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Samuel Seabury: First Bishop By JAMES ARTHUR MULLER Professor at the Cambridge Seminary N NOVEMBER 14, 1784, the first American and then studied theology while acting as lay read­ O bishop was consecrated. What puzzles many er under his father on Long Island. He went to readers of American church history is that a bish­ England in 1752 and being still too young for or­ op had not been consecrated long before, since the dination, studied medicine for a year at Edin­ Episcopal Church, whose very name implies bish­ burgh. He was ordained deacon and priest in ops, had existed on this continent since 1607. It 1753. Returning to this country he served was the first of all churches to be planted in the churches successively in New Brunswick, N. J., English colonies. But during the first century of Jamaica, L. I., and Westchester, N. Y. its .existence the mother Church of England felt During the Revolution he sided with the Tories, that conditions in the colonies were too primitive being convinced that it would be for the best in­ for the residence of a bishop (the conception of a terests of the colonies to remain under the British missionary bishop had not yet dawned upon the crown. This exposed him to insult and injury— Church), and during the next century, when liv­ he was on one occasion seized by a troop of revolu­ ing conditions in the colonies had improved, ob­ tionary horse, carried from Westchester to jections to bishops came from the side of the col­ New Haven, paraded through the streets there, onists, who felt that bishops were too closely con­ and kept under military guard for six weeks. nected with the English state and that they might After his release he took refuge within the British curb that measure of religious and political inde­ lines and became chaplain (with the rank of cap­ pendence which the colonists were already enjoy­ tain) in the King’s American Regiment, a regi­ ing. ment of colonial loyalists raised in New York. The separation of the colonies from England He had long been convinced of the need of bish­ naturally quashed this objection, and almost im­ ops in America. In 1766 he had written, “ The mediately after the conclusion of peace in 1783 the poor Church of England in America is the only clergy of Connecticut met and chose two men as instance that ever happened of an Episcopal suitable, either of them, to go to England for con­ Church without a bishop. Without bishops the secration as their bishop. The first was Jeremiah Church cannot flourish in America.” Learning, who declined, probably because of age. On his election in 1783 he went to England at The second was Samuel Seabury. his own expense. The English bishops received Seabury, born in 1729, was a native of Con­ him graciously and expressed their willingness to necticut, a descendant of John Seabury, seaman, consecrate him as soon as the law permitted them who settled in Boston in 1639. Through his grand­ to do so. According to the law as it stood all new­ mother he was descended from John and Priscilla ly consecrated bishops must swear allegiance to Alden. His father as a young man had been a the Crown. This, despite his royalist sentiments, licensed preacher in the Congregational Church, Seabury obviously could no longer do. but at the age of twenty-four was ordained to the The Prime Minister, William Pitt, refused to Episcopal ministry. He served as rector at New ask Parliament to change the law until he received London, Conn., and later at Hempstead, L. jg statements from the civil government of Connecti­ Samuel Seabury graduated from Yale in 1748 cut, and from the American Congress, that they

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS February 8, 1940 had no objection to bishops in America. “ Having,” and those portions of the prayer of consecration he said, “ never sent a bishop into America while known as the Oblation and the Invocation (on the thirteen states were subject to Great Britain, pages 80-81 of the Prayer Book). It was at this it would have a very suspicious appearance to do Convention that Seabury became Presiding Bish­ it now, and would probably create or augment ill- op, the House of Bishops then consisting of him­ will in that country against this.” To which Sea- self and Bishop White of Pennsylvania. bury rejoined, “ That having neglected a neces­ He was blessed with remarkably good health sary duty for almost a century was a very bad rea­ until the day of his death, which resulted from a son for continuing the neglect.” sudden stroke experienced while calling on one of Seabury wrote to his friends in Connecticut the wardens of his church in New London in that if the civil authorities of that state had any 1796. objection to him personally, he would gladly with­ In securing the episcopate for Connecticut Sea­ draw in favor of someone else, adding: “ Believe bury had shown the Church in other states what me, there is nothing I have so much at heart as difficulties were to be met with and what measures the accomplishment of the business you have in­ were to be taken to overcome them. His reception trusted to my management, and I am ready to in America relieved the minds of English states­ make every sacrifice of worldly consideration men of the apprehension that they would offend that may stand in the way of its completion.” America by empowering English bishops to con­ He waited fourteen months in London and when secrate Americans. Hence when Pennsylvania his money was almost gone and there was no sign and New York elected bishops they were, without of Parliament’s acting in the near future, he de­ difficulty, consecrated in England in 1787. cided to apply for consecration to the Episcopal Thus Seabury’s outstanding services to our Church in Scotland. This was a small body in a Church— in addition to his work as pastor and land where the Presbyterian Church was estab­ bishop in New England— were: 1) taking the first lished. Since it was not connected with the state, and most difficult steps in the securing of the epis­ its bishops could act without waiting for Parlia­ copate, 2) enriching our service of Holy Commun­ ment, nor need they exact any oath to the crown. ion, and 3) commending the Church and the epis­ The Scottish bishops expressed their willingness copate in a hostile or indifferent environment by to consecrate Seabury if he would agree to use his his moderation and wisdom. influence to have the Scottish form of the Com­ There is a revealing paragraph in his first munion Service adopted in America. This he did charge to his clergy: “ A man may have an irre­ and was consecrated, as we have seen, in 1784. proachable moral character and be endued with /^ N HIS return to America a Boston newspaper pious and devout affections and a competent share wrote: “ Two wonders of the world, a Stamp of human learning, and yet, from want of pru­ Act in Boston and a bishop in Connecticut!” dence or from deficiency in temper or some singu­ He found that there was no objection on the larity in disposition, may not be calculated to part of the civil government to the office of bish­ make a good clergyman; for to be a good clergy­ op, but he had no little difficulty in overcoming man implies among other- things that a man be hostility to himself personally because of his for­ a useful one. A clergyman who does no good al­ mer espousal of the Royalist cause. That, in the ways does hurt. There is no medium.” eleven years of his episcopate, he succeeded in His advice, on occasion, to the laity was equally commending himself to his own Church and those trenchant. In 1790 some of the leading members outside it, is no little tribute to his qualities. of Trinity Church, Newport, R. I., voiced objec­ Although his duties included those of rector of tions to their new rector, a Rev. William Smith. the church at New London (whence he received Wrote the Bishop to one of them: “ I cannot for his chief support), as well as those of Bishop of my life see why you and Mr. Freebody, who were Connecticut, he was also elected Bishop of Rhode so justly anxious for the peace of the church then Island in 1790, and made occasional visitations [under the previous rector, Mr. Sayre] should be in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He be­ so inattentive to it now. Peace and unity are came practically Bishop of New England. Christian duties and just as necessary whether At the General Convention of 1789 he proposed Mr. Sayre or Mr. Smith be your minister; and it is revision of the Communion Service along the the same and as great a sin to rend and divide lines of the Scottish liturgy, and it is due to him the church and destroy its peace under Mr. Smith that we have certain elements in our service as it was under Mr. Sayre . . . Which is the better which are not in the English Prayer Book, nota­ man is a matter of mere opinion and you may be bly our Lord’s words in the Summary of the Law, deceived. And besides God has not made you their

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 8, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Five judge . .. your estimation of the one or censure of not like your present minister as well as you did the other are foreign to the point. While Mr. the former one? . . . Indeed, my dear Sir, you Sayre was your minister you did well in abiding seem not to apprehend the fatal consequence of with him in worship and ordinances. But does your present conduct, both to yourself and your church cease to be the church of Christ be­ others.” cause you have got another minister? Or do you Those who would like to learn more about Bishop Seabury should act wisely in cutting yourself off from the worship consult W. J. Seabury’s Memoir of Bishop Seabury, 1908, and the Seabury number of the Historical Magazine of the P. E. Church, Sep­ and communion of Christ’s church because you do tember, 1934.

