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EDITORIAL BY CLIFFORD STANLEY

CAMPBELL, WILBURN, rector of St. Luke’s, Sea Cliff, N. Y., will be rector of tEIje (General theological All Saints’ Church, Brooklyn, New York K e m p f k T T T fT ^ em m a rg City, September 30. « CROFT, NATHANIEL C., in charge of St. KENOSHA. WISCONSIN Three-year undergraduate Paul’s, Graniteville, S. C., is to be in charge of the Townsend field in Montana, Sept. 1. Episcopal Boarding and Day School. course of prescribed and elective GRANNIS, APPLETON, rector of St. Anne’s, study. Lowell, Mass., will become rector of St. Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual Paul’s Church, Rome, Italy, October 15, suc opportunities in Art and Music. Fourth-year course for gradu ceeding the Rev. Samuel Tyler. Complete sports program. Junior ates, offering larger opportunity HAYNES, JOHN, formerly at the American School. Accredited. Address: for specialization. Church in Munich, Germany, is rector of Trinity Church, Pawtucket. SISTERS OF ST. MARY Provision for more advanced KATES, FREDERICK W., assistant minister Box W. T. work, leading to degrees of S.T.M. at Trinity Church, New Haven, Conn., is to be rector of Trinity Church, Seneca Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsin and D.Th. Falls, N. Y., October 1. KERSTETTER, THEODORE H., was ordained ADDRESS priest by Bishop Jenkins of Nevada at Gal CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL ilee, Lake Tahoe, Nev., July 23, and is to New York City be vicar of Christ Church, Las Vegas and THE DEAN St. Christopher’s, Boulder City, Nev. A boarding school for the forty boys of McILHENNY, JAMES O., until last Novem the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the Chelsea Square New York City ber rector of the Church of the Resurrec Divine. Careful musical training and daily singing at the cathedral services. Small For Catalogue Address the Dean tion, Philadelphia, died in Philadelphia on July 29, aged 69. classes mean individual attention and high MUSSON, H. SHEPPARD, JR., was ordained standards. The School has its own building priest by Bishop Clingman of Kentucky in and playgrounds in the Close. Fee—$300.00 St. Luke’s Church, Anchorage, Ky., July 31. per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice Episcopal Theological School PULLEY, FRANK E., rector of Calvary, test and scholarship examination. Address The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Cathe CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Wadesboro, N. C., will be rector of St. James’, Leesburg, Fla., September 1. dral Heights, New York City. Affiliated with Harvard University offers ROTTER, SANFORD L., formerly rector of unusual opportunities in allied fields, such as Whittle Parish, Fauquire Co., Va., is rector philosophy, psychology, history, of Kingston Parish, Mathews Co., Va. sociology, etc. HOLDERNESS In the White Mountains. College Preparatory For Catalogue Address the Dean and General Courses. Music and Crafts. For crhg ls boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 260 The Protestant Episcopal St. John Baptist |0 V acres of woods. 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Consistency An Editorial by CLIFFORD L. STANLEY TTOR the last year or so absolute pacifists have thereby in relevance. He prefers to take counsel been laughing at someone’s expense. The of the situation and do the practical thing. Take source of all the merriment are those who were the problem of Germany. For a while, after the pacifists after the World War. In the nausea of World War, there was a chance to improve things disillusionment and in the glow of post-war ideal greatly by justice to Germany. The opportunity ism they poured scorn on the potent slogan of was lost. The Weimar Republic fell, Germany wartime, which bade men “ make the world safe became mad. Then she began to wrest the j ustice for democracy.” They vowed “ never again will we had denied. At first a sneaking sense of re I support a war for any reason.” Probably this pentant justice, on the part of Britain particular sojourn in pacifist-land was good for them. Now ly, allowed her to go ahead and, for example, to they find that they can dwell there no more. They re-militarize the Rhineland. She should have have decided that fascist aggression, for example, been opposed. This exploit convinced Germany of demands forcible resistance. They have begun the value of the forcible deed. Then she began to coin slogans which bear a suspicious likeness to the bullying tactics continuously. Each time the the old “ Make the world safe for democracy” others yielded the Germans were more convinced models. They have done so with some reddening than before that the democracies were “ decadent” of the cheeks, with furtive glances to see if any and that only the forcible course was of value. one noticed. The pacifist, with howls of ridicule, Each concession therefore nourishes Germany in has noticed. The laughter probably has been this illusion. It does not make Gemany gentle. good for its object. It is not so certain that it is Each concession adds to Germany’s strength and to the soul’s health of the pacifist. Be that as it hastens the day when it is a question whether the may, the pacifist has preserved his consistency rest of us can survive at all. The first law of his unspotted from the world, whereas the other man torical nations is survival. The only way to sur stands convicted of want of the alleged “ fair vive is to call Germany’s bluff and if need be fol jewel” of consistency. low it up with other measures. Not only must we Those who have sacrificed consistency have survive but (from our prejudiced viewpoint) it is gained relevance. Let it be admitted that the loss a case of the better nations surviving. The world, of consistency in this matter represents a sacri if you please, must be made as safe as possible fice. It is better to live in the highlands of the for democracy. And that means, inconsistency absolute than to the lowlands of compromise. or not, to respond to this immediate threat to it Life suffers when men fall from the purity of and to our nations. high resolve to the mists of the attainable. The Unlike those just mentioned, some are called heart of man is deceitful and he who has slumped to consistency. We agree that there is a vocation will, if possibile, make a virtue of his fall. He of absolute pacifism but we disagree with some will try to absolutize his compromise. Here the absolute pacifists about the meaning and extent serene virtue of the absolutist rebukes him. When of such pacifism. The meaning is the one sug he looks at the pacifist he can see how far gested above. That is, someone needs to keep he has drifted. It is the continuing role of the before our eyes the ideal in its purity. Then we pacifist to keep the record straight in this matter. cannot confuse our compromise with the ideal. The man who surrenders consistency gains Where we differ with the pacifist is in the ques- Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS August 24, 1939 tion of the attainability of the ideal. It is not a called me up. Instead every fifteen minutes of my practical possibility. The ideal is held before us unprotected privacy for years has been interrupt not as a thing we can achieve but as a thing to ed by earnest people asking, “ Will you picket?” ; which we cannot attain. We must sin against “ Will you speak?” ; “We expect you at the commit peace. So peace, like the Law of Moses, is set be tee meeting” ; “ I’m visiting in the city and expect fore us to convict us of sin. Thus are we thrown you to take me to the world’s fair” ; “ Can you lend on the mercy of God and not on our works. me ten bucks until next week?” ; “ I know how to What the pacifist gains in consistency he loses prevent war and must see you at once to explain in relevance. Sometimes the pacifist suggests that my plan.” Nine out of ten of my calls are from conciliation or non-resistance is the correct im people asking me to do things that I cannot do mediate policy. Indeed it often is. But the paci without neglecting my job— explained in time- fist is not quite sincere. He is not adopting this consuming conversations at the end of which I course because it is a good policy but because he invariably say “ Yes” since I am one of those is for conciliation and non-resistance always and