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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- speakers were excellent, with

DFMS. were no farm folk, union mem- / 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. fore all must speak, be intro- shattered by pluralism. The Council appeared to me to duced, be honored, applauded. I However, this is potentially be on the defensive and trying did not count the speeches, good and the Church can seize

OCTOBEB 29, 1964 Thru the moment and redeem the Things Pick Up to overturn the preamble or time. Monday in the second week amend it to get the word "Prot- We must use this opportunity was the best legislative day we estant" out of the name. have had to date, and at long to establish a new relationship The New P.B. to the world and overcome our last the tempo is starting to present introversion. Currently pick up. However, we were told There were five nominees — we are introverted and our in the afternoon that in ten Bishops Bayne, Emrich, Hines, tendency is to withdraw those days we have completed only Thomas Wright, and Loutitt. whom we convert and huddle to- 25% of the business so we go Bishop Hines was: elected on the gether by the fire to keep warm. into night sessions. sixth ballot. When it was an- We are baffled, confused, and The special order was on the nounced in the House of Depu- afraid and our need is to move National Council of Churches, ties the applause was polite pri- out and to move forward. and our full and increased par- marily because so few knew the bishop of Texas. We must overcome our frag- ticipation was approved by a mentation. Here Mr. McCord large vote. The motion by South The general feeling is that publication. struck out and said that if the Carolina to withdraw had little the choice is a good one and sets support, partly because of the up a fine team in the top two and ecumenical movement is to con- tinue its forward push, then it superb study which had been slots — Bishop Hines is a prov- made during the past three en administrator, a man of reuse must move beyond conversation, years by the joint committee to conviction and of fairness. His for for conversation can and will become vapid and general, and study the NCC. This debate first press conference he we must find willingness to give and amendments took over 2 handled impressively. With hours of the morning session. Bishop Bayne in the number required up some of our precious forms for a new life together. The special order in the two slot in the overseas depart- afternoon was to discuss and ment, and knowing more about The Church, thirdly, must decide the name of the Church. the Anglican Communion than Permission preserve her catholicity — her The House of Bishops had sent probably any other person in the reformed catholicity. Currently over to us without debate a world, we should be able to we are more American than vote to "expunge the word Prot- move ahead. DFMS. / Catholic; more deformed than estant" from our name. Be- Bishop Hines was at the the- reformed, and we must move hind-the-scenes work on this ological dinner and he looks like out into a new reformed catho- one had gone on from Friday a block-busting guard or tackle Church licity, the forms of which are until Monday afternoon. The with plenty of energy, strength, still not clear, but we have to committee on amendments to and ability to do what is going move in faith and thrust ahead. the constitution brought in a to be a tremendous task. Episcopal report to substitute for the the Overseas Dinner bishops' vote a "preamble" to Budget Approved of The next evening I went to the constitution by which the PECUSA name would be re- October 20 was the biggest the overseas dinner. Bishop legislative day of the conven- Bentley was honored upon his tained, and the Episcopal Archives Church could also be used. tion. In the morning the com- retirement; Bishop Bayne was mittee on program and budget the speaker. He pointed out the After a half hour of debate

2020. presented its report, and the re- steadily increasing degree of amendments could be proposed, port and the reporting of it was partnership in the Anglican and the first one was to accept the clearest I have heard or Communion brought about by the House of Bishops message read. Much of what laymen Copyright time and history; the new ecu- as it had come over to us. This have been saying through re- menical dimension in the "wider was defeated in a vote by cent years came through. There Episcopal Fellowship" which orders by the lay order by 5 is no great increase in the bud- few thought about a few years votes. The next amendment to get for the next three years — ago; M.R.I, and how we must switch the order of the two thus it is realistic. The increase reach out and not think of this names was tabled. Then the amounts to about 5% in terms only of congenial part- committee's resolution was nership with those who are like Several restrictions were adopted. placed upon the Executive Coun- minded; the theological revolu- It goes back to the House of tion in which the priority of cil. One restriction is that a Bishops for concurrence, and if ceiling is placed upon the num- God must come first and re- passed then has to await the verse our sense of mission of ber of employees at the Church next convention for final adopt- making others Americans first Center. This is an answer to and Christians secondly. ion. I would give odds that in Parkinson's Law about which 1967 another effort will be made many are speaking these days. Four TUB WITNESS A second restriction is that if what he hears from his fellow On October 21 the missionary funds are short then there is a laymen on the street, in the bishops were elected in the priority of allocation so that the office, at home, etc. House of Bishops. When the emphases for the next three The layman who proposed the results come to the House of years will be cut last in the pro- resolution on "civil disobedi- Deputies we go into executive gram. ence" commented to the press session to discuss and to concur. The committee has noted after defeat of the resolution Great secrecy. I am told that three emphases for the coming that the clergy have failed to last Saturday while we were years of 1965-67. One emphasis teach the laymen "faith and waiting to hear the result of is the work of the overseas de- morals". I would not disagree the election of the Presiding partment, a second is MRI, and with this, but as I listen to the Bishop, it was on the radio in the third is urban work which fine lay deputation from Georgia St. Louis. Hard to know just goes into the budget for about which sits in front of me, dis- whom to trust to keep a secret. one million dollars over the cuss Church problems with lay Two new bishops were elected three year period. business administrators of the and two were translated. Elected Church, it is more apparent that publication. for North Dakota was the Rev. The small increase in the bud- the clergy are "set apart" from George Masuda of Billings, and get opens the way for MRI and much which happens daily in Montana; elected for coadjutor now places squarely upon the the life of the world outside the of Puerto Rico was the Very reuse shoulders of the Church through four walls of the Church as an Rev. F. Reus-Froylan of San- for its provinces, dioceses, and par- institution. turce. Translated were Bishop ishes what will be done, and no This same line of thinking Arnold Lewis, going from West- one can cry that the budget is came out in the vote in the ern Kansas to be suffragan required too high and hard to reach so House of Deputies on the bishop of the armed forces, and that MRI must suffer as a re- "change of the name" of the Bishop James C. Wong of North sult. Church. The laity try to tell Borneo to Taiwan. Bishop Gil-

Permission The presentation of the bud- us that the average man in the son is to devote all his time to get was clear, concise, and all street generally understands our Okinawa. questions were answered with- Church to be in a Protestant After hearing some flowery DFMS. heritage and to drop the word / out fumbling or confusion, and after sitting for ten days amid would cause confusion and won- comments about himself, bish- much wrangling and parlimen- dering in the minds of the op-elect Masuda quietly said: Church tary snarls, it was like fresh air average layman. "Compliments are like good per- blowing through Kiel Audi- fume. They should be savored, The same diferences will hold not swallowed!" torium. (Further details on true for the development of

Episcopal budget on the next page). MRI. In our convention com- Morehouse - Leffler the Civil Disobedience mittee on this subject, the lay- of men generally were critical of Clifford Morehouse was elect- The afternoon brought on setting up another "commis- ed president of Deputies for a two and a half hour debate sion" to handle this subject, and 1967, and John Leffler, dean in

