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Church J Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Doctor and nurse are showan above ministering to a child at the Baby Clinic, St. Luke's International Medical Center,

Copyright Tokyo. This is just one example of the way in which the Church extends the blessing of health through its hospitals and dispensaries overseas.

ARTICLE BY JOHN C. LEFFLER SERVICES The WITNES S E RV IC ES In Leading Churches For ChtCndHChrchj In Leading Churches

NEW YORK CATHEDRAL CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (St. John the Divisse) EDITORIAL BOARD Main & Church Sts., Hartford, Cam. 112th St. & Amsterdam Sunday: 8 and 10:10 am., Holy Coa- Sun HO 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Cho MP Wrzax B. Srorrmea, Managinsg Editor; munion; 9:30, Church School; 11 a m. 10:30; Ev 4; Ser 11, 4; Wkdys, HO Jounx P. Bnowsr, KxNNcErH R. Foray~ss, Morning Prayer; 8 pm., Evening Prayer. Weekdays: Holy Communion, Mon. 12 7:30 (also 10 'Wed & Cho HC 8:45 Goanou C. GAsa, RoRENT H~sep- noon; Tues., Fri. and Sat., 8; Wed., 11; liD); 8:30; Ev 5. The daily sug, Gnomes H. MscMunaAT, Paurs MP Thurs., 9; Wed. Noonday Service, 12:15. offices are Cho ex Mon. Moons 7.., Joaw. H. Trrus, Colusmnists; Cwrron J. Ksw, Religion and the Mind; CHRIST CHURCH THE HEAVENLY REST, NEW YORK MAsaXT H. Suor~me 7..., Living Liturgy. Cambridge, Mass. 5th Avenue at 90th Street Rev. Gardiner M. Day, Reeaer Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, Chaplain Rev. John Ellis Large, D.D. Cosrrxasrueo Emrrons: Frederick C. Grant, Sunday Services: 8, 9, 10 and 11 a. Sundays: Holy Communion, 7:30 and 9 F-. U. Ayres jr., a.. w4. ruas, U. az. Weekdays: Wednesday, 8 and 11 au. publication. a. in.; Morning Service and Sermon, 11. Brown Jr., R. S. M. Emurich, T. P. Ferris, Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com- J. F. Fletcher, C. K. Gilbert, C. L. Glenn, and munion, 12. Wednesdays: Healing Serv- G. I. Huller, A. C. Lichitenberger, C. S. ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL ice, 12. Daily: Morning Prayer, 9; Denver, Colorsdo Evening Prayer, 5:30. Martin. R. C. Miller. E. L. Parsons. I. A. Paul, Paul Roberts, V. D. Scudder, W. M. Very Rev. Paul Roberts, Deeas reuse ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH Sharp, W. B. Sperry, W. B. Spofford Jr., Rev. Harry Watts, Canons Sundays: 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 and 11. for and 5st Street J. W. Suter, S. E. Sweet, S. A. Temple, Park Avenue 4:30 p.m. recitals. W. N. Welsh. Rev. Anssons Phelps Stokes, Jr., Rector Weekdays: Holy Communion, Wednes- 8 and 9:30 a.m. Holy Communion. *~ day, 7:15; Thursday, 10:30. 9:30 and 11a.m. Church School. Tux Wrrnas is published weekly from Holy Days: Holy Communion, 10:30. required 11 a.m. Morning Service and Sermon. September 15th to June 15th inclusive, CHRIST CHURCH 4 p.m. Evensong. Special Music. with the exceptin of the first week in Indianapolis, Ind. Weekday: Holy Communion Tuesday at January and semi-monthly from June 15th Monument Circle, Downtown Wednesdays and Saints 10:30 a.m.; to September 15th by the Episcopal Church Rev. John. P. Crain,, D.D., Rector at 8 n.m.; Thursdays at 12: 10 Days Publishing Co. on behalf of the Witness Rev. Messrs. F. P. Williams, p.m. Organ Recitals, Fridays, 1210. Permission Advisory Board. E. L. Corner The Church is open daily for prayer. Sun.: H. C.8, 12:15; 11, 1st S. Famuily 9:30; M. P. and Ser., 11. Weekdays: H. C. daily 8 ex Wed, and CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY The subscription price is $4.00 a year; in DFMS. 316 East 88th Street bundles for sale in parishes the magazine Fri. 7; H. D. 12:05. Noonday / sells for 10c a copy, we will bill quarterly Prayers 12:05. York City New at Entered as Second Class Office hours daily by appointment. The Rev. James A. Paul, Rector 7c a copy. Matter, August 5, 1948, at the Post office Communion, 8; Church TRINITY CHURCH Sundays: Holy at Tunkhannock, Pa., under the act of Church 11; Eve- Miami, Fla. School, 9:30; Morning Service, March 3, 1879. ning Prayer, 5. Rev. G. Irvine Hiller, S.T.D., Rector Sunday Services: 8, 9:30 and 11 am. WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL MOUNTr SAINTr ALBANS S E RV ICE S TRINITY CHURCH Episcopal The It. Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop Broad and Third Streets The Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre, )r., In Leading Churches Columbus, Ohio the Dean Rev. Robert W. Fay, D.D. of Sunday 8, 9:30, Holy Communion; 11, ser. (generally with MP, Lit or proces- ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH Rev. A. Freemsan T~raverse, Asss sion) (1, S, HC); 4, Ev. Weekdays: Tenth Street, above Chestnut Sun. 8 H-C; 11 MP; 1st Sm. HO; FvL 11C, 7:30; Int., 12; Ev., 4. Open daily, Philsdelphia, Penna. 12 N HC; Evening, Weekday, Lases 7 to 6. The Rev. Alfred ffVPre. D.D.. Rat.e Noon-Day, Special services annoumeedL Rev. A. Attessbareugh, B.D., Ass't. Reetor Archives ST. PAUL'S 7 he Rev. Liusta' , .. ,Siechung, A."J., CHRIST CHURCH Minister to the Hard of Hearing 13 Vict Park B Nashville Tennessee H. Alexander Matthsews, Mus.D., The Rev. Raymond Tuttle Ferris 2020. RocHEtEm, N. Y. Organist The Rev. George L. Cadigan, Rector 7:30 a.m., Holy Communion; 10 ama., Sunday: 8, 9:30 and 11. Sunday: 9 and 11 a.m., 7:30 p.m. Family Service and Church School; 11 Holy Days: 11 Fri. 7. Weekdays: Tues., Wed., Thuma, Fri., a.m., Morning Prayer and Soe.;ea 12:30-12:55 p.m. 5:30 p.m., Young People's Meeting. ST. JAMES' Services of Spiritual Healing, Thurs.,

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difficult, therefore, for the The Church in Delaware Acts people of Sussex to accept a r a d i c a l and instantaneous To Support Supreme Court change in their social patterns publication. and behavior. and CLERGY REAFFIRM THE CHRISTIAN TEACHING Following the historic deci- OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN sion by the Supreme Court in reuse r e g a r d to segregation in for By James F. Brackney schools, Delaware, which was one of the border states in- - Delaware in recent weeks sides, whites and Negroes, con- volved in the case, reacted required has had the eyes of the nation tinue to practice tolerance, un- promptly without waiting for upon it due to racial tension derstanding and sympathy. In- additional rulings from the created originally by integra- tolerance on either or both high court. State authorities

Permission tion in one of the schools in sides would destroy much of accept the decision without de- Milford. Although most cer- the advances already made. lay and said that integregation Milford would begin with the opening tainly the incidents in Milford is located in the DFMS. of the new semester in Sep- / coverage in the received wide southernmost county of the nationally, and even per- tember. Recognizing m a n y press state which is Sussex. The factors involved haps internationally, it would north to in such a step,

Church two other counties, the state officials also ruled be well to review briefly the south, are New Castle and that any school wishing im- events leading up to this un- Kent. Although most cer- mediate integration should sub- fortunate episode. The sensa- tainly not condoning defiance

Episcopal mit their proposals to the state tional items always attract at- cf law and order or violations

the for final approval. Where this tention neglecting to mention of the rights of any persons, of those things which are good regardless of race or creed, in has been done, the plan has by gone into effect smoothly. Un- and because they are good, order to have a more sympa- fortunately, the Milford school comparison they should merit thetic understanding of the Archives board neglected to inform equal attention. greater difficulties facing the The unrest, tension, etc., re- people of Sussex County, it either the state board of edu- 2020. cation or the community of its ceived extensive coverage, but, should be pointed out that plans. The decision was an unfortunately, little, if any they have adhered more rigidly the mention was made to the ef- to customs and social practices accomplished fact when

