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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

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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 rector of the united planning conference on metropolitan The urban renewal expert for organization, Washington, D.C., 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 to seek expanded opportunities "bear the additional burden of ly urged the church to locally, being excluded from housing regionally and nationally ob- for the deprived in their midst." Permission 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 and fight hard for equal oppor- the than collective basis. of Stating that the Episcopal tunity." Church's democratic structure The Florida native cautioned gives members all kinds of el- that "until the Negro can im- Archives bow room in which to move, the prove his economic position, you educators, business men and can't effectively solve any of 2020. 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. Hines of Texas rights do doctors and ministers "hypnosis is a religious phe- and conference chairman, as- possess in the field of hyp- nomenon, not a medical one. But no sensible person will serted that the institutional notics? The Ontario legisla- ture, with the Ontario hypnosis quarrel with the doctor's church should become less pre- act of 1961, decided that hyp- manipulation of any residual occupied with membership rolis nosis can only be practiced by faith in a personality for the and more concerned with people. medical doctors, dentists, psy- benefit of the disturbed indi- "The preoccupation of the chologists, and students in vidual. However, as more and church with the institutional- these professions. To challenge more physicians learn the tech-

publication. ized manifestations of the gos- this law and organize opposition nique of hypnosis, many seek to pel," he said, "has left great to it, Canon Joseph Wittkof ski, obtain a complete strangle-hold and areas of communities without author of the book, The Pas- in the field." the church, or has weakened toral Use of Hypnotic Tech- reuse In a front page story of the many more churches by divert- nique, and a Pittsburgh area

for Toronto Star (January 31, ing- the concern of the church clergyman, recently completed 1964) a group of Canadian away from the increasingly a speaking tour in Ontario. clergy issued their challenge to acute and tragic plight of mod- required the hypnosis act. These were ern society." A recent edition of the ministers of the Anglican, Toronto Daily Star (Feb. 1, United, Baptist, and Presby- A depersonalized church, 1964) quotes Bishop Austin stemming from a depersonalized terian churches. As spokesman,

Permission Pardue of Pittsburgh with the Rev. Lindsay King, refer- society, Bishop Hines added, reference to Canon Wittkofski's ring to the hypnosis act, said, means that "vast numbers in work. Speaking of the Canon's "We de not feel that any law DFMS. society are being over-looked approach to hypnotism, the / would presume to regulate the or neglected and the church to Bishop said, "His whole tech- relationship between a minister all intents and purposes has nique is rooted and grounded in of the gospel and those who Church lost vital contact with the the orthodoxy of historic Chris- seek his help. ' people," tian experience." "Such a law would, in effect, Mut perhaps the conference's When questioned about com- deny religious liberty. Hyp- Episcopal ! eynote theme of church par- nosis, after all, has a very close the ticipation in metropolitan prob- affinity with prayer or deep of lems was hit the hardest by meditation," the Rev. Mr. King- Bishop Daniel Corrigan, direc- added. tor of the home department, Archives when he said: "Ministry to one Upon reading of the minis- mother is our mission in the ters' plan to organize the 2020. world, not to sit and cry in our Toronto society for pastoral beer. The church either will hypnosis, Matthew Dymond, engage or perish." Ontario health minister, im- mediately warned the clergy Copyright The fourth of a series of five that they would violate the law metropolitan planning confer- and face fines up to a thousand ences to be held under the dollars and/or six months in church's joint urban planning jail. He also announced that program, the Atlanta meeting's he would recommend against chief aim >-?s to acquaint Epis- granting exemptions to clergy- copalians throughout the south- men. east with contemporary issues. Following the health minis- The Pev. James M. Morton, as- ter's lead, some clergy con- sociate secretary in the home demned Canon Wittkofski's department, is charged with work. Others urged caution. implementing the joint urban CANON WITTKOFSKI: — speaks In the meantime, one clergy- planning program. his piece about Canadian law man, who has been employing

THE WITNKSI the hypnotic technique, threw his attitude. He is reported t.) This section, adopted by a down the gauntlet and applied have said, "Now, I want to vote of 85-57, was a revised for an exemption. make it clearly understood that version of wording that would With the filing of the applica- we are absolutely not interested have approved federal aid for tion, Allen Spraggett, Star staff in going around prosecuting any "specific programs" of writer informed Mr. Dymond anybody under the terms of the private and parochial schools that, if the minister's applica- act." which would meet a public need. tion for exemption is vetoed, an Canon Wittkofski, who gave intensive investigation of the his views to an Ontario tv audi- As amended, it approves fed- hypnosis act would be under- ence, on Wednesday night, eral aid for such programs as taken. This would include a re- February 12, 1964, happily school lunch projects and medi- port on hypnodontists who are heard the developments. "In cal treatment while rejecting unlawfully using hypnosis for spite of fierce opposition," he government funds for educa- medical treatment and doctors said, "it appears that the On- tional purposes. who are using hypnosis in ways tario clergy are successfully as- At another point, confer- which contravene the law. serting their primary jurisdic- ences participants argued over publication. Facing a newspaper expose, tion in the spirit-mind-body re- a proposed amendment which Mr. Dymond seemed to soften lationship." would have removed the word and "overall" in reference to sup- port for parochial and private reuse schools, a revision that would

for Church-State Set-Up Clarified have given the findings a more By the NCC Conference rigid separationist tone. The proposal died on a 79-85 vote. required -k Federal aid for "health and church and state were seen by The conference participants welfare programs" conducted observers as highly significant said in their findings that while by private and parochial schools guidelines for continuing exami- acknowledging the parental

Permission was favored in a 3,000-word nation of federal aid and right of choice of schools, "we document approved at the con- church-state relations by the do not admit that a choice by clusion of a church-state con- nation's religious communities. parents of parochial or private DFMS. / ference conducted by the Na- In essence, the conference schools imposes on the state tional Council of Churches. conclusions represented rejec- any obligation to support such The document also put the tion of the position of those choice through the granting of Church conference on record as favor- who adhere to the 162-year-old public funds in overall support ing "shared time," a program Jeffersonian doctrine of "abso- of such schools." under which parochial school lute" separation of government "In recognition of the seri- Episcopal students take some of their and religion. ousness of the financial problem the courses in public schools. "Government funds should of the parochial schools," the of Throughout the document, it not be used to support religious findings continued, "we propose was emphasized the church- teaching," the document stated, shared time as the most crea- state relations must be re- but added: "On the other hand, tive measure for solving this Archives examined in light of the na- it is the government's role to problem and are willing to ex- tion's pluralistic nature. support education and recog- plore other legal methods for 2020. "The necessity for new at- nize the constitutional freedom solving it." tention to the problem of of parental choice." The word "creed" was in- church-state relations arises A key paragraph in the find- serted in the reference to dis- Copyright not only from the expansion of ings said: "Since parochial ele- crimination over the objection government programs into mentary and secondary schools of delegates who noted that areas where churches and other are maintained by churches so some church-related agencies voluntary agencies have served that 'religion permeates the en- provide some services only for and continued to serve," it said, tire atmosphere' of the school, those adhering to a particular "but also from a transition of government funds should not religious group. this nation from a Protestant be authorized or appropriated The findings listed the follow- to a religiously pluralistic so- for overall support of such ing areas of broad agreement: ciety." schools as distinguished from A strong commitment to re- While not an official "policy aid in support of specific health ligious liberty as man's natural statement" of the NCC, the and welfare programs con- right and indispensible condi- general findings of the first na- ducted by such institutions to tion nf p free society. tional study conference on meet particular public needs." Recognition that ours is a EXBKMBY 20, 1964 ,