Archives regarding a resolution on "civil the inclusion of figures to be Seattle, Washington, vice presi- disobedience". The resolution met as our share of MRI around dent. This is the first time the

2020. — after dealing with various the world. The clergy, how- House has had a vice-president, amendments — sought to free ever, felt we could not break and the first time that the of- conscience to be disobedient the mold and must keep the ficers were elected at the end when the "law of God" was in Copyright structure and include the fig- of one convention to serve for conflict with the "law of man". ures. I had hoped for an act of three years through the next The resolution won by an over- faith on this one, and that we convention. This is an effort whelming vote in the clerical would follow the lead of many to streamline the convention so order; it was defeated decisive- of the laity and launch out into that committees can be ap- ly by the lay order. the deep and see what we could pointed earlier, and some home The general line of voting do by way of renewal and re- work and committee work done shows up clearly the gulf which form, and throw out the old in order to get down to business exists between the thinking of ways which in some quarters before the second week. The the clergy and the laymen. It is will turn MRI into another fund House of Deputies got so far be- clearly evident to this observer raising project. This all came hind that night sessions had to that we of the clerical order do out in discussion when MRI was be scheduled so that the con- little listening to what the lay- presented in the afternoon vention could finish on time. man has to say, or to understand session. Much more work needs to be OCTOBER 29, 1964 hive • • I

accomplished in the first week. be the first time the convention house to state that there are no It was heartening to watch has participated officially in moral or theological barriers to the retired Presiding Bishop the support of its 11 seminaries. interracial marriage. since the election of last Satur- Also included in the program No action was taken on the day. He appears at evening and budget are a new suffragan memorial, however, as the Rev. dinners relaxed, smiling, and bishop for the armed forces, Harold C. Gosnell of San An- smoking that after dinner cigar and slightly expended program tonio, chairman of the social which many of us had never in parts of the Church's work. relations committee of the seen before. house, pointed out that the gen- JUDGE MARSHALL eral resolution, specifically BUDGET AND PROGRAM WALKS OUT stated that race should not bar FOR THREE YEARS -Ar The House of Deputies de- participation in any sacrament of the Church. ~k Overseas work, the urban feated a resolution which would mission and theological educa- have recognized the right of As approved, the resolution cited an increase in racial and publication. tion form the major emphasis in persons, for reasons of con- the Church's program and bud- science and after prayerful con- social conflicts as a result of and get for the next three years. sideration, to disobey laws and "residential barriers and lack of All other areas of the Church's social customs "in basic con- open occupancy," and the con- reuse work will hold the line with flict with the concept of human tinuing struggle by minority for little or no increase. dignity." groups for equal education, job Bishop Gerald F. Burrill of Defeat of the resolution — opportunities and protection under the law. required Chicago, chairmen of the pro- passed by clergymen but died on gram and budget committee a negative vote by lay deputies The convention also com- made the presentation. — was the reason why Judge mended "clergy and laity . . . "The real program of the Thurgood Marshall, the only who by their daily life and

Permission Church is mutual responsi- Negro member of the eight-man ministry in troubled areas are bility," the Bishop said. He deputation from the diocese of the quiet agents of social pointed out that plans for new New York, suddenly walked out change." DFMS. / missionary strategies form the of the convention. WOMEN ELECT base for all the Church will do Church leaders said that he in the next three years. OFFICERS

Church bolted as a result of "conserva- "No one of us can see where tive and obstructionist" tactics Mrs. Charles W. Battle, Mun- the Holy Spirit will lead us," by laymen on several race cie, Indiana; Mrs. Murray D. Bishop Burrill stated in the issues. Etherton, St. Louis; Mrs. Wil- Episcopal committee's report. "In the Bishop Donegan said the civil liam L. Gardner, New York; the meantime it is necessary for the disobedience action was "the Mrs. Theodore Van Gelder, of Church to adopt and underwrite straw that broke the camel's Mexico City; and Mrs. A. Trav- a program through the usual back" for Judge Marshall. ers Ewell, Miami, Florida; were channels." first term winners to the di-

Archives Suffragan Bishop Stuart Wet- The Church's budget for the more said the judge came to vision of women's work. next three years is $12,777,017 2020. in 1965; $13,379,351 in 1966; the convention "thinking that Re-elected to three-year terms and $13,922,675 in 1967. the bishops and the clergy are Mrs. Seaton Bailey, Griffin, Demanding the major atten- would be his great disappoint- Georgia; Mrs. John T. Mason, ment. He found, to his distress, Jr., Haworth, New Jersey; and Copyright tion of the Church will be its work in the overseas field. This it was the laymen." Mrs. John P. Moulton, Spokane, portion of the budget calls for In New York, Judge Marshall Washington. just under a $1,000,000 in- refused to comment on the in- Mrs. Etherton comes to her crease immediately. cident beyond saying: "I just new post as diocesan president Urban industrial work rates a came out of there, that's all. of Missouri churchwomen and second major increase. Addi- There are no conclusions to be local arrangements chairman of tional funds will be spent in drawn from that." (See story this triennial meeting. pilot projects involving new page 13). Mrs. Van Gelder has an inter- structures, new methods and As the deputies considered a national background of experi- new ways of raising money strong anti-segregation resolu- ence and multi-lingual com- (Witness 10/22). tion which was passed, there petence. Born and educated in A token $100,000 has been was discussion of a memorial the Netherlands she has lived designated for theological edu- from the diocese of Central in Mexico since 1957 where she cation scholarships. This will New York which asked the (.Continued on Page Fifteen") THE WITNESS EDITORIAL

name, the Church will surrender a great tradi- What's Happened So Far tion." A more telling argument was presented WE GO TO PRESS with this number without by David E. Bronson of the Minnesota delegation anything approaching a wrap-up of General Con- who, as a lawyer, said that if the Church changes vention — that will be in our next issue, written its name it "would put itself in grave jeopardy by the chairman of our editorial board, Chaplain of endless litigation" over property. Bequests to John M. Krumm of Columbia University who is the national Church are made to "The Domestic a deputy in the New York delegation. and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of Exciting as well as surprising things have America". Every diocese and most parishes publication. happened. The election of John E. Hines as Pre- and other Church organizations are similarly in- and siding Bishop was a happy surprise to us — sur- corporated. This doubtless is what Mr. Bronson prise because we thought it entirely unlikely that had in mind. The change will make work for reuse the bishops would elect a man as young as fifty- lawyers—and printers, since everything printed for four. So we had laid out in our morgue halftones from Prayer Books to diocesan journals, have of six prelates between the ages of 57 and 61, "Protestant" in the legal title. ready to drop the cut into its cover slot the mo- required ment we got word. We got Johnnie Hines there, It was to get around this, presumably, that the but only by digging up a picture taken at least ten bishops voted that the new preamble to the con- years ago. This will be corrected in due course— stitution should be "The Protestant Episcopal

