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Orthodox Church of Cyprus has Eastern Orthodox Churches Ask announced its intention to fol- low the Russian example. For Dialogue on Equal Terms According to observers, there is now every prospect that most, publication. ~k Delegates of ten Eastern The various Orthodox juris- if not all, of Churches repre- Orthodox Churches agreed at and dictions were also represented sented at the Pan-Orthodox Rhodes, Greece to allow the by other delegates. However, conference, will now decide also

reuse churches individually to decide almost all sent only two dele- to name observers to the Coun- whether they should send dele- for gates. One of the exceptions cil. gates to the second session of was the Ecumenical Patri- Highlight of the conference the Vatican Council. archate which was also repre- was a message read by Metro- required They also endorsed unani- sented by Metropolitan Iakovos politan Meliton at the closing mously a proposal that the of Philadelphia and Metropoli- service appealing to Christians Orthodox Churches should seek tan Chrysostomos of Myra. everywhere to pray for the suc- "a dialogue on equal terms" Conspicuously absent from cess of the proposed reconcilia- Permission with the Roman Catholic the conference was any repre- tion between the churches of Church. sentative of the Orthodox the east and west. Church in Greece. DFMS. The occasion was a Pan- The message, which referred / Orthodox conference which met Shortly before it opened, to the Catholic Church in the under the sponsorship of Ecu- Archbishop Chrysostom of most cordial terms, said it was

Church menical Patriarch Athenagoras Athens and All-Greece branded aware of the "demands of the in Istanbul and was presided the conference as "futile" and times," and the "expectations over by Metropolitan Meliton of declared that union of the of all the world that there Heliopolis, his personal repre- Eastern Orthodox and Roman should be a reconciliation be- Episcopal sentative. Catholic Churches was "unat- tween the Orthodox Church the Attending the conference tainable" both on doctrinal and and the venerable Church of of were Metropolitan Nicodim of other grounds. Rome." Minsk and Byelorussia, Russian At the same time, the arch- The message said the deci-

Archives Orthodox Church; Metropolitan bishop charged that while "the sion to develop relations with Genadios of. Paphos, Orthodox Orthodox Church breathes al- the Roman Catholic Church "in

2020. Church in Cyprus; Archbishop ways with democratic princi- the spirit of Christ's love could John of Prague, Czechosloya- ples," the Catholic Church was be regarded as an expression kian Orthodox Church; Metro- "centralist and absolutist." of the longing of all of Ortho- politan Basil of Ziche, Serbian The Pan-Orthodox Confer- doxy for Christian unity." Copyright Orthodox Church; Metropolitan ence closed with a solemn serv- In approving a unity dialogue Maximos of Lovchow, Bulgari- ice conducted in the Greek, with the Catholic Church, the an Orthodox Church; Metro- Slavonic and Arabic languages conference left it to Patriarch politan Aristobulos of Kyriakop- on the same day that the second Athenagoras to work out with olis, Orthodox Patriarchate of session of the Vatican Council other Orthodox bodies details Jerusalem; Metropolitan Par- was formally opened by Pope of the discussion, including thenios of Pilussion, Orthodox Paul. when and how to write to Pope Patriarchate of Alexandria; The only major Orthodox Paul proposing its beginning. Metropolitan Elias of Halep, body represented at the Vatican A solemn Te Deum was sung Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate ceremony was the Russian Or- in the Cathedral Church of the of Antioch; Metropolitan Justin thodox Church, which also sent Annunciation, with Archbishop of Moldavia, Romanian Ortho- observers to the Council's first Spyridon of Rhodes officiating. dox Church. ' session last year. However the Addressing the delegates he OCTOBEB 10, 1963 Three stressed that "the moment call- for the sake of a divided world." sion of "responsibility" towards ing the Orthodox Church to be He hailed the Orthodox pro- the secular world. put at the head of the world's posal as an effort to heal a "The task of the church is to spiritual course has arrived." schism dating back to the 11th serve the world around it," he He said the Ecumenical Patri- century. commented. "The church in arch, "obeying the secret voice "Ecumenically oriented" every generation must address of our Church's conscience, has churches seeking friendship itself to the particular needs of called all Orthodox peoples into across historic barriers, he the time, as servant to the a spiritual rally." said, fulfill the church's mis- world." At the official opening ses- sion of the conference, Metro- politan Meliton said "we have Action on Toronto Manifesto come together in order to study in general the subject of the Urged by Presiding Bishop Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches and to discuss in a * Arthur Lichtenberger, Pre- ing, the National Council might publication. spirit of understanding and siding Bishop, has emphatically then formally refer the pro- goodwill the most fitting man- commended to the attention of posal to each province, diocese and ner by which the Orthodox all Episcopalians the revolution- and missionary district of our Church will be able to contri- ary Toronto Anglican Congress church." reuse bute with all its means to the document on "Mutual Respon- for Following discussion by the sacred cause of reconciliation sibility and Interdependence in House of Bishops and the Na- among the two Churches, and the Body of Christ." tional Council, he said, the the cultivation of good relations required In a statement recalling the document will be considered by in the spirit of the love of overwhelming response with the General Convention, which Christ." which this manifesto was met meets October 11-23, 1964, in Another highlight talk was by the 1,000 congress dele- St. Louis. Permission given by Metropolitan Nicodim, gates in Toronto, Bishop Lich- Bishop Lichtenberger's state- who made an obvious reference tenberger said: ment marked the second time to the absence of any delegates "I join with others in hoping

DFMS. within a month that he has ex- / from the Church in Greece, by that these papers will be wide- pressed strong support of the saying that his joy "would ly read and studied so that as proposed changes within the have been greater if all the early as possible the Episcopal Church Anglican communion. Orthodox Churches were pres- Church can formulate its re- ent at this conference." During the Toronto Congress, sponse and organize its program he had urged all Episcopal dele- in the light of the proposal."

