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REACHING THE COMMUNITY

Copyright LIVELY PART of the programs of all our Theological Seminaries is to have stu- dents minister in their own neighborhoods. Here a General student has a discussion with boys in the Chelsea area

ARTICLE BY MARY VAN KLEECK y SERVICES .The W'ITNESS' I SERVICES j In Leading Churches In Leading Churches 9 For Christ and His Church ' NEW YORK CATHEDRAL j CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL the Divine) (Sr. John AainM & Church Sts., Hartford, Coni. St. and Amsterdam 112th Sunday: 8 annd 10:10 a.mn., HolyCo- LIIORlIAL BOARD 930, Sunday: Holy Communion 7, 8, 9, 10: Church School; 11 Com-union;a.m., ' Morning Prayer, Sermon and Holy p.m., Evening Prayer. JuN PA51 IMAN BRC NIi~,5, i:11; \\V. B. S,'OI- IMorning Praver; 8 SCommunion, 11; Evensong and ser- Weekdays: Holy Communion, Mon. 12 moo, 4. SoliD, Mana i lditr; RENEi i1. R.s I E,,n:s Sat., 8; Wed.. 11; Momning Prayer, 8:30; Holy Snoon; Tues., Fri. and i R'eeda's: ('.unnu C. (;RAIIA]I, Ibus ii HAS1SIHRE~v, Service, 12:15. Communion, 7:30 (and 10 Wednes- Thurs., 9; Wed., Noonday G(RGsE I1. '\lAC'MnURAY, PAUL \IuOORE g day); Evensong, 5. JR., JOSEPHl H. T ITUS, Coll051,,iSiS; C I IVIIN J. CHII~ST CHURCH 1 9THE HEAVENLY REST NEW YORK KEW , R1eligion and Ihe M~ind; NISSsrY If. ' CAMBRIDGE, AMASS. 5LpI Rev. Gardiner M. Day, Rertor 5th Aa'enue at 9Ot~s Street SHssvssnn JR1., Living Li~ g; ; I F. I I Re.Fredleric B1. Kellogg, Chaplain - Rev. John Ellis Large, D.D. LETrHEll, Prolem~s of Conscienic. i Sunday Services: 8, 9, 10 and 11 a.m. ISundays. Holy Communion, 7: 30 and 9 Weekdays: Wednesday, 8 and 11 a.m. a.m.; Morning Service and Sermon, 11. ' Thursdays, 7:30 am. Thursdays and Holy Days; Holy Coin. publication. Imunion, 12. Wednesdays: Healing Serv- Sice, 12. Daily: Morning Prayer, 9; CONTREBTING EDITRlS: Frederick C. Grant, I ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL F. 0. Ayres Jr., L. WV. Barton, D. H. Brown DENTLM, COL~ORADO and IEvening Prayer, 5:30. Jr., R. S. Emrich, T. P. Ferris, J. F. Fletcher, 1'ery Rev. Paul Roberts, Dean C. K. Gilbert, C. L. Glenn, G. 1. Hiller, A. R1ev. Harry Watts, Canons ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH C. Lichitenberger, C. S. Martin, R. C. Miller, reuse Sna 5: 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 and 11. Park Avenuae and 51st Street E. L. Parsons, J. A. Paul, Paul Roberts, W. M. 43p.mn. recitals. Sharp, W. B. Sperry, W. B. Spofford Jr., J.W. Weekdays lT Communion, Wednes- for 9 and 9:30 am. Holy Communion. 11 a.m. Church School. Suter, S. E. Sweet, S. A. Temple, V.N. 9:30 and Welsh. Holy Commu niosi, 10:30. 94 p.m. Evensong. Special Music. 'Holy Days: I Weekday: Holy Communion Tuesday at CHRIST CHURCH

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of the districts overseas met Church Desegregation Urged their goals. Payments from 34 of the 99 dioceses exceeded By National Council their quotas. publication. Bishop Emrich of Michigan, and LARGEST BUDGET IN HISTORY OF THE CHURCH chairman of the home depart- IS ADOPTED FOR THIS YEAR ment, told the Council that a reuse very large revolving loan fund for * The National Council on full and free participation in should be established and that February 24th, adopted a state- worship services everywhere, failure to have one is holding back the Church. lie said required ment affirming that the sacra- she should also stand for fair ments, work and worship of the and full access to educational, that for every dollar loaned, Church are "open to all its social and health services, and $5.15 of construction could go members" without regard to for equal economic opportu- up. Permission race, color or nationality. nities w i t h o u t compromise, Grants Made The statement included a self-consciousness or apology.'" The sum of $16,000 was

DFMS. series of principles relating to Acknowledging t h a t, voted toward the $750,000 / in church work among Negroes practice, racial distinctions had headquarters building of the which set desegregation as a been made in the past, the World Council of Churches in Church "goal for all Church institu- Council said "there is a Geneva, Switzerland. It is a tions and agencies." It called growing conviction throughout memorial to the late Bishop for concrete action assuring the Church that such distinc- Brent, an early leader in the

Episcopal Negroes and other minority tions have no place in the life ecumenical movement. T h e groups equal particication in Auxiliary has already voted the and work of the Church."

of $10,000 for the headquarters. worship, fellowship, Church ad- Record Budget ministration, personnel, and Grants were also voted for general policy. The Council also adopted the churches, buildings and work largest budget in history. It Archives "Any attitude or act in the in Liberia, Panama, Puerto calls for $6,666,562 for 1956. House of God which sets Rico, the Philippines, Alaska,

2020. This is $828,566 over last year. brethren of different races Honolulu, Okinawa, Taipeh, the previous high. It also apart from one another is sin- Taiwan. Also funds are being excludes the Church School ful," the Council declared. sent to the bishop of Hong offering which in other years Copyright Kong for work "With full and sympathetic among the was credited to diocesan and Chinese. appreciation for the real dif- parish quotas, but was removed The ficulties faced by the Church Rev. Gardiner MI. Day, from the regular budget by chairman of the and churchmen in the desegre- division of action of the last General Con- urban work, announced that gation of our institutions, we vention. four churches are to get grants affirm that the free access to It was reported that contri- from the birthday all institutions is our ultimate thank butions last year were the offering, all of them carrying goal for all our work. This is largest in history, totalling on projects in child evange- the responsibility alike of those over 5-million, or $144,167 lism: Trinity, Seattle; who have segregated and those Santa more that the previous record who have been segregated. Fe mission, San Antonio; St. set in 1954. Every diocese and Stephen's, St. Louis; St. "The Church should not only missionary district in the Thomas Church, Detroit. insure to members of all races United States and all but two Bishop Jones, Chairman of 11lt' \\itness - \lthr , 1956 Th rcc t h e promotion department, receive part of the 1957 Church REDUCE TENSIONS stated that new material based School offering. ASKS GROUP on the results of a question- The Rev. Clifford Samuel- * Congress has been asked l.aire will be produced for the son, head of town-country to assume a "bold initiative in every member canvass, to be work, reported that a grant of foreign affairs" aimed at "the ready each year in late April. $60,000 had been made from further reduction of tensions It is recognized that there is the Builders for Christ fund bu'lt up in t he cold-war more than one way to conduct for a multi-purpose new build- period." the canvass effectively. ing at the Institute, Parkville, The open letter was signed Haiti has been designated to Mo. by about 100 clergymen and educations. The four point program asks Congress to: Support the "patient search Episcopal Fellowship Protests for specific solutions to inter- national differences and . .. re- Tests of Nuclear Bombs examine the laws of our land publication. to make the necessary

and * The Episcopal League for promotion of trade, cultural changes." Social Action is now a "Fellow- interchange and friendly ne- Review and revise the im- reuse ship" instead of a League. gotiation of all questions at migration and restrictive trade for The change was made at the issue between nations; toler- acts that "stand as barriers to annual meeting on Washing- ance, understanding and sup- the free exchange of non- ton's Birthday, held in the port of democratic means of military goods, services and required parish house of the Church of achieving social change for delegations." the Incarnat'on. By - laws human needs; Legislate a "generous pro- were also changed to conform That members individually gram for bilateral assistance to with the new program which and through appropriate com- t h e underdeveloped nations Permission was the chief matter before mittees shall have opportunity without inflexible limitations the meeting. for participation in choice of and increase our support of

