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Presiding Bishop was asked to ap­ Church Institute For Negroes point a committee to confer with a committee of the Institute and to re­ Investigated By Council port at the October meeting of the Council. All of which ought to make Committee Recommends that Its Functions the October meeting worth a trip to this Connecticut town. Should Be Carried on by National Council Treasurer Lewis B. Franklin re­ By W, B. Spofford ported on money matters after which the Council voted a 1949 budget of Greenwich, Conn.: — The excite­ that the functions now carried on by $3,650,000, which is approximately ment at the meeting of the National the Institute should be resumed by $150,000 more than this year, and Council at Seabury House here, April the National Council; two, that the about $450,000 more than the budget 27-29, was caused by the report of a Episcopal. Church should take due for 1947. Mr. Franklin said that committee on the work of the Amer­ cognizance of the current ¡Status of trust funds are in good shape, with ican Church Institute for Negroes. the American Negro arid should fur­ a credit balance in the profit and loss The Institute, while the creation of ther recognize local leadership, Negro account of $821,172; with the mar­ General Convention, is. an independ­ and white, in the planning and man­ ket value of securities exceeding ently incorporated affair and is not agement of the institutions; three, book value by $195,571. administered by any department of that the Church is justified in main­ the Council. The study of its work, taining only those institutions that Mr. Robert Jordon, reporting for authorized at a previous Council render a unique or special service; the department of promotion (with meeting, carried out the mandate of four, that the National Council has a nice hand for his million-dollars- the 1946 General Convention to look an obligation not only to the Church in-four hours job), said that the de­ into “its corporate status; its relation but to its Negro members to exercise partment had been obliged to devote to the General Convention, National a more positive role in the expendi­ most of its time for fund drives of a crisis nature, but that “it is now high Council and affiliated institutions, ture of the large sums it grants these time to return to its basic purpose and report its recommendations re­ institutions, and, finally, that a con­ that the membership of the Church sulting from such study to the next sideration of the budgets of the vari­ may be won to the Support of the General Convention.” ous institutions instead of a lump program of the Church in parish, The committee, headed by Bishop appropriation is desirablëi diocese, nation and world.” A state­ Peabody of Central New York, got As for recommendations the com­ ment of policy and procedure will the help of Bishops Dagwell, Haines mittee offered these: one, that the be presented at the October meeting, and Bland Mitchell, and also Presi­ Council exercise its prerogatives and but Mr. Jordon indicated that he dent L. H. Foster of Virginia State elect a hoard of trustees from its would then propose “a full staff of College, Mr. Don Davis, comptroller membership as provided in the char­ able, well-trained, adequately of Hampton Institute, and Prof. Niles ter; two, that such a board assign financed field men to cultivate the Carpenter of Buffalo University. The the institutions and the affairs of the report states that the administration Institute to the proper department of field.” costs of the Institute are high, last the National Council, which should Presiding Bishop Sherrill said that year being $34,000 out of a total receive adequate funds from sources Seabury House needs about $75,000 budget of $222,000; that it is not formerly available to the Institute in for repairs, painting, renovating of effectively controlled by National order to enable it to do the work three houses on the property so that Council or General Convention; that efficiently; three, that the board they can be occupied by rent-paying it takes little positive concern in the transfer the assets of the Institute to members of the Council staff, and he educational programs and standards the National Council; four, that the also said that he hoped that addi­ of its institutions, which, the report board dissolve as speedily as prac­ tional houses might be built for staff states, may have a bearing on the ticable the American Church Insti­ members. unfortunate condition of its mem­ tute for Negroes with due regard to Evangelism was discussed at some ber schools as regards accreditation” obligations toward employees atid length, with Bishop Sherrill saying and also that “the Institute has shown dependents and to the preservation that the first step, visitation and Lent little constructive interest in dealing of legal and financial interests. corporate communion, was “very with the religious aspects of the vari­ Statements were made by Mr. Louis spotty.” Several Council members ous schools.” Hunter, treasurer of the Institute, and said that the need now was for The committee therefore came to the Rev. Cyril E. Bentley, director, schools of religion, study groups and these conclusions: One, that since after which they voted that the study other methods of building up a body the Church now has organic and cen­ be referred to the trustees of the In­ of Church people who would then tralized leadership in the National stitute for detailed study and reply know enough about their religion to Council and its officers, we believe to the National Council. Also, the go out and talk about it. Bishop

The Witness — May 6, 1948 page three Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Sherrill said that this might well be f HANDS-OFF POLICY officials have met by publicizing “the the next step. Several bishops pres­ ON CHINA amount and nature of our gifts for ent stated that one of the marked relief.” Montreal ( r n s ) :—The synod of features of the campaign up to now He tells of meeting the Commu­ was the eagerness of lay people to the Montreal diocese of the Church nist mayor of Florence, who spoke take part in it, but every one seemed of England in Canada voted last at an outdoor service at which a to agree that knowledge of the week to request the Dominion gov­ statue of George "Washington, dam­ Church and the Christian religion ernment “to take an open stand aged by the war, was re-dedicated. was necessary for successful work against intervention in the civil war He also says that the mayor attended in personal evangelism. in China, whether by giving financial a tea at the rectory of St. James’ Plans for the next triennial meet­ aid or by the export of arms or Church, where the Rev. Sturgis Rid­ ing in San Francisco in September, munitions of war under any pretext dle is in charge. Also he tells of 194^/|fand money grants were the whatever.” The motion, submitted by two visits to Paris where “I have chief concerns of the executive board the social service committee, was seen at first hand the progress of of the Woman’s Auxiliary meeting urged by Dean K. C. Evans who was our work at Holy Trinity Cathedral April 23-26. They voted $40,000 to born and educated in China. He under the leadership of Dean O’Fer- the theological seminary in Japan declared that “It is impossible to rail.” and $9,000 to St. Margaret’s School there. They also voted money for the renovation of buildings and for equipment of various sorts for mis­ sionary stations both at home and abroad. The money voted at the last board meeting to buy a building at Dan- Vil.le,, Tnd., for a chapel for Canter­ bury College was rescinded and the sum appropriated for a residence for the principal of St. Faith’s School, Yangchow, and for part of the build­ ing program of the Christian Col­ lege, Madras, India. The Rev. Thomas (Gargoyles) Barrett told the women of the work in colleges and the Rev. Arnold Pur- die, assistant in the department of social service, addressed the board members on its work.

