1922 the Witness, Vol. 7, No. 19. December 30, 1922

The Witness | Vol. VII. No. 19 ______CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 30, 1922______$1.50 A YEAR Social Service Department j Palaces and Monasteries Áre Plans Active Work j Sheltering Orphans

Council of Advise, Meeting in Chicago, Outlines The Homes of Kings Now Being Used To Shelter Social Service Work for the Year the Children of the Near East

From the four corners of the country The ancient royal palace at Athens now and from each of the eight provinces of the shelters four hundred Greek orphans, Church, the members of the Council of Ad gathered by the Near East Relief. This vice to the Secretary of the Department of former abode of royalty has been ten Social Service of the National Council came dered by the Greek Government, which together in Chicago to discuss social service has also requisitioned a dozen fashionable plans for the coming year. In addition to summer hotels to be converted into a. har Dean Lathrop, the National Secretary, the bor of refuge for thousands of destitute following were present: Miss Ann Vernon, little ones to be added to the 115,000 Providence, R. I.; the Rev. Charles K. Gil orphans which the Near East Relief now bert of New York; the Rev. R. P. Kreitler fathers. of Scranton, Pa.; the Rev. David R. Coveil It was a strange coincidence which of Washington, D. C.; the Rev. Charles L. changed the Kaiser’s summer palace on the Street of Chicago; the Rev. Herman Page Island of Corfu into the hands of Near of Okanogan, Wash.; the Rev. G. S. Keller East Relief upon his wedding day. Now of Winona, Minn.; the Rev. L. N- Taylor of it is the center of our asylum for 2,132 Roanoke Rapids, N. C., and the Rev. L. V. Armenian orphans. Chartered steamers Lee of Houston, Texas, representing the are bringing six thousand abandoned Rev. R. De Ovies. Armenian and Greek children from unsafe It was agreed that the parish is the logi Turkish teritory to the islands of the cal unit for the development of social serv Aegean Sea. ice work in the Church, and that each par A Sultan’s son’s estate on the Bosphor ish should have a social service committee. us, with its parks and gardens, now pro A resolution was passed urging that the vides an industrial home for girls rescued Diocesan Commissions and the parish com from a fate worse than death. They are mittees select some one problem for study , R ev. Dr. M ilton being given a training that will-fit them and action during the coming year. The The Field Department reports the resig for a happy life and for self-support. three following problems were selected as An ancient Monastery on Mt. Athos has particularly important: nation of the Rev. Dr. Milton as Execu tive Secretary to take effect December 31, been induced to open its doors to three 1. County Jail. 1922. The Council at its meeting last thousand hoys, and the cowled monks who 2. County Poor Farms. week expressed its sincere appreciation of were its exclusive occupants and believed 3. Child Placing and Child Welfare. the loyal and efficient services performed that any female, be it woman or hen, by Dr. Milton during his term of office. would desecrate its sacred precincts, are The committee was unanimous in its ap now finding joy in teaching these home proval of the plan of having children less, fatherless and motherless children. placed in private homes rather than in in stitutions. It was shown that there are himself with regard to co-operation be* It is the same at Jerusalem, where the more children of Church parents available tween the Church and social agencies out ancient cloisters of St. James’ Armenian for adoption than there are Church fami side of the Church. Mr. Hunter was of Monastery are now the homes and school lies willing to take care of them. In some the opinion that the Church should not rooms of a thousand children, most of cases these children are Being adopted and turn all its relief cases over to the Chari whom had filtered down the Tigris and brought up by members of other churches, ties. He said that on general principles Euphrates valleys to Bagdad and later notably the Roman Catholic Church. he was opposed to bringing new workers were transferred around the Arabian Pe “Church Homes for Church Children” in to re-investigate families in troubles. ninsula to Jerusalem en route back toward should be our slogan. When the family and its problems are well their homelahd. known to the clergyman, it is better for The Social Service Department plans to him to handle the case himself, with out Abandoned factories and school buildings give more courses in the summer schools side advice, if necessary, than to turn it on the slopes of Mt. Lebanon harbor five than it has during the past years. over to some other social organization. thousands from Harpoot, who had walked A special effort is going to be made to However, in cases where there is only a five hundred miles to safety, while two provide an interesting social service pro superficial connection with the Church it miles of discarded Russian army barracks gram for the young people who are com might well be given to the United Char (a hundred and forty-eight buildings) at ing each year in greater numbers to the ities. Mr. Hunter said also that on ac Alexandropol, under the shadow of Mount summer conferences. The Rev. Herman count of the enormous amount of work Ararat, where the Ark rested, provides Page was appointed on a committee to de that charity organization societies have refuge for sixteen thousand youngsters velop a suitable course for use with young to do, it was frequently impossible to keep rescued from woe and want who are now people in the summer schools. in touch with families after the actual being given industrial training. Dr. Joel D. Hunter, Superintendent of need of relief ceases. He suggested that In the orphanages the boys spend half the United Charities of Chicago, expressed (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 6)

