THE APPROACH TO CHRIST by Bishop Johnson

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T he A pproach to Christ An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON T IS a pity that we cannot approach religion as we matter of philosophical discussion and has all the force I do science and art. In these avocations we do not of a militant crusade, one has no business to stand on draw our inspiration from local sources, nor from our the side lines as an uninterested observer. For better own performance. If the professors in our adjoining or worse the peoples of the earth are going to be vitally colleges are inadequate we do not condemn science but affected by this militant force which imposes its dog­ we go far afield to read Eddington and Einstein and ig­ mas at the price not only of spiritual ideals but of per­ nore the local personalities. If the village band plays sonal liberty. discordant music we dp not belittle music but draw our inspiration from masters of the art. H E great majority of men are governed by emo­ Thus we do in seeking truth and beauty, but in the T tion rather than reason, and are therefore the vic- pursuit of righteousness we shape our theology from tims of demagogues who understand mob psychology, our immediate contacts and govern our conduct by the rather than disciples of high principles embodied in effectiveness of the local minister and the foibles of the human leaders. Just as science is at the bottom of our adjacent congregation. The reason for this is evident. material comforts and art is at the foundation of our It is due to the fact that the pursuit of goodness de­ aesthetic culture, so, whether you like it or not, reli­ mands of us certain moral obligations which involve gion or anti-religion is at the base of our social conduct. personal sacrifice. Wherever the individual is required The mere fact that Soviet Russia uses the slogan that to do something because he believes something he finds 'there is no God’ demonstrates the fact that there is d it easier to question the belief than he does to overcome dynamic power in the effect of religion upon the social his inertia. What he wants is an alibi and he finds it order. Of course when you mention religion the in the habits of those who surround him. What he scientist is apt to become unscientific and to look upon ought to' realize is that moral and spiritual truths are religious phenomena as less important than the habits just as vital if the environment is unfavorable as they of bees. But, an irritated scientist is not a good scien­ are if one is blessed with the most virtuous neighbors. tist. As some one has well remarked, a man who It would be just as sensible to say that music is no despises science or religion is neither scientific or re­ good because the village band plays badly as to say re­ ligious, for the two are so intermingled in God’s world ligion is no good because one’s neighbors are a bunch that they cannot be separated without doing violence to of hypocrites. We have no right to blame art for the the whole nature of man. failure of its local agents. We ought to value it only For better or worse religion has been and still is the through its fairest expression. dynamic motive power for social conduct. We either When one studies the religious convictions of the worship God or we blaspheme Him. This accounts for people, it often happens that a young man of twenty, the fact that atheists are forever talking about religion. without any profound research and without any ade­ It is like a man who asserts that he doesn’t believe in quate experience, conies to final conclusions as to his ghosts but is always battling them. We mortals are a religious faith which are based upon a. very superficial curious combination of animal traits and spiritual acceptance of some skeptics who have unsettled him, ideals. We are capable of both brutal cruelty and and a very cursory glance at some professing Chris­ heroic self-sacrifice. In consequence the history of the tians who have offended him. Of course the issues at race shows that we are either seeking these things that stake are tremendous for they not only involve the are above which seem to elude us or society sinks back purity of family life, the sanctity of social obligations, into the habits of the wolf, the fox, the pig, and the the conduct of private and public business, but they peacock. There is no other vital force which can lift also determine the faith that is going to carry him the savage out of his animal propensities except reli­ through the vicissitudes of life and the hope that is gion. It would be rare to find any savage tribe which going to sustain him in his darker hours. was ever rescued from barbarism by any other force. In this age when atheism has ceased to be merely a If the missionary fails to do this, it is pretty certain

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS July 18, 1935 that the trader will not. The effect of the white trader comes short of being an adequate expression. Love is apart from religion has been disastrous to all primi­ really the motor power. Moral effort is the steering tive races. He has been a curse and not a blessing. wheel. But there will be nothing to steer if the motor is dead. St. Paul acknowledges the failure: “ For the H ILO SO PH Y is the special privilege of less than good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would P five per cent of mankind and it is particularly ex­ not that I do.” But this need not discourage the effort, clusive in its attitude toward the untrained mind. It for he believed in an ultimate success through Jesus has never been a substitute for religion because its pur­ Christ who giveth the victory. pose is to seek God—if haply it can find Him—not to I do not know that religion differs essentially from serve God already revealed. Jesus came to do and to science and art in this particular, for in all these lines think. Philosophers strive to confine their energies to of effort those who have made the greatest progress theorizing first and to do little or nothing of a personal have done so through the greatest discouragement and character because of their thinking. In philosophy the with a profound sense of their own personal inade­ major premise or basic assumption is questionable. In quacy. Really, the most competent persons I have religion the conclusion that there is a God to seek is a known have been the most humble about their achieve­ matter of faith and therefore subject to doubt, but it ments and yet the most optimistic in their endeavors. involves doing something as the result of the faith. Religion has been defined as moral action tinged with In our poor efforts to press on there is but one example emotion. That does not define what it is. It is rather which we need to follow and that is to measure our love tinged with moral action, which so frequently yearnings in the life and promises of our dear Master.

Detroit’s City Mission

H E Detroit Episcopal City Mission has its head­ 15,645 men were lodged in Mariners’ Institute last year, Tquarters in the Old Mariners’ Church, Woodward and 38,528 free lunches and meals were served to the at Woodbridge Ave. It is the oldest stone Church in poor and unemployed. 3 ,5 °° received clothing and Michigan, and was completed in 1849, and is next door shoes, 3,794 people with personal and domestic prob­ to the site of Smyth’s Tavern, where in 1805 the gov­ lems entered the offices of the staff. Here the morale erning body of the Michigan Territory first sat in leg­ of those to whom life has been unkind is uplifted— islative session. Constructed primarily to provide a and mental and spiritual strength, hope, courage and faith are born anew. At 46 E. Vernor Highway is Page House, a home for unemployed women. This home was founded by the superintendent, The Rev. Geo. Backhurst, in 1932, at the height of the depression in Detroit, in two houses loaned by the vestry of St. John’s Church. More than one thousand girls and women have passed through these hospitable doors, and many have been saved from mental and moral collapse. Like the men at Mariners’ Institute about 50% are Pay a small amount for their keep. Others are carried until they find employment. It is interesting to note that many of the persons sheltered there, return, after things get better for them, and pay for the benefits they received when they were down but by no means out. The City Mission Staff have their offices at Mari­ ners’ Institute, 300 Griswold St., but use it only as a spring-board. Chaplaincies in public institutions form FEEDING DETROIT’S HOMELESS a large part of the work. 1813 visitations were made place of worship for sea-faring men, the Mariners’ last year in 30 different institutions. 743 services were Church still serves its original purpose. Thousands of held, with a total attendance of 42,866. homeless and destitute men, without regard to creed or The Staff consists of the Superintendent, the Rev. religious beliefs, come seeking aid. Geo. Backhurst, Hospital Chaplain, Rev. R. E. Ran­ Adjoining the old Church there is Mariners’ Insti­ dall, and Industrial Secretary and Lay Reader, Mr. E. tute, where a night’s lodging, together with breakfast, A. Lucas, formerly a Church Army Captain. Tem­ can be obtained for fifteen cents. The only require­ porary jobs are found for men who are getting on ments made for occupancy of a bed at Mariners’ Insti­ their feet, such as cook, dishwasher, janitors and bed- tute, or for the enjoyment of the privileges and enter­ makers, day and night clerks, driver and helper on the tainment at Taylor Hall are cleanliness and decency. mission truck. This truck, by the way, not only picks

