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Vol. VII. No. 48 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JULY 21, 1923 $2.00 A YEAR Our Rural Leaders Meet to St. Louis to Have Memorial to Discuss Problems Bishop Tuttle

Pass Important Resolutions at the Close of the Community Centre to be Erected in Connection Conference Held at Wisconsin With Christ Church Cathedral

The University of Wisconsin is almost The Bishop of Missouri is our authority unique among the universities of the coun for the announcement that the Diocese of try in its numerous contributions to all Missouri has committed itself to the work the various needs of the state. Thousands of creating a substantial Memorial to the late Bishop Tuttle in the city of St. Louis. of young people flock there for the sum It will take the shape of a splendid Bishop mer schools. One sees Chinese boys and Tuttle Memorial building. It is proposed girls, Japanese and occasionally the face that the Memorial building should serve of the East Indian, besides hundreds of these purposes, among others: First. Built in connection with the Ca native young people. thedral which stands on the corner of a Perhaps the most striking and novel of magnficent projected Memorial Plaza and its summer schools is the School for Ru civic center, the Bishop Tuttle Memorial ral Pastors. This school meets from June would perpetuat§ for all time in the heart 26 to July 6. The professors of the Agri of St. Louis the memory and influence of cultural College of the University give the its noble and great-hearted citizen and Bishop. Through such a living Memorial courses. the work of Bishop Tuttle would go for This year the second of the Pastors’ ward from generation to generation. School, the Department of Christian So Second. Situated in the strategic cen cial Service of our National Council, ar tral city of the West, and erected in con nection with the parish buildings of the ranged for seventeen of the priests en first parish which our American Church gaged in rural work throughout the coun ever organized west of the Mississippi try to have their part in this school. There River, the Bishop Tuttle Memorial would were over seventy ministers present, rep be of much more than local significance resenting eleven religious communions. and value. The Diocese of Missouri would The school began at 8 in the morning with wish to make it at all times available for an intensive course on the Rural Survey. the use of the General Church in connec The second course, given by Professor tion with national and provincial gather Gillen, had for its subject Rural Sociology. ognized the neglect of the Rural Work ings. The third course was in Agricultural and the necessity of advancing it, and Third, It would house the missionary Economics, with particular attention to Whereas, The National Council has been the Cooperative Movement. Besides these activities of the Church in the Diocese of asked to develop this phase of the Missouri. a number of alternative courses were Church’s Mission, therefore this Confer Fourth. It would provide for the care given. The fourth hour in the morning ence of Rural Workers called by the De of the noble social service work being was given to a conference o’f Ihe clergy partment of Social Service of the National carried on at the Cathedral and would of our Church meeting in St. Francis Club Council at Madison, Wis., make the fol allow for the expansion of this phase of House. lowing recommendations: the Church’s work in order to meet a daily 1. That the Natonal Council do every Our own conference was made up of growing necessity and opportunity. representatives from Spokane, South Da thing in its power through the Depart After carefully considering various sug- kota, Minnesota, Mississippi, Western Ne ment of publicity and every other avail gestons, the Church people of Missouri braska, Central New York, Michigan, able agency to stress the importance of were of one mind that the most fitting Newark, Virginia, Utah, Fond du Lac, and Rural Work and to awaken the conscience place for a Bishop Tuttle Memorial would Milwaukee. Dean Carroll M. Davis, sec of the Church to its duty. be in connection with Christ Church Ca retary for Domestic Missions, and the Rev. 2. That the Department of Religious thedral in downtown St. Louis. For near Chas. N. Lathrop, executive secretary of Education adapt its educational policies ly forty years this was Bishop Tuttle’s the Department of Christian Social Serv and program to include the Rural Field. seat as Bishop of the Diocese of Missouri. ice, also took the courses. 3. That the Department of Missions For over 20 years it was his home as Pre The conference of the Episcopal Clergy be urged to use its influence in sending siding Bishop of the Church, the center presented the various methods for rural specially trained men to the Rural Field. from which his influence went forth. work and while showing varying condi 4. That where it is not being done tions in different parts of the country, the Theological Seminaries be requested to they showed as well a common residuum present Rural Work as a vocation to the ADDRESS CHANGES of problems and came to certain definite students and offer courses to prepare them Please give the old address as well as findings. They passed the following reso for it. lutions : 5. That the entire Diocese or Mission the new one. Ask for but one address Whereas, The Protestant Episcopal ary District be divided into counties or change at a time— write again when you Church in its last General Convention rec {Continued on page 6) wish to have it changed back. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 T H E WITNESS

Current Comment Cheerful Confidences By The Observer (Ülur lialjnpa By Rev. George Parkin Atwater, D. D.

“ People have not been taught what is THE DEAD WEIGHT OF CUSTOM vital in religion,” said a great religious William Mercer Green, Bishop One beautiful June day in a memor leader of our Church, the other day. Cer Coadjutor of Mississippi, was born able year in which I wandered for a few tainly he would seem to be right when we in Mississippi in 1876. He graduated months about Europe, I went with my look about us in. summer. Why should not from the University of the South in companions to lunch at a little hotel nes religion be the supreme joy of life in the tled alongside the wall of old Chester in loveliest season of the year? If the later 1896, receiving his Master Degree from the same institution in 1898, England. Upon entering the coffee room, service is not so well attended,— why are where you could get lunch but only tea, I not our altars thronged at the early and his Bachelor of Divinity Degree saw a sideboard, groaning (I think that'is Eucharists? in 1899. His entire ministry has the proper word) with great platters of been spent in the Diocese of which baked meats and other delicacies. A roast One result of the splendid Summer Con he is now a Bishop; Jackson, Canton, of English beef, of unbelievable size, oc ference Movement in the Church does not Knoxville, and Vicksburg being the cupied the throne, while all about were receive as much notice as might be de the lambs and calves and fowls-in-waiting. cities served. He was consecrated sired. Where there is a strong devotional They were as cold as the general exhorta life- at the conference, many a soul today Bishop Coadjutor in 1919. tion, and as neat and trim as a well man has reason to bless a Conference and a aged double wedding. We were expected Conference Chaplain, for a new insight to examine casually the display and make into the privilege of the Eucharist, and a our choice of what we would have for new understanding of the Meaning of young people be devoted to the brilliance lunch. Prayer. of their own ideas, instead of consecrat When the ceremonious waiter stood at ing all their splendid powers to the serv my elbow he said, “ Thank you,” which ice of Our Lord and His Church. And they means about what “ Hello” means on the A lady came to me the other day, ask are not slow to respond, either, when His telephone, and I said, “ Cold chicken, ing whether I would not get out a list of Challenge is presented to them. please.” summer reading for