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a secret. To the best of my Physician of Bishop Bill Lewis knowledge, not even his secre- tary knew. He always said, Tells How a Great Man Died "Doctor, there are many more publication. * I voted for him as a were no symptoms, and he important things than being concerned about my body. God's and stranger at the diocesan con- would not even have known it if vention in 1959, treated his a blood count had not been done. work in this diocese is the thing reuse bodily ills for four years and He was reassured and told that that counts." for finally stood with awe at his this type of leukemia was con- deathbed — feeling that this sistent with life in some in- Lucky Doctor stranger of four years ago had stances for as long as twenty Every month he would go to required changed my relationship with years. At that time, it was not the laboratory for a blood count. all patients for all time to come. necessary to treat it. The only The technicians became his This was no ordinary patient. requirement was that his blood friends and always looked for- This was a patient so steeped in count be checked at regular ward to his gracious charm and Permission Christian principles that all of intervals along with his diabetic big smile. In the hallway of Christ's teachings unfolded be- checkups. the hospital, I was often stopped fore my eyes, as I had the privi- DFMS. He entered quickly into the with the quote, "Gee, you're / lege of taking care of him dur- life of the diocese as its bishop. lucky to have a patient like ing his last illness. A typical Sunday began at 5 that! It must make you feel

Church Let's go back to the begin- a.m. and often ended at mid- good to take care of him." It ning. When Bishop William night, having frequently con- did make me feel good. We Fisher Lewis took over the firmed at three services, driving were perfectly honest with each reins from Bishop Bayne, he other at all times. He watched

Episcopal many miles to keep on schedule. felt in perfect health. In I remember seeing him at par- the automatic counter in the the Nevada he had the reputation of laboratory click off his white of ish after parish to lend his being a great outdoorsman. He weight to the jubilee fund drive. blood count and learned how it loved to take long hikes and In his greatest glory as a pas- worked. We even kept a graph fish. He was the down-to-earth sheet showing its rise or fall. Archives tor, he became a true Father in type of parson who would mud- Things went along smoothly God to many newly-ordained until about a year and a half

2020. dy his shoes to help you change priests. You could see him at ago. Then the impersonal auto- a tire on the highway. He the cathedral chapel at 7 a.m. never tired. He scoffed at pomp matic counter began clicking off taking communion. Many a the white cells at a much great- or personal ambition and seemed lesser Christian would have ex- Copyright er clip. The normal white blood to have boundless energy in cused himself because his dia- count is about 5,000. His rose carrying out God's work. He betes demanded that he have to 20,000 to 40,000 to 50,000 had had diabetes for several some nourishment before any and finally almost to 100,000. years, but it was the mild type kind of bodily exercise. At this requiring only adherence to a early hour when he was taking Discuss His Future diet and oral tablets. He did insulin he was potentially not have to take injections of threatened with low blood sugar He still felt strong and was a insulin. which could have resulted in un- fulltime bishop. He made light Shortly after he arrived here, consciousness. His Lord came of his illness. The decision was a routine physical examination before his body. made to start medications that revealed the early stages of For three years the two of us b'ocked formation of white blood lymphocytic leukemia. There and his wife kept the leukemia cells. With real excitement, we NOVEMBER 12, 1964 Thret watched the white count drop An x-ray of the bone showed began to take large injections of over a period of weeks and destruction by leukemic infiltra- insulin as often as three or four knew the medication was help- tion. At this time, he also noted times a day. He learned to take ing. At that time, he asked me pains in his thighs and x-rays these injections at home with- to meet with him and his wife showed involvement of these out going to the hospital. His at home to discuss his future. major bones. This was an un- leukemia got better, but his legs He wanted to know, if possible, usual and very grave sign. became so swollen he could how long he had to live, would Consultation with the blood hardly get his shoes on. His he die suddenly or slowly, would specialist and further laboratory body chemistry became so ab- he have his mental faculties to tests made us feel that his life normal that it was a constant the end, how much warning expectancy had been whittled fight to maintain any sem- would he have of impending down to somewhere between six blance of balance. His thirst death. He wanted to carry on months and two years. was unquenchable. He often his work as long as possible. He drank up to a quart of liquid reminded me that it would take Calls for Election every hour. He seemed to take at least six months to obtain a medications by the handful. We successor. You can't call a con- Dean Leffler was called and had to be in constant communi- publication. vention, have an election, and the three of us met at the bish- cation. Food had to be carefully op's house and without hesi- and expect a new bishop to walk in evaluated since he was not overnight. He didn't want to tancy the bishop decided to in- allowed any salt or sugar and form the standing committee as reuse die suddenly and leave the di- he had to eat on time. a first step in calling a special for ocese without a leader if at all This made it very difficult possible. convention to elect a bishop coadjutor. When the decision for him in visiting various par- was made, the three of us stood ishes, but he insisted on going. required Discuss Death He hated all this attention to together hand in hand as the his body. Finally, his legs be- That night we felt we had dean prayed for the bishop and came so weak he could barely time to play with. His blood for the diocese. shuffle. It was heart-rending Permission count was responding to treat- With tears in my eyes, I ex- to watch him pull himself up at ment. Further, he hated the plained the bishop's condition to the altar. Two weeks before he idea of his clergymen and par- a special meeting of the stand- DFMS. died he went to Portland alone / ishioners knowing he had an ing committee. Within two by train and conducted a three- illness. He could mentally see months the convention was held day retreat. He was determined people helping him on with his and Bishop Curtis of California Church that as long as he could possibly coat or showing sympathy in was elected to succeed Bishop function, he would keep going. small ways. I remember we Lewis. The timing seemed al- Finally, the body would not do philosophized that night about most God-directed because when what the spirit wished. He was Episcopal death, as we did about many Bishop Curtis arrived in June hospitalized eight days prior to the things, and he instilled in me the leukemia had gotten out of his death and lapsed into a semi- of his great Christian principle control with red blood count coma within 48 hours. that he had dedicated his entire dropping and bone lesions life in preparing to meet his spreading in spite of radiation Died Quietly Archives Lord, that he was ready, and therapy and transfusions. The As he lay on his deathbed that no true Christian should bishop was becoming short of 2020. have fear when his time drew with nurses around the clock, breath and weaker. These pro- his eyes were closed, but he had near. His face shone, and it gressive symptoms did not hold was obvious to me that here was a constant smile on his face. He the bishop down. He continued received communion daily and, Copyright a real saint, a Gibraltar of inner to confirm, held a retreat for strength. I could almost hear in spite of the fact that his the clergy, and did his usual bones were literally moth-eaten, Christ say, "Let not your heart pastoral work. When hospitali- be troubled, ye believe in God. he did not seem to suffer. He zation or other medical treat- recognized his family and most Believe also in me. In my Fa- ment interfered with his duties, ther's house are many mansions. of the priests who came to pray Bishop Curtis would fill in at for him. If it were not so, I would have the last moment. told you. I go to prepare a He died quietly as the nurse place for you." Constant Fight turned him to sponge his back. As I held his still-warm hand The secret could finally no In June, heroic treatment was and a prayer was being said, all longer be kept when, in Novem- instituted with massive doses that I could think was, "Dear ber 1963, he injured his right of Cortisone. This immediately bishop, thanks for the privilege shoulder while lifting his dog. aggravated his diabetes and he of being your doctor."

