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N ews of the Convention Reported by WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD N ESTIMATED 12,000 people attended the ciated. There will not be an additional bishop A colorful opening service. The huge audi however. torium was made into a great cathedral with a * * * high altar, a mass choir of all the parishes in and The salaries of the clergy range from nothing, around Kansas City furnished the music and Pre the amount (or lack of it) received by two, to siding Bishop Tucker was impressive as the $22,000 the salary of one rector, according to the preacher. report of the commission on clerical salaries. The * * * average salary is estimated at $2,015. The com October 10th being China’s National Day, the mission asks for a committee to study living costs Convention sent a message to the National Chris in various parts of the country so as to suggest tian Council of China encouraging them in their to the next Convention a scale of adequate pay struggle for freedom and expressing sympathy looking toward the establishment of definite for the people of China in their suffering. standards. * * * * * * The Bishops have voted to set up a committee Bishop Freeman of Washington was called of three to serve under the Federal Council of home on October 12th by the death of his sister. Churches to protect the rights of conscientious The speaker at the domestic missions meeting on objectors. October 15th was therefore Bishop Creighton of * * H* Michigan. ^ ^ ^ By a vote of 9 5 to 41i/£ the House of Deputies voted on October 12th in favor of joining the There were 650 friends at the dinner on the Federal Council of Churches. The matter now evening of October 11th to honor Miss Grace goes to the Bishops and if they concur the Episco Lindley, retiring as secretary of the Auxiliary. pal Church will officially be a part of the Council. The speakers were Miss Eva Corey of Boston and Favoring the proposal in the Deputies discussion Miss Elizabeth Matthews of Southern Ohio, both was the Rev. Gardiner M. Day of Bethlehem, the of whom have been associated closely with Miss Rev. A. R. Parshley of Rhode Island, the Rev. Lindley for twenty years. Walworth Tyng of China and Dean McAllister of * * * Spokane. Among those opposing were the Rev. There were 800 young people registered for the Francis Bloodgood of Wisconsin and Mr. Anson youth week-end. The speaker at the mass meeting T. McCook of Connecticut. A committee of the was the Rev. Pitt Van Dusen of Union Seminary House of Bishops appointed in 1937 to study the who stressed the point that it was only a united question will recommend membership when the Church that could face the problems of our day. matter comes before the Bishops. * * * * * * Friday was a day when the two houses of Con The Bishops voted on October 12 to establish vention and the Auxiliary met together to hear a jurisdiction for the Dominican Republic sepa reports by National Council officers. All of them rate from that of Haiti, with which it is now asso spoke well in urging the Church not only to hold

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS October 17, 1940 the line but to advance, with the Presiding Bishop entrance of the United States into the League of rather stealing the show. He urged a ten-year Nations. The real spleen however was poured out effort, the objective of the proposed movement upon the CLID. The document brought the first being “ to cast down the strongholds of evil and laugh in the House. ❖ ❖ H* replace them with the strongholds of God.” A resolution heartily approving Bishop Tucker’s The Church has at least gone as far toward program was passed. unity with the Presbyterians as to sponsor a meet H« * * ing of leaders of the two Churches at a General Nearly a million— $974,089.70 was the amount Convention. It was held on Friday evening, with of the United Thank Offering. Bishop Parsons presiding and with Moderator ^ $ William L. Young and Bishop Oldham of Albany • Suffragan Bishops may some day be allowed to as the speakers. “ We are missing more than we vote in the House of Bishops. Such a constitu know by disunity,” said Bishop Oldham. “ We are tional amendment was passed on Friday, but it not looking for a greater Episcopal Church, a has to be passed a second time in 1943. greater Methodist Church, a greater Presbyterian * * * Church, but for a Church greater than them all. We are not aiming at uniformity but at unity— People are hard to please. First there was a not merely a spiritual unity but unity in organi wave of protest because one of the speakers at the forum meetings of the CLID was John L. zation as well.” H: * * Lewis, president of the C.I.O. Then on Thursday when it was announced that Mr. Lewis could not Dr. John W. Wood, to retire at the end of this come “ for reasons beyond his control” one heard year after many years as secretary of foreign only expressions of disappointment that they were missions, was the headliner at the mass meeting not to have the opportunity to hear the labor for Churchwomen held on October 10th. He com leader. His place was taken by Jack McMichael, mended the missionary spirit of the “ thousands president of the American Youth Congress, who of women who are praying, working and giving” spoke of his experiences working for the church for the extension of Christian work throughout in the rural areas of the middle-west. the world. The United Thank Offering, Dr. Wood reminded the large audience (in spite of rain), exceeded $100,000 for the first time in 1901. One begins to see definite signs of weariness on the faces of delegates and visitors alike along Since that time it has grown until on one occasion about the third or fourth day of the Convention. it passed the million mark. ^ Required to listen to much talk from morning until late at night, one finds them rather prone to The Living Church, vigorous objectors to the skip official business and to get off in small groups Church injecting itself into politics, is conducting in hotel lobbies and grills for fellowship. The a Roosevelt vs. Willkie poll which it will then send tempo of every General