1932 the Witness, Vol. 16, No. 52

LOVE AND REASON— Johnson

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L o v e a n d R e a s o n An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON H E R E are certain elements in the material world E T U S SU P PO SE we are starting a family. The T that defy analysis. Every once in a while some L parents are both eminent scientists. A child is one has tried to manufacture gold but since gold is an born into the family. They are anxious that the child element they have never succeeded. We can resolve shall have a real home. Unless they love one another, water into hydrogen and oxygen, but we are unable to no matter how unscientific love may be regarded; un resolve either of these elements into component parts. less they love the child; unless the child loves them, no There are certain things in the spiritual world which amount of scientific rules can make a home. There are elemental in character,, and stubbornly refuse to be must be something that we label personality in the analyzed. It is true that psychologists and psychiatrists heads of the family or the relationship will become in attack various labels to these elements but one does not tolerable. This personality must manifest itself in alter the character of an element by giving it another consideration of others or the home will be a tragedy. name. These two cannot argue themselves into loving one When someone tells me for example that lust and another. It would be like calling on the steering wheel love alike are merely examples of behaviorism for to supply the vacuum in the gas tank. which the person is not morally responsible, they tell It is true that the more reasonable the two may be, me something that is very difficult to believe because the more hope that the elemental love will take a de it is contrary to the way men act toward these ele sirable direction but unless the relationship is based mental characteristics and they haven’t told me a thing on love the situation is hopeless. about either lust or love. When they say that man is It is for this reason that the Master tells us that the merely a mechanical device without any moral respon first and great commandment is that we must love. As sibility, they have not helped me to interpret my actions the philosophers say there must be an awareness of one and they have forgotten that mere machines are lim another and an otherness in the regulation of personal ited by the functions that each part of the machine per desires. This is the essence of religion. It is futile to forms. say that religion is unscientific. One might reply with For example there is in every automobile both an en equal force that science is unspiritual. gine and a steering wheel. Now the engine requires The pot and the kettle may call one another names fuel and the steering wheel requires guidance. If I but each has its own particular function. After all get out of fuel going uphill, I cannot call on the steer practical results are obtained when the engine and the ing wheel to furnish the lack. Each has its own ap pilot wheel cooperate. Of course a machine can go pointed task. Now man is dependent for his progress down hill without fuel and the pilot wheel is very upon two very different elements. We call them love useful in the downward progress. If life was all down and reason. Each has its own particular function. hill, the pilot wheel would be all that one would need. But if you are going to lift savages out of barbarism, H E child starts out with a potential power of lov I doubt if the reasoning power will do it. I have never T ing but with very little power of reasoning. The yet heard of psychologists who could lift races out of parents must provide the guidance, although the child savagery. These seem to me rather to find themselves may furnish the motive power. The child who loves on a high level of Christian civilization and then they a wise parent is well equipped to begin life’s journey. tell the world how respectably they can descend to If the child is unfortunate enough to have a parent lower levels. who refuses to guide, the chances are that the desires It is true that education can and ought to guide, but within will dominate the direction which the child may I have never observed that academic people had any take. If the child is one who dislikes his parents and driving power to lift up either themselves or others. refuses their guidance, he will probably end in grief. Of course the whole idea of progress is as unscientific However as the child grows older elemental desires be as lifting oneself by his own boot straps. How can come subject to reason which is developed within the anything emerge from a lower to a higher state, de growing child. Until a child is fourteen the law does pendent upon the elements which are the sole property not regard him as morally responsible for his acts. In of the lower condition? other words love and reason are not the same thing. Yet there has been a something within all living Love, or desire, or whatever you label the libido creatures, other than observation which has impelled within, is that which impels the machine forward, while men upward. The law of gravity demands that water reason and logic determine the direction that it will ul shall go down hill and yet the inventive genius of man timately take. In a general sense desire is the gasoline has compelled water to go up hill. I have great re and reason is the pilot wheel. Certainly you cannot spect for the scientific mind. I believe that I have evaluate the needs of the engine in terms of the pilot still greater respect for the God-fearing peasant. I wheel. dislike to hear the one call the other a boor because he

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. August 18, 1932 T H E WITNESS Page Five is not educated and I also dislike to hear the peasant answering the question. With only the English call the scientist a pedant because he fails to be a lover language at my disposal, I do not know how I can of his fellow men. All I can deduce is that each has make it much clearer. The Prayer Book Psalter is his own excellent qualities and society is fortunate taken from the Great Bible of 1539 except for a few when each respects and accepts the qualities of the minor changes which were introduced in 1928. Some other. I do not believe that the force which makes of these changes are single words, some are several one man a savant and the force which makes the other words in a verse, and they depend on no specific ver a saint is the same force, nor do I believe that they can sion with which I am familiar. They are, I believe, be valued each in the terms of the other. the fruits of recent scholarship designed to increase The urge which causes one man to study astromony accuracy of thought, aid devotion, and relieve certain and the other man to minister to his neighbor’s distress obscurities. There were a large .number of such do not proceed from the same source, and the process changes, mostly trifling in nature, which were recom by which a great astronomer is made is entirely dif mended by the Commission on the Revision of the ferent from that which makes another man a lover Prayer Book. General Convention agreed that it would of mankind. be absurd for a large body of deputies to debate and pass on every one of them. Therefore the Convention e r h a p s t h e r e a r e t h o s e who feel that adopted the whole report on the Psalter after it had P it is more important to have great astronomers been submitted to them in print with adequate time for than it is to have kindly and sympathetic souls. It is those to study it over who felt so disposed. By action the function of our universities to make the one and it of the Convention this revised Psalter is now an ought to be the function of the Church to produce authorized part of the Prayer Book. It is too much the other. If it is a fact that not many great scientists to be expected that every such minor change should come out of our universities and also that not many commend itself to every Churchman but I think all philanthropists come out of the Churches, the reason will agree that the Psalter itself is much improved by is the same. Neither College nor Church can make its them. ultimate product out of anything else than the material For instance, in many places “ nations” is substituted which offers itself and disciplines itself for the task. for “ heathen” and “ peoples” for “ people” . In Psalm The fact that the University can make some scientists 45 :5 the old version says, “ Thy arrows are very sharp, and the Church can make some saints must be the justification for the preservation of both institutions. and the people shall be subdued unto thee: even in the But it ought not to be expected that the function of the midst among the King’s enemies” . But the new ver University is to make saints and of the Church to sion makes it read—“ Thy arrows are very sharp in make scientists. the heart of the King’s enemies, and the people shall If the Christian is living on an hypothesis which be subdued unto thee” . This is both more accurate and cannot be proved, so is the scientist, and the theory that more intelligible but it does not appear in exactly these bothers me is that if the high dignity which Christ words in the Authorized version, or in either the gave to human life and the ultimate purpose which He English or American Revised versions of the Scrip held out for human character is not true; if we are tures. merely a race of chemical compounds, what is the use In Psalm 73 '.27 the old version read “thou hast de of discussing and fretting over the nature of a machine stroyed all them that commit fornication against thee” , that isn’t going anywhere in particular. Either re which is changed to read “ thou hast destroyed all ligion and science are partners in a great adventure, or them that are unfaithful unto thee.” Surely an im else each are engaged in an equally futile task and the provement for public devotional reading, in spite of final issue of the controversy will be an absurdity. some of our modern realistic authors. Psalm 68 has more variations introduced than any other. This is due to many allowable differences in translation from the original text because the (Hebrew itself is very uncertain in spots. Transcripts of the Scriptures used L e t’s K n ow to be made by hand and it was inevitable that me chanical errors should appear now and then. In the By course of many centuries and many copyings such BISHOP WILSON accumulated mistakes “ corrupt the text” , as the critics P salter A gain put it, so that even when the thought is clear, the exact FE W weeks ago I attempted to answer a question form of expression may be uncertain. A from one of our readers—“ where does the trans In Psalm 2 '.7 the old reading said “ I will preach the lation (of the Psalter) in our American Prayer Book law” . The new reading is “ I will rehearse the decree” . come from?” My reply was that “ the same Great The latter is more accurate but, for my own part, I Bible version was taken over with a few verbal would prefer the rendering in both the English and emendations brought in under the last revision of Revised versions of the Bible—“ I will tell of the 1928.” I explained the Great Bible and gave a little decree” . However the difference is not worth bother history of the versions of the Psalms. ing about. Another letter takes me to task for not really I trust I have answered my questioner this time.

