1940 the Witness, Vol. 24, No. 32

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HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER The Presiding Bishop of the Church

MESSAGE FROM ARCHBISHOP OF YORK

BEAL, JAMES HOLLAND, formerly the rec tor at Emmanuel, Braintree, Mass., is now tüije (Heiteral ®ijeoÎogrcaÎ the rector of St. Thomas’s, Taunton, Mass. K e m p e r H I H JEFFERYS, W. H., JR., formerly curate at J^emmarg Grace Church, New Bedford, Mass., is now the rector of Holy Trinity, Marlborough, KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Three-year undergraduate Mass. Episcopal Boarding and Day School course of prescribed and elective KNEELAND, M. D., rector for the past ten Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual study. years of St. Mark’s Church, Yreka, Cali fornia, has resigned because of ill health, opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu effective October 1. New address—Sierra Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity Madre, California. School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. LEATHERBURY, J. R., formerly rector of St. SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced Matthew’s, Sparrows Point, Maryland, is Box W. 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Highlights of Convention Sermon By HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER The Presiding Bishop of the Church

E ARE met here in the General Convention obligation, but still more as a Christian privilege. W at the call of God, and as representatives of Another problem created by the war which can be the Church we have a two-fold function. Our la met only by the co-operation of American Chris bors should, on the one hand, be directed towards tians is the maintenance of the missionary activi bringing the Church into more real and intimate ties that have been carried on by the Churches of communion with God in order that it may receive the belligerent nations. Without our help this more abundantly those blessings that God has pre work would have to be greatly curtailed and in pared for them that love Him, and, on the other some instances entirely stopped, because of the in hand, we should devote ourselves to working out ability of the home Churches to furnish support. plans for that larger service to which God calls Many of the Churches in the United States have those who have been spiritually enriched. Those already undertaken to give generous help. I am who are called according to God’s purpose have confident that our own Church will wish to do no warrant for expecting great things from Him, likewise. Because of our relationship to the unless they are resolved to attempt great things Church of England and in view of the fact that in for Him. many of the American Colonies our Church owes ^ ^ ^ its origin to the work of one of the English Mis Not only is God’s purpose imperiled, but also sionary Societies, we should feel a peculiar inter those upon whom God would ordinarily rely for est in aiding them to maintain similar work in its defense are either unable or unwilling to re various parts of the world. spond to His call. The European nations, which ❖ ❖ ❖ for more than a thousand years were the main W hat lesson do we learn from the signs' of the protagonists of the Christian cause, are engaged times ? Is it not that the attempt to establish hu in a terrible war. While this struggle involves man well-being by human effort, guided by human fundamental moral and spiritual issues, the last wisdom and using physical power has failed ut war taught us that victory in fighting will not af terly? Even if we assume that the present war fect a permanent settlement of those issues. At will end in a victory for democratic ideals, is there most, it will afford an opportunity for their set any reason to think that another attempt along tlement. these lines will be more successful than the one * * * which has ended so disastrously? There is, however, one problem created by the * * * war for which we have a more direct responsi TV/TAN’S extremity is God’s opportunity. Should bility, namely, the relief of those to whom it has we not then expect Him at such a time as brought suffering. I trust that this General Con this to issue a call to His Church to co-operate vention will call upon our people to take their full with Him in a great redemptive effort? And if, part in relief activities, wherever they are prac as is usually the case in times of crisis, God selects ticable under the conditions of war, not only as an some particular portion of the Church to render

this service, have we not reason to believe that His Nor does it require new agencies and more com choice will fall upon us as Christians of America? mittees, but rather the inj ection of more life, more This is not because of our superior merit, but ra energy into our existing organizations. It means ther because we are practically the only consider more aggressive leadership on the part of the able body of Christians in the world today whose clergy, more whole-hearted co-operation from the hands are untied. If we have been spared the laity. God calls us to a spiritual task, but if it is horrors of war; if we are enjoying comparative to be accomplished in this world we must devote to prosperity; if we are still able to maintain our it all the capacities and all of the resources with democratic way of life, it does not necessarily which God has entrusted us. A physically lazy mean that we are heaven’s favorites or that we man will never be spiritually efficient. have earned these blessings by our own virtues. * * * “ Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be This service in which God bids us to go forward much required.” “We that are strong ought to is world-wide in its scope. “ America first” seems bear the infirmities of the weak.” If we interpret plausible, but it is not a sound principle in Chris the signs of the times in accordance with these tian work. The only way to make America Chris principles, we cannot but conclude that God’s call tian is to make it interested in the welfare of the for sacrificial service in a demoralized world is world that lies outside its borders. The great addressed to us. menace to world welfare today is that aggressive * * * nationalism which leads a country to exploit all The first step in our response to God’s call to the rest of the world for its own benefit. Chris go forward in service is rededication. Loyalty to tian love knows no boundaries. It transcends God must be our first loyalty. Responsibility for differences of race. The spirit that prompts us to using ourselves and our resources in accordance do foreign missionary work is the only hope for with His will must take precedence of all other in permanent world-wide peace. Christ was not ar terests. Christ allows no compromise in this re bitrary when He bade His disciples, “ Go into all spect in those whom He calls to His service. the world and preach the gospel to every crea * ♦ * ture.” His purpose was not only to give all of God’s children an opportunity to hear the Gospel, W hat is wrong with the world? W hat has but He knew that where the impulse to do this was brought about the conditions that we so bitterly lacking none of God’s children could become deplore? The answer surely is that men so gen Christian in any true sense of the word. erally give material needs a prior claim to spir itual and moral needs. They place loyalty to self * * * above loyalty to God. If our service is to be of One final requisite for going forward in service any use to the world, the first requisite is that it that should be mentioned is a higher degree and must set an example of complete dedication of better quality of Christian unity. Christ prayed ourselves to God. “ Thy will be done” must be the that His followers might be one even as He and supreme law of our life. “Go forward in service,” the Father are one. That was His ideal of the therefore, means an effort to make every member Church. Loyalty to Him requires that we should of the Church feel more deeply his responsibility strive to realize it. Moreover, the service to which to God for service. W e cannot expect our work to God calls us cannot be fully rendered by a dis be effective when perhaps half of our membership united Church. feels practically no interest in it. Another step * * H* that we must take if we are to go forward in serv The days are evil, but God, with our co-opera ice is the evangelization of that large number of tion, can redeem them. Shall we not call on the people in America who have no connection what Church to make the venture ? It will require effort. ever with the Church. If the influence of Ameri It will involve sacrifice. If, however, during the ca is to be a real factor in the regeneration of the ten years that remain before this 20th century world it must be much more fully Christianized reaches its midway point we can get the human than it now is. race once more headed in the direction of * * * righteousness, love and justice; once more bring It would be impracticable to describe in detail the currents of life into harmony with God’s pur the various kinds of work that are implied in the pose, we may well say with St. Paul, “ I reckon command, “ Go forward in service.” It does not that the sufferings of this present time are not indeed mean so much new tasks, as the more effec worthy to be compared with the glory which shall tive performance of the tasks already undertaken. be revealed in us.”

