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HEWLETT JOHNSON The Dean of Canterbury Cathedral

FIRST ARTICLE BY DEAN JOHNSON

BARTROP, F. F., formerly a master at St. Paul’s School,- Concord, N. H„ is now a tEije (General ©Jbeologrcal curate at the Advent, Boston. Ke m p e r TTTTT «■ Jibmm aru BREWSTER, WILLIAM, formerly curate at St. John’s. Waterbury, Conn., is now the KENOSHA. WISCONSIN rector of All Saints’, Belmont, Mass. Three-year undergraduate Episcopal Boarding and Day School. course of prescribed and elective CHIERA, GEORGE G., formerly rector of Trinity, Bridgewater, Mass., has accepted Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual study. the rectorship of St. Phillip’s, Wiscasset, opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu Maine. Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity DAVIDSON, JAMES R., JR., recent gradu School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. ate of the Virginia Seminary, is now curate at All Saints’, Palo Alto, Calif., and in SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced charge of work with Episcopal students at Box W . T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. Stanford University. and D.Th. GIBBS, GEORGE C., has resigned charge of Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin Our Saviour, East Milton, Mass., to enter ADDRESS the Cowley Fathers. GILLEY, E. SPENCER, has resigned as vicar CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL THE DEAN of St. Stephen’s, Boston, because of illness. New York City GRANNIS, APPLETON, formerly rector of A boarding school for the forty boys of Chelsea Square New York City St. Anne’s, Lowell, Mass., has accepted the the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the rectorship of St. Paul’s, Rome, Italy. Divine. Careful musical training and daily For Catalogue Address the Dean singing at the cathedral services. Small HARRIS, JOHN S. U„ formerly rector of classes mean individual attention and high St. Thomas’s, Hanover, N. H., and chap standards. The School has its own building lain at Dartmouth College, has joined the and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 staff of Trinity Church, Boston. per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice HIGGINS, GEORGE V., formerly rector of test and scholarship examination. Address Episcopal Theological School St. Andrew’s, Youngstown, Ohio, is now in The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Cathe CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS charge of missions at Sidney, Kimball and dral Heights, New York City. Affiliated with Harvard University offers Ogallala, Nebraska. unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as HILL, GILBERT K., formerly of the diocese philosophy, psychology, history, o f . Rond du Lac, is- now the vicar of St. sociology, etc. Stephen’s, Boston. HOLDERNESS For Catalogue Address the Dean JEFFERYS, WILLIAM H., JR., is now a In the White Mountains. College Preparatory curate at Grace Church, New Bedford, and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For Mass. boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 The Protestant Episcopal MATTESON, JOHN, has retired as rector of acres of woods. New fireproof building. In All Saints’, Whitman, Mass., and charge of dividual attention. Home atmosphere. Theological Seminary in Virginia Trinity Mission, Rockland. Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector For Catalogue and other information McGINNIS, ROBERT H., rectof,'of the Holy address the Dean Communion, Tacoma, Wash., died on Octo Box W , Plymouth, N. H. REV. W ALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. ber 2 after an extended illness. Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. MENTZER, CHARLES T„ formerly vicar of St. Luke’s, Renton, Washington, has ac cepted charge of the Holy Communion, Tacoma. Berkeley MURRAY, NOEL L., diocese of Oregon, has Stuart IfaU been deposed by Bishop Dagwell, having Divinity School renounced the, ministry. ipal girls’ school of fine old New Haven, Connecticut NEAL, JOHN, .formerly rector of Trinity, id high standards in the beau- Affiliated with Yale University Rock Island. Illinois, is now in charge of of Virginia. College prepara- St. Timothy’s, Gering, Nebraska. al courses, and secretarial Address DEAN W . P. LADD PAGE, HERMAN, Bishop of Michigan, is now ro years beyond high school, 86 Sachem Street residing at . 351 '• Barton Shore Drive, Ann expression. Graduates success- Arbor, Michigan-,, ge. Well-equipped buildings, (Continued bn page 15) sium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid- l 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. TRINITY COLLEGE Box A, Staunton, Va. Hartford, Conn. Offers a general cultural education, with special emphasis on the Classics, Modern ALL SAINTS’ Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, UThe Church Divinity School of the Pacific Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. For information apply, The Dean. EPISCOPAL COLLEGE BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Vicksburg, Mississippi Dean, Henry H. Shires 2457 Ridge Road A small church school for girls CARLETON COLLEGE offering four^years of high school Donald J. Cowling, President (specializing in college preparatory) The Divinity School Affiliated with the Episcopal Church in and two years^of college. Emphasis Philadelphia, Pa. co-operative relations in the Minnesota Full Undergraduate Course of three years, Dioceses and with Seabury-Western Theo on thorough work. on the Tutorial System, leading to Degree of logical Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. Borders on the National Park in Th.B. seven months Canonical Studies and Address: Assistant to the President historic Vicksburg and overlooks the three months ‘ Clinical Training each year. Carleton College Mississippi. ADDRESS THE DEAN Northfield Minnesota Arts. Mild Climate. Outdoor Sports. 4205 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pa. Address: The Rev. W . G. Christian. Rector ST. AGNES SCHOOL FORK UNION A Resident and Day School for Girls GENERAL COURSE: MUSIC AND ART MILITARY ACADEMY SPORTS OF ALL KINDS DeVeaux School New Fireproof Building An Honor Christian School with the highest 1852-1939 academic rating. Upper School prepares for Miss Blanche Pittman, Principal university or business. ROTC. Every mod Niagara Falls, New York Loudonville Road, Albany, N. Y. ern equipment. Junior School from six years. A Church preparatory school for boys Housemother. Separate building. Catalogue. from the sixth grade. Small classes. Ex Dr. J. J. Wicker, Fork Union, Virginia. perienced instructors. Students may enter MARGARET HALL at any time and in any grade above the Under Sisters of St. Anne fifth. Enrolment limited to 120. ( Episcopal) Virginia Episcopal School The Rt. Rev. Cameron J. Davis, D.D. Small country boarding and day school for Bishop of Western New York girls, from primary through high school. Lynchburg, Virginia President, Board of Trustees Accredited college preparatory. Modern build Prepares boys for colleges and university. For catalogue, address ing recently thoroughly renovated includes Splendid environment and excellent corps of gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of six Ceo. L. Barton, jr., Ph.D. acres with ample playground space, hockey teachers. 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Deep-Seated Ills By HEWLETT JOHNSON The Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, England 'T 'H E child holds in her hand a glass of milk, bread at bed time, “ If you eat it now, you can’t places her finger at the side, pauses, and have it for breakfast tomorrow.” asks, “ Mother, how far down may I drink?” Make out your weekly shopping list for a That question is tragically common in tens of family of eight at $5.37, reckoning in milk, thousands of homes. Milk, if purchased at all, is bread, butter, vegetables or meat, and see how strictly rationed. Milk is too costly to drink free much of each is possible. ly. Milk is a luxury. Brothers and sisters must Or think of bitter winter nights with one flan take their turn, and ask, “ How far down may I nelette blanket and two sheets for a family of drink?” eight, with no central heating, and only 87c a An inspector visiting a school in an industrial week to spend on coal. town in the north of England was invited at the Somehow it is the pitiful lack of utensils and mid-morning break to drink tea. “ Yes, gladly,” clothing in these houses that strikes me even he replied, “but I am almost ashamed to do it, so more dramatically than lack of food. It reveals many children have come breakfastless here to the starkest poverty of perpetual unemployment day.” in areas where all one’s friends have been reduced Instances like these abound. It is a fact, and from comfort to penury. a sorry one, that millions of British children are In one household the wife’s clothing consists seriously underfed; one-sixth of our child pop of one petticoat, one pair of stockings, one work ulation disastrously so. ing skirt, one skirt for outdoors; no nightdress, That is no wild statement or rough guess. It is and only one pair of shoes. The daughter has lit based on the cold calculations of Sir John Boyd tle underclothing, no nightdresses, one good pair Orr, one of Britain’s most distinguished experts of stockings, one heavily darned, two jerseys, one on food, health and income. very old, worn and thin. The husband has one Estimating that $2.50 a head per week is es pair of pants, two khaki shirts almost worn out, sential for completely adequate diet, he calculates one singlet, which is threatbare and patched, a that only half our population can afford that sum: cap, one secondhand raincoat and one pair of half can not. Half our population, in short, is shoes. inadequately fed. Nine millions have only $2.25 available for RITISH people are not callous. No British food, nine millions more, only $1.50, and four Bfellow-countryman hearing such tales as and a half millions, less than one dollar. These these and reading how widespread such misery is, latter are pitifully under-nourished, and to make remains untouched. We are not callous or cruel, matters worse this class includes one-sixth of all we are just ignorant— colossally ignorant. British children! An English Bishop recently declared that the Figure it out for yourself. Think of your number of underfed people is extremely small and healthy child’s appetite at breakfast, and midday for the most part it is their own fault. That Bish dinner, then hear the unemployed mother say to op is a good man; he just doesn’t know. He lives the hungry child who clamours for a slice of in an extremely prosperous town, of some 87,00b