Copyright schools opened for the new fect that for the first time this of the past than have the term. year many of the schools of northern parts of the state. Unrest began to develop Delaware actually were oper- They have not experienced the among some students and par- ating under an integrated sys- more gradual and orderly lift- ents and a boycott developed. Finally the school on Lakeview tem and to date there have ing of racial barriers of the been no apparent disturbances. northern section of Delaware. Avenue was closed and after Integration in the schools, in Even there, the changes have considerable discussion which its present scope, is new to all not been unduly prolonged in apparently settled nothing, first one member of the board re- Delawareans but the fact it is some fields, as rapid advances, signed followed by the other working in many of the schools even though on a gradual basis, has been neglected. It will con- have been made. There still is members. tinue to operate smoothly and much to be done, but the fu- Under the direction of state effectively as long as both ture looks bright. It is more officials, the school was ordered

TrIE WVITNESS- NOVFMEHR 4. 1954 Three reopened and Negro students boro, in the heart of the area them an even greater threat to were escorted to school under of dispute, Bishop J. Brooke our American liberties." police guard. Into this picture Mosley, Coadjutor, declared Immediately following the of unrest and tension entered a Supreme Court that he believes "Men of sound ruling, Bishop man by the name of Bryant Mosley preached in St. Anne's mind and sound hearts" Bowles, of Washington, D. C., will lead Church, Middletown, praising who is president of t he southern Delaware out of its the decision. NAAWP (National Association racial difficulties and "back to for the Advancement of White being a good example for other Clergy Act People). Taking advantage of states." Bishop Mosley preached The bishop of Delaware, a situation involving human in Prince George's Chapel in Arthur R. McKinstry, has also emotions, he agitated the sit- a town where a school was long been an opponent of racial uation and called upon the closed in the secondary boy- discrimination and has spoken people of Milford to boycott cott. He took his theme from his views emphatically. the schools and force a return Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. During the recent Milford to segregation. He urged Bishop Mosley said, "I think events, through the media of publication. sympathy "strikes" in other God shares the perplexities of the press and the pulpit, clergy of the Episcopal Church in and Sussex schools and eventually the good people of Delaware several schools joined the boy- these days and that he weeps Delaware raised their voices in protest and indignation. Un- reuse cott and attendance dropped for us all in this moment of animously, the clergy of Sus- for sharply. Many of the schools our history. But Jesus, after joining the "strike" were not weeping over the sins of Jeru- sex County, meeting in Prince George's even involved in the dispute as salem, "got up and went into Chapel, Dagsboro, en- dorsed and released a state- required no integration existed in those the city, and faced his enemies ment declaring, schools. -and there he took his stand "If God is not the God of the Since then, Delaware's at- before them-weeping no more Negro, neither is he torney general, H. Albert now, but bringing before them the God of the white. If

Permission he is not Young, ordered that the char- the challenge of his righteous- the God of all, he is not the God of ter of this group, incorporated ness. He did not yield to any any." in Delaware, be revoked, and The clergy of the diocese, DFMS. pressures. He did not hate nor

/ assembled at the at the direction of the gover- hurt them. But he did con- duPont Me- morial nor, J. Caleb Boggs, Bowles tinually press his claims upon House in Rehobeth Beach, in a session of their an-

Church was arrested twice on October them until they could be rid of nual fall conference, 10 upon appearing in Delaware him only by killing him. Sim- speaking in the name of the and was released on bail pend- ilarly, we must be certain to bishops, priests and deacons of the ing later hearings on charges take our stand on these issues dio- Episcopal cese, unanimously of inciting to riot and stirring of righteousness and justice. approved a the pastoral letter which up racial hatred. Prior to It is to this that we are was read of on October 10 in all churches these latter two steps, a new called." board for the Milford school of the diocese reaffirming the removed the names of the Ne- God also weeps, Bishop beliefs and position of the Archives groes from the rolls and the Mosley stated, "for those who Church in the matter which school reopened with about have come to our good state was in the center of the un- 2020. normal attendance. Meantime, to take advantage of our plight. fortunate dispute. They sup- the Negroes involved were Poor misguided souls! Preach- ported the early integration of ordered to return to all-Negro ing hate-in the name of God all schools in keeping with the Copyright schools w h i c h necessitated of love. Teaching lawlessness directive "of t h e Supreme their traveling approximately in the name of the United Court; upholding those com- twenty miles to school. States of America! Surely munities and individuals hav- these people are so far removed ing the courage to begin early Bishops Speak from a reasonable understand- the process of integregation; Prior to the moves directed ing of either God's laws or and urged sympathetic under- against Bowles by the attorney America's traditions as to standing for those commun- general and the governor, the awaken in us a deep sympathy ities where the problems of re- voice of the Episcopal Church for them in their sickness. In adjustment are more compli- in Delaware rose clearly and their blind and unreasoning cated. They reaffirmed the unhesitatingly above the hys- way they are, I believe, sin- brotherhood of all men under terical cries of those favoring cere in the things they profess God and adherence, as directed segregation. Preaching in Dags- to believe. But this makes in Holy Scripture, to submis-

Few THE \WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 sion and loyalty to the civil the state. They counseled Churches in the U.S.S.R. and law and constituted authority. against hysterical fear, believ- other lands" and that the lat- They held that violators of ing that the total history of ter be invited to "consider ways law must be brought under the our country shows that suc- in which they might communi- discipline of the state, and that cessful solutions have been and cate the statement to the gov- all members of this Church can be found. They called for ernments of their countries." stand under the judgement of revised attitudes which will Nolde said Bishop Dibelius God and the discipline of the conform to the recent inter- and Visser 't Hooft reported Church. pretation of the law of our that Archbishop Boris ex- The letter concluded by highest civil court, and for pressed his gratitude for the calling all people of the Church loyalty to the Christian prin- visit and promised to transmit to fervent prayer for them- ciple of the brotherhood of all the documents to Patriarch selves and for all residents of men under God. Alexei.

URGES CHURCH ACT publication. ON DELINQUENCY and Russian Prelate Receives * Mobilization of American Churches of all faiths to fight reuse World Council Appeal juvenile delinquency, crime and for divorce was urged by Circuit * An appeal by the World tension exists," it also said, Judge Julius H. Miner at a "to visit one another so they meeting of Chicago ministers. required Council of Churches to govern- ment and Church leaders of all may ga'n a better understand- The Church is "the greatest nations to help relieve present ing of one another and of the insurance against juvenile de- world tensions has been given countries in which they live linquency that we have," he said. Permission to Russian Orthodox Arch- and thus strengthen the bonds bishop Boris in Berlin for of fellowship and promote the "A spiritual resurgence is transmission to P a t r ia r c h reconciliation of the nations. our greatest hope, I plead with DFMS.

/ Alexei of Moscow, head of the "We appeal to the Churches you to summon a council of Russian Church. to bid their members recognize Churches of all faiths in this their political responsibilities perilous hour when our con-

Church This was reported by O. and also to ask Christian tech- cepts of freedom and of God Frederick Nolde of the com- nicians and administrators to are being savagely challenged." mission of the Churches on find a vocation in the service Judge Miner said millions of international affairs. He said Episcopal of U.N. agencies engaged in criminals are "victims of spir- the appeal was handed to the the meeting the needs of econom- itual starvation," pointing out prelate by Bishop Otto of Russian ically and technically under- that 85 per cent of the defend- Dibelius of Berlin, head of the developed countries. ants who appear before h'm Evangelical Church in Ger- all members are not churchgoers. 't "We appeal to Archives many and W. A. Visser of all Churches to unite in a "Irreligion has obviously be- Hooft, general secretary of the common ministry of reconcilia- come the major contributing

2020. World Council. tion in proclaiming Christ as factor to our national juvenile The appeal was made in a the hope of the world in inter- crisis," he said. "We are per- resolution adopted by the cession for one another and in mitting mass youth destruc- Assembly Copyright World Council at its mutual service. And, finally, tion. We place too much em- in Evanston, in August follow- we call upon all Christians phasis on material and too ing the report of its section on everywhere to join in prayer to little on spiritual values." international affairs. Almighty God that he will "Broken homes are the cess- It called upon statesmen and guide the governments and the pool of juvenile crime," the leaders of public opinion and peoples in the ways of justice jurist continued. "More than the press to refrain from words and peace." 360,000 youngsters a r e or- and actions designed to in- In a separate resolution the phaned annually by our obso- flame enmity and hatred. Assembly had directed that lete and brutal divorce laws, "We appeal to the represen- this appeal be forwarded to which have not been changed tatives of the Churches in Churches not related to the materially in the last hundred those countries between which World Council "including the years."

