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publication. Jack Corbett, representing the Church Agencies Hit Sections board of Christian social conr and cerns of the United Methodist reuse Of Welfare Reform Measure Church at the same press con-

for ference, noted that title IV does • An organization comprised fare reform bill that might come not require states to maintain 25 groups, 16 of them religious, out this year." their current benefit levels, en- required has announced its opposition to "Therefore," she continued, couraging states paying more a section of a House welfare re- "it's a matter of deep concern than $2,400 annually to needy form bill setting a $2,400 bene- and sorrow to me and many families to drop back to thai fit level for a family of four. level.

Permission church representatives that we The campaign for adequate find the provisions of title IV of He was also critical of the welfare reform now, consisting the present welfare reform bill provision stipulating that moth-

DFMS. also of nine child development, / are thoroughly inadequate and ers in fatherless families of black and social work groups, we are urging our friends in children under age 6 must take gave five major reasons for op- Congress to defeat title IV be- a job outside their homes to Church posing title IV, the family as- cause we think it will make the help with their support, leaving sistance plan, of the bill, known situation worse rather than their children without the super- as "H. R. 1," at a press confer- better." vision and training they need. Episcopal ence. The campaign's stand: A letter under Dr. Wedel's Bill Lunsford of the Friends the • The $2,400 benefit level for signature was mailed June 18 to committee on national legisla- of a family of four is too low. Congressmen who support title tion said the most distressing There is no provision requiring IV or whose position is unknown, aspect of title IV is that it has the states to supplement the urging them to support a mo- "built into it all kinds of dip- Archives $2,400 figure. There will be no tion to strike title IV from H. R. incentives for states to main- more food stamps. 1. tain whatever benefit levels they 2020. • The differences between "The purpose of reform of the currently have." the largely white adult cate- family welfare category," Dr. The campaign has one pur- gories and the mostly black Wedel wrote, "ought to be to pose, according to a spokesman: Copyright family categories of H. R. 1 sug- strengthen the family that is in "achievement this year of major gest that this is a racist bill. poverty. But instead of doing welfare reform to create a new • Mothers of school age chil- this, title IV would impose new system of income maintenance dren would be forced to work at burdens on the already fragile assistance to meet the basic low wages. Day care provisions structure of such a family. needs of all individuals and are inadequate. "Its level of benefits falls far families in the United States • The civil rights of re- short of the level needed to sus- who are unable to work, whos? cipients are not guaranteed. tain a family in decency. Its earnings are inadequate and for • There is insufficient fiscal work requirement, by failing to whom jobs are not available." relief to states. exempt mothers in families lack- Among members of the cam- Cynthia Wedel, president of ing a father, substitutes legisla- paign, besides the NCC, the the National Council of tive fiat for what should be a Quaker and Methodist groups Churches, one of the campaign personal decision of the mother represented at the press confer- member agencies, said churches made in light of her judgment ence, are such groups as the "had great hopes for the wel- of the needs of her family." national office of black Cath- I JULY, 3971 olics, the union of American ticipating include the child wel- at Syracuse University. An ad- Hebrew congregations, the Lu- fare league of America, the na- visory group of clergy and lay theran Church in America board tional association of social professionals assists, the com- of social ministries, and the workers, the national council of mittee. United Presbyterian Church. Negro women and the physicians Commenting on the need for Non-sectarian agencies par- forum of New York City. the RE+ACT program, Welsh said: "All churches are chang- ing — not only in the city but Renewal for Action in Church everywhere. A clergyman, or a professional religious worker, needs to get a new perspective, Today Announced at Syracuse both on his church and on him- self. That is what this program * A new clergy training pro- clinic, housing project, and ad- is designed to help him achieve." gram has been launched by ventures in education, a neigh- Grace Church, Syracuse, in co- borhood educational and recrea- PRO FOOTBALL'S HILL operation with the continuing publication. tional program. The weekly education center of Syracuse overnight stay will be with a FINDS TIME TO RAP and University. parish family. * During pro football "sea- "Renewal for Action in the son" — now July to January — reuse The third phase of the pro- Church Today" (RE+ACT) is a 212-pound Calvin Hill catches for gram consists of systematic ob- nondenominational program in servation and evaluation of com- passes and bounces off line- parish change for clergy and munity planning and decision- backers. required other professional church work- making agencies, in such areas But off season, the 24-year- ers. Its director is the Rev. Wal- as education, health, welfare, old black star of the Dallas Cow- ter N. Welsh, rector of Grace and the courts. boys attends theological school Church. and raps with underprivileged

