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Bishop Voegeli credited the Education Great Need In Haiti island's middle-class, a com- paratively new social stratum Declares Bishop Voegeli in Haiti, with providing the most strenuous opposition to * Bishop Charles A. Voegeli of the Churches in Haiti is publication. up a dictator- of Haiti said at South Bend, educational," the bishop de- attempts to set and Ind. that "regardless of the clared. He said that more ship. Numerically small, the outcome" the political up- than 90 per - cent of the middle class is made up of reuse heaval on the island would 4,000,000 population is illit- students, white collar workers, for than five per have "little immediate effect" erate and less and professional people. on the Churches there. cent can be accommodated in "The emergence of this The present unrest in the the public schools. required country, he said, will probably "This throws the burden of middle class will have a most keep Haiti's leaders busy hold- education on t h e religious significant e ff e c t on the ing their own positions for the institutions of the country and future of the nation," he said. next several years and will we try to meet the challenge "Politically, the rise of this Permission take their minds off attempts as energetically as we can with group could be the greatest to bring religious institutions our limited resources," he said. advance in the last century." He saw To meet this educational DFMS. under state control. / the country's poverty as a challenge, Bishop Voegeli re- BISHOP SHERRILL greater threat to the status of ported, the Episcopal Church VISITS CANADA 40 schools and 80 Church the Haitian Churches. has set up Bishop Voegeli, who was on missions in Haiti, including a * Presiding Bishop Henry a visit through the Midwest, is theological seminary and a K. Sherrill is visiting Canada, seeking financial support for school for handicapped chil- June 4-6, to address the synod Episcopal Episcopal schools in Haiti. dren. of the diocese of Quebec. He the "The country is staggering Despite the progress the will also speak at a dinner of under the worst economic Churches of the island have given in his honor. crisis since it won independ- made in educating the resi- ence from France 153 years dents, he estimated that 85 DAY OF WITNESS Archives ago," he said. "The national per cent of the population IN NEW YORK voodooism. "No one treasury is virtually empty practices and worship 2020. * A rally owes in the government will admit and the government service, with parade, was held $18,000,000 to the National that the proportion is that in New York on May 27th to Haiti and $40,000,000 high," he said "and individuals Bank of pay tribute to Spanish-speak-

Copyright debts." deny that they believe in in foreign ing Episcopalians in the U.S., Failure of the coffee crop, black magic. But in spite of Latin America and the Carib- the nation's largest revenue Church edicts and govern- bean. It was sponsored by earner, has resulted in critical ment controls the practice the Urbans Priests and Lay- Bishop flourishes." economic conditions, mens Groups. Voegeli explained. S t r i k e s The bishop, a native of New which resulted in the ousting Jersey, is the friend and con- There were about 5,000 of President Paul E. Magloire fidant of several le a d i n g Episcopalians in the parade last December also have pro- Haitian political figures. He which ended at New York duced damage to the economy said military control of the Cathedral where the service which runs into millions of island was apparently the best was held. The offering was dollars, he added. possible arrangement to insure given to the Spanish Episcopal "One of the principal tasks a free election. League of the diocese.

THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 Three United States and Russia cer- Restrictions On Visits To China tainly have in storage today, a sufficient number of atomic bombs to gravely affect the Hit By Bishop Higgins whole world if they ever * The convention of Rhode Red China or admitting it to should be exploded. Chris- Island asked the U. S. govern- the United Nations." tians should make every effort meit to allow Church leaders He said the government's to urge the United Nations to greater freedom to visit Chris- "reluctance" to allow U. S. work for effective inter- tians in China. The delegates national agreement and stop also protested the state de- both the manufacture and the partment's ban on newsmen explosion of fissionable mate- to visit China as a "threat to rials at least until consider- the America:i tradition of a ably more data has been free press." acquired as to the probable The action was taken after effects of the explosions upon Bishop Higgins had criticized all forms of life. It seems publication. the ban. obvious that no nation will and "The present policy of our ever win an atomic war. also teaches us that government forbidding visits History an arms race always ends in reuse of American news reporters to war; therefore, the present for Red China seems to me to be race should be ter- incredibly short-sighted if not arms BISHOP HIGGINS minated, just as much for worse," he said.

required Russia's benefit as for ours." "Even more inexcusable ... Christian leaders to visit Red China "strikes at the very is the obvious reluctance of POSTPONE DISCUSSION root of our fundamental liber- the government to a llo w OF UNITY REPORT American Christian leaders to ties as Christians when it Permission of Can- visit Red China for the pur- makes itself the arbiter of * The convocations terbury and York voted to pose of praying, worshipping, whether or not Christian Churches may have contact postpone discussion of the DFMS. and conferring with their

/ report proposing Presbyterian fellow-Christians." with each other. This is a bishops and Episcopal lay Bishop Higgins said this is very precious and hard-won liberty in the story of Chris- elders until after the Lambeth Church probably the first time in U. S. Conference next year (Wit- history that newsmen have tendom." "A democratic government ness 5/23 and 5/30). Both been forbidden to gather news convocations however com- in any corner of the world in should not erect another Episcopal mended the report to the time of peace. curtain in the world, especially the between Christian Churches," churches for study. "American newsmen as a of the bishop said. Official condemnation of the whole are a highly competent segregation laws of South group of professionals who can Atomic Explosions Africa were recorded by be trusted to observe life in Archives On the subject of atomic both convocations, especially Red China or anywhere else explosions, Bishop Higgins as they affect religion and with an objective eye, and 2020. said ; education. report back to us what they "There has been increasing have seen and heard," he said. debate all over the world with CONSECRATION IN "We Americans have a right regard to the continuance of SACRAMENTO Copyright to know at first hand what is atomic explosions and their * The Rev. Clarence R. transpiring in that huge area probable long-range effect on Haden Jr. will be consecrated of the world with its teeming life on this planet. While the bishop coadjuter of Sacra- millions, and now because of answers to this question are mento on June 14 at Trinity present government policy we not definitive, it appears that Cathedral. The P r e s i d in g are obliged to get all of our the continuance of atomic Bishop will be consecrator and information from sources more explosions will certainly do no the co-consecrators will be prejudiced than our free good to life on this planet. In- Bishop Porter of Sacramento press." deed, if these explosions are and Bishop Welles of West The bishop added that he continued, they may result in Missouri. was "not now dealing with the permanently disastrous effects Bishop Mason of Dallas will problem of our recognizing upon all living creatures. The be the preacher.

