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Sermon; 4 p.m., Service in French; One of New York's Sacrament of Forgiveness — Saturday 7:30, Evening Prayer. matt beautiful public buildings. 11:30 to 1 p.m. the 40 clerical and lay delegates Progress Reported as Churches of the Protestant Episcopal, Methodist, United Presbyterian Launch Unity Discussions Churches and the United Church of Christ. •A- The first meetings of four discussions toward possible "It is easy to be pessimistic Churches — Episcopal, Presby- union. about such efforts as we are terian, Methodist and United These were the Christian making here," Bishop Phillips Church of Christ — as they ex- Churches (Disciples of Christ) conceded. plored avenues toward possible which has 1,800 churches and "Doubt comes quickly, ridi- union "carried them much fur- 1,801,821 members; the Polish cule is common," he warned. ther than we dared to hope," ac- National Catholic Church, which He said, with a smile, that he cording to the churchman who has 162 churches and 282,411 has a friend who said he would had first proposed the discus- members; and the Evangelical be "an astronaut in a Piper United Brethren Church, which sions. Cub" before the Protestant de- Eugene Carson Blake, stated has a membership of 748,216 and 4,298 churches. nominations attain the unity clerk of the United Presby- which they are considering. publication. terian Church, made that com- If these Churches were to ac- "If you could see his size, you and ment as the two-day session cept the offer to participate, it would appreciate how wildly re- closed in Washington. would mean that more than 22 mote he considers such a possi- reuse Asked if there seemed much million churchgoers would thus bility to be," the bishop de- for chance that the uniting of the become involved in the discus- clared. Churches could ever be effected, sions designed to explore "Nevertheless, to shrink back Bishop Robert F. Gibson of methods of bringing a union of because we are afraid someone required Virginia replied: "I can tell you a large portion of American will make fun of us, call us this. I'm a lot more hopeful Protestantism. dreamers or fools, is to court about the prospects than I was Keys to Unity destruction," he told his fellow when I walked in here." delegates. Permission Courage, faith, and patience David G. Colwell of the will be required to bring ulti- "Following the line of least United Church of Christ re- mate unity to a divided Protes- resistance will never be enough," DFMS. / marked about the "excellent at- tantism, Methodist Bishop Glenn he declared. "Reconciliation is mosphere" that had prevailed R. Phillips of Denver, Colo., costly. He who loses his life throughout the sessions. Two finds it. This is the way of
Church told delegates. days of frank discussion, he unity — the way of the cross." said, had produced "no road- He spoke at service at the The paths of the four denomi- blocks . . which will make dif- College of Preachers at Wash- nations frequently run parallel,
Episcopal ficulties in the future." ington Cathedral attended by Bishop Phillips said, but they
the Charles C. Parlin of New never meet "except in union of York, a co-president of the gatherings of one kind or an- World Council of Churches who other, such as polity committees served here as a delegate of the and ministerial associations." Archives Methodist Church, told news- "Progress is being made but men that conferees had reached not as definitely and rapidly as 2020. agreements on important pro- we would like to see," he told cedural questions. the delegates. As the sessions adjourned, to The yearning for unity is not
Copyright be resumed on March 19, 1963, "the creation of starry-eyed the four Churches established dreamers," he added. "It rises the consultation on Church in power from the heart of God. union to carry on the work of This is no dull, dry man-made the discussions, several subcom- program that moves with drag- mittees also were appointed to ging feet across the plains of study those matters which time. It is a pilgrimage toward separate the Churches. the Holy City." In a major decision, the group "When I look down," he said, invited three more Churches, CHARLES D. KEAN: — secretary "I am afraid to say 'yes,' but with memberships totaling of commission on approaches to when I look up I am afraid to 2,832,448, to take part in the unity of the Episcopal Church say 'no.' "
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churchmen, educators, and lead- Town Meeting for Democracy Held ers in government to serve their own political ends." To Challenge Radical Right Actress's Views publication. * A Town Meeting for "feel that other gatherings in Actress Marsha Hunt, one of and Democracy was held in the southern California that have the leading organizers of the Shrine Auditorium of Los expressed alarm and concern event, sat beside Dr. Burt at the reuse Angeles on April 12th with U.S. over the world situation have press conference and told re- for Senators Clifford Case, Republi- led to an attitude of hysteria porters she hopes that, for one can of New Jersey, and Eugene and hate and to the erroneous thing, the rally will "offset the McCarthy, Democrat of Min- general impression that this is idea of Los Angeles as a mecca required nesota, as the headliners. Also the attitude of a great host of for extremist crackpots." speaking were the Rev. John G. people, even of a majority." Simmons,, Lutheran, and the The town meeting hopes to But more important, she said, Rev. Brooks Walker, Unitarian, clearly counter-act this impres- is the hope that the rally will Permission whose homes were bombed sion and to show that it is pos- add some balance to the extrem- some weeks ago while they ists' statements of recent sible "to approach our problems months and that it will cause DFMS. were speaking at a rally on / without fear and hysteria and "The Radical Right — a Threat without the attitude that every- the vast community of "mod- to Democracy." Also featured thing is a great conspiracy." erates" to "take heart." Church at the meeting was Marsha "Every large gathering here Hunt, movie and tv star. Aims Outlined so far has been to denounce and has been based on hate," con- This meeting was the first At the press conference Dr. Episcopal tended Miss Hunt. "We hope big mass meeting to answer the Burt read an affirmation of the the upserge of meetings of the ex- to show that the extremist view of aims of the Town Meeting for does not reflect the majority treme right which have been Democracy. opinion. We feel extremists held all over the country in re- "In these troubled times," it have a right to be heard, but cent months, and particularly Archives read in part, "we desire to speak we also feel that others must on the west coast. a resounding word of faith in speak out to give balance to the
2020. Chairman of the committee the democratic process. We picture and to start things sponsoring this mass meeting speak for the great majority of going again in a positive direc- was the Rev. John H. Burt, rec- Americans who look with con- tion."
Copyright tor of All Saints, Pasadena, cern on the sickness of anxiety, Calif., who acted in his capacity fear, and suspicion feeding upon Adding glamour to the meet- as president of the Southern frustration which grips many of ing were a number of stars California Council of Churches. our fellow citizens .... from the entertainment world. The Council is composed of fif- "We want desperately to see VOCATION CONFERENCE teen major denominations and a solution to our problems and ten local councils. Burt is also to live in peace. But apostles of IN WEST TEXAS chairman of the ecumenical discord among us take advant- * Olive Mae Mulica, assistant committee of the diocese of Los age of our yearning and frus- secretary of the division of Angeles. tration to attack the institutions Christian ministries of the Na- The Pasadena rector told re- and principles which have been tional Council, led a conference porters that the large number the very bastion of our liberty. on vocations, April 6-8, at the sponsoring the mass meeting They use innuendo against diocesan camp of West Texas.