Episcopal gates — when they returned Espy Praises Plan Noting that the Anglican home — to seek local, regional the manifesto "calls upon each of The proposed dialogue be- and national consideration of church to make a radical reap- the paper. iween Roman Catholic and praisal of its work and witness," Eastern Orthodox Churches the head of the 3,500,000-mem- "You have shared in the in- Archives was described by the National ber Episcopal Church said that spiration, work and witness of Council of Churches' top ad- these far - reaching changes the Anglican Congress. You

2020. ministrative officer as a "mo- within the Anglican communion have been privileged to be in mentous" move toward greater on what we pray will be a turn- Christian unity. will be put before the Church's National Council and its House ing point in the life of the An-

Copyright glican communion," he told It. H. Edwin Espy, general of Bishops within the next few them. secretary, equated the develop- months. ment with the convening of the "As first steps in preparing "Your voice, your prayers Vatican Council and with the ourselves to receive and re- and your collective influence admission of the Russion Or- spond to this proposal, we plan can bring the realities of our thodox Church into the World initial discussion of it at the common Anglican fellowship to Council of Churches. meeting of the House of Bish- all Episcopalians as you your- Espy said "the fact of grow- ops in Little Rock this Novem- self experienced them here in ing unity is partly in obedience ber and at the December meet- Toronto. to the command that the body ing of the National Council," "I am depending on you," of Christ should be one." Bishop Lichtenberger said. Bishop Lichtenberger stressed, "The church can no longer af- "It seems likely," he added, "to do your part in spreading ford the luxury of division," he "that, among other actions to the word from the Anglican said. "It must be united, too, be taken at the December meet- Congress, under the imperative Your THE WITNESS and guidance of the Holy The document was published It would appeal to religious Spirit." in full in the Witness for Sept. leaders. 5, with articles commenting on "We have always been inter- The manifesto, which was ested in reducing the com- authored by the Anglican Com- it in subsequent issues. mercial aspects of Christmas munion's 18 primates under the What delegate Robert Curry and emphasizing the spiritual." chairmanship of the Archbishop of Western Massachusetts of Canterbury, is a sweeping Supported by King challenge to pool human and thinks happened at Toronto will be found on page twelve ~k The call for a nationwide material resources in a global boycott on Christmas shopping this week. way never before envisioned. will be supported by the South- ern Christian Leadership Con- ference, Dr. Martin Luther Boycott of Santa Claus Planned King, Jr., has said. King said at the organiza- To Protest Birmingham Deaths tion's seventh annual conven- publication. * Santa Claus will not come ness leaders may take action to tion that Negroes and others and to many American homes this end racial injustice "when they of "good-will" will be asked to year if a campaign launched in begin losing money." join the boycott. reuse He also announced that lead- New York gets wide support. Journalist Louis Lomax main- for A group of Negro writers and ers of the ten religious, civil tained that a Christmas boycott rights, labor and civic groups artists has called for a complele by the Negro community alone ban on Christmas shopping in that planned the march on required could put a "two or three billion view of the Birmingham, Ala., Wshington will meet soon to dollar nick in the economy of discuss the boycott and other church-bombing that took the the nation." He agreed that lives of four girls in Sunday measures to fight segregation. Negro business people also Further plans include a Permission school. would be hurt, but that the The boycott would have a "selective buying" drive in the sacrifice would be necessary to south against companies prac- double purpose, they said. get the message across. DFMS. ticing discrimination and a mass / One aim would have a moral Reaction to the proposal in march on the Alabama Capitol basis — that the killing of the religious quarters featured at Montgomery, King revealed. children in a church was such Church questions but was not disap- Some Opposition a denial of the teaching of proving. Christ that to celebrate Direct opposition was ex- Christmas with merriment and Father Timothy J. Flynn, in-

Episcopal pressed from merchant groups. gift-giving would be improper. formation director of the Walter Hoving, president of the the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of The second goal would be of New York, said he didn't think Fifth Avenue association, New economic — to keep the killings the writers and artists were York, called the proposal "the in the mind of the nation, and calling for an end to religious most lunatic idea I've ever therefore stimulate effort to Archives observance of Christmas. heard of." prevent such tragedies, by He said the people most bad- creating financial havoc. "And it is the religious ob- 2020. ly hurt by the buying boycott One of the leaders of the servance that the church is most concerned about," he would be wage earners, the ones newly-formed Writers and Ar- the civil rights movement is tists for Justice, James Bald- added.

Copyright trying to help. "Without win, said "no one in the coun- Dan M. Potter, executive di- Christmas spending," he said, try, black or white, should do rector of the Protestant Council "25 million people would be put any Christmas shopping ... in of the City of New York, called out of work." order to burn into the con- the proposal "interesting" but In many other minds, the science of this nation" the expressed uncertainty as to problem of explaining Santa's meaning of the Birmingham "how the process of not buying absence to youngsters loomed. bombing. gifts would help the civil rights Lomax maintained ":We "In terms of Christian busi- cause." must tell our children Santa nessmen," Baldwin said, "you "If the spenders use the Claus didn't come because the may not be able to get them to money they save to further bombers did come. I've already change their minds by talking civil rights, like paying lawyer had it out with my 11-year- about Christ and Christian prin- fees for court fights," he said, old. . . ciples." But, he added, busi- "then it makes a lot of sense. "And white mothers and fa- OCTOBER 10, 1963 Ftve thers should also tell why there fers then it will be etched on which protested in an editorial are no toys. Let them know his mind and when he grows up that "the use being made of that suffering is a collective he will remember what hap- Catholicism by Diem has made thing. If any white child suf- pened at Birmingham." it doubly necessary for Catho- lic voices to be raised against the religious policies of the Clergy Protest United States Aid regime." To South Vietnam Regime MORE OBSERVERS AT COUNCIL • A protest by 15,000 clergy- Referring to the 15,000 let- men of various faiths from ters received, Harrington said: * Practically everything you every state in the nation was "This overwhelming expression need to know about the opening forwarded to President Ken- of the conviction of dedicated of the second session of the nedy, urging an end to United and informed community lead- Vatican Council — including in- States financial and armed sup- ers makes it more evident than novations — was reported in publication. port of the Diem regime in ever that United States aid to the Witness dated October 3. and South Vietnam. the corrupt and tyrannical Diem There are about twenty more The 15,000 clergymen pro- regime of South Vietnam will delegate-observers at this ses- reuse tested in individual letters the and must come to an end." sion — sixty rather than forty. for religious persecution of South In his letter forwarding the The World Council of Churches Vietnam's Buddhists — over ministers' protest to President has four. Orthodox Churches 70% of the population — by Kennedy, Harrington cited a are represented only by the required the Diem regime. The clergy- report released earlier this year Russians, but others are ex- men also denounced on moral by a bipartisan Senate commit- pected following the conference grounds "the spraying of parts tee which went to South Viet- at Rhodes, reported on page nam to review U.S. policy. Ma- three in this number.