the congregation. She “ Yes, sir, thank you sir, chicken and made me ashamed. Why are we clergy so ’am, sir.” slow to see how ready our people are to And the Church must present the re “ No,” said I calmly, “ COLD CHICK be led— if we will only lead? Why should ligion of Her Lord with Faith— and not with a question mark. EN.” Lent be the only time when we recom It was a cruel thing for me to say. mend lists of devotional books? For in Chicken and ham are as inseparable in stance, would it not be a fine thing if a Is the automobile going to do away with the minds of English waiters as Punch group of people would take MacNeile’s the parish picnic? I read the other day of and Judy, Tom and Jerry, Haig and Haig, marvellous little book on “ Self Training in a parish picnic where four hundred men and tupenny-hapenny. To have asked for Prayer” and read it over and over again and women and children had a lovely time giraffe steak would have been as absurd during summer. Great as Dr. Fosdick’s together, and it seemed so good to find a to this patient fellow’s mind as to ask for book is, Dr. MacNeile’s is greater. It is parish still enjoying this kind of fellow cold chicken. The fowl in question was shorter. It does not tell you so much ship. There are some parishes that never unquestionably upon the sideboard, in about prayer. It is not nearly such a rich have a picnic. Just think what it would close proximity to the ham. treasure house on the subject. But you mean for that Fifth Avenue Church to go The waiter gazed upon me with that cannot read it without praying, and find on a parish picnic! No, I don’t mean blank look which bespeaks a massive tol ing new help and strength in prayer. sending some other people’s children on a erance for the unelect, and said again but picnic. I mean going themselves— all to with a somewhat less unction and addi gether. There are some parishes where a tional pity, The Rev. John S. Bunting, Rector of children’s picnic is possible, but a real “ Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. In a mom the Church of the Ascension, St. Louis, is parish picnic would baffle the imagination. ent, sir. Right you are, sir." Directly, one of the leaders of the Church who has And there are some Rectors who might be sir. Chicken and ’am, sir. Thank you, grasped the inner spiritual significance of afraid to undertake such a venture! sir.” the movement which we call the Nation- “ Just a moment,” I said as he was Wide Campaign. He claims that the Cam Are you having the Witness sent to your about to go„ “ I do not want any ham. I paign has re-vitalized his Parish. And he summer address? has just published at the modest price of Are you paying your pledge as regular twenty cents a little brochure entitled ly as ever these days? “ Forces that Made the Church.” Here is Are you a witness for Christ and His REV. G .A .STUDDERT KENNEDY your ehanee, Rectors, to make an invest Church this summer? ment in your Vestry. Give them each a I B elieve copy, on the understanding that they will If anyone wants to read a book that Is each read it through from cover to cover good for their soul and at the same time stimulating to the intellect, send for a copy before they return from their summer va of this book by Woodbine Willie, who cations. Rev. George Craig Stewart writes Theology in a language understood by the people and with a zip that makes the dry bones of complacent orthodoxy Evolution: A Witness to God rattle.”—Bishop Johnson. I saw somewhere a few days ago, one $1.50 a copy; postage 10c The attitude of Christians toward the o f those phrases that sound so modern and theory of evolution is a live issue. In this are so foolish. It had something to do little book Dr. Stewart interprets the theory Lies with young people and their religion. It in the light of Christianity. Originally de Another book by this famous English livered as lectures at Northwestern, Wiscon clergyman that you will want to read be ran something like this: “ It may not be sin and Princeton Universities. fore hearing him when he visits America your religion, or my religion. It will be 35c a copy; $3.50 a dozen this fall. their religion.” What the Church is in $1.50 a copy; postage 10c terested in is presenting to her Young WITNESS BOOKS People, not your religion, nor mine, nor WITNESS BOOKS theirs— but the religion of Jesus Christ. 6140 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago 6140 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago There is a real danger of asking that Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. THE WITNESS 3

want a piece of cold chicken, no ham.” every elevated platform and in the ele That was explicit at any rate. He Up-Stream vator of every public building as a re never wavered. With a formal bow he By the Rev. Geo. Craig Stewart, D. D. minder of the difference between a mere said, “ gent” and a gentleman. “ Chicken, sir. Quite right, sir. I’ll in quire if we ’ave any chicken today, sir.” Goldwin Smith in his Reminiscences, And off he went. In a minute he returned. “If you will go with us, you must go against relates an apt retort given by a fox-hunt “ We’ll have your chicken in a few min wind and tide; you must also own Religion in ing parson of the early Vic- utes, sir.” his rags, as well as when in his silver slippers; FINESSE torian period who was taken And in a few minutes it came, fried and stand by him, too, when bound in irons, to task by the Bishop for in chicken, hot. I didn’t want to give a wait as well as when he waiketh the streets with dulging in such worldly recreations. “ Mr. er brain fever, so I ate the fried chicken, applause.—Pilgrim’s Progress. Blank,” said the Bishop, “ I have not a with a sweet and a biscuit to boot. word to say against your ministrations. I have sometimes wondered if our But this is a tattling world, and they tell “ In essentials, truthfulness; in non-es Church had not inherited a large share of me that you hunt.” “ It is indeed a tat sentials, reciprocal latitude” ; thus the code England’s habits, and if it had not ig tling world, my Lord,” replied the cleric. of veracity for the Ancient nored too much our native flexibility. Are “ They say that your Lordship goes to the FISHING and Honorable Order of Free we in a rut? Queen’s balls.” “It is true,” the Bishop and Accepted Fishermen. One Take the matter of reading the service. admitted, “ that when I am invited by Her who understands this will exert due char Do we keep it fresh, vital, important and Majesty I do not think it proper to de ity in listening to the fisherman’s yarns. stimulating? I went to a service recent cline. But I am never in the room when He will hesitate to include the gentle Wal ly, and if I had not been familiar with the dancing is going on.” To which came ton with Maundeville and Munchausen and the words, I should not have understood the retort, “ That is just my case, my other members of thè Ananias Club. It at least one-third of the service. Are we Lord, I have only one old mare, and I am is a good code (for fishermen), safeguard reading services for, the letter perfect? never in the fields when, the hounds are.” Yet we wonder why the stranger looks in, ing as it does the large central facts, and often goes away never to return. The while still providing for that play of the How strange to say, “ I lead a life!” clergyman who does not take the trouble imagination so necessary to the thrilling Did you ever stop to think of it? Lead a to read the service distinctly ought to get narrative. life? Does that suggest that a job calling out stations on the New York A good gospel for fishermen is the Gos LEADING my life is something apart elevated. pel for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity. A LIFE from “ me,” a tame thing Again we have too much of England’s “ Two boats standing by the lake : the loosely tethered which I pull conservatism in the rigid monotony of our fishermen were gone out of them and were whining and reluctant at my heels? Or, services. We, in America, have gone far washing their nets; toiled all night and does it mean that my life is so blind that from the phlegmatic temperament of the have taken nothing; and their net brake!” I must take it by the