Permission The weekly seminar on The initial semester of the "Church Action in the World," youngsters in Dallas, New York RE+ACT program is scheduled conducted by Welsh, will en- and San Francisco.

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/ courage participants to synthe- With the financial backing of January 1972 and open to par- size and share all other elements ticipants in the Central New a soft drink company, Hill jets of the program through discus- around the country trying to

Church York area. Each participant will sion and analysis for parish convince kids — especially min- be expected to spend a minimum change. of two days each week, including ority children — to accept chal- an overnight stay, in program Inspiration for RE+ACT lenges and strive for goals. Episcopal came in part through a sab- .activities. "I tell them there isn't that the batical year spent by Welsh in

of According to Welsh, the pro- 1969-1970 in Coventry, England, much difference between the gram is divided into four basic people who succeed and the peo- parts: course work at Syracuse in a program centered on the urban ministry and dealing with ple who don't," said Hill, the

Archives University, participation in par- the church in change. 1969 rookie of the year in the ish life at Grace Church, ob- National League. "The main dif-

2020. servation and evaluation of com- Eventually, he explained, the ference is the people who do munity decision making, and a hope is that RE+ACT, too, will succeed manage to 'seize the weekly seminar. become a similar residential, time,' as Bobby Seale put it." away - from - home experience, Copyright RE+ACT participants may choose from the full range of with other churches encouraged But he doesn't lecture to his graduate and undergraduate to follow Grace's example in young fans. "I'm just not a jock courses offered by Syracuse granting sabbatical leaves to who's coming here to tell you to 'University, in any field, and their pastoral leaders. study hard," he tells them. In- stead, Hill raps with groups of may earn three credit hours. Funding for the initial youngsters at schools, recrea- RE+ACT semester is by the They will take part in the par- tion centers and sports fields. ish life of Grace Church, which United Thank Offering of the Episcopal Church. He'll talk about drugs, jobs, is a multi — racial urban parish being black or life in general. in the midst of change. Among Working with Welsh in plan- parish activities in which ning and executing the program But the young boys usually RE+ACT participants may be- is a committee of laymen chaired ask about football first. Being a come involved are the day care by Charles V. Willie, chairman famous and successful football 'center, church school, health of the department of sociology player helps.

Four THB WITMBM gether in worship with the Anglican Bishops Find Evidence priest and from which they can go out to serve the community." Of New Growth, Vigor in Church Today, however, the Church has more church buildings than * The second half of this cen- "In all the churches in West- is needed, the bishop added. tury may prove to be "one of the ern Europe," he said, "there is Many were of great architec- ages of religion," with younger at the present time a decline in tural and historical importance people especially turning more the number of men offering and must not be lost. But in the to the Christian faith, according themselves for the sacred min- final analysis, he held, "it is to Bishop Robert Stopford of istry. In our Church of England, men and women, not buildings, London, who ranks third in the whereas in 1961, 606 men were that make the city of God. So we Church of England hierarchy. ordained deacon, the number in must pray that God will call Bishop Stopford made the 1970 was 437. more men to serve him in the comments in a sermon at St. "The causes of this decline distinctive office of a 'Priest in publication. Paul's cathedral in which he de- are complex and varied. This is the Church of God' and that he will call more men and women and nounced a recent British tele- an age of secularism and doubt vision program which suggested and men of integrity are hes- to serve him in the total mission of the church." reuse that the church was dead or itant to proclaim the faith when for dying. After charging that the they have their own question- Opinion of Huddleston program was "slanted in such a ings. way as to convey a totally "There are others who have Meanwhile the ardent foe of required wrong impression of the Church a deep personal faith and a real racism, Bishop Trevor Huddles- of England as a whole," he vocation to serve Christ but who ton of Stepney, east London, added: "As I go round the di- think that they can make a who was reported to be thinking

