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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. SCHOOLS CLERGY NOTES SCHOOLS FRANKS, VINCENT C., formerly of St. Paul’s, Norfolk, Va., officiated for the first time last Sunday at his new parish, St. SAINT MARY’S HALL fKfyt (General tE^eological Stephen’s, Philadelphia. GRIBBON, ROBERT B., canon of the cathe* Protestant Episcopal school for girls. Jifemmarg dral, Trenton, New Jersey, has been elected 70th year. Junior and Senior High School. Accredited college preparatory archdeacon of the diocese of New Jersey. and comprehensive general courses. Three - year undergraduate HAINES, ELWOOD, rector of Christ Church, Junior College. Beautiful new build­ course of prescribed and elective Glendale, Ohio, has accepted the deanship ings, modernly equipped. Gymnasium of the Cathedral at Louisville, Kentucky. and outdoor sports. Catalog. study. LASHER, NEWELL A., student at Bexley Hall, seminary of Kenyon College, has ac­ Fourth-year course for gradu­ cepted a curacy at St. Luke’s, Minneapolis. ates, offering larger opportunity MARSTON, ELLIOTT DARR, vicar at Ex­ Katharine Caley, A.B., Headmistress for specialization. celsior, Minnesota, is in charge of the newly formed St. Stephen’s Church, Minneapolis. IBox W. Faribault, Minn. Provision for more advanced SCRIVEN, GEORGE B„ assistant of St. David’s, Baltimore, Maryland, has accepted work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. a call to be the vicar of the Chapel of the and Th.D. Nativity, Baltimore. SHATTUCK WEBBE, GALE D., Cimarron, Kansas, has ac­ ADDRESS cepted a call to St. Andrew’s, Newark, N. J. » » SCHOOL. « « WHATLEY, ALLAN, Fort Lee, N. J., has THE DEAN accepted the rectorship of St. John’s, Union A church school for boys, with high stand­ City, N. J. ing in sound scholarship and development of 1 Chelsea Square New York City manly character and Christian citizenship. College preparatory. Military system. 13 For Catalogue Address the Dean buildings. All sports. 75th yr. Catalog. SECOND THOUGHTS Address the Rector, Box W Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. R. CHARLES J. LA VERY, Aberdeen, Episcopal Theological School D South Dakota: You are entitled to the CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS commendation of all thinking folk for your editorial in the March 25th number of THE Affiliated with Harvard University offers WITNESS. And also for the two timely unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as articles by A. Maude Royden and Stanley k e m p i e h h l e philosophy, psychology, history, Jones. I am well pleased with all three su­ sociology, etc. perlative contributions. The Christian min­ College Preparatory and General Courses For Catalogue Address the Dean istry must soon begin to recognize fully its Graduates have won entrance scholarships to tremendous responsibility in this chaotic world Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Mount Holy­ and become equipped to lead the way to a oke, Barnard, Mills and Rockford colleges. The Protestant Episcopal more abundant life, here. Jesus Christ taught Music, Art, Dramatics, Domestic Science. All us, through His disciples, to pray: “ Thy sports. Junior School. Address: Theological Seminary in Virginia kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth Address: For Catalogue and other information as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.” Was He thinking of anything but this THE SISTERS OF ST. MARY address the Dean earth, and the people living on it, when He REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. dictated that prayer? I think not. Box. W.T. Kenosha, Wisconsin Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Stanley Jones is entirely right. Our indi­ vidual, and, what is much more important, our community lives and actions must both CATHEDRAL CHOIRSCHOOL be a least, little bit in accord with the Chris­ Berkeley tian teachings promulgated by our acknow­ New York City ledged Preceptor—Jesus Christ. Institutions A boarding school for the forty boys of Divinity School mold my life and the lives of everybody, indi­ the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the New Haven, Connecticut vidually and collectively. No institution in Divine. Careful musical training and daily western civilization is as powerful for read­ Affiliated with Yale University singing at the cathedral services. Small justment of social and economic habits as is classes mean individual attention and high Address DEAN W. P. LADD the Christian church, providing, however, the standards. The School has its own building 86 Sachem Street Christian ministry would awake as has Stan­ and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 ley Jones. per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice Our democracy, so called, must be Chris­ test and scholarship examination. Address TRINITY COLLEGE tianized. To that end, we must democratize The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Hartford, Conn our political-economy and along Christian Cathedral Heights, New York City. lines, so that we may make a start toward Offers a general cultural education, with changing our collective concept concerning special emphasis on the Classics, Modern some, at least, of our worst community sins. Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil­ Larceny for organized society from individuals osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, HOLDERNESS of that society is the one major sin that the In the White Mountains. College Preparatory Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. Christian Church could, and should, condemn For information apply, The Dean. and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For with vigor and persistency. There are other boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 major sins, but taxes, as they are now levied; acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ propagate and perpetuate many of our other dividual attention. Home atmosphere. social sins. We have not tried democracy yet, nor Christianity for that matter. Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector Political-economy and research, respecting our collective work and various activities Box W Plymouth, N. I* F & « ' o N should constitute a service as important to the An Honor Christian School with the highest Forward Movement and the Church in general academic rating. Upper School prepares for as any office that the minister of Christ is university or business. ROTC. Every modern called upon to perform. I may be much in equipment. Junior School from six years. the dark according to orthodoxy but, I be­ Housemother. Separate building. Catalogue. lieve the above is true and I am not alone in Dr. J. J. Wicker, Fort Union, Virginia. that belief. 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T he Song of the Shirts An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON H E world seems to be cluttered up with various group that each will condone murder in their partisans Tcolored shirts. There are red shirts and tan shirts and condemn petit larceny in their opponents. and black shirts and they symbolize the utter lack of As soon as one dons his peculiar shirt he loses all personality in those who wear them. They have how­ sense of perspective and renders blind obedience to a ever one thing in common and that is their hatred self constituted dictator. They argue with bombs and of the stuffed shirts who preceded them and to whom bombast accompanied by glowing promises that some they attribute all the ills of society. They are quite day they will hate nobody, but that day will not arrive oblivious to the fact that social maladjustments are until human beings have been regimented into docile due to the sins of the individuals who compose society acceptance of their decrees. When men become like and in this respect one shirt is about as soiled as the peas in a pod, then the pod will protect them from others. any conflicting ideas. Society may suffer as much from the cruelty of the mob as it ever has from the greed of soulless corpora­ H EN I say that I have no preference for any par­ tions. It is an arrogant age in which each group Wticular shirt, I may be color blind but they all claims an infallibility which gives it the right to sup­ seem to represent a godless, non-moral and relentless press any party which presumes to disagree with totalitarian state. When the United States elevates them. Both communism and fascism emerge from any little man into the throne of God, I would like to socialism—of which it has been aptly said that “ if it is emigrate to some neutral country where one doesn’t effective it isn’t socialism, and if it is socialism it isn’t have to wear any particularly colored shirt all the time. effective. Those intellectuals who acclaim these panaceas are Neither communism nor fascism has any reverence like friends of a patient who is very ill and who clamor for the past or any joyous hope for a future life. Alike for the discharge of the regular physicians and recom­ they reject God, repudiate moral imperatives and sneer mend calling in the doctor who makes the loudest at a final judgment. Claiming infallibility for them­ boasts and has the least training and experience. It is selves they most cordially hate the assumed infallibility quite possible that in the effort to cure the patient of of the other group. They do not argue with you, they one disease, you precipitate him into a more serious harangue you and impugn your motives and your in­ malady. If he wakes up with a paralysis of conscience telligence if you do not accept their dogmas. and the loss of personal liberty, the last state of that No religious bigots ever exceeded them in intoler­ man is worse than the first. ance ; no czar ever surpassed them in tyranny; no Acute sympathy for the sufferings of the poor does savages ever equalled them in cruelty. Not only do not guarantee the efficacy of any remedy proposed. they hate stuffed shirts but they also loathe each other. Chie need not decry the sincerity of enthusiasts but The war in Spain between them can end only in com­ one may question their wisdom, particularly in the plete extermination of one group by the other. light of passing events. If asked which one would I prefer, the answer is Does one really believe that the starving of three neither. It is like asking whether one would choose to million farmers, the blood purges and the scandalous be intimate with Pontius Pilate or Barabbas. They increase of armaments spring from bowels of mercy have all the evasions of the one and all the morals of or that they are the indication of any love for their the other. fellow-man ? And it is a curious feature of attachment to either After all these modern saviors of mankind have

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS April 22, 1937 the same sins as the rulers who preceded them, and grandiose promises, simply because the patient is very give no indications of any kindly sentiments to be man­ ill? ifested in the future. The shirts certainly need to be cleansed from the As a matter of fact these groups have already be­ blood of innocent victims who have perished between come mere nationalists building up machines to destroy the porch and the altar. other nations. They continue to slay the prophets who expose them It is a reversion to the tribal state in which each and they repudiate Christ for the same reasons that big chief swells up and says, “ Me Big Injun!” How He was crucified years ago. Has the age reached the any one can see the hope of the world in a Stalin, a point when men call evil good and good evil; when Hitler, or a Mussolini is beyond imagination. men cry out, “ We have no king but Caesar.” It isn’t “ Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet a question of which Caesar but of any Caesar to rule water and bitter?” Is there any reason for accepting over us in place of God.

