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ASHLEE, JOHN W., retired, died in Detroit on June 14. ©ije (Uetteral tEiieoiogtctti CHATER, EDWARD W., was ordained priest by Bishop Stires of Long Island in the Jicm m aru cathedral at Garden City on June 5. COX, ARTHUR HUME, was ordained priest KENOSHA. WISCONSIN Three-year undergraduate by Bishop Coadjutor Goodwin of Virginia course of prescribed and elective in Grace Church, Bremo Bluff, Va., on June Episcopal Boarding and Day School. study. 15. Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual CURRY, ROBERT L., and DONALD W. opportunities in Art and Music. - Fourth-year course for gradu­ MAYBERRY were ordained deacons by Bishop Lawrence of Western Massachusetts Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. in Christ Church, Fitchburg, on June 3. FOREMAN, HARRISON W., JR., was or­ SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced dained deacon by Bishop Ward of Erie in Trinity Church, Erie, Pa., on June 11. Box W. T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. HARRIS, JOHN U., rector of St. Thomas’ and D.Th. Church, Hanover, N. H., will be a member Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin of the staff of Trinity Church, Boston, ef­ ADDRESS fective September 15. CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL HAUSER, JOHN H., GEORGE H. MacMUR- R^Y, WILLIAM L. NIEMAN, JR., and New York City THE DEAN KENNETH M. SOWERS, were ordained A boarding school for the forty boys of deacons by Bishop Stires of Long Island in the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the Chelsea Square New York City the cathedral at Garden City on June 5. Divine. Careful musical training and daily HAWKINS, JOHN B„ and GRANT A. MOR­ singing at the cathedral services. Small For Catalogue Address the Dean RILL, JR., were ordained deacons by Bishop classes mean individual attention and high Lawrence of Western Massachusetts in All standards. The School has its own building Saints Church, Worcester, on June 18. and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 HAYNESWORTH, W. R.,‘ was ordained priest per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice Episcopal Theological School by Bishop Thomas of South Carolina in St. test and scholarship examination. Address Mark’s Church, Pinewood, S. C., on June The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Cathe­ CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 15. dral Heights, New York City. Affiliated with Harvard University offers (Continued on page 13) unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as philosophy, psychology, history, sociology, etc. HOLDERNESS For Catalogue Address the Dean SCHOOL j In the White Mountains. College Preparatory St. John Baptist F O R G IR L S and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For A Boarding and Day School for Girls boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 The Protestant Episcopal In the Country near Morristown acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ Under the care of the Sisters of St. John dividual attention. Home atmosphere. Theological Seminary in Virginia Baptist (Episcopal Church) College Preparatory and General Courses, Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector Ftor Catalogue and other information Music and Art address the Dean Ample Grounds,,,, Outdoor Life 1 Box W , Plymouth, N. H. REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. For catalog address Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. THE SISTER SUPERIOR, Mendham, N. J.

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Hilarity By BISHOP JOHNSON 'T 'H E Puritans were strong characters but were to repress a smile when it is human to do so. We not noted for merriment. To them solemnity talk about merry Christmas and happy Easter was identified with piety, and consequently because joyousness is the very essence of our re­ healthy people do not like to be called pious. It ligion. Yet the Puritans shipped a jolly squire denotes somehow a morbid outlook on life and back to England because he dared to keep Christ­ the expectation of a joyless heaven. Whereas mas joyously. Too bad that they enjoyed ill laughter is God’s gift to children, and humor is health and looked upon religion as merely the the sauce of life. Give me the companion that negative of vice. I think that is why the Master does not take himself so seriously that he is preferred publicans and sinners to scribes and gloomy unless others acknowledge his importance pharisees. He preferred those who confessed their and pay tribute to his position. For a preacher unimportance to those who felt their oats. ought to be a loveable person and no one is love­ E W AS a man of sorrows but He was not one able who is solemn over his status in life. H to throw an atmosphere of gloom over a If preachers have some unpleasant message to wedding feast when the wine gave put. Some of proclaim let them do it without heat. Audiences His disciples would have taken the occasion to as a rule are good natured and they are like the preach a sermon against the use of it. He did Virginian who said to his adversary, “When you not scold Martha. One doesn’t say “Martha! say that, smile!” Learn to take everybody seri­ Martha!” as an introduction to a reproof. He ously excepting yourself, for if you are honest was merely smiling at her for her impatience. you know yourself too well to take yourself seri­ Our Lord was too courteous to scold His hostess, ously. I often wonder how Hitler can look into and yet I have heard clergy imply that He was a mirror without winking at himself. angry with her. She brought the retort on herself There is no place where good humor is so as one always should when confessing their sis­ agreeable as in debate. The man is to be dreaded ter’s sins. who is so cocksure of his infallibility that he One of the greatest impediments to the reunion scorns anyone who disagrees with him. I have of Protestants is that they are critical of all who known men who can play golf amiably, but in disagree with them. It is the besetting sin of re­ argument they are poor sportsmen, and impa­ ligious people to be censorious of others. How tient at any opposition. Give me a smiling ad­ often it has happened that a good laugh has ban­ versary and debate is more fun than golf, but ished every malice and all uncharitableness. Of deliver me from an opponent who threatens you course there are many kinds of laughter as there with dire consequences if you do not agree with are many kinds of everything else. There is frivo­ him. lous laughter and ribald laughter and scornful As a matter of fact one never yet imbibed a laughter, but the misuse of a thing does not pre­ new idea from those who agree with him. Of vent the proper use of that thing. course one snould be solemn at funerals and at There is no better solvent of censorious atti­ divine worship but not so solemn at the latter as tudes than good humored laughter whenever and

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS June 29, 1939 wherever it occurs. When a person is peeved be­ the great farms of Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas cause his opponent makes a good humored sally, and the Dakotas. Because we have not taken care he needs to look at himself in the mirror and take of our land the American bread basket is now stock of his unimportance. How often I have felt the American dust-bowl, with over fifty millions like playing the photographer and telling an au­ of acres having lost all top soil, “rendering it un­ dience to look pleasant instead of mournful. suited for further tillage, probably lost forever.” It would be so much easier to be friendly with This is an acreage more than six times the arable them if people would look good-humored, and it land of England and W ales; more than the arable certainly would be heavenly if differences could land of Germany or France and nearly as much be discussed with hilarity. as the arable land of Canada. In addition there is another one hundred and five million acres which has lost so much of its top soil that it is now submarginal land, inappropriate for farming, Talking It Over while there is over five hundred million acres By which has already lost from one-fourth to three- W ILLIAM B. SPOFFORD fourths of its top soil and can be saved only with RECENTLY spent a long week-end in New drastic action. And if smug Easterners consider I Hampshire lying in the sun and reading Carle- this no problem of theirs they will be startled ton Beals’ American Earth, (Lippincott: $3) out of their indifference by the figures Beals pre­ which he sub-titles The Biography of a Nation. sents on what is happening to the land in eastern I have yet to find it in any best-seller list but it states. As