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DuBOSE MURPHY

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. SCHOOLS CLERGY NOTES SCHOOLS ALLEN, WALTER H. B., rector emeritus of St. Peter’s, Narragansett, Rhode Island, died mite (Hetteral tUfjaalogical of a heart attack on January 3rd. BRIDGERS, ARTHUR D., in charge of St. R e m p e r t t x t t . JB>emmarg John’s, Hollywood,- Fla., was ordained priest # on January 6th by Bishop Wing. KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Three-year undergraduate COTTON, CHARLES E., formerly in charge course of prescribed and elective at Roslyn and Cle Elum, Washington, is Episcopal Boarding and Day School. study. now a canon of the Cathedral of St. John Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual the Evangelist, Spokane, Washington. Fourth-year course for gradu opportunities in Art and Music. GILBERT, WILLIAM A., canon of the Ca Complete sports program. 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V acuum s An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON T IKE ancient Gaul the Church is divided into After all a soldier who sulks within the de three groups. First there are those who as fences is far more dangerous than an enemy who Christians are concerned with what they can get raves on the outside. out of their religion. If the sermons are interest The time has come however when it is up to ing and the choir is capable and the congrega every Christian to do his share. For the infection tion is friendly, and the ritual is to their liking, of atheism is around us and unless men put up a then they are willing to go to church and worship resistance it will effect the whole nation. In a God. However if the Lord fails to provide them very real sense, if Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini be with all of these accessories, they excuse them God then follow them but if we serve Father, selves from obedience to their baptismal vows. Son and Holy Spirit then we should do something Like the prodigal son, their slogan is “ give me, more than complain about rectors, vestrymen and Gimme, Gimme.” other Christians, while we ourselves do nothing Then there are those who as Christians are but criticize. After all criticism is the lowest form chiefly concerned with the service that they ren of human intelligence. As Ruskin once said, “ an der in their Father’s house. They are the ones art critic is one who cannot paint.” In the same who keep things together when the rector or the way a religious critic is one who does not worship choir or the congregation are below par. Without or serve but like a bleacher athlete plays the game them the church would have to close during its from the side lines. barren periods. Their concern is not first “ give me” the things that I demand but, as in the case AM thinking of a parish church which under of the prodigal (when he had consumed his sub Rector A was flourishing; under Wreck-tor B stance), “ make me one of the servants.” To them was deserted; under Rector C flourished onqe the Church is their Father’s House and neither more. 1 have no brief for B but I wonder how far a tactless rector nor a discordant choir nor a his personality was an alibi for a whole company quarrelsome congregation nor a lighted candle of rodents who in the interim deserted the ship can drive them away from their Father’s House. and placed the responsibility of carrying on upon Finally there are those, and their name is le the faithful few who endured B for the love of gion, who are so inert that they are indifferent to their Master. Under what theory does a poor any appeal. If you were to call them quitters they captain become an alibi for the desertion of a would be indignant but their Church doesn’t poor soldier? I know the usual alibi, that X who mean half as much to them as the value of stocks, quits is j ust as good a man as Y who stays oil the or a game of golf or an evening at bridge. job. I wonder, if X were to employ Z, if he would This group probably includes at least forty per be satisfied to be told that Z, while he had quit cent of those who have been confirmed and prom his job or soldiered upon it, had just as many ised to be servants and soldiers. Yet they neither virtues as Y who stuck to his work; Sometime^ serve joyously nor fight manfully but like some I feel that the Lord is wearied with those who are WP A workers shirk continuously and expect some so impressed with their own goodness that they body else to preserve the faith from destruction. do not have to labor. It was, I fancy, the reason

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS January 19, 1939 why he preferred publicans and sinners to those Forget therefore for the moment the question, who were concerned merely with the appraise “ how good are you” ? and concentrate on the ques ment of their own virtues. tion, “ what good are you in His vineyard?” Our Lord’s parables, such as that of “ The Tal So many nominal Christians take off their wed ents” demonstrate that He is more interested in ding garments and expect to be admitted to the what you do with your talents than He is with feast. The wedding garment, I take it, may mean your private virtues. the Grace which the Lord offers us and which we The Lord can forgive a sinner if he seeks neither accept or reject for personal reasons. forgiveness but even the Lord cannot forgive a Don’t be a religious vacuum. Better be opposed vacuum, for if He did it would still be a vacuum. to Christ than to be lukewarm.

T h e M e n ’s C lu b B y DuBOSE MURPHY Rector of St. Clement’s, El Paso T'vOWN in the kitchen, half a dozen ladies are men to the meeting, he saw to it that two very busy over stoves and tables. In the dining important things were provided: a good meal room, another group is arranging flowers, spread promptly served, and a program of genuine ing table cloths, and setting out silver. The office interest. telephone has been ringing all morning, and by The result was that the membership began to noon there are two hundred reservations. For grow. Men from outside of the parish began to what? For the monthly meeting of the Ormsbee come, and were gladly received. Harwell served Club of St. Clement’s, El Paso, Texas. This is three years as president, and is still one of the nothing exceptional; it is just the regular event powers in the life of the club. Since 1934 the an of the fourth Monday of the month. Two hun nual membership has always been close to three dred and seventy men have already paid their hundred, with an average attendance of more than membership dues of one dollar for the year. Some two hundred at each meeting. Other leaders have are out of town today, and a few are laid up with followed the same policy. It takes a pretty good colds; but most of them will be on hand promptly man to be president of this organization. The at half past six tonight. For Mrs. Jones is known president has always been a Churchman; usually to serve her meals on time. the Vice-president and two or three of the seven What is this Ormsbee Club? It is an organiza directors are chosen from the non-Episcopalian tion with an interesting history. For many years, membership. it was just another men’s club. When Mr. J. J. Partly for its own requirements, partly for the Ormsbee, one of the most faithful laymen that benefit of the whole parish, the Club has been re St. Clement’s had ever known, went to his great sponsible for enlarging and improving the kitchen reward, the men decided to name the club for and has bought a lot of equipment: cooking uten him. It was in 1932 that things really began to sils, china, silver, chairs, etc. But the great con happen. The Rev. Clarence H. Horner (“ Jack” to tribution of the Club has been its annual Christ everybody in El Paso), then rector of St. Clem mas Pageant, adapted from the old Nativity Play ent’s, persuaded Roland Harwell to accept the of York, which had to have two performances each presidency. Mr. Harwell already had a man-sized year because the attendance was too large for the job as manager of the El Paso county irrigation church (which seats about 600). Then there are district. Perhaps because he was responsible for the intangible benefits to the church, the good will turning many thousands of acres of desert into of hundreds of men in the community, the aroused marvelously productive farm land, he decided to interest of laymen who found congenial fellow see what could be done with the undeveloped man ship and wholesome entertainment in a Church power of the parish by the irrigation of hard Club. work and aggressive leadership. He went around town inviting men to the meetings, he sent out rFVHE monthly programs are planned for in- personal invitations with attractive phrasing and trinsic interest. Speakers are chosen with clever illustrations. And then, when he got the great care, and feel it a privilege and responsi-

