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The Witness-- March 15, 1956 Three rules when intelligent manage- times, while retreating and af- pons grow, Germany and Korea ment deems such action advis- firming at others. remain divided." able. The importance of being "This means that mistrust The need to maintain at all amenable to constructive continues to fetter the good- times strict discipline and an criticism. will of t h o s e government atmosphere of some struggle The long-term importance of leaders on whom depends the and humility. selling or persuasion by demon- peaceful solution of the above- The everlasting advantage stration and example rather mentioned problems," the Rus- of advancing" and denying at than aggressive pressure. sian metropolitan said, "There- fore, everything is not yet done to strengthen peace, and therefore, we Christians can- Russian Primate Urges Ties not stand aloof from that great task nor can we weaken our With World Council efforts in that direction." When newsmen reminded publication. him of his own political state- * Patriarch Alexei of Mos- port. At the same time, it as- ments, Metropolitan Nikolai and cow has declared that the Rus- sured the Soviet churches of said he meant only that the sian Orthodox Church would the World Council's continuing
reuse Church should .not mingle in welcome closer contacts with efforts for the attainment of
for politics inside the country. leaders of the World Council of world peace. However, he said, it should Churches. In his reply, Metropolitan speak about world matters required But he made no specific re- Nikolai called the maintenance when peace was endangered. commendations beyond urging and strengthening of peace Throughout the news confer- fellowship of Christians of "the most pressing question of ence he spoke of the "private different denominations with our time."
Permission nature" of his visit to Norway. the Russian Orthodox Church "Particularly blessed conse- "in the defense of peace." quences could result," he wrote. Turning to the United States, he said he had confi- DFMS. The patriarch's statement "from the fellowship of Chris- / was made in a letter written on tians of different denomina- dence in President Eisenhower his behalf to the World Coun- tions, including participants of and the American people to
Church cil's executive committee by the ecumenical movement, with preserve peace. Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutit- the Russian Orthodox Church sky and Kolomna, second-rank- in the defense of peace. We PASTORS FIGHT ATHEISM
Episcopal ing official of the Moscow are convinced that mutual ef- SAYS METROPOLITAN
the Patriarchate. forts directed toward the real- of Text of the letter was re- ization of the great aim of a * Metropolitan Nikolai of leased by the World Council's durable peace on earth would Krutitsky and Kolomna, sec- headquarters office in Switzer. be the best way to express in ond-ranking official of the Mos- Archives land. life our Christian belief and to cow Patriarchate, said in Oslo that Soviet pastors fight athe- The letter was in answer to come to a common mind." 2020. ism and materialism in their one sent to Patriarch Metropolitan Nikolai said Alexei sermons. and the Holy Synod of the that World Council resolutions Russian Orthodox Church by calling for "disarmament, for The Russian prelate, who Copyright the World Council's central the prohibition of atomic wea- was in Norway for a six-day committee at its meeting last pons, for the peaceful use of visit, made this statement August in Davos, Switzerland. atomic energy and the ex- during a news conference at That message urged full and change of material values" de- which he maintained that the f re e relationships between serve attention. The Russian Soviet Church was free and member communions of the Orthodox Church, he added, independent. World Council and Christian 'also does not slacken her ef- He admitted that Russian bodies in the Soviet Union. forts in this direction." clergymen had been interned, It also informed the Russian But, the "aim of our common but he said they were deprived Church leaders that the World action remains as yet un- of their liberty not because of Council still regarded the Com- achieved," he went on, because their faith but because they munist-sponsored peace move- "the armaments race contin- "rose against the state" and ment as one it could not sup- ues, the stocks of atomic wea- mingled in politics. Four The Witness - March 15, 1956 'worldly success is not really BISHOP INSTALLS SIDENER success, and it does not neces- sarily mean that we are in the right. By worldly standards, OVER MELISH PROTESTS Christ was a failure." Bishop DeWolfe of Long Is- a bunch of brand new keys- The Rev. Ernest A. Harding, land installed the Rev. H. S. new because only a few hours rector, presented her with one Sidener as rector of Holy Trin- earlier- the anti-Melish faction of the 100 newly-coined medals ity, Brooklyn, March 5th. He changed the locks on the bearing the seal of the historic did so however over the pro- church and its buildings to church. tests of members of the con- stop any entries of Mr. Melish. FRY PLAY AT gregation who are supporters The service was attended by ST. MARTIN'S of the Rev. William H. Mlelish. about a hundred clergymen and Players of In the ceremony where the 400 lay people. *The Canterbury approximately Cambridge, pre. bishop said : "But if any of you As this number goes to press Christ Church, sented "A Sleep of Prisoners" can show just cause why he it is impossible to report events by Christopher Fry at St. may not be instituted, we pro- on March 11th. Mr. Reynolds, publication. Martin's, New York, on March ceed no further, because we warden, stated after the ser- 4th. The play was presented and would not that an unworthy vice that he hoped Mr. Sidener in the church. person should minister among would conduct services. Ber- reuse you", Dr. Phillips Brooks, a nard Reswick, also an attorney for member of the vestry, called for Mr. Alelish, said he ex- out his protest, asserting that pected Mr. Mlelish to conduct SE RV I CE S the case is still in court. He services, pending the decision In Leading Churches required also stated that the anti-Melsh of the court. There is there- forces appeared to be using a fore the possibility that there GENERAL. TIHEOLOGICAL "show of force." will be a repetition of January SEMINARY CHAPEL
Permission Then Hubert T. Delaney, 16 when Mr. Melish and the Chelsea Square, 9th Ave. & 20th St. prominent New York lawyer Rev R. K. Thomas, sent by the Nuw Yo~ts IDaily M\oring P'rayer and Hioly Coln- and a leader in the diocese of bishop to conduct services, did munion, 7; 1.mi Lvensong, 6. DFMS.
