Council Editorial-Bishop Johnson

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LOGAN HERBERT ROOTS Resigns as Bishop of Hankoiv

COUNCIL EDITORIAL-BISHOP JOHNSON

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 1 S C H O O L S CLERGY NOTES SCHOOLS ARNOLD, KENNETH F., was advanced to the priesthood on March 16th by Bishop Ferris and Bishop Reinheimer at St. John’s, 3 % tiSenerai tHijeological Clifton Springs, N. Y. SAINT MARY’S HALL AVERILL, E. W., canon of St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal school for girl*. I JBiemmarg Cathedral, Fond du Lac, Wis., has been 70th year. Junior and Senior High I spending the winter in Phoenix, Arizona, School. Accredited college preparatory! Three - year undergraduate and has assisted at the cathedral. and comprehensive general courses. I &smrm of prescribed and elective COOK, CHARLES WILLIAM, rector of Junior College. Beautiful new build-1 Christ Church, Laredo, Texas, died pn ings, modernly equipped. Gymnasium! «tody. March 9th of a heart attack, following a and outdoor sports. Catalog. protracted illness. Feurth-year course for gradu CRYDENWISE, H. W., rector of the Church al«®, offering larger opportunity of the Holy Innocents, Albany, N. Y., for Katharine Caley, A.B., Headmistress I for specialization. fifteen years has resigned to retire from Box W Faribault, Mi— . ! the active ministry. Prevision for more advanced CURRIE, SAMUEL, retired missionary priest I wark, leading to degrees of S.T.M. of North Dakota, died at his home in sod Th.D. Pensacola, F'la., on February 28th. FOUST, ROSCOE T „ chaplain of the U. S. SHATTUCR ADDRESS Military Academy, West Point, has resigned to accept the rectorship of the Pro-cathe » » SCHOOL « « THE DEAN dral at Bethlehem, Pa. GARTEN, F. GRAY, deacon, has resigned A church school for boys, with high stand 1 Chelsea Square New York City as headmaster of Ascension Day School, ing in sound scholarship and development cS Staten Island, N. Y., because of illness. manly character and Christian citizenship. For Catalogue Address the Dean He continues his canonical connection as College preparatory. Military system. 1® curate at the parish. buildings. All sports. 75th yr. Catalog. HENSHAW, EDGAR, vicar of All Saints, Address the Rector, Box W Salome, Arizona, has accepted the rector Episcopal Theological School ship of Grace Church, Tucson, Arizona. Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS HEUSS, JOHN, formerly of St. Luke’s Pro cathedral, Evanston, Illinois, is to be in AW totri with Harvard University offers stalled as rector of St. Matthew’s, Evans *®®enal opportunities in allied fields, such as ton, on April 4th. philosophy, psychology, history, KEMPER HALL sociology, etc. LEWIS, CHARLES S., who retired from the active ministry in October when he resigned College Preparatory and General Courses For Catalogue Address the Dean as dean of All Saints Cathedral, Albany, Graduates have won entrance scholarships to has relinquished his pension status and Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Yassar, Mount Holy accepted the rectorship of St. Paul’s, Kin- oke, _ Barnard, Mills and Rockford colleges- T h e Protestant Episcopal derhook, New York. Music, Art, Dramatics, Domestic Science. All NEWBERY, ALFRED, rector of the Atone sports. Junior School. Rheological Seminary In Virginia ment, Chicago, has accepted election as Address: For Catalogue and other information rector of the Advent, Boston, effective May THE SISTERS OF ST. MARY address the Dean first. RUFLE, F'. C., has resigned as rector of St. Box W.T. Kenosha, Wisconsin SUKV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. Thomas Church, Clarkdale, Arizona, to be Vtasiegical Seminary Alexandria, Va. come the rector of the parish at Del Rio, Texas. CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL SALE, M. M. B., is now in charge of St. New York City Berkeley Luke’s, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and St. Mat thew’s, Iowa Falls. A boarding school for the forty boys ek the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John th#s Divinity School Divine. Careful musical training and daily New Haven, Connecticut singing at the cathedral services. Small' Affiliated with Yale University SECOND THOUGHTS classes mean individual attention and higin standards. The School has its own building: Address DEAN W. P. LADD and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.6* 86 Sachem Street ENRY WARE ALLEN, Wichita, Kansas: H The fine article of Mr. William C. Turpin, per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voie*> Jr. on Christianity and World Peace should test and scholarship examination. Address TRINITY COLLEGE receive the hearty endorsement of all who The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, hate war and love peace. The Christian Cathedral Heights, New York City. Hartford, Conn. principle of non-resistance should _ be ac Offers a general cultural education, with corded more honor than is given to it as an ep-aelal emphasis on the Classics, Modern active force of righteousness. It seems to Lftisguages, English, Economics, History, Phil- me that there is much wasted effort on the OB«9&y, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, part of those who inveigh eloquently against HOLDERNESS a&afogy and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. the wickedness of war but who fail to advo In the White Mountains. College Preparatory F or information apply, The Dean. cate the abolition of those forces which are and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For most potent for war and the preparation for boys 12-19. All sports including riding. war. It was a son of the Episcopal church, acres of woods. New fireproof building. In Henry George, who gave this problem life dividual attention. Home atmosphere. long study; and if his conclusions are right, we should bend all our energies toward the Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector abolition of tariff walls which now separate Box W Plymouth, N. H. nations and are the prolific source of inter Am Honor Christian School with the highest national hatred and ill will. In this connec •endemic rating. Upper School prepares for tion it is interesting to note that in Eng university or business. ROTC. Every modern land, thirteen bishops of the Church, together equipment. Junior School from six years. with many members of Parliament, have Xeesemother. Separate building. Catalogue. joined in a monster petition to the govern Okr. J. J. Wicker, Fork Union, Virginia. ment in the interest of international free trade. As a result of the “ Buy British” # i u a r i H a l! policy, England has been inflicted with idle shipping and artificially high cost of living. An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old Virginia Episcopal School But the intelligent churchmen of England traditions and high standards in the beam Lynchburg, Virginia were actuated by something higher than tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara material considerations, namely, that of tory, general courses, and secretarial Prepares boys for colleges and university. international peace and good will, which is courses. Two years beyond high schooL EhMeudid environment and excellent corps of the logical accompaniment of free trade. Music, art, expression. Graduates success taMbsrs. High standard in scholarship and However, free trade is only the first step ful in college. Well-equipped buildings. ■U atics. Healthy and beautiful location in in the right direction, for it leaves un New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid fln mountains of Virginia. touched the economic cause of poverty; and ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. For catalogue apply to after all, it is the poverty of the masses Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. In. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector with consequent unemployment which fills men’s minds with class hatred and makes army enlistment the easiest alternative. Poverty must be abolished. Its presence is I a disgrace to our civilization. As a result MARGARET HALL Confirmation Instructions Under Sisters of St. Anne (Episcopal) By Bishop Johnson of the munificent endowment of the Creator A revised edition of these famous in- in providing boundless natural resources and Small country boarding and lay school for efcrsotions, with several additional chap- the power of man to produce unlimited girls, from primary through high school. taw ms the history of the Church. wealth, every willing worker might be truly Accredited college preparatory. Modern build prosperous and poverty might be abolished as ing recently thoroughly renovated includes 60c for single copies direct conformity to the natural law which $4 for a dozen copies gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of was discovered and given to the world by six acres with maple playground space, hockey Henry George. If the Church desires to THE WITNESS field and tennis courts. Rate $650. €tM Cottage Greve Avenue Chicago abolish the two great enemies of mankind, poverty and war, it has no alternative but For catalog, address: Sister Rachel, (Continued on page 16) Box A, Varsailles, Ky.

