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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. Sometimes it fear by a token of love— -a flower, or a kiss, or a hand­ is done as a matter of preference and with a desire to clasp, emblem of a love thereby conveyed— such a one keep in line with an ancient symbolical usage running knows well beyond all power to define it what is the far back into pre-christian times. glorious ;meaning of an outward visible sign of an in­ The usual time for the consecrating of oil for the ward spiritual grace. sick and of chrism is Maunday Thursday. The oil used for the sick is plain olive oil without the touch of balsam added. Many bishops make the “blessing of the oils” part of the Maunday Thursday service, L e t’s K now after which the oil and the chrism are distributed to the clergy who desire to use it in sick ministrations or By in baptisms. Sometimes the chrism is mixed with a BISHOP WILSON paste-like substance which can be carried in a small Chrism metal container; sometimes a few drops are poured on T ) A C K in Old Testament times oil was used in many cotton wool which is carried in a container of a differ­ different ways. In all probability it had a utili­ ent type, to be touched by the fingers of the priest or tarian purpose originally, for it was found in a hot and bishop and used in making the sign of the cross on the dry country that it had a healing, soothing, mollifying foreheads of candidates for baptism, confirmation, or effect upon the skin of the human body. From that ordination. kind of use it easily derived a symbolic significance. For instance it was a symbol of joy, as we read in the book of Proverbs— “ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart.” It was also a sign of God’s favor, as appears in Isaiah when he is speaking of the divine blessings Cheerful Confidences which await a repentant Israel and promises among By other things “the oil of joy for mourning.” This is GEORGE PARKIN ATWATER also the thought back" of the well known words of Twenty-third Psalm— “thou anointest my head with A Corner Stone oil.” It was held against Simon the Pharisee as a .N F R ID A Y , January 16, the workmen engaged in mark of discourtesy that he failed to anoint the head O wrecking of the old Sunday School Hall of Grace of our Savior while the notorious woman was com­ Church, Brooklyn Heights, reached the corner stone, mended because “she hath anointed my feet with oint­ which was laid in 1865. (This building and an ad­ ment.” jacent residence are being removed to make way for a Symbolically oil was used for various holy purposes. New Parish House). A box was found beneath the Jacob poured oil on the stone at Bethel as an act of corner stone. It was removed and opened after service consecration. In the thirtieth chapter of Exodus there the following Sunday in the presence of the congrega­ are careful directions for anointing the tabernacle, tion. the altar, and the several vessels used in the worship The usual articles were found in the box, a Bible, of God. But, of course, the most important use was Prayer Book, Hymnal and Convention Journals. But in the anointing of priests and kings. Aaron was thus in addition were one or two booklets of special inter­ set apart for his office; so were David and Solomon. est. One was “The Church Almanac for the year St. Paul carries on this symbolism when he applies it 1865” which was one of the precursors of our present metaphorically to the whole body of the Christian faith­ “Living Church Annual.” ful— “he which hath anointed us is God;” signifying It is a book of seventy-two pages and has in it a that they were a consecrated people, set apart to their calendar with lectionary; information concerning the Christian profession by the outpouring of the Holy dioceses, a list of the clergy and several pages of ad­ Spirit. The summit of it all is reached in Him who is vertisements among which appear such familiar names in a unique sense God’s O w n ; for the name Christ is as J. & R. Lamb, James Pott and Meneely. The “ Liv­ the Greek form of the Hebrew “ Messiah,” both of ing Church Annual” for 1931 has 675 pages. which mean the Anointed One. The growth of the Church in the past sixty-five years With all of this behind it, there is nothing surprising is, of course, remarkable. And one interesting fact is in the fact that the Christians very early took over this the progress made in states whose population has not

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 5, 1931 T H E WITNESS Page Five shown a marked increase. In 1865 the State of Maine My next call was in Downing Street, where our dour had a population of 628,276, and the Church in Maine Scottish Premier invited me to a meal of haggis and had 1340 communicants. In 1930 Maine had 799,662 shortbread. After he had sung “ Scots wha’ hae” and people and 7,382 communicants. we had danced a hornpipe we settled down to business. New Hampshire in 1865 had 326,072 people and “ Nae, laddie,” said our one and only Ramsay, “you’ll 1045 communicants. In 1930 it had 463,746 people nae git ony secrets out of me.” and 6,633 communicants. States with very large “ But,” we pressed, “a few wurds aboot the Free growth in population show likewise a greater growth in Churches.” But he was adamant. “If ye want to talk the Church. religion,” he replied, “ye munna gang to my predeces­ Ohio in 1865 had 2,339,599 people and 6,405 com­ sor. He’s a gr-r-r-and man on that topic. And sich municants. Today Ohio was 6,646,697 people, not philosophy as ye dinna meet with in a day’s march.” quite three times the population of 1865, and it has (in So off we went to see Mr. Stanley B-— .” two dioceses) 48,515 communicants, or nearly eight He was smoking a pipe, as is his wont, in the study times as many as in 1865. of his fine Worcestershire home. After we had been But the development of our Missions in foreign round the stables and poked the pigs we resumed our lands is phenomenal. W e had three in 1865. West pipes. “ Can you tell me when we may expect a Gen­ Africa (Liberia) with 11 clergy, China with 5 clergy eral Election ?” was our first attempt to break the ice. and Japan with 2 clergy. Today Liberia has 40 clergy, Well,” said Mr. B. with a wink, “now that is a mat­ China 126 clergy and Japan has 94 clergy. But this is ter which has passed out of my hands. Y e’d better go only a meagre glimpse of the growth of our missions. and talk to L ...... G ...... ” So after a game of bil­ The list of clergy contains names of 40 bishops and liards, we took train to Wales and sought out the about 2,300 priests. Today we have 152 bishops and Welsh Wizard. 6,150 priests. But we get nothing out of him but— stories. There The record of the general organizations of the Church occupy about four pages of this pamphlet. A was the one of the waifs who sung outside the Jew’s similar record in the “Living Church Annual” occupies house at Swansea on Christmas Eve, “Christians, 100 pages. awake, salute the happy morn,” when the Jew opened his bedroom window and called out to them, “ Go away, Whatever the discouragements over brief periods of the life of the Church, the view over a long period is ve are not Christians, and ve want to sleep.” My host hopeful. deplored the habits of the new generation. “Why, Manby,” he said, “in my young days when either a Welsh chapel or a Welsh society of any kind sought to provide social conviviality for its members, the oc­ casion usually took the form of a tea-meeting at a News from England shilling per head. And the other day 200 London Welsh sat down to a Cymmrodorion banquet at fifteen shill­ By ings per head.” A. MANBY LLOYD “ Well,” said we, “that points to prosperity, anyway.” T T W A S only fitting that your London correspondent “Indeed no,” was the emphatic reply. “Did you should open the New Year calling on our leading never hear the story of the Merioneth youth who didn’t men and wishing them the best of everything from dance and wandered in to a room where some of his T he W itness and 193 Our first call was on the fellow-workers were playing cards. (It was a Soiree by Archbishop of C— . (W e had better not mention their employer.) He was prevailed upon to join them, names.) “Well,” said that gaitered gentleman, as he but he quickly lost the sum of fifteen shillings, which offered me a cigar, “so you come from that Chicago represented all his worldly belongings. In his remorse paper. A very cheery bit of journalism.” Naturally he retired to another room, where his employer came we blushed. It was our turn to speak. across him with his head in his hands and looking the “Some twenty-five years ago, my Lord, I heard you picture of misery. ‘If you have had nothing to eat,’ speak to a crowded meeting of men, and you offered to remarked Mr. Jones, ‘you will find some lovely ham in take your coat off and address them in your shirt the next room.’ sleeves.” “ ‘Man alive!’ said the grief-stricken youth, ‘I could “A h ! I remember, that was at the Liverpool Church not possibly eat fifteen shillings worth of ham’ !” Congress. But much water had passed down the Mer­ It was easy to see that we were being side-tracked sey since those days.” He shifted uneasily in his seat. by these stories, so I asked him how long it would be “Well, we are taking our coat off now, Manby, don’t before the English church got a man rich enough to you think ? What with the Church Assembly, Revision accept the bishopric of Worcester, which has already of Prayer-book, etc., etc!” been turned down by two nominees. “Yes, I know; but what about unemployment?” “A h !” he said, as he helped me to a dish of leeks (for “W ell,” he replied, “if you have come to talk politics, we were now at lunch), “you want men like the Arch­ you had better go and interview the politicians.” And bishop of Wales. I have crossed swords many a time your correspondent was bowed out. with Dr. Edwards, when he Was Bishop of St. Asaph,

