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G. A . S tuddert-K e n n e d y HEN Jesus came to Golgotha they hanged W Him on a tree, They drave great nails through hands and feet, and made a Calvary; They crowned' Him with a crown of thorns, red were His wounds and deep, For those were crude and cruel days, and hu­ man flesh was cheap. When Jesus came to Birmingham, they simply passed Him by, They never hurt a hair of Him, they only let Him die; For men had grown more tender, and they would not give Him pain, They only just passed down the street, and left Him in the rain. Still Jesus cried, “ Forgive them for they know not what they do.” And still it rained the winter rain that drenched Him through and through; The crowds went home and left the streets with­ out a soul to see, And Jesus crouched against a wall and cried for Calvary.

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C hrist and Nationalism By A N G U S D U N H AT is a nation? One writer offers the following degree to have a mind of his own. and a will of his own. W definition, which is probably as good as any: “ A He wants to lead his own life and rebels against domi­ nation is a natural society of men, who by reason of nation by another life. So a people that has awakened unity of territory, origin, custom, and language are to its own individuality wants freedom and independ­ driawn into a community of life and conscience.” ence. They would rather manage their own affairs bad­ A nation is normally rooted in the soil, in a particular ly than have someone else manage them well. part of the world. We commonly speak of a nation as The sentiment of patriotism is the love a people have a “ country” . It is a people with a home-land, who have for their own life as a people, their own country and a part of the earth’s surface in common. They take their own ways, their own heroes and their own hopes their character partly from the land and they come to1 for their common future. It is like a man’s love for 'feel towards that land as members of a family feel himself or a family’s love for its home and its family towards home. ways. There is something exclusive about it. A family A nation is rooted in the fact of physical relation­ does not want to be over-run by strangers, let alone ship. It may have a more or less distinctive race as its bossed by strangers, A nation resents invasion above core, but even if it does not, the very fact of living everything else. .together in. the same country will tend to produce a Most of us find it easy to think our own sense of new race. Unless the barriers are very great, as they nationality and patriotism is a good thing, just as we are between the dominant white race and the depressed find it easy to think our own. desire for personal inde­ black race in this country, people who live side by side pendence and self respect is a good thing. W e find it tend tO' inter-marry, and the bonds of physical likeness harder to recognize that the sense, of nationality and are joined to the bonds of common soil. the patriotism of other peoples is a good thing. But plainly if it is good for us,.it,is good for others. “We Out of the fact that men live together in particular can not approve of patriotism for Americans without parts of the world there grows the fact that they come approving of patriotism for Germans and Frenchmen, to have a language of their own, customs of their own, and even for those troublesome,— to us,— Cubans and common memories and common hopes. Nothing is more Filipinos. The uncomfortable law,— “Do unto others central in the making of a nation than common mem­ as ye would that they should do unto you,” and the ories and common hopes. W e might almost say that a uncomfortable saying about the mote in one’s brother’s nation is a great community of men with common eye and the 'beam in one’s own eye plainly apply here. memories and common hopes. Washington and Lincoln, the Mayflower and Gettysburg belong to us as they can never belong to any other people. Joan of A rc be­ HAVE tried to suggest what we mean by nation­ longs to France, Luther and Goethe and Beethoven to Iality. What then is Nationalism? It might be de­ Germany, Sun Yat Sen to China. scribed. as the perversion of nationality. It is patriot­ A nation is born when a community of men begins ism running amuck. It is the nation, .claiming to be to have an individuality of its own and becomes aware not only la true object of loyalty and affection, but the that it constitutes a unique web or pattern of human highest object of loyalty and affection. It is the setting lives. And out of that sense of nationality grows a will of national loyalty in the place that belongs to God. to lead its own life, a will to freedom and independence. We respect a man who respects himself. We rightly As Professor Hocking has pointed out, there is a close fear a man who views himself as the center of the uni­ analogy between the growth of this sense of its own verse and judges all. issues according to the way they uniqueness on a people and the growing sense of his affect him. In violent nationalism we see the natural own individuality in a human individual at adolescence. and rightful self-respect of a people transformed into At adolescence a boy discovers himself, begins in a new vicious self-assertion. When that mood comes over a people it becomes, to use Professor Hocking’s words,— This is the concluding article of the series “ Christ and His Rivals in the Modern World.” “ irritable,; superior, anxious for its prestige, intolerant

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of division at home, afraid of free discussion, it muz­ wideness in his mercy like the wideness of the sea.” zles its press, it falsifies the teaching of history to its His law of brotherhood is not bound by frontiers. children.” W e see this ugly temper in Germany today. Thé nation that sets itself up as the object of final W e see it wherever patriotism runs amuck, in our own devotion is usurping the place of God. Ultimately we country as well as in others. W e see it wherever the have only one to serve, namely God, and only one thing nation is set up as the highest object of devotion and to do, namely to serve God. Dr. Mackintosh of Yale the arbiter of conscience and the community which was denied citizenship because he reserved the right claims our absolute allegiance. to decide according to his conscience whether or not he We are getting used to the idea that wherever an in­ would fight in any war his nation declared. The Su­ dividual shows criminal or anti-social tendencies, there preme Court decided four to three in favor of that are other factors at work besides the cussedness of that ruling. But whatever the law of the land or the de­ individual. Society helps to make the criminal. He is cision of the full Supreme Court, every Christian must not an utterly self-made man. And likewise the inter­ reserve the moral right to decide in the sight of God national society helps to make the violently nationalist whether he will follow the will of his nation. What the nation. The violently self-assertive man is likely to be nation does to him then is its own affair. But the a man who has been stepped on somewhere, who has Church that does not treasure that primary allegiance been bullied or repressed or had his pride hurt. If of a Christian to His God is a Church disloyal to its Chinese nationalism is a turbulent thing that boycotts own constitution. Japanese goods, what is it but the resentment of a peo­ Nationalism not only conflicts with the claim of God ple whose home has been ruthlessly invaded by the to our final allegiance, it conflicts with the law of great powers? If Japanese nationalism is a self-as­ brotherhood. Wherever it appears it reasserts the old sertive and dangerous force, have we had no hand in law which Christ rejected, “Thou shalt love thy neigh­ creating it by wounding the pride of a people, treating bor and hate thy enemy.” Hitler is speaking in the them as an inferior race and insulting them by a dis­ tones of violent Nationalism everywhere when he criminatory exclusion clause? Whatever your view as writes in Mein Kampf,— “the health of the nation is to the past sins of Germany, it is not difficult to see in not to be sought in lying phrases about international the violent Nationalism of the Nazis the deep resent­ brotherhood between Negroes, Germans, Chinese, ment of a people forced to sign at the point of a bay­ French, English, etc.” “The mortal enemy of our na­ onet an acknowledgement