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quota, of $750, reports more than $2,- with and for the sick. No one claims SUMMARY OF THE 100 pledged, with one-third of its com MR. HICKSON’S that therê will be “cures.” There will THE CITY AND municants still to be heard from, and of course be no. sense of opposition to Christ Church, South Pittsburg, Tenn., the work of the jfhyiscians of the CAMPAIGN shows an incomplete subscription of MISSION AT community, but only, in additin to all RURAL PROBLEM $696 on a $420 quota, including a 75 the other helps which God has given, RESULTS per cent increase in giving for parish PITTSBURGH an attempt to bring the power of A Prosperous Little Church, Lo support. prayer to bear upon those who are in cated in a Historic Spot, Chicago reported $166,517 pledged, need of aid, mentally, bodily and spir Thousands of Men and Women with 48 parishes to be heard from in rhe Most Moving Spectacle itually, Where Washington’s Sol For the First Time Experi- the last week of 1919. Eighteen Many Ever Witnessed. —Lewis B. WMttemore. diers Once Camped. • ence the Happiness of Un churches went over the top'. Two vital problems affecting the selfish Service. {From the Fifth Province also comes Mr. James Moore Hickson conclud TH-. CHURCH TEMPERANCE the first report of the Diocese of Nor future of the Church, which will re Reports of parishes which exceeded ed a remarkable Mission in the city SOCIETY GOES INTO PHOTO ceive the attention of Church leaders . their quotas and of diocèses which re thern Indiana with six parishes and of Pittsburgh at Trinity and then at one mission over the top. Two' par now that the Nation-wide Campaign sponded fully in the Church’s Nation- Calvary Church, lasting from De PLAY BUSINESS has paved the way for reform, are ' wide Campaign continue to reach na ishes andorie mission have postponed cember 17 to December 22. The núm- their canvass. Three report quota not the struggling rural church; fighting tional headquarters of the campaign. bers and interest grew steadily yet attained, and five parishes and 21 The church has moved away from its way onward, and the dwindling With Virginia, North Carolina and throughout the entire time so that on missions are still to be heard from. the slums of oür cities. ' In the Bow city church, which, by reason of shift ; ^ ÊaSt°>Carolina already reporting a tri the last day many people were unable In the later returns the Sixth Pro| ery, New York, for example, picture ing population centres, faces ultimate umphant piling up of their quotas, to get within the church building. vince is represented by the first re theatres and churches are found in dissolution. The Rev. DeWitt L. Pel- the indications at the beginning of the There were a number who came ^from port from the Missionary District of the proportion of sixteen to one. The tón, Ph. D.,v rector of .St. James’ L year promised a rapid lining up of di-' a long distance to get his help. South Dakota. owners and managers of these thea Church, Fordham, the Bronx, New {\;pcçges from coast to coast with their Simply on the human side it was “The report from the white field,” tres are aliens, we believe, without York City, beckons cityward now with task completed. Zero weather in some the most moving spectacle which many says the message, “indicates that the exception. In our repeated visits to a suggestion that the solution of the parts of the country and floods in
Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Two T H E WITNESS Jantiary 10, 1920 he should be willing to train himself or herself by prayer, study THE CHURCH MILITANT. and service to do that job. EDITORIAL See as the sun arising By Bishop IRVING P. JOHNSON. The soldier who threw his lot into the war and died in the The banner of the King, first battle was as truly helping to win the war as did the sar- While onward, ever onward OUR ONE TALENT. geant who took a hundred Huns, for he did what he could. His eager legions fling! So each Christian soldier is responsible for his talent, not Carry the banner forward,— for the results that may be achieved by the use of that talent. Advancing with the drum, There is a great deal of glittering generalities in the talk of Blow loud upon the trumpets, today. We need a laity which is trained to serve God and to be And shout, “We come, we come!” Preachers, who, themselves are incapable of true human winsome to man, and it will be worth more to the cause of righ sympathy, talk sententiously about social reconstruction and the teousness than a hundred million dollars, . i See all the legions flaming brotherhood of man. In armor all of light, When, however, we boil life down to its real essentials it is thing which is our life that; has de Hear alleluias ringing question BOX parted interfere with our living duty. That shake the shades of nigljt! the one talent with whieh each of us has been entrusted that By Bishop IRVING P. JOHNSON. It is more important that you dis The heathen idols tremble counts. It is not the problem of how the League of Nations is charge a duty to the living than that To See the conquerors come,. going to produce a millenium, but how my relations with my you’should do honor to the dead. To hear the shouts of battle, Was not the Roman Catholic next door neighbor is going to approximate the bonds of true The roiling of the drum! Church the one that Christ estab Why is Christ’s entry into Jerusa friendship. lished? lem not mentioned in the Gospel for 0 conqu’ring host advancing It is not the objective of the Nation-wide Campaign as a No, Christ established the Holy Palm Sunday, but is used instead in Across the trembling sod, whole that should concern us but rather the relation of this cam Catholic Church as the ancient creeds the Gospel for the First Sunday in Thine every movement telling,-^ paign to our own particular form of inertia or