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©bp spirit nf (Clrristmas By BISHOP GEORGE CRAIG STEWART E S U S ! That was a name written at first below TN CONNAUGHT, Ireland, white candles will burn J. every other name, at the very end of the list of the -*• in every house before the family altar and the door Roman officer charged with the duty of the census of will be left open that Mary may know the door would the district about Bethlehem. All day long the tired not be closed, if she came again this Christmas with pilgrims have filed before the desk. A t last the weary­ the H oly Child. In Lyons, France, at the Foundling ing record is complete, and the officer sets himself to Hospital, the first infant on Christmas day will be ac­ cast up the column. A shadow falls across the page; corded a royal welcome, in His name. In Naples and he turns impatiently to the doorway, to see the figure Rome the pifferari will come down from the moun­ o f a stalwart man outlined against the setting sun. tains to play in front of all the carpenters’ shops in “ I could not come earlier,” says the man— “ the child honor of Jesus. In Armenia each household will was born last night.” gather round while candles are lighted and father tells “ You are at the inn?” the story; as the candles burn out and the story “ No, we arrived too late, the babe was born in a closes, the feast will begin, while salutations will go manger!” joyfully round, “The Gracious Birth of Christ, blessed “Your name?” by His birth!” “ Joseph!” And it is a Blessed Festival! Blessed in its sim­ “ O f what tribe?” plicity. That is the first note of Christmas. On this “Of Benjamin, of the house of David. We are the day we shall not argue about the existence of God. I descendants of kings!” The officer did not even, look know how tremendous is the mystery. The simplest up. The world was full of descendants of former words are the hardest to define. Let me hear you de­ kings. And now there was no king but Caesar, whose fine “I,” or “You,” or “He,” or “Live,” or “Love,” name was above every name. or “ Be,” or “ Is.” Each attempt will lead you into “Your wife’s name?” profundities of metaphysical subtility far beyond your “ Mary.” depth. I know how theologians attempting to define “ And the child’s name is to be ?” God seem to cloud the vision at times. Big words are “JESUS!” The voice of the man fondles the syl­ impressive, but they usually conceal rather than re­ lables. “ It means the Savior of His people!” veal. I heard o f a certain speaker to children who “ Jesus, son of Joseph, of the tribe of Benjamin,” addressed them thus: “ It may be, children, that some wrote the officer, and closed the book. It was the last of you do not know what an epitome is : well, chil­ name on the list. dren, an epitome is a compendium, and compendium is And so it goes,— some write His name after their synonymous with synopsis.” I heard a professor once ambitions and pleasures and selfishness, but “ God hath in class, give his definition o f chalk: “ Chalk is a com­ highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is bination of carminated shells of a class of infusoria above every name, that at the name of Jesus every called phormanifera.” So if some theologian told you knee shall bow” in Heaven, and every knee of princi­ that the incarnation involves the homoousion and not palities and powers, and thrones and dominions, and the homoiousion relation between the first and second angels and arch-angels, and seraphim and cherubim, Persons o f the blessed Trinity, and that it means that and martyrs and saints; and every soul in Paradise; the divine and human natures of our Lord were united and the very demons in hell; and over all the earth at in hypostatic union, you might justly claim that all this Christmas weak knees bow and tongues confess anew is a metaphysical hair-splitting beyond the reach of on the Feast of the Nativity, that Jesus Christ is Lord, the average man or woman. Let me see then, if I can to the glory of God the Father. The whole world is simplify the statement. Every thoughtful person when in love with Him. As a baby creeps across the floor he says, “God,” is conscious of a touch of reverence to bend and kiss a bar of sunlight falling into the room, upon his mind. Is there a God? I cannot know so the whole world loves the sunshine of the love of God as personal, except as He is incarnate. Study­ God in the face, and life,Copyright and 2020. words Archives o fof the Jesus Episcopal Christ. Church / DFMS.ing Permission Angelo’s required frescoes for reuse onand publication. the ceiling of the Sistine Page Four THE WITNESS December 24, 1931

