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STORY OF THE WEEK tion, which went ahead with preliminary plans wherever it General Convention Moved is held. Chicago had first been chosen at the 1952 Convention To Another City so that it is possible that it will again extend an invitation. publication. BISHOP SHERRILL SAYS WITNESS OF CHURCH Bishop Quin, who did not at- tend the New York meeting, and TIME OF CRISIS MUST BE CLEAR IN presumably because he knew reuse In this in advance of the Presiding * Bishop Sherrill announced ent as of the future. for decision, told report- decision I have struggled to Bishop's on June 8th that the 1955 Gen- that he was only the welfare of ers in Houston eral Convention would not meet consider our Church. I ask only that in disappointed.

required His state- in Houston, Texas. "There has been a deter- : whatever may be said or writ- ment follows mined underground effort to "Under the provision of the undermine the Houston con- Constitution of the Protestant vention, and they have got Permission Episcopal Church, Article I, their work done," he said. Section 7, I have decided that The background of the issue

DFMS. the General Convention will not briefly in the / was presented meet in Houston in 1955. This Witness editorial of May 27th, has been the most painful and which ended with "a salute to Church difficult decision I have ever Bishop Quin and his associates been called upon to make. I for giving it a good try" and have the greatest affection and calling upon t h e Presiding

Episcopal admiration for Bishop Quin. I Bishop to exercise the author- doubt as to the the have had grave ity given him under the Con- of wisdom of taking this respon- stitution "by moving the Con- sibility. vention to another city." "However, in spite of these

Archives of Mass. issued considerations I am convinced Bishop Nash on that on both the international the following statement 2020. and the national level, the scene June 9th: has altered radically even since "As chairman of the General the General Convention of 1952, Convention's committee to re- Copyright indeed within the past month. ceive invitations for the next BISHOP SHEHBILL We live in a time of crisis. In General Convention, I opposed such a time, on the eve of the ten about this question, the the action taken by the Con- meetings of the Anglican Con- spread of the Gospel as this vention in Boston in 1952, ac- gress and the World Council of Church has received the same cepting the invitation from Churches, I am certain that be the only consideration. Houston. the witness of our Church must "Plans for a meeting place "The diocesan convention of be so clear that it need not be for the 1955 Convention must Mass. in 1953 passed a resolu- explained. await further determination." tion urging that the General "I am aware that this deci- The announcement was made Convention go elsewhere. I am, sion will be met by a mixed following a meeting in New therefore, greatly pleased at response. I am thinking, how- York of the committee on Bishop Sherrill's decision. Par- ever, not so much of the pres- arrangements for the Conven- ticularly in view of the recent

Three THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 decision of the United States best interests of Bishop Quin METHODISTS ACT Supreme Court against segre- and his committee, I think it ON DECISION gation in education, it seems is wise that the Presiding to me an admirable decision by Bishop is changing the place * Action aimed at integra- the Presiding Bishop of the where the General Convention tion of the races in the Method- Episcopal Church." will meet so there will be no ist churches of Maryland, the In New York, Bishop Done- question but that delegates re- District of Columbia, and parts gan commented as follows: "In gardless of color will be able to of West Virginia and Pennsyl- the light of the genuine doubt express in their time together vania was taken by Baltimore whether really non segregated the brotherhood which is so ba- Methodist Conference at its an- facilities could have been pro- sic to the teaching of the nual meeting. vided in Houston even with the Church itself." More than 600 ministers and lay leaders asked the confer- ence's 546 churches to study the possibility of becoming in- terracial "wherever favorable Intervention in Indo-China opportunities p r e s e n t them- publication. selves." and Opposed by Quakers They also went on record as favoring the admission of Ne- reuse groes to three conference-sup-

for * Opposition to United States government of Viet Nam, as ported institutions - Western military intervention in Indo- well as the governments of Maryland College, Westminster, China was expressed by the Laos and Cambodia, with econ- American University, Wash- required executive board of the Amer- omic assistance. ington, D. C.; and Westminster ican Friends Service Commit- " ... America's best hope is Theological Seminary and urged tee. to channel the revolution (in church members to cooperate The Quaker group also urged Permission Indo-China) in ways that will "in good spirit" with school the admission of Communist mitigate its violence and turn authorities as the latter ar- China into the United Nations. it toward democratic ideals," range to end segregation in the DFMS.

/ It said this step would facili- the statement said. public schools. tate a settlement in Indo-China It added that a just and dur- Negro Methodist churches in and provide an opportunity for able peace in Asia "depends on

Church the Conference area are organ- "face to face" negotiation. stabilizing the whole Asian ized into a separate body with The statement called upon scene." This is a task that their own bishop. Americans to "understand that can best be handled by the

Episcopal Rejection of "all totalitarian the legitimate yearnings of U.N., the Quakers said, "pro- methods in combatting Com- the Asian peoples are for indepen.- vided that body can be returned of munism" was called for in an- dence and for a better standard to its original status as a other adopted resolution which of life." form for the settlement of opposed "any attempt to con- "These disputes. Archives are the fundamental demn men as Communists or issues in the present raging "We believe that in the pres- near Communists by innuendo,

2020. Indo - Chinese resolution," it ent world the attempt to con- newspaper clippings and said, "and they are not issues vert the U.N. into an instru- rumor." that can be met by military ment of collective security A report condemning racial threats."

Copyright courts disaster and that it discrimination was approved by would The Quakers suggested that be far wiser to streng- some 1,200 delegates represent- U. S. policy embrace these then its mediation machinery ing the 450 churches of the steps: and support the principle of Methodist conference that cov- Support of an immediate universal membership," the ers eastern Tennessee and parts cease-fire; continued encour- statement said. of middle Tennessee, Virginia, agement to the French to im- "We believe that a program West Virginia and Georgia. plement their commitments to of this nature could restore The report, prepared by the grant independence; support of U. S. leadership at Geneva, conference's board of social and free elections in Viet Nam and solidify democratic forces, and economic relations, cited a reso- a willingness to abide by the provide a moral basis for a lution adopted by the 1952 gen- results; and a long-range com- policy consistent with Ameri- eral conference saying that "to mitment to provide the new can ideals." discriminate against a person

THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 solely upon the basis of his Communism might leave the by Bishop Arthur C. Litchten- race is both unfair and un- United States open to the evil berger, acting for Bishop Ash- Christian." of Fascism. ton Oldham, retired bishop of It then urged members of Roy Ewing Vale of Indian- Albany and chairman of the the conference to "champion apolis, a former moderator, of- commission. Bishop Lichten- the public schools as an insti- fered the resolution requesting berger spoke of the increasing tution fundamental to a dem- the assembly to "adopt and importance of contemporary ocracy" and to encourage the proclaim" the letter as "its own church design because rising "use of community study action in view of certain ten- construction costs are making groups, interracial in composi- dencies dangerous to our nation Colonial and Gothic construc- tion, to evaluate local situation which still persist." tion too expensive for many with reference to the education Before the action was taken, new churches. of its youth." John Sutherland Bonnell, pas- Frederick W. Dunn, St. Louis Another adopted resolution tor of New York, said the reso- architect and a member of the affirmed the conference's con- lution was "one of the most joint commission, stated that fidence in members of the Prot- important to come before our this competition is one phase publication. estant clergy who, it said, assembly, for it goes to the of the Episcopal Church's na- and "have been subjected to unwar- root of our existence as a tion-wide program to try to ranted attack and abusive in- Church." bring the Church back to the reuse nuendo" over the issue of Com- Its approval, he said, would position it once held as a patron for munism. be "true to the highest tradi- of the arts. "We do hold the right and tions of John Knox and John Roth's design, for a hypo- propriety, however, of keeping Witherspoon who were not thetical site in Westchester required alert to any abuses in the so- afraid to grapple with the is- County, N. Y., includes concave cial and economic order which sues that vitally concern the front and rear walls, a sunken violate the mind and spirit of life of the church and nation." terrace, an asymetrical seating arrangement for 300 persons Permission our Lord," it added. Bonnell declared that there is The North Texas Methodist little choice between the "citi- and four stained glass panels conference unanimously e n - zen of the United States who on a side wall. The panels

DFMS. Hor- / dorsed t h e recent Supreme hides his Communist affiliation were designed by Joseph Court decision ending segrega- under the Fifth Amendment" vath, a junior in the Washing- tion in the public schools. It and the "Congressman who ton University school of fine Church called upon Conference mem- slanders the character of wor- arts. bers to "support the spirit of thy citizens of this nation un- The winning designs are to the decision with Christian love der the cloak of Congressional be exhibited at the 1955 Gen- Episcopal and wisdom." immunity." eral Convention. the Through its letter, he added, of MACKEY SUPPORTED the general council "raised a CAMBRIDGE HAS BY ASSEMBLY standard to which all who love GRADUATION * In an unprecedented action, American freedom and justice * Bishop Lichtenberger of Archives the general assembly of the may repair." Missouri was the preacher on June 3 at the commencement 2020. Presbyterian Church gave a rising vote of confidence to its CHURCH DESIGNS of the Episcopal Theological retiring moderator, John A. WIN PRIZES School when twenty-six men Mackay, who authored "A Let- * In a ceremony at Christ were graduated. Copyright ter to Presbyterians" issued Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Bishop Hobson of Southern last November by the denom- June 7, Harold Roth, a third- Ohio was the preacher at the ination's general council. year student at the Washing- alumni service. At the same time, the Assem- ton University School of archi- bly adopted as its own state- tecture, was awarded the $100 CHICAGO GIVES ment the letter which vigor- first prize for contemparary TO MISSIONS ously objected to certain church design in a national * Parishes of the diocese of Congressional committee inves- competition sponsored by the Chicago increased giving to tigative procedures. The let- joint commission on architec- missions by 41% in the last ter had expressed the council's ture and the allied arts of the five years, though the com- "deep concern" that preoccu- Episcopal Church. municant strength increased pation with the menace of The presentation was made only five percent.

THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 CHURCH CONFERENCE Quotations Called Communist ON PEACE Solidarity with the aims of Actually Are Popes the World Peace Council which convened in East Berlin was voiced by "500 Christians from * A staff member of a Con- which press so heavily at this East and West" during a spe- gressional committee was man- moment (1891) on the large cial conference. euvered into identifying as majority of the very poor. Pastor Johannes Herz, theo- Communist literature quota- "The ancient workmen's logy professor at Leipzig Uni- tions from Papal encyclicals. guilds were destroyed in the versity and president of the The incident took place during last century, and no other or- East German Peace Commit- a special House committee ganization took their place. tee, presided at th? conference hearing on whether tax-free Public institutions and the arranged in connection with foundations are aiding subver- laws have repudiated the an- the Council meeting. The re- sive causes. cient religion. Hence by de- ports said prominent partic- publication. Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D., grees it has come to pass that ipants included Metropolitan working men have been given Nikolai of Krutitsky, a leading and Ohio), a member of the com- mittee had accused staff mem- over, isolated and defenseless, Russian Orthodox p r e late ; of employers reuse ber Thomas M. McNeice of to the callousness Prof. Joseph L. Hromadka, the greed of unrestrained for lifting paragraphs out of their and noted Czech theologian; Bishop content to support his charges competition." Janos Peter of the Hungarian against foundations. The excerpts from Pope Reformed Church, and Father required He handed Mr. McNeice Pius XI were contained in his Jan Piskorz, Vica-Capitular of three quotations and without encyclical Quadragesimo Anno Stalinograd (Katowice), P o - disclosing the source asked ( S o c i a 1 Reconstruction) of land. 1931. They included: In an address to the confer-

Permission him to comment on them. therefore ence, Metropolitan Nikolai said, "All of these are closely "Every effort must fam- "It is our holy duty as Chris- comparable to Communist lit- be made that fathers of

DFMS. iles receive a wage sufficient to tians to join in the mighty / erature that I have read," Mr. chorus of the fight against the McNeice said, adding that meet adequately ordinary do- atom bomb and to raise our "they parallel very closely mestic needs. If in the pres- Church is not voice to a flaming protest Communistic or S o c i a li s t i c ent state of society this against this terrible weapon." ideals." always feasable, social justice demands that reforms be intro- The reports said Prof. Hro- Rep. Hays then said the Episcopal duced without delay which will madka charged that "some quotations came from the writ- the guarantee every adult man Churches continue to think ings of Pope Leo XIII and Pius of such a wage." only of themselves, their own XI, and observed that Mr. Mc- Rep. Hays said he was a interests, privileges and tradi- Neice's comments showed "the Protestant and "I want to em- tions. But we must see and

Archives of lifting paragraphs danger phasize th a t the Catholic love all men, Communists and out of context." Church has been one of the Socialists included, otherwise 2020. "You wouldn't ca 1 1 the greatest bulwarks a g a i n s t we will make no headway." C h u r c h Communist ?" Rep. Communism throughout the In a message of greeting to Hays asked. world." the Council, the churchmen's Copyright "I am not calling the Church Before he knew the identity conference declared that "the Communistic," was the reply. of the authors of the quota- fight against the atom bomb The two quotations from tions, Mr. McNeice told the and all means of mass destruc- Pope Leo XIII were taken committee that "many false tion is regarded by all Chris- from his encyclical Rerum No- statements" have been made tians as a Godly commandment varum (Condition of the Work- about the lack of adequate which we will fulfil at the time ing Classes) written in 1891. wages. in good conscience and in ac- They included the following: A further comment on the tive responsibility." "But all agree, and there Papal excerpts came from Rep. The conference also decided can be no question whatever, B. Carroll Reece (R., Tenn.), to send a similar message to that some remedy must be committee chairman, who said the Assembly of the World found, and quickly found, for they sounded "like the Presi- Council of Churches in Evans- the misery and wretchedness dent." ton, Ill., this August.

