~ ------...... —...... "-s. \ ; v.iv~ - - ....- VOL. VI. NO. 49 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 22, 1922 ~ $1.50 A YEAR The Conference at Wellesley is Americans Save Many Orphans Well Attended in the Near East

Leaders Find Gathered There an Enthusiastic, One Check For One Hundred Thousand Dollars Earnest Group of Church Workers Saves Over Two Thousand Children

The Conference for Church Work, Two months ago Near East Relief was meeting at Wellesley College, June 26- obliged to make a 25 per cent reduction July 6, demonstrated the real character of READY MONEY in all appropriations for orphanage sup­ a National Episcopal Conference more port in Armenia, Anatolia, Syria and Pal­ definitely than in other years. This Con­ The Witness, not being a subsidized estine. Receipts had decreased 40 per ference, formerly held at Cambridge, but paper, depends entirely upon its cent. There was no alternative. The 25 for the last four years at Wellesley Col­ readers for support. They do ex­ per cent reduction in appropriations meant lege, through the courtesy of its trustees, tremely well during ten months of the inevitable death of thousands of little differs from all other conferences and sum ­ the year but seem to have other children whom America had already taken mer schools fo*r church work and workers things on their minds during the hot into the orphanages of the Near East— in that it is a general conference in dis­ summer months. We need cash to pay certain death unless the American public, tinction from the Provincial Diocesan and our bills. We are willing to pay for by increased contributions, “commuted Interdiocesan conferences held in many this ready money. Therefore the the sentence.” places by the Church. following proposition is made: Send The facts were quickly placed before us your name and that of a friend The General Conference, unlike the the public and the public responded. The together with two dollars. Your others, is for the benefit of the whole contributions during April and May were subscription wilj. be advanced one American Church, rather than for any restored to the former level of $5 per particular locality, people coming this year from present expiration date. month for each child in the orphanages. Your friend will receive the paper year from fifty-two dioceses and twenty- Funds representing the increased contri­ four states and from the missionary dis­ for a year, and you will have sent butions were cabled to the Near East, and tricts in China, Japan, Porto Rico, Brazil to you a copy of Bishop Johnson’s after a temporary reduction in rations, “The Personal Christ.” $3.50 for and the Philippines, many of those from provision was made for the retention of $2.00. Fill out the form on another overseas being missionaries. It is not un­ all the children already assembled in the page and mail today. der control of any other organization, orphanages. either a provincial council or a diocese or This achievement was made possible group of dioceses, as are the others. It is managed by a committee whose members first, by the American press, without whose are from three Provinces and seven Dio­ served, and I have learned from the mem­ co-operation in placing the facts before the public, the saving of the lives of these ceses. bers of the class, both in the lecture room thousands of children would have been The primary aim of this conference' is and outside it, many details of experi­ ments which will help me in my ministry. impossible, and second, by the American to supply the Church with one of her I am convinced that the most effective public that always shows itself ready to greatest present needs, leaders, in all ministry is made, not by a man who starts respond when the facts are known. branches of her work. For this reason out with a hard and fast theory of admin­ the General Conference prefers its mem­ One check came unsolicited for $100,000 istration, however good, but by a man who bership to be composed largely of those, from an anonymous donor, who read of daily adapts himself to the needs and as­ young or older, who are already leaders or the threatened slaughter of innocents and piration of the people committed to him. teachers in any branch of the Church’s responded promptly, generously. This We of the clergy need consecrated and un­ work, but who wish to get instruction in man, by signing that check, literally saved their particular lines for the coming year, selfish imagination.” the lives of 2,000 orphaned children as and those who, though still young or un­ Rev. A. B. M,ercer of the Western Theo­ truly as if he had rescued them from a instructed, show ability for leadership and logical Seminary gave a splendid Old Tes­ sinking ship or burning building. intend to pass on to others what they tament Course on the Book of Job. In Tens of thousands of children, the po­ themselves have received. The confer commenting on this course, he makes a tential leaders of a new Near East, are ence this year was markedly made up of significant comment on the ability of Epis­ living today, who would have perished this type. Nearly everyone present, young copalians to get hold of the modern view. had it not been for the co-operation of the and middle-aged, studied hard and con­ He said: “I have lectured before many American press and the response of the scientiously, all receiving in addition to societies and clubs on the Bible. Some of American public. their instructions the inspiration which them have consisted of Episcopalians Most of these children, however, are comes from the classes on the Bible, only, others have been non-Episcopalian. under eleven years of age. They are or­ prayer book and personal religion. I have found that the ability of Episco­ phans. They have no friendly, strong In response to a request for a comment palians to co-ordinate Church and Bible government to give them care and protec­ on his splendid course given to the clergy is such as to present the minimum of dif­ tion. More than 100,000 of them are of the conference, Bishop Coadjutor Elect ficulty in presenting modern interpreta­ wholly dependent upon American philan­ Charles L. Slattery said: “This course tion of the text of the Bible.” thropy. Their needs will be as great dur­ has (impressed me with the advantage of Rev. B. W. Bonnell, of St. John’s Col­ ing the summer months and the coming having a clearing-house for methods in the lege, Greeley, Colo., in his class for young winter as they were last spring, and it is life and work of the clergy. In my lectures people discussing problems in religion was only by a steady continuance of contribu­ I have been telling what I have discovered pleasantly surprised at the readiness of tions that a recurrence of the crisis can to be useful in the parishes which I have young people to enter into discussion. be avoided. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 T H E WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Dr. Reifsnider Elected to communicants each. Several lodges also to talk over the situation. It was decided Deanship of Bexley Hall entered the contest. Yet in spite of this to rebuild as, close to the old lines as pos­ At the annual meeting on June 19 the competition, in the face of which most sible and subscriptions were taken amount­ Boat'd of Trustees of Kenyon College small churches would give up, the women ing to over $7,000. It is hoped the build­ elected to the Deanship of Bexley Hall the of St. George’s Church went to work. At ing can be restored and furnished for ten Rev. Dr. Charles S. Reifsnider, now Presi­ the very outside there were probably not thousand. The Bishop expects to let the dent of St. Paul’s College at Tokyo. Dr. more than thirty women working but they contract by the first of August. Reifsnider graduated at Kenyon College pulled together with a real enthusiasm The Bishop has also ordered the build­ in 1898 and at Bexley Hall in 1900 and and were announced as the prize winner ing of a parish house for St. Elizabeth’s has since received the degrees of Master on July 1st. St. George’s is a Mission of Mission in Allentown. This congregation of Arts in course, 1904, and L.H.D., 1912. 150 communicants, under the direction of has been worshipping in an old abandoned As an alumnus of the seminary his elec­ the managing editor of The Witness. school house for the last fifteen years. tion will be particularly welcome to Bex­ There is g rea t joy am ong the longsuffer- ley men and because of his wide experi­ Diocese of New Yqrk ing and patient people. ence and eminent service he will bring to Makes New Record St. George’s, Olyphant, is going to build the seminary the leadership that it needs. The report of the Church Treasurer of a rectory. This has been a crying need As Dr. Reifsnider is now in Japan his de­ the Diocese of New York, giving the Na­ for many years. A basement is being built cision cannot be known for some little tion Wide Campaign receipts as of June under St. Joseph’s Italian Church, West time. 1st, 1922, indicates that the Diocese of Bangor. So that, notwithstanding the At the same meeting the Board of Trus­ New York leads the Church with a total coal strike and now the railroad shopmen tees elected to the Eleutheros Cooke Pro­ of $107,110.12, which is an increase of on strike, both of which industries effect fessorship of Church History and Ecclesi­ $20,552.15 over that recorded as of the our people very intim ately, the diocese is astical Polity the Rev. Charles E. Byrer, same date last year. The next largest in­ going to do more by way of building than ’00 Bex., ’22 D.D., Rector of Christ crease is $9,192.05. The second and the fo r many years» past. T rinity Church, Chureh, Springfield, Ohio. Dr. Byrer took eighth provinces are the only ones show­ Pottsville, is making additions and alter­ his bachelor’s degree at Otterbein College ing any increase over the corresponding ations to its church, which will cost at and graduated from Bexley Hall in 1900. period last year. least $130,000. Most of the work is done, Dr. Byfer is well known as a writer and and they hope to have the reopening be­ scholar; For fifteen years he has been The Princeton Summer School fore the General Convention. There will an examining Chaplain of the Diocese of Will Attended be no more beautiful church in the dio­ Southern Ohio and for nine years Presi­ About two hundred students have reg­ cese after the work on Trinity is finished. dent of the Standing Committee. Dr. istered at the Summer School. The rain Byrer has been a deputy at the last three is almost continuous, but nothing damp­ Sermon by Radio General Conventions and has been elected ened the ardor and enthusiasm of those at­ in Galveston, Texas to the coming Convention at Portland. tending. The Rev. Raimundo De Ovies, Rector of The Fourth of July was most patriot­ Trinity Church, .had the honor of being Ordination in Christ Church, ically observed, a special feature being the first to send a sermon by radio from Norfolk, Virginia the singing of patriotic songs at the Wash­ Galveston. As a text for the concise ser­ In Christ Church, Norfolk, Va., on St. ington Memorial. It being Field Day, mon that reached the public through the Peter’s Day, Mr. Henry R. Taxdal, M.A., much fun was enjoyed by old and young dadion last Sunday, Mr. De Ovies chose B.S., S.T.B., was ordained deacon by the alike. a passage from the First Epistle to the Rt. Rev. A. C. Thomson, D.D., Bishop Co­ The early Holy Communion services are Corinthians: “And I, when I come to you, adjutor of Southern Virginia. He was wonderfully attended. come not with excellency of speech or presented by his rector, Rev. F. C. Stein- A full report of this important confer­ wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony metz,. S.T.D., who also preached the ser­ ence will appear in a later issue. of God, but I determined not to know mon. anything among you, save Jesus Christ The service was a most impressive one, Active Building in and Him crucified.” many of the clergy from Norfolk, Ports­ Diocese of Bethlehem The opening sentences from the service mouth and vicinity being present, in their The Diocese of Bethlehem is trying to of Morning Prayer, the Lord’s Prayer and vestments. enlarge its rural work, or at least to re­ several collects preceded the sermon. Dur­ Beautiful music was rendered by the vive the missions which were once alive, ing the day many people phoned in, say­ full vested choir of boys and men. but have been dead for some time. Regu­ ing how inspiring and reverent the serv­ Luncheon, served in the parish house, lar services are held in St. Matthew’s ice by radio was. Mr. De Ovies stated followed the ordination service. Church, Stevensville, this summer by the that the personal equation that goes into Rev. Mr. Taxdal will have charge dur­ Rev. Ralph Weatherly, the rector of the preaching in the church would prevent ing the summer of All Saints’ Church, church in Montrose. St. Matthew’s was the radio from ever displacing the pulpit Park View, Portsmouth, where he will organized in 1814 and for many years was and church attendance. preach on Sunday mornings, taking the a flourishing rural parish, but for years night service and preaching at Cradock. now the church has been closed. Mr. Dr. Cloud to Give With the autumn, he will enter a course Weatherly does this as a work of love and Entire Time to Ministry at the: Harvard and Cambridge Divinity reports splendid responses to his efforts. The Rev. James H. Cloud, D.D., for the School. The Bishop spent a day and the Arch­ past thirty-two years principal of the St. deacon a week lately in St. Thomas, Mor­ Louis Public (Gallaudet) School for the Women of Chicago Church gantown, another of the small villages of Deaf, in addition to being minister of St. Win a Thousand Dollars the diocese. This parish was started in Thomas’ Mission for the Deaf and mis­ . An enterprising newspaper in Chicago 1744, long before we celebrated our inde­ sionary, has resigned his school position started a novel advertising scheme. All pendence. Four years ago, the old