THilE \WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 Judge Miner told the clergy- been speaking at missionary Brooklyn, largest parish in the men he spent many months rallies and services in Connec- diocese, and vicar of the Chapel documenting facts for the ticut and Massachusetts. of the Intercession, New York. address. He opened the week of Octo- Of 80,722 crimes in Illinois, ber 24 at Christ Church, Cam.- WOMEN TO PLEDGE "young toughs" committed 36 bridge, and the following eve. FOR PEACE per cent of the murders, 67 ning spoke at the Episcopalian * Some 10,000,000 women per cent of the robberies, and Club dinner. His visit in Massa- in cities and towns over the 69.5 per cent of the burglaries, chusetts closed with addresses country are expected to pledge he reported, adding that the at St. Paul's Cathedral last themselves to the cause of youthful criminals come from Sunday morning and at St. world peace at special observ- "morally demolished" homes. John's, Roxbury, in the eve- ances No-. 5 marking the 11th "Many nations have recov- ning. He filled a large number annual World Community Day. ered from economic depres- of engagements at other cen- The day is sponsored by United sions, but none has survived ters during the week. Church Women, lay women's moral disintegration," he said. organization of the National BISHOP GARDNER publication. He called for "dynamic ac- Council of Churches. DIES SUDDENLY In a special message calling

and tion" on the part of churches, declaring that "it will require * Bishop Wallace John Gard- upon churchwomen to partic- ner of New Jersey, died in ipate in the observance on a reuse more than engraved invitations to bring the absent parents Trenton, on October 22. He wider scale than ever before, for Mrs. H. H. Kodani of Pacific and children to the churches." Palisades, Calif., chairman of Judge Miner said church at- the 1954 program, said the required tendance is the "last glimmer- theme this year will be "Let ing hope of America to be re- the Children Come to Me." converted into a God-fearing, With this in mind, she added, law-abiding homeland," predict-

Permission efforts will be concentrated ing that more than a million upon collecting clothing for children 10 to 17 years old will children one to six years of

DFMS. get into trouble with the po-

/ age in distressed areas all over lice in 1954. the world. The judge also urged chur- The churchwomen also will Church ches to develop and to expand contribute gifts of household community center programs, supplies, blankets, clothing and and to make music, crafts and cash to be sent as "Parcels for educational opportunities avail- Episcopal Peace" to the homeless and able. BISHOP GARDNER

the destitute in Palestine, Ger- He also suggested of more many, Greece, Hong Kong, had clubs, camps, athletics and cul- undergone surgery treat- Korea, Italy and France. ment two weeks tural activities; classes for ago after two The financial offerings will years illness. Archives married couples on how to be used to underwrite the cost rear children; teaching of mor- Bishop Gardner, 71, was of the organization's Peace Pro- elected Coadjutor 2020. ality in the schools; and setting of New Jer- gram and other projects, such of better examples for young- sey in 1936 and became dioce- as Church World Service, to sters in home, social and san in 1937 after the retire- which it contributes. Last business life. ment of the late Bishop Paul year the appeal netted Copyright nearly "An ounce of religious direc- Matthews. A native of Buf- $100,000. tion is worth a pound of penal falo, N. Y., he had been edu- correction," he said. "Religion cated at St. Stephen's (Bard) MRS. A. A. JAYNES promotes that sense of moral College, Annandale, N. Y., and MADE SECRETARY obligation, the lack of which at General Seminary. * Mrs. Almon A. Jaynes of causes our high rate of delin- His first charge was the New Hartford, N. Y., has been quency." chaplaincy of the Hospital of appointed consultant in educa- St. Giles the Cripple and of tion for the diocese of Central BISHOP OGILBY the Cathedral Schools of St. New York. For the past five GIVES TALKS Paul and St. Mary, both in years she has directed educa- * Bishop Lyman Ogilby, suf- Garden City, L. I. He later tion at Zion Church, Rome, fragan of the Philippines, has became rector of St. Paul's, N.Y.

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table every three weeks in a colossal family The Family Skeleton row, although nothing seems to be settled, it is just possible to live with it. The United States of America, in spite of summer were full HE British papers this the nineteenth-century immigration, is still a of a dispute between the Coventry civic Puritan family; and her skeleton is the nuclear authorities and the government over civil de- publication. and thermonuclear bomb. And we are all little fense plans: the city decided that the govern- Spartan boys going about our business with a and ment's arrangements were so inadequate as to glassy smile, and all the time the fox is gnawing be useless, and to make her point clear declined in reuse at our vitals. You can feel that gnawing to cooperate at all with them.

for all the plushy New Yorkers who have just Many Englishmen apparently have short decided that they wanted all along to be gentle- memories: although fireweed still blooms blood- men farmers in Vermont: in the "to-hell-with- required red in the gutted shells of London's city it-all" attitude of the poor who are stuck in the churches and in the vacant lots that have metropolitan area, how they let their apart- opened up around St. Paul's; while the Cathe- ments and their children run just a little wilder dral staff have not forgotten how Wren's than before; and (if you pay attention) under Permission incredible barrage-balloon dome was only saved your own shirt. by their own nightly shifts climbing around it. And there is a reward for trying to ignore DFMS.

/ Like us, the British would prefer to believe the wrong you are most responsible for and that by taking reasonable sensible precautions ought to be most concerned with: which comes everything can be held together: as they have by what the Jews called "the Wrath of God," Church been living on the same site since the time the Greeks "Nemesis," and Dr. Freud "the Imperial legions built their Mithraeum where impulse of self-destruction." There is a dread- today the Lord Mayor lives, so they will con- ful irony solidly rooted in the sin of Adam: Episcopal tinue forever or something very like forever. we can only persuade ourselves that our sin the It is healthy for them to be reminded by the

of does not exist by putting ourselves in the place Coventry City Council that the fires of today's where its consequences would be, and daring warfare cannot all be put out in a sandbucket. them to come out and catch us; and in the end

Archives It is much easier for Americans to forget they always do. these things than the British, as it is both Diplomatic small-talk aside, how could we

2020. much more important for us to be reminded really make it any more difficult for Russia to and also much more difficult. Probably Da- relax and trust us? What could be a greater mocles managed to push out of his conscious threat fundamentally to the Soviet system

Copyright mind the peculiar place-setting he enjoyed and than our pouring of capital, scientists, good- ate rather better meals than usual, although will, coke machines, and democracy into the his digestion began to suffer towards the end. nations that feel the rustlings of the Curtain? But the worst way to treat our. justified fears And we really pour those things almost with- is to try and forget ther. Any parish priest out strings attached: that is how Nemesis can tell you that it is the upright upper-class makes it impossible for us to see our self-in- Puritans who never allude to the existence of terest sturdily working in the service of our their family skeleton that are in the end most self-destruction. surely destroyed by it: whereas if the skeleton Only the most colossal repentance, a national is brought out, dusted, and set on the supper- shame and turning of our energies in a now

Til WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 wholly unthought-of-direction, would really disassociate himself as far as possible from alter the situation. Anyone with any influence the sins of his country, and to "cultivate his over the public is most solemnly bound to own garden"-to create around himself in this preach that repentance: he is also bound in wilderness of frantic evasion of ourselves, as his private life to take account of the prob- large an area of sanity as he may. For which ability that the repentance will not happen, to he will need to pray, as best he can.

