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Ecclesiastical A rt An Editorial by BISHOP JOHNSON

R T has been defined as the “ skilful and systematic glory of God. Arid modern science or modern art, or A arrangement or adaptation of means for the at modern religion will fail if their ultimate purpose is tainment of some end.” If we bear this definition in to justify self and not to glorify God. It is this mind we must realize that art is never an end in itself, tendency to magnify science for science’s sake and art any more than science or religion are ends. They each for art’s sake and religion for religion’s sake which have their place as instruments to an end. It is possible constitutes the weakness of our modern efforts. The to make truth or goodness or beauty a species of scientist is prone to think of science as the gratifying idolatry. As the Master said, of human curiosity instead of “Woe unto you, ye blind guides the revelation of the divine which say whosoever shall swear harmoriy in the universe. The by the temple it is nothing, but artist is apt to thirik of art whosoever shall swear by the as a mere adornment of build gold o f the temple, he is a debtor, ings rather than as an ex Ye fools and blind, for whether pression of worship. The re is greater the gold, or the tem ligionist is looking at morality as ple, that sanctifieth the gold. And though it were an end in itself whosoever shall swear by the instead of a means by which we altar it is nothing; but whosoever love God more and more because sweareth by the gift that is on of His goodness. Until these the altar, he is guilty. Y e fools planets take their proper place in and blind; for whether is greater, their relation to the center of our the gift or the altar that sancti spiritual universe, they will fail fieth the gift. W hoso therefore in their ultimate end. W e can shall swear by the altar, sweareth not have more concern about the by it and by all things thereon. adornment of the temple than of And whosoever sweareth by its worship, nor of the settings on the temple sweareth by it the altar than of its communion. and by Him that dwelleth there If the artist is to attain his ob in.” In other words, we are jective it must be because he be

never to forget that “ all things REREDOS IN CHURCH FOR DEAF lieves in God. Atheistic art is as come of thee O Lord and of This interesting reredos, depicting our Lord barren as atheistic religion or thine own have we given thee.” curing the deaf man, zms recently dedicated at atheistic science, because it lacks The ultimate purpose of art is the Church of St. Ann for the Deaf, Neva the ultimate end for which its York. It is the work of Calvert, Herrick & the glory of God, and not the Riedinger, a firm which has done some of the skilful and systematic arrange idiosyncrasies of the artist. It is finest Church work in the country. ment exists. On the other hand this destruction which separates drab churches, barren altars and mere ■sensuous art and art which sets us upon a rock dreary naves will fail to promote the beauty of holiness. that is higher than we. It is only when science, art It behooves us therefore, to insist upon beauty in and religion converge in the ultimate good that they worship and that will be most beautiful which keeps in become instruments which lift up our lives. The mind the purposes for which the Church exists and for Greek had a sense of beauty which ended in failure which the altar is decorated. Let everything be real in because it lacked this ultimate objective. The Jew had the service of God. Better the utmost simplicity than a sense of religion which ended in failure because its tawdry or cheap decoration and better the plainest ultimate purpose was self righteousness and not the lines than those which are sensuous or flamboyant.

T he A rt of Stained Glass by Harold R. Williams

T T N F O R T U N A T E L Y , the art of the stained glass craftsman has degenerated steadily since the 15th century. The latter period marked the last great efforts in this field. Stained glass has fallen victim to the ingenuity and the self-interest of more recent times when the effort has been rather to exalt, the skill and dexterity of the glass painter than to adorn church architecture. .During the last twenty years, however, there has been a marked awakening that gives promise o f a revival of that which is best in ffi'e chilrdS win dows of the 13th century. It may be well to consider, for a moment, the pur poses of the church window. First, we have the purely practical consideration of excluding the elements and the surrounding scenery in order that both mind and body may be free from annoyance and distraction. The windows, acting as blinders, serve to confine at tention within the four walls. Second, we have a more subtle reason for reducing the light intensity of the in terior. Bright daylight has never been conducive to reflection and meditation. While dimming the bright ness of daylight gives considerable character to'an in terior even this effect may be greatly enhanced by add ing color and tone. Color is one of the great purposes of the church window for it flatters the architecture, pleases the.senses, and lends an air of mystery to the interior. This, however, does not necessarily mean that the interior heed be dark. Having these purposes in mind we pass on to the method of their accomplish ment, realizing that it is most desirable that it be done beautifully, and with sufficient subject matter to make it interesting. All of the considerations hitherto discussed are posi tive but the planning of a successful stained glass win dow invariably displays great restraint. T o an excep tional degree the art of the stained glass worker is de pendent upon his material or medium which has very decided limitations. Ignorance o f these limitations or the forcing of them has been responsible for so much decadent work. BALCONY WINDOW Stained glass js, in the strictest sense, one of the In St. Pauls Church, Canton, Ohio. Executed by Rambusch Studios. applied arts. It is art applied to a very definite useful purpose. It is decorative art, and as such, its purpose is to form part and parcel o f an architectural whole. tion, as the Medieval windows were. This must in no Architecture by its very nature is design and rhythm wise be construed to mean that stories are undesirable crystallized into various set forms which we call styles, in church windows; quite the contrary. Stories give and if stained glass windows are to form part of the instructive and intelligent value to a window; but a architecture, they must subscribe to these set forms. sharp distinction should be made between a story ren The windows must be designed according to conven- dered in an explanatory or symbolic manner and the