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but he always fought fair. And here he is today, the go almost anywhere or pay almost any price to find doyen of the Episcopate. He has seen, since his ap­ it. 11- ! pointment, more than forty years ago, every diocese in A harmonized life must comprise three things, as I the Kingdom vacant. He is an octogenarian, but he is see i t : first, the outlet for certain natural desires holding on in the hope that he may see the Welsh which are born with us; second, sufficient conformity church become, once again, the National church. That to society to identify us with our fellows; and third, reminds me of the story— ” a dominant aim for life which our will puts through. But at this point I remembered that there was a train The secret of a harmonized life lies in finding the to be caught and bade the genial Wizard “good-day.” work which you were intended by God and nature to The year 1930 in the life of the Church of England do, drawing all your powers that one way, and bring­ was marked chiefly by the Lambeth Conference, which ing together within the bracket of a great passion all absorbed the attention of its leaders throughout the the whole range of life’s sweet and interesting and world. So far as statistics tell, the church seems to be wholesome things. holding its own, but little more. However a marked Psychology has no technique at all by which it can increase is noted in the number of candidates for holy unify the soul. A soul is not unified until some dom­ orders. inant aim is chosen, an aim which is selected by the In his review of the year, the dean of St. Paul’s says mind, pursued by the will, and enjoyed by the emo­ that the controversy about the Prayer Book has com­ tions. This aim must be big enough, good enough, pletely died down. He believes that there was never lasting enough, to satisfy the whole man. But the psy­ any widespread demand for it. The large majority of chology which can trace for you the effect upon you churches retain the old one, and the parishioners are of having that aim, cannot choose it for you, nor quite content with it. A t the same time, he adds, many give you any comfort whatever that it is the right of the clergy have taken the law into their own hands choice. The aim must be chosen partly with reference and have altered the legal services almost beyond rec­ to your conception of life as a whole, as well as with ognition. reference to your own powers. It must consider the The case in which the bishop of Birmingham is con­ needs of the world in which you live, as well as your cerned still drags on, and no signs appear that the own economic necessities, if it is to stand the test bishop, who is a man of remarkable courage, will of unselfishness. It must be in the intention of A l­ weaken in his demand that the law shall be obeyed with­ mighty God that you should do that thing, and be in his diocese. the kind of person it takes to do it, if the choice is to The relations between the Church of England and have about it the flavour of eternity and bring to you the Orthodox churches of the East have become more the very highest joy known to man on earth, the joy intimate; but since the Lambeth Conference it must of knowing himself to be a fellow-worker with God. be admitted that the possibilities of reunion with the You have all seen a young man change his ways Free churches have become more remote. Among the hopeful signs which the dean of St. Paul’s because he has fallen in love. You know in your own notes is the awakening of the church to the use of experience that when you have been almost beside broadcasting. He himself, after he had spoken on yourself with anxiety or grief, it was a friend whose “ Science and Religion,” was amazed to find cablegrams faith in you restored you to faith and confidence. Now of thanks from North America telling him that he had if we can lift up that analogy almost infinitely, and been heard perfectly in New York, Dakota and British think of a relationship in which a perfect Personality never disappoints, we shall see the power which Christ Columbia. has to bring together the scattered fragments of dis­ sipated human personality, and so bring harmony. It is possible, as some of us well know in our lives, for all a man’s secondary desires to be automatically sub­ merged, once his primary desire gets a head start and A Harmonized Life becomes the dominant passion of his life. A mountain B y climber forgets his home comfort, a great foot-ball S. M. SHOEMAKER, Jr. player forgets his cigarettes and candy, a Christian S U P P O S E that I do not need to spend any time forgets his irrelevant desires, in the joy of a great enterprise. I or effort in persuading you that almost the deepest cry of our time is the cry of longing for a life of inward harmony. Some lives are pulled to pieces by CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTIONS great forces, as you have seen old pictures of martyrs By B is h o p J o h n s o n being torn asunder between four horses, one attached THE STANDARD BOOK OF CONFIRMATION to each limb. 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MAYI take this means of thanking sin. So there is no reason to expect the many readers of T h e W it ­ convict-coddling on the part of this n e s s who have responded to the ap­ prelate. But there is reason to expect peal for the Danville workers which firmness, impartiality; and the insti­ appeared under my name in a re­ tutions in his charge can look forward cent number. The Church Emergen­ to having a champion whose motives cy Committee is an interdenomina­ are not open to question. Politics has tional committee and it is quite im­ played havoc at the penitentiary for possible to tell just what comes from a generation; politics is primarily to people of the various denominations blame for the situation at the reform­ but I am sure a large percentage of it atory which the board of health blunt­ is from you. The young lady who ly describes as a disgrace to the state. is opening the mail addressed to the The appointment of Bishop Johnson committee has just ’phoned me that is a good augury for both institu­ practically every letter now mentions tions.” T h e W i t n e s s . I do not see these * * * letters so you will, I am sure, under­ The convention of the diocese of stand it if you fail to receive a per­ Maryland was held in Baltimore, Jan­ sonal “ Thank you” letter from me. uary 28th and 29th. Bishop Reming­ Here is my “ thank you” to you all. ton of Eastern Oregon was the We can report that upward of speaker on the first evening, with the $5000 has been received; not a large Rev. Charles H. Collett, general sec­ amount when we realize that 14,000 retary of the field department of the people are involved. But it is some­ National Council, also speaking on the thing certainly. And it is given in work of the National Council. the name of the churches which I Rev. W illiam O. Cone * * * Rector at Greensboro, N. C. know is important. Many, many The diocese of Chicago, under the thanks. * * * leadership of Bishop Stewart, certain­ board of corrections has the merit of ly started something. It was reported The Rev. Wyatt Brown, rector of novelty— which, frankly, cannot be here a couple of weeks ago that they the Cathedral in Buffalo, and previ­ said of a good many of Governor had authorized the treasurer of the ously the rector of St. Michael and Adams’ other appointments. But diocese to pay to the National Council All Angels, Baltimore, was elected there is a good deal more to be said one-twelfth of the diocesean quota Bishop of Harrisburg on Tuesday, in regard to the selection. Bishop each month, borrowing if necessary to January 28th. He has not as yet in­ Johnson’s acceptance of the place do so. Now the diocese of Long Is­ dicated whether or not he will accept. Hs H* * gives the state’s penal institutions land, under the leadership of Bishop what they badly need— the services Stires, has taken the same action. The Rev. Charles N. Lathrop, ex­ of a man who is at the same time a Hurrah! Who’s next? ecutive secretary of the department capable administrator and a humani­ ^ of Christian Social Service of the tarian and who, above all, is wholly Here is a message for you from National Council, died on Thursday, removed from partisan politics. Per­ Presiding Bishop Perry: January 29th, in St. Luke’s Hospital, haps it would be improper to sug­ “ At the meeting of the National San Francisco. Dean Lathrop was gest in advance that Bishop Johnson Council and its Departments, to be on a trip through the west and in­ will become the president of the held in New York, February 10th to sisted upon filling his engagements board. In reality, that will not mat­ in spite of an attack of influenza. 12th, reports from the various dio­ ter a great deal anyway; he is like ceses of the amounts which may be It developed into pneumonia and he Macgregor in that wherever he hap­ died after several days illness. Bis expected from them on account of the pens to sit is always the head of the death will be keenly felt by his many quotas for 1931 will be in hand. If friends throughout the Church and table. The force he has shown as these reports indicate that less than he will be sorely missed at the head of his church in Colorado has the quotas assigned will be paid, the Church Missions House where he was been felt outside his denomination National Council will be obligated to much beloved. and outside the boundaries of his cut work now in progress in order to * * * diocese; as a member of the govern­ balance the budget. Will you not pray Bishop Irving P. Johnson, as you ing body of the penitentiary and re­ that this catastrophe may be doubtless know, has been appointed formatory, he will be a dominating averted.” to an important post by the governor influence. * * * of Colorado. They have had trou­ “ I have referred to Bishop Johnson The Rev. Frank Gavin has joined ble in their prison out there. So the as a humanitarian, which he undoubt­ the “ debunkers.” In three addresses governor put Bishop Johnson on the edly is. But this is an aggressive kind before the young people’s organiza­ job to straighten it out. This is what of humanitarianism. As a church­ tions of Newark, held at Trinity, Lee Taylor Casey, columnist of the man, he is more of a Cardinal Man­ Grantwood, N. J., he went into the Rocky Mountain News, had to say ning than a Cardinal Newman, he re­ debunking of proverbs. Of course about the appointment, in a column sembles Hildebrand more closely than they were modern proverbs. which he calls “ Prelates and Pris^- he does St. Francis of Assisi. He is “ It doesn’t matter what you believe ons of the church militant, and, in the so long as your heart’s all right” ; “ Governor Adams’ appointment of phase of a non-believer, while he may “ every religion is just as good as an­ Bishop Johnson as a member of the love the sinner he does not excuse the other, for they are all going to the

