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HOWARD H. CLARK Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada

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British and Canadians ac- Manifesto Presented to Congress cepted this for the most part but not the U.S. delegates who Calls for Radical Changes wanted to know who had rights regarding resolutions express- * The big story of the An- lust for passing resolutions" ing the mind of the congress. publication. glican Congress should be date- and warned that resolutions In any case it is for this and lined London, Ontario, rather would only endanger the hope reason that the heading on page than Toronto where the Con- of reforms proposed by the eight is "Manifesto To" and reuse gress met from August 13 to 23. manifesto. not "Manifesto Of". for Some 100 archbishops and bish- "The world outside," he said, ops, serving on the advisory "is very confused about the The manifesto, printed in full council on missionary strategy, structure of our congress. We in this issue, was however al- required of which Bishop Stephen F. must avoid confusing people most unanimously approved Bayne is the executive officer, any further and not create any even if no vote was taken, and had an extensive huddle prior suggestion that we are a legis- will be studied and acted upon to the opening of the congress lative body." in the months ahead on all Permission and prepared a manifesto called levels of Anglican life through- Thus delegates were given to out the world. "Mutual responsibility and understand that the document

DFMS. interdependence in the body of The document was described / was not to be discussed for Christ." by Bishop Bayne as a "time possible revision since it was bomb" and most of the hun- It was read to the delegates, the work of the archbishops

Church dreds of delegates agreed with representing Anglican churches and primates and was to be pre- him. Thus the Rev. Robert L. in 78 countries, by Archbishop sented to the churches without Curry, headmaster of Lenox F. Donald Coggan of York, the change. School and a delegate from Episcopal morning of August 17. An at- Western Mass, writes that its the tempt was made immediately to presentation "may well go down of have a vote on it but the Arch- as a historic day in the life of bishop ruled that delegates the Anglican communion." His should have time to consider it. report presents the following- Archives This they did in their study points which were made by groups during the second week archbishops and bishops in 2020. of the congress, with at least commenting on the document: some of the groups sending to the editorial committee sugges- • I thought one of the best

Copyright tions for changes in the docu- commentaries was made by one ment. of the Japanese bishops. After However the Archbishop of years of our strategy being to Canterbury, on Wednesday, the set up independent churches, 21st reminded the delegates get them onto their feet, and that the congress was not a then withdrawing, this new legislative body and that the thinking for help is a mutual manifesto could be accepted, interdependence which will aid rejected or amended only by everyone of the provinces of the the eighteen autonomous communion. The bishop com- churches within the Anglican mented that autonomy for the communion. He also strongly- BISHOP BAYNE: — fathers Japanese Church is a pretty criticized what he called "the new Anglican grim freedom—how true when SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 you are left to walk before you peatedly. The Archbishop of a two-year trip to many of the have learned how to crawl. Canterbury in commenting upon Anglican dioceses around the the document used as a key "if • Mutual interdependence is a church lives unto itself it will world. a receiving as well as giving. die by itself" — there is a The Rev. Howard Johnson, Repeatedly we have been told strong theology of mission in canon theologian at the Cathe- that the superiority of the the document. dral of St. John the Divine, said white man must cease else the "great chances" for Anglican Christian message will never Bishop Bayne also told the delegates that some persons mission work exist on what has get through to many of our become "a neglected continent." brethren. We need to see as had seen a move towards "a never before that we can re- new central curial power" in the The canon said there are ceive from others as well as to proposal for regional officers. "vast areas in Latin America give. Again the Japanese bish- "They will be the very where there are no churches at op commented that in the past opposite," he said. "They will all." both giver and receiver have serve the churches in their area He cited the opportunity for watched one another with as the executive officer serves greater cooperation between suspician and doubt, when the them, multiplying him . . . and Protestants and Catholics in im- publication. gift belongs to neither but is making local initiative possible proving social and economic

and God's gift. ... of each church in each re- conditions in South American gion. The only alternative to countries. • If the church becomes reuse them is an increased power serious about this document, it Among other delegates who

for structure at the center, and this can mean a real upheaval in the is exactly what we do not want, discussed Latin America was structure of the church as we because it would be untrue to Bishop E. K. Sherrill of Central know it today. Priorities will Brazil, son of former Presiding required our nature." have to be hammered out, and Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. the need and opportunity will Bishop Bayne also discussed Though Latin America is con- call for sacrifice at home in the "Englishness" of the com- sidered a predominantly Roman munion but said it now "must Permission order to move with strength Catholic continent, he said, and manpower to another area. fall away." "the truth is that the bulk of We need to take a hard look at Rather than "committing our native population is com- DFMS.

/ our institutions and this is suicide", he said, the proposal mitted to no Christian Church. coming to the top in some to revitalize Anglicanism means And the Roman Catholic areas of the church's life. If "making sacrifices required for Church is a great deal weaker Church this is not done then the docu- the common fellowship, the there than most people realize." ment may as well go into the common ministry and common Commenting on an announce- files for history. service to the world." ment by the Anglican commun- Episcopal "The grand design of our mis- • There is a call for a "mas- ion's chief executive officer, the sion should be to make God Bishop Stephen Bayne, that the of sive exchange" of people of all known to people everywhere and Church hopes to make "mas- ages to different provinces of the nature of our organization sive commitments" in Latin the church. Exchanges, send- should be free enough to let this America, Bishop Sherrill said: Archives ing people, bringing people to happen," he said. us, taking the opportunity to "The greatest thing the An- Concerning pending union glican Church — or any other 2020. learn of and from others who have much to offer. plans, such as the possible mer- Church — can accomplish is to ger of Anglicans and other help improve social conditions." • The funds called for are Protestants in North India, The Brazil bishop said that Copyright not to be regarded as another Bishop Bayne said Anglican the advance of communism is appeal for funds — it is the Churches should have freedom "a very real possibility" in amount of money needed to to merge or change their struc- Latin America and improve- maintain the work which we ture where they believe it is necessary. ment of social conditions will are now operating and to do it help offset the development. better and not to let it slide away. LATIN AMERICA NEEDS Anglicans in Brazil don't GREATER EFFORT count themselves as a "decision- • This is a theological docu- making" group, the bishop said, ment, and when you have a * Greater Anglican effort in pointing out that of the 4,000,- chance to read about the whole Latin America was urged at 000 Protestants among the na- congress you will note certain the congress by a New York tion's 70,000,000 population, theological truths being hit re- clergyman who recently made "only 30,000 are Anglicans."