DFMS. After lengthy discussion, the subjects and procedure for multilateral efforts such as the / following resolution on pro- action; and that within the specialized agencies of the gram and methods of organiza- broad areas selected for em- United Nations." Church tion was unanimously adopted: phasis in annual meetings the Afford an opportunity That within the scope of its Executive Committee, with the through the special Senate sub- purpose, "to bring together for aid of advisory comm'ttees on committee on disarmament for

Episcopal prayer, study and action those the main topics of the pro- the "fullest free expression of

the who seek to apply the princi- gram, provide members with public opinion in our quest for of ples of Christ to society", the information and recommenda- constructive and'workable new Fellowship at this time shall be tions for action; and that in dicarmamnent proposals which concerred with a two-fold pro- this task and in stimulating take into account the legiti-

Archives gram for interest throughout the mate interests of all nations." Defense and development of Church, the Fellowship seek 2020. democracy in the United cooperation with the Church YOUNGSTOWN RECTOR States, including the nation's press and with other appro- IS HONORED tra itional civil l i b e r t i e s; priate Church agencies. * John H. Burt, rector ',fSt.

Copyright workers' rights of organization The meeting instructed the John's, Youngstown, O h i o, and collective barganing, equal secretary to request President received the human relations status and opportunity for Eisenhower to postpone tests award for 1955, given annually racial groups and the foreign- of atomic and nuclear weapons, by a civic luncheon club and a born; and support of move- and also acted favorably on the local magazine. ments for improvement of other suggestions which con- The citation states that "he industry and agriculture; clude the article by Mary van has worked diligently to bring Peace through international Kleeck, printed elsewhere in to an end local patterns of race cooperation, including support this issue. The hope was ex- segregation which blighted our of the United Nations and its pressed that many Church good name. Important suc- efforts to reach agreement for people would take similar cesses in this area during the disarmament and elimination action and so inform the Presi- past year have been due in from national armaments of all dent and other officials in large part to his patient and weapons of mass destruction; Washington. prudent activity."

Fairm The WVitnecss -March 8, 1956 to an interracial meeting. He Commission Asks Rhode Island told the press that he had been host to five or six such meet- To Outlaw Trash ings since he became pastor nine years ago. * Adoption of a strong law or sexual immorality or which Ile now proposes to burn a outlawing obscene literature is obscene, lewd, lascivious, cross himself on the church was urged on the General As- filthy, indecent or disgusting laWn as an answer. It will be sembly of Rhode Island in a or which consists of pictures an electric cross and it will be report submitted by a nine- of nude or partially nude "a symbol of love, goodwill and member s p e c i a 1 legislative figures posed or presented in brotherhood." commission named last year a. manner to provoke lust or The message he will deliver to look into the sale of "trash"' passion or exploit sex." on the occasion will be that to juveniles. Another section of the pro- "it's the way of the cross that Serving on the commission posed law would apply the will be the solution of our prob- with chairman Clarence E. same penalties to anyone who lems today." publication. Sherman, head of the Prov- publishes or distributes comic He later cancelled the plan, idence public library, bcoks with titles that stating that he and were contain thought his Msgr. Thomas V. Cassidy, the words "crime," "'sex," motives would be misinter-

reuse superintendent o f parochial "horror," or "terror" or the preted. He denied that any

for schools for the Providence content of which is devoted to pressure had been applied. Roman Catholic diocese;: the or principally made up of Rev. David J. Coffey, diocesan pictures or accounts of meth- S ER VI C ES required director of radio and TV ; the ods of crime, of illicit sex, Rev. John B. Lyte of All Saints horror, terror, physical tor- In Leading Churches Episcopal church ; and Rabbi ture, brutality or physical Morris Schussheim of Temple violence. GENERAL THEOLOGICAL. Permission Beth Israel. SEMINARlY CHAPEL Commi ss ion members Chlsea Square, 9th Ave. & 20th St. The group said that inde- pointed out that its survey of Nsw Yon

DFMS. stores and newsstands had re- Daily Morning Prayer and Holy Com- / cent literature being offered munion, 7; Clv. Evensong, 6. for sale at newsstands and sulted in a clean bill of health drugstores in the state is for comic books. They said COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Church "vulgarizing" the minds of the the effectiveness of a publish- SAITsr PAUL'S CHLAPE&L New York young. ing code established by the 'The Rev. Johns M. Knrrnm, Ph.D., "Teenagers," it said, "are Comic Magazine Association Chaplain Daily Episcopal had made comic books "not a (except Saturday): 12 noon Sun- being fed a strong and unre- day: Holy Communion, 9 and 12:30; Morning Prayer and Sermon, 11. Holy the threat to decency in morals at lieved diet of sex brutalities at Communion: Wednesday, 7:45 a. m. of an age when they should be the present time." ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS l e Arn i ng reverence for the Objectionable matter' found 20th and St. Paul sacred things of 'life. The in the survey was in paper- BALTIMOSE, MD. Archives 'h7e Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D., Rector issue is not one of censorship L~ack books and pulp magazines, The R~ev. R. 1V. Knox, B.D., but one of self-defense. It is they said, suggesting that Ass't to thze Rector 2020. Sunday: 7:30, 0130, 11 a. m. Holy not protection of our children these might be cleaned up by F,-.,,,nr d',ly. Prearhing Service- Wednesday, 7:45 p. m. Easter Day-Holy only but self-protection from the adoption of a code such as 1hucuurnst 3:3U, 6:4U, 8, 9i, and 11 a. m. the results of our own neglect." that used by comic book

Copyright GRACE CHURCH The commission proposed publishers. Mathewson and Westminster Sts. The commission said that PNOVssn'NCB, R. 1. that a maximum prison The Rev. Clarence H. Hor'ner, D.D., sentence of two years or a the problem is a national one Rector Sunday: HI. C., 8 and 9 a. m; Church $1,000 fine be imposed upon that cannot be solved effective- School, 9:30 and 11; Morning Prayer ly by individual states or cities. and' Sermon (H. C. first Sunday) 11; anyone who puts into the Y. Y. F., 5 p. mu.;Evening Prayer and Sermon, 7:30 p. im. posession of a minor any of the Thursday: H. C., 1 l a. m.-Lenten noon- following: "Any pornographic CROSS BURNING da services, Mon. thru Fri., 12:10 p. m. IN ALABAMA motion picture, still picture or * ST. JOHN'S CHURCH photograph or any book, pocket *t The Rev. Dan Whitsett, WASHINGTON, D. C. Lafayette Square book, pamphlet or magazine Mz'ethodist of Sylacauga, Ala- The Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, Rector nhe Rev. Frank R. Wilson, As' the cover or content of which bama, had a cross burned in Sunday: 8, 9:30, 11, 4 and 7:30 pm . front of his church by unidenti- Daily, 12 noon with sermon Wed., Er., exploits or is principally made 7:30; . C. diI aIt 7:30. up of descriptions of illicit sex fied persons when he was host Fire The Witncss - March 8, 1956 respect for the Episcopa l Sponsors Withdraw Proposal Church." It is an effort, he contends, To Change Church Law to "take over control of the church" and to "use the church * The bill in the New York while he considered the mea- for their own non-churchly Assembly aimed at changing sure a "perfectly good bill as purposes." the state corporation law in a matter of law" he agreed to Mr. Reynolds announced on reference to Episcopal parishes have it recommitted in the February 26th that Bishop De- has been withdrawn by its light of the controversy. Wolfe would institute the Rev. IHI.S. Sidener as rector on s po n sor s. The withdrawal, The chancellor disclosed that March which kills any action in this Assemblyman Younglove had 5th, with a reception to follow at St. session, followed a strong pro- sent telegrams to every Epis- Anne's which is a few blocks test by large numbers of Epis- copal bishop in New York state from Holy Trinity. The copal clergy and laity, headed informing them of his action attorney for Mr. Melish, Bernard Reswick, termed the by the Rev. John M. Mulligan, and asking them to notify the publication. announcement rector of All Angels, New York clergy in their dioceses of it. "just an empty gesture" since in his opinion and City. Mr. McNamee said he did the ceremonies "would not They expressed strong op- not know whether he would

