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study will also be sold, as all Na- National Council Asks President tional Council staff will come to New York to work under one For Human Rights Statement roof in the new center. Net proceeds of all property publication. * The Church is asking Presi- tory; by a reaffirmation of op- sales will be credited to the fund and dent Kennedy to issue a com- position to any denial of human for the new building, toward memorative statement honoring rights; and by acts of penitence which all Episcopalians were reuse the centenary of the Emancipa- for the Church's failure to act asked to contribute in a special for tion Proclamation "in terms ap- more affirmatively in response offering last Sunday. propriate for 1963." to these documents in the cause In a resolution adopted at its of justice; and be it further re- Volunteers for Missions required quarterly meeting May 2-3 in solved, that the National Coun- Young Episcopalians will soon Greenwich, Conn., the National cil of the Protestant Episcopal go abroad for their Church's Council called for "a reaffirma- Church respectfully request the own version of the peace corps. President of the United States Permission tion of opposition to any denial To be known as "Volunteers of human rights" and for to issue a commemorative state- for Mission," those chosen will "penitence for the Church's fail- ment honoring this centennial take teaching or administrative DFMS.

/ ure to act more affirmatively in anniversary in terms appropri- assignments in a program of response to these documents in ate for 1963." short - term voluntary service the cause of justice." open to recent college gradu-

Church From 281 to 243 After debate and a close vote Sale of the 68-year-old head- ates. The National Council un- on the penitence portion of the quarters at 281 Park Avenue animously approved launching resolution, it was passed unani- South, New York, was an- the program on a three-year Episcopal mously in its entirety. nounced by Lindley M. Franklin experimental basis. the The Council's department of Jr., treasurer. The property has The project will answer a of social relations was authorized been sold for $350,000 to the long-standing need for service to prepare and distribute mate- Federation of Protestant Wel- opportunities for Episcopal rials on the centenary to all youth. Until now, young Epis-

Archives fare Agencies in New York. The Episcopal parishes. transaction will be closed by copalians wanting to give con- structive service have been re-

2020. The complete resolution March 1, 1963. reads: By that date, the National ferred to other groups. "Whereas, January 1, 1963 Council staff and personnel of Eight volunteers will be ap- marks the centennial of the various Church-related agencies pointed for the next two years, Copyright Emancipation Proclama- are expected to occupy the new at a cost to the Church of $6,000 tion; therefore, be it resolved, Episcopal Church Center now each for the two-year period. that the National Council sug- under construction at Second Episcopal Churchwomen have gests that the congregations Avenue and East 43rd Street. granted $10,000 toward the and people of the Protestant Negotiations are underway, it $48,000 total cost, and yearly Episcopal Church join with was revealed, for the sale of National Council budget provi- other citizens in celebrating this Tucker House in Greenwich, sions will make up the balance. historic occasion in appropriate Conn., where the department of The experiment is authorized ways; by the rededication of the education has had its offices through June 1965. nation to its heritage of freedom for several years. Property in The Rev. Donald E. Bitsberg- symbolized by the Proclamation Evanston, Illinois used by the er, associate secretary in the and other documents of our his- division of research and field overseas department, explained

MAY 17, 1962 Three that service by the volunteers respect to federal aid to Church- riments are now underway to will release missionaries for owned and Church - related free them of administrative and other tasks, freeing- them from schools at all levels, is to be ap- teaching responsibilities. some teaching and administra- pointed by the Presiding Bishop tive duties. at the request of the Council. Aid Cuban Refugees Volunteers must be Episco- The study will be made in the Church people should help palians, at least 21 years old and light of current debate on the Cuban refugees not so much be- no more than three years out of subject and in accordance with cause they are hungry and cold, college. Likely assignments are action at the last General Con- but because Christian civiliza- in the missionary districts of vention which reaffirmed the tion must remain strong, the Mexico, Central America, Puerto Church's basic position against Rev. Alexander Jurisson told Rico, Virgin Islands, Philippines federal aid. Council members. The head of and Liberia and for the overseas the Council's relief work said department in Japan. Modest Reactor Dedicated that we should be interested in allowances will be paid for room The $360,000 nuclear reaction them "not just because of the and board, pocket money, insur- at St. Paul's University, Tokyo, Cuban refugees, but to ease the ance, transportation and freight. was dedicated May 13. Treas-

publication. pressure on our own communi- Orientation and screening costs urer Lindley M. Franklin, Coun- ties and towns in South Florida, and for the program are also in the cil treasurer, announced that it as there are now 100,000 refu- budget. is entirely paid for, with a gees in Miami. This becomes a reuse The plan was submitted by a small balance which will go national emergency, just as an for committee appointed by the Pre- to St. Paul's to help with oper- earthquake in San Francisco siding Bishop, at the request of ating expenses. would be such an emergency." the joint program planning com- required Aid For Negro Students mittee of the Council. The pro- A new form of scholarship NEW HAMPSHIRE ject will be conducted jointly by help for students in American HAS BIG WEEK-END the overseas department and the Church Institute colleges and * The 160th convention of Permission division of college work in the for other Negro students is home department. the diocese of New Hampshire being promoted by the Institute. was held at Grace Church, Man- Marvin C. Josephson, direc- DFMS. Lay People Abroad chester, on May 4-5, concurrent- / Preparing Americans living tor of the Church-supported ly with the convention of the Institute, reported the new pro- Baptists, Congregationalists abroad to serve as lay mission- ject for students of special Church aries is being studied. How to (U.C.C.), Methodists and Pres- help many of the 2 million ability. Contributions for byterians and the sixteenth an- Americans outside the United scholarship aid are now bein;j nual assembly of the N. H. sought, to enable them to trans- Council of Churches. A similar Episcopal States to accept religious as well as secular responsibility is the fer to certain technical schools gathering of major denomina- the or to go on into graduate studies tions in Manchester had oc- of subject. Results will be reported by the overseas department at in their fields. curred once before: in 1953. the October 9-11 meeting. Ground-breaking on April 12 for the new fine arts-physical Perhaps the most significant Archives The Rev. Samuel Van Culin, Jr., assistant secretary of the education building at St. Augus- event of this year's convocation tine's College, Raleigh, N. C, of churches was the mass meet- 2020. overseas department, in present- ing the plan, described it as was reported by Josephson. ing and ecumenical communion seeking "to provide assistance Alumni of the college gave $25,- service at the First Congrega- 000 for the building, toward tional Church on Friday eve-