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original considered opinion be a threat to national security? Courageous Act Secondly, the board committed itself to a most extraordinary statement: the next BISHOP SHERRILL, in moving "In evaluating advice from a specialist which General Convention from Houston, did a departs from the area of his speciality, govern- his alone courageous thing. The decision was ment officials charged with the military posture to make and we can sympathize with his state- of our country must also be certain that under- ment that it was "the most painful and difficult lying advice is a genuine conviction that this decision I have ever been called upon to make." country cannot in the interests of security We congratulate him for making it. We also have less than the strongest possible offensive publication. congratulate the Church people who have per- capabilities in a time of national danger." and sisted in urging him to do so, particularly the The context makes it clear that the board is three Negroes on Bishop Quin's committee on contrasting a scientist's giving such advice on reuse arrangements. moral (which the Board alternatively calls for We share the Presiding Bishop's affection "emotional") grounds. But our Constitution and admiration for Bishop Quin. As we stated makes it clear that moral questions are no man's required here May 27th, he and his associates did every- speciality and therefore within any man's thing possible to arrange things in Houston so competence. Dr. Oppenheimer's lawyers re- that the Church could have the kind of Conven- mark pertinently: "Does this mean that a loyal scientist called to advise his government does Permission tion it wants. That they failed to overcome the many obstacles is surely no fault of theirs so at his peril if he happens to believe in the and we congratulate them for giving it a good wisdom of maintaining a proper balance be- DFMS. / try. tween offensive and defensive weapons?" And we might add, "Or of maintaining a Perhaps by 1958 the combined pressure of proper balance between expenditure for war and Church religious forces and court decisions will make for peace? Or of thinking of the effect upon a General Convention in Houston possible. We world opinion and of American conscience of hope so. engineering and using certain sorts of weap- Episcopal ons?" If as we suspect it does, then the the

of physicists for their salvation and ours had Dr. Oppenheimer Again better learn shorthand, typing, and double- entry bookkeeping and get a new job. Archives Also since our last editorial we have been our editorial of May 20, we are not reading about the criticism in the Atomic 2020. SINCE surprised to read that the special Personnel Energy Commission itself of one-man rule by Security Board of the Atomic Energy Commis- Rear Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, an Eisenhower sion refused, by a 2-1 vote, to reinstate the appointee. Sufficient evidence of the area of Copyright clearance of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer to discontent was the announcement on May 21 of handle classified documents on atomic energy. the imminent resignation of Dr. James G. We are surprised by the board's disingenuous- Beckerley, Director of Classification (of secur- ness at a couple of points. First, when the ity) of the A.E.C. It is clear then even to an board was supposed to be considering him as a outsider that Dr. Oppenheimer's troubles are security risk, it was most improper to intro- somehow connected with Admiral Strauss's duce evidence of his "lack of enthusiasm" for ascendancy. It had been thought that Mr. the program to develop the H-bomb which he Eisenhower's administration had allayed fears had previously opposed. The commission of military control of the government; it seems might have asked a consultant unsympathetic that the rejoicing was premature. to its policies to resign or might have fired It is also becoming clear that anxiety in the him; but how can a man's continuing in his White House to forestall Senator McCarthy's

THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 Seven criticism is inducing an attitude very difficult fact that the phrase "separate but equal" is a to distinguish from McCarthyism. contradiction in terms. We can therefore conclude, as before, that a Apart from the revolution in the social pat- beneficent Providence is leading our govern- terns of the South thus set in motion, is an ment forcibly to oust the physicists from those even more far-reaching effect which will come studies that a sensitive conscience should al- out of this new touchstone for racial justice. ready have been urging them to relinquish In the past, cases for integration in schools, voluntarily; for the long-term good of us all. housing, employment, usually had to be con- structed on some other issue such as that the Caesar Outstrips Us physical facilities of a given school were not up to the standards of the others. Now, how- LIBERAL-MINDED, peace-loving people had ever, integration in all areas may be fought almost come to the point of wondering for in the courts on its own merits. One can- whether the country could ever shake off the not even comprehend what may issue out of chains that bind; the fear, dishonesty, and this possibility. confusion which has brought compromise and publication. We shout "Hallelujah," but as we do, we paralysis in our government. realize with shame that we use the language and Then, like a clean wind sweeping in from of the most segregated institution of its size the sea, came the Supreme Court decision on in America, the Christian Church. Timid reuse segregation in the schools. No compromise,

for Christians, do you still hang back? You have no captiousness, no narrow legalism ties it to broken the law of Christ these many years, for particular cases. The decision establishes on the law of Caesar excused the breaking of it. required the ground of human dignity and sociological To whom do you now turn to justify yourselves? Permission THE GREAT NEEDS OF TODAY DFMS.

/ By Henry Knox Sherrill Commencement Address at Wheaton College

Church gratefully accept all the unquestionably un- ORTY-THREE years ago I graduated from college. I hesitate to make this admission mixed blessings of Western industrial civil- because the members of the graduating class ization. Episcopal may wonder how I am able to be up and about. Sin by perhaps the majority was considered the I do so only because of the great contrast be- wholly out of date. A popular quotation was of tween the times of 1911 and those of 1954. It a statement of Sir Oliver Lodge: "A modern was an easier task in some ways to give a man is not thinking of his sins, he is up and commencement address then, for the world was Archives doing." To the members of the graduating infinitely simpler. Compared to today all our class life seemed singularly stable, with count-

2020. modern conveniences such as the telephone, less opportunities and with only the personal the phonograph, even electricity were in their anxieties which are a part of life in any age. infancy. An auto would have been greeted in Even if those of us who had decided to enter

Copyright many sections with the accustomed raucous the ministry, did not wholly share this com- cry, "Get a horse." placent view of the world, nevertheless, there It was an era of extreme optimism. There was no thought of impending tragedy. A few were so called international incidents but a years later in 1914, I attended a Student Vol- world war in which the United States would unteer convention for which the slogan was: be engaged on foreign soil was beyond the "The Evangelization of the World in this possibility of imagination. With the rapid Generation." development of science, it was confidently felt Well, we all know what has transpired since, that with the increase of knowledge, man would with the advent of two world wars, plus Korea. inevitably grow better and better. Through Years of uncertainty stretching into the in- colonization known as the white man's burden, definite future are upon us. The hydrogen undeveloped people would in time gladly and bomb poses as a possibility, if not a probabil.

