The Spisi Voi. VL No. 8. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OCTOBER 15, 1921 1*50 A YEAR ______Interchurch World Movement Japanese Become Interested Issues New Report In Social Reform

Deals With the Employment of Spies by Large Natives Outside the Church, Especially Buddists, Corporations In Their War On Workers Are Taking Up Practical Social Work

Widespread systems of espionage are Largely as a result of the stimulus given an integral part of the anti-union policy BISHOP JONES’ ARTICLE by Christian teaching in Japan, there has of great industrial corporations, according been a marked awakening of interest on to the supplementary report on the steel We urge Witness readers to give the part of Japanese not in the Christian strike of 1919, made public by the com­ carjeful attention to the article in this Church, with regard to social reform. mission of inquiry of the interchurch world Bishop Tucker of Kyoto reports that until movement. issue written by Bishop Paul Jones. There is no subject more important recently, little has been done in this direc­ The most important of the supple­ at the present time than the coming tion except by the Church. The Church mentary report deals with employment of International Conference on the is doing more than ever to better the social spies, known as “under cover men,” by Limitation of Armaments. And we environment, but what it does now is the steel corporations and the findings are dare say that there is no one in the necessarily compared with what is being backed up by hundreds of original docu­ Church better qualified to speak on done by those who command very much ments. the subject than Bishop Jones. As larger resources and who even though The story of the interview of the com­ a pacifist, who suffered for his con­ they may not be actuated by the same mission with E. H. Gary, chairman of the victions, he has earned his right to spirit of Christian brotherhood, can at board of the United States Steel corpora­ be heard now. least show results which look larger. Bishop tion, when an informal plan for mediation In less than a month statesmen Tucker says emphatically that Christians in the strike Was offered, is made public of all nations will, be gathering in in America “should do more in the way for the first time. The commission recom­ Washington. Public opinion must be of cooperation with the Japanese Chris­ tians in practical work. They have the mends federal investigation of labor de­ aroused to the importance of their tective agencies, looking to their regula­ meeting. You can perform a Chris­ willingness to do such work. In propor­ tion to their means they give generously tion or abolition. tian service by urging your rector The spy hired by the steel companies, I to hold special services and meetings to the Church’s support, but they are not able to provide material means adequate says the report, worked like a workman, on the subject of Disarmament. talked like a workman, whispered depress­ to the situation. ing rumors, stirred up racial strife, and “Recently I read in. a Kyoto newspaper argued failure to the strikers, and ‘even in member of the steel strike national com­ an article written by a man who is one of his daily mailed spy reports he advised mittee was their man,” adding: “Take the Government experts in social reform not so much ‘sluggers’ as ‘influence’ by Akron, Ohio, for example; we control the matters, the gist of which was that former­ municipal authorities to close up public- situation there. There is no trouble in ly the Christians had shown great interest meeting places.” and activity in all matters relating to the Akron. When the A. F. of L. organizer “It is impossible to criticize the present comes to Akron he reports to our man.” practical welfare of society, but that at report on undercover men in the steel present, they seemed to be asleep, that The report quotes instructions by the strike as ‘an exception instance,’ ” says the spy organizations to its operatives. The the Buddhists are doing far more in this foreword. “Instead it is a typical spade­ “under cover” men were told to “try to direction than are Christians at the present ful out of the subsoil of ‘business enter­ hold as many and as high offices (in the time. prise.’ Industrial espionage is confined to union) as you can,” and to ‘‘try to get as “There has been a great awakening of America; what espionage there is in Eu­ popular as you possibly can.” activity on the part of the Buddhists dur­ rope is a government monopoly; no other The Sherman Service, Inc., of Chicago, ing the past two or three years. While civilized country tolerates large scale, pri­ according to the report, sent an operative this criticism leaves out of consideration vately owned, labor spying.” instructions to “stir up as much bad feel­ many factors, yet it does express what is The reports cover the work of the labor ing as you possibly can between the Serb­ getting to be a very common opinion, that spies in the town of Monessen, Pa., during ians and the Italians.” This was at the somehow Christianity is losing its grip the steel strike. The spies designated by time when the Fiume controversy was ex­ and its position of' leadership. It is not code numbers such as. Z-16, X-199, No. ceedingly bitter. “The Italians are going that Christianity is going backward in 203, mixed with the strikers or held jobs back to work,” the instructions continued. these respects, but that other people are inside the plant and dressed as workers. “Call up every question you can in refer­ going forward, which is of course, all to The corporation’s auxiliary company ence to racial hatred between these two the good, yet it is a challenge to Christian­ professed to have had 500 “operatives” at nationalities.” ity and 1 think indicates the -direction in work in the steel strike and the concern’s which we can be of help to the Japanese Pittsburgh manager told the investigator, Church in the future. I am sure that our the report says, that many of these men Big Enrollment at Hobart people have the spirit, but things are being were inside the unions, frequently as of­ done on such a big scale at present in ficers. With the largest enrollment and the Japan that they feel it useless to try to do S. S. Dewson, resident manager at largest entering class in its history, Hobart anything with their present resources. One Pittsburgh, of the corporation auxiliaries College opened formally last week when interesting fact, however, is that in places company is said to have declared “the cor­ Dr. Bartlett and Dean Durfee welcomed like Osaka a large proportion of the work­ poration’s auxiliary had men who were back the old men and welcomed for the ing heads of philanthropic enterprises car­ officers of international unions”; that “a first time the new, ried on by non-Christians are Christian.” Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 T H E WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH 000 and could contribute $400,000, would Is Your Church, Woman’s Auxiliary; the girls of Texas are being given a chance to shatter this tra­ be found to be correct. Doing Anything? On the nineteenth Sunday after Trin­ Appealing to 150,000 churches of dition. The Young People’s Service ity, designated by Bishop Brent as Hobart America to marshal their forces to seize League works on the basis that all boys and girls need is a chance. They do not Sunday, every clergyman in the Diocese the “priceless opportunity” offered by the spoke from his pulpit concerning Hobart International Conference on the Limita­ often fail when they have been given a fair one. Summer camps are a part of and its contributions to the Diocese. In tion of Armament, the Federal Council of Buffalo, John K. Walker, acting as chair­ the Churches of Christ in America has the chance the Church is giving the young man, was assisted by a committee of Ho­ issued a Call to Prayer and Consecration. people in Texas, and of those privileged bart Alumni, headed by Percy S. Lans- The message is a frank statement of the to attend them, the Church, in turn, is ex­ downe and a committee of churchmen, responsibility of the churches and presents pecting a great deal. The leaders of the young people’s work headed by W. E. Townsend. In Roches­ as a definite aim: ter, Dr. C. O. Boswell, as chairman, and “We cannot be satisfied with a mild cur­ in Texas, and of the camps, work on the supposition that girls and boys will be Bishop Ferris cooperated actively. In Ni­ tailment of our military expenditure. Noth­ agara County deLancey Rankine was ing less than a far-reaching reduction in interested in missions, if they get the right idea, which in the past so few of us have chairman, and in Le Roy, Reverend Pierce armaments on sea and land can suffice.” Cushing, who received an S. T. D. Degree A program for a country-wide observ­ gotten. So “Missions” are taught at Camp Allen and is emphasized in all Y. P. from Hobart last June. ance of special sessions of prayer and A particularly successful step in the pre­ meetings of an educational character has S. L. programs— without apology and with­ out fearing for a moment that it is ex­ liminary work of the Campaign was an au­ been prepared. It presents concrete sug­ tomobile trip through Western New ork gestions. The most important feature is pecting too much of young Churchmen to demand an intelligent interest in their by Peter R. Cole, treasurer of Hobart a call to “observe Sunday, November 6th, College, and a vestryman at St. Peter’s as a day for special prayer, self-examina­ Master’s work. They got the interest and they dared even to present quite strongly Church in Geneva, and two Hobart stu­ tion and supplication for God’s blessing dents, Harold Bailey of Buffalo and Dud­ on the International Conference on the the call to life service. The results- of this will be known only in the years to ley Gordon of Geneseo. The party visited Limitation of Armament; and to consider the rectors in many of the smaller cities in a sermon on that day, America’s inter­ come. However, the girls of the Diocese are now being given a chance to translate and larger towns and were very success­ national duty.” ful in interesting them in the plan of the As requested by President Harding the some of this interest into action. They are studying about the Emery Fund and Campaign as outlined by Bishop Brent in Federal Council appeals to the churches his Pastoral Letter and in the accom­ to hold special services on November 11th are contributing to it—to the work of the Woman’s Auxiliary! panying letter of explanation. at the time of the opening of the Confer­ Just before the opening of the Cam­ ence and the national memorial service. Georgia Trains paign new literature, including an illus­ It also suggests that special meetings in trated booklet and endorsements of Hobart the churches be arranged for Monday, Her Leaders A Diocesan Institute for instructing by sixty-five Bishops, was widely circu­ Tuesday,. Wednesday and Thursday even­ lated throughout the Diocese. ings, November 7-10, to consider the prob­ leaders for holding parish conferences was lems of international relations; ;or, if these held in Savannah, Ga., September 27 and 28, conducted by the Rev. Louis G. Wood, Modern Caravan, dates be impracticable, to use the ordinary Reaches Idaho mid-week meetings for this purpose for field secretary, this marking the opening of the fall activities in the Diocese tor That spirit of enterprise and zeal which a month. is responsible for the achievements of the Plans are presented for union serv­ the Nation-wide Campaign. Ten