Convention is a fast one, to newspapers throughout the country in order to with the conviction growing on the part of many get publicity for the Living Church. There have that General Conventions should cut out all side been protests to the officers of the Church, par shows, exhibits, rallies, mass meetings etc., con ticularly on the part of those who favor Mr. fine itself strictly to business and get it over with Roosevelt since they are convinced that a false in a week and perhaps less. impression will be created because those attending * * Hs General Convention do not represent the political There is the usual flock of resolutions about the mind of the Church. At the last count the straw Church League for Industrial Democracy which, vote showed a two to one preference for Willkie. ❖ * ❖ as usual, is sponsoring forum meetings. Most of them ask the Convention not to allow such meet The department of social service has recom ings at future Conventions. There was one intro mended to the Convention that the Church center duced in the House of Bishops by an organization its relief activities in three areas: assistance in calling itself The Layman’s Alliance, which no supporting the missions of the Church of Eng body seems ever to have heard of, which de land; civilian relief in China; resettlement and nounced the Auxiliary as a radical organization, rehabilitation of European refugees coming to the Federal Council of Churches was condemned, this country. ❖ * ❖ as was also the Universal Christian Council. Even the House of Bishops was declared to be “ red” William A. Eddy, president of Hobart College, because on former occasions it had favored the addressing the Auxiliary declared; “ I shall be

Twelve tHousand Church men and women attended the Service which opened the General Convention in Kansas City’s Auditorium entitled to vote for intervention when I am ready out. An evangelistic meeting followed one of to turn over half my salary and oifer my boy as Bill’s periodical arrests. As the meeting pro a sacrifice. I tremble for the soul of America if gressed the leader burst into an improvised spir we meddle with this terrible tragedy on the frivo itual, which frequently happens. She wailed: lous grounds that it will increase our trade and “ If Bill Anthony’s fingers hadn’t been so light, raise the curve of prosperity. Another perform He wouldn’t be in the jail house tonight.” ance like that, a war to make millionaires, and But Bill had been bailed out, and swiftly on the our churches had better close up because America echo of the last words a voice from the rear will be irretrievably damned.” caught up the refrain: * * * “ Ef yo’ sing dat song, yo’ better sing it right, Remember way back when the chief excitement Cose ole Bill Anthony’s huar to-night!” at a General Convention was whether the word ❖ * ❖ “ Protestant” should be dropped from the official Declaring that the question of marriage and name of the Church? It is in again, but is un divorce was a matter of Christian character likely to receive much attention. rather than canons, Bishop Page, retired bishop of Michigan, presented the report of the commis An unusually large proportion of the delegates sion to the Bishops on the 10th. “ What has led to the Auxiliary meeting are new— nearly three- to the whole matter of a new canon,” he said, fourths of the total registration. “ has been the steady mounting rate of divorce, * * * now higher in the United States than in any That double quartette of Negro singers is here country in the world. Until we can carry loving again. They come from the various schools of kindness from our homes we cannot hope to solve the American Church Institute for Negroes and world problems such as war. I do not believe that are to hold forth tonight (17th) at the mass meet in fifteen years the House of Bishops has devoted ing of the Institute. Dr. Blanton, head of the fifteen hours to the subject. I do not think that school, said that under the impetus of the Insti the canon has the amount of mercy in it in which tute’s effort to preserve the Spiritual, congrega we all believe. Our Lord Jesus Christ taught tional singing of hymns in many Southern Negro mercy and forgiveness. The Anglican Church has churches is now pitched almost wholly in the the most merciless canon in the world on mar spiritual tempo. He also told the story of Bill riage and divorce. It bears unjustly on many Anthony, a Negro who was frequently in trouble, lovely men and women.” Emphasizing that as the though generally able to find someone to bail him House was sitting as a committee of the whole it

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS October 17, 1940 was merely expressing its opinion, Bishop Page spent most of the day counting it in a down presented the clause in the present canon which town bank. The first offering, presented fifty makes an exception in the case of the innocent years ago, was just over $2,000. The total given party in a divorce for adultery. He asked whether since then has totalled about seven and a half the House would approve dropping the exception, million. * * $ as is provided in the proposed new canon. With few dissenting votes, the House approved the A joint commission on international, national elimination of this exception. The whole subject and social problems to consider what action the will be thoroughly discussed in both Houses be Church should take on these subjects has been fore any final action is taken, with it likely to be appointed, with Bishop Freeman of Washington about the livest subject to be debated, as it was as chairman. They will present a report in the in Cincinnati. closing days of the Convention. * * * * * * Grace Lindley, retiring as executive secretary Bishop Salinas y Velasco of Mexico declared of the Auxiliary after twenty years of service, at that all this talk of Nazi activities in Mexico is the close of her report on the 10th, raised several unfounded. He also told this reporter that he questions of keen interest to all Church people, was quite satisfied that Mr. Cardenas had given without indicating what she considered the proper the country an excellent administration