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to the central committee by the World Council Central Committee commission on faith and order, which had met August 3-8 in Faces Worldwide Problems triennial session. The statement declares that * An overflow congregation organization. It is the redis- the unity sought is primarily a of 1,700 people in St. Giles covery of the basic truths of local unity or "one which brings Cathedral, Edinburgh, joined in the Church, the restored all in each place who confess publication. a service of thanksgiving on awareness that it is of the very Christ Jesus as Lord into a full, and Sunday, August 14, to mark the essence of the Church of Christ committed fellowship with one 50th anniversary of the first to be a gathered, reconciled another." reuse International Missionary Con- people, not for its own sake but It emphasizes that the unity for ference held in Edinburgh in for the sake of the world." sought "is not one of uniformi- 1910. He paid tribute to Dr. Baillie ty nor a monolithic power They prayed that the Church and other pioneers of the ecu- structure." The commission's required "will seek to recover the lost menical movement who "did statement a 1 s o admits that unity of the Church of Christ not think of ecumenical work there are certain issues in and proclaim Christ to the as a hobby" but gave it their achieving this goal in which best years with total commit- Permission uttermost parts of the world." there is "not yet a common ment and the conviction that The service opened with a mind." fanfare of trumpets, followed this was God's will. Henri d'Espine, commission DFMS. "They had to fight for this / by a procession of 200 robed vice-chairman, said that the new and unheard-of thing that church leaders from all parts of statement implies that there the world down the long center Christians of completely differ- would no longer be in each local- Church aisle of the historic church. ent backgrounds should work ity several churches, but one and live together and think of church comprising all those in W. A. Visser 't Hooft, in an themselves as members of a address to the congregation (in that locality, who confess the Episcopal world-embracing fellowship in Lordship of Jesus Christ. place of World Council president Christ," he declared. the Dr. John Baillie who is ill), Their union, he continued, of said that Edinburgh was the would be based on the same point from which the Churches Commission Reports baptism and express itself by the preaching of the same Gos- Archives began "a continuing fellowship, Of Form of Unity a living and working together pel and by participation in the * Strong support was given same bread. 2020. - at first hesitantly, later with increasing conviction." in a discussion on a statement The Swiss professor said that defining the theological nature "it means the local community The general secretary told the and organization of the form of would be linked to the whole

Copyright congregation it was "missionary Christian unity. of all concern which led to concern for Christian community The statement was presented by the the total witness of the times and of all places fact that its ministry and Church." members will be acknowledged "We must go further," he by all." urged. "The thing that began He added: "By its very in Edinburgh cannot be ade- nature such a unity is visible quately expressed in any organ- but does not imply a single izational form. It is something centralized ecclesiastical insti- deeper, richer and wider than tution." "Are t h e member any organization. It lives also Churches of the World Council in Churches which are not of Churches ready to make such participating in the ecumenical a choice?" he asked. SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 7Three d'Espine declared that which we are meant to have." "agreement on this point, if it Important as was the address, could be realized, would inevit- it is not further reported here ably represent a step forward since is was similar to the in the pursuit of unity, a step address he gave at the U.S. which would be doubly signifi- conference of the Council, which cant in so far as the general appeared in full in our issue of impression which we give is May 12th. one of stagnation in t h i s matter." Responsible Parenthood Discussion Needs More Airing In a discussion which fol- A call for bold discussion lowed, Johannes Lilje, among Christians of the doc- head of the United Lutheran trine of responsible parenthood Church in Germany, indicated in family planning was issued

publication. general agreement with d'Es- by Bishop Stephen F. Bayne, pine. He said it would be a Jr., executive officer of the and BISHOP DUN (seated) and Canon long difficult road forward and Wedel attend World Council meeting , at a ses- mentioned traditional problems sion of the central committee reuse ologians in America and Europe raised by different concepts of on August 17th. for baptism and the ministry. are still arguing. He suggested that the time Bishop Angus Dun of Wash- Francis P. Miller, an Ameri- has come for a full ecumenical ington said that while Church discussion of the whole area of required can layman, emphasized the leaders have expressed unity in the theology of sexuality and urgency of consideration of the top level ecumenical gatherings, progress in Church unity. He of marriage itself. He said that this has not been brought home despite the "perplexity and urged that the emphasis be He said of Permission to the local church. focussed on division within the Christian the community level the multiplicity of churches on and illustrated the dilemma by camp" there is an astonishing the local level, "we have a degree of consensus particularly

DFMS. citing a community of 35,000 / whole apparatus which keeps among Anglicans and Prot- in the USA which has churches producing divided c h u r c h e s of thirty-one different denomi- estants. which force people to live in The bishop said that it is of Church nations. separation." great importance that "the area The Archbishop of Canter- The bishop called upon bury described the goal set of disagreement within the Church leaders to "set before Christian family is not as to Episcopal forth by the faith and order the Churches in the broadest commission's report as "com- the principle of family limita- the terms some outline of the goal tion itself but rather as to the of pletely satisfactory," and in the we seek." permissible means of s u c h "apostolic tradition of the New Reinold von Thadden-Trieg- Testament." limitation." laff, president of the German He continued: "The fact of Archives The Rev. Charles Westphal, Kirchentag, said that modern the population explosion is Paris, French Reformed Church, men and women living in isola- kindergarten knowledge, but it 2020. expressed "sadness and hu- tion in today's world look to is not the gift of life itself miliation about the division of the Churches for a new vision which is the problem; it is the and slow pace of of unity but are always dis- irresponsible stewardship of Copyright the Churches in coming to appointed. He said they will life." terms with the problem." remain disappointed as long as "The theology of the family Metropolitan Mar Thoma Ju- the Church only discusses and is in no sense a theology of hanon of I n d i a emphasized argues about unity and does population limitation, it is that in the early Church the nothing to achieve it. "People rather a truer and deeper sense experience of living in the want to live not discuss unity," of responsibility, person to Christian community was more he declared. person, husband to wife, parent important than doctrine. He Address By Secretary to child, citizen to citizen," criticized the over-intellectual- Bayne said. ization of the problem in the W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general The real problem, he pointed west and suggested it may be secretary of the World Council, out, is not life itself but in the solved in India and the addressed the meeting, calling balance between our needs and Churches of Asia while the- for "that far more perfect union resources. The bishop spoke of

