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were ignored. But in 1964, there Banyard Rustin Sees Elections was a riot, and two weeks after the rioting Lt. Sealy was made Key to Race Relations a captain. Lt. Lloyd Sealy was the first Negro to become a publication. * One of the nation's top civil enactment of the $2 minimum police captain in New York. and rights leaders predicted that wage. Referring to agreements "And the young Negroes said this fall's elections would be the that the small business man will to their elders: 'For five years reuse key factor in determining the be forced out of business if such you worked and got nowhere. for course of race relations in the a law is enacted, he said, "Let's Now we did it in three nights U.S. for the next quarter of a subsidize the small business with sticks and stones and Molo- century. man if he can't afford to pay a tov cocktails.'" required "The elections of 1968 will $2 an hour minimum wage." Similarly, he said, in Chicago, determine whether or not there Citing subsidies already paid residents in the Negro ghetto will be race war in the streets to farmers and other special areas pleaded in vain for sprin- for the next 25 years," said interest groups by the govern- kler heads on fire hydrants to Permission Bayard Rustin executive direc- ment, Rustin said: "I'm tired in give some relief from the op- tor of the A. Philip Randolph this country of socialism for the pressive summer heat in over-
DFMS. Institute. Mr. Rustin, who was rich and free enterprise for the crowded tenements where there / the chief organizer of the March poor." is no air conditioning. on Washington in 1963, ad- Another required piece of "But 24 hours after the riot
Church dressed a group at St. George's legislation, he said, was a there last summer, a man from Church, New York. guaranteed income of $4,000 for city hall went around in his car "No Negro leader can deter- a family of four. and distributed the $8 sprinkler
Episcopal mine whether there will be He also called for a program heads for the hydrants." violence in the streets," said When society thus demon-
the of public works "for things we
of Rustin, who is a staunch advo- need—schools, hospitals, parks. strates that the only thing that cate of non-violence. "That can Let's put these people to work will work "has been limited be determined only by Congress. at these things we need and in violence to accomplish limited
Archives Violence can be cast out only by the process train them in the things, they are teaching the justice. necessary skills to earn a living." young Negro to use violence."
2020. "If Congress is prepared to He also called for free medi- In so doing, Rustin said "they eliminate injustice in this socie- cal care "for whoever wants it, are teaching him a lie. Violence ty, then those who believe in including the rich." The same will work up to point X. But non-violence will have their Copyright care should be made available when you reach point X plus hand strengthened." to all, he explained, "so that the one, you will see the most If this does not happen, he poor don't feel like dogs when fantastic repression against went on, "Congress by their in- they take advantage of it." Negroes. And in the process the action will have robbed Dr. King Rustin warned that "society whites will lose their civil liber- of his victory," he said, refer- is teaching young Negroes every ties as well. For you can't re- ring to the mass outpouring of day that they should believe in press one tenth of the popula- good will following the death of violence." For five years, he tion without taking away the the civil rights and peace explained, civic leaders in Har- civil liberties of the other nine leader. lem urged that a Negro be made tenths." Among the required pieces of head of a police precinct in Rustin distinguished between legislation cited by Rustin was Harlem. "For five years, they the violence of the young Negro MAY 9, 1968 Three leaders and the "systematic gredient of white society, Rus- be a great asset. No other violence" of injustice built into tin explained: "White society voluntary body is as well American society. has said to the Negro, 'No mat- equipped as the Church, he said. While comdemning both, he ter what you are, what you have He concluded that the job of declared the second was by far accomplished, what you are the Christian is "not to worry the more reprehensible. "The capable of becoming — stay about the body of the Church— violence of Stokely Carmichael, apart, for you are unacceptable." whether the present one or the bad as it is, is not to be com- He said there is "a moral dif- future one. Our only trust is pared with the violence of the ference between the violence of that there will always be a form, racist." the oppressors and the reactive a body, through which the re- Defining racism as a basic in- violence of the oppressed." sponse to God, the Spirit, the kingdom, can be made." The Church and its forms are Robinson Wants Church Leaders dispensable in the hands of God, he stated, and therefore com- Picked from Secular Jobs mitment to the Church should be marked by a "divine careless- publication. * Bishop J. A. T. Robinson of ogy and in the life of the ness." and Woolwich told a theological con- Church. sultation that bishops and other While arguing that a God who VISSER 'T HOOFT GIVES reuse Church leaders in a "religion- exists as a being in another VIEWS ON U.S. PROBLEMS for less age" might best be recruited realm is no longer credible, by advertising among "pastor- Bishop Robinson said that di- • The Rev. W. A. Visser 't ally and prophetically minded vinity was not destroyed. Hooft, general secretary of the
