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the Roman Catholics and Jews National Council Has Come of Age to provide the influence which brought about the enactment of Bishop Mueller Tells Assembly our present civil rights legisla- tion." publication. • A new maturity has been have those dragging behind out He also discussed the Council and achieved by the National Coun- of loyalty to history. program for the next three cil of Churches which allows it "The Council's job has been years, especially the efforts reuse to accommodate both liberals to keep the tension between the toward achievement of world for and conservatives, continue con- two extremes so we have a bal- peace. tributions on such issues as civil ance and don't let any eager "If anybody is for peace in rights and make new thrusts in beavers run away with it ... the world, it ought to be the required both world peace and evangelis- The happy thing about the Christian Church," declared the tic programs, the retiring pres- Council is that we can all bene- NCC president. "And we ought ident said at Miami Beach. fit from what the others are never to make an apology for

Permission Bishop Reuben H. Mueller, doing." stating this as a general posi- in a report to the 868 voting Despite continuing attacks by tion. We ought to be in the delegates from 30 denominations front ranks on this."

DFMS. "muckrakers," the bishop said, / represented at the NCC's seven- the Council has "attained a posi- The immediate future of the th triennial General Assembly, tion of respect among responsi- Council includes a new day of

Church declared that the Council has ble people. For this we thank evangelism, the bishop said, "grown up" in the last three God and take heart." commenting that "without sur- years. Charges of Communist infil- rendering the basic need to have "The image of the Council changed lives through the power Episcopal tration "that have been refuted has changed from one of su- of God" the Church must also

the time and time again" continue "get out into the world and let of spicion on the part of the gen- to be presented to Church mem- eral public and the press to one bers through "cheaply printed it be known that Christ died of understanding," he said. literature and bombastic radio for the world."

Archives Within the Council itself, ob- broadcasts," he noted, comment- But the more distant future, served the churchman "we've ing that unscrupulous operators Bishop Mueller went on, in-

2020. learned how to debate and re- have found that attacking the cludes the coming into the spect each other's opinion even NCC is a good way to "squeeze Council of many of the though we don't agree." dollars" out of gullible indi- more conservative evangelical

Copyright There still is need, however, viduals. denominations — such as the for greater participation by the Bishop Mueller said he is Southern Baptist Convention delegates, who "have an obliga- satisfied that the Council, and the Lutheran Church — tion to the denominations they under his leadership, has carried Missouri Synod, and finally the represent to speak out," he out the commission given to him participation of the Roman said. three years ago — to accom- Catholic Church. And, perhaps more impor- plish something in the area of Earlier, at a worship service tantly, Bishop Mueller added, race relations. attended by delegates and more "we've shown that we're not all "The job isn't finished," he than 2,000 visitors, Bishop Muel- out in left field. We've come acknowledged, "but we alerted ler called on churchmen to to recognize that you have to the country to the fact that "push beyond the parish" in have people out in advance there is a Christian position on order to "bear our witness in experimenting, and you have to this issue, and we worked with a secular age." DECEMBER 15, 1966 Three "It is Christ's purpose," he Reports to Board Delta Ministry said, "that the world should An "explosion of new rela- come to believe and to know A new financial stability is that he is the way to God and tionships" between Protestant in prospect for the Delta Minis- the complete and full and liber- and Roman Catholic groups has try. ated life." been loosed by the Vatican The Rev. Norman J. Baugher, The General Assembly — de- Council, Cynthia C. Wedel, as- chairman of its division of scribed as a kind of national sociate general secretary for Christian life and mission, told "town meeting of churches" — Christian unity, pointed out to the board that the Mississippi convened this year under the the policy-making general program of relief, rehabilitation theme, "That the World May board. and education for impoverished Know." Her remarks shortly pre- Negroes and whites has taken ceded a declaration by the steps to meet the board's de- President Flemming board that the Catholic Church mand last June to live within Arthur S. Flemming, pres- is "in agreement" with the its budget. ident of the University of preamble to the constitution of The ministry, Baugher said, the NCC and eligible to send publication. Oregon, was elected president "has now achieved financial of NCC. As reported here non-voting fraternal delegates stability, and we expect no re- and November 24, it is the regular to the Assembly and place staff currence of past financial prob- procedure of the nominating members on Council boards and lems." reuse committee to present but one committees. An intensive study report on for person for the office. He is Other leaders of major pro- the project, which has stimu- the second layman to hold it, gram divisions addressing the lated criticism from white

required J. Irwin Miller of Indiana board included Jon L. Regier, Southerners for its activist civil having served from 1960-63. head of the division of Chris- rights activities, called particu- Prior to going to Oregon tian life and mission. He said larly for tightening-up in the Flemming was secretary of key division concerns include program's fiscal procedures. Permission health, education and welfare human values in a technological In 1965, it was noted, the in the Eisenhower administra- society, equal economic oppor- ministry went $160,000 over its tunity and ministries to Amer- $360,000 income.

DFMS. tion. / Evangelism ican Indians and seasonal farm Baugher reported that special workers. fund-raising efforts are ex- The Rev. Billy Graham ad- Church David M. Stowe, head of the pected to meet this year's bud- dressed the delegates at a division of overseas ministries, get of $405,165 and also retire luncheon meeting and told them told board members that the about $50,000 of last year's that Christians should place over-expenditure. Episcopal "capacities of the worldwide less emphasis on "intellectual Christian fellowship" in the The board set a budget of the argument" and "to get more of future must be channeled $300,000 for 1967 — a total excited about the gospel of more effectively into ministries which Baugher said seems as- Christ." of international understanding, sured. He has never before ad- Archives reconciliation and peace. The financial cutback, Bau- dressed an Assembly and many "It is a sad fact," he said, gher said, made it necessary to 2020. interpreted the invitation as an reduce the working staff from effort on the part of NCC of- "that the fantastic resources represented in the global net- 32 to 26 persons. Also, he ficials to win evangelical groups added, a "general freeze" has who have been the most vocal work of personal relationships Copyright and international partnerships, been put on voter registration critics of the organization. and community organization R. H. Edwin Espy, general which we call world missions and world service, have been projects. secretary, said that Graham's Aid for Migrants appearance reflected a new all too ineffectively mobilized willingness on the part of the for this life and death issue of Churches on the local, region- council to "consider a variety our time: peace." al and national levels were of responses to the serious Gerald E. Knopf told of the urged to "press vigorously" for spiritual vacuum of our day." streamlining for greater "ef- new legislation designed to ease "It would be a shame," he ficiency and clarity" of func- the plight of migrant farm said, "if the ecumenical move- tion which the division of workers. ment became identified with Christian education, which he In an extensive policy state- liberal theology and liberal heads, has undergone in the ment the general board de- social attitudes." past two years. clared that while the needs of Four THB WITNESS seasonal agricultural workers the protection of the national salary of priests will be paid by have been brought to national labor relations board. the state though some Cath- attention sporadically, steps to Also advocated were improve- olics would not want this, just provide lasting improvements ments for migrant workers in as they do not want it now from for them have been "deplorably the areas of minimun wage Franco." inadequate." levels, unemployment compensa- "Marxism and Christianity The policy-makers, meeting in tion, and federal and state fi- must work together in the pur- advance of the General Assem- nancial assistance for education suit of authentic liberty. This bly, called for inclusion of farm of migrant children, day care begins at the economic level. In workers under provisions of the services, sanitation facilities, capitalism, the worker does not national labor relations act and housing and welfare services. play a creative part in society," he said. Conceding that grave errors Jesuit and Marxist Scholars have been committed in the establishment of Marxist poli- Outline Plans for Dialogue cies and governments, Garaudy

