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NOBLE C. POWELL New Dean of Washington Cathedral

DOING GOD'S WILL IN FAMILY LIFE

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Fourth-year course for gradu­ DE MARIS, ALVIN RUSSELL, rector of the ates, offering larger opportunity Messiah, Gonzales, Texas, and SPENCER, Katharine Caley, A.B., Headmistress I JAMES RICHARD, rector of St. John’s, Box W______Faribault, Minn. | for specialization. San Antonio, were ordained priests by Bishop Capers on February 5th. I Provision for more advanced DOWLING, G. DE WITT, has resigned as work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. vicar of the Redeemer, South Boston, and Th.D. Mass. EMERSON, SEWALL, New Haven, Conn., SHATTUCK ADDRESS has been appointed vicar of St. Paul’s, Norwalk, Conn. » » SCHOOL « « THE DEAN GUMM, ROBERT K., assistant at St. Paul’s, A church school for boys, with high stand­ 1 Chelsea Square New York City Syracuse, N. Y., has been made rector of ing in sound scholarship and development of St. Paul’s, Malden, Mass., with address at manly character and Christian citizenship. For Catalogue Address the Dean 75 Hawthorne Street. College preparatory. 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BEDELL, Offers a general cultural education, with -I—' Everglades, Florida: I have for a long special emphasis on the Classics, Modern time enjoyed THE WITNESS with its fear­ CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil­ less and helpful articles, its stand for the New York City osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, uplift of people who need justice and Chris­ Biology and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. tian brotherhood. It is men like Bishop A boarding school for the forty boys of For information apply, The Dean. Johnson who inspire us to more devoted the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the service in our Master’s field. Divine. Careful musical training and daily Managing Editor’s Note; Deaconess Bedell singing at the cathedral services. Small is doing a notable work at the Glade Cross classes mean individual attention and high Mission to the Seminole Indians in the standards. 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Those desiring material In the White Mountains. College Preparatory may secure it from the Federal Council, 105 and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For East 22nd Street, New York City. boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 Virginia Episcopal School acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ dividual attention. Home atmosphere. Lynchburg, Virginia HE REV. W. OWINGS STONE, rector of T St. Mary’s, Baltimore: Now is the open Prepares boys for colleges and university. season for recommendations for Lenten read­ Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector Splendid environment and excellent corps of ing. What concerns me is the terrible un­ Box W Plymouth, N. H. teachers. High standard in scholarship and reality and the unconscious hypocrisy of the athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in sermons from those in the high places. I the mountains of Virginia. know that one should read Von Hugel, Eve­ For catalogue apply to lyn Underhill, the Archbishop of York, and Rev. 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T he Worth of Worship An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON H E value of a battery is determined by the num­ had gone dead. The thirty jumps to one hundred and T ber of active cells which compose it. All that the fifty and everyone remarks how well the church is Church needs is more live cells. And it is a curious doing, whereas the test of sincere discipleship was feature of human character that when a cell goes dead during the dull period and not during the bright one. it lays the blame on anything but itself. If after taking the vows of service we have to be stim­ . The kingdom is within you and no such alibi as the ulated every Sunday in order to render that service failures of the minister or the misdemeanors of mem­ how much credit are we entitled to in the long run? bers of the congregation .has anything to do with the What the Church needs is a membership that will case of your own responsibility. I have known men carry on without stimulants and will be faithful un­ to abandon their religious practices because some par­ der the torture of poor sermons. son proved to be a disappointment. One might as well The minister is of the same flesh and blood as his ostracize grocers because one of them sold you some congregation and the fact' that he receives a salary poor spinach. If we are pledged to serve Christ we does not help him much to be inspiring fifty-two Sun­ must expect to associate with Judas as well as John days in the year. It is not easy to lift people up at as our Lord did. i i 130 A.M. every Sunday morning regardless of one’s The number of names who stood by Christ until own desire to please. The result is that a dwindling the end was one hundred and twenty, not as many as congregation makes a dull preacher, since the congre­ would constitute the membership of a small parish. gation preaches a third of the sermon. Why? There were then, as now, money changers in the H A V E always said that there are three things that temple who commercialized religion and Pharisees who I go to make up the success of the prophet; the abil­ monopolized it and Sadducees who rationalized it and ity of the preacher, the capacity of the congregation Herodians who secularized it, but out of that multitude and the condition of the preacher’s anatomy at that there were those who loved and adored our Lord in particular hour. spite of the associates with whom they worshipped But sermon tasting is not the whole duty of a Chris­ in the synagogues and in the temple. The number of tian. As a layman said to me the other day, “the the faithful was not large but they saved the situa­ Prayer Book is the most wonderful compilation ever tion and preserved the Church from extinction at its put together.” The real source of a Churchman’s very start. devotion is derived from worship which he gives rather I have been in the ministry for forty-five years and than from sermons that he hears. I have seen and mingled with many congregations and No, I do not favor a moratorium on preaching be­ the same thing is true in every one of them. They cause men have intellects as well as souls and the are composed of all the various groups, but the ones spoken word has its place in the economy of the who keep the Church alive are those who are instant Church, but on the other hand it is better to lift up in season and out of season. your hearts once a week than it is to open your ears, For example, here is a parish with a communicant for it is more blessed to give than to receive. list of three hundred people. There are thirty who can People wonder why they lose interest in religion be depended upon to be in their places every Sunday, as they grow older. It is because they are merely to pay their pledges regularly, to work in the organi­ hearers and not doers. They expect to be exalted zations. Were there not ten cleansed, but where are without doing anything. That would be folly in any the nine? business and it is futile in the business of religion. You Along comes a popular preacher to succeed one who can forget sermons but that is not as serious as it is to

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS February 18, 1937 forget God, and so long as you are faithful in worship tle to the attitude of a nation toward God but he is His presence will go with you. responsible for that little and he either bears witness As I have said before, too many Church people live to his faith or contributes to its extinction. like atheists and complain about communism. We What the Church needs is a devoted group of wor­ live like an atheist when we have no concern about shippers who give God His worth and express their worship as the habit of our lives. “ Thou shalt wor­ gratitude for the blessings that they are receiving. This ship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve” duty is well expressed in the communion office: “ It is lies at the basis of our Christian civilization. very meet, right and our bounden duty that we should The alternative seems to be to have some dictator in at all times and in all places give thanks unto Thee, reverential fear and to lose the right to think or to O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty Everlasting God.” speak. It is only so that we can have any claim to be the It is true that an individual can contribute very lit­ disciples of Christ.

