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DALEY, FRANCIS D., formerly rector of St. Luke’s, Altoona, Pa., is now the rector of tEip (Btntxnl ^rj^cnicgtcal Trinity, Pice Bluff, Arkansas. EASTMAN, FREDERICK S., in charge of St. r J^cmmarg Peter’s, Akron, Ohio, has retired. NICOLA, MILTON G., formerly rector of KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Three-year undergraduate Grace Church, Mansfield, Ohio, has accepted Episcopal Boarding and Day School. course of prescribed and elective the rectorship of Grace Church, Ravenna, Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual study. Ohio. NORTON, DAVID W., JR., formerly rector opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu of Holy Trinity, Marlborough, Mass., has Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity become a member of the staff at the Ad School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. vent, Boston. PFEIFFER, ROBERT A., curate of All SISTERS OF ST. MARY Saints’, Pasadena, California, has accepted Provision for more advanced Box W . T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. the rectorship of Christ Church, Tacoma, Washington, effective March first. Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin and D.Th. ROOT, JAMES F'., rector of St. Luke’s, Utica, N. Y., has been appointed Episcopal chap ADDRESS lain at the state hospital, Marey, N. Y. CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL STOWELL, HANSON A., for 26 years the New York City THE DEAN rector of Trinity, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, re cently resigned because of ill health. A boarding school for the forty boys of Chelsea Square New York City VAUGHAN. FORREST E„ was advanced to the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the the priesthood on January 22nd by Bishop Divine. Careful musical training and daily singing at the cathedral services. Small For Catalogue Address the Dean B. D. Tucker at Trinity Cathedral, Cleve land. He has accepted the rectorship of classes mean individual attention and high Christ Church, Madison, Wisconsin. standards. The School has its own building YOUNG, GATES E. 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Is the Church a Failure? By BISHOP JOHNSON TTVERY once in a while we hear someone say ly than it is to persuade them to love their ene that the Church fails to do this or that as mies. It was probably due to this fact that Christ though the Church were an automatic stoker warned His followers that the love of the world which the Lord had provided to do our work for was enmity to Him . . . “ I pray not for the world us and to keep the fires burning regardless of our but for those whom thou hast given me.” Viewed own failure to supply the stoker with fuel. In from the standpoint of the Christ, His Kingdom the first place the Church is not a person but an was one which the world would reject and which institution which like all organizations is depend could have no partnership with the kingdoms of ent upon two things for its effectiveness: God’s this world. gifts and man’s efforts in the use of those gifts. It can no more operate without man’s cooperation HERE are no Christian nations and never than can a university provide learning without Thave been states which would welcome Christ the urge of the students and the work of the pro as their ruler. Wherever Church and State have fessors. If it fails to educate the failure is not united, the Church has been sacrificed to the de due to the curriculum but to those who fail to mands of the State. The combination has been maintain its efficiency. If we turned our colleges like the partnership of Smith and Jones, in which over to women and children and then condemned Smith put in the money and Jones the experience them because they failed to function effectively, and Jones took out the money and Smith took out men would satisfy their vanity and demonstrate the experience. their futility. On the contrary, we equip our uni The most that Christ’s Kingdom can do is to be versities with adequate buildings, large endow the leaven that leavens the lump in the three ments and enthusiastic alumni and yet we do not measures of meal, to wit, business, politics, and create a love for learning in the United States. education. As Mr. Adams has well intimated we By the same token we are critical because the have in the last generation turned over our Church which operates with half-hearted support finances and our conscience to these leaders and and with inadequate financial backing does not ac they have bankrupted us in both. All Christ’s gos complish a far more difficult task. For it is easier pel can do is to leaven this dough so that some to make men intelligent than it is to make them nations are more Christian than others through righteous. As a matter of fact Christ would not being leavened with His ethical teaching. But no be welcomed in a financial corporation, a labor political leaders have ever loved Christ enough to union or a political caucus today. They would keep His commandments. welcome His approval of their benevolent pur From its very nature the Church cannot use poses but would bitterly resent His condemnation force and when in the history of mankind society of their own selfish objectives. It is difficult to has been dominated by the Church, the last state understand how the disciples of the Master can of such domination was worse than the first. The accomplish that which the Lord Himself could totalitarian state is the plausible effort to give to not achieve. the masses equal rights by brute force and it re It is far easier to induce men to act intelligent sults in turning over men’s liberties to brutes who

love nothing but their own power. As a Russian exile explained it to me, “ When we were under the Why a Crisis? Czar he owned the land but the peasant owned By the crops; now the peasants own the land bu£ the REINHOLD NIEBUHR Soviet owns the crops.” This explains why mil Professor at Union Theological Seminary lions of farmers died of starvation. HE serious nature of the crisis in which our It is a tyranny of words which deprives men of T whole democratic way of life stands in Amer liberty and turns society over to a bunch of gangs ica is most perfectly illustrated by the fact that ters who are supported by a group of fanatics we are approaching the production of 1929 pros who would cut your throat if you differ from perity but have at least eight million instead of them. You cannot marry love and force without one million unemployed. Efficiency in production dire consequences and the dictators who claim to in other words has made the labor of at least love the masses do not know the meaning of love. seven million men superfluous. That labor could if the Church fails in any community, it is be be used only if all the people had benefited suf cause those who compose it are impervious to its ficiently from the new wealth which the machine message and not because they are superior to it. is continually producing to be able to purchase Wherever men really love God, they will also love more goods and thus employ the unemployed. Our their neighbor, for love is the fulfilling of the law. economic system is destroying itself because it And the laws of human relations are as inevorable cannot distribute wealth as it creates it. as the laws of chemical combinations. Man did This basic difficulty is aggravated by the fol not create those laws; he may discover them but if lowing weaknesses in our general political and he ignores them in either case he will blow up the cultural situation: We have a particularly ignor laboratory. When man ceases to love and worship ant form of reaction in this country. The proof God, society reverts to the claw and fang of the of that is that the next presidential campaign will jungle from which it emerged and to which it re be fought by the Republicans on the issue that turns when neglected. The Church can be an ef prosperity would return if only taxes were re fective agency only when men love God and wor duced and government interference in business ship Him. were abolished. This is to ignore every signifi Souls are like the soil—you can cultivate them, cant fact in the economic situation. and produce wheat; you can neglect them and Second, the liberal forces behind the New Deal grow weeds; but you cannot subject them to are tempted to move in the direction of reaction, mechanistic treatment because man did not create particularly in their tendency to solve the social them and therefore he may not determine the laws problem by increased armament expenditures. that govern them. He may merely discover these Third, the people on the whole are not aroused laws and his crop will depend chiefly upon his to the seriousness of our economic situation be obedience to them. Christ gave us the Church cause they have been lulled by stop-gap arrange and man has mutilated it, but not sufficiently to ments which only postpone the necessity of facing prevent those who really are seeking the Kingdom the ultimate issue. of God and His righteousness from finding it. The In meeting this serious situation it is not Church is no more of a failure than was Christ on enough for religious leaders to deal with the prob Calvary. It would be a failure if it were not for lems of justice in terms of pious generalities. We the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the must make the obligations disclosed to us by the body and future judgment. Without these cli faith we hold relevant to the historic and social maxes “ we would be of ail men most miserable.” situation in which we stand. Critics of Christ and the Church remind me of From an address delivered at the conference of the United Christian the cowboy who had never been to the theater and Council for Democracy, Cleveland, January 23-25. on his first visit, drew his revolver to shoot the villain in the play. His companion stopped him and said, “ Wait until the play is finished and you Prayer Book Inter-Leaves will see what happens to the villain.” There are B a p t is m those who believe that God’s world ends in an ash- OOKED at from a purely architectural point heap and villains can get away with their stuff L of view the course of baptism during the with impunity. We need to see the last act be Christian centuries has been from high to low fore we form our judgments of the play. estate, whereas the other great sacrament, the It is unthinkable to believe that a brutal dicta Holy Communion, has moved in the reverse direc tor is the last word in Creation and that for his tion. The first altars seem to have been simply pleasure we are and were created. Is the Church wooden tables, brought in for the Lord’s Supper, a failure or are we indifferent to its appeal ? covered with a cloth by the deacon, and carried

