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The WITNESS OCTOBER 29, 1964 10* publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of PRESIDENT MOREHOUSE: — Accepts for 1967 Convention "Thanks, I think!" Archives 2020. Art i c 1 e Copyright Not All the Bishops Did Was Wise Frederick Grant NEWS FEATURES: Coverage of General Con- vention by Helen Grant, Robert Curry, William B. Spofford Jr. SERVICES The Witness SERVICES In Leading Churches For Christ and His Church In Leading Churches EDITORIAL BOARD NEW YORK CITY CHRIST CHURCH THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH JOHN MCGILL KRUMM, Chairman CAMBRIDGE, MASS. OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE W. B. SPOFFCRD SR., Managing Editor The Rev. Gardiner M. Day, Rector Sunday: Holy Communion 7, 8, 9, 10, Morn- EDWARD J. MOHR, Editorial Assistant ing Prayer, Holy Communion and Ser- Sunday Services: 8:00, 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. mon. 11; Evensong and sermon, 4. O. SYDNEY BARR; LEE A. BELFORD; KENNETH Wed. and Holy Days: 8:00 and Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 7:15 R. FORBES; ROSCOE T. 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Story of the Week both long and short, but the General Convention Warms Up main speaker, Dr. Paul Ylvisa- ker of the Ford Foundation, who After Getting a Slow Start was excellent, did not have a publication. chance to start until 9:25 and By Robert L. Curry to justify what it had done in and had to leave in time to catch a Headmaster of Lenox School the past three years. It was a plane at 10:30. dull morning and much too long. reuse * This is a conservative con- After it was over I asked a staff Ecumenical Dinner for vention with a lot of smoke and member at New York Church little fire. The refusal, not The ecumenical dinner was Center what he thought of the the following evening with Fa- once but twice, by deputies to report and his answer was that required ther Paul C. Reinert speaking give women seats was indica- it was "informative." tive of this. I had guessed that as a representative of Cardinal at long last we might catch up It was in detail. As we were Ritter, who is in Rome attend- shown the pictures of each ing the Vatican Council, and the Permission with the rest of the world and Rev. James McCord of Princeton finally get this through. I was member of the Council, it was interesting to note that there Theological Seminary. Both sadly mistaken for the con- were no farm folk, union mem- speakers were excellent, with DFMS. / servative nature of the House bers, office workers, etc. As Dr. McCord particularly being of Deputies is stronger than it others have noted many times exciting and forward looking. was three years ago in Detroit Church in the past, under our system of The whole affair was impres- — certainly on this issue. As meeting only once in three reported in the Witness last sive, with the head table ar- years, and meeting for two ranged in three tiers, with Bish- week, it was the laymen who de- weeks — with many dioceses op Mosley of Delaware introduc- Episcopal feated it. and districts limited in funds— ing the guests of honor as they the It is a disheartening result some who ought to come to entered the hall filled with of for it is difficult for the Church General Convention and serve 1,000 diners. People were there to speak out on discrimination on the Council simply cannot representing Rome, Missouri in the world when we have it in afford to do so. Synod Lutherans, Presbyteri- Archives the Church. It is difficult to Urban Dinner ans, United Church of Christ, try and cope with the image we Philippine Independent Church, 2020. give to the world which we are Urban work is getting a big Church in Spain and many asked to convert, when in so plan at this convention — also others. many ways we are behind the as reported here last week. So Dr. McCord spelled out how Copyright world in the matter of equal op- most of us went to the dinner the Church loses the initiative portunity for human beings to where speakers presented their in history from time to time, for have a say in the running of views on the subject. balance is always short lived, society. It was held in a room which and pointed out how the Church's influence is diminish- National Council Report was too small, too packed, no ventilation, with the tempera- ing and is culturally disestab- The National Council report ture going up to 95 at least. It lished today. This is clearly to —henceforth the Executive apparently is the opinion of be seen since World War II, and Council by action at this con- many that these two weeks may the image of Protestantism in vention — took over three hours be the last on earth, and there- the United States has been to present at a joint session.