publication. said that "liberty is that which * A primary requirement for and Marxists have been holding gives the fullest possibility for and any Christian-Marxist dialogue discussions for several years in a man to develop himself com- is intelligent people to begin it Europe, especially in , pletely." reuse and "in the United States you France and Italy. He was asked if he thought for have no Marxist thinker or A German-speaking associa- the encyclicals, Quadragesimo Communist of any stature," tion of Catholic scholars called Anno and Rerum Novarum, required said Roger Garaudy, the French the Paulus Society has spon- didn't provide a good basis for Marxist philosopher. sored such discussions at annual the economic and cultural free- Garaudy made his comments conferences in Munich, Cologne, dom of the worker based on at a press conference at the Salzburg and Herrenchiemsee, Christian principles? Permission John LaFarge Institute in N. Y.. West Germany. He replied: "No, because as He was invited to the institute Garaudy said that Spain "is both Christians and Marxists

DFMS. now realize these two encyclicals / by its director, Fr. John Court- most exemplary in leading the ney Murray, S.J., a member of way in this dialogue." are far outdated. Leo XIII the Vatican secretariat for non- Explaining that the bishop discusses only the excesses of Church believers. of Madrid first suggested a capitalism, not its principles. At the invitation of Harvey dialogue between Christians and Thus, as many Catholic groups Cox of the Harvard Divinity Marxists, Garaudy noted that in France have said, they do Episcopal School, Garaudy will speak at his book, From Anathema to not form a sufficient basis for the Harvard. The French Marxist, Dialogue, is scheduled to be the Christian worker and his of who is a former senator and published by a Jesuit press in place in society." vice-president of the French Barcelona. In calling for the Marxist- National Assembly, will also Christian dialogue, Garaudy

Archives "In the Basque and Castile appear at Temple University in regions of Spain," Garaudy said, said: "If someone thinks he has Philadelphia, Union Theological all the truth, there can be no 2020. "the Marxists are often invited Seminary in New York, St. to meet in the sacristies by the dialogue, only a teacher impos- Louis University, New York local parish priests. This is ing his views on a poor, be- University and Fairleigh Dickin- nighted student. When both the

Copyright because the Marxists and many son University in New Jersey. Christians are both fighting the Communist and the Christian When asked about a Chris- Franco regime." can admit that he has some- tian-Marxist dialogue behind the Calling Spain an example of thing to learn from the other, iron curtain, Garaudy said that the Holy Alliance rejected by only then can there be dialogue." dialogue will begin shortly in Marx, the French professor The French professor main- the east at Prague, with the said: "Both Christians and tained that there have been two agreement of Poland and Hun- Marxists in Spain realize that significant changes which now gary. He will give the same cooperation is necessary and make such a dialogue possible. paper in Prague which he de- that a separation of Church and For the Communist the change livered at the Catholic Univer- state is vital. Should the Mar- came in 1956 when the 20th sity of Louvain in Belgium. xists come to power in Spain congress of the Soviet Commu- Garaudy said that Christians it is already agreed that the nist Party denounced the ex- DECEMBEB 15, 1966 HN cesses of the Stalinist era. The We can learn much about our tee which urged another cease- Vatican Council produced a faith," the Jesuit priest said. fire, peace negotiations and en- change for the Catholic Church, Comparing such a dialogue largement of the international he said, when it called for with the Marxists with the control commission "to ensure dialogue and cooperation with earlier development of Protes- that cease-fire commitments are non-Catholics. tant-Catholic dialogues, Fr. Mur- honored." Garaudy reasoned that dia- ray said: "You don't inquire at The Christmas truce last logue is possible today because the outset how it will turn out. year resulted in much confu- "some on both sides are willing Rather, you commit yourself to sion, without precisely the same to reject dogmatism and the a learning process with the cease-fire periods observed by belief that his side possesses knowledge that you may wind the Allied and Viet Cong forces. all the truth." up against a wall." Later, the South Vietnamese Fr. Murray called the grow- He insisted that such discus- charged that the Viet Cong had ing Christian-Marxist dialogue sions were in keeping with the violated the Christmas and "a very tricky, but very neces- "openness" of the Vatican Coun- New Year truces 199 times. sary thing." cil and its assertion that "dia- Pope Paul has not repeated publication. "We have to listen to the logue is a contemporary way of publicly his 1965 plea for a and Marxist critique of religion. presenting the gospel." truce, but it was expected that he would. reuse In anticipation of the papal for Official Sees Christmas Truce plea, the national conference of Catholic Bishops in the U. S. declared in a statement on required Chance to Test Negotiation Vietnam: "We ask every per- *• A Christmas truce in Viet- Other allied governments — son of goodwill to support with nam long enough to serve "as a Australia, New Zealand, South prayer the Holy Father's plea

Permission cooling off period and as an Korea and the Philippines — for a Christmas cease-fire. May opportunity for testing possibili- reportedly also were consulted it open the way to a lasting ties of negotiation" was urged by Saigon. peace." DFMS.

