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ALLMAN, Ernest R., Trinity, Pocatello, Idaho, is in charge of Grace Church, Glenns Ferry, Idaho, and nearby missions. BURKE, William F., was ordained priest Saint Mary’s Hall ®!I* ©Ijpnlogiral on May 21st by Bishop Jett of South­ western Virginia. He is in charge of Moore I Protestant Episcopal school for &emittarg Parish, Campbell County, with residence I girls. 70th year. Junior and Three - year undergraduate at Altavista. I Senior High School. Accredited CRESAP, Joseph O., Grace Church, Canton, I college preparatory and cornpre- course of prescribed and elective Miss., is now in charge of the Mediator, I hensive general courses. Junior study. McComb, Montana. I College. Beautiful new build- GLASIER, J. Arthur, has resigned as dean I ings, modernly equipped. Gym- Fourth-year course for gradu­ of the cathedral in Portland, Maine, be­ I nasium and outdoor sports. Cat- ates, offering larger opportunity cause of ill health. I alog. Katharine Caley, A. B. for specialization. GRILLEY, E. W., St. Mary’s, Warwick Neck, I Headmistress, Box W, Faribault, R. I. ; DAWLEY, P. M., studying at Cam­ lj Minn. Provision for more advanced bridge University, England; SWEET, H. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. L., of the Advent, Pawtucket, were or­ dained priests by Bishop Perry on Ascen­ smd Th.D. sion Day. At the same service the following men were ordained deacons: ARNOLD, W. ADDRESS E., to return to the Cambridge Seminary; HARBACH, S. T., who is to open a train­ SHATTUCK THE DEAN ing center at Ann Arbor hospital for 3t> » S C H O O L « « S Chelsea Square New York City theological students and HAYNES, John A church school for boys, with high stand­ W., who is to study at the University of ing in sound scholarship and development of Vienna. For Catalogue Address the Dean manly character and Christian citizenship. HARDING, Ernest A., curate of the Messiah College preparatory. Military system. 18 and Incarnation, Brooklyn, N. Y., was or­ buildings. All sports. 76th year. dained priest May 21 by Bishop Larned. Address the Rector, Box W, LILES, Charles S., was ordained priest May Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn. Episcopal Theological School 12 by Bishop Bratton in Christ Church, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Bay St. Louis, where he is in charge. Affiliation with Harvard University offers McKAY, Maurice; MORRELL, George R oss; «»usual opportunities in allied fields, such as YOUNG, Elmore C .; were ordained priests philosophy, psychology, history, by Bishop Davis at St. Paul’s Cathedral, DeVEAUX SCHOOL sociology, etc. Buffalo, N. Y., on May 18. PULSIFER, Herbert B., rector of St. John’s, Niagara Falls, N. Y. For Catalogue Address the Dean Presque Isle, Me., has accepted the rector­ ship of St. George’s, Sanford, Me. A Church school for boys from the The Protestant Episcopal REEVES, William T., Trinity Mission, Jef­ sixth grade until they are ready for fers, Montana, is rector of St. James, college. Small classes. Personal at­ Theological Seminary in Virginia Bozeman, Montana. SNOWDEN, Charles D., St. John’s, Valen­ tention. Charges moderate. Enroll­ For Catalogue and other information tine, Nebr., is .rector of Grace Church, A l­ ment limited to 120. address the Dean vin, Texas. REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. TYLER, Barrett P., in charge of St. George L. Barton, Jr., M.A., Ph.D. Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Michael’s Mission, Ethete, Wyoming, has accepted the rectorship of Grace Church, Headmaster Colorado Springs, Colo. W ILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE WALTERS, Frank E., was ordained priest FOR WOMEN by Bishop Green on May 10th at St. Paul’s, Columbus, Miss. He is in charge of the Geneva, New York Tupelo Fields, with residence at Tupelo, KEMPER HALL Miss. College Preparatory and General Courses ©o-ovdinate with Hobart College. Four year Graduates have won entrance scholarships to Liberal Arts Course leading to the degrees o f A.B. and B.S. Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Mount Holy­ oke, Barnard, Mills and Rockford colleges. For catalog and information address SECOND THOUGHTS Music, Art, Dramatics, Domestic Science. FATE HUNTINGTON KLYVER, Ph.D., Dean All sports. Junior School. Tuition and board $850. Address: THE SISTERS OF ST. MARY HE REV. J. M. STONEY, rector of Grace Box W.T. Kenosha, Wisconsin T Church, Anniston, Alabama: In spite of B erkeley Divinity much that has been written certainly in good faith, the relationship between the land own­ CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL School er and the tenant or share-cropper, is in the New York City New Haven, Connecticut main honest and sympathetic. That dishon­ Affiliated with Yale University esty and brutality exist goes without say­ A boarding school for the forty boys of , Address DEAN W. P. LADD ing, as they exist everywhere. But long and the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Careful musical training and daily 86 Saehem Street close observation leads me to the conviction that landlords and tenants get along better singing at the cathedral services. Small in the cotton belt than is true with many class'es mean individual attention and high TRINITY COLLEGE other lines of industry. standards. The School has its own building and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $260.00 Hertford, Conn. The deep south has come in for more per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice test than its share of criticism recently. By “ deep and scholarship examination. Address The Offers a general cultural education, with south” is usually meant South Carolina, •peeial emphasis on the Classics, Modern Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Cathedra] Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Heights, New York City. Languages, English, Economics, History, Phil­ In this region, tenancy and share-cropping is osophy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, at its height, poverty and illiteracy are at Biology and PreMedical, or Pre-Engineering. their worst. The share-croppers are poor, very F or information apply, The Dean. poor, and the only fair way to deal with this situation is to find the causes. HOLDERNESS Illiteracy. In the states mentioned, the In the White Mountains. College Preparatory rate of illiteracy has been and still is, dis­ and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For gracefully high. The reason for this need boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 W o j f not be discussed hare,—only the fact. Ignor­ acres of woods. New fireproof building. ance and illiteracy form a vicious circle with Individual attention. Home atmosphere. Fully accredited. Prepares for college or poverty. We are poor because we are ig­ Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector business. Able faculty. Small classes. Sup­ norant. We are ignorant because we are Box W Plymouth, N. H. ervised study. Lower school for small boys poor. This situation takes a long time to In new separate building. Housemother. correct, but it is being corrected very rap­ R . O. T. C. Fireproof buildings. Inside idly. The public schools, especially in the swimming pool. All athletics. Best health rural districts, are performing marvels, but record. Catalog 38th year. Dr. J. J. Wicker, naturally, it takes time to educate a people, Tree., Box B, Fork Union, Virginia. especially where the adults do not or can­ not go to school. S t u a r t IHall Virginia Episcopal School Cost of machinery. Farm machinery is An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old expensive, entirely too expensive for general traditions and high standards in the beau­ Lynchburg, Virginia use on small farms. The result is that ten­ tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara­ Prepare« boys for colleges and university. ant farmers and share-croppers are forced tory, general courses, and secretarial Splendid environment and excellent corps of to do much hand work, so that there is an ex­ courses. Two years beyond high schooL touchers. High standard in scholarship and cessive amount of labor for the financial re­ Music, art, expression. Graduates success­ athletics. Healthy and beautiful location in turns. Labor saving machinery can be oper­ ful in college. Well-equipped buildings. {die mountains of Virginia. ated only on large plantations, and the share­ New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid­ For catalogue apply to cropper gets little further than plows, hoes, ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector and sometimes planters and cultivators (horse Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. (Continued on page 16) Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuseI and publication. 