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contrary to " was Problems of Worldwide adopted. It was in line with one in Discussed at Ghana Meeting which the World Council of Churches, at its second as-

publication. * Merger of the International in 1960 so that the Churches sembly at Evanston, Ill., in 1954, Missionary Council with the might have time to study the called on all its member bodies and World Council of Churches was integration plan. to "renounce all forms of segre- overwhelmingly a p p r o v e d in gation or discrimination and to reuse principle at the conclusion of New Chairman work for their abolition within for the IMC assembly meeting in Bishop J. E. Leslie Newbigin, their life and within society." Ghana. head of the Madhurai-Ramnad diocese of the Church of South Education required The IMC was organized in India, was named to succeed In another action, the as- 1921 and comprises 38 national sembly named a committee for missionary organizations and John A. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, the new $4,000,000 fund for the Christian councils. Since the advancement of theological edu- Permission creation of the World Council in as chairman of the IMC. Mac- kay was meanwhile named hon- cation in Asia, Africa and Latin 1948, the two organizations America. The fund represents have had a more or less common orary chairman. DFMS. a donation of $2,000,000 from / Bishop Newbigin was not constituency and have jointly John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and a sponsored such activities as present at the assembly but he was expected to send word ac- similar amount pledged by Church those of the East Asia secre- foreign mission boards of eight tariate and the commission of cepting the nomination. Tribute was paid to Dr. John denominations. Previously the the Churches on international assembly named Charles W. affairs. However, their formal W. Decker, who was retiring Episcopal Ranson of New York, who is integration is being urged on after having served as IMC

the retiring from his post of IMC the principle that "the unity of secretary in New York for of many years. general secretary in July, to the Church and the mission of serve as the fund director. the Church can no longer be The assembly voted to in- separated." crease the IMC budget for 1958- The fund committee was set Archives 61 by 40 per cent to meet up on the basis of 12 members The vote approving integra- increased financial needs. from the United States, two 2020. tion was 58 to 7. The opposing A report was submitted by from Great Britain, and one ballots were cast by delegates of Kenneth G. Grubb of Great each from Ghana, Germany, the Christian councils of Nor- Britain on the work of the com- Korea, Brazil, India, the Phil-

Copyright way, Sweden, the Belgian Congo mission of the Churches in ippines, Indonesia, C a n a d a, and Belgium, and by individual international affairs. He dealt Japan and Africa. members of councils in Ger- principally with consultations Special note was taken by the many, Canada and Great held with government repre- assembly of the absence of any Britain. Three newly admitted sentatives, and activities con- delegate from East Germany at member councils - those of ducted by the commission in its 12-day sessions. Gerhard Ghana, Hong Kong and North- conjunction with the United Brennecke, director of the Ber- ern Rhodesia-did not vote. Nations and the Churches of lin missionary society, was to The Assembly meanwhile re- various countries. have attended, but was refused quested that the World Council a travel permit by the Soviet of Churches postpone until 1961 Segregation Zone authorities. its third General Assembly A resolution condemning The East German govern- originally scheduled for Ceylon racial segregation "because it is ment's action was "a denial of

JANUARY 23, 1958 THREE the freedom of the Church," the Mackay urged the delegates steadily-growing importance of assembly declared. It said "it to see to it that "the insight, the Negro race," he said. "It is impossible to recognize the zeal and autonomy of such is the harbinger of an era which Church without acknowledging bodies are welcomed and cher- lies beyond the tragic tensions at the same time her responsi- ished within the corporate ex- of the present hour." bility to fulfill her missionary pression of ecumenical unity." In a reference to the absence obligations across all frontiers." "In this way," he said, "a of delegates from some Commu- united front in the name of nist countries, he said: Scores Churches Christ and his Church will be "There are familiar faces, John A. Mackay, in his presented to all Christianity's however, that we miss. In cer" address as chairman, said that rivals in the world of today." tain regions of the globe, alas, too many church-goers and Ultimately, Mackay said, the Christians cannot confer today Churches have become "God's must be ex- with fellow Christians who are supercilious patrons instead of pressed by individual Chris- the fruit of their missionary his loving friends and obedient tians. labors because the nations to servants." "Only lay men and women, by which they respectively belong from one publication. He told the delegates that living lives that are utterly are bitterly estranged emphasis was needed on the Christian in every secular voca- another." and "servant image" particularly tion, in law and diplomacy, in Africa with reference to the Church, industry and commerce, in the reuse The Assembly was welcomed which was becoming an end in classroom, the clinic and on the for officially to Ghana by Prime itself in many quarters. farm, can do what Christianity Minister Kwame Nkrumah at a "It is painful to think in how needs to do in our time to fulfill party arranged by the Ghana many required respects and in how many its mission," he said. Christian Council. Speaking to places the Christian Church is Turning to international rela- the delegates, Mr. Nkrumah becoming absolute, an idol, an tions Dr. Mackay scored what said: end in itself," he said, "with- he called a tendency to reduce "In Ghana we are engaged Permission out regard to its true nature and every problem to a scientific upon the task of building a new honorable mission as the ser- problem, "to a problem of tech- nation. The task will be beyond vant of Jesus Christ. nological achievement, or of DFMS. us if all groups - religious, / "The Church's structure and military might." racial, tribal-that make up doctrine, her liturgy and even "More urgency is shown in Ghana insist on their separate-

Church her fulfill their getting a mechanical gadget in- ness and underline what divides highest function and express to the sky than in sitting down them and not the truths and their deepest meaning when to talk quietly with estranged purposes that hold them to- they prepare the Episcopal fellow humans on earth. Men gether. All of you here from to be the servants of God." are more interested in soaring different nations are the neverthe-

of Asserting that "the servant into interplanetary space than less met together in common image must be restored in our in crossing the frontiers and concerns and charity. time," he called on Churches in barriers that separate groups "Africans today are only at

Archives every land to be willing to en- and nations on this terrestrial the beginning of their adven- dure persecution and to risk globe. The n e w planetary, ture. They need education, they

2020. ridicule as they serve God and interdependent world w h i c h need advancement, they need men. technology has created is rifted capital without which no pro- Mackay warned the mission- by hate." gress to the higher opportu-

