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THE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE

CROMEY, E. WARREN, formerly rector of St. Michael’s, Brooklyn, N. Y., is now the ©Ije (Better al tEfjccrlagtcal rector of Emmanuel, Great River, N. Y. K e m p e r t n n ^em m arg DERR, MORRIS W., student counselor at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., has KENOSHA, WISCONSIN Three - year undergraduate been appointed locum tenens of Trinity, Episcopal Boarding and Day School. course of prescribed and elective Renovo, Pa. DICUS, JEROME E., Phaenix Golden Gate Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual study. Mission, Arizona, was ordained deacon on opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu January 16th by Bishop Mitchell. Complete sports program. Junior GRATIOT, DONALD H., rector of St. James’, School. Accredited. Address: ates, offering larger opportunity Albion, Michigan, was married on January for specification. 8th to Miss Eleanor Stockwell of Pontiac, SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced Michigan. Box W.T. HINES, JOHN E., rector of St. Paul’s. Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. Augusta, Ga., assisted by the Rev. Lawrence and D.Th. Fenwick, rector of the Good Shepherd, have taken charge of St. Mary’s, Augusta, a con ADDRESS gregation of Colored people. CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL HUBBARD, JAMES DeWOLF', Saranac Lake, New York City THE DEAN N. Y., has accepted appointment as curate A boarding school for the forty boys of at Trinity, New Haven, Connecticut. the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the Chelsea Square New York City JONES, CECIL, Cleveland, Miss., became the Divine. Careful musical training and daily rector of St. Paul’s, Meridan, Miss., on singing at the cathedral services. Small For Catalogue Address the Dean January 1st. classes mean individual attention and high KEICHER, RUDOLPH F„ formerly vicar of standards. The School has its own building St. Paul’s, Columbus, Indiana, is now the and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.00 vicar of St. John’s, Bedford, Indiana. per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice £piscopal Theological School KOLP, JOHN F., was recently installed rec test and scholarship examination. Address tor of Christ Church, Lonsdale, R. I. The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School. Cathe CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS dral Heights, New York City. LIEF, RICHARD, formerly on the staff of St. Affiliated with Harvard University offers George’s, New York City, is now the head unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as o f city mission work in Providence, R. I. philosophy, psychology, history, sociology, etc. NAU, CARL W., oldest priest in terms of service in the diocese of Kansas, celebrated HOLDERNESS For Catalogue Address the Dean the 17th anniversary of his rectorship of St. Paul’s, Kansas City, Kansas, on Janu In the White Mountains. College Preparatory ary 1st. and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For The Protestant Episcopal NOEL, E. R., diocese of New Jersey, is the boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 200 temporary chaplain at Margaret Hall, acres of woods. New fireproof building. In Theological Seminary in Virginia Church school for girls in the diocese of dividual attention. Home atmosphere. For Catalogue and other information Lexington. Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector address the Dean PARDUE, AUSTIN, rector of Gethsemane, Minneapolis, Minnesota, has accepted a call Box W Plymouth, N. h REV. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. to be the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Theological Seminary Alexandria, Va. Buffalo, N. Y. PARKER, WILLIS J., All Saints, Millington, N. J., is now vicar of St. Mary the Vir gin’s, Ridgefield Park, N. J. Berkeley PENDERGAST, GEORGE H., in charge of the Ifall Epiphany, Flagstaff, Arizona, was ordained An Episcopal girls’ school of fine old Divinity School priest on December 19th by Bishop Mitchell. traditions and high standards in the beau New Haven, Connecticut POWELL, FREDERICK C., St. John the tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepara Affiliated with Yale University Evangelist, Boston, and at one time superior tory, general courses, and secretarial Address DEAN W. P. LADD of the Cowley Fathers, died on January 13th courses. Two years beyond high school. in Boston. He was 73 years of age. Music, art, expression. Graduates success 86 Sachem Street TAYLOR, OSCAR CLINTON, recently in ful in college. Well-equipped buildings. charge of St. Matthew’s, Alliance, Nebraska, New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Rid TRINITY COLLEGE has been elected canon sacrist of the Cathc* ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T. dral of All Saints, Albany, assuming his | Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. Hartford, Conn. duties on January 24th. WILL, THEODORE S., former rector of St. Offers a general cultural education, with John’s, Hampton, Virginia, has accepted special emphasis on the Classics, Modern the rectorship of All Saints. 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T he Law of the Universe B y BISHOP JOHNSON EN can have faith in science or religion only ates a disturbance in my sciatic nerve. I speak feeling M when they are convinced that they live in a uni ly. To say that the cell if it were conscious would have verse in which there is law and order. These laws are the right to infect other members would disrupt the not created by man, he merely discovers them. To in whole fabric of the body. timate that law and order is the result of chance and In creating man has the Creator forgotten to impose not the product of a creative intelligence does violence a law upon each conscious person which he must ob to human reason. As well attribute the parts of a serve if he is to participate with other persons in form camera to chance as to assert that the human eye is the ing a social order ? And is it reasonable to suppose that result of a fortuitous concourse of atoms. As Lord here too, law is something which men must discern, Balfour intimates it is rather absurd to believe that and which they do not create? Is it not true that if a certain neurons assembling themselves together in a nation refuse to reverence law, chaos will result, and also that when a group of rebels revolt against the ex non-intelligent fashion should eventually produce the isting law, they invariably impose a law of their own mind of man which in turn should analyze the non- upon the people. It is evident that we must have some intelligent forces that produced it. law governing people; the question is, what law? The result of ignoring law is to invoke chaos. If one who despises law works in a laboratory he will produce T S T H E R E a law inherent in man’s creation, as in the an explosion which will blow up the laboratory. We -®- chemical world, the ignoring of which inevitably cre would regard an anarchist in a laboratory as a danger ates disaster ? Or may man create a law which he may ous animal even if he was sincere in his rejection of law. impose upon other men in an arbitrary fashion? I be If one ignores law in the wiring of his house, he will lieve that in creating society God has given us moral have a conflagration instead of illumination. It was nec imperatives and that man’s business is to discern them essary that man should discern law before he could and not to create them. “ Thou shalt not steal” is an deal safely with electrons. instance in point. Regardless of who discovered that • The same is true of agriculture. It would be but law, it is imperative that any successful government wasted labor to have a garden without observing the must respect it. The failure to obey this law has un laws that govern plants. It is a fatal thing to ignore the questionably produced the world’s depression and dis laws of hygiene. W e all realize this, but when we enter content. the sphere of human relations which we call society, But men have insisted either that God is a tyrant who then men are prone to argue that there are no binding predestinates human actions, or He is an anarchist who laws of a moral character. If there is a law governing is indifferent to them. Whereas God pursues the same the planets, the seasons, the elements, it is reasonable to policy in the spiritual kingdom which He has already assume that there is a law governing man in his social manifested in the natural world. He gives the ele relations, as well as in his personal character. It is only ments which go to make a righteous society and calls us when we enter the sphere of human conduct that man to be partners with Him in discovering truth and in claims the right to create laws instead of seeking to utilizing it. discover them. “I am a law unto myself” is the proud After all there are but two working creeds which de assertion of the creature who is an individualist. .“What termine men’s direction and their objectives. The one I think is right because I think it.” This assumes that is, “ Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die” ; the we are isolated cells in society, but experience tells other is, “ Let us work and study and pray for tomor that we are not. The human body is composed of cells row we shall live.” The first is the creed of both capi but the toxic condition of one cell affects all the talism and communism, the second that of the Christian rest. I may have an infection in my tooth which cre Church. Regardless of how men live up to their creeds,