Permission meanwhile we congratulate the Church for its Church in the United States of America, other- selection and extend to the new Presiding Bishop wise known as The Episcopal Church." A good our best wishes as he tackles a tough job. We way. out, we think. We always call ourselves DFMS. / might add, for our own comfort if not that of Episcopalians — we always speak of the Epis- our readers, that four of the cuts of bishops we copal Church and we see no reason for not mak-

Church had ready were nominated. ing it official — and without, as some news- papers insist, interpreting it as a compromise to Everybody writing for The Witness from St. satisfy what they call "the high" and "the low". Louis was mad about the refusal of Deputies to

Episcopal Incidentally, come another convention, it might admit women — and this goes as well for our

the be well to brief newsman so that they may know entire editorial board of sixteen. This action too of that words like "evangelical", "broad", "low", has to go under the heading of "surprise" since "high" "liberal", "conservative" are pretty much everybody we have talked with in recent months out these days in the Episcopal Church — most Archives has assumed — perhaps too easily—that women of us are all these things. would at long-last be admitted as first-class

2020. citizens. Incidentially, whatever action is taken at this convention will have to be approved in 1967 since Dropping, or at least playing down, "Protes- it is a change in the constitution. tant" in the legal title of the Church has to come Copyright under the same heading — surprise if for no So what did happen in St. Louis? A lot of other reason then that the proposal hasn't gotten necessary house keeping chores, like adopting a off the group in convention for over 100 years. The program and budget; a stand taken on intergra- action started with the bishops who voted 79 to tion and civil rights, with a lot of fireworks but 56 to drop the word, at their meeting on Satur- with final action sound, in our opinion; a start day, October 17. This gave about 100 clerical made in the much neglected urban area; unity and lay members of the House of Deputies time of the Churches stressed as at no other conven- to have an impromptu meeting that evening to tion; MRI off the ground, at least a step away plan strategy against the action during the sec- from parochialism — a characteristic Anglican ond week. There Prof. Albert Mollegen of fault, whether you are talking about a parish, a Virginia Seminary declared, "If we change the diocese, or the general Church.

OCTOBEK 29, 1964 Stfvtr; NOT ALL THE BISHOPS DID WAS WISE

By Frederick Grant

OFTEN GO OFF THE DEEP END IN SPITE OF OUR GREAT BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS

THIS IS the most difficult convention I ever tried the note of the life to come. But there were to cover. It stems from the immense avalanche some who asked, "What of the present?" Bishop of visitors who are here. The Missouri diocesan Pike's two sermons at the Cathedral, one at nine publication. committee did a magnificent job of preparation, and one at eleven, supplied this element. The

and and Douglas Bushy, the head of the press office, eleven o'clock one set forth the doctrine of the has done a heroic task in meeting the pressure; Trinity, and its place in Christian doctrine. Bish-

reuse but the conditions are insurmountable. For op Pike is no heretic; he merely represents the

for example, there is no list of bishops and deputies steady thrust for the past two hundred years to available to the press. There was one, at the be- do away with the complicated and abstruse and ginning of the first day; but the kind ladies at incomprehensible Athanasian creed. Our Church required the information booths gave the copies to all has abandoned it long ago. "Whosoever would comers, and none were reserved for the press. be saved must" — do something much more than The Living Church had an ample supply of their assent to this anti-Priscillianist creed of the

Permission issue containing the names; but tourists helped fifth century. The nine o'clock sermon was themselves (without paying the cost, I fear), and strictly off the cuff, and pleaded for concern the only copy left had to be glued down to the with actual performance in race relations and DFMS.

/ counter. social justice: the pleas, "You cannot legislate When we went to the hall of the bishops, a men into righteousness," and "They must be con- verted first," and "It takes time to effect such

Church huge flock of bright and interested visitors had got there first and not only occupied all the visi- changes", are no good any longer. A lawyer by tors seats but had also gone off with the chairs training and earlier profession, Bishop Pike drew some parallels with crime and neglect as viewed

Episcopal at the press tables; so the press had to stand for a half hour until more chairs could be found — by the courts. The usual excuses have no weight the here! Thank God, there is one man in the Epis- of the nice old gentleman who guarded the door could not cope with the eager visitors. Worst of copal Church who realizes the dangers we face all, there were no copies of the "green book" for in our affluent, indifferent, irresponsible society,

Archives the press. Every bishop and deputy had re- borne down by greed and dishonesty, from the ceived a copy long before the convention as- top echelons to the bottom. The Church is 2020. sembled, with the admonition to bring it with asleep, and does not realize what is happening in him to St. Louis. But many did not, and so when the world. The worst state in the Union for they arrived the deputies simply confiscated the segregation is 86 per cent Christian; the best is Copyright copies set aside for the press. The result was 74 per cent non-Christian, even non-religious — that we do not know, half the time, what the and both are great states, not tiny collections of bishops are talking about, as they refer to the sparsely settled counties. pages in the book — which contains the reports, proposed motions, etc. One cannot even borrow Unfortunately, the American Church Union, a copy, as the bishops need the book themselves, which publishes a daily sheet modelled on the and the risk of non-return is too great! ! General Convention Daily and thereby confuses the unwary, who think it is official, has attacked Bishop Pike No Heretic Bishop Pike and accused him of "seeking martyr- THE OPENING SERMON of the Presiding Bish- dom". The convention host, Bishop Cadigan, op was a beautiful statement of faith, ending on ably answered this libel in the public press of St.

Li all t THE WITNESS Louis. But it is appalling how men misunder- take history seriously, or historical criticism, or stand, and also how little real brotherhood and the literary-historical interpretation of the Bible. esprit de corps the clergy possess—judging by That leaves us open to speaking with tongues and casual comments in the corridors. other nonsense, including this half-hearted ex- oneration of the Jews, ancient and modern. Letter to Pope Paul THE LETTEPv TO POPE PAUL and the Vatican Common Bible Council was unanimously approved — after being ANOTHER unanimously adopted resolution ap- emasculated in committee. What was left of it proved the proposal to support a plan for a "com- was a cheerful greeting followed by a polite fare- mon" English version of the Bible, to be done well and an assurance of the convention's prayers. jointly by Roman Catholics and Protestants. No The whole middle section, the gist of the letter, details were given, and one was left wondering which might have had done some good, was left out. Pope Paul, whom I knew as Cardinal Mon- if the proposal contemplated the action of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain, in publication. tini, must be wondering what it is all about! Why the heart of the letter was omitted, I do not adopting the RSV or the purely commercial and and know. Two explanations have been given, con- lavishly advertised plan for a wholly new trans- lation, to be done by Jews, Protestants, and reuse fidentially; but they do not agree. As someone Catholics led by an eminent archeologist whose for said, "Perhaps it was because it neglected to mention either housing or intergration." views of the New Testament are quite reaction- ary.

required Why do we continue to go off the deep end? Statement About Jews Why do we, with our great Anglican Biblical and theological tradition, persist in favoring funda- A STATEMENT on the responsibility of the Jews mentalism? Surely what we need is to think a Permission for the death of our Lord, defending them from lot harder about some of our problems! the charge, was also passed unanimously. But why did it follow the pattern of the ill-fated DFMS. / resolution the Roman Curia proposed, which the Women Turned Down liberal bishops in the Vatican Council are trying BUT EVEN THINKING will not do the trick.