/ in a statement issued by the top international affairs official Nolde said in his statement E.T.S. TO STUDY of the World Council of Chur- that "it is recognized that peace FUTURE NEEDS

Church cannot be made by any single ches. party to the conflict. However, * Episcopal Theological The statement by 0. Frede- the urgency of the situation School will hold three major rick Nolde, director of the places upon each one a respon- conferences on "Frontiers for Episcopal international affairs commis- sibility to continue the search Theological Education" as part the sion, was issued as it was an- of its centennial year observ-

of for imaginative solutions with nounced by the South Viet- a readiness to take reasonable ance. namese government in Saigon risks." Dean John B. Coburn said the that its troops and those of its conferences will explore new ap- Archives The statement was directed allies would observe brief cease- proaches in theological educa- to Secretary of State Dean tion to strengthen for future

2020. fires at Christmas and during Rusk, foreign ministers of the generations the ministry to the the western and Asian New Soviet Union and United King- Year's holidays. moral and social problems in dom — continuing co-chairmen contemporary life. Copyright Earlier, the National Libera- of the Geneva Conference of tion Front, political arm of the 1954 — foreign ministers of "This is the day," Dean Co- India, Canada and Poland — burn observed, "when ministers, Viet Cong, had proposed a truce if they are to serve God and during the holiday season. members of the International Control Commission established their parishioners, must be able In Austin, where President to relate the God of history to Johnson continued to recuperate in 1964 — foreign ministers of South and North Vietnam, U.N. the living experiences of men from his operations, there was and women and nations in the no special White House truce Secretary General U Thant and the president of the U. N. Gen- mid-20th century." statement. George Christian, eral Assembly. The first of the three confer- assistant press secretary, sim- ences — Jan. 27-29 — will be ply read the Saigon announce- Nolde called attention to the concerned with "Theological ment, which he said the Pres- February 1966 action of the Education as Profesional Educa- ident had a part in preparing. World Council's central commit- tion." Six THB WITNESS EDITORIAL

high pressure salesman. They are slogans which The Babe of Bethlehem conceal the facts. You may have equality of privilege in a house- THE CHURCH which is the body of Christ was hold where love prevails but not in a corporation born in a stable, planned in a carpenter shop, preached by the wayside, organized in an upper where only ability counts. You may have fra- room. There was no pomp or ceremony in the ternity in a group where men give and forgive, of him who was to be the King of Kings but not in a world of racial and class prejudices. and Lord of Lords, and yet there was a quiet You may have liberty where men are virtuous dignity in the prelude to the drama. Some but not where they are brutal and vindictive. simple shepherds heard a choir of angels sing- There is no greater hypocrisy than that of ing, "Glory to God and on earth peace, good using slogans which are stolen from the gospel publication. will to men." There were Magi from the east and proclaimed by Barabbas. "Not this man and bearing symbolic gifts. There was a radiant but Barabbas." reuse star casting its light upon the cradle. Surely Why do so many disciples of Christ look to for God is an artist as well as a mechanic; a dra- such sources for relief. It is, they say, because matist as well as a mathematician. the Church has failed. Failed to do what? To come down from the cross and save a wicked

required The event has been the inspiration of art and music and poetry; of worship and fellowship and world by legislative enactment. benevolence. It has found a response in the Of course the greatest failure of all time merriment of children, the joy of parents, the seemed to be that of Christ himself. Instead of Permission carols of innumerable choirs. Because of its correcting the political and economic injustice simplicity it has been within the comprehension of the Roman Empire he allowed himself to be

DFMS. of young and old in all nations. The test of crucified. No wonder the disciples forsook him / time is the witness to truth. That which satis- and fled. It needed a resurrection to gather fies a human need in all places and at all times again the scattered forces. Church needs no logic to demonstrate its value, no argu- We want Christmas without ; Easter ment to prove its worth. without Good Friday. And we want these things If the spirit of Christmas could be the atmos- because our deeds are evil. Christmas has be- Episcopal phere in which men lived throughout the year come a house of merchandise; Easter a parade the

of the Christian gospel would demonstrate itself. of fashion. We wonder why the world is reject- But there are certain factors in the problem ing Christ when Christians celebrate Christmas which need to be considered. without Christ's Mass as the one adequate ob-

Archives First there is God's gift of the Christ to a servance of the day. world which was eager to be healed of its Many Christians are filled with discontent. It 2020. diseases without desiring to overcome its sins. is a divine discontent when we are discontented But God's gifts are dependent upon man's co- with ourselves; a worldly discontent when we are operating with the conditions involved in their discontented with others; a diabolical discontent Copyright bestowal. God did not give man education but when we are discontented with God. merely the capacity for it. Unless and until man We agree that the world is very sick but that developed the capacity he could not possess the does not mean that it will be cured by any other treasure. God does not give man righteousness prescription than that which the great Physician but merely the capacity for it, and unless and gave — in which he assured us that in the world until man develops the capacity, so likewise he we should have much tribulation, but bade us to cannot possess the treasure. be of good cheer for he had overcome the world. Today the world demands equality, fraternity No! Not yet but in his own good time. and liberty by a short cut. Instead of developing So in spite of the world's tribulation let us adore the capacity within he seeks to impose these the Babe of Bethlehem in full confidence that qualities upon men from without. In such a he will bring peace and good will into God's crea- program these words are like the claims of a tion in his own good time.

DECEMBER 15, 1966 Sim THE SCARRED FACE GLOWED By Paul Moore Jr. Suffragan Bishop of Washington FAITH IS FOUNDED IN A SIMPLE SERIES OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OPEN- ENDED TO ALMOST ANY PHILOSOPHY

THE BUS STATION in downtown Washington rich parties and beautiful churchly buildings was positively un-American — unaffluent, un- and listen for it in Christmas songs, when it clean; unshiny; nor did the couple sitting on a wasn't a party, and it wasn't pretty, and the bench fit in with the American image of Christ- only sounds you could hear that night were the publication. mas. But the piped in music was American cries of a poor girl with her first baby? and Christmas: Red Nosed Reindeer, Bing Crosby And why is it that wise and sensitive men, and the rest. . looking back on such a scene from the perspec- reuse The couple came from South Carolina, figur- tive of a lynched body hanging outside the city, for ing Christmas would be a good time to travel. and an empty grave, should declare the birth The ticket cost too much for them, so they were the mark of time, should declare it merry, should declare it the great event and should say required in the bus station with no place to go. Joe sat Mamie down and, timid, asked somebody else that man's deepest understanding of reality in overalls what to do. The guy kept walking. began that way? This confused Joe awhile, but finally he tried The Foundation Stone Permission someone else, tugging his coat for attention. The man turned around, slow, put both hands THE BABY WHO was born in the garage grew

DFMS. on Joe's shoulders and said, "Son, you are in up and was able to uncover the forces of love / bad shape in a bad town. Your wife's pregnant, which, whenever called upon in the intervening huh? Well, I got a garage; that's all I got; it's years, have been able to center men down into Church not far from here. You wanna go there, go knowing themselves and have enabled them to ahead. Five blocks up and two blocks over." deal with each other and with the blows of Joe made his wife fairly comfortable on the existence. Episcopal work bench in the garage, and that night the This love regarded every baby born worth the more than a city and could make the scarred

of baby came. It wasn't a very pretty business. Mamie groaned and grunted, and her eyes grew and ugly mouth of any man change to a smile larger and larger in wonder at the incredible of unnerving glory.