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS October 19, 1939 inhabitants. A friend of mine, a vicar in that working 70 hours a week as domestic servant at very town, told me, almost as the Bishop spoke, $2.00 a week.” these facts concerning a parishioner. Parents suffer intensely—nine out of ten stint Father, mother and ten children, very frugal themselves to feed their children, but the real and respectable people. Weekly wage $12.50. tragedy of the unemployed, especially in the dis Weekly rent $2.50. tressed areas, is the tragedy of youth. Boys and Figure that out. Eighty-three cents per head girls grow up in an atmosphere of planned pov for all the family needs, including food. Would erty, with a standard of physical fitness so low the Bishop condemn his own son or daughter to that the army in 1936, though desperately in need live in similar fashion? If you say, “ Why so large of men, rejected all but 21,975 out of 57,712 re a family?” I might retort what encouragement cruits. do the poor get from Church and country to learn Dr. Kenneth Fraser, the Medical Officer for of birth control? Cumberland, said of the Whitehaven youth, Since the Bishop’s remark, a council, repre “ Many of the boys are too unfit even to want to sentative of 20 local societies, under the vice- play football.” He found their clothing and foot chairmanship of the former Medical Officer of wear deplorable. Health, has scientifically investigated, in the This tragic army of unemployed youth is a Bishop’s own city, one hundred typical working- menace to the country. In 1936, 86,694 boys and class families. The findings of that Council have girls under 18 years of age were registered as un aroused and shocked the conscience of the whole employed, besides youths who have never worked community. Ignorance, like that of the Bishop, at all and are entered on no register.* is cruel and dangerous. An express train must travel for two hours to carry you past that army of hopeless helpless A series of cold scientific books lie on my desk. youth, should they stand hand to hand along the I refer only to two, written by scientific men, railway line. not by “ irresponsible socialists” ! They are Here is a statistical commentary on youthful studies of poverty in Britain. The facts they dis unemployment: 25,000 young boys and girls close need no frills. Truth is more terrible than under 17 were guilty of indictable offences in violent speech. 1934. 70 per cent of habitual criminals were 1. The University of Bristol Social Survey ex sentenced between the ages of 15 and 20. Suicides amines the standard of living in Bristol. And the were increased from 3,759 in 1921 to 5,743 in result ? By the most modest test one-third of Bris 1932: with an increase of nearly 60 per cent in tol’s working-class families are deprived of the suicides of young persons under 25 years of age. necessities of life. One working-class child in *In the United States reliable authorities released figures the same every five lacks the barest minimum of necessary year showing that there were approximately five million young people, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-three who were through school food. and without employment. And Bristol is not a depressed area. It is a Next weeki Humanity and Christianity. highly prosperous town; and the survey was made in the height of the 1937 boom. 2. Professor Jewkes, of Manchester Universi Talking It Over ty, makes a survey of the children in Lancashire By towns between the ages of 14 and 16 years. Out WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD of 2,000, one-fifth were physically defective, and HIS time of year quite a flock of pronounce a high percentage doomed to spend the next two Tments by rectors to their people come to me, years in broken or ill-paid work, or none at all. apparently the senders thinking that they are Listen to this: pretty hot stuff and ought to be passed on. It fre “ Girl working in bakery, 50 hours per week at quently strikes me that they contain more heat 62c per week at first visit. Wage rose to $1.00 at than light. Generally they are full of such words third visit. Asked for an increase in middle of as “ loyalty,” “ enthusiasm,” “ sacrifice,” “ spiritu 1935 and this was refused.” ality,” “ faith,” “ hope.” Rarely do they tell us Fifty hours for a girl of tender years. Of course what it is that we are to be enthusiastic about or it is illegal, but it is done, as in another case loyal to. But budgets have to be raised to keep where a girl works 66 hours a week as a packer. the wheels turning, even if they are taking us no Jewkes deplores the wastage of brain power. where in particular, so from the top of the Church Take this instance. “ Girl, very intelligent, fourth down we shout the high sounding words hoping, in advanced class, reliable and quick. Refined like the barker at the circus, that our antics will girl. At end of two years, at 16 years of age, get the people to lay it on the drum head and enter

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. October 19, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Five our tent. I had a good friend tell me only today what religion means.” Our world has entered a that he thinks me “ more spiritual than you dare struggle between conflicting ideologies for world let yourself believe.” Well, I don’t know whether domination. Sneer at “ isms” as much as you like I am spiritual or not. I do believe that there is a — the fact nevertheless remains that .they have good God behind this world of ours— no cinch to content and substance that people can understand. believe either these days. More, the purposes of And we of the Church have got to put practical this God are revealed by Jesus Christ and if the meaning, for the world of today, into the teach principles He gave us are applied to this world ings of Jesus Christ, if we are to convince intelli (and they will be even if He has to use some gent people, and particularly youth, that the agency besides the Church to do it) it is going to Church is something more than an organization mess up the comfortable world in which many chiefly concerned with providing jobs to a few fa powerful Episcopalians live. The late Judge Car- vored people. Nothing very “ spiritual” perhaps dozo of the Supreme Court once said: “ The sub about that statement—but to me the Christian mergence of self in the pursuit of an ideal, the faith is not believing something that I cannot readiness to spend oneself without measure prove; it is taking the principles of Jesus Christ prodigally, almost ecstatically, for something and doing my best to apply them in this world great and noble, to spend oneself one knows not today, with as little thought as possible about the why— some of us would like to believe that is consequences.