APRIL 19, 1962 Three Progress Report Holy Spirit is leading us to fur- drew a $200 fine and a four- The conference issued a state- ther explorations of the unity month jail sentence in city ment declaring that it had made that we have in Jesus Christ court, but have been freed on progress during the two days. and to our mutual obligations to $500 bond pending appeal to the "We have made no attempt to give visible witness to this county court. They had not reach agreement in areas of dif- unity." been required to be in Jackson ference," it said. "Rather we "All the delegations had in when the appeal was heard. have sought to isolate issues mind that they represent When their cases came up for which need further study and Churches having deep roots in the first time in the county clarification." the Reformation," the state- court, Jack A. Travis, Jr., Jack- Conference leaders said there ment declared. son city attorney, joined in a are four major barriers in "At the meeting," it con- successful defense motion that which differences exist among tinued, "they were reminded by the charges be dropped. the four denominations. They theological spokesmen of the In his recommendation, Tra- identified these as: 'earnest concern of the Refor- vis said: "We do so out of 9 the historical basis for the mation for theological integrity respect and admiration for the
publication. Christian ministry that is found and cultural relevance'; and Episcopal Church and Mississip- in the scriptures and in the that today these principles pi Episcopal churchmen. This and early Church 'theological integrity and mean- will permit these defendants to • the origins, use and stand- ingful witness,' demand the return to their priestly duties." reuse ing of creeds and confessional union of the Churches. Following Judge Moore's re- for statements "The delegates earnestly be- versal, Travis declined comment, • the restatement of the- seech the members of their saying only that he would prose- ology of the liturgy Churches to be constant in required cute as scheduled next month. • the relation of word and prayer that the people of God In handing down the new sacraments. may be open to his leading that ruling, Judge Moore said: "We are grateful to God for these communions may receive "Orders of dismissal were to be Permission having led us into these con- from him new obedience and entered on the recommendation versations," they said, "and we fresh courage and that God's of the prosecuting attorney, as believe on the basis of our pre- will for his people may be made
DFMS. is the usual custom. However, / liminary discussions that the manifest before the world." due to political connotations which have arisen by these pro-
Church posed orders of dismissal, I am Judge Reverses Decision About of the opinion that it is neces- Trial of Prayer Pilgrims sary to refuse them." Episcopal The other 13 clergymen are: the * Reversing a previous de- tegrity of this court," he said. Gilbert S. Avery 3rd of Rose- of cision, a county judge ruled in "Each of these cases shall berry, Mass.; Myron S. Bloy Jr., Jackson, Miss, that 15 Protestant come on for trial and be dis- of Cambridge, Mass.; John Episcopal clergymen—12 white posed of in the same manner as Crocker Jr., of Providence, R.I.; Archives and 3 Negro — must stand trial the others," the judge remarked James W. Evans of St. Clair, on breach - of - peace charges in reference to the more than Mo.; James G. Jones of Chicago; 2020. stemming from their efforts 300 freedom riders arrested and Geoffrey S. Simpson of Pewau- last fall to integrate bus termi- jailed here last year. kee, Wis.; Robert P. Taylor of nal facilities in Jackson. The ministerial group—mem- Chicago; William A. Wedt of Copyright Judge Russell Moore of Hinds bers of a "Prayer Pilgrimage" Washington, D.C.; Vernon O. County said there had been a that began in New Orleans and Woodward of Cincinnati; Merril misunderstanding about his ended at the General Convention O. Young of Boston; John M. previous ruling that the charges in Detroit — included the Rev. Evans of Toledo; Quinland R. against the clergymen be Robert L. Pierson of Evanston, Gordon of Washington; and dropped out of respect for their 111., a son-in-law of New York James P. Breeden of Boston. clerical occupation. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and the ESCRU had $18,570 on hand "It is with reluctance that Rev. John B. Norris, of Atlanta, March 31st in a special fund to orders of dismissal, which were Ga., executive director of the finance this case, with an esti- to be entered, shall not be, for Society for Cultural and Racial mated $14,000 more needed to I deem it necessary to withhold Unity. carry it to the Supreme Court same in order to uphold the in- Each of the 15 clergymen if necessary.
APRIL 19, 1962 Five times. The dates of all movable Message of the Presiding Bishop feasts and Holy Days depend upon Easter, which is always Tells of the Hope of Easter the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or "Christ the Lord is risen There is a way to "so pass next after the 21st day of today." through things temporal, that March, and if the full moon This is the good news of we finally lose not the things happens on a Sunday, Easter is Easter. At Christmas the en- eternal." the following Sunday. The full couraging word of the Gospel That way is to believe in moon, for the purposes of the is that the Saviour has come Jesus Christ, the Son of the tables, is the 14th day of a into the world; the glorious living God, to worship Him, lunar month, according to ec- clesiastical computation, and not news of Easter is that He is obey Him and serve Him as here to stay. the real, or astronomical full Lord and Saviour. When we moon. If that sounds strange to you, choose that way and enter it, publication. think a moment. Those who then are we risen with Christ. BEXLEY VISITED
and put Jesus to death thought they Arthur Lichtenberger BY 281 TEAM were getting rid of Him in this Presiding Bishop •k The Presiding Bishop reuse world. It did not matter to headed a group of National for them if He lived on elsewhere; EASTER IS LATEST Council executives who visited they wanted to put an end to SINCE 1943 Bexley Hall for three days last
required His power and influence here. With a possible range of one week to let the seminarians and But did the crucifixion do month and three days, and with their teachers know how things that? Our Lord was crucified April 25 as the latest possible are done.
Permission and buried, yes; but on the date, the Sunday upon which we Two other bishops were in third day He rose from the observe Easter rarely falls so the group, Bishop Bentley, dead. He is not a dead prophet DFMS. late in the year as in 1962. director of overseas work, and / but the Living Lord. He is not April 22 this year marks the Bishop Corrigan, head of the a figure out of the past whose latest date for Easter since 1943, home department. Also there Church teachings still inspire us; He is when it fell on April 25. Only were directors of all other 281 the Risen Lord who enables us once before, in 1859, did the departments, including one to overcome sin and death and date come on April 25. It will
Episcopal woman — Frances M. Young, to triumph with Him. not reach that date again within
the who heads the division of This is the source of our the present table of holy days of women's work. Easter joy. The word of Easter which have been determined to the year 2013. The news bureau of Kenyon, is this: — which likes to refer to Bexley Archives In the year 2011 Easter will There is a way to find meaning be observed on April 24, in the as "the divinity school of
2020. in the scattered details of our year 2000 on April 23, and on Kenyon College", has some lives. April 22 in 1973 and 1984. interesting "facts" in the re- There is a way through fear to The earliest date on which lease about the Presiding Copyright faith. Easter may arrive is March 22. Bishop. "He received his Doc- There is a way to use suffering This occurred in 1786, and will tor of Divinity degree in 1925 and sorrow for good. not occur again until 2013. Four and served as a missionary in times, in 1788, 1845, 1856 and There is a way to learn that des- China until the Communist up- 1913, it was observed on March rising of 1927 forced him to pite the appalling waste of 23. This date does not again ar- leave." human life, nothing born of rive until 2008. Conferences similar to this love, nothing good, is ever In the 227-year period covered wasted. one at Bexley have been — or by the table for Holy Days, will be — held at all the the- There is a way to die daily to from the year 1786 until 2013, ological seminaries of the sin. Easter occurs in March only 53 Church.
