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housing and sanitation, lack of Christian Children's Fund Does medical care and schooling — the poverty is a blight on the Great Job Throughout World state of the world and its boasted civilization in the year publication. By Edward J. Mohr but so weak they had not the 1963! The suffering is cruel

and Witness Editorial Assistant energy to push the flies away and relentless. These unfortu- that crawled over their eye- nates have justifiable com-

reuse -k In the current year the balls, children with swollen plaints and their discontent is

for largest Christian orphanage or- stomachs because they had eat- dangerous. The contrast be- ganization outside the Roman en the bark of trees, even the tween the few of wealth and Church will devote over $5,000,- dirt of the ground itself, in the multitude of poor is too

required 000 to assistance for children in their hunger." great. The situation is that of half the countries of the world. Nevertheless, Dr. Clarke says a volcano, grumbling and The Christian Children's that figures show that one out mumbling in its uncomfortable Fund is doing this through al- of every two children go to bed sleep. It could awake in terrify- Permission most 500 orphanages owned by hungry at night. In South ing anger." it or affiliated with it in these America, where CCF has been CCF secures the income for areas, cooperating with the for several years, vast numbers DFMS. its work from legacies, contri- / missionary activities of some live under greatest privation butions under the CCF "Adop- 29 different denominations. and extreme poverty. "Im- tion Plan", designated gifts for

Church In terms of food the organi- proper and insufficient food," special projects, contributions zation's work comes to 40 mil- Clarke says, "lack of decent for general needs, and funds lion free meals a year, though contributed by the governments its program is concerned with Episcopal of various countries. the whole development of the the The cost of raising the money children under its care. of is 7.91%, a low figure for or- The assistance CCF is cur- ganizations of this nature. rently giving over 40,000 chil- Under the "adoption" plan Archives dren has been made possible by the contributor gives $10 per over 120,000 contributors. It month for the maintenance of 2020. has been able, however, to ac- a particular child, is given the cept only about 30% of the re- name, address and picture of quests for aid presented to the the child, as well as information

Copyright fund. about him, and is invited to cor- J. Calvitt Clarke, internation- respond with him, or her. Some al director of the fund, had contributors have cared for the years of experience in Near same child from infancy to 18 East relief before initiating and even through college. the new organization. He main- There is of course no legal adop- tains that there has been an Abandoned baby in Hong Kong. tion, and any particular contri- improvement in the treatment This seven day old Chinese child butor can discontinue his con- of children since he first went was found on a garbage dump, tribution, though in such cases into the work. In those days, bundled in rags, and brought to the the fund continues its care. Dr. Clarke says, he saw "the CCF Fanling Babies' Home, just a The $10 per month from the dead bodies of children in the few miles from the Communist China contributor does not go directly streets, and children still living border. to each child. There are two NOVEMBER 21, 1963 Thret classes of orphanages, those High on the agenda of the owned by CCF and those af- Little Rock meeting was discus- filiated with it, and all must sion of the ecumenical move- maintain certain standards. The ment and the role of the Epis- affiliated orphanages and their copal Church in it. For the children are visited and in- first time at a meeting of the spected as frequently as pos- bishops, two Roman Catholics sible by CCF supervisors. CCF were present as observers. grants to affiliated orphanages Eight new bishops were intro- a set amount per month per duced at the opening session: child, depending upon the loca- Bishop Barrett of Rochester; tion of the orphanage and local Bishop Kline of Northern In- conditions. In some cases the diana; Bishop McCrea, suf- amount is more than $10, in fragan of Dallas; Bishop Per- some less. sell, suffragan of Albany; Bish- In addition to the monthly op Pinckney of Upper South grant per child CCF often Carolina; Bishop Putnam, suf- fragan of Oklahoma; Bishop publication. gives aid for new construction, repairs and special expenses. Mills of the Virgin Islands. and The great majority of children aided by CCF are in orphanage- Blind student reading Braille at PROGRESSIVES DOMINATE reuse schools, but some are in welfare the CCP affiliated Blind school in VATICAN COUNCIL for centers or their own homes. the Bangalore District of India. -k Bishop John Moorman of Parents usually consider blind chil- Ripon, England, one of three While the cost to the contri- dren cursed. More schools for the required butor is $10 per month under Anglican observers at the Vati- blind are urgently needed in Asia, can Council, told newsmen in the adoption plan, regardless of India and the Middle East. the country in which the child London that "progressives" ap- lives, it does not meet all of the and Christian character, all in pear to be dominant. Permission cost of caring for a child, except relation to their own culture. "The progressive party," he for a few cases. In many coun- While most of the aided chil- said, "wants more power for the bishops. They call it collegiali-

DFMS. tries where CCF operates gov- dren are Christians the fund / ernments give financial grants, assists those of other religions ty — supreme power to the col- but in no case enough to cover as well. lege of bishops and the Pope. From what I have seen I would