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 13, 1936 T H E WITNESS Page Five- usual naturalistic transparency which is encountered in commercial church windows. Architecture and Religion In the latter an effort is made to make the window By as natural and lifelike as possible. It is just as dis THOMAS CASADY tracting to look into a window and see a scene from Jerusalem naturally and dramatically rendered, as it The Bishop o f Oklahoma would be to look out of the window and see the ad "DELIGIOUS concepts have changed and are chang- jacent street or neighboring hills. Such picture win ing continually. Ecclesiastical architecture and art dows do not serve to make the church interior self- contained for they dissipate or scatter the attention of are static. If either architecture or its allied art are the congregation. Such pictures are not architectural to express the best religious life and thinking of our for they are ends or centers o f interest in themselves day, they must break with tradition, no matter how and are not elements subservient to an architectural beautiful its forms. The functiop,,oTall the arts,is to scheme. Broadly speaking a stained glass window is reveal the inner life of man. Traditional art is histor a mosaic of small and large pieces of glass separated by ically and abstractly interesting. As a revelation of lead lines. The ornaments and subject matter must be modern religious experience, it is a frozen asset. Today subordinated to the design and the color scheme. the Church needs prophets at the trestle board and the To be successful, a window must be flat, appearing easel as it needs them in the pulpit and at the cross neither to advance nor to recede, that is, void of per roads. spective and distance. When stories are used they Architecture and the allied arts once expressed, as should describe an action without attempting an illu in the Gothic age, the religious concepts o f contem sion. Only when the natural properties of the medium poraneous life. Modern religion no longer thinks of are strictly observed can we hope to realize in glass God as the great king. Our religion is that of the those wonderful symphonies of which the art is capa Master who made haste to heal the heart of pain. Our ble. In other arts such as music, poetry, and architec prayer is that the Spirit of the Master may “ among ture, similar rules or limitations maintain, the differ these restless throngs abide” and “ tread the city’s ence being, however, that in those fields the rules are streets again till sons o f men shall learn His love and not so flagrantly ignored. The reason for this may be follow where His feet have trod.” The call to organ that unlike glass, these other arts have been more gen ized religion today is not to draw apart from life but erally understood in their application. All church ceremony and ritual is designed and to enter fully into it. planned to operate and function in a set form or con Architects should decline to build great churches in vention and the same should apply to windows and dec quiet residential districts. They belong on the busy oration, for these are an integral part o f church struc highways of life, easily accessible by modern means ture. Stained glass is one o f the handmaids of archi of transportation, partaking of the whole community tecture and can only justify itself by its loyalty to rather than zoned neighborhoods. T o have the costly architecture. N o artist with a sympathy for the ma parent church on the fashionable street and the sup terial would attempt illusion in a stained glass window. ported chapel and institutional building in a less' fa Unwise craftsmen have tried it and in proportion as vored location was once permissible as a transition they succeed in creating illusions they defeat the real movement. Today it is out of harmony with our idea aim or purpose of a church window which is to help of God, the Church and Society. God is no respector create a calm state of mind, receptive to spiritual in of persons. Surely, not even by implication should the fluence. Church deny or disregard this fact. Obviously large communities need many churches. It seems equally ob vious that those churches should be located, not with reference to their financial supporters but solely with a thought to those they can serye. America is hungry for a more adequate artistic treatment of our religion. Those outside the Churches require a new and compelling appeal in the language of form, color and symbol. The problem is an apall- ing one. Yet we are daily meeting new engineering, chemical, physiological, social, economic and political problems. Surely the faith of Christian architects will not falter before the tremendous religious challenge of our day. Surely there are artist-prophets who can catch the new spirit of advancing Christianity and: give it expression in terms of beauty. Until this is done, the nation as a whole cannot apprehend the Church as a vital, growing, God-inspired instrument for'the healing PROPHET WINDOWS In Trinity Chapel, Hewlett, L. I. Executed by Rambusch of humanity. Only the architect can shout the Gospel Studios. from the housetop.

terial with a white cross extending the length and Breaking Laws breadth of it. Occasionally the cross is green, sym By bolic of the resurrection. More often the color used MARION HENDRIE is a deep purple, the cross being outlined in gold and having a gold cross at the center where the arms of the Chairman, Colorado Commission on Architecture and larger cross meet. In olden days the use of some sort the Allied Arts of pall was universal in England. W hen the funeral N O LD proverb declares that “ when you say it procession moved to the Church or the cemetery, the A three times it is true.” But it has been said over casket was borne on a carriage or a bier with the pall and over, and although it is true it seems to be so hard spread over it. Frequently friends of the departed for the busy clergyman to grasp it. He who is the spir were asked to assist at the ceremonies by marching itual guide seems, in most o f our parishes, to be also the with the casket holding a corner of the pall. They were final voice in all matters of art. He has spent years of called the “ pall-bearers” . Nowadays they serve a study preparing to be a spiritual guide—preaching somewhat different function but the idea is the same peace and good-will. And then he allows a memorial — a final bit of personal service for a friend. tablet, wrongly placed, to cry aloud, “ here am I, look We encourage people to hold funeral services in the at me,” or a window, possibly too ornate in a small Church. One of the main advantages of using a pall church, crying even louder, “no, look at me.” And so at funerals in Church is that everyone is treated alike the voice which is preaching of peace is non-effective and we escape from the effort and expense of provid in that disturbing setting. Oh, these vestries, oh these