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such cases, whatever man there is has been tailor- Easter Fashions made. It isn't that one would suppress social custom; THE WORLD loses its interest in Christ after it is that one would hope that Christian men and Easter. Having commercialized the season of his women would have sufficient moral strength to birth and the season of his resurrection, it be- keep social customs from submerging the moral comes singularly indifferent to his ascension. sense and spiritual discernment of Christians. It The Christmas trade and the Easter parade are is a sad commentary on the time that when perfectly harmless if they are accompanied by fathers and mothers are called upon to choose be- our real devotion to the author of these seasons. tween social demands and Christian ideals, that It is proper that we should make gifts and clothe the ideals so often go, and the poor Jittle fish who ourselves in bright raiment, if there is still room are caught in the net of popular demand, never in our heart for him. But as a substitute for do get a chance to grow any bigger. publication. righteousness, clothes and social customs are poor It is just this point! When are we going to de- and stuff. velop enough cultivated Christians who are civil- We can dress most carefully and correctly while ized enough to realize that the service of Christ reuse we have a heart of a snob and the mind of a must come first in their lives, and that the world for moron. Beneath social convention we may find cannot command in the domain of Christian in- little brains and less virtues; whereas the season fluence.
required of Easter reminds us that we must have a hunger In other words, we have a right to expect that for righteousness, and a capacity for friendship, Christian men and women should be strong and the love of worship. enough to put on the garb of social conventions, The age is so concerned with the mechanics of
Permission without losing the soul of a Christian. existence that it has forgotten the joy of the sail. The age is more concerned as to the style in which Some of the most awful catastrophies in history
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/ a Christian is clothed, than it is with the quality of the soul which the clothes may cover. And social leaders, having a Christian veneer. This the sad thing is that so many so-called Christians was the case in the court of Louis in France and Church put the world's standard first and Christ's stand- of Nicholas in Russia, where the elegant manners ard next, oblivious of the fact that whatever they of the elite were submerged by the brutal anger may think, he will not have it that way, but will of the proletariat. Eeither God is not in heaven, Episcopal see that the last shall be first and the first, last. or else he declines to be patronized by the smart the set. of There is far more danger today of worldly fashion submerging the spiritual ideals of Chris- Unless the word "gentleman" can be made to tian folk, than there is hope that the advocates of represent something deeper than mere ritual, it
Archives Christ's gospel will carry his message into the gradually becomes a thing so hateful to God and world. The man in the Church, who is honest, man, that the former will not use his power to 2020. capable and obliging, is often passed by and pre- save it from the vengeance of the latter. ferment given to some shallow self-seeker who There is an omnious blot in American life to- employs a good tailor and cultivates the right day. It is a little cloud but one which may bring Copyright kind of people. It would be humorous, if it were on the deluge. It is the present epidemic of silly not tragic. It is so difficult to fancy that the Christians. Society has kept the ritual of the Man of Nazareth, whom we call Master, is so social era, but is contemptuous of the Christian interested in current styles as some of his promi- order. Now this may seem a small thing but nent disciples would make us believe. small things sometimes indicate vicious diseases. Not that one should willfully violate the rules Somebody has called attention to the passing of good society. Truly they have a tendency to of romanticism, which means nothing more or cover up the beast within us, but, judging from less than that men are losing the power of the court reports and press notices, a large percent- imagination. It is evident all about us. The age of well dressed people, who do the correct quality of poetry, popular music, art and architec- thing, are little better than beasts. So that in ture indicate an impoverished imagination, a de-
APBDL 19, 1962 Sevett generate idealism. The American people need the We need the season of Whitsuntide to remind church year, not because it needs to keep Sab- us that "as we are saved by grace and that not baths but because it needs to learn the value of of ourselves, it is the gift of God." And we need proportion. the season of Advent, that we may "watch and Christmas, Lent, Eastertide are not mere pray lest we enter into temptation." When we names. They symbolize spiritual values. We have done all this, we have plenty of time left to need the season in which we hear the carols tell- take our place in the social order. ing us, of "peace on earth good will to men" and It is not that the age is wicked so much as that "glory to God in the highest." its leaders are hopelessly stupid — we seem to We need the season of Lent, not as a fad which divide into groups who feed on the pious vitupera- we patronize, but as a rule which we keep, to give tion of frenzied evangelists without graciousness; us the perspective that comes from meditation and those who feed on the silly alterations of and prayer. dress and the shallow sound of social gaiety. And We need the great forty days from Easter to all the time, Christ and the Church are asking us Ascension, in order that we may visualize that to keep the true proportions of life. if we be truly risen in Christ we must seek those "If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things publication. things that are above. that are above." and reuse for Issues in Dispute required SHOULD CHRISTIANS TITHE?
Permission Book puts it, it is his "bounden duty to follow A Standard to go By Christ, to worship God every Sunday in his
DFMS. Church; and to work and pray and give for the / By Thomas D. Bowers spread of his kingdom." Rector of St. Patrick's, Washington, D.C. These five aspects of our duty are certainly the Church TOO OFTEN THE CHURCH is accused of asking necessary marks of a mature Christian, or a ma- for money all the time. But when Christians in ture parish, diocesan, or national Church. They, any sense give realistically in grateful response together, constitute a very real, visible, and out- Episcopal to God's mighty act of redemption wrought out ward form of the invisible and spiritual grace the in the passion, crucifixion, resurrection and which is within. For example, when Christians of ascension of our Lord, the Church never has to give but do not worship they are not participating ask for money. This response of gratitude for in a very mature way in the life of the Church; when they work and worship but do not give, Archives what Christ has done for us is the only basis for Christian giving. there is an implied perversion and self-centered-
2020. ness in their worship and work. This must be It is only because of spiritual immaturity on ever so, and therefore Christian love drives us the part of clergy and laity alike that the Church toward maturity in all these things. is ever placed in the role of asking for money. It Copyright is ridiculous to think that where there is true Biblical Standard Christian committment the Church should spend TITHING FURNISHES THE CHRISTIAN with most of its time trying to convince its members a very real biblical standard of giving. I say that they have the obligation of mature Christian standard rather than law because the Christian stewardship. The most perfect gauge and indi- is, of course, free of the law and all its legalistic cation of the committment of an individual or a concepts, for he lives by grace; that is, the Chris- parish or a diocese to its Lord is its outward and tian does not gain his salvation by giving ten visible concern for the spread of the Kingdom of percent, fifty percent, or even on hundred percent God. of what he has; nor, on the other hand, does he Every communicant of the Episcopal Church lose salvation if he gives only one percent or even has acknowledged the fact that, as the Prayer nothing of what he has, for man cannot merit,
Eight THE WITNESS earn, or buy his salvation since salvation comes far surpasses the giving of those parishes where only by the divine action of God which we call gifts are based on a budget drawn up by men. grace and which we appropriate by faith. One of the great difficulties with the Church's However, because we do live in this world and operation today, it seems to me, is that such a we are still subject to sin and temptation, each great part of the Church's time, energy, and even of us needs a very practical standard, especially money is used simply to obtain the pledges of the in this area of giving where we are so sensitive parishioners. The work itself might be good for and selfish, by which we might examine our own the parish in many indirect ways (as indeed it gifts to Christ and his Church. The biblical stand- is), but it does seem to me that it is rather tragic ard of giving is ten percent, and though I know that the Church has to canvass its members each that some Christians will give mare than this and year to get pledges of offerings when, as a mat- some will give less, and though I know that no ter of fact, Christians should already see them- two Christians give the same, there is yet a very selves as pledged through baptism and confirma- great need for a standard toward which we might tion to give as much as they possibly can for the grow or beyond which we might move as we seek spread of Christ's kingdom — Sunday after Sun- through prayer and by God's grace to return to day and year after year. , publication. God at least a significant token of our love for and him. Secondly, when tithing is the Christian stand- reuse
for ard of giving, it explicitly means that the Chris- tian has placed or is trying to place Christ and his Not the Best Answer Church first in his life because tithing is always By Ralph A. Weatherly required the "first-fruits" of what one has garnered for Rector Emeritus of Grace Church, Kingston, Pa. himself. In other words, the Christian does not take just THOSE WHO BELIEVE in tithing are en-
Permission any ten percent of what he has earned and return couraged by George Romney and may vote Re- it to God, but he consciously, reverently and pur- publican-American. Tithing conscientiously re- posefully takes the first ten percent as his offer- quires accurate accounting and a plan of life, DFMS.