Permission ocese — and not least the cities more effective contribution in of leaving Britain last October of London and Westminster various forms of social services in something like despair, is now which are my own direct con- than they can within the life of "absolutely optimistic" about DFMS.

/ cern — I see evidence of growth the church with its historic and the future of Christianity in and vigor. And I see, too, on traditional structure. London and other large cities. many sides new expressions of "Two years ago," he said, "I

Church "And within the Church of Christian service and concern by England the proper and increas- had thought that people were congregations and by individual ing emphasis on the role of the concerned only with material members. laity in the mission of the things, that they were complac- Episcopal "I believe that men and church seems to some to make ent, that they did not want God. the the role of an ordained priest I could not have been more

of women, especially the younger ones, are beginning to think that somehow less important. Per- wrong. the Christian faith may after haps, too, the disparagement of "I am now absolutely op- timistic and hopeful about the Archives all be relevant to our modern the church by some of its mem- needs and that before long peo- bers and the evident disappoint- future of Christianity in these

2020. ple will turn away from the ment of some parochial clergy innercity areas." boredom of permissive society make men who might become Bishop Huddleston is re- to find a new purpose in life." firstclass priests believe that garded as Britain's "most anti- they can serve God better in a Copyright "Such people may not think racialist prelate." Last October, that the church is relevant — lay capacity." he told an Anglo-Israeli meeting but that is a challenge to the Speaking of the role of the here: "During the past two church — not a cause for des- ordained ministry, Bishop Stop- years spent in England I have pair," Bishop Stopford said. ford said the parish was still the received more consistent abusf "This century may be seen as basis of the whole organization because of my well-known at- one of the ages of religion in the of the Church of England but titudes to race, color and the sense that it is a time of honest "changes in parochial structures arms (for South Africa) issue search for truth and for pur- are needed urgently ... I am than ever I received in my 12*/2 pose." firmly convinced that there years in South Africa." Bishop Stopford spoke of the must be a place where the priest "I have often thought to my- decline in the number of men be- can have his headquarters, self that it would be more profit- coming ordinands and the role where he can be known to be. able to return to those parts of of the ordained ministry in the And there must be places, too, the world — the hungry world church. where the faithful can join to- — than to remain here if one , 1971 KM has to accept this kind of profit- "I am convinced now, as I was we have not seen our destiny in less abuse. There is much work not two years ago," he said, terms of those large and holy to be done in the world, except "that the church is showing things that God once gave our that in England I would vastly signs not just of survival but of country to perform." prefer to return to it if the work rebirth in the great city areas." He said that for the U. S. to of this country remains so to- experience God's grace in the tally unproductive and unre- Bishop Huddleston said he "wilderness" where it has gone warding," he said eight months did not expect to see the will take three things: "Humble- ago. churches crowded again, but he ness, by which alone we shall His outlook has become more is seeing signs of new life in cease to be prisoners of our optimistic in recent months. communities of all kinds. pride . . . openness, that we be Bishop Huddleston expressed his Without community, the no longer glued to the fly-paper latest views when addressing a church could not function, he of status quo . . . (and) propor- meeting of overseas students at said. In cosmopolitan working tion, that we may rightly com- the church missionary society class east London, he said, the pare God's eternal splendor to headquarters. A Nigerian stu- sense of community has been our little glory ..." dent asked him about the future largely broken, first by the war publication. of Christianity in London. and then by the building of EAST PAKISTAN REFUGEES and He acknowledged that, in "totally impersonal skyscraper AIDED BY CHURCHES terms of church attendance, the blocks . . . But here and there, reuse picture is "pretty grim." And in small groups, community is * An organization formed two for yet it would be wrong, he said, being recreated, I see new life. years ago to aid starving chil- "to be sure that Christianity is There is a Christian presence, dren in Biafra has turned its at- dying out. and not only of old people." tention to refugees from East required Pakistan. Americans for childrens relief Dean Sayre on Vietnam Papers announced that it was collecting funds to be channeled through Permission Church World Service and Cath- Sees Infection of His Friends olic Relief Services to the more

