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CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION New York Parish Celebrates 100th Anniversary

CHURCH CONGRESS: PAST AND PRESENT

BRADY, W. H., formerly assistant at the Church of the Resurrection, New York City, is rector of St. Paul’s, Savannah, KEMPETT H m ©ije (Btnevtd ®i|eologtcal Georgia. Jifemmarg DOW, R. W., was ordained perpetual dea KENOSHA, WISCONSIN con by Bishop Brewster of Maine, in St. Three-year undergraduate Stephen’s Church, Waterboro, November 3. Episcopal Boarding and Day School course of prescribed and elective He is assistant at St. Stephen’s, Saco, Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual study. Maine. opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu DOWDELL, V. L., formerly rector of Trin Complete sports program. Junior ity Church, Saco, Maine, is rector of St. ates, offering larger opportunity James’ Church, Albion, Michigan, and chap School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. lain at Albion College. SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced HASKILL, L. Ai., formerly at St. Saviour’s Box W. T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. Church, Raleigh, North Carolina, is now the rector of St. Paul’s Church, Suffolk, Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin and D.Th. Virginia. * ADDRESS HASKIN, F. J., formerly assistant at the Church of the Atonement, Chicago, Illinois, ST. AUGUSTINE’S COLLEGE is to be vicar at churches in Macomb, Can Raleigh, North Carolina THE DEAN ton and Lewiston, Illinois, effective De An accredited Church College for Negro Chelsea Square New York City cember 1. Youth. Coeducational. JENKINS, G. M., formerly rector of St. Degrees of B. A. and B. S. For Catalogue Address the Dean Mark’s parish, Brunswick, Maryland, is Needs of college: A larger endowment, rector of Calvary Parish, Fletcher, North scholarship aid for worthy students, Carolina. gifts for current expenses. Address The President LUYA Y BARBERA, S., was ordained priest Legal Title for Bequests: Episcopal Theological School by Bishop Blankingship of Cuba in the Trustees of St. Augustine's College, Church of the Annunciation, Florida. 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T h e A s c e n s io n : N e w Y o r k By FLORENCE A. VAN WYCK OR a hundred years there has stood on the cor sculptured angels, the work of Louis Saint-Gau- Fner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street, New dens. The reredos, a panel of delicate scroll work, York City, a simple brownstone church with a sin and the kneeling angel on either side of it are mo gle square tower. It is the Church of the Ascen saics by D. Maitland Armstrong. Four of the sion, the first church on Fifth Avenue, and one of stained glass windows in the church are by La the ten oldest church buildings in the city. Its Farge, two by Armstrong, and another by J. 100th anniversary was celebrated on November Alden Weir. Also in the church is a particularly 17th with two special services of thanksgiving and fine painting by Edwin H. Blashfield, “ In the rededication, one at eleven o’clock in the morning, House of the Carpenter,” loaned by the artist’s and the other, a centennial service of music, at widow, and Sorolla’s famous “Procession of In eight o’clock in the evening. valids,” loaned by Mrs. John E. Berwind. Two It is this church which is known to thousands other Blashfields are the property of the church, of people as “ The Church of the Open Door.” * For one, a drawing of St. Cecilia, in the robing room, the past eleven years its broad central doors have the other, his well-known painting “ The Angel stood open day and night. From the street the with the Flaming Sword” in the parish hall. light on the altar is clearly visible, welcoming all The Church of the Ascension ever since its who care to enter. In the past year alone, 30,000 founding in 1827 has been known as a liberal par people exclusive of those attending the daily and ish. Significantly, the congregation held its first Sunday services, have gone in to rest or pray. The services in the French Huguenot Eglise du St. Es Open Door has made the Church of the Ascension prit on Pine Street, where they absorbed the more than a church. Its function is like that of an courageous liberalism and the insistance on free old-world cathedral: there is a constant going in dom of religious interpretation which marks the and coming out. It is an open house of prayer, Huguenots, and which always has been character where there is a clergyman on call at all hours of istic of the Ascension. All of its rectors have been the day or night. of the Liberal Evangelical school; all have put strong emphasis on a direct personal faith as the Physically, the church is ideal for such a pur safeguard of institutional religion. pose. It is small enough to be friendly, to be seen in its beautiful entirety. The sturdy old stone IMILARLY, ever since its founding the parish walls shut out the noise of the busy traffic on Fifth S has been unusually conscious of its social re Avenue, and the soft lights reflecting upward into sponsibilities. In 1832 it undertook the support the high pointed arches give a feeling of the in of a student at General Theological Seminary, and finite. John LaFarge’s magnificent mural paint one at Trinity College in Hartford; two years la ing of “ The Ascension of Our Lord,” covering the ter it established a scholarship at General Semi whole chancel wall above the altar, dominates the nary. A parish school for the poor of the neigh interior. This painting unquestionably is one of borhood, founded in 1842, was maintained until the greatest religious murals in the country, and 1858. In the first eleven years six hundred chil one of the masterpieces of the world. Beneath the dren received instruction there. The Five Points painting and immediately above the altar are two Day School, founded by the parish in 1855 in one

*Until the consecration of Epiphany last year, The Church of the As of the most crowded slum areas of the city, had an cension was the only church in New York City open twenty-four hours a day. average enrollment of 225 children in its first year.