and that answers'. “ Would the use of another name than Camachio, newly elected president, would carry that of ‘Woman's Auxiliary' be helpful? Might on where Cardenas leaves off. not the United Thank Offering be a great gift made by the men and women of the Church at the opening service of the General Convention? Should there be more careful evaluation of the Gathering of the Clan training now done for professional service in the By Church, with perhaps a plan worked out for com BISHOP JOHNSON binations of schools and training centers? Should T HAS been my good fortune to attend eleven not the men and women of the Church work in I General Conventions, including this delightful closer cooperation in parish, diocese and national one in Kansas City. The memory of them is a Church? Is not the time approaching when they pleasant one for in spite of the widest differences might plan together in General Convention for of opinion I can recall no root of bitterness in the Church’s welfare and mission?” the discussions. I question whether there is any $ 3c Hi convention of any kind in which there can be found The corporate communion at which the United so many interesting personalities and such uni Thank Offering was presented was an impressive form courtesy of members toward one another. service. Bishop Tucker was the celebrant, as One likes to feel that he is privileged to associate sisted by twenty-five missionary bishops from with the kind of people that represent the Church various parts of the world. The Epistle was read in our conventions. As St. Paul said in his letter to by Bishop Kroll of Liberia; the Gospel by the the Church in Corinth: “ If I have boasted any Primate of all Canada, Archbishop Derwyn T. thing of you I am not ashamed for my boasting Owen. Among the picturesque Bishops taking is founded on truth.” part in the service were Bishop Rowe of Alaska, Truly this spirit of charity ought to cover many the senior missionary bishop of continental Uni of the errors which the Convention may commit. ted States, and Bishop Huntington who is now re It is rather a cumbersome body which, like Gaul, tiring after forty-five years of service in China, is divided into three parts: bishops, priests and twenty-eight of them as Bishop of Anking. Eighty laymen, each of which has an equal voice in leg girls and young women from parishes in Mis islation. It is too large a body to accomplish souri and Kansas, dressed in white and wearing much in the time given. It used to take more blue veils, took up the offering which was re than two weeks to do the business but now it has ceived by the host of the Convention, genial shrunk to about ten days, which is hardly time Bishop Spencer of West Missouri, Dean Sprouse for mutual conference on vital legislation. Per of the Kansas City Cathedral and the Rev. Rich haps it is fortunate that many efforts to promote ard Trelease, rector of St. Paul’s. They in turn favorite theories never get beyond first base. presented it to the Presiding Bishop. After that Whether or not the proposed concordat with it was turned over to Treasurer Lewis B. Frank the Presbyterians is discussed, it presents an lin and his assistant, James W. E. Whitney, who issue on which members are drastically divided,

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. October 17, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Seven and that not for lack of argument for and against the National Council advertise in the Church the proposal. The truth is that logic is futile un Press that it may live. We had no idea the Coun less one accepts the major premise which is al cil was in such ill health. ways stated but is not proven. The two groups do not differ in their desire for Church unity but General Summeral, head of the military college they do differ definitely in the method of achiev which South Carolina maintains to prevent inva ing it. They have different major premises and sion by North Carolinians and Yankees, regretted therefore their conclusions are not the same. that he could not attend the Convention, to which What is true of the proposed Concordat is he was a delegate. He said he had planned “to equally true of other issues to come before the take an active part against the radicals in the Convention, with whatever differences that do Church.” We had no idea there were so many it appear being due to convictions based upon dif would take a general to repulse them. fering major premises. But in spite of these dif % * % ferences, and perhaps even because of them, the Like a forgotten manuscript, it was discovered debate is always carried on in the best of good in the House of Bishops that there was unfinished nature because there is real love within the business left over from 1934—the consideration of Household of Faith. the compulsory retirement of bishops and clergy. It is a safe bet it will be unfinished business in 1943. Convention Highlights ^ ^ ^ *' By Roger Baldwin pictured Jehovah’s Witnesses CHARLES G. HAMILTON streaming out of Trojan horses, tumbling over GENIAL Western city with a Southern ex- themselves in their haste to capture Troy. A. posure, under an Episcopal governor and sfc president while another Episcopalian is applying Half a dozen Southern dioceses have Negro for the latter position, welcomed the General Con delegations at the Auxiliary as well as white ones. vention which swamped the seven million dollar This may sound incorrect at first thought, but as auditorium. There has been no meeting at a more a matter of fact it provides representation for a crucial time when churches as well as empires minority group, which could not be achieved if are fighting for their very existence. The they were merely part of a larger organization. Woman’s Auxiliary rose nobly to the occasion and There may be a lesson there for the masculine confronted contemporary concerns with a realism contingent. incisive and deep. It has been generally conceded * * * for years that the advance strength of the Church The proposed new hymnal is to contain one is in the Auxiliary and the spiritual storm Negro spiritual. It is doubtless intended as a gra troopers of the faith are not failing. Speakers cious gesture and a recognition that the singing addressing them seemed inspired by the audience faith is not exclusively Caucasian. The spiritual and challenged to lighted living in a darkening included, “ Were you there when they crucified my day. Lord?” is adapted to liturgical use. But there is * * * an unfortunate element of condescension in in A resolution in the Upper House proposed that cluding only one hymn of a race, as if to say:

Dr. Adelaide Case, a leader of the Auxiliary, Bishop Davis who keeps things moving in the House of Bishops, Bishop Block, lecturer in the Church Training Institute and Bishop Quin, leading the devotions on the closing days of the Convention. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS October 17, 1940

Look how broadminded we are. If spirituals are stition rests on a pathetic faith in words: sheer to be included, and this would be a rash time to magic: if the clergy and the courts say the proper confine Christianity to one racial tradition, there words, adultery becomes respectability, ipso facto should be a number. Otherwise one hymn from presto. Ingenious plans to encourage society' all the Colored races and several hundred from divorcees to remain communicants and cash con the white may sound too familiar imperialism. tributors emerge. The world is not waiting for There is also a great Negro hymn by James Wel the sunrise of divorce; there are one or two more don Johnson, which would grace any hymnal as pressing problems today. Forgiveness is scarce well as any patriotic occasion, “ Lift every voice when it comes to forgiving Presbyterians for not and sing.” being English or Germans for being Nazis, but i * * ❖ it flows like a river when it comes to accepting The exhibitions are instances of all possible current codes of cosmopolitan pagans. varieties of devotion and action. But in a larger sense they are more representative of the Church than the assemblies. They represent the center House of Bishops of spiritual life for someone, and for many some- ones. From the Church Army to the Cowley By BISHOP WILSON Fathers, from the Forward Movement to several HEN the House of Bishops was called to backward movements, from the C.L.I.D. to All Saints’— it takes all this and more, to mirror our W order by the active gavel of the Presiding Bishop, four new Bishops were presented and faith in its fullness. * * * formally welcomed into the House; Jackson of Louisiana, Kirchhoffer of Indianapolis, Brinker One rector who resented political signs tore of Nebraska and Roberts of Shanghai. Memorial down several advertising the poll the Living prayers were offered for five Bishops who have Church is taking on Roosevelt vs. Willkie. . . . The died during the past year— McCormick, Wood laughter that rippled over the House of Bishops at cock, Stewart, Graves and Nichols. the protest againsts the C.L.I.D. showed that Epis The total roll of Bishops entitled to seats in the copal humor is alert still. . . . Bishop Tucker told House numbers 148 of whom 35 have retired. the Auxiliary that a good many of the enterprises Regrets were received from sixteen who were un of the Church deserve to fail. He pictured a stage able to attend because of illness or for other in life when it becomes “ static”—an age at which reasons. unfortunately leaders are generally chosen. . . . The Rev. John H. Fitzgerald has been assistant Postponing unity with the Presbyterians thirty secretary of the House for several years. He was or forty years has been suggested. If we prefer elected secretary in place of the Rev. Dr. Pardee our splendid isolation to the will of Jesus, we who relinquished the office a year ago. The Rev. could quit playing with unity. If unity is to come, Richard A. Beatty has been appointed assistant. it must come now. We have no tomorrows. We Bishop Sherrill of Massachusetts has been elected do not have ten years to consider and gradually vice-chairman and he has also been reappointed approach. If we do not love God and our neigh Assessor to the Presiding Bishop. To keep the bor, ten years will leave us still loveless; if we do business of the House moving smoothly and with love them, we should not wait till we come, to proper despatch Bishop Davis of Western New gether in concentration camps. York has been armed with the authority to line * * * up each day’s calendar and keep the Bishops from The Victorian superstition of divorce made its talking too much. He is an adept at exercising triennial appearance. But it is a little early to such restraint and making it palatable to the wire home that you are going to Nevada. The brethren. Church is unlikely to succumb to a cult which The usual flock of reports and memorials have characterized countries recently disintegrated. been presented and referred to appropriate com Psychiatry is too recent a subject for many over mittees. Only one resolution was acted upon im forty to have become expert in, but divorce is a mediately— an expression of sympathy and good psychological absurdity. And children remain will for the Church of England which the Pre their parents’ children, in contempt of courts. One siding Bishop was asked to cable at once. It was may have difficulties with father, mother, brother, the desire of all that this should be the first formal sister, daughter, son, but one cannot change the action of the House. May our progress be sweet relationship by words. The whole divorce super and steady.-