THE WITNESS tion; Bishop Emrich on ste- Pleas for Greater Aid Theme wardship; the Bishop of Pre- toria on vocation and enlist- Of Missionary Mass Meeting ment; Bishop Stockwood of Southwark, on training the * An urgent plea for Angli- trary to some reports, mission- laity and he hit the gong and can dioceses living in "luxury" aries are welcomed in India. to help those living in "squalor," sent it clanging. Bishop Amand also reported Canon Richardson spoke was made by Bishop J. C. that church union efforts in Vockler of Polynesia, Fiji Is- North India, Pakistan and about the need for better train- lands. Ceylon are progressing, but ing for the clergy since we are He was one of three mission- added that "in all our negotia- getting fewer and fewer of ary bishops speaking at a huge tions, the one great factor al- them. He also spoke about the missionary evensong during the ways before us is that in our need to move clergy into the congress. Others addressing zeal for a regional church universities in full teaching some 16,000 people were Bishop union, we must not sever our- positions to work within the Roland Koh of Kuala Lumpur, selves from the larger family universities — a waste of time publication. Malaya, and Bishop K. D. W. of the world-wide Anglican to be attached to a parish near and communion." a university and try to bore Anand of Amritsar, India. from within! Bishop Vockler said his total He said the study of compara- reuse budget last year was $54,000, tive religion is becoming pop- Bishop Stockwood, talking for "a shoe-string that wouldn't ular in the east, with a growing about the ministry of the laity, support some of your parishes realization among Christians spoke about it in terms of the "that all other religions are not laity doing a Christian job

required for a month." altogether false or evil, and that where they are — not church "We have 10 years in which jobs important as they be. to put the Church in Polynesia they do have light for the guid- ance of their adherents ..." "Let's be practical. Personal on its own feet. After that, it life, factory conditions, mar- Permission may well be too late," he said. Bishop Koh, a former Budd- riage relationships, class and Immediate capital needs of hist, described the plight of racial tensions do not become refugees in his area and said DFMS. his Pacific dioceses were over Christian merely by urging / $3,000,000—"a flea-bite among that his church cannot fulfill people to go to church. In fact, the total needs of the Anglican its mission in Asia without church-going can easily degen-

Church communion," the bishop said. western help. erate into supplying the paper Bishop Vockler said changes "We have discovered a rich, to cover over the cracks in our encountered in his diocese — inexhaustible gold mind of 1,400 disentegrating society, whereas, million souls," he said. "They our real task is to strip society Episcopal one of the largest in the Angli- can communion — since world make up more than half the down and to rebuild it on Chris- the total population of the world ... tian foundations." He went on of war two have caused a mixture of bewilderment and uncertain- Come and help us to open up to illustrate this, and did so ty. The diocese encompasses this mine." out of his personal life of running for the city council, Archives several hundred Pacific islands. Bishop Anand told the con- TRAINING FOR ACTION campaigning, making it, and

2020. AT CONGRESS working with people on the gregation the 20th century was council across denominational showing high intelligence in A scholar presented the lines and acting in a Christian mastering the laws of science, theme and caused a real buzz at manner on all issues, never Copyright but was still in the spiritual the coffee hour. The burden of stopping to vilify other mem- stone age. his theme was that since the bers no matter how hot the "Our inner spiritual world is eucharist was the bishop's, and battle. like a neglected dugout into since it should be celebrated which a savage might crawl to throughout each diocese, and "My contention is that if the sleep, shut out from the sun- wasn't being done because of church is to influence society shine and bracing wind of manpower shortages, the bish- our parishes must be honey- God," the bishop said. ops should give permission for combed with groups of trained Evangelism opportunities in laymen to celebrate the eu- laity applying their bibical in- India, with 11 million Chris- charist. Bang! sights to contemporary happen- tians in the population of 439 The panel following was a ings and creating an informed million, were stressed by the good one — Canon Richardson Christian opinion which leads bishop. He noted that con- on education as training for ac- to action."

SEPTF.MBER 5, 1963 corner of a paper," the question Changes in Congress Message of including it in the final con- gress message was put to a Urged by African Delegates vote. Sustained applause greeted •Ar Anglicans declared in a speak through the Bible, Archbishop Clark's call for message closing the historic through prayer, and his serv- those in favor of redrafting the congress that the communion is ants in other churches, through final message. Only a few dele- determined to increase its ef- men of other faiths, or through gates were against including forts toward greater world those involved in this world's the race statement in the final service, Christian unity and in- affairs who do not recognize document. him at all. volvement of the laity in the During discussion preceding work of the church. "Anglicans cannot live in iso- the vote, Bishop S. 0. Odutola The message, which will be lation from other Christians. of Ibadan, West Africa, told the read in every Anglican church Some of our dioceses are now delegates that a few months in the world, held that Angli- preparing to enter into unity ago he was ordered out of a cans cannot "live in isolation with other Churches. In this publication. Johannesburg, South Africa, from other Christians" and new life we shall continue to airport restaurant because he and that they intend to work "far offer them our support and our was accompanied by his white more closely" with other fellowship. And we intend to secretary. reuse churches. work far more closely with our

for The bishop urged strong Con- Also included — after a plea fellow Christians of other com- gress condemnation of such by a West African delegate and munions, both at home and instances of discrimination. a floor vote — was a statement throughout the world. required opposing racial discrimination. "Again and again in our con- SOME SHARP JABS Delegates agreed to add to gress we have realized the BY CANON WARREN the original four-point message fundamental importance of the

Permission the following: laity as partners with the ~k The controversial best-sel- "God has called us to affirm clergy in the whole work of the ler, Honest to God, which calls church. Our lay delegates have for revision of the Christian

DFMS. the unity of the human race. / Segregation and other forms of asked urgently for more ade- image of God, was defended be- discrimination are a sin. We quate training. They want to fore the congress by Canon Max understand their faith; they Warren of the Church of Eng-