Our Family ¡Life By BISHOP JOHNSON T ET us think of the nation as a large family so sense of humor would incarcerate a man for dif that we may evaluate it in familiar terms. In fering with him. We will still enjoy liberty just a family there is no real liberty if the head of the as long as we can poke fun at the President with family is an arbitrary despot demanding that his out fear of decapitation. commands be obeyed without question. Neither On the other hand we are in danger of losing can there be joyous liberty where the children our liberty through over emphasis upon the have no respect for parental authority. Happy is frivolous and lack of reverence for constitutional the family in which the children have such love authority. In politics we abuse our legislators to for their parents that they want to obey them and such a degree that capable men hesitate to run for in which parents do not make unreasonable de office lest their reputation be injured by abusive mands upon their children. criticism. We pay for our censoriousness by the Our Puritan ancestors were God fearing men fact that we often entrust the biggest business in but their conception of God was that of an oriental the world to incompetent persons. despot who ruled in gloomy majesty and who iden tified solemnity with piety. There was no win TN RELIGION we pursue the same tactics. The someness in the God whom the Puritans served as -*■ censorious judgment of ministers is such that there was no merriment or joyousness in their able young men hestitate to take order's. Our criti homes. They exiled a jolly English squire from cism of leaders is apt to be out of proportion to New England because he dared to indulge in the service that we ourselves are rendering, for Christmas festivities. To them hilarity in any no one who fails in his task has any business judg form was a sin. ing some one else who fails in his work. As a There is a close resemblance between the lead matter of fact the ability which some people show ers of the totalitarian states and our Puritan in confessing the other man’s sins is due to his governors. I am told that no one smiles in these own familiarity with the sins that he criticizes- in states. They may laugh but they seldom smile. others. Life is too solemn and freedom of speech too People seem to think that if they successfully precious for any exhibition of real joy. One never censure the minister then they have an alibi for finds any humor in the speeches of dictators. deserting the Master. Thus St. John might have Stalin and Hitler are solemn dieties who demand forsaken His Master because Judas was one of obedience to their commands under penalty of the twelve. death or a concentration camp. No one with any People who object to arbitrary orders from a

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS October 19, 1939 priest cease to be a servant of the Master when having rejected papal infallibility have put on the they leave the Church because of his acts. Christ mantle which they have denied. was faithful to His Father’s house even when men In all families authority is something that made it a den of thieves. It is cowardly to desert should be seldom mentioned. This is particularly a cause because we do not like the captain who true of the Church which is the source of the lib is over our company. erty that belongs to the sons of God. It is so notwithstanding the fact that ministers Families, parishes, nations all come in the same can be very provoking. One would think some bracket. They are most happily run when the times that when they are called to a parish that area of arbitrary authority decreases and the they were given title deed to ownership. Some area of mutual consideration increases and per rectors assume arbitrary over-lordship of their parishes. After all the Church is a democracy in sonal liberty is not abused. which clergy and laity constitute the governing The Church is not a totalitarian state patterned body. It is not a fascist organization in which all either after Geneva or Rome, but a joyous family authority comes from the top down, but rather composed of those who are the kind of people who one in which the whole body has a part to play. want to do the right thing without police regula It would seem sometimes as though some clergy tion, just because they are that kind of people.

The Bible in Public Life By PHILIP WHITWELL WILSON Special Correspondent, New York Times T IS more than four hundred years since a Tu Lloyd George, the Baptist; and Stanley Baldwin, I dor England received the first complete print the Anglican of Methodist ancestry, who, in out ed Bible. What attention did the English pay to spoken fashion, confesses that without the Bible, their Bible when it was handed to them? What he would be hard pressed by the weight of his re difference did the Bible make to the life of the sponsibilities. English-speaking commonwealths ? John Bright, the British Quaker statesman, The great translator of the Bible into English lifted the oratory of the House of Commons and was William Tyndale. “ If God spare my life,” of the political platform into the realm of prophe said Tyndale to a learned scholar, “ ere many years cy by his devotion to the Bible. Joseph Chamber- I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall lain, like Theodore Roosevelt, taught in a Sunday know more of the Scripture than thou dost.” A school. noble boast that was abundantly justified. The historian John Richard Green declared that HAT has been the result of the reading of “ England became the people of a book, and that W the Bible? Let us anneal again to the his book was the Bible.” Nor does his testimony torians. Of the England that received the Book stand alone. As a historian, Professor Macaulay four hundred years ago, John Richard Green Trevelyan holds the Order of Merit, and he tells writes that “ no greater moral change ever passed us that “ a new generation” of Elizabethans grew over a nation.” Trevelyan puts it thus: “ The effect up “ under the influence of the Bible, the Prayer of the continual domestic study of the Book upon Book, and loyalty to the Queen.” Among the in the national character, imagination, and intel fluences of a formative period, the Bible came ligence for nearly three centuries to come, was first. greater than that of any literary movement in our The reading of the Bible has been an accepted annals, or any religious movement since the com habit of the British Commonwealth of nations. ing of St. Augustine.” The Prime Ministers of Great Britain, one after That verdict has never been upset. For more the other, have been men of the Bible. The entire than sixty years Queen Victoria reigned over an thinking of Gladstone was based upon what he ever-expanding empire. On one occasion she re called “ the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture.” ceived certain chieftains in audience. To her navy Lord Salisbury wa^ a devout churchman, and so and her army she did not allude, but she handed with Asquith, the Congregationalist; Balfour, them a Bible. “ This,” she said, “ is the secret of MacDonald, and Bonar Law, the Presbyterians; England’s greatness.”

Read the Bible, and does not its influence cease They who visit London are impressed by the to be a mystery? Here is the Book of Life— the profound reverence with which millions of peo book that reveals how life is lived and might be ple observe Armistice Day, crowding into White lived; why life is worth while; why life should hall, overflowing into Trafalgar Square, and unit be shared with others; the power by which life is ing their voices in the great hymn— “ Our God, our redeemed and safeguarded and enriched; the op help in ages past/’ No less remarkable is the spec portunities in life; its responsibilities; the perils tacle of enormous crowds at a football game at that menace life, and the purposes that life ful tended by the Kingjand Queen, who, with a band fills. The entire perspective of the Bible is fo of the Guards, join the people in singing a hymn cused on the Christ who came that we might have like “ Abide with me” in order to pass the time. life and have it more abundantly. It has been of It was the Bible of Wyclif that evoked the spirit supreme advantage to the English-speaking world of Lollardry which swept over the England of the that the leadership in every field should have been Middle Ages and inspired the songs of the people. brought by the Bible into touch with what is It is the Bible that in the twentieth century, with meant by life. its dangers and difficulties, fills the land with The Bible is full of all sorts and conditions of music. . i men and women and children. Reading the Bible, we arrive at the value of the individual or we learn respect for others. Also, we learn respect for ourselves. The Bible thus makes citizens, and Fine Feelings in the English-speaking world it prepared the peo O PIK E MAGUIRE, leader in an attempted ple for the franchise. ^ break for freedom, was fatally wounded by The Bible insists on rectitude. Every revival of an officer’s bullet and died in the Prison Hospital, interest in the Bible was followed in Britain by a a few hours later. To the other inmates, Spike’s movement for political reform. If public life is was a hero’s death and one Bad Egg Burke began clean this is the reason. to solicit flowers for his funeral. The Bible denounces oppression and requires that wrongs be righted. In the British Empire Quite a sum was pledged before the Prison Ad there has been a growing sensitiveness to injus ministration learned of the movement and prompt tices of every kind. ly stopped it. “ Them Prison Officers,” remarked The transformation of Great Britain from an Bad Egg, “has mixed so much with the Outside old into a new country was achieved mainly by the that they ain’t got no fine feelings.” “ Fine feel men of the Bible. John Howard read that we ings,” in jail or out, are always what the “ other should visit the prisoners in their affliction, and fellow” lacks.— T h e C h u r c h m o u s e . he flung himself into the task of reforming the jails. Wilberforce on one side of the Atlantic, like Whittier on the other, read that Christ died for 18326521 all men. They flung themselves into the crusade ■ INSTRUCTIONS against slavery. Turn to any country and men of the Bible leave E By BISHOP JOHNSON names held in peculiar honor. Certainly Norway has her Nansen, a great explorer, statesman, and A revised edition of friend of the friendless. He read the Bible. Eng these famous instruc land had her Ruskin, the apostle of beauty in the tions, with several ad city, the church, and the home. He read the ditional chapters on Bible. Russia had her Tolstoy, the pioneer of the history of the social justice. He read the Bible. China had her Church. Sun Yat-sen, architect of democracy. He read the 50c for single copies Bible. India has her Gandhi, champion of the $4 for a dozen copies untouchables. He reads the Bible. The Bible is today to be had almost free of cost. But a knowledge of the Bible can only be acquired THE WITNESS by a personal investment of time which is worth 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue more than money. That investment has yielded CHICAGO • ILLINOIS a generous dividend of influence both for the in dividual and for society.