Church to get rejected? It talks of "deicide", which is a slap in the face. If I were a Jew I would tear Imagine the frustration of our Episcopal church up the resolution and stamp on it. It is like women, turned down and out once more, after saying, "Of course, Jones is a good fellow, and all these years of asking for official recognition Episcopal would never strangle his wife — but who knows and admission to convention. The irony of it is the that the districts which benefit most generously of if he might not strangle someone else's wife?" There is no such thing as "deicide". God cannot from the Women's Thank Offering are the be killed, and to say the Jews did not kill him is strongest in voting down their appeal. It is dis- gusting. All they want is the women's cash! Archives nonsense — not a paradox but an idiotic self- contradiction. ("All I want from you is love, Baby!") It is not

2020. the convention as a whole, but a handful of stub- It presupposes a bad bit of theology: Christ is born reactionaries led by an antiquarian who not God simpliciter, but God and Man. "Deicide" argues that his mother was satisfied not to be a

Copyright presupposes the same twisted meaning that one deputy, and who can see no advantage in it for hears when extravagant devotees describe the the Church. How long, 0 Lord? Must the women priest at the altar as "making God" — the lan- wait until the Grim Reaper has removed obstruc- guage is within an ace of outright blasphemy. tionists from the scene? And must the Church When will the Church get away from this smoke- tolerate this condition, just because these reac- screen of theological speculation and face up to tionaries have seats? I should like to see a na- the plain historical question: "Did the Jews kill tionwide protest against reaction. Has the our Lord?" Obviously they did not. But also Church no resource? Some persons advocate the obviously, the New Testament is influenced by abolition of General Convention altogether. Con- a growing emphasis of anti-semitism, which af- sidering its limited accomplishment, year after year, one wonders if a better system of govern- fects the later gospels most strongly, i.e. Mat- ment might not be devised. thew and John. Our weakness is that we do not

OCTOBEH 29, 1964 WOMEN STILL WANT PARTNERSHIP By Helen H. Grant TRIENNIAL FACING THE REAL

ENCOUNTER CONFRONTING THE

CHURCH OF THE FUTURE

AS THE SECOND WEEK of convention begins, that have been a "sop to Cerberus"? Then, and the panorama is a series of contrasts. The joy the next morning, they continued with routine of the opening service has been followed by sor- matters. On Friday afternoon Mrs. Wedel ad- row over Bishop Lichtenberger's resignation, and dressed the triennial on the success of the new again by pleasure in the election of Bishop Hines plan of lectures followed by small group discus- of Texas as the new Presiding Bishop. Car- sions. She believed that as a matter of program publication. olinians assure each other in the elevators that the three fine initial addresses — Dr. Massey and the care of the Church is not going west of the Shepherd on "God Acts", "Our Changing World" Mississippi, since the bishop is one of them and delineated by Dr. Kitagawa, and Dr. Willie on reuse from South Carolina. "Our Nation" (Witness, 10/22) — had followed for Old friends discover that the same hotel suite each other in too quick succession, and that the has been offered to both of them at vastly vary- women's discussion groups should have been required ing prices. Typewriters in the press room begin interspersed among them. to leap or buck. Women with confirmed down- After Mrs. Harold Kelleran's address, she con- town reservations of months standing find them- tinued, the reports seemed to take on more

Permission selves lodged eighteen miles outside St. Louis at interest. The delegates were better adjusted to an airport motel. St. Louis and the convention atmosphere. How- ever, Mrs. Wedel found that many of the sugges-

DFMS. The women who have listened so earnestly to

/ tions for a future triennial program could well Mrs. Harold Sorg's request "that their work be have been used in 1922. On the whole she dis- done in a framework of prayer," and to the joint covered too much passivity and not enough Church session with its report of the National Council's leadership or initiative. She suggested pro- program, were stunned by the majority vote of grams at home that best fit the local situation, the Deputies, Wednesday morning, to continue comparison of work in several parishes, and Episcopal refusing membership to women in the House of smaller groups. the Deputies itself. One Southern gentleman timidly of suggested that it might be possible later to seat Mrs. Wedel insisted that the Episcopal Church women professional church workers. But as it must come to grips with the man-woman rela- was the non-professional women who had raised tionship, as the National Council of Churches has Archives five million dollars for the United Thank Offer- done. There should be mixed study groups and ing, this idea met with little enthusiasm. mixed parish and diocesan government. It is 2020. perfectly possible to ask the deputies their stand A delegate from Kansas asked that the trien- on women and their place in the church before nial be adjourned and the women advance upon they are elected and sent to convention. Our lay

Copyright the House of Deputies. Male deputies suggested deputies have no idea how other churches are that the triennial give their five million dollars organized. It is also possible that the triennial to the peace corps, or to the National Council of might meet at another time or place than at the Churches, in which women do have a voice. How- General Convention. Or this meeting might be- ever, more conservative views prevailed, and come a meeting of the laity of the Church, with Miss Frances Young, Mrs. Sorg, and Mrs. Ted five laymen and five lay women from each di- Wedel agreed that there was "no comment" to ocese. A combination meeting of men and women the press upon the action of the deputies. is more interesting, with separate views, and The beautiful service for the presentation of might reach joint decisions on the use of the the U.T.O. went forward serenely. That after- United Thank Offering. The United Church noon the women discovered they now had two Women and the United Church Men will both more members on the National Council! Could meet in 1967, as already planned. Ten TUB WITNESS Bishop Welles has just celebrated at an ecu- ing to various guests. Everyone felt that the menical service for the United Church Women in day's work was a good one. Kansas City. The Church's Mission to the world •k cannot be an exclusively Episcopal mission. Union Speaker after speaker is having difficulty re- —or at least coordination — is imperative. Ex- membering saying "Executive Council" when it treme fundamentalists are carrying on a cam- comes up. It will take some time, we are sure, paign against our churches. And what about a before "National Council" slips trippingly away church member who accepts and agrees with an into historic limbo. anonymous pamphlet which states that ten of our bishops are communists? P.B. John E. Hines recalled the words of God is speaking to the Church-to-Be. We must Brahms, referring to his predecessors Mozart not withdraw from the real encounter. Our re- and Beethoven, in accepting his election: "It is sponse should be through Mutual Responsibility an awesome thing to hear behind one the foot- and Interdependence. This demands new action, steps of great men". Bishop Hines then paid and is not a financial appeal. Partnership with tribute to Bishops Henry St. George Tucker, publication. other churches, work in suburbs and the inner Henry Knox Sherrill and Arthur Lichtenberger city, among school drop-outs, with the ill, the and who held the office immediately prior to himself. aged — but responsibility, divided between He also lifted out the name of Bishop William

reuse clergy and laity, men and women, adults and Scarlett, who was his bishop in Missouri where for youth — this must be our aim. he started his ministry: "he .... ordained me Clearly, Mrs. Wedel's fine paper was the climax and shaped so much of my life in the ministry." of the series.