Church voice our deep concern and compassion for all who suffer want to know how it applies to land! on account of race, color, or questions of poverty, politics, The general secretary of the creed. We are ashamed that race and family, and to their church missionary society told Episcopal barriers of race should still per- everyday work and leisure so a capacity crowd of 2,500 per- the sist in the life of the church." that they may witness to sons that the book written by of Christ ..." As originally drafted, the Bishop John Robinson of Wool- final message opened by declar- The plea for the congress to wich was "a deeply sincere and express itself on the racial issue profoundly courageous attempt Archives ing Anglican determination "to learn how to serve our neigh- was made by Chancellor Ade- to lower barriers between jemi Olusola Lawson of the church creeds and intel- 2020. bors outside our church walls, and our fellow men and women Lagos diocese, who said the lectuals." of other nations and continents. lack of such a statement would There was loud applause "We thank God that he has force him to tell people in his from the audience. Copyright made us a worldwide fellowship diocese that it was not made Asked for comment on Canon of many races, so that the because of "sheer cowardice." Warren's remarks, Bishop Ar- riches and talents of one church Archbishop Howard H. Clark thur M. Stockwood of South- may meet the needs of an- of Rupert's Land, Canadian pri- wark, who appointed Bishop other." mate, assured the chancellor Robinson, said he agreed with The message continued: that mention of the racial issue the canon. —"We have learned again in was contained in a separate "I don't commit myself to Toronto that Anglicans, like congress document. everything in the book, but I other people, have no monopoly On the insistence of the warmly applaud his motives and on God's truth. We must all African churchman, who asked his courage in trying to break listen more carefully to what whether the race statement through the barrier between he has to say to us. He may should be "tucked away in the (.Continued on Page Fifteen) TUB WITNESS EDITORIALS

history of man, which is that undefinable Truth of Anglicanism characteristic of the Anglican communion. IT IS A COMMONPLACE to say that Anglican- At the congress Dr. Ramsey could and did ism cannot be comprehended within a definition. point to that which Anglicanism has received If reality — existence — depends upon defini- from Rome, Constantinople, Geneva, and Witten- tion, then Anglicanism is not in being. But this berg. These ecclesiastical alignments have held serves to point up the truth that reality in being positions which they have at times felt to be is one thing, and a given verbal description of it exclusive one of another, but which have born another. This is precisely the truth which is fruit within Anglicanism because in reality, if Anglicanism, a truth which it proclaims not in not always with intent, it has been possible here publication. so many words but in its actual life, in that to have unity without uniformity. and which happens within it, in that which the The broader unity — but not uniformity — people in it do, think, say, and are. with which both the churches and elements in reuse society have become increasingly concerned goes for The truth of Anglicanism is that the spirit beyond that of the old confessional divisions. will not be confined in a prison of words and While Christian thinking always has recognized labels, there to rot away, but will be discerned God as the source of all truth some ecclesiastical required in and where in the life of people it is free to institutions have been reluctant to look at any blow where it wills. description of it which did not fit their settled In a sermon in Rome last year Frederick C. verbal patterns of it.

Permission Grant expressed this as well as it can be put in The fact that God works in all history was concrete terms: made plain again at the congress by Canon Max "That is the spirit, the tradition, of which we

DFMS. Warren when he said that an understanding of / are heirs: the Anglican Communion is Catholic the value of psychoanalysis will cause Chris- in descent, and in essential nature; it is Evan- tians to "humbly thank God for his grace at work

Church gelical in outlook and aim; it is social in emphasis in Freud", and that the modern Christian con- and concern; it is committed to the principle of cern for social justice "owes not a little, under freedom, especially liberty of the individual God, to the stimulus of Marx." At an earlier

Episcopal conscience, and the full freedom of biblical, his- meeting he expressed the view that Moslems

the torical, philosophical scholarship and unfettered should not be approached "with the impression of scientific research." that we have everything and they have nothing.' With respect to the world congress of the An- In the new seminary being organized in Ceylon glican Communion it may be said that, in the Christianity will be seen as fulfilling Buddhism Archives nature of the case, this is not the sort of as- and Hinduism in that sense in which it is held sembly about whose actions one may be expected to fulfill the Judaism of the Old Testament. 2020. to agree or disagree. Anglicanism is not an end in itself. It is not The declaration that "segregation and other a verbalistic formula. That is why Dr. Ramsey forms of discrimination are a sin", incorporated could calmly — and not only because it will not Copyright in the message to the churches, brought the come about until long after the end of his term word of the congress into line with the House of office — anticipate the end of the Anglican of Bishops of the American church. communion as such, or parts of it, in the unity The appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury of Christ's Church. and Bishop Bayne for the sharing of half the But when the Anglican communion ceases to income of the churches in missionary enterprise exist it will do so because the point will have will have to look for response in the unsenti- been reached at which the Church of God on mental fiscal machinery of the several churches. earth altogether will have come to know that But the congress demonstrated in and of it- within it are to be shepherded all and sundry of self the openness to reality, the discernment of the people of God, with all their perversities and the hand of God in that which transpires in the diversities, and with all their vanities and glories.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 Seven MANIFESTO TO THE ANGLICAN CONGRESS MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND INTER- DEPENDENCE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST WAS THE TITLE OF THE MESSAGE PRE- SENTED BY ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS WHO HAD MET PRIOR TO THE CON- GRESS. SEE PAGE THREE FOR NEWS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN TORONTO MEETING for the first time since Lambeth Three central truths at the heart of our faith 1958, we have spent two weeks considering the command us in this: present needs and duties, of our churches in publication. every part of the world. Representing every • The church's mission is response to the living God who in his love creates, reveals, and province and region, we have spoken to each other deeply, of our situation, of what God has judges, redeems, fulfills. It is he who moves reuse done and is doing in our world and our church, through our history to teach and to save, who for and of the unexplored frontiers which we now calls us to receive his love, to learn, to obey and face. to follow.

required We might measure all this in terms of emer- • Our unity in Christ, expressed in our full gency, of the critical needs for money and man- communion, is the most profound bond among power needed even to keep the church alive in us, in all our political and racial and cultural di- many areas. These needs are absolute, measur- versity. Permission able and commanding. It is our conviction, The time has fully come when this unity and however, that to interpret our present situation interdependence must find a completely new level

DFMS. only in those terms would be wrong. What of expression and corporate obedience. / those needs prove is not our poverty. They prove • Our need is not therefore simply to be ex- that the ideas, the pictures we have of one an-

