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Story of the Week factory substitute for the in- Early Marriages Without Counseling fluence of the family in teach- ing children discipline, orderli- ness and obedience. Cause Increase In Divorces Judge Hall observed that the by * Young people are marrying church or had any spiritual public is becoming aroused on sex in too young and without adequate stimulation." the over emphasis preparation for marriage, a American society. Judge Knutson's r e p o r t a maga- publication. He reported seeing judge told members of the pas- noted that the damaging ef- zine displayed in a local drug- tors'and action group, attended by fects of divorce on children is store which glorified prosti- 21 judges and 70 clergymen of felt in the following gen- even tutes. Minneapolis.reuse eration. "We have to remedy these for by Hennepin county A report "We find that the divorce things," he declared. Judge Theodore B. District rate of the children of divorced Judge Luther Sletten, speak- Knutson disclosed that in 60 parents is far higher than the

required ing for Minneapolis municipal of the divorces granted per cent national average," it said. court judges, cited the need since the court's family division "The conflict between the for ministers to come into court established one or both in was parents frequently results and help their people in trouble. of Permission under 21 years parties was children who are deeply emo- "We can do a much better marriage. who re- age at the time of the tionally disturbed and job if you will help us," he number was age them The largest flect the damage done to said. DFMS.

18./ by withdrawal on the one hand The report, read to the or 'acting out' aggressively on And in Wisconsin clergymen by Senior District the other. Gov. Gaylord Nelson has Church Judge Levi Hall, said that "in "The clergy can be of great signed into law a Wisconsin almost every case the young assistance in this matter by legislative bill a i m e d at people had no pre-marriage speaking out from the pulnit strengthening marriage and re- counselingEpiscopal whatsoever." concerning the dangers and by ducing divorces. The measure the "There knowledge of sex, for reauiring pre - marriage coun- had the indorsement of Prot- theof most part. was of the back- selling before marriage." estant, Roman Catholic and alley variety." it added. "A Juvenile Judge Thomas Tal- Jewish spokesmen. very high percentage were lakson. in another report read The 72-page bill completely Archives married in Iowa on the impulse by Judge Hall, said the Church revises Wisconsin's marriage Very few had a has not yet learned how to and divorce laws. Gov. Nelson of2020. the moment. church wedding. reach maladjusted children be- said the measure "sets sound "Generally speaking, they had fore they get into the court. not learned that there are His report deplored the fact Copyright many adjustments to be made that churches are moving out PB TO TELECAST in their new relationship, re- of older neighborhoods into the ADVENT SUNDAY quiring patience and under- suburbs, and leaving many chil- * Presiding Bishop Arthur standing. T h e i r immaturity dren and their families un- Lichtenberger will be on tv on was revealed by the continuance churched in blighted urban Advent Sunday, November 29th. of the young husband to run neighborhoods. It is a nationwide program, 10- around with the boys as he had It cited the need for more 10:30 a.m. eastern time. Cor- done before, instead of accept- chaplaincy services in institu- porate communions for men are ing his new responsibilities. It tions where adults and children being scheduled so as to per- was quite apparent in a very are housed. mit them to share in this pro- high percentage of the cases Judge Tallakson's report em- gram. that the parties rarely attended phasized that there is no satis- Thrter NOVEMBER 19, 1959 basic rules for marriage, ship service to mark the 100th delegates from Anglican, Prot- divorce, and payment of child anniversary of Protestant mis- estant and Orthodox bodies. It support." sions in his country. will be presided over by Dr. Known as the "Family Code" First Protestant missionaries Alan C. Watson, moderator of bill, the new law was drafted by to go to Japan were Episco- the Presbyterian Church in a special 18-member citizens' Australia. committee after more than a The conference, it was an- year's study. nounced, will be divided into Highlights of the new law in- five commissions, each assigned clude: to a specific study topic. The The minimum age at which topics will be: 0 The authority for the girls may marry with parental consent is raised from 15 to 16. Word of God. 0 The Australian Churches' Quick marriages by justices evangelistic responsibility, in- of the peace and court commis- cluding recognition of partner- sioners are eliminated. ship with the Churches of Asia. Adult witnesses to a marriage 0 Ethical problems of publication. are required in all cases. economic and technical assis- and Divorce laws are strengthened tance by governments. by enactment of a 60-day "cool- " The Church in an indus- reuse ing off" period between service trial community, with special for of a summons and service of a attention to the appointment of complaint. industrial chaplains and the ef- Salaried family court com- fect of automation and greater required , 1 missioners replace divorce coun- leisure. sels. They are directed to seek BISHOP YASHIRO takes leading 0 The local congregation reconciliations. part in celebration of 100th anniver- sary of Protestant missions in Japan and whether it is meeting 20th

Permission In addition, the new law century needs or has become too abolishes "breach of promise palians; the Rev. John Liggins much of a secluded club. suits" and increases punish- and the Rev. Channing M. The commissions will include DFMS. / ments for non-support. Also Williams, who was later elected "a balance of clerical and lay abandoned is the doctrine of bishop of both China and Japan. men and women of all age refusing legal separations to

Church During the week-long cele- groups." The Churches they parties charged with part of bration St. Paul's University will represent, and the number the guilt, except where adultery gave degrees to the Rev. W. A. of delegates from each are: is alleged. Visser 't Hooft, secretary of The Church of England (150), Episcopal The new law further provides the World Council of Churches, Presbyterian (70), Methodist the that marriages involving girls and Canon Max Warren, mis- of (70), Congregational (26), between 16 and 18, or boys be- sionary of the Church of Churches of Christ (20), Sal- tween 18 and 21, are void un- England. vation Army (20), Greek Ortho- less consent of parents is ob- Archives dox (12), Society of Friends tained. Parents may bring suit AUSTRALIANS SCHEDULE (10), Baptist (8), Lutheran (4), for annulment. 2020. UNITY MEETING Russian Orthodox (2) and The Family Code specifies * Modern problems and chal- Antiochan Orthodox (2). that marriage applicants are lenges confronting the Chris- Watson said the objective of required to make "full dis-

Copyright tian community will be dis- the conference is "to clear the closure" of identity, residence, cussed in February at what is ground for the denominations and names of former spouses expected to be one of the to approach each other with a for whose and of all children biggest Church conferences ever view to a closer working to- support they are responsible. held in Australia. Special em- gether, and even ultimate BISHOP YASHIRO SPEAKS phasis will be on closer co- union." AT CELEBRATION operation among the Churches He said the Methodist, Pres- to meet new needs in evan- byterian a n d Congregational * Bishop M. H. Yashiro, gelistic and other fields. Churches have "already gone presiding bishop of the An- Convened by the Australian quite a way toward this, and glican Church in Japan, was Council for the World Council informal discussion on unions one of the speakers when 15,000 of Churches, the conference is will probably follow the con- people attended a united wor- scheduled to attract nearly 500 ference."