Ti= Wrrpss the "uncompromising brutality riage," the bishop continued, of a common human solidarity. of the destruction of family life "as merely a device for pro- The action of Christians can in many parts of the world in creation is to deal with men help brethren in acute human our time, whether it be in the and women os if they were cats need to live a family life with- communes of China, the in- and dogs. The duty of pro- out the nagging fear of more dustrial areas of South Africa, creation is a primary one but it children who cannot be properly or successive polygamy in is not the only one. There are fed," the Dutch professor said. North America." duties to neighbors, duties to "We can also help them work "The corrosion of family life the community, duties to holi- out in faith and obedience how is relentless in our time and the ness, duties to vocation. Chris- responsible parenthood can be flood of life is so pressing that tian living is the act of recon- exercised." none of us can rest content with ciling differences in the light old answers," he declared. of our creation and redemp-2 World Situation Discussed The bishop referred to the tion." growing consensus among Chris- "Is marriage given to man At Lively Session tians that family planning in and wife alone for their own O. Frederick Nolde, director some form may be a duty for selfish gratification or is it a of the commission of the publication. Christian parents. He sug- vocation to holiness ?" he asked. Churches on international af- and gested more ecumenical discus- "If holiness, then what part in fairs, told the central com- sion on the technical and moral that holiness does duty to one's mittee that the leaders of the reuse aspects of means of family community and nation and the Soviet Union and the west for planning. world play ?" should stop trying to fix the Official Orthodox t h o u g h t, blame on each other for past the bishop commented, tends to Not Enough Food failures, and should concentrate required be most conservative, regard- Dutch agricultural economist, on opportunities for improving ing abstinence as the only per- Egbert de Vries, director of the world situation. missible means. Roman Catho- the institute of social studies at He said this course is neces-

Permission lic doctrine has officially en- the Hague, spoke on "Popula- sary because "in this tense at- dorsed the use of periods of tion growth and Christian re- mosphere, the possibility of sterility. The Roman Catho- sponsibility" at the s a m e further deterioration or of mis- DFMS.

/ lics' discipline, he said, is still session. calculation places mankind in a rooted in the categories of He said he believed it would precarious position which can what is "natural" and now the be technically impossible at be ignored only at a grave Church widespread experimentation in least up to the year 2000 to pro- risk." the use of "drugs to induce duce enough food in caloric Nolde continued: "The inter- temporary sterility looms on the value for the world's population. national situation in its exter- Episcopal horizon as a development which de Vries' attention was fo- nal manifestations is m o r e the may lead to a reevaluation and cussed especially on the under- dangerous than at any time of reinterpretation of this whole developed areas of the world. since the breakup of the sum- pattern of moral theology." People more fortunately lo- mit conference and perhaps At the least, he said, common cated cannot say "am I my since the end of the Korean Archives study would be helpful as an brother's keeper" and regard war." exercise in understanding. "It the world's problems as a local "It is equally important to 2020. is unlikely that other than one. "Far too little is being recognize that in its funda- Roman moralists will done to assure the future food mental aspects the situation is make extensive use of the ap- supply," he warned. not different from that which Copyright paratus of natural law, but it "A difference of one per cent existed before the Berlin crisis may be that study together will in the rate of population in- and the exchange of visits by open up a way to a wider con- crease would exactly double or the heads of governments," he sensus as yet unsuspected. On halve the possible improvement said. "Although relations be- the Protestants' side there is in the standard of living. Com- tween the major communist a clear need for something mon Christian responsibility powers and the western powers more authoritative than merely cannot accept a state of affairs stand at a low ebb, an improve- the wisdom of individual con- where the larger part of the ment is clearly possible if both science. We need to study and world's population is on such a sides are so minded." speak together of the social continuous treadmill," de Vries The director outlined seven duties which parenthood and declared. steps towards the solution of family life must face." "This calls for world-wide world tensions. "To think of Christian mar- Christian responsibility as part " An emphasis on peaceful

SEPT$SMER 1, 1960 competition where differences Africa exist, and cooperation where a A presentation by Sir Ken- fundamental principle is not neth Grubb dealing with Africa compromised. But both would emphasized that although new require "a stern effort," he Africa will show many new stressed. "An emphasis on such political patterns, "Christian competition a n d cooperation concern for the right of the may avoid risks involved in the worth of man involves insis- Soviet conception of coexistence tence on respect for the rule of and also dangers in the view law as essential to a just advanced by such groups as society." Moral Rearmament that co- Sir Kenneth Grubb, a layman existence is impossible and of the , is morally undesirable." the chairman of the commis- "According to present indi- sion. cations, a relationship of peace- "The rights of African states

publication. ful competition and cooperation to devise their own systems could more readily be worked must be respected," he said, and out with Soviet Russia than but the Churches must be con- with the Peoples' Republic of cerned that new states have reuse W. A. VISSER 't HOOFT calls China," he said. laws dealing with such funda-

for for far more perfect union " Identification of the fac- mentals as freedom from arbi- tors in the situation which in other fields including arms trary arrest, an independent judiciary, public trial, and the required make for division, to help reduction." bridge the gap between the 4 Particular efforts to keep right of habeas corpus; provi- communist and the non-com- the situation from deteriorating sion should also be made to munist world. He told the Cen- where powers are in direct con- protect equality before the law

Permission tral Committee that the com- flict and there is no acceptable of all persons and communities. mission is concerned with study- solution. To retain the position "Former colonial govern- ing the possibility of setting in such a situation, "until a ments should be willing to as- DFMS. / up an intergovernmental com- more favorable moment appears sist their former wards with mittee to study basic differ- will in itself represent an ad- capital, technical resources and ences and the specific frictions personal services, rendered not Church vance." He added that where they cause. there is a danger that great as masters but as equals and 0 An acceptance by all powers will clash openly in new friends," Sir Kenneth declared. governments of essential rules areas as in certain countries of He also expressed concern Episcopal of behavior in negotiation. "An emerging independence, all ap- that the Church in France the international ethos is a funda- propriate aid should be given should continue to press for a of mental prerequisite", he in the form of personnel on the resumption of negotiations on claimed, but since this has not spot or of multilateral pro- Algerian problems. been achieved there should be grams of economic and technical Hromadka Speaks Archives "a limited number of elemen- assistance. In a discussion on the report tary but basic rules of conduct." 9 Emphasis should be laid

