THE MINISTER AS A TEACHER— Malcolm Taylor

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M u s i n g s o f a L o w -B r o w An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON W O N D E R just how much difference there is be­ H A T is the value of the Church. It does not I tween the fundamentalists evaluating science and T cause you to perspire with emotion one minute and the scientists evaluating religion. When one recalls then to shiver with the cold the next. W e read articles William Jennings Bryan striving to give a scientific ex­ telling us that the Church is slipping. It is curious. planation of Genesis, one is-also reminded of Clarence I have been in the ministry for over forty years and I Darrow trying to give spiritual values to the Sermon have never known such a warm response to religion as on the Mount. Science has done great things for us there is today. It is true that some forms of religion but when it has done all it seems to be an unprofitable are slipping. This includes both the icy zones of ’purely servant, for in making the privileged more comfortable intellectual religion and the tropical zones of highly it has deprived the unprivileged of any joy in living. emotional religion. But that does not mean that the It is true that some people blame the Church for this Church is slipping. That depends upon, your definition disaster, yet we have been told for many years that re­ of the Church. If you mean that nebulous vapor ligion is on the wane. If this is true then surely the which surrounds the Church I would say that the fog Church is not responsible for the debacle in which we is lifting. I f you mean that icy sediment which is the find ourselves. The past generation has seen the deposit of religion I would say that it is melting. If supremacy of educators, diplomats and financiers who you mean that historic institution which exists between have told us rather haughtily that wisdom would die the fog and the ice I would say that it is going strong. with them. A t any rate if religion has anything to do Unquestionably there has been some desertion of the with the plight of the world it is the lack of it, not the Church by the intellectual group, but they are nothing failure of it, that is to blame. if not vocal, and they make more noise in going out People have a rather childish idea of what the of the Church than ordinary folks do, in coming in. Church should do, as though the Church were a magi­ However, they compose a very small percentage of the cal instrument which will operate without human co­ population and curiously enough that period in the his­ operation. Men stay away from the Church and then tory of the Church when it had a minimum of intel­ complain that the Church is not virile. Men withhold lectuals it had a maximum of power. I refer to' the their money and then complain because the Church is first three centuries. It .was during this period that not more bountiful. Men try out every substitute for Celsus attacked the Church because it did not appeal the Church and then complain that it is not more to scholars. The marvel is th at, the morons should potent. have survived and the scholars should have passed into This is no new thing. Pharaoh told the children of oblivion. Israel to make bricks without staw and then punished them for their failure to deliver. Men criticize the S a matter of fact the vital things in life do not Church because it does not purify politics but they cen­ A . come from laboratories or lecture rooms.. They sure the Church even more if it enters the political belong to a different area. Devoted mothers, winsome arena. The intellectuals are upset because they cannot children, conscientious servants and loyal friends are produce a Church which is both scientific and sympa­ far more important than captains of industry, heads of thetic ; that is as cold as a laboratory and as warm as a colleges or masters of relativity. fireside. It is like an effort to enjoy the Arctics and It is these things that the Church can produce when the Tropics at the same time. There is an advantage in and where it is adequately manned and sufficiently sup­ the temperate zone. It has all the blessings of the ported by a group of ordinary people who hunger for other zones without their extremes. righteousness and thirst for God. I believe this be-

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cause it is the result of my experience. I have been your soul. Yet it is a fact that enough eminent scien­ privileged for many years to visit many parishes, to' be tists are devout Christians tO' remove the stigma that entêrtained in many homes, and to' watch many fam­ might otherwise attach to my mental status. ilies grow up. I have also' been more or less familiar So if one were to face the facts about religion one with collegiate atmospheres and I can testify that there might conclude, first, that certain kinds of religion are is a winsomeness in Christian homes that is quite f or­ slipping but that the Church has not been seriously eign to academic circles. Possibly it is because I have a affected. Second, that a very large number of intel­ greater love for people than I have a curiosity about lectuals are without faith, but that this has been true things. in every age since the days of Celsus. Third, that O'f course the academic group think that I have abdi­ where the Church can enlist a sufficient number of red- cated my reason in order to gratify my superstitions, blooded, men who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and while I think that the mechanistic yardstick which Savior, that there one finds the kind of atmosphere modern educators apply to life is most uninteresting. which some of us are seeking, quite apart from the I don’t see any fun in a world where the letters after prospect that we may receive a harp and a crown some­ your name are of more consequence than the poetry in time hereafter.

T h e M i n i s t e r a s a T e a c h e r By MALCOLM TAYLOR ESUS was known and addressed as a teacher. His With this situation in mind some eight years ago> the J teaching comprises a large part of the gospel rec­ Commission on the Ministry of the National Council ord. It was his chief reliance in his work. His Church called together representatives of our theological has always been a teaching Church and on the effi­ schools for a conference on the place given to religious ciency of its teaching its growth and achievements have education in their work and possible improvement. largely depended. To be able to teach is one of the The conference revealed how little was being done. No first and most essential qualifications of a minister. school was giving adequate preparation. The schools Are our ministers today well equipped for this task, admitted the lack of instruction in religious education, both as they may be required to be teachers and as they but pleaded the pressure of other subjects, the limited may have to train and direct others in the educational time and the difficulty of securing competent teachers. work of the Church ? Such equipment requires a Since then, partly because of this conference, consid­ knowledge of what should be taught, of the methods erable progress has been made. The writer has re­ by which it may be imparted, of the laws that govern ceived reports from the several schools as to their the growing mind and of the principles that underlie present requirements and courses and he has compared character education. More especially is this true of these with those of eight years ago. The result is en­ the teaching of children and in no sphere of a minis­ couraging and the schools are to be commended for ter’s work have there been greater changes in outlook the progress made. and method in recent years. For a theological school The situation is, however, still far from satisfactory. to send a young minister out to his life work without Recent graduates state that in no part of their work do instruction in the principles and methods of religious they feel themselves so ill equipped, so helpless often, education is to handicap him from the start. No as when they face the task of organizing and directing grounding in theology, of Church History, or the in­ the educational work of their parishes. Yet they know terpretation of the Bible, will avail if he does not know that on the efficiency of the Church School and other how to impart his knowledge, or how to nurture the educational projects the future of the parish largely young in the Christian faith and life. Yet until re­ depends; not only as to numbers, but, what is more im­ cently our theological schools gave little thought to portant, as to the intelligent faith and loyal Christian equipping their graduates for the work of religious edu­ living of its inembers. cation. Some superficial instruction was given in the Recent years have seen a radical change in the whole organization and direction of a Church School as a method of religious instruction in the old meaning of minor part of the course in pastoral theology, but that term. There is a better understanding of the re­ the subject was hardly taken seriously. Ministers have lation between right thinking and right living. W e been trained to be preachers and priests, but they have have discovered the fallacy in the idea, once so com­ not been prepared for the work of teaching nor given such a knowledge of educational principles and psy­ mon, that right ideas once taught will be transmuted chology as would enable them to guide intelligently the into conduct; that correct knowledge leads to right ac­ efforts of the well meaning but usually unequipped tion. The goal is still the same, loyalty in faith and volunteers who compose the teaching force in most life to the Christian ideal; but the starting point, the parishes. directing forces and the laws of spiritual perception