required World Council of Churches men already used to executive The next question for Chris- responsibility in the secular for eighteen years, told the tology, he said, will not be that 200 leaders from 28 U.S. Chur- world." He spoke on the next of the two natures of Jesus frontiers for theology and ches holding an annual confer- Permission Christ, divine and human, but ence, April 24-26, that many Church, at the Gallahue the- about "two sets of language ology today conference held at Europeans, including himself, about one nature," that is, were deeply distressed by Amer-
DFMS. Princeton Theological Seminary. / "man-talk and God talk." ica's role in Vietnam. Many of the specific recom- Just as the mold for God has He explained that Europeans mendations he made concerned been shattered, he continued, so Church see, hear, and read about Viet- the clergy in a day in which, he has the casing of the Church nam "probably as much as you claimed, the "religious face" of been broken. He expressed great do with this difference: we get the Church will not be very hope that the "death-of-the- an enormous lot of films from Episcopal prominent. Clergymen, Bishop Church" can be a sign of its North Vietnam. We see films the Robinson stated, should not be resurrection. so horribly explicit that some- of ordained without secular quali- The bishop drew a number of times it's a question of whether fications. examples, mainly from the con- we want to look at them. We temporary British scene, of how see what happens to children Archives The Anglican bishop, who the Church has, in his view, and what happens to homes made headlines in the early become too concerned with itself
2020. after bombardment." 1960's with suggestions on the and too interested in serving Europeans, he said have also abandonment of spatial lan- itself rather than the world. seen and read a great deal about guage concerning God, set his Based on his evaluation, he the racial crisis in the U.S. and Copyright address in the context of twc made a number of predictions. the disturbances in U.S. cities. questions: "How do we remain He said there will be an increas- He noted that Europeans were theologians after the 'death-of- ing "brain drain" among the deeply impressed by television God ?' " and "How do we remain younger and more radical films of the nation's capital Christians after the 'death-of- clergy, and he held that a with columns of smoke coming the Church?'" Church totally identified with out of it. He made it clear that he did organized religion will have to Persons in the rest of the not subscribe either to the liter- be given up. world follow very closely what al death of God or of the On the positive side, Bishop happens in the United States, Church, but said that such theo- Robinson said that the Church's he explained, because "America logical assertions indicated the organization and manpower, is so terribly important to their need for changes both in theol- while creating liabilities, could own future." Four THE WITNESS They are concerned over what He also urged delegates to re- for failure to understand the America plans to do with her read the findings and recom- outlook and reaction of non- great wealth, he said. "America mendations of the conference churchgoers came at the confer- is rich, but not rich enough to on Church and society, held in ence proper in a paper prepared do all the things that are com- Geneva in 1966. He noted that by 15 senior Anglicans and peting for an important place in this conference was "not an of- Methodist ministers. It said: the national budget. Is Amer- ficial conference of the WCC "As we move into evangelism ica going to spend such vast but of specially picked people to in the 1970's, the twin facts sums on Vietnam, on space, on the WCC. of man's bewilderment and anti-missile programs and pro- "The Churches together at achievements become more ap- tective organizations that she Uppsala must say whether they parent. On the one hand are will not be able to deal with the will take seriously the recom- the glittering advances of medi- problems of her cities?" mendations from the conference cal science, the probing of space., Even more important from and make them their own." He and the large-scale control of the viewpoint of the rest of the predicted this could have an nature, all opening up immense world, he said, is the question