Chapel in Rome, the visitor strains to see, but fin­ flows out of it to water the thirsty city of New York. ally gives up in despair; then a guide lends him Every day of the year that little lake gives hundreds of a mirror, and looking down into it, he finds all the thousands of gallons of water to the great city. It is marvelous design and color wonderfully reflected. For give, give, give. Over in Palestine there is another ages men strained their eyes to catch a glimpse of God, lake. Plenty of streams flow into it but none flows out. but the light was a half-light; they caught but unsatis­ It takes everything and gives nothing. Do you know factory glimpses. Then God sent His Son, the ex­ the name of it ? The Dead Sea! press image of His person, and brightness of His There is a story o f a man coming home one Christ­ Glory, and we beheld in Him the unspeakable glory of mas eve from work. He was thinking of his children God, and beholding, are changed into the same image and what a good time they would all have next day. from glory unto glory even as by the Lord the Spirit. A ll at once he saw a little boy in the street, ragged and hungry, and almost frozen. He stopped and asked where his home was, and the boy said he had no home. H E second note in the Christmas spirit is Merri­ Then the man took him by the hand and led him to his ment. It is more than joy, it is merriment. That T home and gave him something to eat and tucked him is the increasing wonder of this strange religion of. in with the other children. W hen the house was quiet, ours. Christianity is so solemn, and yet it has such the father and mother began to prepare Christmas a ring and fling of merriment to it. W e do not say, gifts. But nothing had been provided for the stranger. “A solemn Christmas to you”— though the thought of They were very poor and had been saving money for the Incarnation brings us to our knees in the creed. W e weeks to buy a goose for Christmas dinner. W ell, they do not say “A Happy Christmas to you,” though we talked it over, and decided to do without the goose, and believe the secret of happiness is with Jesus; nor “A to have just potatoes and porridge for dinner, so the Peaceful“ Christmas to you,”— though we carol “peace little stranger might have a merry Christmas too. So on earth, good will to m en;”— but a “ Merry Christ­ when the children woke next day, there were warm mas !” Not cheerful, but merry; for cheerfulness re­ clothing and shoes for all of them, including the boy fers to an even and contented disposition; not “gay” they had found. And how happy he was! By and by, Christmas, for gaiety is characteristically self-in­ they sat down for family devotions, and each child was dulgent; not a “ jovial” Christmas, for jovial has in it asked to give a verse. W hen it came the turn o f the the paganism and sensuality of Jove, but “merry,” a stranger, he said, “ Inasmuch as ye did it unto one. of word that is full of the wholesome laughter of a com­ the least of these, ye did it unto M e.” Then he was pany. N o one can be merry alone. It requires a gone. It was, so the story says, our blessed Lord Him­ -crowd. And “ Merry Christmas” means that a whole community is fairly dancing like children at a party. self. Behind all the history of children’s games, and deck­ ing of Christmas trees, and laughter, and song and carol, and cookery; of colored globes and shop-win­ dows decked, of mistletoe and holly,— behind it all, is #muts of flu* -#lti'plu'riia the joy, the actual merriment over the birth o f a poor By EDWIN MARKHAM little baby, who turns out after all to be God, merri­ ASTE, 0 people: all are bidden— ment over a cross, that turns out to be a secret key to Haste from places, high or hidden: success, and a throne in disguise, merriment over a In Mary’s Child the Kingdom comes, ... grave, that turns out to be a door into the heaven of the heaven in beauty bends! heavens. W as there ever such cause for bells swing­ He has made all life completer: ing, and feet dancing, and hearts leaping, and songs He has made the Plain Way sweeter, caroling, as the arrival of God among men? Take all For the stall is His first shelter and the bells of all the towers in all the churches in Chris­ the cattle His first friends. tendom and hang them in one belfry and set them all ringing at once on Christmas day, bobs and bobs-royal He has come! the skies are telling: and triple bobs-majors to the extent of their compass, He has quit the glorious dwelling; and full ring of their metal, and their chimes have just And first the tidings came to us, one meaning. “ His name shall be called W onderful,” the humble shepherd folk. booms a bell, wonderful in truth, wonderful in life, He has come to field and manger, wonderful in death, wonderful in resurrection, won­ And no more is God a Stranger: derful in the Church, wonderful in His disciples! And He comes as Common Man at home another bell turns over, “ Counsellor!” and another, with cart and crooked yoke. “The Mighty God!” And another, “The Everlasting Father!” And all of them, “ The Prince of Peace!” As the shadoiv of a cedar To a traveler in Gray Kedar HE third note is Generosity. Everyone gives gifts Will be the kingdom of His love, the Kingdom without end. at Christmastide.. A t the touch of the Christ, T Tongues and Ages may disclaim Him, selfishness is ashamed. “ God so loved the world that Yet the Heaven of heavens will name Him He gave His only begotten Son.” Love means giving. In New Y ork State, in the Catskills, there is a lake. Lord of peoples, Light of nations, Many little streamsCopyright flow 2020. into Archives it, and of the oneEpiscopal big Church stream / DFMS. Permissionelder required Brother, for reuse and tenderpublication. Friend. December 24, 1931 T H E WITNESS Page Five 3Jny of Christmas By BISHOP JOHNSON FTER three hundred years of persecution the which are not conducive to reverence. It reminds one A Christian Church persuaded Constantine to give of St. Paul’s caution about those who have eaten and a weary world one day in the week for rest and wor­ drunken beyond the limits of good taste. Yet it does ship. The motive behind this gift was to give glory to carry out the spirit of Christmas and we, who are too God and the result was to give peace on earth, good old to learn new ways, have to bow to modern edicts will to men. even though we are convinced that modernism, like After three hundred years of Puritan opposition the jazz music and cubist art, is making an unintelligent Church has given us the feast o f Christmas, the most mess o f things. joyous season of the year. The motive behind this However the vital thing is that, if Christians are to gift was that of “ joy to the world the Lord is born, let be the salt o f the earth, they must not lose their savor earth receive her King.” It is curious that the institu­ because if they do the beautiful things in life which tion which gave us Christmas should be looked upon Christ has sanctified will be trodden under the feet of as a joy killer. In spite of skeptics and critics the men. Society as a whole is like a cow in a haymow. Church has given us also Easter because “ Christ was The cow will soon starve to death because it hasn’t the risen from the dead.” intelligence to preserve the hay upon which her nour­ The world has accepted these gifts but has ignored ishment depends. It will trample down and mess up the reasons for them. It has used Sunday for amuse­ the source of its living. ments, Christmas to promote trade and Easter to dis­ So Sunday and Christmas and Easter will soon be play millinery. trodden under the feet of men unless Christians have Russia has wiped these festivals off the map and sufficient enthusiasm left in them to be the salt which substituted others to proclaim the memory of Lenine preserves the life of these institutions. and the glories of the Soviet. They have gone back to the drab festivals of pagan Rome which degenerated IC K E N S ’ “ Christmas Story” well illustrates what into orgies when the populace had forgotten the motives D little children and unimportant people can do to that inspired them. prevent the spirit of scrooge from usurping the spirit Time was when our national festivals of Washing­ of Christmas. It seems to me that a Christian who ton’s Birthday, Fourth of July and Thanksgiving Day wanted to enjoy Christmas would have a poor sense of evoked a response which was known as patriotism, but gratitude if he did not feel constrained to do that which. unfortunately patriotism seems to need a war to re­ Christ asked him to do in remembrance of Him. So vive it. So far as general observance of these gala strongly has the Church felt about this that it has made days is concerned they have little relation to the mo­ it a rule that a Christian who failed to make his com­ tives which produced them. In other words the munions at Christmastide and Eastertide was not in strength of the motive determines the observance of good standing. Certainly if he was standing at all it the day, and when the motive cools the observance would be with his back to his Master. changes its character. If the spirit of Sunday, Christ­ It is not that the Church would want to take away mas and Easter are to be maintained it must be done by at all the joys of Christmas but rather that she would Christians. “ Y e are the salt of the earth,” said Christ, forcibly remind us of our obligation to do our part in speaking in the Sermon on the Mount, not to the mul­ preserving the motive o f the festival, in order that the titudes but to His disciples. This means that a Chris­ joys might not peter out because they had lost their in­ tian is one whose duty it is to preserve society from spiration. decay, by inserting therein the enthusiasm which is es­ It would seem therefore that each individual Chris­ sential to joy. tian has an obligation on Christmas to bear witness to his love for Christ, unless he too has rejected Him and H E N I was young a small number of Christians gone over to the crowd. Wobserved Christmas by attending church at At Christmas one must feel a deep sympathy for the eleven o’clock. Thirty years ago larger numbers arose man without a home, without a country or without a early and attended the Eucharist. Today the emphasis Church. Such men may be individually of good char­ is, to a still greater degree, upon the midnight service. acter, but, having refused to be incorporated into these N o doubt this is due to the fact that modern Chris­ households of faith and love, while they escape the ob­ tians had rather sit up late than get up early. Unques­ ligations attending such covenant relationships, they tionably there is something about the midnight serv­ also forfeit the privileges incident to them. ice which is more dramatic. There is a peculiar I f you find at this Christmastide that you are with­ thrill when one comes in from the bright lights of out enthusiasm, be honest with yourself and confess Christmas Eve to the softer lights inside. Undoubted­ that it is rather because you have failed in your obli­ ly too there are greater numbers who attend, but pos­ gations than it is because someone else has. deprived sibly the quality is not so good. There are features of you o f a privilege. It is the way God has made human, midnight services, especially in down-town churches, society, whether for better or for worse, that the divi?