/ ing. This is most important, for it says that God especially of expenditure, and some self-discipline. must take the first place in our hearts and lives But there are disadvantages. Tithing is me- though by nature we usually tend to leave for him chanical; it is required by groups accustomed to Church what is last — the refuse or nothing. unified action — Mormons, Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses. There is often a smug self-satisfaction Life of Response about those who announce themselves as tithers, Episcopal IN A CHURCH WHERE adult Christians have as was pointed out in the example of the Pharisee the
of learned, and taught to their children, this Chris- in the parable of our Lord: he enjoyed bragging tian standard of giving, there is no need for an to God. every member canvass — at least not to obtain One tenth is not enough for the wealthy to give
Archives pledges of offerings. This may seem idealistic to God. One tenth may incur hardship that is to many, but it is certainly a very real possibility. desperate for the poverty-struck giver. Also 2020. Where men, women, and children in a parish there is reticence in many persons in announcing tithe, their aim and purpose is not to meet a par- what they give, based perhaps on not telling the ticular parish budget, or to fulfill certain neces- left hand what the right hand distributes. This Copyright sary needs, but rather, to give the greatest pos- is probably called false modesty by tithers in sible material gifts to Christ and his Church for easy circumstances and by fund-raisers. the spread of his kingdom. I knew forty years ago a lady who gave It is this which creates the change in the seventy-five percent of her yearly income, which giver's heart, for he begins to learn something of was large, for those in need; she lived comfort- what it means to give sacrifically until it hurts ably but very simply, being an aristocrat. And him and costs him something so that if it be a distinguished farmer and his brilliant wife who God's will, he might even suffer for Christ. This lived in a cottage with a few comforts, a fire- begins for many Christians, for the first time, a place and many books, while their tenants had life of response to the saving act of Christ. successions of automobiles and new gadgets. Therefore, the giving of a tithing parish usually Today the wealthy have their finances regu- APRIL 19, 1962 Nine lated by income tax officials while socialism in well that it is better to give than to receive. He the United States approaches that in Britain. The can appreciate at times the widow's mite. British are more comfortable, with various per- So he is disturbed sometimes when after he quisites, than they have ever been. has given to God to find the Church administra- Tithing was used from Babylon to Biscay, by tors careless. It is so easy to spend other people's Arabs, Greeks, Romans sacrificing to their di- money. It is easily forgotten that much of the vinities. Abraham and Jacob tithed, Jacob typi- Church's funds come from sacrificial giving. cally bargaining with Jahweh for success in a Officials follow fashionable trends or emotions new venture, as Constantine did with conversion. that seem attractive and excellent, when they are The priest-class, the Levites, levied a first tithe fatuous and unsound. There should be no waste for themselves, a second for feasts and sacrifices, in our economy: God does not squander. and sometimes they tried a third for the poor. His economy does not begin or end in tithing. Since the government laid a tax tithe the going- To give proportionately is better. And the most must have been rough for the people, and it is no excellent way is that which Christ Jesus followed wonder that they rebelled. Levites seemed to have and commended—to give in confidence and joyful publication. cheated, for Malachi said God complained about abandon and love. being short changed. The wise King Solomon and destroyed his kingdom by over-taxing. Laying
reuse on many tithes brought priestcraft into disrepute.
for The rebuilt temple became a market place and Don Large den of thieves, and St. John says that one of Christ's first acts was to cleanse it. On the other required hand, the glory of Judea was its prophets. Amos Not Death But Life and John the Baptist were not encumbered by property.
Permission ANY ATTEMPT TO EXPRESS the breathless Decide Yourself reality of Easter is as doomed to failure as would be the effort to encompass the infinite heavens DFMS. / THERE IS NO NEW TESTAMENT command to with a child's telescope. But there are some pro- tithe. The Christian decided according to his vocative signposts along the way. And elemen- judgment and means. There is uncertainty in the
Church tary though our poor human words may be, they New Testament but no set rules appear. There at least can be said and they certainly need to be are evidences of creed and liturgy beginning. One said. is not to blow a trumpet before him when he Episcopal gives alms. A collection was made for the For example, no man can apprehend the Resur- the Jerusalem poor and Paul was much concerned in rection who has never allowed his body to become of it. All things come from God: everybody knew the temple of his spirit. No man can enter into this, and the Christian commonwealth lived ac- the full joy of Easter who has never encouraged cordingly. his natural talents to mature into spiritual gifts. Archives And no man is ready to share an immortal life Socrates shown the glories of Athens' art said with his Risen Lord, until he has begun to see 2020. there were many things he could do without. that there is more to this earthly life than meets Emerson, Thoreau repeated this; so do Schweit- the five senses. zer and Casals today. We need not waste our pity then on the man Copyright The ordinary professional man lives close to who whines about the smallness of his talents. what Woodrow Wilson dubbed the poverty line. Our sorrow should rather be reserved for him The social worker Devine said in Misery and Its who failed to develop those talents, large or small. Causes that he was in debt most of his life, but No one need weep for him who shattered his not miserably so. The head of a family has to sword in honest combat with Satan. Rather, let care for his family's food, clothes, warmth, your tears be shed for him who heard the sum- health and education; and often for relatives on mons of God's trumpet, but would not leave his both sides, and possibly for friends. The degree tent to answer! When such a man dies, no flag of this concern is known only to him and to God. flies at halfmast for him, for he never followed The going is rough for the real Christian. He any flag. has to economize, to discipline himself. He knows Judas may have meant well, but the Judases
Ten THE WITNESS of this world will never save it. And though you Mundane examples can often best illustrate might call your dog Pontius Pilate, you'd certain- this kind of triumph over the outworn flesh. Do ly never give that name to your son. The bless- you recall those ringing words spoken by a gal- ings which illuminate this murky world have lant British naval officer of a former day? always come from those who—taking the leap Admiral Duncan, hearing that his foe's entire into the dark—have found the darkness filled fleet was attempting to put out to sea, ordered with ultimate light. the Venerable and her two companion vessels to Just before he died, Dr. Cosby Bell, professor anchor in the channel. "I have taken the depth at the Virginia Seminary, whispered these stir- of the water," he said, "and when the Venerable ring words: "Tell the boys I've become surer of goes down, the English flag will still fly at her Christ every year of my life, and that I was masthead above the waves!" never surer of him than I am right now. It's all So it was, you remember, with 80-year-old John so! It's a fact! A living certainty! And I'm Quincy Adams when a friend once asked him glad to find no need for shirking here at the end. how he felt. His answer is a classic. Eyes I've been preaching and teaching these things all twinkling, he thoughtfully replied, "John Quincy my life, and it's good to know they're true . . . Adams himself is doing quite nicely, thank you. publication. Tell the boys I say goodbye. They've been a joy But the house he's living in is quite rickety and and to me. I've had more than any man who ever outworn. I think it's about time to consider lived. Life owes me nothing. I've had work I moving into a more fitting habitation. Mean- reuse loved, and I've lived among congenial souls. I've while, however, John Quincy Adams himself is for had love in its highest form. And I've got it doing quite nicely!" forever! Death is a mere incident, a passing May the deepest joy of your Easter be found required through a door. God is THERE — and all that in the fact that the last word to be uttered is not really counts in life goes on." Death, but Life! Permission DFMS.