impact on "the way the coun- extensions of man's domination of whether the U.S. is going to tries spend their own resources of the universe. publication. relinquish her lead in providing in the next two years." "On the other hand, imperson- and development aid to the emerg- There will be 180 U.S. dele- al automation and techological ing nations. gates at Uppsala. processes, mass culture, wars reuse and race riots, moral confusion, for and the sheer magnitude of Workshops on Role of Church world problems intensify man's hopelessness and bewilderment. required Urged by Archbishop Coggan Technologically, modern man is a giant but, morally, a pygmy, * Creation of a chain of Church's home mission depart- outwardly capable but inwardly "workshops" throughout B r i- ment. needy." Permission tain to undertake down-to-earth "We were primarily con- If the Church is to engage in examination of the Church's cerned with evangelism but in- evangelism it must be a wor-
DFMS. role was suggested by Arch- cidentally we have been brought shipping, caring and witnessing / bishop Donald Coggan of York much closer together," the An- community whose common life during an Anglican-Methodist glican leader said. in Christ is so warm and satis-
Church conference at Stafford, England. This was echoed by Dr. Davi- fying that people will be at- The conference, the first of son when he said, "As we have tracted to it, the paper urged. its kind, was attended by 300 worked here together, often The Rev. George Sails of the
Episcopal lay and ministerial representa- without our collars, it has been Methodist home mission depart- tives of both Churches, to con- ment told delegates that preach- the impossible to detect the differ- of sider the place of Christians in ence between the Methodists ing in the traditional sense was contemporary society. Dele- and Anglicans. This conference no longer communicating with gates were told by the speaker has certainly illustrated the people. Preaching, he contended,
Archives that the failure of many Chris- practicability of union between should be effected more through tians to understand the outlook our two Churches." actual service in the community.
2020. and reaction of non-church- Both leaders disagreed with Bishop Cuthbert Bardsley of goers was one of "the most dis- suggestions that there had been Coventry, said he hoped con- turbing weaknesses of the an unprecedented "spring clean- ference delegates would call
Copyright Church." ing of the Church cupboard." together clergy and laity in Dr. Coggan suggested the Dr. Coggan said, "We are at their own dioceses and districts workshops when he addressed a present in the process of con- for training courses on how to press conference with Dr. Les- sidering changes but not for "break through the crust of the lie Davison, former Methodist centuries has there been a apathy and difficulties confront- ing us today." conference president. They had period of reassessment as we co-chaired the conference which have now." The Church, he said, BETHLEHEM HOLDS must keep in touch with sociolo- had been arranged by the Arch- CONVENTION gists because the pattern of bishop's commission on evan- society is undergoing such rapid * The convention of the di- gelism and the commission on change. ocese of Bethlehem met at St. evangelism of the Methodist Criticism of many Christians Stephen's, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., MAT 9, 1968 Five on May 3rd and 4th. Bishop policy in Vietnam, and ended black owners; and other com- Frederick J. Warnecke, presided with the injunction, "Thou shalt munity projects in need of and the Rev. Burke Rivers, not kill." funds. rector of St. Stephen's, was the An agreement was reached host. Mr. John N. Conyngham WORTHINGTON RETIRES whereby the clergy did not com- was general chairman of the FROM PENSION FUND mit their churches to specific committee on arrangements, as- financial obligations. sisted by Mrs. John T. Howell * Robert Worthington has Jr., co-chairman. retired as president of the SACRAMENTO HAS Church Pension Fund and its NEW PROGRAM The convention began with a affiliates, effective April 30, business session followed by a 1968. * St. Paul's, Sacramento, was special convention service. Bish- He joined the fund as secre- dedicated for a new function as op Warnecke made his annual tary in 1934. In 1946 he was a center for urban work and address at that time. Those as- elected chief executive officer studies by Bishop Clarence R. sisting the rector at the service and during the past 22 years Haden Jr., of Northern Califor- were William T. Warne, Fred publication. has led the fund through several nia, March 24. W. Trumbore, Henry J. Pease major changes. Assets have and and Ralph A. Weatherly, priests Until this action, St. Paul's grown from $50 million to $212 was consecrated only as a place of the diocese. million, and the annual pension reuse of worship. Now the church St. Stephen's was begun as outgo of over $6 million is an for will be unique in the diocese in a result of missionary activity increase of 4% times the 1946 that in addition to being used as in the Wyoming Valley by the figure. a house of worship, it will serve required Rev. Jackson Kemper in 1814. At the meeting of the trus- the secular social concerns of It was chartered in 1817 and tees Robert Robinson, who had the public as well, Bishop Haden admitted to the convention of been executive vice president of said. the diocese of Pennsylvania in the fund, was elected to succeed Four areas of concern which Permission 1821. It is the subject of an Mr. Worthington in those of- have been recommended for fur- editorial this week. fices he held prior to his retire- ther development are programs