THE WITNESS agricultural and other en- Great Ghettos of Single Women deavors, much of which is of direct benefit to homeless people. Challenge To City Churches He warned, however, that in * Metropolitan churches are women in the Church, Miss spite of all assistance programs, being challenged by "great Gregory pointed out that an the gulf between the have's and ghettos of single women," the all - male or all - female com- have-not's will get larger be- executive secretary of the mittee "is never as strong as a cause of the phenomenal popula- National Council of Churches' committee of men and women tion growth. division of home missions de- thinking together." The Rev. Serge F. Hummen, clared in Hartford. Ray Gibbons, director of the secretary of the Congregational Dr. Jon L. Regier told the Congregational C o u n c i I for town and country department, Congregational C h r i s t i a n Social Action, told the more listed "obsolete group religious and Churches' e a s t e r n regional than 600 ministers and laymen patterns, over - churching meeting that with the expand- from 12 states that "as a soldier the theological cold war" as ing population of single girls must be trained, so people must causes for some of the current problems facing rural churches "wepublication. are beginning to see that be trained for peace." strange social phenomenon of in this country. and "Public opinion cannot con- Most country churches, he as- communities that are pre- trol the day-to-day decisions of de- serted, could be self-supporting dominantlyreuse made up of the Pentagon or State Depart- if their members would ques- tachedfor women." ment," he said, "but American tion "some of the basic religious These women, whose number public opinion sets the limits to patterns of the community in- is being steadily increased by our foreign policy. cluding theological superficiali- divorcerequired and the death of their "In the long run we shall not ties and economic considera- husbands, he said, are living have a more peaceful world tions." "in a matriarchal society that than we are prepared to support generally recognizes the de- and strengthen in our own Permission COUNCIL TO MEET tached women as having some- homes, our churches and our IN MILWAUKEE how fallen short of the goal of free institutions. In the long

DFMS. of the family." run we have as much or as little of the being/ head * The next meeting Lillian S. Gregory of Chicago, foreign aid as the public per- National Council will be held in a Congregational m i n i s t e r, mits. People and their opinions Milwaukee, December 7-9, the speakingChurch on the "wholeness of are the ultimate determiners of first time it has met other the Church," deplored the "divi- U.S. foreign policy." than in New York or Green- sion of the Christian Church on He cited the National Council wich. The Council voted in the aEpiscopal sex-conscious basis." nationwide program for peace, spring to have one meeting the "Only a literate and mature launched last July, as a means each year in the diocese of a laityof can overcome some of the of training local church mem- member, with Bishop Hollock psychological hurdles t h a t bers for peace. immediately asked that the tensions between men "Preparation and participa- first of these be held in his createArchives and women," she said. tion are essential in this people- diocese. for-peace program," he noted, 2020. The Church's concern, she said, should not be over "the "It requires not only prepara- RUSSIAN DELEGATES battles of the sexes," but in dis- tion and participation but com- TOUR GERMANY covering a "better pattern of mitment which persists year * A delegation of Russian Copyright cooperation whereby man and after year, and long after the Orthodox leaders have just con- woman may complement each nationwide program is buried in cluded a three-weeks tour of other in the Church." the history books." West Germany. The climax of She observed that the Church Leslie E. Cooke of Geneva, the visit was a three-day dis- "must demonstrate the fact division of aid and service to cussion with Evangelical Church that it really believes in the refugees, lauded the work of leaders. Both groups hailed the worth of the individual, that he the Churches in attacking the visit as a contribution to better is the product of his Creator, refugee problem. ecumenical relations and inter- and that he is endowed with In addition, he noted, thou- national peace. The Russians certain talents and abilities" sands of missionaries around stated that theological differ- Calling for increased co- the world are engaged in re- ences were "much smaller than operation between men and habilitation, education, medical, we thought."

NOVEMBER 19, 1959 This fall Director Moore made Institute On Ecumenical Relations plans with Bishop DeWolfe of Long Island for a study of the diocese in 1961 and 62. Moore In Toledo At Grass Roots at the present time is making * Methods to improve re- Lutheran church, told the as- a study of the journals of the lationships b e t w e e n Roman sembly that favorable results diocese for the past 29 years. Catholic and Protestant already are evident in im- Churches were discussed in proving relations between MAN BITES Toledo, Ohio, at an institute on Catholic and Protestants as a DOG ecumenical relations that was result of the "ecumenical move- * The Church of Ireland, An- described as the first attempt ment" which is centered in the glican, has given its church at in America to organize "grass World Council of Churches. Ballinahinch to the local Roman roots dialogues" between the He added that most of the Catholic congregation. It is two religious faiths. progress has been made in located in one of the loveliest A total of 130 clergymen of Europe, but that there is no parts of Connemara, beauty various denominations attended reason this movement should publication. spot of the west of Ireland. the meeting in St. Paul's Lu- not be activated in America. Reason: there are not enough and theran church at which the In opening the meeting, Dr. Anglicans about to hold services main speaker was Dr. Gustave Wolf said it was consistent with except occasionally. The R. reuse Weigel, a Jesuit priest and the call of Pope John XXIII C.'s, on the other hand, are for teacher of theology at Wood- for an Ecumenical Council, and numerous, have no church and stock (Md.) Catholic Seminary. also with various Protestant ef- so have to travel long distances In tracing the history of the forts at achieving greater unity required to worship, mainly over moun- "ecumenical movement," Father and understanding. tain roads. Weigel said three ways usually Dr. Wolf said that Toledo are advanced, more of which is ministers will be asked to PAROCHIAL MISSION Permission widely acceptable. These are, decide whether they want to IN MASSACHUSETTS he said, compromise, compre- form groups for regular dis- hensiveness (u n i o n without cussion of doctrinal differences. * The Rev. William J. Coul- DFMS. / unity) and conversion, either of ter, a leader of the National individuals or entire Church UNIT OF RESEARCH Council's division of leadership PLANS AHEAD training, lead a parish life mis-