of their sole guilt for the tion, France, pitilessly chokes us and robs us of our Great War, in which they at least did not believe, and strength.” “ No path can be too difficult for us and no forced to disarm, only to see the victorious powers fail­ resignation impossible, if the final result offers the pos­ ing to> keep their own promise of progressive disarma­ sibility of overcoming our fiercest hater.” ment. W e are very slow to learn the wisdom of the The folly and deceit and cruelty of war is only the eastern proverb: “Hatred ceaseth not by hatred at any end result and the full revelation of a world organized time, hatred ceaseth only by love.” into states which do not acknowledge any allegiance above the nation. H A T is the Christian attitude towards nationality No disciple of Christ can acknowledge that his na­ Wand patriotism and Nationalism? Must the tion is above the law of brotherhood, which is the will Christian renounce patriotism and dedicate himself to of God. He can only serve his nation as a servant of the destruction of the stubborn fact of nationality? Or God and of the community of mankind. is the substance of the Christian judgment expressed in FOR CLASS DISCUSSION the much quoted declaration of Edith Cavell, inscribed Ï. Describe a nation. beneath her statue in London, “ Patriotism is not 2. What are some of the characteristics of a nation ? enough” ? 3. What is the foundation of patriotism? 4. Do we owe our highest loyalty to the nation? The answer to these questions can not be found by 5. Has the nation, say in time of war, a right to ask us to set aside the dictates of our conscience ? Did our government ask us to quoting texts. It must be found through a clear grasp do so during the last war ? How did the Church respond ? of the meaning of discipleship as expressed in the great 6. Discuss the present Church situation in Germany. commandments: “ Thou shalt love God,” “ Thou shalt 7. Are we at all responsible for the situation in Germany ? 8. Whatj should he the Christian attitude toward Nationalism? love thy neighbor as thyself.” On these.all else hangs. Does it conflict with either or both of the Great Commandments? In the light of these the answer to our question is clear. Christian discipleship does not wipe out our natural love for our country any more than it wipes out our natural love for our own lives or for our families or Our Obligation our friends. It does subordinate all of these radically An Editorial by to our love for God and the human brotherhood. BISHOP JOHNSON The Christ who could say, “ If any man cometh to me and hateth not his mother and father, he cannot be N F O R T Y years one learns a great deal about hu­ my disciple,” would surely say with the same meaning, I man nature, both the generous sacrifices which some “ If any man cometh to me and hateth not his own na­ are making and the lack of cooperation which others tion, he cannot be my disciple.” Christ speaks for God, display. In my judgment it might be a good plan and God does not yield His throne to any other sov­ for the Church to enforce a stricter discipline than ereign. God is the God of the whole earth. “ There’s a its temper seems to exert.

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There is an obligation for members to support the selves in our efforts to maintain respectability without body to which they belong in proportion to their means. sacrifice. It is most discouraging when members of the Church Indifference, insincerity and ingratitude constitute a withhold their support because they dislike the rector, grave menace to the effectiveness of our witness to the or make drastic cuts in their pledges without in any Master. After all it is Christ that we worship and way changing their style of living. The greatest bur­ not the local minister. Our baptismal vow is a pledge den that the Church has to carry is that of the spiritual to serve faithfully in His army and we cannot claim groundhogs who come out at Easter, see their shadow exemption from service because we do not like our and go back into their holes for another year, and officers or are out of step with this or that policy. those ecclesiastical economists who throw the burden The test of our loyalty is to1 be found in our willing­ of Church support upon their brethren by refusing to ness to do our share regardless of our comfort in the bear their own share. local situation. The whole is greater than any of its Of course the Church holds back (for fear of parts, and disciples will not produce the fruits of humiliating some who cannot give) from bearing down love, joy and peace if they nourish roots of bitterness on those who will not give. It is somewhat of a scan­ and weeds of discontent. dal that these supposedly impecunious members can Church life is somewhat like touring in an automo­ give elaborate social functions, and also expect to take bile. You do not abandon the trip because the road their leave of the Church in expensive funerals. Really is sometimes rough and the scenery is not always in­ we do not fool God or our neighbors, but only our- spiring.

T he Christ of Compassion By NORMAN NASH T IS a traditional belief as old as the 6th century that the humble virgin of Nazareth (1:30). Its first can­ Ithe man who composed the two volumes we know as ticle proclaims the triumph of the meek and the might the Lucan Gospel and The Acts of the Apostles was a of God’s mercy ( 1148, 50, 52, 54). Its second sings painter. Among the treasures of the Boston Art Mu­ of merciful redemption (1:68, 72, 74, 77) and the seum is a charming i6th century picture of St. Luke dawn of salvation dispelling darkness and ushering in drawing the portrait of the Virgin and Child. The the day of peace (1 :78f). figures have the tender beauty that marks the infancy The child in the lowly manger (2:7), the poor shep­ story in the third of our Gospels, and the background herds abiding in the fields, the angelic assurance of is as picturesque as the scenes in Acts. But Roger Van God’s good pleasure (2:14), and the poor mother’s Der Weyden’s painting rests on fancy, not sober his­ offering (2 124, see Lev. 12 :6-8) all bespeak God’s lov­ tory, which knows the author of these two beautiful ing-kindness to the humble. The devout Simeon, his books as an artist in words only. The 2nd century heart’s desire granted, departs from earth in peace was probably right in identifying him with Luke the (2129), and aged Anna recognizes that redemption has physician, beloved companion of St. Paul (Col. 4 :I4 ) » at last drawn nigh (1138). The grace of God abides while the 4th century was surely wrong in believing with the growing child (1 ‘.40, 52). him one of the seventy evangelists of chapter 10 of his Even stern John the Baptist turns from denunciation own Gospel. A s he himself tells us (1:2 ), he was and doom to bid the multitudes to show mercy on thé not among the eye-witnesses of the ministry of Jesus. poor (3:10-11), and the tax-gatherers and soldiers to The book truly contains a religio medici, a physi­ cease from oppression (3:12-14). And when Jesus cian’s faith, for its key-note is compassion for men’s stands up to read the scripture in the Nazareth syna­ sufferings and needs, physical and spiritual. Its au­ gogue to his fellow-townsmen, his chosen passage is of thor’s extraordinary gift of picturesqueness is sub­ a vocation to preach good tidings to the poor, release to ordinated to his desire to portray the merciful Messiah, prisoners, sight to the blind, and liberty to the op­ the Christ of the divine compassion. His success is at­ pressed, for such is the acceptable year of the Lord tested by such a well-known estimate as Renan’s— “the (4:17-19). His own reject him (4:24), but he recalls most beautiful book in the world”— or by Dante’s love­ to them God’s mercies of old to Gentiles (4:25-27). ly phrase, “ scriba mansuetudinis Christi,” the scribe of The evangelist has already enlarged his readers’ hori­ the gentleness of Christ. His is the gospel of grace in zon to see the wideness in God’s mercy, for in his gene­ both senses of that word, for he portrays both the beau­ alogy of Jesus (3:23~38) he does not, like Matthew, ty of holiness and the divine compassion on sinners as stop with Abraham, but goes back to Adam, thus hint­ incarnate in Jesus. ing at a redemptive purpose for all the sons of Adam. His book begins with the story of God’s mercy on ESUS has called himself physician (4:23), so we the childless Elizabeth (1:25, 58), and His grace to J are not surprised to find him performing many This article on St. Luke’s Gospel is the third in the series o f “Four Portraits of Our Lord.” works of mercy, and even working a great miracle for