Archives pain. Only when Joe showed her the baby did Further, the event became the foundation her eyes soften in a smile amid tears. Joe put stone of a way of thinking about the interpene- 2020. the baby on an oil drum and wrapped him in tration of the physical with the spiritual, giving rags. ultimate value to the one and reality to the The light bulb at the end of the garage was other. It has colored the life not only of those Copyright on all night and attracted kids off the street. who believed it all, but also of those who have They came in and stood around. One big mean- run from it, afraid to deal with the belief that looking boy with a scar across his mouth looked creation springs from what is called love. For down close at the baby for a long while. Then this belief implies that our love, or lack of it, his face glowed with a glorious smile. has cosmic significance. Hard facts of history and personal experience The First Christmas have tended to bear out the accepted meaning I DON'T THINK the first Christmas was much of the birth of that child, of what he later said, different. Where has all the dirt gone? Where the manner of his death and the mystery of all has all the smell gone? Where has all the pain that followed. However, the naked body of its gone? Where has all the poverty gone? And truth was offensive to many, and thus the why is it that people search for its spirit in nakedness has been made to masquerade,

JSgfct TKB WITNESS Eouault-like, as Clown or Fool in Christmas which, therefore, an age of traumatic change tinsel. can find a key to certainty. The so-called We who make the costumes are the clowns "Death of God" theology is saying this: that and fools. Our world is a world of disorder even the elimination of all traditional God-struc- within and without. Not long ago people were tures does not eliminate the Christ. either believers, agnostics or atheists. The You Christians who know and believe, rejoice agnostics had a clear idea of what they did not in all the rich glory of Christmas. You Chris- know, and the atheists a clear idea of the God tians who stand on the edge of faith, doubting they did not believe in. These terms are not be reassured once more. You who are not Chris- used much now because even the departments tians, investigate again the meaning of what of unbelief are blurred for it seems no intel- happened that night. Ask why a belief in cos- lectual certainly is possible in our existential mic power is tied into the birth of a child in age. poverty. You may find in the answer, at the Merry Love very last, a place to steady yourselves as the REJOICE, THEN, that faith is founded in a waves of change sweep by. publication. simple series of events which are open-ended to Enjoy, then, whoever you are, the merry love and almost any philosophy, or lack of it, and in of Christmas. reuse for CHRISTMAS AT COLLINS' CANTEEN required By Hugh McCandless STORY TOLD AT THE CHURCH OF Permission THE EPIPHANY AT THE FAMILY

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Church MY FRIEND, Squadron O'Toole, is a modern four hundred intimate friends in for corned beef young man, and has laughed at many a joke hash and champagne, and they definitely did about sibling- rivalry. But philosophy is no match not want any of their intimate friends' children.

Episcopal for fate; and sometimes he feels that fate had So the O'Tooles were quite relieved when Mr.

the him marked for tragedy when it gave him a Kolinsky, who was coming to their house for of little sister like Flotilla. He used to tell me dinner that night, invited Squadron to Collins' what a handicap she was, and that she was Canteen for Christmas lunch. They said that probably even the most tiresome girl in the Flotilla could have a nice peanut butter sand- Archives world. He said she was apparently training her- wich at home with her baby brother Feemus. self to be either a company spy or a gossip

2020. This made a lot of sense to Squadron, and he columnist, and she had taken to reporting him helpfully reminded Flotilla that she loved peanut every time he deviated in the slightest degree butter sandwiches.

Copyright from the family's official party line. I asked for Both children were greatly impressed with more details, in the hope of being a peacemaker, Mr. Kolinsky. Mr. Ossip Kolinsky, as you prob- but he said it was no use; no one could really ably know, is the sculptor who does such large understand how awful she was unless he had to statues that they have to go in gardens, not be her brother. houses. It was not his art that impressed them I am very sorry to say that hostilities were so much as the ease with which he moved a about at their worst last Christmas, of all times. block of marble around when he wanted to bang Mr. and Mrs. O'Toole tried to keep them separate away at it from another side. He also had an —but equal — during the holidays. One dif- interesting perspective on things. For example, ficulty was that the parents felt obliged to go he believed firmly in angels. Once when Squad- out for Christmas brunch at Toots and Sonny ron said he wished that Christmas would come Wombat's. The Wombats were having three or tomorrow, Mr. Kolinsky groaned that that was

DECEMBER 15, 1966 Nitu wishing his life away, and that life was a gift said, 'Why this is in effect still only a boy,' so from God. he did not hang him but sent him to Siberia. Private Preserve "In Siberia this good young man prospered. SQUADRON was thrilled to enter Collins' Can- He had a blessed farm, wheat and roses, wheat teen, which is the very private preserve of our and roses. Every year he invited all the poor local truckmen. Even Mr. O'Toole, when he exiles in the village to . And went in once, felt like such an intruder that he he was a good Christian, besides. Every merely asked what time it was. But Mr. Kolin- Christmas he set an extra place for the Lord, sky was even bigger, and often more roughly if He would care to come and eat. In fact, year dressed, than the other customers, and they all after year after year, he even prayed the Lord found him extremely entertaining and uplifting. to come. He even insisted on having a special lunch of "One Christmas was black and snowy, and sausage patties and boiled potatoes on Christmas there was a mean, angry wind. There was a Day, because they reminded him of his mother. knock on the door just before dinner. Everybody Squadron was always a little confused about was frightened, for no one comes out on a night publication. this, and wondered which delicacy Mr. Kolinsky's like that just to sing church songs. Then the

and mother resembled; she certainly could not have door was blown in by the wind. And there stood looked like both. And Mr. Collins always a dirty, sick, old, raggedy man. He was crying. reuse thought it was a great nuisance, to have a He raised his hand, and it was crippled. There for special order when he was so busy with the two was a beautiful, mysterious light shining around dollar turkey special. him. He said, 'Nephew, I have come to beg your But Mr. Kolinsky's sentiments were as strong forgiveness.' required as steel, and anyway the other customers looked "The young man jumped up. 'Uncle,' he said. forward every year to hearing one of his good 'I receive you in the name of the Lord.' I am Russian stories and watching him have a good not worthy that He should come under my roof.' Permission Russian cry. He led the old man to the empty place and set Squadron and his host sat in a booth, but him down in the extra chair. Then he cried,