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS January 20, 1938 these are the two roads for travel and we make our the kind of people who love justice and mercy. Every decisions at the fork of the ways. thing else is secondary to this. And if religion fails to Christianity and Communism have three basic differ create reverence for law there is no other agency to ences : They differ in the motive that animates their dis replace it. To educate the mind and to ignore the con ciples. The one believes in a God who made and loves science will not diminish criminal practices as has been u s; the other is a mechanistic process of life. They dif demonstrated in the United States, where the flare for fer in their objectives : One believes in a future life as education has about kept pace with the increase in crime. man’s ultimate destiny, the other believes that his career This is the second of a series of articles on “ What I Believe and ends in the cemetery. They differ in their methods: Why.” The series is to run for an indefinite period. one believes that respect for law is the only force which can produce universal brotherhood; the other invokes A n Exarch from brute force as the means to blessedness. B y The responsibility rests upon each one of us to decide W. BERTRAM STEVENS which path he will follow and to which cause he will de MOUTHFUL” is probably the way irreverent vote himself. It is most reprehensible to be indifferent A youth would describe the title of the Greek Arch to the situation. Above all it is futile to whine about bishop Germanos who was one of the joint presidents communism if we ourselves act as though there were no of the Oxford Conference on Life and W ork and a God to worship and no other destiny for man than ma vice-president at Edinburgh. His full title is “Arch terial comforts. bishop of Thyateira and Metropolitan, Exarch of West It is inconceivable that an ordered universe should ern and Northern Europe and Apokrisiarios of the end in chaos, and that there should be no unifying prin Oecumenical Patriarch to the Archbishop of Canter ciple for international peace, or no moral code binding bury.” His actual see is in London, and it seems slight upon us in our social problems. ly ironic that an archbishop with a titular see as eu The fact that He did not write these laws on the phonious as “Thyateira” should live in a district with firmament in order that you might read and obey them the plebian name of Bayswater. In spite of the sonor is consistent with the method employed in all creation. ousness of his title the archbishop is a kindly, simple For some sufficient reason, “Verily thou art a God who man, dressed usually in ordinary clerical attire with hidest thyself.” Wisdom has always been concealed neatly trimmed beard. He was born in 1872 in East from the superficial and the inert. ern Thrace and received his education in Greece, in This world in which we live is not the product of several German universities, and at Lausanne. It was God’s gifts alone but the combined result of God’s gifts probably at Halle and Leipzig that he gained his knowl plus man’s industry. He called us to be partners in edge of German and German theology that has made creating a world and so gave zest to our endeavors. He him so useful in the ecumenical movement. He served gave man the j ungle and man had the privilege of bring as a teacher of divinity in his native land until 1922 ing it to its present state of cultivation. The scientist when he was given his present post which involves the and the artist alike have discovered law, they have not care of all the Greek Orthodox communities in W est created it. ern and Northern Europe. 1 remember him at the last The soul is very much like the soil. It is capable of Lambeth Conference in 1930. He was most helpful in a certain fertility and may produce either wheat or the conferences held between Orthodox and Anglican weeds, depending upon the observance of certain laws representatives at the conference itself and in the fol which may not be broken with impunity. Satisfactory lowing year. He is successful as a kind of liason officer results are obtained in either the soul or the soil when for the Orthodox Church and he is in touch not only men discover and obey the laws that are inherent in with the Anglican Church but also with the Swedish their constitution. If the soil is hard or shallow or Lutheran Church and the European Old Catholics. A rank, one may not expect a fruitful harvest. part of his mission is to interpret western Christianity But law we must have in either case. The choice is to his own people. When, for example, the revision between law to be discovered as God reveals it, or to of the English Book of Common Prayer was pro be invented and imposed by a group of self constituted posed, he wrote extensively concerning it. In his books law makers who claim the attributes of unfallible wis he has sought to explain the Faith and Order Move dom which are usually' ascribed to God. In this im ment, the Oxford Movement and other tendencies that position of law they claim the right and the power to have a bearing on the relationship between Anglicanism orient science and art as well as religion to their arbi and Orthodoxy. trary assumptions. The Orthodox representatives at the World Confer One must distinguish between the validity of law and ences were an interesting group. Many of them were the nature of its enforcement. The law is not invalid laymen. It was a surprise to me to learn that some of if it is badly administered. No matter how just the their most distinguished theological professors are lay law, it would be futile in Sodom and Gomorrha. There men, and by the way, one of the high points of worship must be a reverence for law on the part of the individ at the Oxford Conference was Orthodox vespers par ual if the same is to be wisely administered. ticipated in by all the Orthodox representatives, and the This is the primary purpose of religion— to produce choir from the Russian Theological Academy in Paris.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 20, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Five T he Scapegoat Attitude By THEODORE R. LUDLOW Suffragan Bishop of Newark O O many Americans think of the scapegoat cere tion is pointed out to them and they are given a sense Tmony of Leviticus as a naive old Hebrew custom of fellowship in a common task. Can leadership and belonging to antiquity. A s a matter of fact, it is still individual desire be brought together? Yes, but the with us. Americans suggested the idea of a League of present short circuits will first have to be repaired. Nations and then threw Mr. Wilson out of office for Too many persons in positions of coordinate leadership trying to realize, it. W e voted for Mr. Hoover and are frustrating the desire of the people to be Kingdom prosperity on a landslide scale and then slid him out builders. in the same way when he failed to produce the material This does not mean to imply that bishops, rectors, prosperity we desired. W e voted prohibition in with vestrymen and organization leaders are necessarily in a whoop and threw it out with whoopee. W e must competent or reactionary. They themselves are victims prefer a scapegoat. of institutional faults which must be corrected before This practice is not confined to our political life. We the whole Church can be geared to its whole task. W e elected Bishop Murray to be our Presiding Bishop and wish to indicate two or three of these institutional asked him to coordinate the scattered elements of our faults. national Church life, but we refrained from giving him The General Convention expressed the deliberate a clear grant of power or from even clearly defining his judgment of the whole Church when it declared that the position. When he gave his life in an attempt to do the Presiding Bishop must retire on the first of January impossible we asked a sick man to take up the burden. next succeeding the General Convention after his sixty- When he, too, succumbed, we tinkered with dual execu eighth birthday. W hy? Because he then will become tives and National Council authority. When that didn’t incompetent or too old for active service in the Church ? work, we criticized “ 281” . W e had to have a scape Not at all, but because the Church is a living organism goat ! and new blood must be continuously provided in head Now we have elected Bishop Tucker and his election and branches. Leadership is trained by the responsi has met with the wholehearted approval of the Church. bility of leadership and not by watching some one else We have enlarged the powers of the Presiding Bishop, do it, no matter how competent. Regularized replace fixed his term of office and, with a sigh of satisfaction, ment means continuous and progressive life. Uncer we are settling back into our ordinary ways and ex tain and spasmodic replacement mean fainting spells pecting him to revitalize the work of the Church. No and the threat of death. Because this is profoundly miracles will be forthcoming. To state this fact is true, and not necessarily because of any loss of power no criticism of Bishop Tucker. He is facing much the in themselves, all bishops should feel morally obligated same situation in the whole Church which his predeces to follow the age rule laid down by the whole Church sors faced. Too many people are expecting him to for the Presiding Bishop. translate into action the longings of their hearts without What is true of bishops is equally true of rectors. first examining the channels through which their indi While every individual is necessary to the carrying out vidual longings must be coordinated before becoming