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C h u r c h L o y a l t y By H. ROSS GREER, Rector at Millbrook, New York T E T S face up to just what Church loyalty in- do his duty to God, to his neighbor and to himself. It -L/ volves. What is the least we are obligated to do is not easy to follow Christ. Following Christ calls as members of the Living Church of God? In the for all the manhood and womanhood we have. It is Offices of Instruction in the Prayer Book (p. 291) the not cheap to follow Christ. It may cost suffering, ridi­ Church addresses a question to all of us who are mem­ cule or imprisonment. It is not smart to follow Christ bers of the Church. “ What is your bounden duty as a and that is why some of us, in spite of the prayer made member of the Church ?” That is, what are you obli­ at our baptism, are ashamed to confess the faith of gated to do as a member of the Church? The answer is Christ crucified and manfully to fight under His banner My bounden duty is to follow Christ, to worship God against sin, the world and the devil, and to continue every Sunday in His church, and to work and pray and Christ’s faithful soldiers and servants unto our life’s give for the spread of His kingdom.” end. Unbelievable as it may seem a person who was con­ firmed this year told me that the clergyman who pre­ C H R IST IA N is a man of his word. A loyal pared her for confirmation told the class that only A member of the Church will not only keep his monks and nuns could do their bounden duty as mem­ own word which he has given in confirmation but will bers of the Church. If I believed that, I would re­ join with those who insist that the nations of the world nounce the ministry. keep their word after having renounced war as an in­ Walter Lippmann, in a Preface to Morals, says : “As strument of national policy. good a way as any to raise the temperature of political A loyal member of the Church worships God every debate is to talk about loyalty. Everybody regards him­ Sunday in his church at home or wherever he may be. self as loyal and resents any imputation upon his loy­ He doesn’t go to church to be entertained, just to hear alty.” Webster defines loyal “ to be true to one to good music or a sermon, to see his friends, because it is whom fidelity is due; constant; faithful.” Might we the thing to do, to see how many hypocrites there are define loyalty as meaning to do one’s duty and more, there (besides himself), to find fault with everything if need be, gladly following Our Lord’s words, “ When possible, to have his pet prejudices reinforced by a you have done everything you were commanded to do sycophantic pulpiteer. A loyal member of the Church say: ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done only goes to church every Sunday to worship. He is not that which it was our duty to do’.” hypocrite enough to say he worships God on the golf A loyal member of the Church is obligated to try to links (where he may be swearing) or on the tennis follow Christ. He may fall down but at least he will court or while riding in an automobile or while sleeping do his best with God’s help. He not only says he be­ away part of the beauty of the day. A loyal Church­ lieves in, but tries to live as though he believes in, the man will make it possible for anyone employed by him universal Fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man. to have the opportunity to worship and not employ His supreme desire is to make his life conform to what Protestants simply because they do not insist on going God would have it be. He believes that God has a plan to Church. for each one of us and that the greatest happiness A loyal member of the Church works for the spread comes from carrying out what God wants done. He of the Kingdom. He works to gain as adequate a con­ realizes our dependence on God and reveres and wor­ ception of Christianity as he can. He reads his Bible, ships God as Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier. He books about the Church, books presenting the Chris­ does not patronize God and His Church but gives God tian point of view in the solutions of the complex prob­ what is due Him in grateful worship. lems which face the world. He knows and uses his A loyal Churchman is devoted to the bringing in of Prayer Book. He defends the Church when it is de­ the Kingdom of God on earth. He makes an effort to famed. He shamefully admits how she has fallen down

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four TH E W I T N ESS June 4, 1936 in the past and the present and accepts a share in the England would have to consume 80 per cent more blame. He strives to help her stand firmly for her prin­ milk, 41 per cent more butter, 55 per cent more eggs, ciples. He seeks to know all he can about the Church’s 14 per cent more fruit, 87 per cent more vegetables and missions and to spread this knowledge. 29 per cent more meat. . . . According to T. C. Town­ send, attorney from Kentucky testifying before a Sen­ L O Y A L Churchman prays. He doesn’t just say atorial committee, coal companies raised $46,730 last A prayers. To anyone who does not pray private­ year to maintain a spy system to defeat the efforts of ly the public services of the Church may seem unreal. the miners to organize. . . . The Senate recently Could it be otherwise? Prayer is the soul’s sincere de­ passed the Naval Supply Bill appropriating $531,068,- sire uttered or unexpressed. A loyal member of the 707 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937. It rep­ Church has a mature understanding of prayer. He resents an appropriation as large as the combined ap­ realizes that prayer is not just “ give me” but also “ use propriation for the army and navy two years ago. . . . me” and “ show me what to do” ; that it involves talking Thomas Nixon Carver, professor emeritus at Harvard with and listening to God. He realizes that it is more and a member of the newly organized Republican important to listen to the still small voice of God than brain trust, has written and privately circulated a book­ to talk as our heavenly Father knows all our needs. He let entitled, “What Must We Do to Save Our Eco­ realizes the lack of faith in the prayer that is not rein­ nomic System ?” After a few laudatory remarks about forced by effort. Hitler and Mussolini, he offers the following program A loyal member of the Church gives for the spread for the United States: 1, drastic curtailment of un­ of the Kingdom. He wants to share the privileges he employment relief; 2, elimination of government re-, has in the Church with others. He does not spend straint on business; 3, sterilization of the “ palpably more for liquor and luxuries or for movies and cigar­ unfit” and the limitation of marriage to those who ettes than he does for the Church and her missions, for can buy and maintain an automobile; 4, exclusion of charities and other benevolent purposes. It has been as­ all immigrants; 5, organization of properties class in serted that if every baptized member of the Church a party to put over this program. . . . Robert Wash­ gave two cents a day the missionary program of the ington was recently sentenced to 180 days on the chain Church could be carried on at full efficiency. As it is, gang and $100 fine in traffic court in Birmingham, much important work is being permanently crippled and Alabama, on a charge of driving with defective brakes. some abandoned because of lack of support. If it A $5 fine is the usual penalty for this offense, but weren’t for the fact that a small number do their part Policeman J. T. Mosier said that he found “ seditious and more, I tremble to think what the condition of the literature” in Washington’s car. A few days before national Church would be. Too many people support the conviction Police Chief Luther Hollums was quoted the Church, if they support it at all, with odd bits or on the front page of the Birmingham News as stating left-overs and take great praise to themselves for the that there were “ a number of agitators in town” and same. he had orders “ to pin anything we can on them.” . . . According to the labor department of the National What is the matter with the Church is a question Council for the Prevention of War, the United States often asked. Over half of her people are disloyal. Per­ government will spend in 1937 over $3,000,000 for haps they are not actively and deliberately disloyal, but forage for army horses and only $2,500,000 for serv­ passively so. How many Christians are as loyal to ices to crippled children; the Reserve Officers Train­ Christ and His Church as communists are to Lenin and ing Corps will receive $4,008,900 from the govern­ the Communist party? Our Lord once said, “ He that ment, while $3,000,000 will be spent by the govern­ is not with me, is against me.” ment for maternal and child health. H AT IS T H E PU R PO SE of the Church W School? Here are four ideals set forth by the Rev. Gardiner M. Day for the teachers of the Church Talking It Over School in his parish, St. Stephen’s, Wilkes-Barre, Penna.: By First, to make the children aware of the presence of WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD God, and help them to reach, each through his own FEW B IT S you won’t find in your newspaper: experience the conviction that there is a Power at the A with the annexation of Ethiopia, Italy has in­ heart of the Universe, Christ-like in character, that creased her colonial holdings from 916,754 square makes for righteousness. miles having a population of 2,350,244 to 1,266,754 Second, that in Jesus Christ we have a visible por­ square miles with a population of 12,350,244. The di­ trait of an invisible God. We see in him as much of vision of Africa among six imperial powers has now the divine as ever has been and ever can be revealed been completed, with Britain controlling the most fer­ in human form. Our task is to make vivid to the chil­ tile and habitable portion, though France holds slightly dren this revelation of God in the life of Jesus Christ. more territory. . . . A recent investigation discloses Third, to make children aware of the power of that in order to be properly nourished the people of prayer; to help them realize that by meditation and