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A Disagreeable Disagreement An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON E V E R A L PER SO N S have intimated to me that and get at the vital principles. Personally I believe S as editor of T h e W itness I am responsible for that both the National Council and the executive of the articles of the managing editor on the subject of ficers are men of excellent character and conscientious the National Council. Such an intimation overlooks effort but they are not infallible nor their actions be the policy of this paper which alone among Church yond criticism. periodicals requires that every article shall be signed If the General Convention is so dumb as to think by the writer and that the writer alone is responsible that a committee can function as an executive the fault for the sentiments contained therein. lies in General Convention. Some one must take the T h e W itness is an open forum and not an agency initiative and if the Presiding Bishop may not and for partisan propaganda. It aims to permit both sides the National Council cannot it is evident that the of a question to be presented. This is apt to be dis executive officers must fill the gap. If we prefer to be tasteful to those who are disposed to read only such governed by executive secretaries we ought not to com articles as are in agreement with their own convic plain if they take the lead and advise what they think tions. Of course this makes for propriety and also for best. Certainly men who drop into New York for one-sidedness. In fact religious literature as a rule two or three days, three or four times a year, cannot can best be described by a parody on the psalm: be expected to guide the ship very effectively. Dullness and piety have met together H E third great weakness of our whole set-up is And unrighteousness and wit have kissed each other. T the hyper-sensitiveness of those who run its ad Episcopalians are in my judgment the most intelli ministrative affairs. In the question involved in this gent and the most illiterate religious people in the discussion there are three separate units,- each a law United States. Less than five per cent of our constitu unto itself and each unduly sensitive as to its preroga ency bother to take any Church paper and not more tives. There is the National Council and the Budget than two per cent read T h e W it n e ss. This is the Committee and the Forward Movement—not heading penalty of a tolerance which approximates indifference. up into a chief executive but each fearful of invading As a group we are marked by three characteristics. the others’ prerogatives. It is a cumbersome set-up First, a fastidiousness which is more concerned over and one which is full of opportunities for claiming spe a split infinitive or a flippant utterance than it is about cial privilege and quite sensitive to any invasion of its a vital principle. In my opinion the articles Mr. Spof- sacred rights. ford has recently written were not very humorous but We are so concerned about not treading on other were rather in bad taste. A perverted sense of humor people’s toes that we are unable to profit by one an can get one into all sorts of trouble, particularly with other’s ideas. We are like a parish with three vestries, very solemn people. Really it is a venial sin and above each of which has its own particular function regard all things should not be taken seriously. Episcopalians less of the fact that all these functions are inter-re do not need to be protected from its consequences. lated and need coordination. We suffer that which any Second, we do not like to have a spade called a headless corporation is bound to suffer. spade. We prefer that it should be classified as an We are so afraid to give executive authority to a agricultural implement. Presiding Bishop that we are content to be directed The action of the National Council is a matter of by those who should report to an executive head. I public interest and is open to free discussion. There happened to be on the commission at the Detroit Gen is nothing sacrosanct about it, and whether the criti eral Convention which prepared the canon on the office cisms are true or false should be ascertained by open of Presiding Bishop and found that if we were going discussion. It is time we put aside personal reactions to have any action at all we must describe the powers

of the Presiding Bishop in language worthy of a Del from a number of them are shared with our readers,, phic Oracle, and so it has remained. with the names withheld since we do not want to bring So far as Mr. Spofford’s article in the March 18th the writers into the discussion against their wishes. number is concerned I do not like the manner or the “ There are people who are not very strong in the matter. I much prefer Bishop Stewart’s answer, but Church, and who are new in the Church family, and inasmuch as it raises the vital question as to who is for them your articles are confusing and misleading. responsible for what, I welcome it. I am not so fastidi Reluctantly therefore I ask you to discontinue the ous as to be upset by bad taste nor so sensitive as to Bundle.”—a Western Rector. be angered by misrepresentation. I think our whole system needs a shaking up in Gen “ Keep your chin up and come back smiling. I am eral Convention and if the articles in question will pulling for you and I know you are on the right track.” help men to think they have accomplished a good pur —a Midwestern Rector. pose. So far as Mr. SpofFord’s article has resulted in “ I don’t know whether you are altogether right or the cancellation of subscriptions to T h e W itn ess I am not in your reply to Bishop Stewart, but I admire not concerned. I have been at this job for twenty you for speaking out. If anyone quits you because of years and would welcome a holiday. your views here is a subscription from me to take at least one place. Don’t be silenced whether you are F I were to sum up what I have to say in one sen right or wrong.”—a Southern Dean. I tence it would be something like this: Our con gregations do not need to be coddled but rather to be “ Don’t clamp on any lid. That is the trouble with the dynamited by some kind of TN T, which being inter whole country today. Too many are afraid to speak preted would be, Thought Not Taffy. Whether what out. Go ahead and smash the windows and let in some Spofford said was true or not, it was what numbers air and light—281 needs both.”—a Philadelphia Rector. of people have been saying privately. It is more cour “ In my opinion your articles are flippant and ageous to say it publicly and give an opportunity for abusive, and I am sure you are doing much harm by free discussion and therefore intelligent action in Gen printing them. You may be sure I shall do nothing to eral Convention. encourage the distribution of T h e W itness in my dio The whole thing reminds me of the prayer meeting cese.”—a Southern Bishop. in which Brother Jones prayed fervently for more power and was reminded by a comrade that if he would “ I have in the past enjoyed reading what you write pray for more ideas he would have more power. but now that you have joined the ranks of' the muck- Personally I think that the Presiding Bishop has a rakers you will have to excuse me.”—the Rector of an perplexing task, the National Council an impossible Eastern Parish. one and the executive officers a most difficult one and “ I thoroughly agree with what you have been say that they are all doing as well as they could be ex ing in regard to the danger of bureaucracy in the pected to do under the circumstances. If the situation Church. For the most part it is the ‘yes’ men who are was confused before Atlantic City it is trebly mixed elected to representative positions. They naturally up since that Convention. spread more sweetness than light in General Conven Let us discuss the matter frankly and without heat tion, and are constitutionally opposed to criticizing and let us not treat our congregations as though they anybody. You have my personal gratitude for bringing were to be protected from the unpleasant features of this matter into the open and I believe there are many this endurance test which we call life. of the clergy who feel the same way.”—a Virginia As for getting wrought up by Spofford’s articles I clergyman. am reminded of the saying of the wise man, “ If you are wrong you cannot afford to lose your temper and “ I think this action (increasing salaries at head if you are right you do not need to do so.” quarters) is indefensible in view of the great needs and“ All of which leads to the question put to me, “ Why unrestored salaries in the Mission Field, and also when do you remain as editor of a paper which misrepre the budget itself is $149,000 off-balance. I think how sents your views so often ?” And the answer is because ever that we ought to be careful in giving too much I believe in the sanctity of people’s convictions whether publicity to this action, because many people would be they are right or wrong. inclined to take the position that because a compara tively small amount of money may be unwisely used they will not give anything at all into the hands of the National Council. I do think, however, that the Na Brickbats and Bouquets tional Council ought to be made to realize that many E H A V E R E C E IV E D a great many letters people heartily disapprove of their recent action.”—a Diocesan Executive Secretary. Wcommenting on the articles that have appeared in recent numbers on the national affairs of the Church. “ If you will reread in sober earnestness what you It is however not made clear in most of them whether have printed I think you will agree that you owe the they have been sent for publication or not. Highlights Church, and especially your readers, an apology for a

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 1, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Five pretty bad misrepresentation of the plans of the Na “ I really have a lot of sympathy with your criticisms, tional Council.”—a member of the National Council. but nevertheless I have the feeling that articles of the sort do not help to build up an interest in supporting “I am in complete agreement with your stand on the the Church’s missionary work and program.”—a Mid- using of some of the money that was raised in the mis Western Bishop. sionary crisis to restore salary cuts to the New York staff. I am a school teacher, living on my salary. When “ I so thoroughly disagree with your attitude and the appeal was made for $127,000 in order that the spirit toward the National Council and its officers that work on the mission fields might not fall back, I I cannot sincerely urge increased circulation for T h e parted with two years’ savings ($500) and contributed W it n e ss in this diocese.”—a Mi

“ I certainly hope that you will continue along the “ I have been delighted with your articles; you ex lines you have set down. You may expect to be press my sentiments. I wonder if the National Coun knocked by the members of the ‘entrenched privilege’ cil will ever awaken to the fact that their methods are of the Church, but I do not think that the poor mis being very widely criticized and that they unquestion sionary, whose battle you are waging, will give you ably influence many people in their giving.”—a Phila any cause for alarm.”—a Western Missionary. delphia Rector.