Permission of South Vietnam with crop- destroying chemicals and the jority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) declared in an in- There are seventeen Ameri- herding of many of its people cans, three of whom are guests.

DFMS. troduction to the report: "It

/ into concentration camps called Among them is the Rev. Wil- strategic hamlets." would be a disservice to my country not to voice a deep con- liam J. Wolf, professor at Epis- copal Theological School, who is

Church The action was made known cern over the trend of events in by the Rev. Donald S. Harring- Vietnam .... All of the cur- one of the delegate-observers ton, secretary of the ministers rent difficulties existed in 1955, for the Anglican communion. Vietnam committee and minis- along with hope and energy to Excessive veneration of the Episcopal ter of the Community Church meet them. But it is 7 years Virgin Mary is a danger in the of New York. and $2 billion of U.S. aid later. their countries was the warning of The protest, which Harring- Yet the same difficulties remain given the first week by a ton said was unprecedented in if, indeed, they have not been cardinal from Chile and a bish- op from Mexico. This is con- Archives the number of ministers from compounded." different faiths and denomina- "If the warnings inherent in sidered a matter of major im-

2020. tions, grew out of an appeal by the Mansfield report and in our portance to the unity move- 12 of America's foremost protest go unheeded," Harring- ment since Protestants look clergymen. These included the ton predicted, "United States askance at the excessive cult of Mary that they often see

Copyright Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, involvement in grave injustice the Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr, the in South Vietnam will become among Roman Catholics. Rev. Halph Sockman, all of New the scandal of this era, and will A Canadian archbishop also York, and Bishop James A Pike tragically weaken our country's proposed the first week that of California. moral and strategic position." the authority of diocesan bish- "We decry the loss of Amer- Although the ruling regime in ops be increased by the creation ican lives and billions of dollars South Vietnam happens to be of a college consisting of all to bolster a regime universally Roman Catholic, Harrington prelates. regarded as unjust, undemo- stressed that the protest was The idea is to free them from cratic, and unstable," Harring- not anti-Catholic, but embraced working through the curia ton said. "It is a fiction to say Catholics. which some object to because that this is fighting for free- He cited a leading Catholic its members are predominately dom." weekly, The Commonweal, Italian,

THE WITNESS EDITORIALS The founding fathers of this country knew Office of Bishop human nature too well to trust any one branch of the government with too much power. Hence BISHOP WARNECKE of Bethlehem, writing our familiar system of checks and balances, and last month in the Living Church, urges that hence too the preservation of American democ- more power be vested in our diocesan bishops. racy for these 187 years. Some of these same He sees a contradiction in our being so parochial patriots wrote and adapted the constitution of the and congregationalist, and argues that both Protestant Episcopal Church with its similar urban strategy and clergy placement call for a limitations of authority and power, and we bishop's being granted more constitutional au- should be very wary of departures from it in thority than is now provided by the canons. publication. the name of efficiency and more centralization. There is much to be said in defense of Bishop and Let a bishop use the authority he already has, Warnecke's plea. Often the calling of a rector and we believe there will be plenty of scope for reuse to a church is almost a matter of luck or chance. strategy and advance work on the diocesan level, for Somebody just happened to know and recom- and for imagination too. Let a bishop really be mend him. And how many clergymen there are close to his clergy and lay leaders, one who who want to make a move and for positive listens and is wise, humble, sympathetic, a bro- required reasons, and how many others should be en- ther in Christ and father in God, not a prelate in couraged to for their own sake and their con- the popular connotation of that word, and his gregations. Under the present system little or nothing can be done for such men or for the power will truly be felt and rejoiced in. Is not Permission congregations. They are stuck till retirement this the rule of Christ? or death do them part. DFMS. / The Bishop of Bethlehem suggests that a bish- op, after consultation with the incumbent of a Distortion of History Church parish as well as the wardens and vestrymen, ALONG WITH thousands of other clergymen should be enabled to make a clerical change more we recently received the announcement of a new easily than he is now permitted to do. He would confirmation course, complete with film strips, Episcopal also empower the bishop to have the final ap- recordings and work books. Finding ourselves the proval or disapproval of a vestry's choice of a soon afterward in the neighborhood of a store of new rector, or so he seems to be saying. where all these highly recommended aids were We agree there are plenty of problems here, on sale, we went in to have a look. Alas, there

Archives but we have reservations about the solution was no chance to see the film strips or hear the offered. First of all, we are not so convinced recordings, but we could examine the work book,

2020. our bishops are so lacking in power and authority. Soldiers and Servants. It doesn't always seem that way from where the Whatever the pros and cons of the rest of the other clergy sit. Indeed is there any church in material, we were disappointed and irritated,

Copyright Christendom which exalts the episcopal office as too, to open the work book to page 118 and come does ours? How often we are told they are of upon some of the same old fiction so long passed the "esse" of the church, and yet how well Lu- on by our church. There was the familiar draw- therans and Presbyterians seem to manage! As ing of a tree representing the Holy Catholic it now stands, a bishop's authority with wardens Church with three branches growing out of the and vestrymen at crucial times in a church's trunk: Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, history depends to a large extent on the kind of and, of course, who but ourselves. And then leader he is, on his being a person whose counsel down below it, inconspicuously off to one side, they will gladly accept, and we must admit we separated from the tree itself, modestly grew prefer this to what could easily become arbitrary some tender shoots marked Calvinism, Lutheran- rule. Perhaps such an arrangement is better ism, Wesleyanism and the Ana-Baptists. too for the bishops' souls. This, we say, is a distortion of church history OCTOBER 10, 1963 Seven as well as a kind of smug Episcopalianism we parison Henry the Eighth is treated quite gent- find most distasteful. To make the claim that ly, almost as though he were to be preferred to only we with Roman Catholics and the Orthodox the likes of such Protestants. Again we would are members of the true church is false and have to protest that such a treatment of church irresponsible. Neither Luther nor Calvin had history is deceitful and half true. It does not any intention of establishing a brand new church serve the cause of church unity well to have our totally cut off from the roots of antiquity. They children indoctrinated with such one-sided views were intent upon reforming the church and re- of the matter. turning to the New Testament form of it. And If episcopacy was saved in England and lost their influence on English churchmen of the on the continent (Scotland too), let us humbly Reformation was incalculable. confess it was partially, at least, due to the The work book Soldiers and Servants writes accidents of the coming and going of the Tudors them off as having "rebelled by starting churches and a certain royal preference for it. It was not of their own and discarding a great deal of the that our ancestors were so much more virtuous important part of the Catholic Faith." In com- and catholic than their Protestant neighbors. publication. and reuse for FOR CHRIST'S SAKE