reuse legalize something which is position to the considering of ask for resubmission of the not legal." for such a bill until there had bill next year. been full discussion and gen- Justice Henry Martuscello in A further development in Supreme Court on February eral agreement in the conven- the Holy Trinity affair required was a tions of the 15th postponed indefinitely a six dioceses in the statement issued by state. Lewis meeting with lawyers repre- Reynolds, warden, on February senting both Bishop Malcolm Peabody of sides in the con- 21, headed "The Real Issue". troversy, but is expected to Permission Central New York was among He states that Mr. Melish and the more than one hundred assign a referee to study the his associates "have attempted legality of Church leaders from all parts attempts to oust to give the impression that Melish with DFMS. a new rector. / of the state to join Mulligan in the conflict was based on one the protest. There were also a or both of these issues: 1) ORTHODOX RABBIS number of vestries which the democratic wishes Church of the HALT WORK joined in the protest. congregation against a willful The bill was introduced by and selfish vestry; 2) the * Excavation work at the J. R. Younglove at the request wishes of the congregation newly-discovered Hasmonean Episcopal family of Frank A. McNamee Jr., against the wishes of the tomb (Witness, 2/23) the chancellor of the diocese of bishop of the diocese on. the has been halted by the Israeli of Albany. question of high or low church- department of antiquities, fol- lowing protests Commenting on Mr. Young- manship." by the Ortho- dox Rabbinate of Jerusalem.

Archives love's withdrawal of the bill, Reynolds then states that The rabbis said that the ex- McNamee said it was the "the truth is that the contro- cavation of a Jewish tomb con- 2020. result of "a lot of misunder- versy is political in origin. stitutes profanation of the standing." Several bishops, he It is based on the denial .by dead and is forbidden by said, felt they should have been Mr. Melish of the tenets of the Orthodox Jew i s h teaching.

Copyright consulted. He added that Episcopal Church an d .his some clergymen thought the They said that Biblical exca- failure to uphold his solemn vations are bill would change the powers valid and useful vows as a minister of this but of the vestry, "although cannot be approved when it Church." they definitely would not." involve burial sites. The charge is further made The action created con- Other clergymen, the chan- by Reynolds, who is the sole cern among scientists in Israel cellor explained, felt that in signer of the document, that over the future of archeological view of the pending court the congregation of Holy Trin- excavations. As a result the case involving Holy Trinity ity has been "packed" with government later modified its church no legislation affecting people "who are not Episco- order so as to permit explora- Episcopal parishes should be palians, people who are not tion to continue provided any enacted at this time. genuine members of the bones found in the tomb are Mr. McNamee said that church, people who have no left intact.

The Witness - March 8, 1956 CHRISTIANITY AND ATOMIC ENERGY FOR PEACE ONLY

By Mary van Kleeck

for these talks. Moreover, the United States ATOMICpeacefully energy co-exist.and nuclear Their weapons incompati- cannot would be more than willing-it would be proud bility is inherent in their nature. The weapon -to take up with others "principally involved" explodes for mass destruction. Energy is con- the development of plans, which he would sub- trolled power for production for life. The mit to the Congress, for expediting the "peace- weapon is implemented by hatred and enmity, ful uses of atomic energy." He added, "Of end demands secrecy with all its divisive re- those 'principally involved' the Soviet Union sults in distrust, suspicion, fear and struggle must, of course, be one." He mentioned hope- publication. for dominance of nation over nation. Atomic fully, also, the proposed four-powers meeting and energy, in contrast, is essentially constructive of heads of governments, already at that time and cooperative. Rooted, as it is, in new accepted by the United States, Great Britain, reuse knowledge of nature's laws, its potentials can France and the Soviet Union, (but not held for be developed by use, and thus lead to new until a year and a half later in July, 1955, in discoveries, only if scientists the world over Geneva.)

required are free to exchange information and to work Rereading that address today, one cannot together with the single aim of benefitting all but be profoundly impressed, as were the dele- men in all nations. gates who heard it, by the conviction of "fate- ful decisions" to be taken at once, which in- Permission New Efforts spired it. The President declared that "the response to JIDESPREAD, interested United States pledges before you-and there-

DFMS. President Eisenhower's speech in the

/ fore before the world-its determination to United Nations on December 8, 1953, demon- help solve the fearful atomic dilemma-to strated the eagerness of people everywhere to devote its entire heart and mind to find the Church begin to share in the benefits of the much way by which the miraculous inventiveness of discussed, new power of the atom. He proposed man shall not be dedicated to his death, but the setting up of an international atomic consecrated to his life." Episcopal energy agency, under the United Nations, to This statement of the dilemma was reminis- the which governments would contribute "normal cent of Mr. Baruch's declaration at the first of uranium and fissionable materials", to be im- meeting of the UN Atomic Energy Commis- pounded, stored and protected by the agency. sion in 1946, quoted in an earlier article, "We Its more important responsibility would be "to

Archives must elect World Peace or World Destruction." devise methods whereby this fissionable ma- Reminiscent, too, was the omission of the word terial would be allocated to serve the peaceful 2020. "only," also omitted by Mr. Baruch in his pre- pursuits of mankind. Experts would be mobi- sentation of the USA's proposals, though it lized to apply atomic energy to the needs of was vital in the resolution of the United agriculture, medicine and peaceful Copyright bther Nations in January, 1946, establishing the UN activities. A special purpose would be to pro- Atomic Energy Commission and charging it vide abundant electrical energy in the power- to propose plans for "control of atomic energy starved areas of the world." to the extent necessary to ensure its use only This "new conception", President Eisen- for peaceful purposes", and for "elimination hower said, would be carried by the United from national armaments of atomic weapons States to the subcommittee of the UN Disarma- and of all other major weapons adaptable to ment Commission, suggested a month earlier mass destruction." by the General Assembly, to be composed of To be sure, the President no longer insisted, the countries "principally involved" and to seek as had Mr. Baruch, that the only effective in private talks an "acceptable solution" to "the enforcement of any agreement on these pur- atomic armaments race". The United States, poses would be international ownership and said the President, was "instantly prepared" control of the whole field of atomic energy.

I he \Vitncss - March 8, 1956 Seven Hie even mentioned the objection to this posi- in Moscow on December 21, 1953, expressing tion, which had blocked agreement in the UN agreement with President Eisenhower's em- for more than seven years, when he said of his phasis on the dangers to the peoples of the proposal for an international agency that "it world unless measures were taken against the can be undertaken without irritations and race in atomic armaments, and declaring the mutual concessions incident to any attempt to readiness of the Soviet Union at all times for set up a completely acceptable system of world- negotiation, and, specifically now to take part wide inspection and control." in the suggested confidential or diplomatic Plowshares But Swords Too talks concerning the President's plan. The Soviet government expected that the govern- THAT President Eisenhower did not propose that the new agency would be responsible ment of the United States would add necessary for allocating materials "to serve only the explanations, because the proposal was unclear peaceful pursuits of mankind," that the omis- in certain passages, and "does not provide for sion of the word "only" was not accidental, the necessity to ban atomic weapons. Neither was confirmed by the early part of the same does it provide for a pledge not to use this publication. speech, in which he described the immense weapon." The Soviet statement continued: and increase in quantity and explosive power of "The Soviet Government bases its attitude atomic bombs in the United States since 1945. on the idea that during such talks the following reuse Of the USA he could speak, as he said, from proposal of the Soviet Union will be considered for exact knowledge of the facts, but the increase at the same time: of "atomic danger and power" had become "The states taking part in the agreement,

required "global" and not merely "national." In eight guided by their wish for reducing international years the United States had conducted forty- tension, undertake solemn and unconditional two test explosions. Atomic bombs had in- pledges not to use atomic, hydrogen or other creased 25 times in power, and hydrogen bombs weapons of mass extermination." Permission were in the range of millions of tons of TNT Pledges to discontinue their use "could be equivalent. The United S t a t e s' stockpile, an important step on the road to the complete DFMS.

