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T he Communion of Saints By BISHOP JOHNSON H Y do I believe that Christ instituted a Church word and this is also the sense in which it is used in the Winstead of depending upon evangelists to preach creeds. It means, therefore, the fellowship of those a gospel to the individual? In the first place, because who have devoted their lives to the service of Jesus it required an institution in order that the faith and Christ, first by enlisting in His service at Baptism and sacraments and scriptures might be conveyed to suc secondly by serving in this Church as soldiers of Jesus ceeding generations without mutilation or perversion. Christ. The word saint in this connection is not un Whatever oharges may be brought against the historic like the word patriot which means sometimes one who Church, it cannot be denied that for twenty centuries it fights for his fatherland and at other times one who has testified to the same creed, administered the same is a hero in such fight. One, however, need not be a sacraments, read the same scriptures. Any study of hero to be a patriot; neither need one be a model of the individualism of the period since the Reformation perfection to be entitled to be called one of the saints. can perceive how impossible this is unless there can The word “ communion” also has a distinct connota be an authorized instrument to perpetuate them. tion. It signifies two things: being in union with God In the second place, life is corporate and in its rela and being in union with one another. Being in union tions requires corporate action. The home, the state with God implies all that is contained in the words, and the Church are the essential products of such a “ Thy will be done,” and being in union with your need. Without such solidarity the Church could not neighbor involves forgiving him as you hope to be for have resisted the persecutions of three hundred years given. The Gospel of Christ is not merely a matter in the Roman Empire and survived the atmosphere of personal relationship between God and the indi- of the dark ages or the antagonist of continuous at dividual whereby the latter is filled with deep emotion; tack. The Church has been a fortress of defence. but it also implies the solidarity of the group in which Without it the forces of Christian Evangelism would we are not only in Him and He in us, but in which have been separately attacked and overcome. we are every one members one of another. It was this In the third place, the Gospel is not merely an ap sense of corporate unity which was lost in the Refor peal to individual virtues but also a call to Christian mation, whatever else may have been gained. When fellowship. It was the fraternal idea contained in the the Reformers substituted confession of faith for the household of faith, which sustained the early Chris sacraments of the altar they practically asserted that tians. They were fully cognizant of the value of being thinking alike was more important than loving others one body, every one members of one another. even though they disagree with you. In fact, one might define the word “ sect” as a group T IS for this reason that we speak of the Commun of people who think alike, whereas the Church of. Jesus Iion of Saints. Let us define our terms. What does Christ is* an institution in which every legitimate ex St. Paul mean by his addressing the members of dif pression of religious sentiment has a place in the or ferent churches as Saints? Certainly one who reads chestration of human effort. In a word, in order to these Epistles carefully could not possibly imagine that secure the liberty of the Sons of God we have lost the the Corinthian Christians were so perfect in character fellowship of all sorts and conditions of Christians.. as to be thus designated if perfection was what the This has resulted in a religious exclusiveness which has word meant. But it wasn’t ! The word “ saint” comes promoted mutual antagonisms instead of endeavoring from the Latin word “ sanctus” which means first of all to keep the unity of spirit in the bond of peace. This one who has devoted his life to a sacred purpose and is the significance of this article in the Creed in .space. secondarily one who has attained great holiness in that It also has' a meaning in time. It represents the per process. manence of our union with Christ both here and here It was in the primary sense that St. Paul used the after.

H E Church becomes a household in which there love betraying love. To me the miracle of love is not T are separate rooms. “ In my father’s house are the next room but the one in which I now reside, many mansions,” said the Master. A mansion is a place where I have enjoyed so many mercies and had so of abode. We enter the Church Militant at Baptism; many friends. I believe that the Church is intended to then through the grave we enter into the Church E x be a school in friendship where by learning how to pectant, looking forward to our ultimate reunion in love we may be privileged to enjoy greater love. I am the Church Triumphant. If religion is unreal, this not surprised that the cynic who finds nothing here on vision seems fanciful, but to one who realizes that we earth for which to be grateful should be skeptical that are surrounded with many evidences of purpose in the there is any place better. It reminds me of the boys world around us whereby we go from grace to grace, who go swimming in a lake, where the water is cold. it is very real. There are two kinds of boys. Those who stand on the shore and shiver, dreading the plunge. To them the The cynic who calls it a cold world forgets that he water is very cold. And those who plunge in and call came into it on his mother’s breast; and that he grew out that the water .is fine. The boys bring their tem up in a home of affectionate relatives and is surround peratures with them. It accounts for the difference ed by a circle of friends who are far from cold. It is when they make the plunge. this succession of those with whom we are in close So I believe that in the final plunge we carry with us communion which leads me to expect that He who hath either fear or faith; either despair or hope; either begun this ascending series of affectionate experiences cynicism or love. It is the sense of the communion of is both able and willing to give the opportunity for saints which sustains my faith and encourages my love, further development of the desire which He has im much as a child in a happy home, where he looks for planted in me. love and finds it. What we seek is what we find and It is faith in the goodness of God that lies behind therefore those who seek God’s love will not be met by this confidence in the continuance of the love that His indifference. dwells within us. I believe that love is the very es This is an article of the series “ What I Believe and Why.” Next sence of our Father’s being and I cannot conceive of week: The Forgiveness of Sins.