Clergy Leadership By WOLCOTT CUTLER Rector of St. John's, Charlestown, Massachusetts EW things have irritated me so deeply m re­ utilities, corporate profits, international relations, Fcent years as has a seemingly smug and cer­ or even peace and war? Business in general has tainly sly editorial in the December issue of long given the world the impression that discreet Fortune, reprinted in full by the Christian and agreeable men of the cloth may be acceptable Century for January 3, and recently reissued in to the laity as mentors in personal and certain pamphlet form and mailed to the ministers of the social matters, or as useful chairmen of commit­ United States. What the editorial seeks is that tees designed to allay social friction, but that no the preachers of the country shall oppose our generous financial support could be expected for entry into the war in Europe— a purpose with a church whose pastor should venture to call in which I happen to agree. question the business ethics of his parishioners or What the editorial says, however, is that the the international policies of the nation. preachers of the churches ought to be ashamed . The editors of Fortune, a secular paper for the of themselves for not taking, in matters of public outwardly prosperous, would now have us believe policy such as peace or war, a more Christ-like that they did not hear the prophetic voices of and courageous stand than do the laity. The those brave preachers who dared to condemn editors assert (as humble laymen) that at the America’s entering the World War in 1917. No, time of the World War they looked in vain for a of course not! And for several significant rea­ voice of Christian vision and strength to come sons. First, those brave preachers did not get a from the pulpits of our land. All that they heard “good press.” Secular businessmen saw to that. from the churches in those tragic years, they say, Second, those brave preachers lost their pulpits. was the mere reflection and amplification of the Secular businessmen saw to that. Third, some of passions and prejudices of the war-maddened the bravest of those preachers were confined as laity. They add that, “ when we consult the enemies of the republic. Secular businessmen saw Church we hear only what we ourselves have to that. And finally, in the twenty years since the said.” Where, they suggest, but to the Christian World War was concluded, many of those preach­ pulpits, should ordinary mortals look for super­ ers— for instance, our own Bishop Paul Jones-— human vision and inspired utterance concerning have been denied a chance to speak where any the problems of our day? considerable number of people might hear them. That is what makes me boil. “ Where should Secular businessmen still see to that. It is no they look for inspired utterance?” etc. Do the wonder that the editors of Fortune note (with editors of Fortune as laymen, do the editors of pained surprise) that the Church in 1917 seemed our secular press generally, do business men as a to be echoing with resounding acclaim America’s whole, really look to the Christian pulpit for guid­ sudden decision to participate in the war to save ance or vision concerning any aspect of public af­ our democratic dollars. The press quoted and fairs? Have they really sought and failed to learn headlined every favorable clerical voice. Unfavor­ the judgment of men of the cloister on matters able voices either got no notice or spoke oh other that concerned their social behavior? Do any con­ subjects. You may bet that the Church as a whole siderable number of them as yet admit that the did not risk the candid application of its Gospel Gospel should be applied by ministers either sing­ then, and that it will be obliged to leave to the ly or in groups to such mundane matters as hours laity the solution of particular political problems of labor, wages, prices, high or low tariffs, public in the near future. That is the way churches have

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS February 8, 1940 to do, so long as the laity that supplies the money situation and for a limited length of time. Many that sustains them, won’t countenance even an in­ Republican and other prognosticators are becom­ terchange of views on matters of social import­ ing daily more convinced that in spite of his pos­ ance. sibly sincere desire to keep this country out of For what muzzles the vast majority of preach­ the European War, President Roosevelt is follow­ ers is not arrant cowardice or muddled thinking ing a course almost certain to involve us in it. or preoccupation with the stock market but Just as the hunter judges where the diving loon is chastened and sad wisdom. The compelling reason likely to emerge by the direction of his bill at the for their long-suffering silence on many crucial moment of submerging, so it is not difficult to questions is that only thus can they hope for fi­ foretell that the President who today sets limita­ nancial support for the continued cultivation of tions on the right of certain European nations devotional attitudes and the inculcation of basic to choose their own forms of government, and principles and historic truths. The laity generally who now complains that were those nations to win are very quick to withdraw from the prophet who the present war Americans would find the world dares to make them ashamed of their business “ A shabby and dangerous place to live in,” will habits. One of the ablest pastors and most widely probably end by feeling compelled to send some­ effective preachers in Massachusetts for forty thing more substantial than money and materials years was the late Philo W. Sprague, yet laymen to suffering Finland, more than an ambassador tell me that no sizable Episcopal parish would to anti-Communist Rome, more than moral sup­ even consider calling him after he published port to the trembling democracies. Christian Socialism in 1891. If ever the parishion­ But let Fortune’s editors not delude themselves ers of our churches as a whole should reach the (or the Christian ministry) into supposing that point of maturity and good sportsmanship that what they really desire of the pulpit is a general sustains the voice of Harry Emerson Fosdick in and whole-hearted application of the teachings of the Riverside Church since his ousting by the Christ to every aspect of life. We wish that they Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and almost did. We have striven for twenty-odd years, and maintained Professor Jerome Davis at Yale, then better men in the ministry have striven for nine­ the laity would be in a strong position to criticise teen Christian centuries to bring nearer that salu­ any selfish or timid parson who failed to apply to brious day. But every such would-be prophet has everyday life the vision without which people burned his fingers (a matter of little conse­ perish. quence) and imperilled his corporate achieve­ ments (a heart-breaking and tragic calamity) SECOND point made by the Fortune editors whenever he said one-half of what his