Church bodies. * The unit of research and "These are the only three sion at Trinity, Shrewsbury, ways we know to achieve the survey of the National Council, Mass., October 26-30. It was unity that all Christians desire, headed by the Rev. Joseph G. followed by a five-day parish Episcopal but that does not mean they Moore, has to plan far ahead. life conference. the

of are the only ways there are," the theologian explained. When Christians begin

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2020. expect "the power of the Spirit" to become effective, Father Weigel declared. "This is God's

Copyright matter and we don't tell him his business, though he very well tells us ours." The theologian asserted that the genuine way to achieve "the Una Sancta, (the one Holy Catholic Church) is to approach one another as friends, persons we can love and learn to respect." Father Weigel, invited to To- ledo by the Rev. C. Umhau JOSEPH MOORE, director of research and survey of the National Wolf, pastor of St. Paul's Council, has to plan far ahead to take care of the demands for his studies THEnWrNESS What's Going On Here!

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IS BEING WIDELY DISCUSSED THROUGHOUT THE CHURCH. THIS ARTICLE, WHICH IS PRESENTED IN TWO PARTS, WAS ENTITLED SCRIP- TURE AND HISTORY BY THE AUTHOR AND DEALS WITH NEW TESTAMENT CRITICISM

publication. By F. Earle Fox and General Theological Seminary reuse for Daily lives of seminarians focus around worship in the chapel. A LTHOUGH clergy are, or ought to be, familiar Above is St. Luke's at the Uni- required with the topic of this paper, biblical criti- cism, yet it is evident from letter-to-editors versity of the South columns of Church magazines, from talking to more laymen, and from talking to non-church people, No Church in Christendom has stood Permission that there has been a gross failure in conveying adamantly on the facts of history and on sound than the Anglican Com- the findings and methods of biblical scholarship historical scholarship

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/ to the Christian not academically situated. Only in recent years have some efforts been made to glicans dug into their history books to justify against bring Sunday school material up to date, while their position of freedom and to defend it Church encroachments of papal the great theological issues behind historical what they considered criticism have been ignored almost totally. "What power into the domestic affairs of the Church in At the end of the 1400's leading up to does the Church teach ?" is a question which faces England. Episcopal the whole of the Christian world. The issues, the Reformation, John Colet and others were up- the setting traditional scholarship by expounding of therefore, of what makes the Christian faith must be brought clearly into the open with re- the Bible as an historical document. The Bible spect, first, to the heritage of our branch of had long since almost ceased to be treated by Archives Christendom and, secondly, to the problem as it Christians as the record of real events or of the presents itself in the light of today's knowledge lives and teachings of living men. Instead it was 2020. and methodology. treated as an arsenal of infallibly inspired proof More often than not, disagreements spring texts used to buttress positions already held. from conflicting interpretations of past events Their handling of history made history unreal. Copyright and therefore from disagreements over what in Four years after Columbus discovered America, fact is the real heart of a tradition such as the however, Colet lecturing on Paul was interpreting Anglican Communion possesses. If our beliefs him not as a "plaster of Paris" saint who are so rooted in the past, then a clear knowledge fashioned these proof texts for the benefit of late historical of the conflicting issues from which our tradition medieval theologians, but as a living was forged is indispensible to any true solution figure struggling to meet the problems of his of our present problems. In history, as in tech- own day. nology, we are now equipped with tools unpos- Thomas Cranmer, who was Archbishop of Can- sessed by those whose lives we must study. And terbury under Henry VIII and Edward VI, and yet their lives may well help dispel hesitation as who gave us our Book of Common Prayer, was to how we are to use these new tools. also affected by this New Learning as it was

NOVEMBER 19, 1959 seve,, called. He appealed to Scripture against the and cannot tell us than did the Anglican re- Roman Pontiff when Henry VIII's anullment be- formers. came an issue. The New Learning, the appeal If they did not have the tools which we now to Scripture against invalid traditions and the have for investigating documents, the Anglican rediscovery of the teachings of the early Church divines did know under what terms they woild ... Fathers, had done its work in England and had proceed with what they had. So wrote William been a factor in making it comparatively easy Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury under Charles I for the English people, clergy and laity, to and stout defender of the Catholic heritage with- separate from the see of Rome without the ex- in Anglicanism, "the world cannot keep (man) treme violence that ravaged the continent. The from going to weigh it (Scripture) at the balance early history of the Church did not bear out the of reason, whether it be the Word of God or not. papal claims to authority. For the Anglican To the same weights he brings the tradition of Church past history could no longer be rewritten the Church, the inward motive in Scripture it- to suit the interests of a later developed tradi- self, all the testimonies within which seem to tion, and Scripture assumed a prophetic role as bear witness to it; and in all this there is no a critic and judge of all development, thus stand- harm." (Dillistone, p. 103). The passage contin- publication. ing in contrast to the Roman usage in which ues with a caution against the misuse of reason. and Scripture is the servant of tradition and is inter- These are not isolated examples of devotion to preted by tradition. Nothing was to be taught rational inquiry. They might be duplicated from reuse in the Church of England that could not be proven every age of Anglican scholarship. Readers wish- for by Scripture. Whatever could not be thus estab- ing to dig into the question more deeply than lished was to be purged or at least to be con- space here permits are referred to Scripture and

required sidered non-essential. Tradition edited by F. W. Dillistone (Lutter- worth Press, London), Doctrine in the Church of Facts of History England by a commission appointed by the Arch- bishops of Canterbury and York in 1922 (SPCK, Permission were aware of the importance THE reformers London), and Thomas Cranmer, Theologian by G. of the facts of history and the dependence W. Bromiley (Lutterworth). Many other books of Christianity upon those facts. Indeed the at- DFMS.

