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"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 people can be attributed more

publication. By E. John Mohr others would be barred, and to 'lack of head' than 'lack of Witness Editorial Assistant that he would be listening to and heart'! Many of our people the game. really care about what is hap- if In a statement to the In his statement Dr. Hines reuse Executive Council, meeting at referred to the "analysis of the pening in the ghettos south and for 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- "t h e 'ecclesiastical establish- den rural slums, in Vietnam, in required being currently prepared by the 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, Church, is pathetically thin —

DFMS. said, "to be effective, must take

/ 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." able, change the Church must Bishop Louttit prefaced his Episcopal The council sessions them- 'sit loose' to programs which report as chairman of the Chris- the selves were relatively unevent- tend to tie up available re- of 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 concurrent world series and the Archives 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. Bishop Pike by a group of bish- areas of desperate need that lovable, f e 11 o w." Mentioning ops led by Bishop Louttit of will not pass away in our life- that though he graduated from South Florida. Dr. Louttit, a time! But it is also evident that Virginia Seminary he is an member of the council, made what appears to be a crucial "Anglo-Catholic" he said, ap- Copyright only an indirect reference to his need at the beginning of a trien- parently with reference to Bish- participation in the issue, which nium may turn out to be a sec- op Pike, that he "can be pushed lies outside the sphere of the ondary or even inconsequential too far." Declaring that he is council's functions, though they one towards the end. I would "not a spike", and not particu- will inevitably be affected by it hope that the time is with us larly fussy, he confessed that he if it is pressed. when the Church will find ways did "love to fight", and de- At the beginning of the sec- to commit her resources through scribed his boyhood fights with ond day's session Bishop Hines, less rigid financial framework "shanty Irish" in Buffalo, sav- saying that the series would than has thus far been apparent, ing he himself had "shanty start at 4 p.m., New York time, that the Church may be in- Irish blood" in him. Concluding ruled that there would be one creasingly mobile and respon- with another apparent reference official transistor radio, that all sive." to the Pike matter he said: "In OCTOBER 20, 1966 Three all of this I am trying to do the tion despite environing opinion." Pennsylvania, the council ap- will of God." "It is quite evident," Gordon proved policies allowing the Reporting figures at the end held, "that the call for black college and university division of August Lindley M. Franklin, power has centered its program to make grants running from 3 Jr., the treasurer, said that on the third alternative." "It to 5 years for exploratory or $6,411,693 had been paid on seems to me," he concluded, demonstration projects. Under quotas of dioceses and mission- "that the crucial challenge and previous policies such grants ary districts, against $6,931,528 burden that confront Church had to be reduced from year to payable at the time. He said leaders and people is: Will year. The new policies provide that the lag was not unreason- the Church support and defend that payments for salaries under able, though during the summer the power of the majority, or the grants may not begin unless the council had to draw a mil- will the Church take the inevit- there has been prior consulation lion dollars from reserves to able risk and support and de- on appointments between the meet current commitments. fend the rights of the power- local authority and officers of From the church school mission- less?" the division. It was held that ary offering $168,028 has been Partnership while the division officers do publication. received so far. The offering not hold veto power over ap- has been declining each year, The report of the promotion pointments consultation will in- and and Franklin said he anticipated department, of which the Rev. crease the chances of suitable less than $200,000, the lowest C. Howard Perry of Olympia is placements in the field. reuse it will have reached, when all chairman, included a presenta- for The division of research and the payments are in. tion of efforts being made to field study, through its chair- A total of only $1,367,073 re- explain the "partnership prin- man, Bishop Burrill of Chicago, required mains to be secured to pay off ciple" to groups in the Church. gave the council a preliminary the indebtedness on the Episco- The policy, which was approved report on the question of dioce- pal Church Center in New York. in principle at the last General san boundaries, which had been Gifts from dioceses and other Convention, provides for volun- referred to it by General Con- Permission donors have amounted to tary pledges for the national vention. Dr. Burrill said that $2,992,699. The balance of Church program in place of the question itself reflected a quota assignments, with the ob-

DFMS. pledges outstanding, to be ap- "deeper illness", saying that / plied on the mortgage when they jective of having the dioceses the present boundaries were are paid, amounts to $851,827. and missionary districts give "the product of another age", for this purpose half of what Church no longer conforming to present Black Power they receive. Describing his political, social and economic experience in the promotional In a statement to the council realities. Rather than suggest- effort the Rev. Edward G. Mul- ing specific boundary changes Episcopal seeking to clarify the meaning len of Alabama said that there the division advanced the re- the of "black power" the Rev. Quin- was considerable misunderstand- of land R. Gordon, associate secre- sults of studies indicating the ing in the Church of the prin- tary of the division of Christian nature and composition of a ciple and program. Indicating citizenship, said that he sub- "viable diocese." In summary that he was not discouraged, Archives scribes "to the broad and posi- form the elements include: One Mullen cited the incident of the tive meaning" of the term, bishop in residence; ministra- New York garment industry 2020. which he characterized "as a tions of one bishop available for leader who came to an untimely method that seeks to develop no more than 60 congregations death while on a holiday in and encourage a needed sense of or 100 clergy; a minimum of 30 Florida. When his body was Copyright pride and unity among black congregations or 30 clergy; sup- exposed to view in New York people." He cited a passage portive services in education, before the funeral a friend look- from W. E. B. DuBois in "Book- social relations, planning and ing at it said to another, "Don't er T. Washington and Others" extension; center in a metro- he look good.?" "He ought to that the "attitude of an im- politan area; skilled guidance, look good!" said the other. "He prisoned group may take three including financial support, for just came back from Florida." main forms (1) a feeling of re- experimentation and expansion; "A great deal of the Church," volt and revenge (2) an attempt ability to respond to rapid Mullen added in concluding his to adjust all thought and action change as it affects diocesan presentation, "looks good." to the will of the greater and and congregational structures ; continuing analysis of social and stronger group (3) a de- On recommendation of the political factors affecting the termined effort to attain self- home department, reported by people; adequate financing for realization and self-determina- the chairman, Bishop DeWitt of