/ so simultaneously. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUBS GIVE SAINT PAUL'S CHIAPEL Church CONCERT New York T he Rev. John IlM.Krulnrn, Ph.D., *Music of Mozart, Brahms Chaplain and Bach ai'e featured in a Daily (except Saturday): 12 noon Sun- day: Hioly Communion, 9 and 12:30; Episcopal concert g i v e n this week, Mornuing Prayer and Sermon, II. 1101y Communion: Wednesday, 7:45 a. mn. the March 14th, by the glee clubs of of St. Albans School and the ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS 2nth and St. P',ud National Cathedral S c h o o 1, BALTIMORE, MD. Washington. The Rev. Doni Frank Fenna, D.D., Rector
Archives 'ihe R~ev, R. WV. Knox, B.D., Asst to the Rector PRINCESS ILEANA Sunday: 7:30, 0,30, 11 a. mn. Holy Eucharist dailv. Preaching Service- 2020. IN PULPIT Wednesday, 7:45 p. m. Easter Day-Holy 6: 8, 9, and 11 a.m. H. T. Delaney * Princess Ileana of the de- Eucharist 5:30, 1u, posed royal family of Romania GRACE CHURCH
Copyright woman to oc- Mathewson and Westminster Sta. New York who is one of Air. became the first 1'noVIIfl'NCE, R. I Melish's attorneys, said that cupy the pulpit of Christ The Rev. Clarence Il. Hlorner, D.D., She Rector there had been an agreement C h u r c h, Philadelphia. Sunday: it. C., 8 andi 9 a. in; Church spoke at a noonday service. School, 9:30 and 11; Morning Prayer for a status qiuo, with M1r. and Sermon (H. C. first Sunday) 11; services, pending She is the daughter of the late Y. P. F., 5 po. in.; Evening Prayer and Melish takinag Sernon, 7:30 p. in. by the supreme court Queen Marie a n d grand- Thursday: 11. C., II a. ni-Lenten noon- a decision day servires, Mon. tlsru Fri., 12:10 p. m. of New York. The Bishop of daughter of Queen Victoria of Long Island however did not England. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH She is married to a physician WVASHINGTON, D. C. allow him to finish his state- Lafayette Square the and they now live at West 'rhe Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, Rector ment and wvent ahead with The Rev. Franak R. Wilson, Ass's service. Newton, Mass., with their six 3unday: 8, 9:30, 11, 4 and 7:30 p.mi. Daily, 12 noon with sermon Wed., Fri., Lewis Reynolds, senior ward- children. en, then handed to Mr. Sidener In her address she said that Fire The Witness - .arch 15, 1956 flames coming through the Huddleston Gives Warning roof, put in a call for the fire department and the boys were To Africa in Farewell discovered. Damage to the church has * South Africa's apartheid of my prayers," he said. been estimated at $7,000. policies are isolating it from The Anglican priest said he Arrangements were made "the whole civilized world" and intended to remain a South for Bishop Bloy to conduct the "can lead only to disaster," the African citizen "and hopes one confirmation service for Christ Rev. Trevor Huddleston said day, in the providence of God, mission the next afternoon at in his farewell address after 12 to be allowed to return to this Trinity church in Apple years as head of the Commu- country. Valley, four miles away. nity of the Resurrection in Father Huddleston is filling South Africa. a number of speaking engage- Trinity parish, which holds The priest, an outspoken ments here before returning to Sunday services at 9:30 a.m., champion of the rights of na- England to take up new duties offered the continued use of their church for Christ mis- publication. tives in opposition to the as master of novices at head- government's policies, is now quarters of the Community at sion's 11 a.m. Sunday services and in the United States where he Mirfield. A complete schedule until the damaged church will spend several weeks before of his American appearances building can be repaired. Sim- reuse going on to England for a new had not been made when he ilar offers also were made by for assignment. arrived in New York on March the Methodist and Presbyte- rian congregations in Victor- "I would like to address my 2 but he is to address three ville. required last words in South Africa to meetings in Chicago. He was the Christian conscience of the also on a radio program on SALESMAN FILLS country," he said. March 12, and will be on a tele- "I wish to THE CHURCH make it clear that the policy of vision program with Dean Pike Permission white supremacy upon which next Sunday, as well as preach- * Kenneth W. Ritche l, government of the country is ing at the New York Cathe- Methodist of Dallas, Texas, ac-
DFMS. based is contrary to every dral. complished his self-imposed / Christian principle and must task of single-handedly filling YOUTHFUL inevitably lead to disaster." VANDALS the 2,000 seats for a Sunday
Church WRECK CHURCH He said that in the past two evening service (Witness 3/8). or three years the tension be- * A windowless, fire black- Among those present were tween racial groups has been ened church building that had some who have never before Episcopal made infinitely more serious been ravaged by youthful van- attended an evening service. the by legislation based upon the dalism on the previous day He used prayer, persuasion, of apartheid doctrine, such as the met the eyes of Bishop Bloy personal letters, and invita- Bantu Education Act, the when he arrived at Christ mis- tions to the entire membership Western Areas Act, and the sion, Victorville, Calif., to con- of clubs and other organiza- Archives recent amendment to the South firm a class of candidates. tions, as well as newspaper ads Africa Act. and radio and television 2020. Three six and ten-year old ap- "As this process goes on," he truants from school the pre- pearances, to make good on his warned, "it will become in- vious afternoon had enter- claim.
Copyright creasingly difficult for any tained themselves by breaking MEN'S future generation to live peace- all the window glass, the crock- CLUB HONORS fully and happily in this land." ery in the kitchen, playing PRINCE Father Huddleston said, catch with the alms basins and * The men's club of the Pro- however, he believed there was finally setting fire to the altar Cathedral Church of the Holy "evidence of a stirring of the hangings. Trinity, Paris, France, honored conscience in many quarters. The resultant blaze, which Prince Bernhard of the Nether- 1 pray that this stirring may destroyed the reredos curtain, lands at a recent dinner. In result in action." altar linens and vestments, his address on European- "I believe with all my heart blackened the brasses and American relations, he stressed that the people of South Africa burned the pulpit and lectern, the importance or expanding will awaken before it is too proved their undoing. A pass- mutual trade, commercial and late and this will be the object erby, seeing the smoke and cultural exchanges. Six The Witness - March 15, 1956 EDITORIALS
plete integration have greatly underestimated BLACK AND WHITE the difficulty of the problem; in many parts of the South it would not work simply as an edu- THE current battle over racial integration cational system, even if the white and Negro IN of public schools, we feel that both sides people fully cooperated. But on the other hand have gravely misunderstood the real problems; the South by its actions has prevented itself and we should like to try and set the matter as .o from using this defense on its own behalf. straight as we can. For an equal clamor is raised against the ad- In the first place, then, when Northerners mission of a few well-qualified Negro students ask for a single public school in every hamlet to state universities, an action which would of the rural South, they are asking for some- obviously not affect the educational process as thing at present impossible. publication. such. When a kid gets down to serious business and The real issue at stake is not mentioned by of training his mind in school, he needs to have responsible advocates of either side; only at enough in common with the rest of the class reuse Southern mob-meetings does the truth come
for so that they can learn together. And in parts out: "We have some of the last pure Anglo- of the South where there is a well-educated Saxon blood in the world down here, and we white minority and a near-illiterate black intend to keep it that way". Of course "blood" required majority, this prerequisite is lacking. The is a symbol of the whole cultural difference great - great - grandson of the ante-bellum that the Southern whites want to keep intact; cotton planter, with the best will in the world, and their position is at least fully logical,
Permission would rapidly get bored while most of the class though sinful. They realize that any meeting struggles with ABC. These cultural differ- of the two races on terms of equality is bound ences ought not to exist, but they do; and it DFMS. to break down the cultural barrier. And while / is unfair and impossible to expect the kids to some of them are trying very hard to make bridge them over. the physical facilities of the Negro schools as Church And in fact Northerners who ask for this good as the white, we cannot see that their will not put up with the same thing in the implicit position differs in any essential way North. There are any number of public schools from the apartheid of South Africa. Episcopal in- Greater New York where practically no the college-educated people send their children, RACIAL MIXTURE of because the schools are swamped with Puerto IT SEEMS to us then that the true position is Ricans struggling simply to learn English. at once more moderate and more radical It would take a very remarkable family, Archives than that of the pro-integrationists. As long working closely with the Puerto Ricans, who as the cultural difference remains, joint edu-
2020. could work it out for their children to attend cation will not work very well. The proper the local school. conclusion to be drawn from this, however, is Again, it is plainly a device for getting that the cultural difference must go first; Copyright around the law when the Southern states pro- that is, the two races must learn to get along pose to shut down the public schools altogether together before they can be expected to have and replace them by private. But criticism of their children learn together. And getting the device does not come with very good grace along with other human beings must mean all from Northerners who send their teen-age that it usually means: including drinking out children to private schools, so that in college of the same cup and getting married to each they will be a jump ahead of children whose other. In a word: full racial mixture must pre- parents couldn't afford to do the same. We cede full integration. cannot see that on principle it makes a great To say this is really to wave a red flag in difference whether a state or an individual the South; and the National Association for circumvents the public school system. the Advancement of Colored People may claim All this means that the advocates of com- that we do them a disservice by saying it.
