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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. SCHOOLS CLERGY NOTES SCH O O LS BUCHANAN, ARCHIE, formerly assistant at Grace Church, Whitestone, New York City, « v C&ttitx&l ^ijeoiogical is in charge of St. Thomas’, Farmingdale, KEM PEB TTOX L. I., N. Y. f Sem in ary FLEMING, SAMUEL C. W„ was ordained priest by Bishop Helfenstein on February KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Three-year undergraduate 21, in Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md. eourse of prescribed and elective GAGE, WILLIAM J., formerly rector of Episcopal Boarding and Day School. study. Grace Church, Mohawk, N. Y., to be rector Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual of Zion Church, Colton, N. Y., effective opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu April 1. Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity GARDNER, GERARD C., missionary of the Church o f England, is now the rector at School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. Jerome, Arizona. SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced GILLESPIE, JOHN S., formerly rector of Calvary, Sandusky, Ohio, is vicar of St. Box W . T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. Bartholomew’s, Philadelphia. and D.Th. GRAHAM, GORDON C., curate at St. Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin George’s, Maplewood, N. J. is now the rector ADDRESS of St. Saviour’s, Maspeth, Long Island. CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL HOGG, HENRY, formerly rector of Trinity New York City THE DEAN Church, Granville, N. Y., to be rector of A boarding school for the forty boys of Grace Church, Mohawk, N. Y., and Holy the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the Chelsea Square New York City Cross, Fort Plain, with residence at Mo Divine. Careful musical training and daily hawk, effective April 16. singing at the cathedral services. Small For Catalogs« Address the Dean HOYT, ERNEST M., formerly rector of Zion classes mean individual attention and high Church, Colton, N. Y., is rector of Christ standards. The School has its own building Church, Coxsackie, and Trinity Church, and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 Athens, N. Y., with residence at Coxsackie. per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voien Episcopal Theological School LILE, B. B. COMER, formerly rector of the test and scholarship examination. Address The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Cathe CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Church of the Ascension, Richmond, Va., is canon missioner of the diocese of Ohio. dral Heights, New York City. Affiliated with Harvard University offers snnanal opportunities in allied fields, such as MAHAGAN, JAMES E., formerly assistant at philosophy, psychology, history, Zion Church, Rome, N. Y., is rector of St. sociology, etc. Paul’s Church, Oxford, N. Y. HOLDERNESS For Catalog«« Address the Dean MUNDAY, WILFRED A., has changed his In the White Mountains. College Preparatory residence from 848 East Como-Phalen Ave and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For nue, to 736 Como-Phalen Avenue, St. Paul, boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 i'tae Protestant Episcopal Minnesota. acres of woods. New fireproof building. In OLSEN, TORBEN R., was ordained deacon by dividual attention. Home atmosphere. Theological Seminary in Virginia Bishop Parsons of California in Grace For Catalogue and other information Cathedral, San Francisco, on February 25. Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rectev address the Dean He is in charge of the Church of the Re Box W Plymouth, N. H deemer, Salmon City, Idaho. REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. POTTER, GEORGE L., army captain who has Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. been doing work in Idaho, is now in charge at Tombstone, Arizona. He is also to serve the army post at Fort Huachuca. REED, PEMBROKE W., formerly assistant at # tnart IfaU Berkeley St. Paul’s, Richmond, Va., is in charge of Trinity, New Philadelphia, and St. Barna An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old Divinity School bas, Dennison, Ohio. traditions and high standards in the beau New Haven, Connecticut TEISEN, TAGE, is rector of Bethesda-by-the- tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara Affiliated with Yale University Sea, Palm Beach, Florida, of which he has tory, general courses, and secretarial had charge. courses. Two years beyond high school. Address DEAN W . P. LADD Music, art, expression. Graduates success 8$ Sachem Street TREDER, JOHN H., was ordained deacon by ful in college. Well-equipped buildings. Bishop Brown of Harrisburg on Feb. 21, in New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid Keferstein Memorial Chapel, Harrisburg, Pa. ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. TROTMAN, EDMUND B., rector of St. Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. TRINITY COLLEGE Augustine’s Church, Asbury Park, N. 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T he Prayer Book Is Important By BAYARD HALE JONES Dean of Sewanee Theological School F COURSE it never pays to brag. But perhaps Christian worship is a true organic evolution, a O it is possible, without boasting, to notice one natural selection, and a survival of the fittest, out distinctive peculiarity of Episcopalians: they of all the variant forms. And the end of the de seem to be the only variety of Christians with velopment, the latest and the best, gathering up whom I am acquainted who really seem to enjoy the choicest riches of all history, is our Book of jokes at their own expense— and hence often to Common Prayer. profit by them. An instance in point is the story Ultimately, both the principles and the prac of the man who was asked how he liked an tice of Christian worship center around a cryptic Episcopal service which he chanced to attend; little Latin proberb: Lex orandi, lex credendi— who replied, Very much; although he did think the law of praying is the law of believing. It they spent too much time reading the minutes of happens that this expression is more than form al; the previous meeting! it is dynamic. It means not only that the faith No loyal Churchman can fail to be diverted by of the Church is expressed in its worship: the this apt takeoff on the drawbacks (and there are faith is taught and formed by the manner in some) of a fixed liturgical order of service. And which men are guided to make their devotions. yet there can hardly be a Churchman so little in This is the Gospel method. It is significant that structed as not to know that this very formula is the disciples did not ask, “ Lord, teach us only a whimsical upside-down statement of the theology!” or, “ Lord, teach us how to organize and essential and immeasurable value of the Book of govern thy Church!” They said, “Lord, teach us Common Prayer: its services are not, indeed, the to pray!” warmed-up revival of one “ previous meeting;” An interesting example of the manner in which they are the net survivals of some nineteen cen a right faith has been not only preserved, but re turies of “ previous meetings” since the founda stored, by cleaving to right forms of worship, lies tion of the Christian Church. in the history of the East Syrian Church. In the Throughout the history of that Church devout fifth century they were carried away by the souls out of every nation under heaven have cease Nestorian heresy. For a time they displayed some lessly sought for such forms as might be most of the most remarkable missionary energy in his adequate to set forth the praise of God’s majesty, tory, conquered Persia, invaded the coasts of and to express and inspire man’s devotion. In India, and at one time numbered millions of ad numerable experiments were tried, with a variety herents in western China. But cut off from the and a fertility beyond the comprehension of any parent Orthodoxy of the Empire, and hard beset one who has not devoted years to their study. Out by the militant hosts of Islam, they declined again of all these, the best did not perish with the hear to a very low estate, till like a submerged con ing. They were carried on: not only to the next tinent, only a couple of former summits survived service, but to the next episcopate, the next sacra as islands in the midst of an infidel sea. When mentary or other form of Prayer Book, some in modern times the Archbishop of Canterbury’s times not only to the next, but to the farthest re Mission went to the aid of one of these faithful moved, National Church. The development of remnants in Persia, the interesting discovery was

