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Two members of the Council, Use of Church Funds Debated Charles M. Crump, of Memphis, Tenn., and Prime F. Osborn, of At Executive Council Session Jacksonville, Fla., asked that publication. their votes against the second and * The Executive Council at its considerations as: education of resolution be recorded. quarterly meeting December 10 Africans, development of family Mr. Crump said that "I am reuse to 12 approved a series of reso- life, labor - management r e 1 a- opposed to this, as I am opposed for lutions on the use of Church tions, integration of Africans to other boycotts. I voted funds and their investment or into higher levels of leadership, against the Chicago resolution deposit in banks and companies equalization of wage scales, pen- for the same reasons that I am required doing business in southern sion provisions, social security, against this one. There will be Africa nations. medical benefits, breaking down no real gain. The boycott of In other actions the council: of the pass law system and South Africa is also a boycott other restrictions.

Permission • Approved 27 grants total- of our banks." ling $440,520 to community A second resolution aimed at He had voted for the first organizations under the General banks extending credits to the resolution. DFMS. government of South Africa / Convention Special Program. The Hon. Emmett Harmon, •where apartheid is the official council member from Liberia, in ® Spent almost a full day policy was debated at length the debate on the second resolu- Church discussing the diocesan visita- before being passed. It directed tion described himself as "the tions made during the month of the council's executive and fi- only African in the house." He November by members of the nance committee to consult with said he favored the passage of council. Episcopal the banks in which the Church the resolution. "When we take # Voted not to reconsider its the has deposits or investments and such positive actions it speaks of action in boycotting the city of which are members of the con- all over the world," he declared. Chicago as a site for council sortium of banks extending meetings. The three resolutions were credit to the government of presented by Mrs. Edith Bornn, Archives # Authorized the use of an South Africa. council member from the Virgin additional one million dollars for The resolution said that unless Islands. 2020. investment in ghetto businesses. the executive and finance com- The presentation of the Gen- The action on the investment mittee concludes that the in- eral Convention Special Program of Church funds in southern volvement of the said banks is and its screening and review Copyright Africa banks and businesses positive in promoting the wel- committee was made by Canon took the form of three resolu- fare and education of the people St. Julian A. Simpkins Jr., of tions. The first, which would as outlined in the first resolu- Rochester, N. Y., a member of apply to business establishments tion "the treasurer be directed the committee. in the nations of South Africa, to terminate the council's in- One of the grants for $7,000 South West Africa, Rhodesia, volvement with such banks will be used to help finance the Angola and Mozambique, estab- within a reasonable time." distribution of a documentary lished criteria by which the posi- A third resolution directed film produced by American tive involvement by businesses the committee on trust funds to Documentary Films. Entitled and banks in southern Africa examine its investments and "Huey," the film was produced nations would be judged. take similar action. It was asked in cooperation with the Black The criteria included such to report to the council. Panther Party and tells the JANUABY 2, 1969 Thine story of Huey Newton, Black available lor public relations be made to all dioceses in the Panther leader. purposes to present their story spring of 1969 was referred to Mrs. Cyrus M. Higley, council to the public. ,.,.,, the council's executive and fi- member from Norwich, N. Y., Several speakers, including nance committee for a report at also a member of the screening Bishop Stuart and Mr. Modeste, the February meeting. and review committee, described said that the Special Program Responding to official re- the film as "disturbing" but seemed to be creating in many quests from the dioceses of commended it for showing to areas an interest in the Episco- Quincy and Springfield, the Church audiences. pal Church on the part of many council took up the question of Canon Simpkins said the pic- persons who have been assisted whether or not to reconsider the ture showed "the stark reality through the program. action taken in September which of things that black people face cailed for a one-year boycott of in the ghettos of the United Visits to Dioceses the city of Chicago for council- States." From 10 a.m. until nearly S sponsored .meetings.: i "I have never seen," he said, p.m. on December 11, members By a vote of 40 to' 3 council "a more accurate documentation of the council discussed! r&hat members decided not to recon- publication. of what black people face in the they had learned in visiting 82 sider its action. Three members ghetto today. White people just favoring reconsideration asked and dioceses. don't know." After hearing a report which that their votes be recorded: Bishop George M. Murray, coad- reuse Two Southern bishops, Bishop enumerated the concerns ex- jutor of Alabama; Bishop Rus- for Albert R. Stuart of Georgia, pressed by diocesan groups, the and Bishop George M. Murray council members shared their sell T. Rauscher of Nebraska of Alabama, expressed approval experiences and sought to define and Mr. Osborn. required of self-help projects in their di- the significance of what they In commenting on the action cceses which have been funded had heard. Bishop G. Francis Burrill of by the Special Program. Chicago, who voted against re- Running throughout com- consideration, said that "no good