Copyright for the lay family in the inter- national community as com- which Episcopal Churchwomen ning. Ministers of all the de- municators of faith," in a pro- contributed a grant of $150,000 nominations involved took part gram coordinated within the from their United Thank Offer- in the service. Douglas Horton, Council. Concerned directly with ing funds. former Dean of the Harvard it will be the overseas and edu- A pilot project being started Divinity School preached the cation departments, the armed to clarify the functions of chap- sermon. A congregation of near- forces division and the division lains at church-related colleges ly 1,000 persons attended and of laymen's work. was also described. Mr. Joseph- received. son explained that teaching du- Said one Episcopal priest, Church-State Relations ties assigned to chaplains have "Truly, it was a marriage feast. A committee to study Church- been found to impair their pas- We hope that we wore the state relations, particularly in toral relationships, so thrt expe- wedding garments." Four THE WITNESS not to be doubted but there is Tributes to Bishop Angus Dun a definite responsibility upon the younger men and women, On Retirement as Diocesan clergy and laity alike. The ecu- menical movement faces the * Bishop Angus Dun has re- breadth and in touch not only danger of being an accepted and tired after 18 years as bishop with modern times but within organized program. The early of the diocese of Washington. the broad sweep of human his- pioneers were notable for a pas- A public service of thanksgiving tory." sion for unity, willingness to for his ministry took place in Bishop Sherrill, in his fine move forward and not to be the Washington Cathedral on tribute to Bishop Dun, said that bound merely by what has been. May 6th, with Bishop Henry we may well thank God for the It is essential that this spirit be Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop past but stressed that the de- kept alive by those who under from 1947 to 1958, the preacher. mands of the future are par- the guidance of the Holy Spirit At the conclusion of the serv- amount. He said: dare in spite of discouragements ice, Bishop Dun presented his "The ecumenical movement and difficulties to press toward crozier, symbol of his office, to has had a remarkable growth the goals. publication. his successor, Bishop Creighton. and influence as evidenced by "As has often been pointed Bishop and Mrs. Dun were the National Council of out, this limitation of the ecu- and guests of honor that same eve- Churches, the World Council of menical movement is that in

reuse ning at a dinner when some- Churches and the increasing general it has largely influenced thing over a thousand of their flow of prayer, literature and the leaders of the Churches and for friends gathered. The Rev. of discussion throughout all has not touched the local Theodore Wedel was toastmas- branches of the Christian churches described usually as

required ter. Speakers at the dinner Church. As we look back we the grass roots or as an Irish were Presiding Bishop Arthur can realize more fully than ever Bishop at the last Lambeth Lichtenberger, the Rev. Samuel the contribution of John R. Council said, 'the parish pump' McCrea Cavert who was execu- Mott, Archbishop Soderblom, level. With notable exceptions Permission tive secretary of U.S. World William Adams Brown, Arch- the laity have not been greatly Council of Churches before his bishop Temple, Bishop Brent, involved. In one way this is strange for as a whole the laity

DFMS. retirement in 1957, and Mar- Bishop Azariah and many others / quis Childs, journalist and au- who led the way. We are now ap- seem less bound by ecclesiastical thor. proaching the third generation tradition and practice. If this movement is to achieve desired Church in the history of the ecumenical Bishop Sherrill's Sermon movement. The question arises results there must be involved Bishop Sherrill in his sermon where are to be found the Vis- the concern of every member of ser 't Hoofts, the Caverts, the the Church. This means study, Episcopal dealt particularly with the great part Bishop Dun has played in John Baillies, the George Bells prayer and contacts beyond our the own household of faith, for this

of the ecumenical movement. of tomorrow. That God will "Many times in ecumenical ga- raise up comparable leaders is is a task not to be confined to negotating committees but is a therings," said the former Pre- responsibility of us all.

Archives siding Bishop, "I have seen him bring the discussion down to "To achieve the unity of the

2020. earth sometimes with a hard Church there must be evident thud, by his common sense, certain qualities. First there practical knowledge and experi- must be a sterner and more exacting devotion to truth. We Copyright ence." "A third characteristic of live in an age where the word Bishop Dun's leadership in the 'propaganda' has received a new ecumenical movement," Bishop and not wholly admirable con- Sherrill declared, "has been his notation. Let us face the fact realization that God in Christ is that in representing our own lord of all life. So often there ecclesiastical point of view many is the inclination to restrict the of us are inclined to overstate Christian gospel to the ecclesias- our case. In a mistaken loyalty tical even to the realm of the to our own tradition most of us legalism of Church life and prac- are apt to claim too much and to tice. Angus Dun has grasped take a party line for which the the mission of the Church in Bishop and Mrs. Dun Apostolic Church is always the

MAY 17, 1962 Five proof of our opinions no matter "Of course in the last analysis and it is therefore warmed by how diverse they may be. This unity will come as the gift of God. his compassion and colored by Christian religion is rooted and It is our part to be open to the his sense of the earthy realities grounded in history. The books guidance of the Holy Spirit who of life." of the Bible are historical docu- will lead us into all truth. "For a quarter of a century, ments. Whatever is history "So as at this hour we meet Bishop Dun has been one of the comes within the purview of to thank God for the ministry of most creative leaders in wrestl- critical study. I realize that Angus Dun, especially as we ing with the problems that keep this is a different area. But I value his great contribution to the Churches apart and in am certain that Christianity the life of the Church universal, moving toward a greater unity must not consist of 'believing I close with a simple and in the Church," declared Cavert, things we know aren't so'; we familiar admonition a Presbyterian clergyman who, can only appreciate the reality 'Go thou and do likewise'. " perhaps more than any other of the unseen as we are scru- single person, is responsible for pulously honest in our study and Dinner Speakers the creation of the National statement of the seen. Truth Council of Churches and the possesses majesty, demands Presiding Bishop Arthur Lich-

publication. World Council of Churches. reverence because it is of God. tenberger, the Rev. Samuel M. and Nowhere do we need this Cavert, long associated with Bishop Dun, in his reply — austere quality more than in Bishop Dun in the ecumenical which, he remarked, "will sure- reuse facing the problem of a divided movement, and Marquis Childs ly make my funeral an anti- for Church. were the headliners at the din- climax" — asked all to join in "Then too there must be a ner. The Presiding Bishop, in singing the doxology. "If we deepened sense of hurcility. The a message in the diocesan paper, praise God from whom all bless- required words which come to me again had written, ings flow, we shall at last be and again are 'We see through "When a man is consecrate:! placing the applause of this eve- a glass darkly, we know in part, a bishop in the Church of God, ning where it rightfully be- longs." Permission we prophecy in part'. There is at the central part of the serv- a mystery in the gospel. We are ice these words are said, 'And The series of events ended all of us limited in this world of remember that thou stir up the with Bishop and Mrs. Dun DFMS.

