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In proposing increased au- Clergy Deployment Office Will thority to the bishop both in his authority to nominate and re- publication. Be Proposed at Convention II locate, the commission has

and designed a number of safeguards * The immediate establish- $90,365 thereafter. The commis- against arbitrary or capricious ment of a national clergy de- reuse sion proposes that these be paid use of episcopal power, including ployment office designed to for through an increased General provision for elected appeal and house a modern "data bank" Convention assessment amount- where up-to-date personnel rec- review boards in each diocese. ing to $9.51 per active clergy- The commission is also urging required ords on all clergy can be main- man. tained will be proposed for the both national and diocesan pro- In addition to launching the grams of continuing education Episcopal Church when the joint C.D.O., bishops, deputies and commission on the deployment special delegates at Notre Dame to retrain clergymen for more Permission of the clergy reports to the spe- will be asked to study and de- effective service in their present cial General Convention at bate the full deployment model posts. Specific proposals for South Bend in August. Setting "continuing education" are ex- DFMS. which the commission has / up such an office would be the drafted. Among other things pected to come forth soon from first step in a multi-phased the model proposes placing in the board for theological educa- overhaul in the way the church Church the hands of diocesan authority tion. deploys its professional leader- the responsibility to nominate The twenty page commission ship. The plan would be com- clergymen for vacant posts after report opens with a description plete by the Jacksonville Con-

Episcopal written "position descriptions" of the serious state of present vention of 1973. have been carefully drafted. clergy morale which has re- the

of The clergy deployment office, Final authority for the election sulted in part through the a key ingredient in this new de- of men would still be retained church's present lack of system ployment system, will be gov- by the vestry or other appropri- for deployment. It reminds con-

Archives erned by an independent board ate governing board, but a new vention that many clergymen selected by the General Conven- "teamwork" between them and "don't know where to turn"

2020. tion itself and would be phy- the bishop would be envisaged. when they want to move and sically housed in New York City Other new features of the de- waste futile hours in unsuccess- adjacent to the headquarters of ployment model include a re- ful job hunting; that some areas quirement for annual "job per- of the nation are oversupplied

Copyright the Church Pension Fund. This location will facilitate joint use formance evaluations" in which with clergy while others have of the fund's "360 computer", the bishop and the man himself difficulty filling vacancies; that according to Bishop John H. confer; a review of job tenure bishops all have difficulty in Burt of Ohio, chairman of the after the first seven years and evaluating credentials and commission. Specific design for at five year intervals there- knowing who to nominate to the office and its operation has after; and a method for relocat- what cure; that vestries and been shaped by the Charles F. ing clergymen out of one job calling committees have little to Smith management consultant into another when for reasons guide them; that clergymen's firm which the commission em- of career development or be- jobs are so ill-defined that they ployed to assist them. An imple- cause of diminished effective- must operate on assumptions menting budget of $107,300 is ness on the job a change would that are often not related to the projected for the first year of be good for both the man and expectations of the parish; that operation with annual outlays of for the mission of the church. priests rarely get the kind of Jmra 26, 1969 Tfcrea evaluation and "feedback" that Chicago, vice-president of Booz, sion have included the Rev. would aid them in making career Allen and Hamilton, manage- Canon Charles Guilbert, the choices; that lack of career op- ment consultants; Mr. Martin Rev. Robert Rodenmayer and portunities and of clear avenues Ohlander of Colorado; Mr. L. the staff of the field research of advancement, combined with Dale Pederson of Oregon; Mrs. and survey facility at the Execu- such frustrations, are cited by Robert Ledbetter of Washing- tive Council; the Rev. Sidney many as reasons for leaving the ton, D.C.; and Rear Admiral Goldsmith of the Church Pen- ministry. (Ret.) Edward K. Walker of sion Fund; and the Charles P. Although the commission Newark. Smith Associates, a New York makes clear that the proposed Consultants to the commis- management consultant firm. clergy deployment office will not by itself eliminate these problems, it will be an initial and essential tool for the full revised New York and Cranbrook Rectors deployment system which can contribute markedly toward Deal with Black Manifesto publication. such a solution. In addition to and containing the "hard data" al- * James Forman received a ready on tape in the Pension 30-minute address, he was ap- warm welcome as the guest plauded by the congregation. reuse Fund file, C.D.O. records will preacher at St. George's Church for hold data which a man will him- in New York. CRANBROOK RECTOR self be able to add concerning PLAYS IT COOL the types of work and experi- The black spokesman was in- vited to St. George's by the rec- required ence he craves in his next as- * On the previous Sunday con- signment. He will also add the tor, Edward 0. Miller, who de- gregations at Christ Church, names of people who know him scribed Forman as "intelligent, Cranbrook, Michigan, listened to well and to whom prospective articulate, energetic and dedi- the demands from John Watson, Permission employers can write for a "soft cated to his cause." black leader in Detroit, under appraisal" of his fitness for a Forman told the 900 wor- unusual circumstances. The Rev. shippers at the Sunday, June 8, Gerald B. O'Grady, rector, had

