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CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 18, 1934

THE TWITTERING CANARY by BISHOP JENKINS

HERE are people, and I am ashamed T to say, Church people, who, all things considered, are as well or better off than they were in more prosperous years, but who grow loudly vocal at times about their poverty. It is not worthy of them. It is said that a cer­ tain canary, which used to charm its household with its song, was hung out­ side in summertime where it heard only sparrows twittering, with the result that it got to twittering too.

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H E NEW IN T E R E S T in the question of the of exemption.” In such a case land leased by a T exemption of church property, now that govern­ church may be exempt from taxation. ments are looking for more cash, brings to the front A parsonage is “ not a public building in any sense.” a book by Professor Carl Zollmann, “ American Civil The law here is> interpreted so strictly that “ a statute Church Law” . He declares that the theoretical reason exempting parsonages under a constitution which for the exemption of church property is “ the moral authorizes the exemption only of ‘places of religious influence exerted” by churches over their adherents, worship’ or of property used ‘exclusively for re­ but the historical reason is that it developed out of ligious purposes’ will be held to be unconstitutional.” the establishment of a state church in most of the Ordinarily, therefore, a parsonage is exempt only colonies. State constitutions are evenly divided into in those states which have “ a statute or constitutional three classes: those which are silent on the subject, provision expressly naming it.” those which require the exemption of church property and those which authorize (but do not require) the L E T T E R , signed by Bishop Schmuck as the legislature to act. Those constitutions which ignore! A chairman of the department of missions' of the the subject were for the most part adopted in the province of the Northwest, has gone to 800 clergy­ early years while such exemption was still taken for men and treasurers of the province reminding them granted. that one of the reasons the National Council is hav­ The tendency of the courts has been to construe ing- such a difficult time with money matters is “ be­ rather strictly the terms of the law. Where, however, cause of the immoral practice of church authorities the law exempts merely “ churches” or “ houses of and treasurers in failing to properly segregate and worship,” the courts have agreed that, “ the land remit money which the individual contributor has around a church that secures for it sufficient light given for missionary or other specific purposes. The and air, which permits proper access and a reasonable Church is expected at all times, and especially in these amount of ornament, all conducive to the health of days, to set an example of generosity, honesty and the worshipers and their most complete use of the integrity in the administration of its financial affairs.” edifice, is . . . exempted with the church building.” The letter calls attention to the fact that, whereas What is “ reasonably” necessary depends upon cir­ the parishes and missions of the province should give cumstances. $250,000 to the National Council annually, but Vacant lots held by a church in the hope of re­ $76,703 was given in 1932, including the Lenten of­ ceiving a higher price are ordinarily taxed. Where fering of the children. As a matter of fact many con­ such land has been bought in order to erect a church gregations gave only the children’s offering. The building upon it, property is usually taxed until the department suggests that a family Lenten box be church has actually been dedicated. placed in all homes this year for supplemental con­ Another puzzling question is the meaning of the tributions for missions. words “ exclusively used for religious purposes.” The difficulty here is the “ non-religious activities custom­ AY WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION to the arily carried on in church buildings.” In general, M articles that are to feature T h e W it n e s s dur­ the use of a church building for lectures or concerts, ing Lent. Angus Dun, professor at the Episcopal or the use of certain rooms for social activities does Theological School, Cambridge, and a distinguished not subject the church to taxation, as long as such theologian, is to contribute four articles, the first two rooms are used for “ purposes wholly non-secular and based upon the great commandments and setting forth as aids to general religious designs of the congrega­ the meaning of Christian discipleship. The third is tion.” to be on Christ and Communism, with the fourth Where the law refers to property owned or held by on Christ and Nationalism. In these Dr. Dun will the church then proof of ownership is sufficient to show why these movements are rivals of Christian­ secure exemption. VTiere, however, the law stipulates ity and he will also point out what we have to learn actual use of a building for religious worship then from them. These articles will be followed by four “ the use not the ownership, determines the question portraits of our Lord, with an article based upon each

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS January 18, 1934 of the Gospels, written by Norman Nash, also a pro­ But with the depression things began to happen. fessor at the Cambridge Seminary and recognized Wages decreased seventy-five per cent. Workers be­ as one of the leading New Testament scholars of gan to complain about an inefficient sales force. Mr. the Church. We believe that this announcement will Hapgood fired several leaders and the workers coun­ be received with enthusiasm and that classes will be cil, as they had a right to do under their plan of con­ organized to use this material. We would remind trol, promptly reinstated them. Mr. Hapgood refused those planning to order bundles for Lent that all to abide by the decision. So an impartial com­ orders must be in our hands not later than February mittee, composed of Sherwood Eddy, James Myers, 7th since the first article by Dr. Dun will appear in Jerome Davis and Paul Douglas, all experts in indus­ our issue of February 15th. Incidentally Dr. Dun’s trial matters, was appointed to study the matter, with articles are particularly valuable to use with the study both sides agreeing to abide by its decision. But Mr. outline, “ Christ in the Modern World” , issued by the Hapgood did not approve of the decision, so he dis­ National. Council. missed this committee also. It is a sorry mess, with the conclusion to be drawn from it being well stated N O TH ER N O BLE E X P E R IM E N T has blown by these dismissed gentlemen in a signed statement: up. For a dozen years or more socially-minded “ The recent history of the Columbia Conserve Com­ Christians have been watching hopefully the experi­ pany furnishes further strong evidence that the in­ ment in cooperative production carried on by the justices of capitalistic industry will not be corrected Columbia Conserve Company, of which Mr. William nor a new social order built by a few employers.-hand­ Hapgood is president. He has given many addresses ing down certain privileges to the workers in individ­ before church groups-on the merits of their plan ual concerns, but rather that justice and a coopera­ for industrial democracy and workers’ control. -With tive-order must be-won.by. organization .of the .work- earning fairly high everything went along smoothly. ers on an industry-wide and national basis.’

T he Goal of Christian Effort An Editorial by WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD MONG my friends are a number of sincere and verse like a mechanical toy and set back to watch it A intelligent infidels who like to go into the late run down. A belief in a Divine Purpose is a part of hours in an effort to persuade me that I am a bit the belief in God. But for some reason those of the balmy in the head for believing in religion. This whole churches who are supposed to be leaders in such mat­ business of life is chance, they say, without any order ters haven’t made it clear just what this divine pur­ or sense to it whatever and to try to make out any­ pose is. Yet it should not be difficult for the Christian, thing different is so much moonshine. When I inquire* who also declares his belief in “ Jesus Christ, His only why they persist in good works, as many of them do Son, our Lord” , to give the answer. “ God so loved to an extent that puts many religious folks to shame, the world that He sent His only begotten Son” , thus they reply that it is because they are intelligent. Our not only revealing to men Flis own nature and pur­ man-made world, SO' their story runs, it a messy busi­ pose, but identifying Himself with humanity as well. ness with its poverty and misery and they are for Jesus repeatedly stated this purpose to be the estab­ changing it because they know that they cannot be lishment of the Kingdom of God, the Divine Society. secure in their creature comforts as long as so many Somewhere in my priceless possessions is a pamphlet, are without them. There can be no security for them which I would like to quote, by that gifted English only if there is security for all, hence they are com­ clergyman, Conrad Noel, which sets forth most pelled to be social radicals in order to serve their own clearly just what this idea of the Kingdom should enlightened self-interests. mean for us today. But like so many priceless posses­ It is a pretty yarn, but for me inadequate. So when sions I have put it away so carefully that I cannot they press me for the fundamental reason for my find it. However, as I recall it, he shows a startling social and economic radicalism, I recite the first af­ agreement among eminent theological scholars that it firmation of the creed: “ I believe in God, the Father requires, first and foremost, a recognition of the Almighty” . Of course I am greeted with loud and sacredness of individual personality. Maurice Reckitt, prolonged guffaws, and we invariably split right in his brilliant Faith and Society, sets forth the idea there, turning to more congenial subjects in order that by declaring that “ the created being whom Christ friendships may not be too severely strained. came down to redeem must clearly be of precious While I never have convinced any of these beloved significance to God to demand such a stupendous con­ pagans, nevertheless I still insist that it makes a dif­ descension. What God has chosen as of final and ference whether or not one believes in God. To affirm sufficient significance, the individual personality, so­ God is also to affirm a Divine Purpose, for certainly ciety can never be suffered to treat as instrumental. it is incredible to believe that God wound up this uni­ Nevertheless that is precisely how society does treat