2020. Prof. Josef L. Hromadka said " A reduction and regula- on seeking a solution through that "the most sinister and dif- tion of armaments under inter- normal channels such as the ficult problem rests in the Far national control. The present UN or at conferences at various East with the Peoples' Republic Copyright deadlock must be broken, he levels "with patience and per- of China." declared, and the United Na- sistence." "The tensions of the Hromadka, dean of the the- tions General Assembly should moment have forced an em- ological faculty at the Univer- try to give "clear and unmis- phasis on the technical aspects sity of Prague, is a member of takable directives on an equit- of power and defense" which the central committee. able starting point for dis- threaten to paralyze diplomacy. "We can make a step forward armament or at the least for "Blusterings, threatenings, and if we do everything in our negotiation." name callings should give way power to get China into the * Agreement on the cessa- to calm consideration of prob- United Nations. Summit talks tion of testing of nuclear weap- lems on their merit and a readi- are impossible as long as China ons with provision for control. ness to conciliate rather than is separated from all inter- Such agreement, he said, would insistence on the perfection of national consultations and dis- "set the stage for agreement the position." cussions," he said. Tau WrrmnE "The problem of the Soviet citing the encouraging growth Union is not as serious as the of mutual relationships between problem of China," Hromadka the World Council and "our asserted. "I don't consider my- Church in recent times." self a member of a Socialist country but a member of the Religious Liberty Subject Church of Christ in making this plea." Of Two Reports "The situation is grave," he Religious liberty was the declared. "The Churches must focus of attention in a session recognize responsibility for the on August 17 when two reports breakdown at the summit and were presented. One dealt ask what they can do in the with the broad subject of the future." nature and basis of religious Bishop Johannes Lilje, head liberty; the other with "Chris- of the United Lutheran Church tian witness, proselytism and in Germany, underlined the liberty," and its effects on the publication. necessity that the Churches relationships between the mem-

and should learn to deal with cer- ber Churches themselves. tain problems with patience and A set of principles of conduct

reuse persistence. "We must try to was proposed by a commission for understand each other across on proselytism under the chair- the Iron Curtain and take each manship of Bishop Angus Dun, other seriously," the bishop who pointed out that although required urged. the Council could not impose BISHOP LILJE of Germany urges any code on its member Message From Russia greater East-West understanding Churches, the standards of Alexis, Patri- practice set forth have fairly Permission His Holiness arch of the Orthodox Church of disease depends to a great ex- wide acceptance among them. Moscow and all Russia, sent a tent on united Christian The goals set by the commis-

DFMS. action." sion included the following: / message ur g i n g unanimous Christian action to prevent Two observers from the Rus- . Respect on the part of war. sian Orthodox Church were the Churches for convictions Church In his first formal message present at the central com- of other Churches, and help for to a meeting of the WCC Cen- mittee meetings. They are Mr. each other to "rise above tral Committee, the Patriarch Victor Alexeev of the Moscow our respective shortcomings"

Episcopal declared that "Christian one- patriarchate office of foreign through frank theological ex- the ness of mind could become a Church relations, and Professor change, , and of force able to lessen the present Vitaly Borovoy, professor at mutual service. sharp division of the world." the Moscow Theological Semi- 0 Recognition of the right The message continued: "By nary. of the mature individual to Archives united actions Christians could Patriarch Alexis paid tribute change his Church allegiance contribute to the abolition of to the ecumenical movement if he is convinced this is God's 2020. nuclear and other kinds of and said the Russian Orthodox will for him. deadly weapons. Despite a Church is "closely following the 9 The establishment a n d general longing for peace there developments in the movement maintenance of religious liberty Copyright has never been on earth such of the divided Churches toward for all Churches and members an accumulation of weapons of unity." "We can only rejoice," in every land. destruction, the produc- he said, "when Christians come * The exertion of pressure tion of which absorbs man's together in a common effort to by one Church on another in creative forces a n d riches. reach one mind in resolving times of helplessness or stress, There has never before been questions which separate not by offering material or social such a real danger of a sudden only themselves but all man- advantages, should be elimi- outburst of war." kind. By doing so they confess nated. The Moscow patriarch said the guilt of this dividedness." * Regard should be shown that the resolution of the prob- A message was also received for the conscientious decision lem of general disarmament from the head of the patriar- of marriage partners of differ- and the "day-to-day f i g h t chate office of foreign Church ent communions as to future against hunger, poverty and relations, Bishop N i k o d i m, Church allegiance, while making

SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 Seven clear the position of communion. himself does not use force to drugs and techniques for the 4 Pastoral concern for the win our allegiance. When either distortion of the human per- unity of the family is needed the state or society uses force sonality." in regard to the Church mem- in matters of religion, it denies bership of the children. its own nature under God, the 9 Care should be taken in commission said. Change InProcedure receiving members from other The commission was estab- Noted InVatican Churches if the motives for lished at the request of the seeking new membership are central committee in 1957 when Recent developments in the "worldly or unworthy," such as members expressed c o n c e r n Roman Catholic Church in re- being under discipline for moral about the curtailment of reli- gard to unity were appraised in laxity. A consultation between gious liberty in communist a report made by the executive the Churches involved about states, lands of Roman Catho- committee. The report men- changes of membership would lic dominance, and non-Chris- tioned the forthcoming second be necessary, but if "conscient- tian countries. Vatican Council as an event ious motives are apparent, no The document does not speak "which, while not dealing obstacles should be placed in on specific situations but on the directly with the question of publication. the way." nature of religious liberty gen- unity, is meant to have con- and 9 Member Churches should erally. siderable influence on the ecu- aim to help churches already It continues: "Our mental menical situation." It also re- reuse present in a given area, which and physical loves may be des- ferred to the new Vatican for are weak, to assist them to re- troyed but the goal for which secretariat for the question of newal and strength through we were created, redeemed and unity headed by Cardinal Bea. exchange of personnel and re- called, cannot be wiped out." The report said the develop- required sources, rather than establish The document condemns the ments show how much has hap- competing missions. use of any kind of force or co- pened since the Papal Encyclical The commission called on ercion in connection with the of 1928 "which contained a member Churches to disavow propagation of the Christian wholly negative interpretation Permission proselytism as defined in the faith. "Use of coercion by of the ecumenical movement." report. "Proselytism is not Churches under any circum- The executive committee said

DFMS. different stances," it says, "is an adulter- that there is little doubt that / something absolutely from witness. It is the cor- ation of the Christian witness, the Vatican has come to see ruption of witness," it said. a direct denial of the principles that the ecumenical movement Church Special Commission fundamental to the Christian is not inspired by vague hu- A special commission on reli- faith." manitarianism but by basic gious liberty headed by Alford Christians must observe the Christian conviction.

