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Dr. Mann Consecrated Bishop Racine Church Conference of Pittsburgh Will Be Resumed

Consecration Service in Pittsburgh While Con The Gift of a Churchwoman Makes It Possible To joint Service is Held in Boston Carry On This Important Work

The Rev. Alexander M'ann was conse Racine Summer Conference for Church crated Bishop of Pittsburgh on Thursday workers will be re-opened next summer of this week— after this issue of the Wit from July 2nd to 14th on the College ness had gone to press. The following ad grounds at Racine, Wisconsin. A gift vance story, however, will give readers a of $15,000.00 by a church-woman in Ohio picture of the magnificent service. and a court decision in favor of the Church The Rev. Alexander Mann, D. D. of regarding the status of part of the col lege property have made it possible to Trinity Church, Boston, bishop-elect of the resume, operations after a year of inac Pittsburgh Diocese, is to be consecrated on tivity. Thursday, Jan. 25. The Racine Conference is one of 26 It is planned, weather permitting, to Summer Conferences held annually in have the processional march from the par different parts of the country which are ish house along the outside of the church attended by more than 5,000 Church and enter the building by the main door. people. Classes are conducted in meth Trinity choir will have a position outside ods of Church work, Sunday School work the church, during this part of the ®cere- and all branches, o f Church activity. mony with Dr. Harold Phillips, director at Courses are also offered , in Bible Study, the organ. Stately hymns to march tempo Church History and kindred subjects. will be rendered until the procession is in Recreational features are provided so the church. It is estimated the procession that an increasing number of people make will take over ten minutes to pass. their conferences part of their summer va Rev. Dr. John Dows Hills will be the cations. master of ceremonies and under his direc The Province of the Mid-West offi tion the service will begin promptly at cially sponsors the Racine Conference. In 10:30 o’clock. The Presiding Bishop will the summer of 1921, the accommodations be the Rt. Rev. Cameron Mann, D. D. were crowded to capacity with an enroll Bishop of South Florida and elder brother ment of 300 persons. The Rt. Rev. W. W. of the bishop-elect. The two co-fconsecra- Rt. Rev. Alexander Mann Webb, D.D., Bishop of Milwaukee, is hon tors will be Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, orary president. The Conference is con D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, and the Rt. ducted by a board of directors o f which Rev. Edwin Stevens Lines, D.D., Bishop of consecrate will be read by Rev. Alleyns C. the Rev. G. G. Moore, Rector of the Church Newark, N. J. Bishop Lawrence will also Howell, D. D., rector of St. Stephen’s of the Advent, Chicago, is chairman. preach the sermon. Church, Sewickley. Rev. Homer A. Flint, Among those expected to act on the fac The Presenting Bishops will be the Rt. Ph. D. administrative diocesan secretary, ulty next summer are Bishop Webb, of Rev. Arthur Selden Lloyd,ND. D. Suffragan will present the certificate of election and Milwaukee, Bishop Burleson, of South Da Bishop of New York and Rt. Rev. David the certificate of ordination will be pre kota, Bishop Wise, o f Kansas, the Rev. Lincoln Ferris, D. D. Suffragan Bishop of sented by Rev. Cameron J. Davis, rector Dr. Stewart of St. Luke’s Church, Evan Western New York and formerly rector of of Trinity church, Buffalo. N. Y. The ston, 111., Dean Lutkin, o f Northwestern Calvary church, Pittsburgh; ■ The two at consents of the standing committees will University and the Rev. C. H. Young. Rec tending presbyters will be Rev. Edwin J. be presented by Rev. Francis Shero, Ph. tor of Howe School, Howe, Indiana. Van Etten, rector of Calvary church, Pitts D., secretary of the diocesan standing This Conference is invaluable to the burgh and Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, rec committee. The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Gar clerg’v. Vestrymen and officers in the tor of the Church of Our Saviour, Long- land, D. D., Suffragan Bishop of Pennsyl guilds and other organizations also find it wood, Mass. vania, has been selected to present the crowded with useful information and sug During the service proper, the litany consents of the bishops. gestions. Church School teachers can find will be read by the Rt. Rev. Sheldon Mun The Bishop-elect, In a recent note to no better way o f eauipping themselves son Griswold, D. D. Bishop Suffragan of Rev. Dr. Hills, writes that arrangements with the Church’s latest methods for their Chicago, while the Epistle will be read by have been made to hold a special service imnortant work. the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, D. D. Bishop in Trinity church, Boston, at the hour of Some of the subjects to be covered this of Bethlehem, and the Gospel by the Rt. the Consecration service. There will be a ■'’■oar are •—“ The Church organized for Rev. Boyd Vincent D. D. Bishop of South celebration of the Holy Communion with Work” : “ Social Service in the Average ern Ohio, also a former rector of Calvary selected Collects, Epistle and Gospel and ■Parish” : “ Week-Day Religious Education” ; church. the same hymns will be sung in both places. “ Correct Principles of Teaching” ; “ The Rev. Donald Kent Johnson, rector of St. It will be the first time in the history of TVama in the Work of the Church” ; Peter’s church, Uniontown, will be the de the Church when such a conjoint service “ Church Music” ; “ Devotional Bible puty registrar while the commission to has been held. Study” ; “Work for Young People”. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. 2 THE WITNESS GENERAL NEWS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Chicago Lenten in these cases. There is also a great deal expenses of those present are pooled and Preachers Announced of urgency upon him not to act in the shared evenly by all, thus making it pos The Lenten preachers for the Noonday matter and while he gave me, and is giv sible for the men in remote places to at service to be held in the Garrick Theater, ing the subject, every consideration, I tend. could not ask him to commit himself— Chicago have been announced as follows: Bishops Endorse and he didn’t— but I am hopeful that he Feb. 14th-Feb. 16 th— The Rt. Rev. Trinity College Campaign James Wise, D. D., Topeka, Kansas. will do it, and also hopeful that the public generally will understand that none of Thirty-four Bishops have written to Feb. 19th-Feb. 23rd— The Rt. Rev. these is a case of violence or injury to President Ogilby of Trinity College en Frank DuMoulin, D. D.. Cleveland, Ohio. life or property. None is a case in which dorsing the work of the college and the Feb. 26th-Mar. 2nd— The Rt. Rev. G. G. there was any conspiracy to hinder the campaign for $1,500,000 which Trinity is Bennett, D. D., Duluth, Minnesota United States, and the most there is conducting and which will be completed Mar. 5th-Mar. 9th— The Rev. Phillips E. against these men are their utterances, in at the celebration of the college’s Cen Osgood, Minneapolis, Minnesota. and out of print, expressing opposition to tennial in June. Endorsements have been received from Mar. 12th-Mar. 16 th— The Rt. Rev. the war or indifference to it— and for the following Bishops who are not Trin Ernest V. Shayler, D. D., Omaha, Ne these expressions some of the sentences ity men: Tuttle, Gailor, Lawrence, Man braska. run as high as twenty-six years. ning, Perry, Benjamin Brewster, Chaun- Mar. 19th-Mar. 23rd— The Rev. Ber “ They were convicted at a time when public sentiment was such that it really cey Brewster, Burgess, Brent, Matthews, nard I. Bell, D. D., Pres., St. Stephen’s Lines, Talbot, Darlington, Rhinelander, prevented a fair trial.” College, Annandale, New York. Slattery, Davies, Parker, Hall, Ward and Mar. 26th-Mar. 30 th— The Rt. Rev. Field Secretaries Address Touret. Chas. P. Anderson, D.D., Chicago, Illi All of the fourteen living Trinity Bish Clericus of Western Michigan nois . ops have united in an identical letter. The clergy of the Diocese of Western Their namesv follow: Cheshire, Cook, Senator Pepper Pleas for Michigan met on Tuesday, January 16th Harding, Johnson, McElwain, Nelson, Political Prisoners at St Mark’s Pro-Cathedral, Grand Rap Nichols, Olmsted, Paddock, Roberts, Sher Senator George Wharton Pepper, had ids, at the invitation of Dean Charles wood, Thurston, Webb, Wells. hopes that a Christmas present, in the Jackson. Twenty of the clergy o f the form of release from the Federal prison Diocese were present. The speaker at the Retired Clergyman Dies at Leavenworth, Kan., might be given to morning session was the Rev. William B. Jn Baltimore twenty-eight of the so-called “ political iSpofford, who spoke on the work of the The Rev. Chester M. Smith, 60 years prisoners,” who were sentenced following Church League for Industrial Democracy. old, a nephew of the late^ F. Hopkinson the I. W. W. trials in Chicago during the He emphasized the fact that the program Smith, author and artist died Saturday at war. The matter is in the hands of the of the League is identical with the reso his home in Baltimore. Funeral services President with Senator Pepper’s recom lutions passed by both houses at the Port were held at St. Michael and All Angels mendation. land Convention. He further stated that Church. They were conducted by Bishop Senator Pepper became interested in the work undertaken by the League was John Gardner Murray and the Rev. Dr. these men some time ago, and after a largely that of keeping this official posi Wyatt Brown, rector of the Church. long and careful study of their cases is tion alive in the Church. The League is The Rev. Mr. Smith was born in Balti convinced, he says, that they had commit anxious to render whatever service is pos more. He studied at Cornell University ted no offense against person or property sible to the clergy and lay people of the before preparing for the ministry. He and that public sentiment at the time of Church by providing speakers for meet was a rector in churches o f Maryland, Col their trials was at such a pitch that im ings and pamphlets and other material for orado and Nebraska for more than 20 partial consideration of their cases was study groups. years. His health failed 10 years ago, impossible. Their offense, he said, con After a delightful luncheon, served by compelling him to retire from active work. sisted of the utterances of their opinions one of the Cathedral Guilds, the clericus on the war. was addressed by the Rev. Paul Micou of “ Last summer I was asked to sign a the Department of Religious Education. BOOKS BY BISHOP petition for amnesty to all political pris He brought out very graphically the oners. I declined to do that, although I splendid work