DFMS. than 6 million persons who have / * What has been revealed in were led to think of themselves the controversial Pentagon pa- almost as God; and therefore fled to India in the wake of civil pers show that the principal ac- could excuse in themselves the strife in East Pakistan. Church tors in recent U. S. history callous disposition of other peo- Film actor Cliff Robertson, "have been oblivious to any ple's lives, the cynical bamboozl- honorary chairman, made the sense of God's purpose or lead- ing of the body politic, scorn of announcement along with the

Episcopal ing," according to Dean Frances law and lawmakers alike, and Rev. Boyd Lowry, CWS director the B. Sayre Jr., of Washington the abuse of truth." for Southeast Asia, and Msgr. of Cathedral discussing the case of Daniel Ellsberg, a former de- Joseph Harnett of Catholic Re- the 47 volumes of secret docu- fense department official who lief Services. ments in a sermon. helped prepare the documents, "The problem is not just a Archives When he spoke, the question provided the classified material government's problem or the of whether the government to the New York Times, accord- United Nations' problem," said 2020. could prohibit further publica- ing to his own admission. The Robertson, "it is a people prob- tion in the interest of national papers concentrate on the years lem. And we believe that the security was before the Supreme of the Kennedy and Johnson ad- American people care about Copyright Court. Dean Sayre did not dwell ministrations. children." on the legal questions. According to Sayre, the con- Msgr. Harnett, who just re- He said that what the pub- tents reveal a national leader- turned from inspecting about lished reports disclosed about ship that treated history with 100 of the 500 refuge camps in the conduct of the war in Indo- "shallow arrogance." northeast India, explained that china was "disturbing" to him. Such attitudes, he added, have there was a crucial need for The clergyman, a grandson of cost the U. S. its friends abroad, shelters for the refugees. President Woodrow Wilson, said unity at home, self-respect and "The cholera problem has he had personally known the de- a sense of power. been generally contained," he cision-makers. "So perhaps it is the province said, noting that 11 million "But I did not perceive," he of God to be shaking us to pieces doses of cholera vaccine from continued, "the extent of the in- for our sins. Perhaps he means various sources had already been fection by which my friends us actually to collapse! Because shipped to the area. Six Tn Wmnu» EDITORIAL

age to tap it? Above all, our leaders must have Picking National Leaders integrity. A man or a woman who means what he By Michael Hamilton or she says; and more than that, a person who Canon of Washington Cathedral shares with the public all that is significant about an issue. WHAT LIGHT does the Christian faith shed on Manipulating People the topic of leadership? What are the desirable qualities of national leadership? Christ was quite SOME WOULD ARGUE that these qualities are outspoken in his comments on the leaders of his minimum and could not imagine a contemporary day, he praised a military centurion, or general, leader without them. But the recent disclosure of as a man of "faith"; he scorned some religious the McNamara report on Vietnam documents leaders as "whited sepulchers", "vipers" and styles of administration and leadership that fall publication. "hypocrites", and he referred to Herod the gover- far short of such standards. In my own fallible

and nor as a "fox". The church has always had a great judgement the American public was not led in stake in the leadership of the state; for the life of foreign affairs during the Johnson administra- reuse these institutions are intertwined as spirit is to tion, but rather was manipulated. We were given for flesh, and the health of one affects the health of partial and deliberately misleading information, another. either to gain election or to support a particular The question of leadership is timely for at least policy. Secrecy is essential to good government required two reasons. We are beginning as a nation to and anyone involved in administration knows that bestir ourselves and prepare for our next presi- there are some things, for the sake of frank dis- dential election, and secondly because the loss of cussions and negotiation, that need to be kept Permission public confidence in our leaders has reached a new secret. But by the same token there are some crisis point, the credibility gap has been confirmed things that must be shared.