Episcopal Carlton of Boston, a Congrega- same principle among them- It declared that the Vatican

the tional missions executive, out- selves, the commission added. is now to become active in ecu- of lined the Christian basis for the "Intolerance, misunderstanding menical conversation and will right of every human being as and harassment of other Chris- no longer leave the initiative up a member of society to be free tians, and the suppression of to individual Catholics, but will Archives f r o m coercion in religious minority communions all vitiate begin to speak and act itself in matters. the message we proclaim." relation to other Churches and 2020. The commission admits that It says that religious liberty ecumenical organizations. Christians have not always is linked with other human T h e Executive Committee taken the lead in originating or liberties such as speech, publi- said that the full meaning of

Copyright undergirding progress in human cation and voluntary associa- the developments would only thought about liberty. "Too tion. be clear later, but made five often we have taken over only The state should take meas- points: reluctantly or tardily the fruits ures to ensure conditions under 0 The fact that dialogue of general human reflection on w h i c h religious institutions with the Roman Catholic these subjects, "Freedom has grow, the commission said. Church is possible is to be wel- often been most grievously The document warned: "The comed. transgressed. Nor are the positive task of the state is 0 It is to be hoped that the Churches of our own day guilt- more urgent today than ever informal discussions between less." before, for human freedom is Roman Catholic theologians and The document underscored affected by such things as those of other Churches which that the essential characteris- modern means of communica- have been going on will not be tic of the is that God tion, propaganda and the use of superseded by more official dis- TmH WrrESS cussion. At the present stage, Australian evangelist declared. of Anglican writers will be it is precisely informal discus- The Rev. Alan Walker, super- pub 1 is h e-d simultaneously in sions which can best contribute intendent of Sydney's Central Great Britain and the U.S. to the removal of misunder- Methodist Mission, told a meet- Also books of both publishers standing. ing of his organization that "a will be obtainable in both 0 No Church should fear great fear, rather than a great countries. that the World Council of faith, was directing the west." As a result, he said, the west Churches will in any way seek WORKERS "has lost the initiative to com- SOCIAL to speak or act for its members IN NEW YORK in the matter of Church union. gpunism and is fumbling and The World Council is not au- stumbling in its policies." * Six young men and four thorized constitutionally to act He called for a Christian women from England, members in such matters where each "world development conference" of the Clayton Volunteers, Church makes its own decision to "mobilize world resources for founded by an Anglican vicar, in full freedom. The point a war on want, illiteracy, and are spending their summer in must be made, the report said, cultural and spiritual backward- New York's lower East Side because the question is some- ness." supervising recreational pro- publication. times raised whether the World "The decline in religious faith grams for slum children. and Council of Churches will enter and worship," he continued, is The volunteers are named into formal or informal conver- to blame for "the dangerous after the Rev. T. (Tubby) B. reuse sation with the Roman Catholic confusion in goal and purposes Clayton, 74-year-old vicar of for Church about Church union. and the inability to fashion ade- the Church of All Hallows-by- "The answer is that this is quate positive policies." the-Tower in London. The quite out of the question be- also charged that Clayton youths are part of an required Walker cause of the character of our "western negativism" was part- exchange program with the movement." ly a product of "the western Winant Volunteers, a group of 0 The World Council may, world's exaggerated trust in young American workers named

Permission however, take the opportunity armed strength," and that "pre- after the late John G. Winant, to present to the new Vatican occupation with defense needs American ambassador to Eng- secretariat agreed-upon convic- has squandered resources and land during the last war. DFMS. / tions on basic matters such as stultified positive peace- Since 1948 more than 500 religious liberty and social making." Winant Volunteers have been action. serving during the summers Church He refused to accept the 0 It should be remembered claim in some quarters that among needy children in Lon- that the creation of the Vatican "arms superiority will buy don slum areas. secretariat does not mean that time for more positive peace- Mr. Clayton, a social worker Episcopal any of the fundamental differ- making." in London's East End, started the ences which exist between the his volunteers to keep alive the of "The increasing intensity of Roman Catholic Church and the the arms race has merely idea of youth exchanges first Churches in the World Council deepened the obsession of the suggested by Winant.

Archives of Churches have been solved. west with finding weapon- The change is in procedure and security," he said. "Setbacks

2020. climate. The opportunity for such as the Summit failure and A SIGN "dialogue is to be grasped but the defeat in Japan will continue OF BONDAGE it means that real problems will unless the west releases some The Archbishop of Canter- come too. Therefore our task * Copyright of its own imprisoned moral bury, opening a diocesan con- in that dialogue will be to and spiritual resources by turn- ference at Canterbury, said he represent the insights which ing to its original Christian considered gaiters a sign of God has given us together in heritage." bondage and those who wore the fifty years since our move- them were in bondage as minis- ment was started." SEABURY-SPCK HOOK-UP ters to those whom they served. He preferred this interpreta- AUSTRALIAN RAPS * Seabury Press and the tion of the function of gaiters CHRISTIAN WEST Society for Promotion of Chris- to that which suggested that * In many ways the "Chris- tian Knowledge have agreed to they were "for the prevention tian West" has ceased to be work closely together in the of the circulation in the lower Christian and has become mere- interests of the Anglican Com- limbs and gave rise to a swollen ly anti-Communist, a prominent munion. Outstanding new works head."

SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 SOFTNESS AND ITS ANTIDOTES By John McGill Krumm Chaplain of Columbia University

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if it is widespread at all (and there are some required M AYnovel,* I introduce whose dilemmato you theis in hero many of waysa recent the reasons to think that it is), we are entitled to dilemma of the well-meaning, liberal-minded regard it with some alarm. For every day makes intellectual of our times? He is a professor of it clearer that mankind has reached a forking of

Permission English in a provincial university in England, and the road where decision and conviction and here is how he sees himself: "One was now a resolution will be at a premium. Recent events humanist - a humanist, yes, but not one make DFMS. of those it clear that the lives of those who from / who suppose that man is good or progress at- our colleges and universities will be lived out in tractive. One has no firm affiliations-political, the tension of a continuing and sharp opposition

Church religious or moral - but lies outside it all. One and competition between two ways of life, both sees new projects tried, new cases put, and re- of them contending for the mastery of men's flects on them, distrusts them, is not surprised hearts and lives. The form that competition Episcopal when they don't work, and is doubtful if they takes will determine whether anything that can the seem to. A tired sophistication runs up and down be called civilization - perhaps even human life of one's spine; one has seen everything tried and in any form at all - is to survive. We can only seen it fail. One is at the end of the tradition of pray that the contest may be joined by the ex- human experience, where everything Archives has been change of explosive ideas rather than hydrogen tried, and no one way shows itself as perceptibly bombs, by the sharp encounter of faith, of con-

2020. better than another. Groping into the corners viction against conviction, rather than by the of one's benevolence, one likes this good soul, that clash of tanks and bayonets and troops. But one dear woman, but despairs of the group or the thing is clear: the immediate future holds no

Copyright race. For the mass of men there is not too much likelihood of relaxed co-existence between our to be said or done." And so he goes his well- western way of life and the totalitarian police meaning way, expressing his good intentions in state of the communist movement. giving teas for foreign students and feeling in- In such a warfare - whether by ideas and effective and unrelated but vaguely superior to convictions or by physical combat -we cannot life. "Life was no longer for people like him a afford the kinds of weakness that have appeared thing to trust so deeply." in this spot and that in our western society. I do not pretend to know how widely this ami- Times are too fateful and issues too crucial for able but passionless view of life characterizes the luxury of indecisiveness and cynical and our generation or this student generation, but world-weary neutrality. To doubt whether man is good or progress attractive - and who does * Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm. Bradbury. not recognize the signs of that sort of creeping