laity most A is that the laity have a right to look to the needed to hear. It takes only one or two really in­ preachers for absolute truths, and that if the pul­ fluential and determined laymen to undo the pit merely reflects the thinking of the pews, the painstaking work of a lifetime; and a whispering laity might just as well ignore the Church alto­ gether. That sounds suspiciously subtle; but per­ campaign or a boycott can prove far more dam­ haps it reflects nothing more serious than a aging than a battle. What sunk the Inter-Church pathetic desire for certainty in a world that is too World Movement of a generation ago, for in­ much for the biggest of big business men. “ A stance, was nothing that happened in the open. A certain sick man” when in torments asked Abra­ certain committee of Churchmen, lay and clerical, ham to send a messenger from the dead to his had come out in print with irrefutable evidence of father’s house where he had five brethren. His un-Christian conditions prevailing in many of the assumption was that, “ if one go to them from the nation’s leading steel mills. The most important dead, they will repent.” Abraham’s answer pre­ laymen of the period tried in vain to sidetrack sumably still applies: “ If they hear not Moses and the report. The evil conditions in the mills were the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if ultimately revolutionized, to the great gain of one rise from the dead.” Absoluteness is not to be everybody concerned— that is, everybody except looked for in the application of love to the im­ the Inter-Church World Movement, which col­ mediate human situation. Only God is absolute. lapsed almost instantly for lack of further fi­ Only the motive of love is authoritative. Methods nancial support. must change. Circumstances always alter cases. If the laity should ever want to free the Even St. Paul knew “ in part” and prophesied Christian pulpit for the utterance of genuine con­ in part. victions regarding our social life as children of At the present moment, however, we wonder God, let them begin by opening their churches and whether the editors of Fortune would do more their theological schools to such living victims of than unmuzzle the preachers in one particular World War and recent hysteria, as actually have

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 8, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Seven with Christian insight and gentlemanly tact, pro­ open or thrown down a convenient chimney. claimed to their cost the truths with which God Half way thru the season comes Mid-Lent has touched their lips. When they have restored Sunday, the Fourth Sunday in Lent. In England each Bishop Jones to his pulpit and every Pro­ they still call it Mothering Sunday because of the fessor Davis to his desk, then we may be very reference in the Epistle to Jerusalem “ which is sure that there are hundreds of other mortified the mother of us all.” It was an old custom for and muzzled voices ready and wafting for a chance people to visit their parents on that day and to proclaim the standards of eternal Light. The carry gifts to them. They kept the day by vision is there, the urge to witness is there, and “ going a-mothering.” Sometimes it was called the need of prophecy is ever compelling; but how Refreshment Sunday because the Gospel for the can the clergy without disrupting or closing their Day tells of the feeding of the five thousand. churches proclaim what the laity generally are In the north of England it was known as Simnel not big enough to listen to? Every pastor who has Sunday. Small round cakes were baked contain­ but one layman who stands by him in ticklish ing plums and scalloped around the edges. They social situations knows how much of his courage called them simnel cakes. to preach comes not direct from God, but through Some of the old writers refer to the wearing the meditation of men— laymen of sincerity, dis­ of black clothing in Lent. When it came to clothes ciplined faith, and good will. of course the women had to have something special. They wore a “ friar’s girdle,” supposedly an outward indication of the self-denial to which L e t ’s K n ow the members of the mendicant Orders were espe­ By cially dedicated. BISHOP WILSON Certainly we shall not sniff at these quaint customs even tho many of them have quite gone L e n t e n C ustom s out of fashion. They show that Lent had a really URIOUS customs have a way of gathering popular significance which found its place in the C around popular observances when they are daily habits of the common people. Down be­ repeated from year to year. We have many of neath all of them lies a spiritual experience which them associated with Christmas and Easter and is the true reason for keeping Lent at all. A de­ a few with Lent, such as the hot-cross buns in liberate and conscious purpose to keep God in Holy Week. first place in our lives, a cleansing of our souls Two hundred years ago in England a man was by penitence and strengthening of them by addi­ appointed at the beginning of Lent who was tional spiritual exercises in worship, an honest known as the “ King’s Cock Crower.” It was his effort to absorb more of the spirit of our Lord, duty every night during the Lenten season to a determination to know Christ a little better at crow the hours in the palace precincts instead of the end of Lent than we did at the beginning— announcing them in the usual way. Of course such are the real reasons for the Lenten season. it was meant to be a reminder of the crowing of Popular customs are reminders. In themselves the cock which brought St. Peter to repentance they have no particular value but insofar as they at the time of our Lord’s crucifixion. When the stimulate our memories they may be useful acces­ House of Hanover moved from Germany to oc­ sories to a more serious purpose. cupy the English throne they knew nothing of English customs. The story goes that the Prince of Wales (later king George II) sat down to din­ ner on Ash Wednesday night. All at once a man Ski Pants and Church entered the dining hall and began to crow. The prince was very indignant, considering it some LD Dicky Morris was loafing, as usual, in the sort of insult to his royal person. He was finally O flag-shanty. “ Them stylish ski-pants,” re­ convinced that it was really an honor. But the marked Dicky to his friend Pat Nelligan, the custom was discontinued from that time. crossing-tender, “ has done more to take the Then there was the “ Jack o’ Lent,” a puppet women out of doors than all the doctors.” made of straw and covered with cast-off gar­ “ Shure and they has,” agreed Pat, “ and what ments intended to represent Judas Iscariot. This av it?” strange figure was drawn or carried thru the “ Well,” went on Dicky, “ when somebody in­ streets of the villages during Lent to the accom­ vents some sporty Church-pants for women, there paniment of much uncomplimentary noise. won’t be pews enough for the congregations.”— Eventually “ Jack o’ Lent” was burned in the T h e C h u r c h m o u se .

