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is difference within a con- Historic Consensus Achieved sensus that terminal deacons are necessary and desirable in the At Council's Third Session modern Church. But one who publication. does not go along with the By John Cogley and explained the increased pace of whole idea of restoring the Religions News Service the Council progress by saying diaconate is upholding opposi- Special Correspondent reuse that the Fathers were more tion of a different kind and has

for experiencsd now and had over- moved outside the consiliar con- -k During the third session, come some earlier difficulties. sensus altogether. He is, as a the Vatican Council reached its That was undoubtedly true, but result, more an annoyance than required maturity. The bishops in Rome it was not the total explanation. a threat. began to achieve a distinct More important was the emerg- The same would be true of identity not as prelates called in ence of the consiliar consensus any Father who argued against from here, there, and the other — the recognition by all but the the whole concept of religious Permission place but precisely as Fathers most obtuse that, whatever liberty and faithfully echoed the of this particular Council. A their disagreements, the Fa- wholehearted intolerance of a consensus was reached, in gen- thers of Vatican II were intent DFMS. previous age. If any such Fa- / eral terms, of what the present on pursuing Pope John's goal ther were still to be found needs of the Church are and of of aggiornamento and of relat- among the 2,300 in Rome — and ing the ancient doctrine of their Church the direction in which the it is unlikely that such a one Catholicism of the future will Church not to textbook abstrac- could be found, even among move. tions but to the present world those opposed to the present and to the actual men and

Episcopal The unpredictable change schema on religious liberty — that takes place when a group women now living in it. his opposition would be much the

of gets together for prolonged more radical than that offered dialogue no longer seemed as Argue About Deacons even by a Cardinal Ottaviani or strange as it did even last year. The ultra - conservative Fa- Cardinal Browne, who acknowl-

Archives In short, the Council, which thers were once, and not long edge the rights of conscience began as an idea in the mind of ago either, merely a minority but argue that a "Catholic

2020. Pope John, which first came to- within the Council, to be ac- state" should restrict non- gether in uncertainty and con- counted for numerically — the Catholic prosyletism and the fusion, and which was over losing side noted in a series of public, though not the private, many meetings a collection of manifestation of erroneous reli-

Copyright votes. The change now is that individual prelates, each moved this minority has become a dis- gions. by a separate vision, now has an sident group opposed to the existence of its own that tran- consensus that quietly became The Consensus scends the importance of any evident as the Council pursued particular Father. It is even its work. Consequently, the It is possible, then, to sketch possible to imagine an entirely only truly significant disagree- the broad basis of the consiliar new body of bishops attending ments now are between the Fa- consensus coming out of Vati- the fourth session without the thers who share this consensus. can II. Council itself taking any sharp They may, for example, argue In the earlier catch-all cate- turns. about whether terminal deacons gories of "progressive" and Early in the third session, may marry or whether married "conservative," it is overwhelm- Archbishop John Carmel Hee- men may become terminal dea- in?]" "progressive." The con- nan of Westminster (England) cons. This sort of disagreement servatives were outvoted on DECEMBER 10, 1964 practically every single issue up those sent back for revision be- his manner of looking at things. before the Fathers and did not fore final consideration, every If the remarkable John, then, gain a single significant victory. single one has been returned in turned out to be the liberating A few of their maneuvers, to be order to make it not less but force for the Church at large, sure, enjoyed a certain kind of more conformable to the "pro- it might also be said that he success, at least temporarily, gressive" mindset. liberated Paul himself from the but it may not even be going too frozen ideas of the Papacy far to say that even here the Liberal Victories which he might have inherited. "progressives" were victorious. It used to be said, early in the It seems perfectly natural that For example, the two major Council when some Fathers Paul VI should preside over a efforts of the die-hards in the were trying to escape acknowl- "progressive" Council. The idea Roman Curia and their allies edging that there were clearly would seem preposterous to during the third session came identifiable "progressive" and those who knew Cardinal Mon- to nothing, though they caused "conservative" blocs in Rome, ti ni even a half dozen years ago a great deal of anxiety when that these terms were meaning- —and probably not least of all they were first discovered. less since many Fathers were to Cardinal Montini himself. publication. When, in October, it was learned progressive in one matter and that both religious liberty and Healing Wounds and conservative in another. If that the statement on the Jews were were true, though, it would be being relocated and subjected to The distinctive mark of Vati- reuse hard to explain the constant a review by a committee of can II is that it has been not a for string of victories for the combative Council but a concili- hand-picked arch-conservatives, liberal faction. 17 "progressive" cardinals ating gathering, healing old managed to get Pope Paul's It is not at all certain that wounds, calling off ancient required assurance that there would be even Pope John was as "pro- wars, and reaching out, with its no tampering with the contro- gressive" as the Council has predominant notion of the versial documents. turned out to be. Whether he Church as a community of love; envisioned the clean sweep this to all men — historic friend and Permission Bishops Revolt party would win must always enemy alike. Pope John made remain a matter of conjecture it clear that he did not want his

DFMS. Later, at the end of the ses- for the beloved Holy Father Council to be concerned either / sion, when even the preliminary himself might well have with proclaiming new doctrines vote on religious liberty was put changed many of his views as or denouncing new heresies.

Church off, thus theoretically endanger- the Council proceeded. But, Like the Pope who convoked it, ing the document's very sur- whether it was accurate so to it was to be eminently positive vival, there was the famous portray him or not, John has and show the face of the

Episcopal "bishops' revolt," led by Ameri- been the patron of the "progres- Church's love for all men. This can prelates. The Holy Father sive" forces all along — and it wish of the Holy Father has the

of did not accept the protesting can be said that Vatican II has been widely observed. As a bishops' "urgent, very urgent, been not only the "pastoral" result of Vatican II, mankind most urgent" request that he and "ecumenical" Council Pope has been drawn more closely to-

Archives countermand the decision. But John desired but a "Johannine" gether. Catholicism has sought he did give his assurance that Council as well. out and emphasized its points of

2020. religious liberty would be at the agreement rather than its dif- Following John top of the agenda in the final ferences with Orthodoxy, Pro- session of the Council and he It is impossible to imagine testantism, Judaism, Islam, and thereby assured its survival. It other religions. Copyright such a consensus emerging from is already clear that it has the a Council held under Pope Pius At the same time, it has made votes necessary, so it is almost XII's direction, or indeed of any efforts to call off the meaning- certain to be passed. The state- of his predecessors. Because less and useless war that ment on the Jews, of course, is Pope Paul VI followed John, Catholics have carried on with stronger than ever and has al- there has seemed to be no con- modernity for so long. At Vati- ready been substantially ap- tradiction between his pontific- can II the Church has earnestly proved by the Fathers. ate and the Council. The pres- tried to speak to modern man— So it has gone ever since the ent Holy Father, however, had to share his concerns — to Council began. The "progres- he followed directly after Pius understand his anguish — to sives" have enjoyed one land- XII, would probably not have sympathize with his aspirations slide after another. Their mark made such a complete break — to communicate with him in is on all the documents already with the past. Such a break words he can understand — and formally proclaimed — and of seems totally foreign to his way, to show a new appreciation for

THE WITNBSS his accomplishments. This be- the Church's own answer to the and finally passed it in Council. lated attempt has of course not question, "What are You?" Nothing the Council can do in been entirely successful yet. The decree will last for a the future will outrank De Modernity is not so easily thousand years. Nothing more Ecclesia in significance. achieved that just by taking important or more profound For this reason alone, then, thought even the Church can can come out of the Council. the third session, whatever dis- catch the ear of contemporary appointments might be tied in man. But the start has been Everything in the future of made, and the contemporary Catholic Christianity will, one with it or whatever disputes it world for the first time in way or the other, be linked to might have left unsettled, was living memory, and for long be- this most fundamental doctrine. a magnificent success. It was fore that, has begun to take No matter what he does in the during these weeks that the Fa- Catholicism seriously. future, Pope Paul will have his thers finally recognized the con- place in history if only because sensus that gave them their he was the pontiff who pro- historic identity. Without that Fourth Session claimed it. If the Fathers were identity, De Ecclesia could never This is only a beginning. never to be called back to Rome, have been passed. Without De publication. Much remains to be done. But, they would have gained a place Ecclesia the consensus could

and considering the situation only a in Catholic glory because it was never have been achieved. With decade ago, the change in atti- they who conceived of its impor- both, Vatican II has already ful-

reuse tude is amazing — both on the tance, who wrote it, refined it, filled Pope John's highest hope.