The Church and the State By E. C. K N IG H T-B R U C E Of the Industrial Christian Fellowship, England VHE Church to a great extent Christianized the which had been the cradle of modern science, refused to Tworld, but also became, in doing so, a worldly accept more modern knowledge, and from the sixteenth Church. It was good that the world should become, at century onwards one activity after another of man, not least partly, Christian, but it was disastrous that the only left the organization of the Church, but turned Church should become partly worldly. It meant two upon it in contempt. Finance, politics, science, eco­ things—it meant that the Church to a large extent ac­ nomics, art—all repudiated its authority and tried to cepted the standards of the world,—and it meant that destroy its power, while at the same time using its in­ the Church became subservient to the state, and has fluence to urge men along paths far from Christian. since been used over and over again in its history to Today again the Church is re-thinking her theology to further political ends and national aims. meet the needs of modern knowledge; she is no longer It is just here that I expect you, and thousands like afraid of it, no longer subject to its demands, but in you, feel that the Church failed to keep the teaching her turn is challenging the end, aim and purpose of of Christ, but do you see how it came about? In a way modern knowledge. “ Yes,” she says, “ I know you can it was just because the Church had been so successful make wheat grow faster, build vast ships, discover and in showing men a new way of life, that the world use natural powers, but have you any aim in it all be­ wanted to collar it to do what the state could not do yond money, power, destruction?” for itself. In the intellectual life of the Church it is indeed L L through history the Church has had to fight hard not to see some power at work. Ever since the A for her independence, and especially in the Refor­ early days heresies have broken themselves in vain mation period, when the Church was no longer able against the structure of the Christian Faith about God to use the power of the Pope to counter-balance the and man; while the ignorance of man has repeatedly power of the King; it then came perilously near to be­ twisted the truths of the Faith into blind superstition. coming a mere instrument of the royal will; but even No less than eight false systems of philosophy and the­ when it appeared to have surrendered, it retained ology tried to capture the Church during the first four enough independent spiritual vitality to be able to rebel hundred years of its life— each one seeking to destroy in the end. Though politicians sometimes talk today the claims of Jesus as to His true Nature, and therefore as if the state could dictate the position the Church to undermine His true authority. The creeds of the must take, the Church is as far as it has been since Church, which you may think old-fashioned, and per­ Constantine’s day from admitting that claim, either in haps imagine as being written by stuffy old scholars in theory or practice. their studies, are not like this; they are the fierce, and The thing that is of most hope is all these battles sometimes almost frightened declaiming, in the face of between the Church and state, is that each time the mighty opposition, of what Christ is, and in what man­ effect they had was to make the Church better. Many ner shall come the saving of the world. of the struggles were partly the result of evil inside So for over a thousand years the Church resisted the Church, and in the struggle, over and over again, false teaching and tried to make of life, and our ideas she realized her sin and failure, and set to work to do about it, something orderly, reasonable and acceptable better. However the Church has sinned, and whatever to the intelligence of man. As years passed the thought disaster has befallen her, the effect in the long run has of the Church became too stereotyped, and that Church, been to call her to repentance and a new and better

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 22, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Five life. That which was evil in her could be destroyed, the voices of His prophets have roused many, and today but the life of Christ in her rose triumphant over the there is an ever-growing number of people who are sin within and the attack from without. standing out against this capturing of the Church by The history of the Church is one of a never-ending the world; demanding that yet again the whole body of fight to be true to the Christ. The world has never Church-people shall defy the world, and refuse to be been able to capture it altogether, however hard it has used for any other ends than those of Christ. These tried. Sometimes it looked as if it had succeeded, but men and women are searching afresh for Christ’s solu­ just when things seemed at their worst, and that the tion to the problems of today. We inside the Churches Church had failed Christ altogether, either one man, know that we have failed God, but we also know that or a body of men, rose up to call the Church to a God risked this failure when He entrusted the saving purification of her own life and a, renewed stand against of the world to the Church He had founded. He risked the forces of the world. it, and is asking you to join in the risk and in the final We see this battle between the Church and the world triumph. still going on before our eyes today. Russia is trying You know the problems of the world as well .as any­ to kill the Church, but has not yet succeeded entirely one, I expect. What is your remedy? Have you any —men will still face persecution and death for the Faith that will compare with the conception of the world as of Christ. From the blood of these martyrs there are one Body obeying one Head, and that Head, Christ? signs in Russia that a deeper and truer Church may Christ taught the Fatherhood of God, and therefore the rise agdin than that which was known before. Germany brotherhood of all mem—not only people of the same is trying to do what Constantine did; Hitler is making race or class. He taught that all men are brothers, the Church a power in national life, serving the ends whatever they may feel or think, but that they find of the state. Here again there have risen up bodies of their fullest brotherhood in the followship of all be­ men and women who refuse to be so used—they are lievers. We shall do our best for the world, not as indi­ persecuted, but will not give in. Italy is trying to make viduals working on our own, but as members of His the Church a department of state, blessing its wars Body, working as a body, fighting as a body, and think­ and nationalism. ing as a body. You can bring to the body something In England wealth and the love of power have that nobody else can bring, and the body is the poorer weakened the life of the Church and it has often stood for your not being in it. But, also, Christ can give you not for the Mind of Christ, but for the upholding of ajpower, if you are in the whole life of the body, which things as they are. But still Christ has not been left you haven’t now—this power is there, waiting for all without witnesses. More especially in England, far the who really want it. greater number of those who have fought for social Will you ask yourself honestly, “ Did Christ mean justice have been members of the Church. Think of a there to be a Church, and if so, if He is the finest Man few near our own times. Shaftesbury fighting for the who ever lived, hadn’t I better think about joining His children and their liberation from the vile industrial Church?” The world needs new hope, new leadership, conditions under which they were working; Wilber- above all, a new power to lead a new life. Doesn’t the force who gave England the leadership of the world in story of the Church make you feel that in spite of all the liberating of slaves; the whole band of men still the failures, here is something unconquerable? The nearer our own day who rose like the prophets of old, Church gave hope and power in the past— she can give denouncing the social unrighteousness of our whole eco­ them again if we Christians are true to the Faith that nomic and industrial order— Maurice, Kingsley, Scott is in us. Holland, Gore, and a man many of you knew and loved, Studdert Kennedy. These men and hundreds of others have cared nothing for the world’s opinion or fame, L e t ’s K n ow but have fearlessly proclaimed the truth about God and By life and are the true voice of the Church. Following BISHOP WILSON this awakening among Christians to their vocation in Cremation the world, have come statements from the governing bodies of the various Churches, which would surprise N A R T IC L E on “ Cremation” in a recent issue some of you if you read them. The Archbishops’ Fifth A of a popular magazine has raised the question as Report on Industrial Problems is as fearless a chal­ to the attitude of the Church on this question. lenge to social and economic injustice as any would The history of cremation goes back into the twilight desire. This was followed by the Lambeth Reports of of antiquity. Primitive people in all parts of the world 1920 and 1930, signed by all the Bishops of the disposed of their dead by burning on some sort of fune­ Anglican Communion of the Churches, going into ral pyre. Particularly in Asia this method of disposal further details, but losing none of the challenge to men prevailed and has continued down to our own day. A t to make our social and economic life conform to the the opening of the Christian era it was in use among principles of Christ. the Greeks and the Romans but never seems to have been adopted by the Jews. It was closely identified O, W E have not lacked prophets in these last days; with the pagan religions as it still is among the Hindus N what we have lacked are men and women who today. have the courage to follow their lead. But, thank God, As the Christian faith spread in the early Christian

