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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. 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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. This time my appearance resigned and went east in order to recover. He did not call up visions of popery, persecution and has been recovering ever since, and during the the Spanish Inquisition, and I easily obtained in last few years has been visiting many cities of vitations to speak in all manner of churches; My the United States, and wherever he goes he in plan was to visit a small town, and all towns out vites ministers of religion to have dinner with there were small, to call on the ministers and to him at his hotel. Recently he came our way, and hope for invitations to preach. I told them I was I was among those who received an invitation a Bishop and should be glad to be of any use to and partook of a good dinner and had a good them I could. They accepted me enthusiastically time. and I preached morning, afternoon and evening, After dinner we went out on the piazza and and was so pleased with the results of my efforts smokes were handed round, and we then dis that I determined to stay a few days at the hotel covered there was only one smoker amongst us. and get to know the people in the town. Every Whereupon the Bishop said: “ Would you be in thing seemed all right on Monday, but by Tues terested in learning how I came to give up smok day I noticed a difference in the way people ing?” We imagined it would be a short story and greeted me and concluded something was wrong. anyway we said we would be extremely inter On Wednesday I was enlightened, for a number ested, and we were. of the ministers called on me in a body, and after “ Well,” said he, “ you may know that many a few preliminaries opened fire. years ago I was sent out to that western jurisdic “ Well, Bishop,” said one, “ we liked your ser tion to be Bishop of a few clergy and people. That mons all right and so did everybody. But there did not suit me. I mean I did not wish that things is one thing which we have made up our minds should remain on such a small scale. So I began we ought to tell you about.”

“ What is it?” I asked. tion just now concerned simply tea and coffee ap “ Well» we don’t quite like to mention it, and parently, so I hastily asked if I could be allowed would not, but it is very serious, for it is some to discontinue them in order to gain permission thing' that must be displeasing to the Almighty, to preach to them. in a minister.” “ Bishop, if you would do that, and turn from “ Really,” said I, “ I am sorry to hear that. But those sinful ways, we would welcome you with all if I do anything displeasing to the Almighty I our hearts, for you would just about be a perfect shall be glad to be told of it and will certainly Calathumpian,” try to reform.” “ So I gave up tea and coffee. “ It is like this, Bishop, you probably do it in “ What about - - -” we were about to ask, but all innocence, because you have not been taught the Bishop went hastily on. better. You smoke tobacco, we hear.” “ Next I met the Hyperdeluphians. You have “ Yes, I have an occasional cigar, or a cigarette never heard of them? Well, well. But I will call at times.” them that right now. They also liked me and I “ Well, Bishop, we held, and so do our people, liked them, even for their strange ways and that it is displeasing to the Almighty for a min dress. ister to smoke. Anyhow he can’t do it, and get “ We came to church on Sunday, Bishop, and away with it in this part of the country. Any we should dearly love you to come and preach to minister who smokes is done, and that is all there us. But we believe that there are just two things is to it.” in your life, Bishop, that our people could not “ I am very sorry I did not know that before,” pass over. Things displeasing to the Almighty.” I said, “ and I thank you for telling me. But I hope “ I really hope not,” said I. “ But tell me and I it is not too late. Suppose I gave up smoking!” will see if I cannot tear them out of my life. For “ Why, Bishop, if you gave up that sinful habit, I very much want to preach in your churches.” We could back you to the limit.” “ One of the things, Bishop, we don’t see how So of course I told them that I would never you can alter. Being as you have to travel about smoke again and I have never done so. And that a bit, and you must look a bit like other people.” is the way that I came to give up smoking. “ I can’t imagine,” said I, “ what you are going to tell me.” “ A RE you interested? Would you like to hear “ It is buttons.” ■T"*. any more about my adventures out there?” “ Buttons?” We told the Bishop to go right ahead. And he “ Yes,, Buttons. You fasten your clothes up did thus. with buttons, we observe.” “ Next I came in contact with the Calathumpi- “Whatever other way could I fasten them? ans, that is not their real name, but it will do for Everyone has buttons.” this story. Some of them came to hear me preach, “ Not everybody, Bishop. We don’t. Because and on Monday called to see me. They told me we believe buttons are displeasing to the Al how much they liked the sermon, and me per mighty.” sonally, “ I was almost going to say that I could not “ But there is j ust one thing, Bishop, which will imagine the Almighty worrying Himself about prevent us asking you to preach to us. Unless buttons, but I saw they were very serious, so I you could see your way to give it up.” waited. “ I told them that I would give up almost any thing if by so doing I could get a better chance “ Yes, you see, Bishop, buttons are merely dec to do the work I had at heart. Would they tell orative. And the Almighty cannot approve of me what the stumbling block was. They would, mere decoration, for it is simply sinful pride and and they did. vain-glory. Hooks and eyes, they are all right, “ We have learned, Bishop, that you drink tea they don’t show and they fulfill their purpose. But and coffee. Is that really true?” buttons. No.” “ Yes,” I said, “ that is true. Is there anything “ But I don’t see how I can give up buttons; I wrong in that?” could never work hooks and eyes at my time of “ We think, Bishop, that tea and coffee are both life. I don’t see how I can give up buttons.” displeasing to the Almighty. For they are both “ Nor do we, Bishop, for you have to go out stimulants. Why; you might just as well drink into a sinful world, and can’t live in a community whiskey, or even beer.” like us. So we will pass over buttons and will “ I almost blushed and felt guilty, but the ques pray that the Almighty will pass over them too.