for part of the Church and of the contemporary world. This is no mean achievement for Vatican Modern Parish is Not So Hot required II. There is every reason to be- Canadians Are Informed lieve that the mood of the third session of the Vatican Council * A young rector charged at aren't away doing something Permission will carry over to the fourth a seminar on modern-day church more important, that is." session. In any case, it is too relations in Montreal that par- Davison was among several ish churches show little aware- speakers at a seminar on "The DFMS. late now for any permanent re- / versal or return to the pre- ness of the need for radical Changing City — Our Chal- Council Church. Too much has changes in today's world. lenge." The seminar dealt with

Church been said on the Council floor "Because we have lost our the impact of urban forces of by the Church's highest spokes- theology, we rely on externals society and the challenge it men. Their consensus, which for the assurance of stability prssents to the church. which we feel our faith should

Episcopal individually even they probably He said once a year parishes did not suspect was their true give us, and we feel that any- render accounts of their ste- the thing sheltered under a church of belief until they came together, wardship. "But the Synod Blue is now too obvious for serious roof is Christian," said the Rev. Book — like the Synod itself— challenge. Peter Davison of St. James has little time for anything but

Archives During the third session the Church, St. Johns, Quebec. financial statements and formal Fathers discussed many impor- The result, he added, is that reports by powerless boards."

2020. tant matters — like religious "military whists and rummage Canon E. W. Scott, associate liberty, birth control, atomic sales shower us with the virtue general secretary of the council war, the priesthood in the mod- of raising money 'to pay the for social service of the Angli-

Copyright ern world, the religious orders, parson and maintain the fabric'; can Church of Canada, said the the lay apostolate, non-Chris- sending cast-off clothing and a Church must be revamped on tian religions, the missions — few dollars to the Arctic or to three main levels: local congre- which will come up again. At Africa keeps our missionary gations, specialized ministries the end, the Holy Father and conscious at bay; and stuffing a and establishment of centers for the Council Fathers proclaimed medieval catechism down the study and research. three historic achievements — throats of our young people is "We need to look at the local the decree on the Church De thought sufficient preparation congregation in the light of Ecclesia and those on ecu- for the Christian life in the 20th expansion ... It is wishful menism and the Oriental Century. thinking if we talk about the Churches. "And in all our activities we value of the people, but say Of these three, the greatest must be careful not to be too nothing about political action. was De Ecclesia. This was the religious, because 'we get that This 5s where the Church must Church's meditation on itself — on Sunday, don't we?' — if we take a deeper interest." DECEMBEB 10, 1964 He said more communications sity's school of social work, said our brethren in the Episcopal between ministries and the the Church has a role in our Church . . . congregation, between minis- "society of caretakers" and "We can thank God for their tries and industry and govern- there must be a "guided mo- virility, their warmth of friend- ment are needed, to see that bility," a recognition of change liness, their sense of being a "there is total ministry." and an intelligent attempt to family, their deep sense of ste- Ted Shiner, of McGill Univer- start in the desired direction. wardship, a deep recognition that Almighty God is to be honored on the Lord's day and, Episcopalians Face Dangers perhaps above all, their delight- ful willingness to talk on the Says Bishop of Coventry subject of religion without any self-consciousness or false * An Anglican, returning coziness. Another is that the piety." from a brief visit to the United Episcopal Church is regarded as "It is my ardent hope," Bish- States, said in London that the the Church of those who have op Bardsley concluded, "that Episcopal Church in the U.S. arrived socially and financially. publication. increasingly in the coming years faces four "potential dangers." "Many of the clergy and laity there will be frequent inter- and Bishop Cuthbert Bardsley of would vigorously deny this, but change of priests and laity be- Coventry, who addressed the one's general impression is that tween the two Churches. reuse General Convention, claimed the congregations are comprised Nothing but good can come of for that Episcopalians must fight largely of those who have made this." "an atmosphere of coziness and a material success in life. complacency," become conscious DEPLORE NO VOTE required "Next — and perhaps arising ON LIBERTY of the need for mission, and be- out of the last point — the ware of "spiritual shallowness." Church is not always very con- • The World Council of His remarks, carried in a scious of the need for mission. Churches, in a statement issued Permission special article in the Church Does this account for the fact by its department of informa- Times, were not entirely critical. that, although the population tion, expressed "very real dis- Episcopalians have been valiant, has grown by leaps and bounds, appointment" that the Vatican DFMS. / he said, in responding to the the membership of the Episco- Council had closed its third challenge of MRI and are most pal Church has shown no session without taking a vote on generous to "the Church over-

Church increase in the past 25 years? the issue of religious liberty. seas." "The fourth and last danger It said the absence of a vote Citing contributions to the to which I might refer is that at the session that ended Nov. U.S. Church, he said: "There of spiritual shallowness. One

Episcopal 21 had served to prolong "great are two worrying features wonders sometimes how deep uncertainty as to the official the among this almsgiving. First,

of this church attendance goes. Is position of the Roman Catholic there tends to be an atmosphere there a depth of spirituality and Church in this matter." of coziness and complacency; it holiness commensurate with the "This issue of religious is all very comfortable and well

Archives numbers of those who attend liberty," it added, "is one of the equipped. Enormous buildings church ? most difficult problems of re- surround the church — vicar's 2020. "Nevertheless, having drawn lationship between the Roman office, clergy office, church attention to these potential Catholic and other Churches." visitors rooms, Sunday school dangers, I would hasten to add A spokesman was quoted as rooms, various halls large and in conclusion that there are saying that the organization's Copyright small, typists' rooms, children's many churches that have statement was issued in re- rooms . . . All this sometimes avoided these dangers; many sponse to several inquiries fol- tends to lead to complacency churches that are acutely con- lowing the protest of more than and smugness. Ignore the scious of the world with all its 1,000 bishops at the Vatican Churches abroad who have so poverty and needs; many Council against a procedural little." churches comprised of men and ruling blocking a preliminary Here Dr. Bardsley cited Epis- women who have a deep spiritu- vote on the religious liberty copalian generosity to missions ality; many churches where the drafts. and cooperation in MRI. "But congregation comes from very The statement itself noted the fact remains," he said, "that mixed social backgrounds." that a "large majority" of the as the money pours into the The Bishop of Coventry con- prelates attending the Council Church ... I have mentioned ceded that "we in the Church of had gone on record as favoring one potential danger, that of England can learn much from religious liberty.