THE WITNESS -- JUNE 24, 1954 ity, the destruction of all life. We have Committees and Civil Rights, Academic Free- witnessed in our time acts of cruelty, calculated dom and Communism, Red China and the evil, on a scale unparalleled in human history United Nations, Free Enterprise and govern- and the end is not in sight. During the last mental subsidies to mention only a few explo- war it was my duty to visit our armed forces. sive subjects. People were always asking in the light of war We have come to the point where many seem conditions how do men react. The answer is to feel that the end justifies the means. Moral that in general they acted as could be.expected. standards and judgments, knowledge of the Men of faith and of character deepened under facts give way to unreasoning emotional de- the terrible impact. Those with no such spirit- nunciation. Epithets take the place of discus- ual strength went downhill. As we face the sion. On the one hand the terms Communist, realities of our day the same response will be Socialist, egg head, do gooder, bleeding heart, found. It will be possible for some to say "Let traitor, are hurled, and from other sources we us eat and drink and be merry for tomorrow hear such phrases as exploiters, the giveaway we die." Others may have an attitude of hope- and the plunder boys. I speak from some ex- less resignation. While still others will see in perience. Let anyone take a stand on almost publication. the present situation a tremendous stimulus to any of these and other questions and he is and do and to be in agreement with Rupert Brooke's deluged with letters, signed and anonymous, cry, "God be thanked who hath matched us of the most unreasonable and vituperative reuse with this hour." nature. for Great Issues One difficulty is that many people tend to be absolutists. A question has only one answer. tremendous issues required CERTAINLY the most A matter is either white or black. Whereas are at stake today. In the history of man- the truth is, in this imperfect world, most may pass many years which can be kind there questions, particularly in. the political field, summarized in a text book in a few paragraphs. I am not saying Permission are not of such easy solution. Then there are those turning points which are that no decisions should be made. But these so crucial that they determine the course of decisions should be made on the basis of knowl-

DFMS. events for many years to come. / edge, poise, and cool judgment. Unfortunately Beyond any question an era of such char- common sense does not necessarily go with a acter is the present. The decisions now made degree and many college graduates are

Church college will affect our children and our children's as unstable as anyone else. But ideally this children. One may ask "What have I as an should not be the case. A college education individual to do with such decisions and built a respect for reason, an Episcopal should have affairs ?" The answer is that in a democracy understanding of the broad sweep of human the in the long run public opinion is the decisive of history, with the knowledge of past events force. No one of us whatever his or her par- which have made the present crisis. I am ticular endowments or position can escape a speaking of more than factual knowledge Archives full measure of responsibility. Particularly is though, rather of quality of mind which should this true of those who like yourself have been be the possession of an educated man or woman. 2020. given so many and such great advantages. To In an insane world we can all of us try to the whom much is given, much can rightly be very best of our ability to be sane, to be wise, expected. and to be just. This will be best for the world Copyright It is with this background in mind that I and for ourselves as well. venture to proceed with more precise and per- sonal application. Need For Compassion As college women you will lay great stress UT important as reasonableness of the upon the quality of reasonableness. Not in mind is, there must be also the quality of our time has this been as important as today. compassion, for reason by itself can be hard Due to the tragic experiences of recent years and cold. It is difficult to describe adequately and to the fear as to what the future may the amount of suffering in the world today. bring forth, prejudice born of emotion is play- We think we know, but because of the magni- ing a dangerous role. If any one doubts this, tude of the problem, figures lose their signifi- discuss with several people the policies of cance. We read of destruction, of mass depor- Messrs. Acheson and Dulles, the Congressional tation, of slave camps and then we turn to

THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 some other part of the daily paper. I can breadth of view for knowledge of other peoples never forget certain scenes in visiting camps gives us understanding. I have noticed in two of displaced persons in Europe. Just imagine world wars that hatred was, in general, less what it would mean to you to have lost every manifest at the front among those doing the member of your family, everything you owned, fighting than in front parlor, afternoon tea and then to spend years in a camp under dis- conversation at home. Compassion means to tressing conditions, with no glimmer of hope suffer with. It involves the quality of imag- for the future. Such an experience has been ination. Great heartedness is a prime neces- the lot of hundreds and hundreds of thousands sity in finding any solution to the manifold of men, women, boys, and girls. Last Septem- perplexities of today. I saw similar sights with thou- ber in Korea Faith Needed sands of people crowding into Seoul, homeless, many of them orphaned. These are things I INALLY it must be emphasized that the have seen with my own eyes, but they can be greatest need of all is the quality of faith, multiplied many times in Europe and Asia. for here is to be found the source of strength and power. I am not thinking of faith in one's

publication. I venture to say that not before in modern self or in others, important as that may be, but times has there been such mass suffering as and faith in eternal and invisible realities, a faith exists today. The American people are natur- in the living God. There are periods of rise

reuse ally kind and generous-hearted, particularly and decline in the life of the Spirit. I believe

for are moved by personal need. Let when they that we are on the verge of a great upsurge. a child be taken by an incurable disease and How could it be otherwise in the light of events and thousands of letters, the fact be publicized to put required all about us. There are many evidences cards, and presents will result, often to the it in its mildest form that Christianity is once discomfort of the recipient. On the world again becoming intellectually respectable. We scene the United States through governmental have begun to learn the hard way in the crucible

Permission and private agencies, has done a great deal. of world tragedy, that man cannot live by bread This has been partly a matter of self-interest, alone. It is not enough to talk of humanitarian- but in large measure there has been a desire

DFMS. ism, of idealism, of democracy. We must go / to help. deeper to the source for without a God of At the same time, due to these present justice and of love, these frequently used terms Church pressures and fears, there is a growing trend are but sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. toward hatred, and spiritual isolationism. Some Everyone indulges in such generalities. years ago when the phrase "One Hundred Per I would press this further, for I believe that Episcopal Cent Americanism" was greatly in vogue, a these statements are vague and fruitless unless the man was quoted as having said, "I am an hun- they are grounded in reality in a personal of dred and ten per cent American for I hate commitment to God and to the company of everyone but myself." faithful people. It is true, as Professor White.

Archives I am pleading for the programs of no political head has stated, that religion is what man does party or group. Again I am thinking in terms with his solitariness. But it is equally true

2020. of attitude and of personal quality. The prob- that we need the objectivity, the discipline, the lem of world peace will not be solved in the lift which comes from companionship in wor- long run by force of arms, though I realize the ship and in work with our fellow pilgrims on

Copyright necessity today of military strength to pre- the road to God and eternal life. Faith is not serve the peace. But ultimately peace can as someone once said, "Believing things you only be established through mutual under- know aren't so." Faith must be reasonable. standing between peoples. I stress peoples But faith too involves the heart, those deep rather than governments for governments personal experiences which are the mainspring come and go, people remain. I am not talking of life and yet which cannot be tabulated and of our attempts to deal with the present un- scientifically measured. Here may be found scrupulous rulers of Russia, for example, but the sources of strength, of courage, and of rather with an understanding of the back- abiding joy. ground, the outlook, the needs, indeed the I have not attempted to discuss the intri- suffering of the Russian people. Again edu- cate problems of world peace, of democracy, cation should give us something of this or of education, to mention only a few of the

Tes THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 issues before us. Nor have I spoken of secur- have first of all disintegrated in mind and in ity for in the present state of affairs it does heart-in character. No one is wise enough not exist, if it ever did. Rather I have empha- to predict the future. In one sense it is not sized the qualities which you and all of us important. Wherever you are to be in the must have, if we are to meet the exigencies fields of the arts, business, or the home, the which will inevitably come upon us. significant fact will always be what you are. Toynbee says that civilizations do not die, So I am willing to make this prediction, if you they commit suicide. The greatest foes are are sanely reasonable, compassionate, with a not from without but from within. Men and vital living faith, then you will be a light of women fail in almost every case because they the world in your day and generation.