required The bishop lifted out the causes of racial equality and confrontation of the urban-indus- trial culture in which man lives as the "frontier" Scratching the Surface issues of the Church today. Permission By Wm. B. Spofford Jr. A special order of business took up the debate

DFMS. THE OUTSTANDING 'flap' at the convention

/ on the Church's relationships with the National has been over the propriety of using this time Council of Churches. Following the defeat, by a and place for issuance of the so-called String- handy margin, of a motion to withdraw from Church fellow statement about !the Goldwater-Miller membership, the report of the commission on ticket. Almost all bishops and clerical delegates ecumenical relations was adopted and commended received telegrams from home base running from to the Church. Dean John Coburn, the Rev. John Episcopal "we are losing pledges and people" to "what's the Burt and Charles Taft did most of the speaking the story". It is obvious that this was an unoffical for maintaining relationships with the NCC. of action but, due to coverage, it often came out as though it was a decision of the convention. Both Speaking to the dinner of the Foundation for houses remedied this by resolution and the Depu- Archives Episcopal Colleges, Bishop Hines quoted Dr. ties appointed a committee to discover what Henry Jones, sometime professor of philosophy went wrong in the press relations. 2020. at Cambridge University: "I would remind you that philosophy is the study to which great The House of Deputies spent one day passing mathematicians are prone to turn when their

Copyright resolutions designed to expedite the work of, as minds mature. well as the length of, the sessions of convention. "Plato, the beetle-browed, in whose writing Basic to the changes was the decision to elect the poetry and philosophy, beauty and truth, mingle president of the House, as well as a vice-presi- their broad streams; Aristotle, perhaps the sheer- dent, at the end of each convention, rather than est intellect the world has ever seen, who fixed at the start. This would mean that committees even to this day the provinces of many of the could be appointed prior to convention and much sciences; Descartes, the greatest philosopher preliminary work would be out-of-the-way be- that France ever knew, and the prophet of the fore opening. The aim is to get convention down dawn of the modern world; Spinoza, perhaps the to nine days. The deputies discovered that the most "seraphic" of all thinkers; Leibnitz, the first four days of convention were spent, mostly, many sided; Immanual Kant, with whose think- in waiting for something to happen, and listen- ing modern civilization, like a broad river strik-

OCTOBSB 29, 1964 Blevm ing a granite bank, has taken its last great turn. Jefferson Arch being erected on the river bank, All of these were among the greatest, if they a stripper in a dingy bar was grinding and bump- were not the greatest mathematicians of their ing to an empty house and several dour ladies day. were sitting at the bar. In several doorways, "A great day is coming, when man shall com- men cadged cigarettes and then became semi- prehend the working of his own spirit to the de- comatose again. One accused us of being de- gree in which the sciences are now revealing the tectives. meaning of nature, even though these latter are, Rounding one corner, a well-dressed lady called themselves, no doubt, only at the beginning of to a man, tacking across the street, offering him things." a sandwich. He came and she gave him some it nourishment. Two or three others came up and The emergency fund for race relations, which got their offering. was supposed to be $150,000, has obtained ap- Her name, it turned out, is Mrs. Shepherd and proximately two-thirds of that amount. The she hands out twenty-two sandwiches and dough- proceeds of the ESCRU dinner, which was ad- nuts twice a week. The name, somehow, seemed dressed by the new Nobel-prize winner, Martin

publication. appropriate. Her shopping bag, containing her Luther King, went to this fund. The attendors night's gifts, was almost empty. She said she and ate sauerkraut and weiners, but paid the usual was a missionary (agency undefined). There was tab for banquet food. no pitch to her act ... she just handed out a reuse sandwich to each man who seemed glad to get it, for Someone has pointed out that, as far as he is and staggered off into the gloom. We, in our concerned, all of the stirring speeches so far have turn, had that day voted to keep the ladies out required been by such non-Episcopalians as Martin Luther of the House of Deputies. We went to bed de- King, David McCord of Princeton Seminary; pressed ! John Ylvisaker of the Ford Foundation and others. Permission Almus Thorpe, dean of Bexley Hall, hosted a joint session's tribute to retiring P.B. Lichten- One of the more noticeable signs in St. Louis berger and his Mrs. Florence. A group of stu- DFMS. / reads "The world's largest liquor chain welcomes dents from the seminary and Kenyon College delegates to the General Convention of PECUSA". sang a fraternity song to which the P.B. wrote

Church the lyrics way back when, and then a Kenyon In the presentation of the MRI report, Prime song about Philander Chase, up-dated to fit the F. Osborn, 3rd, member of the National Council occasion. Mrs. L. was given a bouquet of roses, a check and a hearty kiss from Bishop Bur- Episcopal —oops, Executive Council, being its new name — roughs of Ohio. The P.B. received a check for the got the biggest response. He said: "To hear the of term mutual responsibility is to wonder as to its $32,200 from one and all. meaning. To seriously consider it is to recognize our terrible shortcomings. The beggar, the alco- The debate on change of name was most con- Archives holic, the lonely widow, the handicapped child, fusing to all but the club-house lawyers. The the city bum, the soldier, the criminal, the old give and take was reminiscent of Yogi Berra and 2020. second cousin, the mutilated traffic fatality, the Johnny Keane trading wits in the recent world new neighbor, the hungry old man in the hovel, series. At any rate, it looks like there will be a the mayor of the city, the elevator operator, the new preamble to the constitution, allowing us Copyright foreign sailor, the traveler, the stranded family, two names — PECUSA and the Episcopal Church the unemployed transient, the Japanese farmer, —and including the essence of the Lambeth the British coal miner, the unchurched family in Quadrilateral. Noone seemed ultra-shocked by the next block, my business associate. Are all the decision. my responsibility — either personally or collec- tively. They are my concern, I can only, with The convention passed a resolution approving God's help, discharge my responsibilities to them private, parochial and sectarian schools accepting on a mutual basis." government aid in the provision of standard text- books, equal bus transportation and such items. A stroll on the east-side of St. Louis. Over in This is a reversal of previous action which had the skid row district, down towards the new supported the principle that sectarian schools