Copyright ary leaders against "thinking And yet "there is an intense nities of life is possible. Yet disdainfully and speaking dis- God-hunger in the soul of the what education we Africans see paragingly of independent mis- contemporary man," Mackay when we look abroad! We see sionary societies, of 'faith mis- said. "It is the satisfaction of powerful peoples engaged in a sions' and the rest." this hunger which is the Chris- futile and destructive arma- He said that "no achievement tian mission of this hour." ments race. Seen from the of ecclesiastical order through The Protestant leader at- angle of Africa's needs and the fulfillment of all the great tached special significance to hopes the great powers' rivalry proprieties of Christian relation- the fact that the assembly was looks like one thing only-a ship as between foreigners and held in Africa, in the territory senseless fratricidal struggle to nationals, between native pas- of the youngest nation in the destroy the very substance of tors and fraternal workers" can world. humanity. So I would say that ever be a substitute for mission- "Ghana is a country which the unity you represent here ary order. symbolizes in a glorious way the and the further unity which you Four Tam Wnwss seek in these talks are symbols and social revolution taking burn T. Thomas, delegates from of the whole world's profound- place in that area. that country. need. We salute your for est U. Kyaw Than, secretary "It has become patent since efforts." the World East Asia of both achievement of national sover- and the Council of Churches eignty in December, 1949," the reassertion of Latin America IMC, said; "The message continued, "that free- rede- traditional values and the dom from foreign economic do- Alfonso Rodriguez, president their culture and finition of mination is also essential, yet 70 of Union Theological Seminary emphasis on society have placed per cent of major commercial Matanzas, Cuba, said that the the selfhood of the Asian future of Latin America "lies in nations." enterprises such as business a more adapted houses, banks, transport facili- "Superficial judgments have of natural re- to a middle class democracy." due ties, exploitation been made about Buddhism sources, a n d cultivation of the growth of scrip- Rodriguez said to reading the Buddhist landed estates remained in the in Latin only," he the middle class tures in translations hands of the Dutch. America is laying the founda- said. "There is a great need to

publication. tions of "a pure democracy." study Buddhist culture and the "The internal economic situa- This meant, he added, that the original language of the scrip- tion has deteriorated, thanks to and Protestant churches are chal- tures. The cultured Buddhist- the struggle for socio-economic lenged to become "a real or Hindu-will wonder why he independence m a k i n g Indo- reuse dynamic force in the social fer- should give up a rich heritage nesians poorer at times when for ment and the movement for a and long-standing refinements the Dutch appeared to be be- new way of life." for the sake of some other cul- coming richer," the statement only temporarily required According to the Cuban ture, even if declared. "Negative g r o u p s churchman, 47 million of the useful." have exploited this economic 154 million population of the Mr. Kyaw Than stressed that deterioration to s t r e n g t h e n Latin American countries are the Christian mission in Asia is their political position. The Permission Roman Catholics and five mil- a theological one and needs to combination of these factors of lion are Protestants, while "over be undertaken by Asians produced the explosion against and steadfast devotion. Dutch residents in Indonesia DFMS. 100 million are untouched / generally unevangelized." He said the Burmese had and the seizure of Dutch firms "misunderstood the mission- and properties accompanied by the country incidents." Church Korea aries who fled regrettable during the Japanese invasion The Rev. Kyung-Chik Han, of and returned only when the in- Although it asserted that the the National Christian Council vaders surrendered." He said policies of the Netherlands had Episcopal of Korea, reported that the that to many Burmese they strengthened the operation of the churches in South Korea are seemed like "fair weather" Peking and Moscow in Indo- of primarily concerned at present Christians. nesia, the Indonesia Council's with helping refugees from the The Burmese leader added statement proclaimed that "as Communist North. that Christian missionaries in Christians we must seek a re- Archives conciliation within the spirit of "The picture in North Korea Asia must not put too much emphasis on social welfare Christ who would draw all men 2020. with churches is a dark one, him. To our fellow Indo- individual wit- work. In Asia, he said, "God unto closed and only we would urge an end said. "But it calls on the Church to proclaim nesians ness possible," he and inimical one in the South, justification by faith, not by to all negativistic Copyright is a bright the Dutch. To churches works." attitudes toward where 30 Protestant brethren we would to 400 in ten our Dutch have multiplied Indonesia urge that they prepare to con- years, and suffering has deep- "Recent events in Indonesia tinue to work along side us in the spiritual life of the ened must be viewed against the Indonesia in the spirit of co- people." background of the nation's un- operation and good will based on developed conditions and her c o m m o n interests, pointing Asia struggle against colonialism," their efforts to the achieve- A Burmese churchman the Council of Churches in ment of an indigenous economic warned the assembly that Chris- Indonesia declared in a state- structure within which the best tian missionaries in Asia must ment to the Assembly. The interests of t h e Indonesian adapt their programs to meet statement was delivered by the people a n d nation can be both the "cultural renaissance" Rev. B. Probowinoto and Win- served."

JANUARY 23, 1958 chapters of our history when Protestantism Fails to Meet Issues religious prejudice ran amok in the Know-Nothing movement and the Ku Klux Klan," POAU Of Most American Cities declared. * American Protestantism interdenominational churches in "We believe, however, that has been unable to make a signi- large-scale housing projects, the religion of a candidate for ficant impact on the inner city imposition of a small tax on President or Vice President because "its piety is far re- suburban church members to should not be used as a shield to moved from the daily practices help support churches in low- conceal his views on matters of of the masses," according to a income areas, construction of Church-state policy." report made public in Columbus, temporary worship facilities in The organization suggested Ohio. areas slated for slum clearance, that Catholic candidates be The report was presented be- and allocation of funds to train asked: fore some 500 delegates attend- competent personnel for inner city work. Whether they "personally ap- ing the first national convoca- of The clergymen also recom- prove" of the "boycott"

publication. tion on the city church of the mended more "group ministry" p u b 1 i c schools by Catholic new United Church of Christ, parents as embodied in canon and formed last June with the mer- city parishes, like the Inner City Protestant parish in Cleve- 1374 of Roman Catholic canon- ger of the General Council of ical law which requires a special reuse land, the West Side Christian the Congregational Christian dispensation to send students for Churches and the Evangelical parish in Chicago and the East Harlem Protestant parish in to non-Catholic schools. and Reformed Church. To state whether they would It was prepared by three New York. required Ministers of these interde- favor the grant of public tax clergymen in Cleveland, all of nominational parishes live in money to parents of children at- whom are affiliated with the tending parochial schools. city's Inner City Protestant the neighborhood and partici- pate in local affairs. The par- What their policy would be Permission Parish. They are the Rev. ishes are in slum areas and in regarding the appointment of Donald Benedict, Presbyterian; an ambassador or special repre- the Rev. William R. Voelkel, addition to regular church ser-

DFMS. vices and religious education, sentative to the Vatican. / Congregationalist; and the Rev. In a "ten-year balance sheet" Younger, Baptist. their programs include an em- ployment service, a medical in which it reviewed develop-

Church The statement declared that clinic and legal aid. ments in the field of Church- Protestantism in this country state separation, the organiza- "has largely become associated tion praised the Supreme Court with the virtues of respect- URGE QUESTIONING for its decisions in the Church- Episcopal ability, moral decency, temper- OF CANDIDATES state field. But it expressed the ance and piety." * Protestants and 0 t h e r that the court in 1947 of "regret" "In the inner city, these Americans United for Separa- had ruled 5-4 that school bus values are notable by their ab- tion of Church and State pro- transportation fo r sectarian posed that potential Roman Archives sence," it continued. "There- school students was not uncon- fore, people's feelings of un- Catholic candidates for Presi- stitutional.

