:30 and 11.

DFMS. in charge of All Saints, Aliquippa, Holy Days: 11 Fri. 7. / of the Good Pa., is now rector ST. JAMES' Shepherd, Nashua, N. H. 117 N. Lafette SOUTH BEND, IND. The Rev. William Paul Barnds, D. D., Church LINENS : CHURCH Rector ORDINATIONS Yard The Rev. Glen E. McCutcheon, Asst By The Sunday: 8, 9:15, 11. Tues.: Holy Com- WILLIAM S. DOUGLAS was or- Fine Irish Linens made for us in Belfast. munion, 8:15. Service and Address, 7:30. Transfer Patterns, Vestment Patterns, Ny- Thursday, Holy Communion 9:30. Fri- dained priest, March 12, by Ion for Surplices, Thread, Needles, etc. day, Holy Communion, 7. Episcopal Bishop Jones at Trinity, Edna, Free Samaples ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS

the Company Texas, where he is in charge. Mary Fawcett 20th and St. Paul %tx 25w, MAuBLEUMD, Mz. of WILLIAM G. POLLARD, nuclear BALTIMORE, MD. The Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D., Rector physicist of Oak Ridge, Tenn., will The Rev. Paul E. Leatherbury, Curate be ordained priest by Bishop The Rev. Homer P. Starr, Curate L Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, 11 a. mn. Holy Barth, May 1, at St. Stephen's, American Church Building Eucharist daily. Preaching Service- Archives Wednesday, 8 p. im. Easter Day-Holy Funti Commission Eucharist 5:30, 6:30, 8, 9, and 11 a.mi. HASSOCKS 2020. KNEELING ST. ANDREW'S SINCE 1880 WVashinsgton Avenue Plastic or velour THlE EPISCOPAL CHURCH'S BUILDING SOCIETY. STAMFORD, COHN. cover in choice FINANCE Rev. Percy Major Binnington, Rector of colors. Those whom it has served attest its value. Sun.: Holy Communion 8, Family Serv- IKneeeler and ke 9:30; 11, Solemn. Wed., 7 and 9 Copyright Pess Cushions. a. mn. 12:15 p. im. Holy Days and Fri- Gifts & Legacies needed to enlarge day 9. Confession, Sat. 5-6. Samples and Revolving Fund prices on request. the Permanent CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY 131 G Street, N. WV. PLEASE ADDRESS THE SECRETARY, WASHINGTON, D. C. BERNARD-SMITHLINE The Rev. Charles D. Kean, Rector 23-10 -38th Ave., Long Island City, N. Y. 170 Remsen Street - Brooklyn 1, N. Y. The 1Rev. Warren Mace, Assoc. Rector The Rev. Harry May field, Curate Sunday: 8 and 11 a. in.; 8 p. mn. Mon. through Fri., 12-12:30 p. mn. Noon- day preaching services. Wed., 5:30 p. in., CHIURCHl CANDLES CHRHGOP Preaching service. Thurs., Holy Com- munion 10:30 a. im. and 12:30 p. mn. Bessas Writs fog' 9Candies . rietslisad EARN EXTRA MONEY for your projects- ST. JOHN'S CHURCH Vespe Lights illuistrated folder take orders for guaranteed, first quality, WASHINGTON, D. C. Sanctuary Lights WILL " SAUAM 100% Dupont Nylon Full Fashioned Hose. Lafayette Square sad Lamps CANDLE CO., INC. Buy direct from factory. Send for free The Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, Rector Paschai Candies ' Syarm,., N.Y. information. CAROLINA MAID HOSIERY The Rev. Frank R. Wilson, Asst ______Co., P. 0. Dox 1567, Greensboro, N. C. Sunday: 8, 9:30, 11, 4 and 7:30 p.mi. Daily, 12 noon with sermon Wed., Fri., LL.lioner aMonuodu? ro Amric 7:30; Holy Days, 7:30 and 12.

Eighteen THE WITNESS - AsPRIL 22, 1954 others homes once a month so do not have to break down doors to get in. else that Barrett - But everything BACKFIRE poked fun at applied. We are all college people but we have even met for discussion with nothing to RALPH A. WEATHERLY 'em hell Joe," etc., throughout the discuss. speech. Kingston, Pa. Rector, Grace Church, So McCarthy speaking to cops of The Episcopal Church owes thanks his own faith in New York is news to the Rev. Thomas V. Barrett, one in Boston-and probably correctly so CARLETON COLLEGE of the rare humorists in existence. since we are a R.C. dominated city LAtiumito M. GomuL, President Like the author of Jonah he writes and newspapers play up to those in Carleton is a co-educational liberal arts col- his cheek about lege of limited enrollment and is recog- with his tongue in power. of Minnesota. stupidities of tnzed as the Church College the eccentricities and Anyhow the point I want to make Addresss Director of Admissios Mr. our times. His series about is that we are not going to get rid C:ARLETON COLLEGE guilds, Noamrszz- AMnomorA Entwhistle's adventures with of McCarthy and what he stands for and par- vestries, summer schools, until we go after the forces back ish freaks shows experience and him, even if they are so-called in of discernment. Now he has shown religious forces. H OL DE R NES S publication. the flash of wit what is the trouble The White Mountain School, fair bons "group organizations, dynamic 13-19. Thorough college propnmdom is