“ I dislike the animus you are showing. It seems “ If T h e W itn ess has never justified itself before, it strange to me that being editor of a Church paper nar is worth all it costs and more to keep us advised on rows one’s judgment. There have been such cases in what is going on at headquarters.”—a Mid-Western Rector. the past as we all know, and now you are very thor oughly entering that class of editors. It is not neces “ It is our habit to read and chuckle, and then desert sary to be unjust to be entertaining, as is clearly shown the man who dares to meet, alone the unfailing attacks each week by Bishop Johnson. Neither is bigotry en of those who accept the common attitude that it is not lightening as it tends to make readers critical of all failure or weakness that is culpable, but speaking about statements. I hope you may have fairer judgement in it. No Church more than our own needs such a paper as the future.”—a Churchwoman of Chestnut Hill, Pa. T h e W it n e ss, for its very excellences leave it wide “ You are certainly holding your banner high in T h e open to capture and domination by those to whom the W it n e ss.”— a New York Rector. conventional is more important than the true or the useful; and to exploitation by those in our profession “ I am sure I express the opinion of hundreds in say who are willing to continue such a condition for the ing that I recognize the profound truth of what you are rewards it brings to themselves. I am sure most of saying. We need more editors who have the fortitude your readers endorse your policy of frank discussion of to speak the naked truth and therebv shake the smug any program.”—a Pacific Coast Rector. complacency of those who say that they stand for the truth, but paradoxically rise up in their unjust wrath “ Keep it up. Tell us what’s going on. You can when it is presented to them.”—a Layman of the Mid- do a lot, so go to it. One has to fire the furnace a lot West. ' to keep up enthusiasm for missions in the face of con ditions that we know exist.”—a Connecticut Rector. “ If .1 were in all frankness to give my reactions to some of your articles, and particularly those dealing “ You are certainly right on the points that you are with the National Council, I should, I fear, be guilty stressing and also in feeling that it is right to discuss of a lack of proper Christian restraint. I have, my these matters frankly in T h e W it n e ss.” — an Eastern Bishop. self, been deeply grieved by what I can count as nothing less than your perversity with regard to the National “ You certainly are advocating the cause of the com Council and its efforts.”—a Western Bishop. mon man out on the frontiers of the missionary line.

The headquarter staff won’t love you for it but keep courage in hammering away at the evils existent at thundering away.”—a Pacific Coast Rector. headquarters is to send you about $100 worth of new “ May I say that I am delighted that you are dealing subscriptions. I am not able to do that but I can write emphatically with the errors and inconsistencies of and say more power to you in breaking up the system. headquarters.”—a Connecticut Rector. You are the spokesman of many a priest of the Church “ It is refreshing to find that we have an editor who who thinks all you are saying but hasn’t the ability to say it.” —a Rector in Pennsylvania. is brave enough to write his convictions without regard to the kick-back and champion the more or less for “ Self-criticism is the Church’s greatest need. Keep gotten man. Many a missionary has had his stipend up the good work.”—an Illinois Rector. cut forty per cent or more with no prospect of restora tion. He can do nothing but submit, no matter on “ Every now and then you write something so good, what basis he accepted work in the district.”—a West so true and so important that hundreds of ordinary ern Missionary. fellows want to take off their hats to you.”—a New < “ Of course the best tribute one can pay to your York Rector.

Anything But Communism! By EDMUND L. SOUDER Missionary of the Church in China

A SC ISM and Communism are today often lumped is essentially pagan in its philosophy and ideal. In Ftogether as though they were similar plagues, but Italy Mussolini dreams of reviving the empire of an with Fascism pictured as the lesser evil. A Roman cient Rome, efficient, but fearfully cruel, a world of Catholic organ, for instance, recently commented, slaves under unfeeling masters. In Germany Hitler’s “ Communism is constantly waving a red flag before friends would revive faith in Woden and Thor, nice a Fascist bull—We hate Fascism, but if we are driven little German gods for the German people. In China -in that direction it will not be from choice but from we can do still better: each farmer can worship his own necessity,” the necessity apparently of avoiding Com little “ God-of-the-Earth.” Here in the Far East Chris munism even at the cost of going Fascist. tians in Japan are experiencing increasing difficulties Why is it that a larger number of Christians do not under a military government bent on driving the people rather say, “We hate some features of Communism, to Shinto shrines for the worship of an Emperor de but if we are driven in that direction it will be from scended from the gods, and this is the 20th century! the necessity of opposing a reactionary Fascism” ? Over against all this sort of nonsense stands Com Why is it that more of Christ’s disciples cannot see munism, denying the very existence of God, yet actually that, though Fascism and Communism may both sup seeking to carry out a ministry to the least privileged press liberties and exalt dictatorships, they are, in the and most exploited of God’s children everywhere. One ends they seek, as far apart as the poles? such American Communist, Rayne Prohme, was in Fascism is the coagulated mass of all the reaction Hankow back in 1927, and died later in Moscow after ary, die-hard elements that would maintain our present having worn herself out in work for those less privi social set-up of private profits and preventable pov leged than herself. Writing of her in “ Personal His erty, and attracts to itself the aristocratic and the tory,” Vincent Sheean, says, “ She felt a genuine rela wealthy, the privileged and the narrowly nationalistic. tionship to all forms of human life. That was the es It is “ the swan-song of a dying Capitalism,” a desper sence of it. To her, the Chinese coolie was another ate last stand to hold back the moving hands of time part of the whole life, rich, various, cruel and immense, and hold fast the status quo. Communism, at the other that she shared to the extent of her limits in time and end of the pole, with all its lamentable excesses, never space. She could not see a coolie, beaten and half- theless, represents the forward movement of mankind starved, reduced to the level of the beasts, without towards a more just ordering of human society, in feeling herself also beaten and half-starved, degraded which those at present without economic security or and oppressed; and the part of her that rebelled against cultural advantage shall share in the more abundant this horror, her mind and spirit, was inflexibly re life that lies open before us, and as such it attracts not solved never to lie down under the monstrous system only the proletarian poor but many liberal and idealis of the world. She was—to use Gerald Heard’s word— tic elements. ‘co-conscious’ with all other parts of the human race. Fascism may pay some lip-service to religion, yet it Man’s inhumanity to man seemed a great deal more than