ing as elaborate a setting as someone else had for a clergymen; how can we make them realize that with previous funeral. out a knowledge of art they are breaking all laws of Indeed, the public has been talked into so many proportion, harmony, color, everything that goes to the accessories for a modern funeral that the expense in beautifying of our churches. Do stop and realize that volved becomes a grievous burden, just at a time when it has been said three times, and read the articles that most people ought to be harboring their resources. Ex are to appear from time to time in T h e W itness on pensive caskets, huge floral displays, costly music, art, to be published through the cooperation o f the many automobiles, and all the extras which are made commission on architecture and the allied arts of the attractive toi a bereaved family make it almost pro diocese of Colorado. hibitive for the average person to be properly buried. Neither is this always the fault of the professional undertaker. Often a person dies leaving a small amount of insurance which the relatives insist must L e t ’s K n o w be spent exclusively for an adequate funeral and of course ways are found to use it. I know one in By stance where an undertaker was asked by a widow to BISHOP WILSON use up a thousand dollars of life insurance left by F unerals her husband because she said it belonged to him and T W OULD be an interesting thing in T h e W itness must be spent on him. This undertaker knew the I to start a “ Believe it or N ot” column on the bishops. widow was left in straightened circumstances and he Curious questions that are asked of us would make en persuaded her to cut the expenses in half. tertaining reading and some of them might be worthy W e would all be better off with simpler funerals, less of preservation. I have been asked questions all the display, and more of Christian hopefulness. The use way from the proper method of conducting a service to o f a pall might help restrain the desire for competitive the selection of a husband for an aspiring widow. appearances. Also there is something fine about having all Christian people receive the same recognition in the An interesting one has recently come from a dear Church's offices, with the same emblem o f Christ old Churchman who has been quite ill and is looking spread over the human body they have left behind. forward to his departure from this life. He lives in a small town where for many years he has been the mainstay of a little Mission and where his daughter does many things for him. H e has asked whether it will be proper for this daughter to act as one of the pall-bearers at his funeral when the time arrives. I Talking It Over told him I could see no reason why it could not be By done. WILLIAM B. SPOFFORD Funeral customs have a very mixed origin. We know where some of them come from. Others are H E SC H O O L O F A P P L IE D R E L IG IO N , the quite obscure. For instance, for fifteen hundred years Topening of which is reported in the news pages or more the custom has prevailed of covering the this week, promises real things for the Church. Dr. casket o f the departed with a “ pall” . It is an oblong Billy Keller has already made a contribution to the life covering which is laid over the casket and drapes down o f the Church, through the summer school for semi toward the ground. Sometimes it is made of black ma nary students that he has carried on single handed for

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 13, 1936 T H E WITNESS Page Seven the past thirteen years, that is given to few.. He him essary raw materials. The shortage of foodstuffs, es self is quite unaware of the influence he has had. But pecially butter and other fats, has become so serious I get around a bit and when I find a parson who is that there have been several demonstrations of out socially awake the chances are that I discover him to raged housewives. But there is no butter shortage in be a man who has spent a summer with Doctor Bill. the barracks. The army is being better fed than ever This new school is merely an all-year-round edition before. of the summer school. Dr. Keller, being a busy physi HE LATE FATHER HUNTINGTON, so the cian, obviously cannot carry it on alone. He and the story goes, was once asked to give a definition of authorities of the diocese of Southern Ohio have T mysticism. “ Mysticism— oh yes, it starts in mist, ends therefore secured the Rev. Joseph Fletcher as director. in schism and surrounds the word I.” Fletcher is a young parson with a brilliant mind who just recently had two years of study at the London ^ IM 1IS MESSAGE was recently received by one of School of Economics where he did most of his work our missionaries from a sixteen year old moun with R. H. Tawney and Harold Laski, two of the tain boy: “ Just a note to let you know I am going to keenest sociologists in the world. He is eminently get married today and I want to borrow a pair of pants fitted for the job and, given decent support, will make and a white shirt. I will bring them back as soon as a real institution of the School of Applied Religion. I make the trip.” Thus may the little niceties of the honeymoon soon wear away. T T W A S IN 1857 that Bishop Kip of California delivered an address to his convention in which he expressed his great joy that the Church had been so successful in demonstrating to the community its un Free-Willers worldly character. In days of strife and strain, he W E N T Y people were at service in the Little pointed out, with men’s minds keyed to the highest Church today, and they didn’t come because it was point of excitement, “the Church alone stood aloof” T respectable or stylish or because they were afraid of with the clergy refraining “ from carrying into God’s hell fire and damnation if .they stayed away. They all House the engrossing topics of the world,” but rath came of their own free will ancl.'because they enjoyed er “ on the day of holy rest to remind their hearers coming. Fifty years ago the church was filled to ca that all these things must pass away, while for us pacity every-Sunday, but there were probably no more Eternity is waiting.—Let us be true to these great than twenty “ free-willers” among the congregation. principles o f the Church, and if at times it even de T he Churchm ouse. bars us from exhibiting the interest we might be in clined to take ag citizens in what is passing around us, we can remember that we are set apart to higher du ties, and that it is the teaching of an Apostle that there are some things which are ‘lawful but not expe dient.’ ” The unworldly character of the Church, de voting itself to holy rest, is still all too prevalent but fortunately there are an increasing number of lead ers with a different idea of the Church’s task, not the least o f whom is a successor to Bishop Kip as the dio cesan of California.