/ space and time and we can never grace of God.' This certainly having luncheon at the White properly lose this consciousness has been a signal mark of the House at the invitation of Presi- of limitation. No one of us, no episcopate of Angus Dun. He dent Kennedy, who said that Church group of us, no matter what has through his care for clergy the Bishop had combined "the may be our claims have the and people, in his wise adminis- gifts of wisdom, wit and scholar- wholeness of God's truth. As tration of the diocese, through ship so as to make this diocese Episcopal we seek the will of God this his deep concern for the healing a radiating influence throughout the truly devout and sincere believer of the divisions within the body the nation and the world." of will have the grace of true hu- of Christ, deepened in us all the mility. grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Bishop and Mrs. Dun left im- God be praised for his life and "Finally in every relationship mediately for a South American Archives ministry." cruise. They will spend the late there must be evidenced the summer at their summer home quality of Christian love which Mr. Childs spoke of the 2020. bishop's wisdom, compassion in Heath, Mass., returning to is not sentimentality and weak- Washington in September. ness but strength. It is well to "and above all his sense of a recall 'Though I have the gift of shared and common humanity. Copyright prophecy and understand all Bishop Dun has a compassionate BISHOP JONES GOES mysteries and knowledge and understanding of the human TO COVENTRY though I have all faith so that I condition in all its squalor and * Bishop Jones of West could remove mountains and degradation and its nobility and Texas is presently in England have not love, I am nothing'. Ec- grandeur. — It is this under- where he will take part in the clesiastical wrangling and bitter- standing, this common humani- dedication of the new Coventry ness cut at the very heart of ty, that seems to me to ennoble Cathedral. He also was in the Christian gospel. Before we everything he does." Rome during Holy Week where can solve the problems of Chris- Childs also spoke of the he conducted the three hour tianity we must learn to study, bishop's humor which, he de- service and one of the Easter to differ if need be, to serve in clared, "comes from his under- services at St. Paul's, where the the spirit of love. standing of the human condition Rev. W. C. Woodhams is rector.

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One of Bishop Dun's major concerns has been A Great Bishop Retires the ecumenical movement and the reunion of THE EDITORS OF THE WITNESS and our separated Christians in one visible community many readers wish to pay tribute to Bishop of faith and worship. He has been active in the Angus Dun, who retired May 6 from his active World Council of Churches as well as in our own ministry as Diocesan of Washington, after ecumenical commission. His concern in this mat- eighteen years as chief pastor in the capital city ter was expressed most directly, however, in a publication. of the nation. Observances which were held to small book, "Prospecting for a United Church", and mark this event are reported in our news this which remains a little classic of ecumenical week. They were appropriate to the occasion and thought. reuse

for we know that there are thousands of clergy and In the second paragraph above we used the laity throughout the Episcopal Church in this title of another of Bishop Dun's books: "The country and the Anglican Communion around the Saving Person". This penetrating study of the required world who join us in sending the Bishop our good impact and life of Jesus as saviour of men and wishes as he enters upon his well-earned retire- living lord has had a wide and continuing appeal, ment. not only to clergymen but to laypeople as well. Permission It is, of course, impossible to think of Bishop This is true also of his finely executed presenta- Dun as "retired." We are confident that his alert tion of the Christian faith entitled "We Believe", DFMS. / mind and sensitive spirit will continue to play on and his small volume of eucharistic devotion en- the many facets of the Church's life, but even titled "Not by Bread Alone."

Church more on the work of the Lord Jesus Christ in the world and on that world to which he brought his And so we could go on and on. Suffice it to gospel as a "saving person"; and out of that meet- say that in educational circles, in the world of ing of mind and spirit with the realities of life theological enquiry and discussion, in social and Episcopal and faith, we are sure, the Bishop will continue to economic areas, and in many others as well, the

of write and speak to our edification, illumination, Angus Dun has made a contribution to the whole and deepened dedication to the cause which binds Christian community in this land which has us together with him in loyalty and devotion. placed him in the front rank of Christian spokes- Archives Angus Dun was born in New York City in 1892. men in our time. Finally, as the chief pastor of He attended Albany Academy, Yale University, a large and growing diocese, he has been an out- 2020. and the Episcopal Theological School. Ordained standing leader and executive, but above all a to the priesthood in 1917 by Bishop William faithful and loving father in God to his clergy Lawrence, he spent three years as vicar of the and people. Copyright small parish of St. Andrew in Ayer, Massachu- As Angus Dun retires from his active ministry setts, and then (from 1920 until 1944) served on in the Church, we acknowledge all that he has the faculty of the Episcopal Theological School done, we express our gratitude for his leadership, •— for twenty years as a professor and for four we remain humbled by his prophetic word, but years as the dean. During that time, he taught above all we would convey to him our affection- hundreds of men now in the ministry. His Chris- ate greetings and our good wishes for the days to tian discipleship, combined with his wide reading come — when, as we have said, his "inactive min- and deep learning, have been an immeasurable in- istry" will doubtless be as much a vigorous and fluence upon the whole Church, both through the active one as ever it has been. men he taught and through his own preaching Thank God for Angus Dun, the theologian, the and lecturing and writing. educator, the bishop, and the man! MAY 17, 1962 Seven Issues in Dispute

WHAT ABOUT SPEAKING WITH TONGUES?