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS February 8, 1940 NEWS NOTES OF nent diplomatic relationship, we should feel obliged in good con­ THE CHURCH IN science to oppose it, as a violation of the principle of separation of BRIEF PARAGRAPHS governmental function and religious Edited by W. B. Spofford function, which is a basic American We reported last week that thirty- policy and which both history and two eminent Churchmen, including a conscience approve* and as an ulti­ large number of Episcopalians, have mate injury to all faiths. We assume, issued a statement on the interna­ however, unless events disprove us, tional situation, the gist of which that the appointment is strictly tem­ was that a victory for the allied porary, unofficial, and centrally con­ powers was essential if the values cerned with efforts for world peace. given to the world by the Christian We can see ways in which it may religion were to be preserved. The help to bring peace and to avert statement called upon the people of wholesale bloodshed and a continu­ the churches to give “ sympathy and ing disaster to civilization. We pledge support” to the cause of the allies ourselves again to work with all and of China. Among the signers faiths and with all men of good will were four members of the faculty of for a just and enduring peace.” the Union Theological Seminary in H« * * New York. P a gea n t A t The statement has brought forth a St. Bartholomew’s rejoiner signed by fifty-two students The Vision of Bartholomew was of the Seminary. “ An overwhelming BISHOP DARST presented at St. Bartholomew’s, New victory for either side,” declare these Honored on Twenty-fifth Anniversary York, on Ash Wednesday evening. students who point to the fact that The pageant, which was presented they are the ones who would do the five years ago on the occasion of the Thomas of South Carolina, patting fighting, “ would assure that justice 100th anniversary of the parish, has Bishop Darst on the back for his would not be established and peace over 200 persons in the cast, in addi­ great services to the diocese and the would be only temporary. The ends tion to a choir of sixty voices. that we all desire cannot be achieved national Church. The treasurer of by the methods that are implied in the diocese reported a falling off in pledges from parishes, making a Large Class In this statement. The only practical Pittsburgh Parish $2,000 cut in the budget necessary. step that will in any way assure The Rev. William Porkess, rector their possible attainment is a peace Deputies to General Convention: of St. Stephen’s, Wilkinsburg, Pa., without victory.” The students there­ Clergy: Mortimer Glover, Alexander presented one of the largest confir­ fore call upon the United States to Miller, John C. Grainger, W. R. Noe, mation classes in the history of the offer continuous mediation and to do Laity: George B. Elliott, W. G. parish on January 28th. A large all that it can to bring the war to Gaither, Guy C. Harding, J. Q. Beck­ proportion of the adult candidates a close. “ This requires,” they write, with. * =H came from six other communions. “ a strict neutrality in which no war * * * goods are sold to any belligerent Omaha Young People nation.—The deeper issue is not that Form Organization New Jersey Aids some o f the warring nations have a Young people of Omaha, Neb­ R e fu g e e s bit more democracy than the others, raska, have organized a Council of The committee to aid refugees, dio­ but that all the nations are caught Youth to promote young people’s or­ cese of New Jersey, has raised over in a war system that damns them all ganizations in parishes. Each parish $400 without making any public ap­ equally and will do so eternally un­ has three representatives and a spon­ peal, and has secured three affidavits less we do everything in our power sor on the council, which aims to co­ for the release of families now in now to bring an end to the condi­ ordinate the work in the city. Europe. • The Rev. G. R. Minchin, tions that breed war. No progress * =N chairman of the committee and rec­ can be made toward democracy and Donald Aldrich Called tor of St. James’, Trenton, is having peace by taking part, either as a To Boston Cathedral a meeting of the men of his parish nation or as individuals, in the war The Rev. Donald Aldrich, rector of with the hope that one refugee fam­ system that we desire to end. To the Ascension, New York, has been ily may be settled in the neighbor­ eliminate war we must deny it and hood. called to the deanship of the Cathe­ * * * refuse to support it.” dral of St. Paul, Boston. He was at one time on the cathedral staff. He Presiding Bishop Edmund L. Souder is considering the call but stated over Visits Oklahoma To Conduct Retreat the telephone on February 6th that Presiding Bishop Tucker was the The Rev. Edmund L. Souder, Cin­ he had not as yet decided to accept. top man at the convocation of the cinnati rector and former missionary * * * diocese of Oklahoma, meeting at to China, is to conduct a retreat for Federal Council Muskogee, January 17th. He laymen of Southern Ohio on Febru­ Has Fingers Crossed preached a missionary sermon and ary 21-22. The executive committee of the also attended all the sessions. The * * * Federal Council of Churches, at its convocation adopted a budget of Bishop Darst first meeting since President Roose­ $27,000—not only that but appointed Honored On Anniversary velt’s announcement of the appoint­ a committee to go after more cash The convention of East Carolina, ment to the Vatican of a personal in order to extend the missionary meeting at Wilmington, January 24- envoy, “ with the rank of ambassa­ work in the diocese. The Presiding 25, held a service marking the 25th dor,” issues the following declaration Bishop addressed the House of anniversary of the consecration of of attitude and policy: “ If the ap­ Church Women, as did also Mrs. Bishop Darst. There were many ad­ pointment should u n fo rtu n a te ly Tabor, field secretary of the Auxili­ dresses, including one by Bishop prove a stepping-stone to a perma­ ary. Deputies to General Convention

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 8, 1940 THE W ITN ESS Page Nine were elected as follows: Clergy: ported, a petition of Southeastern Dean Mills of Oklahoma City; the Bishops, but came from the synod Rev. Hugh J. Llwyd of Muskogee; of the province of Sewanee, com­ the Rev. Edward H. Eckel Jr. of posed of lay and clerical delegates, Tulsa and the Rev. Samuel Peard of both white and colored, and was Okmulgee. Laity: Col. T. D. Har­ adopted after full and free debate. ris, Ponca City; Mr. J. Bruce Mc­ He also states that there is no desire Clelland of Oklahoma City; Mr. on the part of anyone to have a C. W. Tomlinson of Ardmore and Racial District administer “ the reli­ Mr. E. D. Cochran of Okmulgee. gious affairs of all Negro Episco­ palians in the nation,” as reported, but only the Negro work of those Maryland Considers dioceses that, through their Bishops Indebtedness and Conventions, assign their Negro Maryland, meeting in convention work to it. He also maintains that January 25th, devoted a lot of time it is not the desire of those urging to indebtedness by dioceses and the establishment of such a jurisdic­ parishes. The Rev. Don Frank Fenn tion to compel any congregation of of Baltimore presented the propo­ Negroes to become a part of it. The sals made at the synod which met action taken by the synod, he says, some months ago in Wilkes-Barre, expressed