church in order to give his entire time to the of the stores in the territory that the pa­ was burned to the ground, having been work of the ministry. per covered were given coupons which struck by lightning. The walls being were to be given away with the purchase massive and well built, were not much Rector a Leader of of products advertised in its pages. The damaged, and have stood there these four Vacation Bible School institution which collected the largest years asking for restoration. As the com­ The Rev. Alan Pressley Wilson, rector number of these coupons was to receive munity has been changing for some years, of St. John’s Church, Marietta, Pa., af­ a prize of $1,000. Practically all of the it was a question whether we should re­ fectionately and familiarly known locally churches on the south side of Chicago en­ build or not. But the tide is turning. as “The Friendly Church,” served as di­ tered the contest, including at least two Church people are returning and to test rector of Christian Education in a Daily Roman churches, with Copyright over 2020. a thousand Archives of thetheir Episcopal interest, Church an/ DFMS. all-day Permission meeting required wag for held reuse andVacation publication. Bible School held for the com- THE WITNESS 3 munity in which he lives. The school all such service as, in the judgment of the nominated- Mr.,. BarneWell w ithdrew his sessions have just closed and the success Bishop Coadjutor, shall be desirable, and own name and the names of Mr. Clarke of the project assures its continuance ,as shall be mutually agreed upon. I shall and Mr. Brown were withdrawn by their from year to year. Four classes were en­ be a willing co-worker with the one whom proposers. Mr. McDowell tried to with­ rolled, i. e., for beginners, primary, jun­ you may elect and to whom, after conse­ draw his own name, but the Council would iors and seniors. A total enrolment of cration, you will look as the Ecclesiastical not permit him to do so, The Council 125 with an average attendance of 100 Authority of this jurisdiction; believing then adjourned for supper. was secured and 80 certificates of profi­ that, all working together, we can secure On reconvening the two orders separat­ ciency in Bible and Hymnology were to him an Episcopate richly blessed with ed and voted. The lay delegates took only awarded. Strict examinations were given fruit that shall crown his living efforts.” one ballot. Every parish and rpission sta­ and the students passed, in many in­ The offering at the opening service had tion voted for Mr. McDowell. The first stances, cum laude. Under the direction been designated by the bishop for a mem­ ballot of the clergy stood McDowell 26, of Mr. Wilson, as director of education, orial to the Rev. Mr. Cassell, deceased, Barnewell 3, Clarke 1, Brown 1. Thirty- a Community Teacher Training Class is whose faithful life-work had made pos­ one votes cast. The second ballot, thirty to be organized this autumn, while a Com­ sible the church at Carlowville. On learn­ votes cast, stood, McDowell, 30. munity Week Day School of Christian Ed­ ing of this the Council asked the privilege The Rev. Will'iam George McDowell, ucation is planned for a later effort. It of making another offering for the same Jr., was born August 22, 1882, at Lexing­ is expected that the public school will be purpose, which was done; and a memorial ton, Va. Was ordered deacon by Bishop utilized and that the teachers will go to the Rev. Mr. Cassell will be erected in Tucker, and ordained priest by Bishojj right into the classes which will be divided Carlowville. Randolph. He was in charge of Milherrin and those electing to take Bible courses Motion was made to proceed to the elec­ Parish, Greensville county, Virginia, 1909- to study under trained Christian teachers tion of a coadjutor. Miotion to adjourn 1913. Emmanuel Church, Staunton, Va., and those not so electing to study other was made by Mr. Long, on the ground 1913-1918. Chaplain U. S. A. 1918-1919, branches under their own teachers. that party feeling still ran too high right­ Auburn Opelako, Tuskeegee and Tuskee- ly to elect at this time. After extended gee Institute 1919-1922. He is a Student Rev. W. G. McDowell Elected debate, growing more and more friendly Inquirer, Department Religious Education, Coadjutor of Alabama as it proceeded, it. became the sense of the Presiding Bishop and Council, and Cleri­ The Special Council for the Election of Council that, in view of the Bishop’s self- cal Member of the National Student’s a Bishop Coadjutor of Alabama convened sacrifice, party feeling did not run too Council from the Province of Sewanee. in Carlowville at 11 a. m., July 5, 1922. high, and that it was possible to agree He is a B.A. of Washington and Lee Uni­ Of the thirty-two active organized parishes with full good-will upon some man. The versity and a B.D. of the Virginia Theo­ all were represented by a total of 97 dele­ motion to proceed to an election was car­ logical Seminary. gates. Of the thirty organized missions, ried. Nominating speeches were limited 11 were represented. Of the thirty-two to ten minutes, and it was decided to take active clergy, thirty-one were present. all necessary time for prayer and discus­ CURED HER Two organized but inactive and very small sion. The Bishop had retired, placing the parishes and nineteen missions were not Rev. G. C. Tucker, rector of St. John’s, RHEUMATISM represented. This, is a larger and more Mobile, and Senior Priest of the Diocese, Knowing from terrible experience ' the suffer­ representative council than the diocese hds in the chair. At the request’ of the Cdun- ing caused by rheumatism, Mrs. J. E., Hurst, had in years. It had a total of 139 out of cil Mr. Tucker offered prayer for the who lives at 508 E. Olive St., B. 51, Blooming­ ton. 111., is, so thankful at having cured herself a possible 221 members and, by the canon guidance of the Holy Spirit. that out of pure gratitude she is anxious to tell law of Alabama, a total of 65 and one- all other sufferers just how to get rid of their As nominations proceeded it became torture by a simple way ^t home. fifth out of a possible 74 votes. This is evident that the Rev. W. G. McDowell was Sirs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Merlely cut about twice the number of delegates and out this notice and mail it to her with your: own the choice of both orders. The Rev. name and address, and she will gladly send you about 20 per cent more votes than usual. Messrs. McDowell, Bowie, Willis Clarke, this valuable information entirely frée. Write The council was thus unusually represent Bertram Brown and M. S. Barnewell were her at once before you forget. ative of the diocese. Carlowville is a country neighborhood, hardly a town at all; but the residents of all communions had joined in preparations. Every one was adequately and hospitably taken care of and made comfortable. An ample number of automobiles was placed Daily Vacation Bible Schools at the disposal of the delegates, every­ In many cities throughout