DFMS. The address at the convention ment. for the aging, a counseling and / dinner was by the Hon. John K. referral service, a project to as- Tabor, secretary of internal af- BLACK-CONTROLLED sist men of good character and
Church fairs of Pennsylvania. BUSINESS BACKED stability who have been arrested and are released on bail, space MRS. KING AND COFFIN * Clergymen of some 75 chur- for a group dedicated to helping ches and synagogues have
Episcopal ADDRESS 87,000 youth finding alternatives to pledge financial support to taking narcotics. the * The Rev. William Sloane black-controlled business ven- of Coffin Jr., warned a massive tures in the predominantly ARCHBISHOP HONORED anti-war rally in New York Negro districts of Boston. that to end protest against the BY COMMUNISTS
Archives The Rev. Vernon Carter, Vietnam war and racism could Negro pastor of All Saints Lu- * The Communist-ruled state mean a "spiritual death" for the
2020. theran church, proposed the of Kerala has honored a Roman country. pledge at a day-long meeting of Catholic archbishop — for his The rally and two parades in- some 150 clergymen. work in food production. Arch- volved an estimated 87,000 per- bishop Benedict Mar Gregorios
Copyright Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes sons in a protest against the Jr., of Massachusetts, Msgr. of the Syro-Malankara Catholic war and the "war against Black Russell Collins, chairman of the rite won a first prize in a food America." archdiocesan commission on hu- production contest for his new Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. man rights and Fr. Robert variety of rice. read to the anti-war rally "10 Quinn, C.S.P., of the Catholic The prelate, working in his commandments on V i e t n a m" information center, attended the own experimental rice paddies, she said she had found in her session. produced a rice with a yield of husband's pockets when he was The clergy fund would be used 8,000 pounds per acre — nearly killed. as collateral for loans on pur- seven times the average in this The anti-war decalogue began chasing or developing business densely populated state on the with nine "Thou shalt nots" and residences by black people; extreme southern tip of the critical of the government's for new business operations of Indian sub-continent.
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energy and drive were exceptional. An authori- The Wilderness tarian, he had a positive respect for himself, a just estimate of his ability, and a confidence in and the City his sure position in the Connecticut social order. The defect of his qualities was an utter insensi- ST. STEPHEN'S, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. has com- tivity to opinion difference from his own. This pleted 150 years of history and the book with the above title is the story of the parish. The fault so narrowed his vision that he was at author is Dr. George Gates Raddin Jr., a profes- times incapable of understanding forces directed sor of English by trade, who gathered the against him." material from innumerable sources and put it on What happened afterwards is told with gusto paper to make a book of over 750 pages, plus a in a detailed report of the consecration of Samuel publication. dozen pages of pictures. Seabury at Aberdeen and the consecrations of and William White and Samuel Provost at Lambeth It is a tremendous job, first and foremost in Palace. There are also accounts of the first an- reuse the vast amount of territory covered. The ordi- nual convention of the Church in Pennsylvania, for nary parish history is merely that. Against the and of the first General Convention in 1785 and background of social, economic and political of the two that followed. changes in northeastern Pennsylvania, the ex-