/ THE HOLY MOUNTAIN AND GREEK EASTER By Malcolm Boyd
Church Chaplain at Wayne University
IN THE COOL MORNING AIR our open boat on the magazine. I loaned the Post to two of the
Episcopal sailed out into the bay from the Greek fishing- monks who thumbed through the Norman Rock-
the village of Ierissos. It was six o'clock and just well illustrations, pointing them out and chuckl- of barely light. It was the Thursday following ing, as we progressed over the choppy sea. The Easter and I was on my way to Mont Athos, the donkey became interested in the long white beard holy mountain of Greece. of one of the monks, who finally had to drive the Archives At a small foodstand on the beach my fellow animal away with a stick. passengers, three Mont Athos monks, and I had 2020. each had a small glass of ouzo and a double cup We put in at Vatopedi, the aristocrat of Mont of Turkish coffee. Sheep, their feet tied together, Athos, surely the richest of the twenty monas- were carried aboard the boat and placed in the teries on the island. Vatopedi gives the impres- Copyright hold. Then a donkey was forcibly carried aboard. sion of being a medieval walled-town. The ancient He stood alongside us for the journey, which took stone walls are gaunt and grey. High up, where considerably longer than planned because the wooden balconies and window frames have been motor died four times in transit. Lastly, we pas- built, one sees striking bright reds, pinks and sengers walked up the thin, shaky wooden plank blues painted. —and the trip was a reality. Atop the battlements flies a Greek flag. Cob- I was carrying, along with my knapsack, a blestones cover the entire ground area of the in- quite old issue of The Saturday Evening Post terior courtyard and also the pathways leading which I had discovered at a kiosk in Salonica. The into it. Some forty-five monks now reside at magazine featured various Norman Rockwell Vatopedi and approximately forty laborers live cover illustrations which had previously appeared and work there. For more than a thousand years
APHIL 19, 1962 Eleven no woman has been permitted to set foot on Mont ing the same cliches, the same monotonous ex- Athos, though there have been several cele- pressions of greeting and appreciation — and brated attempts to circumvent this rule. adding my own, equally a cliche and monotonous. The sea sweeps right up to the very gates of Then I came across a message written by a Los Vatopedi. I wandered along the beach, with its Angeles physician. millions of sea-washed and sun-bleached stones. "We are gratified with the gentility and hos- I came to a hill which gave me sharply different pitality extended by the monks in this out-of- views in all directions. In one direction were the-way hostel. Because of the teachings of Koch stone ruins, in another hills rising ever higher and Lister which have become an inseparable and higher. In another direction I could see the fundament of our cultural training, we feel we walled monastery where chimes were now peal- must hastily retreat from this haven of refuge ing out. And, too, I could look out upon the open provided by the good fathers. The various bacil- sea. I stood here in that rare moment following li and parasites at whose disposal we have placed sunset just when darkness is about to fall. ourselves must sadly wait for the next visitors I will not attempt to catalogue the treasures of to this little haven out of the way from life's chapel and library which are found in each of the publication. stresses. Adieu, you cockroaches and rodents, Mont Athos monasteries. Such data is well-docu- products of the kindly hand of God, adieu, you and mented elsewhere. I realized how quickly these lice and flies, little insects blessed by the saints treasures—icons, mosaics, frescoes, parchment
reuse and Holy Mary. We leave you with the good manuscripts, oils — could go up in flame if a for monks in the decadent faecal-smelling confines match were carelessly struck or a cigarette left of this place of prayer and meditation." burning by a monk or by a visitor. There have required been disastrous fires at Mont Athos and there is Underneath, a guest from Cincinnati had no fire department on the wild island to rush to written: "Why do these men write of food and the rescue. beds? Have they not found the art and civiliza- tion of Athos awesome ?" Permission Night in Coutloumous But this is a dispute which is well-nigh ever- THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, looming up and domi- lasting. And Mont Athos is neither stirred by it DFMS. / nating the island from almost any point, resem- nor involved in it. The round of prayer continues, bles Mt. Everest. A monk I met pointed up to the ebb of life continues, the hospitality continues;
Church Mont Athos and said, "le petit Everest." One and, for all I know, no monk at Coutloumous must go to the town of Karyes where credentials reads English; so that the irate protest from the are presented to the island authorities and one is direction of Los Angeles may be known only to the cockroaches and rodents, the visitors who Episcopal given, in return, testimonials entitling one to monastic hospitality anywhere on Mont Athos. read English (and who bother to read old guest the
of At Karyes I stood on the balcony of a monk's books) and to God. dwelling and looked out at the place where I knew I travelled by mule from Karyes to the monas- the Holy Mountain should be. It was enveloped
Archives tery of Iviron and caught the tiny open boat for in swirling mist. This mist gradually lifted, re- the monastery of Great Lavra. The oldest and vealing first the surrounding hills, then the blue
2020. grandest of the monasteries of Mont Athos, sea in the distance, and finally the peak of Mont Lavra sits high upon a hill overlooking the sea. Athos rising above the clouds. The colors of the One has to walk some twenty minutes after dis- island are remarkable: the grey coastal line, the
Copyright embarking to reach it. I was alone as I made my olive-green trees and bright flowers, the flashing way from monastery to monastery. At Lavra in silvery streams of water, the pastels augmenting the refectory are frescoes of the saints. Here in the otherwise solemn stone monastery walls, the a chapel I saw an ancient picture of St. Stephen bright golden domes of Panteleimon, the white- and one of the monks with me pointed to the caps and surf of the surrounding sea, the monks' picture, then to my clerical collar, and said: black habits and tall, rounded black hats sitting "Deacon. Like you." atop long, unbarbered hair. I spent a night in Coutloumous, the monastery Fr. Diomedes has been a monk at Lavra for which is only about a five-minute walk from fifty years. His card bears his name in Greek. Karyes. The guest book, signed by all visitors, Then, in the left-hand corner, are these words: was next to my bed. I thumbed through it, read- "Speaking little English. Holy Mountain, Greece."