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. October 10, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Five Goal for Christians By WILLIAM TEMPLE The Archbishop of York F W E are to rise to the stances means “ consumed.” The consumer is the I test of the present and factor of primary importance, whose interest the opportunity for which ought to be decisive, for his is the only truly hu we hope in the future, there man interest in the whole process. Yet food is must be a rapid crystalliza destroyed while men are hungry. Why? Because tion of much that is now they have not the means to make their need con fluid in Christian senti stitute a market. So the primary aim of produc ment and aspiration. We ing food turns out to be in practice, not feeding need two thing's: a gather the hungry, but making a profit. The profit-mo ing together of the great tive has become the dominant motive. It is this mass of Christian senti which has led to the sacrilegious sacrifice of rural ment which undoubtedly England to urban interests and subjects it to poli exists, and the direction of cies framed for urban conditions. It has turned this toward some definite ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE man into an economic animal. goal. It may be desirable to indicate at once the This leads to a competition for markets, which kind of goal that I haye in mind. In general terms was comparatively harmless so long as the market it may be; defined as international and social justice. was expanding with no visible limit. But that is But, of course, everyone subscribes to that. It is in no longer so. Now the predominance of the profit- dispensable that someone should take the risk of motive as the mainspring of industry leads to dan more detailed proposals. I am not now concerned gerous rivalries, which often contain the threat of with any immediate settlement after the war, but war. It is perfectly true that few, if any, indus with the goal to which we should hope to move. trialists desire war; it is true that for most forms Broadly, this may be described as equal freedom of business war itself is a source of loss rather for all nations, equal access to raw materials, than profit. It is not the policy of the industrial equal opportunities of developing both material ists, but the principle on which industry is organ resources and human capacities. That will not be ized, which has a tendency towards war.. achieved by mere laissez faire. Freedom in this Moreover, the system shows signs of ceasing to world is a product of law and of the force which work. It is unable to provide employment, and law directs to the prevention of violence and therewith the basis for honourable life, to an tyranny. So we must work for the end of inter alarmingly large number of citizens. Even now national anarchy and the establishment of inter national law, made and upheld by an internation al authority. In other words, one form or another ¡■ ■ b of Federalism must be our goal. And we can urge our own nation at once to repudiate the claim to be judge in its own cause as a first step towards the federal goal. WÊHÈ‘ -¿¡SI But I do not believe that a federal system can of itself secure justice or even abolish war, unless the economic life of men is ordered on principles more expressive of fellowship than at present. The trend towards war is inherent in the internal 1 1 1 economy of the modern nation. The essential evil in the ordering of European life has been the in version of the proper relations between finance, production and consumption. It is evident that the real object for which goods are produced is Bishops who are graduates of the Episcopal Theological that they may be enjoyed; and this in most in Seminary, Cambridge, got together long enough to have this picture taken. Left to right: Bishop McKinstry of This article is a letter just written by Archbishop Temple to the Rev. Delaware; Bishop Peabody of Central New York; Bishop J. H. Oldham, executive secretary of the English Section of the Uni Touret, retired; Bishop Parsons of California; Bishop versal Christian Council and is published in this General Convention number through the courtesy of the Rev. Henry Smith Leiper, executive Lawrence of Western Massachusetts; Bishop Atwood, secretary of the American Section. retired.

there are three-quarters of a million unemployed These proposals are put forward as perhaps of in Great Britain, though all younger men, apart fering the maximum application of the twin prin from those in reserved occupations, have been ciples of Freedom and Order— Personality and “ called up” and production of munitions is being Fellowship— in an age of machinery and mass- pressed forward. And an expert writing in The production. Whether my actual proposals are the Times tells us that we are now near the minimum best for this purpose, or even good for it at all, figure-! There are people who want to work and I leave to more expert judges to decide; but that cannot work, because they cannot be “profitably is the purpose which Christian citizens must employed.” Profitably to whom ? That their work pursue. might be profitable to the nation and to themselves But we shall pursue it successfully only if we there is no doubt. do this as part of the recovery of the natural order throughout life. W e shall not succeed in sub T F W E are to dethrone the profit-motive from its ordinating the economic to the truly human unless predominance, how is this to be done? Sir we subordinate the human to the divine. Human Richard Acland proposes universal communal ism, so right in the qualities which it admires and ownership. That might make matters worse; consciously cultivates, is devoted to an impossible there would have to be an immense bureaucracy, enterprise unless it be grounded in Theism which and human egoism would find its outlet in laying it has so often repudiated or regarded as indif hold of the levers of the bureaucratic machine. ferent. Man can be saved from mechanism only On the other hand, effective Distributivism is im by devotion to God. practicable. It is indeed desirable that every citi zen should hold some property. But we cannot put HAT, in face of the urgency of the world’s the clock back, and mass-production, which sup W need, is the “ community of Christians” to plies the people at large as they never were sup do? W e need to call so many of the marginal plied before, is come to stay. It is probably un fringe as will respond into a Christian fellowship wise to attempt any sketch of an ultimate ideal; consisting of both these and of those fully com but we can indicate some steps to be taken in the mitted members of Christian Churches who will period just before us. join. Thus would be formed a great inter-de (1) Whenever limitation of liability is granted nominational fellowship containing many who, it should be accompanied by limitation of profits. though not yet committed to the Christian faith, (2) The principle of the Mosaic Law of Jubilee were ready to join in seeking the Christian so should be applied. It is perfectly ludicrous that lution of our problems and doing what might be because someone lent money for the building of in their power to act on what they find. (say) the Great Western Railway, he should be They should come together in their various dis come possessed of a saleable right to levy a private tricts and consider what needs and opportunities tax upon that railway for ever, and that this there are for the manifestation of Christian should pass from hand to hand by process of in brotherhood and service, especially in their own heritance or sale as if it were a commodity. neighborhood, and to take what steps are possible (3) The contribution of labour, whether mana to set the congregations acting to these ends. That, gerial, administrative or manual, must, equally wherever it happens, will provide a nucleus of the with the contribution of capital, and with still full Christian fellowship that we need. There is one er right, carry a title, to representation on the city where the Anglican and Free Church leaders Board of Directors. have addressed a joint letter to the Church work The object of all these proposals is to reverse ers of all denominations to do their utmost to the reversal of the “ natural order” which is char carry on their work with a full sense of fellow acteristic of our phase of civilization. The “natu ship with all the others, and also asking them to ral order” is that consumption should control pro come to a meeting where they had the opportunity duction, and that production should control fi to pledge themselves to promote Christian fellow nance. This order has during the last century and ship in the city and to help in whatever way they a half been completely inverted. can. It is evident that my proposals imply an authori Now if all this is to catch fire so as to burn up ty giving sanction to each scheme. That authority the dead wood with which we are encumbered must be charged with the responsibility of see and supply energy for a forward movement, two ing that all needs are reasonably met and that no things are needed, together with some such inter glut of commodities is created; in other words, it pretation of international and social justice as has must “ plan” our economic life. been attempted here.

