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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. SC HOOLS CLERGY NOTES SCHOOLS ARCHDEACON, JOHN Q„ retired priest of the diocese of Long Island, died at his home in Washington, N. J., on March tEfye General ®ije a logical SAINT MARY’S HALL 17th. He was rector at St. James, L. I., Protestant Episcopal school for girls. ■ from 1880 to 1900 when he retired. 70th year. Junior and Senior High ® CADIGAN, GEORGE L „ curate at Grace School. Accredited college preparatory® Church, Amherst, Mass., to be the rector and comprehensive general courses. I Three - year undergraduate of St. Paul’s, Brunswick, Maine. Junior College. Beautiful new build-1 course of prescribed and elective CHRISTIAN, W. G., rector of St. Paul’s, ings, modernly equipped. Gymnasium® Meridian, Miss., has accepted the rector­ and outdoor sports. Catalog. study. ship of All Saints College, Vicksburg, Miss. Fourth-year course for gradu­ HARMANN, rector at Litchfield, Minnesota, has been called to Trinity, Anoka, Minne­ ates, offering larger opportunity sota, and began his work there last week. Katharine Caley, A.B., Headmistress I for specialization. HENRY, LELAND B., rector of St. Luke’s, Box W. Faribault, Minn, w Brockport, N. Y., to be assistant at St. Provision for more advanced George’s, New York City. I work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. KEAN, CHARLES D., was ordained deacon and Th.D. on April 4th by Bishop Perry at Grace Church, Providence, R. I. He is a student ADDRESS at the General Seminary. » » SCHOOL « « KNAPP, JOHN, formerly of Trinity, Anoka, THE DEAN Minnesota, is now the rector at Ironwood, A church school for boys, with high stand­ Michigan. ing in sound scholarship and development of 1 Chels ea Square New York City SCHMALSTIEG, JOHN W „ in charge of St. manly character and Christian citizenship. Paul’s, Minersville, Pa., to be in charge College preparatory. Military system. 13 For Catalogue Address the Dean of St. Paul’s, Vermillion, South Dakota. buildings. All sports. 75th yr. Catalog. Address the Rector, Box W Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. Episcopal Theological School SECOND THOUGHTS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS V /f ANY MORE LETTERS dealing with the Affiliated with Harvard University offers national Church situation have been re­ KEMPER HALL unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as ceived. We present a few quotations again philosophy, psychology, history, College Preparatory and General Courses this week, after which the subject is closed Graduates have won entrance scholarships to sociology, etc. for the time being unless someone presents For Catalogue Address the Dean Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Mount Holy­ something particularly pertinent. oke, Barnard, Mills and Rockford colleges. » “ I wish I had the courage to say many Music, Art, Dramatics, Domestic Science. All The Protestant Episcopal of the things that you say but I am one of sports. Junior School. Address: those who must feed from the crumbs from Address: the; rich man’s table. As a result I’ve al­ Theological Seminary in Virginia lowed my wings to be clipped and find it THE SISTERS OF ST. MARY For Catalogue and other information hard to fly. I have often wondered why address the Dean returned missionaries, when they settle in a Box. W.T. Kenosha, Wisconsin REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. home parish, make such poor advocates of Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. missions. Can it be that they are too familiar with the practices at headquarters? It is a CATHEDRAL CHOIRSCHOOL great joy to us milder ones to know we New York City have such men as Johnson and Spofford to Berkeley give audibility to our little squawks.” — A A boarding school for the forty boys of Pacific Coast Rector. the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divinity School “ Do not be' afraid of window smashing. Divine. Careful musical training and daily singing at the cathedral services. Small New Haven, Connecticut We have had too much window dressing. I am glad you are coming to the rescue of classes mean individual attention and high Affiliated with Yale University parish priests on small stipends who are be­ standards. The School has its own building Address DEAN W. P. LADD ing pressed and goaded more and more by and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 86 Sachem Street per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice the big-boys. Many o f the small boys who test and scholarship examination. Address are afraid to speak out hope and pray that The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, TRINITY COLLEGET you may continue to shoot away.”—Rector Cathedral Heights, New York City. of Western New York. Hartford, Conn “ I do not want a magazine going into the Offers a general cultural education, with hands of the people of my diocese which special emphasis on the Classics, Modern tends to break down faith in our national Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil­ organization while I am Constantly trying to HOLDERNESS osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, increase that faith. There are undoubtedly In the White Mountains. College Preparatory Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. failures here and there in our missionary and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For For information apply, The Dean. administration but there are far more things boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 to commend than there are to condemn. It acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ seems to me that THE WITNESS would be dividual attention. Home atmosphere. doing a larger service if it encouraged the communicants to support the authorized Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector agents and executives of the Church.” —A Southern Bishop. Box W Plymouth, N. IK “ If the people at headquarters are so sure An Honor Christian School with the highest they are right why don’t they welcome criti­ academic rating. Upper School prepares for cism? You would think they would. Some university or business. ROTC. Every modern of us are thinking very seriously of cutting equipment. Junior School from six years. off all giving through so-called ‘headquarters’ Housemother. Separate building. Catalogue. and giving directly to Christ through indi­ Dr. J. J. Wicker, Fort Union, Virginia. vidual missionaries here and abroad. I hope this is not necessary but to waste a cent is Stuart Hall wicked when it all belongs to God and His Virginia Episcopal School children, suffer.” -—A New England Church- An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old traditions and high standards in the beau­ Lynchburg, Virginia woman. “ By all means discuss freely and frankly tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara­ Prepares boys for colleges and university. tory, general courses, and secretarial these vital Church matters for it is the only courses. Two years beyond high school. Splendid environment and excellent corps of way we can learn. Let us have all the teachers. High standard in scholarship and Music, art, expression. Graduates success- athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in democratic discussion possible for that is full in college. Well-equipped buildings. the mountains of Virginia. what makes for advancement and improve­ New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid­ ment. —A Massachusetts Rector. ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. For catalogue apply to “ We pretend to follow the poor and humble Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. Rev. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector Christ but love the purple and luxury of Caesar. Over half the delegates to General Convention will be subsidized and supported by endowments or else get their checks from I Confirmation Instructions the Church Missions House. Hit them hard MARGARET HALL By Bishop Johnson — is the Church so soft it can’t stand the Under Sisters of St. Anne (Episcopal) A revised edition of these famous in­ truth ?” — A Connecticut Rector. Small country boarding and lay school for structions, with several additional chap­ “ I read your story on the General Conven­ girls, from primary through high school. A c­ ters on the history o f the Church. tion and recognized it as pure fiction. It is credited college preparatory. Modern build­ 50c for single copies really too bad to bring such a subject before ing recently thoroughly renovated includes $4 for dozen copies the people because they will become disillu­ gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of THE WITNESS sioned as to the high purposes of the Church. six acres with ample playground space, hockey 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago I never attended a General. Convention, but field and tennis courts. Rate $650. know that diocesan conventions run like well- For catalog, address: Sister Rachel, (Continued on page 16) Box A, Varsailles, Ky.