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. July 18, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Five up used clothing and furniture, books and papers, but ners’ Church and Institute, in Page House and in the also day old food from the bakeries. So again a mul­ public institutions present a great challenge and oppor­ titude is fed and clothed by “gathering up the frag­ tunity. Those who stand on their own feet, but sadly ments that remain.” Magazines are picked up and dis­ need strength and Christian Fellowship. tributed to the shut-ins, and 12,000 poor, sick and aged The poor, the sick, the aged, the mentally sick, the folk were made a wee bit happier. delinquent, all constitute the parishioners of the City All this worthwhile work for God’s poor is being Mission. No financial support can be derived from done on an annual budget of $10,000, just half of the such a congregation, but Mother Church must find a income in 1929. The Mission faces a further reduc­ way to minister to them. Remember the words of the tion of $3,000 this coming year. Only through an in­ Lord Jesus when He said, “ Inasmuch as ye have done crease of annual memberships can this work be main­ it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have tained. There is an active Woman’s Mission Guild done it unto Me,” and He said with evident pride, “ The composed of one or more key-women from each par­ poor have the Gospel preached to them.” ish and mission in greater Detroit. They meet on the second Monday of each month at either Mariners’ In­ stitute or Page House. The Board of Trustees, with the bishop of the dio­ L et’s Know cese as president, meet every other month throughout By the year. Bishop Page said in his annual charge to the BISHOP WILSON diocesan convention this year, “ I marvel at the leader­ ship of the Rev. George Backhurst in the City Mission. L egends of M oses He is an outstanding example of a man who makes the ITH Ethiopia so much in the newspapers today, best of the tools that he has, and does an ever increas­ Wit is interesting to recall a very ancient legend of ing work. Not alone has his income been cut year Moses which was passed down in old Jewish writings. after year in a way that would have staggered most Candacus was king of Ethiopia and had a war on his men, but with all he has not only enlarged the work hands with some neighboring tribes. He led out an im­ but has reduced a bank indebtedness of $3,750.00 to posing army and left one named Balaam as regent in $750.00. With little but faith, and the co-operation of his place during his absence. Balaam, it appears, was St. John’s Church, he has established Page House an ambitious scoundrel and took advantage of the sit­ where unemployed women are cared for at the rate of uation to alienate the people from their rightful king $3.50 a week. Although one third of these people have and place himself on the throne. Sheba, the capital of not paid, he has needed only about $300.00 in charita­ the country was naturally an almost impregnable city, ble contributions to support the work. I understand being practically surrounded by the Nile and the As- that Bishop Williams hoped that the building lying just topus. Balaam fortified it still more by building walls west of Mariners’ Church, and belonging to the cor­ on two sides, digging deep canals on a third side, and poration, might be utilized as a sort of Church In­ collecting a great number of poisonous snakes on the stitute connected with Mariners’, but the income from fourth side. this property was so large that the Trustees felt they When King Candacus returned from the war, he could not afford to give it up. Because of recent finan­ found his Capitol armed against him and in control of cial conditions that building was not rented, so that it the perfidious Balaam. His soldiers could not sur­ actually became profitable to put it in the hands of the mount the walls on the two enclosed sides, they were City Missions to save taxes. Therefore, the institu­ engulfed in the canals on the third side, and were poi- tional work and the Inn have been concentrated in this sonously bitten by the snakes on the remaining side. one building, and I am glad to say that from certain So the king settled down to starve the city into sub­ charitable sources money has come to provide for new mission. For nine years the siege continued and then equipment without incurring any debt. In connec­ Candacus died. tion with the City Mission I usually emphasize one The chiefs of the army met to choose a new leader. fact. We often think of the City Mission as an insti­ Eventually they agreed on Moses, made him a throne, tution that cares primarily for the physical needs of placed him thereon and cried “ God save King Moses.” the poor. This, however, is only one phase of the They gave him seven days to enjoy his coronation and work, and the minor side of it. Last year not only then came to ask how the city might be taken. were 17 1 religious services held at Mariners’ Church, Said Moses: “ Nine years have ye invested it, and it and 90 at St. Luke’s Hospital, but 427 Services were is not yet in your power. Follow my advice and in held in the public institutions of Wayne County. The nine days it shall be yours.” City Mission, centered at Old Mariners’ is carrying the “ Speak and we will obey,” said the chiefs. spiritual ministrations of this Church to thousands of Then said Moses: “ Make it known in the camp that people in this community who must be classed as God’s all the soldiers go into the woods, and bring me storks’ poor.” nests as many as they can find.” The aim of the Mission is to do in a practical and Out went the soldiers and brought back countless Christ-like way, just what we pray in the Litany of the numbers of young storks. For three days Moses or­ Church, “ To strengthen such as do stand, to comfort dered that the storks should be kept strictly confined and help the weakhearted, and to raise up those who and carefully starved. They were not to be allowed a fall.” These three classes of men and women in Mari­ single morsel of fodcl. On the third day he ordered

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It seems that the American Liberty League, a snake left and that side of the city was left entirely sponsoring the sessions that day, put on speakers who unprotected. denounced the New Deal as socialistic, all of which “ March into the city and take it,” said Moses. prompted Mr. Kinsolving to declare that the rugged Whereupon the army moved in, occupied the city, individualism of the Hoover administration “ was lead­ drove out the usurper and lost not a man in the capture. ing the American people into hell” . when Mr. Roose­ Tired of the prolonged siege, the people gladly wel­ velt came along and made the first real attempt in the comed Moses as their king and he reigned successfully “ history of the world to carry out the teachings of the for forty years, respected and honored by all. Eventu­ Sermon on the Mount.” ally he decided to turn over the throne to the legiti­ * * * mate heir, a son of King Candacus, and he departed The judgment against The Churchman for over into Midian. $10,000 is of the greatest importance to religious jour­ All this is said to have occurred after Moses was nalism and to the Church generally. As most Church obliged to leave Egypt in his youth and before he re­ people know that publication was a pioneer in the cam­ turned to take the leadership of Israel in the Exodus. paign to clean up the movies. In one of the articles I wonder what legendary ambitions might have been reference was made to Mr. Gabriel L. Hess, attorney stirring in Italy as long ago as that ? for Mr. Hay’s Motion Picture Producers and Distribu­ tors of America, Inc. The statement was false and a retraction and apology was printed in The Churchman. Nevertheless Mr. Hess went to court and got a judg­ Talking It Over ment. People familiar with such cases inform me that By the judgment is largely for the purpose of keeping the W. B. SPOFFORD paper quiet on the movie business and that probably the paper will not have to pay this large sum. Here’s H E several organizations dominated by the color­ hoping that is true. In any case the courts are to' get Tful Alexander Cummins, rector of Christ Church, the matter again since an appeal is to be made, with Poughkeepsie, N. Y., have sent epistles to Bishops funds now being raised by The Churchman to finance Perry, Cook and Hobson, Presiding Bishop, President it. Along with the thousands of others who admire of the National Council and chairman of the Forward The Churchman and its editor, the Rev. Guy Emery Movement, respectively, calling their attention to the Shipler, for the courage shown on all social issues, we fact that the literature issued by the organizations they hope that the appeal may be successful. head seldom use the word “ Protestant,” which is a * * * part of the official name of the Church. The Evangeli­ The Rev. W. L. Bennett of Lowville, N. Y., writing cal Education Society, the Protestant Episcopal So­ to express his approval of Gardiner Day’s review of ciety for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, the “ The Episcopal Church in Town and Country” by Protestant Episcopal Church League and the vestry of Goodrich Fenner, says that it is about time we sent a the parish presided over by Mr. Cummins, are all few country parsons to General Conventions. And not pretty much steamed up over the matter, judging by only parsons but laymen as well, who have a bit of the letters that appear in the current issue of The honest mud on their shoes and hayseed in their hair. Chroniclei edited by the good doctor. Of course the “ The Church,” he writes, “will not suffer but gain fact is that our Church is generally known as the Epis­ when a few Lafollettes and Norrises arise in Conven­ copal Church, largely because it is a more convenient tion and utter words that will seem like ‘cool breezes title, and it seems rather silly to charge that the reason from the country.’ ” the full official title, “ The Protestant Episcopal Church Those who have heard the Rev. George Gilbert, in the United States of America,” is not generally rural missionary of Connecticut, go after a Church used is due to “ that partisan group within our Church crowd can readily imagine the “ cool breeze from the which persistently propagandizes for a change of the country” that he would bring to a General Convention. title of our Church by the elimination of the word He is not only a successful parson but is also a suc­ Protestant.” However it all makes for conversation cessful farmer, notwithstanding the fact that not so during the dull summer months and I am sure we are long ago he fell off a load of hay and nearly broke his all grateful to Mr. Cummins and his associates for that. neck. As it was he was laid up with damages for two Incidentally one wonders^ why a letter was not also months. But he is now back on the job translating the addressed to the dean and trustees of the Cambridge high-brow message of the Episcopal Church into the Seminary, the official name of which is the Episcopal vocabulary of the farmers to whom he ministers. Some­ Theological School. ‘ Maybe they figure the school is thing of his estimate of the rural pastor’s job may be sufficiently protestant without putting the word in the had from his answer to one of his son’s questions: official title. Just the same I hate to see my friend from “ Wfiat do they do when they install a, minister, papa— Poughkeepsie missing a bet like that. put him in a stall and feed him?” * . * * “ No, my son,” was the reply, “ they hitch hint to a “ Damyankees who come down here to tell us what church and expect him to pull it.”