eyes closed, voice quiet, body relaxed — sounding The Chicago Report like true language in its inflections and pauses By J. Ralph Deppen and intonations, seeming very close to various Archdeacon of Chicago tongues which might be heard any day in the United Nations. IN A PROSPEROUS MID-AMERICAN SUBURB in this second half of the twentieth century there • An 'interpretation' done in the same man- has appeared among a congregation of fairly ner except in English, consisting of a introduc- publication. typical Anglicans a phenomenon rather unusual tion, 'Thus saith the Lord', and an opening form in contemporary Anglicanism. The sound of of address which is always plural and affection- and glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues", has been ate in the Johannine manner 'My little ones',

reuse heard again in a part of the Church where, for 'Little children', 'My beloved ones', followed by

for centuries, it has been virtually silent. various admonitions and general promises or warnings, some hackneyed, some sounding rather Although this congregation in the diocese of original, concluding with 'Thus said your Lord' required Chicago is not the only place in the United States — after which the group joins in 'Amen'. where "speaking in tongues" has occurred re- cently, the clergy and people concerned have re- There is no sign of disorder or overexcitement. sponded somewhat uniquely. They appealed to The activity can follow, almost immediately, light Permission their bishop for his pastoral counsel as to what conversation and ordinary party-talk, and when to do about this apparent outpouring of the Holy all have had their turn, the resumption of casual

DFMS. Ghost. The Bishop of Chicago, the Rt. Rev. Ger- chatter and objective observations of what has / ald Francis Burrill, complied by appointing a happened is instant and easy. Without excep- special commission to study the phenomenon, tion, all the participants testify that their having Church and, in the light of the Church's scriptures and discovered this faculty and their regular sharing history, and the living experience of those who together of it have made the most profound and are engaged in "spiritual speaking", to recom- permanent change in their lives from top to bot- Episcopal mend appropriate action. tom, all day, all night; that it has launched each the and every one of them into a moment-by-moment of The commission was composed of four learned 'practice of the presence of God' for which they and seasoned parish priests, a theological semi- are obviously grateful to the Lord beyond telling; nary professor and the writer, who served as

Archives that the daily routines in home and at work and chairman. More than four months were spent play, as well as the regular practices of the in discussing and reviewing this new out-crop- 2020. churchman's life have all taken on new meaning ping of glossolalia in terms of actual observation and new joy and quiet excitement; that they feel of the current phenomenon and study of scrip- in their spirit and conversation and faces the tural references to its prototypes in the primitive Copyright marks of real and sustained conversion to lives Church. The Bishop of Chicago enthusiastically of faithfulness and obedience to God." received the commission's report and advised his clergy that he "will be guided by these recom- mendations" and "makes them his official policy Report by Prof. Nes in this matter." FROM HIS TREATMENT of a study of glossola- Several members of the special commission on lia in the New Testament, the Rev. Professor glossolalia visited meetings of the group and ob- William H. Nes drew the following conclusions: served personally the practice of "speaking in "A clear distinction must be drawn between the tongues." They noted that, "the practice con- meanings of pneumatica and charismata. The sists of two phases: latter are the 'grace gifts', through Jesus Christ, • A rapid, unintelligible series of utterances, of the Holy Spirit. The former may indeed be

Eight THE WITNESS •'spiritual' but they are not necessarily — and • All Christians must be ready to submit very often they are not — the operations of the special experiences of this type to the judgment Holy Spirit that says Kurios Iesous. and decision of their pastors. "In viewing the Corinthian discourse with the • The contemporary fondness for the new and Pentecost narrative in Acts we will discern a sometimes for the bizarre is a temptation, and sharp difference and one ambiguity. At Pente- must be avoided. cost the Apostles spoke in 'other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance' and the multitude, • Methods of instruction and prayer which in the diversity of their dialects or languages, are unquestionably grounded in the Holy Scrip- comprehended the utterance directly and im- tures and proven through centuries of Christian mediately. In I Corinthians it is a speaking in practice are to be given priority over methods unknown tongues which cannot be understood which rest on tentative if not dubious founda- by the auditors and may indeed be incomprehen- tions. sible to the speaker, and which therefore demand • Our strongest Apostolic authority is St. the exercise of another charisma, that of inter- Paul (in I Corinthians 12-14). The principles publication. pretation. But, as to the ambiguity: In the which support his directions to the Church of Pentecost narrative there is also the remark that and Corinth in the matter of "spiritual speaking" are some who heard mockingly charged the Apostles valid today. with being drunk. This reminds us of St. Paul's reuse The commission summarized its report by con- for observation that 'they will think you are mad'. curring in the admonition of St. Paul, "Let all "St. Paul clearly believed that speaking in an things be done unto edifying." (I Corinthians required unknown tongue could be authentically the utter- 14:26b) "The building up of Christ's Church — ance of the Holy Spirit, for he says he did it him- both through a deepening of the true spirituality self. Therefore he is not prepared at all to for- of the faithful and through her redemptive mis- bid it, if it is properly safeguarded by interpreta- sion to the minds and souls of those who have Permission tion and by the good order of the Church. But yet to acknowledge the Lordship of the Holy — and this is never to be forgotten — speaking Ghost — is the criterion by which we should both

DFMS. in a tongue is not self-authenticating, and indeed / desire and value spiritual gifts." may be the work of demons. "St. Paul is concerned with the control and

Church Bishop's Policy regulation of the practice. This requires the chastening of pride in 'spiritual ones' and the THE COMMISSIONS' RECOMMENDATIONS, obedience to his directions 'as the commandments which Bishop Burrill has made his policy in this Episcopal of the Lord'. But behind his effort to regulate matter are, "that provision be made: the and control, and clearly fundamental to his argu- of • that the exercise of 'spiritual speaking' ment, is his effort to divert the zeal for spiritual shall in no way intrude itself into the regular manifestations to other channels — 'pursue the worship and work of the Church so as to disturb

Archives better gifts, and above all that, pursue the far the order and peace thereof; more excellent way of faith, and hope, and love,'

2020. for these are the supreme charismata and the in- • that those who engage in this activity avoid trinsically and supremely Christian pneumatica." occasion for giving offence to the Church either by exalting themselves or by suggesting that