/ increasing daily, "exceeds by many times the withdrawal from the armaments of states of explosive equivalent of the total of all bombs all atomic, hydrogen and other weapons of mass and all shells that came from every plane and extermination-together with the establish- Church every gun in every theatre of war through all ment of a strict international control which the years of World War II." would insure the fulfillment of the agreement These weapons had, also, increased remark- on the ban of the use of atomic energy for Episcopal ably in "size and variety" so that they had military ends." the

of "virtually achieved conventional status within President Eisenhower's proposal foi an inter- our armed services." The Army, the Navy, the national agency did not actually "get off the Air Force and the Marine Corps were all ground", to use the language of aviation, until

Archives capable of putting them to "military use." The several months later. In the early autumn of secrets of their use were, also, by now possessed 1954, discussion of details in the UN led even- 2020. by Great Britain, Canada and the Soviet Union. tually to the highly successful International Possibly all other nations would eventually Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic obtain this knowledge. Yet President Eisen- Energy in Geneva in August, 1955. Twelve Copyright hower held out no hope of our accepting the hundred scientists from 72 nations spent two uncompromising aim of abolishing them. weeks in conference, exchanged information in Apparently he hoped that new emphasis on papers reporting on their experiments and in peaceful uses would, as he expressed it, "hasten less formal conversations; became convinced the day when fear of the atom will begin to that power for production could soon be practi- disappear from the minds of people and the cable and available anywhere in the world; and governments of the East and West." experienced the i n s p i r i n g and heartening The President's special mention of the Soviet effects of international communication in the Union as one of the nations "principally in- further development of their new discoveries. volved", whose participation was necessary in Thereafter, again in the UN, a draft statute for developing plans to expedite "peaceful use of an International Atomic Energy Agency was atomic energy" naturally called for reply from considered; and on December 3, 1955, the UN the Soviet government. It came in a broadcast General Assembly decided by vote of 58 with

Eight The Witness - March 8, 1956 no dissent to establish the agency under its the very end of 1955. The failure was not auspices, and provided for a committee repre- averted even by the encouraging meeting of senting 12 nations to draft a charter to submit the big four heads of governments in July in for approval by the 84 nations, members of the Geneva. Again, President Eisenhower sought UN and its specialized agencies. The drafting for a new, more friendly approach, and with committee convened in Washington on Feb- the support of Great Britain and France met ruary, 27th. with an equally cordial response from the Failure To Ban Weapons Soviet Union. The new attitude became known SOON after the President of the United as "the spirit of Geneva". In that spirit, in States made this heartening new proposal his speech on disarmament at the session on in the last month of 1953, the US Secretary of July 21st, he addressed himself "for a moment State, John Foster Dulles, announced in a principally to the delegates from the Soviet speech before the Council on Foeign Affairs Union, because our two great countries ad- on January 12, 1954, a new military policy for mittedly possess new and terrible weapons in our nation, which, he said, had resulted from quantities which do give rise in other parts of "basic policy decisions" taken by "the President the world, or reciprocally, to the fears and publication. and his advisers, represented by the National dangers of surprise attack." and Security Council." They had previously been He proposed "a practical step" to be taken confronted with the unbearable costs of "very quickly, as between ourselves-immedi- reuse building military power in conformity with the ately .... to give to each other a complete for traditional policy of preparedness to meet ag- blueprint of our military establishments ... gression by direct and local opposition wherever from one end of our countries to the other .. "a potential required aggressor who is glutted with man- Next, to provide within our countries facilities power might be tempted to attack"; that is, for aerial photography to the other country "We had to be ready to fight in the Arctic ... ample facilities for aerial reconnaissance and in the tropics, in Asia, in the Near East ... and by this step to convince the world that Permission and in Europe; by sea, by land and by air; by we are providing as between ourselves against old weapons and by new weapons." the possibility of great surprise attack, thus DFMS.

/ Instead of such widespread preparedness, lessening danger and relaxing tension . .. . "local defense must be reenforced by the What I propose, I assure you, would be but a further deterrent of massive retaliatory beginning." Church power." The "basic decision" guiding the le expressed the hope that it "will make change in military planning by the United more easily attainable a comprehensive and States government was "to depend primarily effective system of inspection and disarma- Episcopal upon a great capacity to retaliate instantly by ment", and his suggestion on that subject, the evidently to the whole group, was "that we of means and at places of our own choosing." In the context of the new developments in instruct our representatives in the Subcom- atomic armaments, described by President mittee on Disarmament in discharge of their

Archives Eisenhower in the United Nations just five mandate from the United Nations to give weeks earlier, "massive retaliatory power" was, priority effort to the study of inspection and 2020. of course, available in nuclear weapons, and reporting." their capacity for mass destruction might be Apparently, the suggestion of open skies for regarded as effective, though hardly humane, reconnaissance was intended to be an expres- Copyright against an aggressor "glutted with manpower." sion of new mutual confidence, not, in itself a As if to demonstrate the power of our govern- blue-print for action, and least of all a proposal ment's new military plans, the 1954 tests of to the United Nations. the H-bomb in the Marshall Islands, described Puzzling Incident in an earlier article, began on March 1st, about BACK home, however, it was suddenly turned seven weeks after this announcement. All the into the new United States proposal to world then knew how widespread and catastro- the United Nations, after involvement in a phic could be the destruction, for which the puzzling incident. The President had named new weapon was now ready. Harold E. Stassen his special assistant for dis- Despite the worldwide shock of these demon- armament. An immediate task after Geneva strations, the conferences on disarmament in was to prepare for the forth-coming meetings the United Nations continued to be fruitless to of the 5-nations Subcommittee of the UN Dis-

1 he W\itn- - larch 3, 1956 Nine armament Commission. Twice the Subcom- After these years of failure, suddenly Mr. mittee had failed to reach agreement, first in Stassen's initial proposals, to which he was the spring of 1954, and again in 1955. Now expected to add suggestions on general dis- at the suggestion of the Geneva Conference it armament, must have brought renewed hope to was scheduled to convene again in New York on the United Nations. But it was short-lived. August 29th. A signed article, dated United The very next day, August 2nd, the Times Nations, July 31, was published on the front carried a brief dispatch from Washington that page of the New York Times, August 1, 1955, the White House press secretary, James C. under the head-line: "Stassen Drafts Arms Hagerty, denied that the administration was Curb; Would Ban Nuclear Bombs" with the making such a study, and called the article in sub-head, "Calls for End of Producing and the Times "not accurate." In reply to ques- Testing of Atomic Weapons - Opposed by tions as to present disarmament policies of the State Department and Pentagon". United States, he referred reporters to the Described as having been drawn before the President's'statements in Geneva, proposing to Geneva Conference, which had just ended on the Soviet Union exchange of blue prints and publication. July 23rd, the plans provided for the following reconnaissance airplanes to study each other's and first steps toward putting into effect a com- military installations. Accordingly, this was prehensive program for disarmament: (1) Pro- the plan introduced on behalf of the United reuse duction of atomic and hydrogen bombs would States in the UN Disarmament Commission for completely stop; (2) Tests of hydrogen bombs, and its Subcommittee in the autumn of 1955. also, would stop; (3) Simultaneously inter- The most comprehensive plan at that time required national inspectors would be stationed in major before the United Nations was the one which ports, airfields and other centers, to constitute had been submitted by the Soviet Union to the an "early warning" system. The article said 5-nations Subcommittee at its London meetings that if Mr. Stassen could overcome objections in the spring of 1955. Its recommendations for Permission of the State Department and particularly of the an agreed level of armed forces, and certain Pentagon, he would submit the proposals to other aspects of disarmament were incorpor- DFMS.