spineless individuals completely lacking in the on principle. The proof is that if policy dictated manly ability to say “ Sorry, no.” resistance and struggle, he would not touch it. WASTED my nickel— no, maybe I didn’t, for I But there are—from the standpoint of policy— T such times. Consequently it should be made clear got a very eloquent answer from Mr. Gifford that an absolute principle is not and cannot be since diligent effort failed to bring him to the a practical policy. A policy is a relativity ad ’phone. His ad writers could popularize the slo justed to other relativities. Since absolute non- gan “ Make Everyone Your Neighbor,” but appar resistance cannot be adjusted to relativities it only ently there were some people that he did not want darkens counsel to pretend that it is a policy for for neighbors and I was one of them. Of course this world. Anyone who is called to bear wit I talked with several people. “ Mr. Gifford, please.” ness to the absolute must be prepared to pay the “ What is it that you wish to talk to Mr. Gifford price of his vocation and sacrifice relevance. This about?” “ I would like to talk with Mr. Gifford, is a grievous sacrifice, for relevance is the first please.” “ But Mr. Gifford is very busy. I will necessity of historical action. Consistency it seems be glad to give him any message.” “Well, tell him is not without its shortcomings also. The pacifist that one of his neighbors just called and that he is like the rest of us is limited by his sinful par sorry to find that Mr. Gifford has built such a ticularity. I have a dim remembrance of words to high fence.” the effect that if we must glory let us glory in A S A BUSY man I am sure Mr. Gifford, by his the Lord. dead silence, gave me the right answer. No doubt his desk is covered with pretty French ’phones. But they have to be used sparingly if Talking It Over he is to do the work he is paid to do. Not every By Tom, Dick and Annabelle can crash into his sanc WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD tum by means of a dingling bell, and he has pri "P'ATHER DIVINE is right—“ Peace, it’s won- vate guards, called secretaries, to see that they derful.” I returned to my office after a brief don’t. I, too, am a busy man. But since I work sojourn and discovered at the end of the day that for a Church paper rather than for a blue-chip I had banged out more work in eight hours than corporation I have nobody to stand guard to see I usually accomplish in sixteen. The next morn that I have privacy when I go into a deep huddle ing a form letter from the telephone company re with myself to figure out what to do about Hitler vealed the reason— not having paid a bill the or to bring the Yankees out of their batting slump. office ’phone had been silenced. So digging a nickel The ’phone company solved my problem with that out of the strong box I went to the corner pay- day of peace. So I wrote them a sweet letter, en station and called up Mr. Walter Gifford, presi closing my check for past services, and said, dent of the company. My intention, of course, “ Swell, take it out.” It may work a hardship on was to ask him “ How come?” and incidentally to a few— but even at that Uncle Sam is remarkably tell him, as a smart business man, that it was prompt in delivering messages by post, and I dangerous to cut off ’phones since it is the surest herewith promise prompt replies to urgent epis way to show subscribers how pleasant it is to be tles, with a Special Delivery affixed if the occa without one. “ Make Everyone Your Neighbor” sion demands. “ Increase your efficiency with a is a fine slogan for an ad when it pictures a beau telephone” is okay for those who believe it, but tiful sweetie at the other end of the wire, but a as for me, from this day forward I propose to in mental check-back proved that she had never crease mine by having it removed.

H E R E is paint to use to redecorate the basement room and T an old res make it a gay place done in red, white and blue. idential d i s- At the public library, the head librarian helped her trict in Kansas to establish a card index system. The toy library City, Missouri, opened on a Saturday morning and there are now known as 200 cards issued to children from Quality Hill. Quality Hill. The idea behind the toy lending library started In the early by Mrs. Hagerman was not alone to supply chil seventies a n d dren with toys, although many of the children eighties, when possessed not even a ten cent toy of their own. the west was But it was primarily to give the children of Qual new, Quality ity Hill the security of belonging to a group, a Hill was the fundamental yearning, and desired, most ardently neighborhood of all, by underprivileged children. of the early m r s . b . h . h a g e r m a n day a r i S t O - Founder of Toy Library A T FIRST, people thought that experience crats. Here the pioneer lawyers, railroad presi would show that the toys would not be re dents, founders of great meat packing industries turned. But the cynical lost their cynicism. First and city planners built magnificent mansions. On of all, each child who came was issued a library the bluffs high over the Missouri River, Quality card to the toy lending library, which had to be Hill was the residential district of the business signed by a parent or guardian who understood leaders of the new city, and its homes were graced the rules of the library. The system was worked by the loveliest women of early day society. out so that there was no punishment for accident For many years now Quality Hill has been de to a toy, but great reward for good care. Each serted by the descendants of those families, and child’s card was given a rating, from A, the high today it is the poorest district in the city. But est, to C, the lowest. The little girl who has earned within its confines still stands the earliest church an A rating on her library card is entitled to take built in the city, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathe home for a week, one of the best dolls, while the dral, evolved through the years from the first lit little boy with an A rating is privileged to take tle frame Episcopal Church built in 1874. out one of the best wheel toys, such as roller Sunday mornings still find members of the old skates or a bi families attending Grace and Holy Trinity Cathe cycle. This was dral, although their homes now lie far to the done to develop south. In the congregation was one woman with in the child a eyes to see the conditions existing along the streets sense of re through which she passed on her way to services. sponsibility. It Mrs. B. Haywood Hagerman, member of an old worked mira Quality Hill family, and mother of three daugh cles. If a little ters, had done j uvenile court work in Kansas City. girl seemed to She was filled with the desire to give children the want to keep things it was natural for them to desire and over the same doll which they were becoming delinquent. It was not a n d demon an original idea which Mrs. Hagerman took to strated her Dean Claude Willard Sprouse. For months she ability to be a had been cutting out clippings about a similar good mother to project. that doll, In the hot summer of 1937, she set to work to bringingit collect discarded toys from friends with which to back every start the toy lending library which was to open in Saturday f o r the early fall in the basement of Grace and Holy six weeks, with Trinity Cathedral. Not only did she collect them, its clothes but she assorted and reconditioned them. On hear washed, or ing of her plan, a paint manufacturer gave the AN ATTRACTIVE LIBRARIAN Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS.Some Permission newrequired for reuseChecking and publication. Out Toys for Children Page Six T H E WITNESS August 24, 1939