Doing God’S Will in Family Life By CHARLES TAYLOR Professor at the Cambridge Seminary OW intimately are theology and family life re­ the same room, at the same table, in the same bed. H lated ! Never has the will of God been more It is the will of God, second, that the members of clearly expressed than in the Master’s story, taken a family appreciate each other. As Christ saw the from family life, of the Lost Boy or Prodigal Son. best in people, so a Christian home puts the highest But whence learned Jesus the will of God if not at valuation on a child of God. It was Christ’s way to home? How, apart from a standard suggested by a uncover possibilities in fishermen, in men of the world like Zacchaeus, or in children that others passed by. home, could men pray “Our Father” ? A child’s fa­ No one ever had such confidence in man as Christ. ther on earth affects his view of his Father in heaven ; He loved men into goodness. conversely, he learns what the will of God means for God wills that the family be the training school of family life through the study of God’s dealings as a such appreciation. Those who help juvenile delin­ Father. quents find that one major source of trouble is lack of Since conduct proceeds from attitudes, God’s will it, especially on the part of parents. “ What could for the family is first to be sought in the atmosphere you expect of Jimmie?” But God’s will for family life which pervades home life. It is the 'will of God first means confidence in the goodness of the brother’s char­ that love within the family be not one whit less ex­ acter. The Christian refuses to attribute to the other alted than the highest standard of friendship any­ members of his family motives lower than his own. He where. If the Christian is to love God or his unseen does not set up his own tastes, his own preferences, neighbor at a distance, he must learn to love his his own ways of acting or his own responses to situa­ brother. Christ takes this as axiomatic. His distinc­ tions as the sole standard. He has respect for others. tive demand, based on the noblest and finest friend­ He can admire, he can appreciate, he can encourage, ship within the family, is for an extension of this love he can understand and trust persons very different to the ends of the earth and the persons of one’s from himself. enemies. But just as Christian righteousness, if it is to ex­ T IS. the will of God, third, that the members of a ceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, I family seek “not to be ministered unto, but to min­ must first include it, so Christian love cannot be less, ister.” In the home the Christian virtues of sacrifice but more than the love of publican and Gentile. The and service come closest to being practised. True, sad truth is that men sometimes have a vague good there has been patriarchalism in the past, which, with will toward the black man or the Bulgarian, but fall the help of fascism, may likely continue into the future. below even pagan standards to the brother under their The paterfamilias finds it very easy to interpret Bibli­ own roof. Rudeness, sarcasm, jealousy, callousness, cal commands to obey one’s parents as sufficient justi­ bitterness—many faults that would not be tolerated in fication for his tyranny. Moreover, there is a new friendship are glossed over on the ground that they cult which makes the child the center of the family. are “ all in the family.” Members of a household be­ The parents abdicate. As Norman Nash puts it, the have toward each other in a way that they would ab­ theory is that if left to pursue its natural inclinations hor toward any one else. The man who ridicules or freely, the little flower will beautifully unfold; only tyrannizes his wife, the woman who “plays up” to sometimes it turns out to be a skunk cabbage. Domina­ other men more than her husband, the children whose tion on the part of either parent or child threatens the external politeness is matched by internal wranglings co-operation that should mark family life. Yet the all fail in the homely friendship that should be the stronger the tyranny, the clearer, by contrast, shines foundation of the wider, brotherly relationships. “ Thou the Christian ideal. shalt love thy neighbor” means first the neighbor in If in the family we do not learn how to live with

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 18, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Five others, how to subordinate our selfish wishes, how 10 come kill families. Strikes, racial persecution, hurt lighten others’ loads and accept the full weight of our families. Trailers break up family life. Social and own, how to substitute love for coercion, in short, ecclesiastical divisions bring discord into families. The how to be a Christian brother, the lesson is not likely will of God for the family, therefore, is only a part of to be learned. Democracy, with its privileges and re­ the larger problem of letting Him rule in every field sponsibilities, begins here. Every day in a home come of life. opportunities to serve and sacrifice. There is the This leads to two further observations. The first problem of dealing with servants. Is the governing is that the home should be a secure center of life. It principle here tyranny or co-operation? There is the should be protected from political and economic dis­ problem that arises when part of the family is tired turbance from without, and from the instability that and wishes to stay in while part is energetic and eager results from fbad divorce laws and practice within. Its for play. There is the matter of training children to members should be able to rejoice over being in this helpfulness, expecting much of them and seeing that center. It should provide them a place where life is our expectations are fulfilled. Problems though these worth living, give them trust in life itself, with the are, where God’s will is done in the home, mutual assurance that here if nowhere else they truly “be­ helpfulness reigns, lives are daily laid down for the long.” brethren, and more than anywhere else the way of But finally, family life is to be the stepping-stone to the Cross is practised. wider Christian service. It is not God’s plan that it It is the will of God, fourth, that just as the Father be a barrier to the individual’s larger usefulness to forgives the Prodigal Son, so the home should teach the world. “ Except a man hate his father and mother, forgiveness. When Peter asks the question, “ How he cannot be my disciple” is a clear warning against oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive the ingrowing family, against a narrow loyalty which him?” the answer is, indefinitely. though good in itself prevents a better. As a wise par­ Just as the family is a source of irritations and ent allows the child learning to walk to test his strains, so /it is also a school of forgiveness. This is strength, even though it may mean a fall, so later he not to take a pessimistic view of family life. Rather, trusts him to make decisions, he refuses to coddle him, simply because we are closest to the members of our he sends him into the world to play his part. The families, the necessity for binding up wounds by for­ family breaks up. New families are formed. But the giving, restoring, healing love most often arises. Here truth of Christ for the individual applies no less to also, in fact, the miracle of redemption most often the family: “ He that loseth his life for my sake and takes place. A father gives his life unsparingly to the Gospel’s shall find it.” The family in which God’s meet the debts incurred by a son’s wrong doing, and will is done follows Christ to His cross, and dies, and wins the son back to upright conduct. A mother takes rises again. her children’s troubles and faults into herself, suffers for them, and so heals them. There is no substitute for a Christian family when through our sins and weaknesses we need a fresh start. In that circle we Talking It Over can confess our failures, we can bring our troubles out By into the open, and by redeeming love our confidence WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD is restored and we are made new. ISH O P PA R SO N S of California, characteristi­ All that has been said about friendship, apprecia­ B cally, had things to say when he addressed the tion, co-operation, and forgiveness is summed up in convention of his diocese last week in San Francisco. what the New Testament calls charity, or love. Mary He stressed the stake that the Christian Church has Borden in The Technique of Marriage says, “ Courtesy in democracy, warned against fascism and against the is the key word.” However we term it, we know what use of force in settling questions. “ The Church has a it means. It means escape from our own petty selves definite responsibility toward the social order. As long into the other person’s purposes and desires and point as we pray ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is jn hea­ of view. It means insight into the mind and heart of ven’ we are committed to the task of making that order the loved one. It means imagination, by which we more Christian.” Declaring that fascism is our greatest learn to become sensitive to our brother’s deepest danger he said: “ ‘Drive out the communists,’ says one needs. Pagan homes can maintain an ideal of personal group; ‘Crush the unions,’ thinks another ^ ‘Set up a self-discipline comparable to St. Paul’s insistence that strong government, stop freedom of speech, muzzle the the body be “ kept under,” but where the will of God press’ ; in short do all the things which move toward is done men find their . lives by losing them for the fascism on the one hand and on the other promote rev­ sake of the brethren. olution. The end of all that is Russia or Germany, but either is the negation of Christian freedom. . . . Our UCH are some of the attitudes which God wills to democracy is inadequate enough, but some sort of de­ S rule in family life. Only on such foundations as mocracy is at least nearer, the Christian ideal.” these is right conduct built. But it would be false to isolate family ethics. God’s will cannot be done ONSERVATIVE CHURCHMEN are giving us when it is confined to one of life’s relationships alone. C a demonstration of knocking their own arguments Wars destroy families. Bad housing, insufficient in­ into a cocked hat. It wasn’t so long ago that they