The school met in the House of Industry, where a litical unrest and famine brought 50,000 Germans good many of the children were boarded, and in 1847, and some 90,000 a few years later. A where all received one meal a day. In one year great percentage of all these immigrants remained 350 children were provided with permanent homes in New York, many of them living in tenements in and employment. unspeakable squalor and poverty. It was for them At the same time, within the parish house the that the Church of the Ascension, not content with Association for the Relief of the Industrious Poor having sent over $3,000 to Scotland and Ireland was giving material aid to poor women of the for the relief of famine, purchased a block at 43rd city, teaching them personal neatness and how to Street and Ninth Avenue, cleared it, and erected sew, as well as adding to their self-respect by mak model tenements there at a cost of $43,000. As ing them, in part at least, self-supporting. a center of worship and recreation they added the About 1850 thousands of immigrants began to Ascension Memorial Chapel, which they adminis flood New York, driven out of all parts of Europe tered for about four years, at the same time main by the impossible labor conditions. The Irish taining three other missions in various parts of peasants, driven into poverty by the tithes they the city. were forced to pay to absentee English land- owners, rebelling against the laws made by the HE parish’s social work reached its peak a few English Parliament in which they were inade Tyears later under the leadership of its fifth rec quately represented, were faced by a potato fam tor, the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant. Dr. Grant ine. Hundreds of them starved to death; hun accepted the call to the parish in 1893 only on the dreds ate weeds and thistles in a last desperate condition that the Ascension be made a church of effort to keep alive; the dead lay unburied where free pews. This was a daring move for an Epis they fell. In twenty years over half the laborers copal Church at that time, but the congregation in the country fled to the United States. In 1850 was ready for it. They were equally ready for the there were nearly a million Irish here, 42% of all broad program of social service work into which the foreign-born in the country, and they were the new rector presently led them, though the still coming. Somewhat similar conditions of po- term “ social service” still was unknown. Fifty- one organizations sprang into being within the church, filling the parish house beyond capacity and overflowing into two crowded missions. There were classes in art, in singing, in parliamentary law, classes in history and current events, in car pentry, a sewing school, men’s clubs, boys’ clubs, women’s clubs. There were free employment agencies, and cost-price stores for groceries, cloth ing and coal. There were two travelling libraries. There was a loan fund. There was a visiting nurse. A day nursery cared for thirteen thousand babies of working mothers in one year, washing them and feeding them for five cents each per day; a kindergarten was opened for them in 1895, and in 1896 a hundred children were sent out of the city during the summer. At the parish house meal tickets— 25 to 30 a day— were given out. The Church records show that “ During the winter of 1894 the ‘unemployed’ became a great factor in the parish house. . . . From the first of December until the middle of March the stream of men who applied was almost continuous. .. . Shoes, clothing and meal tickets were distributed; but in especial, cards permitting the recipient to work in the wood-yard of the Wayfarers’ Lodge were given to the men. The recipients of these cards sawed and split wood for four or five hours, and in re turn received supper, lodging and breakfast.” In 1907 the parish inaugurated the public forum “ to show that religion included the recog THE CHANCEL AND INTERIOR Of the Church of the Ascension nition of economics and the bread-and-butter

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 28, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Five problem.” The forum met in the church every the Prayer Book seems to be lost and the Roman Sunday evening, later adjourning to the parish services are quite simple in comparison. hall for free discussion. The subj ects were widely Within reasonable limits the variation in cere varied, including “ The Successful Training of the mony does not matter, but when we listen to the Negro” (Booker T. Washington, the speaker), preaching and teaching of the clergy and are con “ What to Expect of a Playground in the City,” and scious of the varied convictions of the people “ City Planning in Relation to the Congestion of ranging from an extremely Protestant to an ex Population,” but usually they dealt with the im tremely Catholic view-point, we are tempted to proving of social conditions, particularly for the ask what is the truth, and what does the Episcopal laboring class. In 1914 the religious forum was Church teach. The individual is apt to form for started “ to show that religion included the use of himself his own peculiar theological views and science and reason,” and issued the same call to uses the Church as his expression of worship. intellectuals who had left the church that the Remarkable as it may seem, the Episcopal public forum had given to the working man. Church actually has a standard of faith, if not of By 1925 when the present rector, the Rev. Don ceremonial practice. The Book of Common Pray ald B. Aldrich came to the Church of the Ascen er gives us the teaching of the Church, no matter sion, times had changed. Well-organized social what the individual clergyman or lay person may service agencies had removed the need for the par think. The Prayer Book is a carefully considered ish to be so active in that field; the working-man’s theological document and means what it says. problems had become everyone’s problem; and sci There is no need of interpretation since the entific thinking was widely accepted even within Prayer Book is an interpretation of Scripture and the Episcopal Church. The main function of the of theological beliefs, nor is there any license for Church of the Ascension today is that of personal alteration by either bishop, priest or deacon. religion and the continued expression of its in Would you know what the Church teaches re herited liberal traditions. The outgoing spirit of garding holy orders ? Read the preface to the or brotherhood which the parish has shown through dinal in the ordination service on page 529 in the out its history now is expressed by the always Prayer Book. Do you wish to know what the open door of the church and by the many volun Church believes about holy baptism? Read the teers who serve the community in hospitals, set service on page 273. If you desire to know the tlement houses and other social service organiza tions. Particularly worth mentioning is the par ish’s active interest in Labor Temple, a unique set tlement house on the lower East Side, which tries to interpret the Church and the Christian Gospel to industrial workers. The Church of the Ascen sion is today, as it always has been, a thinking parish, with a sincere interest in the vital matters of the world and the nation, the city and its own immediate neighborhood, as well as the Church.

No Need for Confusion By GEORGE I. HILLER S ONE travels about the country and attends A various churches, one is struck with the variegated hues of the Protestant Episcopal Church. This is true of the ceremonial used in the services. In one church will be found practices so plain and bare, and the church so lacking in orna mentation that the more advanced Methodist Churches would seem Roman Catholic in compari son. On the other hand one may find so many ad ditions to the simple service of the Prayer Book, DONALD B. ALDRICH such florid music and wealth of ceremonial that The Rector of the Ascension

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS November 28, 1940 stand of the Church regarding marriage, the fused with regard to the teaching of the Church solemnization of matrimony on page 300 will tell by the vagaries of the clergy or lay people, because the tale. If you wish to know what the Church be the standard is found in the Prayer Book. Know lieves about holy communion, read page 80-83 in your Prayer Book, that is the answer to much of the Prayer Book. the wonder and questioning which we hear around There is no need for a Churchman being con us.