Tub WnwEss cynicism all around us - this is a fatal infirmity American pluralism as a product of our freedom of the soul of our society. No one who cares at and a source of immense strength. Now it is all about the future of mankind can fal to heed slowly dawning on us that it can become a recent warnings about this kind of softness and debilitating disease. It is as though all at once flabbiness in our society and our generation. we had lost our identification papers!" Need For Convictions If a society loses its identification papers, if it loses a sense of things that count supremely and faith is often placed in the results of GREATour educational programs and facilities in for which all else must be sacrificed if necessary, if of course, softness the belief that they will serve to counteract these it loses its Big Idea - then, are bound to tendencies. That faith has, of course, not been and flabbiness and irresolution realizable so easy to maintain in these last few years. The follow. If our main goals are easily check, two occasions, for example, during this past ones - social status, a five-figure salary year when this university received maximum the latest gadget, a tolerable marriage - then, get excited about. attention and publicity in the public press were of course, there is not much to reach of most unfortunately occasions in which the moral tone These things are surely within the of the graduates of this university. Only if the publication. and character of campus life were most unfavor- ably represented. One was the sad and shocking goals are more distant ones, less easily measured, and integrity case of one of our younger faculty members and far less readily grasped - goals like and honesty, the search for truth or the creation reuse the other was the discovery of widespread com- of beauty or the expression of goodness, passions for mercialized dishonesty in the preparation and presentation of term papers, theses, disserta- like the hatred of injustice and the love of dig- - if these are the goals of life, tions. Now, of course, these two incidents, nity and freedom required distressing as they were and proof - if further then one is committed to a lifetime of endless proof were needed - that education does not effort, of frequent despair, of tortured inade- automatically insure moral sensitivity, do not in quacy, and one must somehow learn deep lessons of forgiveness 4nd self-acceptance and tolerance Permission themselves give grounds for any general indict- ment of the softness and amorality of this stu- and hope and the courage to try again. dent generation. Indeed in some ways and on Golden said recently that the civiliza- DFMS. HARRY / some matters, the moral sensitivity of this stu- tion that perpetuates itself is the civiliza- dent generation is currently showing signs of tion that lives for tomorrow rather than today.

Church vigorous revival. The widespread support of "The New England farmers," he writes, "who student sit-in demonstrations and the suspension moved the rocks on a wood-sled, the Swedes and of nuclear testing are examples of this en- Germans who endured the blizzards of the

Episcopal couraging revival. Whether one agrees with Northwest, the Oakies who fed the dust-bowl, the these techniques of social protest or not, they the Jews from Eastern Europe who came to the of demonstrate tough convictions - convictions for metropolitan ghettos at the turn of this century which some one is prepared to suffer and to were all segments of a society that lived for sacrifice, to spend and be spent. tomorrow. If we beat the game by playing for Archives But our problem is not really whether here and the present, it will be the first time any one has done so." 2020. there, now and then, for this group of people and then for that, is some cause and some conviction America has been a land of implausible hopes compelling enough to give at least momentary and extravagant dreams. To it have come men

Copyright strength and resolution to common life. Father and women who were not satisfied to live as Thurston Davis of the magazine America recently others around them lived, who yearned for described the larger problem in this way: "What wider freedom, greater opportunity, higher is really wrong, it seems to me, has to do with dignity. They lived in faith and they lived by our loss of the Big Idea, by which I mean our promise of what as yet they could not see. loosening grasp on the meaning and purpose of Some of you heard Dr. Frank Graham speak human life. Our problem is that we no longer and he quoted William James's phrase "a moral know who or what we are. We no longer col- equivalent for war." Something else this gen- lectively see ourselves as a people bound together eration needs desperately is a moral equivalent by common affirmations, common assumptions, for immigration - how to live in contemporary common loyalties to a commonly shared universe America with an awareness that there are new of values. For years we have viewed this frontiers needing to be crossed, new qualities of

SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 Eevef life to be achieved, new levels of sacrifice and have been considering. To you who graduate generosity to be attained. A humanism that we have tried to convey not just information derives its values from the statistics of average but something of the faith by which this uni- humans is never going to create any burning versity lives. We have sought to kindle some of passion or tough conviction. The only kind of the fire of the convictions which enable a man goal that can be an antidote for softness is one to live for a tomorrow that he can never fully which looms far above what most people do and realize within the limits of the span of his life. what most people are. If the communists live Unfortunately perhaps, we are not all agreed- for a beckoning tomorrow, and we live for we who teach here - as to just what that faith nothing more exciting than what we have today, and those convictions are, how best they can be then the conclusion of Harry Golden is inevit- expressed, what they mean. We give a very un- able: "The civilization that perpetuates itself is certain note; and yet that very uncertainty is the civilization that lives for tomorrow." Our evidence that we respect the right of difference fathers were looking toward a new world, and and that our convictions include the sacredness much of what they looked for their children have of the individual conscience. discovered and enjoy today. But what is now In many ways this university is one of the publication. our pilgrimage? Have we no vision of an even great centers of scholarly attainment in the and more elusive and unattainable horizon? What world, but in this matter of articulating a faith are the foundations of the new city toward which which can give life its strength and its direction reuse we should be looking? What are the hopes and and its resolute purpose we are often only con- for dreams which will compel our sacrifice and fused and stumbling amateurs, victims (as our justify our exertion? society is) of a loss of nerve and a loss of faith,

required Idea. You must pardon our IS a vision of human possibility and human of a loss of the Big IT irresolution and uncertainty. We hope you see hope that has been the great gift of the in it at least the evidence that we are serious and religion of the Bible to our civilization. It has troubled and concerned, and that we are not con- Permission created and nurtured the kind of faith of which tent with cliches and sterile formulae which are we heard in the lesson from the to the not powerful enough to confer real conviction

DFMS. Hebrews that has kept men at the search "for a

/ and to enlist all the energies and faculties of the better country, that is an heavenly" and for a self-minds as well as hearts and wills. fulfillment of quality and character of life as A Charge Church individuals and in society that is "not yet seen." EN and women of Columbia of the class of The Bible holds up before us the well-nigh im- 1960: We charge you to take up the un- possible requirements of the God who created us finished business of forgoing for yourselves a Episcopal in his own image and thereby set for us our faith for living which is deep enough and wide the destiny. He calls us to an incredible and im- of enough and compelling enough to sustain lives plausible quality of life - purity of heart, holi- which will surely be lived in the midst of some of ness of life, a brotherhood of service and love, a the most crucial events of human history. Per- freedom and responsibility that come from a Archives haps less than in any other area of human re- knowledge of our human dignity, a patience and sponsibility have we prepared you in this place

2020. a forbearance and a hope that come from a for this inescapable challenge. One thing is knowledge of his divine sovereignty and provi- certain: Unless within your life-time there is a dence. In all times and in all ages, men have new birth of some such faith human history will