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS February 5, 1931 same place” ; “ I’m no hypocrite” ; “ I throughout the church were making have no prejudices, but—.” The CLERICAL SKETCHES every effort to pledge their full quotas proverb last mentioned furnished the W i l l i a m O s m o n d C o n e for the current year in order that subject of the second lecture, in which W IL L IA M OSMOND CONE was there might be no slipping backward. the speaker scored anti-Semitic preju­ graduated from the General The sudden death of the Rev. dice and gave an able address on prej­ Theological Seminary in 1891, and Charles W. Frazer of Jacksonville, udices in general. Very striking was was shortly after ordained in St. Fla., marred the convention and the the following sentence: “ Prejudices John’s Cathedral, Denver, by visit of the Presiding Bishop. Follow­ belong to a very low form of spiritual Bishop J. F. Spalding. He was ing the banquet Mr. Frazer suffered development, and are the protective a heart attack on .the street outside tariff wall for the „vested interests of for some years in charge of the San Luis Valley missions in the hotel and died before aid could be a weak mind.” administered. He was prominent in * * * Southern Colorado, with head­ quarters at Alamosa. Here he the affairs of the city and the diocese. Bishop Freeman of Washington * * * was married to Miss Elizabeth M. was the preacher last Sunday evening A conference has been held at St. at the Sunday Evening Club, Chicago. Booth, of Maryland. Eight years as rector of the Church of the As­ Stephen’s, Philadelphia, the speakers cension, Pueblo, followed by a being the Rev. Norman Nash of Cam­ Here are the deputies to General brief interval in the diocese of bridge Seminary, Dean Knudson of Convention from the diocese of Missis­ New York, and then removed to Boston University, the Rev. Lester L. sippi, elected the other day: Clergy, the diocese of Quincy. Was ap­ Riley of Long Island, the Rev. Alex­ Val H. Sessions, W. B. Capers, C. pointed Dean of St. John’s Ca­ ander Cummins of Poughkeepsie and E. Woodson, E. A. DeMiller. Lay­ thedral, Quincy, where he served the Rev. Carl E. Grammer of Phila­ men: P. S. Simpson, Thomas H. six years. Has just completed his delphia. Shields, P. S. Gardiner and T. W. tenth year as rector of St. Ste­ Yates. phen’s, Goldsboro, North Carolina. Advance Work projects accepted up to January 19 total just one million Church of the Ascension, Balti­ dollars in value. Eighty-one dioceses more, has consolidated with the have taken items totalling $888,300; Church of the Prince of Peace, with son, Revs. L. B. Whittemore, W. A. seven diocesan branches of the Auxil­ the Rev. Robert E. Browning as rec­ Simms, James H. Bishop. Laymen: iary have items totalling $96,500, and tor. Charles L. Dibble of Kalamazoo, Dr. projects have also been accepted by a Charles E. Hooker of Grand Rapids, number of parishes and by the Girls’ But there, is to be no merger of Mr. F. A. Gorham of Grand Rapids, Friendly. Of the 142 projects ac­ churches in Philadelphia, according to and Mr. Edgar Hunting of Grand cepted 64 are in the domestic field, 62 the Rev. Carl E. Grammer, rector of Rapids. in extra-continental, foreign or Latin St. Stephen’s. There are nine central American fields and 16 are among city churches there and there has been The Rev. R. Cary Montague of the schools of the Church Institute talk of merging several of them but Richmond, speaking at a conference for Negroes. Dr. Grammer says that thé different on the ministry held at Virginia Sem­ * * * types of churchmanship prevent it. inary, said that the job of the Church A commission was appointed at the H* * H* was to establish the Kingdom of God council of the diocese of Texas, held Dean Washburn of Cambridge is on earth and that this would be done at Houston, to study the matter of giving four lectures at the University when it was a frequent occurrence to establishing a cathedral. The diocese of Pennsylvania on Monday after­ see, “ a baseball game between the accepted in full the quota of $20,900 noons. His subjects: Canon Barnett, Knights of Columbus and the Ku to the National Council. Addresses St. Vincent de Paul; St. Francis of Klux Klan, with a Negro umpire, for were given during the council by Assisi, and Jesus of Nazareth. the benefit of Jewish charities.” Bishop Quin who urged all to give That’s fine, and I am glad that when generously to the work of the Church, Here is good news from the diocese the Kingdom comes they are not plan­ both national and diocesan; Rev. of New York. What with depression ning to abolish baseball. About forty- Phillips E. Osgood of Minneapolis; and everything folks generally look five undergraduates attended the con­ Rev. Charles Clingman of Birming­ for deficits in annual diocesan reports. ference, representing sixteen colleges ham who spoke on the national work; However in New York the contribu­ and universities the largest number Captain Esterbrook of the Church tions in 1930i for the missionary work coming from Harvard. Addresses Army and Mrs. Tabor of the national of the National Council and the dio­ were given by Bishop Cook of Dela­ office of the Woman’s Auxiliary. Del­ cese amounted to $552,961.99, which is ware, Bishop Tucker of Virginia, egates elected to the General Con­ the largest ever raised except in 1926 Rev. Beverley Tucker of Richmond,, vention were: the Rev. C. W. Sprouse when about $10,000 more was raised. the Rev. Leslie Glenn of Cambridge, of Tyler, Rev. E. H. Gibson of Gal­ Bishop Manning has sent out a com­ Mass., Bishop Goodwin, coadjutor of veston, Rev. E. D. Butt of Wharton, munication to his parishes congratu­ Virginia, the Rev. Kenneth Morris of Rev. DuBose Murphy of Houston. lating them heartily and urging them Japan and the Rev. Dr. Bell of the The lay delegates: J. Cooke Wilson of to keep up the good work. Virginia faculty. Beaumont, Dr. W. J. Battle of Austin, * * * * * * Stanton Brown of Waco and F. W. They celebrated the 25th anniver­ Bishop Perry was the guest of Catterall of Galveston. sary of the consecration of Bishop honor at a luncheon given by Bishop * * * McCormick at the time of the conven­ Juhan in Jacksonville in connection Dean William P. James has re­ tion of the diocese of Western Michi­ with ■ the diocesan convention. The- signed as dean of the Cathedral of gan. Mr. F. A. Gorham, treasurer of luncheon was attended by close to a St. John, Quincy, Illinois, effective the diocese for 57 years (they ought hundred clergymen and laymen of the April 30th. to give him a dinner too) presented diocese. Bishop Perry called atten­ * * * the Bishop with a gift of cash in the tion to the fact that the quotas for There were 125 alumni present at name of the diocese. Deputies to Gen­ 1930 were paid in full and reported the reunion held at the General on eral Convention: clergy: Dean Jack­ that dioceses and missionary districts January 20th. Lectures were given