hand and keep it homogeneous congregation of the English Substitute “ reel or rod” for “ net” and we in right paths? No! The meaning is this: parish church. Yet Trollope’s deans and are at once en rapport with the situation; I am not pushed from behind by ghostly archdeacons would find in many of our Gennesaret is a lake in Wisconsin—rin Vi hands of the past to a destiny determined parishes a congenial atmosphere. las County, we believe— where an Apos by heredity. I am not pulled from beyond We need variety in our services. We tolic fisherman, well browned, casts and by an inexorable fate over which I have should have four groups of morning trolls while the same gracious Lord pre no control. prayers, instead o f one group, and each pares him for the catching of more and one should include a short litany. Every more men. “ My will is mine, I know not how, word that we can put on the lips of the My will is mine to make it Thine.” congregation is a distinct gain. I should like to see the practice of having the con It was the rush hour and the car was “ I” lead. My life follows. “ I” will. The gregation repeat the Collect of the Day. crowded. Enter a tired woman. To right events, of my life come trooping after. It would mean that they would have ex and left of her the males perience in finding it, and grasp its mean GENTLEMEN of various ages hastened ing as a prayer. I doubt, if one in five to hide themselves behind Hitttoaa 3fatth persons in our congregations know how to sporting extra and funny page, financial find the Collect of the Day, at any serv columns and solemn editorials. Then up The management of The Witness ac knowledges with thanks the following do ice. rose a little Irishman, gray with the dust nations to The Witness Fund of 1923: With the most important thing in life of pick and shovel but gallant as a knight This fund is used to pay the subscrip to present, the Church should exhaust ev of King Brian Boru. “ I always rise for tions of clergymen and others who look forward to receiving The Witness but are ery means to present it intelligently and the ladies. My ould mother was a lady.” unable to have it unless helped by friends effectively. Are we always to be under “ Yes, she must have been,” was the re in paying for it the chilled and weighty hand of Custom? sponse, “for her son is surely a gentle L. M. 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Johnson questioned by one over whom the solemn sentence is read. “ In the office and work It puts them upon their honor to ob Managing Editor of a priest.” Surely there can be no ques serve the rules of the game and only in Rev. William B. Spofford tion of his priesthood. The questions the last extremity proceeds to enforce its which he has answered deal largely with discipline. r.-?.ntered a.s »«cond class matter at the Post a^ Chicago, III., under the Act oi Congress his prophetic ministry because that in It is specific in its precaution that un of March 3, 1879. volves his teaching, but the emphasis in less one is willing to obey the constituted the commission is on the priesthood. authorities he shall not be entrusted with “ Whose sins thou dost forgive they are the representative function. The Editorial forgiven.” Surely here is an exact com It leaves the matter largely to the hon By Bishop Johnson mission which deals with the function of or of the one so ordained. his office, and after it has been received It is therefore a lawless act in direct can scarcely be gainsayed by the one thus violation of one’s plighted word when CHURCH OBLIGATIONS receiving it. one regards rubrics, canons and Prayer What are they? To whom do we owe “ Be thou a dispenser of the Word of Book standards contemptuously. The ques them? How shall we express them? God.” Surely there is no question that tion is not one of being a Christian so much as it is one of being a gentleman of Let us take a man who has no religious an authority to teach something specific, rather than to invent something startling honor. affiliations. He has the absolute freedom is here bestowed. It is a strange hallucination that if one of a religious savage, belongs to no tribe, H* H» H» becomes religious one does not have to play the game according to the rules, and has assumed no allegiance,'undertaken no In other words the man starts out with to do so the more conscientiously because vows. a promise given and a commission re there is no policeman on the beat. ceived, but in a short time he wakes up He decides to be baptized. He takes up It can be said truthfully that when a to the fact that the Church has no police on himself certain corporate responsibili man who has gone through the solemn force and is loathe to employ coercion. ties. He agrees to renounce the devil and service of ordination, and then flouts Unfortunately it is the kink in our hu rubrics, canons and Prayer Book stand the world; he promises to accept the man nature that a man may be lawless if Apostles’ Creed; he asserts that he will he is religious. This is a curious thing. ards, that he lacks the qualities which cause golfers to refrain from moving the Ought not a religious person be more law obey certain commandments. He is no ball to get a better lie. abiding than a mere pagan chauffeur? • longer independent of tribal relationship There is no question as to the authority and obligations. In short the authority of the Church is something like a gentleman’s agreement which we obey as Churchmen, for it is ex actly like the authority which we obey as In confirmation he reaffirms these obli in which the man who vows is left on his Americans— not the governor nor the gations. He then decides to enter the honor to keep those vows. There are the sheriff, nor the warden of the penitentiary, ministry, but in order to do so he must rubrics. They are rules of housekeeping. take additional vows. but rather the rules of the game. Surely a gentleman will observe house He further circumscribes his freedom. keeping rules, especially in his own house It does not occur to us that there is a He agrees to administer the Doctrine Dis hold. In most cases he has to do so, or he sheriff, but we do know that there are laws, and we keep them unconsciously be cipline and Worship of this Church as the is told that he is out of order. Lord hath commanded and as this Church There are the canons, which are the spe cause we would be ashamed of ourselves hath received the same. What, then, is cific directions of the Church to its of if we didn’t. the authority which he accepts? Whom ficers and members. On what ground but What is there about religion that ab or what should he obey? solves so many from the simplest rules of * * He that of arrogant lawlessness will a man say that he doesn’t care what the canons honorable conduct following one’s plight If he were a Roman Catholic his task say. He would not dare to make the same ed word. If that be not effective, what is would be simple. He would obey a man statement in a game of golf. the use of calling a policeman. It will not who poses as the Vicar of Christ and Then there is the Prayer Book which is alter the nature of the one who is violat whose official utterances are final. This our public statement of the Doctrine Dis ing the law. is very simple, especially as this man is cipline and Worship of this Church. Surely presumed to have the very non-human at the embarrassment of holding office in tribute of infallibility. Or if he becomes a member of a Prot estant sect, his task is to obey the Bible A GENTLEMAN’S GAME as the supreme authority in Protestant cir BISHOP JOHNSON A Recent Editorial by cles. The fundamentalists are at least Confirmation Instructions BISHOP JOHNSON consistent in their devotion to the Prot The standard book for Confirmation classes. Has been reprinted by request as a leaf estant oracle. 