Copyright felt the pull of that impossible dream, and they pass into a new dark ages with incalculable losses have set out toward it in pilgrimage again and in human dignity and human creativity. We in- again. It is, I believe, the peculiar glory of the vite you to carry forward this search which has biblical faith to set that ideal before men as the been begun here only fitfully and occasionally. plan and purpose of God himself toward which We ask you to be open to the claims and calls all men are destined to strive. for faith from which in some ways an academic This university is not in the business of life these days protects you; to discriminate propagating religious faith, but the history of about them, and to be ready to respond to that its founding and the history of its life justify us which commands your deepest response and the in saying that it cannot long continue without fullness of all your possibilities. some such faith and some such hope and some such conviction and some such passion as we A Commencement Sermon At Columbia University

Twelve THE WrrNESs The Mind of God for His Creation: Series THE LESSON OF CAIN AND ABEL

By Terence J. Finlay Rector of St. Bartholomew's, New York

" shalt do no murder." still far too many ruthless and horrible murders which we boast THESE words are sharp and final. In the Book taking place in this country, of of Exodus, which records the giving of the that it has one of the highest forms of civiliza- Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, this tion and the highest standard of living that the sixth Commandment reads: "Thou shalt not world has yet known. Can you blame people who kill." But the Hebrew word for kill really means read our newspapers, who watch our television, a violent, unauthorized death. Therefore, in the who are exposed to these means of communica- publication. Revised Version, found in our Prayer Book, the tion for the first time, if they wonder where is and better translation, "Thou shalt do no murder," this highly vaunted standard of living of which is used. There is no mistaking its implications. they have heard; where are these God-fearing reuse The willful taking of another human life is for- people on the North American continent? for bidden by God, and anyone who takes another's SPower of The Press life in this way is guilty of breaking the sixth E KNOW, of course, that unfortunately the required Commandment. press does not deal only with "all the news All along we have noticed that the Ten Com- that is fit to print," but also with what the pub- mandments were given to a people who needed lishers feel will sell their newspapers-and let us

Permission them. This is true of the Sixth Commandment, be honest, we do read these things. We have for these people were living in primitive and perhaps too one-sided a picture; yet no one who crude days when human flesh was cheap. If seriously considers the effect of our press, of DFMS. / one had good reason for hating his neighbor, it television, of radio, of movies upon a growing was sometimes very easy to kill him and remove generation, can fail to have a sense of uneasiness.

Church him from the scene. In God's infinite wisdom, So it is well that this sixth Commandment should he knew that there must be respect for human still be stressed, for there are many people who life, that it must be regarded as sacred, and that think, because we pride ourselves on our free-

Episcopal anyone who took such a life must pay the most dom, that it apparently gives them a personal the severe penalty. So this Commandment has come freedom to take human life readily and without of down to us through the ages as one of the great paying the most severe penalty. laws upon which a civilized society builds its "The Anatomy of a Murder," by Robert Traver, existence. is a current best-seller. In the Book of Genesis, Archives Would you be so presumptuous as to say that, the Scriptures deal with the anatomy of a murder although we have made tremendous advance in 2020. in the eyes of a God-fearing people. Cain and many fields, this Commandment is not necessary Abel were brothers. They had grown up in the upon the statutes of our land? If this Com- same home and must have had, in the beginning,

Copyright mandment were easily broken; if there were no the feeling of brotherly love that we have with severe penalty, then no one's life would be safe. our brothers in the home. Yet between them So there has grown up within us the feeling that there developed jealousy and enmity. Cain per- the taking away of a human life in a violent haps had reason for some resentment against manner must be punished. Abel, because his brother's gift apparently It is not my purpose to deal with the merits received a blessing and his own was rejected. or demerits of capital punishment, although we But to allow that resentment to grow into bitter- have had it brought vigorously home to us ness, and bitterness to hatred, and hatred to through the press, television, and other media murder, was wrong. of communication in the recent case of Caryl HE Bible gives us a wonderful mirror which Chessman. But I would suggest that, although reflects the characters of men and women, we have advanced in so many ways, there are not merely of the past, but men and women like

SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 Thirteen ourselves, because there is still this feeling of be brought back? So some kind of restitution bitterness among the brotherhood of man. After must be made. Cain had slain Abel, God said to him, "Where is thy brother?" Cain answered, "I know not. Am Spirit of The Commandment to this, I my brother's keeper?" From that day OU may say to me, "Why preach about this have sought to evade the responsibility for men Commandment to us? There is not a soul brothers by saying, "Am their treatment of their in church today who has committed murder." I keeper?" The truth, of course, I my brother's do not believe for one moment that anyone has. our brother's keeper. If we are is that we are But do you not see the implications: that when children of God, members of a society, if we are we allow ourselves to be carried away by anger, what happens to our made in his image, then which will develop into hatred against our concerns us. And if we kill our brother, brother brother, we are breaking this Commandment? Is immediate blood or that whether he be of our there any one among us who has not at times had relationship, then we must pay the larger family this very human feeling of resentment, the de- murder still penalty; and the man who commits sire to strike back at those who have injured bears the mark of Cain. He has lost his right publication. him? But if the love of God dwells in our hearts, to be a member of society and to move freely if we believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, we and among men. He must be removed by force or be can rise above this human weakness, and live the incarcerated, so that he is not permitted to bring and God- reuse kind of life which we call Christian heartache and disaster into other homes. The for fearing. There is a great responsibility placed anatomy of a murder always begins in the human upon us. heart. Jesus reminded his listeners that one of the required There are still people who allow their resent- great sins implied in this Commandment is the ment to grow. They nourish it with the daily danger of becoming contemptuous of those watering of their feeling of rejection until it around us. "Whosoever shall say, thou fool, Permission flowers into a hideous growth called hate, which shall be in danger of hell fire." It is so easy for darkens and influences their whole outlook upon us to find people whom we feel to be less worthy life. Jesus, who knew what was in the heart of DFMS. than ourselves, who possess less intellectual / man, took this Commandment, and made it more qualities than we have, and to despise them. I heartsearching and positive than we find it in believe that nothing so cheapens a person as to Church its first state. In his incomparable Sermon on despise and have contempt for those he feels are the Mount, he said: "Ye have heard that it was beneath him either intellectually, socially, or said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; spiritually.