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pected to set their interests aside; they are a Reconciliation is part of being. The processes of reconciliation must therefore Biblical Religion begin with the showing that men's interests can THE MINISTRY of reconciliation is both im- be furthered rather than destroyed by a course of action. Jesus was very adept at this. He said plicit and explicit in biblical religion. No one that it was a good idea to resolve a quarrel if one questions this. did not like being in jail. The reconciliation with which biblical religion It can be shown that the interests of all can be is concerned is that between God and man. He met in political and economic life when there is seeks him who was lost and pays the price of the creative change, and not when there is reaction. It can be shown as at no time before that military mortification which reconciliation involves. No publication. violence in a nuclear age cannot preserve any- one questions this. and thing and destroy most things. Beyond this there is almost complete accept- The year 1965 has been designated "Inter- reuse ance of the principle that biblical religion holds national Cooperation Year" by action of many for that wholesome life, human life seeking its full national governments. Programs will be pro- potentiality, requires reconciliation between men moted by various official and unofficial bodies. on various levels of existence. But attempts to In an address following the signing of the required implement this have led to little more than fail- proclamation designating the year, President ure and frustration through the whole course of Johnson urged support for the project by the the history of biblical religion. The area for public and the organizations he was addressing,

Permission greatest success lies in simple personal relation- including the National Council of Churches. He ships, but history, literature, and the unwritten based his appeal on practical grounds, though he tales of broken hearts are universal witnesses did not rule out principle. When a course of DFMS. / that even on this level the forces of conflict hold action serves conflicting interests on a higher sway. level reconciliation may be attained. Church On the more complex levels of political, eco- This is the way Mr. Johnson put it: nomic, and social relationships, where impersonal "In this day and in this age man has too many factors are potent, the ways of reconciliation be- common interests to waste his energies, his Episcopal come more perplexing even as they are more talents, and his substance in primitive arrogance the or destructive conflict. In short, you are going of needed. to have to be the captains of a movement to lead What is to be said to some one who holds that people to love instead of hate. You are going to taxes unduly deprive him of the fruits of his

Archives have to be the leaders in a movement to guide labor and his property; that governmental bodies people in preserving humanity instead of destroy- hamstring his efforts in making productive 2020. ing it. You are going to be the leaders in a crusade choices; that a combination of restraints di- minishes his initiative; that all of these factors to help get rid of the ancient enemies of mankind are the effect of some sort of alien influences —ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, and disease—be- Copyright which corrode our native character and tradition ? cause we know that these things must go and we also know from our past that if we do not adjust Do we say to him that he should be unselfish, to this change peacefully, we will have to adjust that he should have more at heart the welfare to it otherwise. of his neighbor, the suffering, and the deprived, "As a great leader said in this room not many and that he should therefore cheerfully suffer years ago, 'If a peaceful revolution is impossible, the encroachments about which he complains? a violent revolution is inevitable.' So I believe There is too much of just this kind of unrealistic that the true realists in the second half of this response in attempts at reconciliation in religious 20th century are those who bear the dream of circles. new ways for new cooperation. Conflicts which demand reconciliation result "You will be frowned upon. Some will call you from conflicting interests. Men cannot be ex- an idealist. Some will call you a crackpot, and

DECEMBER 10, 1964 some may even call you worse than that. They with your government that had provided the may say you are soft or hard or don't understand leadership in the world that had preserved hu- what it is all about in some of these fields, but manity instead of destroyed it. what greater ambition could you have and what "So this year and next year and in the years greater satisfaction could come to you than the to come, international cooperation must be an knowledge that you had entered a partnership enduring way of life in the community of man."

MISSION OPPORTUNITY IN THE CITY

By John Heuss Rector of Trinity Parish, New York publication. THE BIG JOB FACING THE CHURCH and TODAY IS IN URBAN AREAS reuse for

required INCREASINGLY in recent years the Episcopal churches can no longer support an independent Church has become concerned about the work it ministry. is doing in the cities of the United States. Slowly it has been realized that the American city is the New York Area Permission largest single missionary opportunity facing the LET ME TELL YOU about New York City and Church.

DFMS. its boroughs. On October 22, 1964, the board of / Most of us have been taught that missionary education published a brochure which lists the work was either overseas or in the western population changes covering the decade 1950 to

Church states, where the Episcopal Church was not 1960. Here is what is happening to that part of strong enough to support itself. All of this has our diocese where for years the largest churches drastically changed today. Of course there is a have been located and where, for the most part,

Episcopal missionary work to be done overseas! Of course middle-income, culturally privileged people have the states like Utah, North and South Dakota, and a made up the bulk of our communicant strength. of few other places in the west continue to need In ten years Manhattan, where we have fifty- help. But, for Episcopalians, the opportunity eight churches, lost 373,306 white people. It overseas and out west is suddenly dwarfed by the

Archives gained 24,354 Negro people and 87,132 Puerto rapid population changes in the cities, large and Rican people. The population of Manhattan in small, in the United States. 2020. 1950 was 1,960,101. In 1960 it had declined to The plain truth of the matter is that the Epis- 1,698,281. I do not believe that one Manhattan copal Church today is faced with a deepening Episcopal church has been left unaffected by this

Copyright emergency in cities like New York, Boston, fantastic population change. Philadelphia, Chicago, Birmingham, Houston, Los What is it like in the Bronx? Since 1950, Angeles, San Francisco and many other places. 217,294 white residents have moved out of the Houston, Texas, is a striking example. After Bronx. 65,871 Negro residents have moved in world war two a suburb developed rapidly in East and 124,961 Puerto Ricans. Houston. Into this suburb came middle-income, The only borough in our diocese to gain was educated business executives and white-collar Richmond, or Staten Island. With the opening workers. Today, less than twenty years later, of the Verrazano Bridge, this population gain is East Houston has changed from a middle-income expected to continue. suburb into an industrial fringe area. Thg early I will not speak of Brooklyn and Queens, be- dwellers have moved away. It is predominantly, cause they are in the diocese of Long Island, today, a blue-collar area, where the rapidly built except to say that Brooklyn is losing population

."1 HE on the same pattern as Manhattan, while Queens communicants of middle and high incomes than is gaining on the pattern of Staten Island. any diocese in the Episcopal Church. Does all this mean that Episcopal churches in It is nothing short of a miracle that New York neighborhoods of Manhattan and the Bronx and comes as close to meeting its missionary quota lower Westchester should close their doors be- as it does. But we must not forget that if it were cause the old congregations have moved away? not for four large parishes in Manhattan and a It certainly does not! It means that the Episco- few in Westchester, each of which has endow- pal Church in the inner city must open its doors ments as well as pledged income from its com- to welcome our new neighbors, most of whom be- municants, this record of annual giving could not long to no Church. It means for clergy and lay be maintained. I shudder-'to think what a real officials, as well as for diocesan authorities, that recession in the present prosperity of our' nation an agonizing reappraisal is taking place. It would do to this diocese aifd to our parishes and means that one time self-supporting parishes will missions. increasingly become diocesan missions. It means Now let me speak briefly of the brighter side that the old habits of mind and ways of doing of urban church work. Four years ago the urban publication. things are no longer valid. We are faced with a crisis of the Church was scarcely realized by totally new urban missionary opportunity, for and most Episcopalians. Then, at the General Con- which there is little money yet available and for vention in Detroit in 1961, for the first time reuse which the average clergyman has not been urban work was recognized as worthy of concern for trained. and expert planning. The result was that pro- This is the most pressing problem facing our vision was made in Detroit to supply the home

required Church today. And it is not a passing problem. missions department with a small amount of The urbanization of American life increases its money and a staff member to study the urban speed each year. It is no longer accurate to think crisis. The Rev. James Morton, of Grace Church, of New York as a city by itself. It is the popula- Jersey City, was hired to get urban work started Permission tion center of a huge urban complex which as a National Church project. stretches from Portland, Maine, to Washington, Between 1961 and the recent General Conven-