bility to appear before a large group of intelligent niy eyeballs fell into my lap. I had a lot of things men, most of whom are leaders in the community. planned for the week— three or four meetings; We have had the sheriff tell about the work of law final plans for the special articles to appear in enforcement; the head of an oil company (now The Witness during Lent; that stack of letters the president of the club) told what happened to were finally to be answered. Instead here I am, a barrel of oil; there have been talks on mental propped up in bed fighting a fever with tea and hygiene, on soil conservation, on international af aspirin, editing the paper, against the doctor’s fairs ; authors such as Roark Bradford and Ernest orders, on a portable that rests none too comfort Thompson Seton, and community leaders such as ably in my lap. The results, I am afraid, will be our Congressman, our Mayor, and the president none too good but there seems to be nothing to do of the Texas College of Mines, have appeared be about the matter, since I either edit the sheet or fore the Club. The idea is that, if you want a lot it goes unedited. Someday soon I hope this will of men to come to a meeting, you must give them be corrected. Microbes deserve respect and should something that a lot of men are interested in. be properly entertained— relaxed and flat on your The machinery of the Club is well designed and back. runs smoothly. Four or five days before each meeting, the church office mails out the invitations "M"OBODY I suppose ever looks at the masthead — mimeographed folders with an attractive sketch ^ of a paper. So I call attention to ours since in colors on the outside and good live copy on the a change was made there last week. On the right inside. Two days before the meeting, about twenty side, under Associate Editors, you will discover girls start telephoning the membership for reser several new names. William P. Ladd is known to vations, each girl being responsible for fifteen you all since he has been contributing his Prayer names. Then, half an hour before supper, these Book Inter-Leaves for several months. George I. same girls appear at the church, put on Hiller is the rector of Trinity Church, Miami, waitresses’ uniforms and get ready to serve the Florida. He has that rare gift of writing inter tables. Meanwhile, Mrs. Albert Jones (without estingly about the common events of life, particu whom the Club could not get along) has been busy larly in their relationship to the Church, and we all day in the kitchen with her helpers, while some know that our readers are going to enjoy his con other ladies are arranging and decorating the tributions. The names of Clifford L. Stanley and tables. The men begin to arrive by six o’clock, Albert T. Mollegen are linked together in the buy their meal tickets (45 cents each), and visit minds of all who know them. Stanley, a youthful around until six-thirty, ; when they are called parson, was an instructor at the Virginia Sem downstairs. Everything runs smoothly. There is inary and Mollegen, likewise a youthful parson, a good meal, followed by about ten minutes of was a graduate student at Union Seminary. Three hearty club-singing, and then the program starts. years ago they swapped places— Mollegen went Usually there is some first-class music, besides the to Virginia as the instructor and Stanley entered speaker. By half past eight, the meeting is over Union to do three years more of graduate work. and everybody goes home feeling that the evening Just recently Stanley went to Missouri to become has been well spent. The proof of that is that the rector of a parish, but if the Church is wise they will all come back for more next month. it won’t let him remain there long. He is a teacher and I know the spot for him, but since I am grad ually learning to speák only when asked I refrain from saying more. How we came to add them to Talking It Over the editorial staff is a bit of a tale. Somedays ago By I had luncheon with Reinhold Niebuhr. He is WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD recognized I think by about everyone as tops. You 'C'UROPEAN dictators, constantly telling the can’t go into a huddle on any vital problem per world how secure they are because of their taining to the Christian religion without having big bombers, should consider the lowly microbe. his name sooner or later come into the discussion. I went to the Congress for Peace and Democracy, And this is just as true in England as it is in held in Washington January 6-8, feeling as fit as America, and for all I know it may be true also Cunningham before he runs a four-five mile. But in China and Africa. So naturally I set great somewhere on the route a germ tucked himself store on his judgement. Well during the conver away in my nose, began at once to reproduce at sation the names of Mollegen and Stanley came that speed given only to microbes, so that before up and Niebuhr said, “ In my opinion they are the long to turn my head ever so gently meant that two most outstanding young theologians in Aniér-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS January 19, 1939 ica.” That was enough for me. I had letters in became apparent when the Spanish armada was the mail to each of them before night, inviting launched against England with powerful papal them to write for T he Witness. They have both backing. Elizabeth, however, refused to give in agreed. It is our plan to run articles by Stanley and, after the defeat the armada, the political every other week. Mollegen prefers not to be tied pressure began to subside. She proceeded to sup to a time schedule but says that he will contribute press Purtanism and papalism at the same time. “ occasionally” which we hope means often. When in 1603 she was succeeded by the Scottish TN OTHER years we have been told that we did king, James I, the Puritan activities revived and not announce our Lenten articles early enough a conference of Puritans and Anglicans was called to enable rectors to plan to use them in discussion at Hampton Court to see if the difficulties could groups. The articles for this coming Lent should be ironed out. therefore be announced in this issue but the an The issues at Hampton Court were of two nouncement cannot be made adequately from a kinds, doctrinal and liturgical. The Puritans in Jersey bed forty miles away from the WITNESS sisted on the adoption by the Church of England office. In promising a detailed announcement for of the main Calvinistic doctrines of election, next week we will say now that there is to be a reprobation, the indefectibility of grace and, as a series by Bishop Johnson and also a series on consequence of these, the denial of salvation to all Basic Convictions by a number of the younger mankind. These demands would have meant a clergy. This latter series will be prepared with the complete re-writing of the Prayer Book and the young people of the Church particularly in mind abandonment of the historic teaching of the — why should they believe in God?— why should Church. It is only fair to add that these rigid they pray?— what good is the Prayer Book?— Calvinistic doctrines have been so greatly diluted what is meant by a Divine Society?— and other in twentieth-century Presbyterianism that they equally pertinent questions. It is a series that will could scarcely be issues at the present time. make for lively discussion in Lenten study groups, The Puritans also asked for the abolition of whether composed of young people or adults. Confirmation. They objected to the use of the Further details next week, but plan now to use ring in the marriage service and the use of the The Witness in your parish during Lent. sign of the cross in baptizing. They refused to kneel in receiving Holy Communion and objected to wearing vestments. The edge of these objec tions has been dulled with the passage of time and L e t’s Know scarcely any of them (except possibly Confirma By tion) would offer any difficulty today. BISHOP WILSON But it wras evident to the conferees at Hampton Presbyterians— II. Court that something else lay back of these points. npW O weeks ago we traced briefly the story of Later it proved true that what the Puritans real the Puritan movement in England with its de ly aimed at was the complete reconditioning of mand for a Presbyterian system to replace the the Church on Presbyterian lines, including the episcopal government of the Church and we saw scrapping of the Prayer Book, the removal of how it finally led to definite separation. Bishops, and the substitution of a Presbyterian What were the particular issues around which system of Church government. All of this was the controversy turned? Of course they were actually done when the Puritans gained control in greatly confused with political differences and it the Long Parliament and accomplished the execu is not easy to pick them out and examine them one tion of King Charles I. When the monarchy was by one. Scotland had gone thoroughly Calvinistic restored in 1660 and the Church of England came and had changed to a Presbyterian regime. Hol out of the shadows of the Commonwealth, another land had gone the same way. At the same time conference was held (the Savoy Conference) in a Queen Elizabeth was hard pressed by Roman final attempt to adjust these major differences. Catholic intrigue and her kingdom was seriously But what with politics, wars, and ecclesiastical endangered by threats from both France and strife, reconciliation was a sheer impossibility Spain where papal support was strong and active. and the Presbyterians went out. This last condition led some of the English poli In the past two centuries the hard feelings have ticians to lean in the direction of the extreme re been mollified and a much friendlier atmosphere formers as a protection against the Roman Cath now prevails. Nevertheless these are the historic olic peril. The practical logic of such a course differences which still hang over us today.