The Witness - March 15, 1956 Seven The NAACP generally does not advocate racial mer vacations getting as much of their body intermarriage: the South is afraid that they darkened by the sun as a now most tolerant are lying; we are afraid sometimes that they Mrs. Grundy will allow? Isn't it because they mean it. Because if they do mean it, then in have an unconscious admiration of the child of the end the NAACP, if it gets everything that nature who spends his life in the sun? Some it wants, will be as much a racist pressure of our friends have married people of different group as the White Councils. If the leaders of color, and we may say we think their children the Negroes want to avoid associating with the are very good-looking; and that we wouldn't whites on the deepest level of love, then un- mind seeing all America that shade of brown. consciously the Negroes also are trying to per- As a matter of fact, "Anglo-Saxon blood" prob- petuate the present hostility. ably derives its adaptability from long cen- For this they have much more reason than turies of racial mixture in England: the Celts, Iberians, the various waves of the whites, but no more justification. The the pre- Celtic migrations, the Danes, and finally the South frequently tells Northerners, like your Saxon Likewise the great culture of clas- editors, to go home and not mess around in Normans. sical Greece is probably (we are now told) the publication. other peoples' business. To which we repeat product of several racial stocks and cultures.
and what we have said before, that it is the And on the other hand we know certainly for business of both North and South. Because a fact that narrow inbreeding in the long run reuse the initial cultural difference and inequality for between black and white, from which all the brings degeneration. trouble springs, comes from the initial sin of IF SUFFERING COMES slavery. When one group of people lives worse required of than another, so by and large will their re- H OWEVER we do not make it an article spective grandchildren. This is the means by S faith that America has a great age lying which God, in the words of the Law, visits ahead of it. It may very well be that white Permission "the sin of the fathers upon the children even supremacy will appear to win its political unto the third and fourth generation". And battle, straight forwardly or by subterfuge. And in that case we venture on a prophecy: DFMS. the Northern slave-traders were just as respon- / sible for the original sin of slavery as the the mainstream of American Christianity will Southern slave-owners. So we are all in it pass over to the Negro and to those who have Church together. allied themselves with the Negro, provided only that they are able to accept their crucifixion To overcome the sin as it exists today we by the racists in the spirit of Christ. have got to be able to sympathize with it at Episcopal We see in fact some signs of this already: least, to see how we share the same thing. the the most fully authentic Christian music in of Lots of us are proud of our ancestors and glad America is that of the American Negro; and that they were people rather like us. The in fact its secular by-products have swept the Italian mother, in that most touching movie world. The theme of the Negro spiritual is Archives "Marty", doesn't feel that the girl her son has joy in suffering; and in some forms of jazz and finally brought home looks much like an
2020. the "blues" the same theme is retained, al- Italian. This sentiment is natural and good up though the suffering is stronger and the joy is to a certain point. But if we live on the same uncertain. And in fact that sorrowing music soil with people from another part of the world, Copyright beating through the ether is perhaps not the there are only two alternatives: either we will least of the forces preparing the way for Chris- let our children fall in love with their children, tianity. or we will try to get our children to dislike their We hope, as Christians always have a right children. In the long run there is no possibility to hope, that the suffering of Christ will not of just living and letting live; we have to have be repeated in our times, that instead the recon- it one way or the other. ciliation that he came for will be realized. But That is, in the words of a famous New we don't dare to assert confidently that it will Yorker cartoon, white and Negro have not be so. merely to love each other as themselves; they And we announce in advance our hope and have also to like each other. Negro women can intention, if the suffering comes, of finding be as comely as white, and Negro men as hand- ourselves on the side which has not gotten the some. Why do white people spend their sum- monopoly on the whips and rifles.
The Witness - March 15, 1956 CHRISTIANITY AND ATOMIC ENERGY REACTION OF YOUTH
By Charles S. Martin Headmaster of St. Albans School, Washington We begin our report in prayer. places of life than the hovering pall of atomic I bid you join us. annihilation. Let us pray. Paradoxically, this attitude is partly the effect of the pall of which they seem uncon- O GOD, who hast revealed thyself in the scious. These young people have been born and glory of the heavens and in the burning nurtured in a world at war or in anxious, bush, in the still small voice, and in the dread troubled peace. They have known only crisis power of the Hydrogen Bomb; Make us aware and tumultuous change. There has always of thy presence as thou comest in judgment threat of annihilation about them. Life publication. been a through the events of our time. Grant us to would be impossible for them if they contem- and stand in awe and sin not. Enable us so to use plated with sensitivity tomorrow and its the fearful powers thou hast permitted us to terrifying possibilities. They have had to ignore reuse know that we may work not to man's destruc- bombs, and live on a day by day for danger and tion, but to his fulfillment. Lift us above the basis; as they meet what comes in life they suspicions and fears of our day that we may have had to take refuge in a fatalism expressed required bring peace, righteous and just, among all men. by-"It's one of those things" or "It's just the And this we ask, anxious, yet quiet in thee; way the ball bounces." perplexed, yet certain in thee; weak, yet strong in thee; through Him who is the saviour of us Unseen Forces Permission all, Jesus Christ our Lord Amen. HIS spirit, so unusual to youth, I find ex- pressed in many ways. An Air Force
DFMS. ONTROL the awesome powers of nuclear
/ officer complained to me that few college men energy we must, or cease to be we must. were taking a particularly attractive Air Force How, is not too clear. It is good to have some program which offered many possibilities for Church thinking on this problem in The Witness and I advancement in the period of military training am happy to have an opportunity to seek to after college. To me the answer was clear. contribute to it, but my effort must be, not in Over a period of years college men had, with Episcopal the general field, but in a limited one of which wisdom and foresight, tried to plan their mili- the I have some knowledge. plans went of tary training, but their best laid The one area about which I can write with aft agley through no fault of theirs. A Con- some certainty is young people and the effect gressional appropriation, a Defense Depart- Archives of the nuclear world upon them, and what we of ment decision, would abolish or drastically cur- the Church can do about it. Young people are tail the program of which they were a part, 2020. my world. Among them I live, move, and have and military life would begin all over again and my being. I ought to know something about begin at the bottom. Decisions were being them. And I think I do. I have talked with made by far-off, impersonal forces about which Copyright many young people and many groups of young they had little knowledge and certainly over people about the awe-full possibilities of atomic which they had no control. College men war, the monstrous nature of H-bombs, the learned by unpleasant experience that the thing need for international control of atomic energy. to do was to do that which was immediately I have listened to them talk; I have observed before them. Who could tell what tomorrow them; I have worked with them-and I find would bring. Tomorrow would take care of it- them not greatly interested or deeply con- self, if indeed there was to be a tomorrow. cerned. They grow grave as the realities of I heard a British educator report on students nuclear war come before them. They may even in the British University. He spoke of them as be worried but I find no flaming resentments, working hard, doggedly doing a job, but- nor any burning enthusiasms to change things. carrying no torches. I could understand. I They are more concerned about the common- see today no flaming youth that rises in revolt
