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WILLIAM G. POLLARD Director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Neclear Studies, whose articles are featured this week and next, with his sons, reading clockwise, James, Lewis, Grosvenor with Frank back to camera. Picture was taken following the scientist's ordination as a deacon

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STORY OF THE WEEK a proposal received by the Pre­ siding Bishop from Francis B. The National Council Approves Sayre, his personal representa­ tive in Japan, calling for the in­ itiation of a college program in Record-Breaking Budget the great secular universities of Japan. This proposal was placed Francis Sayre Presents Plan For Extending before the Council for its con­ sideration. Sayre pointed out publication. Church Work In Japan that the cream of Japan's in­ and •k The National Council closed department of promotion. In ad­ telligentsia, including its educa­ its three day February meeting dition, a $400,000 appropriation tional and political leaders, re­ reuse at Seabury House, Greenwich, is included for world relief and ceive their education at the five for by adopting the largest budget Church cooperation. With this former Imperial Universities, in the history of the Church, sum the Episcopal Church aids which are secular and which totalling $5,546,566. Last year's needy churches and people in until now have been untouched required budget was $5,195,468. The bud­ the strife-torn areas of Europe, by the Church's influence. "If get for 1953 provides for an en­ Africa and Asia. Christianity is to dominate the larged program of domestic and Blanchard Reports life of Japan, where Christians overseas missionary work, par­ today number less than half of Permission • The Rev. Roger W. Blanch- ticularly in Japan. It also pro­ ard, executive secretary of the one per cent of the population, vides for an extension of work division of college work, under­ it is imperative that strong-

DFMS. in American Colleges and uni­ Christian influences should be / scored the importance of spread­ versities, with special emphasis ing the work of the Church to brought to bear upon Japanese on faculty work. include students in overseas un­ university and college students, Church Greatest departmental expan­ iversities, particularly in the who not many years hence will sion was seen in the department Orient. Blanchard has just re­ be exercising leadership and of social relations, which now turned from a six weeks' trip shaping the policies of Japan. Episcopal has had two new divisions ad­ to India, Japan, the Philippines, Yet today, apart from its ac­ the ded to it, the division of social and Hawaii, to attend confer­ tivities at St. Paul's University of education and community ac­ ences of the World's Student and its general Church work, tion, with the Rev. M. Moran Christian Federation, meeting the Nippon Seikokai leaves al­ Weston as the newly-appointed in India, and to observe the re­ most untouched the entire stu­ Archives executive secretary, and the div­ ligious situation among college dent population of Japan." ision of urban-industrial work, students in these countries. 2020. "The challenges of secularism to which the Rev. G. Paul Mus- He reported on the wretched and communism come from selman has been appointed ex­ living conditions in India, and these universities, not from the ecutive secretary. Experimental

Copyright on the work which students are Christian ones," Dr. Sayre's work in the heavily populated attempting to do to provide proposal continued. "Because urban and industrial areas of medical relief and educational the Japanese student has a the Church will be undertaken work in the rural areas. Two great reverence for the intellec­ to extend the mission of the weeks were spent at the Trien­ tual world, intellectual commun­ Church more deeply into the na­ nial meeting of the general as­ ism and secularism are captur­ tion's cities. sembly of the Federation, which ing the student mind. If the Largest items in the 1953 was attended by 120 persons re­ Christian faith, through the budget are $2,195,153 for the presenting student movements Nippon Seikokai, is to combat division of domestic missions; in 38 countries. these challenges, it must meet $291,038 for the department of The highlight of Blanchard's them on their home ground education, and $220,708 for the report was the presentation of with their own weapons."

The Witness—February 26, 1953 Three The proposal contained an year 1952 a total of $1,365,397 and in the diocese of Minnesota. outline of the plans approved by was received in legacies. In the latter diocese The Rev. the house of Bishops of the Jap­ Addinsell announced that the Daisuke Kitagawa is carrying anese Church in 1952, and now 1953 missionary quota from all on work among Japanese Am­ submitted for the approval of the dioceses and missionary dis­ ericans at Good Samaritan Mis­ our National Council. tricts was $5,180,729 and that sion in Minneapolis, and under­ Student centers in each of the expectations were $4,731, taking new work among the these five universities are plan­ 375 or 91'/ of the quota. In Indians who are streaming into ned, each of which would serve 1952 the quota was $4,938,405 the city from the rural areas, as "a generating plant to spread the expectation $4,344,314 and and who are falling prey to cor­ a strong Christian and evangel­ the actual total paid $4,413,383 ruptive influences (Witness, izing influence upon the stu­ It was pointed out that this is Feb. 5). dents of the university. . . In­ more than twice the figure paid Promotion cluded in the program should in 1946. Bishop Hobson, chairman of be study groups, discussion Home Department the department of promotion, meetings, counseling, devotion­ presented a resolution request­ publication. Reporting on the rural work al gatherings and evangelizing of the Church, the Rev, C. Gres- ing approval for the production and efforts. The center should in­ ham Marmion, Jr., described of a missionary film on urban augurate a definite program some of the present and future church work, which was adopt- reuse designed to make the Japanese programs of the National Town- ed. for aware of the challenges of sec­ Country Rural Training Insti­ Following Bishop Hobson's ularism and communism, and tute at Roanridge, Missouri. In­ report, Robert D. Jordan, dir­ ready to commit themselves to required cluded in the proposed program ector of the department, des­ Christianity." is the training of laymen for cribed some of the plans for After completing the reading rural work and the setting up the 1953 laymen's training pro­ of the proposal, which will be of conferences on the order of gram. He announced that this Permission the subject of further study by a rural college of preachers for year an attempt will be made to the National Council, Blanch- clergymen already active in the broaden the base of lay partici­ ard concluded h i s report: "I pation in the program by asking DFMS. rural field. / hope you will see how important The Church urgently needs each provincial chairman of lay­ it is to capture the minds and 40 chaplains, stated Bishop men's work to make all arrange­