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 18, 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Five him. And it does so because the supreme end of the Profits. That is the answer. It- is utterly impossible present economic order is the increasing of material to distribute the goods we can produce in such abun­ wealth, while man, made in God's image, is merely a dance, and thus supply human needs, under our pres­ means toward that end. Our political economy is not ent profit system. Profits are the surplus of goods that given us in the Gospel of “ seeking first the King­ over and above what go to the workers that produce dom of God and His righteousness” but rather “seek­ them. The owners of this surplus seek a'market for ing first material prosperity.” Because we really be­ it, since it is humanly impossible for them to consume lieve that we have an order that is built upon unselfish­ all the goods themselves. For a time they succeeded ness, competition and force, with success going to the in finding their market in foreign lands. But these cunning and unscrupulous. It is an order that places countries . soon created their own industrial civiliza­ a premium on avarice, once declared by the Church tions and turned out surpluses for which they them­ co be a deadly sin but now looked upon as the haughty selves sought markets. Modern war, just in passing, virtue of enterprise. is found right there. With foreign markets unable I have been around a bit and seen how it works: I to absorb this surplus which our own people so badly have seen the workers leave their miserable shacks needed but were unable to buy, we developed the before dawn, toil all day in ill-ventilated and dust­ ingenious plan of allowing our workers to have a laden factories, to return at night to a meal of fat- little more, with the promise on their part to pay back and a few hours sleep in order that their bodies for it at some future time. All of which of course might be built up to the point where they could repeat meant that a part of their wages had to go to pay for the process the following day. I have talked with goods already consumed, so that they could buy even miners who, though they were fortunate enough to less of the goods that we were continuing to pro­ have jobs, yet could not earn enough to buy the milk duce at an ever increasing rate. An end soon came necessary to prevent their children from having to that. So we shut down the factories and the mines, rickets and pallagra. I have seen the wounds inflicted stopped paying the workers any wages at all, and on their own bodies when they dared protest; I have sat down beside our bursting warehouses to wait, seen a line of them in pine coffins too, shot down by without much in our minds aside from a deep rooted drunken company gunmen at the mill gate. conviction that everything would work out all right if But then I have spent long hours with their em­ we only had the patience to wait long enough. ployers, decent men for the most part, who deplore conditions quite as much as the next man, but who H E R E is but one solution; the recognition of insist, with many facts available to support their con­ Tthe Christian doctrine that goods should be made tention, that “competition is so ruthless that my work­ for man and not man for goods. We must have a ers have to be treated this way if I am to stay in busi­ system whereby the goods we can produce in such ness.” And so I conclude that it is not bad men mess­ abundance are distributed among the people that need ing up a good system, but rather even good men find­ them. This -can be done only by giving to the work­ ing it utterly impossible to make a bad system work. ers wages that are the equivalent of the full value And so I say, because I believe in God the Father A l­ of the goods produced, thus enabling them to pur­ mighty, that all this must be changed. The Christian chase them all. This means, of course, the end of Church cannot allow man to be treated as an instru­ profits since there will no longer be that surplus of ment. goods which represents profits. However that should disturb nobody these days since our present system OR the first time in history we have enough of has already hopelessly collapsed and is being kept Feverything to satisfy the material needs of man. alive only by the government pumping a billion dollars Stuart Chase, brilliant economist, recently stated that a month into it. We will have no more profits; we .it would be a comparatively simple matter “ to produce will have something much more desirable—a society an average standard of living at least three times in which everyone will be decently fed, clothed and higher than a simple health and decency budget” . And Housed. he made this statement to refute a more optimistic Oh, I know there are those who will say that man gentleman, Ralph E. Flanders, until recently the presi­ does not live by bread alone. He doesn’t. 'Never­ dent of the American Society of Mechanical Engi­ theless I 'have always noticed that those who min­ neers, who declared that with our mass production it imize the importance of food in man’s -spiritual pil­ was possible to “ flood, bury and smother the people grimage are pretty well fed themselves. Man does under an avalanche of goods and services such as not live by bread alone, which is a very sufficient no utopian dreamer in his busiest slumbers ever im­ reason for making it possible" for him to get such a agined.” " Yet in the midst of this teeming plenty we necessary commodity with a minimum of effort and find millions of families without a n y ‘means of sup­ thought, thus releasing him for more important things. port whatever; undernourished, in rags, living in For as long as he is without it, as he is apt to be to­ jungles. Mountains of -goods and yet starvation and day, it is next to impossible to get his mind on any­ misery; hunger gnawing at the vitals of men-while thing else Get him this and we can make a start in wheat is burned, cotton is plowed under,' little pigs developing him into the spiritual being that God wants are slaughtered before they are old enough to' pro­ him to be. Of course the Kingdom of God will not duce'more of their own kind, and fish are dumped have been established once we end capitalism: Never­ back into the sea. Why? theless since under this system an ever increasing