By O. Fielding Clarke required Vicar of Hazelwood, Derby, England The Witness is pleased to present the concluding chapter of "For Christ's Sake", published October 1 by

Permission Morehouse-Bavlow Co. The primary concern of the book is to reply to "Honest To God", the widely known book by the Rt. Rev. John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich,

DFMS. which Mr. Clarke analyzes in the first part of his work. / In the second part Mr. Clarke continues the discussion with an analysis of the current cultural and theological situation, culminating in this chapter. Church CLOSELY tied up with the purpose of the guillotine about liberty are only too relevant to hungry and illiterate to achieve a better life is modern Britain. Episcopal the whole problem of race, for the under- A third feature of the big world in which our the privileged are for the most part also the "plural" society is drifting about is communism. of "colored". I have mentioned this before, but more needs to Africans and Asians, who far outnumber be said about it here. With a third of the world's

Archives Europeans and their descendants in the U.S.A. inhabitants living under communist regimes, and and the Commonwealth, are no longer going to with communist or near-communist parties in

2020. be content with a back seat. One need not labor almost every land, the matter cannot be ignored. this point. Ours is a predominantly "colored" There are those in Britain who hate communism world and mastery of technology which has been sufficiently to talk about it incessantly, and there

Copyright the basis of the white man's ascendancy is more are also those who cordially approve — and also and more rapidly being acquired by Africans and constantly speak about it. But in between these Asians. two extremes lies the great mass of our people, "The shape of things to come" could not be including nearly all church people, who prefer to clearer, and if the opportunity of partnership remain silent; who are afraid even to discuss the between the races were firmly grasped now the subject "because it is so controversial". whole world would be richer and happier for it. This is a quite ridiculous state of affairs. We Yet here in Britain, for example, in the name of simply cannot ignore one of the greatest forces "freedom", nothing must be done to deal effec- moulding the future. How many people know, tively with incitement to race-hatred and our un- for example, that a few years ago UNESCO re- official but quite real color-bar. Madame Ro- ported that there were more translations of land's famous last words on the steps of the Lenin than of the Bible? How many people

Eight THE WITNESS realize that the largest parties both in France and reality. That is common-sense and it is also and Italy are communist? Christian sense. Communists certainly know what they want Most British people — as one knows from and are willing to make tremendous sacrifices to lecturing on the subject — are (thanks to our achieve it. I knew a Russian lawyer, who cold-war propaganda) amazingly unaware of eventually settled in Britain, who had worked some of the most elementary facts about Russia. for years with the communists, knowing person- They have, for example, little conception of the ally many of their top people. He never ceased appalling and hideous conditions of life under to be staggered by the capacity of these men for the tsars; of the people's illiteracy; of the fright- iron self-discipline and prodigious hard work. It ful housing conditions; of the constant famines is precisely this dedicated spirit and capacity and the chronic under-nourishment of the ma- for self-sacrifice which has been a major factor jority of the population; in a word, of all the in the long series of communist successes. things which made revolution inevitable. What Behind the whole movement, as we know, is the Soviet rule has done in about 45 years, in the philosophy of dialectical materialism which spite of the German invasion (which among publication. in its all-embracing scope can only be compared other things left twenty million people home- less), is one of the most staggering achieve- and with religion. Every aspect of life is related to this central creed. It is all very well British ments in the whole of recorded history. reuse intellectuals sneering at Marxism as out-of-date In education, in science and technology, in for stuff, but it is after all what makes two of the health, in the housing, clothing and feeding of three largest nations in the world tick. More- the people, and in industry the progress made over, Marxism is something which, for all its is quite fantastic. The dynamism can be felt. required elaboration, can be presented in extremely sim- True, there are still a number of things not up ple terms even to illiterate people. to standards achieved by some western European "It is your work that creates wealth", says nations who have behind them a far longer his- Permission the communist to the poor and hungry laborer, tory of industrial development. But this is a "but you are not getting your fair share. How- trifling criticism. Clearly, from what has al- ready been achieved, deficiencies can soon be

DFMS. ever, the bosses' world is cracking up as any- / thing based on individual self-interest must do made good when more important things have sooner or later. Every society divided into been dealt with.

Church 'haves' and 'have-nots' has perished from the What escapes the British and American ob- conflicts it has itself created. You need no God server is that the most significant thing is not 'outside'; the forces of real life itself are creat- how Russia appears to us, but how it looks to

Episcopal ing the conditions for a new, just, reasonable and the great majority of the world's inhabitants the moral order of society. All you have to do is to who are hungry, poor and industrially and edu- of play your part under the leadership of the com- cationally backward. Anyone who has lived and munists who have the scientific knowledge worked in Asia or Africa and known their necessary to make the successful change". hideous poverty and their longing for radical Archives change will see the point. For while we think of what we should lose if England went com-

2020. Cold War Propaganda munist, more than half the world is calculating OUR COLD-WAR propaganda has been quite daily what it might perhaps gain if it took a leaf disastrous. It stems from the days when Amer- out of Russia's or China's book. Copyright ica alone had the A-bomb, and it was believed that communism could be blotted out for ever Take A New Look in one devastating blow. And to justify such wholesale massacre communism had to be repre- LET US take a new look at communism from the sented as something even more evil than Hitler- angle of world poverty, which, as I have said, is ism. Now that Russia has both the A and the the crucial angle from which to regard humanity H bombs, with the practical certainty that China today. For our own industrial and commercial will not lag far behind, the situation is quite life is geared to dividends. People put their different. If we are not prepared to live with money where it can earn most with greatest communism the only alternative is the suicide of security. Is a system where money rules in this nuclear war. Yet if we are going to live with way able to finance the rehabilitation of a communism we can only do so on a basis of truth hungry world? Or will this not rather be done