clergy appointed by the Bishop, attended the in- century of Missionary endeavor that will ices or public mass meetings on a real be commemorated in the Centennial of the reduction of armament in every city the stitute*. and beginning the first week in Oc­ tober will hold conférences in thirty-five Missionary Society, has a timely illustra­ latter part of October or in November. tion in the splendid effort just put forth The local congregations are requested to parishes and missions, allowing two days for each place. by Bishop Touret, of Idaho. cooperate with other national and local Last June twenty-eight families oi movements promoting the demand for a Never Too Late Brooklyn, New York, abandoning all ties reduction in armament and to emphasize which bound them to associations of a life­ on Thanksgiving Day the Christian belief to Start St. Paul’s Church, Augusta, Ga. (thè time, fared forth in a modern caravan of in a warless world. Rev. G. Sherwood Whitney, rector) feels motor cars under the leadership of Cap­ Christians throughout the country are great happiness over the announcement tain'W illiam D. Scott, to begin anew in urged to follow the proceedings of the Con­ made at a recent week-day service of even­ far off Idaho, on a tract of land, which ference closely during its sessions and to ing prayer, that Mr. Claude M. Hobart will has been set aside for them by the officials pray regularly for its success. enter a theological seminary as a candi­ of that State. Bishop Touret read of the A special committee from* the Federal date for Holy Orders. Mr. Hobart has a venture in the newspapers, and at once Council of the Churches called on Presi­ wife and four children who will live with got in touch with the leader of the caravan. dent Harding on September 28th to assure him at the DuBose Memorial School, Mont- Ten days ago the modern pilgrims him of the cooperation of the churches; eagle, Tenn., where he will take his train­ neared their future home, strangers in a to ask that he designate Sunday, Novem­ ing. strange country; but advancing to meet ber 6th, as a day of prayer; that he issue St. Paul’s has organized its Church them with the right hand of fellowship ex­ a proclamation to be read on the day the school along the lines worked out by the tended was a Missionary representative of Conference on Limitation of Armament Department of Religious Education. On Bishop Touret. Before a tree had been convenes and that he make arrangements the second Sunday in September, the felled or a spade-full of earth turned on for the daily sessions of the Conference rector held a service adapted to the chil­ fhe spot where a new town will spring up, to open with prayer. The President ex­ dren, and gave an address on the subject the Church enveloped these pioneers in its pressed his interest and took the requests of “School Time.” welcoming and protecting fold. ' The fol­ under consideration. lowing letter adequately tells this story of modern missionary service. It is written Young People Active Clergy in New York Help Hobart from Twin Falls, Idaho, under date o^ in the Church September 23, and breathes that spirit of The Young People’s Service League of The campaign for money for Hobart applied Christianity which is the glory of the Diocese of Texas is having its share College’s Million Dollar Centennial Fund, this rounding-out century of the Mission­ in the work of the Emery Fund and the in Western New York, opened on Sunday, Jubilee celebration of the Woman’s Aux­ October 2d under very favorable auspices. ary Society: . “The twenty-eight families, coming iliary. There is a long established tradi­ Thorough preparation had been made with William B. Scott from Brooklyn m tion in this Church of ours that girls and throughout the Diocese, and it was the auto trailers, in what is popularly known young women can not be forced by any hope of all, that Bishop Brent’s statement as ‘Scott’s Modern Caravan,’ have reached piqans whatsoever into Copyright an interest 2020. Archives in the of thethat Episcopal the DioceseChurch / DFMS. should Permission contribute required $200,- for reuse and publication. THE WITNESS $ their destination on the Roseworth irriga­ Grace Mission, White Sulphur Springs, Day, Mr. T. Hoyo to the diacohate. Mr. tion tract, 25 miles south of Buhl, Idaho. Montana, by the Rev. Ralph F. Blanning, Hoyo graduates from St. Paul’s College, The Priest-in-charge of the Church of the the missionary in charge. Tokyo ,and from the Central Theological Ascension, Twin Falls, and of Trinity The Church School meets every Wednes­ College of the Church in Japan. Bishop Church, Buhl, the Rev. Charles Glenn day afternoon from four to five o’clock. Tucker is gratified to note the satisfactory Baird, met the caravan in advance at Bur­ The Christian Nurture Series of lessons development and capacity which the ley, Idaho, to greet the members and ex­ and helps are used. It has been impos­ younger clergy are displaying for inde­ tend to them a welcome from the Episco­ sible for the missionary in the post to pendent evangelistic work. He expects pal Church in Idaho. Mr. Baird went im­ conduct a Sunday School, on the grounds soon to ordain three other young men. mediately to Buhl and when the pioneers of failing to secure trained teachers and arrived, he enrolled the names of all a competent head to supervise the work Praise for Church members among the party and ar­ during the rector’s absence from the mis­ St. James’ Hospital ranged for a service of welcome in the sion. Under the present arrangement of Director Richard M. Pearce of the Di­ school-house on the Roseworth tract in a Weekday School, religious education for vision of Medical Education of the Rocke­ the near future. the children of the community (there are feller Foundation, writing to the Secre­ “There are ten families of Episcopalians very few church children) with the splen­ tary of the Department of Missions, says: in the caravan of twenty-eight families. did Christian Nurture Carriculum, is pos­ “In the course of a journey which I Our church has easily the largest repre­ sible. The missionary is able to be pres­ made during April and May through cen­ sentation of any of the churches claiming ent at every session to supervise the work. tral and ■ southern China, I had occasion adherents among the new settlers. It is The attendance of both children and those to visit Anking and spent some time with obvious that we have an immediate respon­ who feel they are beyond Sunday School Dr. Harry B. Taylor at St. James’ Hos­ sibility in ministering to the newcomers, age has been surprising; there has been pital. and Bishop Touret is making definite plans little diffculty in securing competent teach­ “I found a development under Dr. Tay­ to meet this need. For the present, Mr. ers with teacher training. Once a month, lor’s direction which as far as I know does Baird will hold occasional services at Rose­ on the missionary’s Sunday at the mission, not exist elsewhere in China, and I there­ worth, and a clergyman will be placed in the Church School meets in the Church fore desire to write you and congratulate the field within a few months. for Young People’s Church. you and your Board on carrying your “Among the settlers is one man who But the Church School has not been con­ medical missionary work somewhat beyond has had several years’ experience as or­ fined to the children. On the evening of the field of immediate relief of the sick. ganist and choir master in the Brooklyn the day for Church School, taking advan­ I refer to the work Dr. Taylor is doing churches. tage of a fire in the furnace, there is a through contact with various government “The land is already being cleared of service for adults, at which church instruc­ agencies, especially along the line of dis­ native sagebrush and prepared for crop. tion is given to all the members of the ease prevention. Men from the Extension Division of the congregation and others who will attend, “Whether this result is due to peculiar Agricultural College are on the ground using Course No. 9 of the Christian Nur­ characteristics possessed by Dr. Taylor, and are assisting them in preparing their ture Series, with some elaboration and ad­ the ultimate outcome is most gratifying farms for civilization.” ditions. So successful has the class for and is a permanent asset for Christian adults been that the missionary is going work in China along medical lines.” Brotherhood Is in to carry out the idea in all the missions Anyone interested in having further in­ Session in Norfolk of his extensive mission field during the formation concerning St. James’ Hospital The Brotherhood of St. Andrew is hold­ fall and winter months. and its admirable work in China, can ob­ ing their annual convention in Norfolk tain it from Mr. John W. Wood, 281 from October 12th to 16th. The Aftermath Fourth Avenue, New York City. The outstanding features of the Con­ of War vention are the three daily Quiet Talks on Church rectories bore their toll of sac­ thé Bible by the Rev. Dr. Griffith Thomas; rifice in the World War in common with THE WHOLE CHURCH WILL BE SINGING Family Prayer, by the Rev. Dr. E. L. all other homes. It was the sad duty of the Eckel-Marshall Centenary Hymn in the Oct.-Nov. Missionary Celebrations. Wcrodward, Dean of Education of Vir­ receiving the body of his son, Corporal St. Andrew’s Church, Fart Worth, Texas. ginia; an address in Convention Hall on Emil Henckell, from the War Department, The Church’s Teaching Mission, by the which brought Reverend Carl Henckell of “Let Myriad Throats of Pipe Rev. Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin of Rochester, Grace Church, Birmingham, Alabama, to N. Y.; the Convention Missionary Service, New York recently. Mr. Henckell is one and Voice” WHEN ONCE CLERGY AND CHOIR­ with Bishop Overs of Liberia and Canon of the Alabama diocesan missionaries. MASTERS HAVE SEEN A COPY Skey of Toronto as speakers; a service for Corporal Henckell, who was just 25, was Leaflet Hymnal Size, Words and Music, $1.00 the presentation of the Call to the Minis­ killed on July 26,' 1918, at Chateau per 100 and Postage, Any Quantity. try, with Bishop Guerry of South Carolina Thierry. He was a member of the 167th and Rev. Dr. Hubert Carleton of Chicago Infantry. His Lieutenant Colonel wrote as speakers; the preparation for the Cor­ to his father: porate Communion, conducted by the Rev. “Emil was attached to my staff as a G. Ashton Oldham o f St. Ann’s, Brooklyn ; member of the intelligence section, a body and the Charge to the Convention on Sun­ of men picked for their bravery and in­ day afternoon by Bishop Darst of East telligence. No braver man ever wore the TheOnlyWay Carolina. uniform of our country than your son. He An important part of the program is was with me almost daily, and I feel that the pilgrimage to Jamestown and Williams­ I am in a position to know. It should be Out of the burg, occupying all of Friday. A special a great consolation to you to have given steamer is being used in going to James­ to our country so brave a man, one who town Island, automobiles transferring the made the supreme sacrifice with a smile Dark” large delegation to Williamsburg and from on his face. He never showed the slight­ there back to Newport News and Norfolk est fear in the face of danger. He was a special train being chartered. given the most dangerous assignments, As an informal part of the Convention filling them with honor and credit to him­ program, representative speakers discussed self and our regiment. the latest plans of the Nation-wide Cam­ paign, the Church Mission of Help and Much Expected of the Work among the Foreign Born. Japanese Clergy Bishop Tucker of Kyoto feels that the A Weekday Religious future of the Church in Japan lies largely School in Montana in the hands of the younger Japanese A very successful Weekday School of clergy. It was therefore with special sat­ Religious Education has been organized at isfaction that he ordained on St. Jam es’ Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 4 THE WITNESS