Twelve THB WITNESS should be supported in full from private sources slaveowner either. So I'm going to set you free, or the Church. providing you get to hell off the Eastern Shore and never come back.' " Both Houses passed a resolution urging mem- Judge Marshall, born in Baltimore in 1908, bers of the Church to encourage family planning, entered Lincoln University to study dentistry but and to encourage the government to offer such it was while there that he switched to law. information, wherever possible, to other nations. Graduating cum laude in 1929, he was refused admission to the law school of Maryland Uni- versity, so he went to Howard University law school from which he graduated at the top of his Talking It Over class. Later, as a practicing lawyer in Baltimore, By William B. Spofford Sr. he compelled Maryland University to enroll a Negro law student. THURGOOD MARSHALL, who walked out of His father, a waiter at the Maryland Country the House of Deputies when laymen killed the Club, was responsible for his switch to law. He civil disobedience resolution, reported in Bob says: publication. Curry's story this week, has spent his life "My father turned me into a lawyer without battling for civil liberties. And it is important and ever telling me what he wanted me to be. In a to know that his fight has been for the rights way, he was the most insidious of my family reuse of all people, regardless of race, religion or na- rebels. He taught me how to argue, challenged for tional origin. my logic on every point, even if we were dis- Today he is a federal judge in the court of ap- cussing the weather." peals by appointment of the late President John As just plain Thurgood Marshall, he served required F. Kennedy — confirmation being delayed for for several years on the board of directors of over eleven months because some Senators ob- the American Civil Liberties Union, where he jected to having a Negro serve in that exaulted often enlivened discussions by telling a story.

Permission position. But while waiting he sat on the bench One day a segregation case that the Union was by interim appointment and heard 104 cases. fighting was being discussed. Marshall, in the Before his appointment he was chief counsel choisest Negro dialect, told this story: DFMS. / for the National Association for the Advance- "I have a friend in New Orleans who is black. ment of Colored People, for whom he argued 32 He married a girl from Chicago who could pass

Church civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, for white. So when she goes to visit her folks, and won 29 of them. His most famous case was he goes to the station and says to the ticket- of course the one which resulted in the unani- seller, 'I want a lower berth for Chicago', so the mous decision declaring that racial segregation Episcopal ticket-man say, 'We hain't got none.' So my in public schools is unconstitutional. the friend says, 'Give me an upper then', and he gets of Those close to him say that his tecnique is the same answer. So my friend raises a fuss always the same: he chooses cases he believes about the law saying so-and-so. So the man at can be won; he prepares his arguments with the window gets a little scared and says, 'We Archives great care; he uses simple language to advance hain't got no berths but we'll sell you a drawing- tightly reasoned arguments. He also gets laughs room for the same price as an upper.' Us niggers 2020. —however serious the case. call that Jim Crow Deluxe." He likes to tell stories — sometimes one su- This man got mad in St. Louis — and, accord- spects with tongue in cheek. He tells people that ing to an unnamed member of his New York Copyright his great-grand-father was captured by a big- delegation, "I don't blame him." game hunter in the toughest part of the Congo "although some of my more genteel relatives like to think he came from some genteel Sierra Leone Church Missing the Boat tribe." Brought to eastern Maryland as a slave, Judge AN AUTHORITY on urban affairs has charged Marshall continues, "my great-grand-pappy was the Church with defaulting from its task of at- so hard to handle that one day his master said tacking poverty, crime, injustice and intolerance, to him: 'Look, I brought you here so I guess I leaving these and other urgent needs to govern- can't very well shoot you, as you deserve. But I ment to tackle first. can't with a clear conscience sell you to any other "Now, by default," he said, "it is the state

OCTOBEB 29, 1964 TJ»»rte«rt which has declared war on poverty, not the until tragically late, the urbanizing trends of Church. It is the state . . . which has declared modern society; first it stayed rural in its think- war on crime, not the Church. The state has de- ing, and wound up with the "compromises of clared war on injustice and intolerance and dis- suburbia. Then it became absorbed with real crimination and extremism. The Church is join- estate, using the tests of the market to abandon ing the ranks, but with more draftees than volun- its old churches and to build its new. But the teers." market's purpose is to tell what is, not what ought to be. What ought to be is the job of the Speaker was Dr. Paul Ylvisaker, director of the Church — and the most vital need of the modern public affairs program of the Ford Foundation, state." who flew from New York to St. Louis to address an urban dinner during the General Convention. The hopefulness the speaker expressed was based on the patent desire of the state for help, His remarks centered on the basic human needs its sensitivity to rights and human values today, of today as he sees them — the need for dignity, rather than its former accent on authority and and the need for motivation. — and the Church's control. He stated that funds are increasingly frequent confusion of purpose and method in

publication. available to the churches for programs in housing, seeking to meet these needs. manpower, and soon in the poverty program. and "Politically speaking," Dr. Ylvisaker suggested, Will the Church be ready to use these funds? "the ecumenical movement today is about as reuse This was the challenge Dr. Ylvisaker left with sophisticated as America in pre-Federalist days." for his highly appreciative audience, with final cau- Whereas government and industry have learned tions that personal respect and dignity were the to be flexible and to plan on the basis of modern need, rather than material charity of the old required techniques of evaluation and feedback, the order, and that the Church should follow its mis- Church "has not been quick to adapt, nor to fore- sion according to the example of Christ — not see, nor to evaluate, nor to innovate." clutching its life to itself in a fruitless concentra-

Permission In Dr. Ylvisaker's view, the Church has missed, tion on survival. DFMS. / ration or evidence of a pathological and Jung for empirical evidence in condition. This, according to Kelsey, support of the Platonic position in Church - NEW BOOKS - is the view dominant in Latin Chris- contemporary terms. tianity through Aristotle and Aquin- Mr. Kelsey has made this interest- E. John Moln as, maintained in the Roman and ing presentation the basis for an reformed Churches. Knowledge is expression of a wider concern. There