But the other matter you could do something about.” Talking It Over “ Oh, yes, the other matter. What was that?” By “ Neckties. We have observed that you wear a WILLIAM B, SPOFFORD necktie. Now our people could not be expected to TT MAY BE a distinction to be bawled out by stand that. Shirts are all right, and a collar at -*■ the Saturday Evening Post. It is also a tached to a shirt is permissible because it is part nuisance since Editor Stout’s crack at T h e of the shirt, and finishes it off so to speak. But W i t n e s s in the Post of June 24th has brought a not neckties.” flock of letters to answer at a time when a fellow “ I don’t see the point,” said I. “ Please explain. ought to be sitting in the sun. The Saturday What is wrong with a necktie?” Evening Post recently ran a series of articles by “ Pure decoration. Vain-glory and pride of the a man whom they represented as being a former human heart.” Russian general. Since the articles seemed to “ Oh yes, I now see. But do you know I have me to contain many untruths I did a bit of in never realized that before.” quiring and unearthed documents which satisfied “ But then, Bishop, you have never met us be me that “ General Krivitsky” was in reality a fore. Now could you bring yourself to do this? gentleman by the name of Samuel Ginzberg, When you come to preach for us, could you take rather than a former member of the Russian off your necktie, and put it in your pocket just General Staff, as the Post allowed its readers to before you reach the church? Then our people believe. Also evidence showed clearly that the will not be scandalized.” articles were actually written by Isaac Don Le “ I will gladly do that,” said I. “ And I did every vine, presumably from material given him by time I went there to preach.” Ginzberg. These facts were stated in this column The Bishop paused for breath, and we, know in our May 18th number. The Post, naturally ing that our time with him was drawing short, enough, did not take too kindly to being shown began to ask him questions about his general up and so attempted to shrug the whole thing work in that region. off by declaring editorially that the revelation One asked, “ What was your general idea in all was the work of communists, who have no re this, Bishop ?” He- replied, “ That region was full gard for “ truth and honor” and that “ hence it is of little towns of two hundred and fifty or five both needless and futile to reply.” The fact that hundred people, and they all had a full comple the truth about “ General Krivitsky” appeared ment of churches of all sorts. Some of the de in four publications (T h e W i t n e s s , the New nominations I had never heard of before. They Masses, the New Republic, and the syndicated were all fighting one another for an existence. I column of Walter Winchell) was in itself proof wanted to call them to unity. I did not know ex to the editorial staff of the Post that it was all actly how but I tried and did my best.” the result of a communist plot. T h e W i t n e s s , ac Said another, “ I should have thought, Bishop, cording to the S.E.P., being “ a pious publication that people who knew of so many things of which published in New York by the Episcopal the Almighty would disapprove would also find Church,” cannot be expected to know anything. many objectionable things in other churches.” Piety, Editor Stout suggests, prevents knowledge. “ Yes, that was so,” said the Bishop. The New Masses is communist and therefore without truth and honor. The New Republic “ Did you find that any of them wanted unity, spoke without authority, whereas Winchell is a or that any would join your church?” mere gossip. “We made a few converts here and there in the larger places. But I found that none of them TV/TOST OF THE letters that I have received wanted unity and in the end the ministers told me are from people who read the Saturday that they would rather see their people go to hell Evening Post and have never seen a copy of and go with them, than to see them even enter T h e W i t n e s s . Most of them angrily declare one of our churches.” that the Post must be right and T h e W i t n e s s So after fifteen years the Bishop retired to wrong. There is nothing much I can do with recuperate, worn out. I don’t wonder. And this these people who insist on being overawed by tale is entirely true. But God forbid that I should size. But if there are W i t n e s s readers who have ever reveal the name of the Bishop or the district been disturbed I want again to say that the story or the denominations. about “ General Krivitsky” as it appeared in this

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS July 13, 1939 column in May is true. The man who was pre chief helpers and advisers was St. Swithun who sented by the Saturday Evening Post as speaking was made Bishop of Winchester in the year 852. with great authority about European affairs be Nothing much is known of the saint but he must cause he was a general of the Russian army is in have earned a high place in the affections of the fact Samuel Ginzberg. He was never even a people because he was eventually canonized by private in the Russian army let alone a general. popular acclamation. On his death-bed he asked He came to this country last fall from France, to be buried just outside the north wall of his exactly as we stated in the original story. Fur Cathedral where travellers could pass over his thermore, as we also then stated, the articles were grave and the raindrops from the eaves could written by Isaac Don Levine and not by Ginz fall on it. berg, a fact which the Post was careful not to In the next century the body of Swithun was state in presenting the articles. Finally, if there translated to a new Church which was built by are those who have been disturbed at the charge his successor in the bishropic of Winchester. of the Saturday Evening Post that we received About a century after that another new Church our information from communists, I state here was built and the body was moved again and with that the facts I present are contained in placed in an imposing shrine. Pilgrims came absolutely reliable documents which are in my from all sides to offer their devotions at his tomb possession— documents which I did NOT get until it was destroyed in the year 1538. He was from communist sources, as the Post editorially the patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. declares. Further than that I cannot go at pres St. Swithun was honored by a place in the ent, though I have reason to believe that this case Church calendar. His day was July 15th which of international intrigue will soon be revealed, is said to have been the date of the first transla unless the Post and others have sufficient influ tion of his body. Somewhere a curious legend ence to prevent it. To sum up: The Saturday grew up about him. Nobody has ever been able Evening Post, willfully or not, did present to the to trace its origin or to find any incident which public a series of articles by a man who was not might account for it. However the superstition what that publication represented him to be. gained currency that if it rained on St. Swithun’s That is the statement made in this column in day, it would rain every day for forty days there May, and, in the face of editorial denials by the after. A rhyme was made about it which may Post, it is repeated now. Red-herring shouting still be heard in the neighborhood of Winchester about “ communist