DFMS. new post. / services that they were "part been informed several days ear- Moreover, a clergyman desir- lier, that a group would visit ing a change of job would hence- and parcel" of an oppressive

Church the church. forth be able to make his avail- "new trinity—the church, business and government," even ability and his special interests He and his staff of five per- known across the nation by though he praised St. George's for its support of liberal causes. sons therefore met with Watson Episcopal alerting the "data bank", an op- and Mike Hamlin, another mem- the portunity not now available to "Jesus Christ chased the mon- ber of the group, when it was of him. Confidentiality in the ey lenders out of the temple," arranged that the blacks would C.D.O. will be protected since he continued, "but today they come to the less-attended 9 a.m. only the individual clergyman are still there, only with more service, and that they would not Archives himself and his bishop would be money than they had 2,000 come in until just before the authorized to release informa- years ago." sermon; that children would be 2020. tion from it. Forman, who spoke from a allowed to leave before the con- Members of the joint commis- hand-carved pulpit, dedicated to frontation; that they would not sion, in addition to Bishop Burt, the memory of J. Pierpont Mor- cause any violence. Copyright have included Bishop Roger W. gan, is the principal public O'Grady also met with a mem- Blanchard of Southern Ohio; the spokesman for the black mani- ber of the Cranbrook security Rev. Quinton E. Primo Jr., pres- festo. police and with Walter Sluiter, ident of the union of black Miller, in his sermon, observed police chief of Bloomfield Hills, clergy and laity; the Rev. Jones that Forman was "no intruder" who contacted other depart- B. Shannon, former executive to the service, and added that ments in the area. "We stood with the church society for col- "what the pious call an intrusion by in case of difficulties," the lege work and now a private may be an infusion." The rec- chief stated. Robert Shell, po- consultant in clergy job place- tor said the churches and syna- lice chief of Bloomfield Town- ment; Mr. Donald H. Putnam gogues should be "ashamed of ship, said, "The Christ Church of Connecticut and president of what they have, and what little members allowed Mr. Watson to Conrac, a large electronics in- they do." make his demands and leave, dustry; Mr. Daniel Carroll of At the conclusion of Forman's but the church was notified be- Four THS WITNBSS fore Watson came so they ex- veloping and implementing the into the scope and the lives of pected him." black manifesto by aiding in the all men," Watson said. "We So the congregation at the raising of funds. must eradicate forever poverty early service was first in- • Help in finding technical and prejudice with campaigns formed by their rector what expertise necessary to imple- as well-e n d o w e d financially, would happen and he urged ment the various programs. technically and intellectually, as them to listen carefully. "We • The explanation by the we are willing to allocate to were informed about this sever- church of the concept of ligiti- flights to the other side of the ?.l days ago. Since then we have mate reparations to the black moon or to disastrous wars on had countless hours of staff people for white racists in the the other side of the world. consultation. We have worked country. "Finally, we call upon Christ this out very carefully, and I "We call upon all white Church Cranbrook to look at it- want you to rest easy with what Bloomfield Hills Christians to self as a financial institution, in is going on." awaken to the call of a civilized one of the most wealthy com- The incident occurred without 20th century," Watson said. munities in the world," Watson "Religion no longer can be used publication. trouble, with the congregation continued. staying in their pews while Wat- as a cloak for continual lack of "This church operates on a and son presented demands of the compassion, for continued hypo- budget of nearly $500,000 an- black manifesto. crisy, for the continual exploita- nually and you have the rich, reuse tion and oppression or for con- the super-rich and the near-rich

for At the later service O'Grady played a tape of the earlier serv- tinued profiteering. sitting on the vestry and sitting ice, saying that he wanted other "We must bring true quality in the congregation," he said.