T he Oakes Home Church Home for Sick Strangers H E Oakes Home for the care of the. tubercular stricken with the white plague. He saw physical con T sick who come to Colorado for their health, was ditions that were appalling. Refined women suffered completed and opened in 1894* R had the enthusias in over-crowded boarding houses and self-respecting tic support and encouragement of Dr. Trudeau of men herded into foul hotels. He saw many partially Saranac Lake, recovered, filled with eagerness and hope, pulled down New York, who again by re-infection. He saw sordid greed in high- said, “ You can priced quarters of low-rate cleanliness. Nearly forty do in Colorado years have witnessed the coming and going of over sev what we do not enteen thousand men and women, benefited by the profess to do,” friendly care which the Home affords, and not one em meaning that ployee has ever contracted the disease. the Colorado al The Home was the second institution in the United titude and cli States to do organized work for the consumptive. It mate was adapt is the property of the diocese of Colorado, which ac ed to serve this cepted it as a perpetual trust, agreeing in the accept- class of seekers tance to nurture and protect the institution. It seemed after health in a the natural thing to present it to the diocese. Eagerly superlative de they accepted it and in so doing gave their assent to gree. loyal sponsorship. T h e Home There are now, seemingly, an over abundance of in was built by the stitutions for this class of sick in the country. Yet Rev. Frederick the health supervision of thirty or more years ago was W. Oakes, then more intelligent and was exercised with greater care rector of All than prevails in most institutions today. Today, in d r . o a k e s Saints Church deed, there is great laxity in this matter. There is no in Denver, with funds given him by friends and those difficulty in securing lodgings in any hotel or fashion interested in this eleemosynary work. He first con able boarding house in Colorado, yet the pernicious- ceived the idea after mingling among men and women danger of infection is the same and the number of

A V iew of the Oakes H ome needy consumptives is legion. The prevailing devas a board of trustees elected by the diocese of Colorado. tating conditions in finance and unemployment have It is in every sense a Church institution, managed by driven thousands back to their homes and into distress the Church, presided over by a priest of the Church, ing quarters, yet when the Home has its greatest op with the center of its life the beautiful Chapel of Our portunity to help and care for the needy ones of the Merciful Saviour, where prayers are said daily and Church it has not the means at its command to an where the Blessed Eucharist is presented each Sunday swer the calls. The Home has never refused an ap and on Holy Days. peal for help. Even today when the number of guests Are there not those in the Church who can and will is greatly depleted and the costs for entertainment be pleased to lend their aid so that this fine work may greatly reduced, the Home is caring for about twenty go on? The Church is the helper of all who need. “ In per cent of its patients at wholly or partially free rates. asmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these ye Death has gathered nearly all of those who made have done it unto me.” There is no place better able, the Home possible financially, and new interests claim and more ready, to serve than the Oakes Home in those of a later generation. Yet great numbers with Denver. outstretched hands are waiting for the ministrations that the Church can, and should, give through such an institution. However the Oakes Home cannot give it unless it has it to give. Unless the Church, and loving Casual Comment Christians, supply the present and future means this By great medium of help must soon greatly curtail or BERNARD IDDINGS BELL entirely close its doors. There is sufficient endow T IS, apparently, quite futile for those who deal with ment with which to keep the plant in order but the in I actual university problems to ask that the National come for maintenance of its guests is so small that it Council appoint, to organize and supervise our college will be impossible to continue indefinitely. Immedi work throughout the country, someone reasonably pre ate help must be forthcoming or this great Church in pared for the task. The Presiding Bishop and his ad stitution must be closed to the many who need it. visors seem sure that the Church’s approach to col Founded by a priest with great vision this institu lege men and women should be in the hands of some tion was given to the Church and is now governed by inexperienced young man who knows nothing of col-

leges or their faculties, has had no experience in cure people of Israel believed God rode on the thunder of souls, is not himself a scholar, and is, as a youngish cloud. (Read Psalm 18 and David’s song of victory in priest properly ought to be, shy and hesitant. The idea ii Samuel, 22 :io.) seems to be that such a dear lad, especially if good- When Moses built an altar, and sprinkled on it and looking,. will draw the boys, and girls to' God. To on them the blood of the sacrifice of the covenant, in those who know collegians, the notion would be funny, awe and terror they vowed: “ All that H E commands were it not that an opportunity has been wasted for we will do!” years, and still is being wasted. Moses engraved the terms of the compact on tables The two young men who have supervised our col of stone. This was the common method of sealing lege work these past half-dozen years, one after the compacts, particularly religious vows, and the method other, have been fine youngsters; and so, no doubt, is of promulgating religious decrees, as we learn from the gentleman who took office January first. To pro the laws of Hammurabi in Babylon and from the im test against the policy which places such as they in perial decrees of Egypt. The essence of the agree charge of “ college work,” is not to attack them. One ment was that they, the people, were to worship Je of them is now doing quite well as a parish priest, hav hovah alone; and he was to give them the land of their ing used the college secretarial work to his own great fathers. profit by way of training for his present job. Their But as we read on, a serious doubt arises. The names do not matter, either. Let us call them A, B and ordinances run into intricate and confusing details. A c. description of the Tabernacle and its furnishings is A was ordained priest at the age of twenty-six. The given which descends into the most minute specifi next year he became “ national college secretary.” cations. When he was thirty, he resigned. B was ordained It would have taken tons and tons of stone to pro priest when twenty-six, also, took his important of vide space to engrave all these rules and laws; and it fice at twenty-seven, and resigned when twenty-nine. would have taken more than forty days to do it. Moses The present incumbent’s age is not known to me; but and Joshua could not have carried such a load of stone he was ordained a little over two years ago. None of tablets with a four horse truck. Besides, these ordi these men is a graduate of an outstanding university; nances and commandments and judgments would have none has distinguished himself in the least in scholar been unintelligible to the fugitive slaves cowering at ship; none had had any experience when he was ap the foot of the mountain, lonely and hungry and foot pointed ; none was mature; none knew anything about sore and terrified, and already longing passionately to university theory or practice; none was able really to be back among the familiar sights and smells of Egypt. help faculties face their undergraduate problems. What The more we read on, the more confused it all be communion of Christians save ours could be so silly ? comes. After Moses had cast down and broken the Curiously enough, the three gentlemen are all gradu tables of stone in anger at discovering the people in the ates of the Virginia Theological Seminary. act of worshiping the golden calf (Exodus 32:19) he went back up the mountain. There the Lord is re ported as saying to him: “ Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first; and I will write upon these tables the words that were on the first tables, which Witness Bible Class thou brakest.” In verse 27, the order is “Write thou Conducted by these words, for after the tenor of T H E S E W ORDS Irwin St. John Tucker have I made a covenant with Israel.” THE COVENANT AT SINAI And then He goes on to give Moses a set of ten com mandments utterly unlike the familiar Decalog which Lesson Fifteen we hear from the altar. This decalog of Exodus 34 L L subsequent history has been largely governed runs like this: I. Thou shalt worship no other god. II. A and colored by events at Mount Sinai. After the Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. III. The feast fugitives from Egypt had escaped the state troops, they of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. IV. All the first followed Moses for three months through thirst and born are mine. V. None shall appear before me empty hunger and terror to the Mountain on which he had handed. VI. Six days shalt thou work; on the sev received the vision of freedom. There, while thunder enth thou shalt rest. V II. Thou shalt observe the feast rolled and lightning flashed, they made a contract—a of weeks, of the firstfruits, and of the ingathering at covenant—with Jehovah the Deliverer. the year’s end. V III. Thou shalt not offer the blood In Egypt, forever dry and cloudless, there is neither of my sacrifice with leaven. IX . The first of thy first- rain nor thunder nor lightning. The fugitives, to whom fruits shalt thou bring into the house of the Lord thy these awful revelations of Nature appeared for the God. X. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s first time in their lives, were overwhelmed with terror. milk. All was strange; the barren desert, the enormous These are the ten commandments of Exodus 34, mountain around whose top the windcurrents between after the tenor of which the covenant was made with the Red Sea and the Mediterranean keep up a con Israel. But there is nothing exalted or moral about tinually changing play of clouds; the terror behind them. They read like the ceremonial rules of a tribe them and the dread before. To their latest day the of savages. In fact, that is just what they are.