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prayer we can lay hold of infinite resources in the bleeds on. It was so with Jesus. He simply accepted it Universe. It is through prayer that we gain perspec­ all, and accepting it all, He said in work and word, ‘the tive, patience, strength, courage, and hope. toil, the pain, the work finds meaning only when it is Fourth, to make real to the children the Kingdom of for others.’ Never dream friend, that religion is meant God as the goal of Christian living. St. Mark tells to be a poor vulgar balsam or anodyne for pain or sor­ us “ Jesus came preaching the gospel of the Kingdom row. The word (com forf means to make strong; of God (Mark 1:14 ) . Jesus was so convinced that strong to bear the pain, to conquer the pain and forget it was the will of God that men should be taught to live it as Christ did, by bearing it for others.” together in the bond of brotherhood and service that In another letter Bishop Thompson says, “ Our Lord he was willing to die rather than compromise this was the only Christian after all. Even the Apostles high ideal. He died for His ideal of a Kingdom of God, were only half-made. He went about doing good. He a better world; He calls us to live and build constantly does so yet. Can any soul deny it? In heaven and in toward that ideal. For each of us this means a way hell He must go about doing good.” of life that is loving, forgiving and serving, even to A southern lady writes me in her 80th year and states the point of sacrifice. It means striving to build a that “ he set all the current of my life in my early girl­ ^society in which every man can have security, that is hood, and in the strain and stress of after years I often sufficient to keep his body and mind in health. (Man felt like a little wounded wren with broken wing borne cannot live by bread alone, but man cannot live aloft on a strong pinion of an eagle.” When he left New without bread); a society in which all men Orleans to go to his diocese, an outstanding Presby­ have an opportunity to develop their talents to their terian minister said of him that, ‘he was one who. felt highest capacities; a society in which men treat each that he had God’s message to deliver to men and must other like true brothers, irrespective of race, religion deliver it with clear, true and unfaltering voice, as one or culture; and finally it means a society in which whose all embracing humanity, like the full Nile, could men’s lives are dominated by the desire to serve oth­ not but overflow the earthly banks of denominational ers rather than to get for themselves. limits—a soul who made the grief of every sorrowing soul its own grief and burned to redress the wrong of the oppressor wherever found.’ He spoke of him as ‘a great man who looks through the show of things into Hugh Miller Thompson things and who knows whereof he believes’.” By I A fellow clergyman wrote of him—“scholar, thinker, BISHOP JOHNSON. theologian of international fame—him whom I rejoice to remember, in the gray wisdom of his years, prophet­ ,N JU N E 5, 1830, Hugh Miller Thompson was like in the pulpit or in his library. A bishop still and 0 born in Ireland. He was bishop of Mississippi forever by right of service in the forefront of honest, from 1883 to 1902. He was one of the Church’s great­ loyal, unafraid sons of God.” est preachers and as there fell into my hands recently It is good to remember the men who have been lead­ some of his private letters, I thought I would honor his ers in the past and to do them honor. memory as well as clarify our thoughts by quoting some Hugh Miller Thompson was one of the unique char­ extracts which it seems to me make good copy. acters in the life of our Church. If you have not read On marriage and divorce he writes a friend, “ Person­ Copy secure it and read it. ally I would say, I do not believe that a Christian mar­ riage is dissoluble for any cause whatever. A Chris­ tian marriage is one where both parties are in the com­ munion of the Catholic Church and have been married The Scrapbook by sacramental rite. Other marriages are dissoluble By both by St. Paul’s teaching and the action of the univer­ sal Church. JAMES P. DE WOLFE “ Marriage does not exist for the man and woman and A n n iv e r sa r y of C onfirmation their individual desires, fancies and pleasures. It ex­ S THE anniversary of your Confirmation ap­ ists for the family. The family is the unit, the entity, A proaches prepare yourself to go to the holy com­ the divine thing, not Jack and Jill and their notions. munion. Since in our confirmation we ratify our bap­ Therefore the Church in her canon law guards the tismal vows, let us turn to the Prayer Book and read family.” over those vows on page 273 (if a child) page 277 In another letter, he states “ I am no proselyter. (adult). The next pledge we make in confirmation is Where a man’s conscience and judgment are at rest in to “ follow Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour.” As any place of Christian life, and duty, I should be very the years go by in our Christian pilgrimage we real­ slow to disturb either.” ize more and more what it really means to give our In writing to a woman bereaved of her husband, he lives to Christ. Before we go to the holy communion says, “There is no nepenthe. There is no river of ob­ on this anniversary let us ask ourselves this question; livion. That there is, was a heathen dream. Chris­ “ Have I been a true disciple since the day of my con­ tianity alone accepts the situation, the bleeding heart firmation? Have I followed Christ all the way

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C o m m e n t s o n t h e H y m n a l By EL WOOD HAINES Rector of Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio ROM ancient times, song has been an important quoted by Paul, “ Awake, thou that sleepest and arise Fpart of the worship of God. But before it was related from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” to worship, it was employed to celebrate great events, When we turn to our modern Hymnal we discover a such as victory in tribal war. One of the very' oldest bits few survivals of early Christian worship. “ Earth has of the Old Testament is the Song of Deborah in the book many a noble city”—attributed to Prudentius, and “ Be­ of Judges, which commemorates the defeat of Sisera. fore the Ending of the Day”—ascribed to St. Ambrose, Moses’ song in Exodus combines the rejoicing of Israel the Bishop of Milan who was more or less responsible over their escape from Egypt with praise to Jehovah for the conversion of St. Augustine, come down to us who had rescued His chosen people. The Bible con­ from the year Three Hundred and Fifty. A more fa­ tains the one hundred and fifty psalms which formed miliar one, “ Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee,” is said the hymn-book of the Jewish Church. They were the to be from the hand of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who songs which Jesus sang in temple and synagogue, and sang it on the way to the Holy Land in Three Hundred we value them in our Prayer-book worship today as and Sixteen—the same man who drew up the original expressions of the spiritual heights and depths common rules for the Knights Templar. “ O sacred head sur­ to the heart of mankind. In the New Testament, we rounded,” which some regard as the finest of our come upon the Benedictus of Zacharias, the Magnificat hymns, is also ascribed to St. Bernard. But the great of Mary, the Nunc Dimittis of the aged Simeon, and majority of the hymns are from comparatively mod­ the Gloria in Excelsis of the Angels, all three included ern times. Sixty per cent of the authors and compos­ in our Prayer-book, and we find the children of Jerusa­ ers lived during the Nineteenth Century. Twenty-eight lem singing as Christ entered the Holy City, and Paul per cent lived in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth, five and Silas singing in their imprisonment. One of the per cent between the Eleventh and Sixteenth. The chief references to worship in the Book of Acts tells words of twenty-three of our hymns were written be­ how the early Christians praised God in “ psalms and fore the Tenth century, but none of the music. Only hymns and spiritual songs.” A fragment of one of their twelve hymn-writers and twenty composers belong in musical outbursts is said to be that beautiful phrase our Twentieth Century.