required Chapters of St. Stephen's years of struggle— pansion of the diocese of Bethlehem, the cur- 1814-1840 — and years of growth — 1840-1874 rents within the Episcopal Church as a whole, — years of expansion — 1875-1914 — is a de- Dr. Raddin tells the story of how a mission tailed and lively story which will be read far Permission organized in a wilderness by the Rev. Jackson beyond the parish family. Kemper, assistant to Bishop William White, Before saying anything about the present became a parish church in a modern city. DFMS. period we simply marvel at the amount of / The book opens with the story of the Pennsyl- material in the appendices. The dictionary says vania Provincial Church, 1695 to the end of the an appendix is matter added to a book but not Church Church of England Establishment in 1776, which necessarily essential to its completeness, as a will give you an idea of its scope. body of explanatory notes. There is drama in the story of the struggles Leading off are biographical sketches of the Episcopal between William White and Samuel Seabury. five clergymen who served St. Stephen's before the White is presented as the hero—"of unimpeach- it became a parish, followed by those of the of able spiritual and moral character, he was a sixteen rectors down to the present day. thinker" . . . "he advocated a comprehensive There have been fifty-six assistants and Church, sustained by judiciousness and modera- Archives clergymen in charge of parochial missions — de- tion as opposed to emotionalism and enthusiasm. tailed biographies of all of them is another ap-
2020. He was never inclined to accord authority to pendix. bishops beyond their powers to ordain and to The parish has had twenty-eight candidates confirm. He was receptive to innovations but for the ministry — all of them are there.
Copyright he always sought in history precedent for new Not satisfied with that the author has ideas. This was apparent in his plea for lay sketches of 149 vestrymen; the forty incorpora- participation in Church government, a principle tors in 1817; information about the thirty-six he believed to be implicit in legislative power families who are active communicants today who the English laity retained through Parliamentary are direct descendants of the original incorpora- action in the Church of England." tors. Samuel Seabury accepted the invitation of Included also are the first four charters of clergy meeting in the rectory of St. Paul's, 1817, St. Stephen's; St. Matthew's, Pike Town- Woodbury, Conn.—now know as the Glebe House ship; St. Jude's, Springville; St. Mark's, New — to go to England for consecration. The first Milford. American bishop is described as "bluff, solemn, There are the charters too of St. Clement's earnest and inclined to be pompous" .... "His and Calvary, Wilkes-Barre; St. James', Pittston;
MAY 9, 1968 St. Peter's, Plymouth; Grace Church, Kingston; St. George's, Nanticoke. They preserve the The Great Forty Days names of the incorporators and the first ves- By John C. Leffler tries of these parishes. Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle The Rev. Jackson Kemper is the subject of appendix seven, a lengthy detailed account of his I DOUBT if any of us will ever forget Passion- missionary tours of western Pennsylvania start- tide of 1968 — when in those two weeks before ing in 1812. Easter crisis followed crisis and both the best Some of us connected with the Witness are and the worst in America's soul were revealed. on a first-name basis with most of those who It was a period of deep stress and emotional played, and are playing, roles in the 1915-1967 impact such as our country has rarely seen. So years of adjustment. St. Stephen's history for if all of us are just a bit more tired than usual these years falls into two distinct periods. after Holy Week and Easter it is no wonder. The first embraces the ministries of the Rev. Our nervous systems are not equipped to be Frank W. Sterrett, the Rev. Frederick L. Flinch- drawn like a tight bowstring indefinitely. baugh, the Rev. Gardiner M. Day and the Rev. publication. Whether or not we shall have a breathing William K. Russell, whose rectorship ended in spell of any length, no one can predict. Politics, and 1947. Two world wars, many years of intense of course, will be with us until November. The labor-management conflict, the decline of the reuse Vietnam talks are not yet scheduled. And locally coal industry in northeastern Pennsylvania, and for the open housing issue comes to a sharp focus changes in attitudes toward traditional values this week as the city council moves toward some affected the churches throughout the country. kind of a decision. These things we can see, required The diocese of Bethlehem was guided by Bishop but in times like ours, it is the things we can't Ethelbert Talbot through the first world war; see that disturb us. Bishop Sterrett administered the diocese through The trouble with nervous and emotional fa- world war two and the Korean war and until his Permission retirement in 1954. tigue is that we either fall back into an ex- h a u s t e d, shoulder-shrugging indifference, or The second period — the nineteen years of remain- in a chronic stage of anxiety. Either is DFMS. / the rectorship of the Rev. Burke Rivers — dangerous and both need to be corrected. brought Korea and Vietnam, with the nation Two weeks ago I wrote a most un-prophetic
Church subjected to unprecedented pressures from a column suggesting that we forget the world a protracted war economy, the human spirit bit for the rest of Lent. Then the world crashed trapped in a complex of power struggles, radical in around us! There was nothing wrong with
