PARSON PETERS AND HIS PARISH

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T raining Children In Christian Living By HILDA M. SHAUL Director, Religious Education, St. Paul’s, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia r I DRAINING children in Christian living, or better, with them. They encourage their children to make bold -*■ bringing children into Christian life, is an essen­ resolutions for improving daily living but seldom tell tial part of every forward movement of the Church. their children the resolutions they themselves have It may be that spiritual life is first rekindled among made. Parents dictate plans for the family rather the adults of a parish but it is also true that it may than take time for family councils and periods of mu­ have its primary awakening in the lives of parish chil­ tual planning. The “ common life” is perhaps least in dren. Boys and girls are enthusiastic. They “ see evidence on Sunday mornings when the various ages in visions.” However, in those parishes which enter the family separate for Church worship and study. most whole-heartedly into the present Forward Move­ And so it comes to pass in parish and in home that ment, it is probably true that the impetus to deeper instead of training children to become “ members in­ Christian living will come from neither one group nor corporate” we are training them to become “ members the other. Rather it will come from a joint venture in unassociate.” discipleship on the part of the entire baptised mem­ bership—children and young people and adults—one P A R ISH in a large eastern city is attempting to in which they submit themselves together to the train­ A improve this situation by making it possible, here ing and discipline of the Church and equally share its and there through its program, for children of widely life. different ages and for adults and children to think to­ Unfortunately parish life in general is not organized gether upon common problems and to take action to­ for such interchange of thought and action among gether upon common plans. Within the Sunday various ages. Children attend Sunday School at an School the program is unified for a period of six weeks hour when their parents are not in church. They are each year when all classes take up the same subject of present at Children’s Eucharists where the recently study—subjects such as The Church and Peace, The confirmed receive communion in isolation from the en­ Problems of Negroes in our Country, The History of tire membership. They listen to children’s sermons. our Parish. Thus for some period of time at least the (One wonders why clergymen from time to time do not worship, study, and action of the school is common to rather speak directly to children from within the frame­ all. At other periods classes are encouraged to visit work of the “ adult” sermon.) They usher or run er­ each other and share the work they are accomplishing. rands at parish events which have been wholly planned One junior class went so far as to make a study of the by adults. The Sunday School itself offers little op­ worship of the primary department, thereby getting portunity for cooperation among its members. It is into discussions of the meaning of worship. A stu­ divided into departments, subdivided into classes of dent council, composed of one representative from children of a common age, and divided still further into each class from the fourth grade up, lays plans for and classes of boys and of girls. When lines are broken by evaluates much of the life of this school. This past Christmas pageants, assembles, and services, it is the year they have sponsored a “ parish meeting” to con­ younger members who take a smaller, less significant sider the Sunday School budget for missionary giving; part. they have planned a Palm Sunday pageant-service; Even through the department of religious education have conducted an afternoon of missionary exhibits of the National Council only older youth groups are and plays; have mimeographed a magazine telling par­ becoming articulate as members of the Church. With ents of work in the school. the possible exception of the tests put out by the child In fact, parents are at least to some extent a part of study commission, no means of helping younger the school’s life. A ninth grade class of girls, who adolescents and children to express themselves nation­ were considering the relation of the Church to unem­ ally has yet been devised. ployment, invited their fathers to attend a class session In the homes of Churchmen lack of truly corporate to help them in their thinking. A group of parents and Christian living is also evident. All too often parents a group of children of various ages supplemented each listen to the prayers of their children rather than pray other in the preparation of a booklet of prayers to be Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four T H E WITNESS November 21, 1935 used in homes during Lent. Families observed a day Is there interchange between parish groups?—the of intercession for peace on Armistice Day. In an ef­ class studying the missionary work of the Church and fort to test the possibilities in discussing, working, and the Woman’s Auxiliary? adults long confirmed and the worshipping in family groups, several families worked confirmation class ? the building committee and the pri­ together in the parish house on a community project for mary department learning respect for church property? five consecutive Sunday afternoons. At the close of Are boys and girls helping to plan parish life?— this experiment a twelve-year-old boy wrote, “ I like through a student council? a junior vestry? youth rep­ doing things this way. We make better families.” resentation on the vestry? join committees of children ROM other parishes come reports of like endea­ and adults? Fvors to “ make better families.” One church con­ Are Church members of all ages entering into fel­ ducts a correspondence course in religious education lowship with the past of the Church?—through follow­ with parents of Sunday School children. Another di­ ing the Christian Year? joint Bible reading and study? vides its Vacation Church School so that boys and girls visiting places of historic interest? in a family find themselves in the same group. Still Are members facing today’s world realistically, but another holds frequent joint meetings of children and with infinite hope for its future?—making contacts parents for discussions of mutual concern. with unemployed people while studying ways out of But as yet in all parishes such attempts at training unemployment? praying unceasingly for international children in Christian living are fragmentary and iso­ peace while aware of present international conflicts? lated experiments. We need to rethink the entire par­ Do persons of all ages find worship the center of ish program in terms of creating a Church life to which their life together?—in the regular services of the each member of the Church contributes to his full ca­ Church? Quiet days? Days of Intercession? periods pacity. In so doing, clergymen, vestrymen, members of meditation within the home? of parish councils,—in fact, members of all organiza­ Questions such as these will help the Forward Move­ tions,—will do well to ask themselves the following ment as it points the way to more earnest Christian questions: living,—living in which adults and children share.