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S ONE examines the Hymnal with care, he is worship to be a period of stupid rapture in which we A bound to be impressed by the variety of its merely enjoy the sound of our own voices? A s for sources. The authors come from all walks of life and contenting ourselves with a poor tune, simply because all stages of history. Twelve men whom the Church we know it, who would say that Yankee Doodle is has honored with the title of saint are included. That preferable to the Moonlight Sonata because it is bet­ great hymn, “ O what the joy and the glory must be” ter known ? Why should we be content with anything is the work of Peter Abelard, a great and beloved less than the best, when worship means bringing our teacher of the Twelfth Century, and is translated by best to God. The only reason for setting new words John Mason Neale, to whom we are indebted for thirty- to some old tunes is that the tunes are too good to three hymns made available from Greek and Latin lose, and they need new words to raise them to the sources. John Bunyan, Reginald Heber, John Keble, heights of spiritual aspiration of which they are capable. Cardinal Newman, Martin Luther, Count Zinzendorf, It is a comfort, perhaps, to know, that it is only oc­ Dean Stanley, Phillips Brooks—the list reads like a casionally done. In some cases, a fine tune is set only Christian Hall of Fame. To the Wesleys we owe to words which are seldom if ever used. This is the twenty-two of our most familiar hymns, the best of case with the tune Ellacombe, set only to the matri­ which, perhaps, is “ Love divine, all love excelling.” monial hymn, “ O Father, all-creating” . This tune Great poets have made their contributions : Addison, needs to be redeemed by another set of words. Cowper, Dryden, Pope, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Which brings us to this conclusion. Worship should Bryant, Kipling, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier. The same always be a presentation of the finest we know. And catholicity may be discovered by an examination of the we must learn what that finest is. We learn new music. Here are Bach, Beethoven, Gounod, Handel, hymns, as we undertake various other new experiences, Haydn, Von Weber, Schumann; and particularly in in order to grow in the direction of God. Not always the field of sacred music, Barnby, Dykes, Monk, Smart, is it easy, not always is it pleasant; as is the case at Sullivan, Douglas, Stainer. From the racial standpoint, first with anything strange. If we are patient and re­ there is a wide representation. Here is an ancient He­ sponsive, if we try to make the best, rather than the brew melody, “ The God of Abraham, praise.” And worst use of what we have, we shall in time discover here are tunes from the Dutch, and Irish, Scotch, and the great joy of “ worshipping God in the Spirit of Cornish, and Welsh and French and German and holiness, not only with our lips but in our lives.” Ap­ Italian and Greek. And there are fourteen plain song proach The Hymnal as you would the Bible: with dili­ chants from the Latin, which people today have not gence and with discrimination. It is the misfortune learned to enjoy, but which form the nearest approach of many of us that we have fallen heir to certain to music that is truly worshipful. Here is a particular prejudices which are hard to supplant. But if religion point in which we need musical education. It is well is to become more vital, more realistic, than it has been for us to appreciate all of the types of life and inspira­ we must give it fresher and more truthful expressions tion which have gone into the compilation of the in our worship; we must welcome, in this as in other Hymnal. It is well to see that the Church, in the field things, the Discomforts of Change. of song as in the field of prayer, has tried to put at our disposal the best which can be found to assist us in the worship of God. TIMELY TRACTS The following have been added to the W it­ At the same time, it is well to recognize the fact that ness series of Timely Tracts. They self for 5 not all of this material can be used. Nor would we cents a copy; $3 for 100 copies, assorted if want to use it all. The Hymnal, in this respect, is like desired. the newspaper; parts of it are for some; other parts THE INNER LIFE by Bishop Cross for others ; and some, I am afraid, is not worth look­ PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON RUNNING A PARISH ing at at all; yet must be preserved because there is by W . Appleton Lawrence CHRISTIANITY AND WAR by Frederick C. Grant a demand for it. The choice of hymns is a subject THE CHALLENGE TO YOUTH by C. Leslie Glenn of frequent discussion. Some wonder why old fav­ THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS MONEY by Bishop Wash­ orites are never used. Some object to thé frequent burn use of new hymns, and the setting of new words to Tracts previously published familiar tunes. Why Believe in God? by Samuel S. Drury Why Believe in Jesus? by Albert H. Lucas E T ’S think of a few of those Old Favorites. “ Rock The Disciplined Christian by Charles L. Street What Christianity Demands of Me by Edric A. Weld of Ages” , for example. It presents an ingrow­ What We Demand of Society by G. Gardner Monks ing, rather than an outgoing type of religion; and Why Missions? by Edmund J. Lee Why Pray? by Oscar DeWoff Randolph the music is bad ; it is lugubrious and unwholesome. “ O Why Worship? by Charles Herbert Young Lamb of God, still keep me” , is in the same class. The Meaning of the Real Presence by G. A. Sftidcferf:- “ From Greenland’s Icy Mountains” deals with a mis­ Kennedy sionary point of view which no one believes today. Why I’m for the Church by Charles P. Taflt Now, some will say that the words do not matter WITNESS BOOKS because no one pays any attention to what they are 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue singing. But shouldn’t they? Doesn’t God expect us CHICAGO to worship Him with our minds? Is this part of

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CHURCH LIBERALS SOCIAL WORKERS HOLD CONFERENCE DISCUSS PROBLEMS AT NEWARK, N. J. AT CONFERENCE By Charles D. Kean By Spencer Miller, Jr. Direct affiliation with the Federal Council of Churches was advocated Meeting in the same city where the by Bishop Gilbert of New York at last General Convention of the Epis­ the conference of Liberal Evangeli­ copal Church was held but two years cals, meeting last Thursday and Fri­ ago the Episcopal Social Work Con­ day at Trinity Cathedral, Newark. ference, concluded on May 29th its He declared that it was essential if Sixteenth Annual Meeting in associa­ the Church is to contribute adequate­ tion with the National Conference of ly to the solution of social and eco­ Social Work. Originally scheduled nomic problems. He was supported to meet in the City of Washington, in this position by the Rev. Howard this Annual Conference which C. Robb’ns, professor at the General brought together 8,000 social work­ ers was compelled to move to Atlantic Seminary, and others. City because of racial discrimination. Positive affirmation of the Chris­ Of this number two hundred and tian faith in social relations, political fifty clergymen, social workers and relations, in the mission field, and in volunteers were in attendance at the ecclesiastical relations was the key­ five-day Episcopal Conference from note of the conference, attended by forty-four Dioceses, not including two several hundred clergymen and lay­ from China and one from Toronto. men. This keynote was particularly The Conference at Montreal last stressed in the conference dinner year struck an international note; the Rev. L. Bradford Young, assistant address by Bishop Theodore R. note this year was distinctly domestic. at Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, Ludlow, suffragan of Newark, and Nor could anyone at the Convention in the conference sermon the Rev. ciseented somewhat from Bowie’s be unconscious of the fact that this Arthur Lee Kinsolving, rector of opinion, declaring that absolute paci­ is an election year; it colored both Trinity Church, Boston. fism was a counsel of last resort, programs and discussions. “ The supreme need of the world and in the average case impractical. In accordance with a practice which today is that the Christian Church The Rev. Lawson Willard urged has been honored by observance for should demonstrate the possibility of the militant pacifism implied in the sixteen years, the Episcopal Confer­ world fellowship and not act as a use of the strike as a preventative ence arranged its program so as to superior conferring benefits upon to war. fit into the general program of the the less fortunate,” Bishop Ludlow Declaring that the Chrirtien mis­ National Conference. The first of the said in his address on “ The Liberal sionary can learn from the com- sessions was opened on Monday after­ Evangelical Facing Missionary Prob­ mun’st, Bishop Ludlow said, “ The noon, May 25th, under the chairman­ lems.” He condemned the institu­ communist starts with that which ship of Spencer Miller, Jr., Consultant tionalizing of foreign missions and he believes to be ultimately true and on Industrial Relations, in the absence the imposition of the material fabric not that which he recognizes as of the President of the Episcopal Con­ of the western church upon peoples presently useful. Therefore, he does ference, Reverend C. Rankin Barnes, whose needs were different. not go about setting up libraries or formerly Executive Secretary of the “ The revolution in religious working men’s homes. He wins Department of Social Service. The thoughts and attitudes is in process people to a conv’ction