ineffectiveness. declare. Advent? The mighty pulse of God,*/- If any branch of the Church was It is the second coming of. our Lord ilow like a flood thou comest first established it was the, Church in That rolleth wave- on wave! The Church will help to solve the problems of the nation that Advent teaches and so the act Jerusalem. Next the Church in cer symbolic of that second coming is 0 send thy heralds forward, only when it is composed of individuals who are concerned with tain Greekcities^: T made the Gospel for the day. | To cry, “We save, we save!” their own failure to use the talent that God has given them. did not limit -the adjective Catholic in On Palm Sunday ,the devotions of We live in a world in which greed and hate and envy and the primitive Church. the Church are fixed upon our Lord’s With heart and hand united, bitterness are being exploited to the destruction of peace and Passion as it is the first day of Holy With God upon the throne, If Anglican orders are Apostolic, Week. Up soldiers, on and win them— happiness, and we can contribute so little to the awful mess—but why not those of . the Methodist 1 New Kingdoms for your own; that little it is our duty as Christians to give. Church? “CARRY ON.” A greater Jordan fording, Instead of hate, to forgive,- each one of us, otir own, personal The orders of the Anglican Church A greater Canaan nigh, enemy; instead of greed to develop within us the spirit of gen show1 an unbroken continuity of ordi Here and there Over the country, Rush forth for Christ and conquer, erosity instead of envy to learn the lesson of contentment; in nation. There was no person like we get sane editorial expressions 1 With shouts that rend the sky! —Frederick B. Hornsby.^ stead of bitterness to look at all phases of life with, personal good John'Wesley who substituted a differ concerning the duty of the hour, and ent ordination. , that which follows,, from the Duluth humor. Wesley was a priest of the Angli Herald, is one of the best we have Reports from parishes and missions It may not. be a dramatic program, nor one which will ad can Church and as such had not the seen, so we venture to commend it to throughout the country indicate a vertise the. performer as a world benefactor, but it is the one pbwer to bestow orders, which the the thoughtful reading of our people: larger attendance upon Christmas thing needful in society today. Whole Church limited to those episco- “Things get bad. services and more generous offerings pally ordained. “Then they get worse. than ever before. ,, Vi “Then they get so bad they can’t ; | Christ’s message was to the individual./ How can the Church seek reunion be any worse.” The Rev. Walter'E. Bentley, Secre He had no program for the Capitalistic classes of Rome, but with Rome when the . Prayer Book de “Then they get better. * tary of the Actor’s Church Alliance, He had a direct message to the. rich fpol who planned to; build nounces her errors? ' “It’s a great life if you don't weak after fifteen years’ Rectorship of'- the more barns and forgofthat he had a soul. In the hope that Rome will not in en, and this is the most interesting Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, He hail no philosophy for the solution of labor problems, sist that pious beliefs shall 'bear the period of history you ever liyed in. N. Y., resigned and became rector of “The world has been going to other than1 the conversion^! the individual rich man to an appre force of essential dogmas. To ‘believe St. Stephen’s , Church, Port Wash in the Immaculate Conception of the pieces, to hear some folks tell, ever ington, L. I., N. Y $ January 1st. ciation of stewardship so that he would see the need that lay at Blessed Virgin Mary is no bgr to siiiee pessimists found a voice to ex his own gate and remedy it. He declined to arbitrate in the church unity; to enfprce that belief press their despondency ; but* it never MrsicM. E. Stocker made a. Christ* unfair division of a legacy between brothers, but laid down the as necessary to salvation is anpther has gone to pieces yet, and it isn’t mas gift to -St. Andrew’s Church, ^Ak principle which should govern each contestant in his attitude to-. matter. going. to right away. - ron, Ohio, o f,lone hundred copies of Svlircl his brother. ; VThis coxmtr^i to hear sonic folks the new Hymnal. - ~ How can a Church grow whe talk, has been' tottéring to its fall It was ^the individual that Christ selected from the. crowd ministers do not live the life that they éver since there was an América, but The Rev. A. Gordon- Bakewell/"rec to Whose touclr He responded. preach? . i . ‘ ‘ totter though' it may, it' never has tor of Trinity Chapel, New Orleans, Personally* I am sick of any more movements, leagues, organ- Ministers are not supermen and are fallen yet, and it isn’t going to. La., celebrated his ninety-eighth birth nations, to better mankind, and am longing for a returmto the liable to the same-faults as other peo “When Daniel Webster was 20 day, December 24th. Gospel of individual responsibility as the solution of the world’s ple. years old he'made a speech in which he quite despaired of saving a repub The gr^ce that God gives to indi Th« Cathedral.; of St. John the Di ! n^d.l|p|"!f gjj V If | gpH j |: ' f a | ‘ lic which he saw on its deathbed. Yet viduals isv not dependent upon the sin vine, | New York, received Christmas We have too many bureaus, and each bureau; has too many the republic has done very well in lessness of .-the ministers. gifts amounting to $250,0(H) for the deed, thank you. settees that always accompany it. It is not possible to’ guarantee per building fund. Now a bureau is about as dull a piece of furniture as there fect ministers, nor do the sins of “Cheer up and buckle down to work, which is the scourge of trbuble, is in the house. It has too many drawers, whose chief concern an officer ex.cuse a private from doing Plans are being worked,out looking his duty. - the damnation of pessimism, and the is drawing a salary. salvátion of '1 mankind.”