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fishermen whose all night toil has brought them noth­ the love of God made real in almsgiving (1 1 :4if). The ing (5:5). Truly here is the compassionate physician lawyers make the burden of keeping the Torah ever of both bodies and souls (5:3i f ) , who subordinates heavier, never lighter (11 ’.46). What a damning rec­ even the sabbath to men’s need (6 :i - i 1). W e see him ord of cruelty and blind rejection of God’s messengers taking the same compassionate attitude in 13:10-17 and is theirs! (11:47-51). They will treat Jesus by the 14:1-6. So appealing is this to Luke that he includes same dreadful precedent (13:33), yet how he longs to three stories with this one Sabbatarian teaching. save them from the doom of their wickedness (13134) ! Jesus prefaces his discourse to the disciples with How he pleads with them at the end of the grand par­ healings (6:17-19), and his opening words are of able of grace (15:11-32), to imitate God’s loving for­ promise to his poor, hungry, sorrowful and rejected giveness of sinners, that they too' may be forgiven be­ followers (6:20-23). A t once he bids them imitate fore it is too late. W e call it the parable of the prodi­ God’s mercy to the wicked (6:27-38), for love of ene­ gal son, but its true climax is in the dialogue between mies is to our evangelist the characteristic of God, the compassionate father and the dutiful, unforgiving God’s Son and God’s children. A comparison of 6 ¡36 son (vs. 28-32). Why can they not share the joy of (be ye merciful) with Matthew 5 ¡48 (ye shall be per­ heaven over a repentant sinner, restored to his true fect) is revealing; and similarly we notice that in tell- home? The companion-piece to this marvellous story liig of the healing of the centurion’s servant (7:1-10, is 18:9-14: the proud Pharisee does not ask for for­ Matthew 8:5-13), it is Luke alone who finds room to giveness, knowing no need for it, while the penitent speak of the Roman officer’s affection for his slave publican goes to his house at one with the God of for­ (v. 2) and generous love for the Jews (v. 5). Notice, giveness. Such a publican is Zacchaeus (19:1-10), for too, the pathos in the ensuing story of the dead man v. 8, whether we understand it as a new resolution or of Nain, “the only son of his mother, and she a widow” an established practice, is the “bringing forth fruits (7:12). worthy of repentance” (3:8), instead of relying on The Lord’s reply to the inquirers sent by John from racial claim upon God. his prison makes deeds of mercy the proof of Messiah- Jesus has a sad foreboding that the nation will not ship (7:19-22), with the climax the good tidings to the turn, and when from across the valley of Kidron he poor, echoing the Isaianic prophecy already employed gazes on the beloved city, so beautifully and so utterly in 4:18. One of the most dramatic stories in the book blind, it is through tears of sorrow (19:41-44). To depicts Jesus the friend of sinners (7:36-50, note him, God’s mercy is infinite, but not indefinite. Judg­ 7:34), and the loving devotion of the forgiven woman ment is at hand for those who with clear conscience is the sinner’s response to compassion. Tradition has turn God’s house into a robbers’ den (19:46), reject long identified the woman with Mary of Magdala, the manifestly divine authority of John the Baptist, al­ making “Magdalene” synonymous with “penitent.” ready slain, and of Jesus, whose life they are about to But since Luke introduces Mary of Magdala as a new take (20:1-19). On an unrepentant and wicked nation figure in the very next paragraph (8:2), this tradition­ doom is pronounced (21:20-23), but it is characteristic al view can hardly be correct. Mary to Luke is not a of our evangelists’ stress on the redemptive aspect even penitent sinner but a healed demoniac, a figure par­ of the Day of Wrath that he alone, unlike Mark and allel to1 the man of 8:26-39, from whom many more Matthew, adds a word of redemptive assurance at the than seven demons were cast out. Both the woman end of his apocalyptic program (21:28). and the man were healed, not of moral disorder, but of mental disease. Y P IC A L , too, is the prophecy of doom in 23: Mercy is once more the note in 9:51-55; vengeful T27-31, another expression of Jesus’ pitying fore­ disciples, eager to call down divine wrath on the in­ boding; he sorrows not for his own pain but for the hospitable Samaritans, are rebuked. A Samaritan of a dying anguish of the nation. One cannot but regret very different sort is depicted in the immortal story of that the judgment of textual criticism casts serious neighbor-love (10:25-37). He that shows mercy ful­ doubt on a verse so sublime, and so characteristic of fills the great commandment of Lev. 19:18. Who can the Lucan Christ, as “ Father, forgive them, for they estimate the influence, in centuries past and to come, o-f know not what they doi” (2 3 :34). But it is absent in man­ this literary and ethical masterpiece? Did any gener­ uscripts of the first importance for our knowledge of the ation need its lesson more than our own, obsessed with text in early centuries in different parts of the Church, racial and national prejudice? so that its originality is as doubtful as its congruity is sure, seeing that it attributes to Jesus a consistency O W deft is the contrast of the little vignette that with his own teaching of the divine compassion, so H"follows this magnificent scene (10:38-42). It is beloved of Luke. as homely as an interior of the Dutch painters, and as A passage of equal consistency and with no textual lifelike. The Master quiets the shrill and exasperated doubt is 23:39~43, assuring the dying thief of God’s Martha with a sympathetic word that is yet a correc­ forgiveness. Luke’s readers know that there was joy tion. Sterner are his words to Pharisees and law­ in heaven over this repentant sinner, this sick soul yers (the latter Luke’s equivalent for scribes). But the healed in the last earthly ministration of the compas­ offense of the Pharisees is extortion (11 ¡39), and they sionate physician of souls, a healer even on His cross. are taught that ceremonial purity is no substitute for Luke’s resurrection-narrative is all his own, and one

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. March 22, 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Seven imagines that the scene in the humble home at Em- Thee such good things as pass man’s undèrstanding ; maus is to most modern readers by far the most beau­ Pour into our hearts such love toward Thee, that we, tiful of all resurrection-stories. At the very end, as loving Thee above all things, may obtain Thy prom­ in Matthew, the disciples receive their commission; ises, which exceed all that we can desire, through but how characteristically different are Matthew Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 28:18-20 from Luke 24:45-49. The Lucan Christ speaks, not of authority, rite and law, but of a re­ demptive dying and resurrection, of repentance and forgiveness. His last word is a promise of spiritual power, his last act is to lift his hands in blessing (2 4 :51 )- L e t ’s K n o w Luke’s Gospel is complete, but his literary task is By only half done. The sequel is to f ollow, and we realize BISHOP WILSON that it will tell us how “ repentance and remission of sins” were “ preached in Christ’s name unto all the na­ L egends tions” by men “clothed with power from on high.” For 'HE Rabinnical literature of Israel was a great the Spirit will fulfill the promise of the Christ of com­ Tmixture. It constituted the “tradition of the eld­ passion. W e, with the disciples of old, continuously ers”, some of which was serious and some a collec­ bless the God of the everlasting mercy. To many of us, tion of legends. The Rabbis took particular delight in this is the most moving of the four Gospels, the most compiling fanciful tales about the Old Testament winsome of the portraits. In its two unique parables worthies. For instance, here are a few about David. of compassion divine and human, Christ speaks to our David is said to have had red hair. Naturally he was condition, and reconciles us to God and our neighbor. quite small in stature but after Samuel anointed him, Here is the wideness of God’s mercy, pardoning and he grew rapidly until he was as large as Saul. The renewing us, and