DFMS. D.C. The urban work of the Church reaches out

/ tion in Saint Louis, he and a few skilled urban far into Westchester and Dutchess Counties. priests worked hard to define the urban crisis, Parishes which are now located forty miles from to bring it forcefully to the attention of bishops, Church Manhattan will, in the decade ahead, be caught priests and lay people in a continuing series of up in the problems of urban sprawl. "Metabagdad conferences" held widely about the So the real problem of the Episcopal Church nation. Yet to many of us the pace was falling Episcopal today does not lie overseas nor in some remote behind the speed of urbanization. the western state. It lies on the doorstep of your par- of ish and mine. National Planning CONSEQUENTLY at the Anglican Congress in Archives Caught Unprepared Toronto in 1963, an informal meeting of a few THE SPEED with which all this has happened urban clergy was held. It was decided to try to 2020. has caught most of the large urban dioceses un- use the year before the 1964 General Convention prepared. New York is doing more about it at to inform Church people of the critical urban present than any diocese I know about. This is situation we face all over the nation, and the mis- Copyright true, in spite of the fact that our peculiar geo- sionary opportunity it presented. We did this by graphical location has cost us dearly in leadership writing articles for the Church press and by and in financial strength. Located as we are, any offering to supplement the National Council's Episcopalian who desires to escape Manhattan urban division with volunteer speakers. and the Bronx has four choices of suburban living. Our target was the Convention in Saint Louis He can move to Westchester or other parts of and, more specifically, the program and budget this diocese further north. Yet, most New York- committee. I am glad to report that the recent ers decide to relocate in one of three other places: Convention appropriated about a half-million New Jersey, Long Island or Connecticut. All dollars for the development of urban pilot pro- three of these are outside the diocese of New grams, for increased support of the urban clergy York. I believe it is fair to say that, in terms of training center in Chicago, and for a stepped-up financial stewardship, New York has lost more training program in the dioceses of our Church.

DECEMBER 10, 1964 The Triennial also generously gave its support in it." If he returned to any one of the great cities allocating UTO receipts. of the United States today — if he could see the The question remains, will it again be the rotting slums in Manhattan — if he could enter same old story? Are we doing too little too late? a rat-infested tenement crowded with helpless I believe we are. I believe that the National Coun- Negroes and Puerto Ricans — if he could see the cil — now called the Executive Council — ought human misery of millions of American people, as to be spending five million dollars in the United we who work in the city see it — and I am sure States annually to help urban dioceses with their Christ does see it — he would weep again. enormous problems. Ten years from now it will What is more, Christ would condemn his be too late to win the new unchurched city Church — just as he condemned the money- dwellers. changers in the Temple — for our failure, for our "... (Christ) beheld the city, and wept over blindness, and for our hardness of heart. publication.

and WHAT CAN WE THEN BELIEVE? By Leslie J. A. Lang reuse Vicar of Chapel of the Intercession, for Trinity Parish, New York

required PATIENCE IS CALLED FOR AS WE PROCEED WITH RE-INTERPRETATION

Permission MORE THAN a generation ago this writer, in Christian faith by official spokesmen, some of the year of his diaconate, went to hear a popular whom have written books which, it is claimed, sit DFMS.

/ metropolitan preacher who had motored from his very loosely to cherished beliefs and patterns of summer place to confront a congregation which moral behavior. filled to overflowing his very large church edifice. The reactions to these reports, rumors, and Church Suddenly, in the midst of his discourse, and a book reviews have been varied. Many who owe propos of nothing either implied in his announced no allegiance to the organized Church seem to subject or in any way related to anything said see a forthright and long over-due resurrection Episcopal before or after it in the sermon, the preacher from pettifogging obscurantism. Within the the "let go" with this aside: "I do not believe in the of Church one hears such appraisals as "courage- Virgin Birth". ous", "statesmanlike", "timely", "publicity-seek- This was not the first time that a metropolitan ing", "heretical", "loyal" or "disloyal" to the

Archives rector had "hit" the pulpit or the press with "ad- faith and solemn vows. All too often, one fears, vanced" statements about both creed and code, the appraisals pro and con are based on reports 2020. but it did rather mark the end of a turbulent and rumors rather than any acquaintance with ecclesiastical decade in Episcopalian New York. the content of the original sources. I remember the warden of the College of Preach- Pastors of flocks who for the most part make Copyright ers saying some years later, on the basis of his up the worshipping, praying, working, and giving wide acquaintance with the sermonizings of the Church will be compelled to assess the present clergy, and particularly the younger ones, that situation in terms of their covenanted pastoral the predilection for this sort of thing had almost responsibilities and particular commitment. I entirely disappeared. have heard none of the sermons in question, al- Now, once again, the waters are troubled. though undoubtedly their substance can be found There are, as yet, no waves of hurricane propor- in many current books written by the preachers tions, but as at Bethesda an "angel" here and or others. I have read but a modest number of there has entered the pool, and made a ripple or them. In these few I have found a startling mix- two sufficient to reach from English shores to ture of careful and careless thinking; of the chal- ours. The press is now reporting denials of this lenging and the belittling of "everyman's" intel- or that traditional doctrine or dogma of the ligence and common sense; of points of view

Ten THB WITNBM both refreshing and obsolete; of questions which, all the sermons have been preached and the in my opinion, trouble very few, and questions books have been written. The "words" of our which must be honestly faced. In other words, faith will be re-interpreted from age to age, as they are the product of human beings, prone to error, not given to infallibility, and to whom one always they have been, and must be. must be ready to give all benefit of doubt of sin- In this process patience is called for as is cerity, honesty, and loyalty. appreciation of the need. The Reality behind the words will remain, as will, probably, when all is Unavoidable Tension said and done, the "words" themselves. Un- doubtedly we shall all of us, the preachers and AS A CONSERVATIVE, "Catholic minded" An- the book-writers and the rest of us, continue to glican, I must confess that a great deal of what praise here, and by the divine mercy, hereafter, has been written — and perhaps, spoken—repre- God A]n-io;hty, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. sents a great deal that I have long thought my- If you feel impotent to step into the pool, re- self, and even expressed myself, however falter- member that you don't have to. Jesus said to the publication. ingly and less brilliantly, as suited the occasion, impotent man at Bethesda, "Rise up, and walk". the circumstances, and the people. and And he did. One presents the Christian faith in various reuse universes of discourse, and as long as time shall for last there will be the unavoidable tension between the solemn commitment to feed the flock of Christ committed to one's charge, and to preach Dedogmatization required and proclaim the gospel to every living creature. By Allen F. Kremer This tension is the more deepened today because time and events are moving with appalling swift- Episcopal Clergyman and College Lecturer

Permission ness. For Christians there is a "mutual respon- sibility and interdependence" not only within the THIS WORD may not be in the English diction- body of Christ but for all mankind. ary but those familiar with Rudolf Bultmann will DFMS.

/ realize that the term goes possibly a step further To the more prophetic among us, should there than his "demythologizing". To dedogmatize be any margin of restraint for prophecy, one is might be defined as to "remove doctrines or Church moved to plead, "Be careful for what you say, teachings said to be 'of faith', or as essential to and how you say it. Be mindful of those to the 'faith' once delivered to the Saints". whom you are saying it and of all who may hear Precisely what this faith was, is open to debate. Episcopal it. Be as sure as you can that those who do hear However, it is perfectly clear from a study of his- the will hear you right. If you find they don't, un- of tory that many doctrines developed and were like royalty, you have the privilege of 'setting added to the "Faith" through the course of cen- the record straight'." turies. These then became equated with the

Archives Sometimes dogma is "barren" because we can- central core of "the Faith". not or even will not be enlightened by it. It is This was a most natural development. Thoughts 2020. not always enough to ask, "is it true?", for there and customs of different periods of history easily is also great relevance to the questions, "what became part of the thought and practice of the does it mean?", and "should it be unsaid, or said Christian Church and all organized religions and Copyright better?" were given the stamp of ecclesiastical approval. To the fearful-hearted and perplexed, should It was not only that these elements could be be- not one also offer this reminder, that the most lieved or practiced. They were not merely per- conservative dogmatist could not assert that any missible; they were required. They became nec- doctrine can express all the truth ? At best it can essary to the Christian faith. They were dogma. only say all the truth that can be said by us, at From a very early period of the Christian this time, and perhaps, at any time. In the state- Church, you had to agree, you had to conform, ments of the creeds, and in the consesnsus of the you had to be dogmatized; if you do not accept thinking, praying, worshipping, living Church, I "may you be accursed" — anathematized. In a am convinced that we find dependable assertions more recent period, there were those Christians about the character of Almighty God and his who discovered that the Mother of Christ also the mighty acts in history. This will be true when "Mother of God" was immaculately conceived; and