We are dealing with a difficult point, yet it must be We Anglicans who pride ourselves on our restraint grasped. Moral laws are of slow growth. The “ cere in matters of dogma should not attempt to push our monial decalog” was the establishment of the rules by own definitions any further. We can say therefore, which the big, quarrelsome, unwieldy mob of 600 fam that when our friends die in a state of grace, we may ilies were to proclaim their unity in accepting the Com be sure that they are safe in God’s love, that they are pact with the (God whose voice they heard in the thun undergoing a process of preparation and of cleansing der. In its essence the Compact was simple: “ We will which will make them finally fit for the spiritual state be your people; you shall be our God.” To prove they that we call “Heaven.” We know that we must go on were His people, they agreed to observe these ritual praying for them just as we have prayed for them laws, as when members of a lodge recognize one an while they were alive. We know that we must above other by ritual signals and signs. It took them a long all, go on loving them just as we loved them while time to evolve the moral law, which is written into the they were with us. Above all we know that we must Bible at this point as though it were of the same date. not forget them, but that we must remember them es In reality, the Ethical Decalog was not evolved for pecially at the altar when we are making our com centuries. munions or are taking part in the offering of the Holy But this solves many problems. How could God say Sacrifice. More than this we do not need to know and on one day “ Thou shalt not kill” and the very next any attempt to push our finite minds forward in an at moment tell Aaron and the tribe of Levi to take their tempted exploration of the life beyond death is always swords, go through the camp, and kill every man his unwise and is sometimes dangerous. I have personally brother? (Ex. 32 :2y.) How could He say on one day known people who suffered definite mental hurt by ex “ Thou shalt not steal” and a little later tell the same periments of this kind. On the other hand we can not people to go out and seize all the cattle and possession help having the greatest respect and admiration for of the people of Midian, killing all the adults and the men like Sir Oliver Lodge who are attempting to get boys, and keeping only the unmarried girl children for into touch with the Faithful Departed in a spirit of slaves? (Read Numbers 3119 to end.) humbleness and love. All the way from Egypt to Jerusalem the pathway of • To the Christian there is no death in any real sense. the Israelites in taking possession of their ancestral His loved ones who have died should he to him more land was bathed in rivers of blood. Every time they actually living and closer to him than they ever were burned a town and massacred all the defenders, they during the days of their earthly life. As to the “ value said “ the Lord told us to do it.” Could this be the of healing by spirit forces” I can not speak with any same Lord God Who said “ Thou shalt not kill?” authority. I can not quite see how a disembodied spirit N o ! They started with a low, savage idea of God could work directly or indirectly upon a living human as a “ Man of W ar!” It took them a long, long time organism. One might imagine perhaps that a man or to learn the lesson of peace and justice. And how a woman could be so closely associated mentally and they did so is one of the most fascinating stories in the spiritually with some Holy Departed Soul that this world. same man or woman might have unusual gifts of men Next week: The Body of the Law. Exodus 18. tal healing. In such a case however it would be pri marily the living man or woman who acted as a heal ing agency. I feel however that this whole subject is both dangerous and difficult. Death is coming to us all soon enough and we can surely wait until then in order Confidences to acquire first hand knowledge of a type of existence By that can never be comprehended or described by minds that are surrounded by material things and limited by JOHN RATHBONE OLIVER the use of .their senses. H A V E received one letter asking for some infor I should like to suggest that P. I. D. read certain I mation about “ spiritism” or “ spiritualism.” We chapters hi my book Psychiatry and Mental Health, know very little about the exact condition of the faith especially chapters V I and V II. He will find in these ful departed. Apparently God does not intend us to chapters an answer to his questions. If he does not have very definite information about the details of the get the information that he needs in this way, I sug life after death. Even the Roman Church which has gest that he write to me directly. No one except my often been criticized for saying too much, says very self will see his letter and he can be assured that I little about the life of the world to come. The Coun sympathize deeply with his difficulties and know that cil of Trent confines its dogmatic statements to the fact there is a safe way out of them. The way out that he that “there is a purgatory or place of cleansing for suggests is no real way out at all. Every man and the Faithful Departed and that while there, the de every woman has some handicap in this life but I have parted souls are helped by the prayers of the living and never known a handicap that could not by the Grace especially by the offering of the Holy Sacrifice.” Even of God be turned into a definite and lasting achieve Rome then does not presume to establish any other ment. means of communication between the living and the dead, except the spiritual communication of prayer and Letters addressed to Dr. Oliver for attention in this column should he addressed to him in care of The Witness, 931 Tribune Building, the taking part in the Holy Mysteries. New York City.

The name “ rosary” means a garland or bouquet of Let ’s Know roses. No one knows exactly how or when it came By to be attached to the strings of beads. An old legend BISHOP WILSON says that the Blessed Virgin took rosebuds from the Rosary lips of a young monk who. was reciting Hail Mary’s A R from being a Christian invention, the Rosary and wove them into a garland for her head. Some appears to be of Asiatic origin. Knot-writing was carry the name back to St. Rosalie of the twelfth cen F tury. known to many primitive people—different kinds, colors, and grouping of knots in a piece of cord mean Rosaries are also used by the Russian monks, con ing different things just like letters in an alphabet. sisting of 103 knots in a cord and by the Copts in The earliest religious reference comes from the Jains Egypt where they number 41 or 81 beads in a string. of the Far East. The Rosary is found in use among the Hindus, Buddhists, Mohammedans, Christians, and even among some Jews. Its common use is the keeping track of prayers that are said. Among the Hindus, the wor J u st Souls shippers of Siva use a rosary of 32 beads while the By worshippers of Vishnu use 108 beads. They also C. R U S S E L L M OODEY

•come in smaller numbers and in various colors. The Smile awhile and smile and smile Buddhist rosary contains 108 beads, tho in Korea it Let your laughter be not guile, may number n o and in Japan 112. The Mohamme If the world your spirits rile Meet this world with the Christmas sm ile! dans use a string of 99 beads divided into three sets of 33 each. Certain groups of Jews took it over from H E R E is an old adage that goes: “ He who laughs the Turks and Greeks but it has ceased to have any T last laughs best.” It must have been written by significance of worship with them, being chiefly a re one of those logical persons who interprets everything ligious toy permitted on the Sabbath. in terms of reasoning. Laughter to him is subtle diplo The beginnings of its use among Christians is very macy—an outburst of derisive and perhaps malicious uncertain. An old tradition says that it was originated gloating which is held in abeyance, until the time to let by St. Dominic and in several of his encyclicals Pope it go is at hand. The inference is that laughter must Leo X III states this as history. But it is quite clear be timed in order to be effective. All this is out and that the Rosary was in use a couple of centuries be out heresy. In the first place laughter must be spon fore this time. It was called a Paternoster because at taneous, coming from a heart that is caught up in a that time the Lord’s Prayer was recited for each bead. great emotion. An emotion of convulsive merriment. In the Middle Ages makers of these strings did a thriv In the second place laughter has its ethical property—- ing business, had a guild of their own, and were called a good wholesome laugh can do more to jack up the Patemosterers. These craftsmen resided in a section morale than any other form of tonic. Especially in of the old city of London and gave their name to Pater these times when people are addicted to brooding. And noster Row and Ave Marie Lane. furthermore, if people laughed more often at the clean About the middle of the twelfth century the Hail jokes there would be less demand for the smut and Mary (Ave Maria) came into use as a form of devo cheap banter so common today. In the light of these tion. At first it consisted simply of the angelical salu facts I maintain that “ he who laughs first laughs best.” tation—“ Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with It was the Christ Who linked up laughter with joy thee; blessed art thou among women.” Then the words and gladness. He came to earth for the purpose of of Elizabeth were added— “blessed is the fruit of thy showing people how to smile, not at the sordid things womb.” It was not until the sixteenth century that the of life, but-at the really funny things. In His beati final petition was included—“ Holy Mary, Mother of tudes He said “ rejoice and be exceeding glad,” in other God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our words let the exultation in your soul be released in a death.” The Dominican Order did make great use smile. Let your happiness be unbounded even though of this form of devotion but it was after the time of your fellowmen persecute you and say all manner of St. Dominic himself. evil against you. Never let the world wipe the smile On Oct. 7, 1571, the great battle of Lepanto was won from your face. We hear so much in our religion of by the Christians against the Turks and the victory “the Christ of tears”—“the Christ of sorrows”—“the was attributed largely to the prayers of the Confra Christ of troubles.” It is high time to' give more hours ternity of the Holy Rosary. Hence the first Sunday in and more thought to “the Christ of laughter.” Then October was designated as Holy Rosary Sunday and our Faith will be less morbid and more radiant. But is still observed by Roman Catholics today. Their Ros the face and the heart must work together, for forced ary consists of 150 beads (fifteen decades of Hail laughter is empty and hollow. The smile must emanate Mary’s) each decade being separated by one large bead from the soul. It must be genuine, it must be spon for an Our Father. There are also some smaller taneous. And it will be if the joy and gladness of the rosaries, such as the Crown of our Savior, consisting radiant Master is there. So keep on smiling, and not of 33 beads, one for each year of our Lord’s earthly only the world but the Christ will smile with you. He life. who laughs first, laughs best!