calling us to be merciful, even as our commentators conclude this must have been so or Saul Father is merciful. would never have offered David his armour to wear. David is said to have possessed the “evil eye” and was able to inflict leprosy upon anyone upon whom he turned his angry glance. When Goliath cursed, he switched the evil eye on the giant turning him into a The Lenten Call leper at the same time as he hurled the fatal stone Sixth Week from his sling. Indeed they say that David was a vic­ THE COMPENSATIONS OF THE MASTER tim of leprosy himself for six months. This conclusion I. T e x t : Genesis 15:1— I am thy shield, and thy is drawn from a literal contemplation of numbers in exceeding great reward. the Second Book of Samuel. The account says that II. Introduction : “Prove Me now and see.” God David reigned for seven years and six months in will not be outdone in generos­ Hebron and then for thirty-three years in Jerusalem. ity. He loves to be trusted. He gives without But his entire reign is spoken of as forty years. Hence measure. Only a calculating and bargaining serv­ there are six extra months to be accounted for. The ice is a wrong service to offer Him. The cup of legend says that David was a leper for those six cold water, in His Name, cannot fail of its re­ months and counted as a dead man, which evens up ward. His reward for faithfulness is increased the total. As a matter of fact the number forty was capacity; His reward for service— greater oppor­ often used in the olden days as a round number signi­ tunity of service; His reward for friendship— fying a long time. But people always get into trouble Himself. To possess Him is to possess all. “He when they try to take Scriptural numbers literally. that hath the Son hath life. All things are yours.” The legend assigns this leprosy as the reason for the III. Bible Readings, Monday to Saturday. verse in the Psalm “Thou shalt purge me with hys­ L ove: Romans 8: 35-39 sop, and I shall be clean; thou shalt wash me, and I Jo y : I St. Peter 1: 3-8 shall be whiter than snow.” Peace: St. John 14: 23-27 Also they said that David had a lute hanging above W isdom : I Corinthians 2: 12-16 his bed turned so that the morning breeze would strike P ower: Acts 1: 1-8 it and produce music. This would arouse him very L ife E ternal: St. John 6: 37-40 early, before daylight, and give him a quiet period for IV . Pray Da il y : “That we may evermore dwell in studying the Law. That is why he wrote in the Psalm Him, and He in us.” “Awake, lute and harp: I myself will awake right V. R esolution: “Here we offer and present unto early” . Thee, O Lord, our selves, our The Rabbis loved to produce stories to account for souls and bodies, to be a reason­ picturesque passages in the Psalms. There is the one able, holy, and living sacrifice un­ which says “Save me from the lion’s mouth; thou hast to Thee.” heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns.” O GOD, who hast prepared for those who love It was a poetic way of saying that God had rescued

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David fr©m grevious troubles. But the legend tells 1919 and 1934, fifteen years,— a lot of people, who do how David was out pasturing his father’s sheep and not give a hoot about oiling up the war veterans. These came upon a sleeping rhinoceros (a unicorn — one younger votes are not yet organized; but they have horn). Before he knew what it was, he had driven his their eyes open. They are getting restless. It is such sheep right up on the animal’s back. The rhinoceros as they who have overthrown the parliaments in half awoke, stood up, and David found himself mounting the world, and for the reason that those parliaments toward the sky. Whereupon he prayed lustily and the have seemed, apparently incurably, to be dominated by Lord sent a lion against the rhinoceros, which became venal job-jobbers, intent almost wholly on re-elections, frightened and lay down again, allowing David to slide and morally unfit to govern anybody. Is it so in Amer­ off and kill the lion. That, so says the legend, is what ica too ? The younger voters are asking. he meant by the “ lion’s mouth” and “the horns of the There are people who insist that America will never unicorns” . go Fascist. W e love our liberties too much, it is said. The “shield of David” was the six-pointed star, two But we do not love our legislators. More and more, triangles intertwined. There were sacred Hebrew let­ we are sick of them. Out of this recent sordid busi­ ters in the center and on each point. It was a sure pro­ ness, LaGuardia and Roosevelt take on new popular tection against fire— it was stamped on a cake of bread glory, protectors of the people against Solonic incom­ and cast into the fire while certain words were recited. petence and worse. Cannot legislatures, national and Is it any wonder that our Lord said sharply to the state, understand that they, and the system of which Pharisees— “ why do ye also transgress the command­ they are a part, are on trial before the bar of public ment of God by your tradition?” opinion, and that no constitution can protect them if they fail to satisfy that stern and impatient jury? The answer to that question seems to be, that they cannot understand that simple fact at all, at all. Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make foolish. Casual Comment By BERNARD IDDINGS BELL Hearts and Spades By HE two most telling blows at constitutional demo­ CAPTAIN B. FRANK MOUNTFORD cratic government and in promotion of Fascism in T Church Army America this year, have been delivered, one by the legislature of New York State and the other by the S 'GOOD FRIDAY coming to have more reverent United States Senate. Both of these assemblies recent­ I recognition amongst Episcopalians? There w{as ly indicated quite clearly that legislative bodies are for need for better observance. Christmas and Easter are the most part to be regarded as jobholding juntas overlooked by none who call themselves Christians, but rather than as stewards of the public welfare. the Day of the Cross has had but slight homage from The New York legislature has refused to pass Mayor the multitude. Whatever view we may hold of Cal­ LaGuardia’s economy bill, designed to permit the firing vary’s accomplishments, we must allow that the Church of a lot of political place-holders whose jobs are sine­ and the New Testament alike give large place to Good cures, and a cutting of the pay of others. The state Friday. The Creed leaps from the Cradle to the Cross. Salons made all sorts of pious excuses at not allowing The New Testament places less emphasis, upon our these necessary reforms; but finally they proposed to Lord’s birth and life than it does upon His death. Mr. LalGuardia that they would pass his bill provided Bethlehem and Nazareth are in the program, but it is the thousands of “county jobs” were not disturbed. Jerusalem that is made conspicuous. One-third of These “county jobs” are jobs connected with the Matthew, Mark and Luke, and one-half of the Fourth counties which were incorporated into the greater city Gospel, are given to recording Calvary. Apostolic some years ago— divisions maintained almost wholly on teaching and preaching circled around Christ’s death paper and to provide fat jobs for political henchmen. and resurrection. In the final book of the New Testa­ The mayor, wisely, let the newspapers have the whole ment, not the perfect Man is shown, but the Lamb story. Is it any wonder that membership in the law­ standing as it had been slain. making body at Albany is popularly regarded as more Some twenty-five times does the title “Lamb” occur of a disgrace to a man than otherwise ? in the Apocalypse; the slain Lamb, the enthroned And the Senate passed a bill giving $139,000,000 to Lamb, the Shephred Lamb, the Warrior Lamb. veterans, money saved in the decent reform of veter­ Good Friday calls us back to our Agnus Dei. We ans’ relief by Mr. Roosevelt last spring. The President may not know, we cannot tell how Calvary’s Cross a will, of course, veto it. Why did the Senate do this? world from sin could free, but somehow in that gigan­ Because there are elections next fall and the veterans’ tic mass beneath which Jesus sank, are our sins, and vote is organized. The noble Senators cannot afford to He has borne them away. Calvary’s Matchless Offering offend these vocal boys. Of course the Senate forgot brought God’s love to us, and surely reverent ob­ the younger votes, those who came of age between servance becomes us on Good Friday.