Church hearts of those who someday Loutitt, chairman of the armed ments for his conference and to may be the leaders of our mis­ forces division. One hundred give the stewardship presenta­ sionary efforts in these lands and one Episcopal chaplains are tion, and encouraging an entire­ and may well be the leaders in ly new group of laymen to at­ Episcopal now on active duty, but many other government activities in tend the conferences. the more are needed. Attempts are these nations." of being made to have chaplains Following a proposal from the Treasurer's Report speak at clergy conferences in Rev. James W. Kennedy, of the The treasurer of the Council, various parts of the country so division of radio and television,

Archives Harry M. Addinsell, reported that more young men may be the council approved an appro­ that the 1952 estimated expend­ inspired to take up this work. priation of $5,000 to further the 2020. itures were $4,960,271.20, leav­ Christian Social Relations experimental work being under­ ing a balance of $358,681. re­ Dean John C. Leffler, chair­ taken by the broadcasting and maining from the 1952 budget man of the division of health film commission of the National Copyright appropriation of $5,195,468. The and welfare services, announced Council of Churches in the field Council voted to apply $169,912. the election of Mrs. Roger L. of religious television. of this to the 1953 budget of Kingsland as vice chairman of Christian Education the armed forces division and to the department and chairman After the Council had approv­ use $75,000 of it as the 1953 ad­ of the interim committee. ed the appointment of five new vance to Seabury Press. The re­ Bishop Keeler, chairman of officers of the department the maining $113,769. is to be used the department, spoke of the en­ Rev. David R. Hunter, director as a reserve for contingencies. couraging work being done by of the department, outlined He reported that as of Dec­ some diocesan departments of some of the present and future ember 1, 1952, trust funds a- social relations, notably in the plans of the leadership training mounted to $17,399,000 with a diocese of Florida, which has division. He announced that return of 4.36%. During the just formed a new department, this spring the division will lead

Four The Witness-February 26, 1953 48 conferences with diocesan de­ ern Europe rebuild their church­ Appointments partments of education. This is es and carry on their work, and Appointed to the division of to be followed in the summer for relief and resettlement of curriculum development: Rev. with a two-week conference at refugees in Europe, the Near Charles W Sydnor Jr., former­ Seabury-Western to train forty East, and Asia. ly rector of St. Paul's, Waco, clergy in the new education He announced that $4,000 had Texas, is executive secretary; methods. just been sent to the Archbishop the Rev. Francis W. Voelcker, In the fall, the mobile team of Canterbury for flood relief, on the faculty of Seabury-West­ approach will be continued, but and that $2,000 had just been ern, is associate secretary; Miss to it will be added the "inten­ sent to Archbishop Rinkel of Eleanor E. Sandt, former school sive weekend" program, where­ the Old Catholic Church at Ut­ teacher, and Virginia Wielandy, by groups of leaders from a recht, Holland, for the same director of education at St. Jam­ number of parishes will come purpose. es, Grosse He, Michigan, are as­ together for intensive training. Research Unit sociate editors; Rev. Donald M. In October a concrete evaluation The unit of research and field Brieland, a professor at the Un­ of the whole program will be study, formerly under the over­ iversity of Minnesota, is consul­ publication. made. seas and home departments, is tant.

and Reporting on the progress of now an independent agency, Resigning from the depart­ the new curriculum, Hunter serving the entire Council. It is ment are the Rev. Donald W. reuse stated that three to five courses now completing a study of Pu­ Crawford as executive assistant for will be available in the spring erto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and the Rev. Walter Williams, of 1955 for use in the fall, and and is also making a survey of head of the division of leader­ that the rest of the courses Alaska. ship training. required through the twelfth grade will be ready three years after that Dean and President Exchange time. Letters Over Sewanee

Permission World Relief In 1952 the total expenditures * Dean James Pike of New as a lawyer who teaches at Col­ for world relief and Church op­ York has withdrawn as baccalau­ umbia Law School on Church-