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-during the day by Professors Gavin cants asking them for a dollar apiece. and Shepard, with a banquet in the MAGNA CUM LAUDE The total has not as yet been reached evening, presided over by the Rev. 'rJ'0 Irwin St. John Tucker for but it is well under way. Seven thou­ Charles Henry Wjebb of Brooklyn, taking little St. Stephen’s sand is a lot of letters; wonder if he president. Dean Fosbroke, Bishop Church on the outskirts of Chi­ signed them with a rubber stamp. Burleson and Bishop Creighton were cago, about to close, and convert­ * * * the speakers. ing it into a shrine beloved by The diocese of Delaware, so Bishop writers and artists the country Cook announced the other day at the During this past month Captain oyer— to Captain B. F. Mount­ clericus held at St. Andrew’s School, Mountford, boss of the Church Army ford who as head of the Church is to have a boys’ camp next summer. in this country, had to turn down Army in the United States has Hi Hi * twenty calls from bishops and clergy made of it an increasing force in The Rev. Hubert Stanley Wood, for men. He is appealing to you, Mr. the life of the Church— to Mrs. E. rector of Trinity, Syracuse, has been Parson, to encourage your best un­ W. Bocage who has been the or­ elected rector of St. George’s, Flush- married workers to consider the op­ ganist of Trinity, Pine Bluffs, Ar­ ing,_ Long Island, one of the strongest portunities for service offered by the kansas, for close to forty years, parishes of the diocese. * * * Church Army. He writes that the missing but four services: during Army is also prepared now to con­ the entire time— to the Rev. There is quite a theological school sider applications from Negro George Davidson who as the rec­ at St. John, Newfoundland, run by Churchmen as well as white. Also a tor of St. John’s, Los Angeles, has Canon N. S. Facey. Some of you are beginning is about to be made in the built one of the most beautiful interested in it for money was raised, training of young churchwomen as churches in the country. partly in the states, not long ago to mission sisters. Write Captain B. F. improve the plant. There are 24 stu­ Mountford, 416 Lafayette St., New dents there _ this year, the largest York City if you have likely candi­ number in its history. Nearly 2,400 The personnel of the conference dates. persons have been confirmed in New­ * * * committee includes the Right Rev. John T. Dallas, the Rev. Samuel S. foundland in the past two years. Japanese farmers in western Ne­ Drury, the Rev. Thomas L. Harris, Bishop White has 68 active clergy, 16 braska shipped several carloads of the Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, of them at St. John’s, the rest scat­ potatoes to the Chicago market in the Hamilton Lane, Hiram Sibley, the tered throughout the great territory. fall, which statement sounds remote Quite a diocese. Rev. Frederick H. Sill, 0. H. C., Dr. from Church news. The connection Alfred E. Stearns, Anson Phelps is that the Rev. H. Kano, enthusias­ Stokes, Jr., the Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, Mrs. A. N. Cleaver, Church woman tic missionary evangelist among the chairman, and Donald Harding, regis­ of the diocese of Bethlehem whose farming population, is also a trained trar. death was announced recently, left agriculturist. About ninety per cent the bulk of her estate to charities and of the farming is in sugar beets. A The Rev. Hollis W. Colwell, Harris­ institutions. The Church of the Na­ year ago they had a bitter experience burg, Pa., has accepted a call to St." tivity, Bethlehem, received $50,000; when they were overtaken by a hard Stephen’s, Beverly, N. J. the diocese $25,000; the Church home freeze before they harvested, and the * * * for children, $5,000; St. Luke’s hos­ crop froze in the ground. The farm­ One of the finest bits of work being pital, Bethlehem, $45,000. ers suffered a big loss. Mr. Kano * * H« done in the diocese of Newark is thatv spent some time in Chicago studying carried on by Christ Church, West The Rev. Spence Burton, Cowley crops and markets, and the diversity Englewood,, under the rectorship of Fathers superior, conducted a quiet in this year’s crops is one result. the Rev. William Russell. The situa­ day for the clergy of the diocese of tion is unique in that the church has Atlanta on the 27th of January at “ An event of tremendous historical lone possession of the field in spite of Trinity, Columbus. importance,” according to an English the fact that it is a rapidly growing Hi Hi Hi newspaper, occurred this winter when residential community. The church The Rev. Gladstone Rogers, rector the Bishop of Truro took his seat in has an adequate frame plant; ade­ of St. James, Macon, Ga., has ac­ the House of Lords as a spiritual quate that is for the present, but cepted a call to the rectorship of St. peer, the first member of a religious there is little doubt but that soon a Luke’s, Marianna, Florida. He has community to do so since the Refor­ modern church and parish house will been an outstanding leader of young mation. He will be remembered by have to be built on the finely located people in the diocese of Atlanta. many friends who met him in this property, which covers entirely one Hi Hi Hi country as Father Frere of the Com­ side of a block in the heart of the The diocese of Bethlehem recently munity of the Resurrection, in Mir- community. Mr. Russell has all of field. The paper says he will be a had an institute under the auspices of the usual parish organizations, includ­ great acquisition to Parliament. The the department of religious education. ing a lively forum which meets twice There was a large attendance of Community now has thirty men in each month for the discussion of all Mission fields overseas. teachers and officers from all parts sorts of subjects. of the diocese. The leaders were Miss « H« H« * * * Cooper of the national department of The sixth annual conference on re­ The Rev. Estaban Reus-Garcia of religious education and Dr. Daniel ligion for schoolboys of New Eng­ Porto Rico has been addressing parish Ziegler, professor of sociology. land schools is to be held this week groups in the south on the work of * * * end at Harvard University. Among the Church in the Virgin Islands and At the meeting of the Bishop and the leaders are Dr. Richard C. Cabot Porto Rico. Council of the diocese of Bethlehem, Hi * Hi of Harvard, Buel Trowbridge of And­ held on January 23rd, the treasurer over, Dean Washburn of the Episco­ They have a unique way of raising reported all bills paid, including the pal Theological Seminary, Professor the $7,000 of their Advance Work quota in full to the National Council. J. L. Coolidge of Harvard, Professor project in the diocese of Atlanta. He also announced that to do it the K. F. Mather of Harvard, and Bishop Bishop, Mikell has written a personal treasury was depleted. The Bishop Henry Sherrill. letter to each of the 7,000 communi­ was therefore instructed to pledge but