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS April 22, 1937 centuries, the disciples of our Lord repudiated pagan­ he retired, though he is still very much on the job as ism and all its works. This was obviously necessary warden of the training center of the Church Army in if the purity of the Gospel were to be preserved. To New York. He was elected Bishop of Alaska in 1890 these pagans death was a dreary catastrophe. To the but declined. I remember his visit to the Berkeley Di­ Christians there was something triumphant about it vinity School in the spring of 1915. I had a long two because of our Lord’s resurrection. So with the spread years to go before I was to graduate and be ordained— of Christianity in Europe cremation went out with its a ridiculously long time to wait it seemed to me in pagan associations. view of the fact that I had met a young lady. Dr. About sixty years ago a movement was started in Chapman appealed for missionaries for Alaska. The France to revive the use of cremation. The old ob­ Rev. Eustace Zeigler, now an artist in Seattle, was jections against it had vanished. Nevertheless the then studying at the school, being on furlough after five Roman Church set its face in opposition because the years of missionary work in the north country and he movement was supposed to have some connection with had pretty well sold me on Alaska. So I went to Dr. Freemasonry. Gradually, however, the custom has Chapman as a volunteer and said that I wanted to go spread both in Europe and in our own country. Prac­ at once. He said, “ My boy, finish out your seminary tical reasons for it have been advanced—the growth training.” I told him that I thought it was entirely un­ of large centers of population has accentuated the prob­ necessary—that I wanted to go now. With no help lem of space occupied by cemeteries and the attendant from me he then put his finger on the cause of my mis­ cost of burial by interment. Sanitary reasons have also sionary enthusiasm, “ Young man, isn’t there a girl been advanced. Crematories have increased in number back of this?” I allowed that I thought I might lo­ and the technique has been vastly improved. Today cate one that would be willing to go with me. “ Well, it is not a question of burning by fire but of dissolution if she is still willing to go two years from now let me by desiccation under high temperatures. Really it is know. Meanwhile keep on with your studies.” I did only doing quickly what is done over a longer period of keep on with my studies— I also married the girl with­ time by the process of interment. The Roman Church out waiting two years, if that is of interest to anyone. still opposes cremation as a matter of discipline with­ out any dogmatic implications. The Episcopal Church U R IN G T H E P A ST TWO W E E K S I have been has never felt impelled to take up the question because D doing some running around in the middlewest. it has no real religious bearings. Christian burial is Among my visits was a few hours with a man who put possible and proper under either method. People are pockets in coats in a clothing factory where I worked left to follow their own inclinations. as a labor manager years ago. Today he is one of the Speaking of burial customs, an interesting incident leaders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a union is related by H. V. Morton in his fascinating book “ In of 150,000 members that is affiliated with the CIO. the Steps of St. Paul.” He says he witnessed a funeral Most of the exciting stories he related were off the in Greece where the casket was carried through the record—of how they organized the automobile workers streets entirely uncovered, the body being exposed to and the men in the great steel industry. He made the public view. He inquired the reason for it and was prediction that within the next few years there would told it dated back to the days before the revolution be ten million workers organized under the banner of which brought Greece independence from Turkish rule the CIO', and that political action would go along with over a century ago. The revolutionary spirit was boil­ industrial organization so that soon a strong Labor ing at that time and the Turks discovered that arms Party would be in the field. He himself hopes to go to were being secretly imported into Greece by packing Washington one of these days as a Congressman or them into caskets and delivering them at certain points Senator, and knowing the man I have no doubt that by means of a fictitious funeral procession. Thereupon he will. Incidentally in his early days he was devoted orders were issued that all caskets must be uncovered to the Church and studied for a time to be a priest of in order to guarantee the reality of the funeral. A the Anglican Church in Canada. Today he maintains century has passed since that regulation became inef­ that there is more real religion in the labor movement fective but the custom had been established and still than there is in the Church. continues though the reason for it has passed. H U RCH U N IT Y is not so easy. Consider the C difficulty we have in our own Church in bringing about the merger of parishes. Three parishes have just Talking It Over been brought together in Louisville, but it took years to do it and the calamity of a flood. There is a lot in­ By volved besides doctrine. Devotion to the parish of our WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD fathers plays a large part. But economics plays a great­ O DAY is the fiftieth anniversary of the Rev. John er part I believe. Mergers mean the loss of jobs and TW. Chapman’s ordination to the priesthood. He jobs are things to hang onto these days. As a result went to Alaska in 1887, after serving some time in the men most directly involved lack enthusiasm. There New York, and became one of our most noted mis­ is not a city of any considerable size in the United sionaries. He was there, hard at it, until 1930 when States where mergers of Episcopal parishes would not

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 22, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Seven result in greater efficiency at less expense, but it is sel­ the nature of historic Christianity, at least our ideas dom that they are perfected. If parishes in one com­ deserve respect and consideration with those who claim munion, holding the same doctrines, balk at union, then to be liberals as well as those who cherish a belief in surely it is true that the dream of one flock and one loving their fellowmen. On the other hand communi­ Shepherd is a far off event. cants who are afraid of the common cup are quite at liberty to receive only in one kind. Surely no one be­ lieves that Christ is only partially present in the con­ secrated bread or the wine. In fact I cannot imagine Convention Topics anyone who really believes in the Presence and who receives Christ in the chalice, will be fearful of germs GRO UP of clergymen of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., re­ and disease as he touches the common cup. If such cently advocated that the General Convention pass A is the case we’d better adopt the whole machinery of such legislation as is necessary so as to allow the ad­ relics and reliquaries until our people recapture a little ministering of the Holy Communion in one kind faith and a little understanding of supernaturalism. (bread only to the laity, the clergyman alone receiv­ ing both the bread and the wine). Since this matter is HE REV. FRANCIS M. WETHERILL, Phila­ likely to come before General Convention we are glad T delphia: Joe was a rag-picker. He came to com­ to present communications on the subject. It is our munion every Sunday. Always filthy, finally the po­ plan to deal with Convention topics regularly between lice arrested him as a public nuisance because of his now and October and welcome the opinions of readers. horrible appearance. It was generally known in the Because of limited space we urge you to be as brief as congregation he had a tubercular throat. Some wisely possible. refrained from partaking the Sacrament because of Joe. One of our members had trench mouth. I fell heir R O FESSO R HOW ARD R. PA TCH of Smith to his disease thru the Communion Cup. College, Northampton, Massachusetts, the com­ P My rector washed the chalice off with a purificator munication being signed also by Mrs. Patch : . drenched in alcohol at Old Christ Church. The odor Intinction as a method of administering the Holy of the alcohol reminded some of a distillery and on Communion is unnecessary, subversive, and thorough­ other counts was objectionable. While this was par­ ly un-Christian for the following reasons : tially sanitary it received adverse comments. It most ( i) It is unnecessary for the reason that Commun­decidedly took away from the solemnity of the devo­ ion in one kind is possible for people who are worried tions. about the common cup. This practise I myself believe The purificator becomes an infectious rag, rather to be unfortunate because of its implications, but it is than a cleaner from saliva, from proof by a mycroscop- open to those members of the congregation who are ist. This is not guess work nor prejudice but scien­ afraid of contamination from the chalice. It can be tific evidence. left voluntary with the people, without offending others. In our state the common drinking cup is forbidden- (2) Intinction is subversive of Christian doctrine That it should be applied to the Holy Communion is because if adopted as a regular practise it carries an of­ just, hygienic, and would tend toward an increased ficial implication that there is danger of infection from partaking and participating in the showing forth of the chalice. It therefore works in a negative way the Lord’s death until He come. against the idea of the healing power in the contact of You may have noticed, as I have, that epidemics Christ. In contrast the early Christians derived heal­ of flu break out in a congregation some three days ing from the touch of the garments even of the Apos­ after the first Sunday of the month. We might call tles. It is, I believe, an outgrowth of a weakening of that Flu Sunday! Where intinction is practiced Com­ the belief in the Real Presence in the Sacrament. munion Sunday passes off more charitably by keeping (3) It is un-Christian because of its negative effectour colds to ourselves! in the matter of doctrine. But as usually managed it is also blasphemous. The ordinary priest who admin­ "JV/TRS. W ILLIA M EDW ARD COX, Southern isters intinction, dips the consecrated wafer in the ^ Pines, N. C .: May I ask why the clergymen of chalice and then places it on the hands of the recipient. Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, feel the need of both the Necessarily some of the consecrated wine is left on the bread and wine for themselves when they think only the hands. To the increasing number of Christians who bread sufficient for the people? I have for five years- believe that our Lord meant what He said when He now been in a parish where intinction is practised and said “ This is my blood ...” this possibility is gravely I believe that if the confirmation classes in the future offensive. If the Church’s witness throughout its his­ were instructed in that method it would only be a short tory to what happens in the Holy Eucharist may be time before it would become universal and solve all the trusted, this possibility is also blasphemous—as offen­ problems raised by the older method. In my parish the sive to God as it is to man. One would think that method of intinction is used first and the older method Churchmen of all schools of thought or of any would last and there is rarely more than one rail full who hesitate before suggesting a practise so deeply repug­ wait for the older method at any one service, no mat­ nant to those of us who are loyal in our ideas about ter how large the congregation.