The Witness - March 15, 1956 against the injustices of the times or that resolution presented to the General Convention carries the torch of some ideal to save the by the diocese of Washington. It urged that times. Students are filled with the business of our Church raise the money for, buy, and give living, just day to day. They have no concern to a country in the Far East, an atomic reactor about tomorrow. Tomorrow shall care for it- for study and research purposes. Such an self if tomorrow comes. action would be a gesture of good will, an ear- I meet parents distressed because their chil- nest of our concern for our brethren in a part dren are to be married before their education of the world which is understandably fearful is completed or even well begun. I understand and suspicious of atomic energy and of all who their concern; I, too, am concerned, but I ap- possess it, particularly of those who have preciate what is happening, and it seems mercilessly used it. If the young people of our natural, even right. Young people want to Church could be given the opportunity of work- begin living today. And living as fully as ing for this purpose which would promise to possible, for tomorrow may not be. The mili- bring blessing out of that which has as yet tary plucks a lad from home and drops him in been largely a frightful curse, I believe they a far corner of the earth, cold wars threaten to would respond with purposefulness and even publication. become hot, the H-bomb may become operative fire. and and tomorrow may be in another world. In a As a schoolmaster I am petitioned by organ- life so unpredictable one must live today or reuse izations of scientists, industrial groups, urging perhaps not live at all. for me to present to our school the critical need for scientists, technicians, and engineers, to help Interest in Religion meet the ever increasing demands for trained required personnel in these fields. Jobs which to a see and that is the interest NE hope I do offer fantastic salaries shared with adults in religion. All my parson and a teacher of those who would life there has been the promise of religious are held before the eyes Permission mathematics and science. Dire pre- revival just around the corner, so I am some- embrace with the Russians what skeptical of religious revivals and their dictions of catastrophy, making greater progress in the field of guided DFMS. advent. But I cannot deny the / ever-promised reality of the concern among students for reli- missles or. of applied sciences than ourselves, with national survival jeopardized, are held gion. It is such as I have never before known. Church nor the- I do not believe that the Church is being flooded before the student. Neither the fright Wolf! Wolf! by vigorous, purposeful youth, but I do believe incentive seems to move them. cry, crisis after crisis has been there is among youth an uneasiness, a search- has been the Episcopal of life, ever since these young people- ing for security, and for meaning to life that the order the is causing them to look hopefully, even anxious- of ours have been. They are dulled to this. of ly, toward the Church. For all their preoccu- importuning. pation with today and their seeming fatalism, If the Church could hold before young per-
Archives young people, like the humans they are, are sons, with relevance and reality, the opportu- being driven to find meaning to life. And not nity that atomic energy hol's for blessing, not 2020. a little responsible-although they may not be only to ourselves but to all people, I believe aware of it-are the threats of the nuclear there would be a response beyond our expecta- world. Whether the Church will be able to tion. When science was purely a means of Copyright give the answers, be able to show forth the coming to know our world, our life, there was quality of life, God's life, that will speak to a movement of the best minds to it. They young people remains to be seen. worked with dedication and a spirit of adven- What can we do-who can say? There are ture in what was a frontier of life. Young directions in which we of the Church can move people will not respond, in these days, or for which seem helpful. Perhaps as we move, as that matter any day, to an appeal that promises we do something, and not merely assert that the means of ending life, even though the something must be done, something construc- appeal is made in the name of preserving life. tive will be done. God may even use us and They will give themselves to an ideal that holds speak through us to young people. An action before them the hope of bringing a more abun- that seems constructive and a movement in dant life to people, and particularly to the many the right direction is that proposed by the people of the world, who know it not today.
Ten The Witness - March 15, 1956 God's World says, "The next program is unsuitable for chil- dren." BUT the opportunity of the Church lies not alone in promoting material blessings, For many years he was chairman of the East but even more, in giving meaning and purpose London Juvenile Court from which he has just to life. It is the Church's job to help young retired. In this country he sat on the bench people know and understand that the atomic in many juvenile courts and told a New York world so recently revealed is God's world. It is audience at the end of his tour that he was good. It is something not to be ignored, nor appalled at the seriousness of the cr'mes. "On to be turned from in anxious fright. Atomic almost every occasion there was at least one energy is a reflection of God's power that may case more serious than I ever had to deal with bring beneficent blessing beyond understand- in England during thirty-three years on the ing. It can be used for good, if man will. It bench.' may be that man will not. With his twisted IHe thought too that newsmen should be per- fallen nature he may use it even for his own mitted to attend juvenile court proceedings. complete destruction. But if he does, and God "Without the press being present it is extreme- forbid, all life and all time are under the Provi- publication. ly difficult for a magistrate or a judge to let dence of God. God is the Lord of history. His and the general public know how he will deal with world is not alone of this earth or this time; serious offenders" and he explained how in it is of eternity. One gives himself fully to reuse his country the press represents the public in
for God's purposes as he knows them and leaves juvenile court. the issue in the hands of God-knowing that God's purposes are good and righteous all The noted Britisher also seemed a bit old required together. fashioned on the subject of mothers. "Instead of relying on their maternal instincts in dis- If through the Church, youth can be led to ciplining a child, they buy cheap books on psy- work to a constructive end, knowing himself to chology, which they don't understand. They Permission be useful; if he can be helped to find purpose come to think that if they repress or disci'- in life, knowing a new set of values, youth's pline a child it is going to cause a complex for
DFMS. present fatalism may be laid aside and he may
/ the rest of his life. The result of this is that yet be the means of bringing blessing to our the child, instead of doing what has to be done, time and causing that picture which darkens what he wants to do. This is not prepara-
Church does the cover of The Witness to be no more than tion for life. Life is made up of doing things the symbol of an evil dream that once passed that need to be done whether you want to do before man's mind.