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Making the Choir Invisible By ELWOOD L. HAINES Rector at Glendale, Ohio I" AM for making the choir invisible. The reason tor the choir invisible, by putting it into the gallery, the my new-found heresy is a recent visit to a certain r;ar, or some obscure nook in the depths of the church, and the unusual experience of sitting in the chrnceb congregation. The day was torrid, but I cheered my­ In some of the old, colonial churches, the choir .sat self with a fan which suggestively referred me to a in the gallery, where it could gaze altar-ward and view local undertaker. The service began with a distant on­ the congregation from on high. I do not especially rush of song, welling in volume as the choir appeared. like the arrangement, but it does suggest the ad­ Immediately I became conscious of hot, mussy vest­ vantage of removing the choir from its present over- ments, and above them, moist faces and moving conspicuous position in the chancel. Perhaps com­ mouths. I felt hotter, watching them. If the follow­ missions on church architecture, where they exist and ing parody occurred to me at the moment, I hope that, function, could study the question of altering chancel in view of the prevailing temperature, I may be for­ construction in such a way that the choir, along with given : the organist and the pipes, would be out of vision and' A boiling army, men and boys, yet within worship range. Perhaps clergy and music The matron and the maid: committees could take seriously to heart the congre­ Not one his vocal toil enjoys, gation’s worship rights, and seek to eliminate all prac­ In red-hot robes arrayed. tices which tend to make the choir the focus. The service progressed; so did my awareness of Congregations are long-suffering; for they assume that unhappy army overflowing the choir stalls. It was that our present choral arrangements have the endorse­ quite obvious throughout that the choir was there to ment of antiquity, and are not to be tampered with. perform. The rector, by speeding up the prayers and Choirs in their zeal are insensible to the strange ef­ amputating his sermon to seven minutes, made it pos­ fects they produce. And the clergyman, in his liturgi­ sible for the choir to exhibit its wares without ex­ cal and sermonic absorption, is inclined to treat the tending the service beyond hot-weather limits. I stood musical parts of the service as handy resting-places, with the rest in rapt apathy during a festival Te Deum, and to be deaf and blind to much that transpires. It is and the Benedictus unabbreviated, and sat for the an­ a good thing, therefore, for the clergyman to take a them which might just as well have been in the Choc­ day off now and then, and to sit in the congregation. taw dialect, so far as intelligibility was concerned. I He too may fall a victim to this heresy of mine. There watched entranced the antics of the angular tenor. And is a chance, of course, that the mood will pass, when there came to my mind, ironically,' I suppose, the lines I am presiding in the chancel again; but at present I “ My tongue shall never tire feel a decided yearning for the “ Choir Invisible.” Of chanting with the choir.” Years ago a novel of that name provided our grand­ mothers with visions of the angelic chorus. We would and I realized that, however desirous my tongue might hardly expect present-day choristers to sing as exult­ be of praise, it had no chance. How is it possible, I antly as the angels do; but if they could be, during wonder, to praise God through the medium of chor­ the service, as invisible as the angels, a great handicap isters who have taken even the Amens away from to a devout worship in our churches would be over­ one ? come. I am for a new ecclesiastical device—a sort of Alad­ din’s lamp attached to the pew, which would enable the worshipper to rub the choir temporarily out of sight. Think what a help it would be if it were no THE MEANING OF THE longer necessary to watch the singers making faces, REAL PRESENCE or lolling in their stalls during their periods of qui­ By escence! Never to be distracted by seersucker peep­ G. A. S tuddert-K e n n e d y ing below cassocks! Never to hear the rustling of A reprinting of this famous essay is now music being made ready for the next performance! I available, carrying the picture of the author. am for the disappearance of all stage-conscious organ­ ists and directors. Let them be relegated to some al­ 5c a copy; $3 a hundred copies cove where they can make signs to themselves without bothering everybody else. I advocate a campaign THE WITNESS against the goose-step processional, and the using of- 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue hymns as stage devices while the congregation is left CHICAGO stranded in the middle of a stanza. I am for making

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS July 18, 1935 WILLARD SPERRY dren is concerned. For unless the SUMMER SCHOOL reader bears this in mind he will be WRITES A FINE g.ven the rather shocking feeling UNDER DR. KELLER BOOK ON YOUTH that Dean Sperry himself is more OPENS 13TH SEASON afraid of affirming Christian convic­ By Gardiner M. Day tions than of anything else. By Charles D. Kean Dr. William Ellery Charming once h ith Harp and Lute is a collection With 22 students from eight sem­ remarked: “ No one is so tempted to of religious poems compiled by inaries present the Cincinnati Sum­ believe too little as the person who be­ Blanche Jennings Thompson (Mac­ mer School of Social Work opened gan by believing too much.” Dr. Wil­ millan $1.25) for children. The pur­ July 5th for its 13th consecutive lard Sperry of Harvard evidently be­ pose of the book according to the year. The seminarians will remain in lieves that remark hits the nail on the author is not to present all the Cincinnati for an eight-week period, head if one is trying to account for treasures of this variety to the child, during the course of which they will the loss of religion among younger out to open the door to this enchant­ work in the public welfare institu­ people today, for it is emphasized ing realm of religious beauty, thought tions of the city in the day-time and again and again in his new book, and feeling. Miss Thompson has attend a series of lectures in the What You Owe Your Child (Harpers made an extremely beautiful selec­ evenings. $1.50). tion and the book should find a real fine Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, As he relates in the preface Dean place in many a home where the par­ bishop of Southern Ohio, opened the Sperry was asked to spend an eve­ ents are looking for beautiful reli­ session with a quiet day at Christ ning talking informally with some gious furniture for the mind. By the Church, Glendale, Ohio. He officiated parents at the Junior League in New way, we feel confident that Dean at a celebration of the Holy Com­ York. Dr. Sperry accepted the invi­ Sperry with his great emphasis up­ munion in the morning and conducted tation and found some seven hundred on the need for “making” children a series of meditations. An orienta­ mothers and fathers gathered in the learn beautiful religious poetry would tion lecture was given by Dr. William League Assembly room to hear him. delight in this volume. S. Keller, director and founder of the The talk proved so successful that he A study of St. Paul is an ever re­ institution, at the diocesan house the Was asked to repeat it to other warding task. Two new biographies same day. The Rev. Gilbert P. Leagues and now offers it as an aid of the great missionary Apostle have Symons, canon of the Cathedral of to parents in the form of a volume appeared within the last few months. St. Paul, welcomed the students to the of some hundred and fifty pages. Beyond Damascus is Dr. F. A. Spen­ diocese. Dr. Sperry believes that religious cer’s story of that amazing life and The students are serving for the change is comparable to the changes it is a fascinating tale as related by eight-week period as regular mem­ in “family fortune.” In the past a this student of the First Century bers of the staffs of the following single generation could save up made more vivid than most lives by institutions: the Cincinnati Depart­ enough spiritual capital, as they virtue of the ability of the author to ment of Public Welfare, the Cincin­ could financial, to last a family for paint a marvelously detailed back­ nati Associated Charities, the Long­ a century, but now owing to rapid ground of the life of the times view Hospital for Mental Diseases, change this spiritual and moral (Harpers $3). Finally a volume bear­ the Cincinnati General Hospital; the capital will not last much more than ing the sub-title, With Paul to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, the a generation. A few of the things End, is the interpretation of that Ohio Humane Society, the Adult Pro­ that the author feels convinced of famous life by Dr. John A. Hutton bation Department of the Hamilton are the following: that children can (Harpers $2.50). County Court of Common Pleas, the get an impression of religion from Few men could be more different Hamilton County Juvenile Court, the their parents but that guidance and from St. Paul than Sadhu Sundar Hamilton County Workhouse, the instruction must almost inevitably Singh yet the two men have at least Federal Relief Administration, and come from outside the parents; that two things in common across the the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ modern society with its great stress centuries namely that both were in­ Union. on children, rather than preparing spired to dedicate their lives to In an attempt to integrate practical them for life, spoils them; that the Christ and both set forth on mission­ work among the varied institutions modern project method of education ary journeys that led to an unknown handling problems of personal and leaves much to be desired particu­ destination. Dr. C. F. Andrews has social adjustment with the theory of larly in its lack of discipline and written a beautiful account of the social work and social control and memory work; that the aim of the missionary to Tibet (Harpers $2). betterment, the students couple their Christian home should be to develop If anyone wishes to dig into the work at the institutions with a course “moral aristocrats” who behave prop­ problem of the relation of the Church of lectures. The opening lecture of erly because certain things “ are and the Negro in America, he will the series was given by the Rev. done” and certain others are not; find a mighty interesting analysis William B. Spofford, managing editor that parents should give honest of it in Divine White Right by of T he W itness on the subject, answers to youthful questioners, Trevor Bowen (Harpers $1.75). Or “Religion and Problems of Labor.” never teaching things they cannot if the problem of the relations of Presenting a new departure for believe themselves and never being people of different creeds interests this year’s session of the summer afraid of telling a child that partic­ him Silcox and Fisher’s study Cath­ school, the Rev. Clifford L. Stanley, ular questions are mysteries even to olics, Jews and Protestants will furn­ associate professor of systematic them; and that the central purpose ish him with plenty of source ma­ divinity at the Virginia Theological of the Church School is not instruc­ terial analyzed by two expert in­ Seminary, will close the course with tion or explanation but worship. vestigators. (Harpers $2,50). a series of four lectures on “ Chris­ This volume contains a lot of tian Theology and Social Action” in sound advice simply and not infre­ TO REDECORATE CATHEDRAL an attempt to present a tie-up be­ quently amusingly stated. A reader Under the leadership of the Very tween the summer school curriculum should remember, however, that the Rev. Francis B. Blodgjett, and a arid the seminary course. book is not written for consciously committee of laymen, 'funds and Among the other speakers in the religious parents as much as for pledges are being secured for the lecture series will be the Rev. C. parents who are at sea so far as what redecoration of the interior of the Rankin Barnes, executive secretary to believe is concerned, and more Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Erie, of the department of Christian Social especially, what to teach their chil- Pa. (Continued on page 15)

