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1931 the Witness, Vol. 15, No. 25 THE SACRAMENTS by Irwin Tucker WITNE S S CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 5, 1931 THE TASK OF THE CHURCH ---- IN THE MODERN WORLD H E Editors of T he W itness have asked a group of distinguished people to write on the above subject this Lent. This series, to start in the number for February 19th, is prepared with Lenten discussion groups particularly in mind. Those contrib­ uting are Bishop George Craig Stewart, City Rector W. Russell Bowie, Rural Pastor Harrison Foreman, College Professor Vida D. Scudder, Employer Henry Dennison, Labor Leader Oscar Ameringer, Student Pastor LeRoy Burroughs and National Council Officer Lewis B. Franklin. There will also be four articles by John Rathbone Oliver, clergyman and psychiatrist, in addi­ tion to articles by T he W itness editorial staff. M e s s a g e o f t h e W e e k XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX -XX XX SX XX XX Circulation Office: 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue. 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M etal Designers and Builders íü€íIiORIHL XfiBL€T.§. and Stained Glass of ;-of ' EXETER. ' Cathedral Yard. PIPE ORGANS L O N D O N • u Tufton St. S. VC/. noted for their superior tonal qualities ’mo0er;ÀtÉ?*iN^ MANCHESTER • 3 2 VictoriaSt. v ¿ EDISON BR>Ò?^E-?eOViNCÏ^ and mechanical reliability Correspondence Solicited Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. THE WITNESS A National Paper of the Episcopal Church Vol. XV . No. 25. Five cents a copy $2.00 a year EDITOR, RT. REV. IRVING P. JOHNSON; MANAGING EDITOR, REV. WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD; ASSOCIATE EDITORS, REV. GEO. P. ATWATER, RT. REV. F. E. WILSON, DR. J. R. OLIVER, REV. CLEMENT F. ROGERS, REV. IRWIN ST. JOHN TUCKER. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. Published Every Week EPISCOPAL CHURCH PUBLISHING CO. 6140 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago T he Sacraments By IRWIN ST. JOHN TUCKER H R IS T ’S religion in its essence is fellowship. ‘T hands beckon, saying, “ Come unto me, all ye that tra­ C have called you friends. Y e are my friends. vail and are heavy laden. In the night in which I was Love one another, as I have loved you.” The Holy betrayed— I gave thanks. Lift up your hearts!” Catholic Church is officially defined as “The Fellow­ W e fall in love. And the voice speaks again saying, ship of Saints.” “The flesh is not evil, for I A ll the mystery of its sacra­ created it and I sanctify it. Hu­ ments resolves down into the AN ANNOUNCEMENT man love also is divine. Go, and touch of a friend. So simple— By establish a new Bethlehem.” so commonsense— so comforting; BISHOP JOHNSON W e sin grievously; and again and we have made of them bat­ T N A SM U C H as I am editor of the voice says, “Be not afraid to tle-cries and badges of rivalry, J- T he Witness and a host to the admit your sin, that I may for­ as foolish children fight over the General Convention, which is to give you. I am still your friend. friendly touch of a teacher. meet in Denver commencing Sep­ Go; sin no more; the Lord hath Sacraments are the handclasp tember 16th, I have designated T he put away your sin.” W e approach the valley of the of God, stretching through the Witness as the official organ for the mist of darkness which is the shadow. In suffering and in the broadcasting of such arrangements world of matter and misunder­ hour of death the voice says, as are being made by the Denver standing. “ Pain cannot separate us. It committee for the care of the Con­ W e are born into a strange, brings us closer to me, for I too terrifying existence. All is full vention. Not only will articles ap­ have suffered. Even though the of menace and danger, except pear from time to time dealing with flesh give way, and the spirit part that close circle of parental pro­ the subject, but there will be sev­ from it, still do not be afraid. tection which rings us round. eral Pre-Convention numbers, pre­ Come with me.” Outside it, all is multiplying peril. pared by the cooperation of the com­ All over the world, wherever Then water is poured upon our mittee on publicity for the Conven­ we may go, following whatever brows, from the same hand that tion with the editorial staff of T he gleam may beckon us, the voice stilled the tempest on Gennesaret, follows us, sounding from pole Witness. and the same voice says “ Be not to pole. In equatorial jungle and afraid; it is I.” on lonely mountain peak we see W e grow older, and are confronted with dull mo­ its signs and hear its echo; “Even here I pitch my tab­ notonous tasks, with racking decisions and perplexing ernacle and spread my table for you. Even to this choices, with temptations seemingly impossible to re­ place I have sent my messengers, called and separated sist. Then a hand is laid upon our heads and a voice to bring my greetings to you. Behold, I send my mes­ speaks: “ I am here, my child. Go forward. I sengers before your face, to prepare the way before strengthen you. Be of good cheer.” you. Lo, I am with you always even to the end of the W e go further; pains and disasters multiply. Friends world.” forsake us and torture strikes suddenly, with searing These are the sacraments; pledges of a friendship pain. In the mid-wilderness a table is spread, and that cannot be lost, turn where we will, even though Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS February 5, 1931 we may betray it. These seven gestures of friendship ancient bit of symbolism. As early as the second cen­ — at birth, in youth, in very crisis, in love, in sin, in tury chrism had entered into Christian usage. It was travel, in sickness and at the hour of death,— they are a mixture of olive oil and balsam which had been con­ the hands of a faithful friend reaching for us through secrated by the Bishop. Its particular use was in bap­ the darkness and the mist. In all time of our pros­ tism, confirmation, the ordination of priests, and the perity, in all time of our tribulation, they are there, consecration of bishops. Both in the Eastern and W est­ waiting for us, beckoning to us. ern Church the custom prevailed and is still required There is a mystery about them, yes; but it is not the in the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic com­ mystery of comprehension; rather of definition. Any munions. In our own Church there are no regulations one who has been comforted in sorrow, in pain or in which either require or forbid its use.
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