est. If she dresses as she should on the Rector’s Ministerial Matrimony salary, she is “ dowdy and has no taste,” while if /T yHE Poor Parson is sad again. One of his she dresses as she wants to do, then she is “ ex -*• friends is attempting matrimony. Now that travagant and wasteful.” Really she should make is a very serious step for any man or woman, but herself one of the people. Yes, adjust her life to when a clergyman is involved as one of the prin each group between sixteen and sixty; go from cipals, it is much more serious for both. I really a cocktail party to the Daughters of the King ; believe a clergyman needs a wife, and (perhaps from a meeting of the Altar Guild to a Young more than any other professional man) he is de People’s Dramatic Club; and from the Poetry or pendent upon her. Certainly no other wife is ex Literary Club to the Eastern Star. pected to take so much interest and part in her She should be like a chameleon and take her husband’s job. The girl who marries a clergy color from wherever she is placed. Like the fa man takes on two jobs. As a man her husband mous one, she can do little but burst, for the is just as hard to manage as a doctor or lawyer average Parish is a patchwork quilt of society (as irregular as the former and as undependable and tradition. When a young woman has the as the latter) while in addition to her husband, temerity to tackle such a job, it is indeed an un she invariably marries a Parish. Of course, she seeing world which fails to recognize her bravery. does not intend it to be so, and the clergyman very Really, there should be a clause added to the Lit proudly asserts that she is his wife, not that of any for the clergyman’s wife. the Parish. But it will quickly assign her a task Now the Poor Parson has long had a wife, so here and there and calmly assure her that she has this is not the ranting of a celibate. It is merely a “ right to do it” because she is “ the Rector’s the meditation which comes to him as one of his wife.” She must be smiling and happy with any fellow-priests embarks on matrimony, and an ex and all bores there are in the community; any pression of the feeling he has for the brave young other woman might be “ out” to them, but the Rec woman who dares such a life. tor’s wife can never be “ out” when she is in. The Poor Parson would plead with all who read Then when some woman has a hobby and calls his prattle : “ Please have a little more sympathy, a meeting to consider it, the aforesaid doctor or a little more feeling and understanding; please lawyer’s wife could refuse (it would not hurt their expect a little less work, and a little less perfec business much) but the Rector’s wife must attend tion from the brave woman who tackles the job though she has no interest in the subject. She of being mistress of the Rectory. Her contribu cannot choose where she would go. She must go tion to the Church has long been unsung; but it everywhere. She, of course, must agree with her has been tremendous.”— The Poor Parson. husband in what he says or in matters of policy. If she does not, it is “ scandalous;” and if she does, it is only because “ she is his wife and does not dare have an opinion,” while, if she expresses George an opinion of her own, she is accused of express VERY congregation has one, and George Ware ing his opinions, which makes it rather dangerous is the Little Church’s “ Helpful Soul.” It is for her to enjoy the most feminine prerogative, impossible to relate all the fine, thoughtful, help that of expressing her own mind. ful things George does for the Little Church as an If she is sober and staid, then she must be sit organization and for every single individual in ting up to the old ladies and consequently is not it. “ Let George do it” has real meaning in the popular with the younger set. If she plays cards, Little Church and, naturally, quite a lot of tasks “ she might find something better to do” and if she are wished on George that should not be. Still, smokes she scandalizes another element. whatever they are, George does them if he can and Yes, she will have some loyal and faithful does them willingly and with a smile. It really friends; but even here she will have a difficult looks as if it is in George’s nature to be helpful problem— at least she will hear contrary opinions and he can’t help it, so he doesn’t get half the on her motives and selection. Her house, like a credit he deserves. Probably, after he passes out, military barracks, is subject to inspection; she it will be some time before he enters into the must answer the telephone as often as an opera Golden City. It would be just like George to stick tor; and interview more transients and people around awhile and give St. Peter a helping hand in distress than the city welfare department. at the Gate. To every woman, clothes are a subject of inter The Church mouse.

PROPAGANDA BOOK ities, who realize the menace to the NEWS NOTES OF LINKS THE JEWS world of the Jew, but we are even told “that Abraham Lincoln read THE CHURCH IN WITH CHURCH BODY their plots and soon understood that BRIEF PARAGRAPHS By Gardiner M. Day the South was not the country’s worst foe, but these Jewish financiers.” It Edited by W . B. Spofford Last week we gave readers the Diocesan conventions and Church benefit of the “ revelations” concern was because Lincoln decided to curb the power of the Jews that he was summer conferences might well pro ing the alleged Jewish control of the assassinated. vide an occasional lecture on the sub world, as set forth in The Hidden American history must further be ject of publicity. Copy comes to my Empire. Now as we turn to the re desk from many sources, prepared in ligious revelations that appear in revised because the brains of the Con federacy was a “Judah P. Benjamin.” some cases by professionals but this guidebook of anti-Semitism pub more frequently ¡by some volunteer lished by what is evidently one of He was apparently in touch with Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin. who frankly told the bishop when the most pernicious propagandist or he made the appointment, “ I know ganizations in the country, the Na The last thirty pages of this nothing about publicity but I will do tional Publishing Company, Wash manual are taken up with quotations the best I can.” As one who has ington, D. C., we would like to page from and explanations of the twenty- been on the receiving end for twenty Drs. Burton S. Easton, Frederick C. four documents known as the Pro years there are two things I grouch Grant, and all other New Testament tocols of Zion, which are known by about. First, why won’t people send scholars to suggest that they burn all all intelligent people to be forgeries. news as soon as it happens? Second, their previous writings and learn the The author has acclaimed that “ the why don’t they treat all the papers real truth about Jesus’ heredity. authenticity of the Protocols is alike by sending out their stories to This is the argument: “ Regardless proved as you would prove mathe all at the same time? Everyone even of the fact that the Nazarenes were matical problems.” slightly familiar with newspaper never known as Jews, the Jews have Like all other evils, the authors of work knows that these two rules are made everything of it to gain them the Hidden Empire discover that essential if the story is to receive at selves special Christian consideration. modern scholarly interpretation of tention, yet even professional news They claimed Jesus was a Jew, as Christianity is also due to the people employed by the Church some serting he had descended from David, machinations of the Jews. The Jew- times ignore them. regardless of the fact that there is ish-German professors were re Let me illustrate: in a recent num no genealogy of Mary in the Bible, sponsible for the “higher criticism” ber of T he W itness there was a two and the Holy Spirit and not Joseph of the Bible, which in turn is re inch paragraph stating that heads of was said to be His father. Jews sponsible for “ Modernism” in re several Churches, including Rome, reckoned genealogies through the ligion. “ Today,” declares the author, the Presbyterians, the Southern Bap father always. If Jesus descended “ these fruits have ripened into such tists, and our own, had drawn up a from David then the Immaculate organizations as The Federal Council statement denouncing the persecu Conception is a hoax!” of Churches of Christ in America. tions in Germany. It brought a cor Thus the argument is that by Since its organization in 1908 over dial note from my friend, Mr. Charles virtue of the doctrine of the Virgin 75 per cent of its finances have come Burlingham, suggesting that when birth Joseph was not the father of from sources outside of its church Churches were discovered doing any Jesus, for He has inherited no Jewish membership.” Then follows a con thing together, particularly Roman blood from him. The doctrine of the demnation of the Federal Council of Catholics and Southern Baptists, that Immaculate Conception is then inter Churches because of lack of responsi he figured the story worth at least a preted not simply to preserve the bility to any church; because “its column, and that when they united to Virgin Mary from all stains of orig resolutions represent a meddling in denounce the Nazis he thought it inal sin from the first instance of her political affairs by encouraging the ought to have two columns. I agree. conception, as Pope Pius IX decreed slacker oath and Youth Movements So apparently does Mr. Jack Irwin, in his Bull, Ineffubilis in 1854, but that can be directly connected with publicity man for the National Coun the author assumes that the doctrine Soviet Russia;” because it has men cil, for in sending the statement he clears the Virgin Mary from any who are also members of the Ameri tacked on a covering note suggesting stain of Jewish blood. Hence the can Civil Liberties Union in its “ sec that it was in many respects the most author, by a miracle in the manner retarial council” ; and because its important story ever sent from the of the famous Shylock, has been able pamphlet “ Young People’s Relation Church Missions House. Why then to drain off all the Jewish blood from ships” is a “ means for breaking did it not get more space in T he Mary’s- veins. down all morality, the family, and W itness which has shown no un Again, New Testament scholars the home, as the final step toward willingness to point out the evils of will be interested to learn that the Communism.” Surely no W itness Nazism? This is the answer: a Jewish priesthood engineered Jesus’ reader need be told that this revela meeting of 281 officials and repre death because of his opposition to tion of a secret empire in regard to sentatives of the Church press was “their plans for world dominance.” the Federal Council of Churches is held, as is customary, following the The author then points out that “the pure and unadulterated bunk. For December meeting of the National greatest kindness which nations of example, all the members of the Council. This was on a Thursday the earth can do to the Hebrew Council, approximately 300 in num and any news given us that day people of today, is to curb them from ber, are appointed by the authority would appear in our pages dated the their mad effort, (to dominate the of the constituent denominations. following Thursday. We were told world) which is nothing less than a The members of the Council meet in about the Statement denouncing headlong rushing towards destruc biennial sessions to review its work Nazi Persecutions but were asked tion.” Of course the only way that and to make major decisions as to its not to mention it . . . it would be this can be done is by stoning the policies and program. In addition, sent to us in a later release. We of Jews through persecution. all the activities of the Council come course kept the confidence . . . it Not only are Father Coughlin and under the view of the executive com- was “ off the record.” We then re Benjamin Franklin cited as author- (Continued on page 15) ceived the statement, with Mr. Ir-