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made that they were too poor, too ignorant, any century of ours. We have a historic liturgy in the longer to qualify as heretics in good standing; people’s tongue— only half of which statement is they had literally forgotten what it was all about! true for either of those other groups. For over a They had preserved the Orthodox liturgy they hundred years we have proved the value of this carried away with them at their foundation— and sort of forward movement which is also an up that liturgy had healed their heresy. They did ward movement of the soul in adoration and com not need to be converted; they needed only to be munion with God. There is no question that the taught. Prayer Book is important in the life of the Church. It is no less important to the individual, TN A LIKE manner our Mother Church of Eng to the extent that he makes his worship the cen land suffered considerably from the invasion of ter of his life. To know what we mean—to mean what has been called an adventitious Calvinism. what we say—to put ourselves, for all we are Puritanism alone proved powerless to conquer worth, into those grand all-embracing generalities the Church, even by the temporary triumph of the of the supplications of our “ Common Prayer”— Commonwealth, which for fifteen years expelled this is to take our part in the aspirations of the her clergy and outlawed her services. But the ages: political reaction from the Romanism of James II “ But, Lord, thy Church is praying yet, bled the Church white, by excluding nearly all A thousand years the same.” the clergy who believed in Church and sacra ments, in the tragic schism of the Nonjurors. The QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION historic traditions of an apostolic Church were 1. How was the Prayer Book Compiled? 2. Name the principle services in the Prayer Book. at an end; and the cold logics of Calvin insensibly 3. What did the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Mission dis pervaded an empty field. So little religion was cover in Persia? left in high places that the hierarchy did not 4. Have a member of the class prepare a talk on the recognize it when they saw it. John Wesley, part the Prayer Book has played in English history. starting to practice the religion of the Prayer 5. Have a member relate the story of the movement led by the Wesleys. Book, might have renewed the face of the earth, 6. How does the American Prayer Book differ from the if the leaders of the Church had had the slightest English? idea of how to utilize the heartfelt enthusiasms 7. Have changes been made in our Prayer Book recently? of his followers. The only result was another drastic bloodletting, which left the Church prob ably more anemic, cold, and lifeless than any great Church has ever been. L e t ’s K n o w From this worse than Laodicean state the By Church was revivified by the Oxford Movement BISHOP WILSON

of a hundred years ago. Sometimes it is called P a p a l Su ccession The Catholic Revival. But it was more than that; TT ALL sounds very simple. St. Peter was given it was a revival of the historic Christian religion. authority over the Church. To his successors Its enemies stigmatized it as ritualism. In this that authority was transmitted— one, two, three, they were partly right. It was a movement four— right down to Pius XII, number 262, who centering in worship. It began and continued by is being crowned this week at the Vatican. taking the Prayer Book seriously. It found the As a matter of fact it is not at all simple. It living voice of the Church in the voice of her is confusing beyond any possibility of unravelling. prayers. Its followers proceeded to vitalize their Nobody can tell who have been the authentic own personal religion, and therewith the witness popes and, since the popes appoint the cardinals, of the Church, by meaning what they said when nobody can say which cardinals have been they spoke to God. Once again the use of a his qualified to elect new popes. toric liturgy has restored the historic faith. It A few years ago Robert R. Hull, secretary of is the spiritual power of the Book of Common the national Catholic bureau of information, made Prayer that has raised up this insular Church a public statement in which he said there was and that as good as dead”— to a world-wide one more pope than the number listed in the Communion, conscious of its universal mission, Catholic Encyclopedia. During the Great Schism conquering and to conquer; a believing Church of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there because it is a praying Church. were two and three popes at the same time all Romans and Lutherans alike are hailing as a contesting for papal honors. Mr. Hull says that precious discovery their newborn idea of a the Roman popes during this period are the Liturgical Movement. We are well into the second authentic ones, thus excluding Alexander V and

John XXIII. But both of these are included in the coronation. Hence it becomes a real question Encyclopedia as true popes. whether the election of Stephen does not neces To quote the Encyclopedia, “ There are some sarily qualify him for a place in the list. few cases, also, in which it is still doubted In the old records there appears to have been whether particular individuals should be ac a good deal of uncertainty regarding the many counted genuine popes or intruders, and, accord popes who took the title of John. Two dates were ing to the view taken by the compiler of the list, given for John XIV which resulted in the assign they will be included or excluded.” False popes ing of a separate pope for each of the dates. Be are known as “ anti-popes,” spurious contenders cause of this error a pope in the thirteenth cen for the papal chair. The Encyclopedia notes 26 of tury took the name of John XXI when he should these but says there were many more. really have been John XX. Hence the sequence The Encyclopedia’s official list (vol. XII, page of John’s in the official list shows the complete 274) gives Benedict X as pope number 154. But omission of any John XX, passing from John in volume II, page 429, he is curtly dismissed XIX in 1024 to John XXI in 1276. with the statement, “ The bearer of this name was In the Encyclopedia’s list the first eleven popes an anti-pope in the days of Nicholas II, 1056- all carry question marks, indicating that the re 1061.” cords are uncertain. The third pope was The official list gives Boniface VII as a true Anacletus I but he was also called Cletus. There pope numbered 138. But in volume II, page 661, fore some of the early records have counted him he is marked off as an anti-pope. twice but the Encyclopedia has changed this by In the year 752 a pope named Stephen was duly combining the two into one pope. elected but died before his coronation. Therefore Well— it is not a matter of great importance he is not included in the official list. But in the but it is one of the several things that make it eleventh century it was decreed that the papal difficult to maintain the theory of supreme papal dignity was conferred by the election, not by the authority.

