1966 the Witness, Vol. 51, No. 33
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^ WITNESS OCTOBER 20, 1966 10* publication. Editorial and reuse Maybe We're All Heretics for required Articles Permission DFMS. / Should We Build Lavish Churches? A Trialogue Church Episcopal Give Us This Day the of Katherine S. Strong Archives 2020. Chocking the Gospel to Death Martin LeBrecht Copyright NEWS: Big Problems Face the Church Presiding Bishop Tells Council. Faith and Order Meeting in Soviet Union. Churches Pro- test Discontinuing Head Start Funds SERVICES The Witness SERVICES In Leading Churches For Christ and His Church In Leading Churches NEW YORK CITY EDITORIAL BOARD ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH Tenth Street, above Chestnut OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. Sunday: Holy Communion 7, 8, 9, 10, JOHN MCGILL KROMM, Chairman W. B. SPOFFOKD SK., Managing Editor The Rev. Alfred W. Price, D.D., Rector Morning Prayer, Holy Communion and The Rev. Gustav C. Meckling, B.D. Sermon. 11; Organ Recital, 3:15 and EDWARD J. MOHR, Editorial Assistant Minister to the Hard of Hearing sermon, 4. O. SYDNEY BABR; LBS A. BELFORD; ROSCOE Sunday: 9 and 11 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Morning Prayer and Holy Communion 7:15 T. Fousrrj RICHARD E. GARY; GORDON C. Weekdays: Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., (and 10 Wed.); Evening Prayer, 3, 12:30 - 12:55 p.m. GRAHAM; DAVID JOHNSON; HAROLD R. LAN- Services of Spiritual Healing, Thurs. 12:30 DON; LESLIE J. A. LANG; BENJAMIN MINIFIE; and 5:30 p.m. THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH WIIXIAM STRINGFELLOW. TRINITY Broadway & Wall St. CHRIST CHURCH CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., •fr The Rev. W. Murray Kenney, Rector Acting Rector Sunday Services: 8:00, 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. Wed. and Holy Days: 8:00 and 12:10 p.m. Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser. 12:30 EDITORIALS: - The Editorial Board holds monthly meetings when current issues before publication. Tues., Wed & Thurs., EP 5:15 ex. Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt. the Church are discussed. 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John Gaynor Banks, D.S.T. 5th Ave. & 53rd Street lee Belford, Charles Patterson, Christopher Rev. Frederick M. Morris, D.D. Senyonjo, Associates This paper is recommended by many Sunday: HC 8, 9:30, 11 (1st Sun.) MF Sundays: 8 a.m. HC; 9:30 Family (HC 3S) Bishops and Clergy. 11; Daily ex. Sat. HC 8:15, HC Tues. Thurs. HC 11 a.m. Address: 12:10, Wed., 5:30. One of New York's FELLOWSHIP OF ST. LUKE Noted for boy choir; great reredos most beautiful public buildings. 2243 Front St. San Diego 1, Calif. and windows. VOL. 51, NO. 33 The WITNESS OCTOBER 20, 1966 FOR CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH Editorial and Publication Office, Eaton Road, Ttmkhannoek, Pa. 18657 Story of the Week "Until I am otherwise per- Big Problems Face the Church suaded," Bishop Hines told the council, "I am of the opinion Bishop Hines Tells Council that the inertia of Church publication. people can be attributed more By E. John Mohr others would be barred, and to 'lack of head' than 'lack of and Witness Editorial Assistant that he would be listening to heart'! Many of our people the game. if In a statement to the really care about what is hap- reuse In his statement Dr. Hines Executive Council, meeting at pening in the ghettos south and for referred to the "analysis of the Seabury House Oct. 4-6, Presid- assumptions, general goals, and north and east and west; in the ing Bishop Hines declared that specific operational objectives" court room, in the poverty-rid- required "t h e 'ecclesiastical establish- being currently prepared by the den rural slums, in Vietnam, in ment' has been under attack for chairmen and directors of coun- South Africa; but many of these some time now because, gener- cil departments and divisions for problems are highly complex, ally speaking, we seem reluctant the period following the 1967 and because their knowledge of Permission to 'go where the action is', and General Convention. the Christian Gospel, and the initiative for an attack upon "Any projected program", he nature and mission of the injustice, inequality, prejudice, DFMS. said, "to be effective, must take Church, is pathetically thin — / ignorance, poverty, and other account of the crucial areas of if not at times cruelly distorted allied evils, has long passed into human need apparent in this — they find themselves im- the hands of less religiously- Church world. Because our lot is cast mobilized, frustrated amid the motivated, more militant — if in a period of vast and in- peripheral claims of their sometimes terribly violent — credibly swift, often unpredict- groups". Church." Episcopal able, change the Church must Bishop Louttit prefaced his The council sessions them- 'sit loose' to programs which the report as chairman of the Chris- of selves were relatively unevent- tend to tie up available re- tian education department with ful, though there was an sources, of personnel and fi- a biographical sketch, introduc- unspoken awareness of the nances, for prolonged periods of ing it with the comment that Archives concurrent world series and the time. There is no doubt but though he was being much mis- proposed presentment against that this world grimly displays understood he is really "a sweet, 2020.