Four THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 DELAWARE ADOPTS Philadelphia Quakers Support RECORD IBUDGET * The convention of Del- Of Librarian Gets Results aware, meeting in Wilmington, May 7-8, adopted a record * Support and use of a through the sixth grade, the budget of $234,670. Bishop Quaker-operated 1 i b rr y in report added, receive story Mosley also reported that Philadelphia h a s increased hour or library guidance from had been given or "very considerably" despite a Mrs. Knowles. And the Mi- $709,000 for the advance and two-year controversy over the quon school, a local private pledged fund. continued employment of a institution, continues to send development librarian convicted of contempt students of all its grades to Bishop Swift of Puerto Rico of Congress for refusing to the library. was the speaker at the answer questions about alleged ban q u e t. Following his Allen S. Olmstead, 2nd, Communist affiliations, a address Bishop Mosley pro- of the Quaker group study disclosed. chairman posed that Delaware become a which made the study, said the "companion diocese" to Puerto The study was made public findings were being published publication. Rico. He said that such a re- by the civil liberties committee to help clarify the religious lationship would mean that and Yearly of the Philadelphia and civil liberties involved and Church people in Delaware will Meeting of Friends. to dispel widespread confus- continue to study and pray for reuse It was concerned with events ion about the controversy by the Church's work in all mis- for hiring of Mrs. following the providing accurate informa- sionary fields, but that Puerto by the suburban Mary Knowles tion. Rico would have special at- Plymouth Monthly Meeting for The report said that Mrs. tention; special pra yer s, required its library after she had been had originally in- special education and care. named as a one-time member Knowles voked the Fifth Amendment, except for financial matters. of a Communist group and had but at subsequent appearances invoked the Fifth Amendment The convention later before a Congressional com- Permission before the Senate Internal adopted a resolution calling mittee she based her refusal Security subcommittee. for this relationship. to testify on a challenge to the Bishop Mosley also paid was convicted DFMS. Mrs. Knowles committee's authority to in- tribute to St. David's Brandy- / Jan. 10 by the Washington, vestigate her beliefs and as- wine Hundred, which started D.C., Federal District Court sociations. as a mission in November,

Church and is now free on bail pend- "Among the religious issues 1954, and has made such ing an appeal from a 120-day progress under the Rev. J. jail term and a $500 fine. raised by the controversy," the report stated, is "the Seymour Flinn that it was Meanwhile, the five-member elevated to full parish status Episcopal of the Plym- Christian belief in the power library committee at this convention. the outh Monthly Meeting has con- of truth to unfold in every of sistently upheld the "justice" human heart and in the pos- sibility for every person to MARYLAND OBSERVES of her "cause" and resisted FAMILY DAY demands by local groups for change and develop. This im- Archives her dismissal. plies accepting individuals for * The diocese of Maryland what they are rather than The report of the civil observed its first family day

2020. chaining them to a past, al- liberties group, which was ac- on May 25th at Claggett leged or actual." cepted by the Philadelphia Center. The children's offer- Yearly Meeting at its recent The committee said another ing, formerly presented in several areas, was presented Copyright annual sessions, said the "crucial issue" raised by the library has "far more of a actions of the Plymouth by all the churches at an out- place in the community than Monthly Meeting is the right door service. The altar, made ever before," with the circu- of a religious body "to conduct from stones from each church lation of books showing an its affairs without interfer- of the diocese, was dedicated increase from 21,288 in 1954 ence from any legislative in- by Bishop Powell, who also to 28,290 in 1956. vestigatory committee." blessed the crops and the It also said that the Plym- "The challenges which have cattle. 3,500 people were there, outh Meeting Friends school been offered to that right in with a record representing ninety churches. is "flourishing this case," it declared, "have enrollment of 160 and a build- Before and after the service im- ing program under way." profound and far-reaching they ate, played ball and other Pupils f r o m kindergarten plications for all Americans." games.

THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 Churches already have peace Responsibility committees within the frame- Women Have Big work of the government To Support Church Program group. Gre.t Grandmother lived privately held wealth of the APPROVE COMMUNION in subjection to her husband; U.S. FOR REMARRIED she had promised to obey Dominate eighty per cent of * The lower house of the him. He handled the family the nation's buying power. convocation of Canterbury, finances, of course. When it Make eighty-five per cent of meeting May 23 in London, came to money, he knew best. the retail purchases. voted 58 to 24 to admit to Grandmother w a s given Have sixty per cent of the Holy Communion persons who money of her own. If the savings accounts. have remarried after divorce, children needed shoes she was Inherit eighty per cent of provided they have the con- given the amount needed to the life insurance policies. sent of the bishop. buy them. Own half or more of the

publication. Mother-she really broke stocks and bonds of large MINNESOTA BACKS the record. She and her hus- corporations. CHURCH STAND and band had a joint bank account. Own forty per cent of our * The diocese of Minnesota, They discussed family finance homes. at its convention held at St. reuse just as naturally as they Purchase twenty-seven per Paul, sent congratulations to for planned a picnic. cent of men's furnishings. the Church in South Africa Daughter always had a Fifty-five per cent of boy's for its stand against segrega- mind of her own. She married clothing. tion. required before he was established. Fifty-nine per cent of girl's Bishop Kellogg and the She kept her job two years as clothing. council of the diocese were they planned. Both worked Ninety-seven per cent of requested "to take whatever and both had a pay check. women's toilet articles. Permission steps they deem appropriate They talked things over with Ninety-eight of women's to interpret this resolution the children and have a family clothes. and make our support of the Seventy-four per cent of the DFMS. council on spending the family of South Africa more

/ Church money. groceries. than merely lip service." to pass Christian stewardship in the Men like jokingly they Church home is not an isolated prac- over a near-truth-that BISHOP OF MEXICO their religion in their tice apart from all other at- carry TO RETIRE wife's name. Now, if the titudes toward money and its reli- * Bishop Efrain Salinas y practice of Chris- wife refuses to take that Episcopal uses. The is to retire gion seriously in its economic Velasco of Mexico tian stewardship in family at the end of this year. He the where do we finance indicates that the implications, of turn next? has headed the district since family is striving for the The above material is taken 1934 and reaches the retire- beauty of Christian living, and from the book "Financing ment age next January. its attitude toward money Archives Faith" by Harriet Harmon is one of the facets that reflect Dexter for five years editor HOME FOR AGED the light of a happy relation- IN ATLANTA 2020. Church Woman," ship. of "The magazine of the United Coun- * Bishop Clairborne of In American culture men cil of Church Women. It's Atlanta announced on May 20 and women share certain re- interesting reading ! that a fund of $115,000 had Copyright sponsibilities in the social been made available to the order and at the same time CATHOLICS OF HUNGARY diocese to establish a home perform the functions peculiar PLAN PEACE GROUPS for the aged. to the male and female species. * Roman Catholic Bishops Will the Christian woman in Hungary announced in CAPITAL PUNISHMENT assume her Christian respon- Budapest that they will set up LAW SUPPORTED sibility in the use of wealth? an organization devoted to * The convention of the Looking at a few staggering peace. It will affiliate with diocese of Quincy, meeting at statistics one takes time to the National Peace Committee Rock Island, Illinois, requested recover from amazement. which is sponsored by the the state legislature to ap- Women: government. prove proposed legislation to Own seventy per cent of the The Reformed and Lutheran end capital punishment.

THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 EDITORIALS The Weak and The Strong meant what he said, he had little choice but to ST. theAUGUSTINE, "City of God",in the raises nineteenth the questionbook of leave Germany. One could choose to become whether a judge should continue to sit even a citizen of the Union of South Africa only as when the laws under which he must operate a desperate measure of protest, with the firm are unjust-in particular, the questioning of expectation of being jailed or worse. witnesses under torture. Yes, says Augustine, But this only underlines the impossibility of he must sit, because it is his duty to Caesar; getting along without Church and state: if but he still must not say that the law is just one moves a little colony to Melanesia one will when it isn't. From that day to this still have to set up some rudimentary govern- publication. Augustine's question has continued to be ment; the most isolated and hard-shelled and raised in different forms. Sometimes it is Baptist reformer inevitably will create a little clear that the judge should not sit: under the sect in his own image and likeness. reuse Nazis for example; or when Seneca the for philosopher persuaded himself that for the You Are Stuck good of the state he should continue as Nero's absolute- counsellor, even when it meant writing the IF YOUR Church and nation are not required then, you are stuck with speech in which Nero excused and applauded ly impossible, the wisdom or fore- himself for murdering his own mother. How them: you will not have of tempta- are we to decide at precisely what point we sight to found a new Church freer tions; you will be likely to find pretensions

Permission should stop cooperating with Caesar and the whatever nation you City of this world? equally galling in you owe a certain Exactly the same question arises with the emigrate to. Furthermore,

DFMS. debt to "your" nation and Church; they / Church. If the state is tempted to identify up itself with the City of God, much more is the brought you up, and you can't be brought disagree with them, in Church-although Augustine himself does differently; if you Church on not seem to have fallen into this temptation. part they taught you the very principles there, But certainly, when a Church asserts that its whose basis you disagree; you belong dogmatic decisions are unquestionably correct, and anywhere else you would always feel a Episcopal when the building of a new parish house or little unnatural. What attitude are you to the to render to the launching of a new revival is unambiguous- take when they start asking you of ly identified with furthering the "Kingdom of them what belongs only to God? God"-we are well on the way to making the Refuse, of course; but to say this does not always take you too far. Sin and pride you

Archives fatal identification. How long can one remain in a Church that is showing such delusions of will find everywhere. If as a historian one tries to dissect why a war began; or if one 2020. grandeur? Well, what is the alternative to belonging to has ever been involved in a first-class parish a nation or a Church? Belonging to a differ- dispute; or if one has seen brothers and sisters contesting a will-the analysis is end-

Copyright ent nation or a different Church! Even the Ethical Culture Society, which was formed in less. Every foolish action, every bitter word, protest against all existing forms of Christ- every irrevocable step is the product of a ianity and Judaism, will be seen having whole inheritance of bad feeling and resent- services on Sunday morning and, to the ment working on motives which might other- sociologist's eye at least, behaving very much wise have been decent ones. like any other Church. Obviously there are After you think about the whole mess for occasions when one must move out of a par- ten minutes you will conclude that you can ticular nation or Church: if one becomes con- only explain it by beginning, "Now once upon vinced that the Papal claims are false, one a time there were a man and a woman living must really leave the Roman church; when a in a lovely garden with a lot of friendly German became convinced that Hitler really animals; when all of a sudden one day . . . ".

THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 sevw. All the ills of our unhappy planet are inter- the weak are the people who are at the bottom connected and go back to a common source. of the ladder, and who are therefore the But if this is so, one would almost feel that toughest, able to get along on the least. So every human institution as equally sinful, and when a turning-point in history comes, they there is no possibility of making distinctions. are likely to come out on top; and the fact But this is just to turn Church and state over that they have been poor will not necessarily to the devil. Somewhere one must make a make them better when they are strong. stand; but where? What cause can one take Marx was moved at least in part by the human up that will not automatically turn us back to misery of the industrial proletariat; but look hypocrisy and self-congratulation? what has become of Marxism! The Christ The only possible answer we can think of is: was moved by the misery of the Hellenistic "the cause of the weak against the strong". proletariat, the "sheep without a shepherd"; And obviously taking up this cause will not and look what has become of Christianity! automatically put us in the right. The nar- The time when everyone starts coming into rator of Camus's "The Fall" discovered that the Church, when Constantine makes the of the poor an official religion, is publication. his central sin was the pride he took in his Gospel real benefits to widows and orphans. But it actually the time when one must start getting and will not automatically put us in the wrong. ready to move out of the Church.

reuse This is not to say that the weak are always or Our Example for usually innocent or deserving. But when one takes up the cause of the weak there is always AND in fact it is very hard to find a case of a possibility of upholding the right principles. complete injustice to throw oneself into required When one helps the weak they will not heart and soul. Presumably some of the immediately start robbing or killing; they are Africans whose cause Michael Scott has taken not strong enough. More than that; among up can be cruel or superstitious. If a house- the weak there may really exist injured in- wife is being persecuted by some local investi- Permission nocence-a child abused, a girl taken ad- gating committee because she subscribes to vantage of, a prophet stoned, a poor man the New Republic, you may still find that she

DFMS. has around her a little clique of bitter and

/ brought to court. opportunist supporters. The secular reformer Justified Support does not wish to believe this, because every

Church man needs a visible symbol of the good. is to say, we feel that the United THATStates really warrants our support to Christians here are better off, because the the extent that she refuses to use her power: records of Jesus' persecution show no trace of Episcopal to the extent that she honors her treaties with wrong motives on his part. Whether a wholly the the Indians: that she ties no strings to foreign innocent victim can exist in history, as Chris- of aid: that she refuses to do business with tians believe, is a debatable matter; but the dictators who say they are on her side: that belief that it did prevents one from whitewash- wronged ing over the elements of sin in other victims. Archives she is really concerned with the Negro at home and abroad. The one reason for the existence of Chris- worship the 2020. Likewise we feel that the Church warrants tianity is to offer for the world's our support to the extent that she makes her suffering of Jesus; when you come right down central concern preaching the gospel to the to it, the only holiday worth keeping is Good poor: that she is sensitive to root out signs Friday. Copyright of anti-Semitism in herself: that she is Endless is our power of self-deception, of anxious to avoid proselytizing: that she re- persuading ourselves that the cause of the fuses to let bishops or clergy or vestries make weak is our cause. But we have been warned; themselves little popes: that she will not let and we have always the Christ as example and fund-raising organizations high-pressure the warning. We may then gladly (and un- uneducated or simple. expectedly!) support Church and state when- This you know; we have often said it be- ever-even if accidentally, even if only for a fore; and you can judge as well as we how far time-they take up the cause of the weak. your nation or Church fits the description. And whenever they take up the cause of the But the hardest thing to remember is that strong we have again to begin resisting, to the weak do not always stay weak. Because dissociate ourselves from them, to point at