Foi.r THE WITNESS episcopate, supporting services, debtedness on land for a future contrary Bishop Pike was hurt- and national Church support; diocesan center in Guatamala ing the movement by giving active leadership in ecumenical City; $30,000 for a kindergarten offense in Roman Catholic and affairs. building at St. Matthew's Eastern Orthodox circles. He Additionally, Bishop Burrill Church, Naha, Okinawa; $21,000 estimated that 98% of the said, the division was drafting a for a clergy residence in Con- laity, 95% of the clergy, and plan for "metropolitan councils'' suelo, Dominican Republic; 90% of the episcopate were providing a structure for inter- $1,000 for the National Council sympathetic with the proposed diocesan relationships. A re- of Churches' bulletin, Religion presentment against Bishop vised report will be presented in Communist Dominated Areas, Pike, and said he believed that to the council before eventual a publication "serving to re- without exception the bishops submission to General Conven- mind Christian leaders in this of the Church held Pike to be a tion, together with suggested country of the fact that Com- "heretic", though they would canonical changes. When the munism maintains an unyield- not necessarily join in action Hon. Herbert V. Walker of Los ing hostility to religion", ac- against him. Saying that he Angeles asked whether provi- cording to the explanation of was not a "fundamentalist", sion might be made whereby a the committee on ecumenical Bishop Louttit said he would publication. portion of a diocese may set it- relations. not ordinarily feel concerned if and self up as a new diocese, Char- In an interview during a coun- clergy below the episcopate held les M. Crump of Memphis asked cil recess Bishop Louttit said the views espoused by Bishop reuse him whether he meant that "a that Bishop Pike had recently Pike, and that the proposed pre- for portion of a diocese might se- made several speeches in the sentment would not have a re- cede without the consent of the diocese of South Florida with- pressive effect in the Church. diocesan bishop", adding, "We out notification. He felt that At the time of the interview required did lose the civil war". "That," Bishop Pike causes confusion in about 30 bishops had expressed said Judge Walker, "is exactly the minds of many Church a desire to join in the Pike pre- what I meant." people because they do not sentment, Dr. Louttit said, but

Permission In other matters the council: realize that he speaks only for he reiterated that he did not himself and not for the Church. Approved the recommenda- seek a "heresy" trial, it being In response to the comment of his desire only that Dr. Pike

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/ the Rev. Frederick M. Morris, that Ecuador be set up as a remove himself or be removed rector of St. Thomas Church, missionary district, should the from the ministry. Though he New York, that a "heresy" trial felt compelled to take this

Church so decide. would do injury to the ecu- course Bishop Louttit expressed Authorized a 1967 church menical relations of the Church, warm friendship and affection and race fund appeal for Dr. Louttit said that on the for Bishop Pike.

Episcopal $100,000.

the Received a report from the of staff of the home and Christian Churches Protest Discontinuing social relations department on the incorporation of an inter-

Archives Mississippi Head Start Funds faith foundation for community organization. By W. B. Spofford Sr. sia to the 100-minute off-the- 2020. Heard a presentation of the -*• Being an Episcopal Church record huddle between Mr. joint urban program developed magazine our lead news story Johnson and Mr. Gromyko in since the last General Conven- has to be the report of the meet- the White House. Copyright tion. ing of the Executive Council. It Or the big story could come Appropriated from special could have been the discovery from Mississippi, a frequent funds $15,000 for purchase of a of Bishop Tomkins that lots of source of news these days. In house for the Children's Hope people go to church in the Soviet any case Bishop Hines told the Center for retarded children, Union — whether this is a good council that the Church should Montgomery, Ala.; $2,000 for or bad thing could depend some- "go where the action is" and a facilities for a child day-care what on what one considers the lot of just that has been re- center at the Church of the role of the Church in interna- ported in these pages since the Good Shepherd, Thomasville, tional affairs. A knowledgeable Delta Ministry was launched by Ga.; $60,000 for a bishop's resi- person in this area, by stretch- the National Council of Chur- dence and center in Bogota, ing his imagination a bit, might ches. The director of this ef- Colombia; $32,000 to clear in- even relate churchgoing in Rus- fort at the start was the Rev. OCTOBER 20, 1966 Five Arthur Thomas, a young Pres- gram for some 12,000 children plete as to comply with usual byterian who was allowed to in 20 counties. It has had, of- and normal standards of busi- resign this summer. He is ficials say, a high parental ness and financial control and presently in Washington, D.C. involvement and has won en- accountability ..." working with what is called the thusiastic support among Ne- He said the accounting firm Poverty-Rights Action Center. groes and firm objection from added that it was its belief that Second in command at the segregationists. the system used "does afford a Delta Ministry was the Rev. The enabling agency for the complete and accurate account- Warren McKenna, Episcopalian project has been the Mary ing of all funds entrusted to the of Mass., who has been on the Holmes Junior College at West grantee ..." firing line from both church Point, Miss., a United Presby- Statement by Brooks and state forces because of his terian-related institution. In a prepared statement, Act- determination to improve the According to OEO spokesmen ing Director Owen Brooks lot of Negroes and poor whites. in Washington, suspension of termed the OEO action "a viola- McKenna, a few weeks after the program resulted from ques- tion of the rights of thousands Thomas resigned, was fired. tions about contracting prac- publication. of Mississippians." The present acting director- tices, wage levels and the "It is an insult to the judg- and is Owen Brooks, a Negro Epis- employment of adults. ment of those who worked in copalian, also from Mass. Close- It was stated by the OEO that centers across the state to pro- reuse ly associated with the Delta the White House is encouraging duce what once was called the for Ministry is the Child Develop- the formation of a new inter- best Head Start program in the ment Group of Mississippi racial group to take over the country," he said.

required (CDGM), a Head Start pro- program. Brooks said that OEO Direc- gram, financed by the Office of Kenneth Neigh, a Presbyteri- tor Sargent Shriver "is now Economic Opportunity (OEO). an official, responding to the part of the back-room con- We return you now to New OEO statement that the suspen- spiracy which chose a new Permission York where the program board sion was not based on political board." He said Shriver had of NCC's division of Christian or civil rights considerations, once defended CDGM, but now declared that "the decision was "found it politically expedient to DFMS. Life and Mission unanimously / voiced indignant objection to made only on the basis of what end . . . opposition to Stennis the decision of OEO to suspend was politically feasible, regard- (Sen. John Stennis, D - Miss).