HAMILTON WEST The Rev. and Mrs. William H. Brown Jr. of St. Andrew’s, Lexing­ ELECTED ton, Kentucky, assemble their sons, daughters and grandchildren Jacksonville,Fla.:—The Rev. Ham­ at the recent celebration of their thirtieth wedding anniversary ilton West, rector of St. Paul’s, Au­ gusta, Ga., was elected bishop coad­ accept the various comments on the RESPONSIBILITY jutor of Florida on April 28th. Mr. internal situation coming out of OF PARENTS West is a native of the south, but the China without knowledge of the Garden City, N. Y. :—The training early part of his ministry was spent country and present conditions of children in the Christian way of in Idaho. In 1936 he became chap­ there.” life is primarily the responsibility lain to Episcopal students at the Uni­ of parents, only to be supplemented versity of Florida where he remained INTERIM REPORT by religious education in Church until 1941 when he took his present ON EUROPE schools, declared several speakers at position. He was a deputy to the New York:—Bishop Blair Larned, a conference on religious education General Conventions of 1943 and in charge of the American Churches held here under the auspices of the 1946 and has been a member of the in Europe, has sent an interim re­ diocesan department. The speakers National Council since 1945 as the port to the Church press in which were Bishop Jenkins, retired bishop representative of the province of Se- he sets forth his observations about of Nevada, the Rev. Gregory Mab­ wanee. the work there. He states that there ry, rector of St. Paul’s, Brooklyn, “has been constant worry due to and the Rev. Wesner Fallaw, profes­ CALIFORNIA BREAKS political uncertainty” and yet the sor at Andover-Newton Seminary. PRECEDENT work of the various churches has The department is sponsoring a San Francisco:—The 98th annual gone ahead. He writes of the “mer­ school of religion for adults and a convention of the diocese of Cali­ ciless bitter, anti-American propa­ training institute for teachers this fornia broke all precedents, of that ganda” with posters showing the spring at Bay Shore for the arch­ diocese or any other, by electing a United States “as a fearsome octo­ deaconry of Suffolk, with various woman as a member of the Standing' pus, stretching out its ugly tentacles clergy of the diocese as teachers, Committee. She is Mrs. Norman B. to embrace countries all over Eu­ with several similar conferences Livermore. rope,” which American government planned for the fall.

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The Role Reversed We are glad to report that no members of the gASED upon the dynamic and realistic under­ Episcopal Church representation at the conference standing of the nature of man and society, it participated in such fruitless discussion. They should be a reasonable assumption to expect that were however forced to waste time which could the Church would be pioneering ahead of the so- have been spent to more advantage elsewhere. called secular world in the area of human relation­ ships. As we know— and should humbly and Fascism Applauded shame-facedly acknowledge— this is not often the T r e spokesman for the New York delegation at case today. This past week between eight and the annual Chamber of Commerce convention, nine thousand social workers convened in Atlantic meeting in Washington last week, made some inter­ City for the National Conference of Social Work. esting statements at a dinner. One was to the Concurrently the annual Church Conference for effect that the time has come for regimentation in Social Work was held in the the United States. And when same city. he said the time has come, he The Good News of Christ “QUOTES” meant now. His reasoning ran would indicate that the latter "HERE belief in the omnipo­ like this: in November, Henry gathering should be leading tence of physical force gets Wallace will receive ten mil­ the way for the larger body. the upper hand in political life, this lion or more votes; the Demo­ However the role was reversed. force takes on a life of its own and cratic candidate will receive Whenever a professional so­ proves stronger than the men who twenty-five million and the cial worker attended the think to use force as a tool. The winning Republican nominee plenary sessions of the Church proposed militarization of the nation will receive between thirty and not only immediately threatens us conference, he breathed a sigh with war; it will also destroy the thirty-five million. This would of relief upon returning to the democratic spirit and the dignity of mean, he said, that the winning secular but somewhat vital the individual in our land. The as­ candidate would be in the atmosphere of the National sertion that events abroad force us minority as far as popular conference. It was obvious that to arm is wrong; we must combat support was concerned. Stating much of the discussion on the it with all our strength. Actually, that this must never happen, he our own rearmament, through re­ respective roles of Church or action of other nations to it, will declared that the “forces of state social service responsi­ bring about that very situation on righteousness” must act now bility, as voiced in the Church which its advocates seek to base their and regiment all of American conference, would have been proposals. There is only one path life. dead and unrealistic argumen­ to peace and security — the path of Another statement, in line tation even in the era of War­ supra-national organization. One­ with this program, was to the ren Harding and Calvin sided armament on a national basis effect that American culture only heightens the general uncertain­ Coolidge. Indulged in today, ty and confusion without being an must now be directed by selec­ it simply alienates wise, effective protection. tive thinking on the part of good and concerned people —A l b e r t E in s t e in picked specialists. who should be inspired by We state, unequivocally, and allied with the Churches. that there is no difference be­ We do not believe that the right and responsibil­ tween this type of thinking and the historical ity of the state to maintain social security on all fascist program. The frightening thing is that this levels of life, for all of its citizens, is any longer respectable man was applauded by a respectable debatable. The efficacy or wisdom of specific pro­ audience in a Washington hotel in April, 1948. visions, together with adequate safeguards against their potential abuse, are of course open to ques­ Intercessory Prayer tion, but the democratic philosophy behind over­ ^ H E army and navy chaplains meeting in New all social security cannot, for Christians, be chal­ York this week will pray “every hour on the lenged. When such a challenge takes up much of hour” for “the unfortunate, misled” people of the discussion of the Church conference on social Russia. Such a procedure brings up the question work, we little wonder that too many Churches of intercessory prayer. There are those who insist have lost the respect of the vital social work pro­ that most intercessory prayer has value because it fession. makes the one praying more interested in doing

;Thç Witness — May 6, 1948 page five Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. something about the one, or object, for which he is and James. His prayer was ever that God’s will praying. Intercessory prayer has the effect of might be done in and through people. It is typified making one broader in his imagination, and in un­ best in his agonized petition for himself, “not my derstanding his opportunities, some say. They will, but thine, be done.” point to the Litany in the Prayer Book as showing The chaplains, and all of us, ought to pray for how widespread should be the churchman’s con­ the Russian people, and other peoples, too. But it cern. In such a view, these prayers of the chap­ is when, one precedes his prayer with a judgment lains only fortify the propaganda that would in­ that he steps outside the gospel way. In praying volve us in war with the Soviet Union. For if our for a “misled” people, he is asking God simply deeds follow our prayers, then a misled people to cooperate with a personal opinion. It is the can only be rightly led when we have abolished prayer of the Pharisee in the parable,—“God, I the bad leadership. Everyone admits that the thank Thee that I am not as other men are.” Inter­ present government in the Soviet Union could only cessory prayer should begin with “God, be merci­ be unseated by overwhelming force from outside, ful to me, a sinner,” and close with, “nevertheless, since a democratic revolution on the inside is im­ not my will, blit thine, be done.” After we have possible. acknowledged our own need for forgiveness, then But there is more to intercessory prayer than we are in a position to know the need of all hu­ just its psychological effect on the one praying.. manity for this, and to pray for forgiveness and Jesus frequently used this type of prayer. He said God’s grace and blessing for all mankind. that he prayed that Peter might be converted. Militarists have an interest in forms. We would There are innumerable instances. But his inter­ like to commend the latter form of prayer to the cessory prayers were always within the framework chaplains, rather