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS December 24, 1931 dends which you receive are the result of the talents a King could merit, and only a King receive. There, that you invest. If you have buried your talent in the with that stable as a Palace, and that Manger as a ground you will naturally be surly about it, and are Throne, they offer before Him and to Him, gifts of scarcely capable even of appreciating or comprehending great and glorious worth. the joys of Christmas. The man who keeps his finan­ The story ever bids re-telling and re-thinking. cial savings in a stocking instead o f in a bank is the For have we no Gifts to offer to Him now ? Because same kind of a man who believes that God is a hard we cannot bring the rich offerings of the Eastern master and therefore wraps his talent in a napkin, in­ lands; because we cannot kneel,—or would we have stead of identifying himself with the solvent institution knelt in a stable— and make our offerings to Him there, which represents the spiritual capital o f the world. have we nought to give? This Triology of Treasures calls to careful ponder­ ing. Is there not love? A gift more precious than the S i f t s Gold of Ind ? The gift which binds up broken hearts, and sees in every face, however beaten, broken and de­ By famed, the image o f the Lord o f Life. HOPE HENRY LUMPKIN Is there not Service? A gift which rivals the sweet odors o f the East, and sends the perfume of its deeds T D E T H L E H E M ’S quiet streets had never seen a of helpfulness and hope to mingle with the Prayers of sight like this. Even in the brave old days, when Saints around the Throne of God. Which sends out its David’s armed rabble had moved to mow a Kingdom hands of help wherever human souls may need, and down, and set the Shepherd lad upon a throne, such an stays not on its errands o f mercy until all be healed. event had not been witnessed in the simple town. Surely such a gift may find a place before the King. Whispers of great things had gone about the lanes Is there not Sacrifice? Myrrh in its bitter perfume, and by ways of the place. ■ Strange doings were herald­ may bring to some a message of gloom impending, but ed abroad. Some who had been late in seeking their willing sacrifice,— a life laid down for others, a gift homes a few nights before, had told singular tales of given for other’s sake, is surely richer far to offer to an unearthly yet wondrous light which had for a few the King, than the costliest spices or perfume of brief moments garmented the houses and the distant Araby’s far strand. hills. Soft breezes, whispering over and around had Love, Service, and Sacrifice. Rare triology these seemed to bring a strain of music so profoundly sweet three. W orthy to bring and offer now, as once again and searching, that those who heard lifted their eyes we listen for the Angel’s Song. As once again we see skyward, as half expecting some angelic chorus to the Light supernal break on Bethlehem’s hills. As once sweep in ringing symphonies across the darkened azure again we come to kneel and worship Him, The King o f the midnight skies. Heaven seemed very near that of Kings and Lord of Lords. night. And as we kneel, and as we worship, and as we make Then to a poor and humble stable, rock-hewn, cold our offering, wafted down the years, true now as then, and inhospitable, where lay a peasant’s babe, swaddled there seems to come to us a whispered promise of in cast off clothing, had hastened certain shepherds Reality. “In as much as ye have done it unto one of from the. distant hills, proclaiming that this Babe was the least of these, M y brethren, ye have done it unto King,—no other than the Messianic Hope of Israel’s Me.” Dream. Strange things to happen in a country village! Why not in Jerusalem’s turret crowned hills, not so far Stetljteijtfm’s afir away? Why not where white robed priestly minis- 33 By trants might echo Angelic Minstrelsy, and from the marble lined courts of the costly Temple, might waft PHILLIPS BROOKS back exultant Hosannas, while wreathing clouds of in­ BABE was born in Bethlehem many years ago. cense floated upward to the resounding skies? A His parents were poor and He had no unusual And now again! Pad-padding down the twisting advantages. He raised no army, He conquered no streets of Bethlehem had come strange messengers, kingdom, He owned no real estate, and H e had no bank riding the camels of the distant lands. Garbed in re­ account. Neither did He write books or paint pic­ splendent robes, they bore the look of men who had tures or compose music. He was mocked at by the travelled far, bronzed and darkened by their days and great and died a criminal death. Yet this Man has nights of hill and desert toil. revolutionized the civilized world. Multitudes have Telling the story of the leading of a Star, which gave lived and died triumphantly by the power of faith in them rich omen of a newborn King, they entered not Him and obedience to the doctrines He inculcated, and into the homes of wealth and station, though here and He has more followers in the world today than ever be­ there in such they might have found a son but lately fore. His maxims are acknowledged, even by those come to birth. But they came into the rough-hewn who reject His authority, to be the noblest and purest stable, and kneeling all lowly before that tiny Babe, that ever have been uttered, and no man has been able they open and present rich gifts of consequential worth. to pick a flaw in His character. What will you do with Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh. Gifts such as only Jesus who is called Christ? Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. December 24, 1931 T H E WITNESS Page Seven NEW YORK CITY the chapel at Bellevue; God’s Provi­ BISHOP BUDLONC dence House; Fresh Air work in New MISSION SOCIETY Jersey and in Connecticut. CONSECRATED AT HAS ANNIVERSARY Today that little organization, born HIS HOME PARISH in 1831 with one missionary and a The New York City Mission Society The Rev. Frederick Budlong was budget of $1,000, is closing its 100th is celebrating its 100th anniversary. consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Con­ year with a staff of more than 175 On the first Sunday in Advent, 1831, necticut at Christ Church, Greenwich, workers and a yearly expenditure of the Society was chartered by the state a parish he has served for the past over $325,000. Yet many demands, and recognized by the diocesan con­ few years as rector, on Thursday of created by the emergency of this year vention as “the diocesan agency for last week. The new bishop was conse­ 1931, are still unlet. In 1831 the missionary operations within the crated by Bishop Perry, with a large Society operated a church school of city.” . Poverty and degredation had, number of bishops taking, part in the 100 pupils; today the Society’s chap­ even at this early day, begun to chal­ service. The sermon was preached by lains officiate in 42 hospitals and lenge the city fathers. Missionaries Bishop Freeman of Washington. The homes for the aged, and in 16 prisons were already at work in the notorious general theme of his address dealt and reformatories where they min­ Five Points section, where life was with the necessity for maintaining ister to a daily average of 11,000 found by Charles Dickens in 1840 to the rich heritage the Church possesses people. They care for burials in Pot­ be a subject of horrors. Both its im­ and for its clergy to be truly conse­ pulse toward progress and its prob­ ter’s Field for more than 8,000 for­ crated to the great work of the min­ lems of crime and destitution were gotten ones. The Society maintains istry without yielding place to cus­ the inevitable accompaniments of the three chapels of its own, which had an toms whose only recommendation is sudden growth of New York after aggregate attendance of 51,295 at that they are novel and modern. the close of the war of 1812 and the services last year. St. Barnabas’ “ Nothing has contributed more to the opening of the harbors. The New House shelters a daily average of 150 weakening of the Church’s influence York to New Haven steamboats had women and children. Last year the than the compromises it has made opened in 1818; trans-Atlantic steam fresh air work gave 43,093 days’ care. with the world, in its vain and fatu­ navigation was inaugurated in 1819 There is the work at Ellis Island ous endeavors to secure a certain kind and in 1825 the Erie Canal was com­ where service is given emigrants and of popularity.” immigrants. There are the Goodwill pleted for use. Hence it was a com­ That the Church needs to relate it­ Industries and the social service de­ plicated city, with over 200,000 in­ self more directly to the practical and partment, where nearly three times habitants, where the little band of vital concerns of men in the face of City Mission workers undertook their as many people have been helped present world conditions was stressed during the past month as in the same ministry. in the last part of the sermon. month in any previous year. They had many a crisis to meet. In That the Society has been able to ❖ * * 1832 the dread Asiatic cholera at­ carry on through the years has been For many years we have heard a tacked the city. Anti-abolition riots due to the thought and support of great deal of discussion in the church broke out in 1834. The following year generations of its believers—clergy of the need for relieving the bishop was the fire in the lower-part of the and laity—the memory of whose faith of some of his financial and adminis­ city, burning over thirteen acres and and generosity it seeks to perpetuate trative duties which are essentially destroying over 700 buildings. In ’37 in a manner commensurate with tra­ matters of business. Some have was a sweeping financial panic, with ditions they evolved. Its future lies thought that the ideal would be to much poverty and distress, unrest and in our hands. have a layman who was executive disorder. Added to this, unsanitary head of the diocese to assist the living and pauperization were over­ bishop and take care of the business crowding the city’s aim houses and RURAL WORKERS hospitals. As a result as early as matters, but others have feared in such position the birth of a lay pope. 1831 city missionaries were sent The Rural Workers Fellowship now The Massachusetts Diocesan Council to visit these institutions. In 1847 has an executive committee with the the Mission to Public Institutions was following representatives from the on November 16 set in motion a new inaugurated to fill the need already eight provinces: I. Rev. George B. plan in the appointment of Mr. Philip S. Stafford as field secretary of the demonstrated by the City Mission, Gilbert, Middleton, Conn. II. Rev. Council. Mr. Stafford is treasurer of and by 1864 this work, grown to large C. S. Allison, Warsaw, New York. the Church of the Holy Name in proportions, was again placed under III. Rev. William McClelland, East the direction of the City Mission So­ New Market, Maryland. IV. Rev. Swampscott and has had experience ciety. R. F. Blackford, Leesburg, Florida. both in business and in church work. V. Rev. C. E. Edinger, East Tomah, He has already started to study the As time progressed, interpretation Mich. VI. Ven. David Clark, Fort possibilities of the new position. Hav­ of the Church’s ministry progressed Thompson, South Dakota. VII. Rev. ing such assistance, Bishop Sherrill also. Along with classes and services Paul E. Engle, Bay City, Texas. will be enabled to devote more time to for the lowly and visitation to the sick VIII. Ven. William Bulkley, Salt the distinctly spiritual work of the and the discouraged, grew a realiza­ Lake, Utah. The president of the bishopric and especially to some of tion of the physical and recreational Fellowship is Dr. R. J. Colbert of the the smaller parishes. The plan for a needs of families. First among its University of Wisconsin, Madison. field secretary is one which the Bishop auxiliary efforts in this direction was The secretary is the Rev. Val. H. has been hoping to see instituted for St. Barnabas’ House, begun in 1864 as Sessions of Bolton, Miss. a long time. G. M. D. a temporary shelter for homeless women and children, then and now. * * * During the episcopacy of Bishop The corner stone of the new Japan­ Henry Codman Potter there was a ese mission of St. Mary’s was laid The Rev. Goodrich R. Fenner has rapid expansion of the work of the recently by Bishop Gooden in Los been elected secretary of rural work Society; the purchase of the present Angeles. Thè building is made pos­ for the National Council. He will mission house on Bleecker Street; sible by a generous grant from the work under the social service secre­ services for French and Spanish National Council, though the local tary. At the moment he is the rector people; the Italian Church of San congregation of Japanese raised over of Christ Church, Dallas. He has ac­ Salvatore; chapel at the City Home; $15,000. cepted the new job.