being done in our colleges JOHNSON recognized it as my duty as an American by the Church, and the great need for its lawyer, though not as a senator, to look further development. The clericus of into any individual cases that might be Western Michigan is unique in that the The Personal Christ brought to my attention. A Book ¡riff Meditations, “ A group of young men, all of them 50c a Copy. $4.00 a Dozen. former political prisoners, submitted vari ous names to me and obtained a record of The Historical Develop the trials at Chicago and made an anal A M A P RELIGION By JULIUS A. SCHAAD ysis of each of the twenty-eight cases of ment of the Church. General Missioner of the Church. men who were still in prison at Leaven Lectures delivered at various Summer worth. I am working now on the Wichita Conferences. . Well suited for study and Sacramento cases, but have not as yet A BOOK FOR RED-BLOODED groups. reached any conclusions on these. 35c a Copy. $3.50 a dozen. “ I satisfied myself that in not one of MEN the twenty-eight cases I had looked into Confirmation Instructions did the evidence justify a continuance of Do you know a man who neglects his The Standard Book for Confirmation restraint and I then recommended to the Church Then invest 35c in his life by Classes. 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Campaign Reports Show Hobart President to Broadcast Increases In Pledges f rom Chicago The Reverend Murray Bartlett, D. D., Montana—-“ St. Luke’s Church, Billings, © ur SiaJjnpfi Montana, has pledged its full Nation-wide LL. D., President of Hobart College, Gen quota. This is the first parish in Montana Alexander Mann, the Bishop of eva, New York will attend the annual din to do this. Its pledged support for all Pittsburgh, was born in Geneva, New ner and meeting of the Chicago tlobart purposes increased 50 per cent and this in York in 1860. In 1881 he graduated Alumni association on Monday, January face of the hard times Montana has been irom Hobart College with tne degree 29th at the University Club. President having.” of i5. A., receiving his doctor’s de Bartlett will speak by Radio at Station G e o r gia — 32 congregations report gree from the same institution in KYW just before the dinner to the Alumni pledges totaling $23,540 on quotas aggre I »96. After attending the General of Hobart throughout the Middle West gating $34,153. One small congregation Theological Seminary he was ordain who are unable to attend the dinner and has pledged 140 per cent, another 100 per ed a deacon in 1885 and a priest the make an educational address to be broad cent. A mission in a mill district of Au following year. His first church casted by radio to the great radio audience gusta has pledged 218 per cent. A negro work was as an assistant at St. of this powerful inland sending station. congregation has pledged 134 per cent; James Church in Buffalo, New York. Among Chicago clergymen of the and a small negro mission which has no He then went to Grace Church, Church who are alumni of Hobart are: the quota has pledged $54.60. Orange, New Jersey, where he re Rev. William Otis Waters, S. T. D., presi- ent of the Chicago Alumni association; the Oklahoma— 34 congregations show an mained until he became the rector of increase of from 4 to 5 per cent over the Trinity Church, Boston, in 1905. He Rev. C. A. Cummings, the Rev. John Mc Kinney, the Rev. Norman Hutton, the Rev. pledges of those same congregations in has been a clerical Deputy' to every Gardner MacWhorter, the Rev. Hugh M. 1922. The amount these 34 congregations general convention since 1904, and MacWhorter, the Rev. Norman B. Quigg, have pledged for 1923 is 50 per cent of has been the President of the House last year’s grand total pledges from the of Deputies at the last four general and the Rev. E. J. Randall. Altogether whole district. conventions. During his rectorship Hobart has given to the Episcopal Church, 356 of her alumni for the ministry of the Los Angeles— St. Clement’s Mission, at Trinity Church he was elected to several Bishoprics all of which he de Church and 16 of Hobart’s alumni have Huntington Park; 59 communicants; total become Bishops of the Episcopal Church. $403; pledged $514.80. clined, until elected the Bishop of Pittsburgh, this past fall. He was Hobart College celebrated the Centennial Mission of the Redeemer, Los Angeles; consecrated in Trinity Church, Pitts of her founding by Bishop Hobart last 61 communicants; quota $208; pledged burgh, on Thursday of this week. June by raising one million dollars. $709.60. Over Half of Endowment South Carolina— With 17 congregations to hear from; the Diocese reports pledges For Cambridge Subscribed of $39,884 on its total quota of $65,000. Advance gifts of $600,000 to the mil Utah--—“Indications are that the Mis me God, as long as I have a voice, it will lion dollar endowment fund of the Epis sionary jurisdiction of Utah will not only be raised in an attempt to do away with copal theological school in Cambridge were meet its 1923 quota, but will go over it war. Until Europe changes its mind and announced at the opening dinner of the 4- by 20 per cent. You will be interested way of doing things America can have campaign in the hotel Somerset -attended to know that 60 Indians put over the Cam nothing to do with it. If Europe wants to by 400 rectors and laymen of Massachu paign in Randlett, Utah, with an over-sub Mexicanize itself into bankruptcy, that is setts. Bishop William Lawrence, national