HOW THE WORLD CAN BE SAVED By Theodore P. Ferris

publication. Rector of Trinity Church, Boston and answers that have come down through genera- IN asTHE we lastcould article the fact we thattried there to face is somethingas frankly tions of men and women, first from one angle reuse radically wrong with our world, and with our- of experience and then from another, with for selves. And we acknowledged the fact that various errors and also various elements of the there is a crooked streak in the world and in truth. required us, even in those of us who are the refined I should rather approach it from my own products of a Christian civilization, and who experience, limited as that is, and supported live in the rarefied atmosphere of Boston. It as it is, of course, by everything that I find in crops out in the most unexpected places, at the community and Permission the tradition of the Christian most unpredictable times and with sometimes in the Bible. Now having said that, I repeat the most embarrasing results. what I said a minute ago, there are two things DFMS. how this crooked streak / We are not too sure to say at the very beginning, and the first is got into the world and therefore we are not too that we cannot be saved from the natural con- dogmatic about its origin but, from the in- If a parent Church sequences of our wrong-doing. sights we get from the Bible and the great possesses a child and dominates his life rather tradition of Hebrew-Christian literature, and than lets it develop along its own line, or if a also from our own understanding of ourselves him isolated Episcopal parent rejects a child and leaves and our situation,we assume that our freedom he cannot be saved from the the in a loveless world, has something to do with it. We have been of natural consequences of his wrong-doing, and way, and given the freedom to have our own both lives will be warped accordingly. If a nine times out of ten we have it, to our down- man swindles the government out of four mil- Archives fall! We ended the article with the question, lion dollars, he and all the people concerned, How can the world be saved from this crooked the innocent as well as the guilty, will suffer 2020. streak? Or perhaps we should say it this way, in the long run the consequences of his wrong; because we want this How can we be saved? they, impoverishment, and he, imprisonment. a world not to be an academic question about If we persist in waging world wars, we will Copyright but a world that exists apart from ourselves suffer the consequences, distrust, disquietude, that includes ourselves. disease and death. We Are Responsible There is, as far as I can see, no promise in the are two things to say at the very Christianity that a man will be let off for THEREbeginning. I must say parenthetically wrong that he has done. There are some doc- right here that this whole article, of course, trines of the Atonement that seem to imply has come through my judgment and my under- that. I am perfectly sure myself that the standing, illuminated as I hope it is by Chris- people who wrote them in the beginning did tian teaching and Christian doctrine. But on not mean to imply that, but they seem to imply a subject so big and deep as this I cannot be that we commit the crime and Christ pays the satisfied merely to give you, ready-made, the penalty, which lets us off. There is no assur-

THE WrINESS - JUNE 24, 1954 Ekven ance in Christianity that we have a friend in and which distinguishes us from all other the royal courthouse who will get us out of created things including animals, no matter the jams we get in so that we do not have to how many similarities some people may like to suffer any consequences at all. I should like find between us and the beasts. to make that as clear as I can, for it seems to He gave them a share of his own freedom me that a doctrine of the Atonement which to have their own way and go their own way; suggests that we are not morally responsible in other words, the freedom of choice. They, is a degrading one. as we might expect against the background of The other thing that we have to say is this, our own experience, misused it and still do, for that if we cannot be saved from the natural various reasons. Some of them choose to go consequences of our wrong-doing, we can be their own way instead of God's way because saved from slavery to the crooked streak in they are frightened and they think that if the world and in us, and that, you see right they do not look out for themselves, nobody away, is quite a different matter. An alcoholic else will and, therefore, they do things that are cannot be saved from the consequences of against all the laws of God in order to provide drink; if he persists in drinking, he will get a certain kind of security for themselves that publication. drunk and he will do the damage of a drunken they think they will not have if they do not and man, but he can, thank God, be saved from get these things. There are many reasons, and slavery to drink. A vain person, likewise, can- we cannot go into all of them now. reuse not be saved from the terrible consequences of and going their for In misusing their freedom vanity, but he can be saved from slavery to own way, they hurt themselves; sometimes you vanity. cannot see how they hurt themselves because required One thing must be said at the outset and that it is the inner life of a man that is scarred and is we cannot do it ourselves. That is a hard wounded more than the outside of his life when proposition for any American to accept because he chooses to strike off on his own tangent of he does not like to be beholden to anyone. He

Permission pride and self-will, but they do hurt themselves does not like to put himself in a position of not and, of course, they hurt their neighbors being independent, but surely you all know desperately. So that all men and women, in DFMS. / that when a man is in real trouble, he cannot varying degrees, of course, are something like get himself out of it. If he is overboard in those pieces of material that you see in a de- the middle of the Atlantic, he cannot swim Church partment store marked down because they are ashore; he has to have a life preserver. If he seconds. There is a flaw somewhere in them. is desperately ill, he cannot make himself well; The consequence of their misuse of freedom he has to have a doctor and, if he is a sinner, Episcopal and having their own way is not only that they he cannot save himself, he must have a saviour. the hurt themselves and their neighbors, that is of Misused Freedom bad enough, and causes certainly an incalcu- lable amount of misery and wretchedness in the THIS point, Christianity has something AT world, but that is not the worst result. The Archives wonderful to say. It has been said so many times and in so many tongues and in so fact that they misuse their own freedom and

2020. many ways and against so many backgrounds go their own way means that they get further cf culture and civilization that one almost hesi- and further away from God. Some of them tates to say it again, but let us put it in its are frightened of God because they have dis-

Copyright classical and traditional, some might even say obeyed him and therefore they stay out of his mythological, form; the familiar form which, way; others get so far away from him that as a matter of fact, some of you may not have they forget all about him and lead their lives heard for a good many years. as though he did not exist and try to order It goes back to the very beginning of things. things apart from him who is the very source God made the world. On disorder and confu- of all order in life. sion and chaos, he imposed his own sublime And so in addition, you see, to the obvious order and purpose, and the world that he made damage that is done, there is an increasing was wondrously good. God enjoyed it and took alienation, a separating of the ways not only pleasure in it. God gave men and women a between man and man but also between man share of his own freedom, something that he and God, so that men and women like ourselves did not give to the rest of the created order get further and further away from the center