Church pressed in greater generosity by those who have other and of our common life in Christ, are ut- money and men to spare. Our need is rather to terly obsolete and irrelevant to our actual situa- understand how God has led us, through the tion. sometimes painful history of our time, to see the Episcopal A New Dimension gifts of freedom and communion in their great the of IT IS A PLATITUDE to say that in our time, terms, and to live up to them. If we are not re- areas of the world which have been thought of sponsible stewards of what Christ has given us, as dependent and secondary are suddenly strid- we will lose even what we have. Archives ing to the center of the stage, in a new and breathtaking independence and self-reliance. Necessities Must Be Met 2020. Equally has this happened to the church. In our IF WE ARE to find the new forms of unity and time the Anglican Communion has come of age. obedience, we must at once, together, meet the Our professed nature as a worldwide fellowship

Copyright following necessities: of national and regional churches has suddenly become a reality — all but ten of the 350 Angli- • First, we must undertake a comprehensive can dioceses are now included in self-governing study of needs and resources throughout our churches, of one blood with their own self-gov- communion, to give us up-to-date, tested data on erning regions and peoples. actual work now going on, resources in man- power (clerical and lay), training facilities, The full communion in Christ which has been financial resources and their distribution, and our traditional tie has suddenly taken on a total- the unevangelized areas which still confront the ly new dimension. It is now irrelevant to talk church. of "giving" and "receiving" churches. The key- notes of our time are equality, interdependence, • Second, we cannot wait for the results of mutual responsibility. such long-range studies. We ask each church

Eight THE WITNESS to join now in an immediate commitment to in- our communion is measured in thousands. Their creased financial support, amounting to at least training is one of the primary needs our in- $15,000,000 in the next five years, over and creased support will meet. But we think as above our existing budgets and engagements, to seriously of the laity, of their longing every- meet already-known needs. where to be involved more deeply as Christians This should not be understood as a one-in-a- in the life and service of their nation. lifetime appeal. It is no more than a first step This may sometimes be seen most vividly in forward, without reference to the longer-range the profound hunger for national dedication in needs. A strong, sustained and expanding pat- the emerging nations — dedications to the holy tern of giving is required, if our churches' work, work of building a society able to give decency born of the devotion of countless faithful Chris- and stature to its people. But this is not limited tians, is to survive. to such nations. Men and women in every na- We do not conceive of this as a new central tion and every church are searching in an un- fund, but as a higher level of mutual responsi- precedented way to find how to serve as Chris- bility within the body of Christ. These increased tians and to fulfill Christ's ministry to the world resources should be made available through our in their own lives. No church is satisfied with publication. existing channels and commitments, or through its response; all our churches alike must face and new ones, from churches to churches, intensi- this search together. fying the awareness of responsible partnership reuse • Fourth, we must continue and extend the which is of such cardinal importance in our time. for whole process of inter-Anglican consultation. Projects which this support would make pos- This has deepened markedly in recent years, and sible are already prepared and tested, and will we feel that the establishment of the executive required be circulated to each church in the coming- officer has been a step in the right direction. months. It is hoped that response will be swift, We have now agreed on the addition of regional so that the necessary coordination of support officers to further this process of planning,

Permission may be simplified. We do not feel that quotas communication and consultation. should be assigned, nor could they be; it is for We feel that such officers in Africa, the British each church to determine its own need to share Isles, India, Latin America, North American, DFMS. / in the life of other churches, and to determine Pakistan and the Middle East, the South Pacific how best to join in a common commitment. and Southeast Asia will aid in mutual consulta-

Church tion between the whole of our communion and Needs of Support Listed each part, help to develop planning in their own THE NEEDS this new support will meet are in areas, assist in the mutual planning which is of such great importance, and play a major part in Episcopal three main categories. strengthening ecumenical relationships and pro- the

of • Training of clerical and lay leadership, jects. through existing or new centers and enlarged We have agreed as well on more frequent con- provision for travel and scholarship aid, confer- sultations among ourselves with the regional

Archives ence and retreat centers, centers for literature officers and other advisers, in order that mutual and the allied communication arts. consultation may swiftly gain in reality. We 2020. # Construction of churches and other build- also encourage our churches, wherever possible, ings in new areas of Christian responsibility. to plan their new missionary ventures using teams drawn from every part of the Anglican Copyright # A beginning on the great needs of new communion. Equally we urge all our churches provinces, if they are to be rescued from the hu- to consider and extend this kind of inter- miliation of beggary and given the means to provincial partnership. make their freedom real. These include the We propose in consequence to continue studies minimum of central funds for provincial life and of pay standards, educational qualifications, administration, and the equipment of new di- pension provisions and the like, in order to facili- oceses so that bishops may be set free to be the tate this increased sharing of one another's life. spearheads of mission and fathers in God to their people. • Fifth, each church must radically study the form of its own obedience to mission and the • Third, we ask a parallel commitment as to needs it has to share in the single life and wit- manpower. The absolute shortage of priests in ness of our church everywhere. Mission is not SEPTEMBEB 5, 1963 only a giving to others, it is equally a sharing SuiquDsap SB (

Permission mission it is. The form of the church must re- evaluate every activity in its life by the test of flect that. mission and of service to others, in our following after Christ. The church is not a club or an as- DFMS. / Proposed Program sociation of like-minded and congenial people. Nor is our communion, named for its historic

Church IN THE FACE of these necessities, we propose roots, a federation commissioned to propagate the following program to every church of the an English-speaking culture across the world. Anglican Communion, without exception: If our Anglican churches are guilty of pre- Episcopal • First, that it join — as each church chooses senting such a picture of ourselves, and we are, the —in our immediate commitment for increased it is because we regard our own perpetuation and of support in money and manpower, through exist- tradition as the end of our duty. The church ing or new channels, in co-operation with the exists to witness, to obey and to serve. All our planning must be tested by this.