OCTOBBB 10, 1963 Nine by those who put human need first, and who are people realize. If there is lack of trust in older therefore prepared to conscript land, wealth and folk, accusations of hypocrisy against them, and labor for the common good ? Once more, the im- a spirit of revolt among some of the younger portant thing is not how affluent Britons in their ones, it can only be said that some older people plural society answer this question, but how the have deserved it ... The very last thing we hungry, illiterate and colored majority of hu- have a right to call ourselves is "mature," and, manity will answer it. And it is on their answer as for being Christian in any effective sense of that the future history of our planet will be de- the word, are not the wars and revolutions of cided — not ours. this age only too clearly the fruit of a colossal We have dwelt too long upon the errors of failure to establish justice and judgment in the communism, its atheism and the crimes of cer- earth — let alone charity? tain communists, forgetting, among other things, We are guilty before God's poor, and especially much in the history of other countries—our own God's "colored" poor. We are guilty before the included — which has over the centuries also next generation; and we are adrift. We have deserved severe condemnation. It is time that abandoned the beacon light of Christ for poly- publication. Christians at any rate took a more truthful and theism, for that is precisely what "plural soci- and a more objective line, recognizing that it is the ety" means when put in theological terms — the virtues and not the vices of communism which bowing down to a multitude of idols of our own reuse are responsible for its very solid achievements. manufacture, — the most popular being Venus for It is the virtues of communism too which and the Golden Calf. exercise a tremendously attractive power on all required who want to improve the lot of their peoples and Return to Theology give them a reasonably decent standard of living HERE THEN, from a survey of things about us, and of culture. The Pope, therefore, gave a we have returned to theology; and that is as it splendid lead when he wrote (obviously with Permission should be. I have heard it said of Father Kelly communism in mind) "Who can deny that those that he would sometimes rush into the common- movements, in so far as they conform to the room and pick up the daily paper exclaiming, DFMS. / dictates of right reason and are interpreters of "Now what's God been up to today?" That is the lawful aspirations of the human person, the sort of theologian we need nowadays — contain elements that are positive and deserving

Church people who are so steeped in God and the reality of approval?" 1 of the world he made and all the people in it, "colored" and communist as well as white, that Menace of Nuclear War they can see the living God not only in the past Episcopal but in the present. the OVERSHADOWING everything in our contem- of porary situation there is the menace of nuclear Some, if God wills, may even dare to look war. Everyone knows that an all-out nuclear really far ahead, since our politicians and ty- war means suicide. It has been said, for exam- coons seem unwilling to do so. If anyone can Archives ple, by men like Mr. Eisenhower and Lord Home, look race, communism and the bomb in the face whom no one could possibly accuse of being in- it should be a Christian. After all did God make 2020. fluenced by 'loaded' peace propaganda. Every- this world, did God so love the world, or didn't one knows, too, that there is a real danger of he? Has Christianity been a gigantic failure, such a war being started by accident, by an error or is it not rather that we who call ourselves Copyright of judgment, and that mutual deterrence is ob- Christians, have dismally failed Christ? Re- viously a condition that cannot continue indefi- deemed, loosed from prison by Christ's death and nitely. The stalemate cannot last for ever. resurrection, what have we done with our free- dom? As an old Russian bishop, himself a pro- Most people prefer not to think about it. But, duct of tsarist times, said to me, "You know the as I have said already, the psychologist tells us Soviets have done many things which we Chris- very plainly what happens to people who push tians should have done long ago!" reality and fears about reality to the back of their minds. The rising generation is, I believe, We are told to love God with our whole selves much more troubled by this than many older —heart, soul, mind and strength. If we are going to be any good to the world those of us who have the brains must think, and, as Pope 1 Pacem in terris p. 41. My bold face. John said, in every sphere we must have experts,

THE WITNESS people who are technically competent, and who —What God sees in the forces churning it up while seeing the worth of their own trade or pro- from end to end which will affect the lives of fession in its own right also relate it to the each one of us individually? whole hierarchy of values and to the source of What, for example, do we suppose God is doing all value, God himself. about Mr. Khrushchev? What is God saying to him? Could it be, "I girded thee though thou Hopeful Signs has not known me?" I wonder. What is God THE DUTY to love God with the mind must saying to us through African and Asian nation- needs affect also what we call, in a more special- alism? If God can from "stones raise children ized sense, "the work of the Church". Here unto Abraham," surely he is doing something there are some hopeful signs. For example a with the mighty movements for more justice in great deal of consecrated thinking has gone into the world, and with the intense longing of man the work of industrial missions, the attempt to everywhere for peace ? Yes; I wonder when more relate the faith directly to the pattern of indus- people are going to look for God and think about try, that by which we live rather than to the God (in a word, to theologize) as he is working publication. places where men eat, sleep and bring up their out his purposes here and now, as well as in the and families. past, and outside the usual channels of Christian activity.

reuse Then, again, there is the development of the Yes, Dr. Robinson! For Christ's sake let the for weekly parish meeting. Here in group-discussion (and we hope in study) Christians are learning Church look outwards, but also, for Christ's sake, to discover the important facts about the world let it hold up Christ, the given Image of the In- required we live in, and to face up to problems such as visible God, crucified, risen and to come again in race, nationalism, communism, the bomb, peace glory. Let the Church hold up Christ as the and disarmament. Here also they can show con- beacon light to man himself who is crucified by cern for the problems of the locality they live the greed, stupidity and pride of his fellow man. Permission in. All this is essential if Christian insights are Let the Church so hold up Christ that men thirst- to be related to life concretely. In the pulpit ing for justice, peace and abundant life at all

DFMS. levels may find in him their satisfaction. / general principles may be enunciated, but it is in the cut and thrust of free discussion that the principles and incentives of our religion can be Church "earthed". There is again Inter-Church Aid (already Negroes for Neighbors mentioned in an earlier chapter). This in its Episcopal turn can bring the separated churches into com- By Howard R. Kunkle • the

of mon action at parish level and so not only minis- Rector of St. Michael, Trinidad, West Indies ter to the hungry but help towards the healing of our divisions. There are also movements like FROM THE VANTAGE POINT of the West

Archives the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Indies in 1963, the racial turmoil in the United Christian Action. Not every Christian agrees States is bewildering. What is the fuss all about?