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. August 10, 1933 T H E WITNESS Page Five and growth are understood today far better than they Thomas Tusser, produced “A hundredth good pointes were a generation ago. of husbandry, lately maried unto a hundredth good Must the minister be compelled to turn to an educa­ poyntes of huswifery”-—and there, sure enough, we tional assistant to direct this vital work, to do what he have it that: cannot do because he does not know how ? Only a few “ Blesse Cicely (good mistress), that bishop doth banne, parishes can afford such assistants. Must he depend on For burning the milke of hir cheese to the pan,” diocesan directors to train his teachers ? and in “Tusser Redivivus,” in the year 1744, we get Our theological schools, notwithstanding the pres­ the following gloss: “ When the bishop passed by (in sure of many subjects in their three years course, former days) every one ran out to> partake of his bless­ may well give further thought to1 their failure to make ing, which he plentifully bestowed as he went along; teachers of their men. There is a diversity of function and those who left their milk upon the fire might find in the ministry; but the duty of teaching is as general it burnt to the pan when they came back, and perhaps as that of preaching. A congregation will bear with a ban or curse the bishop as the occasion of it, as much poor preacher, for he may make up for his dullness in or more than he had blessed them.” other w ays; and he has other contacts with his people Grose in his “ Provincial Glossary,” 1794, tells us outside of the pulpit. But with most children the that “The bishop has set his foot in it, a saying in the Church School is the only contact with the Church and North used for milk that is burnt in boiling. Formerly, too often there is no religious education in the home. in days of superstition, whenever a bishop passed Their understanding of the Christian religion is gained through the town or village, all the inhabitants ran out chiefly from their teachers. Preaching to young people to receive his blessing; this frequently caused the milk is proverbially futile, but they are open, as older per­ on the fire to be left till burnt to the vessel, hence the sons are not, to that “direction of experience” which above allusion.” is the heart of all effective teaching. On the educa­ The British Apollo. Vol. I. London. 1708, in answer tional equipment of the minister for this task the fu­ to a query, “Why, when anything is burnt to, it is said ture of the Church in no small measure depends. the bishop’s foot has been in it?” answers, “ W e pre­ sume ’tis a proverb that took its original from those unhappy times when everything that went wrong was Blessings and Burnt Milk thought, to have been spoiled by the bishops.” By O LOOK at the matter seriously, we have in this JOHN R. CROSBY T Church a regrettable tendency to blame the unfor­ T WOULD appear that the truest of all proverbs is tunate bishops for practically everything, while as a I the one that states that there is nothing new under matter of fact the ordinary bishop has every possible the sun. The other day in the course of a pastoral call, reason for blaming the Church. To begin with, our we noticed a horrible smell of burning. The good lady forefathers in their wisdom carefully deprived them as rushed into the kitchen and returned with the startling far as possible of every vestige of Episcopal power. information that she had left her jelly on the stove If the unfortunate bishop enforces the canons, he is and the bishop had put his foot in it. As I had every a hide-bound tyrant of the deepest dye; if, on the other reason to believe that our respected diocesan was at the hand, he winks at any little weaknesses of his clergy, time engaged in solemnising a marriage in the Episco­ such as Hula Hula dances in lieu of Evensong, or sol­ pal city, and since in any case I could not imagine a emn veneration of the relics of Saint Titus Tus, he is successor of the Apostles leaping upon the cook stoves violently assailed as being false to his consecration of the good women of the diocese, I asked for further vows, and either a heretic or a Jesuit. While his Ro­ information and was informed that in the part of Eng­ man brethren are thundering forth the anathemas of land in which she was raised, when anything is burnt, the Church, and his Anglican brethren are arraigning the bishop is said to have put his foot in it. before the ecclesiastical courts, all our unhappy bishops I have heard Bishops blamed for most things from can do is to tell their unruly children that they are the cut in my salary to wearing a mitre, but this was a naughty boys and cannot be visited until they show new one on. me. The more especially as I always under­ signs of repentance. And in either case everybody, stood that in England they never criticised bishops, Catholic and Liberal, clerical and lay, rush to the cor­ since they were specially selected by a paternal gov­ respondence columns of their favorite Church paper ernment in order that we junior clergy could occasion­ and indulge to their hearts’ content in that popular and ally fetch them over here and parade them round the fashionable sport, so. aptly termed “Bishop baiting” by country in order to give our bishops an example of the Bishop of Central New York. what a Father in God ought to be. W e certainly— A fter all it is well to remember that at his consecra­ to my knowledge— have never blamed them for culi­ tion the only extra power conferred on the bishop is nary accidents, although I have heard them occasionally that of ordination, or Of passing on the grace of Holy blamed for spilling the beans. Anyway, I thought the Orders to those upon whom he lays his hands. The dio­ expression was of sufficient interest to hunt up its cese that elects him, and the bishops and standing com­ origin, and it gives me pleasure to pass the result of my mittees who approve his election, are entirely responsi­ research on to the readers of T he W itness. ble for his fitness for the Episcopal office; while'his In 1570, that eminent chorister and erratic genius, authority and jurisdiction are derived, defined and de-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS August 10, 1933 liminated by the General Convention of the Church. bers of the One, Catholic, Apostolic Church! When, therefore, we start “bishop baiting” it would Can any Churchman attend one of those barren, hap­ perhaps be advisable to examine ouf own consciences hazard services, a service where one sits smugly a little. It is an old and true saying that any country through praise and prayer— prayer that is too often gets precisely the form of government it wants, and if neither praise nor petition but a distressingly conf used that government is tyrannical, weak or incompetent invocation and a miscellaneous lot of information there is no one to blame but the people themselves. offered to the Almighty— and not have a deeper appre­ This adage would seem to be peculiarly true of this ciation of our own stately, reverent liturgy? Church. Can any of you imagine depending for spiritual sus­ It has been my privilege to know a good many bish­ tenance on a service which contains neither sacrament, ops in my time— or perhaps it would be more correct inspiration nor beauty? Can you think what it means, to say that a good many bishops have known me. I to praise God with jazzy insipidities? I am aware that have never yet known a bishop who did not carry out our own churches do not always have a celestial choir, what he considered to be the duties of his office hon­ that the very elect sometimes sing off pitch and chant estly, faithfully, and in the fear of God. 'His views abominably, but at least our hymnal is not cluttered may not always have been mine, but I trust that, ex­ with syncopated, saccharine sentiments. cept in matters of conscience (that, thank God, have Can you think what it means to substitute for our not yet arisen) I have been able to sufficiently remem­ own priceless heritage, the Christian Year, a string of ber my ordination vows to subordinate my peculiar more or less meaningless special sort of Sundays; to views to the ecclesiastical authority the Church, as commemorate the very Birthday of Our Lord by a God’s viceregent, has set over me. Santa Claus party for the Sunday School on Christmas That old, homely proverb has shown me a new light Eve, with no service of any sort on the day except on the Church’s relations to the bishops. The bishop when it inconveniently falls on Sunday; to approach passes along blessing his people. The people rush out this holy season without the solemn admonitions of the to receive the benediction, and then go back to their Advent Season, or Easter without the penitential Len­ houses and curse the bishop, because through their own ten fast; to receive the Lord’s Supper in grape juice carelessness the milk has been burnt. That is just and bread-and-butter kind of bread, quarterly? (I’ve about typical of all of us. tried for years to discover just what this sacrament meant to a denominational church and I am convinced it is no more than a solemn memorial). W hy is it then, that we who rise early on the first day of the week Crying in the Wilderness while the world is hushed, kneel reverently, receive our Lord’s very Body and Blood and go forth spiritually By fed and renewed— why is it that we do not really win RUTH WEEKS MOORE I His Kingdom for Him! Isolated Churchwoman of Traer, Iowa Can any of you imagine what it means to wonder AM not “a prominent layman of the Episcopal anxiously whether duties in one’s own community, rain I Church.” Indeed, I am not a prominent anything. or muddy roads are going to prevent one’s presence in M y one distinguishing mark perhaps, is that I am the church on the great feast days of the year? To be so sole and humble exponent of my Church in a commun­ keyed up over it all that sometimes one’s worship de­ ity where, if the Church is known at all, it is as the one generates into mere emotionalism and a sensuous ap­ founded by Henry the Eighth! I am a lonely, hunger­ preciation of the beauty, the color, the wonder of our ing exile from the Church in which I was baptized, own service. nurtured, confirmed, married— and the twenty years of Oh, you who may stroll leisurely to St. So-and-So’s my exile have but increased that hunger. I do not every Sunday, or roll up in your Rolles Royce or the imagine myself to be a voice crying in the wilderness street car— do you have any idea of your glorious op­ and yet I long, often, to cry out of that exile to those portunity? It seems to me if I might be present at the of you who have the privilege and opportunity I am Holy Sacrifice weekly; if I might observe the holy days starving for. in between, if I might come up to the great climax of Those twenty years have been spent in one of the Good Friday and Easter after faithful attendance at denominations during which I have learned a proper the Lenten services, I would fight more manfully under evaluation of our Evangelical brethren and their con­ His banner— probably not, but I like to think so. tribution to Christ’s Kingdom. What I have to say is Sometimes, when I am back in church I feel I must in no spirit of harsh, unloving criticism. The marvel defy tradition, ascend into the chancel, fling wide my to me, is that those same brethren are frequently such arms and cry aloud, “ O men and women, is it nothing effective witnesses for Christ. During all these years to you, all ye that pass by so indifferently, so casually, I have taught in their church school, sung in the choir, this glorious church of ours, this church with its valid and have an intimate knowledge of their devotion, their priesthood and sacraments, its dignity, reverence and consecration. I would not be guilty of impugning their beauty, its peculiar mission to the world, its oppor­ piety., BUT— has any, churchman ever worshipped tunity for us all to help advance the Kingdom? Even with his Protestant brothers in a rural community? I so, come Lord Jesus into the hearts of all lukewarm heartily commend such a course to all lukewarm mem­ Episcopalians! Amen.”