Parson Peters and His Parish By PHILLIPS S. GILMAN Rector of St. Mark’s, Gastonia, N. C. A RSO N P E T E R S was in a quandary. His stipend indignation” perhaps the Scriptures might have called P was overdue. Household utilities must be paid it. For he saw, dimly at first and then more clearly, for or cut off. Food must be bought economically, for that his parish was not disparaging him but the Church cash. His automobile must continue to run, or parish of which he was the mouthpiece and minister — the life would further languish. Of course the Parson had Church which he loveff and believed in beyond all else a small reserve fund, a sort of “ untouchable” margin in life, and which he was divinely appointed to lead on of safety which was nevertheless being touched with a to greater honor and victory among men. And it was routine regularity which Mr. and Mrs. Peters never that Church of which his people were members, — nay, anticipated. Indeed, it was the increasing recurrence which they were daily and yearly characterizing in their of such episodes which particularly bothered these good financial as well as spiritual response. people, upsetting their financial calculations and sap­ ping the spiritual vitality which the Parson so much O RE than once during the years of depression desired and needed for his work. M and difficulty he had tried to set them an example Nor was Parson Peters reassured by the popular of sacrifice through the voluntary reduction of his own conception, variously and often expressed, that even a stipend. But they had answered his economy only with clergyman was fortunate to be employed under pre­ further retrenchment. It had been the same, moreover, vailing conditions. It all but took his breath away. throughout the Diocese and General Church: more re­ How fortunate he was none knew better than he. duction, more deficit; never a holding of the line by Every day of his ministry he had marvelled and given determined corporate endeavor! In consequence, a thanks that God permitted him, with all his human pathetically skeletonized Budget twenty per cent under- faults and failings, to serve in the holy sanctuary of subscribed, and the amount subscribed another twenty His House and Kingdom. But he had never thought per cent underpaid — a total yearly support of the of himself as employed! Rather, he had always felt Kingdom of God to the extent of less than three per himself set apart to a sacred and permanent place in cent of the total income of its membership! In facts the Church’s life, believing that so long as he remained defying imagination Parson Peters knew what this faithful to that trust, his support was a part of the in­ shortage was meaning by way of enforced hardship violate bond between him and his people. upon the missionary Clergy and workers of the Church, And then, human being that he was, Parson Peters and by way of handicap to heroic endeavors and the began to feel faint twinges of resentment — “ righteous loss of Christian strength and influence everywhere

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 21, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page-Hive among those who test the worth of religion by its its Sacraments to cleanse and renew their lives, its Gos­ works. He knew, too, that so little of added determina­ pel teaching for their help and encouragement, its tion per member would have prevented so much of the personal ministry of comfort and counsel in their dis­ stress and sterility of the whole Body of Christ. And tresses and needs, nay, the very fact of the Church’s the man of God was beset with conflicting emotions of functioning presence and wellbeing as an assuring sym­ mind and heart as he reviewed the past and contem­ bol of GOD W ITH TH EM and a pledge of the daily plated the future. victory of life in Christ’s name. No, Parson Peters did But Parson Peters was not a pessimist, and so from not ask his people about these things, for he knew that out the passing gloom of his reflections there came, at they truly cherished them in their hearts. Only a few length, a ray of light. Had not his people, after all, had been deliberately unresponsive, and even those, he shown their approval of his leadership with growing felt sure, were not conscious charities upon God’s evidences of confidence and appreciation? Had they bounty and the hardened support of other Churchmen. not listened to his teaching with more than average con­ And so he simply put the bare cost of things which his stancy, and sought to focus their eyes upon his vision people, themselves, thought of in their very thought of of parish purpose with generous unanimity? Even in the Church, into a Budget, and said to them: “ Without their limited financial provision they had not withheld this we cannot go on; with it we can exist; beyond it from the missionary fields of the Church a fair we can adventure with God for growth and progress, S H A R E of support, as so many were selfishly doing. for the fuller spiritual satisfaction of all of us, and for Surely, then, it was neither at the Parson nor his be­ the more convincing witness of the Church’s true place loved Church that the apparent indifference of Peters’ and value for many who' are still outside her member­ Parish was directed. In ways too convincing for serious ship.” doubt or discouragement the majority of members had The Budget of Peters’ Parish was oversubscribed shown themselves right-minded and true-hearted. But that year for the first time. And it was oversubscribed, they had never learned to share with God the sufficient not because the Parson’s congregation aimed, in an un­ material requirement of His purpose. They were not inspired, dutiful sort of way, at the ominous total of a M O N EY-CO N SCIO U S in their sense of Christian column of figures, but because, for the first time, they responsibility! saw their money in terms of a God-given treasure which they loved—in terms of a Christian experience IT H this assured conclusion Parson Peters took and fellowship which meant more to them than dol­ W heart and went to work. He did not ask his people lars and cents, and which they were happy and thank­ if they believed the Church to be a necessary fac­ ful to insure through a means so easily at their dis­ tor of the world’s life. He did not ask them if they posal. wished the Church’s ministrations to continue in Peters’ Parish discovered IT S E L F in its REdiscov- their own midst for themselves and their children: ery of GOD!

T alking It Over By WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD HE PROVINCE OF THE PACIFIC can’t quite main as their dean. He is, I should say after a week Tmake up its mind how to feel about the action of in the city, the most popular clergyman in the diocese the House of Bishops in placing Bishop Fred Bartlett so that everyone is delighted to know that he is to in charge of southern Idaho. The province at their last remain as the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which is synod nominated Dean Harry Beal of Los Angeles to the center of Church life in Los Angeles. be the bishop of Idaho. They did so at the request of The Presiding Bishop is to visit the diocese in a week the general Church, since the Church finally realized or so in connection with the fortieth anniversary. May­ that the home folks know more about the sort of man be he will be able to make everyone quite happy about they need for their bishop than do people thousands this Idaho incident and national Church affairs gener­ of miles away. Having nominated, Churchmen on the ally, though if I am any judge of the present temper of Pacific feel that the House of Bishops should have Pacific Churchmen he will have to be very eloquent in­ carried out their wishes. Bitter is a strong word so deed to do it. There is sound reasoning behind many of perhaps to say that they are sore about it is putting the proposals that originate with the secretaries at the it too strong, but nevertheless I have talked with many Church Missions House in New York. I am sure there leaders out here who have not pulled their punch in must have been in the case of Idaho. Just the same discussing the matter. They are definitely under the people out here are sore about it. First of all they impression that the plan of transferring Bishop Bart­ would like to be consulted about matters that vitally lett to Idaho was cooked up at the Church Missions concern them; and after being consulted they would House, three thousand miles away, and they are be­ like to have their recommendations at least considered. ginning to talk rather heatedly about taxation without To give the whys and wherefores after it is too late representation. At the same time there is general re­ for them to do anything about it will hardly satisfy. joicing in Los Angeles because Harry Beal is to re­ All of which is in the nature of a bit of reporting since Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Six T H E WITNESS November 21, 1935