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$40,000 for 1931 to the National Cathedral, Lexington, Ky.* in recog­ tures have real country setting with Council, which is $8,000 less than for­ nition of their services to the diocese. live animals and are both artistic and Hs H« * merly. impressive. * * * The alumni of the Virginia Semi­ sH H* H* Problems of adolescents, and of nary in Maryland met for dinner on New Mexico has been added to the those who live and work with them, January 19th, with half of the forty Church Army fields. Captain Hamil­ formed the basis of a series of inter­ alumni in the diocese present. The ton is there working in the oil field esting lectures and discussions, in Rev. Thomas K. Nelson of the semi­ area in the south-east corner of the which sixty-nine men and women nary faculty and the bishop of the state. H: H* H* from five Western dioceses partici­ diocese were the speakers. This din­ pated, at an Institute on Work with ner and meeting was one of a group For the first time in a good many Young People, held in St. Margaret’s held simultaneously in six cities in years the diocese of East Carolina House, Berkeley, Calif., from January the east. closed its books for a year with a 6 to 9. * * * deficit. Nevertheless it paid in full $ $ $ The annual meeting of the Church its quota to the National Council—a The Rev. John N. Lewis, rector of Mission of Help was held in New perfect record since the beginning of St. John’s, Waterbury, Connecticut, is York on the 19th of January, with the Nationwide Campaign movement. * * * seriously ill with heart disease and Bishop Gilbert as the principal is at present in the hospital. He has speaker. Bishop Gilbert stressed the The Convention of the diocese of been the rector of St. John’s for importance of this particular branch East Carolina was held at Greenville, thirty years. of the work of the church and its January 28-29th. Previous to the con­ * * * value not only to the girls whom it vention there was a diocesan assembly Bishop Strider of West Virginia is serves, but also as tangible evidence of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew holding a preaching mission this week to the world at large that the church with Mr. W. F. Pelham of Chicago as at All Saints, Brookline, Massachu­ does care for those who for one rea­ principal speaker. A mass meeting setts. son or another have been unable to on the subject of religious education H» H» H» meet the stress and strain and temp­ was also held in connection with the The ¡Rev. Walter Borchert, rector tations of life. Bishop Gilbert also convention. of the Transfiguration, Providence, emphasized the fact that in so many He He ❖ He died on Saturday, January 17th, after instances the environment of a girl Now imagine this: Mrs. Jean Loh- an illness of several years. was responsible for her difficulties, man, who is doing such splendid work * * * and that church people had a definite at Grace House Missions, Lynnwood, Churches of Fall River and Swan­ responsibility for community condi­ Virginia, writes to inform me that sea, R. I., are holding a teachers’ tions which permitted young people the recording of a service of baptisms training institute on five successive to be surrounded with influences detri­ with eight children from one family Friday evenings at the Ascension, mental to their well-being. The con­ is really not such hot news. She says Fall River. The Rev. William N. tinued industrial crisis, with its that she recently presented twenty- Bradner, Boston, is in charge. stresses and strains, was cited as a five for baptism, eleven of them being sN * * striking illustration of the part which from one family and all of them boys. Here is notable service: Mrs. Louise community conditions play in break­ There is a “ Believe it or not” for Mr. Raymond has been choirmother at St. ing down the resistance of young Ripley, what? Pity the poor mother. * He * Paul’s, Brockton, Mass., for fifty people to direct and personal tempta­ years. They had a dinner the other tions. Church people were urged to The Rev. George L. Brown, Chat- evening with Mrs. Raymond as guest support not only the work of the C. field, Minnesota, has been appointed of honor. Gave her a nice present M. H., hut to participate in movement chaplain of the work of our Church too. She is seventy years old and designed to remedy fundamental con­ at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester. The holds several parish jobs in addition ditions. appointment has been made to re­ to this one with the choir. He He * lieve the rector of Calvary Church Hi * * A memorial tablet and credence who last year made 1,400 calls on pa- Bishop Booth of Vermont was the table was dedicated recently at St. preacher last Sunday at the annual Andrew’s, Tampa, Fla., in memory of festival of the guild of St. Vincent, the Rev. Charles Evans Pattillo, for Church of the Advent, Boston. a number of years the beloved rector Acolytes from parishes throughout of the parish. The tablet was de­ New England attended. signed by the Gorham Company. H: H: H: * Hs * An interseminary conference on the The diocese of Vermont is looking social teachings of Christianity is to forward to a visit from the Rev. Gil­ be held in New York over the week­ bert Shaw, secretary of the society end of Washington’s birthday under for the promotion of retreats in Eng­ the auspices of the Church League land. He is to conduct a number of for Industrial Democracy. Students retreats in the diocese. are to attend from Cambridge, Alex­ * * He andria, Berkeley, Union, Philadelphia Prebendary Carlile of the Church and the General. The sessions are to Army in England, celebrated his 84th be held at the General, the closing one birthday by entertaining at dinner 84 being the annual luncheon meeting badly disabled war veterans. of the League to be held at a New * * * York club. The Rev. Edric A. Weld, rector of * * * St. Stephens Church, Middlebury, Vt., The Rev. Robert J. Murphy and the has had moving pictures taken of the Rev. Franklin Davis have been made Nativity story as acted by the chil­ honorary canons of Christ Church dren of his Church School. The pic­