DFMS. reate preacher for the Univer­ state relations, declares that if

/ erations were $501,870 reported the Rev. Almon R. Pepper. Fif­ sity of the South and has de­ the law of Tennessee forbids ty-five different appropriations clined a doctorate because of the Negroes at the university, its Church were made, the largest single institution's attitude on segre­ constitutionality should be chal­ one being for service to refugees gation. He did this after the lenged; two, seek the repeal of and immigration in the program president, Edward McCardy, an­ the law or, three, "failing these Episcopal of the World Council of Church­ nounced the appointment of a two, when an important Christ­ the es. Through Anglican Church­ new faculty to take the place ian principle is at stake—dis­ of es, overseas emergency aid was of the group that resigned over obey the law. The Church has never regarded the civil law as given to the diocese of Jamaica the issue (Witness, Feb. 19). The letter to the University the final norm for the Christian for hurricane relief, to the Archives authorities from the dean con­ conscience: 'We must obey God Church in Japan for educational tains sharp barbs. "I could not rather than men.' (Acts 5:29). and other work, and to other 2020. in conscience receive a doctorate The Church has often been members of the Anglican Com­ in the white divinity which Se- healthiest when it was illegal; munion for building and repair wanee apparently is prepared to we got our start that way as a of their churches. Copyright offer the Church hereafter" and matter of fact. To follow the Direct aid was given to St. then referring to declining to apostles and martyrs in this Paul's Church, Bakersfield, give the address he wrote; way would be very appropriate California, for earthquake dam­ "Preaching is supposed to have for a Church which makes much age, and a number of scholar­ some relevance to what is in of apostolic succession. There is ships were awarded to overseas people's minds, and hence I really very little danger that the students for study in the Uni­ doubt if my words at the bac­ administration and faculty ted States. calaureate service would have would find itself in prison; but A large porportion of the contributed to the greatest har­ the picture of the theological money was used for helping the mony of the weekend." faculty behind bars, instructing Old Catholic and Orthodox Dealing with the legal phase the students gathered on the Churches of Germany and East­ of the issue, Dean Pike, writing ^Continued on Page Thirteen)

The Witness-February 26, 195A Five EDITORIALS

Sewanee Again section of the country, to effect a Christian solu­ tion. Our trust, our faith, has been shattered. We A NOTIIER factor has come into the Sewanee can only ask "why"? situation. We were ashamed of our Church Perhaps the answer lies deeper than "the race when we first heard that the policy at Sewanee question." This very moral fibre has atrophied was not to be changed to allow the entry of Negro during the years with no one the wiser because students. We became more upset when the admin­ issues and questions have been assiduously avoid­ istration remained adamant despite the resigna­ ed by the Church for years which would uncover tion of the faculty and the cry of protest that our absence of moral strength. went up all over the country. Now the moral We must go one step further and ask ourselves blindness of the board of trustees is even more wherever we may live, if our consciences are clean; we who have built walls around Harlems publication. horrifying; without any change in their stand, the board has appointed another faculty to take and ghettos to protect our Episcopal suburbs and the place of those who courageously resigned. As from some of our Christian brethren. if this were not enough, they were able to find, When all is said and done, doubtless the ques­ reuse within our Church, priests who are willing to ac­ tion which should be on our lips is; "Lord, is it I ?" for cept such appointment. In any situation involving ethical conduct with­ required in the Church, one must exercise the greatest Free Lenterprise charity, especially when clergy of high integrity TVTOTHING is more stifling to the cause of free­ are party to the action criticized. Of course, one dom than to pretend that it already exists.

Permission must make allowances for the emotional climate Such phrases as "the free world," "free men," or of the South. We also have a deep personal ad­ "free enterprise" are parotted around either in miration for individual members of the new fac­

DFMS. ignorance of the real meaning of freedom or they

/ ulty. Despite all this, we must speak out, to cen­ would seem to be used deliberately for the purpose sure our brother clergy for their acceptance of of deluding people that freedom is realized simply the offer to teach at Sewanee. Even if they did Church by the periodic manipulation of a voting machine. not agree with the point of view of the resigning faculty, they might have had respect for a hard To be completely free would mean that a person choice made after deep searching of conscience could do anything. In this sense not even God Episcopal and at some sacrifice. Even if all of them had is so free that he could act in a way that would the been brought up in the South and had had loyalty be contrary to his own nature. Men are even less of free, due first to the necessary limitations of hu­ to the University of the South, they might have man nature both externally in the spatio-temp­ allowed the stand of their predecessors to remain oral order in which he finds himself and inter­ as a signal of danger, a sound of alarm to the Archives nally of the demands of his own nature. In other Church in the twentieth century. They might words, we are born either male or female, black have let the forces of progress and reaction play 2020. or white, and we can never live as if we had not out their conflict, that at least a sober rethinking been born male or female, black or white, as the of policy might have been forced upon the board. case may be. Also, we are not free to starve, even The ethics of the labor union prohibits the prac­ Copyright if we think we are because that would be due to tice of accepting employment after a strike has a pathological state of mind. been called. Are the ethics of the Church less de­ manding? Men are even less free than they need be because of sin. They have rebelled against God One need not dwell on the obvious importanc? and so against their own true nature which God in the world to-day of any racial question nor on had willed for them. The result is confusion and the moral tepidity of the Christian Church con­ chaos without and inhibition and perversion cerning an issue so easily and clearly seen. But within. We are, in other words, tied and bound by we felt assured that when a case came to as crit­ our sins. ical a stage as this one we could trust in the in­ Freedom, therefore, is not something that we nate moral fibre of churchmen, from whatever already possess in profusion but is a prize to be