Church the Miss, program and launched less of what Sargent Shriver Brooks said that the "arbitra- an effort to keep it alive, in- may say to the contrary." ry decision to kill off the Child cluding support of a rally held "It now seems clear," he said, Development Group of Mis- in a park in Jackson on October Episcopal "that OEO has adopted a new sissippi and replace it with a 8, with the slogan "CDGM will plantation policy where the hand-picked board is producing the

of not die." South's poor are concerned. The a wave of bitterness and cynic- The anti-poverty office in OEO decision represents a flat ism among the poor people of Washington, headed by Sargent denial of the principle it most Mississippi."

Archives Shriver, announced that it was has exhorted — that of 'maxi- He said that CDGM had given suspending the program because mum feasible participation of them a chance to participate

2020. of questions involving adminis- the poor.' fully in the program. trative deficiencies and irregu- "The Mississippi Head Start "This of course, was CDGM's larities. program has embodied that unforgivable crime," he con-

Copyright The office said about $650,000 principle more fully and more tinued. For the idea that Negro —from grants totaling nearly effectively than any other anti- people are capable of responsible $7 million for the program—was poverty program in the coun- judgment, of planning, of doing the amount under question. try." anything for themselves strikes The announcement disclaimed The Presbyterian official also at the foundation of the racist any political motivation behind said that in September his mis- myth." the move but said that the sions board employed a New The statement said that "we funds should not be approved as York accounting firm (Ernst & are saddened by the spectacle valid expenditures because of a Ernst) to look into the expendi- of Negro men, some of whom lack of supporting documents ture of OEO funds and that it once were leaders in this state, and other information. reported it found the Head Start forming alliances with such The CDGM has administered program's accounting system "is avowed racists as Stennis." a pre-school educational pro- sufficiently adequate and com- (Later News on Page Sixteen) Six THE WITNESS EDITORIAL who are not being fed by the clergy who "play Maybe We're All Heretics it safe" in the name of unchanging and unerring WE PRESENT two letters on the subject of orthodoxy? It is not enough to profess to have heresy. The first is an open letter to Bishop all the answers to the questions which so many Louttit by the Rev. Roscoe T. Foust, a member in this troubled world are not even asking. Be- of our editorial board who is director of the cause, to many of the younger members of this department of religious, social and special serv- generation, Bishop Pike seems to be "with it" ices at Seamen's Church Institute of New in more ways than one, their respect for the York:— Church increasingly shows signs of survival and I view with grave alarm the measures you are renewal. Here is one man who shares their taking, in association with several other bishops, agony and warms their hopes. If the Church is to bring Bishop James Pike to trial on charges big enough for him, then perhaps there may publication. of heresy unless he renounces his to also be room for them. For God's sake, and the Church's, reconsider and the Episcopal ministry. I would grant that in his writing and speaking he may well have dis- the action you seem to have proposed. Jim can reuse turbed some, even many, Episcopalians, lay and take care of himself, and will doubtless prize for clerical, and made them most uncomfortable in highly the further opportunity you may be about their orthodox complacency, but is any Christian to give him to proclaim his strongly-held con- anything but stronger for responding affirma- victions. Meet his arguments with your own as required tively to the challenge to what he firmly believes best you can and as vigorously as you will. All to be his faith, provided that response proceeds truth is neither his, nor yours, but to cause him from his own searching of mind and heart ra- to withdraw from the Church can only be a

Permission ther than a determination to "get" the man who demonstration of your own fears and misgivings makes him squirm, or think, or pray? There which in the end will result in weakening the very Church you profess to love and serve.

DFMS. are some who might characterize your announced / intention as a betrayal of one's own anxiety The second is by the Rev. Robert W. Cromey, and uncertainties which he may be afraid to vicar of St. Aidan's, : — Church face with equal candor and honesty. It is pos- Heresy is defined as "religious opinion opposed sible to protest too much. to the authorized doctrinal standards of any par- In your zeal to protect the Church's faithful ticular Church, especially when held by a person Episcopal by silencing its most vocal critic, have you con- holding the same general faith and tending to the sidered, whether or not you succeed, the untold promote schism or seperation; lack of orthodox of damage you will surely cause to the many who or sound belief." So says the dictionary. Bishop find it most difficult to maintain their member- Pike has again been accused of heresy by several

Archives ship in the Episcopal Church at all because so of his fellow bishops. many of the spokesmen they usually hear seem There could be a trial in which Bishop Pike's 2020. to be condescendingly arrogant in their teaching views would be examined. An orthodox posi- of "the faith once for all delivered to the tion would also have to be defined. For good saints"? Such as these, including members of or for bad the faith and doctrine of the Episco- Copyright my own family, would be long since gone from pal Church is not very easily defined. There the Church and with a firm resolve never to is no book to which one can go and find the return, were it not for a man like Jim Pike, and package of faith to which all Episcopalians sub- a growing number of others, who within the scribe in order to call themselves Christian. We Church have the courage to speak the truth as think within a tradition which includes as its they see it in love for all, but with special con- basis the Bible, the creeds, the sacraments, the cern for those whose intellectual integrity com- councils. pels them to by-pass the ecclesiastical establish- The result of the trial would mean that our ment and its frigid self-satisfaction. faith would become rigid and likely to be un- Can it be that bishops have become so in- bending. Our doctrine would have to be formu- volved with so great a number of things that lated in a code or a book which would become they can no longer hear the hungry cry of those the package to be swallowed to be a member.

OCTOBEB 20, 1966 Seven Many clergy and laymen would have to leave many Episcopalian Christians, clergy and lay, the Church as they could not in good conscience are clearly heretical on the Church's teaching swear allegiance to too particular a theology. about race? Many of us certainly wish to re- If you try bishops for heresy you are going main agnostic on many doctrines like the virgin to have to try priests and laymen as well. Most birth, the ascension and what happens to the of us would consider the prospect a big yawn nature of bread and wine in holy communion. and not even be bothered. We would be glad G. K. Chesterton said, "The heretic in many to let the Church creak to a halt while the ways is the hero of modern thought." Bishop witch-hunt went on. Most of the clergy and Pike has led many thinkers to life in the Church. laymen are somewhat heretical anyway. How Let's hope the bishops won't drive them out.