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By W . B. Spofford Edited by W . B. Spofford Miss Grace Lindley, executive sec Governor Lehman of New York retary of the national Woman’s Aux was a headliner of the synod of New iliary since 1916, announced her re York and New Jersey, meeting in tirement at the meeting of the Na Albany, October 17-18 under the tional Council, October 10-12. She is chairmanship of Bishop Washburn to relinquish office at the end of of Newark. Another feature was a 1940. mass meeting at which the Rev. Finances, as usual, took up a good Henry Pit Van Dusen, a Presbyterian deal of the time of the Council with minister and also a confirmed Episco a strong insistance that there should palian, told of the world conference be no emergency appeal in the spring held this summer in India. The con of next year, as there has been in re cordat between our Church and the cent years. Every effort is being Presbyterians was presented by our made to raise the budget for 1940 Bishop Wilson of Eau Claire and the this fall, under the direction of the Rev. William L. Griffin Jr. of Pater Promotion Department, with Presid son, New Jersey. The synod dinner ing Bishop Tucker making a strong was held last evening, presided over plea that the Church unite for the by Bishop Gilbert of New York with task. He stated that estimated re GRACE LINDLEY Professor G. R. Elliott of Amherst ceipts for 1940 show a shortage about Announces Her Retirement as the speaker. Bishop Lehman was equal to the shortage of last year, the speaker at the social service lun making it necessary to put this $300,- cheon and shared the program with 000 into the permanent giving of the Bage, Brazil, is the man designated Spencer Miller Jr., consultant on in Church. for the office. dustry of the National Council; the The committee on Strategy and William R. Castle, former under Rev. Bill Kernan of the diocese of Policy recommended appointment of secretary of state and one time Coun Newark and the Rev. George Gilbert, a secretary for missionary education cil member, wired the Presiding Bish rural missionary of Connecticut. and a secretary for rural work, and op that he hoped no position would There were several meetings on mis committees were appointed to consid be taken on war and peace and neu sions, with Bishop Carson of Haiti er these appointments and report at trality legislation now before Con and Bishop Beal of Panama both ad the December meeting. The Coun gress since “ I believe it a serious dressing the gathering. Church- cil accepted the recommendation of mistake for the Council to take any women held their meetings at the this committee that it suggest to the stand on a political question.” The same time, with Mrs. Guy Emery House of Bishops that election of a reply that went to him was that the Shipler telling of the work being bishop for Salina be deferred to al Council was taking no position, but done by the Church for refugees; low for further study. (Proposals “ that the Council feels it has a right Miss Frances Arnold explaining the have been made that the District of to take a stand on a political ques doings at the Amsterdam Youth con Salina be merged with the diocese tion if a clear moral issue is in ference this past summer and Miss of Kansas or divided between neigh volved.” It did not feel that the neu Edna Eastman of New York lectur boring dioceses). The committee trality and embargo questions raise ing on the world crisis. All meetings also reported that studies were now such issues and therefore felt no call were well attended. being made of the diocese of Spring- to act. * * * field (Illinois) and the district of Li President Thomas S. Gates of the Historic Marker beria (Africa) and that reports will University of Pennsylvania and Mr. Is Dedicated be made later. It was further recom Coleman Jennings of Washington, A bronze marker, gift of the mended that aided dioceses who give D. C., were elected to the Council to D. A. R., was dedicated on October to the National Council more than fill vacancies, and Professor Carl 9th in Middletown, N. J. It states they receive, should relinquish aid Ackerman, dean of the school of that King’s Highway was laid out in and become independent of Council journalism at Columbia and a ves 1719 and that the British Army, un support. tryman of Trinity, New York, was der Generals Clinton and Cornwallis, The Rev. Frederick H. Arterton of elected an associate member of the marched along it in 1778 after the Springfield, Mass., was elected secre department of promotion. Battle of Monmouth. The marker is tary of youth, and a commission on Mrs. Robert G. Happ of South directly in front of historic Christ college work was appointed to co Bend, Indiana, was elected chairman Church— known as Captain Kidd’s operate with the committee on col of the executive committee of the Church— which was founded in 1706. lege work and youth, headed by Auxiliary, to serve through the 1940 H* H* H* Bishop Quin of Texas. General Convention. How to pro It was announced that Bishop mote peace was discussed by the Want Church Lined Thomas of Southern Brazil had asked Auxiliary and literature recommend Up for Neutrality for a Suffragan Bishop, to be elected ed. It was also reported that the A number of Church men and at the meeting of the House of Bish United Thank Offering is $78,000 women have sent an appeal to cler ops to be held November 8-9 in St. ahead of what it was at the same gymen asking them to make Sunday, Louis, if the request is granted. Bish time in the previous triennium. October 22, Peace-Makers Sunday, op Tucker announced that the dis Treasurer Lewis B. Franklin an and to line up their people for the trict would pay his salary so that the nounced undesignated legacies of retention of the present Neutrality Council’s only responsibility would $52,966 so far in 1939, half of which law. Those signing the appeal aré be the payment of $1,000 for travel. goes to the Forward Movement by Bishop W . A p p leton L aw ren ce, The Rev. Athalico Pithan, rector at action of General Convention. Bishop George Craig Stewart, Dean