2020. worthiness and inadequacy tend dent or Vice President in 1960 The statement suggested that to separate them from their be asked to take public stands on the Court's rulings in subse- idea of what the Church repre- controversial issues concerning quent cases had rendered "in- Church - State relations. The the reasoning of the five Copyright sents. Added to this are feel- valid" ings of suspicion and mistrust organization made the proposal justices on the majority side about anyone who represents in a statement marking the 10th and pointed out that 28 of the moral endeavor." anniversary of its founding. 48 states still bar such use of At the same time, it warned public funds. In their statement, the three against the formation of "any ur g e d Protestant clergymen Catholic or anti-Catholic ELECTED churches to "re-orient" their ap- ESQUIROL political party" in the United IN CONNECTICUT proach or admit defeat in the States. It said that formation struggle for winning over ur- of parties or factions based on * Dean John H. Esquirol of banites. religious affiliation would in- the cathedral in Hartford was Among remedies they pro- evitably lead to "political mani- elected suffragan bishop of posed were: development of a pulation of church affairs." Connecticut on January 10th on long-range strategy to establish "We recall with regret those the sixth ballot. THE WINESS EDITORIALS State of The Union Eisen- of us as a country which is strong, but will never E WERE very pleased to read in Mt. W hower's State of the Union address that we start a war. The world also thinks of us as a are not to be subjected to a crash Soviet-style land which has never enslaved anyone and which revamping of our high-school curricula towards is animated by humane ideals". mathematics and physics. Much as we deplore Does Mr. Ksushchev think of us as a land the intrusion of driver-training, citizenship which has never enslaved the workers; or Mr. laboratories, and chorus; convinced as we are Nehru, as a land which has had no territorial that an educated man should understand the dif- ambitions? How many decades does it take for ference between Newton and Prof. Einstein: we a slave-raid or the massacre of aborigines to be publication. still do not feel that physics is the part of our metamorphosed into a virtue by world opinion? and culture which most needs stimulation. Any Do we dare to presume that the Japanese now bright boy to whom algebra comes easy will feel we were animated by humane ideals in our reuse automatically today find his imagination stirred last act of war towards them? It is hypocritical for by the secrets of the cosmos without benefit of and corrupting to persist in illusions about one's Congress. The enfant terrible of mathematical own motives; it is naive and disastrous to at- required physics, with his science-fiction shelf and hi-fi tribute them to others. Bach recordings, is an alarming but attractive The remarkable thing however is that Mr. figure which is quite able to take care of himself. Eisenhower attributes to outsiders, not a lower, If Mr. Eisenhower wants to subsidize Thucydides but a higher estimate of our motives than he Permission that will be another matter; but we fear that does to ourselves! Foreign aid, one presumes, that chronicle of the crimes and follies of rudder- is among the things which the world believes to DFMS.

/ less democracy would bring a whiff of nausea proceed from our "humane ideals". But for do- to Washington digestions. mestic consumption the cat is let out of the bag: And in general our reaction to Mr. Eisen- "No investment we make in our own security can Church hower's address ran kitty-corners to editorial pay us greater dividends than necessary amounts comment elsewhere. We are persuaded that any of economic aid to friendly nations". Apparent- all-out program the USA might conceivably adopt ly we intend indefinitely to extract foreign-aid Episcopal in her present mood would be a wrong one; dollars from a reluctant Congress by this argu- the ment from enlightened self-interest; and then of obviously Mr. Eisenhower has had to buck a lot of monomaniacs: and that he had not enough to trumpet the dollars abroad as proceeding from energy left to dream up his own pet scheme sheer altruism and humane ideals, as if the Con-

Archives suits us just fine. We are honest to confess that gressional Record were as top a secret as the de- the logic of America's current position seems bates of the Kremlin. 2020. to demand an ultimate surrender to the tech- nocrats; we do not see the forces which might Ghost Writers resist it: but we are happy to have the evil T IS fairly plain, of course, that while Sir Wins- Copyright day put off, if only for a little-for us, the mis- ton Churchill was responsible for both his sile-program is going quite fast enough as it is. own folly and glory, Mr. Eisenhower is only the Nevertheless we have been reading the sum of his ghostwriters. But we can only take speeches of Pericles in Thucydides recently; and what the administration chooses to give us. we hanker after both the realism and the ideal- Pericles boasted that Athens cultivated wisdom ism of that remarkable general. Just before his without bookishness, and beauty without ex- death Pericles told the Athenians: "To acquire travagance; that she opened her city for all to your empire in the first place was perhaps see, and had become in consequence the "school wrong; but to give it up now would be unsafe". of Hellas". Even if it were not largely true, it Less complimentary yet is Pericles' analysis of was a worthy ideal. But it would not .do for what Sparta thought about Athens. Mr. Eisen- Mr. Eisenhower to speak about freedom of move- hower on the other hand says: "The world thinks ment while US citizens are having their pass- JANUARY 23, 1958 Seven ports lifted; he cannot speak of philosophy or You may claim that we don't feel that way about intellectualism, because the egg-heads were re- the Russians. Well then, confound it, let us not jected along with Mr. Stevenson; he cannot get credit by allowing others to think of us as speak of civil rights because that is contro- Christians without in fact our going to any of versial; he cannot speak of beauty in the face of the bother of being Christians! federal architecture and postage-stamps; all he We are so accustomed to missile-development can do is to talk (as he did) about Science for and disarmament conferences going on at the Peace and note that "the age-old dream of a good same time that we feel they must be parts of a life for all could, at long last, be translated into coherent policy. But they really aren't. We reality". know very well that Russia has no intention of It may be objected that it is impertinent for us junking her ICBM's when built. What on earth to ask the administration by what criteria it makes us believe that Mr. Eisenhower, after would recognize the good life; and that it is con- giving several billion dollars of our money to Mr. trary to the American system to hold state Killian to get the Atlas carrying Mr. Teller's H- papers liable to this sort of analysis: they are bomb, will ever be allowed by the joint chiefs of couched, it will be said, in a sort of homey corn staff to turn to Mr. Stassen and tell him to drop publication. which is universally expected and understood. the Atlas in the sea? But what else is the aim and But it may be noted that this was not true of of disarmament if not to have the Atlas dropped the state papers of Lincoln. And Mr. Eisen- in the sea? reuse hower is "urging us to spend more money than for ever existed under Lincoln, and to undertake pro- Avoid Cant jects more crucial even for our future than DO not expect or ask our government to Emancipation. We are forced then to take him WE required turn pacifist-even though we see no or his speechmakers seriously even if they do not other escape from the fiery trial which threatens wish or intend it. us, and from the poison of radiation, more fatal In paragraph two, for example, we are told than any tyranny. We could only hope that the Permission that "we must be forward-looking in our research government would avoid cant, the poisoning of and development to anticipate and achieve the our thoughts and words. Mr. Eisenhower is