DFMS. Mr. Kolinsky picked up another chair with his 'Let us rejoice, for Christ Himself has come / little finger and put it at the end of the table. among us!' And all the guests said, 'Amen.' " "Old Russian custom," he said. "Every Christ- Mr. Kolinsky blew his nose and Squadron blew Church mas, set an extra place. Maybe the Lord will his nose. Mr. Collins hid his face by looking come and sup with you." Everyone knew a into the boiling potatoes and letting his salt story was coming on. Mr. Collins took the pan tears drip into them, although they were watery Episcopal off the fire so he would not absent-mindedly enough already. the burn the sausage.

of Then Mr. Kolinsky called out, "Another order "There is a story by Nikolai Semenovitch Les- of sausage and potatoes!" Squadron looked up. skov about this," said Mr. Kolinsky to the whole There, sitting in the extra seat at the end of

Archives room. "A beautiful story," he said with a catch the table, was Flotilla. She had hidden in the in his voice. back of Mr. Kolinsky's truck before he started 2020. The Rich Exile off. She looked at Squadron. Mr. K. looked "YEARS AGO, there was a young farmer in at Squadron. Squadron heard himself speaking, but it was as if it were someone else's voice.

Copyright Siberia. He was an exile, but he was pretty rich. He was there because when he was only "Let us rejoice," he heard himself saying. "Merry Christmas, Flotilla. You can have all seventeen years, his wicked uncle had stolen a the sausage you want, Mr. Kolinsky says." terrible lot of money from him by slandering his dead father in the courts. That uncle! He Well, you don't have to believe this; just ask needed a good kick. When he found out, he Mr. Kolinsky what happened then. He told me went to his uncle and cried 'Shame!' but the on his word of honor that roses began to bloom uncle denied and denied and then he even on the thorn outside Collins' Canteen, and laughed, 'Hahaha.' He was a bad fellow. The then six bluebirds flew into the tree and began young man picked up a pistol and shot it off to sing, and several angels were seen dancing at him, but only hit him in the hand. So they for joy in the parking lot. All I know is that took the young man to the judge, but the judge fourteen enormous working men began waiting

Ten THE WITNESS hand and foot on one of the very few ladies came. Whatever still needs to be explained, one who have ever entered Collins' Canteen, and she thing is sure — no explanation can be adequate began to talk baby talk and roll her eyes, and which leaves out Christmas. Squadron for once wasn't annoyed by all this, At Christmas, let us remember that this is and that is miracle enough for me. God's world! Third, "If the Manger is empty, the Cross is bare." The first Christmas and each succeed- ing Christmas points the way,—The New Way! Through the baby hands that clutched at a Remember These Things mother's breast, God chose to initiate the process By Hamilton Kellogg by which he would bring salvation to all men. The Bishop of Minnesota At Christmas, let us remember how closely, inevitably and necessarily our salvation is in- EACH YEAR, Christmas comes to me with a tertwined both with the Cross and the Manger! slightly different emphasis. This year, it comes Fourth, let us remember that, if we are to publication. to me with an emphasis in the form of a re- minder. The reminder is that there are certain keep Christmas as Christians, and not as pa- and imperative and meaningful things which we gans, we must make its high point our coming to the altar, and receiving the body and blood reuse ought to remember at Christmas about Christmas. of Jesus, the Child of the Manger, who became for First, let us remember what God has given us. He has given us our lives with all our facul- the Christ of the Cross! Will you do this, or ties — our desires, our minds, our five senses— will you be so occupied with the pleasures and required hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. He also pressures of the world that on his birthday you has given us our spirits and our wills. He has will be absent from his house? given us life with all its opportunities and po-

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Church should like, because it is far from an easy place The Bishop of Missouri in which to live. Indeed, the world in which we live always is a mixture of danger and of SOMEWHERE and some years ago, a sensitive

Episcopal delight. However, God has given us the capaci- friend told this story which comes from the Al-

the ty to live in the world as it is. He has given pine country in Germany: of us the capacity to meet life's dangers, and not Two small children turn homeward through a simply to be engulfed and submerged by them. mountain pass after a wonderful visit with their He has given us the capacity to enjoy the de- grandparents. The boy is eight years of age Archives lights of the world in which we live; not only and his little sister has just turned six. Of course, it is , and quite suddenly

2020. to hear and to see, but to be thrilled by the sights which we see, and the sounds which we they are caught in a furious blizzard. Blinded hear. by the driving snow, they stumble and lose their way. Then black night comes and darkness is Copyright But above all, he has given us himself in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In Jesus, he has all around. The girl holds firmly to her bro- given us a life to live by, a life to live for, a life ther's hand as he leads her he knows not where. to live with, and a life to save us from our The great ice sheets cracking and the fury of foibles and follies, and, when we do make mis- the gale compound their fears. takes, to bring us back, and put us once again Quite by chance, they stumble upon a little on the track. hut used by shepherds in the summer months. On Christmas, let us remember what God has Huddled close for warmth, they understand given us! that, should they sleep, they will not waken. Second, in spite of anything and everything The boy struggles to keep his sister roused. to the contrary, the world in which we live is They open all the grandparents' gifts. They God's world. It is the world into which Christ sing the familiar carols. They do everything

DECEMBEH 15, 1966 Et*cm they can to remain , for their lives are sister are rescued by climbers from their village. at stake. They are caught up in the arms of their parents Finally, during the night, the storm ceases, and, with the villagers following, they enter the the stars come out and then, as if by miracle, church for the Christmas service. Leaning all the northern lights begin to play. All the shades of the rainbow — yellows and blues and against his mother, the boy whispered, "Last pinks and violets — make a spectacle which the night we saw the Christ Child!" children had never seen before. So intrigued And I remember the teller of the story making are they by this demonstration of the heavens this comment: "When a person makes an effort that the children remain involuntarily awake. to survive, something in the universe lends him Then morning comes and the brother and a hand."