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W hich Is the W a y ? An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON F W E are seeking to walk in the way of life we must They did not have the New Testament for it was sev­ I start on the right road if we hope to arrive at the eral years before it was written, but they did have proper destination. When one contemplates the multi­ reverence and. did - use the Old Testament, which is tude of leaders who tell us that “ this is the way” and what St, Paul refers to when he says, “ according to the when no two ways aré alike, the traveller is bewildered Scriptures.” They believed that Christ did those and hesitates to start on the journey. There are three things which were written “in order that the Scriptures diverse roads at the very outset. might be fulfilled.” First there are those who say that Christ appointed They also had a definite ministry—not a self-consti­ a vicar on earth who so represents the Master that men tuted one. There were twelve apostles, besides St. must obey him. Then there are those who say not a Paul, and they set apart deacons and presbyters by the pope but the Bible and the Bible only is the guide. laying on of hands. Finally there are those who believe in a truly universal It was a very simple body but a very real one, hav­ Church which has . certain definite marks and charac­ ing a common faith, regular sacraments, canonical teristics by which the way can be known. It would scriptures and an authorized ministry. seem to be important for each one to determine what As yet St. Peter had shown no dictatorial infallibility guide he will follow before he sets out on the journey. because St. Paul withstood him to the face; and there When Philip went down to Samaria to preach Christ were no Gospels and Epistles out of which another unto them (Acts V III) he carried with him the essen­ church could be established by a process of interpreta­ tial marks of the faith. He had a personal knowledge tion. of the life of Christ because he had been a disciple of the In Acts X V we find that a controversy was settled by Master. This faith was embodied in a creed which re­ a synod and not by a papal decree, nor by any indi­ cited the various acts of that life for those who lacked vidual interpretation of Holy Scripture. Presumably personal knowledge. It tells us of Christ’s birth, His the whole oak tree was in the acorn. . death and His resurrection. St. Paul, who may never have known Christ, gives us the epitome of the creed OW we are confronted with a sectarian division (First Corinthians X V ) when he states “ Moreover N based upon the assumption that Christ wrote the brethren I preached unto you the Gospel which you New Testament and the apostles founded the Church, have received and wherein ye stand.” What was the whereas Christ wrote upon the sands only, because He Gospel ? knew how easily written words could be twisted into That Christ died for our sins and that He rose again the mould prepared for them. the third day. This is the nucleus of the creed and Christ founded the Church because of three things. St. Philip preached it. We may say therefore that a First, He appointed twelve apostles and Mathias re­ declaration of faith in Christ was an essential in the placed Judas in this corporate body. Second, He making of the Church. We are told that his converts promised to build a Church and to endue it with power were baptized, that they received the laying on of hands by giving to it the gift of the Holy Spirit. Third, His from the apostles. Note that Philip did not confirm apostles declared that the Church which He purchased them and that although it involved a difficult journey with His own blood and which He would present to it was thought essential to have the laying on of apos­ the Father, was the pillar and ground of the truth. tolic hands for the giving of the Holy Spirit to those Christ founded the Church and the apostles wrote who had been baptized. about it, but it existed for generations before any New We know, although it is not stated here, that it was Testament was available to any one person. the practice of the Apostolic Church to break bread on Now we come to the fork of the roads in the matter the first day of the week. It was their way of observ­ of loyalty, not in the matter of love for Christ nor even ing Sunday. The sacraments seemed to be essential in in the matter of personal character. For example the primitive Church. Robert E. Lee chose his state rather than the United

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States as the recipient of his loyalty, but no one has Catholic; in another Protestant; in another Greek; in asserted that his personal character was altered by his another Anglican and so each one is certain that his choice. People are apt to mix up love and loyalty and little part represents the whole. Christ never counted to imply that we are reflecting upon the character of noses to determine truth. In fact He saw the multi­ individuals when we question the wisdom of their tudes and taught His little band of followers. loyalty. The muddle that we are in shows that we cannot Our loyalties ought to be determined not by preju­ all be right and yet we ought to give a reason for the dice but by adherence to His plan. The divisions of faith that is in us rather than to follow our prejudices. Christendom have done much to injure the Christian Far be it from me to assert that either Greeks or Ang­ Gospel even though no one has done any conscious licans are fitted for any universal role, but it does seem wrong. as though they represented more closely the essentials I believe that in the end the best results will be of the Church in the making, for they have at least attained when we comply most completely to the insti­ been faithful witnesses. They say the same creed, min­ tution which Pie inaugurated and His apostles cer­ ister the same sacraments, read the same scriptures and tainly endeavored to carry out. They were so devoted preserve the same continuity in the ministry, without to Plis words that He had to be careful not to make adding other features as essentials or discontinuing any them too precious or the Church would have become of the above as non-essential to the Church. a static institution. He was obliged to give general There can be no unity without a recognition that it rather than particular instructions. must be along the lines of the primitive foundation— The difficulty today is that men are influenced by for other foundations can no man lay than that which their local surroundings in determining any universal is laid and one cannot build a different edifice on the practice. In one country everyone seems to be Roman foundations of the original plan.

More T ime for Religious Education By JO H N M. G A RRISO N Director of Religious Education, Christ Church, Winnetka H A T place has religious education in the Church religious education as Jesus taught it to the men, wom­ Wtoday ? This question must be answered honest­ en, boys and girls of today. In some instances we have ly, by the clergy and adult members of the Church, for been selling religious education but there are far too it is our responsibility. Our primary task is to develop many places where we are promoting just a “ Sunday in boys and girls, men and women, right attitudes to­ School Idea.” ward God, their fellowman and themselves. The sum A salesman once said to me that he approached a total of these attitudes is religion and the process by customer from three points: first, economy; second, which these attitudes are developed is what we call re­ convenience; third, a neighbor has the article. Is there ligious education. any value in this approach for the religious educator? When we talk of religious education to the average Economy, yes. We have put time and money into clergyman and the average adult member of the Church leadership training. Is it not economical to use this today we know they are thinking in terms of twenty to leadership that we have trained more than thirty or thirty minutes for worship and thirty to forty minutes forty minutes for approximately thirty Sundays out of for class work. This concept of time has been well es­ a year? Thousands of volumes have been published on tablished in the minds of adults and children. Are we religious education. These books are filled with plans satisfied with the amount of time we have for the Sun­ and suggestions but we cannot make use of them be­ day session? Do we feel it is adequate? Can we do cause “We do not have the time.” This material should the so-called “ New Education” when our time is so be put to use instead of allowing the books to become terribly limited ? These and many more questions loom dust collectors on library shelves. large on the horizon when we think of the importance What about convenience ? A great deal of effort of religious education. Assuming that we want more goes into the process of getting a child to the Church time for religious education where and how do we begin School. Why not make the length of the session worth­ to make a hope become a reality? while from the point of view of time for the fathers and We must change the attitude of parents, teachers and mothers who act as taxi drivers to and from the Church children towards religious education from something School? I find most parents ready to cooperate and that is passive to an active, dynamic force in the life of are most appreciative of the interest the Church has in an individual. An approach to the problem could be their children. Then there is the question of setting up through catching the attention of the parish by appeal­ the equipment, getting out supplies, the organization of ing to their needs, such as “ Leadership for the Church records and endless other details. Why not use the of the Future,” “ Curiosity about the Unknown,” “ Con­ set-up for a full morning instead of the usual forty structive Achievement,” “ Harmony with our Fellow- minutes? There would be less rush and better adjusted man.” The techniques of the best salesmanship must be parents and administrators if the session was for a full used in religious education. It’s our privilege to sell morning. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 8, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Five