HOSE UNCONCERNED about the trend toward T Fascism will do well to inform themselves about recent developments in Germany. There the Nazi press utilizes the nationalist attitude o f the Roman Church in Italy to point a moral. The first duty of the Church, they point out, is not to God but the Fatherland. It must learn that “ rendering unto Caesat the things that are Caesar'S” means that when the state demands it is to be “ freely and cheerfully obeyed.’ ’ Meanwhile economically things get steadily worse in Hitler-land. Unemployment is rising, with it generally' recognized now that the slight improve ment during the two past years in the situation was due to increased employment in the munitions indus INDIVIDUAL ALTAR try, now forced to slow down the pace in rearmament, Exquisitely hand carved into a private communion set by /. M. Hall,, Inc., af New ’York.and now on exhibition in their since it has not the foreign exchangee», to buy ¿he nec studios.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Eight T H E WITNESS February 13, 1936 PLANS ANNOUNCED NEWS NOTES OF FOR REORGANIZED THE CHURCH IN CHURCH CONGRESS BRIEF PARAGRAPHS Edited by W. B. S po f fo r d By D o n a l d B. A l d r ic h Chairman of Executive Committee Have you any idea what V. I. U. S. A. stands for? Sounds like some The Church Congress is a name agency of the government doesn’t it. which occupies a prominent place in Well you will get your answer to the the life of the Episcopal Church. To question next week in the first the older generation it brings back Lenten number of T h e W i t n e s s . memories and to the younger ones it Throughout Lent we are to present arouses curiosity and speculation. It a series of articles on the work of must be admitted, however, that dur the Church in Latin American coun ing recent years the Congress has tries. As you know the mission fields been losing ground. Canon Prichard, of Latin America are being studied late chairman, strongly urged a by the whole Church this Lent. We ■complete reorganization of the Con therefore lined up this series of first gress and called several groups to hand, up-to-the-minute articles, writ gether for critical discussion of the ten by men in the various fields. In problem. Last June he empowered addition to this series there is to be the Rev. Pauli Sargent to convene the a series of eight articles by Bishop •executive committee during the fall Johnson called “ The Christian Voy ■months. On the same day this meet age” and I do not have to tell you BISHOP STIRES WINDOW ing was held, but at an earlier hour, that anything by the Bishop of Col In St. Thomas Church, New York. Dr. Sargent called together a number Work of James Powell & Sons, London. orado is sure to be first rate stuff. of clergy representing almost every The thing I am anxious about at age and group of churchmanship. For the moment is that you get your three hours this meeting earnestly The Congress will no longer be ac order for a W it n e s s Bundle in on discussed the value and work of the tive only in an annual meeting and time. These articles have been pre Congress. Their three significant the publication of a series of papers. pared with Lenten study groups in conclusions were: (1) A revitalized A syllabus for the subject is being mind, though of course they make Church Congress would be of tre prepared, and it is the aim of the excellent material for general Lenten mendous value to the life of the committee to encourage the forma reading. But because of the classes Church. (2) The Congress would be tion of small study groups through we are bringing out the first Lenten adequately effective only if it did, out the Church who will meet togeth Number the week before Ash Wed both in principle and in fact, become er from time to time for reading and nesday. That means that your order, the organized and intellectual expres conference upon the subject. The if we are to send you this first num sion of the whole church. (3) Young Congress committee will always be ber, must be at our Chicago office, men should be more largely repre ready to help with suggestions for 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, not sented in its government and plat reading, for introducing points of later than Monday, February 17th. form. controversy and for giving counsel So please, if you have not already The executive committee accepted regarding any difficulties encounter done so, get your order in at once. these suggestions and, in the absence ed. The members of the local group Just a postal card ordering ten, of other members, elected a new com will on their part, keep a report of twenty-five or fifty copies for the mittee of twenty-four members. The their study and discussions, and will eight Lenten numbers. We will then new committee has proceeded to its draw up a detailed report of their bill you Easter week. The time is work with a vigor that is a rëal findings about three months before short so send an air mail or even a promise for the future. In some the date of the Congress. They will wire if necessary. ways, the Church Congress is to be also pay nominal dues. H: $ $ changed, but we believe these altera Between the national Congress and Notables to Attend tions will increase its usefulness. It the local groups we are arranging Meeting in Baltimore is now possible to outline the future regional congress organizations, Many who are prominent in the policy and program. which may, if thought desirable, cor life of the Church have signified Instead of considering many differ respond to the provinces of the their intention of attending the an ent topics during the sessions, the Church. Each region will have its nual conference of the C. L. I. D. Congress will devote itself to one sub own committee and will possibly ar to be held in Baltimore on Wash ject of fundamental importance to range a congress of its own to fol ington’s Birthday. Among these, in the Christian religion, and the ses low the Church Congress. The re addition to those who are to preach sions will discuss the ramifications of ports of the local groups will be in Baltimore churches, listed last the subject. There may be more than sorted by the regional committee, and week, are Professor Adelaide Case one speaker at a session, though this one report of all the groups sent to of Columbia University; Mrs. Mary will not be a rule, for it is not our the executive committee. The sig Simkhovitch of Greenwich House, purpose, to turn the sessions into a nificance of these reports is that they New York, one of the leading au series of debates. There will, of will be given to the speakers of the thorities on housing; the Rev. Alex course, be discussion from the floor Congress, to be used in the construct ander Zabriskie of the Virginia and the more diverse the opinions ing of their addresses. Thus the ad Seminary; Mr. Clifford Morehouse, presented the better, but the underly dresses at the Congress will be more editor of The Living Church; the ing spirit; of each meeting will ap than academic discussions—they will Rev. Richard Lief, the director of proach that of a graduate seminar. be directly related to the problems the new institute on human relations The subject for the next Congress is and difficulties encountered by the at St. George’s, New York; Miss to be “ Thé Ground for Christian clergy in their groups and will have Vida D. Scudder of Wellesley; Miss Faith and Action Today.” (Continued on page 15) Hilda Shaul of Philadelphia; Mrs.