Episcopal them or don't want to do them." This is our opportunity. the But there seems to be more to it than smarter of mothers and reporters in courts. At least the Kefauver Committee that made a study of the matter estimated that the actual number of Archives A Blind Man Groping children in trouble is close to a million and a By William B. Spofford. Sr. 2020. quarter a year. Following the end of world war two, the committee reported, the number of S IR BASIL HENRIQUES, England's expert on juvenile delinquency, spent a couple of delinquents decreased. "Then in 1949", the Copyright months touring the United States and the day report continues, "with the stresses and strains before he left said that delinquency here "is of the Cold War and the Korean hostilities. alarming". He blamed much of it on television juvenile delinquency again began to rise. Since which he called "the pernicious poison of 1948 a steadily increasing number of American America. I find nothing but shooting, prison boys and girls have become involved in delin- scenes, divorces, teen-age girls going wrong". quency each year." He also objected to the quantity; "You can There is an article by Elmer Bendiner in a just twiddle it on any time of day or night. recent issue of the National Guardian on the It doesn't give children time to read, or think, subject that I figure on returning to next week or do handicraft work." -the 200,000 or more boys and girls picked In England, he said, parents are warned up on the road, going nowhere; the boys riding about certain programs when the announcer in box cars or by thumb and sleeping in hay-
The Witness - March 15, 1956 Eleven stacks, while the girls flag trucks and then asks, "How old were you, Dad, when Jesus register at truck stop-overs as the drivers' died ?" wives. And the story of gangs in our cities, So we have a hard time teaching history. with their glorification of violence, picked up The Old Testament bothers primary children from the commando tactics of the war years. because they have no point of reference. Not much different, really, from the story Some of them can't tell time yet, and we ask Canon Martin tells in his piece this week. them to worry about Moses in Egypt. Only a These lads he has worked with all his life, story that stands on its own as "once upon a first in a Church school in Philadelphia and time" can be used. now St. Albans in Washington are "concerned I think the Bible can be used with children, about the commonplaces of life" since "they but not in its historical framework until they have been born and nurtured in a world at have reached the 4th or 5th grade. The editors war or in anxious, troubled peace." of The Seabury Series know this, and I hope The "commonplaces" are different for there all church school teachers do, too, even if they is a great gulf fixed between the thousands are using materials that violate this principle of historical teaching. publication. that take to the road and gang up in cities and the boys Canon Martin ministers to so ably. and But the causes of delinquency-whether reuse highbrow or lowbrow-seem to be the same in Parsons for the opinion of these two writers. Pointers for Robert Miller More on this next week after I get a green By light from the National Guardian. Episcopal Clergyman of Campton, N. H. required
"What did you preach about yesterday ?" I
Permission asked Gilbert. Nurture Corner... "About being in Christ."
DFMS. "What did you say?" / By Randolph C. Miller "I said that to be in Christ was to be a new at Yale Divinity School Professor creature. One felt and thought so differently. Church I said it was to anticipate Heaven. It meant you rea'd "The Adventure of Jeremy HAVEBrown" in The Seabury Series? I im- being an adventurer for God. Oh, I said a agine that Jeremy is the most popular char- lot of things." Episcopal acter in all the reading books, although the "Did anyone say anything?" the
of first graders may vote for "Mike and Tish." "Well, you know Mrs. Peebles?" But Jeremy is a modern Connecticut Yankee "Yes." in the Emperor's court in Rome, or rather he "She said it was lovely but she didn't think Archives is trying to stay out of the hands of the she was in Christ." Emperor's soldiers. If some Roman "McCar-
2020. "Why not?" thy" finds out he is a Christian, he will be "I asked her that. She said she didn't feel thrown to the lions as a subversive! like a new creature but like an old drudge. For our purposes, Jeremy illustrates how 4th Copyright She felt things were just too much. They graders can understand history. They still weighed her down." cannot put 20 centuries ago together with 3000 "What did you tell her ?" miles of geography, but neither can Jeremy. "I said, 'Mrs. Peebles, when I see you sitting Through Jeremy's eyes, however, they learn in church and think of all you are doing at a lot of Christian history and are inspired to home, your child sick, no help, and you always some Christian behavior without having to face patient, I think this is a woman who is in the historical-geographical problem. Christ indeed.' " The Bible causes us a lot of trouble in the "What did she say ?" early years because historical thinking comes "She looked at me a long time. Then she at about the age of 10. A 6-year old may ask burst out, 'Oh, I don't deserve that but it does the rector if St. Paul founded St. Paul's Church. comfort one.' " A father feels pretty aged when his youngster "She's right. It does." Twelve The Witness - March 15. 1956 breathe a whiff of poison gas intended for him. War and Repentance Had it been the choice of walking empty-handed into enemy fire, there would have been a ques- By Myrtle M. Westbroek tion of courage. But in his particular situa- Churchwoman of Voorheeville, N. 1'Y. tion, he simply would have avoided the draft. RECENTLY in a discussion about war I My son-and his-can be no less infallible. made a passionate statement that I wish The answer does not lie in the occasional to clarify. Only women were present; so the refusal of a Christian to kill; the majority must argument was completely pointless, since they refuse. All wars have been waged by a small do not bear arms in this country. But this minority shoving weapons into the hands of rash statement burst from the depths of my the majority. Clever slogans and propaganda soul, and I now must retract, or at least modify, twist the highest ideals into excuses for mass it. murder. To the suave devil, words and human The conversation had turned toward the lives are cheap. He can easily convince ration- horrors of the veterans' hospital-men without al men that "An eye for an eye, and a tooth legs or arms, shell-shock victims, basket cases for a tooth" is much more just than "Unto publication. and bodies without minds. Great was the pity him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer and extended by these women to those nameless also the other; and him that taketh away sufferers. Frustrated once more by my over- thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also." reuse whelming helplessness in eradicating man's Christianity with its admonition to love your for Satanic urge to destroy himself, I said in a enemy is yet too recent in the experience of frenzy: mankind to subdue the animal instincts of self-
required "I do not feel sorry for them." preservation and the will to destroy. "Why?" the horrified women asked. The full impact of Christ's sacrifice has not "They do not have to be in that condition." yet reached enough people. This was further
Permission All those men were in the armed services; demonstrated by the talk of these women. that is what veteran means. They were in the They blame Hitler, then Stalin, then the Rus- sians and the communist Chinese for the at-
DFMS. business of mutilating human bodies; in life / there is always give and take. Thus my reason- mosphere in which we live. "We must protect ing ran. I continued: "If they had refused ourselves," they argue as they defend the
Church to bear arms, there could have been no war." prodigious amount of money, time, and intel- "They would have gone to jail if they had lect devoted to improving our methods of refused." killing. Episcopal "And what is wrong with going to jail?" Do they not realize that this mere thought the Some of the finest people who have ever makes them as guilty of shedding blood as the of lived have spent much time in jails. Further- bombardier who will release the atomic bomb more, even those who profit from wars would over Washington? Or Chicago or Palo Alto?
Archives soon see the futility of imprisoning the entire God alone, not weapons, can save us. The Old male population. But the women seemed to Testament asks, "Am I my brother's keeper?" 2020. assume that anyone would know what was and the New Testament answers, Yes, "Inas- wrong with going to jail. much as ye have done it unto one of the least "Well," cautioned one woman in summing up of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto Copyright her opinion, "just wait till your son is old me." There is not one of us who is not already enough to go." guilty of Christ's blood. Why do we wallow (What a curious word, go!) in the crime? "Her son never will," another woman Truly, I do pity the men who have lost an answered. eye, a brain, and their dreams. Would God, How does she know? His father had signed I could help them. And would God they could a conscientious objector's pledge in the Episco- help me! They have killed and-worse yet- pal Church in the mid '30's. Yet when his tried to make murderers of other men; but number was drawn, he refused the immunity they are atoning for their sins by physical guaranteed him. lie could not massage his suffering. I passively pay my taxes that mind with this coward's salve and send another pay for the instruments of war and seek no out to receive a bullet or step on a mine or penance. The Witness - March 15, 1956 Thirteen ]Earthen Vessels RECOMMENDED FOR BOOKSI~g LENTEN READING By Philip McNairy Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo HjAV"E you ever wonder~ed why Lent has be- Come suich a season of seeking for Chris- tians? One reason is that its principal theme is "Life's inevitabies". As we follow Christ through his tr'als and afflictions, we find that within himself and his life, he is the answer to questions and a companion in our personal difficulties. In the course of a lifetime five experiences claim more of our attention and concern than WALSH all other matters put together: pain, dis- CHAD writes the Harper Book for Lent, 1956 publication. cou ragement, loneliness, sorrow and death. BEHOLD THE GLORY and Some, they leave ruined, broken and destroyed. They are the enemies that lie in ambush on the How our perception of the glory of God which we often miss in the ordinary events of daily reuse road of life. Others find them friends. They life can lead us to an exalted and deeply satisfy- for are like doors of victory, opening on richer ing vision of the risen Christ. $2.00 fuller more meaningful life. Observing this At your bookseller paradox, someone said, "So material a dif- required __HARPER & BROTHERS " N. Y. 16 ference does it make -not what ills are suf-
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Permission crisis as a means of blessing? St. Paul thought PInspiring LENTEN Reading of his afflictions as the way to "Treasure". He by C. H. DODD
DFMS. who had run the gamut of life's potential / desolations, said, "For we have this treasure at These six brief meditations on of Christ emphasize in earthen vessels . .. we are afflicted . .. but the Cross r its meaning in our lives today. Church not crushed; perplexed but not driven to des- ' References to the death of pair; persecuted but not forsaken; struck down, Jesus Christ as found in the but not destroyed, (as dying and behold we Pauline writings are here con-
Episcopal >>.fronted with the facts recorded live) . .. that the excellency of the power may y in the Gospels. The result is the be of God and not of us." {" new inspiration from the Pas- of He means that these situations-pain, dis- Sion Story for all. $1 loneliness, sorrow, death-are couragement, at all booksto."s ABINGDON PRESS
Archives not God-caused but they are God's opportunity. The ability to withstand and overcome the on-
2020. slaughts of life is of God and not of men. The ancient lamp was a crude fragile pottery shell in which was placed oil and a taper.
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f owi tccu The Witness -March 15, 1956 NEW ARCHBISHOP added: "There is evidence he COMMUNISM SPREADS HITS GRAHAM has genuinely claimed to IN ASIA preach only the first steps of * Communism is steadily * The newly appointed Christianity and directed his Archbishop of York, A. M. gaining ground in Southeast hearers to churches for the Asia and only Christian mis- Ramsey, last week accused rest." Billy Graham of giving "a very sions can stop it, Methodist distorted view of the apostolic Bishop Hazen G. Werner of ALTARWARE IS Ohio told the meeting of the Gospel." He said Graham "has UNIQUE taught the grossest doctrines Youngstown Council of * Altarware at the Church Churches. and flung his formula 'the of St. John the Divine, Hous- Bishop Werner, who recently Bible says' over teaching which Texas, have been made ton, returned from a 40,000-mile, is emphatically not that of the out of objects of precious three - month to ur of the Bible." metals and stones brought by His article entitled, "The troubled area, declared that the members. Asians, "suddenly faced with Menace of Fundamentalism," furnishings for "We wanted an overwhelming urge for self- conceded that fundamentalism the altar that the people could publication. and freedom... was on the rise in Britain be- feel a part of," said the rec- expression fore Graham conducted his have a dilemma of staggering and Thomas W. tor, the Rev. proportions." crusade here last year. But Sumners. Dr. Ramsey said he was not reuse All sorts of objects were In the midst of the chaos, he certain how far the American for brought, trays, candlesticks, said, the Christian missions at evangelist was "completely- watches, baby spoons and cups, stand as a tremendous force one with our English funda- pins, brooches and stickpins. for good-but there are not required mentalism." They were melted and con- enough. He said U. S. foreign Quoting Graham as saying verted into e ig ht e en altar aid is not getting America's by the Bible "is a book written pieces. message across. God through 30 secretaries,"
Permission The bishop made the nine- the archbishop commented : MRS. WILSON "This is an error analogous to country trip on assignment HONORED from the Methodist Council
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/ * Mrs. Annie Wilson, 94, of Bishops. It took him into transubstantiation where the was honored as the oldest supernatural part supplants Sumatra, Borneo, Malaya, In- member of St. Matthew's, donesia, the Philippines, Church part, thereby over- the natural Wilmington, Delaware, on Jan- throwing the motive of sacra- Burma and Thailand, among uary 21st. She has been pre- others. ment. sident of the altar guild for Episcopal "The theology of 'Christ 25 years. bore your punishment : believe the MONEY for your TREASURY of and be saved,' when accom- OVER 2,000,000 panied by the fundamental'st's SUNFLOWER DISH CLOTHS Were sald in 1954 by members of Sunday pulpit cliche 'the Bible says,' is Schools, Ladies' Aids, Young People's Groups, etc. They enable You to earn money for Archives a very distorted view of the your treasury, and make friends for your apostolic Gospel." organization.