Handicraft booths fascinating! embroideries Convention Jottings from China, rugs from the Navaj os, fine fabrics By from Puerto Rica and the Philippines, as well ELEANOR H. WILSON as handmade products of the many church schools in our owfejgpuntry, all tempt the purse. T THE Opening Service four lines from the Brazil di^playk tiny cardboard replicas of many A hymn sung just before the Presiding Bishop’s churches afid missions in that country. “ Whether sermon well expresses the keynote of the Con large or small God is worshipped in them all.” vention in these war torn days : . j# * * * “ Faith of our fathers ! faith and prayer In the hotel across from Convention Hall we Shall keep our country true to thee : dress and undress singing hymns to the accom And through the truth that comes from God paniment of the carillon which plays every hour. Our land shall then indeed be free.” * ❖ ❖ Summer clothes are the order of the day; the Exhibit booths are more colorful and instruc weather man has been kind thus far. tive than ever in the writer’s opinion, after at * * ❖ tending four General Conventions. A few ex A deputy on being asked at what hotel he was amples : stopping responded with a grin: “ I’m at the The Order of Deaconesses,— a soft blue back Willkie!” ground hanging in graceful folds, a cross in sil * * * ver, with silver candles, and a bowl of Easter Note on the Concordat! Mrs. Henry Stroch, lillies. On the wall a historical chart, from the chairman of the quadriennial convention of the first century to the present. Phoebe, first dea woman’s missionary organization of the Presby coness of the church at Cenchreae, the establish terian Church came from her home in Lancaster, ment of the Order in America in 1855,—the last Pa. to attend the sessions of the Woman’s Aux item, the incorporation of the Retiring Fund for iliary. Deaconesses in 1927. Diocesan Altar Guilds display a beautiful set of vestments made by the Altar Guild of the dio cese of Eau Claire from a rich damask table cloth dyed a glowing scarlet. A hint for rural parishes and missions. In the Washington Cathedral booth, a replica of one of the rose windows, lights behind bring ing out the gorgeous colors. Here one may buy vases made from the glass in the lovely colors de picted in the window. The Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenil worth, Illinois, shows a replica of the church set in its beautiful garden, the original garden as HE WORK a minister can do unaided is limited to the number well as the model, created by the rector, Rev. of pastoral calls he can make in a day and preach to those Leland Danforth. It is most ingenuous, the trees T who attend church services. A parish paper makes it possible for every minister to multiply his efforts many times. With a parish paper he can talk to everybody in the community and use his influ made from sponges dyed various shades of green, ence toward regular church attendance. A parish paper keeps the whole community informed, and permits the pastor to extend a glad —by pushing a button one hears the organ play hand to all. A parish paper will act as an assistant pastor. Our co-operative plan makes it possible for any church, large or in the tiny church. Even the family dogs are on small, city or rural, to have its own local church paper. the doorstep of the rectory. One sees the tomb p D C C The Parish Paper Manual gives complete of Eugene Field, the poet, who rests in the gar information regarding local church papers. den, his seated figure with “ Little Boy Blue” Send free of charge The Manual, sample parish papers, and full at his knee. particulars regarding your Standardized Parish Paper Service. Rev...... College Work booth, commodious, with a fine 1 Street ...... spirit of hospitality expressed in comfortable \ City...... :...... State...... lounge chairs and coffee and cakes served gratis SB ______:____ twice daily. One is tempted to linger and learn m m of the fine work being done by the Church for our * N a t i o n a l r e l i g i o u s p r e s s young people. 523 Ottaw a Ave, Grand Rapids,Mich.

CHURCH LEAGUE belief, without total exemptions for any man. Mere speech held to en FORUMS POPULAR courage disaffection in the armed forces has been made a high crime. AT CONVENTION All organizations with international political connections, however peace Forum meetings of the Church ful and legal their purposes, have League for Industrial Democracy are been forced to register with the De attracting large crowds at the Kan partment of Justice, subject to in sas City Convention. The speaker vestigation by G-men. Communists the first day was Roger N. Baldwin, and Bundists have been denied em director of the American Civil Lib ployment in the public services, with erties Union, who declared that “The the threat of ousting them by law chief danger to American democracy even from private employment. today arises from the demand that “ The justification alleged for these dissent be suppressed in the interest measures is the preservation of de of defense and national unity. The mocracy. Yet how can democracy be hunt for Fifth Columnists, the regis saved if civil liberty is sacrificed? tration of aliens as suspects, the de And how can civil liberty be pro nial of electoral rights to minority tected if the rights of any movement parties, the violent attacks on Jeho to freedoom of speech, press and as vah’s Witnesses, the sweeping acts of sembly are denied? No democracy Congress aimed at Communists and can make any distinction in protect German - American Bundists, are ing the rights of those who uphold merely dramatic evidences of a wide and those who deny its principles. It spread intolerance threatening politi may legitimately engage only in the cal democracy itself. Even a distin BISHOP MAXON suppression of acts, conspiracies or guished committee of liberal lawyers Presents the Missionary Budget conduct aimed at the government or in the American Bar Association, the public peace.” which has done valiant work for civil The speaker the second day was liberty in recent years, warns that we cannot conscientiously undertake any Carey McWilliams, chief of housing may have to surrender in part estab work under conscription. and immigration of California, who lished liberties for the period of “ Yet here in the United States in described the situation among the mi the emergency. The press and radio peace-time, with war only an omi grant workers. He gave a graphic are unresponsive to the appeal of nous possibility, we have already es description of the destitution among minority rights. Protest against tablished controls more severe than these workers and the widespread their denial is more and more con those in war-time Britain. The Com violations of civil liberties which are fined to the small circles of defend munist Party has been denied the occurring in