pluralistic and not simply a Rejection of over-simplified mission of network program- Protestant society. formulations such as that which ming and a reduction in adver- Acceptance and support of seeks to make religion exclu- tising time. Supreme Court decisions pro- Bachman said that in wide hibiting officially prescribed sively a private matter or to discussion of the statement it prayers and required devotion- make all public matters secular. has been interpreted as "advo- al reading of the Bible in Awareness that the functions cating censorship and rigid schools. of church and state must be control." Recognition that the Court's clearly defined as separate, yet "This is ridiculous to anyone decision places a primary re- relationships should be flexible who has read it carefully and sponsibility upon the family and enough to encompass the in- who knows the true position of the church for religious educa- creasing areas of interaction. the National Council," he said. tion. "We must distinguish carefully Opposition to any proposal Bishop James A. Pike of between rigid control and regu- such as the so-called Christian California sought and lost an lation of freedom." amendment which seeks to amendment to take out the Responsible elements of the publication. commit our government to of- word "support" from the refer- broadcasting industry want to ficial identification with a par- ence to the Supreme Court de- and strengthen self-regulation, the ticular religious tradition. cision on school devotions. chairman said, expressing hope

reuse that conversations and coopera-

for tion between the industry and Fresh Look at Many TV Problems religious broadcasters would increase. required Urged by Church Experts The NCC statement also was Popular television in many Bach man, a professor of prac- discussed in a final report to instances has exceeded religious tical theology at Union Theo- the BFC from Dr. S. Franklin Mack, the commission's retiring

Permission broadcasting efforts in the field logical Seminary, called on reli- of human relations, the new gious broadcasters to concen- executive director. chairman of the broadcasting trate on "communicating some- The scope of criticism of the

DFMS. statement and the extent of / and film commission of the Na- thing valid and substantial." tional Council of Churches said "We can never be satisfied discussion shows, he said, "how in New York. merely by attracting attention, seriously the potential of the Church In his first address to the no matter how favorable, nor church as a dynamic force is board of managers at its an- can we be satisfied to follow being regarded by the broad- nual meeting, John W. Bach- blindly the principles of show casting industry."

Episcopal man praised the series, "East business," he said, adding that "Having declared itself pub-

the Side-West Side," for its social some religious programming licly," he asserted, "the Na- of impact — and at the same time has amounted to "an amazing tional Council should stand its noted that it faces cancellation collection of sentimental blas- ground. It should insist that after a single season. phemies." it is the duty of the FCC to

Archives "We must admit our failure He suggested that churches establish clear guidelines for to promote it," he said, "but active in radio and television station operation and that it

2020. we must also point to a failure may do well to confine their should establish and enforce of the industry to give weighi efforts to a few programs minimal rules wherever self- to quality." "which might evoke a response regulation, either through non-

Copyright The series, starring George from many people" rather than acceptance or non-compliance, C. Scott as a social worker, has "scrambling to throw together proves ineffective." not produced high enough rat- many programs to be seen by Mack, a United Presbyterian ings, according to the Columbia comparatively few people." minister, left the BFC post Broadcasting System. The pro- The new chairman, who suc- after nine years. He was suc- gram's producer, David Sus- ceeded Harry C. Spencer, gen- ceeded by the Rev. William F. kind, however, has claimed the eral secretary of the Methodisr Fore, director of the Methodist reason for cancellation lies in television, radio and film com- department of visual education the refusal of some two dozer. mission, referred to a statement since 1954. Southern stations to carry the passed by the NCC's General Fore, in his first address to drama, which has an integrated Board last June which called the commission managers, cast and has denlt repeatedly for greater supervision by the pledged to "protect the artistic with racial problems. federal communications com- (Continued on Page Fifteen) THB WITNESS EDITORIALS

of the little people. They may not be too well The Dialogue Takes informed on faith, but they love God." In his talk the archbishop told of the incident A Lighter Side years ago when he was called to minister to a IT DOES NOT TAKE a long memory to recall man who had suffered a heart attack in a down- the times when the local P. E. parson, and others town Boston store. He bent over the sick man of the separated brethren, would hardly be and asked, "Do you believe in God the Father, acknowledged by the Roman Catholic parish God the Son and God the Holy Ghost?" "The man opened one eye," the cardinal related, publication. priest, and feel discomfort if they had to recog- "looked at the nurse, and said: 'I'm dying and

and nize his presence. he's asking me riddles!' " But last month the Roman Catholic Bishop of reuse Wilmington was the main speaker at the dioce- In speaking of differences in doctrine among for san convention dinner of the diocese of Dela- the Christian bodies Dr. Cushing said: "We must ware, and this month Archbishop McGucken of recognize the obstacles, but we must not quarrel required over them. We are told there is no salvation San Francisco filled the same function at the outside the church — nonsense! Nobody can dinner of the diocese of California, while Bish- tell me that Christ died on Calvary for any op Fulton Sheen spoke to the New York clericus select group." And he went on: "As the feller Permission about the Vatican Council. This sort of thing says, 'It is great to live with the saints in heaven, is happening all over the place. but it is hell to live with them on earth.'" DFMS. / In commenting on these trends Bishop Mosley It is probable that Archbishop Cushing does of Delaware has said: "Looking back from our not fit the traditional image of a bishop held by Church vantage point today it hardly seems possible that some in the Roman Church. And this recalls two families of the Christian church had had so to mind the words in the charge made by C. little to do with each other — yet we know it is Kilmer Myers to Paul Moore at his consecration

Episcopal true. The gulf between us is immense, and after as bishop suffragan in Washington: the all these years of separation, it is a matter for "Do not, I pray you, let this act of consecration of surprised and joyful thanksgiving that we are turn you into a confirmation machine and an now able to come closer. But we have a long organization man. Permit this grace to make way to go. To reach over the barriers that

Archives you into even more of a servant than you now separate us, to begin understanding each other, are. Resist the temptation to always interpret we shall be required to engage in earnest ap- 2020. the bishop's role as that of a distant reconciler. praisal of their house and of our own, and we be- When conflict arises, as in this day it shall, do lieve that is what God is calling us to do." not distort love by removing justice from its

Copyright essence .... This will be most difficult because But the developments which have come to the men who are sure they are right will attempt to fore since Pope John and the Vatican Council pull you back into the safety and security of have been to some degree anticipated in the 25 the American church. They will claim that you year episcopate of Cardinal Cushing, the arch- are not 'being a good bishop' when you enter the bishop of Boston. The other day, speaking to houses of the poor and show hospitality to the the clergy of the diocese of Massachusetts, he outcast and sinner. But remember that the asked for prayer and "sacrifice" in the creation sheep who have glimpsed the true Christ in his of a spiritual climate favorable to unity. true church, noting that your hands are hard "The ecumenical spirit will get nowhere," he and dirty with the stuff of this world, will take said, "unless we bring it down to the grass roots heart and walk joyfully the streets with you."