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Jacob Journeys Once More ARTICLE BY GILBERT SYMONS DRAWING BY WILLIS GEORGE The old man Jacob in Canaan looked of it? Well of course in those days they out one day and saw a strange caravan didn’t have a moving picture photographer coming up the valley. A young man runs taking films of Joseph at every step of his life. And they didn’t have reporters with ahead and falls at Jacob’s knees. It is note books writing it all down from day Benjamin, breathless, pouring out the to day. story that Joseph is alive. Joseph is ruler these, speaking in a strange tongue, these Men sat by the camp fire. Or two shep in Pharaoh’s land. Poor old Jacob! Once little princes? Why, they are his son’s herds came together in the hills. And one they had told him Joseph had died by wild sons! Yes, I have thought of Jacob com said: “ Tell again some great tale of what ing to Egypt as I have watched these old Jehovah did for our fathers.” Or a min beasts in the field. And Jacob had near strel would come and sit in archway of ly died of grief. Now, lately he had been men at the port— many times. And we ought to be civil and kind to them.) the city wall. And some great man there grieving for Benjamin. And here is Ben So here is Jacob the immigrant, down would send him a loaf of bread and the jamin, come leaping back with a wild tale in the cattle country in Egypt in the land message: “ Sing our children a song. Sing that Joseph is alive. The old man grows of Goshen. Pharaoh has welcomed him of the Everlasting Arm under one of the dizzy and sick. Is he losing his senses? and given him land and cows. And now ancients of Israel.” The men at the camp fire sang. The women grinding meal sang. But no! With a rattle and creak here all is well. Before him are his grandsons, The shepherds sang. The minstrels sang. come these strange things on wheels— the sons of Joseph. They speak Egyptian. And so the story lived from age to age. many of them. Wagons! Such things Perhaps they do not understand their And always God was guiding His people. were never seen in Hebron before. grandfather. Perhaps he has asked them Wagons! When Jacob saw the wagons to change about so that Ephraim shall be his spirit flared up once more. He believed next to his right hand and Manasseh at when he saw the wagons. Then Jacob his left. Jacob wants to give the children PRIVATE PRAYERS said, It is enough. Joseph my son is yet his blessing. He wants to pass on to these alive. I will go and see him before I die. little strangers the sacred rights of the FOR THE FAITHFUL (Children, when you see an old foreign tribe. They don’t understand when he er, think of Jacob. Here is an old Slo says: “ Change about.” Never mind. He Compiled by vak. Perhaps one day long ago his son crosses his hands so that his right falls BISHOP SAGE said good bye back there in the old coun on Ephraim and the left upon Manasseh. try. Fifteen years and no word. The boy And there all men may know that though Ten cents a copy, plus two cents must be dead. Then comes a letter from their mother was the beautiful daughter for postage. America with a money order in it, and a of an Egyptian priest, they are forever command to come to the new rich land. children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The old man goes. He boards the steam Their God is the God of Jacob. THE WITNESS ship and crosses the terrible, heaving sea. 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. At last, after weeks, there on the dock is Well, now our story is done. Over and his lost son. What strange, rich clothes! over the fathers told it to the children in CHICAGO He is like a king! No hunger any more. old Israel, until at last some wise scribe And his son is alive again, And what a,re wrote it down. Is it all true— every word Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 6 THE WITNESS

credit) and bore the burden and responsi Social Service bility of this institution for nearly thirty- Rural Leaders Discuss By William S. Keller, M,D. eight years. It so happens, I believe, that Bishops are Their Problems the presidents ex-officio of most hospital CHURCH HOSPITALS boards. (Continued from page 1) At the Third National Conference of Bishops also assume the presidency (ex- such territorial units as local conditions social workers of the Episcopal Church officio) of all other diocesan institution suggest and that a minister be appointed recently held in Washington, the Rev. boards. over this territoral unit who shall have Thomas A. Hyde presented the report on It is a well known fact that church hos territorial jurisdiction over all persons organization of church hospitals. pitals have a way of getting into many who are not included in organized par It was stated that of a total of sixty entanglements. These entanglements may ishes, or missions, as instanced in Che church hospitals of one hundred beds or be due to old church traditions, they may nango County of Central New York and over, only thirteen are up to the minimum be due to the way the trustees are elected, in the Diocese of Virginia. standard established by the American Col the nature of their varied endowments, or, 6. That the Diocese or Missionary Dis lege of Surgeons and the American Hos last but not least, to a “ lady board of trict feel the responsibility for the sup pital Association. Four church hospitals, managers.” port and extension of the Rural Work of fifty beds, have met this standard. I have often wished that diocesan of within its borders, for we feel that the It was further stated that other than ficials could have a course in efficiency, city church obtains a great part of its church hospitals, forty per cent of the custodianship or stewardship. Bishops, strength from the rural field and, should smaller and sixty-two per cent of the diocesan secretaries, standing committee recognize its debt to it. larger hospitals are standardized. We are men, heads of diocesan departments, 7. That the Rural Worker recognize deeply indebted to the Rev. Mr. Hyde for members of Bishop and Chapter should the twofold nature of his office first to a splendid report and for bringing this develop the same efficiency and take the bring his fellowmen to God, and secondly matter to our attention. same leadership interest, that they do in as leader of the social forces to advance Dean Lathrop and his assistant, Miss their own business. Yet somehow Bishops the Kingdom of God in his community and Carpenter, will do everything in their seem to frighten these men, especially if in developing his leadership to avail him power to bring our unstandardized hos they are the respectful clergy, or laymen self of the various social and economic pitals in touch with the American College elected to these offices as a reward for agencies of the county, state, nation and of Surgeons, and urge them to meet the faithful diocesan service for the past Church. thirty or forty years, as is too often the minimum standards as soon as possible. The study of rural conditions brought They can, however, only bring this mat case in church organization. It should not be necessary to have the out clearly that the country communities ter to the attention of the various hospital are today very much in a state of flux: boards. American College of Surgeons repeatedly remind us that our hospitals are not up conditions are rapidly changing. Into Let us try and analyze the cause of this what kind of community life shall they unfavorable rating of church hospitals. to standard any more than to have the Roman Catholics or Methodists tell us that crystallize? The students of the Univer May we first state that the American our worship is not up to standard. sity pointed out that purely from the sec College of Surgeons has a very large and There is a certain something about ular side investigation has proved that re- well equipped field department. All hos these reminders that offends one’s pride. ligon is one of the strongest elements in pitals, church and secular, in the United Agencies that function in the name of the community. Many communities are States, are circularized by the college, at our Lord deserve as a minimum require built up because of a common religious more or less regular intervals. ment, at least, to be placed on the same interest. Our own clergy showed contri It is also a fact, that almost every hos efficiency basis, as regards standards and butions which their own work is making pital in the country, has at least one of its service, as secular agencies. in their communities. Thus it was proved staff members a fellow in the American In conclusion— Where does