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Christmas in Our Kindergarten at Fukui, Japan

The Annunciotion in V on old Mystery b.% Play Given at I S St. Mark's Miss- ■ 1 ion, Nenana, 1 Alaska

Nurses of St. Luke's Hospital, Tokyo, Present a Satire on Conscription as a Part of TheiT Christmas Party

Crèche, San José de Gracia, /

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for the Joyful Observance of Christmas

n Give a Christmas Play Leper Hospital, Japan

Outdoor Service for Navajo Indians on Christmas Day at Carson’s Trading Post, New Mexico

Children of Six Races Participate in This Christmas Festival at St, Mary’s Mission, Honolulu In Eastern Oregon Children of St. Andrev ChuTch, Burns, Carry a Christmas Tree and O t h e T Gifts to a Needy Family

Christmas Eve at Appalachian School, Penland, North Carolina

rada, Mexico City

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NEWS NOTES OF some Christmas remembrance. The cided to proceed with the organization Church Club of Chicago is also dis­ of a new church, to be called St. THE CHURCH IN tributing relief, with five parties of David’s. This group grew steadily, BRIEF PARAGRAPHS children in different parts of the city, and today this parish is one of the about 500 being entertained at each largest in Philadelphia. The present By W . B. Spofford building was erected in 1880. Those who are honored by an audi­ place — Chase House, the Cathedral Shelter, House of Happiness, the Grace Church, Hulmeville, was ence with His Holiness, the Pope, are started with a Sunday School for required to wear a hammer-tail coat Atonement and Trinity Church. The Catholic Club of the diocese is also families living on farms in this rural and a boiled shirt even if it is ten district in 1826, who were unable to o’clock in the morning;. ’Tis said that having a Christmas party for about get to St. James’, Bristol, about four the Pope was very anxious to see Mr. 100‘ children on the 26th. ¡H * * miles away, on account of the muddy 'Gandhi as he passed through Rome roads in those days. Strangely on his way to India, but those home- Mr. William Cooper Proctor, Glen­ enough, this first Sunday School was spun wraps proved too much of a dale, Ohio, has been elected a member maintained by members of the So­ stumbling block. Mr. Gandhi refuses of the Council to fill the vacancy left ciety of Friends, who furnished the to wear anything else; the Pope re­ by the death of Mr. Samuel Mather. Hi * * money to start it, although it was fuses to see anyone wearing anything considered a branch of the Episcopal but the court dress. So that ended Great doings in Fargo, N. D., on Church in Bristol. The present church the matter. the 16th when the Rev. Frederick B. There are two people one simply Bartlett became the bishop of the mis­ building was erected in 1830, and it cannot imagine dressed in formal at­ sionary district of North Dakota. Six became an independent parish in tire; one is the Mahatma Gandhi and bishops participated: Burleson, repre­ 1837. The Rev. Waldo D. Parker, of Langhorne, is the present rector, and the other is Jesus Christ. The Pope senting the Presiding Bishop, Ingley the Rev. James C. Gilbert, recently of Rome has refused to allow one in of Colorado; Sanford of San Joaquin; Schmuck of Wyoming and Barnwell ordained, is resident minister. his presence, and would, presumably, * H« H« refuse to see the other for the same of Idaho, the last two having been as­ reason. A long way, that, from a sociated with Bishop Bartlett in the The Archdeaconry of Queens and stable in Bethlehem. field department of the National Nassau, Long Island, at a recent * -i* H* Council. The sermon was preached meeting adopted some new rules re­ Speaking of the total of $1,070,296 by Bishop Cross of Spokane. garding missionary clergy to be en­ remaining outstanding on December * * * gaged henceforth. In the first place, 1st toward the budget of the National Pennsylvania has just entered on they are to be regarded as mission­ Council for 1931, Mr. Louis B. Frank­ its honor list of centenarians St. aries of the archdeaconry rather than lin, treasurer, told the members of the David’s, Manayunk, Philadelphia, and as settled incumbents of their several National Council: “ I call your atten­ Grace Church, Hulmeville. St. David’s stations, and they may be moved tion to the fact that this whole sum began its existence on November 26, about, or their work added to, by the is covered by pledges from the 1831, when a notice was posted invit­ archdeacon, under the approval, of Church. The amount to be collected ing the inhabitants of this village course, of the bishop. Any new mis­ this year is not largely in excess of who were interested in establishing sionaries, also, are to be engaged on the amount due in the last months of an Episcopal Church, to meet in the a monthly basis for at least a half- other years, and the wonderful record Academy at six o’clock on the evening year before being accepted as mis­ of these other years gives assurance of December 3rd, 1831. Fifteen per­ sionaries of the archdeaconry. A that the Church will once again dem­ sons appeared on the scene and de­ schedule of salaries was also adopted onstrate its loyalty and steadfastness. Please remember that this total is not a deficit, it is not a sum to be raised. Every penny of it is covered by Just Issued pledges.” * * * The Council voted an appropriation GENERAL CHURCH PROGRAM up to $10,000 for restoring mission property in China, damaged by flood. $ 1932 - 1933 - 1934 and The Council deferred action on T riennial Report of the inaugurating work in India until the next meeting in February. National Council 1929-1931 Mr. Burton Mansfield of Connecti­ cut resigned as a member of the Na­ A 220-page Book Presenting tional Council. His resignation was unanimously refused and he has been The World-wide Work of the National Council, Its Departments, asked to reconsider. Auxiliaries, and Co-operating Agencies * * * The Cathedral Shelter, Chicago, the Revised in accordance with the action of General Convention Rev. David Gibson in charge, is one of the outstanding bits of social serv­ Price 25 Cents ice work being done in this country. This week they are putting on the largest Christmas program in their history. More than 2000 baskets are T H E BOOK STORE being distributed and over a thousand Church M issions H ouse will be fed on Christmas Day at the Shelter. At the county jail 1400 281 FOURTH AVENUE - - - - ...... NEW YORK people will he remembered and at the city jail over 2000 will be brought