the desire and hope of a but, after a long discussion, they major portion of the colored clergy were rejected since the Maryland and communicants in the province. Vestry Act leaves such matters * * largely in the hands of the vestry. New Trustees for DONALD ALDRICH The convention budget of $27,650 Pension Fund Called to Boston Cathedral was adopted as was also the diocesan The Rev. Oliver J. Hart of Wash­ budget of $82,071, with the latter ington, D.C., and the Rev. John F. reduced from $90,000 after figuring fourth ballot. The financial commit­ Scott of Pasadena, California, were up the pledges from parishes. Depu­ tee reported that the diocese had elected trustees of the Church Pen­ ties to General Convention: Clergy: paid off a debt of $35,000 and had sion Fund at a meeting held in New Don Frank Fenn; Arthur B. Kinsolv­ set up an endowment of a similar York on January 30th. ing; Philip J. Jensen; William O. sum. Deputies to General Conven­ Hi l|C ❖ Smith Jr. Laity: Henry D. Harlan; tion: Clergy: W. S. Slack of Alex­ Benefit Performance James A. Latane; Gerner W. Den- andria; D. H. Wattley, William H. fo r Lepers mead; Frederick A. Savage. Nes and Sidney Vail, all of New New York churches are cooperat­ Orleans. Laity: F. H. G. Fry; War­ ing in the sale of tickets for a per­ W h ere the ren Kearny, C. V. Porter and A. G. formance of Sun-up as a benefit for M on ey W e n t Levy. the American Mission to Lepers. The We recently reported that the play is to be presented on Lincoln’s Jews of America have turned over to Lenten Services Birthday. the Federal Council of Churches in Cincinnati $125,000 for the relief of Christian The preachers at the noonday Acolytes Service refugees. Announcement is now Lenten services at Christ Church, in Cincinnati made that the money has been dis­ Cincinnati, are: Rector Nelson H. A acolytes festival for the parishes tributed as follows: $5,000 to a Burroughs, Dean Austin Pardue of of Cincinnati was held at Grace-St. committee of the World Council of Buffalo, Rev. ZeBarney Phillips of Luke’s Church on January 21st, with Churches to aid German Christian Washington, Rev. Earle B. Jewell of fifty acolytes and clergy taking part. refugees having visas for emigra­ Kansas City, Bishop Sturtevant of The sermon was preached by the Rev. tion; $5,000 to the Evangelical Fond du Lac, Rev. J. Harry Cotton Nelson M. Burroughs, rector of Churches of Europe to aid Christian of Columbus and Bishop Hobson. Christ Church. refugees; $15,000 to the Friends Service Committee; $100,000 to the Convention of Trinity College American Committee for Christian Diocese of Chicago Gets Interesting Document Refugees. ❖ * * Bishop Stewart, in his report to Trinity College, Hartford, Con­ the convention of the diocese of necticut, has received, as a gift from Home for Church Chicago, disclosed that there had Miss Annie Trumbull, a copy of a Women in Maryland been an 11% increase in the num­ pamphlet printed in New London in Uplands, a large estate, has been ber of communicants during the last 1786, giving the order of service willed to the diocese of Maryland as decade. He also pointea out that arranged by Bishop Samuel Seabury a home for Church women, and was last year’s confirmations totalled for celebrating the Holy Communion. accepted by the convention. It is 2,293 persons, a record for the dio­ The pamphlet is extremely rare, and the gift of the late Mary Frick cese. is of interest to liturgical students Jacobs who also left $1,000,000 of as showing the order in which Bishop a $3,000,000 estate to provide an Negro Work Seabury arranged the various parts endowment. in the Church of the service. ❖ * * Bishop Wing of South Florida Bishop Seabury, as is well known, John Long Jackson wishes to correct press reports in was consecrated by Scottish Bishops Elected Bishop of Louisiana regard to the proposal to set up a at Aberdeen in 1784, and adopted The Rev. John Long Jackson of Racial Missionary District, which for use in America, certain features Charlotte, North Carolina, was was not approved at a recent meet­ of the Scotch Prayer Book instead elected Bishop of Louisiana at a ing of the Joint Commission on of following the Book of Common convention held in Alexandria on Negro Work. He points out that the Prayer of the Church of England. January 25th. He was one of sixteen petition to the General Convention The pamphlet, now a treasure at nominees and was elected on the favoring such a plan was not, as re- Trinity, is the result. Not all of its

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS February 8, 1940 divergencies from the English Book ward world peace. A considerable out those who have performed un­ have been embodied in the Book of time was given to financial matters, usual service. Mrs. Faith Fitzger­ Common Prayer of the Episcopal with a committee appointed to study ald was honored for having served as Church in this country. the matter. A threatened deficit in treasurer of St. Ann’s, Morrison, for At a recent annual corporate com­ the budget was made up by a special thirty years. Rev. Ray Everett Carr munion of the Seabury Society of committee that raised $5,000. Depu­ and the Rev. Harold Holt, for their Trinity College, President Ogilby ties to General Convention: Clergy: leadership in diocesan affairs. Canon used once more the Seabury form of Homer A. Flint, Bernard C. Newman, David E. Gibson for his work at the service. It is planned to repeat this William Porkess, William F. Shero. Cathedral Shelter. Rev. Walter C. service each year when the Seabury Laity: Hill Burgwin, Frank J. Ches- Bihler for the efficient administra­ Society holds this service. The So­ terman, John A. Lathwood, Ernest tion of Christ Church, Woodlawn. ciety is a student organization in the H. McKinley. Rev. Charles T. Hull, rector of St. College, which meets regularly to * * * Paul’s-by-the-Lake, for the leadership study and discuss the history of the Favor Concordat he has given to the Forward Move­ Church and its problems for the ment Commission. With Presbyterians * * * present and the future. The convention of Los Angeles, * ❖ * meeting January 26-27, went on rec­ New Parish House Convention of ord as favoring the Concordat be­ At Laguna Beach Upper South Carolina tween the Episcopal and Presby­ A new parish house is being con­ Bishop John J. Gravatt presided terian Churches, after a brisk and structed for St. Mary’s, Leguna for the first time over the convention at times heated debate. The vote was Beach, California, where the Rev. of the diocese of Upper South Caro­ overwhelmingly in favor of the reso­ R. M. Hogarth is rector. They have lina, meeting January 23-25 at Co­ lution introduced by the Rev. John F. two services here on Sunday morning lumbia. Snow and ice nearly wrecked Scott of Pasadena, calling upon the to take care of the large congrega­ a laymen’s dinner which was a fea­ General Convention to regard “ sym­ tions. Fine. H» H* H* ture of the affair. The headliner was pathetically” the proposal. Archbish­ Mr. E. W. Palmer, newspaper editor op Wand of Brisbane— which is in Bishop Mosher from Kingsport, Tennessee. He got Australia and not Canada as I think R esign s there finally after skidding around I stated a week or so ago—addressed Bishop G. F. Mosher has resigned several mountains. Deputies to Gen­ the convention. A resolution was as missionary bishop of the Philippine eral Convention: Clergy: Louis C. passed objecting to the change of Islands, declaring that he is no long­ Melcher, Lewis N. Taylor, Robert T. name of