Twelve THE WITNES; Cordial and Luckies night at the inn. The next morning I com- FR. DIOMEDES served me a cordial he had made menced the all-day bus trip back to Salonica. And himself from grapes he had grown. He presented my visit to the Holy Mountain had ended. me with a letter-opener and I gave him my Eng- Technological Age lish-Greek dictionary. Nifon, a hermit, was visit- THE TECHNOLOGICAL WONDER of the day ing Lavra. We went for a walk together up in following my return to Salonica is indicative of the hills behind the monastery to an ancient our age. I boarded a morning plane for Athens chapel. On the way we met a teenage Greek lad where I changed planes and, within one hour, who produced a child's pistol marvelously bear- was on my way to London. We flew over the ing the name Roy Rogers. Another monk ap- Acropolis, over Naples, Rome, Paris and past the peared who handed me a package of Lucky Strike Matterhorn and then the white cliffs of Dover— cigarettes (very stale, and opened in my honor) to London airport. Then, a train ride took me to and asked me to explain the meaning of LS/MFT. Oxford, where I was to continue my work as a Up by the ancient chapel, built by monks cen- student. turies ago, we looked out upon the hills, the gar- Holy Week and Easter (according to the west- dens and the trees, and down to the blue sea. publication. ern calendar) I had spent in Athens, where I was Nifon then said to me: "Here is very true peace a guest at Apostoliki Diakonia, the Greek Orth- and . . . and free . . . understand?" odox evangelism center and student hostel. I In the open boat I travelled from Lavra around
reuse was privileged to share the life of the two hun- the island past the monasteries of St. Paul and for dred theological students living there who attend Dionysiou to the monastery of Gregoriou. classes at the nearby University of Athens. My Gregoriou stands high above the rocks at the best friends were Cypriots, Cretans and Ethi- required very edge of the sea. At night I stood on one of opians. The eastern and western calendars dif- the wooden, seemingly precarious balconies, look- fering by a week, on the day of the western ob- ing straight down hundreds of feet at the angry servance of Easter I had made my communion at waves hurling themselves in intense and unabated
Permission the Anglican Church in Athens and then attended fury against the rocks and stone base of the a three-hour service, the Divine Liturgy of St. monastery. I was awakened at 5 a.m. by a young John Chrysostom, with my good friend Fr. Johan-
DFMS. deacon who stood at the foot of my bed shouting: / nus Ramphos at an Orthodox church on the oc- "Deacon! To church!" He gestured that I was casion of the eastern observance of Palm Sunday. to follow him. I stumbled out of my warm bed Church and into my clothes and we joined the others in Zoe Movement the chapel for worship. WHILE IN ATHENS I had private conversations with several leaders of the famed Zoe Movement.
Episcopal In the open boat and pouring rain I passed by fantastic Simonopetra, which seems almost to be Zoe is a monastic community of some one hun- the dred priests and laymen, the latter being mostly of suspended high in mid-air. My destination was the port of Daphni, my final stop on the island. theologians. From this central movement have Here I sat in the country store which has all the stemmed numerous loosely-affiliated groups, in-
Archives intrigue of a diplomatic center and I talked with cluding one for nurses, one for doctors, one for Fr. Nikone, a Russian priest and former aris- university students, one for working men, one 2020. tocrat, now a hermit at Mont Athos. His English for intellectuals, one for parents, to cite a few. is impeccable, his charm very grand, his educa- Zoe stresses the Christian life in terms of Church tion polished. Fr. Nikone has seen much tragedy renewal more than it makes use of evangelistic Copyright within the span of his life; and now he too won- techniques, although it has publications and spon- ders what lies ahead for the island of the Holy sors well-attended meetings. The core of its Mountain, which has faced so many crises in its effort always is confrontation and study of the hundreds of years of civilization. sacramental life. The often-used recreational de- vices for drawing crowds are spurned. In this At 1 p.m. I caught the boat to Tripiti, and we ferment within the Church more lay activity is passed by the decaying splendor of the Holy sought. Russian monastery of Panteleimon, now housing a dwindling and pathetically small number of Eastern Holy Week monks in its thousands of rooms. At 5:30 I FLYING TO ISTANBUL (Constantinople) after travelled by mule from Tripiti to the fishing vil- the western observance of Easter, I was enter- lage of Ierissos, where I again put up for the ing immediately into the eastern Holy Week.
APRIL 19, 1962 Thirteen Bishop James of Philadelphia, a member of the as we commenced the Easter vespers (also known holy synod of Constaninople, had asked me to be as the second resurrection, service of love, or the guest of the Orthodox church at Halki, one service of the multi-lingual gospels) by marching and a half hours by boat from the city. His Holi- in a litany procession around the seminary. I ness, the Patriarch of Constaninople, received was dressed in the vestments of an Orthodox me for a private conversation and then invited deacon, and was asked to read the gospel accord- me to join his table for lunch at the patriarchate. ing to St. John 20: 19-25, in English while other Following this, I travelled to Halki where I would deacons and priests preceded or followed me by remain for the whole of eastern Holy Week. reading it in eight other languages (including Halki, the Church's most important theological the Ethiopian liturgical language of Geez). training school, looks down upon the village of Afterwards, walking in the grounds of the Heybeliada. Much of the island is uninhabited seminary of Halki, I could see across the clear and covered by trees and wild growth. There blue sea to the towering minarets of Istanbul on were a hundred and one students at Halki. Life the distant horizon. was rigorous, the discipline extreme. Halki's Many currents of contemporary ecumenical chapel is small and very beautiful. The iconostasis, Christian life are felt at Halki: I was accepted as publication. bishop's throne and pulpit all convey the effect a brother in Christ and was absorbed into the and of rich gold, especially when the chapel is lighted community and the flow of its life. Recalling with many candles. There are twenty-five small my trip, I feel at Easter each year a close kinship reuse icons along the top of the iconostasis, represent- with the Orthodox Christians. for ing the Church's twelve major feasts and other I recall (and commend to you) the prayer from feast days. The two icons directly to the right the Orthodox divine liturgy of St. John Chrysos-
required and left of the holy door (depicting, as always in tom: "Let us who have entreated for the unity of Orthodox churches, our Lord and the Virgin the faith and for the fellowship of the Holy Mary, respectively) are collectors' items dating Ghost, commend ourselves and one another and from the sixteenth century. Another large icon our whole life to Christ our God." • Permission depicts the Holy Trinity by showing the visit of the three angels to Abraham. A lectern stands
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Church From Monday on there was a full schedule of By Corwin C. Roach daily chapel services. On great Holy Friday eve- Director of School of Religion, Fargo, N. D. ning there occurred the burial service. An icon ALLELUIA IS A MYSTERIOUS WORD. Ac-
Episcopal of the entombed Christ was sprinkled with rose petals, and reverenced and placed within a tomb cording to Church tradition we do not use it in the our worship from the last Sunday in Epiphany of of fresh flowers. I was quite impressed by this expression, even at the heart of the Passion, of until Easter day itself. This is the point of the always recurring Orthodox emphasis upon Hymn 54. Alleluia is itself a Latinised form of