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It is hoped that it may be in­ Dictograph Products Co., Inc., Dept. 47T creased so that other young Japanese 220 West 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. Eccles. Dept. students may be brought to this 576 5th Ave., at 47th St. (3rd Floor) THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH New York, N. Y. country for graduate work, fitting By George Parkin Atwater them for Christian leadership in Order your copies from THE WITNESS Japan. Paper, 60c Cloth, $1.00 * * * WITNESS BOOKS 6140 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago E r n e st W . L a k e m a n Bishop Matthews of New Jersey Designer and Worker in Stained Glass has a solemn and beautiful service of installation for each new diocesan Washington Cathedral 36-38 WEST TWENTY-FIFTH STREET officer. The form is adopted from U Witness for Christ in tho Capital of the Kfatiins Opposite Trinity Chapel an English service. Bishop Ward ♦ ♦ c does this too. THE CHAPTER appeals to Churchmen through« NEW YORK, N. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 5, 1931 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen of the Church. If they still have other customs, the people bury their printing press, operated by one inde­ work they are unable to retire for dead in the sea, weighting the feet fatigable Englishman with native lack of means, and if out of work with stones. One may look down to helpers. In the course of a year they they find, at their age, that it is a great depth through the transpar­ turn out hundreds of little prayer impossible to find it. The need is ent water and see orderly rows of books, hymn books and other religious so acute that at the recent meeting buried bodies, standing erect on the material, in three or four tribal of the Retiring Fund for Deacon­ sea floor, swaying slightly with the languages. esses, Deaconess Katharine Phelps current. The sharks are believed not * * * was appointed field secretary to ¡en­ to touch them. Deaconess Bickford, who is working list interest and solicit funds so that The fear of vengeful ghosts, evil among Mexicans at Mercedes, Texas, some of the neediest cases may soon spirits and other powers of evil, is a less than ten miles from the border, be relieved. She is ready, with the real thing and an active influence writes: “ I have thirty-five on my hearty commendation of the Presid­ among these people who are awaiting roll, and my room has seats for ing Bishop, to present these pressing the power of Christianity to set them twenty-seven. It is fortunate, in a needs before groups or individuals. free. way, that Mexicans are lacking in She may be reached at St. Faith’s The Melanesian Mission has a regularity for they are never all pres- House, 419 W. 110th St., New York City. The Treasurer of the Fund is Deaconess Edith C. Smith, 61 Frank­ ► ◄ lin St., Morristown, N. J. ORDERS FOR * * * ► ◄ When the Emperor of Ethiopia ◄ (Abyssinia) was crowned last Octo­ ► ber 12th, Bishop Freeman wrote a ◄ ► WITNESS prayer to be used in the Cathedral in Washington on that day. A copy ► ◄ of the prayer was sent to the State Department, which forwarded it to ► BUNDLES 4 the United States minister in Ethi­ opia. The minister gave it to the ► F O R LENT 4 director-general of foreign affairs for Ethiopia, who gave it to the Emperor. ► 4 His Imperial Majesty was impressed MUST BE IN NOT LATER THAN and gratified, and had it translated ► 4 into the Amharic language and FEBRUARY 12TH. SEND YOUR printed in his weekly newspaper, ► ORDER AT ONCE PLEASE 4 Light and Peace., Our minister now reports that the prayer appears to ► 4 have had “a remarkably joyful and ANNOUNCEMENT OF FEATURE ► 4 inspiring effect” on the Emperor and ARTICLES ON THE COVER his ministers of state, all of whom have a profound respect for anything ► 4 Prices for Bundles During Lent of a religious nature. The people are ► Coptic Christians. 4 10 copies a week for 7 weeks...... $ 2.80 t % 4: ► 4 25 copies a week for 7 weeks...... 7.00 Word comes from the South Sea Islands from time to time of curious ► 50 copies a week for 7 weeks...... 13.00 4 and dreadful beliefs and cults still 100 copies a week for 7 weeks...... 25.00 existing there to trouble the mission­ ► 4 aries. A man who had killed his Payable Easter W eek or 10 % Discount for eighth victim by an intricate process ► 4 Cash with Order of magic was discovered by the people ► 4 in a village not long ago, says the Southern Cross Log of the Melane­ ► 4 sian Mission (Church of England). Here as elsewhere the missionaries ► 4 testify that in some cases an inexplic­ Use The Witness in Lenten Discussion Groups: able evil power is exerted and the vic­ ► H ave The Witness on Sale at A ll Services 4 tims die from no observable cause. Some years ago, before the mission­ ► 4 aries came, the people would simply have killed the magician when they ► THE W I T N E S S 4 discovered him. In this case, they QUALITY BREVITY PRICE bound him up and sent him aboard a ► 4 labor recruiting ship that came along and as a result just then. The recruiter took him off ► 4 with instructions never to let him re­ Largest Circulation of the Church Papers turn to that island. ► 4 Dr. C. E. Cox, principal of a mis­ 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago sion school at Ugi, has found surviv­ ► 4 als of an ancient cult of shark wor­ ► ship on some of these islands. Among 4