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 THE WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOCIAL SERVICE PLANS had become an important factor in the Congregational orders, joined with our (Continued from page 1) religious life of the country. He intro clergy and with the bishop in the laying there was a real opportunity for the duced three alumni, the Rev. George E. on of hands. Church to step in and assume the care of Norton, rector of the Church of St. Probably this is the first time in history the family at this point by building up the Michael and All Angels, St. Louis, Mo., that our .ministers have joined with Con morale of the family. The Church by its the Very Rev. Charles E. Jackson, Dean gregational clergymen in an ordination care should be able to do away with the og St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral, Grand Rap service. need of the case being reopened and re ids, Mich., and the Rev. Walter Russell South Called to lief administered at some later date. Breed, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Cleve The Council felt that the Church has a land, Ohio. Anti-Lynching War real pastoral obligation to professional so Each of these men told of the definite A movement to enlist the 250,000 or cial workers who are Church people, an influence the school had through its alum ganized women of the Southern Metho obligation which has not always been met. ni, on the life of the Middle West. dist Church in a determined and system To bring out the need of added emphasis The reasons for raising the Million Dol atic campaign for the suppression of on the spiritual side of the life of social lar Fund, and the plans for the campaign lynching was launched at Atlanta, Ga., workers, the Council recommended to the were discussed at the dinner to the dele this week. A large group of representa National Council that the second Sunday gates in Burnham Refectory in the even tive women from thirteen states, all of after Epiphany be set aside each year as ing. Mr. B. Preston Clark, the executive them officials of the Woman’s Missionary the Sunday for a corporate communion of chairman of the campaign, presided; Mr. Council of Conference Social Service Su all social workers who are members of William Henry Lincoln, president of the perintendents, met at the call of the Race the Episcopal Church and a special collect board of trustees, welcomed the dele Relations Commission of the Council be provided for this Sunday. gates, the Rev. Henry B. Washburn, Dean spent three days in conference, and at the The matter of rural work was discussed. of the School, spoke on “The Inner Life conclusion issued a vigorous address to the It was decided that the whole matter of of the School,” and the Rt. Rev. William public relative to the lynching evil, call rural work Was so important that a special Lawrence, national chairman of the cam ing upon the authorities of the several study should be made of the problems that paign, spoke on “Why the School Needs states and counties for its complete sup- it involved. The Council of Advice recom One Million Dollars.” pression and upon the citizens, the pulpit mended to the National Secretary that a and the press for their united support to special division of rural work be formed Bishop Maclnnes this end. The defeat of the Dyer Anti- for a sympathetic understanding of these Visits Grand Rapids Lynching Bill was used to give point to within the department. The Rt. Rev. Rennie Maclnnes, D. D., their utterance. The problems of the casual laborer in the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, paid a visit They further pledged themselves, indi far west was brought to the attention of to Grand Rapids and addressed the Asso vidually and in an official capacity as rep the Council as a particular problem ol ciated Men’s Clubs of the city at a lunch resenting the social service leadership of rural work. Mr. Page of the Diocese of eon at the Pantlind Hotel. Six hundred the organized Methodist women, to a per Spokane drew up a statement with regard men attended and many others were un sistent campaign for adequate state laws to this problem, calling upon the Church able to find standing room. The Bishop and for 'law enforcement. Details of the people for a sympathetic understanding of Jerusalem was introduced by Bishop plan are already being worked out. of it. McCormick. Sir Harry Lauder, who was also present, followed Bishop Maclnnes’s Parochial Mission Plan for Raising Million Dollars address with a moving appeal for close in Waterbury At Cambridge School and friendly co-operation between the The Rev. Walter E. Bentley, Rector of Fifty Alumni from all parts of the coun English speaking people. In the evening St. Stephen's Church, Port Washington, L. try east of the Mississippi River returned at St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral, the Bishop of L and Secretary of the Actors’ Church to the Episcopal Theological School in Jerusalem spoke to a large congregation Alliance has just closed a very successful Cambridge recently to attend the national of the city people on the conditions in the 8 day Mission in St. Paul’s Parish, Water campaign conference at which plans were Near East and deprecated the Zionist bury, Conn. Rev. E. P. S. Spencer, Rector. formulated for raising a One Million Dol movement as being political and not reli There were the usual daily celebrations; lar Endowment Fund for the School. Un