that; it was an inhumanity of one part of the same body things, but honesty must lead us to confess that the to another. The Shanghai entrepreneurs who employed Church has often failed in support of those laboring thousands of Chinese men, women and children at under cramped conditions of life and labor, and today starvation wages for twelve and fourteen hours a day not all Christians put the human rights of the masses were, to her, like the hands of the body cutting off above the financial rights of the classes, though there the legs.” Such a Communist cannot be far from the is little doubt which our Lord would put first. During Kingdom of God: she would easily understand the this past yçar of wide travel in America I was some Apostle’s language, “ We are members one of another times appalled by the way in which vestrymen and . . . If one member suffer all the members suffer with others, who were socially charming and personally up it.” right, were, nevertheless, absolutely stand-pat in their social thinking. E T the Christian ask himself, which comes closer to the Christian ideal of the Kingdom of God, the “ What disgusts and angers the Communist,” says L the editor of the East and West Review, a devout fanatical Nationalism of Fascism or the international priest of the Church of England, “ is that after nearly ideal of Communism? Whether in Italy, Spain, Ger a score of centuries societies professedly Christian are many, Japan or the U. S. A., the divisive gospel of Na tionalism is setting people against people, is preaching still divided into ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ and race preju dice is stronger than ever. It is undeniable facts such the glory of warfare (“ You were born to die for your as these which make him doubt, and consequently re country!” reads a sign over the door of a German ject, the Christian faith. Hs is sick of our profes school), and is stimulating ridiculous racial rancour sions because our behaviour does not seem to bear and psychopathic superiority complexes. Communism, them out.” on the other hand, recognizes as “ comrades” men and women of any and every race, calling them to build a To this we may add in conclusion the words of an new world. other distinguished English priest, the Dean of Can terbury Cathedral— “ Russia has been doing the Chris In Leningrad I visited one of the Houses of Cul tian duties which we ought to have been doing. We ture, which provide all sorts of recreational activities for the workers and reminded me of our big city Y. should welcome this fact with both hands and look upon M. C. A .’s, for there were reading- and game-rooms, the Russians as friends and allies in a great religious movement.” an excellent library, a night school and experts, whom young people might seek for vocational guidance. The international ideal of Communism was shown by a series of rest- and reading-rooms set apart for German, L e t ’s K n ow French and English-speaking folk. In Moscow among the non-Communist people I met was an Austrian By | film producer, married to a beautiful and cultivated BISHOP WILSON Jewess, who had sought a refuge in Russia from Nazi L e n g t h e n in g L if e persecutions at home. Which is more Christian, the IY/t u c h is said and written nowadays about ex- Communist belief in race equality or the “ Naziating” tending the span of life. Certainly as ope reads dogma of “ freedom from race contamination” ? It is back into history of earlier times, one is surprised at not too much to say that the Soviet Union exhibits the untimely age when death overtook such a large today the most enlightened attitude anywhere on the number of prominent persons. It seems that people race problem. did not live so long in those days. What Christian can be in doubt as to where, be At the suggestion of one of my clergy, I have done tween Fascism and Communism, his sympathies should a little experimenting with the records of my Cathedral lie, or as to which group really comes nearer to the parish. Beginning with 1870 I have taken the entries service of his Master? When those who professed re of the first fifty burials in the parish register and have ligion, through their deeds, made it a mockery, what checked them against the entries of the last fifty. It was our Lord’s attitude? When, on the other hand, is not a long period, only sixty-six years, but the con someone drove out devils without following after Him, trast is rather startling. was he rebuked? As Christians we deeply deplore the In the first fifty burials, seventeen were of children violence and cruelty that Communists have employed, under one year of age, while in the last fifty there were nowhere more perhaps than in China, and welcome only two and one of these was practically a still-birth; signs of moderation in this respect, but no Christian where the child lived just an hour. In the first group should be behind them in dissatisfaction with the in there were twenty-three deaths under six years of age justices of capitalist society. but only the two mentioned above in the second group. If we are tempted to say, “ But they hate the Church More than half of the first fifty died under twenty which we love!” we should ask ourselves the reason years twenty-six of them. But in the second group why. I am behind none in grateful admiration of there were only four out of fifty. glorious chapters in the Church’s history—her care for Forty-four of the first fifty died under forty years of the poor, her ministry to the suffering and her promo age. Of the second fifty there were only six. tion of education when the State cared little for such No more than five of the first fifty lived to be over

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS April 1, 1937 sixty years old. More than half of the second group lived beyond the sixty-year line—there were thirty of Breaking Contacts these. By The average age of the first fifty in the register was H. ROSS GREER only twenty years while the average age of the second fifty was sixty years. O YO U know the fable of the spider who let him Looking at the causes of death, it is significant that D self down from high up in the rafters of a barn six of the first fifty died of “ consumption” but only on a single filament? Well, he established himself on one of the last fifty was a victim of tuberculosis. a lower level, made himself a nice web, caught flies and There were six cases of cholera infantum among the became fat and self-satisfied. He frequently walked children of the first group but this complaint has dis about his premises and complimented himself on his appeared entirely in the second fifty. ability and what he had done. He had forgotten his There were two deaths from diphtheria in the first dependence from above. One day when he was feeling group but none in the second. On the other hand there unusually pleased with himself and was surveying his were two deaths from “ old age” in the second but none domain he noticed the slender thread which went up in the first. into the unseen heights of the barn. He said to him It is equally significant to note that there was just self, “ I wonder what this is for?” and with that he one death from cancer in the first fifty as against seven snapped the thread in two and all his little web col in the second. “ Heart failure” of one kind or another lapsed. has increased from a single instance in the first fifty The self-sufficient spider was a Pelagian. The fable to thirteen in the second. is borne out in human experience. We must expect What conclusions? To be sure, statistics always have collapses and breakdowns when we sever connections to be qualified but some points seem clear. Infant mor with the Unseen above. We must keep that contact tality has been reduced to a very low figure. The strong. ravages of tuberculosis and diphtheria have been large Humpty Dumpty comes in here. When he fell off ly overcome. Cancer has increased but since it is a the wall all the King’s horses and all the King’s men disease of later life the larger number of cases may could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. Yet be partly accounted for by the fact that people live the King could and can now. We can take the pieces longer. Heart troubles are much more numerous than of our lives and give them to Him and He can make formerly but it is admitted by those who know that them whole again. Wholeness makes holiness possible. other complaints often induce a heart failure and it is difficult to be accurate in such cases. Beyond question we are living longer, on the aver age, today than people used to live. But what of it? The real point is that a long and useless life is of far CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTIONS less value than a short and useful one. People today have an opportunity to serve God longer than their by forefathers had. Mere years may be a blessing or a curse. If they are not used to a right purpose, what BISHOP JOHNSON is the good of extending them here in this world when we all eventually face God’s eternity? • '

The Faith of a Child A revised edition of these famous instructions, OR a long time, when Little Fellow said his with several additional chapters on the history Fprayers at mother’s knee, he always ended with, of the Church. “ And, dear God, please make my daddy well, again.” Then came a day when the house was strangely still and the grown-up people spoke in hushed voices and, 50c for single copies every once in a while, some of them cried. $4 for a dozen copies “ Something has happened, Little Fellow,” said mother, as she gathered him into her lap, “ that you are too little to understand. God has sent for daddy to come and live with Him.” That night, Little Fellow’s prayer was changed, “ And dear God, please make things un-happen, and send my T H E W 1T N E S S Daddy back to me,”—and the broken-hearted mother’s 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago wavering faith grew firmer as she wondered at “ The Faith of a Child.” T h e C h u r c h m o u se .