A BIKDSEYE VIEW OF SAINT JAMES SCHOOL

S a i n t Ja m e s S c h o o l By w i l l i a m g . McDo w e l l The Bishop of Alabama H E FO U N D ATIO N of the present Saint James The next consideration was to find a suitable loca T School was laid in 1842, when it was determined tion for the school. Just at this time the “ Fountain to open, at the historic “ Fountain Rock Manor” in Rcok Manor” happened to be for sale. It was con Washington County, Maryland, a school for the in veniently situated, being about six miles southwest of struction of youth, under the discipline and doctrine Hagerstown and two miles off the Sharpsburg turn of the Protestant Episcopal Church. This was the pike. Nature had made the spot beautiful, and man outcome of a meeting held by the Rev. T. B. Lyman, had done his best to render it pleasing to see and rector of Saint John’s Church, Hagerstown, and sev dwell in; and after much consultation it was pur eral gentlemen of his congregation. Their plan was chased, largely on the faith of the promoters. enthusiastically received by the Rt. Rev. Wm. R. Saint James Hall was accordingly opened on Octo Whittingham, Bishop of Maryland, who with char ber 3, 1842, by the Bishop of Maryland, with a most acteristic energy sought its fulfillment. solemn service of dedication. From the first the growth In those days the idea of a Church school was en of the school was steady and continuous, despite many tirely new in this country. A modified form of the difficulties, financial and otherwise. In 1844 the plan English system had been tried with great success by of the school was changed and to meet it a charter was Dr. William Augustus Muhlenberg at Flushing, Long obtained under the title: “ The College of Saint James.” Island. To him then did Bishop Whittingham turn As such it drew a wide patronage from Maryland and for help in establishing his new school, and Dr. Muh the South, which continued up to the Civil War. At lenberg finally consented to give up his chief assistant, the College and the Grammar School were educated the Rev. John Barrett Kerfoot, to be its head. many who became distinguished in various walks of

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. August 18, 1932 T H E WITNESS Page Seven life, and who exemplified the training there received, be spared to go off to school, so the College had to wait as educated Christian gentlemen. for more prosperous days. At last, in 1869, Bishop As increasing numbers demanded increased accom Whittingham was moved by the many inquiries he had modations, a wing was first added to the original received about reopening the school to seek the right mansion, called “ Claggett Hall,” after the first Bishop person as Dr. Kerfoot’s successor. He found such a of Maryland; then other buildings were erected, called one in Henry Onderdonk, a teacher of wide experience “ Paradise” and “ Purgatory,” respectively, and finally and singular ability. His plan was to reopen only the a large, five-story building, called “ Kemp Hall,” after Grammar chool. Here unceasing labor was rewarded the second Bishop of Maryland. Thus the College by the love his pupils bore him and the rank they at grew and prospered under the able administration of tained in college and subsequent life. During the Dr. Kerfoot and his faculty, many of whom afterward twenty-six years of His Head Mastership, Saint James became distinguished as educators and churchmen. maintained its high rank as a preparatory school, offer One very prominent feature of the training re ing to the boys of Maryland an excellent training in ceived at Saint James was the wholesome Christian in mind and body, together with the rare influence of a fluence thrown about each individual student. The Christian home life. A new “ Kemp Hall” was built, rector himself belonged to the High Church school, and and a third story was added to “ Claggett Hall” . Thus selected his associates with care, so that all would exert the school held the even tenor of its way, till in 1895 a positive religious influence. With manliness and the Head Master, full of years and honors, was called character thus exemplified before the eyes of the boys, to his reward. the formation of like traits in them was inevitable, and the type of Christian manhood thus produced has TN 1896, T H E N AM E was changed to Saint James become a potent factor today in the councils of the School, and Julian Hartridge became Head Master, Church as well as in the ranks of her laity. a position which he held till 1900, when J. Henry Harrison succeeded him. When the latter withdrew U T JU S T A S A L L seemed well, a terrible blow in 1903, the school underwent a reorganization, and B befell the College. In January, 1857, “ Kemp Hall” Adrian Holmes Onderdonk succeeded to the place was burned. The loss was felt most keenly, but with formerly ocupied by his father, with Henry Webster an indomitable will, the authorities and friends of the Keating as Senior Master. College set about turning the disaster to good account. After more than fifteen years of occasion with the A generous sum was soon raised to repair the damage school upon which he had impressed his sterling ideas but other considerations changed their plans. At that and lovable character, Mr. Keating was killed in an time the College was very inaccessible and it was automobile accident,—an irreparable loss to Saint deemed advisable to devote the new endowment to James and his friends and colleagues there. bring Saint James within the reach of patronage. Ac In the spring of 1926 the school was visited by a cordingly a site was purchased in Baltimore County disastrous fire which completely destroyed the entire on the Northern Central Railway, plans were drawn, main building. A recess of a month was declared, and the buildings begun which were to be the home of during which temporary quarters—dining hall, class the College in its enlarged sphere of usefulness. rooms and sleeping barracks — were constructed in “ Fountain Rock” was still to be used as the Grammar order that the work of the rest of the year might be School. completed; and after an absence of only two weeks These plans were destined, however, never to be car more than the normal Easter vacation, the boys re ried out. The outbreak of the Civil War found them turned to Saint James, which they had left burned to but half completed and left them utterly ruined. All the ground, scarcely a month before, and completed efforts had to be bent toward maintaining the College the year’s courses without the loss of a class or a at the old site. But this was impossible. Its neigh period of recitation—a remarkable, as well as a signi borhood had become the field of contending armies. ficant, accomplishment. The thunder of battle at Antietam, six miles away, Mr. Onderdonk set out with untiring zeal to raise shook the buildings and dashed all hopes of success, funds for a new Main Building, which, because of his for Dr. Kerfoot was a Union sympathizer, and his invincible spirit and the splendid cooperation of the students were Southern boys. Off they went to give alumni and friends of the school, together with the their boyish enthusiasm, and perhaps their lives, to the Diocese, now stands on the site of the original build cause of the Confederacy, leaving but a handful of ing, a memorial to his efforts. A new wing, Whit students to the peaceful pursuit of learning. The sec tingham Hall, has since been added, and this, with the ond battle of the Gettysburg campaign was to have Laidlaw Memorial Infirmary, makes it possible for been fought on the very College grounds, had Meade Saint James to boast of not only an excellent but also chosen to attack Lee at bay. Then came the arrest of a modern plant. Dr. Kerfoot, as a hostage, by General Jubal A. Early, and 3delding to the inevitable, Saint James was closed. T IS, H O W EVER, the personnel of such an organ It was five years before Saint James again opened I ization that stands the real test, and it is in this its doors to receive pupils. The South had been its that Mr. Onderdonk has been most fortunate. With largest patron, and this now lay devastated by war and the aid and assistance of Mr. Campbell, his associate prostrated by reconstruction. Its youth could no longer of over twenty-five years, he has built up around him