Episcopal shifts in the moral, ethical and spiritual climate. my suggestion — only the timing. the There were profound changes also in the episco- If I had gone back to the gospel record two of pal function in the diocese under the jurisdiction weeks ago I would have noted that mistake in of Bishop Frederick J. Warnecke. It is the timing on my part. There too the world was record of the impressive effort of St. Stephen's
Archives crashing round Jesus and his disciples. It was to quicken faith in God, to reveal the divine authority of Jesus Christ, and to release the the background for everything he said and did, 2020. creative force of the Spirit. It is all told with and his bewildered and frightened disciples were great ability by Dr. Raddin. unable as we were to comprehend what was going on. They failed to understand the thing
Copyright We recommend this unusual book whole- he was trying to say to them at the Last heartedly. The price of $15 is really low, con- Supper, they were too exhausted to pray in sidering the vast amount of material it contains. Gethsemane, and when it was all over and they It is published by St. Stephen's Church History found the tomb empty they were too jaded to Committee, to whom checks should be made get the point; and too full of anxiety, fear, and payable and sent to 35 South Franklin Street, disillusionment to believe he was not dead, but Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18701. living. One thing you may conclude after reading it Perhaps we Christians have been wrong in our — we should have a White House and a Bishop timing for centuries. Perhaps the forty days White Press, instead of so many places scattered after Easter are much more important than the about named Seabury. forty days before, and I wonder if this may not
Eight Tas WITHEM account for the weakness of Christian faith and forces of reDulsion and attraction between stars, witness. planets, and galaxies in the vast reaches of The world with its violence and its cross is space, the continuous movement and transforma- perfectly obvious. We need no proof of this at tion of the creative process rises out of tension any time, particularly this year. between opposites. What we do need is to look beyond the vi- Yet it is equally true that these opposites are olence and the cross and see the living Christ variations of one infinite being. The opposition, walking among us again to straighten out our therefore, is a polar opposition rather than the jangling nerves and to lift us out of our tried clash of unconnected substances. The phrase indifference after too much pre-occupation with "polar opposition" refers to the opposite ex- the world and its evils. tremes of a single continuous reality. When So, I suggest these days after Easter are of thinking of the planet earth, for example, we can vital importance to us all. If we would see talk about the "north pole" or the "south pole" Jesus and know him in lives of greater strength separately. But in the non-verbal world we ob- and finer devotion it is in the aftermath of serve that these are only names for opposing publication. tragedy that he is most apt to come — if we regions of the surface of the planet. And such and will let him in. polar opposition runs through every aspect of the real. Each individual form is shaped and reuse animated by its opposite. You can't have winners for without losers, wise men without fools, virtue Dealing with Conflict without vice, happiness without sorrow. required Since the creative process is the self-expres- By Alfred B. Starratt sion of God, this tension of polar opposites is not Rector of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore contrary to God's will. Our problems, as reli- gious people, is not one of eliminating conflict. Permission THIS ARTICLE is being written just after we have heard reports that the looting and vandal- Rather, we should work to contain conflict with- ism in Baltimore are subsiding, on Wednesday, in limits, using polar opposition as a stimulus DFMS. / April 10th. for creative transformation. I mention the time because our printing sched- This is the meaning of Martin Luther King's
Church ule is such that when you read what I am non-violent action. He didn't avoid conflict, but writing, anything that I might have to say about he did all that he could to keep it within limits the violence will probably have been said by such that the results might change things for the better. He could do this because he knew Episcopal someone else. I feel like the final speaker in a that his opponents shared with him in common the list on a program concerned with some specific of subject. When the last man is introduced, all limited human nature. Respect for himself, the good things have been said and the audience therefore, involved respect for them. In this has already heard more about the topic than attitude lies whatever hope for social order we Archives they wanted to know. may have.