the country Daily Vacation Bible thing was well organized and a lavish and Schools are being held and are attracting wide attention. These intelligent hospitality promptly convinced schools should be encouraged. the delegates that Carlowville was an ex­ cellent place to meet in. Weather and But what of our boys and girls when the vacation period is over ? roads were perfect. Our school children are given 25 hours a week of secular training, The resignation of the secretary, the which is compulsory, and only one hour a week of religious training, Rev. V. G. Lowry, on the ground of ill provided parents see that their children go to Sunday School. , health, was accepted, with thanks for Week Day Schools in Religious Education, held in co-operation faithful service rendered, and the Rev. with the Public Schools, solve this problem, , ; Mr. Seaman was elected. The bishop’s address followed, in which he assigned to In 1920 such schools were held in five cities in three different the coadjutor the full and unconditional States. In 1922 they were held in 15 cities in 16 States. exercise of all ecclesiastical authority. The significant,paragraph is as follows: I s Your City Giving Your Boys “Acting under the canon of the Church, and Girls This Opportunity? I hereby assign, as the duty of the Bishop Coadjutor, when ordained and consecrat­ What other cities are doing your city can do, Full information ed, the full and unconditional exercise of on the aims and methods of these day schools may be had by writ­ all Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese ing to the and other duties incident thereto; reserv­ ing to myself the office and title of Bishop Departm ent of Religious Education of the Diocese, but without permitting to be attached thereto the element of au­ Church Missions House, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York City > . • thority in the conduct of diocesan affairs. As the bishop, I shall be ready to render

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business regardless of human need, and Obviously the one to whom much had W M m m the party of the second part want to con­ been forgiven. trol men’s freedom regardless of personal Now the Master speaks and weighs Published every Saturday, $1.50 a year liberty. Simon in the balance. ❖ * ❖ Let me paraphrase our Lord’s words. THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO. (Not Incorporated) But, even so, God is not balked—He “Simon, you forgot your, manners. I 6140 Cottage Grove Are. made certain promises to the children of was your guest, but you as a host omitted CHICAGO, ILL. Israel, that He would free them from their certain kindly ceremonies. This woman' 287 bondage to Egypt if they had the faith supplied them. You are right, Simon. She was a great sinner, but she loved BOARD OF EDITORS and courage to enter the promised land. There were 600,000 who went out of much, and because she loved much, much Editor-in-Chief Egypt, but only two, Caleb and Joshua, shall be forgiven. Simon, you put your Rt. Rev. Irving P. Johnson trust in conventions. Even then you fail. Managing Editor who made good and inherited the promise. Rev. William B. Spofford Faith and courage were rare products You are not even polite. But you fail London Editor then and they have been ever since. worse than that. You do not. love and Rev. A. Manby Lloyd Self interest and our assiduous devotion because you do not love, little will be for­ Associate Editors to it, and to it only, robs human nature of given you.” Rev. Julius A. Schaad those finer qualities which are to become Simon had failed in the greater test. Rev. George Parkin Atwater the basis of God’s better world. Outwardly he lived the ritual of society; This world is incomplete, unsatisfactory, inwardly he had no heart. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of Congress brutal. It has ever martyred innocence o f M arch 8, 1879. ______and frankness. It has never valued the While the intellectuals are weighing qualities of humility and meekness, unless, Christ in the balance ; while the socialists CHRIST’S TEST OF US as in the case of Lincoln, these virtues are commending some things and passing have been immortalized in martyrdom. by others in Christ’s life; while the re­ Bishop Johnson While he lived he suffered more for his ligions are taking measure of His de­ Speaking through the prophet Isaiah, eccentric habits than he was appreciated m ands; and the half religious are taking ' God tells us that there will be a new for his sterling virtues. advantage of His silence, all of this time heavens and a new earth, thereby imply­ H* H; Christ is testing them—and it is a simple ing that this world is incomplete and un­ There is an incident in the life of test, “Have you a heart?” satisfactory. Christ that brings out this point most No! Not something else! “Have you He tells us further that, in this new keenly. a heart?” Do you love thé Lord God and creation one man shall hot plant and an­ People were always testing Christ. The the Lord Jesus with the concentrated de- s other man eat; nor one man build a house Pharisees watched Him, the Sadducees votion of this fragile woman, that is, with and another man foreclose thereon. tried Him out, the Herodians tested Him. all your heart? Have you a heart toward i He also implies that in this new crea­ In each case, while testing Christ, these God? Do you love the least of these as tion the churl shall no / more be called people were themselves undergoing a test. did th a t Sam aritan heretic, who went bountiful, but that men shall be estimated It was so with Simon, the Pharisee. Simon where the unfortunate was and gave of by a just standard of values. was, I fancy, conventionally good. He his time, his money, his interest, his-sym- And He further implies that men of felt an interest in Christ and invited Him pathy? faith and courage will become the sons of to dinner. Christ was not in Simon’s so­ “Have you a heart?” Do you love your God in this new country. cial set, and so Simon omitted the social neighbor at your own inconvenience? Or j Unless God is impotent and cannot com­ conventions. are you on terms of conventional polite- I plete that which any just intelligent man As a guest of equal social standing, ness with God, with Christ and with your knows to be incomplete, there will come a Simon should have anointed Christ with neighbor? reckoning for injustice and arrogant self- oil, brought water and a towel for His re­ Are you so set up with the idea of your indulgence and there will come a vindica­ freshment, offered Him a kiss of welcome. own importance that you put up barriers tion of the humble and the meek. Simon did none of these things, but he so that ocmmon people never can get in * * * did test Christ’s claims to be a prophet. contact with you excepting on your terms? Again, like Isaiah, when we look around Whether by accident or design we know Verily, you have your receipt in full. * Mn the various circles of society for evi­ not, it happened that a woman of the