THE BUSINESS OF LIVING

By John C. Leffler Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle publication. make him out to be a pawn of fate, a victim of and A HIGH-SPIRITEDwith a certain sense young of the English dramatic, woman, was "the bludgeonings of chance." reported to have exclaimed to Thomas Carlisle: Rebirth ef Fatalism reuse "I accept the universe." To which Carlisle HE outstanding characteristic of recent for remarked: "Egad, she'd better." trends in man's thought is the rebirth of such a fatalism; partly as the result of the In that pungent little anecdote is contained required popularization of psychology, and partly as the world of truth about this business of making a result of chaotic world-forces which seem so the best of circumstance. Call it fate, or luck, relentless, and uncontrollable. This fatalism of God, or whatever else one wants or the will manifests itself in many ways. It has in-

Permission of circumstance is one of to call it-the fact creased that fine, courageous acceptance of ill- the most universal facts of human experience. fortune which the ancient stoics so admirably In other words, there is in life an uncertain,

DFMS. exemplified. But it has also caused the modern / unpredictable, and uncontrollable element which to attempt to force the hand of destiny. There sometimes thrills and more often baffles all of is something quite significant in the current ill- Church us. Under this category come accidents, rush to seers and fortune-tellers on the part of nesses, upheavals of nature, which the insur- sophisticated and intelligent people who have ance companies call acts of God-and under no use for the credulities of religious faith, but it also come all those lesser things and com- Episcopal who cannot buy a bond or close a business deal, binations of lesser things which so thoroughly the or fall in love without consulting some crystal

of dominate these little lives of ours. gazer or having their destiny read in the palm Looked at in one way, no one of us is free. of their hands or in the stars. Whether we be the victims or the darlings of Nor is that all fatalism is doing for us. Archives circumstance makes little difference. There Fatalism always results in one of two things, isn't anyone who, looking back on the past, a fine courage or a reckless abandon. It's 2020. cannot see the strange and devious twistings always a choice of "grin and bear it" or "eat, by which he has come to the present hour. A drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" for right turn here, or a left turn there, changing one who believes he is in the grip of forces Copyright and redirecting our lives, are more often deter- beyond his control. That is the reason why mined by factors outside ourselves than by the men are drinking and gambling and debauching free choice of our own. What we are is the their bodies and souls in these uncertain and result of heredity and environment; the effect insecure times. They haven't either the cour- upon us of parents and teachers; riches or pov- age or the will to face up to life, and so, saying: erty; disease or good health; the friendships "what's the use," plunge into the quickest and formed and the enemies we make. These are easiest way out. the things that shape our lives and determine The necessity of dealing with circumstance our fortune both good and bad. Yes, there is is not new-it is as old as life. Nor are the an uncomfortable amount of evidence to dis- results of fatalism which I have outlined new prove man's much vaunted freedom and to either. The age into which Jesus came was

TIE rWITNESS- NOVEMBER 4, 1954 very much like our own. It was confused, un- innocent suffer as well as the guilty. We certain and chaotic. Titanic forces seemed to can't be stupid alone, or sin alone, or suffer the be pushing men and nations relentlessly on- consequences alone. That is why there always ward, and men were making the choice between lies across the world the dark shadow of the "grin and bear it" and "eat and be merry." Cross, upon which hangs the very dying form Into such a world, Jesus and his followers of perfect man sent there by imperfect men. everywhere, injected a new note; giving men a third choice The Cross is there-it's here and and guaranteeing victory to those who chose because it's a part of life. it. Let us see what that is. Now, why is it that that awful fact doesn't In the first place Jesus took an attitude to- make a man shake his fist at heaven the way ward circumstance which was decidedly orig- Job did, and defy God to do his worst? It's inal. He frankly recognized the over-looked because Jesus made the awful fact of the Cross, fact that nature in many of her aspects is of the inevitability of suffering and tragedy in definitely neutral. Instinctively we like to be- man's destiny, the very gateway to the only lieve that the cards are stacked in our favor, free and joyous life the world has ever known. did more than make the best of circum- publication. particularly if we are trying to be decent. He According to our standards of justice it seems stance, he made circumstance-hard and bitter and as though the good ought to prosper, and the circumstance-make the best for him and all bad fail, and when that doesn't happen we are mankind. He discovered in a marked degree reuse tempted like Jog to shake our fist at high what many another has discovered, that defeat for heaven and deny both the goodness and justice may be the prelude to victory, that sorrow of God. sometimes leads to a joy that is above all pain, required Jesus had more reason than anyone who ever that death itself may be the gateway to richer, lived to take such an attitude. Enough of re- fuller life. jection, failure, and frustration happened to Oh, there's no magic in it all. It makes him utterly away from God. But cynics and whining, cringing cowards Permission him to turn bitter they didn't. Instead, he saw in this very seem- out of some people. But circumstance can ing neutrality of nature-in the impartiality of never do that to one who has caught Jesus'

DFMS. face of / sun and rain, as well as fire and flood-the faith that behind and beyond the stern fundamental assurance of the love and the nature is the love of the Father. Involved in wisdom of God. There are no spoiled and the consequences of man's stupidity and sin Church favored children in God's great family, and is the Father God. Don't ask me why or how. undergirding the world and making life pos- I don't know the ultimate answer, nor does sible upon it is law, with a stern face and a anyone else. I only know that all things work Episcopal heart of love. together .for good to those that love God. All the This then was the basis of all Jesus' thought things. Sickness and pain, accident and calam- of about what man calls fate. There are things ity, deprivation , and misfortune, yes, even beyond our control, inhibiting our freedom, and death itself. All things work together for all things, all Archives determining the destiny of our lives. No doubt good-because behind and above about that. But that is not all. fate, all evil, all calamity and tragedy stands

2020. God. He is the one supreme fact. The Innocent Suffer Implications of Faith the next step and that is Jesus takes us of vital FOR overlooked fact HE implications of such a faith are Copyright to point out the equally to you and me. that not all of what we call circumstance is importance to our age and upon the circumstance. A whole lot of the so-called bad What a different light it throws puppets waiting luck we have is not luck at all, but the inevit.- world's confusion. We are not able consequence of man's stupidity and sin. for some arbitrary diety behind the scenes to It may not always be our own stupidity or sin pull this string or that. We are not slaves either. Thousands of the victims of the mount- tied to the circumstance of heredity and en- ing number of motor accidents are maimed and vironment and ever more doomed to answer killed not as a result of their own blunders, but their beck and call. We are sons of God-and the blunders of others, not by an act of God as such we are free to do something about but by an act of man. Written large over the these so-called uncontrollable factors of life. record of history is the awful fact that the Frankly, I'm sick and tired of our aimless

Nine THE \WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 alibis and amateur psychologizing. Of what Don't suppose for one moment that this was earthly use is it to discover that one's father easy for that mother. Heaven only knows how has made some bad mistakes as a parent; if many times her arms ached to do just one the net result is to make you loathe him and little extra thing to help, or how often she wet excuse yourself. What ultimately matters is her pillow with a mother's tears. not how much money a man loses, or how long It isn't unreasonable, is it, to suppose that he's sick, or whether an earthquake or fire or God feels that way sometimes, as he watches flood destroys his property. What ultimately us struggling with circumstance? How often matters is what that man does in spite of all he too must be tempted to run to our rescue, these things, and what he learns because of to spoil and pamper and protect us. Perhaps these things. And the thing that matters he too sends some guardian angel to follow us most is whether or not he goes through these as we thread our way homeward through the experiences with Jesus' God at his side. dark and the storm, even though we're sure One of the most popular professors in the we're all alone. But more than that he will not psychology department of the University of do, lest we fail to triumph over all adversity. Chicago some years ago was a beautiful young publication. woman in her early thirties . She was much in and demand among students and faculty for the parties which are such an important part of Angels Must Be Gossips reuse life on a college campus. In fact, wherever you By Corwin C. Roach for saw a group of men at a dance, you would find Dean of Bezley Hall her in the center of that group. There was only one unusual thing about her I REALIZE that the Authorized Version in required and that was the fact that her feet had never Philippians 3:20 is misleadingly archaic touched a dance floor. They had never walked when it renders "our conversation is in heaven." a step, for in infancy she was hopelessly para- The more recent versions give us "citizenship"

Permission lyzed by a rare malady called Pott's disease. or "commonwealth." Moffatt has "colony." She went from her home to the campus in a Yet there is point in the old rendering after motorized wheel chair, threading her way all. Our conversation is the barometer of our DFMS. / through Chicago's notoriously heavy traffic. human relations; it is the witness to our char- She did not know that on stormy winter eve- acter and conduct. No wonder that the word which Church nings her mother's chauffeur followed her at first meant living together finally got a discreet distance. She only knew that her the meaning of mere talk. mother would be standing in the window to But this is the challenge. We were meant wave to her as Episcopal she entered in the drive. to be living on a supernatural, heavenly plane, Yet, that mother was the key to her amazing but exactly what is the level of our conversa- the

of victory over circumstance. During those years tion? If the kind of talk which is current even when her eldest child lay strapped to a board, among so-called Christians is really "in heaven," she met and conquered that natural maternal then surely the angels in the celestial realms