gious, and antagonizing Arabs and Chris services for women and children, Mission der the leadership of Bishop Lawrence, tians as well as many orthodox Jews by services and after meetings each evening who recently raised the Church Pension its frankly materialistic ideals. He together with the Question Box and Inter Fund of over $8,000,000, the campaign to stressed the importance of keeping up the cessions. add $1,000,000 to the endowment of the Anglican organization in Jerusalem as it On Saturday evening in the Parish Hall, Cambridge School will be carried on appeared to be a meeting ground for the Mr. Bentley gave the history of the theatre throughout the country. many opposing factors and held the re in its relation to the Church with personal The movement has the hearty support spect and friendship of all people. reminiscences and Shakespearean selec of the alumni and friends of the School tions. who are interested in it not merely as an Congregational Minister effort to raise a large fund, but also as a Helps Ordain a Priest means of educating the public to tlie need A very remarkable ordination service of Theological Education. As Bishop was held at Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, ' RECTORS! Lawrence has said, ‘‘The vital need of this Sunday morning, December 10. It was a Put The Witness on sale at the country is men of force, character, edu joint ordination by ministers of Episcopal Church door. It is an effective way cation and vision—spiritual leaders. In orders and Dr. Frederick E. Emrich, a the production of such men the theologi minister of the Congregational order. of keeping the people active. Try cal school is vital to the church, and it The occasion was the ordination to the it. The results will surprise you. is quite as vital that the public under priesthood of the Rev. Laurence F. Eames, W e furnish the papers for 2J/2 stands its true value.” who was made a deacon by Bishop Law-, cents apiece, charging you only for Several hundred Churchmen of Bos rence in Massachusetts last Ascension Day. ton attended a tea in the Wright Memo Bishop Vincent of Southern Ohio was the the SOLD copies. Have a boy gell rial Library at the School Wednesday aft ordaining bishop and the Rev. Albion C. them at the Church door for a ernoon when Bishop Lawrance and Dean Ockenden, the Rev. Lewis B. Whittemore, nickle. Washburn received the returning alumni. the ftev. Edwin J. van Etten, were the co In a brief informal address Bishop Law ordaining presbyters of our church. A THE WITNESS rence said he wished to give provincial most interesting and significant circum Boston some idea of the world-wide influ stance was the arrangement by which the 6140 Cottage Grove A ve., Chicago ence of the School and to show how it Rev. Dr. Frederick E., Emrich, minister in

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Offerings For Social Service Chancellor C. Larue Munson Dr. Stewart to Speak Work of Federal Council Passes Away in China at Princeton The National Council of the Church Christ Church, Williamsport, and the The rector of St. Luke’s Church, Evan makes an annual appropriation of $2500. Diocese of Harrisburg, met with an irre ston, Dr. George Craig Stewart, was one through its Department of Social Service parable loss in the death on Dec. 8th, of of two speakers at the mlass meeting in to the Social Service work of the Federal Cyrus La Rue Munson, Chancellor of the Buffalo arranged by Bishop Brent for the Council of Churches. Diocese of Harrisburg. Mr. Munson pass evening of November 16th. On December As the Federal Council has asked that ed away in the Rockefeller Hospital, 6th he was the lecturer on “Preabhing” this appropriation be increased to the Peking, China, on the eve of the day set at Bexley Hall, Gambier, Ohio. Dr. Stew amount of $10,000 or $15,000; and as the for his embarking for home with Mrs. art is to be the special preacher at Prince^ General Convention has requested the Munson, and other members of the party ton University on January 21st, to 24th, Council to approve an appeal for special with whom he was travelling. His body 1923. gifts for this purpose: I am authorized by will be brought to Williamsport for burial. the National Council to make this appeal Mr. Munson was in his seventieth year, and Your Renewal for such special contributions which may is survived by his widow, and two sons, be sent, properly designated, to the Treas Edgar Munson, of Williamsport, and urer of the Council, Mr. Lewis B. Frank George Sharp Munson, of Philadelphia. The management of The Witness is very lin, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York City. anxious to get all of the renewals in be Thomas F. Gailor, Church to Have Adequate fore the first of the year. What is the President, National Council. Plant in Atlanta date on your wrapper? If it is marked 1922 your renewal is due. In sending it To Give His Life Ground was broken on November 11th in, help double the circulation by sending Ministering to Deaf for the new $100,000 plant for the another along with it. Your own renewal Church of the Epiphany in Atlanta of On St. Andrew’s Day, in All Souls’ is $1.50. Send a new subscription with which the Rev. Russel K. Smith is Rector. it and you can have both for $2.00. Church for the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., The former church was built in a small the Rev. Henry J. Pulver was advanced to triangle in the residential section of the the Priesthood by the Rt. Rev. Thomas J. city and became entirely inadequate as Garland, Bishop Suffragan of Pennsylvan the years went by and the parish grew. ia. The Rev. Mr. Pulver is a deaf man There was no room for expansion on the A Man’s Religion and studied for Holy