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life in their French-negro way which might be just as L et’s Know good for them as our way is for us. That seems to By me to be the kind of Church Unity which will really work and which has plenty of historic precedent. , BISHOP WILSON Black R epublic ID you ever hear of the Orthodox Apostolic D Church? For a good many years there was such a Church in the island of Haiti. It makes rather an The Centenary interesting episode in the history of our own Church. By This island in the West Indies, divided between the BERNARD IDDINGS BELL Dominican Republic and Haiti, was named Hispaniola HE centenary of the Oxford Movement, cele­ by Columbus and was the place where he headquar­ tered during his explorations of nearly five hundred T brating the growing revival of Catholicism in the years ago. For a century and a half the Spaniards Episcopal Church all over the world, which I have were in control and practically exterminated the native been attending, has been even more impressive than population, importing negro slaves from Africa to take was anticipated. The great crowds; the scores of pa­ its place. Then in the early part of the seventeenth pers by some of the greatest scholars in England; the century the French captured the island and French be­ presiding over mass-meetings by noble lords, leaders of came the language of the negro inhabitants. Following labor, heads of universities: everywhere these and the French Revolution the people of Haiti caught the other indications were present that the Catholic revival spirit of freedom and revolted on their own account. in England and its Church constitutes the most signifi­ More than that, they followed the example of their cant thing by far in Anglican religious life and thought. former rulers and proceeded to slay the aristocrats The outstanding features were three. First, there which, in their case, meant all the white people. They was a solemn high mass in Winchester Cathedral, with went so far in color discrimination that they eliminated the great building packed to the doors. It is said that the central white bar from the tricolor of France and 8,000 made the pilgrimage— half of them all the way ; retained as their flag the red and blue combination. from London. Then followed a further pilgrimage They freed the slaves and settled down to work out to quiet Hursley, to pass silently one by one by John their own troubled destiny. Keble’s grave, each visitor pausing only to say a “ God A fter our Civil W ar a theory prevailed that the rest his soul in Paradise.” Second, a children’s pageant answer to the negro question in the United States was in Albert Hall on Saturday, with 15,000 children pres­ to be found in the emigration of negroes to a land of ent, which culminated in two minutes of silent prayer, their own. Haiti was handy and among those who from those unsoiled hearts, for the conversion of all were bent on trying it out was a man named James England to the Lord Jesus and His Church. Third, Theodore Holly. Upon his arrival in Haiti he was and greatest, the high mass in White City Stadium, on much concerned over the spiritual welfare of these a Sunday morning, with hundreds of Choristers and French-speaking negroes and launched a religious scores of acolytes and over 500 priests (and 10 Bish­ movement among them. He continued on his own in­ ops) and 45,000 worshippers from the laity. Not only dependent way until 1874 when he appealed to the was the size of the congregation astonishing (it was Episcopal Church for help. 'Our bishops thereupon the largest number ever at a service in Ecclesia Angeli- consecrated him bishop of the Orthodox Apostolic cana, before the Reformation or since) but the spirit Church of Haiti and stood behind him for the next of adoration, at once humble and happy, moved almost thirty-seven years. During all that time the Church everyone to tears or near them. in Haiti was an independent body receiving slight sup­ The papers delivered at the daily meetings in the port and much encouragement from the Episcopal Albert Hall were all of them good, and some of them Church. But when Bishop Holly died, the Haitians thrilling. The outstanding speakers were the Lady appealed to us to take the work over bodily as a Mis­ Margaret Professor from Oxford, Professor Chauncey sionary District. This was done in 1911 and Haiti Tinker from Yale, and Father Rosenthal from Bir­ has been one of our regular missionary fields ever since. mingham (at present the most popular preacher in The whole thing was an unusual situation but it England). There were nearly 60,000 enrolled as at­ offers a striking example of what can be done by offer­ tending members of the conference. ing our assistance to a body of Christians who may Among Americans present I have seen Professor not be part of us but affiliated with us in the generous Tinker of Yale; Professor John Rathbone Oliver from atmosphere of the Church Catholic. There are now Johns Hopkins University; T. S. Eliot, the poet; fifty-two parishes and missions in Haiti ministering to Father Williams of St. Mary the Virgin’s, New York,, fifteen thousand baptized persons. who preached the opening sermon; Father Hughson of Back in 1874 we might have said— no, this is very the Order of the Holy Cross; Dr. Gompf of Newark; irregular; if we are to play with these people, they the Rev. E. J. Cooper, archdeacon of the Canal Zone; must become Episcopalians in the usual way. Instead, Dr. Elmendorf of Hackensack; Dr. Hamlin of the Ad­ we were reasonable enough to see an opportunity to vent, Boston. American bishops were wholly absent, join hands with L’Eglise Orthodox Apostolique probably saving up to come to the American Catholic d’Haiti and help these people develop their own Church Congress in Philadelphia in October.