SHOULD WE BUILD LAVISH CHURCHES? publication. TRIALOGUE SERMON AT THE CHURCH OF and THE EPIPHANY, NEW YORK, BY THE REV. reuse HUGH McCANDLESS, STATE SENATOR JE- for ROME WILSON, DR. JOSEPH W. BARKER required Dr. McCandless: This morning, Senator Wilson apartment houses, and the greedy towers of will take a position which is popular with many greedy men built to snatch the sunlight away of you, and with which I am in partial sym- from others. The church building is a visual, Permission pathy. He will state his objection to the build- continual proclamation of the gospel, of the ing of large and lavish church buildings. He things of the spirit.

DFMS. has considerable knowledge of many successful Wilson: But who is listening to the church / "store-front" churches in East Harlem. I shall bells on Sunday morning in this city? And who speak from a historical, traditional point of is seeing, in his frenetic race to the office, the Church view. Dr. Barker will take another approach. empty monuments of grandeur which by bricks At the coffee hour following this service, he will and mass seek to rival on their terms today's show slides of handsome churches constructed colossal palaces of commerce? Human values, Episcopal in Europe since the last war, which have cost if they exist at all in a city, exist in neighbor- the very little. hoods. The urban citizen cries out for closeness. of Mr. Wilson: The way to win a debate, I have Seemingly young people fulfill this need in the been told, is to anticipate the arguments of the very proximity of this church, in the small bars

Archives adversary — a peculiar term for my friend and with sawdust floors and jazz, which are crop- minister! Do not striking ecclesiastical edifices ping up literally on every street corner. The

2020. relieve the monotony of our all-same urban housewife finds it at the laundromat, or in shop- settings, he may say. Or, do not great church ping at the delilatessen, even when the prices buildings, by their very presence, remind us of may be better at the supermarket. We do not

Copyright our faith? Does not a massive and ornate reli- need super-churches. The Church in the city gious structure symbolize the strength of our must move to the people, close to the people. maker? I accept all this as true; but, on bal- We need to seek the redemption of single men ance, it is of secondary importance to the Chur- found in a quiet intimate setting. ch's primary role of intimately involving man McCandless: Mr. Wilson, you speak as a well with the teachings of God. instructed Episcopalian. A second role of the McCandless: The primary role of the Church Church is to create fellowship, what the Church is to proclaim the good news of God's love, in fathers called "koinoneia," what you have called any way it can. One way is with steeples, bells, intimacy. But the church building does hold and towering crosses. This is a necessary anti- forth real fellowship. Suppose you needed to dote to the usual symbols of the city; neon borrow five dollars, or have someone watch tavern signs, pretentious and exclusive all-white your child for five minutes. Would you ask for

Eight THE WITNESS this in the boozy democracy of the saloon? No, appears to be the ivy-league saloon, or the cock- you wouldn't. Would you ask for it in some tail party, or the theatre benefit, which at least church? Yes, you might. off-Broadway, are in small houses. I propose Wilson: Probably the average New Yorker small churches as I propose small parks and would ask for a loan not at his bar, or even at smaller residential buildings in our city. These his church, but at his unpretentious neighbor- an urban man, or an urban family, can grasp hood bank, where the manager knows his name. and understand. These things, unlike the sub- But let me propose, and not just quibble. We ways in which he must ride, or the offices in need vest-pocket churches in our city if the which he must work, are not too large for him Church is to reach and hold our citizens. It to find himself, as part of a divine and peace- would not offend me if a penthouse apartment ful harmony. in the "Pavilion" apartments were an Episcopal McCandless: One of the frustrating things house of worship, or a converted brownstone in about sermons is that one cannot say all one the middle of a tenement block, with an adjoin- would like to say. Senator Wilson and I must ing patch of green, or even a mobile van parked close. We seem agreed, at least, that the Church at a street corner. Why should the scale ever needs definite locations, and that the location publication. exceed the size of the Church of the Epiphany, should be whatever is most useful in the service and with the exception of a great cathedral. One of God and man. Whatever the specific build- might ask, how could we find the ministers for ing, we are agreed that a church should not reuse so many new, small churches? They could be spend all its income and its energies on itself. for found in a Church ready to invest in men to teach the Christian message — instead of the Obviously, the situation calls for imagination expense of real estate and physical up-keep. and experiment. In this, it will be wise for us required Think of the use such a way-station church to study and learn from the experiments of would have if it were near a neighborhood sub- others. This sermon is not yet complete. Its way exit, used for meditation and prayer; not final part, illustrated by slides of new, beauti- Permission for one dressed-up day in seven, but as a part ful, and inexpensive churches in Europe, will of our often tired daily lives. be presented by Dr. Barker, at a coffee hour in

DFMS. the hall downstairs, immediately after the con- / McCandless: That is an ideal way for a church clusion of this service. to start. The first Christian places of worship Dr. Barker: Dr. McCandless told you that I Church were rooms in houses. But a church that con- scientiously fulfills its mission has to grow. The am chairman of the Trinity Parish vestry com- second stage of Christian places of worship was mittee on the fabric of the church and its chapels. These structures range from the cathe- Episcopal the taking over, and making over, of very large dral-like Chapel of the Intercession to the "store- the private houses. Finally, new buildings were of erected for this specific purpose. front"-like St. Christopher's Chapel, a converted settlement house structure serving our Lower How could a church in a top-floor apartment East Side Mission. The proposed urban renewal Archives of a high rise house be seen by wayfarers? How program for the Lower East Side will encom- could it attract any but a little group of people pass the area served by the present St. Chris- 2020. who were already well-known to each other? topher's Chapel. Our Trinity vestry, recognizing How could it serve the outsider: the man who that this will probably confront us with building wants a meal, the confused person, the unat- a new St. Christopher's, asked me to study the Copyright tractive person? It would be too small to enlist new churches in Europe to replace those bombed volunteers for social service work. Unless it out in world war two. Mrs. Barker and I spent grew, it would become ingrown and die. And if six months, two years ago, and photographed it grew, it would end up needing a building for about fifty in England, Germany, Holland, sheer efficiency's sake. France, and Switzerland. From these slides I Wilson: The stranger and the afraid might have selected a few to illustrate that it is pos- be far more willing to take an elevator to his sible to meet both Dr. McCandless' desire for a church then to pack in with a group of hun- "visual, continual proclamation of the gospel, of dreds. But we are becoming mired in a specific things of the spirit" and Senator Wilson's desire instance. The Church, right here in East Man- for a "church in the city which must move to hattan, must reach those whose house of faith the people, close to the people, courteously,