C h u r c h C o n g r e s s : P a s t a n d P r e s e n t By ROSE PHELPS Executive Secretary of the Church Congress ROCK in Riverdale, New York, now on the Dr. Grant observed that the Congress of the A outskirts of New York City, mentions the United States, as constituted in 1919, was not names of the founders of the Church Congress in truly representative, quoting statistics given out 1874, including that of the then rector of the by the National Voters’ League to show that “ of the 435 members of the House of Representatives, Church of the Ascension, New York, the Rev. John Cotton Smith. Indeed, he read the first the great bulk of our farming and laboring popu paper at the first Congress, held in Association lation was represented by six farmers and four Hall, New York City, October 6th and 7th, 1874. representatives of labor. Among the 98 members This paper, limited to twenty minutes, discussed of the Senate were three farmers and no represen “ Limits of Legislation in Regard to Doctrine and tatives of labor. . . . Farmers and farm workers Ritual.’’ After observing that “ It is a peculiar were represented in Congress on the basis of one distinction of the Church Congress that it allows representative for every one and a third million the most unrestrained utterance of individual of such persons. Workingmen in industries were opinion,” Dr. Smith vigorously opposed any spe represented on the basis of about one representa cial legislation on doctrine or ritual, save that tive for every 5,000,000 or more. But the lawyers passed by General Convention in accordance with were represented on the basis of one for every “ The Holy Scriptures and the Primitive Creeds 400.” which this Church has declared may be proved Mr. Clark, following Dr. Grant and Mrs. Simk by the Scriptures.” hovitch, deprecated any emphasis on class lines, The point at issue was the apprehension felt by pleading for recognition of the oneness of humani many in 1874 that distinctions in doctrine and ty. “ . . . A condition iike the present, where too ritual between this Church and the Church of often labor and capital are engaged in a gigantic Rome were about to be obliterated. Those who tug of war, means a great waste of effort. It is feared such obliteration sought special legislation not an ultimate solution, simply a milestone in the to combat the “ error.” Dr. Smith pointed out that world’s history, and a very real and valuable one. the regular prerequisites to ordination protected . . . Increasing cooperation between the employers the Church, and that to determine doctrine and and the workers will I believe point the way ritual within narrow limits would impair the com towards a condition far better than the present prehensiveness of this Church. “ Our Church,” struggle. ...” A beautiful paternalism shines said he, “ stands in the position of recognizing very through Mr. Clark’s paper, but he makes no reply wide differences as legitimate and as constituting either to Dr. Grant’s statistics or to Mrs. Simkho- no obstacle to communion or fellowship.” These vitch’s quotation of a man “ whose mind was full “ very wide differences” are expressed in the of the bitterness of reprisal, whose whole being Church Congress today, representing as it does was centered on the permanent economic over “the comprehensiveness of this Church.” throw not only of the Central Empire but also Later rectors of the Church of the Ascension of the continuance of the economic domination in also supported the Church Congress. Dr. E. Win our own country of the existing classes in power. chester Donald was on the executive committee in I asked him,” Mrs. Simkhovitch continued, “ how 1885 and again in 1899 to serve until 1902; Dr. he squared his point of view with the Christian Percy Stickney Grant spoke at the Congresses of doctrine of love. He said he didn’t, that he had 1896, 1900, 1919. In 1919 his subject was “ The reflected on this matter and that, he couldn’t logi Need of an American Labor Party,” shared with cally regard himself longer as a Christian. ‘The Mrs. Mary Simkhovitch and Mr. B. Preston Christian philosophy is a dangerous one,’ he said, Clark. ‘it undermines the existing social order; it pre- Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 28, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Seven supposes changes too vast to face with anything Hymns We Love but dismay.’ ” ODAY, under the leadership of the present HRISTIANITY cannot escape its Jewish back Trector of the Church of the Ascension and a C grounds. Advent hymnology is full of the working committee containing within itself “ very longings of the Old Testament. The ancient hope wide differences,” the Church Congress continues of redemption in history and at the goal of history its tradition of exploring a wide variety of sub is nowhere better revealed than in 0 Come, O jects of importance to Church people, theological Come, Emmanuel, a Latin hymn of the twelfth and sociological topics, matters of belief, policy, century. Although of Latin origin, it is really a practice. These are dealt with in quarterly pa poetical version of the twelfth article of the Jew pers written by people who disagree with each ish creed: “ I believe with perfect faith in the com other on many points, but who are all welcome to ing of the Messiah; and though He tarry, I will “ the most unrestrained utterance of individual wait daily for His coming.” The longing of the opinion.” Miss Evelyn Underhill, Dr. A. E. Tay human race for Emmanuel, God-with-us, for the lor of Edinburgh, the Rev. Messrs. Joseph Fletch Eternal Maker of sun and stars to enter human er, J. Howard Melish, Edward R. Hardy, Jr., and life, is in this hymn. But it glows even more with others of like standing have written recently for the vision of the triumph of the light over the this movement. blackouts of time and life, and with the joyous January brings the final paper in a year’s pro anticipation of the coming of the Redeemer who gram on “ The Episcopal Church and Reunion,” shall redeem and rule all of human life. inaugurated last April by the Rev. C. C. Richard 0 come, O come, Emmanuel, '' ' son of Union Seminary with a paper on “ The Pro And ransom captive Israel; posed Concordat: a Venture in Unity.” Bishop That mourns in lonely exile here, Wilson followed in July with “ Some Alternatives Until the son of God appear. to the Concordat,” and October saw a Symposium Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel on the Concordat by the Rev. Messrs. C. A. Simp Shall come to thee, 0 Israel. son, C. W. Lowry, Felix Cirlot. The last paper in —Charles Granville H a m il t o n . this series considers “ The Question of Reunion with the East,” written by the Rev. Percy V. Nor wood, professor of ecclesiastical history at the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. In