Church the total cost of full care. In the case of affiliated orphan- BISHOPS HAVE MEETING say that progress is winning. ages and projects, the manage- IN LITTLE ROCK There is certainly real progress ment is able to raise a part of now." Episcopal the cost, and CCF encourages * The House of Bishops had In discussing unity moves, the as much local support as pos- its annual meeting, November the bishop said "the object of of sible. But the $10 per month 12-15, at Trinity Cathedral, the Council is reform and you enables CCF, with the local Little Rock, Arkansas, with 132 cannot have unity without re- help usually given, to assure attending. The meetings were form. Therefore in a sense the Archives that each child for which it ac- closed to visitors and the press. Council is working toward unity cepts responsibility and which Bishop Burroughs of Ohio as it works toward reform." 2020. it assigns to a specific contri- presided as vice-president in the absence of Bishop Lichten- URGE POSITIVE ACTION butor, gets enough food and ON INTEGRATION proper care. berger. It was announced that Copyright the Presiding Bishop returned * A committee of the diocese The local help, in addition to to his Greenwich, Conn, home of New Jersey has issued a governmental agencies, may on November 1 where he is statement urging positive ac- come from native churches, co- making excellent progress in tion for integration but cau- operating agencies, or mission recovering from a post-opera- tioned against supporting de- boards with which affiliated tive complication experienced mands that are "not tenable." orphanages are connected. Since early in October. He is present- The statement said that CCF is more than a relief ly conducting the affairs of his demonstrations, when they are agency concerned with the feed- office there and expressed his used "time and time again lose ing and sheltering of children appreciation for the many their effectiveness and tend to its orphanage schools strive to prayers and good wishes he has engender a reaction of resent- give them sound bodies, in- received from across the coun- ment, bitterness and even formed minds, trained hands, try. violence." Four THB WITHBSS No new channels or ma- Mutual Responsibility Projects chinery are involved. This is an emergency blood transfusion In Africa are Announced to enable these young churches to bear our common witness in •k Bishop Stephen Bayne, which will ultimately cost $892,- their new nations, and serve executive officer of the Angli- 000 in capital funds and annual their people with the leadership can communion, in an address at support of $255,000. and strength vital to their new a dinner of the diocese of The "Mutual Responsibility" part in world society. Montreal on November 11, an- proposal set an immediate tar- nounced more than 100 projects I would underline three points get of $15,000,000 in the next about this massive program. planned by the five archbishops five years, to meet emergency in Africa — following the mani- needs in the three categories • It is an unprecedented wit- festo of the Anglican Congress. mentioned. This amount repre- f ness to the wholeness and unity With the release, an extract sents a 30,v increase in present of the church. For the first from his address, is a note levels of inter-Anglican support. time in Anglican history, such publication. giving his analysis of the needs are being shared openly significance of the announce- The Address and and completely in the whole ment. Bishop Bayne told the Canadi- brotherhood. There was a time

reuse He says it is partly in the size an Anglicans: Today the when young churches felt they

for of the total program and the churches of the Anglican com- had to jockey for position, fact that it covers practically munion have taken a major seeking advantage from one na- the whole of the Anglican com- step forward in mutual respon- tion or church or party, or an- required munion in Africa, and also that sibility. The five archbishops other. That day is gone. The this is the first direct planning of our communion in Africa, in directory covers every church in consequence of the "Mut- behalf of their 46 dioceses, have and nearly every diocese in ual Responsibility" document forwarded to me a list of more Africa. They are made known Permission adopted in Canada last summer. than 100 projects, planned on a to every church and society of The procedural changes in- five-year basis, and I have cir- our communion and to the ecu- culated this new directory of menical agencies as well, and DFMS. volved are minor, except that / this directory (35 pages) is needs today, to every Anglican put on the hearts and con- being circulated by the Anglican church and missionary agency sciences of every churchman. around the world. There are no secrets in God's Church executive officer to all churches mission or his church. and societies, including the These projects are those held World Council of Churches, to be absolutely essential to • The program represents Episcopal whereas before similar projects their survival, by our African have been forwarded only to true and costly partnership the comrades. They are of three among the younger churches of those churches or societies indi- kinds. cated by the nature of the plan, themselves, in self-denial and traditional relationship, known • The training of the clergy deliberate preferring of one an- and laity. other in love. It means a de-

Archives interest and resources, etc. liberate choice of priorities for The Anglican executive of- • Emergency programs in survival, made by the churches 2020. ficer is responsible for coordi- new areas of industrial and themselves, not by anyone out- nating the responses to these agricultural development. side Africa. The welfare of a projects, avoiding duplication • The strengthening of di- continent and of the whole Copyright and generally trying to ensure church is all that has mattered fair consideration of all. oceses and provinces so that their freedom can be made to them in their choice. No central fund is proposed. more real. The financial support required • It may seem queer to call as well as the manpower would The capital costs included this vast request a "step for- continue to be given on a total about $4,500,000. The ward in mutual responsibility". church-to-church (or society-to- operating expenditure will run It is, to be sure, an asking, not church) basis. at about $3,600,000 a year. This a giving; and to us in older The projects vary in size from program in itself, in other churches, mutual responsibility a $36 annual grant for the words, would require all of the has primarily meant increased training of lay catechists to a 30% increase in support asked giving. But we need to remem- major program for Christian in the "Mutual Responsibility" ber that asking and receiving is evangelism in Northern Nigeria manifesto. as true an expression of interde-

NOVEMBER 21, 1963 Five pendence as giving is. The time bility will be unknown to us. Dr. Marshall Fishwick, Dr. will come when these African Every church has gifts to offer, Philip H. Rhinelander, and Dr. churches will have confidence and every church has needs to Virginia Harrington, were the enough to offer what they can meet. Today we are starting a discussion leaders, and all tied give. I hope the time will also new dialogue of interdependence into the main theme with their come when other churches, used in our household. presentations on the anthropol- to giving, will have equal grace I pray that it may continue, ogical, cultural, and political as well to know what they need, both giving and receiving, in approaches. A number of work- and ask for it. Until we all united obedience to the one shops were held in an effort to learn how both to give and re- Lord whose mission we all answer the needs and the inter- ceive freely, mutual responsi- share. ests of the delegates. The Rev. Reamer Kline, presi- dent of Bard College, was the School Conference Concerned luncheon speaker at the closing session. With Wide Range of Topics Miss Ruth Jenkins, headmis- tress of the Bishop's School of

publication. By Robert Curry tional Council unit of parish Los Angeles, was elected presi- Headmaster of Lenox School and secondary schools. dent for a term of three years, and Certainly it could be said that succeeding Dr. John Shank of * The second national con- most came seeking reconcilia- Florida. reuse ference for church - related tion, for all sense their need of The conference was invited to for schools was held Nov. 7-9 in it in some way or other. It is the diocese of Los Angeles for Washington, D. C. The con- increasingly difficult to teach the 1966 conference. ference was held under the the faith today, and there is required Amongst the resolutions pre- auspices of the unit of the searching for ways to do it with sented was one asking the National Council of parish and relevance to where youth is; church to reaffirm its position preparatory schools, and the people came searching for peace Episcopal school association. on church schools, in order to Permission from many pressures from help those schools involved in Some 550 delegates attended trustees, bishops, and fellow- or threatened with legal suit as from all over the nation and men who are concerned for par- being ancillary to the function

DFMS. from Central America, Hawaii, / ticular issues of our time. Men and the Philippines. of the church. and women today are not free The conference was well The theme of the conference to teach for academic and spir-

