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G o d I s L o v e An Easter Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON T N SO F A R as man has been capable of observing, long time ago and there are no witnesses to testify in we live in an ordered universe thal began with elec­ court. Both the skeptical scientist and the credulous trons and neurons and has proceeded through a meas­ believer have to do some guessing. But carrying it a ured succession of ordered events to a highly articu­ few steps further, men and apes have lived together in lated society which we call civilization. It is interest­ intimate fellowship for many cycles and there still re­ ing to note certain features of the process. mains a great gulf which no ape has bridged— even to First, the urge to develop has proceeded from a fac­ the learning of his a, b, c’s. Oh I know it takes mil­ tor within the creature itself. The ape did not deliber­ lions of years* to do the trick, but there ought to be ately lift itself up to become a man. He could not do some signs of the magic, particularly since the associa­ that because he hadn’t the slightest idea what a man tion of the ape with men ought to force the process was like. He certainly did not endow himself with the by at least a wee sprout. gift of literary achievement because he hadn’t the A t any rate I shall continue to believe that life in its slightest idea what a book was or how to produce one. successive stages is the work of the Creator and not the It was quite contrary to any previous experience in his work of an oyster. It seems more reasonable to assume life. purpose of the Creator and capacity in the creature This process by which man emerged from the past than to assert that something came out of nothing and involved two things: a gift of something that we call that everything ends in nothing. That is too much for reason and an inward urge to appropriate this gift. me. It was an unconscious adaptation of an innate capacity O f the two difficulties I choose the lesser. ^ Crea­ to an ultimate purpose, which undoubtedly the ape tion has gone from step to step in some such way, struggled against. In a real sense the most capable seemingly trending toward some adequate purpose and ape must have felt superior to the incipient man. To ultimate reality, rather than proceeding from zero to become a man the ape had to sacrifice many of his priv­ zero. ileges. He must not go on developing himself into a bigger and better ape, but he had to become a very A t last man has arrived on the scene in full posses­ crude and childlike man. The route of his progression sion of some faculties that have been developed and in took a new trend and he could not become a compe­ possession of some capacities which point upward but tent man until he consented to become a less competent do not eventuate in any conclusive result. Three thou­ ape. The transition must have been marked by the sand years ago Job asked the question, “ If a man die slurring contempt of the more powerful apes and by a shall he live again?” W hy did he ruffle the placid ex­ sense of humiliation on the part of the embryo man. istence of man’s alimentary canal with such a baffling Science can tell us that an ape became a man, at query ? Surely not because he had any adequate proof least in his physical structure, but science lacks the that there was an affirmative answer. It was a wistful imagination to visualize the process. Personally it is desire implanted in him by the same author that both­ this difficulty in following the method that makes me ered the ape with a preposterous ambition. But it is all doubtful of the fact. I do not believe that an ape in the same ordered universe proceeding from innate could bestow on his progeny that which he did not pos­ desire to ultimate achievement. It seems to have been sess. The story of a world in which a magician takes the same method which has accounted for progressive faculties out of his hat which did not previously exist development in living creatures from the beginning. is too fantastic for my credulity. First an urge to emerge from a lesser to a higher status and then an external environment which enabled the BELIEVE that there was a supernatural gift from desire to be realized. In short the world seems to have I the author of the original neurons which accounts been in such a way that the Simian dream could be for the transition, but of course all this happened a realized.

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The things without adapted themselves to the desire that there is an ultimate reality in creation that will within so that man could use chemistry and electricity justify its existence and that the end of it all will not be and steam. Curious that the faint aspirations of the found in a cemetery. primitive man should eventuate beyond 'his fondest I believe that the urge in man to attain eternal life dreams. His faith, so dim and improbable, became the was put there by the Creator and that a sincere pursuit substance of things hoped for and while the primitive of that object will not end in futility. scientist died without receiving the promise yet he was I believe that the life and gospel of Jesus Christ is a on’ his way to an unforeseen paradise of scientific reasonable answer to Job’s question and that if we knowledge. follow Him and love Him we will enjoy such a meas­ The faith in an ordered universe and also in man’s ure of love, joy and peace as to justify one’s quest for mental capacity had to precede the realizations. The righteousness regardless of the fact that few there be first scientist had no more reason to expect the radio that find it. than the first Christian had to expect the millenium. I believe that the observance of Easter Day is a cor­ rect manifestation of man’s highest purpose and a cor­ rect interpretation of God’s ultimate vindication. T IS true that man has walked by faith and not by After all the whole fabric of Christian faith stands I sight in his pursuit of this intuitive search for truth. or falls in the one sentence, “ God is Love.” The alter­ In spite of the absurdity of the Simian world that native is that God is a deceiver and Christ is a hoax and once existed I believe in the wisdom of God, in the the love which we attribute to God is replaced by a purpose of creation and in the basic intuitions of the diabolical enjoyment in man’s search for truth and creature. It is the only theory that satisfies the equa­ righteousness. tion. By the same token I believe that God is good The story of creation compels me to believe in the and that if we ask bread He will riot give us a stone, inherent truth that the most potent factor in living be­ and also that no personal misery which I may endure ings is the urge within to reach those good things which can in any way altar the fact that God is good. pass man’s present understanding. The basic assump­ “Though He slay me yet will I trust in Him, and tion of my faith is that God is both wise and good and though I walk through the valley of the shadow of His wisdom and goodness will be vindicated in the death I will fear no ultimate evil in God.” I believe ultimate purpose of creation.

T h e N e w L e i s u r e B y JOHN W. DAY O FRED EASTMAN, professor of religious H. A. Overstreet tells us that we are just emerging T drama in the Chicago Theological Seminary, the from the pathetic era in relation to leisure hours. When problem of the new leisure suggests the story of the Maxim Gorky made his visit to America he was taken boy who received three Christmas presents: a sled, an to Coney Island by some enthusiastic friends who were air-rifle and a diary. In the diary he made these entries, anxious that he should see the great American play “December 26: Snowed so hard I was not allowed to ground. They escorted him to everything,— the loop- go out with my sled. December 27: Still snowing. Had the-loop, the roller coasters with the dangerous curves to stay in. December 28: More snow. Shot grand­ and breath taking dips,— Wonderland, theatres, crazy mother.” Professor Eastman’s comment is, “When de­ houses, merry-go-rounds, and all the rest of it. A fter nied recreation and amusement we shoot grandmother.” showing him around for several hours the friends My own reflection is : “When we are furnished with asked in expectant mood: “Well, what do you think the means of recreation and amusement and don’t of it ?” Gorky’s simple answer was, “What a sad people know how to use them we shoot grandmother.” you must be.” This Russian of great human experience Assuming that there is already a problem in regard was not taken in by all the noise and excitement of to leisure time, it is not yet sufficiently acute to cause Coney Island. He knew exactly what it meant to the us much worry. Many individuals who have benefitted thousands of half mad people of a great city. He was by the N. R. A. to the tune of fewer hours of daily conscious of the fact that Coney Island was merely a labor, report that for several months they spent their symptom of a terrible malady. To him it was a place time catching up on sleep and rest. where thousands of frightened, half-crazed people, who No one questions the hope that the day is not far had been driven hour after hour, day after day in work distant when workers will really have a problem of shop, factory and office, to make profits for an em­ leisure time, time which can be occupied with some ployer, engaged in a life and death struggle for trade helpful and healthful amusement or occupation and and business in a world of brutal and remorseless com­ not in “ shooting grandmother.” petition. Coney Island is the workers' place of tempor-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 18, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Fivr ary release from the fear and worry of the whole ing in New York. After seeing with one’s own eyes hideous network of a squirrel cage of economic drudg­ how the vast majority of the laboring people of New ery, repression and oppression. Coney Island to Maxim York are compelled to live, one wonders that civilized Gorky was more like a sanitarium than a playground. man in his most degenerate moments, could have con­ There one heard only the laughter of men, women and ceived of such enormities in the form of places for children temporarily released from a Hell of crowded human beings to live in. To be sure, the slums like slums and the lash of taskmasters made hard and re­ war, are merely an accumulation of villainies,— a series lentless by the requirements of a jungle-like world of of hasty greeds constructed one upon another. If, after business and industry. walking through the slums of any of our so-called There will never be any real leisure among American “great cities” you wonder why so many people seem workers until economic security in jobs, sickness and to live on the sidewalks and streets just step inside one old age has been established. That time is not with us of the dwelling houses and look about you. Your won­ yet but there is hope of its coming and without resort der will cease immediately. You will realize that the to violence. sidewalks and streets are much more attractive and livable than the houses. ITH the prospect of leisure hours more than a .. What possible advantage could there be to the in­ crease of leisure for men and women who are com­ prophetic vision of a far off divine event, the W pelled to live in such rookeries and rat holes! A few country should be preparing itself for helpful, whole­ more free hours cannot possibly make clean the souls some methods of recreation. In his excellent book “A of the dwellers of such places. Guide to Civilized Loafing”, H. A. Overstreet says: It is quite impossible to separate leisure hours’ pro­ “It follows that the new leisure which we now are grams from slum clearance, unemployment and sick­ talking about must either be correlated with a new ness insurance, old age pensions, that is, from economic work-life or simply be productive of more Coney Is­ security in general. lands, more moronic novels, more cheap dance halls, burlesque shows, tabloids and pulp magazines.” IT H the present trends in economic life the time A leisure that is to have any value to the individual and to society must come from occupations and profes­ Wis not far distant when it will be quite possible sions that are equally valuable. When men and women for a man to earn sufficient wages with which to pro­ are driven like overworked machines eight and ten vide himself with a minimum of food, clothing and hours a day to increase the dividends on invested shelter by digging ditches, making roads or night shirts capital, they cannot have much enthusiasm left for cre­ for not more than four or five hours a day. The re­ ative leisure time projects. About all they can accom­ maining hours can be spent in doing the thing his soul plish is to find release for jangled, frazzled nerves and craves to do. It may be raising onions in his back yard a hostile soul and then return to the daily grind. There or writing stories in his attic. really is not much point to multiplying public parks The Church, as the representative of Christ on earth, and amusement centers until workers can replace fear can make a tremendous contribution to leisure time with a sense of security in their jobs, their illnesses enterprises by offering its parish houses and guild halls and their old age. for organized community projects. From its member­ There must also be definite changes in environment ship there can be recruited capable leaders who can give before workers can engage themselves in creative soul direction, instruction and inspiration to many different expanding leisure hours. leisure time programs. A t the close of the first year of my ministry and just A Church that is alert to the manifold opportunities before I entered the Army, I did a month’s supply for service in the present changing social order will work in St. Augustine’s Church, a Chapel of Trinity persist. If it insists on standing on the side lines or Church, New York, located on East Houston Street, sitting in the bleachers it may soon find itself stripped near the Bowery. I was given living quarters on the of the opportunity to do anything in the field of social top floor of the parish house. From my front window service, even as the Church of Russia. When the I could look across the street into a large clothing Bolsheviks made it unlawful for the Russian Church manufacturing “ sweat shop” where men and women to take part in any social service activity they were wise toiled endlessly day and night on piece work. Y et at in the accomplishment of their purpose to destroy the other times for several days running there would be Church. If the Church in the United States does not no work at all. take an important place in helping to solve the four Between five-thirty and six-thirty in the evening I great problems of race, peace, economics and the new used to watch the thousands of people crowding the leisure she may expect to follow in the train of the sidewalks coming from the various and sundry places Church in Russia. of business and occupation. I would wonder where they It is not only the privilege, but it is also the duty of all went. One thought I used to dwell upon was that Church people to see to it that this Church is in the they must go down to the East River and take a ferry front ranks of the attack upon the “new frontiers” to Long Island. I gave up this idea, however, after where the fight is being waged for the organization of visiting some of the homes of the people of the Church. men as masters of the physical and material things of I had walked through the slums of Boston, New York life to the end that they become useful servants to a and St. Louis but I had never been inside a slum dwell- higher ethical and spiritual relationship among men.

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S o m e E a r l y B i s h o p s B y E. CLOWES CHORLEY HE American Church waited long for the Episco­ ancholy circumstances in his family/’ Provoost re­ Tpate. Appeal after appeal was made in the early signed his rectorship and his episcopal jurisdiction and days for a bishop to confirm, ordain and bless the scat­ again retired to the country. In 1811 he emerged from tered flock, but all in vain. Puritan opposition here, retirement to take part in the consecration of John •and political conditions in England combined to defeat Henry Hobart as Assistant Bishop of New York, and every effort to complete the organization of the Church. Alexander V. Griswold, as Bishop of the Eastern dio­ Now we have a long and honored roll of Fathers in cese. God. The first name on that roll is that of Samuel Sea- bury who, after his failure to secure consecration in H E last American bishop to be consecrated in Eng­ England, turned to the Non-juring Bishops of the Tland was James Madison, first Bishop of Virginia. Scottish Church and was by them consecrated in the He combined his work as bishop with the Presidency city of Aberdeen, Scotland, on November 14th, 1784. of William and Mary College. During his administra­ Full justice has never been done to the first of our tion the Church in Virginia, which was deplorably Bishops. He was a man of varied gifts. A son of the weak, marked time. Thomas John Claggett has the Church, he studied medicine in the University of Edin­ distinction of being the first Bishop of this Church to burgh ; was ordained in London, and appointed a mis­ be consecrated on American soil, Provoost, White, Sea­ sionary of the S.P.G. at New Brunswick, New Jersey. bury and Madison taking part in the service. Claggett During the War of the Revolution he was a strong loy­ was unusually tall and followed Seabury’s example in alist; suffered imprisonment and the loss of his prop­ wearing a mitre. He was gifted with a strong voice. erty. He is described as having the manners of a gen­ It is told that on one occasion when he was consecrat­ tleman in the reign of Queen Anne. He was a High ing a church, as he entered the door and pronounced the Churchman of the Connecticut type, a strong sacra- sentences a member of the congregation was so Startled mentarian. W e owe to him the form of the Consecra­ that she fainted. tion prayer in our Communion Office which in turn is Hobart and Griswold were consecrated together— taken from the first Prayer Book of Edward V I. He the one a pronounced High Churchman; the other a died in 1796. great Evangelical. Griswold had been brought up on a farm and even after his ordination worked for his On the 4th day of February, 1787, in the Chapel of own parishioners in the fields— a thing Boston, after he Lambeth Palace, London, William White was conse­ went there to live, neither forgave nor forgot. Yet he crated first Bishop of Pennsylvania, and Samuel Pro- was thoroughly well educated. In his many journeys voost, first Bishop of New York. The episcopate of through New England he always carried with him a White covered the long period of forty-nine years. He pocket edition of Homer. He was extraordinarily silent. was a statesman of a high order. An ardent supporter When reproached with this he answered that when he of the cause of American independence, he was a was a young man he had talked a great deal and often trusted adviser of George Washington and chaplain very foolishly; but that he had never regretted the of the Continental Congress. In the difficult years things he had not said. He was wont to say that those when this Church was seeking to fit herself to the of the clergy who most magnified his office in public, changed political conditions William White’s states­ gave him most trouble in private. He was so modest manship saved the day. He succeeded in harmonizing that he hesitated to go to live in Boston for fear his differing views and largely through his influence health would suffer from dining out. In later years changes were made in the proposed Prayer Book and he dryly remarked that he had been asked out to dinner in the Constitution which made it possible to secure only once, and then by one of his own clergy. the episcopate from the Church of England and thus John Henry Hobart was the first great High Church­ combine the English and Scotch succession. He lived man, and at the same time Evangelical. He inscribed until 1836. upon his banner the watchword “ Evangelical Truth; Samuel Provoost was a different type of man. Edu­ Apostolic Order.” He had an imperious temper; a cated in the University of Cambridge, he was a fine high sense of the office of Bishop and he revelled in classical scholar, a linguist and an authority on botany. controversy. A prolific writer; a powerful preacher; He was not distinguished for any very strong Church with a flair for organization, he revolutionized the convictions, and above all things, he dreaded what was Church in the State of New York. It increased by then known as “enthusiasm” in religion. He never leaps and bounds to the far western boundaries. He is forgave Seabury for his loyalist sympathies and sorrie- justly described on his tombstone as “ at all times the what scornfully referred to him as “Cebra.” During ardent and intrepid champion of the Church of God.” the British occupation of New York he found it ex­ pedient to retire into the country and did not exercise ICHARD CHANNING MOORE, second Bishop his ministerial office save on one or two rare occasions. R of Virginia, was converted as he read the Bible When the British evacuated New York Provoost su­ while waiting in a barber’s shop. He turned from the perseded Benjamin Moore as rector of Trinity Parish. study of medicine to the ministry and witnessed a good He presided at the first Convention of the diocese of confession. He was a preacher of extraordinary power New York in 1783 and was subsequently elected and led multitudes into the valley of decision. On one Bishop of the diocese. In 1801 “induced by some mel­ occasion his congregation would not leave till he had

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 18, 1935 T H E- W T N E S S Page Seven repeated his sermon three times. He was elected for living: Work, play, love, and Worship. As a source of Virginia as a forlorn hope, but he swept through the instruction in the last of these, the Church acts with state like a flame of fire till the desert 'blossdfned as the insight and energy, unmatched elsewhere. It is the rose. John Stark Ravenscroft, first Bishop of North mission of the Chufch helpfully to nurture, safeguard, Carolina, was unconventional to an extreme. Known and guide the moral and spiritual well being of those at college as “mad Jack” , he was noted for an uncon­ who would know through Jesus Christ. Through trollable temper and for swearing. His conversion reads Prayer and Praise and Sacrament, the individual like a page from the Acts of the Apostles. Asked if a Christian finds himself stimulated to action and to ser­ good moral man would go to heaven, he bluntly ah- vice. He finds himself in a Fellowship devoted to the swered, “ No, he would go straight to hell.” He toiled accomplishment of definite goals and objectives, in terribly under summer suns and through winter snows which every individual has an interest and a great and in seven short years wore himself out. stake. Each Christian Churchman is ever trying to Theodore Dehon, secorid Bishop of South Carolina, conform himself (as others) to the Purpose, discov­ and Nicholas Hamner Cobbs, first Bishop of Alabama, ered in the goal of the Church’s Mission. were alike distinguished for humility and gentleness. The best illustrations of the relation of an individ­ When Dehon became bishop there had not been a single ual Christian to the Church, the Fellowship of which confirmation or ordination in South Carolina, but in he is a part, is that of St. Paul. This Apostle called the five years of his episcopate the diocese took on a the Church the Body of Christ. Three things may new life. Cobbs and his' friend, Thomas G. Atkinscm, be said of such a Body— (like the human body)— : later Bishop of North Carolina, were the first priests it is an organism of amazing variety. All types of of the Church personally to observe the saint’s days personality are embraced within the Church, all human as set forth in the Prayer Book. Cobbs was a Catholic experience is included. In the second place, there is a with no leanings to ritualism. His pet aversion was a marvelous unity in it, as in the body. The Unity is quartette choir. “ Put,” he said, “ four of the saintliest that which gives cohesion to the work of the Christian atchbishops into a quartette choir, and it would corrupt Fellowship. Through all its activities, there -ought to them.” He cared particularly for the Negroes in Ala­ be this mark of unity pervading the whole. And, bama, and is said to have personally visited every thirdly, there is a relation between the Body of the family in the State outside the organized parishes. Church and the Spirit living within it. He died just one hour before Alabama seceded from To make the Church, in this modern day, a power the Union. for the good to which Christ commissioned it, there Manton Eastburn, who succeeded Griswold in must be a new dedication to the Will of our Divine Massachusetts, was one of the best classical scholars Lord, as the supreme law of living. of his time. A pronounced Evangelical, he had never changed a theological opinion after he was seven years old and regarded everyone who differed from him as the victim of “detestable prejudice” . His sermons were precisely thirty minutes long and of uniform pattern. He delighted to tell the cultured congregation of Trin­ ity Church, Boston, that they were vile earth and miserable sinners. Like Bishop White who always spoke of the devil as “that personage” , Eastburn called man “a denizen of the earth” and spoke of the “ broad way” as that “ frequented by a numerical majority” . Any kind of ritual was pain and grief to him, yet he never would officiate at a baptism or a funeral in a private house because they were classed as public services in the Book of Common Prayer. The Church in America has no cause to apologize No. 445 — Altar Cross 24" ...... $60.00 ea. for her early Bishops. Here and there their bodies rest No. 2802— Candlestick 1 5" ...... 36.00 pr. in peace, but their souls live for evermore. No. 660 — Vase Engraved 10J4" ...... 48.00 pr.

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REVIEWER HAILS diates the manifest evils in Com­ munism, such as the use of violence, MEDITATIONS FOR A NEW BOOK BY the denial of liberty, and the af­ EVERY DAY OF LENT E. STANLEY JONES firmation of the idea that the end justifies the means, but he recog­ BY W. A. LAWRENCE By Gardiner M. Day nizes the earnest and effective way April 18— The Lord’s Supper. It isn’t often that a reviewer gets in which the Russian Communists are Holy Communion is not just for a thrill that makes him jump out of trying to create a society whose emergencies. It is not merely medi­ his study chair and cry, “ Alleluia, watchwords are righteousness and cine for times when we are spiritu­ Amen!” Like the movie house opera­ justice and in which the exploitation ally sick, but food for times when of the many by the few will be tor, who gets so accustomed to see­ we are well. We don’t eat merely ing things that make the ordinary eventually entirely eliminated. As it when we are hungry,—we eat regu­ mortal dissolve in tears or shriek was obvious that “ the Russian larly. So it should be with our at­ Church could never have been the with fear without batting an eye, tendance at the Lord’s Table. If you instruinent of a new day “ God had the reviewer becomes so used to the haven’t been Confirmed, why not? to use other instruments, and as a comic and tragic possibilities of the If you have been Confirmed, how printed page that it is a truly rare result Christianity will have to de­ regularly do you come to Com­ cide in this generation, or at most thing for a book to stir his compla­ munion? the next,” whether it will face the cent mind. But I for one found my­ challenge of Communism and begin April 19—'The Three Hours. self stirred by this latest book to build the Kingdom of God on The most disturbing feature about Christ’s Alternative To Communism earth or whether it will be content Christ’s crucifixion is that he was (Abingdon $2) from the pen of the to remain like the son in Jesus par­ brought to the Cross not by bad American Missionary to India, E. able who told his father he would men but by ordinary people who Stanley Jones. It would be hard to work in his vineyard and then “ went were acting from familiar and com­ imagine anyone so unfeeling as not not.” The Russian Communist, Dr. mon motives. There were the re­ to be moved by the freshness and Jones points out, is like the other ligious people, who were prejudiced vitality of this volume. If the For­ son who refused to go to work and against Him; there were the money­ ward Movement could see to it that then went. changers, who found their profits this book was thoughtfully read by interfered with; there were the half, a quarter,—yes, even a tenth The main thesis of the book is that politicians, who were a bit afraid of of the membership of the Episcopal while Jesus did not give the detailed Him. So it is that just ordinary men, Church, I believe there would be such plan of God’s Kingdom on earth with familiar motives, break His a revival of Christ’s religion that nevertheless He gave principles and heart today. there would be no need for The For­ suggestions sufficiently definite to ward Movement. leave no doubt in man’s mind of April 20—Resting: in Hope. the general vision, he had for the The Cross to us is a symbol of Dr. Jones believes, and he is get­ refashioning of society. The trouble faith and hope, but to the disciples ting daily to be less and less unique is that we Christians have pulled the it was the height of shame and dis­ in this view, that the titanic and all teeth of Christ’s teaching by the grace. I doubt if we can realize the important challenge which Christian­ process known as “ spiritualizing,” depth of the gloom or the bitterness ity faces at the present time is that and the Church instead of being the of the disillusionment that they of Communism. In his preface he “revolutionary” body it was in­ must have suffered. Everything they tells how “ an indefinable sense of tended to be has become simply a had hoped for had collapsed. The being pressed upon by an unseen and “resolutionary” body. bottom had dropped out of life for almost unknown something” in his them more fully, probably, than it work in India, finally led him to It is impossible to give an ade­ ever will for us, but— on the first recognize that this “ something” was quate review of a book like this day of the week, He Rose,—and that “ the fact of a new order in our even if we had the whole W itness ray of hope has lightened every world midst, with new principles and at our disposal. The book must be darkness since. a different goal.” He not only studied read if the vitality of the author’s Communism but he went to Russia message is to be appreciated. After and saw what was making the young stating realistically on the basis of SALT LAKE CATHEDRAL LOST people of the U. S. S. R. so enthu­ Christ’s teaching what Jesus meant B Y FIRE siastic that they are willing to make by the Kingdom of God, Dr. Jones The Church in the missionary dis­ uncommon sacrifices for their ideals. deals with those acute problems of trict of Utah recently suffered a He discovered that instead of Com­ economics, race relations, Church great loss in the destruction by fire munism in Russia being something relations and personal relations of the cathedral at Salt Lake City. to be feared and denounced as an un­ which must be met by the modern Bishop Moulton writes that the mitigated atheistic evil, there was a disciple. After showing how the community immediately expressed great deal of truth in Borodin’s re­ divisions in the Christian Church itself. The Roman Church offered mark: “ We Communists are trying smother its spirit from within, Dr. the crypt of their cathedral for any to bring in the Kingdom of God by Jones concludes with a powerful purposes our people might desire; force, while you Christians are try­ plea for the union of the Christian the Jewish congregation offered their ing to bring it in by love.” So much forces of the world into a “ Christian synagogue; the Presbyterians of­ did Dr. Jones find in Communism Internationale.” “ The next great fered their church and the Mormons, that he believes Christ Himself would step,” writes the author, “ in putting to quote Bishop Moulton, “ offered approve that he thinks that God into operation the Kingdom of God us everything they had” The Masons may be using these Communists, de­ is for the Christian Churches to offered both their old and new spite the fact that they repudiate conceive of themselves as a part of temples for as long as we cared to Him, to stab awake the Church to that Kingdom, without exclusive use it. We are using the Old Temple, take up its almost forgotten ideal­ rights and standing, and to recog­ since it is next door to our cathedral. ism contained in the message of Him nize all other Christian bodies as Incidentally this is the 65th year of Who came into Galilee preaching the integral parts of that Kingdom. We St. Mark’s Cathedral and Bishop gospel of the Kingdom of God. must recognize as a fellow Christian Moulton’s 15th anniversary as Quite naturally Dr. Jones repu­ (Continued on page 15) bishop.

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NEWS NOTES OF rested and be carted off to jail by burly cops in the black-maria, for THE CHURCH IN after all their offense was not a BRIEF PARAGRAPHS grevious one. People are arrested for distributed hand-bills without a Edited by W . B. Spofford permit only when the hand-bills The clergy of this country recent­ present ideas. Printed matter in­ ly received a communication from forming you that you can buy your „the New York Chamber of Com­ cigarettes at the A. & P. at a s.aving merce. It was very funny. It de­ of a penny, or that the best whiskey clared that everything was just is to be found in Jones’ department hunky-dory on that day in March store, is allowed to be passed out when Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurated without interference. But ideas — President of the United States, in they are dangerous, so it is the spite of the fact that all the banks black-maria and a solemn judge in v/ere closed and few people had any­ a black robe. * * * thing with which to buy bread, let alone cake. If the government had A New Church only kept hands off American indus­ for North Carolina try “ we should now have as good A new church, Calvary Chapel, times as our country has ever had” . was dedicated on April 7th in the The whole 'affair, declares this state­ mill section of Burlington, N. C., by ment, should have been left in the Bishop Penick. It is the result of hands of the employers who “ were work begun four years ago by the almost entirely poor boys who by Rev. David T. Eaton. thrift and hard work and burdens ROBERT S. CHALMERS * * * almost too hard to be borne have Dies Suddenly in Church New Vicar for built up their business and they have Grace Chapel been kind to their employees” . But of fears created by those very muni­ William^ B. Sperry, at present a instead of leaving them alone, mem­ tion companies which, if their agents student at the General Theological bers of Congress “ have turned would refrain from stirring up Seminary, has been appointed vicar billions of dollars of the people’s trouble, would cease to exist.” He of Grace Chapel, New York, a part money over to the political accident concludes his potent epistle by de­ of Grace Church parish. He succeeds in the White House for him to juggle claring that he is a member of no the Rev. F. A. Sanborn who has re­ with as suits his whims” . political party, and that he has al­ signed because of illness. Mr. Sperry When I want humor I turn to ways believed that the" capitalistic is older than most seminarians as papers edited for that purpose system; could be made superior to may be gathered from the fact that rather than to statements issued by any other system of society. “ But he was a Sargeant-Major, or some­ the Chamber of Commerce, so this I do object to an organization such thing like that, during the World rare essay would have passed me by as the New York Chamber of Com­ War. He is to be ordained after Easter. entirely had it not been for the Rev. merce broadcasting such deceptions, * * * Don Frank Fenn of Baltimore who written in kindergarten terms to in­ New Rector for called it to my attention and en­ telligent people. It is this kind of Morristown Parish closed a letter he got off to its au­ thing that is wrecking our society, I St. Peter’s, Morristown, N. J., thors. Mr. Fenn reminded them that shall treasure your statement as an vacant for a considerable time, has “ before the present President and evidence of the fact that it will be called the Rev. D. K. Montgomery, Congress assumed office, state after difficult to trust such leaders as West Roxbury, Mass., as rector. Mr. state was closing its banks, unem­ compose your organization.” Montgomery is thirty years of age ployment was at a maximum, and and is married, his wife being the big business was turning off thous­ Cambridge Students sister-in-law of Bishop Sherrill. ands of people while they yet had Protest Against War * * * reserves, and yet you say that Con­ George Cadigan and Paul Martin, Bishop Woodcock gress wrecked the country.” He goes students at the Cambridge Semin­ Is Better on to state his opinion that “ busi­ ary, were arrested on April 11th for Bishop Woodcock o f Kentucky is ness should be taxed for the support distributing hand-bills to high school recovering rapidly from a long of those whom they will not employ, students asking them to take part in period of illness and will be able to and who are as much their instru­ the nation-wide student demonstra­ attend services on Easter. He was ments for making their profits as are tion against war the following day. unable however to fill an engage­ the machines for which they do cre­ After remaining in jail for an hour ment to preach the noonday services ate their reserves. If business will or so they were brought before the in Philadelphia last week, a thing he not create a reserve to care for their judge. The prosecuting attorney, a had done each Lent for the past human instruments, the government member of the American Legion, thirty years. must see to it that these human be­ told them that they should be placed * * * ings are cared for.” Mr. Fenn also against the wall and shot, but the Harrison Rockwell points out another pertinent fact Judge apparently thought that a bit Restored to the Ministry when he tells these gentlemen “ that severe so allowed them to return to The Rev. Harrison Rockwell, de­ by far the greatest proportion of the their studies after imposing a fine of posed some months ago at his own billions that has been spent by the five dollars each. With them were a request, has been restored to the government through relief agencies number of Harvard students, includ­ ministry and is at present serving as has gone into subsidies and loans to ing Edward T. Ladd, son of the dean chaplain and secretary to Bishop the railroads, banks, utility com­ of the Berkeley Divinity School. Manning. Mr. Rockwell, for a num­ panies, etc. You forget to mention I think it is wholesome for stu­ ber of years, was the rector of All also that billions have been spent dents to demonstrate against war Saints, Henry Street, New York, and for the munitions companies for the and Mr. Hearst’s war propaganda. the New York correspondent for the creation of great armaments because Of course it is not so nice to be ar­ Living Church. He gave up our min-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten THE WITNESS April 18, 1935 istry in. the first instance to become the April Spirit of Missions a mis­ a Christian Scientist. statement sufficiently serious to call * * * to general attention. Under the Ne\fr$ Not£s irbin photograph of the Archbishop of G eorgia York, if is stated that he ‘will visit Rishob Coadjutor-elect Rarnwell the United States next December of Georgia visited the diocese the upon the invitation of the Presiding first week in April and confirmed Bishop. While in America he will thfee confirmation classes. . . . The also visit some university centres’. Rev. tr. B. Hojrsfield was instituted “ In the early àummef of 1934, rector of St. Paul’s, Savannah, on one of the officers of the Student April 7th by Bishop Reese. Christian Movement, the Rey. Dr. * * * Van Dusen of the Union Theological Large Classes in Seminary, New York, waited upon Rhode Island the Archbishop and invited him to A class of 70 was confirmed last attend and to address their quadren­ Sunday by Bishop Perry at the nial meeting, to be held in Decem­ Cathedral in Providence- The class ber 1935 at Toronto, and also to was presented by the Rev. Arthur visit several universities in Canada H. Beaty who has presented a large and the United States. After His class each year since coming to BERNARD I. BELL Grace accepted this invitation, the Providence froin the diocese of Off to Preach in England officers of the S. C. M. notified the Duluth. That evening a class of authorities of oui* Nàtiònal Council, about the shine size was confirmed intimating that if it was desired he at St. Paul’s, Pawtucket, the Rev. crumbled. Practically nobody, how­ would be available for Sunday R. A. Seilhamer, factor. ever, knew what had happened and it preaching engagements. This was * * * was not until the close of the service done chiefly as an act of courtesy to that the pastor of Trinity, the Rev. Archbishop of York his fellow-Churchmén. A secondary T. A. Sparks, informed the rector as motive whs that such engagements Urges Unity to what had taken place. Dr. Fleming The Lord Archbishop of York has might help defray thè expense of his then led. the large congregation in called attention to what he con­ trip. Naturally, our national office prayers for the dead, first announc­ siders an important principle that jumped at this chance and immedi­ ing the death. Mr. Chalmers was must be recognized, no less by An­ ately began scheduling appoint­ fifty-three years of age and for many ments— so many more of them, in glicans than by others, if unity is to years had been a prominent figure in be brought nearer. “ The frame of fact, than the S. C. M. people ex­ the Church, known particularly as a pected as to jeopardize their plans mind in which we must approach the leader of the Anglo-Catholics. matter,” said Dr. Temple at a meet­ * * * seriously. ing in England, “ is a recognition “ The inference drawn from the A Letter from caption under the Archbishop’s that what we lack others can sup­ A Virginia Professor ply.” Dr. Temple urged complete photograph is that the original in­ The following communication has vitation for a visit to this country fullness of union, and favored im­ been received from the Rev. Alex­ mediate intercommunion. came from the Presiding Bishop, and * * * ander Zabriskie, professor at the that subsequently His Grace was, as Virginia Seminary: it were, loaned to a few universities. Robert S. Chalmers “ By some unfortunate mistake This is so obviously wide of the Dies Suddenly there appears in the frontispiece of The Rev. Robett S. Chalmers, facts, and so unfair to the officers rectof of Grace and St. Peter’s, Baitimbre, and one time an editor of MOTHERS! THe W itness, died suddenly of Just a word about a refined,, reliable laxa­ apoplexy in Trinity Church, New tive that little children really like to take: York, oh April 12th. Mr. Chalmers It is called was the special noon-day preacher “SYRUP OF last week at Trinity but was late BLACK- DRAUGHT,” that day. He entered the church to and sells for find the rector, Dr. Fleming, in the 50 cents a pUlpit. Hie therefore entered a pew, bottle, at out of breath from hurrying, knelt in drug stores. prayef, then settled himself to listen SYRUP OF to the rector’s sermon. He suddenly BLACK- D R A U G H T acts well, KNIGHTS OF STS: JOHN without harm­ Let the Boys ing delicate have this Fra- children. So t e r n i t y and many mothers you will have have bought the boys in SYRUP OF Church. Pro­ BLACK- vides Worth­ D R A U G H T while things to for their chil­ do. Endorsed dren. Try it b y leading for yours. (If Bishops and Clergy. Ritual of Ini­ not yet carried COMMONWEALTH tiations. $1.00. Headquarters: 3012 by your drug­ Wes! Coulter Street, Philadelphia, gist, order a 50-cent bottle from the manu­ EDISON COMPANY Pa. facturer, The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Call Randolph 1200, Local 547 Chattanooga, Tennessee.)

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of the Student Christian Movement, for the clothing workers who are on not so; the vestry promptly had a to whose 'courtesy we shall owe any strike. Miss Gilmhh, an ardent So­ meeting and refused to consider his engagements he may fill in our pul­ cialist as well as a devoted Chufch- resignation. Mr. Elliott will there­ pits, as to call for correction.” woman, has for many years battled fore doubtless remain in Milford. Hs H* H1 for the underprivileged. H* H* 4* Hi ^ ^ Church Federation Lenten Preachers General Professor Adopts Forward Movement in Philadelphia The Federation of Churches of to Go to Bucharest The Rev. Howard R. Weir, the Professor Frank Gavin of the Lewisburg, Pa., has adopted the For­ Rev, Louis W. Pitt and the Rev. ward Movement of ofir Church and General Seminary is to.leave in May Karl Reiland were the special noon­ an intensive visitation campaign has for ¡Bucharest, Poumania, to repre­ day preachers last week in Phila- been conducted by the ministers of sent the American branch of the the city. Anglican Church in conversations with the hierarchy of the Roumanian H* H* H* 1904 CONFERENCE 1935 Orthodox Church on “ Anglican Or­ What Labor ders” . The commission of the FOR CHURCH WORK Is A fte r Anglican Churches will be headed by Wellesley College, Wèllèsley, Mass. Work, wages and the good life are Bishop F. C. N. Hicks, the bishop of the things that organized labor is Lincoln, England. Jürië 24-JuIy 5, 1935 after, declared Mr. Spencer Miller, * * * Offers in its 31st season coursés on Jr., at a conference on the Church Bishop Hobson Addresses Church Work, Religious Drama, and Social Security, held at Cincin­ the Girls' Friendly Christian Social Ethics, nati, on April 9th. The conference Bishop Hobson, chairman of the and Church Music. was held under the auspices of the Forward Movement Commission, ad­ social service department of the dio­ Miss Marian DeC. Ward, Secretary cese of Southern Ohio. “ Today,” de­ dressed the directors of the Girls’ 180 Commonwealth Avenue, Friendly Society on April 3rd at a clared Mr. Miller, “ all Over America meeting in New York, challenging Boston, Mass. labor is seeking for some type of the young people’s organizations of social security against the hazards the Church to help with the Forward of accident, unemployment, illness THE BLUE MOUNTAIN CONFERENCE and old age.” He declared that Movement. The directors voted so to do. A program! for young people on (Tenth Year) three million workers are injured peace, race relations and the movies each year, with 20,000 of them June 24th to July 5th was also approved by the directors. killed; that upward of eleven million * * Penn Hall, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania are at the moment unemployed; that Rector’s Resignation three million people in America are An advanced conference for church men Is R efused and women beyond high school age. The high­ sick every day of the year, and that The Rev. H. Murray Elliott, rec­ est type of courses given by real scholars one out of every two workers who enables individuals to perform effective service tor at Milford, Mass., resigned the in the life and work of the Church. Carefully arrive at the age of 65 are depend­ other day after having served the planned, spiritually conducted, healthful ent for support on either relatives or recreation and practical inspiration may be parish for five years. During that obtained in a beautiful location. the state. time the parish has shown marked Other speakers on the program For detailed information apply to: growth in every way. Nevertheless were Dr. William S. Keller, chair­ The Rev. N. B. Croton, Mr. Elliott thought that the people man of the diocesan social service St. Thomas’ Rectory, Whitemarsh, Penna. might care to have a change. But department, Miss Leila Kinney of the University of Cincinnati, Isaac M. Rubinow, secretary of B’nai r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r^r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r^r\> Brith, James A. Stuart, former re­ lief administrator, and William W. Hewitt, professor at the University FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE of Cincinnati. ^ _ Many of you are getting THE W ITNESS at the Church door H* H* T O T H E each week. Won’t you let us mail it to your home so that Father Hughson ■ a i- i- w you may have the paper each week throughout the year? If at the General l_/\l I I you think well of the idea merely send this blank with The Rev. Shirley C. Hughson, two dollars. superior of the Order of Holy Cross, Of course you want your men, and women also, to read the was the preacher on April 15 th at TO THE forthcoming articles by the Rev. W . G. Peck. The simplest the General Seminary. D C r T C l D way mal

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delphia. Mr. Weir is the rector of Roman officials, Jews and Christians the 15th anniversary of the rector­ Holy Trinity, Philadelphia; Mr. Pitt to prove that the Christians were a ship ofi the Rev. A. R. Chalmers. is rector at Ardmore, Pa., and Mr. Jewish party and therefore deserve During his rectorship the parish has Reiland is a New Yorker. toleration from the state. been developed Into one of the He Hi ❖ Dr. Easton expressed the belief strongest in the diocese of New Ordination in that the early Church was governed York. Diocese of Maine by a council of elders, modelled after * * * The Rev. E. M. Robinson was or­ the presbytery at Jerusalem, which Social Order Change dained priest by Bishop Brewster of was unique, however, in having a Held Youth’s Hope Maine at Newcastle, on April 3rd, president. This Jerusalem presbytery Dr. Mark May, director of the with Dean Glasier o f Portland kept all administration and teaching Human Relations Institute of Yale preaching. Five clergymen of vari­ closely under its surveillance. Com­ University, ill addressing the annual ous denominations were present. Mr. menting on the extreme communism meeting of the Connecticut Church Robinson is the rector at Newcastle. practiced in the Jerusalem Christian community, the lecturer said it was RELIGIOUS ORDER Canon Bell Goes rather an example o f self-sacrifice Those interested in the formation,. of a re­ ligious order for women and girls, active,, oh to England and to be regarded as a work of new lines, are invited to address’ Handmaids Canon B. I. Bell is to sail for Eng­ supererogation rather than an ex­ of Mercy," care of The Witness, 826 Tribune land on May first for two months ample for all ..Christians to follow. Building, New York. of preaching and lecturing there. He Comfort to many modern Christians EDWIN S. GORHAM, INC., is to return to be the guest preacher in that statement, what? Publishers, Booksellers, Importers, Church Literature, Supplies. at the Cathedral of St. John the H: ^ H* ECCLESIASTICAL Wares, OXFORD Bibles, Divine in New York for six weeks, Prayer Books, etc. Devotional Books. New commencing July 7th. Cross the Center MOWBRAY Publications. Old Books Rebound. of Christianity Detailed information on request. * * * Established 1900 “ We have been trying to make 18 West 45 Street New York Religious Play religion too easy,” declared the Rev. Given in Church John Gass of Charlestown, W. Va., The religious play, “ Everyman” , FINE IRISH LINEN preaching last weelv at the noonday specially selected for Church use. 36" to was presented the evening o f April services in a downtown Chicago 54" wide, cut any length. Samples of 12 7th at St. Barnabas Church, Bur­ qualities on request. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 theatre. “ We have on many occa­ Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. lington, N. J. It was beautifully and sions forgotten that a Cross is at the devotionally done to a packed center of our faith. The Cross was PARKER’S church. Rev. Harry S. Ruth is the no figure of speech to Jesus; it was HAIR BALSAM rector. Removes Dandruff-StopsHairFalling H» H* H* a grim reality. The Cross for man Imparts Color and today is not merely an emblem to Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair Canon Douglas to 60c. and $1.00 at Druggists. be worn; it represents a task to be Hiscox Chem. Wks. Patchogue, N. Y. Present Hale Lectures done.” Canon C. W. Douglas, authority * * * on Church music, is to give the Hale Ministers Son Invents Michigan Does lectures . at Seabury-Western Sem­ Invisible Ear Drum Some Educating inary, commencing May 2nd. His The Invisible Ear Drum invented by A. O. The annual Lenten round table subject is “ Church Music in History Leonard, a son- of the late Rev. A. B. Leon­ fellowship, sponsored by the depart­ ard, D.D., for many years secretary of the and Practice.” Board of Foreign Missions of the Metho­ % * Hs ment of religious education of the dist Episcopal Church, for. his own relief diocese of Michigan, closed a suc­ from extreme deafness and head noises, has Who Wrote the so greatly improved his hearing that he can cessful season on April 8th. Over join in any ordinary conversation, go to the Book of Acts? 200 people attended, including rep­ theatre and hear without difficulty. Inex­ The Rev. Burton S. Easton, profes­ pensive and has proven a- blessing to many resentatives of six denominational people. Write for booklet tp A. O. Leon­ sor of New Testament at the Gen­ churches. ard, Inc., Suite 34, 79 Fifth avenue, New eral, in lecturing at the Virginia York city. ■ advt * * Seminary, did not tell the students SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA: Guest who did write the Book of Acts, but Bishops at Parish House o f Sisters of Thfe Resurrection: sunny, in Scarsdale cheerful rooms. home atmosphere, com­ he rather suggested that it was not fortable beds, good meals, modern building St. Luke, as is generally supposed. Bishop Washburn of the diocese on pleasant residence street. Charges reason­ of Newark was the preacher at St. able. . Those seeking spiritual strengthening, He said that if it was written by the or merely rest and quiet: convalescents not man who actually accompanied Paul, James the Less, Scarsdale, N. Y., on needing special attendance, will find Rest- April 10th, with Bishop Dallas of haven helpful. Neither hospital nor mental either he didn’t know much about cases received. References asked from strang­ Paul or else he distorted facts. “ The New Hampshire the preacher this ers. Apply to Sister-in-Charge, House oi Wednesday. The parish is to have a The Nazarene, Resthaven, Saint Augustin* more one argues for the traditional Florida. authorship,” declared this authority, dinner on May 15th to celebrate ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. “the more one puts on- the con­ Saint Mary’s Convent. ‘Keribsha, Wis. science of the author.” Dr. Easton also declared that the work was not CATHEDRAL STUDIO, CHURCH EMBROI- composed during the lifetime of St. deries, Altar and pulpit hangings, etc, DECORATION MURALS Stoles from $6.50. Burse, veil $10 up. Sur­ Paul, the only tenable date for its plices $8 up. Exquisite Altar linens. Damask composition being the year 93. Re­ cope from $70. Damask Mass set from $60. ALTARS STAINED GLASS Silk chasuble from $30. 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Mission of Help at the Hartford Cathedral last week, declared that a change in the social order was the only hope for young people. He de­ clared that there were 5,000,000 people between the ages of 15 and L* C 25, through school, who are seeking employment today without success. He also said that there was a deficit of 750,000 marriages in the country last year. “ The only solution,” he affirmed, “ is a change in the social vi H be pleased to submit order.” Bishop Budlong was the designs and Estimates fo r chairman of the meeting. * * * National Council to M eet The National Council is to meet Embroidery? Wood in New York from April 30th through May, 2nd. Stone Metal and * * * Institute New Stained Cjlass-i Rector at Altoona Six hundred persons were present at the institution of the Rev. F. D. I X E T E R M k M C athedraI Yard. Daley as rector of St. Luke’s, Al­ LO N D O N • ll.Tufton St.S.Wt, toona, Pa., among them being two M A N ÇH ÉST ÇF 52-,Victoria Street rabbis, and ministers of the Luther­ . V ; N '.. i • V an, Methodist and Reformed churches. * * * ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. The Article is 147 E. 47th St., New York in a Pam phlet CHURCH VESTMENTS ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY There have been a number of re­ Conferences with references to the adornment quests for the re-printing of the of Churches. articles “ Why I am an Episcopalian” Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 by the Rev. R. Bland Mitchell, which appeared in a recent number of this WENEELY BEEL CO T R O Y , N.Y a n o paper. We are glad to inform you ___2 2 0 BROADWAY.N Y.CITY. that it can be secured by writing Mr. Mitchell at 1910 12th Avenue, BELLS S., Birmingham, Alabama, at a cost of lc apiece, with 5c added for post­ age on quantities less than 100. * * * Church for the Isolated in Pennsylvania The Rev. S. B. Schofield of Mun­ cy, Pa., has established a church for the isolated in a farm house in the mountains nearby, for the purpose of “ carrying Christ to the people of the mountainside.” Services are held once a month, and they are in t er d en ominational. * * * Authority on Industry 100% Improvement Guaranteed to Meet Church Groups We build, strengthen the vocal organs — not with singing lessons—but by fundamentalI5 Mary van Kleeck, director of in­ sound and scientifically correct silent exercises . . and absolutely guarantee to improve any singing dustrial studies of the Russell Sage or speaking voice at least 100% . . . Write foi wonderful voice book—sent free. Learn WHY yoc can now have the voice you want. No literature Foundation and a vice-president of sent to anyone under 17 unless signed oy narent> the Church League for Industrial PERFECT VOICE INSTITUTE, Studio 78-05 3 0 8 No. (Michigan Ave.v Chicago /• Democracy, is to speak at a number of meetings under League auspices in the immediate future. The first is to be held in Cincinnati on April VESTMENTS 25th. It will be a luncheon meeting, Cassocks, Surplices, Stales, Silks, held at the Y. W. C. A., with Dr. Embroideries, Cloths, Fringes CLERICAL SUITS William' S. Keller as chairman. On Priest Cloaks, Rabats, Collars May 4th she is to address an after­ Church Vestment Specialists for over half a century noon meeting of the League in Los COX SONS & VINING INC. Angeles, and is to meet with the 133 EAST ¿3RD STREET, NEW YORK| N-Y- clergy of the diocese on May 6th. Later that week she is to be the

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guest of honor at a dinner of the the clergy and laity of Iowa, meet­ E. McRvoy, Iowa City. The meeting San Francisco group of the C. L. I. ing at Trinity Church, Iowa City, was addressed by Bishop Longley D. at which Bishop Edward L. Par­ have organised a, diocesan commis­ and the Rev. Malcolm Taylor, chair­ sons, League president, will preside. sion on evangelism. It was agreed man of the National Commission on * * * that it should be made perfectly Evangelism. L et the clear th§t the promotion of this People Sing movement is distinctly spiritual in Increased Attendance The Rev. Arthur Wood puts a nature. It is to develop the religious Noted in Rhode Island light and joyful note into his Lenten motives for living ip the lives, of men Reports received at the Rhode services at St. Barnabas’, Apponaug, and women, and to promote deeper Island diocesan headquarters indi­ R. I., by setting his people to singing and more vital Christian living in cate a larger attendance at Lenten good old hymns for most of the personal and social relationships, services, lectures and study classes service. There are of course prayers this being also the purpose of the at many churches and missions than but only a short sermon. They seem Forward Movement. The commission for many years. The increased in­ to like it. appointed by Bishop Harry S. Long- terest is attributed largely to the * * ley i:s composed of the Very Rev. influence of the Forward Movement. Announcement of Rowland F. Philbrook, Davenport; * =N * Wellesley Conference Rev. Charles F. Edwards, Cedar Washington Cathedral The program of the 31st annual Rapids; Rev. Albert H. Head, Oska- Organist Dies Wellesley Conference, to be held loosa; Rev. Harry S. Longley, Jr., Edgar Priest, organist and choir­ June 25-July 5th, reveals that 22 Des Moines; and the Rev. Richard master of Washington Cathedral for courses are offered, divided into the four schools; church workers, re­ ligious drama, Christian social ethics and Church music. The program also announces, an interesting series of Services of Leading Churches evening meetings, open to visitors. The secretary of the conference is The Cathedral of St. John St. Paul’s Church the Divine Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Marian DeC. Ward, 180 Com­ Cathedral Heights Sunday Services: monwealth Avenue, Boston, who will New York City Holy Communion, 7 :30 a. m. Sundays: 8 and 9f, Holy Communion. Holy Communion Choral, 8 :30 a. m. be glad to see that you have a pro­ 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning Morning Service, 11:00 a. m. gram. Prayer or Litany. 11, Holy Communion Evening Service, 8 :00 p. m. and Sermon. 4. Evening Prayer and Sermon. St. James’ Church, New York Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion Madison Avenue and 71st Street Captain Mountford (also on Saints’ Days at IQ). Morning The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Has Anniversary Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Sunday Services Organ Recital. Saturdays, 4 :30. 8 A. M.—Holy Communion. Palm Sunday marked the end of 11 A. M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. 30 years of service in the Church Church of St. Mary the Virgin 8 P. M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon. Army for Captain Frank Mountford. New York 46th St. between 6,tb and 7th Aves. Trinity Church, New York Starting out in a caravan in Eng­ Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.Ë. Sunday Masses, 7, 8,' 9. 