/ are to be had on the history and tradition of the tempt on nearly all sides was to return to the Church of England. ways of the primitive Church, through few if If this fairly represents the background of the Church any countries were so generously blessed with Anglican view of Scripture, it is still the case good historians as England. In 1699 Gilbert that more recent developments in methods of Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, wrote of the Bible, testing documents for historical accuracy have Episcopal "the authority of these books is not derived from presented us with the possibility of drastic the any judgement that the Church made concerning of changes in our beliefs. To some it has appeared them; but from this, that it was known that they that these methods would destroy the faith that were writ, either by men who were themselves uses them. Two of these developments have been

Archives apostles of Christ, or by those who were their the discovery of "source criticism" and "form assistants and companions." (Scripture and criticism." It might be noted, however, that the 2020. Tradition, ed. F. W. Dillistone, p. 78.) In other use of "source history" and "form history" as words Scripture was authoritative because it was names would have avoided the negative connota- a witness to the events in men's lives which were tion of the word "criticism" and more adequately Copyright the reason for the Church's existence. There described the positive efforts of these studies. was no commitment within the Anglican tradition to a claim of infallibility which would have to be Source Criticism later discarded with the growth of historical OURCE criticism is the attempt to get behind studies. Indeed, the ground had long been set the document as we now have it to discover for the growth of these very studies in the recog- what possible sources of information, whether nition that the events of the Resurrection and written or oral, the author might have used in the earthly life of Jesus as facts of history were his writing, that is, to discover the history be- utterly crucial to the Gospel. Appeal to Scrip- hind the document. The results of this have been ture was made by Cranmer, by the Pope, and by particularly striking in the Gospels of Matthew, the Protestants, but no group applied a more Mark, and Luke. Evidence within the Gospels consistent understanding of what history can shows that the writers of Matthew and Luke each Tai Wrrzmas Eight has access to copies of Mark which they combined tainly not everything) about its background, its in part with other material to form their Gospels. purpose in being repeated, and to what extent A comparison of the language and content of it represents the actual words of Jesus. parallel stories indicates that Mark was written the earliest, about 70 A D, with Luke following One of the most important contributions of about 15 years later and Matthew about the turn form criticism thus has been the underlining of of the century. In the two later Gospels the ex- the fact that the Bible is the Church's book. It traordinary or "miraculous" element can be seen was written by people who had a message to to have grown, and the tendency is to play down proclaim and to preserve. Clarification of the the humanity of Christ while the earlier rendi- conditions under which this took place has tions of the same stories have a more picturesque served to give us a more accurate picture of and less stylized language. These aspects can be Christ and to highlight the Resurrection as the clearly seen in a "Gospel Parallel" with the three event at the core of the Gospel which the Chris- Gospels printed side by side in parallel columns. tians preached. Jesus was called the Christ be- The work of source critics is well represented in cause he had been raised from the dead. The Gospels, Their Origin and Growth by Much of current disputation has centered about Frederick C. Grant (Harpers). the stories of the Virgin Birth and the bearing publication. Similar results have been obtained in the Old which the results of form criticism have on the Testamentand where for example the first five books interpretation of the Creedal statement of the are found to be composed of at least four dis- Virgin Birth. Vincent Taylor's Formation of the cernablereuse strands woven together to form a unit.

for Gospel Tradition (Macmillan) is an excellent example of form criticism. Taking for example Form Criticism the Lukan version, he points out the stylized required dramatic quality of the story which is cast in a criticism which has caused more contro- FORMversy than source criticism is the attempt, narrative form. The arrangement is balanced building on the results of source criticism, to between the annunciation to Mary and the an- Permission clarify the significance of a passage by relating nunciation to Elizabeth with parallel develop- it to the form or style in which it appears. It ments following in the lives of each. Much of the composition is in the form of songs and speeches DFMS. was discovered in the examination of secular / literature that the situation in which a saying based on Old Testament models. The birth stories or story was told helped to determine the manner differ in this polished literary quality from the Church in which it was told, and that constant repetition passion story which is the other great narrative soon hardened the mold into which it had been sequence. cast. Thus the form of a Scriptural passage can The impression given by the high literary Episcopal be related to the conditions under which the pas- quality of the birth narrative is that the material the sage might have been told and repeated by the as formed by the author is essentially imagina- of early Church. tive literature rather than literal history. The The sayings and stories of Jesus preserved by contrast with the main body of Gospel material

Archives the Church were influenced by the need which suggests that this material was not understood their telling would meet, whether it might be the originally to be a literal description of the early 2020. need for liturgical material, the need for cate- part of Jesus' life, and therefore could be molded chetical material and instruction for converts, the into dramatic form. Luke obviously felt no need for guidance in everyday life on questions of scruples about taking these liberties with his Copyright the Sabbath, the law, forgiveness, marriage, or subject here, whereas he has not taken liberties the need for material with which to answer pagan in the same manner with the rest of his material. and Jewish opponents. Liturgical material would On the basis of an examination of these as well as tend to be more dignified and rhythmic (Lk 1:46- other indications, carried out of course in greater 55, 68-79, 2:29-32); instruction might be in the detail than here possible, form critics have often form of a list of events or beliefs or exhortation concluded that the birth narratives are of little (Rom 12:7ff., I Cor 15:3-5, Mt. 5-7); preaching value in giving us historical information about or apologetic material would often be centered the early life of Jesus. If these form critics are about Old Testament quotations (Mk 1:2-3, Acts correct, then it follows that the stories of the 2:17ff., 13:33ff.). By examination of the form of Virgin Birth might justifiably be taken as a a passage we can learn something (though cer- symbol of the Incarnation without commitment