DFMS. by the revelations of the Pentagon papers. Christ himself did not give all his teaching to / There are some qualities in a president and in everybody; he kept much only for his disciples. the primary leaders of our nation which are But the crucial point is that what he told in Church clearly required. Knowledge, for instance, of in- secret did not conflict with that he shared in pub- ternational relations and of economics; skill in lic ; rather it amplified or fulfilled it and was a so- the political process of good government; and the phisticated extension for those who could under- Episcopal new requirement of understanding technology stand. But when secrecy is used to mask errors, the and the special problems it poses for our age. In or where the level of discourse in secret con- of addition one would hope for a sense of history and tradicts the level of public statement, then stan- of our own American character; the gift of dis- dards of good administration and integrity have

Archives cerning good futures; and the ability to inspire been broached. the citizenry to respond to such visions. These The Pentagon papers are chilling disclosures

2020. talents are easy to list and perhaps to recognize, because they reveal that the process of decision but there are others equally important though making put our own political and military goals more difficult to assess. in South Vietnam — the preservation of an anti- Copyright I refer to a commitment to the humanitarian Communist regime—foremost; and humanitarian values which have undergirded western civiliza- concerns — the cost of achieving such goals in tion ; an ability to empathise with people of differ- terms of casualties — were virtually excluded. It ent race, class, creed and education; a political was said by an American military commander in will to give minorities their constitutional and Vietnam, "We had to destroy it (the village of economic rights; an openness of mind to new Ben Sue) in order to save it." In a larger sense, is truth; and a willingness to acknowledge past it not true that we were almost willing to destroy error. How much this country would be willing to Vietnam in order to "save" it? forgive its leaders if they but openly acknowl- I don't mean to single out any one administra- edged their errors! I believe there is a great re- tion for blame, for indeed what we learn about source of magnanimity and mercy amongst us, the Eisenhower rule was that he tried to postpone but who amongst our leaders have had the cour- a South Vietnam presidential election — under

I JHLT, 1971 S*r«n UN supervision — because he feared that the down the line to the local country officials we re- winner would not be pro-American in sympathies! ceive the kind of government we deserve. This is What does this say to our American policy goals both a judgement upon us and a basis for hope. of freedom and self-determination when we sup- St. John's gospel gives the account of Christ's port elections only when they are convenient? washing his disciples feet. As you recall appar- Nor am I persuaded that the present administra- ently there was no slave present, and none of the tion of Nixon is much affected by humanitarian disciples were willing to undertake that demean- concerns, for is it not true that now our para- ing task. So Christ did it. One by one he washed mount policy in Vietnam is no longer to maintain and dried each man's feet and afterwards told a particular form of government, but rather them that this kind of humility was to be a mark resolutely to withdraw our troops in such a way of Christian leadership. Peter said "Not just my that we preserve our pride and honor? However, feet, please but my whole body, my whole self we continue aerial bombardment of defenseless needs cleansing." He wanted a baptism of total civilians on a vast scale! I suggest that we are forgiveness. Christ replied to him, "Indeed you publication. now willing to destroy Vietnam in order to save shall receive such a cleansing, such a baptism, and ourselves, and our so-called honor. and in the meantime let me wash your feet as a sign of your accepting that forgiveness."

reuse Get What We Deserve Our hands are wet with innocent blood and our for AT THIS STAGE it would perhaps be wise to minds beclouded by propaganda. Like Peter, this step back and reflect upon the process by which nation needs cleansing. We need leaders who are

required this nation, and most others, selects its leaders. true servants of the people, men humble not For our task as churchmen is not personal re- proud; charitable not arrogant; gentle in the use crimination but rather to learn from our mis- of power; and honest before God and man. It is takes ; our responsibility is not to find scapegoats our responsibility in the days ahead to gain such Permission but to heal the body politic. Is it not true that it men. is those who are the most ambitious, the most