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six THE WITNESS February 18, 1937 used to shout “ The Church has no business in poli­ W. Fosbroke was presented with books by the stu­ tics” whenever a few liberal Churchmen got together dents of the Cambridge Seminary before taking up to declare that child labor should be abolished or old his new duties as dean of the General Seminary . . . age pensions provided. Now however with the trend Bishop Theodore Irving Reese of Southern Ohio called seemingly (and I use the word “ seemingly” deliberate­ upon all churches to place the American flag in the ly) toward liberal legislation, our conservative brothers chancel in view “ of the present national crisis and to go into huddles out of which come public statements teach the relation of the Church to patriotism and its warning the country against the political trends which Christian expression” . . . The Rev. William E. they apparently fear are to deprive them of their priv­ Gardner, secretary of the general board of religious ileges. Thus last week the standing committee of the education, on the way to Sioux Falls, S. D., to deliver diocese of Long Island, headed by Bishop Stires, hand­ an address, was snow-bound in Minnesota so that his ed the press a document expressing strong opposition part in the convocation program had to be can­ to President Roosevelt’s proposal to reorganize the celled . . . Twenty-five forums in New York City federal judiciary. Not only did they send their reso­ organized as the Congress of Forums with the Rev. lution to the press but also sent copies to the senators Percy Stickney Grant of the Church of the Ascension from the state of New York, to each Long Island mem­ as president . . . The synod of the Southwest province, ber of the House of Representatives, to the chairmen meeting at Little Rock, Arkansas, passed the following of the judiciary committees of both houses and to the resolution uanimously: “ We heartily approve T he bishops and members of standing committees of every W itness and promise to give it every assistance pos­ diocese of the Church. All of which is as it should sible” . . . And the circulation manager announced be, as far as I am concerned. Let’s have free discus­ a campaign in five column type, setting as the objec­ sion of everything and let the will of the Church be tive “ One thousand subscribers before summer comes.” known on all questions, political, social and industrial, S WAS ANNOUNCED in the Anniversary Num­ if it can be determined. The policy, fairly well estab­ lished, of “ Keep the Church out of politics” is no A ber of February 4th, an effort is being made, un­ more and it is a matter of record that the conserva­ der the auspices of the W itness Advisory Board, to tives are the ones so to determine. raise a fund to wipe out an accumulated deficit of twenty years and to double the circulation of the pa­ T IS W ORTH recording that Mr. William Draper per during 1937. A minimum of $5,000 is needed to Lewis, Churchman of Philadelphia and one of the care for the deficit and it is hoped that twice that sum I may be raised to take care of anticipated deficits dur­ foremost law authorities in the country, feels rather differently about Mr. Roosevelt’s proposal, though he ing the next three years, and if possible to make im­ provements in the paper. At the time of writing these too speaks as a conservative. He declared to a friend notes, February 10th, a total of $808.60 has been do­ of mine the other day: “ Mr. Roosevelt’s message was nated, and donations are being received with each a very wise one—more practical than anything else mail. The largest single donation so far received is that has a chance of getting the United States out of $250. The smallest is ten cents which came with a the box that she is in. It will be decried by a minority, delightful letter from a dear lady in a Church home for those who do not want anything done, who can’t the Aged telling us how much she looked forward to realize the size of the liberal majority in this country, T he W itness each week and how much pleasure it It will preserve our present system more than any gave her to do her bit. We are a long way from the other plan that has been proposed. If something isn’t minimum of $5,000 but we hope that all those who done promptly our whole system will blow up, hence have not yet responded will do so to the extent of time is an element.” their ability. As for the effort to double the circula­ H E G IR L S F R IE N D L Y SO C IE T Y has a real­ tion, in which we asked each reader to send in a gift T istic program on the race question. Declaring that subscription and if possible several, we have added 674 the Society has no restriction of membership on the subscriptions during the past week. This too is far basis of race or creed, they declare it to be their short of the goal but we know many others will want Christian obligation to further interracial fellowship, to act on the suggestion. One of the difficulties seems to recognize the contributions of all races to our com­ to be that subscribers are at a loss to know just who mon life and to work for the establishment of justice to enter the gift subscription for. Many have sent it and equal opportunity for all racial groups. to a member of their own family away from home. Several others have sent in a subscription for the pub­ w e n t y y e a r s a g o i n t h e w i t n e s s : lic library in their town, and we pass on these sug­ T Churchmen throughout the country gathered in gestions to others. We propose to keep you informed their Churches on Quinquagesima Sunday to hear as the campaign progresses, to urge response from about the Church Pension Fund and rally to its sup­ those who have not yet helped and to thank cordially port . . . Bishop Edsall of Minnesota underwent a the many who already have. Incidentally the spe­ serious operation on February 12 . . . The children cial acknowledgment we promised to those sending of the church school at the Redeemer, Chicago, agreed gift subscriptions will be mailed presently—just as to give up ice cream and to donate , the money to the soon as we know a bit more definitely how many we suffering children of Belgium . . . The Rev. H. E. should order.,

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and bits of clay. It was therefore sifted with sieves Let’s Know made of wooden hoops and a mesh of camelhide which By allowed the grain to fall through. Finally the grain BISHOP WILSON was collected in heaps and stored in granaries which A griculture might be caves or dry wells where it could be kept for TN T H E past few years the whole country seems to a long time in good condition and used as need de­ ■L have become farm-minded. The question of restor­ manded. ing agriculture to its proper position in an industrial age has been injected into politics and everyone has be­ come interested in the farm problem. A Fable In the time of our Lord’s ministry the Jews were an H E branches of a tree once complained of the roots, agricultural people and much of His teaching is couched T They said that the roots, buried way down there in the language of those who till the soil. The fertility in the earth, were entirely out of date and useless, of Palestine in those days was remarkable. Since then while the branches, out in the open with their broad, neglect has greatly impoverished its productiveness but green leaves gave grateful shade to the people. Then this was not true in our Lord’s day. The Jordan Val­ the roots, being offended, refused to send up their ley and the Plain of Esdraelon were exceedingly rich life-giving sap and the branches withered and died and, but farming was not confined to them. The hillsides finally, the great tree crashed down. Sometimes we were terraced and cultivated. They conserved their soil hear people who are interested in hospitals and schools, against destructive erosion. Virgin soil was reclaimed fraternal orders and rotary clubs, big brother societies, by clearing away timber and brushwood and removing boy scouts and all that, find fault with the Church. stones to make it ready for the plough. They say it is behind the times, ineffective and use­ Ploughing began early in the fall—in late Septem­ less while they, in their various activities, are left to ber or early October—and continued thru the winter accomplish all the good work that is done in the months. Fertilizers were used both in orchards and world. The Church, however, having heard all this farms. The principal crops were wheat, barley, spelt, for so many centuries, is not discouraged. It goes millet, beans, and lentils. A little flax was grown but on sending out its message to men and trying to in­ not much oats. Sowing began early in October, dif­ spirt them with the spirit of brotherly love, without ferent crops being put in at different times until early which all their altruistic activities would never have summer when millet was planted as the last crop. been begun and surely would perish. Sowers carried their seed in a bag or basket, walking along a foot-path through the field and scattering the —T he Church mouse. seed broadcast by hand. Then the seed was ploughed in or a light harrow was used to cover it. Such sow­ ing encountered obvious hazards. Birds ate some of it, some of it fell on the hard-trodden path, some in briar-patches. The picture is given in Christ’s parable of the Sower. The summer months were very dry. Early in the fall came the “ early rains” which softened the ground for ploughing. Other rains followed during the winter until the “ latter rains” in March and April. The rain­ fall, however, was not uniform throughout the country and in some places irrigation was resorted to. The barley harvest usually began by the first of May —other grains following. Cutting was done with a sickle by the reaper. The binder followed the reaper, gathering the cut grain “in his bosom,” tying it in bun­ dles and piling them up. Then they were carried by beasts of burden to the threshing floor. This consisted of a circle of level ground, pounded hard and flat and enclosed with a row of stones. It was situated on a hill or some exposed place where the wind blew freely. Cut grain was spread over the floor about a foot deep. Altar Appointments and Communion Services Then cattle were driven round and round over it to by Gorham are individual in design and work­ break the husks and free the kernels. What was left manship. Catalogs and special designs in was a mixture of grain, chaff, and straw. The grain Gold, Silver, Bronze or Brass on request. was winnowed with a “fan,” a kind of pitch-fork with which the mixture was cast into the air allowing the wind to blow away the lighter chaff and straw while THE GORHAM COMPANY thie heavier grain fell again to the floor. The chaff was PROVIDENCE, R. I. burned and the straw was cut up and fed to the cattle. SINCE 1831—AMERICA’S LEADING SILVERSMITHS Winnowing left the grain mixed with small stones