NOVEMBER 19, 1959 to any particular biological process, or that the divorce on grounds of unchastity. But the Mat- event must be reasoned from purely theological thean exception permitting divorce is seen, like considerations of the Incarnation. 10-12 in Mark, to be a later addition to the simple pronouncement story, probably an attempt of the Pronouncement Story early Christians to relate the sayings of Jesus ANOTHER form in which the Gospel material to their specific problems. These appended pas- comes to us is the "pronouncement story" sages are perfectly understandable if they come whose chief characteristic is a pronouncement of from some situation in the Gentile world into Jesus, some statement or action toward which all which the Church had soon expanded, for the is pointed. The narrative element is skimpy as language of Mark 10:10-12 and Matthew 19:9 is the portraiture and biographical detail. Only does not reflect Jewish conditions but it does re- enough has remained to set the stage for the flect Gentile conditions. punch line. Other details have fallen away in the This is only a brief sample of what is being retelling. done with either form or source criticism and The tribute money passage in Mark 12:13ff. ought to be common knowledge to anyone who illustrates the pronouncement story at its best. has attended an Anglican seminary. The pur- There is no interest in individuals or in questions publication. pose here is not to plead for any particular re- of time or place. Everything leads up to "Ren- sults of historical criticism but to make perfectly and der to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and clear the implications of these methods for to God the things that are God's." Jesus had reuse Christian faith quite apart from their specific spoken and there was no more to be said. Similar for results. There are several types of forms or features appear in Mark 10:2-9 on divorce; 11:27- styles which the form critics list, each with its 33 on authority; and 12:18-27 on the resurrec- significance for interpreting the material. required tion of the dead. There is a total of about forty Whether or not one agrees with the conclusions such pronouncement stories in the Gospels. of the form critics, nevertheless the basic find- The light cast by our knowledge of contempor- ings, the discovery of these forms and their

Permission ary customs and conditions combined with the relations to the historical setting of the material, knowledge of the forms in which Scripture ap- must be dealt with. Some explanation must be pears enables us to interpret certain ambiguous DFMS. forthcoming for the patterns that are obviously / or conflicting passages. The portion in Mark there. 10:2-9 on divorce with the Matthaean parallel

Church (19:3ff.) is a case in point. Examination of the (Concluding article next week: Increasing the form indicates that it is a pronouncement story Authority of Scripture) which ends at verse 9 with the dictum of Jesus.

Episcopal Thus the following in verses 10-12, also on the divorce, must be a later addition to the original of saying in verses 2-9. Verification of this comes Don Large from our knowledge of Jewish and Gentile laws

Archives shows that the discussion in verses 10-12 which The Faithful are Lucky is put in terms foreign to Jewish law. First,

2020. verse 11 speaks of a man committing adultery against his wife. According to the Jewish way OMEWHERE in his perceptive and beautifully of speaking, however, a man could commit adul- written book, This Is New York, E. B.

Copyright tery against another married man but not against White say, his own wife. And second, verse 12 speaks of "On any person who desires such queer a wife divorcing her husband. But although a prizes, New York will bestow the gift of Jewish wife could sue for divorce, technically the loneliness and the gift of privacy ... action was her husband's and not her own. The capacity to make such dubious gifts The apparant contradiction is thus eliminated is a mysterious quality of New York. It from Jesus' thinking on divorce between this Mar- can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill kan passage and Matthew's version of the same him, depending a good deal on luck. No story (19:9). Mark's version permits no divorce one should come to New York to live while Matthew's version, which source criticism unless he is willing to be lucky." shows to be a reworking of Mark's version, allows The use of that word "willing" is a bit puzzling.

Ten THEnWrrass Does the author mean that the desperately ur- pened to be around when Britain and the rest gent New Yorker must will his luck as an act of the free world stood in such desperate need of of determining fortune? Or does he mean that him? Or was it not rather that he had so ordered the Manhattanite must cast his fortune in with his life that when God's trumpet sounded, he Lady Luck, rather than with faith or dedication was prepared to leave his tent and answer the or some other virtue? challenge? Luck is admittedly one of the ingredients in Joan of Arc might have lived and died un- the compound of life anywhere. No man is so known, content to see her visions and hear her far above the battle that he can see even a voices. But because she was 'content to do just Bowery bum retching in the gutter, and not offer that, if need be, the answer turned out different- his silent thanksgiving: "There, but for the grace ly. When her God and her country required her of God, go I." And maybe you need a more services, she was ready. Called or not, she had generous measure of good fortune in New York been faithful to her vision and to the still small City than you do in most other places, for this voice at the core of the whirlwind. town is a man-killer. True, her steadfastness cost her her life. But But the grace of God has nothing to do with death, late or soon, comes to visit all of us. In publication. luck, here or elsewhere. If his grace means "un- the meantime, however, as an unending act of and merited favor," then nobody deserves a merit thanksgiving to the giver of all gifts, it's more badge, and everybody has been favored. rewarding to shine in use, rather than rust un- reuse Luck comes in only when we have the sense to burnished. for seize upon the grace so freely offered us, using In short, the man who is willing to be faithful, is quietly the moment opportunity knocks, no come what may, is the man who is more likely matter what the required cost of the intrusion. to be lucky. Which is something that men like Was it just luck that Winston Churchill hap- Lucky Luciano have never found out! Permission The Tape-Recorded Thanksgiving DFMS. / By Hugh McCandless Rector of the Epiphany, New York Church flowers he was bringing. He got a beautiful LASTThanksgiving year, my friend at hisSquadron grandfather's, O'Toole spentand shock. Grandmother told him he should not he was very pleased, when they came in to the speak that way in front of an innocent young Episcopal driveway, to see that his cousin Steinmetz soldier, and he almost exploded. This was not the

of O'Toole was there, back from the army. I can't funny, because Uncle Claude was a one-man describe Steinmetz, very few people ever see foundation for the prevention of financial dis- his face because he is always bent over some tress among his younger kinsmen, and was perverseArchives piece of machinery, but the rest of especially interested in the alleviation of this him always wears an expression of puzzlement kind of suffering among those who wore school and2020. struggle. blazers and military uniforms. Incidents which This time he was half inside the hood of his might discourage his benevolence could be tragic.