DFMS. competitive, who become leaders? They work very / hard at their careers, and as clergy well know, often to the detriment of their marriages, their Do Women Belong Church children, and the tenderness needed to maintain such close family relationships. Men and women In the Church? with a thirst for public acclaim; people with a Episcopal strong sense of self-importance to the point that By J. Brooke Mosley the they are almost unable to receive criticism in a President of Union Theological Seminary of constructive manner; people with a great sense NOT LONG AGO, the dean of the cathedral in of their own importance, suspicious of rivals to Boston told us about a pathetic letter he had read, Archives their power; these men survive the political tests written long before the time of Christ, and which and are elected or appointed. "for 2000 years lay buried under the sands of 2020. While they nearly always are talented, many of Egypt where it was preserved from decay." It was them are proud and ruthless. Are these people a simple message from a soldier to his wife, who best qualified to leadership, to negotiate a peace was soon to bear their first child, and his fatherly Copyright treaty for instance? Or a disarmament pact where advice about the expected baby was very clear. mutual trust is an essential element? When one "If it is a boy, keep him", he said. "But if it is a asks such questions, one realizes that Christ's girl, dispose of it." remark that it is the meek, the gentle, who are Last autumn, I read another letter. It was the best suited to inherit and rule the earth is given to me soon after my arrival at Union. I had not so naive after all. I believe we need to re- spoken briefly to a group gathered together to assess the process of selection of leaders and the discuss the moral responsibility of religious insti- qualities in them we voters should look for. tutions for their financial investments; and at A second conclusion lies in the fact that our the close of my remarks, I referred to the Holy very disappointment in the leaders of our country Spirit and expressed the conviction that if con- in relation to Vietnam, implies they could be cerned Christians worked faithfully together on otherwise. We could have better leadership if we these issues, paying close attention to hard facts would work for it. Not just our presidents, but all and trusting each other as they did so, he would Eight TMM Wraam lead us to sound judgments about the matter. Women's Liberation After I sat down, one of our students wives passed me a note saying, in part . . . "Welcome to the OUR TREATMENT of women is an example. At clan — and to the midst of our newest issue at one level of our understanding, the baby girl is Union, women's liberation. May I suggest that disposed of. At a higher level, her life itself is as until we can prove otherwise, the Holy Spirit sacred as man's, but she belongs to him. At an- might be referred to as 'it' rather than 'he' . . . other stage she is no longer property, but neither Since the Holy Spirit partakes of that mystery can she own any. At another, she is our sister in which we cannot always fathom, let us leave the Christ, but had better "learn in quietness with all mystery intact and not impose our culture-bound subjection." At still another — only one hundred identities on to the Godhead. What do you say?" years ago — we debate whether or not she can Well, I say, "Hurrah!" The difference between profit by a college education. Almost yesterday, these two letters is worth a shout. It is a gift of she was not considered wise enough to vote. So God through the years which has led us to know there has been moral growth and refinement, better our moral responsibility for every member however glacial, much of it originating outside the publication. of the human family. And although there is no community of faith — the suffragettes and and ready answer to the question about the ap- women's liberation come quickly to mind — and propriate pronoun for God, the very fact that the we thank God for it. But we have only begun to reuse question is raised reminds us that our present push back the frontiers. Although women now for understanding of that moral responsibility is still enjoy, in a few places on the globe, greater free- incomplete. dom and justice than ever, the Christian ideal of perfect freedom and justice, as an expression required New Morality of Christ's love for all persons, still remains a BOTH JEWS AND CHRISTIANS bear some re- distant goal. Indeed, it is a distant goal for all of sponsibility for the point of view that the life of humankind — for all races, all nations, all classes