plots” on the part of the editor Cathedral— of that publication does not change the facts. St. Swithun’s day if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain; St. Swithun’s day if thou be fair For forty days ’twill rain nae mair. L et’s Know I remember a good old soul down in New York By state who believed the legend implicity. Some BISHOP WILSON years ago it rained on July 15th and she warned S t . S w i t h u n me that there would be rain every day for the HE ninth century was a riotous period in next forty days. Soon after we had a beautiful T English history. Early in that century the bright day without a cloud in the sky. I told her Northmen began their raids along the coast-line. that for once the legend seemed to have broken One stream of them came down by way of Ire down. She insisted that it must have rained dur land and another along the north coast of France. ing the night. I objected that there had been Between the two lay England, unhappily vulner no sign of any rain at all. Whereupon she asked able from either direction. Burning, slaying, if I had stayed awake all night to be sure. I had and pillaging the Northmen made life a terror to admit that I had taken my usual ration of for many years. Finally they came in regular sleep. She promptly declared that it must have armies, invaded and settled in country. Eventual rained during that time when I was not conscious ly the great King Alfred stopped them. of St. Swithun’s activity. Obviously there was no During this period the kingdom of the West answer to be made to that. Saxons covered all of southern England except You might be interested in watching the Cornwall. Egbert was king of Wessex when the weather on St. Swithun’s day this year. Whatever raids of the Northmen began. He and his son the weather may be, he was a great man in his Ethelwulf fought them valiantly. One of his time and he ought not to be forgotten.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. July 13, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Seven Church and State By BISHOP JOHNSON HEN Christ said “ My Father worketh of human agents that they are to be judged by W hitherto and I work,” He bore witness to the best that they can produce under favorable the fact that God is a being” of creative energy. conditions. It is a constructive view of creation as contrasted with the destructive forces which operate when TF THE scholars and the doctors and the hu- men reject God. Instead of the era in which we manitarians desert religion and politics it is live being a wonderful manifestation of human not surprising that the Church and the state de wisdom it is a demonstration of destructive teriorate because (and this is the important stupidity. It is as true of its leaders as it was of factor) the efficiency of Church and state depends Belshazzar that “ the God in whose hand their not only upon the principles that they represent breath is they do not glorify . . .” In so far as but upon the caliber of the men who respond to men depart from faith in Christ they have the their appeal. The Church stands for a God of morals of a gorilla and the benevolence of an al constructive eneregy who requires that men shall ligator. develop the capacity if they are to appropriate the blessings that await their effort. The historian of the present generation will It is silly to accuse the Church or the state of tell a story of death, debt and disaster in which being impotent, if the leaders of society refuse men were burdened with taxes to build up arma to identify themselves with it. The Church and ments by which they might ultimately destroy the state are not automatic devices to get the one another. It is a reversion to barbarism in people out of trouble, but they contain principles which “ Me! Big Injun” is the creator of totem which are essential to the social order and which and taboo and race hatred and tribal feuds and operate in proportion as they command the sup torture and war dances are in evidence. There is port of those who are leaders of men. When dic not enough wealth in the world to support the tators sit in the seats of the mighty and deter population and also build war machines, so the mine by force that which the sheep shall do, then political strategists pile up debts for their chil the wool and the mutton take precedence over the dren to pay in order that they may destroy one welfare of the flock. another more effectually. If the sheep are bogged in the mire and the A generation ago scientists prided themselves strong men say, “ Let women and children get that they could produce a better world without them out; we have more important business to religion, and men have turned society over to attend,” then is it surprising that the sheep are educators and financiers and politicians who have overcome? It is by love that the Church must bankrupted the nations financially and morally, operate and if the leaders do not love God nor just in proportion as they have boasted of their men then the sheep are devoured, and the Church independence of God and Christ. is helpless to protect them, for the Church may The Church was the originator of schools and not use force. colleges in which the development of science was Without the love of God and men the work of possible, but when the children grew up they be Christ is inoperative and men serve the God of came ashamed of their mother. Our schools and destructive force instead of the God of construc colleges were the product of a Christian civiliza tive energy. So long as men refuse to love God tion. The Church was the originator of hospitals, and men in the realm of personality, they cannot also products of a Christian civilization, but the expect either the Church or the state to be a con doctors became ashamed of their mother. The structive power in society, even though it still Church was the originator of social service but has the mission of giving eternal life to those humanitarians became tired of their mother and who believe and practice the faith. the state took over the task. Like the air we breathe the value of the Church But I am told that the Church persecuted is most apparent when it is taken from us and scholars, and was indifferent to medical science we g-asp for the life that it sustains. Without it and ineffective in her charitable work. Of course life becomes a sordid struggle for power and the statement disregards the fact that the Church wealth and amusement. Nothing could be more is not a person but a collection of individuals who deadly than the objectives of a godless state. As sometimes are wise and sometimes are foolish. Carlyle says, “the most ignoble vice in man is Aristotle says of institutions which are composed inertia.”