Orders in the Phila old lot so, last summer, when the Gulf delphia Divinity School and the Virginia Refining Company offered to buy the prop By Theological Seminary. He will continue erty and erect gasoline filling station on REV. JULIUS A. SCHAAD as missionary to the deaf in the Dioceses it the vestry accepted their offer and of Washington, Virginia, Southern Vir promptly sold securing four very desirable General Missioner of the National ginia, Southwestern Virgina, and West lots in the best section of Inman Park for Council and Associate Editor Virginia, making his headquarters at $10,000. The new location gives much of The Witness Washington, D. C. In the ordination room for expansion and places the church service the candidate was presented by in the most strategic position of any the Rev. H. C. Merrill, missionary to the church in the section. deaf in the Dioceses of Albany, Central The new plant will consist of four units New York, and Western New York; the —the Church building, Parish House, a Rev. F. C. Smielau, missionary to the gymnasium and playground. The Church deaf in the Dioceses of Bethlehem, Harris and Parish House will be connected by a burg, Pittsburgh, and Erie, preached the colonnade and the playground will cover sermon, and the Rev. O. J. Whildin, Dio a city block. cesan Missionary to the Deaf in Maryland, read the Litany. Community House Opens The Rev. C. O. Dantzer, pastor of All at Sedalia, Colorado Souls’ church for the Deaf, was prevent A new parish and community house has ed by illness from taking part in the serv just been opened in St. Philip’s parish, ice. He has been in the Episcopal Hospi Sedalia, Colorado. tal, Philadelphia, for some weeks, but, at last accounts, was somewhat better. Mr. Pershing Leads No Dancer for a Bible Class St. Marks', New York Mr. James H. Pershing of the National The Bishop of New York has received Council is leading a Bible class in St. letters of earnest protest from many parts Barnabas’, Denver, studying the teach of the country in regard to an announce ings of the Church Year, in Collect, Epis ment widely published in the newspapers tle, and Gospel. that a notorious dancer whose exhibitions have aroused great criticism in many cf our cities would appear and speak at St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie, New York. The Witness Fund In answer to these letters of protest, We acknowledge with thanks the Bishop Manning wishes to state that the following donations to The Witness dancer referred to will not speak at St. Fund: Mark’s Church nor appear in any connec Mrs. Irwin ...... 50 tion with the Church or its services. 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Johnson either learn to receive our blessings as a plain that they are not appreciated. son full of gratitude and honor; or else This is due partly to the fact that there Managing Editor if we continue to receive without gratitude isn’t much in them worthy of appreciation, Rev. William B. Spofford the gifts of God, we become a professional and partly to the fact that those about Associate Editors beggar in God’s sight. have very poor faculties of appreciation. Rev. George Parkin Atwater * * 1 * Probably we need to be diverted from Rev. Robert Scott Chalmers Gratitude involves some outward ex the thought, “What do people think of R ev. A. Manby Lloyd pression on our part. me,” and to concentrate on the thought, Rev. Julius A. Schaad We do not care to receive implied bless “What am I really?” Rev. George Craig Stewart ings from God. I am sure that he does w * * Entered as second class matter at the Post not wish to receive implied thanks from us. St. Paul speaks in one place of one “be Ofllce at Chicago, III., under the Act of Congress Worship is a gentleman’s return for fa ing able to comprehend.” of M arch 3. 1879 vors received. Few people were able to comprehend the THE ABILITY TO APPRECIATE “He that giveth me thanks and praise he beauty of Christ’s character. honoreth me.” Few people are looking for the beauty I am sure that the world would be with of true righteousness. By Bishop Johnson out moral purpose if there were no per That is why so many people are able k Real gratitude is a rare virtue. sonal God to whom we are beholden for to impress others with a merely superfi Any pastor or philanthropist can testify favors and to whom in return we give cial culture. that those who are most willing to receive thanks and praise. Christ is like some old masterpiece on gifts are usually the least grateful. 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correst answers, combined from all the Cheerful Confidences papers.) CHURCH SERVICES George Parkin Atwater, D.D. (1) The following abbreviations are used in the Prayer Book. Write the full TEACHING FACTS word of which each is the abbreviation. In the answers to the questions which 1 Rom. Col. put in The Witness of November ilth, one Matt. Thess. child said that Jerusalem was in South Cor Ephes. Phil. America. (Will some one page Columbus, Isa. and notify Thos. Cook and Son?) Heb. Pet. Rev. Jer. We must not blame the child. Several Gal. Mai. grown-ups have admitted to me that they Eph. Tim. could not answer the questions. (2) Designate which of the above are Now, what is the trouble with our teach Gospels, and which are Epistles. ing? My own belief is that we do not sufficiently drill the children in essential (3) Many incorrect words and phrases facts, facts that are a background for the are used in this brief statement, which fol child’s education. lows. Copy the statement using the cor rect phrases and words. We have so much teaching material that it results in confusion. It is my firm ‘At St. John’s Episcopal Church, last conviction that we should