thing she had made for it, she was allowed to keep though we know much about the old Latin church the doll. It then belonged to her. of North Africa from writings like those of Ter- Every Wednesday a committee of young women tullian and St. Augustine, we have no remains of from the church meets at Mrs. Hagerman’s house the old African liturgy. And, in fact, we do not to recondition the toys brought back to the library today possess a single manuscript of a prayer book on the preceding Saturday. All the dolls are from any part of the Western Church in the first washed thoroughly, their hair brushed and aired, six centuries of its existence. The “ Leonine Sac and clean clothes put on them. All contagious ramentary,” probably only a private collection of disease in the district is immediately reported to prayers, and two bishops’ manuals, the “ Gelasian” the Cathedral by a visiting nurse, so that the cards and “ Gregorian” Sacramentaries, are the oldest. can be checked immediately, and the toys de One of the most interesting of these old prayer stroyed, or sent to the city hospital for fumiga books is the “ Bobbio Missal.” It is the oldest sur tion. Mrs. Hagerman finds herself begging scraps viving missal, i.e., the oldest book to include not of material for doll dresses, and kid gloves out of only the bishop’s part like a sacramentary, but which her committee makes doll shoes, which are also the choir parts and the scripture passages to hard to find and comparatively expensive. They be read by the deacons and lectors. It derives its also resole all old doll shoes. name from the monastery at Bobbio in northern One Saturday morning just before opening time Italy where it was found at the end of the 17th at ten o’clock, a snow storm blew up. Only three century by the great French Benedictine scholar, or four children came. One child brought the Mabillon, who took it to Paris to his own monas card of a child who lived in the same house. Mrs. tery, whence it was removed at the time of the Hagerman inquired about the absence of the other French Revolution to the Bibliothèque Nationale. child. Some scholars have maintained that the famous “ Oh,” answered the little boy, “ he hasn’t any Irish missionary Columbanus first brought it to overshoes, and his shoes have holes in the bottom Bobbio when he founded the monastery there in of them, and he couldn’t get here.” the year 614. The next Saturday, it was bright, clear and But Professor Lowe of Princeton, a great ex warm. The toy lending library was swarming pert in palaeography, dates it to about 710 A.D. with children. Mrs. Hagerman realized that in This is his account of its origin: “ A little over stead of one, there had been two hundred little twelve hundred years ago in an obscure village boys and girls with no wearable shoes or galoshes. somewhere on this side of the Alps an old cleric Anyone who has seen a toy lending library in once copied a service-book. His hand was not action would be convinced of its importance. very steady, but he wrote with a will, and meant Once a week for a brief hour or two, these chil to do a good job. His parchment was not of the dren of a city’s poorest district can forget that best, and his penmanship showed that he was no home is a place where there is never enough to master of the craft. He had little time, busy eat, or enough room in which to live, and all the priest that he was, for over-care or refinements to rest of the tragedy of poverty. It is a project bestow on titles and rubrics. But he could not which might well become a part of the activities deny himself the pleasure of some ornamentation, of any organized group of church or club women so when he could he copied a decorative initial, in many cities. with results pathetic in their crudity. The old scribe was trying to follow his original page for page. When he came to passages he knew by Prayer Book Inter-Leaves heart, such as lessons from the gospels or | prophets, he often cast a mere glance at his copy, T he B obbio M issal and trusted his memory for the rest. He was a OST of us have attics or bureau drawers in simple, downright man—no purist in spelling or M which we preserve old receipted bills and grammar. He wrote as he spoke; and he had cancelled checks. But pur old prayer books we small regard for case or verb endings. He could throw away. That is exactly what the ancients not afford many books, so he crowded into his did. Students of classical ^ltiquity have the bene Missal much more than properly belonged there. fit o f ' countless - business documents brought to And when his parchment went back on him, he light by modern .excavations. But liturgiologists borrowed fortuitous scraps. In the centuries that struggle vainly to reconstruct the history of early have elapsed since the writing of the Missal, many Christian worship.-because so few prayer books a priceless manuscript treasure has been have survived from the first centuries. Thus, al- destroyed and lost to us forever. By some strange

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. August 24, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Seven freak of fate, this homely copy by an obscure, un who admitted that he was a “ rumseller.” He was named cleric has survived to puzzle and to edify asked what he could do. us.” “ I can build jails and prisons and poorholises,” Other related manuscripts are the “ Gothic he replied. ■ u J Missal” of about the same date, now in the Vati “ Is that all ?” ' ' " ' ' f ~ S ■ can library, and the “ Stowe Missal” of a hundred “ No, I can fill them. I can fill your jails with years later, now in the Royal Irish Academy in criminals, your prisons with convicts, and your Dublin. These, also, were books used by the Irish poorhouses with paupers. I can bring the gray missionaries. hairs of the aged to the grave with sorrow, I can break the heart of the wife, and blast the This column, which appears every other week, is written by Dean W. P. Ladd of Berkeley Divinity School, 80 Sachem Street, New Haven, prospects of the friends of talents, and fill your Connecticut, to whom questions and communications can be sent. land with more than the plagues of Egypt.” And so on with similar unwarranted violence. In the same vein one could turn the tables on the mason who is supposed to be so virtuous by L e t ’s K n o w reason of his profession. Let the mason say— “ I By can build you shoddy houses which will collapse BISHOP WILSON in the first wind and kill your children. I can build you smelly barns which will attract all Pillar of F ire "DECENTLY I received through the mail a copy manner of vermin and be plague spots for the spread of disease. I can build you unsafe bridges of a publication called “ The Dry Legion.” It is which will crash under a moderate load and hurl published by a small religious sect known as the you all to a watery death in the river. I can steal “ Pillar of Fire” with headquarters in Denver. your money with high costs and poor workman On the front cover is the picture of the editor, ship—thus sending you to those same horrifying a motherly appearing woman who is denominated poorhouses.” as Bishop Alma White. What good can come from that kind of The Pillar of Fire is an offshoot of the Pente costal or Holiness movement and dates from the propaganda? And what righteousness can attach year 1901. It operates schools in Zarephath, N. to a religious appeal based on such extrava gances? Perhaps one cannot expect reasonable J., in Los Angeles, in Cincinnati, and in Denver. The membership runs to about ten thousand per ness from the confirmed propagandist but one does revolt from such a misapplication of the sons. A few years ago the head of this group was Christian religion. the Rev. Alma White. Now she is known as Bishop Alma White. I do not know just when or how the change occurred. The official publica tion is the Dry Legion, dedicated to a fight against alcohol and tobacco and urging the return of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution. CONFIRMATION INSTRUCTIONS No doubt there are a good many abuses in the liquor business as it is conducted today and I = By BISHOP JOHNSON would not deny the right of anyone to crusade for prohibition. But after our national experi A revised edition of ence with the Eighteenth Amendment, it seems these famous instruc strange that its proponents should resort to the tions, with several ad same twisted exaggerations which played such a ditional chapters on large part in underlining the effectiveness of all the history of the prohibition legislation. Church. For instance, one article in this publication 50c for single copies tells of a company of people who banded them $4 for a dozen copies selves together in a mutual benefit society. Vari ous persons applied for membership, each one stating his qualifications. There was the mason THE WITNESS who was asked what he could do. “ Oh,” he re 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue plied, “ I can build your barns and houses, stables CHICAGO • ILLINOIS and bridges.” Whereupon he was gladly wel comed into membership. Finally came a man