HISTORY OF THE divine guidance for all its phenom NEWS NOTES OF ena, especially when the guided are RELIGIOUS LIFE sometimes led to inquire rather in THE CHURCH IN IN THIS COUNTRY sistently and without invitation into BRIEF PARAGRAPHS the soul states of those not thus led. Reviewed by Gardiner M. Day Heretofore such movements have Edited by W . B. Spofford Outlines of everything, which have generally broken down or issued in Nicholas Murray Butler, who is a been so popular during the past dec excesses through a want of objective prominent Churchman as well as ade, in the last couple of years seem control. . . . It would seem, from a president of Columbia } University to have been displaced by “Epics of not too intimate knowledge with it, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said America” and “ Only Yesterdays” to be too much detached from the the other day that it was up to the depicting in detail the momentous travail and burden of the time, and universities of this country to find changes of the recent past. Dr. Gaius to secure for those who have been the way out of our economic and Glenn Atkins’ Religion in our Time converted by it a happiness to which social difficulties. (Round Table Press, $2.75) is just possibly no one has any right in a “ No one of these problems is more such a history of the religious life world of unhappiness.” urgent than that which is usually of the United States during the past The Church in England by Dr. F. summed up in the phrase: Poverty in forty years. J. Foakes-Jackson, Professor in the the midst of plenty. In this regard After preliminary chapters on re Union Theological Seminary and our own time reveals a contrast truly ligion in America in the 19th cen formerly dean of Jesus College, ironic and of a kind and extent tury, Dr. Atkins opens his main Cambridge, England, is the latest never before witnessed in the world. narrative with the rise of the insti volume in “ The Christian Religion, This is the contrast between a tech tutional church at the turn of the Its Origin and Progress” series to be nological and industrial development century, devoting a large portion of published. The series' is edited by which offers for the first time in hu that chapter to a description of the Dr. J. F. Bethune-Baker and pub man history a universal standard of development of St. George’s Parish lished by Macmillan ($1.25 ). Dr. economic well being and on the other under Dr. W. S. Rainsford. Succes Baker states the purpose of the hand an economic mechanism of ex sive chapters trace the' history of books in the preface to be to provide change which seems to defeat, or at the Biblical and doctrinal contro a term’s work for classes of boys and least to be unable to make good, versies, the rise of theological liber girls in the ‘teens and to “supply that promise of satisfaction and alism, the wrestle of religion and them with the kind of knowledge of prosperity. The question as to the science, the history and significance the Christian Religion and the Chris relation of the consumer’s demand of the work of the Federal Council tian Church in the past that would to productive capacity is one which of the Churches of Christ in Amer explain to them the state of things has gained increasing attention in ica, the development of a world by which they are confronted to late years, particularly since the end peace sentiment in the churches, the day.” Dr. Jackson has had the prac of the Great War, and today it is growth of the Church unity move tically impossible task of compress paramount in the economic situation ment, the change in methods of ing the entire history of Christianity which confronts us on every hand. church management with particular in England into 114 pages. Few Overflowing bams and impoverished emphasis on the greater use of paid men coujd have done as fine a jqb farmers, surplus of raw materials publicity, and in the final chapter as Dr. Jackson and one hesitates to and idle plants, new triumphs of a sketch of recently born religious criticize so stupendous an attempt, technological skill and new multi cults, commencing with Christian but I fear that the book is too abbre tudes of unemployed workers, all Science and concluding with Buch- viated to be very useful among “the these point to some fundamental manism. Among the chapters which boys and girls” for whom it is in failure of that plan which seeks to strike us as most interesting are tended. These boys and girls, fairly adjust demand with supply through those dealing with the Peace Move lost amid the whirl of modern activ the ordinary medium of prices. This ments and the Federal Council and ity, must have the bulk of their ma is itself a technical problem, since on the preliminary chapter entitled terial in hand and not merely in the one hand all the elements of “ The Church Discovers the Social reference books, if they are to productive efficiency are present and Gospel” . The volume will not only really study it. That is perhaps the anxious to co-operate, while on the interest the layman, but will prove outstanding difference between the other hand the human need for the invaluable to the historian of this sub-college age and the senior college products of this co-operative effi and graduate school age with which period. ciency is imperative and universal.” Dr. Jackson and the editor of this Since the Oxford Groups are not He concluded his remarks on the series are accustomed to deal. Gard of past but present history, Dr. A t subject by saying that the job of ner-Smith’s excellent little treatise kins’ comment upon it is of interest: bringing production and exchange in this series on the early Church “ The movement has naturally car into harmony with each other was a was reviewed in these columns on fundamental one, and while he was ried a margin of nebulous gossip and December 8. comment, and authentic instances of not prepared as yet to endorse Tech professed spiritual direction would nocracy he does feel that their find seem to indicate that the associates BISHOP WELLS HAS AN ings will have to be taken into ac count in any serious study of the of the movement are not under the ANNIVERSARY compulsion of the routine which whole question. miles so many ordinary lives. Also Bishop L. H. Wells celebrated his the divinely guided do a good many 91st birthday at St. Andrew’s, Ta Bishop Cheshire things which the average man does coma, Washington, the other day. Dies in Charlotte without claiming any other direction A t the present time Bishop Wells is Bishop Cheshire of North Caro than his own desire or judgment. in charge of this parish which is one lina died in Charlotte on December Naturally men of a different temper of five parishes and missions which 26th. He went to a hospital ten days ament, who use what judgment they he has founded in the city. The ago for treatment before an opera have, learn by their mistakes and church was filled with friends who tion but his condition became rapid know that a certain amount of fault came to honor this man who has ly worse. His condition was diag and folly is a part o f the dust of the given forty-two years to missionary nosed as blood poisoning. Bishop journey of life, are critical or im work and was bishop of Spokane for Cheshire, 82 years of age, was a patient of a movement which claims twenty. graduate of Trinity College, and was

