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WITNESS Vol. XVII No. 45 JULY 6, 1933 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is published weekly by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscription price is $2.00 a year ; in bundles of ten or more for sale at the church, the paper selling at five cents, we bill quarterly at three Cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under act of March 3, 1879. T h e N e w s o f t h e C h u r c h Edited by WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD Bishop Perry, back home from missionaries themselves were persons his four months through the Orient, o f whom the respective churches is apparently going to have things might well be proud; He pointed to to say about missions. He opened up the difficulties caused by financial in Chicago on June 23rd when he stringencies and the huge size of the was the guest of the Church Club at undertaking, but added that the a dinner. He levelled a sharp attack workers were carrying out their against the advocates of indienpend'- tasks in the best manner possible enee for the Philippines; charged and' asked for financial and intellec gross misrepresentation on the part tual support on their behalf. of American newspapers’ of the * * * situation between Japan and China Aidi f or the and clearly indicated that he pro Unemployed Clergy poses to back up the missionary pro The following communication has gram in the far east against the re been received from Bishop Burleson, port of the laymen’s missionary in assistant to the Presiding Bishop: quiry. In speaking on the latter “ Much has appeared in the Church subject he said: “ The leaders of papers recently about clerical un Christian missionary work in China employment. It is well to distin are not the sort of people you read' guish between three classes among about in Rethinking Missions. The the clergy; namely, those who are Christian Church in China is not a non-par ochial, those unemployed, dream or a future project. It is a and those who are destitute. The fact.” He then declared that it great difference in figures which would be unthinkable to withdraw has frequently appeared is probably missionaries from that country and due to a confusion of these three predicted that in twenty-five yearsl classes. The clergy who are suffer China will have an independent ing great hardship because of un Church. BISHOP GAIL OR employment are those who should In dealing: with Japan Bishop Senior Active Bishop be our first concern, and their num Perry stated that the Nippon people ber is not great in proportion to the are “ critical of themselves and long size of. our clergy, list. Their suf ing to stand on the facts and to be ject of our missionary program on ferings, however, are real and understood.” War reports on the Sunday last in the Cathedral of St. severe. Manchurian situation the Bishop John the Divine. There he denied “ In the statement sent out from termed as greatly exaggerated and virtually every major criticism made the Presiding Bishop’s Office some said that it was a war “ fought in the by the laymen’s inquiry into the months ago allusion was made to a headlines of American newspapers. missionary enterprise. He insisted plan of relief undertaken in the There was a job of policing to be that in Rethinking Missions, the Sixth Province. At that time, we done and the Chinese were not ad book containing the laymen’s report, had no information as. to how it was verse, to this. The Japanese have no. the essentials of the Christian faith working out. I have just received purpose or desire for warfare. were denied', and that it’s proposal an interesting statement from Bishop Friendship between the United that the direction of all Prote:tant Keeler, Coadjutor of Minnesota, States and Japan is capable of missionary work be carried on by a which I am sure will be encouraging establishing a lasting peace in the single administrative body repre to the large number of Church peo Pacific and if this friendship is senting all the denominations was ple who feel keen sympathy for our broken it will be America’s fault, “ untrue to all Christian experience.” brethren who are in distress. not Japan’s.” Bishop Perry found the missions “Bishop Keeler says: ‘The Synod Coming on the New York Bishop operating in iull accord with the of the Sixth. Province at its meet Perry again held forth on the sub- Christian faith and asserted that the ing in Casper last fall authorized Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Two THE W I TN ESS July 6, 1933 the setting aside of $600 of our have been conducted! by American Mildred Alley, United Thank Offer provincial funds to relieve destitute Protestant churches for over fifty ing worker, has come two schools; clergy, and1 a committee of three, years. He estimates the expense of one at Walhalla that is meeting each with myself as chairman, was ap this work, over that time, at between Sunday and a vacation school at pointed'' and authorized to present fifty and one hundred million dol Linton. She has discovered 798 this neeid’ to the clergy of the lars. For this sum of hard cash you isolated Episcopalians in North province. The letter of appeal elic now have mission churches with a Dakota and 323 of them are mem ited responses from eighty-eight total membership of between fifty bers o f her correspondence school. clergy who are giving at least $1.00 and sixty thousand, and this estimate | * * * each month for the relief of their includes, not only converts, but the Vacation Conference brethren within the province. Prac children and grandchildren of con in Dallas tically $100 thus comes monthly into verts. The conclusion that Professor About, 100 persons attended the the bands of the committee. We are Abel seems to arrive at is that sup ten day conference of the diocese of giving relief at the rate of $25 a porting such work is like throwing Dallas, held at St. Matthew’s Ca month, and also some temporary cash into; a bottomless well, that the thedral. The National Council was assistance where needed. Thus far work has failed in its main purpose represented by the Rev. Goodrich we have not had to draw upon the which was to acclimate immigrants Fenner, secretary of rural work and $600 yoted by the Synod.’ to American life. Social service Miss Margaret Marston, educational ‘ “ This very practical and direct centers, in some instances supported secretary of the Auxiliary. method of meeting a difficult prob by churches, have performed a use- * ■ * * lem in a perfectly confidential man rdl function, especially those that Missionaries Praised ner is noteworthy. Were a like have helped the immigrant worker by Newspapers method of operation in other prov in the struggle for economic secur Judging by the Mineral County inces, the situation would be ade ity and social recognition. Professor Independent, published at Haw quately cared for. It is believed that Abel feels that this work might, well thorne, Nevada, the two young eyery real ease of suffering is being go on, but that it should be carried women who as missionaries ox the cared for in the Sixth Province. on with closer coordination with Episcopal Church work at St. Philip’s Bishop Keeler adds the following in secular social service agencies. Mission, Hawthorne, are becoming a * * * teresting comments: ‘There is not as recognized part of the community. much unemployment of the clergy Bishop Gailor Is At the public school graduation, one as many people feared there might Senior Bishop of them, Miss Edith Smith, pro be, and those who have been let out July 25th is the fortieth anni nounced an invocation and a bene of work have shown a good deal of versary of Bishop Gailor’s consecra diction, and the other, Miss Betty individual resourcefulness in adjust tion. He is now senior active bishop Gould, delivered the address to the ing themselves to their problem, so in the United States. Of the four graduates. that the instances of Clergy who are who precede him, Bishop Vincent Miss Smith and Miss Gould have actually destitute are not many. In and Bishop Wells have resigned, and been interesting themselves in a reply to our letters of appeal for Bishop McKim and Bishop Graves small colony of Indians near Haw pledges, I have received a good many are in the Orient. thorne who have been long neglected. letters from clergy who have told * Hi % The local paper above mentioned me that they could not possibly make Bishop Brown Preaches carries as part of the Episcopal a pledge because of greatly reduced to Young People Church Sunday notice: 2:30, Service sálaries. They have told me just Bishop Brown of Harrisburg was for the Indians. Bishop Jenkins says enough in their letters for me to the preacher at the service which there are other such small colonies realize what a splendid struggle they opened the conference of the Young who will not be evangelized unless áre making against odds to keep People’s Fellowship of the diocese the local clergy can undertake it. St. themselves going. There are men liv of Harrisburg, held recently at Philip’s is visited regularly by the ing on salaries as low as $600, $700, Christ Church, Danville, Pa.