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and By Benjamin Minifie Rector of Grace Church, JSlew York reuse THEY SHOULD HAVE REAL MEANING for SINCE THEY REMIND US OF JESUS WHO WAS BORN AT THIS TIME required ON CHRISTMAS DAY I never fail to have the mas cakes and cookies, mince pies and tinsel sense that the wondrous meaning and signifi- and so much more that comes to mind. This,

Permission cance of the event we celebrate is best expressed I expect, is one aspect of the universality of in the liturgy and music of the Church. Yes, in Christ, his belonging and appeal to one century the ancient service wherein is to be found the after another, to all sorts and conditions of men. DFMS. / whole gospel of Christ, the holy communion or And what I would say as we rejoice on eucharist in which we thank God for the coming Christmas day and remember him whose birth-

Church of the Savior, and remember how he said, great- day it is comes out of thinking about three of er love hath no man than this, that a man lay these symbols or customs of the season, perhaps down his life for his friends. the three most familiar ones.

Episcopal And, of course, in the carols and anthems the which come out of many lands and many cen- of turies and sing of God's mighty act, his coming THE FIRST is himself, actually to us in a little child, his caring for us this Saint Nicholas, an ancient bishop of the Church much, the miracle and mystery and humility and who ministered in Asia Minor, and who is be- Archives graciousness of the divine action. It seems to lieved to have attended the Council of Nicaea in the year 325, the very council which formu-

2020. me that here, rather than through any sermon, it is all said and opportunity is given to us to lated the Nicene creed we repeat so often in the respond as we should to the marvelous good news communion service.

Copyright of the gospel, yes, to sing God's praises and to It is said that Nicholas endured and survived offer ourselves to him who has come to us. the cruel persecutions of the Church under the This is one day when the place of the sermon Roman Emperor Diocletian. He kept the faith is indeed a lesser one, and yet the Prayer Book when times were hard and contrary, but other- itself suggests there shall be a sermon at every wise we don't know very much about him. 0, celebration of the holy communion, a rubric there is such a story as the one about his often broken, I'm afraid, at early services. slipping bars of gold through the window of I was thinking these recent days of how three penniless young maidens of noble birth so Christmas has invaded every time and place and that they would have sufficient dowries to comes to us now-a-days laden with all kinds of marry the men of their hearts. Back of such a symbols and customs, pagan as well as Chris- tale there may well be the fact that here was a tian, holly, candles, reindeer, mistletoe, Christ- man remembered for being imaginative and

Twelve THE WITNESJ kindly to people in trouble, a generous, gracious There is no time, there is no event, past, pres- man. ent, or future, that falls outside his providence At any rate, thanks to the original Dutch and his judgment. settlers of New York, St. Nicholas became Santa As we look at the creche, and there should be Claus. And, as everyone knows, it was another one in every home, let us not be deceived into resident of New York, an Episcopal clergyman, believing that Christmas is merely about a baby, Clement Clark Moore, who wrote the poem or that it glorifies motherhood and is just a which supremely celebrates Santa Claus, the romantic story of a crowded inn and a little immortal one which begins, child who had to be born in a stable and laid in 'Twas the night before Christmas when a manger. all through the house, Not a creature This can be pretty sentimental, and there was was stirring, not even a mouse . . . nothing sentimental about Jesus of Nazareth. How many paths meet and cross when we This is he who came demanding an obedience turn to even one of these customs of the Christ- and loyalty to his own person that none other mas season — to this jolly one beloved of has ever asked. publication. children, this one who comes bent over with He bid men follow him without reservations, and gifts for others. Christmas is a giving time, a to deny themselves and take up the way of the time of charity and magnanimity and good will, cross and follow in his train. He broke the reuse all of it traceable to him whose life was wholly bread signifying the sacrifice of his death and for for others, the Christ who brought a new life said, do this in remembrance of me. He com- of caring and self-giving into the world. mands us, go ye into all the world where ye

required shall be witnesses unto me. He demanded that The Manger Scene his disciples put him first in their devotion ALMOST as familiar as Santa Claus at Christ- before fathers and mothers, wives and children. mas time is the creche, the manger scene with This is the one whose coming we celebrate at Permission its figures of Mary and Joseph and the Christ- Christmas, one who comes as a king, as lord Child, of shepherds, too, and sheep and oxen in and master of men's lives, who comes from God DFMS.

/ the background. and addresses us in his name. Do we know The creche, it is said, goes back to one of the him as such and accept him and give him the Church's favorite saints, Francis of Assisi in obedience and loyalty of our lives? This is what Church Italy. Francis lived from 1180 to 1226, more must be at the very heart of our Christmas, if than 700 years ago, and yet the memory of him for us it is truly the day of the coming of the is still very green, this Christ-like man whose Christ and not just a Roman holiday or a senti- Episcopal life was so creative in its after-effects. He it mental time. the

of was according to tradition who set up the first The creche in the parish church of his home town. He did it that the local people might be able to THERE IS one other custom or symbol of

Archives see with their eyes what it was like when the Christmas well-nigh universal we would mention Christ-Child was born in a stable in Bethlehem. here, and that is the Christmas tree. This, we 2020. Christianity has much to say about the crucial believe, goes back to the great reformer of the events of our life, events like birth and death, 16th century, Martin Luther, and the story has marriage and parenthood, and the like. There it that he was abroad one Christmas Eve when Copyright is a title page in the middle of the Prayer Book his attention was caught by the graceful form which perfectly illustrates this. It lists the of a fir tree on a hillside darkly etched against services which follow one after another in order. a snowy background with the stars shining and It begins with baptism and goes right on twinkling above in the crisp winter night. through confirmation, holy matrimony, the visi- Nothing would do but Luther must bring the tation of the sick, to the burial of the dead. tree into the house and light it with candles, What the Prayer Book is saying here is that and thus began the custom of the tree at Christ- from the very beginning of our lives to the end mas, all lighted and festooned. of this mortal life, over and over again the This, too, is in honor of this Jesus called Church of Christ comes to hallow and to bless, Christ, and how appropriate that it should be and, yes, always to remind us that we come a tree, for he himself was a carpenter and the from God, we belong to God, and we go to God. son of a carpenter, a working man.