—S t., Mark’s toward the establishment of a school Society will be regenerated, not by a utopian scheme, but (Minneapolis) Outlook. at Memphis, Tenn., for the training Will we recognize our loved ones of colored men for the ministry. The by personal religion. What scheme of social welfare can make when we pass on to the other side? two thoroughly selfish people live together as man and wife? WAS THE NATION-WIDE matter was recently considered at a If it be true the Epistle to the conference held at Emmanuel Nothing but the grace. of God entering into the souls of Hebrews States that we are surround CAMPAIGN MISUNDER Church, Memphis, which was attend those two can make a decent home in which God-fearing children ed by a great cloud of witnesses, it STOOD? ed by the Bishops of Tennessee, Mis can be raised. What plan of political regeneration can have the mety be presumed that we will know sissippi, and Arkansas, the Rev. Mr. ghost of a chance when the politician behind the scheme cannot one another \there. “The Every Member Canvass has Robertson, chairman; of the mission see further than his own partisan triumph and his own personal When Christ told the thief that He added a new item to the 'Parish'Sur on work among the colored people in would meet him in Paradise, presum vey. , More members signed the white the Diocese of Tennessee, and others. animosities ? , p ably they would recognize one an- cards- than the blue cards,” says the We have today a sickening spectacle in Congress. % other. Rev. George .H. Thomas, rector of St. Not that Congress is for the League of Nations or against Paul’s Church, Chicago. “Was the DEATHS. Why is the Gloria Patri sung after Nation-wide Campaign misunder it, but that nearly every Republican is on one side, and nearly The Rev. Dr. John Wright, for every Democrat is on the other side, when , there is nothing ip the the Bendictus, but not after the Te stood? The Church needs its own Deum? f members more than its members’ twenty-seven years rector of St. League of Nations that has any relations to the principles of the The Te Deum is a Christian Hymn money. The Nation-wide Campaign Paul’s Church, St. Paul, Minn., and Republican or Democratic parties. and needs no Gloria Patri to give it a is a demand on our persons as well as rector emeritus since 1914, died at his What scheme of labor reform can have a ghost of a chance Christian meaning. our purses, a, call to every member to home in that city, December 23rd, The Psalms and Canticles were Hei worship JeSus Christ, to observe: Sun aged 83. He had held rectorships in of making laboring men better workmen and happier men, when Phladelpha, Pa., Bay Cty, Mich., and the individual workman is as greedy as his employer, and it brew poems and the Gloria Patri is day and to m a|e weekly pledge of His added to give them a Christian appli presence. Did our Church people rea was rector of St. Matthew’s Church, needs only a turn in the wheel of fortune to make him the cation. son, ‘After all, they are after money’ Boston, Mass.,’for thirteen years prior meanest of straw bosses or the most inhuman of employers? If that is so, then some of us, who to going to St. Paul.- I have lived in a packing house district for seven years, and Can I take communion if I am not were leaders, are guilty of misrepre The Rev. , F. W. Beecher, rector belonged to the Knights of Labor in the old days, and I want to a member of your Church? sentation or some Church members emeritus of St. John’s Church, Wells- testify that the meanest oppressors of the working man were The normal rule of the Church is are guilty of suspecting the Church’s ville, N. Y., grandson of the Rev. Dr. those who had risen from the ranks of labor to minor positions that persons who receive the Holy honor.” i Lyman Beecher, and son of the Rev. of authority where they were willing to oppress their former Communion shall be confirmed or de D. Edward Beecher, died at Birming ¡General Pershing addrjessing the ham, Ala., December 20th. He served associates to make a record for themselves. sirous of being confirmed. If you desire to receive the privi “folks” in the village of Laclede, in the ministry of the Congregation “Except the Lord build the house, their labor is but lost leges of the Church, unless there are Mo., .where he spent his youth, paid al Church thirty years before becom that build it, and except the Lord keep the city the watchman grave reason you should be twilling to the following tribute in faltering ing u postluant for Holy Orders in waketh but in vain.” Unless God comes first in the life of the assume its responsibilities and you voice to his mother. “Whatever Ser the Episcopal Church. vice I was able to perform in co-op individual, there is no panacea for human ills. r should desire that grace which is be The, Rev. William T. Lipton, rector stowed in confirmation. eration with the youth of the coun As well try to make pearl necklaces for swine as to promise try before or during the great war of the Church of the Ascension, beatitude to godless men whether they are rich or poor. I owe to the early training of. my Bloomfield, N. J., died December 23rd. What is meant by the expression, And so we should hew to that line, and make for its objective mother.” He was a native of Canada, coming to “Let the dead bury their dead’*? this country in 1897, and serving as the raising of the standard of individual service among those who It would seem to be a wise saying Remember that the expenses of con assistant minister of Trinity Church, adhere to the Church. which our Lord quoted by which he ducting a church Lor-'n-^s along with Newark, N. J., for two years and as There should be a job for every member of the Church and meant that we should not make some other institutions. rector at Bloomfield fbr ten years.
Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 10,1920 THE W 1 T N ESS Page Three A WORTHY ACHIEVEMENT. That China and Japan are looking THE CAMPAIGN IN to the Christian world for world lead Œljc Httnraa F arm ville, N. Ç., Church Pledges ership and a vision of real democracy ©Ijr (Elfurffi Sunk Fabllsfaed Every Saturday, fl a Year $165 per Capita. and true Christianity? THE DIOCESS OF That we must create new moral and & t h r r THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO. Challenging other Churches to show spiritual values if we are to assume this leadership? y.- (Not Incorporated) a better record in the Church’s Nation MICHIGAN is the place to purchase Bibles, 6219 Cottage , Grove Ave. wide Campaign, Emmanuel Church of Prayer Books and Hymnals, S I k Telephone, Midway 3938 ' This Church Has Furnished Farmville, N. C., has reported to na from the very cheap ones, to Chicago, Illinois The head of our Army. tional headquarters that it went over leave in the pew, up to those Completion Date Set For March The head of our Navy. the top in excess of its quota twenty- 14th—Some Facts Worth in calf, morocco and seal. Also A NATIONAL CHURCH NEWS The Chaplain General of the A. E. five per cent and that the per* capita Knowing. books and literature required in PAPER for the people. Intended to of total pledges was $165.. Here is an either Church or Sunday School The Director General of the Liberty be instructive rather than controver ahcievement worthy of proclaiming A majority of the dioceses in this Loan Drives. i work. sial A plain paper, aiming to reach to the world. Adding to the inspira country completed their part of the Red Cross leaders. the plain person with plain facts, un tion of the report is the announcement Wlfenever you wish to procure Nation-wide Campaign on December The majority of Washington’s Cab biased by partisan or sectional views. that, having gone over the top and books, no matter by whom or where 7th. Michigan, because of its concen published, or desire information con having made the initial advance so net. ' tration upon the entertainment of the cerning prices, etc., write to BOARD OF EDITORS: successfully, this parish is not going The majority of Lincoln’s Cabinet. .. Bishop IRVING Pi ’ JOHNSON, Editor- General Convention, has had to post Leaders in every national crisis. to stop, but is,to continue its vigorous In-Chief. ' pone its campaign somlewhat. Its There are three steps in the cam Rev. CHARLES J. SHUTT, Managing work by installing new seats and (Sburri? £itprat|urp |k tm Editor, Chicago, to whom all communica completion date is set for March 14th. paign : Education, inspiration, enlist lighting in a debt-freed edifice. ' SELECTED BOOKS AND CARDS tions should be addressed. I '■ What is the Nation-wide Campaign? I The report of Emmanuel’s trium ment.’.;’ '•ji'i!l>'»•Cu'- TWO BIBLE HOUSE - NEW YORK What can it accomplish? Why is it phant completion of the canvass and In a spirit of prayer and consecra-, Contributing Editors: necessary? What is its relation to Bishop Henry J. Mlkell of the admirable per capita showing tion the diocesan arid parochial com Bishop James Wise is made by the Rev. Alexander C. D. you? mittees are going to carry the cam Rev. George P. : Atwater As has been aptly .said: It is a Rev. James Sheerin . Noe, who in spite >of illness in the paign of education and inspiraton to Rev. Francis ' S. White Movem.nt; not a spasm. Mrs. Grace1 Woodruff Johnson family/ kept steadily to the /goal of every family in the diocese by means success until it was won, He writes: Briefly, it is: of literature setting forth facts and An educational campaign which Entered as second class matter at the “Here is our record at Farmville, figures which are in themselves con Confirmation post office at Chicago, HI., under the Act shall set succinctly before every man, j of Congress of March 3, 1879. 3Ö and I doubt if there is a church in vincing. Instruction America that can do better. We went woman and child of the Church the And then they are going to ask you over the top two days ahead of sched conditions, circumstances and forces for enlistment. Enlistment in the By Bishop Johnson of Colorado NOTICE! for evil which are endangering the ule and twenty-five per cent above our army of Christ, as an Episcipal s The Witness is reduced to four moral and spiritual life of the world, pages temporarily, on account of the Nation-wide quota. Every member Church division in the great Narmy and especially of this country in of righteousness. shortage in print paper. . ’' contributing* every woman riiember of A very valuable Manual to place which we live. The machinery of the campaign is: the Woman’s Auxiliary, every young in the hands of candidates for Con4 Setting before the Church the rec A diocesan committee which shall girl member of the Junior Auxiliary, firmation, and others seeking infor MEMORIALS DEDICATED AT every child member of church school ord of past accomplishments, the organize the parochial committees, di mation regarding the teachings and MARFA, TEXAS. every man, woman and child interest needs which confront us, the moral, rect the campaign, distribute the lit spiritual and physical equipment customs of the Church. ed and active. erature^ of the National committee to Send 25 cents for a sample copy. As part of the Christmas Eve Holy “£>ince the canvass we have cleared which is necessary to meet those prob gether with information directly con Price. $2.00 a dozen. • Eucharist service at Saint , Paul’s the church of debt, we have undertak lems, the resources of the Church, hu nected with, the needs and possibilities Church in Marfa, Texas (Rev. Clar en the task of sittings and lights for man and material, which can be devel of the docese. oped and assembled to carry out the ence S. McClellan, Jr., B.