SEWANEE: THE MODERN ARCADIA

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O E A D E R S OF T H E CHURCH papers have a and a rebuke to un-Christian divisiveness. (2) An ad­ -LV right to expect editorial comment on the report of ministrative basis, simple, adaptable and economical. the Committee of Bishops which appeared in our issue (3) Centralized disbursement, accounting and audit of of November third. Nevertheless we are withholding funds. (4) A body of creative leaders raised above the any comment on the conduct of national Church affairs, level of denominationalism. (5) Experimentation raised by that report, at this time. A tentative budget under expert guidance. (6) A united and coordinated of $3,460,000 has been set for 1933 by the National front on the mission field.” The report goes on to Council. A sum very close to that amount must he say : “ The plan relates to the organization of the for­ raised in the approaching every member 'canvass. Fail­ eign missionary enterprise alone. It does not suggest ure to do so will mean the wrecking of work which the union of denominations in any other field of en­ has been built up through the years. To raise any deavor, much less in matters of creeds, forms of wor­ such sum in these days is a colossal undertaking. We ship and internal organization and policy. What we do not propose to make the job more difficult by dis­ contemplate is not a unity which would override dif­ cussing policies of administration and thus possibly ferences in the home churches, but one which, while dampen the enthusiasm of Church people. The im­ recognizing that diversity at home may have its ad­ mediate job before the Church is to do whatever is vantages, nevertheless would draw Christians together possible to supply the funds necessary to carry on the in enterprises which have for them a common mean­ work. With that done we believe there should be a ing and value.” frank and open discussion of the many matters That is, the proposal is made that our Church unite stressed by the excellent Bishops’ Report, in order that with six other denominations in the administration and an enlightened Church may come to the next General the financing of missionary work in the Far East. The Convention prepared to make any alterations that may group making the suggestion is made up of a dis­ be desirable. The task immediately before us is the important one: the raising of a large sum of money to tinguished group of men and women, who have arrived maintain existing work. With that done we propose to at their conclusions after a most thorough study of return to the matters brought to the fore by the Bish­ missions in the field, aided by experts. Their report, ops’ Report and the equally important report of the and the suggestions growing out of it, deserve and will Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry. It is our hope to receive the most careful consideration by Church lead­ have a series of contributed articles from leaders of ers. Our own Church, through the National Council, the Church on these matters, thus opening what we be­ has appointed a committee to attend tomorrow’s meet­ lieve will prove to be a healthy discussion. ing. The report will then, undoubtedly, have the care­ ful consideration of the National Council, will be pre­ sumably discussed wherever Churchmen gather, offi­ 'T'HE LAYMEN’S FOREIGN MISSIONS IN- cially or unofficially, and, we believe, will be a matter O U IR Y is to present its report tomorrow to about of major consideration at the next General Conven­ three hundred officials of leading members of the seven tion. denominations. This report embodies a two years’ study of missions by experts, and those connected with "D ISH O 'P B R E W ST E R OF M A IN E believes that it hope that it will eventually result in a new program J —' men and women should be allowed to vote even for mission work in the Far East. At this meeting to­ though they are unemployed. At Lewiston, Maine, morrow the proposal is to be made that there be created the board of registration announced that they were to “ a single administrative unit for the foreign Christian enforce an ancient law depriving paupers of the right enterprise in place of the complex, costly and dupli­ to vote. One, thousand unemployed persons receiving cative machinery the existence of which is encumbering municipal relief, they ruled, came under this heading. the great work that Christian good-will is trying to The vigilant Bishop of Maine therefore prepared to do.” Those sponsoring the move state that the scrap­ journey to Lewiston in order to protest against “the ping of’ existing missionary boards, and the creation of arbitrary revival of an archaic statute.” Meanwhile a united missionary council upon which all churches others had' voiced their protests, carrying the matter are represented, will have the following advantages : even to the President of the United1 States. As a re­ “ (1) A new view of the functions and responsibilities sult one of Mr, Hoover’s secretaries telephoned to of the Christian Church; a call to wider allegiances^ Lewiston to find out what it was all about. Conse-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS November 17, 1932 quently the board of registration changed its mind, the card but I would like to tell them a little about the thus saving Bishop Brewster the bother of voicing his Church and its work. Very soon the small daughter protest. All of which' demonstrates that a single per­ put her arm around her mother’s neck and said':—‘Oh son can accomplish much if he takes it upon himself mother! Please be a teacher in the Sunday School.’ to act. “ I told them how welcome they would be in any of our activities and, on leaving, asked that the pledge E R E IS A ST O R Y told by a canvasser of the dio­ card be given, at a later date, to the rector. The fol­ H cese of Chicago that is worth passing on: lowing Sunday the children were enrolled in the “ Some years ago I called on a well-to-do resident Church School, the lady became a teacher and, a little whose family occasionally came to our church. I was later, became a volunteer member of the choir. About received cordially and told that the pledge card was a year later the husband gave the church a very beau­ filled out and signed. I said there was no hurry about tiful altar in memory of the mother of his wife.”

W h a t I B e l i e v e a n d W h y He Descended Into Hell B y BISHOP JOHNSON UR' Lord’s life, death and resurrection set forth a priately have said, “ He descended into Paradise.” O dramatic representation of the processes which This would mean a garden of delight and was the He­ His disciples must undergo in following Him. The ar­ brew conception of the place of waiting. Abraham’s ticle in the creed which intervenes between His death bosom was another piece of oriental imagery intended and resurrection is the basis of the Church’s teaching to convey the idea of intimate fellowship with the elect. about the intermediate state. Unfortunately the Eng­ It would seem therefore, when we consign our dear lish word “ Hell” has a double meaning. It is used to ones to the care of Him Who created them, that they translate two Greek words which have entirely differ­ are neither asleep nor are they in heaven, but are in a ent meanings. The Greek word “ Gehenna” is used by place of contemplation and fellowship where they can our Lord to describe the abode of the wicked. Liter­ grow in grace and in the knowledge of those things ally it means the valley of Hinnom which was the that are hid from them here. crematory of Jerusalem, into which the refuse of the LL.this sounds fantastic to those who limit God’s city .was thrown. Here it was burned so that the A creative powers to that which they themselves have smoke was constantly ascending. This fact is prob­ already observed, and yet when we consider the proc­ ably responsible for the conception of Hell fire which ess by which man has emerged from the jungle one was so prevalent in the Church for many centuries. realizes how difficult it would have been for the first Really it signifies the destruction of useless material. mammal to have visualized our civilization. To me The other Greek word, “ Hades,” meant simply the there is not so much that is miraculous in a future life abode of the dead who were waiting the day of judg­ as there is in the one that we now enjoy. The fact that ment. It is this latter word which is translated “ hell” God has made me thus is a guarantee that He has the in the creed, and this conception is borne out by St. power to use me for some adequate purpose, and that Peter’s statement that in the interval between Good in accordance-with His previous habits it will be one Friday and Easter our Lord preached to the spirits in of growth rather than one of sudden change. prison who were at some time disobedient in the days The process seems a reasonable one. After a period of Noah. This is contrary to the popular idea that of testing in this world, we are interned in a training when a man dies he goes into a long sleep or that he camp where we will be prepared for that which awaits goes directly to heaven. Our Lord’s teaching on this us ultimately. When I think of those intimate friends subject is not extensive or significant. To the thief on whom I loved long since and lost awhile I cannot feel the cross He said: “ Today shall thou be with Me in that their personalities have ceased to exist. In a Paradise,” and in the parable of Dives and Lazarus world in which no energy is lost, I believe that the He pictures Lazarus in Abraham’s bosom and Dives In most wonderful dynamic force in all the world a place of torment, and says that there was a gulf be­ will not be dissipated nor resolved into chemical tween them. This would seem to indicate that, while elements. To me certain personalities set forth the there is a separation in the intermediate state between greatest force in nature. It is true that they are yoked the good and the evil, still it is a temporary rather than up with a physical body which returns to the dust, but a permanent condition. such dissolution of the body does not necessarily in­ He told the thief that both of them would be In volve the dissipation of spiritual characteristics. They paradise on that day, so the creed might more appro­ too have their purpose which cannot be valued, either