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BOOKS FOR LENT Saint John’s Church in Washington, NEWS NOTES OF D. C., suggests the following: In the RECOMMENDED BY Steps of the Master by H. U. Mor­ THE CHURCH IN SEVERAL CLERGYMEN ton; Sons of God by W. E. Lutyens; BRIEF PARAGRAPHS By Gardiner M. Day Christian Fact and Modern Douot by Edited by W. B. Spofford We have asked several of the George A. Buttrick; What You Owe As announced last week, the Rev. younger clergymen of our Church to Your Child by Willard A. Sperry; Noble C. Powell, rector of Emmanuel commend books for Lenten reading. and An Apostle of Reality by Bishop Church, Baltimore, is the new dean We have taken the liberty of elimi­ Bratton. of Washington Cathedral and warden nating duplicates from their lists. The The Rev. Alexander Zabriskie of of the College of Preachers. His numeral in front of certain of the the Virginia Theological Seminary picture is on the cover— sorry to be books therefore means that they were recommends the following: Creative late with it but it takes time to have commended several times. Prayer by Hermon, “ a classic full these halftones made. Biography: The Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, of profound insights” ; Temple Gaird- born in Alabama, 1891, from a line rector of Trinity Church, Boston, ner of Cairo by C. E. Padwick (S. P. of Southern ancestors. Four years recommends: The Redeemer by the C. K.). “A super,b biography of a at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute; Rt. Rev. James De Wolfe Perry, Pre­ great Christian. Not a new book but then an investigator for the depart­ siding Bishop; (2) Asking Them no new ones are any more valuable.” ment of agriculture of the federal Questions by R. S. Wright; (2) Chris­ The Church and Society by E. S. government, studying the advance of tianity and Our World by John C. Johnson. “ A thoughtful and most the boll-weevil— no doubt something Bennett; Christ and His Cross by W. suggestive study of a vitally impor­ could be made of that by a person Russell Maltby; (3) In the Steps of tant subject.” That Strange Man on with the. proper turn of mind. He St. Paul by H. V. Morton; Making His Cross by Richard Roberts. “ Four then graduated from the University Friends With Life by James Reid; lectures, exquisitely written, from the of Virginia, 1917, and from the Alex­ (2) Return to Religion by Henry C. historical and devotional rather than andria Seminary in 1920 and imme­ Link; and Reason and Emotion by the theological standpoint.” diately was placed in charge of St. John MacMurray. The Rev. F. C. Benson Beiliss, rec­ Paul’s Memorial Church at the Uni­ The Rev. Elmore McKee, rector of tor of St. Paul’s Church, Chicago, versity. A year later he was made St. George’s Church in New York, recommends the following: Ecce rector of that parish and chaplain of recommends: The Making of a. Man, Homo. “ No Lent is complete without the Episcopal students. He became by the Dean of Windsor; The Rele­ refreshing ourselves on a life of the the rector of Emmanuel, Baltimore, vance of the Church— Barry; The Master.” Healing in the Name of in 1931, where he has done a top Story of the Bible—Bowie; The Bible Jesus by John Maillard. “ Probably job, not only in the church but as to Be Read as Living Literature— the No. 1 book in this all-important a community leader. Case; The Testimony of the Soul— field.” The Heritage of the Cathedral Jones; What It Means to Grow Up— by Sartell Prentice. “ Fascinating to Won’t You Become Kunkel; Missions Tomorrow— Latour- anyone interested in the development a Steady? ette; (2) Creative Society— MacMur­ of the Church. Well illustrated.” There are many who see The W it­ ray; The Fool Hath Said—Nichols; In addition to the above list, I ness only during Lent. I shall not (2) Worship—Underhill. shall add only the following which indulge in a sales talk at this time The Rev. H. Woolf all, rector of I have found helpful: Why Do Men but I do want to make two sugges­ Suffer? by Leslie D. Heatherhead— Saint Peter’s Church in Saint Louis tions. One, won’t those of you han­ says: “ In the field of psychol­ helpful for everyone; The Lord’s dling Bundles make an effort during ogy I would very highly recommend, Prayer by James Thayer Addison— Lent to get your people to subscribe Modern Man in Search of a Soul, by for daily meditation; A Preface to on a yearly basis? The price is $2 Racial Understanding by Dr. Charles Dr. Jung, and Conquer Yourself by a year and we are glad to allow a Dr. Kunkel. These are both excellent S. Johnson—on the negro problem. commission of 67 cents on each sub­ Any of these books may be ordered from scription sent in. Merely send the books and tend to emphasize the con­ the following Church Book Stores: Morehouse, viction on the part of the modern 1801 West Fond du Lac A venue, Milwaukee; names with the check, the commis­ Morehouse, 14 East 41st Street, New Y ork ; sion deducted. Two, if there is no psychiatrist that Christianity must Edwin S. Gforham, Inc., 18 West 45th Street, be the last court of appeal for the New Y ork ; George W. Jacobs & Co., 1726 one in your parish taking subscrip­ cure of sick personalities. Also (3) Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. tions send in your name and address Man the Unknown, by Alexis Carrel, with a check for $2 and let us send and The Purpose of God, by W. R. SPECIAL PREACHERS IN you The W itness each week for a Matthews, dean of Saint Paul’s. I ALBANY year. Help in this way in our dou­ have found all of these books intense­ Among the out-of-towners to ble circulation campaign. ly illuminating and helpful and have preach this Lent in Albany, New * * * no hesitancy in commending them for York, are the Rev. Harold H. Done- Someone to Watch Lenten reading.” gan of White Plains, N. Y .; Dean Out For The Rev. Everett Jones, rector of High-Moor of Pittsburgh; the Rev. The Rev. C. C. Watkins of Fre­ St. Paul’s Church, Waco, Texas, says: Hamilton Kellogg of Danbury, Conn.; mont, Nebraska, recently got a crack “ I believe that Lenten reading should Dean Emerson of Cleveland; the on the chin for being a Good Samari­ include certain devotional classics as Rev. David Montgomery of Morris­ tan. A man giving the name of well as certain more recent works. town, N. J.; Bishop Fiske; the Rev. Gordon, with a wife and two young­ .Therefore, I suggest: St. Augustine’s J. DeWolf Hubbard of Saranac Lake, sters, called on him for relief and Confessions; Fenelon: Spiritual Let­ N. Y .; the Rev. Luther Tucker of got it. He needed gas for his old ters to Women; Baron Von Hugel’s Cambridge; the Rev. R. L. Howe of model Willys-Knight, so Mr. Watkins Letters to a Niece, edited by Gwen­ Elsmere, N. Y .; the Rev. Daniel M. called the gas station. But the at­ dolyn Greece; Berdyaev: The Fate of Welton of Schenectady and the Rev. tendant there, being jess Christian Man in the Modern World; Albert William D. Orr of Amsterdam. but perhaps wiser, said that he would Edward Day: Jesus and Human Per­ Services are to be held noondays, at have to have evidence. So the rector sonality (a modern classic!)” St. Peter’s and on Wednesday evenings wrote a nice note, all fixed up with The Rev. Oliver J. Hart, rector of at St. Paul’s. the: parish seal/ requesting that five