DECEMBER 10, 1964 Eleven the assumption of her body directly into Heaven exerted its authority and exhumed and burned was known to be true. If not true, it was at least Wycliffe's body. This must have satisfied the dogma, and binding upon the faithful. dogmatized and dogmatizers. Along with dogmatic accretions to the Chris- To demythologize can be acceptable. No one tian faith, developed protests. There were those accepts a myth too seriously. We generally who protested the equating of certain beliefs and recognize that there is truth behind each myth, practices with dogma. Often the protests were but we are not bound. mild. There was not always a desire to elimi- To dedogmatize can not be acceptable. Too nate the beliefs and practices. They existed and many accept dogma because someone says it is is would be foolish to attempt to erase them en- dogma. There may, indeed, be truth behind it, tirely. And maybe some of them belonged to the but who other than the "dogmatizers" can bind essence of the Faith. If so time should tell. you ? The "Dogma" authorities could not quite catch Why can we not see or at least search for a up with a John Huss. Eventually "Dogma" goal of dedogmatized Faith? publication. and

reuse WE ARE JUST CAPTIVES for By Malcolm Boyd Field Representative of Episcopal Society

required for Cultural Racial Unity A REMNANT IS AT WORK IN STRIFE-RIDDEN McCOMB Permission THE ROOF of the church had completely caved dressed-up in shabby but better clothes to glorify

DFMS. in. It took twenty-six sticks of dynamite to do God and feel a little bit more human in his / the job, I was told. Looking through a hole that presence. had once been a basement window, I could see

Church cnly debris and a chaos made up of wooden splint- Now the church had been bombed. These ers and broken pieces of cement. people could no longer come together in this sanctuary of God. The scene of horror was not an historical Episcopal marker of Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. It Five of us visited the site of the destroyed the was the savage reminder of the bombing of a church. Three of us were white, two Negro, and of Negro church in McComb, Mississippi ... in the we had come to McComb, at the behest of the United States of America ... on September 20, National Council of Churches. We lived in "Free- dom House" in the terrified Negro community, Archives 1964. assisted white and Negro student volunteers Negroes near the site of the church live in

2020. from all over the country who worked there for poverty and a kind of human hell it would be hard the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), for a comfortable American suburbanite even to worked on Negro voter registration and called imagine. But for Negroes in McComb, Miss.,

Copyright on both Negro and white clergy in the area. there is only second or third class citizenship, the vivid recollection of pistol-whippings on the There had been sixteen bombings in McComb head by white law enforcement officers, the in the past three months. There had been, when denial of rights under the law, a grinding poverty we were there, no arrests made in connection with and a relentless social offensive against dignity any of the bombings. The Negro and white com- in life. munities of McComb were paralyzed by fear and But at least there had been for these people demoralized by hate. the sanctuary of God. They could come to the Not far away from the bombed church was the church, worship God together, sing hymns, hear home of Mrs. Alyene Quin which was dynamited the word preached, feel the close presence of on the same night. In Mrs. Quin's home at the friends in the congregation before the altar, time of the explosion were her two children, aged experience a once-weekly ho.y occasion to get five and nine; it was, in fact, her nine-year-old

Twelve THE WITNESS daughter's birthday. The two children were most real factor in a life of suddenly blurred buried under debris but not seriously injured. realities. "Somehow I knew they were dead," Mrs. Quin During my Mississippi visit I sat in the living- told me. "But God spared them. We had been room of a Negro home which was the target of afraid and so had moved every night from room a dynamite explosion the night before. A Negro to room in the house for several weeks." lady in the room explained the hell in which she and the others are forced to exist. "We are just The Remnant captives and can't move at all. Discrimination goes on around here by law. The people who MIRACULOUSLY, there is a remnant in the come in open up the situation, give us moral sup- strife-ridden town which still witnesses to the port and then the whole world hears about it." grace and love of God. It is small, and it wit- The next day four of us tried to pay a pastoral nesses quietly. It comprises a handful of whites visit on twenty-six Negro prisoners, at least and a slightly larger number of Negroes. Very eight of them being children, in the Pike County lew clergy are to be found in this remnant; jail. Two of us were white, two Negro, and we mostly these "people of God" are laymen and lay- publication. were dressed in our black clerical suits and white women.

and collars as Episcopal priests. We were denied "It isn't hard to be brave but it's so hard to be entrance and turned away. As we walked away

reuse scared," Mrs. Charles Bryant said. Her home from the courthouse in Magnolia, Miss., a tight

for had been bombed last July 26. After the bomb- knot of white people on the street called after us ing, the attackers returned in their car and shot "bastards." at her twice. The only way to understand this twilight world, required '"'It seemed to me I was standing in the firing with its jungle of tangled emotions and fears, is line," she explained. "If you're going to die one to meditate on Christ hanging upon the cross in day, you're going to have to do it anyway. I'm intense human pain but affirming, through the

Permission 51 and if I die now it won't be anything. I'm not torture and death, that he was the Son of God. afraid of anybody."

DFMS. Mrs. Bryant, along with Mrs. Quin and Mrs. / Willie Dillon, had visited Washington D. C. in the last week of September to tell President Johnson

Church personally about the McComb situation. A House Wife Prays Mrs, Dillon's home was bombed on Aug. 27. By Jean Sims She had called the F.B.I., not the local police, but Churchwoman of St. Louis Episcopal the latter showed up anyway and proceeded to After I read the article "Prayer is Impossible" the charge Mr. Dillon with the bombing of his own of (11/12) I felt for the author. I am a church- home. woman and a very busy housewife. I too have The threat of violence and death hung always a collection of those little pamphlets on how to

Archives over the Negro community of McComb, I noticed pray. I have attended prayer groups regularly, during my own visit there. I was placed on the struggled to find a few minutes each day "always 2020. midnight to 3 a.m. early night watch at "Free- at the same time" — and failed. But even when dom House." It had been bombed by sixteen I had the time, armed with a prayer book, a sticks of dynamite on July 8. The purpose of the pamphlet or three and a pencil and paper to Copyright watch was to prevent a recurrence of that kind write down things to pray for, I always knew the of an attack. telephone or the doorbell would ring, or a child Standing alone in the cool night air, listening would come in bruised or bleeding. for sounds of crickets or approaching cars, 1 I am not downgrading the pamphlets or the cculd sense the atmosphere of virulent hate prayer groups, you understand. I learned some- present in the sad streets of the sad town. And thing from each one and I still get the pamphlets Lwas afraid. But the necessity to function soon out and read them now and again. overcomes mere .fear — as I learned, perhaps for Two things have helped me — one the old say- the-first time, on a "freedom ride" in 1961 — and ing that work is prayer, and the other Hymn a .heavy fatigue replaces qualms and fantasies. No. 476. Isn?t the-latter the perfect answer for One has a job to do, and does it; faith in the a housewife who is tired of cleaning? Lord becomes a reality, as the Lord becomes the If God is a person, as we have been taught,

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then we can talk to him. He speaks to us through I suppose it is impossible for you at this stage. books we read, events we observe or live through. I notice you don't try to forgive him, and you This is such old stuff it sounds trite, but how else never pray for him. to say it ? It all comes down to a simple formula: I can't. we must find God where we are. You'd better write his name down in your Like in a pile of dirty laundry? prayer book. You're going to have to pray for And God replies, of course I'm in the laundry. him. I am also in the box of detergent you are going to 1 can't. use. And in the washer. And in the electricity that comes to make the washer go, and in the Ycu can try. Write his name down anyway. water. I inspired some of your unknown bene- I'll write his name but I don't see how I can factors to invent the washer and the detergent, pray for him. haven't you ever thought of that? That's enough to start with. One step leads Well, not exactly in that way, but now that you to another You know I forgave you when . . mention it ... thank you very much. publication. Oh all right, let's not bring that up. I'll pray In all things thee to seei ! ! ! What about that and for him but I don't really mean it. catty woman up the street, do you think I can see you in her! ! For once I had a retort all ready One thing at a time. And every time you think reuse and I certainly did enjoy sharpening my claws about him you have to forgive him again. 70 x for on her. Christianity is all very good, but when 7 you know. you meet people like that, and she's actually an It's impossible. required Episcopalian! It's not impossible. Lots of people do it every I know very well how much you enjoyed sharp- day. ening your claws on her. You're far from perfect Think what we could have done with the money.

