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"Having drawn all the major Faith and Order Conference Takes traditions in Christendom to- gether, we have insisted on Steps Toward Healing Divisions dealing with the deepest divi- sions among us. We have not -k The historic two-week con- such vital issues as the struggle been content with glib words, publication. ference on Christian unity over nuclear armament, bitter with forced agreements, with

and ended on a note of general con- racial conflict, scientific tech- easy but artificial compromise." sensus that the world's churches nology and social change," it Yet, he added, "we have reuse are "on the way" toward heal- stated. "But we must pray failed because we brought with for ing their divisions but that that our work may indeed be of us certain notions concerning complex problems remain as service to God in his love for all what this conference should be "ecumenical reality . . . takes his world, so that the unity of . . . what advances should be required place faster than we can under- the church may be not for our made," Minear noted, "and the stand or express it." sakes but for the sake of him Holy Spirit has . . . disorganized Officers of the fourth world and his children." our neat scheme."

Permission conference on faith and order, The success of the confer- He noted that while probing in a summary message to 270 ence, which brought delegates deeply into theological prob- official delegates and over 200 from 138 of the World Council's lems dividing Christendom, con- DFMS. 201 Protestant, Anglican and / observers and guests, con- ference participants also re- cluded that it has become in- Orthodox member churches and fused "to give up our goal of creasingly clear that many of included participation by five mutual understanding" and in- Church "our long - defended positions official Roman Catholic ob- sisted on "dealing with ecu- are irrelevant to God's pur- servers, was evaluated by an- menical reality, which resists pose." other official. imprisonment in dogmatic Episcopal At the same time, it was Paul S. Minear, director of formulations." the stated, "it is difficult to know the faith and order department In a final worship service at of what God calls us to keep or and newly-elected chairman of Christ Church Cathedral, W. abandon. We do know that we the faith and order commission, A. Visser 't Hooft, general sec- must continue to challenge each cited "remarkable success" in retary, called the conference Archives other in the light of God's will areas of ecumenical dialogue. participants "heralds of ... for us all." peace." 2020. "We have been open to one Citing pyramiding complexi- another, listening acutely, "There are those who wonder ties in the ecumenical encounter sharing fully the resources of why we should come together as more churches participate mind and heart," the Yale Di- from the ends of the world to Copyright and as rapidly-changing world vinity School professor said. discuss the issues of church conditions present difficult and "All churches have rejoiced unity," he said, when there revolutionary situations to in the presence of other exist such pressing issues as many communions, the message churches. No one has chal- hunger, discrimination and war. called for humble recognition lenged the right of any other In answer, Visser 't Hooft "that many of God's gifts to his church to be here. And this said "we are dealing with the whole church cannot be shared has not been due to sponge-like life and death issue of man- by us in our local churches until tolerance, to a vague benevo- kind. For the issue behind all we become the one people of lence which delights in com- issues is whether men accept God in each place." promise, for the vigor of de- the peace offer and the peace- "We dare not claim here we bates has proved quite the op- making which God initiated in have been truly conscious of posite to be true." the sending of his Son . . . AUGUST 8, 1963 Three "We must not think that we situations where no Christian the elements" under terms of a will ever get rid of war and con- community exists report adopted. flict among men and nations • Placement of ministers in The report, approved after and races if we are not willing industrial settings and with extensive debate, also included a to become instruments of the professional groups recommendation that ecumeni- great peace . . . We are not cal meetings have a Communion working for a hypothetical • Establishment of team service for anyone wishing to peace. He who is our peace ministries across denomination- take part. continues to make peace. Our al lines. Acting at the request of the task is to respond to his work assembly at New Delhi, India, in gratitude." The report called for the Council to set up a special com- when it was noted that recon- mission to study "Christ and sideration of previous recom- Special Ministries the ministry." The commission mendations was needed, a The church often has ap- also was asked to study the role special study section called at- peared to be "an institution of women in the ministry, a tention to those churches centered in a building rather subject on which "there should "which have difficulty in ac- than a company moving out be a real ecumenical dialogue." cepting intercommunion ..." publication. into the world," it was de- The report, which will be for- and clared in a study report which Educational Material warded to the central commit- suggested greater flexibility in tee meeting Aug. 26-Sept. 2 at reuse A report from another study the ministry. Rochester, N. Y., said that in for section, which considered Churches faced with rapidly the printed programs of ecu- changing situations are struggl- "Scripture, Tradition and Tradi- tions," asked churches to re- menical meetings it should be ing to find forms of the minis- made clear "that there are at required examine their educational ma- try relevant to their circum- present within the fellowship stances. terials in the light of the ecu- menical movement. of the WCC unresolved differ- The report noted that in ences of eucharistic theology

Permission many parts of Asia and Africa, Churches were requested to and practice." traditional forms of the minis- ask themselves how extensively The study committee recom- try have been preserved "in their materials discuss ecu- mended that the special Com- DFMS. / their institutional rigidity." menical relationships, describe munion service be accompanied Consequently, congregations other Christian bodies or teach by an invitation to all par- which could not support a min- "common faith and our common

Church ticipants at the meeting to be ister have been left "virtually history as Christians." present as worshippers even without sacramental life," the The report also asked for a though they are not invited to report said. specific study of educational partake of the elements. Episcopal Eapid industrial and urban materials in cooperation with The Rev. W. 0. Fennell of the the development and high popula- the World Council of Christian of tion mobility, too, it was added, United Church of Canada moved education, national and regional that the recommendation be de- has made it difficult for "pas- councils of churches and such leted. He claimed that the pro- tors serving within the existing Roman Catholics as seems pos-