I drove back home, through the rich ought to be, and I have a hunch will be before farm lands of western Massachusetts, distant long. There are three books that people would hills were nearly hidden from view on a clear do well to read these days; this one by Beals; sunny day by the dust storms that filled the air The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck which is with the golden soil of destitute farmers. now at the top of the list among the best sellers, HERE is much in this great book about the and Days of Our Years by Pierre van Passen. Ttreatment our ancestors gave the Indians; of The latter deals with Europe and Asia chiefly why we fought the Revolutionary War, which but the world is so closely bound these days that will make my mother, who is never without her you are made to realize that the same forces at chief ornament, a D.A.R. spinning-wheel, angry work across the oceans are also with us. The for days; much too about our religion, repre­ Grapes of Wrath is a novel dealing with the sented as an escape from harsh realities. “Men migratory workers and sharecroppers and is a argue most,” writes Beals, “ over things they long tract for these times if there ever was one. know nothing about. They therefore make a Steinbeck’s theme is ably supported, in a most pride of their ignorance, a fetish of illiteracy, a alarming way, by this exciting account of Amer­ cocksureness in proportion to mental inade­ ica by Beals. He opens with an account of Cali­ quacy.” But the real theme of the book is Land, fornia, best summed-up with a quotation: summed up adequately with supporting facts, as “Mayor Hague of Jersey City, who among others follows: “ Millions of lives are today being has inherited those righteous wings of false stunted, distorted, destroyed in America, more patriotism to waft his crass stupidity, is a pink than all the airplanes of Mussolini ever blasted ribbon cherub compared to the tough but panicky to death in the invasion of Ethiopia, more than boosters of California. In fact Jersey City thug­ all the Jews persecuted in Germany. The spirit gery and suppression is still today such a com­ of Hitler, cloaked in the greed for profits based monplace in California that it rarely excites on improper exploitation of human beings, rules much comment.” vast areas of our country, pressing millions into ^HE most alarming chapters in Beals’ book economic slavery, into silence, into routine des- Tare those setting forth what is happening to paring existence. But it is easier to shout at the land which feeds America. He relates how wrongs across the sea and build a great fleet than one night he came from a movie in New Orleans to destroy Hitlerism at home, to give economic to find the air filled with a yellow haze. Street and political freedom, to guarantee civil liberties lights were blurred; parked cars had turned to all our people, Black and White. Where is the rusty and under foot there was a carpet of fine noble fatherland of our migrants, of the folk toil­ red soil. He was treading on a golden carpet— ing so fruitlessly on submarginal lands, of ten­ the rich top soil blown hundreds of miles from ants and sharecroppers? Have they any reason

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 29, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Five to be worried about Naziism in far-off Germany ? has suggested Gilbert and Sullivan. Perhaps you They cannot eat political democracy even if they can find out. This bit of ceremonial is most of­ had it. They are tinder for demogogues. They fensive to me, and there are several others which are tinder for the destruction of political democ­ I find very annoying. One is the habit of the racy and the economic liberties still possessed by minister who reads the Gospel, after he has an­ the rest of us. If we wish to maintain a free nounced his purpose, of turning his back to the country, before all else we must learn how to use people when the Gloria Tibi is sung. Another is our American earth wisely with the greatest whirling about in the pulpit at the invocation and possible benefits to all, with the purpose of cre­ ascription at sermon time. I might add others, ating a decent and happy existence for those who but I spare you.” till the soil. In the American way of life, no in­ Q. Referring to your comment on Whitsunday, dustry which does not do that can long be allowed is it not true that the Epiclesis (invocation) to continue under abusive mismanagement.” To theory is rapidly going out of fashion? which I would reply: Yes, they have reason to A. There are many Epiclesis theories. I was be worried about Naziism in far-off Germany, not concerned with theory but with fact. The and political democracy is important even if you fact is that the primitive Eucharist not only rec­ cannot eat it. A back-hand justification of Musso­ ognized God the creator and Christ the redeemer lini and Hitler should not be put over merely by but gave the fullest recognition to the life-giving pointing out that we also have injustice and op­ Spirit who makes the divine creation and re­ pression in America. Someday the capable Mr. demption a reality to the worshipper. The me­ Beals ought to drop into a back pew of a Sunday dieval Church lost this idea, hence the absence of and repeat: “We have offended against thy holy the Holy Spirit from the Roman Mass and the laws. We have left undone those things which English Communion service. W e are fortunate we ought to have done; and we have done those in having not only the Sarum prayer “ Cleanse things which we ought not to have done; and the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of there is no health in us. But Thou 0 Lord . . .” thy Holy Spirit,” but the invocation of the Holy Not either or, but both. Spirit in our prayer of consecration. Q. Are you not mistaken in saying Bishop White is commemorated in the American Missal? A. Yes. I apologize. I should have verified Prayer Book Inter-Leaves my reference. But I had no copy of the book at Qu estio n B ox hand. . Why do you object to using the sentence Q. Funerals frequently bring out the worst Q “All things come of thee” at the Eucharist? traits in human nature. Will you not say some­ A. Because the Prayer for the Church pro­ thing in your column about keeping the casket vides for offering the alms. To say this sentence open during the service? beforehand is to deprive the prescribed offering A. In answer I cannot do better than to quote of all significance and make it one of those “vain some further sentences from the letter of this repetitions” which Our Lord condemned. correspondent. “ Ten years ago most undertakers Q. Did your reflections on crucifers evoke any wanted the casket kept open because it advertized protest? the rapidly developing science of embalming. But A. One came from New York written on a now embalming is so universal that the difference postcard, unsigned but in a feminine hand, as between one undertaker’s ability to embalm and follows: “ I am ashamed for my Church and her another’s is usually not so marked, and the clergy that any priest could write such smarty amount of time consumed by the farewell parade, smarty trash as your article on Crucifers in T h e etc., is such a nuisance that all the leading under­ W it n e s s of April 20. Suppose you think it very takers in this city gladly cooperate with me in clever.” But a Boston lady who belongs to the urging the closed casket. I have arranged with altar guild of a well-known church wrote: “ I them that whichever of us reaches the family love your article. . . . A crucifier at a church near first after the death should strongly suggest here takes flying leaps and finds it hard to keep this, and I believe that in all but one case we have his balance. It always makes people laugh.” been successful. But the moment you get out in­ And a distinguished Massachusetts presbyter: “I to the country or even to the smaller cities you should much like to know where the corybantic find the family usually wishes to leave the casket crucifer originated. A young clergyman friend open, and the ceremony of the closing when the