scription of $7.75.” its business. But it shall not drag Amer chairman of the campaign, announced that ica down. We are not interested in their since the response of the people and Lexington — 11 congregations whose old rancors and disputes.” clergy had been so generous, the quotas quotas aggregate $14,074 have pledged and apportionments throughout the coun $7,239. try had been removed and that the school North Carolina— “ To date, 48 parishes St. Ann’s, Grace, and Holy trusts to the loaylty of its alumni to raise and missions with a total quota of $42,- Trinity Merger is Planned the remainder of the fund. The campaign 260 have subscribed $42,249.” There was a meeting in St. Ann’s officially opened January 16th and closes East Carolina— “ The reports to this Church on the Heights, Brooklyn, recently, February 6th. Campaign dinners were date are satisfactory and it will be pos of the vestries of that church, Grace, and held last. Tuesday in Boston, Milwaukee, sible for us to pay the General Church the Church of the Holy Trinity, at which New York, Philadelphia, Providence, quota for next year.” St. James’ Church, a merger of the three congregations was Washington, Rochester, Worcester, Okla Wilmington, will exceed its quota $2,000 the subject of discussion. Preliminary homa City, St. Louis, Grand Rapids, Co and its parish budget about $1,000. conversations have already been held, St. lumbus, Cincinnati and other cities. Western New York— St. Paul’s Roches Ann’s having been approached in regard "illllligilllllllllllilllllllltllllllllMlilllllllllllllllllllllllllltllliliiailliil" ter, with quota of $21,000 subscribed $25,- to the matter by the vestries of Grace 000. Church and the Church of the Holy Trin ity. 1 EVOLUTION News of these important negotiations in Urged to Keep Out the church world leaked out coincident | A WITNESS TO GOD Of Europe with the fact that the Rev. Dr. C. F. J. | By GEO. CRAIG STEWART, D. D. Wrigley. rector of Grace Church, who has The one hundredth anniversary of the or | Rector of St. Luke’s, Evanston. ganization of the First Universalist Society been seriously ill, has resigned his pas o f Danbury, Conn., was marked by a great torate. union service of the whole city, in which The plan to have the three well-known Baptists Disciples, Congregationalists, churches on Brooklyn Heights combine has | From Addresses Delivered at Methodists, and Episcopalians joined in a been a matter of discussion for a long Several American spirit of good-will. Dr. Joseph Fort New time, but as yet nothing has been definitely ton o f New York City who addressed the settled. It is said that the Rev, John How | Universities service stirred the audience to vigorous ard Melish, rector of the Church of the applause in connection with his remarks on Holy Trinity, will not stand in the way internationalism, in spite of the inhibitions of the plan, providing the Church of the | Single Copy, 35c. 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with the unknown future, but rather is Now lets get back of all this code stuff concerned with man's origin* and consider life in its primitive reality. Qtt}? H itttFSS if we ask the mere scientist what he X know that I am g, creature as well as Published every Saturday, $1.50 a year things is tne ‘ purpose of human life, he I know anything and if I am a creature, X know that I fiad someone who created THE WITNESS PUBLISHING CO. smiles in a patronizing way and tells you (Not Incorporated) tnat science is concerned with the origin me, never mind the method— and I am <140 Cottage Grove Ave. of lire; hut, pittiel n x asu the station pretty sure, looking around the rest of CHICAGO, IL L . master where this train is going to, and creation, that the Creator had some pur «^►287 he tells me in a dogmatic fashion that my pose and that I, like everything else, have BOARD OF EDITORS questioh is foolish because the train will some destiny. I ask the mere scientist Editor-in-Chief pass out of his sight in a few minutes, but about my destiny and am told to look Rt. Rev. Irving P. Johnson that 1 should be satisfied to know that into the past, and 1 shrug my shoulders Managing Editor this train had its origin in Boston, X may and say tnat science is a fogy and some Rev. William B. Spofford be pardoned if X regard him as mentally thing of a has been. Associate Editors unbalanced. X ask the mere business man about my Rev. George Parkin. Atwater Mankind is anxious to know whither it destiny and he tells me to accumulate Rev. Robert Scott Chalmers is going. It may be that no one can an things, to be practical and to stop my Rev. A. Manby Lloyd swer the question, in which case mankind idealism, and 1 shrug my shoulders and Rev. Julius A. Schaad must feel as irresponsible as a hobo, who say that judging from those who have Rev. George Craig Stewart boards a train merely because it is going made a success in accumulating things, somewhere; but it is a silly answer to most of them look as though they had Entered as second class matter at the Post lost their last friend or never had any— I Office at .Chicago, 111., under the Act of Congress man’s earnest inquiry to be told science of March 3. 