/ the United Nations. Efforts had been made in ated exactly as they had been proposed by the them to meet difficulties encountered in the other four nations, the USA, Britain, France past, notably the realization voiced by Presi- and Canada, with the addition of the Soviet Church dent Eisenhower before the Geneva Conference Union's never-failing provision for banning that no system of inspection could possibly dis- atomic, nuclear and all other weapons for mass close existing materials, if a nation wished to destruction. The whole plan was worked out Episcopal conceal them, and, therefore, production must in stages, with steps specified for the years the be halted. : 1956, and 1957. As a composite program, it of would seem to have been a hopeful basis for A long series of proposals for systems of discussion. It was set aside, however, when the inspection and other means of enforcing a lan

Archives UN Political Committee of the General As- on nuclear weapons had been brought forward sembly gave priority to the plan attributed to in successive UN meetings since 1946. Many 2020. President Eisenhower. Also included were were offered by the Soviet Union, as sub3ti- suggestions from the Soviet Union for ground tutes for the unacceptable Baruch plan for inspectors at stra.egic points, which had been international ownership and control of the Copyright .put forward in informal discussions of the whole field of atomic energy. None had been President's idea. acceptable to the United States as "effective control." Now, in 1955, the Times' report on They had not rejected his suggestion, but Mr. Stassen's new plans pointed out that the after raising questions about it, had declared Pentagon, which objected to his provision for that it couldbe acceptable only if part of a dis- inspection as not comprehensive enough, "had armament agreement. The Political Committee, raised similar objections to virtually every dis- also, recommended that the 5-nations Subcom- armament plan ever discussed in Washington." mittee resume private talks on disarmament. Here, perhaps, our own military establishment Such was the resolution adopted by the UN was revealed as the primary source of many General Assembly on December 16, 1955, by disagreements in the United Nations on a vote of 56 to 7, accepting for the United methods of achieving atomic disarmament. States and the Soviets, sky and ground in- Ten "lhe Witness - \March S. 1956 spection, but no disarmament, conventional or mits its report, due July 1, 1958, on "the atomic. These were the comments of three effects of ionising radiation upon man and principal delegates: Mr. Lodge, U. S. A., said, his environment"? "Now the sentinels of peace will fly over the II. Meeting of the 12-nations drafting com- United States and the Soviet Union and we are mittee for the Charter of the International on the way to winning the peace by using air- Atomic Energy Agency, now meeting in Wash- power for peace." ington, D. C. Mr. Kuznetsov, U. S. S. R., who had voted Shall we urge that the Agency be charged against the resolution, noted that it had "failed with insuring use of its materials for really to undertake disarmament" and "leaves peaceful purposes only; and that, con- us where we were". sistent with this responsibility, member- Mr. Krishna Menon, India, said, "While the ship be conditioned upon a pledge from Assembly talks of disarmament, the world pre- each member nation not to use or test any pares for war." He had voted for the resolu- atomic or nuclear weapon, enforceable by tion, he said, because "to vote against it would automatic termination of membership, publication. be to proclaim that we all abandon hope. Our with its privileges in obtaining materials and information, if the pledge w e r e and vote is an act of faith." violated ? Mobilizing Public Opinion sessions, perhaps in reuse III. Resumed private F WE were to sum it all up in retrospect over for London very soon, of the 5-nations Subcom- the decade, with the USA and our own mittee of the UN Disarmament Commission, to responsibility primarily in mind, we must say seek agreement on general disarmament and required that public opinion on the whole vital subject the banning of atomic and nuclear weapons and of atomic energy has been neither informed all other weapons adaptable to mass destruc- nor active. The initial work on new discoveries tion, and to report to the 1956 meeting of the of the way to release the power of the atom was

Permission General Assembly. shrouded in secrecy, because it was to be used Shall we work for the formulation of a in war. The public knew nothing about the A- well-considered plan, with the help of a DFMS.

/ bomb until it was exploded over Hiroshima. competent Citizen's Advisory Committee, To this day, the American people have never to be presented to the Subcommittee by caught up with the subject. - The cold war and the delegate representing the United Church all the restrictions on public information from States? governmental agencies associated with secrecy supposedly required for national security, have Episcopal prevented our usual response to great public the issues. GETTING MINISTERS of The grave dangers involved in the lag be- By John C. Leffler tween new scientific discoveries, especially so Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle

Archives fundamental in character, and social action OW does the Church get her ministers? neeued to guide their use in the nation, demand That question is asked oftener than one 2020. plans be made for that as soon as possible might expect. Certain it is that the people of of informed and respon- organized expression the Church always expect the Angel Gabriel, In that task, mobilization sible public opinion. or a reasonable facsimile thereof, to spring full Copyright and morality of the forces for righteousness blown "out of the nowhere into the here" when represented in the Churches is imperative. a rectorate is vacant; and when the man they Agenda For 1956 get proves to be something less than the acme Three forthcoming events give opportunity of all perfection, which, incidentally, is inevit- now to take first stops in expression of public able, they are apt to raise the question posed opinion: above. I. Tests of atomic and nuclear weapons an- Part of the answer is simple enough. The nounced again for the Pacific Trust Territory Church gets her ministers out of homes like by the United States. yours and mine-unless perchance she gets Shall we seek their postponement, at least them from some other denomination as is still until the international scientists' com- the case in a rather high percentage of our mittee of the UN General Assembly sub- clergy. But, ideally at any rate, they are young

lhe W\\'itness - March 8, 1956 Eleven men produced by church families such as you and means business, he turns him over to his will find in any parish. They have lived bishop who also makes very sure he has the through the rambunctious' teens; serving as stuff. acolytes; going to Y. P. F.; acting like angels After jumping these two initial hurdles, once in a while, and once in a while like devils. there are many more to be made-too many to The only trouble is there are not enough of list here. He has to finish college with accept- them. Our church families do not supply the able grades and then put in three years of demand which is growing rapidly every year; graduate study at a recognized theological and alas, one of the reasons is that parents do school. Often he hasn't much money, and has not often hold the ministry up to their sons as to teach Sunday School or travel many miles to on a par with law, medicine, or business. In some outpost mission for a small monthly fact, I have known church families to make stipend. The courses he takes are stiff and quite a fuss if their son thinks of the ministry. utterly unlike anything he has had in college. Yet, these same people are often the most Alas! in spite of a church home and Sunday critical of the calibre of parson they seem to School he finds he knows very little about the get. I'm afraid they get better than they de- publication. Bible. Preaching terrifies him. Greek par- serve oftener than not. alyzes him. Theology mysLifies him. History and Of course, one doesn't choose the ministry baffles him. Instead of emperors and kings he the way he chooses another occupation. In a reuse finds the woods full of saints, popes, monks, sense the ministry chooses him. for very real theologians and heretics. Often he fights it; rejects it with all his being. Don't let anyone tell you "divinity" is a snap. But when that inner compulsion, without which It's tough; just as tough as medicine or law. required no man has any business entering the ministry, And after one gets through school there is the keeps battering away with insistent and per- "internship" of the Diaconate to put in for a sistent power; he had best give in and talk it year.

Permission over with his pastor. Most pastors "play it cool" when a young So, think of these young men. They are man gets the idea he ought to be a minister. your future ministers. Very likely one of these DFMS.