the rector of churches at Chapel try. Bishop Helfenstein was the cel Hill and Charlotte before his conse ebrant at the Christmas service, the cration thirty-nine years ago. At congregation being so large that they the Detroit General Convention in could not all be accommodated. 1920, when there was much excite * * * ment over patriotism, he aroused Officers of the much criticism by introducing a reso Auxiliary Meet lution in the House of Bishops to The semi-annual meeting of the exclude “ The Star Spangled Ban diocesan and district officers of the ner” and “America” from the hym Auxiliary of the diocese of Central nal. He insisted that a hymn should New York was held at St. Paul’s, be addressed to God whereas both Syracuse, on January 2nd. o f these anthems were addressed to * * * the flag. H» H» H* Laym en Meet at College of Preachers Bequest for the A laymen’s conference on Chris Epiphany, New York tian living was held recently at the Imagine this; accept the rector College of Preachers, Washington, ship of a parish and before you even under the auspices of the Brother have time to move in discover that hood of St Andrew. It was conduct the parish has been left a quarter of ed by the Rev. Malcolm S. Taylor, a million dollars. The other day, as director of evangelism of the nation you know, the Rev. John W . Suter, al commission on evangelism. Jr., head of relgious education of the * * * Council, accepted the rectorship of No Sermon and a the Epiphany, New York. He is to Bigger Congregation »take charge next Sunday. On De You can figure it out any way cember 28th the will of Mrs. Edith you care to, but at St. Paul’s, W a B. Rliker was filed in court and re BISHOP CHESHIRE tertown, N. Y., a few Sundays ago vealed that the Epiphany had been Dies Aftdr Long Episcopate they tried the experiment of having willed that sum. Don’t be envious just one morning service. It was now, you parsons, and start talking Y.M .C.A. There were about one held at 9:30, the usual 8 o’clock about some people having all the hundred present. service and the one at 11 o’clock be luck— it is bad for your souls. * * * ing omitted. There was no sermon. * * * Death of Albany There was a record congregation Regional Conference Clergym an present. of Catholic Congress The Rev. Alfred Taylor, retired * * * A regional conference of the Cath clergyman of the diocese of Albany, Young People Stage olic Congress is to be held in Balti died on December 19th. He served a Contest more on January 12th, the sessions the Church in this country for forty And stage is the proper word, for to be held at Grace and St. Peter’s. years after coming to this country in the diocese of Rhode Island the The Rev. John R. Oliver is to speak from England where he was or Young People’s Fellowship is put on “ The Right of the Episcopal dained. ting on a contest on drama this Church to be classified as Catholic.” * * * month, the cash realized going to The Rev. L. C. Lewis of Philadelphia Presbyterian Clergyman charities managed by the Church in is to speak on “ Sound doctrine, the Is Ordained the diocese. Twelve organizations basis of worship” ; the Rev. Wallace The Rev. Robert C. Dunn, for have entered the contest, each one Conkling of Philadelphia, “ The mer pastor of the Presbyterian of which is to produce a one^act play growth of the personal devotional Church in Chaumont, N. Y., was or of thirty minutes or less. The Fel life and the Rev. Granville M. Wil dained to the priesthood on Decem lowship having the best play is to liams of New York, “ The growth of ber 21st by Bishop F'iske. Mr. get a prize. the monastic life.” The sessions are Dunn is serving Christ Church, Jor * * * to be preceded by a solemn high dan and Emmanuel, Memphis, both Death o f mass at Mount Calvary Church. in the diocese of Central New York. Jacob M. Koehler H* * * * * * The Rev. Jacob M. Koehler, who To Broadcast Services Bishop Brown Entertains more than fifty years ago started from Europe Future Parsons missionary work among the deaf, died The Church of the Air, Columbia Bishop Brown of Harrisburg en on December 26th at his home near system, is planning to broadcast this tertained nine candidates and postu Scranton, Penna. year a number of services from Eu lants for orders at dinner on De $ * He rope, when outstanding pulpit ora cember 27th. There was discussion New York Raising tors will be heard. of the ministry and how best to pre Funds for Relief * * * pare for it. * ¡H * The diocese of New York is making Brotherhood Conference a special effort to get funds for the in Louisville First Service in relief of unemployed Church people. Bishop Woodcock of Kentucky and Baltimore Cathedral A meeting of the clergy was held on Mr. Leon C. Palmer, secretary of the The first service was held in the the 15th at which Bishop Gilbert re Brotherhood of St. Andrew, were new Pro-Cathedral of the Incarna ported that to date $43,000 had been the speakers at a conference of old tion, Baltimore, on Christmas eve. raised and said the $50,000 mark er boys held at the cathedral in Reminiscent of the old Yorkshire ab would be reached by Christmas. To Louisville recently. There was also beys, with firm, dignified lines ex care for the need throughout the win a special conference for college boys, pressing its high purpose, the beau ter an effort is being made to get led by Mr. Frank Gregg, religious tiful church will take its place among each copimunicant of the diocese to work director of the Louisville the outstanding edifices of the coun giye $1 a month for six or eight

months. A meeting of the woman’s Club. Then presents were given to September 27-28 at St. Mark’s Pro committee to raise funds was held 900 children. They were all needy cathedral, Hastings, Nebraska. Pre the previous day. folks. And the party was put on siding Bishop Perry has been invited right; they were called for and to attend and to preach the sermon New York Cathedral brought to the stadium in automo at the opening service. Trustees Meet biles; there was a choir of 300 to * * * entertain them while they ate their A t the annual meeting of the An International turkey, and Bishop Stewart was trustees of the Cathedral of St. John Christmas at Harrisburg there to talk to them about Christ the Divine, New York, held Decem They had a Christmas party at mas. What’s more the affair ended ber 27th, Bishop Manning stated Bishopcourt, Harrisburg, Pa., which. up with about $1,000 of cash on that the finances of the Cathedral I presume is Bishop Brown’s resi hand which has been turned over to were “ in a very sound condition.” A dence, that was one. It was staged report by Dean Gates showed that the Bishop for his emergency fund. Hs % Hí by the woman’s guild of St. Ste the attendance at the services dur phen’s Cathedral. The choir of the ing 1932 had been higher than for Northwest Synod Will cathedral sang, but that wasn’t the the three preceding years. Total at Meet in Nebraska half of it. No sooner were they" tendance up to December 26th was The next meeting of the synod of through than up jumped the choir of 137,333 where as in 1931 the attend the Northwest Pro vice will be held the Macedonian Bulgarian Orthodox. ance was 131,035. The Rev. W. Russell Biowie of Grace Church, Pro fessor W . H. Bdrr and Mr. Lewis Spencer Morris were re-elected trus tees. * * * New York City Mission Present Conditions Demand Holds Many Services More than 100 services and Christ mas programs were held in New York during the holiday season by the City Mission Society in public hospitals