Episcopal and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the If we can see them as our brothers, which they the judgment. But I say unto you, that whosoever of is angry with his brother without a cause shall are; if we walk as men and women in God's sight, be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever seeking to love those who are related to us in the simply use shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger brotherhood of mankind - and not Archives of the council: but whosoever shall say, thou this as a beautiful phrase for oratorical purposes danger of hell fire." - then we shall be keeping not only the letter 2020. fool, shall be in but the spirit of the Sixth Commandment. Here Jesus shows us that the Commandment, "Thou shalt do no murder," implies that we

Copyright must not allow ourselves to be carried away with unwarranted anger against our brother, against those who have injured us. He does not say that at times anger is not justified - "without The Meaning of a cause." But often we become angry at the slightest pretext; we allow ourselves to be The Real Presence carried away in a fit of temper, and say and do By G. A. Studdert-Kennedy things that often bring terrible consequences. Many a murderer who has killed in a moment of violent anger, without premeditation, has after- 10¢ a copy. $4 for 100 wards been plunged into the deepest grief. But The W1itness - Tunkhannock, Pa. once a human life has been destroyed, how can it

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Archives concord in Latin America."~ CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION The letter, read on Sunday, Broadway & 155th St. Rev. Robert R. Spars Jr., Vicar 2020. August 7, at the Church of the Sun. HO 8, 9:30 & 11, EP 4, Weekdays Christian Healing in the Church in San Jose, HO daily 7 & 10, PP 9, EP 5:30, Sat. 5 Good Shepherd Lit 11:50; C Sat. 4, 5 & by appt. S H AR ING Costa Rica, urged the church's Only Church magazine devoted to Spidmda who ST. LUKE'S CHAPEL Therapy, $2.00 a year. Sample an reqat. Copyright congregation and "any 487 Hudson St. founded by Rev. John Gaynoer Banks, ID.S.T. trust in God to be the sovereign This paper is recomme,.td by marny Rev. Pawl C. Weed, Jr., Vicar Bishps and CIs-W. king and ruler of all men and Sun. HC 8, 9:15, 10:15 (Spanish) & 11: Addes: Daily HO 7 and 8 C. Sat. 54 8-9 and by appt. 10o== 0=0aoZ= 01=o FELLOWSHIP OF ST. LUKE ST. AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL 2243 Front St. San Diego 1, CAN~. 292 Henry St. (at Scammel) Rev. C. Kilmer Meyers, S.T.D., Vicar The .jVESTHENTS Rev'. M. J. Young, P.-in-C. OHODIs Haed Su~oia Sun. HC 8:15, 9:30, 11; 12:30 (Spanish) ALTAR HNIGS and LINENS EP 5, Thurs., Sat. HC. 9:30; EP, 5. Write us for Materials by the yard.. Kits for Altar Hangigs and Eucharistic . ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHAPEL J. M. HALL, INC. 48 Henry St. Organ Information The Rev. C. Kilmer Myears, S. T. D., Vicar; 14 W. 40th St., New York 18, N.Y. The Rev. W. Wengdt, P.-AwsC. AUSTIN ORGANS. Inc. TEL. OH 4-1070 Sun. 8, 10, 8:30; Weekdays 8, 5:30. Hartford, Conn. soao00=01 Eighteen Tim~ Wrrxrs One wonders how the publisher can essays by some 37 outstanding clergy put this attractive and elaborate and of the Roman Catholic volume before us for the compara- Church. For the intelligensia of the BOOKS... tively low price. Parish libraries Episcopal Church - or other phi- Kenneth R. Forbes would do well to put in a copy. losophically-minded readers of The Book Editor Witness--this can be a treasury of The Day Of Light by H. B. Porter. just what our Roman brethren are Seabury Press. $1.75 thinking about God, man, the Church, This is a scholarly and interesting the political order, history, religion Exploring The Bible by Kendig B. essay on the history and significance and culture, witness (not this maga- Morehouse-Barlow. $1.75 Cully. of Sunday from the point of view of zine!) - which are the titles of the This substantial volume is a part practicing Christians, or, as the au- book's seven sections. The most of the publisher's "Episcopal Church thor expresses it in his subtitle, "The familiar to most of us are the names Fellowship. Series" for C hu rc h Biblical and Liturgical Meaning of of Sigrid Unset, J. Courtney Mur- schools. It is designed to be put in Sunday." He introduces his study ray, Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gil- the hands of pupils of high-school with a description of the place which son, Romano Guardini and Christo- age for a systematic study of the the Sabbath held in Jewish history pher' Dawson, among the long list Bible under the guidance of a com- and goes on from there to a study of contributing essayists. petent teacher. It is divided into of Sunday's place in Christian fel- four parts; "The Law", which is a lowship, which includes its relation to the development of the Christian FOR ANY RECORD OR BOOK publication. concise story of the Pentateuch; "The Prophete', which takes Hebrew Year, Saints Days and other Holy Seminary Book Service. Dept. Rfli

and Days. A valuable 82 pages for history through the peak of its Quaker Lane power, its failure and exile and the parish reference libraries. Alexandria. Virginia reuse eventual return and rebuilding. "The He Sent Leanness by David Head. Writings" include sample references for Macmillan Co. $1.25 to the major and minor prophets, This is a short 62 pages, but filled which indicate the last days recorded in odd fashion with funny prayers! in. the Old Testament. The final Yes, 'funny', but by no means ir-

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Permission The contents of this book is valu- time reading his mind. Though MARGARET'S SCHOOL able and especially shows a genius it is a collection that will ST. amusing, FOR GIRLS for condensation of the vast mate- have us blushing with shame. It is, COLuGu PRIIPARATION rial which is the basis of the study. Fully accredited. Grades 8-12. Music, DFMS. all of it, profound theology written / It could be most useful for grown- by a person who knows not theology art, dramatics. Small classes. AlU ups as individuals or in study groups. alone, but the Christian religion and sports. On beautiful Rappahannock River. Episcopal. Summer School. Whether it will be equally good for the difficult but rewarding art of Church youngsters of high-school age will prayer. Write for catalog. olk, depend wholly on the quality and If you have a swelled head or an Viola H. Woolf Virginia experience of the teacher. embittered heart you'd better take Box W, Tappahannockc, a generous dose of the medicine in Episcopal The Church And The Fine Arts by this tiny book. Cynthia Pearl Maus. Harpers LENOX SCHOOL the $6.95 Modern Catholic Thinkers. Edited by A Church School in the Berkshire Hi1ls faU of Here is another giant book of 900 A. R. Caponigri. Harpers. $15.00 y chatpctarthrough siplicityo plant sal pages, containing 112 photograph re- This big book of 650 pages is seli sytemandinformal,Sp tpersona isle productions of famous paintings. Its exactly what its title indicates, -- tionshius amonrg boys and faculty. Archives general purpose is to create an an- REV. ROBET L. CURRY, Headmaster thology illustrating ;the life of the Lawoz, M~smcnuszn Christian Church, from its beginning NORTHWESTERN 2020. to the present, by the major fine Military and Naval arts; - pictures, poetry, stories and ACADEMY DeVEAUX SCHOOL music. The work is divided into Niagara Falls, New York is. Founnam 1853 Copyright sections, as the Church herself Lake Geneva, Wisconsin It begins with the Apostolic Church A Church School for boys in the Diocs.. of Rev. James Howard Jacobson Western New York. College prertory. in Palestine and the following sec- Sall classes. New Gymnasium ad tions illustrate the Eastern Orthodox Superintendent and Rector Swimmdag Pool. Grades 7 through 12. Church, the Roman Catholic Church, An outstanding military college pre- For inforanution &Udrsss Box "A". the Protestant Reformation in paratory school for boys 12 to is, DA-i A. Kminaemr, M.A., Headmauster the Protestant Church in grades 8 through 12. Fireproof The Rt. Rev. L~tuuxsron L. Saums, D.D.. Europe, Pres. Board of Trustees North America and a final sketch buildings, modern science department, of Christianity, A World Religion. excellent laboratory and academic The whole book is of absorbing facilities. 90 acre campus with ex- THE WOODHULL SCHOOLS interest to all sorts of people, young tensive lake shore frontage, new pictures and the 3 court gym. Enviable year 'round Nursery to College and old. The HOLLIS, L. I. stories will be keenly appreciated by environment. All sports, including children, but all the contents are riding and sailing. Accredited. Sum- GARL'tSosrdST. EBPISCOPAL CHURCH likely to interest most grown-ups, mer Camp. Write for catalogue, radar the direction of the rect- , especially the text or interpretation 164 South Lake Shore Road. THE REV. ROBERT Y. CONDIT of the least familiar sections. Schools of the Church