Church planned and coordinated, and was "The Church's Ministry of itual excellence alone. They are showed the work of many Reconciliation in the Field of under the gun from rightist months in preparation, and Education". The purpose was and leftist pressures. much credit was due and given Episcopal to re-examine the theological to the Rev. Clarence W. Brick- the basis for our schools and their The theme speaker was the man, executive secretary of the of quest for excellence within the Rev. C. Fitz Simons Allison of unit of parish and preparatory framework of the church's life the University of the South, schools, of the department of and mission in the world today. and his two lectures on the doc- Christian education of the Na- Archives People came to the conference trines of man and of God in the tional Council. for many reasons. Many parish space age, provoked a spon- 2020. day schools are in need of help taneous and enthusiastic ap- U.S. FOLK MUSIC on curriculum — reading, writ- plause (read this when the con- AT MASS ing, and arithmetic. Some ference notes are published). * Bishop John Higgins pon-

Copyright come to learn what is new in The Rev. David R. Hunter, tificated and Chaplain John the teaching of theology. Others presenting his swan song as Crocker Jr. celebrated at a com- gathered to discuss how you director of Christian education, munion service in the chapel of find qualified teachers, how to read a paper on the needs of Brown University at which deal with arbitrary boards of curriculum and God's place in U. S. folk tunes were used. trustees, how to raise money, it, which was in the opinion of An autoharp, two guitars and and how to find a new job. many the finest paper he has a base viol provided the instru- Others came to discuss what given. mental background of the Epis- is a church school or chureh-re- Bishop Henry I. Louttit of copal service, the arrangements lated school, what is the Episco- South Florida, was the preacher being by the Rev. M. L. John- pal school association anyway, at the service of witness at the son, Baptist chaplain at the uni- and its relationship to the Na- National Cathedral. versity.

TMH WITNES* EDITORIALS

child is blameless and to one who has pity in his CCF Ministers to Needs heart, the only question is his ability to help the Of Children child." Various denominational institutions and mis- WHEN IS A CHILD undernourished, insuf- sions exist in response to this concern, and their ficiently clothed, improperly housed, and lacking work and message becomes known through the in schooling, guidance, protection and medical denominational organs of communication and promotion. Interdenominational groups have to publication. attention? The answers are bound to vary, de- fall back on other resources.

and pending on the standards assumed and the in- formation available. But competent judgment In this issue we feature information about the

reuse work and objective of Christian Children's Fund, has it that 50 to 75 percent of the children in the for an interdenominational, international, mission- world receive less than enough of these elements ary association, ministering to the physical, in their existence. mental and spiritual needs of over 40,000 chil- required Whatever the exact figures, the proposed solu- dren. Earlier in the year we had the opportunity tions to the problems will vary according to the- to do the same thing on American Leprosy Mis- ological, social and economic predilections. sions, an interdenominational organization with

Permission Overpopulation, birth control, food and indus- a similar, though more specialized function. trial productions, economic planning, and the Of the numerous special projects of CCF two control of the means of production are all ele-

DFMS. may be noted for their long-range service. Clarke / ments in the ultimate picture. Junior College in Japan is the only institution The fact that a relatively permanent solution of higher education in the Far East devoted en-

Church for the problem of want depends on fundamental tirely to the training of house mothers for work decisions or developments cannot blind Chris- in children's homes. Bott Memorial Home, for tians to the human need at hand — individuals children, adjoining the campus, serves as a

Episcopal here and now, helpless in the case of children, in training laboratory for the college students, as the want from day to day. well as a recognized model for the best type of of In our news columns note is made of the child care plan in Japan. opinion of J. Calvitt Clarke, international direc- The Children's Garden, on the China mainland

Archives tor of Christian Children's Fund, a Presbyterian in Hong Kong, is the largest cottage-type orphan- minister who is an old hand at fund raising for age in the Far East. CCF has been a pioneer in

2020. relief, that in areas in the Near East the plight the development of the cottage-type plan in this of children has been considerably alleviated over area. Under it the children, instead of living in the last 50 years. He holds this to be true also dormitories in military fashion, are housed in

Copyright in India, where, he says, "the Indian officials individual cottages in groups of 10 to 15 of vary- are making an earnest effort to help the mil- ing ages. The atmosphere of a normal house- lions of the poor and to do away with the abuses hold is maintained, the children helping the of class distinctions." housemother with the cooking and house-keeping. And he goes on: "It is also giving birth con- Also, thanks to CCF, there are 44,000 chil- trol information. CCF, however, does not ask dren for each of whom someone cares, someone a hungry, homeless child, 'Why did you permit who has heard a voice saying, "Never despise yourself to be born ?'; nor refuse help to a child one of these little ones; I tell you, they have because his parents brought him into the world, their guardian angels in heaven, who look con- condemned to hunger and extreme privation. The tinually on the face of my heavenly Father."

NOVEMBKB 21, 1963 Seven DESPERATE CHILDREN NEED "PARENTS" By Randall Emerson

TO "ADOPT" A CHILD IS MORE THAN A FUND-RAISING GIMMICK. OVER THE YEARS DEEP AND LASTING PERSONAL RELATIONS HAVE DEVELOPED BE- TWEEN SPONSORS AND CHILDREN

J. CALVITT CLARKE is a kindly, patient man. clerks work in two shifts in the Richmond office But his patience wears thin when people accuse keeping track of children's and sponsors' letters. him of exaggerating the needs of children over- publication. seas. "Look at these figures released by the Perfect Team and United Nations," he says, "Half the world's THE CLARKES are devoted to each other, and children will go to bed hungry tonight. How in to their work. Actually they are a perfectly reuse the world can you exaggerate that?" matched team. Helen Clarke is the organizer, for Dr. Clarke is writing an autobiography, "Fifty Clarke is the promoter. Both are accomplished Years of Begging", and that title just about writers. They work long hours, and have no required sums up his life's work. Half of those fifty time for a social life of their own. The only va- years have been spent as founder and interna- cations they have had in twenty-five years have tional director of Christian Children's Fund. He been hurried trips overseas, speaking several has learned to handle the accusations of people times a day, attending to administrative prob- Permission who are suspicious of fund raising organizations. lems, flying nights to save time. With a twinkle in his eye, Dr. Clarke says that Both the Clarkes believe that Christian giving DFMS.