Permission ments by members was a recog- Bishop Murray Objects can come from further debate. nition that there is a division in We should close ranks and get Bishop Murray in the discus- the Church, a "cleavage" which on with the Church's business." DFMS. / sion of the grants raised the was described as "theological." He had voted against the boy- question of "who we are sup- Mr. Osborn said part of the cott in September, although he posed to support." Is it, he

Church Church believes the Church conceded the resolution had asked, a question of choice be- should be "activist" and others "good motivation." tween "black militant organiza- believe "the Church should con- tions who want nothing to do The one million dollars au- vert individuals who can then Episcopal with the white community or thorized for investment in act." ghetto enterprises will come the groups with which we can work of for change and reconciliation Others expressed the opinion from council undesignated trust and in which there can be local that the question of division funds and will bring to two Episcopal Church involvement." between the Executive Council million dollars the money made

Archives and the local churches was a available for such purposes. The Leon E. Modeste, director of matter of "better communica- council heard from Charles

2020. the Special Program, to whom tions." Bound, New York banker, who the question was directed, indi- reported that nearly a million Public Relations cated that the Church would dollars has already been invested have to seek to assist both types Copyright Bishop Stephen Bayne, Coun- under the program — either as of groups. cil first vice president, said he deposits in ghetto banks or as Mr. Modeste also was. ques- did not believe that it was "a funds made available to "um- tioned about a $4,000 grant to P. R. problem." brella" organizations which aid the Ocean Hill-B r o w n s v i 11 e "The Church is being over- community groups in establish- school board, New York City. communicated," he said. "It's ing their own businesses. He said the grant had been made really a question of how they He said the council had re- to help the local school district can communicate with us." He cently invested $20,000 in a tell its side of the story in a urged the establishment of Harlem foundry which is owned school decentralization dispute better and more open relation- and operated by ghetto entre- with the organized teachers of ships with the bishops and di- preneurs and provides employ- the New York school system. oceses and council. ment for around 40 residents of He said the board had no funds A proposal for a visitation to the Harlem area.