Archives the joy of the resurrection. Then we processed, the Hebrew word Hallelujah which we find chanting, around the seminary grounds, bearing sprinkled across the pages of the Old Testament 2020. the icon and the empty cross. The flickering particularly in the Book of Psalms. lights of our candles and the sparkling lights But the word has even a more ancient origin from surrounding islands shone out in the dark- than the worship of the children of Israel. Among Copyright ness of the hill-top. the primitive Semites of the wilderness steppes On Saturday night villagers of the island "hilal" was the festive shout with which they crowded into the chapel (lighted by many can- greeted the appearance of their diety, the moon dles) for the Easter service. When the service god, in the first faint glow of its monthly rising ended at 3:30 a.m., we went into the dining room in the desert sky. So today on Easter Sunday to break our long, hard fast with the paschal as the white-robed choirs of our cathedrals, feast. churches and chapels sing the Alleluia anthem, Easter day dawned splendidly. A sudden storm they will be carrying on a tradition of worship had hit the small island during a Saturday serv- almost as old as man himself. ice, shattering glass window panes and whistling Alleluia, Hallelujah, Hilal mean praise. On like the furies themselves. But now it was warm, Easter Sunday more than on any day in the year
Fourteen THE WITNESS we offer our praises to Almighty God. If you which we live. With Easter that ancient shout should be curious enough to look up that word bursts forth again with new meaning. The praise in your dictionary you would see that it is Easter Alleluia is the triumphant answer to all connected with the word "price". Praise then is the doubts and questioning that have gone be- the price man gives to God, the payment he ren- fore. God has paid the ransom price by which ders to his maker and protector. man has been redeemed from the sin and evil Primitive Semite, ancient Hebrew, man through which has held him thrall. The debt has been the ages, each has offered his varying sacrifices paid and man, if he will, is free. He can start to God as the price he felt that God demanded. life afresh. The springtime resurgence of the An animal, the fruits of the field, sometimes even world of nature is a symbol of the rebirth and a fellow human being was offered up in those resurrection in the human soul at Easter time. days. The hilal was meant to attract the atten- Our Easter praise is our appreciation of the tion of an absentee deity, the while it drowned price of God in Jesus Christ. It is our "worth- out the dying cries of the sacrifice. ship" of God from which all true worship springs. There was something magnificent and terrible The only gift we can bring in turn, the only about those ancient rites. But Easter com- publication. price we can pay is "our sacrifice of praise and memorates a far different kind of sacrifice. It thanksgiving", our worship first offered at the and celebrates the price which God in the person of Easter altar and then carried forth into every his Son, Jesus Christ, has paid for man. reuse act of our daily lives. During the Lenten season the Alleluia has been for stilled as we have searched our hearts and at- This is God's eternal Alleluia granted and tempted to understand something of the meaning guaranteed to the sons of men by the resurrec-
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Happy Issue; My Handicap and the By Kenneth R. Forbes King Agag, many of the patriarch, Jacob's doings, Elijah and Elisha's
DFMS. Church by G. Janet Tulloch. Sea- / bury Press. $3.00 Book Editor exciting times, etc. are undertaken So far as this reviewer knows, we to convince readers that fiction is a have here the first instance of a book This is a picture we all can recog- legitimate part of any library, divine Church written by a young woman victim of nize; we have seen it in real life and or otherwise, and the purpose of it cerebral palsy, in co-operation with wondered if it represented an insane by the Bible's authors should be clear a friend who helped to gut the ma- or idiot person. Probably not, this enough by the light of Biblical terial in book form. It proves to be book assures us, as the victims who scholars' interpretation. Especially Episcopal an inspiring story and a humiliating are thus abnormal are cared for in valuable reading is the chapter on institutions. We have probably seen the Qumran Scrolls about which the one, for some of us readers should a normal person, longing for com- there have been such varied and, in of have been doing the same sort of Christian service with the 650,000 munity life and contact in it. many quarters, absurd theories pro- sufferers from the same handicap. This book is full of simple illumi- mulgated in superficial stories. It is The young woman whose story this nation which can guide any of us to admirable because strictly based on Archives book records is a member of St. Al- a recognition that the handicapped provable facts — this account of ban's Church in Washington, D. C. are persons seeking fellowship. our author. The whole book is good indeed for 2020. and her friendly collaborator is Understxmding the Bible by Ignatius Cynthia C. Wedel, also a St. Alban's all of us; especially for the many woman and a busy, widely known Hunt. Sheed & Ward. $3.95 who have long been puzzled about one, a former national chairman of much that they have seen in Holy This is a capital popular book Scripture. One misses, however, any Copyright United Church Women. about the Bible, its original texts, adequate treatment of the four gos- In the first words of the first chap- its numerous translations into the pels and St. Paul. Perhaps the ter Janet Tulloch pictures vividly vernacular of all nations and impor- present author is preparing a new some of the symptoms of the cere- tant parts of it even into the lan- book dealing with this important bral palsy. She writes: "Offer me guage of uncivilized tribes, the na- part of the New Testament. your hand in greeting, and my hand ture of what Christians mean by its becomes a misguided missile as it divine "inspiration", the different yaws its way into yours. Speak to types of literature included in the me and my reply may jet forth as a Bible; e-g-> history, philosophy, poe- * ADDRESS CHANGE * garbled spew. Cerebral palsy not try, religious codes, etc. Please send your old as well only cripples, it contorts. I, as one The author's careful interpretation as the new address of its 650,000 victims in the United of the many seemingly dubious States, twist, writhe and weave as stories in the Old Testament; the THE WITNESS my uncoordinated muscles reach out Garden of Eden, Noah and the Ark, TUNKHANNOCK — PA. to perform even a simple act." Jonah and the whale, Samuel and APRIL 19, 1962 Fifteen DELEGATE OBSERVERS heard might be helpful to them NEW YORK TO BE THE TITLE in their efforts toward Chris- tian unity. CITY •k Representatives of non- The Church of England de- Catholic Churches attending the clined to send a representative. Overlooking Times Square & Vatican Council, which opens in RADIO CITY However, the fact that represen- short walk to Central Park and the Coliseum Rome on October 11, will be tatives have already been regis- called "delegate observers." tered with the Vatican secre- Clergy The announcement said the tariat by the Archbishop of word "delegate" has been added Canterbury and by the German GUARANTEED HOTEL RATES to the designation to indicate Evangelical Churches indicates that the non-Catholic observers that these bodies will probably Single $7.00 Double $10.00 would be present not as private send observers to the Council. Family Suite $15.00 For 4 individuals, but as official representatives of their various Similar participation is ex- Great Northern denominations. They would have pected on behalf of the Eastern no right to intervene in the dis- Orthodox Churches and "certain publication. Hotel cussions or to vote. Episcopal, Presbyterian and Congregationalist communities," and 118 W. 57TH ST. (19) So far the number and type of non-Catholic denominations according to Vatican sources.