agricultural areas. He ers of civil liberty on the principle right to the ballot in a dozen states, concluded his address with the state and of the partisans of the move purely on the ground of prejudice ment that federal control and plan ments attacked. Yet the real dan against its political principles. The ning was necessary, but that the gers to American democracy arise not Socialist and Socialist Labor Par question was what type of planning; from these comparatively insignifi ties have suffered discrimination. what type of control; what type of cant minorities nor from foreign Prosecutions have been brought for resettlement. “ Out of the present propaganda from the dictatorships, mere opinion or the possession of lit trends can come either one of two but from powerful forces intent up erature. Conscientious objectors un philosophies of resettlement; a policy on destroying the right of dissent. der the conscription act are restrict (Continued on page 15) Congress reflects them. The Dies ed to those of religious training and Committee is their mouth-piece. “ No democracy can endure unless every element in making public opin itioinct tf PcnofylvafliH ff* A Facsimile of the First Life Insurance Policy issued in America. ion has the right to be heard. Eng land gives us the example in war The first life insurance policy issued in time of not only the maintenance of America was issued by the Fund. The In democracy, but its extension. In the denture issued on the life of Francis teda Couwy MUiflgof iWÒàfrd. ofAteMfux. •add*CM'M*Tio* ferRcStft f poor «4 éUtnOci PKftoterf-lfloUUn. mi of «faooor «4 ¿OirSçi Widen ttd CWtbn of Mm io Mwfan. rf Alison in 1761 is the first of record with the midst of a life and death struggle, r*ni WITNESSETH, Tfc« the ttl trfuinctf tor rad io CooMtriùon ai d* Cornimi ml Fund. Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund today and despite enormously increased has almost 23,000 policies on the lives of ministers, their wives, theological students. powers of government, the British are jealous of maintaining the right even of the Communist Party to the ~*T"- ■ÄÄSiäifss T h e f u n d is the largest organi ballot, to the publication of its news zation of Protestant clergymen in papers, to the conduct of its propa the world today. It covets the ganda. And that propaganda is op posed to the ‘imperialistic war’ and confidence displayed in the Fund wholly uncooperative with national by Protestant ministers, their defense. Even the British Fascists wives and Theological students. were permitted until recent months to carry on their activities. They For any information about life insurance write were restrained only when it became evident that they were serving the THE PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS’ FUND cause of the enemy. The rights of ALEXANDER MACKIE, D.D., PRESIDENT conscientious objectors under con The First Life Insurance Company in America. The Oldest in the World scription are scrupulously protected F O U N D E D 1717 in Great Britain, even to the point 1805-07 WALNUT ST., RITTENHOUSE SQ., PHILA., PA. c h a r t e r e d 1759 of exempting from service men who

NEWS NOTES OF cago, October 17, to consider the re Communications being received at lation of consumer cooperatives to the Mission’s national headquarters THE CHURCH IN other social movements. These meet from leaders of the British Mission to BRIEF PARAGRAPHS ings will be held in connection with Lepers, avoid all mention of the cur the 12th biennial congress of the Co rent war. These and other facts re Edited by Gerard Teasdale operative League of the United lating to the care of several million States which will draw together lepers in the world and the increasing A study of opinions concerning representatives of 1,115,000 mem eradication of the disease will be America’s relation to the war is pre bers of co-ops affiliated with the heard at the Mission’s 33rd annual sented in the Public Opinion Quar league. The Federal Council is repre meeting to take place in New York terly (Princeton, New Jersey) for senting the churches. City on October 17-18. September. The study is the work of H* 3« * $ * * Dr. Hadley Cantril, social psycholo gist, director of the Princeton Public Leper Colonies Escape Ministers Denounce W ar; Ask Opinion Research Project. In mak Most of W ar’s Effects Solution of Home Problems ing the study he had access to the The wars on three continents have In a statement which was vehe data furnished by the Gallup polls. In had only minor effects thus far on the mently attacked in the local press, answer to the leading question: “ If operation of leper colonies in those thirty-six ministers of Rochester, you were sure that Germany would areas, according to reports received New York and vicinity, denounced attack the United States after Eng at the American Mission to Lepers. war as “the ultimate denial of faith land is defeated, would you favor our country declaring war on Germany right now?” Fifty per cent answered yes; 43 per cent, no. However, in an swer to the question, “ Which of these things do you think is more impor Insurance on Church Property tant for the United States to try to do: To keep out of war ourselves; To help England win, even at the risk of At the close of the past year TH E CHURCH PROPERTIES getting into the war?” 59 per cent FIRE INSURANCE CORPORATION had insured the prop held to the first and 37 per cent to erty of 3,169 Episcopal churches, as well as that of many the second question. . . . 