win’s note pointing out its import put on his shows in several Phila ance, the following Thursday, the THE CO-OP CORNER delphia parishes last week, and also same day that it was printed in the gave the clergy of the diocese a look QINCE our last report six rectors New York newspapers and probably at their clericus on Monday at the have subscribed for their ves in papers throughout the country. Church House. A nice job, all in trymen, with two of them also The earliest possible moment that we color, which was rather a handicap sending the paper each week to could give the news to our readers to Bishop Howden who, as a Prot their Church school teachers. They was a full week after it had ap estant, limited himself to black and do this under the Modified Bundle white vestments in contrast to Bishop peared in the important newspapers. Plan whereby we send the paper Figuring the story to be cold by that Zeigler of Wyoming, whose coats of each week directly to the homes, many colors seemed to please the In time we gave it two inches. Publicity billing quarterly at the bundle rate people at headquarters were quite dians. But as young Burleson ex of 3c a copy. A number of read plained in his running comment, with right in holding the story for a break, ers, have also sent in subscriptions which it got, in the big dailies. But a background of soft music, “ We are for friends, with others sending a. comprehensive Church with great the story should, I think, have been donations which enable us to place given to us at the press conference, freedom allowed in the matter of on our lists the names of mission vestments.” The films were entirely with our use of it restricted by a re aries and shut-ins. Won’t you also lease date, so that it could have ap of New Mexico and Wyoming though please co-operate in Building T he peared in the Church papers the Mr. Burleson is planning others, and W itness? May we also call the if he doesn’t go broke trying to arouse same day, or at least but a day or attention of the heads of organ two after, it appeared in the dailies. the Church to the value of his serv izations and of Bishops to the an ice, he promises to make a real con Another case: this time involving nouncement that appeared in the tribution to the missionary enter a non-professional who will better January 12th number of The prise. serve his cause if he learns a few W itness. We invite correspond * * * simple rules of the game. On Friday, ence on the matter there set forth. Induction of January 6th, I received from the Rev. Bishop Bennett W. P. S. Lander, secretary of the Bishop Bennett was inducted as American Church Union, the state game and thus better serve those you suffragan of Rhole Island at the Ca ment by the executive committee of represent. First, send the news as soon thedral of St. John, Providence, Jan the Union denouncing the proposals as possible after it happens. Better uary 12th. Suffragan Bishop Larned for unity between the Presbyterians still send it before it happens if you of Long Island preached. Following and ourselves. It was accompanied know it is going to happen. Second, the service there was a reception and by a note suggesting the importance send it to all the papers at the same testimonial dinner sponsored by the of the statement and urging us to time if you expect them all to give Churchman’s Club of the diocese. On print it. I noticed that the letter was it attention. Third, in the case of January 7th Bishop Perry observed dated December 31, 1938 but that statements, sermons, addresses, and his coming to the diocese as bishop the postmark on the envelope was some news releases, place at the top 28 years before. “ Rosemonty Pa., January 5, 1939.” a Release date, which is the earliest * * * I immediately wrote Mr. Lander tell moment that any publication can Imagine— a Cathedral ing him that we would give the state print it. You will find the papers for $10,000 ment the space still available in the playing the game as fairly as they In Dornakal, India, on the Feast January 12th number, at the same know how. Right this minute I have of the Epiphany the Cathedral time pointing out the discrepancy in two or three stories that rate space. Church of the Epiphany was conse dates and expressing the hope that But they were given to me “ off the crated by the Metropolitan of In the statement had gone to all the record” so are not printed. Yet from dia, Bishop Wescott of Calcutta. Church papers at the same time. The past experience I am prepared to pick Bishop Azariah, who was a headliner very next morning, January 7th, I up some other paper about February at the Cincinnati General Convention, received the Living Church of Janu first and discover that I have been presides over Dornakal and seems to ary 11th (which generally reaches beaten with a story that I knew all think that simplicity is one of the my New York office four days be about on January 10th but was for marks of a Christian. Thus his fore the date on the cover) and there bidden to use. Boy, does that make newly consecrated Cathedral cost a I found not only the statement in full me reach for the aspirin. Oh, well, total of $10,000, hardly enough to fill but also a full page editorial on the the signed contracts are coming in a window in one of our American statement. Which can mean but one and a letter came this morning from cathedrals with colored glass. A thing— that Mr. Lander, either by my son at college, “ I’m getting the primitive country of course, without accident or design, sent the statement old spring training season feeling its subways, Grover Whalens, and to the Living Church at least several and feel like warming up the old bombers and with no world fair vis days before he sent it to The W it soup-bone.” So it won’t be long now itors to entertain. ness. And which will mean, unless before more serious matters demand H» $ a rational explanation is forthcom attention. Union President Hits ing, that the next time copy is re * * . $ ceived from the American Church Un Profit System Young Burleson Presents Preaching to a capacity congrega ion, instead of breaking up our forms H is Movies tion in New York City, the Rev. to give it a leading position, as we John Burleson of Denver, son of did in this instance, we will tuck it Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the late Bishop Burleson, has gone in Union Seminary, hit at the profit away in the top draw marked “ as for movie production and has organ system. convenient if at all.” ized himself a company. It is strict “ At the moment the profit motive These are not growlings from a ly Church stuff, designed to stimu in business is under persistent at sick-bed nor mere space filling. It late missionary giving through what tack, and with many of our socially is a plea to those who handle pub the highbrows call “ visual education” minded contemporaries it is the chief licity for organizations and dioceses though I suppose most of us will con devil,” Dr. Coffin said. “As Chris to observe the simple rules of the tinue to call it just plain movies. He tians we must grant that much of