E. L. Haines, Dean Paul Roberts, the province of New England, to Miss Grace Lindley, Mrs. Katherine meet at Christ Church Cathedral, Pierce, Rectors E. Ashley Gerhard, Hartford, October 24-25. Clarence H. Horner, Elmore McKee, Hi Jfc H1 Albert R. Stuart. That is they want New York Parents the Church to support the same neu Hold a Meeting trality law that has long aided Japan A meeting for parents and Sunday against China, that was instrumental school workers of the diocese of in defeating the Loyalists in Spain New York was held at St. Clement’s, and that Hitler’s agents in the Unit on October 17th, with the chief ed States, including Fritz Kuhn and speaker the Rev. Daniel McGregor, Father Coughlin, are pleading for. head of the national department of I’m on the other side— but this is religious education. not the place to argue the matter. * * * The appeal is issued by the Fellow German Refugee ship of Reconciliation. Teaches in Cincinnati He H* * Fleeing from Switzerland after be Princeton Rector ing imprisoned in a German concen Dies Suddenly tration camp, and after 37 days and The Rev. Robert Williams, rector nights of mistreatment and complete of Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J., isolation from the outside world, Dr. for many years, died suddenly on Oc Walter Spiegel has arrived in Cin tober 11th of a heart attack. cinnati to join the faculty of the Graduate School of Applied Re Three Out of BISHOP GILBERT ligion. He and Mrs. Spiegel were a Thousand Presides at Synod Dinner permitted to leave with only ten Here’s a new kind of mission. The marks (about four dollars): Their Rev. C. G. Hamilton of Aberdeen, household goods are interned in Mississippi, held a mission at Louis 17'-19 at St. Stephen’s, Wilkes-Barre, Bremen by the war-blockade and ville, Miss., on October 1-8, attended Pa., attended by about 300 delegates probably cannot be recovered. Mrs. by approximately 1,000 people of representing the thirteen dioceses of Spiegel, an accomplished linguist, is whom but three were Episcopalians. the states of Pennsylvania, Mary a native of Lodz, Poland, now in the Most of them listened to an Episco land, Virginia, West Virginia and hands of Reich troops. Dr. Spiegel, pal parson for the first time in their Washington, D. C. The synod opened like Albert Schweitzer, combines lives. He addressed meetings at on Tuesday with a service led by theology with music and was able to schools and luncheon clubs also. Bishop Freeman of Washington, fol bring his concert violin to America. lowed by a business meeting at which “ The Nazis made no formal Council’s Treasurer Bishop Sterrett of Bethlehem pre charges against me,” Dr. Spiegel in West Missouri sided. The speaker at the dinner that said, “ but unquestionably I was guilty National Council’s Treasurer, evening was the Rev. John Crocker, in their eyes of two serious offenses, Lewis B. Franklin, was the leader of student pastor at Princeton. A t the first as the descendant of a non- a clergy conference of the diocese final mass meeting on Wednesday Aryan grandparent, and second be of W est Missouri, held at Excelsior evening, in addition to the address cause of my membership in the Springs, October 2-8. Bishop Spen by Bishop Tucker, there was one by Lutheran Confessional Church with cer spoke on the mission work of the William A. Eddy, president of Ho Pastor Niemoeller and others who re diocese; Mrs. David W . Thornberry bart College, on the timely topic, sisted Nazi totalization.” of Minnesota on women’s work and “ The Cross and the Flag in a War His seminar course will be “ Con Business Man W . Hardy Hendren of ring World.” The synod closed yes^ temporary Continental Theology” in Kansas City told the parsons how to terday morning with reports by the relation to totalitarianism, church collect the money. commissions on missions, religious freedom, the protest theology of education, student work and other scholars like Karl Barth and other English Lecturer topics. The Rev. Gardiner M. Day present-day issues. at Berkeley is the rector of the host parish. Nine students are enrolled for the The Rev. Arnold Nash has arrived He ^ H* Fall term, three of them for part- from England at the Berkeley Di Normal School time, representing six dioceses, six vinity School, New Haven, to lecture in Pennsylvania seminaries and seven states. on the philosophy of religion. Six The normal school for Sunday H* H» H» teen dioceses are represented at the school teachers resumed on October Clergymen At school this year in an enrollment of 10th in the diocese of Pennsylvania, Social Work Conference thirty students. under the auspices of the diocesan * The Rev. William Browne of Man department of religious education of chester, Vermont, was the chairman German Refugee which the Rev. Charles S. Martin is of the program committee for the at Church School chairman. Meeting on consecutive Vermont conference of social work Ludwig Unterholzner, German ref Tuesday evenings, about 150 persons ers held at Rutland, October 9th. ugee, a distinguished musician, has have enrolled to take courses offered Episcopalians attending held a cor accepted a position as teacher of by various diocesan leaders. porate communion at Trinity on the music at Margaret Hall School, Ver Hi ^ Hi 10th at which the rector, the Rev. sailles, Kentucky. * * * New England to Morgan Ashley, celebrated. It was Hold Synod followed by a breakfast at which Synod Meets Presiding Bishop Tucker, Council’s Mr. Browne explained the work being in Wilkes-Barre vice-president Charles Sheerin, Bish done in the state with German refu Presiding Bishop Tucker was the op Sherrill of Massachusetts, and gees. Also attending the conference headliner at the synod of the prov Bishop Bennett of Rhode Island are was the Rev. E. P. Paige, the rector ince of Washington, meeting October to be the headliners at the synod of at Poultney. The speaker at the con-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS October 19, 1939 ference dinner was the executive Portland, Oregon, on October 30th secretary of the Church League for and 31st, visiting Eugene, Oregon, Industrial Democracy. the following day.

Secretaries On Pacific Starts Pacific Coast School for Prophets The Rev. Daniel McGregor, secre A School of the Prophets, similar tary of religious education of the to the one sponsored at the College National Council, and the Rev. Al- of Preachers, Washington, has been den Kelley, national secretary of launched at the chapter house of college work, are among the speak Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. ers to address the Cranmer Club, or It opened for the first session of ganization of Episcopal students at ten days on October 17th with Bishop the University of California. Others Dagwell of Oregon as the leader. to visit California this month on be The bishops of the dioceses and dis half of the National Council are tricts of the far west nominate the Bishop Roberts of South Dakota and men to attend. W. L. Richards of the promotional department. Conferences in H: * * Southwestern Virginia Kansas City Holds GARDINER M. DAY I .. The Rev. Francis H. Craighill, a Mission Host of Washington Synod * rector at Williamsburg, and Miss Ten thousand people gathered the Roberta Aldrich, director of religious other evening in the municipal audi possibility of America being drawn education at Trinity, Columbia, S. C., torium of Kansas City for the launch in, the commission is particularly were the leaders at a two day con ing of a mission sponsored by the busy. A meeting was held in New ference held in Southwestern Vir Council of Churches. The chief York on October 5th at which Bish ginia. It was particularly for the speaker was the Rev. Ralph W . Sock- op Remington was instructed to pre clergy and Church school leaders but man of New York who explained that sent the subject of the treatment of many others attended. the meeting was preliminary to a C.O’s to the committee that is to pre Hs * H« nation-wide mission to be held next pare the pastoral letter when the Celebration in year. He emphasized the opportunity House of Bishops meets in St. Louis An Old Barn for a united Christian approach in a next month. The following day he An old barn in which the first time when “ the Christian Church appeared before the executive com services of the Holy Nativity, Chi faces the stormiest weather it has mittee of the Federal Council of cago, were held forty years ago was faced since it became a world enter Churches and again presented the the unusual setting for a communion prise.” There was standing applause matter, offering the bill that our service on October 15th when the and cheers when another speaker, the commission has proposed, which had parish started the anniversary cele Rev. Jesse M. Bader, declared that a hearing before the military affairs bration. The barn served as a parish “ we want America to stay out of committee of the U. S. Senate in house for the first five years while war, not that we may live by our May of 1937. The bill was approved a small band of Episcopalians were selves in isolation but so that we may in principle by the Federal Council. raising funds to build a church. better be able to help a world at war Another meeting is being held to They worshipped before a crude and rebuild a world shattered by day, October 19th, of leaders of the packing box altar in this tiny barn war.” There was also prolonged ap various churches at which it is ex in a rear Chicago alley. Today they plause when our Dean Claude W . pected that ways and means will be have one of the nicest small churches Sprouse, speaking for the church determined for introducing the bill in the city. The present rector, the forces of the city, replied to Dr. in Congress. Meanwhile a flock of seventh, is the Rev. Thomas Bell Sockman and said that Kansas City clergy who are pacifists met on Oc ringer. accepted his challenge. tober 9th at the Incarnation, New Hi H* ❖ York, to discuss the whole question of Bishop Wilson to The Money war and the attitude of the Christian Address Auxiliary Comes in toward it. Among the leaders were Bishop Frank E. Wilson of Eau Council Treasurer, Lewis B. Frank the Rev. Elmore McKee, rector of Claire is to be the headliner at the lin, reported on October 5th that the St. George’s, New York, and Bishop mass meeting of the Chicago Auxili percentage of payments to the Na Paul Jones who ceased to be the ary on November 2nd. On October tional Council is as great as in form Bishop of Utah during the last war 26th Deaconess Edith Smith of Ne er years. “ The Presiding Bishop’s because he stood firmly for pacifism. vada is to be the speaker at a quiet statement, ‘The Church is Going * * * day of the Auxiliary, to be held at Forward,’ has become a slogan. Our Student Conferences Christ Church, Winnetka. reports give evidence of the fact.” At University of Washington * * H: H« Hs The Rev. Herbert H. Gowen is Broadcast Starts Conscientious Objectors conducting a series of conferences Campaign for Thirty Million to War for Episcopal students at the Uni According to Church headquarters At the General Convention of versity of Washington, being held on in New York, it takes thirty million 1934 a resolution was passed calling Sunday evenings at Christ Church, dollars each year to operate the for the enactment of federal legis Seattle. Episcopal Church throughout the lation which would protect consci H: * * world, with most of it, of course, entious objectors in time of war. A Auxiliary Head going to maintain parishes. The commission was appointed, headed by to Visit Oregon every member canvass is to get under Bishop Remington of Eastern Ore Miss Grace Lindley, executive way on November 5th with a coast gon, and it was reappointed at the head of the national Auxiliary, and to coast broadcast by Presiding Bish 1937 General Convention. Now that Miss Margaret Marston, educational op Tucker, after which canvassers war has hit this world, with the grave secretary, are to lead conferences in will set out to gather in the pledges.