Eight THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 inevitable Nemesis, to raise before them the either of them; Paul's tentmaking was a use- example of Jesus. ful thing to fall back on. Mostly they will not pay much attention to We shall be lonely; but it will be such loneli- us. We will do well not to be too beholden to ness as is appropriate to the human condition. Why People Do Not Go To Church By Terence J. Finlay Rector of St. Bartholomew's, New York

great trouble is that so many of these people num- DURINGpapers thereported last weeks that asome recent of pollour news-taken are quite respectable; in fact, you may your friends and throughout the country indicated that church- ber many of them among fail to realize is going has reached its highest level in many acquaintances. What they drew a comparison that God has created them, just as he created publication. years. The paper I read hearts between church-going in this country and in you and me; that he has given them and our worship, Great Britain; it showed that, whereas over and minds and souls. Through to make contact fifty percent of our people attend church, the we try, however inadequately, reuse us. Those who figure in Great Britain was only ten percent. with the one who created for at the Church of God While we may feel some sense of satisfaction neglect their attendance through reading from this sort of comparison, I think it is well may stimulate their minds and discussion groups; they may feed their required to realize that we have no cause for com- emotions; but they placency when we realize that almost fifty per- hearts with love and other their spiritual being, for cent of our people attend church rarely, if at are slowly starving soul is fed, it shrivels and dies. all. Easter Day is a clear-cut revelation to us unless the

Permission find no meaning in going to church of the fact that our present church buildings Those who of contact with God. would be entirely inadequate to hold the people have lost their sense They are perishing-even though it may be DFMS. who really could come to church if they made / respectable manner. that extra effort. How thrilling it would be in a most if, from the point of view of attendance, every Challenge

Church The Sunday were like Easter. Let us, then, for a few moments look at some of the reasons for IGHT here we have a challenge confronting the non-attendance of this vast multitude. us. Those who gather in church move in with

Episcopal contact First, we must admit that there are many all walks of life. We come in many of these-if I may so term them- the people who, like the man described by the of I think that it is up Psalmist, have very little belief in a God at all. "respectable atheists." Church, who "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no to those of us who believe in the a vital role in the community, God". Will you note that it does not say "pro- feel that it has Archives opportunity of wit- fesses with his lips" or "writes with his pen", to say so. Ours is the and his Church, in our day but "the fool hath said in his heart, there is nessing for Christ 2020. no God"? Crowds of non-church-goers are and generation. to be found in this group. They would not go I would be the first to admit that one of the so far as the atheistic Communist and make reasons some people do not come to Church Copyright their denial of God revealed by Jesus Christ. may be found within the Church itself. There They probably would not even be heard openly may be the feeling that the Church has lost its admitting their atheism. But in their heart, relevancy to the present-day world; that its they are to all intents and purposes practical language is archaic and outmoded; that the atheists. clergy use words and phrases which have little should Many people rationalize with themselves and meaning for their listeners. We words that fall so say that while they do not actually oppose the remember that some of the lips-such as Incarnation, Church, and are not connected with any glibly from our to be Church, after all they do believe vaguely in a Grace, Redemption, Salvation-have genera- Supreme Being. No thinking man would really interpreted in modern language to this declare that he has no belief in God. The (Continued on Page Twelve) Nine THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 Torch Books Harper & Brothers They are:The Word of God and Harper's Torch Books is a series the Word of Man, by Karl Barth BOOKS... of theological classics in reprint form (translated by Douglas Horton), Kenneth Ripley Forbes at moderate prices. The six latest $1.65; The Influence of Greek Book Editor titles which have come to our desk Ideas on Christianity, by Edwin are all of permanent value for Hatch, with a foreword by Unity in the Faith by William masters or students of theology. Frederick C. Grant, $1.45; Paul; Porcher Du Bose. Seabury Press. $3.00 There comes to us in this book a collection of the most refreshing the- ological essays. Written by a pro- Jamestown .. found student of theology and Biblical exegesis, they are expressed in language so unlike the technical is our best les publication. jargon of most theological treatises and that the wayfaring man, though a fool.. shall not fail to have some overseas missi, reuse clear understanding of the deep for realities they set before us. These essays were originally published in The Constructive Quarterly from required Of course the Church came to 1913 to 1920. They are a fair the New and adequate summary of the World along with those who were primarily author's teaching in his earlier and engaged in a commercial enterprise. That's longer books.

Permission the point! The Bishop of London, who Professor Pittenger of the Gen- then as now had responsibility for the eral Seminary is the editor of these missionary work of the Church of England, DFMS. remarkable essays and he expresses Above is shown the / the conviction that seal of the Virginia saw the Church's Dr. Du Bose Company of London responsibility for taking was the only important creative which was, in truth, the love of Christ wherever the flag of

Church theologian that the Episcopal Church a joint stock corpo- in the United ration. The Virginia England was carried. Otherwise, the Rev- States has produced". Venture was a truly Referring to the present collection of national enterpr i s e erend Robert Hunt would not have been essays, he says: "Here is a living w i t h hundreds of numbered among the small band that Episcopal stockholders, thinker, much more living so m e than many large, some small, in established the first permanent the colony at who happen to be physically alive at nearly all parts of of Jamestown; the present day. His thought is as England. It was this otherwise nineteen c l e r g y company, with pri- vital, as relevant and as theologically vate capital, which would not have come to Virginia during the impressive now as it was thirty and made the first in- first eleven years of colonization. But Archives forty years ago. And it is my vestment in America. more important, had not the Bishop of opinion that when the 'neo-ortho- 2020. doxy' which is now having its day comes to an end, and men and women are looking once more for

Copyright some intelligible and believable theological orientation, Dr. Du Bose's work will be there for them THE to study." Particularly valuable and en- THE ] lightening for the average reader are the essays entitled "Resur- rection", "The Church" and 281 FOURTH AVENUE, NI "Evangelical and C at ho l i c". Churchmen should be grateful to Seabury Press for giving us this long overdue volume.

Ten THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 Adolph Harnack, The Sources of the Synoptic Gospels a Study in Social and Religious Christianity, by Knox. Bailey Saun- by the late Wilfred History, by Adolph Deissmann, translated by Thomas Vol. I. St. Mark (1953). translated by William E. Wilson, ders, $1.35. Vol. II. St. Luke and St. For those sensible folks among $1.45; The Beginning and the End, theological scholars who do not Matthew (1957). Cambridge Press, $4.00 each. by Nicolas Berdyaev, $1.35; Chris- scorn paper-back reprints, these Univ. to tian Faith and Natural Science, by books will be welcome additions The Dean of the Queens' Karl Heim, $1.25; and What is their libraries. College, Cambridge, Dr. Henry Chadwick, has performed a labor of devotion in editing the work of the late Dr. Knox. The author was troubled by the results of Form Criticism, and undertook to show o that between the original oral tradi- tion and the finished gospels there was a stage during which brief col- on in lections, "sources of sources"-or publication. "tracts," as he called them-circu- This is a most and lated in the Church. probable theory, though some of the may be interpreted by

reuse evidence experts in a different way. Slowly for the conviction is spreading among scholars and students that the were not literary creations by

required gospels London and, in fact, the Church of England individual authors but "traditional" been fully conscious of its missionary books, and belonged to the Church responsibility, it might be said that there from the beginning; they used the written Permission would be no Church in America today. Church's tradition, and were down for the Church's purposes of And therein lies one of the great lessons instruction, worship, polemic, and

DFMS. of Jamestown . . . the Church's best lesson or evangelism.