ModelCopyright T Ford, vintage 1918. He told Squadron that he was disconnecting the shocker he had Inside the house, Grandfather was practicing invented to protect the car's finish. It was one of the short graces from the Prayer Book polished like a looking glass, and his comrades (page 600). The Grace he knew best was a in arms had an absent-minded habit of patting rather long one he had heard at school, where it with their greasy hands as they admired its the boys had been quite disdainful of the simple, finish. Unfortunately, Uncle Claude had also wholesome, dependable food provided. They patted it admiringly when he got there that claimed it was indescribable, and gave it names morning, and his hands were wet with the like Monday Soup, Tuesday Loaf, Wednesday Mush, and so forth. The faculty therefore used Story told at the Family Service on a long thanksgiving, in which they put con- Thanksgiving Day, 1958. vincingly the administration policy in this

NOVEMBER 19, 1959 Eleven matter before the Lord and anyone else who What you need, I've got; so let's talk about it was listening. Grandfather was nervous, be- in those terms. - Grateful hearts, heavenly cause he felt he had lost the knack of memoriza- Father, mindful hearts. - I said to them, every tion, and especially because he had given Stein- six months you want something more. Don't metz, in a weak moment, permission to tape- interrupt, Squadron. I said, do you know any record the table conversation for posterity. other word besides more? You want some more, Squadron? Well, pass your plate, boy; The Inventor don't be bashful. - Mindful of the needs of STEINMETZ had bought an almost new bi- others, our heavenly Father. - That child must naural or stereophonic tape-recorder at a have fifteen dolls, and I said to her, Emily, this great bargain because it didn't work. He had, is Thanksgiving; you should count your bless- however, been able to make it go as an ordin- ings. When Daddy and I were in the West ary monaural recorder. Steinmetz was imagina- Indies last winter, we saw a little girl about tive, but he was somewhat haphazard. But even your age, and she was playing dolls with an old the waitress who had come in for the day said wooden spoon, wrapped in a dirty old piece of that nothing was too good for our boys in calico. That seemed to put her in a better

publication. khaki, and if he would watch the gravy and keep mood. - Give us grateful hearts, our heavenly out of her way, she would watch the wires and Father, and make us mindful of the needs of and try to keep out of his way. So dinner went off others."

reuse very nicely. When the machine started playing, there were for After the meal, everyone gathered in the roars of laughter, and then scattered chuckles living room to listen to himself on the tape. as individual voices were recognized. Then And once again, Steinmetz' frank adoration of everyone became silent. When it was over, required machinery had brought out the capricious Uncle Claude said he thought he'd take a walk, coquette in the demure looking tape-recorder, and others joined him quietly. for it suddenly decided to go stereophonic "Oh, I goofed again," said Steinmetz. "I am Permission again. The result was a jumble of simultaneous awfully sorry. If it would make you feel better, conversations, and the rest of my story is a I'll go out and burn the tape in the garden right

DFMS. transcript of the part of it that could be under- now." / stood. I will not identify the speakers, as it "No, my boy," said Grandfather, "you made is too mixed up. no blunder; or, rather, it was an inspired one. Church "Madeline, I love your dress! Oh, t h a n k That little machine preached us a sermon out you. - Give us truly grateful hearts, Our of our own mouths. Perhaps next year I'll use heavenly Father - Well, Thanksgiving to me the old school Grace again. I think we all ought Episcopal means the football game. I hope Steinmetz to try to remember more frequently what the the won't fiddle with the little T.V. dials all the Great Teacher of all men thinks about our real of time. I want to see the game, not the seat of attitudes to him and to other men." his pants. - Give us grateful hearts, and make

Archives us mindful of others. - I don't know why my children want the limelight at every party. Well, Talking It Over 2020. you always wanted the limelight yourself when W. B. Spofford, Sr. you were young. Yes, but I never got it. You saw to that. - Give us hearts, give us hearts, BVIOUSLY when Church institutions pay Copyright Our Heavenly Father. - Look at Flotilla, dlirt- public relations people to send releases to ing with Grandsire. Mother will make her papers they hope they will be printed. Most speech about how little Flotilla eats, and of the professionals know how to write so that Grandsire will say how about a little white those of us who have to prepare copy for linotype meat, and Flotilla will say just a little around operators merely have to dope out a head, and the wish-bone. What baby-talk. She always make whatever changes are called for to con- gets the wish-bone. I never do. - Grateful form to the make-up style of the publication. Grateful hearts, our heavenly Father, give us Too often though, in my experience, not grateful hearts. - I said to them, look I did enough attention is paid to the time angle. To this myself. I don't have to thank you, or you, illustrate: a synod was held October 26-27. The or anybody else that jumps on the bandwagon. person with the job of getting out the news

Twelve. TH WrrNES mailed it on November 3rd to reach this office missions were read by the chairman at noon, November 5th. - a week after the closing of after which the meeting adjourned for a delight- the meeting before he got around to writing ful luncheon in the seminary refectory. Etc. and mailing his piece. It was a good story and Etc." so we did something we ordinarily would not do No exaggeration-honest! We get one or -we torn up a form that was ready for the two like that every week. We are glad to get press in order to get it in the issue of November them too, and other news of the Church that 12. Expensive, that ! people very kindly send. Only please, when it Another story also came on November 5th seems necessary, let us do a rewrite job with about an event that took place on October 24th the promise on our part that we will stick as -ten days after the event. It was sent by a near to the facts as is humanly possible. And paid public relations man of a Church institu- we'll get the When, Where and Why in the lead tion. What he and the people in his office were paragraph. doing during that ten days I do not know, but A still bigger please-write and mail your I would think that somebody there could have story as near to the event reported as you found the half hour necessary to write the story can. Ok ?

publication. closer to the time it happened. Newspapers,

and even weeklies, make a fetish out of the time angle I suppose. But we do take some pride in

reuse our job and dislike to say, "a convocation took

for place recently" when, if the guy responsible to Pointers for Parsons the institution that is paying him had done his By Robert Miller work promptly, we could say; "a convocation required took place on October 24th." What actually happened in this case is that the news, which THE Deanery had resumed its meetings with a paper on we would have printed as received in our issue the administration of the Sacra-

Permission ment and in the discussion that followed of November 5, is not being printed at all- Fr. Buffers mentioned Bishop just not important enough for us to be a full Pike's Customary and said that while he might differ on details he monthDFMS. late in reporting it. Silly on our part / was happy to see that there was maybe-but sillier on theirs if they want the one bishop who was concerned about the need for an orderly publicity, which of course they do or they would