FEBRUARY 20, 1964 Stvm WIDER EPISCOPAL FELLOWSHIP By Stephen F. Bayne Executive Officer of the Anglican Communion FURTHER OBSERVATIONS FROM HIS RECENT REPORT TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

publication. 1963 brought a steady deepening of the ecu- these churches and Anglican provinces are in

and menical relationships known by us,' currently, terms of the Bonn agreement, and concordats of as "The Wider Episcopal Fellowship". Imagined this type were concluded, in 1963, between the

reuse by the 1930 Lambeth Conference as a "circle ot Philippine Independent Church and most of the for visible fellowship", its first historic demonstra- provinces of the Anglican communion, notably tion was seen in the Bonn agreement of 1931, the Church of England. Notable also was the which established "a state of inter-communion" establishment of such concordats between the required between the Church of England and the Old Church of England and the two churches of the Catholic Churches. Iberian Peninsula, for so long a peculiar care of By the next Lambeth Conference, in 1948, the Church of Ireland and, latterly, of PECUSA

Permission similar agreements had brought the whole An- as well. glican household into full communion with the The forthcoming conference will be deeply

DFMS. Old Catholic Churches, and it was possible for welcomed by the churches of our communion. It / the conference to speak of "a larger episcopal is no dilution of that welcome to note some of the unity" and recommend "an episcopal conference, cautions and hesitations expressed by many —

Church advisory in character, for brotherly counsel and Anglicans as well as others — as we move into encouragement". a clearer articulation of this fellowsship. By 1958 the group of churches so designated Some see in it the birth of a third force, ecu- Episcopal had considerably increased, and the conference menically — a bloc of like-minded churches, an the renewed its recommendation that a conference of episcopalian super-confession, to complicate still of this "Wider Episcopal Fellowship" be held. In further the ecumenical scene. April, 1964, such a conference will be held, Others are uncomfortable at an ecclesiastical thanks to Your Grace's initiative, in Canterbury, Archives intimacy which seems to shut out Christians thus fulfilling a hope of more than thirty years' with whom we have close and warm friendship

2020. standing. within our own societies. Again, there is a This ecumenical configuration was defined by measure of restlessness at what seems a unique the Lambeth Conference as those churches and disproportionate emphasis on the historic

Copyright "possessing the historic episcopate with which episcopate. So one could continue to list the am- churches and provinces of the Anglican commun- biguities and limitations inherent in this fellow- ion are in full communion or in a relation of in- ship, as it presently exists, which are a source ter-communion". At present eight churches or of concern to the churches within it as well as groups of churches are so designated — the Old outside. Catholic Churches (including the Polish Nation- al Catholic Church in the United States), the What The Fellowship Is Churches of Finland, South India, and Sweden, ONE WOULD rightly distrust any easy reas- the Lusitanian and Spanish Reformed Episcopal surance on this score. But certain clear convic- Churches, the Philippine Independent Church, tions are held, by Anglicans and others, on which and the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. a sound and reassuring perspective can be Increasingly, formal relationships between founded. One is the recognition of the incom-

Eight THE WITNESS plete and arbitrary and even accidental character known greatness and depth in our understand- of the relationships which constitute the Wider ing of the church, of unity, of mission. Episcopal Fellowship at this point. In this, it is essential that we continue to press It is not an organization or a club; it has no the implications of full communion, in develop- structure; it has no clear definition of itself. ing every channel of mutual responsibility and It is no more than what its description implies— interdependence with the other churches with an association of churches within the Catholic whom we are so closely united. The communion Church which have special ties with Anglican we share with the Old Catholics or the Philippine provinces because they share what Anglicans Independent Church is not a different one than hold to be essential constituent elements of the what Anglicans share. Therefore the summons visible church. This fellowship does not pretend to responsibility and interdependence must con- to be itself a church or an organization of trol our participation in the Wider Episcopal churches. It is a fellowship which shares a Fellowship. peculiar intensity of relationship, and becomes Where churches in full communion share a thereby a partial but real pattern of unity with- common country, the implications of full com- in a far wider if less intense companionship. munion are easy to see. But our life in the An- publication. glican Communion has taught us long ago that Second, each of the churches involved shares and interdependence knows no national barriers. fully in other relationships, outside the Fellow-

reuse ship. Indeed, as in the case of the Church of

for South India, for example, the ties it has with non-episcopal churches may be far stronger than those it shares within the Fellowship. This Make Use of Lent required would be true, indeed, of Anglican provinces as By W. B. Spofford Jr. well. Dean of Cathedral, Boise, Idaho Third, this Fellowship has reality and power WE RECENTLY had one of those days which

Permission only as it is expressed in witness and service. A relationship of full communion is dangerous — made us have the temperament of an outraged if it is not impotent — as long as it remains bear. It was pick pick here and pick pick there. DFMS. Each letter which was opened exuded, not grace, / largely theoretical. Where distance or cultural barriers or traditional alignments are allowed to but a problem and a decision to be made. Human beings encountered became, increasingly, less

Church make and keep this sacramental brotherhood theoretical, merely ceremonial, merely a diplo- sacred objects of God than barriers to be hur- matic courtesy, we need not be astonished if the dled or frustrating barricades which had to be unity of the church does not even suffer in the knocked down. It was a day of shameful glory- Episcopal end. ing in self-pity, distortion, and crashing through the God's creation. of Only as communio in sacris yields its holy And then, walking through the state house gifts of communion in the gospel — a mission grounds, we met a friend. He was sitting on shared, a judgment accepted in common, a single

Archives one of the benches in the cold, looking at some witness, a life of interdependent brotherhood — squirrels going about their scavanging business. is the greatness of the sacramental privilege

2020. I sat down and, for ten minutes, we watched in fulfilled. When we deliberately plan our involve- silence, after having said hello. Then, we got ment with one another, moving from the altar up and said that it was nice to see each other into the world, then this partial unity may be-

Copyright and went our respective ways. come a foretaste of the final unity in Christ for Lent, it seems to me, provides us with this which we pray. kind of opportunity to look at the reality which is far beyond us but, at the same time, is so No National Barriers intimately close. It is a time when values can get BECAUSE we hold these convictions, it is easy straightened out and new perspectives achieved to understand the longing Anglicans feel for a —or, at least, old perspectives seen once again. deepening and strengthening of the Fellowship. Much that we do is meaningless activity without We do not know what it will yield in time; we God and, with some concept of God behind it, do not even know how to describe it. What we becomes enriching and creative. feel is that God has led us, in this growing as- There is mystery about this. I thank him for sociation, closer to the discovery of a now-un- the mystery!