/ his experience has taught him that the loudest should be individual as well as social. So they objectors are usually people who feel guilty for were among the first to use the "adoption" plan, not doing their share to relieve the world's whereby a sponsor "adopts" a child. This is Church misery. more than a fund-raising gimmick. Not only do Dr. and Mrs. Clarke are "grandparents" to the sponsors get to know and love their children, over 44,000 children in 55 countries. Mrs. Clarke but the children themselves understand that Episcopal says she sometimes feels like the old woman who somewhere in the world, someone cares for them, the personally. of lived in a shoe, she has so many children she doesn't know what to do. But obviously the Many people write requesting a boy or a girl, Clarkes know what to do, because CCF will raise perhaps a certain age, from any of 55 countries.

Archives about five and one half million dollars this year. For ten dollars a month they "adopt" that par- Approved by the U. S. government through the ticular child. The sponsor then learns about the 2020. agency for international development, CCF con- orphanage, the conditions of the area where the tributions are tax deductible. Financial reports child lives, and receives a picture of the child and overseas programs are filed with the state and a letter telling about the child's background. Copyright department. Each Christmas, sponsors get a Christmas card Over Dr. Clarke's desk hangs a motto, that from their child, and most sponsors keep a steady reads, "The road to success is filled with men stream of correspondence going across the ocean. being pushed by their wives." Although Mrs. Dr. Clarke reports it is easier to find orphans Clarke isn't the type to push, she certainly de- than sponsors. At the present time, CCF assists serves a share in the success of CCF. She is the several thousand children who do not have force behind the smooth running international American sponsors, but are carried through the headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. Because organization's general fund. Requests for assist- of her love for children, she is a perfectionist, ance come from orphanages overseas daily, but making sure not a name is misplaced or a child's most of the requests have to be turned down, picture lost. About 110 secretaries and file or held until more sponsors are found. "We

I: :•':! THE WITNESS Yoo was found one day wandering in the streets, her clothes gone. She was crying, hungry, and suffering from malnutrition. Obviously she had been abandoned by her parents. She was taken to a CCF home, and today, many years later, she writes regularly to an elderly couple in Byran, Ohio, whom she considers her parents by proxy.

Youth Takes Part A TEENAGER in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, last Christmas asked her parents for a different kind of Christmas present. She wanted to "adopt" a Cadets from the Air Force Academy in Colorado child from overseas. Soon she had the picture visit their "adopted" son in Hong- Kong. Service- of a teenage orphan in Germany, and since both

publication. men have always been loyal supporters of the CCF girls are the same age, they find they have much program, mainly because they see firsthand the in common. and tragic needs. The senior high fellowship of Orwell North reuse Church, Orwell, Ohio, decided they could learn

for could double the number of children we assist more about conditions in Hong Kong first-hand, overnight," Dr. Clarke says, "if we could only so they wrote to CCF, asking for an orphan in find the sponsors." One entire file drawer is

required Hong Kong old enough to write letters. Soon full of orphanages applications — waiting for they were the "parents" of a fifteen-year-old help. Chinese lad whose parents were killed as the family was escaping the communists in mainland Permission Extensive Program China. ACTUALLY it would take a book to describe the But, even though CCF encourages such lasting DFMS. / scope of CCF activities, from American Indian friendships, it is careful not to make little projects, to children in Zanzibar, from schools Americans out of homeless children. Out of

Church for the blind to roof-top schools in Hong Kong, several thousand persons involved in the CCF from abandoned baby centers to homey cottages program overseas, only four Americans are em- where children live with a house-mother. (Two ployed. Experience has shown that nationals

Episcopal books have been written about CCF, the latest, are able to do a much better job. Also, this is in YANKEE SI!, published in 1961.) keeping with the movement in the Protestant the

of missionary groups toward training and develop- Overseas, CCF attempts to work in close co- operation with missionary boards and local ing national leaders. governments. CCF assistance extends to chil-

Archives Standards for each project are set according dren representing 35 Protestant denominations. to local, codes and requirements. Superintendents

2020. In each country, CCF tries to construct at least are instructed to work closely with city and gov- one model project, utilizing the most modern ernment authorities, and assist each child to de- methods of child-care. Bott Memorial Home in velop his personal abilities and skills according Toyko is used by the Japanese government as a Copyright to local cultures and customs. training center for workers in child-care. And so back in Richmond, the search goes on Over the years deep and lasting personal rela- — new sponsors for desperate children, funds tions have developed between sponsors and chil- for roofs damaged by typhoons, emergency sup- dren. This may be one of the secrets of CCF's plies for refugee families, clothing for American success. Too many church-related projects em- Indians, a well for the blind home in Taiwan. phasize dollar amounts in abstract terms and For at least 40,000 or more Americans, a needy quotas. But to CCF sponsors, their "adopted" child is not just a statistic — but a photograph, child is as real as the letter from Calcutta, the a Christmas card, a thank-you letter, a flesh and Christmas card from Hong Kong. blood child that knows the meaning of "I love In Korea, a little two-year-old girl named Un you."

NOVEMBER 21, 1963 Nine IT ALL STARTED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO By J. Calvitt Clarke International Director, Christian Children's Fund NOW CCF FACED ANOTHER QUAR- TER CENTURY WITH HEARTBREAK- ING CHALLENGES WITH APPEALS COMING FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT ARE URGENT AND PITIFUL

I AM THINKING of a conversation held in front countries. Oh, there have been headaches and of a barbershop in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, sleepless nights, but thanks to the generous publication. between a Methodist missionary who had been American contributors, each succeeding year we and head of a boy's school in Singapore, and myself, have helped additional children. a Presbyterian minister who had been raising It was a sad thing for us in 1949 to have reuse money for children for thirty years. We were our 42 homes in China taken over by the com- for talking about the bombs dropping on China and munists, to leave almost all our children in China the thousands starving there. "Well," my friend to be brainwashed with propaganda against the required Nagle said, "with the needs so pitifully tragic American they loved, and to know they were and you a fund raiser, why don't you do some- being forced to march in parades with banners thing about it?" denouncing America. Many of our workers and I turned my eyes from my friend's earnest friends were trapped, some escaped, some were Permission face, looked down the pleasant shady, street in executed. Chambersburg, contrasted it with the destruc- DFMS.