have groups of Sabbath evening, there was a service of related facts and that parents and teachers Confirmation. The main auditorium was should unite in an effort to drill the chil filled with a large audience. The choir dren, in an interesting way. I do not marched in and enter the pulpit, and after mean the unimportant facts such as lists a song Rev. Smith, the preacher of St. of names, or books of the Bible, but facts John’s confirmed the large class. The that direct a child’s thinking, and act as Bishop preached a sermon. Ten men, guides to his development. twenty women and fourteen children For every teacher who is a really inspir joined the Church.” ing, constructive teacher, there are three (4) Name the first five books of the who can become drill masters. If the New Testament in their proper oraer. drill masters prepare the way, an inspired (5) Name at least four of the Twelve teacher can take a whole school, and make Apostles. a lesson live. (6) Can you state any books of the Old No subject is taught in school, and no Testament in which you find Jesus Christ new subject is taught in college, without mentioned by name? some drill in definitions and facts. If you (7) Define the following words: Psalters take a college course in biology, you must Litany; Te Deum; Collect; Rubric; Proper lefarn several hundred names, definitions Preface; Deacon. and classifications before you are prepared 8) What festival of the Church occurs to go on. each week? May I give an illustration. Let us all (9) Can you have a Church building learn this fact. without a pulpit? (Give a reason for your There are three orders of Ministers in answer.) Christ’s Church—Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. (10) By what rite or ceremony does one become a member of Christ’s Church? Read this until you have it as a per manent possession. Every other title such as Rector, Dean, or Preacher, refers to the nature of one’s work in the Church, or to an office in the Church, but every Dean, Rector, Canon, Vicar, Coadjutor, or Archdeacon is, so far as Holy Orders are concerned, either a Bishop, a Priest, or a EVOLUTION Deacon. The Rev. Mr. Spofford is busi ness manager of The Witness, but he is A Witness to God a priest. Dean Mercer is head of Bexley Theological School, but he is a priest. Canon Abbott is Senior Canon of Trinity .BY. Cathedral, Cleveland, but he is a priest. REV. GEORGE CRAIG STEWART, D.D. Archdeacon Patterson of Ohio is a priest. I am Rector of a parish but I am a priest. Rector of St. Luke’s, Evanston, Illinois I have a Curate, but he is a priest. Bishop Johnson was first a deacon, then a priest:, then a Bishop. One may be Archbishop, An answer for the Bryanite and the Materialist Bishop Coadjutor, Bishop Suffragan, Mis sionary Bishop, or a retired Bishop, but, he is a Bishop. Learn the fundamental For a Dozen, $3.50 facts and you will have substantial basis Single Copy, 35c for further study, ANOTHER EXAMINATION (Teachers and parents are urged to give THE WITNESS PUBLISHING COMPANY the children this examination. Save the 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue CHICAGO papers, and compare them with the an swers which will appear in The Witness very soon. I should be glad if teachers would send me a report of curious or in-

I ,LACY1 The: rr n cial Si. hce provini the di Synod Eigif of the ti resent A rest in g thi of the{ iynod the so as ' own r cial S pice uepe With t I ‘plies of ons wi The Provincial ment very anx gram practi(| in par the Provi tion. ¡here are Provin release jhe chairn tee in; jieir respf Palaces Shelter In ten years Americans have placed in no church or no Christian can steel his pointir it of Vice the hands of Near East Relief fully seven heart when little children are crying bit ceses been mi Orphans ty million dollars which has relieved dis terly for a crust of bread and for Chris retain! tress so poignant and pitiful that it has tian fathering and mothering. In x w of the (Continued from front page) not been equalled in any former period. these the day in study and half in labor, in the In its administration for the succor of ref Gift Enables Racine ments, End the ali shops or on the farm. Here in the shoe ugees and orphaned and abandoned chil Conference to be Resumed gram .the avera shops fifty dollars’ worth of leather in the dren, a force of Christian folk of all faiths that tl fallacy of boys’ hands is turned into two-hundred have ministered with a loving care that The- report of the Department of Re ligious Education at the Council Meeting pointm i ife dollars’ worth of shoes. A bolt of cloth has softened and sweetened the bitterness diocesi i where the is Skillfully made up into serviceable of the experiences of a martyred race. included the information that the Depart ment, in trying to comply with the resolu medial clothing and common clay is turned over Dollars go a long way in these lands and chairm iship to If as sun-dried bricks for homes, or shaped are so widely spent that they do not breed tion of General Convention, had consoli dated six Commissions, placing all under office Vice-cha on the potter’s wheel into household a generation of dependents. The paltry these dishes. one new commission to be known as the !n ■ sum of five dollars a month will meet the ity to present thi At Nazareth, where Jesus spent His living and educational necessities and Commission on Church Schools. A gift of $15,000 from Mrs. Mortimer cilitate ihfe activity growing boyhood, and “increased in wis training of a child; sixty dollars provides partm( dom and stature and in favor with God a year’s support and three hundred dollars Matthews of Ohio, and the cooperation of and man,” a battalion of boys of twelve will “see it