Archives desire to surround this helpless one with over- must be gossips. For our conversation rarely whelming solicitude. She made up her mind rises above the level of tittle-tattle. Indeed 2020. then and there to develop within her child the the very word gossip is a corruption of the resourcefulness and independence which alone term of God-parent, the God-sib. The foolish could compensate for her infirmity. Her speaking of Christians so often belied their Copyright friends thought she was hard hearted and un- heavenly citizenship that the God-sib soon be- natural, and there were many times when her came gossip. Most of our conversations have resolve nearly broke down. But she kept it. been made anywhere else but in heaven. She found useful things for her daughter to Yet if we will, we can turn our title around. do. When she reached school age she wheeled Gossips can become angels. God's sponsors her to public school, and it was not long before can live up to their responsibility and witness she could manage her own comings and goings. to the Christian evangel; they can become She would not allow other children or grownups messengers of good news instead of retailing to treat her differently and she frowned upon bad. The first step in becoming a colony of anyone who ever said: "Why, you poor little heaven is to make our conversation a little girl, it is just too, too bad." more celestial.

T sn THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 AN INVITATION TO BAPTISTS

By Robert S. Trenbath Rector of St. Alban's Church, Washington

statements are based upon Scripture. We be- T HEREon Protestant has been Churchessuch an emphasiscooperating of lateto- lieve creeds are necessary to define briefly our gether that it has caused many for the first faith and as a test of membership. Because time to examine their own convictions about of these creeds we may not have grown rapidly their religion. In the light of this present but neither have we had any great split-off s movement it is well for us to realize the agree- because of disagreements amongst ourselves. ments and differences that Baptists and Epis- 2. Our Church governments differ in theory. copalhans have. Each local Baptist congregation is autonomous congregation or Agreements in all matters. Each Episcopal matters, but to be affil- 1. We both emphasize the importance of parish is too in most publication. (which is the "Holy Scripture containeth iated with a diocesan convention Holy Scriptures. parishes usually along and grouping of a number of all things necessary to salvation : so that what- lines of a moderate sized soever is not read therein, nor may be proved the geographical reuse state) a parish has to agree to conform to the thereby, is not to be required of any man, that for and the discipline and the worship as it should be believed as an article of the Faith, doctrine National Church in its constitu- thought requisite or necessary to sal- defined by the or be the diocesan canon law. of Religion. tion and canons and by required vation," says our Articles means that every local Episcopal parish is In our Church's interpretation of the Scrip- This on basic doctrine, discipline and worship ture's, however, we agree more with the liberal united there may be differences in emphasis. Baptists in a non-Fundamentalist approach to although

Permission three-fold them. 3. Episcopalians believe in the priests and dea- 2. We both understand the importance, of order of miistry (bishops, what a man cons) because we think it is suggested in the DFMS. justification by faith, that it is not / year 150 A. D'. it does that earns him salvation but only the New Testament and by the early Church, mercy and grace of God through Christ, who was the general order of the unchallenged by any sig- Church accepts him even as he is, a sinner. remaining so almost Ages. This 3. We both value the importance and dignity nificant group until the Middle line of each individual soul. ministry, therefore, goes back in unbroken to the early Church and gives us a feeling of Episcopal 4. We both generally agree in the principle historical continuity with what has come the of the separation of Church and state. It is of true that in England the Anglican Church is before. the established Church, but many Episcopalians 4. Only services set forth in the Episcopal believe this to be wrong and unhealthy for Book of Common Prayer or as authorized by a Archives Church and state. bishop can be used by our clergy or lay readers. 5. We both dislike centralization of author- We are a liturgical Church, i.e. we believe in 2020. ity. While we have bishops, they have very formal services. Such have the danger of be- little authority over clergy or the diocese and coming simply form with no content, but within are elected to this office, and can be directed, broad limits there is much opportunity for Copyright by a highly representative body known as the freedom. Our services guarantee the congre- diocesan convention. The same is true of the gation the opportunity of participating quite parish priest, that he is elected by the repre- fully in the worship service through common sentatives of the congregation known as the prayers, psalms, canticles and hymns. We be- vestry and his authority is that which is pri- lieve our services are the finest vehicles of marily built on his ability to lead his people. worship that the ages have brought together. quite different from the Disagreements This is, of course, in your own way" 1. While Baptists do not adhere to any spe- Baptist "right to worship church. cific creed, Episcopalians have put their belief from church to about God and his relationship to the world in 5. We are a sacramental Church. We be- a short statement called a creed, all of whose lieve that God can and does use material things

Eleven THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 as vehicles to mediate his grace, even as the a source of confidence. What is the Christian Word was made flesh and thus became more confidence? fully known to mankind. We therefore believe A Christian confidence is not a faith that in baptismal regeneration, that baptism is God will get us out of our troubles without our more than "an ordinance bearing witness to an own best efforts. We are not called upon to experience of spiritual regeneration." It is an follow the example of a devoted churchwoman "outward and visible sign of an inward and of my acquaintance who, in the midst of a spiritual grace." God gives his grace through traffic jam, told a friend, "When I am in a fix this service. Therefore we believe he can give like this, I close my eyes and say, 'Go forward, it to infants whose parents and godparents Christian soldier,' and step on the gas." Yet speak for the child as they speak for him in I fear that men look to God for just that kind many other areas of his life until he can con- of confidence, hoping to find in him a substi- firm in his own name that which was spoken tute for human effort and the best use of our for him in younger years. Episcopalians can minds. Faith in God helps us to be healthy, agree that baptism by immersion is perfectly but when we are sick, God wants us to use publication. correct, but think that the symbolism and not medicines and other means that he has placed the amount of water is the important thing and at our disposal. And in the international and therefore so-called "pouring on" or sphere, though God does not wish us to be in "sprinkling" of water is theologically all right. reuse a panic, he desires our statesmen to use every through the Holy for We believe God operates effort for patient and wise action. Communion service which is more than just a On the other hand, Christian confidence is symbol. Episcopalians come regularly to Holy not merely an emphasis on our own efforts required Communion because they believe God in Christ alone. Indeed the Bible is forever shattering is really present in this service and brings us the confidence of men who trust only in them- again and again himself, spiritual Body and selves and in their material resources. Remem- Blood, which we need to appropriate to live the Permission ber the story of the rich man who built ever kind of life implied by our justification by. faith. larger barns that the increase of his fields We express this sacramental principle in all might be stored for his old age. God said to DFMS.

/ kinds of ways, through church architecture, him, "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be stained glass windows, processions, and even required of thee: then whose shall those things the way we stand to praise God, kneel to pray, be, which thou has provided?" The story is Church and sit to listen to his Word-in our services. followed by another in which Jesus speaks of These are some of the basic agreements and concern about our earthly life. Nowhere, I differences. If you would know more fully believe, does Jesus condemn proper human Episcopal you are cordially invited to go to your nearest efforts for security. He does, however, every- the Episcopal Church. where condemn our placing our whole trust in of An Invitation to Roman Catholics by Robert Trenbath is available as a leaflet t $4 a hundred. The Witness, Tunk- those efforts, even as the prophets of old con- hannock, Pa. demned Israel and Judah when in days of plenty The Meaning of the Real Presence by G. A. Studdert-

Archives Kennedy is one of the finese explanation of this doctrine ever they felt themselves invulnerable. written. Available also as a leaflet at $4 a hundred. This article will be made into a leaflet, to sell at $4 a Nor, surprisingly enough, is Christian se-

2020. hundred, if there is sufficient demand for it. Write The curity a matter of trusting in the success of WVitness, Tunkhannock, Pa. our own moral efforts. Remember the story of the two men who went up into the Temple

Copyright to pray. The Pharisee had exerted himself in Christian Confidence religious matters more earnestly than most of By Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr. us have ever done, yet he was not justified in Rector of St. Bartholomew's, New York God's sight, as was the publican who trusted in none of his achievements but recognized his NE of the crying needs of men is confidence. sin and called on God for help. Everywhere people are trying to build it Many people think of religion as a sort of up. Courses are offered to give men confidence bargain with God, by which our good deeds in themselves. Our statesmen labor over store up for us credit in the world to come and treaties and plans for defense, to give con- we expect God to reward us. The whole burden fidence to an anxious world. No doubt one of of the Christian gospel condemns that trust in the reasons men turn to God is to find in him our own self-righteousness.