Third: Is not part of our trouble due to the pace set when he is in the shop. A positive attitude towards the by other churches of the past and present? We never finished article is assumed by both teachers and pupils. have and “ such and such a parish has only forty min­ One hears, “ I like my picture.” “ Ruth, your coloring utes.” Let something that is astounding be accom­ in that picture is lovely.” “ Bill did a swell job on The plished with a full morning program and we all will feel Good Samaritan.” “ Jack should play the part because the need to lengthen our morning session. Eventually he had real feeling.” Eventually our aim is to have we will come to a longer session in parishes where the the whole school function from 9 :oo A. M. through leaders get a vision of the importance of religious edu­ 12 :oo noon and the Craft Shop to be an integral part cation. of the program of religious education in this parish. There are many difficulties to be overcome but with ’E FIN D the young parents anxious to discuss the rector, the vestry and the parish in general, feeling Wthe problems of educating their children religious­ and thinking of the importance of religious education ly. The leader of a group of young parents in this we are confident of religious education taking an im­ parish discussed at five monthly meetings, objectively, portant place in the life of the parish. the following questions: What religious training did you receive as a child? What concept of God and Jesus did you have as a child? How have these con­ L e t ’s K n o w cepts changed? What religious training are you giving By your child? What religious training would you like BISHOP WILSON for your child? Where should this training be given? K nights H ospitaller When ? Why ? U R IN G the period of the Crusades a number of This group has faced the whole problem of Christian D military orders were organized around which living for themselves and their children. They have seen much of the romance of chivalry was gathered. Among the need for more time for religious education in the these the strongest and the one which lasted longest home and the Church. Plans are being made for an was the Order of Hospitallers. extended session on Sundays to begin in the fall for Before the first Crusade was launched hospices had boys and girls. This outcome is the direct result of a been established in Palestine to offer refuge to pilgrims nursery school teacher that was willing to keep her de­ who became sick. One of these came the Order of partment open all morning instead of the usual forty Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem in the early part minutes. of the twelfth century. They maintained a hospital in There are two other ways that more time is being the Holy City for the sick and also to provide help to used for religious education in this parish. A group of poor and weary pilgrims travelling from afar. As the teachers in the younger grades were anxious to im­ Crusades developed, the Hospitallers added soldiers to prove their work. The regular training and institute their Order to protect the pilgrims. Thus there were did not meet their needs. This group are all teachers two distinct classes of knights—military brothers and that have time during the week for conferences. They infirmarians. The Order was dedicated to St. John meet twice a month on Monday mornings. Their dis­ Baptist and observed a definite rule of life. Over cussions are based on actual problems that come up in their armor they wore a black mantle with a white the class room. This group is known as the “ Leaders cross, in contrast to the Templars who wore a white of Early Childhood” in the parish. All teachers of the age levels through the second grade belong and meet mantle with a red cross. for mutual help. When the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem was The “ Craft Shop” is open every Sunday for the 4th, erected, they became part of the standing army of Cru­ 5th, 6th and yth grades. This is a place where boys and saders. Together with the Templars they were the girls continue on their project after the usual forty min­ shock troops, occupying the most dangerous places in utes are up in the class room. The parish provides me­ battle. They accumulated large resources. At the diums of clay, paint, both oil and water, wood, metal, height of the crusading movement they owned seven and cloth for these boys and girls to continue in their strongholds in Palestine and 140 estates in Europe. creative efforts. During the Christmas Season this As the Crusades broke down they relinquished one group made unusual creches to share with other chil­ stronghold after another, losing the last in 1291. Then dren. They dramatize stories, make the costumes, pre­ they retired to the island of Cyprus. By that time they pare the script and take charge of the final production were purely a military Order, a spearhead for Chris­ that is presented before the rest of the Church School. tian Europe against the advancing Moslems. While in They have made miniature theater sets of scenes from Cyprus they reorganized for naval as well as military the story of “ The Good Samaritan.” Others are illus­ service, building galleys to sail against Turkish ships. trating books of stories for the Nursery School under They conquered the island of Rhodes, moved their the guidance of the Nursery School Teacher. headquarters there, and were known thereafter as the Every activity in the Craft Shop has meaning for the Knights of Rhodes. In this second island they or­ pupils. It is an activity for boys and girls and run by ganized a kingdom of their own and expanded their boys and girls. The teachers and assistants are all naval operations. under twenty-five years of age. Interest is keen and a In 1312 the Templars were destroyed and their Or­ great many articles are taken home to be finished be­ der suppressed. Many of the European possessions of fore the next meeting. There is only one regulation the Templars were turned over to the Hospitallers and made by the group, every member must be a worker they became exceedingly strong and wealthy. The next

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six THE WITNESS April 8, 1937 couple of centuries marked the summit of their his­ to let go since the letters come pouring in and a fellow tory. They kept a fleet of vessels moving over the has to do something with them. But I do think we Mediterranean Sea in constant conflict with Moslem might drop it at least for a time and get to other things. pirates. Finally the Moslems dislodged them and they After all a lot of people have had their say and we retired to the island of Malta in 1530. Thereafter they are getting into the repeating stage that makes rather were known as Knights of Malta. dull reading. But I do want to say that we propose in Once in Malta they withstood a terrible siege. After these months before General Convention to present it was over they built a new city and named it after articles dealing with matters to come up next October their Grand Master, La Vallete, which still stands un­ in Cincinnati and it is at least my hope that readers will der that name today. For a century and a half they take sufficient interest to write in their opinions. The continued fighting the pirates until they were betrayed more discussion there is now the better. to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798 and the Order was dispersed. E R E IS A PRO PO SA L, for instance, that comes However a branch of it is still alive in Italy today H from a group of clergymen at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and another in England. In the center of London stands made up mostly I am informed, of men who call them­ old St. John’s Gate, built in 1504, which is still the selves liberal-evangelical Churchmen. Here is their headquarters of the Grand Priory of the Venerable statement—perhaps some of you will want to express Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. These yourselves on this matter: descendants of the original Hospitallers rendered actual “ We, members of the Wilkes-Barre clericus, are of ambulance service in the World War twenty years ago. the opinion that the adoption by the Protestant Episco­ Masonry in the United States has incorporated the pal Church of the practice of administering the Holy Order of Malta with the. Order of the Temple and Communion to the people in only one kind as an alter­ every Knight Templar is also a Knight of Malta. nate use would have numerous practical advantages and would in the long run lead to a greater appreciation of that service on the part of an increasingly large Talking It Over number of our laymen and women who although they refrain from open objection, are not enthusiastic about By our present practice. When we first discussed this mat­ WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD ter a few months ago, we were somewhat surprised to find not only that we were unanimous in our opinion, EIN G O F A PR A C T IC A L turn of mind I have but that each of us had quite separately out of his own B been trying for years to find some topic to write experience and thought arrived at a similar conclusion. about that is both interesting and safe. Write about We have also found that while many of the clergy, who this cockeyed world, which I have done on occasions, obviously are compelled to consider this matter, are and letters come in to inform me that this is no business strongly in favor of this proposed change in the of the Church which ought to attend to its real busi­ method of administration, to the majority of the laity ness of getting people into heaven. Write about the it comes as a rather radical and startling new idea. We affairs of the Church and mention anything more vital have heard that a proposal to adopt such a change in than that Mrs. Dooley Perkins gave a pair of candle­ our method of administration of the Holy Communion sticks to St. Mary’s-in-the-Dell as a memorial to her will be brought before the General Convention next fall. late husband and I get letters filled with such words as Hence we are writing this-open letter to our Church pa­ “ flippant,” “ perverse,” “ abusive” and “bad manners.” pers, not for the purpose of urging the adoption of I hit upon baseball as a subject both interesting and the proposed change, but rather in the hope that the safe, upon which I am an expert, and I’m darned if proposal may become the subject for serious discussion heated letters don’t come in, particularly from Detroit among our laity in parish and diocesan gatherings so which likes to be known as the City of Champions, tell­ that if the matter is brought up at the General Conven­ ing me that I have no right to claim a championship tion, the deputies will have some knowledge of the for the Yankees. You just haven’t an idea how rabid mind of the Churchmen in their own dioceses.” people are about baseball. The other day I read a piece It would have been nice, I think, if the brethren had about reptiles one hundred feet long that stalked this stated their reasons for advocating the change. If it is earth sixty million years ago, if I remember correctly, the danger of contamination from the common cup and I said to myself “ Now there’s something” but does not administering by intinction, to those who pre­ before I came to the end of it the piece-writer was proving that the human race, for all its brains, was fer that method, eliminate that danger? I serve a small doing a lot better job in exterminating itself through group of people each Sunday where I consecrate wine in a tiny private communion chalice in addition to the modern warfare, and I knew that if I wrote on that large chalice. Those preferring to receive by intinction I ’d get hot letters from the president-general of the D. A. R., the national commander of the American then hold their wafers so they can be seen by the clergy­ Legion and the top-man of the National Defense man, and those who wish to do so receive the wine by Union. tipping the wafer in the small chalice. It is a method which has at least two virtues; no added time is re­ E L L , SIR , I got a bear by the tail on this nat­ quired and worshippers are hardly aware of how their W ional Church situation and no fooling. It is hard fellow communicants receive.