of God’s plan, no individual is indispensable in the the corporate energy which can make the Presiding particular position which he happens tO' hold at any Bishop’s leadership effective. given moment. People may try to flatter us into believ Under the plan of organization provided at Cincin ing otherwise, but death proves the vanity of their nati, the new Presiding Bishop may change both the words. The Body of Christ is a living organism and methods and the personnel utilized in accomplishing the moves on without any one of us. But it would move work of the National Council. It is to be expected more effectively if we more readily recognized the that Bishop Tucker, after consultation, will avail him necessity of constantly training new leadership and of self of these powers. This is a distinct gain. New infusing new blood. blood has been infused into the membership of the H E R E is no logical reason, however, why the National Council itself. Another gain. Then what? T Church should have to' wait until the clergy reach The bulk of the Church remains as it was. Bishop sixty-eight to profit by new blood and leadership. The Tucker will face the same bishops that his predecessor waste of leadership involved in the present method of faced. He will face the same rectors. He will face utilizing the abilities of our clergy is criminal. The the same vestrymen and organization leaders. A t the man who knows a friend of a friend “in the right place” top a scholar, a missionary statesman and a proven generally gets the job. The man who unselfishly tackles leader of people. A t the bottom a conglomeration of a difficult job because it needs to be done is too many struggling Christiafis, conscious of the. new social, times allowed to continue therein indefinitely. Such economic, political and international forces coming a man has initiative, courage and unselfishness. In a to birth around them. The majority of these Christians day of tremendous transition those virtues are sorely are willing to work and to sacrifice that these forces needed throughout the whole Church and not in isolated may move in a Christian direction, provided that direc spots. No man of that type wants to be promoted,

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS January 20, 1938 but the Church should want to promote him to larger responsibility. It has no regular and systematic method Talking It Over of doing so. Some individual bishops attempt to utilize By the men within their jurisdiction on the basis of talents WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD and proven ability. But they are limited by the number W O A N D T W O does not always make four these of men in their own jurisdiction and sometimes by the days. My morning paper has two front page charge of dictatorship. T Ten. years ago the commission on the ministry sug stories. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Danielson of Brooklyn gested to the General Convention in Washington a plan called upon the police to ask them to find sympathetic for remedying the situation. But those were boom persons who would provide a burial for Barbara, their days and such a plan faced an obstacle in the make up three month old daughter. She died of starvation in of our General Convention. The clergymen and lay a cold-water flat the day before, after the mother had men who are elected to General Convention are usually been refused relief. Investigation revealed that the not the type of men who feel the isolation of the difficult father, a house painter, had been out of work for sev spots on the Church’s frontier. Moreover, the com eral months. They applied for relief eighteen days ago mission was unfortunate in calling its plan, “ Placement and received $13.66 to feed and clothe themselves and of the Clergy.” Instantly, men scented regimentation, Barbara. The money ran out (probably because the loss, of liberty and whatnot in the use of the word “place mother was not a good housewife and did not manage ment,” and, many times without reading the report, economically) so she went Monday morning to ask for objected to its proposals. The commission might have more, while the father was pounding the streets seeking received a better hearing if instead of “placement” it work. While they were gone the baby died. The as had used some such phrase as “ strategic utilization.” sistant medical examiner called and declared that the Since 1928 the House of Bishops has had a committee child died of starvation.- When the relief station to continue the study of this matter. It is still con learned of th.e tragedy they immediately sent the family tinuing. Some day the Church must seriously face this milk, bacon, bread and butter. But Papa and Mama had defect which hinders its corporate effectiveness. to drink the milk because Barbara no longer needed it. Next to the rector, the progress or stagnation of a parish is determined by the forward looking character T N T H E SA M E P A P E R was the story of a confer- of the vestrymen and of the leaders of organizations. ■1. ence in Washington, led by Secretary of Agriculture Too much of the power of the Church is short circuited Wallace, at which it was agreed that the wheat supplies right here. Too many vestrymen and leaders are handi of the country would be kept at all times to the average capped by three limitations: narrowness of vision, a annual domestic consumption and exports for the last feeling that what has been is best, and a possessive ten years, plus a reserve of fifteen per cent. To allow attitude toward the office they hold. These attitudes more to be grown, according to these experts, would make them, many times unconsciously, the scape “be dangerous to domestic price levels.” There you goats for their fellow parishioners’ lack of coopera have the issue: domestic price levels vs. Barbara Dan tion. A definite policy of democratic elections actually ielson. Take your choice. shared in by all, and rotation in office after a set term or terms would increase the number of those who under T IS SW E L L , I think, that so many of the clergy stood the purpose and task of the Church because they Iget steamed up over persecutions in Hitler’s Germany had shared in the responsibility of accomplishing them. and preach sermons on the heroism of Martin Niemoel- Such a method would also provide for the refreshment ler. But it wrould be even better if a few of them would of initiative through the regular infusion of new blood follow the example of this German preacher in dealing and prevent the intrusion of possessiveness. The dif with situations nearer at hand. A reporter from the fusion of knowledge gained from an ever widening cir conservative New York Herald-Tribune went to Jer cle of shared responsibility would help our people to sey City the other day to find out what was happening, feel that they are really a part of a great fellowship but he couldn’t find a single person who dared to engaged in a common task and not just harried finan talk. “You know what might happen to a guy if he cial supporters of a worthy but distant enterprise. talks out of turn in this town,” was the general re Of course, improving the mechanism of our institu sponse to his questions. One man, a retired army offi tional life will not bring in the Kingdom of God. The cer, said, “This place is worse than any town in Ger right spirit must animate that mechanism. And that many. Everyone is afraid to talk and you can’t blame is a responsibility which rests upon you and me. W e them. It is too much of a risk and if they don’t talk may well begin this year with an honest self-examina they have nothing to lose.” The reporter then called tion. Who or what is my particular scapegoat which on a number of the clergy, with each one explaining that keeps me from giving wholehearted service to my Mas they did not care to express themselves on the subject ter? Am I furnishing some one else with a scapegoat of repression in Jersey City where Mayor Hague rules by judging 'the Church’s work from the standpoint of supreme. One distinguished woman, a member of a my desires, my convenience, my comfort? By my secret organization called the Woman’s League against stubborn refusal to recognize and to follow a still-reveal- Communism, expressed delight with all that her mayor ‘ ing Christ ? By my air of indispensability to my present is doing in repressing free discussion and all meetings position? where anything is said with which he disagrees. But