and institutions where its SAVING *- SAFETY clergy are chaplains. Over 8,000 gifts were given away-—candy, cig arettes, toys. Then for hundreds of families directly under the care of ECONOMY the organization’s relief department coal orders were arranged, and money, provided to pay for the gas and light. Also unemployed men Save regularly were put to work delivering small packages of clothing. Finally the Society sent out fresh vegetables and Save safely through life insurance orders for meat. All this in addition to the work being carried on in the Save economically through the institutions, such as St. Barnabas House, run by the Society. It was a grand job well done. * * H: LOW-PREMIUM POLICIES AND Campers Have a Reunion ANNUITIES All those who have attended Camp Houghteling, Brotherhood camp, held a reunion at Grace Church, Oak of the Park, Illinois, on December 29th. Dinner and talk. H* H* H* Church Life Insurance Corporation Ordination in (owned and controlled by the Church Pension Fund ) M innesota The Rev. Stanley Wilson was or dained to the priesthood by Bishop 20 Exchange Place Keeler on December 18th at the Ascension, St. Paul, Minnesota. The New York City sermon was preached by the Rev. Gowen C. Williams, rector of St. Mark’s, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Mr. which was organized to furnish low-cost insurance Wilson is the rector of the Ascen sion. and annuity contracts to * * H* Chicago Children Have Grand Party CLERGY, LAY OFFICIALS, LAY WORKERS It isn’t every day that you are in vited to have dinner in a stadium. AND THEIR FAMILIES In Chicago the other day about 1,500 children and their parents had a Christmas dinner in the Chicago stadium, the guests of the Church

Church of Steelton, and burst forth in Slavic, and did they sing. Then C a l v e r t -H e r r ic k one of the [Bulgarians produced a AEOLIAN-SKINNER gaida and did his stuff, and if you ORGAN COMPANY & R ie d in g e r have ever heard a gaida you know 677 Fifth Avenue without my telling you that it was New York, N. Y. 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street stuff indeed. With that over they had some food and then the Mace Factory: Boston, Massachusetts New . York . City donian ¡Bulgarians danced native dances to the music of the gaida. Was that a party. CATHEDRAL STUDIO, WASHINGTON, D.C. ^ $ and London, England. Church embroider STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC ies, Altar and pulpit hangings, surplices. Hospital Work Exquisite Altar Linens. Stoles with crosses AND . CHURCH Along West Coast $6.50 up. Burse and Veil $10 up. Silk DECORATION Many admirers of the great work damask cope, $80 up. Silk chasuble, $30 up. carried on by Dr. Wilfred Grenfell Silk Low Mass sets, $60 up. 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with the sermon ipreached by the A similar sentiment has more than Ordination Venerable Americo vespucio Capral. once been expressed by high offi at A lbany Those ordained; Lourenco Takeo cials of the government who have The Rev. Charles Kenneth Acker iShimanuke from the Japanese Mis said that the war could not have man was ordained to the priesthood sion in Sao Paulo; Gastao Pereira been won without the service of the on St. Thomas’s Day at the Cathe de Oliveira; Orlando iBiorges Ramos unknown men of the merchant ma dral of All Saints, Albany, by de Oliveira and Nathanial Duval da rine. Bishop Oldham. Hie was presented Silva, all of whom were prepared at By a tragic irony in affairs, at this by the Rev. John M. Furman, head the Southern Cross School and at the present time when some seventy per master of Irving School, Tarry town, theological seminary at Porto Alegre. cent of the world’s shipping is: laid New York. Mr. Ackerman is the Nice names, what? up and the corresponding number of assistant at Irvington and in charge * * * seamen unemployed, the men of the of St. Barnabas’ Chapel, Ardsley. $ $ * Great Carol Service merchant marine are ineligible for at Detroit Cathedral all ordinary relief. They are simply Called as Rector rated as homeless men. Federal, The carol service at St. Paul’s of New York Parish state, and municipal agencies, and The Rev. Johnston Beech, who Cathedral, Detroit, is an institution. the special emergency relief officials, This year there was an adult choir has been serving as locum tenens of all have been approached on behalf the Church of the Advocate, New of 140 voices, and a boy choir of of the seamen and all confess them York City, became the rector of the 73, and a junior choir of fifty. They selves helpless. parish on the first of December. sang many famous carols. H: H« H* * * * Shipping agencies and seamen’s relief societies have been drawn to W . S. Little is Novel Way of gether as never before to cooperate Seriously 111 Building a Chancel in relief. 'Under the leadership of The Rev. William S. Little, form The congregation of St. Andrew’s the Rev. Dr. A. R. Mansfield, head erly the chaplain of Kemper Hall, Mission, Flint, Michigan, is rejoic of the Seamen’s Church Institute of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and also a ing in the enlargement of the build New1 York,-the largest single agency member of the Cathedral Shelter ing by the addition of a chancel of its kind in any port in the world, staff, Chicago, is seriously ill. He is which has been provided in a some special funds have been appealed at present in Pittsburgh. what novel way. Last fall the Rev. for. In 1931 their appeal for $100,- * * * W . B. Williamson, missionary-in 000 went out after that of all gen A Visit from an charge, was offered the produce then eral relief appeals, and $106,000 Oriental Mystic standing on a 7-acre lot if he would was secured. In 1932-33, when the The picturesque and colorful San- harvest it. This he did, storing it need is greater, $150,000 is needed ¡du Nelson-Christansan, in his long wherever he could find a place to and sought. By Christmas something orange-red robe and his purple scarf, put it. There were a number of over one-fourth had been secured. has been visiting in the United skilled workmen, members of the mission, out of work, so the idea was conceived of building the long- wished-for chancel with the idle labor at hand. Each day the women FACT OR FANCY? of the mission came and cooked dinner; if there were children, they Which will guide you when you train your children in religion ? came too, and the family was fed. Shall you go by what you think they think ? what you imagine The men were paid partly in the food stored away and partly from they feel ? or shall you go by what you know funds raised by private subscription because you have found some and a contribution from Bishop Page. 