/ tion and suffering the China children were Work in Far East facing. "All right, Nagle," I answered slowly, "I BUT OUR WORK had already been expanded will." Church to Burma, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and India. The next day in Richmond I discussed the In Burma there was cruel hunger. Babies were challenge with my wife, Helen. She was en- sometimes carried into the woods by their dis- thusiastic. So we rented a one-room office, em- Episcopal tracted mothers and left for the wild pigs to de- ployed a girl hardly more than a teenager, told the vour. In the Philippines, I saw children rifling of the printers we would personally guarantee their the refuse barrels for a bit of meat or a half de- bills. I heard about an orphanage in China that cayed orange, or a scrap of cooked rice. In India had buildings and children, but no rice, and the there were vast hordes of hungry refugees with Archives children were starving. their listless, starved children. We stretched Advancing money out of my own pocket for our dollars as far as they would go in taking 2020. postage, I sent out an appeal letter, and soon a care of the tragic children. check was on its way. That, 25 years ago, was Then our work was opened up in Korea, when the birth of Christian Children's Fund. at that time it was perhaps the most devastated Copyright Meanwhile, I invited some of my neighbors on country recorded in history. Some of the chil- a committee; one, T. Nelson Parker, who lived dren saw their parents murdered, some children next door to us, later became mayor of Richmond died on the roadside, thousands were homeless. and now heads the state insurance commission. One of our representatives captured in Seoul was He still is our fine chairman. Well, we filled up condemned to death but was saved two days be- that one orphanage, and then a call came from fore the date of his execution by the recapture Peking, another from Shanghai, Canton, until of the city by American troops and their allies. when the communists finally drove us out of the It was a time of appalling misery, of constant China mainland they confiscated about a million danger and cruel disappointment as the refugees dollars worth of CCF property. were pushed further and further toward the sea. But already we had started work in other Along with them were the workers for the chil-

Ten THE WITNESS dren and when the tide turned and towns and bad to steal simply because he may get caught. villages were recaptured, CCF workers moved His new friends at the orphanage give him better with the children and gathered up the broken and higher reasons why it is wrong. They may bricks and rubble and built again. also tell him that Jesus is his friend and not Our staff is always saying, "There is never a simply a cuss word. dull moment in CCF." Their work is varied. From CCF funds a teacher buys a pair of over- Worldwide Work alls for an Indian boy in Arizona because his FROM ALL OVER the world the letters come, only pair of overalls was so ragged he was from above the Arctic and below the Equator, ashamed to attend school. Superintendents have from Borneo and Lapland, from Singapore and told us of almost doubling their school attendance Paris; requests to build a building here, to take through CCF funds for clothing and shoes. in more children there, to operate on a little Or an orphanage in India finds it can crowd in girl's eyes to save her from going blind; a well 10 more children and 10 little wretched, pitifully goes dry in Pakistan, could we send money to undernourished children are picked up from the dig a deeper one? More babies have been left streets of Calcutta, given the first real meal they on the doorstep of a Hong Kong babies home,

publication. ever had, their vermin destroyed, their rags please include them in the next remittance. burned, and with clean bodies clothed in clean Yes, CCF faces the next quarter of a century and garments, they attend their first school. with heartbreaking challenges. Appeals for help

reuse In Korea, the police pick up a boy for stealing are urgent and pitiful. We have too many chil-

for some fruit. He is pitifully hungry; so they only dren, of course, but we would not have it other- give him a lecture and bring him to one of CCF's wise for it is hard to refuse a hungry, homeless 97 orphanages in Korea, where he learns it isn't child. required

Permission A VISIT TO THE SOVIET UNION

DFMS. By Richard Millard / Suffragan Bishop of California

Church IN PREVIOUS SUMMERS BISHOP MIL- LARD HAS TAKEN GROUPS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON HIKING TRIPS INTO THE SIERRAS. THIS PAST SUMMER Episcopal HE WENT FURTHER AFIELD AND LED A the

of GROUP OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ON A US-USSR EXCHANGE UNDER THE SPON- SORSHIP OF THE LISLE FELLOWSHIP Archives DO SOVIET CITIZENS lead reluctant lives have with the words "democracy". The com-

2020. under a communistic regime? Many Americans munist party has been in power for almost half would like to think they do and have reason to a century, and during that time it eliminated or think so from the number of refugees who have drove out the Monarchists and supporters of the

Copyright fled over the Berlin wall and the precautions provisional government. Next Stalin liquidated taken by Russian authorities when their citizens those in positions of responsibility who had par- travel in other lands. As one passes through ticipated in the revolution and all others who ex- central Europe and back again, the distinction pressed any longing for the revolutionary spirit. between satellite countries and the Soviet Union During the later years of his regime, he kept itself becomes evident. In those countries where over 8,000,000 people in prison camps. After up- there has been a tradition of freedom, the Soviet heavals and uncertainties such as these, with power is more strongly felt in contrast to the only the Marxist-Lenin philosophy as a common- knowledge of freedom which has been lost. In ly understood and uniting factor, how could the the Soviet Union itself, communism has the same average citizen do anything but follow the party associations in the minds of the people as we line and keep himself out of trouble? The second

NOVEMBER 21, 1963 Eleven world war, with the invasion by the Germans, was that the Russian people are in a period of tost the Russians in human lives alone over prosperity, as we are, so that money is relatively twenty million soldiers and civilians, and: the plentiful. Almost all the women work, so that total destruction of two great cities, Stalingrad many households have two incomes. and the third largest city, Kiev along with hun- Rent is very low, as is transportation and any dreds of smaller towns and villages. The recon- article in the cultural category, such as" books. struction of the country since the war has been Clothes and food are relatively expensive. This phenominal, and this spirit of peril in wartime leaves the average Russian couple with too little and rebuilding in peacetime has helped unify money for an automobile— which, incidentally, the nation. With the death of Stalin and a closer can not be bought on time as every other article identification of the citizen with the governing can be; but with as much or more money than body in the Kremlin, the average Russian today the American couple for entertaining and travel. thinks of the communist party as being his party, The fact that they do not have to have bank ac- just as an American thinks of his political party counts nor meet insurance premiums, nor save when it is in power as being the governing party. for education, takes the pressure off the finances. Since I spent my time almost completely with Another thing one soon discovers is that the publication. students and their leaders, almost all of whom average Russian has a good deal of pride and have come to maturity after the death of Stalin, and that there is nothing he or she wishes from a I realize that I have met and talked with the foreign visitor other than a token gift of a book reuse younger generation, and not with men of more or a souvenir pencil, postcards or highway maps. for mature years and political experience who learned how to keep their heads on their should- ers during the Stalin period and who might have How Much Freedom required developed more cynical views of the party and its ONE IS never quite certain how much freedom leadership. he has in the Soviet Union. An interpreter meets the group at the border, lives with them Want Co-Existence