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Cheerful Confidences him to begin to knit the other sleeve. But the insistance that George can and must he does want the coordinated power and do it. This criticism of course does not By George Parkin Atwater wisdom of the Church to be available for apply to those who look to the Conference all, and to uphold the whole structure of merely for saving some millions of dollars II the Church’s life. If the time consuming at present spent in armament. It can and THE PARSON’S DILEMMA way of lunches and meetings will do it, probably will do that and no one else can Many a parson is in a dilemma in these then we must conform. Let us eat, meet do it. But the great body of people want days. He is not quite sure whether he is and be merry. and expect something more to come out a parish priest, a “liaison officer” between of the Conference that will mean the doing countless boards and his congregation, or away with war, or that at least will be a a high powered collector. Indeed, we may The Apotheosis of George real step toward it. They are the ones soon be compelled to add a third name to who are apotheosizing this particular the time-honored titles of prophet and By Rt. Rev. Paul Jones George. priest. It is possible that our children may The point is just this. Most of them say “prophet, priest, and publican.” Our These paragraphs will be of no interest individually and collectively still rest their ambassadorship in the Kingdom of Heaven to those who are suffering from (or per­ fundamental reliance upon force and com­ may develop difficulties. When John haps enjoying) either Anglomania or pulsion. In international affairs they be­ Adams represented the Continental Con­ Anglophobia, for the title refers to no lieve that their nation’s integrity depends gress at the Court of St. James, that im­ English George, whether King or Lloyd. upon its ability to defend itself from ag­ poverished body used to draw on him for There is in mind rather that semi-mythical gression by the ordinary means. They funds, expecting him to use the influence personage to whose broad shoulders and want America to get its share of the world of his high office to provide a way to meet capable hands we are willing to surrender trade, in a word to drive other competitors the draft. any hard disagreeable or painful task when out of certain markets, and be protected The clergy, without question, welcome we shrug our responsibility away with the in so doing. They are satisfied to have the new life that is stirring within the phrase: “Let George do it!” economic power in the hands of the few Church. It is a challenge to their energy The phrase does not carry with it the dictate the lives and welfare (or ill fare) and their resourcefulness. There may be idea of cold, cynical, calculation that goes of millions here at home. And in personal a few indeed who feel about the same en­ with the term “passing the buck”; for it relations most of them believe that law thusiasm over it as the corpulent ail'll essentially suggests a certain care-free and order are maintained by putting the officers whom President Roosevelt invited irresponsibility that implies the absurdity fear of consequences into the hearts of (i. e. commanded) to take a fifty mile of the thing’s having been our business in those whom they look down upon. Then, horseback ride: but they are few. Most the first place. they hope and pray and agitate to have of the clergy see the signs of a new era; All this is apropos of the current discus­ the Conference on Limitation of: Arma­ a day when every parish shall have accbas sion of disarmament. It is a most remark­ ment get rid of war, the logical conse­ to the enthusiasm, intelligence, and power able thing the way the demand fo r ’some quence of what they are living every day! of the whole body. measure of reduction in armaments has Norman Angell in his recent book, “The We have all been fishing off the dock, in the last ten months grown from a few Fruits of Victory,” puts the thing in a nut­ each one on his own spot, with his particu­ isolated cries to a well organized move­ shell when he says that to get rid of war lar bait. The luck has varied as always ment participated in not only by pacifist we must change the ideals in the light of happens with fishermen. The cry iiUW organizations but by the greatest organ­ which we live. That is the task for our goes up, “Come, let’s weave a net, and get ized groups in the country, the Federal hundred millions rather than the twenty some boats, and all work together, and go Council of Churches, the American Federa­ gentlemen in Washington. To translate and get a big catch.” Somehow we can’t tion of Labor, the great farmers’ organiza­ the doctrine that he that saveth his life grow quite enthusiastic. Its rather pleas­ tions, the Leagues of Women Voters, the shall lose it into terms of international re­ ant to fish with a rod, and in spite of many National Education Association and many lations, world trade, or even everyday east winds we get a string, with patience. lesser federations. There is no question business is a tremendous impossibility to But we must fall in with the general but that the demand represents a real de­ those who have not learned that it is hap­ plans. The process of readjustment, how­ sire on the part of