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Katharine Caley, A.B., Headmistresa Fourth-year course for gradu BOSS, A. I. ERNEST, rector of St. James’, Box W. ___ Faribault, Minn, Columbus, Ohio, died May 16, 63 years old. ates, offering larger opportunity BRIDGMAN, ORLANDO H „ has resigned as for specialization. vicar of Mount Calvary Church, Camp Hill, Penn., after 24 years, and will retire from Provision for more advanced the active ministry. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. BUCK, CALVERT E., superintendent of the and Th.D. Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Washington, D. C., has accepted a call to SHATTUCK ADDRESS the rectorship of the Church o f the Atone ment, Chicago. » » SCHOOL « « CLARKE, ROBERT J., now in charge of THE DEAN Transfiguration, Woodeliff, N. J., has ac A church school for boys, with high stand cepted a call to the rectorship of Good ing in sound scholarship and development of 1 Chelsea Square New York City Shepherd, F'ort Lee, and St. Stephen’s, manly character and Christian citizenship. Coytesville, N. J., effective June 15. . College preparatory. Military system. 13 For Catalogue Address the Dean CONNOP, HERBERT, rector of All Saints buildings. All sports. 75th yr. Catalog. Church, Williamsport, Pa., has retired from the active ministry. Address the Rector, Box W DAMROSCH, LEOPOLD, was ordained dea Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. con on May 25 by Bishop Campbell, acting Episcopal Theological School for Bishop Washburn, at St. Paul’s, Doyles- CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS town, Pa., and will go to the Philippines Affiliated with Harvard University offers as missionary. unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as DAWSON, JOHN, has retired from the active KEM PEB'THTX philosophy, psychology, history, ministry, after 47 years in mission fields in Idaho, Nevada and Oregon. Address: sociology, etc. 4821 N. E. Rodney Ave., Portland, Ore. KENOSHA, WISCONSIN For Catalogue Address the Dean DeMILLE, GEORGE E., was ordained priest Episcopal Boarding and Day School. by Bishop Oldham May 22 at the Cathedral of All Saints, Albany, N. Y. Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual The Protestant Episcopal DONAGHY, WILLIAM R. ; M ANDERBACH, opportunities in Art and Music. AARON; STETLER, ROBERT HAROLD ; Complete sports program. Junior Theological Seminary in Virginia and WILCOX, ALBERT E., were ordained deacons by Bishop Taitt on May 24, at the School. Accredited. Address: For Catalogue and other information Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia,. Pa. SISTERS OF ST. MARY address the Dean DUNHAM, CLARENCE M., will retire as Box W .T. REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. rector of All Saints’, Orange, N. J., where Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. he has served since 1912. EASTMAN, FREDERIC JOHN, curate at St. _ Paul’s, Jackson, Mich., will become CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL assistant at St. Peter’s, Akron, Ohio, and Berkeley continue as assistant secretary of St. New York City Philip’s Society. A boarding school for the forty boys of Divinity School HOOFNAGLE, OTTO S. ; NORTHRUP, the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the ISAAC, and ROELL, RUDOLPH, were Divine. Careful musical training and daily New Haven, Connecticut ordained deacons by Bishop Washburn singing at the cathedral services. Small Affiliated with Yale University May 30th at Christ Church, Ridgewood, classes mean individual attention and high N. J. Address DEAN W. P. LADD standards. The School has its own building LEWIS-JONES, HERBERT, rector at Cal and playgrounds in the Close. Fee—$300.00 86 Sachem Street vary, Bayonne, N. J., has accepted a call per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice to the rectorship of St. John’s; Boonton, test and scholarship examination. Address N. .T. 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M a i n t a i n i n g a P o o r M a n ’s P a r i s h By WOLCOTT CUTLER Rector of St. John’s, Charlestown, Massachusetts in 'V E R Y E P IS C O P A L CH U R CH should be a poor In the second place, the human beings who actually man’s parish in the sense that no man should be run particular parishes are all too often such narrow too poor to find a welcome there, and inspiration and minded egotists that nearly every diocesan leader is cordial Christian fellowship. Whenever a “Fifth Ave naturally tempted to hold the whip hand over as many nue” fane opens its doors to the well-dressed only and of them as possible. Wealthy parishes probably sin directs all others to an East Side chapel, there is good against the larger vision fully as often as poor parishes; evidence that that parish has no right to call itself a but the diocesan leaders know that they can never holy or a Catholic or an Apostolic church. entirely check the idiosyncrasies of the well-to-do; so By poor man’s parish I mean much more than a try all the harder to prevent as many other potential parish where a poor man may receive kindly sympathy. trouble-makers as they can by controlling every parish A real parish for the poor man is a church where that looks to them for financial aid. For this reason men, women, boys and girls of meager means provide many hundreds of what might be supposed to be poor the funds, perform the work, and supply the local men’s parishes are in reality only poor men’s mis government of their church. The parish that I have sions— a very different thing from the point of view in mind cannot be found in prosperous suburbs, because of Christian education and experience. there the real leadership gravitates into the hands of TN THE THIRD PLACE, it takes a surprising people of ample means. Nor is a poor man’s parish -*■ amount of money today to maintain an attractive likely to exist in country districts, because the rural place of worship and carry on a center for even the areas are too thinly settled to provide the necessary minimum of religious activities, especially if the full financial support apart from the help (and control) of time services of a clergyman are needed and a rectory mission boards or a few wealthy families of generous must be paid for at the present high rates of insurance disposition. and upkeep and taxes. In the case of my own modest The poor man’s parish of my dreams is an associa though well-equipped parish in a crowded down-town tion of self-respecting, devoted, and independent residential section of Boston, we owe nothing today Christians in modest circumstances, led by a rector of for loans or mortgages; yet our average parish expenses their own selection, governed by a vestry of their own for the seven good years preceding the recent depres choice, assisted by such volunteers as can lead or teach sion (since when we have had to close our two' build without patronizing, and proud of their responsible ings part of every week, give „up our sexton