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. July 18, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Nine NEWS NOTES OF mitted, and meanwhile the crane be­ courses for the Conference include came the standard popular figure of “ The Bible” , “ The Life of Our THE CHURCH IN commercial art. All the shops sold Lord” , “ The Prayer Book in Action” , miniature cranes standing by ponds; “ Christian Doctrine” , “ Church His­ BRIEF PARAGRAPHS restaurants advertised crane soup, tory” , and “ Church Music” . Edited by E dward J. Mohr and hair-dressing rooms advertised * * * “crane brbs.” People aren’t so dif­ Christianity A group of Roman Catholics and ferent even when separated by the Seven Years Association, an as­ in West Africa oceans. Going through a village where he sociation of young English church­ H* H* H* men have issued a joint statement knew there was no church, the on Christianity and politics stressing Canon Bell in Bishop of Accra in west Africa was Liverpool the fact that the Christian is not astonished to come upon a little Canon Bernard Iddings Bell, of primarily concerned with the tem­ building about ten feet long, with a Providence, preached at the end of poral order, but recognising certain cross on it. He looked inside and June in the cathedral at Liverpool, obligations upon man in society. In found it unmistakably a church. It England, dealing trenchantly in his had a rough altar with a hand-made the preamble is urged the need for sermon with “ modern thought” and a definition of the use of the word cross, and three little bamboo pews. the Christian attitude toward it. “ Christian” and for a complete dis­ While the Bishop was looking a tinction between humanitarianism $ $ man came running to him. He had “ and the revolution which the appli­ Missionary to heard of the Bishop’s arrival and cation of Christian principles to the Rescue came straight from his work in the contemporary society would in­ When a car with three persons fields. volve.” The spiritual principle is laid plunged over an 800-foot cliff on the “ Who are you?” asked the Bishop. down that the individual’s supreme Klamath River road in California, “ I am the owner of the building,” allegiance must be to God and to the Rev. Claude W. Silk, M.D., mis­ the man said. “ I built it.” His Church, the State being only a sionary at Orleans in the Sacramento “ And how many Christians have means towards the realization of diocese, was summoned to direct a you?” “ Only one at present,” the man’s final end. The social principles rescue. He had himself lowered on man said, “ but wheni we had our are asserted that “ all must be in a rope to the foot of the cliff, gave harvest festival, every seat was full! receipt of sufficient means to be free first aid to the victims and succeeded When I came to live here I was the from that perpetual anxiety concern­ in hoisting them up to the road and only Christian and no one would ing livelihood which distracts their rushed to the county hospital. All listen to me, but I thought if the minds from primary things;” that in the day’s work for the missionary. people see that I build a house for the State should encourage the The county newspaper reported it. the Christian God, they will take acquisition of personal property as * * * notice of my message. I will not a means to this end, and to achieve Pennsylvania rest until they have found the a more equal distribution of the Y outh M eet Lord.” national wealth; and that the State Marked by a diversified program, * $ * j ■ 1 must leave the parent complete free­ a conference for young people of Graduating j dom in the matter of the child’s Pennsylvania was held at the Valley at Seventy education and must not interfere in Forge Military Academy, Wayne, “ We can’t expect the old people the relationship of a man and wom­ Pa., July 7 to 13. Leaders who con­ to learn” is a remark often heard an who have consumated the Chris­ ducted the various courses include in missions among uneducated peo­ tian sacrament of marriage. From the Rev. Wallace E. Conkling; rector ple, but the idea does not appeal to the international aspect, it is de­ of St. Luke’s Church, Germantown; St. Michael’s Mission, Ethete, clared that in this field the actions Rev. Dr. Felix Cirlo, of the General Wyoming. Here among the Indians of a State are governed by the com­ Theological Seminary, New York; a class for old people was started mon good of mankind, loyalty to Rev. James M. Niblo, rector of St. by teachers of St. Michael’s School whom comes before loyalty to a John’s Church, Norristown; Rev. and mine Indian men and women, 60 particular state; that international Reginald Mallett, rector o f Grace to 70 years old, have been learning pacts are morally binding before Church, White Plains, N. Y .; Rev. to read and write,. After a ten- God and that every means must be Howard M. Stuckert, Rector o f the weeks’ course they had formal grad­ taken to counteract nationalist ig­ House of Prayer, Branchtown, uation exercises and became a cen­ norance and prejudice. Phila.; Rev. Ffank Leeming, Rector ter of attention, admired by all, with * * * of Christ Church, Bordentown, N. J. a two-column headline in the local The executive board in charge of the Conscientious Objector newspaper. Conference comprised the Rev. Wal­ * * * Jailed in France lace E. Conkling, St. Luke’s Church, A young member of the Y. M. C. Germantown; Rev. Franklin Joiner, Conference in A. o f Prance, who should have re­ St. Clement’s Church, Phila.; Rev. Western Michigan joined an infantry regiment, in­ Leicester C. Lewis, St. Martin-in-the- With Bishop John N. McCormick formed the military authorities that F'ields, Chestnut Hill and Rev. Wil­ acting as chaplain, the 9th annual he was unable to do so owing to his liam P. S. Lander, Church of the conference of the diocese of Western Christian convictions. He was im­ Good Shepherd, Rosemont, Pa. Michigan was held this year at prisoned in Paris. Special speakers during the Con­ Montague, Michigan. More than 150 * * * ference in connection with evening persons attended. The faculty and Crane by the programs were the Rev. Edmund L. courses included: the Rev. Harry L. Side of a Pond Souder, o f the American Church Nicholson, rector of Trinity Church, If you recall a recent item about Mission, Hankow, China, and the Niles, Mich., on “ Personal Religion Japan’s national Poetry Contest for Rev. Harold M. Lufkin, of the Uni­ for Young People” ; the Rev. Percy which the assigned subject was “ a versity of Pennsylvania. Bishop V. Norwood of Seabury-Western crane by the side of a pond,” you Taitt addressed the Conference at a Theological Seminary, “ Church His­ may be interested in this sequel re­ dinner on Wednesday. The Rev. W. tory” ; the Rev. C. Rankin Barnes, ported by The Living Age: iS. Chalmers, of the Order of the executive secretary o f the depart­ Forty thousand poems were sub- Holy Cross, was chaplain. The ment of ! social service of the