Church Loyalty By BISHOP JOHNSON HE GOSPEL of Christ is based upon law, If one believes in Holy Scripture there can be T rooted in love and productive of life. If we no doubt that there is a Church to which He com study the Gospels we find certain objectives for mitted the faith and sacraments and to which which Christ lived and died. These objectives He promised His presence and to which He gave are that He founded a Church; that He instituted the gift of the Holy Spirit. sacraments; and that He promised the gift of the In the first place, at the end of His human Holy Spirit to His Church. Because we are His ministry He said that He would build His Church disciples we try to keep the moral law and if we upon the rock of St. Peter’s confession and that love Him we will keep His commandments, guided the gates of hell should not prevail against it. and strengthened by His Holy Spirit. He also bade His disciples to take their differences If there is one motive stronger than love it is to the Church and if men refused to hear the loyalty to an institution whether it be the home, Church, they were to be as heathen men, outside the state or the Church. For this cause a man will the fold. The Church had authority. Thus He leave his family and go forth to defend his coun created a Church which St. Paul tells us was pur try. He does not do this to save his skin, but to chased by His blood; which was “ the pillar and satisfy his conscience. If we do this for our ground of the truth” and which Christ would country we ought to do no less for our Master. present to the Father, “ a glorious Church without Our loyalty to the Church is not to save our own spot or wrinkle.” As a matter of fact the apostles souls, but to show our love by obeying His com were the charter members of an institution to mandments. If there be a brotherhood that He which men were initiated in baptism; to which founded then it demands that we seek to ascertain was entrusted the apostles’ doctrine; in which was what it is and attach ourselves to it regardless established the apostolic fellowship and because of our own prejudices. There are three ques of which St. Paul referred to “ those within” and tions to which we should give a definite answer: “those without.” (1) Is there such a Church? (2) What are its This institution was perpetuated by definite essential features? (3) What is my obligation officers who were set apart by the laying on of to it as one of His disciples? hands and when a difference arose, the govern- Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. March 16, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Seven

ing body at Jerusalem rendered a decision (Acts tion and the judgement.— (Hebrews VI). No X V ). St. Paul further emphasized that certain mention of Peter nor any warrant for discontinu authority was bestowed by the laying on of hands ing the laying on of hands. and a definite deposit of faith was entrusted to What then is our obligation as disciples? It those thus ordained. There was no time between would seem that we should seek to find that the apostolic days and those of the early fathers branch of the vine which strives to keep all of the when there was any questions about the authority faith once delivered to the Saints, but does not of a corporate body. If anyone had stated in the willingly separate itself from the rest of Christen early centuries that there was no such authorita dom, but recognizes that the universal Church tive body as the Holy Catholic Church he would cannot be limited by some national designation, have been laughed out of court. Whatever form of and that it exists in the separate nations as one organization it took, there can be no question that body in Christ. The universal Church cannot be the framers of the creeds believed in the Holy merely Roman or Anglican without losing the Catholic Church and embodied it in their pro note of universality for there is neither Jew nor fession of faith, the Apostles’ Creed. Greek, Roman nor Anglican but all are one body in Christ. TF THEN there was a Church in the days of the In loyalty to Christ I want to identify myself apostles what were its essential marks or char with a body which claims apostolic origin and acteristics? You can find them in the first yet does not add to or subtract from the basic missionary venture when “ Philip went down to foundations. Certainly a group which denies that Samaria and preached Christ unto them.” What there is a Holy Catholic Church is as perverse as did he carry down to Samaria, as one who had one which tries to bottle up universality by a been commissioned by the laying on of hands to national prefix. As Fernullian, Bishop of represent the Church? He carried with him four Caesarea, said of the Roman Church, “ You have things: First, he had served the Christ and knew not excommunicated us, but have merely separ all that the Apostles’ Creed asserts about Him. ated yourself from the rest of Christendom.” He had the faith. Second, he had the Old Testa Loyalty is too fine a quality to be omitted from ment scriptures, as witness his conversation with our Christian heritage, but to exercise it one the Ethiopian. Third, he took the sacraments must believe in an institution of apostolic origin. to the Samaritans. His converts were baptized, There must be a reality to which we pay our confirmed by the Apostle and on the first day of loyalty, not to save our souls, but to be obedient the week met to break bread. Fourth, he was him to the Master’s will. self commissioned by the laying on of hands to It is not enough to admire Christ. We must represent the Church. These four things seemed enlist in His service. If we love Him we will obey to constitute the essential features of the Gospel His commandments rather than merely exploit in the apostolic days. “ Other foundations could His philosophy. no man lay” said St. Paul and if any one were to preach any other Gospel he was to be anathema. The Church was God’s building and each Chris tian a lively stone in its creation. Considering Choirs When Rome added the infallibility of the T SIT considering the good old days and things Bishop of Rome as an essential element of the as they used to be, among them the old boys’ faith one is reminded that St. Peter was sent to choir of my younger days. The grinning, cherubic the Jews and St. Paul to the Gentile world and faces of a boys’ choir delights the mind of some St. Paul withstood St. Peter to the face because; worshippers whose ideas of what a church should he favored a Hebrew-Catholic Church. What be are drawn from pictures. Those worshippers ever the universality of the Church is, it could seldom know the labor and patience needed to deal not be hyphenated by a limiting adjective, be ii; with dirty faces and hands, mussed hair, torn Hebrew, Greek, Roman, or Anglican. and soiled vestments, and kindred problems of When Protestants at the Reformation removed discipline. Neither do they realize as we know, from the faith the laying on of hands they omitted that more men have been brought into the Church one of the basic foundations that are set forth and into its ministry from the humble beginning in the Epistle to the Hebrews which says, “ Leav as a choir boy, than by any other single factor ing the a-b-c’s of the doctrine of Christ let us go which has attracted men to the Episcopal Church. on to perfection, not laying again the founda I have listened to the arguments as to why the tions” of (1) Repentance and faith; (2) Bap boys’ choirs have passed into limbo; but I believe tism and laying on of hands; (3) The Resurrec- the real reason is that we do not have the men