Episcopal Book Editor acquired by the senses from sources will be many for whom glossalalia external to the individual, and this the will only be something to read about. is the knowledge which the individu- of But the nature of knowledge, the Tongue Speaking by Morton T. al communicates. relationship between the individual, Kelsey. Doubleday. $4.50 When, however, the individual is are matters of universal concern. Although "speaking in tongues" seen as having a source of knowledge What Mr. Kelsey has to say needs Archives has now been common for a long within himself then glossalalia, along to be known. time in the Pentecostal churches its with dreams and other phenomena, occasional appearance in convention- 2020. is seen as evidence of such a direct Christian Primer by Louis Cassels. al churches creates a stir. The au- contact with God. This, Kelsey thor, a parish priest of Monrovia. Doubleday. $2.95 shows to be the Platonic view and Church people who have read the California, with a broad background the implicit theory of knowledge of in theological and psychological stu- columns Louis Cassels writes on re- Copyright Jesus. It is the one maintained in ligion for United Press Internation- dies, gives here an objective and the Eastern Churches, and never ab- readable account of the history of al are aware of his competence. He sent in the west, from Augustine to can relate events and discussions in tongue speaking and interesting de- Whitehead and Tillich, from the scriptions of contemporary cases. non-professional terminology without Cambridge Platonists to A. E. falling into the distortions of less But, valuable and enlightening as Taylor and von Hugel. this is for most who do not have first able journalists. In part this is hand knowledge of the phenomenon, Because Jesus' theory of knowl- the result of knowing what he is Kelsey's book makes in addition an edge was "very much like the theory talking about. Here he seeks to con- outstanding contribution to theologi- Plato worked out so carefully .... vey this knowledge about questions cal discussion in presenting the sett- the early Church found it so easy to relating to the Christian faith to ing for glossalalia. fit the teachings and practice of many people who are very active in If the individual can have no di- Jesus into the philosophy of Plato church life but who are confused and rect contact with God, or "spiritual" to give the world the first real the- uncertain about the basic doctrines realities, then glossalalia is seen as ology it had known". which are taught or discussed in the nothing more than personal aber- Kelsey cites the works of Freud church. THB WlTNBSS WOMEN ELECT — in 1963 was $209,000,000 as The hope is that parishes will (.Continued from Page Six') compared with $203,000,000 in eventually divide the dollars at and her husband have played an 1962 and $197,000,000 in 1961 their disposal equally between ever - increasing role in the • The ratio of beyond-the- work of their own and outreach growth of the Church. parish expenditures to total beyond local parish efforts. parish receipts grew in the year In the personal view of Apple- Mrs. William Gardner of yard, these figures make excit- New York followed an early re- 1963 from 12.1% to 13.3%. These last figures, said Apple- ing news. We're actually fac- tirement from a government ing facts for the first time and career with full-time profes- yard, represent a small in- crease, despite the formaliza- perhaps this will awaken us out sional work as parish assistant of the lethargy we've been in. and director of education. tion at the 1961 General Con- vention in Detroit of the He referred, in this comment, Mrs. Battle, will be able to to the more strict whittling call upon her wide experience in Church's goal of 50-50 giving. many areas of church work at publication. parish, diocesan and provincial New books of lasting

and levels. She is presently identi- fied with a new leadership significance from

reuse training program in the diocese of Indianapolis. for Westminster Mrs. Ewell combines a career as a business executive in Miami required with diocesan and provincial church leadership. She has toured recently in the Orient A New and has been actively involved Testament History Permission in work with Cuban refugees in THE STORY OF THE EMERGING CHURCH Bv FLOYD V. FILSON. This companion volume to John South Florida. Briglit's popular History of Israel places the New Testament

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OOTOBEB 29, 1964 Fifteen down of parish rolls to only standard of participation in the Nyborg, Denmark. This session active communicants in good worship life of the local church convened aboard the privately- standing since the 1961 General as the official definition of owned Danish ship in the inter- Convention adopted a specific membership. national waters between Den- mark and Sweden to allow par- ticipation by East German dele- European Conference Becomes gates. Communist authorities would A New Ecumenical Agency not grant East German dele- gates allied travel permits to * With the chief emphasis in ficial ecumenical organization. visit Denmark and Denmark both our news and articles being Following two hours of dis- would not allow the delegation on our own General Convention cussion and debate, a draft con- to enter without the permits. it is easy to overlook church stitution which brought into The action changing the con- events going on elsewhere. We being the first pan-continent ference into an official organi- did however report the meeting church organization ever formed zation reflected growing recog- publication. of United Church Women in in Europe was adopted by the nition by European churches Kansas City in our last issue approximately 250 delegates. that their joint work must be and and now report an historic meet- There were no dissenting votes, "fixed in constitutional form" in ing which took place in Europe though five delegates abstained. order to most effectively meet reuse as our General Convention was new problems. for The conference, which was getting under way. kept intentionally loose since its The constitution described the Churchmen from 21 European first meeting in 1957, includes aim of the conference as "co- required countries, meeting abroad the representatives of nearly all operation, by means of regular Bornholm sailing in the Katte- Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox meetings, to discuss questions gat channel, voted to change and Old Catholic Churches in concerning the churches in the structure of the European Europe. Europe and to assist each other Permission conference of churches from an All three previous meetings of in that service which is laid informal fellowship into an of- the conference were held at upon the churches in the con- temporary European situation." DFMS. / The conference was described as "autonomous" but "closely

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Sixteen THE WITNESS is "an ecumenical fellowship of members had official delegates representative assembly" in churches in Europe which con- at the current meeting. 1966 at Nyborg, Denmark. The fess the Lord Jesus Christ as In other action, the confer- theme of the assembly will deal God and Savior according to the ence named Glen Garfield Wil- with the service of the churches scriptures and therefore seek to liams, Europe secretary for the in relation to social and political fulfill together their common WCC's division of inter-church pluralism in Europe. calling to the glory of the one aid, refugee and world service, God, Father, Son and Holy as secretary. He has served in Messages to the conference Ghost." this capacity prior to formal included a greeting from the The constitution established organization of the conference. Prague peace conference calling as organs of the conference an for efforts toward peaceful co- Williams will continue in his existence and world peace. Assembly, a presidium, an ad- WCC post in addition to filling visory committee and a secre- the conference secretariat. The tariat. Assemblies are to be conference voted to make a con- CONVENTION CLOSES held every two years. tribution to the WCC to help WITH FIREWORKS Debate developed over the re- underwrite secretariat ex- publication. * Heated debates were the lationship the conference is to penses. order of the day as convention and maintain with various non- Delegates approved "in prin- was about to close. The most ecclesiastical ecumenical move- ciple" the establishment of a vigorous champions of integra- reuse ments in Europe. permanent study center and au- tion, convinced that the two for As adopted, the constitution thorized appointment of a com- houses had come out finally authorized the presidium and mittee to investigate the pro- pretty well, wanted Judge Mar- advisory committee to invite posal. It was reported that a shall to come back for the clos- required representatives "from Christian site near Graz, Austria, has ing session. So they wired him movements and organizations" been offered free or for a token at his office in New York telling who accept the conference aims payment. The site was viewed of the accomplishments. It to "participate in the work of arrived after he had left for the Permission favorably for the center since and preparation for the as- Austrian political neutrality day, so his only comment to the sembly in a consultative ca- would make it possible for press was; "I haven't received

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/ churchmen from all parts of The conference elected seven Europe to meet there. ment one way or the other." presidents, all high ranking Hope was expressed that it Bishop John Burgess of Mas- Church representatives of member churches. will be possible to hold a "fully sachusetts, commenting on the Composition of an 18-member advisory committee, which also Episcopal was named, spurred consider- American Church Building the able debate. Several speakers of argued that the unit, all clergy- Fund Commission men, should include laymen and women and younger people. Established by the General Convention of 1880 Archives Particularly strong pleas were made for greater participation The organization of the Epis- 2020. by youth at future meetings and copal Church that is devoted other speakers urged that exclusively to financing the churches other than those be- building, improvement and Copyright longing to the WCC be repre- repair of Episcopal Churches, sented at the conference. Several rectories and other parochial churches which are not WCC buildings.