torn THB WITNESS Other highlights of the meet- hungry and poverty stricken in "commercial" rather than a "re- ing included: the and through- ligious" Christmas stamp. • A statement by the Pre- out the world. It would include The 1964 Christmas stamps siding Bishop who reported that education, setting of new priori- depicted poinsettias, pine cones, around $170,000 has been re- ties, greater extra-budgetary holly and mistletoe. Rep. Laird ceived in the Biafra hunger giving, family planning, legisla- criticized the series as "highly appeal. He described it as a tion and cooperation with other commercial . . . purporting to rewarding response by the Churches and secular agencies. convey the 'spirit' of Christmas Church. He contrasted this with but in no way symbolizing the • The election of the Rev. the indifference and "evea hos- true meaning of Christmas." Rustin Kimsey, vicar of St. tility" that some members of The Wisconsin Republi- Stephen's, Baker, Ore., to suc- the Church have shown toward can made his criticism in a ceed Dean William B. Spofford the Special Program. letter to then Postmaster John Jr., recently elected missionary • The approval of a special 1 A. Gronouski. bishop of Eastern Oregon. Bish- order of business on American At that time, he noted that Indians for the February meet- op Russell T. Rauscher of Nebraska attended his first there had been many controver- publication. ing to be presented by Indians. sies over separation of Church The council directed that money meeting of the council as a and representative of the sixth prov- and state, but said that deliber- be made available in the 1969 ately keeping the religious motif budget for a conference of ince. reuse out of the Christmas stamp de- American Indian and Eskimo • The approval of the Pre- for siding Bishop's fund for world signs lacks relevance. He had clergy and laity. It asked for earlier made other attempts to the establishment of a national relief as the national objective of the 1970 Church school mis- have the post office issue a holi- required advisory committee of American sionary offering. day stamp with a specific reli- Indian churchmen and for an gious scene. adequate program for the de- • Passage of memorials hon- Mr. Mitchell, according to a velopment of an indigenous min- oring the late Spencer Miller Jr., law office aide in New York, Permission istry. and the late Rev. Vesper O. was raised a Catholic and at- • The establishment of a Ward. Mr. Miller served as a tended Fordham University and committee on world hunger. The consultant on industrial rela- DFMS. law school, Catholic institutions. / committee is to develop a long- tions for fourteen years to the But his present Church affilia- range strategy calling the whole staff of council. Dr. Ward was tion is reported to be Presby-

Church Church to prayer and action in editor in chief of the Church's terian. a program on behalf of the teaching series. Massachusetts Gov. John A. Volpe, Walter J. Hickel and

Episcopal Maurice H. Stans are the Catho- New Cabinet Members all Have lics on the cabinet. They will the

of be, respectively, Secretaries of Some Religious Affiliation transportation, interior and commerce.

Archives * President-elect Nixon's cab- member of the incoming cabinet. Other Protestant denomina- inet includes four Presbyterians, The other Mormon on the tions represented on the incom-

2020. three Roman Catholics, two cabinet is David Matthew Ken- ing cabinet are Baptist, Robert Mormons, and a Baptist, an nedy, Chicago banker named to II. Finch (health, education and Episcopalian and a member of be secretary of the treasury. welfare) ; Episcopalian, George the United Church of Christ. Copyright Presbyterians on the cabinet Pratt Shultz (labor) ; and United The cabinet member best are Rep. Melvin R. Laird, sec- Church of Christ, Clifford M. known for his religious affilia- retary of defense; John N. Hardin (agriculture). Mr. Hard- tion is Michigan's Gov. George Mitchell, attorney general; Win- in, a member of the First Ply- Romney, who will be the new ton M. Blount, postmaster gen- mouth Congregational church in secretary of housing and urban eral; and William P. Rogers, Lincoln. Nebr., has something development. secretary of state. else in common with the Pres- Gov. Romney is a past-presi- Rep. Laird, an elder in the ident-elect other than an official dent (bishop) of the Detroit First Presbyterian church of government tie—he was raised Stake of the Church of Jesus Marshfield, Wise, made reli- by Quaker parents. Christ of Latter-day Saints gious news headlines in 1964 Following the initial an- (Mormon). He has also been when he criticized the post nouncement there was some considered the most liberal office department for issuing a criticism of the appointments.