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 20, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Seven before the interview was over she did enter a mild com suggests a second thing which is needed. That is the plaint because Mayor Hague, vice president of the na need for more unity or for clearing up the things which tional Democratic Committee, had made it impossible are fundamental. The need is for a united front among for her to rent a hall for a Landon headquarters during the Christian religious forces. No one can fail to be the last presidential election. People will discover, per aware of the dangers we are in by our unhappy divisions haps too late, that suppressing the rights of any group and the impossibility of the Church speaking with a means eventually the loss of their own. Christians in clear united voice on the issues of the day. Germany have found that out. They stood quietly by A layman with a non-Church background surprised while Hitler and his gangsters liquidated the Jews. me, by saying he thought one of the most unfortunate With that job out of the way the Nazi are now busy do things which ever happened was the Reformation. The ing the same thing to the Christians, both Protestant reason he gave for his position was the divisions and and Catholic. People with divergent political and eco disunity caused by the Reformation. With a united nomic opinions should set aside their differences and front we who call ourselves Christians can be strong present a united front to preserve democracy and liberty. and go forward; divided we are weak and ineffectual. H E R E IS R E B E L L IO N in England. The bell One way in which we can work to overcome present T ringers in Dorsetshire have been ousted by “canned conditions might be similar to the way tried in England chimes” played on a phonograph record and amplified and embodied in the series of addresses over the B BC with loudspeakers. It all started on Christmas when entitled “ God and the World Through Christian Eyes.” the Rev. F. E. Coryton, Weymouth, put on the syn Anglicans, Free Churchmen and Roman Catholics thetic peals. He was denounced by the Rev. A. S. Bry united in presenting this series. ant, bell-ringer as well as vicar at Upwey, for introduc We know there is vast ignorance of the fundamentals ing into England “an American importation.” Now the of the Christian Religion throughout the length and bell ringers of the diocese are planning to place a pro breadth of our land. To get the best minds of Christians test before the Bishop, who is to be asked to persuade to present the fundamentals clearly and cogently over people not to “buy gramophone contrivances for the radio or through the pages of some other widely cir churches.” culated medium would, I believe, be a possibility. A co-operative effort of this sort would command space that no group alone could command. A United Front By H. ROSS GREER V E R Y O N E is aware that our times are chaotic, BURNING E that so far as the Christian Church is concerned a major critical era is being passed through. That the “acids of modernity” and other acids have eaten away QUESTION the faith of many is not news. The fact reminds us of Making Your Living the need for restatement of the Christian religion. Not a long while ago a young married woman opened her in a Monopolized World mind to me on the Church. Said she, “W e are not By Louis W a l l is Formerly of the interested in the Church. My husband and I are agnos Federal Department of Labor tic and so are most of our friends. The Church just Congressman Herbert S. Bigelow, of the does not mean anything to us. W e are'interested in Second Ohio District, says: “Economic dis living here and now. The Church is all the time talk tress is reviving the Henry George thesis as a practical truth to which statesmen must turn. ing about another life hereafter. It’s nonsense. When Louis Wallis’s book, Burning Question, is a you die, you are dead.” welcome restatement and critical reappraisal of the George thesis.” I tried to explain to her that the Church is interested Professor Edward A. Ross, of the Uni in this life very much, that the Church is interested in versity of Wisconsin, writes: “Your little book our living this life well, that every sermon is not about will be timely, for all over the world thinking people are searching for something else than the life to come, in fact, that few sermons are preached having the state take charge of all production. about it. The reason I have related this incident is I agree with all you say.” that this young woman and her husband are typical of Pocket size, 75 cents, from your an increasing number of young married people. They bookseller, or send check direct to— are people who will give us no hearing as they will WILLETT, CLARK & CO. not come to church and they will not read anything we 440 SOUTH DEARBORN ST. suggest— books, Church papers or anything. A new CHICAGO, ILLINOIS method of approach is needed to get to them. And that

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight THE W I TN ESS January 20, 1938 AMERICAN MISSION NEWS NOTES OF TO LEPERS AIDS THE CHURCH IN WORK IN LIBERIA BRIEF PARAGRAPHS

In all the great scope of mission Edited b y W. B. S p o f f o r d ary efforts throughout the world, A commission of the Church of there is none so touching and so full England, after fourteen years of of the satisfaction in accomplishment, study under the chairmanship of the it seems, as that among the lepers. Archbishop of York, issued a 242 Woven brightly into the pattern of page report last week on “ Doctrine the Episcopal Church are splendid in the Church of England.” Not be stories of achievement in this field, ing a particularly controversial sub frequently helped along by non-de- ject in the Anglican Churches, the nominational groups outside. From commission was forthright in declar the Rt. Rev. Leopold Kroll, mission ing that there is no objection to the ary bishop of Liberia, there comes a theory of evolution, maintaining that heart-warming account of how the the creation narratives in Genesis are American Mission to Lepers, long mythological in origin and their val leaders in their work among all de ue symbolic rather than historical. On nominations, literally “ came to the nearly every other question of doc rescue” at Cape Mount, Liberia. In trine however the report presented that little town, a new colony was the pros and cons and pointed out recently opened. The medical ad that people could hold most any sort viser to the Liberian government pro of opinion and be at home in the vided small building grants and some Anglican Church. medicines to Dr. W. Junge of St. Timothy’s Hospital at Cape Mount. Typical of the compromises in the An individual interested in the work report is the section dealing with provided land, in Fisherman’s Bay. marriage, which carefully avoids mentioning the word “ divorce,” yet So the work was begun, with na does not rule it out as un-Christian. tives building a leper village and “ Marriage,” says the report, farms all around. Slowly, the brush “ stands in a special position be was cleared. But money was needed ARCHBISHOP TEMPLE Issues Report on Doctrine cause both as a rite and as a state to get rice, cassava and sweet pota of life it is not something peculiarly toes planted for the first crop. From Christian but rather is an institution the American Mission to Lepers, just “ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘thank God. You of the natural order which is taken as the need was greatest, came a have saved us !’ ” into and sanctified by the Christian contribution of $240, sent to the So, inspired by Christ’s injunction Church. Bishop through the National Council. to “'Heal the lepers” does the Ameri “ The teaching of the New Testa Here is how he describes the way he can Mission to Lepers frequently step broke the welcome news to Dr. Junge: ment, which clearly has its basis in in to aid different groups of mission the teaching of our Lord Himself, im “ I went up to Cape Mount to talk aries all over the world. Its influence plies that marriage is in its own prin over the new leper work with Dr. extends, according to latest figures, Junge. At first I didn’t tell him ciple a lifelong intimate union, and to more than 200 leper stations in 48 anything short of this falls short of anything about this gift. We just different countries and during the the purpose of God. * * * sat there and talked. thirty years of its existence it has ex “ He said, ‘Bishop, I don’t know pended more than $3,000,000 to keep “ In the case of two Christian per what to do about this leper work. the leper work going. sons freely undertaking before God You know there is a rice shortage Through regular, steady contribu to-enter on a lifelong marriage union, just now and I’m right down to my tions and through maintenance of grace is afforded which, if reliance last cent. I haven’t any money and close and constant contact with gov is fully placed upon it, will enable these people have to be fed. I don’t ernments and medical men, the Mis the persons concerned to fullfil the know where I am going to get the sion ministers to both the body and obligations involved and to rise to the money from. Do you happen to have spirit of three Episcopal projects. opportunities offered in their mar any?’ Without its cooperation, the leper ried life in spite of all difficulties, “ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘Doctor, how much work might never be. however grave.” do you think it is going to cost you Then, as if admitting that these to feed these patients?’ THE ISSUE IN SPAIN words are hopelessly vague, the re “ He figured at the rate of eight port suggests that a special commis to ten cents a day for such and such “ What happens in Spain will de sion be appointed to clarify the ethi a number. termine the future of civilization for cal, moral and other aspects of mar “ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘I could do that on many generations, perhaps centur riage that cannot be dealt with in a about $20 a month, but I don’t know ies,” declared President John A. doctrinal report. where I am going to get it from!’ Mackay of Princeton Theological On the questions whether the Vir “ ‘Doctor,’ I said, ‘how could you Seminary before the Philadelphia gin Birth is fact or myth, whether make use of $60?’ Ministerial Union, “ for the winning or not Christ’s tomb was empty on “ ‘What’s that?’ cried Dr. Junge. side will be in a strategic position. Easter Day and whether the Gospel “ ‘How could you make use of $60?’ The real issue is not fascism or com miracles should be taken as history “ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘my brother, that munism but the struggle against or imagery, there was such a conflict would be wonderful.’ three forces sinister to Spain: the of opinion in the commission that “ I said, ‘Now doctor, I am going Roman Catholic hierarchy, the re the report simply does not attempt to tell you a story. I just got a check tired army officers, the feudal rural to suggest an answer. for the leper work of $240 from the barons. They combined to support Concerning the Resurrection, for American Mission to Lepers.’ General Franco.” example, the report describes it as