and our part in the programs of diocese, province and general paid organist, etc., etc.), amounted to over $6,000 a Church. Such a parish as I envisage would be an ideal year. In addition to these regular expenses of parish laboratory for Christian education just because of its maintenance, wre were obliged to raise $6,748 for a fully independent, completely self-governing, and there new organ in 1930, $1,750 for the renovation of our fore responsible parochial existence. Church in 1933, and $2,149 f°r a new boiler in 1935. Such parishes as these, I need hardly say, are de Such are the demands upon even a poor man’s parish cidedly rare and likely to become even rarer. In the in the twentieth century. And in addition there is first place, there is always a tendency for the people of always the duty laid upon us by our Lord of sharing largest income in a given community to dominate the some of our good things personal and parochial with religious and educational as well as the political and persons poorer than ourselves. In the case of my economic scene. In fact, they probably feel more or parish this has meant an average contribution of $713 less obliged to determine much that goes on in their a year for the above-mentioned period to the program neighborhood, lest others gain sufficient ascendance to of our diocese and the general Church. threaten their economic and social superiority. In the fourth place, it is increasingly difficult for a

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS June 3, 1937 poor man’s parish to maintain itself independently, be to mission status only that much more absolute and cause of the shifting character of urban populations. final. No longer do the young people in a given Church school The poor man’s parish that would maintain its in grow up to be the pillars of that particular parish. W e dependent existence would better face the financial situ are fortunate if we can keep them long enough to ation squarely before its capital funds (if any) are dis present them for confirmation. I recently made a count sipated beyond recall and potential donors to its en of the family cards removed from our active rolls by dowment are discouraged from remembering its needs reason of death or departure from this community and in their wills. Many a man has stricken from his will found that we had in my thirteen years as rector here, an intended bequest to' a church by reason of the dis lost two and one-half times as many families as be covery that the vestry of that particular parish was not longed to the parish when I came. Even our vestry safeguarding the principal sums of such legacies, but has lost eighteen members by removal or death in those has drawn liberally upon them to meet current needs. few years. Our Church school faculty of fourteen Unfortunately dioceses have at times sanctioned or even teachers and four officers has lost fifty-four of its mem required this use of what should properly be permanent bers in the same period, not counting those who have funds. Recently I heard of one diocese where a rec ceased teaching but still live within the bounds of the tor was struggling to wean his vestry before it was too parish. late from the debilitating habit of spending the princi Under such circumstances, it is hardly to be expected pal sum of every undesignated bequest. The rector had that systematic offerings and other regular giving in a started a parochial Book of Remembrance in which the poor man’s parish will produce anything like $6,000 vestry were encouraged to record as permanent gifts a year. W e no sooner educate our new families to every legacy or memorial contribution to parish endow the joy of sharing in our support than they depart from ment. A t the same time the parish was receiving oc the community, and our task is begun all over again casional diocesan aid, and when the newspapers an with their successors. Of 105 persons in this parish who nounced that $100 had been left to the church by the will actually completed their systematic offering payment of a certain very poor parishioner, the diocese at once last year only eight were contributors in the year 1923. forbade the listing of this small legacy in the new Book Eighteen others had been contributors for only one or of Remembrance. two years. Take this record in conjunction with the A more usual temptation to invalidate the idea of a fact that only three of our 199 pledges for 1937 are parish endowment fund occurred recently in my own for $1 or more a week, and you will readily see how parish. W e had successfully raised the money for a new little is to be expected from the regular offerings in a organ and for renovating the church without touching poor man’s parish. a cent of the principal of any undesignated bequest; One of the chief sources of our parish support is the but when, right after those two arduous campaigns, our series of suppers, whist parties, sales, etc. (we never al old boiler was condemned by the state inspectors, we low any form of gambling) that over a period of thirty- were advised by highly respected friends not to solicit six years has added $1,060 a year to our church treas anything further from our public but to draw what was ury directly and something more indirectly. Yet even necessary out of our endowment principal. Instead we with this help our total receipts from pew rents (now closed the church and parish house, postponed our discontinued), systematic offerings, Easter and loose autumn fair indefinitely, and laid our needs squarely plate offerings, Church School and organizations has before the diocese and our parishioners and friends. from 1901 to 1936 inclusive averaged only $3,745 a The result was that within seven weeks we were back year. Where is a poor man’s parish to secure the in church with the cost of our new boiler fully pledged needed additional twenty-three hundred dollars? and ultimately we found ourselves needing to draw upon only two hundred dollars of the considerably H E O R E T IC A L L Y a rich patron or two might be larger sum that the diocese had offered us if necessary. enlisted who would be content to subsidize the work Thus we proved for the third successive time in a few without dominating the parish life— in fact in certain crowded years that many people will give and give rare cases this seems to have been done— but in prac gladly and generously to what is often called a “ capital” tice this provides not only an unlikely but also a merely expenditure, although the very same persons take lit temporary and uncertain solution and it often pauper tle or no active part in defraying the running expenses izes the parishioners. The problem seems rather to or paying off the back bills of their parish. In fact, boil down to one of two alternatives: either regular and it is for that very reason that the poor as well as the presumably permanent status as a mission parish gov rich parish absolutely requires the regular aid of some erned from without, or temporary diocesan aid in small dependable annual income from endowment to meet its amounts with a severely curtailed budget, while there current expenses. is built up an endowment sufficient ultimately to sup Of course, endowments are ordinarily best handled ply the needed twenty-three hundred dollars a year. by incorporated trustees, and in the instrument of per Many poor parishes have adopted what they hoped manent trust there should be careful provision made would prove to be a third way out— namely, the “ bor that if ever the parish closes its doors or is deemed un rowing” from the principal sums of an occasional be necessary in that community by the diocesan authority quest or gift to endowment, but at the end of a few or the courts, the income from the trust funds shall be years this usually proves to have made the surrender made available for other religious work. The dead hand