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS January 1 8, 1934 number of men are brought to the verge of starvation, of anything like a real mirror comes from Egypt it seems to me that the job immediately before us where they were made of bronze with a highly pol­ is to put an end to it in order that we may apply ished surface, from six to eight inches in diameter, ourselves to more important matters. and with a handle. Of course they were created for the feminine toilette. Greece took them over from H E T H E R the Church is equipped for the task Egypt and Rome took them from Greece. Somewhere W is something else again. Certainly the Church in the process of migrating customs the Hebrews be­ today has no technique for action looking toward the, came acquainted with them also. Pliny says that in establishment of that Kingdom of God on earth for the famous old city of Sidon experiments were made which our Lord expects us to pray daily. Possibly with glass mirrors backed with tinfoil but they did it is not the Church’s task to furnish such a technique, not prove satisfactory and metal was the universal but rather so to inspire and motivate her members material down to the Middle Ages. The Romans de­ that they may function in the world as Christians. veloped long mirrors to be set in the wall of a house If this is so then it is vitally important that we under­ and to be raised and lowered like a window. Steel stand those 'movements that have for their avowed mirrors were still in use in the sixteenth century when purpose the establishment of a new economic order. someone discovered the amalgam of mercury and tin Many will doubtless feel that the hope for a new for a backing which has made the modern mirror so day lies with the NRA. Yet this experiment, at the much more clear and useful than the ancient ones. moment, seems to be an effort to maintain the very Among the primitive people there is a wide-spread profit system that is the cause of our troubles. Recog­ superstition that the reflection of a person is the nizing that we are in an age of plenty, those at pres­ soul of the person. Hence they consider it very dan­ ent in charge of our affairs seek to create scarcity gerous to look down into a pool of water because your by burning wheat, plowing under cotton, killing little reflection exposes your soul on the pool’s surface and pigs and in other ways restricting output, thus hop­ some beast is likely to come up from the watery depths ing to maintain profits by raising prices. Others, not­ and run off with it. Sir James Frazer thinks this is the ably the socialists and the communists, maintain that basis for the famous old story of Narcissus. It also plenty is a desirable thing, once we have the good suggests the origin of the custom of, covering mirrors sense to know what to do with it. And of course they in a house where a death has occurred. Your reflec­ have definite, though very different, ways of accom­ tion is the projection of your soul and is likely to be plishing their ends. carried away by the ghost of the dead person which Possibly God is not to be served by any of these is supposed to continue wandering about the house movements and that another, more definitely Chris­ until burial of the body. I have gone into homes tian, way must be found. A tyrannically regimented for burials where every glass was carefully covered state, with individual personality a mere cog in the with curtains, though the people probably had not the wheel of a vast mechanism, as Dr. Fosdick pointed slightest idea what they were really doing or why. out last Sunday, is too dear a price to pay even for the right to live. However one thing is certain, the Similarly sick people should be cautious about look­ purpose of God for this world will be served, and ing in mirrors because in their weakened condition if the Church does not apply herself to the task, their usual grip on their souls is enfeebled and some­ others will. Either we must work out a technique thing might happen. Thus through repeated reflections of our own—a technique of action, not merely words a mirror secures some kind of intangible hold on the —or else cooperate with those marching in our direc­ person reflected—therefore it is very bad luck to break tion, even though their vision may be less than that a mirror since that is supposed to have vague but un­ of the Kingdom. After all, if we mean business, fortunate consequences for your soul welfare. Queer there is nothing to prevent us from pushing on to —isn’t it—and childish. Yet many sensible people what the Rev. W. G. Peck calls the “ real revolution” who ought to know better persist in taking these old once these people attain their objective and are at superstitions seriously. a standstill. Whatever way we choose it is high time In St. Paul’s beautiful thirteenth chapter of First we entered the fight. We have the inspiring words, Corinthians you remember the Authorized Version— the most recent being the Bishops’ stirring Pastoral “ now we see through a glass, darkly; but then, face Letter. Now how about a bit of action? to face” . The glass referred to means a mirror. Of course a mirror was of metal when St. Paul wrote but in the seventeenth century when the Authorized Version was translated it was of glass. St. Paul’s old L e t ’s K n o w metal mirrors gaze a dull, imperfect, and uncertain B y reflection. He is reminding us that in this life we are BISHOP WILSON not capable of looking directly upon eternal realities. M ir r o r s With our limited human faculties we can see them H Y do people cover all mirrors when there is only, as it were, by reflection. So our spiritual knowl­ Wa death in the family? Why is it bad luck to edge may be true though only partial and imperfect. break a mirror ? But in the greater life to come, we shall not be so lim­ You must go a long way into the past to get the ited. Then we shall see the King in His beauty, not necessary background. The first reliable trace we find by reflection but “ face to face” .

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Casual Comment Hearts and Spades By B y BERNARD IDDINGS BELL CAPTAIN B. FRANK MOUNTFORD OWN in Washington, not long ago, some bright ''F 'H IR T Y -O N E Y E A R S ago today (as these lines D chap or other discovered that there are a lot of I are being written), a young man, raised on a American picture-painters out of work in these lean small farm in South Yorkshire, England, left home times. Something had to be done about these potential to commence his training as a missionary in Church consumers, who could not buy goods for lack of any Army. dollars, baloney or otherwise. A brilliant idea came I owed my conversion to the faithful teaching to him. Why not employ these idle hands in decorating of a working man who taught the Bible Class in our the public buildings of the land: polychroming the cus­ village church. From him I learned to read my Bible, toms-houses and frescoing the post-offices? No sooner to read it with “ the eyes of the heart.” thought about than undertaken! Lo, a commission Along with him, a little group of the lads of the was set up. And at once there was a most awful row. village “ sought and searched diligently” , (i. Pet. The newly-appointed head-commissioner happened i .io ) through certain parts of the Scriptures. Fre­ to be affiliated with the most radical group of painteis, quently we found that, like Saul of Kish, in looking and the other members, appointed by the head, leaned for one thing, we made another and a bigger find. that way, too. The conservatives rose in their might. Saul “ sought and searched diligently” for lost asses There would be, they insisted, a terrible outburst of and he found a kingdom, (i. Sami. 1.9). vorticism and similar ugliness all over the poor little Probably there is nothing which we Episcopalians post-offices. The commission snorted scornfully, in re­ need more, than to find time to move unhurriedly ply, that if these complainers were in power we should over the fields of the Scriptures and nourish our souls have nothing but cows at pasture and Justice enthroned as we crop from the green pastures and drink of to look at as we got the mail. Here was a pretty argu­ the brook by the way. Sometimes I find myself wish­ ment, and well worth-while; but it was stopped by an ing I were away from office-life and organizing and indignant appeal to common-sense. “ This is no time,” money-searching, and for one whole year free to said Washington, “ to argue the merits of schools of exercise a teaching ministry, with the privilege of painting. The one thing that matters is that here are leading others into a discipleship of Bible Study, the painters, a lot of them, out of work and in consequence kind of Bible Study which feeds the heart. It may not able to consume anything. They must be em­ be old fashioned; to some it may appear amateur­ ployed !”' ish, but with such readers of this column as care All art, in other words, is good art; and its purpose to sit along with me for a week or two, I propose is to enable artists to buy things. Let come what may roaming here and there in these pastures. upon the public walls. We must not be silly. All If the editor receives complaints we may have artists are artists, and they all must eat. So it was to quit; if you tell him that feeding Hearts helps settled. This is all fact, not the huge joke of a to put Spades into action, then we may continue. Rabalaisian humorist. To such a low estate is sunk The title of this column, Hearts and Spades, started American ability to discriminate. Art does not matter. me on a Bible hunt for similar coupled words. The Provender does. Book abounds with them. Look them up and note But there is really nothing very new in all this. To their significance. Here’s a start— “ Mercy and say that one school of painting will do as well as an­ truth” ; “ Loved and loosed” ; “ Lord and Christ” ; other is no more ridiculous than to say that one re­ “ Grace and peace” . ligion is as good as another; and that absurdity is a basic article in the American Credo. “ Let us have Those last two words are combined in every more religion,” say they on the side of the angels, “ no Epistle excepting Titus and first and second Timothy. matter what kind.” “ Away with religions,” say the “Grace” was the Greek salutation; “Peace” the Jew­ scoffers, “ no matter what kind.” “ Let the religions get ish salutation. Peace had been a characteristic of the together,” say we, “ for they are all of one purpose.” Old Testament. Grace was the characteristic of the How plumb foolish! Some religions are the ennobling New. flowers of a true culture; others are low and degrading Paul was a Hebrew Apostle to a Gentile world. and violate every canon of spiritual art. Some are He was building up the one Church where all are polished and urbane; others are crude and raw. Some one in Christ Jesus, and he uses two words to ex­ are healthily objective and integrating; others are the press the unity of divided races in the one Christ. pastime and the self-destruction of the introvert. B ut Or we might write down what we understand by to us Americans, they are all one: Judaism and Cathol­ “ sanctified and preserved” as used in the opening icism and Buchmanism and Buddhism and the Holy verse of Jude. What have these things got to do with Rollers; God-worship* man-worship, Devil-worship; modern life? What is it to be “ Safe and Sound” ? religion per se and mere religiosity; Thomas Aquinas and of whom were those words spoken? Should we and Tom Paine. There is no difference between all be correct in saying that Calvary makes a man safe, these, my brothers. Go ahead and slap on the paint. and that Pentecost !tn all its extensions helps to Parsons, too- are consumers. make a man sound?