and women willing to make the sacrifice to main and, therefore, his definite responsibility, for the tain them. Church says, “ it shall be the duty of every min Now they tell us that, “ the quality of the music ister to appoint for use in his congregation hymns and the service is improved by adult choirs.” I and anthems from those authorized by the ru wonder! Though the rector does not have to find brics, and with such assistance as he may see fit a woman who as choirmother will wash their to employ from persons skilled in music, to give faces and comb their hair, still, in some cases, he order concerning the tunes to be sung in his might (if he dared) suggest the removal of cos church. It shall be his especial duty to suppress metics, jewelry and falderals. all light and unseemly music, and all irreverence They tell us “ they won’t chew gum, nor talk in the performance.” (Canon 47). and giggle, and have to be rebuked, as the boys It is a considerable responsibility which the did;” but I am not so sure, as a rebuke does not Church imposes here upon her clergy. The other bring the blank expression of innocence which the churches and organizations generally leave it to boys put up, but rather the terrible pout of the a lay committee or a musician entirely. I believe mortally wounded. when one travels around and sees the results, one “ They can read and learn so much more easily must agree that the Church’s system does pro and rapidly than the boys.” ’Tis true; but, again, duce— despite its weaknesses and mistakes— a I wonder if that in turn has not impoverished our better brand of devotional and helpful music, and services. They learn so much more rapidly than less of the entertainment and concert variety. The the congregation that they are tired of a thing clergyman who takes the responsibility serious by the time the congregation has learned it. The ly, indeed feels that he is a “ Poor Parson.” adult choir has done much to take the service By the way, do you know I took that expression away from the congregation, thereby changing it “ Poor Parson” from Chaucer; but then, I do not into an audience. see why he was a “ Poor Parson” in Chaucer’s day, because there was certainly not the furious supply “ They can sing so much more complicated and of pseudo church music, and popular sentimental beautiful things.” Beauty requires the quality of perfection, and many a Te Deum sung to a simple junk; and Canterbury must have had a boys’ choir!— T h e P o o r P a r s o n . chant comes nearer to being perfect than the pro duction of an elaborate and difficult composition. The boys could easily be arranged in a well "Lest We — appearing, symmetrical line of procession, accord ing to age or height. With all apologies to the ladies, I have often watched a choir in procession and tried to figure whether they were arranged by age, voice, choice or width; certainly not by height, which is the best and most logical arrange ment. I have even tried to arrange them; and, believe me, the young hoodlums of the old boys’ choir were tame and gentle compared with the ladies of our modern choir when you tried to make them walk with someone. The hours we spent in the old boys’ choir learning to articulate! Certainly you could not ask such simple practices of a modern adult choir! Perhaps not, but while the hymns are familiar and the canticles leave me only three guesses as to which one it is, still it has been a long while since I heard the words T h e spirit of giving— Gorham Alms Basons of of an anthem; I am always grateful when they distinction— V38 Etched Brass (as shown) diam. are printed in the bulletin, that I may know what 12 with Plush Mat, $20.00— Illustrated price lists of all Gorham finest quality Church goods sent on it is all about. The rubric directs that they shall request. be in the words of Holy Scripture, the Book of MAIL COUPON Common Prayer, or the Hymn Book. I hope the T H E GORHAM COMPANY rule is observed in most churches: one wouldn’t Eccl. Dept. W - 1 Providence, R. I. know. Name.______This is only the meditation of one parson; but, after all, it is the problem of every parish priest Address______

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. March 16, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Nine THE BOOK EDITOR NEWS NOTES OF Front Page Churchman CALLS ATTENTION THE CHURCH IN TO SOURCE BOOK BRIEF PARAGRAPHS By G a r d in e r M. D a y Edited by E d w a r d J. M o h r Even though our managing editor has already stressed the importance The present campaign of the Na of the book in his column of a few tional Council to raise the $300,000 weeks ago, I again want to call atten budget shortage is as much an oppor tion to what Arthur Krock of the tunity for witnessing to belief in God New York Times calls a policy-form as a means of raising the needed ing book. The German Reich and funds, the Rev. Charles W. Sheerin, Americans of German Origin (Ox vice-president of the National Coun ford University Press, $1.50) has cil, explained in a statement March been written, or possibly we had 7. “ Our Chinese Christian breth better say compiled, by fourteen ren,” he said, “ are asking us in the Americans. Seldom has a book been time of their weakness to show that sponsored by a more distinguished through God man can be strong, and group. There is not room to put their they have demonstrated to us by titles, but surely no one can read this their faith in time of distress the character of real Christian suffering list without recognizing a few names, NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER under persecution. In Japan we and all we need add beyond that is is a Churchman famous for many have a young Christian Church that the ones they recognize are typi things. He is the president of one of struggling against overwhelming cal of the high character of the entire the largest educational institutions in odds, but witnessing through the fourteen. The sponsors are Charles the world, Columbia University. To eternal strength that comes from a C. Burlingham, James Byrne, Ber the public he is best known as a dili knowledge that only under God can nard Flexner, Monte M. Lemann, gent worker for world peace, for the problems of mankind be solved. Howard Chandler Robbins, Samuel which he was once awarded the Nobel What we are asking in the way of Seabury, Henry L. Stimson, Nicholas Prize. He is a devout Churchman money gifts is so small that its great Murray Butler, Alfred E. Cohn, Felix and a trustee of the Cathedral of St. est significance may not be realized. Frankfurter, George Wharton Pep John the Divine in New York. Nomi- Less than the price of a moving pic per, Monsignor Ryan, Murray nations please, with pictures. Seasongood, Nathan Straus. ture show, little more than a pack The best way to give W it n e s s “ The excerpts printed in this book age of cigarettes from each communi readers the significance of the book are derived from various sources and cant, will balance the budget of the is to quote a few sentences from its are the utterances of many persons, general Church, strengthen the cour preface signed by these fourteen men: but all preach a single idea: that a age of our representatives in the far “ This book is intended to expose the person of German descent is always off and lonely places, and give a hope purposes of National Socialist a German and belongs to Germany. and vision to the members of local parishes.” (Nazi) propaganda outside the “ The likelihood that this form of * * * Reich . . . Within the past three years foreign propaganda will become a it has become increasingly evident danger is remote; yet it is desirable Deaconess Clark that, under the impetus of its racial to inform the American public of the At School in China theory, National Socialism is now at attitude of the German government Deaconess Julia Clark of Pasa tempting to unify all persons of Ger toward American institutions and dena, California, who was in the man birth or ancestry, regardless of particularly toward American prin United States last year on furlough their present citizenship . . . Nazi ciples of citizenship.” from China, and whose story of her groups outside Germany are now The book contains many