DECEMBER il 5, 1966 And how appropriate that it should be an At the cross we know there is a love that evergreen tree, a tree which because its color suffers with and for mankind. God is not far and leaves or needles do not fade away and removed and inaccessible, detached from the perish year by year is a symbol of everlasting strife and conflict of the world. He has come life, of the eternal which stands above our ever- into the midst of it and borne it, and he is changing, our fleeting, passing world. For the with us in our own trouble and necessity. The Christ, too, remains the same yesterday, today, good news of Christmas is not that evil and and forever. In a world where fashions ever sorrow have been done away, but that God is change, where time constantly makes ancient with us in whatsoever state or condition we find good uncouth, his words, his truth, his way are ourselves, God in Christ who walked this way never out of date. Indeed he is our eternal con- before us and triumphed over it. There is a temporary, and if anything he is far out ahead way of redemption and healing and victory. of us who drag our feet over such matters as It is good that we have the tree at Christmas, insisting on equal justice and equal freedom for for it speaks to us of the deepest meaning of those in our midst too long denied them, who go this Jesus who was born as at this time in publication. on indulging in our national pride and national Bethlehem. May he be born in us today, his and hatreds in a day when the world is one as it spirit, his graciousness, his caring, his faithful- never was before. ness. In this sense, I wish you all a truly merry reuse A tree is an appropriate symbol, for again

for and blessed Christmas. was it not on a tree of wood that he came to die in the end, this one who loved his own even required this much? It is most interesting, perhaps to some it is a paradox, that in this same service in which The Divine Surprise

Permission we rejoice in the birth of Christ, we also com- By Gardiner M. Day memorate the sacrifice of his death. We sing Rector Emeritus of Christ Church, Cambridge the carols which celebrate his nativity at the DFMS.

/ same time we break the bread signifying the TO HAVE HIGH EXPECTATION means that breaking, the offering, of his body. For is it you expect spiritual surprises; you expect things to happen that are totally unpredictable; in a

Church not the cross which is the summit and climax of this life we look to for light and truth? It word, you expect miracles. Yet the whole frame- is at the cross that we find the love of God work of modern thought has made it next to impossible to believe in miracles. The age of

Episcopal most movingly, most unforgettably revealed. This is the measure of how much God cares. science and technology has so accustomed us to the

of a universe governed by unchangeable laws that Light of Christinas we almost automatically eliminate the unpredict- AT A SERMON preached in Geneva after the able. Nevertheless, despite all our knowledge Archives assassination of President Kennedy, the Rev. the unpredictable in life is inescapably striking. Willem Visser 't Hooft spoke of the grief and We must make room in our thinking for what 2020. shock felt round the world, and of the sense of an English writer has called, "the inexhaustible revolt too with which multitudes of people re- originality of God." acted against the malignant power of evil able On the first Christmas God came in the Copyright to destroy the good. person of Jesus Christ to a humble Jewish "We will never know," he said, "why his peasant family in Palestine. It is the divine family, his country, and humanity had to lose surprise of it that the world has found hard to the man who seemed more indispensable than believe, and at the same time has never been anyone else. We have a controversy here with able to disbelieve nor forget. God, but in this dialogue he might say to us So characteristic is this element of surprise that it is precisely because we live in a world in man's discovery of Jesus that most of the where such things happen that he has sent his legends about the coming of Jesus, from his first son and that that son died on a cross. The appearance to Mary in the garden when she mis- obscurity is not abolished, but in that obscurity took him for the gardener, to modern stories of there is a light for those who have eyes to see his coming in the guise of a refugee, portray his the light of Christmas that shines in the dark." coming almost always in an unexpected and un-

Fourteen THB WITNESS premeditated form. He comes in the unexpected Yet isn't it true that we seldom really expect yet he comes only to those with eyes to see — him? It is so easy to believe that this Christ- to those who open the door of their hearts to mas will not be particularly different from any him. Paradoxically he comes in the unexpected other. We know we will sing beautiful hymns only to those who expect! and think lovely thoughts, but we don't really What a difference it would make if the world believe that he will come to us. What a differ- really expected him! Does not the hope for the future lie in our having this high expectation, ence this Christmas can make in our lives if we for only then will the miracle of healing that really expect him; then we will know the mean- our world so desperately needs be possible. ing of the divine surprise.

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for tion to the search for peace criticism of U. S- foreign policy. • stimulating the Church to depends on a united approach "get out of itself and into the "Anyone who assumes an which will "establish a sense of world." international post such as this," required worldwide Christian communi- he said, "makes a basic shift in ty," it was declared in Geneva Elaborating on each of the by Eugene Carson Blake as he points, he commented that since his assumptions, from thosjs of assumed the general secretary- 1961 "almost all Orthodox Chur- whatever country or culture he Permission ship of the World Council of ches have been members of the has been a part of to an attempt Churches. Council, but it is still western to look at things whole, from a

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/ On December 1 he succeeded world point of view. Such a W. A. Visser 't Hooft as the broidery." person of necessity belongs to top executive of the interna- In regard to the dialogue with all the churches. Church tional organization. Catholicism, he said that "at the "In one sense it is irrelevant Visser 't Hooft, stepping out world level I would guess there that I, as an American, have of the WCC position he has are many things on which we been critical of U. S. foreign Episcopal held since the Council was for- need studies that are totally policy especially in Asia, even the mally organized in 1948, will Christian rather than either though this may be welcome of continue as a "consultant to the WCC or Roman Catholic." The news to many people. Every general secretariat," Blake an- search for peace, he stressed, is thoughtful person knows that nounced. the most pressing area for a the problem of peace is the Archives "I am not in a position to say cooperative approach. problem of human survival. Now what he will do for the organi- The movement of the Church

2020. that the weapons for total zation because in large measure into the world, he continued, in- annihilation are available, world that will be up to him," Blake volves the development of a war must become unthinkable said. "But in addition to the concern for broadened Christian in every nation." Copyright writing which he intends to do, witness among "responsible He expressed hope that Coun- I am sure his wisdom and expe- Church leaders" and new ef- cil member Churches would rience will remain available to forts to reach intellectuals and "press their governments not the movement and the Council students. only to avoid the kinds of ac- that have been his life." Also involved, he said, is tions which could escalate into As he moved into the office, identification with the Chur- world war but also to think in the American churchman listed ches of Asia, Africa and Latin a new way about a world com- three main areas of develop- America. munity of people." ment facing the organization: "North American and Euro- He saw his election to the • making the WCC truly pean Churches will get a new post, as an American, an indica- ecumenical in its own makeup view of the worldwide Church tion of "recognition that United as they listen to the 'third States Churches have tried to • continuing to develop rela- world,' " Blake said. avoid using their size and re- DECEMBBR 15, 1966 Fifteen A unique one-volume edition of the Revised Standard Ver- Hijjh quality at a popular price gives distinction to this new sion, this ecumenical study Bible is widely recognized for KJV Concordance Bible. French Morocco. Ultrathin Oxford its invaluable commentary and annotations. Cloth. 5'4 XS^K". India paper. 5 x 714, only V»" thick. 04333x. $9.45 08800A. $10.50 Red Letter Edition — 04433x. $9.95 publication. and reuse for required Especially