DFMS. unimagined weapons of the future". In para- made in his peroration to contrast "the concept / graph eight on disarmament, however, we learn of the regimented atheistic state" with "the God- that "we as a nation will always go the extra fearing, peace-loving people of all the world". Church mile with anyone on earth if it will bring us near- But Americans do not believe in the withering- er a genuine peace". away of the state: if the future (as we likewise Obviously these two observations were never believe) does not lie with the Soviet concept of

Episcopal meant to be compared, much less to be con- a state, it must lie with some other concept; it the sistent; Mr. Killian (let us say) wrote the first, cannot lie with a lot of people unorganized into of Mr. Stassen the second. We are meant to keep any political form. Why could he not say that them safely in separate compartments labeled the future lay with the free God-fearing state? Safety through Strength and High Moral Pur- Archives Perhaps by a sound instinct: what you fear about pose. But try as we will, sometimes they will God is his judgement; and in the USA only iso- jostle just the least little 2020. bit. And the one man lated voices, like your editor's, are afraid of the who has to make them sound alike plausible ten judgement of God today, although Mr. Lincoln minutes apart is a real figure of pathos; we too once did. We are unable, that is, to define the would have trouble with our system Copyright if we had to good and free life which we are so concerned to assimilate both. preserve. Perhaps because we do not have it; The Extra Mile perhaps because, if we defined it, we would see that our measures of preservation were in effect AY we take it upon ourselves by the way to M tell Mr. Eisenhower's advisers what Jesus destroying it. Nobody can say that Mr. Eisen- meant by that "extra mile"? The Romans had hower is not a man of utmost good will who is taken over, ultimately from the Persians, a bent on killing himself, if necessary, in the ser- system of forced labor in the Eastern provinces. vice of his people. And what Jesus says is, if the army of occupa- What the present speech shows once again is tion conscripts you to carry its baggage one mile, how tragically good will defeats its own aims you are not to rebel; instead you are to carry when unalloyed with political realism and self- it an extra mile out of sheer love of the enemy. knowledge.

Eight THE WrrNEss The Training of The Ministry By W. Norman Pittenger Professor at General Seminary

with different objectives. One is the graduate average layman or laywoman in most of THEour American and Canadian parishes seems school of theology, in which the main purpose to have a strangely inadequate understanding of (although not of course the only one) is the "where the minister comes from." He appears to study on an advanced level of the various dis- know little or nothing about theological educa- ciplines normally listed as theological in nature. tion and the work of our seminaries or divinity Institutions of this type are more likely to be schools although in very recent years the situa- inter-denominational or non-denominational, al- tion in this respect has improved at least to the though this is not always so, and the description extent that the layman knows of their existence must be somehow extended to include the ex- -if for no other reason than that he has been plicitly graduate divisions of some of the Church-

publication. solicited for their support. As to what goes into attached schools. the training of the ministry, wherever that train- The other type of theological seminary, with and ing may be obtained, he seems blithely ignorant. its own special objective, is definitely and plainly Indeed one sometimes wonders if he does not for the parish ministry- reuse intended to train men think of the clergy as being like Topsy in Uncle for with the understanding, of course, that a few of Tom's Cabin: "they just growed !" them will wish to follow special vocations such as Perhaps I have stated the situation too strong- research, teaching, and the like. These schools required ly, but yet I believe that there is a very consider- are not so much interested in the advanced study able basis for what I have just said. And all of theological disciplines in an academic sense, as this is most unfortunate, for the theological they are in equipping their students with as expect, as they cer- they can manage in the Permission schools have the right to adequate a training as ainly all desire, the sympathetic understanding time at their disposal, for the regular work of of the layman as to their work and a genuine ap- the minister in a denominational congregation. DFMS. / preciation of the problems which they face. In It is obvious that the majority of the the- this article it is my intention to write of the ological institutions in the United States and work of the seminaries and some of their dif- The former are Church Canada are of the latter type. ficulties-in the hope that lay people, and those of quite enormous importance for the whole of the clergy who have not kept in touch with Christian enterprise and they do as a matter of these matters since their own seminary days, a large number of parish clergy for Episcopal fact provide may have a deepened understanding of the situa- the various denominations. Yet it remains true the grasp of the specialized activi- of tion and a better that they are both fewer in number and perhaps ties of the American theological institution. My more specialized in faculty and facilities than only claim to authority in these matters is that the ordinary run of divinity schools. It is also

Archives I have spent more than a quarter-century in a true that by and large they give much though not theological school; my hope is that long years all of the theological leadership for the Christian 2020. on the faculty of such an institution gives one Churches, both because of the distinction of the some genuine expert knowledge. members of their faculties and the able students that they are bound to attract. Our interest Copyright Purpose of Seminaries in this article is not with them, however, but with the more numerous and less well-known BUT first it is necessary to say a few words about the purpose of a theological school. schools which regard themselves as primarily What is it for? What does it intend to do for training schools for the ministry. and with its students? The answers to these I have said that some of these schools now questions will naturally vary in detail from de- have graduate sections or departments, specifical- nomination to denomination, even from school to ly devoted to advanced work for men who have school; and they are complicated by the existence completed their three years of ordinary the- of the large interdenominational or non-denomi- ological education and desire to continue their national institutions, like Yale, Harvard, Union in studies in some chosen field. In a few of these New York, Chicago. But I think that it may there is now a dean or director of graduate safely be said that there are two types of school, studies, in charge of this work; in all of them