they are with them: “ We, too, long NEWS NOTES OF for a general return to Christian be THE CHURCH IN lief and practice and for the fear BRIEF PARAGRAPHS less application of Christian stand ards to the conduct of both private By W. B. S p o ffo r d and public affairs.” They also be Dioceses and parishes are being lieve that a beginning must be made urged to observe Whitsunday by in the churches. Both ministers and stressing missions by the Forward laymen are needed. They also sup Movement commission. Regional con port most cordially the suggestion ferences are also being planned, sim that the Sunday preceding the cor ilar to the one held recently at Chest onation should be kept as a day o f nut Hill, Pennsylvania. A Middle- solemn dedication to the task o f West conference is to be at Seabury- Christian living. Western Seminary from May 11th to * * * 13th. A Southern conference is to Bishop Davis Honored meet in Birmingham, Alabama, May in Buffalo 18th to 20th. Arrangements also Bishop Cameron Davis of Buffalo are being made for the conferences in was reelected president of the Buf New England and on the Pacific falo council of churches at their an Coast. The Rev. Malcolm E. Pea nual meeting recently. body, rector of St. Paul’s Church, * * * Chestnut Hill, where the 'first confer ence was held, is to preside at the Protest Proposal Middle-Western and Southern Con From Germany ferences. The Hamburg-American steamship It is hoped that these regional con lines proposed an exchange of 100 ferences will initiate a discussion Cleveland high school students with ALFRED NEWBERY which, to be ultimately valuable, Goes to the Advent, Boston an equal number from Germany. The must impress the whole Church. As proposal has been denounced as a a result of these conferences, and “ Nazi plot” by a prominent Jewish similar ones set up locally in various Church Union, the organization of Rabbi who declares that it is an ef parts of the country, it is believed the Anglo-Catholics of our Church. fort to plant the seeds of Hitlerism that the way will be prepared for a The first is to be held at Grace, and in this country. On the other hand more adequate consideration at Gen St. Peter’s, Baltimore, on April 20th it has been supported by many par eral Convention of the whole mis with the Rev. Calvert E. Buck of ents who see in it a “ cultural oppor sionary work of the Church, and that Washington, the Rev. Leicester Lewis tunity.” The school board of one out of it will come a new enthusi of Philadelphia and the Rev. Frank of the high schools at first approved asm for the Church’s work through Damrosch Jr., as leaders. The fol the plan but have since announced out the world. South Florida is plan lowing day a conference is to be that any foreign students attending ning a series of diocesan clergy con held at the Good Shepherd, Rose- the school will have to pay tuition. ferences on the missionary motive, mont, Pa., with Father Hughson of The city’s board of education refused “ How to Stimulate Missions.” The the Order of the Holy Cross as to vote on the issue, declaring that San Francisco clergy considered the preacher. On the 22nd they are to it “ was not interested in the ex missionary motive at a conference meet at St. Peter’s, New York, with change.” conducted by Bishop Freeman of the Rev. Wallace E. Conkling of * * * Washington, March 22nd. Philadelphia as preacher. On the Twenty Years Ago j|c 27th a meeting is to be held at All in The Witness Saints’, Orange, N. J., at which the Bishop of Hankow The Rev. Charles L. Slattery, rec Rev. Don Frank Fenn of Baltimore Resigns tor of Grace Church, New York, will preach, and on the 28th at St. Bishop Roots of Hankow has re announced that on one Sunday the Peter’s, Peekskill, N. Y., with the signed. The matter will come be parishioners made an offering of over Rev. Father Joseph of the Order of fore the House of Bishops for action $69,000, of which $30,000 went to St. Francis as preacher. The Rev. in October. He has served in the the Church Pension fund. . . . St. Leiscester Lewis and the Rev. Frank Chinese mission field for forty years Paul’s, Paterson N. J., announced Damrosch are to be leaders at all and will be sixty-seven years of age that $12,000 had been raised to clear the conferences. It is also announced in July. He has always been active in a mortgage on the church property. that the Catholic Congress will meet promoting Christian unity and from . . . The Church Temperance Society in October of next year in New York 1913 to 1922 was chairman of the stated that a number of young cler interdenominational group, the China City. H: jfc % gymen had resigned their parishes Christian Council. In more recent to devote their time to the prohibi years he has been one of the out Join Archbishop in tion movement. . . . Bishop Ander standing leaders of the Oxford Recall to Religion son, Dean Fosbroke and the Rev. Groups (Buchmanites) and a few The moderator of the Free Church Burton Easton were announced as years ago was given a leave of ab Federal Council and other leaders the leading lecturers for the Gam- sence by the House of Bishops which of disestablished churches in Eng bier Conference. . . . The diocese of he spent in England and in Europe land have issued a statement hearti Long Island announced plans for a on behalf of the Groups. ly endorsing the recent “ Recall to half million dollar campaign for the $ $ ^ ^ Religion” issued by the Archbishop of Church Charity Foundation. . . . In American Church Union Canterbury. They say that in the accepting a flag from the vestry of Plans Conferences future as in former days they may St. Paul’s, Pawtucket, R. I., the as A series of regional conferences have to differ from their Anglican sistant rector, the Rev. Robert A. have been set-up by the American friends but upon the main witness Seilhamer said, “ The flag stands fo r

nationalism; the Cross represents in he would be unwilling to have the does not feel any appeal should be ternationalism. Today the flag must National Council make a drive for made for West Virginia. Writing represent the spirit of the Cross, this purpose. “ I do not believe it before complete information could standing for international unselfish would be wise for the Council to do be received, Bishop White of Spring- ness.” . . . Presiding Bishop Tuttle this and I am afraid such a drive field indicated that about $2,000 announced that Bishop Colmore of would add to the Council’s burdens would take care of all material dam Porto Rico has been given super and hamper its work. We shall be age to church buildings. Meanwhile, vision of “ the islands commonly happy to receive such money as may many Bishops elsewhere in the coun known as the Danish West Indies.” come to the Council voluntarily try, to whom a preliminary notice . . . Miss Eva H. Thompson of Minne which can properly be allocated to of an appeal was sent, have written apolis contributed a brief article in this diocese.” Bishop Abbott of that their dioceses have already re which she contended that “ war Lexington has stated that as losses sponded to the need and have sent makes men religious.” in other places are so much greater relief, usually through the Red Cross # Hs H* than those in his diocese, he would or direct to the flooded districts. Union Services in not have the Council make any drive Under these circumstances the offi Pawtucket in his behalf. Bishop Gravatt re cers of the National Council feel Union services were held during ports that some help has come to him that without engaging in an active Holy Week in Pawtucket, R. I., under and under existing circumstances he “ drive,” they should make known the auspices of the ministers’ union. They were all held in the Congrega tional Church with Bishop Perry the preacher on Tuesday. * * * Conference on the Ministry in Michigan Forward Movement Forty-three young men and fif teen clergymen and layreaders met at St. Andrew’s, Detroit, on March 20th for a conference on the min DIOCESAN AND PAROCHIAL istry. Bishop Page, a firm believer CONFERENCES ON MISSIONS in developing clergymen in home territory, explained to them the work of the ministry, told them what life in a theological seminary is like and indicated what reasonable chance HE Forward Movement Commission is urging they had for employment after T Church leaders throughout the nation to conduct ordination. The boys then put Diocesan and Parochial Missionary Motive Conferences questions, with the Rev. W. S. Hill and the Rev. Sheldon T. Harbach, in preparation for a suitable observance of Whitsunday two of the younger clergymen of the with a new emphasis on Missions. diocese, doing the answering. Then there was a dinner with brief ad WHY MISSIONS? WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR dresses by the Rev. George Rathbun MISSIONS? HOW CAN WE BE MORE INTELLI of St. Barnabas’, who told the boys GENT ABOUT MISSIONS? HOW CAN WE WORK that they should not go into the min istry unless the call was so strong FOR MISSIONS? that they couldn’t possibly stay out of it; Bishop Paul Jones reminded These are vital questions that the Church, every Dio them that material gains are not the cese, Parish, and Individual must face, No outside lead most important things in life and er is necessary for such informal study of the subject of that the ministry offers rich returns in spiritual values; and the Rev. I. C. Missions. Small groups are recommended, so each mem Johnson, rector of St. John’s, said ber will have an opportunity to make some contribution that he had tried nearly every type to the discussion. of secular employment before enter ing the ministry, which he finds to be The Forward Movement Commission calls for an in the most satisfying work a man terpretation of Christian Sharing in world-wide terms. can do. * * * We must discover how our Church membership can unite N o D rive for in fulfilling the Master’s command to proclaim His Gos Flood Relief pel to all the world. At its February meeting the Na tional Council laid upon its officers Leaders may obtain prepared material for conferences the responsibility of making an ap peal for those who had suffered loss by writing The Forward Movement Commission, 223 in the flood-devastated area as soon West Seventh Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. as definite information could be se cured. Among letters received in reply to queries is one from Bishop Clingman of Kentucky, whose dio FORWARD INTO ALL THE WORLD cese was grievously stricken. He says that although losses in his dio cese will reach $25,000 or $30,000, |