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A PARISH RUNS A should stick to preaching the “ sim­ NEWS NOTES OF ple Gospel.” TEST ON SOCIAL West: 25 agreement; 7 dis­ THE CHURCH IN RESPONSIBILITIES agreement; 2 uncertain. BRIEF PARAGRAPHS East: 18 agreement; 32 dis­ Edited b y W. B. S po f fo r d Recently the Rev. W. Appleton agreement; 5 uncertain. Lawrence, rector of Grace Church, Where knowledge ceases and the Providence, R. I., submitted an opin­ Increasing the minimum age limit fun begins it is generally impossible ion test on industry to a large num­ and shortening the hours of labor is to tell in these examinations given to ber of his communicants, dividing a benefit to poor people. college students on Bible questions, them into two groups, the East- West: 29 agreement; 4 dis­ but they certainly bring forth de­ siders and the West-siders. The rea­ agreement; 2 uncertain. lightful answers. Eighty-six students son for the division was that the East: 44 agreement; 4 dis­ of Cornell University for instance wealth of the city is largely concen­ agreement; 7 uncertain. were given an examination, according trated on the east side and he wanted In time of war it is the duty of to the Church Messenger of the dio­ to compare the replies of, the more every citizen to set aside personal cese of Central New York, with an wealthy members of his congregation judgment and to support the govern­ average grade of 25.5 per cent re­ with those of the poorer people, thus ment. sulting. “ Original sin” was declared hoping to determine the degree of West: 28 agreement; 5 dis­ to be “love,” “ temptation,” “ steal­ responsibility for social well-being on agreement; 1 uncertain. ing” and “there isn’t any.” One stu­ East: 38 agreement; 18 dis­ the part of each economic group. dent replied that it was “ eating ap­ agreement; 1 uncertain. ples when you are not supposed to,” There is set forth here the result The average Negro is mentally as for your edification, we leaving it to and he was given a perfect grade on capable of education as the average the question. you to draw any conclusions you feel white. Beatitudes, one student said, are may be justified by the answers. The West: 17 agreement; 14 dis­ East represents the more wealthy sec­ agreement; 5 uncertain. “ calm seas.” Another declared that the Epiphany “ is a religious chant” tion of the city. East: 17 agreement; 37 dis­ The responsibility of the Church agreement; 3 uncertain. and that the Israelites went to Egypt because “ Joseph had a good in the realm of industry is merely to It is God’s purpose that some races proclaim the ideal. should remain subordinate to others. position and there was a famine out­ West: 5 agreement; 25 dis­ side.” Perhaps the prize went to the West: 14 agreement; 15 dis­ student who, when asked who was the agreement; 1 uncertain. agreement; 3 uncertain. East: 14 agreement; 38 dis­ legendary author of the Book of East: 23 agreement; 31 dis­ agreement ; 5 uncertain. Proverbs, replied that it was Theo­ agreement; 1 uncertain. It is the duty of America to pro­ dore Dreiser. If Christ were a missionary today tect the foreign investments of her The high man in the examination He would tell the people about their citizens by armed threats. was a Presbyterian with a mark of heavenly Father, but would leave to West: 7 agreement; 21 dis­ eighty. Thirteen men got zero. Ro­ others the task of changing the agreement; 3 uncertain. man Catholics scored best on the test, actual conditions of their lives. East: 8 agreement; 36 dis­ Presbyterians were second and Epis­ West: 11 agreement; 21 dis­ agreement; 6 uncertain. copalians third. agreement. Pacifism is in accord with the high­ $ $ $ East: 11 agreement; 36 dis­ est religious principles. Billy Sunday Puts agreement; 8 uncertain. West: 12 agreement; 14 dis­ On His Show Christians should not invest money agreement; 6 uncertain. Billy Sunday is back in New York, in industrial enterprises well known East: 32 agreement; 13 dis­ putting on his show at the Calvary for their bad labor conditions. agreement; 8 uncertain. Baptist Church' before large audi­ Real friendship between a Negro ences. Those who have heard him West: 18 agreement; 15 dis­ and a white man is impossible. have left disappointed for it seems agreement; 1 uncertain. West: 12 agreement; 17 dis­ that he who was once Billy Sunday is East: 34 agreement; 22 dis­ agreement; 4 uncertain. now the Rev. W. Ashley Sunday D.D., agreement; 2 uncertain. East: 17 agreement; 33 dis­ adorned in striped trousers and morn­ A Christian has a right to accumu­ agreement; 4 uncertain. ing coat instead of the shirt sleeves late unlimited private profit if he Foreigners are responsible for of the by-gone days. He holds forth does it by fair'means. nearly all the crime in the United for about an hour and a half at each West: 30 agreement; 4 dis­ States. of his two-a-day sessions, touching on agreement; 2 uncertain. West: 15 agreement; 13 dis­ all manner of topics, from the alleged agreement; 4 uncertain. East: 48 agreement; 7 dis­ pussy-footing of the clergy to the East: 14 agreement; 30 dis­ agreement; 3 uncertain. fleshpots of New York. Here are a agreement; 12 uncertain. few samples of his genius from which In parts of Africa where forced To aid in the outlawry of war and you can determine for yourself labor under bad conditions has many the establishment of peace is not the whether or not the evangelist has times led to appalling death rates work of the Church. slipped from his days of power. among native Africans, a first duty West: 15 agreement; 16 dis­ “ If we’d all quit sin and serve God of the missionary is to champion the agreement; 2 uncertain. we’d have the devil in the hospital by rights of the people. East: 18 agreement; 36 dis­ the Fourth of July.” West: 30 agreement; 2 dis­ agreement; 1 uncertain. “ Religion isn’t a matter of rites agreement; 2 uncertain. The sanest policy in international and ceremonies, though some people East: 44 agreement; 6 dis­ relationships is military prepared­ find them helpful. You can find God agreement; 5 uncertain. ness. in a white-washed shed, in the sub­ Missionaries should not be active­ West: 18 agreement; 9 dis­ way, or in the street.” ly concerned about the great power agreement; 5 uncertain. “ Some churches are so cold you of foreign capital to work harm, but (Continued on page 15) could skate down the aisle and there