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By Gardiner M. Day Edited b y W. B. S pofford In the winter number of that ex­ The 1934 meeting of the Church cellent quarterly, Religion in Life, Congress is to be held in Philadelphia Dr. Warren W. Pickett, of Detroit, on April 17-20, with the Bellevue- in an article entitled “ Is Worship an Stratford Hotel as headquarters. The Escape?”, observes that one of the first session is on the evening of the great needs of our Protestant Church 17th when the subject is “ What at the present time is that of liturgies should be the relation of the Church and prayers which express the reli­ to the NRA,” with the Rev. Floyd gious feelings and beliefs of the mod­ Van Keuren, social service secretary ern man in phraseology which is per­ of New York, leading off, followed fectly natural to him. In case any by the secretary of the Church of our readers do not know this League for Industrial Democracy. quarterly, it may be of interest to re­ The annual corporate communion is mark that the Rev. Professor Howard the following morning, with Bishop Robbins, of the General Seminary, Taitt as celebrant, and Bishop Penick is one of the editors and the Bishop of North Caroling as preacher. That e f Massachusetts has an article on afternoon the subject is “ In what “ The Devotional Life of the Minister” sense do we wish Christendom to be in this number. BISHOP PENICK reunited? Is unity of organization A volume has just come out which To Preach at Church Congress essential?” The papers are to be by is a recognition of this need cited by the Rev. Robert S. Chalmers of Bal­ Dr. Pickett. Dr. Morgan P. Noyes, indices, which enable one to look up timore and the Rev. Theodore R. minister of the Central Presbyterian Ludlow of South Orange, New Jer­ the prayers by their first lines, Church of Montclair, N. J., has sey. That evening the session is to authors, sources, or topics, j gathered together in a volume en­ be on “ What is the relation of the titled Prayers for Services (Scrib­ The Church Looks Ahead is the Church to social change,” with the ners, $2.50) a remarkably fine collec­ title of a volume edited by Charles executive secretary of social service tion of prayers. He has divided E. Schofield which purports to be an of the National Council, the Rev. C. these prayers under six general analysis and a forecast of American Rankin Barnes, contending that “ It headings—“ Calls to Worship,” “ Con­ Protestant Christianity (Macmillan, is making a vital contribution,” fessions,” “ Petitions,” “Invocations,” $3.00). The book itself is divided by whereas the Rev. W. Spear Knebel, “ Thanksgivings,” and “ Intercessions.” the author into three sections headed formerly social service secretary of In addition, there are a good many “ The Mission of the Christian Move­ Long Island, and now the rector at sections of prayers for special occa­ ment,” “ The Message of the Gospel,” Woodside, L. I., is to contend that sions, as for example suggested and “ The Method of Organized Chris­ the Church “ is merely adjusting it­ prayers to be used for the choir be­ tianity.” Under these three headings, self.” fore the service or for a funeral almost everything connected with the Problems of the ministry will be service. Dr. Noyes has by no means church is touched upon, from personal discussed on Thursday morning as limited himself to modern prayers religion to church architecture. Al­ follows: “ Admission” by Bishop but has gone back in many cases to though the book boasts that it is Washburn of Newark, “ Placement” looking ahead, the major portion of the original source books out of by the Rev. B. H. Reinheimer, execu­ it is looking backward, and very which our own Book of Common tive secretary of the field department little space is actually given to the P ra yer grew, such as the Leonine of the National Council, and “ Retire­ future. Most of the chapters trace Sacramentary. An idea of the com­ ment” by Bishop Capers of West a development of particular aspects prehensiveness of the book and its Texas. There seems to be nothing on of Christian work or thought, analyze method is given you if I note that the program for that afternoon the situation to date, and then add a under “ Prayers of Confession” we which possibly means that the boys paragraph or two of speculation find prayers from Albinus Flaccus are going to see the Athletics take about the future. Although the chap­ Alcuinus, the Leonine Sacramentary, on the Yankees in the opening series ters are contributed by many well three from the Book of Common of the 1934 baseball season (spring known men, such as Dr. Lynn Hough, P rayer, two from the Presbyterian is just around the corner even if Dr. Ralph Diffendorfer, and Dr. Al­ Book of Common Worship, prayers prosperity isn’t). Thursday evening’s from the Congregational Book o f bert E. Kirk, the chapter which im­ subject is “ Clergyman, General Phy­ Church Services, the Church Service pressed me the most is one on per­ sician and Psychiatrist: How should Society’s Book of Common Order, sonal religion, by Raymond Calkins, they work together,” with the Rev. and fifteen other prayers by modern the minister of the First Congrega­ Percy C. Kammerer of Avon School Christians, two of whom are Episco­ tional Church in Cambridge, Mass. speaking as the parson, Dr. William palians, namely, Dr. Samuel Mc- Dr. Calkins quotes a couple of Darrach, College of Physicians and Comb, of Nice, France, and the Rev. comments on the necessity of the Surgeons, as general physician and Elmore McKee, the rector of Trin­ church which are particularly in­ Dr. Helen Flanders Dunbar of the ity Church, Buffalo. It is impossible teresting in view of the modern Columbia University Medical Center, to review a book like this. We can trend of thought on this subject. winding up as the psychiatrist. only say that the book contains hun­ “ No less a keen and independent Friday morning: “ The Protestant dreds of exquisite prayers, heartily thinker than T. S. Eliot has Emphasis; Why we need it. The congratulate Dr. Noyes on a worthy written: ‘Unless by civilization you Catholic Emphasis; Why we need it” compilation, and observe that the use­ mean material progress, cleanli­ with the Rev. Ralph S. Meadowcroft fulness of the book is greatly en­ ness, etc. . . . if you mean a spiritual of Rye, N. Y., speaking as the Prot­ hanced by some exceedingly helpful (Continued on page 15) estant and the Rev. William M. V.