transla visit to the 8th Route Army was one consolidated under the official di tions and facsimile copies of some of the most exciting stories to ap rection of the foreign division of the thirty odd documents that reveal the pear in a Church paper last year, has National Socialist Party . . . Offi determination of Hitler and his col joined the staff of the combined cially, the purpose of this organiza leagues to impress German culture diocesan schools for boys and girls. tion is to bring all those of German upon the world whether the world The school moved from Wuchang to citizenship living outside Germany wants it or not. Here is a typical Hankow and recently to Chuan into the ranks of the National statement of Hitler’s: “ The German Hsien, and now finding that remote Socialist Party . . . In the past, the Reich as a State must embrace all spot unsafe from Japanese air raids Pan-Germanic activities of the Nazi Germans not only for the purpose of has moved again, as previously re regime have been particularly strong uniting and maintaining the most ported. She takes the place of Ve- in these countries which border on valuable racial elements of this na netia Cox who returns home for a Germany. Recently, however, there tion but also for the purpose of rais furlough after one of the most dif has been a marked intensification of ing the German nation gradually and ficult years in missionary history. this campaign of propaganda on the safely to a dominating position.” As ▼ Sfc American continent. German news we see from the following quotation Speakers in papers in the United States are from Dr. E. W. Bohle, this is not Philadelphia supplied with free news services, simply talk but is being made effec Philadelphia has a wealth of German schools with free educational tive by the various ministries: “ It is speakers this week. Headmaster materials, German radio listeners natural that during the first year Neville Gorton of England’s famous with special short-wave broadcasts. since its establishment, the foreign Blundell School, lecturer at the This propaganda is all directed to commercial office could succeed only Berkeley Divinity . School was the ward one goal; to instil in the Amer in part in mobilizing the foreign Ger preacher on Sunday at St. Mary’s, ican citizen of German descent a mans from the point of view of eco Ardmore. Incidentally the Rev. consciousness of the German ‘race’ nomics. In spite of this, I may say Louis Pitt just celebrated his tenth and a feeling of allegiance toward without exaggeration that the foreign anniversary as rector of the parish. the German Reich. (Continued on page 14) . , . Miss Anna S. Van Kirk, since

1921 a nurse in our hospital at Off-Moment Department Bishop Stevens was chairman of the Kyoto, Japan, was the speaker on committee on arrangements, of which March 14th at St. Thomas’, White- At the left Mrs. Stevens and Reynold E. Blight marsh. She is now on her way back you have a port were also members. In a notable to her post in Japan. . . . The Rev. ly parson by the address on “ Fundamentalism and Hollis S. Smith, missionary to China, name of Norman Radicalism at Madras” Prof. P. C. addressed the Auxiliary of the dio Hsu of the University of Shanghai Nash swinging cese on March 15th. On furlough maintained that Madras had discov after sixteen years in China, he has lustily and send ered that the fundamentals of the carried on an extensive work among ing a pop-up to Christian faith lead directly to radi the rice farmers a hundred miles in the pitcher. When cal social action. He reported that land from Shanghai and he told ex he is at work he although there were some differences citing stories of that work and also is at present a of emphasis, particularly in the case of the work among refugees since professor at of the German confessional delega the invasion by Japan. . . . Lenten Cambridge Sem tion, the Madras conference felt com preachers in the city include Bishop inary, though he mitted to seeking radical social Bennett of Rhode Island at Holy is to be the rec change. Trinity and at the Locust Street Hs He H* tor of St. Paul’s Theatre, the Rev. Brooke Stabler, Noted Preachers for university chaplain, at Old Christ School in the Fall. College Town Church, and also the Rev. Henry F. While over here you have the With the visit on March 5 of Bish Kloman, father of Rector Felix Klo- op Henry D. Phillips of Southwest managing editor of T h e W i t n e s s , man. On Saturday the speaker at who came to bat in the ninth with the ern Virginia to the Robert E. Lee Old Christ Church will be Layman score tied and Memorial Church, Lexington, Vir William White Jr., a direct descend ginia, began a series of addresses by ant of Bishop White, one-time rector whammed a liner over the left field speakers appealing to college stu and the first American Bishop. H: * * wall. Notice the dents. The Memorial Church, Rev. sprightly w a y Thomas H. Wright, rector, ministers Father Hughson Addresses this trim ath to the students at Washington and Philadelphia Clergy lete gets off to Lee University and the Virginia The art of preaching to souls was first. Unfortun Military Institute. Other preachers the topic dealt with on Monday, ately the mighty in the series are Canon Raven, chap March 13th, in an address to the blow was foul lain to the king of England, now clerical brotherhood of the diocese and he subse visiting in this country; the Rev. Ar of Philadephia by Father Hughson quently took thur Lee Kinsolving of Boston; the of the order of the Holy Cross. Rev. Alexander C. Zabriskie of Vir * * ❖ strike three with his bat on his ginia Seminary; the Rev. Oliver J. Florida Auxiliary shoulder to end this ball game last Hart of Washington; the Very Rev. Raises Scholarship summer at the Wellesley Conference. Noble C. Powell, dean of the Wash The Florida branch of the Wom ington cathedral. an’s Auxiliary is raising $500 over He H« He a period of two years for the train day when they are to march about Children Put ing of a Negro girl at the Bishop the district behind a Salvation Army Out Fire Tuttle School, which is a part of St. Band and a drum and bugle corp, When an overheated stove caused Augustine’s College, Raleigh, North winding up with a service in Norris the building of Grace Church, Ran Carolina. It is a memorial to Mrs. Square. The speaker is to be the dolph, N. Y., to catch fire one Sun Jeannie O. M. Cornell, late execu Rev. Joseph Robinson, Reformed day recently one of the church school tive secretary of the diocese, whose Episcopal rector. Other sections of classes extinguished it with snow and interest in Negro work was always the city are watching the experiment water. Serious damage was prevent great. with an idea of having similar dem ed, ’ and the local fire department * * * onstrations of their own. Pastors was not called. After-Madras Meeting of Kensington churches report that H« ^ H« in Phoenix already it has resulted in increased Church Needs Knowledge congregations. An After-Madras meeting was held * * * on Rural Life in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 5th The Church is weak in the rural and 6th, with such a large number Preaching Mission field because its people know little of people desiring to attend that the in Pennsylvania about the forty per cent of the coun committee had to send out notices Bishop Taitt has sent a message try’s population living in rural areas, that the sessions would have to be to 76,000 communicants of his dio according to the Rev. E. Dargan Butt limited to a selected group of Church cese of Pennsylvania, urging them of Valle Crucis, N. C., who led a dis leaders. to support the preaching missions to cussion on specialized training for H« ^ Hi be held throughout the diocese from rural workers at the Church Work Going to Them March 19th through the 26th. Final ers’ Conference on Mountain work W ith Bands preparation of the clergy taking part in Knoxville, Tennessee, March 6 In the Kensington district of Phil will be a quiet day held on March and 7. He said that to meet the op adelphia the churches have united 19th led by Father Hoffman of the portunity in the rural field a specially for a series of outdoor revival serv Cowley Fathers. trained clergy is needed, and sug ices, under the auspices of a preach * * * gested that one of the Church’s sem er’s committee headed by Episco Post-Madras Meeting inaries, possibly DuBose in Tennes palian Rector Albert W. Eastburn. in Los Angeles see, could be used to provide the The first one was last Saturday eve In Los Angeles, as elsewhere, Epis training. The conference was pre ning but it was not outdoors . . . copalians were prominent in the con sided over by the Rev. George P. rain . . . so they moved into a church. duct of the post-Madras conference Mayo of Bris, Virginia. In the quiet They hope for better luck this Satur- for that area, held March 7 and 8. hour Deaconess Edith A. Booth said