FEBKUARY 20, 1964 N»n« HOW THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OPERATES By John C. Leffler Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle AN EXPLANATION OF OUR SET-UP ON THE EVE OF THE ELEC- TION OF A BISHOP COADJUTOR ONE OF THE FAULTS of the clergy, in which AT THE BASIS of all this, however, are certain I most certainly share, is the assumption that fundamental democratic procedures which are because we know the organizational structure of carefully guarded. The members of a parish or the church, our lay people do also. mission at annual meetings elect their vestry- Every now and then, I am reminded that this men and delegates to the diocesan convention. In is not so, and that the old comment about the the diocesan convention the interests of both clergy and laity are safeguarded by the privilege publication. clergyman "overestimating his congregation's information, and underestimating their intelli- of voting "by orders" when requested, and in and gence" is often too true. This has happened re- amending the constitution or electing a bishop voting "by orders" is required.

reuse cently through questions arising out of the forth-

for coming election of a Bishop Coadjutor. There- This protects the clergy from being swamped fore I want to try to increase your information. by the much larger number of lay votes, and sometimes protects the laity from being domi- required The one central fact about the structure of the nated by the clergy. The church, while abiding Episcopal Church in America is that it is a con- by majority rule at every level, does safeguard stitutional church in which functions are the rights of minorities in all its legislative as- specifically assigned by canon law, at every

Permission semblies more than the secular government level from the parish to the general church. does. These functions are delegated by democratic

DFMS. procedure at all levels to representative officials

/ Office of Bishop who then administer the church's affairs. In other words, our's is a typical American THE FUNDAMENTAL unit of our church is Church institution — neither an autocracy nor a pure the diocese. At the parish level we often forget democracy — but representative. Our diocesan this is our human concern with that which is conventions are like state legislatures; our Gen- closest to us. Episcopal eral Convention like Congress with the House of The diocese is the fundamental unit not solely the Representatives and the House of Bishops sim- for administrative purposes, but because since of ilar to the Senate. At the local level, the parish earliest times the church in a given area ga- vestry is similar to the city council. thered around a chief pastor whom we call bish- op; has been called his diocese. The word Epis- Archives The church, however, is more completely copal means precisely this: a church ruled by representative than the secular government.

2020. bishops. Therefore without a bishop, there is There is no provision for referendum in our no Episcopal church. canon law. A bishop is not elected by vote of all The office of bishop is primary to our institu- the members of the diocese, but by the clergy Copyright tional structure. He is the chief pastor or shep- and lay representatives of parishes and missions herd of the flock of Christ in his diocese; he is voting in this instance, as two houses of the con- the chief administrator of the affairs of the vention, with agreement necessary to an elec- church; he is charged with safeguarding the tion. faith from "strange doctrine" and with exercis- Neither is a rector elected by vote of the con- ing discipline when necessary with the clergy. gregation, but by their representatives on the He is also the chief ordaining power in the vestry. The four clergymen and four laymen making of ministers. who are the deputies from the diocese to the Gen- All of this, however, is an authority limited eral Convention are elected by the diocesan con- by the constitution and canon law both of the vention, as our Senators used to be elected by Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and state legislatures rather than by popular vote. of the diocese. He is not an absolute autocrat

THE WITNESS but a chief pastor to whom are delegated by law When there is no bishop, or when he is absent the functions stated above, and while the office for more than three months, the standing com- of bishop carries with it a real authority it is mittee becomes the interim ecclesiastical au- in our church moral and spiritual even more thority in all matters except ordinations and than legal. He is a "strong executive", but still confirmations. And when, as last month, the one who is subject to the checks and balances of bishop finds it necessary to ask for assistance our governmental system. it is the standing committee which calls the special convention for that purpose. Checks and Balances THE DETERMINATIONS of these constitution- Examining Chaplains al limitations at the national level is vested in the THE SECOND of what might be called the "Big General Convention which meets every three Three" groups to which are delegated impor- years to legislate for the whole Episcopal tant functions in the diocese is the board of Church. But like the federal constitution, other examining chaplains. limitations on the delegatal authority of the This body is composed entirely of priests ap- publication. bishop are left to the determination of the indi- pointed by the bishop and are responsible di-

and vidual dioceses within the broad framework laid rectly to him rather than to the diocesan con- out by the General Church. vention. In fact, the term "chaplain" is used reuse One of these checks and balances is the stand- here in the old sense of assisting the bishop in for ing committee, composed of clergy and laity, an important function. which in certain ways shares the ecclesiastical Every bishop I have known has picked as authority of the bishop as representatives of the examining chaplains men of some scholarly abil- required diocesan convention. In this diocese there are ity in one or more fields because it is their re- four clergy and four laymen each elected for a sponsibility to examine all candidates for holy four year term, with the clergymen serving his orders in the various subjects required in the

Permission fourth year as the President. (That is the intellectual training of our ministers — such as "why" of my presidency just now.) The chief holy scriptures, church history, theology, ethics delegated functions of the standing committee and moral theology, canon law, and others. DFMS. / are these: The best explanation of their function is to • All candidates for holy orders, and all de- liken canonical examinations in a diocese to the Church siring to be made deacon or priest, must have state board examinations in law, medicine, and the consent of the standing committee in each dentistry where the candidate has to satisfy his instance. future associates that he is qualified to practice Episcopal his profession, even though he has just gradu-

the • When a bishop is elected by any diocese ated from an accredited school. of the majority of the standing committees of all This seeming duplication has something to be the dioceses must consent to that election; for said for it. It serves as a constant check on the elsewhere as here in our own election, both quality of our seminaries, makes it necessary Archives clergy and laity of the entire church have a stake for the candidate to review the whole range of in the advancement of any man to be a bishop of 2020. three years study, and acts as a further guaran- the church of God. tee that no man gets into the ministry easily or • No church property in the diocese may be lightly. (Having been a chaplain, it also keeps

Copyright sold by any parish or mission without the con- a man long since out of school on "the toes of his sent of the standing committee. mind!") Therefore, the standing committee can recom- • No indebtedness beyond 150% of the mend no man for ordination by the bishop, until regular income of a parish or mission may be the examining chaplains certify to his intel- incurred without the consent of the standing lectual qualifications, thus providing another committee. check on authority which is at the heart of our governmental system. Interim Authority IN ALL these instances the standing committee Diocesan Council and the bishop act in agreement, thus indicating THE DIOCESAN COUNCIL is the final group the sharing of the ecclesiastical authority. sharing primary authority in our organized life.