than the singling out of one group of the gospel. He refused to pray that fire would of people in this world as being “unfortunate, mis­ fall on a wicked city when asked to do so by John led.” The Church and Social Service by Arthur Lichtenberger Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Newark, and a Witness Editor A T THE outset I want to tell you how I propose nections with a diocese or a group of Church peo­ to deal with the subject assigned to me: The ple. It is quite possible for a social agency to philosophy of a Church social agency. I am not have on its board of trustees lay members of the going to speak about Church social agencies in Church, priests and bishops, to receive its support general, but about one in from diocesan funds, to employ only confirmed particular which I know; I Episcopalians on the staff and yet in actual work am not going to tell you what to be secular. All these Church affiliations are I think ought to be the philos­ no guarantee that the agency so related is a Church ophy of a Church social agen­ agency. Just as there is no guarantee that because cy, but expound the philos­ an ordained minister goes into the pulpit and pref­ ophy on which the work of aces his words with an invocation, what follows that agency rests. So I shall will be sound Christian teaching. It may and it try to describe a Church so­ may not; it all depends on what he says. So with cial agency at work in terms social work. Is it of the Church? It all depends of its philosophy. That is not on how it is done. to make the claim that there is an exact corre­ We believe that there is a profound relationship spondence between our ideals and our practice. between the work of a Church social agency and But it is to say this: these convictions about Church the Church. That relationship is found in Chris­ social work of which I am going to speak are funda­ tian convictions. The social worker in a Church mental. They are the reasons for our existence social agency is not only skilled in the techniques and the motives for our continuing effort. of the social work profession; the worker is rooted By what right can social work under religious and grounded in the faith by which the Church auspices claim to be Church social work? Cer­ lives. tainly not because of organization, external con- We could illustrate and amplify this point in Note: Paper read to the dinner of- the Episcopal Service of Youth, Atlantic City, N. J. on April 20, 1948. a number of ways but it all comes to focus in page six The Witness — May 6, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. this: we are concerned primarily with persons who strong in a difficult case where we seem to be get­ are made, we believe, in the image of God and who ting nowhere. But it must be resisted. The per­ are potential sons of God. Social workers who sonal relationship between case worker and client, have this conviction recognize techniques for what a personal relationship which finds its meaning they are: tools to be used to help people. Tech­ in God, must be achieved and maintained. niques are not important in themselves. They are It follows then also that the worker will turn essential equipment and therefore the Church social regularly not only to journals and books of the worker will be well trained and by continued profession but to the Source of healing,; the de­ study will be familiar with new developments in votional life of the worker must be nurtured. And social work. But the worker will understand quite is it unreasonable to expect that a worker in the clearly that techniques and tests and the art of Church social agency should be familiar with counselling were made for man and not man for fundamental Christian theology? Clergy are ad­ the social workers’ skill. vised to have some knowledge of social case work That is not always understood by social work­ and the social resources of the community; to have ers. There are some who are so engrossed in their some understanding of psychiatry, but not too methods and so captivated by the jargon in which much. Well this works both ways since we are they describe them that they lose sight of the fact partners in this endeavor. We expect teachers in that they are working with persons. Just as there our Church schools to be familiar with the out­ are teachers who are so taken with their devices lines of Christian doctrine; there is every reason that they overlook the purpose of their profession, why Church social workers should have this knowl­ to teach people. And there are doctors who are edge too. very expert in the practice of medicine but quite But to return to the main point of what I have unskilled in the ar.t of medicine. They diagnose to say, this matter of the personal relationship in the disease and prescribe for it but the whole social work. Claire Bishop in her book France patient is beyond their care. And of course there Alive, which is a thrilling description of the pres­ are clergymen whose response in any one of sev­ ent Christian renewal in France, tells of the in­ eral situations can be predicted in advance; they dignant comment of a young Christian who had respond with what seems to be the proper thing for gone to visit a sick person in her street. “Just the occasion without much regard for the person think,” this girl said, “she thought I was a social before them. But this is to mistake a means for worker! Isn’t that horrible? I told her I was a an end. Techniques, case work methods are only neighbor, a neighbor tools to be used with all possible skill by a person The two, social worker and neighbor, certainly in a personal relationship. Without a great deal are not mutually exclusive terms; the social work­ of verbal gymnastics we can’t avoid speaking of er who is primarily concerned with persons will clients and cases but even though we use these be neighbor to him who in our day falls among impersonal terms we must never forget that a client thieves. is a person who has feelings and needs and hopes Why? Why this concern of workers in a Church which are quite as important and real as our own. social agency for persons? We might think at Here again there is an underlying religious con­ first that the answer is found in the second great viction which is essential for the Church social commandment: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as worker. It is the awareness that the worker is not thyself.” But that is to stop short of the ultimate the source of the healing power of life, but the reasons. Why are persons of primary importance? channel, the agent. Dr. Richard Cabot used to say Because they are of infinite value to God. It is in over and over that a physician never cures a dis­ his relationship to God that the individual finds ease, he only helps make way for “the healing himself and his neighbor. This is what we Chris­ power of God.” “A great healing power,” he said, tians mean when we speak of the sacredness of “fights on our side and wins most of the battles human personality. There is a story about a for us. To me that means the goodness of God.” Frenchman named Muretus who was a Protestant A great healing power fights on our side and wins exile from Toulouse in the 17th century. He was most of the battles for us when we are trying to in Lombardy where he became very ill. He was help an individual resolve a conflict, make a diffi­ taken to a hospital for paupers and he overheard cult adjustment or release the powers of spiritual the physicians talking about him. They did not growth. know he was a scholar so they spoke in Latin think­ With that understanding, the social worker is in ing he could not understand. One of them said: the right relationship to the client and therefore “Let us try an experiment with this worthless rejects all manipulative and exploitive techniques. creature.” The physicians were startled and con­ There is an ever present and subtle temptation to founded to hear him reply in Latin: “Will you call resort to such manipulation; it is particularly worthless one for whom Christ did not disdain to