NEWS NOTES OF ent negotiations for organic unity Off-Moment Department with the Protestant Episcopal Church. THE CHURCH IN His distinguished leadership will be BRIEF PARAGRAPHS missed in these various activities. sH Edited by E dward J. M ohr Canon Douglas Observes Lorin Bradford Young, for thir Anniversary teen years associate minister at the The fortieth anniversary of the or Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn dination of the Rev. Canon Winfred Heights, New York City, on August Douglas was celebrated in Evergreen, 13 announced his acceptance of a call Colo., on August 6. Canon Douglas to the rectorship of Grace Church, has served this mountain village dur Manchester, N. H. The Manchester ing the summer months throughout parish is the largest Protestant his ministry, having established the church and conference center there. Church in the city and the second H» »{• largest parish in the diocese of New Hampshire. In announcing his ac Cambridge Church to ceptance of the call Mr. Young ex Have Two Organists pressed gratitude for the support the Because of the large number of INew York congregation had extended services with music held at Christ "to him. During his stay in New York Church, Cambridge, on weekdays as Mr. Young has exerted wide leader well as Sundays, the church will have ship in social and religious thought two organists and choirmasters in the among the younger clergy in the east. fall. W. Judson Rand, at present as Mr. Young was graduated from Har sistant to Coke-Jephcote at the vard College in 1923, and from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Episcopal Theological School, Cam New York, will be organist and choir bridge, in 1926. He has served on master of the parish, and will have the Commission on International Jus charge of the boys’ and girls’ choirs, tice and Good Will, and the Commis as well as the choir of Radcliffe Col sion for Economic Justice of the lege, which has daily services at the Brooklyn Church Federation, as presi church. Everett Titcomb, composer dent of the Long Island Clerical A couple of distinguished gentle and choirmaster of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston, will be League, vice chairman of the Depart men, both noted in their chosen the director of a new Schola Can- ment of Christian Social Justice of fields. At the right, The Rev. Nelson torum of Christ Church, and will the diocese of Long Island, and a Burroughs, welcoming to St. John’s, have charge of music Sunday and member of the Diocesan Council. He Troy, N. Y., where he is the energetic Wednesday nights, and of Harvard was the American Editor of a collec rector, the Rev. George B. Gilbert, students at a Sunday morning service tion of prayers and litanies, “ The rural missionary of Connecticut. Parson Gilbert was recently asked by of Holy Communion. Kingdom, the Power and the Glory,” * * * known as the Grey Book. He is a Harper Brothers to write an autobiog member of the executive committee raphy since he was designated in a Fair Has H ome of the CLID. Mr. Young will begin nationwide contest as the country’s Missions Day his new work in Manchester on Oc most typical country parson. The Work among migrant laborers, In tober 1. fame brought him a four page spread dians, workers on government dam in a weekly picture magazine but projects, and rural and city under- Laymen to Serve Gilbert writes us, “I’m not so sure priviliged by the Council of Women Colorado Missions about the book. I’ve got my people for Home Missions and the Home to look after.” He is a regular con Missions Council will be dramatized Plans for the use of laymen in tributor to The Witness, his most in programs at the New York World’s serving and developing mission sta recent article having appeared in the Fair on September 1, which has been tions in Colorado have been devel August 10th number— which is by designated “ Home Missions Day.” oped by Bishop Ingley of that dio way of saying that if he is going to Motion pictures, music, and sketches cese. After a meeting of 32 lay read get himself famous we propose to will be used to explain the work. ers recently at Evergreen Bishop horn in on it a bit. Nominations N= * * Ingley announced that a special please for Off-Moments—with pic London Congress to Deal course of training for laymen will tures. with Social Impacts be inaugurated this fall in Denver. In an announcement last week the The course is being prepared by the Rev. B. I. Bell of Providence said that examining chaplains, and after tak a leader in the movement for Church the sixth Anglo-Catholic Congress in ing it the laymen will be authorized unity, died in New York on August London next July, “ instead of con to conduct services and make their 13, 73 years of age. Mr. Stevenson cerning itself with matters of ritual own addresses. Bishop Ingley said had been particularly active in the and doctrine,” will deal with the that this will make possible the devel World Conference on Faith and Or “ economic, social and political im opment of missions which do not now der, having been a vice president of pacts of Anglo-Catholicism.” Its title have regular services, and also train the continuation committee and is to be “ Congress of Christ the a group of laymen to be of greater chairman of the American section King: King of Kings, Lord of Lords, service to the Church. since 1927. He was also a member and only Ruler of Princes.” The * . * * of the provisional committee of the Royal Albert Hall, the largest in Lon Great Presbyterian World Council of Churches. As chair don, with a seating capacity of Leader Dies man of the department of Church co 15,000, has been engaged for the ses J. Ross Stevenson, from 1914 to operation and union of the Presby sions. Daily communions will be held 1936 president of Princeton Theologi terian Church in the U.S.A. he was at St. Paul’s Cathedral. There are cal Seminary, and for many decades in charge for that Church of the pres- already over 8,000 members enrolled

at a shilling each, with a total en F. Hubert of the Georgia State Col rollment of over 50,000 expected. Front Page Churchman lege has offered to give the Georgia The subjects to be discussed are: the dioceses land and $100 for permanent kingship of Christ; the priesthood of buildings, provided the offer is ac the laity; Christian social revolution; cepted by the end of the year. social and international morals; the * ❖ ❖ Christian family; Church unity in the Other Matters in light of social need; and the relation Ablewhite Resignation ship of world revolution to Christian The recent statement of Presiding missions. Nigel Scott, the general Bishop Tucker absolving Bishop Able- secretary, who has headed the great white of Northern Michigan in con slum clearance project in St. Pancras, nection with the shortage of funds in London, in the first announcement the diocese was made in reference to says that “ this congress will seek to affairs other than those on which proclaim Catholicism to be a revolu Bishop Ablewhite’s resignation is tion, not merely in individual lives, based. Bishop Tucker pointed out but in the whole business of living.” that Bishop Ablewhite was not re * * * sponsible for losses prior to his be Howe School coming head of the diocese, nor for in Indiana losses in connection with certain se Howe School, a progressive Mili curities turned over to a Chicago man tary Boarding School for boys, situ for investment. The resignation of ated on a 40-acre campus at the Bishop Ablewhite, and the grounds northern edge of the village of Howe, upon which it is based, remain before Indiana, was founded in 1884. A lib the House of Bishops for its consid eral bequest to the Episcopal Church eration and action. by the northern Indiana lawyer John H: H* Badlam Howe made it possible for Rejoins School Bishop Knickerbacker to establish F a cu lty this school for the Christian edu Harry R. Drummond, assistant cation of American youth. Its early KENNETH C. M. SILLS is more headmaster of Shattuck School, Fari growth was fostered by the gener than the President of Bowdoin Col bault, Minn., from 1922 to 1936, has osity of John Howe’s wife and broth lege. He is also an extremely active rejoined the faculty of the school. er. Since its founding Howe has Churchman. For