“ the central fact in human history,” lenge of the totalitarian state and the but goes on to say: gradual lessening of religious liberty “ When a fact is so closely linked throughout the world. The confer with such momentous and far-reach ence was held at Washington Cathe ing issues in Heaven and earth, it is dral. not surprising that opinions should * * ¡H differ when the question is raised how A Consecration much in the record of it is derived Under Difficulties from the sheer occurrence of the fact Bishop Reifsnider of North Tokyo itself and how much is due to primi was to arrive in Manila on January tive interpretation of the fact in the 2'2 as the third bishop for the Rev. minds which first perceived its trans Robert F. Wilner’s consecration on cendent significance and expressed St. Paul’s Day in the Cathedral of it in forms inevitably belonging to St. Mary and St. John. Extraordinary their own manner of thought and difficulties have attended the plans speech.” for the consecration of the suffragan- It is intimated, however, that a bishop-elect as conditions in the Ori majority of the commission agree ent have made it almost impossible to with the traditional explanation, bring three bishops to Manila. “ namely, that the tomb was empty Bishop Mosher, returning after Gen because the Lord had risen” and in eral Convention, arrived there in a personal introduction to the report good time. The nearest neighbor to the Archbishop of York affirms his the north, Bishop Hall of Hongkong, own wholehearted belief in Virgin H. JERRY VOORHIS though ill with malaria when first in birth and the Resurrection “ as his Deals With Unemployment vited, has since recovered and was torical facts.” able to go. Next nearest were the On controversial matters between bishops of Fukien, Labuan, or Singa the high Church and low Church ad tivities sponsored at the chapel. The pore, and it was also hoped for a vocates, such as the reservation of work is supported generously by time that Bishop Roberts might go the sacrament and the practice of Grace Church and is presided over from Shanghai. All these suggestions “ devotions,” the report does little by the Rev. W. B. Sperry, a recent proved impracticable, and Bishop more than state the opposing view graduate of the General Seminary Reifsnider consented to go. Thus the points without attempting to supply but a man who is older and more Church in Japan, China, Ehgland, guidance. experienced than most seminarians and America unites in the consecra since he was in business for a num Here as elsewhere the report ad tion of this newest bishop, a fact ad ber of years before entering the ding greatly to the local interest in mits that the members of the com Seminary. His picture is on the mission failed to reach an agreement the event in the Islands where large cover. communities of English, Americans, on the sharpest points of theological * * * controversy and that the report could Chinese and Japanese will be aware not have been unanimous if it had Bayonne Clergyman of it. Taking order for this conse tried to offer authoritative decisions Sponsors Civil Liberties cration was Bishop Perry’s last offi I have my first nomination for on these matters. cial act as Presiding Bishop. T h e W i t n e s s honor roll of 1938. H» H» Among so many indefinite opin The Rev. William J. Rernan, rector Missionary Physician ions, however, the commission was of Trinity Church, Bayonne, N. J., T o S p eak able to agree on a statement con opened his parish house, with the Dr. Mary L. James, physician on cerning confession and absolution. approval of Bishop Washburn, for a the staff of the Church’s Hospital at “ There has been no ehange in the civil liberties meeting at which Roger Wuchang, China, is to be the speaker formal teaching of the Church of Baldwin, director of the American England,” the report asserts. “ While tomorrow, January 21st, at the meet Civil Liberties Union dealt with the ing of the Auxiliary at St. John’s, the regular practice of auricular issues being raised by Mayor Hague confession has now become more fre Yonkers, N. Y. and Jersey City. As you know, Bay * * * quent and is by no means confined onne is next door. Mr. Kernan took to one school of thought within the this action in the face of the oppo Sisterhood Secures Church of England, it is important sition of the Veterans Council which Permanent Home to recognize that it is a ministry of denied Baldwin the right to speak in The Sisters of the Resurrection, of the word which is open to all but ob Bayonne. His action is courageous which the Rev. Mother Esther-Car- ligatory upon none.” and I think it would be very nice if lotta is the head, has secured a per When the commission was first ap some of you folks dropped him a lit manent home for the order at St. pointed in 1922 its chairman was tle note to say so. His address is Augustine’s, Florida. It has been Bishop Burge of Oxford, but when 141 Broadway, Bayonne, New Jer opened as a rest home for guests de he died in 1925 the chairmanship sey. siring “ spiritual peace and strength, passed to the present Archbishop of physical rest, quiet and nourishing York, at that time the Bishop of John R. Mott food.” Manchester. on World Council H« * H i John R. Mott, giving the closing Parish Gives Work Social Work Done address on January 12th at the three to the Unemployed at Grace Chapel day conference of the electoral col Christ Church, West Englewood, One of the finest bits of social lege of the proposed World Council N. J., where the Rev. William Rus work being done in New York is car of Churches, declared that the Coun sell is rector, has collected $2,878.64 ried on at Grace Chapel on the east cil would provide “ for the first time during the past three years through side. The parish house is crowded in history a means of combatting the 121 pence cans that are on the dining with people night and day, men, wom ominous elements and sinister rival tables of parishioners. Grace is said en, young people, boys and girls, all challenges that threaten religion.” at each meal and a penny deposited there to take part in the various ac- He referred particularly to the chal in the can. The money has been used

to provide work for the unemployed Christmas. Those close to Dean Noe ployed to enlist in the army. In the people of the parish. The church and are now much concerned over his army, he said, a man is “ developed to rectory has been painted, grounds put physical condition, saying that he is his highest efficiency mentally and in better condition, vestments made thin, drawn and has a husky voice as physically, and imbued with a spirit for the choir, chairs made for the a result of his prolonged fast. of loyalty to common ideals.” . . , large Sunday school, new roof put on * * * . . . The Rev. Randolph (Little-Church- the church. Rector Russell is now Thirty Years Around-the-Corner) Ray said that planning to extend the program to in U tah the power of God is not given to man secure wider participation. as a power of escape but as a power * * * This is the thirtieth year in which the Ven. W. F. Bulkley of Salt Lake to carry on. . . . The Rev. George Conference on City has carried on missionary work Pauli T. Sargent, rector of St. Bar Unemployment in Utah, though one would not think tholomew’s, said there was one fact A number of Episcopalians joined so to see him. There is so much that stood out in history, “ the com forces with others in sponsoring a work to be done, the Archdeacon has ing into the world of the Christ who conference on unemployment and oeen heard to wish he were twins. walked its ways, told eternal truths, taxation that was held in Washington Widely scattered small rural mis died upon a cross, rose triumphant, on January 14th and 15th. Among sions, few clergy, work among In revealed God to man and brought those to give addresses were Howard dians, work among young Mormon men into loving relationship with the (Buck) Kester of the Southern Ten students who find that system of Father.” . . . The Rev. Henry Darl ant Farmers Union who was a speaker thought inadequate in contact with ington, rector of the Heavenly Rest, at the CLID forum in Cincinnati dur education, work among members of said that Christians should oppose ing General Convention; Gardner strange sects; small salaries, and high every effort to destroy free choice. Jackson of Washington; Broadus cost of travel if the work is to be “ A full life begins when one learns Mitchell, professor at Johns Hopkins ; done. Here as elsewhere the Church’s to do more than is required of him,” Jerome Davis, ousted Yale professor; clear and compelling message would he said. “ Eivery student of sociol James Myers of the Federal Council win great results if the field were ogy must be filled with deep con of Churches; Monsignor John A. staffed and equipped to present it. cern, verging upon horror, at the Ryan of the National Catholic Wel He H* Hs growing interference in the domain fare Council; Senator LaFollette; of the voluntary. Many govern Senator Lundeen; Congressman Jerry Francis Wei to ments are creating more positive law, Voorhis, Churchman from California. Address Convention thus relegating to the background Francis C. M. Wei, president of The conference went on record as the right of free choice. Such teach Central China College and one of the favoring greater expenditures for re ing is contrary to the way of Jesus leading Christians of his country, is lief and higher taxation to pay for it. Christ.” to be the headliner at the mission The conference was supported by the ary service to be held in connection Church League for Industrial De Evangelical Educational mocracy. with the convention of the diocese of * * * Southern Ohio, to meet in Springfield Society to Meet on January 25-26. A report of the The Evangelical Education Society Connecticut Auxiliary amount raised by the diocese for is to observe its 75th anniversary with Holds Meeting China relief will be given at the a conference to be held at the Holy The Auxiliary of the diocese of meeting. Trinity, Philadelphia, February 8th Connecticut held its annual meeting * * * and 9th. Among those on the program on January 7th in New Haven, and Sermons in are Bishop Seaman of North Texas, listened to addresses by Miss Ruth N ew Y o rk the Rev. Alexander G. Cummins, Gordon of Boston who spoke on the Here are a few of the headlines Bishop Gravatt of West Virginia, work of volunteers, Mrs. Kenneth C. from sermons preached last Sunday Bishop Taitt of Pennsylvania, the M. Sills, wife of the president of in New York, . . . The Rev. J. B. Rev. Robert C. Wells, president of Bowdoin College, and Miss Margaret Lamgstaff, rector of St. Edmund’s, the Philadelphia Federation of Jefferson of the national office of the said the solution for the problem of Churches, the Rev. Phillips Osgood Girls’ Friendly Society. unemployment was for the unem * H* * of Boston, the Rev. Wilbur Caswell Dean Noe Does Some Fasting ■Ready March 1st■ According to an Associated Press "Sf'i report from Memphis, Dean Israel FOR THE FIRST TIME Noe of St. Mary’s Cathedral has gone in for heavy fasting “ to prove that OXFORD the soul is above the needs of ma 48 MO. EDITION terial life.” He is reported to have told reporters that it was possible PRAYER BOOK for him “ to give up all material life VEST POCKET SIZE and yet not die.” According to his friends the Dean has subsisted for Paged Like The Standard Prayer Book an entire year on a diet of oranges PRAYER BOOKS— Fine Whi te Paper Edition, from 75c. alone, and on January 2nd he gave Ultrathin Oxford India Paper, from $2.25. up even the oranges and has eaten nothing whatever. This is the second PRAYER BOOKS AND HYMNALS— F ine White Paper Edition, from $1.50. time that Dean Noe has broken into Ultrathin Oxford India Paper, from $4.00. the headlines. In 1931 Mrs. Ellen C. Noe, his wife, left him, charging At All Booksellers that he had grown cold toward her, Send for Descriptive Literature but they were recently reconciled OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS and she and their two children re turned to the deanery just before 114 Fifth Avenue New York

of Yonkers, the Rev. Charles W. Later in the session Miss Rachel church she would not make the invi Lowrey of the Virginia Seminary, the McDowell, religious editor of the tations negative, but positive. She Rev. Beverley Tucker of Richmond, Times, had things to say on the sub asserted that she would not advertise the Rev. Edmund J. Lee of Chatham, ject during the course of an address her church as a friendly church with Va., Dean Grant of Seabury-West- on, “ If I Were a Preacher.” a friendly greeting, because that was ern, Dean Rollins of the Virginia “ I would not allow my church any a criticism of other churches. Seminary and the Lord Bishop of affairs, bank days, bridge parties or “ I would not have a private tele Truro, Bishop J. W. Hunkin. similar affairs to raise money for phone, but a public telephone, be H* the churches,” Miss McDowell said. cause it is important for your parish Berkeley Alumni “ Money should come to the church ioners to be able to get in touch with Meet in New York voluntarily, and it should be clean you at midnight if necessary,” Miss. Alumni of the Berkeley Divinity money.” McDowell said. “ Furthermore, I School, New Haven, met at St. Bar Miss McDowell said that in extend would do more personal work. I tholomew’s, New York, on January ing invitations to persons to join the would never make a pastoral call that 12, with men present from Philadel phia, New Jersey, Long Island and Connecticut as well as New York. Dean Ladd, the Rev. Harold Belshaw, assistant to the dean and Student Charles R. Allen were the headliners. It was announced that the mid-win ter reunion would be held in New Insurance on Church Property Haven on February 9-10 with Bishop Oldham of Albany speaking on “ The Teaching Church” and with Alumni A t the close of the year THE CHURCH PROPERTIES FIRE President Henry Lewis of Ann Arbor, INSURANCE CORPORATION had insured the property of Michigan, urging the boys to come 2,927 Episcopal churches, as well as that of many institu back to have their pictures taken to gether. tions of the Church. * * * Merger of Two The increase in the number of churches insured is shown Famous Houses below: We want to congratulate both the 1929 Morehouse Publishing Company and 330 Edwin S. Gorham, Inc., for the mer 1930 803 ger of these two old publishing 193 T 1,224 houses of the Church. It is a good 1932 move and brings together two firms 1,600 that have long served the Church 1933 2,035 faithfully and well. 1934 2,365

Safe and Well 1935 2,640 After Dangers 1936 2,845 The first word to reach the Church 1937 2,927 Mission House since the occupation of Nanking by the Japanese came on January 14th by cable from the Some other reason than that of the desire of the Church Rev. John Magee and the Rev. Ernest to support an institution organized solely for its benefit is Forster. It reported: “ Both safe and necessary to explain the great increase in the number of well after many dangers. Conditions are improving. Our worship con Episcopal churches insured with it. Without the econ tinues. Christian work is carried on omies afforded by the Corporation, the advantageous con in two centers in the refugee zone. ditions that are granted, and the fact that its settlements Many new inquirers were baptized at Christmas.” of fire losses have been satisfactory, the progress shown by such impressive figures could not have been made. Church Army Honors Its Founder A service commemorating the 91st birthday of Prebendary Wilson Car- lile, founder of the Church Army, The Church Properties Fire Insurance Corp. was held at the Heavenly Rest, New York, on January 16th. The speaker 20 Exchange Place New York was Captain Frank Mountford of the American Church Army. DIRECTORS

Presbyterians Condemn Stephen Baker Charles E. Mason Everard C. Stokes Gambling for the Church Robert S. Brewster J. P. Morgan Samuel Thorne Church bank days and bridge par George W . Burleigh Wm. Fellowes Morgan Allen Wardwell ties to raise funds for parishes were Jarvis Cromwell Frank L. Polk Joseph E. Widener condemned at a meeting of the Pres Bradford B. Locke Origen S. Seymour Charlton Yarnall bytery of New York on January 10th. The attack on these practices was contained in a report of a committee on social education and action.

I did not offer a prayer. If the at 1938, and he has worked quietly and order of french fried potatoes may mosphere does not exist in the home, constantly toward that end. Last save many a child from crime.” bring it there.” month it was announced that pay The Mayor also took the “ experts” Miss McDowell said that she would ments have been made in full on the to task for their untactful probing not “wear a dog collar” to let peo funded indebtedness, with an addi into a child’s home life. “ Children ple know she was a clergyman, be tional sum of over $30,000 already like to brag about their parents,” cause what ministers needed more pledged for a permanent endowment. he said. “ That’s why I am so un was something above the collar. She * * * sympathetic to the so-called experts added that she would not sit in a Bishop Maxon Visits who force children to tell about hu- subway or any other public convey M in n esota ance when a woman was standing, Bishop Maxon of Tennessee was EDWIN S. GORHAM, Inc. even “ a bleached blonde.” the speaker on January 12th at the Church Bookstore Established 1900 “ I would never marry a divorced annual meeting of the Auxiliary of Books of all publishers, Church and couple,” she said. “ Often when 1 Minnesota, meeting at St. Mark’s, Parish Requirements, Catalogues and read of a woman who has had three Minneapolis. Later in the day he Information supplied. husbands marrying a man who has spoke to the men of the diocese at 18 West 45 Street New York had two wives, the officiating clergy a dinner held at St. Luke’s. Vanderbilt 3-7563 man is a Presbyterian.” He * * * * * Church Council Favors Joseph Moore to Health Tests FINE IRISH LINEN Conduct Mission The New York state council of The Rev. Joseph Moore, rector of churches, meeting in Albany on Jan Imported direct from Ireland for St. Paul’s, Evansville, Indiana, is uary 11th, passed resolutions favor vestment and Altar use. Samples free conducting a mission this week, Jan ing legislation requiring health tests on request. W rite: M ARY FAW CETT uary 16th to 23rd, in the rural areas before marriage. It also urged com COMPANY, Box 146, Plainfield, N. J. of Southern Ohio. He is accompa pulsory physical examination of ex nied by Bishop Hobson and others of pectant mothers as an added move in the diocesan staff, travelling with the the campaign to stamp out syphilis. THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK Wayside Cathedral. Arrangements SOCIETY Founded by Bishop White 1833 for the mission were. made by Cap Lancaster Church Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par tain Estabrook of Church Army. Destroyed by Fire ishes unable to purchase them, in limited grants It took a fire less than half an hour The Book of Common Prayer. Young People Hold to destroy the roof and nave of his The Combined Book (The Book of Common C on ven tion Prayer and Hymnal in one volume) toric St. John’s Church, Lancaster, Pew Size The young people of the diocese of Pa., on January 6th, with the total Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. Southern Ohio held their convention Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. damage estimated at $75,000. The Philadelphia, Pa. on January 15-16 at St. Paul’s, Co nave and pews were completely lumbus. Arrangements were made wrecked by fire, water and falling ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. by Miss Hilda Shaul, a leader of debris, but the altar, sanctuary, Saint Mary’s Convent, Kenosha, Wis. young people in the diocese who is chapel and sacristry were saved. It the director of religious education, is believed also that the origan was CATHEDRAL STUDIO—Church embroidery. and the speakers were Bishop Hob Stoles $6 up, Burse, veil, $10 up. Surplices, completely ruined. The loss is be $8 up. Exquisite Altar Linens. Cope $70 up, son, the Rev. Walter F. Tunks of lieved to be covered by insurance Mass set $50 up. Complete line pure Irish Akron and the Rev. Robert E. Leake linens and Church fabrics by the yd. Em and already contributions have been broidered emblems ready to apply. Altar of Pomeroy. received for restoration, one of them Guild Handbook 50c. Address: L. V. Mack- rille, 11 W. Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Wash coming from St. Paul’s, Columbia, ington, D. C. Telephone Wisconsin 2752. Elect Delegates Pa., which has pledged $100. to World Council Hi % ^ A Laxative tor Children Eight of America’s ten delegates Mayor LaGuardia to the preliminary conference of the SYRUP OF BI_ACK-DRAUCHT Addresses Churchmen is a purely vegetable laxative world council of churches to be held Mayor LaGuardia of New York in Utrecht, Holland, May 9-13, were was the speaker on January 11th be that is acceptable selected on January 10th at a con fore a large group of church people, to children be ference held at Washington Cathe meeting under the auspices of the cause it is pleas- dral and attended by representatives Council of women for home missions. ant-tasting. Many of twenty-five denominations. Bishop He outlined the progress of his ad m others have Perry was elected to represent Epis ministration in the field of health, copalians. found that when H* % H* child care, housing and crime pre their children are vention. He said that he had taken Louisiana Debt bilious, or have the rap from a number of critics for sour stomach, Is P aid furnishing free luncheons to under When Bishop Morris became Bish nourished children but gave it as his colic due to gas, op of Louisiana in 1930 he found a opinion that “ a T-bone steak and an sick headache, diocesan debt of $50,000. He imme coated tongue, diately expressed the hope that it sallow complexion, or seem slug would be wiped out by the time the The D’Ascenzo Studios gish so they do not romp or play diocese celebrated its centennial in as usual, a dose or two of Syrup 1604 Summer St., Phila., Pa. of Black-Draught relieves con VESTMENTS Respectfully refer you to their stipation and thereby assists in Cassocks - Surplices - Stoles - Scarves Silks - Altar Cloths - Embroideries stained glass in prompt recovery. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. January 20, 1938 T H E WITNESS Page Thirteen miliating conditions in their homes. car parked midway across a bridge, wondering if a “ cocktail” party, even We do not send a truant officer and in it articles of clothing that at its best, is a suitable preparation around, but try to ascertain the cause were identified as belonging to the for a worthy and reverent reception of irregular attendance and correct rector. There was also a driver’s of the sacrament of Christ’s body it. license belonging to him, and a num and blood. “ I am told our Juvenile Aid Bu ber of people testified that they saw That the Holy Communion is in reau is not as scientific as it was a man leap from the railing into the grave danger of profanation because before I took office,” he said. “ But river below. of this growing fashion of “ taking I do know that we have fewer card H : ^ s? in” a midnight service as a part of indexes and more children. We may New York Rector the festivities of Christmas eve is no have no index cards, but by warn to Broadcast idle fear. Several years ago we were ing parents we can help prevent se The Rev. Elmore McKee, rector of told that a man, not a communicant rious delinquency. In that way we St. George’s, New York, is to deliver of this Church, was terribly mortified have been able to cut down the num a series of radio broadcasts on “ Fron and felt that he owed us an apology ber of arrests made heretofore.” tiers of Scepticism.” They are to be because he had received the Holy In answer to a question about delivered each Thursday from 12 to drinking, Mayor LaGuardia replied 12:15, commencing February 3rd, he thought the consumption of liquor over a nationwide hook-up of the ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. was decreasing every year, and in NBC. 147 E. 47th St., New York New York City there were fewer CHURCH VESTMENTS places selling liquor than there had ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Death Takes Conferences with reference to the adornment been during or before prohibition. In Sam Warnock o f Churches Domestic Relations Court, he added, Each week for years there has Telephone El-dorado 5-1058 there were fewer cases by reason of come to my desk news releases from drink than ever before. the diocese of Pennsylvania, signed When it came to the question pe by Samuel H. Warnock. Occasional Sunday School Literature riod the chairman said that the ly I saw him in his little office in following the Mayor would be glad to answer any Philadelphia, a cheerful man in spite INT. UNIFORM LESSON TOPICS questions. To this he immediately of the great amount of physical suf Samples on application replied: “ Not any questions. Please fering he was called upon to endure AHHrpRH limit your questions to city govern in recent years. I now receive the an UNION GOSPEL PRESS ment as I have an understanding nouncement of his death from a Box 6059 Cleveland, Ohio with Secretary of State Hull that he heart attack on January 6th. He was will attend to foreign affairs and I a brave soul who carried on for will attend to------.” His conclud many years in face of illness that ing words were lost amid laughter. would have laid most men low. His reference was to the incident last M ENEELY&CO. i spring when he had things to say established! IN 1826 A about the anti-Jewish activities of That Midnight the Nazis which caused such a stir Christmas Service WATERVLIET. N .V * in international relations. There has been a good bit of crit icism about the midnight service on Christmas Eve in recent years. The Stained Glass Windows and Mosaics Epiphany Service subject was dealt with editorially by in Albany Cathedral the official paper of the diocese of Franz Mayer of Munich, In keeping with a custom of many Southwestern Virginia in the last years, the Feast of Lights was held number, with the editor writing Inc. in the Cathedral of All Saints, Al strong words on the subject. The 1616 Woolworth Building bany, N. Y., on the Sunday after editorial says.in part: New York, N. Y. noon following Epiphany. The light Without intending to seem straight- ing of the candles began at the altar laced or puritanical, we cannot help in the darkened church, the acolytes then conveying light to the candles of the choristers and of members of Wilbur Herbert Burnham the congregation; and, led by the choir, all joined in the procession to CUSHIONED PEWS Designer and Master the creche singing Epiphany hymns. by Hi * H« C ra ftsm a n B ish o p J o h n so n Seminary Presents Forty editorials, selected by a Lectures on Judaism Stained and Leaded Glass Samuel S. Cohon, professor of committee as being his best. Cloth theology at Hebrew Union College, binding. Cincinnati, Ohio, is delivering four $1.75 a copy Studios 1126 Boylston Street lectures this month at Seabury-West- THE STORY OF THE ern Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, on Boston, Massachusetts post-biblical Judaism. 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Communion at that service, adding., trial division in this field. The plans States will be a feature. Addresses “ If I had known what I was doing I include one- or two-day conferences will be made on the religious signifi would not have come to the altar rail in New England, centering around cance of cooperation, programs for in my condition.” Boston; in the Middle Atlantic education on cooperatives in church Not for one moment do we mean States, with the conferences prob groups, and discussions o f many to imply that any great number of ably at Madison, N. J.; Washington, phases o f the cooperative movement, those who come to the Eucharist on D. C.; and Columbus, Ohio, for that including farmers’ cooperatives, city Christmas eve, after attending social area. Sightseeing trips will be taken cooperatives, the relations of organ gatherings, are not in the right spir in every case to nearby cooperatives. ized farmers and organized labor to itual attitude to receive. What we Motion pictures and illustrated lec the cooperative movement, credit do feel is that the service may be tures of cooperatives in the United unions, cooperative medicine, and come a sort of fad, a passing attrac tion for the thoughtless and indiffer ent, some of whom may have over indulged at the parties and may re ceive the sacrament without realizing Services in Leading Churches what they are doing— “ receive the same unworthily.” The Cathedral of St. John Christ Church Parish What should be the practice of the the D ivin e Detroit and Grosse Pointe Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Rev. Francis B. Creamer, Rector clergy themselves in the matter of New York City Rev. J. Francis Sant, Yicar attending these parties is not easy Sundays: 8, Holy Communion. 10, Morn Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at ing Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser Rivard to decide for oneself, much less for mon. 4, Evening Prayer and Sermon. Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard others. It may honestly be held that Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Services: 8:00, 9:45, 11:00, 7:30 Sun days. by joining in the various social ac Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10). 9:30, Morn ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saints’ Days: 10:30. tivities of the people, including the Saturdays: Organ Recital at 4:30. popular cocktail parties, they are Cathedral of the Incarnation able to reach a larger number of peo Church of St. Mary the Virgin Garden City, N. Y. ple than they could otherwise. The New York Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant day for too great a separation be Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com tween priest and people has passed. Sunday Masses: 7, 9, 11 (Sung Mass). munion. 9 :30 A.M. Junior Congregation. Evensong, with Benediction: 8 p. m. 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11:30 A.M. The trouble is, however, with the Week-day Masses: 7, 8. (Thurs., 7, 8, Church School, 11:00 A.M. Morning level on which these people are met. 9:30). Prayer and Sermon. 4:30 P.M. Evensong We need to face, honestly and apart and Address. Grace Church, New York Daily services in the Chapel. from our own personal preference, Rev. W. Russell Bowie, D.D. the question of whether the presence Broadway at 10th St. Trinity Church, New York of the clergy at gatherings where Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat Broadway and Wall St. drinking is frankly made the center urdays. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. of attraction tends to increase re Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs Daily: 8, 12 and 3. spect for the Church and promote days and Holy Days. real temperance, or whether it im The Heavenly Rest, New York St. Paul’s Cathedral plies a sanction of the over-indul Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Buffalo, New York gence which too often occurs and the Sundays: Holy Communion 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. exposure of those lacking in self- Sunday School 9 :30 a.m. ; Morning Service Weekdays: 8, 12:05. control to undue temptation. Is so and Sermon 11 a. m .; Choral Evening Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Prayer 4 p.m. Days: 10:30 A.M. ciety being Christianized by means Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com munion, 11 a. m. o f these contacts or do they help to Christ Church Cathedral paganize Christianity? The Incarnation Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. * * Madison Avenue and 35th Street The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector ■ Sunday Services: 8 :00, 9 :30, 10:05, Fifty-Fifty in Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M., 4 P. M. 11:00 a.m .; 5:30, 7:30 p.m. Diocese of Albany Wednesdays and Holy Days: Holy Com, Week-days: 8:00 a.m. Holy Communion munion 10 A. M. (7 :00 on Wednesdays). 11:00' a.m. Holy The council of the diocese of Al Fridays: Holy Communion 12:15 P. M. Communion on Wednesdays and Holy bany has accepted the objective for Days. 12:30 p.m. Noonday Service. missionary giving through the Na St. Bartholomew’s Church Park Avenue and 51st Street Baltimore, Maryland tional Council of $24,200 for 1938, Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector St. Michael and All Angels and also decided to maintain its 8 A.M., Holy Communion. St. Paul and 20th Streets 9 :30 and 11 A.M.— Junior Congregation. Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. fifty-fifty division of missionary 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. Rev. Harvey P. Knudsen, B.D. funds between diocesan and general 4 P.M.—Evensong. Special Music. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. 8:00 Holy Communion, Thursdays and Saints’ P. M. appropriations. It was also an Days, 10:30 A.M. Week Days—Holy Eucharist — Mon., nounced that $1,500 toward a goal Wed., Sat., 10:00 A. M.. Tue., Thurs., of $2,400 for China Relief had been St, James Church, New York Fri.: 7:00 A. M. Madison Avenue and 71st Street Morning Prayer: 9:00 A. M. Daily. received. The Rev. H. W. B. Donegan, Rector Evening Prayer: 5:15 P. M. Daily. ^ 8 A.M.—Holy Communion. 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service and Conferences on Trinity Church Church School. Main and Holman, Houston, Texas Cooperative Movement 11 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Sermon. The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, Under the committee on the church 7 :30 P.M.— Organ Recital. Rector 8 P.M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon. 7 :30 A.M.-—Holy Communion. and consumers’ cooperation of the Holy Communion: 8 A.M., Monday, 9:30 A.M.— Church School. Wednesday and Friday; 12 Noon, Thurs Federal Council’s industrial division days and Holy Days. 11:00 A.M.—Morning Service and Sermon. 6 :00 P.M.—Young People’s Organizations. a number of regional sightseeing 10 :30 A.M.—Holy Communion on Wednes seminars on the church and coopera St. Thomas Church days and Holy Days. Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street tives are being planned for the com New York ing months. J. Henry Carpenter, ex Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Gethsemane, Minneapolis Sunday Services: 8 A.M., 11 A.M., and Rev. Austin Pardue ecutive secretary of the Brooklyn 4 P.M. 4th Ave. South at 9th St. church and mission > federation, is Daily Services: 8 :30 A.M., Holy Com Sundays: 8:00 and 11:00 A.M. chairman of the committee, working munion. Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10:30 Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. A.M. with James Myers to extend the al Thursday: 11 A.M., Holy Communion. Thursdays: 7:30 A.M. ready wide activities of the indus

technical problems of management. ciety for the youth of today and the Lincoln Park, has remodelled the In some cases the conferences will in ways in which society is failing to church which was formerly a dwel clude representatives of Protestants, serve the needs of youth. Three ling; St. Clement’s, Inkster, a con Jews and Catholics on the sponsor judges from the Supreme Court of gregation of Colored people, is to ing committees. the State presided, the Governor of start construction immediately of a * * * the State was the foreman of a spe building which will serve both as a A Rector That cial jury which decided the issue, and church and a parish hall. Gets Around four prominent attorneys of the The Rev. C. G. Hamilton, rector State represented the prosecution Berkeley Receives at Aberdeen, Mississippi, is a young and the defense. a B eq u est fellow who gets around. In 1937 he * * * The Berkeley Divinity School, New held 486 services, preached 388 Church Group Sponsors Haven, has received a bequest of times, attended 82 other services, Labor College $1,000 by the will of the late Rev. travelled 27,303 miles, held six A labor college at which workers Cranston Brenton. He was the pres preaching missions, six vacation are offered courses on various sub ident of the New York alumni of Bible schools. He held service in 19 jects has been opened in New Haven, the school. places no rector had been before. Connecticut, sponsored by the Reli For four years his statistics include 91,432 miles (without a car), 1,439 gion and Labor Foundation, headed by Michigan Youth Jerome Davis, recently fired from services, 1,204 sermons, 341 services Have Worship Service attended, fifteen preaching missions, the faculty of the Yale Divinity There were 700 young people from thirteen vacation schools, and ser School because of his radical views. parishes in Detroit at the third an vices in 78 places where no Episco Among those to sponsor the under nual service of worship, held on Jan pal -clergyman had been previously. taking is the Rev. Arthur D. McKin uary 9th at St. Matthias, with twen ney, rector of St. Paul’s Church. The ty clergy attending. The preacher A Famous Trial courses are being given by members was the Rev. Herman R. Page of in Nebraska of the Yale faculty. Dayton, Ohio, and the son of Bishop In connection with the annual Page. He stressed personal religion. meeting of the Nebraska Council of New Buildings Churches and the Ministers’ Convo for Michigan Churches Bishop Tucker to cation of the State a unique educa Three congregations in the mission Visit Michigan tional feature was used. On Sun field of the diocese of Michigan have Presiding Bishop Tucker is to be day, January 9, a “ trial” of Youth either new buildings or enlarge the speaker at a dinner to be held in vs. Society was held in Omaha, the ments and improvements of old ones. connection with the convention of purpose of which was to fix atten St. John’s, Sandusky, recently opened the diocese of Michigan, meeting in tion upon the responsibility of so- a new parish house; St. Michael’s, Detroit on January 26th.

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