April, 1941, the Church Congress will offer a PERMANENCY timely syllabus based on the present crisis and en titled, “ What Is Going to Happen to the Christian Church in the Next Twenty-Five Years?” Freedom to express one’s own belief and opin ion has always been a mark of both the Church of the Ascension and the Church Congress. In neither is there much comfort for the “ I’m always right” people. Indeed the Church Congress en courages the open presentation of conflicting views, seeking to resolve them into a truth larger than either. Out of such resolutions of conflict, such seeking together for sound answers to the deepest questionings of the heart, grows a depth and breadth of understanding which can bridge those “ very wide differences” and help the Church to act as a harmonious whole. T h e Church of the Ascension’s 100th year at Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street Amusing proves that worthwhile institutions can continue with ever-growing strength and AWSON, who wears a ten cent necktie with a influence in a changing world. D sixty dollar suit, is no more amusing than Rawson, who earns three thousand dollars a year A R L I N E PRESSnew york and pledges twenty-five cents a week to his church.— T he Church m ouse.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS November 28, 1940 ASCENSION CHURCH NEWS NOTES OF RECEIVES PRAISE OF THE CHURCH IN DEAN WASHBURN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS On Sunday, November 17th, the Edited by G e r a r d T e a s d a l e 100th anniversary of tne building of In order to find out the status of the Church of the Ascension on its women in Protestant Churches the present site was commemorated with Federal Council of Churches, of two special services of thanksgiving which the Episcopal Church is now a and rededication. The preacher at member, sent out a large number of the morning service was the Very questionnaires to women of ten de Rev. Henry B. Washburn, dean- nominations, through the national or emeritus of the Episcopal Theologi ganizations of these churches. “ How cal School, Cambridge, Massachu much can a woman do in the church?” setts. In reviewing the century and “ what positions of leadership through which the Ascension has can she attain?” were two questions stood on the corner of Fifth Avenue for which answers were sought. Of and Tenth Street, Dean Washburn all those replying, 71.4 per cent think said, “ It is the content of time that that women should be represented on determines its age and value. . . . It at least some of the national boards is the life this building has lived, the of the church, while a few others interests that have prospered within would have them serve only when it, the influence it has had within the there is a real scarcity of men to do community and the country that the work. Sixteen per cent either make of these one hundred years a say that women should not serve or significant period. . . . The people who express fear that the men will drop have worshipped here have lived out if the women are included on gov through and had their part in the sig DEAN WASHBURN erning boards. Of the remainder, nificant events of nearly two-thirds 7.1 per cent think that church women of our country’s history.” are satisfied, either with their present There were wars in abundance dur sensitively to the needs of the chang representation or “ to let the men do ing that period, Dean Washburn said ing times. it.” Episcopalians gave the smallest — the Mexican, the Civil, the Span The lectors at the morning service positive vote for the service of wom ish-American, and the World Wars. were the Rev. J. V. Moldenhawer, en on the church boards, 45.3 per Horse-and-buggy and stage-coach minister of The First Presbyterian days gave way to the automobile and Church, New York, and Dr. Harold cent. Probably the most important rea the streamlined express; the clipper W. Dodds, president of Princeton son for objecting to women on the ship to* clipper airplane. Anaesthetics University. The Rt. Rev. Charles K. governing boards is one not often were discovered. Candles and gas Gilbert, Suffragan Bishop of New stressed in the comments—tradition light were replaced by electricity. But York, pronounced the benediction. is against it. “ In my secret soul I essentially, Dean Washburn con In the procession at the morning am shocked at the idea of a woman tinued, “ These past one hundred service were over 75 representatives being a deacon or a trustee in my years have been fateful for religion. of educational institutions, historical own church,” says a Baptist woman. While other congregations and other societies, the churches, and welfare Several who disapproved referred to regions of the Church have been be organizations. Among those who par the Bible for authority. On the other wildered and shaken to their founda ticipated were the British and French hand an Episcopalian from Georgia tions, this building has sheltered a Consul Generals, representing their writes that they have had women on people standing four-square to the respective Ambassadors. Included in the vestry of her parish, a large one, Gospel.” the educational group were President for eight years. “ The men welcome In speaking o f the Rev. Percy Arlo Ayres Brown of Drew Univer the women’s assistance as there are Stickney Grant, fifth rector of the sity; President Gordon Keith Chal certain parish interests which con parish, Dean Washburn compared his mers of Kenyon College, Gambier, cern the women more than men. The immaculate dress—“ the silk hat and Ohio; the Rev. George E. Rath repre interest of the men has certainly in morning coat, the well-pressed trous senting Columbia University; Dean creased since we have had women in ers, the well-polished shoes, the cane, Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard the vestry.” “ It is taxation without the gloves— but for the clerical waist College; Professor W. L. Carr, rep representation,” when the money the coat more like a London city banker resenting Teachers College; Dr. Ed women raise is spent by the men than a parson” —with his strong so win S. Burdell, director of Cooper without consultation, some complain. cial consciousness. He was “ one who Union; Dean Alexander S. Zabriskie Another Episcopalian writes: “ Wom was willing to run revolutionary of Virginia Theological Seminary; en are the more active church mem risks for the sake of the Kingdom of the Rev. Professor Frederick C. bers and workers and therefore God, one whose heart beat with that Grant, of Union Theological Semi should have just as much to say in of the discouraged, the bewildered, nary; Dr. Max Arzt, representing the the government of the church.” the mistaken, the visionary.” Jewish Theological Seminary of “ It is a rare and noble heritage in America; the Rev. Professor