2020. It's a tough situation to be in. But it at least has the advantage of forcing me to think of events in terms of their broader philosophical STUDENT LEADERS SAY NO
Copyright aspects, for if my comments were narrowly topi- cal they would be out of date for my readers. TO VIETNAM WAR In these wider terms, then, the best that I THE PRESIDENTS of student governments and can do at present is to repeat the central theme the editors of campus newspapers at more than of the sermon I preached on Palm Sunday when 500 colleges, universities and seminaries con- the wail of sirens around the church gave an demned the war in Vietnam as "immoral and un- atmosphere of urgency to the message. just" and said that they believed they "should I feel very strongly the accuracy of the de- not be forced to fight" in Vietnam. The action by scription of the universe as an interwoven the student leaders was coordinated by the Rev. harmony of contained conflicts. From the smal- Robert M. Hundley, a student at Union Theologi- lest sub-nuclear wave patterns to the balanced cal Seminary in the class of 1969. Nine MAY 9, 1968 PRAISE OF PRESIDENT tive secretary of the Bethlehem 1949, Mr. Strudwick has told his OPPOSED BY ASIAN council of churches, and Mrs. parishioners they can choose Sterling Bashore of the Potts- their own hymns, prayers, les- * A resolution asking the sons and psalms. And if any United Methodist Church to ville day care center described programs in their areas which want to preach the sermon, he commend President Lyndon B. will okay that, too. Johnson for his move to negoti- constitute such a response. Miss ate peace in Vietnam was at- Jean Price, regional representa- tive for the office for children METHODISTS WITHDRAW tacked on the floor of the FUNDS AS PROTEST Church's uniting conference by and youth of Pennsylvania's de- Dr. Chee-Knoon Tan, a member partment of public welfare, dis- * The United Methodist of Malaya's Parliament. cussed the need for day care Church voted to support its centers and other related serv- board of missions in the removal Dr. Tan, a physician, came to ices for children in the 14-coun- Dallas as a delegate from the of a $10-million investment port- ty area covered by the diocese, folio from the First National Malaya annual conference. He and suggested ways church- said delegates should "recognize City Bank of New York when women can help to meet these that bank renewed a line of that ever since the president needs. took office the war in Vietnam credit to the government of publication. has been escalated." The day began with a service South Africa. of Holy Communion at which The removal represented a and "You are commending a per- son who has brought death and Bishop Frederick J. Warnecke protest to the South African was the celebrant and preacher. government's apartheid policy. reuse destruction to Vietnam," he
for said. "It is about time that A mericans recognize that LUND RESIGNS DR. EPISCOPAL Asians are not to be used as AT KENYON IS HONORED required cannon fodder by the white * F. Edward Lund has re- * The Rev. Elmer Christie, man." signed as president of Kenyon known for years as "Dr. Epis- College, effective June 31. A copal" in Seattle for his great BETHLEHEM WOMEN committee of five trustees will
Permission service to the Church and com- HOLD MEETING consider a successor. munity, was honored at a ban- * Highlight of the annual quet in that city on May 1. He
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/ has retired as rector of the meeting of the Episcopal church- ANNOUNCED women of the diocese of Bethle- Epiphany which he has served hem, at St. Mark's Church, Jim * What are described as "do- for many years. Church Thorpe, on May 8, was a panel it-yourself" church services are Bishop Stephen Bayne, for- presentation on the subject "re- being offered to his congrega- mer diocesan of Olympia, gave sponse to urban crisis in the tion by the Rev. Donald F. the address. Episcopal Strudwick, vicar of St. Clement's diocese." The Rev. Ora Locust, RELIGION GETS LOTS the program coordinator for the church in the southeast London