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 1 8, 1934 THE WITNESS Page Nine are icicles hanging from the chande­ Trustee’s Cup of the University for for Industrial Democracy. The key­ liers.” scholarship and take permanent pos­ note address was given by the rec­ “ If it’s religious to preach a man’s session of it for having won it for tor of Holy Trinity, the Rev. J. How­ funeral sermon when he croaks, how the third consecutive year. ard Melish. The conference then broke up into study groups which much more valuable is it to save his H* H* H* were led by Miss Lucy Randolph Ma­ soul while he’s alive.” Parishes Unite “ The people are surfeited with son, executive secretary of the Na­ for Services tional Consumers League; Tom Tip­ whoopee, ballyhoo, wisecracks and The parishes at Ilion, Herkimer, pett, a well known labor leader; the jackass asininity.” Little Falls, Fort Plains and Mo­ Rev. J. H. Johnson, the vicar of St. “ A preacher came up to me and hawk, diocese of Albany, united for a Martin’s, a Negro parish of New said, ‘Bill, why don’t you preach' as Feast of Lights Service on January York, and the Rev. W. B. Spofford, I do?’ And I said, ‘If I did I would­ 7th, held at Grace Church, Mohawk. executive secretary of the C.L.I.D. n’t be worth any more than you Archdeacon Purdy preached. A sim­ Following a prayer service and are.’ ” ilar service was held the same day at supper, a meeting of the whole was Mr. Sunday had little to say the Cathedral in Albany, Dean Lewis called at which there were reports about repeal. He told a few stories preaching. of tipplers who went on the wagon * * * from the various groups, followed by further discussion. The day closed after accepting Jesus Christ and of Author Addresses houses of ill repute which were quick­ with a stirring address by the Rev. Church Group Charles H. Collett, general secretary ly vacated when the divine message At Zion Church, Douglaston, N. Y., was brought in. of the National Council, in which he where the Rev. Lester Leake Riley is pointed out the obligation of the The evangelist also condemned New rector, they have weekly meetings on Church to lead the way out of our York living as too segregated. No current topics. They always have present economic and international one ever got to know his neighbor in speakers of distinction — Dorothy difficulties. an apartment house, he said. Canfield Fisher, for instance, is there Plans were made for future con­ But as a sin spot New York holds this week. ferences of the same nature, and a no candle to Sodom and Gomorrah, in Long Island group of the Church Mr. Sunday’s opinion. “ You know,” The Mayor to League for Industrial Democracy he reminded his hearers, “ that God Address Churchmen was established. Almighty never allowed the world to Mayor LaGuardia is to share the sH * * look upon the spots where Sodom and spotlight with Bishop Manning at Church Mass Meeting Gomorrah once stood. They were so the annual dinner of the Church Club on Unemployment rotten that a turkey buzzard would of New York, to be held on February have had to hold his nose flying over A mass meeting in behalf of the 5th. unemployed of New York is to be them.” H: sfc H: * ’ * held at the Cathedral on January Consecration of 21st with Bishop Manning, Bishop Presiding Bishop Bishop-Elect Gribbin Gilbert and Mayor LaGuardia as Has Anniversary Robert Emmet Gribbin is to be speakers. All of the parishes of the Presiding Bishop Perry marked the consecrated bishop of Western North city are to join, with the clergy in 23rd anniversary of his consecration Carolina on January 25th in the procession. It is hoped that it will on the Feast of the Epiphany by cel­ church which he is at present serv­ be a great demonstration that will ebrating in the chapel at the Church ing as rector, St. Paul’s, Winston- quicken the interest of all the peo­ Missions House, with the clergy of Salem. The Presiding Bishop is to ple of the city in the effort which the National Council staff vested, and be the consecrator and Bishop Fin­ the Church is making to provide for the chapel filled with secretaries of lay of Upper South Carolina is to the many deserving families who are one sort and another. Said the P.B.: preach. now looking to the Church for aid. “ Looking back twenty-three years Careful reports from Church work­ one feels impressed by the experience A New Hour for ers indicate that, while there is some through which the Church has stood Evening Service increase in employment, the families strong under changing conditions, At St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo, that are in need are more destitute and has made its way with increasing Dean Hale has inaugurated a six than they were last winter. faith and courage in the face of dif­ o’clock evening service instead of the * * * ficulty. One believes implicitly as a service usually held at a later hour. Tower as Memorial result of this time of trial that it is He has also made these services spe­ to Layman God’s cause, not our own, which His cial occasions, such as the Bishop i The last service that Col. W. M. ministers are representing; tnat it Brent Memorial Service, the Armis­ Brodie performed for his parish, is His Kingdom, not a structure of tice Day Service, etc. As a result Christ Church, Blacksburg, Va., was our own device, which is being built the attendance each Sunday has been to ring the bell for the early service and in which He reigns supreme.” excellent. on Easter, 1932. He had pneumonia H: H* H« Hs H* H* at the time and died of it ten days Church Boys Are Long Island Conference later. There is now a new tower on Good Students on Industry the church, dedicated the other day At Bethlehem, Pa., is Leonard Hall, Approximately two hundred as the Brodie Memorial Tower. Col. founded by Bishop Talbot in order Church men and women of the dio­ Brodie, professor at V.P.I., was a that he might have his postulants cese of Long Island, a very large devoted Churchman and an officer of near him. They live there while do­ number of them young people, spent the parish for many years. ing their undergraduate work at Le­ Saturday, January 13th, discussing H* H* H» high University. There is room for the present economic situation and Mill Parish Has 18 boys, but this year there are but the Church’s relation to it. The Own Building 12 in residence, Bishop Sterrett re­ meeting was held at Holy Trinity, St. Martin’s, Pawtucket, R. I., has fusing to take all that apply because Brooklyn, under the joint auspices been holding services for the past of the over-production of clergymen. of the social service commission of ten years in a building loaned by a The Hall was recently awarded the the diocese and the Church League machine company of the city. Now