/ The pastor brings up all the objections, the lads will be your Dean some day; or your difficulties, the disadvantages he can think of Bishop in 1976. "How do we get our minis- no one ought to go into the ministry ters ?" Well, among other things we get them Church because without counting the cost. Occasionally the through training in seminaries. So open your wise pastor discourages a man and urges him purses and give them the aid they need right to seek some other life-work. But if, in the now. It is a major investment in the Church's Episcopal pastor's judgement, the young man is qualified future. the of

Archives RELIGION IS ALSO HUMAN By Wilson C. Leithead 2020. Layman of Philadelphia day in and day out, Sundays and weekdays QUESTION that has been asked me many, Copyright A many times down through the years in included. my work as a layman in the Church, is "What Mary Peters does religion mean to you"? And over such S AN example of how sharing your religion a long period of time, more years than it is works in the mundane affairs of men comfortable to admit, you would think I could and women, let me explain about a young have devised a quick, easy answer to such a crippled girl who by pooling her faith with routine and, I might add, logical question. that of the prayer fellowship in her church re- Such is not the case, however, because in my built her life. experience, at least, religion is not a simple Mary Peters (the name is fictitious to pro- subject which you can explain away in a few tect the individual's identity) had been born ready-made answers. Religion is a way of life, with a curved spine that through the years God's way, not your's, nor mine and we can became more disfiguring and painful as she only understand it when we live our religion grew into womanhood. And like all young girls

T el re The Witness - March S. 1956 she wanted to live a normal, happy life and job. She informed me her husband, an able someday to marry and bear children. accountant, but too old to obtain employment Now, the remarkable part about this situa- under modern business standards had tion was the fact that Mary was a realistic threatened to commit suicide if he couldn't person, she knew such a deformity made ro- land a position, and in desperation she appealed mance a very doubtful thing for her so she to me as a lay representative of the church to tried everything she heard of to improve her- help her. self. After a fruitless and frustrating round Fortunately for all concerned, it so happened of experiences with commercializing counselors, I knew of a position this very deserving man pseudo-talent courses and other similar money- could fill and after assuring the wife of this, making schemes this now desperate girl heard I questioned her seeking to learn why a of a church in her hometown where they held husband married to such a personable woman special services and an intercessory prayer would even threaten to take his own life. group to help people. Mary lost no time in The story she unfolded was one we hear all contacting the minister who conducts this work too often these days. Here was a man, who, publication. and she was promptly enrolled with this con- through no fault of his own, lost his job and in gregation of dedicated time he also lost his self-respect because he had and people, who then and there, made this crippled girl's hopes and succumbed to that new and insidious psycholo-

reuse prayers a part of their daily, fervent devotions. gical fear that is like nothing else we have ever for To abbreviate a long story of effort, tireless known. It is not an old-fashioned fear of effort, fortified by the prayers and love of the death, but instead a fear of life. It is not a intercessory group this crippled girl found in natural timidity, but a hidden, cancerous required the entertainment of disabled Korean veterans disease that destroys a man's very soul. a great inspiration and help to her own pro- From this explanation you can readily under- blems. And, as you have probably guessed, stand why I felt re-employment was only a

Permission she inevitably found a wounded soldier who part, in fact a very small part of what this saw in Mary not only an object of love, but a man needed to become properly adjusted again means whereby he could also live a new and to normal living. But how could I rehabilitate DFMS. / happy life. an individual who was on the very brink of The latest news I have had of this couple is despair. This man needed help, sympathetic

Church that after a simple wedding they both worked and patient help, to guide him back not only to together helping the returned war casualties. a proper level of activity, but to a sane sphere This teamwork was temporarily interrupted, of thinking.

Episcopal however, by the arrival of a fine, healthy baby With this thought in mind I asked the wife the girl, who I feel sure has not only answered this to help me in an experiment. I wanted her to of crippled girl's prayers, but gives her an un- act temporarily as her husband's mind, if not quenchable desire to help others who have his soul. It was my hope that if this good equally difficult problems. woman prayed with her husband daily, read Archives Yes, religion is a reality! It is just as real him short uplifting verses from the Bible that and as valid an experience in life as falling in he would in time absorb her 2020. spiritual energy love, which it closely resembles. In both reli- to a point where he could help himself. gion and in love you experience a deep and con- I am glad to say the experiment was suf- suming emotion which is difficult to under- ficiently successful Copyright for me to report a happy stand, let alone explain. And in the majority ending to Dick Brown's problems. And I might of the cases where I have helped people with add that this husband and wife experienced their problems I found that in religion, as in such a profound spiritual awakening that both love, you need another human being to complete of them are active members in their church. this very intimate and idealistic relationship. The Human Side Dick Brown HIS emphasis on the human side of religion O ILLUSTRATE I would like to describe S is made for two and, to my way of the case of a middle-aged man, a Dick thinking, most urgent reasons. First, from the Brown, again I am using a pseudonym for standpoint of the Church it is my deep convic- obvious reasons, whose aging, yet still tion the human aspect is not only a neglected attractive wife came to me some years ago phase of religious practice, but its development frantically imploring me to get her husband a within the Church is vital to the life and con-

'I h \\ itlss - March 8, 1956 Thirteen tinued growth of religion. And I say this fully RECOMMENDED FOR aware of the fact there are many sincere, BOullS LENTEN READING forward-looking Churchmen who look with a jaundiced eye on such an attitude. They feel that such preoccupation with people and their problems, regardless of how worthy the cause, is a deviation and in some cases, a downright perversion of true religion. To a certain extent I agree with this viewpoint, because I, like most church members believe the first and foremost objective of religion is the worship and praise of Almighty God. But examine it ~ea~aac~ as much as you will, check from every angle and you will find nothing in your devotions to God that will exclude your brother man. As CHAD WALSH publication. a matter of fact, if you prefer to get down to writes the Harper Book for Lent, 1956 and Scriptural authority, you will find in our Lord's BEHOLD THE GLORY summary of the law that he specifically men- How our perception of the glory of God which reuse tions the human aspect of religion with the we often miss in the ordinary events of daily for words-"and the second is like unto it, love life can lead us to an exalted and deeply satisfy- ing vision of the risen Christ. $2.00 thy neighbor as thyself". At your bookseller required And that brings us to the second reason why I have emphasized the human element in - HARPER & BROTHERS * N. Y. 16 religion, namely the crying need of men and . women of "all kinds and conditions" for a Permission living religion, something they can use in their I What Are You Doing? I daily existence. In other words, d e s p i t e

DFMS. By G. Curtis Jones. This is a

/ criticisms it is just impossible for many of us to stand on the sidelines, hiding behind some S? book for laymen and ministers alike. It is an inspiring record doctrinal subterfuge when we see the appalling Sof what Christian laymen are Church number of human souls who need the faith, doing in all parts of the coun- the hope, and yes, even the love that only the It tellsan bout their daily wit- Church of Jesus Christ can give them. And ness for Christ at work, in

Episcopal ' recreation, in helping others what is very impressive to me is the fact that .

Archives cessory prayer groups and in some cases they 0I are conducting services for spiritual healing. *

2020. To many churchman, on the other hand, this is a new idea and they naturally want to know if all this sort of thing really works. From v Inspiring LENTEN Reading

Copyright twelve years of activity in this field of human- spiritual relations I am not only convinced that by JOHN SUTHERLAND it works on the parochial level, I am con- BONNELL fident that intercessory groups are a practical Modern Christians and hu- manists alike have rebelled at and a ready vehicle by which people of all the idea that death means the faiths can be joined together into a world-wide end of all existence. fellowship of prayer. This survey on immortality showsTestament there is abundant New And if you are still in doubt about its evidence that fel- efficacy, just stop for a moment and consider lowship with God, begun in this life, continues unbroken what a tremendous spiritual force could be after death. $1 unleashed for peace and the everlasting good of mankind by just such a welding together of at alu bookstores ABINGDON PRESS humanity's heartfelt supplications to God.