God owes you nothing, for the only debt dence of any great number of people who street, whose past was known to Simon, that God will cancel is the debt which is \ desire justice and are seeking righteous­ was at the door when Christ entered. wiped out by love! ,. i. * $ * ness, we are disappointed and discouraged Simon waited with all the censorious an­ perhaps. ticipation of a modern protestant minis­ Love ! I t is the one thing by which God It was in the very palmiest days of Is­ ter. If Christ were a prophet, He would tests your fitness for His new creation, rael’s greatness that Isaiah said, ‘‘Except at once know the character of the woman. and it is the one thing you belittle. It is it were for a very small remnant, Jerusa­ If He was a good minister, He would avoid the one treasure that will not spoil, the lem would be as Sodom and Gomorrah.” her, would He not? rest'are bric-a-brac. > And so, I fancy, would New York, which When she saw Christ she burst into The intellectuals go on and heed it not. has become an American Jerusalem. tears; the tears fell on His feet as she They test out Christ by higher criticism One looks in vain for any very large stooped to kiss them; she brushed them and Christ tests them out by lowly acts. number of people who are willing to make aside with the hairs of her head; and then The socialists test everything and every­ great personal sacrifices that justice may she broke a vial of oil upon them. body by certain crude hypotheses. Christ be done. One looks iri vain fo r the mem­ In the meantime Simon watched crit­ is testing them by their love of their ber of corporation or union who really ically. neighbor, and they love him not. They loves his fellow man, and really wants a love, instead, their theories, their own set, just and impartial umpire to decide his The incident passed, dinner was served their own conceits. case. and finally Christ spoke. The practical Christians test out Christ Calloused indifference to the housing “Simon, I have somewhat to say unto by His influence on prosperity and securi­ conditions of those who dig coal from the thee!” “Master, say on!” said the unsus­ ties. He tests them by a test they over­ mines, or to the blighted lives of children pecting Simon. He thought that he was look. who are forced out of play and study by testing Christ, whereupon Christ proceed­ The exponents of Social Ritual test 1 human greed, is matched only by the ed to test him. Christ and His prophets by their submis­ brutal murder and indifference to human He propounded a most simple and ob­ sion to the ritual of the order, and they suffering on the part of laborers in south­ vious parable to Simon. snub the humble and the meek. God help ern Illinois, which has been unrebuked by Two debtors, one owing much, the other them when their test comes. “Simon, I those who claim to speak for labor. The little, had been forgiven their debts; which have somewhat to say unto thee. Didst party of the first part want to conduct would love their behefactors most? (Continued on page 5) Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. THE WITNESS 5

Cheerful Confidences tar rail to receive the blessed Sacrament Evolution; a Witness of the Body and Blood of Christ. Every Rev. George Parkin Atv/ater, D.D. heart was thrilled with that service. One to God THE CONCORD CONFERENCE ON speaker interpreted the feelings of many of the leaders. He said, “There is THE MINISTRY By Rev. George Craig Stewart, D.D. enough potential power in that group of II young manhood to stimulate and increase Text: Genesis 1:1. ' “In the beginning Last week I gave my first impressions the life of the whole American Church. God.” of the Conference of Boys at St. Pauls It is quite certain that not all of the More than fifty years ago a memorable School, Concord, to consider the question boys will go into the ministry. But it is dinner was held in London. The leaders of the Ministry as a life vocation. certain that every boy will become a more of contemporary English thought were The response to the invitation of Dr. active and spiritual force in his own par­ there. There were no set addresses. Drury to the Church to send its boys to ish, as the result of the Conference. There was no topic assigned. Dean Stan­ Concord was overwhelming. The total ley was asked to preside, and he proposed enrollment of boys was 382. . The dis­ Dr. Atwater is to contribute four more for discussion this question: “Who will tribution by states was as follows: New “Confidences” , dealing with this Confer­ dominate the future?” Professor Hux­ York, 90; Massachusetts, 78; * Pennsyl­ ence. The article next week deals with ley spoke first. After preliminary skir­ vania, 45; Connecticut, 34; Rhode Is­ the leadership of Bishop Wise. mishing he gave this as his opinion : “Thé land, 31; New Jersey, 26; Maine, 15; Vir­ future will be dominated by the nation ginia, 12; Maryland, 12; New Hampshire, CHRIST’S TEST OF US which sticks most closely to the facts.” 11; Delaware, 7; Vermont, 6; Ohio, 4; (Continued from page 4) He left his audience profoundly affected North Carolina, 4; West Virginia, 3; Ala­ thou love much? Then I can forgive thee by the dominance of physical science and bama, 1; Michigan, 1; Missouri, 1; Wash­ much. Otherwise, alack.” the material data furnished by it. After ington, D. C., 1. If the Christian religion has a message a moment of silence the Dean called up­ Two hundred additional applications which can be condensed in one terse sen­ on Edward Miall, Member of Parliament, were received, but they were sent in after tence, it is this, “Have a heart!” And if and President of the Royal Commission the day set for closing registrations, and there is one lack which God cannot sup­ on Education. “I have,” said Mr. Miall, the boys could not be received. The ac­ ply, it is the lack of those things in which “been listening to the last speaker with commodations of the School were taxed this frail woman was extremely rich, profound interest, and agree with him to receive those registered on time, and, nam ely: that the future will be dominated by the as it was, several had to find accommo­ The tears which we shed over our sins, nation which sticks most closely to the dations in Concord. not our vexations. facts; but I want to add one word. All The Conference was remarkable for the The kiss which we impulsively place on the facts! The greatest fact in history eager spirit of the boys. They followed the body of Christ, in our love for that is God.” every detail of the five days’ program which is ' of Him. We have come a long way from Hux­ with eagerness. The oil of worship which we pour out ley. Science has broken through the atom The day began with a celebration of of alabaster boxes in self sacrifice. to the electrons, opening appalling mys­ the Holy Communion at 7 o’clock. Break­ The human towel of service which we teries of depth within deeps of matter. An fast followed at 8, followed by chapel use, regardless of our own humiliation. electron we are told is a thousand mil­ exercises at 