Church and dignified celebration. not be paying a public relations office to send "So much laxity and it. variety everywhere," he concluded. Gilbert Simeon said he was not quite sure Another angle is how news should be written, Episcopal that a "Customary" was in keeping with the but here I guess there is no good lecturing since

the ethos of the Church and Tompkins promptly a lot of of it comes from people with no experience remarked that it was not customary for bishop's in the field. But it has its funny side. Not tc issue Customaries. "What if bishops dis- long ago we got a report of a meeting of an agreed?" he asked. Buffers said that was just importantArchives commission of the Church. There it, and there was no doubt in his mind that the was a letter from the secretary instructing us

2020. Presiding Bishop (by a delightful misprint in tc print it just as it was - or not at all. If the Witness of November 5th described as "my we had followed the instructions, this is what beloved bother in Christ") ought to be a Primate you would have read:

Copyright and keep even the bishops in line. "The annual meeting of the ...... Com- "That would indeed make him a bother in mission was called to order at 10:30 a.m. with Christ," remarked Thompson and Gilbert said Bishop ...... presiding as chairman. that he could not picture our Presiding Bishop Present were ...... etc. The as wanting to bother or even thinking he ought secretary reported the unavoidable absence of to...... and ...... who sent their "Are we Congregationalist or Catholic ?" regrets. There were reports from Bishop asked Buffers testily...... , chairman of the sub-committee on "We call ourselves Protestant Episcopal," re- ...... and D ean ...... , w ho w as marked the Dean. Buffers snorted. requested at the meeting held in June, 1958, to "We are truly Catholic," he declared. make a study of ...... Prayers for This annoyed Tompkins who would once have

NOVEMBER 19, 1959 Thirtm been called Low Church, but who was now a "What a difficult question," he murmured. declared Evangelical. "I don't know what I think of it. When I do the will "I suppose," he said, "you would undo and think of it I find myself thinking of wipe out the Reformation." of God and the passions and mistakes of men. I have never admired those ruthless rulers of "I would not go that far," Buffers told him, reformation times but I owe something to them "but while it brought some gain I cannot say for the Communion in which I have enjoyed it was wholly a good thing." such freedom, and in which I am sure that, by Tompkins flushed, and the Dean hastily threw the mercy of God, I have been enriched by oil on the troubled waters by saying that few grace. I hold the Church of Rome in high re- of us would turn our backs on the Reformation gard, but I am happy in our own oddly named but, granted that, he wished the Church in Communion. It has order as well as freedom. the 16th Century had acted as a whole to re- True, we have neither Pope nor Primate but form the abuses and had spoken as one on we are very happy with our Presiding Bishop." faith and morals. But this satisfied only the The Dean wound up the discussion by saying moderates and both Tompkins and Buffers that it was too bad we were all such busy men publication. seemed to want to start an argument. So the that there was no time thoroughly to discuss Dean called on Fr. Timmons. and the great fundamental questions. Bill Spofford, Father Timmons came out of a reverie. (I Jr. had advocated a Sabbatical for clergymen reuse was sure he conversed rather with angels than but he would make a slightly different sugges- for with clergymen.) The Dean asked him what tion, more Colleges of Preachers and more he though of the Reformation. clergy at them. required THE NEW BOOKS

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Episcopal is discussed, the age of the mss., Elizabeth Hamilton. Scribners. the series were first published in the story of the Qumran community the $3.50 Scotland under the auspices of the and its relation to the Essenes, to of Church of Scotland. the Pharisees and Sadducees, and to The author's specialty is making early Christianity. In the final a travel book into a singularly elo- chapters the book leaves the area of quent biography and history. No The Art Of Spiritual Healing by Joel S. Goldsmith. Harpers. Archives ascertained fact and drifts aloft like one who has read her earlier book, $3.00 a free balloon in the winds of specu- -Put Off Thy Shoes; A Journey lation. The very terminology is mis- Through Palestine-can ever forget Another book on spiritual healing, 2020. leading - two "Messiahs", for its portrayal of the Holy Land and but from a standpoint unlike most example, completely misrepresents its holp places, venerated by Jews of the others. The author, Dr. the situation. It is two "Anointed and Christians, and the sharp pro- Goldsmith, is internationally known Ones", an anointed messianic king files of present day Israel and its as lecturer, writer and teacher on Copyright and an anointed messianic high threatening Arab enemies. spiritual themes and is himself a priest. To call them both "Messiahs" In this latest book she has done practitioner of spiritual healing. is misleading. Also the parallels much the same magical job on Teresa The basic theological and philosophi- between the Dead Sea Scrolls and of Avila, saint and mystic of lasting cal position of this treatise is that the New Testament are far-fetched, greatness. It's a book to lose one- all physical well-being is the natural and ignore the closer parallels to self happily in absorbing it. consequence of the healer and/or be found in other ancient writings. patient realizing oneness with God. The statement on p. 156 that the The Letters to the Philippians, A hasty reading may cause the Epistle to the Hebrews "was Colossians and Thessalonians by reader to believe that the whole addressed to Jewish Christians from William Barklay. Westminster. book is pantheistic, but I am inclined the circles of the Qumran Essenes or $2.50 to guess that a careful re-reading Jews whose doctrine of the Messiah This is another little volume in the will indicate a Christian belief in was similar to that of the Qumran Daily Study Bible series, edited by the Incarnation and a definitely Essenes" is simply funny. Finally William Barklay, the Scottish New sacramental approach to spiritual the book is badly translated, in a Testament theologian. This com- realities. Fourteen THE Wrmssm EDITOR SEES CHURCHES charged that "modern religion ANTI-DELINQUENCY FAILING IN TV USAGE has forgotten its need for PROJECT LAUNCHED creative poets and prophets. It * Organized religion h a s seems to have * A three-year project "fallen flat on its face" in its turned its back aimed on those who at combatting juvenile approach to television use, might restate, delin- a refresh, and revitalize tv magazine editor said at the its faith." quency in Philadelphia by pro- He emphasized viding Church of the Epiphany, that religious case work counseling to New tv York. programs need men who families of potential delinquents understand religious concepts was launched jointly by Episco- The rise of the electronic and can express them with pal Community Services and the medium, said John E. McMillin, beauty, clarity and imagination. Union Benevolent Association, a executive editor of a weekly "We have a creative respon- 122-year-old voluntary welfare trade magazine, has exposed the sibility to television .. . to organization. "intellectual fuzziness and crea- find new and compelling ways By agreement, the Union tive sterility in many churches of using tv to spread the gospel Benevolent today." Association will pay of God's love and man's brother- the costs of the program and While television has become hood," he declared. Episcopal Community Services "anpublication. indispensable staple of will administer it through the American life," he said, "it has and BISHOP STARK PREACHES Church agency's family coun- not become an important IN RHODE ISLAND seling service. medium of religious communica- reuse * Bishop Stark of Newark tion." The program is based on for was the preacher at a service findings of pilot projects in two Nearly every other field of at the Transfiguration, Edge- human interest, including poli- local areas which demonstrated wood, R. 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NOVEMBER 19, 1959 Fif"" sponsive to aid, the agencies department of education of the in theology applied to modern said. diocese. needs; new interest in the wel- "Our experience," said the Eight clergy of the diocese fare of the whole of mankind; Rev. Arnold Purdie, executive assisted inthe mission. a new "person-to-person" dimen- director of the Episcopal agency, sion in preaching the Gospel; "has shown that families that EDITOR SCORES and a growing concern over the appear completely irresponsible CHURCH WAYS lack of moral law in national do respond to help. Sometimes and international relations. they appear irresponsible be- * The Rev. Alfred Klausler, cause they feel so hopeless and editor of a Lutheran paper, de- MARK CONSECRATION unable to control their own clared that American prot- OF BISHOP SEABURY destinies." estantism is preoccupied "with the gospel of success." He said * The 175 anniversary of the of Bishop Samuel PARISH LIFE MISSION that "the success of a man's consecration judged not only by Seabury as the first American AT SIOUX CITY ministry is the number of organizations he bishop at Aberdeen, Scotland, * The Rev. Sumner Walters can start in his parish and was celebrated with special Jr. of the National Council staff keep spinning in endless activ- events in the diocese of Connect- publication. was the leader of a parish life ity, but by the number of souls icut. A communion service was and mission held at St. Thomas he can post in the book. held on November 14 at Christ "Heaven help the poor parish Church, New Haven, w i t h reuse parson who spends too much Bishop Gray as celebrant and for time ministering to s o m e Bishop Scaife of Western New puzzled, bewildered, lonely soul." York preaching. In the after- were The editor also condemned noon, evensong services required and New the churches' increasing use of held at Woodbury the "huckster tactics of Madi- London. son Avenue" and "everything On the same day, the event by a service at the Permission from billboards . .. to soap was marked opera disguised as religious Cathedral of the Incarnation, drama." Garden City, L.I., with Bishop DFMS.