through” for five years, and Bishop Webb enabled the Department of years of age are finding a home and moral fit a boy or girl for a life of economic in Religious Education to recommend to the Dr. Di wi Speaks equipment for life. A fertile farm of dependence. Council the appointment of a committee C. L. D. Meetini composed of the President, Vice President, sixty acres, lately acquired, has building This Christmas season finds the section the Executive Secretary of the Depart, The; which will shelter three hundred and six \of the world where the Gospel took its Leagui ty boys, and buildings will be erected for .rise to bless and spread its cheer through- ment and Miss Elizabeth Matthews, to formulate and execute plans to use Racine ned tj a thousand more. Another group of these , out all lands, blasted and blighted by the College for conferences of small groups precedj destitute children is gathering at Bethle most awful human tragedy that has shock of students or Church Workers, and for The fij hem. Here they will be glad to rest even ed the centuries. American intervention the revival of the Racine Summer Con Churcj in a manger, after having been buffeted, bas been too long withheld. Let Ameri ference which was most successful for four The] like stray dogs in devastated cities, whose cans now throw our dollars into the breach years and abandoned for the lack of ade Willfa streets were stained red with blood of to stay the hand of devastating death. We given. their massacred parents. quate accommodations. The committee may yet save a remnant and redeem our will also look toward the establishment of Episcq El The vast German warehouses at Derind indifference in some small measure. The bridgi yin je on the Gulf of Ismid, became a refuge a school for training Church Workers, pro observers from the field declare that it is viding such a plan can be developed for given en route and the huge store of “gunny- impossible to keep alive more than one even bags” designed for sand bags to block the this purpose. The Council adopted a refugee in four. Action must be quick. resolution of thanks to Mrs. Matthews promi| Suez Canal, supplied hammock beds, and Christian America’s answer must be bj for her generous gift. The: even clothing for the children. telegraph. Per ^ The governments of the Near East were An opportunity. was given to the De Baron Shibusawa, Japan’s eminent partment of Religious Education to assist speake ■quick to devote any properties suitable statesman, when learning of the needs of in the establishment of a school of Re literati and available to house these vast life-sav these thousands of orphans whom America ing and life-conserving enterprises. And ligion at the University of Wisconsin. The has undertaken to relieve, demanded a Department was able to secure the serv ment the Near East Relief shelters the greatest part of the enterprise, saying: “We of man hi1 orphanage system in the world in these ices of Professor Frank Gavin. This was Japan are human beings and those chil reported to the Council, and received its told requisitioned homes of Kaisers, monks and dren are human beings. Let us take care endorsement. ______Kuskii i warriors. Little did the projectors and of a thousand of them.” And then he foundii architects of these palaces, monasteries, called in severity-one of the leading edi CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTIONS the C« and barracks dream that they were thus tors, laid the matter before them and By Bishop Johnson this, building for the refuge and relief of hu gained their support to the appeal. No A book of 175 pages, neatly bound; 50c econo! man suffering. city in Christian America can do less, and per copy; $4.00 per dozen. tween i c Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. THE WITNESS 7

needs of the moderates, both of the right been in one family for over sixty years, Social Service Editorial and of the left, is the Workingman’s Edu and who is the only living member of the By Dr. William S. Keller cational Association with its extension first confirmation class held in St. Augus courses for workingmen given by members tine’s Church, by the Late Rt. Rev. John of Oxford and Cambridge to self-organized W. Beckwith, D. D., when he was Bishop FALLACY OF APPOINTMENTS classes of workingmen, both in England of Georgia. This faithful old soul is , an There was a. meeting of the chairmen and in her colonies. This latter movement active worker in the mission, and takes and representatives of the Diocesan So has as its organ a paper, the name of care of the sanctuary work. cial Service Committees of the Mid-West which, “The Highway,” is significant. It Province, held at Chase House, Chicago, treats of the education of the workingman Publicity Department the day preceding the meeting of the not as a ladder by which he may mount up to Cut Expenses Synod. from one class to another, but as a high In making the report for the Publicity Eight of the twelve dioceses wete rep way along which he may progress while Department at the Council Meeting the resented. A resolution was passed, ask remaining among his fellows. The Labor Executive Secretary announced that in ing the Council to recommend to the body 'Colleges in'America are, he said, supported compliance with the °f the General of the Synod that the canons be revised for the most part by unions. These col Convention for retrenchment wherever so as to permit the dioceses to elect their leges are co-ordinated and kept in touch possible the Department had decided to own representative to the Provincial So one with another by a national institution, suspend the publication of Exchange of cial Service Department. In accordance the Workingman’s Educational