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1939 the Witness, Vol. 23, No. 29 ■ July 13, 1939 5c a copy THE WITNESS PREPARING HER LESSON At the Burd School in Philadelphia TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. SCHOOLS CLERGY NOTES SCHOOLS BATES, CARROLL L., retired, of Winter Park, Fla., died in Daytona Beach on June tEije d&tnzvnI geological 17. D’ESSIPRI, MICHAEL, was ordained deacon Kemper m n ^ em m a rg by Bishop Mann of Pittsburgh in the Church of the Ascension, Pittsburgh, on KENOSHA. WISCONSIN Three-year undergraduate July 2. He is in charge of All Saints’, Ali- course of prescribed and elective quippa, Pa. Episcopal Boarding and Day School. study. FINLAY, MELVIN H., was ordained deacon Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual by Bishop Wing of South Florida in St. opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu­ Patrick’s Church, West Palm Beach, on Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity June 18. HORST, JOHN V., was ordained priest by School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. Bishop Helfenstein of Maryland on June SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced 26 in St. John’s Church, Howard County, Md., where he is in charge. Box W. T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. KITTS, I. L., was ordained deacon by Bishop and D.Th. Coadjutor Fenner of Kansas at St. Paul’s Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin Church, Leavenworth, Kans., on June 24. ADDRESS Capt. Kitts was a candidate from Oklahoma. KRONE, ARNOLD, was ordained priest by CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL Bishop Rowe of Alaska on June 11 in St. New York City THE DEAN Philip’s, Wrangell, Alaska, where he is in charge. A boarding school for the forty boys of Chelsea Square New York City LITTLE, HASKIN V., was ordained deacon the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the by Bishop Phillips of Southwestern Virginia Divine. Careful musical training and daily For Catalogue Address the Dean in the chapel at the Virginia Seminary, singing at the cathedral services. Small Alexandria, on June 9. classes mean individual attention and high MILLER, HERSCHEL G., was ordained priest standards. The School has its own building by Bishop Coadjutor Fenner of Kansas in and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 St. Andrew’s Church, Fort Scott, Kans., on per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice Episcopal Theological School June 25. He will be in charge of churches test and scholarship examination. Address at Fort Scott and elsewhere. The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Cathe­ CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS dral Heights, New York City. Affiliated with Harvard University offers MINTURN, EARL O., was ordained priest by unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as Bishop Wise of Kansas in St. Paul’s Church, philosophy, psychology, history, Kansas City, Kansas, on June 25. He will sociology, etc. be in charge of Grace Church, Wetmore, HOLDERNESS and other churches in Kansas. For Catalogue Address the Dean In the White Mountains. College Preparatory (Continued on page 15) and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 The Protestant Episcopal acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ dividual attention. Home atmosphere. Theological Seminary in Virginia St. John Baptist H’ls Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector For Catalogue and other information A Boarding and Day School for Girls Box W, Plymouth, N. H. address the Dean In the Country near Morristown REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. Under the care of the Sisters of St. John Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Baptist (Episcopal Church) College Preparatory and General Courses, Music and Art Ample Grounds, Outdoor Life §>tuart I| a U Berkeley For catalog address THE SISTER SUPERIOR, Mendham, N. J. 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Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector object to being given Syrup of MARCARET HALL Under Sisters of St. Anne Black-Draught, and by its relief (Episcopal) St. Faith’s School of constipation, recovery will be Small country boarding and day school for Secretarial, Art, Music, French, Winter hastened. Sold at drug stores in girls, from primary through high school. Sports. Regents Examination. Tuition Accredited college preparatory. Modern build­ $650 yr. Protection, Care, Health. 5-ounce bottles, price 50 cents. ing recently thoroughly renovated includes gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of six Some scholarships available. Also obtainable from the manu­ acres with ample playground space, hockey Apply to facturer— send 50 cents for one field, and tennis courts. Riding. Board and REV. DR. F. ALLEN SISCO, Principal tuition. Saratoga Spa, N. Y. bottle to The Chattanooga Medi­ For catalog, address: cine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. Mother Rachel, O.S.A., Box A, Versailles, Ky. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Editor Associate Editors Irving P. Johnson F rank E. W ilson Managing Editor W illiam P. Ladd W illiam B. iSpofford THE WITNESS ; George I. H iller Literary Editor A National Paper of the Episcopal Church Clifford L. Stanley Gardiner M. Day A lbert T. M ollegen Vol. XXIII. No. 29. JULY 13, 1939 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is published weekly from September through June, inclusive, with the exception of the first number of January, and semi­ monthly during July and August, by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscrip­ tion price is $2.00 a year; in Bundles for sale at the church the paper sells for five cents a copy, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter, March 6, 1939, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Circulation Office: 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago. Editorial and Advertising Office: 135 Liberty Street, New York City. T rials and T ribulations By EDWARD G. MAXTED Rector at Pascagoula, Mississippi BOUT thirty years ago a Bishop was ap­ to get in touch with people of all denominations A pointed and sent out to a part of the West with a view to converts. And I saw very soon which had been wild and wooly, and since has that I was regarded with suspicion, by reason of become very mild and intensely religious in a my clerical collar. So I called some of my own way. For fifteen years he laboured strenuously, people together and asked them if it would hurt and travelled extensively in his district, and came their feelings very much if I simply wore a in contact with many people with strange ideas. carnal lay get-up of a collar and tie. They told I think he did his very best to make converts to me that they personally admired me most in his own particular way of thinking, and certainly regular clerical uniform, but if it was a question he tried to bring people into some sort of unity of removing prejudice and gaining converts I of agreement, by preaching wherever he could might wear anything I pleased so far as they get an invitation and by associating himself with were concerned. every possible cause and movement. Then being “ So I bought a light suit and a collar and tie exhausted and utterly broken down in health he and started out again.
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