Six The Witness-February 26, 1953 gained by the overcoming of stubborn obstacles. matic medicine. These advances make it abund­ Order must be restored in the world and disci­ antly clear that the Son of Man had deep insight pline in ourselves. Lent is the time when we are into the operation of the minds of men. Many given both the opportunity and the stimulus for cf the things which are wrong with ourselves c.oing something in this direction. The purpose, and with our world can be traced to the outward- therefore, of a Lenten rule is to fight for free­ inward relationship. The Church has stressed dom. Personal discipline in Lent gives the lie to this from the beginning. To quote St. Paul again: the spacious definitions of freedom that are "Let your minds dwell on what is true, what is preached around us. It is not easy, especially worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is when it comes to saying no. We can only learn to anrable, what is kindly. Then God who gives do this by practicing and Lent is the time to go Peace will be with you." into training with little things that we may be able to handle bigger situations when they arise. In the Episcopal Church we are weak on dis­ God's To God cipline and so as a group we are ineffectual. Yet we pride ourselves on our freedom. Do we really By Philip H. Steinmetz publication. have it? Perhaps we do what we like because of HAVE heard Our Lord's words "Render unto

and our early parental control or our class situation 1 Caecar the things that are Caesar's and to God as the economic elite. Surely, it is our pride that the things that are God's" quoted with all the em­

reuse makes us keep to our particular partisanship. Few phasis on the first clause. Actually the second

for of us can ever discuss anything today on a ra­ clause is the key to the whole saying. tional basis. It is all emotional. And is there any For think for a minute of what, if anything, freedom there? The answer is in trying to keep there is which belongs to Caesar which does not required a good Lent, by knowing why we are doing what also belong to God. we are doing, what we are going to do after­ You remember that in talking to Pilate, Caesar's wards, and then trying to spread this discipline agent, Jesus says: "You would have no power over as the only means of achieving real freedom. me unless it had been given you from above. . ." Permission which would seem to indicate that even the power to punish and kill does not belong to the state in

DFMS. its own right, but is derived from God. / Outward - Inward Far from justifying all kinds of evil doing be­ cause "Caesar" commands or allows them, this T^VERY thought creates. If we permit ourselves Church statement is a challenge to both citizen and gov­ to think hostile, unkind, pessimistic thoughts ernment to remember that all that we have and we become what we think. Someone said we are are belongs to God and must be held in trust and what we eat, but we are not only what we eat, we Episcopal used according to his terms. sre what we think. If anger, greed and jealousy the It is very convenient to think we can divide our occupy our thoughts we become sour, sickly and of lives, giving the government its due and God his fear ridden souls. On the other hand, if we think and having a lot left which is entirely our own. on those things which are beautiful and good and But any such line of thought is wholly foreign to

Archives true, we tend to become intergrated, poised and the teaching of the Bible. Which of the two parts helpful persons. What we are inwardly we show of our Lord's saying you stress will show where 2020. forth outwardly. St Paul said: "With his heart your first loyalty lies, whether you think God de­ man believes and is justified, with his mouth he pends on Caesar for protection or Caesar depends confesses and is saved." on God for his very existence.

Copyright Certainly the inward-outward relationship is basic to the teaching of Jesus. A tree is known by it's fruits. "A good man out of the treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; THE PRAYER BOOK and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his Its History and Purpose heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of By the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." IRVING PEAKE JOHNSON Early in Lent we are reminded of this great Founder and First Editor of The Witness truth. The collect for the second Sunday in Lent 25c a copy 10 copies for $2 brings this truth home to us. Great advances The WITNESS have been made in psychiatry and in psychoso- Tunkhannock Pennsylvania

The Witness-February 26, 1953 Seven WHAT CHRISTIANITY MEANS TO ME IN THIS ATOMIC AGE

By William G. Pollard Director of Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies

A S history unfolds itself, nations rise and fall, the drama of man's emergence is seen as taking individual lives pass onto the stage of exis­ place in three stages. First a primitive religious tence and play their parts, and great and decisive phase characterized by superstition, prejudice, publication. events loom in the future. We are conscious of and blind fears. Man then grew out of this phase and participating in one way or another in the great into a higher philosophic phase characterized by drama of existence, the cosmic drama. But al­ futile and unreliable speculations. And now final­ reuse though the conditions of human life give all of ly man is seen, in this view, to have grown out for us this dramatic sense about existence, we are of these earlier unsatisfactory stages of his ex­ by no means in agreement concerning the nature, istence into his present scientific stage which is purpose or character of this drama. Indeed for characterized by positive knowledge and a sure required cur present purpose we may distinguish two confidence in at least being able to deal effect­ sharply contrasting viewpoints in this respect. ively with the problems which confront him. Then by bringing out clearly the several points The semi-religious form of humanism sees hu­ of contrast between them, we can better appre­ Permission man existence in very similar terms but it includ­ ciate the fundamental character of the problem es, in addition to the material elements of that which we face. existence, God as the great unknown, an impene­ DFMS. / One view of this drama is that which charac­ trable mystery standing above and apart from terizes the secular humanist's convictions about human affairs as" they are carried out here on his world. It looks upon all history as a drama of earth. To the elements of the human drama as Church human progress and achievement. It sees man as seen in the anti-religious form, it then adds on to one of many biological species which have inhab­ it, as a separate and additional side-drama so to ited the crust of this planet. It considers his fund­ speak, the long historic record of man's efforts Episcopal through his own intellect and reason to compre­ amental problem as a species to be essentially the

the hend the divine mystery. same as that of any of the other species, name­ of ly, to survive, find food for himself, make the It sees primitive animism, Hinduism, Judaism, best adjustments possible to the conditions of Buddhism, Christianity, and Mohammedanism his existence on this earth, and with these goals all as efforts of equal validity, though of perhaps Archives achieved to make that existence as pleasant, pro­ unequal insight, which man has made in his en­ fitable to himself, even as interesting, good, and deavor to probe this mystery throughout his 2020. noble as he possibly can. long spiritual pilgrimage. In both forms of hu­ In looking back over man's record of perfor­ manism, however, the drama is exclusively a mance in this task much satisfaction is expressed drama of man. All of its crucial moments, all of Copyright over the progress he has made. It is perceived as its interest, tenseness, and excitement are deriv­ a true drama of man's slow and laborious but ever ed from man's point of view in terms of his prog­ successful conquest of and adjustment to the na­ ress as a species, his welfare, and his future. tural forces arrayed against him. Existence is Christian View a rich, intensely absorbing drama to be sure, but TJADICALLY opposed to this way of viewing it is exclusively a drama by and about man. For the drama of existence is the Christian view­ this reason any such view of existence is desig­ point. For the very heart of the true Christian nated by the word humanism. Faith is to be found in the vision of the high Humanism drama within which the whole created order is TTUMANISM can have either an anti-religious caught up. But in this case the center of the dra­ or a semi-religious form. In the former case ma is God, not man, and this radically alters the

Eight The Witness—February 26, 1953 whole picture. It involves a keen, even exhilira- the person of Jesus Christ, and lives to the full ting sense of the total involvement of all human a human life among us. life in the mighty unfolding of God's majestic Eschatology purpose for his creation. It embraces the whole npHE remaining portions of the drama of exis- unimaginably vast reaches of the far-flung phy­ tence as seen through the eyes of Christian sical universe out to the most remote galaxy and faith carry us into the realm of Christian escha­ sees all this as the free creative act of the infinite tology. For the purposes of God as revealed to God. us in this first portion of the drama involve a It sees the long, intricate, and marvelous his­ definite end and object in creation. This myster­ tory of this mighty creation from its first appear­ ious universe was brought into existence in the ance in space and time to the present as the work first place and has developed and evolved in such strange and wonderful ways ever since with the of God, a dramatic unfolding of his strange and sole purpose of achieving an ultimate objective wonderful plan for his creation. which is designated in Chistianity as the King­ On our own planet the slow and painstaking evo­ dom of God. lution of this plan has at long last produced a

publication. The hidden secret of human history and of the creature of this creation, man. Prior to his ap­ individual human lives which make it up lies in and pearance there was, as far as we know, no part this movement of creation toward the attainment of this whole beautifully constructed creation of God's Kingdom. For this purpose Christ's Holy reuse that was even at all conscious of its own exis­ Church was established and given to us as the for tence. Millenium after millenium as the majestic visible extension of his incarnation in the hearts story of God's handiwork unfolded itself, noth­ of men. Through the Church, God's redemptive ing anywhere within it knew anything about it work on human beings is carried out, and in its required or could respond in any way to its awful and ma­ fellowship the, at times vigorous and at other jestic beauty. But here at long last came man on times lethargic, movement toward the Kingdom the crust of this planet, and in his dawning con­ of God is worked out in human history.

Permission sciousness looked out in wonder and amazement Here then we see two primary views which on the strange and intricate world in which he have been widely held of the drama of existence. found himself. There is, of course, by no means common agree­ DFMS. / ment as to which view is the correct one. But As the drama of existence continued to unfold both give expression to the well nigh universal men everywhere strove for comprehension of the sense of human experience that existence is a Church deep mystery of existence as they sought to make drama, a mysterious movement from the begining contact with God and enjoy communion with him. to an end, an envolving developing story with On man's side these efforts produced numerous scenes, acts, preparations, and crises. Both are Episcopal religions and a great variety of religious exper­ also built upon the same facts and incidents of the iences. history. But they each have diametrically oppos­ of But at the same time on God's side, God also ed views of the meaning or theme of the drama. sought to reveal himself, his nature and purposes, One fits together all the data of history in ac­ cordance with one kind of a "feel" for human Archives to this new creature of his creation. This he ac­ life and experience so as to build up a coherent complished through the unique history of a spe­ drama centered on man and his achievements 2020. cial people. In the literature of this people we and glory. The other takes exactly the same data have preserved for us the inspired record of the of history and discovers from it through a dif­ profound experiences of living as active partici­ ferent "feel" for human life an equally coherent Copyright pants in this uniquely revelatory history. It is this drama centered on God and his purpose and glory. quality which makes this literature our Holy These two viewpoints cannot both be true to­ Scriptures, the vehicle through which God's rev­ gether. One of them must represent the true dra­ elation of himself in history is transmitted to us ma of existence, the other an illusion. in the words of the men who lived and experienc­ Watered Down Faith ed that history. From its roots in the mists of Tt is our lot to live in an age and a culture which pre-history this drama of revelation, which was has largely adopted the humanistic view. Per­ worked out in the fortunes and experiences of the haps nowhere is this situation more strikingly Hebrew people, leads up in the fullness of time to evident than in the transformation which the the final mighty climax of revelation. The Al­ secularization of our culture has wrought in the mighty God of all creation becomes Incarnate in popular concept of Christianity itself. As a result