Archives vision would heighten division parochial system ... to minis- sible and desirable. ter effectively to the real com- among the Churches. 2020. munities in which men live and Other recommendations call- The motion was seconded by make their crucial decisions." ed for theological study of the the Rev. I.O.A. Ude of the Pres- early church and its implica- byterian Church of Nigeria, Calling for a return to the tions today, various Christian Copyright "diversity and flexibility such who said "it would be like in- as we recognize in the New traditions of spirituality and viting someone to your home Testament and in the church of prayer and the history of and telling him to read a book the first centuries," yet without exegesis. while the family ate." abandoning "traditional forms" The motion was rejected on a of the ministry, the report sug- Holy Communion vote of 118-51, however, after gested innovations such as: Future ecumenical gatherings several delegates strongly urged • Ordination of men with would include a special Holy that the recommendation was a pastoral gifts who work in Communion service "according true representation of the situa- secular positions to the liturgy of a church which tion which now exists. cannot conscientiously offer an Dr. Roger Mehl, professor of • Assignment of ministers invitation to members of all theology at the University of in secular positions in frontier other churches to partake of Strasbourg, France, maintained Foitr THB WITNESS that "the paradox and scandal The study also praised the "'In Christ there is no defense of our division" should be faced "rediscovery of Christian wor- or excuse for the willful con- courageously and humbly when ship" as one of the many bless- tinuation of racially exclusive ecumenical conferences are ings of the ecumenical move- groups, church-meetings and being arranged. ment. It noted that evidence of fellowships." Long-standing differences on this fact is seen in the growth It was noted that "God does the celebration of Communion of the liturgical movement in not ask the sex of a person or have centered around two prin- almost all Christian traditions. the color of his skin, or his cipal points: The report said that today social class, or the economic # Some contend that all worship is celebrated in a world status he holds, or his language, Christians are united through which is deeply troubled, yet or his political affiliation, or his baptism and a fundamental "brilliant in technological denomination, before he ac- faith, even though they are achievement." It called on knowledges that same man as divided at some points. There- churches to consider whether his own creation, his child, and fore, at the Lord's table they their liturgical language, images calls him to eternal life." are committed in a decisive way and symbols are "adequately in- to make manifest their total, telligible to the modern mind." Denominations publication. visible and organic unity. "They might also inquire The document, which with and whether language of the # Others insist that eu- preached word helpfully illumi- those from other sections will be charistic communion is an ex- submitted to member- churches reuse nates the heritage of Christian pression of the acceptance of for study, also discussed the for faith in an idiom comprehen- the whole Christ and implies sive to the contemporary man." denominational system within full unity in the wholeness of It suggested that the Christianity. required his truth. Communion in the While denominations "have sacraments, therefore, implies churches give full consideration to the use of art forms, been instrumental in developing a pattern of doctrine and min- fresh insights into Christian istry which is indivisible and especially those of a contem- porary nature, in an effort to truth with new modes of wor- Permission cannot be based upon a union in make worship meaningful ship, fellowship and service," faith which is still being the document said, the denomi- sought. today. DFMS. national system cannot be re- / To date, communion services Racial Conflict garded as an essential form of at ecumenical gatherings have church life in the same way as

Church been observed according to cer- Racial conflict, dealt with the congregation is essential." tain agreements reached at the briefly but pointedly in one of "By the local congregation," last faith and order conference the meeting's final study docu- it specified, "we mean the local in Lund in 1952. At that time, ments, consumed much discus- Episcopal fellowship of Christians ga- it was agreed that everyone sion throughout the two-week

the thered for the hearing of the should have the opportunity to meeting. of word and the celebration of the partake without violation of his A report from a section prob- Lord's Supper according to own conscience of disloyalty to ing the theme, "All in each Christ's ordinance." his own church. place — the process of growing Archives together," declared that racial The current ecumenical situa- Preparation prejudice denies the dignity of tion, the report said, places new 2020. man and stultifies the mission obligations on individual con- The report further suggested gregations "to pray and work that a service of preparation be of the church. It coupled the declaration constantly" for common wor- Copyright held and that the following with an admission that churches ship and celebration of Holy points be stressed: "are shamefully divided by Communion. # Sorrow for the divisions racial prejudice and discrimina- Discussing relationships of of Christendom and for their tion" and added: various churches to the church continuance "This denies the dignity of in general, it stated that each man, subverts our unity in "congregation gathered for the # The unity in Christ given Christ and defeats the mission proclamation of the word and and experienced within the of the church. God is judging the celebration of the Eucharist WCC our racially divided Christian is a manifestation of the whole # The responsibility of all communities through the con- catholic church." to pray and work for a fuller temporary revolutionary events It was noted that while "or- manifestation of this unity. in many parts of the world. ganizational structures will al-

AUGUST 8, 1963 ways be necessary, at the same powerful secularist ideologies the ecumenical meeting as a time we affirm that the unity and resurgence of non-Christian "promising sign" of that unity of the church is to be found not religions "have not been suf- for which Christ prayed to God only in the merger of denomi- ficently taken into account." when he said: "Holy Father, national structures but even The meaning of the World keep in thy name those whom more profoundly in the 'koin- Council in relationship to ecu- thou hast given me, that they onia' of true eucharistic wor- menical trends varies according may be one, even as we are." ship ..." to the differing traditions and He added: "We acknowledge This is true, it was added, doctrines of member denomina- with gratitude the sincere de- even though it is currently im- tions, it was pointed out. sire and firm will of all who are possible to agree on "a defini- Though not offering "a gathered here to establish unity tion of what constitutes the definitive answer" to the ques- among 'those who rejoice in true eucharistic worship, and tion of relationships, the report being united in faith to the therefore to agree about which stated that "the ecumenical Lord Jesus.'" Christian communities may be movement is clearly larger than regarded as manifestations of the World Council ..." Cardinal Leger cautioned, the one church ..." however, that even though com- publication. It said the council "is not mon prayers are recited to- The report also discussed the seeking to be a church or the and gether, "we are forced to admit ecumenical dialogue, declaring church" and "offers itself as a that even this unity is in that scientific and historical servant of the churches and of reuse jeopardy because of our hesita- changes, the emergence of the church."

for tion to accept unity as the Lord willed it, because our prejudices Cardinal Shares Rally Program set us up one against the other, required because our ignorance is unable to penetrate the veil behind With World Council Leaders which are the unfathomable riches of Christ."

Permission * Promising signs now being rally as a "sign of the times" seen in the effort toward re- and an occasion when "the com- He said the faith and order union of divided Christendom mon bond of fellowship which discussions show that the dif- DFMS.

/ must be balanced by realization draws us together in spite of ferent churches do not have that "the road to complete unity our divisions" could be sensed. identical interpretations of the will be long," a Roman Catholic He called on Christians to Eucharistic mystery, for exam- Church cardinal declared at a unique work toward world peace ple. "It is because of these dif- ecumenical gathering. He called through witness of their unity ferences that we cannot cele- for increased Christian effort in Christ and urged a constant brate together the eucharistic Episcopal to overcome ingrained preju- search for truth, respect for the prayer of unity," he said. the dices. rights of all men and effort to "If the Roman Catholic of Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, establish a world climate of Church affirms that the fra- archbishop of Montreal, was one freedom. ternity which exists between us of four main speakers at a rally The cardinal cited the late is not the perfect fraternity Archives of more than 1,000 persons at Pope John who "was given just which is wanted by the Lord the Catholic University of enough time to extend his arms and which is expressed in the 2020. Montreal. It was the first time to all men of good will in a ges- communion of one church, be a Catholic cardinal had ture of fraternal affection and assured that it does so in all hu- addressed such a gathering. to invite them to discover in his mility and with the clear con- Copyright Also speaking at the rally intentions and in his heart recti- v i c t i o n of its responsibili- were W. A. Visser 't Hooft, tude and love. ties ..." secretary general of the coun- "His last gesture was a bless- cil ; Metropolitan Athenagoras ing and those who were there Secretary General of the Greek Orthodox Church fell on their knees in St. Peter's Visser 't Hooft stated that in Canada; and George Johns- Square. It is on their knees the fact that such ecumenical ton, principal of United Theo- that men must continue their meetings are held at all is "an logical College, Montreal. difficult search for peace." astonishing development in view Cardinal Leger, who on two Cardinal Leger, whose liberal of history." For centuries, he occasions urged Roman Catholic views are in accord with those said, the gulf between the tradi- prayers for the faith and order of the late Pope John and the tions represented at the meet- conference, cited the ecumenical present Pope Paul, heralded (Continued on Page Fifteen') Six THE WITNESS EDITORIALS

