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ASELFORD, RICHARD, Silver Spring, Mary land (diocese of Washington), has been elect Œl¡t CletteraÎ (Ctfeological ed dean of the Northern Convocation of the K e m p f t t tt o x diocese. J^emttrarg ( BULLOCK, HARLEY, has resigned as rector KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Three - year undergraduate of the Good Shepherd, Forest City Arkan sas, and is at present residing at Lookout Episcopal Boarding and Day School., course of prescribed and elective Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual study. Mountain, Tennessee. CAMPBELL, ROBERT B., in charge of Christ opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu Church, Kingston Parish, Virginia, was or Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity dained priest on May 11th by Bishop Good School. Accredited. Address: for specification. win. SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced HARDIN, LOUIS, has resigned as rector of St. Paul’s, Batesville, Arkansas, and has Box W.T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. renounced the ministry. Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin and D.Th. HARRISON, CLARENCE E., to be ordained deacon on June 12th by Bishop Washburn ADDRESS at St. Barnabas, Newark, is to be in charge CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL of St. Philip’s, Muskogee, Oklahoma. New York City THE DEAN LUDLOW, THEODORE LINCOLN, is to be A boarding school for the forty boys at, Chelsea Square New York City ordained deacon at the Epiphany, Winches the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John th& ter, Mass., by his father, Bishop T. R. Lud Divine. Careful musical training and daily For Catalogue Address the Dean low of Newark. He plans to spend the next singing at the cathedral services. Small year _ studying at the Graduate School cf classes mean individual attention and high Applied Religion in Cincinnati. standards. The School has its own building and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.0f MERKEL, GEORGE C., in charge of missions per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice Episcopal Theological School at Stuttgart and Tollville, Arkansas, was test and scholarship examination. Address ordained priest by Bishop Spencer of West The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School. Cath» CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS Missouri recently at Helena, Arkansas. dral Heights, New York City. Affiliated with Harvard University offers unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as ONO, B. K., Japanese deacon of Brazil, was philosophy, psychology, history, ordained priest at the annual council of the sociology, etc. Brazilian Church, meeting April 27th at HOLDERNESS Porto Alegre. For Catalogue Address the Dean In the White Mountains. College Preparatory PAUL, KENNETH DeWITT, deacon, has and General Courses. Music and Crafts. Far been deposed by the Bishop of Maine. boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 2
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H u m a n H a n d s A Whitsunday Editorial By BISHOP JOHNSON ELIG IO N may be one of three things according to high and guidance on earth. So revelation enters upon R our attitude. If we are self-centered it is an irri the third stage. It was that which Christ promised tation; if we are inactive it is a bore; if we are enthu when He said that He would send the comforter to siastic it is a joy. After all the Kingdom is within us them. This promise was fulfilled on the Day of Pente and that which a man seeks he will find. cost when God was no longer over us merely as a law When I consider how little most people invest of giver, nor was He merely next to us as a friend but their time and money in their religion I am not sur God was to be in us as a force urging us to action and prised that the dividends are small. One doesn’t ex supplying us with the power to act. pect to become a musician without a love of music in It was God in the disciples which caused St. Paul the first place and a practice of it in the next. The great to say that their bodies were temples of the Holy Ghost. difficulty with the average American is that he has a It was God in the apostles which gave them courage philosophy which he substitutes for religion. What instead of fear; eloquence instead of timidity; success is the difference? All the difference between solving instead of failure. They themselves would have been a cross-word puzzle and preparing a meal. The one the first to acknowledge that they had been given power satisfies our curiosity, the other nourishes us. from on high. Philosophy is merely a process of thought which can It was their belief in the reality of the Pentecostal be indulged by our fireside; the other is a way of life gift which caused them to pass it on to others by the which involves action and effort. . very simple but suggestive process of the laying on of hands. The hands are a good symbol of three things; There are a hundred sentimental souls who will shed of the lifting up of hands in worship; of the greetings tears over a mythical orphan on the stage to one bene of friends in fellowship; of the employment of talents factor who will aid the real orphan in the alley. in industry. Religion calls- into play all our faculties; intellect, So they chose the human hand as the instrument affections and w ill; whereas mere sentiment plays upon through which the gift of the Spirit was to be given. the emotions and mere philosophy plays with the in It is a wonderful thought that for nineteen centuries the tellect. Religion involves worship and prayer; service whole Church has been tied together by a net work of and sharing; self discipline and self denial. human hands in confirmation and in ordination. It is The process of revelation is interesting. In the Old so simple that men disregard its potency but through Testament we have God ruling by law. He gives us the word of His mouth and the touch of His hands the Ten Commandments and declares the penalty for Christ ministered to human needs. their violation. It produced a form of legal righteous So the Church has kept its mission by this sacrament ness which was as offensive as it was smug. When of human touch in which the recipients of grace are we read the Gospels we are introduced to a closer guided into truth and endued with power. This gift relationship with God. He is revealed in Christ as is like the compass—not something to deliver us from love and drew out of the multitude those who were trouble but something which suggests to us the way seekers after righteousness. But even Christ’s closest and keeps us in it. disciples were timid souls and unable to stand the test It is like the dynamo which requires contact with of devotion. They all forsook Him and fled. It was the instruments by which we invoke light, heat and because of this weakness that Christ said, “ It is ex energy. It is like the human hand open to benevolence pedient for you that I go- away.” Why ? and clinched by evil. Because He aroused ideals in them which they lacked It is the way God bestows His gifts to those who the power to realize. They needed power from on seek and withholds from those who hang back.