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ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE States. He comes from southern (Columbia University) India, possesses a very dark com A College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences plexion and speaks with an Oxford lu m in a ry definitely and officially o f the Episcopal ‘Church but with no ecclesiastical restrictions accent, though he was educated in Three-year undergraduate course of pre in the selection of its student body ; incorpo India. He is a member of a religious scribed and elective study. rated into -the educational system of Colum Fourth-year course for graduates, offering bia University and conferring the University order which is attempting to con larger opportunity for specialization. degree. vert the Hindu- of the higher class, Provision for more advanced work, leading It combines the advantages of University to degrees of S.T.M. and S.T.D. education with small college simplicity and and he is travelling about at the mo ADDRESS inexpensiveness. ment, both here and in Europe, try The College founded in 1860i, is equipped to THE DEAN teach men who, after graduation, are going ing to interest people in his work. 4 Chelsea Square New York City into business or into post-graduate schools of He received a warm welcome in For Catalogue Address the Dean medicine, law, journalism or theology, or into classical, scientific, social or literary research. Seattle, preaching at the cathedral The fees are : For tuition, $360 a year ; for and at several other large churches. furnished room, $150 a year ; for board in Episcopal Theological School hall, $300 a year. There are some competi Addressing the diocesan clericus he CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS tive scholarships and a few bursaries for men said; “You of the Occident make the -contemplating Holy Orders. Affiliation with Harvard University offers mistake of thinking that 'knowledge unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as Address: Bernard Iddings Bell, Litt.D., o f God can come from without; it philosophy, psychology, history, Warden sociology, etc. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. can come only from within.” Being For Catalogue Address the Dean (R. R. Station : Barrytown) a mystic I presume he should know but my own feeling is that God has TRINITY COLLEGE any number of ways of revealing DIVINITY SCHOOL IN Hartford, Conn. Himself. $ ^ ^ PHILADELPHIA Offers a general cultural education, with Undergraduate and Graduate Courses special emphasis on the Classics, Modern A New York Privileges at University of Pennsylvania Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil- in Nevada Address: •osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, DEAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Streets Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineer ing. For information apply, The Dean. Located in the coldest section of the United States, with not only the temperature at times hitting 46 de SEABURY- CARLETON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL grees below zero, but with the bank THEOLOGY LIBERAL ARTS in New York, Sisters o f St. Mary (Episco- assets also supposedly frozen, the Best Training — Minimum Cost P®J) 405_ W. 34th Street. Accredited School For information and catalogue write o f Nursing, two years and eight months. spirits of the people in the little Major subject children. Adult and maternity town of Wells in eastern Nevada RT. REV. STEPHEN S. KEELER, D.D. nursing in affiliated hospitals. Single rooms. Acting Dean Full maintenance and allowance. Write for were far from frozen when the new Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn. booklet. Chapel of St. Barnabas' was opened on a recent Sunday. Though only KEMPER HALL occasional services have been held The Protestant Episcopal KENOSHA, WISCONSIN in this community up to the present, Theological Seminary in Virginia Under the care of the Sisters of Saint the announcement of Church School For catalogue and other information Mary. An Episcopal school for girls on address the Dean North Shore of Lake Michigan, one hour brought eighteen children out in the from Chicago. College Preparatory and gen morning and the official opening REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. eral courses. Elementary Grades, Progressive Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Methods Used. Music, Art, Domestic Science. service in the evening to which the Outdoor and Indoor Sports. Address, The Sis priest came fifty miles brought thir ter Superior. ty-five people out, including a baby to be baptized. The people were full ST. FAITH’S SCHOOL Virginia Episcopal School of joy and gratitude over the erec A Country School for Girls tion of this small log chapel in their College Preparation. General Course. Lower Lynchburg, Virginia School. Athletics. Excellent advantages at Prepares boys for college and university. midst. A t the back of the Chapel is Moderate Cost Splendid environment and excellent corps of a tiny apartment where Deaconess REV. DR. F. ALLEN SISCO teachers. High standard in scholarship and Miriam lB!. Allen, formerly of the Saratoga Springs, N. Y. athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in the mountains of Virginia. diocese of Pennsylvania, is now resi For catalogue apply to dent. The building of the chapel ST. CHRISTINA SCHOOL Rev. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector was made possible through the gen Episcopal Church School for girls. Kin erosity of the local people who gave dergarten through High School. New York Regents diploma and College Entrance. Com HARVARD SCHOOL abundantly in labor and materials, plete Homemaking Course. Supervised rec and the Rev. Frederick C. Taylor, of reation, Handcraft and Sports. New, modern, Los Angeles, California well-equipped, fire-proof building. Healthful A school for boys under the auspices of Elko who not only planned and and beautiful location. Tuition $600 per the Episcopal Church. Fully accredited. supervised the building, but put in year. Twelve months’ residence if desired. R. O. T. C. Outdoor sports in a fine climate. Catalogue. over fifty days labor on it himself, For all information, address the Rev. Harold THE SISTERS OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE H. Kelley, Headmaster. finishing up the project just before Cooperstown, N. Y. extreme weather came on. The Holderness School work is under the direction of the Rev. F. C. Taylor who will come up In the Beautiful White Mountains WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE For Boys 14-18 for monthly services and Deaconess F O R WOMEN College preparatory and general courses. Allen who will be resident and in Geneva, New York Fully accredited. All sports, including rid Co-ordinate with Hobart College. Four ing. Two hundred acres of woods. Indi charge of the mission. year Liberal Arts Course leading to the vidual instruction and home atmosphere. New degrees of A.B. and B.S. building ready for opening of winter term Two days after the opening of the For catalogue and information address January 9th with accommodations for ten building, the apartment caught fire Faye Huntington Klyver, Ph.D., Dean additional boys. REV. EDRIC AMORY WELD, Rector from an overheated stove, and Box W Plymouth, N. H. though there is nothing but a small volunteer fire department in the ST. M ARY’S SCHOOL MOUNT ST. GABRIEL The Best Church Schools town the fire was quickly put out Peekskill-on-Hudson If you plan to send your boy or girl away to school let us help you. A note to us and resulting in small damages. Un BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS we will send information about the leading fortunately insurance had not been Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. schools. placed on the building at that time, College preparatory and general courses. New THE WITNESS modern fireproof buildings. Extensive recrea — the only such case in the whole tion grounds. Separate attention given to 931 Tribune Bldg* New York young children. For catalogue address THI District, but through the help of the SISTER SUPERIOR.