Permission you know. You have everything you need don't you? I pass on this one, she's more than I can stand. Yes, but ...

DFMS. You'd better stay away from her for awhile. / I'll take care of him, it's my business, not You're not ready to cope. She has her troubles, yours. it' you only knew it. Maybe later on you and she Church will be friends. You are taking care of him very well, in my opinion. Lord I can't see you in this room at all, the Your opinion is not what matters. It's my color is so ugly. The people who lived here must

Episcopal world and I'm running it, whether you realize have had diseased minds, who could live with a

the it or not. Besides, your opinions change and I color so drab? of don't change. In a few months or years, or even Never mind about their minds. Why don't you this afternoon, you may find out that I was send- paint it another color, then you might see me ing you something good, wrapped up in some- Archives better. thing you thought was evil. You've had that Me paint? I've never painted in my life. Be- happen a few times, haven't you? 2020. sides I can't stand the odor. Yes, I have. Maybe you could get some new kind of paint Then why not have patience and while you are that doesn't smell bad. Why not ask a salesman Copyright doing that, practice forgiveness. when you go shopping? This is the hardest thing you ever told me to Suppose I fall off the ladder? do. Just remember why you're painting the room. I'm here to help you all the time. Don't shut I'll keep you steady. yourself away from me. And so I paint the room. And so forth and so on. There, that wasn't so bad, was it? I have just read the foregoing and it sounds No, it was sort of fun. I think I'll do another childishly simple. Obviously I don't hear God room. talking to me in a loud voice: the words are Am I supposed to see you in that man who echoes of bits of sermons, books I've read and my cheated us? He got away with a lot of our own experiences. Maybe it will help someone money and we'll never get it back. and if it does, I'm glad.

fourteen THH WITNHSI NO BACKING DOWN an opportunity to explore to- SAYS HEAD OF NCC gather the issues facing Chris- • The National Council of tianity in the modern world. Churches is committed to the The Archbishop of Canterbury cause of civil rights and intends give four talks which were re- to keep working at it "until the layed throughout the campus battle is won," its president via closed-circuit television. said. The Rev. Robert L. McCul- Senior Bishop Reuben H. loch, chairman, said that the Mueller of the Evangelical word "m i s s i o n" had been United Brethren Church told a avoided because it suggests national convocation of Metho- "Christians are know-alls and dist district superintendents are trying to tell all the other that if the National Council is people what they ought to be wrong in pursuing its civil doing and behaving." rights program, then "Jesus publication. Christ himself was on the MAS U DA TO BE and wrong track." CONSECRATED Jesus taught his followers to •k The Rev. George T. Masuda, reuse help the downtrodden and rector of St. Luke's, Billings, Prayer books for broken hearted, the bishop said, Montana, will be consecrated Handsomely bound with gold cross and "and we make no apologies" for stamping on the spine, printed in clear, bishop of North Dakota on easy-to-read type, with gold edges, and efforts to gain justice for all. January 14 in Gethsemane silk ribbon markers. required Criticism directed at the NCC Cathedral, Fargo. Prayer Book, pew size, Thintext paper, for its activities in this field is Bishop Kellogg of Minnesota bound in pin grain, limp leather. merely an indication that its will be the consecrator with Black #3222 $6.00 Permission work is relevant, he added. Bishop Gesner of South Dakota Red #3223 $6.50 Turning to charges that some and Bishop Sterling of Mon- Prayer Book, pew size, 100% rag India NCC leaders are "soft on com- paper, bound in morocco with gold inner

DFMS. tana the co-consecrators. border. / munism," the bishop said he has been a member of the NCC The new bishop is a graduate Black #3232x $ 9.50 since its founding in 1950, has of Carleton College and Sea- Red #3233x $10.00 Church bury-Western Seminary. known all its leaders, and has Combination Prayer Book and Hymnal, "never yet" met a person af- pew size, Thintext paper, bound in fabri- filiated with NCC who indicated ANGLICANS ASK TIME koid. TO CONSIDER MERGER Episcopal Communist leanings. Black #3251 $8.00 Red #3253 $8.50 the Bishop Mueller's statement * Anglican churchmen in two of brought prolonged applause major dioceses are calling for Combination Prayer Book and Hymnal, from his audience of more than more time to consider the pro- pew size, 100% rag India paper, bound 1,000 Methodist leaders. posed Anglican-Methodist mer- in pin grain leather. Black Archives ger plan. #3262x $11.50 Red #3263x $12.00 CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTER About half of the 32 special 2020. HELD IN ENGLAND conferences called to consider Combination Prayer Book and Hymnal, pew size, Thintext paper, bound in fine -k An intensive four - day the plan in the diocese of Lon- oasis goatskin, edgelined. "Christian Encounter" involving don asked for more time to dis- Copyright Green #3279 $12.50 Christians and non-Christians cuss the issue. Only four of the conferences were in favor was held at the University of At your bookstore Liverpool, Nov. 23-27. of immediate action on the mer- ger. Arthur Michael Ramsey, THE SEABURY PRESS Archbishop of Canterbury; Dr. In the diocese of York the 815 Second Avenue George F. Macleod, a former clergy also asked for more time New York, N.Y. 10017 moderator of the Church of to consider the matter. Scotland; and the Rev. Joseph Bishop Robert Wright Stop- Christie, S. J., a Roman Catholic ford of London reported that priest, headed the program. despite the inconclusive vote of More than 300 "coffee par- conferences, there was a general ties" during the campaign gave desire to find a way for union Christians and non-Christians with the Methodist Church. DECEMBER 10, 1964 Fifteen Catholics, it represents an un- News from Around the World believable step forward in these relationships. It recognizes, foi Church Papers in England are minimizing and depreciating the example, the full 'Church stat- divided in comments about the work of the Vatican Council on us' of the Orthodox, and realizes third session of the Vatican the grounds that the central that the Anglican Church has Council. Free Church papers, obstacles still remain. To be a special role to play in the fu- while praising some of the ac- fair, one must remember that ture of ecumenism." tion, deplored failure to issue a many other confessions are statement on religious liberty. 'saddled' with doctrinal state- C. C. Morrison, founder of the Several also agreed with the ments which are embarrassing Christian Century, got a well- Congregationalist weekly which to them and which they have deserved plug in the Dec. 2 said that "The whole Roman done nothing as yet to revise." number, marking his 90th birth- Catholic doctrine related to the Referring to the decree on the day. "For nearly half a cen- Virgin Mary is notoriously im- Church, The Anglican wrote: tury he helped shape the major pcssible for Protestants to "The puzzling discourse of the religious, cultural and social sccept." The Anglican Church Pore at the end of the session, currents sweeping through the publication. Times said that the machinery in which he named Mary the country." Among the tributes and of the Councils of the Roman Mother of the Church, can only is one by Harold Fey, editor of Catholic Church is "among the be interpreted as a sop to those the weekly until recently, who reuse most cumbrous yet devised by fpnd there are many) who feel speaks of his meticulousness for man" and still not totally repre- that their Marian hopes have and says, "Sometimes Dr. Mor- sentative because neither priests been b^dly dashed by the de- rison drove the poor printer half nor laity rre able to send dele- cree." As regards the decree on out of his mind making last- required gates. But added: "It is some- ecumenism; "Here again, al- minute alterations." To that we times disconcerting to r°ad re- though the ecclesiology behind c°.n testify since for a number ports of Protestant leaders it does not satisfy non-Roman of years The Witness was printed in the same shop. Dr. Permission Morrison would call up from his down-town office to announce