JANUARY 2, 1969 Some observers noted that no some to Martin Luther, John chairman of the organization Democrats and no Negroes had Calvin, Thomas Aquinas and since its founding in 1943. been appointed to the 12 posts. Augustine, Dr. Barth was pro- Delegates also honored the However, it was pointed out fessor of dogmatics at the Uni- two Americans who were among that Sen. Henry M. Jackson of versity of Basel from 1935 to the six retiring presidents of Washington, a Democrat, had 1961. the WCC. They were Parlin been offered the post of secre- Ailing in recent years, he had and Archbishop Iakovos of the tary of defense and had turned continued to work on his Church Greek Orthodox archdiocese of it down after long consideration. Dogmatics, a project of 17 vol- North and South America. A It was also noted that Sen. umes. Five were not completed new presidium of the WCC was Edward W. Brooke (R.-Mass.), when he retired. elected at the Fourth Assembly first Negro senator since the Dr. Barth had been hospital- in Uppsala last July. post-Civil War era, had refused ized for surgery in September of In acknowledging the tribute a cabinet post when offered by this year. A colleague, Dr. Mr. Nixon. to the retiring presidents, Par- Jan Lockman, a Czechoslovak lin predicted greater difficulties publication. A Los Angeles Times-Wash- theologian who will join the ington Post syndicated story for today's ecumenical leaders and Basel faculty next year, said than those active in the post- said that Negro pressures may physicians had expected a re- have prevented appointment of world war two period. reuse covery. He added that Dr. a Negro cabinet member. In a for Barth's mental and spiritual "There was a great commit- story moved Dec. 12, it said: health had been extremely good. ment to internationalism then," "Nixon and his men worried he said in contrast to a current His written works include 200 required about the appointment of a wave of national self-conscious- Negro. They did not want to books, and the entire bibli- ness, particularly among former appoint one simply to have a ography of his writings list colonial dependencies. The new token Negro in the cabinet. some 500 items. He was much nationalism is felt "even in the Permission They wanted a man of stature concerned in his final years with Churches," he said. who could be a true inspiration renewal in the Roman Catholic to his race. Church following the Second When the World Council was DFMS. / "They ran into trouble. The Vatican Council. formed, Parlin said, there was Negroes they wanted — men substantial agreement among Asked in 1962 about possible the participating Churches on Church such as Whitney Young, head of results of the Council, Dr. Barth the Urban League — were sub- told a newsman, "How can I the thrust of the ecumenical jected to great pressure from know, not being the Pope . . . venture. "Today, there is dis- Negro leaders not to take any sension in our ranks on the

Episcopal The Pope hasn't asked my jobs with Nixon." opinion." course the Churches should the take." He did not elaborate on of There was also criticism of His opinion, however* was the causes of dissention. the age of cabinet men, some later asked by the Vatican. In holding that young men under 1966 he participated in a con- He contrasted the post-war

Archives 43 had not been selected. The sultation in Rome on the the- "spirit of reconciliation" with youngest selectee was Robert ology of the Council. His account the mood of today. "Now the

2020. Finch, 43. of that experience was published spirit seems to be more the Ages of the cabinet members in an English-language transla- militancy of a cause." are: Kennedy, 63; Romney, 61; tion in early 1968 as "Ad Limina Archbishop Iakovos declared

Copyright Stans, 60; Volpe, 60; Rogers, 55; Apostolorum: An Appraisal of that "the signs of the times all Mitchell, 55; Hardin, 53; Hickel, Vatican II." 49; Pratt, 48; Blount, 47; Laird, point to the need not to relax 46; and Finch, 43. our efforts on behalf of the ecu- TOUGH DAYS AHEAD menical movement." Noting that FOR WORLD COUNCIL DR. KARL BARTH there are many social problems DIES IN BASEL * Charles Parlin, Methodist that must engage the energy layman, was elected chairman of and resources of organized reli- * Karl Barth, 82, who emerged the Friends of World Council of gion, he declared: "Social action from a Swiss Reformed pastor- Churches, at the annual meet- should in no way limit the goal ate to attain the pinnacle of ing. of the Church universal . . . Our theological eminence, died in Parlin, a former president of goal must always be to serve Basel, Switzerland, December 10. the WCC, succeeds Episcopalian man's interest through serving Compared in importance by Charles P. Taft, who had been the divine will." Six THS WITNESS EDITORIAL joys of spiritual contemplation should be sacri- Thomas Merton: Saint-Scholar ficed for others. He wanted peace and travelled By Lee A. Belford hundreds of miles as a peace-maker. He loved justice and stopped at nothing to see that justice Chairman, Department of Religion was done. He intervened to save luckless peas- New York University ants from tyrannical lords and protected the THOMAS MERTON is dead and lives. He Jews against the pogroms and massacres that was deeply concerned with God and his fellow were related to the crusades. Thomas Merton man — he gave his life to them. His impact had a similar concern with the world. upon individuals who knew him personally and I never met Thomas Merton and yet I loved those who knew him only through his writings him as if I had known him forever. When I asked him to do a commentary on Camus' book, publication. was profound and often transforming. Merton left this world to become a contempla- The Plague, for the "Religious Dimensions in and tive: he gave up speech and vocal communica- Literature" series, he responded at once and not surprisingly, the reactions of the critics have