Rev. Mr. Taylor and local people the damages were repaired at a low cost, and the place was ready for the Christmas services. Services of Leading Churches * * * Cathedral of St. John the Divine St. Paul’s Cathedral A Church School with New York City Buffalo, New York Too Many Men Teachers Amsterdam Ave. and 112th St. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11, 8. A t a successful institute of reli Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 and 9; Weekdays : 8, 12 :05. Children’s Service, 9 :30 ; Morning Prayer Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy gious education held at the Church and Litany, 10; Holy Communion and Days: 10':30 a. m. of the Epiphany, Seattle, for the Sermon, 11; Evening Prayer, 4. Week Days: Holy Communion, 7 :30 Diocese of Olympia, a speaker made (Saints’ Days, 10) ; Morning Prayer, 9:30 ; A1 Angels Church the common complaint that in his Evening Prayer, 5 (choral). West End Ave., at 81st St. Saturdays: Organ Recital at 4:30. New York City church school it was not. possible to Rev. Geo. A. Trowbridge, Rector obtain enough men teachers for the Calvary Church, New York Holy Communion, 8 :O0 a. m. Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., Rector Morning Prayer and Sermon, 11 a. m. boys’ classes; whereupon Deaconess Rev. J. Herbert Smith, Associate Rector Choral Evensong and Sermon, 8 p. m. Margaret Peppers, in charge of the 21st Street and Fourth Ave. Church School, 11 a. m. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 6. Holy Days and Thursdays: Holy Com religious education of St. Peter’s Thursdays at 8 P. M. Meeting for munion, 10:30 a. m. Japanese Mission, Seattle remarked: Personal Witness in Calvary Hall. “ A t St. Peter’s we have more men Christ Church Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin teachers than we have classes for Hartford, Conn. New York Cor. Main and Church Streets them to teach!” And this is in spite 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. of the fact that since the opening of Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, 11:00 a. m .; 7:30 Sunday Low Masses, 7, 8, 9 and 10. p. m. the new building of the Japanese High Mass and Sermon, 11. Daily: 7:00, 12:10-, 5:00. Mission there has been considerable Vespers and Benediction, 8. Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. Weed-day Masses, 7, 8 and 9 :30. Holy Communion. increase in the enrollment of the Confessions, Sat. 3 to 5 ; 8 to 9. church school as well as of the con Grace and St. Peter’s Church gregation. This is the more remark Grace Church, New York Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Baltimore, Md. able in view of the fact that many Broadway at 10th St. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) Japanese people are sending their Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers Daily: 12:30 except Saturday. The Rev. Harold F. Hohly families to Japan for the winter be Holy Days and Thursday: Holy Com cause the rate of exchange and the munion, 11:45. Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. Week Days: 8 a. m. lower cost of living in Japan enable The Heavenly Rest and Beloved them to save money by so doing. Church of St. Michael and Disciple, New York * * * A ll Angels Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Ordain Deacon in Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Baltimore, Md. St. Paul and 20th Sts. Northern Indiana Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 a. m. Church School 9:30 a. m. Morning Serv Sundays: 7 :30, 9 :30, and 11 A. M .; 8 James T. 'Golder was ordained ice and Sermon 11:00' a. m. Vespers 4 :00 P. M. p. m., Evening Prayer 8 :00 p. m. deacon by Bishop 'Gray of North Saints’ Days and Holy Days: Holy Com Week Days: Wednesdays 10 A. M., munion 10 :00 a'. m. Thursdays and Fridays 7 A. M., Holy ern Indiana on December 18th at Days 7 and 10 A. M. the Good Shepherd, East Chicago. The Incarnation Mr. Golder is at present a senior at Madison Avenue and 35th Street Church of St. John the Nashotah. A number of memorials Rector Evangelist Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D. were blessed at the same service. Sundays: 8, 10, 11 a. m .; 4 p. m. Boston Hs ❖ H* Wednesdays: 10 a. m. Bowdoin Street, Beacon Hill Daily: 12:20' p. m. The Cowley Fathers Many Confirmations Sundays: Masses, 7 :30, 9 :30 and 11 In Oklahoma a. m. Benediction, 7 :30 p. m. St. Bartholomew’s Church Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 a, m. Bishop Casady says that last year Park Ave. and 51st St., New York Thursdays and Holy Days, 9:30 a, m., (1931) the missionary district of Clifton Macon, Minister-in-charge also. 8 a. m., Holy Communion. Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 , and 7-9 Oklahoma had the most confirma 11 a. m., Morning Prayer and Sermon. p. m. tions of any year to date and St. Mark’ s, M ilwaukee that 1932 has just about equalled it. Little Church Around the Corner T ransfigu ration Rev. E. Reginald Williams Every parish and mission is now Hackett Ave. and Belleview Place cared for with regular services. A 1 East 29th Street Sundays: 8, 9 :30- and 11. Rev. Randolph Ray, D.D., Rector Gamma Kappa Delta: 6 p. m. mission long closed at Nowata has Communions, 8 and 9 (Daily 8.) Holy Days: 10 a. m. 11— Missa Cantata— Sermon ; 4—Vespers. been re-opened. A new mission was opened last year in a district of Trinity Church, New York Gethsemane, Minneapolis Oklahoma City, communicants in Rev. Austin Pardue Broadway and Wall St. creasing in number from six to forty. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. 4th Ave. South at 9th S t .' Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 7 :45. A son of the Bishop, ordained dur Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. ing the year, is pioneering in the St. Paul’s Church western Panhandle of the state, St. Peter’ s Church Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. looking after a parish of some 12,500 Sunday Services: 3rd and Pine Sts., Philadelphia square miles which the Episcopal Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. Rev. Edward M. Jefferys, S.T.D., Rector Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. Sundays: 7 :30 a. m. Holy Communion. Church has never before entered. Morning Service, 11:00 a. m. 11 a. m. Morning Services, Sermon and * * * Evening Service, 8 :00 p. m. Holy Communion. 8 p. m. Evening Service and Address. Lay Corner Stone St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California of Worcester Church Rhode Island Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street The corner stone of All Saints, Near the University of California St. Stephen’s Church Sundays: 7:30, 11 a. m .; 7:45 p. m. Worcester, Mass., was laid the other Wednesdays: 10:30 a. m. in Providence day by Bishop Davies. They are go 114 George Street Grace Church, Chicago The Rev. Charles Townsend, Rector ing ahead with the construction of Sundays: 8 and 9 :30 a. m. Holy Com about one-third of the church at a (St. Luke’s Hospital Chapel) munion. 11 a. m. Sung Mass and Ser Rev. Wm. Turton Travis mon. 5 :30 p. m. Evening Prayer. cost of $200,000. The new parish 1450 Indiana Ave. Week Days: 7 a. m. Mass, 7 :30 a. m. house, destroyed last January with Sundays: 8, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Matins, 5 :30 p. m. Evensong. Week Days: 6 :40 a. m., except Monday. Confessions Saturdays: 4:30-5:30 p. m. the church by fire, has already been Holy Days: 10:30. 7:30'-8:3O p. m. completed.

~~The Ideal of the Church Hospital~~

T IS related of the Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, ST. AGNES founder of St. Luke’s Hospital, New York, CHRIST I that when he was asked whether the hos HOSPITAL pital he hoped to inaugurate would be a Church HOSPITAL hospital, he answered “No, — a hospital Church!” The ideal thus set forth is that of a place of sacred hospitality, where the Saint Augustine’s Church receives the sick and cares for them College in the Name of Christ, cheering and fortifying 176 Palisade Avenue their souls with God’s blessing through prayer Jersey City, N. J. Raleigh, N. C. and sacrament, and calling in as her allies the wisest physicians, the most skillful surgeons, the tenderest nurses, all of whom gladly give their best for the love of God in service to M rs. Frances A. their fellows. Such an ideal is hard to attain, W orrall, R. N. but toward it every Church hospital ardently Rev. T homas A . H yde Superintendent aspires. Give them in turn the help of your 5" uperintendent prayers!