/ propaganda in overseas missionary work. Certainly -F. C. Grant this seventeenth century missionary zeal Church Sermon Outlines on the Lord's Church's great was one of the Episcopal Prayer. By Iran Pettitt. inheritances. A n d here, clearly, is a Morehouse-Gorham. $.50 ignore. Episcopal responsibility which we can not One need not be a preacher to

the we Certainly in this mid-twentieth century find this little pamphlet of value. of have a similar responsibility to carry the It is a simple and sound instruction love of Christ to all of today's new worlds. in the art of Christian prayer. It like a simplification of where is something Archives And a new world today is anywhere that profound book of Evelyn that love of Christ is unknown. Underhill's, Abba Father, and that 2020. is high praise.

Saints and their Flowers by Gladys

Copyright Taylor. Morehouse - Gorham. $2.75 ATIONAL COUNCIL OF This is a book, illustrated with curious a n d interesting pictures, which deals with legends of the PISCOPAL CHURCH The Church of Jamestown saints, major and minor, and with entertaining stories of the traditional connection of many of our common W YORK CITY, NEW YORK flowers with this and that saintly person. Lists of f'owers and of saints serve for the index of the book. Eleven THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 ber of the family; or it may be to pay their DR. FINLAY'S ARTICLE or a loved (Continued from Page Nine) last respects to a business associate one. They do go to church, not because they really want to, but because they feel it is their tion. I am quite sure that sometimes our duty to their friends or their family. But preaching is beyond the average person in they should remember that they belong to a the pew. There is no doubt that some people greater family-the family of God who created do stay away from church because they do not them! understand what it is all about. Adeline Patti described the location of her The Soldier home in Wales as being "twenty miles from T THE close of the last war, just before everywhere and very beautiful." The latitude the Christmas season, I called on a and longitude which she gave would seem to returned soldier, who had been a prisoner of locate many of our sermons, for they are at war in a camp in East Germany under a least twenty miles from any definite point on harsh commandant. When we were alone for earth. Possibly there may be some question publication. a few moments, he mentioned the previous at times about their beauty, but there is no Christmas, when their padre, who had been and doubt whatever about the distance! The captured with them, requested permission to preacher should remember that he has to service. He was told that he reuse hold a Christmas reach the hearts and minds of people who have were in the for could hold the service only if it not passed through the doors of a theological open air, as the commandant felt that the bit- seminary. ter weather would deter them. But the required We now come to another oft-repeated reason prisoners cleaned their old uniforms and for the lack of church attendance. This is patched their worn boots, and, he said, "We that some church member at some time has went to our Christmas Day service as if we done us a wrong. We felt that this was un- were going on parade. As I stood there in the Permission worthy of what he represented, and therefore snow and heard the words of the Christmas we have stopped attending any place of wor- service, I resolved that if I ever got back

DFMS. ship. We must take this to heart for in a very home again, I would be in church on Christmas / real way Christ has committed his cause into Day, and at other times as frequently as 1 our hands. When we do something that is could." Church unworthy of our Christian calling, we let him Christmas Day came, and I looked for him and his Church down. at church in vain. That evening I stopped There seems to me a weakness in the argu- by at his home, which was just down the Episcopal ment of those who declare, "I will have street; and when he saw me he was so the nothing to do with the Church because I know mortified that he buried his face in his hands. of some one-clergyman or member-who has Then he looked up and said, "I went out with committed a fault." This is all wrong, for it some of my friends last night, and I got drunk. is like saying, "I believe my doctor to be in- When I woke up, it was almost noon; and I Archives competent. Therefore I shall not seek good had missed my Christmas service. I feel so health any more." It is just as ridiculous as ashamed." "How could you forget so quick- 2020. saying, "I will have nothing more to do ly ?" I replied. with music because the girl next door cannot How can over fifty percent of our people play Beethoven's Sonatas." The Church is

Copyright forget God's blessings? How can they forget made up of men and women like ourselves; the God who created them? How can they for- and Christ has committed this treasure to get and stay away from his house? earthen vessels. There will always be people who will let the Church down. But that is no reason for condemning Christ or the Church which bears his name. CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTIONS Then there are those who have lost any By Bishop Irving P. Johnson desire to come to Church until they are stabbed 50c a copy awake by some great event in their lives. It may be the baptism of a child or grandchild; The WITNESS - Tunkhannock, Pa. it may be the wedding of a friend or a mem-

Twelve THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 fered as a result of that early defection? You and I are in charge of that same Chris- Don Large tian enterprise today. If we fail in zeal, faithfulness, and alertness of spirit, God will The Church's Bull Pen not be mocked. It may even be that a "rookie" group on the outer fringe of Christianity may be showing a more disciplined control of the baseball season is on again "Now that Christ's Word than we or the Presbyterians wood against horse- and the joyous sound of or the Methodists or the Roman Catholics, for the land," says Halford Luc- hide is heard over example, are displaying. And in that case, the talk I once had with the cock, "I recall the Lord will certainly lose no time in re- league ball club. We manager of a major placing us! Thank God for the threat of knuckle balls, and Texas talked of curves, being sent to the showers, and for the presence reached the subject of leaguers, and finally of the bull pen. They both remind us that, in pen. the bull the Christian contest, Christ has room for bull pen, as everyone except Aunt "Now, the none but first-string contestants! publication. Matilda knows, is a space in the corner of the to and outfield, to which reserve pitchers are sent warm up in view of the possible collapse of reuse the pitcher when he can't find the plate or for when he's being hit all over the lot. I asked NOW HEAR THIS the manager what effect it has on a pitcher when he sees another pitcher warming up to By Frederick A. Schilling required take his place. "He said that some pitchers get more jittery than ever and begin dealing out bases on balls The Gospels for Whitsunday abandon. Others tighten up St. John 14:15-31; St. Luke 11:9-13 Permission with generous and sail the ball over the plate with the deadly "If a man love me, he will keep my words, aim of an Annie Oakley. It must be a tough and my Father will love him, and we will