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS January 19, 1939 the attack is thoroughly deserved. Other speakers are to be John R. Bishop is the Rev. Taylor Willis of The disease of our society, as a Brit Voris, president of the organization, Norfolk, Virginia, off on a bit of ish economist points out, is acquisi and Alva W. Taylor of Nashville, a holiday. tiveness. educational director and rural spe * * * “ A community in which everyone cialist, who will describe the work the Young Women from is ‘on the make’ is a hellish one to organization does among the moun Nineteen to Thirty live in. Where the profit motive is tain children of the south. Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, dominant, characters diabolically sel is offering women between nineteen fish are produced. How many col Memorials for and thirty, married or single, a lege graduates have entered on their California Church chance to—well, to quote: “ Two in careers ambitious to ‘make their pile’ Two Gothic doors and twelve teresting weeks of training in each and, whether they made it or not, stained glass windows were dedicated of three departments, the prenatal have been spiritually damaged by the on January 8th at All Saints, Wat clinic, the formula room and the nur attempt?” sonville, California, by Bishop Par sery, comprising a six weeks course.” Explaining the conscientious hut sons. The junior Auxiliary of the diocese •wrong character of some persons, Dr. is cooperating. * H« H« Coffin pointed out that there are Conference on men and women who place kindness the Ministry Aiding Refugees before honesty, who are liberal in A conference on the ministry is to from Germany giving but remise in paying other be held February 3-5 at the Episco The Church’s committee to aid bills. He asserted that the Gospel pal Seminary, Cambridge, to which German refugees, headed by Bishop in every age is a radical and revolu all men from school boys to graduate Paul Jones, is taking steps to secure tionary force, turning things as they students are invited. The leaders from national agencies the names and are upside down until they stand are to be Bishop Sherrill, the Rev. destinations of refugee families al love-side up. Norman Nash, the Rev. Angus Dun, ready arrived in the United States the Rev. Charles Taylor, Dean Henry Jesus Today Would Washburn, the Rev. Richard Emrich, Wear Ball and Chain the Rev. Leslie Glenn and the Rev. The Rev. Elmore M. McKee, rec A. L. Kinsolving. The Rev. Frederic tor of St. George’s, New York, last B. Kellogg is the secretary and if Sunday startled his congregation by you are interested in going, write declaring that if Jesus was on earth him at once at Christ Church, Cam today He would probably be in bridge. prison wearing a ball and chain. “ Having listened to the Christmas Girls’ Friendly to story for nearly 2,000' years, has hu Aid Refugees manity done much about practicing The G.F.S., wishing to show in a Jesus’ way?” he asked. “ If He walked practical way its sympathy for the among us today might He not find Jewish and Christian refugees who Himself in a cell wearing a ball and are fleeing persecutions in Germany, chain, an unwanted disturber of the has voted to give half its 1939 mis peace in economics, government and sions gift to assist refugee college the churches? Are there any signs students coming to this country. The of progress? It is a mistake to look Society is also making a gift to Bish for signs of progress on the surface. op Azariah of Dornakal, India, to O k ASSURED ¿««/REGULAR “ Progress involves first a move help provide additional lay workers ment inward. Man discovers himself in his diocese. It is expected that iftcomc is stcc/t ¿iTr&ssiuy to be a soul and brings to his mate each gift will be approximately one rialistic and mechanical environment thousand dollars. Thousands receive their checks regularly the control of a mighty inwardness. at stated intervals because they hold Annuity Progress means also a movement out Agreements of the American Bible Society. California Churchman This REGULAR INCOME brings comfort ward. When man learns to share Dies and freedom from worry about the future. with his fellow men, then his sense A few days before Christmas Fred The Annuity Agreement plan is simple of partnership with the1 eternal ere- eric M. Lee, for twenty years the with a two-fold advantage. First:—It pro ativeness makes him know he is ex treasurer of the diocese of California, vides steady income for protection in old periencing the only kind of progress died at his home in San Francisco. age. For over 90 years, Annuity Agreement that is worth while. The inward He was also for a number of years checks have never failed. Second:—You en movement and the outward one lead joy knowing you are helping make the Bible an officer of the province and was more widely available throughout the world. to an upward one, for he feels that known to the editors of the Church his life has become God-indwelt.” “ A Gift That Lives” a booklet explaining papers for his news items, always the plan, will be mailed at once if you will accompanied by cheering and encour send your name and address. Notables to Address aging words. ------MAIL COUPON TODAY ------j Dinner Meeting AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith Bishop Perry Bible House, New York, N. Y. and Senator Capper of Kansas are to Visits Europe Please send me, without obliga address the annual dinner held in Bishop Perry of Rhode Island sailed tion,booklet W-18 entitled“ AGiftThatLives” connection with the seventh annual on Mr. Mussolini’s liner, Rex, on N a m e ______meeting of the Save the Child Fund, January 14th, to make the annual to be held in New York, January visitation to the churches of the Epis A d d r e ss _ 26th. Dr. Frank Kingdon, president copal Church in Europe. He is to Denomination of Newark University and president visit Nice, Rome, Geneva, Dresden C ity ______. S ta te - of the organization, is to preside. and Munich. Accompanying the

The Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, Late Bishop o f Massachusetts; said in his sermon “The Beloved Physician,” in “ The Light of the World”;

WCTS?' JL heology and medicine; the minister and the doctor, make the same mistakes. Both of them are liable to lose sight of their ends in their means, and to elaborate their systems with a cruel heartlessness, forgetting for the moment the pur poses of mercy which are their warrant for existence ”

“ Thus theology has driven human souls into exquisite agony with its cold dissection of the most sacred feelings; and medicine has tortured sensitive animals in a recklessness of scientific vivisection which has no relation, direct, or indirect, to human good”