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Church $19.00 Occupancy already been in touch with the parison people in the states 4 DAYS 3 nites World Council of Churches and often tend to see the Church as — Double non-Catholic world confessional a building or a parish. Episcopal organizations to obtain their $28.00 Occupancy Organized for Episcopal and the views on procedures for the is- Includes Room for Two Anglican clergy, military chap- of suance of invitations. Double or Twin Bedroom, Private lains and lay readers in Europe Bath He stressed that Pope John by Bishop Bayne, the confer- Two complete Breakfasts for two in wished to have non-Catholic ob-
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2020. Radio City Music Hall, stage show based on first-hand observance Conference leader was Bishop and movie Emrich of Michigan. Bishop Guided tour of the United Nations and so that what they saw and Motor coach tour of Upper or Lower Bayne conducted a daily session Copyright New York for the clergy, and Gray led a Use coupon to send for your VESTMENTS training school for lay readers. guaranteed rate card. 1837 Church Vestment Makers 1Qfi2 ' Over One Hundred Yean " Gray stressed to the lay read- Please send clergy card to: Cassocks — Surplices ers the importance of training ~ " " " Stoles — Scarves other laymen everywhere to Name Silks — Altar Cloths take more responsibility and to Embroideries evangelize, because of the many Address Custom Tailoring scattered areas where clergy are for Clergvmen not available. city Cox Sons & Vining, Inc. Bishop Emrich in his series of talks compared clubs and ChuIch 131 East 23rd Street, New York 10, N.Y Affiliation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ churches, discussed Commu- Sixteen THE WITNESS nism, and spoke of the Holy Churches' department of Church Spirit. and economic life. "The Christian Church is Americans, he said, should Absorbing new books never ignored when it has a not attempt to join the European sense of mission," he said, in common market but should look on English masters comparing the comfortable club toward negotiations which and the challenging church. "It would batter down tariff walls. of spiritual writing may be disliked, but it is never "We cannot simply push ex- ignored." ports to other nations and for- Clubs, he pointed out, are get their needs," he told a semi- formed by men for their own nar, which was sponsored by purposes and pleasures. They the Michigan Council of are exclusive, spiritually com- Churches at East Lansing. CARYLL fortable, sociologically explain- Taft declared that the new able — in every way the op- generation will be more liberal H0USEL4NDER posite of true churches. about such things as tariff re- ductions, scorning the idea that By MAISIE WARD publication. The danger of Communism, he declared, is not that the Com- Americans will become more A glowing portrait of the beloved and munist is a non-believer, but conservative and look within author of such books as Reed of God, The Way of the Cross and The Risen that he is a believer, in the rather than without. Christ — painted with notable can- reuse cause to which he is dedicated. "There will be changes — and dor, affection and authority by an for changes tie in with the Chris- understanding friend. DON'T LET AGE tian ideal," he said. HOLD YOU BACK "A master biography . . . Maisie required Ward shares Caryll with the world LOOK TO YOURSELF who waited at her door, crossed her * Want to join the peace threshold, love her in her books." corps? If you do don't let age SAYS AFRICAN —SISTER M. MADELEVA, C.S.C. hold you back. There are nine $4.95
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/ lems before condemning South seas projects. Africans "out of hand." SPIRITUAL More are wanted if they can "You should make a study of Church qualify as teachers, health of- the problem if you would help WRITERS ficers, social workers, skilled us at all," declared Bishop Roy workers, farmers and other W. F. Cowdry, assistant of Edited by CHARLES DAVIS Episcopal catagories. Married couples are Capetown, in a sermon delivered the acceptable if both possess a at St. Ann's, Brooklyn. "The editor of this unusual and of usable skill and have no minor Discussing the racial situation interesting book gives us fifteen dependents. in South Africa, Bishop Cowdry short biographies of spiritual writers — all of them English — who lived You can get further informa- termed his country a "police in the era beginning with Aelfric of Archives tion by writing Peace Corps, state" where, with the group Eynsham, who lived in the middle of Senior Manpower Recruitment, areas development act, people the 10th century, to Ronald Knox, 2020. can be "moved about anytime." who lived and worked in our own Washington 25. time . . . Probably the best known The act provides separate resi- are Walter Hinton, whose The Scale TAFT URGES SUPPORT of Perfection made him famous
Copyright among Christian mystics in Britain, OF TARIFF PLAN Dame Julian, Father Faber, Cardinal The Family Service Newman and Ronald Knox." * In view of the development of the European common mar- By Massey H. Shepherd Jr. — The Witness. $3.50 ket, Christians should unite to Church Divinity School of tht fmdfu At your bookstore support granting of powers to 1 he foremost liturgical scholar of President Kennedy to enable ihe Church explains this service SHEED & WARD, N. Y. 3 him to negotiate U.S. tariff re- which is being increasingly used ductions. 25c a copy $2 for ten This is the opinion of Charles THE WITNESS P. Taft, Episcopalian and chair- 1UNKHANNOCK PENNSYLVANIA man of the National Council of
APKIL 19, 1962 Seventeen dential areas for different racial "Moreover," it added, "be- held this year at Amarillo with groups. cause activities . . . may de- the northwest diocese as host. Freedom to worship, he de- velop in pupils' religious beliefs clared, is something "we must contrary to those of their par- SECESSION MOVEMENT fight for and work for."' In the ents, the right of the latter to IN MICHIGAN control the religious education U.S., he noted, legislative meas- * There is a movement in the ures are working toward better of their children is gravely vio- lated." upper peninsula area of Mich- race relations, but the opposite igan to secede from the state is true in South Africa. BROOKLYN PARISH and support the new state by Bishop Cowdry has been a legalized gambling. prison chaplain in South Africa INSTALLS RECTOR and is active in a number of The ministerial association of * The Rev. Marion L. Matics, social service groups. He ar- Manistique has said no on both formerly rector at Levittown, rived in the U.S. in early March counts. Long Island, was instituted rec- for a two-months visit. tor of Christ Church, Brooklyn, on April 10 by Bishop MacLean. publication. PAUL TILLICH GOES The Parish of Trinity Church New York and TO CHICAGO FRANCES YOUNG LEADS • Prof. Paul Tillich of Har- TEXAS MEETING REV. JOHN HEUSR. D.D., RECTOR reuse vard Divinity School is leaving TRINITY for there to join the faculty of the * Frances Young, executive divinity school of the University director of the general division Broadway & Wall St. of women's work of the National Rev. Bernard C. Newman, S.T.D., Vicat of Chicago. Sun. MP 8:40, 10:30, HC 8, 9, 10, 11, required He was professor at Union Council, led a conference of EP 3:30; Daily MP 7:45, HC 8, 12, Ser 12:30 Tues., Wed & Thurs.. EP 5:15 e* Seminary in New York until he Texas board members. It was Sat.; Sat. HC 8; C Fri. 4:30 & by appt. reached the mandatory retire- an interdiocesan affair for the dioceses in the state and was ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL Permission ment age of 68 in 1955. Broadway & Fulton St. Rev. Robert C. Hunsicker, Vicar PRAYER IN RHODE ISLAND Sun. HC 8:30, MP HC Ser 10; Week- days: HC 8 (Thurs. also at 7:30) 12:05
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