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W h o Is T h e L o r d ’s B o d y ? By HERBERT W. PRINCE Rector at Lake Forest, Illinois H E R E will be no spiritual reality in our mis­ ery to discipleship to Christ ? Of course it is; what is T sionary work at home and abroad, and no real the use of blinking at it, keeping it under cover? blessing of God upon it so long as we continue our No wonder we are all hard up. No wonder none of work independently of other Communions. Here lies us is winning the confidence of the non-church world. the base of all our failure and discomfiture— it is our No wonder the progress of Christianity is so slow. pride, our assumption of superiority, our bull-headed There is a remedy. Take Wyoming. (Bishop Zieg­ stubbornness. W e continue to act in large-area mis­ ler will think I am taking a crack at him ; not at all. sionary districts at home and in all missionary fields I may be thinking of his predecessor, who died under abroad with a sublime indifference to other churches the impossible strain of administering a territory as and their work. Were there no Presbyterian or large as England, Wales and Scotland combined— think Methodist or Baptist or Congregational or Roman of it!) Yes, take Wyoming. Must we administer the Church in the missionary field of Wyoming or Ne­ whole state? Is it a Divine mandate the Episcopal vada or Anking or Kyoto our method could not be Church has to cover every inch of American soil? Are more exclusive and go-it-alone than it is. A t home we better, or something, than the Romans or Presby­ and abroad we are all fighting our separate battles terians or Lutherans? Is it a matter of eternal sal­ against secularism, we are all struggling separately to vation for every living being to have a chance to be­ maintain our parishes, and institutions, we are all long to the Episcopal Church? W e haven’t succeeded making herculean efforts to sustain our separate pres­ in inducing more than our small proportion of human tige, we are all ceaselessly endeavoring to raise money beings to prefer us to other members of Christ’s Body. for our separate organizations. W e overlap, we each Who is the Lord’s Body? That is the question we claim the earth, we are all certain we are the true never answer. W e prate a very great deal about church, or parts of it. Christ’s Body the Church of which He is the Head. I do not deny there is a certain interchange of views Does any thinking person seriously believe any one and mutual understanding and appreciation of one an­ of us has the right to- exclude another denomination? other’s national missionary boards. John Wood and Is the Roman Church a member of the Lord’s Body? Robert E. Speer are undoubtedly good friends and Yes. Is the Eastern Orthodox? Yes. Is the Anglican often meet in missionary committees and public plat­ Communion ? Oh my, y es! Is the Presbyterian ? Its forms. But these pleasant and helpful associations do governmental form is admitted as primitive and apos­ not change things. The Episcopal and Presbyterian tolic. The answer is, “Yes.” Is the Congregational? Churches go their separate ways today precisely as Its free worship “ spontaneity” is recognized as an es­ they have done for the past 300 years. It is not pos­ sential part of Catholic worship and was current in the sible that Christ the Lord and Fulfiller of both of us primitive church. The answer is, “ Yes.” can be satisfied with this. It is not possible that He Very well. If all these segrhents are members and can be with us and bless us when the Roman Church parts of the Lord’s Body how can we possibly be calls all China its field and the Anglican Communion rivals for supremacy? How can the Lord’s Body be calls all China its field and the Presbyterian Church healthy and virile when the acknowledged parts or calls all China its field and the Baptist Church calls all members are pulling apart instead of pulling together? China its field, and so on ad infinitum. It can not be. W e dare not be rivals; we must bring Our bishop goes out to Wyoming and he is the ourselves to be sharers in the Lord’s Body of the same Bishop of W yoming;-so is the Roman Bishop, so in graces and gifts and leadership and authority. effect is the General Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Accordingly each communion OW , without gloves, what should be done ? Say builds its important places— where? in the central N to the Roman Catholic Bishop in the,state where towns, all together! Isn’t it wicked, ridiculous, a mock­ the Roman work is strongest: “ W e will stay out of this

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part of the state. You evangelize it. W e sincerely be­ lieve you are as much a genuine part of the Body of L e t ’s K n o w Christ as we believe we are. W hy should we act as if By we did not believe it by working in the very same field BISHOP WILSON where you are succeeding and thus placing ourselves in L ord’s D a y the position of rivals for members of the Lord’s Body? GOOD many people speak of the First Day of W e will take another portion of the state and leave this A the week as the Sabbath. Sometimes they qualify to you.” it by saying the “ Christian Sabbath.” Either name Before horror-stricken platitudes stop me let me cut would have been indignantly repudiated by the first up this Wyoming place a little more. W e would make Christians. an arrangement in advance with Presbyterians, Metho­ Immediately after our Lord’s resurrection the Chris­ dists and others who are at work in the state: “Let us tian community began meeting for Christian worship on divide the territory in the Name and for the sake of the first day of the week— the Resurrection Day. Soon Christ and His Church. Let us call this territory Christ’s it came to be known among them as the Lord’s Day. Kingdom, not Episcopal soil; and these souls Christ’s, Those first Christians were naturally Jews and for a not ours. W e believe He desires and yearns for fol­ long time they continued to attend the synagogue wor­ lowers, disciples, Christians. W e do not believe He ship on the Sabbath as well as Christian worship on the thinks much of the limiting adjectives which separate Resurrection Day because they considered the Gospel them into groups.” “ Other sheep I have which are not to be the completion and fulfillment of the Jewish faith. of this fold; them also I must bring and they shall But more and more Gentiles came into the Church and hear My voice and they shall become one flock, one they were not obliged to follow Jewish customs. They shepherd!” There it is— many folds, one flock. attended Christian worship without attempting to keep I am aware the Protestant members of our Church the Sabbath. With all his Hebrew background St. Paul will be aghast at the idea of relinquishing any portion objected strenuously to imposing Jewish requirements of any field to the Roman Catholics, but Protestant or upon Christian converts. not, the question is, “Are we making any better Chris­ Gradually the cleavage between Church and Syna­ tians than the Romans? Do we or do we not admit gogue increased and the Christians withdrew or were the Roman Church is part of the Body?” The answers driven out from the Jewish services. They concentrated have been given. They do as good or better work than on the Lord’s Day and deliberately left behind them we do, and they are a part of Christ’s Body, the the strict requirements of the Hebrew Sabbath. This Church. I am also aware the Anglo-Catholics within continued for nearly three centuries while Christianity our ranks will howl over the inclusion of Presbyterians was suffering under recurrent waves of pagan persecu­ and Congregationalists within the sacred precinct of tion. The Lord’s Day was a day of gladness and re­ equality with ourselves as part of the Divine Body. joicing when the Christians offered thanks to God, But practice, common sense and 400 years of history participated in the Holy Eucharist, and brought their answer the objections and the weight comes down hard offerings. There was no1 effort to refrain from ordi­ on the side of the poor sectarians. nary labor on that day since their worship was held There are also objections to be raised on the score early in the morning. Just as Christ had modified many that it is a shame to deprive Episcopalians of their of the provisions of the Jewish Law, so the Christians church because they live in a Congregational or Roman considered their weekly remembrance of His resurrec­ Catholic arranged territory. Yes, it is very, very sad, tion to be of far greater importance than the Hebrew but not so sad when we happily remember we have Sabbath. included each of these groups in the Lord’s Body. The Among the Romans it was the custom to declare a Body is the organism, the Episcopal and Congrega­ holiday from ordinary work on various festivals. When tional adjectives are not. the emperor Constantine became a Christian he issued The solid fact is that history, controversy and dis­ an order that the first day of the week should be cussion have done nothing material so far to clear up counted as such a festival and work should cease on that our organic .and sectarian difficulties. They never will, day every week. Sometimes it is said that God made because Church order is not clear in Scripture or the Sabbath but a partly converted emperor decreed the patristic history and no side has a monopoly of per­ Christian Sunday. This is scarcely true to the facts. fection either of system or holiness. The Lord’s Day was a matter of common Christian ob­ For good or ill, I believe good, we are separate parts servance long before the time of Constantine. He sim­ of the whole Body, each doing his part and share ac­ ply gave it the official rank which had previously been cording to conscience and the light each group has. accorded to pagan festivals. If we cannot unite let us at least cooperate with some It was the Puritans who attempted to reverse the ac­ degree of sincerity and practical wisdom and convince tion of the early Christians and reinstate the rigid old the world that we have a united front, a united pro­ Sabbath with a Christian flavor added. Instead of a gram, that the Church is the Body. day of joy and gladness they made it into a day of gloom W e owe it to the world, we owe it to our Conscience, and sanctimonious repression. Somehow it was sup­ we owe it above all to Christ our Head. The Body is posed to be an honor to God to make themselves miser­ One. able on the day especially dedicated to His worship.