of an outmoded deed of trust can be a very dreadful since there were more than twice that number at the thing, where no discretion was allowed to the trustees service. W hy the others failed to answer is a matter of of future years. In the case of my own parish we have guess work but it is possible that they just didn’t know provided that if and when the work here shall be no the answers. I am sure that this congregation is as longer required, “it shall be proper for the trustee to well instructed as any, yet but ten persons were willing pay the said net income to such self-supporting church to say that they knew enough about the Church’s mis or aided parish in the diocese of Massachusetts and sionary program to entitle them to an opinion. Only chiefly dependent for its financial support upon peo eleven read a Church paper regularly. Only 48 were ple of small means, as may be designated by the eccle able to name six fields outside the country where our siastical authority of the diocese and approved by the Church is carrying on work, and but seven were able to trustee.” name six missionaries out of the hundreds we have in the field. Nevertheless those answering the question W O U LD therefore commend to the Church at large naire were almost unanimously for missions. Eight only I the idea that wherever we desire to maintain a poor said that no good results had been obtained; all but man’s parish, we must be willing to work for the build three were for medical missions; 170 declared that mis ing up of at least a small permanent parish endowment. sions are still necessary and 173 said that “missionaries As Bishop Lawrence declared in his convention address should go into all the world and carry the Christian re in 1911 in answer to those persons who always object ligion wherever it is needed.” There were but 18 will that when the people of a given generation cannot sup ing to maintain that “the work of the Church should be port their own parish it is time for the Church to close confined to the local parish,” while 185 voted that ‘“ a its doors: “ It is singular how it seems to be assumed by Churchman should be interested in the work of the dio our communities that every form of charitable, higher cese,” and all but one declared that “a Churchman intellectual, and spiritual life should be endowed ex should be interested in the work of the Church in our cept the churches. Of course church endowments have own country.” been abused, but when one comes to think of it, have not endowments of universities, of charities, and of art N T H E Q U E ST IO N of administration only 112 been abused? All such institutions pass through peri O voted and they split exactly 50-50 on the question, ods of lethargy; but it is only a question of time when “Do you think too much of the money for missions goes popular sentiment is aroused, and those who have failed for administration and too little to the actual work in in their duty drop out and others take their place. . . . the field?” On the question, “ Do you believe that one W e believe in endowments and we depend upon them.” religion is as good as another?” the vote was ioo yes What I am contending for is the basic right of the to 82 no; and 119 declared that “the churches should poor man to have his own place of worship and his unite in their missionary programs,” with 50 saying no own corporate religious experience, free from patron — which brings up shades of the Laymen’s Inquiry of izing or dictatorship. What I am contending against a few years ago which perhaps has not been adequately is the prevalent notion that if people are poor they ought faced. There were 92 who said that “the method of not to expect to make their own decisions or to pay an presenting our missionary program is responsible for honored part in the larger life of the Church. our lack of enthusiasm,” with 131 believing that more,, In my parish a few years ago there was a poor should be done on missionary education and particular mother of a large family to whom the Church Home So ly in bringing missionaries to parishes to present the ciety had been very kind. This grateful mother of her needs of the fields. own initiative ran some whist parties to raise $25 for the Society during the early days of the depression. But g a i n o n t h e m a t t e r o f m i s s i o n s ,- i the public relief agencies did not like the idea at all Acall your attention to a recent article in The Mis and even tried to stop the devoted "woman from paying sionary Review by the Rev. Robert E. Speer, a life-long- the small weekly dues expected in my mothers’ club— ■ leader in missionary work. The present lack of interest. her only rest or diversion from one week’s end to the he attributes, among other things, to “a regimentation next, and her last remaining symbol of religious loyalty of benevolences which substitutes mathematical ratios and social self-respect. for vital education and living motives; which subordi nates causes in common treasury pools; which increases overhead charges; which removes the donor to a fatal Talking It Over distance from the cause which he is asked to support, and which weakens and threatens to destroy the power By and persuasion of the appeal of the living work.” He WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD believes that the evangelistic aim of the foreign mission O SAVE SPACE I am merging Convention Topics enterprise must be kept clear and made- even more domi Tand my own column this week. First off news has nant, rather than shifting the appeal to missions making come from St. Paul’s, Flint, Michigan, where my for world peace and international, inter-racial and inter friend the rector, the Rev. Lane Barton, handed his religious goodwill. Also rather than deserting the congregation a questionnaire a couple of Sundays ago Churches in foreign fields and letting them shift for- with interesting results. It dealt with missions. There themselves, new missionaries should be called for and were 198 answers, which is itself an interesting fact sent out, he declares.