OCTOBER 20, 1966 Nine quietly, reverently." And to do this inexpen- but during our weekday visits, the church and sively. two chapels were in very heavy use. The church In the outskirts of Lille, in the center of a and chapels for two sides of a square enclosing working-class housing developments we found an open garden, with the baptismal font in a this little . Stark yet imagina- circular structure facing the garden on the third tive, functional yet speaking the gospel, in- side, with clerical offices and cloister on the expensive yet beautiful. Note how the architect fourth side. There is extensive use of colored used a plate glass window to bring the Madonna glass windows, giving a rich warmth to the altar of the daily used Lady chapel right into lighting. This is an expensive structure placed the main church. Note the plain high altar in a heavily daytime populated business and placed to celebrate facing the congregation. Note shopping area and certainly does not fall into the the benches made of planks supported by con- "store-front" category but neither is it a cathe- crete end posts. Note the small but colorful dral. However, in terms of its relative cost per windows in the rear, leaving an impression of daily attendance, it may well be classed as low joyful piety as the congregation leaves the mass. cost and thus meet both Dr. McCandless' and Probably the least expensive construction of all Senator Wilson's criteria. publication. the churches we saw. and Here is another relatively inexpensive church Footnote to Sermon we found in Holland, again in the center of a reuse housing development. Note the starkly plain Although Dr. Barker's address took a different form for from the rest of this trialogue, in that it was delivered exterior with the bell tower separate from the downstairs in the hall, and illustrated with slides; it church structure to minimize foundation costs. is an integral part of the sermon, which would be in-

required One enters by a side door in the rear to face complete without it. an ivory white cement panel framed by the It is interesting to note that two brilliant — and green painted steel columns supporting the roof. controversial — European theologians agree completely Drawn in bare outline in black is the figure with Senator Wilson. Professor J. J. von Allmen, of Permission Switzerland, declares that a place of worship should of an angel with her fingertips to her lips— be "beautiful, simple, temporary and poor." Professor "Hush — you are in the house of the Lord." J. C. Hoekendijk, formerly of the University of DFMS.

/ Turning down the center aisle one faced the Utrecht, in the book "The Church Inside Out" says high altar, free standing under a hung crucifix. "We should seriously consider the apartment congrega- High above the altar is a colored window — the tion in an apartment building . . . We are building Church hand of God, dispensing grace — a striking use one temple when we should build ten tents." of color. But offset in the wall behind the altar is another ivory white panel with a bare outline Episcopal of Christ blessing the mass. As one leaves by the

of the rear side doors there is another ivory white GIVE US THIS DAY cement panel with the black outlined figure of an angel praising God. Even walking out of an By Katherine S. Strong

Archives empty church gave the feeling one had been Director of Christion World Relations present at the eucharist. National Council of Churches 2020. I would estimate that this church, of about WORLD COMMUNITY DAY OF the same size as the French church, would cost THE UNITED CHURCH WOMEN about double. But, Senator Wilson, I am on Dr. Copyright McCandless' side when I say that this Dutch AIDS INDIA AND NEW GUINEA church's touching beauty was well worth the difference in cost. It left me with a heightened IN NO PLACE on this small planet is poverty spirit. so dramatically apparent today as in India. Finally, here are a series of slides of St. Failure of the monsoon, the periodic rain-bearing wind upon which crop growth and surface water Dominic church in the very center of Rotter- supply depend, has brought massive crop loss dam's main business district. It is colloquially and critical water shortage to much of the coun- called "Den Het Steger" and is staffed by the try. In many areas village-life is slowing almost Dominicans. We did not visit it on a Sunday to a stand-still from hunger's debilitating ef- so I cannot speak of the attendance at services, fects. Desperate parents are pleading to hos-

Ten THB WITNESS pitals and missions "take our children — keep prove the economy, raise the standard of living them alive — we can't!" The farmers are being will be cancelled out. forced to eat for food the grain which normally Half of the project money from the 1966 would be reserved for seed, and as they are un- able to get more seed, sell their ploughs, then world community day offering will go to the their bullocks and finally their land in order to family planning project in India. feed their families. With the full cooperation of the Christian Catholic and Protestant groups alike are ga- medical association of India and the Indian thering all possible resources to help break this government a daring new project has been con- awful cycle. It is not so much that people are ceived to coordinate the efforts of Christian hos- dying of hunger as that in the next few months pitals in the establishment of new birth control they will be so debilitated physically that they services in India. India is a country threatened will be easy prey to disease and epidemics. by crushing famine and the burden of the addi- So often we in United Church Women claim tion of more than twelve million new mouths to to be "international, interdenominational, inter- feed each year. Family planning has become racial" in our concern and outlook. And then for India a race with disaster. publication. so often our answer is that we express this con- There are more than 200 Christian-related and cern by forming another study group or reading hospitals in India. The family planning project another article or book on "Poverty and Famine has as its first goal a membership of 50 of the reuse in India" and feel that we thereby have done our medium-sized hospitals. Already they have in- for bit. A real concern for our fellow man in need volved some 35 hospitals in the project's pro- will not be expressed by acquiring more knowl- gram, even though the project director is at required edge of the facts. There is another sort of present just a busy volunteer. knowledge — that is immediate human aware- When a hospital joins the project, an initial ness and is quite apart from how much infor- small capital gift of money is given to the hos- mation we have about a situation. It is the kind Permission pital to encourage it to buy some new item of of instantaneous knowledge that Jesus had about equipment needed in the launching of the pro- the Samaritan woman at the well — seeing her gram. In contrast to the old system of mission DFMS. / not as she was, but in her potential for which institution benevolent subsidy, no further out- she had been created, and longing for life and right grant is offered for operation expenses. love and freedom for her. Church But for each patient who passes through the Identify with Need clinic, and is given instruction and equipment for family planning, a per capita fee is given THIS VICARIOUS identification with the prob- Episcopal to the hospital by the project office. Thus, in- lems of our fellow men to the point of suffering the stead of the hospital using up a separate grant of some of their suffering, feeling the cold weight and being hard put for more, the more they do, of part of their despair, is akin to understanding the more money they have to work with. This the love of God as shown to us in Jesus Christ. has proved a remarkable incentive to expand Archives We who claim to follow him cannot stand aloof the program. from our fellow man in India as if what is hap- 2020. pening there were some television show which United Church Women funds will go to pay we can shut off at will. the salary of a professional director who it is hoped will soon replace the volunteer who is How can we as United Church Women identi- Copyright serving. In these days of crisis and unpre- fy with their need? We have not millions of cedented need in India, united church women dollars to send in relief funds for emergency has chosen a project which will make a widely feeding, nor ships and planes to transport grain. significant contribution to the effort to roll back Other agencies will have to carry that out. But the crushing weight of hunger and poverty in we can work for the future and help these people this struggling nation. to combat one of the most serious factors in prolonging poverty among the people — namely, New Guinea Project serious over-population. Every year India gives ANOTHER CONCERN with which we must birth to as many new mouths to feed as the identify as Church women is the need on the total population of Australia. Unless this popu- part of women in the developing countries for lation explosion is checked, every effort to im- training to enable them to take their place in