and with MRS. BASIL CHURCH small classes. Student govemaseo a- planning, panel discussions, forums." pshaizas responsibility. Tm sed. We need a Cervantez, Mark Twain, Churchwoman of Philadelphia iig. Debating. Glee TChb. AsL. reuse a Mr. Dooley, a Will Rogers in this Newirepoofbuilding. I ordered extra copies of the num- DONALD C. HAGERMAN, Headmaster for Mr. Bar- era of muddled thinking. which Mr. Barrett's article Plymouth New Hampshire for wit hurts ber in rett will be criticized, appeared since you had previously but he will do in telling the truth, announced that it was to be on a us a great service if he gets us to St, Mar ''wn-the-Montilh required Procedure Guide. You can imagine laugh at ourselves. my surprise when I read the article. Episcopal College preparatory bai school for 60 girls. Community~iIlbse I took it a bit shamefaced to a on Christian principles in whc all atu- SARAH HOPKINS group I meet with for discussions. dents shar reponsibility for social, sposa, religious, and social service activities. Churchwoman of New York But what I want you to know is Work program. Arts. Skiing, other spaces. Permission that we never had such a successful Catalogue. discussion on M. A., Pncipal The article and One of our members read MrHarley Jenks. was excellent, meeting. LITTLETON (White Mountains), Family Life (4/8) are not Nuw Hatissra with the article aloud and we DFMS. though of course I do not agree

/ laughing yet. said by the author through much that was I might add that our group is not part in the dis- and by those taking church group, but is connected LENOX SCHOOL the trouble is a cussion. As I see it, each A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for Church with a college. We meet in largely with the parents. I live in boys 12-18 em hasixing Christian ideals building and it and character trough simplicity of plant a large apartment and equipment, moderate tuition, the co- seems to me that when parents are CASSOCKS operative self-held system, sod informal, others looking after raoal relationships among boys and not out, with SURPLTCES - CHOIR VESTMENTS Episcopal gay their children, they are having a EUCHARISTIC VESTMENTS REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Hedmuester Lenox, Massachusetts the party at home. 'Trash is collected ALTAR HANGINGS sod LINENS of regularly in New York, with liquor All Embhroidery, Is Had Done bottles the chief thing in them. School and J. M. HALL, INC. Virginia Episcopal With parents running about LYNCHURG, VIRGINIA drinking to excess, I do not see how 14 W. 40th St., New York IS, N. Y. Prepares boys for colleges and university. Archives their children. TEL. CH 4-3306 Splendid environment and excellent op we can expect much of Iteachers. High standard in scholasli sod athletics. Healthy and beautiful in the mountains of Virginia. 2020. location JOHN K. HAMILTON For catalogue, apply to' for your TREASURY GEORGE L. BARTON,~. Ph.D., Layman of Boston MONEY Headmaster, Box 408 OVER 1,500,000 The letters that Dean Pike re- SUNFLOWER DISH CLOTHS Copyright ceived after his sermon criticizing Were sold in 1946 by members of Sunday McCarthy as you reported the sum- Schools. Ladies' Aids, Young People's Groups. etc. They enable you to earn money for mary in your news pages (4/8) was your treasury, and make friends for your revealing and ought to wake us up. organizstion. is that the hierarchy of the SANGAMON MILLS The fact Cohoes, N. Y. Roman Catholic Church is backing Established 1915 McCarthy and his methods -however much some of that faith may CHURCH LINENS Fnss'enpo 1999 that fact pointed out. Exquisite qualities and outstanding values The oldest Church School west of the Alle resent having Imported from Ireland for Churches and ehenies integra,,es all natt Of its program- On the day my copy of the Witness Religious Orders. religious, academic. military, social-to help arrived my morning newspaper ran Plexiglass Pall Foundations high school age hovs grow "in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man." at 5W'"-6%1l-7'-L00 a picture of McCarthy speaking Write of R.C. cops in New Pure Silk Embroidery Floss a breakfast Ecclesiastical Transfer Patterns Ca~oN SIDNEY W. Gox~nssmr, Ja him, smiling, was the for Girdles Rector sod Headmaster York. Beside Linen Thread 457 Slxurway Ilall number one Vatican agent in the FREE SAMPLES Faribaukt, Minnesota States -Cardinal Spellman. MIARY MOORE, Importer Shattuck School United Box 394W DAVENPORT, IOWA And according to the story, the cops shouted "go get 'em. Joe"; "give publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Copyright

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