Copyright Commission Recommendations others seek this gift as a mark of spiritual su- periority ; AGAINST THE BACKGROUND of their ob- servations and study, the commission offered six • that the exercise of this gift be guarded specific counsels, which the writer presents by with vigilance so as to protect both the faithful their topical headings: and the weak from the dangers of irrationality and emotional excess; • Separatism and the development of any kind of sectarian spirit is to be deplored. • that the persons who experience this gift consult regularly with their pastors; • The danger of irrationality and emotional excess is to be acknowledged as a real danger and • that groups of people who exercise this gift to be shunned. under the auspices of any minister of this Church

MAY 17, 1962 Nine shall, through such minister, report regularly to vention, the beatnik is a carbon copy of the the Bishop of their activities." ancient Cynics, the famous Diogenes, for exam- The writer concludes this condensed account of ple. Yet in most of his characteristics our this one response to a modern recurrence of an modern beatnik parallels even more closely the ancient religious experience with the closing ancient ecstatic from whom the modern ecstatic words of the commission's report. He also offers stems. Speaking with tongues and the various his "in profound and ever-renewed humility bizarre practices associated with it are referred (that) we must submit our judgments in these to at least a thousand years before Christ. high matters to God the Holy Ghost, who leads In one sense glossolalia began as soon as man his Church into all truth, who sustains his Church learned to talk. As he attempted to pierce that by his love. Let us strive together in patience first sound barrier, there were the inevitable and in love to witness to his working in us by sonic booms and they have continued to reappear showing forth the fruit as well as the phenomena in the centuries since. G. B. Cutten "Speaking of his working. 'But the fruit of the Spirit is with Tongues" remarks, "Thinking is a compara- love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, good- tively late development of the human mind, and

publication. ness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such for many people, is, except in a rudimentary there is no law ... If we live in the Spirit, let us way, a task too heavy for the mental machine". and also walk in the Spirit.' " (Galatians 5: 22-23, 25) Speaking with tongues, then, is a kind of

reuse stripping the gears, a type of malfunctioning. It

for appears when the going gets tough for the men- tal machinery. Escape from Reality Let us clear up any possible confusion. The required By Corwin C. Roach term speaking with tongues has been used loosely Director of School of Religion, Fargo, N. D. to describe two quite different things. The one is the ability to speak intelligibly in foreign lan-

Permission WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP. No this guages which have not been mastered in the in not an attempt to reproduce a bit of glossolalia ordinary, painstaking way. The other is the (speaking with tongues). Rather, according to practice of uttering incomprehensible, discon- DFMS. / Time magazine, it is a line from some of the nected sounds, nonsense syllables, which have no poetry of the Beatnik school. However it does apparent meaning.

Church demonstrate dramatically the inner resemblance Both types are illustrated in the New Testa- between the beatnik and the glossolalist. Other- ment. At Pentecost the first Christians are said wise at opposite poles in their conduct, they are to have spoken in other tongues so that the pil-

Episcopal reacting to the world about them in almost iden- grims assembled at Jerusalem from all over the

the tical patterns. It is the cult of unintelligibility ancient world were able to understand, each in of and irrationality which we find in both. We live his own language. At Corinth on the contrary, today in a dissolving society where the norms and the speaking with tongues to which St. Paul is standards are disappearing. We see this reflected referring in I Cor. 14 is discourse which is un- Archives in our art as well as in our literature. Men are intelligible, at least to other people. giving expression to their feelings in ways which It is a question how far the Pentecost account 2020. are incomprehensible to their fellows. Like the and similar reports in later Christian history are man who speaks with tongues, there is needed an to be taken at their face value. The gift of interpreter, a critic who attempts to make sense tongues at Pentecost may well have been of the Copyright out of what seems to be mere nonsense, a splotch Corinthian variety, either misunderstood or con- of colors, a tangle of rusted iron, a spate of un- sciously modified by the author of Acts. He is related words or sounds. There is a sensitivity concerned to have the first disciples speak the here to the undoubted disorder of much of gospel message to the people of their day in the modern life which we must appreciate, but there people's own language. That must be our con- is also a frustation and resultant defeatism which cern too. would make meaningless our whole spiritual and cultural heritage. Escape From Reality It is this very heritage that the beatnik would THIS IS WHERE GLOSSOLALIA, as it has been challenge consciously and the glossolalist uncon- practiced through the centuries, is at fault. Like sciously. In his squalor and disregard for con- beatnikism it is an escape from reality by a re-

Ten THE WITNESS turn to primitivism. In spite of their surface well be that we have our first recorded bit of differences there is a startling psychological re- glossolalia. semblance. Both throw off the bonds of a civili- Tsaw latsaw, tsaw latsaw zation and culture which in most cases have Kaw lakaw, kaw lakaw rested lightly on the person to begin with. Glos- If this be so, speaking with tongues, neverthe- solalia is a widespread phenomenon among primi- less, died out and the prophet Joel could look for- tive people. Anthropologists have found it ward to its return as one of the signs of the new present among early Hawaiians as well as late age. It was this passage which is quoted in Acts San Franciscans. 2. The focal point in the early Mediterranean As Acts 10:14, 19:6 point out, glossolalia ac- world seems to have been Phrygia in Asia Minor companied the gift of the Holy Spirit. Yet again, whence the practice was carried to Greece in the speaking with tongues was not a unique Chris- Dionysiac cult and to Syria where it is present tian gift. A man might speak under the inspira- before the time of the Hebrews. Plato pays his tion of a false spirit as St. Paul indicates in I respects to it in the Timaeus and Virgil in the Cor. 12. The test is always rational. The false publication. Aeneid. The former states, "no man when in his spirit for example can never say "Jesus is Lord".

and wits, attains prophetic truth and inspiration, but when he receives the inspired word either his Self-Centered reuse intelligence is enthralled by sleep, or he is de- YET GLOSSOLALIA is basically unintelligible for mented by some distemper or possession". In I and self-centered. Accordingly the apostle with Kings 18 we have a reference to Canaanite pro- clear insight prefers prophecy to glossolalia, the phets cutting themselves with knives, leaping edification of others to self-exhortation. This is required about the altar and crying out to Baal. In its "the more excellent way" he describes in I Cor. origins Hebrew prophecy was equally ecstatic 13. That great chapter becomes even more in- and unintelligible. It began probably in the structive when we read it in its historical context.