a number of years Since 1936 he has been studying at grown steadily and for many years he has been a vestryman of St. Paul’s, Columbia University, New York, and has been nationally recognized as one Brunswick, Maine, a member of the its Horace Mann School, and has been of the finest preparatory schools in standing committee of the diocese associated with the Northwestern the Middle West. and a member of several diocesan Military and Naval Academy at Lake Although the school chapel is noted committees. He has been a delegate Geneva, Wisconsin. for its beauty and for the inspiring to General Conventions and was a % ^ * spirit of the Episcopal services, the delegate to the Oxford and Edin Windstorm Wrecks Church cadet corps is a true cross-section of burgh Conferences of 1937. Nomina in South Dakota American youth of all denominations. tions please—with pictures. All Saints Chapel in Martin, South The cadets form a Junior Reserve Of Dakota, was totally destroyed by a ficers Training Corps under the in grades. All the recitation classes are windstorm last month. The church struction of a U. S. Army major as small and each member is expected was part of the Corn Creek mission signed to this duty by the War De to be prepared for recitation every field serving 1550 Indians and 150 partment. As Howe was founded for day. The military training is an im white people. The work is in charge the promotion of Christian education, portant adjuct to academic efficiency. of the Rev. Vine V. Deloria, whose so it has continued to stand for the A cadet learns courtesy, neatness, residence was also largely destroyed. highest type of preparation for col promptness and respect for authority. lege and life. The superintendent and A complete athletic program, with Capacity Attendance the members of the faculty are highly interscholastic contests in football, at Adelynrood trained university graduates who are baseball, track, basketball, tennis and The conference on social justice specially qualified to add a sym rifle marksmanship, and intramural held at Adelynrood, South Byfield, pathetic personal touch to the well- wrestling, boxing, tumbling, bad Mass., under the auspices of the So rounded academic curriculum which is minton, etc., allows each cadet to take ciety of the Companions of the Holy necessary for thorough preparation part in sports of his own choosing. Cross August 10 to 14 had an attend for entrance to college. * * * ance filling the house to its capacity. The limited size of the student Georgia Negro Camp The program was divided equally be body assures the understanding and Scores Success tween consideration of Roman Cath treatment o f each cadet as an indi The first Duncan J. Scott religious olic and Protestant views on main vidual entitled to special considera training camp for colored youth at currents of Christian social thought tion as such, and this individual at the Camilla-Zack community center and action. The Rev. Gardiner M. tention is carried through by means in Hancock County, Georgia, ended Day, rector of St. Stephen’s Church, of a faculty advisory system, a com successfully on August 9. It was at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., discussed social plete guidance program, close con tended by 55 children from the dio thinking on the basis of the Prayer tact with those in authority and a ceses of Georgia and Atlanta. The Book, while Muriel Lester of London flexible study program. This pro camp was established through the ef dealt with Christian attitudes toward gram of studies is so arranged that forts of Archdeacon Brown of war. The Roman Catholic speakers a cadet can enroll for any combi Georgia, who was also the director. were the Rev. Thomas J. Darby, nation of subjects even though his Steps were taken to increase facilities member of the faculty of the Ca personal requirements may call for next year, including the purchase of thedral College of New York, and classes in several different school a cow to furnish milk. President B. Dorothy Day, editor of the Catholic

Worker. The Rev. George W. Shep days when residents cooked and ate House provides a place for confer herd, for 20 years a Congregational in tents outside the dwelling, the ences of the Woman’s Auxiliary and missionary in China, and a close per school grew, until in 1931 it was other Church organizations, and in sonal friend of Generalissimo Chiang moved to its present location where the past few summers, for the ses Kai-Shek and his wife, gave an ac it can now accommodate 25 young sions of the Pacific Coast School for count of his work in the New Life women. At the time of the purchase Workers. The present dean, Ethel M. Movement. Vida D. Scudder gave a of the property where it is now lo Springer, succeeded Deaconess Anna summary of the work and thought of cated, the United Thank Offering of G. Newell, who died in 1937. the conference. the national Woman’s Auxiliary con H« * H* * * * tributed $20,000 for a dormitory, Church Schools Studied Church Building for which, in addition to the main ad at Sewanee Conference Children Planned ministration building, makes up the A special weekend conference on Plans to incorporate a small church present plant. It is located within church school work and parent educa for children in the parish house of one block of the Church Divinity tion was held at Sewanee, Tenn., Aug the Church of the Holy Comforter, School of the Pacific, with which it is ust 17 to 20, immediately after the Kenilworth, 111., were disclosed re closely affiliated, and whose dean, the close of the Sewanee Summer School. cently by the rector, the Rev. Leland Very Rev. Henry H. Shires, is warden The Rev. Leon C. Palmer, chairman Danforth. It is planned as a step of the house. Its yrestern windows of the parent-education division of in the development of a shrine for the overlook San Francisco Bay, with its the provincial department of religious celebrated “ children’s poet,” Eugene Golden Gate and bridges, and toward education, was in charge. The confer Field, who is buried in the church the south and east the view takes in ence opened with a panel discussion yard. The church would have small the campus of the great University of on “ What is a satisfactory child?” pews, altar and reed organ, where the California and the Berkeley hills. Discussions of practical problems and children of the kindergarten and The course of training, as organ parish programs followed. Among primary grades could have their own ized in all the training schools of the those taking part in the program were choir and services under a teacher’s Church, is based on the courses out the Rev. Vernon C. McMaster of the supervision. It would have its own lined in Canon 24 for the order of National Council staff, Maude Cutler, roof and appropriate windows. deaconesses. In addition to this provincial field worker of Sewanee, * * academic work, which is given in co Elizabeth Yundt of Lexington, and operation with the Church Divinity Annie Morton Stout of Memphis. Rural Deans Given Responsibility School and the Pacific School of Re * * * Bishop Lawrence of Western Mass ligion, each woman is assigned to Indians Hold achusetts has made arrangements work with an institution or organiza Annual Convocation whereby the deans of the three con tion for practical experience. In The Rev. George A. Wieland, Na vocations of the diocese will have ac many cases the training at the house tional Council secretary of domestic tive responsibilities in connection serves to adapt to Church work pro missions, and Governor Harland with the rural work. They will co fessional training previously acquired. Bushfield of South Dakota addressed operate with the clergy of their con The rooms at the house which are not the annual convocation of the Indians vocation in the plans and work of the used by women in training provide diocese, thus relieving the bishop. quarters for women students at the * * * university. Thus many students come in contact with Church influence. St. St. Margaret’s House, Visiting the New York Berkeley, California Margaret’s has a third function in Saint Margaret’s House, in Berk that it is the center for activities of World’s Fair? eley, California, the only training Episcopal students at the university, of which over a thousand are regis When in New York, plan on school for women Church workers spending the morning visiting our west o f Chicago, was established in tered. These activities are planned beautiful and spacious book store 1907, first as a parochial activity con by a student chaplain and college — the only one of its type in the nected with Saint Mark’s Church; lat worker, the latter residing in the Church— maintained for the bene er as a diocesan project; and at house. Beyond this St. Margaret’s fit of Churchmen from Coast to length, as its usefulness increased, it Coast. came to be a provincial institution, of We are conveniently located interest not merely to the Church- just one-half block east of the people of the West Coast but to the Fifth Avenue Public Library, at 14 national Church as well. From early WARD, WELLS East 41st Street, between Fifth AND DRESHMAN and Madison Avenues. Begin your World’s Fair trip Philanthropic Finance from here. Bus and subway direct PAYNE - SPIERS STUDIOS, to the Fair are within one block 50 w e s t ;! 