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Now has come the reaction. People refuse to be that you really ought to go to1 Church on Sunday, thank bound by Sabbatarian restrictions any longer but in the God, make your offerings, and receive your Commun­ process they have also largely departed from the proper ion, you need have no fear of the cold cheerless Sab­ recognition of the Resurrection Day. In revolting from bath which in Calvinistic days was a nightmare to chil­ a hard Sabbath they ignore the kindly Lord’s Day. We dren. If Christ means anything to you, it is reasonable need to rearrange our spiritual thinking and recapture to pay Him your respects on the day designated by His the spirit of those early disciples. When you are told apostles in grateful remembrance of His resurrection.

T h e F a c t o r o f P e r s o n a l i t y By BISHOP JOHNSON F SO M E one gives you a problem to solve and in tween a machine and a seed. Moreover, when a Ford I the solution you leave out one of the most im­ is through it is ready for the junk heap; when a seed portant factors, your fancied solution will be futile. is planted in the ground and dies, it brings forth more The important factor which the academic mind is seeds. There is a vital difference between living or­ prone to omit is that of human, personality. W e do ganisms and political organizations which after all can not solve man’s problems by ignoring the fact that man only regulate man in his exterior relations but cannot has an inner life as well as a group relationship. provide the sustenance for his interior life. When any You can assemble the various parts of an automobile government plans to regulate man’s exterior relation­ and the thing will go because each unit in the mechan­ ships, it is within the scope of its possibilities, but when ism has no other function than to cooperate with the it enters the sphere of man’s interior belief and per­ whole. When you attempt to treat man as a nut or a sonal aspiration, it is meddling with that which is none crank you will discover that he has a factor which dis­ of its business, about which it knows little or nothing, rupts the mechanical adjustments. In short, he has and in which it is assuming an arrogance which is in­ personality. When one studies the various “ isms” tolerable. When any government attempts to orient which claim to solve the problem of group relationships scientific and historical knowledge to its dictation, it one is impressed with the fact that they leave out the merely makes itself ridiculous. When dictators de­ vital importance of the human element. They ignore mand fawning subserviency from a group more in­ the fact that the same factor which caused them to telligent than themselves in areas of interior life, they rebel against existing institutions will eventually re­ are guilty of rank hypocrisy. sult in rebellion against the substitutes which they have After all that is said and done, the average man confidently imposed upon man. That is why Com­ lives in a little world of personal relations which exist munism has to use force and will continue to do so, regardless of the political or economic system in which because man still has the ability to plot and conspire he moves. When men say that capitalism does this against the regime in which he has been placed. It is or that, or communism can do thus and so, they are a curious fact that the critics deny personality to the attributing personality to a corporation which has no individual who possesses it and ascribes personality to body to kick and no soul to save. What these groups a group which does not possess it. actually do is dependent upon their leaders or dic­ tators in any particular time and place. The effect There are in the universe just two possible persons: of this false emphasis is to be seen first in the disre­ God and the Ego. The State is not a person; neither gard of the moral law in private life and then in the is the Church. When you say that the Church does so scrapping of international law in public affairs. and so, or fails to do this or that, you are ascribing personality to a group which, while it is composed of H E brutality of modern warfare in its massacre of persons, has no personality in itself. When you say T non-combatants indicates that the substitution of that the Soviet does so and so, you really mean that economic and political theories for the inculcation of Stalin and his group of advisers are imposing their private morality means a return to barbaric chaos as its Egos upon the public and claiming the right to dictate ultimate destiny. to the whole. Hitler is really the personality of the As Dr. Spenka has adequately described the situa­ Nazis in Germany and Mussolini of the Fascists in tion, “ Men are thinking in marble and building in Italy. And these dictators are treating other men as mud.” This is due to the fact that men impose gadgets to carry out their demands in group relation­ academic theories which leave out of consideration the ships without taking into account that man has also human element. No wonder that the world is muddled. an inner life which no political or economic system It requires no self-sacrifice to theorize but it requires can regimentate. heroic effort to attain character. One falls back upon There is a wide difference between organisms and the words of Esdras, written more than two thousand organizations; between living beings and mechanical years ago by a Hebrew sage: “Such as the workman is, devices. For example, one cannot plant a Ford car such also is the work; and as the husbandman is him­ and reap one hundred Fords. There is a difference be­ self, so is his husbandry also.” (4 Esdras IX ¡17)

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The state and the Church each has its sphere of re­ sponsibility. The state deals with man in his external Talking It Over relations; the Church deals with him in his interior By experiences. There are things that belong to Caesar WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD and those which belong to God. The circles intersect ISH O P JO H N SO N , our editor, once said that one another so that there is an area common to both, but the greater part of each circle is independent. B the Roman Catholic Church is as good as the com­ When the state meddles with religion or the Church munity in which it exists; that really to understand meddles with politics, it is at the expense of the func­ it one must go to a country where it has complete tion peculiar to each. sway. Spain is one such country. There today Rome is supporting Franco. And in so doing American It is the business of the Church to produce the kind leaders of that Church claim they are fighting for of people who desire justice and mercy in the state, liberty, freedom, democracy and decency . . . for those but when the Church attempts to dominate the state, principles cherished by Americans. .or the state tries to obliterate the Church, mankind John Langdon-Davies, in his Behind the Spanish suffers from the failure of each to attend to its own Barricades, gives the following question and answer business in friendly relationship one with the other. from a Catholic Catechism: A t present the Church is in an invidious position Q. What sin is committed by those who vote liberal ? — for men demand of it that which it has neither the A. Usually, mortal sin. vocation nor the ability to do. It deals with the inner He was called down for this by a number of his Cath­ life of all men without respect of persons. As it may olic friends in England who said it simply could not not use force to execute its demands, it necessarily be true. He was sufficiently concerned about the mat­ is dependent upon the response which the individual ter to go to Spain for a Catechism, and for any books may give to its appeal in any time and place. If it pro­ he might find explaining the Catechism. He has set duces some men who are-conscientious in their use of forth in a leaflet, The Spanish Church and Politics, wealth and others who are content to labor without what he found in an official book explaining the envy or hatred, it has done what it could. If some of catechism, written by R. P. Angel Maria de Arcos, its members fail to respond to its training, it is unable S.J., which carries the endorsement of the Archbishop to force them to comply. It bears much the same re­ of Granada who says that the book contains “clear lation in the realm of righteousness that the university instruction on the most important questions of the bears in the realm of education. day.” The preface also states that “hundreds of thou­ There is no known force which will compel the stu­ sands of copies have been sold.” dent to become a scholar, or a Christian to become a H E R E IS P R E SE N T E D here questions and an­ saint. The Church exists to preach Christ and Him swers from this book without any comments, leav­ crucified, and if the mob demand that Christ come T ing it to each reader to draw any conclusions he may down from the Cross to save a messy world, His reply as to the part the Roman Church is playing in Franco’s is that unless men will take up their Cross and follow rebellion. Him there is no other way of saving them from them­ Q. How should we Catholics conduct ourselves be­ selves. The trouble is that men want the world saved neath a Government hostile to the Church? without any personal sacrifice on their own part,-^- A. If it is in peaceful possession, to suffer it with and this neither Christ nor the Church can do. There patience, to pray and work all together, under the direc­ is not one responsibility for Churchmen and another tion of the Bishops, for the triumph of truth, justice, for those without. and the Church. There is but one God, and we are all equally re­ Q. Is every Liberal Government hostile to the sponsible to Him for our conduct. To say that because Church? one man feels it is his privilege and duty to belong to A. Evidently, since whoever is not with Christ is the Church, therefore he has assumed a responsibility against him. which the other man lacks, is to ignore the fact that Q. How do those sin who, with their vote or in­ we all have the same Father. A son who seeks employ­ fluence, help the triumph of a candidate hostile to the ment and finds it, does not therefore exempt the other Church ? son from the necessity of rendering service of some A. Usually mortally; and are accomplices in the sort. Certainly he has no right to retire into the area wicked laws contrary to the Church, voted by their of mere thought and offer it as a substitute for sacri­ candidate. ficial service. Q. Can the Church take part in politics? How can any political system provide for the daily A. The Church can and must take part in politics reactions of the individuals who compose it? The most when it is a matter of faith, morals, customs, justice, vital things in life are those which deal with personal and the salvation of souls. habits, family ties, community interests, which go on Q. What are liberal principles? under any system and which do not receive their in­ A. Those of 1789: so-called national sovereignty, spiration from the political sources. freedom of religious cults, freedom of the press, free­ “As the husbandman is himself, so is the hus­ dom of instruction, universal morality, and other such. bandry.” Q. What consequences result from these?