for such a treaty "have long been a symbol of Faith and Order east-west disagreement. If this treaty can also THIS NUMBER is devoted largely to the be a symbol — if it can symbolize the end of one faith and order conference of the World Council era and the beginning of another — if both sides of Churches. The news pages present action can by this treaty gain confidence and experience taken on reports offered by study commissions in peaceful collaboration — than this short and and a report of the rally, an outstanding public simple treaty may well become an historic mark event. in man's age-old pursuit of peace". There is also the address given at the confer- In this treaty the president quite rightly sees

publication. ence by William Stringfellow, New York at- a great opportunity. "If we are to open new torney and a Witness editor. He took a bit of doorways to peace," he says, "if we are to seize and panning for his remarks — read it and see why. this rare opportunity for progress, if we are to

reuse It is appropriate, we think, that the issue be as bold and farsighted in our control of weap-

for should also feature excerpts from addresses ons as we have been in their invention, then let given by the late Bishop Charles Brent, a us now show all the world, on this side of the pioneer of the ecumenical movement whose vi- wall and the other, that a strong America also required sion in the 20's is now being approached by stands for peace." present-day leaders. In the Moscow negotiations this point was We are happy to announce that our next also elaborated when Averell Harriman, in the

Permission number will feature a critical appraisal of the words of Kennedy, "made clear our strong- conference by Mrs. Jean Russell, who was in preference for a more comprehensive treaty ban- Montreal throughout the two weeks as a repre- ning all tests everywhere, and our ultimate hope DFMS. / sentative of the Witness. She is a Presbyterian for general and complete disarmament." from Greeneville, Tennessee, with a deep inter- The pursuit of peace will require more than est in theology as a result of having Robert C. Church the bringing around of Chairman Khrushchev to Johnson, now dean of Yale Divinity School, as our conditions. It will require also the over- her minister for a number of years. Mrs. Rus- coming of our own political propaganda — that sell also serves on a number of committees of Episcopal is to say, the propaganda of mass media sup- the United Presbyterian Church. the ported by or used for immediate political ad- of vantages. Thus the easiest way of appearing to be on the side of the angels has been to join in the refrain in which the men in the Kremlin are Archives The Pursuit of Peace "criminals" and "murderers", Marxists deny

2020. "the dignity of human personality" and "the AT THIS LATE DATE it is no longer necessary right to be free", and much more — in short, to cite justifications for a ban on nuclear test- precisely the things which the communists in ing. The treaty of the U.S.A., U.S.S.R. and the their sour moods call the supporters of capital- Copyright United Kingdom to accomplish this will be grati- ism. fying equally to Christians and all those who, Progress toward the peaceful accomodation implicitly or explicitly, have a respect for human for which President Kennedy hopes will be made life as a vehicle of creativity. when some of the misconceptions fostered by In the absence of world law enforced by world propaganda are cleared away. There are irrecon- power treaties are effective to the extent to cilable conflicts between text-book communism which they concretely benefit the participants. and text-book capitalism—between an economic President Kennedy, in his address on the sub- system in which property is socially owned and ject, made the point that this treaty "reflects controlled and one in which property and its use simply our common recognition of the dangers is privately owned and determined. in further testing." But, he said, negotiations These conflicts can not be resolved by a so-

AUGUST 8, 1963 Seven called nuclear war which would leave nothing —Marxism is about as western as anything can worth owning. Mr. Kennedy put it well: be—though Marxist communism is that element "A war today or tomorrow, if it led to nuclear in western European culture which has made the war, would not be like any war in history. A greater impact in recent times on eastern Europe full-scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 and now the Far East. minutes, could wipe out more than 300,000,000 The cold war is a civil war within European Americans, Europeans and Russians, as well as society. It can be abated when its antagonists untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors, again find their common root and their common as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist ultimate objective, leaving aside their tactical Chinese, 'would envy the dead.' For they would verbalistics. If the test ban treaty will lead to inherit a world so devastated by the explosions this, as pray God it will, it will do more than clear and poison and fire that today we cannot even the air. There are really no alternatives. conceive of all its horrors." "So", says the President, "Let us turn the world The conflicts of the cold war have been ob- from war. Let us make the most of this oppor- scured by being given geographical connotations tunity, to reduce tension, to slow down the —east-west. They actually result from diverse perilous nuclear arms race, and to check the publication. developments of the history of western Europe world's slide to final annihilation." and reuse for THE FREEDOM OF GOD required By William Stringfellow

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Episcopal • a college student, unable to find summer arrival at this conference, but I shall make none. work, borrowed thirty dollars the

of I am late here only for the sake of the work I have to do as a lawyer and as a citizen and as a • a woman, who had found another man, person, in New York City, which I was unable wanted a divorce from her alcoholic husband

Archives to leave until last night. • a new writer and some young actors de- While you have been, I trust, discussing here cided to produce an off-Broadway play and 2020. the issues of faith and order and, I amagine, needed someone to negotiate the deal caucusing discreetly about the politics of the World Council of Churches, I have been there, • some of Harlem's Negroes were arrested Copyright in New York, involved in some of the issues because they protested discrimination in the which occupy and preoccupy the daily attention city of people in secular life: • somebody was lonely and wanted to talk • a young, unmarried, pregnant girl (a Now you have invited me to examine here Methodist, as it happens) — who said she was "the charge that faith and order habitually afraid to confide in either her parents or her speaks in terms that are irrelevant to the real minister — came to see me to find out how her needs of the thinking man of today." child-to-be could be adopted What I have to say about that can be put very • a convict wrote to ask if a job could be briefly: found for him so that he could be paroled from The reasons that detained me in New York, prison the problems — the ordinary issues and ques- Eight THIS WITNESS tions — of these people I have mentioned that such a voice could tell us, along with many other delayed my journey to Montreal, these represent voices which are absent and unheard here, what and are the real issues of faith and order. The the world is like that the church is called to love real issues of faith and order are simply the and what the needs of the world are which the ordinary issues of life and death in this world. church is called to serve. The real issues of faith and order have to do — Perhaps I suffer — though I have never been concretely — with illegitimate childbirth, and accused of it — too much from the humanistic those in prison, or out of work, or broke, or optimism which so afflicts American Protestant- estranged, or filled with confidence in themselves ism, but I do not really think it is beyond the and their talents, or persecuted, or harassed by capabilities of our imagination here to find a new the premonition of death. way to conduct these deliberations so that the common laity and the common clergy — among Real Issues whom, I have noticed, there are a great many THE REAL ISSUES of faith and order have to Christians — could be present and be heard. do not so much with the nature and structure Or, to put the same thing another way, the of the ecclesiastical institutions of the church as world does not listen to the faith and order move- publication. with the everyday needs of men in the world, ment because faith and order does not listen to and and the care for and service to those needs, the world. Let it be faced — the thing has be- whatever they be, which the church exists to come an academic, professionalized, esoteric, reuse care for and to serve. elite ecumenical monologue in which the world is for Why is "modern man" — as it says — "think- seldom heard or addressed, but in which, for the ing man" — but I would hasten to add — also most part, professors, theoreticians, patriarchs, politicians, and, alas, bureaucrats talk to them- required unthinking man — almost wholly indifferent and indeed unaware of the movement called faith selves about themselves, each other and their and order? various vested interests in the status quo of There is something terribly self-conscious, Christendom. Permission faintly pathetic, perhaps even guilty, about the Ordinary Issues question. The question hides its own answers:

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/ this "modern thinking and unthinking man" does not care a hoot about the faith and order move- because the faith and order monologue is, now ment because faith and order apparently does and again, reported in Time magazine does not Church not care about him. mean that it is either welcome or seriously re- If, in the first place, the faith and order move- garded in the world. ment understood that the everyday issues of The ordinary issues of life and death are the Episcopal life and death in this world contain the sub- substantial issues of faith and order. the

of stantive issues of faith and order in Christianity, It is not just a matter of reconstructing the then surely this movement would risk and polity of the faith and order movement so that establish contact with the world outside itself. a few parish priests and factory workers may

Archives Specifically that would mean, among other participate in these deliberations, it is also the things, that involved at every echelon of the matter of how some everyday issue in the 2020. faith and order movement would be, not only or world's life represents a faith and order issue. mostly academic theologians and ecclesiastical The ordinary issues of life and death in the dignitaries and church professionals and ecu- world are the substantial issues of faith and Copyright menical politicians, but also and significantly, order for the church. If that is true, then, in parochial clergy and ordinary laymen. the economy of God it may well turn out that Yet, in the present and inherited arrangements the historic error in the ecumenical movement of the faith and order movement, the participa- of modern times, insofar as it is represented by tion of parish clergy and ordinary lay people is the World Council of Churches is, whatever the prevented for the most elementary reasons: they conveniences of analysis and discussion and aren't invited, and, even if they were, they could whatever the historical rationale for it, the not afford the time or expense to come. When, separation of faith and order from life and work. in the councils of this movement, has there been Take just one issue of life and death in the heard the voice of, for just one example, a Chris- world — one of the issues, if you will, with which tian who works in a factory for a living? Yet I had some contact while I remained in New

AUGUST 8, 1963 Nine York, at work, when, otherwise, I was supposed ment of the unity — reconciliation — of all men to be here. Take the racial issue in America. and of all creation in the life of God. As you may have heard, the racial crisis in The issues of the world's life are the real America, in both north and south, now has the issues of faith and order. stature of an insurrection. The nation is in No more persuasive and convicting, no more travail. beautiful and innocent, evidence of that has been And where have the churches of America beheld in this generation than the witness of been in the years in which this agony has Pope John, beloved noticeably by the world. He festered ? knew that the cares of the world are the respon- If one examines the pronouncements of the sibilities of the church, and the concerns of the preachers and the church assemblies over the faith, and, in fact, the joys of the faithful. past thirty years (before that, there was gen- So he left his throne to visit the poor in the erally silence about race in the churches in slums of his diocese of Rome, so he went to see America, unless one goes back to the post-civil the prisoners who could not come to see him, so war reconstruction period or to the Abolitionist he welcomed the Jews as Joseph, their brother, movement before and during the war), it is dif- so he blessed a circus. So he was a pious, and publication. ficult to locate a coherent, theologically sub- human, and humble vicar of the Lord by being a and stantive, or authentically prophetic statement servant of this world. about the relations among the races in either the Faith and order is called to a similar, and as reuse churches or society in the United States. simple, service. for What can be found, aplenty, are empty phrases, Or, finally, to put it all again in yet another theological banalities, and pietistic indifference. fashion, the freedom of God in his ministry in this world is not at all coincident with nor cap- required What can be found, most often, are recitations of the most elementary humanistic superficialities tive of this faith and order movement. And if about equality, brotherhood, tolerance and liber- those within that movement will not see — for ty. And while these promises of humanism are example — that baptism is the secret by which a Permission influential ideas in the ethos of the American society is healed of racism then God, in his ter- nation, they come nowhere near embodying or rible generosity with himself in the world, will

DFMS. expressing the concern of the gospel for the races simply find his own way of working his own / and sorts and conditions of men on the face of will, and do without the faith and order move- the earth and nowhere near representing and ment. Church upholding the character of the church as the community in history in which the unity of all men in God and in the worship of God is already

Episcopal manifest.

the Holy-Worldliness This is to say, simply, that, by the word of of God, the substantive issue in the racial crisis is By Kenneth E. Clarke baptism — not the survival of the American Rector of St. Thomas, Cincinnati

Archives experiment, not democracy, not the vanities of humanism, but baptism. WE PRAY that we might so pass through

2020. things temporal, that we finally lose not the Sacrament of Unity things eternal. This is pretty churchy language and if my guess is correct, most of you probably FOR BAPTISM — this agenda item for faith and Copyright regard it as an exultation of the life to come at order — is the sacrament of the unity among the expense of the life that now is. A popular men wrought by God in overcoming the power paraphrase might be: Let's scrape through this and reign of death, in overcoming, that is, all life so as not to forfeit the pay-off in what comes that alienates, segregates, divides and destroys next. If this is what you thought, it isn't sur- men in their relations to each other, within their prising, for beginning with the middle ages and own persons and in their relationships with the continuing in our own time the church can justi- whole rest of creation. Baptism — this faith fiably be accused of a "pie-in-the-sky" approach. and order issue — is the central issue in the racial But as a matter of fact this phrase in the crisis because baptism is the sacrament of the prayer is not at all concerned with the contrast reconciliation of all men, not merely the sacra- between this life and the life to come. The things ment of the unity of the church, but the sacra- temporal and the things eternal are both present