Archives other churches of our communion. Clearly each church must set its own time, goal and methods. • Finally, every church needs to develop 2020. But in many part of the world we have little time swiftly every possible channel of communication left for this kind of partnership — some doors with its companions in the Anglican Communion have already closed. — indeed in the Church of Christ as a whole. Copyright This is not merely a matter of the printed word • Second, that every church begin at once a or occasional visits. It is a matter of deep and radical study of its own obedience to mission. deliberate involvement in one another's affairs Included in this should be a study of its struc- and life. tures, of its theology of mission, and of its It means the reorientation of much of our priorities in decision. We need to ask whether our structures are appropriate to our world and teaching in parishes. the church as it is, and if not, how they should It means a radical change in the structure of be changed. We need to examine the training of our prayers. laity and clergy alike, asking whether in fact It means massive exchange programs of men God's mission is central in our teaching. and women in different categories. We need to examine rigorously the senses in It means a host of designed ways by which our

THE WITNESS common life and mutual interdependence may be more African variegated robes and Indian saris expressed. than we do the conventional episcopal gaiters. The Essential Task If Pope Gregory who sent Augustine to England WE ARE AWARE that such a program as we to convert the Angles should visit Toronto he propose, if it is seen in its true size and accepted, would be forced to look hard for the blue-eyed, will mean the death of much that is familiar flaxen-haired visitors from England. about our churches now. They are here of course and taking a leading It will mean radical change in our priorities— part in the talks and discussions. Theirs have even leading us to share with others at least as been the most incisive and penetrating contri- much as we spend on ourselves. butions in speeches and discussions. They have It means the death of old isolations and in- taken the lead in relinquishing their leadership herited attitudes. of the Anglican communion, which is by way of It means a willingness to forgo many desirable another paradox. From the Archbishop of Can- things, in every church. terbury's opening sermon, to the blunt and In substance, what we are really asking is the forthright remarks of Miss Janet Lacey, direc- publication. rebirth of the Anglican Communion, which tor of inter-church aid and refugee service for the British Council of Churches, the mother and means the death of many old things but — in- finitely more — the birth of entirely new rela- church has been talking to her grown-up chil- reuse tionships. dren. Miss Lacey was devastasting in her treat- for We regard this as the essential task before ment of our idea of "chosen people" in the face the churches of the Anglican Communion now. of the hunger and privation of millions through- out the world. I recommend her as a speaker required at our next General Convention to both sides of our segregated assemblies, the deputies and the women. Her most quotable line, "A lot of non-

Permission New Images For Old theological garbage will have to be put in the incinerator". By Corwin C. Roach DFMS.

/ Director School of Religion, Fargo, N. D. Many Tongues THE ANGLICAN CONGRESS at Toronto is AT THE SAME TIME, the voices of Asia and

Church smashing idols. That in itself is not startling. Africa are being heard, and this quite literally. We expect church conferences as a matter of "Anglicans" are now speaking all the languages course to speak out and look with alarm. The and dialects of the earth. It is a modern Pente-

Episcopal astonishing thing is that the idol being attacked cost but as Miss Lacey pointed out the great the here at Toronto is the image of the Anglican question is whether the church will be able to of communion in and of itself. This is the new and speak in the languages of our modern world, totally different kind of iconoclasm. spiritually as well as linguistically. What do we have to say?

Archives We live in a world where every organization is concerned with presenting a good image to the This growing diversity was brought home to

2020. outside world. One of the panelists, our Witness me most forcibly in speaking to the Rev. R. J. A. contributor, Malcolm Boyd, pointed out how in Lindsay, the delegate from Ruwanda and the past the church has been concerned to have Burandi in Uganda. He is himself an Irishman

Copyright a "good press". The spirit of the Anglican Con- but he is looking for a French-speaking priest, gress is something quite different. It is not qualified and available to teach in the theological afraid to expose its weaknesses and failures to seminary in that African diocese. May I help to itself and the world. More than a superficial broadcast his plea through the pages of the Wit- shifting of the external facade is taking place. ness. It is a radical break with the past along half a For the first time, as far as I know, at such dozen lines. a gathering a speech was delivered in a foreign The Anglican communion is no longer Angli- language, this time Japanese, on the floor of can. This is the big news as well as the great the congress. The time will come at gatherings paradox. We are familiar with the idea that of the church when it will be necessary to set up ours is a world-wide communion, but the Angli- a system of linguaphones as at the UN. Already can Congress drives that fact home. We see the Prayer Book has been translated into 200

SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 Eleven languages and dialects in whole or part. It used it is quite prepared to reckon with the possibility to be said in our seminaries that a knowledge of of its own disappearance". Hebrew and Greek was not necessary for salva- These are heady words, iconoclastic ideas. tion, but it helped. The Anglican communion is Probably not all the delegates are prepared to learning that it is not necessary to speak Eng- accept the implications. It may be that what is lish to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. happening at this Anglican Congress will wither on the vine and die a quick death. I rather The old formula of primus inter pares, first think the reverse will happen. The old image is among equals, is giving way to pares inter pares. broken, and all the king's horses and all the The distinction between giving and receiving king's men cannot put Humpty-dumpty together churches, old and new churches, has broken again. Only God through God-inspired men and down. Archbishop Ramsey in the opening ser- women can do that. This is what Toronto is mon could say, "Let African and Asian mission- saying to us and it will be the great tragedy of aries come to England to help convert the post- our century if we are deaf to its message. Christian heathenism in our country and to con- vert our English Church to a closer following of You will remember Pope Gregory's old pun publication. Christ". when he looked at those blue-eyed young boys, "not Angles but angels". Yet the word angel and Here is the significance of this Anglican Con- really means messenger as we find it for exam- gress. The old image is smashed and a new like- reuse ple in the word evangel. The Anglican commun-

for ness is being formed and shaped to take its ion is no longer Anglican, but it must become place. The old idols of western priority, of angelican, evangelistic. It must proclaim the clerical superiority, even of Anglican monopoly gospel on every front at home and abroad, in the required are disappearing. The Anglican communion in factory, and the classroom. This is the new the person of its leaders and the delegates at image which must replace the old. This is what this congress is attempting to remake the church Toronto is saying. in the image and likeness of God and his Christ. Permission This will necessarily mean that the future church will hardly be recognizable. DFMS. / Fluid and Flexible Anglican Congress Notes

Church IT IS TOO EARLY to speak of the new form. By Robert L. Curry Indeed the danger of all image making is that Headmaster of Lenox School we shall make an idol and then be stuck with it. Some personal observations from one delegate Episcopal That has happened in the past and that is what from what he sees and hears and thinks about the the church is faced with at the present time.

of as he watches and listens: — The Anglican Congress has been looking out upon the world to see what are its needs and • You are going to hear a lot about "Mutual what are the resources under Christ to meet Responsibility and Interdependence in the Body Archives those needs. We are living in a fluid age and of Christ" in coming weeks and months if not

2020. the church must be fluid and flexible to minister years. to that age. The theme of the congress has With my study group I raised what I think is used the term frontier but the frontier is no going to be a thorny question with the laity and