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Sixtees Sixtee__s THE Wrunz" GERMAN CHURCH LEADERS Pointing out that all men have BISHOP HOLLOCK LEADS HIT AT NIEMOELLER worth and dignity, the report's QUIET EVENING * Church authorities in West authors warned that "no man * Bishop Hollock of Mil- Germany have refused a parish may with impunity discriminate waukee lead a quiet evening for hall to Pastor Martin Niemoel- against or exploit another." men and women at St. James, ler who was scheduled to "And if the nature of man is Milwaukee, on November 13th. address a peace meeting in such as we have affirmed," they It was an answer to the often Bayreuth. Niemoeller has been added, "then nothing less than stated complaint t h a t the criticized recently by his fellow full recognition . . . dignity and Church seldom offers husbands churchmen for presenting a respect due him, simply because and wives something they can memorandum to the foreign he is a man, can ever satisfy do together. ministers meeting in Geneva. him." It denounced the atomic arm- The authors expressed confi- ing of Germany and called for * ADDRESS CHANGE * the creation of a zone com- dence that every American be- prising the two Germanies, Po- fore long will be "measured by Please send your old as well land and Czechoslovakia, that what he is and not by his race, as the new address would be free from atomic creed, color, or nationality . . . publication. if we go forward with energy, The WITNESS weapons and contain only a TUNKHANNOCK - PENNSYLVANIA and minimum number of soldiers. faith and knowledge." m=----0=0=--- 0= Niemoeller is the president reuse of the Evangelican Church of for Hesse and Nassau. Give Records For Christmas---

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NOVEMBER 19, 1959 Seventee IRISH ANGLICAN CALLS ished by the increase of his the ethical but only within the ALL WAR UNETHICAL powers. We who tolerate this sphere of the expedient. The inhumanity are guilty of it. * No war, even in defense question should n e v e r be War makes us guilty of the of freedom, is ethical, a visit- whether it is right to go into ing Church of Ireland (An- crime of inhumanity." war, but whether a war in the glican) priest-educator declared Whether it is ever right to past ever has been justified on in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But, engage in a defensive war - the ground that its successful he added, sometimes war may a war to resist aggression, for issue resulted in a general wel- be the lesser of two evils. instance, Seaver said, "the an- fare greater than would have "It is always ethically wrong swer must follow from the ap- been the case if the war had to do evil that good may come," plication of the general princi- not been entered into." said Dean George Seaver, pro- ple that it's right to' promote fessor at the University of life and its wrong to injure or VAN PAPEN NAMED Dublin. "Yet in the choice be- destroy it." CHANCELLOR tween two evils there may "The question arises : How much life ought to be sacrificed * Government circles in West have been cases when the choice Germany, in order that peace may be as well as many of war may have been the Roman Catholics there, are dis- publication. preserved in the long run ?" he lesser-the last world war, for turbed over the appointment instance." said. 'This can be answered and of Franz von Papen as Papal not by reference to the in- "Nevertheless," he stressed, Chancellor. Von Papen served dividual conscience, but by the reuse "a condition has now been as vice-chancellor and held other dictates for reached when any war would of the political con- important posts under Hitler. be not only unethical but also science. inexpedient." "To engage in war can never required Seaver made his observation be to act within the sphere of in an address on "Schweitzer's CLERGY AND CHOIR m es sa ge to civilization in CHURCH HANGINGS i ORNAMENTS crisis," which he delivered The Parish of Trinity Church MATERIALS Permission under auspices of the Univer- New York Catalogue on Requeui office of reli- sity of Michigan's REV. JOHN HEuss, D.D., RECTOR

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