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. March 16, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven that Church workers are in danger reception should take place publicly, of becoming too busy in the detailed Ideas and Methods whether conducted by a priest or activities of their life to keep clearly XPERTS in religious educa bishop. before them the one central purpose E tion agree that it is impor * * * of glorifying God. Mrs. John C. tant to have children work on a Young People Confer Campbell of the Campbell Folk project and not merely listen to On Holy Communion School at Brasstown, N. C., led a dis instruction. Here is a project: se Fifty young people from twelve cussion on organized recreation in cure for each member of the class parishes around New Haven, Con rural communities, and Bishop Grib- a penny copy of the Book of Acts, necticut, met at the Berkeley Divinity bin of Western North Carolina spoke which may be secured from the School on March 4 to discuss the on rural Church music. The confer American Bible Society, Park Ave implications of the Holy Communion ence voted to submit to the commis nue, New York. Also give each in the world today. It was the con sion on the revision of the hymnal a child a pencil that is red at one clusion of the assembly that a study request for inclusion of certain sim end and blue at the other. All of the Holy Communion in groups, ple hymns suitable for use in rural words of instruction to the Church, conferences and lectures by Chris congregations. Following this con such as baptism, Holy Communion, tians of all descriptions would provide ference 42 Episcopalian mountain ministry, confirmation, ordination, an effective basis for Church reunion. workers attended the general Con are underlined with red. All places Delegates presented papers on the ference of Southern Mountain Work where St. Paul visited are under Lord’s Supper and its relation to ers, held March 7 to 9. lined in blue. The Book of Acts is parish, Church, and world unity, and read in class, or chapters assigned a communicant of the Eastern Ortho Noted California and reported upon. This simple dox Church read a paper on the Organist Dies project develops intense and grow Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Hs Hi H* Percy Shaul Hallett, noted Church ing interest; brings home that the organist and composer, died early in Apostolic Church had the same Preacher Appointed For March in Pasadena, California, things found in our churches now, Burton Consecration where he had been organist and choir and makes for a feeling of security Bishop-Editor Johnson is to be the director for many years at All Saints in a Church that has lived preacher at the consecration of the Church. Surviving are his wife and, throughout the ages. Rev. Spencer Burton as suffragan among other children, the Rev. Har bishop of Haiti. The service is to old Hallett, rector of Christ Church, be in Boston on May 3rd. Father Quincy, Mass., and Mrs. Randolph C. the University Religious Conference Burton is the superior of the Cow Miller, of Berkeley, Calif. of Los Angeles, representing the ley Fathers, with headquarters in Boston. * * * work of the National Conference of * * * Christians and Jews. Each “ tria- Bishop Brent Anniversary logue team” is composed of a Jew, Church Warned to Be Observed a Protestant, and a Roman Catholic. By Forum Speaker The tenth anniversary of the After each member of the team If the Church as an institution death of Bishop Charles Henry Brent makes a short speech they begin to seeks to maintain its privileges and is to be observed at a service at Trin ask each other typical questions in property, it will be swept off the face ity Church, Buffalo, on Sunday, volving religious prejudices. The of this changing world, the Rev. Wil March 26, with Bishop John Ward audience is then invited to join in liam B. Spofford declared on Sunday, of Erie and Bishop Cameron J. Davis the questions and discussions. More March 5th, at the Baltimore Open of Western New York as speakers,. requests for teams have come in than Forum. “ On the other hand if the The international memorial commit it has been possible to fill. Church takes a courageous stand and tee has set this date for Bishop fights for humanity in its struggle for Brent’s own diocese, with the hope sfc * H« a better world, it will play a very for world-wide observance of the Civil Marriage important role in the formation of a event. Held Valid new society that is emerging,” he * * * A marriage ceremony performed added. The alignment of the hier Roots and Buchman by a civil magistrate should not be archy in Spain with the Insurgents repeated, according to a letter Bishop Return to U. S. was cited by the speaker as an Manning has sent to the clergy of example of the Church seeking to Accompanied by Bishop Logan H. the diocese of New York. “ Although maintain its property rights and Roots, retired bishop of Hankow, the it has not been solemnized and privileges. “ I am glad to say that Rev. Frank N. D. Buchman, founder blessed by the Church,” the bishop many priests stood by their charges and leader of the Oxford Group says, “ a marriage performed by a and administered to the needs of movement, arrived in New York civil ceremony, if there were no im their parishioners under the Republi March 9 after two and a half years pediments to it, is a valid marriage, can government,” he continued. Con in Europe and the Near East. He the children born of such a marriage tending that organized religion had announced plans to form “ moral re are legitimate, and therefore such a betrayed humanity on more than one armament training stations” in vari marriage should not be repeated. To occasion, and therefore suffered the ous parts of the country, in his cam repeat such marriages would in some fate of the Church in Russia, the paign for a “ new! moral climate” cases bring into question the legit speaker declared that even in en and for a “ battle for peace.” imacy of children born of the mar lightened America churches often H« * H« riage.” In the letter Bishop Man attempted to enslave by propagating Speaking Teams ning also points out that the Prayer the idea that people should accept Urge Tolerance Book rubric in the rite of confirma injustice upon earth because of the To further a program for religious tion specifically directs that the con hope of rewards in heaven. “ Jesus toleration in southern California gregation is to remain standing until did not talk about pie in the sky when groups of three speakers, all students all the candidates have been con you die. He said we are to establish or alumni of southern California col firmed. When Roman Catholics are here upon earth His Kingdom, and leges, have been speaking to Church received into the Episcopal Church He laid down principles through and fraternal groups on behalf of without reeonfirmation such official which this could be brought about.