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 17, 1932 T H E W I T NESS Page Five now or hereafter, in terms of a chemical laboratory. such manner as shall fit them for their ultimate des­ The human race has always had an intuition of a fu­ tiny. This is quite apart from that rather childish ture life, and of some sort of heaven to which men conception of purgatory which assumes that a soul may shall go and where they shall be held accountable for pass from a place of torment to Abraham’s bosom be­ their deeds done in the flesh. The fact that the fu­ cause someone here on earth has purchased a parole ture is hid from our eyes does not invalidate the sound­ for the unfortunate sinner. The abuse of a truth does ness of the intuition. Most of the wonderful discov­ not in any way affect the value of it, and the accept­ eries in science have been hid from the eyes of men ance of a statement depends upon the credibility of before they were revealed. It was an intuition which the witness. caused men to seek for them before they knew of their After all we must decide for ourselves whether existence. So intuition that leads us to seek is as much the events of the crucifixion and resurrection were a part of creation as microbes or fossils. facts or whether they are the result of a cunningly de­ In the drama of the crucifixion Christ merely leads vised scheme on the part of Christ and the Apostles to the way and we follow confident in the integrity of our deceive a little group of unimportant people, who, guide. The fact that He died has confused those who humanly speaking, would be the only ones involved in would evade the necessity of death. The fact that He the transaction. assured us that He would be in Paradise that day gives Believing as I do in their integrity as witnesses I us an assurance that we shall not lose consciousness accept the inevitable deductions to be drawn from the after death. The fact that He rose again assures us story. Among these inferences is the one that Christ that the God Who gave us life has^the power to restore spent the time between the crucifixion and the resur­ that life under new conditions. rection in conscious communication with other souls who had departed this life.. This is the significance of B E L IE V E therefore in an intermediate state in the clause in the creed that He descended into hell. I which men will have the opportunity to grow in (Next week: The Resurrection)

S e w a n e e : T h e M o d e r n A r c a d ia By ■ ...... n' C. E. TH O M AS and F. V. D. FO R T U N E , E '/ l

H E college has about three hundred young men living ideal. The word Sewanee itself means “ Mother T or inmates, or students as they are sometimes Mountain,” and it is the sentiment of the University called, and besides, quite a number of old ladies, who perfectly expressed, always were old ladies, and who never die. It’s a long Sewanee, the University of the South, is the realiza­ way away, even from Chattanooga, in the middle of tion of the dreams of a number of Southern bishops the woods, on top of a bastion of mountains crenelated and clergy, to say nothing of the many ardent laity, to with blue coves. It is so beautiful that people who build in this country a university which would follow have once been there, always, one way or another, the principles and ideals of Oxford in the cultivation come back. For such as can detect apple green in the of Christian manhood. The road to the fulfillment of evening sky, it is Arcadia—not the one that never these cherished hopes of Bishops Otey, Polk and E l­ used to be, but the one that many people always live liot has been fraught with many hardships : Bishop in ; only this one can be shared.” So begins William Polk had hardly laid the corner stone of the young uni­ Alexander Percy in his article “ Sewanee” in the versity when the forces of the Civil War laid the build­ Sewanee Review, an essay which every lover of Eng­ ings in ashes ; reconstruction days saw slow progress in lish should know. So it is, truly Arcadia, not only to the rebuilding of the university; poverty hindered its the students but to all who live on “ The Mountain.” work and many a professor worked without compen­ Once a distinguished visitor approached the little vil­ sation during the trying times; but the “ spirit of lage that lies immediately adjacent to the campus Sewanee” lived on. “ What is the spirit of Sewanee?” proper and asked an old negro there where he could asked Bishop Perry in his Anniversary Sermon de­ find the university. “This am the university,” livered last June at the Seventy-fifth Anniversary answered the servant. The visitor persisted that he Celebration of the founding of Sewanee. “ It is the wanted to find the university, whereupon the old negro spirit of prophecy and faith : ‘The substance of things answered, “ We is the university— us folkses and the hoped for, the evidence of things not seen’.” Today boys what comes to live here with us.” Nothing could Sewanee stands as one of the outstanding universities more truly portray the spirit that permeates the at­ of the Episcopal Church dedicated to the thorough edu­ mosphere of Sewanee—just one big family with each cation of the young manhood of the nation in the lib­ member doing his part toward the realization of a eral arts and the sciences, truly a small university op-

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CANNON HALL One of six stone dormitory units at Sewanee posed to mass production taking pride in the artistry of Sewanee’s ideals and traditions are English as is its individual training. general appearance. Early in her history the Univer­ sity adopted Oxford customs; the first procession of R. LA W R E N C E F. A BBO TT , in his article, college students in America wearing the Oxford cap M “Mass-Production versus Artistry” in The Out­ and gown passed through Sewanee’s cloistered walks, look, says: “ It is pleasant to find even in these days of and since that day, no junior or senior in the college, mass-production, little institutions of which the pub­ nor any faculty member or graduate student has en­ lic scarcely hears that with limited means are doing tered a classroom or chapel without his gown. Will telling work in real education. One such is the Uni­ Percy puts it: “ Neither from experience nor observa­ versity of the South, at Sewanee—The University is tion can I say what they (the students) learn in their small, enrolling scarcely 350 students, I believe. But it Arcadia, though they gad about freely with books and has an influence, especially in the South, and in the pads. Indeed many of them attempt to assume a stu­ field' of letters and liberal culture totally dispropor­ dious air by wearing black Oxford gowns. In this tionate to its size.” Again President Theodore Roose­ they are not wholly successful, for no matter how new, velt, after discovering that his aides, Major Archie the gowns always manage to be torn and insist on Butt, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, later admiral and personal hanging from the supple shoulders with something of a physician to President Wilson, and General William C. dionysiac abandon.” Beyond the gown, the govern­ Gorgas, M.D., the man without whom the Panama ment of the University is that of Oxford with the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the Board of Trustees, Canal could not have been built, were all Sewanee men, the Board of Regents and the Hebdomadal Board. The wrote: idea of the founders was the union of small colleges “ I do not know of any institution of the same size under the one University—such as is the case in Ox­ in any part of our country which has done more for ford. At present there is one college of arts and the cause of good citizenship than Sewanee has done. sciences and a college of theology, but the University As an American, I am proud of it; as a citizen, I am plans call for more colleges and the ten-thousand acre grateful to it. It is entitled ‘The University of the domain of the University in the midst of the Cumber­ South/ but it is more than that: it is a university of land Mountains permits of wide expansion in the all America, and its welfare should be dear to all Amer­ future. icans who ¡are both patriotic and far-sighted, and there­ fore anxious to see every influence strengthened which *-l AHE University buildings are reminiscent of the tends for the betterment ‘ and enlightenment of our English-design—the famous ecclesiastical archi­ great country.” tects, Cram and Goodhue have seen to that. Breslin