reuse tion when he became a Trappist monk; he gave been full of praise for his perceptive insights. for up human companionship when he became a hermit in 1965. He was given permission to He dedicated it to his friend, Father Daniel Ber- talk on special occasions and died in Bangkok rigan, imprisoned because of his protests against required while engaged in discussions pertaining to the the war in Vietnam. When I wrote him of my social and political conditions in Southeast Asia. confusions in regard to war and politics, he He was a devout Christian, a convert to Catholic- never answered in a didactic fashion, but always with the deepest understanding and profoundest

Permission ism, and yet was always open to the insights found in other religions, notably those of the wisdom. In a letter of not many months ago he Orient. He was a bridge-builder in a world torn said his views were increasingly eschatological, DFMS.

/ apart but a man without guile and loathe to but this never impeded him from doing all he compromise. could to offer intellectual leadership in the areas of racial and economic justice. He said he did

Church There is a type of that asks one to abandon any concern with this world. It calls not have final answers to contemporary prob- for a preoccupation with God as if he had lems: just opinions subject to modification. But they were opinions you knew were right.

Episcopal nothing to do with creation. That is the burden Merton lived alone on the grounds of Geth-

the of all too many of our "saints", the makers of of Western spirituality. But there is another type semani abbey in Kentucky. He went to bed of monasticism that exists alongside this world when he felt sleepy, often at dark, and when he where the purpose is the transformation of the awoke at two-thirty or three, he said Mass Archives world. In the Middle Ages monks often cleared before beginning work. For washing his dishes forests, taught improved methods of agriculture, he collected rain water; for drinking and cooking 2020. engaged in commerce for the social good, and he went to the monastery for a gallon of water provided hostels for the wayfarer. Often the each day. He read a wide variety of periodicals monks were ascetics merely because their own and newspapers and carried on an extensive Copyright deprivations enabled them to do more for others. correspondence. The world was very much with They were not unlike the leaders of radical him, but he found the time and quiet to view social movements who were willing to sacrifice "outside events" in Christian perspective. He the comforts and conveniences of life in order wrote regularly for The Catholic Worker and to usher in a new social age with greater justice occasionally for dozens of other periodicals. for all. Such a man was Thomas Merton. War concerned him, and the abuses of nature, Merton was a contemplative. Like a fellow the plight of the American Indians, anti-Semit- Cistercian, Bernard of Clairvaux, he believed in ism, and almost every other area of human inter- a life of quiet and meditation and wanted time est, including love and marriage. To write a to contemplate and to pray. But Bernard gave couple of books a year was routine. In every- the supreme place to love and insisted that no thing he showed his passionate concern for per- one should live for himself alone, that even the sonal liberation and identity. 2, 1969 Did Merton ever wonder at times whether he outside the Church. The complainers are with- was really called to be a monk? Yes, but he said in : seeking ministration but often as laymen he never wondered for longer than five or ten failing to be on ministry to the world for which minutes at a time. He was grieved when Christ died. The bishop in a police brutality Charles Davis and other friends left the Church case have a ministry to the police who are con- but as for himself, he declared that the grace, demned. The reason many police continue to be love, and infinite mercy of Christ in his Church brutal is that the leadership of the Church and more than compensated for the absurdity, rigidi- the community do not give them their frank ty, prejudice, and unreasonableness so often en- negative opinions. Then, by silence back bru- countered. He said, "By God's grace I remain tality. The inability to speak plain alienates the a Catholic, a monk, and a hermit. I have made college student, brutalizes the police and gives a commitments which are unconditional. I do not sop to the establishment of the community which regard this position as especially courageous: it continues a basic about being able to is just the ordinary stuff of life, the acceptance buy off the Church. of limits which we must all accept in one way or Some bishops feel that they must set priorities publication. another: the acceptance of a sphere in which one is called to love, trust, believe, and pray — and of issues in which they must be involved. They and meet those whom one is destined to meet and fear that by getting involved in too many issues, love." their effectiveness is diminished in the high reuse priority ones. For instance, my bishop, C. K. for Such a man was Thomas Merton. Myers, lias set peace and poverty as the two high priority issues at the present time. So required issues of sexuality, experiential education, draft resistance, etc., do not get much attention. Yet there is a difference between high priority items How Bishops Should Lead in which diocesan money and staff are con- Permission By Robert W. Cromey cerned, and issues about which the bishop might Vicar of St. Aidan's, San Francisco speak for himself and lend his influence. I want DFMS.