Those principles in brief are that Church’s work among Negroes. He the Rev. Frederick Peet Taft, was human beings are the most important was active in the organization and greeted by a former rector, the Rev. things in the sight of God; that men work of the Church of the Good Frederick E. Seymour, now at St. should live on this earth as brothers, Shepherd, Lynchburg. George’s, Ardmore, Penn., and by and that the meaning of life is to the Rev. Thom Williamson, rector of be found in service to others. The Two Bishops Visit the neighboring parish of St. Peter’s, social implications of these principles Berkeley School Narragansett. pack enough dynamite to blow this Bishop I. P. Johnson visited the * * * world into a cocked hat.” Mr. Spof- Berkeley Divinity School at New ford paid tribute to the capitalist Young People Meet Haven on March 2, giving a lecture In Virginia system by declaring that it had re in pastoral theology and making ad leased great energies, created an Bishop Henry Phillips of South dresses, while Bishop Wallace J. abundance of goods through the crea western Virginia led the recent mid Gardner of New Jersey conducted tion of a marvelous industrial ma winter conference of the Young a retreat there on March 3 and 4. chine. However because the world People’s Service League of his dio In the retreat Bishop Gardner de has become so largely industrialized cese, presenting three points for the clared that the enemy of the Church former markets are largely lost, with group’s consideration: Your vision of today is the popular lay and clerical a resulting misery at home and a the Lord Jesus Christ; Understanding view that the Church is “ a club whose world war threatening. “ Our present the Lord Jesus Christ; Following the chief function is to entertain those world crisis is not due to wicked men Lord Jesus Christ. Each topic was who belong.” The Church, he be messing up a perfectly good economic taken up by one of three divisions, of lieves, is passing through a period of system, but rather the breakdown is the group. The conference was opened transition, but with the increasingly due to even good men finding it im by the Rev. Charles C. Fishburne, Jr., happier relations between religious possible to make a bad system work rector of Christ Church, Martinsville, any longer.” bodies at the present time he sees at which the meeting was held. The “ the grandest chance ever for the Rev. John F. W. Field of Christ Dealing with the international Church.” situation Mr. Spofford maintained that the Church should advocate eco Rhode Island Church nomic anl moral action against ag Observes 100 Years gressor nations, and should likewise The Church of the Ascension, support the victims of aggression, Wakefield, Rhode Island, last week notably China and Loyalist Spain. celebrated the 100th anniversary of “ Such action is far removed from the its founding, with Bishops Perry and Christian ideal, but we are not liv Bennett speaking in the course of ing in an ideal world so that we are the observance. The present rector, compelled to deal realistically with the situation as it is. This calls for cooperation with those forces that are seeking to extend democracy to all areas of life and to maintain peace.” * * * Prominent Negro Churchman Dies Dr. Augustus N. Lushington, a veterinary surgeon of Lynchburg, Virginia, died on February 12, aged 68. He had devoted many years of effort to the extension of the

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Church, Roanoke, who heads the mit such outside work even against engagements in the diocese of Michi young people’s work in the diocese, his better judgment. “ The worker gan recently, including those at St. assisted at the conference. who has to live on his missionary sal Paul’s Cathedral and St. John’s * * ary simply cannot make ends meet,” Church in Detroit, and St. Paul’s, Rhode Island Has Bishop Binsted holds. “ The Church Jackson. Social Service Talks is demanding heroic work from under With “ The Challenge to the paid men and women. This results in Chicago Suffragan to Church” as the general subject the many valuable workers leaving the Be Elected in May social service guild of the diocese of field at the end of their first term, or More than a hundred bishops have Rhode Island, in cooperation with sooner.” if: * * consented to the election of a suf the diocesan department of social fragan bishop in Chicago. As soon service, is offering a series of ad Long Island as a majority of the standing com dresses in Providence. The speaker Bishop Honored mittees send in consents Bishop Stew last week was the Rev. Charles The clergy of the diocese of Long art will issue the call for the special Townsend, rector of St. Stephen’s, Island recently presented to Bishop Providence. Subsequent speakers will J. I. Blair Larned, suffragan of the be the Rev. Fleming James of the diocese, a set of vestments, the occa Berkeley Divinity School and Rabbi sion being the tenth anniversary of William G. Braude of Providence. his consecration. ^ RGEISSLERINCr* Hs ^ H: 450 SIXTH AVE.NEAR 10 th St NEWYORK Pennsylvania Rector Raising Money C h u r c h F u r n i s h in g s Observes Anniversary By Giving IN CARVED WOOD AND (SI (021 MARBLE-BRASS SILVER n I"! Having completed twenty years as A month ago the Rev. 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election, which is expected to be held tive of actual conditions that existed “ Set down in the midst o f” right now: in May. Bishop Stewart is again able throughout the civilized (?) world in places, for example, where the to conduct two confirmation services during the Middle Ages, delving into guillotine, concentration camp and on the same day, following recovery the fields of education, medicine, air bomb have supplanted the old- from his illness of last summer. sanitation, and related subjects, with fashioned and inefficient method of * * * particular reference to the general burning at the stake. New York Cathedral improvement in conditions between It was during this period, how Services in Nave the time of which he writes and the ever, that the darkness showed spots The services, of the Cathedral of St. present. The author holds that to of light and literary genius in Boc- John the Divine wrere moved on March day the cry of “ Back to the Middle cacio, Rabelais, and Spenser,, and 12 to the nave, where they will be Ages!” is growing louder, and later on Scott and Tennyson. held until the work on the sanctuary further declares that “ not one of Although the subject matter is, in and choir is completed and the whole these medieval enthusiasts could part, of a gloomy nature, the author interior is opened. To mark the trans tolerate the living conditions of the handles his thesis with point and wit fer of the services into the nave there 12th and 13th centuries were he and a nicety of expression that per will be a series of special preachers actually set down in the midst of mits description of this period in his from now until Easter, including a them.” One is reminded that it is tory in such manner that the reader number of the bishops of neighboring not difficult to think of a number of will find lively interest in the text.