the trouble that the Church can work with effective College of Surgeons. lie? How can it be corrected? Logically, ness in rural. communities, provided the A vast amount of money is spent in the if our diocesan social service departments priest feels his vocation and has some field department, including the free dis are ever going to function as they should, preparation. In some of the Dioceses the pensing of sample standardization blanks, and as their name implies, they should be Church is organizing so that the rural statistical sheets, record and case history directly, or indirectly, in charge of, or at clergy will receive a decent income and forms and instructions for standardizing. least an actiye factor in, all the social pol will hold their position alongside the rec A field agent, who is a physician, trained icies of diocesan social service institutions. tors of urban communities. For the young to give advice in organization and stand With the great amount of individualism man going into the priesthood there is ardization, may be had by writing to the (personal and institutional) found in the a vocation for useful and effective work. president of the college, Erie St., Chicago, church, it is my opinion that the diocesan 111. social service departments will never real If our church hospitals were the only ize the fulfillment which the name im church institutions failing to meet their plies. BISHOP GORE respective national standards, I would Certainly not much headway could be probably be ready to concede that the expected in this direction when we con BISHOP BRENT medical and surgical staff of the hospitals sider the number of Bishops who, up to G. K. CHESTERTON were at fault. this time, have refused to release the The same lack of standards are true of chairmanship of this department. are among the contributors to that many other church institutions, and they This again brings us to the question of much discussed book, represent many fields of service. leadership. I am familiar with one church hospital Leadership is the paramount issue in T h e Return to that has functioned for thirty-eight years. the church today. Until one ahd one-half years ago, this hos I would that the church, through the Christendom pital never met a single minimum stand department of publicity, would talk about “If you haven’t read ‘The Return of Chris ard for medical and surgical service, “ Leadership” for a year or two, before we tendom,’ buy it, borrow it—but be sure you read it.” —Rev. George Craig Stewart. nursing, social service follow up work, or hear so much about “ stewardship.” “A notable book, well worth careful and anything else pertaining to hospital ef If the destiny of our institutions is to intensive study.” —The Observer. ficiency. When this hospital did decide to remain so largely in the hands of persons $1 75 a copy; postage 10c standardize, it could in no way be credited who are poorly qualified for practical, to the initiative of diocesan officials. modern leadership, and who insist upon WITNESS BOOKS Until that time, this institution could antiquated and obsolete practices, we may hardly be called a good boarding house, not look for much improvement in the 6140 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago yet the church had the credit (or dis next decade. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. T H E WITNESS 7

stitution so that the salient features of it Young People's Work A FELLOW WITH GOD might be used. In answer to your question, “ Is the By Rev. Gordon Reese Church ready for a National Organization A Short Story of Young People?” I answer the Church A man came to three stonema is READY, but its leaders are not. Let us VIEWPOINTS sons cutting stone in a great en be about our business and “ get going.” This letter from the Rev. Charles E. closure. “ What are you doing?” he asked Faithfully yours, Kennedy, who is in charge of student work the first. Charles E. Kennedy. at Northwestern University, under the di “ Working for $5 a day,” the rection of Dr. George Craig Stewart, I be stonemason answered. An Historic Bell lieve will be of interest to those engaged “ What are you doing?” the man in York Church asked the second. in work among young people: According to tradition, the bell of St. “ Trimming this stone— can’t you My dear Mr. Reese: John’s, York, Pa., was a gift made to the see?” the stonemason replied. parish at an early date— probably 1774— Your article suggesting the crying need The man approached the third by an English Queen. The Rev. Arthur of a National Young People’s Organization stonemason. “What are you do Chilton Powell, in his “ Centennial Ser in the Church has impressed me very fa ing?” “ I am building a cathredal,” said mon” (September 18, 1887) says: “ As vorably and has given me the temerity to the church building had no belfry or tow address a note to you. Would it not be the third stonemason. And there, you see, is the whole er, the bell was deposited on the pave well to keep hammering the idea that an ment of Joseph Updegraff, Esq., in Centre exchange of ideas and of practice is es secret of enthusiasm. You cannot buy it at $5 a day or at any other Square, where it remained for some time. pecially desired, in order that what is When the news of the Declaration of In hoped for and what is being done through amount. There can be no enthu siasm in chipping stone or doing dependence was brought to York the bell out the Church might come to the atten was hoisted by James Smith (one of the tion of the whole Church or as much of it any other mechanical task. But the man who builds a cathedral— signers of the Declaration) and other citi as is interested in what is going on in the zens to the cupola of the court house, Church? I should think that, at least, a his part of it— is a fellow with God, for he is a creator. and by them used to ring out the glad full page be devoted to this very important tidings far and wide. This was the first subject and an intensive drive be made to service it rendered. The bell remained in bring to pass the formation of just such the Church?” We all know that the the State House tower from 1776 until an organization. We hear much of the 1841. It summoned the members of the youth of today being the “ Church” of to Church has persisted these many years in spite of us, its authorized leaders, and not Continental Congress to session during morrow but we see very little being done the year 1777-1778, when York was the by the whole Church to make this truism always because of us. The Young People themselves feel the lack of something and seat of the National Government. When a living reality. The time has come to the State House was torn down the Church show forth our desire for this Organiza are ready and willing to throw their whole heart into something definite, practicable authorities seized and, despite violent op tion, not only with our lips but by our position, bore away the bell to a safe deeds; by the unifying of the many splen and worth-while. In rushing in, as I am doing, where hiding place beneath the Church, where did things that are being done at present; it remained until the excitement had abat by a defining of purpose and practice; by others, perhaps, fear to tread, I can only justify myself by the urgent need in this ed, when a belfry was erected and the bell the formation, as suggested in your ar hung therein. Soon afterwards it was ticle, of A National Young People’s De regard. I have recently come here to work with the Students and the Young People cracked and sent to Baltimore to be re partment and by doing something. Valu cast, in which form it has done faithful able time is being lost and unless some of the parish. Here we have the problem of the students and the youth of the par service ever since, and next to the Liberty thing tangible is done and done soon the Bell of Philadelphia is certainly the most glad tomorrow will never arrive. ish, and we are trying to meet it by a Greek Letter Society, named Gamma Kap historical bell in the country.” I suggest the Witness as a clearing The bell cracked a second time tolling house of ideas because, through the ex pa Delta— the purpose of which as stated in the Constitution and from