Permission a baby girl is as important as that of her father. — as well as for both sexes, for which we work This was a "new morality" for many ancient com- and pray. Given our condition, we know we shall munities, one that insisted on the sacredness of

DFMS. not ourselves attain it, not for women nor for any / all human life and which spoke of freedom, jus- other part of humanity; we simply move forward tice, and in time even of love, as the best measure from wherever we are to wherever we ought to

Church of human relationships. Our moral history is a be, and offer this work to the author of perfect checkered account of our attempts to put these freedom to make of it what he will. broad principles into practice; and this has been The institutional church has its special problem

Episcopal a long, and uncertain journey. Many of the in- with this movement. At a time when women

the sights we have gained on that journey come from of those who were outside the religious communities, minister to us as senators, prime ministers, whose consciences were frequently more sensitive scientists, and professors, the church is still de- than ours and whose practical witness often bating- whether women should be ordained. There Archives shamed our own. Nevertheless, whether God spoke are signs of light and promise, however: many through them, ourselves, or both of us, we have Christian families, at home and abroad, have led 2020. been led toward some light. the way; The Anglican communion, deliberating For instance, we once believed that human in its consultative council in Kenya this February, surprised itself by voting in favor of the ordina-

Copyright slavery was justifiable, as Jesus, the prophets and the inspired writers of scripture seemed to be- tion of women — although the council has no au- lieve; but not now. We once believed that rulers thority to move in this direction; and the Arm- ruled by divine right; but now now. We once be- bruster report, commissioned by the American lieved that racial and class discrimination was Roman Catholic bishops and just released Easter within the limits of sound Christian morality; but week, said that there is no solid theological foun- not now. The more we came to know about our dation for banning women from the priesthood. Christian calling, the more we were moved to ex- The Lambeth Conference (Anglican Bishops) press in new ways the time-honored principles of meeting three years ago in London provided a justice, freedom and love. Alert to this, therefore, fascinating setting for the debate. It was not al- the obedient Christian lives today on the moral ways an edifying sight. Some of the most an- frontier, always reaching out to discover new achronistic arguments against the ordination of ways to act responsibly. women were advanced by men who were prophetic

I JULY, 1971 Nine activists in the cause of racial liberation. In the But Jesus did not do it for that purpose. He end, however, the conference reached the same did it to make a point, and he made it once and conclusions as the report of Father Armbruster: for all. The point which he made was this: the "We find no conclusive theological reasons for thing to which ultimate honor and homage is withholding ordination to the priesthood to given by both God and man is a life of service. women." The final resolutions failed to recom- "For the Son of man also came not to be mend that this be done right away, but the door served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom was opened more widely than before. The future for many." is predictable. This is why every knee bows at the mention of Indeed, it seems to me that the indications for his name. And make no mistake about it, every the future are for more freedom and greater knee does, Christian or non-Christian, including justice for women in the institutional church than your own. there has ever been before. To Conquer the World publication. NOW, here you are. The world, such as it is, lies and How It Is before you. I trust that you have it in mind to

reuse make your mark on that world. The only ques- By George W. Wickersham II for tion is: what sort of marks Rector, St. Luke's Church, Hot Springs, Virginia From a strictly material point of view some of FUNERAL RECEPTIONS are a part of the New you will be very successful. Some will make required England way of life. Presumably, you have money, some will acquire status, some will find tramped — or snow-shoed — through many miles power — yes, they will — and with it all there of woods to pay your respects, so coffee and cake will be those among these who will be strangely Permission are usually provided. unhappy. At one of these somewhat lugubrious affairs I Having achieved everything which they wanted — or thought that they wanted — they will dis- DFMS. found myself next to a hard-bitten Yenkee, a / monosyllabic Maine monster, with whom it ap- cover that they have achieved exactly nothing. peared to be my bounden duty to converse, if that From my vantage point — age 58 — the prob- Church were possible. lem people are more than obviously the fifty-year- I asked his name and got it. I asked him where olders — give or take a few years. Disillusion- he lived and got that too. Experienced in the ways ment. Dissolution. Here is where the drinking Episcopal of this breed and therefore undaunted, I asked begins, and when I say drinking, I mean real the what he did and got, "carpenter". Three questions, drinking. Talk about the problems of young people of three words. I carried on, perhaps in the spirit of —and I see by the papers that they have a few adventure. "That is a noble calling," I remarked, —their problems do not hold a candle to those of many in middle-life. And what is the principal Archives wondering whether comments might get further than questions. problem for these people? They hate themselves.