JANUARY 23, 1958 Nine there are special courses at a high level, leading may have, there are roughly four general sub- to the master's or doctor's degree. But I am jects which must be covered in the seminary, not concerned in this article to discuss them, These are biblical, historical, theological, and either, although it is my conviction that their practical or pastoral. The first explains itself. support and whatever implementation may be The second will include Church history and re- possible for their program is highly desirable. lated subjects (sometimes including the history It is essential that we see to it that there is a of missions, for example, or the study of the de- constant supply of men, either from such nominational ethos as well as its development). graduate departments or from the great inter- The theological field will include theology proper, and non-denominational schools, so that the perhaps in its developmental as well as its quality of theological learning may be kept as systematic form, philosophy of religion or high as possible and original and creative scholar- apologetics or some such study, ship in the various fields be furthered. or moral theology. The practical or pastoral It is, then, with the ordinary seminary that we division will have to do with matters of parish are here concerned. Its task is to train men for administration, pastoral care, religious educa- the exercise of a faithful, useful, and consecrated tion, and in many instances publication. ministry in churches through the length and both in its history and conduct. Naturally the

and breadth of the land. In most instances, it is distribution of these sub-divisions will very under some sort of denominational control, greatly from school to school, from tradition to reuse whether this be very strict (as it is in some de- tradition. But something like this will be found for nominations) or fairly loose (as it is in others). pretty generally in the ordinary seminaries. It must teach what the particular denomination So far we have spoken of academic work. But states in its official documents-be they canons there is much more to the training than that. required or rules or ordinances passed by governing bodies I have often thought that there were four cen- -to be requisite for a sound education in the- tres of life in a theological school. There is the ology; it must concern itself with the develop- classroom, where the academic side is dealt with

Permission ment of the spiritual lives of its students, so -through lectures, seminars, discussion groups, that they may be fit shepherds of their flocks; it and the like. Then there is the library, where must equip them, so far as is possible in a limited students themselves learn through reading and DFMS. / time, with such techniques as they may need to personal study. But there are two other centres, be effective in their ministry. about which not nearly so much is said. One of

Church these is the chapel, where students learn through Big Assignment actual living experience the meaning in worship THIS is an enormous assignment. The faculty of that which theoretically they have acquired Episcopal of no school known to me feels that it is through classroom and library. And there is the

the accomplishing all it should or all it might do. social hall or common room, the dining-hall, and of Each school has its ways of approaching the other places of meeting, where they also learn task. There are different kinds of departmental through actual living experience-but in this organization, varying types of academic and prac- instance they learn how to live the Christian life Archives tical concentration, dissimilarities in require- in fellowship with other Christians. I want to ments for graduation, and the like. One of the say something more about each of these last 2020. valuable contributions of the American Associa- two. tion of Theological Schools has been to bring some kind of uniformity at these points, to work Man of Faith Copyright for agreed standards of education, to promote A MINISTER of the Christian Church must be opportunities for sharing experiences in meeting a man of faith, deeply immersed in the these demands, and (quite recently) to undertake theological tradition which articulates the given an intensive study of the whole question of the- gospel. But he must also be a man of prayer; ological education, the reports on which have and above all, he must be a man in whom the recently been published under the editorship of reference of all things to God in Christ comes Dr. H. Richard Niebuhr of Yale, who directed as naturally as breathing. We should doubtless the study with the assistance of Dr. Daniel D. all agree about this. But we are not always Williams, now of Union in New York. ready to see that this character of what I like to Whatever the arrangement of "areas of con- call "en-Christed life" does not appear save centration" or fields of study, and whatever through time and effort given to the worship of divisions or departments the various seminaries God and the development of an inner spirituality

Ten Tim WnEss through a disciplined devotion. It is here that munity of life in Christ which is the conse- the chapel of a theological school has its part quence of Christian faith and the result of Chris- and place in the actual educational process. There tian devotion. What has been learned in class- is another significant aspect about worship in room and library will be nothing but intellectual the chapel: it represents the regular, ideally the knowledge unless it produces fruits in lives of daily, offering of the life of the whole com- sympathetic understanding and Christian char- munity to God as he reveals himself in Christ, ity. What goes on in the chapel, in the direct and thus it gives the proper setting for the whole worship of God, must also find its expression in enterprise of theological training. the cencrete relationships of life one with an- The social hall, the common room, the dining other. What we believe in our hearts and pro- hall-these are the places where in the simple fess with our lips, we must practice in our lives- encounters of daily life men are enabled to ex- so says the old prayer; and one of the results of press in their conduct, and above all in the spirit theological training should be manifest at this of their lives- their "conversation", in the old point. phrase from the King James Version- that com- (Concluded next week) publication.

and Do Anglicans Want Unity? Francis House's article on "Unity; By John Lawrence reuse READING do Anglicans really want it?" I felt more Formerly Press Attache, British Embassy, Moscow for than ever that from a human point of view, the cause of Christian Unity is hopeless. The leaders of the Church of England and of required But in this matter a merely human point of the Free Churches in this country cannot make view is insufficient. Taking the rank and file of much more progress towards unity until they the Churches as a whole, none of them wants begin to receive more support from the men and unity to the point of being prepared to pay the women in the pews. As Francis House showed Permission price. last week in his article, the leaders of Anglican- Here the leaders of the Church are far ahead of ism throughout the world have done more than DFMS.

/ the rank and file. As things are it is only a tiny their share in bringing the Ecumenical move- minority of Church people who care for unity ment into being. And they continue to play a full with other Churches. But that is how all great part in its growth. Church movements start. The recent conversations between Anglicans This is not the occasion to put the case for and Presbyterians in Great Britain ought to con- organic Christian unity in detail. It stitute a landmark. But how many readers have Episcopal will be enough if I say that Christian unity is studied the short and clear published report of the the conversations? of not a matter of mere expediency though of course it is expedient. It is the manifest will of God, as Bishops in the Kirk can be seen from 17th Chapter of St. John and N SCOTLAND the report has been discussed Archives from any other passages in the . with passionate interest, if not always with- But I must add that unity does not mean out prejudice, because it proposed that the 2020. uniformity. We do not know the form which Church of Scotland should in future have God means to give to "the coming " Bishops. Bitter memories were stirred and it but surely it will keep whatever is good in our was not always understood that the Bishops in Copyright present diversity of worship and of theological question were not to be modelled on the episco- emphasis. pate of the Church of England but were to be God is calling his Church in this age to a unity "Bishops in Presbytery," a sort of "constitutional deeper than any that it has known in the past. Bishop." It is for us to hear the call. At first only a few The leaders of the Church of Scotland are hear but those few are like leven. In the end the showing spiritual statesmanship and understand- whole lump will be levened. But this will not ing in their handling of these controversial pro- happen of itself, nor can we accomplish it by our- posals, and the rank and file of the Church are at selves. Such a change of heart is a miracle and least showing interest, if not understanding. can only be accomplished through prayer. Unity But on present showing it looks as if the rank cannot come without a revival of the Church, and file would disown their leaders if the matter and so to pray for unity is to pray for revival. were pressed to a conclusion at this stage.