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The quotas for 1932 for general Lonely Children in Our Shelter—and Little and diocesan missions and related Innocent Sufferers of Privation projects was recently meted out to the congregations of Long Island. The total is $207,296. Two congregations are apportioned quotas in excess of $10,000; seven more have between $5,000 and $10,000; forty-three more “Will Christmas Come to Us?” have from $1,000 to $5,000. The larg­ est group, a hundred and six, have TT IS hard enough for a little child to be away from its mother, but amounts from $100 to $1,000, and doubly hard at Christmas time—difficult, too, for little minds to under­ eighteen have less than $100. stand why Christmas should come and go and bring no bright token of ? ^ $ someone’s love. In other families now under our care, long months of All of the dojnestic missionary strain and worry for parents have taken the old joy of life; children feel fields are not in the far west. In the this, not understanding. diocese of Lexington, for example, there is the Big Sandy Valley, two We must secure funds to provide Christmas comfort and joy for 11,000 hundred miles long, with 37,000 persons in hospitals and other institutions; 300 at St. Barnabas’ House people along the highway to say and at Schermerhorn House—and for as many as possible of 2,200 families nothing of the many thousands in the known by us to be in need. mountains on either side. In this vast region there is but one priest, with GIFTS LARGE AND SMALL ARE NEEDED two small buildings converted into chapels and one portable church for I herewith enclose my cheque for $...... to bring Christmas cheer to the equipment. needy under your society’s care. * * * Make all cheques to Eugene W. Stetson, Treasurer, and mail same to Headquarters Bishop Perry has appointed a com­ of the Society. mittee to cooperate with the Brother­ hood of >St. Andrew consisting of Bishops Ferris, Darst, Cook, Stevens, Name Hobson, Stewart and Juhan. H* H» H» Address Parishioners of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., turned out in great numbers on December 6th to honor their rector, the Rev. Alexander THE NEW YORK PROTESTANT G. Cummins, who celebrated the 31st anniversary of his rectorship. He EPISCOPAL CITY MISSION SOCIETY was presented with many gifts, in­ cluding a Prayer Book, from the Ox­ 38 B leecker S treet N e w Y ork , N . Y . ford Press, which has recently been on exhibition in New York. A Prayer Book, mind, not a Missal. Two stained Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS December 24, 1931

glass windows, memorials, were also unveiled. H* H* H» E rn est W. L a k e m a n Designer and Worker in Stained Glass C a l v e r t - H errick The Rev. Herbert J. Dowling, re­ cently ordained priest, has become 36-38 WEST TWENTY-FIFTH STREET & R iedinger the chaplain of the state sanatorium Opposite Trinity Chapel 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street of Rhode Island, succeeding the Rev. NEW YORK, N. Y. Irving A. Evans, rector at Lonsdale, New . York . City who has been chaplain for fifteen SYMBOLS years. Because of the effective work USED IN CHURCH TEACHING A handbook for Sunday Schools. By C. N. done by Mr. Evans the hospital care Ironside, LLD., Church of Our Saviour, of all non-Catholics has been turned Mechanicsburg, Ohio. Single copy 25 cents : STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC over to the Episcopal chaplain. dozen copiés $2.40. AND . CHURCH Hs * * THE HANDY PRESS, Springfield, Obis DECORATION Bishop Lemuel H. Wells, retired bishop of Spokane, celebrated his 90th CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL in New York, Sisters of St. Mary (Episco­ birthday on December 3rd. Bishop pal), 405 W. 34th Street. Accredited School Huston of Olympia was there, as of Nursing, two years and eight months. Major subject children. Adult and maternity CHURCH . APPOINTMENTS were many clergymen. The story of nursing in affiliated hospitals. Single room» his life is one of thrills. He came Full maintenance and allowance. Write for IN . MARBLE . STONE to Washington in 1871 to a land of booklet. WOOD . AND virgin forests, full of savage Indians, NOW 10% EXTRA DISCOUNT ON ALL METAL bandits, bears, wolves and cougars. orders while present linen prices continue. He became the Bishop of Spokane in Qualities unchanged. Samples and price-list 1892. The district had then six re­ of Pure Irish Linen for all Church uses sent corded communicants. When he re­ free on request. New, complete Mackrillo signed in 1915 there were 3,000 com­ Handbook 50c. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 Berko* CHURCH ORGANS municants, 20 clergy, six parishes and ley Ave., Trenton, N. J. 54 missions, and a number of diocesan CATHEDRAL STUDIO, WASHINGTON, D. C. Hook fir Hastings Co. institutions. In the city of Tacoma, and London, England. Church embroider­ diocese of Olympia, practically all of ies, Altar and pulpit hangings, surplices. Main Office and Works: Exquisite Altar Linens. Stoles with crosses the five churches now in use were $6.50 up. Burse and Veil $10 up. Silk KENDAL GREEN, MASS. built by this devoted missionary. damask cope, $80 up. Silk chasuble, $30 up. * * * Silk Low Mass sets, $60 up. New Handbook for Altar Guilds, 52c. L. V. Mackrille, 11 W. The Bishop of Washington and the Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Washington, D. C< clergy of the cathedral gathered with Tel. Wisconsin 2752. CHURCH VESTMENTS the cathedral workmen on December Cassacks, Surplices, Stoles, Em­ HOUSE OF THE NAZARENE broideries, Silks, Cloths, Fringes 9th for the funeral service of Alex­ SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA CLERICAL SUITS ander Mowatt, veteran stone-cutter. Guests received. Moderate charges. Con­ Hats, Rabats, Collars In 1912 Mr. Mowatt set the first venient, comfortable, cheerful. Good meals, Specialists in Church vestments attractive grounds, sunshine and quiet. If and Embroideries for a half a stones in Bethlehem Chapel where his you are looking for rest or renewed strength, century. funeral service was held. come and see. Open year round. Daily * * * Chapel services next door, open to guests if desired. For further particulars address COX SONS & VINING Miss Edith D. Johnston, director of Sister-in-Charge, 30-34 Rohde Avenue. 131-133 E. 22rd St., New York the Every Member Canvass at St. John’s, Savannah, Georgia, was pre­ Home for Convalescents sented with a loving cup at the annual CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS St. Raphael’s, Monterey, Tenn. Orlando, Florida parish supper on Dec. 4th. On the Large house. All conveniences. Altitude A fully accredited Church boarding school cup was inscribed, “ They said it 2200 feet. In hundred acre park. Chalybeate water. Private rooms. Steam heat. Chapel. situated in the lovely lake region of central couldn’t be done, so we went ahead Library. Registered nurse. Quiet neighbor­ Florida. Established by Bishop Gray in 1900. and did it.” The canvass in this par­ hood. No radio. No T.B. or mental cases. Outdoor classes and sports. Supervised ath­ Good roads. Good food.' Moderate rates. Ad­ letics. Primary through college preparatory. ish, under Miss Johnston’s direction, dress Rector, St. Raphael’s, Monterey, Tenn. Music and art. An altogether glorious place for a girl to spend the winter. Moderate began in May with careful prepara­ rates. The Rt. Rev. Cameron Mann, D.D., tion which ran right through the 'L.L.D., President. summer. “ The every member can­ BRENT HOUSE, 5540 WOODLAWN AVE- Mrs. Alice Bartlett Stoddard, Principal vass,” says Miss Johnston, is a pro­ nue, Chicago, Illinois. Conference and In­ Box 33, Orlando, Fla. cess, not an event.” The results in stitute Center for Church Leaders. For information, apply to Mrs. George Biller. the parish bear her out. * He * Declaring that the Church has failed in large measure in her task Washington Cathedral with regard to religious education in Witness for Christ in the Capital of the Natiot (Eijriatmaa (Earnla the past, the Rev. Cyril Hudson, for HE CHAPTER appeals to Churchmen through* Britisher who is this year on the fac­ G out the country j for gifts, large and small, to ulty of the Berkeley Divinity School, continue the work of building now proceeding, and Community Singing to maintain its work, Missionary, Educational, Chari­ predicted a revolt against the table, for the benefit of the whole Church. Eleven Books “ tyranny of mechanically-minded Chartered under Act of Congress. Books 10c each or $5.00 scientists” and revival of religion Administered by a representative Board of Trustees of leading business men. Clergymen and Bishops. per 100. Sample set, 50c. within the present generation. He Full information will be given by the Bishop of THE H. W. GRAY COMPANY said all this at the Western Seminary Washington, ' or the Dean, Cathedral Offices, ■ Mount the other day where he delivered the Saint Alban, Washington, D. C., who will receive and 159 East 48th St., New York City acknowledge all contributions. Hale Sermon. “ The days are long I Legal Title for Use in Making Wills: Sole agents for NOVELLO & gone by in most places when teaching COMPANY from a pulpit or from an episcopal THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF throne is accepted as authoritative COLUMBIA