5th STREET. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. August 24, 1939 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven of Niobrara Deanery of South Da pal Theological School, General The the event. The House of Bishops in kota, which was held at St. John Bap ological Seminary, Nashotah House, 1938 provided for a committee to tist Chapel, Crow Creek Reservation, Bishop Payne Divinity School, Theo make arrangements for the celebra July 30 to August 1. Every reserva logical Seminary at Sewanee, and tion, and this consists of Bishops tion was represented. The offering Virginia Theological Seminary. Stires of Long Island, Stewart of for the program of the Church was Chicago, and Page of Michigan. The over $3,900, an increase of $300 over Prayer Book Anniversary committee is preparing special- pray 1938. James Driving Hawk was or Will Be Observed ers which will be ready September 1. dained to the diaconate. Presiding Bishop Tucker has desig * * * * * * nated October 15 as the day for a Gift of Rice Bexley Will Observe church-wide observance of the 150th Property Accepted C en ten n ial anniversary of the adoption of the The trustees of the diocese of One hundred years ago Bishop Book of Common Prayer for the Western Massachusetts have accepted Charles P. Mcllvaine laid the corner Church in America. He has sug the offer of the Rev. Otis R. Rice of stone of Bexley Hall, the divinity gested the use of a drama written by Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., to give school of Kenyon College, at Gam- the Rev. Phillips E. Osgood to mark the diocese the residence of his family bier, Ohio. The anniversary will be celebrated at Bexley on October 22 and 23. The school was begun through the work of Bishop Chase, under the corporate name of “ The Theological Seminary of the Protes tant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Ohio,” because he could not obtain men for the rapidly growing needs of the middle west, so called. When Bishop Mcllvaine succeeded Bishop Chase in 1832 he decided to improve the organization and equipment of the seminary, and raised funds for the purpose in England. Lord Bex ley was a generous donor, and it was after him that the hall was named. for yourself and your dependents In 1891 the title “ Kenyon College” was adopted for the whole school. The commemoration in October will honor Clergymen, vestrymen, active lay workers, and the work of Bishops Chase and Mc llvaine as well as that of the seminary members of their immediate families are eligi and college, and all alumni and ble to secure LOW COST LIFE and RETIRE Churchpeople will be invited to at tend. He H1 H* MENT INSURANCE and ANNUITIES from Consecration of the Church Life Insurance Corporation. Suffragan Set The necessary consents from the Many lay workers do not know that this oppor bishops and standing committees of the Church have been received for tunity is available. If any of those who are the consecration of the Rev. Edwin J. Randall as suffragan bishop of Chi eligible will send us their names and the names cago, which has been set for Septem ber 29 in the Church of the Epiphany. of members of their immediate families, we Presiding Bishop Tucker will be the shall send information with regard to the in consecrator and Bishop Stewart of Chicago one of the co-consecrators. surance and annuity contracts issued by the * * * Corporation. Graduate School Sessions End The summer session of the Grad We employ no agents, all business being con uate School of Applied Religion in Cincinnati, which has just closed, had ducted by correspondence. an enrollment of 25 students from 9 Church seminaries. The schools rep For information write to the resented were Bexley Hall, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Episco

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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Twelve T H E WITNESS August 24, 1939 in Springfield. The house will pro Tugwell, Bishops Oldham of Albany the Church. Enlighten their minds vide rooms for the Woman’s Auxili and Freeman of Washington, Rein with the light of the Everlasting ary, the diocesan studio, and other hold Niebuhr, Congresswoman Caro Gospel, strengthen their wills, and offices. line O’Day, Lieutenant Governor stir them with desire for justice and He H* * Charles Poletti of New York, Gov brotherhood in all the world. Give Newport Headmaster ernors Olson of California, Lehman them such clear knowledge of Thy A p p o in te d of New York, and Saltonstall of truth, and such Faith in Thee, that Chauncey H. Beasley has been ap Massachusetts, Prof. John Dewey, they may do their part with stead pointed headmaster of St. Michael’s, a John L. Lewis, William Green and fastness, with courage, and with joy Church school for boys at Newport, Senator Robert F. Wagner. fulness, for Thy sake Who livest and R. I. Announcement of the appoint reignest with the Father and the ment was made by Bishop Perry of All Faiths Take Part Holy Ghost ever, one God, world Rhode Island. in Williamstown Institute without end. Amen.” He Hi Hi Representative Protestant, Catholic * * * Conferences Start and Jewish clergymen and laymen On the Road Michigan Program from all sections of the country will to Mandalay Bishop Coadjutor Creighton of meet at the 1939 Williamstown Insti Thieves, bouts of malaria, trach Michigan and Bishop Bartlett of tute of Human Relations to be held oma, sunburn and blistered heels, Idaho, former executive secretary for on the campus of Williams College, extra expenses, with illness and death domestic missions, will lead a series Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, to discuss the at among their traveling companions, of conferences for the field depart titudes and methods which the re are some of the circumstances in- ment of the diocese of Michigan at ligious forces of America should Port Huron September 5 to 10. They adopt to insure the preservation of will make preparations for the fall religious liberty in this country. The Annual Retreat for program and canvass. Various aspects general theme of the institute, to be College Clergy, Schoolmasters of leadership and budgetary matters held under the auspices of the Na and Others Interested will be discussed. tional Conference of Christians and Under the auspices of the Hi Hi Hi Jews, will be, “ Citizenship and Re Church Society for College Work Manual Against ligion.” St. Mark’s School, Southborough Intolerance Issued September 12-14, 1939 Conductor: Rev. Theodore O. Wedel, The Council Against Intolerance in Special Prayer For College of Preachers America has issued a manual for Youth Issued Leaders of Conference which follows Retreat teachers entitled “ An American An Bishop Manning of New York has Rev. Alden D. Kelley, National Council swer to Intolerance,” through which set forth a special prayer for youth Prof. John D. Wild, Harvard Rev. H.M.P. Davidson, St. George’s School it seeks to further techniques in the for use in his diocese: “ 0 Lord Jesus Rev. Frederic B. Kellogg, Harvard classroom to create tolerance and an Christ, Who dost promise to all who Cost $5.00 appreciation of democracy. Various serve Thee faithfully in Thy Church For further information write that by the power of the Holy Spirit REV. FREDERIC KELLOGG school systems have recently intro Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass. duced “ tolerance” courses in their they shall be witnesses unto Thee: curriculum, following the lead of Send down Thy grace and blessing at New York City’s successful experi this time upon all Thy people, and ment last spring. The council is especially upon the young people of headed by Senator W. Warren Bar > ' r g e is s l e r .in g < bour, William Allen White, and 4 J 0 SIXTH AyE.NEAR 10 th S t NEW YORK ■George Gordon Battle, a Churchman. Church furnishings Among its members are Rexford Guy THIS WEEK S IN CARVED WOOD AND & B B H MARBLE-BRASS-SILVER SERMONETTE FABRICS + W IN D O W S ' ERNEST W. 