There is need for a statement of the basis on and more to hear the Gospel in its fullness, catch which we invite people to j oin together. This must ing fire and kindling others, till overleaping all be specifically Christian, but should insist only our divisions there is a Christian fellowship on those parts of the Christian faith which are “ aflame with faith” and ready as true disciples essential for the interpretation of these times. It of Christ must always be to turn the world up is not proposed that all who join should already side down. assent to this statement; what would be asked of them would be a desire to explore the Christian way as indicated by the statement, and act when Talking It Over possible on their conclusions. By The statement now offered was drawn up at a WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD group consisting of Anglicans, Methodists, Pres T T M UST be abundantly clear to every thinking byterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and person by this time that the Reds have nothing Friends, and had the assent of them all. Here it whatever to contribute to our life. Put them up is : against American enterprise and aggressiveness “ God reigns. That is the fundamental truth. and they fold up like a dollar bill trying to be From heaven He reigns— creator and upholder of passed off for a five when the alms basin comes the world. From the Cross He reigns— making around. They are entirely National in point of defeat itself the stuff of His triumph. From the view and outlook and are completely lost when heart of His people He reigns— extending His rule they go up against anyone outside their own nar by the energy of His love constraining them. row circle. Also I happen to know that they “Accordingly :— stoop to the lowest sort of methods, though I pre “ (i) W e recognize in the troubles and anxieties sume this can be said equally of their opponents. of this time a just doom— the consequence, ac Be that as it may, I do know from personal ob cording to God’s laws, of our neglect of His com servation, that Red spies have been very active mand and defiance of His will. recently, especially during the last month. I have “ (ii) We acknowledge Christ as absolute Lord seen them at work in New York and Chicago, and of Life and Saviour from the sin which brings reports, well substantiated, have come to me that these evils upon the world. W e pledge ourselves they were also busy in Boston and Cleveland. The and call our fellows to penitence for the past and great industrial center, Detroit, was however the to new loyalty for the future. Especially we con place where they carried on most of their spy ac fess our acquiescence in social injustice and tivities. They were there to learn the secret of national jealousies; and we dedicate ourselves to American power and to discover, if possible, if the establishment of economic and international there was any weakness in its defense or ability to justice and fellowship. take the offensive. But their spying availed them “ (iii) We declare that in this allegiance to nothing. They got their answer this past week. Jesus Christ we are united to all others who ac The Americans struck suddenly and conclusively. knowledge Him, in a fellowship which is unbroken First Greenberg, then York, then Campbell and by any earthly divisions and persists beneath even right down through the entire batting order. thé wraths of war. In this unity in Christ we That’s why I am for the Americans no matter have both the hope of peace in this world and who they are up against in the National League, the foretaste of eternal life in fellowship with particularly if it happens to be the hapless Reds God.” of Cincinnati. There is also need for a means by which those (I may be sticking my neck out on this one, who join up may recognize one another. This written before the series is over. It may well be might perhaps best be achieved by the wearing that Mr. Bucky Walters will turn out to be the of some kind of badge or symbol. But a means of big, bad, National dictator.) knowing fellow-members is essential to the spon taneous growth of the fellowship. THE WITNESS I picture a great multitude of folk, mostly young, belonging to all denominations and to none, Booth 50 challenged by that statement and responding to We will be glad to have you visit it at least so far as to test its truth in practice. us while at General Convention. I picture them growing on the principle of the Members of WITNESS Advisory Board: Please snowball, one drawing another in. I picture them make reservations at the booth for the meeting in their cells or groups, learning more dinner on the 17th.