Copyright longer a solid line. The frontier is all about us with many of the clergy. The "mutuality" is and as human beings, at the same time that we raised as a result of theology and from the hard are Christians, it has been pointed out that we fact that many of the missions which have re- are fighting on both sides of the frontier at the ceived, don't like the superior attitude of the same time. givers — this point comes out over and over The struggle is so intense that we cannot be again. concerned about what regiment we belong to. We are told that we who give are also re- Bishop Stephan Neil formerly of India and more ceivers. We heard at the missionary rally thai recently attached to the staff of the Archbishop we need the Polyonesians as they need us. South of Canterbury can say, "The Anglican commun- Africans are needed by us, etc. How? I listed ion has never claimed for itself immortality. to the great stories of courage from men in South Unlike many other groups in the Christian world Africa; I heard and am humbled by the sense of

Twelve THE WITNESS consecration of Christians in mission fields — • This is a golden opportunity to make how are we going to get this translated to the friends and learn about your fellow man in other lay people? It is fine to say that we are not parts of the world. Luncheon each day is with going to appeal for funds — all belongs to God someone from a different part of our Church in and thus we approach people with the attitude the USA, but more often with people from over- of their privilege of giving back to the Lord seas. something of what he has given them — how long in education will this take to put across? • 15,000 assembled for the missionary rally on August 18. Techniques had been worked out • There are many references to the "ministry to get the procession in faster so we saved fif- of the laity" but mighty few examples or sug- teen minutes on this end, but lost it by listening gestions as to how this is to be implemented or to three sermons, and not one of them was a what we really mean by this phrase which we short one. I thought the people were long-suf- have thrown around now for some years. Speak- fering, but I was told later that they loved it! ers say that the clergy should challenge the A Bishop from Malaya was closer to the target laity; laymen speak and say they should not try with stories of how people were converted to publication. to usurp the role of the clergy; when asked what Christ religion; the Bishop of Polynesia made it some of the specifics are, the speakers fumble. but he was last, and the cutting edge for listen- and ing and absorbing had been blunted. Some of • It is interesting to note how the Church of the hymns were new to us, but good ones as mis- reuse England dominates the Congress. They have for sionary hymns for the Church in Canada. many of the key speakers (either England or areas where their missionary work is strong, as I think much more could have been done with the evening to raise the spirit of the people and required in India and South Africa). PEUSA does not to allow the Spirit the chance to operate in the have much of a voice in the Congress. lives of people, but it was missed in large meas- • The Canadian Church, of course, is promi- ure, and I think this is fair to say. If no souls Permission nent as host, and what a fine group of bishops are saved after an hour, what of two hours? and laymen appear for the Church in Canada to • It is interesting to note in open floor dis-

DFMS. "run the show." / cussion that the Africans are having a "field • There is a criticism that little is being said day" in exercising their newly found freedom

Church about the "larger Church". This is true, but, and independence, and a number of them are for one, I don't see how all subjects can be tackled giving prepared speeches rather than asking the in a single conference. My opinion is that this panelists questions.

Episcopal is a time when as Anglicans we try to get our- selves put straight, not forgetting to see our- • It is also interesting to note that no refer- the ence is being made to Latin or South America — of selves in the larger picture of unity with others. As I see the extent of our own communion and this I think is unfortunate for a number of its problems, I see a mighty task just trying to reasons, one being that this is a strategic place

Archives in the world and because there are so many mil- awaken Anglicans to their task without trying lions of oppressed peoples . . . this is a Congress to do the larger ecumenical work in the same

2020. where Africa especially is in the ascendency and conference of two weeks. However, our larger riding high. aim should come into our statements. • I have a strong feeling that the gap be- Copyright f lam struck by the educational purpose and tween the clergy and the laity is wide and no!: concern of the English — it is tremendous, and closing in this conference at the present time. I have heard diocesan bishops talk about having Bishops, here by the score, are the chief speak- 200-300 church schools in their dioceses. Mal- ers and thinkers, and at times we think as clergy colmn Eckel raised a sixty-four dollar question in terms which laymen do not understand. on this the other day — why, then, don't they have more people going to church? There are some tough problems coming to our attention — there is a long road of education in • There is no doubt that when the English front of us — there is a lot of indifference and speak they are for the most part clear, well or- concern about keeping the home fires burning— ganized, exceptional in delivery, timing, and have there is need for help in all directions but to a sense of humor. spell this out to awaken and set fire to conse-

SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 crated people is a task which will require the the fact that the proposed program would cost best minds and imaginations. a lot of money dampen careful consideration of it. He also has the knack of coming up with a • A good story was about the English bishop truth with biting humor. Thus: "the world will seen riding on a train reading what appeared to not be saved by Anglicans . . . what an imper- be Lady Chatterly's Lover, but it was only a tinence it is to seem to say to the world that their cover for Honest to God. only hope is in the tepid conventions of our club." • I have the feeling that this is not a time Or: "the most frightening thing about the church when there will be great breast-beating over our in our time is its feeling that mission in an op- failures. I sense that there is a growing aware- tion." ness of the rapid changes in our world, and the desire on the part of churchmen to cope with I have read everything that came my way them, understand them, and to find the way by about the congress, which was considerable. Not which Christ may be made relevant to them. one word was said, as far as I can discover, about the church in China — and I mean The People's There are those who would try radical meas- Republic and not Formosa. publication. ures; there are those who would stand pat and

and who hear no calls to action; there are those who Episcopalian Paul Anderson, in his useful are trying to find their way through to answers translations from papers published in communist reuse and solutions — a searching and a reaching out. dominated areas, as late as July, 1963, gives us. for I am not sure that I accept the oft-repeated these quotations from a Chinese magazine: phrase that we are in a "post Christian world". "The Christian religion in China has basically required I think we are in a world of rapid change and changed from being a tool controlled and utilized fluctuation, much upheaval, but God is not dead, by the imperialists to an independent and self- and as Canon Warren closed his presentation he determining religious enterprise belonging to said "one day, in a far profounder sense than the Chinese worshipers." Permission what was once upon a time, there will be a no re- ligious frontier, because God will be all in all". "We can predict that, with the guidance of

DFMS. China's policy of freedom of worship, the sup- / port of all the churches and Christians through- out the country, the consideration of the party

Church and the government, and with the united efforts Talking It Over of the instructors and students of the entire college, from now on the Chinling Hsieh-ho By W. B. Spofford Si. Episcopal Theological Seminary will definitely attain more the THIS NUMBER is almost entirely devoted to and greater new achievements." of the Anglican Congress, with everything covered The president of that seminary is Bishop K. up to the close on August 23. We have not given H. Ting, one-time staff member of the World

Archives the Congress Message since it is a mere rewrite Council of Churches in Geneva and later in the of the Manifesto which you will find in full on U.S.