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS August 18, 1932 a faculty of carefully-chosen and well-tried men, who Judging from the frequent divorces one might believe are aptly fitted to undertake the instruction and train this. But with the increasing barnyard morality one ing of growing boys. It is here that the responsibility ought to see the foolishness of such attitudes. Back of a school lies, and it is here that Saint James, by an to God we must go for our basis of respect and decency individual and studied analysis of each boy, undertakes and permanence. No matrimonial agreement can go to carry out her program in a spirit of progress and on the rocks if the Christ is in the heart of it. Maturity achievement. The unsurpassed worth of a close con signifies reverence and continuous recognition of the tact between masters and boys within an atmosphere spiritual sharing in the covenant. With Christ happi of home life has been only too well proven by her ness and success are guaranteed. Those whom God success. hath joined together no man can possibly put asunder! And so it has been that Saint James, the mother of The engagement ring may glitter and look pretty. But church boarding schools, founded on the English type, the simple, eternal wedding ring is the symbol of in America, under the guidance of Dr. William maturity, and indicative of love and peace in mutual Augustus Muhlenberg and his assistant, the Rev. J. consecration. B. Kerfoot, has stood the tests of her years, and ad vances toward the centennial anniversary of her found ing. Today Saint James stands for all that her founders intended and for much more of which they never dreamed. The Saint James School of today is a growth, the gradual outcome of the influence and the toil of ninety years. Things that are, in other schools, matters of rules and regulations, are with her tradi tional. The honor system is observed because there has never been any other. Her boys are gentlemen because of their constant contact with refining influ SCHOOLS ences which they imbibe as naturally as her pure moun tain air. Her ideal has ever been, Christian Manliness, THE WITNESS WILL BE GLAD TO BE OF as based on strength of mind, body and character; and SERVICE TO YOU IF YOU ARE TO SELECT A SCHOOL FOR YOUR SONS AND DAUGH this ideal she proposes to maintain. TERS. LET US KNOW THE PART OF THE COUNTRY YOU DESIRE AND WE WILL SE CURE FOR YOU ALL THE NECESSARY IN FORMATION ABOUT A SELECTED LIST OF SCHOOLS. STATE AGE OF THE BOY OR GIRL AND GIVE US AN INDICATION OF Just Souls HOW MUCH YOU CARE TO PAY. WRITE OUR NEW YORK OFFICE: 931 TRIBUNE By BUILDING. C. R U S S E L L M OODEY F YO U wish to get a real conception of the psy I chology of man today regarding matrimony just lay the engagement and wedding ring side by side and study the two. The engagement ring has its large The Story of the Church beautiful diamond—its platinum setting, and possibly B y B ish o p J o h n so n many smaller stones tucked in its filigreed appoint ments. One would think that the wedding ring led The series of articles, appearing recently in The Witness, is now. available in book form; large into the engagement. But the fact is the flash and type; standard book page size; substantial paper show of the engagement ring leads into the simple binding. yet beautiful ring that designates the estate of matri 50c for single copies $4.00 for ten mony. Sound reflection proves the logic of this fact. When mutual love is first discovered it is usually in the hands of impulses. And impulses cater to display The Christian Way Out and the filigreed mentality. They demand flash and A symposium on the Christian Way out of our show simply because they are impulses with the economic and international difficulties. The opin ions of such eminent leaders as Archbishop Tem tendency toward immaturity. But the value and the ple; Nicholas Murray Butler; Bishop Parsons; beauty of the wedding ring is its utter simplicity. As Vida Scudder; Spencer Miller, Jr.; W. G. Peck; this ring is eternal so may the love of the man and Conrad Noel; Daniel McGregor; Reinhold Niebuhr; Bernard Iddings Bell and others. wife be in the days together. The engagement ring is 50c for single copies $4.00 for ten the symbol of a promise. The wedding ring is the symbol óf a vow and covenant made. WITN ESS BOOKS There is a move on foot today away from any spirit ual interpretation of wedlock. People think that matri 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago mony is nothing more than a commercial venture.