Beverly Ober of the national board burden. He also asked for a coad diocese of Southern Virginia which -of the Woman’s Auxiliary; Miss jutor. His request was granted and met at South Richmond on January Alice Rex, field secretary of the the standing committe was in 28-29. He also stated that an increas ‘Girls’ Friendly Society; Rev. Ed structed to work out the necessary ing number of parishes were falling mund Lee, head of Chatham Hall, details so that the election may be in with the plan for systematic Ghatham, V a.; Miss Caroline B. La- held at the next diocesan convention. monthly giving to the missionary Monte, prominent in Church affairs A visitor to the convention was work of the diocese and the national •of the diocese of New Jersey; Mr. Bishop Cook, president of the Na Church. Spencer Miller Jr., consultant on in tional Council, who spoke briefly on * * * dustry for the National Council; Miss the work of the national Church and Noonday Services Marian DeC. Ward, a director of its present financial problems. He in Norfolk •the Wellesley Conference; Dr. Wil was also the headliner at the dioce The following are to be the liam S. Keller of Cincinnati; Rev. san dinner which was attended by preachers at the noonday services to Arthur Sherman of the Forward over six hundred churchmen and be held in a theatre in Norfolk, Va., Movement . . . to mention but a women. during Lent: Bishop Strider, the few of those outside the city of * * * Rev. C. E. Buck of Washington, Baltimore who are to attend. Dele Leader of Sharecroppers Bishop Abbott, the Rev. J. R. Oliver gates are to attend from Cincinnati, at C. L 1. D. Meeting of Baltimore, the Rev. S. M. Full- Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Provi Howard Kester, leader of the wood of Cedar Falls, Iowa, the Rev. dence, New York, Philadelphia and Southern Tenant Farmers Union, Beverly Tucker of Richmond and other cities. has been added to the program for Bishop Thomson. , the annual meeting of the Church * * * Philadelphia Rector League for Industrial Democracy, Young People Meet Is Honored which is to meet in Baltimore, Feb in Mississippi The Ven. James F. Bullitt, in ruary 22-23. Mr. Kester was selected charge of foreign work in the dio The 7th annual mid-winter con this year by The Nation as one of ference of the Young People’s Ser cese of Pennsylvania, is to be pre America’s outstanding citizens. sented with the cross of the Cheva vice League of Mississippi is to meet * * * at Natchez, February 20-22. There lier of the Legion of Honor by M. Andre Lefevre, French Ambassador, Florida Parish are to be a number of addresses, in Observes Centennial cluding talks by both Bishop Brat next Saturday. It is in recognition The centennial anniversary of ton and Bishop Green. of his work among people of French Trinity, Apalachicola, Florida, was birth. * * * observed on January 30th with a * * * Social Questions service at which the bishop of the Brooklyn Rector Faced in Texas diocese preached. A large number of H as 45th Anniversary The convention of the diocese of clergy were present. The Rev. William G. Ivie was Texas met at Houston, January 19- honored by his congregation on Sun * * * 21, with reports presented which day last, the 45th anniversary of his Convention of showed decided progress during the rectorship of Grace Church, Brook Southern Virginia year 1935. Bishop Quin reported 900 lyn. The church was jammed. The Bishop Thomson reported an in confirmations, breaking the record address was by Bishop Creighton. creased number of confirmations for the diocese; said that every par * * * during 1935 at the convention of the ish and mission had paid its dioce- Florida Rector Retires The Rev. L. Fitz-James Hindry, rector of Trinity, Saint Augustine, Florida, preached his last sermon there on January 26th after a rec torship of 32 years. He is to travel abroad for a year. W * * John Gass Speaks at Annual CMH Meeting The Rev. John Gass, rector of the Incarnation, New York, was the speaker at the annual meeting of the national council of the Church Mis sion of Help, held in New York last week. He said that it was superficial thinking to consider the interests of religion and social work as separate. * * * New Bishop for Diocese of Michigan In his address to the convention of the diocese of Michigan, meeting at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Detroit, January 29-30, Bishop Page de clared that the financial condition of the diocese was much improved, ALTAR SET AT ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL, DENVER and that definite steps had been Attention is called to the rich Gothic design of these pieces. They are the work of taken to reduce the heavy debt Black, Starr and Frost-GorJiam.

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. Page Ten T H E WITNESS February 13, 1936 san assessment in full, and also it is more than likely that the diocese stated that the diocese had sent of Oregon and the district of Eastern $15,000 to the National Council as Oregon would be united under compared with $12,000 in 1934. Bishop Dagwell whose consecration The convention endorsed the efforts as Bishop of Oregon takes place to being made to raise funds for a day in Portland. chapel at Texas A. & M. College. The * H« H« convention also passed resolutions Church Group Decries condemning war and urging the Teachers’ Oath people of the Church to work for Declaring that “ Fascist repression constructive peace measures. It also is sweeping across America,” the endorsed the child labor amendment Council of Social Action of the Con to the constitution. Also the conven gregational Church has issued a tion recommended a program for statement deploring the enactment social security which would include of loyalty oaths for teachers and the needs of all, rather than the spe condemning the so-called “ gag” bills cial demands of small groups, and now before Congress. The statement expresses its conviction that unem also deplores the fact that the brunt ployment and poverty should not be of the fight to maintain constitu accepted as inevitable. Lynching was tional civil liberties is by the “ dis strongly condemned and the people inherited, the exploited and the un of the diocese were urged to give der-privileged,” with the Churches