2020. page eight. In regard to this document it is Somewhere along the line it would have been important for you to read the news story on page nice, I think, for Toronto to have remembered in three to keep the action straight — lack of ac- their prayers our brethren in the People's Re- Copyright tion really, although the challenge of the big- public of China. shots who met before the congress will be de- Maybe some of the delegates did. bated for a long time. This has been quite a summer for church news, Bob Curry has some keen observations in his and hence a busy one for those responsible for notes. However his remark that bishops and journals dealing with religion. Faith and Order delegates from the USA played minor roles, I'd in Montreal — Anglican Congress — followed at question. The Manifesto, which occupied most once by the meeting of the central committee of of the time during the second week, was largely the World Council of Churches and the Washing- the work of Bishop Stephen F. Bayne. He also ton march. had some pertinent words to say when the docu- So we get as much news as we can in this num- ment was presented — chiefly about not letting ber and pick up where we leave off in the next.

Fourteen THE WITNESS CANON MAX WARREN (.Continued from Page Six") Proposal that Laymen Celebrate the intellectuals and the church," Bishop Stockwood A Bomb Shell at Congress said. * Severe shortages of priests cussion sessions in beatnik In his speech, Canon Warren in some areas should be an- locales, declared that the swered by allowing laymen of asked: "Have we the moral and church must place itself in the intellectual integrity to admit the Anglican communion to public realm because "the gos- that our concern for social celebrate Holy Communion and righteousness owes not a little, officiate at baptisms, burials pel itself is controversial." under God, to the stimulus of and marriages, delegates to the He chided the church for at- Karl Marx?" congress were told. tempting to obtain "a good Canon F. C. Synge of Christ- And he said those who knew press" and for avoiding "crea- church (New Zealand) College, what an immense contribution tive public criticism." said that many people in re- Sigmund Freud made to the Particularly on the racial

publication. mote areas cannot receive com- ministry of Christian healing, issue, Boyd said, have the mass munion because no priest is and would humbly thank God "for media "sought to expose truth available. his grace at work ... no less about social conditions while "The Anglican Church makes reuse at work because Freud did not the church, as part of an estab- much of the sacraments," he for acknowledge him." lishment or power complex, has said. "It even declares that sought to suppress it." Canon Warren warned that the eucharist is generally neces- Christians do not live in a sary to salvation. In order to required world neatly divided between URGES UNITED ACTION have a valid eucharist, so runs FOR PEACE believers and unbelievers. the doctrine, it is necessary to "We must joyfully accept the have a priest." •k A united church could have

Permission complexities of our time, not Until priests can be obtained, a momentous impact on world strive prematurely to force he said, laymen should be politics, the congress was told them into a pattern, lest in try- allowed greater authority in in an address calling on Chris- DFMS. / ing to do so, we find ourselves leading congregations. tendom to "close ranks, de- blasphemously pigeon - holing nounce war and help heal the God," he said. A congress panel discussion wounds of a divided world."

Church also emphasized methods to in- "We are within measurable crease the role of the laity in "Nothing could influence distance of knowing all there is church affairs. Bishop A. M. world politics more than a to know about the planet Stockwood of Southwark, Eng- united church across national Episcopal Venus," the canon said. "But land, suggested establishment boundaries and unshaken by the is there any married man of study "cells" in parishes national and international of present, who would lightly pre- which would seek to stimulate power politics," said Bishop J. sume to say he knew all there laymen to apply biblical in- W. Sadiq of Nagpur, India. was to know about the lady sights to everyday life. Archives who is his own particular epi- Warning the 2,000 delegates, tome of feminine grace?" "Church-going can so easily observers and guests that pa-

2020. degenerate into supplying the triotism sometimes can blind Science, he maintained, can- paper to cover the cracks in our men to love of their fellow men, not tell religion the meaning of disintegrating society," he said, he said divided nations need a life and love and religion has no "supernational society, which

Copyright "while our real task is to strip right to tell science what is society down and rebuild it on the church already is and of knowledge. a Christian foundation." which the ecumenical move- The canon told delegates and A claim that the press, radio, ment is a progressive expres- visitors that Christianity is television and motion pictures sion." faced with the challenge of co- often have a more Christian "The Anglican Church has existence with the other great impact than the church was recognized the importance of religions of the world. made by the Rev. Malcolm regional churches," Bishop "The walls of Jerocho are Boyd, chaplain at Wayne Uni- Sadiq said, citing the 18 mem- not falling down at the blast of versity. ber bodies of the communion, the gospel trumpet," he said, The clergyman, who has been "but in this lies both strength calling for a reevaluation of called the "coffee-house" priest and weakness . . . weakness in mission politics. because of his prayer and dis- the fact that the national SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 fifteen churches can so easily get be- RECONCILIATION AIM fluence" of the observers at the hind their nations at war." OF COUNCIL Council. Conferring regularly with the Vatican secretariat, A prediction that a first ma- • Archdeacon C. H. W. de jor step toward actual Chris- he said, the observers' "criti- Soysa of Colombo, Ceylon, told cisms and recommendations" tian union will be taken in a plenary session of the con- were conveyed directly to the Africa was made in an inter- gress that the fathers of the Council. view by Bishop John Sepuku of Vatican Council are not think- Agenda items even were ing in terms of absorption of changed at the suggestion of Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam, the Anglican communion and Tanganyika, He said the move the observers, the archdeacon Protestant churches, but are said. will be stimulated by African working toward a "reconcilia- impatience with ancient quar- tion" among the churches. Noting the status enjoyed by non-Roman Catholic observers, rels among western churches. Moves toward greater Chris- he quoted the quip of a Catho- The chief Anglican executive tian unity received much at- lic bishop from Spain, that officer, Bishop Stephen Bayne, tention at the Congress. Arch- "the only way to get things deacon de Soysa, who was an done was to be either a publication. agreed that church unity pro- gress is forth-coming in Africa, official Anglican observer at cardinal or an observer." and the Vatican Council's first ses- Closer relationships between particularly among countries in sion, said the Council signified Catholics and Protestants also reuse the east of the continent. He "a real change and a major were cited by an American for also saw major union develop- break through in relations be- delegate, Bishop James A. Pike ments in the coming decade in tween the Roman Catholic of California. India, West Pakistan and Church and the rest of us." A former Catholic, the bish- required Ghana He cited the "immense in- op said that in the past he felt A n g 1 i c a n-Catholic reunion would be impossible "because