OCTOBEB 20, 1966 Eleven Church and society in places where the decis- ward independence. The indigenous people in sions which affect their life are made. the isolated highlands are far from ready for The other half of the project money from the this responsibility. Under the laws of the ter- 1966 world community day offering will go to ritory, women have equal rights with men, but build a training center for women in the high- unless women are given opportunities for train- lands of New Guinea. ing and education, they will be left far behind. Let me give you a glimpse of the highlands Training Center in the Kundiawa-Pari District, for example. We stand at an altitude of about 5,300 feet. Before THERE IS a training center already established you lies a steep-sided river valley with a fast- in the coastal city of Port Moresby, but the highlands are so inaccessible that only a few of flowing stream snaking through its base until the most enterprising women will ever get out it disappears into a deep gorge flanked by 1,000 to the coast. United church women has been feet-high limestone cliffs. The two sides of the interested in the South Pacific island people for valley present a contrasting picture. The steep some time. It was world community day funds publication. north side is treeless, with grassy patches, which made posible for two years the financial and sweet potatoe gardens crudely terraced, with support for the leadership of Miss Marjorie outcrops of limestone rock. The south side of Stewart who set up, in cooperation with the reuse the valley rises from the stream in a series of South Pacific commission, a pilot project for the for more or less level steps, each rising 200-300 feet training of women. At the three weeks' train- and almost 50-100 yards wide. On each step ing seminar held in Apia, in Western Samoa, required attended by 44 women from 15 South Pacific are scattered houses surrounded by garden territories, it was decided to establish a perma- patches which produce bananas, taro, sugar cane, nent training center in Fiji. Miss Stewart leafy-green plants and coffee. There are also became the director of this center and it carries Permission shade trees and patches of dense jungle and on today as a model for the training of women bamboo grass. Each family produces primarily of the South Pacific in nutrition, sewing, hy- DFMS.

/ for its own needs. giene, sanitation and citizenship. The only one way to go in or out of the valley is on foot. Two narrow paths link the 1966 world community day funds will be used Church valley with the next one, one following the to build a similar training center for the women stream down through the gorge and the other of the highlands in New Guinea. The Australi- climbing up more than 1,000 feet through a an trusteeship administration will staff and Episcopal mountain pass. Both tracks take two hours equip the center. World community day funds the will further be used to provide scholarships to of walking to traverse. The highlands are made up of hundreds of bring New Guinean women to the center. De- those self-isolated narrow valleys. In the past tails of these plans have been worked out with Archives the people have had little communication with the section on the status of women of the each other and often language and customs vary United Nations and its secretariat will see to it 2020. sharply from one valley to another. that the Australian government carries out the But change comes to all peoples — and the implementation of this project. Australian trusteeship administration is bring- United church women is not so much a struc- Copyright ing the outside world to these highlands by tured department within the National Council means of road building, radio, new schools. The of Churches as it is a movement of Church people are becoming conscious of themselves as women out across the country who acknowledge a people — no longer just a collection of indi- their lives have been touched by Jesus Christ, viduals, each under his own fig tree, but of and who believe that he desires their all to be groups in relationship to each other who po- used as he wishes. World community day be- tentially may soon make up a nation of people, comes a channel rather than a goal. Through with responsibilities for drawing up their own our observance of this day let us recognize our laws and governments. responsibility as laity to use all our resourses New Guinea is one of the three remaining of mind and money to work for the fundamental territories and New Guinea is being pushed to- right of our fellow men to life and dignity.

Twelve THB WITNESS CHOCKING THE GOSPEL TO DEATH By Martin LeBrecht Vicar of San Pablo, Phoenix, Arizona NOW THAT MOST CHURCH DOORS ARE OPEN TO ALL LET THEM COME AS THEY ARE

THE TIME IS NOW for Christians in this coun- enter the Christian life by merely repenting of try to call to a halt the excess in fine dress at their sins and being baptized. Christian worship, especially on Sunday morning. The labors of St. Paul, and his rationale of Those who can afford it, come with suit, white bringing in Gentiles, as written in his epistle publication. shirt, tie, for the men; fancy hats, fine dresses, to the Romans, chapter 9 to 11, was crucial for and too much perfume for the women; and Little the life and growth of the Church in the first Lord Fauntleroy suits for the children. Those century. Soon afterwards, this issue disappeared reuse who cannot afford it eventually stop coming— as a problem, as the bulk of Christians were of for either they are ashamed to come, or if they do the Gentile races. But the word "predestina- come, sooner or later will draw stares, and they tion" was still to be found in Holy Scripture. will get the message. required Not understanding exactly how St. Paul had It is true that in the past, pastors have urged used the word, a great western father of the their parishioners to come clean and dressed fifth century used the word to explain why only neatly, otherwise some farmer would show up at a certain number of people respond to the gos- Permission worship bearing the aroma of a half a day in pel: "God picked them out in advance". the sun tilling the fields, dressed in overalls. During the Reformation, one of the well