9. At 9:30 the thirty leaders We have all sinned—perhaps more alike lion million times smaller than an atom. met their groups for an hour of Bible than we imagine. If a drop of water is conceived to be as study and the explanation of the work of We all do not love as she loved, but we big as the world, then a molecule is about the ministry. At 11 o’clock Bishop Brent all need the forgiveness that she received. as big as a base-ball, and there are more gave an instruction on “Leadership.” atoms in that drop of water than there Dinner was at 1. During the afternoon are drops in the Atlantic. We have the boys had all the facilities of St. Paul’s learned that matter is not a dead mason­ School for recreation. A baseball league ry, but a reservoir of energy continuous was formed, and tennis and golf matches. and mysterious. The skies have opened Some went out in canoes, and others up so that infinite heights and spaces ap­ swam in the lake. Several who started palling now confront us; but we have not in canoes also took a brief, unexpected lost God as the great fact. Psychology dip in the lake. has pointed out what Herbert Spencer Relieves promptly and safely. Effective At 6 o’clock, there was a second as­ in Bronchitis,Lumbago and Rheumatism. realized too late, that in seeking argu­ sembly of the whole group in the “Big W. EDWARDS & SON c Arm ,rru## ist0sH ments for God, man has omitted the great­ Study” and Bishop Wise of Kansas had -London, England 9o .|i? e k m a n St.N°Y. est field of investigation, namely, man charge of this assembly. I will speak of himself. No physical scientist can prove his work later. Supper was at seven. At 8:30 there was the third general as­ sembly, with various speakers. Then prayers and to bed. The services in the Chapel were truly Read the Notice on the Front Page inspiring. St. Paul’s Chapel is a very large Church, with the pews for students THEN USE THIS, PLEASE parallel to the side walls, collegiate fash­ ion. The boys filled these stalls, and the choir stalls. One standing at the entrance My Name ...... saw eight long rows of eager faced, earn­ est boys, intent upon the worship. They A d d ress...... sang lustily. The chapel exercises were not of the listless sort often seen in schools and colleges. These boys were Friend’s Name ...... the flower of the Church, well trained and alert, and the services had a power and enthusiasm that brought surprise to those A d d ress...... familiar with schools. The corporate communion on Friday morning was the climax of the devotions. THE WITNESS It is doubtful if that service ever had its equal anywhere in America. Nearly four 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago hundred boys, of high school age, in most reverent fashion came forward to the Al­

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. ( THE WITNESS or disprove God. He is Spirit and is dis­ an argument* and challenged me to prove said and done things that were a revela­ cerned spiritually. I do not believe in to him the existence of a God.” I wish tion of a working creed sufficient unto joy God because the Bible says so. I do not be­ you could have seen the look in that fel­ and sorrow, competent unto life and low’s eyes, as he answered with a little death. Still, men as a whole, do not line lieve in God because some cosmological or curl of the lip, “When did that Captain up with the Church; they do not habitually teleological or ontological argument is arrive at Brest?” “Two weeks ago,” I profess w ith their lips th a t which dwells presented. Just as that girl in Janesville, said. “Yes, I thought so!” he replied, somewhere, and that that wrong thing Wis., without eyes, and without hearing, “S. O. S.—Service of Supplies, .well out somewhere is hindering to an appreciable is nevertheless aware of the most delicate of range!” The man who has really met degree the progress and strength of colors, is conscious of subtle presences; God has not met Him at the end of a Christianity in the world. So often the just so man’s whole being is so plunged in syllogism; he has experienced Him. men who are churchmen are just the men God, the whole universe from sky to sod (Continued next week.) who are calculated to do the least good with its unfolding blossoms so smells of for the Church, they are the least honest God, that the spirit of man, as Augustine men, the least inspiring men, so far as in­ said, made for Him and restless till it Men and the Church spiring their fellow men is concerned, to rests in Him; sends out delicate antennae be found in the world of men. There are, which permeate the phenomenal world and of course, and we are deeply grateful that By Rev. H. P. Almon Abbott, D.D. flash to us the response of contact and this fact is substantiated in Maryland, communion with the infinite spirit God; There is a conviction abroad that men wonderful men on the roll of the Church’s when the whole of man is awake, alive, a in general are not interested in, nor affil­ Communicants, and in the list of the tip-toe through the. challenge of some iated with the Church. We hear jokes at Church’s w orkers; regal men, men whom great crisis, moral or even physical he has missionary gatherings, and elsewhere, to know is to know something of the man­ brought to him evidences that transcend where people are tempted to be facetious liness that manifested itself in perfect even mathematical evidences, and he can at the expense of the serious and sacro­ compass and proportion in the Manful say “ask me not how, but I saw it.” sanct, that “the regular members of the Christ. Still, the truth is plain, and he Let me give you an example. When I congregation were present at the service, who runs m ay read, th a t glorious men, was a Chaplain in France I buried, during with their husbands.” We deplore such men whose word is their bond, men who the battle of the Argonne, the aid of Gen­ jokes for we have a regard for humour, love righteousness, and who would not eral Edwards of the 26th Division, a man and dislike to see such anaemic tom-fool- stoop to meaness, men of intelligence and named Jenkins, a fine, upstanding, noble ery posing as wit, and also because we of heart, are altogether separated from Christian gentleman. His brother, a have a sense of fitness, and hate to see affiliation with organized Christianity. graduate of Harvard University, was Cap­ the altars of life exposed in a ribald fash­ Why? Would that someone of pronounc­ tain of Artillery, operating on the Meuse. ion in the suffocating and all saturating ed vision could really tell us. In the ab­ He got leave for a few hours to come to atmosphere of tobacco smoke. We criti­ sence of such an Atlas of discernment, the funeral of his brother. At the con­ cise the soundness of the perpetrator’s clusion of the simple and touching serv­ sense of the ridiculous, and we question ice, he turned to me and said, “Chaplain, the appositeness of such remarks as re­ may I come to your quarters for a min­ lated to time and place. It cannot be de­ ute?” I said “Come!” Presently we