the fact that the losses have been of leaders of diocesan summer schools matters as whether lectures or dis great, both to the Church and to held recently at the Church of the cussion was the better way to teach % individual clergy, and that voluntary Heavenly Rest, New York. There whether such affairs as stunt nights, gifts will be gladly received and for were reports from the Eagle’s Nest might not better be done away with warded. Conference, Delaware, N. J.; the Sil in the interest of more serious work,, * * * ver Bay conference in the diocese of and whether the faculty should be Clergyman Gives Albany; the senior conference of the changed each year. The conferences, to the Church diocese of New York, held at Lake that reported had a total enrollment By the will of the late Rev. Rich Kanawaki; the joint conference of in 1937 of 653 students with a fac the dioceses of Western New York ulty of 94. ard W. Dow of Sanbornville, N. H., * * * $1,000 was left to the Church of St. and Rochester, held at Alfred Uni John the Baptist, Sanbornville; versity; the Wading River confer Rector Skis $1,000 to the fund for the support ence of Long Island; the Burlington to H is Patients of the Episcopate and $1,000 to pro and the Gladstone conferences of the Undaunted by a fifteen-inch snow vide a sum annually for the diocesan diocese of New Jersey and the junior fall that paralyzed traffic, the Rev. offering for general missions. conference of the diocese of New J. DeWolf Hubbard, rector at Sara York, held at Palisades Park. In nac Lake, New York, took to skis, the afternoon there was discussion on St. Patrick’s Day to reach the pa Bishop Creighton Moves and the swapping of ideas on such tients at Trudeau Sanatorium. They to Michigan Bishop Creighton is to take up his duties as bishop coadjutor of Mich igan on April 29th. The Rev. Francis B. Creamer, president of the stand MY VOTE IS FOR FREE DISCUSSION OF ing committee of the diocese, an nounced the other day that a suffi GENERAL CONVENTION ISSUES cient number of consents to the elec tion had been received to make it a THE WITNESS valid one. * * * 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue Church School Chicago, Illinois. Launches Campaign The campaign for $100,000 for St. Mary’s Hall, New Jersey dio cesan school, was launched on March Enclosed find $ for which send The Witness from now 31 with a dinner in Trenton at through General Convention (at One Dollar each) to: which Bishop Matthews was host. Frederic M. P. Pearse, chancellor of the diocese, is the chairman of the Name ...... campaign, with other prominent leaders of the diocese serving as Street.:^.---.—...... City...... chairmen of various districts. It is hoped to complete the campaign on April 12 th. H: * * Name ...... Layman Addresses Street......

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve THE WITNESS April 1, 1937 were counting on him for their suggestions for next year’s meetings. weekly celebration of the Holy Com THE BOX SCORE Most of the suggestions consisted of munion so he pushed his way over “ Please get the same leaders,” the hills for two miles to get there. h e r e a r e n o w a total of “ Please hold the fellowship in the * * * T seventeen dioceses in which same place,” and “ Please give us the Noted Chinese Churchman every clergyman of the Church is same type of program again,” so ap ±o Visit America a subscriber. This is the result of parently the general plan met with Archie T. L. Tsen, president of gift subscriptions from Bishops to favor. Each session opened with a the board of missions of the Chinese their non-subscribing clergy. Also sing in the Cathedral, followed by •Church, is to visit America this sum within the past week twelve rec dinner. Ten classes were then pre mer. It is due largely to his efforts tors have sent in gift subscrip sented, all on some phase of the that the Chinese Church has been tions for all of their vestrymen. general theme “ Christian Fundamen- able to undertake the responsibility The total number of new subscrip o f supporting an independent dio tions received since the anniver Use Your Mission Industries cese. He retired from business sev sary number in February stood at ST. ANDREW’S CRAFT SHOP eral years ago to devote himself 1,986 on March 25th. There is a MAYAGUEZ, PUERTO RICO Distinctive linens - Monogramed handkerchiefs, entirely to volunteer work for the form elsewhere in this number for Silk underwear Church. He has spent his time trav those who have not yet aided in Large exhibit at General Convention. Commission given Church organizations on eling about raising funds. Efforts this effort to increase the circula orders. are being made to persuade him to tion. Send in a subscription for Send for information. stay through General Convention. a friend, for a member of your * * * family away from home, for the Church Furnishings public library. In the effort to Brass goods, Paraments, Paintings, .'Successful Fellowship raise $5,000 this anniversary year Tablets, Chancel Furniture and Pews. Everything needed for the jn Michigan the total amount received or Church. Designs with prices sent There was a good deal of fun and pledged was $2,529 on March 25th. on request. Mention requirements. .jolliment at the closing session THE KLACSTAD STUDIOS [March 15 of the Round Table fel 225 Fifth St. S. lowship sponsored by the department Minneapolis, Minn. gation consistently from the longest ■of religious education in the diocese distance. There were songs and .of Michigan, held Monday evenings AN OUTLINE OF THE CEREMONIAL OF speeches, and Mr. Keip gave such a :in Lent at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The the Holy Communion in Accordance with good imitation of “ broadcasting” the the American Prayer Book and Anglican members of the fellowship were glad Tradition. A practical guide for those who proceedings that some of the fellow- because they thought the $1.00 reg desire to follow the Anglican Use. Sent shippers thought they were really on postpaid for fifty cents. Rev. L. E. Daniels, istration fee had paid good dividends the air. As is the usual custom, the Oberlin, Ohio. in inspiration and learning; and the members of the fellowship were fellowship committee were glad be — CHURCH FURNITURE — asked to leave with the committee cause the enrollment, mounting each DIRECT FACTORY PRICES week, reached the astonishing total Pews, Pulpits, Pulpit Chairs, Communion EDWIN S. GORHAM, Inc. Tables, Altar Vases, Altar Crosses, Bap o f 581, one of the largest in the six tismal Fonts, Folding Chairs, Sunday Church Bookstore Established 1900 School Furniture. We allow for or sell I teen years’ history of the project. Books of all publishers, Church and Parish your old equipment. Allan L. Ramsay, diocesan director Requirements, Catalogues and information Catalogue and details on request. of boys’ work, and Walter F. Keip, supplied. Vanderbilt 3-7563 Redington Co., Dept. N, Scranton, Pa. director of young people’s activities 1 8 West 45 Street New York in St. Paul’s Cathedral, formed them CHURCH DECORATIONS AND CARVED selves into a self-appointed commit When Children Wood Figures. Robert Robbins, 859 Lexing tee on awards, and surprised the Need a Laxative ton Ave., New York City. group from St. John’s Church, De troit, with a handsome teddy bear In children’s little bilious at FINE IRISH LINEN for having the largest delegation, tacks and common colds, a very specially selected for enurch use. 36" to and the group from St. James’ important part of 54" wide, cut any length. Samples of 12 the treatment is qualities on request. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 Church, Birmingham, with a banner Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. decked out in modernistic free-hand to keep the THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK style, for sending the largest dele^ bowels active. SOCIETY Mothers have Founded by Bishop White 1833 found pleasant- Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par ishes unable to purchase them, in limited Complete Line of tasting Syrup of grants, B la ck - Draught The Book of Common Prayer. Clergy nd Choir Apparel The Combined Book (The Book of Com Altar Linens, Embroideries. very useful in mon Prayer and Hymnal in one volume) Materials by the Yard, Tailoring. such cases. In Pew Size Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. J. M. HALL, Inc. fact, whenever Secretary, S. W. Car. 5th & Arch Streets, 392 FIFTH AV. (36th.), NEW YORK laxative medicine Philadelphia, Pa. is needed, children will not ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. VESTMENTS object to being given Syrup of Saint Mary’s Convent. Kenosha, Wis. Cassocks - Surpl ices - Stoles - Scarves Black-Draught, and by its relief Silks-Altar Cloths-Embroideries CATHEDRAL STUDIO— Church embroidery. Custom Tailoring for Clergymen of constipation, recovery will be New Showroom 26 S. James Place, Brooklyn, Priest Cloaks-Rabats-Collars hastened. Sold at drug stores in N. Y. Rev. Jusserand deForest in charge. f Q O T Marking one hundred Stoles $6 up, Burse, veil, $10 up, Surplices 5-ounce bottles, price 50 cents. $8 up. Exquisite Altar Linens. Cope $70 up, IO O f years of service 1 Q O T Mass set $50 up. Complete line pure Irish •o the church and clergy l u O f Also obtainable from the manu linens and Church fabrics by the yd. Em broidered emblems ready to apply. Altar L J D COX SONS & VINING, INC. facturer— send 50 cents for one Guild Handbook 60c. Address: L. V. Mack- .131 EAST 23rd STREET, NEW YORK,. N. Y. îottle to The Chattanooga Medi rille, 11 W. Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Wash an® Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. ington, D. C. Telephone Wisconsin 2752.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. April 1, 1937 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen tals for a Confused World.” To land came next, presented by Harry ord of attendance in terms of men, close each session, the entire group Meakin, and the evening was topped women and children, and each Mon met in the Cathedral for an address off with an address by Senior War day morning he mails a tabulation each week by Prof. Preston W. Slos- den Carleton Montgomery, who ex of the facts to his rector. Writes son, of the history department of the plained how the missionary work of the rector: University of Michigan. Miss Eliza the Church is organized and financed. “ There is no guess work with his beth S. Thomas, diocesan director of It is planned to have four or five statement that year in and year out religious education, and the Rev. similar meetings on missions during one man attends service to three Irwin C. Johnson, rector of St. John’s the year. women. Others may guess — he Church, Detroit, and chairman of knows. He has missed just two serv the 1937 Fellowship, were immedi High Church ices, owing to deaths in his family, ately responsible for the program. in Colorado in fourteen years. His accuracy is Very high church in southwestern National Council Colorado; in one area there are Secretary 111 four missions at altitudes varying Lewis B. Franklin is now recover from 6,000 to 9,300 feet. They call LOVIS C. TIFFANY ing from a recent illness. He ex this area, which is about the size of STVDIOS pects to resume his engagements Massachusetts, the San Juan Basin. CORPORATION shortly. * * * 46 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET * * * Why Do Men Not NEW YORK Tower and Bells Go to Church? STAINED GLASS for Kansas City Cathedral The Rev. E. Tanner Brown, rec Dean Sprouse of Grace and Holy tor of St. Clement’s, Honolulu, wants WINDOWS & MOSAICS Trinity, Kansas City, Mo., has an to know if I am interested in the CHVRCH DECORATION nounced plans for the building of a question, “ Why do not men go to INDOOR MEMORIALS tower and the installation of bells Church?” He says that his parish OVTDOOR MEMORIALS at a cost of $25,000. has been led by their eighty year MAVSOLEVMS * * * old Scotch treasurer, Mr. J. Hay Houston Parish Wilson, into such a quest. For four Has a Record teen years Mr. Wilson, in addition During the past five years Trinity to keeping the records quite up to Church, Houston, Texas, where the the standards that his people are reputed to have, and always with a Rev. Thomas N. Carruthers is rec 75,000 in use. Write for catalog. tor, has had 460 confirmations and balance, has kept an accurate rec- has received 511 by transfer. It McSHANE has brought the communicant Bell Foundry Baltimore, Md. strength to over 1,900. $ $ $ Vestrymen Take Lead in Teaching Missions Wilbur Herbert Burnham At St. Mary’s, New York City, where the Rev. C. Breck Ackley is Designer and Master rector, they have a new men’s mis sionary society to stimulate interest Craftsman in the missionary work of the Church. Last Sunday evening all the Stained and Leaded Glass speakers were men of the parish. Mr. J. S. Cleavinger led off by tell ing of the work in the middle of the Studios 1126 Boylston Street last century in Central New York. He was followed by Vestryman R. B. Boston, Massachusetts Remington, who told of missions right in New York City where he served for a number of years as lay reader. Then Harold S. Archer, an ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. other vestryman, told of work in North Carolina and John Fenton 147 E. 47th St., New York CHURCH VESTMENTS spoke on work in Africa. New Zea- ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Conferences with reference to the adornmrr of Churches MENEELY&CO. Telephone EL-dorado 5-1658 ESTABLISH ■ IN 1826 WATERVLIET, N .Y