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The Witness - March 15, 1956 KINGSTON RECTOR free, as are the meals served thrombosis and other health HITS TITHING twice a day to 200 or more hazards. people in breadlines. The diagnosis was made by * A man - bites - dog story Free or not, a magistrate Dr. Brandford Murphey in a comes from Grace Church, decided Miss Day was a "hotel speech to a gathering of Epis- Kingston, Pa., where the rec- proprietor" and condemned the copal men and boys. tor, the Rev. Ralph Weatherly, building as a fire hazard and "Modern unrestrained com- wrote in his bulletin that he is fined her $250 and ordered petition which leads to the opposed to tithing, Ile says: her to evict the residents. illnesses has come about be- "In regard to tithing, the She was on the way to court cause this land has abandoned rector does not believe it is with a few dollars in her purse its ideals of religion to a great stressed by our Lord, or by the when a man stepped from a extent," he said. New Testament. See refer- group of needy waiting at the "By unconsciously rejecting ences : St. Luke 11, 42; 18, 12. door of the house and pressed the fatherhood of God and the Surely his family and his a bit of paper in her hand. brotherhood of man, we have teachers and his own study "I just read about your developed the traits of fear, would have discovered the trouble," he said, "and I want resentment, dishonesty a n d publication. necessity of a tithe. It was a to help out a little bit toward hatred. This has resulted in
and Levitical custom, often abused, the fine. Here's two-fifty." loss of confidence in ourselves, Mal. 3, 8, and stressed by Old Happy over having $2.50, without which we cannot have reuse Testament priests. Our Lord she thanked him and hurried faith in our neighbor." for commended a woman who gave on. In the subway she looked her last coin, and another who at the piece of paper-it was a ORDINATION OF WOMEN gave $750 worth of perfume to check for $250 and signed IS APPROVED required him for his burial. Give your Hugh Auden, poet and * The Presbyterian Church, heart, give Wystan your life and money Pulitzer prize winner and an north, has approved the ordina- will follow. Some excellent Episcopalian. tion of women through a vote people use this method. It Permission of 257 presbyteries. The vote seems mechanical, somehow, Meanwhile Jack L. Nicoll, the magistrate, had learned assures amendment to the con- and not to be reconciled with stitution of the Church when
DFMS. that the House of Hlospitality / the sayings of Our Lord : let it holds its General Assembly not your left hand know what was a charitable building, which he had not known when in Philadelphia, May 24-30. your right hand doeth ; and, The vote was 156 in favor Church he imposed the fine. So he set God who seeith in secret will and only 27 opposed. reward you ; and an emphasis aside the fine but warned her on modesty. Whoever evades that something had to be done Episcopal his duty while being a hypo- to bring the building in line CARLETON COLLEGE with city regulations. the crite about this is a shyster LAuniNcz M. GouLD, President of Carleton is a co-educational liberal arts cel- of course. The Church needs Ie~e of limited enrmllmenti and is ea- money, we know, but a rule has LOSS OF FAITH nized as the Church Wolege of Minnesota. IS BLAMED Address Director of Admssions never been imposed except CARLETON COLLEGE Archives among some groups who like * Loss of religious faith was NonmaFIELD MIJ(NOwra Old Testament rules." blamed by a Denver psychiat- 2020. rist for much of the increase in psychosomatic problems, LENOX SCHOOL DOROTHY DAY A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for emotional instability, coronary boys 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals Copyright GETS HELP and character through simplicity of plant and equipment, moderate tuition, the co- operative self-help system, and informal * Dorothy Day, one of the KEMPER HALL personal relationships among hays anj founders of the C at ho l ic facusltV. Church Boarding School REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmaster LuNrox, Massasusrs Worker movement, received for Girls. 86th year. unexpected help the other day. +t'>Thorough college prepar- HeIr House of Hospitality, auion and spiritual train- in.Unusual opportun- which she has headed for -and Fine Arts including HOLDERNESS Ceramics (See illustra- twenty-one ,years, has been The White Mountain Schocol tions). All sports. Junior 13-919. Thorough college preparadfor 1oy 3 located in a former settlement School. Beautiful lake shore campus 50 miles smasll classea. Student government house for the past six years. from Chicago. Under phsasizes responsibility. Team spots,N- Sixty persons live there and it the dhrection of the Sisters of St. Mary. ing. baig. Glee Club. Art. o WrVite for catalog. is as spotless as soap and water Do NAn C. HsauN, Hsadmaautw Box WT Kenosha, Wisc. Plymouth New Hampshire can make it. Everything is
Sixteen The 'Witness -March. 1.5. 1956 WHITE PEOPLE ALL WAR IS WRONG PASSION ACCORDING BACK BOYCOTT SAYS NIMITZ TO ST. JOHN * A young Lutheran minis- * Fleet Admiral Chester W. * Washington Cathedral will ter' who has been a key figure Nimitz said on his 71st birth- present the "Passion Accord- in the Montgomery, Ala. bus day, celebrated February 24th to St. John" by Johann Sebas- boycott said he is "pleasantly at his home in Berkeley, tian Bach on Palm Sunday. It surprised" at the number of Calif., "I hope that the world will be done with orchestra and white Southerners who have soon can find a leadership positiv organ with the choir of backed the Negro stand on the that will be able to sway the men and boys, with Paul Call- issue. people to the idea that all war away, orga nist and choir- The Rev. Robert S. Graetz, is wrong. War is a senseless master, conducting. 27, addressed some 1,000 per- sort of activity." sons at Columbus, Ohio, at a Hie does however believe that rally sponsored by the National the United States must main- Association for the Advance- tain retaliatory power in all SINED GLASS ment of Colored People to raise weapons as a deterrent against CHRHFRNISMiDGS &.!B0NZE TARM~t publication. funds for the defense of aggression. Negroes arrested in connection ~PA~lE-PIERS SGUDIOS, and with the boycott. "I don't want to pontificate", 44ESTin ST. * M II. N. 1. he told newsmen. "I don't reuse The clergyman said he has know what the answer is. But for received almost 100 letters- there most of them from whites- is grave doubt in my praising him for his stand mind that weapons of mass de- CI[IURCHf ., CANDLES
required struction-weapons since the boycott started Dec. that can't be Beeswaxst. rias for 5. Cash contributions were pinpointed on military tar- Candles arise list aud gets-serve their purpose pro- Veer Lights illustrated felder sent with some letters, said Mr. sanctuay Lights r, WILL " SAUMUR perly. Such weapons sad Lanps CANDE CO., INC. Graetz, white leader of an all- are in- Permission discriminate Pasebal Candles Syreus, N. Y. Negro congregation which is in their effects. They kill women and a mission of the American children.'' DFMS.