Twelve THIE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 of Christ to nourish and What, then, is the Christian confidence, if the Church, the Body it is not trusting in a God who gets us out of guide us. there have been given trouble or in the effectiveness of our material In our individual lives which have helped or moral resources? The Christian trust is in us certain invigorating ideas be a text of Scrip- God alone. It is in the God who saves us and us along the way. It may world for us or it who, at the end of time, will conquer, and whom ture which has opened a new worship when God we serve with the utmost of our human effort may be an experience in it was some bit of out of gratitude for all that he has done for us. seemed very near. Maybe Christian. Per- Jesus was fond of using the simile of a child wisdom given us by another which blessed and a wise and good father. Surely such a haps, it was a mystic experience has been a poignant sor- child cannot trust in his own efforts alone. If us richly. Maybe it or some un- he did so, he would soon get into trouble. His row, a sacrificial renunciation made us aware of loving parent saves him from mistakes which speakable joy which has might be disastrous. Yet because the father reality. loves him long before the child earned his love, Whatever it has been, it is God's way of publication. the child in gratitude seeks to do all he can for showing us what is good. In our ordinary days himself and to exert his utmost efforts. More- of our best and we do well to walk in the light over, if the father is wise as well as loving, he moments following the good that God has adversity reuse will not protect the child from every shown us.

for or necessarily grant his every wish. The child trusts the father implicitly because the father cares for him; and because of the father's love, required the child does his very best. His reward may not be to secure that which he wants, but to enjoy the father's love. So it is with religion. Pointers for Parsons confidence is in God By Robert Miller Permission It is its own reward. Our we (even though he may not give that which piusopal Clergyman of Campton, N. H. ourselves would desire), yet we must also exert DFMS.

/ ourselves. James and John came to Jesus asking that PARSONS pay a good many calls and the which they had no right to ask-positions of in the homes of his Church more the parson is honor in his kingdom. Jesus granted them the parishioners the more likely they are to be in privilege of serving him and, indeed, of sharing church. They need to like him as a friend be- his martyrdom-but it was to be for the sake can like him as a minister, and he Episcopal fore they of serving him alone, and not for any honor. needs to feel that they are truly "dearly the of a Christian lies not in a and of The confidence beloved" before he can be of use to them God who will save him from every trouble, nor help them. Even the crabbed and the can- does it lie in trust in his own abilities alone. It tankerous are included in that wide title.

Archives is in a God who has saved him and will save he goes out on a round of calls has he him at the end; but his salvation will be in his When of addresses or a number of

2020. a number relationship to God and not in terms of human in mind Has he taken time to think of the success or comfort. He may have to suffer but people? likely to see and of their problems if he truly serves God, he has the assurance people he is he shall say? Or does he leave it Copyright of his presence-and that is a Christian's chief and of what of the moment? desire. to the inspiration The parson's work is intensely individualistic. We Have Been Told He is a person and his work is with persons and little will be gained by him or from him By William P. Barnds unless there is a meeting of minds and a com- South Bond Rector of St. James, munion of spirit. from Micah 6:8 we can apply words makes the parson THESEto ourselves, "He hath showed thee, O man, So I dislike anything that an organizer. what is good." God has not left us to flounder a bureaucrat or a manager or to build, to inspire. alone by ourselves. He has revealed himself His work is to strengthen, of the spirit. notably and uniquely in Jesus Christ. We have It lies in the realm Thirtn THE \WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 dence to God as revealed in Jesus Christ. This On Changing Rectors latter step is not completed in a day, but rather requires an ever deepening and growing trust By H. Lawrence Reese until we reach the point where, regardless of Layman of Washington, D. C. what may happen, we can truthfully render thanks "for our creation, preservation, and our spirit- ALL too often we become fixed in all the blessings (and what are apparently ual, emotional, and intellectual attitudes. tribulations) of this life." All too often, it This appears to be especially true in our rela- appears, this last step has not taken place. tionships with our rectors, churches, and forms Sometimes this is because of a failure on the of worship. We become comfortable with, and, part of the rector (we all too frequently tempt in many instances, complacent with and de- him to play God). More often, though, it is pendent upon, our rectors and the ways in because we have failed to really accept and which they conduct themselves with us and in trust in God as he has been revealed to us in of worship and praise. publication. our services Christ. It is among these that we find those Suddenly, we are faced with a newcomer in who reject the new rector and all that he stands and the sanctuary, lectern, pulpit, and rectory. The for. We have been dependent upon a man, our God. reuse old prayers don't sound the same; new hymns former rector, rather than upon for are introduced; changes are made in the con- Looked at in this way, it is obvious that we duct of services; and the sermons are different. do not honor our former rectors by clinging to We no longer have that comfortable feeling in them or to our memories of them. This means required our personal relationship with our rector. only that they have failed in their ministry to We begin to hear, and to make, remarks us. With them we have failed to grow into about the good old days when so and so was the inheritance promised us by Christ.

Permission rector. "What a wonderful minister he was!" Therefore, let us not bemoan the passing of "This new fellow has been here for two weeks the old, comfortable, and familiar. Let us and he hasn't called on me yet." "You know, DFMS. rather accept the challenge of the new in / the other day he asked members of the Chancel thanksgiving to God for the opportunity to Guild to launder the linens instead of sending renew our growth into his way; for the oppor-

Church them to the laundry!" "I tried to get him to tunity to serve one whom he has chosen to talk my son out of getting married, and now serve us. he's going to marry my poor little Johnny to

Episcopal that Jones girl! After all, I need him more she does." And so on, ad nauseam

the than MAKE CHRISTMAS CHRISTIAN of (almost literally so for the new rector). Let us look at this new rector for a moment. Story of what one gift accomplished, with a sequel First of all, he is a human being whose need By Bishop Hines of Texas Archives for love and acceptance as such is almost as Encourages intelligent giving at Christmas-and is a leaflet great as our own. True, he, in all probability for year-round distribution 2020. has greater spiritual resources than most of 10c a copy - $4 for 100 us (for which he, and we, may thank God.) The WITNESS

Copyright This does not, however, alter the fact that Tunkhannock, Pa. he has need of our love and acceptance of him as a person in his own right. It is just because he is an individual that these changes have occurred. CHRISTIANITY TAKES A STAND It is this writer's belief that the crux of the Edited by Bishop Scarlett problem lies in the nature of the rector's role Articles by Eleanor Roosevelt; Stringfellow Barr; W. Russell Bowie; Arthur H. Compton; Sumner Welles; Francis Perkins; in Christian conversion. It appears that there Reinhold Niebuhr; Edward L. Parsons; W. E. Hocking; Angus are at least two distinct steps in this type of Dun. process. The first step involves dependence 50c a copy upon a person, frequently a rector. The second The WITNESS - Tunkhannock, Pa. step requires the transference of this depen-

Forum Tw.T WsTNESs - NovarBEB 4, 1954 INTERGRATION AT 1956-57, and thereafter the native education would be CHURCH SCHOOLS same practice will be in effect "strictly limited to what the * Bishop Angus Dun of for admission into the fourth government thinks good for Washington, last week made grades at St. Albans and the them," and this was followed the following announcement: National Cathedral School for by the taking away of the na- Letters have been sent to the Girls. The fourth grade is the tives from their western lands. parents of all pupils in the beginning grades in these "Now the tenure of Church three Cathedral Schools in- schools. properties (in native locations) forming them of the schedule For the school year 1957-58 is to be limited to a year at a of integration in these schools the same practice will be in time," he said, "and is to be as adopted by their governing effect for all grades of the day subject to cancelations when boards and approved by the schools at both St. Albans and the activities of the church cathedral chapter. The three the National School for Girls. tenant are, to quote the secre- schools are: Beauvoir, the Na- The boarding departments of tary for native affairs, 'such tional Cathedral Elementary these two schools will be sim- as to encourage deterioration School; St. Albans School for ilarly opened not later than in the relationships between September 1958. Nearly 1,000 natives and the government or publication. pupils are enrolled in these government persons or bodies.' and schools now. "The deterioration, it is to be observed, can-in the gov- reuse ARCHBISHOP HITS ernment's v i e w - only be for GOVERNMENT caused by others and never by * The Archbishop of Canter- the action of the government bury has charged the South itself. required African government with to- "That is totalitarianism and talitarianism through its "im- differs not at all from the sup- itating the methods of Com- pressions of civic freedom and government and con- church life in Communist coun-