Bureau. Methods. This suspension will be perm with the wishes of the committee, the can The summer school for working women at anent unless there should come from the ons were changed to meet this request. Bryn Mawr College, and the extension field such a demand as to require a re The Provincial Social Service Depart ‘courses for workingmen given by Amherst newal of publication. The Department ment is very anxious to establish a pro College are exceptions to the general rule. had decided also to suspend its clipping gram that will be of such scientific and In conclusion, Prof. Dana pointed out how bureau service. He reported also that practical importance as to justify, at leasv little hope there was for democracy unless there would be considerable saving in the in part, the Provincial fprm of organiza the workingman was educated, and urgea printing of The Church at Work under a tion. There are a few Bishops in the. the members of the Church League to new contract, and that through care and Province who have not as yet seen fit to support the movement. economies during the year there would release the chairmanship of this commit probably be an unexpended balance of tee in their respective diocese. The ap Memorial Pews for Old about $30,000 in the Budget of the De pointment of Vice-Chairman in these dio Family Servants partment for this year. ceses has been made and the Bishop has Memorial pews in memory of old faith retained the chairmanship. ful servants of the South and elsewhere, Fifty-Fifty for the In view of the very great inactivity of is an idea conceived by the Rev. J. Henry Honolulu Children these Diocesan Social Service Depart Brown, vicar of St. Augustine’s Church, The children of St. Mark’s, Denver, ments, and the already overcrowded pro (colored) Savannah, and towards the com have prepared a Christmas box for the gram of the average Bishop, it is hoped pletion of the idea, four pews have al children of St. Mark’s school, Honolulu. that the fallacy of such vice-chairman ap ready been promised for this mission, one There are forty pupils in the school, and pointments may soon be seen, and, in such to be given by the Bishop of Georgia as the box contains eighty gifts, half of th.em dioceses where these conditions exist, im a tribute to the “Mammy” who lives in “useful”, and the other half “joyful.” mediate steps may be taken to release the Macon, and who pays an annual visit to chairmanship to the men now holding the the family of Bishop Reese. office of Vice-chairman. By so doing, The idea underlying these gifts is to these men will have some definite author have a perpetual memory of good will ity to represent their Diocese and thus fa that existed between the races in the cilitate the activity of the Provincial De South before the war between the States partment. and during the reconstruction period, and now as promoted by the racial relation Dr. Drown Speaks at ship commission. C. L. I. D. Meeting It is proposed by Archdeacon Brown to Tiave the gifts not only as memorial of The Boston Branch of the Church old “mammies” and others who have gone, League for Industrial Democracy has plan but as tributes to those who are living. ned this year to hold four labor suppers Among others who have promised pews be preceded by short service of intercession sides Bishop Reese, are the employers of The first of these took place at Emmanuel “Mother Precilla Hammond” who has Church. The service was conducted by the Rev. William Laurence Wood and an address given by Dr. Edward S. Drown of the Episcopal Theological School at Cam bridge who spoke of the joy which is given to those who seek for the Kingdom even if they do not attain in full its promises. The subject of the speakers at the sup per was ’‘Labor Colleges.” The first speaker, Henry W. L. Dana, instructor in literature at the Boston Trade Union Col lege, gave a brief history of the move ment for the education of the working man both in England and in America. He told of two labor colleges in England, F O R TROUBLED NERVES Ruskin College at Oxford, the first to be high blood pressure, dyspepsia, neuritis, investigate the new drugless meth founded and the more conservative, and ods now employed at THE BIGGS’ SANITARIUM, Asheville North Caro the Central Labor College, an offshoot of lina. A specialized treatment adapted to each individual. No tubercular this, radical, which has for its gospel the economies theories of Karl Marx. Be cases accepted. Write for free booklet— interesting and instructive. tween these two colleges, meeting the

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 6 T H E WITNESS CHURCH SCHOOLS Reminiscences of a CHURCH SCHOOLS Sick Priest ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE BERKELEY DIVINITY A CHURCH COLLEGE OP ARTS AND A n on ym ou s SCHOOL LETTERS, for men who are gentlemen, Of the two words, “serenity” and “tran Middletown, Connecticut ■ksM students and sportsmen. The highest quility,” I do not know which one to choose Address: No. scholarship, simplicity and inexpensive as a concise description of the greatest lack Re*. WILLIAM PALMER LADD, Dean Voi. ness of living, intimate personal com- of modern clergy. The spirit of | ‘vim, pamonshin of professors and students, hustle and pep” seems to have captured us s i n c e r i t y characterize this (farci institution. The fees are: For tuition, to such an extent that to be described as * year; for a room, furnished and heated, $125 a year; for board in hall, “active and vigorous” is the most coveted $225 a year; a total of $600. ” compliment. The same characteristics, we (general atyeologtral ■ Por 1923-24 the number of students is think, go to make the successful priest ^ e m tn a r g lim ite d to 150. Write Bernard Iddings Bell, President. which make the successful haberdasher or Three-year undergraduate course of pre- grocer. Like them, we gauge each other’s scribed and elective study. ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. success by the financial reports of our par (Railway Station: Barry town) Fourth-year course for graduates, offering ishes. Like them, we throw ourselves into larger opportunity for specialization. community work and become “boosters.” Provision for more advanced work, leading Like them, our chief end in life seems to be to degrees of S. T. M. and S. T. D. to keep on the move. We want big cities, The! HOWE SCHOOL ADDRESS A Superior and Thorough big churches, big salaries, big confirmation classes, big receptions, big contributors, big Unite« States are CHURCH SCHOOL FOR BOYS THE DEAN Sunday Schools, big congregations, big liation jdth the E Careful Selection—Limited Enrollment 1 Chelsea Square New York City reputations. So we don’t let any grass suit jconferenci A separate school with individual grow under our feet. ,moniith between î attention for little boys. I am one of the casualties. For two Rev. Charles Herbert Young, ML A. Rector months, now, I have been sitting in an easy Thomi ADDRESS BOX W. HOWE. IND. chair looking out over the water and think The Protestant Episcopal Theo pal Ni ing about it. Three years ago I came home Foreif Born Divi from France, where T had served in the logical Seminary in Virginia of ons of the THE WOLCOTT SCHOOL ranks, was priested and sent to a small For catalogue and other Information anothi Boarding and Day School for Girls parish in a “live” Southern diocese. I was address the Dean, Unity. DENVER, COLORADO “full of pep.” I doubled the parish com REV. BERRYMAN GREEN. D. D., College Preparatory and General municant list. I started a public library Theological Seminary, Pavlilj C ourses (which failed, because no one, not even my A lexandria, Va. our jjective Cl Affiliated with the Wolcott Con self, had any time to read). I organized a servatory of Music golf club. I ran an Odd Fellow degree cembt CIRCULAR UPON APPLICATION team. I organized the American Legion. I been warded to took over and operated a building and loan which! ssurance i 'association. I took twenty delinquent boys commi icate with, and taught them for a „year. And when I ST. KATHARINE’S SCHOOL ous céses in v Davenport, Iowa was wounded, I had two new projects on Under the care of the Sisters of St. Mary. hand—a military company and a Rotary A thorough preparatory school for a lim Club. and u o to ited number of girls. and p; toral care School recommended by Eastern Col- I did not neglect my parish. I preached where |t baes. Beautiful grounds. Outdoor sports reasonably good sermons—nearly always and riding. Address possili secure from manuscript. I took care of the sick, THE SISTER SUPERIOR NASHOTAH HOUSE lovak rthodox Ch and I made my parish calls faithfully. I advisi studied intermittently. But I had no time THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY to gr fraternal to rest. I was never serene. I was never suppa tranquil. I imagined that everything Founded 1842 SAINT MARY’S SCHOOL vak hodox cimi KNOXVILLE, ILLINOIS depended on me, so I always had to hurry. For Catalogue, Address lished Quite often I thrilled when I heard people America, College Preparatory and two years of advanced THE DEAN Nashotah, Wi». our d Ire say, “There’s one parson who isn’t lazy,” Chun work. Music; Expression; Domestic Science; or something like that. Athletics. A separate school (St, Margaret’s) munii of our ( And now, I’ve had two months to think ingiil for younger girls. For catalogue address the about it—and to ask myself what contri DE KOVEN ACADEMY Rector. bution I really made to the life of the com College Preparatory and Grarmar School. Unj munity—and to wonder what contribution A CHURCH SCHOOL FOiR BOYS IN has mi a priest ought to make. RACINE, WISCONSIN. Bishd [Pavlik, tkl I have reached a conclusion. I succeeded Address ment PRIVATE PRAYERS in intensifying an already over-intense, The Rector, Lock Box 272, Racine intimi community life. I succeeded in speeding up and ! FOR THE FAITHFUL a few people who were already exceeding Orth(^ CHURCH SCHOOLS IN THE DIOCESE OF Ames! Compiled by the speed limit. I played a trombone in a VIRGINIA, (Inc.)—Pres.—Bishop of Va. Episc. community jazz band. I was one of the Ch. ownership; health; scholarship; culture; Th BISHOP SAGE beauty. BOYS: St. Christopher’s—$600, Rich bunch—contributing little that wasn’t be mond; Christchurch—$400, Christchurch P. 0., menti [ßtween the ing contributed already by the butcher and Middlesex Co. CURLS: St. Catherine's—$800, the Ten cents a copy, plus two cents Richmond; St. Anne’s—$500, Charlottevllle; St. m of Ci baker and candlestick maker. Some day, Margaret’s—$450, Tappahannock, Essex Co. broug for postage. before very long I hope, I am going back Catalogs from Principals. the F at eccles (my parish refused to accept my resigna uague jj ;■ tion and gave me a leave of absence in PUBLICITY stand THE WITNESS f e t i stead) and I think I will have a real con A bundle of papers at the Church door thosa f tne Anglic- 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. tribution to make. asth¡ every Sunday morning. Sell them for 5c I that Bid # I am going to contribute to a “live” town a copy. We will send you a bill every ly N e d hy CHICAGO either ‘tranquility” or “serenity.” I can’t three months, charging you 2f£c a copy* choose between them, as my dictionary is giving you the privilege of deducting for | a| | back home in my study. unsold copies. What could be fairer? Pr tp the Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication.