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LEVELS OF LIFE— S. M. SHOEMAKER, JR. Circulation Office : 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago Editorial and Advertising Office: 931 Tribune Building, New York City Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. TTieCRAFTSMEN'S p e R l i f T l ü ß I - .srGUXßDQ» GUILD NO-.325 SIXTHAVEN VL-jN f.w y q r r STAINED GLASS -MURALS 64 The Oval London SEn m o s Ai c -marblestone gsa England I M CAKVLD-WOOD-METAL M i CHURCH FURNITURE ePLATE ILLUSTRATED BROCHURE Heaton, Butler & Bayne WILL BE FORWARDED $ ia in rf i&laafi Aetusi* UPON APPLICATION 8y appointment to the late KING EDWARD VII. HALL ORGANS Stained Glass Windows have gained much prestige becaui* Memorial Brasses, Etc. of many outstanding Episcopal installations. Designs and Estimates The Hall Organ Company Heaton, Butler & Bayne West Haven, Conn. (N. Y.) Ltd.. French Building 551 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK MENEEIY BELL T R O Y . 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MOLLER ORGANS The Pride of the Church Over half a century of success Embroidery Wood AUSTIN ORGAN CO. ful organ building have estab Hartford, Conn. lished the Moller reputation for Stone Metal and • quality and workmanship. Designers and Builders 350 Moller Organs in Episcopal of Churches alone. Stained Cjlass • PIPE ORGANS noted for their superior tonal qualities and mechanical reliability. EXETER * ♦ * Cathedral Yard. L O N D O N ♦ • 11/iufton St.S.Wi Correspondence Solicited MANCHESTER 132,Victoria Street Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Editor Associate Editors Irving P. Johnson Frank E. W ilson George P. A twater Managing Editor C. Russell Moodey illiam pofford THE WITNESS W B. S Irwin St. J. Tucker A National W eekly of the Episcopal Church Vol. XVI. No. 44 JUNE 23, 1932 8 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is published weekly by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; in bundles of ten or more for sale at the church, the paper selling at live cents, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under act of March 3, 1879. R. LOUIS B. FRANKLIN, treasurer of the Na ried off to Washington where they felt they had a bet D tional Council, in reporting the figures for the ter chance of success— with whatever administration Whitsunday offering for the deficiency fund, states happens to be running things at that time. This Is that “an important feature in balancing the budget only a rough idea of what we have in mind. But if with the aid of the emergency fund is that careful you feel that it has possibilities we will whip it into economies in every feature of missionary expenditure, shape. Then we will see if we can’t have some fun at whether for administration or for work in the field the Atlantic City convention. After all there is more have produced exceptional savings.” A few days later than one way of handling these serious business prob we received a message from a member of the staff at lems that arise from the depression and possibly laugh the Church Missions House. For stationery this person ing at them is as good as any. had used the back of an envelope; certainly a demon stration of New England thrift. And a part of the HE DAY APPROACHES when the Church must message received was in the form of verse which limit the number of men preparing for the min went: istry. Up until recently we have felt it necessary to With the most persistent virtue hold conferences for young men in order to encourage And with conscientious bonhommie them to enter the ministry. Yet a casual examination We may do things that hurt you of the catalogues of our seminaries convince us that But we’re practising economy. more men are now being prepared for the ministry than can ever be placed in parishes. Many bishops, This staff member should be encouraged in the art. apparently, accept men as candidates without much Then possibly we could find some genius to set the sense of obligation to place them after they finish their words to music so that at the next General Convention seminary courses. Seminaries are jammed and men we could present the problems of the Church Missions are being ordained at a faster rate than places are House in a comic opera, after the manner of Gilbert provided for them. The result in many instances is and Sullivan. Mr. Franklin might play the part of the that older men, after years of service to the Church, hard-boiled boss, running about booming in his best are crowded out by the young attractive fellows; or bass: else the young fellows, no matter how attractive, find There is need for strict economy themselves without a place to function after their ex So when the sun is in the sky pensive preparation. There is little doubt but that there Do not think that you will die is serious unemployment among the clergy at the pres If pennies you must save, ent time. One hears it said of course that only second In this House so like a grave, rate men are without churches. W e doubt if this is By shutting off electricity. true. Nevertheless, second rate or not, if they were Old Man Depression, aided in his evil ways by E x accepted as candidates and found fit for ordination, the travagance and Waste, would of course be the villains Church has a moral obligation to provide for them. of the play, doing their best to persuade secretaries to The whole question needs careful study. dine on caviar and to travel on extra fare trains. Caviar and extra fare trains could be personified by HE EDITOR OF The Presbyterian Advance, the fair ladies, which would give us a chance to bring in T Rev. James E. Clarke, has recently completed a an attractive chorus, played by members of the Wom study of the press of the Roman Catholic Church in an’s Auxiliary, tempting the secretaries with their this country. During the past fifteen years there has charms. Evil at first would appear to triumph but in been a steady decline in the circulation of Protestant the end Thrift, Economy and Good Management, religious journals. Yet from 1920 to 1930 Roman played of course by Bishop Perry, Bishop Burleson Catholic journals practically doubled their circulations. and Dr. Franklin, would win the victory and every Mr. Qarke states that “it is unquestionably due to a one would be happy as the attractive evil ones, aware church-wide determination on the part of Catholic of impending defeat at the hands of the Church, scur leaders to create, from the Church point of view, a Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Four THE WITNESS June 23, 1932 more intelligent and better informed constituency. R. FREDERIC C. MOREHOUSE, editor of the They began with a Catholic Press Sunday, when there D Living Church, suffered a severe stroke on June were sermons on the journals and people were urged n th leaving him in a most critical condition. He was to subscribe. This program was later expanded so slightly improved at last reports but there is but a re that now there is a Catholic Press Month when every mote possibility of recovery either for Dr. Morehouse effort is made to persuade Catholics to subscribe to a or for Mrs. Morehouse who has been ill for some time. Church paper. Mr. Clarke goes on to say: “ It seems W e earnestly request the prayers of our readers for to me that the contrast between the situation in the both of them.