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By Gardiner M. Day By W . B. Spofford 'Getting Help From Religion is the In England there is a League of tenth volume from the pen of the well- Clergy for Peace composed of An­ known minister of the South Congre­ glicans who maintain that “ war as gational Church, in Springfield, a method of settling international Massachusetts, James Gordon Gilkey, disputes is incompatible with the on the relation of religion to life. teaching and example of our Lord (Macmillan. $1.75). Out of his long Jesus Christ.” They met recently at experience, Gilkey knows life inti­ Westminster Abbey, about forty of mately. He knows people, and he them, at the invitation of Canon knows the chief problems faced by Donaldson, and listened to a monk the ordinary individual. Some of who is connected with a London slum these problems which he deals with parish, Father Groser, who was in­ in this volume are “ Finding God’s troduced as “ a communist by con­ W ill,” “ Managing An Overburdened viction upon religious as well as po­ Life” and “ Facing Death Unafraid.” litical grounds.” He told the breth­ Like all his books, this is a very ren that under capitalism, when readable volume, putting religion in production and consumption are not such a way that no reader can mis­ equative, it is necessary to find mar­ understand the author’s meaning. He kets abroad with war the inevitable also presents religion with such real­ result. He declared that the whole BISHOP WILSON system of government was behind ity that many people will recognize Writes on Personal Prayer imperialism, with the foreign office life problems that have bothered them seeking markets abroad, the war of­ from time to time. In this era of fice preparing for the defense of the speed, when we hear so much about an aid for his better understanding of markets and the board of education the rush of life, and feel that we are the sociological and religious prob­ devoting most of its efforts to keep­ truly overburdened, it is interesting lems which the city layman faces. ing the people commercially minded. to turn back the pages of history to An Outline of Personal Prayer is “ If you desire peace,” declared the the eighteenth century and read an the most recent of the twenty-five cent monk, “ you can have it only by de­ account which Gilkey quotes of a typi­ outlines, published by Morehouse, and stroying the profit-making system, cal day in the life of John Wesley, written by our own editor, Bishop bringing about a new social order in the great founder of Methodism. Wilson. Like all his outlines, it deals which we produce what we need, and with the subject concisely, clearly, “ Wesley always rose at four o’clock share what we produce.” He also in the morning, preached whenever and helpfully, and the whole volume declared that it was not enough for possible at five, and was often on the issues from the personal experience parsons to preach peace or even a road again at eight— sometimes fol­ of the author. It ought to be a real new social order. “ You must join it lowing his morning sermon by five aid in helping many a layman to re­ up with something. You must tell others in the same day. In the fifty vitalize his experience of God through people to joint the great working years of his itinerant life he preached personal prayer. class movement.” Speaking of the over 40,000 times— an average of Two interesting pamphlets came Soviet Union he said that while there about fifteen sermons per week. It from the Abingdon Press recently. was much in Soviet communism that is estimated that he crossed the Irish The first is entitled The Evangelistic he could criticise, that nevertheless Channel more than fifty times and Spirit and the Layman’s Task, and is “ the sacrifices which the Russian that he travelled more than 250,000 an attempt by J. Russell Throckmor­ workers have made is the greatest miles on land— visiting in the process ton to present a guide for the use of contribution to a new social order remote fishing-villages in Cornwall ministers in instructing laymen how ever made by any body of people.” and isolated mining-towns in York­ to make their evangelistic Christian He even excused their anti-God atti­ shire which the regular travel-routes spirit effective in the modern world. tude. “ Considering what the revolu­ never reached. Up to 1773 all his The second pamphlet isJ entitled The tionaries had to go through at the journeying was done on horseback. It Unified Sunday Morning Church Ser­ hands of organised religion, this is is doubtful whether the annals of the vice, and is a study by Robert Grant not surprising,” he said. eighteenth century show another such Anderson of the value and effective­ “ Many Communists have the same record of tireless, methodical activ­ ness of combining the adult and chil­ temper as Christ. . . . I do not be­ ity.” dren’s congregation on Sunday. Prob­ lieve you will get a godless Com­ City Man is, as the title would in­ ably more churches are using this munist State. When people build dicate, a study of the metropolitan method than is generally realized. true to human nature, they will find man in relation to his community, by Anderson made his study on the basis God again.” Charles Hatch Seers, general secre­ of a survey sent to some 688 Meth­ When asked by one parson wheth­ tary of the Baptist Churches of odist ministers in Kansas and Okla­ er war was not caused by sin, Father metropolitan New York. ($1.50 Har­ homa, during January, 1936, inviting Groser said: “ Yes, it is,” but ex­ per & Brothers.) The volume deals them to share their experiences as to plained boldly, “ the present order of with the way in which the city whether any type of unified service society is the result of selfishness church is endeavoring to meet the on Sunday morning had been tried and human sin. It produces sin and problem of the nurture of the soul of out. The survey and interviews indi­ not goodness. That is why I shouldn’t the city man. Any minister who is cated a very marked increase in the have to preach to prisoners in Worm­ dealing with the “ American Melting attendance at the worship service in wood Scrubs. What have I to say Pot” will find helpful suggestions for every situation examined. The in- to them? The system creates them. his work in this volume, as well as (Continued on page 16.) “ People are not slaves because

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they are poor. They are poor be­ one of the Witness editors, conduct­ man, the fourth rector of Christ cause they are slaves. . . . ed a patriotic service at his parish Church and the great-great-grand­ “ It’s the sin of selfishness on of St. John’s, Keokuk, Iowa. . . . The sons of the Rt. Rev. George W . Free­ which the capitalistic order is built number announced that twenty-one man. second bishop of the diocese. up. Under this, human beings have sons of bishops were in the war. They represent the fifth generation fallen from what God meant them * * % of men and women continuously con­ to be. Bishop Mann on nected with the parish in life and “ You must build a sort of order Religion and Peace service. Another outstanding fea­ under which they can grow spirit­ Bishop Mann of Pittsburgh re­ ture of the service was the sermon ually. As I see it, Capitalism has cently issued the following state­ preached by Bishop Charles Cling- got to go. Anyway, as the Marx­ ment on the subject of peace, which man of Kentucky. * * * ians say, it contains the seed which was printed in all the newspapers of brings about its own destruction. his city: Benjamin Franklin is re­ Brooklyn Rector “ I am up against the whole thing ported to have said once that “ there on Overhead spiritually. In the East End, where had never been a good war or a bad The Rev. Thomas Lacey, rector of I live, I get on a public assistance peace.” I doubt whether many of the Redeemer, Brooklyn, who always committee and do the things I can, us would feel like giving an unquali­ writes with a punch in his interesting pleading for more allowances for the fied assent to that statement, but I parish paper, has things to say on poor, protesting against the insults have no doubt whatever that the vast the matter of church finance. “ Con­ which the unemployed receive. majority of American citizens are gregations are overwhelmed with “ While we should get for them all convinced, as never before, of the financial difficulties,” he declares. we can materially, it is their posi­ ruinous waste and futility of war. “ The outlook of many churches, if tion as outcasts from society which I never expect to hear again the the trustees would be frank, is none concerns me. It is all so un-Chris­ slogan of a “war to end war.” De­ too rosy. Too often enthusiastic but tian.” impecunious men lead into financial * * * spite the sneer of the cynic I be­ lieve that the American people en­ enterprises utterly beyond resources. Bishop Johnson in tered the world war in a spirit of The remedy is simple. Pay as you Eastern Oregon fine idealism, but I believe also that go. Keep within income. Be con­ Bishop-Editor Johnson is to be the the events which followed, especially tent to do things in a modest way. headliner at the convention of East­ the unjust Treaty of Versailles, have Spend money wisely and effectively ern Oregon, meeting at Trinity, Bend, sadly disillusioned us, and that the as good stewards. Then will peo­ May 2-4. It is to be a conference nation today is not only determined ple be ready to give you more money. as well as a convention with such to “ keep the United States out of Keep the overhead down and support subjects as the home and family life war,” but also to do what we can freely work among the poor and and Christian welfare among the to keep the nations of the world from activities among youth.” He then subjects to be considered. resorting to war for the solution of went on to relate a visit to his par­ * * * their international problems. ish of a national secretary who had Want More Secretaries But of one other thing I am also asked for an opportunity to meet of Religious Education convinced. Treaties and pacts, how­ with the vestry. The secretary made The province of Sewanee wants ever important and necessary, can the conventional plea for missions more diocesan secretaries of religious never of themselves ensure the peace and missionaries but was stopped by education, with the department of of the world. There must be back a vestryman who suggested that it religious education of the province of them the massive and outspoken might be