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A. Secular schools, impious and immodest periodi­ Then I heard his deep voice, “ Peace be unto this cals, civil marriage, heretical Church in Catholic coun­ house,” and Mother responded from the hall as she en­ tries, abolition of ecclesiastical immunities . . . , etc. tered the room. I do not know (even now) what the Q. What does the Church teach about these? response was, but she was apparently ready with it, A. That they are most disastrous and anti-Christian. which made me proud that my Mother knew so> much. Q. What more? After a formal greeting, he read a chapter from the A. That they never can be accepted as good, and Bible, then both he and Mother knelt down, each fac­ may be tolerated only for as long and in so far as they ing a chair, and he began to pray. I listened fascinated cannot be opposed without creating a worse evil. for a long while and then slipped out as quietly as I Q. Is there no grade of Liberalism which may be could, and went around to play innocently in the front Catholic ? yard, but chiefly to see the funny hat he wore. I re­ A. That is what its partisans claim: but the Church member he told my Mother, patting me on the head, teaches that what is called Catholic Liberalism is not that he hoped I would be a clergyman someday. She Catholic. said she hoped so too; but I certainly did not. The Q. Then there is no grade of Liberalism that can years have passed and now I have to visit, but times be good? have changed— for better or for worse? I wonder? A. None: because Liberalism is mortal sin and anti- The dark gloomy parlor has passed out and so has Christian in essence. “Peace be to this house.” I wonder if they both went Q. Then whoever is liberal in politics sins? out together. The conversation runs along, and cer­ A. Certainly: because in liberal politics there exists tainly I do not have to take the burden of it. In fact I that Liberalism which the Church condemns. And it hard to turn it into any useful channel. It gen­ Q. And if by “liberal” is understood something not condemned by the Pope? erally consists of the “ Reverend Mr. So and So of St. A. Then he sins in calling himself liberal, knowing Somebody’s Church, who is such a dear friend,” or a that the Pope condemns, Liberalism. . . . description of our “dear Bishop.” (I think perhaps Q. Then a Catholic must be anti-liberal? that is the reason the Bishops of the Church publish A. Without a doubt; exactly as he must be anti- their pictures so often; they have an idea of the verbal Protestant or anti-Freemason; in short, against all description admiring friends paint of them.) the contraries to Christ and his Church. Prayers? Well, no. With cocktails, cigarettes and O. What of Communism, Socialism, Modern De­ the radio, there hardly seems a chance. Scripture? mocracy, Anarchism, and the like sects? Well, on the few occasions that I feel impelled to read A. They are contrary to Catholic faith, to justice, Scripture, I hesitate to ask for a Bible for fear there is and to all virture, and as such condemned by the none in the house, and I will increase the embarrass­ Church. ment of the occasion. Q. Do not they say that they want to root out from Of course, even this visit depends on my getting in, the world the abuses of the rich and to regenerate So­ which in my experience I do only twice out of every ciety ? ten calls. Certainly times have changed— for better or A. They say so ; but their doctrines and works prove worse I can not say— but I do know that my Mother the contrary. stayed at home.— T h e P oor P ar so n . Q. To what do they pertain? A. To Luther and other arch-heretics who, with the pretence of reforming the Church, teach and practice all kinds of vices. T h e Sissie E H A S a feminine voice and he walks with a minc­ H ing gait. He always wears a flower in his button­ Clerical Calling hole and, when he is amused at anything, he giggles. As the smell of tobacco makes him sick, he always rides T N T H E days of long ago the pastoral call was quite back in the coaches among the girls, who make fun of an institution. When I was just a little boy, many him, almost to his face. The men, who' play auction- years ago, I can remember the one or two occasions of pitch for real money up forward in the smoker, say it is the Rector’s calling. I remember also listening at the a good riddance. They call him a “ Big Sissie” and say crack of the dining room door, to see what would hap­ that it is hard to decide whether to kiss him or slap him pen. I had announced his arrival at the front door, on the wrist. Still, he takes wonderful care of his in­ having recognized his flat hat and long tailed coat from valid mother and, all during the hard times, he has been a vantage point in the back yard. While Mother hus­ helping out his brother, who has a large family and tled up the back stairs to “ straighten up” he was ad­ only occasional employment. He is going without his mitted into the parlor, sacred precinct where I only oc­ noon lunches now, so his brother’s little Mildred can casionally went. The shades were raised and the bright have music lessons. sunlight had a brief chance to light up the red plush Maybe he is as important in the sight of God as any covers and the family portraits which so seldom saw the one of those red-blooded “ He Men.” light of day, much to my youthful disgust. T h e C h u r c h m o u s e .

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS February 3, 1938 A JERSEY RECTOR The result was the institute on family BOOK URGES THE HAS PARISH LOOK relations, conducted during four weeks to cast light upon the “ Back­ RECOVERY OF OUR AT MODERN LIFE ground of Family Life” — the theme LOST IDEALISM By D onald C. Bolles of the institute. It is written about By Gardiner M. Day Geysers of words spout annually here because so far as known, it is Recognizing the fact that the war from pulpit, rostrum and the presses the first effort of its kind conducted and the depression so completely lamenting, decrying and deploring by one of our churches. knocked out of current use the op­ the “ new” attitude of both the young Through the foresight of the rec­ timistic religious philosophies extant and older generation toward mar­ tor, the Rev. William K. Russell, before 1914, Georgia Harkness, in riage and family life as they watch the influence of the institute ex­ this short and immensely readable our ¡gretna green’s and our Reno’s tended far beyond the church hori­ volume, The Recovery of Ideals seemingly convert marriage from a zon. He solicited and gained splen­ (Scribner’s $2.00), gives a carefully lifetime job into a mere incident in did cooperation which enabled the thought out constructive philosophy the merry-go-round of modern life. institute to stand as a community of theistic faith. Miss Harkness, They view with alarm the blase at­ affair with a roll of sponsors that through her years of teaching, knows titude of youth towards love, mar­ included prominent figures in many the mind of modern young people. riage and divorce and cocktail drink­ walks of life — government, insti­ The purpose of the book is to aid ing, condemn bridge playing parents tutions, medicine and education. them in thinking through the pres­ who are content to let others rear On the agenda were such subjects ent labyrinth of knowledge in order their children and join in a true bill as. family finance, the biology of the that they may discover for themselves against both generations despite a family, the father, mother, child re­ “the true grounds on which one may sharp defense that challenges the lationship, and the spiritual nature of believe in and live by moral and use of standards of another day in the family. These were discussed at spiritual ideals.” writing the indictment. evening sessions on four successive Thursdays by speakers eminently Miss Harkness has executed this Alarmists essay the role' of clair­ qualified to aid those seeking enlight­ task with extraordinary clarity and voyant to foresee a bad end for fam­ enment. With the high school co­ beauty of thought. Commencing with ily life but the sanguine, recogniz­ operating two afternoon sessions a discussion of the causes of the dis­ ing in the indictment both truth and were held, one for boys, the other for solution of ideals, she turns to the exaggeration, feel compelled to ac­ girls, to hear lectures on “ The Great nature of man himself and, taking as knowledge that the complexities of Adventure” and “Looking at Love a clue to the universe man’s original modern life, have made many feel and Life.” The separate sessions gave goodness; builds step by step until their resources are inadequate to en­ an opportunity for frank discussions she reaches a triumphant faith able them to cope with their prob­ of problems, of sex and marriage. marked by a combination of deep per­ lems as husbands and wives, and par­ They were largely attended. The sonal piety and social vision. It is ents. just the book to commend to the re­ presentation by each authority was The collective sagacity of best from the practical standpoint. It was cent college graduate who wants to minds hag turned toward education as though each speaker was sitting believe but finds that the result of his and through this disceuragingly slow alone with each individual in the audi­ four years of education has left him process may come an enlightened age with one dominant impression, name­ ence discussing his problem. Sex— in which the young are better ly that religion, owing to the findings so long taboo—in public discussions equipped than those of today to deal of modern science, cannot be given was handled without offense. with the problems of family life. adequate intellectual support. But what of the older generation Teaneck is a community of homes. The author’s most unique contribu­ whose members, for the most part, It has no factories and less than a tion is. her suggestive solution for the are beyond the sphere of influence dozen apartment houses. Twenty problem of evil. Following Dr. of our educational system? Is there years ago it was farmland and has Brightman, she believes that God no help for those conscientious mil­ grown into a community of 22,000 is distinctly limited, but she differs lions! bewildered by the conflict of as married people were attracted to from the personalistc philosopher in old and new standards, who grop­ it as an ideal environment in which asserting that the divine limitation is ingly are seeking the road that leads to rear families. Most of them own not simply in His own nature but in to contentment in matrimony and to their own homes. With a varied de­ the structure of the universe itself. rear children who will be a credit to nominational background they joined God not only voluntarily limited His themselves and society? to found Christ Church twenty-two power by the creation of human free­ The Church has been a leader in years ago when they outgrew cottage dom, but He is further limited by the deploring modern trends and rightly meetings conducted by the Rev. thwarting of His purpose by the in­ but it probably is fair to say that Fleming James, then rector in neigh­ ertia in things and chance in events. whatever it has done has been con­ boring Einglewood. One must know It is hard to imagine the shock fined largely to its membership. In this to understand why such an in­ which John Calvin would have re­ a nation where the stay-at-homes out­ stitute as Christ Church sponsored ceived had he been given a religious number the church-goers is. this met with the response it did, and why philosophy, which instead of predes­ enough? Should it not assume the the community as a whole so readily tination upheld a theory of chance. leadership in the community in ele­ accepted its leadership. In the same To prevent misunderstanding, how­ vating the standards of family life spirit the church lent its rector to ever, it may be well to quote Miss and especially to bring aid and com­ administer the township’s relief Harkness at this point, “ By chance I fort to the bewildered who are rear­ bureau for two years. The attend­ do not mean any deviation from the ing families? ance at the night sessions in the orderly system of nature. In what we Christ Church, Community Church Community House adjoining the call an accident, physical forces keep in the West Englewood section of church averaged 250, good consid­ functioning in their regular way, Teaneck, New Jersey, where one can ering the project was an innovation sometimes in intersection with human glimpse the skyscraper skyline of in the community. In an era when freedom as in most automobile acci­ New York five miles distant, took the many decry the absence of men at dents, sometimes quite apart from broader view of its responsibility. (Continued on page 16) (Continued on page 16)

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NEWS NOTES OF now to give their people this material THE CHURCH IN by adopting the Witness Bundle Plan at least for the period o f Lent. BRIEF PARAGRAPHS * - * * Bishop Cook Edited by W . B. Spofford Undergoes Operation Different lands, different attitudes. A telegram dated January 27th Close to 2,000 Roman Catholics from Charles A. Rantz, secretary to gathered in Brooklyn, January 26- Bishop Cook of Delaware, states: 27, called together by their bishop, “ Bishop Cook was operated upon and heard various speakers laud con­ yesterday in Baltimore for the re­ sumers cooperatives and credit moval of a brain tumor. His con­ unions and defend the rights of labor dition is hopeful.” to a living and family wage. Sev­ * * * eral speakers argued for more gov­ ernment regulation of business and Notifying Them one or two business men who took in West Missouri the opposite position had a rather Deaconess Charlotte S. Massey of hard time of it. One of the speakers the Philippines was scheduled to ad­ was Congressman James M. Mead dress the Auxiliary of West Missouri of Buffalo who said that “ no matter on January 20th, but discovered that what may be said of the machine she could not make it. She there­ age, with its prolific ability to make HOWARD C. ROBBINS fore got busy on amateur radio sta­ jobs, and no matter what may be Addresses North Carolina Conference tions on January 10th and on the said about the intrusion of govern­ 12th Mrs. Albert Deacon, president of the Auxiliary, received a phone ment into business, the old order the Federal Council of Churches. produced the worst economic depres­ call from a youthful amateur radio Outstanding leaders in this field are operator in Kansas City, relaying to sion in history—and the American to give addresses. people never will be satisfied to go her the message he had picked up. Hi Hi Hi back to it.” Speaking on the extent It went from Manila to California, of radicalism among laborers, the Lent Is Fast from California to Joplin, Mo., and Rev. John P. Boland, chairman of Drawing Near from Joplin to Kansas City. “ Of New York’s Labor Relations Board, I have had letters from several course she took a chance,” reported declared that it was confined largely asking what we plan for special the youth, “ in using us amateurs, to New York City and that there articles for Lent. The Church gener­ but we handle these messages all the was little to worry about from that ally, as you of course know, is time. There is no charge. It is just angle. The Rev. Ignatius W. Cox, studying the place of the Church in a part of our service.” Jesuit professor, came out strongly Rural America. We are therefore to against collective security and the feature a series on this subject. We Religious Workers boycott of Japan, declaring that “ a have asked Bishop Green of Missis­ to Discuss Boycott policy of economic and financial sippi, Bishop Fenner of Kansas, Pro­ Religious leaders are to go into a pressure is just as ghastly and hor­ fessor Colbert of the University of huddle in New York on February 5th rible in its slow strangulation of Wisconsin, Mr. Murray Lincoln of to discuss the pros and cons of the whole innocent populations as the the Ohio Farm Bureau, the Rev. Japanese boycott under the auspices bombing of open towns. It leads Howard Kester who has worked so of the American League for Peace ultimately to military measures and long among the sharecroppers, the and Democracy. warfare.” Rev. Sam Franklin of the Delta Co­ H= * sH * * * operative Farm, and the Rev. Gerald New Kind of Benefit Urge Minimum Wage Berry of Delhi, New York, to con­ at Long Island Parish for Pastors tribute to this series. Each one of The Church of St. Alban the Mar­ The Presbyterian ministers of these men is an expert on rural life tyr, St. Alban, New York, is hold­ Westchester County, N. Y., have and the relationship of the Church to ing something new in the way of adopted resolutions calling for a it. They have been asked to write their benefits on March first. The gross minimum wage for pastors of $1,500 articles with study groups in mind, proceeds, will go to work outside the and house. The idea is to tax those and at the end of each article there parish—to work among lepers, the receiving a higher rate of pay and will be questions for classes. blind, jobless seamen, war victims in thus provide a fund to be used to Another series will be on the Life China and Spain, the persecuted in pay those under the minimum. and Teachings of Jesus by Bishop Germany. Strikes me as a good idea * * * Johnson. This is to be a part of the —not only does it bring cash to Newest Diocese series now running but is so planned worthy causes but has a real edu­ H as Convocation cational value. that it will stand alone as a series H* H* H* The new diocese of Oklahoma held for Lenten study. Finally a number its first convocation as. a diocese at of subscribers have asked me to pre­ Religious Groups Oklahoma City on January 15th with sent the findings of the American Meet in Raleigh much rejoicing. One of the high Seminar, following our recent visit Representatives of thirteen reli­ spots was the organization of the to Germany, Poland, Russia, the gious groups met in Raleigh, N. C., “ Young Churchmen of Oklahoma.” Scandinavian countries, England and January 18-20 to discuss the general theme, “ Thy Kingdom Come.” Ex­ Hi H* * France. Being a study group we did perts, including the Rev. Howard C. have an opportunity to meet out­ Cooperators to Meet Robbins of New York, made talks standing leaders in all countries, in Washington and there was much discussion. visited, and I shall do my best to A conference on the cooperative There were a couple of resolutions interpret the findings in the light of movement is to be held in Washing­ passed. One expressed their sense the Christian religion. ton, February 14-15, under the aus­ of sin because of lynchings, their pices of the industrial division of We hope that the clergy will plan moral shame deeped because in no

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instance “ was there a single arrest, Retail sales in England, Scotland of St. John the Divine, New York, indictment or conviction.” They then and Wales were $1,250,000,000, a is to commence at once. He stated voted to join forces with the South­ gain over the previous year of $150,- that funds were on hand for this ern Interracial commission “ in an 000,000. The wholesale society did work and expressed the opinion that earnest effort to eradicate economic a business of over $600,000,000, “ the necessary million dollars can be and cultural inequalities which breed with $190,000,000 worth o f goods raised without difficulty by the many mob violence” and also as favoring produced in cooperative factories. friends of the cathedral if all will “ the adoption of subh federal anti­ The membership passed the 8,000,- give their generous help.” lynching legislation as will assist the 000 mark. states in eradicating the lynching H? * H* Church Life H as scandal.” A second resolution was Bishop Spencer Fine Year passed opposing the introduction of Visits North Texas military training in high schools. The Church Life Insurance Corpo­ Bishop Spencer of West Missouri, ration, subsidiary of the Church Our correspondent reports that preached the sermon at the opening “ there was no attempt at any union Pension F*und, had the largest year of the 28th annual convocation of the in its history in ordinary life insur­ communion service, nor was there district of North Texas, meeting ance production last year, according any suggestion that one be held.” January 16-17 at Abilene. Bishop * * * to a statement made last week by Seaman reported that 21 of the 28 William Fellowes Morgan, president, Lectures on Marriage parishes and missions of the district the increase over 1936 was 18%. It in Delaware paid or overpaid their quotas to the was also announced that a general Lectures on marriage were given National Council in 1937. He also retirement plan for lay employees of last month at the cathedral in Wil­ said that the 139 confirmations was the Church, not included in the fed­ mington, Delaware, with a lawyer, a new high for the district. A car eral social security act, has been en­ a social worker and a parson hold­ load of Lubbock Churchmen, driving dorsed by a commission appointed by ing forth. The legal aspects were 170 miles to the convocation, stopped General Convention to study the presented by Attorney Henry R, to aid a fellow traveller in distress. matter. The Church Properties Fire Isaacs; the Rev. Charles Penniman, Realizing they would be late for the leader of social workers in the city, opening they turned on their car- spoke on the sociological aspects, radio, heard Bishop Spencer’s ser­ and the Rev. George C. Graham de­ mon and thus missed only the few FOR LENT livered a lecture on the religious minutes required to park their car side of marriage. when they arrived. “ In North A Series of Articles on * * * Texas,” said Bishop Spencer, “ the Rural America and Endorse Appeal Church goes out to meet you half the Church for China Relief way and leads you in.” A number of distinguishedChris­ By tians, including Bishop Stevens of Work Resumed at Bishop Green of Mississippi Los Angeles, have issued an appeal New York Cathedral Bishop Fenner of Kansas on behalf of the Federal Council of Bishop Manning announced on Dr. Roy J. Colbert of Wisconsin ; Churches urging support of the ap­ January 25th that preliminary work Mr. Murray Lincoln, director of j peal by the Red Cross for civilian looking toward the completion of the the Ohio Farm Bureau war sufferers in China. sanctuary and choir of the Cathedral Rev. Sam Franklin, director of the He H* * Delta Farm A Community School Rev. Howard Kester, worker with of Religion With dramatic sym bolism the sharecroppers A community school o f religion is Rev. Gerald Berry of Delhi, N. Y. being held in Royal Oak, Michigan, the ancient Church, during with ail the churches taking part as the Lenten period, used in Also a Series on the a venture in Church unity. The processionals— Rev. C. C. Jatho, rector of St. John’s, Life And Teachings of Jesus is the dean. Thirteen churches are By Bishop Johnson cooperating. and Discoveries in Europe Bishop Oldham By William B. Spofford in North Carolina Mounted on severely plain Based upon the findings of The Amer- Bishop Oldham of Albany, head­ ican Seminar, of which he was a member, 1 liner at the annual meeting of the black ball and staff following a two months* visit in Europe. Auxiliary of North Carolina, told the True to the best Church tradi­ Both series will start with the women of the accomplishments of tions in form and style, this March 3rd Number and run I the Oxford and Edinburgh Confer­ through Lent. I ences and outlined plans for further cross, a beautiful departure steps towards organic unity of the from the usual, will be most Order Your Bundle Now j churches. Others to speak were effective in Lenten processions. 10 copies a week for 7 Bishop Penick, the Rev. Francis A. weeks...... $ 2.80 Cox on China, the Rev. L. G. McAfee 25 copies a week for 7 on the Philippines and Miss Mary Price, $25.00 weeks ...... 7.00 W. MacKenzie on Liberia. Expressage Additional 50 copies a week for 7 * * weeks ...... 13.00 I 100 copies a week for 7 Report on Designed and Executed by British Cooperatives weeks ...... 25.00 The cooperative movement in AMMIDON AND COMPANY England added a quarter o f a mil­ H. L. VARIAN, President THE WITNESS 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue lion new members in 1937 and com­ 31 S. Frederick St. Baltimore, Md. pleted the biggest year in its history. CHICAGO

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Insurance Corporation, also a sub­ miles up the Yangtze from Nank­ ular annual convention in May. The sidiary, reported that nearly 3,000 ing, twenty-five miles up river from sum of $6,000 to complete the dio­ of our churches are now insured by where the Panay was sunk. Bishop cesan quota was underwritten as the corporation for a total of $81,- Huntington, returning to China, was also a similar sum to guarantee 000, 000. sailed from Vancouver January 22. the salary and expenses of the new Since the middle of January the bishop. Quiet Hour newspapers have been reporting at­ * * * For Acolytes tempts by Chinese forces to recap­ Nazis to Tax The Rev. Kenneth R. Forbes, rec­ ture the city, the Chinese on posi­ Catholic Church tor of St. Andrew’s, Stamford, tions above the city and the Jap­ Nazi authorities last week placed Conn., conducted a quiet hour for anese aiding their troops by shell­ a sweeping ban on all Catholic acolytes under the auspices of the fire from warcraft on the river. youth organizations, accusing them, Order of St. Vincent on January of anti-Nazi activities and therefore 16 at Seabury Memorial Church, Alabama to hostile to the state. Also commenc­ Groton, Conn. Twelve candidates, Elect Coadjutor ing April 1st real estate and prop­ were admitted to the order. At a special convention of the dio­ erty belonging to the Church, hith­ cese of Alabama, meeting January erto exempt, is to be taxed. There Keep Religion 19th at Montgomery, it was voted to is also grave doubt if German Cath­ Out of Politics elect a Bishop Coadjutor at the reg­ olic leaders will be allowed to attend A resolution, introduced by the Rev. Jones Hamilton, favoring the patrolling of highways to prevent lynchings was defeated at the con­ vention of the diocese of Mississippi, meeting at Jackson, January 18-19. It was vigorously opposed by lay­ men who insisted that “ religion must be kept out of politics..” A resolution introduced by the Rev. Charles Hamilton urging the legis­ lature to establish a school for de­ linquent Negro youth was passed. Bishop Coadjutor Green m his ad­ dress stressed the social emphasis of Christianity and declared that we cannot convert part of a man and ignore his economic and political D uring T he Y ear 1 9 3 7 life. However the Rev. Val Ses­ sions, chairman of the social service department, opposed any resolutions on social matters, including regula­ tion of child labor and standards of hours and wages. The resignation this Corporation issued more Life and Retire­ of Bishop Bratton as Bishop of the diocese was accepted, subject to the ment Insurance than in any previous year in approval of the House of Bishops. its history.

Acolytes Meet in New Haven We gladly continue to offer our facilities for The annual festival of the acolytes of Connecticut was held at Christ low cost insurance and annuities to the clergy, Church, New Haven, on January lay officials and active lay workers of the 23rd, with 200 acolytes in the pro­ cession. The Rev. Clarence R. Wag­ Episcopal Church and their immediate families. ner, rector at Groton, was the preacher. * * * Bishop Wilner Is Consecrated Robert F. Wilner was consecrated Information will be sent to you by mail, suffragan of the Philippines on Jan­ uary 25th. Bishop Mosher was the upon request, without obligation; we consecrator, with Bishop Reifsnider employ no agents. Write to of North Tokyo and Bishop Hall, English bishop of Hongkong as co- consecrators.

No Word from Church Life Insurance Corporation Wuhu Missionaries No direct word has come from Subsidiary of The Church Pension Fund the missionaries in Wuhu, China, in the district of Anking, since the Jap­ 20 Exchange Place, New York anese occupied it early in December. Wuhu is a river port about sixty

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the forthcoming Eucharistic Con­ with nothing shown made of silk. Churches in the Diocese of Kentucky gress to meet in Hungary. It will The speaker at the meeting was Wil­ which suffered from the ravages of be recalled that Protestant leaders liam E. Dodd, former Ambassador the Ohio River flood a year ago. in Germany were forbidden to at­ to Germany, who is to be the speak­ Constantly grateful for sympathetic tend the Oxford and Edinburgh Con­ er at the luncheon to be held in con­ interest and generous help, we are ferences last summer. nection with the annual meeting of especially so on this the first anni­ * * * the CLID in New York, February versary of this disaster.” Memorial to 21-22. * * * Bishop Shipman Missions Stressed The Rev. Henry Darlington an­ Why Dean Grant at Rhode Island Meetings nounced last Sunday that a stained Goes to Union The importance of missions and glass window is to be placed in the Asked to comment on his resigna­ the need for greater support was Church of the Heavenly Rest, New tion as dean of Seabury-Western to stressed at meetings held in the dio­ York, as a memorial to Bishop Her­ accept a professorship at Union Sem­ cese of Rhode Island. Presiding bert Shipman, former rector. inary, New York, Dean Frederick C. * * * Grant said, “ After thirteen years in Berkeley Has the administrative field I desire to FINE IRISH LINEN a Celebration devote myself to teaching, writing Imported direct from Ireland for Celebrating the 210th anniversary and research. I am greatly interest­ of the arrival of Bishop George ed in the cause of Church unity and vestment and Altar use. Samples free Berkeley to America, students and the Union Seminary, an interde­ on request. W rite: M ARY FAW CETT faculty of the Berkeley Divinity nominational institution, is in the COMPANY, Box 146, Plainfield, N. J. School, New Haven, drove to the forefront of movements for unity.” Good Shepherd, Shelton, Conn., fol­ * * * THE BISHOP WHITE PRAYER BOOK lowing a chapel service, and there A Banquet for SOCIETY continued the celebration. Cap Pullinger Founded by Bishop White 1833 * * * The Rev. B. W. Pullinger, known, Donates to Missions, Institutions, and Par­ ishes unable to purchase them, in limited Justice Black so I am informed by our correspond­ grants^ Lives at Seminary ent, to a host of friends as “ Cap” , The Book of Common Prayer. The Combined Book (The Book of Common The Alabama alumni of the Vir­ was the guest at a banquet on Jan­ Prayer and Hymnal in one volume) uary 19th. It was held at Grace Pew Size ginia Seminary held a reunion on Apply to Rev. W . Arthur Warner, D.D. January 18th at Montgomery, tak­ Church, Detroit, and marked the Secretary, 1935 Chestnut St. ing advantage of the special dio­ 20th anniversary of his rectorship. Philadelphia, Pa. cesan convention. The Rev. Alex­ He got a number of gifts, including ander Zabriskie of the seminary fac­ a cake from the American Legion in ALTAR BREADS— Orders promptly filled. Saint Mary’s Convent, Kenosha, Wis. ulty was the headliner with the Rev. which he is active. C. C. J. Carpenter, rector of the Ad­ * ¡N CATHEDRAL STUDIO— Church embroidery. vent, Birmingham, chairman. In­ A Message from Stoles $6 up, Burse, veil, $10 up. Surplices, $8 up. Exquisite Altar Linens. Cope $70' up, cidentally Professor Zabriskie told Bishop Clingman Mass set $50 up. Complete line pure Irish the men that the home o f “ Miss. From Bishop Charles Clingman of linens and Church fabrics by the yd. Em­ broidered emblems ready to apply. Altar Maria” , former beloved librarian of Kentucky: “ May we have a brief Guild Handbook 50c. Address: L. V. Mack- the Seminary, had been remodelled paragraph to express publicly to rille, 11 W . Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Wash­ ington, D. C. Telephone Wisconsin 2752. and is now the home of Supreme T he W itness and many of its read­ Court Justice Black. ers our appreciation of the service H* H* H* which was. rendered us and the When Children Want More Spent generous help given to those For Relief Need a Laxative Churchmen and social workers, meeting in Washington, January In children’s little bilious at­ 15th under the auspices o f the Con­ tacks and common colds, a very ference on Unemployment and Tax­ important part of ation, pointing first to the increase the treatment is in the number of the unemployed, to keep the passed resolutions calling for greater bowels active. federal spending to take care o f the emergency and increased taxation to Mothers have pay for it. found pleasant- tasting Syrup of A No-Silk Black - Draught Style Show very useful in Junior Leaguers modelled fashions, such cases. In at the home of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot fact, whenever in Washington on January 28th, laxative medicine is needed, children will not object to being given Syrup of Black-Draught, and by its relief of constipation, recovery will be hastened. Sold at drug stores in 5-ounce bottles, price 50 cents. Also obtainable from the manu­ facturer— send 50 cents for one bottle to The Chattanooga Medi­ cine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

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Bishop Tucker was the speaker at from the opposite side of the hall. sion because it is close to the experi­ one attended by over 500 members Whereupon a layman arose and s.aid, ence of most groups that are ex­ of the Auxiliary, held on January “ How that man Gamble is allowed to posed to it. The problem of an 21st. That evening he addressed advocate a measure, and then a bit individual from a different social 175 men who gathered for a dinner later from the other side of the hall strata wanting to be a part of the given by the Churchman’s Club of stand up and vigorously oppose it, Providence. Another speaker was I do not understand.” VESTMENTS the Rev. Howard M. Lovell, former­ * * * Cassocks - Surplices - Stoles - Scarves ly a master in a school in Alexandria, Silks - Altar Cloths - Embroideries Expert Tells Clergy Egypt, who spoke of conditions Custom Tailoring for Clergymen About Movies Priest Cloaks - Rabats - Collars among the natives of that country. The clergy of Newark were told 1 Q Q H Marking 101 years serviee-fADQ * * * J.OO I to the Church and Clergy. J-*70O about the effect of movies upon high Large Offering school children at a clericus on Jan­ COX SONS & VINING, INC. For Indebtedness uary 24th by Alice V. Keliher, direc­ 131 EftST 23,bp STREET, NEW YORK, N. V. St. James, Los Angeles, not only tor of the commission on human received over $1,000 in its Christmas relations of the Progressive Educa­ offering but also an additional tion Association. “ Men in White” in­ ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. $10,000 to reduce the indebtedness.. evitably led to a discussion of the 147 E. 47th St., New York — St. Mark’s, Glendale, California, marriage problems concerning peo­ CHURCH VESTMENTS asked for $1,200 as a Christmas ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY ple taking professional training. To Conferences with reference to the adornment offering. It got over $2,000. Bit postpone marriage, marry for money, of Churches late with this news but since it is or to be careful in the selection of Telephone El-dorado 5-1058 cheerful I pass it on. a mate were some of the questions * * * raised. Excerpts from “ Black Le­ Both For and gion” leads inevitably to the discus­ Sunday School Literature Against sion of the whole matter o f race following the They tell a story about the Rev. prejudice, in attitude toward for­ 9NT. UNIFORM LESSON TOPICS E. W. Gamble and the Rev. Cary eigners, with the youngsters strongly Samples on application Gamble, clergymen of the diocese of reflecting the adult attitudes which A ddress Alabama who are identical twins. they themselves have been exposed UNION GOSPEL PRESS They love each other as brothers to. In one group, she told us that Box 6059 Cleveland, Ohio should but they do not always agree. “ Fury” led to a condemnation by One day in diocesan convention E. the young people of the “ community W. Gamble spoke vigorously for a perjury” expressed in that picture. resolution. A bit later Brother Cary “ The Devil is a Sissy” and “ Dead MENEELY&CO. spoke as vigorously in opposition End” always provokes lively discus- ESTABLISHED IN 1826 WATERVUET. N.V « "Talks” by the Rev. W. H. Elliott Stained Class Windows and Mosaics There is much good material for sermons to be Franz Mayer of Munich, found in these small volumes Inc. 1616 Woolworth Building FIRESIDE TALKS New York, N. Y. A new set of twenty addresses delivered by Mr. Elliott at his Broadcast Service. “ He understands the daily difficulties of ordinary men and women, and has the gift of expressing himself with simplicity.”— Church Times (London). Cloth, 80 cts. Wilbur Herbert Burnham MID-WEEK TALKS Designer and Master “ The book will be helpful to those who like short, clear, and heartfelt enunciations on religious themes.”— Church Times (London). Boards, Craftsman 80 cts. THURSDAY EVENING TALKS Stained and Leaded Glass “ They are plain and simple, full of good and godly counsel, sensible and practical.”— The Lutheran. Boards, 80 cts. Studios 1126 Boylston Street MORE THURSDAY EVENING TALKS Boston, Massachusetts Where Religion Comes In; Lack of Love; Sincerity; A Critical Spirit; Springtime; Considerateness; Keeping Easter; Forgiveness; Hope; The Old Y ear; Faithful Failures; Failure— Cause and Cure, are the topics of these interesting talks. Boards, 80 cts. Postage Additional j RGEISSLER.INC. Morehouse-Gorham Co. 4 5 0 SIXTH AVE NEAR 10 «* ST. NEW TOW Church Furnishings 14 E. Forty-first S t, New York City IN CARVED WOOD AND 1801 W . Fond du Lac Ave., Milwaukee MARBLE-BRASS - SILVER FABRICS + WINDOWS

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gang belonging to another social speaking on the missionary work of missionary quota of the parish had group" is something very real to most the Church. been over paid and that the 1938 growing youngsters. She expressed He ^ * pledges would be the largest in the her concern with the fact that the San Antonio Parish history of the parish. Interesting attitude that one ought to do any­ has Festival thing about this parish is that eleven thing for money and monetary suc­ St. Mark’s, San Antonio, Texas, men have entered the ministry from cess so persistently crops up in all where the Rev. Arthur McKinstry is there. Among them: Bishop Juhan of groups that she has dealt with. She rector, recently held a festival ser­ Florida, the Rev. Clarence Horner, unquestionably proved that moving vice with the Rev. Thomas Carruthers rector of Grace Church, Providence, pictures are educational in that indi­ of Houston as the preacher. It was fol­ the Rev. DuBose Murphy, rector of viduals who see them are subject to lowed by a parish meeting at which St. Clement’s, El Paso, and the Rev. an intense emotional impact and that Rector McKinstry reported that the Eiverett Jones who is now a canon of they identify themselves with the ch a ra cters. Only by reflection through some educational method such as she has been using, can they Services in Leading Churches disentangle thems.elves from their feelings and see with clarity and new The Cathedral of St. John Christ Church Parish depth the essential problems. the Divine Detroit and Grosse Pointe Amsterdam Avenue and 112th St. Rev. Fj-ancis B. Creamer, Rector New York City Rev. J. Francis Sant, Vicar Sundays: 8, Holy Communion. 10, Morn­ Parish Church: E. Jefferson Ave. at Convention of ing Prayer. 11, Holy Communion and Ser­ Rivard Upper South Carolina mon. 4, Evening Prayer and Sermon. Chapel: 45 Grosse Pointe Boulevard Weekdays: 7:30, Holy Communion (on Services : 8 :00, 9 :45, 11:00, 7 :30 Sun­ Increased number of confirmations Saints’ Days, 7:30 and 10). 9;30, Morn­ days. and a sound financial condition were ing Prayer. 5, Evening Prayer. Saints’ Days: 10:30. reported by Bishop Finlay to the Saturdays: Organ Recital at 4:30. convention of the diocese of Upper Cathedral of the Incarnation Church of St. Mary the Virgin Garden City, N. Y. South Carolina, meeting at Rock New York: Arthur B. Kinsolving, 2nd, Dean Hill, January 18-19. He stressed the 46th St. between 6th and 7th Aves. Rev. Frederic F. Bush, Dean’s Assistant Rev. Granville M. Williams, S.S.J.E. Sunday Services: 7 :30 A.M. Holy Com­ importance of work with Negroes Sunday Masses: 7, 9, 11 (Sung Mass). munion. 9 :30 A.M. Junior Congregation. and declared it to be “ the major Evensong, with Benediction : 8 p. m. 9 :30 A.M. Church School. 11 :30 A.M. Week-day Masses : 7, 8. (Thurs., 7, 8, Church School, 11 :00 A.M. Morning missionary challenge in this field of 9 :30). Prayer and Sermon. 4:30 P.M. Evensong the Church.” One of the highlights and Address. of the convention was an address by Grace Church, New York Daily services in the Chapel. Rev. W . Russell Bowie, D.D. Attorney-Vestryman William C. Tur­ Broadway at 10th St. pin of Macon, Ga., who quoted Sundays: 8 and 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Trinity Church, New York figures which showed by marked de­ Daily: 12:30 except Mondays and Sat­ Broadway and Wall St. urdays. Sundays: 8, 9, 11 and 3 :30. Holy Communion, 11:45 A. M. on Thurs­ creases that the Church is losing Daily: 8, 12 and 3. ground rather than going forward. days and Holy Days. He stressed the fact that any living The Heavenly Rest, New York St. Paul’s Cathedral organization cannot remain static, Fifth Avenue at 90th Street Rev. Henry Darlington, D.D. Buffalo, New York but must grow if it is to live. As Sundays : Holy Communion 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays: 8, 9 :30, 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. his reason why the Church is losing Sunday School 9 :30 a.m. ; Morning Service Weekdays: 8, 12:05. and Sermon 11 a. m .; Choral Evening Thursday (Quiet Hour at 11) and Holy ground, Mr. Turpin said we are fail­ Prayer 4 p.m. Days: 10:30 A.M. ing to face the serious problems Thursdays and Holy Days: Etoly Com­ munion, 11 a. m. that are before the world today. Christ Church Cathedral Until we come to grip with thes.e The Incarnation Main and Church Sts., Hartford, Conn. Madison Avenue and 35th Street The Very Rev. Walter H. Gray, Dean problems and put the principles of Rev. John Gass, D.D., Rector Sunday Services, 8 :00, 9 :30, 10:05, the Christian Gospel to work, we Sundays: 8, 10, 11 A. M., 4 P. M. 11:00 a. m. ; 4 :30, 5 :30 p. m. will continue to lose ground. As an Wednesdays and Holy Days: Holy Com­ Week-days; 8 :00 a.m. Holy Communion munion 10 A. M. (7:00 on Wednesdays). 11:00 a.m. Holy illustration, the speaker chose three Fridays: Holy Communion 12:15 P. M. Communion on Wednesdays and Holy major problems which the Church Days. 12:30 p.m. Noonday Service. St. Bartholomew’s Church must face and overcome, namely, Park Avenue and 51st Street Baltimore, Maryland missions, world peace, and the race Rev. G. P. T. Sargent, D.D., Rector St. Michael and All Angels problem. The Church must become 8 A.M., Holy Communion. St. Paul and 20th Streets 9:30 and 11 A.M.— Junior Congregation. Rev. Don Frank Fenn, D.D. discontented with 20th century social 11 A.M., Morning Service and Sermon. Rev. Harvey P. Knudsen, B.D. values, and make every effort to im­ 4 P.M.— Evensong. Special Music. Sundays: 7:30, 9:30, 11:00 A.M. 8:00 Holy Communion, Thursdays and Saints’ P. M. prove them. Days, 10 :30 A.M. Week Days— Holy Eucharist — Mon., Wed., Sat., 10 :00 A. M.. Tue., Thurs., There was considerable excitement St. James Church, New York F ri.: 7 :00 A. M. over a resolution introduced by the Madison Avenue and 71st Street Morning Prayer: 9:00 A. M. Daily. The Rev. H. W . B. Donegan, Rector Evening Prayer: 5:15 P. M. Daily. Rev. A. Rufus Morgan of Columbia, 8 A.M .— Holy Communion. that would forbid the clergy from 9 :30 A.M.— Children’s Service and Trinity Church Church School. marrying any who did not present 11 A.M.— Morning Prayer and Sermon. Main and Holman, Houston, Texas certificates showing that they were 7 :30 P.M.— Organ Recital. The Reverend Thomas N. Carruthers, 8 P.M.— Choral Evensong and Sermon. Rector free of veneral diseases. A commit­ Holy Communion: 8 A.M., Monday, 7 :30 A.M.— Holy Communion. tee reported favorably but after Wednesday and Friday; 12 Noon, Thurs­ 9 :30 A.M .— Church School. days and Holy Days. 11 :00 A.M .— Morning Service and Sermon. considerable debate it was re-com­ 6 :00 P.M.— Young People’s Organizations. mitted for further study, to be re­ 10 :30 A.M.— Holy Communion on Wednes­ St. Thomas Church days and Holy Days. ported at the next convention. Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street New York The Auxiliary of the diocese met Rev. Roelif H. Brooks, S.T.D., Rector Gethsemane, Minneapolis earlier at Aiken, with Mrs. James Sunday Services: 8 A.M ., 11 A.M., and Rev. Austin Pardue 4 P.M. 4th Ave. South at 9th St. R. Cain of Columbia, member of the Daily Services: 8 :30 A.M., Holy Com­ Sundays: 8:00 and 11:00 A.M. National Council, urging a united munion. Wednesdays and Holy Days: 10:30 Noonday Service: 12:05 to 12:35. A.M. Christendom and Dr. John W. Wood Thursday: 11 A.M ., Holy Communion. Thursdays: 7 :30 A.M.