Permission crisis created by the Philistine conquest. Man There is something more important and therefore was possessed by the spirit which caused him to more lasting than these bizarre gifts of the Spirit, do strange and bizarre things. Sometimes the

DFMS. no matter how sincere their possessors, and that / spirit was regarded as good, but on occasion it is love which builds up. So St. Paul could dis- might be evil or turn to evil. From the very tinguish the permanent from the evanescent and

Church early times men saw the debit side of these the early Church followed his example. strange and mysterious gifts. Tertullian, the anti-intellectual Church father The outstanding example of this dread polarity of the third century, left the Church to become a Episcopal was Saul. As a young man he met a band of Montanist, a "prophetic" sect which came out of the prophets and was seized by the mass excitement Phrygia, the seed-bed of ecstatic movements, as of of the group and "prophesied" along with them. we have noted. Tertullian is the one important But in later years we are told the spirit of the exception and the Church looked askance at the

Archives Lord left Saul and an evil spirit came upon him. presence of these movements in her midst or on Many a man since has suffered as did Saul and the fringes, the early Franciscans, Jansenists,

2020. has been pushed over the border line from en- Camisards, Quakers, Methodists, Irvingites and thusiasm to hysteria. Mormons. In our own day we have had the Holy Rollers and the so-called Pentecostal groups who Hebrew prophecy rose above its ecstatic origins Copyright in the strict biblical description of the event are and the term prophecy is used for edifying dis- not really Pentecostal after all. course rather than for this unintelligible speak- ing with tongues. However in the later Old What Is The Cause? Testament prophets some of the vestigial remains are still there. Some have thought that the WHAT DO WE LEARN from all this? Cutten reference in Isaiah 8:19 to those that chirp and finds three factors producing glossolalia, excite- mutter is a criticism of speaking with tongues. ment, low mentality and illiteracy. Often the It seems rather to be a reference to necromancy. excitement is a result of persecution as in the However Isaiah himself may be accused of glos- case of the early Christians and the various dis- solalia in 28:10. Our versions have made sense senting sects of later time. Certainly St. Paul out of the clipped Hebrew syllables but it may witnesses to the poor cultural background of his

MAY 17, 1962 Eleven Corinthian converts. Instead of illiteracy, per- called to give order and structure to a dissolving haps we should think in terms of inadequate society and not merely to add to its disorder. ability of expression. As St. Luke transformed the Pentecostal expe- We do not live in an age of persecution, but rience from sterile glossolalia to creative dis- there is certainly anxiety and insecurity which course, he pointed the way for Christians in affects us all. Speaking with tongues is part of every age. We must present the gospel in thought a general flight from reason which characterizes forms which are relevant for the contemporary our age. There is around us a return to the sub- world. This is our Anglican heritage that the human and the sensual which were all parts of worship of God be conducted in a language under- the old ecstatic cults. Not only our poetry but all stood by the people. This cannot however be a forms of art are affected. Painters now walk over mere echoing of the discords of the age. We their canvases or roll their models across them. must speak out clearly, directly, forcefully. Again Time spoke of the modern poetry as "a timely ex- St. Paul reminds us, it takes a trained bugler to plosion of a type font". We could describe our sound an intelligible call. All the loud blasting whole era in similar terms. One speaker spoke of by a willing- novice will not do it. Sound is not our modern fission, fusion and confusion. enough. We must make sense. The early publication. But St. Paul reminds us, God is not a God of Church, we are reminded, out-thought as well as and confusion but a God of peace. The ancient com- out-lived its rivals. The same formula holds good today.

reuse mand repeated by Jesus was to love God with all

for one's heart; but for the Hebrew the heart was the I do not doubt that those who have revived seat of the will and the intelligence. God's pri- glossolalia in our day are sincere, sensitive souls mary demand is to use our intelligence. "Be wise who feel that by it the Holy Spirit is speaking required as serpents and harmless as doves". We reverse through them. No more than the apostle would the references to our peril and the peril of our I wish to quench the spirit. Glossolalia may speak world. It will take more than the cooing of the to the moods of the speaker on these non-ration-

Permission dove to save our age. As Christians, our task al levels, but it has no intelligible upreach, no is not to mirror the disorder of society but to outer thrust. In spite of the undoubted personal communicate to it the good news of a new world satisfaction which they receive, I would urge DFMS.

/ which shall have purpose and meaning. We are them to "try the spirits". Church

Episcopal RELIGIOUS BOOM AND THEOLOGY the

of By Henry Pitney Van Dusen President of Union Theological Seminary

Archives WHAT ARE THE FEATURES of the current This diagnosis is confirmed by a more objec- scene which set the special conditions for the- tive authority. Perhaps the most acute European 2020. ological education at this hour? observer of the American scene, Professor D. W. Clearly, the most significant feature, as it is Brogan of Cambridge University, recently wrote: the most striking feature, of our "present situa- "Religion in the United States, like Copyright tion" is what a popular journal of wide circula- many other things, is booming . . . That tion captioned: The Current Boom in Religion. there is a genuine religious revival, I Discounting the appropriateness of the figure, do not doubt. That the churches are not drawn of course from the world of finance, no in retreat, I do not doubt." one will challenge the fact. As the author of There are at least three features of this cur- that article, Eugene Carson Blake, summarized the evidence: — Excerpts from an address at the installation of "Yes, the boom is upon us. Call it what the Very Rev. Edward George Harris as Dean of you will — a religious resurgence, a The Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal move back to God, a reawakening — it's Church in Philadelphia on May 3, 1962 in St. An- here." drew's Collegiate Chapel.