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 18, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Nine gallons of super-gas be put in the diocesan clergy, missions are to be man’s tank, with the promise to pay. preached by the Rev. Arthur V. Ben­ However Mr. Gordon, wife and two nett of Fitchburg, Mass., the Rev. R. youngsters never showed up at the T. McDonald of the Cowley Fathers, gas station. Instead he has been and the Rev. Father Sircon of the using the document, with the parish Canadian Cowley Fathers. The Rev. seal, to solicit funds and relief as George F. Bambach is the chairman they tour the country. Call the cops. of the committee in charge. % ^ * & ^ * Bishop Manning Convention in Also Cracks Down Olympia Bishop Manning of New York, in Snowstorms, influenza and tough his Ash Wednesday address at Trinity travel over snowbound roads did not Church, New York, declared that Mr. prevent the convention of the diocese Roosevelt’s proposals in regard to the of Olympia, held at Seattle, from be­ Supreme Court “ if adopted would be ing a success. Bishop Huston asked a death blow to our constitutional the laity to study the great questions democracy and would destroy the very of the day and to do what they could foundation on which our government to promote co-operation and to pre­ rests.” vent war. A resolution was also passed * * * praising the Church Pension Fund Shelton Bishop on for its notable service of twenty years. the Negro The Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, rec­ Dangerous to BISHOP CREIGHTON tor of St. Philip’s, Harlam, New Go to Church York City, addressed the Corner Accepts Election to Michigan A bishop was invited to dinner. Clinic of the diocese of Newark on During the meal he was astonished February 8th on “ The Story of the Mrs. Henry Hill Pierce, prominent to hear the little daughter of the American Negro.” There were 75 Episcopalian of New York, was one family state that a person must be people present, representing many of the speakers. brave these days to go to church. parishes. He declared that “ as a race “ Why do you say that?” said the the Negro has gotten beyond the stage Offering for Memorial For Bishop Gailor bishop. where he can be looked upon as a “ Oh,” said the little child, “ I good Christian cook and wants to be Bishop Maxon of Tennessee set Feb­ heard papa telling mamma that last recognized as a person. The Negro ruary 14th as the day for offering in Sunday there was a big gun in the the parishes of the diocese, the money in every walk of life has shown pulpit; the canon was. in the reading to go to endow the deanship of the his potentiality for equality and desk; the choir murdered the an­ desires the actual recognition.” theological seminary at the University them, and the organist drowned the An article on “ Doing God’s Will in of the South as a memorial to the late choir.” Race Relations” is to appear in T h e Bishop Gailor. W it n e s s Lenten Series, now appear­ ing. Praise for Leader Lenten Program for * * * in Flood Crisis Western Michigan Social Service Sunday John J. Rowe was praised by his “ I Dare You” is the caption for in Glendale, Ohio fellow Churchmen of Cincinnati the a leaflet setting forth the program Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio, ob­ other day at a meeting of the execu­ for Lent of the diocese of Western served social service Sunday on Feb­ tive committee on General Conven­ Michigan. This leaflet, providing a ruary 14th by inviting the social tion, of which he is chairman. His record for the Church member, is to workers to hear C. M. Bookman, ex- ability \o direct activities are demon­ be returned to the rector on the Sun­ exutive vice-president of the Cincin­ strated during the flood disaster when day after Easter. The record blanks nati Community Chest. he not only created but directed 5,000 have been distributed throughout the volunteers in the housing, clothing parishes and missions in the diocese. * * * Double Their Gift and feeding of 40,000 refugees.. “ We grow by daring to do big things,” * * * For 1937 says the message. “ We accomplish Sympathetic with Bishop Huston’s Mixing with Royalty big things by a definite program of desire to extend the missionary work and Industrialists little things. Jesus as a boy grew in of the diocese of Olympia, the Auxil­ The Rev. Walter F. Tucks, rector wisdom, and stature, and in favor iary pledged and raised $1,000 for of St. Paul’s, Akron, Ohio, is, getting with God and man. The Lenten Sea­ 1936 and have doubled the amount for over an operation for appendicitis in son means the spring or growing sea­ this year. a hospital at Miami Beach, Florida. son. You can grow as Jesus did by * * * He was stricken while the guest of daring to do big things.” Laymen Meet his senior warden, Mr. H. S. Fire­ The record provides for a self-ex­ in Chicago stone, at his villla. It is the same amination as to progress in corpo­ A conference of laymen was held villa which newspapers say may be­ rate religion, mental religion, social in Chicago, February 9-10, under the come the home of Edward and Wally. religion, and personal religion. Un­ auspices of the National Laymen’s * * der the heading Corporate Religion, Commission, to consider the task of Preaching Mission the program is.: I WILL (1) Attend reaching the millions of unchurched in Albany church school every Sunday; (2) people in this country. Cooperating A preaching mission, covering prac­ Attend church every Sunday; (3) in the conference was the Federal tically every parish in the diocese, is Attend Holy communion three times Council of Churches., the national being held in the diocese of Albany in addition to Easter Day; (4) At­ council of Federated Churchwomen from February 14 to March 14. In tend a Lenten service each week. and a number of missionary societies. addition to Bishop Oldham and the The program under Mental Religion

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten THE: WITNESS February 18, 1937 is: I WILL (1) Learn the collect for Auxiliary” and debate questions that to convince. Another prominent on Ash Wednesday and each Sunday un­ will come before their important el­ the program was Dr. Mark May, til Easter; (2) Make a scrap book on ders in October; the status of the head of the human relations insti­ the work of the Church among the Presiding Bishop, work among Ne­ tute of Yale, who said that religion Negroes. Social Religion: I WILL groes, the Future of the Forward is a vitally important solution of (1) Bring one new person to church Movement. Sounds like a good idea man’s problems and an effective way school or church; (2) Add to my oth­ — if it could be done generally we out of his dilemma. It stresses fu­ er Lenten offering at least $1.00 might be able to determine whether ture satisfactions in return for the earned by sacrifice or work; (3) Say youth is more progressive than old unpleasantness, of daily living and a kind word to some one each day. age. offers a great security in the midst of ^ ^ * * * a changing world. Which sounds very Washington Church much like “ work and pray, live on Rector Helps hay, you’ll eat pie, in the sky, bye Promote Cooperative Federation Has New Building The Rev. Ralph Bray, rector at The Federation of Churches of and bye,” though I can hardly im­ Riverside, R. I., discovered that a Washington, D. C., has been present­ agine Dr. May defending that type number of merchants in his parish ed with a 24 room house by an anony­ of religion from addresses I have were being put out of business by the mous donor for headquarters. The heard him deliver. Others on the chain stores. He with others there­ Rev. Worth M. Tippy, for many years program were Bishop Budlong, Dean fore have promoted a cooperative, the executive secretary of social Walter Gray of Hartford, Professor with these merchants in charge. It service for the Federal Council of Wilbur Urban of Yale and the Rev. gives them work; it brings dividends Churches, has taken up new work in Horace W. B. Donegan of New York. on purchases and hence lower prices, Washington, looking toward more There were about fifty clergymen to those purchasing through the adequate cooperation between the re­ present. ligious forces and the community * * * store. * * * agencies of the city. His work is be­ Life Job for ing financed by a group of interest­ Presiding Bishop Convention of ed laymen. The convention of the diocese of California * * * The convention of the diocese of Chicago passed resolutions favoring New Jersey Parish California was held at the Cathedral, life tenure for the Presiding Bishop Aids Flood Relief San Francisco, February 2-4, with and the establishment of a primatial Christ Church, Middletown, N. J., see. Also resolutions were passed many meetings apart from the con­ a parish with hardly more than fifty vention proper. Thus the Oxford attacking mob violence and lynching, communicants, went to town on the introduced by a Colored Churchman, Group (Buchmanites) held a meet­ matter of flood relief. There was a ing at the cathedral; the Church Mr. H. H. Pace of St. Edmund’s. Sunday offering of over $50 that was Bishop Stewart announced that he League for Industrial Democracy sent to Bishop Hobson; $160 was do­ held a dinner, at which Edward Van- nated to the Red Cross and, with the deleur, A. F. of L. organizer, and two other churches in town, a party Attorney Ernest Bessac of the Amer­ was staged for the Red Cross that ican Civil Liberties Union were the netted $220. speakers; there was a missionary mass meeting at which Dean McAl­ Choir Festival lister of Spokane was the top man. in Pasadena The Auxiliary also held their annual The churches of Pasadena, Cali­ meeting and listened, among others, fornia, joined forces on February to the British consul, Cyril A. Cane. 7th for a choir festival, held at All They also discussed plans for the Saints’. Four choirs made up of 150 young people of the diocese, the ra­ voices rehearsed for a month for the cial work in the diocese, and debated occasion and did a grand job. The the question as to whether women Rev. T. Raymond Jones of St. James’, should serve on vestries— the result South Pasadena, preached. being a draw. BRASS ALTAR VASE H: * ❖ * * * 9 inches high. $20 each New Jersey Parish Utica Rector to Celebrate Has Anniversary We also offer a complete selec­ The Rev. James F. Root was hon­ St. Stephen’s, Beverley, N. J., is ored by his parishioners, of St. Luke’s to celebrate its 100th anniversary in tion of vases in all sizes and Memorial Church on February 5th, March. From a tiny beginning it the occasion of his tenth anniversary has developed into a strong parish, prices, and other altar brasses; as rector. There was a dinner at housed in an adequate plant. The which a nice check was presented, rector is the Rev. Hollis W. Colwell. communion silver and pro­ i ♦ $ and on the 7th the communicants turned out in force for a corporate On Spraying cessional crosses. Illustrations communion. Empty Bottles * * Sermons are too often like spray­ and prices upon request. Hold a Miniature ing empty bottles whereas the task General Convention of the preacher should be to fill each The convention of the diocese of bottle. So declared the Rev. Samuel BLACK STARR & FROST Southern Ohio was washed out. When S. Drury, rector of St. Paul’s School, GORHAM it does meet the young people are to at the mid-winter reunion of the Jew elers • Silversmiths • Stationers stage a miniature General Conven­ Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, in his lectures on preaching. Since FIFTH AVENUE AT 48th STREET tion. They are to divide up into a NEW YORK “ House of Bishops,” a “ House of religion is characterized by persua­ Deputies” and the “ House of the sion the sermon should be designed