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DFMS. not begin to suspect its own / made in his address opening the fall session of the Convo- cation of Canterbury at West- Church minster Abbey's Church House. OF INTEREST TO ALL "It is grief beyond measure EPISCOPALIANS to us," he said, "that-just at BISHOP DUN Three Inspiring Volumes Episcopal this moment when, in many By

the Boys; and the National Cathe- ways, (world) tensions are re- Dr. William Postell Witsell of dral School for Girls. laxing - all portents in South Rector Emeritus, Christ Church This policy was initiated by Africa point to a relentless LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS policy toward the the action of the cathedral pursuit of a Jesus Christ The Light of Archives chapter on October 19, 1952, native population which is re- The World declaring that education in the garded by almost all Christian Introduction by Bishop Albert S. Thomas

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Copyright to implement bound, in the long run, to be erning boards "Why Pray? And After its effects .. . this policy as soon as practic- catastrophic in Death - What?" able. "Each detail of the applica- Introductions by Bishops S. St. George Tucker and G. B. Fenner The schedule now adopted tion of the policy of apartheid A source of help, comfort and insniration. provides that for the school (separateness) seems to us a PRICE $2.50 year 1955-1956, applicants who fresh violation of Christian Soon To Be Published qualify under the academic principles and common jus- COME and other standards of the tice." Introduction by Bishop R. N. Spencer Beauvoir School shall be ad- He noted that in South 0S'ZS )Ifltd mitted into all grades of that Africa native education had THE CHRISTOPHER school regardless of race, color first been brought under the HOUSE of native affairs, then PUBLISHING or creed. ministry 1040 Columbus Avenue Boston 20, Mass. For the following yea r, steps were taken to insure that

Fiftes THE \WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 wis-lom when it finds itself "But the ultimate spiritual devotion and mobunting enthusi- imitating the methods of Com- conflict which divides t h e asm. munist government and con- world is in no wise healed or "I believe that many are trol." even mitigated," he said. "In coming to, or coming back to, Fisher noted that South the world's affairs and no 'less the Church and many more are Africa's Anglican bishops had in our own national position casting about in their minds, "again and again protested there is no room for hope and weighing the claims of Christ with p o w e r and charity" there is room for discourage- upon them." against the actions of the ment. South African government and "However, in the affairs that "we in this country have of supported the Kingdom of God, hope far t h em wholeheart- outweighs edly."' discouragement. At Minneapolis and The Archbishop prefaced his Evanston as in such other parts comment on South African af- of the United States as I fairs by noting that there are saw in my publication. recent visit and in the ten dio- "still some storm clouds" al-

and ceses of western Canada though certain recent events which I was privileged to visit, as have combined to "indicate

reuse well as here at home, I am con- some real lessening" of world

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Sixteen THE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 JOURNAL PRAISES truth to the problems of the tional Council's department of COUNCIL marketplace." research and survey; Cameron T h e editorial particularly P. Hall is executive director of * A national Roman Catholic commended the work of the the agency's department of monthly has hailed the Na- National Council in counter- the Church and economic life; tional Council of Churches, acting excessive individualism and the Rev. A. Dudley Ward major Protestant agency in in the social and economic is former director of studies this country, for its work in spheres. for its department of Church the social field. and economic life. In its lead editorial for No- "Its leaders in the social vember, The Sign, published field," The Sign asserted, "are The Sign lauded the Coun- by the Passionist Fathers, also earnestly dedicated men, gifted cil's statement on the Church praises a social document of with a high sense of responsi- as an employer, investor, and the Assembly of the World bility. Clergymen such as F. property owner. "Often," it Council of Churches. That Ernest Johnson, Cameron Hall, quoted the Protestant state- statement was entitled "The and Dudley Ward work with ment as saying, "its policies publication. Responsible Society in a World lay committees in formulating have been no better than those and Perspective." major statements. In spite of which it condemns in the secu- This document and a more the strong business represen- lar world." reuse recent one by the National tation on s uc h committees, "This," The Sign commented, for Council on thirteen "norms" to there is a willingness to criti- "is a courageous confession. guide the Christian in social cize weaknesses and defects in We Catholics might well emu- and economic life were de- the social order." late it and ask if we have set required scribed by The Sign "as salu- F. Ernest Johnson is former exemplary standards of social tary efforts to apply Christian executive director of the Na- justice in our own institutions." Permission DFMS. / Suggestion for Vestrymen: Church Soundest way to meet one Episcopal the

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Sernmu TIlE WITNESS - NOVEMBER 4, 1954 The Catholic monthly, also CONSECRATION OF EDEN MAY ATTEND said that the Council's outline ANSON STOKES REDEDICATION of "the relationships between m o r a 1 judgments, technical * The Rev. Anson Phelps * Anthony Eden, British knowledge, and prudential ap- Stokes Jr., rector of St. Bar- foreign secretary, may attend plication" was "significant." tholomew's, New York, will be the rededication of Old Trinity consecrated bishop coadjutor Church in Dorchester, Md., in "This appears to be an ad- of Massachusetts at Trinity, 1956. mirable summary of the fac- Boston, on December 4. The Mr. Eden was invited by tors involved in Christian so- Presiding Bishop will be con- Governor Theodore R. McKel-- cial policy," the Catholic mag- secrator and Bishop Nash the din and former U. S. Senator azine declared. co-consecrator. George R. Radcliffe, chairman "Some reformers act as if The offering at the service of the Old Trinity Church ethical objectives are enough, will go to the Philip B. Parmar, restoration committee. He re- so that technical knowledge bishop-elect of Bhagalpur, In- plied that he would "make and prudential judgment can every effort to be there and publication. dia, for his discretionary fund. be bypassed," it added. "Some will write to you again nearer and 'practical men' and social the- WORKER-PRIESTS MEET the time." orists ignore the ethical side ON NEW MISSION Mr. Eden's interest in Old reuse of social problems. The Coun- Trinity stems from his fam- for cil has achieved a happy bal- * Formation of a new Ro- ily's participation .in early ance of the factors involved." man Catholic mission to the Maryland history, in which the working classes here prompted church played a role. The required ANGLICAN SEMINARY a meeting of 17 worker-priests British leader is a descendant AT BERKELEY who had defied the French of Lord Baltimore, the founder hierarchy's recall order earlier of Maryland. Another of his ancestors was the last colonial Permission * The ninth annual Anglican this year. Seminary will be held at the The priests, all from the governor of Maryland. Berkeley Divinity School, New Lyon and St. Etienne area, DFMS. Haven, December 28-30. The / met at Villeurbanne to decide THE subject is the parish priest and how the mission might affect CHURCH FARM SCHOOL Christian social action, with their own future actions. They GLEN LOCH, PA. Church the Rev. Paul Moore, rector of did not disclose what went on A School for boys whose mothers are Grace Church, Jersey City and at the session. responsible for support and education. a Witness editor, one of the College Preparatory The 17 have continued to Grades: Five to Twelve Episcopal speakers. hold their factory jobs despite Wholesome surroundings on a 1,200 acre the Others on the program are farm in Chester Valley Chester County, the hierarchy's pronouncement where boys learn to study, work and play. of Prof. J. V. Langmead Casser- limiting the worker-priests to ley of the General Seminary; Rev. Charles W. Shreiner, D.D. three hours of secular employ- Headmaster the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, ment a day and otherwise cur- Post Office: Box 662, PAOLI, PA. Archives rector of St. Phillip's, New tailing their activities. York, and the Rev. R. E. Ter- 2020. williger, rector of C h r i s t DeVEAUX SCHOOL Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORKC CHURCH BULLETINS Founded 1853 -usn .in'oD. Lu,,. Bulletin A Church School for boys in the Diocese of Copyright QUICKLY FOLD BoarLbghd.Din oeefecive@ and Western New York. College preparatory. OR UNFOLD fI Inoroaseco tn 7.00 IN UE Broad activities program. S~mall classes. aInd collections. Writ. today.$cc Scholarships available. Grade 7 through 12. FOR For information address Boxt "A". CHOOUSES'0IN E ~~altsp.: Clonspany. Davenport. Morison Brigham. M. A.. Hlueaate CHAOUSESCaaoIN H .Witr Lauriston L. Scaife, D.D., Pres. Board of Trustees TIPS O_ i