DFMS. that he was on his way to the / shop, many blocks away. He'd arrive with his cane and a

Church Benefiting bundle of papers and, more often than not, order George the whole Church Albee, the make-up man, to pull

Episcopal the type out of several pages. D Life Insurance O Fire Insurance He was also given to lectures on the of D Lay Pensions D Fine Arts the evils of drink since George —'Prohibition days or not—gen- D Group Insurance D Theft erally managed to get a few O Hymnals D Packaged Policies Archives shots before coming to work. D Prayer Books • Fidelity Bonds "You know it is against the

2020. D Prayer Book Studies Other Coverages law", the good doctor said one D day. To which George replied, "There are also laws against speeding and you couldn't have Copyright We suggest you check fields of interest and return got here this fast without to one of the following at: 20 Exchange Place, New York, N. Y., 10005 breaking several of them." There were no lectures after FIRE INSURANCE CORPORATION that. AGENCY CORPORATION Election in Canada deadlocked: LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION voting on a new bishop suf- CHURCH fragan for the diocese of Niag- HYMNAL CORPORATION ara continued for five bal- Subsidiaries of THE CHURCH PENSION FUND lots over five hours before dele- gates gave up and decided to try again at some future date. When balloting ended, two

Sixteen THE WITNESS Schools of the Church

HOLDERNESS ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL TKE WOODHULL SCHOOLS The White Mountain School for boys 13-19 Nursery to College Thorough college preparation in small classes. One of Church Schools in the Diocese of Team sports, skiing. Debating. Glee Club. Art. Virginia. College preparatory. Girls grades HOLLIS, L. I. New fireproof building. 7-12. Curriculum is well-rounded, emphasis Sponsored by is individual, based on principles of Chris- ST. GABRIEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH DONALD C. HAGERMAN, Headmaster tian democracy. Music, Art, Dramatics, Sports, under the direction of the rector, Plymouth, New Hampshire Riding. Suite-plan dorms. Established 1910. THE REV. ROBERT Y. CONDIT

MABGAHET DOUGLASS JEFFERSON, Headmistress ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL Charlottesville 2, Va. THE CHURCH LENOX SCHOOL FARM SCHOOL GLEN LOCH, PA. A Church School in the Berkshire Hills foi SAINT JAMES boys 12-18 emphasizing Christian idea! and A School for Boys Dependent on One Parent character through simplicity of plant and publication. SCHOOL Grades — 5th through 12th . FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA equipment, moderate tuition, the co-operative and self-help system and informal, personal rela- FOUNDED 1901 College Preparatory and Vocational Train- tionships among boys and faculty. ing: Sports: Soccer, Basketball, Track, A Country Boarding School for Boys, Grades Four through Eight reuse Cross-Country REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmaster One of the few schools in the Midwest LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS for Learn to study, work play on 1600 acre {aim specializing in only the elementary grades. Small Classes — Individual Attention — Home in historic Chester Valley. Atmosphere — Thorough preparation for lead- Boys Choir — Religious Training ing secondary schools — Athletics including Riflery and Riding — Competitive sports in required REV. CHARLES W. SHREINER, D.D. football, basketball and hockey. Headmaster One through Eight, June twenty-first to DeVEAUX SCHOOL Post Office: Box S, Paoli, Pa. July thirty-first. Niagara Falls, New York MARVIN W. HORSTMAN, Headmaster FOUNDED 1853 A Church School for boys in the Diocese of Permission Western New York. Grades 8 thru 12. Col- NORTHWESTERN lege Preparatory. Small Classes, 50 acre ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL Campus, Resident Faculty. Dormitory for

DFMS. ACADEMY COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR GIRLS 80, School Building, Chapel, Gymnasium and / Swimming Pool. Write for catalog Box "A". LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN Fully accredited. Grades 8-12. Music, Rev. James Howard Jacobson art, dramatics. Small classes. All DAVTD A. KENNEDY, M.A., Headmaster

Church THE RT. REV. LAUBISTON L. SCAIFE, D.D., Superintendent and Rector sports. On beautiful Rappahannock Pres. Board of Trustees River. Episcopal. Summer School. An outstanding military college pre- Write for catalog. paratory school for boys 12 to 18 Episcopal Viola H. Woolfolk, STUART HALL grades 8 through 12. Fireproof Box W, Tappahannock, Virginia the buildings, modern science depart- VIRGINIA'S OLDEST PREPARATORY of ment, excellent laboratory and aca- SCHOOL FOR GIRLS demic facilities. 90 acre campus with extensive lake shore frontage, new Episcopal school in the Shenandoah Valley. 3 court gym. Enviable year 'round THE NATIONAL Grades 9-12. Fully accredited. Notable

Archives college entrance record. Also general course environment. All sports, including CATHEDRAL SCHOOL riding and sailing. Accredited. Sum- with strong music and art. Modern equip- (For Girls) ment. Gymnasium, indoor swimming pool. 2020. mer Camp. Write for catalogue Attractive campus, charming surroundings. 164 South Lake Shore Road. ST. ALBANS SCHOOL Catalog. MARTHA DABNET, Headmistress (For Boys) Box W. Staunton, VirginU Copyright Two schools on the 58-acre Close of the Washington Cathedral offering a Christian education in the stimulat- Shattuck School ing environment of the Nation's SAINT AGNES SCHOOL The oldest Church School west of the Alle- Capital. Students experience many ghenies integrates all parts of its program — of the advantages of co-education Girls Episcopal Boarding (.Grades 7-12) religious, academic, military, social — to help yet retain the advantages of sepa- and Country Day School (.Grades K-12) high school age bovs grow "in wisdom and rate education. — A thorough cur- stature and in favor with God and man." Fully accredited college preparatory and riculum of college preparation com- general courses. Music, Drama, Arts, all Write bined with a program of supervised Sports. Small classes. Individual attention DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS athletics and of social, cultural, and and guidance stressed. Established 1870. 49- 664 Shumway Hall religious activities. acre campus. Write for catalog. SHATTUCK SCHOOL FARTBATUT, MINN. Day: Grades 4-12 Boarding: Grades 8-12 HAMILTON H. BOOKHOUT, Headmaster MEMBER: THE EPISCOPAL Catalogue Sent Upon Request SAINT AGNES SCHOOL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION Mount St. Alban, Washington 16, D.C. Box W., Albany, N. Y. 12211