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS June 29, 1939 relativés kiss the corpse and dissolve in tears Greek influence was strong there were amphi­ completely destroys the effectiveness of the serv­ theatres where Greek and Roman contests were ice as a means of bringing strength and comfort held. In such places the children undoubtedly to the bereaved.” imitated their elders in their games. Really de­ Note. Wedding customs and ceremonies might vout Jews foreswore these contests as indecent also be improved. Will readers send sugges­ and irreligious and they were not known in the tions ? smaller villages. Of organized play we have no information. The children evidently did play at This column, which appears every other week, is written by Dean W. P. Ladd of Berkeley Divinity School, 80 Sachem Street, New “marriage” and “funeral” much as children do ■Haven, Connecticut, to whom questions and communications can be sent. today. Our Lord once said His hearers were like petulant children who complained “we have piped unto you and ye have not danced; we have L e t ’s K n o w mourned unto you and ye have not lamented.” Also they probably played at archery and with By sling-shots. BISHOP WILSON 3— Work. Every Jewish boy was taught some C hildhood kind of occupation. Doubtless this began at an OTHING is told us in the Scriptures about early age. We know that St. Paul learned the N our Lord’s boyhood. The period between trade of tent-making. His father appears to have the Nativity and His visit to the Temple when been a wealthy person but St. Paul was probably “ He sat in the midst of the doctors” is a complete disinherited when he became a Christian. He blank. Sometimes we wonder what were the cir­ turned to his trade to supply himself a living. cumstances under which He grew up. Similarly our Lord learned to be a carpenter, Among the Jews of that time a child was under making yokes, furniture and sundry articles in the care of his mother up to five years of age. At His own home shop. Idleness was never encour­ that point he passed to the jurisdiction of his fa­ aged among the Jews. ther. Of course it was not an exact or arbitrary Little as we know about our Lord’s boyhood, division of duties. Jewish women were not seg­ we may believe that it fitted naturally into this regated in a harem or zenana like Mohammedan general picture. The visit to the Temple at twelve women of later times. They had a great deal of years of age marked the turn from childhood to freedom. But broadly speaking a boy passed youth. Henceforth He “ increased in wisdom and from infancy to childhood at five years of age and stature, and in favour with God and man.” became the father’s responsibility until he reached the age of twelve when he became a youth and assumed his place in the religious com­ munity as a “son of the Law.” Quite a ceremony R eg u la rity developed at this point of emergence into ado­ B y lescence but it is not known how much of it was OSCAR GREEN in common use at the beginning of the Christian Rector at Palo Alto, California era. There were, however, certain general char­ A CERTAIN young Sunday School teacher was acteristics of the life of a Jewish child during the ± \ - very good with his boys; but he refused to be seven years from five to twelve. regular in attendance and finally his rector had to 1— Education. There was a kind of elementary remonstrate with him. He resigned and this is school wherever there was a synagogue. Reading the letter his rector wrote him. was taught, using the Old Testament scriptures Dear Jimmie: as a text-book. There was also instruction in Thank you for your note. Of course, the only writing. It is not unlikely that the boys learned basis on which we can have a successful school is some Greek. They certainly learned Hebrew as for the teachers to take their work seriously. If well as the Aramaic which was their everyday you refuse to take the work seriously, the only language. They were carefully instructed in the thing left is for you to resign. If you will leave history of their faith and in the complicated re­ your teacher’s manual at the rectory with a note ligious practices of their day. All of this was sup­ as to what point you have reached in the course, plemented by additional training at home which I shall see what I can do to find someone to take was almost as much of a school as the Synagogue. your place. 2-4-Play. In' some of the larger centers where I feel sure that you did not deliberately plan to

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 29, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Seven injure me; but on the other hand you refused to in anger. But I am tremendously disappointed. see what inconvenience you might cause, and how I believe my analysis of the situation is purely ob­ you might disrupt the program of our school. I jective. As I see it, you simply do not believe that wonder if it would do any good to try to explain teaching a class of boys is a job worth doing. You this to you. You see what we are trying to do is do not have the power to deny yourself any pleas­ to show our boys and girls how important re­ ure in order to serve your fellows (small boys ligion is. We want them to love Christ and to who are fond of you), or an ideal (the religion serve Him at all costs. It does no good to say such of Jesus Christ). This is the same kind of thing things to them, unless by our actions we reveal you get when a man takes his money and spends it that we believe them. So— on liquor when his family needs the necessities of There is tremendous detail about an Easter life. Mind you I am not suggesting that you service. We needed your help. Your boys looked would be guilty of that particular offense. Drunk­ forward to seeing you (one of them was almost enness is probably not your weakness. But yours in tears when you did not appear) ; but you went is of the same order of conduct. Pleasure takes off to the fair. And it was Easter Day. the precedence of social responsibility. Your de­ Two weeks later you went on a fishing trip. votion to Christ takes the form of saying pretty" Your lesson was not taught, and Dave had to ruin things about Him. his lesson by taking care of your class. This was My hope is that you can see my point. And be not fair to your boys, and certainly it was not fair assured of this: if ever I can be of any service to to him and his class. you, I shall be only too happy to do anything that Now you miss the teachers’ meeting. This is I can. the place to get the points straightened out for your boys who are trying for the silver medals and for the Asilomar trip. You say that you want one Paper Canes of your boys to win the trip. Then you take your attendance book home, after I had expressly re­ /'Y V E R at the Big House, some of the inmates quested that the teachers be careful to leave them ^ are expert at making paper canes. These are with the secretary. The secretary has to tele­ constructed from thousands of circular pieces of phone you two or three times, and waste his en­ paper, strung on a steel rod, glued together and ergy when he is very busy. His report is late. At pressed down until a solid cylinder is formed. the meeting we want to discuss the picnic, the Smoothed, stained and varnished and with metal closing of the school, the attendance problem, fittings added, the canes look like fine wood and and how we can encourage others to work for the have the appearance of being expensive. silver medals. We have only six more weeks. You One day a nationally prominent citizen received are off playing bridge, or doing something else one of the canes by mail, with a touching note equally useful. explaining that it was the work of a poor prisoner I have the problem of. securing a teacher to take who had heard of his many philanthropies. “Wish­ your place. He will not understand the course. ing to show his appreciation of the gentleman’s Your boys will wonder what has happened to you. goodness, he had labored many hours in the soli­ It will take three of the six weeks to get the class tude of his cell to complete the cane, which he settled again. hoped that the Nationally Prominent Citizen If your boys knew the situation fully, they would accept as a tribute from a humble ad­ should have to conclude that you considered your mirer.” The note and the cane, which was worth pleasure much more important than you con­ just about two dollars, netted a letter of thanks sidered them or Christ. By your conduct, you are and a check for twenty dollars and the cane manu­ saying to them, “ Whenever you can go on a party, facturing business experienced a sudden boom. forget the church. That is what I do. When you If the Prison authorities had not promptly give your word, it does not make any difference stopped the little racket, every prominent man in whether you keep it or not. And remember: if the country would have been sporting a paper you are charming enough, you can ‘get by’ with cane. anything. Friends are pleasant to have around, We dedicate our lives to the Master and pro­ but never permit them ‘to cramp your style.’ ” test that we do so because we love Him. If we Personally I do not believe that this is the gospel; secretly hope to be relieved of all the suffering and it is the gospel we are committed to teach. and anxieties of life, in return, we are giving You are wrong: nothing that I write is written “Paper Canes.”— T h e C h u r c h m o u se .