Burton A good many persons would like to which this congregation has come,” Scott Easton, representing General to see some boards, if not all, evenly Dean Washburn said in conclusion. Theological Seminary; Harry M. Ly- divided between men and women. “ The traditions of this building are denberg, director of the New York Few have any enthusiasm for an of the best. Throughout this fateful Public Library; and Dr. Herbert Bud- overwhelming proportion of women. century packed full of revolutionary ington Wilcox, director of the New Many are anxious for a minority of events in virtually every aspect of York Academy of Medicine. women. But there is another far life the Christian faith, cultivated In other groups were George Blu- more fundamental reason, the study and encouraged within these walls, menthal, president of the Metropoli states, that is only hinted in these has steadily enlarged and enriched tan Museum of Art; Mrs. Mary K. arguments: the need for joint plan and has steadily adjusted itself more (Continued on page 15) ning of church work so that both men

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 28, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Nine and women may understand the needs tions. If he possesses these qualities o f the church as a whole. Harriet and a wife who will neither offend Harmon Dexter, editor of the Church any one nor outshine her husband, he Woman, says, “ A fellowship would is eligible for a country parish. To imply that in planning the work of climb to a city pulpit he must have the church the entire membership still other qualifications—the oratori should be represented, men, women cal fire of Savonarola— a society doc and young people . . . because as tor’s bedside manner.” members of a fellowship each has a contribution to make to the total pro Porto Alegre Anniversary gram of Christianity.” That this is To Be Celebrated the crux of the matter was recognized The 200th anniversary of the as such by many of those who replied colonization of Porto Alegre, Brazil, to the questionnaire. An Episcopa will be celebrated at a union service lian thinks that women could be “ in of Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist valuable particularly in the formu and Baptist Churches of the city on lating of policies and the creating of November 17. There is to be a mass wholesome, unified, parish and dioce service in a city park, with Bishop san programs.” Pithan of Southern Brazil as the principal speaker. Under the direc Concerning the Episcopal Church tion of Maestro Leo Schnieder, choir the study shows that the canon on master of Trinity Church, the com membership in the House of Deputies bined choirs of the churches will sing. limits it to men. And the recent * * * General Convention came in for criti George Washington cism in the answers of Episcopalians BISHOP GILBERT who stated that the Convention paid Calls For Christian Action Attended Services Here no attention whatever to the care Plans are under way for the re fully prepared report of the commit storation of St. Peter’s Church in tee of the Auxiliary on the impor abilities gain for them greatér rec New Kent county, Virginia. It was tant matter of marriage and divorce ognition. erected in 1703. George Washington until a leading Auxiliary member in and his bride, Martha Dandridge sisted that a digest of the women’s News Notes Custis, attended services at this old findings be read. Of Rhode Island church. The building was used as a This month the diocese of Rhode stable by the Union forces in the Each diocese of the Church decides Island celebrated its 150th anniver for itself whether women shall be sary. At the anniversary service, No delegates to their diocesan conven vember 17, Bishop Noel B. Hudson of tions and shall be allowed to serve on England was the special preacher, vestries. In about one-third of the with the head of the diocese, Bishop dioceses women are allowed, legally, Perry and his Suffragan, Bishop Ben to be delegates, though in many in nett, and Bishops Johnson and At stances no woman has ever served in wood in the chancel. . . . The Provi that capacity. There are four wom dence police board is getting into en now who serve as members of the trouble with certain civic rights as National Council, a comparatively re sociations, including, it is said, the cent concession to the ladies. As for Civil Liberties Union, because they parishes, the replies indicated that in insist on censoring and refusing per about a third of the parishes repre mission to certain movie and other sented by the answers women are al productions to exhibit in Providence. lowed to serve on vestries, but that . . . The annual meeting of the cor there were women serving on less poration of the St. Elizabeth Home than half of the vestries where they for convalescents was held at the are eligible. In most of the parishes where they do serve, the replies home in Providence on November 19. . . . The annual diocesan mission sale seemed to indicate, it is because the was held November 19-20, at Grace parishes were so small that men could Church, Providence. not to be found to fill the positions. Tribute was paid in the report how * * * ever to the diocese of Massachusetts Definition of which has allowed women representa a Good Parson tion on important boards and com Here is a definition of a good par mittees far in excess of other dio son, found in One Foot in Heaven, a ceses. biography of a midwestem Metho The findings, based upon 5,380 dist written by his son, Hartzell questionnaires, of which 380 were Spence : “ To be worth his salt, a from Episcopalians, reveal that wom preacher must be sincerely pious, en are genuinely disturbed over their narrow to the point of bigotry in his lack of representation. It is evident private life, a master politician with that in most denominations there is both his parish and the higher church little opportunity for “ the woman’s organization, and a financial juggler viewpoint” to be officially expressed. just a step up the heavenly ladder The report also concludes that this from Wall Street. Above all he must means a real loss to the Church, es have a quick wit, the courage of a pecially since trained women seek first-century martyr, and a stomach other fields of activity where their that will not complain of meager ra-