DECEMBER 10, 1964 SevenUen names were still in the running: he was consecrated coadjutor of alumni of the closed colleges to Canon Michael Creal, 37, of Puerto Rico on Nov. 30 in the support the eight now alive who Toronto, head of the general cathedral at Santurce. Bishop are members of the Foundation synod's general board of reli- Reus is the first native-born for Episcopal Colleges, where gious education, and Dean H. R. Puerto Rican to be made an the headman is the former bish- Bagnall, 46, of Niagara. Episcopal bishop. We got some op of Liberia, Bravid Harris. Bishop Walter E. Bagnall nice pictures, including one of (not related to the dean) su- San Juan's woman mayor, Felisa De Ecclesia, highly praised in spended the synod indefinitely, Rincon deGautier, extending her the report of the Vatican Coun- feeling it would be improper to congratulations. One too of cil on page three, has become a insist on a sixth ballot in which Bishop Lichtenberger, the con- constitutioh of the Roman the 118 clerical and 228 lay secrator, blessing the multitude Church. Its importance for delegates would be under pres- as the procession leaves the other Churches, according to sure to elect a bishop. cathedral. Claud D. Nelson, also reporting While the voting was long, it from Rome, is that it opens the set no record. Church officials Former Students of lost Episco- way for the establishment of a pal colleges are being sought by senate or group of bishops of publication. in Toronto said the Nova Scotia diocese required 19 ballots to Elizabeth S c h a d t, volunteer dioceses to report to and advise and elect a coadjutor bishop a few alumni chairman. She was in the Pope. If representative of yeirs ago. on the closing of both Canter- all parts of the Church, and not reuse Nine Bishops laid their hands bury in Indiana and Keble in a body permanently residing in for en Dean Francisco Reus when Miss. Others now no more are Rome, such a group might be of Racine in Wisconsiin; Daniel great help in establishing Baker in Texas; St. Paul's in policy, leaving only administra- required THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH Long Island and Jubilee in Ohio. tion to the congregations that New York REV. JOHN HEUSS, D. D., RECTOR Not mentioned in the release is are permanently seated in Rome TRINITY — Tabor in Iowa which Bishop and that make up the Curia. Broadway & Wall St. Johnson, founder of the Wit- Pope Paul's problem is to main- Permission Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicar Sun. MP. 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11. ness, tried vainly to keep alive tain the unity of faith, worship EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser. during the 20's. On the plus and Christian spirit that exists 12:30 Tues., Wed. & Thurs., EP 5:15 ex DFMS. Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt. side, the Episcopal Church among the bishops, beneath and / ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL either founded or was closely above these and other contro- Broadway & Fulton St. connected with William and versies, with minimum obstruc- Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, Vicar Church Mary; King's College, now tion or delay of an aggiorna- Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Ser. 10; Weekdays; HC 8 CThurs. also at 7:30) 12:05 ex. Sat.; Columbia University; Rutgers, mento that will make possible a Int. & Bible Study 1:05 ex. Sat.; EP 3; C wider unity — in the Church, Fri. 3:30-5:30 & by appt.; Organ Recital Lehigh and St. John's. Miss

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Eighteen THB WITNESS fact, Fromm does not like the word, new challenges and opportunities and especially the term, "Original which are felt, by most persons and Sin." But he emphasizes that man institutions, as problems. - NEW BOOKS - has the choice between good and evil, Once again, the Church is chal- E. John Mohi and that the Old Testament offers lenged to catch up with what we at least as many examples of evil- like to consider "secular" phases of Book Editor doing as right-doing. Some of us existence, such as industry, govern- assume that Original Sin is nothing ment, science and art. As they have more than an explication of the fact been forced to evaluate and change, FROM THE APOSTLES' FAITH that man, made in the image of God, in light of those things they have TO THE APOSTLES' CREED is never perfectly obedient to the will discovered and produced, so is the by 0. Sydney Barr. Oxford Uni- of God. Fromm juxtaposes a syn- Church forced into the painful versity Press, $6 drome of death, narcissism or selfish process of changing. concern, and a symbiotic-incestuous But first has to come hard knowl- This is a very readable account of fixation and a syndrome of love of edge and sincere evaluation. This the meaning of the Apostles' Creed life, love of mankind, and independ- book by a professional city-planner and its dependence upon the faith ence. v. ho, for several years, has been enshrined in the New Testament. It A bad man, one who loves death, serving as an advisor to both official will be a good antidote to the wholly can sometimes be recognized because and non-official church groups inter- unhistorical attitude of many per- he is cold, his skin looks dead, and ested in the problem, is a fine initial publication. sons who decry creeds as mere he has an expression on his face as springboard for both lay and clerical "philosophizing" and the "intrusion and if he were smelling a bad odor, as members of the Church. of Greek metaphysics" into Christian epitomized by Adolph Hitler. A It is a brief book but solidly doctrine. Dr. Barr stresses the reali- good man, one who loves life, is reuse ty of the early Christian experience packed. Dr. Norton writes clearly warm, etc. and is epitomized in a and well and, prophet-like, presents for as normative — and formative — an person like Albert Schweitzer. At experience that required commonly the urgency of the challenge. The anv rate, man is faced with the alter- contents, we are sure, have been understood terms, and yet relied for natives of regressing or moving for- the most part on the language of the presented to all the bishops plus a

required ward. Although Fromm suggests New Testament. good many of the clergy and laity that "bad" men have gotten us into through the Metabagdad conferences. The reality of Christ's presence in wars in the past, he declares that we Now, we have a book whereby one the Church is assumed all along, so all have the alternative of ending and all, through individual reading that the formal statement of the the arms race and the cold war or of or group discussion, can understand Permission faith leads up to the experienced continuing the present policy which 'he nscessit" for knowing about the reality behind, above, within, and will lead to war and nuclear destruc- new facts of social life. Without beneath the whole life of the Chris- tion. aw:' e=;s of the meat — and strong tian community and the Christian DFMS. meat it is — of this book, an idea / individual. Unfortunately, Fromm does not discuss the risks inherent in un- and program like Mutual Responsi- An excellent book for a study ilateral disarmament or the problem bility and Interdependence will be group, or for private study. I only of social conflicts in any depth. He nothing but ecclesiastical "whistling- Church wish the author had gone deeper at down the wind". one or two points — e.g. on Gnostic- ignores the fact that man's deci- ism. But that might only have sions, even when motivated by the So we earnestly urge this book as greatest love, are fraught with am- a center for parish study courses made the book harder for some read- biguity and paradox. But Fromm Episcopal ers to get hold of. and discussion, and as a framework was asked to write a book and he for diocesan convocations. It is in the — FREDERICK C. GRANT obliged. Perhaps there are those these waters that the disciples of the of The author of many books, Dr. who will think that he had something 20th and ensuing centuries — should Grant has written an introduction, significant to say. epilogue and notes for a currently such there be — will be fishing, or new edition of History of the Papacy — LEE A. BELFORD else we will be merely cutting bait Archives in the 19th Century, by J. B. Bury. Dr. Belford is chairman of the De- on a shore from whence the sea has partment of Religious Education of rapidly receded. THE HEART OF MAN: Its Genius New York University. 2020. — WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD JR. for Good and Evil, by Erich Dean, St. Michael's Cathedral, Fromn. Harper & Row. $3.95 CHURCH AND METROPOLIS by Boise, Idaho. Perry L. Norton. Seabury Press. The eminent lay analyst and Copyright $2.95 popularizer of Freudian social theory has elaborated upon his ideas per- One of the major themes for the MARRIAGE TODAY taining to the good and evil within Church in the next triennium is re- man in a volume in Religious Per- lating the body of Christ to the By spectives, edited by Ruth Nanda changing culture. Succinctly, this is Albert Reissnar Anshen. Even though it is difficult interpreted as the necessity for a Psychoanalyst of Brooklyn, N. Y. to see how Fromm's therapeutic Church, whose forms, polity and at- experience has provided any in- titudes most often reflect 19th or A !"eprint us :i pamphlet sights that are not a part of our 18th century rural existence, to floating cultural tradition, there come to terms with a new urbanized • .f his lecture at Trinity are undoubtedly those who like to society. Through technology, com- see ideas expressed in the jargon of munication, mobility, automation, Church, New York. depth psychology, and this book may scientific discoveries and industrial '-.~>c a copy $2 for ten well enjoy popularity. efficiency, this urbanizing process Fromm points out that Adam's and rapidly permeates all phases of hu- The Witness Eve's disobedience to God is not man existence. In its total out-reach, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania called sin in the Old Testament. In this new way of living creates great CHRISTMAS GIFTS Witness subscribers can make gifts that last throughout the year and at the same time extend the influence of the magazine by using the form below. We will greatly appreciate your cooperation. A gift to a friend is a gift to The Witness. — The Editors. publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / I am sending you The Witness for a year, which I hope you will enjoy as much as I do.

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