The Witness—February 26, 1953 Nine of the liberal movements in Christian thought of They start the recitation with the assertion of the last century, men have slowly turned away a belief in God, the Father, the creator of heaven from the historic assertions of the Christian faith and earth and of all things visible and invisible. as given in the traditional Christian creeds, and Then the recitation advances to Jesus Christ, the substituted instead a set of teachings, a philos­ Incarnate Son of God who was born, crucified by ophy, and a code of ethics. Pontius Pilate, suffered, died, and was buried, The central position occupied by the passion rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and and resurrection in the gospels and epistles has will come again as the judge of all. been replaced by the sermon on the mount. The Nothing is said about ethics or behavior. In­ central figure of the Incarnate Son of God reveal­ stead we have a simple, concise outline recitation ing the nature and purposes of God to man has of the complete drama of existence from creation been replaced by the Jesus of history setting for to final judgement as revealed in the total Judeo- man in his life and teachings a high and lofty Christian tradition. Ethics and right behavior ethical standard. The Church in place of being come as the fruits of a human life which is con­ conceived as the mystical body of Christ, a divine sciously lived as an integral part of this mighty institution and redemptive society instituted by drama. To make them the ultimate objects of publication. Christ, has come to be regarded as an organiza­ life is Phariseeism, not Christianity. It is only tion of men designed for mutual ethical culture and when the unconscious influence of the culture and moral elevation whose function is to do good in which we are immersed have done their work in society and dispense charity. reuse in our hearts and brought us to the point where for All of this radical perversion of the historic the only true feel we have for the drama of ex­ Christian gospel is the fruit of the gradual, often istence is the secular, humanistic, man-centered unrecognized, conversion of our culture to secular version, that the traditional historic assertions of required and humanistic convictions about the meaning the Christian faith are looked upon as unreal, out­ of existence. But prior to the eighteenth or nine­ moded, dusty dogmas of a bygone age. This, of teenth centuries such a perversion was unheard of. All the traditional recitations of the funda­ course, must be. The two viewpoints of the mean­ Permission mental elements of the Christian faith make no ing and center of the cosmic drama are in radical reference at all to a code of ethics, moral stand­ opposition to each other. Whoever deeply believes in his heart in the validity of one of them must

DFMS. ards, or acceptable modes of behavior. Instead / they are invariably stirring recitations of a dra­ of necessity look upon the other as a pure illu­ ma; the cosmic drama made up of the mighty sion.

Church acts of God in his creation. (Concluded Next Week) Episcopal the of FITTING THE JIGSAW PUZZLE

Archives By Chad Walsh Professor at Beloit College 2020. /COLLEGE is a time for being intelligently un- Even though your mind may tell you, "I'm happy. Growing up is always agonizing. The glad to be rid of this old stuff," something else in more you mature in college, the less your days you feels the emptiness, as earlier certainities di- Copyright will be the rollicking, carefree ones that you saw solve and nothing firm is left in their place. Not in the movies of college life when you were in high that the erosion is necessarily bad—for the time school. being. It clears the ground for the new freedom. Possibly you brought a real religion with you The campus offers you this wider freedom. to college and it has kept pace with you in growth. Now that you have it, you are beginning to dis­ If so, count yourself lucky. Far more likely, you cover its dangers and responsibilities. Suppose have seen your faith eroding away inch by inch, you organize an expedition to filch copies of a as the waves of doubt and skepticism beat against forthcoming exam, and your buddy happens to it in the classroom, laboratory, and bull session. be the one who is detected and summoned to the A chapter from Campus Gods on Trial, copyright 1953 by the Mac- dean's office. What are you going to do ? You can millan Company. To be published in March.