DEVOTIONAL BOOKS NEWS NOTES OF THAT ARE WORTH NOTICE THE CHURCH IN YOUR ATTENTION 'T ’HE next issue of T he W itness BRIEF PARAGRAPHS will be that of September first, Edited by W . B. Spofford Reviewed by Gardiner M. Day thus omitting the issue of August 25th. Subscription renewal dates Many of you, presumably, will Not only is it difficult for the will of course be moved forward visit Chicago another year to attend Christian to actually take the time one week. The reason for omit the World’s Fair. All of the places each day to linger in the presence of ting the issue is a very simple that you will want to see will not be God, but it is also difficult to find one. It is my responsibility to edit located at the fair grounds on the devotional books which really stretch each issue of the paper. There water front. Way ¡over on the north the imagination and lift the mind fore the only way for me to get west side is little St. Stephen’s to new visions. So many devotional a vacation is to leave out a num Church; a little frame building at books consist in Bible quotation and ber. For one week I am going to the end of a tiny road. I spend last comment and the latter is often climb New Hampshire mountains, Sunday there with the clergyman in superfluous. Living Creatively by paddle a canoe and lie in the sun. charge, the Rev. Irwin St. John Kirby Page (Farrar & Rinehart) I hope that our readers will con Tucker. He took charge of this mis represents a distinctly new type of sider this a sufficient reason and sion five years ago and today it is devotional book and one which ought will grant me this indulgence. one of the show places of the city. to be of great help to many people. Thanks. It all happened in a rather strange Kirby Page has found in his own way. Both Mr. Tucker and his gifted W . B. Spofford, wife were frequent contributors to experience ten paths to the abundant Managing Editor. life, ten ways of learning to live “ The Hit or Miss Column” which creatively. These paths might well appears in one of the Chicago news be named ten roads to the spirit of papers, each of them contributing God, although in only one is the their poetry. Keith Preston was the Deity specifically mentioned. The be used as material for a High conductor of this column. He died ten paths are those of 1. Relieving School class in religion. rather suddenly and some of those human misery; 2. Transforming un Another book which ought to contributing regularly felt that it just Social systems ; 3. Gaining vision prove a help to the devotional hour would be nice to have a memorial and serenity through silence; 4. is Bishop George C. Stewart’s The service. They were invited to hold Seeking beauty; 5. Cultivating Face of Christ '(Morehouse) a series it in little St. Stephen’s. The serv friendship and fellowship; 6. Re of noonday Holy Week addresses ice was attended of course by the covering strength through penitence; delivered last Lent in the Garrick literary people of the city and sev 7. Exploring great biographies; 8. Theater in Chicago. In his delight eral of them brought with them Following the Noblest Personality; ful style Dr. Stewart writes of the original poems that they had written 9. Cooperating Creatively with God; radiance and the resoluteness, the and presented them to the church. and 10. Being willing to run risks ciompassion and the majesty, and the They were framed, these auto and accept penalties. suffering and the glory which is re graphed verses, and hung on the The first hundred pages of the vealed in the personality of Our walls of the (church. There werje book is divided into brief sections (Lord. It is a small volume of only artists there too. One of them sug in which the author gives an intro 78 pages. gested that there should be a serv duction to the use of each of the 1 dare say the clergyman in our ice each year for them as well as paths. The last two hundred pages church today who has not read at for poets. At this service, just as are filled with inspirational quota least one book by the late Bishop the poets had given their verse, so tions iof both prose and poetry each Charles Gore is a very rare speci they presented their paintings. Other falling under one of the above men men. Hence a little biographical groups—many of them—asked that tioned ten topics. The tremendous sketch, Charles Gore (Morehouse) by they might have services. For five diversity of the quotations may be Gordon Crosse will be widely wel years this has been going on so that readily seen by mentioning the first comed. In slightly more than one today the little frame building is three: 1. A passage from Paul de hundred pages the author has given literally filled with paintings, sculp Kruiff’s story of the victorious an outline of the great Churchman’s ture, poems—contributed by famous battle against yellow fever as told in life, an outline which is all'too brief people. Microbe Hunters under relieving to bring much satisfaction to his The church yard is equally famous. human misery; 2. “ Fired at Forty" friends. A glimpse of the wealth of When Mr. Tucker went there it was from Stuart Chase’s The Nemesis of material upon which Mr. Crosse a dumping ground for tin cans. To American Business under transform could draw is evidenced by the fol day it is a Garden of Memory, with ing unjust systems; and 3. “ Thank lowing about Dr. Gore when he was flowers, plants, shrubs, trees, ded Offerings" quoted from Tagore’s about to leave Westminster for Wor icated to the memory of loved ones. Gitanjili under gaining vision and cester: “ True the bishop-designate Great stately trees dedicated to the serenity through silence. The Vol had become the greatest spiritual memory of Walt Whitman, Longfel ume is a veritable mine of beautiful force in the Church. But in the eyes low, Edison, Peter Lutkin, Mar and telling quotations. I recommend of many he was all that a Bishop guerite Wilkinson, Baby Lindbergh. the volume to anyone who wants a ought not to be. He was head of a There are shrubs and flowers planted devotional book which will stimulate community iof ‘monks’ ; he was a by members of the little congrega his conscience and stretch his ima ritualist; he was a Christian Social tion and dedicated to the memory of gination. A man using this book ist; and he ‘didn’t believe the Bible’." some lone they wish to honor. As a ought to rise from his knees awak A good sample is this book, but it result the dump has been trans ened anew to the unchristian phases is to be hoped that it will be followed formed into a Garden of Memory. of the world in which we live and soon by a life and letters which will There is nothing imposing here. determined to fight them both more give a great deal more extensive One might walk right past the little zealously and more intelligently. The picture of the man’s mind and per church without even realizing that book is so indexed that it could well sonality. it is there. Nevertheless today it is