The Witness — May 6, 1948 page seven Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. die?” It was because God so loved the world— can do only poor or mediocre social work it should i of people—that he gavé himself in Jesus Christ. not do social work at all. So it is because we have this conviction about the The highest standards, then, are our standards. nature of God and man’s relation to him that we And it is the responsibility of a Church social endeavour always to deal with persons as persons. agency to pioneer, *to lead the way here and there That opens the way for the process of redemption. in developing techniques and programs. There is j a unique opportunity for the agencies affiliated with I ^ N D I mean just that, God’s redeeming power Episcopal Service for Youth to do this. We can I comes to us through sacrament and prayer, make an important contribution in the field of case but surely his grace flows through the channel of work with young people. human lives. This work, the work of a Church social agency is work of great dignity. I must A Church social agency here is a real part in confess that sometimes some of our clergy look the Church’s ministry to individuals. Yet remem­ upon it with a somewhat jaundiced eye. In case ber this is social work we are talking about. It is you have forgotten, the word jaundiced in that very interesting isn’t it, that counselling, guid­ sense means “affected with envy.” They are jealous ance, this intensely personal work, should be called < of their prerogatives and they say to you in effect: social case work. It must be that of course for we so far and no farther. Well, that works both ways. never come upon a completely isolated individual. That’s what you say to us. But there is no neces­ Man is a personal and social being. We keep sity for this sort of mutual suspicion. I can’t speak that in mind then constantly, that the person with for social workers, nor can I speak, in fact, for whom we are working is a whole person, though he the clergy. But I speak for many I am sure when may be at war with himself. He is a whole per­ I say that we welcome and desire the help of a son in a social environment. true Church social agency. We welcome the help This puts two requirements before us. First, you bring to us in our pastoral care of individuals. that all the methods and means we use to under­ You can supply skills which we lack. But not only stand the individual and to help him are to be J that. You can occasionally get to the religious dif­ brought into one integrated approach. We do not ficulties of a person better than we can. Our ap­ put the person through the rounds of a clinic and proach, by the very fact that we are in the ministry, then leave the correlation of what has been dis- I must be indirect; yours can be direct. In some in­ covered up to him. Sending a client from one per­ stances there is a barrier which we can hardly over­ son to another for a battery of tests or interviews I come but you can open up an approach, make without putting the results together for him can an open way for us. This does not mean that we be very confusing,, as confusing as the reports of relinquish our pastoral care of a person. Wè work the several blind men, you remember, who ex­ in partnership with another who complements and amined an elephant and then attempted to describe 1 supplements our efforts. Our pastoral work is him. The techniques of several different people i augmented by another’s skill; it is made more may be used for one client, but all of this informa­ effective by another’s help. tion, all of these ¡insights must be drawn together, interpreted and used by the case worker as an I believe then that social work can be a prac­ integrated whole in the counselling. tical application of the pastoral ministry of the The other point is this. Since it is impossible Church. It is done by lay people to be sure. There to deal with a person in the abstract, apart from need be no confusion here. The pastor, the ordained his social environment, a, social worker must un­ man, has one responsibility; the social worker has derstand the nature of social structure. The Rev. another. But surely the knowledge and skill of a Joseph Fletcher in an article on “Social Training I social worker can be an instrument through which for the Ministry” has written: “Problems of de­ God “restores the torn fabric of our lives.” linquency for example bring pastors to grips with If this is what a Church social agency strives to family case work and the group work problem do, then it must do its job supremely well. If the of recreational facilities, but always beyond these j Church is to do social work it must be of the best. things lies the question of employment and ulti­ We cannot make the easy assumption that an insti­ mately therefore of prices, wages and profits. The tution or an agency works for the good of people point here is that the Christian minister is not simply because that organization is under Church merely concerned with social adjustments. He auspices. With the best will in the world on the must understand clearly and circumstantially what part of those who manage and direct a Church the social structure is and how it determines his social agency it may be destructive, disrupting the peoples’ condition of life.” That applies- with lives of those to whom it seeks to minister. This is equal force to the Christian social worker. an abomination in the Church. If the Church An understanding of social structure, yes, and page eight The Witness — May 6, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. a Christian philosophy of history and a Christian It breathes a devotional spirit and a sense of schol­ view of the nature and destiny of man. It is not arship with which no one can quarrel; but it is not possible to say much about that. Arnold J. Toynbee nearly as important a book as its spirit and its delivered an address on “Christianity and Civiliza­ scholarship would seem to indicate. It reminds tion” at Oxford nearly eight years ago. Toynbee one of the bland remark by a Jesuit scholar: “We speaks not as a theologian but as an historian, but are allowed complete freedom of research, but not this is wha,t he says in conclusion: “The historical the freedom to draw independent conclusions.” progress of religion in this world, as represented “Lambeth and Unity” is quite tendentious all the by the rise of the higher religions and by their way through. The result is that author hangs him­ culmination in Christianity, may, and almost cer­ self on the three following dilemmas: tainly will, bring with it, incidentally, an immeas­ urable improvement in the conditions of human 1) While calling earnestly for the Apostolic social life on earth; but its direct effect and its succession, he does not trust the Bishops meeting deliberate aim and its true test is the opportunity at Lambeth. He refers to their attempts to broaden which it brings to individual souls for spiritual the Quadrilateral, by making its terms more pre­ progress in this world during the passage from cise, as a “theological deterioration.” Father birth to death. It is this individual spiritual prog­ Haselmayer seems to feel that the Episcopate is ress in this world for which we pray when we say necessary to the Church, but that intellectually it ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’.” is a necessary evil. The work of a Church social agency is not mere­ 2) He documents his remarks with quotations ly palliative, remedial, patching up a life here from all the Prayer Books of the Anglican Com­ and there so that people may somehow keep going. munion, but he uses a great deal of selection in It is to share, with all our inadequacies, in the this documentation which he could not have done work of redemption. so easily if he had been writing for the Church Congress. The Corpus of tradition in our branch of the Catholic Church is so great and rich that almost any man can draw from it proof tests for his own beliefs, but it is wrong to try to fit that New Books Corpus within any one set of beliefs. 3) By a constant appeal to the past he attempts ***Excellent **Good *Fair to posit an unchanging theology in the Church. This may or may not be a denial of the work of the ** Episcopalians United, Edited by Theodore P. Holy Spirit, but it leads him into such naivetés as Ferris (for the Church Congress). Morehouse the following: “From 1908 to 1920 the secular Gorham Co. $2.75. world went through the disturbance of the first World War.” This would indicate that the re­ *Lambeth and Unity, by Louis A. Haselmayer ligious world did not go through the same dis­ (for the American Church Union). More­ turbance, or perhaps that the right-minded mem­ house Gorham Co. $2.75. bers of the religious world, like the Bourbons dur­ In these two books we have an interesting con­ ing the French Revolution, forgot nothing and trast, not only in the subjects discussed, but in the learned nothing. basic methods of approaching these subjects. While not as important as it looks, a book of “Episcopalians United” consists of the papers de­ this depth cannot be ignored. It leaves out too livered at the Church Congress held at Toledo in much in its desire to press its point. No attention April, 1947. The writers’ aim is unity within the is paid to the fact, for example, that within the Episcopal Church and the result is a book that is Catholic tradition, Anglican theories of the much less impressive than it is valuable. The de­ ministry (theological, historical, and practical) sire of the writers of the papers not to give offense coincide at almost no point with the theories of the has had two results: 1) There is perhaps too much Roman Church. It is less of a red herring drawn definition of terms; and 2) there is a sheering away across the road to Unity than Father Cirlot’s from the earnestness and self-importance of articles were, and it does make more of a contribu­ fanaticism. The general amiability of the book tion to oiir general knowledge on the subject of is liable to disguise to the average reader the fact the various Quadrilaterals; but it is very much in that there is a great deal of importance in it. the deliberately selective school of scholarship to Dr. -Haselmayer’s book, on the other hand, con­ which Dom Gregory Dix and certain of the Roman cerns external unity and was written for the ap-. Catholic scholars have accustomed us. proval of a small group of like-minded people. —H. McC.