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Tower with its three-faced clock and Westminster —it is Arcadia. Mr. Will Percy again has it expressed Chimes is a copy of the sturdy Magdalen College (for he is a true Arcadian) : “ If some evening a per­ Tower. Even the dormitories are of the English cot­ sonable youth happens in on your hospitality, greets tage style as are several of the national fraternity .you with the not irreverent formality reserved for houses. There are other English ties peculiar to uncles, puts the dowager empress of Mozambique* your Sewanee: the handsome ermine vice-chancellor’s robe house-guest, at her ease, flirts with your daughter, says presented to the University by the Vice-Chancellor of grace before the evening meal with unsmiling piety, Cambridge; the Painswick stone from Henry VII's consumes every variety of food and drink set before chapel, built in 1502 in Westminster Abbey; the stone him (specializing in hot biscuits) with unabashed from the High Altar of Canterbury Cathedral, and the gusto, leaves a wake of laughter whenever he dips into stone on the cross imbedded in the altar of All Saints’ the conversation, pays especial and apparently delighted Chapel which was taken from the altar of St. Colom- attention to the grandmother on his left, enchants the ba’s Cathedral at Iona, erected in 1203 on the site of serving maid with two bits and a smile, offers every­ the ancient church and monastery built by St. Colom- one a cigarette, affable under general disapproval, ba in 563. Beneath the Iona stone is the inscription, sings without art a song without merit, sits at last on “ This fragment of Iona marble serves as a connecting the doorstep in the moonlight, utterly contented, with link between the American Church and the beginnings the dreamy air of the young Hermes (which only means of Christianity in Scotland from whence we (Prot­ the sense of impending adventure is about his hair like estant Episcopal Church in America) derived our green leaves), and then if that night you dream of a Episcopate.” branch of crab-apple blossoms dashed with rain—pur­ Coinciding with the atmosphere of culture and re­ sue that youth and entreat him kindly. He hails from finement of Arcady.” “A towered city set within a wood, Far from the world, upon a mountain’s crest, Where storms of life burst not, nor cares intrude; Just Souls Where learning dwells and peace is wisdom’s guest” B y there is the spirit of fellowship and of play. Sewanee C. R U S S E L L M OODEY is known throughout the college fraternity world for its Christ of reality and not of dreams, ideal relationships between the various national frater­ Christ the “ I am” and not “ it seems,” Help me now to do my part nities represented on the campus. Sewanee fraterni­ Then at the end accept my heart. ties are more or less unique in that the chapter houses are used merely as club houses and all the men live OME DA Y !” is a favorite expression denoting in the several university dormitories. The chapter S fine weather, and possibly a little touch of ecstacy houses are monuments to the diligent efforts and in the heart. It deals with the present. “ SO M E day !” dreams of their members. The whole university life is another phrase well known to us all as representing revolves around the activity of the fraternities and a happy state of affairs. It deals with the future. tho present Vice-Chancellor of the University is quoted We cannot deny the heart its right to reach over into as once saying, “ I cannot picture Sewanee without the days to come for hope and comfort. Man seems to fraternities and I should hate to think of administer­ be built that way for in his breast he carries fanciful ing its affairs without the assistance we receive from aspirations which seem to sustain him in his present the social fraternities represented here.” Nor is uncertainty. But there is the danger of leaning too Sewanee without its reputation in the realm of colle­ heavily on the future. Oftentimes man’s “ SOME-day” giate athletics. The record for one of its teams for attitudes prove to be his downfall. His dreams make games won within a certain length of time and the him a dreamer, his visions invite idleness, and fre­ points scored has yet to be equalled by any team in quently laziness. He becomes a good-for-nothing! He this country. Ralph McGill, one of the outstanding is prone to wait when he should be working. I for sports writers of the south, says of Sewanee: “ No re­ one have more confidence in the man who makes the view of Southern Conference football teams could present his first concern. Who rests his life on the pass by without one of Sewanee.” “ now” of time. This man is energetic and industrious. “ Sewanee nests with the eagles on the rocky crags of He turns to the world and says “ Some D A Y !” And one of the Cumberland mountain chains that frown he means it. down on the Cumberland plateau. And there has al­ Far too many people who profess Christ are looking ways been a look of eagles about Sewanee’s teams ahead when they ought to be looking around. They and something of the eagle in their spirit. They call need the present as well as the future. They fail to see the team “the Tigers,” but one thinks of eagles. There that there is a “ now” in immortality. They forget that is something of the old crusader spirit about her teams “ this mortal must put on immortality.” It is a curious —a squad of 23, nine hard games—and optimistic. The fact that if we spell “ now” backwards we have “ won.” Tiger always is.” This ought to give us something to think about. What And with it all, there is still something quiet and the Christ Kingdom needs today above all else are restful, something delightfully unique about Sewanee energetic and industrious souls seeking to solve the

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight THE W T N E S S November 17, 1932 present moral problems. We need more men and In all the countries round about, the custom of sac­ women with, courageous convictions, and faith in the rificing the first-born son prevailed. Among the present humanity. Men and women who in the face Phoenicians, he was burned to Moloch. Among the of apparent difficulties can turn to the world and to Chaldaeans, he was buried alive. Abraham doubtless their neighbor and say ‘‘Some D A Y !” Thus the “ now” was reminded by servants and neighbors of this cus­ becomes “ won” as mortality moves on and into im­ tom. “ Of course,” they would say, “you will sacrifice mortality.- The Christ would have it this way. He Merryheart.” Driven and tormented by this constant said so. pressure of public opinion, Abraham started to sacri­ fice Isaac on the top of Mount Moriah. Then “ an angel spoke to him”—a direct inspiration came to him from the Mind of God; a great, revolutionary lig h t- Witness Bible Class saying, “ God wants no dead boys; He wants the serv­ Conducted by ices of the living, not the blood of the dead.” Abraham struck the first great blow against human I rw in St. John T ucker sacrifice. Instead of killing his son on the altar, he ABRAHAM dedicated him and all his descendants to the service of UCH of- the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, God for all generations. A mark was made in the flesh M is an expansion of the Covenant with Abra­ of every boy, a mark known as circumcision. This was ham. We refer to this covenant constantly in Morn­ the seal of the Old Covenant. ing Prayer (in the Benedictus) and in Evening In your Bibles mark the places where this Old Prayer (The Magnificat). Jesus’ arguments with the Covenant is referred to: Chapter 12 : verses 1, 2, 3, 7, Pharisees were largely about Abraham. (John 8:33 to 8; Chapter 13 : 4, 18 ; Chapter 15 : 1-19; Chapter 17 : end.) St. Paul’s epistles devote a very large amount 1-14; Chapter 22: 15-19. of their attention to the Covenant with Abraham. On the basis of this Covenant, the Hebrew nation Who was Abraham? A wealthy, childless old cat­ laid claim to Palestine. The whole Old Testament is tleman, wandering between Babylon and Egypt; the story of the working out of this Covenant. friendly with kings; a mighty warrior, helping to de­ It is a