Twelve THE WITNESS rent "boom in religion" with direct and sobering "holding operation" than a triumphant advance. bearing upon the task and program of Theologi- I dare not delay to attempt to explain that con- cal Education. tradiction. I suspect that it may lie in some part along these lines: religion is, normally, the par- Qualification Needed ent and sustainer of morals. Earlier religious THE FIRST REQUIRES a qualification on self- revivals in this country were not only accom- congratulation and self-confidence. It has been panied by vigorous moral renewals; they built up voiced over and over again in recent months by enormous reservoirs of residual moral conviction, trusted spokesmen for the Churches themselves; habit, and resources, like the reservoirs of good for example, epigrammatically, by Dr. Blake in will toward the U.S.A., built up over the years that same Look article's caption: Is the Religious by Christian missions, which Mr. Wendell Wil- Boom a Spiritual Bust? How sound, how pro- kie discovered when he circled the globe shortly found, how enduring is this current popularity before his death. of religion ? The implication of this query for us We have been living on those reserves, draw- is: We must equip men to guide the Churches ing on them without adequate replenishment. within this spate of spiritual flood-tide, yet pre- They are beginning to run dry. Thus far, the publication. pared to adjust at a moment's notice if need be, return to religion in our day has produced no cor- and to a sudden and drastic spiritual ebb and reces- responding moral fruitage; that may raise some sion. question as to the quality and worth of the reli- reuse gion. I would venture this judgement: religion

for Field of Morality and morality are, by their very natures, too inti- THE SECOND FEATURE has not been so wide- mately involved to continue to move indefinitely ly noted. It suggests an answer to the previous

required in opposite directions. Either there will be ethi- question. cal renewal to match the current spiritual re- The "revival of religion" has, thus far, been awakening, moral revival flowering from reli- paralleled by no corresponding resurgence or re- gious revival, or the latter will fritter out into Permission covery of morality. Just here is the most dis- futility, like water seeping into desert sand. And turbing, confounding contradiction of our present our final state will be worse than our first — re- moral and spiritual situation. At the present DFMS. ligious sterility to match moral anarchy. / time, we rejoice that we are gaining ground on the spiritual battlefront. Would anyone ques- Here, then is an urgent challenge to theologi- cal education. The call comes: — to a more real-

Church tion that we are still losing ground in the field of morality? If one could plot the complex and istic recognition of where we stand in this whole illusive data on a graph, the curve of religious matter of the current return to religion. Next, to a clarification and crystalization of conviction

Episcopal vitality and the curve of moral health would be seen to be moving in opposite directions. In a — as to what the relations of religion and morals the should be — and must become. Then, to a de- of sentence, in contemporary America, religion is gaining ground; morality is steadily losing liberate and resolute striving to bring not only ground. conviction of mind but manner of life into con-

Archives formity with Christian moral principles, illu- Make no mistake. Despite all the heartening mined and sustained and confirmed by authentic signs — increased church memberships and at- 2020. Christian faith. tendance and giving, religious or pseudo-religious books at the top of every list of best-sellers, an The Issue of Truth obvious upsurge of spiritual longing, even un- A THIRD FEATURE of this prevailing "boom Copyright precedented numbers and quality of candidates in religion" bears even more directly upon our for the ministry — in the larger view, the Chris- specific task in preparing leadership for the tian Church is not gaining ground; we are not churches of tomorrow. It, likewise, is arresting; even holding our own. I would be prepared to say, alarming. An article in one of the Church papers, not too I have been struck — and disturbed — by two long ago, bore the arresting caption: Holding the recent, entirely independent, comments by two Bridgeheads. It was describing the situation of distinguished European observers on the state of the Christian mission overseas. The same title religion in America at the present time. Both might be used to define the position of the affirm the widely recognized "return" to reli- Church-at-home. The labors of the Churches gion. And then, both go on to voice a misgiving, today can be more accurately described as a essentially the same misgiving.

MAY 17, 1962 Thirteen A brilliant young British scholar who recently By the same token, a theological seminary is joined the faculty of Cornell University and the place, above all others, where these caveats quickly assumed a large influence among stu- must be tested, this challenge met. The vindi- dents there, reports his discovery of a most sur- cation of the validity of Christian faith to minds prising — in many ways, a most heartening — schooled in the ways of thinking of the modern interest of American undergraduates in religion; world —that, I take it, is one of the most ur- and then confesses that there is one feature of gent demands upon the schools where Christian this interest in religion which troubles him deep- scholarship centers and which are charged to ly: "students' almost total unconcern with the prepare those who must render that faith intel- issue of truth." ligible and intellectually convincing to all sorts And the perceptive and trustworthy European and conditions of men. interpreter of the United States whom I quoted above, Professor D. W. Brogan of Cambridge, rounds out his impressions as follows: Talking It Over "Religion in the USA, like many other publication. things is booming .... That there is a W. B. Spofford Sr. and genuine religious revival, I do not doubt. THE WITNESS is printed in a shop located on a That the churches are not in retreat, I two-lane highway, two miles out of town, lined on reuse do not doubt. I do doubt if the intel- both sides with beautiful maples. Working out- for lectual truce can be kept up indefinitely, side as I write is a gang of a dozen men. First a in which few people dare to ask, 'Is this hugh bulldozer digs a deep hole around a tree. required true?'" A steel chain is fastened around the trunk and "Almost total unconcern with the issue of the bulldozer takes off and — wham — it is truth"; "Few people dare ask, 'Is this true?'" crashed across the highway. Traffic is delayed for a few minutes while four men with chain saws Permission It is not easy to say exactly what it is which these two commentators, from entirely differ- go to work. Branches are chewed into sawdust in ent points of view and on the basis of quite dif- a machine. The trunk and heavy branches are DFMS. / ferent observations, are pointing to. But that cut into chunks and tossed off the road. The they are calling attention to something of im- more impatient of the motorists honk their horns because they have lost precious minutes — one Church mense importance, few of us would question. even came into the shop to blow off steam — At the least, they seem to be suggesting that, "I know the law — these guys ain't supposed to in all the widespread and favorable attention to tie up traffic only so long." Episcopal religion in these days, no one is troubling — Pro-

the fessor Brogan says "no one dares" — to force the So before the summer is over we will be on a of question as to whether the faith which is so killer three-laner instead of two, then people can widely proclaimed and accepted is really true; get to nowhere faster — but without the pretty whether its affirmations are grounded in reality. maples. Archives Behind this "disinterest in truth," this dis- This sort of thing of course is happening all trust of the mind, this disparagement of clear, over the country without anybody caring much 2020. honest, critical thinking, is an unrecognized and of a damn. Ask why of anybody in authority unintended indifference to God who is truth as and you'll get a couple of answers. One is that well as power and love. At its heart, just be- the old highway isn't wide enough to take care Copyright neath the surface, lies a hidden but ultimately of the traffic—sometimes so and sometimes not disastrous scepticism as to whether Christian —in this particular case I can testify that the faith can stand up to rigorous scrutiny, can vin- two laner was adequate. So there has to be an- dicate its beliefs as true. other reason — make work. But it apparently So far as these two perceptive and sympathetic never occurs to anybody to make work by setting visitors have fastened on fact — and I believe out trees instead of chopping them down. they have — it is disquieting. Dr. Brogan is John Crosby in his column the other day wrote certainly correct: if there be a truce between in- about the first conference on Aesthetic Respon- tellect and faith, between learning and religion, sibility even held in this country, its purpose it cannot long continue; and, especially, in the being to fight our country's ugliness. centers of education. "The most important single fact to come out of