dioceses. spots that he would not want to be —J o h n A . C a r e y . THE BOOK EDITOR CALLS ATTENTION TO SOURCE BOOK (Continued from page 9) commercial office has carried on re Services in Leading Churches markable and fruitful work which is of great importance both for the The Cathedral of St. John St. Thomas Church Reich and the foreign Germans. The the Divine Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. New York majority of our Germans abroad are New York City Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector actively participating in the economic Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M ., and 10, Morning Prayer. 11, Holy Communion 4 P.M. life, and a large percentage of our and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser Daily Services: 8:30 A.M ., Holy Com mon. munion. political leaders belongs to the mer Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. chant class . . . We shall see to it Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10.) 9, Morning Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. Prayer. 6, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: that the German spirit shall burn in Organ Recital at 4:30. the hearts of our racial comrades Trinity Church. New York abroad like an eternal flame which Chapel of the Intercession Broadway at 155th Broadway and Wall St. cannot be extinguished.” New York City Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar Daily: 8, 12 and 3. And the attempt to create an island Sundays: Holy Communion: 8 and 9 :30. of German influence in America that Service and Sermon: 11 ; Evening Prayer and Sermon, 8 P.M. might be used to undermine Amer Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 St. Paul’s Cathedral icanism is given by the following quo and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. Class Buffalo, New York tation from the Year Book of the in Religion Fridays at 8 P.M. Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. German-American Volksbund: “ Every Grace Church, New York Weekdays: 8, 12:05. effort in behalf of the German youth Rev. W . Russell Bowie, D.D. Tuesday: 10:30 A.M. Holy Communion Broadway at 10th St. and 11:00 A.M. Quiet Hour. is of great importance over there Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat (Germany), since the future of Ger- urdays. mandom in America can no longer Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs Christ Church Cathedral days and Holy Days. Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn, depend upon new recruits from The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean across the sea. It must find its Ger The Heavenly Rest, New York Sunday Services, 8 :00, 9 :3Q, 1 0 :0B, man future in its own land, and con Fifth Avenue at 90th Street 11:00 a.m .; 4:30 p.m. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Week-days: 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion struct it out of its own youth. There Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10:15 (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy fore, the youth groups of the Ger a .m .; Sunday School 9 :30 a .m .; Morning Communion on Wednesdays and Holy Service and Sermon 11 a .m .; Choral Eve Days. 12 :30 p.m. Noonday Service. man-American Volksbund represent ning Prayer 5 p.m. a truly great achievement for Ger- Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com mandom. The children’s choirs of munion, 11 a.m. St. Michael and All Angels Baltimore, Maryland the glee clubs help perpetuate the The Incarnation St. Paul and 20th Street German language. Within the next Madison Avenue and 35th Street Sunday Services: 7 :30, 9 :30, 11 A .M .; The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector 8 P.M. few years, the entire unified strength Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A.M., 4 P.M. Weekdays: Monday, Wednesday and of Germandom will be necessary in Wednesdays and Holy Days: Holy Com 3aturday, 10 A.M. munion 10 A.M. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 7 A.M. order to check the shrinkage in the Daily (except Saturdays). Holy Days, 7 & 10 A.M. Morning Prayer German population through the Noonday 12:15-12:40 P.M. at 9 A.M. Evening Prayer at 5:15 P.M. Americanization of its youth.” St. Bartholomew’s, New York This is a book that ought to be on Park Avenue and 51st Street Trinity Church the table of all those who feel that Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Main and Holman, Houston, Texas 8 A.M .— Holy Communion. The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, there is nothing to fear in Fascism 9 :30 and 11 A.M.— Church School. Rector but that only Communism can under 11 A.M.— Morning Service, Sermon. 7 :30 A.M.— Holy Communion. 4 P.M.— Evensong. Special Music. 9:30 A.M.— Church School. mine our American democracy. Holy Comm. Thurs. & Saints’ Days, 1 1 :00 A.M.— Morning Service and Sermon. 10:30 A.M. 6 :00 P.M.— Young People’s Organizations. Those Gay Middle Ages, by Fred 10:30 A.M.— Holy Communion on Wednes St. James Church, New York days and Holy Days. erick D. Kershner, Willett, Clark & Madison Avenue and 71st Street Co. ($2). One hears of the “ good The Rev. H. W . B. Donegan, Rector 8 A.M.— Holy Communion. Gethsemane, Minneapolis old days” which in many respects 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service & Church 4th Ave. South at 9th St. School. were not so very good after all. Dr. 11 A.M.— Morning Service and Sermon. The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector Kershner, Dean of the School of Re 8:00 P.M.— Choral Evensong & Sermon. Sundays: 8 :00 and 11:00 A.M. Holy Communion, Wednesday, 8 A.M. : Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10 :30 A.M. ligion at Butler University, gives us Thursdays and Saints’ Days, 12 o’clock. Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M. a very interesting volume, descrip- ...... —^

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