< D., Priest the church during the year 1920, and A parochal committee—not neces DID HENRY < VIII. FOUND THE program of Christian work. in charge) four very beautiful Memo if our plans work out it will mean- a sarily large, which shall direct and ENGLISH CHURCH?—A four-pag* rials were dedicated by the Rev. Mr per capita contrib tion of about $165 Do You Know? inspire the people of their parish and leaflet by Bishop Irving P. Johnson, McClellan. They included a hand Can any church beat it? And should That sixty million -people in the superintend the distribution of litera which should be in the hands of some Brass Altar Memorial Cross, .the they do less? • United States have no religious affili ture and the .Every Member Canvass1 every Church boy and girl attending work of Gorham, New York, and the “We have, I think, a good report, ations? which closes the campaign. High School, and will enable Church gift of Mrs. Martha Esser of New hut we will try to do better next year That twelve million children have A captain for every ten families or men generally to answer the ques York City in loving memory of hér During the past three years the mem never attended any Church school? units of the parish, who shall distrib tion effectively for themselves and son, Gunther, Private in the 8th Cav- ‘bers have been building a new church That there are more children in ute personally the literature which others. 50 cents a hundred. < . airy, Troop. F, /who lost his life on the and they have done splendid work anarchist schools on Sunday than in comes to the Parish Committee, dis J ^ ^ c a h Border, ^June 13, 1919; a Their pledges of $165 .per annum per our own Church schools? cuss the contents with those upon JOHN WESLEY AND THE memdriial ■ Pùlpiti- of oak, the gift pf capita indicates they are learning the That the Episcopal Church gives whom he i calls, arouse their interest CHURCH—A four-page leaflet which . Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R.;Livèsay of. spirit of giving^ Wh^t has beep'don ts .per week per capita and bring back their comments, and will be found interesting arid helpful Anthony, N. M., in memory of their n-:i' capita could be done by álmosf sionary work? make certain that the educational to those wishing to inform themselves daughter, Mary Livesày Hawley, and any church* , ™ That we spend fourteen cents per campaign is bringing the desired re as to the relationship of the early b f their son, Joseph R. Livesay, who 1 “We have a new finance system week per capita upon ourselves? * sult, that is, educating and inspimg. Methodists to the Church. 50 cents lost his life in France in 1918; a set which I think is an improvement on -That we have less «communicants re A week of prayer and consecraton ;a hundred. * of Altar Books in memory of Jessie the duplex system. We pay all the ported in the dioecese today than from March 7th to 14th. pledges at a bank: Most of them a An Every Member Canvass for con Eunice McClellan, 1917-1919, and a there have been confirmations by the A CATECHISM—The Prayer Book year in advance. We take up the reg tributions to parochial and outside Baptistry in memory of Jessie Eunice Bishops of Michigan in the past twen Catechism, complete, a four-page ular Sunday offerings and they are work on March 14th. McClellan. Saint Paul’s is also to ty years? folder, neatly printed on heavy pa surplus.” Ah, you will say, there is the crux dedicate on Saint Paul’s Day, January Do you know that the population of per, for use in the Sunday School 25, bèi ltiful pair of Altar Candle- The Emmanuel rector does i ot offe: of the whole situation. Another drive Detroit has increased five ^imes in and Confirmation classes. 75 cepts istjeks in memory of Mrs. Hattie this report in a spirit of boasting, but twenty years; that the communicant for money! a hundred. Schneider, rand a Processional Cross that “it might stimulate Some other list of Detroit has only doubled 'in No, this is primarily a campaign of and Pair of Seven Branch Altar Can church to do better.” Is his challenge that time? education, inspiration and enlistment. dlesticks .are to dedicated at Easter to be met? That we. have the same number of . Money—of course, we will need mon “THE WITNESS” time."' With the placing of these me churches in Detroit to minister to ey. But that is, as Mr. Harris has 6219 Cottage Grove Avo. Chicago morial gifts in St. Paul’s the little DIOCESE OF ¡WEST TEXAS more than one million people as we well put' it, a “by-product.” chjirch close to the Mexican border NEWS, m had in 1899 to minister1 to 220,000? An enlistment means more than en will ¡be thoroughly equipped with That we are doing nothing as a listment for the campaign in this dio Church memorials. Reports from the Nation-wide Cam Church for the foreign born of this cese. The Church wants the active paign are still coming in and indicate diocese? and sympathetic understanding and THE LAY RE ADERS’,LEAGUE that the/'original expectation of the That, we are paying our clergy less support
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There are Americans who love and DIOCESE OF GEORGIA OR sentatives' from the four parishes of expected in every case. This has New York Letter appreciate England better than most the city. The board of managers fol been the experience of healers in all English people do. There are citizens PHANS’ HOME. lows: First Direetress, Mrs. Robert ages of the. Church. Even our Lord’s By The REY. JAMES SHEERIN of the United States of foreign birth Billington; second directress, Mrs. A. cures were not all immediate; and and ancestry who go to the heart ou Interesting Historical Sketch 6f a L. Alexander; Secretary, Miss Mary moreover, they were, at least in many TWO GREAT PLAYS. pure Americanism more surely and Church Institution in the South. E. Ellis; treasurer, Mrs. T. M. Cun-' instances, dependent upon the faith While mentioning present day plays