little confusing to follow the story of Abra­ feat invasions; and constantly yearning for a son who ham, which fills up the chapters of Genesis from Chap­ should be his heir. (Read Genesis 11131; 12:4; 12 114; ter 12 to Chapter 25. It seems as though there were two JIB or three different accounts woven together. In fact, At night he saw the stars, spread out in miraculous this is just what happened. Just as in the New Testa­ profusion overhead. By day the sands of the desert ment there are four Gospels, each telling the story of crunched under his camel’s feet. God spoke to him, the Life of Christ in a way somewhat different from saying “As the stars of heaven, and as these sands, so each of the others, yet all forming the Life of Christ, great shall be the number of your children.” (Genesis so in the Old Testament there are several different ac­ 22 :i5-18.) counts. How did God speak to him? Why is Abraham Grouped around their fires at night, with nothing to known as “ Father of the Faithful” to Jews, Moham­ do but look at the stars and sand, the descendants of medans and Christians alike? Abraham heard these stories told from generation to ' In Egypt, where he had dealings with Pharaoh—• generation, with such slight variations as always oc­ doubtless selling him cattle for his armies in their cur when several people tell the same story. We shall Syrian campaigns—he saw the Egyptian temples with hear much more about this later. their statues of beast-headed gods. In Egypt forty- P ersonal A pplication two such beast-gods were worshipped, besides Osiris As Abraham dedicated his son to the service of God, (the Nile), Isis (the land), and Horus (the sun). In so should we dedicate ourselves and our possessions to Babylonia there were numberless gods; Bel-Marduk, the service of God and humanity, and to the building of Ishtar, Nebo, Nannar, Ea, and many others. Along His Kingdom upon earth. In fact this covenant is the seacoast Moloch was worshipped. Moving from made between each Christian and God in the service country to country, and spending much time alone be­ of Holy Communion: “ Here we offer and present unto tween the stars and the sand, Abraham received the Thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a great revelation: There is but One God, creator of reasonable, holy and living sacrifice unto Thee.” sun, moon and stars, earth and sea. MEMORY WORK The old man ardently desired a son, since religion Memorize these texts (Genesis 22:18. Go.d said unto Abraham: in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.) was handed down from father to son; and he did not John 8 :56; Jesus said; Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day; and he. saw it, and was glad. Verily, verily I say unto desire that this revelation should perish with him. He you,, before Abraham was, I am. was very old when Isaac was born. The word Isaac * * * NEXT WEEK: Lesson Nine; THE QUARREL OP THE HEIRS. means “ Laughter.” The word “ laugh” occurs con­ The stories of Ishmael and Isaac; Essau and Jacob. stantly in the story of his birth. (Read Genesis, Chap­ December 1st; HOW THE BIBLE STORIES CAME TO BE ter 17:17; 18:12, 13, 15; 21:6). The name Isaac PRESERVED. CORRECTION might be translated “ Merryheart.” One can imagine In the lesson THE CHAIN OF ALTARS on Cain and Abel, Cain’s how much joy a baby would bring an elderly couple reply to the sentence was wrongly given as “ My punishment is great­ er than can be forgiven.” This should have read, “ My sin is greater who had despaired of having one. than can be forgiven.”

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AN UNUSUALLY States and the “ ecclesiastical depart­ NEWS NOTES OF ment” of the government costs the FINE BOOK ABOUT Indian people more than a million THE CHURCH IN MAHATMA GANDHI dollars a year. BRIEF PARAGRAPHS One may imagine how Gandhi Edited by W. B. Spofford Reviewed by G. M. Day feels when he realizes the tax burden That Strange Little. Brown Man, India bears for the maintenance of There is nothing in this world Gandhi by Bishop Frederick B. the Church of England in India and quite as powerful as a man who Fisher (Long and Smith $2.50) is yet when he went to a service a few means it. Gandhi is one. Toyohiko such a fascinating book and at the years ago at a cathedral in South Kagawa, the great Japanese Chris­ same time contains so much informa­ Africa with C. F. Andrews, the tian, is another. Recently he wrote tion concerning the life and prin­ ushers refused to let Gandhi enter this letter to Chinese Christians: ciples of Gandhi and the conditions because of his color. Fortunately, “ Dear Brothers and Sisters; I want with which he is dealing in India that the wife of the Bishop came along to ask your pardon for my nation. it would be difficult to praise the at the critical moment and bravely I call your attention, however, to book too highly. It gives an insight said: “ Come in, both of you, and sit this fact, that even in Japan the into the tremendous problems of with me” . As the author remarks minority of the Japanese were that great country and its people “ the incident did not encourage a against the sending of troops. Par­ and faces the perplexing questions sensitive Hindu to believe that all don me especially because our Chris­ so fearlessly that it would be of love and truth were -contained- in the tian forces were not strong enough great value if every Westerner and Christian church”. As we read in to get the victory over the militar­ especially every Western Christian the chapter on “ What’s Wrong with ists.” Kagawa was later jailed for could read it. Coming out of the ex­ Foreign Missions” of the many un­ resisting the policies of his govern­ perience of Bishop Fisher’s twenty- fortunate mistakes made and atti­ ment in sending troops to Manchuria eight years as a missionary in India, tudes assumed by missionaries, we and Shanghai. He said: “ Jesus it has the particular advantage of can only wonder that Gandhi not Christ could not live in Japan un­ the vividness and in concrete detail only is tolerant but sees through it less he took out naturalization all to the supreme beauty of Christ’s papers.” which only a man who has been an * * * eye-witness can give. personality and has the courage to So full is it of excellent material say so. In 1925 Dr. Fisher tells us A Letter from the that the problem is to know which that over the entrance of one of the Council’s Treasurer part to touch upon in this review. tents at the Indian National Con­ The following communication has After showing why he believes gress in Cawnpore, was hung a large been received from Mr. Franklin, Gandhi is not a fanatic but on the framed portrait of Christ on the treasurer of the National Councils contrary a statesman of the highest Cross. “ Every Hindu, every Moslem, “ The situation with regard to the every Jainz and every Sikh who order, Dr. Fisher gives accounts of collections to November 1st on the his hero’s fight against indentured passed through the entrance gazed quotas allotted to the dioceses is in­ at the picture with reverence. Many labor in South Africa; of the de­ deed serious. With only two months of them stopped and bowed their velopment of Gandhi’s pacifist con­ remaining in the fiscal year the heads. Over several doorways of victions during the world war; of dioceses have remitted to the Na­ shops surrounding the Congress tent the influence of Thor.eau, Emerson, tional Council only 53 per cent of were signs ‘Believe in God’. The William L. Garrison, Lincoln, and the total they notified the Council to Hindu not only takes his religion Wilson upon the Mahatma’s thought; expect and there is a balance still seriously; he takes your religion of his beliefs about the relation of due of $1,014,850. Up to the year seriously.” Hinduism and Christianity and his 1931, the dioceses had paid to. the A long jump backwards it is to attitude toward Christian missions; National Council an average of 99 the story of the young Princess of the development of sex ideas in per cent of the amounts they noti­ Elizabeth of Hungary who preferred India and of the beautiful character fied the Council to expect on their to be a Sister of St. Francis rather of Madame Gandhi; of the causes quotas. In 1931 the payment was than Frederick Barbarossa’s Em­ only 91 per cent of expectations of India’s poverty; of why the press, but Saint Elizabeth (Holt strange little brown man spins; and with a total shortage of $231,099, $2.50) by E. Von Schmidt-Pauli is and the Council was in consequence concludes with chapters giving evi­ the story of the life of this girl who faced with a deficit of $252,855 only dence of India’s readiness and abil­ only lived1 twenty-four years. The avoided by the use of Undesignated ity to govern herself. style of the book is strikingly beau­ Legacies heretofore used for new Some of the facts given in the tiful and communicates to the reader buildings or other permanent objec­ chapter on India’s poverty will not much of the quiet charm which we tives. This year legacies