ISH O P D A V IS of Western New York, in his con more at length but we will try to give the gist of it in B vention address, declared that while business con a few paragraphs. ditions give us reason to hope for a gradual increase in “ Christianity is not just another religion; it is God’s parochial incomes, “it is absurd to try to turn this whole purpose for His human world. It accepts for itself the increase into the rehabilitation of our missionary work. obligation and the hope of bringing the whole life of It cannot be done and it ought not to be done in the man into conformity with the divine will.” face of parochial needs. But it is equally absurd to say After stating that the tendency of certain types of that we must first restore the parish to normal condi action tend to secularize religion he states as his first tions and then begin to restore our missionary endea affirmation that “we must find the resources of the vor. W e must advance together. There remains there social gospel not in society, but in the gospel; not in fore the middle course. . . increases in parochial incomes any secular pattern but in the sacred pattern of which should be shared proportionately with the diocese and the Church is itself the carrier and the custodian.” the general Church; there should be a proportionate “ I hope,” he says, “that the Christian Church is a and simultaneous restoration of cuts, payments of debts, unique emergent in history; that it is not a humanly and renewals through a partial one, while advance work devised institution; that it is not in the world by virtue is financed through special designated gifts. While such of man’s making it, or imagining it, or even feeling the progress is slow it is, nevertheless, sure.” need of it, but that it is here by the grace and will of On the matter of the reorganization of the National God.” Council Bishop Davis said that as it is organized at “W e moderns have made a great mistake in our present it is “naturally an impersonal organization with ethical interpretation of Christianity. W e have tended distinctly bureaucratic tendencies, some overlapping, to take the Church as a human devise based upon this and indifferent cooperation between departments. ethical idealism.” Whatever responsibility the Presiding Bishop had, he “ To conceive the Christian Church as resting upon had not sufficient authority to unify the work. It would an ethical basis is to sacrifice the substance of the seem, therefore, that the work of the National Council Christian faith and to do violence to the plain facts should be personalized, and unified, giving responsibil of history.” ity and authority to one man instead of to a Council “ The ethical character of Christianity is content, not and a congeries of bureaus. The Presiding Bishop basis nor ground.” should then by canon be given a nominal jurisdiction “W e are never going to get ourselves straight either or See; he should be given the responsibility of prose with history or with the Christian gospel until we have cuting the Church’s work in missions, religious educa settled for ourselves the locus of Christian origins. The tion and social service, and the authority to create his locus is not in human purpose but in historical, super own organization in whatever departments he might human (I do not say supernatural) creativity.” choose, and direct it to this end. The canon which “ It is only a Church which is a sacramental institu orders the creation of specific departments should be tion that can be entrusted with the Christian gospel. I repealed, and the National Council be made an advis therefore say that the social gospel requires a high con ory body with authority only to confirm or veto the ception of the Church. W e Protestants in general do actions of the Presiding Bishop. It is unfortunate that not have a high conception of the Church. The reform the issue should be complicated in popular discussion ing activity eclipses our Christian witness.” by talk of Archbishops, Primates, the location of the See and so on. These matters can easily be adjusted Then mentioning the existing-denominations (other if we are agreed as to the form of organization.” than Lutheran and Episcopalians) he states; “ The The diocese of Southwestern Virginia, on the other social gospel presupposes something which these hand, meeting in convention on May 17-19, adopted the Churches have not got, namely a conception of the following resolution: “Whereas it appears likely that Church as the living Body of Christ, a sacramental in there will be proposed at the coming General Conven stitution carrying and cultivating a Christian culture tion certain legislation tending to alter the present status within its own body, a culture kept alive and enriched of the Presiding Bishop, therefore be it resolved that by sacramental means, and kept pure and vital by liv it is the opinion of the diocese of Southwestern Virginia ing prophets, whose values and the historic facts within in Council assembled that no such change should be ap which these values emerged are so genuinely and deep proved either as regards title, length of office or method ly cherished that the Church desires to transmit them of election.” to its children.” “ Protestantism has no adequate medium for impart ing to its own children its concepts and convictions about God, its sense of spiritual values, its outlook upon A Dilemma both time and eternity, its sacred lore, its reverence for and understanding of the meaning of Christian in An Editorial by stitutions and liturgies, and its appreciation of the BISHOP JOHNSON poetry, the hymnody and the art of Christian faith.” N A recent address the editor of The Christian Cen He refers to a “ Protestant generation which may be I tury made certain statements about the Qiurch. We Christian in its affinities but is pagan in the furniture regret that lack of space prevents us from quoting it of its mind.”

“With respect to the social gospel I am bound to re produce one of Beethoven’s symphonies in an adequate peat the m axim : first things first. First a Church way. which is itself a living body of culture formed within Then again the Episcopal Church is not a person but the matrix of the historical Christian tradition, purified a collection of individuals drawn from society. Such by a perpetual criticism of the forms in which this his a body cannot perform in Jericho as effectively as it torical tradition is received, and implemented both with can in Jerusalem, because there is a remnant in the the sacramental modes of expression and also with a one place and no material in the other. In its per God-centered education for its children— first, I say, formance if all the prophets desert there ought to be no that kind of a Church— then it will be safe to talk complaint if the priests who remain do the carrying about the social gospel.” on. One of the reasons why the sacramental body is so inert is because the zealous have rejected her and After these statements the speaker refers to the fact substituted social service agencies for the Church. that he had not thus far mentioned the Lutheran and Episcopal