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ELMORE McKEE IS NEWS NOTES OF Front Page Churchman AUTHOROF BOOK THE CHURCH IN ON RELIGION'S USE BRIEF PARAGRAPHS WHAT USE IS RELIGION?, by Edited by E dward J. Mohr Elmore McN. McKee. New York: Progress in negotiations between Scribners, $2. “ I should demand of the Presbyterian and Episcopal unity my parish church that it give me a commissions was reported by Bishop comradeship at high levels of life,” Parsons of California, chairman of writes Mr. McKee, rector of St. the Joint Commission on Approaches George’s Church, New York, in par­ to Unity, in a statement to the Pre­ tial answer to the question “ What siding Bishop’s advisory commission kind of a church do we want?” This on ecclesiastical relations, which met is one of the questions which he poses in New York on June 19. Bishop in this recent volume. Parsons stated that the joint commis­ This is not a volume of sermons sion met in New York and spent a but is a book in which Mr. McKee day in discussing fully the criticisms ■endeavors to deal with some of the and constructive suggestions which ^questions which are uppermost in had been received as a result of the the minds of those who are skeptical proposals looking toward organic «of the value of religion and the unity with the Presbyterians. The Church. He deals with such ques­ large measure of agreement which tions as “Is religion a weakness?” , was reached encouraged the commis­ “ Does morality matter?”, “ Is the soul sion to revise the proposed concordat real?”, “ Does Jesus 'Save?” , “ Is the in a way which would make effective cross relevant?” and “ Is Christianity The Episcopal Church cannot boast this agreement, with the hope that practicable?” The belief of this re­ many labor leaders, but one who has the revisions would be equally ac­ viewer is that one of the most im­ been an exponent o f a closer i.'ela- ceptable to the committee represent­ pressive chapters is the first one, in tionship between organized labor ing the Presbyterian department on which the author deals with the title and the Church is Mr. Clarence Eu­ Church cooperation and union. question of the book, “ What use is gene Swick. He is the general-secre­ At a conference in Princeton, N. religion?” Mr. McKee treats religion tary of the Painters, Decorators and J., the following day, this proved to as the only real power which puts Paperhangers Union, a position he be the case, Bishop Parsons said “ In the depth of meaning in life that will has held for eleven years after serv­ some instances the Presbyterians had dispel futility; as the only power ing his union in other capacities. He anticipated through their own ex­ which will transcend human relations served several parishes as a vestry­ perience the difficulties with which and lift men from isolation to genuine man in the diocese of Tennessee, and the Episcopalians had been dealing, fellowship; thirdly, as that force is now a vestrym an o f St. John s, and in every instance they met them which enables man “ to stand upon his Lafayette, Indiana, where the nation­ with sympathetic understanding and two feet” and to work for what he al offices of his union are located. willingness to cooperate fully. As a believes to be right. result, the proposed concordat has The chapters which are bound to been clarified and strengthened, and create interest at the present time ices. He argues that it is essential made acceptable to many in both are those in which he endeavors to for the Church to work through Churches who, although in accord answer the questions, “ Is the Church small groups of responsible individ­ with its essential purpose, were relevant?” and “ What kind of a uals, so that religion is brought to doubtful or in disagreement about Church do we want?” The author bear upon the daily concerns of a certain features of the plan as origi­ believes that the Church in the past man’s life, and not left in the more nally proposed. has been relevant because it had material realm of pulpit oratory. * “ Specifically,” Bishop Parsons ex­ three characteristics. It was mission­ The frank and straightforward way plained, “ the scope of the proposed ary, it had a purpose, and it had a in which McKee deals with these concordat has now been widened to constant reference beyond itself. The problems, plus the obvious fact that include the provision of chaplains modern Church is constantly in dan­ what he writes is the result of his representative of both Churches in ger of becoming so much a part of own experience, should have consid­ the army and navy, in colleges, in the secular life which surrounds it erable weight for those who are on hospitals and similar institutions, and that a man from Mars looking at it the fringe of the Church’s life, ques­ of teachers in theological schools would not realize that it is, in St. tioning and wondering whether they where members of both Churches are Paul’s phrase, “ a colony of Heaven.” can throw their lot in with those who students; and it is suggested that it Therefore, McKee feels that it is up are striving to follow Jesus Christ may be made even broader after ap­ to the members of the Church and as their Lord and Master. G;. M. D. propriate ecclesiastical action. not simply the minister, to demand “ Each Church now definitely the Church afford comradeship at BIOLOGY AND CHRISTIAN BE­ recognizes the ministry of the other higher levels of life, with the widest LIEF, by W. Osborne Greenwood, as ‘a real ministry of the word and possible horizons. It must “ refuse New York: Macmillan, $1.75. Hux­ sacraments within its own sphere,’ to allow man’s horizons to be re­ ley’s grandson, writing the biology a phrase used in a statement by stricted to the national pattern.” The part of “ The Science of Life” for H. bishops of the Church of England. author further believes that there G. Wells, tells how Professor Weiss- For the first time the principle upon has been too much emphasis in re­ man for many years patiently hacked which the proposed Concordat is cent years upon mass movements in off the tails of successive generations based has been expressed explicitly. the Church and in endeavoring to of baby mice. Maybe with a carving Recognizing that ‘in a divided Church deal with crowds through large evan­ knife. Anyway he constantly inbred no ministry possesses such universal gelistic meetings and church serv­ (Continued on page 13) recognition of its validity as is es-

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 29, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Nine sential for organic unity,’ it is pro­ Hitler came to power Barth was a posed that provision shall be made Off-Moment Department member of the faculty of the Uni­ for ‘a mutual extension of ordina­ versity of Bonn. He was removed tion.’ It is explained that this pro­ from the faculty there after clashes vision shall not be regarded as a re­ with the university authorities over ordination but as a recognition of an freedom of academic discussions, and ordination valid in the body confer­ after his refusal to take an uncon­ ring it and adding thereto a supple­ ditional oath to support Hitler. He mental ordination as required for has since been teaching in Switzer­ a ministry in the other Church. land. “ Finally,” Bishop Parsons said, * * # “ provision has now been made to Pennsylvania Starts make sure that in all ministrations Canvass Organization to members of the other Church, the A dinner meeting at which half ministers serving under this agree­ the parishes and missions of the dio­ ment shall observe faithfully the cese of Pennsylvania were repre­ discipline o f that Church in all rele­ sented was held in Philadelphia on vant matters; and the solemnization June 21. With it began the organ­ of matrimony, and the achievement ization of the every member canvass by baptized persons of communicant under the reorganized field depart­ status (in the case of Presbyterians ment headed by Thomas S. Gates, by profession of faith; in the case of president of the University of Penn­ Episcopalians by preparation and sylvania. Blackwell Newhall, presi­ presentation for Confirmation) are dent of the promotion committee, specifically included.” presided, and John W. Wood and * * * Lewis B. Franklin, both of the Nat­ Girls’ Friendly in ional Council, spoke. * * * 'i ' 1 National Council Genial companions and good food i , .r . • y Leading off with an address by Dr. produced this off-moment for the Large Conference in I II.'J * William A. Eddy, president of Ho­ Rev. Don Frank Fenn, rector of St. Pennsylvania bart and William Smith Colleges, Michael and All Angels, Baltimore, A conference under the Pennsyl­ Geneva, N. Y., on June 23, the 41st and Mr. Spencer Miller Jr., consul­ vania religious education department national council of the Girls’ Friend­ tant on industrial relations of the is being held at Ursinus College, Col- ly Society in Providence began an 8- National Council. It was taken at the legeville, from June 25 to 30, with day session on a program dealing banquet held last month as a part of Bishop Taitt of Pennsylvania pre­ with “ Democracy and Freedom” and the convention of the diocese of siding. The courses are designed to ‘Our Responsibility as World Chris­ Harrisburg. prepare those taking them for. the tians.” Each of these subjects was advanced conference