NEWS NOTES OF introduction to the pamphlet was Front Page Churchman signed, among ethers, by Bishop Old THE CHURCH IN ham of Albany, Bishop Lawrence of BRIEF PARAGRAPHS Western Massachusetts, Bishop Par sons of California, Dean Washburn Edited by E dward J. Mohr of the Episcopal Theological School, Bishop Washburn of Newark, the A vital program has been arranged Rev. W. Russell Bowie, the Rev. Wil for the social justice conference to liam B. Spofford, and the Rev. Guy be held under the auspices of the Emery Shipler. Society of the Companions of the * * * Holy Cross at Adelynrood, South Some Things Held Byfield, Mass., August 10 to 14. The Worse Than War general subject of the conference, of Declaring that “ if there is nothing which Mary E. Clarkson and Gwend worth dying for there is nothing olyn Miles, both of Philadelphia, are worth living for,” the Rev. Joseph chairmen, is “ Main Currents of Fort Newton, preaching in the Cathe Christian Social Thought and Action dral of St. John the Divine in New Today.” Dr. Vida D. Scudder will York on July 2, said that pacifism present the aims of the conference was debatable, even among religious and a correlation of its thinking at men. “ War is horrible beyond words, the close. Dorothy Day, editor of the as some of us know right well, having Catholic Worker, will discuss efforts to apply the principles of papal en seen it close up,” Fort Newton said. cyclicals, the subject for the session “ But some things are worse than war on Friday, August 11, being social — injustice, tyranny, slavery and the utter destruction of religion. These theory and practice in the Roman Recognize him? He hasn’t been Catholic Church. On Saturday the things are happening in the world to on the screen much lately but he is day.” conference will deal with Protestant back now, playing a part in “ Only * * * theory and practice, with Muriel Angels Have Wings” , and stealing Lester, head of Kingsley Hall, Lon Large Church Summer the show. Richard Barthelmess is an School in Illinois don, and Margaret Forsyth, of Co Episcopalian and when a student at A cooperative vacation Church lumbia University, New York, taking Trinity College took a trip to Berke school enrolling 1,500 children was the lead. The Rev. Gardiner M. Day, ley Divinity School to talk over the conducted in Decatur, 111., June 5 to rector of St. Stephen’s Church, ministry with the dean. But the 23 by Mrs. W. W. Daup, wife of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will lead the con movies grabbed him and soon made rector of St. John’s Church there. ference on Sunday in a consideration him a top star. of social thinking and practice in the She was assisted by 200 volunteer Episcopal Church. He will be the teachers. The enrollment included preacher at Morning Prayer. vice president, and the Rev. James H. children of almost all denominations The conference is open to members Terry, the new rector of St. James’, in the city. * sN of all denominations. The inclusive was re-elected secretary-treasurer. charge is $10, and the registrar is The clericus was entertained at Church Cleared of Jessie Towne, at Adelynrood. luncheon by the Rev. Rodney J. Ar- Debt jjs sfc H5 ney, the rector emeritus Retired Bishop Matthews of New * * * Jersey and Bishop Dagwell of Oregon Conference On Parent participated in a service at St. Paul’s Education Bishop Perry Sails Church, Salem, Ore., on June 18 A conference dealing with parent- For Europe which celebrated the clearing of the education and child training in the Making the trip at the request of parish indebtedness and the tenth an home will be held at Blue Ridge, Presiding Bishop Tucker, Bishop niversary of the rector, the Rev. N. C., July 21 to 23. The Sewanee Perry of Rhode Island, former presid George Swift. Bishop Matthews provincial department of religious ing bishop, sailed from New York on preached. education is cooperating with the July 5 to attend a meeting of the * * * National Parent-Teacher Fellowship consultative body of the Lambeth Old Church in organizing the conference, over Conference in London on July 13. Celebrates which Dean DeOvies of Atlanta will The consultative body will make preside. Dean DeOvies will give plans for the meetings of the bishops The second oldest church in the daily lectures. The Rev. Leon C. at Lambeth next year. diocese of California, Calvary, at Palmer, executive secretary of the * * * Santa Cruz, observed the 75th anni fellowship will lecture on “ Practical Religious Liberty versary of the laying of its corner Plans for Training Children in Chris Increasing stone on June 29. At the anniversary tian Living” and Mrs. Palmer on A survey by the American Civil dinner the speaker was Bishop Coad “ Essentials of Christian Living in the Liberties Union, “ Religious Liberty jutor Block of California. The pres Modern World.” in the United States Today,” indi ent rector is the Rev. Norman H. * * * Snow. cates that restraints on religious lib * * * Former Archdeacon erty are decreasing but that “ united Heads Clericus and uncompromising efforts of all Fine Conference For the 19th year in succession the those to whom religious liberty is a at Wellesley Rev. Thomas A. Hilton, former arch cherished ideal are necessary if it is A refugee from Austria, not on the deacon of Olympia, was elected pres to be maintained and extended.” program, was one of the outstanding ident of the clericus of that diocese Among instances of discrimination features at the Conference for when it met for its annual meeting the survey found “the popular intol Church Work which met at Welles at St. James’ Church, Kent, Wash. erance of the Protestant majority ley College, June 26 to July 7th. The Rev. Lewis J. Bailey, rector of against Catholic and Jewish candi He made such a hit at the conven Trinity Church, Seattle, was elected dates for public elective office.” An tion of the Girls’ Friendly Society,

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. July 13, 1939T H E WITNESS Page Nine meeting the first week of the confer Gheri of Grace Church, Memphis, a ence, that the suggestion came from Off-Moment Department school of Christian education, headed Providence that Wellesley also invite by Annie Morton Stout, and a school him to speak his piece. He appeared of Christian young people, headed by on the evening of June 30th, fresh the Rev. Hamilton West, student out of one of Hitler’s concentration chaplain at the University of Florida camps, and told a graphic story of and the Rev. Albert R. Stuart, mem murders, crucifixions and ruthless in ber of the National Council. timidation. His name is Robert Neu * * * mann, Roman Catholic, who was ar Cathedral H as Golden rested soon after Hitler came to Jubilee power in Austria for having made a St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, speech in favor of the League of Na Wash., observed its golden jubilee tions. The conference, forty under on June 15 with special services con last year in attendance, nevertheless ducted by Dean John D. McLauchlan reached an all time high in quality. and by a dinner. What is to be done about this oldest * * * of Church Conferences in 1940 was State Is Subject of not announced beyond the official Williamstown Institute statement that it could not be held An attempt to discover a sound at Wellesley College since an inter basis for cooperation among Ameri national missionary conference of can members of all faiths in their ac Congregationalists is to be held there tivities as citizens, will be made at next June. Indications are that the the 1939 Williamstown Institute of conference will be held on the Human Relations, to be held at Wil- «grounds of another school near Bos liamstown, Mass., August 27 to Sep ton. tember 1. The institute is sponsored * * * by the National Conference of Chris Burd School, The two gentlemen having so much tians and Jews. Among the speakers Philadelphia fun dunking cookies in their tea are will be Bishop Francis J. McConnell Presiding Bishop Henry St. George The little girl whose picture ap of New York, Msigr. John O’Grady of Tucker (seated) and the Rev. Charles pears on the cover is now a grown the National Conference of Catholic W . Lowry Jr., a professor at the Vir woman, a product of Burd