the Spirit of Mission to er physically able to do the work re­ Phillips, Maurice Clark. Laity: Chris­ Forth.; sympathy for Finland was ex­ quired. The resignation will be acted tie Benet, Dr. C. C. Stuart, John W. pressed; a resolution asking for upon at the General Convention, Arrington Jr., J. E. Boatwright. greater. old age assistance on a na­ meeting in Kansas City in October. H= * * tional scale was passed, and another Wants More Bishop Mann Backs opposed any relaxation of the Cali­ Sex Education Church Papers fornia three day marriage law. Bish­ Bishop Mann of Pittsburgh, in his op Stevens in his address expressed The Rev. A. S. Nash, Britisher who address to his convention held in opposition to the pacifist pledge now is now in this country as the special Trinity Cathedral, January 23-24, being circulated in the Church. “ The lecturer at the Berkeley Divinity urged his people to subscribe to a remedy for war,” he said, “ is to be School, was a headliner at the an­ Church paper. found not in a formula or pledge nual meeting of the Church Mission “ If missions are to be to our peo­ predicated on unknown and unpre­ of Help, meeting in New York Jan­ ple something more than a name, they dictable factors, but upon education uary 22nd. must gain the necessary information for peace and Christian witness.” “ Good religious education,” said by reading a National Church paper. Deputies to General Convention: Mr. Nash in his address, “ includes sex They will be more intelligent Church­ Clergy: George Davidson, C. Rankin education. It is easy to get the men, as well as more loyal support­ Barnes, Stephen C. Clark Jr. and Church of England to accept this in ers of their own parishes, if every William Cowans. Laity: M. A. Al- theory, but the putting it into prac­ week, through the reading of a bee, Thomas J. Fleming, C. M. Gair tice is quite another matter.” Mr. Church paper they learn something and C. M. Winslow. Nash, who is joint secretary of the of what this Church is doing in the Hs * * Moral Welfare Council of the Church missionary districts of the United Rector Leads of England, works with youth in Eng­ States and in its work abroad. I ask Missions Study land along some of the same lines as all lay deputies who are not subscrib­ At St. Stephen’s, McKeesport, Pa., does the Church Mission of Help in ers to any one of these four papers in addition to the regular Lenten America. His work, which began to take a copy of each one home schedule of services, the rector is giv­ many years ago with what was then with him, to read them and then to ing a missionary address at each known as “ rescue work,” has branched make up his mind for which one he meeting of the guilds, auxiliary out as has that of CMH in this coun­ will subscribe for a year. If he will groups and other parish organi­ try, to include not only remedial do this, I am confident that he will zations, basing his talks on the biog­ measures, but protective, correctional not only renew his subscription, but raphies of missionaries. Maybe he is and education work as well. he will be a more loyal and a using the series that starts in T he “ We have learned,” Mr. Nash said, more intelligent Churchman, and will W itness this week . . . hope so . . . “ that sex problems are not to be recognize more clearly than ever be­ a lot of people are. saparated from other moral problems, fore that he is the member of a great * * * and for this reason we have been worldwide Communion, which has re­ Bishop Stewart working through our 42 dioceses or­ ceived from its Head a worldwide Confers Honors ganizing the younger priests to deal commission to preach the Gospel to Bishop Stewart of Chicago pre­ with all kinds of problems of young all the nations.” The Bishop also sented distinguished service crosses people in their small communities.” enthusiastically endorsed the proposal on January 25th to several com­ Mr. Nash asserted that the job can­ of President Roosevelt for a confer­ municants of his diocese. It is an not be done by the clergy alone, but ence of religious forces looking to- annual event, when the Bishop singles that it must be done in cooperation

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 8, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven with specialists—trained workers fa­ study of the various Christian lit­ Germantown, Philadelphia. The miliar with the problems of young urgies and to stimulate a love of wor­ amount is $1,000 and the income is people. ship. The conference was attended to be used as a special, to provide * * * by members of the Episcopal, East­ fuel for the Hudson Stuck Memorial Jefferson City Rector ern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Hospital, Fort Yukon, Alaska. It is Is H on ored Churches as well as several Protest­ to be known as the Anne Cowperth- Rector Wilbur D. Ruggles of Grace ant churches. wait Legacy. The second trust fund Church, Jefferson City, Missouri, has He H* H* is designated as the Mrs. Sallie Ruth­ been awarded the annual plaque by Relief Situation erford Forrest Fund, a bequest from the Junior Chamber of Commerce of in D en ver donor and her husband, the Rev. the city for the “ most distinguished In December, 1939, there were over Douglas F. Forrest, sometime com­ service rendered in the city during 9,000 people receiving direct relief in municants of St. James’ Parish, Rich­ the year by any man under 35 years Denver, with the amount received mond, Virginia. The income is to be of age.” In making the award the averaging $16.15 a month. The num­ divided equally in endowment of do­ chairman said that Mr. Ruggles had ber of people living in the households mestic and foreign missions. H: * * been the main force in a drive for to which these grants were paid num­ funds for recreational development; bered 37,331 people. The situation is Bruce Barton to director of the speakers bureau for so bad that the social service depart­ Speak in Brooklyn the community chest drive; president ment of the diocese sent a resolution Bruce (The Man that Nobody of the civic music association; an ac­ to city officials, adopted unanimous­ Knows) Barton, Congressman from tive member of the Boy Scout coun­ ly by the Episcopal clergy of the city, New York, is to be the speaker at cil ; president of the ministerial al­ calling for increases in relief pay­ the Washington Birthday breakfast, liance. He has been the rector of ment. The clergy also called upon following the men’s corporate com­ Grace Church since 1935, having Church families to do everything munion that is held in Brooklyn, N. formerly been a curate at St. John’s, possible to give relief or employment, Y. each year. Waterbury, Connecticut^ under the to Church families. The matter was * * Rev. John N. Lewis who has a great presented at a meeting held at the That Mysterious record for turning out well trained Cathedral last Sunday. Rev. Charles Radio Station in Germany parsons. L. Brooks, rector of All Saints, is the Although millions of people are of * * * chairman of the committee. the opinion that the German anti- Liturgical League H: H* ^ Nazis have been running a radio sta­ At Berkeley A Couple of tion at great risk and broadcasting A conference of seventy-five Trust Funds exposures of true conditions from in­ young people met at the Berkeley Di­ Two new trust funds have been set side Germany, it can almost flatly be vinity School last week under the up by the National Council. One is stated that the station has been out­ auspices of the two-year-old Liturgi­ made possible by a gift of the Wom­ side Germany all along. cal League, organized to promote the an’s Auxiliary of St. Peter’s Church, Of that fact, the Nofrontier News