Fourteen The Witness - March 8, 1956 DEAD SEA SCROLLS scribed as the only scientific the current interpretations of VALUE QUESTIONED journal of Jewish scholarship the Dead Sea scrolls. He has written many learned, brilliant * A Jewish scholar says published today in a modern that the famous Dead Sea language. He also is editor-in- articles in the Jewish Quarter- Scrolls are "not of great anti- chief of the Jewish Apocryphal ly Review which have attracted quity" but were written in the Literature series published by the attention of scholars Middle Ages by none too lit- Dropsie College in collabora- throughout the world." tion with Harper and Brothers. erate writers "and hence have METHODISTS no value for Judaism or early His lecture was sponsored by ON BINGO Christianity." the Friends of Dropsie College. Solomon Zeitlin, professor of In introducing him Abraham * Most Methodist see no Rabbinic Literature at Dropsie A. Neuman, president of the obiectio-'s to bingo despite the College, Philadelphia, made college, said: "Prof. Zeitlin fact that their Church con- this statement in a lecture at has from the beginning raised demns gambling and warns the New York public library. the flag of opposition and against taking part in games Most Biblical scholars agree dared to oppose the fashionable of chance. publication. This that the scrolls were written views regarding the scrolls to was revealed in a pool sent to Methodists throughout and between the first century B. C. the point of arch-heresy. He and the first century A. D. dared ask hard questions, the country by the director of social and relieious research reuse Some scholars, however, are based on internal evidence at Garrett Biblical Institute. for still reserving judgment until which, if unresolved, explode The more is known of the manu- the entire fantastic structure survey did show how- scripts discovered by Bedouin which was so lightly erected. ever that 71 per cent objected

required to drinking and 95 per cent shepherds in a cave near Jeric- "He exposes numerous mis- ho in 1947. condemned profanity and "mis- translations, misconstructions r e p r e s e n t i n g a uroduct in Zeitlin said he based his and anachronisms in many of argument on a study of "the trying to make a sale." Permission internal evidence" in the ...... scrolls. He asserted that "the

DFMS. spelling of various Hebrew / words and terms which occur Why not a Pew Book Spruce-up in the scrolls did not come into

Church usage among the Jews until for Easter ?... the Middle Ages." He also said that the scrolls Mang chuiirch es make surec~ of thlirn I raer Book

Episcopal contained references to Jewish ail hymntiral needsul at tisime of year. If you act laws which were not in vogue proilI, Nou cail still fill tour re'fpiireiii('11 before the l'aster . .. iwith becautiful. stunkI biooks at su rp risinigly of during the pre-Christian period but were enacted centuries loic pries. later. THlE HYMINAL 1910 Archives He disputed the importance Small :Melody Edition ...... 60 of the "so-called Manual of Large !Melody Edition...... 90

2020. Discinline" of the Essene sect, Standard 'MnIuiceaI i'ltion...... 1.80 anrd the Commentary on Special Choir Edition ...... 2.25 Organ Edlition ...... Halakkuk and the Zadokite 2.50 THlE BOOK OF COMMON Copyright Fragments in which the ex- PR. YER pression "Teacher of Right- Small Pew Edit ion ...... A .55 eousness" is hell to he signifi- Large Pew Edhition ...... 85 cant as anticipating the minis- WVrite today for our coni enient, postage-free order try of Jesus. form giving details of av ailable corer colors. "Detailed study of these scrolls show that they were written in the Middle Ages by uneducated Jews who either be- longed to one of the Karaitic sects or were influenced by one Affiliaited kithi THEi~ ChURCHI PENSION FU ND of them," he said. Zeitlin is co-editor of the :3) Exchantige Place . Ne f~ork 5, N. Y. Jewish Quarterly Review, de- ...... the Old Testament, the Apo- crypha, and the Epistles and THE NEW BOOKS Gospels of the New Testament. GEORGE H. MLcMURRAY-Book Editor- A chapter on "How to read an apocalypse"~ is especially en- lightening, containing a strik- How to Read the Bible. By alike-to read the and clergy sample modern apocalypse Fred erick C. Grant. More- Bible, and to help us read it ing house-Gorham Co., $2.50. In with the greatest p o s s ib l e of Dr. Grant's own composi- tion! dozen lots for d is cu ss io n understanding, satisfaction and groups, $25. benefit.. Dr. Grant refuses to, I know of no better book regard the studies of the to put in the hands of the lay- Professor Grant of Union man who wants to be intro- Theological Seminary is a rare scholar as irrelevant to our de- votional reading of the Scrip- duced to the Bible as a living person in a great many ways, book or who is seeking to make as all his friends and students his Bible reading more fruitful. know. He -is, of course, one -John Knox publication. of the m o s t distinguished biblical scholars of our genera- and VALIDITY OF BEQUEST tVon, and those who talk much with him are being constantly IS UPHELD reuse surprised by his learning in a for * William C. A. Sheppard, large number of other fields. bachelor of North Carolina But perhaps the rarest and who died in 1954, willed required most widely appreciated of his $260,000 to "the bishops of the; gifts is his ability to bring the Episcopal Church a t New fruits of his scholarship within York", for the purpose of reach of the so-called ordinary establishing a fund to help Permission reader or hearer - that is, "ministers in bad health or within reach of most of us. retired in the United States."

DFMS. This new book, which is the the will / Relatives contested "Bishop of New York book for but the supreme court of the 1956" and for which Bishop state rules on February 27th Church Donegan writes the preface, is that Mr. Sheppard had meant a superb example of this kind Dr. Grant the money to go to the Nation- of achievement. al Council as a trust fund. The

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Sixteen -TL~ r1InCw -Mar, c 8. Irt86 CHURCH PUBLISHERS its value to society is debat- Council of Churches. Similar PROSPER. able." demonstrations had ta k en place at Sydney, Melbourne and * Gross sales of Church Mutchmor ch ar g ed big Brisbane. literature and supplies by the business, big war-hot and thirty-one Church-owned pub- cold-and b i g sports with ATOMIC FURNACE lishing houses totalled more squeezing the life out of men ABANDONED than 75-million last year. The who are being transformed report was given at the annual into rabots by the automation * That atomic furnace for meeting of the Protestant age. Washington Cathedral, t h e Church-Owned Publishers As- subject of study by heating sociation, held in Kansas City HROMADKA MEETING engineers, has been given up. and attended by several execu- BROKEN UP They found that such units are tives of The Seabury Press. not only prohibitively expen- * Demonstrators broke up a sive at present, but two nuclear meeting in Tasmania at which YOUTH PROGRAM scientists would have to be in Prof. J. L. H ro m ad ka of constant attention to comply publication. ON TELEVISION Prague w a s the principal with regulations of the atomic and * A television panel on the speaker. They were mostly energy commission. Church Faces Youth was pre- immigrants from Czechoslo- The cathedral is putting in reuse sented in Los Angeles, by the vakia a n d other European a four-boiler coal heating plant. for department of public relations countries. They ignored the of the Diocese. The program chairman who stated that the took special account of brother- meeting was a religious and CHIIURCHI CANDLES required hood week and dwelt on Chris- not a political meeting. Beeswax Write far Candies price list and tian fellowship among young Hromadka came to Tasmania Vesper Lights illustrated folder people of all races, colors and Sanctuary Lights tI WILL A BAUMER from Australia where he at- ad Lamps CANDLE CO., INC. creeds. The important part Paschal Candies Syracuse, N. Y. Permission tenC..ed a meeting of the execu- the Church plays in aiding tive committee of the World youth to a Christian relation-