Ten THE WITNESS realities. What the collect says — and this is at such a time, but this just doesn't happen to a most solemn and awesome thought — is that be what St. Paul had in mind. The glory to unless we perceive and seek the eternal in the which he referred is not my glory or yours at the midst of the temporal we may finally, irrevocably time of death but the glory which shall be when and once and for all lose the dimension of the the temporal is fully impregnated by the eternal. eternal and that is hell. It is not the glory of another world but the glory There are many who think we are well on our of this world once the whole body of mankind way in this direction. Harry Blamires in a book has been redeemed. entitled The Christian Mind says: — "the Furthermore, the Apostle didn't limit this hope modern Christian has succombed to seculariza- to mankind but extended it to the realm of tion. He accepts religion — its morality, its creatures as well. And indeed why shouldn't he, worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the for surely they have participated in our corrup- religious view of life, the view which sets all tion as he points out. A piece in the paper en- earthly issues within the context of the eternal." titled Discontented Cow is a case in point. At One of the main reasons for this, as I see it, first glance it sounds amusing, but in reality it is that we have come to think of the Christian is tragic. "Cows, like people," the article states, publication. faith almost exclusively in terms of the indi- "have ulcers. Overworked and overfed, pushed and vidual. Religion, as most people see it, has to toward ever higher milk production levels, more do with living a good, clean life, going to church, and more cows with ulcers are found. The ulcers reuse saying one's prayers and hoping for reunion with are responsible for conditions ranging from for those we love when we die. It is treated as a occasional 'off days to sudden death." compartment of life. This obscure little piece placed in the paper, no doubt, simply as fill is in itself eloquent testi- required I remember once when I was asked to preach on the radio sitting in the waiting room and hear- mony to the dire need of the temporal for the ing the engineer in charge say: religion on in eternal. These poor beasts are but mirrors of room 12. I felt annoyed, chagrined and judged. the condition of their masters who in search for Permission What I was going to say was classified as reli- material gain are willing to barter not only gion because presumably it had to do with the physical and emotional health but their souls as

DFMS. Bible and the church, and by inference every- well. / thing else that was broadcast had nothing to do The New Creation with religion. Church As long as this pigeon-holing tendency con- IT WAS into this kind of world — starving yet tinues we may expect ever increasing triumphs overfed, production minded, not person minded, for the forces of secularism and materialism. In- often frustrated to the point of inertia, and un- Episcopal dividual piety is no match for these pervasive and able to articulate its own malady except through the seductive agents of iniquity. sickness and death that the Son of Man came. of He was, as Bishop Robinson has said, the first New Testament Faith representative of the new creation; or to put it in terms of our theme, he was the perfect exam- Archives FOR THOSE with ears to hear, the New Testa- ple of the infusion of the temporal with the spirit ment faith forms a striking contrast to the other- of the eternal. Not only man but nature as well 2020. worldly, individualistic and compartmentalized responded to his healing influence. And when emphasis one often finds among Christians today. his flesh was subjected to mortality, as all flesh And this is nowhere better illustrated than in the must be, this did not spell doom but freed his Copyright brief portion of Romans 8 which is the epistle spirit to be resurrected in the body of all be- for the Fourth Sunday after Trinity. As you no lievers. doubt know, this same section forms part of the Since that day there is no longer just one burial office. And when it is read what comes representative of the new creation. It is a cor- into our minds as we listen to those familiar porate reality. We discover it in the fellowship phrases: "the glory which shall be revealed in of the church where, as St. Paul said, we have us" and "the redemption of our body"? the first fruits of the spirit. Are we not thinking of the deceased, the Now what does all this mean? Is it just ab- corpse in the coffin and our hope of glory and stract theological talk or does it have practical redemption for him in his new state? Now I do implications? To begin with I will simply state not say that we shouldn't think of these things categorically that the implications of this kind AUGUST 8, 1963 Eleven of thinking are far wider and more revolution- Keeler's and the Profumo's that sex can perform ary than you can imagine or I can make appar- a glorious and liberating function in life when it ent. But in the brief space which remains lets is raised above the level of sensual gratification make a stab at it. alone and linked with lives lived in fellowship Let me borrow a phrase from Eric Vidler and and forbearance of one another. say that in general what this involves is the prac- And what we do in the Holy Communion serv- tical of "holy-worldliness." This means: ice is illustrative of all that I have been saying. getting the Church out of the church We take the bread — temporal stuff stained by mixing and mingling in the temporal the handling of many hands, offer it to God and affairs of society without being se- receive it back infused with the life giving spirit duced by them of him whose body was broken for us and all making worship something more than a mankind. polite activity on Sunday morning for respectable people witnessing in the market place, not by shaking a tambourine but by striv- publication. ing for justice, the preservation of The Root of the Matter

and personhood and a sacramental ap- By Charles Henry Brent proach to life. reuse Yes, it means all this and much more but these, From a letter to a friend dated January 8, 1929 for in a sense, are generalities. Can we be more and never before published. Bishop Brent died less specific? Take the case of the person suffering than three months after writing it—March 27, 1929.

required from mental depression. The bottom has dropped out of his life, and he feels trapped and boxed DURING THE PAST YEAR I have often skirted in. Like the cow he has too many "off" days along the confines of death. I have come when the business of living is just too much and through, sloughing off many things I used to Permission he goes into the cold sweat of immobility. He count important and clinging with new eagerness is not one man; his name is legion. His condi- to the few outstanding truths which are the root

DFMS. tion has all the ear marks of the temporal. What of the matter. You may be interested in my / is our responsibility to him? conclusions.

Church • The vital truth of Christianity is the In- In Bondage carnation. Belief in that is fundamental and in- WITHIN THE LIMITS of our ability we must dispensable. It must be within and mystical, let

Episcopal surely endeavor to minister in such a way as to what attendant means and agents play the part they may. Many a Quaker stands at the top- the alliviate his symptoms, but does responsibility of end here? Must we not also attack the temporal most pinnacle of communion with God in Christ turn of mind which all around us is encouraging because of his grand belief, practical and un- men to think that their security rests in the broken, in this central, controlling fact. The Archives abundance of things possessed. Too often Chris- Roman Catholic Church frankly admits the fine tians, like their neighbors, spend all their energy Christianity there is outside and independent of 2020. and give all their hope to temporal aims. the Church in the limited sense of the papal This is what St. Paul calls the bondage of cor- system. ruption. It is not that the Christian doesn't have Copyright • We may wish it otherwise, but there al- personal aims — he does, he must. But when ways has been, there are, and always will be in they are frustrated, he is not undone, for his religion generally, and in our church in par- primary aim is always to discover the message ticular, two widely different approaches to God of the eternal in whatever the future may bring. — through priesthood and sacrament, and Yet as I have said this is not simply a matter of through the direct ascent of the soul to its personal piety, but it is the responsibility of the Source. The attempt on the part of either school whole church to introduce the eternal dimension to think of its own position as being exclusive into the very fabric of life so that all creation brings controversy and ends in cleavage. may more perfectly mirror the purpose of the Creator. • To understand others is the greatest feat For instance, we must show the Christine of human effort. To understand them is to be