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Hoffman Jr. of the Cowley Fathers culties, according to our editor. Per­ sent to the archdeacon of the Indian presenting the Catholic viewpoint. sonal liberty is virtually extinct in Field to be credited on the St. Ga­ The final session is to be Friday Germany, Russia and Italy, due to briel’s quota for the General Church afternoon when the Rev. Donald B. a surrender of popular government Program. He started something for Aldrich of New York will read a to dictatorship. He sees a trend in the entire congragation is now out paper on “ Awareness of God.” the same direction in this country, after jack rabbits to raise money for * * * and declared that if personal liberty the Indian Convocation. I would say is to be preserved the laymen of the that it was a good idea if I didn’t Little Rock Parish Church must do it. feel so sorry for the rabbits. Has Anniversary ♦ * Christ Church, Little Rock Arkan­ One Way to sas, was organized on March 17th, Appeal for Social K eep W arm 1839 by Bishop Polk. So last Sunday Service Institutions a great service, commemorating the The social service institutions of It has been very cold this winter 95th anniversary of the parish, was the diocese of Chicago are to make throughout New England. When the held at which a five-year program a united front appeal for funds im­ thermometer dropped to its lowest was launched which will culminate mediately after Easter. It is hoped point, the Redeemer, Providence, R. with a 100th anniversary celebration that out of this beginning will come I., arranged for a lecture by a repre­ in 1939. The lot on which the first a permanent plan for united effort, sentative of a steamship company, church was built, and on which the thus avoiding the many appeal let­ giving him instructions to illustrate present building stands, was pur­ ters. The institutions are the Cathe­ his talk with plenty of views of chased by Bishop Polk with money dral Shelter, Chase House, House of out of his own pocket. That church Happiness and Church Mission of was destroyed by fire, with the pres­ Help. ent beautiful church being conse­ Hs * * crated in 1901. Bishop Gailor of Trek for the) PRAYER DESKS Tennessee preached the sermon at Cause of Christ that consecration service. He also An international team of the Ox­ FOR CLERGY AND LAITY preached the sermon last Sunday. It ford Group (Buchmanites) arrived is also interesting to note that the in New York on March 15th, headed special centennial hymn is one that by the Rev. Frank Buchman, and Bishop Gailor composed, adapted for according to their official publicity use at Christ Church by the rector, sent out from Calvary House, New the Rev. W. P. Witsell. Features of York, is “on a trek for the cause of the five-year plan include 100 pre­ Christ.” Meetings were held in New sented for confirmation each year; York on March 15th and 16th, the increased attendance at services; first in the Salvation Army Auditor­ Bible classes; payment of the debt ium and the other in the grand ball­ on the parish house; endowment. room of the Waldorf-Astoria. They * * * are “ Apostles in Modern Dress” out Archbishop of Canterbury for “ Revolution by Consent,” accord­ to Broadcast ing to their news release. The Archbishop of Canterbury, $ * * the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Pence Saves Lang, has accepted the invitation of Assyrian Work Bishop Manning of New York to The bishop’s pence has come to the broadcast a devotional address on rescue of the Church’s Assyrian mis­ Good Friday from England over a sion in Chicago. The sum of $1,000 nation-wide hook-up. The address is from the fund collected in the little to be delivered at 4:45 eastern time. tin boxes has been allocated to this It is hoped that Church groups will work which otherwise would have to gather for the broadcast in guild close. rooms and Church clubs. H: H: $ He * * New Parish House Negro Speaker at Radford, Virginia HE type. pictured above was designed especially for those at Church College Bishop Jett of Southwestern Vir­ T ginia consecrated a new parish house preferring a more commodious Mr. William Pickens of the Na­ priedieu for meditation. W e are tional Association for the Advance­ at Grace Church, Radford, Virginia also producing a smaller and less ment of Colored People was the on March 4th, and also several me­ expensive desk quite within the speaker at an open forum, sponsored morials. The parish house contains reach of even the most modest by the Christian association of Wil­ five well equipped class rooms, two income. liam Smith College, Church college robing rooms, kitchen, and large for girls. The association of Hobart, auditorium. W e are also doing Processional Crosses for Choir or Church college for boys, cooperated. * * * School, Altar Sets, Litany Desks, » * * Sam King Donates Lecterns and other simpler Church Editor Hits at Twenty-three Jack Rabbits furniture at reasonable prices. Crooked Politicians Sam King is a member of St. Ga­ Crooked politicians do more harm briel’s Indian Mission at Brien, to society than do all the convicts North Dakota. He wanted to do that are behind bars, according to something for his church but he Ammidon and Company lacked cash. However he had a gun Bishop Irving P. Johnson, speaking H. L. Varian, President at the noonday services last week at so he went out and popped off 23 the Garrick Theatre, Chicago. The jack rabbits which he carted over to 27 S. Frederick St., Baltimore, Md. Church and her laymen hold the only St. James Mission, Cannon Ball, and lasting solution to present-day diffi- sold for 20c apiece. The $4.60 he

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. ■March 22, 1934 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven palms, coconuts, crocodiles and na­ stay on his present job which pays ers: Bishop Paul Jones, Rev. Samuel tives running about a la Ghandi. $1,800. Shoemaker Jr., Dean Chester B; $ $ $ . * * * Emerson, Rev. William Norman A New Sort Parish House Guthrie and Mr. Charles P. Taft. * o f M arker Becomes a School * * * Grace Church, Baldwinville, N. Y.| The public school at South New .Editor Lectures is to have a marker stating that it Berlin, N. Y., was completely de­ on Japan was the'first church in the country to stroyed recently by fire. The parish Mr. H. M. Nimmo, newspaper be lighted by electricity. house of St. Matthew’s Church was editor and former vestryman of St. * * * therefore turned over to the school Paul’s Cathedral, Detroit, was the Seek Funds for board at a nominal rental, and is speaker at the Cathedral Fellowship College Chapel now the public school of the town. on March 15th, lecturing on a recent The Rev. L. A. Wilson, Bryan, * * * trip to Japan. Texas, is seeking funds with which to Students Discuss Hî Hî H* build a chapel at A. and M. College, Religion and Life Enroll in the where there are 100 boys who are Three students from the Virginia Church-Widei Endeavor members of the Episcopal Church, Seminary went to Trinity, Morgan­ When Bishop Rogers visited St. with thirty others who express a pre­ town, W. Va., recently and ran a Andrew’s, Akron, Ohio, on Sunday ference for us. The church already symposium for the students of the last more than a third of the com­ owns land upon which the chapel will state university, located there, on municants of the parish handed in be constructed. “ Religion and Life.” The students signed cards enrolling in the Church- * * * were VanDyke, Sydnor and Moss, Wide Endeavor. To Join Faculty of with the latter also speaking for * * * Theological College Protestantism at a symposium held Bishop Keeler The Rev. Lawrence Rose, formerly at Newman Hall, Roman Catholic Conducts Quiet Day a tutor at the General Seminary and student center, along with speakers Bishop Keeler of Minnesota con­ more recently a missionary in Mon­ representing the Roman and Jewish ducted a quiet day for women at tana, has been appointed to the faiths. Grace Church, Madison, Wisconsin, faculty of the theological college at ❖ * * on March 7th, with over 100 present. St. Paul’s University, Tokyo, Japan. Glendale