Ten The Witness-February 26, 1953 keep quiet and feel like a traitor. Or you can speak you when you are least expecting him. He works up and face the dean with your friend. Freedom through your intellectual confusion—the quest­ in itself cannot tell you what to do. You begin to ions you ask that receive no satisfactory answers, wish that you had some sort of road map to guide in courses, or casual conversations. This confu­ you through the land of freedom. sion is likely to get worse before it gets better. Or imagine this common situation: A girl and One co-ed expressed it with a touch of despera­ boy have a quarrel, and she returns his fraternity tion: pin. After a few days her anger dies down and she "The whole thing is that college students wants him back again. But she is too proud to say are confused about everything in this world, so and he is too proud to take the first step. It's a and religion is one of them. I just hope we stalmate. At this point she can resort to the clas­ can get straightened out." sical ruse, cast friendly looks at another boy and The secular gods—Progress, Humanitarianism, start going with him, in the well-founded hope Scientism, etc.,—will do for a time, but they leave too many blank spaces. Out of confusion comes that boy friend number one will be filled with a desire for a really complete way of looking at enough jealously to leap back into the field of life and the universe, a way that will satisfy both combat. But should she ? Is it fair to use another the mind and the heart. (You are born with both.) publication. human being as a decoy, then drop him cold after You want to see all partial truths fall together and he has served his purpose ? into one big truth, and you want the big truth A complete Macchiavellian wouldn't worry to be one you can serve and love. reuse about these questions. But there aren't many God is also working you over in experiences for Macchiavellians. Most people want to be at peace that you still remember with anguish when your with themselves. So again, there is the desire for own children are ready for college. The cribbing definite guidance. You have freedom, but what that was detected, your betrayal of friends, the required are you going to do with it? sudden realization "I've been a complete heel," these are moments of the dark depths, and God The We-Group is an expert fisherman. l^XPERIENCES like these lead to the discovery

Permission Sometimes, indeed, it seems that he rubs your of the "we-group." Or rather, its rediscovery. face in the muck, filling you with self-loathing There is a rhythm about this. The we-group is and a feeling as though a nest of copperheads

DFMS. discovered and rediscovered throughout life. The

/ were inside your heart. This is his shock treat­ newborn baby is the family's center of gravity, ment, the object being to make you realize that but year by year he is taught that no matter how any purely common-sense code of living decently

Church great his charms, he is only one part of that big­ and managing your own life is beyond your stren­ ger thing, the family. With the arrival of the gth. By revealing your weakness, the weakness 'teens, the "I" demands new liberties and honors. of everybody, he hopes to make you cry out for

Episcopal The mold of family living has to be broken, so a strength greater than your own.

the that "I" can grow. "I" goes to college. And then Life Everlasting of the whole thing must be done all over again, as T>UT God also wooes, though the wooer is sel­ the liberated "1" encounters a new we-group. A- dom recognized by name. He wooes when gain a balance of power is painfully achieved. you have an intense feeling, usually very brief, Archives Still later, after graduation, the process is re­ that "time is standing still" and the whole uni­ peated once more, as "I" adjusts to work and mar­ verse is frozen into living perfection. This may 2020. riage. come while you are listening to music or making The discovery or rediscovery of the we-group, love or solving a difficult math problem or walk­ and the perplexing responsibilities that ensue, are ing across campus on the way to the gym. You Copyright often sufficient to set anyone on the quest for cannot shake off the memory. Nor can you re­ some clear practical guidance. This doesn't neces­ live it again at will. The experience comes un­ sarily mean going religious. A common-sense code bidden, which is when you least expect it. It is of conduct, to keep all the "I's" from bruising actually a hint or sample or shadow of a particu­ each other, may be the modest goal. lar sort of life which in theological language is But even this limited search has a way of lead­ called the "life everlasting." ing by tiny stages to a search for God, since he As these experiences—problems of conduct, in­ turns out to be the only firm basis for a code tellectual confusion, dark moments and luminous of conduct based on anything stronger than moments—mount up, you begin to feel the hot minute-by-minute expediency. breath of pursuit on the nape of your neck. If a In yet another way, God often creeps up on bull session on religion is going on, you can't

The Witness-February 26, 1953 Eleven keep away from it; but your questions have a mon. It may be dull or stupid. Go to church not strident edge. When you pick up a book like this to argue with the preacher or with yourself, but one, you quite properly give it the finetooth-comb to worship—still in the spirit of "God, if there treatment, intent on spotting any careless state­ is a God," if that is how you feel. ments of fact or loose-jointed logic. And when Four, do your best day by day to live according you find some examples, as you are certain to do, to the teachings of Christ. For present purposes you have a sense of liberation for a little while; this means, "Love everybody the same way you the breath is no longer hot on your neck. love yourself; treat them the way that love de­ But the sense of being pursued and wooed soon mands." (You will find that you fail time and returns. Some one is close behind you, and you again. If you take the failures seriously, they will know it, no matter how much you fight against be very valuable, because they will throw you the realization. Do you want to continue the flight, back more strongly toward God, who alone is able or turn around and decide you will acknowledge to make this kind of living possible.) the pursuer? You can attend bull sessions forever, ask count­ If you feel a pull toward one of the sciences, less questions during religious emphasis week, and read a stack of books like this one, but noth­ you don't spend your time chatting with people ing will come of it unless you get at least your

publication. about the pro's and con's of the scientific method. toes wet in the water that laps at your feet. You go into the laboratory and set to work on the and But before making even this cautious experi­ basic experiments. By this means you discover ment, you want to know whether the credentials whether you want to be a scientist. reuse of Christianity can stand up to honest examina­ If you feel the unmistakable presence of God, for tion, and what the word Christianity means as there are experiments you can perform, to deter­ used by the great majority of Christians. The mine whether you are ready to welcome him in­ final article will attempt to answer these ques­ required to your life. You can turn your life into a labora­ tions. tory, with yourself as both the experiment and the observer. Reducing the Load An Experiment Permission OUPPOSE you set yourself a six month's ex- By William P. Barnds ^ periment. It involves no closing of your eyes. A LAYMAN in my parish,by request, built a

DFMS. If you have doubts, take them along with you.