2020. with all the particular points of C.N.D. policy, The government census of 1960 indicated the but this is the kind of thing Christians should following racial complex of Trinidad and Tobago, be at. As the Bishop of Newcastle said recently, newly-independent in 1962: Negro 43%, East

Copyright the Church ought to have that sort of activity Indian 36%, mixed 18%, white 2% and Chinese to offer people — especially younger people. 1%. The prime minister would be described in But is there enough solid theological thought the United States as Negro, the governor general behind the kind of things of which we have just is Chinese, and the ministers of government in- been speaking? Many people, even some who dis- clude Negro, East Indian, and European. agree with Honest to God have welcomed it as The writer lives in a rectory recently built in a, stimulus to thought and discussion. It cer- a new subdivision of Port of Spain, the capital. tainly has set people thinking. But what about? It is very much like suburbia — commuters, Will it get anyone asking Father Kelly's 64,000 junior and senior executives, government of- dollar question about the living God now, in re- ficials, salesmen, professional people, new homes, lation to the history being made now, in the real power mowers, television and heavy mortgages. world, this exciting world right under our eyes? Land sells for §1.00 per square foot, and the

OCTOBER 10, 1963 Eleven homes average about $25,000 each in construc- private — are open to all. A few secondary tion costs, all figures West Indian dollars. schools are co-educational; most are for either The people who live in this subdivision (which boys or girls. But they are open to children of is restricted in the sense that the houses must all races, provided the child has the academic meet certain requirements) include Europeans, ability, and provided a seat can be found for him Chinese, East Indians, Negroes, and "mixed." in a terribly overcrowded system. Trinity Col- To drive through the streets one could never lege, a high-school-cum-junior college institution tell the ethnic background of the inhabitants. for boys under Anglican management, where my The yards, gardens, shrubbery and furnishings son is a student, has possibly 10% white pupils— of the people of "colored" races are just as neat the rest are of the other racial groups. The as the Europeans. Property values are not in faculty too is drawn from all races, but all with jeopardy; they are rising. No one worries about university degrees. the grandparents of people moving in; we only There are no "white" churches of any de- hope they'll be friendly and good neighbors. nomination; there couldn't be from a practical Certainly there is crime in Trinidad, but we standpoint, not to even consider the Christian publication. don't attribute it to any race. Like elsewhere, position. and there are sociological factors to add to sin. Human sin and meanness are very much evi- Europeans, despite being a 2% minority, do not dent in Trinidad and Tobago. But at least we reuse go about in a state of beseiged fear. live and sin and worship together with a reason- for There are no segregated schools, except for able attempt at equal opportunity to do all of one small private, high-tuition elementary school. these! Negroes are my neighbors here. Why

required All others — government, denominational, and not in the United States?

Permission WHAT I THINK HAPPENED AT TORONTO By Robert L. Curry DFMS.

/ Headmaster of Lenox School RATHER THAN give you a blow-by-blow de- listening to what God is saying in many ways —

Church scription, or time table version of what hap- in literature, in drama, in those who have no pened for ten days at Toronto, I would like to allegiance to God, to those who are militantly tell you what I think happened at Toronto since opposed to God and who call him dead. This was

Episcopal I have had some time since the congress to do something new for me.

the some reflecting, and thinking about some of John Lawrence said that in all the situations of what I hear, saw, discussed, and sensed. Ob- which we find ourselves in as Christians, we need viously, I cannot tell you about all the things, to ask three questions. What is God doing here? but let me sift out a few. What is the devil doing here? And what does Archives First, I think that the Church of England is God require of his people here and now? We cannot expect to know the answers to all the 2020. listening .... or perhaps I should say that members of the Church of England are listening. questions, but if we ask we shall always be In my conference group, which I ought to say given enough light to see the next step ahead; and that is all that we need.

Copyright was an excellent one, there were three English bishops, none of them stuffy, none of them telling What is God saying in this school, in your par- us the answers, but rather I had the impression ish or mission, in the inner city, in our relations that they are listening and searching, they are with other Christian bodies, in the state? What bothered by their losses and the rapid changes is the devil saying, and what is God telling us, since the second world war. At times they his people, to do here and now? I find that in seemed stunned as they are criticized for not using these three questions, I have started to doing anything right. learn and to see things about my community I had not seen or thought about before. Canon Max Warren and Mr. John Lawrence gave in my opinion two of the best addresses. We Need To Listen In each of these theme addresses on the religious IF WE LISTEN intently we are able to learn, and cultural frontier, they spoke about listening, and I think Toronto was a learning experience

Twelve THE WITNESS for many of us. Again, I was impressed that the clergy and the episcopacy want the laity to have English seemed to be learning through listening. a ministry outside and beyond the housekeeping The Africans were telling us day after day details within the church which the ordained that as white people with a superior attitude, ministry will continue to control. we are going to have a difficult go of it selling- One day in our group, our African brother Jesus Christ to the people of other races. We from Grahamstown, South Africa, a large man learned by listening that many of the autono- whose father had been a tribal general who mous churches are barely existing in their inde- fought the English and the Dutch from invading pendence, and Bishop Goto of Japan was excel- their country, sounded off on this matter. He lent on this point — freedom is a pretty grim said with a hugh fist in the air that in visiting affair when you are starving in your freedom, England he sensed that the clergy are in fear and he was asking for mutual responsibility of a ministry by the laity. As his 250 pounds without our looking with suspicion on those to rocked on the edge of his chair and his fist went whom we give our gifts and eying the gift with in the direction of the English bishops, I had a some reluctance to give it away. I never realized better sense why they were quiet. The African

publication. this before but the Bishop of Mexico drove it is the only clergyman for 5000 Anglicans in his home to me one day at luncheon when he said city, and for his money or lack of it the laity and that the bishops in Latin and South America must be trained to teach, to evangelize, to be lay wanted no Anglican officer as suggested by the reuse ministers but the powers that be drag their feet. document on mutual interdependence, for they for It was brought out again and again that our have enough brass now coming down looking over frontier is the world, and the clergy are not their shoulders from 815 to see how the money going to convert the world — the task is too huge required is being spent, and being told what to do and how for one thing. John Lawrence in speaking to to do it. this point, said: "Are we training lay people at I learned by listening to the Canadians that all, and if we do train them are they being trained

Permission their ministry is a learned one as exemplified at to serve the world or to serve the church as an the congress; that there is a sense of humility ecclesiastical organization? How far are our in the Canadian Church, a sense of dignity and parishes and synods organized to keep their own DFMS.