their support to the formation of a taking little part in the struggle. strong public opinion which would * * * make mob violence impossible. The Faith and Order debate on all the resolutions was Commission Meets lively. The Faith and Order commission * * * of the Episcopal Church meets with Demolish Old Canon Leonard Hodgson of Winches Cathedral in Trenton ter Cathedral, England, now in this The brown stone church in Tren country to deliver lectures at the ton, N. J., which has served as the General Seminary, at a luncheon to cathedral for the past five years, is THE ASCENSION day at the Seminary. Canon Hodgson being demolished, along with the Window in the Incarnation, Nezv York, is the general secretary of the world rectory and parish house. The church the work of the R. Geissler Studios. conference. The purpose of the is being dismantled stone by stone, meeting is to discuss plans for the and the blocks stored in the rear of lion dollar French loan and an 11 second decennial meeting to be held the crypt of the new Trinity Cathe million dollar loan from the Na in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August, dral, now being erected. They will tional City Bank of New York at 1937. Presiding Bishop Perry is the be incorporated in the fabric of high rates, have been ousted by him. chairman of the executive commit that edifice. The fine glass windows Critics of Vincent’s regime are im tee of the comirhissibh, while Bishop of the former cathedral and other prisoned and dissenters are fined. Manning of New York is the presi memorials not already used in the Mr. Juste is thoroughly familiar with dent. There are four members of the crypt will also be stored and used this situation as I know, since I had General faculty who are members: later in the Cathedral as that build a long talk with him last summer Dean Fosbroke, Howard C. Robbins, ing proceeds. In time the Diocese when he came to the states for the Frank Gavin and Daniel McGregor. will dispose of the site of the par Wellesley Conference. Whether he * * * ish house and rectory. can give us the real picture without A Tribute to * * * being endangered himself remains to Abraham Lincoln Bishop-Elect to be seen. Thomas Vernon Smith, professor Conduct Mission * * * of philosophy at the University of The Rev. Karl M. Block, recently Ohio Clergymen Chicago, was invited last year to de elected Bishop Coadjutor of Kansas, on the Air liver an áftdrejss .at a, memorial ser is to conduct a five-day mission at Two clergymen of Southern Ohio vice for Abraham Lincoln, held in Grace Church, Hopkinsville, Ken are now broadcasting twice a week the United States Senate. Here is tucky, commencing March first. This over WPAY, a station at Portsmouth, a bit from that address that is worth is the the fourth mission to be held Ohio— Rev. H. J. Buckingham of preserving: during the four years of the rector Chillicothe and the Rev. H. N. Hyde “ No man made great by death ship of the Rev. Charles E. Craik, of Portsmouth. The hour, 9 :15 A.M., offers more hope to lowly pride than Jr. Tuesdays and Fridays, is called the does Abraham Lincoln; lor while H: ^ Hv Forward Movement Radio Hour. living he was himself so simple as Haiti Is an * * * often to be dubbed a fool. Foolish Interesting Country No Decision Yet he was,,- they said, in losing his Haiti is an interesting country, as by Bishop Remington youthfrfl^Keart to a grave and liv we will doubtless discover when we Bishop Remington of Eastern Ore ing hijpGife"‘on married patience; have the article by the Rev. Felix gon, whose election as dean of the foolish Jin pitting his homely ignor Juste, a native priest, who is writ Philadelphia Divinity School was an ance against Douglas, brilliant, ing in our Lenten series. President nounced in this paper last week, has courtly and urbane: foolish in set Vincent, who is really a dictator of stated that he will “ go over the ting himself to do the right in a the European sort, has instituted whole matter in Philadelphia” before world where the day goes mostly to martial law, espionage and illegal deciding whether or not he will ac the strong; : foolish in dreaming of condemnations. Eleven senators who cept. It was pointed out by church freedom 'for a long7suffering folk opposed his plan of floating a 33 mil- men in Oregon that should he accept whtfrn the North is as anxious to

Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. February 13, 1936 T H E WITNESS Page Eleven keep out as the South was to keep six tons. However, the balance is so down; foolish in choosing the silent perfect that each one can be pushed Grant to lead to victory the hesitant open or closed with one finger. They armies of the North; foolish, finally, required six years for their making. in presuming that government for The doors contain forty-eight sculp the people must be government of tured panels, one door depicting and by the people. Foolish many scenes of the Old Testament and the said; foolish many, many believed. other scenes from the New Testa “ This Lincoln whom so many liv ment. ing friends and foes alike deemed H: * * foolish, had his bitterness in laugh Parish House Fire ter; fed his sympathy on solitude; Caused Death and met recurring disaster with Fire in the parish house o f . St. whimsicality to muffle the murmur Andrew’s Church, Addyston, Cincin of a bleeding heart. Out of the nati, caused the death of Mrs. Anna- tragic sense of life he pitied where belle Stamp. She was a resident others blamed; bowed his own there with a niece, and was fatally shoulders with the woes of the weak; burned when she returned to the endured humanely his little day of building, apparently for some per- chance power; and won through death what life disdains to bestow upon such simple souls— lasting The Bishop of London’s peace and everlasting glory. Lenten Book for 1936 “ How prudently we proud men THE APOSTOLIC CROSS compete for nameless graves, while A beautiful cemetery memorial, with 0 MEN OF GOD! now and then some starveling of carvings of the Apostles, . by the by Fate forgets himself into immortal Presbrey-Leland Studios. an American Author ity.” * * * works of art in this or in any other BERNARD IDDINGS BELL country. They will hold an import A Debate on Canon of Providence American Neutrality