DFMS. But this is in the past. The Church exists today, / known reformers said or implied the other half: trying to reach all people, and yet the very rich "God picks out the good for salvation, and the and the very poor are seldom to be found in our bad people for everlasting damnation." It would Church congregations. What has happened is that the seem that those Christians who accepted this Church has become a badge of "keeping up with would have been casual about their moral life, the Jones' ". The very rich look down upon that since everything seemed to be pre-arranged. Episcopal sort of thing: they don't have to step up to any- But on the contrary, those believers showed the thing — they are already there. The poor can't

of themselves very active in their moral, economic, "keep up" and are not thought of as "my kind and civic life. of folks". The Puritans Archives This dressing up in Church did not come about in its present form from the urgings of the pas- THE PURITANS were one of these groups. 2020. tors for their flock to be clean and neat. It They believed in double predestination. But how comes about from the anxiety brought about by was anybody to tell if he were saved or damned? the Puritans' interpretation of what we might The answer was arrived at by a kind of deduc- Copyright call "double predestination". The word "pre- tion: God's elect have been given faith; those destination" can be found in the Bible, but who believe, live soberly; those who live soberly, where it is found, it refers to the idea in God's have enough money to have a house, furniture, mind in the beginning of time, that at a certain and clothes, because they haven't wasted their point in history, which for St. Paul is the first money in revelry. Therefore, economic success century A. D., the Gentile races would be ad- was a sign that God had earmarked the person mitted to the fellowship of salvation along with for salvation. the Jewish race. This was St. Paul's explanation This makes dressing up so important for this to the early Christians who had been fully point of view. The reason we must focus atten- initiated into the Jewish religion, including cir- tion on dress at the present time, is that there cumcision and learning of the Hebrew tongue, is a number of persons who feel that they can't while Gentiles — the non-Jewish races — could make the grade, as well as the minority races,

OCTOBER 20, 1966 Thirteen the very people the Church must reach out to women could agree to wear veils or hats that and bring the good news of God. For almost do not jut out in rims or feathers. A sign could four centuries, the unsuccessful have felt within be placed at the church entrance welcoming them, and the minority races have been in- visitors and letting them know that this con- formed quite bluntly, that they have no fellow- gregation does not require fine dress for its ship with the elect, the good, the successful, and services. There are always guidelines to go by. there's nothing they can do about it, because The workman still can take a shower before God made it that way. coming to worship; the attractive young lady Most people today do not believe in double should make the effort to dress in such a way predestination any more; many have stopped that the young men will concentrate on liturgy supporting segregation, but as long as fine dress rather than on courting. is customary for Church, these groups that we want to invite at this late date, cannot afford This is an urgent and crucial problem. We the price of this kind of clothing. have all but closed the doors on suffering man- It is up to the Church members to give wit- kind and isolated ourselves into homogenous publication. ness to Christ's humility by dressing humbly. groups. Even here, our tenacity in overdressing

and It may be shocking or even shameful an expe- means that getting to church on Sunday is so rience for some people to leave their best clothes hectic that the less committed decide it's easier reuse at home while at worship, but certainly holy not to go. Those who are loyal, make the ef- for scripture says much about not displaying wealth fort, and struggle to get four or five children with clothing and jewelry at worship, while it dressed, and arrive at worship with frayed gives no requirements for dress at Church. The nerves, often too preoccupied with the struggle required second chapter of the epistle of St. James is to open hearts and minds to word and sacrament. one example. We now know that our church doors must be Guidelines open to all people; by and large, they are. Now Permission THIS IS A CALL for all congregations to con- that the doors are open, let's make them feel sider this problem and agree on a solution. To comfortable — let them come as they are. The DFMS. / start out, the men could agree not to wear treasures of the gospel will make them and us jacket and tie during the summer months; shine as precious spirits. Church

Episcopal BOOK REVIEWS the of E. John Mohr the present. For example the au- only Protestants but Catholics, Jews, thor traces the anti-urban bias of agnostics, and you-.name-it. Book Editor American Protestantism to its hav- On the subject of the separation

Archives ing been so long oriented toward of Church and state Brill also has THE CREATIVE EDGE OF the winning of the frontier. Na- some new thoughts to share. He AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM,

2020. tive born Protestants arriving in makes defensible and understand- by Earl H. Brill. Seabury. $5.95 the increasingly polyglot cities of able the American argument, "Reli- recent decades have tended to re- gion is a private matter." Those of Earl Brill is the Episcopal chap- us who question it would hardly lain at the American University in tain a preference for the small Copyright homogeneous community, the village want to go back to the likes of col- Washington, D.C., and in this new onial, theocratic Massachusetts where book he has given us a well-written or small town, as the model of a Christian society. it was a public matter established survey of the role of the Protestant and imposed by law. On this same Churches in our changing and ex- Writing about the Supreme Court's subject we are told it would be panding national life. To be sure, disputed decision banning Bible more consistent if the Churches it has been a major one, and re- reading with the Lord's Prayer in were to pay the salaries of chap- mains so even now despite our loss the public schools, Brill reminds us lains in the armed forces. I agree of face and ratio this twentieth that this devotional exercise had with this, but not with what I take century. been Horace Mann's settlement to be the author's feeling that the In sphere after sphere, politics, amidst the kind of rabid Protestant Churches should not seek "to pro- education, race, industry, the city, pluralism and sectarianism which tect [their own] organizational etc., we come upon sharp, well- was the order of the day in the interests" by trying to keep retail focused pictures of the way the 1850s. A century later a new stores closed on Sundays. I must Protestant witness has varied, confess I would hate to see Sunday shifted, and even, shall we say, pluralism made this settlement un- become a commercial day no differ- come of age from colonial times to satisfactory. It was a much wider ent from the other six. pluralism, for it included now not Fourteen THE WITNESS The figure of Reinhold Niebuhr fies itself because of the unique con- with the National Conference of looms large in these pages. Out of tributions it can make to human Christians and Jews. He is now di- the insights of the biblical faith existence. recting the ADL interreligious cur- this great American theologian has In other essays the recent decisions riculum research project. His rich called us back to realism again and of the Supreme Court are discussed experience in interfaith activities again in the years following world with reference to the educational and has given him insights that are rele- war one. moral function of law. Throughout vant to all, especially as we move In a time when it's an easy temp- there are themes dealing with the into the new concerns posed by the tation to be discouraged about the emergence of interreligious dialogue, ecumenical movement. state of the Churches, this is a the problems of defining religious The publisher is to be thanked for hopeful book. If you want a com- particularism in a pluralistic society, making this collection of his most prehensive, panoramic view of Prot- conscience and religious liberty, the cogent essays available. estantism in America, broadly based, theological issues in Jewish-Christian scholarly, fast-moving, it is for you. relations, and the mission of the — LEE A. BELFORD — BKNJAMIN MINIFIE Jews. Dr. Belford is Chairman of the Dr. Minifie is rector of Grace Gilbert has returned to the Anti- Department of Religious Education Church, New York City. Defamation League after a sojourn of New York University. A JEW IN CHRISTIAN AMERICA, WCC Faith and Order Committee publication. by Rabbi Arthur Gilbert. Sheed & Ward. $4.95 and It is highly unlikely that anyone Meets at Russian Seminary has read all of the essays here pub- reuse lished because they are from such •k Churchgoers in Russia astery in Zagorsk. The meeting, for diverse sources as The International need courage and determination held at the invitation of the Journal of Religious Education, to "come out into the open," Russian Orthodox Church, was Presbyterian Life, Jewish periodi- cals, a Vallanova Law School publi- according to Bishop Oliver Tom- the second WCC meeting ever required cation, Theology Today the World kins of Bristol, England, just held in Russia. Among its de- Congress of the Catholic Press and returned from presiding over a cisions was one to intensify the Lutheran World Federation. Even if only one essay has been un- World Council of Churches' cooperation with Roman Catho-