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STREETER DEALS Buddha was a philosopher; Jesus NEWS NOTES OF had the mind of a poet. They thought WITH THE DUAL and spake in different modes. Each THE CHURCH IN ASPECT OF REALITY for the sake of miserable humanity BRIEF PARAGRAPHS made the supreme sacrifice — the By Gardiner M. Day Christ in submitting to death, the Edited by W. B. Spofford Canon B. H. Streeter’s latest vol­ Buddha by consenting to live. . . For Bishop Burleson, assistant Pre­ ume, The Buddha and The Christ, the ‘philosophy of religion it is of the siding Bishop, died suddenly on (Macmillan $2.00) is not, as its title first importance to realize that the August first o f angina pectoris at might suggest, another book on the barrier which separates the Buddha Camp Remington in the Black Hills general field of comparative religions, from the Christ is due, in the last of South Dakota, Be was in his but rather as its suib-title states is resort, more to the intellectual the­ 68th year. Bishop Burleson, son of “an exploration of the meaning of ories which he inherited than to dis­ a pioneer missionary, had long been the Universe and of the purpose of agreement in the findings of his own a leading figure in the Church. He human life.” In 1926 Canon Streeter very original moral insight. Where was the dean of the Cathedral at published a book entitled, Reality in the Buddha was most himself, there Fargo, N. D'., from 1900 to 1909, which he ably set forth a new corre­ he was most like Christ.” leaving there to become a secretary lation of science and religion and of the Board of Missions, and the Perhaps the most appealing and gave a constructive philosophy of the editor of The Spirit of Missions. In refreshing aspect of the volume, and Christian life. The basic contention 1916 he was consecrated (Bishop of one which is characteristic of all Dr. of this ¡book was that “ Life in the South Dakota., a position which he Streeter’s writing, is that he never sense of conscious Life, is the funda­ filled until the Denver General Con­ leads his reader up some philosophic mental element in Reality” or, put in vention in 1931 when he resigned road which comes to a dead end. He other words, that the “ stuff” , so to after being elected assistant to the never allows his thinking to carry speak, of Reality is akin to what we Presiding Bishop, which made him him off into that endless labyrinth experience as life. Moreover, the ap­ the executive head of domestic and of abstractions and contradictions proach to Reality is two fold, name­ foreign missions, social service and which often appears to be at once the religious education of the National ly by way of science and by way of happy hunting ground of the phil­ religion. To understand the meaning Council. osopher and the dispair of most kinds of the universe the technique of Bishop Burleson was a gifted and conditions of men. He is ever science can give all the measurable mindful of the fact that the task of preacher and did much to develop truths; that is everything which religion is “ not realistically correct interest throughout the Church in (pertains to Quantity. Canon Streeter representation but the communica­ the missionary enterprise, particu­ pointed out in this earlier volume larly the work in the domestic field tion of spiritual apprehension.” The that the higher the type of living reader is not only led as far as among the Indians. As ¡Bishop of organism the more inadequate the reason will carry him, but he is South Dakota he developed the scientific approach proved itself to definitely shown the inevitable limits work among them to a high point be and that in order to truly appre­ of logical reason itself. As the of efficiency and was constantly hend the total meaning of Reality it scientist frequently has achieved campaigning against the exploita­ is essential to turn to Religion, whose valuable results by boldly stepping tion of the Indians on the part of task and privilege it is, by means of outside the limits of the measurable, wild west shows. Upon the recent resignation of the method of art, to reveal those in a similar manner Canon Streeter immeasurable truths, whose essence believes the philosopher ought more Bishop Creighton as executive sec­ is Quality. frequently to step beyond the laws of retary of domestic missions Bishop -Burleson became the executive head In The Buddha and The Christ conceptualised ratiocination. Particu­ (The Bampton Lectures for 1932) larly in the field of the philosophy of of this important phase o f the Dr. Streeter restates briefly this religion the solution of intellectual Church’s work. In his death the fundamental position in his first problems cannot be separated from Church loses not only ¡a brilliant chapter and then elucidates it with that of the practical. A solution preacher and capable administrator particular reference to the lives of reached by the application of the but also one of her most pictur­ the Buddha and the Christ and to wisdom and common sense of a few esque personalities. the historical development of Budd­ honest and intelligent persons with * * * hism and Christianity. iHe endeavors due regard to all the available facts to isolate the essential elements of may not ibe the right one, but a Church Ballyhoos \religion from the alien elements “ decision reached by strict logical the New Deal which become attached to it and then deductions from abstract general Something reminiscent ¡of the shows how the insights of religion principles will almost certainly be ballyhoo o f war days is being aid us in dealing with the problems wrong.” What heresy to the philos­ stirred up over the recovery pro­ of pain and conduct and in the con­ opher, and yet can anyone fail to gram of the present administration, sideration of the belief in immortal­ name innumerable occasions when with at least some evidence to ity. experience drove this truth home to prompt the statement that the gov­ So extensive is Canon Streeter’s him. Again |I say, a distinct merit ernment hopes to use the churches knowledge and so penetrating his of Canon 'Streeter’s writing is that now as it did then. All but the mind that it would be impossible in he never for a moment tables com­ younger clergy recall how George the space at our disposal to begin to mon sense or human experience, and Creel, hired by the government to give an adequate idea of the real it is my conviction that no philos­ sell war to the American people, worth of this new1 book. It is not opher or theologian who does can used to send neatly printed sermons Reality over again, but Reality con­ successfully apprehend Reality. to them, with the request that they sidered from a distinctly new angle. One of the most valuable features be read in place of their own ser­ To illustrate this fact let me quote of Dr. Streeter’s writing is that mons in order that Christian people a few sentences from the Lecture every chapter contains reflections might know that we were fighting a from which the book derives its suggestive of new and unanticipated war to end war and to make the name: “Christ was a carpenter, the avenues of thought which are open world safe for democracy. What’s Buddha was a prince; they experi­ more the preachers generally were enced life from different angles. The (Continued on page 16) taken in by it, so that any one who

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. August 10, 1933 T H E WITNESS Page Nine did not preach regularly about the Prayer Books and Gospels have moral ends of the war was consid­ FUNDAMENTALS been distributed to those making re­ ered not only unpatriotic but un- quests after outdoor services. In Christian as well. Churches became F A person asked you. what several places local bands and agencies of the state. I presume I evidence you have for your be­ vested choirs took part in the meet­ most of us now realize that we lief in the existence of God, whait ings and in at least one town out­ made a mistake in those far-oif would you tell him? Then sup­ door work is being continued by the days and that we did wrong in pose he asked you further what Rector and church folk. allowing the state to gobble up the you knew of Ithe nature of God, * * * Church to use for its own purposes. what would your answer be? Conferences Over We can see the issue clearly enough Again if a person asked you to> Finances in Southern Virginia today when Hitler tries to capture explain your reasons for believing Conferences of clergy and vestry­ the Church in Germany. We do in Jesus Christ could you give men have been held in the diocese not see quite as clearly when we him a satisfactory answer? “'Why of Southern Virginia to consider ourselves are involved, particularly I Believe in God” and “ Why I financial problems. The first was with so much in the Roosevelt pro­ Believe in Jesus 'Christ” are but held at Norfolk on July 21st and gram about which to' be enthusiastic. two articles in a series to start in the other at Petersburg on the 27th, Nevertheless the New Deal, as fine The W itness in September. They thus reaching both sections of the as it is in many respects, is a lot will be written by the Headmasters diocese. Bishop Thomson was pres­ less than the Christian religion. So, of our leading Church schools, ent at both and gave stirring mis­ for one, I hate to see the churches whom we have asked to write on sionary appeals. The executive sec­ becoming ballyhoo agents for this or these fundamental questions just retary of the diocese was instructed any other administration. After all, as they would talk to their inquir­ to send folders to all vestrymen as many wise ones are pointing out, ing youths of eighteen years. We setting forth the status of diocesan there is much Fascism in the present believe you will want the people and national finances, with the re­ set-up, with the possibility that we in your parish to read these quest that these be presented1 to shall see a super-state created that articles. Already a number of congregations, looking toward a pay- will level down American life rather rectors have made plans for study up-week this fall. than raise it to the heights of which groups, using these articles as * * * it is capable. Certainly it would be their material. Place your order Pilgrimage T«> embarrassing to discover ¡four or now for a W itness Bundle to start National Parks five years hence that the churches with this series. The cost of the Bishop Moulton of Utah led a pil­ had been instrumental in entrench­ paper in bundles is but three cents grimage to two of the