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. December 24, 1931 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen and true simply on grounds of its Frankfort, London, Berlin, Corinth source. Every Christian teacher of and Athens, with a side trip to Pari- S. O. S. CALL today, at least outside the Roman dise. Communion, must respect the intel­ Help save St. Philip’s Junior College lectual freedom of his disciples; he The diocesan paper of Florida, The and Vocational Institute! The State De­ Church Herald, has been suspended partment has put a time limit on the pay­ must guide, not drive; educate, not ment of our deficit, which is January 1, dictate.” due to lack of cash to carry it on. * * * ^ Hs * 1932. The school must raise ($5000) by the St. Luke’s, Scranton, Pa., the Rev. Christ Church, Red Wing, Minne* first of the year, 1932, or lose its rating Robert P. Kreitler, rector, in their sota, celebrated its 60th anniversary by the State Department of Education. Every Member Canvass, conducted on December 6th. It was consecrated Dr. F. D. Oppenheimer, a trustee, has the second Sunday in Advent, went by Bishop Whipple in 1871. Last pledged the first ($500), provided we can over the top by several hundred dol­ Sunday in this parish they had the get nine others to pledge like sums, or lars not only with their parish budget, “ White Gift” service, when every smaller ones. We have just secured two others who have pledged similar amounts. but also with the diocesan and gen­ child and teacher in the Church eral Church program. It was the School brought a gift of some stable We are making a general appeal to food, wrapped in white paper, and Churches, individuals and organizations ■first report received by the author­ to come to our assistance. This year, we ities in the diocese of Bethlehem and placed it in the manger. The gifts have signed affidavits to the effect that naturally bucked them up a great were later given to the visiting nurse the school would run on a cash basis or deal. of the city for distribution to needy close. * * * families. St. Philip’s Junior College is the only The oldest church building in the * * * Church school West of the Mississippi, diocese of Olympia, St. Luke’s, Van­ Bishop Maxon, Tennessee, is en­ Class “A” school, rated by the State De* couver, built in the far off days of thusiastic in his praise of the mission partment of Education, and the only 1871, was destroyed by fire on De­ on the great commission, now under Junior College in San Antonio for way in the South. His is the only Negroes. It has the endorsements of the cember 6th. The tower, recently re­ Mayor of the City, Chamber of Com­ paired, contained a bell which became diocese so far where the entire field merce and Bishop Capers of the Diocese detached from its beam. It came has been reached. In many other of West Texas. toppling to the ground, setting up a parts of the province the mission has The enrollment has increased one hun­ great shower of sparks which also been put over until Epiphany or Lent dred per cent this year. Gifts may be sent set fire to the rectory, but it was put so as not to conflict with the every to our treasurer, Mr. Ned Mcllhenny, out before a great deal of damage member canvass. Vice President of Frost National Bank * * * was done. or to Rt. Rev. W. T. Capers, 108 W. * * * A young men’s conference was held French Place, San Antonio, Texas. The teaching mission on the great in the diocese of Chicago sponsored Thanking you in advance for your con­ commission was held in the diocese by the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. sideration of us, I am of Lexington from December 6th There were addresses by Bishop Faithfully yours, Stewart, who urged these young men A. Bowden, through the 20th, with the attendance President. at all parishes and missions exceeding to “ expose their personalities to the expectations. Reports came in also Person of Christ as a means of at­ taining success” ; by Mr. William Pel­ Miss Artemisia Bowden, President of from this diocese that the every mem­ St. Philip’s Junior College, is striving to ber canvass has been very satisfac­ ham, prominent layman of the dio­ raise $5,000, as the lowest sum possible tory. cese, and the Rev. George W. Ridge­ by which she hopes to save the institu­ * * * way of River Forest, who urged them tion from losing its rating as a Class A, Romance developed in Smoke Hole to devote themselves more actively to Junior College. —of all places. It is the name of a Church work. One of the most in­ St. Philip’s Junior College is at the settlement in West Virginia where teresting addresses was by Mr. highest peak of its success in every phase Captain Edward Hodgkinson of the Charles H. Kingman, high school of its work. It has the strong endorse­ Church Army has been at work principal, who said that young people ment of the State Department of Educa­ were thinking seriously these days. tion, the enthusiastic applause of the among the mountain whites. Miss Chamber of Commerce and of the City Adelaide Beatrice Moulson has been As proof of his contention, Mr. government and it also has the hearty in training as a nurse in order to as- Kingman cited results of a question­ cooperation of our public school system. Bist him in this work. They were mar­ naire which he recently submitted to Added to this, is the record of attend­ ried the other day in Massachusetts, 150 senior students at the Ottawa ance, which is beyond any year of its his­ and started immediately after the High School. He asked what they tory. ceremony in an automobile for West expected to receive from the school The college’s present embarrassment is due to the terrible financial depression Virginia. and community and what they ex­ * * m pected to give. Among the answers that is upon our whole country and for to the first were: protection, a this reason the school has had a most A Brotherhood Chapter has been difficult and trying experience in carry­ organized at St. John’s University, trained mind, training in character, ing on its current expenses. It would in­ Shanghai. It is expected that it will politeness, control of temper, control deed seem a crime against the years of be the beginning of a national of personal habits, humility, self-re­ noble effort that Miss Bowden has made Brotherhood organization in China. liance. Answers to the second in­ to bring this school up to this high point cluded: loyalty and appreciation, of efficiency, to allow it to lose its There seems to be considerable ri­ right conduct, the ability to judge be­ standing just for a comparatively few tween right and wrong, service, hon­ dollars. The friends of the Negro people valry among bishops as to just which should realize that St. Philip’s Junior one has the “ largest” diocese. The esty. College is offering wonderful advantages bishop of Huron, Canada, recently So you see, if these youngsters to this race. No money could be better claimed it but he was set back by were not merely handing their Mr. invested in behalf of the Negro people Bishop Fiske of Central New York, Kingman a line, there is evidence that than to support Miss Bowden in her whose statement was published far young people are not marching on campaign to raise this $5,000. and wide. Now along comes Bishop the road to ruin. Very faithfully yours, Hi * Abbott of Lexington who says that he W illiam T heodotus Capers, can leave his see city and travel to A letter from a senior warden in Bishop of West Texas. Pisgah by way of Versailles, Paris, Vermont who wants to start a drive

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ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE for the relief from solicitation of (Columbia University) senior wardens. His name, of course, <£mral (H^ologtral A . College of Arts, Letters and Sciences is listed in the diocesan journal, definitely and officially of the • Episcopal handy for the innumerable people who Three-year undergraduate course of pre­ Church but with no ecclesiastical restrictions are raising cash for one thing or scribed and elective study. in the selection o f its student body; incorpo­ Fourth-year epurse for graduates, offering rated into the educational system of Colum­ another. larger opportunity for specialization. bia University and conferring the University * * * Provision for more advanced work, leading degree. to degrees of S.T.M. and S.T.D. It combines the advantages of University The young people of Chicago are ADDRESS education with small college simplicity and bound, sooner or later, to have a inexpensiveness. THE DEAN The College founded in 1860, is equipped to Cathedral. The other day they pre­ -teach men who, after graduation, are going sented some more cash to Bishop 4 Chelsea Square New York City Into business or into post-graduate schools of For Catalogue Address the Dean medicine, law, journalism or theology, or into Stewart for that purpose— $4,424, classical, scientific, social or literary research. bringing the total to more than $16,- Episcopal Theological School The fees are: For tuition, $360 a year; for 000. Seven hundred of them came to furnished room, $150 a year; for board in CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS hall, $300 a year. There are some competi­ St. Luke’s, Evanston, for a service of tive scholarships and a few bursaries for men Affiliation with Harvard University offers contemplating Holy Orders. presentation. unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as * # * philosophy, psychology, history, Address: Bernard Iddings Bell, Litt.D., sociology, etc. Warden Mrs. 'Stuart Burgess has become ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. For Catalogue Address the Dean (R. R. Station: Barrytown) the secretary of the Church Mission of Help in Alabama.