required members of the church to "share in the experience." As a result of the incident, Burgess is Elected Coadjutor the 4,800 members of the parish Permission were called on during the week To Succeed Bishop Stokes to evaluate and react to the

DFMS. black manifesto in three feed- * Bishop John M. Burgess, At the time of his consecra- / back sessions. suffragan of Massachusetts was tion in December 1962, Bishop The rector himself declared; elected coadjutor to succeed Burgess was the first black Church "There is a great concern for Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes at clergyman to have jurisdiction the goals and needs of the poor, the convention in Boston. over white congregations in the including the black poor, but Suffragan since 1962, Bishop U.S. There are now other black

Episcopal theirs is a negative reaction to Burgess is black. He will be the suffragans.

the how the ends are being met. first black diocesan bishop in In 1961, Bishop Burgess was a of Any right-thinking person will the continental U.S. when Bish- delegate from the Episcopal affirm that a fair number of the op Stokes retires. No date was Church to the third assembly of goals for which they are seeking announced. the World Council of Churches Archives money are very good. Some are Elected on the fifth ballot, he in New Delhi, India. worthy projects for voluntary, was one of 38 clergymen nom- A long-time leader in civil 2020. not coerced adoption by the inated. He was archdeacon of rights efforts, Bishop Burgess churches." Boston and superintendent of told graduates of Brown Uni- There were 20 blacks who city missions prior to his elec- versity last year to work for Copyright entered the church, 10 men, tion as suffragan. He came to change in the nation and also to seven women and three children, Boston in 1956 after having work "against divisiveness and who stood silently while Watson served as a canon at Washing- despair." presented the demands. He ton Cathedral and chaplain to "Policies on separateness are asked for $100,000 from the par- Episcopal students at Howard stupid and wrong," he said. "I ish "for the implementation of University. believe personally that segrega- the black manifesto" and said A native of Grand Rapids, tion is wrong. Whether our so- that $10,000 should be contri- Mich., Bishop Burgess studied ciety can rally to the standards buted at once "as an act of good at the University of Michigan we have raised depends largely faith". Other demands: and at Episcopal Theological upon persons like yourselves . . . Seminary, Cambridge. He be educated . . . technical com- • Sixty percent of all the served parishes in Grand Rapids petence is nothing." profits of all the church's assets. and Lincoln Heights, Ohio, be- He is married to the former • Help by the church in de- fore going to Washington. Esther Taylor. In 1964, Mrs. JtTNE 26, 1969 Burgess made headlines in St. "There is much to be said," and spirited, as it had been for Augustine, Fla., when, along Mead asserted, "for those who district elections, and there were with the wife of Bishop Donald feel that the parish is outmoded attempts made to elect a bishop Campbell, executive for develop- and will disappear. then and there. Bishop Mosley, ment at E.T.S., and the mother "Although I often find my- who presided, reminded the dele- of then Massachusetts Governor self in sympathy with the frus- gates that they were not em- Endicott Peabody and the wife trations those feelings repre- powered to elect and outlined the of Bishop Malcolm Peabody, re- sent, I believe that the parish procedures followed by the tired of Central New York, she is not only our chief potential House of Bishops, which elects and the others were arrested in resource, but the only starting all missionary bishops. He also civil rights demonstrations. point readily and widely avail- assured them that Haiti would Mrs. Burgess was jailed as able to the church. be the first place the house she remained seated in a motel "I cannot defend the parish would look for nominees. restaurant-lounge after she was that now exists as adequate for refused service. She remained the 70's, or even, to be truthful, NEW OFFICER SEES in custody overnight on a $750 very adequate for the 50's. I do BIG JOBS AHEAD publication. bond. Bishop Burgess said then see the parish of the 60's, and that he was "very proud" of though, as a strategic place to * Issues of race and poverty and Anglican relations with his vwife . begin to initiate those processes reuse and to build the new kinds of Rome will be "of considerable

for significance" to the church for CHURCHES EXPERIMENT structures that will assist local IN PARISH RENEWAL groups of Christians to partici- the years to come, according to pate in God's mission in the Bishop John Howe, new execu- required * How can the parish of today world. God wants his good news tive officer of the Anglican become the church of the fu- proclaimed in tomorrow's lan- Communion. ture? guage and in tomorrow's world." "First, there is all the matter Six Episcopal Church congre- He pointed out that parish of renewal—new thinking, theo- Permission gations — differing widely in experimentation has been going logical turmoil, re-expression size and environment — have on in many places since the end and revision of church practice. been chosen to seek an answer DFMS. of world war two and cited the Lambeth fixed the door open for / to the question and to begin an work of Abbe Georges Michon- careful, steady, adventurous re- 18-month experimental program neau in France, Canon Ernest thinking and re-expression on a