JANUARY 23, 1958 eleves None of this should cause us to feel superior. are at present engaged in joint conversations How many people in England have yet under- with a view to closer relations. Quite rightly not stood that the report also recommends that the much is being said about the conversations while Church of England should adopt the Eldership? they are in progress but in a year or two we may That is to say that in every parish members of have a report which makes out quite striking the laity set apart for the purpose should share recommendations that affect every Anglican in the pastoral care of Christ's people. Until we parish and every Methodist congregation. face this issue we cannot reasonably expect the If nothing is done to prepare the way, both Church of Scotland to take episcopacy seriously. Churches will be thrown into consternation. Now is the time for Anglicans and Methodists to Anglican Elders? start learning about each other in every town I had the privilege of attending a and village. In some places this is already being RECENTLYweek-end meeting of leading Anglican and done. Presbyterian lay people from England and Scot- land to discuss this very question. When we Church Revival started I doubt if there was one single Anglican shows that this does not con- publication. EXPERIENCE present who really understood what the Elder- fuse the churchmanship of those who take and ship means in the Presbyterian churches. But part. Indeed an ecumenical experience of other we were all deeply impressed by what we heard Churches can be a most potent element in the reuse and by the time we parted convinced that our revival of the Church. for Elders for its own spiritual Church ought to have It would be easy to multiply examples. Most apart from any question of Church good, quite keen church people know at least that there has

required relations. been a union of Churches in South India but I must try to remove two natural mis- Here how many know that negotiations for a union in The Elders would not "interfere understandings. India have now reached an advanced stage. own North with the parson" ; they would have their raises quite different Permission The North India scheme place in the way that a vestry has its proper problems from South India and very naturally it diminishing the authority or dig- place without raises grave doubts among sincere people of all

DFMS. nity of the parson. / Churches. Now is the time for prayer and study. pressing us to use Secondly, the Scots are not It has taken the best part of a generation to pre- to follow the exact system the name "Elder" or pare the plan and if all goes well it may come into Church They are concerned of the Church of Scotland. force in about five years. Shall we then be told not the name, and the office of with the thing, that it has been sprung on us suddenly? an Elder in the Church of England might be filled talk of the plans for reunion Episcopal Space fails me to by people who were called "deacons" or some in Ceylon and West Africa and elsewhere. Our the quite other name. And no doubt the institution of up to the hilt in these scheme. of eldership would work out very differently Church is involved They touch the core of the Church's true life in the Church of England, just as episcopacy ought to be aware of what is would work out differently in the Church of and every Christian Archives to take part in the movement for Scotland. happening and up their minds on unity according to his capacity. 2020. I do not ask readers to make the necessarily inadequate information provided Prayer, Repentance in this article but I do ask them to find out more to make up their minds. SHE chief means to Christian unity is prayer Copyright about it and then and repentance. Everyone can take part in Parish Preparations that. The solution of knotty theological prob- lems is primarily a matter for theologians but Churches to appoint ac- IS frivolous for the unless they are IT credited delegates to discuss closer relations they are not likely to succeed of all sorts and condi- with each other, unless something is done to pre- supported by the prayers people. pare the parishes for what is coming. Every tions of parish ought now to have a group of people who Moreover, it is sound Christian doctrine that are trying to understand what closer relations the work of the theologians in such matters with the Presbyterians would mean in parish must ultimately be accepted by the mass of the life, and whenever possible they ought to be faithful; but they cannot accept in any real sense, doing this with the help of local Presbyterians. unless a fair proportion of them understand Similarly our own Church and the Methodists what is at issue. So it is incumbent on all Chris- THE WITNESS 7 welve tians to pray for and to study the question of time-honored cliches, and then proceeded to an- unity, according to each person's opportunity and swer them from the point of view of a practicing capacity. Christian. For example: Most people find they need support in such Why, the Negroes themselves don't want all activities and many of them band together in this fuss over integration. I was talking to ecumenical groups. Some of these groups are my maid only this morning and she said .... formed on clerical initiative and others on lay Apart from the fact that people don't always initiative but with help from the clergy when express the truth to their employers, said Bishop needed. I have been greatly struck by the depth Mosley, this is an irrelevant observation. We of spiritual understanding and dedication which don't seek freedom for man because any group such groups call forth. Their multiplication of them want it. We seek it because God wants would be a most potent means for the revival of it! the Church. But you can't legislate morals. The Supreme One group which I am acquainted with was Court can't change the hearts of men by started with two members of the same Anglican passing laws, or even by enforcing those congregation meeting two members of a neigh- publication. laws. boring Presbyterian congregation. This group and has grown in a remarkable way and now has This, the bishop admitted, was true enough. vigorous off-shoots in various directions. Laws do not make men good, but laws can help reuse The laity do not need to wait for the clergy be- make men free .... If we want to look at an illus- for fore starting work but they must work with the tration close at hand, we have only to examine clergy. And there are many most important the situation in Arkansas at this very moment. things that As the laws of this great nation bear down upon required the clergy alone can do. In most places there is a minister's clericus but this may Orval Faubus, we do not necessarily expect him not amount to very much. to become a better man thereby, nor even a more sensible one. After the courts have done their

Permission Redfield Front good work, the governor will probably be the same man he was before. But what will be dif- work of God is thought of as one in any IF THE ferent is the amount of freedom which will exist DFMS. locality and if the clergy of different / Churches are prepared to meet on the basis that in the state of Arkansas. they are all doing God's work, then they ought to Why, Robert E. Lee was a devout Church- Church plan this work together as a whole. This is what man; yet he kept slaves . .. . and so did is being done by the "Redfield United Front" in George Washington and all the rest of our Bristol. The clergy of a group of Anglican, plantation-owning forebears . .. . How can Episcopal Methodist and Congregational churches in the you now say that they were all wrong? the same locality meet every Tuesday morning to We do not say they were all wrong, the bishop of plan their work together. Some things must be carefully pointed out. As a matter of fact, they done in separation. But whenever possible they were all right-according to the level of the moral act together, through joint meetings and in code reached in their day. But we also need the Archives many other ways. And when they have separate wisdom of the great hymn which says, New occasions teach new duties;

2020. public functions they take care that the dates do not clash. Time makes ancient good uncouth .... The Redfield United Front is at present At least, it makes some goods uncouth. The ancient good of human slavery is now seen as an

Copyright unique in this country, if not in the world, but the example deserves imitation. unpardonable sin against brothers of a common Father. By the same token, the old belief in the good of segregation is also seen now as a freedom- denying sin under God. For as Christ gives us Don Large grace to understand him better and to know our world better, we receive a more sufficient under- Time-Honored Cliches standing of his will. But we were getting along fine together N HIS continuing battle against the sin of until this current interference, and now segregation-especially as that evil broods the beautiful relationship between the races over the touchiness of a border state-Delaware's is no more. Bishop Brooke Mosley recently restated a few Relationships were broken between the chil-

JANUARY 23, 1958 Thirteen dren of Israel and the Egyptians, when Moses since this is the very context in which God has led his people out of captivity. Relationships placed us, it is here that we must witness to his have been broken in every struggle for freedom truth. recorded in history. Such struggles are a far We didn't know that Bishop Mosley was a cry from ideal behavior, but so is human bond- connoisseur of chestnuts and how to handle age! It's neither a pretty, nor yet an easy, them. But we're more than happy to see him picture to look at. But as sinful men inheriting thus roasting some of the most persistent old the wages of sin, this is our dilemma. And chestnuts in the annals of modern history.