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they once form the habit of reading a few verses of W hy It Is a Success scripture every day, to do it throughout their whole By CURTIS B. CAMP lives. It is such things as this that are the personal Layman of Chicago proof of our religion. r I 'H IS article could not have been written with the If the Bishop’s Pence was merely a money raising -*• same assurance at an earlier date, but today it is the scheme, it never would have attained its third birthday personal experience of thousands. The Bishop’s Pence in the diocese of Chicago where it originated. People either was intended primarily to be, or it has become would not have continued to do it. Who would be regardless of the original intention, an agency to put bothered putting pennies in a can and bringing them religion into the home. It enables people to practice over to the church if it was just a matter of making their religion, or one very essential part of it, seven a contribution ? They might do it for a time, but they days in the week, instead of one day in the week, or to would soon make up their minds to just increase their be more exact, seven days in the week instead of about regular pledge by about that amount and let the Pence one hour each week. There is a big plant in many Can go. parishes, insured for fifty or one hundred thousand But instead of that the Pence Cans grow in num­ dollars or more, but how much do the most of us use ber and the receipts in volume year after year in the our church and its wonderful facilities? For just one diocese of Chicago. It shows that those who practice hour on Sunday mornings. the Pence in the right way have something that the This shows the need for agencies like the Bishop’s rest of us have not. Seventy-five thousand dollars, an Pence and the Forward Movement to put our religion average of twenty-five thousand dollars per year, has into our every day lives. Thanksgiving is one of the come in during the first three years. That is a lot of most important attributes of the Christian religion, and money and it has taken care of numerous things in the Bishop’s Pence plan provides a family thanksgiv­ parishes and missions in the Chicago diocese, not in­ ing at each meal time, when we receive our blessings cluded in budgets; emergency things that otherwise at His hand. Just a word of thanks that will remind would have gone by default. us of our Church, and of our Christian obligations, not But what we want everybody to know is the self evi­ once a week, but twenty-one times a week. It forces dent truth that all of that giving is merely incidental visualization of what happens during that one hour on to the real purpose of the Pence, the purpose that gives Sunday morning, and an interest in the coming Sunday it life and vitality. For when you once catch the spirit with keener anticipation. It also reminds us of our of the Bishop’s Pence, you seek for pennies on every rector and the other faithful ones who are giving their occasion and never spend one of them. From the whole time to the Church every day of the week. While time they come into your possession they are sacred, we are downtown engaged in our various business not to be spent, but to be kept and used for Him at undertakings, they are visiting the sick, caring for those the time grace is said. “ For His sake I never spend in trouble, ministering to all sorts of human needs. a cent” is a favorite slogan of all those who have learned That reminder of God’s care is the prime purpose to use the Bishop’s Pence for the spiritual purpose it of the Bishop’s Pence, just as it is the prime purpose was intended to accomplish. of the Forward Movement to induce people to read a And so we urge every one, in every diocese where few verses from their Bible every night before going the Pence is available, to say thanksgiving at meals, to bed. Just a word of thanksgiving, “ Our Father we and to give a penny as a token; and it is only that, just thank Thee for this food, bless it to our use and our­ a token that your thanksgiving is sincere, and that selves to Thy service,” or “ Oh God Thou hast given you intend to continue that thanksgiving day by day us so much, give one thing more, a thankful heart.” for all of His gifts throughout your entire life. And Thus the Bishop’s Pence gives us an opportunity to remember the penny is purely incidental, and the ques­ practice that important part of our religion that our tion of whether you put in one for the whole family, Lord practiced constantly during his ministry on earth, or one for each member of the family is entirely imma­ and the lack of which is most devastating to our Chris­ terial. The whole object will have been accomplished tian experience. He was made known to the two if you put in what you can, but not more than one penny disciples on the road to Emmaus when He returned for each one per meal. That is because the Pence be­ thanks at the breaking of bread. No one ever gave lieves that thanksgiving, without some token of a will­ thanks as He did, and He was known by it. ingness on our part to divide with others, is inconsist­ If any one will take a Pence Can and treat it as a ent with sincere thanks. sacrament, as an opportunity to say a word of thanks, And we predict the Bishop’s Pence will continue to and to make a sacrifice, the smallest one possible with grow in the diocese of Chicago, and in the other twenty- our system of money, when they partake of the family five dioceses that have adopted it, just in proportion meal, they will immediately know the real purpose of to, and only as, the people are taught to realize its the Bishop’s Pence and its effectiveness. It will no spiritual value. longer be a money raising scheme to them, but a liv­ It is intimate things like the Bishop’s Pence and'the ing religious ceremony that they cannot be persuaded Forward Movement that make our religion more real, to give up. more genuine, and an every day experience in our And this is the reason, and the only reason, the homes, and that give us within ourselves the continu­ Bishop’s Pence continues to grow, and that people ing witness of the Spirit that our service on Sunday continue to practice it. Just as they continue, after morning is something more than a mere formality.

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NEWS NOTES OF ence. The place of religion on a THE BOX SCORE college campus was discussed by THE CHURCH IN HERE are now nineteen dio­ Walter Homan of the Hawaii school BRIEF PARAGRAPHS T ceses in which every clergy­ of religion; the Bishop spoke on the man is a subscriber to T h e W i t ­ place of the church in the communi­ By W. B. Spofford n e s s . This is due to gift subscrip­ ty and Miss Cenie Hornung led a Bishop Freeman of Washington, tions by Bishops to those of their discussion on the program and pur­ D. C., was the speaker on March clergy not previously subscribers. pose of the club. * Hi H« 23rd at the 69th anniversary cele­ The total number of new subscrib­ bration of the University of Cali­ ers added to our list since the an­ Peace Committee in fornia, Berkeley. He also received niversary Number is 2,067. In the Every Church an honorary degree of Doctor of effort to raise $5,000 this anniver­ The Church Peace Union, of which Literature. In his address he de­ sary year the total amount re­ Bishop Oldham of Albany is presi­ clared that class distinctions are be­ ceived or pledged to April 1 was dent, is hoping to establish a peace ing unduly magnified by the substi­ $2,610. committee in every church. Com­ tution of competition for coopera­ menting on the armament race be­ tion. “ Industrial disorders grow tween the nations the News Letter apace,” he added, “ and capital and of the Union maintains that destruc­ labor alike deal with each other as be unmindful of an inheritance that tion is ahead unless it stops. Seven rivals rather than as partners. Con­ has given us what we have of wealth, and a half billion dollars is to be cessions are grudgingly made and genius and increasing power. There spent by England in the next five then not with good will. Equity and is a kind of modernism that is unre­ years, a sum that “ is altogether too fair dealing are made subordinate to sponsive to the claims of the past. great for the present generation to the profits and disaster attends not It is a spirit that rebels against re­ pay and so will be carried into a only those immediately interested strictions from whatever source they series of loans by unborn genera­ but the public generally. We have may come.” tions.” Our own country has voted an inheritance and a great one, but * * * 526 million dollars for the navy we have abused and misused it with What’s the Matter alone; Germany is spending at the the result that we are experiencing, with This Family? rate of twelve billion, six hundred and that increasingly, sporadic dis­ I don’t know who the Rev. W. W. million marks a year for arms; the orders that resemble civil wars. Wilke is, or what church he belongs Soviet Union maintains the largest These are ominous signs that call to, but he writes about a strange conscript army