DFMS. make our abode with him." / spot for a pitcher to be in-hearing the thump come unto him, and of the ball in the catcher's mitt out in the bull The association in the Prayer Book of St. pen, and realizing that any pitch may be his John 14:15ff. with Acts 2 makes this Johan- Church last for that game." nine selection a commentary on the Lukan If, without irreverence, we could apply the account. This is entirely in harmony with bull pen idea to the Church, the results would the nature and purpose of this Gospel in its Episcopal be certainly thought-provoking. It might be entirely. It is the extension into the present the good for a preacher if he knew there was an- of the inner elements of past events. The of other parson warming up in the parish house, age of the spirit had its impressive inaugural ready to take over the pulpit as soon as the on Pentecost but its quiet inception in Jesus sermon began going wide himself, in his character, his words, his acts. Archives starting preacher's of the congregation! An ecclesiastical bull So, Acts 2 is the fulfillment of the mind of Jesus. 2020. pen might be the means of parochial salvation. It wouldn't be the first time it had happened St. John understands the author of Acts in history. The first-century-Jerusalem Church (St. Luke) perfectly. The Lord has returned discrimination and as spirit, and has equipped his disciples to Copyright practiced racial and cultic segregation-and by the year 70 it was a dead make proclamation of his reign, and from here and by-passed Church. By the same token, St. on he is by their side as counsellor (the Greek, Paul gave young John Mark a golden chance "paraclete"; Latin, "advocatus"; cp. Socrates' to be a gallant missionary. But when Mark "daimon", the monitor within him). The flinched in the face of opposition and couldn't Evangelist St. John is an exhibit of this func- stay in there pitching with cool courage and tion as he interprets and construes the original conviction, Paul lost no time sending him to events and as he actually speaks in the role the showers. Mark fortunately made a come- of the risen and present Lord. St. John does back before it was too late, but that was the not glorify himself, but he throws the spot- end of that particular contest-and who knows light constantly on Jesus the Counsellor how the Christian enterprise may have suf- ("Comforter" in the AV). He is the advocate Thitw THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 who intercedes for us, but also the spirit that the logical corellary, that further teaching informs and guides us. This is the doctrine of will be in harmony with previous teachings of this Gospel selection. Jesus. Here is the principle and criterion of The last sentence of verse 31 has been a living tradition. The farewell in v. 27 is omitted: "Rise, let us go hence." This has only relative. Peace is the constant gift. been variously explained, but the simplest There is a continuing rhythm: "I go ... I meaning is suggested by the connection be- come", like the movement of light waves. "In tween chapters 13 and 14. The former stands, me" the prince of this world has no power :arratively, in the location of the other (v.30). This is for us. In communion with Gospels' account of Jesus' last supper. Chap- him, in his place as in a city of refuge, there ter 14 reads as conversation on that occasion. is safety, because he is beyond the devil's When it is finished, Jesus bids them to rise and reach. Jesus in his day had already seen go out with him (14:31, cp. St. Mt. 26:46). It Satan fall (St. Lk. 10:18). all looks to the future, the age of the New This Gospel lesson shows how the inner Testament. Actually, it is there already. The reality of Acts 2 is permanent in the genuine publication. Evangelist reads his contemporary experi- Christian fellowship of love and faithfulness

and ences as implicit in Jesus' mind. The exalted without the temporally conditioned external Lord of the Evangelist's day has gathered up phenomena of that Pentecost. Ethics rather

reuse into himself the figure of the historic Jesus, than ecstasy is the area of God's residence for as the historic Jesus of that night has already (v. 23). living in the future. We can see that quite The Lukan Gospel selection urges Christians clearly when we notice how, for example, the to seek consistently and earnestly to have this required description of the counsellor had its seed indwelling Holy Spirit. It is God's gift, not thought in words of Jesus transmitted by the man's production. God does not jealously keep earlier Gospels about the spirit that would it for himself. Man needs it, and God gives it speak to the aisciples when on trial (St. Mt. Permission to him who seeks as naturally and gladly as a 10:19, 20; St. Lk. 12:11, 12; St. Mk. 13:11). father gives food to his hungry child. Certain details of the passage are especially DFMS.

/ significant. The "comforter" in verse 16 is spoken of as "another" in contrast with the historic Jesus, but in v. 18 he is definitely Church identified as Jesus now in spirit form "in you" (v. 17). "I live" expresses the essential fact. SO YOU'RE CALLING It is really not the Jesus of past history, but Episcopal the Spirit-Jesus speaking through the Evan- A RECTOR! the gelist, and always speaking in the spirit of of truth. "That day" (v. 20) had therefore come By Robert Nelson Back already. However, St. John's spirituality is not a mysticism devoid of ethical teaching and Archives action. It has commandments which must be kept. These are the words of Jesus trans- 2020. mitted in the earlier Gospels and enlarged in Bishops will want a supply on hand to the new. St. John is reiterating their im- send to vestries about to call a rector. portance (verses 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 31). The Copyright Spirit is not something vaporous, but truth Others will find it a most valuable leaflet, that is known, read and heard from Jesus' whether or not their parish faces the task authorship. Therefore, Spirit and exalted of finding a new rector. Jesus are one. This is the spirit that will lead to more profound revelations (cp. 1. John 3:2). 25c a copy $2 for Ten In answer to the conventional question in v. 22 it is reaffirmed that the revelation of the ascended is ethically conditioned. The Holy Spirit and the Spirit-Christ are further THE WITNESS equated by the phrase, "in my name" (cp. 1. Tunkhannock - Pennsylvania John 2:1; Ro. 8: 34), and by the specification,

Fourteen THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 a hard time of it in this life. It is still a world Without The Cross that crucified Christ and is in rebellion against Gospel is not a success story, not By Benjamin Minifie God. The Thinkers would Dean of Cathedral, Bethlehem, Pa. in any sense that the Positive have us believe. It ends in an invincible hope, attitude should be the Church's with an immortal victory-but only after a WHAT religious movements such as toward terrible cost and sacrifice. True religion loves Unity, Positive Thinking, Christian Science, and serves God for his own sake. It does not have influenced so many people etc., which aim at using him to get prizes and favors. both in and out of the traditional Churches? out that Unity teaches the We put them together here because they all We should point are re-incarnated, made stem from what is known as "New Thought", spirits of the dead in new form. Mary Baker they all promise health, happiness and success blood and flesh all sickness and suffering (even in a material sense) to their devotees Eddy's theory that mind is entirely con- who have learned to pray rightly.. are errors of the mortal trary not only to the Bible but to the evidence publication. is Christianity without the New Thought of mind and senses. and cross, it has been said. Our general protest error to say that "one reli- against these groups is that they offer It is a terrible is as good as another." That is to say reuse troubled souls a half-truth. Admittedly joy gion does not matter. To be tolerant for and health and peace are promised to God's that truth we should not have a good faithful ones, but this is not the whole story does not mean that and committment to what we of the Gospel. It is joy, health and peace in understanding of required our Church believes and spite of the tribulations of this world. Indeed, believe and what be tolerant of people, Jesus makes it rather clear that those who practices. We should error. really take him at his word can expect to have but not tolerant of Permission

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BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL, New Haven, Conn.; BEXLEY HALL THE "Z DIVINITY SCHOOL OF KENYON COLLEGE, Gambier, Ohio; CHURCH " .b DIVINITY SCHOOL OF THE PACIFIC, Berkeley, Calif.; DIVINITY SCHOOL "" OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH in Philadelphia; EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL, Cambridge, Mass.; EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL "j SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST, Austin, Texas; THE GENERAL THEO- 4. LOGICAL SEMINARY, New York City; NASHOTAH HOUSE, Nashotah, Wis.; "Z" SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.; SEABURY-WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Evanston, Ill.; VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Alexandria, Va.