Twelve THE WITNESS moved with compassion and admiration, is to • Not by slurring over honest differences or win, not to alienate, is to promote in the fullest by slighting convictions. sense God's Kingdom, and not to hinder it. Lausanne taught me many things, not the least • Not for economic reasons. being the fine quality of the truths of Prot- . • Not for the sake of ease and convenience. estantism and their efficacy. • "By their fruits ye shall know them" — Christian character is the final test of the truth. It is the purpose of Jesus Christ to unify the To that we must bend our energies. It is not church. We must have unity, not at all costs, belief and practice. There is a type of character but at all risks. A unified church is the only that is peculiarly Christian, whether you find it offering we dare present to the coming Christ, in Francis of Assisi or Wesley, in Keble or Phil- for in it alone will he find room to dwell. lips Brooks, in Stanley Jones or Bishop Gore. — From an Address to Students of The General If unity has slipped from our grasp, it is the Theological Seminary in 1910; repeated in a common fault of the Christian world. If it is to publication. sermon delivered in St. Paul's, London, 1913 be regained, it must be by the concerted action and of all Christians. Every section has shared in shattering unity. Every section must share in reuse the effort to restore it. Labor for unity must The unity of Christendom is not a luxury but for lay its claim on every Christian soul. a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. God has used, beyond anything we had a right required The following quotations from sermons and to expect, our divided Christendom. But now addresses by Bishop Brent were selected by the that we know the sin and disaster of sectarian- Rev. Frederick Wark Kates, rector of St. John's, ism, we cannot hope that he will use it much

Permission Elizabeth, N. J., at the request of Bishop Gibson of longer. It may be that up to the present a di- of Virginia, chairman of the joint commission on ap- vided church has been used by God for the ex- tension of his Kingdom among men, but we have DFMS. proaches to unity. / no guarantee that he will continue to do so. Divided Christendom has had fair trial — it is

Church a failure. If it is a prophecy that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church, it is also prophecy

Episcopal that the church divided against herself will fall. Division is the Achilles' heel of the Christian Disorder in the church is more terrible than the enterprise. Much of the anguish of soul, of the of feuds in the family or civil war in the state. If doubt, of the alienation of men from the Kingdom war is an evil in national life, it is a thousandfold of God and his righteousness, lies at the door of greater evil in church life. the broken condition of the church, her uncatho- Archives lic temper, and her apathetic acceptance of the

2020. divisions which rend her as though they were There are four main obstacles in the way of not her own fault. promoting unity: first, acquiescence in the broken order; secondly, the sense of security Copyright among great dominating churches like the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, The way to recover unity is to practice fellow- and the Orthodox Churches of the East; thirdly, ship. the misuse of the word "church"; fourthly, sub- stitutes for unity, of which there are two prin- cipal ones called, respectively, interdenomination- Do not be deceived; without unity the conver- alism and uniformity. sion of great nations is well-nigh hopeless. The success of missions is inextricably bound up with unity. It would seem that missionary progress Humbled and awakened the churches must re- in the future will depend mainly upon the new their search for peace and unity according church's unity, and that national conversions to God's will. But how? can be brought about by no other influence.

AUGUST 8, 1963 Thirteen Unity, visible and invisible, is not an accident and maintainer of schism. When that happy of the gospel, it is the gospel. day dawns, the end of our splintered Christen- dom will be in sight. From sermon "A Plea for Fairness" delivered The call to unity is primarily from God to man. in Westninster Abbey It is for our good that the appeal is made. Through unity alone can the Kingdom of God be set up among men. Through unity alone can the Church unity will come after Christian unity. world believe and know that the Father has sent It would not be gain to aim at oneness as an end Jesus Christ to reveal him to the whole human in itself. Mere oneness would be a sort of sac- race. It stands as the unalterable condition on charine monotony in which differences would which he can fulfil his mission to mankind. This not have been reconciled but rather smothered no one doubts who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and hidden under a thick coat of sentimentality. and Saviour. Unity, as I understand it, will come as the re- — From Opening Address at the First World sult of whole-hearted devotion to a common cen- publication. Conference on Faith & Order, Lausanne, ter, a common vision, and a common purpose. We and Switzerland, Aug. 3, 1927 do not seek for unity in order to come to Christ, but in coming to Christ we are thereby com- reuse mitted to unity according to his mind, and if we for There can be no hope of reunion with Rome, fail to find unity we have missed the way. because of inexorable law, until the papal see lays

required aside her garb of arrogance and apologizes to the rest of Christendom for her long history of Unity of heart and hands among the churches unfairness, which has made her the provoker is the sole hope for the great peace. Permission Many Witnesses, One Lord by Wil- pretation of the Christian faith and liam Barclay. Westminster Press. message. There is a company of DFMS. / -NEW BOOKS- $2.50 men witnessing to what Jesus Christ has been to them and still is." Kenneth R. Forbes The well known genius of Dr. Bar- Church Book Editor clay is brilliantly in evidence here. Chrysostom and his Message by In his short preface he indicates Stephen Neill. Association Press. exactly what his purpose is to point out — the striking fact of the wide $1.00 Christian Priorities by Donald Cog- Episcopal diversity in the books of the New Bishop Stephen Neill has selected gan. Harper & Row. $3.50 Testament. The emphasis by New the and translated in this little paper- Testament scholars in recent years of This is entirely a book of reprints has been on the unity of the N. T. back of less than 100 pages some of which the Archbishop of York has and this present scholar's belief too the best of St. Chrysostom's writings authorized publishing. It consists is in the unity, but also a recogni- of sermons, addresses, brief articles and sermons — which were hot in- Archives tion of the startling diversity is deed against much of the corruption which the archbishop at one time very much needed in this day and and another had written and, of generation and he proceeds to show in the politics and even the religious 2020. course, broadcasts over England's us why and how. life of that day. The book itself is BBC. one of a series of World Christian Each one of these varying chapters The diversity in the synoptic gos- pels is obvious and vital, but points Books, four new titles of which is surprisingly short and that fact have recently been published. Copyright alone seems to rob them of much of clearly enough to the unity of all their effectiveness. The archbishop three books, each of them loyal to Another one of the four is Ze- is doubtless an eloquent and able the same divine Master, Jesus chariah Speaks Today. This old- preacher and the subjects he has Christ, but at the same time coming timer was of much the same caliber chosen to publish as short reprints to him by a unique pathway. as St. Chrysostom and his "pro- are of first importance and major Next to the synoptics, the impor- phesying" was not so much the re- interest—The Message of Christmas, tant characters dealt with by the vealing of the future as it was the The Message of Easter, The Making author are St. John (in his Gospel eloquent condemning of the outrages of Saints, and — as a reprint from and three letters) and St. Paul of the present. Zechariah was so the London Times •— an excellent through his varied letters where effective and important as a sample essay celebrating the publication of faith is the heart of their writer's for the teachers of the future that "The New English Bible; New devotion to the Master. he made the grade with the scholars Testament" which seems to this re- Dr. Barclay sums up his analysis of the Hebrew record keepers and viewer to be the most interesting and in these words: "There is no one Zechariah was made official for the informative of any of the books' standardized religious experience; Old Testament, where Christians too twenty chapters. there is no one stereotyped inter- can study his example. Fourteen THE WITNESS CONFERENCE RALLY women who believe in the same marching towards the goal is IN MONTREAL Lord Jesus Christ find them- tedious, but we are not alone; (.Continued front Page Six^t selves separated from each Christ is with us and all the other. We know that we are saints headed by the Holy Mary ing seemed to be getting larger Mother of Christ pray for us," and larger. all responsible for this. For he said. "Each (of the traditions) had none of us has lived up to the developed its own spiritual word of the Lord: 'He who does Professor Johnston world and there was practically not gather with me, scatters'." no real communication or con- Dr. Johnston, who is also pro- versation between them," he The Metropolitan fessor of New Testament lan- said. guage and literature at McGill He said the ecumenical meet- Metropolitan Athenagor- University, whose topic was ing was based purely on com- a s viewed the assembly as a "Towards a Protestant Catho- mon faith and not on some "history-making togetherness" licity," declared that for people political or social basis. He and "perhaps an image of reared in the reformed tradi- said it was made possible simply things to come." tion it is becoming clear that publication. because the ecumenical move- "Christians from the west most of the (Christian) divi- and from the east representing sions are too ungodly, too un- and ment has happened. In its 50-year history, he the three main segments of the brotherly, too self-defeating. Christian world stand in hu- "They make our missionary zeal reuse added, its core has come to light mility under the cross of their unattractive and they reduce for in the organization of the WCC, but he acknowledged that it has common redeemer to offer to- the gospel to irrelevance in the penetrated far beyond the WCC. gether prayers and thanks- modern secular world," he said. giving. The protective walls required Of much significance, he said, Referring to the message of was the creation by Pope John erected long ago to separate the scriptures, he asked: "Do of the Vatican secretariat for and protect ourselves from each they countenance disunity? Not promoting Christian unity. other's intervention seem now, at all! The primitive local con- Permission "Our eyes have been opened more than ever, unbearable, an- gregations of New Testament achronistic and contradictory to times did not exalt their au- to the extraordinary contradic- what we all stand for."