and air force in the for our best statesmanship that hews family and raises a few pertinent world; France has just appropriated to lines consistent with our avowed questions about it. nearly a billion dollars for this year. profession and in accordance with The father has never missed Says the Union: “ If there is not suf­ our charter of liberty. Church or Sunday School in twenty- ficient statesmanship and moral “ As appliers of legislative poul­ three years. The mother has had a force in the world to resist this tices we are adepts,” he said, “ and perfect record for eleven years. A giddy slide to destruction and revive to stay a local disorder that is symp­ son has not missed for twelve years. the effort at least to stop the folly tomatic of a widespread condition A daughter has been at the eve­ of squandering the world’s resources we address ourselves with character­ ning service every Sunday for eight in such a way only universal disas­ istic zeal and energy. Deep-seated years. ter will result.” maladies that have grown through What’s the matter with this fam­ * * * years of neglect and that may prove ily, anyway? Don’t they ever have Two Secretaries Resign malignant in character must be dealt company on Sunday to keep them from Missions House with, and decisively, if disastrous re­ away from church? Two secretaries have resigned sults are to be avoided.” Don’t they ever get up tired on their posts at the Church Missions Speaking of the framers of the Sunday morning? House. The Rev. F. Percy Houghton, Constitution, he said in part: “ That Don’t they belong to any lodges for six years a field secretary, has these statesmen of this early period where they get their religion instead accepted a position as executive sec­ builded more wisely than they knew, of at their Father’s House, or to retary of the diocese of Pennsyl­ 150 years of trial and testing elo­ any clubs, or to anything? vania. This leaves the field depart­ quently affirm. An age such as ours, Don’t they ever have headaches, ment with no secretaries whatever, that is marked by what someone has or colds, or nervous spells, or tired the following having resigned in re­ called a ‘lust for change/ that meas­ feelings, or sudden calls out of the cent months: the Rev. B. H. Rein- ures its enterprise and industrial city, or week-end parties, or business heimer, now Bishop Coadjutor of genius in terms of mass production, trips, or picnics, or any other trou­ Rochester; the Rev. Charles Collett; is too little concerned with the mo­ ble? the Rev. Eric Tasman; the Rev. Don’t they have a radio, so that tives and ideals that dominated those David Coveil and the Rev. Richard they can get some good sermons who gave us a system of govern­ Trapnell, all of whom are not in par­ from out-of-town preachers? ment unexcelled in the history of ishes. It is also announced that Miss Don’t they ever get a lot more mankind. Dorothy May Fischer has resigned good out of reading a sermon out “ We would,” he stated, “ in our as secretary of young people’s work of a book? blind haste to attain quick if ephe­ to accept a position as director of Don’t they ever get disgusted with meral results, forget a period and an religious education at St. Paul’s, historic occasion in which men of the social Gospel, or whatever it is Chestnut Hill, Pa. extraordinary gifts wrought out a that their minister preaches? * * * state paper, acclaimed by the elder What’s the matter with this fam­ statesmen of the world as the great­ ily, anyway? Million Left to est ever struck off in any one period H* H« H« New Haven Parish of human history. There is a dis­ Hawaii University Students St. Thomas Church, New Haven, tinct danger in our time that we shall Meet with Bishop Connecticut, has been left close to fail to look unto the rock whence The Episcopal Club of the Uni­ a million dollars by the will of Dr. we are hewn; that in our quest for versity of Hawaii met recently with C. Purdy Lindsley, vestryman for the novel and the bizarre we shall Bishop Littell for a two day confer- forty years. A new church is to be

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 8, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Nine built at a cost of $150,000 and his Work, is in charge of a great cam­ home is left as a rectory, with $100,- paign which is being planned in an 000 to endow it. The rest of the effort to unite Christian young peo­ ple in a great peace movement. A money is to be used as endowment series of rallies are to be held in for the parish. The Rev. R. S. Flock- the large towns of Britain. The hart is the rector. campaign led off with a great rally * * * in Albert Hall, London, which was Bishop Thomas Dies packed with thousands of young After Short Illness people of many nationalities. The Bishop Nathaniel S. Thomas, for­ British Council, which is representa­ merly Bishop of Wyoming whose res­ tive of the Anglican, Presbyterian ignation as rector at Palm Beach, and Free Churches, staged this rally Florida, was announced two weeks in cooperation with the youth de­ ago, died on April 1st after a brief partments of the churches, the Stu­ illness. dent Christian Movement, and the Hi H* H* Y. W. and Y. M. C. A.’s. The im­ Philadelphia Layman mediate need for breaking down ar­ Dies tificial barriers through the teaching Mr. John Sargent Newbold, well- of Christianity was the main theme known Churchman of Philadelphia, of the meeting. One of the speak­ died on April 1st after a two weeks’ ers, however, proposed a new broth­ illness. erhood movement to include as many H= * * youthful adherents of every church New Parish House as possible, and he also suggested for St. James’ that members of this movement A new parish house is to be built might take this vow: “ To refuse to for St. James Church, New York fight the youth of other nations, at least, until through adequate repre­ City, where the Rev. H. W. B. Done- BISHOP THOMAS gan is rector. Grosvenor Atterbury is Dies After Brief Illness sentation those who are called upon the architect. to fight one another have met in conference.” * * * * * * Cyril Hudson Is tragedy of the world. Alone, weary Coronation Service Berkeley Lecturer and compassionate, he prays for the Canon Cyril E. Hudson of St. Al­ forgiveness of the people who still at Trinity, New York bans, England, is to be the lecturer “ know not what they do.” And the The Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, from England at the Berkeley Divin­ foreground teems with crusaders, rector of Trinity, New York, has an­ ity School next fall. He is well known soldiers of every great war since nounced that a service of thanksgiv­ in this country for his book, and also Christ’s time, suggesting en masse ing for the coronation of King as a preacher and lecturer since he the bloody, futile struggles that have George VI will be held on May 12th, has been at Berkeley on two previous marked every chapter of human his­ the day of the coronation. A similar tory. service has been held in this historic occasions as the English lecturer for H* H» H* the school. parish on the occasion of previous * * * Bishop Maxon to coronations ever since colonial days. Address Kentucky Group Council Meeting The service will follow the special Bishop James Maxon of Tennessee Is Postponed order appointed for the parishes of The April meeting of the National is to be the headliner at the annual the Church of England. The serv­ Council has been postponed until meeting of the Auxiliary of the dio­ ice will be conducted by Rector cese of Lexington, to be held at the June 15-17. It is announced that the Fleming, assisted by the clergy of Good Shepherd, Lexington, Ken­ later date will enable the Council to the entire parish, including the seven tucky, on May 13th. He is to speak have at hand more information from chapels. on the coming General Convention. * * * t the field regarding the outlook for 1938 and the needs. The national * * H* More About Jones executive board of the Auxiliary will Missionary from China and His Pants hold their meeting at the regular Speaks in New Jersey A missionary in a western district time, April 22-25. Mrs. Donald Roberts, missionary tells me that I was off in my little * * * from China, is to speak at the meet­ bit about “ Jones of the Striped Painting Causes ing of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the pants” by intimating that $1,800 was a Stir diocese of New Jersey, to be held the average pay of a parson. “ That A new painting, now on display in at Christ Church, Bordentown, on man Jones of yours is a proud plu­ New York City, entitled “ Our Chris­ April 14th. On the 21st a meeting tocrat, a price of privilege, an eco­ tian Era,” has attracted so much at­ is to be held at Moorestown at which nomic royalist. My nominal pay is tention in this city that the local Miss Margaret I. Marston, educa­ $900 a year, if I can get it. I get clergy— Protestant, Jewish and Cath­ tional secretary of the national Aux­ $300 a year regularly from, the Na­ olic—have been invited to a private iliary is to speak, and on the 21st tional Council but the $600 from the showing. The painting, just com­ there is a meeting at St. John’s, congregation has always been uncer­ pleted by F. Luis Mora, well known Somerville, at which Mrs. H. N. Sim­ tain, since the people who own the New York artist, dramatizes the con­ mons of the New Jersey Consumers’ rich oil wells don’t live here. My sistent failure on the part of Chris­ League is to speak. congregation is composed of day la­ tians to put into practice the basic * * * borers. I don’t know what other concept of their religion. It is a Young People of missioners out here get but from simple, sermon - on - the - mount England Campaign for Peace what I see of them and their fam­ conception, with Christ seated on a The British Christian Council for ilies it isn’t any $1,800 a year. I high hill, above the tumult and the International Friendship, Life and would suggest that if you want to

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hold out an example of small pay for but also its self-respect as well for plicated. But there is no movement the clergy that you go a little fur­ there was a threat of civil suit towards the wide acceptance of the ther down the line.” against the guarantors of the mort­ theory that the best solution is seg­ * * * gage, the members of the vestry in regation, legalizing, licensing, medi­ Congregation Builds 1926. In 1932, the Very Rev. J. cal examinations and the like. The Own Church McNeal Wheatley accepted a call to tendency is the other way and you At Taft, California, where the Trinity. He was equipped with a yourself have pointed out definitely Rev. Aubrey Bray is vicar, there is business, as well as ministerial train­ the reasons for it. a beautiful little church, St. An­ ing; at once he set about putting the “ Attempting to cure one evil by drew’s. It is remarkable in at least chaotic finances of the parish in or­ legalizing another is not likely to be one respect; it was built from the der. Bills and assessments were successful. It never has been. ground up by the hands of the vicar paid, notes were met, interest was “ Segregated districts, supposed and the members of his congrega­ brought up to date and the most im­ medical examinations and all that tion. They even made the brick from perative of the many repairs need­ sort of thing only increase the the adobe soil of the lots on which ed were taken care of. All this was temptation to our youth. the church is situated. not done in a day, it took— years. “ The only ultimate solution lies in * * * The payments on the principal of the the slow processes of moral and re­ West Point Choir mortgage remained, however, like an ligious education and economic at Old Trinity old man of the sea, to vex the change, but we must not on that ac­ For the (first time in its history, church, to promote discord and argu­ count lower our moral standards the cadet choir from West Point, ments among the members. But that (not too high at the best) by seeking composed of 165 men in uniform, is is over with now. short-cut solutions of the proposed to sing at Old Trinity, New York kind. We need the fear of God in City. The service is to be this Sun­ Twenty Years Ago our hearts as well as His guidance in day afternoon, April 11th, at 3:30. in The Witness our thinking. The Rev. F. S. Fleming, rector, is to “ I hope most earnestly that this Trinity Church, Chicago, an­ preach. report, so sad in the conditions H* »1* H* nounced that as a result of a recent which it reveals, will lead to ade­ campaign for funds the parish was A Seed Blown quate and thorough handling of the now free from debt. . . . The Rev. situation by the community and the by the Wind William H. P. Hatch, professor at It is said that a German countess, authorities, but we must not let it the General Seminary, accepted the lead to hasty and ill-considered ac­ buried in Hanover, ridiculed the professorship of New Testament at idea of the resurrection; and to show tion in this particular matter.” the Cambridge Seminary. . . . Bishop He H« He her contempt for the Christian faith, Henry St. George Tucker of Japan she ordered that her tomb be built preached at Grace Church Cathedral, Bishop DuMoulin of stone, solidly cemented and bound San Francisco. . . The diocese of at French Church with iron clamps. But with time, Newark announced plans for the Bishop Frank DuMoulin, former­ iron corrodes and stone perishes. A election of a Bishop Coadjutor. . . . ly of Ohio and now the rector at Lo­ seed, blown by the wind, lodged in a Dean Hart of St. John’s Cathedral, cust Valley, Long Island, officiated crevice of the stone. It germinated Denver, was one of the leaders at at a confirmation service at the and grew, and as the roots spread, a Sunday school institute held in that French Church in New York City, they penetrated the opened seams of citv. . . . Presiding BishoD Tuttle reading the service and preaching in the tomb. Within a few years, as took order for the consecration of French. He learned the language in the tree grew, the stones were torn Granville H. Sherwood as Bishop of his childhood when his father was the asunder by its power. Springfield. bishop of Niagara in Canada. His i ^ discourse to the newly confirmed Fort Wayne Parish Bishop Parsons on people “ a fait une excellente impres­ sion sur tous.” Wipes Out Debt Vice Conditions Hi H* Ht “ Ten thousand to be raised in ten In San Francisco a commission, days!” That was the problem facing headed by the health officer of the More Time for Trinity Church Parish, Fort Wayne, city, Dr. Geiger, have been at work Christian Education Indiana. Now, at the end of the for a long time investigating vice Leaders in Christian education, allotted time, this church finds itself conditions. They recently issued a according to the Rev. Vernon Mc- with $13,200 and the mortgage sit­ report which, among other things, Master of the National department uation well in hand for the first time recommended segregation of prosti­ of religious education, are in agree­ in over ten years. In 1926, the par­ tutes in a district. The proposal re­ ment about one thing: there must be ish having outgrown its quarters and ceived the support of a number of more time for Christian education.. having decided to rebuild then and ministers, including the Rev. John Among the suggestions are a longer pay later, borrowed $40,000.00 Collins, rector of St. Peter’s. Bishop lesson period each Sunday. The which it pledged to repay at the rate Parsons, however, had other ideas, Christian nurture of boys and girls of $2,000 per year plus interest. The stated in the following letter which cannot be accomplished in one hour entire church property was given as he sent to the health officer. on Sunday. Another suggestion is an security for the debt and during the “ I thank you for sending me your extended session of the school each next three years $6,000 was paid on statement concerning legalized pros­ Sunday, while a third proposal is a weekday session. the account. Then came the depres­ titution. Allow me to express my He Hs He sion. First the payments on the fullest accord with the position which principal, and later the interest, you and the mayor have taken in News of the were allowed to lapse; until finally regard to it. Educational Workers in 1937 the over-tried patience of “ It is only hasty judgment which Miss Catherine Goodrich, graduate the company holding the mortgage sees a way out from our difficulties of St. Faith’s, New York, is work­ also lapsed and the parish received along that line. The most super­ ing with the children and young the ultimatum: “ Ten thousand in ten ficial study of this age-long problem people at' the Church of the Advo­ days or foreclosure.” Trinity parish throughout the world reveals that it cate, New York City. . . . The Rev stood to lose not only all its property is extraordinarily difficult and com­ E. R. Underwood is in charge of re*

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 8, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven ligious education at Calvary, Pitts­ H Christianity. It was a simple, sober to me as a rabid fisherman, is at St. burgh. . . . Miss Gladys Gaines, di­ | saying to our Lord: “ I am yours; Edmund’s, Arcadia. The Rev. John rector of religious education at St. no longer my own,” The bishop’s H, Edwards from Chicago is at Trin­ David’s, Austin, Texas, is now em­ t own morning prayer that day had ity, Daytona Beach, and the Rev. ployed by the National Re-Employ­ been: “ Lord Jesus, here’s another J. H. Hubbs, retired professor of ment Service. . . . Miss Luenna day, and I belong to you. Hooray!” Hobart, is at St. Paul’s, Delray Hall is in charge of religious educa­ H« * ❖ Beach. The Rev. 0. F. Humphreys, tion at Trinity, Columbus, Ohio. . . . Conditions Are former rector of Holy Trinity, West Deaconess Eliabeth Fracker is in Much the Same Orange, N. J., is at the Good Shep­ charge of education at St. Andrew’s, “ We usually take one of the New herd, Dunedin; the Rev. Philip Davis, Addyston, Ohio. Testament Epistles for study,” formerly of Forest Hills, Long Is­ * * * writes the Rev. E. H. Forster about land, is in charge at Hollywood; the A Bishop Speaks one of his mission congregations in Rev. Albert New of North Carolina His Piece China, “ because so many of the is at Lake Wales; the Rev. Edward I do not know the name of the problems and situations confronting H. Ford, canon of the cathedral at bishop, but it is reported that one of the early Church are identical with Wilmington, Delaware, is at Lake the brethren of the Church of Eng­ those facing the Chinese Church to­ Worth; the Rev. W. Northey Jones, land spoke his piece the other day in day. formerly of Perth Amboy, N. J., is a church within a few yards of the “ A realization of this fact alone at New Smyrna; the Rev. George E. Bank of England, and in the pres­ leads our Christians to a deeper un­ Talmage, formerly of Oyster Bay, L. ence of the Lord Mayor sitting in derstanding of the essential oneness I. , is at Vero Beach; the Rev. J. H. state with his sheriffs. He denounced of human nature and of the univer­ C. Cooper of Gloucester, Mass., is at in downright terms, but quite with­ sal applicability of Christianity to All Saints’, Waveland; the Rev. out bitterness or recrimination, vest­ man’s need.” George W. Atkinson, formerly rec­ ed interests, the Means Test, the * * * tor of St. James, Washington, is at plight of the distressed areas, and Clergy Wives Meet the worship of Mammon and other in Maryland household gods of wealthy hearths. In Maryland there is a Rectory After warning his hearers that, if club composed of the wives of the Philadelphia they were expecting platitudes and clergy, meeting once a month for fel­ large doses of soothing syrup, they lowship. It is for women only, ex­ Divinity School were going to be disappointed, the cept once a year when the husbands A Three year Course of required bishop defined what he means by are let in on the party. Canonical Studies and Clinical Ex­ Christianity. | * * * perience. Each Academic Year of “ People say that Christianity Many Visiting Clergy eleven months. means believing in Christ. Stuff and in Florida nonsense! The devils also believe f Florida, being what it is in the Applications for admission in October and tremble. I believe in Napoleon, winter time, is well supplied with 1937 now being received. Allen but it doesn’t influence my life much, clergy from other dioceses, many of Evans, Dean, Room 1703, Fidelity- I can tell you! The trouble is that whom do supply work. The Rev. C. Philadelphia Trust Bldg., 123 So. the world is full of patronizers of C. Edmunds, formerly of the Gen- Broad Street, Philadelphia. Christ, who give me a sick headache. ; eral Seminary faculty and known Christianity means belonging to Christ, giving yourself away, so that you are no longer your own, shift­ W H Y DID ing the whole center of your per­ sonality.” This was no unusual feat. The bishop pointed out that a decent JOHN 0. ROCKEFELLER, JR. officer belongs to his regiment, not to himself. “ And I wouldn’t mind WRITE TO JIM FARLEY? betting that any decent Lord Mayor See if you can answer this question after reading the remark­ belongs to the city, not to himself. able article, “ President Roosevelt3s Dilemma33, by Louis Wallis We rightly despise the people who in The Christian Century, reprinted free for you. are out for themselves, keeping their own feet warm.” Here is the dilemma: Business recovery must go much Life, he said, is no good unless further; else the New Deal fails.— But if recovery DOES it is heroic. The getters and grab­ go on, it will inevitably drive up land prices, and inflate bers, the people who only care about ground rents, and lead to another period of land specula­ their profits and their dividends, tion, which will produce another economic slump. Most they are only fit to be spewed out of the mouth. There was no sentimen­ “ frozen paper” in banks is based on inflated land values. tality, no strain of stress, about Two remarkable articles by Louis Wallis, “ President Roosevelt’s Dilemma” and “The Economic Problem — both reprinted from The Christian Century— will be The D’Ascenzo Studios forwarded to you free by sending your name clearly 1604 Summer St., Phila., Pa. written on a postal card to Respectfully refer you to their Dept. G stained glass in The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, WILLETT, CLARK & CO., New York City. 440 South Dearborn Street The Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge, Pa. Chicago, Illinois The National Cathedral, Washington, D. C.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS April 8, 1937 the Redeemer, Avon Park, and the tic church” with a spire 184 feet particularly the status of persons re­ Rev. John Henry Hopkins, retired high. Today the whole village is married after divorce and protection clergyman of the diocese of Chicago, Christian and in neighboring villages of conscientious objectors to war. has been a daily preacher at the within a radius of eight miles, forty- Mr. Reynold E. Blight, Los Angeles cathedral at Orlando during Lent. five chapels have been built. The businessman and editor of the Los * & * English Church Missionary Society started work in that area in 1836. Church Presented with * * * Window by Children PARKER’S For fifteen years the children of Headmaster Speaks HAIR BALSAM in Trenton Removes Dandruff-StopsHairFalling St. Mark’s, Havre, Montana, have Imparts Color and been saving their pennies in order to The headmaster of the Episcopal Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair 60s. and $1.00 at Druggists. buy a stained glass window as a me­ Academy, Philadelphia, Mr. Haslam, Hiscox Chem. Wks. Patchogne, K, Y morial to a former rector, the Rev. was the chief speaker at the dinner Leonard J. Christler. They now have held in Trenton, N. J., on March 31st that launched the campaign for Use Your Mission Industries a sum sufficiently large to make the ST. ANDREW’S CRAFT SHOP purchase. $100,000 for St. Mary’s Hall, New MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO * * * Jersey diocesan school. Bishop Mat­ Distinctive linens - Monogramed handkerchiefs, Silk underwear News Notes from thews presided and there were also Large exhibit at General Convention. addresses by Bishop Gardner, the Commission given Church organizations on Los Angeles orders. The Rev. C. Ranklin Barnes, for­ Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal chap­ Send for information. merly head of the national social lain at Princeton and Miss Edith service department and now rector Weller, head of St. Mary’s. Mr. at San Diego, California, has been Bradford B. Locke, executive head Church Furnishings of the Church Pension Fund, is the Brass goods, Paraments, Paintings, elected chairman of the diocesan so­ Tablets, Chancel Furniture and cial service department. . . . The treasurer of the campaign which Pews. Everything needed for the ends on April 12th. Church. Designs with prices sent Rev. C. H. Parlour has been elected * * * on request. Mention requirements. Chairman of the department of re­ THE KLACSTAD STUDIOS ligious education. . . . The dioce­ Noted Churchmen on the Coast 225 Fifth St. S. san commission on evangelism, of Minneapolis, Minn. which the Rev. George Davidson is A number of outstanding Church­ men have lectured recently at the chairman, has prepared an attrac­ AN OUTLINE OF THE CEREMONIAL OF tive and stimulating booklet for the Church Divinity School of the Pa­ the Holy Communion in Accordance with clergy as a guide in holding preach­ cific, Berkeley, California. The Rev. the American Prayer Book and Anglican Tradition. A practical guide for those who ing missions. . . . The Church school Howard C. Robbins, professor at the desire to follow the Anglican Use. Sent rally of the diocese is to be held at General Seminary, spoke on issues postpaid for fifty cents. Rev. L. E. Daniels, Oberlin, Ohio. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Los Angeles, before General Convention, stressing on April 11th. — CHURCH FURNITURE — * * * EDWIN S. 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Angeles Churchman, delivered five frank and forthright. The labor writes: “ To see the smiles, to hear lectures on “ Preaching from the representatives were of the opinion the singing, to watch the happiness viewpoint of a layman.” The Rev. that to all intents and purposes, and of the workers, to know of personal­ John Nevin Sayre, chairman of from the practical labor point of ities having been crushed being alive the Fellowship of Reconciliation, view, the Churches are allied with again and growing; these and other spoke at a chapel service on the interests economically antipathetic great forward moving signs point question of war and violence and to the progress of labor and labor definitely to ultimate success. This Bishop Freeman of Washington vis­ unions. The churchmen maintained Delta Cooperative Farm experiment ited the school when he was in that while in given practical situa­ is being watched with keen interest Berkeley to deliver the anniversary tions that was apt to be true the by the national government and address at the University of Cali­ tendency in organized Christianity every other economic agency because fornia. was toward greater emphasis and H: * * comprehension of the social implica­ Students Meet tions of the teachings of Jesus, and in Los Angeles a disentanglement of the Church College students of the diocese of from its attachments to the current Los Angeles are to hold an all day form of economic order. conference on April 10th, under the The churchmen all indicated great­ auspices of the Stevens Club of Los er sympathy for the labor movement Angeles Junior College. The speak­ than the labor representatives did ers are to be Bishop Stevens, Miss toward organized Christianity, but Ellen Gammack of St. Margaret’s the conference resulted in greater House, Berkeley, the Rev. Herbert insight into the aims and problems V. Harris, chaplain at the Junior of each. The success of the confer­ College, the Rev. Douglas Stuart of ence led to plans for more in the Los Angeles. Students are to attend near future. from the several colleges in the dio­ * * * cese. Delta Cooperative Farm * * * Celebrates Anniversary Churchmen and Labor Leaders A year ago on March 26th a deed Exchange Views was signed and the Delta Coopera­ Churchmen and labor leaders ex­ tive Farm came into being. Com­ changed views at a conference held menting on the experiment follow­ recently over a week-end at a Y. M. ing a visit, the Rev. Thomas Sum­ C. A. cottage located at Orinda, Cal­ ners, Houston, Texas, clergyman, ifornia. The conference was spon­ sored by the San Francisco Bay chap­ ter of the Church League for In­ dustrial Democracy. The glroup consisted of several students from the university and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific; Carl Landauer, professor of economics at the university; Rev. Sturgis Lee Riddle, instructor at the divinity school; Jennie Maty as, in­ ternational organizer for the Inter­ national Ladies’ Garment Workers Union in San Francisco; and several members from other labor unions. Each group exchanged views with the other, care being taken to be

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of the daring, courageous, vital tend­ encies involved. The first year proved the start to be good; money Services of Leading Churches has been made, families are happy, progress is evident and hope is The Cathedral of St. John Cathedral of the Incarnation the Divine Garden City, N. Y. strong.” Cathedral Heights Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean The anniversary was properly cel­ New York City Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com­ ebrated. First there was hard work 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning munion. 9 :30 A.M. Junior Congregation. from six in the morning until two Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser­ 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. mon. 4, Evening Prayer and Sermon. Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning in the afternoon. Then they had Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Prayer and Sermon. 4 :00 P.M. Even­ contests — pitching horseshoes and Saints’ Days, 7 :30 and 10).' 9 :30, Morn­ song and Address. ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Daily services in the Chapel. checkers. At five there was a bar­ Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4 :30. becue and fishfry, while in the eve­ Cathedral Church of St. John ning there was singing in the newly Church of St. Mary the Virgin Market St. and Concord Ave. New York built community hall, speeches, the Wilmington, Del. 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, Dean induction of new members and an Rev. Granville M. Williams,. S.S.J.E. Sunday Masses : 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M., 7:4* entertainment by the children who Evensong, with Benediction : 8 p. m. P.M. Weekdays: 10 A.M. and as announced. had been trained by Miss Alice Rex, Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. representative of the Church League for Industrial Democracy at the Grace Church, New York Trinity Church, New York Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Broadway and Wall St. Farm. Broadway at 10th St. Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Daily: 8. 12 and 3. Canon Bell Preaches urdays. at Union Services Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thursdays and Holy Days.. St. Paul's Cathedral Over 1,000 people turned out each Buffalo, New York evening during Holy Week for serv­ The Heavenly Rest, New York Sundays, 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. Weekdays: 8, 12:05. ices held in Norwich, Connecticut, Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy in which all the churches of the city Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Days: 10 :30 A.M. united. The services were held in Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and _ 10 a.m. Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning Christ Church Cathedral the Congregational Church, yet Service and Sermon 11 a.m ,; Choral Eve­ Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. Canon B. I. Bell, the preacher, used ning Prayer 4 p.m. The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Sundays : 8 :00, 9 :30, 10:05, 11:00 a.m .; the same addresses that he delivered munion 11 a.m. 7:30 p.m. last year at Christ Church, St. Leon­ Daily: 12:30 and 5 :00 p.m. ard’s, the most extreme Anglo-Cath­ The Incarnation Holy Communion: Mon. Wed. Fri., 7 :09 a.m .; Tues. Thurs. Sat., 8 :00 a.m .; Wed. olic parish in south England. More­ Madison Avenue and 35th Street and Holy Days, 11:00 a.m. Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector over he wore vestments and blessed Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M., 4 P. M. the people with the sign of the cross. Wednesdays and Holy Days, Holy Com­ St. M ark’s munion at 10 A. M., Fridays at 12:15 P. M. San Antonie, Texas Some of the Episcopalians, I am told, Noonday Service Daily (except Satur­ Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry, Rector day) 12:15. 7:30 A.M.—Holy Communion (8 :00, thought the Canon was “ very high- Advent to Easter). Church,” but the Protestant minis­ 11:00 A.M.— Morning Prayer and Ser­ St. Bartholomew's Church mon. ters asked him to come back again Park Avenue and 51st Street 7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service. under their auspices so apparently Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector 10:00 A.M.—Holy Communion on Fri­ 8 A.M., Holy Communion. days. they liked it. 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. % * * Junior Congregation, 9 :30 and 11 A.M. Holy Comm., Thurs. and Saints’ Days, St. Michael and All Angels The Christianity 10:30 A.M. St. Paul and 20th St., Baltimore, Md. of the Nazis Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. St. James’ Church, New York Rev. H. P. Knudsen, B.D. Christ was not a Jew and spent Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. 8:00 Madison Avenue and 71st Street P.M. His life in preventing a Jewish revo­ The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Week Days — Holy Eucharist—Mon. lution, according to the official or­ 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Wed. Sat.: 10:00 A.M. Tues. Thurs. F rL : 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service. 7:00 A.M. gan of the Nazis in Germany, Stuer- 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. Morning Prayer: 9:00 A.M. Daily. 7 :$© P.M.— Organ Recital. mer. “ Christ not only was no Jew, 8 P.M.—Evening Prayer and Sermon. Evening Prayer: 5:15 P.M. Daily. He was an anti-Semite,” the paper Daily—Holy Communion, 8 A.M. (except Saturdays) also Thursdays and Holy Days, Trinity Church declares. “ He was the greatest op­ 12 M. Main and Holman, Houston, Texas ponent of the Jews in all history.” The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, The paper goes on to compare Hitler St. Thomas Church Rector Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street 7 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion. to Christ, asserting that he also ap­ New York 9 :30 A.M.— Church School. peared at a crucial moment to pre­ Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and 6 :00 P.M.—Yo.ung People’s Organizations. vent the Jews from taking over the 4 P.M. 10 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion on Wednes­ Daily Services: 8:30 A.M., Holy Com­ days and Holy Days. world. munion. Noonday Service, 12:05 to 12:35. Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. All Saints Church Program Announced for 26th Street and Dewey Avenue Edinburgh Conference Christ Church Parish Omaha Nebraska Detroit and Grosse Pointe Rector, The Rev. Frederick W. Claytoa The executive committee of the Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector Services, Sundays, Holy Communion, forthcoming Edinburgh Conference ' Rev. J. Francis Sant, Yicar 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. First Sunday in Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at month. Rivard Morning Prayer and Church School, Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard 11 a.m. Services : 8 :00, 9 :45, 11:00, 7 :30 Sun­ Holy Communion Wednesday and Holy PAPER YOUR WALLS days. 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