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Gkttmtl atyeolngtral ent any one day. Some of the chil­ ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE dren are pretty as can be. Some have (Columbia University) the stolid look of the Yaqui Indians. A College of Arts, Letters and Science Three-year undergraduate course of pre­ They are all interesting, whether dull definitely and officially of the Episcopal scribed and elective study. Church but with no ecclesiastical restrictions Fourth-year course for graduates, offering or bright, and I love them all. in the selection of its student body; incorpo­ larger- _ opportunity for specialization. “ Mercedes is near the center of the rated into the educational system of Colum­ Provision for more advanced work, leading bia University and conferring the University to degrees of S.T.M. and S.T.D. lower Rio Grande Valley, which is degree. about eighty miles long. In this It combines the advantages of University ADDRESS education with small college simplicity and T H E D E A N stretch of eighty miles there are some inexpensiveness. thirty little towns, connected by a The College founded in 1860, is equipped to I Chelsea Square New York City teach men who, after graduation, are going For Catalogue Address the Dean paved highway. The Episcopal into business or into post-graduate schools of Church has only three clergymen and medicine, law, journalism or theology, or into classical, scientific, social or literary research. Episcopal Theological School four church buildings. Baptists and The fees are: For tuition, $300 a year; CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Presbyterians seem to be pretty for furnished room, $150 a year; for board Affiliation with Harvard University offers in hall, $300 a year. There are some com­ unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as strong, and the Mexicans are mostly petitive scholarships and a few bursaries for philosophy, psychology, history, Romanists. Many of the queer and men contemplating Holy Orders. sociology, etc. Address: Bernard Iddings Bell, Litt.D., TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 23RD freak religious bodies are represented Warden For Catalogue Address the Dean too, and most of them have buildings. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. “ I think that the Episcopal Church (R. R. Station: Barrytown) Berkeley Divinity is slowly winning its way. Naturally ALL SAINTS’ COLLEGE to one who ldves the Church it seems Junior College School very slow indeed, and I sometimes feel Thorough college preparation and New Haven, Connecticut impatient when I see how much there general courses. Music, Art, Stenog­ Affiliated with Yale University is to be done and how little progress raphy and typewriting. Supervised Address DEAN W. P. LADD is made compared to what could be so athletics, swimming ant} horseback SO Sachem Street easily done if we all cared enough.” riding. For catalog address * * * Miss Mary-Leslie Newton^ M.A., Dean Vicksburg, Mississippi DIVINITY SCHOOL IN Bishop Huntington writes from PHILDELPHIA Wuhu after an autumn visit to An- S t . K a t h a r i n e ’ s S c h o o l o Undergraduate and Graduate Courses king and the wiestern outstations: G Privileges at University of Pennsylvania “ On the whole I thought the condi­ o U n d e r the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. A thorough preparatory school $ Address: tion of the stations visited was quite o for a limited number of girls. Recom- <8 DEAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Streets mended by leading colleges. Beautiful encouraging. The list of confirma­ o grounds. Outdoor sports, riding and tions shows that there were a good o swimming. Ask for our cafalog. o t ) S E A B U R Y . CARLETON many prepared, and there seemed to o Tremont Ave., Davenport, Iowa o THEOLOGY LIBERAL ARTS be, in spite of the constant dread of Best Training — Minimum Cost bandits, a certain spirit of earnest­ KEMPER HALL For information and catalogue write ness and hopefulness among the KENOSHA, WISCONSIN REV. FREDERICK KRAMER, Ph.D., D.D. workers and the Christians, so that I Under the care of the Sisters of Saint Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn. Mary. An Episcopal school for girls on think there is no reason why we North Shore of Lake Michigan, one hour should not look forward to a steady from Chicago. College Preparatory and gen­ The Protestant Episcopal eral courses. Music, Art, Domestic Science, growth in the whole of this region.” Outdoor and Indoor Sports. Address, The Thelogical Seminary in Virginia Hi H* H« Sister Superior. For catalogue and other information A ramshackle building on a forty- address the Dean Virginia Episcopal School REV. BERRYMAN GREEN, D.D. five foot lot, says the Los Angeles diocesan paper, is all the equipment Lynchburg, Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Prepares boys for college and university. available for the three hundred peo­ Splendid environment and excellent corps of ple connected with St. Mary’s Japa­ teachers. High standard in scholarship and athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in HOBART COLLEGE nese Mission in Los Angeles. The the mountains of Virginia. Charges excep­ Rev. John M. Yamazaki, priest in tionally low. For catalogue apply to Rev. GENEVA, N. Y. Oscar deWolf Randolph, Rector. A Church college for men, founded 1822. charge, recently presented twenty-six Four year liberal arts course, leading to young people for confirmation. Fifty HARVARD SCHOOL the degrees A.B. and B.S. High Stand­ were baptized last year, all American- ards ; faculty of thirty. For catalogues Los Angeles, California and information address born. Some of them do not speak A school for boys under the auspices of REV. MURRAY BARTLETT, D.D., Pres. Japanese. Toward the essential new the Episcopal Church. Fully accredited. R. O. T. C. 30th year opens September 17th. buildings, the Japanese themselves Outdoor sports in a fine climate. For all have contributed $7,000; about $9,000 information, address the . Rev. Robert B. TRINITY COLLEGE more has been given by friends. Some­ Gooden, D.D. Hartford, Conn. thing over $35,000. will be needed, for Offers a general cultural education, with ST. MARY’S SCHOOL special emphasis on the Classics, Modern new buildings and an additional lot. MOUNT ST. GABRIEL Languages, English, Economics, History, $ $ $ Peekskill-on-Hudson Philosophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRL8 Physics, Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre- In Rhode Island last Lent the dio- Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary n Engineering. For information apply, The College preparatory and General courses. New Dean. modern fireproof buildings. Extensive recrea­ THE WITNESS FUND tion grounds. Separate attention given to E ACKNOWLEDGE with many thanks young children. For catalog address THE W the following donations to THE WIT­ SISTER SUPERIOR. NESS Fund, which enables us to send the Qt. ALBAN’S paper to those who would otherwise be The School of without it; SYCAMORE, ILL. Mrs. F. W. Marsh...... $2.00 NURSING Episcopal Boarding School for Boys, Mrs. Geo. F. Wharton...... 1.00 HOSPITAL of ST. BARNABAS from Fifth Grade through High School. Fully Rev. Harold A. McClean...... 1.00 Newark, N. J. accredited. Mrs. Richard L. Gibbs...... 1.50 Fully accredited School and Hospital. Mrs. William Mason...... 1.00 High School graduates accepted. The Rev. Chas. L. Street, Ph.D., Headmaster Mrs. Hiram Paulding...... 2.00 Classes enter Feb. and Sept. Enroll now. 718 Somonauk Street, Sycamore, III. J. Heber Smith...... 1.00 Address Minnie F. Paterson...... 1.00 DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF NURSING