FEBRUABY 20, 1964 Eleven In the recent re-vamping of the structure of the constituted council is to serve as a planning and diocese of Olympia the council became a policy making body looking beyond the present thoroughly representative group chosen partly year to 1965 and even further. What should be by the annual convention and also by the eight the goals of the Church in western Washington regional convocations of the diocese with only a for the years ahead? What steps should be few ex officio members. Formerly with a ma- planned toward the ultimate achievement of jority appointed by the bishop, it is now almost these goals? What leadership can the Council entirely elected from among the clergy and laity. give to the diocese in thinking and action? In some respects its functions are similar to It is obvious in all I have tried to say that the the vestry's. The council is the board of direc- bishop is the central figure in the structure of tors of the diocesan corporation, and occupies a the church. Without the ancient, apostolic au- relationship to the bishop similar to that of ves- thority residing in the office of bishop our's try and rector. The bishop is the president of would cease to be the reformed Catholic church the council. It determines the budget to be pre- which it is. Therefore, the choice of a bishop sented to the annual convention, and has other is the most important thing a diocese ever does. fiscal responsibilities, leaving to the bishop and This is why we pray for the guidance of the Holy publication. his staff the administration. Spirit on February 29th, when we gather in and But the most important function of the re- special convention to elect a bishop coadjutor. reuse for HYPNOSIS AND CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT required By Joseph Wittkofski Canon to the Ordinary, Pittsburgh

Permission ITS RELIGIOUS USE IS EXPLAINED IN AN ADDRESS IN TORONTO. OTHER DFMS. / DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADA ARE REPORTED ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Church

Episcopal FROM THE DAYS of Jesus, Christian people, in covers within himself potentialities which he

the their scripture study, have been "slow of heart previously lacked. of to believe." Attentively, they may read their In one way or in another, the experience of Bibles and remain completely unaware of any Elisha is often repeated in the Bible. In 1 Kings 3:5-12, we read about Solomon, after his sacri-

Archives described hypnotic experience. They may look fices at Gibeon, how God appeared to him in a at the words of Solomon, "I sleep, but my heart dream and endowed him with the gift of a "wise 2020. waketh," and see nothing more than a bit of w* understanding heart." poetry. Likewise, in the episode of Elisha, We discover St. Matthew to be very precise under the juniper tree, all of the elements of in his account of Joseph and his acceptance of Copyright hypnotic induction are to be found but the fact Mary. The evangelist wrote, "But while he is rarely appreciated — please read I Kings, thought on these things, behold, the angel of the chapter 19, verses 4-8. Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, In the Biblical narrative of the determining Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto event in Elisha's life, we see him in a state of thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived distracted meditation o!r contemplation. This in her is the Holy Ghost." situation leds to a depth-dialogue with God who clearly has been found within the inner recesses The Transfiguration of the prophet's psyche. Through personal con- A MOST DRAMATIC episode of the New Testa- tact with the source of power and truth, Elisha ment deals with Christ's Transfiguration. We develops an extension of awareness and he dis- cannot avoid the conclusion that here Jesus used

Twelve THE WITNESS his knowledge of religious hypnotics for the deep employed hypnosis within the framework of reconditioning of his favorite Apostles to widen spiritual exercise, have sometimes done so with their understanding of him and of his mission. phen6menal results. The case of Edgar Cayce, We ourselves may widen our own understanding who without any medical training, became one if we carefully consider the principal elements of the really great diagnosticians of our times, of the gospel-narrative. We see that Jesus took surely indicates the possible results of the widen- "Peter and John and James, and went up into a ing of consciousness through religious hypnotic mountain to pray." The Apostles indeed passed experience. into a trance-state since "Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep." But like Case of Marjorie common hypnotic experience, this was a waking sleep. The voice from the cloud, which the LESS SPECTACULAR than Cayce's was the Apostles heard, served eventually to widen their recent experience of Marjorie. The friends of consciousness about the nature of Christ and of this woman considered her to be an outstanding his work. After the Saviour's departure from member of her parish. They were shocked the world, the Transfiguration-experience was to when they heard that she had left her husband publication. have an ever growing meaning for his followers. and had already consulted a lawyer about a and We would do well to consider the vision of divorce. For years, Marjorie and Tom seemed Peter with reference to Cornelius of which we well mated. In spite of the bitterness of her reuse read in the Acts of the Apostles. Here, Petei-'s situation, some of Marjorie's friends prevailed for praying is explicitly related to his falling into a upon Marjorie to take her case to a clergyman trance. Through the enlightening experience, who used hypnosis in pastoral counseling. required the Apostle is made more fully aware that the After a few exploratory sessions, her devastat- redemptive work of Christ was divinely intended ing personality problem was brought to the sur- for all people. face. At no time, during marriage, had Marjorie been able to approach sexual maturity. She Permission Wider Awareness knew Tom was a fine man but she had reached the point where she could tolerate him only if

DFMS. THE GROWTH of human personality in the

/ she was in a semi-drunken condition. Through divine dimension almost always seems to sug- the religious application of hypnosis toward re- gest a widening of awareness. Human existence habilitation, Marjorie's narrowed consciousness Church in a material environment tends to narrow the was widened. field of consciousness. If we take time to examine ourselves, we will likely discover that Soon, she was able to look into the face of her

Episcopal our labors, our aims, our self-interests, our fami- sinister shadow-Ego. By means of her broaden-

the lies, and our associations have a narrowing effect ing vision of herself, she was able to go back of on our personalities. Through the neglect of our through the years of her life and properly deal inner selves, in the quest of realization outside with some ugly and buried experiences which has ourselves, we flee reality. Damnation might be continued to exercise unconscious domination Archives described as the complete and final contraction over her personality. In pre-puberty years, she of awareness. had been the victim of sexual assault on several 2020. On the contrary, sustained well-being and un- occasions. The deeply planted revulsion was so folding happiness require positive personal pro- intense that Marjorie found it impossible to be a wife.

Copyright gress toward wider awareness. Hence, the ulti- mate purpose of prayer-life, with its forms of As a result of her widening understanding of meditation and/or contemplation, represents herself, she had come to a place where she could personal activity toward wholesomeness and "talk-out" her real problem with her husband. salvation. In almost no time, Marjorie and Tom were as Because the application of hypnosis in the happy as newly-weds. spiritual area describes a puzzling phenomenon, Appreciated or not, many of life's experiences not commonly understood, it may provoke either tend to contract the consciousness of a person- a negative response or a positive resentment. Not ality. These contractions may concern both the many understand Simone Weil when she writes Ego and the shadow-Ego. Possibilities of the that absolute attention is absolute prayer. The present situation and permanent well-being may comparatively few Christian people, who have be affected. For each one of us, it is not suf-