The General Convention of the D.D., D.C.L., Primate of All Church is now in session in Kansas Canada, as preacher. City. Among the issues to be dis 8:30 P.M. The Church’s Work in a cussed and possibly settled the fol Troubled World. With our Mis lowing are the most important. sionaries in other lands. Music Aid for the missionary enterprises Hall. of the English and European October 14 Churches. Regular daily schedule, with Woman’s The work of our Church in Japan Auxiliary Session 9:00-10:00 in view of the new regulations govern A.M., Sectional Meetings 10:15- ing missions and missionaries issued 12:15, and regular Auxiliary by the government of that country. session resumed 2:30 to 4:00. The proposed new canon dealing October 15 with marriage and divorce. Regular daily schedule, with Woman’s The adoption of a new hymnal. Auxiliary session 10:15-12:00 The plan to be set forth by the and sectional meetings 2 :30- Presiding Bishop for a new Forward 4:30. Movement. 8:30 P.M. America for Christ.— The Concordat between the Episco Graphic presentation of Chris pal and the Presbyterian Churches. tian Opportunities by picture Whether or not the Church should ROBERT NELSON SPENCER, the and voice. Music Hall. urge that lay employees be included Bishop of Western Missouri and the October 16 under the federal social security act. Host of General Convention. Regular daily schedule. The merging of missionary dis October 17 tricts, particularly the merging of Regular daily schedule. Salina with the diocese of Kansas. 10:00 A.M. House of Bishops. Little 8:30 P.M. Training a Great Race. Theater. The House of Depu The attitude of the Church toward The story of the work of the the war, and whether or not pro ties. Music Hall. Continued at American Church Institute for tection should be given to consci this hour all week days of Con Negroes. Music Hall. entious objectors to war. vention period. October 18 The official program of the con 11:00-12:30 Officers’ Work Groups. Regular daily schedule. vention is divided into two parts. The Woman’s Auxiliary. 2:30 P.M. Sessions of House of October 19 first lists official events only. The Regular daily schedule in forenoon. second part lists those events that are Bishops, House of Deputies, and Woman’s Auxiliary. Afternoon reserved for recre sponsored by various agencies and or ation. ganizations of the Church. 8:30 P.M. U.T.O. Mass Meeting and Announcement of the amount 11:15-12 Noon, Woman’s Auxiliary THE OFFICIAL PROGRAM of the offering. Arena. closing service. October 20 (Sunday) October 9 October 11 7:30 A.M. Corporate Communion, 9:00-10:45 Woman’s Auxiliary. 7:30 and 11:00 A.M. Services in all Bishops and Deputies, Grace Arena. churches. and Holy Trinity Cathedral. 11:00 A.M.-l :00 P.M. Joint Session 8:00 P.M. The Crisis Facing Chris Communion services in other of two Houses, (subject to ac tian Missions. It is expected churches. tion by the Convention) to .that the speaker will be a rep 11:00 A.M. Opening Service, Audi receive report of the National resentative of the Archbishop torium Arena. Council and to consider the of Canterbury. Music Hall. 2:15 P.M. Opening Session Wom Program for the coming Tri- October 21 an’s Auxiliary, Arena. ennium. Music Hall. And remaining days of Convention. 3:00 P.M. Opening Session, House of 2:30 P.M. Joint session continued. Regular daily schedule. Bishops, Little Theatre. 8:00 P.M. Youth Mass Meeting. UNOFFICIAL CONVENTION Opening Session, House of Music Hall. Deputies, Music Hall. EVENTS 8:30 P.M. Reception to the Presid October 12 October 9 ing Bishop and other Church Regular daily schedule, with Woman’s 3:00 P.M. Church Periodical Club. leaders and of Woman’s Aux Auxiliary. Room 100. Continues daily (ex iliary. William Rockhill Nel Provincial meetings, 11:00 A.M.-l.00 cept Sunday) at 10:00 A.M. son Gallery of Art and Atkins P.M. and 3:00 P.M. until October 17, I Museum. Afternoon reserved for recreational incl,, except that on October 10 October 10 trip to Fort Leavenworth for the morning session opens at 7:30 A.M. Holy Communion will be Delegates and Visitors. 11 : 00. celebrated daily in all city October 13 (Sunday) 4:00-5:30 Missionary tea. Mezzanine churches throughout the Con 7:30 A.M. Holy Communion, all of Exhibit Hall. Daily. vention period. churches except Cathedral. 8:00 P.M. Reception. 8:00 A.M. Corporate Communion 8:00 A.M. Corporate Communion October 10 and Presentation of the United for Youth. Cathedral. 12:00 Noon. Church Army Noon-hour Thank Offering. Arena. 11:00 A.M. Services in all churches. service. Northwest corner Mu 9:30 A.M. Devotional service. Ca Service for Youth. Music Hall. nicipal Auditorium. Continued thedral. Continued daily Service at the Cathedral with daily except Sunday through throughout Convention period. the Most Rev. Derwyn T. Owen, out Convention.

1:00 or Adjournament Hour. Church 9:00-10:30 A.M. Youth. Edison Hall. nabas’ Guild for Nurses, Ca League for Industrial Democ 10:30-Noon. Youth visits Convention thedral. racy. Speaker: Roger N. Bald and Woman’s Auxiliary. 12:00 Noon. Church Congress. Room win, director of American Civil 12:30 Deaconesses Luncheon. St. An 501. Continued daily to Oct. Liberties Union. Chairman, drew’s Church. 18, incl. Bishop Spencer. Noon Recess: CLID Forum. Noon Recess: CLID Forum; 5:00 P.M. School of Prayer. Ca Speaker: Jack McMichael, Speaker, John L. Lewis, presi thedral. The American Church president of the American dent of the CIO. Chairman, Union. Continues daily and Youth Congress. Chairman, Bishop Parsons. Sunday until Oct. 18 incl. Bishop Huston. 6:30 P.M. Seminary Dinners. October 11 2:00-3:00 P.M. Youth. Edison Hall. 8:00 P.M. Meeting for Laymen. 7:30 A.M. Corporate Communions, 3:00-5:00 P.M. Tea for Visitors. Edison Hall. Church Periodical Club and 4:00-6:00 P.M. Youth Recreation. Church Mission of Help. 6:15 P.M. Deaconesses’ Dinner. October 15 12:15 Church Action Meeting. Room 7:00 P.M. Youth banquet. Hotel 7:30 A.M. Corporate Communion 401. Continental. (and breakfast) Episcopal Pa Noon Recess: CLID Forum; Sewanee Dinner. Woman’s City cifist Fellowship. Cathedral. Speaker, Carey McWilliams, Club. Corporate Communion, Altar author of Factories in the 8:00 P.M. Chancellor’s Dinner. Kan Guilds, St. Mary’s Church. Fields. Chairman, Bishop Good sas City Club. 9:00-10:00 Course on Altar Work. en. Cathedral Parish House. Con 4:00 P.M. Girls’ Friendly Society October 13 (Sunday) tinues daily until Oct. 18, incl. Tea. 7:30 A.M. Corporate Communion, 9:00-9:50 Morning Classes for 7 :00 P.M. Dinner in honor of Miss National Board Alumnae of Church workers. Continues Grace Lindley. Hotel Continen Woman’s Auxiliary. Chapel, daily until Oct. 18, incl. tal. St. Mary’s Church. 9:00-12:00 Seminar on The Church 8 :00 P.M. Meeting of Deaconesses. 8:00 A.M. Corporate Communion of and Family Life. Continues Cathedral Parish House. Youth. Cathedral. daily until Oct. 18, incl. Meeting of Presbyterians and 11:00 A.M. Service for Youth. Music 12:15 P.M. Church Action Meeting. Episcopalians. Edison Hall. Hall. Room 401. 10:00 P.M. Youth Reception. Lobby 4:00 P.M. Vesper Service. St. 12:30 P.M. Missionary Luncheons. of Auditorium. George’s Church. Ambassador, Hyde Park and October 12 October 14 Park Lane Hotels. 7:30 A.M. Corporate Communion of 7:30 A.M. Holy Communion. College Noon Recess: CLID Forum. National Rural Workers’ Fel Work Booth, Exhibit Hall. Speaker, Josephine Roche, lowship at Cathedral; Dea Continued daily until Oct. 18, president of the Rocky Moun conesses, at St. Andrew’s incl. tain Fuel Company. Chairman, Church, followed by an all-day Corporate Communion (fol Bishop Peabody. meeting of Deaconesses. lowed by breakfast.) St. Bar (Continued on page 15)