1879. is not concerned with where you are going ask them where I am going and they tell but it is on the eve of certain important me to enjoy the scenery. investigations as to whence you came. I look around for some one to give an Orientation Perhaps I came from an ape or a shell intelligent answer to my perfectly legiti fish, in either of which cases I may be mate question and I find someone who said to carry with me unmistakable looks spiritually intelligent. I find a bene By Bishop Johnson marks of my ancestry, but I submit, even volent old man, who differs from the mere The word is derived from the fact that so, I am more concerned with whither I scientist and the mere financier in that he the Sun rises in the East and we look to am going than I am to unearth my noble looks as though he had some idea of life’s ward the rising sun as the beginning of the pedigree. In other words it is unquestion purpose. day. The Sun-worshipper faced the ris ably outside the sphere of science, to tell He is old in years but he had gracious ing sun as his first act of worship. Sun me where I am going, but X am not im ness of character, the enthusiasms of youth and the bearing of a gentleman, and day is a word of pagan origin and testi pressed by the sanity of the savant, who fies to this ancient devotion to the Sun. In tells me that the question is a foolish one, X put my juvenile question to him and life we may be said to orientate ourselves, but that it would be wise for me to con he tells me that I am a child of my Father when we determine the prime factor to cern myself with where I came from. in Heaven and that I am going to a home which we credit the origin of our life. To Either question is of course permissible, which He has prepared for me. what do we look for inspiration? but if I ask the former question of the The answer has the merit of being rea So Christ is the Sun of Righteousness science policeman and get snubbed for my sonable, intelligible to a child and highly to the Christian and we strive to orientate folly, I am not going to be any more dis satisfactory if only it is true. our life to Christ, as we “ with opeii face couraged than if I ask the religious police This policeman acts as though he was beholding as in a glass the glory of the man where I have been and he arrests kind and intelligent— qualities that did Lord, are changed into the same image me as a suspicious character. not impress themselves on my childish from glory to glory, even as by the spirit mind in the previous encounters. There is a class of parents who resent of the Lord.” And so I ask him eagerly to tell me the the questions of their children and sup Religion is primarily concerned with way to satisfy my search. press curiosity as childish folly, but they this matter of orientation and a good deal This old man tells me that he can direct of man’s ultimate character is determined are stupid parents who are stunting the me to the same guide that is conducting growth of their children’s mentality be by the orientation of his life as the dawn him and that while he himself has not of his day is breaking. cause they themselves lack sense, or at yet reached this home, nor seen this Fath least imagination. To me, it is a very curious trait of mod er, yet thus far the guide has been so sat ern thought that it gets so easily irritated But no more so than the father of isfactory that he recommends me to fol over the phenomenon of religion. Irrita science who answers his child— “ No! my low Him also. tion is always a sign of mental unbalance. child I do not know where you are going. (Continued on page 7) The man who refuses to deal with facts In fact do not concern yourself with such as facts is on the way to the madhouse a silly question. I will tell you what I and religious phenomena are as much fact know of where you came from, for all in in human life as is bacteria or logic. life that is worth while must be fashioned A GENTLEMAN’S GAME by the scientific code.” “ We believe in God” is such a universal A Recent Editorial by characteristic of man that if you care to He seems to me like the silly mother BISHOP JOHNSON take it out of man’s experience, you would who refuses to allow her starving child to have to re-write human history. enter the bread-line because it is contrary Has been reprinted by request as a leaf And yet, scientific writers have coined to her social code that her child should let. It is very suitable for distribution a phrase, “ nature,” which science does not receive bread in such fashion. at Missions and Special Services, or for define and talks glibly and unscientifically Of course there is a scientific code and mailing with letters. As we are selling about nature’s doing this or that. a social code and a political code, but life it at cost, we ask those desiring copies What is nature? A person, a force or is too big a thing to be limited by a code. to remit with their order. a bogey? Nobody knows. In fact the It seeks food in any case and asks ques For 100 Copies ...... $1.50 word nature is a synonym for “ X ” in the tions because it was made that way and equation. acquires character that way and arrives For 50 copies...... 85 “ We believe in the Hereafter” is an at its destination that way. For 25 copies ...... 50 Postage Prepaid. other human characteristic to which the I want to know why I am here and human race gives universal testimony. To where I am going and if science can’t THE WITNESS PUBLISHING the mere scientist this is “ Y ” in the equa answer and society doesn’t satisfy my COMPANY tion. quest, then I am going to ask somebody This phenomenon is baffling to the else because I would be a quitter if I 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. CHICAGO scientific mind. Man is not concerned didn’t. .