I just happen to be on the Pacific Coast at the moment. pert in a particular field of Christian effort, with a Things were rigged up at 281 and put over . . . whether closing ten minutes of instruction in the catechism. true or not that’s what most people out here think . . . This is the way Dr. Balcom explains the experiment: and they don’t like it. It is going to take a lot of pretty “ The end of any effort in Christian education ought to speeches to get them smiling again, and that goes for be to give youth knowledge and experience in the art the province generally and not merely for the diocese of worship. Time, altogether too brief, is often wasted of Los Angeles. in building up a background of information about Christianity. Knowing about Christ gets us nowhere e n j a m i n d a g w e l l a n d t h e o d o r e . . . knowing Him means everything. Modern educators B LUDLO W will be real additions to the House of are much more interested in having children do things Bishops. The former, soon to be consecrated Bishop than they are in having them learn about things. In of Oregon, has done a top job as dean of the cathedral our Junior Congregation we assume that no child is too in Denver. So much so that he was under real pressure young to begin to learn how to worship.” from the entire cathedral parish to decline the election The plan has been in operation now for some and remain as their dean. What’s more I have a hunch months. Results : a large increase in the number of chil­ that he would like to have stayed on that Denver job. dren, and what’s more, marked increases in the num­ He knew what he wanted to do. He also knew what ber of adults attending church. Easy enough to explain he ought to do. So he is to be consecrated Bishop of of course ; the family can now be loaded into the car Oregon. He will be an efficient and popular bishop, at quarter of eleven and the whole lot go to church though it is rarely possible to apply both adjectives to together whereas previously tired papa was a chauffeur the same man. Ted Ludlow is a man who has had wide for everyone who wanted to go to church from seven experience. He has been a missionary in China, the in the morning until noon. Being one of the papas who dean of the Cathedral in Topeka, a secretary at the has to catch a train each weekday morning at eight I Church Missions House and the rector of a strong know how he feels. It is swell to do a bit of loafing eastern parish. He is a man of convictions and courage, one morning in the week and if we are wise we will particularly on social questions, so that his elevation see that he has the opportunity to do it, at the same to the episcopate is going to mean more than a new time making it possible for him and the „kids to go to bishop in the diocese of Newark. church without depriving him of half his day. ON’T let anyone tell you that we haven’t Fascism ’V E B E E N M E E T IN G with groups of clergy all D in the United States. In the Imperial Valley in I over the country. Generalizations are dangerous but southern California men who have sworn to uphold I believe I have sensed a real determination on the part the constitution find the processes of law too slow. of the clergy to do their part in building a Christian Black-jacks, brass-knuckles and various methods of world. Many of them have already paid a considerable terrorism they frankly declare to be the effective price; they expect to pay more. In other words, big method of dealing with a trying economic situation. shot laymen who are determined to maintain the status And in order that you may know that they do not limit quo at any cost (to somebody else) are making a mis­ their illegal activities to so-called “ agitators” I inform take if they think the clergy are going to sell out their you about an experience that Bishop Gooden of Los Lord and Master for a few pieces of silver. Men at Angeles had this summer. He went to the Imperial the head of parishes throughout this country are doing Valley on an episcopal visitation to confirm a class. He their jobs and as a non-parochial parson I simply want was met at the train by officers of the law, escorted to to take off my hat and make a very low bow before the office of the district attorney and there questioned them. The Church is not the force in society that it (“firmly,” he says) as to the purpose of his visit, what should be but after taking a wide swing around the he was to say to his Church congregation and all the country I am sure that it is no fault of the clergy. rest of it. Hitler’s mob does this and we write pieces They are a lot of hard-working, consecrated and self- about it for the newspapers and rejoice that we are sacrificing men, keen and intelligent about this messy living in democratic America. Let it happen in Cali­ world we are living in. Follow their lead, Mr. and Mrs. fornia and we talk about a marvelous climate and end­ of the Laity, and I believe in time we will come upon less sunshine. But man does not live by sunshine alone better days. as the ballyhooers of California’s charms will eventual­ ly discover. | | M A N Y P A R IS H E S the church school is no i longer thought of as a problem . . . it is recognized The Bishops’ Assembly as a failure. Having arrived at that conclusion, the Rev. By Royal H. Balcom, rector of Trinity Church, Santa BISHOP JOHNSON Barbara, determined to do something about it. Today the Junior Congregation meets each Sunday in a beau­ F “ S U F F E R IN G long and being kind” is the mark tiful new chapel in the parish house at the same hour I of Christian charity then the House of Bishops is that their parents are worshipping in the church. There the most distinguished embodiment of this principle is a half hour service . , . Morning Prayer, Litany or in America. office, of Instruction, or the Holy Communion. Primary Starting at 7 :30 a. m. and continuing until 10130 children then go to classes, but the older ones receive p, m. the recent session at Houston was something of group instruction for-twenty minutes, led by some ex­ an endurance test in which men of the widest diver- Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 21, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Seven gence of opinion strive to change the attitude of other For any of them to fail is to make it just so much members who are not impressionable more difficult for the others involved. It is the case of irresistible forces meeting immov­ Surely each of us wants to be the kind of person able bodies. who does not wish someone else to carry his burden One wonders how men who disagree so radically for him. can find one another so agreeable to associate with. Contrary to public opinion the gathering is not dis­ The next meeting of the House will be in Chicago in tinguished by decorum nor is it a slave to parliamen­ the fall of 1936. tary rule. Two men are elected to be bishops in foreign fields: The Presiding' Bishop tries his best to invest the Dean Kroll of Haiti was sent to Liberia and Dr. Reif- proceedings with dignity, but as he has to deal with suider, formerly suffragan of North Tokyo, was elect­ seventy or eighty national chairmen it is not an easy ed to succeed Bishop McKim as Diocesan. task. It was thought better to transfer Bishop Bartlett It was not so when I first entered the House in 1917, from North Dakota to Idaho to care for urgent prob­ but since then it is becoming more and more human and lems there than to elect another Missionary Bishop in less and less conventional. the Domestic Field, pending the effort to so arrange It is really a delightful atmosphere and there is noth­ that field as to require fewer bishops in the admin­ ing but kindness and consideration for one another. istration thereof. In fact the matter of personal affection sometimes It is hoped that several of the Missionary Districts causes the body to solve its problems in terms of broth­ can be more effectively administered by their recession erly love, rather than by the enforced rule of ma­ to the Diocese from which they were taken. jorities. The flow of population to these districts has di­ If the carrying out of a policy involves hardship minished and they are coming to have the same prob­ upon any member, the tendency is to postpone action lems which confront the smaller dioceses. or to solve the problem in some other way. This does It is hoped that such a consolidation can be made in not always make for efficiency but it does create an the future in several of the states. atmosphere of good will. There was a feeling of expectency on the part of This is quite a change from the practices of one the bishops, that we are entering upon great opportuni­ hundred years ago when partizanship frequently pro­ ties if we develop the qualities essential to meeting duced considerable acrimony in the House. them. After all unless the salt preserve its savor, it is There was a time when no less than three bishops, good for nothing and we shall be to blame for our all of the same theological views were presented for failure to do our share. trial by their brother bishops; one was deposed, an­ other suspended and a third escaped censure. It would be difficult today to get the House