nied, however, that the hammerer, how­ LIVE were alone. He sat down, and opened up soever blundering his blows, hits the nail his dirty trench coat,—I can see him now upon the much blunted head. Men do not —and said with quivering voice, ‘‘That attend Church as they ought; men are not RECTORS brother of mine was more than a brother, as vitally interested in the work of the he was a pal, he was a companion, the Chqrch as they ought to be, and well are urging their people to dearest friend I ever had on earth. We might be; and men have by their own keep themselves informed on aloofness from organizational Christianity saw* each other every yveek, even during Church matters by reading one the horrors of the last few months.” And justified the impression, broadcast, and then the voice stopped, and the tears came. admitted, that religion is largely a mat­ of the weekly papers. And we sat in silence. I handed him a ter for women and children. Not that re­ card. It was all I could do. The card ligion should necessarily be the less potent □ □ for such discipleship; for “of little Chil­ had a picture on it of a shell bursting full Many have found it advisable in a man’s face; as he went down and out dren is the Kingdom of God,” and of there was the figure of the Lord Jesus women in the short and long result is the to have a paper for sale at the Christ with a protecting arm going round true salvation of humanity. We need the Church door on Sunday. him, and the man clutching at Him; and men however, we need them badly, and underneath were the simple words, “Hard may not accomplish, even under the bless­ □ □ hit; hold fast!” He took the card, looked ing of God, all of, nor even a decided pro­ at it steadily, put it in his blouse, and portion of, what we ought to achieve THE WITNESS, containing then with eyes shining, and voice steady, without their militant assistance. The news items and articles by he said to me with an intensity that I strange thing is, and it is in the nature .of shall never forget, “You know,” said he, a paradox, that man is, speaking in the foremost writers, is well suited “what the 26th has been through since rule, and not in the exception, a deeply for this purpose. last February. We have been in hell. You religious animal. It has been the exper­ know the dugouts that we are living in ience of the writer that every man has a □ □ like swine today and you know what may final court of appeal within his life, that happen any moment to our artillery; but he possesses a religious conviction, ortho­ It can be secured at the rate of I want to say to you that every illusion dox, or unorthodox, to which he retires 10 papers for 25 c, with the in the calamities of existence, and from that I have had as a young man, betray­ privilege of returning unsold ing me into false valuations of the physi­ which he receives the necessary strength cal and material world is gone forever. to endure, and even glorify, his adversity. copies. What happens to me, to my body, to my Men do not wear their hearts upon their home, to my possessions, T do not give a sleeves; but they have hearts as well as □ . □ damn. Whatever vision I have had as a sleeves. The most extraordinary sur­ ORDER A BUNDLE TODAY. young man in prep-school or college of prises in this connection have come to the spiritual values has been enhanced a writer in his ministerial career. Men whom THE WITNESS thousand fold by my experiences. I know he deemed utterly indifferent to holy now that there is only one thing that mat­ things, whose lives were an utter contra­ 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. ters, and that is the eternal. I know that diction to the wisdom of institutional re­ God Is everything.” “Captain,” I said, ligion, have shown in sorrow a well-spring CHICAGO “Your words thrill me, for yesterday I of faith, deep and clear, beneath the sur­ met an office'r who tried to draw me into face of their carelessness, and have both Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. THE WITNESS for such an one would be an Atlas bear­ assimilate in the infantile constitution!.. of mind, is honest. The speaker really ing the world upon his shoulders and so It does not do to preach Evolution from means what he says. He is wounded to able to differentiate the relative weight of the pulpit as an ordinary diet. The weak­ find that the man who by sharp prac­ men and things, it only remains for an lings must not be disturbed in the things tise stole $100 out of his pocket on ordinary person to suggest in outline some that mean everything to them. The strong Friday is going to church to say his of the reasons why men are not bundled are to shoulder the burdens of the weak. prayers, and to receive the Holy Com­ up with the worship and the work of the Moreover, and this is the point, Evolu­ munion on Sunday. And—small blame Church of the Living God, tion does not interfere with the truth, nor to him! The point is, however, that M$n think that they are surpassing in the appeal of Christianity. On the con­ many, may we not say the major num­ their thought of the Church. They be­ trary it glorifies Christianity, and em­ ber, of church people are not at all like lieve in evolution, and they imagine that broiders the Wonderfulness of Christian­ that. They are lights set upon the the Church is committed to the carpenter ity with an added wonderfulness. That Community’s Hill, they are leaven theory of the universe as contained in the God should have said, Let there be a that leavens the lump of the communi­ first two chapters of Genesis. They be­ world and there was a world. That God ty’s populace. Let us be quite honest, lieve the clergy, in so far as they deem should have said, Let us make man in our and confess that the richness of the the clergy to be reasoning men, to be image and, behold there was man in God’s world spiritually largely comes from dishonest; to believe one thing, and to image. All that is remarkable. But, it devoted church members. We must preach another thing. In this connection, is infinitely more remarkable and sugges­ remember that Christianity is to be it must be pointed out, that the Bible is tive of the Infinite Capacity of God that judged not by what it has failed to ac­ not a scientific text book. It is a treatise He should have created the germinal be­ complish through the lack of co-operaj upon religion, upon the aspirations of the ginnings of the world and man, germinal tion of the individual, but by what it heart of man after God, and God’s re­ beginnings which through the course of can achieve, and actually does achieve, sponse to those aspirations. This is tes­ the aeons should have developed into the with the soul attuned to its message. tified to in the attitude of Our Lord World and man. It is all the difference The fruit of Christianity is not the Himself. He accepted the Medicinal con­ between a Carpenter who builds his house victions of men as He found them. There brick by brick, and support by support, was a widespread belief in the First Cen­ from the