Churches His subject was Modern Disciple- He is sailing this month. Run Forum ship. H? * H* The Presbyterian Church and our H« Hs H« New Church School own Christ Church at Glendale, Ohio, Youth Still Worker in Southern Ohio united in sponsoring a forum in that With the Church Miss Emily Aldrich, a recent Cincinnati suburb, running for ten Religion among the younger gen­ graduate of Teachers’ College, Co­ consecutive weeks. Among the speak­ eration is not obsolete if a survey lumbia University, has been ap­ pointed field worker for Church Schools in the diocese of Southern Ohio. Card for Sponsors Rector Will Stay Size, 5 % x 3}/4 inches Where He Is When you are pondering over A four-page folder to be given by “ God Save the Church,” the recent the minister to each of the three article that caused such a to-do, you sponsors at the time a child is bap­ might take in this bit for considera­ tized. A reminder for Godparents of tion. A clergyman of the diocese of what is required of them by the vows Central New York was called to a made in the name of the child. The parish at a salary of $5,000. He very cards are made for male or female, re­ promptly turned it down in order to ferring to the child baptized and not to the Godparents. alvert errick 4 cts. each; 40 cts. a dozen C - H $1.50 for fifty; $2.50 for one hundred & Riedinger 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street Church Services and Notices C hurch Services and Notices New . York . City Size, 13j/4x8j/2 inches Blank forms for listing the hours of services, with notices, for the days of STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC the week (Sunday to Sunday inclu­ AND . CHURCH sive). Attractively printed in red on DECORATION heavy manuscript bond paper, excel­ lent for pen or typewriter. Sixty sheets to the pad. CHURCH . APPOINTMENTS 50 cts. IN . MARBLE . STONE Postage Additional W O O D . A N D METAL MOREHOUSE PUBLISHING CO., Milwaukee, Wis.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS March 22, 1934 made at Los Angeles Junior College sperses Hungarian hymns for the Church Can is any indication. Of the 460 Stu­ older people. Fourteen people were D o the Job dents interviewedj 328 stated a defi­ confirmed here last year. “ Christians need not despair. They nite church preference, and a major­ H* •!» H* have an invaluable contribution to ity professed regular church attend­ Eight Hundred make in this new era. In fact if the ance. The girls led the boys slightly. Confirmed in Six Years present order is to be saved it will be * * * St. Martin’s, located in Harlem, through them.” Newark Represented New York City, was established in In effect this was what the Rev. in Mission Fields 1928 with the Rev. J. Howard John­ Norman Nash, professor at the Epis­ The diocese of Newark has fifteen son in charge. Since that time 800 copal Theological School, Cambridge, workers in the mission fields, includ­ persons have been presented for con­ and head of the department of social ing one bishop and one priest. Four­ firmation. It is a Negro parish, with service of Massachusetts, said in his teen of them are in the Orient, with a church too small to take care of one in the domestic field. the crowds each Sunday, though it BOARDING * * * seats 1,200. Episcopal Deaconess House, address He ^ ^ Deaconess Laura, 542 S. Boyle Avenue, Field Department Los Angeles, California. Meeting in Chicago Brooklyn Parish Bishops, department heads and Faces Extinction GRACE CHURCH, NEW YORK Maintains a very homelike and attractive representative laymen of the prov­ St. Simon’s, Brooklyn, N. Y., must residence for business girls and students at ince of the mid-west are to meet in either raise $30,000 within the next 94 Fourth Avenue. Rates from $9 to $11.50 a week for room, breakfast and dinner. Chicago on April 3-4 under the aus­ few weeks or be sold at foreclosure. Apply to Miss Theodora Beard, Huntington pices of the field department of the As a result of a three day delay in House, 94 Fourth Avenue, New York City. National Council. The purpose of presenting semi-annual interest due the conference is to consider the on the mortgage last November, the ST. BARNABAS CHURCH ALTAR GUILD, Los Angeles, California, offers palm crosses, Church’s Program and the deficits mortgagor insists that the entire ten cents the dozen, prepaid. of 1933 and 1934. obligation was in default. The mat­ * * * ter has been fought out in court, and ORANGE MARMALADE, HOME MADE, IN the rector, the Rev. Louis A. Parker, colonial drinking glass, at 25c each. Write Pray in English, secretary, St. John’s Episcopal Guild, 349 Sing in Hungarian has presented the matter to the Home Kane Street, Burlington, Wisconsin. Trinity Hungarian Mission, South Loan Corporation and the R.F.C., to no avail. A campaign is therefore PERSONAL STATIONERY — POPULAR Bend, northern Indiana, is now in Dollar Box. Many other attractive num­ that transition state where English on to raise the necessary funds. bers for Clergy and Laity. Superior qualities only. Samples freely sent. is used for most of its services as ART-CRAFT PRESS, the younger generation is becoming Lanesboro, Massachusetts

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lecture on “ The New Testament and the New Era,” in the Lenten series offered by the social service de­ Wilbur Herbert Burnham JWIPPELL partment of Rhode Island and given in the parish house of St. Stephen’s Church. The gist of Mr. Nash’s ad­ Designer and Master dress was this: Craftsm an The New Testament still has this good news to offer: It is the will of the Father that His children shall Stained and Leaded Glass have the Kingdom, but that Kingdom is His Kingdom, not their kingdom. Studios 1126 Boylston Street will be pleased to submit The trouble has been that men have designs and Estimates fo r been trying to establish their king­ Boston, Massachusetts dom and that brought on the wreck. There are two schools of thought among Christians. One school is de­ fensive and says, it is hopeless, the Em broidery- Wood odds are too great. We are sure to lose but we can take to the cata­ Stone-Metal arid combs and hold on as long as possible to the precious things that are ours. -Stained Qlass The other school is aggressive, hope­ ful, determined. It says we have the things that will save this order and it can never be saved without them. EXETER • • • Cathedral Yard Let us jump into the fight and apply LONDON • • ll.Tufton St.S.Wi these precious things which are best MANCHESTER - 52,Victoria Street. ■ ENCI AND . expressed in the good news of the New Testament. On February 26th, Mr. Otto Gil­ more, head of the committee for leisure time activities of Rhode Island, gave the second lecture in the course, his subject being “ The Church and Leisure time.” * * * MENEELY BELL CO Dr. Fleming Speaks , T R O Y , N .Y a n d 2£D BROADWAY.NY.CITV. . In Chicago The Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, rec­ BELLS tor of Trinity, Parish, New York, speaking at the noonday services ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. sponsored by the Church Club of Chi­ ltt x. 47th si. New York cago last week, declared that there CHURCH VESTMENTS Heaton, Butler & Bayne ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY can be no recovery economically until we recognize the divine plan of the »wfwmew with reference to the adornment £fctittrô (BIRR« Artists of Churches. universe. Telephene K rltn de 8-1058 * * * By appointment to the late KING EDWARD VII. Wellesley a National C onference Stained Glass Windows JAMES POWELL & SONS Wellesley certainly is a national Memorial Brasses, Etc. e conference. This year the director Deaigns and Estimates (J V h itefriars) j& d. Sst. 1680 will be Bishop Stephen E. Keeler, LONDON, ENGLAND Coadjutor of Minnesota, and the Heaton, Butler & Bayne chaplain the Rev. John Crocker, stu­ (N. Y.) Ltd., dent pastor at Princeton University. P. O. BOX 195 STAINED The Rev. Harold Deacon, rector of TOTTENVILLE NEW YORK St. Luke’s Church, Malden, Mass., is GtASS in charge of providing speakers on the conference for spring meetings. If you want to have this big summer j *Tyistribut6r : school explained to your organization, PAUL S. BUCK better get in touch with him. AUSTIN ORGAN GO. 3 724 Fifth Ave., New York City * * * Hartford, Conn. Noonday Services In Jacksonville Designers and Builders The laymen of Jacksonville, Flor­ Of 1 R.GEISSLER.INC.' •! ida, inaugurated noonday services for PIPE ORGANS 4 5 0 SIX TH A V E .N E A R IO th ST. NEW YO R K three weeks commencing on March 5th, the services being held in a down­ noted for their ■upertor tonal qnaBtiaa Gfturtft Juraishinqs town Methodist Church because of and mechanical reliability IN CARVED WOOD AND El ®| MARBLE-BRASS - SILVER fl I“1 its central location. Bishop Wise of FABRICS + W IN D O W S \J \J Kansas was the speaker the first Correspondence Solicited week; the Rev. W. W. Memminger of