Fift THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 now on the staff of St. Alban's, John's, Worthington, 0., and becomes Los Angeles. ass't at St. Thomas, Terrace Park, 0. PEOPLE E. PHILIP DIGNAM, formerly rector of St. Athanasius, Los Angeles, is now rector DEATHS: of Holy Trinity, Cov'ina, Cal. CLERGY CHANGES: W. CLINTON BILLING, 52, asst to Bishop CHARLES H. DOUGLASS, formerly rector ANDREW B. JONES, rector of Epiphany, Bloy of Los Angeles, died suddenly on of Trinity, San Antonio, Texas, is now Baltimore, Md., becomes rector of St. May 8. He was instrumental in estab- rector of St. John's, Montgomety, Ala. Paul's, Stockbridge, Mass, June 15. lishing 25 new missions in the diocese GERALD G. GIFFORD, formerly rector of ROBERT C. RUSACK, vicar of St. James, during the past six years. St. Stephen's, Hawaii, is now rector of Deer Lodge, Mont., and associated St. John's, Worthington, 0. churches, becomes a student at St. PAYTON G. CRAIGHILL, formerly ass't at Augustine's College, Canterbury, England, THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH the Redeemer, Baltimore, Md., has ac- Ray. JOHNrHEuss, D.D., RECTOR Sept. 1. TRINITY cepted appointment to Okinawa. PEYTON REED, formerly as't at St. t,:oadway & Wall St. WILLIAM P. WEEKS, formerly rector of Rev. Bersard C. Newman, Vicar Thomas, Terrace Park, 0., is now rector Sun. HC 8, 9, 11, EP 3:30; Daily MP St. Peter's, Pasadena, Texas, is now rector 7:45, HIC 8, 12 Midday Scr 12:30, EP of St. Paul's, Logan, 0. 5:05; Sat HC 8, EP 1:30; HD HC 12; of St. Peter's, Kerrville, Texas. C Fri 4:30 and by appt. J. LYON HATFIELD has retired as rector JAMES I. DAVIDSON has resigned as publication. ST. PAhL'S CHAPEL of St. Stephen's, Bridesburg, Philadelphia. rector of St. Andrew's, Chicago, to do Broadway and Fulton St. and DONALD L. JACKSON, formerly ass't at graduate work at Rev RIobert C. Husnsicker, Vicar the University of Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Set 10. Week- St. James, Wichita, Kans., is now rector California. days: HC 8 (Thurs. also at 7:30 a.m.) 12:05 cx. Sat.; Prayer & Study 1:05 ex. reuse of Christ Church, El Reno, Okla. FREDERICK W. FIGGE, formerly curate at Sat., EP 3. C Fri. 3:30-5:30 & by appt. Organ Recital Wednesdays. for DONALD L. RHAESA, on the faculty of St. Paul's, Syracuse, N. Y., is now rector CHAPEL OF THE INTERCESSION Shattuck School, is now rector of St. Peter's, Westfield, N. Y. of the Eloadway & 155th St. Holy Spirit, Missoula, Mont. Rev. Robert R. Spears Jr., Vicar

required Sun. HC 8, 9:30 & 11, EP 4; Weekdays CLOUD C. RUTTER, formerly rector of ORDINATIONS: HC daily 7 & 10, PP 9, EP 5:30, Sat. 5 FREDERICK Int 11:50; C Sat. 4, 5 & by appt. Grace Church, Lake City, Pa., is now S. BURFORD 3rd was ordined priest ST. LUKE'S CHAPEL rector of St. Barnabas, Marshallton, Del. on May 25 by Bishop Mosley. 487 Hudson St. He is curate at Calvary, Hillcrest, Del. HUNSDON Rev. Paul C. Weed Jr., Vicar Permission CARY Jr., formerly rector of Sun. HC 8, 9:15 & 11; Daily JOHN R. SYMONDS was ordained priest HC 7 & 8; Grace Church, Sandussky, 0., is now rector C Sat. 5-6, 8-9 by appt. on June 1 by Bishop Mosley at St. of St. John's, Youngstown, 0. ST. AUGUSTINE'S CHAPEL Stephen's, Harrington, Del., where he is DFMS. 292 Henry St. (at Scarmnel)

/ WILLIAM G. WORMAN, formerly at vicar. Rev. C. Kilmer Myers, Vicar Sun. HC 8:15, 9:30, 11; 12:15 (Spanish), Bexley Hall, is now rector of St. EMMET SMITH will be ordained deacon EP 5, Thurs., Sat. HC 9:30 EP 5. Andrew's, Mentor, 0. by Bishop Burroughs on June 14 at St. ST. CHRISTOPHER'S CHAPEL Church ELLSWORTH B. JACKSON, formerly rector 48 Henry St. Rev. William Wendt, Vicar of All Saints, Toledo, 0., is now ass't at Sun. 8, 10, 8:30; Weekdays 8, 5:30. the Incarnation, Cleveland. HOLDERNESS Episcopal STEWART J. LABAT, formerly at the The White Mountain Shool for boys 1319. Tkorough edlgw preparation ilu the Ascension, Gaithersburg, Md., is now smal clases. Student governmient em of rector of St. Paul's, Marion, Chrisian Healing in the Church 0. phesaes ,eaponsilllt. Team sports. sdd ARTHUR W. RUDOLPH, formerly vicar of lug. Debating. Glee Cub. Art. News SHARING fireproof Only Church magazine devoted to Snt Trinity, Madera, Cal., is now vicar of building. DONsALD C. HAOauswN, Headwssac itual Therapy, $1.50 a veer. Sample as

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THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 CHURCHMEN 'TESTIFY was a world peace service brothers will soon occupy the ON FOREIGN AID since it called attention to the former deanery in Orlando. * A number of Church ability of English-speaking They will be available for leaders testified May 28-29 on peoples to peacefully negotiate. teaching missions and other the moral and spiritual base of spiritual exercises throughout our foreign aid policy before BLUE JEANS ARE the diocese. the foreign affairs committee DANGEROUS of Co-gress. CONNECTICUT HAS Bishop Dun testified on * The Rev. Thomas P. Duf- RECORD BUDGET fy, Roman Catholic priest of May 28th and the following * The convention of Con- day another Episcopalian, Mr. Nashville, Tenn., has told parents and teachers that necticut adopted a record sending boys to school in budget of $393,518. It also jeans "has a communistic voted to set up a committee to f in- tendency." compile facts, estimate ancial requirements, prepare The wearing of jeans, he plans and to report to a special s t a t e d, "if not directly publication. convention concerning the fostered by an anti-Catholic future needs of the dioceste. and mode of thought, is certainly in line with the philosophy of EE EE

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for clergymen appointed by the the future of race relations in Denver ministerial alliance to clude "the spokesmen of the South. draw up a set of standards for Judaism and the Roman Herman H. Long, Nashville, Catholic Church."

required funeral procedure. race relations director for the The committee's report was ho m e missions board of adopted unanimously by the URGE END OF the Congregational Christian alliance at a meeting attended BOMBS Churches, said the most wide- Permission by more than 100 ministers. spread and general change in * A resolution urging UN Recommendations of the the religious field since the and the major powers to ban committee included :