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Service, which makes the assertion, parently unsurmountable obstacles. pleted, the French air experts give it insists it is sure. Almost equally cer­ But today, for the first time, in the a thorough testing; cash is paid down tain, though a bit less so, is the state­ modern world, we begin to see this in gold, right on the spot; and off flies task as possible, if we and all Chris­ the airplanes to France. ment made by numerous Germans of * * * strong anti-Nazi convictions, that the tians choose to enlist in it.” * * H* broadcasting station was run for a A Campaign time from Czechoslovakia, later from Training School for World Peace Spain, and now from somewhere else in Los Angeles Luncheons are to be held in five outside of Germany. It was under Los Angeles is having a diocesan hundred cities throughout the coun­ Communist control for a long time, training school on the Tuesday eve­ try on March 16th, with those attend­ but in recent months it has been run nings of Lent, meeting at St. James, ing listening to a radio address by by the German Freedom Party, a South Pasadena. The faculty consists President Roosevelt on “ Christian In­ middle-of-the-road organization work­ of Bishop Stevens, the Rev. C. H. fluences for World Peace.” The lun­ ing for the overthrow of Hitlerism. Parlour, the Rev. G. W. Barrett and cheons are sponsored by the Foreign It is quite possible that the station several leaders of the Auxiliary. Missions Conference of North Amer­ H: $ $ now operates from England. Cir­ ica for the purpose of launching a cumstantial evidence is the way in Italian Planes “ nation-wide effort to mobilize the which British broadcasters of news f o r F ra n ce refer to it so often and so promptly Mussolini boasted that the Rome- after the Freedom Station sends out Berlin Axis was “ a block of steel.” something “ hot,” when as a rule the But that, apparently, does not pre­ MEMORIALS British news is conspicuous for its vent bars of gold from having a cer­ lateness and paucity. Besides this, tain influence. Some 200 French avia­ FOR EASTER radio experts in at least one neutral tors have been in Italy testing and making over Italian-manufactured country have made tests with direc­ If you are contemplating any me­ tional receiving antennae, and have military airplanes. The procedure is morials in your Parish which you plan convinced themselves, at any rate, simple. 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Christian forces of America in a cam­ Bible the Best Seller paign for world peace.” in G erm an y The D-Ascenzo Studios * * * Since the Nazis came to power in 1604 Summer St., Phila., Pa. Germany the sale of the Bible in Helping to Pay Respectfully refer you to their that country has averaged 950,000 for the War stained glass in Payments every month toward the copies a year. The Prussian Bible costs of the war are being levied on Society reports that the Bible is out­ The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, selling Hitler’s Mein Kampf by New York City German churches by a decree of The Washington Memorial Chapel, Field-Marshal Goering. The Nazi rul­ 200,000 copies each year. Valley Forge, Pa. ing on “ war economy” places a fi­ The National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. nancial burden as from November Lead Kindly Light first onwards, on the Evangelical and the Favorite Hymn The Rev. A. O. Hjerpe, Presby­ Catholic churches alike. The money Write us for is to be found by cutting down on terian pastor of Cincinnati, recently current expenditures. sent a questionnaire to members of Organ Information In effect, the churches are treated his church and discovered that “ Lead in the same way as municipalities, Kindly Light” was the favorite AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. which also have to pay a monthly con­ hymn, and the Sermon on the Mount tribution toward war costs. The total the favorite part of the Bible. Most Hartford, Conn. amount due from the churches has of the members declared that they been divided up into notes for each attended church only because they territorial church or diocese in pro­ were brought up as children to do so. portion to its budget and member­ * * ship. The sum to be secured will Wilber Herbert Burnham reach about $350,000 per month. All Conference on ecclesiastical institutions, whether Religion and Health Designer and Master A conference on religion and churches, special funds, missionary Craftsman societies, convents and monasteries, health was held last month at the must take part in the financial bur­ First Presbyterian Church, South den. Orange, New Jersey, with leading Stained and Leaded Glass * * * ministers and physicians participat­ ing. . . . The oldest English speak­ Social Work Conference ing church in New Jersey, the First Studios 1126 Boylston Street to Meet in Grand Rapids Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, The Episcopal Social Work Con­ recently celebrated its 275th anni­ Boston, Massachusetts ference is to meet May 25-31 at versary. Grand Rapids, according to an an­ nouncement by the Rev. Almon R. Campaign of Evangelism THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK Pepper, secretary of the National SOCIETY By Methodists Founded by Bishop White 1833 Council’s department of social serv­ A church wide campaign of Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ ice. ishes unable to purchase them, in limited $ ^ evangelism will be held by the United grants. The Book of Common Prayer. Missions Sunday The Combined Book (The Book of Common Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). in A riz o n a WSPPELL’S Pew Size Every fifth Sunday is to be Mis­ World-Famed Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. sions Sunday in Arizona, with the Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. clergy asked to preach and collect CASSOCKS & SURPLICES Philadelphia, Pa. offerings for missions. RESTHAVEN Samples ent free upon request Saint Augustine, Florida without cost or obligation. Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened ERNEST W. LAKEMAN their Rest House in this historic city to guests desiring spiritual peace and strength; physical DESIGNER AND WORKER IN rest, quiet and nourishing food. The new CLERGY CASSOCKS. location is In beautiful grounds with water STAINED & LEADED GLASS outlook, live oaks, palms, flowers. Com­ Stout Russell Cord, $10.50 $13.25 $15.75 fortable rooms. Central heat. Address The 336 EAST 28 ST. NEW YORK All-Wool Serge $11.53 $14.50 $17.40 Mother Superior S. R. CLERGY SU PLICES, Cathedral [ from «7 JQ ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. Sh pa. Hand Smocked ) SEND FOR OUR NEW CATALOG— TODAY 147 E. 47th St., New York CLERGY SURPLICES, Slightly CHURCH VESTMENTS Clergy and Choir apparel, Altar linens, em­ Gathered - „ $5.50 ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY broideries, materials by the yard. Tailoring. Conferences with reference to the adornment CLERICAL CLOAKS - „ $13.75 of Churches Telephone El-dorado 5-1058 JM H A L L ,NC STUDENTS’ S.B. CASSOCKS $8.25 „ L NEN SURPLICES „ $4.00 417 Fifth Ave. (38th St.) New York IRISH LINEN. SPECIAL QUALITIES FOR CHORISTERS' CASSOCKS - „ $3.75 CHURCH USE— priced so that you may „ SURPLICES - „ $1.30 now replace worn linens with the best. Samples free.