Twelve THaE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 of things, and the further away we get, the the crooked streak had the last word but in of God came closer more frightened we get, and the more we long the death of Jesus the love it had ever come to get back to the heart of it, and yet, we do to the world of men than say, and of course not know in ourselves that that is the thing before. You might almost words, that in the we are longing for and the thing that we must this is impossible to put in crooked streak have. very act of dying, Jesus took the it into a crown. He God did everything conceivable to win men in the world and twisted the crooked streak; it is back into the family circle. He saved them did not take away and in us but he did take by the skin of their teeth over and over again still here in the world of it so that when men and from all sorts of disasters; He took care of away the tyranny centuries since look at the them when they did not deserve it; he wooed women in all the themselves, God so loved them by his beauty which he reflected in the Cross, they say to gave his own Son to save it beauty of this wonderful world; he spoke to the world that he saved the world by showing them through the words of his special mes- from itself. He how much he loved them. sengers; he told them over and over again how people much he loved them and how much he wanted Share His Victory publication. them to be with him, but all that he could do of all this is the not have much avail. practical conclusion and did THEfact that those who attach themselves to God Gave Himself Jesus share in some strange and yet real way reuse his victory over that crooked streak. You say, for to the Christian story, according all ages say, how can this be? How FINALLY,God came into the world himself, and he as people in one man did so long ago help me in came in a way that nobody would have dreamed can what required I try to master the crooked streak of his coming. He came in the form of a any way as by obedience? We shall turn to a specific human being just like you or me, and further- in me it is an imaginary one, but it is a more, he came in the form of a human being instance; composition of many familiar situations. Permission who was a Jew, a carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth. He came in the form of a human being who A young girl is in college; the college has was a real man and who had all the physiolog- certain rules and regulations; it has the honor DFMS. / ical and psychological conditions and limitations system. If a girl goes away for the weekend, that you and I have as real men. she must sign up and let the college know The girl signs up to be Church Jesus soon ran into the crooked streak in where she is going. the world. He found it in the people he grew away for the weekend and indicates that she up with, in their narrow-mindedness. They will stay with her parents in a nearby suburb. that she is going to stay Episcopal could not see over the wall of the town of She tells her parents that weekend with her aunt. Where she actu- the Narareth. He found it in his friends; they had of great ambitions to sit in places of prominence. ally stays is in a hotel with other girls who He found it in his enemies; they were jealous have a party, and they drive in a car with a of him, they were inflexible, they refused to young man, and there is an accident, and the Archives college, to listen to the word of God. And he found that man is killed. The girl lied to her He saw death as a her parents, and to her aunt. When we look 2020. crcoked streak in himself. find great opportunity and possibility but he shrank further into this wretched situation, we child from it, and he was lured by all the shining that her parents never really wanted the least to my in the first place, and perhaps one of the rea- Copyright possibilities of life. It seems, at mind, to make such temptation utterly unreal sons that she lied to them in this particular any if we do not assume that it was a real allure- instance was the fact that she never felt ment to Jesus and that life with all its possi- security or love in her own home. There is the nothing bilities and fulfillments really lured him. crooked streak, you see. There is mess and Jesus never explained the crooked streak; academic about it; they are all in a out of he never philosophized about it, but he dealt there is no possibility of their getting it blow after blow. He mastered it first in it by themselves, none whatsoever. himself by a supreme, sublime obedience, even In this case, we imagine that they turn by unto death. He met it in his friends by re- the grace of God to our Lord Jesus Christ. buking it, and in his enemies by forgiving Supposing that they do so, this is what will them. It finally killed him. It looked as though happen. They must, at first, admit that they

THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 Thirteen cannot help themselves; they must be shorn of is something like what Christ does to people. so their pride. Parents who are proud of standing He puts something of himself into them on their own feet and being independent must that they can say, It is not only I struggling come to the point where they say, we have against my difficulties, but it is Christ living in completely mismanaged this whole parental me, and I share that amazing victory of his opportunity and we know it and confess it, and over the crooked streak in life, which he we lay it here at the feet of Christ. They mastered so wonderfully by his own obedience, must then, if they have not before, join the and by his suffering, patience and forgiveness. Christian group. They must become part of the You see, the crooked streak is still there for Christian community, for they cannot handle them to deal with, but somehow in Christ they this thing by themselves alone or with Christ have risen above it and are no longer slaves to in private. They will find him in the active, it. They are the masters of it. loving, forgiving group, which is the present Isn't it strange that no matter how seriously reality of Christ's spirit in the world. we try to think about these things, and no matter how hard we try to think about these The first thing they will find is this. He things, and no matter how hard we try to put publication. will give them something to live for, bigger them in fresh words and unfamiliar formulas, and than they have ever had before, and will take we never get away from the old, almost simple their minds off some of their own disasters childlike statements of it that we have heard reuse and disadvantages and lift them up to another all our lives? for level of service, rather than indulgence. Then, as they begin to understand and know him, he There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, will help them understand each other. He will required Where the dear Lord was crucified help the child understand the difficulties and Who died to save us all. dangers of parenthood, and help the parents He died that we might be forgiv'n, understand the problems and temptations of He died to make us good, Permission young people, gradually drawing them to- That we might go at last to heav'n, gether, not by merging them so that they lose Saved by his precious blood.

DFMS. their personalities but by bringing them to- 0 dearly, dearly has he loved! / gether into a family circle. And we must love him, too, And trust in his redeeming blood, he will draw them And try his works to do. Church As this growth goes on, into the presence of God. If they were pre- viously frightened of God, he will take away

Episcopal all fear and reassure them that the God who made them loves them and is anxious and eager the Pointers for Parsons of to give them another chance, to renew them By Robert Miller and restore them to the family circle. And if Episcopal Clergyman of Camnpton, N. H. they have forgotten God and lost him in all Archives the luxuries of modern life, and in the careless- "Oh, Mr. Miller," said Mrs. Brimes. "What ness of their family ways, he will bring him 2020. a wonderful sermon! I think it's the best I near and they will find God in Jesus himself. ever heard. And to think you do it all without And he will do one thing more. He will put notes!"