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volved for the American women who quarters of a C.I.O. local for strik Episcopalian. A talk was then made have accompanied the Hankow di ing Yellow Cab drivers in the city, by the Mayor of New York, Hon. ocesan schools—from 200 to 400 and members of the oratory are aid F. H. LaGuardia, an Episcopalian. boys and girls—in their successful at ing the strikers in every way pos Another talk was made by the rep tempt to keep open. War is not to sible. The oratory is now ending its resentative of the British Gov interrupt the education of these young third year of work under the direc ernment, Sir Louis Beal, an Epis future leaders of China if the mission tion of the Rev. F. Hastings Smyth. copalian. The main address was aries have their way. First the The house has a chapel and library, made by the president of the U. S., schools left Wuchang and Hankow, and provides a center for study and an Episcopalian. The most distin in the autumn of 1937 before the for student work in cooperation with guished guests of the fair will be Japanese military entered that area, Christ Church. One of the resident the King and Queen of England, and went off to a place called Chuen members, John F. Russell, is secre both of whom are communicants of Hsien in a neighboring province; tary of Labor’s Non-Partisan League the Church of England. this was inaccessible for supplies and in Cambridge, and Mr. Smyth is only too accessible for bombing chairman of the Cambridge branch of planes, so they all packed up and the American League for Peace and moved further west to Ch’in Lung Democracy. * * * Wilbur Herbert Burnham San, Green Dragon Hill; this in turn One Service for has proved untenable, and the patient A n o th e r Designer and Master crowd, students, Chinese teachers The rule at St. Luke’s Church, Craftsman and their families, and the Ameri Minneapolis, of which the Rev. F. D. cans, have been moving farther west Tyner is rector, is “ Church once a and south into the province of Yun Stained and Leaded Glass Sunday, Communion once a Month.” nan where the new school year will After the early service on a recent open at Tsen Nan (or Chennan) near Sunday the rector found this note on Studios 1126 Boylston Street Kunming, on the road to Mandalay, his desk: but probably not on any map. “ Mr. Tyner: Boston, Massachusetts The most beautiful scenery in all We attended Communion this China is said to be in the province morning we want to be counted as of Yunnan, with incredible mountains in Sunday School. We want to go THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK like those in old Chinese paintings. fishing Henry is leaving his money SOCIETY At the safe distance of several thou Founded by Bishop White 1833 with you. Bob Newcomb Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par sands miles it sounds romantic. The Henry Simacek” ishes unable to purchase them, in limited romance wears a little thin when it grants. The Book of Common Prayer. involes three or four days’ walking in The Fair and the The Combined Book (The Book of Common Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). the dust and heat, or riding in trucks C h urch Pew Size piled up first with boxes, then with An item in the North Carolina bedding rolls, then with twenty or Apply to Rev. W. Arthur Warner, D.D. Churchman makes these observa Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. thirty people on top of all. Just be tions: The New York World’s Fair Philadelphia, Pa. fore they started the last journey a commemorates the 150th anniversary CLERGYMAN—at present young peoples’ baby was born to one of the Chinese of the inauguration of the first presi director in large suburban parish, ex-teacher, women and died soon after; the dent of the U. S. George Washing moderate Churchmanship, desires part-time position as assistant while doing literary work mother nearly died. The American ton, an Episcopalian. The fair was and graduate study. Good references. W rite: women who have gone along and opened in the Temple of Religion Box 335, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. helped to guide the fortunes of the with a great service led by an Epis Atlantic City: 103 Stratford Ave. closed for schools are Hazel Gosline of Balti copal bishop, the Rt. Rev. John B. summer. Applications for Sept, forwarded more, Martha Sherman of Cincinnati, Larned, of Long Island. The first from that address. Mrs. Neel. and Venetia Cox of Winterville, N. speech was made by the president of RESTHAVEN C. Miss Cox is now in tne United the fair, Hon. Grover Whalen, an Saint Augustine. Florida States on furlough and the other two Sisters of The Resurrection have again opened are having a brief holiday in China. 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Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. ______CL* Hl/r v< f 1 | Ej ID MONTH L M U U L L E T I N AUGUST, 1939 EDITORIAL debt. It is merely, as Bishop Hobson says, an extension of our generous T)OVERTY and unemployment are impulses. This is an opportunity for inseparable from the present the zealous missionary spirit. These economic order, and can be abolished people are our neighbors. As neigh only by a radical change in that or bors we help them because charity der. While many economic reforms has no boundaries.” may be adopted under the present system, such as the abolition of child labor, a minimum wage, shortened H EADQUARTERS hours and genuine collective bar T H E Executive Secretary lectured gaining, thus aiding a peaceful at the summer school of Union transition to a juster industrial or Seminary early in August in a class der, yet it must now be realized, after made up of ministers and secretaries years of experimentation, that such of religious education. He spoke on measures are but palliatives and that the work and activities of the CLID. the profit motive in industry must it On August 5th he took part in a self be eliminated and replaced by broadcast over station WHN as an some form of cooperative industrial arbitrator, the most interesting case and agricultural order, organized and being that of a worker who refused controlled in the interest of the great to work during a strike even though mass of the American people. A it meant unusual suffering for his planned national economy is not only wife and four children. Mr. Spof- desirable but imperative, if economic ford contended that the worker was security for the people is to be to be admired for making a person achieved; if ethical and spiritual val al sacrifice for what he considered ues are to be preserved; if our de a social gain, and he was supported mocracy is to endure. Church peo BELARMINO WITH HIS SISTER in this decision by Commissioner ple must work for a new economic Belarmino was taken from a Moss of New York in a two to one order based on cooperation, as op French Concentration Camp by Can decision. The third arbitrator, Paul posed to the present competitive sys on and Mrs. Gilbert P. Symons of George McAneny, chairman of the tem. Local groups should be organ Cincinnati. They thus became his board of directors of the Title Guar ized in churches and elsewhere for foster parents when the boy was antee & Trust Company of New educational purposes and to support placed in a home thru the Foster York, contended that the worker by group action all movements hav Parents’ Plan for Spanish Children. should return to work in spite ing in mind these political and eco See story. of the strike in order to save his fam nomic changes. Church people must ily from unnecessary suffering. The support, and attend if possible, any Democracy and other organizations case was happily settled at the con national conferences that may be or working on the Spanish relief prob clusion of the broadcast when a lis ganized to further these objectives.