of the province thoroughly covered in discussion objects we see with the naked eye of Washington at Sweet Briar, Va., groups. In his address on “ Democ­ are never God.” July 3 to 14. Among those giving racy and Freedom” Dr. Eddy pointed Declaring that Christians must courses are the Rev. William M. out that American ideals of freedom disentangle the absolute and timeless Sharp, Katherine A. Grammer, the are still to be realized in political and claims of the Gospel from the tem­ Rev. Nathaniel B. Groton, Elizabeth economic life. He held that consti­ porary and temporal claims of the P. Frazier, Mrs. Thomas L. Harris, tutional life is still on trial here, while state, Dr. Eddy pointed to patriotism the Rev. Frederick P. Houghton, and in other parts of the world it is either as the highest secular bond, “but the Dorothy Scott. The secretary of the defeated or in retreat. He declared only commonwealth that endures CLID is to speak at a mass meeting that there is a fallacy in the idea of forever is the Kingdom of God.” “ To the evening of July 7. * * * absolute majority rule, holding that make this clear to our misguided pa- minorities must always be given pro­ trioteers,” he continued, “ we must New Church tection of their rights and privileges. emphasize every international bond.” Dedicated “ Every progressive platform of a Other leaders at the council in­ After being moved to a larger site, majority began as a minority move­ cluded Bishop Oldham of Albany, rebuilt, and having new pews and ment,” he said. “ How then can we Bishop Perry of Rhode Island, Suf­ lighting installed, St. Paul’s Church, suppress the ‘heresy’ of today which fragan Bishop Bennett of Rhode Is­ Highcliffe Terrace, St. Joseph, Mich., may prove to be our gospel tomor­ land, Robert Neumann, a refugee was dedicated on June 11. Bishop row?” Dr. Eddy warned against im­ student from Germany, Mrs. Guy Whittemore of Western Michigan patience at the slow process of demo­ Emery Shipler, and Helen C. C. spoke at the ceremonies, and ex­ cratic government. Such impatience Brent, national president of the so­ pressed gratitude for the coopera­ forms a greater menace than a ciety. tion of the Methodist church for the “bearded communist or shrieking * * * use of their building by St. Paul’s Hitler,” Dr. Eddy said, asserting that German University during the reconstruction of the the “ orator who warns us against Revokes Barth Degree church. * * * these unpleasant dictators knocks Because the Rev. Karl Barth, the down merely his own man of straw.” eminent continental theologian, “ has Organist Honored He denounced all forms of idolatry conducted himself in a manner that A t Dinner and attempts to confine the Kingdom made him unworthy of wearing a “ Deep interpretation and religi­ of God to some particular area. “ The German academic honor,” according ous fervor” are indispensable fact­ worship of local, tribal gods is idola­ to the Nazi-dominated University of ors in effective church music, T. Ter- try, even when the tribe covers a Munster, that institution has revoked tius Noble, composer and for 26 continent,” he said. “ No man hath the honorary degree of doctor of years organist and choirmaster at seen God at any time for the obvious theology which it had previously con­ St. Thomas Church, New York, said reason that the material and cultural ferred upon Barth. At the time at a parish dinner given in his honor

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS June 29, 1939 at St. Mark’s Church, Grand Rapids, ban schemes of living, and of frus­ Mich., on June 13. “ It is not enough E. O. W . tration of youth in its ambition to to sing and play the notes,” he said. establish a home and family. In dis­ “ What use are the fingers and voice cussing the Church’s position on mar­ unless there is a mind and a heart A IS STATED in the masthead on riage and divorce Mr. McKee» as­ to guide them?” Mr. Noble was the page three, T he W itness ap­ serted that “there are still many open guest of Paul Callaway, organist of pears Every Other Week during questions; questions whether the St. Mark’s Church, and a former the months of July and August. dogmatic statement of the Church is pupil and associate organist of Mr. The next number will therefore be in accord with the Mind of Christ; Noble. the issue of July 13th. With the whether there is a Christian right to first issue of September we are to a second chance, when a mistake in New York Education present a notable series of articles marriage has been made, largely Secretary Resigns by a leader of the Church of Eng­ through man-made conditions which Louise E. Rich, since 1926 director land. Like all editors of religious prevented proper courtship, proper of religious education in the diocese journals we worry a bit through preparation for marriage, and proper of New York, has resigned her po­ the summer about circulation. living conditions after marriage.” Bundle orders fall off and sub­ sition, effective September 1. Miss Declaring that “ concern for fam­ scribers are apt to neglect the re­ Rich established and continued the ily welfare must be, more than a newal notices sent to them. Life summer educational and religious case-work procedure,” the Rev. would be a lot easier if genial rec­ conferences in the diocese. The board Joseph F. Fletcher, dean of the Grad­ tors would now send a humble pos­ of religious education of the diocese uate School of Applied Religion, Cin­ tal card instructing us to start a has adopted a resolution expressing cinnati, asserted that “ it will have to bundle to them, come September. regret at Miss Rich’s resignation, and become a part of the movement for Also if subscribers who have not attributing the success of the di­ social justice as well as of social ad­ renewed can spare the two dollars ocesan work in religious education to justment. Only by such basic social from their fishing trip it would go her constructive efforts. attack can American families avoid $ $ $ a long way in helping us meet the being transformed into helpless printer’s demands. Critical Attitude at ‘breeding’ institutions as they have Social Work Conference in fascist countries.” He emphasized Dissatisfaction with things as they that it is the business of the Church are, criticism of the Church’s ability the continued exclusion of these to “ cooperate with movements for to change conditions and of indiffer­ workers, and said that reliance on economic democracy and create a ence among Church people toward voluntary action would not lead to stable material security for the social problems, as well as a deter­ coverage of these employees. Mr. masses of the people.” mination that the Church shall lead Miller also urged broad consideration At the national conference Owen the way to the establishment of the of health insurance, socialized medi­ R. Lovejoy, a past president of the Kingdom of God on earth, were ex­ cine, and the plight of refugees. The conference and associate director of pressed at the Episcopal Social Work Rev. Elmore McN. McKee, in his ad­ the American Youth Commission, Conference which met at Buffalo dress to the convention, pointed to June 16 and 17. It preceded the Na­ the need for better housing, and em­ tional Conference of Social Work, phasized the destructive effects of whose sessions continued through the present conditions in housing, of ur­ Visiting the New York following week. At the conference dinner Spencer Miller, National World’s Fair? Council industrial consultant, criti­ What Type of Reading When in New York, plan on cized the Church’s position in regard spending the morning visiting our to the inclusion of lay workers within Do You Plan To Do beautiful and spacious book store the benefits of the Federal social se­ Th is Summer? — the only one of its type in the curity system. He charged the Epis­ Church— maintained for the bene­ copal Church with responsibility for Thoughtful, planning Priests fit of Churchmen from Coast to find that it is growing neces­ Coast. sary for them to use parts of We are conveniently located their summer, and vacation just one-half block east of the time even, to read for and to Fifth Avenue Public Library, at 14 WARD, WELLS plan their ensuing year’s work. East 41st Street, between Fifth AND DRESHMAN Are you going to read this sum­ and Madison Avenues. mer for Lent, for Good Friday, Begin your World’s Fair trip Philanthropic Finance for the sermon courses of au­ from here. Bus and subway direct tumn and winter? to the Fair are within one block • • • of our store. Tell us something of what Come in for a visit and browse Directors of the you have in mind, and get our around. You will find many things Fund-Raising Campaign suggestions. We are nothing if of interest. 