Permission the entire time they are in the country and then IT IS APPARENT from the attitude of the says goodbye to them at the border again. Our present leadership in the Kremlin that the interpreter, Alexander, or "Sacha" or "Sach" as DFMS. / present Russian leadership wishes to co-exist on our Americans soon called him told us that we friendly terms with the west. This is due in wTere free to take pictures as we would be in our

Church part to their confidence in their economic sys- own country with the exception of a prohibition tem, feeling that socialism will out-live capital- of pictures from trains or of military personnel ism; but it is also due to a new sophistication and objects. We did find this freedom, but here

Episcopal which makes them more realistic about their in- again pride entered in, and we found that the Russians themselves were not happy when we the ability to persuade others to accept their political of philosophy. On a hiking trip into the Caucasus, took pictures of queues of people before a stand I came to know an assistant professor of eco- selling oranges, or of a group of women trying nomics from Moscow and in one of our discus- to get into a beauty parlor. We had our luggage Archives sions I asked him how he felt about the Russian- searched thoroughly at the point of entry and Chinese situation, and he laughed and said: "In were told that we could keep possession of reli- 2020. their zeal for the spread of Communism they are gious material in Russian, but that we had to where we were thirty years ago." have it with us when we left the country again. The information sheets provided students who The same applied to impressionist art, although Copyright travel in the Soviet Union tell you to have an we were certainly surprised to find one of the ample supply of small gifts to exchange with finest collections of late 19th century and 20th Russian students, as they are quite generous and century French art on the third floor of the one should be prepared to reciprocate. What Ermitage Museum in Leningrad. In Moscow it should one bring, and what would one expect a was not possible to arrange for a group to visit Russian to appreciate? Stalin brought millions the Monastery at Zagorsk, some forty miles of people from the farm to industrial centers, north, because too few of our group indicated a and then severely limited the amount of con- desire and a bus could not be secured for a few, sumer goods. On the other hand, Stalin has been and when I announced that I was going by my- dead ten years, and there is said to be much more self I was finally told that foreigners cannot ride in the shops. The first discovery that we made a train without an "interpreter". This is ap-

I'welve THE WITNESS parently the way the authorities control the agree with you that capital itself is necessary, places which foreigners may. visit! I" , whether in a socialistic or a free enterprise sys- tem, and that the question is a matter of how Visit to Church you handle the capital — that is, whether the government controls it or whether you allow the ON A SMALL RIVER BOAT coming up the Don individual freedom to handle it. We are both and through the locks into the Volga to Volga- capitalists — one approaching it's use collectively grad, I met Iyan a young man who had just and one individually. graduated from Pedigogical Institute in Volga- One of the first observations made by each grad (Stalingrad). He was prepared to teach American is the difficulty he or she sees in the English, spoke it fluently, and was full of infor- management of a socialistic economy where every mation about the country through which we were industry, transportation system, communication passing and in Volgagrad, took me to the Ortho- medium, every store and even every little dox Church in a suburb, and served as inter- cigarette stand is state-owned and controlled, preter where we had a pleasant afternoon with with the operator on a salary from the state. the priest. He had never been to a church before How can the state wither away with this com- and expressed a genuine interest in it. I sug- publication. pounding of responsibility and supervision? gested that perhaps he might like to go to church The Soviet citizen comes back with the usual: and the next Sunday, and he said that this would not "How can a free enterprise system work? If we be a possibility since he expected to be a teacher reuse need potatoes in the Ukraine, we send potatoes and that if he were seen in the church this could for to the Ukraine. If we need tractors in Omsk, terminate his career. The communists are very that's where tractors are sent. Your free enter- careful to see that those who associate with prise system must be chaotic?"

required youth are not church attenders. The uneasy It is good for the Soviet citizen to know that feeling one has about the atmosphere in the it does work, and apparently works well. Quite USSR is reflected in the feeling I had about this apart from the advantages of communicating particular young man. • As friendly and coopera-

Permission with this Soviet citizen, it is interesting to note tive as he was, I never was completely convinced that while the Russian has pride in his own ac- in my own mind that he was not a Soviet agent complishments, he is intensely interested in the DFMS. and I was careful to keep the conversation with / United States and follows us closely in almost the Orthodox priest in areas that could be re- everything we do. ported to the authorities and would not make Church life awkward for him. The one thing the priest A person almost wishes this were not so when said he would like to have is a book on Conventry he finds that every record on a juke box in one Cathedral, which I am sending him via our mu- particular Leningrad student night club is Episcopal tual friend Ivan who will help him with the Eng- American. the lish in it. But I still don't know about our friend of — is he, or isn't he? YOUR HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED

Archives Mutual Understanding DR. ALBERT REISSNER, a world-famous psy- chiatrist and a member of many leading medical 2020. ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES of such exchanges and psychiatric associations, delivered a lecture would seem to be the necessity of interpreting on Marriage Today at Trinity Church, New York. our system to the Soviets as much as the impor- It was printed in the Witness as an article in Copyright tance of our trying to understand them. A youth- an October number and requests were received ful citizen of Russia has no hesitancy in launch- for reprints as a pamphlet. ing out during a "discussion with Soviet youth" It is our opinion that the information con- by stating that we can all begin by agreeing that tained in the lecture is needed by all clergymen the capitalistic system is in its final stages, and in marriage counselling. They might well have that the vigor of the socialist economic system copies to give to those they counsel. is the hope for the future. This is good for an We will be aided in determining how many to interesting and heated discussion, as you can print if those wanting copies place orders at 25^ well imagine. You may not get very far with for single copies and ten or more copies at 20^ him in his basic attitudes, but you do feel some each. Write The Witness, Tunkhannock, Pa. progress has been made when you get him to