/ my bishop and leader to tell us where he stands on all the issues. A good priest may have to AS A PRIEST, I want my bishop to stand tall publicly dispute his bishop. But position on Church and speak plain on the public issues as he feels issues and theological reflection are necessary. them. Many bishops seem to think that their pastoral leadership of all the people of a diocese

Episcopal means they cannot take sides in the great issues We Elect Bishops the of our day. This is most clearly illustrated by I WOUD LIKE to offer a radical solution. A of their traditional unwillingness to back specific bishop should speak loud and plain on every candidates for partisan public office. Some bish- public issue in which he is interested, has strong ops and clergy feel that if they take radical

Archives feelings and information. He should make it positions on racism, homosexuality, the sexual revolution, peace, dope, marriage, sex and the plain he is speaking for himself. He is not speak- 2020. family they will alienate some people in their ing for the Episcopal Church, except where the constituency. Of course they will. Some people convention has spoken clearly. He is not speak- will be upset. Some people may withdraw funds. ing for the council of the diocese, the department Copyright Some may even leave the Church. of social relations or the clergy and laity of the diocese. He should enter the streets and the But if the Church is on mission to the world picket lines because he cares to and feels that then the leaders of the Church have to decide through the ambiguities of any moral and eco- to whom they are going to minister. Do we nomic situation, he feels he must take a stand. spend most of our time ministering to the feel- How great if some of our California bishops ings of those within the Church, those who could publicly join the farm workers in their might get mad if a bishop condemns the police struggle for effective union recognition, or ac- department if they have been brutal in a tively support the farmers who fight unionism. demonstration? Or does the bishop want to He should take his position as a man and a stand with the students who also need the min- leader without giving the impression he is speak- istry of the Church? The students tend to be ing for God.