are an un­ be palatable to the Anglo-Saxon imagine characterized the life of certain asset. conscience. Ancient India was a noble women in those days. Turning wealthy country but after its ex­ from the forceful thought and action “ Through large reductions in ap­ ploitation began by the East India of a modern Saint like Gandhi, how­ propriations and the fine response Company, the dividends to the stock­ ever, I find it hard to thrill to the of the Church to the 1932 Deficiency holders of that company never went piety of this mediaeval girl. Fund Appeal the budget for. 1932 below one hundred and fifteen per has been balanced but only balanced cent for one hundred years. In 1787 if the dioceses pay what they have India exported a million and a half DEATH OF JOHN S. LITTELL told the Council to expect. Our whole pounds of muslin to England but The Rev. John Stockton Littell, system of the balanced budget de­ within thirty years England had rector at Lewes, Delaware* died on pends upon the fulfillment of the crushed this manufacture complete­ October 21st after a brief illness. A expectations from the dioceses. A ly. When the Crown bought the graduate of Trinity College and the deficit must be avoided. country from the company, it paid General Seminary he served parishes - “ Only twelve dioceses and dis­ the bill by faxes laid on the Indian at Brockport,. N. Y .; Keene, N. H.; tricts out of ninety-nine have sent people. Even to-day living in the Hartford, Connecticut, and his last in the full proportion of their ex­ midst of this poverty-stricken land parish in Delaware. He was well pectations, even after allowing one the Viceroy receives three times- the known throughout the Church for full month for collection and remit­ salary of the President of the United his writing. tance, The receipts to date are

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$355,234 below what they were last he would accept, stating that he the alumni who had died during the year, exclusive of the amounts re­ looked forward to it as “a great year. Among these was A. P. Burg- ceived for the 1932 Deficiency Fund. spiritual adventure.” The supposi­ win of Pittsburgh, who, while still “ It seems evident that some dio­ tion is, of course, that he will an undergraduate fifty years ago, ceses have been using most of the eventually be ordained to Episcopal took the music o f an old Negro receipts to date in payment of their orders and be installed as dean. spiritual “ Was you there when they own diocesan expenses. Such a plan * * * nailed Him to the tree?” and made places the full burden of any shrink­ Dedicate New Reredos of it the Alma Mater song of Trin­ age in the payment of pledges upon at St. Peter’s, New York ity, “ Neath the Elm.” A week be­ the National Council instead of a Bishop Manning dedicated the fore the matriculation service the proportionate sharing in such shrink­ beautiful new reredos at St. Peter’s, Mapton Institute quartet visited age by the dioceses. Under the New York, on November 6th. The Trinity and sang this spiritual with partnership plan now in effect the reredos is the work of the Mowbray deep feeling. National Council is dependent upon Studios in England, and cost about In most American colleges the old the several dioceses for the collec­ $ 11,000. ceremony of matriculation has been tion of the missionary gifts of the * # H= neglected or simply merged with people and relies upon the dioceses Becomes Rector registration at the beginning of the to divide all sums received between of Detroit Parish year. At Trinity it has been retained the diocese and the National Coun­ The Rev. Irwin C. Johnson, direc­ and is one of the most impressive cil on the basis of their proportion­ tor of boys’ and young people’s work services of the college year. There ate share in the objective placed be­ of the diocese of Michigan, became are 146 men in the freshman class fore the people. the rector of St. Thomas’, Detroit, and 25 men admitted by transfer to “ The Church is showing a fine on November first. He has not en­ the upper classes. spirit' in preparation for the Every tirely relinquished his former work He * * Member Canvass. Let the same spir­ but will divide his time between the New Kind of Party it of determination and sacrifice parish and the diocesan work. In New York Parish lead us to make good on our pledges Something new in the way of for 1932 and provide the National Anniversary Dinner parties is being held today at St. Council with the money we have at Jackson, Michigan Peter’s, New York City. The Auxili­ authorized them to spend in the A dinner and reception com­ ary there is having a measuring support of our missionary work. memorating the 100th anniversary party. It seems that the waistlines “ Gird up your loins!” of the founding of St. Paul’s, Jack- of the ladies are to be determined * * * son, was held on November 10th. and each one has to pay a penny an Patriotic Service Bishop Page was one of the speak­ inch admission. Prizes are given to at the Heavenly Rest ers. the most slender and the most corpu­ The Church of the Heavenly Rest, * * * lent. I know women who wouldn’t New York City, the Rev. Henry Peace Meeting be too strong for the idea but in the Darlington, rector, was crowded with Held in Boston long run it may have a beneficial 3000 members of military and pa­ Bishop Sherrill presided at a effect at that. Publicity and public triotic organizations last Sunday meeting held on November 14th opinion can accomplish wonders. for the service of massing of the in Boston under the auspices of * * * colors. This was the 11th consecu­ the Greater Boston Federation of Young People Meet tive year in which this pageant of Churches for world peace. The in Western Michigan patriotism has been held in this speakers were Professor Andre The young people’s fellowship of beautiful new church. More than Philip of France and Dr. Siegmund- the diocese of Western Michigan 200 flags were displayed in the pa- Schultze of Germany. met at St. Luke’s, Kalamazoo on rad« before the service, including % He H* October 30th with more than 200 the flags of a number of foreign na­ Commemoration Service present. There were addresses by tions. Held in New Hampshire the Rev. Irwin C. Johnson of De­ A similar service was held on the Old Saint John’s, Portsmouth, N. troit, the Rev. W. A. Simms of same day at St. Paul’s Cathedral, H. , was the scene of an interesting Battle Creek and the rector of the Detroit. service on October 30th, commemo­ parish, the Rev. A. Gordon Fowkes. sN Hs Hs rative of the fact that on November * * * Memorial Service for I, 1789 George Washington attended Graduation at St. Distinguished Churchwoman service in Queen’s Chapel, the prede­ Mary’s Training School A memorial service for Helena cessor of St. John’s, which stands on Seven young woman graduated on Stuart Dudley, distinguished Church- the site of the original chapel. The November 3rd from St. Mary’ s Train­ woman of the diocese of Massachu­ memorial service called together a ing School for Nurses, which is con­ setts, is to be held on November congregation that taxed the capa­ nected with St. Mary’s Hospital for 20th at St. Stephen’s, Boston, where city of the fine old church. The his­ Children, New York. There was an she was a communicant for many torical address was delivered by the address by the Rev. Gregory Mabry years. Miss Dudley was for twenty Hon. Elwin iR. Page, justice of the of St. Paul’s, Brooklyn. Incidentally, years the head of Denison House. superior court of the state. here are a few figures on this hos­ * * * * * * pital that may interest you. It cost Congregational Pastor Matriculation Day about $10,000 a month to maintain Called to Cleveland Cathedral at Trinity College it. This is a lot of money but not The Rev. Chester B. Emerson, November 2nd was Matriculation so much either when the great work pastor of a large Congregational Day at Trinity College, with the that is done there is taken into con­ Church in Detroit, has been asked service being held for the first time sideration. Now the announcement to take charge of Trinity Cathedral, in the beautiful new chapel. The ad­ comes that they have been running Cleveland, which has been without a dress was delivered by Mather Ab­ behind each month for some time dean since the resignation over a bott, headmaster of Lawrenceville and that unless they can raise $25,- year ago of Dean Francis White. School. In accordance with the col­ 000i by the end of the year this hos­ Dr. Emerson announced to his De­ lege custom, before the new students pital, the only one in the city under troit congregation last Sunday that were enrolled, due honor was paid to Church auspices ministering to chil-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 17, 1932 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven dren, will have to be closed. Several upholding of Christian ideals in the eluding a sermon at St. Luke’s Pro- New York rectors, aware of the nation’s capital. Cathedral and an address before the value of the