an idea to lop off a secre­ passing a resolution on the subject approval of the people. We Ameri­ tary or two at headquarters in order at a recent meeting. cans cannot rely simply upon the that more missionaries might be ^ H1 action of the President or of Con­ placed in the field. Mabel Lee Cooper gress. If we want peace at home * * * Is Better or peace abroad, we must as individ­ Young People Meet Miss Mabel Lee Cooper, on the uals, cultivate the temper of peace— ■ in Savannah the strong sense of equity, the steady staff of the national department of Bishop Barnwell of Georgia was religious education, hopes soon to self-control, the frowning down of all racial prejudice, the avoidance of the headliner at a meeting of the return to her work after spending young people of Savannah, meeting the winter at her home in Memphis all proud boasting, which ignore and weaken the great cause of peace. at St. Paul’s on April 4th with about recovering from an illness. a hundred representatives present. ' * * * H* H* There was also a talk by Professor Twenty Years Ago Little Rock Parish J. P. Dyer of Armstrong College in The Witness Has Anniversary who maintained that too much stress The war fever was on full blast Christ Church, Little Rock, A r­ is being placed these days on devel­ twenty years ago and was reflected kansas, where the Rev. W . P. Witsell oping leadership and not enough on in the pages of The Witness. . . . A is rector, observed its 98th anniver­ educating and training young peo­ great mass meeting was held at Christ sary on April 4th. The service was ple for fellowship. Church, Springfield, Mass., at which one event in the five-year centennial * * * parishioners took the pledge to drink program which is to culminate in W here Is the no liquor until the war ended on the 1939 when the 100th anniversary is Highest Church? grounds that all grains should be to be celebrated. The service cen­ In the issue of April 1st we stated sent to feed the soldiers. . . . The tered around the men who have that there was a church in Colorado paper featured an article which de­ served as rectors of this church from that was 9,300 feet above sea level. clared that the Russian Church was its beginning to the present. One This prompts the Rev. W . B. Turrill “ the most democratic Church in the of the striking features of the serv­ of Tacoma, Washington, to inquire world” and since it had always been ice was the participation in it of three where the church is located and the “ real friend of the people” it men, Messrs. Mitchell, Sterling, and whether there are churches at still would not suffer because of the rev­ Howard Cockrill, who are great greater heights in the United States. olution. . . . The Rev. John C. Sage, grandsons of the Rev. Andrew Free- Unfortunately I am unable to answer

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either of his questions so will be til such time as a new building can lowing story the day after Easter: glad to have your help. While you be constructed. “ I wonder how many of you folks are at it some of you might also Bishop Hobson stated that he was passing or attending Grace Church let me know where the “ lowest” not too keen about cathedrals, though yesterday were surprised to hear the church is located for there are some he did praise New York and Wash­ sound of musical chimes coming no doubt below sea level. ington for their great edifices. “ If from the church tower. Never heard ^ H* ^ someone came to me today with the them before, did you? Well, I’ll let St. Luke’ s, T okyo. offer, ‘Here is a million or five mil­ you in on a little secret. The chimes H as Good Year lion dollars for your cathedral,’ I you heard were the Bells of St. Mar­ St. Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo, reports would have to reply, ‘No, thank you. garet’s of London, England, located that it averaged over 9 0% occupancy If you are thinking of a building I across the street from Westminster last year. It also had a good year wouldn’t know where to put it, and Abbey, and you heard them because financially. after I had it I wouldn’t know what of an idea of A. J. Pickman, well- * * * to do with it.’ Perhaps you have known Mount Clemens man, who, in Minneapolis Auxiliary a rather strange bishop.” his youth, was an amateur bell ringer Holds Meeting * * Hi in Eccles, County of Lancastershire, The annual spring meeting of the England; that’s near Manchester, I New Church in Auxiliary of Minneapolis was held at believe. You see, Mr. Pickman likes Minneapolis St. Paul’s on April 16, with Bishop bells and chimes, and particularly At the request of a large number Keeler and the Rev. Donald G. Hen­ at Easter time, his mind goes back to of families living in the new and ex­ ning of Christ Church, St. Paul, as those years in England— to his youth clusive Country Club district of the speakers. — to the parochial school he attended * * * Minneapolis, Bishop Keeler has es­ — to the church choirs he sang in— - tablished a new church there. The Preaching Missions to the bells he played. So he de­ organization was effected at a din­ in Virginia vised a plan to bring the Bells of ner held on April 9th attended by Ministers of cities in Virginia met St. Margaret’s to Mount Clemens. 250, many of whom are at present in Richmond on April 5th and made First he obtained a record of these affiliated with no church but have plans for a state-wide, interdenom­ bells; then with the splendid co-oper­ expressed a preference for our own. inational, preaching mission next ation of Bernie Vandenbossche, who The parish has been named St. fall. can do the most remarkable things * * * Stephen’s, in honor of Bishop Stephen with loud speakers, and a lot of oth­ Keeler, and the Rev. Elliott Darr Co-operative Project er electrical gadgets, they rigged up Marston has been placed in charge. in Philadelphia a loud speaker in the church tower, Services began on Sunday last in a There is no church in the country then connected it with Bernie’s port­ school building, with plans afoot for that launches more “ cooperative” able radio recording machine, put a plant as soon as a suitable site projects than St. James, Philadel­ the record on the machine, turned on is purchased. phia, where the Rev. John Mockridge Hi H1 H* the switch, and, well, maybe you is rector. The latest is a tie-up with heard the result. If you didn’t, you the Curtis Institute of Music which Getting the Bells missed something, for it was the provides for the establishment by the From England first time that the music of the Bells parish at the Episcopal Academy of The daily newspaper of Mount of St. Margaret’s ever came from a “ St. James’s Choir School,” in Clemens, Michigan, carried the fol­ any other church than the one on charge of Alexander McCurdy, head of the Curtis school and the organist and choirmaster at a Presbyterian W H Y DID Church in the city. * He H« A New Kind JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. of Cathedral The convention of the diocese of WRITE TO JIM FARLEY? Southern Ohio, meeting in Columbus See if you can answer this question after reading the remark­ on April 6th, heard Bishop Hobson able article, “ President Rooseveltfs Dilemma” , by Louis Wallis declare that the old cathedral in Cin­ in The Christian Century, reprinted free for you. cinnati, unserviceable because of changed conditions, would be torn Here is the dilemma: Business recovery must go much down. In its place he proposed a further; else the New Deal fails.— But if recovery DOES Cathedral on Wheels, enabling him go on, it will inevitably drive up land prices, and inflate to minister directly to people ground rents, and lead to another period of land specula­ throughout his diocese. This church tion, which will produce another economic slump. Most automobile will contain an altar, a “frozen paper” in banks is based on inflated land values. bishop’s chair, a library, motion pic­ Two remarkable articles by Louis Wallis, “ President ture camera and projector, firm li­ brary and displays of the work of Roosevelt’s Dilemma” and “ The Economic Problem ” — all the departments of the diocese— both reprinted from The Christian Century— will be also, no doubt, a rack for the For­ forwarded to you free by sending your name clearly ward Movement pamphlets, very dear written on a postal card to to the heart of this energetic young Dept. G bishop. Meanwhile, through the pur­ chase of a large tract of land in WILLETT, CLARK Cr CO., downtown Cincinnati, it is planned 440 South Dearborn Street to make Christ Church a diocesan center, with one or two of the build­ Chicago, Illinois ings now on the property to be used temporarily for a diocesan house un-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 22, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven the corner, across the street from York; the Rev. Luke M. White o f Westminister Abbey in London. And THE BOX SCORE Montclair, N. J .; the Rev. Hughell' what a thrill it must have given Mr. Fosbroke of the General Seminary. ISHOP BENTLEY of Alaska Pickman to be able to attend church On April 4th the preacher was the is the latest Bishop to sub­ in the city of his adoption, yet hear B -Rev. William Melish of Cincinnati, scribe for all his clergy, not previ­ the bells which, in his youth, had son of the rector. left an impression on his mind which ously taking T h e W i t n e s s . This time will never erase.” brings the total to twenty-three Bishop Wilson Mr. Pickman is one of the leading dioceses in which every clergyman Conference Leader members of Grace Church, Mt. Clem­ now receives the paper regularly. ens, and has served as a Diocesan In addition a great many rectors Bishop Wilson of Eau Claire and Lay Reader for a number of years. have sent in the names of their the Rev. Herbert W . Prince, rector vestrymen and parish leaders, to of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, Illinois, were the lead­ Clergy Meet with receive the paper from now ers April 12-17 at a conference on Syrian Archbishop through the General Convention at “ The Mission of the Church,” held at When the Most Rev. Anthony the special rate of one dollar. Send the College of Preachers in Wash­ Bashir, archbishop of the Syrian in your names. We will start the paper at once, billing you at one ington. Orthodox Church in the United * * * States, visited Grand Rapids on April dollar each. It is our hope that News Items from 4-6, he was the guest of Bishop Mc­ the effort now being made to in­ Chicago Cormick at a luncheon to which came crease the circulation of the paper The