national parks ing a Fascist regime in the United a copy, payable quarterly. of the state on July 22nd, where States. outdoor services were held, the first * * H* ever to be held in these national parks of Southern Utah. The first The Dioceses of mized, and also' stated that there was North Carolina still great need for Christian evan­ service was held on the rim of Bryce’s Canyon, Archdeacon Bulk- At a meeting of representatives gelism and also for financial sup­ port from fellow-Christians abroad ley reading the service and Bishop from the three dioceses in the state Moulton preaching. In the evening of North Carolina to consider the if the work in Japan was to be maintained. The Council is composed another service was held in the question of diocesan boundaries and Temple of Zinawava in Zion Park. also whether or not it would be ad^ almost entirely o f clergymen. A lay body o f Japanese Christians is This is an outdoor temple, named visable to have but two dioceses in after an Indian God. Thirty-five North Carolina instead o f three, the now studying and surveying Chris­ tian institutions in Japan, their find­ people made the trip, covering in all following resolutions were adopted: 768 miles. Resolved: That it is the judgment ings to be released in the fall. * * * of the three committees assembled * * * What About the) that it is best for the Church in the Church Army Troubadours Word “Parson” ? State o f North Carolina that we re­ Terminate Tour tain three dioceses. I have been genially called down After being on the roads of for too frequent use o f the word Be it further resolved: That the Maryland and North Carolina since “ parson” in these news notes. The Diocese of North Carolina be re­ the end of May, the Church Army Rev. Richard T. Loring, rector at quested to consider the advisability Motoring Troubadours finished their Waban, Mjass., writes: '“I have a of ceding such of its territory to summer tour at Milton, N. C., at the dioceses of East Carolina and constitutional dislike for the word the end of July. The three young ‘parson’, so often employed dispar­ Western North Carolina as would missionaries constituting the team, agingly according to Webster. The make for the welfare and expan­ have delighted in unusual places for Oxford dictionary says a parson is sion of the Church’s work in the gospel preaching. At the Owls Club a New Zealand bird of dark plumage state. * * Filling Station, Milton, N. C., they with a white neck. Heaven forbid addressed one-hundred and fifty the comparison. But seriously, half Japanese Discuss people, chiefly men, at a Saturday our Episcopalians think we are or­ Laymen’s Report afternoon meeting. At a factory dained a minister when we were or­ The report of the Laymen’s For­ meeting held on a railroad track, dained a priest, and proud of it. eign Missions Inquiry was discussed the meeting was interrupted (by the Why cannot that word be used more at a meeting o f the National Chris­ afternoon train running through instead o f

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS August 10, 1933 porate capacities; hence, the rector the service, so that Churchmen the big army and navy boys are af­ or incumbent of a parochial church, throughout the region now know that ter a large share of the three bil­ who .'has full possession of all the they can go to church at least on these lion, three hundred million dollars rights thereof, with the cure of Sundays that Dr. Porkess is on a va­ that the government proposes to souls.” A second definition is “ an cation. Most parsons, I rather spend under the public works pro­ •animal with a black coat or mark­ imagine, are not looking for services gram. Already two hundred and ing” , while still a third is simply “ a while on their holidays but here is thirty-eight million dollars has been guidepost” . It seems to me that any one who went to a good bit of trou­ grabbed off for the construction o f of the three fit fairly well and I ble to bring the Holy Communion war vessels, with millions more re­ see no reason why an ordained Epis­ service to those who otherwise would quested for the modernization of a copal clergy is not both a priest and have been without it. number of ships and for fighting a parson. * * * planes. Then the army is asking for * * * Military Leaders a sum in excess of one hundred mil­ How To Get After the Cash lion for construction projects. As a Job According to Dr. Walter W. Van Dr. Van Kirk points out: “ It is a The Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher, Kirk, secretary of the department of well known fact that a disproportion­ Jr., of Glendale, California, was re­ international justice and goodwill of ate share of the people’s money is cently asked to preach at the First the Federal Council of Churches, spent upon the liquidation of past Baptist Church, Denver, in order that the congregation might size him up with an idea of giving him a call. At the morning service the subject of his sermon was “ Out of the shaker into the soup” and in the evening he preached on “Just a Gigolo,” an­ nouncing before hand that he would appear in “gigolo costume,” whatever THE CHURCH LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION that is. Following this sermon he ( Owned, and Controlled by The Church Pension Fund) answered questions from the pulpit, with a considerable time devoted to the question: “ Are the young people of Denver as wild as the young people of Hollywood?” It is reported that the call has not been extended but 9 Offers its benefits to the that negotiations are under way. * * * clergy, lay officials and lay Rev. Frederic W. Fitts To Lead Retreat workers of the Protestant A retreat for clergy, held under the auspices of the Brotherhood of Episcopal Church, and the Way of the Cross, is to be held at Adelynrood, South Byfield, Mass., members of their families. September 18th to the 21st, led by the Rev. Frederic W. Fitts, who was re­ cently elected superior of the Broth­ erhood. The retreat is to follow a clergy conference to be held at St. LOW COST Life and Endowment Insurance Mark's School on the 17th and 18th and it is expected that many of the clergy will go to Adelynrood from RETIREM ENT CONTRACTS and all forms of the conference. At the recent Broth­ erhood meeting the Rev. Edward AN N UITIES are available. Everett of Roxbury was elected vice­ superior and the Rev. Sherrill B. Smith of East Dedham, Mass., was REFUNDS TO POLICY-HOLDERS have been paid elected secretary-treasurer. He * * regularly since 1924. Starts Services in Summer Hotel NO AGENT will call upon you; the Corporation The Rev. William Porkess of Wil- kinsburg, Pa., went to a summer ho­ conducts all of its business by correspondence. tel in Edensburg, Pa., for his sum­ mer vacation. (It is a fairly large town, with about three thousand in­ INQUIRIES are invited. Write to the habitants, to say nothing of the sum­ mer visitors. But there is no Episco-* pal Church there. !So Dr. Porkess went to the owner of the inn where Church Life I nsurance Corporation he , was summering, had a nice chat With him, and as a res,ult the parlor is converted each Sunday morning 20 Exchange Place New York, N. Y. into a chapel, for a celebration of the Holy Communion. What's more Dr, Plorkess sought out the editor of the local newspaper, got him to write-up

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SYCAMORE kind or another.” He points out Headmaster, Box 83. that the argument that these proj­ I L L I N O IS ects will put men to work does not hold since the money could be spent on a program for social, civil and other projects of unquestioned value, C H A T H A M HA such as housing, elimination of A Church School in Southern Virginia grade crossings, the building of for Girls highways, that would employ even Rev. Edmund J. Lee, D.D. more men. Rector “ It is high time,” says Dr. Van Chatham Virginia Kirk, “ that the people of our churches were concerning themselves Al NT JAM ES SCHOOL about this matter. Up to the pres­ Washington County, Maryland. ent time the military have had things Diocesm School for Boys pretty much their own way. The The Mother of Church Schools $238,000,000 appropriated for the on the English Plan construction of 32 new war vessels Dr. Adrian H. Onderdonk is a closed! issue. Nothing can be BISHOP BURLESON Headmaster done about that now. Bids for the Dies Svdderily in North Dakota construction of certain of these ves­ sels have already been drawn up and contracts are soon to be let. But ing of citizens of that city which is St. Catherine’s School the peace loving people of the na­ so frequently torn by industrial An Episcopal Country School in attractive strife. Dr. Hamilton first of all ad­ suburb of historical Richmond. Graduates tion still have an opportunity to yearly enter colleges requiring board register their disapproval of the vocated a court with power to pen­ examinations and those accepting certi­ ficates., Art,, Music. Riding and other many other requests for additional alize manufacturers who refuse to outdoor activities, the year round. Write appropriations for military purposes. pay living wages. Then the land­ for circular. Address: lords of manufacturing buildings Louisa De Berniere Bacot, Headmistress Let us expend! the $3,300,000,000 of Westhampton, Richmond, Virginia public works money for public works, should be forced to provide decent not for military airships, battleships facilities for the workers and should and guns. Let us insist that the vast be held responsible for any negli­ sums to be expended by the Govern­ gence. The address was .given wide ment shall be spent to initiate proj­ publicity in the Paterson newspapers^ ects of lasting social usefulness. not only because of the sound opin­ Those who are of this opinion should ions set forth but also because Dr. An Honor Christian School with the highest let the President know how they feel Hamilton, for many years the rector academic rating. Junior School from, six years. of this large parish, is venerated Housemother. Separate building. Upper SchooL about it.” P’-e n a r e s for university or business. ROTC. Hs * throughout the city by people of all Every modem enuipment. Catalogue, Dr. J. J«. faiths. Wicker. Box 10 4, Fork Union, Virginia. Reaching the * * * Isolated! in Illinois Seven hundred families scattered Revolution Is On ST. MARGARET’S SCHOOL through the diocese of Chicago have Says Dean Mathews TAPPAHANNOCK. VIRGINIA “ Although they have shown in­ A Church School for girls. Boarding De­ been organized into a home study partment limited to 7C. College