work, have appealed to The awards are made annually on Sunday Evening Club. their people for help. All Saints’ Day. Nominations for ^ ^ * Hs * the honor are made by members of Dr. Darlington Ridicules Discuss the Task the Order of the Sangreal and the New York Architecture of Church Today selections are made from those The Rev. Henry Darlington, rec­ A meeting of the Church League nominated by the executive commit­ tor of the Church of the Heavenly for Industrial Democracy is to be tee. Rest, New York, stated last Sunday held in New York on November * * * that the architecture of the city’s 19th to discuss “ The Task of the Missionary Conference great buildings was ridiculous. The Church Today”. The leader is to be in Western Michigan sermon was preached at a service Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director of A conference on missions was held at which forty-one memorials were industrial research of the Russell the last week in October in the dio­ dedicated. “ The Church of the Sage Foundation. The C. L. I. D. is cese of Western Michigan. On Octo­ Heavenly Rest,” he said, “ has been an organization of the Church which ber 23rd a service was held at St. erected for permanence. One prin­ aims to bring together for prayer, Mark’s Cathedral, Grand Rapids, ciple of the Gothic form is that study and action those who seek to when addresses were made by Bishop everything shall be as it is repre­ apply the principles of Christ in in­ Demby of Arkansas and Bishop Mc­ sented to be. This church is a con­ dustrial society. The public is in­ Cormick, diocesan. On the 25th and tribution to architecture and it will vited to this luncheon meeting which 26th a conference of the clergy was stand century after century.” is to be held at the headquarters of held with the Rev. Frederick P. * * * the Henry Street Settlement, 99 Park Houghton, general secretary of the Bishop Lawrence Avenue, at one o’clock. National Council as the leader. Speaks at Harvard * * * Meetings of vestries were also held The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, Awards of the Order during the week. retired Bishop of Massashusetts, was of the Sangreal * * * the speaker on Armistice Day at the The Order of the Sangreal, of Bishop Casady dedication of the new Harvard which the Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker Ordains His Son memorial church. Hundreds of alum­ is grand master, has announced the iBishop Casady of Oklahoma or­ ni from all parts of the country at­ conferring of awards for 1932 for dained his eldest son, the Rev. tended the service. distinguished service to God and Phineas McCray Casady to the * * V humanity through the Church. Here priesthood on All Saints’ Day at St. Death of Sexton they are: Mrs. Hugh Campbell of Stephen’s, Alva, Oklahoma. Young of Trinity Church the diocese of Marquette who as a Casady is in charge of a number of Mr. William John Boyd, a fa­ nurse has ministered for thirty years mission stations, with Alva as his miliar figure at Old Trinity Church, in the backwoods of that region. Rev. residence. New York, where he has served as Henry E. Chase, diocese of Eau * * * sexton for many years, died on No­ Claire, for his missionary work. Bishop of Exeter vember 6th after a brief illness. Mr. Louisa T. Davis of Virginia for her on War Debts Boyd was 78 years of age and was work as president of the diocesan The Bishop of Exeter, England, connected with the parish for seven­ Woman’s Auxiliary. Rev. J. W. Hob­ now preaching and lecturing in this ty-three years, ever since he became son, diocese of West Virginia for his country, stated the other day in a member of St. Paul’s Chapel Sun­ work in the coal areas of that state. Chicago that he is for the cancella­ day school when he was five years Mr. John K. Kent, layman of St. tion of all war debts and the re­ of age. Philip’s, Chicago, for his untiring moval of any suggestion of war H* H* *i* work in that parish. Rev. Gardiner guilt from the shoulders of Germany. Synod Makes Recommendations G. Tucker, Alabama, for fifty years '“Forgiveness is one of the great About Negro Work the rector at Mobile, Alabama. Mr. needs of the world today. We must At the synod of the province of Guy T. Barry, layman of Indepen­ forgive and forget. Otherwise per­ Sewanee held in 1930 a committee dence, Kansas, for his courageous manent world peace is impossible.” work for the Church despite grave He also stated that the worst of the iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimimimmimimiiiiimiii physical weaknesses. Rev. Gerald depression is over and gave it as his H. Catlin, Kentucky, for his mission­ opinion that the United States is ary work along the Big Sandy River. further on toward recovery than is THE MEANING Mr. E. G. Moon, diocese of Iowa, for Great Britain. He gave a number OF THE his untiring work for the diocese and of addresses while in Chicago, in- the National Church. Rev. F. W. REAL PRESENCE Hardy, canon of Christ Church Ca­ by thedral, Louisville, Kentucky, for his work in the field of religious BY THE WATERS G. A . Sturldcrt-Kennerly education. Rev. John H. 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Christian Fellowship. The group is of many years. Altar and reredos just before his recent retirement headed by the Rev. Frank Buchman, are to be a memorial to Bishop Brent from that diocese where he has been founder of the organization, and the from the Woman’s Auxiliary of bishop since 1899. Rev. Samuel Shoemaker Jr., rector Western New York and other mem­ “ Statistics,” he says, “ do not meas­ of Calvary Church, New York. They orials to former missionaries are to ure spiritual growth, yet I may state plan to travel throughout the country be given, some of them by the young for our encouragement just a few during the next six months. people of Bontoc. * * facts. There are only 27 towns in * * * northern California of 2,000 popula­ Reorganize Young People Opportunity to Worship tion or over, and in 24 of these there in Northern Indiana in Sacramento are Episcopal Churches. There are About 100 of the young people of One so often hears of vast rural 10 towns with between 2,000 and 1,000 the diocese of Northern Indiana met regions where the Episcopal Church population, and in 9 of these there at St. James’, South Bend, on Octo­ is not known that one reads with are Episcopal Churches. In towns of ber 22nd when plans were completed thankfulness a passage in an address less than 1,000 we have 11 Episcopal for a reorganization of the Young Bishop Moreland of Sacramento made Churches. I do not believe there is People’s Fellowship of the diocese. Hi He ❖ M ission for Children at Richmond Hill A five day mission for children was held at the Church of the Resurrec­ tion, Richmond Hill, Long Island, THE CHURCH LEAGUE from October 24th to the 29th. The mission was closed with a big service FOR on the 30th. * * * New Church is Consecrated in Philippines INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY On All Saints Day Bishop Mosher was to consecrate the new building THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH of All Saints Church, Bontoc, Philip­ pine Islands. The new church, LEAGUE IS TO BRING TOGETHER chiefly an Advance Work project of the diocese of Rhode Island, is the FOR PRAYER, STUDY AND AC­ culmination of the hopes and prayers TION THOSE W HO SEEK TO Fiction With a Soul— APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF Only at rare intervals— once CHRIST IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY. in a very great while— is the un­ ceasing flood of books punctu­ ated by a novel in which plot and theme are so closely inter­ MEMBERS OF THE EPISCOPAL woven that the story seems to CHURCH WHO WISH TO STAND generate a vitality within itself. Such books have soul. Above WITH US IN THE FURTHERING and beyond their power to en­ tertain; greater than their pur­ OF THIS PURPOSE ARE INVITED pose of depicting a phase of TO MEMBERSHIP. Life or a period of civilization, is this intangible, often unin­ tended, inner significance. President Executive Committee Of such a class is the new RT. REV. EDWARD L. PARSONS REV. SMITH OWEN DEXTER novel issued by the Macmillan Company of New York, based Vice-Presidents RT. REV. CHARLES K. GILBERT on modern Biblical scholarship. RT. REV. BENJAMIN BREWSTER MISS ELIZABETH GILMAN MR. WILLIAM F. COCHRAN REV. NORMAN NASH Historically accurate, showing MISS CAROLINE B. LaMONTE MRS. MARY SIMKHOVITCH how monotheism became trium­ REV. J. HOWARD MELISH phant over paganism through a MISS VIDA SCUDDER great struggle for social justice MISS MARY VAN KLEECK in the midst of conditions like those prevailing today. Warmly commended by religious lead­ ers, such as Bishop F. J. Mc­ LITERATURE SENT ON REQUEST Connell, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Prof. Shailer Mathews. By the Waters of Babylon, A Office of the League Story of Ancient Israel, by Louis Wallis. From all booksell­ 154 Nassau Street NEW YO R K ers, or from the Macmillan Company, New York City, for $2.00— Advt.