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cesan social service department ar­ ranged for five talks to be given on Monday afternoons at five o’clock, in Services of Leading Churches the parish house of a conveniently lo­ cated church. One dollar admission Cathedral of St. John the Divine was charged for the course. The lec­ New Y ork Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland ture titles may be suggestive to other Amsterdam Ave. and 111th St. Dean Francis S. White, D.D. Sunday Services: 8, 9:30, 11 A. M. and Sunday: 8, 11 and 4. communities: 4 P .M . Daily : 7:30 and 10 A. M. and 6:00 Daily: 8, 11 and 4. 1. Constructive relief-giving as an P. M. aid to character building. The The Incarnation Grace Church, Chicago Church’s responsibility. (St. Luke’s Hospital Chapel) Madison Avenue and 35th Street Rev. Robert Holmes 2. The place of the Church in the Rector field of social service. 1450 Indiana Ave. Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D., LL.D. Sundays: 8, 11:00 and 7 :45. Sundays: 8, 10 and 11 A. M. ; 4 P. M. (Summer Evensong, 3 :00) 3. The child welfare program of Daily : 12:20. the state. How the Church can co­ operate. Trinity Church, New York St. Paul’s, Chicago 4. Modern methods of prevention Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, S.T.D. Rev. George H. Thomas Dorchester Ave. at Fifieth St. and treatment of delinquency. The Broadway and Wall St. Sundays: 8, 9, 11, and 3:30. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 and 5:00 P. M. Church’s opportunity to help. Daily: 7 :15, 12 and 3. Holy Days at 10 A. M. 5. Spiritualizing social work. The lecturers were two state social The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Disciple, New York The Atonement, Chicago work officials, the secretary of the Rev. Alfred Newbery Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. 5749 Kenmore Avenue Family Welfare Society, and two of Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. the clergy. Sundays : 8 and 11 A. M. ; 4 and 8 Sundays: 7 :30, 9 :30, 11 and 5. P. M. Daily: 7 :30, 9 and 5 ;30. Also Friday, Social service was the central topic Church School at 9 :30. Holy Days and 10:30. for a series of four noonday ad­ Thursday : 7 :30 and 11 A. M. dresses at the Cathedral in Newark, St. Stephen’s, Chicago N. J., during Lent last year. The The Transfiguration, New York The Little Church at the End of the Road “ The Little Church Around the Corner” topics were: the need for a social min­ 1 East 29th Street 3533 N. Albany Avenue istry; the motives, past and present, REV. RANDOLPH RAY, D.D., Rector Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker Sundays: 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. (Daily 7:30.) 11 A. M. 4:30 P. M. for a social ministry; the way of 11:00 a. m. Missa Cantata and Sermon modern Christian social service; the 4.00 p. m. Vespers and Adoration. Thurs., Fri., and Saints’ Days, St. Luke’s, Evanston Gospel in action. 2d Mass at 10 Charles E. McAllister, D.D. * * * Sundays: 7:30, 8:15, 11 and 4:30. Daily: 7 :30 and 5. From Chicago oil Another of those large one-man Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights Rev. George P. Atwater, D.D. at Main, one block east and one north. fields, the size of the whole state of Hicks St., near Remsen, Brooklyn, N. Y. Connecticut, is in western Texas, Sundays: 8 :00 A. M., 11 A. M., 4 :30 Christ Church, Cincinnati P. M. Rev. Frank H. Nelson where the missionary, the Rev. J. T. Church School: 9 :45 A. M. Rev. Bernard W. Hummel McCaa, with headquarters at Brady, Sundays: 8:45, 11 A. M. and 5 P. M. serves five missions which radiate Grace Church, New York Holy Days: Holy Communion, 10 A. M. Church influence out to the ranch Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. homes in the country round about. Broadway at 10th St. Church of the Advent, Boston Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Mt. Vernon and Brimmer Sts. Two of the missions are off the rail­ Daily: 12:30, except Saturday. Sundays: Holy Communion 7;30 and road. Another place, adopted tem­ Holy Days and Thursday. Holy Com­ 8 :15 A. M .; Young People’s Mass 9 A. M .; munion, 11:45. Church School 9 :30 A. M .; Matins 10 porarily until some better arrange­ A. M .; High Mass and Sermon 10:30 ment can be made, is sixty miles from A. M. ; Solemn Evensong and Sermon Gethsemane, Minneapolis 7:30 P. M. the railroad. This is not the only mis­ Rev. Don Frank Fenn, B.D. Week-days: Matins 7 :15 A. M .; Mass sionary enterprise in west Texas; this 4th Ave. South at 9th St. 7:30 and 8:15 A. M., except Thursdays; Sundays: 7, 8, 9:30, 11:00 and 7:45. Thursdays, Mass 7:30 and 9:30 A. M.; is one which is aided by the National Wed., Thurs., Fri. and Holy Days. Evensong 5 P. M .; additional Mass, Holy Council to the extent of $320 a year. Days, 9 :30 A. M. St. Paul’s, Milwaukee Rev. Holmes Whitmore St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California Lima, Ohio, is an industrial city Knapp and Marshall Streets Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11, and 4 :30. Near the University of California with 50,000 people. About ten years Holy Days and Tuesdays, 9 :30. Wells-Downer cars to Marshall St. Sundays: 7:30, 11;00 A. M., 7:45 P. M. ago a few people led by a young Tuesdays: 10 :00 A. M. lawyer decided to start a really open forum. A couple of devoted preach­ St. Mark’s, Milwaukee Rev. E. Reginald Williams Grace and St. Peter’s Church ers solicited memberships at $1.00 Hackett Ave. and Belleview Place Baltimore, Md. each. Collections take care of the Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) Gamma Kappa Delta: 6 P. M. The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers rest of the budget. A Methodist Holy Days: 10 A. M. The Rev. Harold F. Hohly church provides the meeting place Sundays: 8:00, 9:30 and 11:00 A. M .; 8:00 P. M. for a nominal fee. The radicals said, St. James, Philadelphia Weekdays:— 8:00 A. M. “ You don’t mean open. You won’t Rev. John Mockridge 22nd and Walnut Sts. St. Philip’s Cathedral dare to put on a. radical speaker.” Sundays: 8, 11, and 8. E. Hunter and Washington Sts., So the first meeting was addressed Daily; 7 :30, 9, and 6. Atlanta, Ga. Holy Days and Thursdays, 10. The Rt. Rev. H. J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop by an I.W.W. and the next by a The Very Rev. Raimundo de Ovies, Dean conservative. Today, while many St. Luke’s, Atlanta, Ga. The Rev. William S. Turner, B.S., Canon forums have closed and others have Services Peachtree Street Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. only a name to live, Lima gives a Rev. N. R. High Moor Church School: 9:30 a. m. speaker a full house and keeps him Rev. Ernest Risley Second Celebration and Sermon: 11 a. m. Sundays: 8, 9 :45, 11 and 5. first Sunday in each month. busy with intelligent questions. As Daily at 5 P. M. Morning Prayer, etc. and Sermon; 11 a result, there is no anti-red hysteria Wednesdays and Fridays 10 A. M . a. m. in town and no race feeling.

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F iveColleges . . . are recognized as official colleges of the Episcopal Church. These colleges:

1. Know that it is entirely possible to train under­ graduates in modern science and philosophy and still foster within them reverence for Cod and interested participation in the life of the Church.

2. Put at the disposal of their students the nurturing strength of the sacraments.

3. Assist those committed to them to think fearlessly of their problems, and of God in terms of those prob­ lems.

4. Are approved fully by the Association of American Universities, the collegiate rating body in this country.

Give the Church s Young Men God's Help in College Years.

HOBART COLLEGE KENYON COLLEGE Geneva, N. Y. Gambler, Ohio TRINITY COLLEGE UNIVERSSTYof theSOUTH Hartford, Conn. Sewanee, Tennessee

ST. STEPHEN S COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Annandafe-On-Hudson, N. Y.

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