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T h e Pa r a b l e o f t h e B e d s By GEORGE CRAIG STEWART The Bishop of Chicago N A M U SIN G incident ushered me into the Utrecht had been covered over with a folded blanket. Straight A Conference the results of which were reported in way then I accused the good doctor of double-dealing, T h e W i t n e s s for last week. I dare to relate it because misrepresentation—perhaps more accurately, duplicity. it proved to be a parable. Arriving in Cherbourg early But we made it up for we recognized the parabolic on Sunday, May 8, I was determined to get to Utrecht value of the incident. Here is Oxford and Edinburgh— that day in order to be up bright and early to take my the values of each must be conserved but the World seat with the Committee of Fourteen on Monday morn Council would provide them a common head-board and ing. Accompanied by Bishop Jazinski of the National foot-board without blanketing the differences of their Independent Polish Catholic Church, I reached Paris functions. at 2:15 only to learn that the train to Utrecht left at Meanwhile I must confess I felt a little sleepy that precisely that same moment from another station across first night of the Conference when we gathered in the the city. It was necessary therefore to waste four great cathedral church, cold as a barn, for the opening hours in Paris and Bishop Jazinski courteously offered service addressed by Dr. John R. Mott, Dr. Berkelback me a retreat and rest in his hotel. From 6:15 until von Sprenkel, a Danish Bishop, with devotional acts led midnight (really one o’clock for we turned our watches by the Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Utrecht back an hour) I took to reach Rotterdam: from there, (Old Catholic) and Archbishop Germanos. Even the after a few minutes wait, I took another train to reception afterwards in the ancient university halls, Utrecht, arriving in the wee sma’ hours of Monday with the inevitable wine and cakes, didn’t quite make morning. I had been assigned to the Hotel Pays Bas, up for the rond et rond of the night before. the headquarters of most of the delegates and so to the We accomplished what we set out to do and added hotel by taxi. It was closed and dark. The night another necessary strand in the cord which we hope clerk was rung up. I was very tired and eager to will draw all the Christians of the world closer together, turn in. But to my consternation I learned that all in a day of that strange paradox when the world as the rooms were full. They had not expected me “ until never before is one and as never before is broken into the 9th.” “ But,” said I, “ it unquestionably is the 9th,” fragments. and it was, though just the beginning of it. After Christ wills unity. It is good to observe that the much consultation the night clerk, thoroughly Dutch, Anglican communion is taking a leading part in every that is to say, cautious, conservative and obstinate, had enterprise that makes in the direction of the reunion an idea. There was a room with two beds, only one of Christendom, and this enterprise of a World Council of which was occupied. A Messieur Brown from may prove to be vastly significant in the vdiole ecumeni America occupied it. Did I know Messieur Brown? cal movement toward the realization of our Saviour’s Of course I did. Dr. William Adams Brown—but I prayer for His disciples, Ut unum sint. protested, “you can’t wake him up in the middle of the night.” The clerk spoke nothing but Dutch, of which language, with a number of others, I am inno cent. So heeding not my protests he rang up Dr. Talking It Over Brown and put me on the phone with that excellent By gentleman and friend, who sleepily and with pardonable WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD alarm learned that he was in peril of being invaded. N O B SE R V E R with considerable first hand “ But Bishop,” he said, “ I have only one bed, not knowledge of China writes from Hankow that the two, and you are of course welcome. I shall be happy A Japanese would like to quit but cannot do so without to share this bed with you.” losing face. Japanese officers, he says, are refusing Bless his heart, I am sure he meant it too. I was to obey their high command and materials of war com very tired but still had vigor enough to decline his ing from Japan are said to be below par, due presum offer, and so was finally turned out, only to be taken ably to the fact that the country lacks raw materials. care of in a friendly hotel at the other end of the town, It is stated further that they would have been compelled where before daybreak I finally rolled into one of those to withdraw from China were it not for the materials great Dutch beds “ as big as a battlefield.” they have been receiving in increasing amounts from U T in the morning the tale had gone about, gar the United States. We shipped them $85,000 in arms B nished as such tales are wont to be. It turned out in October of last year, with the amount steadily rising that in the morning Dr. Brown discovered that he had until in February we shipped them $1,184,000 worth. been wrong. He had been sleeping in two beds and The Japanese militarists had planned for a two months didn’t know it. They had one head-board and one campaign, believing they would be able to conquer the foot-board but they were separate beds, only the foot Chinese in that time. Sufficient oil had been stored
Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 2, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Five to carry on for that period. When the supply was people of Germany, whose government is at war with exhausted they turned to us—and got twenty-five mil Spain, contributed $3,354 while the Italians driven lion gallons. The next month they got 105 million from their homeland and now living in other parts of gallons and the next 337 million gallons. One steel the world have given $24,000. . . . Don’t believe dic company alone shipped them 844,000 tons of steel in tators. On July 26, 1934, Mussolini wired Austria’s four months. We shipped them more iron in the last vice-chancellor: “The independence of Austria, for four months of 1937 than in the previous six years. which Dollfuss died, is a principle which was defended Shipments of scrap-iron tripled in a year. First we and which will be still more vigorously defended by demanded cash, on the theory that otherwise we would Italy.” On March 16, 1938 he said to the Italian become involved in the war. Our money-makers then Chamber of Deputies, “ I have never promised, either decided that it would be safe to ask for but 40% pay directly or indirectly, to defend the independence of ments in cash; now there is talk of a huge credit pool Austria.” . . . An old peasant woman, living on Italy’s so that we can continue to send the instruments of war northern frontier, refused to plant bulbs this year. to Japan with no cash payments. All of which is done Asked why she replied, “ I ’m not going to plant bulbs in spite of a so-called policy of neutrality, which has in order that the Germans may pick flowers.” . . . A not been invoked by the President against Japan, on friend, just returned from a four months’ visit to Italy, the theory that there is no war in China because the states that Mussolini is much disturbed over the Aus Japanese have not declared war. trian annexation by Hitler, in spite of a bluff to the People say that it does no good to write letters to contrary. . . . Fighting continues in Ethiopia with Ital the President; to Secretary of State Hull; to Congress ian casualties heavy, according to an English news men and Senators. It does. The Senate’s civil liber paper. . . . Mildred Eads, pretty co-ed of the University ties committee received its appropriation to carry on of Wisconsin, refused her appointment to the Court of its work last week, largely because of letters requesting Honor at the military ball saying that she did not want it. No shipments of the instruments of war, and the to add glamor to militarism. . . . British General F. P. materials out of which munitions are made, to Japan Crozier resigned his commission because he disap would stop their aggression in a short time. Present proved of the actions of English troops in Ireland. Thus your demands to your servants in Washington and thus he lost his pension just before he was eligible for it. help save China for the Chinese. A group of people are now seeking to have it restored to his widow, ill and without means of support. H E C O N G R EG A TIO N A LISTS have their “ 287” T as we have our “ 281,” and Roger Babson, econo mist and statistician, staged a minor rebellion against it at the Massachusetts convention of that church, held last week. Refused a place on the official program, Mr. Prayer Book Inter-Leaves