THE WITNESS philosopher and the scientist, Man's Questions Must be Faced although such a statement is looked down upon among the Squarely Declares Scientist more hard-nosed scientists." Dr. Page said he includes in -k Science doesn't have all the is hostile, I believe that we mis- religion "all the humanities, the answers on this life, much less understand. value judgments of the felt the next. But religions, "with "We should not avoid every- things, the purposes in life." He their overlay of superstitions," thing. We should not live in approves of people going to don't give the answers, either, fear of death. We should live church (his wife is an active says a noted scientist. as if we were going to live for- Presbyterian who believes That is the view of Dr. Irvine ever, and, at least in spirit, we Christians "should stand up and H. Page, director of research will." be counted"). at Cleveland clinic, who won the He pointed out that science "But the trouble with most American Medical Association's has shown many phenomena not churchgoers is that they too highest award this year. to be miraculous. "But science often fall back on ritualism and "The very practical and just doesn't know enough about don't even ask about such ques- publication. enormous success of science and religion and its superstitious tions as life after death. and research in recent decades has overlay. "If I were to lay down rules, caused the world to look more "Those who call themselves I'd do it so they couldn't be mis- reuse and more to science for an- Christian should actively wrestle interpreted, yet Christ talked in for swers to such questions as with the question 'Do I believe parables, which lost so much in transcendental life," he said in in immortality?' Jesus Christ various translations. an interview. was very specific about prepar- "I can find no absolute. God, required "During this time we have ing a place in 'my Father's man- to me, can't be defined. I don't moved from being a highly re- sion.' Well, do we want to have try to picture God—sitting on a ligious society to one paying lip- our life prolonged by artificial throne and so forth. He is in- service because of the general means and be a burden to so- effable. What's really impor- Permission sneaking suspicion that science ciety? This question bothers tant is to get at what religion really has the answers and thus people. Oblivion? This doesn't really means to people. Does it

DFMS. God won't be necessary any bother me. make life understandable within / longer. "I can't, by definition, because man's limitations? "But we don't have all the an- we know that this planet will "What I want is a real and on-

Church swers. Science will do all the grow hotter and hotter and going development of me as an research possible in this area, finally become a star. That is individual so that, before I die, but it will remain objective and nature's way in the universe and I can look back on my career

Episcopal follow the rules of the game." it is orderly. with some degree of satisfac- "What about the imponder- "Religion has hurt itself by tion. Then, I can leave with no the

of ables?" Dr. Page asked. "Value artificial manifestations — regrets. I'm not frightened. judgments don't have anything wings, sheep or goat and other Life is orderly, though it often to do with science. They par- primitive, child-like attitudes. seems unjust. So I say, while

Archives allel one another, but one does We would know whether there on earth, make the best of what not invalidate the other. is a hereafter if the scheme of you've got and do it on your

2020. "I believe there are two forms things so ordained. Is there a own." of human knowledge. Factual beginning and an end ? In na- "You yourself are the one knowledge, which is contributed ture, things ordained go toward you'll live with in eternity," he by the findings of science, and chaos, not toward coalescence." continued. "You both profit and Copyright wisdom, which is contributed by "Is there purpose in life?" the pay in eternity because oblivion human beings." scientist asked. "Certainly life is a study in futility." Dr. Page said that his own is temporary; nothing we do Dr. Page said that man should feeling is that wisdom includes will be preserved in perpetuity. not be surprised that he still "the belief in something greater If there's no purpose to life, cer- does not have all the answers. than we are — a transcendental tainly we've gone to a lot of bo- "Biologically, we are just the life . . . ther while we're here. dawn men," he said. "It is in- "I think it is the happy com- "Science teaches that the ma- credible to me that we have bination of belief in religion and terial things of life are not the come so far in so short a time belief in materialism that makes lasting values. Science puts compared to the natural phe- one able to live as part of na- great store in intuitive values. nomena of life. ture. When we feel that nature There is no conflict between the "Man, 20 centuries from now,

NOVEMBBB 12, 1964 will look back on us and we'll step in — if it will — and fill the next three years call for seem just as odd to him as some of the gaps. After all, as expenditures of $12,777,017 next savages do to us today." I said, man's value judgments year, increased to $13,379,351 and emotions don't belong in the in '66 and to $13,922,675 in '67. He concluded that science and realm of materialistic science. These figures are about a mil- religion both have their work Science is a fluid body of knowl- lion less that the annual bud- cut out for them. "People are edge which is built up by sound gets which were analyzed in disturbed," he said. "They sud- criticisms. It's up to religion to our issue of July 9 in a three denly are realizing that science face squarely the questions man page article by our Edward J. and research, while powerful is asking and come up with an- Mohr. Dropped from the 1964 tools, can't do everything. swers not to be learned by operating budget was $660,000 "Here is where religion can rote." for a revolving loan fund, and a sizable cut was made in world relief and interchurch aid. National Church Budget Modified Departments at headquarters for the most part receive annual publication. To Make MRI Program Possible increases but not as large as had been planned when the and -k About everything you "What a thrill it is to me Council considered the budgets needed to know about action at personally that this great bish- at its summer meeting. reuse General Convention was in our op and personal friend has been The whittling was done so for issues of October 22 and 29. selected to lead our Church for that there will be less pressure There were however a few the next fifteen years. Bishop on dioceses and parishes, hope- things of interest either not Hines is 54 years old and will fully enabling them to give one required covered or done so inadequately. serve until the retirement age million next year — two million of 68. He was my bishop until Just how bishops voted for in '66 and three million in '67 1958, but more than that, a the new P.B. is not officially re- —to the un-budgeted MRI pro-

Permission warm personal friend. When I leased. Newsmen therefore did gram. served as chaplain at St. Steph- some digging and came up with: New in the budgets for the en's School in Austin, a church next three years is $100,000 for

DFMS. * Bishops Stephen Bayne, school which he founded, I had / theological education; $100,000 John Hines and Richard Emrich the privilege of teaching two of annually for the promotion of were nominated by the commit- his four children. The bishop MRI; with the urban mission