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS August 18, 1932 a shrine, visited each week by scores ices in the kindergarten building, rishioners might give at this time. of people, as the register at the door rearranged every Sunday to serve as “ We need $75,000 to free our prop of the -church, filled with hundreds a church. They too have been rais erty from debt and rehabilitate our of names of people from all parts of ing money for the new church and endowment fund,” says the Rev. Wm. the country gives simple testimony. now find that, in spite of recent hard B. Sto-skopf, rector, in his letter to So if you are to visit Chicago save times, they have on hand more than his parishioners. “ Can this amount a half day to see St. Stephen’s. the amount they pledged. be raised this year of depression? I * * * do not believe so and if I did, I St. Katharine’s Graduate Make Pilgrimage would not ask it from you whose Wins Scholarship To Pennsylvania Church contributions would mean a sacrifice Miss Rachel Lacy, who graduated Churchmen from Christ Church, of from four to ten times what you last June from St. Katharine’s Williamsport, and from Montours- might give under normal conditions. School, Davenport, Iowa, has been ville and Muncy made their annual I am turning to you to raise this awarded the Wellesley College mid pilgrimage recently to the Church amount as a pledge contingent upon west scholarship. It means that -she of the Good Shepherd, in Upper the return of prosperous times.” earned the highest examination aver Fairfield Township, Pa., where wor “ Are you an optimist? Then cer age among all the applicants from ship was conducted in the quaint tainly you can afford to be generous the middle west. She was an honor little church on top of the hill. The in looking toward a future increase student at St. Katharine’s. Miss church, erected 57 years ago through Which you believe will come. Are Lacy is the daughter of Mr. and the efforts of the Rev. John Henry you a pessimist? Very well then, the Mrs. Frank R. Lacy of Dubuque, Hopkins, then rector of Christ signing of this pledge will cost you Iowa, where Mr. Lacy is a vestryman Church, Williamsport, has become an not one cent if prosperity does not of St. John’s Church. historic spot. Canon Hiram R. Ben return.” * * * nett, Rector of Christ Church, Formal celebration of the double Memorial Chapel for preached a sermon, and the service anniversary will take place early in October. St. James School was read by the Rev. Samuel Sayre, ❖ * H* Henry Onderdonk in the year 1908 rector of St. Mary’s Church, Wil took his wife and together they liamsport. Fewer Marriages in * * * reorganized St. James School, Diocese of Chicago one of the finest of our Church The Typesetter Didn’t The number of marriages per boarding schotols. It was no easy H ave His Mind on His Work formed by clergy of Chicago during undertaking to do this as you An error in the new Prayer Book, the last year declined approximately may judge from the article by Bish curiously appropriate to the times, ten per cent, according to statistics op McDowell in this number. It was has been reported by the Custodian. compiled by the Rev. Gerald G. a wreck at the time but through In the Latin heading to section 11 Moore, secretary of the diocesan con their efforts it was made one of the of Psalm 119, defecit appears as vention. Christ church, Waukegan, most beautiful and famous of our deficit. led parishes in the number of wed schools. At one time there were me dings with 49. Among city churches, morials to both Henry Onderdonk Memorial Tablets St. Chrysostom’s stands first with and his wife, but they were de For New York Parish 45; then St. James with 48; St. stroyed by fire. So at the commence Two new bronze tablets have been Paul’s, third, with 30. Christ church, ment this year the class of 1932 erected on the walls of Holyrood Winnetka, and St. Luke’s, Evanston, announced to the present headmaster, Church, New York, by the vestry, in were among parishes recording A. H. Onderdonk, son, that it was memory of George Burt Heath and marked declines in marriages during their purpose to start out that day the year. Clara Settle Jameson, respectively, * * to raise sufficient funds to build a “faithful friends of Holyrood lasting memorial in the nature of a Church.” These tablets, designed and Famed Missionaries Colonial Chapel. It came as a sur executed by the J. & R. Lamb Return to Alaska prise to the present headmaster, the Studios, was elaborated with a bor Dr. and Mrs. Grafton Burke are boys having been successful some der of palm branches. It is the idea how or other in keeping it from him sailing from Seattle on the Queen of the vestry to place such tablets August 18, returning from furlough until the announcement. The plans (from time to time in memory of to the Hudson Stuck Hospital at have been made and the chapel is benefactors of the Church. Fort Yukon, Alaska. Part of their said to be a building of unusual furlough was spent in Europe the beauty. Chicago Parish Seeks doctor studying in Vienna and Lon Large Fund don. They returned in fine condition, New York Auxiliary Presents As evidence of its belief that looking younger than ever, and left Gift to Japan prosperity is coming back, the New York on August 5 for the West. The Woman’s Auxiliary of the Church of the Ascension, Chicago, Four others accompany them to diocese of New York has a missions has announced plans for a campaign Fort Yukon. Wyatt Brown, Jr., -committee with a number of sub to raise $75,000 in commemoration whose father, the Bishop of Harris committees on different fields. The of the seventy-fifth anniversary of burg, is an old college friend of Dr. sub-committee for Japan, Mrs. Fred its founding and the fiftieth an Burke, goes in as a volunteer for a erick M. Pedersen, chairman, has re niversary of the laying of the corner year. He and another young vol cently completed a gift intended for stone of the present church. The unteer, Mr. Whittlesy, will carry on the building fund of St. John’s campaign is said to be one of the club work among the young people Church, Utsunomiya, and sent a most unique launched in Chicago. in Fort Yukon, with social service check for it to Bishop McKim as part The pledges sought are to be un and other activities which in the ab of his celebration iof his eightieth dated as to fulfillment, each being sence of a clergyman are more than birthday, in July. The congregation left entirely to the individual. On the doctor can carry single-headed. at Utsunomiya, where the Rev. J. K. this basis, the invitation to par Two nurses are going in, Miss Lil Ban is priest in charge, has for the ticipate calls for pledges of from lian Tifft, a new appointee filling a past twenty-five years held its serv- four to ten times the amount pa- vacancy, and Miss Addie Gavel, re-

turning from furlough; also Miss the emergency relief stations of Shelter under guidance of the Rev. Sargent, a former Alaskan resident, Chicago and receives funds from the David E. Gibson. employed in the field as general Governor’s Relief Commission. It :jc jJ: * worker in the hospital, helping with consists of three ten-room houses Florida Concludes the house-keeping and especially with which adjoin each other. It has ac Summer Camps the children; sometimes the hospital commodations for fifty-eight women. The series of four diocesan camps will have a dozen children not well The women admitted to it must and conferences of the diocese of enough to leave but able to carry on register with one of the case-work Florida have now come to a close. school work under her direction. Dr. ing agencies. Whenever possible, The Young People’s Service League, and Mrs. Burke have been working they are placed in positions suited the adult and the junior camps for in Alaska for twenty-five years. to them. Clothing is given freely both girls and boys, have been small to enable them to make a present er in attendance then in former Pennsylvania Rector able appearance. Medical care is years, but perhaps this was to be Called to Massachusetts provided through the Women’s and expected during these “ hard times” . The Rev. T. Frederick Cooper, Children’s hospital. The Woman’s In spite of this fact Bishop Juhan rector of the Atonement, Carnegie, iShelter is an outgrowth of the great and the directors of the several Con Pa., has been called to the rectorship work being done by the Cathedral ferences are enthusiastic over the of St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Mass., and takes up his duties there the first of September. He is among the younger clergy iof the diocese of Pittsburgh, and has done excellent work during his three years in Car negie. Among other things it was largely through his leadership that Lift the a new church has been built. ^ ^ ^ Death of the Wife Of Bishop Mann SHADOW Nellie G. K. Mann, wife of the Bishop of Pittsburgh, died at her home in Pittsburgh on August first. of that Fine Young People’s Conference in Mississippi The young people of the diocese CHURCH of Mississippi had a great con ference this year, according to re ports. It was held at Camp Bratton- Green located at Castallian Springs. MORTGAGE There were over one hundred in at tendance which is a record.

Fine Work Done by A simple, practical method that places NO BURDEN Chicago Shelter for Women In less than a year since its es on your PARISH MEMBERS and is a SURE tablishment, the Cathedral Shelter for Women, Chicago, has shown its way to pay off the Debt. value and usefulness, according to a report from Miss Ruth B. Gibson, W H Y NOT L IF T T H E FIN A N C IA L BU RD EN and leave manager. The report shows that since the Shelter was opened on Oct. your mind free for the REAL WORK OF THE CHURCH? 22, 1931, 606 individuals have been cared for, constituting 11,018 We offer a plan by which the mortgage may be easily liquidated night’s lodging and 32,817 meals. over a period of years, and it requires only small sums from your The Woman’s Shelter is one of parishioners.