the great body of people pier to give than to get. Yet all of that is ever, is filled with amusing and" perplex­ for some sort of relief from the barbarous what is required if we are to make any ing difficulties, especially for such men as threat of war. appreciable progress toward the elimina­ have a fairly large burden in their parish It should next be observed that all tion of war. To reduce armament is a work. this great surging of activity and enthusi­ good thing and to abolish it is still better; A man must choose at times between his asm centers around the Conference on but any real achievement in that direction pastoral work, his sermons, and services, Limitation of Armament which will begin can come only from a body of people who and study, on the one hand, and meetings its sessions in Washington in November. are trying to put 100 per cent of brother­ of various sorts on the other. Indeed much of the former enthusiasm for hood into all their relations instead of liv­ Then the mail. It sometimes takes so the League of Nations which had been ing on the dog eat dog basis of modern long to read and digest all the official based on the hope of what it might do in commercial and industrial rivalry. documents, that one has no chance to the way of disarmament has been trans­ The acme of irresponsibility is to dodge apply their wisdom or programs. Many ferred to this coming Conference. Plans our obligations with the lazy, “Let George of the documents assume (once I saw a are already matured in most of the organ­ do it.” We complete the apotheosis of pastoral letter from a bishop of the 10th izations referred to for deluging the coun­ George when we advertise to the world province guilty of this error) that the en­ try on or about November 11th with mass that we really expect him to do that which tire congregation is in the next room wait­ meetings, speeches, sermons, parades, dem­ we are willing to undertake ourselves. ing for news from the front, and ready onstrations, petitions, pamphlets, lectures, to rush into the first line trenches. It and, in short, everything that will catch takes a campaign of no small magnitude the eyes and ears of the populace and thus Wonderful Mental Calmness to impress a single idea on a large con­ build up the pressure of a public opinion When digestive organs function normal. A wonder food with a delicious taste. gregation, or to get united action on a that will cause the gentlemen in Wash­ Retained by the most delicate stomach simple program. “To tell the people on ington to come through. and builds up ? under-weights. Sunday” is a method that cherishes the Here is where we need to look beneath C-O-D TOASTED CEREAL is made from Cream O’Durum, the macaroni wheat. delusion that the people are there to be the surface indications to guage what is Opr special electrical process retains all told. really involved in the movement. Without the nutritive value and there are thirty So the parson is in a fix. He doesn’t questioning the excellent intentions of large, wholesome dishes in every package. 1 26-oz. package, 35c; 3 same size for want one laboriously knit sleeve of the those who are taking part in the campaign, $1.00. (Postage paid up to the 4th zone.) | garment to unravel, while he meets with the fact must be noted that the great pub­ We thank our patrons for their appre­ ciation uof our efforts to furnish them with I a committee to draw up a constitution, lic clamor to have the Conference give us fresh cereal. I that will empower a diocese to get up a disarmament is unconsciously perhaps but I campaign that will unite all the parishes really, the careless shifting to George of a C-O-D CEREAL CO. I into an effort to raise the money to em­ responsibility we are not ready to face, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA it ploy an expert who in time will inspire a weakness which we are covering up with Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 6 THE WITNESS

The Rebirth of Hope in America in any bondage of State con­ Nations may rise and fall; but civiliza­ trol. tions, in new civic forms, advances. Fam IP But,— Religions may be born and die; but spir­ fR By Rev. J. A. Schaad The vision of Church unity is dim— itual truth, in new ecclesiastical garb, ad- I A pessimist has been defined as a man dimmer than before the waiv Spiritual vances. who wears a belt and suspenders at the power, in personal life of Christians seems Humanity has its ebb and flow of experi­ Fron | tl same time. destitute. World-conquest for Christ is ence ; but character, in new personalities, sketch« j y The optimist is portrayed as one who distant. advances. pressio: [th will, if need be, undertake eighteen holes Press and platform are commercializing Where vital truth is concerned there R a d ica li! of golf with only one ball. their disparagements of the Church. It is never was, and never can be, such a thing But t im i A plain fool would probably either not now profitable for writers and speakers to as a forlorn hope or a lost cause. some f e venture out xrf the house at all, for fear heckle the Church. Whether a particular nation or church ture gì er that both belt and suspenders might break; The public seems to have so absorbed shall be the instrument of God to bring For y or,would sally forth upon an eighteen hole the flaunted lies as to the general useless­ about the final success of a given task as misi idi golf course with no reserve of balls, on ness of the Church, that over half of our depends entirely upon its attitude towards trary. f the cock-sure assumption that there would people think of it only as a rather respect­ that task. And in choosing its attitude it pro-Iri] 11 be no need for them anyway. able Justice Shop for weddings, or as an determines its own destiny and writes its they ai p The