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Methodist Church, with two day may invite China to it, but how can meant to us life or death in a sec­ meetings held in about 100 cities be­ I invite the West or Japan? And ond.” tween January 15th and March 15th. just as it is unreal for me to invite So writes the Rev. Daniel Liu, Chi­ The announced purpose is to “ em­ the West, it would to that extent be nese clergyman of the district of An- phasize the significance of Meth­ unreal for the West to invite India. king, China. He had gone into a city odist unification and the poten­ Let them shed their exploitation to transact necessary business and tialities of the united church.” policy and their immoral gains first.” was there for several days of severe Hi jp bombing before he could get back to Another Plan Missionary Work the country village where he is car­ fo r U n ity in China rying on his work among refugees Preliminary plans have been made “ Once when I was out in the open and country people. for the merger of the United Breth­ I saw the dive of the plane and the The English St. Luke’s Hospital in ren and the Evangelical Churches. descent of the bomb. I saw the house Fukien, bombed early in the winter, Neither of these Churches differ it fell on burst open. The sensation has had a contribution from Chris­ greatly from the Methodists, with of watching this was not the same as tians in India. Seven patients were each group owing its separate exist­ when sitting in a cinema theatre. It killed when the hospital was bombed, ence to Bishop Asbury’s refusal in the early 1800’s to allow preaching in German. The United Brethren has a membership of approximately 400,000 while the Evangelical Church has about 250,000 members.- The Cathedral of St. John St. Thomas Church H« He H* the D ivine Fifth Avenue and 53 rd Street Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. New York Gandhi On Moral New York City Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector R earm am en t Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and 10, Morning Prayer. 11, Holy Communion 4 P.M. News comes from Bombay that and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser­ Daily Services: 8 :30 A.M., Holy Com­ when he was invited to sign a re­ mon. munion. Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. sponse to President Roosevelt’s mes­ Saints’ Days 7 :30 and 10.) 9, Morning Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. sage on Moral Rearmament, Mahat­ Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: Organ Recital at 4:30 ma Gandhi indicated that in his Trinity Church, New York opinion those who were sending Chapel of the Intercession Broadway and Wall St. their signatures had not always stop­ Broadway at 155th Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. ped to consider carefully what was New York City Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar involved. Referring especially to two Sundays: Holy Communion : 8 and 9 :30 ; paragraphs of the message,. Gandhi Service and Sermon at 11; Evening Serv­ St. Paul’s Cathedral ice and Sermon, 8. Buffalo, New York said he could not sign such state­ Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 Verv Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean ments. The paragraphs in question and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. read as follows: “ M.R.A. means first Weekdays: 8, 12 :05 Noon. of all a change of heart. It means Grace Church, New York Wednesday: 11 A.M. Holy Communion Rev. Louis W. Pitt, Rector and Quiet Hour. admission of our responsibility for Broadway at 10th St. the past, a frank acceptance by na­ Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Christ Church Cathedral tions as by individuals of the stan­ urdays. Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. dards of honesty, purity, unselfish­ Thursdays : Holy Communion, 12:30. The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean ness and love and daily listening and Holy Days: Holy Communion, 11:00 A.M. Sunday Services, 8 :00, 9 :30, 10:00, daily obedience to God’s direction. 11:00 a.m .; 4:30 p.m. The Heavenly Rest, New York Week-days: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion “ In this fateful hour we pledge Fifth Avenue at 90th Street (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy ourselves to give the last full meas­ Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Communion on Wednesdays and Holy Days. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10:15 12:35 p.m. Noonday Service. ure of our devotion—the service of a.m. ; Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning heart, mind, will—to the moral and Service and Sermon 11 a.m. ; Choral Eve­ spiritual rearmament of our nation— ning Prayer 4 :30 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels to build the world of tomorrow, the Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Baltimore, Maryland munion, 11 a.m. The Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D., Rector world of new men, new nations, Services:— where every resource of human The Incarnation 7 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion Madison Avenue and 35th Street 9 :30 and 11:00 A.M.— Church School genius is liberated to God’s leader­ The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector 11:0O A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon ship to enrich the heritage of all Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A.M., 4 P.M., Wed­ 8 :00 P.M.—Evening Service and Sermon mankind.” nesdays and Holy Days, Holy Communion Weekdays:— at 10 A.M , Fridays: Holy Communion at Holy Communion— “ In all conscience” , said Gandhi, 12:15 P.M. Mon., Wed., & Sat.— 10:00 A.M. “ I could not sign such a statement, Tues., Thurs., & Fri.— 7 :00 A.M. Holy Days— 7:00 and 10:00 A.M. though I recognize the sincerity of St. Bartholomew’s Church those who did. How could I endorse New York Park Avenue and 51st Street a falsehood? How could India ac­ Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Gethsemane, Minneapolis cept any responsibility for the past? Sunday Services 4th Ave. South at 9th St. 8 A.M.—Holy Communion The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector All this has no application to me. 11 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon Sundays: 8:00 and 11:00 A.M. The whole paragraph applies to ex­ 4 P.M.—Evensong. Special Music. Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10 :30 A.M. ploiting nations, whereas India is an Weekday Holy Communion at 10:30 A.M. Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M. on Thursdays and Saints’ Days. exploited nation. The second para­ The Church is open daily for prayer. graph, too, applies to nations of the St. J oh n ’ s C hurch West and not to us. The whole ap­ St. James Church, New York Lattingtown, Long Island Madison Avenue at 71st Street Bishop Frank DuMoulin, Rector peal is so unreal. I can think of The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector On North Shore of Long Island two moral rearmament, but that would be 8 :00 A.M.—Holy Communion miles east of Glen Cove in a different setting. I can think of 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service 8:00 A.M.—Holy Communion. 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon 9 :45 A.M.—Junior Church and Sunday communal unity through moral re­ 8 :00 P.M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon School. armament. As a member of an ex­ Holy Communion Wed., 8 A .M .; Thurs. 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Ser­ ploited nation I can have a different 12 M. mon. moral rearmament program, and I

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 8, 1940 T H E WITNESS Page Fifteen and several were wounded. Four The W ay I nstitutions were dug out of the ruins alive, after G row three hours of digging. At Trinity, Concord, Mass., there is The Rev. Ralph Chang, one of the an institution called The Basket. IN CHINA Chinese clergy, formerly chaplain at Years ago, fifty or more, a few wom­ St. James Hospital, Anking, writes en composing the Church Aid, sent a that he is the only person with any clothes basket from house to house in medical knowledge, in the group of which women deposited their handi­ refugees and country people he is work which was later sold to help now serving. He has had to start a support the church. The Basket soon clinic from sheer force of the need grew to be an institution and still is around him, and treats 30 to 40 pa­ being passed around annually. tients a day. “ I am not qualified at all, but I am just working wonders,” Broadcasts from he adds. Increase in cost of drugs is Los Angeles a problem. Castor oil, formerly $1 a pound, is now $7 a pound. The west coast church of the air is sponsoring an interfaith series of How Long Is Sunday broadcasts when various This To Go On? speakers talk on the theme of “ Prob­ The Parish Visitor of Gethsemane lems of American Democracy.” Bish­ Church, Minneapolis, writing recent­ op Stevens is one of the broadcast­ ly of deacons, priests, bishops, arch­ ers. . . . Another religious broadcast bishops and Most Reverends, has from Los Angeles is called “ Reading this to say, pertinently and imperti­ from the Book of Books” with favor- nently : Big fleas have little fleas The Rev. Kimber Den, mis­ Upon their backs to bite ’um; sionary of the Episcopal Little fleas have lesser fleas Church who is famous And so on ad infinitum. throughout the world for Whereupon a Church woman sug­ his work with lepers, is now gested that the less familiar second Send for New Bulletin of devoting himself entirely to stanza might be more appropriate: EPISCOPAL and ANGLICAN BOOKS . . . war work with Chinese refu­ And the great fleas themselves in Just Issued. Correspondence and Want Lists Invited gee children, orphaned by turn Please mention the Witness when writing Have greater fleas to go on, SCHULTC. 5 BOOK * > O ' f the Japanese Invasion. A And these in turn have greater still, 80 and 82 Fourth Ave., New York City child can be clothed and And greater still, and so on. housed for The editor of the parish paper Your CHURCH, SOCIETY or SCHOOL thereupon came back with this, clos­ M O N E Y $15.00 A YEAR ing the matter for at least the time NEEDS Sell finest Chocolate covered 5 cent Bars American Church people who care being: and Packets and earn money quickly. Twenty to aid China are urged to give The bites of these carnivorous fleas, varieties. Pay for candy in 30 days. Offer not good in South or West. For full infor­ their support to Kimber Den. These cannibals pedicular, mation write Have counterparts in other spheres, L. E. AUSTIN The human in particular. Emergency Committee 825 West End Ave. New York City of the Church League for Industrial Democracy 155 Washington St., New York Make checks payable to William F. Cochran, Treasurer

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