Churches which he says, “do profess a high If the Church emerged from the divine will and is conception of the Church,” but asserts that these not in the world by virtue of man’s making it, then Churches which “ought to be in the front line of Chris it must be somewhere in all its potentialities, even if it tian social action are less concerned even than the rest is nowhere in any adequate sense. Surely if man cam of us. Indeed it is a striking fact that their sacramental not replace it he ought to endeavor to revive it. « doctrine is actually used as an alibi for non-participa I think that Dr. Morrison is too severe in his indict tion in Christian social action and among all the groups ment of the Episcopal Church as a social force. In pro the view generally prevails that the degree of interest portion to its size it furnishes I believe more social! in social Christianity is in inverse ratio to ‘the height’ workers, supports more charities, contributes more to8 of the doctrine of the Church. The sacramental Church social agencies and furnishes leadership in more is not Christian, it is pagan, unless it is social in itself benevolent enterprises than any other group. The and social in its world-wide reference and responsi Church operates through its individual members as well bility.” as through organized agencies. Like a university it He demands that “the sacramental Church shall bear exists to produce persons who carry on, rather than whatever cost is necessary to establish the Christian machinery. I wonder if the Episcopal Church stopped tradition in the soul of every individual member of the giving her workers and her money to charitable pur community. In a word the business of the Church is to poses whether the deficiency would be felt throughout announce and' to build the Kingdom of God, beginning the country? with the Christian community itself and taking in the In my experience our people give so largely to public whole range and sweep of the secular order.” charities that they fail adequately to support our own agencies. After all giving and doing are from their N T H IS remarkable speech Dr. Morrison has first nature secret and are spoiled by being advertised. I approved the Anglican position and then condemned The work of the - Church is that of leavening the the performance of her agents. He differs from Isaiah lump and from the nature of things it is difficult to as a prophet in that Isaiah spoke as a member of the publicize such process. institution which he believed to be of divine origin, On the whole I feel like thanking Dr. Morrison for while Dr. Morrison has confessed his neighbor’s sins, his conception of the Church as a divine and objective which is a purely academic performance. reality; and like forgiving him for his rather severe indictment of our performances and wish that he might It is difficult to discover where this sacramental insti tell us where to find that historic institution which he tution which he so eloquently describes can be found. so eloquently describes. It is not in Protestantism and it is perverted in If Rome is pagan and the Anglican Church half Anglicanism. One might assert that it exists solely in pagan and Protestantism rather pagan— where is the the mind of the speaker. He should define his terms and witnessing body that preserves the realities. His speech tell us where this continuous body of Christ exists. left me with the feeling that we cannot have a creed Granted that the Episcopal Church fails to measure less creed or a churchless Church, even if our creed up to the opportunity but possesses the values which and our Church fail to perform in any given time and are essential to its fulfilling the will of the Master, then place. it would seem to require that it be revived from Where is the engine that applies the power which within instead of being reviled from without. the Holy Spirit generates ? St. John certainly would not have deserted the Body W e seem to be impaled on the horns of a dilemma. of Christ because Judas misapplied the funds. If the Protestantism cannot and Anglicanism does not fill the United States falls into the hands of greedy politicians bill. What does? I am not going to renounce my citizenship because of As for me and my house we will continue to serve the iniquity in order that I may criticize it. Rather as the Lord in a Church that claims all that Dr. Morrison a good citizen I must do my best to reform it. affirms even if its performances fail to come up to ex There may be certain reasons why the Episcopal pectations. Otherwise I have no faith in the past and Church fails to measure up to its opportunities. First no hope for the future and no adequate fellowship in because it is easier for a musician to learn jazz than to the present.

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By E dward J. Mohr Edited by E dward J. Mohr Dealing specifically with the rela St. Mary’s Hall, Burlington, N. J., tion of the Church to social work, the one of the most historic of the early annual Episcopal Social Work Confer schools founded for the higher edu ence was held in Indianapolis May 24 cation of girls, brought its centen to 27, in conjunction with the National nial year to a close with a celebra Conference of Social Work. The pro tion at the Hall from May 27 through gram consisted of various addresses 30. Mary E. Woolley, president of and papers read to the conference, Mount Holyoke College, William Al and was started off by a discussion fred Eddy, president of Hobart Col by the Rev. Almon R. Pepper, execu lege and Presiding Bishop Perry tive secretary of the national depart were speakers at the centennial cele ment, of the work and aims of that bration. Miss Woolley’s presence at department. Interest in social serv the centennial was in recognition of ice has been constantly increasing, the friendship and the educational Mr. Pepper said, as a result of the ideals shared by Bishop Doane, work of Dean Lathrop and the Rev. founder of St. Mary’s, and Mary C. Rankin Barnes, his predecessors. Lyons, founder of Mount Holyoke A s a result the diocesan and provin College. The four day program cial departments are more active than opened with the observance May 27,