foundation to the copping stone, tury that spittle was most salutary as a and some miraculous carpenter who should LAKE SUNAPEE, N. H. healing salve. So we find JesUs conform­ have laid one brick in which was con­ ing to the traditional belief, and anoint-, tained the entire potentiality of the Star Island Camp ing the eyes of the Blind Man with clay House, and then have stood off and watch­ ed the one brick develop systematically saturated with spittle. He would not turn A Girls’ Camp, under the man­ aside His distinctively religious mission to into the foundation and superstructure rectify the secular understandings of until the whole house was a thing com-, agement of two Churchwomen men. He had something better to do than píete and pleasant for the eye to behold who have had wide experience to upset cherished convictions that dealt That I should be here on earth, a living through work in leading Church with the bodies of men. His ministry self-conscious entity, after infinitesimal Schools. was to the Souls of men, and “He was beginnings in infinitesimal protaplasm, is immeasurably more impressive to me, so straightened” until that ministry was ac­ Number limited. A few vacan­ complished. So the account of Creation far as God’s creative power is concerned, as contained in the early chapters of Gen­ than that God should have made my ori­ cies in August. References ex­ esis accepted the current conceptions of ginal progenitor ready made and entire, changed. men with regard to the creation of thè by Divine Fiat. Apply the principle of world and man. So all through the Old evolution to the Old Testament, the prin­ Testament we find God getting out of men ciple of progressive development, and the Miss Marion Hess only that which each generation of men Old Testament is the most wonderful book Star Island Camp, was capable, in view of their up to date with the exception of the New Testament conceptions, of assimilating. There is a which is the Divine seal to the construc­ Burkehaven, N. H. gradual and a graduated progress of Rev­ tive enlightenment of man, in the world. elation as related to man’s receptivity. The writer does not hestitate to say that For instance, David’s imprecatory psalm, the Bible is more awe-inspiring, and soul- with reference to dashing his enemy’s fascinating, to him since he believed in children against the stones, was not an evolution than before. But, he had to find FRECKLES ultimate revelation of the way in which out these things for himself. In his child­ God would have us treat the offspring of hood it was necessary that Creation, and Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These our enemies. It was the simple and crass Providence, eternal and temporal, should Ugly Spots statement of what man, conscious of one be presented to him in pictorial and pict­ There’s no longer the slightest need of feeling uresque and concrete form and substance. ashamed of your freckles, as Othine—double God, and His leadership over his life, strength—is guaranteed to remove these homely would, in the man’s opinion, who was There are those who never grow out of spots. their childhood,, whose minds are deficient Simply get an ounce of Othine—double strength jealous for the perogative of Jehovah, ex­ —from your druggist, and apply a little of it pect to happen to the enemies of God’s in all that is ^abstract, and the Minister night and morning and you should soon see that servant, who were, therefore, the enemies of Religion has to remember that fact in even the worst freckles have begun -to disappear, his ministrations to the people committed while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It of God Himself. The Final revelation, is seldom that more than one ounce is needed to and even that is progressive as it finds ex­ to his care. The Clergy, then, are hon­ completely clear the skin and gain a beautiful est as a set; They are not mentally defic­ clear complexion. emplification in the thought and acts of Be sure to ask for the double strength Othine men in all succeeding generations, of the ient, as a class; and Evolution has not as this is sold under guarantee of money back if way in which we ought to treat our ene­ vitiated the force, and practical appli­ it fails to remove freckles. mies, adult and child, is contained in the cability of Christianity. Another reason, and we must for words of Jesus, “Love your enemies; do Would you give 2c to have a friend hear space sake limit ourselves to one more good to those who despitefully use you. Bishop Johnson preach? Then let the friend Forgive your Brethren their debts, even reason, why men do not definitely as­ as you would have God forgive you your sociate themselves with the work and hear him every week by sending him The Trespasses.” The average Clergyman organized life of the Church, is be­ Witness for one year. knows all this ; but he has to deal with cause they have an idea that the ma­ his heterogenous flock even as God dealt jority of Church people are insincere. MADONNAS AND SUBJECTS on the with man at large. He has to give milk “You church goers do not practice Life of Christ. Reproductions in colors to babes, and strong meat to strong men; what you preach.” , That is a familiar of the Great Masters. $1.00 per dozen, and- he often has to let the strong men objection to the advisability of link­ suffer in nourishment, because he has to ing up with organized Religion. Some­ assorted. M. Zara, Box 4243, German­ consider pre-eminently the food that will times this objection, and this attitude town, Pa. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 8 T H E WITNESS Church member who is a hypocrite; CHURCH SCHOOLS CHURCH SERVICES the fruit of Christianity is the Church member who is not far from the ap­ BERKELEY DIVINITY CHICAGO proximation of saintship. Moreover, the Church is not professedly an asso­ SCHOOL ST. CHRYSOSTOM’S CHURCH. ciation for Saints; it is an association Middletown, Connecticut 1424 North Dearborn Street of sinners who know that they are sin­ Address : The Rev. Norman Hutton, S. T. D., ners, and who would place themselves Rev. WILLIAM PALMER LADD, Dean Rector. in that environment where sainthood is Sunday Services: 8 and 11 a. m.; 4:30 p. m. easier of accomplishment. “The Lord iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiininiiiiiiiininininim iiiniiiH iiiiM added daily to the Church such as were 1 Western Theological Seminary | being saved.” Some were only at the be­ i No fees, but such requirements as are \ ginning of salvation; some were only half i necessary for strong class-work, a ^ way there; some would fall many times jjj peaceable dormitory and a full chapel. before they were even definitely upon the = Address " upward path of salvation; but, they wanted i REV. WM. C. DEWITT, Dean. I to be saved, they wanted all the assist­ e 2720 W ashington Blvd., C hicago ance that an environment struggling after IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIII righteousness could give them. 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