to bring charges against a member unless he was a very flagrant offender against faith or morals. The lion and the lamb get along very well together, although it might be difficult to identify the species to which each member belongs. At the recent session several resignations were sub­ mitted and accepted on the ground of old age or in­ firmity, although from my standpoint some of the aged are not as old as the report would indicate. The vital importance of both the Forward Movement and of the Missionary activities of the Church was stressed indicating that a little more loyalty to the whole program of the Church is essential to any radi­ No. S2103 Altar Cross, Ht. 30 % inches ating power. For clergy and laity to think that they No. V3737 Candlesticks, Ht. 20% inches can have prosperous parishes in a bankrupt church is contrary to fact. Available in Lacquered Brass, or Bronze It is only as all cooperate in the Forward Move­ ment and do our share in the program of the Church Specialists in Altar Rails, Candelabra, that we will belong to a going institution. Otherwise Chalices, Ciboria, Bread Boxes, we are merely parasites in a brotherhood which oth­ Communion Sets. ers maintain. The ethos of the Episcopal Church depends upon the willingness of the individual to want Designs and Estimates on Request to do the thing that is expected of him. To say that we do not believe in missions or in THE GORHAM COMPANY forward movements is to quench the enthusiasm by ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISION which the Church becomes effective. PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND In this cause the bishops are the leaders; the clergy are the line officers; the vestrymen are the non-com­ AMERICA’S LEADING SILVERSMITHS SINCE 1831 missioned officers and the laity are the soldiers. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight TH E W I TN ESS November 21, 1935 CRITICAL METHOD cident. And last but not least it is NEWS NOTES OF interestingly written. REVEALS RICHES Those who desire to know what THE CHURCH IN OF BIBLICAL LORE modern scholarship is thinking these BRIEF PARAGRAPHS By 'Gardiner M. Day days will find the Hampton Lectures of 1934 by Robert Henry Lightfoot, Edited by E dward J. Mohr One difficulty in the teaching of professor of exegesis in the Uni­ The Rev. Vedder Van Dyke, rector the Old Testament in Sunday schools versity of Oxford, which have ap­ of St. Paul’s Church, Burlington, in the recent past has been that the peared under the title, History and Vermont, was elected bishop of Ver­ child has been presented the history Interpretation in the Gospels, (Harp­ mont at a special diocesan conven­ of the Hebrew people relatively un­ ers $3) of great interest. The dis­ tion held November 12th at Rutland, related to the other peoples and cul­ cussion of the book centers in the Vermont. Mr. Van Dyke received 15 tures of the world save for account gospel of St. Mark, which the author of the 29 clerical votes and 68 of of direct conflicts with some neigh­ believes has been greatly misinter­ 99 lay votes. He has b~en rector of boring nation as Egypt or Babylon. preted. Dr. Lightfoot points out that St. Paul’s since 1929, and will suc­ Said child grows up, attends college modern scholarship shows that the ceed the late Bishop Booth. At a and elects a course in ancient history. gospel of St. Mark is a “ construc­ previous election the convention The course opens with the “ dawn of tion” just as much as the other gos­ chose the Rev. J. Wilson Sutton of consciousness” and introduces him to pels. St. Mark did not merely nar­ Trinity Chapel, New York, who was some of the great early civilizations, rate the facts of Jesus’ life, but he unable to accept. as the Egyptian or the Chinese. He put together his material “ in accord­ * * * soon realizes that while the Hebrew ance with a definite plan and purpose London Canon people were important for their which is never long forgotten.” Dr. moral and literary contribution, nev­ Urges Peace Lightfoot’s position is that the first The Very Rev. Hugh Richard ertheless in art, scientific progress three gospels were “provisional and and many other important things Lawrie Sheppard, known widely as tentative” attempts to interpret the “ Dick” Sheppard, pleaded for a re­ they did not amount to much. He meaning of the Life of Our Lord, begins to wonder if he has not been nunciation of war by Americans, in that none of the gospel writers were a broadcast from London on Novem­ the victim in his childhood of an­ able to reconcile their belief in the other form of religious narrowness ber 10. He is a canon of St. Paul’s person and significance of Jesus with Cathedral in London, and head of and in his attempt to gain a larger a purely historical presentation of perspective may go to a rather Ger­ an English peace organization. He His life, and hence St. John to whom ridiculed the idea put forth by some man extreme, and that without ever it was given to sum up the work of having heard of Herr Rosenberg. that war is necessary to prevent de­ those who preceded him, has given cay of a race or weakening of man­ In the light of the above, a new us the portrait which is the closest study of Israel’s cultural and spirit­ hood. “Experience is directly op­ likeness to the original Figure. A posed to this shameless assertion,” ual origins, The Hebrew Heritage, chapter is devoted to Formgeschichte, which has just been written by Dr. he said. “ It is war that wastes a na­ the name given to a new method of tion’s wealth, kills its soul, narrows Charles W. Harris, the head of the studying the gospels which has aris­ department of religion and chaplain its sympathy and leaves the puny, en in Germany. While this method, deformed and unmanly to breed the of Lafayette College, Abingdon $2.50) which is a way of working hack ought to fill a very vital need. For next generation.” from the earliest gospel through va­ * * * Dr. Harris does not begin with Fa­ rious probable stages of transmis­ Bishop Page Lectures ther Abraham or even with the ten­ sion to the actual words and deeds ants of the garden of Eden, but he at Seabury-Western as they were spoken or performed Bishop Herman Page of Michigan begins as the college course would in Palestine, has distinct values, nev­ probably begin with the earliest is giving a series of lectures on “ Re­ ertheless Dr. Lightfoot is unwilling ality -in Worship” at the Seabury- traces of man and carries his story to accept it entirely “ without much on with a consideration of the no­ Western Theological Seminary, Ev­ further study.” This volume will anston, 111., from Nov. 20 to 22, in­ mad, the early Semite, the Sumeri­ be welcomed by any readers who are ans, the Babylonians, the Egyptians clusive. The clergy in general have interested in books in this field, but been invited to attend. and then with that background put it definitely does not try to appeal * * * the Hebrew people in the foreground to the layman. Rockefeller to Make but in balanced perspective. While Students who wish to delve fur­ the realization that the Hebrews can­ Contributions Wider ther into this subject of Formges- John D. Rockefeller, who has in not be properly understood as an iso­ chichts will find a complete presen­ lated social group is a «significant the past contributed millions of dol­ tation of it by the noted German lars to the Baptist denomination, has emphasis of the book, it is by no scholar, Dr. Martin Dibelius, pro­ means the only feature that makes written the Northern Baptist Church fessor of New Testament in Heidel­ that in the future he plans to make the book valuable. While stressing berg, in a volume called From Tra­ the important religious and ethical donations “ to specific projects, chief­ dition to Gospel which has been ly interdenominational or non-de- contribution of the Hebrews, Dr. translated by Dr. Bertram Woolf, Harris furnishes the reader with a nominational in character.” “ I have professor of the New Testament in long felt,” he wrote, “ that this de­ vast fund of knowledge of history the University of London, and has and culture based upon the most re­ nominational emphasis is a divisive been recently published by Scribners force in the progress of organized cent findings of modern historical ($2.75). and literary scholarship and of arch­ Christian work and an obstacle to aeology. Best of all the book is not While speaking of New Testament the development of the spirit and written for specialists, but for the books, let me call attention to the life of Christ among men.” “ I am, layman who wants a background for eleventh volume in the Moffatt New therefore,” he continues, “ seeking to his Bible reading, for the church Testament Commentary series, The use such influence as I have in em­ school teacher who wants to make Epistle of Paul to the Galatians by phasizing the basic truths common her material both vivid and true, and Dr. George S. Duncan, professor of to all denominations, in lowering de­ for the hurried minister who wants Biblical criticism in the University nominational barriers and in promot­ to secure the essential' features in a of St. Andrews (Harpers $3.50). ing effective cooperation among setting for some Old Testament in- (Continued on page 14) Christians of whatever creed.” While