Church tee, with others nominated from would often come to the school the floor. program — explained in these to get away from the burden- pages Oct. 22 — down for * Bishop Bayne led by a few some duties of his office, play $299,142 next year and $340,624 votes on the first ballot, with tennis with the students and Episcopal in '66, going to $490,000 in '67. the other two in a virtual tie. visit in the dormitories and with the There were a few votes scat- the faculty. Incidentally, I of Other Bits tered among others. never knew him to miss a school * Relative positions for the football game. He is warm, ~k Missionary districts are humble yet decisive, with a still that and so are missionary Archives three leaders did not change much in the next two ballots, great sense of humor — which bishops. The bishops voted to should stand him in good stead put them on a par with dioceses

2020. but the scattered votes were re- duced. — with an incisive ability of but the deputies would not go getting to the heart of any mat- along—"let's study some more", -k Bishop Hines had more which is a way for quick action votes than Bishop Bayne on the ter, a proven administrator, Copyright scholarly, deeply respected by when time is running out. fourth and fifth ballots. his brother bishops and one who •AT Church Pension Fund re- * Bishop Hines was elected will represent our Church with mains as is — no dropping of on the sixth, reportedly re- clarity and great eloquence be- retirement age from 68 to 65 ceiving 83 votes to 72 for Bishop fore the world. May God bless which would up premiums and Bayne. him in his new and exciting mean raising more capital. Many statements have been work." ~k Spokane was made a di- made expressing pleasure over ocese, with Bishop Hubbard in the election. We present just his thank-you giving credit to one, written to his people from Money Matters devoted clergy and laity. St. Louis by Dean John Mc- The present operating budget • Seattle will host the 1967 Cormick of Bethlehem, Pa., is $11,862,495. The budgets for convention—only if it arranges which sums them all up well: the program of the Church for (.Continued on Page fifteen) THE WITNESS EDITORIAL

prayer that we need God's grace that we may Joyful Thanksgiving continue in that holy fellowship. In the special prayer of thanksgiving that we For God's Blessings use on Thanksgiving Day we thank God for his THANKSGIVING should always have a promi- blessings on this nation, but as good citizens both nent place in our prayers and the Church seeks of this world and of the heavenly, we recognize to instruct us in this by making thanksgiving a our obligations and ask for a just sense of God's regular part of the daily offices and also of bap- mercies "such as may appear in our lives by an tism and holy communion. Through the Prayer humble, holy, and obedient walking before him Book we have been accustomed to include the all our days!" giving of thanks as a normal part of our worship. We should lay this to heart and govern our lives publication. Most of us ought to be more familiar than we are by this thought. A Thanksgiving day rightly and with the thanksgivings that begin on page fifty kept by the people of God might change the of our Prayer Book, for it is the unhappy expe- course of the world. reuse rience of many of our priests that people often It is nevertheless a fact that we give little time for ask for special prayers but seldom return to ask to its proper observance. We receive most of for the giving of thanks when their prayers have the diocesan monthies and a great many parish bulletins and rarely is any mention made of the

required been answered. The common politeness that is found among most people who habitually say festival. A notable exception is the Chronicle "Thank you" for even slight favors is conspicuous of Christ Church, Brooklyn, where the rector, the by its absence in many instances when the Rev. Dr. Matics, has some pungents words to Permission '•Thank you" should be addressed to Almighty say which we pass on as our own. God. "Praise ye the Lord. 0 give thanks unto the DFMS.

/ A trained Christian realizes that thanksgiving Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for- is more than good manners toward God, for his ever." These vigorous words in the first verse sense of responsibility as a steward of God's of psalm 106 sum up a major theme of the Bible Church bounty teaches him that the surest proof of his and the Church: joyful thanksgiving to Almighty thankfulness is evidenced by a right use of that God for the blessings so abundantly showered which has been given. We are all familiar with upon us. Episcopal the disappointment that comes to us when we The psalmist goes on to talk about the history the have made a present to someone and have been of his people, how they were gathered together, of properly thanked but then have found out that delivered from Egypt, led through the Red Sea the recipient has carefully put our present away and the desert, and brought to a "pleasant land."

Archives and never made use of it. He is filled with gratitude that God should thus Lest we assume the same attitude toward God's bestow his gracious favour upon his children; 2020. gifts, the Church in the various prayers of and at the same time he is overwhelmed with thanksgiving puts on our lips even as we give shame and indignation that his people so often thanks, a prayer for the right use of what has proved themselves unworthy of God's favour. Copyright been vouchsafed us. In the General Thanksgiving "They murmured in their tents and hearkened of the daily offices we pray "that our hearts may not unto the voice of the Lord . . . they angered be unfeignedly thankful" and then go on to ask him at the waters of strife . . . they provoked his that we may show forth God's praise not only spirit . . . they sacrificed their sons and daugh- with our lips but in our lives, doing something ters unto devils . . . they sacrificed unto the idols about it, in other words, not content with having of Canaan . . . the land was polluted with blood." said a formal "Thank you." On Thanksgiving Day our sentiments may be In the Thanksgiving of the communion serv- somewhat like those of the psalmist. When we ice, after giving thanks for the blessing of the think of the blessings which God has bestowed communion and for reincorporation into the upon our country: the knowledge of himself as mystical body of Christ, we are reminded by this taught in various ways by the several blending

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forms of the Judeo-Christian tradition; the omnipresent gin mill, to hear the self-seeking and heritage of law and parliamentary procedure in- self-pitying excuses for moral failure and the herited from our ancestors; the frantic desire for politicians promising more hand-outs for less ef- self-government and self-reliance on the part of fort, and, even in Church life, to have to coax the Pilgrim fathers, the Puritans, the conquerors and promote and continually wheedle. of the frontier; the sense of decency and honesty Anyone can supply their own examples. and fair-play, the ambition and industry, the zeal America is still the greatest nation in the world, and sacrifice of our nation's pioneers: when we fantastically blessed by God, but it could be that think of these things, well ... it just seems as a people we are becoming a little too careless pretty cheap to observe the self-indulgence and about his favour; and it is an eternal truth that triviality of much contemporary American life, the nation, or the man, who provokes the anger to walk past the tawdry amusements and the of his God will be sorry that he did.

publication. SOME REACTIONS TO DEATH and By William I. Oliver reuse

for Professor at the University of California

A MAN WHO IS HONEST ABOUT DEATH required IS OF NECESSITY IRONIC ABOUT LIFE Permission

DFMS. I DON'T KNOW a thing about death and neither about as though death was so eager it had laid / does anyone else I've spoken to. Oh yes — I can physical hold upon his body before the poor describe its physical remains — and because I beggar had exhausted his grip on life. Later,

Church know how to deal it and because I know what it when I was in the navy, I saw a sailor killed with is not I try to develop some skill in dealing with a baseball bat — his head looked as useless as a it. But if you ask me how I feel about it — I shattered watermelon. A good friend of mine

Episcopal must confess I hate its living guts. contracted tuberculosis and died the horrid, the The very urgency with which we approach rosy-cheeked and babbling death of the consump- of death seems to demand of a speaker on the topic tive. I buried my mother last summer. I feel that he present his credentials lest his own tone from the very marrow of my being that I am of serenity, anger, hysteria or whatever should dying — I do not know that I am dying, for one Archives appear gratuitous. As for myself: cannot have a reasonable comprehension of death — I feel it! 2020. I was born — and birth is another mystery — like death in reverse. My first word was pajaro and it referred to a dozen or so vultures that Negative Mystery Copyright used to perch on the roof of the house opposite to WHAT can any of us say about death? Cer- ours to dry their wings in the morning sun. tainly nothing satisfying. It is the cessation of These were the same vultures I used to see in being, the end of our existence. It comes and later years devouring dead animals that floated then leaves behind a carcass that none of us ashore on the beach behind my home. I remem- accept with equanimity. We refuse to identify ber killing some puppies that belonged to my with the corpse we are to become. Our most best friend. He teased me with the fact that I significant response in its presence is a frighten- couldn't have one — so in a rage of jealousy I ing sense of absence. The one thing a corpse is hurled them off the balcony onto the sidewalk. not is a person. Some persons have endeavored I recall an old dirty peddler who suffered from to take the sting out of this fearsome absence by elephantiasis, dragging that one immense limb calling death another name such as non-being—

Eight THE WITNESS as if death were an abstraction! Others call it troubled by the mysterious facts of birth and "passing over"—as if death were a familiar death but cannot bring themselves to pit their journey. These games would be laughable if this reason against these mysteries. They reel away weren't so utterly pathetic. Death leaves us a from the possibility of this encounter and rush putrescence that we reject. Death devours the headlong into the activity of life where they try very signs of life by which we know ourselves to their best to drug their consciousness in. a welter be ourselves. Death lies beyond reason and it of action, causes, and sensuous delights. This destroys it—death will not be understood. Its third posture is dishonest, difficult to maintain, symptoms reveal nothing of its nature. We and doomed to frightful anxiety. measure approaching death not in terms of nothingness or non-being but, rather, in terms of Suicide by Attrition the life and liveliness which it devours. The OTHERS may take a look at death and find its coming of death is felt and seen in the diminution implications so shattering that they are unable of life. Death is a negative mystery that lies to pick up the pieces of their existence. Their beyond our senses and at the end of our reason. life, if one can call it that, becomes a form of ni- Our own death is waiting for us in an ambush hilistic waiting. Theirs is really a form of suicide publication. of the future. Its idiot presence is as ineluctable by attrition. The best one can say for them is and as our past birth. We live trapped between two that they suffered from an intellectual anemia frightening mysteries — for birth is as ridiculous before they were confronted with the implications reuse and impenetrable a mystery as is death. of their condition. Theirs is a pathetic and senti- for It is because we are bounded in mystery that mental attitude that is very popular at present. we are, each of us, like what we are. In the con- fines of birth and death, and because of their I find that the only intelligent relationship I required presence, we choose ourselves into distinction and can have with these persons is to urge them to action. We are insufficient beings absurdly take more drastic and expeditious means of rid- trapped in life, during which we gesture and pose ding themselves of despair. The bridge and bar- bituates are usually quite effective. One cannot Permission and run about in such a way as to dissimulate the outrage of our condition. The important thing argue with their position. Utter despair is a is not death but the attitudes and postures one logical conclusion — though not a very comfort- DFMS. / can take in its presence. able one. Suicide in despair is the worst joke we can play upon ourselves since we sacrifice our lives out of spite for nothing. It is in effect say- Church Bestial Existence ing, "I will not live because I cannot be God and IT IS POSSIBLE for some to live like animals, 'because I cannot be sure that I'm connected to in the present, without concern for future or past him and because I cannot even be sure that he Episcopal and, therefore, without knowledge of our human exists". Some people feel this so intensely that the condition. Death and birth are not value pro- they forget that they themselves exist, however of voking forces in these lives. Such sensuous exist- imperfectly. One must shock them into irony. ence is bestial and the lives of such people no Accepting the awareness of death and birth as

Archives more interesting or important that the lives of mysterious limits of our existence, the honest monkeys in the zoo. They are not born, they do individual will confront his condition in all of its

2020. not die — they merely come and go. Death and absurd pretentions and limitations — and then birth are the concerns of human beings. accept it. The honest and reasonable person Others are vaguely aware that death is an end accepts life because it is all he's got. He lives his

Copyright of some sort and that birth is a mysterious be- life because he has no choice but to pretend ginning of another sort. But because they pre- toward clarity, logic, achievement and the im- sume that their reason is an echo of the master perative of ideals and absolutes. How can we order of the world, they assume that life, their live well in the knowledge that our humanity is life, is warmly embraced by a master conscious- clumsy, incomplete, inadequate, and perishable ness and that at their death they will be received stuff? The answer is simple: by absurd preten- once more into the fullness of being of the mas- tion. Knowing that our works as well as our- ter being. These persons are immediately reli- selves are perishable, knowing that our percep- gious and, though they are found the world over, tions are as limited as our creations, we do not they are nonetheless examples of primitive man. despair of them but, rather, assert them ironically A third posture is that of persons who are with what the Yiddish call hutzhpah. We take

NOVEMBER 12, 1964 Nina up our lives and make of them graceful and im- pressive recreations. We invent ourselves with preposterous presumption, by dint of reason and ironic choice. One Woman's View The Pursuit of God By Barbara St. Claire WE MAY choose to center our lives around God Of Being a Woman —not because he has shown himself to be up there or out there or, for that matter, down there WHAT MAKES more noise than a pig under a by concrete signs or miracles, etc. — but because gate? The answer, as everybody knows, is two we are capable of needing him and therefore pigs under a gate. What is worse than being a dreaming him into being as the name for the woman? The answer, as everybody knows too, mystery that binds us. We may say that our is being an old woman. task is to strive mightily in God's name that we may amuse God wherever or whatever he may be. All women don't live to be old women, but for The point is to pursue God despite his absence those who do and who keep their wits about them, publication. within the confines of our life. who maintain their awareness of the patterns of

and contemporary thinking, for them, the world out- It is also possible to turn back from this honest side is darkening and cooling. It is cold enough reuse confrontation of our condition and to affirm life outside now to justify a fire on the hearth.

for as we find it without religion, without God but simply for each other and our greater well There have been, and presumably still are, being. We may do this by forcing our lives into other countries and cultures warm enough to required the swirl of social action, taking comfort, despite make it a piece of sheer extravagance to burn up our pathetic limitations, from our ability to help all that fire wood. But not here and now — each other along. U. S. A. 1964. There was a real attention getter, for instance, in the October 16th issue of Time Permission It is also possible to devote our lives to im- proving ourselves as individuals, seeking ever in the medicine section subtitled "Durable, Un- greater mastery over our ability to act, perceive endurable Women". The article quotes a gyneco- DFMS. / and create objects and artifacts and gestures logist as making his confreres suddenly sit up by whose configuration and worth will be valuable saying: "We are keeping women around too long —they should all be dead soon after age 45." He

Church and bear witness of our lives long after we are dead. backtracked a bit after that, qualified his state- The man who is honest about death is, of ment, added that he spoke in respect to evolu- tionary standards. It is just conceivable, though,

Episcopal necessity, ironic about life. He knows that he acts and strives in order that he might live longer that for some, after reading this report, the day the drew in a little more quickly, one martini led to of than the next man and better than the last man. It is this that prompts him to build things, to another, and the fire cast very little light. make art, to join together in political and reli- Why is youth fetish in our country, diminish- Archives gious action. It is irony that makes man what we ment shameful, death disguised? What is wrong call civilized. It is this irony that makes him a with being an old woman — or an old man? It 2020. social creature. It is this irony that prevents is harder to find a job in your forties than it was him from sullying his reputation. It is this irony in your thirties, harder in your fifties than in which drives him into furies of creation. It is your forties. What is gained in the aging pro- Copyright this irony that prompts him to faith. It is irony cess — the ability to evaluate, to discriminate, to that disposes him to fight constantly and tire- endure — are qualities not readily marketable lessly with mystery. in a materialistic society. This has not always Miguel de Unamuno has put it most succinct- been so in the past and in other countries. In the ly, "I shall not let myself die, but shall be killed seventeenth century, John Donne wrote two of by the destiny of man. I do not resign from life. the loveliest of his lines in tribute to an aging Let us act so that the Nothing becomes an in- widow: justice. Let us battle against destiny even if there is no hope of victory. Let us battle against No Spring nor Summer-beauty has such grace, it quixotically — and fight for the death of As I have seen in an Autumnal face. death." Donne wrote a great deal about death too; he

Ten THB WlTNBM has often been accused of having an excessive, even morbid interest in it. Perhaps he had, but Talking It Over perhaps it is better to err on Donne's side than on ours. Our error is blinding. We hide death By William B. Spofford Sr. away in a cluttered drawer somewhere, lock it, WE HAVE HAD NUMBERS devoted to about and throw away the key. Getting older reminds everything — schools, colleges, cathedrals, peace, us of what's in that drawer, of what we can never civil rights — an endless number of things. So, forget, what we can only try to hide from—death in life. So we close our eyes to the beauty of an almost by accident, this could be called, Devoted Autumnal face, and reject stored up years of to Death. charity and wisdom that could be ours for the First off our friend, George Tittmann, rector asking. We are so young, here in America, so pathetically young, and none of us will ever die. of St. Mark's, Berkeley, Calif., sent us a talk given there by William I. Oliver, who teached But we shall — even all those old women who dramatic art at the University of California. His out-live men in such numbers that we hold them Some Reactions to Death you'll find elsewhere. publication. cheap and tend to think of them statistically and Then Barbara St. Claire sent in her column —

and no longer as children of God. Is it these old women old men are so afraid of that they deny not exactly dedicated to death, but still having a

reuse them voice or vote in the General Convention of few words on the subject. for the Protestant Episcopal Church (otherwise Then we read in the diocesan paper of Olympia known as the Episcopal Church) ? It has been a tribute by his physican to Bishop William said that no man fears women, only a woman.

required Lewis, which we are cribbing and calling How a We must look at ourselves and our fears; we Great Man Died. ought, too, to know the names of our victims. Finally we got a news story from Religious Who are they? There aren't very many.

Permission News Service about questions raised by Dr. Women make up probably slightly more than half Irvine H. Page, director of research at Cleveland of the Episcopal Church — numerically a minor clinic, who thinks religious leaders ought to come DFMS. denomination in America. Many pay no atten- / up with some answers. tion to General Convention, never having heard of it. Some may notice, and be amused, having Prof. Oliver says, "Birth is another mystery — Church felt, with some justification, that universal suf- like death in reverse." farage was really universal and here to stay. Who Rabindranath Tagore wrote a song offering to is left? Only Episcopalians, men and women, both birth and death which I am sure adds a Episcopal who love God and are concerned with this branch great deal to the discussion: the of his Church. Only them. What hurt they feel of will be in direct ratio to how much they care. I was not aware of the moment when I first For some, this is not much. crossed the threshold of this life.

Archives Perhaps it behooves most of us not to care too What was the power that made me open out much. Concern is expensive; even if we lack it into this vast mystery like a bud in the forest 2020. we have troubles enough the way life goes on at midnight! playing its cruel and senseless jokes on us. We must take it all as lightly as possible, be aware of When in the morning I looked upon the light Copyright the comedy of our abortive attempts to put on I felt in a moment that I was no stranger in this the armor of God. It's such a poor fit; we are world, that the inscrutable without name and not at all his size or shape. Then too, when he form had taken me in its arms in the form of was occupied with dying on the cross, with bear- my own mother. ing the sins of the world, he said "Woman, behold Even so, in death the same unknown will ap- your son!". And to a disciple "Behold your mo- pear as ever known to me. And because I love ther!". this life, I know I shall love death as well. From that hour, we are told, the disciple took her into his home. It is difficult to account for The child cries out when from the right breast so curious a preoccupation at a time like that, the mother takes it away, in the very next especially when she wasn't even young. moment to find in the left one its consolation.

NOVEMBER 12, 1964 Blerm ' PRAYER IS IMPOSSIBLE By Robert W. Cromey Director of Urban Work, Diocese of California PEOPLE NEED HELP IN LEARNING TO PRAY IN THE 20TH CENTURY

"I HATE PRAYER." "It is impossible for me you neglect the phone so that your personal piety to pray anymore." "I feel guilty because I can- might be enhanced? Of course, the caller may not pray." Statements like these are heard with be in real difficulty and need your pastoral min- some regularity among Christian clergy and lay istrations on the day you have decided not to an- people. Many more feel this way but refuse to swer the phone. What do you do? acknowledge their situation. Other people say, There is great difficulty in assuming the proper publication. "I just can't find time with all I am called to mental attitude for prayer. Prayer brings the do to say my prayers." Some clergy and stu- and peace necessary for prayer but peace is also dents say "I pray in the corporate worship, the necessary in order to pray. The first thing in reuse public worship of the church especially in Holy the morning the clergyman's mind is full of for Communion. I feel close to God in my studies as ideas, plans and thoughts for the day. A lay- I seek truth." man's mind is full of his work day preoccupa- tions and business. A friend of mine once sug-

required In the Episcopal Church in the last twenty-five years there has been a growing discipline among gested moving prayer to a later part of the day the clergy to read morning and evening prayer after the early rush of ideas and interruptions according to the offices of the Prayer Book. Many are over with. But you find you get so busy Permission of the clergy take this discipline of reading the and have so many interruptions that you never Psalms, Canticles, Bible reading, prayers as part get back to the prayer. Often what happens is that you forget, then remember, then become so

DFMS. of their daily life. My guess is that most Epis- / copal priests average about three days a week in rattled that there is less peace. Or you lose the getting the offices read. The other four days incentive necessary to go into the church and seek

Church they may miss because they do not get to it, they out a place to pray. are too tired, or they forget. Other Suggestions In modern America it is difficult to find either TRY PRAYING at night is another suggestion. Episcopal time or place to pray. Clergy who try to pray Obviously one is tired. There are meetings to go the and read the Bible at home before going to of to. A certain amount of mental rest is required church or office are often interrupted by their evenings and one usually turns to light reading young children, their wives, or the telephone. if one is home.

Archives There is little privacy in most of our homes. At Ejaculatory or arrow prayers sometimes are the office there is the everlasting telephone, helpful. But these are inadequate and have little 2020. people dropping in, noise of traffic, people talking or no depth. Try talking to God. You try talking in halls, etc. Of course, the best place would be to God and you usually end by talking to yourself in the church. But many Protestant churches are and feeling rather stupid. Practice concentra-

Copyright cold, bare places in which to pray. Many are tion. Yes, try concentration. Most people have cold because there's no heat. Episcopal churches little attention span in prayer. It's only a little are a little better. Roman Catholic churches better in reading or conversation or in writing a have warmth and life but are usually in such bad letter. artistic taste that they become too "busy" for Then there's the problem of guilt. You know peace and solitude. you should pray. You feel guilty because you An illustration of the problem of interruptions can't pray. The more guilty you feel the less might be helpful. Suppose you are reading the able you are to enter into prayer. J.A.T. Robin- Bible or prayers when the telephone rings. What son in Honest to God says, "For I believe the ex- is the right thing to do? Should you answer the perts (in prayer) have induced in us a deep in- phone and interrupt your prayer life or should feriority complex. They tell us that this is the

Twelve THE WITNESS way we ought to pray, and yet we find we cannot medieval views and concepts about prayer. We maintain ourselves for any length of time even no longer live in or believe in a three story uni- on the lowest rungs of the ladder, let alone climb verse. We do not believe in a God "up there" or it .... We are evidently not the 'praying type'. "out there". Robinson points out that we need And so we carry on with an unacknowledged an entirely new starting point for prayer. We sense of failure and guilt." must move beyond traditional and medieval con- Guilt is enhanced by the feeling that a clergy- cepts. man has to suggest prayer to others but knows Where do we turn? Who is trying to rethink that he cannot master it himself. He feels em- the practicality of power in the wild world in barrassed to talk about this with his friends. If which we presently live. Bonhoeffer indicates one has a bit of theological sensitivity he won- that we cannot think about prayer in terms of ders "Why has not God given me the grace and the times we "set aside". It is not primarily strength to pray and be in communion with something we do at the moments of disengage- him?" ment from the world. J. A. T. Robinson says "I I think most clergy have had a good grounding wonder whether the Christian prayer, prayer in in prayer. In seminary there is training for the light of the incarnation, is not to be defined publication. meditation. There are daily chapel services. We in terms of penetration through the world to God and are encouraged to pray. There is a full round rather than of withdrawal from the world to God. of prayer life each day. In the Episcopal semi- For the moment of revelation is precisely so reuse naries, there is usually morning prayer, Holy often, uncommon in my experience, the moment for Communion, noon-day intercessions, evening of meeting a conditional engagement. How easily prayer and encouragement to pray privately in one finds ones' self giving pious advice to a person the chapel or in one's own room. Yet it doesn't faced with a decision to 'go away and pray about required take with so many men. They say, "I'll do better it.' But, if I am honest, what enlightenment and start fresh when I get out." I remember the I have had on decisions has almost always dean of my seminary saying, "If you don't do it been, not when I have gone away and stood

Permission now you'll never do it later." back from them, but precisely as I have wrestled Books on Prayer through all the most practical pros and cons,

DFMS. usually with other people. And this activity, / I HAVE READ many books about prayer. George undertaken by a Christian trusting and expect- MacLeod is quoted in Robinson's Honest to God ing that God is there, would seem to be prayer."

Church as saying, "I have what I call my 'bankrupt corner' in my library and I am, if negatively, en- Help is Needed couraged to discover it on the manse shelves of I THINK the Christian Church needs help in

Episcopal most ministers who have tried to pray. It is a prayer. I hope that those theologicans, monks, platoon of bantam booklets enlisted at intervals nuns, laymen and clergy who are experts in the

of to help one to pray better: purchased as each prayer will turn their attention to this most severally went dead on us, on the principle that serious matter. Writes Bishop Robinson; "Our 'Hope springs eternal.'" presupposition has been that the pressures of

Archives I dare say this is true of many, many clergy- life are on one side while God is on some other men. Certainly the great saints knew periods side: interested and concerned but on some other 2020. of dryness in their prayer life. But one very side." clearly gets the feeling that this is a temporary If God is seen as the ground of our being then thing and it will soon go away. It doesn't seem we should be prepared to see him in reading our Copyright to go away for the 20th century Christian datebook in depth, and preparing in the tele- whether he is a clergyman or a layman. phone in counselling, in decision making in What do we expect prayer to be or feel like? neighborhood meetings to meet our God. Michel What are our goals in prayer? Are we looking Quoist in his book entitled Prayers teaches us for a nice feeling of closeness with God? There how to encounter God by writing prayers on such are several discussions of this problems in recent things as the telephone, the $20 bill and the por- books. George MacLeod's Only One Way Left nographic magazine. and Honest to God by J. A. T. Robinson, and the Please let our mentors in prayer help open our- works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer have raised these selves to God, enrich our prayer life and relieve same questions about prayer in their own ways. our guilt in helping us come to terms with what Traditionally, our aids to prayer stem from it means to pray in the 20th Century.

NOVEMBER 12, 1964 Thirttn r , . - - . • „ „ ,f „,, „_ rr PROTESTANTISM IN THE ROMAN CHURCH By Wilbur L. Caswell Retired Clergyman of Patterson, California

GOING BACK INTO HISTORY TO

FIND THE STORY OF A ROMAN

PRIEST WHO WAS A REBEL

IN THE LIGHT of the recent change in the was heretical, charging that it denied the right of climate of Protestant—Catholic confrontation, private property, but Father McGlynn continued there are some who are ready to predict just, to advocate it, and organized Anti-Poverty publication. what the Roman Catholic can, and will do. The Societies to propogate it. Four times he disre- stereotype of a monolithic Church willing obedi- and garded the commands of the Pope to appear be- ence of clergy and laity, has never been a true fore him. reuse picture. He was suspended from his ministry for a year, for Cardinal Gibbs went to Rome to persuade the and, as he would not recant, was finally deposed Pope not to outlaw the Knights of Labor, the and later excommunicated. Practically the entire first American labor union, and not to put on the parish "walked out." The new rector found no required Index Henry George's Progress and Poverty, sexton, choir or acolytes, and no house-keeper or which provided ammunition for the Irish Land cook in the rectory. McGlynn persuaded most League in its struggle against the landlords and of them to attend mass, but many put in the plate

Permission the Roman Catholic Church, which supported "good for ten cents when our rector is restored." them. He toured the country, with his choir to sing at his mass-meetings. Parishioners contributed DFMS. In the 1890's the Roman Catholic Church in the / United States was split in a controversy over Fa- $5,000 a year for his expenses. ther Edward McGlynn, rector of a large New A mass-meeting of protest was held at Cooper

Church York parish, who was an ardent supporter of Union with addresses by the editors of the Catho- George's single-tax theory, the belief that the lic Herald and the Irish World. A few days later taxation of land values would eliminate the "un- a monster mass-meeting at Madison Square Gar-

Episcopal earned increment", and reduce the extremes of den, a farewell to Michael Davitt, of the Irish the poverty and wealth. Land League, became a protest against the re- of Father McGlynn was one of the most scholarly moval of McGlynn. Archbishop Ireland and and eloquent preachers in the Roman Catholic Cardinal Gibbons expressed sympathy for him.

Archives Church. But he was far from an obedient serv- He warned his followers to distinguish between ant of the hierarchy. He championed the public Christ's truth, and the teachings of men "whose

2020. schools as against the parochial, and was re- blunders and cupidity fill every page of Roman proved by his bishop for sitting on the platform Catholic history for a thousand years." He said: at a mass-meeting with Henry Ward Beecher. "If a priest refuses absolution because you at-

Copyright He refused to obey the Pope or to accept his tend meetings of the Anti-Poverty Society, say to commands, and compelled him to admit that him: 'Father, you can keep your absolution.' Rome had erred in deposing him for heresy. When you are deprived of that absolution for any In 1886 Father McGlynn disregarded the warn- such cause, you can go with a clear conscience to ing of his archbishop, and spoke in support of the God himself for absolution." election of Henry George as mayor of New York. For five years he toured the country, estab- Incidentally, George received more votes than lishing Anti-Poverty Societies. There was a Theodore Roosevelt, and Tammany politicians serious controversy in the Roman Catholic have confessed that if the votes had been honest- Church, especially among the Irish and the des- ly counted, George would have been elected. cendants and relatives of the oppressed tenants. The Vatican declared that the single-tax theory There were many defections from the Church,

THB WlTNBSl and considerable concern among laborers regard- and many prominent Protestant ministers partici- ing Pope Leo's encyclical, De Rerum Navarum. pated in his funeral services. There was a serious decrease in contributions Naturally the Roman Catholic Church did not which alarmed the Vatican. publicize this affair, and it was not until 1939 that the complete story was published in Stephen The Pope instructed Monsignor Satolli, who in Bell's "Rebel, Priest, and Prophet". It provides 1892 represented him at the Chicago world's fair, another instance of the controversy in the Roman the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Catholic Church, which contains many loyal America, to investigate the matter. Probably the citizens, who, like our late President, will not fol- Vatican had a rather low opinion of the theologi- low all the policies of their Church. cal acuteness of the American bishops. Papal infallibility and Maryolatry are the two The Cardinal studied Progress and Poverty, and insuperable barriers to Protestant-Catholic union. examined Father McGlynn. He declared that he But any student of medieval scholasticism could could find no heresy in the book or in the priest's accept the possibility that interpretation could opinions. McGlynn was restored to his priesthood dig tunnels through these walls that would indi- publication. and given a parish at Newburgh, N. Y. Probably cate that they do not mean just what they seem to restore him to his former parish would be a and to say. In their periodical, "The Ecumenist", more extreme repentance than could be expected the Paulist Fathers are trying to tone down both

reuse from the perfect Church. He served a few years, papa] infallibility and Mariology. for

GENERAL CONVENTION: — required CConlinued from Page Six) Vatican Council's Renewal Tide meeting dates that are satis- factory. Otherwise it will be Declared as Irreversible

Permission Cleveland where it was held in By Richard Horchler ly docile—as Archbishop Heen- '43. Bishop Ivol Curtis has a Program Director for the National an of Westminster did. Coun- big hurrah in his diocesan paper

DFMS. Conference of Christians and Jews cil Fathers may call for bold, / for Nov. so there is apparently historic revision of Church no doubt in his mind about •k It is not correct to say that teachings — as Cardinal Leger Seattle being the place. Open- Vatican Council two will revolu-

Church of Montreal, Cardinal Suenens ing service will be in the Coli- tionize the Roman Catholic of Belgium and Patriarch Maxi- seum, bishops will meet in the Church — it has already revolu- mos of Antioch did at the deci- Opera House and deputies in tionized the Church. sive session on marriage and Episcopal Repertory Theatre — plans are This is the obvious and only birth control. And their op- the that far along already. conclusion that this observer, at posite numbers, in their concept of * There is now a 9th province least, can draw from the brief- of the Church, may rise wrath- consisting of Mexico, Cuba, Cen- ings, press conferences, sessions fully to the challenge — as con- tral America, Colombia, Domini- with Fathers and periti, and servative leaders Cardinals Ot- Archives can Republic, Virgin Islands, even the conversations in coffee taviani and Browne did on the Panama. Haiti is not yet in bars all over Rome. And it is very next day after the three 2020. but doubtless will be according precisely this conclusion, which prelates spoke. to Bishop Voegeli. cannot be stressed too much or But while these events will * Provinces, which have al- too often, that tends to be lost make exciting news, they can- Copyright ways had a hard time finding in the avalanche of words writ- not and should not be allowed to something to do, are henceforth ten every day on the details, obscure the fact that even at assigned the job of closing the intricacies and cast of thou- this point the Ecumenical Coun- communications gap between sands in what has surely be- cil called by Pope John has their people and the Executive come "the greatest show on wrought greater changes in the Council and General Convention, earth." Church than could have been Petitions etc., are to go first to There will, of course, con- hoped for — or feared — even provincial synods where they tinue to be ups and downs in the as long-term results of a com- will be acted upon before being fortunes of the "progressive pleted Council. sent to council or convention. and conservative camps" at the * Seattle G. C. is limited to Council. Archbishops may open- Incredible Changes "nine legislative days" — means ly censure theologians of whom The liturgical constitution getting off to a faster start. they disapprove as insufficient- promulgated at the last session

NOVEMBEK 12, 1964 Fifteen will begin to exert its "new Fathers themselves, churchmen so-and-so really say this?"' In look" influence in parishes in a in Rome, the countless visiting fact, cardinal so-and-so did say few weeks time. But in this priests and the clergy and laity that — and more. anything but "secret" Council all over the world who must rub The more than 2,000 bishops even the debates and commen- their eyes as they read what is who are meeting have made it taries on uncompleted matters, being said and voted for by a clear that the Church of the such as the schemas on the majority of the bishops in the aggiornamento, though it may Church, on the laity and on the aula of St. Peter's. Even re- be in its infancy, has already Church in the modern world, porters here can sometimes not been born. The mind of the have produced almost incredible believe their ears and go to one Church, revealed in this Coun- another asking, "Did cardinal changes in the thinking of the cil in a way it has not been for a century, has cast aside the idea of the Church as a para- military organization, with the appropriate ranks, orders and abuses, defending a beleaguered fortress against an enemy called publication. the world. and This Church, the bishops have established, is henceforth reuse the people of God, not conceding for but proclaiming the once-su- spect doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. This Church required has accused itself of authori- tarianism, rigidity, legalism, fearfulness. It has, through its assembled bishops, time and Permission time again made clear its new— rather re-newed — and un-

DFMS. equivocal dedication to human / rights and freedom, to the in- violability of the human con-

Church science, to the mission of the Church to spread the good news THE DAY of the gospel not by words alone Episcopal but through love and service to all mankind. the of IS AT HAND Coup Unlikely by Arthur Lichtenberger But aren't these words a Archives A hopeful, joyous statement of faith, little premature? Is there no written directly from Bishop Lichtenberger's possibility of a last minute coup 2020. own experience as pastor, missionary, or rally by the minority which is horrified by the notion of teacher, ecumenical leader and Presiding such a Church? Copyright Bishop of the Episcopal Church. A simple but With all due consciousness of profound appeal to all Christians to live now, the inscrutability of history in the mainstream of the everyday world. and providence, I would say flat- ly that the tide of renewal $3.00 at your bookstore cannot be reversed. The con- servative leaders were right in SEABURY PRESS their woeful predictions that opening the door to change a 815 Second Avenue little would make it almost im- New York, N. Y 10017 possible to resist a wider and wider opening of the door. But the conservative leaders are

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seen it alter completely the Scouts in an area rapidly be- lations to Editor Archdeacon point of view of a southerner, coming racially integrated. But Thornberry. Address is 412 for instance, without a word of most of my treasure, such as I Sycamore St., Cincinnati 1, propaganda. have, has gone automatically to Ohio. Some redrawing of diocesan my Church pledge. I love the Congratulations indeed to you and provincial lines might be sacraments and believe with all too, Sir, and to Bob Curry for advantageous, but I am not at my heart in what the Church the magnificent reporting of the all sure that numbers and hom- has been, can and should be, convention. I hope you will do ogeneity are the best criteria. yet, on reflection, I know these something equally incisive with I am inclined to believe that the are sentimental considerations the national election .... size and variety of this diocese and pale in a world whose needs has been one important bulwark are basic. Constance Vulliamy against narrow parochialism and Perhaps the General Conven- Churchwoman of Purkville, Mo. stuffiness. I would be inclined tion crystalized my thoughts or Just wanted to tell you what to think convenient lines of perhaps they had come by them- a masterful job The Witness communication and some means selves over the years to this de- did in reporting the General of relieving bishops of unwanted publication. cision, I cannot say for sure, but Convention in the Oct. 22 and and time-consuming administra- I believe now that it is careless 29 issues. I just do not see how and tive duties more important. stewardship to give first pri- you-all do it. Just dedication to ority to an institution controlled the job, and long hours of hard reuse David Z. Ben-ami by the thinking of another era work, plus the ability needed to for Rabbi at Hattiesburg, Miss. when a future, which surpasses do it. I sat up till all hours last I want to thank you for the my imagination and courage, night reading every word of the fine article and news reports balances on the razor's edge be- Oct. 29th issue, and I was required about the civil rights struggle tween fulfillment and failure. exasperated and frustrated (as in Mississippi. Bishop Moore your reporters were) by much wrote a telling article about his Marsden Chapman of it, and you'll know what, so visit (10/8) and I will be glad Rector of Trinity, Permission no need to go into detail (and to have copies for my congrega- Morgantown, W. Va. I don't just mean the lay dele- tion. I commend you for the The quality and interest of gates on the subject of women

DFMS. thoughtful quality of your pub- deputies). / your articles and coverage con- lication. tinues to go up. General Con- I think Curry, and Grants vention reporting was exception- (both) and Spofford did awfully

Church Gerald F. Gilmore Rector of St. Paul's, ally good. fine work, and they all told us just what we wanted to know, New Haven, Conn. John F. Davidson Fred Grant's article of Oct. even to the actual feeling or Episcopal Master at Lenox School, flavor of the meetings and hap- 29 is tops. I am especially glad Lenox, Mass. the for his comments about Bishop penings. of I happened to pick up a copy The Oct. 22 issue was good Pike and the regard of the of The Messenger, magazine of too and I enjoyed the Baxter clergy for one another. the diocese of So. Ohio, and article on LBJ. Quite a new Archives want you and your readers to Frances A. Benz slant. I was at the first part of know of its excellence. I speak Churchwoman of Cleveland Heights, the convention and attended the 2020. of the Sept.-Oct. issue, in which Ohio Rural Workers Fellowship din- the whole diocese is portrayed ner and enjoyed it. It took The How slowly ones's attitudes pictorially in a way every di- change! For years my ears Witness to get us the real news

Copyright ocese would do well to strive to on all fronts, though, and I have heard the annual steward- emulate. From the charming surely do commend you. ship message, but my mind has cover photo (of four young girls only now perceived its meaning. in a beat-up neighborhood) to There is much more I could "As committed Christians we the compelling appeal for funds say but I won't. My heart ached should use our time, talent, and for a local children's hospital, it for Bishop Lichtenberger sitting treasure for the glory of God." embraces a splendid panorama listening to the message he This is right and true and of the good and the bad in the could not deliver, but I was glad means exactly what it says. whole area. It is only a dime it was Bishop Ned Cole who By choice, my time and talent for the copy, and, with no per- read it beautifully. I admire have flooded joyously through sonal axe to grind, I suggest the him and Bishop Cadigan very those channels of service avail- wisdom of this investment. It much. able to me — the E.C.W., the should go as a model document I just wanted you to know U.C.W., and more recently Girl to the whole Church. Congratu- how good you-all are! Schools of the Church

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