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said that despite a “ rising vocalism” in 1908 by Bishop Theodore D. Brat­ school specializes in individual at­ on the part of youth there is no need ton, bishop of Mississippi from 1903 tention and thorough class work. For to fear radicalism from that quarter. to 1938. The present bishop, Bishop about 70 pupils there are 16 full time “It is true,” he said, “ that youth has William Mercer Green, was the first teachers, each with accredited train­ ceased to take our mature wisdom dean of All Saints’. The main build­ ing in her field. Teachers and pupils without a grin of skepticism (observ­ ing is named for his grandfather. The live and eat together in a home-like ing the mess in which the mature population of this generation has al­ lowed the world to get involved). It is also true that youth replies to some Services in Leading Churches of our traditional platitudes about the sure-fire effectiveness of dili­ gence, honesty, loyalty and thrift The Cathedral of St. John St. Thomas Church the Divine Fifth Avenue and ’53rd Street with ‘Oh yeah!’ and ‘So what?’, or Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. New York even by some radical outbursts here New York City Rev. Reelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and and there. Anxious patriots conse­ 10, Morning Prayer. 11, Holy Communion 4 P.M. quently believe they discover radical and Sermon. 4, Evening Prayer and Ser­ Daily Services: 8 :30 A.M., Holy Com­ mon. munion. tendencies among the many youth or­ Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. ganizations springing up in all types Saints’ Days 7 :30 and 10.) 9, Morning Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. of communities—in colleges, high Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saturdays: Organ Recital at 4 :30. Trinity Church, New York schools, churches, labor unions and Broadway and Wall St. other local groups.” The real dan­ Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. ger, however, Mr. Love joy held, lies Chapel of the Intercession Daily: 8, 12 and 3. not in the activities of youth but in Broadway at 155th New York City St. Paul’s Cathedral indifference. Rev. S. Tagart Steele, Vicar Sundays : Holy Communion : 8 and 9 :30. Buffalo, New York A discussion of the Bill of Rights Morning Prayer at 10:40. Holy Com­ Very Rev. Austin Pardue, Dean brought a disagreement between munion & Sermon at 11; Evening Service Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. & Sermon at 8 p. m. Weekdays: 8, 12:05. Judge Florence Allen of the Federal Weekdays: Holy Communion daily: 7 Tuedsay: 10:30 A.M. Holy Communion Circuit Court of Appeals at Cleve­ and 10. Morning Prayer, daily, 9 :40. and 11:00 A.M. Quiet Hour. land, who held that “ the great tradi­ Christ Church Cathedral tion of freedom of speech has not Chapels of the Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. been put to work extensively,” and The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean New York Protestant Episcopal Sunday Services, 8:00, 9:30, 10:05, George N. Shuster, a contributing City Mission Society 11:00 a.m .; 4:30 p.m. editor of The Commonweal, a Ro­ Week-days: 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion San Salvatore— (Italian) 359 Broome (7 :00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy man Catholic publication, who de­ Street; St. Cyrian’s— (Colored) 175 West Communion on Wednesdays and Holy Days. 63rd Street; St. Martin’s — (Colored) 12 :S0 p.m. Noonday Service. clared that “we have upheld a bill Church recently burned. Services held at of rights over a longer period than Ephesus Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Lenox Ave. and 123rd St. St. Michael and All Angels has any other nation except Switzer­ All Sunday Services at 11 A.M. Baltimore, Maryland land/’ Both he and Judge Allen held St. Paul and 20th Street that the American government was Sunday Services: 7 :30, 9 :30, 11 A M .; Grace Church, New York 8 P.M. concerned with the general welfare Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Weekdays: Monday, Wednesday and and “ not for a ruling class.” Against Broadway at 10th St. Saturday, 10 A.M. Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 7 A.M. this view Robert Morss Lovett, Gov­ Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Holy Days, 7 & 10 A.M. Morning Prayer ernment Secretary to the Virgin Is­ urdays. at '9 A.M. Evening Prayer at 5 :15 P.M. Holy Communion, 11:45 A.M. on Thurs­ lands, maintained that the ruling days and Holy Days. class attack on freedom and civil Gethsemane, Minneapolis 4th Ave. South at 9th St. rights is appalling. Disagreeing with The Heavenly Rest, New York The Reverend John S. Higgins, Rector Shuster’s view that “ there is not a Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Sundays: 8 :00 and 11:00 A.M. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10 :30 A.M. chance in the world to ally the con­ Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10:16 Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M. a.m.; Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Morning science of this nation to any form Service and Sermon 11 a.m .; Choral Eve­ of reaction whatsoever,” John Bro- ning Prayer 5 p.m. St. John’ s Church phy, national director of the Con­ Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Lattingtown, Long Island munion, 11 a.m. Bishop Frank DuMoulin, Rector gress of Industrial Organizations, de­ On Northern shore o f Long Island, two miles clared that “reaction is running wild east of Glen Cove. The Incarnation Sunday Services: Mid-June to Mid-Sept. is this country today.” Madison Avenue and 35th Street 8:00 A.M., Holy Communion The Episcopal Conference was or­ The Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector 10:30 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon Sundays: 8 and 11 A.M. ganized by the Rev. Almon R. Pep­ Wednesdays: Holy Communion 12:15 per, National Council secretary for P.M. St. Paul’s Chapel Christian social relations. Devotional Holy Days: Holy Communion 10 A.M. Trinity Parish, New York (Opened 1766) services were in charge of Suffragan St. Bartholomew’s Church Oldest Public Building in New York Bishop Gilbert of New York and Washington’s Pew—Governor Clinton’s Park Avenue and 51st Street Pew—Many other objects of interest. Bishop Lawrence o f Western Massa­ Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector Sundays: 9 :30 and 10 A.M. chusetts. Sunday Services Weekdays: 8, 12 A.M. and 5 P.M. 8 A.M.—Holy Communion 11 A.M.;—Morning Service and Sermon Holy Communion, Thursdays and Saints' All Saints’ College, Days, 10:30 A.M. St. G eorge’ s Church Mississippi The Church is open daily for prayer. Founded 1748 Stuyvesant Square, 16 St. E. of 3rd Ave. Adjoining famous Vicksburg Na­ “ The First Institutional Church tional Military Park in Mississippi, St. James Church, New York in New York” Madison Avenue and 71st Street Rev. Elmore M. McKee, Rector 30 acres of ground provide an unus­ The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. 11 A.M.— ual setting for All Saints’ Episcopal 8 and 9 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion. Service and Sermon. 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. All seats free. College, a small Church school for Holy Communion 8 A.M. Wednesday, 12 Clubs, Clinics, Summer Camps, Rains- girls owned and operated by the dio­ noon Thursday and Saints’ Days. ford House. cese of Mississippi. It was founded

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atmosphere. The grounds offer of Bishop Nichols of Kyoto, but is ler urged the Church tn counteract abundant opportunity for recreation now canonically connected with the anti-Semitic tendencies. and athletics. The usual girls’ sports, diocese of Olympia, and is to work * * * including hockey, are played, and the at St. Paul’s Japanese Mission, Kent, Rector’s Daughter military park provides facilities for Wash. Mr. Kitagawa is one of three Drowned horseback and bicycle riding. Oriental representatives sent by Attempting to save the lives of two The present enrollment at All young Church people in the United Girl Scouts in Lake Sylvia, Minneso­ Saints’ includes girls from 8 states. States to the Amsterdam conference ta, Margaret Deems, 22, daughter of Among them are members of other in July- * * * the Rev. Charles P. Deems, rector of Churches, although the school is dis­ St. Mark’s Church, Minneapolis, was tinctly Episcopalian. Mary Leslie Commission Heads drowned on June 15. The girls she Newton was dean of the school for Reappointed sought to rescue had been swept be­ 21 years until her retirement in 1937, Chairmen of the divisions of the yond their depth, and the attempt when she was succeeded by the Rev. Presiding Bishop’s Advisory Commis­ was futile. The funeral was held in William G. Christian as rector. The sion on Ecclesiastical Relations were St. Mark’s on June 19, and at the present academic dean is Lily Brooke reappointed when the commission same time a memorial service was met in New York on June 19. Bish­ Powell. held in Trinity Church, San Francis­ * sfs * op Tucker established a new division co, where Mr. Deems was formerly on the Jerusalem and East Mission, Commencement At rector. with himself as chairman and Bish­ * H« * Cambridge School A commencement sermon by Pre­ ops Oldham and Perry as members. Warning Against siding Bishop Tucker and farewell He appointed Canon Charles T. Check Cashing greetings to the Rev. Norman B. Bridgeman of the staff of the Angli­ A warning against cashing checks Nash marked the graduation exer­ can bishop in Jerusalem as his of­ of Noel L. Murray, formerly rector ficial representative there. The com­ cises of the Episcopal Theological of St. Peter’s Church, Portland, Ore., School at Cambridge, Mass., on June mission was informed that the Good has been given by W. Richardson Friday offering for Canon Bridge- 15. A class of 20 men received de­ Blair, 1601 Morris Building, Phila- grees. Bishop Ludlow, Suffragan man’s work at least equalled the amount given last year. of Newark, presided over the meet­ WHY DIE? ing of the alumni, and Bishop Beal of By Columbus Bradford, A.M. the Panama Canal Zone preached at Interim Committee for This author reasons: Since the Bible’s last word about death, (Rev. 21:4) repeals the alumni service. Following the Refugee Aid its first word about death (Gen. 2:17), conferring of degrees Bishop Wil­ An interim committee consisting of none should now die. Says a well known Church editor: “ I liam Lawrence spoke to the new Mrs. Kendall Emerson, Mary Van think ‘Why Die ?’ contains many things graduates. * * * Kleeck, Mrs. Guy Emery Shipler, which Christians ought to consider, and some which they ought to believe beyond and the Rev. Almon R. Pepper, all of anything they are now asked to believe.” Mission Celebrates New York, was appointed at a recent Clothbound. $1.00 prepaid. Copies may Anniversary be ordered through all leading Church meeting of the Episcopal Committee Book Stores. Trinity Mission, Rocky Hill, New on German Refugees for the continu­ Jersey, under the care of the Rev. ation of present activities through the John Crocker of Princeton, cele­ summer. At the meeting Miss Van brated its 75th anniversary on June Kleeck emphasized that the immedi­ 18. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 29, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen delphia, Pa., to whom information in is different and delightfully different. regard to Murray’s whereabouts The author, who is Dean of St. Paul’s should be sent. Similar warnings Cathedral in Atlanta, Georgia, is a Wilbur Herbert Burnham have been given by Bishop Dagwell student not only of religion but also of Oregon, who has also requested of psychology. He is charming and Designer and Master information. Murray appears to be at times ingenious. In general, it Craftsman returning west after having motored could fairly be said that Dean de across the continent. Ovies is dealing with life and reli­ * * gion, character and personality, but Stained and Leaded Glass New Jersey Bishop At he doesn’t deal with it like a text Fair Ceremony book on any of those subjects, but Bishop Gardner of New Jersey at­ rather as an essayist who knows what Studios 1126 Boylston Street tended the ceremonies on New Jersey he is talking about and at the same day at the New York World’s Fair, time wishes to hold his reader's at­ Boston, Massachusetts and pronounced the benediction on tention until the last word. June 28. The bishop was invited by G. M. D. THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK Governor Moore of New Jersey. SOCIETY * * * CLERGY NOTES Founded by Bishop White 1833 (Continued from page 2) Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ H ome Observes St. HILTON, JAMES A., formerly assistant at ishes unable to purchase them, in limited Barnabas’ Day St. Paul’s Church, Lansing, Mich., is curate grants. at St. Matthias’ Church, Los Angeles. The Book of Common Prayer. St. Barnabas’ Home, Gibsonia, HIRST, GEORGE, has resigned as rector of The Combined Book (The Book of Common Pa., observed St. Barnabas’ Day with St. James’ , Lewiston, Mont., to retire, ef­ Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). fective September 1. the annual outdoor service. Thirteen HODGKIN, W. R. H., formerly archdeacon of Pew Size hundred people were present, Bish­ California, is rector of the regional parish Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. in Contra Costa County, California, includ­ Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. op Mann, with many of the clergy, ing churches at Brentwood, Martinez, Pitts­ the choir of Trinity Cathedral and burg, and Walnut Creek. Philadelphia, Pa. the choral society formed the pro­ KETCHUM, BRADFORD W., formerly in CLERGYMAN—at present young peoples’ charge of St. Barnabas’, Rumford, Maine, is director in large suburban parish, ex-teacher, cession to the outdoor altar. The ad­ in charge of Southern Mt. Desert Mission, moderate Churchmanship, desires part-time Southwest Harbor, Maine. dresses were given by Bishop Mann SADTLER, H. A. L., rector emeritus of St. position as assistant while doing literary work and the Rev. Hugh Thompson Kerr Paul’s Church, Rahway, N. J., died on June and graduate study. Good references. W rite: 18. Box 335, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. of the Shadyside Presbyterian SECCOMBE, ALFRED B., was ordained dea­ Church. Brother Gouverneur P. con by Bishop Tucker of Virginia at the Atlantic City: 103 Stratford Ave. closed for Theological Seminary in Alexandria on June summer. Applications for Sept, forwarded Hance, the brother founder, made 9. from that address. Mrs. Neel. the usual appeal in his witty way for SPENCER, J. RICHARD, formerly assistant at Christ Church Cathedral, Neyy Orleans, RESTHAVEN money to carry on the work of caring is on the staff of St. Andrew’s Mission, for more than 100 destitute men suf­ Mayaguez, Porto Rico. Saint Augustine. Florida STYLES, rector of St. George’s Church, New­ Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened fering from incurable diseases. burgh, N. Y., will be rector of Trinity their Rest House in this historic city to guests Church, New Rochelle, N. Y., effective in desiring spiritual peace and strength; physical September. rest, quiet, and nourishing food. The new ELMORE McKEE IS AUTHOR OF TYLER, BARRETT P., and GEORGE R. MIL­ location is in beautiful grounds with water BOOK ON RELIGION’S USE LARD, were ordained priests by Bishop outlook, live oaks, palms, flowers. Com­ Sherrill of Massachusetts in St. John’s fortable rooms. Central heat. Address The (Continued from page 8) Chapel, Cambridge, on June 14. Mother Superior S. R.______this mouse family for fourteen years. VAN HOUTON, EDWARD H., was ordained priest by Bishop Gardner of New Jersey in ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. But it did not make any difference, the Church of Our Merciful Saviour, Penn’s 147 E. 47th St., New York Grove, N. 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EDITORIAL The ABC of the USA, essays on de­ The Civil Liberties Union issues mocracy, issued by the National leaflets and pamphlets regularly. W E MAY sum up under four head- League of Women Voters, 726 Jack- There have been recent ones on T ings the things which Christianity son Place, Washington, D. C. 10c. Hague and Jersey City, Free Speech at its best demands of every human Inside Germany Reports, issued by for Nazis, and Eternal Vigilance. being; for both sexes, for young and the Friends of German Freedom, 112 Send for their list to 31 Union old, and for people of all races and East 19th Street, New York. No Square, West, New York. tongues. Justice stands at the head charge, but it would be well to send a Anti-LaboP Activities by David of the list. Justice, which is the cor­ few stamps to cover postage. Saposs and Elizabeth Bliss. L.I.D. rect meaning of the Bible word China Information Committee, P.O. pamphlet, 112 East 19th SI., New “ righteousness” and was demanded Box 107, Chungking, China, issues York. 15c. by the great Hebrew prophets, cul­ frequent news releases that presents Why the C.I.O.? by Alfred Baker minating in John the Baptist, and information not available in most Lewis of the national executive com­ crowned by Jesus. Every human be­ newspapers. A request will place you mittee of the CLID. Issued by the ing has the right, as a human being, on the mailing list. L.I.D. 10c. to his just reward and to protection Father Coughlin, His “ Facts” and America’s Share in Japan’s War against unfair exploitation of his per­ Arguments, a 64-page pamphlet that Guilt issued by the Committee for son. No man must be treated as a is exceedingly valuable if you want to Non-participation in Japanese Ag­ mere tool for another man’s use. No know how he is tied up with the fas­ gression, 8 West 40th St., New York. man must be deprived of proper hu­ cist forces throughout the world. Is­ 15c. man life and subsistence. sued by the American Jewish Con­ American Youth Tells Its Story. Freedom stands second; freedom gress, 221 West 57th Street, New Excellent material for youth groups from external restraint and freedom York. No price stated but it prob­ issued by the American Youth Con­ o f opportunity; the utmost freedom ably cost a quarter to print. This or­ gress of which William W. Hinckley, for each individual so far as is con­ ganization also issued a weekly digest CLID member, is chairman. 55 West sistent with complete freedom for •of; anti-semitic propaganda. A re­ 42nd Street, New York. 15c. others. quest will place you on the mailing Industrial Conflicts by Charles C. A creatively abundant personal lisf, Webber. The National Council of life is the third demand: “I am come America and the Refugees by Louis Methodist Youth, 740 Rush St., Chi­ that they may have life and have it Adamic, issued by the Public Affairs cago. For discussion groups. 