DFMS. 1954 Supreme Court anti- atomic weapons was adopted / at funerals Use of flowers segregation decision has been at a peace meeting in Budapest be discouraged. In place of the formation of interracial on May 26th, sponsored by flowers, sympathizers may the Reformed and Lutheran Church ministerial associations. send "some gift to the church He said such associations Churches of Hungary. or cause in which the deceased The resolution quoted state- had an active interest." have been organized in 20 Southern communities, among ments by the second assembly Episcopal Public viewing of the re- them Richmond, Va., Little of the World Council of the mains be discouraged. A Rock, Ark., Charlotte and Churches; Albert Schweitzer; of private viewing for relatives Asheville, N. C., and Knox- Karl Barth; Bishop Hans Lilje might be arranged if it would of Germany; all urging the offer comfort. ville, and Cleveland, Tenn. The Rev. James Barnett, end of atomic weapons and Archives Church, military and lodge disarmament. funerals should not be inter- associate professor of Chris- tian ethics at the Episcopal 2020. mingled. Modest appointments be Theological Seminary of the Write us for made for the disposal of the Southwest, Austin, Tex., said: corpse. "The southerner takes his Copyright Organ Information No funeral arrangements religion seriously. When he should be made until the AUSTIN ORGANS, Inc. officiating minister has been Hartford, Conn. consulted. MONEY for your TREASURY The alliance urged indi- OVER 2,000,000 vidual churches to adopt the SUNFLOWER DISH CLOTHS CHURCH LINENS standards and give them wide Were sold in 1956 by members of Sunday Schools, Ladies' Aids, Young People's By The Yard dissemination. Groups, etc. They enable you to earn Fine Irish Linens made for us in Belfast. Transfer Patterns, Vestment Patterns, Ny- The committee opposed pub- money for your treasury, and make friends lon for Surplices, Thread, Needles, etc. - your organization. lic viewing of the deceased be- FREE SAMPLES SANGAMON MILLS cause it "tends to emphasize Established 1915 COHOEs, N. Y. Mary Fawcett Company the mortal and material rather Box 25w MAR.LEHEAD, Mu.

Eighteen THE WITNESS - JUNE 6, 1957 reactionaries who fear that too much let us hope that none of the non- socialization will jeopardize the ac- conformists people read the Witness. BACKFIRE cumulated values from the past. Yours for more reverent editorials. And a journal that stands for freedom of thought and discussion, Page Tredway Jr. Frederick C. Grant for educated and informed opinion, Layman of Little Falls, N. Y. Professor at Union Seminary and not just hand-me-down views, Occasionally, an article on a the- must stand out in the open and be I wish someone could tell us why ological subject gets down to my regarded by some as one thing, by so much religious writing is so in- level. A case in point is Don others as something else. sufferably dull-"flat, stale, and Large's column in the May 23rd true unprofitable." People write about Meanwhile the Witness's issue, wherein he discusses china religion, sometimes, as if all the loyalty is to Christ and his Gospel, eggs. It is my impression, likewise sparkle and vitality had gone out of his teaching and his Church, his based on boyhood recollections, that it; as if they no longer enjoyed it, revelation and his redemption- the china eggs are placed in the nest to had no further enthusiasm for it, and which is something that applies so the hen would not realize that her every last detail of human life, and are being taken and there- publication. only kept on going through the own eggs motions as a matter of habit l You not just theology. fore, would return to the nest the and remember that L. P. Jacks wrote a I wish more of our thoughtful and next day to lay another egg. Pos- book, years ago, on The Lost thought-stimulating Episcopalians (I sibly some expert could enlighten us. reuse Radiance of the Christian Religion. m ea n teachers and intellectual for He must have been reading some of leaders in communities all over the LENOX SCHOOL the stuff I refer to l country) were aware of what this A Churchs School in the Berkshire Hills toa journal is doing. I am sure they btoys 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideal But the Witness is a great excep- and character through simplicity of plant required would find it to their liking, thought- and equipment, moderate tuition, the co tion. It has always been a bright operative self-help system, and infoma provoking, informative, encouraging. personal relationships among boveas and interesting paper from the first faculty. issue when Bishop Johnson founded REV. ROBERT L. CURRY, Headmsaster Dr. Eugene M. Blake Lauox, MASSACHsUSET"

Permission it. There is an open forum in its Haven, Conn. pages. No punches are pulled. Layman of North One can say his say, and will not It seems to the writer of this note

DFMS. debarred from getting his ideas Virginia Episcopal School / be that the tone of the editorial in the off his chest (see for example the May 16, 1957, issue of the Witness LYNCHBURrG, VIRGINIA correspondence page). We have a new low in the use of Prepares boys for colleges and university. has struck Splendid environment and excellent corpe Church been accused of being pink, and of words. When no better expression of teachers. High standard in 5cho1.rhi and athletics. Healthy and beautiful lcas- being reactionary; of being high in English is conceivable than "what tion in the mountains of Virginia. broad; For catalogue, apply to Church and being low-and the Hell ?" lets get someone with GEORGE L. BARTON, JR., Ph.D., socialistic and also Headmaster, Dox 401 Episcopal we have been more refinement to do the writing. anti-social. All the while the reason I am sure that the statement at- the has been that so is the Episcopal are of tributed to St. Paul that all men Church! We represent all sorts stinkers will add greatly to the re- and conditions of people-as Bishop spect of the non-Episcopalians for The Bishop's School Johnson used to say, "The P. E. LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA Archives our ancient Church. At the least A Resident Day School for Girls. Grades Church is no club for saints but a Seven through Twelve. College Preparatory. ART - MUSIC - DRAMATICS hospital for sinners." We have Twenty-Acre Campus, Outdoor Heated Pool, 2020. Tenniis, Hockey, Basketball, Riding. radicals in our midst, who want to THE Rr. Rev. FaANCIs ERtIC BLOT see a better, healthier, better edu- President of Board of Trustees ROSAMOND E. LARMOUR, M.A., cated, fairer and more honest world Headmistress Copyright right here and now. We also have - Sm THE FOUNDED 1858 DeVEAUX SCHOOL The oldest Church School west of the Alle CHURCH FARM SCHOOL NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK gzhenies integrates all parts of its program- GLEN LOCHE, PA. FOUNDED 1853 military, social-sohelp, religious, academic, A School for boys whose mothers are A Church School for boys in the Diocese high school age boys grow "in wisdom and responsible for support and education. of Western New York. College prepa- stature and in favor with God and man." atory. Small classes. New Gymnasium College Preparatory and Swimming Pool will be completed write Grades : Five to Twelve summer of 1957. Scholarships available. SIDNEY W. GOLDSMITH, JR. Grades 7 through 12. For information CANON Wholesome surroundings on a 1,200 acre address Box "A". Rector and Headmaster farm in Chester Valley, Chester County, where boys learn to study, work and play. Nlosssson BRIGHAM, M.A., Headmster.. 757 Shuroway Hall REV. CHARLES W. SHREINER, D.D. The Rt. Rev. LAtTRISTON L. SCMirE, D.D., Headmaster SHArruCa SCHOOL FARIBAULT, MINX,. Pres. Board of Trustees. Post Office: Box 662, PAO"I PA. __

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