School, Charities, H. Richard Niebuhr of Yale ginia Seminary. It , was an Off- Philadelphia. As her thoughts go Divinity School, and F. Earnest Moment at the Seminary commence back to the time when the picture Johnson of Columbia University. ment. was taken she recalls her experiences. * * * “ It seems incredible that all of Girls’ Friendly j "j twenty-one years has passed since distance a piano played through a Elects one autumn afternoon when a very practice hour.” The national council of the Girls’ frightened little girl with sandy pig The Burd School, with its pleas Friendly Society, meeting in Provi tails, came to live at the Burd ing surroundings, gives to its girls dence the last week of June elected School. There were innumerable the taste for fine things, in books, in the following officers: Mrs. Harold E.. toys to be played with, sandboxes, music, in friends. It can give, to a Woodward of St. Louis, president; swings and tennis courts, friendly girl ready and willing to receive it, Mrs. C. William Spiess of Philadel little igirls to meet,—but the pig-tailed the basis for a complete and full life, phia, vice-president-at-large; Mrs. one was a lonely, woeful, homesick physically, mentally and spiritually. Laurence A. Piper, Mrs. Samuel H. creature. I remember vividly (for I * * * Edsall, Mrs. Norman H. Slack, Mrs. was that small girl), the desperate Bishop Awards Sheldon Leavitt, Mrs. John R. King, struggle at bedtime to unknot great Prizes Ruth Jenkins, vice-presidents; Mrs. long shoelaces, unfasten buttons Four prizes were awarded by Bish Albert S. Cook of New Haven, secre away beyond reach. I remember too, op Phillips of Southwestern Virginia tary; and Margaret C. Maule of Phil the sweet-faced governess who untied at the close of the young people’s adelphia, treasurer. the knots, unbuttoned the buttons, conference of the diocese held at * * * and tucked me in bed. Lynchburg June 19 to 23. They were Refugees Present “ Strange and wonderful, how given for the best papers in the Bish Play quickly a child is absorbed into the op’s test, which was based on the A delightful group of young Vien carefree, pleasantly wholesome life book “ Conflicts in Religious nese actors are presenting a program that flows through the Burd School. Thought,” by Georgia Harkness. At of short plays, songs, and dances un The days and years sped by for me, the conference the Rev. Edmund L. der the title “ From Vienna,” in the full of fun, packed with events to Gettier, Jr., lectured on “ Youth and Music Box Theatre, New York, to the store in one’s memory . . . Hallowe’en Life,” and the Rev. J. Lewis Gibbs great pleasure of World’s Fair visi parties, impromptu theatricals, June on biographies of modern saints and tors and others. These Austrian ref commencements with the thrill of heroes: Wilfred Grenfell, Albert ugees could easily have done heart prizes for worthy ones, carol singing Schweitzer, Kagawa, and Vida Scud- breaking tragedy, but their evening is at holiday time in the hospitals, the der. * * * almost entirely gay, ending with a almost unbearable suspense of Christ whirl of old Viennese songs. They mas morning, hymns played on the Sewanee Program learned English in record time, and little chapel organ. I’ll always re Arranged the New York theatrical and musical member the library on winter twilight Three schools will make up the world rallied around to help them put afternoons,—warm, mellow, quiet, Sewanee summer training school on their show. The prices are low here and there a pool of yellow lamp which will be held at the University and the theatre is small and cool. light on a girl deeply absorbed in one of the South August 3 to 17. There The players are all professionals, hav of the hundreds of books that line will be a school of Christian social re ing been members o f a group in the library walls, while faintly in the lations, headed by the Rev. William Vienna which made constructive con-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS July 13, 1939 tributions to the drama, until the Hit mer services at Watch Hill Chapel and Eleanor Deuel, national field ler annexation of Austria. in Rhode Island. The chapel was es worker. The conference was under * * * tablished by Episcopalians, but now the leadership of Mrs. Roger Kings- Adult Conference has services for Roman Catholics, fol land, provincial president, and Mrs. in Texas lowed by services for Protestants and John E!. Hill, of the national execu The Adult Conference of the dio for Negroes. At the service on July tive board of the auxiliary. cese of Texas is being held at Camp 2 the preacher was the Rev. Remsen * * * Allen, the diocesan camp, July 6 to B. Ogilby, president of Trinity Col Cathedral Appoints 19 under the direction of the Rev. lege, Hartford. Other preachers dur Organist Charles A. Sumners and Hamlin Hill. ing the summer will be Bishop Ben Paul Callaway, for the last four Courses are being given by the Rev. nett of Rhode Island, the Rev. A. L. years at St. Mark’s Church, Grand James P. DeWolfe, the Rev. Edmund Kinsolving of Baltimore and the Rev. Rapids, Mich., has been appointed or H. Gibson, the Rev. L. L. Brown, Charles Townsend of Providence. ganist and choirmaster at the Wash Mrs. Clinton S. Quin, and others. Mr. ington Cathedral. He succeeds Rob Gibson, rector of Trinity Church, Old St. Mark’s Being ert George Barrow, who has become Galveston, is general chairman of Restored head of the music department at Camp Allen activities, which include The exterior of St. Mark’s In-the- Williams College. He studied in New conferences for boys and girls. Bouwerie, New York, is being re York under T. Tertius Noble, organ i stored to its appearance in 1795, ist at St. Thomas Church there, and Shortage Fund through the removal of stucco cover is a fellow of the American Guild of Increased ings. The colored lights in the in Organists. Pledges and cash for the mission terior have been replaced. The site * * * ary shortage fund now amount to on which St. Mark’s is built is the Memorial Window $277,418, according to an announce oldest religious site in the borough Dedicated ment of Lewis B. Franklin, National of Manhattan, and the building is A stained glass window depicting Council treasurer. Of this amount second to St. Paul’s Chapel in age. the “ Good Shepherd” was recently $223,817 is cash. Presiding Bishop Services will be held all through the dedicated at Grace Church, Plain- Tucker has expressed the hope that summer, the Rev. Albert H. Frost of field, New Jersey, by the rector, the the total will reach the $300,000 Salisbury, Md., being the preacher Rev. Harry J. Knickle. It was given originally sought in the campaign. during July and Bishop McClelland by Emma Y. Hyatt in memory of her * * * of Easton during August. father, and is the work of the Payne- Churchman Elected By H* *1» *i» Spiers Studios o f New York. Social Service Group Auxiliary Meeting # * The Rev. Charles W. MacLean, A t Shrine Mont Concentration On rector of Grace Church, Riverhead, Missionary and educational pro Canvass Asked N. Y., has been elected president of jects were discussed at a meeting of A request has been made by Pre the Suffolk County Council of So the Woman’s Auxiliary of the Fifth siding Bishop Tucker that the period cial Agencies. He is also chairman Province at Shrine Mont, Orkney from November 5 to 26 be kept clear of the Citizen’s Welfare Advisory Springs, Va., June 12 to 16. Classes Board of the county, as well as an were conducted by Canon