10c. more abundantly,” There are, in Committee, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New Questions Facing Consumers by every man, woman and child of every York. 10c. Benson Y. Landis, issued by the race, abundant capacities and quali­ What Now America? by Stephen Eastern Cooperative League, 112 ties, of mind, of sense, of beauty, & Joan Raushenbush, setting forth Charlton St., New York. 10c. and of soul, which are but slowly de­ the various positions in international Boycott Goods Made in Japan. veloping as yet. These sleeping pow­ affairs (complete pacifism, isola­ Questions and answers on why and ers demand the widest scope for growth. tion, collective security, cooperation how. Issued by the American League with democracies, etc.). A Social Ac­ for Peace and Democracy, 268 Fourth Finally, Christianity demands of tion pamphlet, 289 Fourth Avenue, Avenue, New York. 5c. every man an ever-widening fellow­ New York. 10c. Send for the com­ Those interested in securing pam­ ship, a true human brotherhood in plete list of their excellent studies, all family, in group, in nation, and then phlets and leaflets setting forth the 10c a copy. universally among the whole body of more technical and legal aspects of nations. Man is a social being and labor disputes should send for the list only in society can he reach his true of the International Jurisdicial Asso­ stature. Here then are our demands ciation, 100 Fifth Avenue, New York. as far as I, as a Christian, see them. Also the Information Service of the And the achievement of these things department of research and educa­ ¡MOTES! tion of the Federal Council of was never more possible than it is to­ day . . . Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, T H E SALE OF Churches, 297 Fourth Avenue, pre­ Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, Eng­ sents factual material in its weekly land. bulletin. $2 a year. SCRAP IRON ORGANIZATION PAMPHLETS 'T’HE NEW CONSTITUTION pro- J>OOKS are generously reviewed in vides that officers and an executive religious journals whereas TO JA P A N committee shall be elected by postal pamphlets, many of them vital, are USED TO Kill DEFENCELESS ballot the year of General Convention, for the most part ignored. We will to serve for a term of three years. therefore set forth from time to time WOMEN AND CH ILDREN At the annual meeting this year it in this Bulletin brief mention of was voted that officers and committee pamphlets worthy of your attention. should be elected by postal ballot to Books, unless by CLID members, will CHURCH LEAGUE serve for the balance of 1939, the be ignored since they are reviewed FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY . nominations to be made by chapters. elsewhere. Chapters however have been slow in Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. responding so that the nominating the executive secretary of the Ameri­ committee has only now completed its can League for Peace and Democra­ task. The national executive commit­ cy, has been ill for the past three tee has therefore voted, to save ex­ weeks, confined to a hospital. Re­ pense, to have the present officers and ports are that he is better and will committee serve out the balance of soon return to his work. . . . A mass 1939, with a postal ballot going to all meeting of the CLID was held in dues-paying members in December for connection with the annual confer­ the election of those to serve during ence of the diocese of West Vir­ 1940-42. ginia which met at Jadson’s Mill, June 11-18. The chairman was the HEADQUARTERS Rev. William Sydnor, rector at Beck- CPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS of ley, W. Va., and the speakers were the executive secretary during the Rev. Harold B. Sedgwick of June have included addresses before Brookline, Mass., Miss Sang Sen Yui five Church groups, two labor groups of Hankow, China, who is a member and three peace meetings. This week of the Morningside Heights, New he is presenting a course at the York, chapter, and Miss Hilda Shaul School of Christian Social Ethics at of the Cincinnati chapter. Bishop the Wellesley Conference, and the Strider attended and spoke briefly. first week of July is to give addresses at the Sweet, Briar and the Gambier FINANCES Conferences. With other CLID rjMIE SUMMER MONTHS are diffi­ membbfs.he picketed a Japanese boat that was loaded with war materials bishop McConnell cult ones for all organizations; do­ for Japan, the large sign being car­ Pleads for Refugees nations therefore made now do dou­ ried in the march being reproduced ble duty. Our budget for the year elsewhere. He was also present at calls for the expenditure of $8,900, the meeting of the American Civil yet less than $5,000 of this amount Liberties Union held in Hague’s Jer­ PERSONALS has so far been paid or pledged. sey City to celebrate the recent de­ rPHE REV. NORMAN NASH, rec­ Members are urgently asked to pay their dues and to make an additional cision of the United States Supreme tor of St. Paul’s School and a donation if possible. Funds for relief Court that restored civil rights in member of the national executive work in China continue to come in that city. The executive secretary committee of the CLID, preached the slowly. The Emergency Committee has also aided the National Maritime sermon to the graduating class of is also receiving funds for German Union now on strike to win collective Trinity College, Hartford, on June refugees and for the Spanish refu­ bargaining rights with several of the 18th. . . . The Rev. A. T. Mollegen, gees in France. Your gift should be larger oil companies. professor at the Virginia Seminary, sent to the national office, with its and Mr. William F. Cochran of Bal­ purpose indicated. COMMITTEES timore,' treasurer of the CLID, rep­ B ISH O P FRANCIS J. McCON- resented . our organization at the NELL, in a letter to the CLID Right to Work Conference held in I NTERCESSIONS just received, urged continued sup­ Washington, June 8-10. Mr. Molle­ JgEND US, O God, as Thy messen­ port on the part of our members and gen addressed the conference on the gers, to hearts without a home, to Church people generally for the peo­ responsibility of religious people in lives without love, to the crowds ple of Spain. There are three things the present unemployment situation, without a guide. Send us to the chil­ we can do: first, aid in every possi­ others speaking on the same subject dren whom none have blessed, to the ble way to bring refugees to the being Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Bal­ famished whom none have fed, to the United States. Otherwise they will timore and Dorothy Day, editor of sick whom none have visited, to the be thrown into Franco’s prisons or the Catholic Worker. . . . Members fallen whom none have lifted, to the face his firing squads; two, hundreds of the CLID were among those to bereaved whom none have comforted. of tons of supplies are needed to care sign a statement sent to the Presi­ Kindle Thy flame on the altars of our for the Spanish refugees now in dent and members of Congress, pro­ hearts, that others may be warmed France; three, protest, particularly testing against the cut of fifty million thereby; cause Thy light to shine in to the State Department, against the dollars in the appropriation to the our souls, that others may see the slaughter of Republicans trapped in WPA. The statement declared that way; keep our sympathies and in­ Spain. Donations for this work, be­ there are at present eleven million sight ready, our wills keen, our hands ing carried on by the North American unemployed and that the cut would quick to help our brothers in their Committee, will be forwarded if sent mean “ not only a callous disregard of need; for Christ’s sake. Amen. to the national office of the CLID, so the suffering and misery of the help­ A LMIGHTY GOD, we pray Thee marked. less unemployed workers, but creates for the coming of Thy Kingdom There are innumerable bills now in itself a situation which is a men­ of righteousness and peace. In the before Congress which, if passed, ace to our democratic institutions.” midst of a changing social order may would deprive Americans of their CLID members to sign the statement faith in Thee and obedience to the civil liberties. Several of these have were Mrs. Walter Russell Bowie, Mr. teachings of Thy dear Son prevail, to already passed the House. The William F. Cochran, Dean John W. build a new life of love in which the American Civil Liberties Union is Day, Bishop Edward L. Parsons, Miss ills of this present time may disap­ urging people to write to their Sena­ Vida D. Scudder, Miss Helen Phelps pear and the glad day of brother­ tors and Congressmen to protest Stokes and the executive secretary. hood and mutual service may dawn. against the passage of these bills, and . . . The Rev. W. Owings Stone, chair­ Strengthen all the agencies of Thy has prepared a bulletin to guide peo­ man of the Baltimore Chapter, is is­ Church which are laboring for the ple in taking such action. A postal suing a monthly newsletter which happiness and welfare of all people, to the ACLU, 31 Union Square, West, goes to all members and friends. The that they may find in Thee their sal­ New York City, asking for informa­ chapter urges special interest on the vation and their peace, through Jesus tion about bills before Congress that part of the Church people in the Bal­ Christ our Lord. Amen. should be opposed will bring you the timore relief situation. . . . The Rev. — Forward, Day by Day, desired information. Thomas Harris, CLID member who is Summer, 1939.

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