Babson led several hundred of the 900 delegates to an Q u e s t i o n i n g t h e Q u e s t i o n B o x other hall and there went to work on the official head quarters, which he always referred to as “ 287.” He E V E R A L comments have been received from read said that he decried the low salaries paid the average S ers of the recent “ Question Box.” One parson parson, and yet when he wrote an article for the official writes about the recommendation of communion in one denominational weekly presenting the facts it was re kind: “ I cannot think of anything more silly, more jected. For two years, he declared, he has been try impolite, or more unrubrical. To reduce the matter to ing to get people at headquarters to lead the way in something of an absurdity: Question—T am invited bettering ministers’ salaries, but could get no action to the White House for dinner; I am afraid the des from these leaders whose salaries far exceed those of the sert will make me ill; what shall I do?’ To which men in charge of congregations. “ If they find a man Dorothy Dix makes reply: ‘The remedy is simple— whose ideas do not meet their approval they gang up leave the table before the dessert is offered you.’ Could on him and make it difficult for him to get a pulpit or anything cause more confusion, or be more absurd, better himself in the church. It’s purely a matter of than the hasty withdrawal of a goodly number of guests politics all the way through, and woe be to the man who from the table before the offending pudding should has a mind of his own. We must liquidate the national appear? To return the discussion, reverently, to the headquarters to a point where it no longer will admin matter of the Lord’s Table, it would seem that any ister rewards and punishments to our ministers.” solution to the problem would be preferable to the one suggested. If the communicant remains at the com OTES ON THIS TROUBLED WORLD—Elo munion rail it at least gives the priest the opportunity N quent testimony as to the sympathy of people to do what the rubric definitely orders to do—‘deliver throughout the world for the cause of Loyalist Spain is the same to the people . . . into their hands.’ If the contained in statistics. Oven ten million dollars has communicant chooses to receive the chalice and return been contributed, practically all of it in small amounts it to the priest untouched by his lips, that is his own from the people of seventeen countries. England leads responsibility. He at least has not been openly dis with $1,450,000; France is next with $1,420,000; the courteous. There is the alternative, also, of dipping the United States is third with $960,800. Argentina con consecrated wafer into the chalice when it is passed tributed $680,000 and Sweden $555,176. Even the to him. There is also the regular and usual method
Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS June 2, 1938 of drinking from the chalice as every priest of the for a time and then the Turks took it away. In 1878 Church drinks from it each . Sunday—in many parishes it came under British control, and during the World more often—without any harmful effects, so far as I War was annexed to the British Empire. have been able to learn.” It is a long, slender island composed of two moun If anyone thinks it more courteous or rubrical to tain ranges with a broad and fertile valley lying be receive the chalice and return it, by all means let him tween. At one time it was covered by extensive forests do it that way. As to drinking out of the common cup, but they were ruthlessly cut away to supply timber for the following communication from a lady who belongs Phoenician ships. One of its chief products in earlier to an altar guild is to the point: “ In washing purifica- times was copper—in fact the English name for this tors it is a great sacrilege to me to find them deeply metal comes from a Cypriote word and the old copper colored with lip-stick and paint. Must I drink paint mines have been brought into production again in re put into the sacred wine by my neighbor? It is high cent years. time the Church took a stand.” Long before Christ the Phoenicians imported their Several have strongly advocated giving out the page religion to Cyprus in the questionable worship of of the psalter, especially as a help to strangers. Here, Astarte. Later this was absorbed into the Greek wor e. g., is one comment: “ Many who attend our services ship of Aphrodite. A colony of Jews had settled there are only ‘unintelligent’ in that they have had no train in early days and St. Paul found synagogues organized ing in the technicalities of the Prayer Book services, in the island when he made his first missionary journey. and they are most appreciative of a little courtesy in Turkish conquests introduced a Mohammedan element the matter of guidance shown either by clergyman or which still makes up about one-fourth of the present neighbor in the pew. During the years of my min population. Practically all the rest of the three-hun istry in California and other parts of the West I have dred-thousand inhabitants are included in the Orthodox been thanked repeatedly by visitors, and also by a Church. considerable number of somewhat lax ‘choice souls’ of For a time during the Crusades the Roman Catholics our own Communion, for the help afforded by the had erected a Latin Kingdom in the east and they pro occasional announcement of the proper page. I know ceeded to abolish the Orthodox Church in Cyprus. at least two bishops who highly commend the practice, Orthodox bishops were dispossessed, their jurisdictions and I sincerely hope the Dean will ‘educate the clergy’ and revenues turned over to Latin bishops from Rome. in this direction, instead of the other, when he realizes At one time thirteen Greek monks were put to death for the error of his ways.” refusing to surrender. After the Crusades the Turks This critic seems to forget that if he announces the took charge and the Roman mission disintegrated. Un page he thereby deprives the neighbor in the pew of der great difficulties and much persecution from the the opportunity to show this “ little courtesy” to strang Moslems the people of Cyprus returned to their old ers. Is it really desirable that the clergy do every Orthodox standard. Today the Church of Cyprus is thing themselves, and leave little or nothing to the man an independent (autocephalous) part of Orthodoxy. or woman in the pew? And must worship always be It was to this island that St. Paul and St. Barnabas, made pleasant and easy? Might it not be a good thing accompanied by St. Mark, embarked on their first great for the stranger to find that he had something to learn missionary venture. Later a second tour was carried in order to qualify as a worshipper? out by Barnabas and Mark while St. Paul was working
This column is written by Dean W. P. Ladd of the Berkeley Divinity on the mainland of Asia Minor. Thus Christianity got School, New Haven, Conn., to whom suggestions and questions can be a very early start in Cyprus and the Cypriote Church is sent. exceedingly proud of its apostolic origin and its long history. St. Barnabas is supposed to have been buried L et’s Know there, which is quite likely since it was his home in the By first place. Some time in early Christian centuries a legend arose that a copy of St. Matthew’s Gospel had BISHOP WILSON been discovered in the tomb of Barnabas. Ever since C y p r u s that time and in honor of the discovery the patriarch of N A L L its long history the island of Cyprus has Cyprus has been accorded the privilege of signing his Ienjoyed almost no real independence. This might name in red ink to all official documents. be because its strategic position in the eastern Medi terranean Sea has made it peculiarly desirable to larger nations or it might be because of the lack of energy on A s a Man Thinketh the part of the people. Probably both have something to do with it. At any rate, long before the Christian LTH O UGH speaking a foreign language, one may, era it was successively under the control of Assyrians, A all the while, be thinking in native English. There Egyptians, Persians, and Greeks. About 57 B. C. it is a certain young man who impresses people as being was taken over by the Romans. For many centuries it shallow and superficial, but it is possible that he is mis was under the Eastern Empire, ruled from Constan judged. In spite of his flippant and worldly speech, tinople, and during the Crusades was bandied about his thought may be serious and Christian. from one control to another. The Venetians held it T h e C h u r c h m o u s e .