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A JERSEY RECTOR HAS PARISH free from social disease and in good feel the institute filled a real need LOOK AT MODERN LIFE health. and similar works should constitute (Continued from page 8) Here is what he said in retrospect a definite part of the program of church services the male attendance about the Institute: “ Pre-marital and every parish.” was one of the most encouraging as­ marital instruction from the Chris­ tian standpoint and understanding of BOOK URGES THE RECOVERY pects of the Institute. OF OUR LOST IDEALISM The question period following the life is one of the most challenging things to which the Church can lend (Continued from page 8) lectures mirrored the interest of the any human will as in earthquakes and audience. Reluctance was apparent its efforts. The Church can gain a hearing whenever it has something to landslides. Some of these accidents at the start but as the “ students” could be prevented by taking thought; came to feel at home they lost their minister to the heart hunger of the some could not. Chance is present, timidity. Written questions over­ people. The response which this however, in the fact that by no came the embarrassment of some. Christian program received from criterion of judgment which we should All questions, written and oral, secular agencies—the press, people beyond our immediate church mem­ think of applying elsewhere can these seemed to reflect the desire of the in­ particular juxtapositions of circum­ dividual for guidance and assistance bership, has been one of the most en­ stance be held to be the manifesta­ in solving some personal problem of lightening and encouraging things tion of a system of values.” family life. about our initial endeavor. Few In a brief 200 pages, Miss Hark- The interest among physicians and things which the parish has done has been so favorably received. From the ness has given a most lucid, rational­ welfare workers was widespread and ly justified and comprehensive re­ they were loud in their praise. An response of the people present, their ligious philosophy for the modern outstanding factor in the success of written questions, their desire to se­ thoughtful Christian. She builds with the institute was the alacrity with cure mimeographed copies of ad­ great care the foundation, and then which the press grasped the signifi­ dresses for study and the increased in the last few pages states her faith cance of the project and the liberal­ number of interviews, talks with the in certain great affirmations in the ity with which it was treated. The rector all indicate that the institute realm of “the soul’s invincible sur­ Bergen Evening Record of Hacken­ met a need and unlocked doors for mise.” I can scarcely think of a sack. the county’s only daily news­ the church’s wider pastoral ministry. single volume which might be better paper, boosted it with long stories, The written questions of our boys adapted to help a young college grad­ editorial comment, and its column­ and girls showed an appalling amount uate, taking his place in a community ist, William Caldwell, twice devoted of misinformation and a great desire and finding himself in a quandary as his entire column to it. Other news-, for truth. It nailed as a fallacy the to what he believes, than this pre­ papers were kind. The Institute won oft-heard statement that the younger sentation of a modern religious phil­ warm approval from various leaders generation knows more than their parents. We have every reason to osophy by Miss Harkness. in our Church. The Rev. Howard C. Robbins, former dean of the Cathe­ dral of St. John the Divine and a member of the church’s commission on marriage and divorce commented THE MACEDONIAN CALL •—“ This is precisely the sort of thing ACTS 16:9 that the commission on marriage and And a vision appeared to Paul in the night . . . there divorce is interested in and most stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him . . . saying hopeful about.” The Rt. Rev. Ben­ come over into Macedonia and help us. jamin M. Washburn, Bishop of the diocese, said of it: THE RESPONSE “ You are doing something su­ ACTS 16:10 premely worth while in your institute A nd after he had seen the vision im m ediately we and I am glad the response is so ex­ endeavored to go into Macedonia assuredly gathering cellent. It only goes to prove that that the Lord had called us for to preach the people are conscious of their need of gospel unto them. i % just such an opportunity as you are providing them.” What were the results as viewed by the Church? Let us ask the young rector about it but first a word about him. Christ Church is. the only church Mr. Russell ever has known. He was “. . . for we get calls called to minister to it eleven years CALL from all over the coun­ ago when he was graduated from ■ f t try. It is very discour­ Virginia Theological Seminary and “The circulation of the aging at times not to was ordained in the West Englewood Scriptures in Brazil would be able to grant these Church, which in many ways is be trebled if we were in a requests. I do hope that unique. Its ministry is broad and the position to fill all calls.” sometime soon ...” service of its rector broader. For —Agency Secretary Turner —Agency Secretary Penzotti years he has. served as chaplain to the Bergen County jail, is a member WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE? ~i of the township’s planning board and American Bible Society, Dept. W., Bible House, New York, N. Y. vice president of the Bergen County Conscious of the great opportunity and need confronting the council of social service agencies. American Bible Society, and eager to respond to this modern Mace­ He is not averse to charting new donian call, I gladly send herewith the amount checked. paths and last spring announced he Name______would require couples who asked him A ddr ess______to perform the marriage ceremony to $5000 $250 □ $100 □ $75 □ $50 □ $25 □ $10 □ $5D $!□ provide certificates showing them

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