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National Council, “ Family Rela­ World Alliance for International June. Old St. Luke’s Church in Cin­ tions,” which course was attended by Friendship which is to meet in cinnati had become an empty shell the entire conference; the Revi. Gil­ Switzerland from August 12-18. He when Bishop Hobson appointed bert W. Laidlaw, rector of St. Paul’si is to report both of these important young Church Army evangelist to Church, Saginaw, Mich., “ The meeting for T he W itness. take charge and the bishop re-named Bible” ; and the Very Rev. Maurice * * * the church, St. Barnabas, During Clarke, dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Clarence Jones February. 1934, the total attendance Marquette, Mich., on “ Religious Edu­ Resigns was 28. Exactly a year later, 975 cation” with particular emphasis on The Rev. J. Clarence Jones, for people visited the church during the the subject of worship for children. 36 years rector of St. Mary’s Church, corresponding four weeks. In a very A pageant depicting “The History of Brooklyn, N. Y., has resigned, effec­ needy section of the city, Capt. Worship” was produced and pre­ tive October 15. Mr. Jones has for Lewis is the brother and friend of sented under the direction of the many years been active in missionary all and sundry. An interesting fea­ Rev. J. A. McNulty,, rector of and diocesan affairs, and is the ture in the report for June is that Emmanuel Church, Hastings, Mich. senior presbyter of the diocese of those attending the church for wor­ ship and religious instruction out­ * * * Long Island. * * * number those present for recreation Archbishop Lang Bishop Huston and fellowship by almost two to one. on Reformation * * * The Archbishop of Canterbury at Conference Organizes Laymen in stated at the first meeting of the Bishop S. Arthur Huston gave a Diocesan Service Council of Anglicans and Noncon­ course on “ Christian Sociology” at Bishop G. Ashton Oldham of Al­ formists, formed to arrange for the the eighth annual conference of the bany, N. Y., after conference with celebration in 1938 of the fourth diocese of Olympia, held in June at the five rural deans of the diocese, centenary of the Reformation, that Tacoma. Bishop A. W. Moulton, of has effected an initial organization, he does not regard the Reformation Utah, preached the opening sermon the object of which is to enlist more as an unmixed blessing, nor will he and gave a course on “ Christian laymen in definite service. The or­ for a moment admit that the Church Poets.” The conference was attended ganization will be under the field of England was born of the Re­ by 52 people full time and many department of the diocesan council, formation. But, as the Archbishop more part time. * * ^ the chairman of which is the Rev. C. said, the greatest legacy of the Re­ R. Quinn, rector of Christ Church, formation is the Bible in the English Sewanee School Hudson. Five or more laymen have tongue, and, as the most consistent Adds Course A course on the “ Present day been appointed in each deanery, of Bible Christians, English Catho­ with a chairman who will be a mem­ lics will fervently join in the thanks­ meaning of Faith” has been added to the curriculum of the Sewanee ber of the field department. Prelim­ giving for a priceless gift, without inary meetings of each group will believing the fiction that the pre- Clergy School, which opens July 30th. The course will be given by the be be held before the autumn. One Reformaton Church forbade the of thel first activities of the groups Bible to the common people. Rev. Victor Lyle Dowdell, until re­ * * * cently dean of St. Michael’s Sem­ will be assisting in the organization inary in Puerto Rico. This course of the annual every-member canvass. Episcopalians Win will offer an evaluation of new the­ While the laymen themselves are in the South ories of science according to sound expected to carry on this work, they The Rev. Woolsey E. Couch of principles of philosophy, in contrast will be under the supervision of College Park (suburb of Atlanta) to compromise between religious their respective rural deans, who announces that his soft ball or dia­ truths and various theories of the are: Albany— the Rev. Walter E. mond ball team from St. John’s empirical sciences. Bishop Mikell of Howe, Catskill; Troy— the Rev. I. G. Episcopal Church has beat the Bap­ Atlanta is director of the conference Rouillard, Saratoga Springs; Mo­ tist and Methodist teams. In league and the Rev. R. Bland Mitchell asso­ hawk—the Rev. E. W. M. Weller, standing the Episcopal team occupies ciate director. Scotia; Ogdensburg— the Rev. C. E. second place. College Park has a * » * Kennedy, Ogdensburg; Susquehanna —the Rev. L. W. Steele, Sidney. fine new Pet Pan Park with a lighted St. Louis Parish H* * Hi athletic field for night games. The Buys Church Church League plays every Tuesday The parish of Trinity Church, St. Bible Society and Thursday evening during the Louis, has arranged to purchase the Gets New Building summer. Large crowds attend the property and buildings of the The American Bible Society has games which are proving to be very Church of the Redeemer, whose con­ purchased a six story building on beneficial to the business men and gregation has disbanded. Trinity will Park Avenue, New York, to which others who have no opportunity for place its present quarters on sale. it will move in October. Since 1852 recreation except in the evening. Mr. The new buildings are larger and the society has been located in the Walter Green is the manager of the better equipped and are felt to be in well-known historic Bible House. The Episcopal team. The Rev. Mr. Couch a good location for the work of the new location is further uptown, and conducts a Junior camp for boys at parish. Trinity parish was founded is more readily accessible, being near Toccoa Falls, Georgia from July 14 in 1855. The present rector is the Grand Central. to July 28. Rev. Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., who prior * * * * * to his institution last year was on New C. M. H. t Professor Sails the faculty of the General Theolog­ Secretaries for Conferences ical Seminary. Gwynedd Owen, case supervisor The Rev. C. Sturges Ball, profes­ * * * of the Toronto Children’s Home, sor at the Alexandria Seminary, Church Army Captain will become executive secretary of sailed on July 11th for England Makes Progress the Church Mission of Help of the where he is to represent T he W it­ Hot weather does not seem to diocese of Southern Ohio on Septem­ ness at the Modern Churchman’s count where Captain R. Lewis is ber 15th. Miss Owen is the daughter Conference to be held at Cambridge concerned, for he gathered 1,201 of the Most Rev. Derwyn T. Owen, the last week of August. He is also persons around him for one purpose Primate of all Canada. Mrs. Mabel to attend the Convention of the or another during the month of Benson, who for eight years has been