Leaders at the General Convention are Mrs. Henry Burr of Kansas City, who is responsible for the arrangements for the mass meeting of the United Thank Offering being held this evening. In the center is the Rev. Henry Smith Leiper, the executive secretary of the American Section of the Universal Christian Council, who is to address the Auxiliary next Monday, October 14th; and Florence G. Tyler, the secretary of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America, who addresses the women also that day.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS October 10, 1940 NEWS NOTES OF which alone in a world of strife we may be brought again under the sov THE CHURCH IN ereignty of the Prince of Peace.” BRIEF PARAGRAPHS ^ ^ ^ New Dean for Edited By Gerard Teasdale Long Island The National Council budget for The Rev. George A. Robertshaw, 1941 will of course be one of the pri rector at Hollis, Long Island, has ac mary considerations at General Con cepted election as the dean of the vention. As it is to be offered by the Cathedral at Garden City, succeed Budget and Program Committee, un ing the Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving less changed as a result of meetings 2nd, now rector of Calvary, Pitts being held, it calls for $2,350,000 of burgh. which $635,000 is already available, chiefly from the United Thank Offer Representative of ing and interest on trust funds. Of Archbishop of Canterbury this sum $1,902,120 is for missionary Bishop Noel Baring Hudson, for work at home and abroad; $129,508 mer bishop of dioceses in Borneo and is for departmental work at head now secretary of the Society for the quarters (social service, religious Propagation of the Gospel, is to education, promotion) ; $42,502 is for speak at a mass meeting at General miscellaneous activities, chiefly For Convention as the representative of ward Movement and training centers; Two popular Bishops greet each the Archbishop of Canterbury. $12,020 is for cooperating agencies other at General Convention. On the sjc H* * and $263,850 is for administration. left is Bishop Perry of Rhode Island * * * and at the right Bishop Keeler of Hiram G. W oolf Refrains Minnesota. From Political Comment It Is the Same Bishop Oldham presided at a din Line of Talk ner of one hundred laymen of the The following is a statement by that the CLID speakers are ‘com various Albany parishes at St. Peter s the Rev. W. B. Spofford, issued in munists,’ even though every one of parish house, September 25, with the his capacity as executive secretary of them have been, and are, militant Rev. Hiram G. Woolf, rector of the the Church League for Industrial De champions of that American way of American Church in Dresden, Ger mocracy: “ Mr. Morehouse of The life which Mr. Morehouse defines as many, addressing the group. ^ Mr. Living Church hands out thé same belief in ‘liberty, democracy and tol Woolf related experiences in his re old line in denouncing the meetings erance.’ The program of the CLID ligious work, but refrained from dis of the CLID being held at General is thoroughly in line with the article cussion of political matters. Com Convention. The organization is as in this number by the Archbishop of menting upon the evidence of vital religion and knowledge of the much a part of the Episcopal Church York, who is, presumably, a Chris Church’s service that he found in as arè other organizations, such as tian even within the narrow confines prison camps of British soldiers, he the Church Mission of Help, the of Mr. Morehouse’s definition of the emphasized the importance of more Girls’ Friendly, Brotherhood of St. word.” intimate personal knowledge of the Andrew and others. This was clearly Church, her history and her enter recognized officially by the Cincin President of Deputies prises. nati Convention that refused to pass Gives Address resolutions discriminating against the In an address broadcast from CLID. Indeed the CLID is rather Bexley Hall Opens With Washington on October 6th, the Rev. C. C.. Roach As Acting Dean more a part of the Episcopal Church ZeBarney Phillips, president of the Bexley Hall, Kenyon College, than is The Living Church, which House of Deputies, presented a Gambier, Ohio, opened its 117th year after all is the private property of strong plea for Christian unity and September 23rd. The appointment of the Morehouse family. A further called upon all Christians “ to fight Professor Corwin C. Roach as acting point—we have received a communi for the good against evil, not only in dean was announced by President cation from the Rev. Henry Smith defense of home and kindred, but Gordon K. Chalmers. Additions to Leiper, the executive secretary of the also for the reclamation of the ideals the teaching staff include Professor Universal Christian Council, who is which the Christ revealed and by John Black of the college faculty in on the official program of the Con vention, in which he presents the rec ord of Mrs. A. C. Morrison and Ma jor A. C. Gill, the original protestors, proving them to be avowed fascists. Dr. Leiper says further that in de nouncing the CLID they are using the same technique that Hitler used OXFORD Prayer Books, and Prayer Books and Hymnals, are available in 200 styles, printed on fine white paper and the so successfully in his rise to power; famous Oxford India paper. Beautifully bound in black, blue, namely to denounce everyone op red, purple, white, and brown. posed to his reactionary policies as Ask your bookseller to show you the wonderfully thirty Prayer Books printed on the new ULTRATHIN ‘communists.’ In that way he picked Oxford India/ paper. off, one at a time, the communists, OXFORD ALTAR SERVICE, with Chancel Prayer Books and the social democrats, the labor Hymnals to match. unions, the churches. Mr. Morehouse Send for list cf “Oxford Bibles with the ApocryphaJ is also using this technique in his edi OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 114 Fifth Ave., New York torial of October 9th by suggesting