mingham, Alabama, May 18-20, with Oregon, and named Paddock Hall. assistant to Rector Gardiner Day, methods of advance rather than The action was voted at the convoca are now at the farm taking motion causes of the present lack of interest tion held at Bent. Deputies to Con pictures. emphasized. Steps forward, they con vention, the Rev. Clarence A. Kopp * * * cluded, must include the overcoming and Mr. Arthur Hay. Social Service Meeting of a self-centered spirit in the Church, Hî * H* in California more convincing preaching and an Through the efforts of the depart Goodrich Fenner adequate program of missionary edu ment of social service of the diocese Accepts Kansas cation. The conference was under of California, the Episcopal Church The Rev. Goodrich Fenner of Kan the auspices of the Forward Move conducted their own conference at the sas City, Mo., recently elected ment. annual meeting of the California * * * Bishop Coadjutor of Kansas, has ac state conference of social work, held cepted. Maine Elects * * recently at San Jose. The social ser Convention Deputies vice departments of Los Angeles and The following men were elected Correction in San Joaquin cooperated. As ar deputies to General Convention at Convention Deputies ranged by the Rev. Lloyd B. Thomas, the convention of Maine, meeting Apparently it was our mistake and chairman of the California depart May 19 at Portland: clergy: Dean not Correspondent John Day’s. Any ment, the program was designed to H. D. Perkins, William E. Patterson, how we ran the alternates instead present what the Church is doing in Tom G. Akeley, William E. Berger. of the first choices in listing General the rural field, as well as the oppor Laymen: Robert H. Gardiner, Ken Convention deputies from Kansas. tunities before it. Anna M. Clark, neth C. M. Sills, Dr. Clarence C. Here is the correct list: clergy: director of Trinity House, Oakland, Little, Charles B. Clarke. The Rev. Samuel E. West, John W. Day, Carl presented a survey of a rural field as William E. Patterson was the W . Nau, William P. Barnds. Laymen : representative of the type of work preacher at the convention service Dr. Harry W . Horn, Frank C. Gibbs, needing to be done. The Rev. C. and Miss Eva D. Corey of Boston con Heber Mize, Guy T. Berry. Sorry Rankin Barnes, of San Diego, gave gentlemen. ducted a forum at the meeeting of * * * a discussion on spiritual values in the Auxiliary. social work. The program succeeded * * * Convention of in demonstrating to social workers Convention of Western North Carolina the interest of the Church in social Diocese of Eau Claire Bishop Bratton presented the work, and in taking a step toward Bishop Wilson of Eau Claire, in his needs and. opportunities of the Uni cooperative action in the social work convention address, declared that the versity of the South to the conven of the California dioceses. Presiding Bishop should be elected tion of Western North Carolina, * * * for life, declared that a primatial see meeting at Morgantown. A commit Choral Festival should be established and said that tee was also appointed to study the in A lb a n y Washington should be the place. possibilities of utilizing the Lake The annual choral festival spon Deputies: clergy: R. D. Vinter, F. Kanuga property for a junior college. sored by the Albany Diocesan Choir Victor Hoag, Guy L. Hill, John G. General Convention deputies : clergy : masters’ Association was held May Hilton. Laymen: 0 . W . Moshle, Jono- W. S. Stoney, G. Floyd Rogers, W. 22 in the Cathedral of All ,Saints. than Boothby, G. Van Steenwyk, G. C. Cravner, B. M. Lackey. Laymen: The chorus represented the choirs of W. Spratt. William M. Redwood, W . L. Balthis, 20 churches and numbered some 300 * * * S. E. Elmore, Harold V. Smedburg. voices. * * * * * Convention of Twenty Years Ago Western Massachusetts Convention Held „ J r in The Witness Extension of rural work and social in E rie Bishop F. A. McElwain, suffragan security for lay workers of the A suggestion that arrangements of Minnesota, was elected bishop of Church was stressed in the conven be made for broadcasts from points that diocese. . . . The Rev. James E. tion address of Bishop Appleton Law in the mission field to the General Freeman was elected to the standing rence of Western Massachusetts. The Convention was recommended by the committee of Minnesota. . . . Bishop resignation of Marshall E. Mott, diocesan convention of Erie, held Burgess of Long Island urged clergy Archdeacon since 1920, was accepted May 18 and 19 in Sharon, Pa. A t the men to become chaplains in the army, with regret. Deputies: clergy: A. Vin annual dinner Bishop Ward was pre but deprecated their taking up arms. cent Bennett, Ralph Hayden, Richard sented with an automobile. Bishop . . . The convention of the diocese of Preston, Leigh Urban. Laymen: W. Hulse spoke of the work in Cuba. Ohio adopted a resolution deploring Elmer Ekblaw, William C. Hart, Opposition was manifested to the the phrase “ dragged into war,” and Howard C. Rudderham, Matthew P. provincial synod’s proposal that lay- declared that the United States went Whittall. readers be empowered to administer * * * into the war voluntarily. . . . Samuel the chalice. At the meeting of the Mather of Cleveland gave $100,1)00 diocesan Woman’s Auxiliary, May 11 Oliver Hart Elected for a trust fund to pay the pension and 12, Mrs. Roger L. Kingsland, to Tennessee premiums of clergy in missions. president of the auxiliary in the The Rev. Oliver Hart, rector of $ * * third province was guest speaker, and St. John’s, Washington, has been Parish Gives the Rev. Philip C. Pearson of Trinity elected Bishop Coadjutor of Tennes to Delta Farm Church, New Castle, special preacher. see. He was formerly the rector of St. Stephen’s, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., H* H* H* St. Paul’s, Chattanooga. has donated a $100 memorial house Noted Layman H* H* to the Delta Cooperative Farm and Given Degree Paddock Hall Mr. Laning, a parishioner, has pre Raymond Flatt Barnes of New in Eastern Oregon sented a motion picture projector. York was awarded the honorary de A refrectory in honor of Bishop In addition $50 was donated by the gree of doctor of laws by Hobart Col Robert L. Paddock, first bishop of Church school together with dresses, lege on May 24 in recognition of his Eastern Oregon, is to be built at the magazines and other articles. Mr. work for the Church. Mr. Barnes Ascension summer school at Covg, Laning and the Rev. Edward Tate, has served as treasurer of General

Convention and of the diocese of the annual meeting of the council of “ What Do We Want Our Seminaries Long Island, and is distinguished as Southwestern Virginia, held May 17 To Do?” He presented a plea for the a financier and expert on church to 19. He became the first bishop of clergymen in the parochial ministry polity. the diocese in December, 1919. Giv to take a greater interest in the ing age as the reason for the resigna preparation given candidates in the tion, he desires it to be effective in seminaries. Bishop Matthews * * * E n tertain s May, 1938. Delegates to General Bishop Paul Matthews of New Convention elected at the council Girls’ Friendly Society Jersey and Mrs. Matthews enter follow: Clerical— Rev. Messrs. Carle- Founding Celebrated tained on May 20 at their annual gar ton Barnwell, Alfred R. Berkeley, The founding of the Girls’ Friend den party for the clergy of the dio John J. Gravatt, John A. Winslow; ly Society in this country 60 years cese and their wives, at “ Merwick,” Lay— Messrs. Herbert McK. Smith, ago was marked by a meeting and their home in Princeton, N. J. For Charles P. Macgill, Robert L. Peirce, service in the Cathedral Church of many years Bishop Matthews has Chas. Francis Cocke. St. Paul, Boston, on May 14. An ex given these parties; this one will be hibit was arranged showing the prog the last of the kind to be given by ress the society has made. Bishop him as Bishop of New Jersey, since Commencement at Sherrill preached at the service in he will present his resignation to the General Seminary the evening, at