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. July 18, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven executive secretary of the Church the pence cans were made. Proceeds The Rev. George S. McKinley is the Mission of Help of the diocese of are to be divided evenly between the present rector. The Church of the Central New York, will become diocese and parish for debt reduc­ Redeemer, Andalusia, had its 75th executive secretary of the Church tion or capital improvement. anniversary, and Bishop Taitt made Mission of Help of New Jersey. In * * * an address at a dinner. The Rev. W.. the interest of economy it has been Bishops Visit W. Williams is the rector. decided to close the national office California * * * of the Church Mission of Help, at Bishop Demby of Arkansas, our Accepts Call to New York, for July and August. The only colored bishop, has been visit­ S. W. Virginia C. M. H. Council meeting and the ing Los Angeles, looking especially The Rev. C. W. Sydnor, rector o f McLean Conference have been post­ at work among colored people. St. Luke’s Church, Wheeling, W. Va., poned from June 24th to the week Bishop Huston of Olympia, and has accepted a call to the rectorship* of September 23rd. Bishop Howden of New Mexico, are of Christ Church, Pulaski, and Grace * * * scheduled to visit and preach at St. Church, Radford, in the diocese o f Long Island John’s Church, Los Angeles during Southwestern Virginia. Rector Dies the summer. * * * The Rev. Charles Edwin Cragg, * * * Womens Auxiliary rector emeritus of St. John’s Church, Bishop’s Sons Worker Dies Huntington, N. Y., died on July 4 Ordained Mrs. Marcus W. Jamison, educa­ in St. John’s Hospital, Brooklyn. He Bishop Robert B. Gooden, suffra­ tional secretary for the Woman’s was born in Colchester, England, in gan of Los Angeles, had two sons Auxiliary in the diocese of Erie, 1854, and came to America at the ordained in June. One, the Rev. R. Pennsylvania, died June 21st o f age of eighteen. Heber Gooden, was ordained to the pneumonia, at Warren. She had been * * priesthood in Havana, and will con­ active for many years in civic and Gambier Conference tinue work in Cuba. The other, Rob­ social work. Bishop Ward conducted Breaks Record ert B. Gooden, Jr., was ordained the funeral service. Attendance at the Gambier Sum­ deacon by the bishop in St. Paul’s sN * * mer Conference broke a record this Church in San Diego, where he will Rule of Thumb year, 319 being registered. be assistant. in Philippines * * * * * * A petition signed with two pages, Pence Plan Philadelphia of thumb marks by Igorots at Tuku- in Los Angeles Churches Celebrate kan in the Philippine Islands has Two and a half months ago the Two Philadelphia churches this been received by Bishop Mosher Bishop’s Pence plan was adopted in month marked anniversaries with begging that Deaconess Shaw o f the diocese of Los Angeles on special services. St. Mark’s Church, Bontoc be transferred to Tukukan, Bishop Stevens’ suggestion. On July Honeybrook, Pa. commemorated the to fill the vacancy left by Deaconess. 7th and 14 the first presentations of 100th anniversary of its beginning. Routledge. The Bishop could not do-

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS July 18, 1935 this, and if he did, the first result the year 1170. T. S. Eliot has writ­ ised the Bishop Payne Divinity would be a petition from the Igorots ten a dramatization of the event, School, the Church’s seminary for of Bontoc not to take Deaconess with the above title, which was pro­ Negro candidates, a scholarship for Shaw from them. The Bishop asked duced in Canterbury Cathedral in next year. Scholarship aid is particu­ his young Igorot catechist to explain June. larly important for the Negro can­ to the people and the catechist re­ * * * didates, many of whom are unable. plied with a sympathetic letter tell­ A colyte to bear all the expenses of the sem­ ing how much the Igorots all think Festival Held inary course. The Rev. Emmet E. of Deaconess Shaw, but, he adds, An acolyte festival under the “ I’ll say that you have no possibility auspices of the Clerical Union of the of sending a missionary for the pres­ diocese of Bethlehem and Harris­ Now Is the Right Time ent and I’ll make them understand burg was held at Christ Church, To plan a campaign to raise funds for that money is scarce by this time Danville, Pa., ini June, with one hun­ repairs, replacements and debt. and since before yet.” dred and sixty boys and twenty-five G ates S tone & C o m p a n y * * * priests in attendance. Bishop Wyatt 8 West 40 Street Large Group Brown was the preacher at a ponti­ New York fical eucharist. Baptized * * * THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK Twenty-two persons of all ages SOCIETY were baptized on a recent Sunday Caribbean Work Founded by Bishop White 1833 Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ afternoon by the Rev. E. P. Wroth, Progresses ishes unable to purchase them, in limited rector of Trinity Memorial Church, In spite of all reductions in sup­ grants, The Book of Common Prayer. at Warren, Pa. port and other difficulties of work The Combined Book (The Book of Com­ * * * in Puerto Rico and the Virgin mon Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). Islands last year, there were 564 Pew Size Students Build Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D. D., School Chapel confirmations and 766 baptisms. Secretary, S. W. Cor. 5th & Arch Streets, A chapel for Voorhees School at Active communicants now number Philadelphia, Pa. Denmark, S. C., is being built during 5,60.5. the summer by students of the trades * * * department. The chapel is a long­ Japanese Clergyman standing need and will be of much Substitutes No experience needed. Also 5 Box Assortments. Free sample offer. assistance in the religious work of The Rev. Hiram Kano, Japanese JOHN A. HERTEL CO., 305 W. Adams St., Dept. 8 1 1, Chicago, III. the school. deacon working among the Japanese * * * EDWIN S. GORHAM, INC., farmers in Western Nebraska, read Publishers, Booksellers, Importers, Hospital Work the service and preached on a recent Church Literature, Supplies. ECCLESIASTICAL Wares, OXFORD Bibles, in China Sunday for the Rev. Francis Pryor’s Prayer Books, etc. Devotional Books. Private Training classes for midwives have congregation at the Church of Our Communion Sets. New MOWBRAY Publica­ tions. Old Books Rebound. Detailed infor­ been carried on for some years past Saviour, North Platte, during Mr. mation on request. at the Church General Hospital in Pryor’s absence. Established 1900 Wuchang, central China. This sum­ sj: He H* 18 West 45 Street New Yerk mer a distinguished group of Chinese Negro Seminary THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOLS men and women have formed a Receives Help announce THE ECONOMICAL SOLUTION board of directors for this mid­ Women in some of the Negro TO YOUR EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS. wifery training school. The board’s parishes in Philadelphia have prom- EXCEPTIONALLY HEALTHY CLIMATE chairman is the wife of the governor AND SURROUNDINGS. LOW TOTAL COSTS. Accredited College Preparatory, Voca­ of the province. Another member is When CHILDREN tional Agriculture and General Courses. Full the wife of the provincial commis­ sports program. Character training adapted N e e d a to modern methods in education. Write for sioner of education and others are descriptive booklet. representative people who are seri­ IVINSON HALL FOR GIRLS LAXATIVE SHERWOOD HALL FOR BOYS ously interested in the training of When chil­ Box 856 Laramie, Wyoming qualified midwives to help meet the dren are bil­ tremendous educational need in such ious, or have DURING JUNE AND JULY ADDRESS work. A new pre-natal clinic for sour stomach, Mary Fawcett Company for pure Irish charity patients only has been colic due to Linen samples or orders 97 Rockview Ave., opened. The hospital is supposed to gas, sick head­ Plainfield. N. J. have a wing added to house its in­ ache, coated creasing maternity work. Three- tongue, sallow SAINT AUGUSTINE. FLORIDA : Guest House of Sisters of The Resurrection : sunny, fourths of the money is in hand and complexion, or cheerful rooms, home atmosphere, comfortable only the final $10,000 (Chinese seem sluggish beds, good meals, modern building on pleas­ ant residence street. Charges reasonable. money— now about $4,000 U. S. so that they do Those seeking spiritual strengthening, or currency) is lacking. The Church not romp and merely rest and quiet ; convalescents not need­ ing special attendance, will find Resthaven General Hospital graduated its play as usual, helpful. Neither hospital nor mental cases re­ largest class o f nurses this year, a dose or two ceived. References asked from strangers. of SYRU P Apply to Sister-in-Charge, House of The sixteen, together with one laboratory Nazarene. Resthaven, Saint Augustine, technician and three midwifery stu­ OF BLACK- Florida. D R A U G H T dents who were already graduate can be relied nurses. ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled on to relieve Saint Mary's Convent, Kenosha, Wis. * * * constipation M urder in and thereby CATHEDRAL STUDIO, CHURCH EMBROI- the Cathedral assist in deries, Altar and pulpit hangings, etc. “ Murder in the Cathedr«.!” sounds prompt recov­ Stoles from $6.50. Burse, veil $10 up. Sur­ like an attempt to find a startling ery. Purely vegetable, pleasant-tasting—chil­ plices $8 up. Exquisite Altar linens. Damask dren really like it. Syrup of Black-Draught cope from $70. Damask Mass set from $60. title for a modern murder story, but Silk chasuble from $30. Complete line of is sold at most drug stores. If unobtainable pure Irish linens and Church fabrics by the of course that was exactly what hap­ at your drug store, The Chattanooga Medi­ yard. Embroidered emblems ready to apply. pened to Thomas Beckett, thirty- Altar Guide Handbook BOc. L. V. Mackrille, cine Co., Chattanooga, Tennessee, will send 11 W. Kirke St., Chevy Chase. Washington, ninth Archbishop of Canterbury, in you a 50-cent bottle on receipt of price. 1 D. C.