DFMS. tion between two facts," he tonomy into grounds for separa- / said. "First, the fact that ac- The metropolitan said there tion. They had other reasons cording to Holy Scripture the are numerous books written for the divisions that plagued

Church church, which is the people of with scholastic erudiction, con- them." God, is called to manifest in taining exhaustive essays of He said the congregations this world that God has recon- polemical theology, clever, rich which emerged from the 16th ciled men to himself and to one in conviction and often abound- Episcopal century Reformation believed another. ing in prejudice and error. the themselves to belong to the of "The second is that men and "The work is hard and the true Church of God, by grace Archives

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AUGUST 8, 1963 fifteen of the Holy Spirit of Jesus range of that magnificent word. of Montreal and Roman Catho- Christ. Catholicity must be domesti- lic Les Petits Chantres de It is significant too, Johnston cated once more among them." l'Oratoire. The three choirs said, that one of the dominant joined voices for the Lord's The Service strains in the doctrine and life Prayer. of the Anglican communion has The stirring ecumenical rally been that which stresses catho- featured scriptural readings by Press Conference lic continuity and sacramental a Catholic priest and a Protes- grace. tant minister — Father Rus- Earlier in the conference W. "To be a Protestant was not sell Breen, chaplain of the New- A. Visser 't Hooft told a press necessarily to be a separatist," man Club at McGill University, conference that the council is he added. and the Rev. Ronald Rowat, seriously asking itself whether However, he noted, one can- superintendent of missions for it is simply an association of not disguise the fact that many the Montreal and Ottawa synod autonomous churches grouped Protestants become bitterly of the Presbyterian Church in together for cooperative tasks, schismatic; so much so that Canada. or, without becoming a "super-

publication. today some of their descendants Anglican Bishop Kenneth Ma- church," whether it has some repudiate their very name. guire of Montreal led the final churchly significance. and prayer for Christian unity and "In this ecumenical age a Rapid developments on the fresh understanding of their Metropolitan Athenagoras de- reuse ecumenical scene and the mul- own origins reminds them that livered the evening prayer, with for tiplicity of problems facing the Christian faith is apostolic, the vesper hymn being sung in Old Slavonic. church today raises many ques- traditional and universal. Prot- tions for the council, he said. estants have discovered that Choirs were from Montreal's required they who would serve the Lord Anglican Church of St. James "Our greatest danger lies in must be catholic, too, in all the the Apostle, the Orthodox Choir our success," Visser 't Hooft said. "The World Council is

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Copyright and disarmament. Concerning relationships with Please check fields of interest and return to the Roman Catholic Church, Visser 't Hooft suggested that The CHURCH Pension Fund the WCC and Catholics could "go quite a bit farther in co- 20 Exchange Place • New York 5, N.Y. operation" in social concerns and international affairs. In areas where there is agreement, he said, "why should we not get together and make common witness?"

Sixteen THE WITNESS it for creative effort. I am Important Appointments Made certain that within a short time we shall find this description of By the Presiding Bishop the work of ecumenical officer inadequate. For out of his rich ir Presiding Bishop Arthur Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, experience and deep concern Lichtenberger will lead a dele- and the New Federation of for the ecumenical movement, gation of approximately 358 East Africa — Kenya, Uganda, Peter Day will help us all to dis- persons to the second worldwide and Tanganyika. cern and understand more clear- Anglican Congress, which opens He also will confer with ly the opportunities before us in Toronto, next Tuesday and denominational leaders — An- in our search for the unity runs through August 23rd. glican, Roman Catholic, Lu- which God wills for his The total attendance of the theran, Baptist, Muslim, and church." Congress is expected to be above even Africa cult doctors — to Day, in presenting his resig- the 1,500 mark. Approximate- determine needs now met by nation to the board of directors ly 1,000 of these participants them and to explore the possi- of the Church Literature Foun- will be official delegates while bility of setting up an inter- dation, said, "I feel I must ac- publication. the remainder will be composed denominational health-welfare cept this new assignment, of other church representa- program.

and which to me is one of the most tives and delegates' wives. Another important aspect of exciting areas of Church life The Congress will open the survey will be directed to- reuse today. The entry of the Church August 13, at 8 p.m. with a ward the possible need for of Rome into the ecumenical for service in Maple Leaf Gardens. social psychiatry because of dialogue has changed the whole Both the Archbishop of Canter- the tensions and possible break- context of interchurch relations

required bury and Archbishop Howard up of tribal societies in many to the point where one might Clark of Canada will speak. central African countries re- say that no impossibilities are The Congress will be con- sulting from urbanization and left." cluded by a special evening technological advances.