2020. "It certainly is," he responded, to my amaze- The point being that you cannot be happy un- ment. "Our Lord was a carpenter!" less you respect yourself, and you cannot respect I had found the mark. For one thing, it had yourself unless your life is primarily one of

Copyright not entered my head that he had even heard of service. our Lord. I am telling you how it is. Like it or not, no "He certainly was," I replied. knees bow to anything else, least of all your own. "Yes," he continued, "And he was smart This may not be immediately apparent to young enough to get out of it too!" people who see the great riding around in their Well, I have often thought of that remark. gray convertibles. But those convertibles are poor Once I had recovered from the shock, I began to compensation for the unhappiness of many of realize that our Lord's retirement from the car- their drivers. That is why they have them. penter's bench really did not work out too well. Good Friday and its tragedy is always with us. Serve the World Still, in the long run, nothing has ever worked There are many ways of serving your fellow out better. St. Paul tells us that God has given man. Business is definitely one of them, whether him "the name which is above every name, that it be a small service station at the corner, or in a at the name of Jesus every knee should bow...." large corporation in Detroit. But how many busi- TM Tn WxnoH messes are dedicated to the idea of serving man- The important thing is to "have this mind ," kind ? as St. Paul put it, "which you have in Christ The time is now yours: the time to prepare Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God" yourself for service. The field is not so important: —pretty good form! — "did not count equality "it may be business, agriculture, teaching, secre- with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied him- tarial work, nursing, medicine, politics, ministry, self, taking the form of a servant . . . ." "aw, the arts, music, waiting on tables, creating a home, or, indeed, even carpentry. Address to a high school graduating class

winner had a slight lead on justice that "this white west-

publication. the first ballot over Grant A. ern so-called Christian west - - People - - Morrill Jr., rector, St. Mark's, has sown throughout the and New Canaan, and the Rev. world," Bishop Ramos said. MORGAN PORTEUS was Jervis S. Zimmerman, admin- He described injustice as "the reuse elected suffragan bishop of istrator of the diocesan de- mother of all violence." "The for Connecticut at a special con- partment of Christian social basic problem, the basic bur- vention in Christ Church relations and consultant on den today," Bishop Ramos Cathedral, Hartford, June 10.

required pastoral services. He lead said, "lies not in the numer- The election came on the throughout with other nom- ous poor and wretched of the fourth ballot, and he was inees getting scattered votes. earth, but on the few rich and given a standing ovation by powerful, whose wealth and THOMAS WALKER of Wash- Permission the delegates. He was wel- power and development has ington cathedral was conse- comed to the chancel by been made possible by the crated as suffragan of Wash- Bishop Hutchens, and was poverty, the powerlessness DFMS. ington. He became the third / also greeted by B i s h o p- and the underdevelopment of Emeritus Walter H. Gray. black bishop assigned to a domestic d i o c e se in the the humble and meek of this The future suffragan thanked world." Church the delegates for the privilege Church. The others are Bishop and honor in being chosen to John Burgess of Massachu- serve them, and noted: setts and Suffragan Bishop

Episcopal "When I was a choir boy here Richard Martin of Long Is- land. Principal officiant, as the in the cathedral, I never of dreamed I was so close to this consecrator, was Presiding place before you." He is 53 Bishop John E. Hines. The and has been rector of St. sermon was delivered by

Archives Peter's, Cheshire, since Octo- Bishop Jose Antonio Ramos ber 1, 1944. He is also chair- of Costa Rica, 34, one of the

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