Copyright himself into them. I do not know how to I looked sheepish, as I usually do when com- describe it in any way that will not minimize it plimented on a sermon. I do not often look but, if you can, think of a boys' school that has sheepish. lost its morale and lost its standing with other "Now if only you could say the service with- schools, going out to play a football game, the out a book! Wouldn't that be splendid! And victory of which means much in a boy's life, often you hardly look at the book." and in the last two minutes, one boy presses "Mrs. Brimes," I told her. "I daren't do it." forward and rallies all his strength and makes "I don't see why not." a touchdown. The whole school shares in his "For one thing, I could easily slip into the victory; in a sense he puts something of him- Apostles Creed when I was saying the Nicene. self into them and lifts the whole school up to Or in the Service of Baptism I could get the a new level. That, I think, imperfectly said, questions in wrong order. Or I might forget

Fourteen THE "VIThESS - JUNE 24, 1954 to this some of the words in any of the services. They shepherd." Christians are committed could go clean out of my head." declaration of God's purpose. The true Chris- "But you know them so well!" tian, in other words, believes in "missions." "That's just the danger. Knowing a thing Any defect at this point is not a matter of respond well does not make for accurate quotation." opinion. It is a failure to know and "Well, I think it would be wonderful not to to the will of God. have to use a book." Today we are witnessing a tremendous effort "It would. I'd like not to. But I have not on the part of an enemy group, backed by yet dared try it." strong conviction to coerce the world and its peoples into "one flock." Whether it is to be a world of Christianity or of communism de- Epilogue pends upon who believes in missions. By Philip McNairy God's Government

Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo By Philip H. Steinmetz publication. Rector of the Ashfield Parishes a book, often there is and AT THE conclusion of appended an additional chapter which we NE test of a radio is in its performance.

reuse call the "epilogue." Sometimes it furnishes us However beautiful the cabinet, we are for one final picture of the principal character. It really more concerned about how clearly the forges in our minds a link with some future broadcast is received. Likewise we often, quite book which the author might write as a sequel. properly, think of what results follow from required As we read the beautiful portrayal of the the government of God. Good Shepherd against !the background of Where it is recognized and followed faith- Easter and the Resurrection, it becomes clear, fully, the result is peace and joy. We find that

Permission even to the casual, that Christ in his earthly in our own inner selves as well as in the com- Life is indeed the Good Shepherd who giveth paratively rare occasions when groups of people His life for the sheep. time quite fully subject to the will DFMS. live for a / Then, as we continue to reflect upon the of God. self-giving, loving, seeking Saviour, there Where it is recognized and not followed, the

Church emerges a character sketch of the quality of result is strife and sorrow. But always there Christian who carried the good news of Christ, is a way of return, of repentance, and swift the Saviour, into all the world. Certainly the acceptance again by God's grace. So that under

Episcopal Apostles were men of the shepherd heart. No God there is victory through suffering. At the man ever gave his life more completely and least every day we have found the truth of this of effectively than did St. Paul. None was ever fact and have been set straight and clean on more conscious of the need of one flock under the right road, even though we have often of his personal responsibil- Archives one shepherd, and fallen and will fall again. ity to bring it about. Where it is not recognized and rejected, the

2020. The spiritual specifications for a Christian same strife and sorrow follow. But even life that counts have always been the same: a though we do not take the road of return life selflessly given-unwilling to spare itself through repentance, it still remains open even Copyright in the serving of others. It has a heart like to us. that of the shepherd-overflowing with under- Now the question remains whether we find standing and compassion, and therefore trusted these results good or bad. Do you prefer a and loved in return. state where only the perfect people have Many have stopped at this point, supposing privileges and every failure is given full punish- that the essence of Christianity is simply un- ment? Would you rather not be free to fall selfish good works. As such, it has no chirac- but have every choice made for you and so miss teristic to distinguish it from any other the suffering and joy of love? you humanitarian movement. Christ, the Good You give your answer hour by hour as Shepherd, supplied the unique characteristic. make decisions based on your experience of the "Other sheep I have.., them also I must bring government of God and show whether you are . . . and there shall be one flock and one a good citizen in or enemy of his kingdom.

Fifteen THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 AIR FORCE ACADEMY IS celled in missionary offerings. WANTED BY MISSOURI Ten thousand children were CATHEDRAL STUDIOS present for the service, sport Silk damasks, linens, by yd. Stoles, burses & * Bishop Lichtenberger on veils, etc. Two new books, Church Emubrid- events and picnic. ery & Vestments, complete instruction, 128 behalf of the diocese of Mis- pages, 95 illustrations, vestment patterns drawn to scale, price $7.50. Handbook for souri, in a wire June 14th to Altar Guilds, 4th ed., 53 cts. Miss Macktrille, ST. MARGARET'S 11 Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md. 15. TeL Harold E. Talbott, secretary of GRADUATION OL 2-2752. the air force, gave hearty en- dorsement to the proposed lo- * Bishop Block of California ORGANIST - CHOIRMASTER, Cathedral parish, for one year beginning September cation of the new "West Point conferred masters degrees on 1st in conjunction with teaching theory and organ at local University. Reply: The of the Air" at Chautauqua, Ill., five graduates of St. Margaret's Dean, Grace Cathedral, Topeka, Kansas. just outside St. Louis. House, Berkeley, June .2nd. The telegram called attention P r o f . Rodenmayer of the KEMPER HALL to the fact that Christ Church Church Divinity School of the KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Boarding and day school f or girls offering Cathedral has operated without Pacific gave the address. thorough college preparation and training f or purposeful living. Study of the Fine Arts interruption since Pearl Harbor encouraged. Complete sports program. Junior school department. Beautiful lake shore campus. publication. a free recreational program for Under the direction of the Sisters of St. Mary. the benefit of all service per- /-":>. CHURCH BULLETINS FOR CATALOG, ADDRESS, BOX WT and sonnel, and that if the Air 19 E::vj.w.:eyprsrsse hh soud Force Academy is located in Bor.Dgiid eftie, an reuse be Inddclectattendane, interest Write us for the area the program bwill ~ for ~epndd es eaeios. ex an ed Specialty Company.Write Davenport. todayr~rH.E Organ Information BISHOP SHERMAN 14

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Sixteen THE WITNESS - JUNE 24, 1954 DeVEAUX SCHOOL. NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK BACKFIRE Founded 1853 A Church School for boys in the Diocese of Western New York. College preparatory. Broad activities program. imall classes. L. V. MACKRILLE there is the law, and I dare you to Scholarships available. Grade 7 through 12. try it, the tithe or ten per cent to For information address Blox "A". Churchwomnan of Washington, D. C. Morison Brigham, M. A., Headmaster the Church, and offerings as we Lauriston L. Scaife, D.D., I am disgusted with the Church choose to the community chest, to Pres. Board of Trustees papers for 'the waste of printer's the Red Cross, etc. ink on the subject of the law for giving to the Church. What is the MARY E. CAMPBELL CARLETON COLLEGE matter with the old law? We are Churchwoman of New York Latrimcs M. Gomm, President not instructed. We do not arts col- simply done such brave and Carleton is a co-educational liberal the law. We do not even You have know work for liberal church- the Ten Commandments any untiring know that I should like to sup- more. Every Sunday we have ser- manship port you with all the funds you mons on current topics or politics. need. But I am not wealthy and This is all wrong. am 81 years old and find that God made the law for giving to there are limitations on endurance publication. the Church, and it is a good law. and cash. However I want to do HOLDERNESS The Old Testament is full of it. and a small bit to show I do appreciate The White Mountain School, for boys You will find God himself telling the managing editor of the Wit- 13 19. Thorough college preparation in us about it in the last chapter of ness, so please accept the small small classes. Student government em- reuse the Old Testament Malachi, in the phasizes responsibility Ta spr, check as token of my esteem. skiin. Debating. GeeCb. At for third chapter. Read what God New Areproof buiding. says: DONALD C. HAGERMAN, Headmas "Even from the days of your SAINT MARY'S HALL Plymouth New Hampshire fathers ye are gone away from my SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS required A residence and day school for girls. Pre- NORTFIEL MINESOT ordinances, and have not kept them. paring for leading colleges. Fully accredited. Return unto me and I will return Training in leadership and Christian char- the Lord of acter. Religious education, music, dramatics, unto you" saith art. Outdoor sports throughout the year. sh frit 60ogirls. Commnitylfe barsedys Hosts. But ye said; "Wherein Est. 1879 1o-CsTo picleg inp hicatin i