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. November 21, 1935 T H E WITNESS Page Nine he is not opposed to denominations, a member. The club sends out many Taitt of Pennsylvania. The Rev. Carl which afford varied expression of books and magazines to workers in E. Grammer, rector of St. Stephen’s worship, he feels that his next step the domestic and foreign fields, who and actiye president of the society, should be “ definitely to support such depend upon the cooperation of the will preside. cooperative movement.” He has told C. P. C. to assist their work. H: H* * the Northern Baptists that he will He H« * Detroit Church not hereafter continue his contribu­ Maine Rector Suggests Celebrates tion to their unified budget, although Reading Matter Starting with an anniversary ser­ he will consider giving support to The Rev. W. Nevin Elliott, rector mon by Bishop Herman Page on No­ specific projects. of Trinity Church, Portland, Maine, vember 17 St. Paul’s Memorial * * * in his monthly Trinity Church Rec­ Church, Detroit, Mich., entered upon Bishop Spencer ord severely criticizes certain types a number of events in recognition of Conducts Mission of newspapers, especially “ the Sun­ its 60 years of service. On Novem­ Bishop Robert N. Spencer of West day editions of those sickly yellow ber 20th a parish dinner was held, at Missouri recently conducted a four rags” owned by the Hearst and Gan- which the rector, the Rev. James G. day mission at St. John’s Church, net interests. He terms their content Widdifield, was toastmaster. Follow­ Springfield, Mo., and also confirmed as “ putridity which is constantly ing the dinner an old time dance was a class of 24 on the first night, pre­ paraded before our eyes as ‘news’.” held at which the Ford orchestra sented by the rector, the Rev. L. R. To offset this influence he recom­ played, through the courtesy of Anschutz. mends to his people the reading of Henry Ford and his wife, whose H: ^ Hi some good religious paper, and for families were closely connected with Guest Preacher at this purpose T h e W i t n e s s is kept the parish, and who were at one time Yonkers Church available at the church. members. Mr. Widdifield is celebrat­ The Rev. Canon Raymond L. Wol- * * * ing also the tenth anniversary of his ven of the Washington Cathedral Bishop Johnson rectorship and the 25th year of his was the guest preacher at St. John’s ministry. in New York * * * Church, Yonkers, New York, Sun­ Bishop Irving Peake Johnson day, November 17. In the evening preached on November 10 at the an­ West Missouri the rector of St. John's, the Rev. nual bishop’s meeting in White Cathedral Dedicated Oliver Shaw Newell, conducted a ser­ Plains, Westchester County, a sub­ Bishop Alexander Mann of Pitts­ vice for the men of the city fire de­ urb of New York. In the morning burgh preached at the dedication partment, of which he is chaplain. he was the preacher at the Cathedral service recently in Grace and Holy Hi Hi * of St. John the Divine in New York. Trinity Church, Kansas City, Mis­ New York Rector The Westchester service was held to souri, by which it became cathedral Instituted give the head of the diocese, Bishop church of the diocese of West Mis­ The Rev. John Gass was instituted Manning, an opportunity to speak to souri. In connection with the as rector of the Church of the In­ communicants in the county, 3,000 change in the status of the Church carnation, New York, on November of whom attended. Bishop Johnson a community service was also held, 10, by Bishop William T. Manning is assisting Bishop Matthews of New at which Mayor Bryce B. Smith of of New York, who preached. “ This Jersey this month in episcopal min­ Kansas City and other civic func­ parish of the Incarnation has had a istrations. tionaries participated. The Rev. long and notable history,” Bishop * * * Claude W. Sprouse is rector of the Manning said. “ It holds a place of Canon Bell at church. great importance in the life of this Trinity College * * * city.” Mr. Gass, who is the stepson The Rev. Canon Bernard Iddings Rector Gets of Bishop Theodore Dubose Bratton Bell of Providence is scheduled to the Facts of Mississippi, succeeds the late Rev. give a series of four public lectures In a sermon one Sunday the Rev. H. Percy Silver. He is 45 years of at Trinity College, Hartford, Con­ Harry S. Longley, rector of Christ age, and comes to New York from necticut, during the first week in De­ Church, Corning, N. Y., told his peo­ the rectorship of St. John’s Church, cember. The lectures will be on ple that two-thirds of the communi­ Charleston, W. Va. “ Sociology: Christian and Secular­ cants of the parish are now “ dead ist.” During the following week wood.” The statement did not go Healing Mission Canon Bell will be at the University unchallenged, but the priest had the Postponed of Vermont and Middlebury College. facts to back it up. He had had The healing mission which was to all those who attended services fill be held at Holy Trinity Church, Hill­ Liverpool Canon out cards^ recording their attend­ side, N. J., from November 18 to 24, in Philadelphia ance. A count showed that practi­ has been postponed to November 25 The Rev. James S. Bezzant, canon cally all who attended signed. It to December 1. It will be conducted residentiary and chancellor of the was found that 325 communicants by the Rev. R. B. H. Bell, of Black Liverpool Cathedral, will be the had attended church at least once Mountain, N. C. guest of honor and principal speaker during the last two months. Of the * * * at a dinner to be given next Friday, 275 adults included in this figure, Newark Periodical November 22, in the community 145 had attended 4 or more Sun­ Club Has New Head house of St. Stephen’s Church, Phila­ days, and of these 86 attended ev­ The Church Periodical Club in the delphia, by the Evangelical Educa­ ery Sunday. Those attending 3 Sun­ diocese of Newark is expanding its tion Society. Canon Bezzant is one days or less numbered 130. These work under the leadership of its new of the foremost scholars of the figures, if church attendance be tak­ diocesan director, Mrs. A. B. Quar- Church of England, and is the author en as a measure of activity, proved rier, of Short Hills, N. J. Exhibits of the article in the Encyclopedia the rector’s statement, since there have been shown at district meetings Brittanica on the history of the are 1,100 names listed. It was also and at the diocesan Woman’s Auxil­ Church of England in the 19th Cen­ found from this check that of 84 iary meetings. Mrs. James Keeley of tury. Other speakers will include adults confirmed in 1932, 1933, and Ridgewood has spoken of the work Bishop William L. Gravatt of West 1934 only 24, or less than a third, as connected with the national Virginia, honorary president of the were at church during the two Woman’s Auxiliary, of which she is society, and Bishop Francis M. month period. What persuades Mr.

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Longiey to believe that the 775 pointed as follows: On work among for supper and were addressed first members have not attended church students in boarding schools and col­ by Mrs. E. L. Downing,- then by during the last two months is leges, Rev. John J. Gravatt; on dis­ Dean Edwin S. Lane, followed by that they have not even been cu- trict conferences of Church school William S. Carson, the director of rious enough to come to see him, teachers, Rev. Richard R. Beasley; young people’s work at the cathe­ for he has just begun his work on young people’s activities, Rev. J. dral, who pointed out specific ways there. However, this does not mean F. W. 