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ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE another rural diocese in the Ameri­ (Columbia University) can Church with a better record.” (Sip Gkttpral ©tpulogiral * * * A College of Arts, Letters and Sciences Sem in ary definitely and officially of tne Episcopal Dedicate Children’s Three-year undergraduate course of pre­ Church but with no ecclesiastical restrictions scribed and elective study. in the selection of its student body; incorpo­ Chapel at Bayonne Fourth-year course for graduates, offering rated into the educational system of Colum­ A Children’s Chapel was dedicated larger opportunity for specialization. bia University and conferring the University Provision for more advanced work, leading degree. recently at Calvary Church, Bayonne, to degrees of S.T.M. and S.T.D. It combines the advantages of University New Jersey, by the rector, the Rev. education with small college simplicity and ADDRESS inexpensiveness. John Quincy Martin. The chapel is THE DEAN The College founded in 1860, is equipped to a memorial to several children of the teach men who, after graduation, ere going 4 Chelsea Square New York City into business or into post-graduate schools of parish. For Catalogue Address the Dean medicine, law, journalism or theology, or into H» ».■ H» classical, scientific, social or literary research. The fees are: For tuition, $360 a year ; for The Pow er furnished room, $150 a year; for board in ox Advertising Episcopal Theological School hall, $300 a year. There are some competi­ tive scholarships and a few bursaries for men While taking a group of teachers CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS contemplating Holy Orders. Affiliation with Harvard University offers Address: Bernard Iddings Bell, Litt.D., through the Washington Cathedral, unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as Warden Canon Gummere said to one of them: philosophy, psychology, history, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. “ You know what a gargoyle is, don’t sociology, etc. For Catalogue Address the Dean (R. R. Station: Barrytown) you?” And she said, “ Oh, yes, I saw that word yesterday. Gargoyle is a TRINITY COLLEGE motor oil.” DIVINITY SCHOOL IN Hartford, Conn. Bishop Campbell Has PHILADELPHIA Offers a general cultural education, with special emphasis on the Classics, Modern an Anniversary Undergraduate and Graduate Courses Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil­ Privileges at University of Pennsylvania osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, Bishop Campbell has completed ten Address: Biology and Pre-Medical, of Pre-Engineer­ years of life in Africa. In Septem­ DEAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Street* ing. For information appiy, The Dean. ber, 1922, he went out to the hinter­ land of Liberia as first prior of the SEABURY- CARLETON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL new Holy Cross Mission, which also In New York, Sisters of St. Mary (Episco­ THEOLOGY LIBERAL ARTS pal) 405_ W. 34th Street. Accredited School thus celebrates its tenth anniversary, Best Training — Minimum Cost .^ urs*n?» two years and eight months. and since 1925 he has been missionary For information and catalogue write .Major subject children. Adult and maternity ^nursing in affiliated hospitals. Single rooms. Bishop of Liberia. RT. REV. STEPHEN S. KEELER. D.D Full maintenance and allowance. Write for Hí Hs Acting Dean booklet. Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn. Parish Has An Annual Reception KEMPER HALL At Calvary, Utica, N. Y., there is The Protestant Episcopal KENOSHA. WISCONSIN held each fall a reception to the mem­ Theological Seminary in Virginia Under the care of the Sisters of Saint bers of the parish. This year it was For catalogue and other information Mary. An Episcopal school for girls on North Shore of Lake Michigan, one hour attended by Bishop Fiske, Bishop address the Dean from Chicago. College Preparatory and gen­ Coley, Archdeacon Jaynes and Miss REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. eral courses. Elementary Grades, Progressive Methods Used. Music, Art, Domestic Science. Charlotte Tomkins, the diocesan sec­ Theological Seminary Alexandria, Vr Outdoor and Indoor Sports. Address, The Sis­ retary of religious education. ter Superior. * * * Bishop Jenkins ST. FAITH’S SCHOOL Virginia Episcopal School Preaching in the East A Country School for Girls Lynchburg, Virginia BishopJenkins of Nevada is at College Preparation. General Course. Lower present in the east, filling engage­ School. Athletics. Excellent advantages at Prepares boys for college and university. ments in New York, New Jersey, Moderate Cost Splendid environment and excellent corps of REV. DR. F. ALLEN SISCO teachers. High standard in scholarship and Pennsylvania and Maryland in behalf Saratoga Springs, N. Y. athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in the mountains of Virginia. Charges excep­ of the every member canvass. tionally low. For catalogue apply to Rev. * * * Oscar deWolf Randolph, Rector. Delaware Parish ST. CHRISTINA SCHOOL Celebrated Anniversary Episcopal Church School for girls. Kind­ HARVARD SCHOOL ergarten through High School. New York Over the last week-end St. Luke’s, Regents diploma and College Entrance. Com­ Los Angeles, California Seaford, Delaware, celebrated their plete Homemaking Course. Supervised A school for boys under the auspices o f recreation, Handcraft and Sports. New, the Episcopal Church. Fully accredited. patronal festival and also the tercen­ modern, well-equipped, fire-proof building. R. O. T. C. Outdoor sports in a fine climate. tenary of the founding of the parish. Healthful and beautiful location. Tuition For all information, address the Rev. Harold $600 per year. Twelve months’ residence if H. Kelley, Headmaster. Lord Delaware, so the story runs, ar­ desired. Catalogue. rived with a load of supplies in 1610, THE SISTERS OF ST. JOHN THE DIVIN1 Cooperstown, N. Y. and then came back the following The Story of the Church year with still more supplies, and also with 650 people. Among them WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE by were families from Seaford, Sussex, F O R WOMEN B is h o p J o h n s o n Geneva, New York England, and they settled in what is Co-ordinate with Hobart College. Four now Seaford, Delaware. In this sec­ year Liberal Arts Course leading to the “Brief, unmistakably clear and degrees of A.B. and B.S. absolutely to the point.”—Gardiner ond party was a priest of the Church For catalogue- and information address Faye Huntington Klyver, Ph.D., Dean M. Day. of England, who traveled up and down among the scattered colonists, 50c a copy ministering to them. This clergy­ ST. M ARY’S SCHOOL MOUNT ST. GABRIEL man, who later returned to England, Peekskill-on-Hudson kept a very nice set of records which BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS WITNESS BOOKS Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. have recently been discovered, and College preparatory and general courses. New 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. from them we now know that there modern fireproof buildings. Extensive recrea­ tion grounds. Separate attention given to Chicago were services at Seaford in the homes young children. For catalogue address THE of the settlers as early as 1632, and SISTER SUPERIOR.