clearly than do many colonial and rev ningham, Jr.; Mrs. Walter G. Charl Qf the patients. But if onlyV few I should not like to omit “John Fegu- olutionary ancestry. It s a matter of much gratification ton (who has been a member for for were healed, the Mission was certain- son” and “Abraham Lincoln'” as to Bishop Reese, that the Board of ty years), Mrs. H. H. Bradley, Mrs. | ly worth while. among those really great if not alto Copies of The Witness may be had Managers of the Orphans’ Home of C. G. Anderson, Jr., Mrs. J. Randolph And it may be that many who have gether so. of the Church Literature Press, 2 the Protestant Episcopal Church in Anderson, Miss Belle S. Hardee, Miss not yet seen results of their, coming, I should almost be tempted to say Bible House, New York. Chatham County, Georgia, has recent Mary Anderson Owens, Mrs. W. A. may note a gradual improvement if that “John Ferguson” is the greatest ly purchased a new building for the Winburn, Mrs. Harris Cope, from they continue in the faith,. nothing play I have ever seen by a modern AN OFFER TO POSTULANTS home, a residence and grounds occu Christ Church; Mrs. W.£ F. Baker, wavering, but believing that God’s ■writer, even though it is so heavy and FOR HOLY ORDERS. pying a city block in the southeastern from St. John’s Church; M^s. Arnold power and love are boundless; and tragic as to be heart breaking to lis part of Savannah, where the home has Freeman, from St. Paul’s Church, that he is interested in every indi ten to. Its problem is that of Job, Dear Mr. Editor: been in operation since 1854. For. and Mrs. Thomas B. Purse from St. vidual, as truly as He is our Father, dealing with the mystery of human All over the country, in connection many years the home has been located Michael and All Angels’ Church. and wills: that none of His children suffering. Its question is the old one, with the Nation-wide Campaign, ap in an undesirable section of the down shall suffer meaningless pain or the* toym district, and in August the board anguish of mental or nervous unbal who sent evil and Why is it permitted? peals are being made for men to entei RESULTS OF A HEALING The play is therefore profoundly re the ministry. Already we are hear sold this building, and rented the res ance.-—F. C; G. ing of numbers of responses to this idence that has just been purchased. MISSION. ligious as well as philosophic, and it POSITIONS OFFERED holds the interest intensely from be appeal. These men ought to go to This Orphans’ Home has an inter ginning to ending. college before they enter the semi esting history, having really been Following the Mission held in St. ''Managing Housekeeper for a Col John Ferguson is a beautiful char naries of the Church, unless they have ^started through the instigation of the Luke’s Church, Evanston, 111., by Mr. late Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, D. D., •James S. Hickson, a letter was sent lege Commons at which about 150 acter, if one can call a terrible and already done so». It being reported men eat. Address the President of rugged mountain peak beautiful when •that many of them, willing to give first Bishop of Georgia. For fourteen by the Rector, the Rev. Dr. George Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio. it . is inaccessible to all living crea their lives for the ministry cannot find years, from 1852, Bishop Elliott was Craig Stewart, to each one who tures, and hplds its head in grand and help to finance them in their prepara oector of Christ Church, Savannah, had visited him, or been visited CATHEDRAL OF ALL SAINTS lofty solitude, whether beset by storms tion. The societies founded for that the oldest church in the state of Geor by him. The replies—which were for CHURCH SERVICES purpose are too few and too poor to gia (present rector, Rev. John Dur ty in number—show that about half Elk and Swan Streets, Albany, ^N. Y. or sunshine. His devotion and faith Sunday Services—7:30, 10:30, 11 (Holy are superb. It shows what a revolu give the requisite assistance. In this ham Wang, D. D.), and as he was anx pf those who came were greatly help Eucharist), anq 4 p. m. ed; the others were not, or at least Week-day Services: 7:30, 9 and 5:30 f . tion there has beei\ in religious faith connection it seems to me that there ious that St. John’s, then a mission of m. daily.______, ______. When an audience of Christian people lies my opportunity for personal ser Christ Church, should -become an in- ¿had not been able to observe any sit in tears of indignant protest as vice in connection with the campaign, dependent parish, he asked his cousin, marked improvement. But even -such Private Prayers they hear John throughout every in co-operation with the college of Mrs. Mary Elliott, and Judge Robert persons were just as certain of spirit shameful disaster reading and quoting which I have the hoftor- to be presi M. Chariton, a distinguished lawyer ual help—fresh courage, greater faith. dent. ;of Savannah, to buy pews in the mis —as were those who have been direct for the Faithful the Bible in his stern contention, that By Bishop Sage of Salma. everything good or bad comes from This college has graduated three sion! which they did. When the par ly and immediately benefiated. God, and that complaint is but blas hundred of the living priests of th§ ish became independent it was noticed Every one of the letters, received phemous revolt. Patient, hopeful en-f American Church, who jointly minis that every Sunday there was a five dol from those who have noted a physical A Manual which thirty-five thous durance without a thought of rebel ter to approximately one-twelfth of lar bill in the collection. There were improvement, also expresses an .ap and Church people have found h^fp- lion is the lesson taught by this rev the Church. The propriety of its be no poor people in the parish except preciation of the mental help. For ex