Permission service on August 23, in St. James' Cathedral, at which Peter Day will undertake the Archbishop Joost de Blank of responsibilities of his new office DFMS. / Capetown, South Africa, will after the first of the year. preach. In making the announcement. Bishop Lichtenberger said, "I Church Important Appointments am delighted that Peter Day is The Presiding Bishop has to be our ecumenical officer. announced the appointment of In this position, which was Episcopal Peter Day, editor of the Living created by action of the General the Church, to be ecumenical officer Convention in 1961, he will of of the National Council. work closely with the three He has also appointed the joint commissions: approaches JUST PUBLISHED! Rev. Richard Young of Chicago to unity, ecumenical relations Archives to conduct a year-long survey to and cooperation with the East- determine how the church can ern and Old Catholic Churches. 2020. help modernize existing health "Peter Day has been a valu- The Three and welfare facilities in central able member of the general Africa. Young has headed the board of the National Council Copyright Bishop Anderson Foundation, a of Churches for several years. Gifts He will now establish and main- medical chaplaincy program in Dorothy Clarke Wilson. Filled Chicago's medical center. tain a close relationship with with the moving elements that He began his new assignment the NCCC and the World Coun- shaped the boyhood of Jesus, on July 15, serving on the cil of Churches as ecumenical this imaginative story depicts strategic advisory committee to officer of the Episcopal the secret, yet unselfish, use Church," Bishop Lichtenberger made of history's first Christmas the Presiding Bishop. presents. 224 pages. $3 In this capacity, Young will explained. conduct on-the-spot studies of He added that "there is a de- Order from your bookstore hospital, public health clinic, tailed job description of this ABINGDON and school health-welfare pro- new office in our files at the grams in three countries of Episcopal Church Center, but PRESS central Africa. These are there is plenty of room within

AUGUST 8, 1963 Seventeet W. SANDERSON, Emmanuel, ordained priest by Bishop Marmi- Alexandria; KENNETH W. SIM- on, June 6 at St. John's, Glassgow, MONS, Grace Church, Pine Is- Va. where he is vicar. PEOPLE land; JAMES R. ZOSEL, Benson, CHARLES L. LIPSCOMB was or- Morris and Glenwood. dained deacon by Bishop Marmion, DEATHS: — DAVID K. KENNEDY and PAUL June 16, and is a teacher at Augus- H. KENNEDY were ordained ta Academy and on the staff of DONALD MACADIE, 63, suffragan deacons by their father, Bishop bishop of Newark, died August 1. Harry S. Kennedy on July 7 at St. Emmanuel, Staunton, Va. Also He was rector of St. John's, Andrew's Cathedral, Honolulu. The ordained deacons by Bishop Marmi- Passaic, from 1931 until his con- sermon was by their brother, on in June: WILLIAM R. RICH- secration in 1958. Bruce H. Kennedy, rector at Mon- ARDSON, curate at St. Paul's, terrey, Mexico. Lynchburg, Va.; CHARLES C. CLERGY CHANGES: — JAMES H. STAMPER Jr. was or- McNEER, chaplain for several S. MICHAEL YASUTAKE, former- dained priest by Bishop Marmion, colleges in the diocese of S. W. ly rector of St. Raphael's, Oak June 4 at St. Peter's, Altavista, Va.; JAMES T. WHITE, vicar of Lawn, 111., is now executive secre- Va. where he is vicar. St. Andrew's, Galax, Va. ROBERT tary of college work for the fifth FRANK H. VEST Jr. was ordained priest by Bishop Marmion, June J. CUMMINGS, to be in charge of province. churches at Bluefield and Poca- CHRISTIAN A. HOVDE, formerly 5 at St. John's, Roanoke, Va. where he is curate. hontas, Va., following clinical publication. vicar of St. John's Chapel, Engle- wood, N. J. is now director of ROBERT T. COPENHAVER was training at the state hospital, Wil- and Bishop Anderson Foundation, lard, N. Y. Chicago. MONEY for your TREASURY reuse JOHN M. GESSELL, associate pro- fessor of pastoral theology at the OVER 2,000,000 THE PARISH OF TRNINITY CHURCH for School of Theology, Sewanee, SUNFLOWER DISH CLOTHS New York Tenn., is also assistant to the Were sold in 1962 by members of Sunday dean. School*, Ladies' Aids, Young People's Groups, REV. JOHN HEUSS, D.D., RECTOR etc. They enable you to earn money for your required TRINITY ORDINATIONS: — treasury, and make frieWi lor your organiza- Broadway & Wall St. NICHOLAS ALBANESE was or- tion. dained deacon by Bishop War- SANGAMON MILLS, INC. Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicar necke at Trinity, Easton, Pa. on Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. Established 1915 COHOES, N. Y. EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser.

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Eighteen THB WITNBSS in the July 11 Witness, was not strongly (and in my opinion., worthy of your magazine. rightly) opposed to favoritism BACKFIRE • Despite his lofty suggestion toward any particular religious to everyone "not to bother with communion or anything smack- Lee A. Belford this book", people are buying it ing of "establishment" in any so rapidly that many book- way, but that they were not in An Editor of the Witness stores can't keep it stocked. Mr. In an article in a recent issue McCandless foolishly thinks favor of a divorce between reli- I stated my opposition to the this is because the book is gion and the state. projected civil rights demon- "fashionable." It is difficult for me to com- stration in Washington sched- Rather, it is because it is prehend how at this time of uled for August 28. I was appre- good. It airs questions seldom history, when we are coming to hensive for fear that with the discussed by parish priests, yet recognize the theological im- summer heat and inadequate very often asked by laymen. portance of the gospel in the facilities for handling the pro- These questions matter tremen- world and the heresy of the jected multitudes, there was "suburban captivity of the dously. churches", the Witness, of all

publication. danger of disorder and violence, and that the demonstration You have had many allusions magazines, can endorse, how- and would be self-defeating. to this book in your pages this ever unwittingly, a stand which year. Now won't you give us a would wall religion into its re- reuse Since that time the situation comprehensive discussion of it spective ecclesiastical confines.

for has changed considerably and by a qualified person who can my fears have abated. The understand why churchmen are President has announced his in- so vitally concerned with what SCHOOLS required tention to be in Washington and "Honest to God" is talking to acknowledge the group. The about ? OF THE CHURCH sponsoring organizations have made extensive plans for the Editor's Note: There was a Permission comprehensive discussion in our well-being of the participants in NORTHWESTERN Washington. The department May 23 number by A. C. Bou- quet, a distinguished scholar of A C A D E MY

DFMS. of Christian social relations of / the National Council is setting the Church of England. LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN up headquarters at the Nation- Rev. James Howard Jacobson Morris F. Arnold Church al Cathedral for Episcopal Superintendent and Rector Church groups that will be par- Rector, Christ Church, Cincinnati ticipating. Other denomina- An outstanding military college pre- tions and religious groups are I generally go at least most paratory school for boys 12 to 18, Episcopal also making careful plans to of the way with the Witness in grades 8 through 12. Fireproof the meet the needs of the partici- its editorial position. I cannot, buildings, modern science depart- of however, in your stand on the ment, excellent laboratory and aca- pants and to assure that the positive good resulting from the demic facilities. 90 acre campus with demonstration will be an orderly extensive lake shore frontage, new and effective witness to the decision of the Supreme Court Archives banning religious exercises in 3 court gym. Enviable year 'round dignity of man and racial unity. environment. All sports, including public schools. riding and sailing. Accredited. Sum- 2020. I, therefore, retract my op- Such evidence as I can dis- mer Camp. Write for catalogue, position and expect to join the cover from the intentions of 164 South Lake Shore Road. delegation from the Epiphany, the founding fathers leads me

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