the Greek on the day of the burial of President Mc change of ideas and practices, “ what oft Kinley in 1901, and was once more re was thought but ne’er so well expressed” words, Gnosis, Koinonia, Diakonia, is to secure knowledge of the Church, fellow cast— the original metal being used as be will come to light and serve as a working fore. Cracking the third time in 1910, it basis for the immediate setting sail on the ship in the Church and service for the Church. The Greek Letter has an appeal was removed from the tower and placed venture of faith and good works. The to some, especially in a university town, in its present position. “ Man with the Measuring Line” will as but I rather question its desirability in the sure us that there are too many difficul name of a national organization, but I ties, too many angles and that the whole do feel that the idea, back of the three undertaking should be put in the hands LAKE SUNAPEE words used, would serve as a nucleus for of a Committee, to report after painstak the purpose of the national organization. ing and careful deliberation* All of this The Beauty Spot of If you care to push the publicity end as I is true and understood but more plans N e w Hampshire have been bold enough to suggest, I would have been wrecked, yes, never started, by be happy to send you a copy of our Con over-calculation than by folly. The Church til i l needs such an organization and needs it badly. Let us start, realizing that God CAMP MONAUKE wills it and that He will guide and inspire Have You $100 or More? A summer camp for girls, man us. Use the summer months for talking Loans of such sums desired by aged by Churchwomen of train and a positive publicity and we shall be church-mission in large city. To run ready in the Fall to make definite plans. ing and experience, six months or year. Will pay legal rate Your article has made a deep impression i i tgi in this state— 10 per cent— payable upon me as I am “ small and of no reputa quarterly. The principal may be had SEND HER FOR PART OF tion” and very young. I can very easily THE SUMMER recall my own youthful experiences and at any time on 60 days’ notice in case remember the lack of any such work in of sudden need. Write Write for information. my own parish. The “ Drifters” must be tied up to something before they drift or L. L. S. Burkehaven, Lake Sunapee, N. H. “ What is wrong with the Church” will 1406 Park Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. have to give way to “What is right with Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 8 THE WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH English Clergy Campaign for Prayer Book Revision The Life and Liberty Movement in the English Church is conducting an active campaign for the revision of the English Prayer Book. On July 2d a mass meeting was held in London, when the subject, “ A Live Prayer Book,” was dealt with by the following speakers:: The Bishop of St. Albans, the Dean of Manchester, the Rev. Dr. Frere, the Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard and the Rev. G. A. Studdert Kennedy. League of Nations Being Criticized in England The League of Nations is being severely criticized in England for its inaction in regard to the Ruhr invasion. The League of Nations Union, made up of staunch sup porters of the League, has just issued a GROUP LEADERS AT CONFERENCE ON MINISTRY pamphlet in which it calls upon the League Top Row:'Rev. J. A. Montgomery, D.D., Philadelphia; Rev. Mr. Gibson to come forward and play its part in the of Virginia; Mr. Cornelius Tiowbridge, Theological Seminary, Alexandria, affair. Dr. Maxwell Garnett, the author Virginia; Rev. John S. Moses, rector of St. John’s, Georgetown, D. C.; Rev. of the pamphlet and the general secretary Stanley V. Wilcox, rector of St. Paul’s Memorial, Philadelphia; Rev. Albert of the Union, calls upon the League to H. Lucas, Secretary of the Conference; Rev. Louis W. Pitt, rector of St. create a demilitarized zone both in French Mark’s, Newark, New Jersey. and German territory, and an immediate Middle Row: Rev. Richard H. Gurley, St. Martin’s, Radnor, Pa.; Rev. place for Germany, not only in the Oscar deW. Randolph, rector St. Mary’s, Birmingham, Ala.; Mr. George A. League, but also on its Council. He also Trowbridge, Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia; Rev. Perry G. M. urges the setting up of a commission to Austin, rector-elect, St. Luke’s, Long Beach, California; Rev. Samuel H. determine the capacity of Germany to pay Edsall, rector Trinity, Geneva, New York; Bishop Woodcock. her debts. Bottom Row: Rev. John R. Hart, Jr., Student Chaplain, University of Pennsylvania; Mr. James A. Mitchell, Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Churchman Author in Virginia; Mr. Alec Zabriskie, Theological Seminary, Virginia; Rev. Thomas Modern Miracle Play A. Meryweather, rector St. Barnabas, Kensington; Rev. Gordon M. Reese, Charles Rann Kennedy and his wife, Canon Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri. known by her stage name, Edith Wynne Matthison, are touring the country with Several Hundred Attend and that on “ Meeting Modern Problems” a new play by Mr. Kennedy, “ The Chas Racine Conference by the Rev. Bowyer Stewart were very tening.” Mr. Kennedy is famous as an The Racine Conference, with an enroll popular. author, his play, “ The Servant in the ment of about three hundred Church Dean Lutkin was as popular as ever House,” being considered a masterpiece. workers, was brought to a close last week with his course on Church Music, while “ The Chastening” was given at the after a most successful two weeks. A staff the classes of the Rev. Julius A. Schaad, University of Chicago on July 13th. Ar of expert teachers directed the classes in the Rev. Gerald Moore and Mrs. Biller rangements have also been made to pre all of the various phases of Christian drew large numbers. sent it in several of the larger parishes work. The Devotional Bible Class on the Parables, led by the Rev. F. D. Tyner of Minneapolis, was attended by the entire conference and proved to be exceedingly stimulating. The course of Normal Classes was in charge of Miss Matthews of Glen dale, Ohio, Mrs. Lawrence Ferguson and the Rev. Frank R. Myers of Chicago and Mrs. G. J. Childs of Minneapolis. In the Field of Social Service courses were given by the Rev. Clark Kennedy of the Diocese of Connecticut, Miss Boylston of the Church Mission of Help, Mrs. Martha Fal coner of the American Social Hygiene As sociation, who spoke on jail work, and the Rev. Niles Carpenter of Harvard, who gave a course the last week on “ The Re turn of Christendom.” Special confer ences were also held dealing with social problems, which were attended by thè en tire conference. Percy J. Knapp of the Foreign-Born American Division dealt with the Americanization problem, while the Rev. William B. Spofford spoke at one Undoubtedly the most popular hour of in the country. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ken meeting on the work of the Church League all was the lecture hour at noon, when nedy are active churchmen. They are for Industrial Democracy, and later ad Bishop Burleson spoke the first week on especially interested in the application of dressed the entire group on the labor “ The March of the Church” and Bishop Christian principles to industrial and eco agreement in the clothing industry. Johnson of The Witness the second week nomic problems, and were among the The courses of Mr. Dibble on “ Making on “ Problems Confronting the Church To charter members of the Church League the Faith Intelligible to YoungCopyright 2020. People” Archivesday,” of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reusefor and Industrial publication. Democracy. THE WITNESS 9

rarely find a copy of a national Church weekly. And as for The Spirit of Mis sions, I feel like falling to my knees and thanking God when I find a copy of that. “ When I speak about it I am gravely told, ‘You know we take so many maga zines that we really cannot afford to take any more.’ There is the meaning of that word ‘afford’ with many of our people. Our time, our brain power, our money, go to all things else first. What is left over, if there is any, goes to God.”