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. October 10, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven the department of speech, the reap gram with the slogan “ to make the pointment of Dr. Richard Salomon in biggest church school the best.” En Church history and Professor E. F. rolling 722 last year the school has Scott of Union Theological Seminary adopted a new system with the classes who will take the New Testament commencing with the sixth grade and work the second semester. continuing through the college group. There will be five terms of six weeks each for instruction during the fall, Five Noon Meeting* winter and spring. Between each term Sponsored By Church Congress a Sunday will be set apart for corpo The Church Congress will sponsor- rate communion and no class in five noon meetings at the Kansas struction. The term “ teacher” has City Municipal Auditorium, October been replaced by “ counselor” and 14-18. At each there will be an ad “ faculty.” For the first term of the dress by a leading clergyman and an high school age, Rabbi Krohn of the open discussion. The approaches to local synagogue is giving a six weeks’ unity between the Episcopal and course on instruction to the Old Test Presbyterian Churches and the whole ament. A general subject has been problem of Christian unity will be assigned to each grade. The opening considered. The Rev. Donald B. Aid- session of the fall program of the rich of New York is chairman of school enrolled over 400 and it is ex the Church Congress. Speakers at pected that this year’s enrollment will the meetings will be: October 14, reach over 750. the Rev. William Thomas Heath of % He Hs Buffalo; October 15, the Very Rev. James Thayer Addison Speaks At Henry B. Washburn, former dean of CLAUDE W . SPROUSE, the Dean Missionary Society Banquet the Episcopal Theological School, of Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, Cambridge, Massachusetts; October A vigorous keynote was struck as Kansas City, a member of the execu the Missionary Society of the General 16, the Rev. John A. Mackay, presi tive committee of the General Con dent of the Princeton Theological Theological Seminary, New York, vention and chairman of halls and opened its new year’s activities by Seminary; October 17, Bishop Wilson meeting places. of Eau Claire and October 18, Bishop holding its annual banquet on Sep Strider of West Virginia. tember 30th. The Rev. James Thay ^ ^ $ 18, in honor of the Presiding Bish er Addison, new head of foreign op, Bishop Lawrence and Bishop missions and first vice-president of Hourly Prayers Planned for Keeler. Mr. Charles P. Taft of Cin the National Gouncil, was the prin Day of Registration for Draft cinnati will be the speaker and C. cipal speaker of the evening. Dean On October 16, the date for draft Leslie Glenn, president of the Church Fosbroke of the Seminary was toast registration, the bell of Christ society for college work, will be the master. Mr. Addison delivered a Church, Los Angeles, will call people toastmaster. The guests will be those stirring talk on the missionary situ to prayer at every hour during the interested in the work. ation in general. He based his speech day. Every hour on the hour prayers * * * on I Corinthians 16: 8 & 9: “ But I for peace will be said in the Church will tarry at Ephesus at Pentecost. with special intention for the use of A New System for Arizona Church School For a great door and effectual is open the conscripted army. The theme of One of the largest Sunday schools to me, and there are many adver the day is “ Let us pray that this, the in the Church, the Church School of saries.” This statement of St. Paul, first peacetime conscripted army in Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, Arizona, as Mr. Addison showed, expressed the the history of the United States, will is embarked on an efficiency pro dynamic determination of the mis- be used only as a force for peace.” * * * Convention to Elect Province o f Pennfylvanja» g* A Facsimile of the First Life Insurance Fourteen to Council Policy issued in America. General Convention will elect four teen members of the National Coun The first life insurance policy issued in cil ; twelve due to expirations and two America was issued by the Fund. The In denture issued on the life of Francis due to deaths. Successors to the late Alison in 1761 is the first of record with the Bishop Stewart and Mr. Austin J. Fund. Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund today has almost 23,000 policies on the lives of Lindstrom, both of Chicago, will be ministers, their wives, theological students. named. * H« H* College Work At T h e f u n d is the largest organi General Convention zation of Protestant clergymen in The college work exhibit is one of the world today. It covets the the largest in the Municipal Audi torium and also one of the most confidence displayed in the Fund popular. The exhibit is in replica of by Protestant ministers, their a classical building. Part of it is a wives and Theological students. much appreciated lounge for visitors.

Miss Peggy Thompson of the Uni For any information about life insurance write versity of Illinois is the official host ess and she is doing a fine job of THE PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS' FUND greeting along with the representa ALEXANDER MACKIE, D.D., PRESIDENT tive college clergy and women college The First Life Insurance Company in America. The Oldest in the World workers from all parts of the country. F O U N D E D 1717 1805-07 WALNUT ST., RITTENHOUSE SQ., PHI LA., PA. CHARTERED 1759 The high point of the college work program will be a dinner on October