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Episcopal children grow to maturity. And you the congress expressed concern the over the conflict between Budd- of can leave your home to her mortgage- hists and the government of South Vietnam. The archdea- free. It provides highest immediate con said he believed action Archives protection at lowest premium cost. taken against Buddhists was "quite wrong." 2020. The churchman said the Vietnam situation is "causing tension" among Christians and

Copyright tfi Buddhists in Ceylon. e "Deep concern" also is felt in 20 Exchange Place, New York 5, N. Y. Burma, Bishop V. G. Shearburn Please show me how my family's needs will he well of Rangoon, said, and Bishop served through your Guaranteed Income Security. C. K. Sansbury of Singapore Date of commented: "It is difficult to Name Birth know how much communist Address pressure is involved in the Vietnam trouble. Buddhism Family Birthdates Wife's. and communism are incom- -Children's. patible but some Buddhists I am serving have moved into South Vietnam the Church as from the north."

Sixtee THE WITNESS CLOSER COOPERATION ism are resurgent," he said. a greater consciousness to the IS URGED "They ride on the flood tide of Anglican communion of what nationalism and have turned the church is — a community." -k Closer cooperation between aggressively missionary and Father Baum, a member of the Anglican Church of Canada strike out in revolt against a and the Episcopal Church in the the Vatican secretariat for pro- Christ who came to them re- moting Christian unity, and U.S. was urged at the congress. sembling too closely a European An English priest, Canon H. Father Aloysium M. Ambrozic, or North American colonist." professor at St. Augustine's M. Waddams of Canterbury A Pakistani delegate, Miss Cathedral, charged that though Seminary, Toronto, were ap- the North American denomina- Priobala Mangat-Rai, principal pointed by Paul-Emile Cardinal tions have a common 3,000- of Kinnair School for Women, Leger, Archbishop of Montreal, mile "ecclesiastical frontier," told congress delegates that to attend the Anglican meeting they conduct their affairs "as Christians have a greater as official guests. though the others were not tendency to merge when they Other Catholic priests also there." are a minority group. were present as accredited "Under these circumstances, press reprresentatives. Criticism of the Church of denominational divisions tend publication. England, which "continues to An official Baptist guest, the act like a dominating parent" to be blurred and forgotten," Rev. Leland Gregory, general and in the Anglican family, also she said, citing the "dividing secretary of the Baptist con- was issued by the churchman. line" between Muslims and vention of Ontario and Quebec, reuse Christians in Pakistan. "By "It acts as though other An- also hailed the Anglican coordi- for comparison, the line between nation plan as "coming to grips glican churches do not exist or Anglicans, Roman Catholics and are of no importance," he said, with the new day and facing Presbyterians is negligible." its challenges in a way that all required "and it does this quite uncon- sciously, which makes it all the churches will have to follow if more irritating." CATHOLIC GUESTS they are to be effective." PRAISE PLANS A strengthening of ties with- Other guests at the Congress Permission in Anglicanism was urged, too, * A Roman Catholic official were representatives of the by the Rev. Howard A. John- guest at the congress praised a Polish National Catholic son, canon theologian at the proposal for the rebirth of the Church, the Russian Orthodox DFMS. / Cathedral of St. John the Di- communion through greater diocese of Montreal and Canada, vine in New York. coordination of member-church the Greek Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church The canon, who visited An- activities. glican Churches around the Father Gregory Baum, pro- Church of Canada, the United world on a two-year journey, fessor of theology at St. Church of Canada, the Canadi- warned that Christians are Michael's College, University of an Council of Churches, the Episcopal being "outpaced, outdistanced Toronto, said the Anglican "ef- Presbyterian Church in Canada, the and outbred" by other religions. fort to coordinate by collabora- the Lutheran Church in Amer- of "Buddhism, Islam and Hindu- tion is very good. It will bring ica and the Church of Denmark. Archives

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SEPTEMBER 5, 1963 .Seven tee* PLUG FOR POLYGAMY ANGLICAN LAYMEN Trinity Parish, Wilmington, FROM A BISHOP TO ORGANIZE Delaware. From 1945 until his * African Christians who -k A world meeting of lay retirement in 1961 he was the dutifully abandon polygamy at representatives from each of director of the educational cen- the insistence of western mis- the 18 member churches of the ter and canon of Christ Church sionaries are now finding the Anglican communion was urged Cathedral in St. Louis. white man practicing "pro- as a step toward developing His work in Christian educa- gressive polygamy," an African more effective liaison between tion brought him in contact bishop declared at the congress. laymen and clergy. with many parishes throughout Criticism of divorce rates and Some 60 laymen from the the church. After serving as a immorality in the west was United States, Canada, Eng- public member of the Philadel- heard from Bishop S. 0. Oduto- land, Australia, and South phia regional war labor board la of Ibadan, West Africa. Africa, holding a consultation in Philadelphia during world "These people (missionaries) on the layman's role in steward- war two he was for many years have been telling us 'one man ship and evangelism, passed a the chairman of the tripartite — one woman,' or what you call resolution requesting Bishop board of arbitration of the monagamy," he said. "But Stephen Bayne to arrange such United Steel Workers and the publication. when we come to your univer- a meeting through bishops of Jones and Laughlin Steel Cor- and sities, we find you don't live the Anglican churches around poration. like that." the world. reuse He maintained that the prac- The meeting was seen as a THE PARISH OF TRNINITY CHURCH for tice of having more than one preliminary move toward the New York wife was more honest than fol- possible formation of a world- lowing the course of marriage, wide federation for Anglican REV. JOHN HEUSS, D.D., RECTOR required divorce and remarriage. laymen. TRINITY "Some of us said polygamy Broadway & Wall St. was part of our culture," the Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicar CHARLES PENNIMAN Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. bishop said, "but the Christian EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser.

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