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Large Attendance Dayton, and St. Mark’s Toledo. In the at Gambier Conference case of Trinity, Newark, the loyalty to The Gambier Summer Conference for the conference was especially manifest by Church Workers, with which is incorpor the number of the delegation, which was ated the Gambier Summer School for twenty-five, and seventeen visitors com Clergy, now in its fourteenth year, con ing to the conference during its sessions. cluded on July 6th a session which began bn June 25th and which was character What Is Left NORFOLK, VIRGINIA ized by a deeper spirit of devotion and Goes to God CHRIST CHURCH a finer fellowship and a keener interest Bishop Blair Roberts of South Dakota The Rev. Francis C. Steinmetz, S. T. D., Rector. in all the varied activities of the Church has this to say about your reading: “ One work than any of its predecessors. of our most glaring inconsistencies is in Sunday Services, 7:30 and 11 a. m.; 4:30 p. m. Wednesday and Saints’ Days, Holy the matter of reading material. I visit Communion, 11 a. m. The total number of registrations was in many homes. In every home I find at 425, but the number of people who at least one daily paper, and generally more. tended was increased by many visitors The homes are well supplied with all sorts coming for one or two days. The number N E W Y O R K of fiction and professional magazines. I of those who were doing the class work of find periodicals telling about the latest SAINT PAUL’S CHAPEL the conference was 342. The wide va Parish of Trinity Church. fashions in women’s dress, and the latest riety of the courses presented and the Broadway, Pulton and Vesey Sts. recipes for desserts. But when I look for splendid faculty attracted unusual inter a Church paper I generally hunt in vain. Rev. Joseph P. MeComas, D.D., Vicar. est to the conference. Sunday Services: , (10:30), 11 a. m., p. m. Our own diocesan paper, which should be 8 5 Daily Services: (7:45), 8, 12. and 5 The splendid spirit of the young people in every home, I find in less than half. I was a source of real inspiration to the other divisions and an unbounded amount of credit is due to the officers in charge, the Rev. Wallace Gordon, dean of young (ElasHtfirb AhurritarmptttB men; Deaconess Fracker, dean of young woman; Miss Hazel Hardacre, director of young people’s activities. The conference BOARD AND ROOM ALTAR FURNISHINGS preachers were the Rt. Rev. Philip Cook, SISTERS OF THE HOLY NATIVITY—House THE CATHEDRAL STUDIO & SISTERS OF D. D., Bishop of Delaware, and the Rev. of Retreat and Rest. Bay Shore, Long Island, the Church (of London, England). All Church N Y Open all the year. embroideries and materials. Stoles with crosses George Craig Stewart, D. D. The chap from $7.50; burse and veil from $15. Surplices lain of the conference was the Very Rev. and exquisite Altar linens Church vestments im ALTAR BREAD ported free of duty Miss L. V. Mackrille, 11 W. Francis S. White, D. D., Dean of Trinity Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C. Tel. Cathedral, Cleveland. The annual address CONVENT OF THE HOLY NATIVITY, FOND Cleveland 52. delivered at the prayer cross following the du Lac, Wis. Altar Bread mailed to all parts of United States. Price list on application. ALBS, BIRETTAS, CASSOCKS, CHASUBLES, procession of the conference on July 4th Copes, Gowns, Hoods, Maniples, Mitres, Ro was delivered by the Rt. Rev. Frank Du chets, Stocks, Stoles, Surplices. Complete sets HELP AND POSITIONS WANTED of best Linen Vestments with Outlined Cross, Moulin, D. D., Coadjutor of Ohio. consisting of Alb, Chasuble, Amice, Stole, Mani In addition to the regular courses, spe MANUSCRIPT TYPING AND REVISING, SIM- ple, and Girdle, $35.00 and $22..00. 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Money for St. Thomas* Christ Church, Cincinnati; Christ Church, August 1. Address “Vt.,” care The Witness. Church. Miss Gertrude E. Sebrell, Boykins, Va. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 10 THE WITNESS Canon De Vries of Washington. He also Dont’s for Churchgoers New Way of Making Contacts furnished much of the humor during the With the Unchurched Don’t stop in the end of the pew— ten days, for it was a very common sight Move over. The Rev. Oscar Meyer, the missioner of to see him seated in the midst of a large Don’t monopolize your hymnbook— Be Chenango County, New York, has a group telling them humorous stories. neighborly. unique way of making contacts with the Every department of Church work had Don’t choose the back seat— Leave it for unchurched men in his territory. Speak a place on the program and was in the the late comers. ing before the Rural Conference at Madi hands of experts. The conference preach Don’t sit while others stand or kneel— son, he said: “ One of my chief methods er was Bishop McCormick of Western of performing community service is to es Share in the service. Michigan. Don’t sit with your hand to your head tablish amateur fire companies. I have — as if worshipping hurt you. had years of experience in this field, and Dr. Nansen Coming Don’t stare blankly while others sing, I find it of great value in establishing In Interest of Peace intimate contact with the people about New York, July.— The World Alliance read and pray— Join in. Don’t leave without—praying God’s me.” for International Friendship Through the Churches received word today that Dr. blessing upon all present. Don’t hurry away— Speak and be A Church to Appeal to Fridtjof Nansen, the Arctic explorer, will Two Million Pilgrims visit the United States next November and spoken to. Don’t wait for introductions—Introduce Yamada is the center for Shinto wor speak at the Eighth Annual Meeting of ship in Japan. It is estimated that during the American Council of the World Al yourself. the year two million people visit its fa liance to be held in Philadelphia Novem mous shrines. ber 13th, 14th and 15th. The information Our own present place of worship is a was cabled by Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, Ex MltllllRIIIIIIIIIIIIIII rented house on a side lane. We have ecutive Secretary of the Alliance, who is I HOWE SCHOOL f had work there for the last eight years, now in Europe arranging for several 5 HOWE, INDIANA ; and now have a group of thirteen com 1 A Thorough and Select CHURCH SCHOOL 5 speakers to attend the Philadelphia meet g for Boys. = municants, with quite a number of inquir ing. Among other prominent Europeans ers. Apart from the evangelistic work 5 Special Attention Given to College Preparation, 5 who will address the meeting are: 5 The Lower School for Little Boys Entirely 5 which we should do among the permanent s Separate. 