The Witness — May 6, 1948 page nine Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. the Rev. Kimber Den, written by a Church Plays Part in Social young teacher of Mahan School, Yangchow, who was assigned to the job of traveling up the Yangtze to Workers Conference inspect the work of the Church: “You will carry away from Nanchang the Dean Lichtenberger and-Dr. Walter Pettit memory of having been the guest of i Speakers at Dinner of Service for Youth an unusually great Christian, the Rev. Kimber Den. With more irons I Edited by Sara Dill in the fire than a school of black­ smiths, he stamps around at a half­ Atlantic City: — Approximately past year, and she said that the gallop from church to leprosarium, 8,000 people attended the national society, in its approach to young to blind asylum, to primate school conference of social work which met people, unites the highest standards and' a host of other personalized here April 17-23, with the Episcopal of social work with the spiritual re­ projects. To report that he also finds Church represented by large num­ sources of the Church. time to hold a prayer meeting in bers. The Episcopal Service for Bishop Gardner of New Jersey somebody’s house every day sounds | Youth held its annual conference was the celebrant at a corporate incredible, but it is true. While I J during the sessions, with Social communion at St. James’, followed was in Nanchang Mr. Den suffered Workers Walter Pettit and Dean by a breakfast and there were several from an attack of malaria and cele­ Lichtenberger of Newark the speak­ teas which afforded Episcopalians at­ brated Holy Communion with a ers at its dinner. The former dealt tending the conference a chance to with the long standing arguments as swap ideas. to whether^ private or government Interest was added to the confer­ agencies best serve human needs. He ence this year by the first post-war stated that “if a privately managed meeting of the international confer­ agency can meet a need as efficient­ ence of social work, attended by ly as a public agency, as a rule the about 60 men and women from 40 activity should remain under the pri­ countries. Highlighting this affair vate group. The quality of work, was an address by George E. Haynes, the adequacy of funds., the democra­ a communicant of the Church of cy of administration, the absence England who is the secretary of the of discriminatory policies, the at­ British council of social service. He titude toward new ideas and toward too dealt with private agencies vs. cooperation with other activities, all government agencies and said that temperature of 101. One does not j are problems that must be consid­ because the work of private agencies forget such things quickly.” Accompanying the report was the ered.” is smaller it can be personalized so picture, here reproduced, which is “In a democratic society,” he said, that the recipient of aid can feel that of special interest to readers of The “it is well to have as many organ­ he is a human being, meeting and W it n e s s , since it was taken at the izations as possible with as many dealing with friends., rather than a case number in a mechanical process. memorial school at Nanchang which | citizens directly interested in com­ Kimber Den named in memoriam of < munity activities as can be secured.” In round table discussions those attending the international confer­ the daughter of our managing editor, I The address by Dean Lichtenberg­ ence compared notes on conditions Marcia. The picture shows children er of Newark, a W it n e s s editor, is in their countries and told of their being injected against typhus and published as an article elsewhere in programs for rehabilitation, hous­ cholera. this issue. ing, resettlement of rural areas and The Episcoal League for Social j The conference was attended by other problems. Action (formerly CLID) has been representatives of 14 of the 15 di­ Episcopalian Henry A. Wallace, a raising funds for a number of years ocesan branches of the society. They delegate to the joint committee of to aid Kimber Den’s work. Any elected Mrs. John E. Woodward of trade unions in social work, ad­ wishing to contribute to Kimber South Orange, N. J. as president to dressed several overflow meetings Den’s work should send their checks succeed the late Rev. Charles W. and was given a noisy ovation at to that organization at 412 West | Sheerin, for whom a memorial serv­ one of them when he was introduced Grand Blvd., Detroit 16, Michigan. I ice was held at St. James’ Church. by another Episcopalian, Mary van Vice-presidents are Dr. Walter Pet­ Kleeck, a vice president of the Epis­ Church Club Elects tit, the Rev. John K. Mount Jr. of copal League for Social Action. New York". — The annual dinner I Baltimore, Miss Helen Olmstead of The interdenominational Church meeting of the Church Club of New Buffalo, Mr. Clarence M. Brown of conference of social workers passed York was held May 3 and the follow­ Philadelphia and the Rev. J. G. Sher­ a resolution urging the U.S. govern­ ing officers elected: President, Doug- | man of Bellerose, Long Island. Mr. ment “to seek out and pursue all las M. Moffat; vice-presidents, Allan j Arthur A. Atha of Brooklyn is the possible avenues toward an amicable Davies, J. Ralph Jacoby, George N. j treasurer. adjustment with Russia.” Lindsay; secretary, Edwin N. Per‘ j kins; treasurer, Edwin Gibbs; trus- | Miss Edith F. Balmford, national Praise for Kimber Den executive secretary, stated that more tees for a three year term, George j than 8,500 young people between the Shanghai:—The Newsletter of the D. Edwards, Bedell H. Harned, J ages of 14 and 25 sought the help American Church Mission for March Charles M. Richter. of the federated societies during the has this to say about the work of The retiring president, Judge Rob' I T he Witness — May 6, 1948 j page ten Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. ert McC. Marsh, presided at a din­ The Rev. Francis 0. Ayres, Jr., Catholic parish here. Pastor Paul ner when there was a talk by Canon rector of St. John’s, Waterbury, Con­ Pfister proposed that the church be James Green of the Cathedral of necticut will be the conference chap­ named “Reconciliation Church” be­ St. John the Divine, on “Precentors, lain. cause it was given to replace an edi­ choir schools and music.” Courses will be offered in Chris­ fice destroyed during the war. The tian education, personal religion, money for the building, $4,613, was Lack of Milkers liturgies, Christian social relations, contributed by the Episcopal Church Boston ( r n s ) : — The Methodist women’s work. In addition there will of the United States.. Church has become so over-urban­ be the school of Church music which ized that at general conferences has made Wellesley distinctive for Education Fund “only a couple of delegates could many years. Kirkwood, Mo.:—The diocese of milk a cow,” Prof. C. M. McCon­ Those teaching at the conference Missouri is seeking $50,000 for theo­ nell of Boston University told the are Mrs. Harold C. Kelleran, Mrs. logical education. The purpose is general conference meeting here. He Dora P. Chaplin, Miss Avis E. Har­ to contribute to the needs of the warned that neglect of rural parishes vey, and the Rev. Messrs. David R. Virginia Seminary, the Seminary of “will find members sinking into Hunter, Robert L. Curry, Meredith the University of the South, and to paganism.” Wood, Lawrence Rose, William B. have funds available to assist Bexley Japanese Bishops Spofford, Jr., Thaddeus Clapp, Clif- ' ford L. Stanley, Morton C. Stone, Tokyo ( r n s ) :—Three bishops of Roy W. Battenhouse. the Church in Japan have been The director of the music school granted permits by occupation au­ will be Mr. George Faxon. Teaching thorities to attend the Lambeth Con­ in the school will be Mr. Faxon, ference: Bishop Yashiro of Kobe; Dr. Healey Willan of the University Bishop Makita of North Kwanto; of Toronto, and Mr. Edward B. Gam­ Assistant Bishop Yanagihara of mons, director of music, Groton Osaka. The last two will also at­ School. Special lectures will be giv­ tend the assembly of the World en by Dr. Wallace Goodrich, Mr. Council of Churches in Amsterdam. Richard E. Klausli, Mr. Philip Mal- College Conference pas, Mr. Charles D. Matheson, and Mr. William E. Self. Ann Arbor:—A conference on The cost of the Conference is college work with the theme “Chris­ $38.00 including a $10.00 registra­ tian Witness on the Campus” was tion fee. Programs and registration held here, April 16-18, under the cards may be secured from Miss Ruth auspices of the midwest province. Cheyne, 233 Clarendon St., Boston. It was attended by 84 students from 22 colleges located in Ohio, Indiana Attends First Council and Michigan. Leaders were Bishop Pelotas, Brazil:—Bishop Louis C. Emrich of Michigan, the Rev. Robert Melcher, newly consecrated coad­ NAVE LANTERN F. McGregor of Oberlin, Ohio, the jutor of Southern Brazil, attended designed and made by Rambusch for Rev. Hugh C. White Jr. of Michigan his first council of the Church in Christ's Church, Rye, New York State Normal College, the Rev. John Brazil, meeting here for five days in Rev. Wendell W. Phillips, Rector H. Burt, chaplain to Episcopal stu­ April. He proposed an every mem­ F. T. Methven, Architect dents at the University of Michigan. ber canvass from May 23 to June 6 In addition the following acted as ad­ and presented a preliminary pro­ visers: Miss Maxine Westphal of gram for it. A thought for those confronted with a the University of Michigan ; the Rev. John Porter, chaplain at Hillsdale Reconciliation Church Church Lighting Problem: Those lights College; the Rev. George Culleney, F rankfurt-am-Main, Germany: — may be there for many generations. Is it chaplain at Albion College; the Rev. A wooden barracks church provided William Clobsch, chaplain at Mich­ by the reconstruction department of not incumbent on you to insist on the best igan State; the Rev. John Carlton, the World Council of Churches was in craftsmanship and the latest in church consecrated April 25 by the Old chaplain at Northern Michigan and lighting technique? Write for our new the Rev. Sidney Brown, chaplain at Ohio University. booklet on “Church Lighting Trends”. THE ANGLICAN SOCIETY

Wellesley Conference THE ANGLICAN SOCIETY (American Branch) promotes love and loyalty to the Prayer Boston:—The Wellesley Confer­ Book and the principles it enshrines. Members ence, one of the oldest Church con­ pay $2.00 a year as dues and receive the News RAMBUSCH Sheet of the Society, three or four times a year, ferences, will hold its forty-first sea­ as well as all leaflets published by the Society, D esigners D ecoralors and ^Draftsmen and the: magazine published by the English So­ son from June 20 to June 26, at ciety. For particulars and applications for mem­ 4 0 W est 13th St. New York 11. N. Y.i Wellesley College twelve miles from bership, address the Secretary. Officers: Hon. President, The Rt. Rev. Dr. G. Ashton Oldham, Rambusch for Decoration, Murals, Boston. Canon Theodore 0. Wedel Bishop of Albany; President, The Very Rev. of the Washington Cathedral will be Edward R. Welles, Dean of Buffalo; Vice presi­ Altars, Altar Rails, Pulpits, dent, The Rev. Dr. J. Wilson Sutton, Rector lighting Fixtures, Woodwork, Art Metal the keynote speaker of the confer­ of St. Stephen’s Church, New York; Secretary, The Rev. Canon Charles E. Hill, Twin Oaks, and Stained Glass Windows ence, and will lecture on “The Gos­ Williamstown, Massachusetts; Treasurer, Mr. H. D. W. Lackmann, Livingston, Columbia Co., pel, The Church and The World.” New York.