Permission read the book is well worth the price meeting near Moscow. lic theologians and invite them for Rabbi Gilbert deals with themes In a report on his visit he said to send official observers to the that should be of interest to any it is not only hard to get facts next meeting of the entire faith

DFMS. sensitive and perceptive person and / he expresses himself with great feli- about the religious situation in and order committee in Bristol city. Russia but even more so to next summer. Since the essays have different

Church interpret them. He noted that Reporting on his Russian visit themes, the book is difficult to re- view in brief compass. One essay is the number of Christians in the bishop said there are nine essentially autobiographical as it Russia is estimated at 30 to 50 churches, including two cathe- tells of the experience of a Jew million, including perhaps drals, a monastery of 100 monks Episcopal growing up in a Gentile community 3,500,000 Baptists, out of a and an academy and seminary at the with some humiliating experiences at population of about 230 million. Zagorsk. of the hands of Gentiles and other expe- riences where Christians had a lov- "These figures are necessarily "We spent many hours at- ing and constructive impact upon his development. vague for there is no official tending the church services," he Archives said, "every one of which was In another essay the reader is religious census," Bishop Tom- reminded of the dark side of Amer- kins added. "The Communist crowded to overflowing for hour 2020. ican history and sees the ugly shadow party numbers perhaps 8 to 12 after hour throughout the whole of anti-Semitism still lurking in the million. weekend. As elsewhere, the background. But the essays are not filled with self-pity at the plight of "So a small minority of the majority of the worshippers Copyright the Jews. They show the Jew as a population holds absolute politi- were certainly women, but there part of American society and reflect cal power and is openly opposed was no lack of men and even of the concerns of all Americans. The younger men. It was admittedly problem of the Jewish community in to the Christian faith. Yet in interpreting its own experiences and terms of the official Soviet con- unusual, but no less a fact." charting a course in a Gentile world stitution there is a separation is the problem the Christian Chur- He said the WCC group also ches will have to face as they define between Church and state and, spent two days in Leningrad, their role in a world that increas- in theory, an equal toleration "where I was given the unique ingly asserts their irrelevancy. for anti-religious and religious privilege, at the invitation of The longest essay deals with the propaganda." Metropolitan Nicodim of Lenin- reform movement in America. Here Bishop Tomkins went to Rus- grad, of celebrating the holy we see the development of social con- sia to preside over a working communion after the Church of cern, an increased interest in the- ology, and the attempts to define group of the faith and order England rite on a table before Judaism as a viable force that justi- committee at the Sergius Mon- the golden ikonostasis in the OCTOBER 20, 1966 academy chapel, with vessels who will probably never again and women in the congregation and elements loaned for the pur- see an English liturgy the ele- rose to even numbers. pose by the Orthodox. ments which we have in "Here evidently is a place "I was assisted by an Ameri- common within the great Eu- where religion still touches can Episcopalian and the congre- charistic tradition." home life, nearly 50 years after gation included an Anglican Later, Bishop Tomkins at- the revolution, in a way that priest from Sierra Leone. The tended communion in a typical reminds one of the desire for gospel was read by a Russian Russian village church where baptism in this country amongst priest in Russian, whilst the stu- the congregation of about 50 in- those who show little enough dents sang their liturgical cluded only two men. "After appreciation of all that it im- equivalent to 'Thanks be to thee the eucharist was over," he said, plies. And yet the fact that 0 Lord' and 'Praise be to thee "there was a baptism of three they ask for it and openly come 0 Christ.' It was a wonderful babies accompanied by both fa- to it is not without meaning." opportunity to be able to bring ther and mother, and for once "It is easy to be romantic home to a group of ordinands the proportions between men about the benefit we should re- ceive from being persecuted,"

publication. Bishop Tomkins concluded. "But that is essentially flippant talk. and Hi Westminster books Persecution is never something to seek, and when it comes is reuse never romantic." for say things that need saying CITIZENS COMMITTEE

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and in the world. I simply followed you now another side of them age for our young vicars. What the rules laid down to me by the —the side that our newspapers are we responsible for — Have

reuse heirarchy. I was told never to have ignored in printing numer- we not done what was done to

for question. In my five growing ous articles. Christ himself? Are we not years as an Anglican I've come In now reflecting back on responsible really for the to know that each man has a these past hard years I can re- mounting indifference to Chris- required choice. Wherever I went I met member the many picket lines, tianity ? Because when in times people who could accept me meetings, and fund raising pro- of real stress we could not bring where I was, with the faith that jects, but what is more, much ourselves to muster up the cour- I would grow. Many channels more, I can remember the pain age to be Christians—to permit Permission for this growth were made avail- and anguish that came with our clergy their free choice, able to me through private talks making each choice. The terri- whatever it may be — and to

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Church —teams of Church people were the world — I do not doubt at on hand to keep the house run- times after being constantly I ask of all of us to give just ning. In times of stress love harrassed by so many they a few moments to ask ourselves, and concern were brought to my honestly, what can we do to a Episcopal spoke out too harshly in a meet- home by many of our wonderful man when we force him to live

the ing of their peers — but haven't in constant rejection and pain of clergy. For this and so much all of us lashed out at others more I am filled with great af- when we have carried so much because he does what he must? fection and loyalty to all of my pain for so long?

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