3 Most Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Arch § Rev. Charles Herbert Young, M. A., Rector | residents of Yamada, a little church there bishop of Sweden; Rev. Thomas Nightin would offer a great opportunity, impos 5 ADDRESS P. O. BOX S, HOWE, IND. = gale, Secretary National Free Church aiiHiiHiiBiiaiiaiHiiliililHi------"-niiiiniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii sible with obscure rented quarters, for Council of England, Scotland and Wales; bringing Christian influence to bear upon Rev. T. G. Brierly Kay, London; Rev. this tremendous crowd of visitors who Voyslav Janitch, Secretary Parliament Colorado Military School come from all parts of Japan. Jugo-Slavia, Belgrade; Professor Adolph University Park, Denver The pastor now tells Bishop Tucker Boarding and Day School of high standing tor Deissmann, University of Berlin. m of all ages. Special attention to individ- there is an opportunity to buy for $1,500 This will be Dr. Nansen’s first visit to ¡1 needs and requirements in health and stud- an adequate lot situated on a good street. s in a wonderfully healthy climate. Fall term America since July, 1917, when he came lens Sept. 12. Catalog on request. ...•••• • It would seem to be worth our while to here at the head of a special commisson Address REV. GEORGE H HOLORAN secure this land. sent by the Norwegian government to ar Over Three Hundred range for a .more generous food supply Attend Hillsdale Conference from the United States to the people of Over three hundred registered for the Norway. Since the Armistice Dr. Nansen HARCOURT PLACE SCHOOL has devoted most of his time to the hu Hillsdale Conference which closed last F O R G IR LS week. The conference, given under the manitarian work of the League of Nations. Gambier, Ohio auspices of the Dioceses of Michigan and One of his most notable achievements was Western Michigan, is extremely fortunate the repatriation of more than 1,000,000 Principals— in having at its disposal the building of prisoners of war. Miss Harriette Merwtn Hillsdale College. The conference fea Miss Sara McDowell Gaither ture this year was a series of lectures by Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine mini on the “ Social Gospel.” He presented his | ST, MARY’S SCHOOL subject in the most forceful way, urged i Concord, N. H. all present to acquaint themselves with 1 A Home-like School for Girls. social and economic problems, and to as | College Preparatory and General sist those organizations within the Church ? Courses. that are actively at work in this field of = Mary Everett Ladd, B. L., Headmistress = service. At his closing lecture literature of the Church League for Industrial De mocracy was distributed, an organization ST. MARGARET’S HALL of which Bishop Brewster is Vice-Presi dent. Another popular feature of the con Boise, Idaho ference was the Devotion lectures by Accredited Boarding School for Girls. Graduates doing well in colleges and uni versities. Splendid Faculty.^ School lo THE TRAINED NURSE cated in most attractive city. Unusual climate, out-door sports, hiking and horse has an honorable vocation, offering many back riding. Address Miss Elise A. Rob avenues of useful and well-paid work. erts, Principal, Boise, Idaho. ST. JOHN’S HOSPITAL TRAIN IN G S C H O O L CHATHAM EPISCOPAL INSTITUTE THE WOLCOTT SCHOOL CHATHAM, VIRGINIA Boarding and Day School for Girls needs student nurses. Church institution, Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia, President Board of Trustees. DENVER, COLORADO Chistian influence, high reputation. Super College preparatory courses, certificate ad vision N. V. State Department of Education. mitting to leading colleges. Also special College Preparatory and General Young women, 18 years old, having had one courses—music, art, Expression, Home Eco Courses nomics and Secretarial. 15 acre campus. New year in High School, or equivalent, are elig buildings. Modern Equipment. Out of door Affiliated with the Wolcott Con ible. Single room, board, laundry, books and athletics. Terms moderate. Thirtieth ses servatory of Music money stipend. Address Supervisor, 1523 At sion will begin September 19, 1923. CIRCULAR UPON APPLICATION lantic Avenue, Brooklyn, Is. Y. For Cataloge address, ANNIE MARION POWELL, A. M., Principal. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. t h e w itn ess I!

Explain Work of will be conducted throughout the summer. Virginia, will be the speaker on August Daughters of the King Speakers of national prominence in the 19 th. An interesting conference on the work Church will deliver short addresses each The final service, August 26th, will be of the Order o f the Daughters of the King conducted by. the Very Rev. C. Stanley Sunday at 4 o’clock. was held July 5th at Racine College dur Long, D. D., Dean of St. Luke’s Cathedral, ing the recent Conference for Church These services are part of the aim of Orlando, Fla. Work. It was conducted by Mrs. W. W. the National Cathedral Foundation to Wilson of Chicago, Provincial President make the Cathedral here a national pul of the Order for the Fifth Province, and pit where men of authority may express was well attended. Those present includ ed a number of the conference delegates, their views. Eight speakers will appear to whom the work was unknown, as well this summer, beginning July 8th, and con as a representative group of members tinuing each Sunday through August 26th. from the Local Assembly of the Chicago July 8th the Rev. John C. H. Mock- Diocese. ridge, rector of St. James Church, Phila Mrs. Wilson gave a splendid presenta delphia, will make the first open-air ad tion of the history, purpose and work of dress. the Order. She made clear the organiza July 15th the Rev. W. A. McClauthen, tion of parish chapters and their activi rector of Mt. Calvary Church, Baltimore, ties, their relation to the Diocesan and will speak. Provincial Organizations and the National July 22d the Rev. Edwin D. Niver, chap Council of the Order. lain U. S. Marine Corps, will address the gathering. A Rural Parson Who Appreciated Publicity The Rev. R. Taylor, pastor of students The Rev. Frederick W. Jones, who has at the University of Maryland, will deliver the address July 29th. charge of the Church’ rural work in a The Rev. Ralph B. Pomeroy, professor large section of Mississippi, made his first in the General Theological Seminary, New contact with his field through publicity. York City, will speak August 5th. Through the columns of the newspapers The Rev. Karl M. Block, rector of St. that circulated through his large rural John’s, Roanoke, will speak on August field he called attention to all of the so 12th. cial economic and religious activities that The Rev. Noble C. Powell, rector of St. came' to his attention. Soon the commu nity sought him for help in every project Paul’s Memorial Church, University of requiring publicity. In this way he preached to and helped to guide the rural parts of three Mississippi counties. TRINITY COLLEGE Open-Air Services HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT in Washington, D. C. FOUNDED 100 YEARS AGO Open-air services at the National Ca thedral, at St. Alban’s, Washington, D. C., For information address the Registrar

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