FEBRUARY 20, 1964 TTiirteen ficient that truth exists but the same truth must Michael Scriven, professor of the history and be comprehended. Through the comprehension, logic of science at Indiana University, is reported we gain "power to become the sons of God." to have said that most modern medical "cures" are really the result of faith. "Many cures at- Anxiety Provides Incentive tributed to drugs," Dr. Scriven said, " are really A GROWING AWARENESS does not mean that caused by people's faith in the medicine and in all struggle in personality will be eliminated, in- the doctor. In most cases, similar results could stead, strength can be generated to deal with probably be achieved with sugar pills." fear, anxiety, and frustration. When tension is not properly relaxed, it contributes toward the The sentiments of Dr. Scriven emphasize the contraction of awareness. Eventually, the hu- gross injustice of the U.S. food and drug ad- man psyche begins to gnaw at itself and to create ministration in seeking to halt the use of Kre- even more intolerable forms of inner tension. biozen in the treatment of cancer. When admin- istered without any suggestion or with a nega- Many in this miserable condition reach for tive suggestion, the drug may be useless; when Uanquilizers. j.n a recent condemnation of tran- publication. given, however, with a positive suggestion, faith quilizers, Dr. Dorothy K. Nash, noted neuro- and surgeon, suggested that "a little anxiety may makes the drug effective. Dr. Ivy of the Uni- provide incentive for greater effort." From a versity of Illinois could point out a host of cancer reuse Christian viewpoint, Dr. Nash is probably cor- victims who had been helped with Krebiozen. for rect wnen sne holus that the use of tranquilizers In this same line of thought, when a govern- may dull a lot of psychogenic tension with a con- ment board issues a widely heralded pronounce- ment and undertakes a propaganda campaign to required sequence that a growing state of indifference may more and more cause life to be viewed as a the effect that there seems to be a link between meaningless experience. cigarette smoking and cancer, the implied nega- tive suggestions may well double and triple the

Permission When people settle themselves in a particular rate of cancer among smokers. field of awareness, they deny themselves the ability to live to the hilt of their divinely in-

DFMS. The Mustard Seed / tended capacities. Failure to expand results in AGAINST the torrent of negative suggestions, contraction. With this in mind, we may see the sincere religious person finds protection in

Church great psychological insight in some of the puzzl- faith. The mustard-seed of faith, as it is made ing words of Jesus. For example, we read, "For to grow through attentive prayer and meditation, whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he produces an awareness which tends toward es-

Episcopal shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath sential goodness and wholeness. With reason, not, from him shall be taken even that he hath." the St. Paul urged the Ephesians above all else to of The practices of the devout life, widening the take the shield of faith. fields of awareness, in consequence, more fully We can no longer separate Christian psy-

Archives activate the virtue of faith. Research data sug- chology from mystical theology and fundamental gests that faith can be magnified through Christian spirituality. Clinical theology is not

2020. hypnotic experience. Christians, with vision, a diagnostic exercise but it should be a real pas- have pointed out the determining role of faith in toral pursuit. Can the church's ministry neglect human living. The Apostle wrote, "Therein is any tool which might serve to graft an expand-

Copyright the righteousness of God revealed from faith to ing Christ-consciousness upon the contracted and faith: as it is written, The just shall live by shrivelling personalities in his cure? St. James faith." told his readers to "receive with meekness the There is faith and, indeed, there is faith. Re- engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." ligious faith truly has far greater potential than This engrafting is a psychological effect pro- has the natural variety. But, in a faithless age, duced by the exercise of religion. natural faith is better than nothing at all and Our terminology may be more developed today the faith of the natural order may well become but much th^t is classified as hypnotic has al- a stepping-stone to religious faith. ways been a portion of Christian spirituality. Some scientists, today, sense the value of Conversely, research into hypnotism also gives faith in human personality. Some time ago, Dr. us new light upon the Christian inner life.

Fourteen TBB WITNESS FRESH LOOK AT TV order to serve sacrifically for (Continued from Page Six) mobility of the clergy." integrity" of the staff, and to The assembly received the "seek and encourage actively a controversial Paul report, which flow of creative imagination." calls for tradition - shattering He called for a "fresh look" changes in the deployment of at the "many problems" facing Anglican clergy. The report, the commission, saying an the result of an extensive study initial effort will be to increase into the life and conditions of the relation of denominations the clergy, was produced by a to "the decision-making areas prominent sociologist, Leslie Al- of the broadcasting and film in- lan Paul, who is research direc- dustries ..." tor for the central advisory publication. Other immediate tasks, he council for the ministry. (Wit- ness, 1/30). and said, concern strengthening of interdenominational audio-visu- The Bishop of Woolwich, reuse al efforts and to build support John A. T. Robinson, predicted for of the commission by various that unless most of the recom- denominations. mendations of the Paul report The annual meeting also fea- W. A. VISSER 't HOOFT:—things were acted on, there would be required are better but there still are a great decline in the life and tured a testimonial dinner hon- questions oring Mack. In a main address, vigor of Anglican churches. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, long- vocate unrestricted freedom of The Archbishop of York

Permission time Methodist radio preacher, religion today "appears to be pleaded with the churchmen not praised the outgoing official. still engaged in obsolete power to look back to "Good Queen Dr. Sockman also declared thinking." Victoria's glorious days" but to DFMS.

/ that the church "must do more make the church an effective to reach and arouse America's On mixed marriages he said instrument in the twentieth intellectuals" and warned that Rome "cannot continue its century. Church against "conditioning mass present practice and simultane- media communication . . . main- ously claim a new ecumenical ACTION ON RACE ly for middle class sentimental attitude." IN ATLANTA

Episcopal minds." POSTPONE MARRIAGE -k Christian education courses the "America is suffering from on prejudice and church signs of ASKS ARCHBISHOP the inertia of the intelligent al- welcoming people of all nation- most as much as from the ir- •k The Archbishop of Canter- alities were endorsed, but four responsibility of the ignorant," bury proposed in London that other resolutions on the racial Archives he said, suggesting that "if young men entering the minis- issue were killed at the Atlanta necessary, we should subsidize try should agree to remain un- convention. 2020. some high level educational married for at least four years Some 70 clergymen and 200 programs in religion to reach in order to provide more mobile those who feel above popular- lay delegates representing 71 man-power for the church. The northern Georgia congregations

Copyright ized religion." proposal was made at the spring passed a resolution recommend- session of the church assembly. QUESTIONS RAISED ing development of courses for both children and adults on BY VISSER 't HOOFT "There is a great desire that we should have more unmarried racial prejudice. * Hailing the "excellent" re- clergy," said Dr. Ramsey. "I The other adopted resolution lations between the World do not think the church desires directed that each church in the Council and the Vatican, W. A. an all-celibate priesthood in the diocese affix a sign stating: Visser 't Hooft, secretary of least. It is right that the ma- "People of all races and nation- WCC, said there are many jority should be married, but alities are welcome in this questions to be discussed. there is a great desire that church. This is none other than In a tv interview in Berlin he more and more should remain the house of God." said that whoever does not ad- unmarried for four years in Two efforts failed, however, FEBRUARY 20, 1964 Fifteen to approve a $500 contribution BISHOP TAYLOR ELECTED thirds majority. Within min- from the diocese to the Nation- IN SOUTH AFRICA utes the laity approved and so al Council "to assist in the • Bishop Robert S. Taylor of notified the 13 bishops waiting Church's ministry in the racial Grahamstown, South Africa, in an adjoining room. A burst of cheering from the bishops crisis." was elected Archbishop of Capetown and Metropolitan of indicated that they had elected, Also turned down was a move the province of South Africa. also by a necessary two-thirds to set aside "a sum of money to The election was somewhat majority. be used in emergencies arising of a surprise since many had from the teaching of the church predicted the election of a per- TEXAS EPISCOPALIANS HEAR CATHOLIC PRELATE on racial matters," on grounds son less critical of the Apar- that discretionary funds were theid policy of the government. * Coadjutor Bishop John L. available for this purpose. Following his election Bishop Morkovsky of Galveston-Hous- Taylor stressed that he would ton, first Roman Catholic pre- A resolution requesting that follow the footsteps of his late to address the Episcopal apartments owned by the di- predecessors in fearlessly criti- Texas diocese urged continuing ocese be rented "without regard cizing any government policy discussions of "differences of publication. to race" was ruled unnecessary which he believes to be unjust. theology" among Christians. and since the diocese already has The elective assembly, com- stated its opposition to segre- At the same time he warned posed of laity, clergy and bish- against personal advantages reuse gation. ops who vote separately, had and personal selfishness in for In addition, the delegates deliberated three full days be- Protestant-Catholic dialogues. voted against a resolution fore the new archbishop was requesting that the word suddenly elected. The clergy, Quoting the late Pope John, required "colored" be deleted from the who vote first, at the close of Bishop Morkovsky said: "We Church Annual pertaining to the third day, elected Bishop must become the type of Chris- Fort Valley State College. Taylor with the necessary two- tians that the Christians of the first century were." Permission At its 115th convention, the diocese approved a watered