Church in parish renewal. Southcott in England and the whole range of things," he said. They will lead the way in a development of the "under- project which will include many ground church" in the United Secondly, with regard to hu- other Episcopal Church congre- States as trial attempts pointing man justice, race, third world Episcopal gations before it is completed a toward new forms for the human needs and poverty, there the year and a half from now. church. was in the church a deep alarm of The local churches, participat- about this imbalance in the "The congregation is a critical world, he said. There is urgent ing in a program to be known point for church mission," he as "project: test pattern," sent need for big action in which Archives said, "and we are trying to find Christians are needed to be representatives to a regional out how parishes can respond conference held at Virginia Sem- taking a prominent part. "They 2020. creatively to their mission." inary, June 13 to 15. The par- cannot leave it to governments or leave governments un- ishes are St. Peter's, Benning- HAITI WANTS BISHOP ton, Vt.; Grace Church, Jamaica, harassed," he said.

Copyright IN RESIDENCE N. Y.; Calvary Church, New Bishop Howe said the en- York City; St. John's, Lynch- * In its final action, the first trance of the Roman Catholic burg, Va.; St. Alban's, Sims- convocation of the missionary Church into the ecumenical bury, Conn., and St. Thomas, district of Haiti to be held in movement means that just Whitemarsh, Pa. Each was rep- five years voted unanimously to about all the major and many resented by a clergyman and petition the House of Bishops of the smaller Christian com- two lay persons. for a resident bishop. The dis- munions of the world are en- The Rev. Loren B. Mead is trict has been without a resident gaged in ecumenism. "It is the executive director. He resigned bishop since Bishop C. Alfred Catholic phenomenon of our as rector of the Church of the Voegeli was exiled from the times," he said, "I think we have Holy Family, Chapel Hill, N. C, country five years ago. to have a real purpose towards and plans to establish an office Debate on the question of a unity, and we have got to take in Washington, D. C. resident bishop was eloquent, risks." Si* THE WITNESS EDITORIAL

moval of a clergyman out of an ineffective in- Why Clergy Deployment? cumbency constitutes one of the major handicaps to effective prosecution of the church's mission GENERAL CONVENTION II, as reported on today. For the good of many a man and for the page three in this issue, will be presented with a good of many a congregation, a clergyman should model deployment plan which the commission, be relocated. We believe this can be done without after two years of work, asks the church to study, either opening the door to tyranny by bishops try experimentally, amend and eventually adopt. and laity or by threatening the prophetic freedom Underlying the proposals, as set forth in the of the clergyman. Provision for the relocation of introduction of the report, are five basic princi- bishops is also needed. publication. ples which must be maintained if any effective "To deploy or not to deploy?" The time has and plan of deployment is to be viable: come for the Episcopal Church to face the issues (1) In order to deploy someone or some group which lie beneath this question. Effective deploy- reuse must be given the authority to initiate the deployment has its price — both in dollars and on pro- for ing. Absolutely essential to a more ordered and cedures that would alter accustomed ways. We creative use of the church's manpower is the believe the hour is at hand for the church to re- required focusing of the deployment responsibility in some order the way it handles its most "treasured entity — most logically the bishop in an Episcopal possession", the ordained clergy. For their sake, Church — where there can be an overview of the and for the gospel's we need to deploy them where total needs of the church and the needs of clergy- they can most effectively serve Christ. Permission men. The model which the commission is suggesting (2) Wise deployment demands a continuing provides for position descriptions, setting forth DFMS. / process of job performance evaluation. To deter- its principal responsibilities, its immediate chal- mine the ability and fitness of a clergyman for lenges or objectives, and any unique personal or his present job or a future one calls for a pro-