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VOTE TO OPEN DOOR NEWS NOTES OF } TO OTHER FAITHS THE CHURCH IN AT THE COMMUNION BRIEF PARAGRAPHS
The Liberal Evangelicals, meeting Edited b y W. B. S po f fo r d in convention on May 24-25 in New The Rev. Beverley D. Tucker Jr., York, threw a direct challenge to rector of St. Paul’s, Richmond, Va., those who recently presented a peti and brother of the Presiding Bishop, tion to the Presiding Bishop which was elected Bishop Coadjutor of asked that the House of Bishops re Ohio at a special convention held at fuse to allow the clergy to hold com Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, on munion services with those of other May 24th. He was elected on the churches. The resolution was adopt first ballot. Others nominated were ed unanimously by the 100 delegates the Rev. Andrew S. Gill of Cleve attending the conference, who land; the Rev. Harold E. Sawyer of claimed to represent the point of Utica, New York, and Bishop Cross view of fully 1,000 clergymen. of Spokane. According to the con The adopted resolution read as stitution of the diocese the clergy follows: nominate the person they wish “ Resolved, that, in our judgment, elected. On the first ballot of 81 the rubric at the close of the Con votes Tucker received 42, Gill 24, HOWARD C. ROBBINS firmation Office is a disciplinary Sawyer 11 and Bishop Cross 4. Thé rule, intended solely to apply to Leader at Liberal Conference laity, sitting as a separate house, members of the Anglican Commun then confirmed the nomination by a ion, and having no reference what vote of 61 to 7. For four months soever to the occasional reception of the terms presented in the ‘Lambeth prior to the convention a special the Holy Communion by baptized Quadrilateral.’ ” The statement also committee had been gathering in warned against inter-communion members of other Christian bodies formation about possible men for the who come as guests to what is not with members of other Christian office, narrowed the field to six men churches before an agreement on ‘Our Table’ but the Table of the and presented the detailed informa Lord. matters of faith had been reached. tion about their records to those at Several delegates, who described tending. “ The admission of these guests is themselves ae “ clergy who would * * * to be regarded as fully warranted cherish and increase within our com Another Election historically, as in accord with the munion the warmth of personal re liberality of the Anglican tradition, in Arkansas ligion which evangelicalism repre Dean Claude Sprouse of Kansas as approved by the overwhelming sents and the freedom of the open majority of our people, and as avoid City having declined election as mind which marks the liberal” in bishop of Arkansas, another conven ing a legalism which would reduce sisted upon referring to those who the catholicity of this church. More tion has been called for June 28th signed the statement mentioned in Little Rock. The diocesan paper over, it is in accordance with the above as “ conservatives” and de spirit of what our Lord said when lists the following clergymen as the scribed their attitude as representing likely candidates: The Rev. Thomas His disciples sought to exclude from “ a closed door” against Protestant fellowship those who, though they Carruthers of Houston; the Rev. union. They sought, they said, to George Davidson of Los Angeles; the followed Him, were following ‘not open this door. The Rev. Charles D. with us’ !” Rev. Malcolm Lockhart of Jackson Kean, assistant at St. George’s ville; the Rev. Bland Mitchell of Bir The resolution was prepared by a where the conference was held and mingham, and Dean Frank Rhea of committee composed of Bishop Lud who was in charge of publicity, as Boise. low, the Rev. Howard Chandler Rob serted that “ the great majority of * * * bins of the General Theological Sem the clergy and even a greater ma inary, the Rev. W. Russell Bowie, New President for jority of the laity are in sympathy General Alumni rector of Grace Church, the Rev. with our group.” John Gass, rector of the Church of The Rev. William J. White, rector at Bogota, N. J., was elected presi the Incarnation, and the Rev. Guy Preceding the vote several dele Emery Shipler, editor of The Church gates spoke in favor of amending dent of the alumni association of the man. They described the resolution the resolution to liberalize it even General Seminary on May 24, when further by omitting the word “ occa as “ embodying the historic teaching more than 200 alumni of the School and practice of this branch of sional” where the resolution holds returned for commencement. that non-Episcopalians may enjoy Christ’s Church.” “ occasional reception of the holy The Problem Facing Bishop Ludlow, suffragan bishop communion” in a Protestant Episco the N ation of Newark, described the move as pal church. Clarence A. Dykstra, president of “ a long step toward liberalizing the Problems of peace and war were the University of Wisconsin, in ad Protestant Episcopal Church” and in discussed at the evening session the dressing the students of Hobart Col bringing closer a union of all the first day of the conference, with pa lege at commencement on May 23rd, Protestant Churches. pers read by the Rev. Theodore H. declared that the task before demo The action was in opposition to Evans, rector of Trinity Church, New cratic America is “ to achieve secur the statement issued a month ago, Haven, and the Very Rev. Arthur B. ity in a social organization which will and signed by 1,406 members of the Kinsolving 2nd, dean of the cathe maintain freedom. Do we have to Episcopal clergy, insisting that the dral at Garden City. The conference kill one to achieve the other?” He Protestant Episcopal Church “ can closed with a dinner on Thursday at declared that democracy could be not with integrity enter upon or en which the principal speaker was the preserved only by a “ widespread dis courage efforts toward Christian re Rev. J. V. Moldenhauser, Presby tribution of property and spending union except such as are based upon terian pastor of New York. power and a decent way of existence
Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS June 2, 1938 for all.” Doctorates were given to animations-—you know the rest of it. opening service and the Rev. Daniel Suffragan Bishop R. A. Heron of The convention approved. McGregor, executive secretary of Massachusetts and the Rev. Jerome the National Council’s department Kates, rector of St. Stephen’s, To the West; to the West of religious education, the speaker Rochester, N. Y. the Land of the Free at a mass meeting. The convention * * * Here is a letter from the Rev. acted favorably on Bishop Abbott’s Religious Instruction Charles G. Reade, beloved parson of suggestion that a committee appraise in Public Schools Cincinnati: “ Reading your open let the missionary and aided work in the Weekday religious instruction in ter to the President (May 19) I am diocese. the public schools, the ambition of reminded that when I came to this church leaders for years, was assured Land of Liberty in December, 1883, Commencement at in Elgin, Illinois, when it was an on the old Grecian Monarch (later B erk eley nounced on May 24th that a fund the Pomeranian sunk during the The Rev. Howard Chandler Rob o f approximately $6,000 had been war) I landed in Jersey City. As a bins of the General Seminary is to raised to hire a supervisor and a second class passenger it was as be the speaker at the commencement teacher. The Rev. Crawford W. easy for me to enter the United of the Berkeley Divinity School, be Brown, rector of the Redeemer, has States then as it is now to go to ing held in New Haven on June 8th been the leader of a united effort Canada. My fellow passengers in and 9 th. The Rev. William Grimes on the part of fifteen Protestant the steerage, Russians in wool-hide is the alumni preacher. churches