world has many persons of each annex to the undertaker for funerals. own epitaph. nothinf i |J type, and so has the Church. And the Churchmen, themselves, evidence by Opportunity is still with us, as a nation tents. I success or failure of any civic or religious thejr absences from the Church that the and a church. If we meet it aright, hope THer [is enterprise depends, humanly, upon which Club is rather more important than divine may be' reborn. and it i tl of these types predominates in its in­ worship or religious instruction; and that The disarmament conference of Novem­ carnati ; < fluence in the critical decisions of the a week-end holiday is more sacred than ber 11th may mean much to America and not? ' ¡at effort. a Holy Day, even the Lord’s Day. the world, if Christian principles are ap­ So far: jih< Israel is not the only nation whose pes- As one thinks of the sainted heroes of plied to statesmanship. To create such The ot ir simism led it to vote down the courageous the Church, by whose fidelity and cour­ sentiment is the present task of the Manniri a optimism of Caleb and Joshua, with the ageous efforts savage kingdoms were sub­ church. To enforce such principles is the traced It result of forty years’ wandering in the dued and became peaceful provinces of duty of our nation. If America makes the ter mi: 11 wilderness; or whose folly in rejecting the Christ’s dominion, one asks, “Can these right decisions at this conference God. tical ir ite prophets’ warnings caused it to be con­ bones live again?” will continue to give us life. M y ì |ol demned to some Babylonian captivity, And pur present answer can be only by an |cii where hope died until reborn by the new that of Ezekiel, “0 Lord, God, thou know­ FLORENTINE CHRISTMAS CARDS, $1.00 walkinj [al visions of some Ezekiel. est” ; for who knows whether, if the Amer­ and $1.25 per dozen. Leaflet. C. Zara, 4243 Box, Germantown, Pa. pulpits f Perhaps you remember the story of ican Churches refuse to function earnestly botile: rei the “Valley of dry bones.” If not, get in the one supreme mission which Christ but ha [n your Bibles and read it. (Ezek. 37:1-15.) conferred upon us, He will say as of the was D P It is tremendously worth while. Church of the Laodiceans, “Because thou | CHRISTMAS CARDS other 1 ,th Has this allegorical vision any value for art luke-warm, I will spue thee out of my as I pi set us, here in this now-prosperous America? mouth.” U Religious cards directly im- 1 my ey< ai I think it has. Only God knows whether a given nation H ported from Italy, France, 'Bel-1 of sere ns To be sure, Americans are in no ap­ or Church shall continue to live, function U gium and England. American | ran, 1 parent form of physical captivity. In or prosper. || cards, religious and secular. Sam- g “Jo ÌU! fact, we have never seemed stronger or In the face of thé present American S .pies of any value sent on receipt | more independent. trend, the pessimist may say, “What’s the §jj of a deposit to cover their cost. I But,— use,” and refuse to make any effort; or and th: pri U Packets, containing twelve as- § Out ol ite: The idealism of the early period of oiir the fool may rush on in his folly and say, H sorted cards, at the following g national life ,and of the war-period, now “0 Jeremiah, cease your lamentations. secondi I seems dead. There is no danger.” y prices: Religious or secular, from J and th! Ju The spiritual side of human life in its But, being an optimist, I prefer to ac­ U 20c to $1.50; Religious— French, 1 of Eng pd 65c to $1.00; Bruges, 50c to g to thè! io! several relationships seems decadent. knowledge the danger and then seek to m Hope for international relations and prepare for it by laying hold upon the one $1.00; Mowbray, 50c, $1.00, g ing abi t] peace upon some higher plane than that ray of hope contained in the vision of U J. E. i d $1.25; Parchment, $1.20; Italian | tical mi of armaments and war has, for some time, Ezekiel. || Post Cards— Sepia, 50c; Colour, I declined. mystìd n God said, “I will cause breath to enter ® 55c, $1.00. Send for price list, f American life,— industrial, social and into you, and ye shall live.” ties a i : le personal, is becoming soggy with crass ma­ Translated into the language of our The G. F. S. Kalendar, 35c per J not ha ng terialism, so that men of high idealism own time, Ezekiel’s vision may be ex­ copy. ' obviou | fc and vision are becoming heavy-hearted. pressed in this wise: GIRLS» FRIENDLY SOCIETY | The li! As we think of the civic nobility of our Life is a great forward-moving pro­ 15 East 40th St., New York S books, ut national ancestry, and of our own one­ cession: of Go bi time resolves, we ask, “Can these bones of thè Ve live again?” Word i|v( And our present answer can be only that thè C ire of Ezekiel, “0 Lord, God, thou knowest”; ALTAR FURNISHINGS |Histor of for who knows whether, if America sins Of Brass or Bronze and t | ( away her divinely given opportunity in [ Chure m this crisis of the world’s history, God will CANDLE STICKS AND BRANCHES [ Rontei it. permit her to live. ALTAR DESKS | not joi When Israel shirked her mission to the ALTAR AND PROCESSIONAL CROSSES \ New I world of her times, she perished as a SANCTUARY LAMPS J Joshui hti nation. 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Famous English Preachers on arguing to the end of the chapter. But tremendous warning given to those who put your foot upon a solid fact and you tread under foot the Son of God and PREBENDARY DENISON can get on with your religion. count the blood of the covenant an un­ It was a solid fact that in Abraham all holy thing and do despite to the spirit By A. Manby Lloyd nations of the earth were to be blessed. of grace— and then, if you dare, repeat From the subjects of my previous To Joshua and the Judges the history of your silly questions and inane quibbles. ■t;sketches your readers may get the im­ Jacob and Moses, the crossing of the Red Such is a rather crude summary of his pression that our great preachers are all Sea, the miraculous journey through the line of thought. These lectures were only be suli !