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or expected in order that the infor Mr. Pepper called attention to the priest bear false witness respecting mation may be placed in the hands of statement which formed the pream age and condition, etc. It is our rectors who are asked to extend ble of the National Council’s resolu observation that a considerable num friendly hands to the newly arrived tion, which reads: ber of those who come for an easy families at the time when adjustment “ Religious liberty is one and indi marriage return for an equally easy and interpretation are more needed visible. When freedom of worship of divorce. A wider-spread knowledge and most difficult. Those who do one minority group in a nation is vio of the Church’s disciplinary require arrive, I take it from my reading of lated the religious liberty of all peo ments in this matter might help to the papers, are those who somehow ple is jeopardized. This spirit of in stem the tide, at least among Church or other have raised their ransom tolerance, when once released, is dif people, of those who make frivolous and have therefore been released by ficult to control. What began as a marriages, and later come on for their kidnapers, the German govern persecution of the Jews in Germany misery-making divorces.” ment. It is called the “ Schacht now threatens the integrity of the * * * Plan” by the diplomats, and is de religious liberty of the entire Chris Mrs. Kramer Bakes scribed by Otto Tolischus, New York tian community in that land.” a Cake Times correspondent in Berlin, as $ $ $ There’s no news I suppose in a “ designed to combine Jewish emigra Going to Reno woman baking a cake, even if it is tion with German export expansion To Get Married? true that most women nowadays play and to finance both of them with a If so here is a communication bridge instead and buy their cake at huge foreign loan supposedly raised from Bishop Jenkins which he sends the corner bakery. But here is Mrs. by ‘world Jewry,’ which would save as a “ Greetings from Nevada” : Charles Kramer, a communicant of Germany from releasing Jewish cap “ The number of people who come All Saint’s Mission, Eclipse, Nebras ital and would bring into Germany to Nevada to be married is very ka. She lives out in the country desperately needed foreign ex large. Among them are a good many about four miles but when she change.” American gangsters thought of our Church folk who never seem learned that the mission was to have of it first and we called it kidnaping to have heard of the requirements of and holding for ransom and locked the three-day notice to be given to RESTHAVEN them up in prisons. the priest who is to officiate and of Almon R. Pepper, the Church’s so the preparation to be made by way Saint Augustine,. Florida cial relations secretary, says, “ The Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened of instruction, etc. It is our united their Rest House in this historic city to guests committee feels that what is needed purpose to observe these require desiring spiritual peace and strength; physical from Church people is sympathetic rest, quiet, and nourishing food. The new ments in all cases, except when the location is in beautiful grounds with water understanding of the situation these couple brings a written request from outlook, live oaks, palms, flowers. Com fortable rooms. Central heat. Address The refugees have come from and the their rector for one of our clergy to Mother Superior S. R. conditions they are confronted with act for him. The clergy in Nevada in their new environment. Most of do not under any circumstances THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK them are professional men with fam marry total strangers, unbaptized SOCIETY Founded by Bishop White 1833 ilies ; many of them have had con people, or any who come without Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par siderable wealth and find themselves ishes unable to purchase them, in limited proper witnesses. The witnesses grants. suddenly so near destitution that must know the applicants and be The Book of Common Prayer. means of transportation must be pro known by the officiating priest. It The Combined Book (The Book o f Common Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). vided for them from their entry port is entirely necessary that these con Pew Size in the United Sates to their desina- ditions be observed. Too frequently Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. tion. It is not always smooth sail people who are not known to the Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. ing for them; their reception is not Philadelphia, Pa. always cordial. Economics and po litical factors enter largely in some •communities. The national agencies IRISH LINEN PRICES REDUCED by need funds for their work, and help Anglo-American Trade Agreement in locating families. effective Jan. 1st. Get new list for “ What is most needed is personal friendly understanding. It is above Altar and Vestments. MARY FAW all a chance for our Church people CETT CO., Box 146, Plainfield, N. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 19, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen a cake sale she figured on doing her travelled; 239 articles published; Rochester. They gave him a present. share. She made a great big one, read the New Testament 61 times, He made a speech. about a foot and a half across with Old Testament 3 times and read 111 ^ frosting an inch and a half thick— other books.” And here are his totals Scranton Curate more or less. She didn’t have any for the seven years he has been in Makes a Speech car. Neither did she have any maid Aberdeen: “ 1931 sermons; 2375 ser The Rev. George F. Davis, curate with whom to leave Sonny while she vices; 502 other services attended; and organist at St. Luke’s Scranton, delivered her masterpiece. So with read the N. T. 382 times; the 0. T. Pa., was asked to address the Kiwanis the cake in one hand and the bridle 58 tinjes; read 385 other books; held Club the other day. He did, and de of a pony, on whose back sat proud the first Episcopal service at 132 nounced the Jews, according to one Sonny, in the other, Mrs. Kramer places; conducted 13 missions; and person present, in a manner that paced off the four long miles. 15 Bible schools; travelled 152,459 would make Coughlin look like their Mother, son and pony arrived at the miles and had 1,154 articles pub friend by comparison. Rumor has it mission smiling and happy, with the lished and nine books.” Boy, I ought that the rector of the parish, the Rev. cake whole and right side up. And to move over and let him crawl in Robert Kreitler, always a friend of when the preacher remarked that it bed with me— he must be tired. Jewish people, called him down and showed a remarkable bit of loyalty * * * the editor of the Scranton paper ex Mrs. Kramer looked surprised and Detroit Dean to purgated the remarks at the request didn’t have the remotest idea what Speak in Chicago of members of the Kiwanis Club. On he was talking about. Some people Dean Kirk O’Ferrall of Detroit is the other hand several leading busi are like that. to be the speaker at the annual din * * ness men, unwilling to have their ner held the evening before the con names revealed, are said to have Linen Prices vention of the diocese of Chicago. called up Davis to congratulate him are Down Bishop Stewart, as is customary, will “ on telling the truth about the The Mary Fawcett Company, make his annual cross of honor Jews.” Plainfield, N. J., informs me that, awards at the same dinner, which * * * thanks to the new treaty signed be comes this year on February 6th. Bishop Thomas Visits tween the United States and Great Japanese Missions Britain, linen prices are down. How Singing for Bishop Thomas of Brazil has late ever things being as they are on the One Hundred Years ly returned from a visitation of his other side of the Atlantic, what with It took the two of them to do it, Japanese missions, accompanied by one thing and another, nobody knows but between them Mr. and Mrs. John the Japanese archdeacon, the Ven. how long they are to stay down. And Andrews have sung in church choirs John Y. Ito. They had ten new mis so—you know— send for their new for over one hundred years. Mr. sions to visit, each with its small price list. Andrews started in Canada when he group of communicants and a few H« * * was fourteen and has been at it now waiting confirmation. They had Memorial Window for 55 years. Mrs. Andrews’ record twenty-nine places in all to visit, at Fort Lee of 48 years has been established en and traveled nearly 2,000 miles. The The Rev. W. L. Clarke, rector of tirely in Detroit choirs. They met in the Good Shepherd, Fort Lee, N. J., the choir of St. Peter’s, Detroit, where dedicated a stained glass window on they were married 39 years ago. They Christmas day, one of a series being now sing at the Ascension where Wilbur Herbert Burnham done for the church by the Payne- Rector H. E;. Ridley gave them silver Spiers Studios. crosses the other day for perfect at Designer and Master * * * tendance during 1938. As I medi Bishop Oldham at tate upon choir singers with perfect Craftsman Peace Conference attendance records, and parsons with Bishop Oldham of Albany, one of Bible reading records, why is it, the outstanding leaders of the Father, that I rather rejoice in my Stained and Leaded Glass Church in the field of international imperfections? relations, is to be one of the head Studios 1126 Boylston Street liners at the conference on the cause Bishop Ferris and cure of war, to be held in Wash Honored by Youth Boston, Massachusetts ington, D. C., January 25th. Bishop Ferris, retired Bishop of * * * Rochester, was the guest of honor at The Parson Gets a birthday party attended by several Around hundred of the younger people of Some parsons have the knack of the diocese, held January 5th in jotting down the number of miles travelled, addresses given, etc. The STAINED • GLASS CRAFTSMEN 5 0 - W E S T -15 ’ STREET'NEW-YORK, Rev. John Henry Hopkins of Chi FINE: STAINED • GLAS S 'M . cago, when he was rector of the Re MENEELY&CO. ESTABLISHED ^ FOR • FIFTY • YEARS '^ deemer, was such a man, reporting ______SN1826 to his congregation in his parish WATERVUET, N.Y & paper the number of ’phone calls made and received, the number of parish calls made, and other details. The Rev. Charles Hamilton of Aber ST. HILDA GUILD. Inc. ^ R-GEISSLEFUN c T- 147 E. 47th St.. New York 4j0 SIXTH AVE.NEAR 10 o> ST. NEWY0RK deen, Mississippi, likewise is a de- CHURCH VESTMENTS tailer and sends the following figures ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Church furnishings about his activities for 1938: “ 419 Conferences with reference to the adornment IN CARVED WOOD AND of Churches sermons; 517 services, with 61 other MARBLE-BRASS • SILVER FABRICS + WINDOWS services attended; 36,013 miles Telephone El-dorado 5-1058