TRINITY COLLEGE The Chapel of the Resurrection, a Berkeley Divinity Hartford, Conn. rural mission in connection with School Offers a general cultural education, wit Grace Church, Anniston, Alabama, special emphasis on the Classics, Moder, New Haven, Connecticut Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil has been torn down and moved three Affiliated with Yale University osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, miles further out from town. The Address DEAN W. P. LADD .Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. 80 Sachem Street For information apply, The Dean. reason was to get nearer the center of the membership. This chapel min­ isters to a strictly rural population, DIVINITY SCHOOL IN ST. KATHARINE’S SCHOOL none of whom were Episcopalians Under the care o f the Sisters of St. Mary. when the work was organized nine PHILADELPHIA A thorough preparatory school for a limited number o f girls. Recommended by leading years ago. To date, there have been Undergraduate and Graduate Courses colleges. Beautiful grounds. Outdoor sports, 201 baptisms and 67 confirmations, Privileges at University of Pennsylvani* riding and swimming. Ask for our catalog! Address: practically every one of whom were DEAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Streets SISTER SUPERIOR brought into the Church through the 927 Tremont Ave., Davenport, Iowa influence of the chapel. For the past six years, Grace Church has main­ KEMPER HALL SEABURY- CARLETON tained a Sunday School bus, which THEOLOGY LIBERAL ARTS KENOSHA, WISCONSIN has gathered the children who have Best Training — Minimum Cost Under the care of the Sisters of Saint Mary. An Episcopal school for girls on no transportation and who live at a For information and catalogue write North Shore of Lake Michigan, one hour distance from the mission. REV. FREDERICK KRAMER, Ph.D., D.D. from Chicago. College Preparatory and gen­ Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn. eral courses. Music, Art, Domestic Science. Outdoor and Indoor Sports. Address, The Sis­ Record confirmation class for La ter Superior. Junta, Colorado, was presented to The Protestant Episcopal Bishop Ingley on the second Sunday Virginia Episcopal School in Advent when 18 were confirmed. Theological Seminary in Virginia They were presented by the Rev. H. For catalogue and other information Lynchburg, Virginia address the Dean Prepares boys for college and university. N. Cooper, recent Nashotah graduate, Splendid environment and excellent corps of whose missionary jurisdiction covers REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. teachers. High standard in scholarship and Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in the entire Arkansas Valley, an area tli6 mountains of Virginia. Charges excep­ larger than a number of eastern tionally low. For catalogue apply to Rev. states. Oscar deWolf Randolph, Rector. $ ^ $ SAINT MARY’S RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA The Young People’s Fellowship of HARVARD SCHOOL the diocese of Quincy gathered at Episcopal for Girls. High School and two Los Angeles, California years College. Academic Courses Fully Ac­ Trinity, Rock Island, Illinois, recently credited Southern Association. Departments: A school for boys under the auspices of at the invitation of the rector, the Art, Business, Expression, Home Economics, the Episcopal Church. Fully accredited. Music. R. O. T. C. Outdoor sports in a fine cli­ Rev. Rodney F. Cobb. There was a mate. For all information, address the Rev. Catalogue and View Book upon Request Harold H. Kelley, Headmaster. business meeting on Saturday— and of course lots of fun too—and on Sun­ ST. M ARY’S SCHOOL day a great service with ¡Bishop Mc- MOUNT ST. GABRIEL Kim of Japan as the preacher. CONFIRMATION Peekskill-on-Hudson BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INSTRUCTIONS ' Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. Churches throughout the country by College preparatory and General courses. New modern fireproof buildings. Extensive recrea­ are to set aside February 14th as Bishop Johnson tion grounds. Separate attention given to Race Relations Sunday. The purpose Formerly 50c a copy. Now 20c a young children. For catalog address THE SISTER SUPERIOR. of the day is to promote better racial copy as long as present edition lasts. relationships. ¡The Federal Council $2.00 for a dozen copies. The School of of Churches is sponsoring it and is NURSING now sending out literature showing Any Book Reviewed May HOSPITAL OF ST. BARNABAS how best to observe the day. Be Secured from Newark, N. J. Fully Accredited School and Hospital. WITNESS BOOKS High School graduates accepted. The mission on the great commis­ 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. Classes entering February. Enroll now. sion got under way in Florida with a Address Chicago, III. - DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF NURSING great day at Port St. Joe, though