Civil War. The restoration will cost the Rev. Samuel Cavert, executive the total attendance at the National about $20,000. secretary of the Federal Council of Christian Mission at Houston, Texas, Churches, to which the Episcopal reached over 80,000. Mr. Hamilton represented the Episcopal Church in Church Flag Unfurled Church now belongs. The chief this united undertaking sponsored by in New York speaker at the meeting was Clarence almost all the Protestant churches of The first parish in New York, and Pickett, the director of the American the city. He spoke to the ministerial perhaps in the country, to use the Friends Service Committee, an or alliance, preached at the last noon new Church flag adopted at General ganization which is already at work day meeting at Christ Church to a Convention was the Heavenly Rest. in German occupied territory. packed church with many standing, Rector Henry Darlington unfurled * * * a large one over the entrance of the church on November 10th, the gift of Interfaith Group the young people of the parish. Studies Religion At the Woman’s College of the ONE FIFTH AVENUE University of North Carolina at Presiding Bishop Backs Greensboro, Protestants, Jews and Exquisitely appointed suites American Bible Society Catholics gather each Tuesday and of two and three rooms, Presiding Bishop Tucker issued a Thursday in an interfaith program of statement on November 22nd urging religious education, featuring devo with or without furnishings. Church people to observe Sunday, tions and discussions of creed and be December 8th, as Bible Sunday and to liefs. Exceptional cuisine with support the work of the American * * * special features for com Bible Society. “ Our Church,” says munion and wedding parties. Bishop Tucker, “ has been doing very Hamilton a Leader at Houston Mission much less than its full share in sup 1 Fifth Avenue, at 8th Street porting the American Bible Society. The Rev. Charles G. Hamilton of Can your church not take a special Mississippi was one of the reasons offering to meet the serious problems » resulting from the present wars?” 4 9 4 » ^ * * 4 ► 4 9 Churchmen Discuss 4 9 Aid For Europe 4 * 4 * Leading Churchmen of New York 4 9 4 MONG those who are congratulating the Church of ► met on Monday, November 25th, to 4 9 discuss the responsibility of the 4 The Ascension on its completion of ONE HUNDRED ► 4 9 churches, and of American citizens 4 YEARS of service to the community, may we also offer * generally, for helping to feed the 4 9 4 our congratulations and best wishes for its future. I starving people of Europe. The meet 4 ► 4 ing was under the auspices of the 4 The Hotel Brevoort, a close neighbor for over 95 years World Alliance for International 4 4 in this old Knickerbocker section of Fifth Avenue, has Friendship through the churches, with 4 4 during that period, been witness to the great work of Methodist Bishop McConnell the 4 chairman of the committee sponsor 4 progress accomplished by this outstanding church. 4 ing the meeting. Others among the 4 sponsors were Presiding Bishop Tuck 4 4 er; the Rev. Henry Sloan Coffin, 4 4 president of the Union Seminary, and 4 4 4 4 4 Hotel Brevoort 4 4 Fifth Avenue at Eighth Street 4 4 New York 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 28, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven and served as chaplain for the week the chaplain and on the faculty of approval the prayer of an English- for the Milby High School with over Okolona Industrial School. For a child: “ Dear Heavenly Father, please, 1,300 students. All told he spoke to time he was the principal of the high bless my mother and father, nurse 23 groups in one week. school at Hamilton, and is at present and my dog, Sport; bless all my rela * * * a member of the state legislature. tives and all the children everywhere;, Meeting of Youth Yet he finds time to contribute ar and, dear God, please take good care of Long Island ticles regularly for newspapers and of yourself because without you we: Presiding Bishop Tucker was the magazines, with a column called would be sunk.” headliner at the sixth annual mass The World Goes On being a syndi meeting of the young people of the cated feature in many newspapers. Bishop Gilbert Calls diocese of Long Island, meeting at * * * for Christian Action the cathedral in Garden City. The Lexington Hears Bishop Charles K. Gilbert of New conference was attended by over 700 About Alaska York, preaching on Thanksgiving at youngster^ representing most of the Setting itself the task of raising in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, parishes and missions of the diocese. creasing funds for the work of the said that the Christian philosophy Church in Alaska, the diocese of Lex must be translated into action if it is. George F. Dudley ington in recent weeks has held a to withstand totalitarian ideologies. Dies series of Alaska Days. The headliner “ The latter,” he said, “ have a way of The Rev. George F. Dudley, for at most of the meetings was Captain implementing themselves in action, o f forty-four years the rector of St. Ste Albert Sayers, now stationed at Iron- commandeering the loyalty, service phen’s, Washington, D. C., died on ton, Ohio, who served for a year in November 18th in his 74th year. He the Alaska field. In addition to sup retired in 1937 but a few months la porting the Alaska work next year, ter accepted the rectorship of St. the diocese is also to raise funds for George’s, Rumson, New Jersey, which the support of Miss Gertrude Lester, he was serving at the time of his teacher in the cathedral school in THE PARK death. Havana, Cuba. ^ Hi ^ Called to Parish Minnesota Clergyman in Rumson Killed in Accident FL ORIST The Rev. H. Fairfield Butt 3rd, The Rev. Charles W. Baxter of St. chaplain at West Point, has accepted Peter, Minnesota, was killed in an S. H. CALAMARAS the rectorship 'of St. George’s automobile accident on November Church, Rumson, New Jersey, effec 17th. He was returning from a serv tive January 15th. ice in Henderson when his car skid ded on the icy highway and was hit ★ Bishop Creighton by a truck. He was in charge of Addresses Auxiliary churches at St. Peter, Henderson, Bishop Creighton of Michigan was Belle Plaine, Le Center and Le Sueur; the speaker on November 25 at the was a member of the Bishop and 1 1 5 East 34th Street meeting of the diocesan Auxiliary, Council of the diocese of dean of the held at All Saints’, Detroit. On No Mankato deanery. He was forty-nine New York City vember 26th he took part in the serv years 'of age. Hi Hi Hi ice which marked the 70th anniver CAIedonia 5-9320-9321 sary of St. John’s, Midland. Rector Quotes Child’s Prayer Filling a Dozen The Rev. Henry Darlington, Jobs in Mississippi preaching at the Heavenly Rest, New The Rev. Charles G. Hamilton, York, on Thanksgiving, quoted with ★ whose Hymns We Love is announced as a regular feature of The W itness, Formerly 68 Fifth Avenue is a busy man. His parish, he says, is about the size of Palestine, and in Sixty-eight NURSERIES addition he is the pastor of two Pres byterian churches down in Mississip SIXTY-EIGHT RESTAURANT, Montvale, N. J. pi, a Disciples Church, a Baptist Inc. Church and a Community Church. He Number 59 Fifth Avenue, New York also serves the Negro congregation of AL gonquin 4-7765 St. Bernard’s, Okolona, Miss., and is