picturesque acolytes’ festival1 also all the Episcopal parsons of the will not be allowed to lag — let’s is to be held at the Epiphany, Chi­ city and a group of ministers from get everyone reading, particularly cago, on May 11. . . . Youth and other Grand Rapids churches. The in this General Convention year Religion was the subject of a radio archbishops explained the position of when so many important matters broadcast by Bishop Stewart on the Syrian Church relative to other are to be decided. In the effort April 19. . . . A China plate depict­ churches and expressed his great in­ to raise $5,000 in this 20th anni­ ing the crucifixion has been received terest in Church unity. versary year the total amount re­ * * * ceived or pledged to April 16th was by the Rev. Leland Danforth, rec­ tor at Kenilworth, and placed in the New Dean for $2,720. If you have not already Eugene Field museum connected Louisville done so won’t you add your bit to with the parish. It is said to be one The Rev. Elwood Haines. Glendale, this fund? of two of its kind in existence, the Ohio, rector, has accepted the dean- remainder of a set made in 1741 in ship of the Cathedral in Louisville, Leeds, England. . . . St. Luke’s, without a dean since the spring of doubtless will be used, being the best 1935 when Dean McCready resigned, located of the three, and the Rev. F. though he has been carrying on since Elliott Baker will be the rector. For that time. It is thought that a senior the present however the custom es­ April Choice of the canon will soon be called to assist tablished following the flood of hold­ Religious Book Club Dean Haines. ing services on alternate months at Calvary and St. Paul’s will be con­ Merger of Parishes tinued. Later on it is thought that in Louisville some of those making up the merged The Three parishes in Louisville, Ken­ parish will form a new parish in the tucky, have merged: Calvary, St. east end of the city, care being taken Recovery Paul’s and St. Andrew’s. The plan not to get into the territory of the has been under consideration for two parishes already there. years since everyone recognized that * * of Ideals the churches were so close to each Special Preachers other that one could easily minister in Brooklyn by to all the people, but there were Distinguished clergymen are doing many difficulties to overcome. The the preaching mornings at Holy Georgia Harkness flood apparently helped things along, Trinity, Brooklyn, during the ab­ The main purpose of this book thus again demonstrating that good sence of the Rev. J. Howard Melish comes even from calamities. All the who is on a leave because of illness. is to suggest the outlines of a churches suffered heavily so that a Among them are the Rev. W . Rus­ constructive philosophy of lot of cash had to be spent to get sell Bowie of Grace Church, New life. It recognizes that the them back in shape. Anyhow there were many meetings and conferences most serious aspect of current and finally the plan went over, with Philadelphia affairs is the depression in but few voting against it. St. Paul’s Divinity School morale and indicates an orig­ inal method of halting this de­ The D’Ascenzo Studios A Three year Course of required pression and stimulating a 1604 Summer St., Phila., Pa. Canonical Studies and Clinical Ex­ perience. Each Academic Year of dynamic idealism. A book for Respectfully refer you to their eleven months. young people, teachers and stained glass in Applications for admission in October pastors. $2.00 The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. 1937 now being received. 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Evanston, has received $3,000 under clergy will wear 18th century vest­ the luncheon. Speakers at the lunch­ the will of Henry W . Roth, brother- ments (the long surplices and bands eon were David C. Adie, commission­ in-law of Mrs. George Craig Stewart. of Colonial days) and an oak tree er of social welfare of New York, Income will be used for the upkeep will be planted in the Churchyard in and Richard Hutchings, Jr., psychia­ of a memorial window. . . . A memory of General Washington. trist at the Harlem Valley State Hos­ preaching mission is being conducted H« * * pital, Wingdale, N. Y., who addressed April 18-28, at the Ascension, by New Vicar Is the group on contemporary and psy­ the Rev. Karl Tiedemann of the H onored chological family problems. Eco- Order of the Holy Cross. It is spon­ A reception in honor of the Rev. sored by the Catholic Club of Chi­ S. Tagart Steele Jr., new vicar of cago. the Intercession, New York, was held PARKER’S * * * HAIR BALSAM on April 14th. There were speeches RemovesDandruff-StopsHairFalline CLID Meeting in by Bishop Manning, the Rev. Freder­ Imparts Color and Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair Baltim ore ic S. Fleming, rector of Trinity; 60s. and $1.00 a t D ruggists. H iscox Chem. W ks. P atchogu e, N. Y The Rev. John Nevin Sayre, chair­ Bishop Wallace Gardner of New Jer­ man of the Fellowship of Reconcili­ sey, former vicar; Dean Gates of the ation, is to be the preacher at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Use Your Mission Industries ST. ANDREW’S CRAFT SHOP .annual service of the Baltimore chap­ also a former vicar and Lawson MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO ter of the Church League for Indus­ Purdy, purse-string man of the cor­ Distinctive linens - Monogramed handkerchiefs, Silk underwear trial Democracy, to be held at the poration of Trinity Church. Large exhibit at General Convention. Church of the Redeemer on May 2nd. Commission given Church organizations on orders. The national secretary of the League Social Service Conference Send for information. is to be the speaker the day before, in Albany with the Rev. A. J. Muste, at an out­ The Albany department of Social Church Furnishings door mass meeting in Baltimore. Service, the Rev. Wm. E. Sprenger, Brass goods, Paraments, Paintings, * * * chairman, sponsored a one-day in­ Tablets, Chancel Furniture and stitute on the family, April 8. With Pews. Everything needed for the New Archdeacon Church. Designs with prices sent in New Jersey 160 clergy, social workers and oth­ on request. Mention requirements. The Rev. Robert B. Gribbon, er leaders registered, and an attend­ THE KLACSTAD STUDIOS canon of Trinity Cathedral, Trenton, ance including some forty not reg­ 225 Fifth St. S. N. J., has been elected archdeacon istered, the institute was unusually Minneapolis, Minn. of the diocese of New Jersey, suc­ enthusiastic and successful. Bishop Oldham made an address at the ceeding the Rev. R. Bowden Shep­ AN OUTLINE OF THE CEREMONIAL OF herd, archdeacon for the past twen­ opening session and also presided at the Holy Communion in Accordance with the American Prayer Book and Anglican Tra­ ty-five years. dition. A practical guide for those who desire * * * to follow the Anglican Use. Sent postpaid for EDWIN S. GORHAM, Inc. fifty cents. Rev. L. E. Daniels, Oberlin, Ohio. Historic Service Church Bookstore Established 1900 at Old Saint Paul’s Books of all publishers, Church and Parish — CHURCH FURNITURE—i The army and navy committee of Requirements, Catalogues and information DIRECT FACTORY PRICES the Churchwomen’s League for Pa­ supplied. Vanderbilt 3-7563 Pews, Pulpits, Pulpit Chairs, Communion triotic service is to sponsor a service 18 West 45 Street New York Tables, Altar Vases, Altar Crosses, Bap­ tismal Fonts, Folding Chairs, Sunday on April 30 at Old Saint Paul’s, Trin­ School Furniture. We allow for or sell ity Parish, New York, marking the your old equipment. 148th anniversary of the inaugura­ Children Readily Take Catalogue and details on request. tion service held there when George Syrup of Black-Draught Redington Co., Dept. N, Scranton, Pa. Washington became president of the United States. The vicar, the Rev. When a child is sick, or upset J. P. McComas, will preach, the by constipation, it is no longer FINE IRISH LINEN specially selected for Lnurch use. 36" tc necessary to irri­ 54" wide, cut any length. Samples of 12 tate the little suf­ qualities on request. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 ferer by giving a Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. « Calvert-Herrick THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK bad-tasting medi­ SOCIETY & Riedinger cine. Keep on Founded by Bishop White 1833 Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ hand a bottle of ishes unable to purchase them, in limited 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street grants, Syrup of Black- The Book of Common Prayer. New . York . 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 22, 1937T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen nomic changes in family life were values exceed $316,000, and total con­ felt it was utterly useless to go on also presented in an address at the tributions received for all purposes doing the normal things around her opening session by the Rev. Robert amounted to about $10,000 — a fair home. She sat and brooded and con­ W . Searle, general secretary of amount when the poverty of the peo­ jured up every possible thing imagin­ Greater New York federation of ple is taken into consideration. able. When one of her friends asked churches. * * * her about her trouble her answer Round table discussion took up W orry Is a was: “ Oh, I am just waiting for the rest of the day, with men and Disease something to happen.” Something women distinguished in various fields Here is a little editorial that ap­ did happen. Her husband came home as leaders. Among them were the peared in the parish paper of St. all safe and sound and found his wife; Rev. Niles Carpenter, professor at Luke’s, Minneapolis, that I like. I in a very bad state of mind as the Buffalo University; the Rev. Gerald don’t know who wrote it but probably V. Barry, an expert on rural life; it was the rector, the Rev. Frederick and the Rev. L. Foster Wood who is D. Tyner, since he is also the editor the head of the commission on mar­ of the little parish paper. riage and the home of the Federal From here on it is Rector-Editor Council of Churches. * * * Tyner speaking : It was after a discussion of the N egro W ork in Lord’s Prayer that a man and his Florida wife made a statement to this effect: “ Probably the largest group of col­ “ We are badly worried. We just ored people confirmed at one time don’t, know what we shall do.” What in the South since before the Civil was the trouble, what was the worry? W ar,” writes Bishop Wing of the Believe it or not these two young, confirmation