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OcTOBEB 29, 1964 Seventeen Marshal] walkout, said that it law, however, Christians should "knowledge and resources to had a "national effect" and that be willing to take the conse- eliminate such deprivation." there is "no man more highly quences of illegal action, the "We bear responsibility in respected" and that his depar- paper said. obedience to the biblical injunc- ture was an incident basic to tion to 'love thy neighbor as "the whole freedom movement." Bishop Pike Again thyself,' " the bishops said as The statement by the Negro The charge made outside the they held that the poverty ques- bishop, together with a paper convention that Bishop Pike of tion should be faced "in the lives submitted to the bishops by California is a heretic was dis- of Christians" and also in the Bishop Warnecke of Bethlehem, posed of in a conciliatory paper "corporate behavior of the stirred up hot debates the day by the bishops. Without men- Church." before convention ended — tioning the California diocesan They suggested that Chris- clashes chiefly between south- it affirmed the need for theo- ern and northern bishops. Using tians should see the war logical discussion. It expressed against poverty as a "war for almost the same language as the concern with "the way the resolution that had lost in depu- the poor" and a "call to com- Christian faith ... is presented passion, confrontation and com- ties, the paper supported the to the world." publication. right of Christians to engage in mon action." "Bishop Pike believes in the and peaceful, non-violent demon- "Complex causes and continu- strations. In disobeying civil Catholic faith," said Bishop Louttit of South Florida. "He ing conditions" have left many reuse believes the Trinity is a form of persons without hope or "power for expression of the faith, but he to change their situation." THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH believes it is only a form. I New York While agreeing that there required REV. JOHN HE ass, D. D., RECTOR can't separate the two." (See "must always be personal initia- Dr. Grant on page 8). TRINITY tive and responsibility," the Broadway & Wall St. bishops criticized those who Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicar BISHOPS SAY POVERTY "still believe that the poor are Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. Permission EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser. IS A MORAL ISSUE somehow unworthy" and added: 12:30 Tues., Wed. & Thurs., EP 5:15 ex Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt. * The bishops called for "It also should be understood

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/ that the rapid expansion of Broadway & Fulton St. measures to eliminate the Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, Vicar "frightening new poverty in the technology and the consequent Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Ser. 10; Weekdays; midst of affluence" in the U.S. premium placed upon skills and Church HC 8 (Thurs. also at 7:30) 12:05 ex. Sat.; education has created a situa- Int & Rible Study 1:05 ex. Sat.; EP 3; C A statement called poverty a Fri. 3:30-5:30 & by appt.; Organ Recital "moral issue" and declared that tion in which many of limited Wednesday 12:30. the country possesses the ability are condemned to live

Episcopal CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION outside the mainstream of our Broadway & 155th St. economic life." the Leslie J. A. Lang, Vicar CASSOCKS of Sundays 8, 9, 11; Weekdays: Mon. Fri. EUCHARISTIC VESTMENTS Advocating an "attack upon Sat. 9; Tues. 8; Wed. 10; Thurs. 7. All Embroidery Is Hand Gone causes," the bishops said expan- ST. LUKE'S CHAPEL ALTAR HANGINGS and LINENS sion of relief rolls is an inade- Archives 487 Hudson St. Materials by the yard. Kits for Rev. Paul C. Weed, Jr., Vicar Altar Hangings and Eucharistic Vestments quate solution to the poverty Sun. HC 8, 9:15 & 11; Daily HC 7 & 8.

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Eighteen THB WITNESS but explain and educate and de- The New Name of the Church fend the true meanings. The preamble will of course Is a Stroke of Genius have to go to the next Conven- tion for final adoption. But let By Frederick Grant to disavow the historic name of us hope that final adoption will the Church, a step that might * At long last, after seventy- take place. This solution is too have proved disastrous, as six years, the long debate has good to pass by! ended. By a stroke of genius, some other religious body might have come forward and laid a formula has been devised that BISHOP LICHTENBERGER claim to it and to all its tradi- ought to satisfy everyone con- HONORED AT SERVICE cerned: "The Protestant Epis- tion and privileges. What was copal Church in the United wanted was a name that re- A special service of Evensong States of America, otherwise tained the historic standing of in honor of the Most Rev. Ar- known as the Episcopal Church" the Church. thur Lichtenberger was held at Christ Church Cathedral, St. publication. is "A constituent member of the The idea that existing prop- Anglican Communion, a Fel- erty rights might have been Louis, on October 22, the eve- and lowship within the One, jeopardized was denied by an ning before the close of the General Convention. reuse Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic eminent deputy from Maryland, Taking part in the service for Church ..." a judge who has specialized for years in this kind of law; he was the Most Rev. John El- This is stated in a Preamble assured the deputies that the bridge Hines of Texas, who was to the Constitution, where it be- required danger is non-existent, and elect to succeed Bishop Lichten- longs. It is strange that for 175 changes of name of churches berger on October 17th. years (since 1789) this consti- have taken place without cost or The service was a testimoni- tution has had no preamble. al to the resigning bishop from

Permission controversy. (Ed. Note: This is Plato said, long ago, that every contrary to the opinion of an- the Diocese of Missouri, from law should have a preamble, other attorney quoted in the which he was elected Presiding

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/ editorial on page 7) Bishop in 1958. A memorial contains. Our founding fathers It was also pointed out that program was printed to mark in 1789 were given to preambles. the occasion. Church Witness the Declaration of In- the word "Protestant" is not a The Rt. Rev. George L. Cadi- dependence: "When in the mere negation, despite the fact gan, who succeeded Bishop course of human events it be- that in so-called "Catholic" countries the word connotes de- Lichtenberger as Bishop of Episcopal comes necessary to dissolve the nial and disbelief. What is Missouri, was in charge of the the political bands ..." Or see service, for which Bishop Lich- of the Constitution of the United needed is education in these tenberger himself had selected States: "We the people of the backward countries, and the the music. United States, in Order to form name of our Church ought not

Archives The offering was designated a more perfect Union . . . . " to be changed just in order to avoid misunderstanding among to aid in the publication and 2020. The new preamble is well writ- illiterate peoples. "Protestant" distribution of Dr. Massey ten, accurate, an eloquent state- originally meant stating posi- Shepherd's booklet of mission- ment of the nature and outlook tively in Latin pro-testare ary intercession, "Make His

Copyright of the Episcopal Church which means to affirm or testify for Name Glorious." will serve to clear up many someone or something. The One or two pews were re- misunderstandings both within idea that it means to deny is a served for the family and close and without the Church. modern abuse of language. It is friends of Bishop Lichtenberger. There were many fine like "criticism", which meant All others were open to the speeches in the House of Depu- to weigh, test, evaluate, judge, public. ties, supporting or opposing the for example the right text when there are more than one read- preamble, which in form took =:•• * ADDRESS CHANGE the place of the simple resolu- ing in the manuscripts. But modern use makes biblical cri- Please send your old as well tion of the House of Bishops, as the new address omitting the word "Protestant" ticism an attack upon the Bible! We ought not to yield to these THE WITNESS from the name. The simple Tunkhannock, Pa. proposal of the bishops seemed wild popular misinterpretations, Schools of the Church

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