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 18, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven was not to ask either for a coadjutor those on the program are Bishop i or a suffragan but indicated that he Manning, Mayor LaGuardia, Lang- would appoint another Archdeacon don Post, Rabbi Sidney Goldstein. February Choice o f The and an item of $5,000 was placed in * * * the budget for that purpose. Dep­ Bishop Creighton Religious Book Club uties to General Convention: clergy Accepts Election — Alfred Newbery, Harold L. Bowen, Bishop Creighton, suffragan of The Religious Edwin J. Randall, G. Carlton Story. Long Island, has announced his ac­ Experience of Laymen— Austin J. Lindstrom, Wirt ceptance of the election to be the Wright, Joseph T. Ryerson and Stew­ Bishop Coadjutor of Michigan. He the Primitive art A. Cushman. plans to begin his work there the * * * middle of April, pending the cons.ent Church Young People Meet necessary. * * by P. G. S. Hopwood in Bethlehem An answer lo the need expressed Two hundred young people rep­ Asheville Clergy so frequently today of recovering resenting 17 fellowships, of the dio­ Hold Retreat some of the spiritual vitality which cese of Bethlehem held a conference The Rev. William S. Stoney, rector animated the first believers in the at St. Luke’s, Scranton, Pa., on Jan­ at Morganton, N. C., conducted a early church. The unique religious uary 29 th. quiet day for the clergy of the Ashe­ experience on which Christian ori­ gins are based is examined and its ville Convocation of the diocese of effects explained. $3.00 A Pig for the Western North Carolina, held the Red Cross other day at Brevard. Church and State: * * * Miss Ora Harrison is in charge of In Contemporary America St. John’s-in-the-Mountains, Endicott, Berkeley Dean Is by Wm. Adams Brown in the far southwest corner of Vir­ Guest of Roosevelts Dean and Mrs. W. P. Ladd of the "Beyond question, this is the most ginia. The other day she had several significant volume in its field men of the neighborhood kill and Berkeley Divinity School were the which has appeared in America in dress a pig for mission consumption. guests of the Roosevelts at the White our generation!' — Religious Book When it came time to pay for it the House over a recent week-end. Club Bulletin. A Religious Book men asked that the money be given % * Club Choice. $2.75 to the Red Cross for flood relief. Sixty Years The Purpose of God Another man in the mission volun­ a Priest tarily handed her $8, a lot of money The Rev. Gustav A. Carstensen, in by W. R. Matthews for these people, for the same cause. charge of St. Andrew’s, New York "A n adequate and masterly treat­ He had collected it from members City, recently celebrated the sixtieth ment of a lofty theme!' — London of his, family. anniversary of his ordination to the Times. A Religious Book Club Se­ lection. $2.00 * * * priesthood. Philadelphia Parish sN * * Our Faith Celebrated Young People Meet St. Nathaniel’s, Philadelphia, cele­ in Detroit by Emil Brunner brated its 40th anniversary last Sun­ Canon Gilbert Symons of Cincin­ "One of the most absorbing studies nati was the speaker at the meeting of present-day theology!' — North­ day. The parish owes its beginning western and Central Christian to the Biddle sisters, of the Philadel­ of the young people of the diocese Advocate. $1.75 phia Biddles, and Miss Annie Buchan­ of Michigan, held recently at Christ an, niece of President Buchanan. It .Church. There were 50 present. The Interpretation all started in a s.mall house but to­ * * * day is housed in a beautiful plant Noted Preachers of History and is one of the most thriving par­ in Philadelphia by Paul Tillich ishes in the city. Noonday preaching services are "Will prove valuably provocative ?*e sje He held at the Chestnut Street Opera to those whose interest lies in the Bequests to Rhode House, Philadelphia, during Lent. religious interpretation of social Then for the benefit of those who structure and history!' — N. Y. Island Institutions Times. $2.50 St. Paul’s, Wickford, R. I., has re­ find it difficult to get to these serv­ ceived a bequest of $5,000 by the ices, there is a preaching service each The Spirit of Medi­ will of the late Mary A. Rodman. Thursday evening at Holy Trinity. Mrs. Rodman als.o left $3,000 to St. Noonday services are also held at aeval Philosophy Mary’s Home for Children and Old Christ Church and at St. Steph­ by Etienne Gilson $5,000 to St. Elizabeth’s Home for ens. Among those to preach at the "The publication of this interpre­ Incurables. various centers are the Rev. John tation of mediaeval philosophy is * * * W. Suter Jr. of New York; Bishop an event in our intellectual life... United Church Front Strider of West Virginia; the Rev. Gilson's work is really a master­ piece!'— $3.50 for Slum Clearance L. Bradford Young of Brooklyn; N. Y. Herald Tribune. Announcement was made on Feb­ the Rev. Walden Pell of Middletown, The Meaning of ruary 4th of the formation of a co­ Delaware; the Rev. Spence Burton, operative union of all the Church superior of the Cowley Fathers; History by N. Berdyaev organizations of New York City, wel­ Bishop Ludlow of Newark; Bishop "Deserves to rank among the most fare groups and public officials for Bennett of Rhode Island; Bishop striking contributions to religious the purpose of pressing for slum Sterrett of Bethlehem; Bishop Fiske, thought in our generation!' — clearance. Their first public appear­ formerly of Central New York; Theology. $3.00 ance will be a conference and mass, Bishop Woodcock, retired bishop of at all bookstores meeting to be held February 28- Kentucky; Bishop Darst of East Car­ CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS March 1 at the synod hall, Cathedral olina; Bishop Moreland, former of St. John the Divine. Among bishop of Sacramento; Dean Kirk