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Sixteen THB WITNESS sources to dominate the pro- ferret the essentials for a eu- There were seven con-cele- grams of the Council. charist from elements which brants with Bishop William F. "In view of America's great might or might not be useful. Creighton of Washington, pre- economic and political power," The nine groups went to dif- siding. Thanks to a pre-service he added, "it is even more of a ferent churches in Washington practice session, the congrega- compliment." where they spent Friday after- tion was able to become Blake went on to suggest that noon discussing issues and con- thoroughly involved in the cele- his "obvious handicap of being cerns of mankind, and Friday bration. monocultural may be a blessing night trying to incorporate Bishop Frederick W. Putnam in disguise, for I am certain them into liturgies which they Jr., suffragan of Oklahoma, that the dominance of the Eng- celebrated Saturday morning. preached a sermon which chal- lish language and English and It may have been significant lenged the congregation, made American thought-forms in the that all groups, save two which up of conferees as well as inter- Council needs to be radically were in churches with contem- ested Washingtonians, to be- changed." porary altars and one in a tradi- come alert to the changes of the tional setting, used kitchen or times.

publication. Commenting on the ecumeni- cal movement, the churchman parish-hall tables for their li- Using the text: "It is time for and said there are two erroneous turgies. you to wake out of sleep, for de- ideas about it — that either The conference opened with a liverance is nearer to us now reuse the World Council or the late contemporary eucharist Thurs- that it was when we first be- for Pope John started it. day night at the host parish, St. lieved," he said "few Episcopali- "Actually," he said, "the Stephen and the Incarnation, ans in the pews are aware of utilizing swinging music pro- the thrilling developments" in required movement began and continues essentially in the aspirations vided by Joe Wise and a combo experimental ministries now and faith of people, young and and modern dance performed by being carried out by the home old, who have found that their a troupe from St. Mark's, Wash- and overseas departments of the

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Eighteen Ian WITNESS equally in the labor and changes have to admit that our first and blessings of the work. The venture into the unknown, was - BACKFIRE Salvation Army goes down into not a success. Eve was the first the depths of suffering and sin, to eye the forbidden fruit, and and rises to the heights of re- investigate it. Adam was wiser. Miriam Van Waters demption, joy and thanksgiving. He was willing to let well Penologist of Framingham, Mass. Our beloved Church can do enough alone. He had to be per- I am a member of St. An- the same. suaded to eat. It is natural for drew's Church, Framingham. women to want to run things, Mary E. Forbes because we are aware how well With intense interest I have Churchwoman of Boston, Muss. read the editorial and article in we can do it. Mary, the mother the December 1 Witness which So glad that the Witness has of Jesus was no exception. is concerned with "The Proper made its story of the week, the Jesus had to tell her once to Place of Women in the Church's "report to Bishops on the place mind her own business. Ministry." of women in the ministry." It Shall women become priests? is a problem that calls for im- Edgar Williams I recall what a busy housewife mediate attention, but it should Layman of Baltimore, Md. publication. not be. Men and women were told a woman who was cam- What most impressed me in and paigning for women suffrage. designed for different roles, and fashioned for them. Through- your issue of November 17 was The mother paused in the midst a paragraph in the story of nine

reuse out nature from the lowest form of her washing to say, "If there Canadian clergymen who spent

for to the highest, the male is is one thing men can do by a week as skid row bums, themselves, let them do it." dominant, and this is as it should be for man was made in "learning how the other half Doubtless, the clergy and lives." required the image of God. laity will solve the problem at One of them, the Rev. Keith the next General Convention. Women may find it hard at Whitney of Toronto, completed I would like to offer a few times to concede male suprema- his ordeal on a Sunday morning cy, but nothing can alter the fact Permission suggestions. I have spoken and climbed into his pulpit that from the pulpit of almost every that God made man for su- evening and preached a sermon church and synagogue in Mas- premacy, and made him out of prepared before his enlighten- DFMS.

/ sachusetts. Sometimes my himself. Eve had not this ment. He said, "It seemed so theme was the abolution of honor. She was brought out of irrelevant that I was almost capital punishment; sometimes Adam, not God, and so is a part nauseated. I could hardly go Church a plea for a more enlightened of Adam. She belongs to the on, it seemed so unreal." penology; sometimes for civil best part of him certainly, but rights. still she is only a part. God I am sure many, many ser- Episcopal There never was opposition to could have made her out of clay, mons on theological minutiae the my presence when my message as he did Adam, but then she affect countless visitors to chur- of took the place of the sermon. would have been another indi- ches in much the same way, I think a proper place will be vidual, which was not part of discouraging membership. Such found for women in the Church his plan, so, as someone has sermons may appeal to some of Archives ministry. written, "He carved up Adam, "the saved" but they "save" I ask you to consider the Sal- and made Eve, bone of his bone, nobody. Clergy attention. 2020. vation Army. Take the oppor- and flesh of his flesh." tunity to attend one of their So we see, that by birth and morning or evening services. in every other respect man has Copyright You will find a beautiful and a legal right to be dominant. Holy Matrimony complete cooperation between But he has no right to be over- Hugh McCandless men and women who are of- bearing and selfish about it. He is required to yield in those Rector of the Church of the Epiphany ficers (ordained ministers). New York City I am an honorary life mem- cases where women can aid. ber of the Advisory Board of And she has a right to share, this world-wide international but not to usurp what belong? AN EXPLANATION OF THE organization. Its service to hu- properly to man. She has proved PRAYER BOOK SERVICE manity includes hospitals and herself able in many fields once closed to her, and men are prisons and the battlefield and 25c a copy $3 for ten slums and ghettos. There is learning not to deny what is scope for the gifts of every her due. THE WITNESS person. Very often her intutition is Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 The men and women share better than a man's, but women Schools of the Church

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