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. August 18, 1932 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen the Gospel, to show how these ought Bishop Gilman attended a three- mission a few weeks ago to offer to be applied to life, to encourage day convocation of Hunan province their services in connection with the people in carrying them out, and to here at Changsha, at which all the erection of the new building for lead men to an ideal state of society. clergy except himself and Mr. Tyng medical work. They said they had No Christian can today be indiffer were Chinese. They brought reports come many times in the past to ask ent to social questions. Social re of vigorous and encouraging work, that a doctor be sent to them, and form in the main is the business of including, of course, some diffi now that Dr. Jenkins is hard at the state. The Church’s work is to culties. work among them, they want to do supply the spirit to carry out reform * * * all in their power to help. They with love and justice.” Missionaries Hold promised free labor in carrying Service in New York lumber from the sawmill and collect ing stones for the buildings. These Bishop Visits an Liberia and Alaska were united are not small items; carrying the Invaded City in the service in the chapel of lumber alone will save the mission The Chinese city of Changsha, up Church Missions House Friday noon, about 1,500 pesos or $750. the river beyond Hankow, will be re August 5, when there were present * * * membered as the place which just Miss Winifred Olivia Moore, a nurse, Building Church two years ago was invaded, terror sailing that day for Liberia, and Dr. at Boulder City ized, looted and burned by Com and Mrs. Grafton Burke, returning munists. They thoroughly looted our to Fort Yukon. Next to Miss Moore Work has been progressing on the qhurch and burned out the girls’ sat Miss Margaretta Ridgley, mis church at Boulder City, Nevada, the school. Bishop Gilman now writes of sionary of longest service— twenty- construction site of the great Hoo a recent visit there: eight years in Liberia. Dr. and Mrs. ver Dam. The substantial city here, “ It was a pleasure to see our John Chapman were also present. granite church standing, as of old, With their forty years service in the only church visible from the Alaska, and the Burkes’ twenty-five, street within the old city of Chang more than a century and a half of Calvert- Herrick sha. It is built on the Gothic plan, missionary work was represented in the chapel. & Riedinger best adapted for the close city $ $ $ streets. The Chinese style of build 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street ing is beautiful in its adaptation to New Mission Started the Christian Church, but to be real in Hawaii New . York . City ly effective it requires a long ap Yet another new mission has proach. started in Hawaii. At a place called Keaukaha, near Hilo, a Hawaiian “ I had been told that seventeen lay reader, Joseph Koomoa, under the STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC separate fires had been required to direction of the Rev. H. H. Corey consume the building of the Trinity AND . CHURCH of the Church of the Holy Apostles, School for girls, and it was really DECORATION Hilo, has begun services for a group amazing to see how the brick and which so far is composed entirely of concrete walls stood erect and true Hawaiians. There is much need for from the ground up to the peak of constructive Christian work in that the gable. Mr. Tyng (the Rev. Wal CHURCH . APPOINTMENTS hrea. Mr. Koomoa is assisted by worth Tyng, foreign missionary at IN . MARBLE . STONE two other lay readers from the same Changsha) has been assured by the parish. Bishop Littell, when he made W O O D . AN D architect that practically none of the his first visit, found about 125 per METAL masonry will need replacement. It is sons present, including a number of indeed a joy to know that this build young people. ing will soon be restored to its ^ former usefulness, and that if the Erect Building Communists should return in greater for Medical Work IRcCRAFTSMEN’5 fury, they would find that not only A number of the old men of Sa- are the Church walls made of gada, in the Philippine Islands, and GUILD granite, but that the roof beams the presidents and councillors of 64The Oval London SEn turned into stone! surrounding villages came to the England “ Since my last visit to Changsha, the Sun Yat-sen asphalt-paved broad CHURCH FURNITURE avenue has been completed, and not FORK UNION a sign of the destruction of two Military Academy eP L A T E Fully accredited. Prepares for college or years ago could I see. Electric business. Able faculty. Small classes. Super clocks have been placed in various vised study. Lower School for small boys ILLUSTRATED BROCHURE in new separate building. Housemother. R. parts of the city. As we went O. T. C. Fireproof buildings. Inside swim WILL BE FORWARDED through the busy streets, we were ming pool. All athletics. Best health record, UPON APPLICATION catalogue 35th year. Dr. J. J. Wicker, Pres., amazed at the quantity of all kinds Col. N. J. Perkins, H. M. Box 80. Fork of goods — isilks, satins, woolen Union, Virginia. clothing, (hardware, notions. One would think it would take years to ST. CHRISTINA SCHOOL CHURCH VESTMENTS dispose of all these goods. Their Episcopal Church School for girls. Kind Cassocks, Surplices, Stoles, Em ergarten through High School. New York broideries, Silks, Cloths, Fringes abundance showed that there were Regents diploma and College Entrance. Com CLERICAL SUITS courageous merchants who knew plete Homemaking Course. Supervised \ Hats, Rabats, Collars recreation, Handcraft and Sports. New, Specialists in Church vestments that this capital and commercial modern, well-equipped, fire-proof building. and Embroideries for a half a center supplied a great population Healthful and beautiful location. Tuition century. $600 per year. Twelve months’ residence if who, through the wealth of their desired. Catalogue. COX SONS & VINING production, would be enabled to THE SISTERS OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE Cooperstown, N. Y. 131-133 E. 23rd St.. New York take away all these things.”

ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE government-built land government-* uilj? Gktwral utyeologtral (Columbia University) controlled, which has sprung up out A College of Arts, Letters and Sciences of the sage and cactus to house the i>pmutarjj definitely and officially of tne Episcopal several thousand workers on this na Three-year undergraduate course of pre Church but with no ecclesiastical restrictions scribed and elective study. in the selection of its student body ; incorpo tional project, presents a national Fourth-year course for graduates, offering rated into the educational system of Colum liability and an emergency need for larger opportunity for specialization. bia University and conferring the University Provision for more advanced work, leading degree. the Church. The government pro to degrees of S.T.M. and S.T.D. It combines the advantages of University ADDRESS education with small college simplicity and vided land for the church, cleared it inexpensiveness. and blasted an excavation. The The College founded in 1860, is equipped to THE DEAN teach men who, after graduation, sre going basement of the church is already in 4 Chelsea Square New York City into business or into post-graduate schools of use and the corner stone was laid by medicine, law, journalism or theology, or into For Catalogue Address the Dean classical, scientific, social or literary research. Bishop Jenkins in June. The fees are: For tuition, $360 a year ; for * * * furnished room, $150 a year; for board in Episcopal Theological School hall, $300 a year. There are some competi Ordinations Held tive scholarships and a few bursaries for men CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS in Japan contemplating Holy Orders. Affiliation with Harvard University offers Address: Bernard Iddings Bell, Litt.D., According to the Canons of the unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as Warden Japanese Church (Nippon Seikok- philosophy, psychology, history, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. sociology, etc. (R. R. Station: Barrytown) wai) all candidates for Holy Orders For Catalogue Address the Dean must serve at least one year as cat TRINITY COLLEGE echists before they are ordained Berkeley Divinity Hartford, Conn. deacons. Three deacons and one priest were ordained in the diocese Offers a general cultural education, with School special emphasis on the Classics, Modern of North Tokyo this summer. All Languages; English, Economics, History, Phil New Haven, Connecticut osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, were graduates of St. Paul’s Col Affiliated with Yale University Biology and Pre-Medical, of Pre-Engineer lege and the Central Theological Address DEAN W. P. LADD ing. For information appiy, The Dean. College, Tokyo. Two of the deacons 86 Sachem Street continue serving the churches where CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL they worked as catechists, one in New York, Sisters of St. Mary (Episco DIVINITY SCHOOL IN pal) 405_ W. 34th Street. Accredited School comes to the General Theological o f Nursing, two years and eight months. Seminary for postgraduate study, PHILADELPHIA Major subject children. Adult and maternity nursing in affiliated hospitals. Single rooms. and the priest is to assist the Rev. Undergraduate and Graduate Courses Full maintenance and allowance. Write for James Chappell who is in charge of Privileges at University of Pennsylvania booklet. Address: ■five missions in the North Tokyo DEAN BARTLETT, 42nd and Locust Streets diocese. KEMPER HALL * ¡¡s * SEABURY- CARLETON KENOSHA. WISCONSIN Church Reaches Under the care of the Sisters of Saint THEOLOGY LIBERAL ARTS Mary. An Episcopal school for girls on Students in Philippines Best Training — Minimum Cost North Shore of Lake Michigan, one hour What the Church in the United from Chicago. College Preparatory and gen For information and catalogue write eral courses. Elementary Grades, Progressive States knowis as “ student work” is RT. REV. STEPHEN S. KEELER, D.D. Methods Used. Music, Art, Domestic Science. Acting Dean Outdoor and Indoor Sports. Address, The Sis an important part of missionary ac Seabury Hall, Faribault, Minn. ter Superior. tivity in Baguio and Sagada, Phil ippine Islands, for many young peo The Protestant Episcopal ple from the primary schools in dis Virginia Episcopal School Theological Seminary in Virginia tant missions come to Baguio to at Lynchburg, Virginia tend the Trinidad Industrial School For catalogue and other information address the Dean Prepares boys for college and university. or to Sagada for their high school Splendid environment and excellent corps of REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. teachers. High standard in scholarship and course. Our clergy have it on their Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in conscience to keep these children in the mountains of Virginia. Charges excep tionally low. For catalogue apply to Rev. touch with their church while they Oscar deWolf Randolph, Rector. are in what is to them the distract SAINT MARY’S ing life of a large city. There are | RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA HARVARD SCHOOL over a hundred Church girls and | Mrs. Ernest Cruikshank, B. S., Principal Los Angeles, California Episcopal for Girls. High School and two boys at Trinidad and about thirty- years College. Academic Courses Fully Ac A school for boys under the auspices o r credited Southern Association. Departments : the Episcopal Church. Fully accredited. five in the Sagada high school. Art, Business, Expression, Home Economics, R. O. T. C. Outdoor sports in a fine climate. * * * Music. For all information, address the Rev. Harold H. Kelley, Headmaster. Wear Clothes When Catalogue and View Book upon Request. Attending Church HARCOURT PLACE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ST. M ARY’S SCHOOL A missionary writes from Sagada MOUNT ST. GABRIEL complaining gently that all the pic Gambler, Ohio Peekskill-on-Hudson English setting and English foundation. BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS turesque local color is to be found College Preparatory and General Courses. Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. in the out-stations. “ Here in Sa Supervised Athletics, Riding, Golf. College preparatory and general courses. New Sarah Bedell Macdonald, A.B., Headmistress modern fireproof buildings. Extensive recrea gada,” he isays, “ the people are Mrs. William G. Mather, President of the tion grounds. Separate attention given t" young children. For catalogue address THE more sophisticated. Almost every Board of Trustees SISTER SUPERIOR. References body wears clothes at the Sunday Rt. Rev. Warren L. Rogers, D.D. services.” At every week-end serv Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, D.D. Freehold Military School ice there are at least 150 people but “The School with the Personal Touch” “ it doesn’t seem worth writing about Exclusively for boys 6 to 15. Modified mili when it is an every-day experience.” WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE tary system, stresses obedience, orderliness •I® *1* F O R WOMEN and self-reliance. Supervised study and play. Geneva, New York 42 miles from New York. 60 miles from If He’s Gone Co-ordinate with Hobart College. Four Philadelphia. Cavalry Troop. Summer Camp. Let Him Go year Liberal Arts Course leading to the MAJ. CHAS. M. DUNCAN, Prin. degrees of A.B. and B.S. Box 7.' Freehold, N. J. For some years before Dr. Fritz For catalogue and information address Ronnefeldt went to St. Timothy’s Faye Huntington Klyver, Ph.D., Dean