Permission shall we return. Will a man rob Beatrice McDermott Head Mistress ns hare responshii f scial sports, EAsT PL.ACE Ntays-n-he-3'sassain God? Yet ye have robbed me. But 117 Fzmtcnt wr eprom A ing, ot o ye say wherein have we robbed DONA HaeC. HAER MA, Headmaster DFMS. me? In tithes and offerings. Ye AcooChurLPLymot Scoo gin (he themuBerkshieMhuntaiHbsfed / are cursed with a curse, For ye oys1-8emhszn Christian ihihalsu ideipe ans charcer resoughiit simplicial, orlat have robbed me, even this whole EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS reiiandaneuipmnt, socialntodilere soerieuition, ctiitites.oso nation. Bring ye all the tithes into Virginia's oldest prparatory school for girls. okprat sefreltsstem andiinohrsoral,

Church Rich in cultuial traditions of the South. the storehouse, that there may be Charming surroundings. Modern equipment. er meat in mine house, and prove me Grades 9-12. i-uly accredited. Graduates in CensRRYA, Headncip leading colleges. General course. Music, art. REMrOB LTLETsON Ha L. (aWheutis) now herewith," saith the Lord of Gymnasium, wooded campus. Indoor pool. Hosts, "if I will open the windows Catalog. Episcopal of heaven and pour out such a MRS. WM. T. HODGES, Headmistress, Blox L, Staunton, Va. the blessing that there shall not be LENHOXG VICGONI of room enough to receive it." Prpaebys11 fohaizncollegsian uiesy - Do we believe this? No. Now The CHURCH HOME an edipeniroete ndtiencelle co- eachvers.eHih stndad inforlarhi AND HOSPITAL loatio reionshepmonain oys agna Archives BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL ST. GEORGE, VA. BAL~moRE 31, MARYLAND A Christian School for boys and girls. A three year accredited course of nursing. REOETL URHeadmaster,o 0 Mountains 21 miles August and September. Schol- 2020. Situated in Blue Ridge Classes enter from Charlottesville. Grades one through arships available to well qualified high twelve. Pre-school and convalescent depart- school graduates. ment. Tuition and board from $60 to $75 Apply: Director of Nursing ner month. Rrv. D. C. LovINcG, Headmaster Copyright ST. AGNES SCHOOL Theoles ini pCurhcoal S ooh ll Ans Episcopal Country Day and Boarding ST. MARY'S SCHOOL School for Girls gheies integratescallepars ofd ivrgram. SEWANEE, TENN. Excellent College Preparatory record. Spe- relious aeicnmiitary, scltorhp cial courses arranged for girls not contem- hig sechol. ag boysdgrow "in somandi Exclusively for high school girls. Honor pling' college. Day pupils range from tatud andleins f alwth God badtman. system stressed. Accredited. kindergarten so College Entrance. Boarders Please address: trom tirade 8 to College Erntrance. C or catnaloueW GODMt,ppl The Sister Superior, C.S.M. MISS BLANCHE PITTMAN, Principal RetrdHeadmaster 0 ALBANY NEW Y03S St. Augustine's College ASHLEY HALL RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA IN5 HISTosuc CHsAsRLETON 1867 - 1951 Girls, grades 8-12. An outstanding college Accredited Four-Year College for Negro preparatory school. Fully accredited. Also Youth. Co-educational. Music, Pre-Medical, general course. Excellent departments of in 457ie huraesay Hatfssall rgrm Health and Physical Education, High music, art and dramatics. Mild climate. hihuc school o rin~ut wisdomad School Teacher Training, Business, Pre- Year-round outdoor sports; riding, pool. Social Work, Nursing Educatson in co- Catalog. operation with Sr. Agnes Hospital. WILLIAM S. PIPER, Headmaster HAROLD L. TRIGG, PaEs gsr Box E CHALuuESTON, S. C. Prepare for Two Great World Assemblies

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for ONE By JOHN S. "HIGGINS, D. D. WORLD Bishop Coadjutor of Rhode Island ONE CHURCH A Short Introduction required to the One Communion and Fellowship Ecumenical Movement BY NORMAN VICTOR HOPE By the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (m'1HE Professor Permission of Church "T History at Princeton Theo- HE FIRST "Anglican Congress" was held in 1908 in logical Seminary provides an ex-

DFMS. T -and cellent nopular introduction to the / London-46 years ago was attended by 7,000 ecumenical movement and its sig- clerical and lay delegates from all parts of the world. nificance. Indeed, his is the only treatment which covers the whole Church will meet in Minne- development from Edinburgh, 1910 TH~E1 SECOND "Anglican Congress" to Amsterdam, 1948. The little apolis, Minnesota, August 4-13, 1954-the first repre- book makes pleasant reading. It sentative gathering of the entire Episcopal Church to be gives just the information which Episcopal held outside the British Isles. To it the Bishop (or Bishops) the thoughtful layman or average the minister wants, without burdening of of each of the 327 Dioceses and Missionary Districts, and him with organizational detail."- one Priest and one Lay Person from each, have been invited. The Religious Book Club Bulletin. Fourteen autonomous Churches will be represented. «~TIMELY . .. is this concise

Archives Iaccount of the course of events leading up to the formation Higgins' brochure gives one the essential facts of the Council, from the emergence 2020. B ISHOP concerning the international organization of more than of the contemporary ecumenical 30 million Episcopalians or Anglicans all over the world. consciousness through the World Missionary Conference at Edin-

Copyright burgh, through 'Faith and Order' National Guild of Churchmen purchased 2,300 copies and 'Life and Work,' to the merger THlEof this brochure. The -Rev. Dr. Powel M. Dawley, of these concurrent activities in Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theolog- the Amsterdam Conference of 198.-SAETR-ESTERN THEOLOGICAL ical Seminary, has termed it "Excellent!" SEMINARY, The Minister's Library.

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