/ Lutheran Church. Mr. Graetz quoted from one letter he received from a Church couple in Atlanta, Ga. The SHALL I BE A CLERGYMAN? writers said: "Our family, al- By Gordon T. Charlton Jr. though we are white people Assistant Secretary Overseas Department National Council Episcopal with a Southern heritage ex- the tending back a couple of cen- "This informative brochure of Christian vocation and of turies, has a belief in brother- especially man's highest calling, the ministry of the hood which extends consider- Church, meets a long felt need of many clergymen and laymen. I believe it will help those who are
Archives ably farther back-two thou- sand years to the teachings of seeking information and will inspire many to serve as God's chosen representatives in the ministerial priest- 2020. Christ." hood of His Church." So far, the boycott has been -BISHOP BANYARD OF NEW JERSEY "98 to 99 per cent effective,"
Copyright Mr. Graetz said. "I think this is a very useful pamphlet indeed, in that "All we want is what they it brings together so much material which is not readily have in other Southern towns accessible elsewhere. It should be very useful to any like Mobile and Huntsville, Ala. parish priest who is in touch with young men who are -a policy of first come, first curious about the ministry. It is clearly stated and in served on the buses," he ex- sufficient detail so that it would guide anybody help- fully." plained. -BURKE RIVERS, Rector of St. Stephen's, Wilkes-Barre A type of segregation would still prevail, the pastor said, Bishops and Rectors will want copies since whites and Ne gr oe s on hand for that inquiring young man would choose seats in their own 25¢ a copy $2 for ten copies sections and move into the THE WITNESS other area only after seats in Tunkhannock Pennsylvania their area had been filled. The Witness -March 15, 1956 Lord as saying, Why beholdest thou the actions that have been taken the moet that is in thy brother's by the diocese of Mississippi. It is eye, but considerest not the beam hoped that, as you are seating in BACKFIRE that is in thy own eye? your ivory tower safe and secure Now that you have so adjusted from the fray, you will in the the social order in New York that future make more constructive con- HENRY L. LOUTTIT it approximates the Kingdom of tributions to the situation in which Bishop of South Florida God and have time to help solve the we are all sinful participants. ptroblems of the rest of the country I have sent the following open we should be deeply grateful if you GARDINER M. DAY letter to the director of Christian would tell us your methods, plans, Rector of Christ Church, Mass. Social Relations of the diocese of and procedures that we miglit share Camnbridlge, It occurred to me that the fol- New York: them with our. peoples that we too lowing item which appeared in the We in the South who are strug- can get out own affairs in order letters of the Boston Herald might gling with the problem of racial that we have time to help solve the to Witness readers: relation tensions have read with problems in the rest of the country be of interest "It may be helpful to the govern- great interest yo0u r courageous and of the world. stand on the matter of the Till Case ing authorities of the University of and other unfortunate by-products DON MORSE Alabama to know how Harvard in of the racial tension existing *in Student at Philadelphia 1848 handled the protest against the admission of a Negro student, publication. Mississippi. Divinity School We rejoice that in one state, at Beverly Williams. President Ed-
and editorial on least, (or is it in the Diocese) no In reference to the ward Everett declared, 'If this boy murders are committed (or is it Religious Emphasis (3/1) I wish passes the examinations, he will be to present the following data: the admitted; and if the white students reuse just that innocent people are as- sured that they will not be mur- diocese of Mississippi, through its choose to withdraw, all the income for dered). We rejoice that in one department of Christian social re- of the college will be devoted to his state, or diocese, absolute and lations, published a pamphlet The education.'" impartial justice is administered in Church Considers the Supreme required all of the courts of law. We rejoice Court Decision which was used very Write us for that you have found a happy solu- largely for the statement recently tion to all of your racial and social issued by the National Council. problems. We rejoice that now we The d ioc e se of Mississippi, Organ Information through its bishop and seminarians, Permission can visit New York with our wives AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. and children and w a 1 k in the took a firm stand on the so-called evening in Central Park or in the Sewanee issue. Hartford, Conn. neighborhood of the Cathedral of Rev. Duncan M. Gray Jr~., son of DFMS. / St. John the Divine, and know that Bishop Gray, withdrew from the we will not be held up, mugged, or Religious Emphasis week at TH-E PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH otherwise molested. Mississippi State College over the
Church D.D., r We know these things because we matter and stated publically that Rev. John Heuss, with the are servants of the same Lord and segregation is incompa.Itible TRINITY Broadway & Wall St. get our guidance from the same Christian faith. These represent only some of Rev. Bernard C. Newman, v book. In the Gospel According to Sun HC 8, 9, 11, EP 3:30; Daily hIP Episcopal St. John, our Lord is quoted, in the 7:45, HG 8, 12 Midday Set 12:30, EP 5:05; Sat HC 8, EP 1:30; HD HC 12; the instance of the woman taken in C Fri 4:30 & by appt. of adultery, as saying, He who is with- CASSOCKS out sin among you, let him first SURPLICES - C1101R VESTMENTS ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL hUtaARISllL %ES1MEN1J cast a stone at her. (8:7) Or if Broadway and Fulton St. ALlIAR ilAN1_LN ;b and LINENS Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, v that is not sufficiently supported by All Ernhroiderv Is Hand Done Archives Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Set 10. Week- the early manuscripts, both St. J. M. HALL, INC. days: HG 8 ('Thsur. also at 7:30 A.M.) Matthew and St. Luke quote our 14 WV.40th St.. New 'zork 18, N. Y. 12:05 ex Sat; Prayer & Study 1:05 ex
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Eigh teen The Witness -March 15. 1956 little or no change. But conquest pale into insignificance. What by by the Europeans has left incom- comparison is the danger of in- parably greater traces * * * In no ternal subversion in the United The New Books important Asian land has the na- States from a handful of Commu- tive political system of a century nist agents and sympathizers who in ago survived lVWanted: An Asian Policy by Edwin intact today, and in recent years have shrunk almost most countries there remain only to the vanishing point? Even the O. Reischauer, Alfred A. Knopf. minor survivals in local government difficulties of military defense in or purely symbolic vestiges of the This is a book of major import- Asia seem definitely subordinate to older national orders." ance for anyone interested in Amer- this great political problem, for Proceeding from this important ican foreign policy as applied to there is little point in defending fact, the author develops his main the nations and peoples of Asia. countries by arms if they are drift- thesis that today's situation every- The author is well qualified to make ing toward Communism in any where in Asia has arisen from the the analysis which this book fur- case." long-cherished determination for in- nishes. Professor of Far Eastern It is interesting to note that, in dependence, favored at long last by Languages at Harvard University, spite of the author's overwhelming world conditions growing out of he was born in Tokyo in 1910 and hatred and fear of Communism, he two world wars and that the basic remained there until advocates, after carefully consider- 1927. He re- need in all Asian countries from ceived his college education in the in the alternatives, the recognition now on is their industrialization, a United States and studied also in of the Chinese Peoples Republic fairly obvious conclusion. He de- publication. universities in and its admission to membership in France and Japan. scribes at length what he conceives He served in the military Intelli- the United Nations. and to be the chief difficulties in this gence of the U. S. during World process and points out ways in On the whole, this is a book well War II and has also worked for which the democratic West can as- worth careful reading. reuse the state department in the office sist most effectively in its accom- KENNETH R. FORBES
for of Far Eastern affairs. plishment. He recognizes clearly The author writes as a thorough- enough that Communism has, at going conservative and, in general, present, a much better chance than THE as a supporter of the cold war required the Western democracies to play CHURCH FARM SCHOOL against Communism, so that his the determining part in most Asian GLEN drastic criticism of our present countries as world conditions are LOCH, PA. Asian policy-or lack of intelligent A School for boys whose mothers are today. For him, Communism is the responsible for support and education. policy-will be all the more effec- great enemy of the sort of progress College Preparatory Permission tive with the political powers-that- which he hopes for in Asia. Grades: Five to Twelve be. He describes the impact of the From this point of view he writes: Wholesome surroundings on a 1,200 acre West on all of Asia during periods farm in Chester Valley. Chester County, "The possibility of atomic self-de- where bos learn to study, work and play. DFMS. of various lengths and stresses the r.truction is at present, of / course, Rev. Charles W. Shreiner, D.D. important fact for any understand- the most pressing danger to us and Headmaster ing of the present situation that. to all civilized men. but next to this Post Office: Box 662, PAOLI, PA. unlike any of the ancient conquests, possibility the single greatest dan- Church the result of this modern Western ger we all may face is that Asia as impact has been drastic and per- a whole will gradually drift toward ST. AGNES SCHOOL manent. Communism. Beside it the favorite An Episcopal Country Day and Boarding dangers of the calamity - howlers School for Girls
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