/ respect and formality (in the positive sense of machinery going? How far are they designed that word) which we could use here at home. I to aid in the transformation of the world? Is heard over the radio in Nova Scotia later that our industrial work mainly directed to the trans- Church one Canadian clergyman is proposing that the formation of industry, or to bringing people out Church in Canada join the Episcopal Church in of the secular community of their workmates the USA., and I wanted to write to someone — where God has placed them, and bringing them Episcopal don't do it we have much to learn through into an ingrown church community?" the of affiliation and cooperation, but let us not gobble • I THINK we are dragging on this matter them up. of the ministry of the laity because we do not There is much to learn from the brethren with- know what to say to the laity as to what the Archives in the family, and we could learn much by listen- ministry is. We challenge them to their minis- ing. try, and as one layman said: "if I hear the word 2020. Ministry of the Laity 'challenge' again from you clerics, I'll scream". Bishop Stockwood of Southwark was specific on I HAD THE FEELING that we are right out in this point — his solution was to run for the city Copyright the middle of an uncharted sea as far as this of London Council himself and then work with matter of the ministry of the laity is concerned. council members on how to form a Christian fel- And I think we are out there for the following- lowship within that political group. Bishop reasons: — Wickham is specific with what he has been doing • The world is changing so rapidly that it is with the Sheffield industrial mission, and what hard to plot or plan a strategy to keep up with a capable fellow he is who looked less like an the changing times — the urban situation, the English prelate in procession than anyone else shifts in population, the population explosion, in a long line of prelates. the training of the clergy, mass media and its I think we have much work to do in this area effect upon populations, the speed of scientific and we need to get at it or else stop talking development, and a host of other things. about challenging the laity to do their work as f I am not at all sure how much really the ministers and stewards of Christ.

OCTOBER 10, 1963 'Diiriee-tt The Power Structure Where is the power wielded? We talk fre- LET ME WALK out a bit on thin ice and sense quently about the Holy Spirit directing a meet- with you something akin to what I have just ing and gathering — we even joke about this, been saying. I don't think it is any secret to for many of us are realistic (if that is the word) many, but it goes unsaid that there is a power and know that the power is wielded by the few structure within the church which I think at over the many and that what goes on in public times makes it hard for God to do his work and work his will, and at times I wondered if he in- gatherings has little to do with ultimate decisions. habited the congress or had gone off to the mis- sion outposts where the work of evangelization, Was Congress Rigged? teaching, preaching, is going on. WE WERE TOLD in Toronto by the Archbishop When you get some four hundred bishops, of Canterbury that we should pass no resolutions archbishops, metropolitans, primates together in (and some were in the hands of a committee) one place with bright vestments flowing by the because we were not a legislative body. He was yard, crosses which seem to grow larger by the not challenged on the floor — he was for sure publication. gathering, heavy episcopal rings, it charges the in my conference group that afternoon on the and air with a sense of power. grounds from the Americans that the congress Sometime I would like to hear a paper read had the right to speak its mind even though it reuse at a clericus on this subject of power. Where is knew nothing could be binding upon any of the for the power of the Anglican Communion? What autonomous churches. is this power? What is it that men believe they Was the Congress rigged? It is fair to say I required have when they are placed in positions of higher think that it was heavily slanted in the direction responsibility? Are these our shepherds? (1 of the Church of England and its commonwealth am only asking myself questions from what I churches. saw). Permission The Episcopal Church had little place on the I sensed the feeling that many of these chief program, and its missionary area of Latin and pastors are tired men, tired because so much of South America was almost totally ignored, and DFMS. / their time is spent in going from meeting, to one of our bishops in Brazil got the floor one meeting, to meeting — Lambeth, the Anglican morning only because the moderator was Bishop Congress, the General Convention, Provincial

Church Kennedy of Honolulu. Synod, meetings of the National Council, all the What did this mean? I don't know, but I do consecrations. I think Bill Stringfellow after know that some smart human beings did some the Montreal meeting this summer wrote some

Episcopal thinking about it, so that when the document on comment to the effect that we have too many

the mutual responsibility comes up for discussion of the same men, going to the same places, see- of and action in our church at General Convention ing the same faces, and hearing the same thing next year, some pertinent questions will be asked, said over and over again. or will they?

Archives I felt the freshness of Toronto was as a group in the laity for they have not been subjected to The American episcopacy was very quiet. I

2020. endless pronouncements, they have little or no asked afterwards why and two friends had no power, they come to listen and to learn, and en- answer. Would it be fair to guess that the Eng- thusiastic applause indicated that they were lish bishops speak more because they study more,

Copyright listening and that the word and the Word was have more time to think and to write, while falling on receptive ears. American bishops are so busy like the culture in which they live, that obsession with diocesan My reaction as I watched our own officers programs and budgets keeps them from engag- from National Council day after day going about ing in larger issues outside their domain? I the congress looking grim, serious, unsmiling, don't know but it is interesting to ask. that I would like to vote in a couple of joyful and happy Christians — power seems to weigh heavily upon the shoulders of those who wield Training Clergy it, and I have heard it said that to take the Mas- I LEARNED that we face a large and difficult ter's yoke upon us will lighten the load — what task in the training of the clergy both as to num- is God saying to the episcopacy; what is the devil bers, quality, and what to teach. doing there? Much was said about the need of numbers but