which 300 members House of Bishops in October. Delivering the baccalaureate ser of the Massachusetts branches mon on May 24 at the 117th annual marched in the procession, and pre Widow of Bishop commencement at General Theologi sented the missionary offering, which Nichols Killed cal Seminary, New York, Bishop is to go toward the work of Bishop Mrs. Clara Quintard Nichols, 80 Wallace J. Gardner, coadjutor of Denby for Negro work. years of age, widow of Bishop New Jersey, urged that the Church William Ford Nichols of California, go back to the early days of its ex Seabury-Wes'tern Has and mother of Bishop John Nichols istence when the Holy Spirit was its Commencement of Shanghai, was fatally injured dynamic. The commencement exer The seventy-seventh commence when a train struck her at the rail cises were held on May 26, Profes ment of the Seabury-Western Theo road station at Burlingame, Calif., sor William A. Orton of Smith Col logical Seminary, Evanston, 111., is where she had been visiting. She had lege delivering the address. The sal being held on June 3 and 4. The been residing in San Francisco since vation of the individual apart from honorary degree of doctor of divinity Bishop Nichols died in 1934. the salvation of his group is not an jjs :jc ^ entirely practicable enterprise, Prof. is being awarded to the Rev. Charles Hoskins Evans, in recognition of 20 General Seminary Benefits Orton declared. The degree of years of missionary work in Japan. by Will of Mrs. Stetson bachelor of sacred theology was pre Papers filed in the New York Sur sented to 16 men by the Rev. Charles rogate’s Court show the net value of N. Shepard, the sub-dean, in the ab the estate of Mrs. Helen Richards sence of the dean, the Very Rev. H. Stetson, widow of the late rector of E. W . Fosbroke, who is ill. Diplomas 1904 (Emtfrmirr 1937 Trinity Church, New York, to be were presented to the 24 members of $517,816. A life interest in 40 per the graduating class by Presiding fur (Chttrrb 3®nrk cent goes to a sister, after whose Bishop Perry. The honorary degree death it will pass to the General of doctor of sacred theology was con W ELLESLEY COLLEGE Theological Seminary, New York. ferred upon Bishop Gardner and the Two cousins each receive the income Rev. Robert E. Wood, of Wuchang, Wellesley Mass. for life of 20 per cent, their interest China, both alumni of the school. On passing after their death to the Uni alumni day, May 25, the Rev. Oliver versity of the South for the Caleb J. Hart, rector of St. John’s Church, June 28 to July 9, 1937 R. Stetson Memorial. Washington, D. C., presented the an H« * * nual alumni essay, his subject being This Conference has been Bishop Jett called a “ little university,” to R esign because of the number and Bishop Robert Carter Jett will of THE fer his resignation to the House of BLUE MOUNTAIN variety of its courses and laity, Bishops in October, he announced at CONFERENCE young and the “ less young,” Recreathm ^ | | jj|jj| MOflt ^ experts and those who wish Mission (12th Year) Outings and vacations for Church people from to become experts find what Lent to Advent. Retreats and conferences as June 21st to July 2nd, 1937 arranged. High in Alleghanies 100 miles west they need here. o f Washington. Central in Third Province by Penn Hall, Chambersburg, Pa. motor, bus or train. Grounds of rare beauty, The Program for 1937 is the with many recreations. Mineral springs, mod ern cottages, social hall, and refectory. Cathe best offered in the history of dral Shrine. Rooms, meals, and service at cost —$15 a wk. Church owned. Rev. Edmund L. the Conference. Plan to come Woodward, M.D., Director, Shrine Mont, Ork ney Springs, Virginia. Write for prospectus. An advanced conference for those and bring others. beyond high school age who desire instruction for more effective service A WEEK AT THE SEASIDE (June 27-July 2, 1937) in the Church. Also, Children’s Send for full information to Peninsula Summer School Conference (2nd to 6th grades). Ocean City, Md. M iss Marian DeC. Ward, For further information address This School, managed by the Dioceses of Secretary, Delaware and Easton, offers a training for youth and other Church workers, with a well- The Rev. N. B. GROTON 180 Commonwealth Ave. seasoned faculty and other attractions. Board and Registration for the week, $16.50 to BOSTON, MASS. $22.50. The Reverend C. L. Atwater, Chester- Whitemarsh, Penn. town, Md., Business Manager.

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Liu of China, are receiving The convention of Western New ly parents; the value of financial master’s degrees, while the degree York on May 18th adopted a report safeguards agreed to by both parties, of bachelor of divinity is being given on minimum standards of instruction such as definite budgets, definite sav to the Rev. Justin S. Edwards, the by the clergy on Marriage. The re ings, and life insurance; the value of Rev. Richard R. Emery, Percy D. port was prepared by the family re Gough, William 0 . Homer, the Rev. lations committee of the department Use Your Mission Industries Leslie Skerry-Olsen, Robert N. of social service. It recommends an ST. ANDREW’S CRAFT SHOP Stretch, and the Rev. Harvey L. extended conference between the MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO Distinctive linens - Monogramed handkerchiefs. Woolverton. clergyman and the interested parties Silk underwear * * H« to deal with all phases of marriage Large exhibit at General Convention. 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Minn., the Rev. Shirley B. Goodwin, Boston, Mass., and the Rev. Robert B. Mason, York, Neb., all of whom Services of Leading Churches were in this year’s class. The Cathedral of St. John Cathedral of the Incarnatioa ^ ^ sfc the Divine Garden City, N. Y. Mission Education Cathedral Heights Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean New York City Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Program in Chicago Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com In preparation for the every mem 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning munion. 9:30 A.M. Junior Congregation. Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. ber canvass next fall the diocese of mon. 4, Evening Prayer and Sermon. Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning Chicago has arranged for a series of Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Prayer and Sermon. 4 :30 P.M. Evensong Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10). 9:30, Morn and Address. missionary sermons by leading ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Daily services in the Chapel. preachers. The Rev. William Simpson Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4:30. of Milwaukee and the Rev. Harry S. Cathedral Church of St. Joha Church of St. Mary the Virgin Market St. and Concord Ave. Longley, Jr., of Corning, N. Y., have New York Wilmington, Del. already visited the diocese. In June 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, Dean Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A. M., 7:45 the following preachers will be at Sunday Masses: 7, 9, 11 (Sung Mass). P.M. various churches: Dean Rowland F. Evensong, with Benediction : 8 p. m. Weekdays : 10 A.M. and as announced. Week-day Masses: 7, 8. (Thurs., 7, 8, Philbrook of Davenport, Iowa; Rev. 9:30). Francis B. Creamer of Detroit; Rev. Trinity Church, New York Don H. Copeland, Lima, Ohio; Rev. Grace Church, New York Broadway and Wall St. Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. Don Frank Fenn, Baltimore, M d.; Broadway at 10th St. Rev. A. E. Knickerbocker, Minne Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat apolis; and Dean John Warren Day, urdays. y Topeka. Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs St. Paul’s Cathedral days and Holy Days. Buffalo, New York Sundays, 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Bishops at Weekdays: 8, 12 :05. The Heavenly Rest, New York Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Harrisburg Dinner Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Days: 10 :30 A.M. Bishop Frank W. Sterrett of Beth Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. lehem, Bishop Robert E. Campbell, Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10 a.m. Christ Church Cathedral Sunday School 9 :30 a.m. ; Morning Service Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. and Bishop Brown of Harrisburg and Sermon 11 a.m. ; Choral Evening The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean were the speakers at the banquet of Prayer 4 p.m. Sundays : 8 :Q0, 9 :30, 10 :05, 11:00 A .M .; Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com 7:30 P.M. the 33rd annual convention of the munion 11 a.m. Daily: 12:30 and 5:00 P.M. diocese of Harrisburg, Penn., on Holy Communion: Mon. Wed. Fri., 7 :00 A .M .; Tues. Thurs. Sat., 8:00 A .M .; Wed. May 25. The Incarnation and Holy Days, 11:00 A. M. H« v * Madison Avenue and 35th Street British Delegation Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector St. Mark’s San Antonie, Texas Supports Loyalists Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M., Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry, Rector The delegation of women mem Wednesdays and Holy Days, Holy Com 7:30 A.M.—Holy Communion (8:00, Ad munion at 10 A. M., Fridays at 12:15 P. M. vent to Easter). bers of the British parliament, 11:00 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Ser which recently conducted an investi St. Bartholomew’s Church mon. gation in Spain, declared its sym Park Avenue and 51st Street 7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service. Rev. G. P. T. 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cists of communities of non-comba had held that the Church must be the that now exists, and urged strongly tants, and said: “ We want to say one great administrator of philan real and organized cooperation, in how much moved we have been by thropy. “ I confess I was wrong,” he which the need for the work of each the faith and courage of the Spanish went on. “ Not only must there be group is recognized, and in which the people, and by its conviction— which secular agencies to care for the un social workers will work on the con we share— that it is fighting for free churched; not only is Protestantism, viction that the cooperation of the dom.” at least, too divided to do the work * * * Church is necessary to the attainment even amongst Protestants effectively, of their objective. In order that the Nebraska Summer but also the strides that have been social workers may turn to the Conference Planned made during the years toward mak Church for aid with confidence there The annual summer conference of ing social work an art, the develop must be “an awakening of the minis the diocese of Nebraska will again ment of a fine technique based on an try to the validity of the social gospel, be held at Doane College, Crete, understanding of human needs, could to their responsibility in its expres Neb., June 7 to 13. Courses will be not, I am convinced, have been made sion and to an enlightenment of their given by Bishop Shayler, the Rev. if the Church had had full control.” minds as to social work and what it is Garth Sibbald, the Rev. E. J. Seeker, He deplored, however, the separation all about.” the Rev. Harold B. Hoag, and the Rev. Richard Harbour of Warrens- burg, Missouri, will preach at the daily sunset service. Insurance on Church Property Massachusetts U. T. O. Service Held The United Thank Offering of the At the end of last year women of the diocese of Massachu setts, amounting to $11,860, was The Church Properties Fire Insurance Corporation presented at the annual service, held had insured the property of 2,845 Episcopal churches, at the cathedral in Boston on May as well as that of many institutions of the Church. 19. This represents only part of their offering for the triennium to be pre The increase in the number of churches insured is shown sented at Cincinnati in October. The below : Rev. J. Thayer Addison of Cam bridge Seminary, preached the ser 1929 330 mon. 1930 803 1931 1,224 SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS 1932 1,600 (Continued from page 8) 1933 2,035 vidual, and love as its culmination, 1934 2,365 so that love is seen to be the highest justice, and justice the highest love. 1935 2,640 It is when men see that love involves 1936 2,845 justice, he said, that progress in the Christian order, or in spiritualizing the secular, is going to be made, and Some other reason than that of the desire of the Church peace in the social order will be to support an institution organized solely for its benefit brought about. is necessary to explain the great increase in the number Bishop Cameron J. Davis of west ern New York, in his address later of Episcopal churches insured with it. Without the the same day, dealt more fully with economies afforded by the Corporation, the advan the relation between organized re tageous conditions that are granted, and the fact that ligion and social agencies. Like Mr. Fletcher, Bishop Davis pointed out its settlements of fire losses have been satisfactory, the the trend away from over-specializa progress shown by such impressive figures could not tion, and made a plea for the shar have been made. ing of the fields. Religion, he main tained, is essential to the normal per sonality, if it is to be adjusted to life; and if it is to have its part in The Church Properties Fire Insurance Corp. the development or rehabilitation of personality, which is the ultimate ob 22 William St New York jective of social work, it must be mediated through the Church, Protest DIRECTORS ant, Catholic, and Jewish. The bishop Stephen Baker J. P. Morgan Samuel Thorne took issue with those social workers who question the value of organized Robert S. Brewster William Fellowes Morgan Allen Wardwell religion and maintained that religion George W . Burleigh Frank L. Polk Joseph E. Widener needs to be organized just as much Bradford B. Locke Origen S. Seymour Charlton Yarnall as charity, so that the individual Charles E. Mason may become an active participant in Everard C. Stokes the life of the organized religious group. Many years ago, he said, he

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