Wm. M. active worker in the county council Bradner o f Washington Cathedral, of churches, which he helped to or Mrs. Thomas Harris of Philadelphia, Visiting the New York ganize. ^ ^ ^ W orld’s Fair? Service Held for The Relation of When in New York, plan on Hurricane Dead spending the morning visiting our A memorial service for those who Improvements beautiful and spacious book store lost their lives in the hurricane and and Beautification — the only one of its type in the flood in the northeast on September Church— maintained for the bene 21, 1938, opened the series of sum- To Worship fit of Churchmen from Coast to Suppose all our churches were left Coast. furnished and adorned just as when they were built years and years ago? W e are conveniently located Some of them could not be improved just one-half block east of the upon even now. Others are simply Fifth Avenue Public Library, at 14 WARD, WELLS atrocious. It is just a wee bit harder East 41st Street, between Fifth to worship God in a liturgical church and Madison Avenues. AND DRESHMAN when the aids to worship scream out in the tastes of the artless and Begin your World’s Fair trip Philanthropic Finance thoughtless of long ago. from here. Bus and subway direct to the Fair are within one block Do something about it this sum of our store. • • • mer. Let the Priest who is conscious of what his church needs, and those Come in for a visit and browse Directors of the who would be liberal donors, get to around. You will find many things Fund-Raising Campaign gether in your parishes, and then let of interest. Arrange to meet your us plan with you, so that such work for the friends at our shop. You will ap as may be contemplated may be con preciate the quiet atmosphere as TEMPLE OF RELIGION ceived, executed, and ready for the well as the attractiveness of our at the enjoyment of the parishioners in the Church Book Shop. fall. New York W orld ’s Fair As for us, we are able. MOREHOUSE-GORHAM CO. 51st Floor R.C.A. Bldg. AMMIDON AND COMPANY 14 East 41st Street Rockefeller Center, New York H. L. Varian, President (Between Fifth and Madison Avenues) 31 South Frederick Street NEW YORK CITY Baltimore, Md.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. July 13, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven of extra-diocesan meetings so that ment, Buffalo Gap, June 12 to 23, struction of a new chancel. The the whole Church may concentrate on had a larger attendance over last funds were raised by Ward, Wells the every member canvass. Pledge year. The Rev. P. K. Kemp was di and Dreshman of New York. The cards for the campaign have been rector, the Rev. John A. Winslow, structure will also provide a rector’s prepared by the National Council and chaplain, and Mrs. E. C. Seaman, con study, a sacristy, and other facilities. samples sent to diocesan field chair ference mother. Charlotte C. Tomp The Rev. Herman R. Page is rector men. kins, National Council field worker, of the parish, which was started 20 * * * the Rev. A. D. Ellis, Jr., and Helen years ago. New Jersey Plans Lyles gave courses. Learning through * * * Canvass activity was emphasized throughout Conference at Carrying out a resolution of the the conference. Racine diocesan convention, the diocese of * * * Attended by 200 clergy and lay New Jersey has started to organize Church to Build New workers, the 21st annual summer for the every member canvass. All Chancel conference at Racine, Wisconsin, churches receiving diocesan aid are St. Paul’s, in Oakwood, Dayton, was held from June 26 to July 7. required to make a canvass. Each Ohio, has raised $48,000 for the con Among those giving courses in vari- member of the diocesan board of mis sions has been assigned a group of misisons to which he will give per sonal attention, under the direction of the archdeacon, the Ven. Robert B. Gribbon. H* H» H» Bishop Oldham to Be At European Meetings Bishop Oldham of Albany sailed for Europe on July 1 to attend meet ings of the department of interna tional justice of the Federal Council of Churches at Geneva, the World Alliance for International Friendship Help the Church through the Churches at Geneva, and the continuation committee of the World Conference on Faith and Face the Future Order in Clarens, Switzerland, at which he will represent the Episcopal Church. Haven’t you been disappointed at times Hi sfc ^ Unity Committee Named as you saw the Church reject marvelous in Newark In accordance with directions from opportunities to extend its work? And the diocesan convention Bishop Washburn of Newark has appointed how you criticized the other members a committee to encourage friendly contacts between Presbyterian and when you heard the explanation: Episcopal Churches and to promote the study of the proposed concordat. Members are the Rev. Messrs. Wil “Lack of Funds.” liam K. Russell, chairman, C. L. Gomph, and Harold Hinrichs, and Plan ahead now with the Church by Henry T. Stetson, Warren H. Turner, and Leigh K. Lydecker. He H1 ^ taking1 out insurance policies with your Texas Conference Church as the beneficiary. Small annual Increases Attendance The North Texas youth conference, payments will make thousands of dollars held at the Presbyterian Encamp available later. Annual Retreat for College Clergy, Schoolmasters and Others Interested Under the auspices of the Write for information Church Society for College Work St. Mark’s School, Southborough September 12-14, 1939 Conductor: Rev. Theodore O. Wedel, College of Preachers Leaders of Conference which follows Church Life Insurance Corporation Retreat Rev. Alden D. Kelley, National Council Prof. John D. Wild, Harvard Subsidiary of The Church Pension Fund Rev. H.M.P. Davidson, St. George’s School Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, Harvard Cost $5.00 For further information write 20 Exchange Place New York City REV. FREDERIC KELLOGG Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.

ous fields were the Rev. Alden Drew “ Serving Christ in Our World To mon without delay. He had come Kelley, the Rev. G. Clarence Lund, day.” The Rev. William C. Munds to see his daughter graduate. Annie Morton Stout, Mrs. Marcus was the conference director. * * * Goldman, the Rev. LeRoy S. Bur H: * * Commencement Held At roughs, Dean Gerald G. Moore, and ‘Church Institutions Burlington School the Rev. Walter K. Morley. Receive Requests The Rev. John Crocker, of Prince * * The late George P. Gardner, promi ton, newly elected headmaster of Plans for Laymen nent Boston churchman, made num Groton School, preached the bac Made erous bequests to churches and calaureate sermon at St. Mary’s Hall, Plans designed to bring men into church institutions. To the Church Burlington, New Jersey, on June 11. closer relationship with the Church of the Advent, Boston, he left At the graduation exercises on June were made by a group of Chicago $35,000; to the Trustees of Dona 12 Bishop Gardner o f New Jersey laymen assembled under the leader tions of the Diocese of Massachu awarded the diplomas and spoke, ship of the Rev. Herbert W. Prince, setts, $20,000; to the "Society for while the graduation address was of the Church of the Holy Spirit, the Relief of Aged or Disabled Epis made by Dean Robert K. Root of Lake Forest, 111., at Camp Houghtel- copal Clergymen, $10,000; to St. Princeton University. A class of 22 ing, near Muskegon, Mich., June 24 Mark’s Church, Southborough, $10,- girls graduated. and 25. Opportunities for lay ser 000; and to St." Mark’s School, * * * vice