DFMS. down resolution which "strong- / A N N O U N C IN G ly" urged its congregations to eliminate racial discrimination.

Church The original version directed the new :'all institutions and congrega- tions of the church in the di-

Episcopal Church ocese of Texas to eliminate race £S a factor ..." the

of Also killed before passage of comprehensive the resolution was a section calling on "all our members to

Archives support civil rights legislation policy that reasonably and effectively

2020. One policy instead of several, with broader coverages for administers social justice." a single, lower premium. INot just a "package" policy CONSECRATIONS but a comprehensive program custom-made for Episco-

Copyright COMING UP pal Church properties. Write for complete information. * Arthur Lichtenberger, Pre- siding Bishop, will consecrate the Rev. L. R. Romero and Dean Melchor Saucedo as suf- 4. CHURCH w&vdi. fragan bishops in Mexico City on March 1. Affiliated with THE CHURCH PENSION FUND The Presiding Bishop will 20 Exchange Place • New York 5, N. Y. also be the consecrator of Arch- deacon George E. Rath as suf- NAME fragan of Newark on March 6, ADDRESS at a service in Trinity Cathe- dral. SixtrcH THE WOMEN STILL HAVING six-weeks tour, his 14th post- racial discrimination. A HARD TIME war visit. He will lecture in A Negro delegate, the Rev. * In the church in any case New York, Cleveland, Milwau- David Bickerson of Durham, — Western New York again kee, Dubuque, Chicago, St. said the action of the conven- Voted down a resolution to Louis and Kansas City, Mo., in tion had put Negro communi- allow them to serve on vestries cants on the spot and made and as delegates. So a special addition to his New Haven his own participation in the committee was set up by the visit. convention "almost a mockery." convention to study the matter. In other actions, the session In a report, Mrs. Albert M. OLYMPIA ELECTS authorized the drafting of a Patterson, president of the NEXT WEEK canon permitting women to Episcopal Churchwomen, told serve on vestries and on mis- the convention that "the time * Olympia is to elect a coad- sion committees. has come for the wall to be re- jutor bishop at a special con- It also asked parishes to co- moved so there is no longer one vention at St. Mark's Cathe- operate with all other Christian program for women and an- dral, Seattle, Feb. 29. The elec- bodies — Protestant, Orthodox publication. tion was made necessary be- and Roman Catholic — in the other for the rest of the par- cause of the illness of Bishop and furtherance of the Christian ish." Lewis. Delegates defeated a motion gospel, to provide study and dis- reuse to bar reporters, women observ- The election prompted Dean cussion sessions on inter-church for ers and all others except dele- Leffler, president of the stand- relationships and to initiate gates from hearing the debate, ing committee, to write for his inter-church services. after the Very Rev. Harry W. parish paper the article found The diocese asked the exam- required Heermans of Orchard Park on page ten — an excellent job ining chaplains and the depart- asked: "What's the matter? we think you will agree. ment of missions to make a Are we afraid of the women?" study of the church's changing Of the church's 101 dioceses, POSTPONE ACTION ministry to rural and small Permission only 38 permit women to vote ON INTEGRATION town congregations and to ex- plore methods to meet their in vestries and conventions. * The diocese of North DFMS. problems. / Carolina declined — despite re- NUCLEAR WEAPONS peated pleas from some dele- It also requested an investi- CONTROL gates — to take a stand now on gation into the effectiveness of Church perpetual deacons. * The church assembly in racial integration of institu- England this month approved tions wholly of partly owned by UN ACTION URGED by a large majority a resolution the diocese. BY WCC Episcopal urging the country to give up Instead, the diocese estab- * A cable to UN Secretary the its status as a nuclear power. lished a deadline — 1965 — for General U Thant from World of It favors, as does the British the institutions to "make a Council of Churches executives council of churches, control of clear statement" regarding in session in Odessa, Russia ex- such weapons by NATO. their racial policies.

Archives pressed hope that the interna- The convention tabled a mo- tional political organization will NIEMOLLER LECTURES tion that would have cut off 2020. move effectively against the AT BERKELEY denominational funds to any severe refugee situation in Cen- •*• The Rev. Martin Niemoller, institution which practices tral Africa. a president of the World Coun-

Copyright cil of Churches, is to lecture February 24 at Berkeley Divini- ty School on the gospel and conventional Christianity. The Civil Rights Struggle, 1830-1865 He will be in the U.S. for a By Gardiner M. Day Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.

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FEBRUARY 20, 1964 Seventeen The executive committee was GENERAL PROFESSOR His report was our Story of holding business sessions for IN DELAWARE the Week in Jan. 30 issue, and the first time in the Soviet * Prof. H. Boone Porter is his name bobs up frequently in Union. presently in Delaware assisting our pages since the Church of Signed by 0. Frederick Nolde about fifty diocesan leaders in England has not yet acted of- and Sir Kenneth Grubb, direc- ficially on his study. tor and chairman, respectively, a survey of the opportunities and needs facing the church of the council's commission of PUTTING MONEY IN the churches on international today. THE METERS affairs, the cable relayed the The group is taking a hard concern of other WCC leaders look not only at the inner city * Trinity, Iowa City, has a and commented that the Afri- but also at rural areas. Recom- city parking lot across the can situation "according to mendations will be made so street. It is free on Sunday available evidence, has marks that the diocese may take but worshippers feed the of genocide." measures to broaden and im- meters anyhow as a gesture of prove its ministry. appreciation to the city.

publication. SOCIETY ADVOCATES TRANSFERS and BISFOP SMITH LEADS * Episcopalians were urged QUIET DAY THB PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH reuse by the Society for Cultural and * Bishop Gordon Smith of New York for Racial Unity to transfer to Iowa led an inter-church quiet REV. JOHN Hsnss, D. D., RECTOR congregations of "predominant- day on Feb. 1 at St. Paul's, Du- TRINITY ly another color." rant. sponsored jointly by the Broadway & Wall St. required The Rev. John B. Morris, Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicar parish and a local Methodist Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. executive head, said that the church. It was for clergy of EP 3:30; DaUy MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Sat. suggested transfer was a logi- 12:30 Tues., Wed & Thurs., EP 5:15 «x all churches in the area. Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt.