Hospital in Liberia, he worked on a German palm-oil plantation on one of the coastal islands of Portugese Guinea among natives untouched by Services of Leading Churches civilization. The first time he had occasion to give an anesthetic, he Cathedral of St. John the Divine St. Mark’s, Berkeley, California was assisted by an engineer from a New York City Bancroft Way and Ellsworth Street freighter then in the harbor, who Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Near the University of California Sundays; Holy Communion, 8, 9 ; Chil Sundays: 7:30, 11 A. M.; 7:45 P. M. administered so much ether that the dren’s Service, 9:30 A. M .; Morning Tuesdays: 10 A. M. patient, a young native, did not Prayer and Litany, 10 A. M. ; Morning Prayer, Holy Communion and Sermon, ST. ANNE’S IN THE FIELDS wake up when he was expected to. 11 A. M .; Evening Prayer, 4 P. M. Pointe-au-Pic Dr. Ronnefeldt persuaded another Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7 :30 A.M. Province of Quebec (Saints’ Days, 10); Morning Prayer, 9:30 Rev. Franklin Joiner, Chaplain native to speak to the sleeping pa A. M.; Evening Prayer: 5 P. M. Sundays : 8, 11 and 6. tient in his own language, which the Daily: 8 A. M. young man was loath to do. He be Calvary Church New York Christ Church Cathedral Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., Rector Hartford, Conn. lieved the patient was dead, and if Rev. J. Herbert Smith, Associate Rector you attempt to call back a man who Cor. Main and Church Streets. 21st Street and Fourth Ave. The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. has died, he may really come and Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 and 8. Sundays: 8;00, 10 :05, 11:00 a. m. ; 7:30 Thursdays at 8 P. M. Meeting for make trouble. So they said. He p. m. Personal Witness in Calvary Hall. Daily: 7:00, 12:10; 5:00. was prevailed upon, however, and Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. finally addressed the sleeping man Church of St. Mary the Virgin Holy Communion. New York in what the doctor afterwards 46th St., between 6th and 7th Aves. Grace and St. Peter’s Church learned was a magic incantation. Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Sunday Masses: 7, 9, 11 (High Mass). Baltimore, Md. The patient at once woke up and Week-day Masses : 7, 8 (Thurs., 7, 8, (Park Avenue and Monument Street) had a rapid and normal convales 9:30). The Rev. Robert S. Chalmers cence. The doctor’s reputation was The Rev. Harold F. Hohly Grace Church, New York Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 A. M .; 8 P. M. established from Ityhat moment, Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D., Week Days, 8 A. M. when it was seen that he could kill Broadway at 10th St. Sundays: 8, 11, 4 and 8. Church of the Advent, Boston a man and restore him to life. Daily : 12:30, except Saturday. Holy Days and Thursday : Holy Com Mt. Vernon and Brimmer Sts. Another belief, however, compli Rev. Julian D. Hamlin cated matters somewhat, namely, munion, 11:45. July-August Schedule that when old men die, they return Sundays; Holy Communion, 7 :30 A. The Heavenly Rest and Beloved M .; Matins, 10 A. M .; Sung Mass and as children, but when young men Disciple, New York Sermon 10:30 A. M .; Evensong (plain) Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. 5 P. M. die, they come back as women, un Week Days: Matins 7:15 A. M. ; Mass less the witch-doctors perform cer Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. 7 ;30. Evensong 5 P. M .; additional Mass Sundays: Holy Communion, 8 :00 a. m. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9:30 A. M. tain elaborate and costly ceremonies Church School 9 :30 a. m., Morning Serv at their graves. The result, for the ice and Sermon 11:00 a. m., Vespers 4 :00 p. m., Evening Prayer 8 :00 p. m. Church of St. John the doctor, was that he found it almost Saints’ Days and Holy Days; Holy impossible to persuade young men Communion 10:00 a. m. Evangelist Boston who needed some serious operation The Incarnation Bowdoin Street, Beacon Hill to submit to an anesthetic. If it The Cowley Fathers Madison Avenue and 35th Street Sundays: Masses, 7:30, 9:30 and 11 could not be done with local anes Rector Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T.D., LL.D., A. M. Benediction, 7 :30 P. M. thesia, they endured it without any, Weekdays: Masses, 7 and 8 A. M. Litt. D. Thursdays and Holy Days, 9 :30 A. M., without a whimper, rather than risk Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. also. being turned into women. Confessions: Saturdays, 3-5 and 7-9 St. Bartholomew’s Church P. M. Park Ave. and 51st St., New York Chinese Professor Robert Norwood, Rector St. M ark’s, Milwaukee Becom es a Christian 8 A. M., Holy Communion. 11 A. M., Morning Prayer and Sermon. Rev. E. Reginald Williams One of the six Chinese who were Hackett Ave. and Belleview Place baptized at Hsiakwan on Whitsun Little Church Around the Corner Sundays: 8, 9:30 and 11. Transfiguration Gamma Kappa Delta; 6 P. M. day is a professor in the national Holy Days: 10 A. M. 1 East 29th Street university at that place. He had Rev. Randolph Ray, D.D., Rector spent six years in America, at Cor Communions, 8 and 9 (Daily 8.) Gethsemane, Minneapolis 11—Missa Cantata—Sermon ; 4— Vespers. nell and Iowa State University, and Rev. Austin Pardue 4th Ave. South at 9th St. was first interested in Christianity Trinity Church, New York Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 and 7 :45. by some Christian Oriental students Rev. Caleb R. Stetson, S.T.D. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days. Broadway and Wall St. at a Christmas house-party at Tay Sundays: 8, 9, 11, and 3 :30. lor Hall, Racine (which has been Daily: 7 :15, 12 and 3. St. P eter’s Church succeeded by Brent House, Chi 3rd and Pine Sts., Philadelphia Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights Rev. Edward M. Jefferys, E.T.D., Rector. cago). He also attended the Epis Sundays: 7 :30 A. M. Holy Communion. Rev. George P. Atwater, D.D. 11 A. M. Morning Service, Sermon and copal Church at Ames for about a Hicks St., near Remsen, Brooklyn, N. Y. Holy Communion. year. In recent years he has been Sundays: 8 A. M., 11 A. M., 4:30 P. M. 8 P. M. Evening Service and Address. in despair over the evils he saw Church School: 9:45 A. M. around him in China, and two St. Paul’s Cathedral Rhode Island years ago he said to the Rev. John Buffalo, New . York St. Stephen’s Church Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11. in Providence Magee of Hsiakwan, “ Christians Weekdays: 8, 12 :05. Thursdays and Holy Days: 11. 114 George Street have something to give them hope The Rev. Charles Townsend, Rector when everything is utterly hope July and August Grace Church, Chicago Sundays: 8 A. M. Holy Communion, less.” He read and studied and (St. Luke’s Hospital Chapel) 9 A. M. Matins. 9 :30 A. M. Sung Mass talked with Mr. Magee, and tried to Rev. Wm. Turton Travis and Sermon. 5 :30 P. M. Evening Prayer. find reality in prayer, and at last 1450 Indiana Ave. Week Days: 7 A. M. Mass, 7 :30 A. M. Sundays: 8, 11 A. M. and 7 :30 P. M. Matins. 5 :30 P. M. Evensong. reached the point where he could Week Days: 6 :40 A. M. except Monday. Confessions Saturdays: 4 :30-5:30 P. M. become whole-heartedly a Chris Holy Days : 10 :30. 7:30-8:30 P. M. tian.

Schools for Boys ST. JAMES SCHOOL WASHINGTON CO., MD. Posterity—Then Dr. A. H. Onderdonk HOWE SCHOOL HOWE, INDIANA Rev. Charles H. Y oung Prosperity LENOX SCHOOL LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS Rev. G. Gardner Monks HOOSAC SCHOOL OSTERITY is more important than HOOSICK, NEW YORK P prosperity, we hear educators say. Rev. James L. W hitcomb The education of your boy or girl in HOLDERNESS SCHOOL PLYMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE one of the church schools should not be Rev. E dric A. W eld neglected at this time. It is a matter that SOMERSET HILLS SCHOOL cannot be postponed. The crucial year FAR HILLS, NEW JERSEY Rev. J. D. S. F air will have passed. Wrong habits will SAINT ALBAN’S SCHOOL have become fixed. Weak foundations SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS will have been laid. Perhaps the edge of Dr. Charles L. Street intellectual interest will have become MANLIUS SCHOOL MANLIUS, NEW YORK dulled by poor teachers and over-crowded Col. G. F. V erbeck class rooms. ST. JOHN’S MILITARY ACADEMY No sacrifice is too great to give your DELA FIELD, WISCONSIN Col. Roy F. F arrand boy or girl the best in private school edu SHATTUCK SCHOOL cation. FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA C. W. N ewhall But the education of posterity has a very direct relation to prosperity. Private schools and colleges are one of our most Schools for Girls important industries. Probably ten mil CHATHAM HALL lion dollars a year are spent on private CHATHAM, VIRGINIA school education in New England alone Rev. E dmund J. Lee and another ten million in the Middle STUART HALL STAUNTON, VIRGINIA Atlantic States. Mrs. H. N. H ills Wherever there are private schools ST. JOHN BAPTIST SCHOOL MENDHAM, NEW JERSEY the country over, these fees go into Sister E liza Monica, C.S.J.B. teachers’ salaries, laborers’ wages, sup ROWLAND HALL plies, new equipment and upkeep. All S 4LT LAKE CITY, UTAH of this money finds its way readily back W ilfrid a J. Messenger into commercial channels to keep the ST. MARY’ S HALL BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY wheels of industry turning. Miss E thel M. Spurr You, the readers of The Witness, are MARGARET HALL SCHOOL VERSAILLES, KENTUCKY of the class that have made possible the Mother Louise, O.S.A. remarkable high grade private schools. ST. MARY’S SCHOOL There is no way in which you can per CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE form a greater service to church and Mrs. C. A. McLane country than by insisting that your own ST. CATHERINE’S SCHOOL WESTHAMPTON, RICHMOND, VA. boys and girls shall continue to study Louisa deBerniere Bacot under the very best educational auspices. ALL SAINTS SCHOOL SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA Rt. Rev. W. Blair Roberts Information about these schools, and the others, all recognized Church ST. KATHARINE’S SCHOOL Schools, whose notices appear elsewhere in this paper, may be secured DAVENPORT, IOWA Sister E sther from The Witness, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, 111.