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Miller, rector of St. Stephen’s ligion by personal contact. To this Church and warden of the school, end members should strive to reach hopes to organize similar groups the children in the schools by re­ Wilbur Herbert Burnham among the colored parishes in Wash­ ligious education in school time; and ington, Chicago, and New York. In second, that through the social Philadelphia there are four clergy agencies members of the Church be Designer and Master graduates of Bishop Payne School, put in touch with those on relief by Craftsman Washington and Chicago each have which a point of contact may be established and the unchurched three, and New York five. Stained and Leaded Glass Besides assisting Mr. Miller in St. brought into religious groups through Stephen’s, the students have preach­ the establishment of friendships; ed and officiated in other churches, third, personal evangelism among Studios . 1126 Boylston Street and in every instance, Mr. Miller lapsed or indifferent members by says, they have given perfect satis­ the channels of friendship; and last­ Boston, Massachusetts faction and have increased the good ly, earnest prayer that the Light of reputation of the school. the world may shine in the hearts * * * of all and into every corner of the PA R K E R ’S world. Forward Movement HAIR BALSAM ❖ * * RemovesDandruff-StopsHairlfalling in Western New York Imparts Color and Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair In carrying out the principle of A Y ear o f 60c. and $1.00 at Druggists. the Forward Movement Commission Anniversaries Hiscox Chem. Wks. Patchogue, N. T. that individual dioceses work out for Many anniversaries are being kept this year. The Order of the Daugh­ themselves details of the Movement, MENEELY BELL C0 the Diocese of Western New York, ters of the King is fifty years old. T R O Y . N.Y, amo in addition to circulating the pam­ One hundred years ago the first mis­ 250 BROAOWAY.WY.CITV. phlets of Bible reading, has adopted sionary bishop in the Episcopal a program for putting the Forward Church, Jackson Kemper, was Movement into effect which includes elected, The Spirit of Missions was the following points: inaugurated, the first Episcopal ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. First, embracing the primary at­ Church missionaries departed for 147 E. 47th St., New York titudes of discipleship it is recom­ China, and the first ones were ap­ CHURCH VESTMENTS mended a rule of life be ac­ pointed for Liberia, the Board of ECCLESIASTICAL, EMBROIDERY Conferences with references to the adornment cepted in whole or in part as Missions was formed, predecessor of of Churches. a guide to Christian living. To the the present Domestic and Foreign Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 observance of this rule is attributed, Missions Departments, and the dio- to a considerable extent, the in­ creased attendance upon services, the larg confirmation classes and the deepened interest apparent in the diocese. C a l v e r t .H errick Secondly, that there be held by iedinger the clergy frequent quiet days or & R devotional hours, leading up, when 2 & 4 East . 23rd . Street the people are awakened to the value of such times of withdrawal, to dio­ New . York . City cesan conference retreats. Third, that there be brought to the people the vision of a great need STAINED GLASS . MOSAIC outside themselves, rightly believing that the greatest single influence in AND . CHURCH developing the spiritual life of the DECORATION Church at home has been the call of the missionary enterprise, not only in lands abroad but in the desperate situation facing the CHURCH . APPOINTMENTS Church in America. IN . MARBLE . STONE Fourth, that each and all face WOOD .. AND and undertake the task of bringing the unchurched and the indifferent METAL into the fellowship of Christ’s re­

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ceses of Chicago and Madras were who mistook the “ kindness” of a shine in. I know God sent me to organized. procuress for friendship and was you.” Madras was the first of nine only just rescued from a life of pros­ Dioceses having CMH societies Indian dioceses to be set off from the titution. Another girl who has been are Albany, Central New York, Chi­ great master diocese of Calcutta watched over by CMH ever since she cago, Connecticut, Long Island, {which used to include all Australia was taken from an insane mother Maryland, Massachusetts, Newark, too) and three other dioceses have some years ago is now learning to New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl­ since been set off from Madras. work and live normally when she vania, Rhode Island, Southern Ohio, Several 150th anniversaries come might otherwise have been one more Tennessee, Vermont, Western New this year; the first General Conven­ mentally ill dependent to be cared York. tion and the organization of the dio­ for by the community. * * * cese of New Jersey, New York, South Another is a girl who ran away National Council Carolina and Virginia took place in from home when her baby was com­ Receipts Keep Up 178)5. ing and was desperate and reckless; Lewis B. Franklin, the vice presi­ “ Octocentenary” is a word not yet now she has settled down to a life dent and treasurer of the National much needed in the United States, planned around the baby, her fam­ Council announces that the good with the world so new and all, but ily know all about it, and the girl record of receipts in May has been quite familiar in England. The "s working and also studying for a maintained in June. Fifty-nine dio­ cathedrals of Exeter and Carlisle better job. Another girl said to the ceses and districts have paid the pro­ have celebrated their octocenten- CMH worker: “ I was ready to jump portion due on their “ Expectations” aries. (Even eight centuries are not in front of the train when I came and the total for all dioceses is above so many. York Minster celebrated here— honest I was. Everything was what is due. Collections for 1935 its thirteen-hundredth some years a blank wall. I’m no good at say­ are $28,443.61 greater than in 1934 ago.) ing things that I feel down deep, but with the increase in “ Expecta­ Two notable thirteen-hundredth but it was just like being lost in an tions” the percentage: of collections anniversaries (trecentenaries?) oc­ awful cave— then seeing the sun is 100.4% against 104.3% in 1934. cur this year. In 635 St. Aidan be­ came missionary to the Kingdom of Northumbria, while over in the shadowy East, unthinkably far away, Services of Leading Churches Syrian clergy, Nestorians, took Christianity into China. The, Syro- The Cathedral of St. John St. James’ Church, New York Chinese monument at Sianfu, where the Divine Madison Avenue and 71st Street Bishop Shen now lives, states that The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Sunday Services teachers of the Luminous Doctrine New York City 8 A. M.—Holy Communion. were welcomed there by imperial de­ Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. 11 A. M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. 10, Morning Prayer. 11, Holy Communion Thursdays and Holy Days: 12 M.—Holy cree in 635. and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Communion. ^ H1 Sermon. Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on The W ork Saints Hays, 7:30 and 10). 9:30, Morn­ Trinity Church, New York ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Organ Broadway and Wall St. o f the CMH Recital, Saturdays, 4:30. Sundays: 8. 9. 11 and 3:30. Among the 3,329 girls who were Daily: 8, 12 and 3. helped by the sixteen diocesan Church of St. Mary the Virgin branches of the Church Mission of New York 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. St. Paul’s Cathedral Help last year was a girl of sixteen Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Buffalo, New York I Sunday Masses, 7, 9, 11 (Sung Mass). Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. j Week-day Masses, 7, 8, (Thurs., 7, 8, Weekdays: 8, 12 :05. I 9:30). Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy ! Days: 10:30 a. m. NEW EDITION Grace Church, New York Christ Church Cathedral Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Hartford, Conn. of Broadway at 10th St. Cor. Main and Church Streets Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. BISHOP JOHNSON’S Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, 11:00 a. m. ; 7:80 urdays. p. m. CONFIRMATION Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. Thursdays and Holy Days. Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a. m. Holy Communion. INSTRUCTIONS The Heavenly Rest and Beloved Including supplementary Disciple, New York Grace and St. Peter’s Church» Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Baltimore, Md. material on Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. (Park Avenue and Monument Street) 1. The Distinctive Position of the Sunday School 9 :30 a. m. ; Morning Rev. Gordon B. Wadhams Service and Sermon 11 a. m .; Musical Rev. Bernard McK. Garlick Church Vespers 4 p. m. 2. The Principles of Unity Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Sundays: 8, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. 3. The Roman Claims munion at 11 a. m. Week Days: 8 a. m. 4. The Reformation Church of St. Michael and The Incarnation All Angels 5. The Reformation in England Madison Avenue and 35th Street Baltimore, Md. 6. The Church in America Rev. George A. Robertshaw St. Paul and 20th Sts. Minister in Charge Sundays: 7 :30, 9 :30 and 11 a. m .; 8 p. m. Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. Week Days: Wednesdays 10 a. m .; 50c for single copy Special Preacher: Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy $4.00 for dozen copies The Rev. Clifton Macon, D. D. Days 7 and 10 a. m. St. Bartholomew’s Church St. Bartholomew’s, Chicago Park Avenue and 51st Street 6720 Stewart Ave. Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Rev. Howard R. Brinker, S.T.B., Rector 8 A.M., Holy Communion Sundays, 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A. M. 7:80 WITNESS BOOKS 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. P. M. 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue Junior Congregation, 9:30 and 11 A.M. Week-days, Tuesday and Thursday, 7 :80 Holy Comm., Thurs. and Saints’ Days, A. M. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, CHICAGO 10:30 A.M. 10:00 A. M.