Eight THB WITNESS We elect bishops because we have some notion research to discover what makes a man want of his opinions and desire his brand of theology something enough to pick up his credit cards and morality. We want his opinions and actions and go off to buy it. And the knowledge thus as guide lines for our thinking and action. If gained is applicable to other areas of human the council of the diocese wants to back or con- involvement, if we only had the means to apply demn the bishop's statement, let it. They are it. It should, for example, enable us to persuade elected by convention to represent the people and the urban poor to become involved in creative clergy of a diocese. Let them speak openly and action to solve their problems. Maybe it would clearly if they care to. Let the clergy and laity be a good idea to make the men on Madison openly debate the position. The bishop should Avenue commissioned officers in the war on not wait for consensus before he speaks on poverty. I can see it now: the lovely young girls issues. He should be the leader in helping the running after the man who has a job; the fellow diocese reach consensus. But that cannot be with bad breath who is still loved because he done if the bishop fails to speak plain. People didn't drop otit of high school; the girl who > is respect a person who take's" a stand and speaks the life of the party and only her current events publication. his mind as long as he leaves the other side the teacher knows for sure. dignity of disagreement. If the bishop finds and But seriously, motivation is a fascinating sub- he's wrong, he can confess it. ject. At primitive levels it is as simple as the reuse What are the advantages of the bishop speak- carrot and the club. You can move a donkey by for ing for himself on the great issues? He provokes holding a carrot just beyond reach at one end thought and conversation on the issues and gives of the animal, or by giving him a good belt with a theological reflection to those issues. He re- required a club at the other end. This, by the way, is minds God's people that the world in which one form of biblical motivation. Be good and God incarnated himself is where he reveals him- you will win heaven — the carrot. Be good or self. He will gain the attention of those dis- you will end up in hell — the club. Permission affected from the Church. It will help laymen Of course the goodness that is thus produced and clergy move from a demand for ministry to by promises and threats is a paradoxical variety

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/ for it is motivated by self-concern. The person world. Clergy and laymen can feel they too can who wants the pleasures of heaven for himself involve themselves and risk their opinions. or who wishes to avoid getting himself into the Church Finally, the debate on the issues moves from the pains of hell will do the right thing out of en- hallowed halls of diocesan house to the market lightened self-interest. And there are probably place and newspapers where we witness to the millions of people who would argue that all Episcopal Church's greatness, its passion and dullness, its human action for the benefit of others is ulti- the brilliance and incredibility. The people of feeling

of mately thus motivated. Probably the weight of and intellect will see it as an institution worth evidence is on their side of the argument. discovering. To my mind, however, this is only another Archives way of acknowledging the fact that the vast majority of men are still at a minimum level of 2020. growth toward emotional maturity. You have The Carrot and the Club to promise a child a lollypop for being good. But a truly adult person cares for others without Copyright By Alfred B. Starratt thinking of personal rewards. Rector of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore Not that such goodness is a grim activity without personal satisfaction. Quite the con- JIM AND I were talking about marketing—not trary. The loving person is generally a happy the kind you do in the supermarket when you person. But he isn't loving in order to be happy. buy the weekly groceries, but a more abstract— He is loving because it is his natural way of being — and personal satisfaction is an inci- and hence more noble — variety. Marketing is dental by-product of his nature. how you move goods. And the basic problem, But how do you help people grow to become said Jim, is one of human motivation. He says loving? If the motivational research people that millions of dollars are spent in scientific know, I wish they would spread the news.

JANUARY 2, 1969 Nin* And sensed the vast endurance of rocks; A Prayer at Christmas tide — Thou, Brother of the worker, the mourner, the poor, O Thou, Bread of Life, born in the House-of-Bread, Poet who looked upon the face of God Of the family of David most human of kings and Whose words eternal outlast all works of men singer; Blasting off their masks of pride, greed and Thou who walked beside the still waters of Galilee lust, — Thyself the Spring of Living Water; Son of Mary most blessed of women, May thy tears over the city cleanse us, From Joseph learning that God is Our Father; Thy hands nailed on the tree support us, Thou who watched the might of yeast in re- May thy Peace protect and guide us generation As on the King's Highway we seek for You And the power of seed growing in the earth, And those we love in our Father's House. Amen. Discerning the minute beauty in grass, — R. A. Weatherly The courage and grace of birds, the helplessness Rector Emeritus, Grace Church, .; of lambs, Kingston, Pa. publication. and BLACK CAPITALISM religious foundation for com- past when administration pro-

reuse TAKES A RAP munity organization who was grams can be imposed on black chairman of the panel, charged communities . . . for : * Leaders of local and national the "Nixon administration" with "We hereby serve notice to organizations for black economic "total insensitivity" to the eco- development warned President- all . . . that the old patterns of required nomic development needs of the fostering corporate colonialism elect Nixon they are unhappy black community. on Black America no longer ap- with his proposals for "black Walker said he and six other plies. From henceforth, Black capitalism." leaders on the panel were "not America will set its own agenda, Permission Plans for economic develop- aware of any meetings" of the programs and priorities." ment of black and other minori- President-elect with those "truly ty peoples, they insisted, must