Cheerful Confidences tament, without the least idea of the gen as a whole. Much of a controversial na eral structure of it. ture is found in our largest church publica By George Parkin Atwater, D. D. .out. should you take a ride in an air tions. Having subscribed to all the na plane above New ork, and look down, you tional Episcopal periodicals and magazines THE LENTEN STUDY COURSE would realize several things quickly. You except the Witness I found great satisfac would, see the Woolworth building, and tion in having the Witness placed before The managing editor o f the Witness has you Would see the rivers, and the harbor me for two or three weeks. In it there asked me to suggest courses of study for and Central park, and you would possess was no bitterness or hostility, nor party Lent. There are so many good devotional a mental picture in which the big features emphasis. Pure religion, up to date is its manuals that i snail not undertake this of New York would stand out. You key-note and aim. Therefore I eliminated kind of study. would have a vivid map of New York. one paper most strenously partisan in ord My first suggestion is one that is For these studies it is my purpose to er to support a weekly which is unbiased prompted by a large bundle oí letters construct such a Map of the Old Testa and purports to give the whole news o f the which report the 'way many parishes have ment. But it must be, not a map of lines whole and undivided Church in brief sum used my book, “ The Episcopal Church: Its and colors, but a WORD-MAP. It will maries. Churchmen may be grateful for Message ior Men of Today.” This book deal not in details, but in the broad gen the labor of love of Bishop Johnson; for was written to attract the new-comer, or eral features of the Old Testament. his editorials which elevate one rather the inquirer, or even the chance attendant. The first section of this WORD-MAP than concentrate the reader upon his pre- Its purpose also, was to provide a manual will appear in the issue of February 10th delectipns. These are broadening, harmon for ground work in Confirmation. I in and succeeding sections will appear each izing rather than the customary one-side- sist that every member of my Confirma week during Lent. Either individuals or edness of the usual religious editoriaL tion class read the book. Then I am able groups will find these sections a guide to One feels better and is stirred to live bet to proceed with further needed instruc a general knowledge of what the Old ter by reading the Witness. Surely that tion. Testament is. cannot be said of a partisan church Week But the book has been used in many Teachers, or leaders of groups, who ly. Read the Witness several weeks and parishes for general instruction of large wish to prepare to take classes in this see for yourself. groups. The book is in the form of a study, will find it profitable to secure a very fascinating book, “History of the conversation among four men, a Clergy One need not be preparing for Confirma Hebrew Commonwealth” by Bailey and man, a Judge, a Major, and a Doctor, who tion to get enjoyment from Bishop John is an inquirer. Kent. It is published by Scribners. Each son’s book of instructions. In many parishes the rector has asked member of a group should have a copy three men to prepare themselves to read of the Witness containing the section to the parts of the Judge, the Doctor and be studied. the Major. Then, with these men, he has Two Books Having a read the book to Sunday evening congre gations, two chapters at a time. It re A Compliment for W id e Sale quires six weeks. Other rectors have had the book read The Witness A Spiritual Bouquet in the parish house, either before general — AND — groups, or special organizations. Any By Rev. Francis M. Wetherill. group, Guild, Brotherhood, Auxiliary, or Church magazines are like other pub Higher Self Control Society may read the book in this way, lications in so far as they supply the needs By R ev. C. B ertram R u n n alls four persons participating. of their subscribers. One is prone to take The book may be obtained from the Price, Fifty Cents, Postpaid. a paper which follows out his own point of Write direct to Morehouse Publishing Co., of Milwaukee, view and policies. The Gospel principles An advertisement appears on this page of love, charity, peace and unity are not 110 Lincoln Park Drive of the Witness. the dominating spirit of the religious press Syracuse, N. Y . My Second Suggestion. My second suggestion is a study of the Old Testament. Many people are familiar If You Desire a Book on the Episcopal Church Which Will Interpret with a few names, or stories of the Old Its Services, Answer Objections, Attract the Casual Attendant, Testament» but few would be able to give Instruct the Inquirer, Then Secure even the barest outline of the contents of the Old Testament, or of the history of the Jewish people. Inasmuch as the Old Testament is our The Episcopal Church most valuable ancient literature, and is ITS MESSAGE FOR MEN OF TODAY being studied in our Church Schools, and is being read at our services, it might By GEORGE PARKIN ATWATER, D. D. seem valuable to get some notion of the (More Than 20,000 Copies in Use in the Church) outstanding features, of the most momen HOW THE PARISHES ARE USING THIS BOOK tous events. Just reading a chapter occasionally will It is given to those seeking the Church.— It is being read at evening not give a person this broad systematic services.— It is being read aloud at meetings of organizations.-— It has knowledge of the subject. Just to read a been “ dramatized,” the book being read by four persons to large con chapter here and there is as useless in gregations.— Numerous parishes have provided a copy for each can gaining a grasp of the Old Testament as a didate for confirmation.— Many Bishops and Rectors have recom- whole, as the examination of one stone mended its wide use to instruct the people. would be useless in determining the size, architecture and proportions of a Cathe Paper, 50 cents Postage Extra Cloth, $1.00 dral. You might live in New York and pass Order from your bookseller or from the Woolworth building every day with out realizing its height, and majestic ap pearance. 