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Mr. Franklin points out that while 6. The executive secretary of for­ 8. The executive secretary of the these figures are good there is a dry eign missions of the National Council Woman’s Auxiliary is time ahead unless individuals and is Miss Grace Bindley parish and diocesan treasurers make Bishop F. B. Bartlett Miss Eva Corey Miss Mary Ladd provisions for the payment of Bishop Henry St. George Tucker Mrs. Harper Sibley pledges during the summer. He Dr. John W. Wood Mrs. David Coveil wishes all a happy summer. Rev. Theodore O. Wedel 9. The two theological seminaries Rev. A. E. Knickerbocker which are now working on plans for a merger are . SUMMER SCHOOL UNDER DR. 7. The book of the New Testament The General Philadelphia KELLER OPENS 13TH which Church people are urged by Cambridge Bexley Sewanee SEASON the Forward Movement to read this Berkeley The Pacific (Continued from page 8) summer is Nashotah Alexandria Service of the National Council; The Gospel according to Mark 10. The president of The Church Archdeacon Joseph T. Ware of the The Epistle to the Romans League for Industrial Decocracy is Southern Ohio diocese, who is also The Acts of the Apostles Bishop Manning Bishop Gilbert resident adjuster for the NR A and The Gospel according to John Bishop Matthews subsequent acts of the Federal gov­ The Epistles of St. James Bishop Parsons Bishop Dallas ernment; Maurice Levine, M.D., as­ sistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, and Rabbi Abraham N. Franzblau of the He­ brew Union College, and Dr. Isaac M. Rubinow, international secretary of the B’nai Brith and world-known Settlement of Estates authority on social security. The students present at the sum­ mer school represent the following seminaries: General, Cambridge, Life Insurance is property insurance Alexandria, Sewanee, Bexley, Berke­ and a protection in every sense of the ley, Philadelphia, and Seabury-West- ern; and the dioceses of Pennsyl­ word. vania, Idaho, Minnesota, Massachu­ • setts, Western Massachusetts, Con­ necticut, Olympia, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, The settlement of an average estate Ohio, Southern Ohio, Atlanta, and as a rule involves numerous costs. Life Delaware. Insurance guarantees in a very practical way the conservation of estate values. THE WITNESS GAME

Questions and suggested answers; check those you consider correct. Play the game at home and at church. This Corporation offers low cost life 1. There are over insurance as well as annuities which are Three thousand five hundred clergy available to the clergy, vestrymen and in the Episcopal Church ' T en Thousand Six Thousand other lay officials and lay workers of the Eight Thousand Church, and members of their families. 2. The Episcopal Church has about Substantial refunds have been paid to Five million communicants policyholders annually since 1924. Two million A million and a quarter Three-quarters of a million 3. Contributions to the Church for all purposes totalled in 1934 over Ten million dollars Seven million dollars For information and rates Twenty-three million dollars please in qu ire of the Thirty-four million dollars 4. The present Presiding Bishop of the Church is also the bishop of New York New Jersey Kansas Milwaukee Minnesota ChurchLifelnsuranceCorporation Rhode Island Massachusetts 5. The Historiographer of the (A subsidiary of the Church Pension Fund) Church is Rev. William S. Slack Rev. Charles L. Pardee 20 Exchange Place New York, N. Y. Rev. James G. Glass Rev. E. Clowes Chorley Rev. John W. Suter

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Old Mariners’ Church. Woodward at Woodbridge Aves. ’Phone One Joy Street Randolph 6956. Rev. Geo. Backhurst. Superintendent. Rev. R. E. Rev. Ernest J. Dennen Randall. Hospital Chaplain. Mr. E. A. Lucas, Lay-Reader and Industrial Secretary. Superintendent Provides religious ministrations in public institutions of Wayne A Diocesan agency working in Greater Boston in and Oakland Counties: affords facilities for ministering to the a. The Religious Field needs of transients and homeless men and women; meets with those who have social, personal or domestic problems, offering Through Five Mission Parishes guidance, counsel and advice and serves as a clearing house for b. The Social Field the churches of Detroit which may refer their transients and Through the Sailors’ Haven strangers for investigation and subsequent disposition. Maintains Through the Allen Recreation Center the follow ing: Through Camp Na-E-Co for Girls 1. Mariners’ Church A Church for the Churchless. Through Lincoln Hill Camp for Boys 2. Mariners’ Inn A home for homeless men. 300 Griswold St. c. The Institutional Field 3. Mariners’ Institute Supplies food, clothing, em- Through Chaplaincy Service in the Charles­ 300 Griswold St. ployment and recreation, coun­ town State Prison and in the State Prison sel and advice. Colony at Norfolk 4. Page House A home for homeless women. 46 E. Vernor Highway, Through Chaplaincy Service in twenty Miss L. Coyne, House-Mother hospital centers The Episcopal City Mission is a corporation owning 5. Institutional Chaplaincies Ministering to the poor, sick and aged folk. its own property and depending for support upon in­ $100 will endow a bed for a year. Used clothing and come from its investments and from annual appeals. $10 will feed one hundred hungry men. magazines needed. CHICAGO NEW YORK

Office, 65 East Huron Street. Tel. Superior 6410. 38 Bleecker Street The Rt. Rev. George Craig Stewart, D.D., Bishop. The Rev. Edwin J. Randall, S.T.D., Superintendent. Rev. L. Ernest Sunderland, D.D. Clergy Superintendent The Rev. Frank F. Beckerman : the Rev. Harry L. Forbes ; the Rev. Arthur E. Johnstone: the Rev. Crawford W. Brown, Elgin State Hospital; the Rev. John S. Cole, Oak Forest Infirmary; the Seventy Centers of Human Need Rev. Louis F. Martin, Kankakee State Hospital; the Rev. Wm. Donald McLean, Old People’s Home ; the Rev. Benj. F. Root, Marine Chaplaincies in thirty Hospitals. Hospital; the Rev. John H. Scambler, and the Rev. John M. Chaplaincies in seven Asylums and Homes. Young, Hines Memorial Hospital ; and the Rev. Rex C. Simms, Chaplaincies in seventeen prisons and Reforma­ Manteno State Hospital. Deaconesses tories. Deaconess Elizabeth (retired) ; Deaconess Hettie G. L yon; Dea­ The Society owns three Chapels. coness Ruth Parsons ; Deaconess Dorothy E. D. W eaver; and Dea­ The Society operates three Convalescent and Fresh coness Grace E. Wilson. Air Centers. Residence of Deaconesses— Chase House, 211 S. Ashland Blvd. The Society operates God’s Providence House, a Telephone Monroe 4593 community center. Other Workers in Institutions The Society operates St. Barnabas’ House, a tem­ The Rev. H. M. Babin, Edward Sanitorium, Naperville; the Rev. F. H. 0. Bowman, State Reformatory, Pontiac; the Rev. Wm. O. porary shelter. Hanner, St. Charles School for Boys ; the Rev. J. F. Higgins, State Potter’s Field: Hart’s Island. Penitentiary, Joliet; and Sister Mary Elizabeth, O.S.F.— Women’s Ellis Island: Imigration Station. Reformatory, Dwight. Chapel— Church of the Epiphany, 201 S. Ashland Blvd. Courts of Domestic Relations.

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Approved by the Endorsement Committee on Wel­ Ninety-nine Main Street fare Organizations in the District of Columbia. Orange, New Jersey President Episcopal City Missions The Bishop of Newark 1329 K Street Northwest Executive Secretary The Rev. George W. Dawson Rev. George W. Dow Superintendent The Chaplains serve twenty institutions, public and private, charitable and penal. Services conducted. Telephone National 0138 Individuals ministered to. Christian Social Service rendered. Provides spiritual, mental and physical aid to the WANTED— Gifts of money and used clothing in “ shut-in” , the unfortunate, the sick and the strayed. good condition.

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