10, 11. Broadway and Wall St. land, through missions and prisons Vespers and Benediction : 8 P. M. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. and the turmoil of war, he has de­ Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. voted the past ten years to building up the Army in the United States. Grace Church, New York St. Paul’s Cathedral Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Buffalo, New York Broadway at 10th St. ' Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 4. Commission on Evangelism Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Weekdays : 8, 12 :05. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Formed in Iowa urdays. Days: 10 :30 a. m. To promote evangelism and Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thursdays and Holy Days. quicken personal religion within the Christ Church Cathedral Hartford, Conn. diocese a representative group of The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Cor. Main and Church Streets Disciple, New York The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. A MEMORIAL Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, 11:00 a. m .; 7:30 Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. p. m. Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. HE Rev. Frederick Henry Steenstra, rector Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. Sunday School 9 :30 a. m. ; Morning Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. T of St. Mark’s Church, of/ Mauch Chunk, Service and Sermon 11 a. m .; Musical Holy Communion. passed away quietly and peacefully into life Vespers 4 p. m. eternal on Tuesday, April 2, at 4 :30 p. m. at Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Grace and St. Peter’s Church, the entrance to the chantry of the church. munion at 11 a. m. An honored and beloved citizen has left Baltimore, Md. the community that sorely needed him. His (Park Avenue and Monument Street) connection with Mauch Chunk has been for The Incarnation The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers, D.D. twenty-five years— first as a visitor and for Madison Avenue and 35th Street Rev. Gordon B. Wadhams the past eight years as a resident. Rev. George A. Robertshaw Rev. Bernard McK. Garlick Mr. Steenstra was born at Cambridge, Minister in Charge Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. Mass., the son of Peter Henry Steenstra and Week Days: 8 a. m. Susan Brown Steenstra. Sundays 8, 10 and 11 a. m., 4 p. m. He was graduated from Harvard University Daily 12 :20. Church of St. Michael and in 1900 with the degree of A. B. and in 1904 with the degree of A. M. All Angels St. Bartholomew’s Church Baltimore, Md. In 1905 he received the degree of Bachelor Park Avenue and 51st Street St. Paul and 20th Sts. of Divinity from Episcopal Theological School. Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Sundays: 7 :30, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; He served as curate at Grace Church, New 8 A.M., Holy Communion 8 p. m. York City, from 1905 to 1907, and was rector 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. Week Days: Wednesdays 10 a. m .; o f Emmanuel Church, Manville, R. I., 1907 4 P.M., Choral Evensong. Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy to 1910 ; of St. Chrysostom Church, Wollaston, Junior Congregation, 9:30 and 11 A.M. Days 7 and 10 a. m. Quincy, Mass., 1910 to 1920 ; of St. Andrew’s Holy Comm.. Thurs. and Saints’ Days, Church, Stillwater, Okla., 1920 to 1922; of 10:30 A.M. St. Bartholom ew ’s, Chicago the Church of the Goqd Shepherd. Houlton, 6720 Stewart Ave. Maine, 1922 to 1923; of St. Miark’s Church, There is a special rate for Rev. Howard R. Brinker, S.T.B., Rector. Warren, R. I., 1923 to 1927. Sundays, 7 :30, 9 :30, 11:00 A. M. 7 :80 Surviving are his widow, Elsie V. Steenstra, CHURCH SERVICE NOTICES P. M. two sons, Edward F. Steenstra, Westbrook, Why not announce your services for Lent? Week-days, Tuesday and Thursday, 7 :80 Conn.; and Walter H. Steenstra, of Austin, Write the Advertising office A. M. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, T exas; two sisters, Misses Mary and Isabel 931 Tribune Bldg. New York 10:00 A. M. Steenstra, of Cambridge, Mass., now visiting in California.

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more than a quarter of a century, West Virginia conference will this comes to baseball. So I’m sending died on March 31. He was born in year be held at Jackson Mills from you this postal. I saw your poor England and came to this country June 10th to 15th, followed by the Yankees take the short end of a 3 in 1901. Y. P. F. Convention from the 15th to 2 score. I wish you were here * * * to the 16th. for the other games, even if I de­ Senator Nye at H= * * test your point of view. You need more religion and baseball.” Virginia Seminary The Fellowship Senator Gerald P. Nye, crusader of the Trivial against the sinister activities of the Trivial things often make for real REVIEWER HAILS A NEW BOOK munition makers, was a speaker at fellowship. Thus do I receive a pret­ BY E. STANLEY JONES the Virginia Seminary on April 9th. ty postal card from St. Petersburg, (Continued from page 8) He presented amazing statistics and Florida, showing a baseball field. every man, whate’er his name or testimonies of past and current do­ And on the card I find this message sign, who recognizes Christ as His ings in the war-making business. He from the Rev. J. M. Harper of Glad­ pord and works for the coming of assailed the proposed maneuvers of stone, New Jersey, “ You qnd I cer­ the Kingdom.” the Navy in the Pacific, and urged tainly cannot agree on economics. EDITOR’S NOTE: Any desiring this book the passage of a bill to take the You’re a communist in my opinion. may secure it by sending their order to THE WITNESS, 826 Tribune Building, New York profits out of war. But both of us are kids when it City, with $2 in check or money order. * * * Churchmen Working With Federal Council Cooperation with various denom­ inations on social and industrial problems by Episcopalians is shown An Intelligent Employees by the membership list of the de­ partment of the church and social service of the Federal Council of Churches, just released by its execu­ uide to Christianity tive secretary, the Rev. Worth M. Tippy. The Rt. Rev. Charles K. Gil­ bert, Suffragan Bishop of New York, is vice-chairman of the department. Others are Edward R. Cass, general secretary, American Prison Associa­ tion; John M. Glenn, former director of the Russell Sage Foundation; Mabel R. Jenkins, of Corona, N. Y .; Marguerite Marsh, executive secre­ tary, Church Mission of Help in the diocese of New York; Mary C. Smith of Minneapolis; Rev. C. Ran­ kin Barnes, executive secretary, de­ partment of Christian social service, National Council; and the secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy.

A N ew Job for TM M ED IATELY after Easter, and continuing for six a Missionary weeks, THE W ITNESS has the honor of presenting The only social worker in a a series of artidfes by the Rev. W . C. Peck, distin­ county of over 6,000 square miles guished English priest, author and lecturer. Under is Deaconess Margaret of St. Fran­ the title, “ An Intelligent Employer’s Guide to Chris­ cis’ Mission, Lovelock, Nevada, re­ tianity” Dr. Peck is to address himself primarily to elected Red Cross secretary and that large group of intelligent and Christian men who chairman of the county relief com­ are in positions of business leadership and are seeking light on the present economic situation. We call mittee. This is in addition to her the serjes particularly to the attention of those who regular care of two congregations, i are taking the paper only for Lent and also to rectors Indians and white people. Ffom one whose Bundle orders expire this week with the of the families recently brought into Easter Number. the Church by the work among the We are also pleased to announce that there have isolated, Deaconess Margaret has re­ been so many requests that the articles by Dr. ceived a present o f four milk goats, Chorley be continued that he has agreed to present the disposition of which has been more articles on “ The History of the American one of her minor problems as relief Church” after Easter. administrator. We suggest the immediate use of the blank form Hi H* He to be found on page eleven this week. Summer Conference of West Virginia Summer Conferences always af­ PLACE YOUR ORDER AT ONCE ford opportunities for spiritual re­ FORM FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ON PACE ELEVEN freshment, informative experiences, and broadening of outlook. The

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There is no better spur to indi­ vidual action than an abrupt ex­ penditure for the improvement of one’s personal appearance. A hair cut, a shave, and a shine— a new suit or hat or necktie—will expand the chest and give one the will and courage to do.

It works collectively, too. A new carpet, some paint, a new organ —any renewal or improvement— would do much for parish mo­ rale. Try it for a stimulus to in­ terest and pride and sharing.

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