T he W it n e s s — May 6, 1948 page eleven Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Hall and other institutions as the sor Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Semi­ need arises. The fund will also as­ nary; Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of SEN TIN ELS sist candidates for the ministry from the Methodist Church and Bishop the diocese. The campaign was Oldham of Albany. Bishop Bell of FOR FREEDOM launched at a dinner presided over Chichester is one of the three repre­ A recent letter from a physician whose [ by Bishop Scarlett at which Chan­ sentatives of Great Britain. pastor had given him Spiritual Mobi- [ cellor Alexander Guerry of the Uni­ The report will be presented by lization tracts spoke. of the ministers versity of the South was the speaker. Mr. Dulles. who constitute this Crusade as “senti­ nels for freedom.” The chairman of the campaign is Step Toward Unity In a freedom abandoning age it isn’t Ethan A. H. Shepley, St. Louis at­ always easy or popular to champion it. I torney. Toronto (rn s) :— Archbishop But our position is becoming stronger I George F. Kingston, primate of the each day as world trends and condi- I Church Consecrated Church of England in Canada, and tions become more obvious. When this Crusade started, fourteen ( Minneapolis, Minn.:—St. John’s the Rt. Rev. T. W. Jones, moderator years ago, its views were very un- I Church, located in the Linden Hills of the United Church of Canada, popular. Now, especially in its crusade section of this city, was consecrated have sent a joint letter to their con­ to get 5,000,000 new voters eligible and I on May 2 by Bishop Keeler. stituents exhorting them to study the voted this year, it has the support of thousands who had been critical. proposal for “a mutually acceptable This Crusade does not seek to do any- I Bexley Conference ministry.” one’s thinking. It does not tell any­ Gambier, O.:—A conference for The proposal has been recommend­ one who to vote for or how to do his ;| men interested in the ministry was ed by a joint commission of the two pastoral job. It never raises any held at Bexley Hall from April 30 theological issues. It is just an earnest communions and represents the lat­ group of 12',791 pastors of churches, j through May 2. Speakers were Bish­ est step in their negotiations toward “sentinels for freedom,” who take their I op-elect William J. Gordon of Alas­ union. In their joint letter the two New Testament seriously and believe I ka; the Rev. Arthur W. Hargate Church leaders declared that no plan that spiritual freedom, the dignity of I of Toledo; the Rev.. Robert F. Mc­ man, the democratic process, and the I of corporate reunion can be formu­ sovereignty of the citizen over the state 1 Gregor of Oberlin; the Rev. Nelson lated “until certain preliminary are in peril here and MUST be saved. I M. Burroughs of Cincinnati; the Rev. problems of importance have been Do you share our convictions and con- I E. H. Buxton of Bellefontaine, Ohio, examined.” cerns? Will you make common cause | and members of the Bexley faculty. with us? May we send you tracts I “Whether the plan proposed for a concerning the 5,000,000 voters cam- j mutually acceptable ministry should paign and other tracts incident to our | Young People Meet prove acceptable or not to both com- Crusade? W e need your help! Free- I Flint, Mich.:—Bishop Emrich and dom needs friends and crusaders who, [ Dean John J. Weaver were headliners in the areas of their influence, will up- I hold it and the sense of individual, |l at the annual young people’s confer­ personal responsibility which alone can j ence of the diocese of Michigan NEW BOOKS FROM FAITH PRESS, LONDON preserve it. which was held here at St. Paul’s, James W . Fifield, Jr. D.D. April 16-17. 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Eternal Sacrifice. men from 18 countries, serving as the Price, 85 cents Commission of the Churches on In­ NAME ternational Affairs. Representing the MOREHOUSE-GORHAM S T R E E T ...... United States will be John Foster 14 E. 41st St., New York 17 Dulles, special adviser to Secretary 29 E. Madison St., Chicago 2 C H U R C H ...... - r of State, George Marshall; Profes- C IT Y ...... STATE..,..------' page twelve The Witness — May 6, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. munions,” they said, “the proposals landing and was out of commission. actual erection of the hut will be certainly call for an earnest study There was gloom in Supai when this under an expert from the steel com­ on the part of both ministers and report was phoned down. But soon pany. people. It is only by such study that the gloom was lifted by another it will be possible to find out the call saying that a second helicopter Professor Is Backed true mind of the Churches con­ had been obtained and the flight Evansville, Ind. : — Widespread cerned.” would take place as scheduled. controversy has been started by the Monday morning dawned bright dismissal of George Parker, assistant A World “First” and sunny and very little wind. The professor of religion and philosophy Phoenix, Ariz. : — The Episcopal Mutual Broadcasting System had a at Evansville College, privately- Church scored a world “First” on team on hand to make a transcription endowed school supported by the April 12th, when a helicopter de­ of the first flight of the helicopter Methodist Church following his livered a quonset hut to the site of and its reception by the Indians, fol­ activities on behalf of Henry A. St. Andrew’s mission chapel in lowed by a part of the dedicatory Wallace. “Deep concern” was ex­ Havasu Canyon, 3000 feet below the exercises. When the sound of the pressed by Methodist Bishop Titus surrounding country. The Havasupai motor was heard and the machine Lowe of the Indianapolis area, who Indians have lived in this canyon could be seen approaching just about for some 500 or 600 years, raising the whole tribe assembled and when their figs, peaches, apples, corn, the landing was made a great shout beans and squash, and irrigating went up. For the rest of the day them and their pastures with the the helicopter was busy ferrying cold, clear waters of the Havasu down some of the steel, but mostly River which runs through their its time was taken up in bringing c^pyon and empties into the Colo­ down and taking out the various rado River some 10 miles below the publicity men from the newspapers, village of Supai. The Episcopal radio, news reels, television, and Church has had contact with this photographers. In the middle of the tribe for about 25 years, chiefly afternoon a cavalcade arrived on through the ministrations of the Ven. horseback after a three hour ride J. Rockwood Jenkins, retired Arch­ down the trail, and the dedication deacon of Arizona. Few visits could then took place. be made during the year because of An opening prayer by the Rev. the isolation and the difficulties of Mr. Frazier was followed by Bishop getting down into the canyon on Kinsolving introducing the Indian horseback or afoot. But the work Service officials, including Mr. Tom was kept up and today there are a Dodge, superintendent of the Trux- good number of baptized and a ton Canyon agency, of which the few confirmed persons. Havasupai Reservation is a part, who Early last winter the idea of hav­ made a short speech. Then the ing a quonset hut for a chapel began Tribal leaders were introduced and to be worked out, and a steel con­ Mr. Lee Marshall spoke for the will give me the opportunity of sending