ant place in the annals of sculpture, and in size, elaboration and original Specially recommended to his radio Arthur Krock, Washington cor audience for Lenten reading by respondent of the New York Times ity of design, are particularly dis Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. and former Pulitzer prize winner, is tinguished. The bronze is entirely LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. $1.00 debating tomorrow with Sir Willmott gold plated and each door weighs Lewis, American correspondent of the London Times, before the stu dents at St. Albans’ School, Wash Just Published ington. The subject of the debate is “ American Neutrality” . The head master of the school, the Rev. Albert H. Lucas, declares that a course on government is becoming so interest The Centrality ing that actually some of the boys are now reading the editorials in the of Christ newspapers and not merely the sport pages and the funnies. Imagine. H* H» By the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Dedicate Bronze Doors WILLIAM TEMPLE, D.C.L. at New York Cathedral The great bronze doors of the Archbishop of York central portal of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, are now in place and were dedicated by • Enthusiastically endorsed Bishop Manning on February 2nd. by the Forward Movement The doors are one of the greatest Commission

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sonal property. The loss of the young people in the diocese of reports indicate improvement. Seven building amounted to $4,000. Plans Southwestern Virginia recently, other persons were injured, one are under way for rebuilding accord the meeting being held at Christ critically. He is the second mem ing to the Rev. S. H. Ailing, in Church, Roanoke. She spoke about ber of the Associate Mission at Hays charge. the various hindrances to the suc to be the victim of an auto accident, * * * cessful conduct of work among the Rev. Herbert D. Grandall hav Harrison Rector young people and suggested rem ing been killed in 1934. Is Instituted edies. There was general discussion * ' * * The Rev. James V. Knapp, former of the needs of young people along More Services assistant at St. James’s, New York, social and educational lines. As a for King George was instituted rector of All Saints’, result of the meeting the department The Episcopal Church certainly Harrison, New York, last Sunday. is establishing a lending library for H« * has gone in for memorial services the use of young people and their Death Takes leaders. Prominent Churchwoman * * * Miss Mary Niles of Concord, N. Brotherhood Secretary THE PENCE BANK H., daughter of the late Bishop in Detroit CAN GET YOUR Niles, died on January 22nd in her Leon C. Palmer, general secre 68th year. Miss Niles had served tary of the Brotherhood of St. PARISH OUT OF for many years as registrar of the Andrew, was a visitor in the Mich THE RED diocese and took an active part in igan dioceses the week of February Thousands of Churches diocesan and parochial affairs. are safeguarding their * * * 2nd. He spoke at meetings in Jack- incomes with this simple son, Detroit, and Grand Rapids. and unique plan. A dig nified and direct method Wholesale Mission * * * of giving. in Rhode Island Salma Missionary Gold lacquered top and A two-weeks’, diocesan-wide mis Seriously Injured bottom and lithographed labels, ready for distri sion is under way in the diocese of The Rev. George Wyatt of Kinsley, bution. Rhode Island. It is unprecedented diocese of Salina, Kansas, was seri Sample Sent on Request in the Church for scope and in ously injured in a head-on auto col tensity, with sixty parishes taking lision on January 26th. He was taken Universal Pence Bank Co. part. It opened on February 2nd to a hospital and his condition was 11 West 42nd Street and closes next Sunday. Most of at first considered critical, but later New York City the missioners are from outside the diocese. CENTER FOR ORAL ARTS * * * Founder: M. E. DeWitt Student Paper Saturday meetings weekly: Prose & Verse HATTUCE speaking choir, 10 A.M. A few scholarships at Grace Chapel » » SCHOOÎL <æ « are available. 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for King George. I thought we hud Auxiliary convention, and the re Canada, as a headliner. He declared about come to the end of it but in port comes that “ He and his mes that Bishop Abbott, bishop of Lex going through the news notes that sages went over in a big way” . Bish ington, was “ the greatest contribu have come to my desk for this week op Seaman in his address on Jan tion of the Church in Canada to the I find that ten of them are reports uary 19th, which was the anniversa Church in the United States in this of such services. There are so many ry of the birthday of Robert E. Lee, generation.” His remarks about a that I figure they cease to be news. paid tribute to the educational, parson’s life, based on his own ex civic and Christian achievements of periences, thoroughly charmed his Bishop Hobson that distinguished Churchman who, audience. In addition to routine while stationed at San Antonio in Visits Erie Bishop Hobson, chairman of the 1859, helped found the Episcopal PARKER’S Forward Movement Commission, led Church in that city and also its HAIR BALSAM diocesan missionary society. He re RemovesDandruff-StopsHairFalling a conference on the Movement at Imparts Color and ported that confirmations for 1935 Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair the cathedral, Erie, Pa., on January 60c. and $1.00 at Druggists. 