'F'eild; on Church drama and in which they could help the Church that the names will be taken off the pageantry, Mrs. Madeline Bennett of and the community. Representa­ list. Mr. Longiey is going to get Bristol.; on missionary activities, tives of the young people also spoke, them back, for they need Christ Ann Huddlestun of Clifton Forge. and the meeting was closed by Arch­ Church, and Christ Church needs Among its activities in the coming deacon Jenkins, who has been active them. This method of ascertaining year the department plans a survey in the Forward Movement in Ari­ where the weakness of a parish lies of Church schools; a bulletin; ex­ zona. can be put to very good use. tension of lending library; link be­ ❖ * H« * * * tween Church schools and the de­ Origin of the partment of Christian social serv­ Washington Prayer New Rector and ice; and observance of religious ed­ George Washington’s prayer, Organ at Williamsport ucation days by every parish to cen­ which has been attacked in the When the Rev. Ernest E. Piper, ter interest on this work. courts by the Freethinkers, was in- who has accepted a unanimous call to become rector of Christ Church, Williamsport, Pa.., begins his work Connecticut Church finiitmmnimmmwmtfa there on November 30th he will have Gives Hobby Training the help of a new organ, built and St. James’ Church, Danbury, Conn., is this year undertaking a tElumtt g>. dorijam installed there by M. P. Moller of Jttr. Hagerstown, Maryland. The con­ unique week-day program for the ESTABLISHED 1900 sole of the organ has stop controls boys of the Church school. Urging with draw knobs and tilting tablets, the desirability of a hobby in every Publishers, Booksellers and and is attached. There are 35 ranks man’s life, and the advantage of distributors of Religious of pipes, with more than 2,000 indi­ picking one early in life, groups for Literature and Art. Also vidual pipes, hand made. In fact, stamp collecting, hunting, fishing, Religious and General practically the entire organ is hand photography, leather-working and Christmas Cards, Bibles, made. A set of chimes of twenty wood-working have been formed, un­ Prayer Books, Hymnals, bells constitute an added musical der the supervision of a competent Altar and Devotional books. attraction. The case of the organ, leader in each field. This plan of Prompt attention given to made of quartered oak, harmonizes developing hobbies among the boys mail orders. Catalogues with the general contour and inte­ of the parish is one of the chief on request. aims of E. W. Raymond, who is a rior scheme of decoration. M. P. nmmdM)hihiuiniil)lMi»innii\mMV Moller, who built their first organ trained recreational leader and a in 1875, have built 408 organs for member of the regular staff of the Episcopal Churches, out of a total Danbury parish. of 6,373 for various institutions. Mr. Piper, the new rector, has a Matriculation Service long career behind him, particular­ at Bexley Hall ly in the field of religious education. Bexley Hall, the divinity school of He gave up his work in secular edu­ Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, held cation to enter the service of the its ninety-seventh annual matricula­ Church as a layman, working first tion service this month, conducted HARPER EDITIONS with the National Council and then by Dean Charles E. Bryer. The Bex­ as director of the educational work ley Society, the student organiza­ of the book of in the diocese of Michigan. After tion of the Hall, adopted plans at its 13 years as a lay worker he was or­ November meeting for the develop­ dained in 1933. That year he went ment of an effective and active alum­ to St. Bartholomew’s, New York, ni association, working through dio­ COMMON at the request of the rector, the Rev. cesan groups and looking toward an Geo. Pa.ull T. Sargent, to build up organizational meeting at the Gen­ the educational work there. He has eral Convention in Cincinnati in PRAYER taken a leading part in the Church’s 1937. Work was begun also on the and the program for young people and their formation of a discussion and lec­ organization, and was president of ture program for the year with HYMNAL the board of religious education of prominent clergymen and laymen as the diocese of New York and chap­ speakers and leaders. Bexley Hall As authorized and approved by lain of the diocesan Young People’s has fifteen students in attendance, General Convention. Fellowship. representing the dioceses of Ohio, Exclusively bound in the Tubular Back H* H* Hs Erie, New York, Nevada, and Michi­ Binding . . . Books will always lie open flat and show no creases on the Southwestern Virginia gan. shelfback. Also wrapped in gold paper Department Reorganized and attractively boxed. For sale by booksellers and church The Rev. Devall L. Gwathmey, Phoenix Youth supply houses, or send for Catalogue chairman of the department of re­ Assist Movement P7. ligious education of the diocese of The young people of Trinity Ca­ HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers Southwestern Virginia, reported on thedral, Phoenix, Arizona, interested 49 E. 33rd Street, New York, N. Y. the new organization of the depart­ themselves in the Forward Move­ Also publishers of Bagster Bibles, The ment at the recent meeting of the ment at a meeting on a recent Sun­ Moffatt Translation of the Bible, Daily executive board of the diocese. New day evening. The two young people’s Light on the Daily Path and other Devotional and Bible Study Books. committee chairmen have been ap­ fellowships of the parish gathered

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eluded in “ A Prayer Book for Sol­ Seventy years is no wink in that re­ the diocese, was rector of the diers and Sailors,” printed by the gion. The celebration included a church from 1900 to 1904. Bishop White Prayer Book Society dinner, at which Archdeacon Hodg­ Hi sfc * of Philadelphia, in 1917, and was kin, Dean Henry W. Shires of the Parish Clears Debt widely used during the world war in Church Divinity School of the Pa- in One Stroke both branches of the service. A fic, and the mayor of San Mateo St. Paul’s Church, Kittanning, Pa., resident of Georgia and of New spoke; an historical exhibit; an an­ achieved success in a recent effort York, member of the Georgia Soci­ niversary service at which the pres­ to clear its debt. The parish has for ety of Cincinnati, and a ranking ent rector, the Rev. Lindley H. Mil­ some years had a total debt of Mason, had the prayer engrossed on ler preached and a tea at which $6,662.50, represented largely by a a large card, framed and presented gowns of the different periods of note for $4,660.50. It was decided to St. Paul’s Chapel, Trinity Par­ the parish’s history were shown. San to pay the latter from funds ish, New York, on which the Free­ Mateo was but a small town of a raised over the last few months by thinkers have concentrated their score of families when five men met pledges and gifts, and pence cart fire. It was accepted and hung in to form the parish in 1865. The next offerings. When the total was pre­ the Washington pew. The prayer year the first Episcopal stone church sented it was found that enough was was also used by the Sulgrave So­ in California was built there. Bishop raised not only to cover the note ciety, which had the care of the an­ Edward L. Parsons, now the head of but the total debt of over $6,000. cestral Washington home, Sulgrave Manor. This society presented St. Paul’s with several hundred small cards containing the prayer, which were freely given to those who val­ ued them. The woman’s commit­ tee of the Sulgrave Institute pre­ Hymnals and Prayer Books sented a brass tablet with the prayer engraved upon it, which was affixed to the north wall of St. Paul’s, over for the Washington pew. Later a card was printed with a portrait of Wash­ ington in his pew at St. Paul’s, the prayer, and a brief guide of the edi­ Thanksgiving and Christmas fice and the churchyard. The refer­ ence to the source of the prayer was given, namely, “ Circular Letter Ad­ With the approach of Thanksgiving and Christmas each dressed to the Governors of all the parish should make provision for an ample supply of States on Disbanding the Army,” Hymnals and Prayer Books. A gift of a number of copies dated “ Headquarters, Newburg, 8 June, 1783.” This letter is found in might be made by some generous parishioner or by groups all comprehensive collections of the within the parish. writings of Washington. In the prayer the passage from the letter In the interest of improved congregational singing, the has been put in direct address, and General Convention has urged all churches to place the the invocation and ascription added musical edition of the Hymnal in the hands of the congre­ to cast it into prayer-form. That is, where Washington wrote “ We gation so far as possible. make our earnest prayer that God will keep the United States in His As publishers of the authorized and approved Hymnal of holy protection,” etc., this indirect the Church, as well as the Prayer Book, in behalf of the address has been made direct: “ We Church Pension Fund, we solicit your order. make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States,” etc. Otherwise there is no change. HYMNALS PRAYER BOOKS * % ❖ Standard Musical Edition at $1.20 per copy (or $1.00 per copy Pew Edition, 3}4x5}4, in various Mobile Rector in lots of 100 or more). colors, at 35 cents per copy. Gives Bible Study Special Choir Edition, heavily Chancel Edition, 5 x 7 in vari­ The Rev. R. A. Kirchhoffer, rec­ reinforced, at $1.50 per copy (or tor of Christ Church, Mobile, Ala., $1.30 per copy in lots of 100 or ous colors, and with larger type, is conducting a Bible study class more). at 60 cents per copy. each Friday morning. The study Word Edition in red or blue is a general course on the Bible, de­ cloth at 40 cents per copy. signed to help the parishioners to a clearer understanding and a more CIRCULARS SENT ON REQUEST intelligent use of the Bible. The class is followed by a Communion service. Order direct from * * * Seventy Years T h e C hurch H y m n a l C o r po r atio n in California With seventy years behind it, the (a subsidiary of the Church Pension Fund) Church of ¡St. Matthew at San Ma­ teo, in the diocese of California, 20 Exchange Place, New York marked an anniversary last month with a program worthy of the event.