59 per cent institutions of the Church and of the clergy. were in favor of one year’s compul sory service in the army or navy for The increase in the number of churches insured is shown young men 20 years old. . . . Another below: question, on July 20, was: “ If Ger many wins the war against England 1929 330 and becomes the strongest country in 1930 803 Europe, do you think the United States should „try to get along with 1931 1,224 Germany, or do you think we should 1932 1,600 stop all trade and diplomatic relations 1933 2,035 with Germany?” Result: Try to get along, 65 per cent; terminate rela 1934 2,365 tions, 18 per cent; qualifications, 8 1935 2,640 per cent. 1936 2,845 The study showed three prevail 1937 2,927 ing patterns of opinion: “ isolation ist,” accounting for about one-quar 1938 3,063 ter of the population; “ intervention 1939 3,169 ist,” including about one-third of the population; and “ sympathetic” to Some other reason than that of the desire of the Church ward Britain, including about 40 per to support an institution organized solely for its benefit cent. is necessary to explain the great increase in the number of A few generalizations were made Episcopal churches insured with it. Without the economies in the study. “ The young people in afforded by the Corporation, the advantageous conditions the middle or upper income groups that are granted, and the fact that its settlements of fire show the lowest ‘No opinion’ response losses have been satisfactory, the progress shown by such on war questions. . . . On the whole impressive figures could not well have been made. they think Germany will win. In the interventionist group there are more men than women, more of upper than The Church Properties Fire Insurance Corp. of lower income people, and people 20 Exchange Place New York over 30 years of age and in the upper and middle income groups are most characteristic of the pattern.” DIRECTORS He H* Hs Stephen Baker Charles E. Mason Everard C. Stokes Religious Representatives to Jarvis Cromwell J. P. Morgan Samuel Thorne Be at Cooperative Conference Charles D. Dickey Wm. Fellowes Morgan Allen Wardwell Representatives of national organi Robert C. Hill Frank L. Polk Joseph E. Widener Bradford B. Locke Charlton Yarnall zations in the fields of religion, edu cation, labor and finance will hold small discussion-conferences in Chi

abroad requires a $500,000 annual budget, raised entirely by voluntary contributions. * * * William Densmore Maxon Is Dead The Rev. William Densmore Max on, rector emeritus of Christ Church, Detroit, died on October 3 in his home at Grosse Pointe Farms, after an ill ness of three years, at the age of 82. One of Michigan’s best known clergy men, Mr. Maxon had been rector of Christ Church from 1899 to 1933. H* H* H« Payups Are Better Reports Spencer Miller, Jr., who addressed the Convention on Social Security; Lewis B. Franklin Daniel McGregor, leader of the conferences on the Home and Family; Bishop National Council treasurer, Lewis B. Franklin, reports that as of Oc Parsons, CLID President, who presided at big meeting on October 14th. tober 1, and in comparison with last year eight dioceses were added to the in God and of the life and teachings results were given over to the inter list of those who had paid 100% of Jesus Christ.” The government ested denominations. of the amount due. The payments to was urged to work on the unsolved H* H1 H* date are nearly $40,000 higher than social and domestic problems in Brent Woodruff Heads last year. American life, to call a world con Refugee Committee ference and to give immediate aid to K. Brent Woodruff, formerly rec H ere and sufferers from famine in Europe. tor of Grace Church, Cincinnati, has There ÿ ÿ ÿ accepted the directorship of the “ Investing in Life,” title of the Pennsylvania Church American Committee for Christian 1939 publicity folder of the district Consecrated Refugees, succeeding the late Frank of South Dakota, has been taken for In its ministry to college students, Ritchie who died last month. He is advance was made in the dioceses of to have complete responsibility for Erie on October 3rd when Bishop the work of the committee whose Ward consecrated the Church of the program of service both here and Epiphany, Grove City, Pennsylvania. Pilcher Organs * * * CATHEDRAL STUDIOS Washington & London, England. CHURCH The lovely tone and the correctly Religious Affiliations VESTMENTS, plain or embroidered, surplices, designed action of the Pilcher Organ, exquisite Altar Linens, stoles, burses & veils. Survey Made Materials by the yard. See my NEW BOOK are a constant source of pleasure and The Ven. Leonard P. Hagger, “CHURCH EMBROIDERY” & CHURCH VEST MENTS a complete instruction. 128 pages, 95 permanent satisfaction. archdeacon of the diocese of Michi illus. Price $4.00. And my HANDBOOK for gan, has announced that a survey of ALTAR GUILDS, price 50c. Miss L. V. Mack- Illustrated Brochure on request. rille, 11 W. Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Wash a section of Detroit was made on Oc ington, D. C. 30 minutes from U. S. Treasury. tober 4th to discover the predominant Tel. Wisconsin 2752. HENRY PILCHER’S SONS, religious affiliations of families in Incorporated that area. Out of 668 who responded, A Gentle Laxative Louisville, Kentucky there were 155 Roman Catholic families, 72 Methodist, 70 Lutheran, Good For Children 50 Presbyterian, 43 Episcopal, 29 Most any child who takes this VESTMENTS Baptist, 26 Jewish, 20 Christian Sci tasty laxative once will welcome Cassocks - Surplices - Stoles - Scarves entist and 17 Congregational. Six Silks - Altar Cloths - Embroideries it the next time Priest Cloaks - Rabat s - Collars teen belonged to other denomina he’s constipated Custom Tailoring for Clergymen tions, 63 claimed no affiliations and 1097 Church Vestment Makers < nym and it has him 10 0/ Over One Hundred Years 1 «411 there was no response from 25. The headachy, cross, listless, with bad Franz Mayer Studios Inc. breath, coated 228 West Broadway tongue or little New York, N. Y. appetite. ERNEST W. LAKEMAN STAINED CLASS WINDOWS Syrup of Black- DESIGNER AND WORKER IN Draught is a liquid CHURCH INTERIORS STAINED & LEADED GLASS companion to the 336 EAST 28 ST. NEW YORK famous BLACK-DRAUGHT. The principal ingredient is the same Æ m m s m a in both products; helps impart CHOIR GOWNS tone to lazy bowel muscles. The Syrup’s flavor appeals to R.GEISSLERJNC. PULPIT ROBES • EMBROIDERIES 450 SOCTM AYE-NEAR IO«> SX NEWVDGX HANGINGS • STOLES • VESTMENTS most children, and, given by the ALTAR APPOINTMENTS simple directions, its action is Church Furnishings COMMUNION SERVICE IN CARVED WOOD AND | NEW CATALOG en Request usually GENTLE, but thorough. MARBLE-BRASS • SILVER n I Remember Syrup of Black- FABRICS + W IN D O W S V I Draught. 50c and 25c.