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS January 1 8, 1934 they have their own plant; a base­ discussion on religious topics, were social service department of the ment to be sure, but it is at least Bishop Booth of Vermont, Rev. Ste­ diocese for distribution. The diocesan their own and they hope eventually phen Webster of Weston, Mass., normal school of the Y . P. F. opens to raise a beautiful church over it. Rev. Vincent Bennett of Fitchburg, today, the 18th, and runs for ten con­ The present plant, including fur­ Mass,, Rev. Thomas Akeley of Gar­ secutive Thursday evenings. Real nishings, cost $12,000, a large part diner, Maine, and Rev. Gardiner M. active Fellowship over there, and of which was raised through the per­ Day of Williamstown, Mass. they get out a snappy monthly paper, * * * “ The Spotlight.” sonal solicitation of the rector, the # * * r Rev. W. T. Townsend. The congre­ Rector Is Instituted gation is made up for the most part at J-enkinstown An Inter-Diocesan of the people who work in the Paw­ The Rev. Reginald G. Davis is to Clericus tucket mills. be instituted rector of the Church The clergy of Elmira, N. Y., and ^ ^ $ of Our Saviour, Jenkinstown, Pa., vicinity have joined with clergymen tonight, January 18th, by Bishop from the dioceses of Bethlehem, Re-financing Parishes Taitt. Harrisburg and Rochester in form­ in Southern Ohio * * * ing the Elmira inter-diocesan cler­ There are parishes and missions in Philadelphia Clergy icus. At the first meeting recently the diocese1 of Southern Ohio, as the Rev. H. P. Horton of Ithaca read, there are elsewhere, that are in dan­ Hear Rabbi Rabbi William H. Fineshriber of a paper on “ Attitude Toward In­ ger of losing heart because they are Philadelphia was the speaker at the spiration.” The Rev. Frederick Hens- burdened with a heavy debt. Bishop meeting of the clerical brotherhood tridge was the speaker at the sec­ Henry Hobson has therefore worked of the diocese of Pennsylvania on ond meeting. He urged greater con­ out a plan for their relief. He is trol of the moving picture industry. seeking a fund of $49,000 to be Monday. His subject was “ The Need of the Prophetic Voice.” known as the Re-financing Fund. As * * * Church has a fast as gifts to the fund are received Racine Conference Political Duty certain parishes are receiving this There is no interest or activity offer: at Kemper Hall The Racine Conference, so named touching the welfare of man that is 1. The Church Foundation will pay because it was held for so many not the concern of the Church, de­ your debt at the bank. years at Racine, Wisconsin, is to be clared Bishop Gilbert in a sermon 2. The Church Foundation is now held again this year at Kemper Hall, last Sunday at the Cathedral of St. your creditor. Kenosha, Wisconsin. The date: John the Divine. After praising 3. You pay the Church Foundation June 25th to July 6th. Following Bishop Manning for denouncing po­ one-twentieth annually. the policy of the conference the litical corruption in New York dur­ 4. This done, the Church Founda­ courses will be advanced pastoral ing the last political campaign, he tion credits you with another courses for the clergy, new tech­ said: “ We can dare to bring the in­ twentieth. niques for Church school teachers, telligence and influence of the 5. You pay the Church Foundation and program building material for Church to the support of any honest three per cent interest. young people and Auxiliary groups. governmental program that seeks to 6. And raise for the Church’s Pro - The faculty has not been entirely se­ embody the ideals of justice and fair gram not less than one-fifth of lected as yet, but those already on play in the control of our economic your current expenses. the program are Bishops Sturtevant, and industrial order.” Items 1 and 2 depend upon fidel­ Ivins, Stewart; Rev. Ralph Higgins, ity to items 3, 4, 5, and 6. Rev. LeRoy Burroughs, Rev. John Dr. Fosdick Sees the * * * Huess and the Rev. Don Frank Fenn, Job Before Us Memorial Church the latter being the chaplain. The job before America, accord­ Doors Dedicated ^ ^ ^ ing to Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Ornamental bronze doors were New Rector at is to devise a planned economy with­ dedicated recently at St. Peter’s, Al­ Camden, Maine out scrapping our heritage of free­ bany, by the rector, the Rev. C. C. The Rev. William E. Berger be­ dom. Preaching before a huge con­ Harriman. came the rector of St. Thomas gregation last Sunday he declared $ $ $ Church, Camden, Maine, on January that the unrest in the world, taking shape in many forms, is the result Bishop Booth Lectures first. He was previously assistant at St. Saviours, Bar Harbor. of something basic and unescapable; in Philadelphia H; H: $ Bishop Booth of Vermont gave the a result of the new machinery, new technology which binds life together, first of a series of four lectures on Bishop’s Son Monday evening at St. Clement’s, Lectures on Missions forces peoples to do things together, and spells the death of the old Philadelphia, under the auspices of Wyatt Brown, Jr., son of the Bish­ the Laymen’s Union for the Mainte­ op of Harrisburg, has been lectur­ laissez-faire policies and makes nec­ nance and Defense of Catholic Prin­ ing, with his moving pictures, on the essary new forms of organization to ciples. His subject was the Incarna­ work of the Church in Alaska, which meet new situations. tion, with the second lecture, also he visited last summer. The pro­ “ Personally, I dread the thought by Bishop Booth, being on the Atone­ ceeds of the offerings received, $175,; of collectivism which Russia repre­ ment. The other two lectures in the have been sent to Dr. and Mrs. sents as I would dread the devil,” series are to be given by Bishop Burke for the care of native chil­ said Dr. Fosdick. “ I stand amazed Rocksborough R. Smith of, Algoma, dren. Young Brown is a student at and appalled before some of my friends who, in despair over the Canada. Sewanee. H* H* * * * present situation, are ready to throw away the most priceless gains of the Clergy Visit A Shoe Day in past millennium— their liberty, their Bowdoin College Pennsylvania Among the dozen or more clergy­ January 7th was “ shoe day” for freedom of thought, assembly and men who spent several days last the Y. P. F. of the diocese of Penn­ press— and to subject themselves to week living in the fraternity houses sylvania. Shoes and clothing were a tyrannically regimented State— o f B’owdoin College, where they led collected and turned over to the mass control not only over business

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 1 8, 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven but over thought, until education it­ On opening the meeting Mr. Moo­ opportunity to know. We have giv­ self is nothing but deliberate propa­ dy said encouragingly, “ My hearers, en the information. We went out at. ganda and individual personality I am going to preach to two classes the time set, armed with a black­ nothing but a cogi in the wheel of a today: first, to the sinners; and then board, chalk and eraser, the diocesan vast mechanism. That to me is the to the saints.” After earnestly ad­ journal, a map of the diocese. We negation of life, not its fulfillment. dressing the supposed sinners for a did our best to let the program pene­ “ Never were wisdom and courage while, he said they could now take trate the inmost recesses of the? more called for in the great body of their hats and go. The entire con­ heart.” this people and in its leadership, not gregation heard him to the end! Thus the rector of the Bolton to be fooled by slogans or deceived * * * Field, Mississippi, the Rev. Val H- by names; to keep our heads level A Thorough Sessions, reports his recent campaign- and our faces forward, courageous­ Canvass Job His field includes six organized mis­ ly to deal with the new situation “ We have done every single thing sions and four unorganized. He held which the new machinery has that we could, to place the program meetings at every1 place in the field, forced upon us and devise new ways of the Church before our people. We with nearly complete attendance of meeting it, and yet never to make have not failed to give everyone the everywhere. Not a place in the field a god of any ‘ism’ and sacrifice be­ fore it on any bloody altar such lib­ erty and democracy as we have somehow managed to achieve. That is our task in America. The cause of liberty and democracy around the world depends largely on what we do about it.” To the clergy, vestrymen, Hi H« H? Bishop Rogers at other lay officials and lay Detroit Cathedral Following his custom of several years’ standing, Bishop Rogers of workers of the church, Ohio was the preacher on the first Sunday in January at the Cathedral, Detroit, where he formerly served and members of as dean.

Consecrate Church * their families . . . In Springfield The Good Shepherd, West Spring- field, Mass., was consecrated on Jan­ cw e shall be glad uary 7th by Bishop Davies, with to send you full information in regard to Life Archdeacon Mott preaching. The Rev. George A. Palmer is the vicar. Annuities, and Life or Retirement Insurance, Hi Hi H: if you will send the date of your birth. All Women to Meet In Syracuse standard types of Insurance are also issued by The semi-annual meeting of the diocesan and district officers of the this Corporation at extremely low rates, with Auxiliary of Central New York is to generous refunds to policyholders. be held on the 19th at Trinity, Syra­ cuse. Immediate Annuities are particularly attrac­ Hi Hi Hi Mrs. Roosevelt Meets tive for individuals at the higher ages. With Auxiliary The annual meeting of the Auxili­ Deferred Annuities are designed for those at ary of the diocese of Washington young and middle ages who do not need life was held on January 2nd at St. John’s, Washington, with Bishop insurance. Freeman giving the address and celebrating at the opening service. Endowment or Retirement Insurance builds Mrs. Roosevelt was the guest of hon­ up a retirement fund, providing life insurance or at the luncheon and responded to Bishop Freeman’s introduction protection for a beneficiary in the meantime. with a brief address. Miss Grace Lindley, executive secretary of the The Corporation employs no agents. Auxiliary, was the speaker in the af­ Please send inquiries to the ternoon. * * * One Way of Holding GHURCIf LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION The Congregation (A Wholly owned subsidiary of The Church Pension Fund) Dwight L. Moody once preached in a church where a great number 20 Exchange Place New York City of the congregation had the habit o f going out before the close of the service. He was warned of this be­ forehand.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS January 1 8, 1934 reduced its pledge from last year, Missionary Addresses cheon at which he addressed the the Auxiliary clergy of the diocese. though they cut down expenses. And * * * for 1933 his December leaflet re­ The Rev. John G. McGee of Nan­ ported every pledge paid in full. The king, China, addressed the 53rd an­ Death of Leading totals are relatively small, but so are nual meeting of the Auxiliary of the Kentucky Layman the numbers of people who give them. diocese of Western New York, meet­ Mr. Arthur M. Rutledge, chan­ Mr. Sessions adds: “ We know that ing at the Transfiguration, Buffalo. cellor of the diocese of Kentucky, there are those whose salaries have There was also an address by Mrs. died on December 20th at his home been cut, whose incomes have been Henry Hill Pierce, a member of the in Louisville at the age of seventy- reduced, but the Church was not national executive committee, and eight. * SH * f •neglected. The effort in keeping step one by the Rev. Harold Kelleran on with the whole Church has been the work being done in the missions Rector Does His blessed. We are now getting out of of the diocese. Bishop Perry, in town Own Carving our limited vision, and now as a field for a special service at the Cathedral, In the Church of the Advent, our eyes are lifted, and we are grad­ was the guest of the Auxiliary at tea. Louisville, there are three beautiful ually beginning to see the'- great vi­ H : * * shields now hanging from the pulpit. sion, the Church as a world power, Death of Kentucky They complete the cycle of shields a world influence.” Clergyman and coats of arms of the apostles * * The Rev. John Henry Brown, rec­ They Dance for tor of St. Mark’s, Louisville, Ken­ Their Camp tucky, died suddenly on January MEMORIAL TABLETS The young people of the diocese 2nd from a heart attack. He was 62 “ of enduring worth of Michigan held a dance on January years of age and had been the rec­ and attractiveness” in genuine cast bronze 12th, the purpose being to raise cash tor of the parish for thirteen years. Moderate in Price - Booklet on Request with which to build a recreation Mr. Brown was actively affiliated building at Camp Chickagami, dio­ with the First Century Christian Fel­ ELLISON BRONZE CO., INC. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. cesan camp for older boys. lowship (Buchmanites) and had at­ He * ❖ tended one of their meetings only A FIRM DOING A HIGH GRADE CHURCH Matters of Grammar the night before his death. H: ^ ^ business, located in the best business sec­ D idn’t Stop Beecher tion of New York City, is willing to share a large attractive office with a reliable firm Henry Ward Beecher, on being Bishop Perry Meets or person. The rent is most reasonable, and told one Sunday that he had used New York Clergy the location ideal. Address: Box B. THE poor grammar in his sermon, re­ Presiding Bishop Perry was the WITNESS, 931 Tribune Building, New York. preacher at a special service at the torted, “ Well, all I have to say is— SCHULTE’S BOOK STORE. WE BUY AND God help the grammar if it gets in Cathedral in Buffalo on January sell Theological libraries and collections 16th, speaking on the missionary of good books. Correspondence solicited. my way when I am preaching.” SCHULTE’S BOOK STORE, 80-82 Fourth work of the Church. At noon he was Ave., New York City. 'Rector’s Son Is the guest of Bishop Davis at a lun- Ordained Priest THE 1934 GENERAL CONVENTION The Rev. Wilb’am S. Chalmers, son Atlantic City, N. J., October 10-26 e CHURCH VESTMENTS Please apply for information to o f the rector of Grace and St. Peter’s, Cassocks, Surplices, Stoles, Em- Reginald R. Belknap, Diocesan _ Director, General Convention Committee, Baltimore, was ordained priest on l4 broideries, Silks, Cloths, Fringes 175 Ninth Avenue, New York City. January 6th. The service was held in |m CLERICAL SUITS the Baltimore parish with Dean Fos- Hats, Rabats, Collars ItMPi? Specialists in Church vestment? WOODLETGH FARMS, TOWANDA, PA., broke of the General preaching the H H li and Embroideries for a half e owner trained nurse; every modern im­ ifil®'*} century. provement., equal to hotel equipment. Rates sermon. The Rev. B’ernard M. 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which hang in the nave of the church, making a striking and colorful decor­ JAMES POWELL & SONS ! ation. They were all designed and executed by the rector of the parish, {Whitefriars) £td. fit r68o the Rev, 'Harry S. Musson. * * =t= LONDON, ENGLAND Something New in New Year Services STAINED Something different in New Year Services was held this year at St. GLASS Mark’s, Denver, when people of

many churches gathered for a service 'D i s t r i b u t o r wi II be pleased to submit of world-wide peace and goodwill. PAUL S. BUCK des igns and Estimates for During the service voices represent­ ed man’s questioning and God’s re­ ’ 724 Fifth Ave., New York City ply as set forth in the Bible, followed by a brief statement by the clergy­ man, with a time of silent prayer and then a familiar hymn. The stress ^ R.GEISSLER.INC.r< L m broidery-Wood 4 J 0 SIXTH AVE.NEAR 10 «> S I NEW YORK was entirely upon peace and dis­ Stone Metal and armament and the need for a new Ghurrh furnishings social and economic order. The IN CARVED WOOD AND MARBLE-BRASS - SILVER Stained Cjlass ; hymns and prayers were chosen be­ FABRICS * W IN D O W S cause they had no war symbolisms SB but words of universal application. The program for the service, beauti­ E X ETE R • Cathedral Yard WINDOWPHANIE LONDON • • 11,Tufton St.S.Wi fully printed by the Church Art Commission of the diocese, an­ Permanent Art Glass effect M ANCli E S7»EF( * 32,Victoria Street. for Churches, Rectories, Stu­ ENGLAND nounced the service to be a memorial dios, School Rooms. Subdued to “ Franklin Spencer Spaulding, sunlight, with beautiful color combinations, or plain. In­ Bishop of Utah, 1905-1914, whose de­ expensive—sanitay — durable- sire for peace and goodwill inspired Free sample on request. it.” * * * T. W . M A L Z 11 East 14th St. What About that New York City Other Utah Bishop? This reference to Bishop Spauld­ MENEELY BELL CO ing reminds me again of his suc­ T R O Y , N.Y an d cessor, Paul Jones. Irwin St. John isa broadway.n.y.city.__l Tucker, following the recent Bish­ ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. ops’ Pastoral Letter, wrote a letter Ill E. 47th St., New York to the Church papers pointing out CHURCH VESTMENTS that the position set forth there by ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY the House of Bishops was the very Heaton, Butler & Bayne Conferences with reference to the adornment stand that Paul Jones took in war of Churches. Telephone EL-dorado 6-1058 days. The President of the United