which leads first session was devoted to a con­ so profound as to make the Refor­ them to live the life of a group sideration of the value of a Dart-time mation but a bubble,” Kinsolving committed to communist principles. Diocese Social Service Executive. declared in his sermon, entitled Are we convinced that Christ has a Reverend George W. Dawson, Execu­ “ Christian Positivism.” “ Liberalism, mission to the world? Are we sub­ tive Secretary of the Board of Social properly defined, is not the extreme stituting ourselves for Christ?” Service of the Diocese of Newark, in opposite of conservatism, but rather Dean Arthur Dumper, of Trinity a provocative paper traced Driefly the the fine discrimination between two Cathedral, Newark, celebrated the use of part-time service in the Dio­ extremes.” He urged a positive conference’s Corporate Communion cese of Newark and concluded that affirmation, and stressed the fact Friday. such an executive could be of very that the differences between the Conference groups met as follows: real assistance, not only in interpret­ Liberal Evangelicals and the Anglo- social problems, led by Bishop Gil­ ating the Church to the community Catholics were more apparent than bert; theological problems, led by institutions but in making clearer to real. the Rev. Harold Adye Prichard, the Church the facilities of our insti­ The conference opened with a rector of St. Mark’s Church, Mt. tutions. discussion on “ The Liberal Evan­ Kisco, N. Y., and the Rev. Theodore His paper was followed by a par­ gelical Facing the Problems of the P. Ferris, of the General Theological ticularly thoughtful discussion on “ In­ Present World.” Addresses were Seminary; liturgical problems, led struction Before Marriage” by the given by the Rev. J. Howard Melish, by the Rev. Alexander C. Zabriskie, Reverend Russell S. Hubbard, Rector rector of Holy Trinity Church, of the Virginia Theological Semi­ of St. Martin’s Church, Providence. Brooklyn, on the need for an intel­ nary; and the Rev. Dr. John W. On Tuesday noon an informal ligent faith and a facing of facts Suter, Jr., rector of the Church of luncheon was held for executives and if democracy is to survive, and by the Eniphany, New York. members of the Social Service Depart­ the Rev. W. Russell Bowie, rector Bishop Creighton, suffragan of ments to discuss some special Social of Grace Church, New York, who Long Island, spoke on “ The Church Service problems. There was unanim­ urged the policy of complete resis­ and its Mission” at the conference ity of agreement in the necessity for tance in the event of war. The luncheon. the appointment of an Executive

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Secretary of Christian Social Service SUMMER SCHOOLS Master; Miss Dorothy Fischer; Miss Department of the National Council Mabel Lee Cooper; Dean Rollins of to carry forward this important work ANNOUNCE PLANS Alexandria; Dean Wells of Sewanee; in the Church. FOR THIS MONTH the Rev. Arthur Sherman of the For­ The second session on Tuesday aft­ ward Movement; Bishop Darst of ernoon was devoted to two questions Edited by W. B. Spofford East Carolina; Bishop Gribbin of Western North Carolina and Bishop of a parochial character. A paper pre­ This is the month for summer pared by the Reverend C. Rankin Thomas of South Carolina. schools and conferences and from Barnes on “ Practical Standards for The conference for the province provinces and dioceses throughout Parish Social Service Committees” of New England is to be held, as us­ the Church come announcements of was read by the Rev. Walter Gray of ual, at St. Paul’s School, Concord, Bethlehem. His address was followed plans. With scores of them we can N. H., from June 22nd to July 1st, .by the Rev. Don Frank Fenn, Rec­ hardly do more than list time and with a fine faculty including the Rev. tor of St. Michael’s and All Angels’ places but we do want to do at least Russell Hubbard of Providence; the in Baltimore and President of the that. Wellesley is again to be the Rev. Nat Noble of Lenox School; the Church Mission of Help, in Maryland, scene of a great conference, the 32nd Rev. Malcolm Taylor, secretary of who spoke on The Pastoral Use of time that this school is held which the province; the Rev. William Lump­ Case Work in Family Adjustments. draws people from all over the coun­ kin of Boston; the Rev. James Thay­ The first of the Joint Meeting of try. Courses are offered on every er Addison of Cambridge Seminary; the Episcopal Conference with the sort of subject pertaining to the work the Rev. James Muller of Cambridge Church Mission of Help was held on of the Church with the usual out­ and others of distinction. Wednesday noon. In the absence of standing faculty. At Shrine Mont, Orkney Springs, Mrs. John M. Glenn, the Reverend Another great conference is to be Virginia, a number of conferences are being held this month and next. Don Frank Fenn presided. held at Chambersburg, Pa.— the Blue An adult conference is meeting June The second of the Joint Luncheons Mountain Conference— with such 15 to 19, with the Rev. B. D. Cham­ sponsored by the Girls’ Friendly So­ outstanding leaders as the Rev. Fred­ ciety, the department considered the bers as dean. That is to be followed eric Lauderburn; the Rev. Thomas June 22-28 by a junior Auxiliary con­ importance of “ Building Race Atti­ Harris; the Rev. Bradford Young; tudes with Young People” . ference, with the faculty, the Rev. the Rev. Alexander Zabriskie; the J. J. Guenther, the Rev. J. W. Gum- The concluding session of the Rev. Don Frank Fenn; Lewis B. mere, Mrs. James Cain and Mrs. conference was held jointly with the Franklin; Miss Leila Anderson; the John E. Hill. A seminar for the clergy Church Conference of Social Work Rev. Ernest Piper and others. A is being held July 6-17, with Bishop under the chairmanship of the Rev­ children’s conference is again to be a Goodwin and Bishop Strider at the erend James Meyers of the Federal feature, thus enabling parents to head of the faculty. The final con­ Council of Churches. In a carefully bring the youngsters to be trained ference is for juniors (ages 12 to thought out statement, E. R. Bowen, while they are attending the adult 15.) General Secretary of the Cooperative conference. Miss Gwendolyn Miles Other conferences are the Ocean League of America spoke of coop­ and Miss Frances Young, both of Bal­ City Conference, Maryland, June 28- eration as a permanent remedy for timore, are the directors. July 3rd; the Cranbrook Conference, poverty and paternalism. “ Will the A third national conference is the Michigan, June 21 to 27th, directed Churches carry out their commission one held at Gambier, under the lead­ by Bishop Page; a conference of the of healing the disease of poverty ership of the Rev. Elwood Haines of Anglican Society, to be held at Man- and thereby fulfill their mission of Glendale, Ohio. Again an exception­ toloking, N. J., June 22-26; two con­ brotherhood? he asked. The discus­ al faculty has been recruited and ferences in the diocese of Albany, sion of his paper was lead by Miss everything indicates the most suc­ one at Lake George from July 5th to Winifred Chappell and the Reverend cessful conference ever held on the 11th under the auspices of the de­ Spear Kneebel. beautiful campus of Kenyon College. partment of religious education, and The Conference while not a legis­ The dates of all these conferences are a clergy and rural conference at Al­ lative body deemed it important to the same, from June 23 to July 3rd. bany, June 22-26. take affirmative action in support of Kanuga Lake is the setting for a The diocese of Newark is to hold the Pettingill Bill against the prac­ series of conferences, also national in its conference at Delaware, N. J., tice of block booking and short sell­ scope. Kanuga Lake Inn is a com­ from June 21st through the 28th; a ing. It also selected three of its paratively new conference center of conference for Colored workers of four officers for the ensuing year the Church, located six miles from the Church is being held this week as follows: Hendersonville, North Carolina, and (June 1 thru the 5th) at St. Augus­ First Vice President— Rev. Francis there each summer a series of con­ tine’s College, Raleigh, N. C.; a con­ D. McCabe. ferences are held. A retreat for ference in West Virginia is meeting Second Vice President— Dr. R. women is to meet from June 9-11; a at Jackson Mills, June 15th to 20th, Clyde White. young people’s conference from the and a national conference for rural Secretary— Miss M. Deem. 13th to the 26th; a junior boys and workers is being held at Madison, The President will be the Execu­ girls conference from June 27th to Wisconsin, from June 29th to July tive Secretary of the Department of July 10th; an adult conference from 10th under the direction of Archdea­ Christian Social Service when and July 11th to the 25th; a clergy con­ con Forman of Erie. This is of course if appointed. ference from July 13 th to the 25th; a but a partial list. Any number are The 16th Episcopal Social Work college conference from the 11th to being held on the Pacific Coast, from Conference like the 63rd National the 25th; a laymen’s conference on Los Angeles to Seattle; there are the Conference of Social Work was not July 10th and 11th and a camp for Sewanee Conferences which come la­ an outstanding conference; it was girls from the 11th to the 25th. ter in the summer, and many dio­ certainly not spectacular but it did Among the leaders of the Church to ceses are calling their leaders to­ consolidate some gains; it marked lecture at Kanuga Lake are the Rev. gether for a week, or so this month an advance on other lines. T. 0. Wedel; the Rev. Vernon Mc- for instruction and inspiration.

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Convention of derstanding.” Among his suggestions Florida were a revision of the liturgy to Summer Sermon Material Bishop Barnwell of Georgia, the make it more understandable to the Rev. Charles W. Sheerin of Chatta­ average person; changing the can­ TALKS ON THE nooga, and Mrs. Henry J. MacMillan, ons to permit lay readers to admin­ president of the provincial Auxiliary, ister the chalice and courage to face PRAYER BOOK were the speakers at a dinner held in new problems in a new field. connection with the convention of A dinner, held jointly by the GOSPELS the diocese of Florida, meeting at synod and the Auxiliary, was ad­ Gainesville. There were also inter­ dressed by Miss Grace Lindley, sec­ By the Rev. esting reports of student work by the retary of the Auxiliary, and Bishop Francis C. Burgess Rev. Hamilton West and Miss Julia Mitchell of Arizona. The following Gehan, the student workers for the evening there was a mass meeting In picturesque language the two Florida dioceses. addressed by Miss Ellen Gammack, author tells the story of the Gospel for the day. These student worker at the University of short two-page talks, covering Buffalo Rector California, Dean Grant of Seabury- every Sunday and Holy Day in H as Anniversary Western Seminary and the Rev. C. the Church Year, lend them­ The Rev. James Cosbey, rector of Rankin Barnes, rector at San Diego. selves splendidly to summer the Good Shepherd, Buffalo, N. Y., There was a striking unanimity on sermons. $2.00 celebrated the 25th anniversary of the part of the speakers that youth his rectorship the other day. There still has idealism and honesty, but THE GIFTS was a dinner at a swanky down-town that the Church is not interpreting hotel, and later a reception where its message in terms to attract them. OF THE there was praise and pretty presents. Youth, they agreed, cannot under­ * * * stand the apparent indifference of HOLY GHOST the members of the Church to such Pacific Synod Meets By the Rev. in Yosemite Valley questions as war, social injustice, Twelve dioceses and missionary poverty, insecurity. Frank H. Hallock, S.T.D. ^ ^ $ districts were represented at the Dr. Hallock believes that if synod of the province of the Pacific, Chaplain Houghton Christians are to guide the meeting in Yosemite Valley, includ­ Holds Forth world in its thinking they must ing several from the district of Hon­ The Rev. Frederick P. Houghton, be sure of their own “sound­ olulu. Bishop Dagwell, in the ser­ chaplain of the 103rd engineers in ness in the Faith as it concerns Pennsylvania’s 28th division during the Holy Spirit of God.” Here mon which opened the synod, said is excellent material for “fol­ that it was time for the Pacific to the world war, was the special low-up” sermons after Whit­ cease looking to the east for support preacher at a service held last Sun­ sunday. $1.75 and for the solution of problems day at St. Paul’s, Chester, Pa., for which Eastern Churchmen cannot un­ the American Legion. Chaplain derstand. He gave figures showing Houghton is the one remaining field AFTER that the centre of Church population secretary of the National Council. * * * CONFIRMATION, is east of Harrisburg, Pa., and said that the Church in the East is Convention of WHAT? “ dense” in its understanding of the Western New York problems of the West. “We have a Bishop Reinheimer of Rochester By the Rt. Rev. varied population, many racial prob­ and Miss Christine Nuno, missionary Thomas F. Davies, D.D. lems, huge distances, and sparsely from Japan, were the speakers at a settled areas. It requires local un­ dinner held in connection with the In reviewing this valuable lit­ tle book, The Episcopal Pulpit says in part: “Are we to allow them (the newly confirmed), as Bishop CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTIONS 'Hobson says in his enthusiastic ‘Commendation’ to ‘slip away B y into the company of semi-at­ tached or absent without leave BISHOP JOHNSON — lost communicants?’ Or shall we spend time integrating them “ I have never seen any book of into the life and activities of the parish, helping them to instruction fo r confirmation form habits of loyal and de­ voted and effective disciple- that is so complete and simple s h i p and Churchmanship?” and well adapted for teaching” . 35 cts.; $3.00 a dozen.

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. June 4, 1936 THE W I TN ESS Page Eleven convention of the diocese of Western sionary work to combat the materi­ New York, held in Buffalo, May 18th alistic theory of life under Commu­ and 19th. Resolutions were passed nism. at the convention endorsing' the Broadening the scope of his talk Emergency Peace Campaign and the to include Capitalism, Mr. Gass stat­ work of the department of Christian ed that that system gives liberty, but social service. Dean Gray of Beth­ not equality or fraternity; that lehem addressed the convention on Communism gives equality but not the Forward Movement and the Rev. freedom or fraternity; and that Almon R. Pepper on the work of the Christianity gives all three. The Church Mission of Help. speaker saw the world living in a new intellectual freedom which needed faith and hope badly and said Women for that great opportunities were await­ Delegates ing the church which could satisfy At the convention of the diocese modern “ spiritual hunger.” Rev. J. of East Carolina, meeting at Eden- Chauncey Linsley of New Haven de­ ton, a proposed change in the consti­ scribed the deep roots of Christianity tution which would allow women to in New England as he spoke on “ The be delegates to the conventions of Church as It Was.” Rev. J. N. Lewis the diocese passed its first reading. of Waterbury spoke on “ The Church In his address Bishop Darst called As It Is.” He pointed out that the upon the Church to take a deter­ church must make use of its rich tra­ mined stand for world peace and for ditions accumulated in the past and justice against the greed and soul- face the future with “ high courage.” destroying vices of this modern age. Bishop Brewster, retired bishop of Mr. John R. Tolar, chairman of the finance committee, reported that for the first time since 1929 the diocese WALLACE GARDNER KANUGA LAKE INN had met all budget requirements. Bishop Coadjutor of New Jersey Six Miles from Hendersonville, * * * North Carolina Conference Center of the Town and Country tion earlier in the day in Christ Exchange Pulpits EPISCOPAL CHURCH Church Cathedral. Eighteen clergy­ Retreat for Women, June 9-11, $5.25. Rogation Sunday was observed in men who have been engaged in active Young People’s Conference, June 13-26. -the diocese of Albany with an ex­ $21.25. Junior Boys and Girls, June 27- service in the diocese for 30 years or July 19th, $19.25. change of pulpits between city and more sat at the head table and were Adult Conference, July ll-25th, $28.25, rural clergymen, with some thirty Clergy Conference, July 13-25, $20.25. introduced by Bishop Budlong. College Students’ Conference, July 11-25, parishes and missions involved. Discussing “ The Church as It Can $28.25. Laymen’s Conference, July 10-11, $4.25. Midgets’ Camp for girls. July 11- Be,” Mr. Gass held that Christianity 25, $17.25. Speaks on Christianity and Communism were antithetical GUEST PERIOD, August lst-Sept. 7th and Communism and said, “ It’s an open question at LARGE LAKE, INN, 39 Cottages PAVILION, GOLF COURSE, TENNIS “ The destinies of men and women the present time as to who has the COURTS, LIVERY STABLES in the future will be controlled by more followers, Christ or Marx.” The Ideal Spot for a Vacation one of two great products of the Jew­ Pointing out that he did not advo­ Also Boys’ Camp in connection with Guest ish race, Karl Marx or Jesus Christ,” cate the church entering into any Period, one-fourth Mile from Inn, Rev. John Gass, rector of the Church political controversy, the speaker August l-29th, $60. of the Incarnation in New York City, nevertheless advocated driving mis- For further information write: declared in Hartford, Conn., last The Rt. Rev. K. G. Finlay, week. Addressing the diocesan din­ Trinity Church Parish House, Columbia, S. C. ner held in connection with the an­ The Province of New England nual convention, Gass said “ social THE CONCORD CONFERENCE consciousness” of the church and ac­ For Young People of College Age 1904 - 1936 St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H. tive missionary work could forestall June 22-July 1 ultimate Communistic control. For programs and information address (Emtfrrrurr for (Clntrrh The Church Club of Connecticut Rev. Malcolm Taylor 1 Joy Street Boston, Mass. Murk was host to delegates to the conven- Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. June 22 fo July 3, 1936 WHAT SUMMER CONFERENCE? 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building after the flood. Promptly Movement drive while the opposition, PARKER’S summoning two men he dispatched led chiefly by Mr. Anson T. McCook, HAIR BALSAM them to help out in the work, and declared that the diocese could not KemovesDandruff-StopsHairFallmg Imparts Color and the result is that this timely aid, afford it. After the final vote Mr. Beauty to Gray and Faded Ha 60c. and $1.00 at Druggists. coupled with the energy of many of McCook declared that he would bring H lscox Chem. Wks. Patchogue, N. Y.j the parishioners, has enabled St. the matter up at the convention Matthew’s to get back on running next year, asserting that some of schedule sooner than expected. the negative votes were not counted. Established 1 855 The new officer, when appointed, Will fir Baumer Candle Conference for Women will receive a salary of $3,200 a at Des Moines year with an allowance of $800 for Co., Inc. Archdeacon Ziegler of Chicago house and $900 for expenses. SYRACUSE, N. Y. conducted an all-day conference for Hi * * women at St. Paul’s, Des Moines, Honorary Degrees Eucharistic Candles and Vesper Lights or ine Iowa last week. He described the at Hobart Highest Quality In all Styles and Sizes. experience which led to determining Bishop Reinheimer of Rochester Your enquiry will receive prompt and careful attention. Address Department this missionary effort in terms of and Mr. Harper Sibley, president of “W”. the United States Chamber of Com­ town and country rather than as BRANCHES: rural missions. An unoccupied area merce, were among those to receive New York - Chicago - Boston he described as any situation where honorary doctorates at Hobart Col­ the various churches are not doing lege, at the commencement last Los Angeles the full task of ministry to body, week. Others to be honored were soul and spirit. The Town and Alan Valentine, president of the Country Council is able to bring all University of Rochester; the Rev. the powers of the various church Henry C. Whedon, rector at Oxford, Wilbur Herbert Burnham agencies to bear in any given situa­ N. Y. ; the Rev. C. C. Bentley, rector tion. The need of the attitude and of Trinity, Toledo, Ohio ; the Rev. policy in the Church was proven by A. C. Coburn, headmaster of Woos­ Designer and Master the fact that the majority of the peo­ ter School, and Harold T. Lowe, Craftsman ple present, all members of urban superintendent of schools at New­ parishes, had at one time been min­ port, R. I. The central figure during istered to by mission churches and the commencement was the Rev. Stained and Leaded Glass rural ministry. Murray Bartlett, the retiring presi­ Hi * * dent, who is to be succeeded in the Canadian Day fall by William A. Eddy, who is to Studios 1126 Bcylston Street at Detroit Cathedral be formally inaugurated October Boston, Massachusetts The annual Canadian Empire Day 2nd. A luncheon was given in honor was held at St. Paul’s Cathedral, De­ of Dr. Bartlett at which various troit, on May 24th, with Archbishop Owen of Toronto, Primate of the ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. Canadian Church, as preacher. The 147 E. 47th St., New York service was conducted by Dean CHURCH VESTMENTS ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY O’Ferrall and was attended by a Conferences with reference to the adornment number of British patriotic societies. of Churches. Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 Send for New Bulletin of Episcopal and Connecticut Has Anglican Books. Just issued. Exciting Convention Correspondence and Want Lists Invited. Stained Class Windows and Mosaics The convention of the diocese of Please mention “The Witness” Connecticut, meeting in Hartford, SCHULTE’S BOOK STORE & 82 Fourth Ave. New York City Franz Mayer of Munich, May 19th and 20th, voted to create Inc. the new office of archdeacon by a vote of 118 to 114 after a prolonged 1616 Woolworth Building and hard-fought controversy. Bishop New York, N. Y. Budlong had indicated in his address that he favored the creation of either an archdeacon or a suffragan bishop. Those favoring the resolu­ fistablisheò • 1857 tion declared that the new office ölte J. anô R.Imntlj Studios would add impetus to the Forward Rome • Offire • ané *C(ra£ tahops üenaflç, ï l J. Ætained and Leaded * Glass • in • tht best* traditions • of* (Christian-Hr 1 ^ RGEISSLERTNCC fflosaics Interior peroration » ffiurals 450 SIXTH AVE NEAR 10 «h ST. NEW YORK Ghurtfi Furnishings IN CARVED WOOD AND ED H i Crayonexing is fascinating! MARBLE-BRASS SILVER (“ 11“ ) Write for information and designs for pro­ FABRICS * WINDOWS \J jects for gifts, school, home or sale.

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speakers praised him as an outstand­ ing educator. Services of Leading Churches Welsh Boy Soprano The Cathedral of St. John Cathedral of the Incarnation Is Confirmed the Divine Garden City, N. Y. Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean Dew Jones, thirteen year old boy Cathedral Heights Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com­ soprano from Wales, now touring New York City munion. 9 :30 A.M. Junior Congregation. Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11:00 A.M. this country, was baptized last Sat­ 9:30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning urday by the Rev. Herbert L. Miller, Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser­ Prayer and Sermon. 4 :00 P.M. Even­ mon. 4. Evening Prayer and Sermon. song and Address. rector at Champaign, Illinois, and Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion ion Daily services in the Chapel. Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10). 9;30, Morn­ was confirmed the next day by ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer (choral). Bishop White of Springfield. Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4 :30. Cathedral Church of St. John Market St. and Concord Ave. Church of St. Mary the Virgin Wilmington, Del. Convention of The Very Rev. Hiram R. Bennett, Dean New York Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M., 7:48 Long Island 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. P.M. Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Weekdays: 10 A.M. and as announced. The Convention of Long Island Sunday Masses, 7, 9, 11 (Sung Mass). met at Garden City on May 26th, Week-day Masses, 7, 8 (Thurs., 7, 8, 9:30). Trinity Church, New York and was unique in that for the first Broadway and Wall St. time the Hare single transferable Grace Church, New York Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. ballot was used in elections, and Rev. W . Russi'll Bowie, D.D. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. Broadway at 10th St. because of the time saved the con­ Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. St. Paul’s Cathedral vention finished its business in one Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Buffalo, New York day. The method is to be explained urdays. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Weekdays: 8, 12:05. in the diocesan journal and also a Thursdays and Holy Days. Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy special leaflet is to be prepared ex­ Days: 10:30 A.M. The Heavenly Rest and Beloved plaining it. The business of the Disciple, New York Christ Church Cathedral convention was entirely routine. Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Hartford, Conn. Cor. Main and Church Streets ^ ^ $ Fifth Aye. and Ninetieth St. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, lliOO a.m .; 7:39 Oxford Group Sunday School 9 :30 a. m .; Morning Service and Sermon. 11 a. m .; Musical p.m. Holds Meeting Vespers 4 p. m. Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11:00 a.m. The Oxford Group (Buchmanites) munion at 11 a, m. Holy Communion. are holding an international house The Incarnation St. Mark’s party, May 29-June 8, at Stock- San Antonio, Texas bridge, Massachusetts. Madison Avenue and 35th Street Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry, Rector Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector 7 :80 A.M.—Holy Communion (8 :00, Ad­ Sundays : 8, 10, and 11 A.M. vent to Easter). The Children 11:00 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Ser­ mon. Get Along St. Bartholomew’s Church 7:30 P.M.—Evening Service. Park Avenue and 51st Street 10:00 A.M.—Holy Communion on Fri­ Thirty-five children, ages 6-16, Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector days. some of Japanese parentage and 8 A.M., Holy Communion. 11 A. M., Morning Service and Sermon. •some of American parentage, but all Junior Congregation, 9 :30 and 11 A.M. St. Michael and All Angels working and playing together with­ Holy Comm., Thurs. and Saints’ Days, St. Paul and 20th St., Baltimore, Md. 10:30 A.M. Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. out any race distinction, make up Rev. H. P. Knudsen, B.D. the Church school, with five teachers, St. James’ Church, New York Rev. R. C. Kell, M.A., B.D. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. 8*00 :at Emmanuel Mission, Terminous, Madison Avenue and 71st Street P.M. California, a mission of St. John’s The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Week Days — Holy Eucharist—Mon. 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. Wed. Sat.: 10:00 A.M. Tues. Thurs. F ri.: Church, Lodi, in the district of San 9:30 A.M.— Children’s Service and 7:00 A.M. Joaquin. Their annual Church School Church School. Morning Prayer: 9 :00 A.M. Daily 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. Evening Prayer: 5 :15 P.M. Daily. Offering this year amounted to 8 P.M.—Choral Evensong and Sermon. $32.20, designated, as it was last Thursday and Holy Days: 12 M. Holy Communion. Christ Church year, for St. Luke’s Hospital, Tokyo. Greenwich, Connecticut The offering increased 40 per cent St. Thomas Church Reverend Albert J. M. Wilson, Rector Fifth Avenue and 53d Street Sundays: 8 :00 a. m., Holy Communion ; over last year’s. Three teachers New York 9 :15 a.m., Church School; 11:00 a. m.. and three children come more than Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Morning Prayer and Sermon, (Holy Com­ twenty miles to this mission. Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and munion and Sermon, first Sundays) ; 7 :89 4 P.M. p.m., Evening Prayer and Address. Daily Services: 8:30 A.M., Holy Com­ Tuesday, Fridays, and Holy Days, munion. 10:00 a. m. Building a Church Noonday Service, 12:05 to 12:35. for the Future Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. All Saints Church A conference of people between 26th Street and Dewey Avenue Christ Church Parish Omaha, Nebraska the ages of 25 and 40, belonging in Detroit and Grosse Pointe Rector, The Rev. Frederick W. Clayton some instances to various denomina­ Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector Services, Sundays, Holy Communion, Rev. J. Francis Sant, Vicar 8 a. m. and 11 a. m. First Sunday in tions and in others to political or Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at month. other groupings, has recently met at Rivard Morning Prayer and Church School, Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard 11 a. m. Swanwick, England, to discuss “ The Services: 8:00, 9:45, 11:00, 7:30 Sun­ Holy Communion, Wednesday and Holy Church of the Future.” Discussions days. Days, 10 a. m. Saints’ Days : 10:30. took place covering the function of CHURCH SERVICE NOTICES the Church today; the content and Grace Church Why not list the services o f your church method of evangelism and the essen­ Sandusky, Ohio on this page? We offer very special tial need for unity. It was decided Rev. Donald Wonders, D.D., Rector rates for notices that run three or six months or a year. Details on applica­ to form groups all over the country, Sunday Services tion. 8 A. M.—Holy Communion. The Witness composed as interdenominationally 9:15— Church School. as possible and with provision for 10 :30—Morning Service. 6140 Cottage Grove Ave. Chicago non-Christians who are willing to co-

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William H. Owen, Jr., of New or research. In this way it is hoped ing held this week at Seabury-West­ York and the Rev. Paul O. Yaga- that a Church will evolve which will ern Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. mata of Central Theological College, display to the world a new unity There is to be an alumni banquet on Tokyo, received honorary degrees at based on common work, witness and the 4th, with the Rev. Leon E. Mor­ the General Seminary at its com­ worship. ris of Colorado; the Rev. R. K. John­ mencement last week. son, president of the alumni; Dean Grant; Bishop McElwain and Bishop Convention of Bishop Bratton Stewart as speakers. The com­ Rhode Island Endorses Cooperative Farm mencement program is the following The convention of the diocese of The following letter has been re­ Rhode Island opened on the evening day. ceived by the executive secretary of of May 18th when Bishop Perry de­ the Church League for Industrial De­ Alfred Newbery livered his annual address. He spoke mocracy from the Rev. Sam Frank­ to Be Honored against “ organized gambling on a lin, manager of the Delta Coopera­ colossal scale,” and later the con­ The Rev. Alfred Newbery is to tive Farm in Mississippi: “ An vention went on record as opposing be honored on June 12th, the occa­ emergency trip into Arkansas has de­ the use of gambling devices for sion being the tenth anniversary of layed me a bit in answering your raising funds for churches. The his rectorship at the Atonement, kind letter with its generous contri­ convention voted for a committee to Chicago. A parish party has been bution for the work we are attempt­ put into effect the proposed plan for planned. Lenten preaching which provides a ing. We have been at the peak of school for the clergy after which Accepts Election our need this month and your aid they visit all the parishes and mis­ to Quincy could never have been more timely. sions to deliver systematically a se­ The Rev. William L. Essex, rector It is an inspiration to us on the farm ries of addresses. By action of the at Peoria, Illinois, recently elected to know that people of wide vision convention candidates for the min­ bishop of the diocese of Quincy, has believe in us even though they have istry henceforth must pass both announced his acceptance. not seen what we are doing. If we their diaconate and priesthood exam­ H* H* can secure enough to supply feed, inations before they are ordained Convention in deacons, and they are to ask the Vermont General Convention to pass such Bishop Vedder Van Dyck delivered Charles jJ>C(onnick legislation for the whole Church. his first message as Bishop of Ver­ Designer and (HTorker The convention also voted to ask mont at the diocesan convention held parishes to have weekly prayers for at the Good Shepherd, Barre, May in Stained Ölass international peace and goodwill. 12-13. His message was one of nine Parcourt Street-Boston * * * thanks to the diocese for cooperation Convention of Southwestern Virginia Condemnation of the increasing in­ Without Cost to You! temperance, the “ shameless meth­ Through exercising our self-defray­ ods of money, raising for God’s ing plan, you may obtain a dupli­ work,” improper Sunday activities, cating machine or beautiful neo- indecent movies and literature, were nized church bulletin board with highlights in the convention address equipment and church bulletin ser­ of Bishop Jett, delivered May 19th vice. at the opening of the convention of We carry a complete line of fine the diocese of Southwestern Vir­ duplicating machines, stencils, ink, ginia, held at Roanoke. There was a correction fluid, roller cleaner, trac­ missionary mass meeting addressed ing scopes, etc. Send for information, free cir­ culars, and price lists. W elcom e .... EPISCOPALIANS to the PRINCE GEORGE HOTEL 14 East 28th St., New York ALBURN M. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Sixteen THE W I TN ESS June 4, 1936 fuel and other supplies necessary on The corn and hay that are left, he uses for and children have to go into the fields. They feed and domestic purposes generally. That simply have to do it, or starvation is the the farm until the crop is made I am means he has six bales of cotton to sell. At result. sure we shall have a great deal to twelve cents a pound, which the government A two-horse farm contains anywhere from guaranteed this week, he gets $60 a bale, or forty to eighty acres, depending on many show for our labors. I had a delight­ $360 cash for his entire year’s work. That things. The landlord not only furnishes the ful talk with Bishop Bratton of Mis­ looks bad enough, but when one realizes that land, but a dwelling house, a barn and other out of this $360 he must buy his fertilizer, necessary buildings. On the basis of the pres­ sissippi a short time ago. He is one of much of his seed, his farming equipment and ent yield and prices, the value of his share our strong friends and has just con­ his mules or horses as he needs them, the of the crop is $240 a year. That is not much fact is apparent that very little indeed is yield on his investment. When taxes are paid sented to serve on a committee of left the producer for his personal and family there is practically nothing left for repairs, sponsors for this state. needs. It is true that most of his food is even if he is to keep only 3% as his profit. raised on his farm, but certain items must The depreciation on his farm and houses “ We are going ahead in faith that be bought, and clothes are no longer made amounts to more than that. we shall be able to carry our enter­ on the farm. Under the present set-up, share-cropping is prise through this first critical year. To make the situation even worse, one an impossible situation. Nothing but pov­ man cannot run a two-horse crop and pro­ erty can result. Until some radical change So far things have gone better than duce the amount of cotton, corn and hay that is made we can look only for the distress­ we dared to hope. Yesterday in Ar­ I have mentioned. Especially during the plant­ ing conditions which are the portion of the ing and harvesting time, he has to have help. cotton raisers in the south The system is kansas I saw men who had been Obviously he has no money to pay for such entirely wrong, but the men who engage in throwii into a kind of concentration help and the enforced result is that his wife it are a pretty good lot. camp because of union membership by a despotic deputy sheriff whose will is law in the locality and who is reported to have killed nine people himself. We picked up one man who had been discharged from the farm on which he worked because of union membership and who begged us to take him to the cooperative. I tried Property and Protection to talk with the widow of a Negro who was shot in cold blood about two months ago, presumably because he was a defense witness in a murder trial of some other Negroes, and I Your life insurance is a very im­ was ordered off the plantation on pain of being shot. It is a horribly portant part of your estate ; it is valu­ bad system but we believe we are making a constructive attack on it. able property. The safety and well­ Please give my sincerest thanks to all being of your family may rest upon members of the CLID and readers of T he W itness who have so generous­ it, and your own old age security may ly helped us.’ * * * depend upon it. Bishop Hobson at Columbus LOW COST LIFE AND RETIREMENT Bishop Hobson of Southern Ohio addressed a large Sunday School INSURANCE AND LIFE rally last Sunday at Trinity Church, Columbus. He also confirmed classes ANNUITIES at St. Paul’s, St. Philip’s and at St. Stephen’s. are available to the clergy, lay offi­

SECOND THOUGHTS cials and active layworkers of the (Continued from page 2) Protestant Episcopal Church, and to drawn). This limits his acreage to small numbers. members of their immediate families. Ownership o f land. Land owners dp not as a rule, live on their farms, and most of them do not give personal supervision. All too many farms are owned by business and professional men living in town, who know little about farming and only expect to get their share of the crop. They know and care little about keeping up the farms and farm For information write to the buildings. The tenants, on the other hand, are not vitally interested, as the property is not theirs, and if it runs down, they can move. The result is that literally millions of acres have been so badly washed that they are permanently retired from production. Mil­ lions of other acres cannot produce, even under advanced methods of farming, the crops they naturally produced a generation Church Life Insurance Corporation ago. If the actual farmers, the producers, owned their farms, all this would be (A subsidiary of The Church Pension Fund) stopped. Price of farm produce. Production and price go along together. At the present price of farm products, a large yield per acre is essential. But the low yield, coupled with prices mean but one thing,—little profit to the owner and dire poverty for the producer. 20 Exchange Place, New York The typical share-cropper, running a two- horse farm on average land will produce 8 bales of cotton, 240 bushels of corn and 8 tons of hay. He pays a fourth of his cotton and a third of his corn and hay for rent.

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