NOVEMBER 21, 1963 Thirteen Schools of the Church

NORTHWESTERN THE WOODHULL SCHOOLS ST. MARGARET'S SCHOOL ACADEMY Nursery to College LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN COLLEGE PREPARATION FOR GIRLS HOLLIS, L. i. Fully accredited. Grades 8-12. Music. Sponsored by Rev. James Howard Jacobson ST. GABRIEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH art, dramatics. Small classes. All under the direction of the rector, Superintendent and Rector sports. On beautiful Rappahannock THE REV. ROBERT Y. CONDIT An outstanding military college pre- paratory school for boys 12 to 18. River. Episcopal. Summer School. grades 8 through 12. Fireprool Write for catalog. buildings, modern science depart- HOLDER NESS ment, excellent laboratory and nc;\ Viola H. Woolfolk, The White Mountain School for boys 13-19 Thorough college preparation in small classes demic facilities. 90 acre campus with Bex W, Tappahannock, Virginia Student government emphasises responsibility extensive lake shore frontage, new Team sports, skiing. Debating. Glee Club. Art. 3 court gym. Enviable year 'round New fireproof building. DONALD C. H AGEISM AN, Headmaster

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and DeVEAUX SCHOOL mer Camp. Write for catalogue, 164 South Lake Shore Road. Niagara Falls, New York FOUNDED 1853 reuse THE NATIONAL A Church School for boys in the Diocese of for Western New York. Grades 8 thru 12. Col- CATHEDRAL SCHOOL lege Preparatory. Small Classes. 50-acrc SAINT JAMES Campus. Resident Faculty. Dormitory tot (For Girls) 80, School Building, Chapel, Gymnasium anu

required SCHOOL Swimming Pool. Write for catalog liox "A". ST. ALBANS SCHOOL FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA (For Boys) FOUNDED 1901 DAVID A. KENNEDY, M.A.. Headmaster A Country Boarding School for Boys. THE P»T. REV. LADRISTON L. SCAIFE, D-D., Two schools on the 58-acre Close of Grades Fotir through Eight Pres. Board of Trustees One of the few schools in the Midwest the Washington Cathedral offering a Permission specializing in only the elementary grades. Christian education in the stimulat- Small Classes — Individual Attention — Home ing environment of the Nation's Atmosphere — Thorough preparation for lead- ing secondary schools — Athletics including Capital. Students experience manv DFMS.

/ Riflery and Riding — Competitive sports in of the advantages of co-education football, basketball and hockey. LENOX SCHOOL Summer School-Camp Combination. Grades yet retain the advantages of sepa- One through Eight. June twenty-first to A Church School in the Berkshire Hills for rate education. — A thorough cur- Church July thirty-first. boys 12-18 emphasizing Christian ideals and riculum of college preparation com- MARVIN W. HORSTMAN, Headmaster character through simplicity of plant and bined with a program of supervised equipment, moderate tuition, the co-operative self-help system and informal, personal rela- athletics and of social, cultural, and

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Fourteen THE WITNESS little bit better, so that it will New Problems Facing Youth benefit more and more people." Conferees then divided into Big Challenge to the Church groups to discuss the opportuni- ties and problems ke^ noted by * The upcoming generation • The coming generation Drucker, and reassembled to will be a "silent generation" — will have become accustomed fire questions at a distin- not apathetic — a "violent gen- to living in a society in which guished panel of seven authori- eration," which will present there are no fixed expectations: ties in the fields of church, edu- real opportunities and prob- it will have to forge its own cation, government, labor, lems for the Christian churches. basic position, relying on only a management, minorities, and So predicts an outstanding eco- limited amount of inherited at- women. nomist, author, teacher, and titudes and beliefs; it no longer The panelists: The Rev. Ger- churchman, who has served as accepts the issues that this ald Gilmore, rector, St. Paul's a consultant to governments generation feels are central, Church, New Haven, Conn.; Al- and economic leaders on both and looks for guidance in the bert Jochen, assistant commis- sides of the Atlantic. experience of its own contem- sioner of education for New publication. He is Peter F. Drucker, Vien- poraries. Jersey; Raymond Male, New nese-born professor of business and • Educational discrimina- Jersey commissioner of labor administration at New York and industry; Paul Giblin, di- University, widely known, tion is imposing upon youth a reuse rector, education and citizen- among other things, for his frightening intellectual arrog- for ance that threatens society by ship, United Automobile Work- books on "The New Society" ers of America; Charles Kappes, and "Power and Democracy in neglecting the 40 to 50 per cent of the population who will not general counsel, Mutual Benefit