— lem. So far fourteen “ foster par tener called to offer the worker a D a r w i n M b s e r o l e , New York At ents” have been interested and have job where he would not be required torney. removed eleven children from to walk through a picket line. French concentration camps and Forthcoming engagements include REFUGEES placed them in the supervising care an address at the Vermont State of foster homes. Also Mrs. Leo F. Conference on Social Work, his sub jyj.EMBERS of the Cincinnati Chap Westheimer and Miss Elizabeth Mat ject to be “ The Responsibility of the ter of the CLID have organized thews have “ adopted” Spanish chil Layman for Social Welfare and a local committee for the relief of dren so as to provide for them in Progress” ; several addresses in Spanish Refugees. The Rev. Frank France. Mr. Stanley Matthews, for Charleston, West Virginia; an ad Nelson, not a CLID member, is serv mer president of the Cincinnati dress at the forum at the Summer- ing as general chairman. The Rev. CLID, has offered to transport a field Church, New Haven; an ad Wilford Cross, president of the Cin Spanish refugee to Mexico, under a dress to The Group, a diocesan club cinnati CLID, is the executive chair plan which has been worked out by in New York City. man; Mrs. Joseph Fletcher is the sec Dr. Juan Negrin, former premier of retary; Mrs. Richard S. Austin is the Spain, with the Mexican government I NTERCESSIONS treasurer; Miss Hilda Shaul serves as whereby a large number of refugees ^^OD, thou Father of us all , we chairman of the speakers’ bureau and will be allowed to settle in Mexico. praise thee that thou hast bound Miss Ruth Brodie is chairman of the The committee, in its publicity, humanity in a great unity of life so stamp committee -which helps to give makes clear that it is not a political that each must lean on the strength publicity to the plight of refugees. action group. “ All we want to do of all, and depend for his comfort The committee cooperates with the is to bring these children to the and safety on the help and labor of Foster Parents Plan for Spanish Chil shores of the new world. We are all his brothers. dren, the Medical Bureau and North the children of exiles and this is our We invoke thy blessing on all the American Committee to Aid Spanish opportunity to repay an ancestral men and women who have toiled to

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. build and warm our homes, to fashion 6. References and materials deto this material it is the plan of the our raiment, and to wrest from sea scriptive of the type of programs committee to call attention to pamph and land the food that nourishes us mentioned above will be supplied, on lets issued by secular organizations, and our children. request, by the Industrial Division, as was done in the June Bulletin. Grant us wisdom to deal justly and Federal Council of the Churches of CLID material that is at present fraternally with every man and Christ in America, 297 Fourth Ave., available: woman whom we face in the business New York, N. Y. Please enclose 3 Christian Doctrine and Social Ac of life. cent stamp for bibliography or 25 tion 'by Joseph Fletcher, director of Since the comforts of our life are cents for packet of literature. the Graduate School of Applied Reli brought to us from afar, and made gion. 10c a copy. by those whom we do not know nor Fascism, what it is and how it see, grant us organized intelligence PAMPHLETS comes to power. Written anonymous and power that we may send the jgEIN G limited with funds for the ly since the author is in foreign serv command of our righteous will along printing of literature, it is the ice. 10c. the channels of trade and industry, policy of the publication committee What Is This CLID? by Stanley and help to cleanse them of hardness of the CLID to issue only material Matthews. Free. and unfairness. that approaches social and industrial The Church and Labor by Bishop May the time come when we need questions from a definitely Christian Robert Gooden, suffragan bishop of wear and use nothing that is wet in point of view. However in addition Los Angeles. 5c. thy sight with human tears, or cheap ened by wearing down the lives of the weak. Save us, we beseech thee, from unconscious guilt. 01756035" „ " " Vacation Speak thou to our souls and bid us There are thousands of orphaned Spanish strive for the coming of thy king children crowded into concentration camps dom of justice when thy merciful and in France. Their plight is desperate and saving will shall be done on earth.— if they are to survive, they must be taken Amen. out of these concentration camps as quickly as possible. A report just received from France LABOR SUNDAY reads: nnHE Federal Council of Churches, “ At Oloron I saw 640 women and chil as in previous years, has issued a dren living in an old beret factory built in the 18th century. Many of the women Labor Sunday Message, sent to min had new babies and many more were isters with the request that it be read about to become mothers. Malnutrition, sickness, lack of sanitary conditions at their services either on September were to be seen on all sides. There are no beds, all sleep on straw on the 3rd or 10th. Since the Message this ground. I came upon four children, half starved, eating bread and raw chest year deals chiefly with the relation nuts. I had to turn away, filled with sorrow, when they offered me some ship of farmers and industrial of their meal. workers, a number of suggestions are The Foster Parents Plan has established seven children’s colonies near offered which may be useful in pro Biarritz, France. Here the children receive a fresh start in life, with proper moting friendly contacts between food and clothing, and loving care. From the letters and photographs sent to their Foster Parents here in America, we know they are happy. these groups. We have made arrangements with the French authorities to remove children 1. City and rural ministers may from the concentration camps and take them into our colonies. It costs 30 exchange pulpits on Labor Sunday, cents a day or $9 a month to maintain one child. Rural Life Sunday, or on other ap Will you “ adopt” a child? Save it from almost certain death in the con propriate occasions. centration camps? Will you speak to your friends and ask them to help? It is 2. Young people’s, women’s or terribly urgent. Starvation does not wait. Hunger takes no vacation. men’s organizations within the con ERIC G. MUCGERIDCE, Executive Secretary. gregation may carry out special proj ects in rural-urban relations. a. Dramatics —• emphasizing the social, ethical and religious aspects PARTIAL LIST OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH SPONSORS of labor and farm problems. AND FOSTER PARENTS b. Study trips to headquarters of labor unions and farm organizations The Duchess of Athol I Archibald MacLeish Mrs. James Roosevelt Helen Hayes Dr. Mary E. Woolley The Earl of Listowell in order to become acquainted with John Langdon-Davies Dame Sybil Thorndike Efrem Zimbalist their purposes and activities. Thomas Mann Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Lillian D. Wald c. Study of the economic coopera Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Tallulah Bankhead Lady O’Conor tive movement in urban and rural communities, by means of discussion groups, field trips to nearby coopera FOSTER PARENTS PLAN FOR SPANISH CHILDREN tives, special speakers and motion 55 West Forty-second Street, New York City Telephone: LOngacre 5-2174 pictures. 3. Churches may invite labor_ co A. I wish to become a Foster Parent of a Spanish child for one year. If possible, sex...... age...... I will pay $.30 per day and will also from operative and farm leaders to speak time to time send personal greetings to my foster child. My payments will be at church forums and special meet made monthly...... quarterly...... yearly...... I enclose herewith ings. $...... for my first payment. 4. Special church suppers: a city church invites a rural congregation B. I wish to donate $...... to the Foster Parents’ Plan. for supper, followed by special speakers and discussion on economic Name .. questions faced by city and rural peo ple; rural churches invite city peo Address ple for the same purpose. 5. Place on the church literature City.. State. Date. table representative pamphlets and leaflets on these issues.

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