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He concludes by saying he is strongly Summer School For Negroes Dr. Chapman's Case of of opinion that the conxessional is sadly Becomes Permanent overdone in Latin countries. If may be Conscience because the impulsive Latin temperament The Commission of Religious Education is so unlike that of the reserved Anglo- of the Province of Washington, at a recent meeting decided to make the summer Rev. A. Man by Lloyd baxon Race. To some people a confession means just nothing at all; they confess school for Negro workers which was held A sordid murder drama— raised to the me same sin over and over again. Others last year under the auspices of the Dio level of melodrama by a cunning press— will confess offences which they have never cese of Southern Virginia at Lawrence- has recently convulsed the British public, committed, which have perhaps only ville, Virginia, a permanent Provincial in to the exclusion, almost, of even Football happened in their own emotional brain. stitution; an appropriation for the main and Racing. After long and unsuccessful tenance of this school during its session attempts to poison her husband, Mrs. “ Listening to such people is like for July, 1923, was approved and a com Thompson incited her paramour Bywaters working out a recurring decimal. mittee appointed to co-operate with the (a sailor) to get rid of him. A brutal and In my opinion habitual confession Diocese in carrying out the plan. cowardly murder was the result, and Mrs. is not producing a manly and self- Thpmpson who planned the murder and reliant people.” CHURCH SERVICES Bywaters who carried it out have both The Rev. H. B. Chapman has astonished been sentenced to death. the church-going public in the past by The case would have no interest for lending the Chapel Royal for the mar CHICAGO Witness readers but for a side-issue, raised riage pf divorced persons,— whom he by the Rev. Hugh B. Chapman, Chaplain ST. CHRYSOSTOM’S CHURCH. would describe as the “ innocent party” .— 1424 North Dearborn Street of the Chapel Royal, Savoy. In an extem but the Bishop of London and his “ bull The Rev. Norman Hatton, 8. T. D., porary' sermon he advocated a reprieve for dogs” have lately shown a disposition to Rector. Frederick Bywaters and stated that a cer checkmate this very questionable proce Sunday Services: 8 and 11 a. m.; 4:80 tain lady in high society had once con dure. But whether y/e agree or differ p. m. fessed to him (Chapman) that she had from him, it is admitted that the Chap put poison into a cup of tea to save her lain is a man of the highest integrity and self from the advances of a troublesome goodwill— indeed, one of the few “ per NEW YORK lover. Mr. Chapman also stated that he sonalities” in the Anglican Church. CHURCH OF THE HOLT COMMUNION had called on the late Cardinal Manning, When I met him some 15 years ago he Sixth Avenue at 20th Street with whom he was on friendly terms, for described himself as a Catholic Evangeli Always open and free to all. advice as to his attitude on such a ques cal, and he is responsible for the running Sunday Services, 8, 9:80, 11, 12, 4 and 8. tion of casuistry and conscience. of a “ Home for Inebriates” , which is suc Week-day Services, 7:30, 12:30 and 4. Mr. Chapman having been severely crit cessful financially, and has also many icised and been the recipient of thousands cases of moral and spiritual reformation of letters, defends himself in the columns to its credit. The patients are not com of JOHN BULL. Naturally (he says) he N E W Y O R K pletely deprived of alcoholic liquor, but was very much upset by the revelation, are ‘doctored’ in such a way that a dislike CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION and it was with a feeling of great relief Madison Avenue and 35th Street is set up, which leads in many cases to its that he recollected an early luncheon ap Rev. H. Percy Silver, S.T. D., Rector. total disuse. pointment with the Cardinal. Without Sundays, 8 and 11 A. M.; 4 P. M. Daily, mentioning names, he asked the Cardinal’s I sat down to luncheon with the Chap 12:30 P. M. opinion upon this abstract question of lain and his patients, mostly ‘better-class’ whether this woman should give herself people, who were very much at home and up to justice. The Cardinal’s answer was apparently unconscious of the efforts made to wean them from bad habits. Mr. Chap CLEVELAND, OHIO to the eifect that if a person was not dis TRINITY OATHRDRAI, covered, it was a sign that he or she was man is one of those who do good by stealth and blush to find it fame. No cases are The Very Rev. Francia S. White, D. D„ not ready to die! . . . The degree of the Dean. woman’s penitence in this case may be pronounced hopeless but he confided to me the opinion that women are less hopeful Sunday Services. 8:00. 11:00 and 4:00. gauged by the fact that she announced Dally Servlees, 8:00, 11:00 and 4:00. herself perfectly willing to treat another than men. suitor in exactly the same way if she got the opportunity. The actors in the above self-confessed NORFOLK, VIRGINIA crime, he says, have long passed out of his CHRIST CHURCH. The Rev. Francis C. Steinmetz, S. T. D., life, and even were it not so, no counsel, Rector. no police-officer and no judge would suc Sunday Services, 7:80 and 11:00 a. m., ceed in extracting their names from him. '4:30 p. m. Wednesday and Saints’ Days, Holy To quote Mr. Chapman: Communion, 11:00 a. m. “ It is self-evident (he adds) that if such futile talk about the priest being accessory after the fact, and therefore amenable to punishment Convent of the Holy Nativity were incorporated into the law of the country, the essence of the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin priesthood would be completely des ALTAR BREAD troyed. Personally, I do not think Mailed to all parts of the country. there is living a priest who would not readily serve any sentence rath Price list on application. er than break the seal.” Needless to say within a long ministry he has received many confidences which F O R TROUBLED NERVES would have imperiled the liberty of the high blood pressure, dyspepsia, neuritis, investigate the new drugless meth penitent, if he ever construed it the duty of a priest to be a public informer. But ods now employed at THE BIGGS’ SANITARIUM, Asheville North Caro for an English gentleman, yet alone for lina. A specialized treatment adapted to each individual. No tubercular a priest, such confidences are absolutely cases accepted. Write for free booklet— interesting and instructive. and altogether sacred.