class of one hundred people were worrying about some­ and fifteen at St. Agnes’ Church, thing that might possibly happen ten Miami. A few of the big Negro par­ years later and which at time of the ishes in the north have had such worrying was most likely not to' large classes but, as the Bishop says, happen. not in the south.Bishop Wing writes Here is another case. A husband further about the Negro work in his was away from home. There was ab­ diocese: Christ Church, Miami, has solutely no reason for his wife to be also experienced a remarkable the slightest bit anxious about him or growth. When the Rev. John S. his welfare. During his absence she Simmons assumed its charge in 1919, it numbered 40 communicants; to­ Sunday School Literature day it reports more than 800 bap­ following the tized persons, nearly 600 of whom INT. UNIFORM LESSON TOPICS are communicants. The three other Samples on application larger congregations, all with a Address Wilbur Herbert Burnham membership of over 300, are St. Pet­ UNION GOSPEL PRESS Box 6059 Cleveland, Ohio er’s, Key W est; St. Patrick’s, West Designer and Master Palm Beach; and St. James, Tampa. The smaller churches— a half dozen Craftsman of them served by one faithful mis­ Stained Class Windows and Mosaics sionary, the Rev. Q. E. Primo— Stained and Leaded Glass minister to a rural folk, largely en­ Franz Mayer of Munich, gaged in truck farming. It is the Inc. common witness of disinterested per­ 1616 Woolworth Building Studios 1126 Boylston Street sons of both races that our congre­ New York, N. Y. gations exert a wide influence for Boston, Massachusetts good in the communities where located and are recognized as leaders in so­ cial service advancement among the entire Negro group. Negro baptisms ^ R.GEISSLER.rNCr* 4 5 0 SIXTH AVE NEAR 10 «> ST. NEW YORK ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. in South Florida last year totaled 135 147 E. 47th St., New York and confirmations 294; with a Church Church furnishings CHURCH VESTMENTS school enrollment of 1,566. Property IN CARVED WOOD AND ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY MARBLE BRASS SILVER FABRICS + W IN D O W S Conferences with reference to the adornment Sfi of Churches MENEELY&CO.f£b Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 I S * § R ESTABlISHEDWSlia B h L L w IN1826JEmaE WATERVÜET. N .V «S “

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Fourteen T H E WITNESS April 22, 1937 result of her unfortunate bit of wor­ rying. Some years ago it was prophesied Services of Leading Churches that the world would come to an end The Cathedral of St. John Cathedral of the Incarnation on a certain day for an absolute cer­ the Divine Garden City, N. Y. tainty. There was no question about Cathedral Heights Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean it. This old world was through and New York City Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com­ so were all the people on the face of 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning munion. 9;30 A.M. Junior Congregation. it. Some took the news very philo­ Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser­ 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. mon. 4, Evening Prayer and Sermon. Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning sophically, others became very pan­ Weekdays: 7 :30, Holy Communion (on Prayer and Sermon. 4 :30 P.M. Evensong icky and had a bad time of it. Some Saints’ Days, 7 :30 and 10). 9 :30, Morn­ and Address. ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Daily services in the Chapel. «ven worried themselves sick over Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4:30. the report. The old world is still here Cathedral Church of St. Joha Church of St. Mary the Virgin and most of the worriers are still Market St. and Concord Ave. New York Wilmington, Del. alive. Their worrying hurt nobody 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, Dean but themselves except in so far as it Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A. M., 7:45 Sunday Masses; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. P.M. ■made their relatives and friends very Evensong, with Benediction : 8 p. m. Weekdays : 10 A.M. and as announced. uncomfortable to have worrying of Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. that sort going on. Grace Church, New York Trinity Church, New York At the present time everyone ad­ Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Broadway at 10th St. Broadway and Wall St. mits that the conditions in the world Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. are very bad. Wars and rumors of Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Daily: 8, 12 and 3. urdays. wars; labor and capital having a bad Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs­ battle; business men all at sea as to days and Holy Days. St. Paul’s Cathedral what the future has in store. Reports Buffalo, New York The Heavenly Rest, New York Sundays, 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. come in from all over the country Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Weekdays : 8, 12 :05. of men in the very prime of life Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Days: 10 :30 A.M. dropping dead suddenly and the doc­ Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m .; Morning Service tors ascribing many of these deaths and Sermon 11 a.m. ; Choral Evening Christ Church Cathedral to nothing but worry. Prayer 4 p.m. Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean Someone has said that sickness munion 11 a.m. Sundays: 8:00, 9:30, 10:05, 11:00 A.M. ; and disease have killed thousands 7:30 P.M. The Incarnation Daily: 12:30 and 5:00 P.M. but that worry has killed tens of Holy Communion: Mon. Wed. Fri., 7:00 thousands. We know how true that Madison Avenue and 35th Street A .M .; Tues. Thurs. Sat., 8:00 A .M .; Wed. Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector and Holy Days, 11:00 A. M. is. Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M., 4 P. M. What are we going to do about all Wednesdays and Holy Days, Holy Com­ St. Mark’s munion at 10 A. M., Fridays at 12;15 P. M. San Antonio, Texas these difficult situations? One does­ Noonday Service Daily (except Saturday) Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry, Rector n’t know, but one thing we can all 12:15. 7 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion (8 :0Q, Ad­ vent to Easter). be certain: the personal problems and St. Bartholomew’s Church 11;00 A.M.— Morning Prayer and Ser­ ills of the world will never be cured Park Avenue and 51st Street mon. Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector 7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service. or helped by worry. 8 A.M., Holy Communion. 10:00 A.M.—Holy Communion on F ri­ Among other definitions of “ wor­ 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. days. Junior Congregation, 9:30 and 11 A.M. ry” in the dictionary are these: Holy Communion, Thursdays and Saints’ days, 10 :30 A.M. St. Michael and All Angels “ Worry— to choke, strangle, injure.” St. Paul and 20th St., Baltimore, Md. Think it over. That is exactly what Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. St. James’ Church, New York Rev. H. P. Knudsen, B.D. worry does. It chokes and strangles Madison Avenue and 71st Street Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 A.M. 8:00 every bit of pleasure and happiness The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector P.M. 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Week Days—Holy Eucharist—Mon. Wed. that tries to come into one’s life— 9:30 A.M.— Children’s Service. Sat.: 10:00 A.M. Tues. Thurs. F ri.: 7 :00 and curiously enough worry in some 11 A.M.-—Morning Prayer and Sermon. A.M. 7 :30 P.M.— Organ Recital. Morning Prayer: 9:00 A.M. Daily. way seems actually to choke and 8 P.M.-—Evening Prayer and Sermon. Evening Prayer: 5 :15 P.M. Daily. Daily—Holy Communion, 8 A.M. (except strangle our digestive organs to such Saturdays) also Thursdays and Holy Days, an extent that at times it is almost 12 M. Trinity Church physically impossible to swallow Main and Holman, Houston, Texas St. Thomas Church The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, food. It effects the appearance of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street Rector the face and takes all the light out New York 7 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion. Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector 9 :30 A.M.— Church School. of the eyes. It makes a man or wom­ Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon. an old before their time, long before 4 P.M. 6 :00 P.M.—Young People’s Organizations Daily Services: 8:00 A. M., Holy Com­ 10:30 A.M.—Holy Communion on Wednes­ their time, and in no way solves the munion. days and Holy Days. problem either at hand or that may Noonday Service, 12 :05 to 12:35. Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. arise in the future. Worry certainly All Saints Church chokes and strangles all the happi­ Christ Church Parish 26th Street and Dewey Avenue Detroit and Grosse Point Omaha, Nebraska ness and enjoyment out of our lives Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector Rector, The Rev. Frederick W. Clayton and the lives of many who are around Rev. J. Francis Sant, Vicar Services, Sundays, Holy Communion, 8 Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at A.M. and 11 A.M. First Sunday in month. us. Rivard Morning Prayer and Church School, 11 Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard A.M. Services: 8:00, 9:45, 11:00, 7:30 Sun­ Holy Communion Wednesday and Holy days. Days, 10 A.M. PAPER YOUR WALLS Saints’ Days: 10:30. wallpapers will make the rooms of your home Grace Church Gethsemane, Minneapolis PQoyd’s more cheerful. Experi­ Sandusky, Ohio ence the joy o f colorful warmth o f wall­ Rev. Austin Pardue papers and you will never return to the Rev. Donald Wonders, D.D., Rector dingy cold of plain walls. Prices are amaz* Sunday Services 4th Ave. South at 9th St. iogiy jlow. Samples on request. , 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. 9 :15— Church School. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 7 :45. V . H. S. JCloyd CO.. Inc. 10 :30—Morning Service. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. 48 W . 48 S t, New York