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O’Ferrall of Detroit; the Rev. J. sented with a two-gallon hat— whoa, the Rev. David Cady Wright Sr.), Howard Melish of Brooklyn; the Rev. wait a minute, ten gallon— and also the Rev. Carey Montague of Rich­ Gardiner M. Day of Wilkes-Barre; a medal inscribed with his name and mond, the Rev. W. W. Memminger the Rev. Beverly Tucker of Rich­ the insignia of the organization. Oth­ of Atlanta, and the Rev. Karl Reil- mond; the Rev. Alexander Cummins er members are Carveth Wells and and, formerly of St. George’s, New of Poughkeepsie and the Rev. Wil­ Fan-dancer Sally Rand. York. liam H. Laird of University, Va. 1 H: 4s $ wonder if the boys at the University Dean Grant at Springfield Churches of Virginia call him “ Apple”— it is Cincinnati School Suffer Severely a good bet they do. Dean Frederick C. Grant of the Churches in the southern part of Seabury-Western Seminary gave a Illinois, diocese of Springfield, suf­ Bishop Clingman series of lectures on February 15-16 fered severely in the flood. Places in Cincinnati at the Graduate School of Applied Bishop Charles Clingman of Ken­ Religion, Cincinnati. His subject was tucky. addressed the Auxiliary of Cin­ “ The Kingdom of God.” cinnati yesterday, February 17, on the H« sH H* subject of missions. Mrs. Walter Tangeman, his sister, presided. Service« in * * * Savannah Florida Clergyman If it is true that names make news Is Deposed — which I somehow or other have The Rev. James Theodore Young, never been willing to accept as good reporting— then this number of T h e deacon, was. deposed from the min­ — CHURCH FURNITURE— | istry on February 2nd by Bishop W it n e s s is full of news, with all Juhan of Florida “for causes affecting these lists of Lenten preachers. DIRECT FACTORY PRICES Pews, Pulpits, Pulpit Chairs, Communion his moral character.” Here’s another, this time for Christ Tables, Altar Vases, Altar Crosses, Bap­ * * * Church, Savannah, where they have tismal Fonts, Ftolding Chairs, Sunday School Furniture. We allow for or sell Union Services in noonday services.: Bishop Barnwell, your old equipment. Houston, Texas the Rev. David Cady Wright Jr. of Catalogue and details on request. Episcopal churches of Houston, Athens, Ga.; the Rev. John A. Wright Redington Co., Dept. N, Scranton, Pa. Texas, combine for services held at of Raleigh (both sons of the rector, Christ Church each day during Lent. WHITE LINEN FESTIVAL CHASUBLE, Pillar and Y Cross orphrys embroidered full The preachers are: Bishop Quin, length in passion flower and grape design. Bishop Capers of West Texas, Presi­ EASTER CARDS For information write Mrs. Jennie G. 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Low rates. Mrs. Neel, 103 Strat­ a Gangster ford Avenue. When the Primate of All Canada, CHURCH DECORATIONS AND CARVED Wood Figures. Robert Robbins, 859 Lexing­ the Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, A Laxative for Children ton Ave., New York City. was in Wichita Falls, Texas, to con­ SYRUP OF BLACK-DRAUGHT duct a mission at the Good Shepherd is a purely vegetable laxative FINE IRISH LINEN and to address the diocesan conven­ specially selected for Church use. 36" to tion he became a gangster, accord­ that is acceptable to children be­ 54" wide, cut any length. Samples of 12 ing to reports that reach this office. qualities on request. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 He was inducted into the Chuck cause it is pleas- Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. Wagon Gang, an organization of ant-tasting. Many THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK Texas, cowboys which has for its pur­ m others have SOCIETY pose the entertaining of visitors in found that when Founded by Bishop White 1833 the old time manner. He was pre- their children are Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ ishes unable to purchase them, in limited bilious, or have grants, sour stomach, The Book of Common Prayer. Minister’s Son Invents The Combined Book (The Book of Com­ colic due to gas, mon Prayer and Hymnal in one volume) Invisible Ear Drum sick headache, Pew Size Apply to Rev. W . Arthur Warner, D.D. The Invisible Ear Drum invented coated tongue, Secretary, S. W. Cor. 5th & Arch Streets, by A. O. Leonard, a son of the late Philadelphia, Pa. Rev. A. B. Leonard, D.D., for many sallow complexion, or seem slug­ years secretary of the Board of gish so they do not romp or play ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. Foreign Missions of the Methodist as usual, a dose or two of Syrup Saint Mary’s Convent, Kenosha, Wis. Episcopal Church, for his own relief of Black-Draught relieves con­ from extreme deafness and head CATHEDRAL STUDIO— Church embroidery. stipation and thereby assists in New Showroom 26 S. 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especially injured were the churches Newark and the Rev. Reginald E. of the flood while on the way to in­ at Harrisburg, Cairo, Mound City and Charles of Ithaca, N. Y. The services spect the submerged church. It Mounds, with the building in the lat­ are under the auspices of the Epis­ looked rather bad for a moment, but ter town completely swept away. copal Churches of Binghamton, Bishop Hobson rolled up his sleeves, Bishop White has appointed a re­ Johnson City and Endicott. A series grabbed an oar and went to work, habilitation committee that is now of devotional services are being con­ along with three others who wrere seeking funds. The Rev. Jerry Wal­ ducted each Sunday evening at the with him. By their combined efforts lace of Springfield is the secretary. Good Shepherd, Binghamton, by the they carried the boat with its stalled * H* * Rev. Paul Olver of Rome, N. Y .; and engine to safer waters. Parish House Thursday evenings a course of in­ Cleared of Debt structions is being given at Trinity, Protest Against Musical The parish house of the Good Binghamton by the Rev. J. Lawrence Festival Shepherd, Wichita Falls, Texas, Ware of Scranton. The executive committee of the where the Rev. Claude A. Beesley is district of Eastern Oregon, headed rector, has been cleared of a $10,600 Head of Jersey City by Bishop Remington, has sent a debt during the past year. It was Hospital Dies strong protest to the Musical Editors done by Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Burns, The Rev. Thomas A. Hyde, super­ of the country who have announced parishioners, challenging the other intendent of Christ Church Hospital, plans for a national conference in members to match them dollar for Jersey City, N. J., died on February Portland, Oregon, March 28 - 31. dollar up to the sum of $5,000. 7th at the age of 56 after an illness The letter points out that “ the three * * * of ten days. He performed a notable great forces which have moulded Quiet Day for work as the head of the institution. American democracy, the school, the Ohio Clergy Church and the home” must cooper­ The clergy of the diocese of Ohio Glad He Learned ate if a crisis in American life is to held a quiet day on February 8th at to Row be prevented, and that thè musical Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, con­ When at Yale Bishop Hobson of people are hardly giving cooperation ducted by Bishop Rogers. Southern Ohio was manager of the by having a conference at Easter He * * crew, and knowledge acquired then time when young people singing in Call for Amendment came into service the other day when in Security Law he visited Pomeroy, Ohio. Arriving Two amendments, to the social se­ there at 2 A. M. he set out soon after curity law— one to include farm labor daybreak in a motorboat to make and household domestics under old calls on the people of the parish. The age insurance, and one to prevent dis­ boat was caught in the swift current crimination on account of race or color in any administration of the benefits of the law— were urged in a telegram sent February 5th by the department of race relations, Fed­ eral Council of Churches, to Hon. John G. Winant, chairman of the Social Security Board. He replied that he is calling the matter to the attention of the Board. * * * Bishop Fiske in Pennsylvania Bishop Fiske is assisting Bishop Taitt of Pennsylvania with confirma­ tions during Lent. He addressed the clergy of the diocese at a meeting last Monday. * * * Lenten Preachers at Binghamton The preachers of the Thursday ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. noonday services at Christ Church, 147 E. 47th St.. New York Binghamton, N. Y. are Bishop Coley CHURCH VESTMENTS of Central New York; the Rev. ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Conferences with reference to the adornnsee* Franklin Joiner of Philadelphia; the of Churches Rev. B. Z. Stambaugh of Akron; the Telephone KL-dorado 5-1058 Rev. Russell S. Hubbard of Provi­ dence; the Rev. S. Thorne Sparkman of Baltimore; Bishop Ludlow of