Church functional requirements. cedure by which annually throughout his career his performance is reviewed in a systematic way. It is well to note here that bishops also are clergy, and the report calls for position descrip- (3) Effective deployment cannot be done unless Episcopal tions for them, with the same general provisions there is at the national level an efficient, up-to- the applied except that the standing committee would

of date clergy personnel inventory. A central "data substitute for the vestry and the Presiding Bishop bank" where accurate information is constantly available to bishops, vestries, and others involved for the diocesan. The report then calls for a performance evalua- Archives in the deployment process is essential if the best use of manpower is to be guaranteed. tion — a procedure whereby a clergyman's inter-

2020. (4) In a rapidly changing culture, continuing ests, ability and performance would be kept up to education for the clergy is a "must". Effective date with annual reviews. deployment involves not simply the moving of Here also, recognizing that bishops could also

Copyright men; in our day it involves retraining men to be benefit from periodic performance reviews, the effective in their present posts. The commission report provides for them at three-year intervals believes that programs should be adopted by the or more frequently at the discretion of the P.B. national church and in the various dioceses which Three qualified persons would carry out the re- encourage men to take annually short refresher view of each bishop, appointed by the P.B. and courses in addition to planning for longer study- to include at least one bishop as chairman, the leaves. We urge careful consideration of specific other two being an informed layman, an experi- proposals in this area when they come from the enced clergyman or another bishop. board for theological education. So if you have been thinking about "The Bishop (5) Wise deployment calls for developing ways Problem", as many have, in our judgement the to initiate the relocation of men. The present in- report to the convention at Notre Dame provides ability of bishops or vestries to facilitate the re- the solution. JnuE 26, 1969 happy situations, but we all know that the basic Rocks, Bread and Wine reason is man's inherent self-centeredness. No- By George W. Wickersham II body ever changed that in a day and nobody ever Minister, the Tamworth Associated Churches, will. Consequently, many of our young people Chocorua, New Hampshire are throwing rocks. Perhaps some of them are naive enough to think that this is going to do THERE IS little question in my mind that the some good, but, personally, I am inclined to feel basis of much of the unrest on college campuses that the rock-throwing, the takeovers and the today is frustration with the sins of mankind. strikes are born of frustration. Not that these sins are anything new, but rather I also think that society, and certainly Amer- that they receive so much more notoriety than ican society, can do better. I see no reason why they did before the days of jets and television. the United States cannot take the initiative, call Further: with the precipitate increase in popula- it unilateral if you will, in disarmament. Surely tions, the sins of mankind take on greater enormi- the capacity to deliver one hydrogen bomb is de-

publication. ty. fense enough. And why not insist on feeding It is the relentless nature of man's inhumanity, starving people anywhere? The fact that such and however, which drives young people mad, not so people might be politically unacceptable is quite

reuse much the fact of it. Here in the twentieth cen- inconsequential. "If your enemy is hungry, feed

for tury the world has suffered the devastation of him." Nor should gratitude be looked for. It is two global wars, wars which everyone regrets, the one who is able to give who should be grateful. and yet conflict has been the principal endeavor required of nation after nation ever since. Apparently, we As for our own rat-holes, I am all for give- have learned nothing. aways, and without the degrading — and expensive — red tape imposed on welfare recipients in Aside from Korea and Vietnam, the major pow- most states. I have long since grown weary of Permission ers are forever supplying arms to this small coun- the pious platitudes about people who want hand- try and that, nations which could not possibly outs. Of course there are some, but properly fight without them. Far beyond that, the three DFMS. nourished men and women usually have too much / giants are squandering billions on a perfectly energy to enjoy sitting around for long. And fruitless arms race, a race which gets nobody any- there are always children ....