Bishop says the Japanese keep track Church on the subject. It seems as enthused in a matter that doesn’t of their moving population. When a though this agitation has spread to concern him personally. Bishops don’t family moves from one colony to an the higher-ups for whether because face unemployment if they behave other, or to a new place, if they don’t of it or not, I see a committee of themselves, priests do. inform Mr. Ito some one else does. bishops has been appointed to deal “A bishop may be a father in Then he looks them up and starts with the matter. I believe the chair God, but he cannot do much father a new mission. The Bishop adds, “ I man of this committee to be a very ing because of the red tape involved could see signs of rich spiritual able Bishop, but I do not feel in his office. He may like to, but he growth, not fantastic at all but slow, Bishops can handle this matter for is limited by the ecclesiastical set-up. persistent and permanent.” the following reasons. If anything is really going to be * * V “ A man is not going to be terribly done, it must be done by the men af- Detroit Dean Comments on Germany Dean Kirk B. O’Ferrall of St. Paul’s Cathedral, who annually Services in Leading Churches makes a summer pilgrimage to Eu rope, is presenting again this fall The Cathedral of St. John Christ Church Parish a series of Sunday evening sermons the Divine Detroit and Grosse Pointe on his European observations. Se Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector lecting Germany as the subject of New York City Rev. J. Francis Sant, Yicar Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at his first address, Dean O’Ferrall 10, Morning Prayer, i l, Holy Communion Rivard quoted a German church official and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard mon. Services: 8:00, 9:45, 11:00, 7:30 Sun whose name he chose to withhold as Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on days. Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10.) 9, Morning Saints’ Days: 10:30. making the following comment: Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: “ When there is persecution in a Organ Recital at 4:30. country, the people turn naturally to Cathedral of the Incarnation Chapel of the Intercession Garden City, N. Y. worship. We are making progress. Broadway at 155th Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean Lutherans and Roman Catholics New York City Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com have been brought to a closer unity Sundays : Holy Communion : 8 and 9 :30. munion. 9:30 A.M. Junior Congregation. undreamed of a few years ago. In Service and Sermon: 11 ; Evening Prayer 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. and Sermon, 8 P.M. Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning Germany now, it does not matter Weekdays: | Holy Communion daily: 7 Prayer and Sermon. 4:30 P.M. Evensong what church you go to. All that and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. Class and Address. in Religion Fridays at 8 P.M. counts is loyalty to Jesus Christ and Daily services in the Chapel. God.” Grace Church, New York Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Broadway at 10th St. Trinity Church. New York Benefits for Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Broadway and Wall St. Mountain Children Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat urdays. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. The Save the Children Fund, co Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs Daily: 8, 12 and 3. operating with The Clare Tree Major days and Holy Days. Children’s Theatre, will present a St. Paul’s Cathedral The Heavenly Rest, New York subscription series of three plays at Buffalo, New York Fifth Avenue at 90th Street the Heckscher Theatre, New York, Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10 Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. Jan. 28, April 1 and May 6. Pro a.m. ; Sunday School 9:30 a.m .; Morning Weekdays: 8, 12:05. ceeds will be used for the benefit of Service and Sermon 11 a.m. ; Choral Eve Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy ning Prayer 4 p.m. Days: 10:30 A.M. needy children in the Southern Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com mountains, among whom the Save munion, 11 a.m. the Children Fund carries on an ex Christ Church Cathedral The Incarnation Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. tensive ministry of welfare and ed Madison Avenue and 35th Street The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean ucational assistance. The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector Sunday Services, 8 :00, 9 :30, 10:05, Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A.M., 4 P.M. 11:00 a.m .;.4:30 p.m. “ Cinderella” will be the inaugural Wednesdays and Holy Days: Holy Com Week-days: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion offering; “ The Little Princess” is to munion 10 A.M. (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy Fridays: Holy Communion 12 :15 P.M. Communion on Wednesdays and Holy be the second attraction, while the Days. 12:30 p.m. Noonday Service. series will close with “ The King of St. Bartholomew’s, New York fhe Golden River.” JSach perform Park Avenue and 51st Street St. Michael and All Angels Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Baltimore, Maryland ance will be given in the morning, 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. St. Paul and 20th Street probably at 10:30. 9 :30 and 11 A.M.— Church School. Sunday Services: 7 :30, 9:30, 11 A.M. ; 11 A.M.—Morning Service, Sermon. 8 P.M. 4 P.M.—Evensong. Special Music. Weekdays: Monday, Wednesday and Clergy Placement Holy Comm. Thurs. & Saints’ Days, Saturday, 10 A.M. 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 7 A.M. and Unemployment Holy Days, 7 & 10 A.M. Morning Prayer It was the Rev. Archibald Sidders, St. James Church, New York at 9 A.M. Evening Prayer at 5 :15 P.M. Madison Avenue and 71st Street rector at Puyallup, Washington, who The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector started us off on all this unemployed 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Trinity Church 9 :30 A.M.—Children’s Service & Church Main and Holman, Houston, Texas clergy business. I rather felt he School. The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, would be satisfied with the appoint 11 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon. Rector 8 :00 P.M.— Choral Evensong & Sermon. 7:30 A.M.—Holy Communion. ment of a bishop committee on the Holy Communion, Wednesday, 8 A .M .; 9:30 A.M.— Church School. matter, but not so, as you can see Thursdays and Saints’ Days, 12 o’clock. 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon. 6:00 P.M.—Young People’s Organizations. from his letter, herewith: 10:30 A.M.—Holy Communion on Wednes St. Thomas Church days and Holy Days. “ Since my first article appeared Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in T h e W i t n e s s , considerable agi New York Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Gethsemane, Minneapolis tation has gone on in the Church Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and 4th Ave. South at 9th St. 4 P.M. about unemployed clergy. Letters Daily Services: 8 :30 A.M., Holy Com The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector have been sent to T h e W i t n e s s munion. Sundays: 8 :00 and 11:00 A.M. Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10:30 A.M. and myself, and I have addressed Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M. many groups in and out of the