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS October 10, 1940 sionary spirit—to stay and face the this year. The Rev. Herbert L. Bartlett, the Hon. William A. Merrill strongest opposition rather than re Miller and the Rev. Rodger McColl and the Rev. Daniel A. McGregor as treat before it. He went on to show are in charge of the student congre speakers. The Church’s work with a how necessary the preservation of gation. great race, the Negro, will come in this Christian spirit is today in a * * for attention on Thursday evening, world where chronic indifference Emphasis On Drama October 17, in a program under the and fear of insecurity at home com At Night Mass Meetings direction of the American Church In bine with totalitarian aggression and Five great night mass meetings will stitute for Negroes. A huge massed disrupted communications abroad to be held during General Convention choir of voices from Negro churches threaten the future of missionary en under the sponsorship of the Nation in Kansas City will sing. The effect terprise. al Council. The keynote to the series * * * will be sounded by the United Thank Visualize Your Teaching With Story-O-Craphs Thomas L. Ridout Appointed Offering meeting this evening, Oc Makes the Bible Live Before Your Eyes tober 10, in the Municipal Audi Sufficient figures to As Chaplain At Fort Dix visualize every lesson Bishop Gardner of New Jersey has torium arena. “ The Church marches in Bible. Watch the appointed the Rev. Thomas L. Rid on” is the theme. Through a com Story unfold step by step as you place the out, rector of St. Andrew’s, Mt. mentator coming to the audience in characters on Scenic Holly, New Jersey, to be civilian radio fashion; through motion pic (flannel covered) board. This fascinating chaplain at Fort Dix where regiments tures on a huge screen dropped method gives you a of the National Guard are arriving before the Convention altar; through real thrill in your daily. Bishop Gardner has also com missionaries from the world over teaching, and holds the interest of the class municated with the bishops of the will come the story of the march for They never forget the nearby diocese from which the regi ward of the Church in these troubled Figures are put on message. times. On Sunday evening, October flannel covered board T w o new graphs ments are at present drawn and of as lesson progresses. (missionary) “ The fered his services to be “ the spear 13, in the music hall another picture Migrant Farmers,” of the Church’s world-wide mission and “ Everyday Life in China,” 45c each. head of the work of the Episcopal A new get acquainted offer of introductory Church in and about Fort Dix.” will he provided by Bishop Roberts of package of Bible Story-O-Graphs for only i{: ijc . China, Bishop Thomas of Brazil and $2.00. Complete instructions for making and using University Churchmen Bishop Nichols of Japan. The formal your own Scenic Board; also how to use the Inaugurate Fall Program presentation of the children’s Lent Story-O-Graphs, with each order. Write for free descriptive folder. The Canterbury Club of Wayne en offering will be made at this STORY-O-GRAPHS University, Detroit, Michigan, com meeting. The patriotic note will be Dept. 30, P.O. Box 145 Pasadena, Calif. posed of Episcopal students inaugur the thing at the third of the series in ated its fall program with an evening the Music Hall on October 15. called the “ Canterbury Capers of “ America for Christ” will be the sub 1940” on October 1. The Rev. Sew ject, with Bishops Freeman, and ard H. Bean is chaplain of the r Pilcher Organs CATHEDRAL STUDIOS Canterbury Club. Washington & London, England. CHURCH The lovely tone and the correctly H« ❖ * VESTMENTS, plain or embroidered, surplices, designed action of the Pilcher Organ, A “ Chicago Day” to Be exquisite Altar Linens, stoles, burses & veils. Materials by the yard. See my NEW BOOK are a constant source of pleasure and Observed By Illinois University “CHURCH EMBROIDERY” & CHURCH VEST- MENTS a complete instruction. 128 pages, 95 permanent satisfaction. October 13 will be set aside as iilus. Price $4.00. And my HANDBOOK for “ Chicago day” at the University of ALTAR GUILDS, price 50c. Miss L. V. Mack- rille, 11 W. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. October 10, 1940 THE WITNESS Page Thirteen of the war on missions throughout will meet at Bear Mountain Park, eighteen new students enrolled, two the Anglican communion will be New York on October 30-31. The being transferred from other semi brought to the attention of Con conference theme will be “The Need naries to the middle class, two en vention on Sunday evening, October of a fresh missionary vision in this rolled as specials and fourteen 20. A personal representative of the day of crisis.” Speakers will be Bish juniors. This makes the total num Archbishop of Canterbury is ex op Manning, Archbishop Owen of ber of undergraduate students forty- pected to speak at that time. Kansas Ottawa, the Rev. Messrs. Sheerin and seven, a slight increase over last City high school bands will provide Kelly of the National Council, year. Three applications for admis the musical setting for two of the Yerkes of the University of the South sion were declined. meetings. and Hughson of the Order of the ^ ^ Holy Cross. Nation-Wide Broadcast to Last Minute Figures * * * Inaugurate Every Member Canvass On Kansas City Federal Council A nation-wide broadcast by the Here are some facts and figures on Publishes C. O. Pamphlet Presiding Bishop will inaugurate this Kansas City which will be the center A pamphlet entitled “ The consci fall’s Every Member Canvass. Bish of the Episcopal Church for two entious objector and the selective op Tucker will speak to the Church weeks beginning October 9. It has a training and service act of 1940” is over the Columbia Broadcasting Sys population of 400,000. It is the being published by the Federal Coun tem from New York at 10:00 a.m., second largest grain and livestock cil of Churches. The first section of market in the United States. The city the pamphlet carries the text of those is built at the junction of the Mis sections of the act which deal with WILBUR HERBERT souri and Kaw Rivers. Educationally, the conscientious objector. The second BURNHAM the University of Kansas City does part analyzes the act from the stand well in ranking it high among other point of the conscientious objector Designer and Master cities. Most distinguished citizen was and lists the rulings and regulations Craftsman William Rockhill Nelson, founder of laid down in Washington which bear the Kansas City Star and its editor upon the rights and duties of those for many years. Approximately 83 who for reasons of conscience are un STAINED AND per cent of the city’s population is able to bear arms. The pamphlets are LEADED GLASS native-born white; six per cent, alien available at the Federal Council of born; ten per cent, Negro. fices and cost five cents per copy or Studios: 1126 Boylston Street * * * one hundred copies for one dollar. Boston, Massachusetts Mission to Lepers * * * Grant Additional Money Eighteen New Students In response to an urgent request At Seabury-Western THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK from Bishop Kroll of Liberia, the Seabury-Western Theological Semi SOCIETY American Mission to Lepers is author nary opened on September 30th with Founded by Bishop White 1833 izing an addition grant-in-aid of $500 Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par over and above the usual grant to ishes unable to purchase them,. in limited grants. the leper colony at Cape Mount, The Book of Common Prayer. Liberia. This is a colony owned by The Combined Book (The Book of Common ¡TIMELY TRACTS! Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). the government of Liberia, which has Pew Size welcomed a medical and spiritual j WHY I AM FOR THE CHURCH | Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. ministry by the Episcopal mission j By Charles P. 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E.S.T., November 10. He is espe cially anxious that canvass groups shall meet together and listen to the broadcast. Following last year’s # î a t t t e bOl k a s broadcast, 13,500 replies by postal IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BEST TRADITIONS OF THE CRAFT FOR FORTY YEARS card, letter and telegram were re Notable installations in forty-three states and five foreign countries. ceived. Illustrated and printed material on request. * * * Church Work in Military Training Camps Is Considered S’Asmtzu ^tuîûos The need of religious ministrations 1604 Summer Street Philadelphia, Pa. to men in military training camps is expected to be placed before the General Convention shortly after its opening. The Presiding Bishop, con cerned over the prospect of thou Services in Leading Churches sands of young men leaving homes and colleges for cantonments, has ap pointed a committee to study the The Cathedral of St. John St. Thomas Church problem. Urging speedy action, the the Divine Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street committee says: “ No time must be Amsterdam Avenue and I12th St. Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector lost in mobilizing our resources for New York City Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services, 8 & 11 A.M. & 4 P.M. the task of caring for the spiritual, 10, Morning Prayer, 11, Holy Communion moral, educational and social welfare and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser Daily Services, mon. 8 :30 A.M. Holy Communion of our young fellow Churchmen.” Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on 12:10 P.M. Noonday Service (except Calling attention to the fact that Saints’ Days 7:30 and 10.) 9, Morning Saturdays) Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: Thursdays, 11 A.M. Holy Communion many clergymen of the Church who { Recital at 4:30. are members of the National Guard or other reserve organizations will be Chapel of the Intercession called for camp duty soon, necessitat Broadway at 155tn St. Paul’s Cathedral New York City ing their seeking leave of absence Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar Buffalo, New York from their parishes, or resigning from Sundays : Holy Communion: 8 and 9 :30 ; Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean parish positions, the committee asks Service and Sermon at 11; Evening Serv Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. ice and Sermon, 8. that provision for them and their Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 Weekdays: 8, 12:05 Noon. families be made. During the Great and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. Wednesdays: 11 A.M. Holy Communion. War the Episcopal Church set up a committee for similar service in can Grace Church, New York Rev. Louis W. Pitt, D.D., Rector tonments and overseas, and the tenta Broadway at 10th St. Christ Church Cathedral tive plan proposed the formation of Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. a committee made up of selected in Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean urdays. dividuals who are members of the Sunday Services, 8:00, 9:30, 10:00, Convention; members of the Church’s Thursday and Holy Days: Holy Com 11 a.m ..; 4:30 p.m. national headquarters staff; members munion 11:45 A.M. Week-days: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy of the Convention’s commission on The Heavenly Rest, New York Communion on Wednesdays and Holy Days. the relation of the Church to the Fifth Avenue at 90th Street 12:35 p.m. Noonday Service. Army and Navy Chaplain’s corps; Rev. Henrr Darlington, D.D. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10:15 and others representing the various a.m .; Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning agencies employed. The committee Service and Sermon 11 a.m .; Choral Eve St. Michael and All Angels ning Prayer 4:30 p.m. Baltimore, Maryland would maintain regular contact with Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com clergy called from their parishes for munion, 11 a.m. The Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D., Rector government service and supply aid to Sunday Services:— ■ 7 :30 A.M.— Holy Communion. those who would continue the The Incarnation 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Ser Church’s ministry in vacated cures. Madison Avenue and 35th Street mon. The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector Weekdays:— Also it would undertake to work out Holy Communion— a placement program for clergy who Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A.M., 4 P.M. Wed Mon.., Wed., & Sat.—10:00 A.M. nesdays and Holy Days, Holy Communion Tues., Thurs., & Fri.— 7:00 A.M. return to parish work after having 10 A.M. Holy Days— 7:00 and 10:00 A.M. been obliged to resign to take up Fridays, 12:15 P.M. emergency service. The plan recom St. Bartholomew’s Church mended includes the appointment and New York Gethsemane, Minneapolis subsidy of civilian chaplains for Park Avenue and 51st Street 4th Ave. South at 9th St. Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector training camps, these to be attached The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector to nearby parish churches, this to be Sunday Services: 8 A.M., Holy Com munion ; 9 :30 and 11 A. M., Church Sundays: 8:00 and 11:00 A.M. governed “ by financial means within School; 11 A. M., Morning Service and Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10:30 A.M. the budget of the National Council Sermon ; 4 P. M., Evensong. Special Music. Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M. Weekday Holy Communion at 10:30 A. and from other sources, and the need M. on Thursdays and Saints’ Days. of such a program after decision by The Church is open daily for prayer. the war department as to what plans Emmanuel Memorial Church (The Tourist’s Church) it will adopt.” Saint James Church Severance St. Madison Avenue at 71st Street Shelburne Falls, Mass. New Address for New York City On The Mohawk Trail Newark Headquarters The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, D.D., Rector ! Where you will find a warm welcome The headquarters of the diocese of 8 A.M. Holy Communion. and a helpful message. Newark are now located at 24 Rector 11 A.M. Morning Service and Sermon. | Services at 8 & 9 :45 A.M. Street, Newark, New Jersey.