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■vention at Atlantic City, after which novel, and yet a friend writes of her: she has, that I feel when I talk to Paul Jones should be escorted to his “ What struck me most about her was her that she’s got the real thing.” «eat in the House of Bishops, with her never failing good humor, in Her mother, also Greek Orthodox, a ceremony of restoration of his full spite of the fact that she has prac­ brought her up in a village in a rights. Believe me that would be a tically no money at all, and will soon farming region, where there was no pageant that would impress upon the be at the age when she can’t do much church and no other Christian of world that the House of Bishops more work in the fields; she isn’t in any kind, but she was kept true to really Paeans what it recently said the least concerned about the lack of the Christian faith and never allowed about world peace. this world’s goods; many »women to worship at the village shrines with would be somewhat embittered if the other children. they had been through all that she’s At twenty-two she married a young Christian Teaching been through but she simply takes it farmer who before long became a In Japan as part of the day’s work, and is so drunkard. After ill treatment, she The force of Christian teaching in grateful for any little thing that is returned to her family home, but la­ 33t. Margaret’s School, Tokyo, was done for her, so generous with what ter went back to her husband to try shown not long ago, after .the death of a little girl in the primary school, when her family sent to ask if they might have a Christian service for her. They had no faith at all, Services of Leading Churches "themselves, they explained in great ¡sorrow, though they were nominally Cathedral of St. John the Divine Trinity Church, New York Buddhists and had to have a B'udd- Cathedral Heights Broadway and Wall St. New York City Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. Kist funeral, but the little girl, all Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 and 9 Daily: 8, 12 and 3. a. m. Children’s Service, 9 :30; Morning through her illness and when she Prayer or Litany, 10 ; Holy Communion seemed to know that death was com­ and Sermon, 11. Evening Prayer and Sermon, 4 p. m. St. Paul’s Cathedral ing, had been so happily and devot­ Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7:30 edly Christian, the parents were (Saints’ Days, 10) ; Morning Prayer, 9:30i; Buffalo, New York Evening Prayer, 5 p. m. (choral). Organ Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11, 6. deeply impressed. Later they at­ Recital on Saturdays, 4:30. Weekdays : 8, 12:05. tended a service in St. Margaret’s Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Chapel, the beautiful memorial build­ Church of St. Mary the Virgin Days: 10:30l a. m. ing familiar to U. T. O. donors. The New York 46th St. between 6th and 7th Ayes. St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California end of the story should be that the Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. parents became Christian. Perhaps Sunday Masses, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street Evensong and Benediction, 6 P. M. Near the University of California. they will. Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30'. Sundays: 7:30, 11 a. m .; 6:30 p. m. Wednesdays : 10 :30 a. m. Grace Church, New York Where the Secretaries Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Christ Church Cathedral C o m e F rom Broadway at 10th St. The twenty clergy on the National Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Hartford, Conn. Daily: 12 :30 except Saturday. Cor. Main and Church Streets •Council staff come from seventeen Holy Days and Thursday: Holy Com­ The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. munion, 11:45. Sundays: 8 :00, 10 :05, 11:00‘ a. m .; 7 :!8 dioceses. There is one or more from p. m. ■each province and the Orient. The Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a.m. canonical residence of each is as fol­ Disciple, New York Holy Communion. lows: Bishop Perry, Rhode Island. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Bishop Cook, Delaware. Bishop Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Bartlett, North Dakota. The Rev. Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 a. m. Grace and St. Peter’s Church Sunday School 9 :30 a. m. Morning Serv­ Baltimore, Md. Messrs. Barnes (Los Angeles), Clark ice and Sermon 11:00 a. m. Vespers 4:00 (Bethlehem), Collett (North Da­ p. m., Evening Prayer 8:00 p. m. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) Saints’ Days and Holy Days: Holy Com­ The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers kota), Coveil (Los Angeles), Fen­ munion 10:00 a. m. The Rev. Harold F. Hohly ner (Dallas), Hobbs (Maryland), Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. The Incarnation Week Days: 8 a. m. Houghton (Harrisburg), Irwin Madison Avenue and 35th Street (Pennsylvania), Lau (Newark), Mc­ Rector Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D. Church of St. Michael and Gregor (Chicago), Parson (New Sundays : 8, 10 and 11 a. m., 4 p. m. York), Patton (Atlanta), Reinheim- Daily: 12:20. All Angels Baltimore, Md. er (Southern Ohio), Sherman (Han­ St. Paul and 20th Sts. kow), Tasman (Michigan), Trapnell St. Bartholomew’s Church New York Sundays: 7 :30, 9 :30, and 11 a. m .; S (Delaware), Wedel (Minnesota). Park Avenue and 51st Street p. m. The two laymen who are executive Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Week Days: Wednesdays 10 a. m ., 8 A. M., Holy Communion. Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy secretaries, Dr. Wood and Dr. Frank­ 11 A. M., Morning Service and Sermon. Days 7 and 10i a. in. lin, belong respectively to New York 4 P. M., Evensong. Special Music. Church School Service, 9:30 and 11 A. M., Church of St. John the •and Long Island. Miss Lindley is 4 P. M. from New York. Holy Communion Thursday and Saints’ Evangelist Days, 10:30i A. M. Boston Bowdoin Street, Beacon Hill On.e of the St. Paul’s Church The Cowley Fathers Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. Sundays: Masses, 7 :30, 9 :30 and 11 Unknown Saints Sunday Services: a. m. Benediction, 7 :30 p. m. One of the least known saints of Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 a. m. Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :80 a. as., the Church in Japan is a little wom­ Morning Service, 11:00 a. m. also. an now nearly 60 years old, a mem­ Evening Service, 8 :00 p. m. Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 and 7-9 p. m. ber of the Greek Orthodox Com­ St. James’ Church, New York munion, baptized and confirmed, ac­ Madison Avenue and 71st Street Gethsemane, Minneapolis cording to their custom, at the age The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Sunday Services: 8, 9 :30, 11 a. m .; 6, 8 Rev. Austin Pardue ■of four. The study of her humble p. m. 4th Ave. South at 9th St. life in detail could easily furnish the Weekdays, Thursdays and Holy Days: Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 7 :45. 12 M. Fridays, 5 :15 p. m. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. plot of the most morose modern

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