Fourteen THB WITNESS there is a catch here. One seminary dean told terms for they see people living in darkness and me in June that he could not get all his seniors in death and there is an-urgency, but then I go placed and he had called fifteen bishops •— a preaching about this around the countryside, number of them being domestic missionary and I find people nodding their heads, shaking bishops. We need men, yes, but the places which hands and saying what a soul-stirring message need them cannot often pay a living wage, they came from Toronto, and then go on their way are located geographically where clergy or wives getting in the tomatoes before the frost, worry do not wish to go, or they are needed overseas about their jobs as GE and ED Jones cut back where the same two blocks pertain — lack of on employment, worrying about grandma who is funds and geographical situation. failing, and Jane who is having trouble reading Much was said by panel speakers and from the in school. Time? To act on the message of floor about quality and training of the clergy, Toronto is going to take time whether we have and while we agree who is doing much about it it or not, and the message will be effective only other than the seminaries themselves? I listen as it becomes so in your parish and mission and publication. to laymen whom I respect for various reasons, not because one thousand Christians are for it and and they tell me that our first job is to clean our at a congress. own professional house and upgrade the quality reuse of men accepted for training and ordination. Lack of Humor for As to the curriculum and what to teach, I feel I HAD THE FEELING at Toronto that many sorry for seminary faculties for the voices are Christians are hyper-sensitive and lack a sense required a babel on this one—more orthodoxy, less ortho- of humor. One evening at Stratford I was talk- doxy, more how-to-do-itself courses, fewer or ing with Charles Taft of Cincinnati, and we were none of them, apprenticeships no apprenticeships, discussing the stern criticism of some of the training in secular fields such as science and jokes made from the platform, and he said he Permission don't bother for we would only muddy the was sure that one-third of the congress had no waters. sense of humor. Where is the lilt and the lift DFMS.

/ from being a Christian? No one should have Tid - Bits more fun together than Christians, and I can as- sure you that the dozen of us who stayed to-

Church FINALLY, let me throw out some tid-bits or crumbs as you will. gether in Toronto found this to be true. But many of our brethren are wary of criticism or I think that while we have to drive hard with laughter and I have more sympathy for our Episcopal ourselves and our people about the urgency of diplomats abroad after Toronto than I ever had the the time in which we live, we should know that before the white man has a long, hard of people are slow to move and that our time is not road ahead. God's time. This sounds strange coming from I came away from the congress more sure than me as I am time-conscious, but an American Archives ever that the gospel is the only way to salva- Indian clergyman drew me up short on this the tion and to follow in the steps of our Lord the

2020. other day in my office. We were discussing the only pathway to establish the kingdom. We governmental policy of terminating the reserva- have not all the answers and reaching out to our tions, and he did not agree with it at the present brethren is more imperative than ever, and this

Copyright time for his people are not ready or trained to is going to take one tremendous amount of edu- leave the reservations but in time he believed cation. • integration would come. Said I — "You mean in Bishop Bayne made the telling comment in his about fifty years?" "No", he replied, "in about original way that when he became bishop of three to five hundred years". Olympia, he learned one thing from his people We were told in Toronto that things are at the outset, and that was that they believed moving so fast there is no time to prepare to the Church to be a memorial society to honor an meet situations, we have to be ready to move early minister named Jesus Christ, who was a and decide upon the instant. I can understand first apostle of the American way of life. Edu- Bishop Bayne saying this in his job; I under- cation? The need is staggering, and the pa- stand Miss Lacey of the British Church Council tience it will call for unlimited, but if God be for for refugees giving it to us in no uncertain us who can be against us ?

OCTOBER 10, 1963 liftcvn Indians, which, she said, con- Asian Culture is Underrated sisted largely of providing old clothes. Bishop Koh Tells Canadians Support for her view came * Bishop Roland Koh of A national membership goal from Percy Bird, liaison officer Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, told of 75,000, set more than a year for community development delegates to the annual meeting ago, was not met and Mrs. with the Manitoba welfare de- Robertson blamed "lack of of the Woman's Auxiliary, An- partment. He said Indians had glican Church of Canada, that leadership, lack of interest in Christians had been underrat- the affairs of the church among become too dependent on hand- ing the culture of the Asian younger women and our failure outs and that their attitudes people. to make Woman's Auxiliary must be changed. He called for a more practical work relevant to the world of approach to the problems of today." "One way of doing it is by integration," he said. "Invite Christian missionaries. Delegates also were told to publication. "Christ's message must be stop treating Indians like "ra- the Indian into your homes." and made known through the cul- ther stupid children." Mrs. Jean Cuthand, executive di- ture of the locality, it must be Frank Bastin of Winnipeg, who rector of the Indian and Metis reuse practical and . . . concern the represented the Indians and friendship center, said: "Indi- for life of the people," Bishop Koh Metis at the conference, said. charged that "most Anglican ans are considered classless Mrs. John Robertson of Kit- women consider the Indian as a people at the bottom of the lad- required chener, Ont., president, charged not very intelligent child of na- der, accepted more readily by that the auxiliary had failed to ture." non-church-going white people meet the needs of Canadian She criticized restrictions on than by those who attend women in today's world. auxiliary work among the Permission church." The delegates approved a DFMS.

/ deficit budget for the third ANNOUNCING year in a row. In 1964, the estimated income is $437,964; Church the estimated expenditures, the new $443,036. The budget includes $130,773 for work in Canada Episcopal Church and $120,038 for projects in

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The missionary reportedly Episcopal School Week which Harris. This grant, payable in will be observed throughtout equal installments over a five said the play "is not only an historical judgment but an the country October 27-Novem- year period, is to be devoted ex- ber 3. clusively to the improvement of alarm call to our age which is faculty salaries. sinking into inhumanity and The Rev. Matthew Warren, In commenting on this ac- unawareness." rector of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., will contribute tion, Dean Harris said, "This Concerning the Nazi atroci- publication. one of the feature articles on generous gift will be of distinct ties, Dr. Schweitzer said, "We and help in maintaining and improv- "The Church School Meets Cur- are all guilty today for the rent Needs." ing the quality of seminary reason that we were guilty reuse teaching. The task of educat- then . . . The Catholic Church for ing men for the ministry is in- bears the greatest guilt be- THE PARISH OF TRNINITY CHURCH creasingly being recognized as cause as a great international New York the crucial task in the inner organization she could have REV. JOHN HEUSS, D.D., RECTOR required life of the church today. This taken some action." TRINITY wise concern on the part of the The Hochhuth drama, which Broadway & Wall St. trustees of the Booth Ferris Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicar Foundation goes to the core of opened this fall in a number of Son. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10. 11 Permission European cities, was originally EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser. the financing of theological 12:30 Tues., Wed & Thurs., EP 5:15 ej schools and will serve not only staged last winter in West Ber- Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt. lin. Criticism has been heard ST. 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