you struction company offered to give tribe. Then the bishop read the our latest 1948 Catalog for Sunday School the hut and deliver it at Hilltop Teachers—a 100 page booklet containing Dedicatory prayer and requested thousands of helps and suggestions for lead­ where the horse trail starts down Archdeacon Jenkins to dedicate the ing, teaching or supervising a successful Sun­ into the canyon. It was then that cornerstone. The benediction closed day School . . . planning special programs the helicopter was thought of and the service. . . . raising money . . . increasing attendance the Bishop of Arizona entered into The quonset hut will sit on a . . . and inspiring greater spiritual activity. a contract with an airways company three foot stone wall built by the to use its helicopter to fly the hut, Indians from the red rock of the CONTAINS MANY FREE TRIAL OFFERS piece by piece, into the Canyon. canyon walls, and will have a stone Its many generous sample and free trial of­ When this plan was made public, front with a mission belfry. All of fers give you the chance to try before you and it was realized that it was really the work on the chapel is being done buy. an event of national, if not world, in­ by the Indians themselves, and the This handy reference boo\ is yours for terest then everybody wanted to get the asking. Write me for your copy. in on the publicity. The date of the event was set for Monday, April -X-Shrsaie Mont-X- 12th. Bishop Kinsolving and the Rev. Robert P. Frazier, who has Vacations: been in charge of the work at Supai May to October for clergy, laity, families, friends. In Alleghenies, 100 miles due West since last September and makes a of Washington by Greyhound Bus. & Auto. Grounds of rare mountain beauty; mineral monthly visit of several days’ du­ spgs.; many recreations; modern lodges and ration each month, went down to cottages; central halls and refectory. Noted Cathedral Shrine — perpetual trust of the Supai several days before to be sure Church. Rates: By 3 wks. up—$22.50 to $30. By wk. $25 to $35.—room, meals, serv­ that everything was ready in the ice, ample baths. Prospectus: Wilmer E. canyon. Sunday was a day of rain, Moomaw, Agent, Shrine Mont, ’ Orkney Springs, Va. Clergy Seminar for clergy of sleet and high winds. The helicopter the general Church: July 26th to August 6th. 11 days $25; evening lectures and daily which had arrived in that part of services open to all guests. the country had to make a forced

The Witness — May 6, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. page thirteen declared the Church “always has supported full religious and political Write us for freedom of speech, thought and Everything for the n | Organ Information action.” Bishop Lowe said Parker’s Episcopal Church w® ouster would be considered at the AUSTIN ORGANS» Inc. annual state Methodist conference in gtotmibon & Company Hartford, Conn. HORACE L. VARIAN June. V I 31 S. Frederick St. Baltimore 2, Md.' John C. Soucie, president of the Central Labor Union (AFL) here, Ù STtIDIOSOF endorsed the college action in de­ GGORGG JUPÄYDG manding Parker’s resignation, say­ PURE IRISH LINENS AND FINEST oiiGLée piXce»iPATeRson q.j; ' ing the latter’s political activities COTTONS : < a FôurabeD.iô96 » | M reflected “on the school and other For All Church Uses CHURCH: ílieíDORLSLS 24" Birdseye — 2.50, 36" Surplice linen sm ineD GLass^'wóoD’ffisfAÉ faculty members.” 1.75 per yd. Also Cassock cloth, black, red, purple. ALL CHURCH CRAFTS . ' / Meanwhile, a resolution reaffirm­ Prices stable. Samples free. HO XoKOEÄ AJSOC.IAIED’ivm.TMtPÄyKE -SPIERS STUW 'ciiÁf* ing its adherence to civil liberty and M ARY FAW CETT CO. academic freedom was adopted at Box 146, Plainfield, N. J. ALTAR orders pr o m p t l y filled Greencastle by the Indiana chapter BREADS SA,NT MARY’S CONVENT KENOSHA • WISCONSIN of the American Association of uni­ versity professors. During a period of political tension, the resolution CATHEDRAL STUDIOS Washington, London. Materials, linens, by the MENEELY said, it is necessary “to adhere firm­ yd. Surplices, albs, Altar Linens, stoles burses, veils. My new book Church Embroidery BELL CO. ly to the principles of civil liberty Cr Church Vestments ( 1 st edition sold out. and academic freedom and tenure for 2nd edition now ready). Complete Instruction, 2 2 RIVER S T ., 128 pages, 95 illustrations, vestment patterns T R D Y , N . Y . which the American Association of drawn to scale, price $7.50. Handbook for Altar Guilds 53c. L. V. Mackrille, 11 W University Professors stands.” Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md 15. Tel. Wis A statement protesting Parker’s consin 2752. discharge was also issued by the Indianapolis Committee on Civil Rights. * R.GEISSLER.INC.T' Petitions were being circulated on CHOIR VESTMENTS 71-79 W. 45th St.. New York 19. N. Y. the College campus to get student Clerical Suits Gfturcfi Fumishinüs reaction to the demand for Parker’s Cassocks . . . Surplices IN CARVED WOOD AND resignation. Students favoring the Stoles MARBLE-BRASS • SILVER dismissal of Parker said the final FABRICS + WINDOWS Rabats, Rabat Vests, Collars tabulation would show a three- Black Clerical Shirts to-one vote in their favor. Parker supporters declared that many who CHURCH HANGINGS favor their stand won’t put them­ Altar Linens MONEY for your TREASURY selves on record because they intend Over 1,500,000 to teach or work in Evansville after C. M. ALM Y & SON, INC, SUNFLOWER DISH CLOTHS 562 Fifth Ave. New York 19, N.Y. Were sold in 1946 by members of Sunday graduation. However, college trus­ Schools, Ladies Aids, Young People’s Croups, tees indicated they would make no etc. They enable you to earn money for your treasury, and make friends for your organiza­ change in their stand, regardless of tion. SANGAMON MILLS the outcome of the student vote. Established 1915 Cohoes, N. Y. Ralph Madson Injured THe p a y o s - sp ie r s Moultrie, Ga.: — The Rev. G. Ralph Madson, rector at Albany, Ga., was critically injured on April 13 when his car crashed into a, truck. He was carried to a hospital here where, due to severe head and chest injuries, very little hope is held out for his recovery. J. W ippell & Co., Ltd. Exeter ' England.: I * •Pulpit and Choir • stained glass windows Headquarters for silver, brass, and bronze RELIGIOUS SUPPLIES church ornaments em broidered vestments» frontals etc., y s!L VESTM ENTS • HANGINGS ¡gSTOLES • EMBROIDERIES ¡ s p : ■ f j Scom m union Sets • Altar Ap- I pointments • Altar Brass Goods George L. Payne American representative | % ( \ | CHURCH GOODS One Lee Place, Paterson 3, N. J. | CATALOG l l i t l SUPPLY COMPANY .ON REQUEST STREET, PHILADELPHIA 7, PA. page fourteen T he Witness — May 6, 1948 Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. BACKFIRE SCHOOLS Readers are encouraged to comment on editorials, articles and news. Since space is limited we ask A three year course in that letters be brief. We reserve the right to abstract ______and to print only those we consider important. NURSING is offered to High School graduates Rev. E. H. Eckel An odd fallacy runs through all pacifist Scholarships available Rector of Trinity, Tulsa, Okla. arguments: that we who favor bringing Write to Director of Nursing The clergy are warned against a mid­ about international peace by diplomacy dle-aged woman bearing the name of Mrs. backed by armed force, are the only ones HOSPITAL OF SAINT BARNABAS Enid Maxson who claims to have' been who believe the “end justifies the means.” 