beyond question. He asks ‘why’ ? ~We smiled, here at St. Clement’s, when we read his 1936 report, know Services of Leading Churches ing full well how he loves to add a The Cathedral of St. John bit of theology or philosophy to his Cathedral of the Incarnation the Divine Garden City, N. Y. statistical reports, but on thinking Cathedral Heights Arthur B. Kinsolving. 2nd, Dean it over one can see that he is search New York City Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. Sunday Services : 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com ing and asking real questions. Let 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning munion. 9 :30 A.M. Junior Congregation me clear away certain questions Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. mon. 4, Evening Prayer and Sermon. Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning which promptly come to mind in say Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (oa Prayer and Sermon. 4 :00 P.M. Even Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10). 9:30, Morn song and Address. ing that not only is St. Clement’s a ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Daily services in the Chapel. cross section of the average white Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4 :30. •congregation as to rich and poor, Church of St. Mary the Virgin Cathedral Church of St. John influential and humble, but also has New York Market St. and Concord Ave. 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Wilmington, Del. had during the past fourteen years Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.Ë. The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, Dean "the average cross section of clerical Sunday Masses: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M., 7:45 Evensong, with Benediction : 8 p. m. P.M. attention. For five years Padre Week-day Masses : 7, 8 and 9 :30. Weekdays: 10 A.M. and as announced. “Woods, the Australian chaplain un der Allenby during the war, was rec- Grace Church, New York Trinity Church, New York "tor and was distinctly a man’s man, Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. Broadway and Wall St. Broadway at 10th St. popular and earnest, with a tendency Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. toward advanced Churchmanship. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Daily: 8, 12 and 3. urdays. The past six years under the writer Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on lias seen a more moderate type of Thursdays and Holy Days. St. Paul’s Cathedral Churchmanship and men seem to Buffalo, New York The Heavenly Rest, New York Sundays, 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 6 P.M. like me as the Rotary Club here Weekdays: 8, 12:06. gave hie the honor of being Presi Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Days: 10 :30 A.M. dent over the 130 men a couple of Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 110 years ago. The years in between a.m. Sunday School 9 :30 a.m .; Morning Christ Church Cathedral Service and Sermon 11 a.m .; Choral Eve Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. saw a tragedy in the deposition of ning Prayer 4 p.m. The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean -a clergyman and months of little Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com Sundays : 8 :00, 9 :30, 10 :05, 11:00 a.m .; munion 11 a.m. 7 :30 p.m. clerical services, plus two years un Daily: 12:30 and 5:00 p.m. der a fine Army Chaplain. Still The Incarnation Holy Communion: Mon. Wed. Fri., 7 :00 "the old record continued of one man a.m .; Tues. Thurs. Sat., 8 :00 a.m .; Wed. Madison Avenue and 35th Street and Holy Days, 11:00 a.m. to three women. All of which be Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M., 4 P. M. ing facts is to me very interesting. Wednesdays and Holy Days, Holy Com St. Mark’s Yesterday we started the architect munion at 10 A. M., Fridays at 12:15 P. M. San Antonie, Texas Noonday Service Daily (except Satur Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry, Rector on the detailed drawings for the day) 12:15. 7:30 A.M.—Holy Communion (8:00. Advent to Easter). first unit, the parish house of a new 11:00 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Ser building program. Twenty-two thou St. Bartholomew’s Church mon. Park Avenue and 51st Street 7 :30 P.M.—Evening Service. sand dollars has come in during our Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector 10:00 A.M.—Holy Communion on Fri 8 A.M., Holy Communion. days. first month of campaigning, toward 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. "the ultimate goal of seventy-five Junior Congregation, 9 :30 and 11 A.M. Holy Comm., Thurs. and Saints’ Days, St. Michael and All Angels thousand, which I feel sure we will 10:30 A.M. St. Paul and 20th St., Baltimore, Md. Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. gain. The men are doing all the Rev. H. P. Knudsen, B.D. work, as they have done for five St. James’ Church, New York Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. 8:00 Madison Avenue and 71st Street P.M. years past in the Every Member Can- The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Week Days — Holy Eucharist—Mon. "vasses, but still the ratio of 1-3 con- 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Wed. Sat.: 10:00 A.M. Tues. Thurs. F ri.: 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service. 7:00 A.M. linues. The parish is alive and vigor 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. Morning Prayer: 9:00 A.M. Daily. 7 :$0 P.M.— Organ Recital. Evening Prayer: 5:15 P.M. Daily. ous but the ratio remains. Along 8 P.M.—Evening Prayer and Sermon. with raising money we are asking Daily—Holy Communion, 8 A.M. (except our men to help give the answer to Saturdays) also Thursdays and Holy Days, Trinity Church 12 M. Main and Holman, Houston, Texas Mr. Wilson’s query. I am sending The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, you this story wondering if the back St. Thomas Church Rector Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street 7 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion. ground of the beginning of such a New York 9 :30 A.M.— Church School. study might interest you. I have a Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and 6 :00 P.M.—Yo.ung People’s Organizations. fieeling that something may come of 4 P.M. 10 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion on Wednes Daily Services: 8:30 A.M., Holy Com days and Holy Days. munion. Noonday Service, 12:05 to 12:35. Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. All Saints Church 26th Street and Dewey Avenue Christ Church Parish Omaha Nebraska Detroit and Grosse Pointe Rector, The Rev. Frederick W. Clayton Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector Services, Sundays, Holy Communion, Rev. J. Francis Sant, Vicar 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. First Sunday in Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at month. Rivard Morning Prayer and Church School, Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard 11 a.m. Services : 8 :00, 9 :45, 11:00, 7 :30 Sun Holy Communion Wednesday and Holy days. Days, 10 a.m. Saints’ Days : 10:30.