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Fourteen THE WITNESS February 18, 1937 choirs “ will be torn between their allegiance to their churches in fit­ ting observance of its greatest Chris­ Services of Leading Churches tian festival, and their desire to take part in a musical festival.” Since the The Cathedral of St. John Cathedral of the Incarnation the Divine Garden City, N. Y. Church cannot change the date of Cathedral Heights Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean Easter the communication asks that New York City Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com­ the educators set their conference 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning munion. 9 :30 A.M. Junior Congregation. for some other time. 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 sfc * * Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Prayer and Sermon. 4:00 P.M. Even­ Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10). 9:30, Morn­ song and Address. News from Flood ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Daily services in the Chapel. Areas Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4:30. The following communication Church of St. Mary the Virgin Cathedral Church of St. John comes from Bishop Clingman of Ken­ New York Market St. and Concord Ave. 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Wilmington, Del. tucky: “ I am unable at present to Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, Dean give an accurate account of flood Sunday Masses: 7, 8, _9,_ 10, 11. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M., 7:46 Evensong, with Benediction : 8 p. m. P.M. conditions in the diocese of Ken­ Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. Weekdays: 10 A.M. and as announced. tucky. I can only say that the situa­ tion is desperate with the loss of Grace Church, New York Trinity Church, New York Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. life apparently not great. Health Broadway at 10th St. Broadway and Wall St. conditions, are very good under such Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. terrible circumstances. The property Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Daily: 8, 12 and 3. urdays. loss is very great. At least ten or Holy Communion, 11:46 A. M. on twelve churches, parish houses and Thursdays and Holy Days.______St. Paul’s Cathedral rectories, with their contents, have Buffalo, New York The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Sundays, 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. been seriously damaged and the Disciple, New York Weekdays: 8, 12:05. clergy have sustained great personal Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Days: 10:30 A.M. ______losses. The same is true of probably Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. two-thirds of the communicants of Sunday School 9 :30 a. m .; Morning Christ Church Cathedra) the diocese. For this reason the Service and Sermon 11 a. m .; Musical Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. Vespers 4 p. m. The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean Church and the clergy must accept Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ munion at 11 a. m. Sundays : 8 :00, 9 :30, 10 :05, 11:00 a.m .; financial assistance from generous 7:30 p.m. friends, throughout the land.” Daily: 12:30 and 5:00 p.m. The Incarnation Holy Communion: Mon. Wed. Fri., 7 :00 * Hs * 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. Admiral Byrd to Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M., 4 P. M. Lead Campaign Wednesdays and Holy Days, Holy Com­ munion at 10 A. M., Fridays at 12 :15 P . M. St. Mark’s The Rev. George Lyman Paine, Noonday Service Daily (except Satur­ San Antonio, Texas day) 12:15. Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry, Rector Episcopalian of Boston, announced at 7:30 A.M.—Holy Communion (8:00, the mass meeting addressed in that Advent to Easter). St. Bartholomew’s Church 11:00 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Ser­ Park Avenue and 51st Street city recently by Maude Royden and mon. Sherwood Eddy, that Admiral Rich­ Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector 7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service. 8 A.M., Holy Communion. 10:00 A.M.—Holy Communion on Fri­ ard Byrd had accepted the chairman­ 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. days. ship of a “no-foreign-war crusade” Junior Congregation, 9 :30 and 11 A.M. Holy Comm., Thurs. and Saints’ Days, St. Michael and All Angels which will be launched in April under 10:30 A.M. St. Paul and 20th St., Baltimore, Md. the auspices of the Emergency Peace Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. St. James’ Church, New York Rev. H. P. Knudsen, B.D. Campaign. Madison Avenue and 71st Street Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. 8:00 * * The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector P.M. 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Week Days — Holy Eucharist—Mon. Senior Warden Is 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service. Wed. Sat.: 10:00 A.M. Tues. Thurs. Fri.: 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. Honored 7:00 A.M. 7 :$6 P.M.— Organ Recital. Morning Prayer: 9 :Q0 A.M. Daily. William Tell Butz was honored at 8 P.M.-—Evening Prayer and Sermon. Evening Prayer: 5:15 P.M. Daily. Daily—Holy Communion, 8 A.M. (except a dinner held at Trinity, New Castle, Saturdays) also Thursdays and Holy Days, 12 M. Christ Church Pa., the other day, as well he might Greenwich, Connecticut be. Mr. Butz, 84 years of age, has St. Thomas Church Reverend Albert J. M. Wilson, Rector been the warden of the parish for a Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street Sundays: 8:00 a.m., Holy Communion; New York 9:15 a.m., Church School; 11:00 a.m., large part of these years. Bishop Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Morning Prayer and Sermon, (Holy Com­ munion and Sermon, first Sundays) ; 7 :S0 Ward, the mayor, the rector and Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and p.m., Evening Prayer and Address. 4 P.M. others paid tribute to the man, and Daily Services: 8 :30 A.M., Holy Com­ Tuesday, Fridays, and Holy Days, telegrams were read from many dis­ munion. 10:00 a.m. Noonday Service, 12:05 to 12:36. tinguished people, including the Pre­ Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. All Saints Church siding Bishop. 26th Street and Dewey Avenue * * * Christ Church Parish Omaha Nebraska Detroit and Grosse Pointe Rector, The Rev. Frederick W. Clayton Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector Services, Sundays, Holy Communion, Bishop Tucker to Rev. J. Francis Sant, Vicar 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. First Sunday in Visit Japan Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at month. Rivard Morning Prayer and Church School, Church people in Japan have been Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard 11 a.m. wanting Bishop Tucker of Virginia, Services: 8:00, 9:46, 11:00, 7:30 Sun­ Holy Communion Wednesday and Holy days. Days, 10 a.m. formerly Bishop of Kyoto, to come Saints’ Days : 10:30. and help them celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of Grace Church Gethsemane, Minneapolis Sandusky, Ohio Rev. Austin Pardue the Nippes Sei Kokwai, which is the Rev. Donald Wonders, D.D., Rector Japanese Church in the Anglican Sunday Services 4th Ave. South at 9th St. 8 A. M.—Holy Communion. Communion. As Bishop Tucker is a 9 :15— Church School. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 7 :45. member of the National Council, the 10 :30—Morning Service. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. Council would also be delighted to

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 18, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Fifteen receive the benefit of his vis.it to that the year had been closed with that a national Church fund be raised Japan, and his own diocese of Vir­ all bills paid and with money in the to aid churches and communicants in ginia has been glad to acquiesce in bank, and that pledges had been re­ the flood areas. Parishes in his own his going. So he expects to sail from ceived to cover the 1937 budget of diocese have been asked to take up Vancouver April 3 and return in $80,000. A resolution was offered by offerings to be sent to the various June. the Rev. Don Frank Fenn urging an dioceses involved in the floods. Bishop Tucker was consecrated in amendment to the state law so as to * * * Kyoto March 25, 1912, and is there­ provide for a delay of 72 hours be­ Turn to God to fore keeping his twenty-fifth anni­ tween the application for and the Settle the Strike versary this year. He first went to issuance of a marriage license. It The Rev. Sam Shoemaker, New Japan in 1899 directly after graduat­ was designed, the rector said, “ to York leader of the Oxford Group ing from the s.eminary. wipe out the scandal associated with (Buchmanites), declared last Sunday * * * the marriage market in Maryland.” that the strike in the General Motors Stresses Needs The following were elected deputies could be settled if Mr. Alfred Sloan of Missions to General Convention: Clergy, Don and Mr. John Lewis would listen to Bishop Barnwell, back in his dio­ Frank Fenn, Arthur B. Kinsolving, God. “ He knows how to settle the cese after weeks of illness, pleaded Noble C. Powell, Philip J. Jensen. strike. He has the wis.dom no human the missionary cause before the con­ Laymen, Henry D. Harlan, Carlyle arbiter has. God has a plan for the vention of the diocese of Georgia, Barton, Garner W. Denmead and motor industry in America. He will held at St. John’s., Savannah, Janu­ James A. Latane. reveal it to obedient men.” * * * ary 27th. The deputies elected to General Convention: clergy, Royal All Bills SECOND THOUGHTS (Continued from page 2) K. Tucker, David Cady Wright, Are Paid Gellhorn writes about people on the “relief” Joseph Burton and James B. Law­ A letter sent from National Coun­ in “The Trouble I’ve Seen.’’ Here again we find a true picture of life in this ‘great rence; laymen, J. Randolph Ander­ cil Treasurer Lewis B. Franklin to Christian country.’ If they have not been son, George T. Cann, J. A. Setze and in your parish you are indeed lucky. No, diocesan authorities on January 29th these people are not in our Church, no kind Drank D. Aiken. states that the year 1936 is closed of Church ever touches them, they are among * H* H* with all bills paid. Out of 98 dioceses the millions of “ untouchables.’’ One has to dress to go to Church, one has to be good, or Baltimore Wants and missionary districts which re­ at least in ‘good standing’ in the community. Next General Convention ported “ expectations” all but 12 paid Once upon a time the Church was for the poor, the exploited, the harlot, but today it The convention of the diocese of 100% or more. is only for the established, the respectable. Southern bishops might take an escape into Maryland, meeting on January 27th a time which has “ Gone With the Wind,” at St. Michael and All Angels, Balti­ Wants National Fund but I only hope they would also look into for Flood Relief “ A Stone Came Rolling” by Fielding Burke, more, voted to invite the General and “ A Sign for Cain” by Grace Lumpkin. Convention to meet in that city in Bishop Stewart of Chicago has, The Bishop of California probably is familiar with “ I.i Dubious Battle” by Steinbeck, at 1940. Bishop Helfenstein reported suggested to Presiding Bishop Perry least I hope so.

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