of OF MONEY Pcranton central city center, the district of Dulwich. Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Frey, execu- Vicar of St. Clement's since * The American association of fund-raising counsel reported
Archives that contributions for religious purposes accounted for 46.9 per
2020. cent of the $14,560,000,000 in philanthropic giving in the U.S. in 1967. A POCKET PRAYER BOOK—Compiled by Bishop Ralph S. Cushman
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Ten THE WITNESS traditional and conservative, the latter in that the author, a post-doc- toral fellow at Saint Louis Univer- PEOPLE sity, gives us basic statements of the The tradition which he finds true and relevant for today. He sees Christ as ALLEN, WILLIAM Q., has resigned "the true evolution" in the "age long Patterson School as vicar of St. Anselm's, Park struggle against human weakness". Ridge, 111. One is constantly reminded of Teil- ANTHONY, WILLIAM S. is now hard de Chardin, and, in fact, the for Boys assistant at Grace Church, Provi- suggested readings at the conclusion IN HAPPY VALLEY dence, R. I. of each chapter suggest the company BARTLETT, WILLIAM C, former the author keeps: de Chardin, Ong, Fully accredited Church School on vicar of All Saints, Ivoryton, S. J., Karl Rahner, Urs von Bal- 1300 acre estate. Grades 7-12. Small Conn., is now rector of Calvary, thasar, Hans Kung, Fr. Schillebeeckx, classes. Gymnasium, sports, swim- Front Royal, Va. and so on. ming, fishing. 60th year. Summer camp with tutoring for boyi BRANSCOMB, W. MAURICE, for- The Church is "the perpetual 6 to 15 years. Periods 2, 4, or 6 weeki. mer assistant at Christ Church, presence of the mission and function Charlottesville, Va., is now assist- of Christ in the economy of salvation. For School or Camp Patterson ant at St. Paul's, Alexandria, Va. It is his contemporary presence to catalogs, write: BURGER, CHARLES S., formerly GEORGE F. WIESE, BOX W
publication. all men, to history and to the con- at St. Michael and All Angels, tinuing task of the restoration of all Route 5, Lenoir, N. C. 2864B Lihue, Eauai, Hawaii, is now at and things to the Father . . . She, like COLLEGE PREPARATORY Holy Innocents, Lahaina, Maui, Christ must grow in awareness of Hawaii. the mission entrusted to her and CHARACTER BUILDING reuse CHAPPELL, JOHN, former rector perfect herself . . . [she] must grow for of St. Martin's, Doswell, Va. be- and evolve". comes rector of St. Stephen's, Cul- peper, Va., June 9. This is not a book about the de- FLEMING, GEORGE S., former rec- struction and death of the institu- required tor of St. Luke's, Charleston, W. tional Church, but about the hope and Brent School Va., is now rector of St. Paul's, the signs and the path of growth, evo- Bailey's Cross Roads, Va. lution and renewal. Baguio, Philippines — LESLIE J. A. LANG KENNEDY, DAVID K., formerly at FOUNDED IN 1909 St. Barnabas, Ewa Beach, Oahu,
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/ of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, through High School. High stand- April 21. STUART HALL ards of scholarship. All races and REYNOLDS, ELSBERY, W., for- Virginia's Oldest nationalities admitted. Church merly at St. Luke's, Honolulu, is now at St. Michael and All Angels, Preparatory School for Girls "The International School Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii. Episcopal school in the Shenandoah Valley. SMITH, CHARLES H., formerly at Grades 9-12. Fully accredited. Notable of the Far East."
Episcopal Holy Innocents, Lahaina, Maui, college entrance record. Strong music and Hawaii, is now at St. Barnabas, art. Modem equipment. Gymanasium, in- THE REV. ALFRED L. GRIFFITHS, D.D. the Ewa Beach, Oahu, Hawaii. door swimming pool. Attractive campus- of Headmaster WHITE HARRY N., is now vicar of Charming surroundings. Catalogue. St. Dunstan's, Westchester, 111. WHITE, WARNER; C, is the rector Martha Dabney Jones, M.A., of St. Paul's, Chicago, which was Archives Headmistress merged April 15 with the Re- Box W, Staunton, Virginia 24401 deemer. DICKSON, JOSEPH S. Of 2020. is the associate rector. Scbool Go-Educational Nursery through Grade vm
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