preparatory creased interest in moral and polit- Course and Intermediate Grades. Athletics. department, directed by Deaconess Very moderate cost. Edith Adams. These families have Country life and simplicity without isola­ tion. Beautiful grounds on Rappahannock been discovered by Archdeacon River. Three dormitories for different ages. Ziegler as he has travelled about the alvert errick Edith La tan A, Headmistress rural sections and small towns of C - H the diocese. The children of these & Riedinger isolated families are organized into SOMERSET HILLS a correspondence school, with a def­ 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street Far Hills _ New Jersey inite curriculum. Cooperating in the program are a number o f diocesan New . York . City Boys from 7 to 17 years. organizations; thus the Auxiliary 95% increase in enrollment in past two years. All sports, including maintains a lending library; the Horsemanship and Fencing. Church Periodical Club distributes STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC REV. J. H. S. PAIR, magazines' and the Girls’ Friendly Director Society gets in touch with the young AND . CHURCH ladies of the households. Baptisms DECORATION and confirmations resulting from the Stuart H all work have been numerous. * * # An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old tra­ ditions and high standards in the beau­ Paterson Rector CHURCH . APPOINTMENTS tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara­ tory and general courses. Two years be­ Speaks His Piece IN . MARBLE . STONE yond high school. Music, art, expression. The Rev. David Stuart Hamilton, Graduates successful in college. W ell- WOOD . AND equipped buildings. New gymnasium, pool. the rector of St. Paul’s, Paterson, Outdoor life. Riding. Founded 1843. New Jersey, was asked to give his METAL Catalog. ideas on industry at a reeent meet- IMrs. H. N. Hills, A.B., Box A, Stanton, Va. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve » T H E WITNESS August 10, 1933 ical affairs, Christians must use more ly what is here and already known. actively the principles set forth in The Continental type of revolution their religious beliefs,” said Dr. calls for a new premise outside o f Edwin S. Gorham, Inc. Publishers, Distributors of Shailer Mathews of Chicago Univer­ experience. Communism and Social­ Church Literature and Art. sity, preaching last Sunday at St. ism demand something that is out­ Vestments, Candles, Altar Linens, Altar Paul’s chapel, Columbia University. side of all experience.” Bread and Vessels. “ Christianity itself,” he added, The present methods, he said, were Information on request. “ never originated social forms, but distinctly not socialism, but democ­ 18 West 45th Street, New York gave direction to their trends. racy developed to the highest degree. 1832 HANNAH MORE ACADEMY 1933 “ We sometimes speak impatiently “ Democracy does not mean 120,- The Maryland Diocesan School for Girls, in about the influence of Christianity 000,000 people standing on a plain the country, fifteen miles from Baltimore. upon the world,” he continued. “ It shouting Hallelujah. They must or­ Accredited. College Preparatory and General ganize. The Soviets have that idea, Courses. Music, Art. Modern equipment and is very easy to be melodramatic and methods. Reasonable rates. Athletics. Riding. cynical about it— it is plenty easy but they have eliminated democracy.” Address: Principal, enough to see the faults o f the whole Dr. Mathews denied that young LAURA FOWLER, A.B., world and what seems unjust to us. people were drawing away from re­ Box L, Reisterstown, Md. This is no time, however, for people ligion. They were showing greater to be engaged in some form of theo­ interest in religion and current af­ DE VEAUX SCHOOL logical manicuring, in petty things, fairs than ever before, although with Niagara Falls, N. Y. when they can bring into life the an air of inquiry rather than sub­ Boys now housed in great forces which make for a bet­ mission, he said. Too often, how­ modern, fireproof dormitory. ever, he admitted, “ they don’t disi- ter world. For catalogue address “ There is now, though, a growing cuss anything but athletics and the opposite sex.” Rev. Wm. S. Barrows, D.D., Headmaster appreciation that there is nothing * * * safe in human life or civilization CHURCH TRAINING SCHOOL that does not make for human bet­ Ordination in (Church Training & Deaconess House) Texas Diocese of Pennsylvania terment and welfare. For instance, Prepares women for work in mission fields, we are beginning to realize that la­ Roscoe 0. Hauser Jr. was ordained religious education, Church social service, borers are partners in a great pro­ deacon by Bishop Capers at Christ parish work, and for the order o f deaconess. Church, San Antonio, Texas, on July Miss Ethel M. Springer, Dean gram of construction and ought to 708 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. be treated as persons and not as 25th. Mr. Hauser is assisting the archdeacon until September 15 th, WOODLEIGH FARMS, Towanda, Pa.— mere machines.” Entirely modern, owner trained nurse; Dr. Mathews, following his ser­ after which he is to return to the vacation, rest or permanent quiet; off mon, explained that the American Virginia Seminary to complete his traffic; accessible. Booklet. attitude of superiority was the main theological training. MARY FAWCETT COMPANY TO ALL C u s ­ * * * tomers : Present rise in Sterling forecasts obstacle in the path of President higher prices for all linens. We offer stocks Roosevelt’s recovery plans. There Rector Aids in at “Economy List.” Buy now advantageous­ were too many financiers and em­ Greek Service ly. 812 Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. The Rev. David B. Matthews, rec­ ployers, he said, who failed to co­ CATHEDRAL STUDIO, CHURCH EMBROI- operate in forming and enforcing tor o f St. Paul’s, (Brockton, Mass., deries, Altar and pulpit hangings, etc. assisted in the laying of the corner Stoles from $6.50. Burse, veil $10' up. Sur­ sane measures. He expressed satis­ plices $8 up. Exquisite Altar linens. Damask faction with the President’s plans, stone of the new Greek Church in cope from $70t. Damask Mass set from $60. that city last Sunday, being the only Silk chasuble from $30. Complete line of asserting that “ they are the only pure Irish linens and Church fabrics by the thing you can see that may help.” clergyman invited outside the Greek yard. Embroidered emblems ready to apply. Altar Guild Handbook 25c. L. V. Mackrille, “ This sort of thing that Mr. Roose­ 11 W. Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Washington, velt is doing illustrates perfectly P H O N E , O C E A N C IT Y 1335 D. C. AMERICAN PLAN what might be called the Anglo- ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. American method of revolution,” he THE BISCAYNE Saint Mary’s Convent, Kenosha, Wis. said. “ It does not attempt to force E. BLUNDIN HOUSE OF THE NAZARENE the complete elimination of any­ Ownership Management SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA thing, but to develop more perfect­ Guests received. Moderate charges. Con­ 814 Ocean Ave., Ocean City, N. J. venient, comfortable, cheerful. Good - ■seals, attractive grounds, sunshine and quiet. If you are looking for rest or renewed strength, come and see. Open year round. Daily Chapel services next door, open to guests if The Church Accepts “OUR HERITAGE” Vyith Enthusiasm desired. For further particulars address, Sister-in-Charge, 80-84 Rohde Avenue. Already sales of Bishop Creighton’s inspiring POSITION WANTED Full or part time work, church or organ­ ization near New York. Experience religious book are record-breaking. education and social work. Young woman ; B. S., M. 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communion. Archbishop Athena- agoras of New York, led the ser­ P* r .geisslerinc T 4 j 0 SIXTH AVE.NEAR IO tu ST. NEW YORK vices. j^rr>uï):iï >s * * * VfYfkW no-325Six t h -avi,nvi -.niw york Ghurth furnishings i f i STAINED GLASS-MUR ALr BRONZE AND MARBLE Chicago Recovery Send for Illustrated Catalogue Fund Grows LIL Jacoby Art Glass Company The Recovery Fund of the diocese Dept. 47, 2700 St. Vincent Aye., of Chicago, organized by Bishop St. Louis, Mo. Stewart to> meet the deficit of the MENEELY&CO. diocesan budget, has now passed the ESTABLISHE $7,000 mark, with a total of 2,300 IN 1826 Bronze Memorial Tablets contributions having been received. WATERVLIET, N.Y Candlesticks, Crosses, etc. Each communicant of the diocese CHURCH BELLS, CHIMES AND PEALS Repairing and Refinishing was asked to contribute at least one Unequaled Musical Qualities dollar to make up a $23,000 deficit. SUMMIT BRASS & BRONZE * * * CASSOCKS WORKS, Inc. Ohio Choir At For the Clergy and Choir 935-37 Demott St. North Bergen, N. J. the World's Fair Vestments, Altar Linens Embroideries, Materials, The choir of St. Stephen’s Church, Tailoring. East Liverpool, Ohio, with 100 men J. M. HALL, Inc. and boys, journeyed to Chicago last 174 Madison Ave. week and sang in the hall of religion (Suite 702-3-4) (Bet. 33d & 34th Sts.) on August 6th. It claims to he the New York JWIPPELL largest volunteer choir in the coun­ try. On July 30th tne choir of St. Edmund’s, Chicago, composed en­ i c ? 0 LTD - tirely of Negroes, gave a concert at AUSTIN ORGAN CO. the hall of religion. * * * Hartford, Conn. invite ^you to visit them when Conferences on Missions y o u Are in England for the Designers and Builders This Winter Of It was decided at a conference of 1 O X F O R D I religious leaders, held recently at PIPE ORGANS Silver Bay, New York, to hold a ser­ noted for their superior tonal qualities ies of mass meetings and conferences and mechanical reliability MOVEMENT during this fall and winter on the subject of foreign missions. It will Correspondence Solicited CENTENARY be the purpose of these meetings to stress the evangelical purpose of mis­ CELEBRATIONS sions as opposed to what they call July 1933 “ the modernistic view taken by the is U r ig Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry.” 1 É B 1 Showrooms The conference issued a statement W m LONDON a.ncL MANCHESTER. urging the need of a great revival llTufton Sbree.tr 3 2 V ictoria . S t r e e t o f interest in world-wide evangelism SBEfEiSBSi ! XGiatminaterS-'D-l (Corner oPGle&ton Sti and stressing the need of a deeper 1 «¿SK \EHIL£D£LPHIA*PA- iGk? , loyalty to the Bible and to Christ STAINED-GLASS-NOSAICSMURALS ! S tu d io s ♦ ♦ * EXETER. among employed officers of mission­ 8 -Tr=»r-T" 1 ary board and missionary appointees.

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Katherine Mayo, whose “ Mother HOLDERNESS India” created such a stir a few In the beautiful White Mountains. College years ago, addressed the conference 3 f Gkttfrai ufological Preparatory and General courses for boys, and denounced “ the false position of Fully accredited. All sports, including rid­ &?motanj ing.- Two hundred acres of woods. Individual those missionaries who get them­ instruction and home atmosphere. New fire selves sent to the foreign field and Three-year undergraduate course proof building, accommodating 40 resident students. then use their position seemingly to of prescribed and elective study. Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector, do everything else hut preach and Fourth-year course for gradu­ Box W. Plymouth, N. H. minister the gospel of Christ.” There ates, offering larger opportunity were no representatives of the for specialization. Episcopal Church present at the con­ Provision for more advanced St. John Baptist School ference. *1* * * work, leading to degrees of S.T.M . and S.T.D. For Girls Church Pension Fund In the country near Morris­ town. Under the care of the Exceeds Promises ADDRESS Sisters of St. John Baptist. The million dollars in pensions paid College Preparatory and Gen­ eral Courses. Music and Art. by the Church Pension Fund last THE DEAN Modern Fireproof Building. 4 Chelsea Square New York City Ample Grounds. Outdoor Life. year almost doubles the payments Moderate Rates. guaranteed by the rules under which For Catalogue Address the Dean For Catalogue address Sister Superior, Mendham, N. J. the Fund iwas organized fifteen years j ago, according to a statement of Bradford B. Locke, secretary. “ Of the total payments of $1,022,- Episcopal Theological School St. Katharine's School 705.27 paid out last year, the amount CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Under the care of the Sisters of St. payable under the original rules is Affiliation with Harvard University offers Mary. A thorough preparatory school for '$600,874.36,” says Mr. Locke, “ That unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as a limited number of girls. Recommended philosophy, psychology, history, by leading colleges. Beautiful grounds. is, this latter figure represents the sociology, etc. Outdoor sports, riding and swimming. Ask for our catalogue. obligations of the Trustees in accor­ For Catalogue Address the Dean SISTER SUPERIOR dance with their original promises. 927 Tremont Ave., Davenport, la This is only a little more than one- half of what is actually being paid. DIVINITY SCHOOL IN The Trustees have, however, volun­ tarily increased the scale of pensions PHILADELPHIA TRINITY COLLEGE Undergraduate and Graduate Courses Hartford, Conn. so far as they safely can through Privileges at University of Pennsylvania the use of income on surplus. The Offers a general cultural education, with special emphasis on the Classics, Modern additional annual amount which they DEAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Streets Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil­ are thus paying to beneficiaries of osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineer­ ,the Fund is $277,i71.59. In addition SEABURY- CARLETON ing. For information apply, The Dean. the Trustees are paying pensions in THEOLOGY LIBERAL ARXa the amount of $144,659.32 a year to Best Training — Minimum Cost NURSING .clergymen or the widows of clergy­ For information and catalogue write men who retired or died prior to RT. REV. STEPHEN S. KEELER, DJ>. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL March 1, 1917, when the pension sys­ Acting Dean in New York. Sisters of St. Mary (Episco­ tem started.” Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn. pal) 405 W. 34th Street. Accredited School of Nursing, three years. Major subject chil­ This remarkable growth of a dren. Adult, maternity and public health church-sponsored pension organiza­ nursing in affiliated hospitals. Single rooms. The Protestant Episcopal Full maintenance. Write for booklet. tion is in marked contrast to the rec­ Theological Seminary in Virginia ords of industrial pension systems, For catalogue and other information KEMPER HALL which have fared ¡badly during the address the Dean last few years, many of which have • REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Under the care of the Sisters of Saint been forced to cut payments drastic­ Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Mary. An Episcopal school for girls on ally or discontinue them altogether. North Shore of Lake Michigan, one hour from Chicago. College Preparatory and gen­ * * * eral courses. Elementary Grades, Progressive Methods Used. Music, Art, Domestic Science. Missionary Mass .. Berkeley Divinity Outdoor and Indoor Sports. Address, The Sis­ Meetings are Planned School ter Superior. Twenty-nine cities, covering six­ New Haven, Connecticut teen states and the District of. Co­ Affiliated with Yale University lumbia, will be visited this fall by Virginia Episcopal School Address DEAN W. P. LADD a missionary speaker’s team headed 86 Sachem Street Lynchburg, Virginia by the Rev. E. Stanley Jones. Others Prepares boys for college and university. Splendid environment and excellent corps of on the team are Dr. Herman Chen-eri CT A M MC*C College Preparatory. teachers. High standard in scholarship and Liu, president of the University of ** 1 * " ** Graduates in leading athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in (EPISCOPAL) Eastern colleges. Ad­ the mountains of Virginia. Shanghai, Miss Lillian L. Picken, mits on certificate to Sweet Briar, Goucher For catalogue apply to evangelist of India, Dr. Charles R. and other Southern colleges. Lower School Rev. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector for girls 10-12 years. Riding and other sports Watson, president of the American the year round. Fees $600.00. Margaret Porter (M.A., Columbia), Principal University at Cairo, Bishop Logan Charlottesville, Virginia. ST. M ARY’S SCHOOL H. Roots of our Church in China, MOUNT ST. GABRIEL and Dr. Wu-Yi-Fang, president of Peekskill-on-Hudson Ginling College and vice-president o f BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS the National Christian Council of WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. F O R WOMEN College preparatory and general courses. New China. The meetings are to open in - Geneva, New York modern fireproof buildings. Extensive recrea­ Worcester on September 28 and Co-ordinate with Hobart College. Four tion grounds. Separate attention given to year Liberal Arts Course leading to the young children. For catalogue address THE 29th, with other cities to be visited ! degrees of A.B. and B.S. SISTER SUPERIOR. being Boston, Portland, Me., New For catalogue and information address Haven, ¡Rochester, N. Y., Cleveland, Faye Huntington Klyver, Ph.D., Dean

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-Columbus, Detroit, Toledo, Grand Church Charity Foundation which Albany. Archdeacon Purdy, in co­ Rapids, Cincinnati, (Louisville, Pitts­ includes St. John’s Hospital in operation with the Army officers, burgh, New York, Chicago, Milwau­ Brooklyn, the Home for the Aged and assisted by a number o f the kee, Des Moines, Sioux City, Omaha, and the Home for the Blind also, in diocesan clergy, has been enabled to Lincoln, Topeka, Kansas City, Wich­ Brooklyn. minister to the men at work in ita, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, * * Hs forestation with gratifying results. * * * Springfield, Illinois, Indianapolis, Albany Serves Washington, D. C. and Philadelphia, Conversation Camps Sees a New Deal where the mass meetings end on Under the direction of the Ven. in Religion December 13-15. The stated purpose Guy H. Purdy, archdeacon of Al­ The Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, rec­ of the meetings, in which a number bany, religious services are con­ tor of Calvary, New York, and a of denominations, including our own, ducted by the Church in the eighteen leader of the Oxford Group Move­ are cooperating, is “ to co-operate Civilian Conversation Corps camps ment (Buchmanites), declared last with the local churches and all other scattered throughout the Diocese of Sunday that the movement had Christian agencies in presenting anew our own and the world’s need of Christ; the wealth of resources for life in Him, and the call of God and the challenge of the present Services of Leading Churches world situation.” * * * Cathedral of St. John the Divine Trinity Church, New York Negro Ordained New York City Broadway and Wall St. Deacon in East Carolina Amsterdam Ave. and 112th St. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 .a.: m. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. E. L. Avery, a recent graduate of Morning Prayer, 10. Holy Communion the Bishop Payne Divinity School, and Sermon, ' li . Evening Prayer and Sermon, 4 p. m. St. Paul’s Cathedral was ordained deacon by Bishop Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7 :30i a. Darst on July 30th in Grace Church, m. (Saints’ Days, 10). Morning Prayer, Buffalo, New York Morganton, North Carolina. It had 9. Evening Prayer, 5 p. m. Organ Re­ Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11, 8. cital on Saturdays at 4 :30. Weekdays; 8, 12:05. been planned to have a confirmation Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy service at Grace Church that morn­ Church of St. Mary the Virgin Days: 10:30 a. m. ing but instead the rector and vestry New York postponed their service in order to 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California loan their church to the Negro con­ Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street gregation of St. Stephen’s Church, Sunday Masses, 7, 9, 11 (High Mass). Near the University of California. Week-day Masses, 7, 8 (Thurs., 7, 8, 9:30). Sundays: 7:30, 11 a. m .; 7:45 p. m. where Mr. Avery is in charge, for Wednesdays: 10:30 a. m. the ordination service, with both the Grace Church, New York white and the Negro congregations Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Christ Church Cathedral uniting for the service. Broadway at 10th St. Hartford, Conn. * * * Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Cor. Main and Church Streets Daily: 12 :30 except Saturday. The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. Memorial Tablets Holy Days and Thursday: Holy Com­ Sundays : 8 :00, 10 :05, 11:00 a. m. ; 7 :80 munion, 11:45. are Dedicated p. m. Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. Two tablets were recently dedi­ The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a.m. cated by Bishop Creighton of Long Disciple, New York Holy Communion. Island in memory of Canon Paul Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Grace and St. Peter’s Church Swett of the Cathedral o f the In­ Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 a. m. carnation and the other in memory Sunday School 9 :30 a. m. Morning Serv­ Baltimore, Md. ice and Sermon 11:00 a. m. Vespers 4:00 o f Sister Dorothy who ministered p. m., Evening Prayer 8 :00 p. m. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) for the Church Charity Foundation. Saints’ Days and Holy Days: Holy Com­ The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers munion 10:00 a. m. The Rev. Harold F. Hohly A large group attended including Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. a . many members of the board of man­ Week Days: 8 a. m. agers and clergy of the diocese. The The Incarnation cottages in which the memorial tab­ Madison Avenue and 35th Street Church of St. Michael and lets were placed are part of the Rector All Angels Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D. Baltimore, Md. MEMORIAL Sundays: 8 and 11 a. m. St. Paul and 20th Sts. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, and 11 a. m.; 8 ISTER AHA FRANCIS, C.T., entered into St. Bartholomew’s Church p. m. S Paradise, May 10, 1933, R. I. P. Week Days: Wednesdays 10 a. m., Sister Ada Francis, a very much beloved Park Avenue and 51st Street Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy and respected member of the Community of Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Days 7 and 10> a. m. the Transfiguration, was professed in the Summer Services year 1911. 8 A. M., Holy Communion. She was the Superior of St. John’s Or­ 11 A. M., Morning Service and Sermon. Church of St. John the Special Preachers phanage, Cleveland, from 1911 to 1921. In Evangelist this branch house of the Community-, Sister 6 P. M., Sunday Evening Forum. Ada lived and worked faithfully and effi­ Holy Communion, Thursdays, 10:30 A.M. Boston ciently, making many friends. She was Bowdoin Street, Beacon Hill especially assisted by the bishop, the Rt. St. Paul’s Church The Cowley Fathers Rev. William A. Leonard, who was her great Sundays: Masses, 7 :30, 9 :30 and 11 Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. a. m. Benediction, 7:30 p. m. friend and admirer. Sunday Services: Returning to the Mother House in Glen­ Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 a. m. Holy Communion, 7:30 a. m. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 a. m., dale, Ohio, in 1921, she continued to fill a Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. also. very valued place in the life of the Order Morning Service, 11:00 a. m. Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 and 7-9 until her death. Evening Service, 8 :00 p. m. p. m. Her father, John Banvard, was a well- known scenic artist. From him she inherited an aesthetic mind, rich in culture. She was St. Mark’s, Milwaukee Gethsemane, Minneapolis well-read and deeply sympathetic with many Rev. E. Reginald Williams phases o f life. Hackett Ave. and Belleview Place Rev. Austin Pardne Her departure has left a great void in Sundays: 8, 9.30 and 11:00. 4th Ave. South at 9th St. the Community. They rejoice, however, in Gamma Kappa Delta: 6 p. m. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 and 7:45. the knowledge of her resting in Paradise. Holy Days: 10 a. m. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. Hers was a consistent Religious Life, the “fruit of the Spirit.’’ R. I. P.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Sixteen T H E WITNESS August 10, 1933 brought a new deal to religion. in truth a revolution in theological off” its world-denying character from “ While people have been praying for thinking more drastic and original the third century hermit with his an awakening to come,” said Mr. than anything done by the Conti­ life of extreme asceticism to our own Shoemaker, “ this group has been nental Reformers. The change in Puritan ancestors. The Jesuit at­ gathering momentum. While reli­ England was more momentous be­ tempted to unload this ascetic bag­ gious thinkers andi observers were cause it was a change in method. It gage and do for the Roman Catholic saying they thought they saw the meant that a constructive empiricism layman what Protestantism was do­ awakening in this viewpoint or that, replaced deductive systems to which ing for its laity, but he was under the beginning of a great awakening mediaeval thought was wedded, and far greater difficulty as he had to has been taking place in our midst.” the Church of England was in con­ do it without repudiating the author­ * * * sequence never tied to the rigid doc­ ity of Augustine and the ascetic Big Enough For trines of a Westminster Confession Saints of the past. It was this task Som e People’ s Needs or an Infallible Book. that compelled him to resort to the What is said to be the world’s We hear a great deal these days system of casuistry which has be­ smallest Bible, with pages about one about the necessity to learn, but we come notorious and of which Dr. third the size of an ordinary postage seldom realize how often that is de­ Streeter remarks: “ Casuistry may stamp, is on exhibition at the World’s pendent upon our willingness to un­ not be a noble art; but wriggling, Fair. It was made by a Scotchman learn. The author points to India as though undignified, is at times the under a microscope— and that’s a a striking example of the dire effects only way to get out of a prison cell.” fact, not a wisecrack. of the refusal of people to unlearn. I cannot close this review without The religious quest in India has at­ adding a personal testimony. If I tracted the sincere and concentrated had to name a half dozen books STREETER DEALS WITH THE energy of the highest minds and yet which had helped me most in my own DUAL ASPECT OF REALITY ithe masses of people are sunk in thinking, I know that Canon Street­ debasing superstition. Why? The er’s Reality would be one of them. (Continued from page 8) answer is that while Mother India It opened new windows of the mind to the reader’s further pursuit. For has had many seers to proclaim for me. I am confident that those example, while the Reformation in truth, she has lacked men of the who found Reality vitally helpful will the continental countries appeared spirit of Elijah or Luther who saw not want to miss these new lectures. to produce revolutionary changes in the necessity of first clearing away Anyone who has mot read Reality will religious thought, in reality it merely the superstition, that is of unlearn­ find this recent volume complete in substituted one scholastic system for ing. itself and an easier and in many another, that of Calvin for Aquinas; Another example of this is seen ways a more engaging introduction whereas in England although the as one traces the evolution of Chris­ to that Christian philosophy of life Reformation appeared to be merely tian ethics. [Since the third century for which Canon Streeter has become an unusually rapid evolution, it was it has been ¡gradually “ sloughing deservedly revered.

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