Grace Church Gethsemane, Minneapolis Sandusky, Ohio Rev. Donald Wonders, D.D., Rector Rev. Austin Pardue Sunday Services 4th Ave. South at 9th St. 8 A. M.—Holy Communion. 9 :15— Church School. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 and 7:45. 10:30— Morning Service. Wed., Thurs., and Holy Days.

it. It is simple to wave the hand ity Church, Brooklyn. The Guild is by their rituals and by the expres and give an easy answer but surely represented by several members at sions of their leaders were extraordi something vital underlies the whole each meeting of the Morningside nary. Hymns from the Vedas were query.” Heights branch of the C.L.I.D. One followed by recitations from the member represented both the Guild Koran and ceremonies by Buddhist Social Action and the C.L.I.D. at an anti-lynching monks and Parsees. Every leader Guild at General demonstration and mass meeting in stressed the fact that the principal Evangelistic work among the sea Harlem. Some ten members were teachings of all religions were the men of the North River docks, and present at the annual Washington’s same and wished the temple to Moth hearing addresses by experts in vari Birthday Conference of the C.L.I.D. er India to be a place where the ous fields of social interest, have at Philadelphia. followers of all religions could offer formed a' two-fold program for the * * * their prayers. The Moslem, Khan Guild for Christian Social Action at For All Religions, Abdul Gaffar Khan, declared that in the General Seminary. Ten men Castes and Creeds ancient Islam a mosque was a place are assigned on a regular schedule In view of the religious diversity of worship for all people, irrespec to conduct Evening Prayer and in India, which is often considered a tive of their religion. preach at the Seamen’s House bar to political unity, the opening * * * o f the Y.M.C.A., a block away from ceremony of the Bharata Mata Tem United Adult Conference the Seminary. These services are ple at Mahatma Gandhi is signifi This Summer held six times a month, and two men cant. More than 25,000 people were Chosen representatives of twen are on duty each time, one to read present, made up of Hindus, Mos ty denominations from thirty-one the service and the other to make lems, Sikhs, Parsees, Jains, Budd states and Canada gathered last an address. The men on duty al hists, Chinese and Harijans from all summer at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, ways eat dinner at the Y. and thus parts of the country. to explore the possibilities of a gain an opportunity to hold personal “ This temple,” Gandhi declared, United Christian Adult Movement. A conversations with the sailors. “ contains no image of any god or second conference is to be held at The speakers before the Guild this goddess. It has only a relief map of the same place this July. year have been the secretary of the India made of marble in it. I hope As last year, most of the work of C.L.I.D; Sam Franklin, director of this temple, which will serve as a the Conference will be done by com the Delta Cooperative Farm of the cosmopolitan platform for the peo missions. Each delegate will select Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union; ple of all religions, castes and creeds, one commission, according to his in the Rev. Joseph Fletcher, director will go a great way in promoting re terests and ability to contribute to o f the Cincinnati Graduate School of ligious unity, peace and love in the its work. Each commission will Applied Religion, and the Rev. Brad country.” have a chairman and certain re ford Young, assistant at Holy Trin- The various religions represented source specialists. Its work will be

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Sixteen T H E WITNESS April 1, 1937 reported to the whole Conference definite community issues calling for ships for the summer conferences of and will form a part of the findings. Christian action. Among the specific the province, one at Sewanee and According to plans tentatively made, situations from which selection will the other at Kanuga, for the best there will be three types of commis be made are: The General Motors’ papers on “ What Is the Meaning of sions, each illustrative of an effec strike in Flint, an American com Holy Baptism?” The judges are the tive method of adult education, each munity dominated by patrioteering Rev. D. A. McGregor of the depart designed to make a distinctive con organizations threatening civil liber ment of religious education of the tribution to the whole Movement. ties, a “ rural slum,” a “ city slum,” a National Council and the other is the The Local Church Program Com child labor situation, a broken home, Rev. R. Bland Mitchell of Birming mission will use the method of the a credit union in a church, such as ham. “ Church Tutorial Class,” a very in Frankfort, Indiana; a race riot or SECOND THOUGHTS teresting plan widely used in adult lynching, a share-croppers’ situation, (Continued from page 2) Christian education in England. At an intense rural or rural-urban con to advocate boldly international free trade the beginning of each day’s session and the Single Tax. flict. TV/fRS. C. L,. HAMILTON, Louisville, Ken- a general topic will be presented rais Certain areas of “ Christian con tucky: I have just finished reading THE ing many questions for exploration WITNESS for March 11th containing the cern” would be brought to focus article on “Doing God’s Will in Race Rela and discussion. Such topics may in upon the situation to discover val tions” and it has almost struck terror in clude: “ The place of preaching in my heart. Though born in the north I have ues at stake. First-hand observers spent all but eight years of my life in this the local church adult education pro or participants would be brought in city and I feel that the Negro is just as gram,” “ The church and social ac capable of receiving as high a place in the for testimony. Objective analysis of after life as any o f us. But if we co tion,” “ Organizing for local church facts, of contributing factors of so mingled, as the author of this article wishes, the possible result would be disastrous. I adult work.” The whole Commis cial pressures, of vested interests, cannot help feeling the difference in color sion will then divide into groups, etc., would be made. The relation makes them a different species and close companionship would lead to marriage. This each with a leader, to discuss and ships and ramifications of the specific idea is adhorrent to me. It seems to me prepare findings on the issues raised. situation with respect to the total so God means for white people to be white people and Negroes to be Negroes, with no At a later session these findings will cial order would be explored. Some difference as to the goodness of either. To be compared and combined. The generalizations regarding needed pol me marriage between the two would be a general theme under which the Com icies and action would be made for disgrace to both parties. RS. CAROLINE W. BOUGHTON, Utica, mission will work is: “ Developing a broad application in a church pro M N. Y .: In THE WITNESS of March Christian Strategy for the Church gram of social education and Chris 4th Bishop Wilson stated that Mothering Sunday did not commemorate anything in Today, Through the United Christian tian action. particular. My old English nurse of seventy Adult Movement.” * * * years ago taught me that in her part of England numbers of boys and girls were Two or three commissions based Auxiliary Offers “ bound out” to farmers, blacksmiths, car penters to learn trades. On the third Sun upon specific situations in the social Two Prizes day in Lent they all went home if possible order will illustrate a method by The Auxiliary of the province of to their mothers and carried her a little cake—hence the terms “ Mothering Sunday” which a local church may deal with Sewanee have offered two scholar and “ Mothering Cake.”

WHEN HALF-GODS GO A Sketch of the Emergence of Religions

By CHARLES L. DIBBLE, D.C.L.

R. DIBBLE’S interpretation of Comparative Religion may be said to be distinctive D in two respects: (1 ) He holds that religions have not evolved but, rather, emerged. He contends that the appearance of loftier ideas and better ethical standards cannot be wholly explained as a development out of antecedents already present in religion or society, but involves a bursting forth from time to time of beliefs and practices entirely new— elements the emergence of which can be ascribed only to divine inspira tions. (2) He holds that the process has not been subjective but objective: that it began in reverence for holy things; and that it has always been characterized, not by leaving holy things behind, but by the effort to get through and beyond them to The Holiest (the Deity) whose symbols and manifestations they are, to find ever higher symbols and through them to penetrate further into the mystery of His nature.

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