-^a<^^ca^s> Socialists or semi-Bolshevists. wilderness, the passage of the Jordan were part of a long series and the whole have ■ L J. HI Put- this is a mete accident. There are solid facts. The Covenant and the Prom­ been gathered up and amplified in a book ¡Some fine old crusted Tories in my pic- ise were solid facts. The Presence of (price about $2.00 to $2.50), entitled orcli||ure gallery. God and His Providence were solid facts. “The True Religion,” and published by For my own part, I regard our labels Treat the Covenant as a reality and all Elliot Stock. It should be in the hands las misleading and our categories as arbi­ was well. Treat it as a pious fiction and of every layman and priest, lay-reader trary. If it pleases anyone to call me there was nothing before them but the and Sunday school teacher. There is no Its attitiii; ¡pro-Irish, or Conrad Noel pro-Russian, blackness of despair. They were without book quite like it in the world, and to hey are welcome. But the label settles God and without hope in the world. my knowledge it has reached America and ¡nothing. The bottle is known by its con- As it was with Joshua, so it is with the has brought back wobblers, and put heart a Mfij Itents. Church of England today. The Covenant into many puzzled souls. Those who look There is only one real test of a man is a reality or it is not. You are either in for cut and dried answers may be dis­ ¡and it is this. Does he believe in the In- the Covenant-—or you are not. Such a appointed, and partisans of Luther and ence t carnation of the Son of God, or does he thing as a “moderate” churchman is a Calvin will find themselves severely han­ to Americaij¡not? That is the only valid dividing line. pious fiction. How long halt ye between dled. But the wit and simplicity and j!So far, the answer is in the affirmative. two opinions? If the Lord be God, serve charm of the book are not to be denied, r° create s| The other differences (as in the case of him. If not, Baal. There is no betwixt even by those who call themselves Protes­ I planning and Newman) may be generally and between. tants. For these old labels have lost straced to temperament. The dreamy mas­ To Joshua and the Judges, though, ,the their meaning. Those who gurgle and rnca makes! ter mind becomes a Platonist, the prac- Revelation was partial. That which was gush over John Bunyan and his bitter :onference tftical master man an Aristotelian. perfect had yet to come. Coming events satire must not complain if they are hard My whole philosophy of life was changed cast their shadows before. They had the hit in this Catholic Pilgrim’s Progress. by an accident. Some 15 years ago I was shadow, while we have the substance. They Henry Phipps Denison is the nephew of iS CA walking along High Holborn, close to the the famous Archdeacon of that name; he et. 'C, had the Ark, the Tabernacle, the Holy pulpits of two famous preachers who had Law of Priesthood, the cloud by day and „has written many valuable books, of which both exercised a fascination over my mind, fire by night. . . . We have the True “Thoughts of Penance” would be found but had not quite satisfied it. The one Ark and the True Tabernacle, which the most valuable to the clergy. He is now ¡was Dr. Parker of the City Temple, the Lord pitched and not man. over 70, in failing health, and hoping to ARDS ; other Father Stanton of St. Albans. But “Very Pretty,” says someone, “but end his days in quiet retirement at Wells, ¡as I passed the Church of St. Sepulchres, where he may be found saying his daily iredly im-j what about the seamy side? What about my eye caught a bill announcing a course the extermination of your enemies?” offices. For he is a true child of the Ox­ m t, of sermons with a puzzling title. The title “Never mind about that,” is Preb Deni­ ford movement and the early Tractarians, America ran, son’s reply. Let God manage his own to whom modern phrases— Christian So­ culai. Sam “Joshua, Judges and the Church of business and let us mind our own busi­ cialism, etc., etc.—are anathema. But to t on l e w England,” ness. God has not told US to extermi­ him, humanly speaking, I owe more than nate our enemies, but to drive out sin. .can ever be repaid. ______■their costi 'and the preacher was Prebendary Denison. Never mind about the seven nations of ! twelve »i Out of mere curiosity I dropped in to the Canaan. Our business is with the seven [second of the series. What could Joshua Confirmation Instructions deadly sins. Never mind the Old Cove­ ecular, h i and the Judges have to do with the Church By BISHOP JOHNSON of England? And I found myself listening nant with its bloody rites. 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Chairman »reminded the conference that the N. W. C. had always been successful, financially and spiritually, wherever it was launched and carried out according to plans outlined by the general committee in charge. Detailed accounts were given as to what the N. W. C. had done, and was doing in the world, United States and Texas. A show of hands made it evident that, in most places, there has resulted a great spiritual awakening; congregations have received new visions of God’s King­ NORFOLK, VIRGINIA dom"; loyalty has been created; church CHRIST CHURCH. service and church schools have been bet­ The Rev. Francis C. Steinmetz, S. T. D., ter attended; financial problems solved, Rector. and a host of new church workers won. Sunday Services, 7:30 and 11:00 a. m., 4:30 p. m. 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