ARE YOU TUNED IN?

N E W spirit is abroad in the A Church this fall. Inspired by the Presiding Bishop, this new spirit is an answer to his call to “GO FORWARD!” Bishop Tucker has asked every clergy man, every canvass chairman, every layman and laywoman to join him in a sincere effort to advance. Here is his ringing challenge: “ IF W E ATTEM PT GREAT TH IN G S FOR GOD, WE CAN EXPECT GREAT THINGS OF GOD.”

Are you “ tuned in” on this new spirit, this new determination to attempt great things for your parish and the Church as a whole? Have you laid out plans for an aggressive fall and winter program? Are you using to the best possible advantage the new pictorial materials prepared for your benefit? Have you made arrangements to cover your entire parish list with the Every Member Canvass Number (available Oct. 25) of THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS?

On Nov. 5, the Presiding Bishop will broadcast a message to the whole Church on <(Our Present Duty” over Columbia network (10 A.M., E.S.T.). See that your Parish is tuned in.

DATES OF THE EVERY MEMBER CANVASS — NOVEMBER 5 TO 26

The broadcast is to originate in St. denominational religious conference but that from $300,000 to $500,000 Louis at 9 a.m., C.S.T., with a brief of the state university. One of the was necessary to take care of accrued service during which the choir of speakers was the Rev. John M. liabilities. The Rev. Wallace E. Christ Church Cathedral will sing Krumm of Compton who spoke on the Conkling of Philadelphia conducted three well known hymns. challenge of religious intolerence at a retreat in connection with the * * * home. meetings. * * * Exhibit of Clergy Conference Ecclesiastical Art Speak on Work in Los Angeles Clay tablets and papyri of the sec in Brazil Bishop Stevens and Bishop Gooden ond century before Christ will be ex Bishop Taitt, recently returned are to lead discussions on the general hibited in Los Angeles the first two from a six weeks’ visit to South theme, “ The Pastor at Work” at the weeks of November. Other things to America, and the Rev. Franklin T. annual clergy conference of the dio be shown are mediaeval illuminated Osborn, for twenty-three years a cese of Los Angeles, to be held at manuscripts, historical documents of missionary in Brazil, were the speak ers at the convocation held October Hemet, October 30-31. the colorful trek of the Mormons to * * * the west and the Old Mission Collec 10th at St. George’s, North Philadel Baltimore Parish tion, setting forth the story of the phia. H» H* H* Seeks Funds founding of the famous Roman Catho The Holy Nativity, Baltimore, lic Churches along the coast of Cali Racial Work in where the Rev. Hugh Powell is rec fornia. The exhibit is the work of Los Angeles tor, completed a beautiful new church an interdenominational com m ittee A new chapel for Spanish speaking in 1927 at a total cost of $187,000. headed by Mrs. W . Bertrand Stevens, people has been opened in North A rectory and parish house has pre wife of the Bishop of Los Angeles. Hollywood, California. Work for $ $ $ these people in the diocese is in viously been constructed, and com- charge of the Rev. Esteban Cladera Religious Educator SCHOOL OF NURSING in Lexington and the Rev. Bartolomeo Alorda. Hi * H* General hospital providing experience in Miss Maude Cutler, religious edu medical, surgical, and obstetrical nursing Organized Aid with affiliated course in pediatrics at Chil cation field secretary of the province dren’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, included of Sewanee, visited several parishes for Deaconesses in three year program. Approved by Amer A group of associates of Deacon ican College of Surgeons, American Medical in the diocese of Lexington the first Association, and National League of Nursing week in October, holding consul esses is expected to result from a Education. meeting of the national conference Class enters in September. tations on Church school programs. Apply to Director of Nursing, St. Luke’s H: H* ❖ of deaconesses, held in New York, Hospital, Davenport, Iowa. Youth Conscription September 29. They would aid the For Peace work with prayers and cash, and in Without taking sides on the neu return the deaconesses will provide Christmas Cards trality debate, youth of southern spiritual help, and probably sponsor California held a mass meeting in an annual retreat. The retiring fund W h a t a lovely custom It Is for Chris tians to send cards of greeting at Christ- Los Angeles on October 9th and for deaconesses held a meeting the mastide to commemorate their Saviour’s dramatized the fact that American same day and reported that $57,000 had been raised to provide pensions birth! For Christians there can certainly youth desires to remain out of Eu be no other reason to send cards at such rope’s war and to work for the ex a time, so, naturally, the cards really tension of democracy at home. The should be religious ones, don’t you think, meeting was sponsored by the inter- i m z i . — aye— even to pagan friends, for it is to them that the good news should be car AMPLIFIED ried. If you haven’t been working very A Laxative for Children hard at your job of spreading the gospel SYRUP OF BLACK-DRAUGHT CARILLON (how else can it be done?) here, at least, is a purely vegetable laxative is a pleasant and happy way in which Musical to w e r — to begin letting your light shine. that is acceptable belfry chimes, en to children be tirely automatic in Our cards this year are more amazing o p e ra tio n ready than ever. One really needn’t spend more cause it is pleas- now for churches. than 5c for cards except for those few Works as easily for very special friends and loved ones, ant-tasting. Many as a radio. Uses mothers have records or music and if you don’t spend 10c or 15c on from organ. Has „ them then you’re not the sort w e’ve been found that when automatic record- Typical Musical Tower raised with, and you’ve got some things their children are changer— can be played manually, too. Many appropriate recordings specially made for church to learn in love and thoughtfulness. b ilio u s, or have work and musical towers now W e’ve got a plan by which you select available. Unit also used as your cards right at home. Use a post card sour stomach, a public address system in colic due to gas, side or outside of church. and learn how. Proven quality. Entirely guar sick headache, anteed. Would make a fine AMMIDON AND COMPANY coated tongue, gift or a beautiful memorial. Get free copy of bulletin. Horace L. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. October 19, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen pletely paid for. But there is at gustus Van Cortlandt,” according to present a debt of over $115,000 on the faded inscription on the fly leaf. the property, with an effort now be This copy ordinarily rests in a steel- ing made to greatly reduce it. Terms grated case in the library of the Gen have been made with the bank where eral Theological Seminary, Chelsea by the payment of $20,000 at this Square. It was printed by “ Hugh time will reduce the debt by nearly Gaine, at The Bible, Hanover Square, half the present figure. They are New York,” and is considered a mas after that $20,000. terpiece of printing of the period. Hi H* * The only other copy of this edition Anniversaries in known to exist in New York is the Los Angeles property of the New York Public Li Trinity, Los Angeles, held a triple brary, and is at present a part of the Library’s exhibit, “ Old New York.” anniversary on October 3rd; the 30th * * * of the organization of the parish; the 15th of the rectorship of the Convocation Meets Rev. Herbert V. Harris and the 25th in Nashville of his ordination to the priesthood. The Rev. Thomas N. Carruthers . . . The 50th anniversary of the was the preacher at the convocation consecration of the Church of the held at St. Ann’s, Nashville, on Oc Angels, Pasadena, was observed on tober 11th. Bishop Maxon led a dis cussion on finances. the Feast of St. Michael and All * * * Angels. The church was built to serve as a chapel for the late Bishop Vice-President Sheerin Johnson but is now an independent Visits Washington parish with the Rev. Edwin Moss as The Rev. Charles Sheerin, vice- rector. president of the National Council, led a conference of the vestrymen and Philadelphia Parish canvass chairmen of the diocese of Has Anniversary Washington, held at the Epiphany, October 13 th. The Rev. Philip J. Steinmetz, rec * * * tor of St. Paul’s, Elkins Park, was the dinner speaker, and the Rev. Ed Notes From win S. Carson, first rector, was the Western New York preacher at the service held in con The clergy met at DeVeaux School, nection with the 35th anniversary of Niagara Falls, late in September un the Memorial Church of St. Paul, der the leadership of Bishop Davis and the Rev. Charles Sheerin, Na THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK Philadelphia, last week. The Rev. SOCIETY Thomas Parker is the present rector tional Council vice-president, to dis Founded by Bishop White 1833 cuss the fall campaign. . . . The re Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par — the seventh in its 35 years. ishes unable to purchase them, in limited lationship of mental hygiene to re grants. ligion was the subject of a panel dis The Book of Common Prayer. An Exhibit of The Combined Book (The Book of Common Prayer Books cussion held in Buffalo on October Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). A collection of famous and his 10th. The Rev. William Baxter of Pew Size toric Prayer Books is being exhibited Buffalo, Dr. Alfred Ulrich of a local Apply to Rev. W . Arthur Warner, D.D. Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. at headquarters in New York in con hospital and Miss Helen Olmsted, Philadelphia, Pa. nection with the 150th anniversary former president of the Church Mis of the adoption of the American sion of Help in the diocese, were the Prayer Book. leaders. . . . The diocesan Auxiliary RESTHAVEN One of the rarest of the collection joined forces with that of the dio Saint Augustine, Florida is a copy of the first folio edition cese of Rochester for a quiet day, Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened held at the Girl’s Friendly House on their Rest House in this historic city to guests printed in America, which was pre desiring spiritual peace and strength; physical sented in 1790, to “the members of Conesus Lake. . . . The annual rest, quiet, and nourishing food. The new location is in beautiful grounds with water St. John’s Church, Yonkers, by Au- ASSISTANT PRIEST WANTED outlook, live oaks, palms, flowers. Com Unmarried, for Gethsemane Church, Minne fortable rooms. Central heat. Address The apolis. Write giving full details to the rector, Mother Superior S. R.______905 South Avenue, South. ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. PAYNE- SPIERS STUDIOS, ¡„c. 147 E. 47th St., New York SO WES T I S t ji ST R E ET. N E W YORK CIT ¥ CHURCH VESTMENTS } M EM O RIA I C R A f T.S M E N •’ ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY STAINED GLASS WINDOWS - Conferences with reference to the adornment of Churches = . ' BRON.ZE ^TABLETS : Telephone El-dorado 5-1058 MEMORIALS .IN WOOD. MARBLE. IRON. MOSAICS . Eneharistic Candles ALTAR FURNISHINGS < DESIGNS SUBMITTED