and responsibilities were consid Southborough, $25,000. Committee On Unity ered. * * * Convention Appointed $ $ ^ A report from London indicates Bishop Darst a New Church that 59 members of the general com Pinch-Hitter mittee for the international conven Consecrated Attending the commencement ex The Church of the Resurrection, tion in London, in June, 1940, ercises of the University of Georgia Greenwood, S. C., which was built in “ which will consider the attitude of at Athens as an observer on June 1935, was consecrated by Bishop 11, Bishop Darst of East Carolina Gravatt o f Upper South Carolina on was called upon to deliver the bac June 21. The Rev. Albert R. Stuart, WHY DIE? the former rector under whom the calaureate sermon three minutes be By Columbus Bradford, A.M. fore the scheduled time. When the This author reasons: Since the Bible’s church was built and the Rev. Ray last word about death, (Rev. 21:4) repeals mond E. F’uessle, the present rector, scheduled speaker was unable to ap its first word about death (Gen. 2:17), pear one of the professors came none should now die. took part in the service. Says a well known Church editor: “ I $ H* * down from the platform and asked think ‘Why Die ?’ contains many things which Christians ought to consider, and Youth Conference in the bishop to take his place. The bishop went up and started the ser- some which they ought to believe beyond "West Texas anything they are now asked to believe.” Clothbound. $1.00 prepaid. Copies may Mrs. Harold E. Woodward of St. be ordered through all leading Church Louis, provincial president of the Book Stores. Woman’s Auxiliary and leader in ERNESTW. LAKEMAN work with young people, was the DESIGNER AND WORKER IN headliner at the annual summer con ference for young people of the dio STAINED & LEADED GLASS ‘ R G E IS S L E R IN C J - cese of West Texas held in June near 336 EAST 28 ST. NEW YORK 4jO SIXTH AVE.NEARIOo> ST NEW YORK Kerrville, Texas. More than one Gfmrth furnishings hundred young people of the diocese IN CARVED WOOD AND between 14 and 18 years of age were MARBLE-BRASS • SILVER. in attendance, representing fifteen FABRICS + W IN D O W S parishes and missions. The Rev. Arthur G. Swartz, pastor of the First Congregational Church of San An tonio, taught a course on “ Christ, the Leader of Men;” and the Rev. Ever ett H. Jones, rector of St. Mark’s Calvert- Herrick Church, San Antonio, a course on & Riedinger CHURCH PAINTINGS 2 & 4 Elast . 23rd . Street PAYNE-SPIERS STUDIOS, me. Murals - Portraits New . York . City 50 WEST 15th STREET, NEW YORK CITY John Krogmann MEMORIAL CRAFTSMEN Artist STAINED GLASS WINDOWS 3561 Fullerton Ave. STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC BRONZE TABLETS = Chicago MEMORIALS IN WOOD, AKIil.E, IRON, MOSAICS A N D . C H U R C H ALTAR FURNISHINGS DESIGNS SUBMITTED DECORATION

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catholics in the Anglican communion General, Nashotah, Seabury-Western, toward Church unity,” have been Union and Virginia seminaries are named. Heading the list are the attending this year the twelve-week Wilbur Herbert Burnham Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of summer course in pastoral training Brechin, Canon C. C. Bell of York, at the New York Protestant Episco Designer and Master Canon Hudson of St. Alban’s, the pal City Mission Society. This is the Craftsman Rev. V. A. Demant, Canon Douglas 13th year in which the society has of Southwark, Maurice Reckitt, and offered training in hospitals, social T. S. Eliot, among others. The Amer case working agencies, and the state Stained and Leaded Glass ican cooperating committee consists school for boys. The work is under of the Rev. B. I. Bell, chairman, and the direction of the Rev. Thomas J, the Rev. Messrs. Don Frank Fenn, Bigham, Jr., of the General Theologi Studios 1126 Boylston Street Leicester Lewis, Whitney Hale, Ger cal Seminary and of the society. ald Moore, W. H. Nes, Shirley Hugh- Jean Gregory of the Community Boston, Massachusetts son, Randolph Ray, Granville Wil Service Society of New York is con liams, Grieg Taber, Clark Kennedy, ducting a seminar on pastoral case THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK and E,. R. Hardy, Jr. It is planned work, a new part of the summer SOCIETY to have the convention send an ex course. Other lectures are given by Founded by Bishop White 1833 authorities in various fields. Students Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par pression of its conclusions to the ishes unable to purchase them, in limited bishops at the Lambeth conference. whose work is in the city are housed grants. * * * at the building of the society, of The Book of Common Prayer. The Combined Book (The Book of Common Summer Conference in which the Rev. L. Ernest Sunder Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). South Dakota land is superintendent. Pew Size sH * The South Dakota summer con Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. ference was held in All Saints School, Memorial For Drury Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa. Sioux Falls, from June 6 to June Sought 14 with the largest enrollment in A committee has been formed to CLERGYMAN—at present young peoples’ director in large suburban parish, ex-teacher, many years. Dean Montizambert of raise funds for a memorial to the moderate Churchmanship, desires part-time Laramie, Wyo., was the chaplain, giv late Samuel Smith Drury, fourth position as assistant while doing literary work and graduate study. Good references. W rite: ing courses on personal religion and, rector of St. Paul’s School, Concord, Box 335, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. for the clergy, lectures on Anglican N. H. It is proposed to place a sim Atlantic City: 103 Stratford Ave. closed for ism. A round table on religious ple memorial in the school chapel summer. Applications for Sept, forwarded education, for the clergy, was con and to erect a new dormitory to be from that address. Mrs. Neel. ducted by the Rev. Messrs. Joseph called “ Drury.” John H. Stewart of RESTHAVEN Ewing, LeRoy Burroughs, Stewart New York is secretary of the com Frazier, and Standish Macintosh and mittee. Saint Augustine. Florida * * * Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened Deaconess King. Mrs. Susan Burn their Rest House in this historic city to guests Clergy School desiring spiritual peace and strength; physical side taught kindergarten methods. rest, quiet, and nourishing food. The new Courses were given by the Rev. Paul Held location is in beautiful grounds with water outlook, live oaks, palms, flowers. Com H. Barbour on Christian worship; The Rev. Edward R. Hardy, Jr., fortable rooms. Central heat. 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Church, Baltimore, were the faculty es are expected to make a decision Australia; Canada— Church of Eng at the summer school of the clergy at their ecclesiastical conferences land in Canada, United Church of o f the diocese of New Jersey held in and assemblies this summer. The Canada; China—Church of Christ in Cape May the week of June 11. Mr. churches which have thus far taken China; Czechoslovakia — Evangeilcal Hardy presented a discussion of the affirmative action are as follows: Church of Bohemian Brethren; Es- history and present status of move Australia—Presbyterian Church of thonia — Evangelical Lutheran ment for reunion, while Mr. Ferris gave a series of lectures on the art and mechanics of preaching.