ful in their private devotions at home ample, one writes: erent and stubborn old Scotch-Irish. ing used in this connection is, there two little children, a boy and a girl, and in church. man, whileNwe whose devout fathers fore, unquestionable. Moreover, its who were greatly in need of care. As “I was very glad that I went to Price, 10 cents. Postage, 4c> all believed as he does, sit there chaf fees are low enough to make it within a worker in the Sunday school, Mrs. see Mr. Hickson. His quiet, calm as Address ing with desire to shake him into reach, or nearly so, of many of these Elliott asked for part of the collection surance Of God’s power to heal and “TH E WiTNES S?’ what we call common sense and hu men. St. Stephen’s is not exclusively •money to be used for the needs of his prayer in my behalf, gave me rt» 6219 Cottage Grove Ave. ,• Chicago manity.' a college for those going later to sem these children. They were boarded nweed courage and faith.” inary or'predominantly so, but here, out, and in time as the work grew, Another writes: THE PARISH CASH BOOK How far we have gone from the others were taken care of, until in “I went to the Church in a receptive theological position of this firm man surely, lies one of its opportunities for usefulness to the Church which 1854 Mr. John E. Ward of the firm of mood and was not disappointed. The The Board of Church Finance an of the Word of God is illustrated by Charlton, Ward & Owens, who was 14th of November will always be re nounces that tbp Parish Cash Book the daring that made a commission founded, owns, supports and. endorses recommended by the General Con it. president of the Georgia senate, had membered as a special day of thanks of learned clergy and laity propose vention is now being printed and pqb-j an act passed incorporating the giving and praise.” lished. It is arranged for use duyinjg to strike out from the Prayer-Book I personally offer to make it my business to see that persons inter home as the “Orphan’s Home of Pro A mother writes about a child, six years. Copies at the pricé of any words that seemed to hold God testant Episcopal Ghur£l^0j|M|jMHk |rhpse affliction has affected her mind: $3.00 postpaid, which covers the ac- responsible for sickness or calamity. ested in/this matter and in this col tualveò|t, should be orde?e&:'%t''lUfibe* lege are approached and money pro- ham County.” The incorporaUrnl^PIP^ • “It is too soon to say much, as she from ; ■: -,v’ " If We can stand its nearly three hours vided for a board of managers of ■has been six weeks before without a of heartache, I do not’ know of a play eured from them to make it possible THE BOARD OF CHURCH for the college to get, for men desir fifteen women, with the Bishop as ex- convulsion; but for the past year she FINANCE ; that gets us. nearer the bottom of officio head. m has not gone many days without some things religious and moral than this ous of entering the ministry and oth 289 Fourth’ Ave., New"York City erwise -unable to pay their way The home is supported by endow temporary mental cloudiness. But she sombre masterpiece of St. John Er- ment, and partly (a very small part) has hot had a lapse, of memory, or vine, the Irish playwright. through college, one-half their fees ORDER OF THE INCARNA from these benevolent, persons and by subscription. At present the man done-anything peculiar since she went TION. The other play I refer to is “Abra to the Church for help.” one-half the fees from the men them- agers are unable to care for more than I " Founded January, 1919. ham Lincoln,” just opened in Ameri jselves. This- will enable any such fifteen children, but previous to leav Another, who had befen treated for ca, after a wonderful- success in Lon A contemplative order. Perpetual man to come to college for $250 a year, ing; the old quarters, the home could leakage of the heart, writes: don. Fundamentally it is far from as intercession for the living, tlie depart including his tuition, board, room! and did accoinmodate thirty-five chil “I received instant relief. I had deep as “John Ferguson,” but it is ed, and for the triumph of the Catho light and heat. More than that sure dren. Deaconess Katherine Duffy and had continual pain for days, and al more soul-stirring and hope inspiring, Miss Wilhelmina Duffy have been in though the pain .did not cease for. a lic faith. ly the Church in general should not Daily votive offering of the holy, in a world of action rather than mor have to give any man. charge for eleven years,' with an in couple' of days, there was a sense of bid thinking. It is a tragedy because terval of a few months for a much relief^—a rein oval of some pressure sacrifice. Weekly requiem ¿very .Fri? There are certain conditions at day. Petition for special prayers and its great hero is killed, but it is re tached, as follows: needed rest. It is the intention of the instantly at the laying on of his deemed from the sordid hopelessness voluntary alms are sent to the Rev. 1. The man must be a graduate of board to make some alterations as hands. In about two days all pain of some tragedies by the fact that it Mother Teresa Frances, Grosssmunt*, a recognized high or preparatory soojp as possible, and an. appeal will ceased,/and I have been not only free shows a great people coming to a new California, San Diego County. (13 m. school, or must be able to offer four shortly be made through the Diocese from pain, but better in every way.” birth in righteousness and a whole for more general interest in what is This is from another letter: p N. E. of San Diego City). teen units of college entrance credit, if Rev. Alfred Kingsley Glover, B. D.