THE NEW BOOKS Kenneth Ripley Forbes Book Bditor publication. What Plato Said by Paul Shorey. they cannot live without. And the ism, but a "play by play" account of and University of Chicago Press. study of Plato would still bear rich what Plato wrote-what he actually $10.00 fruits-surely the men who are said in the 28 dialogues that bear his reuse warning the Church against freedom name and what his followers said in for The late Dean Ladd of the Berkeley of Biblical scholarship or of the- Divinity School used to say that the the 15 apocryphal ones. ological interpretation cannot have This is study of theology should begin with the best book, I think, with required read Plato, at least they can never which Plato's Republic. Those theological to begin the study of Plato. have taken him in, and responded to There is first an excellent critical students who began their theology the soul-transforming and mind-en- life of Plato, and an account of his that way will surely rise up and call Permission larging experience of thinking his writings in general, and then the him blessed. For in a real sense thoughts after him. author plunges into a detailed out- Anglican theology is Platonic, line or precis of each dialogue, with

DFMS. There are three or four great books

/ through and through. As Archbishop marginal references so that one can which sum up and present the Temple once said, "Our theologian is look up the full text in Greek or in thought of Plato, books which will re- Plato"-not Luther or Calvin, not an English translation. This takes Church ward richly anyone who works his even Cranmer or Hooker, but Plato. up 444 pages, after which there is a way through them word for word. This is true not only because there general bibliography, and a special One is A. E. Taylor's great book- has been a "Platonic tradition" (as bibliography on each of the dialogues,

Episcopal (Plato, the Man and His Work, 3d Dean Inge called it) running through followed by the richest kind of notes ed., 1929)-he was an Anglo-Catholic, the the whole course of English religious on the precis. of a professor of philosophy at St. thought, but as a result of such posi- Andrew's in Scotland. Another is Shorey was one of those universal tive influences as the Cambridge the famous work by Wilamowitz scholars who are as much at home in Platonists in the 17th century, and later literature as in classical-he Archives (same title, only in German, 3d ed., of many conspicuous individuals in Berlin, 1929). Whoever has read knew English literature deeply and century after century. 2020. these works carefully will count it widely, and his quotations always It is the factor that helps explain one of his intellectual and spiritual add zest and life to the page. Finally the distinctiveness of Anglican the- life's high privileges. Another is the there is an index. What more could one ask? Copyright ology, as contrasted with both Con- magnificent text, translation, and tinental Protestant and R o m a n notes of Paul Shorey on the Republic Among the unforgettable passages Catholic. It helps explain our devo- in the Loeb Classical Library. (1930- there are two, to which the browser tion to the ancient Church, the "un- 35). Then there is this great work might be referred at once-the sketch divided ". It explains of Shorey's What Plato Said (1933; of the character of Socrates on p. 19 our rootage in what Paul Elmer third impression 1957). Shorey was and the account of his influence on More called "the Greek tradition"- an American and taught at the Uni- p. 22. There are of course points at which ran a straight line, he main- versity of Chicago. It is the one which experts will wish to stop and tained, from Socrates to the Council from which the beginner will learn debate the issues. But the over all of Chalcedon. It explains our "com- most; and when he has read a dozen effect is just right, and will open new prehensiveness", our refusal to nar- other works on Plato he will return doors and windows to the reader who row the Church down to a one-track to this one and learn still more. It takes the work seriously. I wish I sect, our love of liberty, our willing- is not a book on what Plato thought, were a millionaire, and could offer ness to grant scholars the freedom i.e. a systematic exposition of Platon- a copy to every theological student Fourteen Tim Wrrmss and every parson under forty-yes, emergence of Russia as a great ening one for seekers after truth and or over-who would promise faith- power with a firmly established an embarassing one for satisfied fully to read it carefully. It would socialist life. The modern world has Christians and futile policy-makers. do us all a world of good! become one, but has no single arbiter -Frederick C. Grant of her destiny. The cold war can get A Year Book of Customs by Christine us nowhere. Only a profound under- Chaundler. Morehouse - Gorham Between Yesterday and Tomorrow by standing of the nature of the Co. $2.40 Joseph L. Hromadka. West- dynamic revolutions of the eastern nations by the west can avail. Mili- A delightful popular account of minster Press. $2.75 tary force---exerted by either east or the multitude of folk-customs whose The author of this book is known west or both-can accomplish nothing meaning and origin is generally little throughout the world as a distin- but the complete destruction of any known. Most of the customs re- guished theologian who has profound sort of civilization. counted here are religious obser- and clearly expressed convictions The Christian Church, if she is to about the Christian Church and its be faithful to the spirit of her master vances following the Christian year. relation to a struggling and sinful and to her own belief that he is There are many customs familiar to world and who speaks frankly on publication. present in today's world and that the most of us and perhaps as many the subject. Of the five chapters of is ultimately the Lord more which we have never heard of, and this volume, the first two are devoted of history, must bear witness, as she -like St. Distaff's Day, Noah and to a setting forth in detail the has not done for generations, that His Wife, Crack-Nut Sunday, St. reuse Biblical theology which is the the religion of Christ is intimately Swithun's Farthings, etc. With this for spiritual basis of Protestantism. As concerned with all the changes and book in hand, the clergy need not be a preliminary, he examines two con- chances of this mortal life and that stumped by queries of friends and temporary schools of religious her worship is and always will be parishioners about the curious ob- required thought,-radical textual and his- sterile until she takes with her the servances of numerous days and torical criticism of the Old and New great Reconciler into all the groping weeks: Why pancakes on Shrove Testaments which tends to minimize and disillusioned world. Tuesday, egg-rolling at E a s t e r,