/ •^ moveable platform which we planned to use Your laboratory experiments might be set up in a religious play at the church. He made it in like this: his basement, and when we undertook to carry Church One, fence in fifteen minutes each day for it up the stairs we discovered we would have dif­ reading the Bible. Start with any of the gospels; ficulty carrying it around the turn of the stairs, my own suggestion would be Luke or John. But both because of its size and also its weight. This

Episcopal read all of them before you are through. You may problem was solved by sawing the platform into want to read through one gospel rather quickly, the two parts. Thus it could be carried up the stairs.

of then on other days take it more slowly, perhaps It occured to me how this procedure applies to a chapter at a time. See what picture of Christ certain other problems in life. Many a difficulty builds up in your mind. Do not try to force the may seem well-nigh impossible for us to handle,

Archives picture into any particular form, and do not try to fight against the picture as it gradually forms. but if we can reduce it to halves, it becomes mana­ geable. The reduction, of course, can be carried 2020. Two, set aside another fifteen minutes each still further, and the problem may be separated day for prayer. If you feel like a hypocrite, you into four, or ten, or even more parts, and when can preface your prayers with "God, if there is it is done, it loses some of its forbidding and dis­

Copyright a God . . ." Keep silent at least half of the time, and quietly try to clear your mind of the eighteen couraging aspects. hundred stray thoughts that will keep creeping Life is given to us, as it were, in small units. We in. Pray for understanding, for intellectual hon­ sometimes try to crowd a week's obligations into esty. Pray for friends who are in difficulty. If a few days, or we try to deal with the responsibil­ you feel grateful for something, or have glimpses ities of several days in just one day. It is easy to of insight into God's greatness and love, tell him borrow tomorrow's problems, and add them to so. (Prayer is so extremely important a part of those of today, or to drag yesterday's mistakes this experiment that you will need either a good into the present. We need to give earnest atten­ advisor, or some simple book on the subject.) tion to our Lord's words, and put them into prac­ Three, go to church somewhere every Sunday. tice, "Let the day's own troubles be sufficient for Do not focus your attention primarily on the ser­ the day."

Twelve The Witness-February 26, 1953 LETTER EXCHANGE board are as sincere Christians

(Continued from Page Five) as are to be found elsewhere CHURCH COLLECTION in the Church and are at least lawn around the county jail is ENVELOPES as well qualified to judge what one which could inspire us to for Church and Sunday School constitutes the proper Christ­ realize that the Church is not ian course of action at Sewanee SINGLE, DUPLEX or TRIPLEX meant to 'conform to this wor­ Send for Price List and Samples ld,' and could attract many now as are people who are farther MacCalla & Company, Inc. indifferent people to a Church away and less conversant with which often all too easily blends the circumstances." 3644 Market St. Philadelphia 4, Pa. with its surroundings." Answer to Answer Dean Pike on February 17th McCrady Replies issued a second statement, in HERE AT LAST In reply to news release by answer to the above by Mc­ Dean Pike, President McCrady Crady, in which he states that A Real Episcopal Medal! said; "Last summer I invited when invited to Sewanee last Dean Pike to be our baccalaur­ June he "naively assumed that publication. eate preacher in June 1953. He they (trustees of Sewanee) wou­ and told me at the time that he disa­ ld have to reverse themselves greed with the action of our in order to have a faculty of reuse trustees; but that if, knowing theology at all" and states that for that, we still wanted him to he is "hoping and praying that come, he would be glad to ac­ FRONT (ACTUAL SIZE) BACK the new faculty and the trust­ cept. I assured him that our in­ A beautiful and practical medal, em­ ees will as soon as possible ef­ required vitation was not contingent up­ bodying all that the Episcopalian has fect a reversal of the present long wished for. A wonderful gift for on that question in any way and position." men, women and children, for Mili­ that accordingly we would be tary personnel, and as Church School, glad to have him address us. He Choir or Acolyte awards—may be worn Permission as a neck piece, a bracelet, or carried wrote me later in the summer IN YOUR FUTURE! as a pocket piece. A fine Christmas confirming his acceptance: gift. 23-CARAT GOLD lor EXTRA EARN­ INGS! Personalized signatures in DFMS. Silver—Sterling Oxidized $1.50 / "At our recent meeting of the Gold'sell on stgW featured with PRIZE or PASTEL PARCH­ MENT assortment and other EVERYDAY GREETING CARDS board of regents we voted to lor every purpose PLUS over 50 other MONEY-MAKERS lor Bronzene _ 1.00 you! Exclusive, Easylo-Sell "PARTY NAPKINS". Gilt Wraps. confer an honorary degree upon Gilt Items. Stationery, etc. Card Assortments on approval Gold and Silver Chains

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