685 High St. Newark 2, N. J. active in the Episcopal Church in San The pacifists’ “end” is, they say, inter­ Francisco and New Orleans. Should she national peace. To bring this about they make herself known kindly communicate are willing to shatter the chief defenses MARGARET HALL her whereabouts to me at 501 S. Cincin­ we now have against international bandits, Under Sisters of St. Helena nati Ave., Tulsa 3, Okla. the sense of solidarity America found (Episcopal) Small country boarding and day .school for H« Hi Hi within herself during the late war and the girls, from primary through high school. loyalty and conviction of our young men. Accredited college preparatory. Modern build­ Miss J oan Arbour Without protection of armed might against ing recently thoroughly renovated includes Sec’y to Secretary for College Work gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of Russia’s determination that we shall not six acres with ample playground space, of the Province of New England prevent chaos in Europe, no Marshall Plan hockey field and tennis court. Riding. Board It is indeed disheartening to read of aid can be put into effect. Russia, and Tuition $850. For catalog, address: Mrs. Weeks’ wish to discontinue her sub­ Sister Rachel, Prin. O.S.H., Box A, Versailles, that is the Communist dictatorship, not Kentucky scription to your fine magazine (W itness, the Russian people, has planned since April 22) because she finds herself too 1943 anyway to expand her power by upset by urges to stir herself to protest treachery, chaos, violence and calculated against infringement of civil liberties, Ne­ HOLDERNESS gro inequality, etc. cruelty. Stalin makes no bones about it, In the White Mountains. College Preparatory except when by talking “peace” he can and General Courses. Music and Crafts. Fr* Our Lord stirred a great number, and gain time to plan war. boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 continues to do so. He gives true peace acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ and quiet only to the hearts of those men As to the assumption that force never dividual attention. Home atmosphere. who dare to act according to the urges yet brought about peace (not so stated Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector stirred by Him. Our Church recognizes but implied by all pacifists) I have seen Box W . ii .Plymouth, N. H. its responsibility to men in all phases of it do so twice in my half-century of life. life: economic, political and social, as well The “punitive expedition” of General as ethical and moral. What true Christian Pershing into Mexico to rout out Francisco CARLETON COLLEGE can hope to find peace if he doesn’t raise Villa. Many feared that would precipitate Laurence M. Could, D.Sc., President his voice in protest against infringements war. It didn’t. Both Wilson and Persh­ Carleton is a co-educational liberal arts of civil liberties, and if he doesn’t concern college of limited enrollment and is rec­ ing intended peace. The Mexican govern­ ognized as the Church College of Min­ himself with seeing that the Christian way ment reconciled itself to the action and no nesota. is at least pointed out to the men who bitterness was left. Two, the much de­ Address: Director of Admissions formulate the economic, social and politi­ CARLETON COLLEGE cried atom bombing of two Japanese cities. Northfield Minnesota cal policies of the world? Despite people who wring their hands Hi H* Hi over the “fiendishness” of atomic warfare, Rev. Warwick Aiken that particular use of the bomb while Rector of Christ Church, Vicksburg, Miss. it was still a surprise weapon actually FORK UNiON Before making T he Witness state so brought world war two to an end under emphatically that Negroes are brutally Truman’s skillful handling. The atom MILITARY ACADEMY bomb is at best a last resort. But the Highest Government rating with strong Christian treated, don’t you think it would be well emphasis. Upper School prepares for University for you to make an investigation yourself? American people as a whole are against or Business. Fully accredited. R.O.T.C. Every I’m sure you don’t know it but we are its wholesale use to start, or continue, modern equipment. Separate Junior School from a war. six years up, housemothers. Students from sincerely trying to get along with our thirty states. Catalogue, Dr. J. C. Wicker, Colored brethren. I’ve lived nearly all my I spoke of the solidarity of the Ameri­ Box 284, Fork Union, Va. 59 years in the South, have been raised can people, new found during world war with them, there being one to four in our two. We still have it, I think, to fall house or on our premises, and when in Virginia Episcopal School back on. But articles like those of the Lynchburg. Virginia business employed as many as 20 at once E.P.F. could easily wreck it, causing as Prepares boys for colleges and university. and as far as I know have never had a Splendid environment and excellent corps of hard word with one and certainly never much sorrow and suffering (without ad­ teachers.* High standard in scholarship and mitting it) as anything the peace-by-force athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in a quarrel. the mountains of Virginia. ANSWER: The Witness stated nothing, people can accomplish. In fact the lat­ For catalogue apply to emphatically or otherwise. Mr. Aiken re­ ter are much like a frontier community George L. Barton, Jr., Ph.D., Headmaster, Box 408 fers to a news despatch (Witness, April electing a sheriff and giving him guns 8) sent by the Religious News Service and power to select and use a posse which quotes a letter written by the Rev. against criminals. That really does work. W. H. Jernagin, head of the Washington There was a time when the number of KEMPER HALL bureau of the Fraternal Council of Negro pacifists in the population was so small KENOSHA, WISCONSIN they could safely be allowed to indulge Boarding and day school for girls offering Churches, to Attorney General Tom Clark. thorough college preparation and training for It was presented as news not as editorial their own pet hate against the soldier purposeful Jiving. Study of the Fine Arts opinion. who defends them. That time is past. encouraged. Complete sports program. Junior School department. Beautiful lake shore cam­ Hs H* Hs I am the mother of three sons, all of pus. Under direction of the Sisters of St. Mrs. Gertrude W. Scott potential military age. Mary. For catalogue, address: Box W T. Churchwoman of San Pedro, Cal. The April 1 issue gave too much space — LENOX SCHOOL — to the arguments of the Episcopal Pacifist A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for Fellowship. If, as hinted in a note, the CAMP PEQUOT boys 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals and Boys 7-1$ character through simplicity of plant and editors differ to any extent from the views 2 weeks, $45 ; 4 weeks, $85 ; 8 weeks, equipment, moderate tuition, the cooperative put forth, there should have been either $170. On beautiful lake in Bear Mt. Park. self-help system, and informal, personal re­ articles or editorials giving the opposite 36 miles from New York. Rugged outdoor- lationships among boys and faculty. side. It is irresponsible journalism for life. Complete program. Booklet. Rev. Robert L. Curry, Headmaster editors to “not even see” article (or cover HOLY- TRIN ITY CHURCH Lenox Massachusetts pictures) to be used. 316 East 88th St., New York 28, N. Y.

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