fected, they knoyv their own needs our own diocese. It will call for a and other friends of the work of the best. matter of $2 to $5 a month from all Federal Council. “ This matter of clerical unemploy the clergy to do this, and we should This attack on the Federal Coun ment however involves the matter of do it without waiting for legislation. cil of Churches which is incorporated clerical placement, it is because of the Then having helped the immediate in this anti-Semitic pamphlet, not to latter that the former exists. We will situation, through clericus committee mention several other allegations, never get far with clerical unemploy and convention we should hammer at leads me to believe either that the ment until our whole system is over it until our system, which has long author, or one of the authors, of the hauled. We must either be governed outlived its usefulness, is changed pamphlet is Colonel E. N. Sanctuary, by our bishops or our congre and we become like the Methodists who operates a private propaganda gations; you can’t be Congrega- who brag and rightly brag, “ every bureau on 156 Fifth Avenue, New tionalists and Episcopalians at church with a preacher and every York, or Colonel Sanctuary uses this the same time. Personally I’m preacher with a church.” pamphlet as one of the sources of agreeable to either, hut favor “ The Mormons tells us that not the hokum which he retails. Colonel the latter for my experience with one of their members,—members Sanctuary enjoys pointing out that bishops (if they have the chance) is mind you not clergy, or officials,— the evils of the world are not en that they are always fairer than un have received help from the govern tirely caused by the Jews, but in a informed congregations (I refer of ment. In contrast we have many, large measure by the “ apostate Prot course to clerical placement). For many clergy who are now working estant clergy.” The author of the while vestries who know nothing on the WPA. Hidden Empire apparently agrees about the qualities of a man except “ This communication then is an but feels the Jews are so much the the way his stole hangs or the man appeal to the clergy. Let us do greater evil that the Federal Coun ner in which he preaches his first ser something now, that means this cil of Churches only receives honor mon, bishops do, and they know just week, and we ourselves will not then able mention. what they want from the men of blush when we read the offertory, ‘It their dioceses. is more blessed to give than to re “ I stated in a former article that ceive’.” it was my belief that we have about 500 unemployed clergy and those receiving less than $50 a month in PROPAGANDA BOOK LINKS THE "I was in Prison" our Church. From letters and other JEWS WITH CHURCH BODY By Leonard McCarthy information received, I see no rea (Continued from page 8) son to change my mind. Some of mittee of 78 members who are nomi A SERIES of articles on re these of course may be unemploy nated by the different churches and ligious work in prisons, writ able. In that case they should be who hold bi-monthly meetings. In ten by a man recently released told so, and dropped from our stead of 75% of the finances of the from prison after having served Church rolls. But how came they to Federal Council coming from sources 7 years of a 40-year sentence for armed bank robbery, these dis be ordained? It is ridiculous to say outsidet of church membership, the cussions present the insider’s as one bishop recently wrote, that fact is that 98 % come from the church’s foundations and religious point of view on a subject that you can’t tell how a man will turn is just now occupying the thought organizations, and only an occasion out. Other churches don’t have that of many diocesan social service trouble, except for moral reasons. al gift from Jewish philanthropists departments. Our bishops should be better judges of human character. Why aren’t — o — these men tested in actual parish t The first article of the series, work before they are accepted as accompanied by an introduction candidates? So before this matter by the Rev. Almon R. Pepper, of clerical unemployment can be executive secretary of the De solved we will have to deal with: IW 1PPELL partment of Christian Social Re 1, fit men for candidates; 2, square 6c COMPANY LTD lations, will appear in the Janu pegs in round holes; 3, the placing J ary 25th issue of The Living Church. of younger inexperienced men in the EXETER Cathedral ¡/ard. -—0--- place of experienced and tried LONDON M É on S tSW t middle aged men; 4, the authority of MANCHESTER 2+t Street", SUBSCRIBE NOW, bishop and vestry, etc. Right now we ENGLAND so that you will not miss it and the are running a Congregational church other articles that follow. with bishops as an added expense. If we are Congregationalists, we don’t neec| - the adornment of bishops, we must be one or the other. Communion “ But what about all these fellows Plate. that need immediate relief. We can’t wait until another General Shrines. 744 North Fourth Street, Dept. H Convention. Something must be done Milwaukee, Wisconsin right now. The baby needs new shoes Tabernacles Send me The Living Church for next week. There is the matter of one year at $4.00 □ . For two years at $7.00 □ . For seventeen three months back rent. This imme M em oria l weeks at $1.00 (new subscribers diate matter is reason of this article. Tablets. only) □ . We clergy must do something for our I enclose remittance □ . Bill meQ. unfortunate brothers now. My theses is this. We the clergy of a Name...... Designs & Estimates Address...... certain diocese must assess our own submitted on Application. incomes to help the needy clergy of City ...... State......

The Save the Children Fund was incorporated in 1932 to aid underprivileged children in neglected areas through a practical program of physical relief, wel fare, child guidance, community improvement and family aid. It also purposes to keep the general public informed on the subject of rural child needs. Its major work is in the Southern mountains and with other projects in California and Southern Illinois.

Human appeals like this, fraught with urgency, come to us from our welfare workers in the mountains:

“One day last week two women came to my office, both widows. These women live to gether in a two-room shack that leaks like a sieve. They can get no work although anxious to do so. I asked one of these women what she did for a living and she said, ‘Anything I can get to do— scrubbing, washing; I even cleaned out a barn. I work for anything they SPONSOR WANTED! will pay me, clothes, food. Why I worked all A club, church or in day for a bowl of gravy.’ I said, ‘I wouldn’t dividual to sponsor this work for anyone who wouldn’t pay me more one-room mountain school in the hills. than that.’ She replied, ‘You would if that was There are hundreds all you could get and your children starving.’ just like it. $60 will H er children, she said, had no food, so I provide for its most gave her about one gallon (all I had) pow needy children — five dollars a month. dered milk and a can of Ovaltine. I found , out afterward that was all her children $6.00 a year is all had for supper that night, not even bread. that is required to give a daily lunch, Stories such as this are what I hear day necessary clo th after day. ‘No shoes— No clothes— ing, health and N o food.’ May I have more milk welfare service to and please, more cod-liver oil— one boy in a mine is all gone.” mountain school for a whole year. “ One mountain mother I met walked six miles every day to help make the soup for “ Just a line to tell you how strongly in her own and fifty other school children. sympathy I am with the purposes of the She said that on one occasion she asked each Save The Children Fund. It goes without child to bring one potato for soup. Only five saying that the nation of tomorrow will be were able to bring this potato. One boy the children of today. Therefore in all logic brought a little square of corn bread, all the most constructive work that anyone can he had.” do is to help these children.” D r. W il l ia m C. Covert. T heodore R oosevelt.

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