- 'world made to admire and love a su not a graduate. practically a Diocesan Home* as the “It was a most marvellous and ex premely fine character. Few things B. S., Chaplain, Cedar Pine Lodge, 2. He must contemplate taking a board is ready to take girls from four hilarating experience, and I now be on the stage are more effective than Grossmont. full fotir year undergraduate course, to twelve years of age at any time lieve more than ever that the Christ, at the end of the first act when that if he is under 25 years of age, or a* when properly" vouched for? of any our dear, blessed Lord, is ever trying SIMPLE ANSWERS TO COMMON tall and impressive figure, after the least two years’ college work if he is creed, from any part of the Diocese, to reach us all, giving to us his great QUESTIONS (ABOUT THE CHURCH departure of the committe that had over 25. provided there is a vacancy. They are help in everything. Truly a wonder 542,000 Copies Used/ notified him of his nomination to the 3. He must be actually admitted by bound over to the home until they are ful physician, if we wopld only hum The Sacred Dime in Every Dollar, presidency, turning first to the map his Bishop as a Postulant for Holy eighteen years of age, when the “Big ble ourselves and go to Him!” Advocating proportionate giving. * of the United States over the plain Orders. Sister Committee” endeavors• to find The longest letter came from one Each 90 cts per 100, postpaid; book case, spreads his hands apart as 4. He must certify that he actually positions and a home for them, and to who received extraordinary help, per if in adoration of a: united country, Special price on quantity. Sample needs the help and be able to get his keep in toudh with theim as long as haps because extraordinarily prepar then going suddenly to the table at free. Rev. H. M. Ingham, Keene, N. H clergyman to certify the . same thing. possible. ed for it: the centre of the room, kneels most Correspondence is requested. All the work of the home is done “I could just feel the life divine reverently without ■ a word as the BERNARD IDDINGS BELL, by the girls themselves, with help in flowing through my very , being, every # r l f U 0 l curtain slowly descends. It was at (53rd Year) President of St. Stephen’s College. the laundry, as there are very few old- time I was in the meetings (having this moment that somebody up in a ier girls now in the home. The children Collese Preparatory, Military, Episcopal | attended five in all).. It seemed to (Applications should be filed now te box gave a - long drawn sigh, and a now attend St. Michael and All An me'such a blessed time to spehd with secure a place for the year 1920-21) IN MEMORIAM. For Catalogue, Address reverent voice said, “Marvelous! won gels’ Church, but before moving out the dear Lord, and seek Him with all C. W. NEW'H'ALiL, Headmaster ■ derful!” Few men have been more in the southeastern section they were the wants of my heart. And L be Shattuck School : : Faribault, Minn. religious at heart than Mr. Lincoln, in DUDLEY—Entered into Paradise regular attendants at Christ Church lieve it was from this that f received at her residence, “Homewood,” Louis spite of his pioneer lack of experience and the church school, where they are my healing so sweetly.. I call it ST. STEPHEN’S COLLEGE in actual church membership, and Mr. ville; Ky., Friday evening, December very much missed. For many years sweetly, because there was something The only Eastern college officially con -John Drinkwater, the author of the 19th, Mary Elizabeth Aldrich Dudley, trolled by the Episcopal Church and en there was a chapel in the building, more than just getting rid of pain dorsed by the Synod of any Eastern play, as well as Mr. Frank McGlynn, widow of Thomas Underwood Dudley, where daily prayers and occasional and disease. I received something in Province. Tuition, $450. the actor of the part, have demon former Bishop of the Diocese of Ken other services were held, and among Post-office: Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y. my very being of my whole life with , (Station : Barry town on the New York strated this to an extraordinary de tucky, and mother of Aldrich Dudley the alterations in the new building it in me sb" tenderly loving from God, Central Railroad) of Middleburg, Va., and of Gertrude - “On the Hudson River Pacing the gree. v is planed to have a chapel. something that came down to my C a tsk ils” £ Some one behind me said between Dudley - Musson, wife of the rector of On Christmas 'eve there is always heart and gave it such rest and sweet Write to the President,, thte Rev. Bernard acts, “It is a pity that this great work the Church of the Advent, Louisville, a tree, preceded by a short service comfort, and it has never left it for Iddings Bell. was left for an Englishman to do.” Ky., in the 64th year of her age* held by the Bishop, and afterwards a minute since, something I feel so “So He giveth His beloved sleep.” ST. THOMAS’S CHURCH ~ To me, that is the beauty of it, though the gifts are presented to children wonderful that I can hardly find my CHOIR SCHOOL, NEW YORK. there are technical defects an Ameri from the tree. The annual meeting old self, and my seeing is so good, Three Scholarships available for can historical student would have The Rev. Thomas A. Schofield, for of the board is held the Thursday af and my hearing is getting better boys with good voices between the avoided. It is a splendid thing that merly Archdeacon of Colorado, ac ter Easter, when the board is elected every day.” J ' ", ages of 11 and 12 years. there are some in England so capable cepted the rectorship of the Church of by the subscribers, and a feast is giv We remember that Mr. Hickson Apply to of understanding and clearly express the Good Shepherd, Silver City, N. M., en to the children. The officers are wrote us, in words of common-sense, T. TERTIUS NOBLE, to take effect the first of this montfi. ing our greatest Republican-Democrat elected by the board, which has repre that immediate cures are not to be : 1 West 53rd St., New York Cit*'
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