H: * sis Church Urged to Take Services in Leading Churches Responsibility “ In these restless days the Church The Cathedral of St. John St. Thomas Church the Divine Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street of God cannot stop long in the tents Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. New York of the present, but must be constant New York City Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and ly on the march in the application of 10, Morning Prayer. 11, Holy Communion 4 P.M. Christian principles to changing and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser Daily Services: 8:30 A.M., Holy Com mon. munion. human relations,” says Bishop Law Weekdays: 7 :30, Holy Communion (on Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. rence of Western Massachusetts in Saints’ Days 7 :30 and 10.) 9, Morning Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: the foreword of a new handbook of Organ Recital at 4:30. organization and program for dioce Trinity Church, New York Broadway and Wall St. san departments of Christian social Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. relations, now being distributed by Chapel of the Intercession Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Broadway at 155th the National Council’s department, New York City of which he is chairman. The hand Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar St. Paul’s Cathedral Sundays: Holy Communion: 8 and 9 :30 ; Buffalo, New York book’s argument is that “ the Epis Service and Sermon at 11; Evening Ser Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean copal Church, together with many vice and Sermon, 8. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 Weekdays: 8, 12 :05. others, believes that organized Chris and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9:40. Tuedsay: 10:30 A.M. Holy Communion tianity and the individual Christian and 11:00 A.M. Quiet Hour. have a responsibility to apply the Chapels of the Christ Church Cathedral Christian ethic to the social life and Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. relationships of men. This Christian New York Protestant Episcopal The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean City Mission Society Sunday Services, 8:00, 9:30, 10:05, social responsibility calls for organ 11:00 a.m .; 4:30 p.m. ization, education, and leadership. San Salvatore— (Italian) 359 Broome Week-days: 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion Street; St. Cyrian’s— (Colored) 175 West (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy These are the functions which are 63rd Street; St. Martin’s — (Colored) Communion on Wednesdays and Holy Days. Church recently burned. Services held at 12:30 p.m. Noonday Service. assumed by the diocesan depart Ephesus Seventh-Day Adventist Church, ments.” The book, which is being Lenox Ave. and 123rd St. distributed without cost to bishops, All Sunday Services at 11 A.M. St. Michael and All Angels Baltimore, Maryland officers of social service organiza St. Paul and 20th Street tions in dioceses and districts, and Grace Church, New York The Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D., Rector Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Summer Service Schedule others interested in Christian social Broadway at 10th St. Sundays: 7 :30 A.M., Holy Communion; relations, gives a limited amount of Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. 11:00 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Weekdays: Mondays, Wednesdays, and historical background, tells of the urdays. Saturdays— 10 :00 A.M. Tuesdays, Thurs development of the National Coun Holy Communion, 11:45 A.M. on Thurs days, and Fridays— 7 :00 A.M. Holy Days cil’s department and touches on the days and Holy Days. — 7:00 and 10:00 A.M. growth of diocesan interest, noting The Heavenly Rest, New York Gethsemane, Minneapolis the fact that “ beginning with twelve Fifth Avenue at 90th Street 4th Ave. South at 9th St. diocesan commissions in 1920 the Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10:16 Sundays : 8 :00 and 11:00 A.M. program has developed to the point a.m .; Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10 :30 A.M. where there are now departments Service and Sermon 11 a.m .; Choral Eve 'Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M. organized in 89 dioceses and dis ning Prayer 5 p.m. Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com St. John’s Church tricts.” Suggested standards for munion, 11 a.m. Lattingtown, Long Island diocesan departments are outlined, Bishop Frank DuMoulin, Rector as well as programs, the organiza On Northern shore o f Long Island, two miles The Incarnation east of Glen Cove. tions provided, including committees Madison Avenue and 35th Street Sunday Services: Mid-June to Mid-Sept. on cooperation with institutions and The Rev. John Gass. D.D., Rector 8 :00 A.M., Holy Communion Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. 10:30 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon agencies; parochial social relations; Wednesdays: Holy Communion 12:15 marriage and family relations; social P.M. Holy Days: Holy Communion 10 A.M. St. Paul’s Chapel and industrial problems; and town Trinity Parish, New York and country life. (Opened 1766) St. Bartholomew’s Church Oldest Public Building in New York * * * Park Avenue and 51st Street Washington’s Pew—Governor Clinton’s Varied Churches Join Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Pew—Many other objects of interest. Sunday Services Sundays: 9 :30 and 10 A.M. World Council 8 A.M.—Holy Communion Weekdays: 8, 12 A.M. and 5 P.M. The latest reports from Geneva 11 A.M.;—Morning Service and Sermon Holy Communion, Thursdays and Saints’ indicate that thirty-five churches of Days, 10:30 A.M. St. George’s Church various nations have already taken The Church is open daily for prayer. Founded 1748 official action committing them to Stuyvesant Square, 16 St. E. of 3rd Ave, “ The First Institutional Church membership in the World Council of St. James Church, New York in New York” Churches. The list is remarkably Madison Avenue and 71st Street Rev. Elmore M. McKee, Rector The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. 11 A.M.— representative of the different types. 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Service and Sermon. There are churches from four con 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. All seats free. Preacher: Bishop Abbott. Clubs, Clinics, Summer Camps, Rains- tinents. There are seven or eight Holy Communion 12 noon Thursday. ford House. different confessions. Other church

Church; Orthodox Church in Estho- via—Old Catholic Church of Yugo TINSLEY, BENJAMIN W., was ordained deacon by Bishop Abbott of Lexington in nia ; Finland— Evangelical Lutheran slavia. the Church of the Good Shepherd, Lexing Church; France— Eglise Réformée de * H= * ton, Ky., on June 24. He is in charge of Christ Church, Pikeville, Ky., and other France, Eglise Réformée d’Alsace et Refugee Stamps churches. de Lorraine; Germany—Old Catholic Available Church of Germany; Great Britain— Poster stamps which may be used Baptist Union of Great Britain and to raise funds for refugees and to Ireland, The Salvation Army; Hol publicize the teaching of brotherhood land— Old Catholic Church of Hol are available in quantities at the land; India—Federation of Evangeli Diocese of Southern Ohio, 412 Syca cal Lutheran Churches in India, Mar more St., Cincinnati. The stamps Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar; bear a picture of Mary and the Christ Latvia— Orthodox Church in Latvia; child in flight, and the inscription, Lithuania — Reformed Church of “ In the Name of these Refugees, Aid Lithuania; Netherlands East Indies— All Refugees,” and may be obtained Protestant Church of the Netherlands at the rate of fifty cents per thou East Indies ; Poland—Evangelical sand for a thousand or more. On Church of the Augsburgian Confes each total sale of the stamps by a sion, United Evangelical Church, committee or group of 1,000 stamps Polish National Catholic Church; for $10 there is a profit to that Sweden— Church of Sweden; Switz group’s refugee fund of $9.50. erland—Old Catholic Church of Switzerland; United States of Amer CLERGY NOTES ica— Congregational and Christian (Continued from page 2) MORREL, GEORGE WILLIAM, JR., was or Churches, International Convention dained deacon by Bishop Howden of New o f the Disciples of Christ, Evangelical Mexico and Southwest Texas in St. Clem ent’s, El Paso, Tex., on June 29. He is Church, United Lutheran Church in minister in charge of Holy Cross, Houston, America, African Methodist Episco Tex. NORTHROP, DOUGLAS B., formerly curate pal Church, Polish National Catholic at Christ Church, Williamsport, Pa., is Church of America, Roumanian Or chaplain at Sea View Hospital, New York, and is on the staff of the New York City thodox Episcopate in America, Evan Mission Society. gelical and Reformed Church, Pres TABER, GRIEG, now rector of All Saints’, Boston, will be rector of St. Mary the Vir byterian Church in the United States gin, New York, effective October 1. TAMBLYN, CARL NORMAN, was ordained of America, Syrian Antiochian deacon by Bishop Porter, of Sacramento at Emmanuel Church, Grass' Valley, Calif., on Church of North America; Yugosla June 29.

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