DFMS. representative" of black desires. POLITICS IS BUSINESS / be made primarily by the blacks What Mr. Nixon really means OF THE CHURCH and minorities themselves, and by "black capitalism" is more a national black economic de- * Politics are the Church's

Church opportunity for white businesses velopment conference, to beheld to benefit more, claimed Walker, business as much as anybody Feb. 21-23 in Detroit was an- and "increasing the skids for else's, Archbishop Donald Cog- nounced to make such demands the federal government to slip gan of York said on his return Episcopal more specific. out of its responsibility." from a two-week visit to South the and East Africa. of The Rev. Lucius Walker Jr., A joint statement issued by the group cautioned: "It would He told newsmen that one of executive director of the inter- be tragic if Mr. Nixon and his the most constant questions asked him during the tour was

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THE WITNESS commerce and sex. I strongly picture of Ho Chi-Minh to diocese voted 148-110 to "ex- resist the view that a politician giving prominence to U.iS. secre- press its gratitude to our brother or a man in commerce should tary of defense Clark Clifford's priest, Father Alfred Janicke, say, 'Hands off, this is our de- suggestion that Saigon was for making us more sensitive to partment.' " holding up the Paris peace talks. the issues involved by his wit- Dr. Coggan also said he had ness to the dictates of his seen examples of apartheid in CATHOLIC NUNS TEACH conscience and assures him of South Africa — "You cannot be AT EPISCOPAL SCHOOL its support as he faces the con- there without seeing it." But * Roman Catholic nuns have sequences of his action." he declined to go further by completed a ten-week experi- Fr. Janicke, assistant pastor way of comment on this "diffi- ment in which they taught Sun- of St. Philip's church, Minneap- cult and complex problem," day School at an Episcopal olis, was one of 15 draft pro- saying he was in South Africa church in Cincinnati testers arrested in Milwaukee only three days. Sept. 24. They spent 30 days in The nuns responded to a plea jail as they awaited funds from URGES JOINT ACTION for help when St. James church friends to secure bail. publication. FOR THE NEEDY was unable to recruit teachers for its Sunday school program and * The Roman Catholic and and its rector requested assist- Episcopal Churches should work ance from the Notre Dame reuse The together to improve the lot of Sisters in nearby Covington, Ky. for the poor in Maine, Bishop Frede- Using Episcopalian teaching Patterson School rick B. Wolf of Maine told the materials and holding periodic required First Friday Associates. meetings with the rector, the for Boys "We must begin to hear each sisters kept their instructions in other, to learn and appreciate line with doctrine and policies IN HAPPY VALLEY of the Episcopal Church. the traditions of the two Chur- Fully accredited Church School on Permission ches," he declared. "These tradi- The experiment ended when 1300 acre estate. Grades 7-12. Small tions won't be given up, but the parish was able to recruit classes. Gymnasium, sports, swim- ming, fishing. 60th year.

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/ Summer camp with tutoring for boys be enriched." gram, but close relations estab- 6 to If! years. Periods 2, 4,or 8 weeks. lished between the Catholic nuns Bishop Wolf told the group of Tor School or Camp Pattenon Church Catholic men that "we must and the Episcopal parish will catalogs, write: continue. eliminate the image of division GEORGB F. WIESB, BOX W and competition between our Route 5, Lenoir, N. G. 28645

Episcopal Churches. Christians are now MILITANT PRIEST COLLEGE PREPARATORY GETS BACKING CHARACTER BUILDING the beginning to take each other of seriously, and that means a * A Roman Catholic priest closer relationship. facing a jail sentence for de- "We must become aware that stroying draft records in

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