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This achievement is remarkable religious teachings may be made mission field will receive the 1936 especially because Kittanning is a practical. Then the next day, Sun­ Advent offering of the church community of only 7,100, and the day, there was a corporate commun­ schools in the diocese of Newark. parish has only about 200 active ion for the entire parish, and a ser­ The work is in charge of the Rev. communicants. The work is under mon by Mr. Sherman. This thorough the leadership of the Rev. Louis L. and inclusive program was felt to Perkins, the rector. have been effective in stimulating * * * work and activity in the parish. Stained Glass Windows and Mosaics Parish Holds Three H: * * Franz Mayer of Munich, Day Conference New Jersey Mission Inc. The Very Rev. J. McNeal Wheat- Field Active 1616 Woolworth Building ley, rector of Trinity Church, Fort The mission field in Warren Coun­ Wayne, Indiana, directed a very suc­ ty, in the diocese of Newark, is mak­ New York, N. Y. cessful three day conference in his ing progress in its work and plant. parish in October. The conference The vestry of St. Luke’s, Phillips- was largely devoted to the objective burg, has signed a contract for the CHURCH CALENDARS, specialties for the Episcopal Church. Sample Free. Benjamin of bringing the work of the Forward erection of a new church building Morgan, Norwich, Conn. Movement to the attention of all par­ on a lot owned by the parish in Hill- ishioners. The program was sent to crest, a new development in the CENTER FOR ORAL ARTS all interested, and was opened by a northern section of the city. The Founder: M. E. DeWitt Saturday meetings weekly: Prose & Verse fully attended dinner at which the vestry of Zion Church, Belvidere, speaking choir, 10 A.M. A few scholarships Rev. Arthur M. Sherman of the For­ has contracted for the excavation of are available. Open theatre problems confer­ ence at 11:15. First Sat. of each month, open ward Movement staff, who described the basement under the church, General Conference at 2 P.M. the work of the movement as largely which will be equipped as a parish Miss M. E. DeWitt, Oral Art Center, remedial as far as adults are con­ c /o Historic Arts Galleries, room and kitchen. The first Sunday Barbizon-Plaza Hotel New York City cerned, bringing them back to the school in twenty years has been Church. As to children, Mr. Sheiman started there with an enrollment of pointed out that 11 million of them 20. In Delaware, the steeple and ex­ receive no religious education at all. Money Raising Campaigns terior of St. James Church is under­ for budget; debt; improvements or He related this to the fact that the going repairs. Repairs are likewise new building. average age of criminals has fallen planned for St. Luke’s at Hope, one Write for proposal from 31 years to 19 years. Follow­ of the oldest church buildings in the ing the dinner those attending the CATES, STONE fir COMPANY diocese. St. Peter’s, Washington, has 8 West 40th St., New York conference were divided into four nearly completed repair and renova­ groups: the church school teachers, tion of its parish house. Community addressed by Vera C. Gardner, direc­ Church at Springtown, at the ex­ tor of religious education in the dio­ treme southern end of the county, FINE IRISH LINEN cese of Chicago; the young people’s has been taken into the Warren specialty selected for Church use. 36" to group, addressed by the Rev. John B. 54" wide, cut any length. Samples of 12 County field, and a Sunday school qualities on request. Mary Fawcett Co., 812 Hubbard, rector, St. Mary’s Church, with an enrollment of 35 has been Berkeley Avenue, Trenton, N. J. Park Ridge, 111.; the men, addressed opened. Ten junior and senior clubs by the Rev. John S. Higgins, rector, THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK have been organized throughout the SOCIETY Church of the Advent, Chicago; and Founded by Bishop White 1833 field among the young people. This Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ the women, addressed by Mr. Sher­ ishes unable to purchase them, in limited man. These group conferences were grants, A GOOD LAXATIVE The Book of Common Prayer. continued the following morning, and The Combined Book (The Book of Com­ were followed in the afternoon by a mon Prayer and Hymnal in one volume). luncheon meeting at which Mr. Hub­ FOR CHILDREN . Pew Size Children really like for their mothers to Apply to Rev. W . Arthur Warner, D. D., bard spoke on the means by which Secretary, S. W . Cor. 5th So Arch Streets, give them SYRUP OF BLACK- Philadelphia, Pa. DRAUGHT, PA R K E R ’S because it SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA: Guest HAIR BALSAM tastes so good. 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Oscar Meyer, assisted by the Rev. of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is chair­ school, teacher training, young peo­ Revere Beasley and the Rev. Boyd man of the provincial committee ap­ ple, college work, and boys’ work. Howarth. pointed to produce this new publi­ The members of the committee re­ * * * cation, which is to be printed ac­ sponsible for the flash cards are as Old New York cording to Church serfasons. The follows: church school, Rev. Paul Church Active publication is to be printed in “ flash The people of All Saints’ Church card” form, each issue consisting of on the lower east side of New York 20 or more light 3 x 5 cards exact­ .celebrated their patronal festival ly like those used in library filing; Wilbur Herbert Burnham with great enthusiasm. A large con­ the idea being to encourage tne gregation participated in the ves­ clergy and leaders in religious edu­ cation to file the cards for future pers of All Saints and in the parish Designer and Master party that followed. Outstanding use if the information they contain Craftsman features of the program were the is not immediately helpful. The Negro spirituals sung by the wom­ cards will contain findings in re­ ligious education for use in Church an’s guild under the direction of a Stained and Leaded Glass musician from the Henry Street school and religious educational Settlement, and the Russian Folk training, and will consist of six de­ Studios 1126 Boylston Street dancing in gay costumes, done by partments: Church school, pre- girls of the parish, under the direc­ Boston, Massachusetts tion of Mrs. Krassnoumoff, wife of the priest of the Russian Orthodox congregation which worship at All Saints. The people of All Saints’ MENEELYBECL presented the Rev. George W. T R O Y . N.Y. ano Knight, rector of the parish, with a 2 8 0 B RO AO W AY.N Y. CITY. pyx in commemoration of his ordi­ nation and the second anniversary of his coming to the parish. All Saints’ Day mass was attended by ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. 135 persons in a parish that reports 147 E. 47th St., New York 154 Communicants. All Saints’ Par­ CHURCH VESTMENTS ish is not just a monument to the ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Conferences with references to the adornment days of Henry Street’s grandeur. It of Churches. is redolent with memories of the Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 past but very busy with the job of SAFEGUARD serving some 15 or 20 nationalities within its borders. A newly organ­ PRODUCTIVE ized Sunday school, the first in 20 ELLWOOD POTTS years, is growing every week with the assistance of faithful volunteers CAPITAL Master Craftsman in from other parts of the city. Stained and Leaded Glass * * * A challenging new 3960 Filbert St., Phila., Pa Self-S upporting approach to the busi­ Missionary for India The Episcopal Church unexpect­ ness problem, by edly has a fine new missionary m LOUIS WALLIS, India. Brinkley Snowden of Knox­ ' R .G EISSLER .IN C .r 1 ville, Tenn., a young graduate of author of “ The Strug­ 4 5 0 SIXTH AVE NEAR I0«»> ST. NEWY0RK the University of Tennessee who has gle for J u s tic e “ God Church Furnishings specialized in agriculture, has want­ and the Social Proc­ 1 IN CARVED WOOD AND 13 Hll ed for some time to work in India, MARBLE-BRASS-SILVER n I- ! and the Bishop of Dornakal has ess” and other books FABRICS + W INDOW S \J) wanted him to come. The national dealing with eco­ >-■ 1 council has had no possible funds for his appointment, but Mr. Snowden nomic forces in world is both able and willing to finance history. IHR* himself so the council, on the rec­ M ommendation of the foreign mis­ “A sensible sugges­ m ■ - JYOUIXU >>' sions department, gave him an offi­ tion at a time when ^>- s2 5 SIXT4LAVKNV‘Ì;-NI W 'Y( - \ cial appointment. Mr. Snowden was STAINED GLA SS * M U R A i : presented to the council at its Sep­ business is crying for I M O SA I G-MÀRiVl ;UST( )NE £ ¿ 2 ’ tember meeting and expressed his relief from heavy i keen appreciation of the appoint­ s u — ------1 ment which enabled him to go out taxation,” says the as a representative of his Church. Minneapolis Tribune. Hi * * Mid-West Province 75 cents, bookstores or to Have Paper “ Flashes in Religious Education” is the name of the paper to be is­ DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & GO. sued by the religious education de­ partment of the province of the mid­ Carden City, Long Island, N. Y. west. The Very Rev. Victor Hoag