in promoting the idea and coats, Italians, Irish and a few Eng raising the funds. lish, to keep up their spirits on the Bequests to H* * ^ thirteen day cold and boisterous New Hampshire Church A trust fund of $45,000 has been Bishop Perry Asks voyage used to sing. One song ran: left to St. Paul’s, Lancaster, N. H., for a Suffragan To the West To the West, To the by the will of the late Mrs. Charles Bishop Perry of Rhode Island Land of the Free, C. O’Brien, communicant. asked for a Suffragan Bishop at the Where the Mighty Missouri rolls convention of the diocese held at the down to the sea, Bishop Quin has Cathedral, Providence, May 23-24, Where a man is a man if he's willing an Anniversary and a plan for financing the office to toil, It was twenty years ago that was approved. A special convention And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil. Bishop Clinton S. Quin was elected will be held when Bishop Bennett, Bishop Coadjutor of Texas. He was formerly of Duluth, who has been This is interesting in view of gov ernment interference with crops, rector of Trinity, Houston, at the “ Auxiliary Bishop” of the diocese for time. seven years while Bishop Perry with sharecroppers and dust bowls, * * * erosion and other man-made inven served as Presiding Bishop, will un Wyoming Bishop doubtedly be elected. A high spot tions. “ Another song was sung by a Visits Michigan of the convention was the address by Bishop Ziegler of Wyoming the Rev. Henry A. McNulty, -fnission- lively young cow puncher who es corted several hundred head of cat preached at the Messiah, Detroit, ary to China, who described how on May 22. Detroit is his birthplace churches had been seized by the tle across the briny and came back to New York second cabin. He sang and he returned for the first time in Japanese and turned into bars and a number of years. brothels. He told also how Chinese of his adventures in Jersey: H i H« Hi Oh you may talk of this and you may girls, including many Christian Announce Program workers, had been taken by Japanese talk of that, And you may talk of a place being for Church Congress soldiers and never again heard from. Following a meeting in Washing * * H? noisy, ton of the committee in charge of Choir Festival But by the . . . No I will not swear, The Devil’s in New Jersey. the next Church Congress it was an in Pittsburgh nounced that the Congress would Twenty-two choirs composed of “ In the light of present events this strikes me as quite a prophesy. meet in the same city April 25-28 of 600 voices took part in the first choir next year. Speakers have not yet festival of the diocese of Pittsburgh, My own personal experience was that I went to the real United States been announced but the following held on May 22nd at Calvary Church. subjects are listed: The Unchanging The Rev. H. Boyd Edwards, rector of — Ohio—and in Dayton and Cincin nati worked chiefly as a newspaper Gospel; The Gospel and the New the Ascension, was the preacher. Testament; The Gospel and the * * * man, a Y.M.C.A. secretary and a clergyman. I am now retired but in Church (as a message; as com Memorial Garden over a half century I was out of a munity) ; The Gospel and Modern at Troy Parish Man; the Relevance of the Gospel job but three days. Perhaps this was Bishop Freeman of Washington because I regarded my positions as for Today; the Gospel and our dedicated a memorial garden at St. Parishes. jobs, real jobs, worth doing.” John’s, Troy, N. Y., last Sunday, a Hi Hi Hi memorial to the Rev. Henry R. Free- Presiding Bishop Declares mafi, his brother who was rector of Change Place for United Front the parish for many years. It is of Synod Meeting In order that the anti-church a beauty spot in the heart of the city The synod of the province of sentiment sweeping totalitarian that affords a place of seclusion for Washington is to be held in Rich states might be combated there rest and meditation. mond, Virginia, October 19-21, must be a corporate alignment * * * rather than in Lancaster, Pa., as of Christian forces, Presiding Bish Western Massachusetts previously announced. op Tucker declared on a visit to the Sets Up Diocesan Council San Francisco Bay area May 21. “ I A council of 24 members to pro Lexington Holds feel that ultimately there must be a mote missions, religious education a Convention merger of Protestant Churches,” he and social service, was created at the The convention of Lexington was said. “ We are heading toward it, convention of Western Massachu held at Ashland, Kentucky, May although we stand far from united. setts, meeting in Fitchburg, May 17-18, with Dean Emerson of Cleve There are practical differences that 17-18. A law requiring physical ex- land preaching the sermon at the as yet stand in the way, but some-
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time there must be a corporate unity, of Bluefield, W. Va., and the Rev. take in the Church Army conference a united front through which Chris Robert A. Magill of Lynchburg. The that was attended by 900 Church tians must shoulder a common re Laymen’s League of the diocese Army workers. He reports that 800 sponsibility.” held a mass meeting in connection homes and flats have been erected The theory of communism is as with the convention at which Bish by Church Army in London in what inherently religious as the New op Jett, retiring Bishop, was praised were formerly slum districts. Dr. Testament, Bishop Tucker held, al and presented with a check by the Carlile, head of England’s Church though the Russian Soviet attitude laymen and a chair and a foot-rest Army, told the conference: “ If Jesus seems bad. “ Russia,” he said, “ will by the clergy. was a landowner he would try to return some day to a formal religion. make arrangements for the man I know the country, I know the Empire Day at with a small income and large fam people. And I know the need of both Detroit Cathedral ily. We are trying to be landlords for spiritual expression.” He was They observed Empire Day at St. in Jesus’ name.” To Canon Marriott very critical of the status of re Paul’s Cathedral, Detroit, on May 22, of Westminster Abbey Chief Carlile ligion and of the individual in with a Scottish regiment coming said, “ Have you any message from fascist Germany. over from Windsor, Ontario, to lay heaven to those of us who work for The Presiding Bishop expressed a wreath on the soldiers’ and sailors’ the man in the gutter?” The Canon the view that in the last two or three monument. They made quite a hit replied: “ Sometimes we say, ‘Come years there has been a definite up as they marched along the street, and hear the gospel.’ At Church turn in religion, especially among 450 of them, with the pipe band, the Army headquarters it is ‘Come and ;youth. “ Our modern youth, born brasses and the drum and bugle sec see the Gospel.’ The Gospel is be into depression, torn between hope tions. The preacher was Canon H. lieved when seen.” and despair, is turning more and F. D. Woodcock of St. James Ca Prebendary Carlile is approaching more to a specific and serious inter thedral, Toronto, with whom Dean his 92nd birthday and yet remains pretation of religion.” In this coun Kirk O’Ferrall exchanged pulpits. the head of the Army, and accord try the need is to “ instill in indi ing to the same Westminster Canon viduals a sense of need of general Bishop Gooden “ is the greatest preacher the Church welfare, of the common good, and of England has had in fifty years.” many of our difficulties will vanish.” to Visit England Bishop Gooden of Los Angeles Captain Mountford had twenty- was born in England, coming to the five minutes with the Archbishop of N ew Y o rk ’ s M a yor Canterbury at Lambeth Palace and Speaks in Washington States as a boy. In all the interven ing time he has never visited his reports that the head of the English Mayor LaGuardia of New York homeland, but now plans to spend Church showed keen interest in the was the speaker at a Memorial Day the summer there. work being done by the Army in service held at Washington Cathe America. dral. “ Let us resolve,” he declared, Differ as to “ that no single American shall be Proper Punishment Rural Mission in sacrificed for the territorial greed of Judge Thomas F. Gallagher, faced Southern Ohio any dictator, no matter who he may with the task of punishing two boys be. If there is an epidemic of war The Rev. David R. Coveil, execu in Fitchburg, Mass., for stealing we should quarantine ourselves. No tive secretary of Southern Ohio, ordered a horsewhipping at the hands one can be satisfied with economic conducted a mission from Trinity, of their fathers. The parents conditions here and there is plenty Troy, Ohio, which embraced the en promptly condemned the order as of opportunity for service in this tire county, with nine neighboring “ uncivilized” and declined to car field.” parishes cooperating. It was held * * * ry it out. The mother of one sug from May 8th through the 15th. In gested that payment for damages, Graduation at preparation 53 women from other amounting to $50, be accepted in Cincinnati School parishes in Southern Ohio called at stead, and this in spite of the fact all the homes in the town to invite The Rev. Frank H. Nelson, rector that the sole support of the family people to take part in the mission. of Christ Church, Cincinnati, was comes from a son who earns $10 More than 1,000 homes were visited, the speaker at the graduation at the a week. Her husband is an invalid. with careful reports filed on each Graduate School of Applied Religion, The Rev. F. H. Sleep, rector of the one. Laymen’s activities, young peo held on May 30th. Seven men were Good Shepherd, Fitchburg, sup ple’s work, the work of the Aux graduated. The annual retreat of ported the judge. “ No one can iliary, was stressed throughout the the school was held May 26-28 under doubt,” he declared, “ that the judge week. Bishop Hobson gave a follow the leadership of the Rev. Wilford was convinced that a whipping, bet up sermon at Troy on May 22nd. O. Cross of Cincinnati. ter than any other punishment, Miss Mary Klemm, diocesan secre H i * H* would return the boys to honest tary of the Auxiliary, and Captain Henry D. Phillips tasks. Surely there can be no shame Earl Estabrook of Church Army took Elected Bishop or degradation in the proper punish an active part in the enterprise.
The Rev. Henry D. Phillips of ment of a child for wrongdoing.” H : H : H : Trinity, Columbia, S. C., was elected Which rather seems to beg the ques bishop of Southwestern Virginia as tion which is what constitutes prop Bishops Speak successor to Bishop Jett, retired, at er punishment. I am with the par Their Pieces the diocesan convention held May ents, though being of a practical Bishop Stewart of Chicago and 17th. A close second was the Rev. turn of mind I doubtless would save Bishop Perry of Rhode Island, re John J. Gravatt, rector of Trinity, the fifty dollars and whip my kid. turning on May 20th from the Staunton, Va. The election was on But I certainly would not bear Utrecht conference, spoke their the eighth ballot. Others to receive down. pieces to the ship reporters on land votes were the Rev. Carleton Barn s£ ^ * ing in New York. Said Bishop Stew well of Lynchburg; the Rev. Alfred Captain Mountford art: “ We Americans are often too R. Berkeley of Roanoke; the Rev. Visits England smug in our criticism of other na Churchill J. Gibson of Richmond; Captain Frank Mountford, head tions. We boast much of freedom, the Rev. D. L. Gwathmey of Wythe- man of the American Church Army, yet submit to a controlled press, con ville; the Rev. Jennings W. Hobson returned to his native England to trolled not by the government but
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by party cliques and powerful finan lie service commissioner of New cial interests. York, paid tributes to the late George “ We decry dictators and yet suf Foster Peabody at an impressive RESTHAVEN fer cheap political bosses in practi service held at Bethesda Church, Saint Augustine, Florida cally all our big cities and many of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on May 22. Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened their Rest House in this historic city to guests our States. Other tributes, received from nota desiring spiritual peace and strength; physical “ We get excited over the irreligion bles, were read, including those from rest, quiet, and nourishing food. The new location is in beautiful grounds with water of Communistic Russia and forget President Roosevelt; Supreme Court outlook, live oaks, palms, flowers. Com that we are flagrantly irreligious Justice Charles Evans Hughes; So fortable rooms. Central heat. Address The ourselves. licitor General Robert H. Jackson; Mother Superior S. R. “ We are horrified at the persecu Robert R. Moton, former president tion of the Jew abroad, while we of Tuskegee Institute, and John D. boycott him from our own clubs and Rockefeller Jr. A liberal both theo colleges and homes. logically and socially, Mr. Peabody FINE IRISH LINEN “ We are heroic in the champion devoted his long1 life to many worthy Imported direct from Ireland for causes, notably educational work ship of universities in the Near East, vestment and Altar use. Samples free while we continue to repress and op among the Negro race. A man of on request. W rite: M ARY FAW CETT press our own American Negro.” wealth, he gave it all away to the I Bishop Perry likewise insisted that enterprises he wished to further and COMPANY, Box 146, Plainfield, N. J. it was time for Americans to stop died a comparatively poor man. The cracking down on foreign countries service at Saratoga Springs was ar and give attention to our own af ranged by the Rev. Irving G. Rouil- t h e b i s h o p w h i t e p r a y e r b o o k fairs. “ We raise the accusing cry of lard, the rector of the church where SOCIETY fascism or communism against con Mr. Peabody was a communicant. Founded by Biahop White 1831 flicting forces in Spain. Then what Other clergymen to take part in the Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par ishes unable to purchase them, in limited .shall we call the destruction threat service besides Mr. Rouillard and grants, ening our industries, breaking down Mr. Melish were Dean Sturgis of St. The Book of Common Prayer. The Combined Book (The Book of Common our public morale and reducing mil Paul’s Cathedral, Boston; the Rev. Prayer and Hymnal in one volume) lions of families to stark poverty?” Edward M. Parrott, rector of the Pew Size parish at Lake George, where Mr. Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. Secretary. 1935 Chestnut St. Beaumont Parish Peabody spent his summers; and the Philadelphia, Pa. .Receives Bequest Rev. F. Allen Sisco, head of St. St. Mark’s, Beaumont, Texas, has Faith’s School at Saratoga Springs. received $5,000 as a trust fund from the estate of the late Miss Theodosia ALTA R ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED Memorial Service DDEAne SAINT MARY’S CONVENT 'Henry. One of Beaumont’s pioneers, for Bishop Cook BKEAU j KENOSHA • WISCONSIN ;she wrote her own will in longhand A memorial service for Bishop ;and even named the stock in which Philip Cook was held on May 15th the $5,000 should be invested. She at St. Mark’s, San Antonio, Texas, CATHEDRAL STUDIO— Church embroidery Stoles $6 up, Burse, veil, $10 up. Surplices, then stipulated that on the first Sun where he served as rector from 1911 $8 up. Exquisite Altar Linens. Cope $70 up, day of each month $15 should be to 1916. A special service was com Mass set $50 up. Complete line pure Irish linens and Church fabrics by the yd. Em placed in the alms basin, “ five dol piled by the Rev. Arthur R. McKin- broidered emblems ready to apply. Altar lars each for my mother, Anna; my stry, present rector, who also Guild Handbook 50c. Address: L. V. Mack- rille, 11 W. Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Wash brother, Robert Henry, and myself. ington, D. C. Telephone Wisconsin 2752. So that ‘while we are dead yet shall we live.’ ” * * * Children Readily Take 'Tributes to a «Great Churchman Syrup of Black-Draught Governor Lehman of New York; •W1PPELL Henry T. Moore, the president of When a child is sick, or upset Skidmore College; the Rev. J. How 6c COMPANY-I7D by constipation, it is no longer ard Melish, rector of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, and George R. Lunn, pub- EXETER Cathedral Hard. necessary to irri LONDON nfltfton SbS-Uh MANCHESTER 2+. Ttyicj Stretti tate the little suf ENGLAND ferer by giving a The D’Ascenzo Studios bad-tasting medi 1604 Summer St., Phila., Pa. cine. Keep on hand a bottle of Respectfully refer you to their stained glass in Communion Syrup of Black- I The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Draught. It is New York City Plate. The Washington Memorial Chapel, easily given to Valley Forge, Pa. Shrines. children. Made of The National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. official U. S. pharmacopeia senna Tabernacles and rhubarb, with cinnamon, M em orial cloves and sugar syrup to make W rite us for it pleasant-tasting. Sold in 5- Organ Information Tablets. ounce, 50-cent bottles, at drug stores or may be obtained by sending 50 cents to the manufac AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. Designs & Estimates Hartford, Conn. submitted on application. turer— The Chattanooga Medi cine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Bishop Essex of Quincy, class of bold to say.” An effort was lost to ♦ * * 1910, and Bishop Fenner of Kansas, limit lay representation in the con Cathedral Builders class of 1916. Diplomas went to 25 vention to men; likewise a proposal Meet in Trenton graduates. The degree of bachelor to move the diocesan office from The annual meeting of New Jer of sacred theology in course went to Norfolk to Petersburg was lost. The sey’s guild of cathedral builders was 13 General graduates of former convention went on record as favor held on Memorial Day at Trinity years, while the degree of master of ing a state law requiring medical ex Cathedral, Trenton. The guild was sacred theology in course went to aminations before marriage. organized in 1935 by Bishop Paul Archdeacon Gribbon of New Jersey. Hs * * Matthews and is composed of those * * * News Notes of who wish to contribute to the million Southern Ohio Michigan Rector dollar fund being raised for the con A century and a half of service to Gives a Boost struction and endowment of the ca Christ Church, Springfield, Ohio, was Rector R. D. Malany, rector of thedral. Bishop Gardner, Bishop recognized when the congregation Trinity, Alpena, Michigan, in ad gathered to pay honor to Judge Guy Matthews and Dean Frederic M. dressing the 9th annual convention Adams were the leaders at the meet R. Gram and Mr. Charles L. Aldrich, for older boys of the diocese of ing. both of whom have sung in the choir Michigan, suggested the use of T h e for fifty years, and Mr. J. B. Cart- W it n e s s as study material for chap Convention of ter meetings of the Brotherhood of Western North Carolina St. Andrew. Incidentally, his par ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. The convention of Western North ish had the largest delegation, Carolina met at Tryon, May 18-19. 147 E. 47th St., New York eleven, to the conference though Al CHURCH VESTMENTS Preliminary action was taken look pena was farthest away from the ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY ing toward the securing of pensions Conferences with reference to the adornment place of meeting, Lansing. of Churches for lay workers, and changes made Ht H* Hs in the canons toward greater influ Telephone El-dorado 5-1058 ence in the selection of rectors of Convention of dependent parishes, on the part of Southern Virginia Bishop William A. Brown presided Sunday School Literature the Bishop, and the curtailment of following the the power to incur indebtedness for over his first convention as Bishop of Southern Virginia when it met at INT. UNIFORM LESSON TOPICS permanent improvements on the part Samples on application of dependent parishes and missions. 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mell, a vestryman for fifty years. sponsible for the unceasing demands in her subscription for two years . . . The Rev. C. R. Garmey of Co ought to be made to understand this. which seems to indicate that she has lumbus, Miss Mary Klemm, secretary Our first duty is to meet our mod no idea of leaving her post) : of the Auxiliary, Mrs. G. Russell est budget, pay our assessment and “ It is very pleasant to be able to Hargate and Miss Margaret Batch- discharge our pledge to the diocese.” write that Anking is still peaceful ler were the leaders at a conference in spite of rumors to the contrary. of young churchmen, meeting in Co A Letter From Of course no one knows what will lumbus on May 29-30. . . . Want a Anking, China happen from day to day as the gun better lawn? Get the state univer Miss Emeline Bowne, on the staff boats could very easily slip up from sity to cooperate. That is what they at St. James Hospital, Anking, Wuhu within a few hours. We have did at St. Paul’s, Columbus, when China, writes T h e W i t n e s s as fol had rather frequent air-raids and the department of architecture of the lows (at the same time sending bombings but fortunately there has university had a class work out ways to make the grounds more beautiful. The men’s club is now raising the cash to pay for it. . . . All the Epis Services in Leading Churches copal churches in and around Colum bus are'uniting for an outdoor serv The Cathedral of St. John Christ Church Parish ice to be held at St. Alban’s on June the D ivin e Detroit and Grosse Pointe 12. . . . Older boys of the parish re Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector New York City Rev. J. Francis Sant, Vicar cently conducted the morning service Sundays: Holy Communion, 8, 9 and 11. Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at at All Saints’, Portsmouth. Rector Morning Prayer, 10. Evening Prayer, 4. Rivard Weekdays: Holy Communion, 7:30. (Also Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard Henry N. Hyde however did the 10, Wed. and Saints’ Days). Morning Services : 8 :00, 9 :45, 11:00, 7 :30 Sun Prayer, 9 :30. Evening Prayer, 5. Organ days. preaching. Saints’ Days : 10 :30. Hi * * Recital, Saturday at 4 :30. Girls’ Friendly Society Chapel of the Intercession Cathedral of the Incarnation Garden City, N. Y. Holds Conference Broadway at 155th New York City Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean The Girls’ Friendly Society of the Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Sundays: Holy Communion: 8 and 9 :30. Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com fifth province held a conference May munion. 9:30 A.M. Junior Congregation. 26-29 at the Holiday House at Pine Service and Sermon: 11 ; Evening Prayer 9:30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. and Sermon, 8 P.M. Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning Lake, Michigan. Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 Prayer and Sermon. 4 :30 P.M. Evensong * * * and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. Class and Address. in Religion Fridays at 8 P.M. Daily services in the Chapel. Brooklyn Rector Wants Fewer Appeals Grace Church, New York Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Trinity Church, New York The Rev. Thomas Lacey, rector of Broadway at 10th St. Broadway and Wall St. the Redeemer, Brooklyn, writes Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. without punch-pulling in his little urdays. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs parish paper. In the last number days and Holy Days. he dealt with money matters: St. Paul’s Cathedral The Heavenly Rest, New York “ The announcement of pink teas, Buffalo, New York Fifth Avenue at 90th Street bazaars, bingo and card parties does Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean not enhance the devotional atmos Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. phere. Nor is service a place for Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning Service Weekdays: 8, 12 :05. and Sermon 11 a. m .; Choral Evening Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy financial appeals. As an officer of Prayer 4 p.m. Days : 10 :30 A.M. Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com the Church I am compelled to make munion, 11 a.m. appeals at the order of my superiors Christ Church Cathedral altho’ my conscience tells me they The Incarnation Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. are entirely out of place. We make Madison Avenue and 35th Street The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector Sunday Services, 8:00, 9:30, 10:05, a painstaking canvass once a year. Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M. 11:00 a. m. ; 4:30, 5:30 p. m. On the basis of pledges we advise Wednesdays and Holy Days, Holy Com Week-days: 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion munion, 10 A. M. Fridays, Holy Com (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy the diocesan council what they can munion, 12:15 P. M. Communion on Wednesdays and Holy count on. The nation wide campaign Days. 12:30 p.m. Noonday Service. held out the assurance that special St. Bartholomew’s Church Park Avenue and 51st Street St. Michael and All Angels appeals would be eliminated—but ap Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Baltimore, Maryland peals continue thick and fast. Scarce 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. St. Paul and 20th Streets ly were the envelopes for 1938 dis 9:30 and 11 A.M.— Church School. Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. 11 A.M.— Morning Service and Sermon. Rev. Harvey P. Knudsen, B.D. tributed before we received appeals Holy Communion, Thursdays and Saints’ Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. 8:00 for ‘China relief.’ In February came Days, 10:30 A.M. P. M. Week Days — Holy Eucharist — Mon., envelopes for Church Charity Foun St. James Church, New York Wed., Sat., 10:00 A. M., Tues., Thurs., dation, which does not share in the Madison Avenue and 71st Street Fri. : 7:00 A. M. The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Morning Prayer : 9 :00 A. M. Daily. quota. Then came an appeal from 8 A.M.-—Holy Communion. Evening Prayer: 5:15 P. M. Daily. Lawrenceville, an eminently worthy 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service and work which ought to be supported Church School. Trinity Church 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. Main and Holman, Houston, Texas by the National Council. Then comes 7 :30 P.M.— Organ Recital. 8 P.M.—Choral Evensong and Sermon. The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, a letter asking us to distribute en Holy Communion: 8 A.M., Monday, Rector velopes for the General Seminary. Wednesday and Friday: 12 Noon, Thurs- 7 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion. days and Holy Days.______9 :30 A.M.— Church School. The next mail brings a request from 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon. the Federation of Churches. Mean St. Thomas Church 6 :00 P.M.—Young People’s Organizations. Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street 10;30 A.M.—Holy Communion on Wednes time we are asked for an offering New York days and Holy Days. for some sort of work in Jerusalem, Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and Gethsemane, Minneapolis which is not important enough to 4 P.M. apply on the quota! It is utterly Daily Services: 8:39 A.M., Holy Com 4th Ave. South at 9th St. munion. Sundays : 8 :00 and 11:00 A.M. impossible to give even a small Noonday Service: 12 :05 to 12:35. Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10:30 A.M. amount to these objects. We are not Thursday; 11 A.M., Holy Communion. Thursdays: 7:30 A.M. Astors or Vanderbilts and those re-
Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 2, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Fifteen been little loss of life or property. forty people preparing either for the Federal Council and commended “ In spite of the fact that our three Confirmation, Baptism or the cate- to the churches as a basis for study regular mission schools have had to chumenate. These classes meet each and action. The guiding principles close, and it has been thought best evening for half an hour after eve of the proposal are quoted from the because of uncertainty of conditions ning prayer. The hospital fairly message of the Oxford Conference not to re-open the two parish buzzes with activity. These are the on Church, Community and State. churches, there is a great deal of days when everyone feels that every Referring the matter to the churches activity in the mission work. The minute counts! constitutes, therefore, an effort to hospital compound is the center, the “ The Rev. Robin Chen is pretty reduce generalized statements of hospital itself is busy although the much responsible for all that is go ideals to practical measures for solv staff is much depleted; the evening ing on. He always enjoys T h e ing world problems. and Sunday Services in hospital W it n e s s when I pass it along to In view of Germany’s demand for chapel are remarkably well attended him.” colonies and the entertainment of and in the larger of the two nurses’ Robin Chen, mentioned in the the demand on the assumption that homes which was vacated at the time letter, is an old friend who spent a subject peoples may be made the of the general exodus early in De year in the United States some years footballs of empire politics, the pro cember, we have a flourishing ago, doing special work in a semi posal calls for the “ drastic modifica primary and secondary school with nary and at Dr. Keller’s summer tions of the whole colonial system.” almost a hundred youngsters. The school. I have an idea he will one This suggestion is made not only in teachers are regular mission school day be the Bishop of Anking. the interest of justice for subject teachers so there is no extra ex % % * peoples but also with a view to re pense. The children pay no fees so moving some of the basic causes of if there should be any immediate What About war: “To grant independence to danger of the city being occupied it the Colonies? colonies and so permit them to es could be closed at a moment’s notice. The department of international tablish the open door to trade, in “ Bishop Huntington was here for justice of the Federal Council of vestment and other enterprise would a ten days’ visit after his return Churches is sounding out religious remove the incentive to seize such from furlough. It is very much leaders on the question of colonies. territories by war. Nations would no easier to make the trip from Han Ministers of 50,000 Protestant longer have the excuse that they kow now that a launch is running churches have been circularized with must conquer territory in order to part of the way to Kiukiang. While a pamphlet which contains a proposal satisfy essential needs. he was here he confirmed a class of and some informational data. The “ What greater contribution can six and when next he comes there proposal was adopted by a confer the churches make to justice and will be another class ready for him ence of church leaders here in New peace and to the alleviation of in as they are already being prepared. York City in January and was re ternational tension than to work for At the present time there are about ceived by the executive committee of the abolition of the colonial system!”
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