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JANUARY 23, 1958 Fifteen The English Cathedral Through the It can be a very wholesome and and alcoholism are particularly valu- Centuries by G. H. Cook. Mac- fruitful exercise for all those, in par- able. millan. $9.00 ish and diocese, responsible for For parish clergy especially this raising money to read, mark, learn can be a great boon as its approach This is a magnificant book in its and inwardly digest the contents of to the problems that are common to format. There are 96 pages of plates this suggestive and stimulating book. all parishes is sound, based on Chris- picturing the English cathedrals and Every Member Canvasses might find tian doctrine and written by a wise 60 plans. The text of the book gives it a good investment to present a psychiatrist of long and fruitful the most authoritative one-volume copy to each canvasser. experience. work on the subject yet published. This is not simply a volume on Gothic No Escape From Life by John architecture, but is concerned also with the history and nature of all Sutherland Bonnell. Ha rp e rs. The Family Service the English sees, ancient and modern, $3.75 H. Shepherd Jr. and with the ideals and operations The author of this book is widely By Massey Church Divinity School of the Pac~c in the community of cathedral life known as a pastoral counseler to un- and worship. publication. happy, perplexed souls. On a basis The foremost liturgical scholar of Of the modern cathedrals completed of psychiatric training and experi- and the Church explains this service of building, it is or in process ence, he has found that Christian which is being increasingly used. interesting to know that Liverpool faith and life can be the chief ele- reuse Cathedral, now more than half com- ment in the redemption of such dis- 25c a copy $2 for ten for pleted, is the largest cathedral in tressed persons that constantly come , except St. Peter's, to him for help. THE WITNESS Rome. It is also an interesting, but TUNKHANNOCK PENNSYLVANIA required In this book are recounted in detail melancholy, story of the "desecration many of the case histories from the and pillage at the , author's memory and records and, in further spoilation and destruction by the course of the narrative, the The Parish of Trinity Church Permission the Puritans and maltreatment by author's analysis of the causes and REV. JOHN HEuss, D.D., RECTRo the restoration enthusiasts in the significance of the facts of suicide TRINIY nineteenth century which have re- Broadway & Wall St. DFMS. Newman, Vicar / Rev. Bernard C. duced our ancient cathedrals to the Sun. HC 8, 9, 11, EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, bare skeletons they present today". HC 8, 12 Midday Ser 12:30, EP 5:05; Sat HC 8, EP, 1:30; liD, HC, 12; C Fri. 4:20 A notable and authoritative book ALTAR GUILDS and by app. Church for architects, liturgiologists and LINENS BY THE YARD ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL Fine Irish Lines, Dacron and coto Broadway and Fulton St. Church historians, professional and for vestments, threads, transfers and Rev. Robert C. Hunssicher, Vicar supplies. Ask FoRE price lists. Sun. HC 8:30, MP, HC Set. 10. Weekdays: amateur alike. HC 8 (Thurs also at 7:30 a. m.) 12:05 Mx Episcopal Sat.; Prayer & Study 1:05 ex. Sat. EP 3. C Fri. 3:30-5:30 & by appt. Organ Recital

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Sixteen THsE Wxrmss Margaret W. McConnell mind as they plan these drives for Churchwoman of San Diego, Cal. hugh sums. I wish you, or some Church BACKFIRE I have read your editorial Include Also when dis- Us Out in a recent issue of The Wit- paper, would name names Alfred Goss ness and I was tremendously impressed cussing the next Presiding Bishop. who could Layman of San Mateo, Calif. by your point of view regarding Your article says "a man serve at least six year before com- Mr. Mainwaring's letter (12/5) nuclear war's folly and the danger of pulsory retirement, preferably nine makes me see that it would have been the present military preparedness. but no more than twelve". Why not better if I had stated what I under- I have done considerable work for tell us who the bishops are that are stand to be the meaning of apostolic the American Friends Service Com- in these age limits? succession before I ventured to mittee, and the Friends Committee on criticize. Phrases often mean differ- Legislation, in their work against nu- Paul Mason ent things to different people. clear tests and thought you might be Layman of New York City I understand apostolic succession to interested in the latest pamphlet on The article on education by Cross mean a supernatural power handed tests. Also there is an organization in (1/2) was excellent and the one by down through a line of bishops reach- San Diego among concerned citizens Barrett was even better. In fact in ing back to the apostles. It is a not affiliated with any organization, recent months the quality of your publication. belief akin to the divine right of called SANE and their efforts are articles have greatly improved and I directed toward getting public opinion and kings. I think a doctrine of this kind congratulate you. has implications that -are incom- aroused to abolish bomb tests. I was glad to read the review of reuse patible with Christian fellowship, I, too, would be willing to take the Church events in 1957 by Prof. Gar- for and, indeed, with the Holy Catholic chance of overcoming tyranny if we rison in that same issue though it Church in which all baptized people were to be conquered by the Soviet did seem to me that it could be sumnm- are members. One implication is Union, and feel we have no right 'to ed up with words from our general required that*, the bishops form a heirarchy use these terrible weapons to destroy confession: "We have left undone with complete authority in all mat- the world for future generations. I things that we ought to have done." ters of faith and morals and not re- wish all church going people would sponsible to the congregation in any live up to Christian teachings against Permission manner. A further implication is killing for they could have a tre- that ministers of apostolic succession mendous influence for peace. STAINED GILASS

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Church the Episcopal Church, I would not The report on things that are to be an Episcopalian. come before the 1958 General Con- Happily, it is not the teaching of vention (12/26) was interesting. Three million dollars a year for ten Episcopal the Church. We are a democratic Church organized under a constitu- years is a lot of money, particularly the proposed to increase of tion and governed by a General Con- since it is also vention in which the three orders, the annual budget of the national bishops, clergy and laity each have Church. There is a good deal of talk

Archives power of veto. The canons fully these days on radio, tv and news- recognize the ministries of non- papers about a recession in our

2020. episcopal Churches. Canon 36 is an economy. Certainly unemployment is interesting example. By this canon, increasing and the stock market is a minister of another denomination in a slump. These are facts which

Copyright may become an Episcopal minister, our Church leaders should keep in yet remain a minister of the other de- nomination and subject to its discipline. SAINT JAMES I do not think the phrase "apostolic MILITARY SCHOOL WILLIAM MORRIS succession" appears anywhere in the FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA Prayer Book. It is something that Fouoman 1901 Great Peter Street Country Boarding School for Boys has been carefully avoided. The Grades ! - 8 Church has carefully preserved the One of the few schools .in the Midwge Westminster, S.Wi specaliingin nlytheelementarygrades. historic ministry. Thus, whatever Small Classes-InvIdua Attention-Home Atmosvhere - Thorough preparation for LONDON, ENGLAND apostolic succession may mean, our leading secondary schools - Athletics in- American Representative fluding Riflery and idings . Church has it in full measure. No Summer School-Camp Combination Osst Church Furniture Co. special powers are claimed and none June 22 - August 1 MARVIN W. HORSTMAN, Headmaster JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN are renounced. Q = - 0 = -. I !5cboo1s of the Church

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