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Savanack of Cleveland, Ohio, execu­ CRITICAL METHOD REVEALS dicated in the margin. The commen­ tive secretary of religious education RICHES OF BIBLE tary is on the Moffatt translation of the diocese of Ohio; pre-school, (Continued from page 8) and is written for the Greekless stu­ Elizabeth S. Thomas, director of re­ These Moffatt commentaries differ dent. The author states in his pref­ ligious education in the diocese of from the old style commentaries in ace that his only claim to originality Michigan; teacher training, Vera that they do not print the verses in is that his commentary is the first Gardner, director of religious edu­ the upper portion of each page of its size and scope to be based on cation in the diocese of Chicago; with the commentary below, so that the hypothesis that this epistle was young people, Rev. Charles B. Hub­ it looks to the uninitiated as if the penned before the Apostolic council bard of Park Ridge, Illinois, mem­ author had a passion for foot-notes, described in the fifteenth chapter of ber of the provincial young people’s but the book is a running commen­ the Acts, thus making it the earliest department and the provincial depart­ tary with the chapter and verse in­ of 'St. Paul’s extant letters. ment of religious education; college work, Rev. Alden D. Kelley, in charge of student work at the uni­ versity of Madison, Wisconsin; boys’ work, Rev. Harry L. Nicholson of Services of Leading Churches Niles, Michigan. The committee was appointed at the meeting of the The Cathedral of St. John Cathedral of the Incarnation provincial synod held in Rock the Divine Garden City, N. Y. Island, Illinois, last month. I Cathedral Heights Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean New York City Sunday Services : 7 :30 A. M. Holy Com­ H* H» *!• Sundays: 8 and 9, Holy Communion. munion. 9:30 A. M. Junior Congregation. 9 :30, Children’s Service. 10, Morning League Against War 9 :30 A. M. Church School. 11:00 A. M. Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser­ Church School. 11:00 A. M. Morning Issues Congress Call mon. 4, Evening Prayer and Sermon. Prayer and Sermon. 4 :00 P. M. Even­ Weekdays: 7 :30, Holy Communion (on song and Address. A call urging the American peo­ Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10). 9:30, Morn­ Daily Services in the Chapel. ple in the name of peace and free­ ing Prayer.^ 5, Evening Prayer (choral). dom to make plans for action in the Organ Recital, Saturdays, 4 :30. St. Paul’s present world crisis has just been Church-in-the-City-of-Albany Church of St. Mary the Virgin Near the Capitol on Lancaster Street issued by the American League New York 8 a. m. Holy Communion. 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Against War and Fascism in prepa­ 9 :45 a. m. Church School and Adult Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Bible Classes. ration for its nation-wide congress, Sunday Masses, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. 11 a. m. Morning Prayer. which will assemble in Cleveland, Vespers and Benediction, 8 p. m. 6 p. m. Y. P. F. Week-day Masses, 7, 8 and 9 :30. 7 :30 p. m. Evening Prayer. Ohio on January 3, 4, and 5, 1936. 8 :30 p. m. Fellowship Hour. “ There is only one way for Ameri­ Grace Church, New York All Welcome Rev. W . Russell Bowie, D.D. Rev. George A. Taylor, Rector. can people to escape fascism and Broadway at 10th St. avoid war,” the call reads. “ All who Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Trinity Church, New York desire peace and freedom must unite urdays. Broadway and Wall St. Holy Communion, 11:46 A. M. on in time to defeat their enemies.” Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3:30. The call requests the election of del­ Thursdays and Holy Days. Daily: 8, 12 and 3. egates to the Cleveland congress The Heavenly Rest and Beloved from varied groups, including trade Disciple, New York St, Paul’s Cathedral unions, farmers, churches, profes­ Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Buffalo, New York sional workers, Negroes, women, Fifth Ave. and Ninetieth St. Sundays: 8, 9:30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. Sundays: Holy Communion 8 a. m. Weekdays: 8, 12:05. youth, veterans, progressives, liber­ Sunday School 9 :30 a. m .; Morning Thursdays (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy Service and Sermon 11 a. m. ; Musical Days: 10:30 a. m. als, etc. It is also announced that Vespers 4 p. m. the congress will draw representa­ Thursdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ munion at 11 a. m. Christ Church Cathedral tives from practically every state in Hartford, Conn. the Union, and delegations are ex­ The Incarnation Cor. Main and Church Streets pected from Fbance, Cuba, Mexico The Very Rev. S. R. Colladay, D.D. Madison Avenue and 35th Street Sundays: 8:00, 10:05, 11:00 a. m .; 7:80 and Canada. Among the signers of Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector p. m. the call were Dr. George A. Coe, Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A.M ., 4 P.M. Daily: 7:00, 12:10, 5:00. Daily: 12:20 to 12:40. Holy Days and Wednesdays, 11 :00 a. m. Prof. George S. Counts, Prof. Mar­ Soly Communion. garet Forsyth, Rabbi Edward L. Is­ St. Bartholomew’s Church rael, Rev. Herbert King, Rev. J. A. Park Avenue and 51st Street St. Mark’s Martin, Rev. R. Lester Mondale, Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector San Antonio, Texas 8 A.M., Holy Communion. Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry, Rector Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Jr., and 11 A.M ., Morning Service and Sermon. the Rev. Harry F1. Ward. Junior Congregation, 9 :30 and 11 A.M. 7:30 A.M.— Holy Communion (8:00, Ad­ Holy Comm., Thurs. and Saints’ Days, vent to Easter). 10:30 A.M. 11:00 A.M.— Morning Prayer and Sermon. 7 :30 P.M.— Evening Service. St. James’ Church, New York 10:00 A.M .— Holy Communion on Fridays. Madison Avenue and 71st Street KNIGHTS OF STS: JOHN The Rev. H. W . B. Donegan, Rector Church of St. Michael and Let the Boys 8 A.M.— Holy Communion. All Angels 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service and Church Baltimore, Md. have this Fra- School. St. Paul and 20th Sts. 11 A.M.— Morning Prayer and Sermon. t e r n i t y and Sundays: 7:30, 9:30 and 11 a. m .; you will have 8 P.M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon. 8 p. m. Thursday and Holy Days: 12 M. Holy t h e boys in Communion. Week Days: Wednesdays 10 a. m .; Thursdays and Fridays 7 a. m., Holy 'Church. P ro- Days 7 and 10 a. m. v i d e s w orth­ St. Thomas Church while things to Fifth Avenue and 53d Street New York St. Bartholomew’s, Chicago do. Endorsed Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector 6720 Stewart Ave. b y leading Sunday Services: 8 A. M., 11 A. M., Rev. Howard R. Brinker, S.T.B., Rector Bishops and Clergy. Ritual of Ini­ and 4 P. M. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A. M. 7:80 Daily Services: 8 :30 A. M., Holy Com­ P. M. tiations $1.00. 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