the title of a moving picture recently November 28th. Bishop Roberts has completed in South Dakota by John announced that the same day will be A. Burleson, son of the late Bishop of observed by the Church in South the diocese. . . . Miss Mary Elizabeth Dakota. Ellis, one of the new teachers at St. tj: H* ❖ Mary’s school for Indian Girls, Church Cooperates for Springfield, South Dakota, has re Resettlement of Foreign Doctors ceived her appointment as U.T.O. A sharply felt need for more worker, succeeding Miss Beth Hark- physicians in rural areas, with sev ness. . . . Bishop Johnson preached eral specific openings, has been re at the 56th annual convocation of the ported by bishops or by diocesan au missionary district of North Dakota thorities to whom the bishops re at St. Paul’s Church, Grand Forks. ferred the question, and at the same His subject was “ I Believe in the time there are on record some 1,500 Holy Catholic Church.” He said that foreign-born physicians who would be the home, the school and the Church glad to practice in rural areas. How separate us from barbarism, call for ever this recognized need cannot be loyalty and impose responsibility. . . . Bishop Sherrill of Massachusetts with an address on “The Case for the Christian Church in Such a Time” WILBUR HERBERT opened a series of lectures designed MRS. HENRY HILL PIERCE BURNHAM to aid Christian thinking in a time of A Leader in Auxiliary Meetings turmoil in the Cathedral Church of Designer and Master St. Paul, Boston, on October 3. The lectures will run through November tor, who conducted the service said: Craftsman 21 on Thursday evenings. . . . Bish “ The Indians never found it neces op Sherrill’s 10th anniversary of con sary to build expensive edifices in STAINED AND secration was observed throughout which to pray to God. They prayed his diocese on October 13 when a wherever they happened to be and.at LEADED GLASS prayer of thanksgiving was read in whatever occupation they were en Studios: 1126 Boylston Street every church. . . . 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Fourteen T H E WITNESS October 17, 1940 met by those who are able to help, and the men are placed for field work amazing everybody was the perform because all but four states have with nine different social agencies, ance of a 12-piece orchestra com closed their doors to foreign physi unions and institutions. Says the posed entirely of the clergy, led by cians, according to a statement re Rev. Joseph F. Fletcher, dean, “ More the Rev. Maxfield Dowell of Berea leased through the Episcopal Church’s and more graduate students are see and bass fiddled by Mr. Richards. . . . ■committee for European refugees. ing the school as the best diaconate One hundred sixty laymen attended The basic difficulty, according to the year investment.” the fall lay conference of the diocese statement, is that “ organized medi sf: jj: of Ohio, held at Trinity Cathedral, cine is notoriously slow to action Cleveland, September 20. when it feels its prerogatives or its Clergy Orchestra H» H* H* fees are threatened. Consequently a Plays at Ohio Clergy Conference false picture has been spread through The clergy conference of the dio Effective Influences the country of possible competition cese of Ohio was held at Lake Erie Discussed By Mission Group from the refugee physicians.” College, Painesville, September 17- How to make religious influences 19, with over 80 attending. The and religious teaching more effective leaders were Bishop Phillips of South in the lives of the young people for Paul Dwight Moody Appointed western Virginia, Bishop Tucker of whom the Church Mission of Help Defense Liaison Official Ohio, the Rev. Charles W . Sheerin exists was the major subject dis Announcement was made on Octo and Mr. William Lee Richards of the cussed at that society’s board meet ber 6 of the appointment of the Rev. National Council. Delighting and ing in New York, September 30. The Paul Dwight Moody, president of Middlebury College, Vermont, as the new liaison official between the ■churches and the Protestant chap lains ministering to the men who are conscripted and in the army and A. Depen JaUe 8 ervice navy. His chief responsibility will he to represent the churches in giving counsel and assistance to the chap In Fund - Raising lains. The call to Mr. Moody was extended by the Federal Council of 'Churches and the general committee V E R a Quarter of a century of successful experi on army and navy chaplains. He will ence is back of tke service o f W ard , NWlls Sc probably have his office in Washing O ton, D. C. It is estimated that 1,000 Dresnman in directing organized efforts for tke raising chaplains will be assigned to con of funds in kekalf of tke Ckurck and its institutions. scription camps and in the army and navy within the next year. The Ro T ke metkods employed are efficient, dignified, and man Catholic Church has a similar official in the person of Bishop John produce maximum results at reasonable cost. Francis O’Hara. $ ^ Tkis firm kas served repeatedly tke same Ck urck Cincinnati School Studies groups, wkick is evidence of tke goodwill resulting Problems of Christian Sociology from tkeir efforts. The curriculum this fall term of the graduate School of Applied Re It kas assisted in securing funds for: ligion, Cincinnati, includes problems of Christian sociology, pastoral 1— Diocesan budgets and endowments; theology and social work and practi cal problems in personal guidance. 2 — Church homes, orphanages, educa Work is also being done in allied tional institutions and hospitals; fields at the University of Cincinnati

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