Church where and only makes security increasingly in- secure. In the meantime, starvation stares half The race question sickens me. Racism is simp- the peoples of the world squarely in the face. ly another form of parochialism, a further cat-

Episcopal Madness. aract upon our vision to prevent our seeing our

the But it is not simply the international scene brother. Like nationalism and denominational- of which is mad. Incredible anomalies exist in the ism, it is an affront to the God of love, the God door-yards of every American. Affluence is every- who created us all, the God who most certainly where: prestige cars without number, premium has no favorites. Archives priced homes, expensive gadgets, luxuries — and But the point is this. God goes right on accept- set right down is the midst of all this we find 2020. ing all of our many affronts. No hydrogen bombs Harlem, Watts, the Mississippi delta aild areas from heaven, except the one which rises in the of unbelievable squalor in city after city and vil- morning and sets in the evening. No floods either, lage after village from Maine to California. If we Copyright at least none like Noah's. Moreover: he goes but drive out of Tamworth, lovely, rural Tam- right on caring. worth, a few miles in any direction — and if we Have I departed from the realm of fact? I do do not close our eyes .... not think so. How do I know that he cares? I Facts and Frustration know from innumerable evidences, perhaps the I AM NOT pointing fingers, simply rehearsing chief one being the hope harbored by untold mil- facts. My son went into a pleasant restaurant in lions — not all of them Christians by any means Newark, N. J., the other day. There he was the — that intangible subconscious treasure: hope. amazed witness to a Negro being humiliated and If hope is not expressed by our rock-throwing stu- ejected for no reason whatsoever. The next day dents, it is expressed by many more students who he patronized a Negro-run establishment. He do not engage in rock-throwing. Maybe even found the atmosphere a little less than cordial. some of those who do so engage do so out of hope. All sorts of reasons can be given for these un- Anyway, I maintain that if there was a general Eight THS WITNESS suspicion that this was a universe without a con- cause us to stop throwing rocks ourselves — and cerned creator, no amount of ingenuity could con- all of us do. When we are loved with a love like trol the frustrations of the populace. this, what is there to throw rocks about? Second, God is not far from anyone, and thank God for it should encourage us so to deal with those who it! continue to throw rocks, that their energies, which appear to be considerable, may be turned Remembrance of Reality from destruction to constructive ends. WE CELEBRATE the holy communion. Have you any idea of the immense significance of this? The bread and the wine: simple enough items — but what enormous implications they carry. A body Loneliness of a was broken, blood was shed — regretfully, but willingly. We are accepted — and with all our Long-Distance Bishop sins, corporate and personal. It is this that keeps civilization going. By Wm. B. Spofford Jr. publication. Eastern Oregon and "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." That is the IT WAS, a few years ago, a great representative reuse Old Testament. The New Testament declares that of the new breed of movies. It set forth the di- for the Lord also pities those who do not fear him: lemma of modern young man on the go. It was "... for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil called "The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Run- and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and ner" and it starred Alan Bates. required on the unjust." It came popping into the mind as we sat, on No good parent gives up on his son when the a Friday evening, in a Columbia river town. I had gone into a bar-restaurant early, after having

Permission latter begins to throw rocks. Indeed, a true parent never gives up. He puts up with the rocks checked into a motel. I was having a martini and goes right on caring. On the basis of this before ordering supper, and was sitting at the

DFMS. bar, in mufti. It was early on the eve of a holiday, / care, the child may come around. There is no guarantee, mind you, but he will never come and already the place was filling up. The people were Americans at play. Outside were the

Church around on any other basis. Without concern, all else will fail. You cannot stimulate love with any campers on pick-ups; and ranch-wagons pulling other attitude. boats on trailers. To my left, a middle-aged woman was hustling Episcopal So this sign, this bread, this wine, is continually a young man. They already had had several the offered to us and to all mankind. Certainly it is drinks, and their laughter was brassy and pene- of not offered just to confirmed church members. trating. So were their words and, sitting there I hope that we have gotten beyond that. This is alone, one couldn't help eaves-dropping. a constant reminder of God's continued love: con- Archives To her, he said: "You don't look old enough to tinued not because of us, but in spite of us. be a grandmother." 2020. And may I interject here that if only righteous "Well, I started early. At fifteen, as a matter people were allowed at the holy communion, there of fact. I've got three married daughters and one would be no necessity for it. son. All married. I love them very much. My Copyright youngest daughter is fifteen and she got married We are not worthy so much as to gather up the last month. Funny thing, I don't even know her crumbs, and that is why we come. Over and over husband's name. I think that it is their business again we must remind ourselves that whether we who they marry. It's their life. I love them very are inclined to give up hope for ourselves or not, much, but it is their life." he never does. There is just no way in which we The young man excused himself to make a can turn God off. St. Paul puts it succinctly: phone call — and never came back. Probably, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, running for his life. The woman finished her while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." drink and left, after looking me over and deciding This is what the communion is saying. that I didn't want to play. She left looking dour And how should this affect us? In many ways, and defeated. My martini had turned tasteless. I suppose, but certainly in two. First, it should I went and had a supper of river salmon and went

JUNB 26, 1969 mm back to the motel to write some letters. It was I don't even know her husband's name. It is their hard to do, because I knew, full-well, that the life." church, on Sunday, would be filled with more One bumps into all sorts of gaps in this busi- people than was usual on the first holiday of the ness, or vocation, or ministry. One obvious one year. After all, the new bishop was going to be is that, in the normal routine, we're only going there. to meet the people who hurt in a polite and accept- But I also knew that neither that young man able way. People who can use the word "love" and that middle-aged woman, or anybody like and not know its reality probably aren't going to them, would be in attendance. So I would knock be seen very much. One meditates on the story off another few hundred miles in the VW square- of Dives and Lazarus. It helps to make up the back. "I love them very much . . . funny thing, loneliness of a long-distance bishop.

MANIFESTO CHALLENGES men that "you can't just sweep society of which we are a CHURCHES TO ACT Forman under a rug ... If For- part . . . publication. * The black manifesto is a man were to disappear tomor- "There's no glossing over the and challenge to the nation's church- row there will be 100 other fact that up until this time at es and synagogues to "put up people just like Forman who no level in our country has the reuse or shut up" and the white reli- would confront the churches response been adequate to the for gious bodies response will deter- . . . This situation is here to needs and problems that affect mine whether the manifesto's stay." black people and other minority revolutionary rhetoric is actual- Spivey said the black mani- groups." required ized, Charles S. Spivey said. festo which Forman and the na- He asserted that the churches Head of the NCC department tional black economic develop- have both the money and power of social justice and crisis in the ment conference has presented to respond "creatively and con-

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Church * "Police state tactics and American support are keeping the Thieu-Ky government of South Vietnam in power, a pri- Episcopal vately-supported study team the charged after making an eight- of day survey of the country. Members of the eight-man team are prominent U.S. religious Archives leaders. Before leaving Saigon -.where are you goina for Paris, where the team com- 2020. individual? As a family? Do you take tim pleted its report, the group move toward life's really important things? cabled a message to President Daily devotions can strengthen our faith and Nixon as follows: "Speaking for Copyright beliefs... can help us realize what is important in peace or in any other way op- our lives. The Upper Room daily devotional posing the government in South guide has helped millions to move toward a m< meaningful life, a closer relationship wit* Vietnam easily brings the God and their fellow man. charge of Communist sympathy Write for a free copy. Or send your subscription today. On and subsequent arrest . . . there must be no illusion that this to ofte address, 10* per copy, postpaid. Order from *|j climate of religious and political suppression is not compatible with either a representative or a stable government." - World's Most Widely Read Dailr Devotional Giili A spokesman at the press con- 1908 Grand Ave, Nashville. Tenn. M2t ference, June 10, said there has been no reply to date from the President or any staff member.

Ten THE WITNESS vised him that he can return to figures;" for public disclosure of that country if he will keep out of the "professional position and fi- politics—meaning keep quiet about nancial status" of the church's - - People - - apartheid. board of directors, finance com- STANLEY ELEY, bishop of Gibral- mittee and business committee; an tar, is chairman of the newly- immediate upgrading of the ARTHUR E. WALMSLEY, former formed Inter-Anglican Council church's black employees, and an head of the division of Christian which calls upon the churches to investigation of the church's pro- citizenship at 815 and presently take steps to create a unified, auto- posed housing plans "to ascertain interim rector of Grace church, cephalous British-American prov- whether or not it intends to create Amherst, Mass., will be general ince or diocese of Europe. Amer- another 'white middle-class ghet- secretary of the Mass. Council of icans on the council are Bishop to.' " It was also demanded that Churches Oct. 1. He was elected Mosley of 815, Dean Sturgis Riddle the Second Church of Christ at a special assembly of the council of Paris and Layman George Sny- Scientist in Roxbury be "immedi- held in the village church in Wel- der of Munich. In Nice, Geneva, ately turned over to the black com- lesley. He was also coordinator of Florence, Rome and Paris there are munity" and that the Christian the civil rights program while at two or more Anglican churches, Science Monitor publish immediate- headquarters in N. Y. and on the including both British and Amer- ly a series on "the American staff of the WCC conference on ican, and there are six Anglican church as an economic institution." church and society in Geneva. bishops who have pastoral respon- The committee stated that it con- RUSSELL T. RAUSCHER, bishop sibilities for one or the other, in- siders the demands "negotiable, publication. of Nebraska, requested a coadjutor, cluding two bishops for the armed but we intend to have them met." forces of Great Britain and the Christian Scientists later gave de- and with the convention asking him to appoint a committee to receive U.S. The council will meet in Octo- tailed answers — all no. recommendations. He said he plans ber. reuse to work with the coadjutor for two STURGIS L. RIDDLE, dean of the for years but did not set a date for his Paris Cathedral, will exchange THE BISHOP WHITE retirement. pulpits in July with Dean Charles PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY EARL X. HONAMAN will retire as Buck of the Boston Cathedral. The affiliated with Paris dean will also preach this required suffragan of Harrisburg Sept. 30. Bishop Dean Stevenson told the summer at the Anglican Cathedral THE FEMALE PROTESTANT convention that instead of electing in Mexico City and at St. Bartholo- EPISCOPAL PRAYER BOOK another suffragan the Rev. Hermit mew's, New York. SOCIETY OP PENNSYLVANIA L. Lloyd, rector of St. Paul's, JAMES A. PIKE, former bishop of Donates to those Parishes, Missions and Permission Bloomsburg, will take the new of- California, is one of five men Institutions at home and abroad, which fice of executive assistant and dropped from the staff of the Cen- »re unable to purchase them: canon to the bishop on Oct. 1. ter for the Study of Democratic The Book of Common Prayer-Pew Sfe»

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myra and Monroe City, Missouri, organization of work and structure BACH BBQUEST MOST BB BOTTOMED is to be a fellow at Pinceton Sept. was cited as the reason for the FT THE BISHOP OF THE DIOOBSB. 1 to do graduate work in church cutback in personnel, with a Church history. spokesman saying that no criticism The Re*. Wflltan R. McKean, D.D., GARY A. MITCHENER, assistant whatever is intended of those leav- P. O. Box 81 at Calvary, Columbia, Missouri, is ing. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1910S to do graduate work at the New Episcopal ROBERT JEPPERY, warden of School for Social Research, New Zonnebloem College, Capetown, and the York, Sept. 1. canon of the cathedral, will become of JOHN B. COBURN, former dean of deputy officer of the Anglican Cburcb of tbe Heavenly TRest Episcopal Theological School and Communion August 1. Ordained then a teacher in the street acad- priest in 1942, he has spent most 2>ap Scbool

Archives emies program of the Urban of his ministry in South Africa. League in New York, has accepted What Bishop Howe, new executive Co-Edacational Nursery election as rector of St. James, officer, considers the scope of the through Grade 2020. New York, Sept. 1. work ahead is reported on page six. (Pxewntly through Grade V; Grade VI 19*7, ARTHUR L. KINSOLVING con- JAMES B R E E D E N, Episcopal Grade VH 1968, Grade Vm 1969). tinues as rector of St. James, New priest on the staff of the Mass, York, through the summer when council of churches, was one of A comprehensive curriculum begin- Copyright he and Mrs. Kinsolving move to four clergymen to present black ning with Nursery designed for best Baltimore where he grew up in the manifesto demands to officials of possible preparation for secondary rectory of St. Paul's, where his the Christian Science Church in father was rector for 34 years. He Boston. They called for a report schools and beyond. Primary objec- will assist in chapel services in the of its "vast property holdings, fi- tive: Sound skills in Reading, Writ- parish's day school and at St. Tim- nancial assets, and membership ing, Mathematics, Foreign Language, othy's, school for girls. Music, Art and Physical Education. ROBERT H. MIZE, ousted as bishop Curriculum also includes Religioui Write us for of Damaraland last summer by Education. South Africa and assigned to Mat- abeland, part of the C of E prov- 2 East 90th Street — Upper School ince of Central Africa, has been Organ Information 1 East 92nd Street — Lower School denied permission to enter by the government of Rhodesia. The AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. (EN »-8©t0) American-born bishop says that the Hartford, Conn. NEW YORK, N. Y. 10028 South African government has ad- Schools of the Church

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