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS November 28, 1940 and sacrifice of men and women in 1, which this year is being observed “ Britain failed to fall because Ger attaining their objectives. We must on St. Andrew’s Day. many forgot the spirit of the people train, equip and marshal all our hu Hs * ❖ . . . that makes all the difference.” He man energy into service to meet this Bishop Taitt hoped the Church would grow in the assault.” Speaking of the present in Burns a Mortgage same spirit. Bishop Stevens paid ternational situation Bishop Gilbert A delightful church custom oc tribute to the early diocesan work of said that the plight of the world was curred recently when Bishop Taitt of the late Bishop Johnson, first bishop due partly to the selfishness of the Pennsylvania burned a $3,500 mort of Los Angeles. He pointed out that United States which failed to cooper gage paper on the Church of the Res 1940 is also the 45th anniversary of ate with other nations to maintain urrection, Philadelphia, eliminating the founding of the diocese. democracy and freedom. an eleven year old debt. The occa * * * sion was the tenth anniversary of the New England Atmosphere Biennial Meeting rector, the Rev. Samuel D. Ringrose. for a New York Bazaar of Federal Council St. George’s Memorial House in The biennial meeting of the Fed Bishop Johnson’s New York will be transformed into a eral Council of Churches is to be held Widow Dies setting of “ Ye Olde New England at Atlantic City, December 10-13, Mrs. Isabelle Green Davis Johnson, Village” for the fourth annual Christ with six national missionary organi 92, widow of Bishop Joseph Horsfall mas bazaar of St. George’s Church, zations meeting at the same time. The Johnson, first bishop of Los Angeles, to be held on December 5 and 6. world mission of the church; the died on November 11, in her home in Many diversions have been planned. church and the international crisis; Pasadena, California. Her death was the church and social change and mourned by hundreds who know of her work in behalf of education and church unity and cooperation are to GRACE CHURCH IN NEW YORK be the chief matters discussed. Vice- philanthropic institutions. maintains two residence clubs for President J. Thayer Addison of the * * * out of town boys and girls. National Council; Bishop Charles K. Honor Bishops Huntington House for Girls Apply : Miss Theodora Beard Gilbert of New York and Mrs. Augus Gooden and Stevens 94 Fourth Avenue tus Trowbridge of New York are At the services on the campus of House for Young Men Episcopalians on the program. the University of Southern Califor Apply: Mrs. B. H. Keeler- Hs H* * nia, commemorating the 20th anni 88 Fourth Avenue Missionary Writes versary of the consecration of Bishop From Japan Stevens of Los Angeles and the 10th CATHEDRAL STUDIOS “ Our superintendent is Czechoslo anniversary of the consecration of Washington Cr London, England. CHURCH VESTMENTS, plain or embroidered, surplices, vakian, the housekeeper is Swiss, the Suffragan Bishop Gooden, the univer sxquiàite Altar Linens, stoles, burses & veils. sity’s president, Dr. KleinSmid, paid Materials by the yard. See my NEW BOOK physiotherapist Swedish, the surgical “CHURCH EMBROIDERY” & CHURCH VEST supervisor Canadian and the rest of tribute to both bishops. “ We speak MENTS a complete instruction. 128 pages, 95 from hearts filled with gratitude,” he il lus. Price $4.00. And my HANDBOOK for us foreigners are Americans, from ALTAR GUILDS, price '50c. Miss L. V. Mack- Texas, New York, Ohio and Colorado. said, “ for the lives of two men in this riIle, 11 W. 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Proceeds will further the work of Me tion of what military experts regard It has simultaneously announced that morial House in the purchase of as essential to the well-being of the it will propose a further reduction of equipment necessary to enhance its fighting forces, provision of ample twelve million dollars for state aid to service. and varied recreational activities as education in the coming session of * * * well as supplying whatever spiritual the legislature. It was seen that this Episcopalian on guidance may be required. attempt to curb educational facilities Nation Wide Broadcast * * * in New York State and to limit the The Rev. Ralph Meadowcroft, rec Ernest Sinfield civil rights of teachers, if permitted tor of All Angels’, New York, pre Appointed Archdeacon to continue unchecked, cannot fail to senting a new weekly series of devo The Rev. Ernest Sinfield, rector limit the democratic process. Action tional addresses, “ The riddle of life,” since 1935 of Grace Church, White- was called to marshal public opinion will be heard at 1:30 p.m. EST, over stone, New York, has been appointed opposing these dangers at a mass the NBC— Blue Network, beginning archdeacon of Queens and Nassau in meeting held in New York on Novem December 5. The series, designed to the diocese of Long Island and his ber 19th. Headlining speakers were explain the answer to present day rectorship at Whitestone terminates the Rev. William Sharp, Rector of St. problems in the light of Christian December 2. As archdeacon he suc Phillip’s, Garrison, New York, Dr. teachings, will be produced by the ceeds the Ven. Rockland T. Homans, Helen M. Lynd, co-author of “ Middle- Federal Council of Churches. who resigned last April. Mr. Sinfield town,” and Dr. Eduard Lindeman of * *, * was one of the men who incorporated the Civil Liberties Union. Sponsors Archdeacon Simmonds the Church Army in the United Returns to Liberia States, in 1927. The post is an im Archdeacon Harvey Simmonds, portant one for population in the two who has been in this country on fur counties is increasing rapidly and WILBUR HERBERT lough, sailed November 20 for Cape there are large areas as yet unoccu BURNHAM Mount, Liberia, West Africa. Before pied by the Church. he left church officials at the nation * * * Designer and Master al headquarters in New York bid him Sharp Speaks at Conference Craftsman farewell at a special service held in for Democracy in Schools the chapel of the Church Missions There are some people who will not House. Archdeacon Simmonds was take curbs on democracy lying down, STAINED AND forced to leave without his wife who nor are they willing to merely fret LEADED GLASS remained here because of transpor about it. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Fourteen T H E WITNESS November 28, 1940 included Mrs. Sherwood Anderson, the rigorous life of a missionary in Saints’ Mission may go many weeks 'Rockwell Kent, Guy Emery Shipler, the Igorot country. I don’t believe without seeing other white people.” W. B. Spofford, Russell Bowie and many of us at home understand the Franz Boaz. physical endurance required. Elsie A Bit of News Sharp, the U.T.O. worker at Baguio From Denmark Toward a Population whom I met there, told me of a trip We don’t hear much these days Policy to Balbaiasang, our northernmost from little Denmark, but here is a According to the population com mission station in the Islands. First, story with a Stockholm dateline that mittee of the National Economic and a rough two days’ bus trip over a was sent out by the Nofrontier News Social Planning Association, a well narrow winding road which touches Service: rounded program for financial assist the highest spot in the Philippine An appeal by Danes in London ance to prospective parents is the highway system, hugs cliffs and was sent out recently over the radio -only way to avoid a dangerous de skirts dizzy precipices and is con to all of their fellow-countrymen the cline in America’s birthrate. The tinually threatened by landslides; world over to join in solid support of population committee states that the then a long, lonely day-and-a-half trip the popularly elected regime of Thor- birthrate must be increased in on foot via steep, rocky, mountain vald Stauning and of King Christian. .groups with superior educational and trails, alone except for her native At the same time, they declared that economic advantages, and that the Igorot guides, through country peo it was now time for Danes to take up heavy burden of replacement of pled only by uncivilized natives. population must be lightened in “ dis Yet the few missionaries who work advantaged” groups. Measures for a at the mission at Balbaiasang are Tel. GRamercy 5-4151-4152 national population program, based happy and contented there, in spite on a two year study, advocated by of its remoteness and inaccessibility. University Flower Shop the committee are: 1. A positive pro All food and supplies must be packed G. Sakas gram of economic expansion which in by the native carriers, mail is in ■will assure greater economic security frequent and civilization is many 51 University Place, S. E. Cor. 10th St. and equality. 2. Development of hours of travel time away. In Bon- New York specific measures to moderate the toc, too, the few workers at All economic handicaps now experienced "by families with several children as compared with childless couples or families with only one or two chil THE GROSVENOR takes pleasure in extending felicitations to dren. 3. Provision for scientific information under medical auspices the Rector, Officials and Staff of The Church of the Ascension concerning methods of contraception upon the occasion of celebrating one hundred years of inestimable for all potential parents. 4. Pro service to the nearby community and to the City of New York. vision of equality of opportunity, "without regard to income for medical It also seems appropriate to express our appreciation of the care and educational opportunities. -5. Adjustments to facilitate the com patronage of many members of the Church who have lived here bination for women of child-bearing or directed friends and acquaintances to our door. Many have and economic activities outside the also favored us by holding small functions and enjoying Sunday "home. dinner here. Philippine Missionary Life Told First hand impressions of work in the Philippines come from a former United Thank Offering custodian, The GROSVENOR Mrs. Roswell Blair. “ One of my first Fifth Avenue at Tenth Street impressions,” Mrs. Blair writes, “ was ★

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 28, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Fifteen the fight against German troops of ASCENSION CHURCH RECEIVES members of the parish and their occupation and to organize resis PRAISE OF DEAN WASHBURN friends met at an anniversary din tance. ner. The Rev. Donald B. Aldrich, rector, presided. The speakers were It is learned here that the demand (Continued from page 8) the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, of the Nazi leader in Denmark, Fritz Simkhovitch, director of Greenwich Bishop of New York; Dr. Gordon Clausen, that Premier Stauning be House; William Schieffelin, president Keith Chalmers, president of Kenyon removed from office and sent into of the Huguenot Society of America; College; the Rev. John Gass,' rector exile, has met with unexpectedly and Hardinge Scholle, director of the of the Church of the Incarnation, stiff resistance from the people. Lib Museum of the City of New York. New York; Royal Cortissoz, art edi eral circles are asking for a new Six of the eight oldest Protestant tor of the New York Herald-Tribune; election which would give the Ger church buildings in New York City the Rev. John A. F. Maynard, rector mans and the Danish Nazis final were represented in the procession as of the Eglise du Saint Esprit, New proof that the people as a whole are follows: The Rev. Frederic S. Flem York; and the Rev. Edgar F. Romig, still backing their democratic regime ing, rector of Trinity Parish; Richard to the hilt, and will tolerate no out pastor, West Ehd Collegiate Church, A. Zerega, warden of St. Mark’s New York. side attempts to undermine it. Church-in-the-Bouwerie; the Rev. That the Germans are alarmed Walter S. Pura, of St. John’s Evan over the possibility of organized re gelical Lutheran Church; the Rev. STuyvesant 9-7370 sistance in Denmark is indicated by Edward H. Schlueter, vicar of St. the fact that all choral clubs in the Luke’s Chapel; Dr. William M. Pat HUDSON HAND LAUNDRY country have been suppressed. If terson, senior warden of St. Peter’s this seems a curious move for the Launderers and Dry Cleaners for the Church; the Rev. George E. Wright, Most Discriminative German authorities to make, it must associate pastor of the John Street Nathan Luber, Manager be remembered that the Danes prob Methodist Episcopal Church. ably more than any other people in At the evening Service of Thanks 64 West 9th Street, New York Citv the world are devotees of group sing giving and Praise in Music there were ing, and that there is no community some seventy clergymen in the pro in the land without its choral club, Variety of Floral Decoration cession, including many from the Green Plants by artist from attended by the greater part of the Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Louis the Land of Flowers inhabitants. Therefore if organized W. Pitt, rector of Grace Church, New passive resistance were to be started, York, read the lesson, and the Rt. M 3 ppon Studio^ 0 it is almost certain that these clubs Rev. Theodore R. Ludlow, Suffragan would serve as the local cells. To Bishop of Newark, gave the benedic y( C&k Flower Shop song-loving Danes the suppression of tion. the choral clubs will be a source of On the following evening, Monday, We send flowers 164 ' West 4th Street bitter discontent. November 18th, over five hundred by wire Chelsea-2-5080

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