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meeting of the Young People’s Fel is high time that the children of this correspondence schools, and 10,900 lowship of the diocese is to be held community should learn that the pieces of literature were mailed— les at St. Stephen’s, Olean, October 20- word ‘God’ means something beside sons, cards and pamphlets. There 21, with the headliner the Rev. Frank swearing.” Now there is a Church are records of devoted volunteer, Patterson of Warsaw, N. Y. school. In the Province, in a single work; the stenographer in Sioux year, 2,729 families were reached, Falls, S. D., who gives much of her School of Religion 1,911 children enrolled in Church time to correspondence Church school in New York The School of Religion of New York held its first session on Mon day, October 16th, at St. James Services in Leading Churches Church and is to meet for six consec utive Monday evenings. Courses are The Cathedral of St. John St. Thomas Church the Divine Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street being taught by the Rev. Harry Price New York Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. of Scarsdale, Spencer Miller Jr., the New York City Rev. Reelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Sunday .Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and Rev. Edmund Sills, the Rev. Wilbur Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. 10, Morning Prayer. 11, Holy Communion 4 P.M. Caswell, the Rev. Gerald V. Barry, and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser Daily Services: 8 :30 A.M., Holy Com munion. the Rev. Charles Fielding, the Rev. mon. Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. Claude F. Stent, the Rev. Frederic Saints’ Days 7 :30 and 10.) 9, Morning Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. Underwood, the Rev. A. G. H. Bat Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: Organ Recital at 4 :30. ten, the Rev. L. Ernest Sunderland, Trinity Church, New York Broadway and Wall St. with the Rev. G. F. Burrill the chair Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. man. The Rev. C. Avery Mason is Chapel of the Intercession Daily: 8, 12 and 3. the chairman of the department un Broadway at 155th New York City St. Paul’s Cathedral der whose auspices the school is held. Rev. S. Tagart Steele. Vicar Buffalo, New York $ $ $ Sundays: Holy Communion: 8 and 9 :30 ; Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean Service and Sermon at 11; Evening Ser Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M Marblehead Parish vice and Sermon, 8. Weekdays: 8, 12:05. Has Anniversary Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 Tuedsay: 10:30 A.M. Holy Communion and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9:40. and 11:00 A.M. Quiet Hour. St. Michael’s, Marblehead, Mass., observed its 225th anniversary the Christ Church Cathedral Chapels of the Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. last week of September with a series The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean of events that ended with an address New York Protestant Episcopal Sunday Services, 8:00, 9:30, 10:06. by Bishop Sherrill. The sturdy lit City Mission Society 11:00 a.m .; 4:30 p.m. Week-days: 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion tle church was erected by the So San Salvatore— (Italian) 359 Broome (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy ciety for the Propagation of the Gos Street; St. Cyrian’s— (Colored) 175 West Communion on Wednesdays and Holy Days. 63rd Street; St. Martin’s — (Colored) 12:30 p.m. Noonday Service. pel of the Church of England, with Church recently burned. Services held at both the timber and the design com Ephesus Seventh-Day Adventist Church, St. Michael and All Angels Lenox Ave. and 123rd St. Baltimore, Maryland ing from the old country. It has All Sunday Services at 11 A.M. The Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D., Rector withstood coastwise storms for two Sunday Services 7 :30 A.M.— Holy Communion and a quarter centuries, and has Grace Church, New York 9 :30 and 11:00 A.M.— Church School been certified by experts as good for Rev. W . Russell Bowie, D.D. 11:00 A.M.-—Morning Service and Sermon Broadway at 10th St. 8 :00 P.M.— Evening Service and Sermon another hundred years. The first Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Weekdays:— chanting in the land later to become Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Holy Communion— urdays. Mon., Wed., & Sat.— 10 :00 A.M. the United States was heard in this Holy Communion, 11:45 A.M. on Thurs Tues., Thurs., & Fri.— 7:00 A.M. church on Christmas Day, 1787. The days and Holy Days. Holy Days— 7:00 and 10:00 A.M. Rev. Thomas F. Oliver Was then the Gethsemane, Minneapolis rector, and during his incumbency The Heavenly Rest, New York Fifth Avenue at 90th Street 4th Ave. South at 9th St. Bishop Seabury made his first visita Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector tion and confirmed 130 persons. The Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10 :16 Sundays : 8 :00 and 11 :00 A.M. a .m .; Sunday School 9 :30 a.m. ; Morning Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10:30 A.M. Rev. Daniel Mossom, 1718-1727, was Service and Sermon 11 a .m .; Choral Eve Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M. the first presbyter ordained for the ning Prayer 5 p.m. Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com St. John’s Church American Colonies, and performed munion, 11 a.m. Lattingtown, Long Island the marriage ceremony for General Bishop Frank DuMoulin, Rector George Washington. The Rev. W il On North Shore of Long Island two The Incarnation miles east of Glen Cove liam Harris, rector from 1791 to Madison Avenue and 35th Street 8 :00 A.M.— Holy Communion. 1802, later became the president of The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector 9:45 A.M.— Junior Church and Sunday Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A.M ., 4 P.M., Wed School. Columbia University. Bishop Hen- nesdays and Holy Days, Holy Communion 1 1 :00 A.M.— Morning Service and Ser shaw of Rhode Island and Bishop at 10 A.M., Fridays: Holy Communion at mon. 12:15 P.M. Smith of Kentucky, for a time the St. Paul’s Chapel Presiding Bishop, both had this par St. Bartholomew's Church Trinity Parish, New York ish for their first cures. New York (Opened 1766) * * * Park Avenue and 51st Street Oldest Public Building in New York Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Washington’s Pew— Governor Clinton’s Northwest Develops Sunday Services Pew— Many other objects of interest. Work Among Isolated 8 A.M.— Holy Communion Sundays: 9 :30 and 10 A.M. 11 A.M.— Morning Service and Sermon Weekdays : 8, 12 A.M. and 6 P.M. Impressive statistics, backed by 4 P.M.— Evensong. Special Music. consecration and unceasing labor, Weekday Holy Communion at 10:30 A.M. St. George’s Church on Thursdays and Saints’ Days. mark the spreading work among the The Church is open daily for prayer. Founded 1748 Stuyvesant Square, 16 St. E. of 3rd Ave. isolated in the Province of the north “ The First Institutional Church west. In a little place in the high St. James Church, New York in New York” Madison Avenue and 71st Street Rev. Elmore M. McKee, Rector Rockies there was no church service The Rev. H. W . B. Donegan, Rector 8 A.M .— Holy Communion. 11 A.M .— of any kind, no religious teaching for 8 A.M.— Holy Communion. Service and Sermon. 11 A.M.— Morning Prayer and Sermon. All seats free. the children. A Roman Catholic Preacher: Bishop Abbott. Clubs, Clinics, Summer Camps, Rains- woman rose in her place in a group Holy Communion 12 noon Thursday. ford House. one afternoon and said, “ I think it