St. Stephen's Episcopal School Virginia Episcopal School HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS LYNCHBURG, VA. CHURCH Ausrur, TaAs AND HOSPITAL Prepares boys for colleges and university. Operatd by the Episcopal Diocese of Taws Splendid environment and excellent corps of SCHOOL OF NURSING aacoeucational church school fer toys teachers. High standard in schelarship and and girls in Grades 8-12. Fully ac= db*Te athletics. Healthy and beautiful location is BALTIMORE 31, MARYLAND) Experienced faculty to provide a strog sea- the mountains of Virginia. A three year approved course of nunhW. dankc program baacdby ativities that For atiog.., aptly to Class -ae in gbm hi h axahisal- eelpindividual inteets Small clam=&. ableleto well q scoelgrduaes Limited enrollment. Prepares for any oseUr. THE REV. ROGER A. ALER, JR., M.A., Apply: Director of Nsing Modern buildings. Splendid climate. Fso [oE=HeadmSeriO grain designed to give religion its rightful place in general education within &ae spklt of a Christian Community. ALLEN W. BECKER, Headmaster P.O. Box 818 Austin 64, Tags ST. MARY'S SCHOOL SEWANEE. TENN. OKOLONA COLLEGE publication. Exclusively for high school girls. Heue sytem stressed. OXDXAMsA,MrNIm5mr Ro 0 0 @ 0.ao_=I Accredited. and Plees address A Unique Adveasare in. hrast""e BiuoiU THE SEWANEE THE SISTER SUPERIOR, C.S.M. Coeducatieoal, Private. Episcopal Disoa of Mississppi (Protestant Episcopal Ch-uad)

reuse MILITARY ACADEMY Established 1902 A division of the Universkaly of the amokt High School and Junior C0eos. Trades for An Episcopal School. A College Prep Schad. and Industries. Music ROTC Honor School. On a College Css~a For information write: Benwodcholrshps.On aMoua op. Fully accredited. Gae8-2. Smal lda. Traising.MLNToday's for Toeasoows Oppera+MI required All sports; gymnasium, indoor pool. 100th > o catalog write: Col. Craig Alders..., B,- E, The Sew.,... Militry AMaiamp, Sewanee, Tenessee. The olest Church School wet of the Ale- ghenies integrates all parts of its program reigioshigos acdmcciitr,-ca school cdmcage boys m~tr.sca grow "in wisdom n Permission ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL stature and in favor with God snd man." Write One of Church Schools in the Diocese of ST. AGNES SCHOOL CANON SIDNEY W. GOLD M1TH,. JR. Virginia. College preparatory. Girls, grail.. Rector 7-11. Cturicnlm is well-rounded, oauphaf DFMS. a Hasdmehers is individual, based on principles of Chrkdma

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Church range from Grade 9 to College Entrance. A. B. Bym Mawr, M.A. Univarsity of Virginia MISS BLANCHE PITMAN, Pmiolpd. ST. ANNE'S SCIIOOL THE NATIONAL Charlottesville 2, Va. CATHEDRAL SCHOOL Episcopal . (For Girls) the THE CHURCH ST. ALBANS SCHOOL of (For Boys) SAINT JAMES FARM SCHOOL MILITARY SCHOOL GLEN LOCHE, PA. Two schools on the 58-acre Close of FARIBAULT, MISDITA A School for loys whosmm dian ars the Washington Cathedral offering a Archives responsible for auppos aid eduostlsu. Christian education in Fotnnan 1901 COLLEGE PREPARATORY the stimulating environment of the Nation's Capita. A Canairy Baning Scheel for Bays, GRADES: FIVE TO TWELVE Grame Foam' A Mw 2020. Wholesome surroundloge on a 1,200 aeon Students experience many of the One of the fear saodeal is he imwa~ farmwhmbyslmmlo in Cheater Valley Chestere&adPY, advantages of co-education yet retain the advantages of separate education. REV. CHARLES W. SHRIER, D.D. Headaster - A thorough curriculum of college - eos - h eam diasfor o Copyright Post Office: Box 662, PAOLI, PA. preparation combined with a program and Riding. of supervised athletics and of social, Sommerwo hrbla Saboo-omp I&W Jw 9s J cultural, and religious activities. Day: Grades 4-12 Boarding: Gsades 8-12 MARVIN W. HORSTMAN, Headmaster Catalogee Seat Up.- Ray-u 7ke BihoS 10w Mount St. Alban, Washington 16, D.C. LAJOLLA CALIPORNIA St. John's Military Academy ResderDa Scoolfor Gilos. Graais seenthogk TwelW. College Propwtessy. HOLDERNESS A preparatory school wiuh a "Way of Life" ART - MUSIC - DRAMATICS The White Mountain School for bos13.19. TwetycreCamusOutdoor Heated Peel, an 4T ThseuughStuded.em college peeparatism in ca .Individualizedinstuin inel sa, l nns, Hocey, Basketball, Riding. s Modem &ps ss~U o Tre RT. Rm. Fsuicts Ense Br Team sotsin.Debatig. Glee Club. Art. 184. For catalogue write DisstorM of Presde~st of Bosed of T"ses New fopofbuilding. Admissions, RosAnrtes L LA-MeIR, M.A., DomeAx., C HAMzSaasw, Heoammee He aibs Plymouth, New Hanpsdma