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 1, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Five out after the service to be kept somewhere until would be baptized and would in addition have all they were needed again. But by the end of the his people baptized. Such a proceeding must have Middle Ages the altar-reredos became a colossal been repeated many times. Thus the significance overhanging structure. Baptisteries, on the other of baptism declined. hand, which were such an important feature in There is much more to the story, and some the architecture of the primitive churches, grad reader of T h e W i t n e s s may ask me to recom ually ceased to be built. They were replaced by mend a book in which the whole subject is ade fonts which for long were considered as sacred quately treated. My answer in advance must be as altars. But they grew less and less important this—that I know no scholarly, comprehensive, until in post-reformation England babies were and up-to-date treatment of Christian baptism in baptized at home from a punch bowl or a tea cup. any language. This is another proof of the low The importance which the early Church attach estate to which baptism has fallen in the modern ed to baptism went back, of course, to the New Church. Testament. There may be a question whether This column, which appears every other week, is written by Dean W . P. Ladd of Berkeley Divinity School, 80 Sachem Street, New Haven,- Con John iii.5 and Matt, xxviii.19 record our Lord’s necticut, to whom questions and communications may be sent. own words, but there is no question of the im portant place which baptism occupied in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles, and it is Tolerance and Moderation hard to believe that these documents do not re flect our Lord’s own teaching. And the situation By RALPH W. SOCKMAN which the Church had to meet in the early cen Pastor of Christ Methodist Church, New York turies tended to magnify the importance of bap HE ill dispositions of the world, religious, tism. The elaborate initiations into pagan T social and political, are not to be reconciled mysteries had their counterpart in the Christian by extremists and fanatics who lack the spirit of disciplinary system as it is reflected in the forbearance. Causes that are strong do not need Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus and the to be showing their muscles and clenched fists. Didascalia. Reason that is sure of truth does not need to The baptisteries, capacious as they were, must shout. Religion that is confident of its force can have been too small to hold the crowds of well- be fair enough to study both sides of a question. trained catechumens who gathered in them for There was none of the narrowness of fanati baptism on the great festivals. S. Chrysostom in cism about the man of Nazareth, who dined with 404 A.D. although he was then in the custody of Pharisees and publicans, who chose Samaritan the imperial guard, insisted on going to his cathe foreigners as heroes for his parables and paid dral church of S. Sophia on Easter Eve to baptize high compliments to Roman centurians. He did his candidates himself. Three thousand were not display that single-track intensity which assembled, but soldiers broke up the service, and characterizes the man of one idea. The true the ensuing violence actually stained the bap Christian platform is one of broad tolerance. tismal water with blood. We learn this from S. Genuine moderation, however, has many coun Chrysostom’s own account sent to Pope Innocent terfeits. In trying to see all sides of a question, immediately after the event. men sometimes do not focus on any course of But the disciplinary system was too strict. The action. Seeing the weaknesses and blunders and idea that the holiness of the Church must be kept selfishness of all parties, they attach themselves intact and that there could be no repentance for devotedly to none. They remain dilettantes in mortal sin made baptism something to be dreaded religion, dabbling a little on the edges of various or at least to be postponed until death drew near. groups but never whole-heartedly committing Country people left their children unbaptized be themselves to any. cause they could not bring them to the city bap Vital, enduring religion is not nourished by tistery. And when a bishop died, and before his the beliefs which drip off the eaves of other peo successor was appointed children had to die un ple’s minds. The man who would exercise Chris baptized. As the number of Christians increased tian moderation must hear what other people the number of new converts declined, and the think but he must also think for himself if he is general baptism of infants which resulted sent to arrive at any definite goal. Too many of us the primitive disciplinary system into its decline, think we are open-minded and broad, while, in and the conversion of the barbarian tribes gave it fact, we are simply unsettled and unclear. its death blow. Bede tells us how the Christian No man has risen high above his fellows who missionaries made a bargain with the pagan king has not had something of the enthusiast in his Paeda that he could secure a Christian wife if he nature. Enthusiasm awakens latent powers.

Enthusiasm makes men magnetic. Difficulties As they say on the radio— “ These characters before which cleverness fails disappear before are entirely fictitious, resemblance to any man earnestness. Men of enthusiasm have been the or group of men, living or dead, is purely coin life of the church, reforming its abuses, planting cidental.” its missions, founding its colleges. I have merely shared with you one of the par sons problems— I really faced this one tonight, and it provoked these thoughts. How did I solve Telling the Truth it? I didn’t. There is another unanswered let T HAVE just done a terrible thing. In the depths ter on my desk— which will be charged to the “ un business like methods of the clergy.” —T h e P oor of remorse I sit wondering whether I can undo it. How can I evidence my penitence or what P a r s o n . apology can I make? I have told the truth. Prayer for the Hungry Somehow or other, people have a strange idea THOU who art the Creator and Sustainer of about a clergyman. They expect him to be truth this world, with shame we see that our cities ful and above reproach, but then they do not O and towns today are inhabited by those who have exactly expect him to tell the truth. been thoughtlessly and needlessly deprived of the My mail brought a request which read— “ Will food, clothing, and shelter to which all men are you please tell us all that you know about Mr. entitled as children of Thine. A., his character and financial responsibility? He As we look into the white light of Thy divine has given you as a reference.” My reply ran— “ I found his name on the regis love, we know that this has come about, not by ter of this parish when I came here five years Thy will, but by the sheer weight of our own sins ago. He has two children and one wife. I met of neglect and indifference. them once. They do not attend church. The We have allowed the greed for gain to snatch children do not attend the Church School, the the bread from the mouths of hungry children. reason given on the visitor’s report is— ‘Father We have stood idly by while thoughtless or says it is impossible for him to get up on Sunday, cruel men have played politics with the pressing it is the only morning he has to sleep.’ He is not needs of the unemployed. on the treasurer’s books so I cannot tell you any We have blindly accepted the lies spread by the thing of his financial condition, or of his will selfish about the weak and oppressed, while their ingness to meet his financial obligations, in fact miserable relief dole has been consumed in the so far as I know he never assumed any. As no silent bitterness of bodily want and spiritual des member of the family ever attends church and as pair. there have been no deaths or serious sickness in We have been careless with the health of the the family they have not had an occasion for call down-trodden and have allowed the ravages of ing for the services of a clergyman. I have as disease to break up the homes of the helpless poor. you requested told you all I know about the gen Too often we confess that our provision for tleman in question. Since he gave my name as Youth has been so inadequate that many have lost a reference, he apparently did not expect you to courage and drifted hopelessly into lives of crime receive much information.” and prostitution. I did not send this reply, but instead I sent it And, worst of all, in our woeful ignorance and to Mr. A. with the comment that I had failed to Pharisaical self-righteousness, we have despised answer the request for a reference since this was the jobless and hungry of the land, pretending to the only kind of a letter I could write. ourselves and to the world that they were all too Was he “ burned up,” and did I get told. In the lazy to work. Thus we have cruelly added a moral great lot of things which I got told was, “ Any stigma to their bitter cup of physical suffering. clergyman worthy of the name, would know that 0 Merciful Father, stab our hearts awake in a man’s relationship to the Church, and his finan this dark hour. Inspire the rulers of our land to cial contributions thereto are of a confidential lift at once this burden of needless suffering. An nature. You certainly have a strange conception swer speedly for all the people the ancient prayer of your calling, and you had better not send any “ Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread.” Guide and such letter.” inspire us that our faith in Christ’s Kingdom of I did not—but undertook a second effort which brotherhood for all men will be reflected in our ran thus— “ All that I know of the gentleman is actions. And in all that we may do, Thine be the of a confidential nature, and he explicitly re Power and the Glory, forever. Amen. quested that I not tell the truth.” R e v . W . B . W a l t m i r e .

UNITED COUNCIL sor Jerome Davis of the New School, New York, and the Rev. Howard Kes- HOLDS CONFERENCE ter of the Fellowship of Southern ON VITAL ISSUES Churchmen, the opening speakers. Findings of the commission were A stimulating and at times excit presented to the entire conference ing three day conference of the Unit on Thursday and adopted after fur ed Christian Council for Democracy ther discussion. After a preamble was held in Cleveland, January 23- setting forth that the Christian faith 25, with 370 registered delegates required all followers of Christ to from all parts of the country pres labor for a socially just society, the ent, representing the ten denomina conference called upon the churches tional organizations affiliated with to oppose the many anti-alien bills the Council. Other hundreds attend now before Congress, in the name ed the public meetings, with 1,200 both of Christianity and traditional attending the mass meeting and 750 Americanism, which demand civil and present at the conference dinner. The religious freedom. Social-economic speakers at the mass meeting were planning under democratic control, Bishop Francis McConnell of the with social ownership of all things Methodist Church, the Rev. Bernard necessary to its successful operation, Claussen, pastor of the First Baptist should be substituted for the method Church of Pittsburgh, and Mr. Mal of struggle for profits as the eco colm Ross, director of information of nomic base of society, since it is only the National Labor Relations Board, thus that the Christian principle of who read the address of J. Warren service and the development of per Madden, chairman of the Board, who sonality can be realized. Education, was prevented from attending by ill democratic discussion and legislation ness. The address will soon be avail are to be the methods used in seek able as a pamphlet. The chairman of ing the chance, not violence. The the meeting was Bishop Beverley D. report as adopted sharply criticized Tucker of Ohio, with the choir of the Dies Committee, and all Congres Oberlin College furnishing the mu sional committees which violate in sic. There was missionary fervor at any way the American tradition of both the mass meeting and the din civil and religious liberty. The Smith ner, with the Rev. McNeill- Poteat, Committee, at present investigating pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist JAMES MYERS the National Labor Relations Board, Church, where the conference was Chairman of a Commission was also condemned, with fact-find held, leading in the singing of rous ing commissions composed of experts ing hymns. religion for this historic hour of called for as substitutes when inves The speakers at the dinner were need. Underneath the question of tigations seem necessary. the Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr and the who ought to prevail in this war, be The National Labor Relations Act, Rev. Harry F. Ward, both professors yond the day of any existing form and its administration, was praised at the Union Seminary, New York, of state or theory of social institu for having promoted justice and sta with the Rev. John Paul Jones, tions, we proclaim a continuous way bility in industry without infringing Brooklyn pastor and president of the of life for mankind. With the re upon the legitimate rights of em Presbyterian Fellowship for Social ligious voices of a past that reaches ployers. The stupendous increases Action, the chairman. Pointing out back to man’s first tribal societies be in military appropriations, at the ex that our economic system is destroy hind us, and the endless need of man pense of social services and relief, ing itself because it cannot distribute to find redemption from the evil that was deplored and the conference wealth as it is created, Dr. Niebuhr is in him and power to realize his urged the restoration of cuts made declared that it was not enough for divine capacities calling us down the in the various relief agencies of the religious leaders to deal with the endless future, we urge the American government. The anti-lynching bill problems of justice in terms of pious people to abandon the struggle for now before Congress was approved; generalities. “ W e must make the profit and to reorganize their eco anti-semitism was vigorously con obligations disclosed to us by the nomic life as an intelligent coopera demned; the consumers’ cooperative faith we hold relevant to the historic tive undertaking for the development movement was commended because and social situation in which we of the capacities of all persons.” of its basic objective of service stand.” The work of the conference was rather than private profit and be Dr. Ward presented an analysis of done in two large commissions that cause of its economic democracy in the world situation in a broadcasted met all day Wednesday, with the ownership and control. The confer address which was greeted with pro findings of each group presented on ence also pointed to the so-called longed applause on the part of the Thursday. One commission dealt Christian Front as an organization overflow audience. “ Our religion,” with the Christian religion and the that is both un-Christian and un- he declared, “wants brotherhood domestic situation. In this there was American and called upon the De within our nation and between all the a lot of solid thinking but little con partment of Justice to investigate nations of the earth, but the people troversy since all agreed that the not only it, but also the activities of want bread. That means education churches should join in the effort to Father Charles Coughlin, reported to and socially useful jobs for their chil preserve and extend democratic be closely identified with it. After dren. Without bread for all there rights in the United States— the dif first urging the churches to set the can be no brotherhood. Without ferences were solely on ways and example by welcoming people of all brotherhood there cannot be enough means. The Rev. James Myers, in races into membership, the confer bread. This vital connection be dustrial secretary of the Federal ence commended the recent decision tween spiritual and economic necessity Council of Churches was the chair of the Supreme Court in extending spells out the basic social message of man of this commission, with Profes- the democratic right of education to

Negroes (the Gaines case), and fa the neutrality law and opposing all vored a Civil Rights Bill for the Dis attempts to break down restrictions trict of Columbia which would make of the act, as for example, by loans it a crime for any place of public to Finland. 9. Favoring an embargo accommodation to refuse equal facil on the export of arms to all coun ities to anyone because of race, tries at all times. 10. Opposing the color or creed. extension of armaments at the ex The commission that dealt with the pense of relief. 11. Favoring the Christian religion and war had a setting up of Keep-America-Out-of- more difficult time, with at times a War committees in churches, with dozen or more shouting for recogni state and regional conferences urged tion, and with the sessions on occa to take appropriate action looking sions lost in the maze of parliamen toward that end. 12. Urging the tary procedure. Three points of view churches to aid in alleviating the suf were represented; the absolute paci fering of the victims of war and in fist; those who look upon this present justice throughout the world by gen war as one between rival imperial erous support through approved isms, and those who, while recogniz agencies. ing that this is a struggle between The chairman of the commission powers for markets and raw mate on war was Mr. Kenneth Leslie of rials, nevertheless are convinced that New York and the opening speakers the democracies of the western world, at the two sessions were the Rev. E. as faulty as they are, should be sup McNeill Poteat of Cleveland and the ported in their struggle against to Rev. Joseph Fletcher of Cincinnati. talitarian powers. Yet in spite of The complete findings of the con these differences of interpretation, ference will be published in a leaflet, expressed at times heatedly, the con with the principle addresses present ference was unanimous in declaring JEROME DAVIS Speaks on Domestic Issues ed if possible. Announcement of the that the United States should keep date when the leaflet, or pamphlet, out of the war. The following state will be available will be made short ment was finally passed as express of conscience to all as they seek to ly by the secretary of the UCCD, the ing the mind of the conference on the face the responsibility that the war Rev. Richard Morford. subject: brings. The conference was given front “ The United Christian Council for “ That nonetheless we are agreed page positions, both before and dur Democracy finds its spirit depressed the United States can best serve the ing the conference, as well as com and its mind clouded by the appalling world by keeping out of this war and mending editorials, by the Cleveland tragedy of war. We cherish no de by using its influence and resources newspapers. The radio also gave ex lusion that we, though citizens of a to promote a just peace for all peo cellent cooperation, with a total of neutral nation, are untouched by the ples as speedily as possible. six broadcasts by UCCD executive warped perspective, mental paralysis, “ That we re-affirm our loyalty to committee members on its aims and and moral disintegration which poi the principle of freedom of con purposes, in addition to the broad son the stream of life when nations science; demanding from the author casting of the mass meeting and the dedicate the spirit and resources of ities of state and Church exemption dinner. A good deal of newspaper peoples to the slaughter of their fel from war duties for the conscientious attention was given to an attack, low men and the destruction of the objector and full guarantee of his prior to the sessions, on conference painfully acquired treasures and rights as a citizen; also the full re leaders by the American Legion and ideals of civilization. What we now spect from pacifists and war resist other organizations, with a demand see, as the pall of violence settles ers for the integrity, honor, and the on their part that radio stations deny over us, is indeed as through a glass religious and civil rights of Chris time on the air. As usual, all that darkly. We are unable to be sure of tians who fulfill their duties as the the attacks accomplished was to ourselves or of one another. W e im state may require in war time. swell the attendance. Another un plore the mercy of God in our dark “Finally, that we oppose at all scheduled event was an address by ness and beseech the God of all good times the exaltation of the military Mr. William Lawson, publicity direc ness to vouchsafe to us the grace of over the civil authority, the suspen tor of the National Association of our Lord Jesus Christ and the guid sion of the Bill of Rights in emer Manufacturers. A telegram was re ance of the Holy Spirit. Humbly, gencies; that we oppose imperialistic ceived from Mr. H. W . Prentis Jr., and with all charity and mutual, for ambitions, as contrary to the ideals president of the Association, request bearance, with full respect to the of the United States of America.” ing an opportunity to answer the ad conscience that many share our spirit This statement was followed by a dress by Mr. Madden. This was will but disagree with our pronounce number of resolutions: 1. Calling ingly granted, even though it did dis ments, we would affirm : upon the United States to move now rupt the conference program. Mr. “ That war is contrary to the Chris to stop the war by calling on all bel Lawson therefore read Mr. Prentis’ tian gospel and way of life. ligerents to state terms on which they address, coming on from New York “ That it is because men and na will negotiate. 2. Opposing arms in for the purpose, and he was answered tions do not live this gospel and way creases by our government. 3. Op in a brief address by Mr>. Oscar of life that v^ar has come upon us. posing the industrial mobilization Smith, regional director of the Na “ That we as Christians have fallen plan. 4. Opposing conscription. 5. A f tional Labor Relations Board. far short of the faith we profess and firming the rights of all conscientious thus cannot disclaim a share of the objectors to refuse to cooperate CONFERENCE FINDINGS responsibility for the present trag with the state in war, with the ex A leaflet containing the findings edy. ecutive committee of the UCCD of the Cleveland Conference may “ That Christians, therefore, neither urged to take steps to maintain this be secured at five cents a copy as groups nor as individuals can right. 6. Supporting the principle of from wash their hands of the war and hope a war referendum. 7. Opposing the Richard Morford, Sec’y to stand entirely aside from it. government engaging in any secret 22 Forest Ave. Albany, N. Y. “ That we must grant full freedom or military alliances. 8. Supporting

MONTHLY REVIEW Home Missions Council under whose OF THE NEWS OF auspices the meetings were held. ALL THE CHURCHES Bishops of Mexico Oppose School Law Edited b ÿ W . B. S po f fo r d Roman Catholic Bishops of Mexico A group of distinguished Church addressed a circular to all Catholics men issued a statement last week on January 18th, calling upon them calling upon the people of the to try by all legal means to obtain Churches to support the cause of the modification of the law governing Allies in the present war. “ A victory education.. The law, says the state for the Allied powers or for China ment, violates Catholic principles would not of itself assure the estab laid down by Pope Pius XI in 1929. lishment of justice and peace, but the Past experience, say the Bishops, victory of Germany, Russia or Japan leads them to fear that the inten would inevitably preclude the justice, tion expressed by the law of “ com freedom of thought and worship, and bating fanaticism and prejudice by international cooperation which are the spread of scientific truth” means fundamental to a Christian world in plain language that “ anti-religious order. Therefore Christians in neu instructions will be imparted in all tral countries cannot evade the ethi schools” without permitting religion cal issues involved and the conse to stem the tide of contrary forces, quent claim upon their sympathy and “ as should be done if the intention support.” were to open the way for a noble “ It is mistaken to suggest that fight of ideas and convictions.” Christians have no alternative be The Bishops protest particularly tween total abstention from war on against coeducation, saying that . the one hand and the proclamation HOWARD RESTER the mingling of sexes in the schools of a ‘holy war’ on the other. W e re Represented South in Cleveland is condemned not only by the Pope cord with gratitude that many Chris but also “ by all those who consider tians in warring nations are facing with serenity the grave danger to this issue with a high sense of re the midst of plenty; expressing con morality represented by promiscuity sponsibility, are keeping alive the cern over the economic situation of the sexes, particularly in a coun reality of a Christian community which deprives young people of a try like Mexico.” transcending all divisions, are culti chance to work with racial suspicion vating contrition for the common and hatred rife throughout the land, Jewish Women Meet guilt in which all nations share, are the women called for a fearlessly ag in New York even now preparing for just and last gressive church “to meet the needs Over 1,500 delegates representing ing peace, and are exalting, in the of the new masses of dispossessed 323 organizations met in New York very midst of terrific conflict, the and disinherited people.” Three alter on January 17th under the auspices Christ whom no nation can claim as natives confront society today, they of the Federation of Jewish Women. peculiarly its own.” concluded— the collapse of civiliza There were addresses defending free The statement declares that the tion; the acceptance of a new speech, free press and free assembly, United States is equally guilty in pagan faith like fascism or com with a high spot of the conference starting the war, and that we are not munism, or the revival of Chris being an address by the Rev. Frank directly involved only because of our tianity on a scale of new values and Kingdon, Methodist and president of geographic position, and concludes by at an intensity quite beyond any the Newark University. Americans calling upon our citizens to prépare thing that our day is visualizing. Mrs. cannot hold themselves aloof from the nation for the task of peaceful Augustus Trowbridge, Episcopalian the miseries of mankind, he said, add reconstruction by assuming a re of New York and a member of the ing that the development of com sponsible relationship to the present GLID, was elected president of the munications had made “ the brother- conflicts. Among the thirty-two names attached to the document are William Adams Brown, Charles C. Burlingham, Henry Sloane Coffin, Sherwood Eddy, Bishop Hobson, Dean Ladd, Bishop McConnell, Rein hold Niebuhr, John R. Mott, Bishop Parsons, Bishop Scarlett, Charles P. Taft, Presiding Bishop Tucker, Bishop Sherrill, Henry P. Van Dusen, Howard Robbins.

Women Look to the Future Whoever is able to capture the al legiance of the underprivileged peo ples will determine the social and re ligious life of the nation, was a con clusion arrived at when women rep resenting thirty denominations and fifty mission boards held their an nual meeting in Indianapolis, Jan THIS IS SPOFFORD, PROGRAM DIRECTOR OF THE CLEVELAND uary 11-16. Deploring poverty in CONFERENCE, AT THE END OF THE THIRD DAY

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS February 1, 1940 hood of man more demonstrably a eran College, said that there should predominantly Lutheran. The bal fact than ever before.” be no place on the faculty of a ance is to be used for foreign mis “ There is not a shot that is being Christian College for one “ who sions in India, East Africa, New fired in Europe that doesn’t rattle consciously in the name of progres- Guinea, China and several charitable the windows in your house and sivism, or unconsciously, because of institutions in Jerusalem. mine,” he continued. “ There is not ignorance, snipes at fundamental an idea let loose in Europe that does Christian doctrines and ideals.” Announcement of not come to roost over our heads.” Race Relations Sunday The present European conflict Catholics to Deal The 18th annual observance of was not a war “ for a boundary or With Social Issues Race Relations Sunday is to be ob materials,” Dr. Kingdon declared, The Roman Catholic program for served in the churches on February but was the second phase of a social and economic reform in the 11th, according to an announcement “ basic social revolution which began United States will be set forth soon by the Federal Council of Churches. in 1914.” As such, he said it was in a joint pastoral letter on “ The The Message, drafted by Rev. Philip the outward manifestation of the Church and Social Justice,” written C. Jones, associate pastor of the “ struggle going on in the hearts and by the Archbishops and Bishops of Madison Avenue Presbyterian minds of men.” That this nation was the administrative board of the Na Church, New York, challenges the not involved in the war is “merely tional Catholic Welfare Conference. Church in a time of world conflict a matter of geography,” he observed. It will follow the lines of “ The Bish and suffering, to be aware of the ops’ Program of Social Reconstruc “lack of social justice in our own Socialist Leader tion,” issued twenty years ago. Own country,” and “to purify herself of Speaks in Church ership, property and labor, security, the great modern heresy of racial Norman Thomas, denied the use of wages and the establishment of social discrimination within her own walls.” a Jewish temple and a public school order will be among the topics in the Christians are called upon “ to give auditorium for a meeting on war, 7,500-word letter. themselves to the exposition of and spoke on January 24th in the club- * * * opposition to every cruelty and in justice which greed, bigotry, and room of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Lutherans Seek prejudice create.” Specific sug- Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The meet Half Million Dollars ing was sponsored jointly by the Plans for issuing an appeal to the Keep America Out of War Commit 4,000,000 Lutherans in America to tee and the Women’s International N.L.R.B. raise $500,000 for the relief of dis By League for Peace and Freedom. The tressed Lutheran churches, the aid of Dr. J. Warren Madden Rev. Gardiner M. Day is the rector Lutheran refugees and the assistance of St. Stephen’s. The address by the chairman of the of Lutheran foreign missions af National Labor Relations Board before the fected by war conditions, were Emergency Conference of the United Leader of Sharecroppers Christian Council for Democracy is now launched here at a meeting of the available as a pamphlet. ..It is a full ex Goes to Washington American Section of the Lutheran planation of the Act and its administra The Rev. Owen Whitfield of Kirk tion and is excellent material to place in World Convention. The appeal for he hands of lay people who seek authori wood, Mo., led a delegation of share funds, subject to the approval of tative information. croppers from six Southern states to executive boards of Lutheran church 10c a copy Washington on January 16th. They bodies in America, is to be made dur called on the department of agricul ing February, it was announced. Of Church League for ture to ask that landlords receiving the amount raised $375,000 is de Industrial Democracy benefit payments from the govern signed for relief work in Europe, es 155 Washington St. New York City ment be required to pay farm labor pecially Finland, whose population is ers a minimum wage.

Catholic Plea for Negroes Trinity New Book in the Famous “Hazen Series” The Interracial Council of the Ro man Catholic Church met in New CHRISTIAN FAITH and DEMOCRACY York on January 15th, with clergy By Gregory Y lastos men and laymen stressing the har mony that exists between people of What does our Christian faith have to say about the life-and-death different races. There was a strong struggle going on around us? Does it tend to isolate us from it or plea by the Rev. William J. Walsh does it send us into it with greater devotion, clearer direction, and steadier resources? In answering these questions, Dr. Vlastos writes a of Philadelphia that “ all the life of challenging little book, the tenth in the popular series of Hazen Books on the Catholic Church” be opened wide Religion, of which over 80,000 copies are now in use. 50 cents each. ly and freely to Negro Catholics. * * * Deplores Financing by the Dead The Inspiring Stories of Kagawa, Ghandi, Schweitzer General secretary Paul C. Payne of the Presbyterian board of Christian THREE TRUMPETS SOUND education, declared on January 7th that there was a sad outlook for By A llan A. H unter Christian education if colleges of the Writing from a rich experience in missionary work and work with young churches “ continue to be financed people, Dr. Hunter makes three great leaders live in this highly recom largely by the dead.” Contributions mended book. “ Unusual value and interest . . . vital spiritual from the living to support the insti biography.” — Advance. “ A great book to put into the hands of young tutions would be forthcoming, he felt, people.” — Exposition. $1.50 if the quality of faculties was im ASSOCIATION PRESS 347 Madison Avenue New York proved. Dean Milton Kleintop of Wagner College, New York, a Luth-

gestions are given which show the elude the whole community. They soring the enterprise: the Interna responsibility devolving upon Amer hope that laymen in other com tional Council of Religious Educa ican churchmen in bringing about munities will adopt the idea. The tion, the Foreign Missions Confer community changes in fields where keynote of their movement is ex ence of North America, the Home there is discrimination in industry, pressed in the following quotation Missions Council, and the National unequal educational opportunities for from their announcement: “ It is our Council of Church Women. minority races, inequitable admin conviction that the world is paying istration of public benefits of social the penalty of a drift toward pagan Presbyterians Meet security, the withholding of civic ism. We have attempted to substi in New York privileges and rights from citizens be tute philosophy for faith. The world Taking as its theme the need to cause of color, and an unbrotherly has been in the grip of materialism. preserve and extend religion in order conduct in the daily life of people of Its salvation, our salvation, our self to strengthen democracy, the Pres different racial groups. Concrete sug protection lie in return to religion. bytery of New York met in early gestions are given to the local church Where shall this return to religion be January and for the first time in for stimulating activity toward these begun? For us there is only one logi history allowed the Woman’s Pres results, and a note of penitence is cal starting-point— our own selves, byterian Society to sit in. The prin sounded for the injustices which in our own homes, our own community.” ciple speaker was Henry Soane Cof fest our American society. fin of Union Seminary who said that Mission in the rebirth of interest in religion’s Coughlin Questions Twenty Cities role in democracy was evidenced by D em ocra cy Final plans for a National Chris the fact that religion “ stole the The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, tian Mission in 20 major cities show” at the Columbia University radio priest of Detroit, on January throughout the country have been conference on education for democ 7th said that under certain cir announced here by the Federal Coun racy last summer. cumstances “ the retention of democ cil of Churches through its depart racy would have proved a greater ment of evangelism. The mission will Presbyterians Address menace than the adoption of a dicta begin in Kansas City on September the Law-Makers torship. ” He said further “ that the 29 and will conclude in Los Angeles The Presbyterian synod of Lousi- continued mismanagement of do on March 23, 1941. The Mission, ana, meeting at Baton Rouge, asked mestic affairs in the United States which has been more than a year and wrongdoers in public posts to return will produce results in our homeland a half in preparation, will attempt to gains, to repent and make restitu similar to those which have appeared aid the churches in reaching “the un tion. Their stirring and charitable abroad.” reached masses of our land.” The condemnation of the corruption following organizations will cooper which is taking many state political Want to Continue ate with the Federal Council in spon- machine leaders to prison, is unusual Methodist Church, South A provisional plan of organization for the purpose of perpetuating the LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY: Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York was unanimously adopted at a meet ing of 400 representatives of that FOLLOWING ABBA: church, meeting January 14th in Co THE TEACHING OF MEDITATIONS lumbia, S. C. Those attending rep CHRIST By E velVn U nder resented groups who are unwilling to THE CHURCH SERIES By W . R. M atth ew s, h ill. January. $1.00. join the Methodist Church which re General Editor: Dean of St. Paul’s. R oger B. L loyd Mrs. Underhill’s med cently came into being as a result Ja n u a ry . 91 pages. Canon of Winchester itations on the Lord’s of the merging of three Methodist $1.00 Defines being a “ Planned to cover . . . the Prayer are an attempt Churches. Suits are being started to Christian as following ground which the evangelist of to answer for our Christ and tells what today will find is the ground on generation the age-old regain property, with the announce which he must give battle.” this discipleship means cry o f those who ment made at this conference that a C h u r c h T i m e s : "The new would follow Christ: large sum of money was already in in the conduct of life. series sets out with the aim of placing in the hands of every “Teach us hoiv to hand for this purpose. champion of Christianity . . . a pray. H= * * handbook of religious knowledge TO AN UNSEEN at once orthodox and up-to-date, THE PATH Laymen Launch intelligent and intelligible.’’ “Return to Religion” AUDIENCE:Talks OF LIFE Volume I: THE FRAME B y P e t e r G r e e n , Laymen of Crestwood, N. Y., and on the Bible W ORK OF FAITH, by Leslie Canon of Manchester. nearby communities have launched a Simmonds. $2.50. By A nthony C. About $1.50. A vol “ Return to Religion” movement on "Discusses the general outline D e a n e , Canon of of Christian dogma, bringing it ume of thoughts about a co-operative basis which includes Windsor. 192 pages. into relationship with the issues religion, concerned the Protestant and the Roman Catho $1.50. A series of raised by modern thought.’’— L ondon T im e s . more with matters of lic Churches and Jewish synagogues. twelve radio talks on doctrine, and with in A pamphlet publication was dis the Canon, Fourth tellectual difficulties, tributed to all of the families in the Gospel, Parables, Miracles and Epis than with the devotional aspects of community, emphasizing the signifi tles, that may well serve as models religion to which the author’s other for radio talks on the Bible. cance of religion and the Church and books have been given. suggesting that all who receive the RELIGION IN THE REICH BERNADETTE OF LOURDES pamphlet avail themselves of the op The Nazi Persecution of Christianity By M argaret B lanton. Illustrated. portunities which their own sanctu By M ichael P ower. January. 240 265 pages. $2.50. A biography of aries offer for worship. The laymen pages. $2.00. An eye-witness report who took the initiative in the under based mainly on personal visits to the Bernadette Soubirous by a Protestant taking were all members of Asbury Reich and covering the situation of specialist in child psychology who Centenary Methodist Church of both the Roman Catholic and Protes says: “ Of all the miracles of Lourdes. Crestwood, but they carried out the tant churches in Germany and Austria. Bernadette herself is still the greatest.” plan on a basis broad enough to in-

in this conservative body. They also the Philadelphia Federation of legislation. The Methodist General asked for the introduction of the Churches to attract inactive church Conference will open in Atlantic City Bible in the public schools, and to goers back into the churches. Ac on April 24. keep neutrality in the European war cording to Rev. Dr. Robert C. Wells, “to keep unbroken our world-wide chairman of the Federation’s depart Baptists Report fellowship and through reconciliation ment of evangelism, the drive is oc On Missions to build a kinder world.” casioned by the fact that “ the aver The foreign mission society of the age Protestant Church of 300 mem Northern Convention of the Baptist General Franco bers is attended regularly by only Church has 3,385 churches in its ten mission fields, with a membership of Brings Peace to Spain 30 per cent of its members. A major Dictator Franco is busy with his problem of the churches is the re 376,000. There are 2,469 self-sup program of pacification in the con awakening of spiritual interest porting churches. They also report that 3,241 daily vacation Bible quered territories of Spain. Accord among the absent 70 per cent.” ing to a London newspaper 14,000 schools were held during the past year. Basques have been executed for po Violence in litical reasons; 30,000 have been im the Philippines Church Unity prisoned with an equal number in Baptist Missionary Henry W . De in K ansas concentration camps and an addition Vries was recently attacked in the Twenty years ago the Presbyterian 50.000 deprived of all civil rights. Philippines where he serves by a and Methodist churches of Quenemo, The paper also reports that 150,000 fanatical mob allegedly incited by Kans., federated. The Methodist of the former Loyalists have been Roman Catholic priests. When the church building was sold to the Bap driven out of the Basque country. matter came into court there was tists for $1,000 and the money was such overwhelming evidence of cor used for the improvement of the ruption that an investigation has been The Story of Presbyterian plant. Methodist and instituted by Francis B. Sayre, United German Jews Presbyterian pastors serve the feder States commissioner. Charges have Out of the 650,000 Jews who lived ated church for alternating terms of been filed against the priests and the in Germany in 1933, only 300,000 four years each. The missionary local judge. are at liberty; 200,000 emigrated; money is divided equally between the ^ ^ ^ 30.000 are detained in prisons and work of the two denominations. The concentration camps; 20,000 have McConnell to Prepare federated body has worked enthusi committed suicide; 8,000 • it is al Methodist Pronouncement astically and harmoniously through leged, were murdered, and 90,000 Bishops of the Methodist Church all these years. died. Of the 300,000 Jews in at their recent meeting chose Bishop Austria, only 140,000 are still at F. J. McConnell to prepare the epis liberty; 130,000 have emigrated; copal address to be presented to the Paschal 10.000 are in concentration camps first General Conference of the and prisons; 10,000 have committed united church. The episcopal ad Candlesticks suicide, and 5,000 were murdered. dress is delivered at the opening of A simple lovely Paschal Candlestick1 the conference and contains the bish in the sanctuary of your Church most Getting Them Back ops’ recommendations for church decidedly does not mean that you are i trying to go “ High Church” or pull- 1 into Church ing off some strange Romish practice./ A “ Spiritual Recovery Fellowship” has been launched in Philadelphia by if you haven’t gotten shocked at the candles on your altar, which sym- i bolize Our Lord as the Light of the j When Children world, there present in His two-fold, nature, human and divine,— why get jj Need a Laxative shocked at another candle which symbolizes the presence of that Light i In children’s little bilious at in the world for those forty mar- 'i tacks and common colds, a very velous days after His Resurrection?/ important part of Some of us Episcopalians try to pick 1 the treatment is and choose symbols according to our i[ to keep the personal notions, but The Church has (i bowels active. had and used them all for centuries / before our opinions even were heard i, Mothers have of, and will continue so doing after'1 found pleasant- w e’ve gone. / tasting Syrup of Yes, we make Paschal Candlesticks, j! 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EPISCOPAL CHURCH mack Rider to House bill 6075 pro vides a criminal syndicalism act NEWS PRESENTED against strikers; House bill 4860 pro IN BRIEF NOTES vides for internment in concentra Edited by W . B. S p o f fg r d tion camps, without trial, on the de A drastic $250,000 reduction in termination of a bureaucrat who has the missionary budget, in spite of the the power to decide who is an alien; most successful canvass in several Senate bill 409, would set up a do years, was pointed to as the task mestic passport system; Senate bills facing the National Council at its 1979 and 1980 would provide a legal next meeting. The statement was basis for intimidating and blackmail issued by the Presiding Bishop on ing almost any non-citizen, according January 24th. Reports from dioceses to the New York churchman. indicate an increase of $50,000 in “ These bills,” he continued, “are giving over last year, but against designed ostensibly to solve an ‘alien this is $300,000 that is needed to problem’ which, so far as it may ex balance the budget. He also an ist, is amply covered by existing laws. nounced that the Council contem Actually they provide a legislative plates no Church-wide emergency cloak for anti-democratic, un-Ameri drive this year such as was conduct can activities. Most of these bills are ed in 1939. without a redeeming feature. They * * * are, in fact, a vicious attack on de English Bishop mocracy itself. They represent a re turn to the discredited European sys Wants Negotiation Wilber Herbert Burnham The Bishop of Chichester, speaking tem of police control of the individ the other day in the House of Lords, ual.” Searle says that the methods used Designer and Master condemned the brutality of the Ger Craftsman mans and declared that he was not a by the sponsors of the legislation in peace at any price advocate. But he dicate their fear of allowing the pub maintained that the alternative to a lic to realize their purpose. Resort Stained and Leaded Glass fight to the bitter end was willing was had, he said, to parliamentary ness to negotiate, which he advo trickery to overcome and mislead the opposition in the last session of the cated. 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it as in the passage of the Dempsey ice next Sunday. The Rev. E. B. of West Virginia; Dean N. R. High Bill and the McCormack rider to the Thayer is the rector. Moor of Pittsburgh; Bishop Ludlow Walter bill. of Newark; Dean Powell of Wash “ We propose to meet these threats Distinguished Preachers ington. I preached at St. James one to our democracy,” said Mr. Searle, in D a n b u ry Lent and had a vestryman present “ not in the furtive, backstairs man The Rev. Hamilton Kellogg, rec me with two swell hats after the ner in which some of the bills were tor of St. James, Danbury, Conn., service— nice place to go. There’s slipped past a tired and nodding generally comes through with a grand that word “swell” again. Mrs. Ed House, but in the open American way lot of Lenten preachers. This year ward Staples Drown told me a little — the way of the traditional town he has such notables as the Rev. story the other day— she was in meeting. It will be easier to prevent Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Trin Cleveland attending the conference these laws now than to eradicate the ity Parish, New York; Charles Sheer- reported elsewhere and was rather viciousness to which they lead once in, the Council’s number-two man; complaining because I use two words they are enacted.” Elmore McKee of St. George’s, New too frequently. It seems that a Among the sponsors of a confer York; the Rev. R. H. Brooks of St. mother objected to the use of two ence to be held in New York on Lin Thomas, New York; Bishop Strider words by her high school daughter. coln’s birthday are Senator James E. Murray; Congressmen Samuel Dick- stein and Emanuel Celler; Monsignor John A. Ryan of the ¡Roman Catho Services in Leading Churches lic Church; Councilman Robert K. Straus; the Rev. Henry Smith Leip- The Cathedral of St. John St. Thomas Church er; Mrs. Mary K. Simkhovitch, mem the D ivine Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street ber of the executive committee of the Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. New York Church League for Industrial De New York City Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and mocracy; Professor Franx Boas of 10, Morning Prayer. 11, Holy Communion 4 P.M. Columbia University, Nobel Prize and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser Daily Services: 8:38 A.M., Holy Com mon. munion. winner; Mary E. Wooley, former Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. president of Mount Holyoke College; Saints’ Days 7 :30 and 10.) 9, Morning Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: Borough President Stanley M. Organ Recital at 4 :30 Isaacs; the Rev. John N. Moody and Trinity Church, New York the Rev. George B. Ford, Roman Chapel of the Intercession Broadway and Wall St. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. Catholic pastors of New York and Broadway at 155th New York City Daily: 8, 12 and 3. others. Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar Sundays: Holy Communion : 8 and 9 :30 ; Service and Sermon at 11 ; Evening Serv A Few More St. Paul’s Cathedral ice and Sermon, 8. Buffalo, New York H ow lers Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 Verv Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean Do you like howlers— amusing an and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. Weekdays : 8, 12 :05. swers found on examination papers. Grace Church, New York Tuesday: 10:30 A.M. Holy Communion Here are a few: Rev. Louis W. Pitt, Rector and 11:00 A.M. Quiet Hour. A spinster is a bachelor’s wife. Broadway at 10th St. Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. The Tower of Babel was the place Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Christ Church Cathedral where Solomon kept his wives.. urdays. Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. Thursdays : Holy Communion, 12:30. The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean A virgin forest is one where the Holy Days: Holy Communion, 11:00 A.M. Sunday Services, 8 :00, 9 :30, 10:00, hand of man has never set foot. 11:00 a.m .; 4:30 p.m. A gargoyle is something you swal The Heavenly Rest, New York Week-days: 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy low when you have a sore throat. Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Communion on Wednesdays and Holy Days. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10:15 12:35 p.m. Noonday Service. Lenten Broadcasts a.m. ; Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning Service and Sermon 11 a.m .; Choral Eve in New York ning Prayer 4:30 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels A series of six broadcasts on Sun Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com munion, 11 a.m. Baltimore, Maryland day afternoons during Lent are be The Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D., Rector Sunday Services:— ing sponsored by the publicity de The Incarnation 7 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion partment of the diocese of New York. Madison Avenue and 35th Street 9 :30 and 11:00 A.M.— Church School The speakers, all giving addresses The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A.M., 4 P.M., Wed 8 :00 P.M.— Evening Service and Sermon based on the Lord’s Prayer, are the nesdays and Holy Days, Holy Communion Weekdays:— Rev. John Gass, the Rev. H. Ross at 10 A.M , Fridays: Holy Communion at Holy Communion— 12:15 P.M. Mon., Wed., & Sat.— 10:00 A.M. Greer, the Rev. Wilbur L. Caswell, Tues., Thurs., & Fri.— 7 :00 A.M. Holy Days—7 :00 and 10:00 A.M. the Rev. C. Avery Mason, the Rev. St. Bartholomew’s Church Edmund Sills and Bishop Manning. New York Park Avenue and 51st Street Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Gethsemane, Minneapolis Iowa Parish Sunday Services 4th Ave. South at 9th St. Has Centennial 8 A.M.—Holy Communion The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector 11 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon Sundays: 8:00 and 11:00 A.M. Christ Church, Burlington, Iowa, 4 P.M.—Evensong. Special Music. Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10 :30 A.M. is celebrating its 100th anniversary Weekday Holy Communion at 10:30 A.M. Thursdays : 7 :30 A.M. on Thursdays and Saints’ Days. this week; banquet on the first; par-' The Church is open daily for prayer. ish corporate communion tomorrow St. Joh n ’ s C hurch and confirmation and centennial serv- St. James Church, New York Lattingtown, Long Island Madison Avenue at 71st Street Bishop Frank DuMoulin, Rector GLADIOLUS The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector On North Shore of Long Island two miles east of Glen Cove “ Ah lovely Gladiolus, 8 :00 A.M.—Holy Communion Rare gift of God and man 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service 8 :00 A.M.—Holy Communion. Continue to console us 11:00 A.M.-—Morning Service and Sermon 9 :45 A.M.—Junior Church and Sunday As only glad flowers can.” 8 :00 P.M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon School. Holy Communion Wed., 8 A .M .; Thurs. 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Ser Price List on request. 12 M. mon. 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“ My dear child, there are two words ing methods of applying safeguards. Church, Grace Chapel, the Ascension I dislike very much. One is ‘swell’ The committee: Bishop Whittemore and Grace Church, Jamaica, Long Is and the other is ‘lousy.’ ” There was of Western Michigan, Bishop Mann land. Five to fourteen are the ages a moment’s pause and then the of Pittsburgh, Bishop Washburn of represented, and they are afraid of daughter said, “ All right, mother, Newark. nothing, which is proper for those but what are the words?” It takes ages. While the general effect is late a minute but it is a good story. Anglican Society Picasso, some of their color subleties Meets in New York would give pointers to Matisse. Preaching in The annual meeting of the Angli West Virginia can Society was held in New York, Religion and I had a lot of fun Sunday preach January 16th, with Bishop Oldham Mental Health ing at St. John’s,. Charleston, W . Va., presiding as president. The society Two conferences on mental health in the morning and talking to the exists to further Prayer Book teach and its relation to the Christian re women of the parish on Monday, the ing and practice and discourage the ligion were held the last two Sundays 29th. The rector, the Rev. Harry blind following of alien rites. of January at Trinity, Boston. The Longley, and a good friend, had an leader was Dr. Kenneth J. Tillotson, nounced me as being a person “ def Refugee Arrives Episcopalian and eminent in the med initely on the left in social matters” from Germany ical profession. so that people came apparently ex Luise Geng has arrived from Mu pecting fireworks, and it seemed to nich, Germany, a refugee who is now The Stove Pipe me that many of them were thorough a pupil at Margaret Hall School, Ver F ell D ow n ly disappointed when I said nothing sailles, Kentucky. She is there on The stove pipe fell down. It was with which they did not pretty much a scholarship which is a memorial to Saturday afternoon, and the Church agree. Nice parish, St. John’s, a nice the late Frank Gavin, professor at services of Good Shepherd Mission, rector and a flock of grand people. General Seminary. Splashdam, Va., were to be held in the schoolhouse where the pipe was Youth Service Church Children located, on Sunday. That school- in New York Exhibit Art house has been used for church serv Young people of the diocese of Critics call it “the liveliest and ices for a good many years. It was New York are to hold their second gayest art exhibit currently in New a discouraging place for worship, and annual service this Sunday, the 4th, York”— at least one of them did. It a new church building was made pos at the Cathedral in New York. The is an exhibit at the Russell Sage sible by a gift of $1,300 by the Girls’ preacher is to be the Rev. David K. Foundation of painting done by chil Friendly Society as part of its mis Montgomery of Morristown, New dren of St. Augustine’s Chapel, Grace sion objective of 1938— an offering Jersey.

Professor Simpson to L ectu re The Rev. Cuthbert Simpson, pro fessor at the General Seminary, is to That The Man With The Book lecture on February 8th at 10:30 at St. James Church. The meeting is under the auspices of the New York May Meet The Man Without It • • • Altar Guild but the public is invited.

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made by girls from all over this coun week, is to speak on the. 11th; Rev. try, and some from abroad. The L A S T C A L L Charles W . Nelson of Honolulu on church was all finished, except wax E A R L Y Lent— seems as though the 18th; Miss Sarah Reid of China ing the floors. Whereupon the pipe on the 25th; Capt. Say er of Church we had just taken down the fell down, and there was no other Army on March 3rd and Rev. Ken Christmas greens. Anyhow that’s way to heat the schoolhouse on Sun Imai of Japan on the 10th. The par the way it is this year, so that the day, so the new church just had to ish also has a list of top men for first Lenten number will appear be used. Splashdam is a coal min preachers at special Wednesday eve next week. The first article of the ing town, and while the surrounding ning services. mountains have their beauty, the series on the “ Biography of the place itself is drab with little to re Church,” telling the story of the Church in America through the Community Observes lieve it. To the mission staff and 75th Anniversary others of the community who have lives of seven outstanding Bishops, will be featured. It is written by The 75th anniversary of the foun struggled so long with makeshifts, dation of the Sisterhood of St. Mary, and to the children who have never Professor James Arthur Muller of the Episcopal Theological Semin Peekskill, New York, is being ob seen any church, the new mission is served ' tomorrow, February 2nd, the most beautiful church in the dio ary, Cambridge, and is on Sea- bury, our First Bishop. The sec when the celebrant and preacher will cese of Southwestern Virginia, if not be the Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, rec in the whole country. The New York ond article is about Bishop White of Pennsylvania and is to be writ tor of Trinity Parish, New York. On Altar Guild gave some linens. A the 3rd the anniversary will be neighboring mission, St. John’s, ten by the Rev. Walter H. Stowe, editor of the Historical Magazine. marked by a service at St. Luke’s Wytheville, passed on some furni Chapel, New York City, when the ture, including their former organ, All orders must positively be in not later than Monday, February sermon will be by the Rev. Leicester which at the moment has been crated C. Lewis of Philadelphia. and shipped home for repairs. The 5th, for us to guarantee delivery little choir is singing unaccompanied. of this first Lenten Number. Order Lenten Preachers For inspiration and encouragement your Bundle at once please by at St. Paul’s, Baltimore they have a record of a Te Deum simply indicating the number de^ The Lenten preachers at St. Paul’s, sung by the choir of Trinity Church, sired and the person to whom the Baltimore, are T. O. Wedel of Wash New York City. bundle is to be sent each week. ington, A., Grant Noble, Walter O. Kinsolving, Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Study Missions ville, New York City, where the Rev. Bishop Strider, Bishop Johnson, at St. Mary’s Charles Breck Ackley is rector— are Father Hughson, S. Tagart Steele, The Auxiliary, the Men’s Mission combining during Lent for a series Father G. M. Williams, with the rec ary Society and the Young People’s of Sunday evening missionary meet tor of the parish, the Rev. Arthur B. Missionary Society—-thriving organ ings. The Rev. A. B. Parson, whose Kinsolving, taking the three hour izations at St. Mary’s, Manhattan- article appeared in this paper last service on Good Friday. Saved From The Fate! That brought LEPROSY to her Mother and Sister

This smiling healthy little girl, Yuki Chan, lovely as a butterfly, saved from a life of creeping illness, ostracism and possibly death. Her refuge and home, the St. Barnabas Homes of the Kusatsu Mission in Japan, where many a child like her has been lovingly guarded from the terror that struck down their fathers and mothers. Twenty years ago, Miss Mary H. Cornwall- Leigh, giving life and wealth, uncon sciously founded the saintly tradition of the Kusatsu Mission. W ill you help keep that tradition sacred? W ill you help the missionaries to love and save some other Yuki Chans? The Episcopal Church in the United States pays the salaries o f missionaries who minister in three leper colonies but the major support of their leprosy projects comes from the American Mission to Lepers.

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