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. October 19, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Fifteen work; men and women, who visit iso book at all bookstores restored it to and his wife; and when he prayed, lated families and interest them in first place in the fiction list of the he prayed: the Church; clergy who travel long entire district. “ Lord, bless me and my wife, miles, calling on people, holding serv ^ ^ ^ My son, John, and his wife; ices, ministering to thousands of Church Figures Us four and no more.” men, women and children who have About New York The second man lived down on the felt outside of all religious influence. The new directory of churches in next corner. He had a wife but no * * * New York city, and including for the children, and when he prayed, he Winthrop Rector first time Nassau and Westchester prayed: Has Anniversary churches, was published this week by “ Lord, bless only me, The 25th anniversary of the rec the three federations of the city. The That’s as far as I can see.” torship of the Rev. Ralph M. Harper population of New York city is at St. John’s, Winthrop, Mass., was 7,575,339, according to the directory. CLERGY NOTES celebrated by a community service on Brooklyn is still by far the largest (Continued from page 2) October 1st, the Baptists, Congrega- borough, with a population of 2,827,- RANSOM, FRANCIS A., formerly of Brown- ville Junction, Maine, is now in charge of tionalists and Methodists taking part. 160, as against 1,662,195 for Man St. Barnabas’ , Rumford, and Christ Church, hattan, the next largest. The Bronx Norway, Maine. First in Parish has 1,527,685 inhabitants; Queens SHATTUCK, GARDINER H., formerly of the staff of Trinity, Boston, has accepted the at Newton Lower Falls has 1,379,374 and Richmond has rectorship of Grace, Dalton, Mass. Fire swept the chapter room of St. 178,925. The book lists 1,730 Prot TYLER, BARRETT P., has resigned as rector Mary’s Church, Newton Lower Falls, estant churches, of which 238 are of St. Paul’s, Nantucket, Mass., because of illness. Negro churches. Mass., on October 3rd, doing several WIELAGE, FREDERICK H., formerly of the thousand dollars worth of damage. Membership of all Protestant diocese of Milwaukee, is in charge of St. * * * John’s, Valentine, Nebraska, with charge churches in the five boroughs is of missions at Cody, Bassett and O’Neill. Meeting for Men 521,685, with 228,357 enrolled in in Rochester Sunday schools. The average church William R. Castle, formerly under membership is 441, and the average secretary of state and Ambassador to Sunday school membership 193. Japan, was the headliner at the meet Public school enrollment in the five Forme ply DeLSons FaRnuiuipe Co. ing for the men of the diocese of boroughs is 1,087,002, including Rochester held on Sunday evening, 450,912 Protestants, or 4 1 .4 8 % ; October 8th, with about 1,000 present. 353,090 Jews, or 3 2 .4 8 % ; 263,000 * * * Roman Catholics, or 2 4.19% , and A New Kind 20,000 Eastern Orthodox, or 1.84% . O f Offering The parochial schools of the Roman The mother of two choir boys in Catholic Church have 203,141 pupils, Denver thought she ought to make a and Jewish parochial schools have gift to the conference center at 4,799 pupils. Evergreen, since her sons had such a grand time there at a camp. She How Wide Are had no cash so she offered to clean Your Prayers? all of the camp blankets— 250 in all. The great British statesman, Lord At retails prices the donation Salisbury, climaxed a debate with a amounted to about $45. worthy opponent over the question * * * of their country’s foreign policy with Daily Peace Prayers these words: “ My friend, you need to Observed study larger maps.” Such words de Under the auspices of the Minis serve an extended hearing. WIPPELL terial Association of Troy and vicin In a small village there were two ity a daily peace service is being men living in the same block. The 6cCOMPANY- LTD L< held at St. Paul’s Church, Troy, N. first lived with his wife, their son Y., of which the Rev. A. Abbott Hast EXETER Cathedral ¡/ard. ings is rector. The church is in the LONDON • m on StS-Uh downtown section of Troy, and the MANCHESTER 2-f, Street-. service consists of ten minutes of prayer. Write for literature. 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