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Eighteen THE WITNESS -NOVEMBER 4, 1954 ever read. Barrett of course over- drew the picture, but not much. All BACKFIRE the characters he described are at most meetings-including the man who uses the fellowship to pick up CHARLES L. IRWIN someone else has made his-at least a bit of business. I hope that we may continue to Layman of Akron, Ohio we shou'd start to think about it. have the accounts of the doings of have debated long whether to I A. W. EATON Mr. and Mrs. ntwhistle. write this letter to you. However, Rector at Leicester, England convinced that it is time that MRS. R. T. HAYDEN as I am I would consider it a very real and Episcopalians did Laywoman of Baltimore Anglicans privilege if you would allow me a about their religion-here Why waste space with articles something few lines of The Witness to express goes. like that of Sept. 30 about Mr. my gratitude to the clergy of the recent number you published Entwhistle attending "Votary"? Is In a Episcopal Church, through the "Pointers for Parsons." it because you do not get enough an article scheme of the interchange preaching a tragedy it is that the Angli- solid stuff to fill your pages? My What arranged by the Department of the can Church is certainly not gaining husband belongs to Rotary and publication. Ccuncil for Ecumenical Relations, so in England and the Episco- I ground generously opened their pu'pits to me profits from the weekly meetings. and palian Church in this country should do not see why a Church paper during my three months' stay in the an article in an official should poke fun at a group of men publish such United States this year. It has been epitomises the are trying in their humble way reuse The nurse who organ! a most humbling experience to have true religion-the Christian life as to be an influence for good in their for received so warm a welcome and be led-in fact what a communities. it should have the pleasure of participating in example of it! Leave it at that fine such a vital and warm-hearted fel- -the positive points having been so required lowship; I have seldom learned COLLEGE made. CARLETON many lessons in three months and of the finest men in this LAURENCS M. GOULD, Prestidet Two tharnk God for it all. The inter- Carleton is a co-educational liberal arts col- country today and they are doing lege of limited enrollment and is recor. change preaching scheme is a God- College of Minnesota. than perhaps any- nsized as the Church more positive good for strengthening Add resss Director of Admissions

Permission given opportunity more people are one else-affecting the bond of fellowship between us. CARLETON COLLEGE Bishop Fulton Sheen - a Roman NORiTHIEviLD MU1NISOTA Catholic and Dr. Norman Vincent A. P. MANN DFMS.

/ Peale - of the Marble Collegiate Layman of New York H 0 L D) E R N E S S Church, New York City, whose You have had letters I am sure church is invariab'.y full. Even The White Mouintain School, foe boyt objecting to the story about Mr. Thorough college preparation in Church in 13-19. Billy Graham fills stadiums Entwhistle attending "Votary." So small classes. Student government em- Europe. What does or better still phasizes responsibility. Tleamn spoos, I want to say, as a member of the skiing. Debating. Glee Club. Art. does the Anglican and Episcopalian Rotary Club, that I think it was one New fireproof building. Church have? I have DONALD C. HIAGERMNAN, Head mastet Episcopal delightfu! things of the most Plymouth New Hlampshire The finest thing that our Church the can do is to train men to propagate of the faith and the Christian life the DeMEUX SCHOOL NIAGARA FALLS. NEWV YORK Episcopal collegepreparatory hoarding the men mentioned above do. life basesd way Founded 1853 schootl for 60 girls. Community Let us take the example quoted in on Christian principles in which all am-' A Church School for boo's in the Diocese of dents share respotssibiliqy for social, spoils, Archives "Pointers for Parsons," and apply Western News York. College preparatory. religious, and social service activities. Broad activities orograrn. Small classes. Arts. Skiing, other sports. 12. Work program. it to our own Church. Scholarships available. Grade 7 through Catalogue. informatinn address Tinos "A". 2020. For M. A., Principal As a British officer prisoner of M. A.. Headasat Mar Harlev Jenks, Morkson Brigham, LITITLETON (White Mountains), war in Germany for five years I Lauriston L. Scaife, D.D., lliaaaz Pres. Board of Trustees N~w watched many of my fellow officers join the Catholic Church and the Copyright LENOX SCHOOL First Church of Christ the Scientist- KEMPER HALL Kenoshia, iwonsiu A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for and what is more these men remained C hurch School for G.irls, Boarding & Day'. boss 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals with these Churches after the term- Thoroiugh colle'ge preparaion andt spiritual and character through simplicity of plant train .ng. Al usic, art, dramatics and home- and equipment, moderate tuition, the co- ination of hostilities. The Anglican maiking courU-Cs. AllI snorts. Jun ior school operative self-held system, and informal, dead body-it did detpartment. Pe'autifuil Lke Sloce- Campuis. persconal relationships among boys and Church was a 501 mile's from C.hicaigo. Ulnlr the, directicon faculty. F nothing about it. of the Sisters of St. Mlary. or cataloig REV. -ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmster addlcress: Boxs WT. Lensox, Massachiusetts I have made my point-perhaps The CHURCH HOME Virginia Episcopal School ST. AGNES SCHOOL LYNCI IIURG, VIRGINIA Ant Episcopal Country Day and Boarding HOSPITAL Prepares boys for colleges and university. for Girls AND excellent corps School 31, MAnTLA.ND Splendid environment and Excellent College Preparatory record. Spe- BALTimoRE of teachers. High standard in scholarship cial courses arranged for girls not contem- A three year accredited course of nursing. and athletics. tlealthv and beautiful plating college. Day pupils range from Classes enter August and September. Schol- location in the mountains of Virginia. Kindergarten to College Entrance. Bloarders arships available to well qualified high For catalogue, apply to f tom Grade 8 to College Entrance. school graduates. GEORGE L. BARTON, JR., Ph.D., MISS BLANCHE PITT'MAN, Principal Apply: Director of Nurasig Headmaster, Box 408 ALBANY NEW 3o.X Now Off the Press! The Anglican Church In New Jersey

" By Nelson R. Burr

Author of "Education in New Jersey, 1630-1871," ' Sin the Princeton "History of New Jersey" Series and Other Works publication. 0 and A Review (Continued) reuse By WALTER H. for STOWE Historiographer of The Episcopal Church TO the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, commonly called the required "S.P.G.," The Episcopal Church, under God, "is indebted for her first foundation and a long continuance of nursing care and protection." Through no fault of the Venerable Society, this Church was hamstrung by the domination of the State over the Mother Church. Consequently, for the better part of a century, it was a contradiction in terms; it Permission was an "Episcopal Church without an Episcopate." There was never a bishop in all of colonial America, none to lead, none to plan and direct strategy, none to confirm, and, worst of all, every candidate for the ministry in America had to take the long, expensive DFMS. / trip of 3,000 miles to London for ordination, during which one out of every five perished from shipwreck or disease.

Church is no accident, therefore, that The Episcopal Church is second to none in its devotion to IT the doctrine of "a Free Church in a Free State." It has good reason to be! If the Revolutionary War was necessary in order that the Thirteen Colonies might achieve their "manifest destiny," it was also necessary that the American Episcopal Church might do the Episcopal same. Moreover, the latter was the trail blazer in the expansion of the Anglican Com- munion, the for every other national or regional Church of that Communion (except the Mother of Church) has had to follow in its train, and break away from state control. Revolutionary War well-nigh ruined The Episcopal Church in New Jersey, as well as THEeverywhere else. The Epilogue is the story of its revival, and its rapid growth from Archives approximately 1835 to date. As of 1950, there were more Episcopalians in New Jersey than in any other State in the Union, except New York and Pennsylvania; and, as of that

2020. date, there were more communicants in the State of New Jersey than the entire Episcopal Church had had a century before-in 1850. How was this record made? This book gives you the answer, for it carries the story right down to the dedication of Trinity Cathedral, Trenton, on January 24, 1954. Copyright Our profound thanks to Dr. Burr for a much needed contribution to historiography, and for one that is exceedingly well done! * Publication No. 40 .... 784 Pages ... Handsomely Printed and Cloth Bound . .. The Copy, $10.00 THE CHURCH HISTORICAL SOCIETY 42~05 SPRUCE STIREET PHILADELPHIA 4