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Atlanta followed and Bishop Morris ical scenery of sulphur and smoke on Logos with His mission as the Incar­ of Louisiana is to take the last week. the one hand and pearly gates and nate Jesus of Nazareth born of the * * * golden streets on the other. For the Virgin Mary. Nor has the Church Institute Singers past fifty years or so no intelligent with its theories of the poena sensus Visit Florida clergyman of the Church has held a and the poena damni ever dogmatized The Rev. C. E. Bentley, associate theory of verbal inspiration of the on the character of infernal combus­ director of the American Church Scriptures. And no one with even a tion. Institute for Negroes, together with a whiff of theological learning confuses “ The answers to these questions do quintet of Negro singers, and J. E. the cosmic significance of the Eternal not touch the question of modernism Blanton, head of the Voorhees school, have been holding large meetings ' in parishes throughout Florida. * * * Services of Leading Churches Bishop Gribbin Cathedral o f St. John the Divine St. Margaret s Visits New York Cathedral Heights 940-8 East 156th Street Bishop Gribbin, new Bishop of New York City New York Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 and 9 Lenten Services Wednesdays and Fri­ Western North Carolina, addressed a. m. Children’s Service, 9:30' ; Morning days with Corporate Communion o4 the women of the Ascension, New Prayer or Litany, 10 ; Holy Communion Sundays at 8 and 11 o f the Societies. and Sermon, 11. Evening Prayer and Visiting speakers; Drs. C. B. Ackley, York City, on March 13th on the Sermon, 4 p. m. F. J. Clark, C. H. Collett, D. M. Welton, mission work done at Penland. The Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7 :3 0 Johnstone Beach, Lester Martin, J. A. (Saints’ Days, 10) ; Morning Prayer, 9 :30 ; Hamilton, F. H. Merrill, and Miss parish hopes to contribute $2,500 to Evening Prayer, 5 p. m. (choral). Organ Frances Cruger Ford. this work as a part of its parish Recital on Saturdays, 4:30. quota. * * * 'Church of St. Mary the Virgin Trinity Church, New York New York Broadway and Wall St. New York--Parish 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. Has Work Shop Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Daily: 7:30, 8, 12 and 3. Sunday Masses, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Grace Church, New York, has a Evensong and Benediction, 6 P. M. workshop as a practical expression Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. St. Paul’s Cathedral of social service. There men who Buffalo, New York Sundays: 8, 9 :3 ft, 11, 6. have been long unemployed are put Grace Church, New York Weekdays: 8, 12:05. to work repairing furniture. The Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Broadway at 10th St. Days: 10:30 a. m. type of work done, as good as it is, Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. is not the most important thing, ac­ Daily: 12:30 except Saturday. cording to the parish paper. The re­ Holy Days and Thursday, Holy Com­ St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California munion, 11:45. Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street sults in stabilizing the character of Near the University of California. the men themselves, who come to the The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Sundays: 7:30, 11 a. m .; 6:30 p. m. shop practically shell-shocked by Disciple, New York Wednesdays : 10:30 a. m. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. many months of unemployment and fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. insecurity, are definite and perma­ Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. Christ Church Cathedral Sunday-School 9:30 a. m.; Morning Hartford, Conn. nent. Service and Sermon 11 a. ih.; Musical Cor. Main and Church Streets * * * Vespers 4 p. m. The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. Syracuse Ministers Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Sundays: 8:00', 10:08, 11:00 a. m .; 7:30' munion at 11 a. m. p. m. Protest Navy Bill Daily: 7;00, 12:10, 6:00. Forty-three ministers of Syracuse, The Incarnation Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. Madison Avenue and 35th Street Holy Communion. N. Y., have signed a petition protest­ Rector ing against the Vinson navy bill. Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D. * Hs * Sundays 8, 10 and 11 a. m. ; 4 p. m. Grace and St. Peter’s Church, Daily : 12:20. Baltimore, Md. Bishop Stewart (Park Avenue and Monument Street) Ridicules Questionnaire St. Bartholomew’s Church The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers There have been a couple of items Park AvenHe and 51st Street The Rev. Harold F. Hohly New York Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. in these notes about a questionnaire ' Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Week Days: 8 a. m. sent out by Northwestern University 8 A. M., Holy Communion. 11 A. M., Morning Service and Sermon. to clergymen dealing with matters of 4 P. M., Evensong. Special Music. Church of St. Michael and belief. Bishop Stewart of Chicago 8 P. M., Service in Swedish Language. Daily Lenten Serv. 12:15 and 5 P. M. All Angels now comes forward and gives the Holy Comm., Wed. 8, Thurs. 10:30 A .M . Baltimore. Md. whole questionnaire a thorough pan­ Junior Cong. 9:30' and 11A .M ., 4 P.M . St. Paul and 20th Sts. ning. Sundays: 7 :30, 9 :30, and 11 a. m .; 8 St. Paul’s Church p. m. “ It is simply incredible that such Week Days: Wednesdays 10 a. m., Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy questions should be offered as tests Sunday Services: Days 7 and 40 a. m. .Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. of modernism,” says the Bishop. Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30i a. m. “ They have nothing to do with what Morning Service, 11:00 a. m. Evening Service, 8 :00 p. m. Church of St. John the is technically known as modernism. Evangelist One does not go about hoarsely and Boston St. James’ Church, New York Bowdoin Street, Beacon Hill excitedly and modernistically an­ Madison Avenue and 71st Street The Cowley Fathers nouncing that the world is round and The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Sundays: Masses, 7 :3ft, 9 :30 and 11 not flat. One does not toss back and Sunday Services: 8, 9 :30, 11 a. m .; 6, a. m. Benediction, 7 :30 p. m. 8 p. m. Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 a. m. forth at night feverishly asking , Weekdays, Thursdays and Holy Days: Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 a. m., also. whether he dare accept the new 12 M. Fridays, 5 :15 p. m. Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 and 7-9 p. m. theory of Copernicus that the sun Church of St. John thé Baptist moves. Ocean -Parkway and Webster Avenue “ We have always supposed that Brooklyn, N. Y. Gethsemane, Minneapolis "Reverend John Lewis Zacker, Rector Rev. Austin Pardne intelligent persons could accept their Services : . " ' 4th Ave. South at 9th St. Lord’s teaching about hell as about . Sundays— 8, 9 :45, 11 A, M. Sundays: 8, 9;30, 11 and 7:45. heaven without accepting the poet­ Wednesdays— 8 P. M. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days.

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