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Episcopal GEORGE M. L. WOODGATE, now associate secretary in the leader- husband, professor at Church Di- the ship training division of the dept. vinity School of the Pacific, be- of of education of the National Coun- comes head of the division. ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR GIRLS Fully accredited. Grades 8-12. Music, Archives art, dramatics. Small classes. All A BISHOP PARSONS' ANTHOLOGY sports. On beautiful Rappahannock

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<•"' •"•" 3OI SOE3OI IOE3O THE NATIONAL VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL ST. AGNES SCHOOL SCHOOL An Episcopal Day and Boarding CATHEDRAL SCHOOL School for Girls (For Girls) LYNCHBURG, VA. Excellent College Preparatory record. Exten- Prepares boys for colleges and university. sive sports fields and new gymnasium. Boarders Splendid environment and excellent corps of range from Grade 9 to College Entrance. ST. ALBANS SCHOOL teachers. High standard in scholarship and MRS. JOHN N. VANDEMOER, Principal athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in ALBANY NEW VORK (For Boys) the mountains of Virginia. For catalogue apply to Two schools on the 58-acre Close of AUSTIN P. MONTGOMERY, JR., M.A. the Washington Cathedral offering a Christian education in the stimulating THE WOODHULL SCHOOLS environment of the Nation's Capital. Students experience many of the Nursery to College advantages of co-education yet retain HOLDERNESS HOIXIS, L. I. the advantages of separate education. Sponsored by The White Mountain School for boys 13-19. ST. GABRIEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH publication. — A thorough curriculum of college Thorough college preparation in small classes. Student government emphasizes responsibility. under the direction of the rector, preparation combined with a program Team sports, skiing. Debating. Glee Club. Art. THE REV. ROBERT Y. CONDIT and of supervised athletics and of social, New fireproof building. cultural, and religious activities. DONALD C. HAGERMAN, Headmaster Plymouth, New Hampshire reuse Day: Grades 4-12 Boarding: Grades 8-12 Catalogue Sent Upon Request for ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL Mount St. Alban, Washington 16, D.C. One of Church Schools in the Diocese ot Virginia. College preparatory. Girls, grades 7-12. Curriculum is well-rounded, emphasis CHURCH HOME is individual, based on principles of Christian required democracy. Music, Art, Dramatics, Sports, AND HOSPITAL Riding. Suite-plan dorms. Established 1910. MAKGAKET DOUGLAS JEFFERSON, Headmistress THE CHURCH SCHOOL OF NURSING ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL Charlottesville 2, Va. FARM SCHOOL BALTIMORE 31 MARYLAND Permission A three year approved course of nursing. GLEN LOCHE, PA. Class enters in September. Scholarships avail- A School for Boys Dependent on One Parent able to well qualified high school graduates. Grades — 5th through 12th

DFMS. College Preparatory and Vocational Training: Apply: Director of Nursing / Sports: Soccer, Basketball, Track, Cross-Country ,w—inr— urn—ifvi, • "Tl—| Learn to study, work, play on 1600 acre farm in historic Chester Valley.

Church Boys Choir — Religious Training REV. CHARLES W. SHREINER, D.D. Headmaster SAINT JAMES Post Office: Box S. Paoli, Pa. SCHOOL The oldest Church School west of the Alle- FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA ghenies integrates all parts of its program — Episcopal religious, academic, military, social — to help FOUNDED 1901 high school age boys grow "in wisdom and the A Country Boarding School for Boys, stature and in favor with God and man." Write of Grades Four through Eight One of the few schools in the Midwest CANON SIDNEY W. GOLDSMITH, JR. specializing in only the elementary grades. Rector and Headmaster The Bi Small Classes — Individual Attention — Home 662 Shumway Hall Atmosphere — Through preparation for leading SHATTUCK SCHOOL FAIRBAULT, MINN. Archives A Resident Day School for Girls. Grades secondary schools — Athletics including Riiiery Seven through Twelve. College Preparatory. and Riding — Competitive sports in football, MEMBER: THE EPISCOPAL ART - MUSIC - DRAMATICS basketball and hockey. SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 1 wentv-Acre Campus, Outdoor Heated Pool, Summer School Camp Combination. Grades 2020. Tennis, Hockey, Basketball, Riding. Two through Eight. June twenty-four to THE RT. FRANCIS ERIC BLOY August third. President of Board of Trustees MARVIN W. HORSTMAN, Headmaster ROSAMOND E. LABMOUR, M.A., ST. JOHN'S

Copyright Headmistress LAJOLLA, CALIFORNIA MILITARY ACADEMY A preparatory school with a "Way of Life" —to develop the whole boy mentally, physically and morally. Fully accredited. Grades 7-12. ST. STEPHEN'S Individualized instruction in small classes. All sports. Modem fireproof barracks. Established EPISCOPAL SCHOOL 1884. For catalogue write Director or Admissions, OKOLONA COLLEGE FOR BOYS AND GIRLES St. John's Military Academy, AUSTIN, TEXAS Box W, Delafield, Wisconsin OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI Operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas as a co-educational church school for boys and girls in Grades 8-12. Fully accredited. Experienced faculty to provide a strong aca- demic program balanced by activities that Established 1902 develop individual interests. Small classes. High School and Junior College. Trades Limited enrollment. Prepares for any college. ST. MARY'S SCHOOL Modern buildings. Splendid climate. Pro- and Industries. Music. gram designed to give religion its rightful SEWANEE, TENN. For information write: place in general education within the spirit Exclusively for high school girls. Honor of a Christian Community. system stressed. Accredited. The President ALLEN W. BECKER, Headmaster Please address Today's Training for Tomorrow's Opportunities P.O. Box 818 Austin 64, Texas THE SISTER SUPERIOR, C.S.M.