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no doubt before. All of which is madb the occasion for this recent celebra­ tion. * * * Services of Leading Churches St. James, Batavia, St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California H as Harvest Festival Cathedral of St. John the Divine New York City Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street Canned fruit, canned vegetables, Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Near the University of California Sundays; Holy Communion, 8, 9 ; Chil­ Sundays: 7:30, 11 A. M .: 7:45 P. M. home made jams and jellies, sugar, dren’s Service, 9 :30 A. M .; Morning Wednesdays: 10:30 A. M. rice, cornmeal, also clothing of all Prayer and Litany, 10 A. M.; Morning shapes and sizes; sheets and pillow Prayer, Holy Communion and Sermon, ST. ANNE’S IN THE FIELDS 11 A. M .; Evening Prayer, 4 P. M. Pointe-au-Pic cases, towels, aprons and night shirts Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7 :30 A.M. Province of Quebec —those were some of the things gath­ (Saints’ Days, 10); Morning Prayer, 9:30 Rev. Franklin Joiner, Chaplain A. M .; Evening Prayer: 5 P. M. Sundays : 8, 11 and 6. ered in on October 28th at St. James’, Daily: 8 A. M. Batavia, New York, at a Harvest Calvary Church New York Home Festival. The materials were Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., Rector Christ Church Cathedral Rev. J. Herbert Smith, Associate Rector then sent to St. Barnabas Home at 21st Street and Fourth Ave. Hartford, Conn. Gibsonia, New York, for use in their Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 6. Cor. Main and Church Streets. Thursdays at 8 P. M. Meeting for The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. work with men and boys. Personal Witness in Calvary Hall. Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, 11:00 a. m. ; 7:30 * * * p. m. Daily: 7:00, 12:10; 5:00. Looks Like Revolution Church of St. Mary the Virgin Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. New York Holy Communion. In Germ any 46th St., between 6th and 7th Aves. Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Professor Johannes Hempel of the Sunday Low Masses, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Grace and St. Peter’s Church University of Gottingen, Germany, High Mass and Sermon, 11. Vespers and Benediction, 8. Baltimore, Md. said at the Western Theological Sem­ Week-day Masses, 7, 8 and 9 :30. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) inary, Chicago, the other day that the Confessions, Sat. 3 to 5 ; 8 to 9. The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers political situation in Germany is de­ The Rev. Harold F. Hohly Grace Church, New York Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 A. M .; 8 P. M. Week Days, 8 A. M. pendent almost entirely upon the life Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D., of President von Hindenburg. If he Broadway at 10th St. should die Germany would fall into Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Church of the Advent, Boston Daily: 12:30, except Saturday. Mt. Vernon and Brimmer Sts. the hands of radicals, Professor Holy Days and Thursday: Holy Com­ Rev. Julian D. Hamlin munion, 11:45. Hempel believes. All of which might Sundays: Holy Communion, 7 :30 and prompt the remark, “ It won’t be long The Heavenly Rest and Beloved 8:15 A .M .; Young People’s. Mass, 9 A.M. Church School, 9 :30 A. M. Matins, 10 now,” since the president is about Disciple, New York A. M .; Solemn High Mass and Sermon, ninety. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. 10:30 A. M. Solemn Evensong and Ser­ * * * Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. mon, 7 :30 P. M. Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 :00 a. m. Week Days: Matins 7:15 A. M .; Maas Laym an’ s W ork in Church School 9:30 a. m., Morning Serv­ 7 ;30. Evensong 5 P. M .; additional Maas East Carolina ice and Sermon 11:00 a. m., Vespers 4:00 Thursdays and Holy Days, 9:30 A. M. p. m., Evening Prayer 8 :00 p. m. Bishop Darst of East Carolina has Saints’ Days and Holy Days; Holy Communion 10:00 a. m. Church of St. John the commissioned J. Q. Beckwith of Lum- Evangelist berton to visit the parishes of the The Incarnation Boston dioceses to address the men on lay­ Madison Avenue and 35th Street Bowdoin Street, Beacon HHl Rector The Cowley Fathers men’s work. One feature of his talks Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D. Sundays: Masses, 7 :30, 9 :30 and 11 before the men is the story of Cap­ A. M. Benediction, 7 :30 P. M. Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M. ; 4 P. M. Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 A. M. tain C. B. Fry, director of the chapter Daily 12:20. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 A. M., of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in also. Lumberton, who, with the aid of St. Bartholomew’s Church Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 and 7-9 Park Ave. and 51st St., New York P. M. friends, has been doing personal Clifton Macon, Minister-in-charge house to house visiting, with a result 8 A. M., Holy Communion. 11 A. M., Morning Prayer and Sermon. St. Mark’s, Milwaukee that the men attending services, on Rev. E. Reginald Williams successive Sundays, have been 24, 34, Little Church Around the Corner Hackett Ave. and Belleview Place Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11. 49 and 66. Also largely as a result T r ansfigur ation Gamma Kappa Delta: 6 P. M. of Mr. Fry’s work a large class was 1 East 29th Street Holy Days: 10 A. M. Rev. Randolph Ray, D.D., Rector recently presented to Bishop Darst Communions, 8 and 9 (Daily 8.) for confirmation. “ It is the sort of 11—Missa Cantata—Sermon ; 4—Vespers. Gethsemane, Minneapolis Rev. Austin Pardue work that every Brotherhood chapter Trinity Church, New York 4th Ave. South at 9th St. should be carrying on,” says Mr. Leon Broadway and Wall St. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 and 7:45. Palmer, executive secretary. Sundays: 8, 9, 11, and 3:30. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. * * * Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Texas Clergyman Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights St. Peter’s Church 3rd and Pine Sts., Philadelphia Begins New Work Rev. George P. Atwater, D.D. Rev. Edward M. Jefferys, E.T.D., Rector. Hicks St., near Remsen, Brooklyn, N. Y. Sundays: 7 :30 A. M. Holy Communion. The Rev. Bradner J. Moore, form­ Sundays: 8 A. M., 11 A. M., 4:30 P. M. 11 A. M. Morning Service, Sermon and erly in charge at Lubbock, Texas, Church School: 9:45 A. M. Holy Communion. 8 P. M. Evening Service and Address. who resigned under pressure because St. Paul’s Cathedral of his radicalism, has begun work as Buffalo, New York Rhode Island one of the directors of a cooperative Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11, 8. Weekdays: 8, 12:05. St. Stephen’s Church settlement in Louisiana, known as Thursdays (‘‘ Quiet Hour” at 10) and Holy Days: 11. in Providence Garden Homes Community. The proj­ 114 George Street ect is to supply comfortable homes, Grace Church, Chicago The Rev. Charles Townsend, Rector Sundays: 8 and 9 :30 A. M. Holy Com­ opportunity for work and study, and (St. Luke’s Hospital Chapel) munion. 11 A. M. Sung Mass and Ser­ security against the vicissitudes of Rev. Wm. Turton Travis mon. 5 :30 P. M. Evening Prayer. 1450 Indiana Ave. Week Days : 7 A.M. Mass, 7 :30 A. M. illness and old age, to a selected group Sundays: 8, 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Matins, 5 :30 P. M. Evensong. of socially minded people. Mainten- Week Days: 6 :40 A. M. except Monday. Confessions Saturdays: 4:30-5:30 P. M. Holy Days : 10:30. nance farming is the chief aim. 7:30-8:30 P. M. |

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