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WITNESS FEBRUARY 20, 1964 10* publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of BISHOPS OF THREE CHURCHES Archives BISHOP BAYNE writes this week about the Wider Episcopal 2020. Fellowship which is illustrated by this photograph. When Benito Cabanban was consecrated in 1959 taking part were Copyright Archbishop de los Reyes of the Philippine Independent Church, Bishop Kennedy of Honolulu, Bishop Cabanban, Bishop Ogilby of the Philippines, Bishop Shearburn of Rangoon, India. Read also Dean Leffler's article on How the Episcopal Church Operates ARTICLE BY CANON JOSEPH WITTKOFSKI SERVICES The Witness SERVICES In Leading Churches For Christ and His Church In Leading Churches NEW YORK CITY EDITORIAL BOARD THE CATHEDRU. CTTtTRCTI CHRIST CHURCH JOHN MCGILL KRUMM. Chairman OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Sunday: I loly Communion 7, 8, 9. 10; Morn- \\. B. SPOFFORD SR.. Managing Editor The Rev. Gardiner M. 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Story of the Week eral government's urban renew- Urge the Church to Get Dirty al administration, said that there is a close correlation be- By Involvement in World tween poverty and racial dis- crimination, since non-whites publication. -k Pleas to "dirty the church blind themselves to the plight comprise the major portion of and with the world's problems" of the less fortunate. families displaced by urban re- ended a three-day Episcopal J-mcs G. Banks, executive di- newal projects. reuse conference on metropolitan rector of the united planning for organization, Washington, D.C., The urban renewal expert planning in Atlanta, Ga., last urged that "equal opportunity week. charged that too often religious organizations have failed their in housing become a reality for required The conference's 150 south- communities because "they non-white families on every eastern participants vociferous- have not ventured forth boldly economic level" because they "bear the additional burden of ly urged the church to locally, to seek expanded opportunities for the deprived in their midst." being excluded from housing Permission regionally and nationally ob- opportunities which are so es- literate the "lady bountiful" Instead, the Episcopal lay- sential to successful reloca- image — giving to "those poor man asserted, church members tion." DFMS. / people over there" — by per- have been more concerned with sonally involving themselves in ministering to the middle-class Calvin S. Hamilton, city plan- masses and, for the most part, ner for Pittsburgh, Pa., also Church community needs. Involvement, chosen to ignore the nation's 50 rapped racial discrimination in they agreed, is most effective million persons living in pockets employment and housing and at the local and regional levels of poverty. urged churchmen "to face head- Episcopal and on an individual rather Banks, formerly of the fed- on the matter of racial barriers the than collective basis. and fight hard for equal oppor- of Stating that the Episcopal tunity." Church's democratic structure The Florida native cautioned gives members all kinds of el- Archives that "until the Negro can im- bow room in which to move, the prove his economic position, you educators, business men and 2020. can't effectively solve any of church leaders cited the urgen- the other Negro problems. If cy of Episcopalians inform- you desegregated tomorrow, ing themselves of metropolitan this really wouldn't help the Copyright problems and working to influ- Negro in many areas . be- ence decision-making within cause very few have the income their own communities. enabling them to move out into Here, they added that in the the suburbs . even if there past Episcopalians have been were no artificial barriers to accused of, and been guilty of, this normal American desire." fostering the image of a sleek, "fat-cat" community in which Hamilton further noted that fur-coated communicants homogenous housing areas "are purred harmoniously together destroying the vitality of our but neglected "the invisible original cities." He urged resi- poor"; invisible because the BISHOP HINES: — "vast numbers dents of metropolitan areas "to more affluent persons tend to are being overlooked." come up with more effective FEBRUARY 20, 1964 Thret means to develop heterogeneous housing areas and not relegate Fight Against Canadian Law people to one income group in one area." Led by Canon Wittkof ski Emphasizing the church's Is hypnotism a religious or a petency in the area of hypnosis, role in metropolitan problems, medical phenomenon? What Canon Wittkofski replied that Bishop John E.