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most of the parishes and missions of diocese of Western New York be­ Bishop Whipple fifty-three years ago the diocese will not undertake it until comes two dioceses, with Bishop —her Indian name is Good Bear Wom­ this coming spring. The eleven o’clock Davis presiding over one and Bishop an but she is known as Susan Wind­ service was held in the Methodist Ferris over the other. Bishop Davis row—is still one of the most inter­ Church, with many of other com­ at the moment is Bishop Coadjutor. ested Church workers in the diocese munions joining us in worship. The of Minnesota. At Prairie Island, celebrant and preacher was Bishop Here is another mission on the where she lives, the Indian women Juhan. After a picnic luncheon the great commission, this time in North have had a Woman’s Auxiliary sew­ program of the great commission was Carolina— on the whole well attended. ing society for more than thirty put on in the lobby of the local hotel, We will have an article for you pres­ years. with addresses about the work local­ ently about this whole business writ­ * * * ly, about the work in Florida, about ten by the Rev. David Cavill, secre­ Japanese in the White River Val­ the mission work of the Church, both tary of the National Council, who in ley, state of Washington, diocese of at home and abroad. The speakers, large measure has been running it. Olympia, since the death o f their mis­ in addition to Bishop Juhan, were * * * sionary, the Rev. Paul Ito, last Mrs. W. P. Cornell, executive secre­ An Indian woman confirmed by spring, have been under the care of a tary of the diocese, the Rev. J. L. Pro­ vost, once Archdeacon of the Yukon and now in charge at Panama City, Rev. Gladstone Rogers of Marianna, and Miss Margaret Weed, Mrs. John Services of Leading Churches G. Ruge and Major A. Korst, who ------:--- !------— ------;------;------;---- spoke for the laity of the diocese. * * Hi Cathedral of St. John the Divine Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland New Y ork Dean Francis S. White, D.D. Imagine this: in the diocese of Amsterdam Ave. and 111th St. Sundays : 8, 11 and 4. Texas there was a dinner the other Sunday Services : 8, 9 :30, 11 A. M. and Daily: 10:30. evening for the vestrymen and clergy 4 P. M. Daily : 7:30 and 10 A. M. and 5:00 Grace Church, Chicago of the diocese, at which the clergy P. M. (St. Luke’s Hospital Chapel) remained silent. Anyhow that is the Rev. Wm. Turton Travis report as we get it. Bishop Quin sent The Incarnation 1450 Indiana Ave. Sundays: 8, 11 A. M. and 7 :30 P. M. out word to the clergy in advance tell­ Madison Avenue and 35th Street Rector Week Days: 6 :40 A. M. except Monday. Holy Days: 10:30. ing them that they were to let the Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D., LL.D. laymen do the talking. There were Sundays : 8, 10, 11 A. M. ; 4 P. M. 170 vestrymen present, some travel­ Daily: 12:20. St. Stephen’s, Chicago The Little Church at the End of the Road ling three hundred miles to get there. 3533 N. Albany Avenue Trinity Church, New York Whether they all talked or not I was Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker not informed. Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, S.T.D. 11 A. M. 4:30 P. M. Hs sH H* Broadway and Wall St. Sundays: 8, 9, 11, and 3 :30. St. Andrew’s Chapter Guild, Provi­ Daily: 7 :15, 12 and 3. St. Luke’s, Evanston dence, claims to be the oldest Church­ Charles E. McAllister, D.D. men’s Club in continuous existence in The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Sundays: 7:30, 8:15, 11 and 4:30. Daily: 7:30 and 5. From Chicago off the country. They observed their Disciple, New York at Main, one block east and one north. 36th anniversary this week. There Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. are 584 members, drawing from a Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. Christ Church, Cincinnati wide radius, including towns in Mas­ Holy Days: 7:30 and 11 A. M. Rev. Frank H. Nelson sachusetts. They have a country home Rev. Bernard W. Hummel The Transfiguration, New York which is put into operation in the Sundays : 8:45, 11 A. M. and 5 P. M. “ The Little Church Around the Corner” Holy Days : Holy Communion, 10 A. M. summer. Then too they have a 22 1 East 29th Street piece orchestra. Quite a club, what? Rev. Randolph Ray, D.D., Rector Sundays: 8 and 9 A. M. (Daily 7:30) Church of the Advent, Boston Hs Hi Hi 11 A. M. Missa Cantata and Sermon 4 Mt. Vernon and Brimmer Sts. P. M. Vespers and Adoration Thurs., Rev. Julian D. Hamlin The Rev. Charles Campbell, recent­ Fri., and Saints’ Days, 2d Mass at 10. Sundays: Holy Communion, 7:30 and ly ordained by Bishop Ferris, has 8 :15 A. M. ; Young People’s Mass, 9 been instituted as rector of Trinity, A. M .; Church School, 9 :30 A. M. Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights Matins, 10 A. M. ; Solemn High Mass and Fredonia, N. Y. Rev. George P. Atwater, D.D. Sermon, 10:30 A. M. ; Solemn Evensong * * * Hicks St., near Remsen, Brooklyn, N. Y. and Sermon, 7:30 P. M. Mexican parish papers publish the Sundays: 8 A. M„ 11 A. M„ 4:30 P. M. Week Days: Matins 7 :15 A. M. ; Mass Church School: 9 :45 A. M. 7 :30. Evensong 5 P. M .; additional Mass names of godfathers and godmothers Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 A. M. along with the names of those bap­ Grace Church, New York St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California tized. Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Broadway at 10th St. Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street Near the University of California Hebrew, Indian, Chinese and Negro Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Daily: _12:30, except Saturday. Sundays: 7:30, 11 A. M .; 7:45 P. M. were among the candidates confirmed Holy Days and Thursday: Holy Com­ Tuesdays: 10 A. M. lately at All Saints, Henry Street, munion. 11:45. New York City. St. James, Philadelphia Hi Hi Hi Grace and St. Peter’s Church Rev. John Mockridge The Rev. David W. Howard has re­ Baltimore, Md. 22nd and Walnut Sts. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) Sundays: 8, 11, and 8. signed as rector of St. Luke’s, Nor­ The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers Daily: 7 :30, 9, and 6. folk, Virginia, after serving for 24 The Rev. Harold F. Hohly Holy Days and Thursdays: 10. Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 A. M .; 8 P. M. years. Week Days: 8 A. M. * * * St. Mark’s, Milwaukee Bishop Davis of Western New York Gethsemane, Minneapolis Rev. E. Reginald Williams is to be enthroned as Bishop of Rev. Austin Pardue Hackett Ave. and Belleview Place 4th Ave. South at 9th St. Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11. Western New York at St. Paul’s Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 7 :45. Gamma Kappa Delta: 6 P. M. Cathedral, Buffalo, on January 15th. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. Holy Days: 10 A. M. On the first of January the present

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Sixteen T H E WITNESS December 24, 1931 young Japanese physician, Dr. Shig- vigorous blow and exclaims, “ I cast Philippine legislature, the first Igorot aya, a product of the mission and a away the works of darkness and put so honored. The Philippine Herald keen Churchman, who combines his upon me the armor of light.” The describes him as the recognized and work of healing with the service of rector of Calvary last Lent had one trusted leader and spokesman of 300,- the Church. He was recently mar­ of these hateful birds hung in the 000 mountain people. He is also ried. The latest news of him is that hall of the parish house and every public health officer for Bontoc he now intends to study for the min­ one who passed it was bidden to strike province and director of Bontoc Hos­ istry. it a blow and say the Advent motto. pital. An excellent maiden speech to * * * * * * the Legislature, printed on the front St. John’s Mission, Spencer, central Dr. Hilary Clapp, an Igorot of page of the Herald, pleads for good New York, has but seven communi­ Bontoc, known to numbers of Church roads, village schools, and health cants, and yet from that small group people as one of the early products education, that the mountain tribes comes a future missionary, a young of the Philippine Islands mission, has may make their contribution to the woman now in training. been appointed representative in the progress of the country. * * * The new suffragan bishop of Mex­ ico, the Right Rev. Efrain Salinas, on Sunday, October 25th, was in­ ducted into office and confirmed his first class, five girls from Hooker School. The long service, all in THE CHURCH LIFE Spanish, with Mexican flags in the procession,crowded the Church of San Jose de Gracia, in Mexico City. ■ INSURANCE CORPORATION All the Mexican clergy were present, except one who was ill. Bishop — .. — was established by the Trus­ Salinas has been assigned the over­ tees of the Church Pension sight of all the Mexican missions. Fund and is operated under their supervision for *!• *!• *1* A family in Calvary parish, Pitts­ the benefit of clergymen and their families and burgh, Pa., ever since the days when lay-workers and their families of the Protestant their children were very small have Episcopal Church. hung an Advent Buzzard in their hallway during Advent. This is a strange ungainly creature made A FEELING OF SECURITY something like a scarecrow, very re­ pellent. Every time a member of life insurance policy,— a simple, direct the family goes up or down stairs, contract,— with a reputable insur­ he strikes the horrid creature a A ance company, gives one a feeling of secur­ ity not inherent in other investments.; QUALITY Financial depressions, business conditions or other considerations will not affect the The best of articles by a dis­ value of an insurance policy at some un­ tinguished group of editors and contributors. known future date. It will be paid im­ mediately in cash in accordance w ith the BREVITY terms of the contract. Or payments by in­ stallments can be arranged for. Brief articles because we know you have many uses for your The facilities of this corporation are time. All the news briefly placed at the disposal of clergymen and and entertainingly presented. their families and lay-workers and their families. Its rates are NET RATES, w ith ­ PRICE out loading. It has also established the A Church Weekly within the practice of making substantial annual re­ reach of all. Annual subscrip­ funds, which reduce the cost of insurance tion $2.00. In bundles of ten still further. or more for sale at the Church at 3c a copy. It has no agents, but it invites corres­ pondence which should be addressed to RESULT Largest of the church weeklies in circulation. THECHURCH LIFEINSURANCECORPORATION THE WITNESS 2 0 EXCHANGE PLACE-NEW YORK

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