29th. exceeded the previous record for the Hlscox Chem. Wks. Patchogue, N. Y. district which was established ten years before. Weekday School in Pennsylvania Parish Wilbur Herbert Burnham The Rev. Charles J. Burton is Elizabeth Rector conducting a weekday religious Is Instituted The Rev. Robert Lee Bull Jr., is school two days a week at Mt. Designer and Master Jewett, Pa. He is using the office to be instituted rector of Trinity of instruction as the basis for his Church, Elizabeth, N. J., on Feb Craftsman teaching. ruary 20th by, Bishop Matthews. A reception is to follow. Stained and Leaded Glass i Salina Pledges More to Council Convention of Studios 1126 Boylston Street The district of Salina, meeting in Lexington convocation at Concordia on Janu The convention of the diocese of Boston, Massachusetts ary 27-29, increased its expectancy Lexington was held in Covington on to the National Council from $1200 January 28-29, with Bishop Reni- in 1933 to $1400 this year. The son, rector of St. Paul’s, Toronto, convention was addressed by Bish iNEELY'BELU op Mize and by the Rev. Goodrich T R O Y , N.Y, a n d ISO BROAOWAY.Ny.ClTY. Fenner of Kansas City. Mrs. Henry a S E S. Burr of Kansas City, provincial Cassocks, Surplices, Stoles, Silks, president of the Auxiliary, addressed Embroideries, Cloths, Fringes CLERICAL SUITS the Auxiliary convention which was Priest Cloaks, Rabats, Collars in session at the same time. Vestment Specialists ST. HILDA GUILD, Inc. S in ce 1837 * * * 147 E. 47th St., New York ) COX SONS & VINING - INC. CHURCH VESTMENTS Detroit Dean J 133 EAST ¿3RD STREET . NEW YORK . tl.Y.. ECCLESIASTICAL EMBROIDERY Lectures at Flint Conferences with reference to the adornment The Rev. Kirk B. O’Farrell, dean of Churches. at Detroit, delivered two lectures at Telephone EL-dorado 5-1058 St. Paul’s, Flint, Michigan on Feb ruary 5th on his travels last summer in Ireland and England. * * * Warfield Hobbs Visits Texas The Rev. G. Warfield Hobbs, ex ecutive secretary of the publicity de partment of the National Council, j was the guest of the convocation of North Texas which met at San \ Angelo, January 19-20. He ad- j dressed both the convocation and the '

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.business, plans were perfected for land; Rev. Arthur L. Kinsolving of . . . Two provinces are so organized paying off the diocesan debt of Boston; Bishop Johnson of Denver; for religious educational Work that $3,930 during this year, which, if Bishop Abbott of Lexington; Bish they have provincial Workers, the accomplished, will wipe out a debt op Spencer of Kansas City and Rev. Malcolm Taylor for New Eng of over $70,000 in six years. Gov Bishop Stewart of Chicago. In ad land and Miss Annie Morton Stout ernor Chandler, a communicant of dition Bishop Stewart is to deliver for Sewanee. the Church is chairman of the fund four evening lectures on “ Christian H» H* H* raising committee. ity and the Present Scene” under Russian Bishop * * * the auspices of the Church Club of Welcomed in Pittsburgh Special Lecturers the diocese. Bishop Benjamin of the Russian -at the Pacific Hi H* * Orthodox Church was welcomed to The Rev. Bayard Jones of Reno, Repairs for Trinity Cathedral, Pittsburgh, by Nevada, who is collaborating with Hornell Church Bishop Mann on February 2nd. Bishop Parsons on a new book on Christ Church, Hornell, N. Y., is Bishop Benjamin was attended by the Prayer Book, is lecturing the undergoing extensive repairs which six Russian priests. first two weeks of February at the they hope to have completed by * * * Church Divinity School of the Easter. The total cost of the re Pray for Peace Pacific. Another special lecturer pairs and redecoration, according in Birmingham is the Rev. Byron E. Underwood to the rector, the Rev. John G. All the religious groups in Bir Jr., formerly of the General Sem Spencer, will be about $12,000. mingham, England, assembled in the inary, who is lecturing there on * * * town hall on January 13th for a apologetics. Even Archbishops * * * Are Shut Off Lenten Preachers Archbishop Soderblom of Sweden in Rochester was recently denied permission to The churches of Rochester, N. Y., speak at a peace vesper service in are uniting for noon day Lenten Christ Church, Falun. The Provost services to be held at Christ Church. refused to open the church because The preachers are to be Bishop he declared that such an anti-peace Designers and Makers of Ferris, Bishop Fiske, Bishop Ivins, attitude as his was necessary for the CHURCH VESTMENTS Bishop Ward, Canon H. Adye defense of his country. For the Giergy and Choir Prichard, Dean S. Whitney Hale and Hi Hi H« Bishop Gray. Among Religious * * * BISHOPS’ ROBES Education Workers ALTAR EQUIPMENT, LINENS Student Meeting Miss Helen A. Lyles is director CUSTOM TAILORING in San Francisco of religious education and student A rally of 'Episcopal students of counselor in the district of North the universities and colleges of Cali Texas. . . . Miss Virginia Zimmer J. M. HALL, Inc. fornia was held at Grace Cathedral, man resigned as secretary of re 392 Fifth Ave., New York San Francisco, on February 5th. It ligious education of Long Island in Tel. Wis. 7-2336 marked the closing event of the order to become Mrs. John 31. Brown. diocesan convention. It was the first of its kind ever held in the state and was attended by 1,200 students. The cathedral service was preceded by a student dinner. The preacher * (£liurrl| Jffurnt 0 t)tn g B * at the service was the Rev. Eric Bloy of LaJolla. Altars in Carved Wood, Marble, and Stone. Altar Brasses, Processional * * * Crosses; Communion Rails, Communion Ware, Sick Communion Sets, Lenten Preachers Seating, Credences, Pulpits, Lecterns, Baptistry Furnishings, Hangings, in Chicago The following men are to be the Linens, Eucharistic Vestments, Fabrics, Ready Embroidered Emblems. noonday Lenten preachers in the diocese of Chicago, with services and MEMORIAL TABLETS addresses each noon at the Harris STAINED GLASS WINDOWS Theatre: Dean Emerson of Cleve W e have designed and manufactured Church Furnishings since 1877. The knowledge, experience and the facilities acquired during this time are at KNIGHTS OF STS: JOHN your service. They insure a successful result. Let the Boys We carry a large stock of Receivings Basins, Collection have this Fra ternity and Plates, Altar Crosses, Vases, Candlesticks, Candelabra, Mis you will have sal Stands, Processional Crosses, etc., in sets of harmonious t h e boys in design. We issue no general catalog. Please give the partic Church. P ro ulars of your needs in as much detail as possible. We tvill vides w orth then be able to send a selection of designs with quotations while things to zvhich will closely meet your requirements. do. Endorsed b y leading Bishops and Clergy. Ritual of Ini R. G eissler, In c . tiations $1.00. Headquarters: 3012 West Coulter Street, Philadelphia, 450-454 Six t h A ve. (between 10th and n th Sts.) N ew Y ork P a.

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