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1h\itnvs- Alrch 8, 1956 Sevemtee ONE MAN CAMPAIGN a campaign from January terian group on the campus IN DALLAS through March. Robert E. that "segregation is incom- Goodrich Jr., pastor, asked patible with the Christian * Kenneth W. Ritchel, mem- each member of the board to faith." As a result President ber of a Methodist church in undertake filling one six-seat Hilbun of the college asked Dallas, Texas, has taken upon pew on one Sunday evening speakers not to discuss segre- himself the responsibility of during the period. gation "because of the inflam- filling the church's 2,000-seats matory nature of the issue." at a Sunday night service. When Ritchel's turn came, up the meeting The challenge was under- he almost broke Gray refused to make any with his assertion that getting taken on his confident belief such pr o m ise, withdrawing was "too simple." instead. that the reason more people do six people from the program to be allowed to in not go to church is "because He asked The others then withdrew no one invites them." invite 100. support of Gray, leaving only Ritchel, a salesman, is invit- Several days later, he came three speakers on the program. ing everyone he meets in his back with the statement that Earlier, a similar program publication. daily work. He also sent out 100 was "nothing" and he had been cancelled at Mississip- himself. and more than 3,000 individual could fill the church pi University when speakers invitations, invited the Oak "Lots of fellows say I've bit withdrew because of this issue reuse Cliff Lions Club-largest in off too big a chunk," the sales- (Witness, 3/1). for North America-to attend in man said, "but that doesn't a body, and believes he will get shake me. If all the people 100 per cent attendance from come who think I can't do it, Write us for required the church's large choir, of the c hu r ch will be over- which he is a member. flowing." Organ Information In addition, he sent invita- AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. tions to President and Mrs. MISSISSIPPI HAS Permission Eisenhower, Gov. and Mrs. NEW PROTESTS Hartford, Conn. Allan Shivers, TV comedian * The Rev. Duncan Gray Jr., DFMS. Arthur Godfrey and his whole / Episcopal rector at Cleveland, show, Mayor R. L. Thornton Miss., is one of six clergymen CHURCH and THE PARISH OF TRINITY and the Dallas city council, who withdrew from the reli- Rev'. John Heuss, D.D.,r Church Rep. Bruce Alger of Texas. He gious emphasis week program TRINITY also got himself signed up for at the State College. Broadway & Wall St. on local tele- Rev. Bernard C. Newmnan, v two interviews Gray had stated to a Presby- Sun HC 8, 9, 11, EP 3:30; Daily MP'

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i ghteen lwh Witneiss, -March 8. 1916 ciation of war as wxe know it. What is our objective? Should it be purely a matter of self-defense, with the CARLETON COLLEGE BACKFIRE welfare of our allies a secondary LAURENcx M. GOULD, President Carleton is a co-educational liberal arts co- matter (which it would appear to off~ limited enrollment and is trog- KEITH E. HOOK be today) ? Should it be a with- nized as the Church (aallege of Minnesota. drawn and inhibited self-defense- Address Director of Adasusos Laymnin of Hartford, Conn. in the hope that if we mind our own CARLETON COLLEGE The article Christianity aI n d1 business it does not matter what NOsRTHFIELD MINNESaOTA AItomic Energy expresses a desire happens outside North America and which should be felt by all peace- perhaps we will be left alone (this loving people-to eliminate the pos- would appear to be the implication sibility of nuclear warfare. The of the article commented upon). THE :suggestion is that we eliminate any Shouldn't our aim be something CHURCH FARM SCHOOL experiments or tests which those to which all peoples of good faith GLEN LOCH, PA. responsible for our national secur- could rally? We are dealing here A School for boys whose mothers are ity and well-being have determined with a governmental problem but responsible f or support and education. to be necessary or desirable. The the solution must be found in con- College Preparatory article points to the Pope's pro- text with the religious and phil- Grades: Five to Twelve gram for the renunciation of ex- osophical ideas of the various Wholesome surroundings on a 1,200 acre farm in Chester Valley Chester County, publication. perimentation with atomic weapons. branches of mankind, and the solu- where bovs learn to stu&y, work and play. The difficulty is our lack of con- tion must also take into considera- Rev. Charles W. Shreiner, D.D. and fidence in the sincerity and willing- tion his sociological arid econiomic Headmaster ness of the Soviet Union to live up development and geographical con- Post Office: Box 662, PAOLI, PA. reuse to any agreement where the situa- ditions. them to say one The League of Nations and then for tion would permit thing and do another. the United Nations were offered as ST. AGNES SCHOOL Why do we have any defense solutions, and even in the latter An Episcopal Country Day and Boarding forces? Isn't it because there are case, they were rejected as the School for Girls

required Excellent College Preparatory record. Extesa- large branches of mankind who ac- means of maintaining world peace save sports fields and new gymnasiutm. cept war as an instrument of na- and security. The solution or series Boarders range from Grade 9 to College tional policy? Must not its rejection of solutions are still being sought. Entrance. come from the general acceptance Meanwhile, it would seem evident MISS BLANCHIE PITTMAN, Principal we must conduct our defense ALBANY Nzw Yoai Permission and effective expression of the ac- that ceptance of the concept of peaceful program to pr'ovide whatever se- change in the exercise of temporal curity we can attain. power. If so, then, can we abandon THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL DFMS.

/ our self-defense and our responsi- LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA bilities as one of the two greatest Virginia Episcopal School A Resident Dav Schsool for Girls. Grades concentrations of temporal power. tYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA Seven througha Twelve. College Preparatory. Prepares boys for colleges and university. Church We have already evaded and equiv- Splendid environment and excellent coaps ART -MUSIC - DRAMATICS ocated our responsibilities starting of teachers. High standard in acholarship Twenty-Acre Campus, Outdoor Heated Poel, Tennis, Hockey, Basketball, Riding. perhaps with our rejection of the and athletics. Healthy and beautiful loca- tion in the mountains of Virginia. THE RT. REV. FRANCIS ERIC BLOY League of Nations and so on. For catalogue, apply to President of Board of Trustees Episcopal It would seem to me that the GEORGE L. BARTON, JR., Ph.D., ROSAMOND E. LARMOUR, M.A., weakness in our policies is our Headmaster, Box 408 lleadmistress the failure to outline any realistic ob- of jective which would achieve the general acceptance of peaceful ne- ST. BERNARD'S SCHOOL gotation and change and the renun- 1900 Archives Episcopal college preparatory school, grades 7-1 2. Located in Somerset Hills, 40 miles from New York. Small classes, supervised

2020. DeVEAUX SCHOOL srudy, all athletics, work program. Scouting NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK mursic, rifle, camera clubs. Boarding and FONDEDm 1853 day students. DONALD R. WILLIAMS A Church School for boys in the Diocese FOUNDED 1858 Headmaster of Western New York. College preparatory. GLADSONEs, NEW Broad activities program. Small classs. The oldest Church School west of the Alle- JERSEY Copyright ghenies integrates all parts of its program- Scholarships available. Grade 7 through 12. religious, academic, military, social-to help For information address Box "A." high school age boys grow "in wisdom and MosusoN BRIGHAM, M.A., Headmaster stature and in favor with God and man." LAURISTON SCAIFE, KEMPER HALL L. D.D., I V'rite Pres. Board of Trustees CANON SIDNEY W. GOLDSMITH, JR. Chsurch Boarding School Rector and Headmaster for Girls. 86th year. 457 Shumnway Hall _ Thorough college prepar- SHATTUCK SCHOOL FARIBAULT, MINN. ation and spiritual train- ing. Unusual opportun- The CHURCH HOME and Fine Arts including AND HOSPITAL LENOX SCHOOL Ceramics (See illustra- A Church School in the Berkshire HMll for tion). All sports. junior BALTImoas 31, MARYLAND hrav 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals and character through simplicity of plaint shore campus 50 miles A three year accredited course of isxai8. and equipment, moderate tuition, the co- from Chicago. Under Classes enter August a n d September. operative self-help system, and informal the dhrection of the Sisters of St. Mary. Scholarship available to well qualified personal relationships among boys and Write fnr, catalog. high school graduates. farulrv. Apply: Director of Nursing REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmnaster Box WT Kenosha, Wisc. LENOX, MASSACnusETr% the NEED

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Copyright all// There are many study and promotional aids available through the National Council-including filmstrips, a recording, booklets, posters, maps, prayer cards and many others. If your church school is not using these aids, write today. Church School Minionary Offering 281 fourth 4ene, New York 10, N.Y,