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“ Well,” someone says, “ it is all bed at night with a little prayer of the milk supply gave out. The large- very well to talk about not worrying. thankfulness that you did get through veranda on the front of the Mission But what are you going to do about the day in a very happy manner. house collapsed undsr the heavy things? Just let them ride along and “ Give us this day our daily bread.” snows and lies flat on the ground. d.o nothing?” No one says anything * * * This has been one of the toughest like that for a moment. The real at­ Bishop Moulton Writes winters I have known in the 17 years titude is just the opposite. One must From Utah of my residence here. It looks like do something. And we find that some­ Bishop Arthur Moulton writes that an early summer but the other day thing in the middle petition of the the burning of the rectory at Rand- in going over the roads into the In­ Lord’s Prayer: “ Give us this day our lett, reported some time ago in these dian country I found much snow daily bread.” Here we think of upon the summits, where we ran into “ bread” as strength. pages, was a more serious loss than most people realize. He writes that several snowstorms.” T * * What has that to do with worry­ this center of Indian work was ing or not worrying? Just this, pray, burned flat to the ground. “ You Noted Woman at that prayer every day, as you pray it couldn’t even find a souvenir. It Wellesley Conference believe you have the strength you has completely disappeared leaving Announcement is made that Miss need and live every day doing the only holes in the ground. This Rec­ Emily Green Balch, at one time a very best you can throughout that tory had become quite a remarkable professor at Wellesley College and one day. The days know nothing of center and I must put something in in recent years an officer of the what the years bring forth. You can­ its place. The Missionary, Rev. W il­ Women’s International League for not see the child growing day by day. liam J. Howes, is at present living in Peace and Freedom, is to give a But note his height today and a year an Auto Camp some 35 miles away. course in the School of Christian So­ from now and you know what hap­ That is the best he could do. In cial Ethics, which is a part of the pened. That growth went on just Whiterocks, where the Rev. Sterling Wellesley Conference. The school one day at a time. J. Talbot lives with his family and is sponsored by the Church League Everyone has troubles and difficul­ where the government school is, we for Industrial Democracy. Others on ties. But all the worrying in the lost nothing by fire, but we lost con­ the faculty this year are the Rev. world won’t solve them. Doing our siderable by lack of heat. At one James Myers, industrial secretary of full part; going forward day by day, time during the winter there was so the Federal Council of Churches, the believing that “ God will never leave much snow that coal could not be Rev. Bradford Young, assistant at us nor forsake us,” KNOWING that brought into the mission house. It Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, and the Rev. we have the strength. for today— was 40 below. Father Talbot’s two Cuthbert Simpson, professor at the that way of life will make life very cows were frozen to death and so General Seminary. much worthwhile. Now, here is a curious thing: Many people will endure a great loss with reasonable equanimity but will worry themselves sick over a trivial thing that makes no difference one way or another. When a worrying fit is on it is great help to sit down FORTHCOMING and write on paper the things that are causing the trouble. If we found CHURCH SCHOOL MATERIAL anyone else worrying over the same things we would be very much in­ clined to laugh at them. We are so Christian Nurture Series close to the little things that they seem so very large. A speck of dust Continuing the revisions which were started in this series last in the eye will obscure the sun. A year, there will soon be ready new Leader’s Manuals for Courses few inches away on the floor it is so B, 4, and 7, also Our Church and Her Mission and Our Bible. small that it cannot be seen. Try standing at a distance and looking at the causes of worry from Christian Living Series a distance or imagine that it is some­ one else and their worries you are Two new courses will be added to the series this year: Third looking at. They will seem very, very Year Primary, Learning About God and His Church, and Second small. Year Junior High, The Way of Life and Light. It was a man named Young who made a good suggestion: “ If you just must, worry, pick out one hour In His Holy Temple of the day and call it your ‘worrying By RUTH IRWIN REX hour,’ gather all your worries to­ This is a new series of worship services for Primary and Junior gether at that time; have a good wor­ departments of the Church School. ry, and let it all go until the next day. Don’t spoil the time you need for better things by little trickles of Write for Details and Prices worry.” Try Christ’s prayer: “ Give us this MOREHOUSE PUBLISHING CO. day our daily bread.” As you say the prayer, believe you have the strength 14 E. Forty-first St., New York City------1801 W. Fond du Lac Ave., Milwaukee right now, fill up the day with the work on hand today and then go to

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NEW BOOKS THAT ARE WORTHY pected to raise the cash, are getting rather unfair division. In this diocese we have set tired of the huge costs of the “overhead” for up a huge organization, with central head­ OF YOUR ATTENTION the upkeep of “ headquarters” both in the dio­ quarters, which costs fully four, hundred per (Continued from page 8.) ceses and the General Church. And further­ cent more than it did ten years ago. The re­ more it has finally gotten down to the man in sult is that it is drying up giving at its source, crease varied from a slight increase the pew, so that missionary giving has de­ except for the needs of the parish, and the only hope is that “ headquarters” will wake to 200% . During the first year that cidedly fallen off, and the ordinary giver feels up to the situation and make wholesale cuts the service was tried, a slight loss in that something is wrong and the only thing he in the present enormous upkeep. can do about it is to stop giving for the red attendance was noted, but after that side of the envelope, with the hope of check­ SOUTHERN RECTOR writes: Things will a steady increase was recorded, in ing the enormous costs of the “ overhead” and A never be corrected as long as we simply of getting back again to a place where the say, “ It’s too bad but we must not tell the practically every case. He concludes money will go for missions and not for the people what is going on.” I am sure most of his survey by noting the two signifi­ maintenance of the central office and costs. the “ small town” clergy are for you even if I personally think the dioceses have in many they don’t let you know it. When a diocese cant trends which are beginning to be cases taken advantage of the general “ set up” has more in its budget for the support of the recognized in Protestant Churches. since the inauguration of the Nation Wide Episcopate, with one bishop, than for all the Campaign, with the result that the money is missionaries of the diocese something is wrong. “ The first” he says, “is that the smal­ more or less sifted through a ladder and Of course we don’t want our names used ler church with less than three hun­ what stays on the rungs goes to the work of when we make such remarks. We would be missions for which it was given—rather an buried alive. You are speaking for a lot of us. dred members will in the future •change in the direction of a worship service of 45 minutes to one hour in length, beginning much earlier in the forenoon than formerly. This will be followed without a benediction by class sessions for all age groups divided into periods for directed study, for useful activity, and for evaluation. The larger church will probably change in the direction of a complete age group departmentalization of its total program on Sunday morning, to begin at an earlier hour than former­ ly, and continue with separate depart­ Build fo r ments under the leadership of paid, trained workers for a two or three- hour service.” your own future SECOND THOUGHTS (Continued from page 2) the John Markle Eye Clinic was established at the Seamen’s Church Institute of New GUARANTEE PROTECTION FOR YOUR York, to provide examinations, treatment, and glasses for the men of the sea. In conducting this free work, old lenses, frames, and eye­ DEPENDENTS THROUGH LIFE AND glasses of various types have bean found most useful. Practically all of the second hand RETIREMENT INSURANCE frames may be used, and lenses also when­ ever they fit the prescription given after care­ ful examination. Won’t readers of this maga­ zine please send old glasses, preferably those with strong lenses, to the Welfare Depart­ ment of the Seamen’s Church Institute of If you will give us your date of birth, and acquaint us with New York, 25 South Street? your insurance problem, we shall be glad to send you in­ TVT ANY MORE LETTERS have been re- _-*■ ceived dealing with the affairs of Na­ formation that may be useful to you, without obligation. tional headquarters. A midwestern dean writes to assure us that he is “ definitely in favor of free and frank discussion of vital Church mat­ ters. You are rendering most useful service to the Church and the cause of religion by your frank expression of opinion in regard to THE CORPORATION ISSUES AT LOW COST: ORDINARY important questions.” LIFE INSURANCE; LIMITED PAYMENT LIFE INSURANCE; A BISHOP of the south objects to any criticism of headquarters on the ground ENDOWMENT INSURANCE; PERSONAL RETIREMENT that the “overwhelming majority of clerical critics of the methods of 281 are clergymen POLICY; ALL STANDARD FORMS OF LIFE ANNUITIES. who have not done much leadership along missionary lines in their own parishes. An attack on the Council or the ‘Bureaucrats’ merely gives them a peg on which to hang their hat. I know that 281 is far from per­ Our facilities are offered to the Clergy, Lay Of­ fect, but so is everything else in this imper­ fect world. It seems to me it is our best bet ficials and active Lay Workers of the Episcopal to | reform 281 from within rather than to build up hostility against it on the outside.” Church, and their immediate families. All of A RECTOR of an eastern parish says that our business is transacted by correspondence. in his opinion the men who are doing the real work of the Church, and who are ex-

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