required America." be getting secondary education. Life Insurance Co. and chancel- Drucker made his views clear, Manual skill is declining. lor of the diocese of Newark; concerning the next generation, the Rev. Oscar Lee, associate at a conference on "Being a • Our youth are endangered executive director, commission Permission Christian in a Rapidly Changing by the temptation of power, of on religion and race of The Na- Society," sponsored by the de- career — of making this an end tional Council of Churches of partment of social relations of in itself. Christ; and Mrs. Herbert Arm- DFMS. / the diocese of Newark at Trin- strong, president, Episcopal ity Cathedral and Cathedral • The world is on the brink Churchwomen, diocese of of a separation on racial, not Newark. Church House in Newark, N. J. merely class, lines. "Our problems are going to What can the church do to Moderating the panel: Harold change dramatically," he de- deal with the tremendous oppor- A. Lett, consultant of the Na- clared: "and we are already in Episcopal tunities and dangers inherent tional Conference of Christians the midst of them." The most and Jews, member of the spon- the in the changing situation ? important problems will not be of Drucker's recommenda- soring department of social re- economic or institutional, he tion: "We have to know how to lations, conference chairman. believes; these will only be look at something and do some- secondary. More important will Archives thing about it — not just write PRESIDENT KENNEDY be social, moral, and human about it." RECEIVES AWARD problems — "problems of con- 2020. science," problems about which "How do we make the great it President Kenneck re- "we have something to say as achievement of organization ceived the family of man a religious community." These productive for the benefit of award from New York's Pro- Copyright problems, Drucker foresees, will man?" he asked. "How do we testant Council at a $100-a-plat? center around youth, education, stop the danger of racial separa- dinner attended by 3,800 people. and race. The chief sources of tion? How can we be Chris- The presentation was made future trouble? tian? The most important by Rector Arthur Kinsolving of thing to be said is that there is St. James Church in his capaci- # The fact that the genera- no such thing as a perfect so- ty as president of the council. tion coming into adulthood is ciety for a Christian—they are Mr. Kennedy used the occa- almost twice as large as the all imperfect. Our job is not to sion to plug for the administra- age group it replaces, putting see that there is a perfect tion's foreign aid program and us on the verge of being the kingdom on this earth; our job said the U.S. must "do better youngest society we have ever is to see how we can make —not worse" in narrowing the been. something that is imperfect a "gulf between rich and poor." NOVEMBER 21, 1963 Fifteen ment ran into difficulties when Anglican Legislative Bodies the convocations of Canterbury Likely to be Reorganized and York held their separate spring meetings in May. * Strong support is reported This would give laymen, for It was accepted by both the developing behind a movement the first time in English Church upper and lower houses of the that would revolutionize the history, a voice in making de- Canterbury convocation and by government of the Church of cisions about the worship and the upper house of the York England by setting up a gen- teaching of the church, which convocation, but not by the eral synod which would unite the clergy have always claimed lower house of York. The upper as their prerogative. the separate legislative bodies houses are made up of the di- of the church. Bishops of the church are ocesan bishops in the two At present the convocations regarded as generally in favor provinces, and the lower houses of Canterbury and York, com- of a general synod, but strong comprise elected representatives posed entirely of bishops and opposition has come from the of the clergy. publication. clergy, who believe that lay- clergy, control the doctrine and After rejection of the plan and worship of the church. The men's views on worship and doctrine are not tc be regarded by the lower house of York, a assembly, elected by the di- compromise was submitted by reuse as authoritative. oceses, has both clergy and lay- the Archbishops. This would for men, but their business is con- At the recent Church As- have restored to the convoca- fined to general affairs of the sembly the Archbishop of Can- tions the right to approve any church, including matters of terbury and the Archbishop of measures affecting the church's required finance. York were requested to set up doctrine and liturgy, as well as However, proposals have been a commission to work out pro- any church union proposals be- made for a general synod which posals. fore they could be accepted by

Permission would bring the clergy and This came about after a plan the synod. In effect, this gave laity together in one house. advocating synodical govern- the convocations the right of veto, or at least the power to DFMS.

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•Sixteen THE WITNBSS He lauded Pope Paul for Ecumenical Parley in Brazil demonstrating that the Catho- lic Church is continuing to fol- Cites Gains from Council low the "same conciliatory line initiateo ty his predecessor, ~A The second annual ecu- already is being heard, the Pope J hn." menical conference meeting in minister pointed to the Vatican Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, lauded Council and the World Council "The latest discourse of the the Vatican Council for opening of Churches which, he said, present pontiff," Kleemann new roads to better under- "are raising" voices which call said, "is filled with references standing among Christian the churches to new forms of to separated brothers — Prot- bodies. cooperation and a discussion estants, Anglicans, Orthodox — The conference, attended by daily more profound in search containing, also, a request for clergy representatives of several of unity." forgiveness for offenses which Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups, said that im- proved relations and goodwill

publication. among all Christians will aid the church in fostering the work and of God and bettering humanity. 11..SH Held in the Episcopal church iill reuse 11 • of the Redeemer, the meeting Hilb for also had several hundred lay spectators. Host to the confer-

required ence was the church's rector, the Rev. Kurt Kleemann. His church also was the scene of the first conference held last

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Eighteen THB WITNESS hardy. Being at least as astute as reader dips into it he will discover Henry VIII in England, they that the book's editor has done a wrested ecclesiastical control and really remarkable job of writing -NEW BOOKS- physical possession of the old concise biographies of all the thirty Kenneth R. Forbes churches from the Roman papacy. preachers, whose work was done And, as anyone who has toured from the 4th to the 19th centuries. Book Editor Scotland, northern, or central There are not a few of these sample Europe, will testify, they have held sermons originally preached by- on to them tightly to this day. famous clergy whose names are well Soldiers and Servants, A Workbook But these items are very minor known to all of us, but whose for Confirmation by Lowell B. when measured against the excellence printed sermons fail to leave us im- McDowell. Morehouse - Barlow. of the work as a whole. In it the pressed. $2.25 church has been given an outstand- Such sermons we will soon realize ing pastoral tool. illustrate Phillips Brooks' definition The persistent need for aids in — E. J. Mohr of "real preaching." "Truth through confirmation instruction is well met personality is our description of real in this new workbook, which can be The Religion of Abraham Lincoln by preaching". The man who would be used by itself, or in conjuntion with William J. Wolf. Seabury Press. a thorough going preacher must the film strips, Confirmation, from $3.95 have the special gift of revealing the same publisher. The combina- himself to his congregation — not tion should be very effective. This is an enlarged and revised his odd peculiarities, but the grow- publication. Although occasionally using the edition of the author's The Almost ing power of his whole character. Chosen People which Professor Wolf, and offices of instruction as a point of As you read some or all of these departure the book follows an though officially the professor of 30 sermons I suggest that you don't experiential rather than a proposi- theology in the Episcopal Theologi- skip John Chrysostom (he of the reuse tional approach in teaching doctrine. cal School, has long made himself a "Golden Mouth") Studdert-Kennedy, for master in the field of President John Donne, Martin Luther, Frede- The main part of the book com- Lincoln's religious beliefs and ac- prises 18 lessions divided into sec- rick William Robertson and Francois tivities. In order to have recorded Fenelon. You will see clearly enough tions on Christian Initiation, cen- such a mass of bona fide material, required tering on the doctrine of God; The what Bishop Brooks' definition the author must have done a tre- meant. People of God, an excellent exposi- mendous lot of research. It appears tion of the human situation, of bibli- now as ten chapters, each of which He Spoke to Them in Parables by cal literature, and of history through is headed by some words of Lincoln. the ministry of Jesus; The Drama Harold A. Bosley. Harper &

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