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munity and determine the extent of your ponsibility to these unfortunate feeble Social Service Editorial feebleminded problem. minded people. By Dr. William S. Keller Confer with the Superintendent of your YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN: schools to determine what is being done “ Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one for the feebleminded and definite men of the least of these— Ye have done it un CARE AND TRAINING FOR MENTAL tally retarded children. to me.” Christian action through a Constructive DEFECTIVES Encourage Churches and Christian per Social Program promotes a Christian Pro sons to open new institutions for the care gram. Mental defects constitute one of the of feeble minded children in preference to giving money to orphanages caring for great social and economic burdens of civ Christ Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, normal children. ilization. was recently the scene of the ordination A census of these persons would show Private Christian Homes should care for to the diaconate of one of its parishion the need for supervision or for institution orphan children that are normal in mind ers, M. M. Hankins, who has given up a al segregation. and body. business career to enter the ministry. Mr. State supervision should include ade The Church through . its many institu Hankins will serve the Church without re quate institutional capacity, together with tions should recognize and accept its res muneration. proper community supervision. Proper care and training in special schools or in institutions during Habit Forming Period will make many defec tives, industrious and useful citizens. Without control and training, mental de fectives will continue to swell the number DR. ATWATER of Prostitutes, Criminals and Dependents. The large majority of defectives receive no protection, no supervision, no training, Is to W rite a Series of Articles for Study Groups no education. During Lent. They W ill Run for Seven Unsupervised Defectives complicates the social problems of prostitution, illegiti Weeks, Commencing February 10th macy and crime, also the Industrial prob lems of Wages and Labor. It is as difficult for Mental Defectives to unlearn as it is for them to learn. Early Organize Your Class Now and Put In identification and training are essential. Nothing that we can do for them is so Your Order for a terribly costly as the results of our ne glect of them. Bundle of Papers Feeblemindedness is inheritable and feeble minded persons are very prolific. for Each Week. The best way to reduce the number of feeble minded persons is to prevent their birth. Feeble minded persons should not be al PRICES FOR THE SEASON lowed to marry or to become parents. (Check With Order) All feebleminded women should be guarded or segragated during the child- 100 C op ies...... $15.00 bearing age. 50 Copies ...... 8.00 The high grade feebleminded girls and women are most dangerous. They become 25 Copies ...... 4.00 sex offenders and mothers of degenerate children. 10 Copies ...... 2.00 Steriliation is not a safe or effective sub stitute for permanent segregation. Steril feebleminded persons will be a source of Single Subscriptions for the Lenten vice and disease. Weeks Wilt Be Accepted for Institutional care is the best form of Twenty-five Cents. prevention and should be provided for all » feeble-minded persons who are not other wise properly supervised. \ | ESIDES DR. ATW ATER’S SERIES, there is the usual page edi- ? | | = torial by Bishop Johnson, the Current Comments column, all the ■ = To quote Walter Fernald, M. D. the \ | News that really matters, the Social Service Editorial, “ Our || superintendent of the Massachusetts School for the Feebleminded: \ | Bishops,’’ and contributed articles by such leaders as Judge Buffington, = | jj | of Pittsburgh; Hon. Charles Shepherd, of Seattle; Miss Vida Scudder, |1 “ We must recognize the Mental Defec tive when he is a child, protect him from 11 of Wellesley; Mrs. Ewing, the President of the Daughters of the King, 11 evil influences, train and educate him in jj | and others. 11 correct habits and industrial efficiency* and, when he has reached adult life, con 11 To Get a Bundle the First week (Issue of Feb. 10), 11 tinue to help and guide him. Most impor tant— He 'Must Not Be Allowed To Per I I Your Order Must Be In by Monday, Feb. 5. j | petuate His Decadent Stock.” What Can the Church And Christian Per sons Do? | TH E W ITNESS‘,w c 3 & S 2 , a w | Advocate better marriage laws. jj jTiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiniMi'.iiniHiiiiniu'iiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir 5 Make a survey of your parish and com iiipnpiipiipiiyiiiiipiipiipiipitpiipnpMiiipiipiipjipiipMpiiiiipiiinpiipiiiiipiiiiipupiipiipiipiiiiipiipiipiiyiiyiiyiiyiiynyMpiiyiiyiiyiiyiiiiiynyinMyinipiipMyiipiiyiiyiipiip'