Permission cal next step to the P.B.'s mes- sage of last year which called LESLIE PAUL ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL on church people to take action Broadway & Fulton St. AT KENYON Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, Vicar DFMS. against segregation in the / church. -k Leslie Paul, who made Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Sei. 10; Weekdays; HC 8 (Thurs. also at 7:30) 12:05 ex. Sat.; that study on the clergy and Int. & Bible Study 1:05 ex. Sat.; EP 3; C

Church their jobs which has caused a °ri. 3:30-5:30 & by appt.; Organ Recital GIBSON WINTER Wednesday 12:30. AT P.D S. stir in England, will be a lec- turer at Kenyon College for the CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION • The Rev. Gibson Winter, second semester. Broadway & 155th St. Episcopal Episcopalian professor at Leslie J. A. Lang, Vicar the Chicago Divinity School, lec- Sundays 8, 9, 11; Weekdays: Mon. Fri. of tured at Philadelphia Divinity CASSOCKS Sat. 9; Tues. 8; Wed. 10; Thurs. 7. School, Feb. 17 on the ministry EUCHARtSTIC VESTMENTS ST. LUKE'S CHAPEL in today's world. 487 Hudson St. Archives AU Embroidery Is Hand Done \LTAR HANGINGS and LINENS Rev. Paul C. Weed, Jr., Vicar Materials by the yard. Kits for Sun. HC 8, 9:15 & 11; Daily HC 7 & 8. 2020. Altar Hangings and Eucharistic Vestments C Sat. 5-6, 8-9, by appt. STAINED GLASS J. M. HALL. INC. ST. AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL COMMUNION WARE SURPLICE - CHOIR VESTMENTS Rev. Wm. Reed, Vicar

Copyright EMBROIDERIES 14 W. 40th St., New York 18, N. Y. Rev. Thomas P. Logan, (Priest-in-cJiarge) J TEL CH 4-1070 Sundays: 7 a.m. Low Mass, 8 a.m. Low Mast. 9 a.m. Morning Prayer, 9:15 a.m. Solemn High Mass, 10:30 a.m. Low Mass in Spanish 5 p.m. Evening Prayer; Weekdays: 7:15 a.m. Morning Prayer, 7:30 a.m. Low Mass, 5 p.m. SHARING Evening Prayer. Christian Healing in the Church ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHAPEL Write us for Onlv Church magazine devoted to Spiritual Therapy, $2.00 a year. Sample on request. 48 Henry Street Founded by Rev. John Gaynor Banks. D.S.T. Rev. William W. Reed, Vicar This fafer is recommended 'oy many Organ Information Sun. MP 7:45, HC 8, 9:30, 11 (Spanish), Bishops and Clergy. EP 5:15; Mon. - Thurs. MP 7:45, HC 8 AUSTIN ORGANS. Inc. Address: 6 Thurs. 5:30; Fri. MP 8:45, HC 9; S«t. FELLOWSHIP OF ST. LUKE MP 9:15, HC 9:30; EP Daily 5:15; C Sat. Hartford, Conn. 2243 Front St. San Diego 1, Calif. 4-5, 6:30 - 7:30 & by appt.

Eighteen THE WITNESS how they could . . . add any in the dispute with Panama. effort to man the evergrowing We now have various countries • BACKFIRE • frontier." with whom there are difficul- Actually Bishop Griswold, in ties for various reasons. contrast to Bishop Hobart with Constance Vulliamy There seems to be greater Churchwoman of Parkville, Mo. whom he is frequently paired, was deeply interested in mis- need to heed the exhortations This is about the death of sions, especially foreign mis- of Jesus, the prince of peace. Medgar Evers in Mississippi. sions. He was not only a lead- "Love thy neighbor as thy- There are several needs that er in founding our Domestic and self" has stronger meaning follow this tragic shooting: 1. Foreign Missionary Society but than ever before. In Asia, His family needs help; 2. A was greatly distressed that, iii Africa and Latin America we large group of Americans needs order to get it established, he seem to be involved in difficul- to express its position about had to compromise on the name ties which may lead to war at this tragedy; 3. Something ef- and let Domestic preceed For- any time. And an atomic war fective needs to be said to the eign. governor and the people of would result in extermination A glance at page 14 of David of both nations involved, ac- publication. Mississippi. W. Norton, Jr's., pamphlet An idea has been conceived cording to eminent scientists. and "Alexander Viets Griswold of that might accomplish these New England" (Builders for Let us therefore follow the purposes in one act. It is pro- Biblical injunction and thus reuse Christ series by the National posed that Governor Barnett's contribute to world peace. for Council) or a look at the top of desk be flooded with envelopes p. 253 of Manross's "History of containing checks for $1.00, the Episcopal Church" will required automatically making him trus- show you some of this concern MARRIAGE TODAY tee of money that he can only and work for missions outside By deliver to the Evers family. An of New England. attorney says that the checks However, the information Dr. Albert Reissner Permission should be made out exactly as about his distress over the Psychiatrist of Brooklyn, N. Y. follows: "Ross Barnett, Trustee name of the society came down of Memorial Fund of Family of A Reprint as a pamphlet DFMS. to me through my ancestors / Medgar Evers." These checks who were his descendants and of his lecture at Trinity should be mailed to Governor were themselves missionaries. Ross Barnett, State Capitol, Church, New York. Church Jackson, Mississippi. Ralph A. Bell a copy $2 for ten Those interested are doing Layman of Hartford, Conn. this, and are also transmitting The Witness Episcopal Advocates of world peace this proposal to nine other Tunkhannock, Pa. the people each, as evidence of hu- have been much dismayed by of man concern. If you think it the involvement of this country worthwhile yourself, perhaps you could write to others who Archives may be concerned also. It has A BISHOP PARSONS' ANTHOLOGY been estimated that if this is 2020. r'one consistently, the governor Selections Made By should receive as many as 200,000 envelopes within ten Massey H. Shepherd Jr. Copyright days. Professor at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific I hope this will interest Wit- ness readers. Being used is several theological seminaries and will make excellent material for use in parishes with Mary Tyng Higgins adult classes and discussion groups. Churchwoman of Little Rock, Ark. There is as much material in this magazine size leaflet In the January 2nd issue's as in many books that sell for $2 or more. editorial, "Epiphany Manifes- 25^ for single copy $2 for ten copies to", I was sorry to see in the third paragraph that someone THE WITNESS thinks Bishop Griswold of the TUNKHANNOCK PENNSYLVANIA Eastern Diocese "did not see Schools of the Church

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