CONVENTION PROGRAM Noon Recess: Open Forum of I (Continued from page 9) the Episcopal Pacifist Fellow Services in Kansas City 2:00 P.M. Altar Guilds Conference. ship. Speaker, Rev. Elmore Cathedral Parish House. McKee. Chairman, Bishop W. GRACE AND HOLY TRINITY 2:00-4:00 Conference on Christian Appleton Lawrence. CATHEDRAL 415-25 West 13th Street Education. Continues daily un 6:30 P.M. College Work Dinner. Dinner for diocesan editors and Very Rev. Claude W. Sprouse, Dean til Oct. 18, incl. Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. directors of publicity. Weekdays: 7:30 A.M. October 16 Church Historical Society Din 8:30 A.M. Breakfast Meeting, Epis ner. ST. MARY’S CHURCH 13th and Holmes Streets copal Pacifist Fellowship. Daily 8:30 P.M. Indian Symphony. Minisa until Oct. 18, incl. Rev. E. W. Merrill, Rector Organization, under direction The main Sunday Masses are 7:30 and 10:45. Noon Recess: CLID Forum. of Thurlow Lieurance. Music The daily Masses are every half hour from Speaker, Max Yergen, presi Hall. 6:30 to 8:30, including Sunday. dent of the National Negro Congress. Chairman, Bishop October 20 (Sunday) B. D. Tucker. Services in all Churches 7:30 and 6:30 P.M. Dinners of Provinces. 11:00 A.M. 4:00 P.M. Vesper Service. St, The Episcopal October 17 George’s Church. Committee for Noon Recess: CLID Forum. 4:30 P.M. Vespers and Meditation Speaker, John Foster, mission under auspices of Confraterni European Refugees ary to China. Chairman, Bish ty of the Blessed Sacrament. op Sherrill. St. Mary’s Church. Booth 19 5:00 P.M. Church Periodical Club Memorial Service for Mary E. Exhibit - Literature - Information Thomas. Cathedral. for Individuals and Parish Committees October 18 n 7:30 A.M. Holy Communion at Ca The most discussed EDITH M. DENISON thedral, remembering the 49th RESOURCE SECRETARY anniversary of the ordination religious hook of in charge of Bishops Johnson and Mat thews. the year!

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