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W ilson W illiam B. Spofford James P. DeW olfb Literary Editor A National Paper of the Episcopal Church Robert P. Kreitler G a r d in e r M. D a y Voi. XIX. No. 37. MAY 23, 1935 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is pubJished weekly by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, €140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscription price is $2.00 a year; in bundles o f ten or more for sale at the church, the paper selling, at five cents, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under act o f Marchi 3, 1879. Our Supreme T ask By JAMES E. FREEMAN The Bishop of Washington L O N E L Y Saviour, despised and rejected of men, ened concern and the munitions and armament manu­ A has overspread the world with His mighty Gos­ facturers gloat over conditions that give promise of pel. What is lacking today in our Christian house­ increased earnings and augmented dividends. It is a hold is His courageous spirit. We reverently bow situation that challenges the Church and Christian men before His cross, but the sacrifice it implies we cau­ and women everywhere. Those who promote and abet tiously and lightly assume. We come to His table and the war spirit, discount our influence and set at naught receive the gifts it imparts, but we fail to espouse our power. His cause when it affects our convenience or lays upon our personal interests a heavy or costly toll. We main­ E R T A IN L Y the time has come when the Church tain a discreet silence in the presence of wrongs and C of every name must call into militant action all injustices, and forget that He drove with knotted whip its forces to resist those who would treat with contempt cords from the sanctuary, those who made a pretence the teachings and ministry of the Prince of Peace. of religion. We pay homage and deference to the We abdicated our office and allegiance in the late war. favored and the privileged, waiting for the crumbs We forsook our principles and became propagandists that fall from their ladened tables, rather than rebuke for a cause that has issued in confusion worse con­ them for practices that bring shame and distress to founded and sown the seeds of bitterness and hatred multitudes of helpless and defenceless men, women the world over. To advocate peace along sane and and little children. Better that we suffered and starved rational lines has brought down upon its advocates for awhile, nourished only by His spirit, than that we everywhere, the scorn and derision of war-mongers, betrayed His cause and by our apathy and indiffer­ crafty diplomats, selfish politicians and those who ence hindered the progress of His Kingdom. It may profit at the cost of the thousands of our youth who be that the time is at hand when men who believe in are ruthlessly slaughtered at their behest. Christ’s teachings may have to exhibit courage, yes, These instigators of war are safeguarded by reason and suffer humiliation, dishonor and pain, that His of age and position from its cruelties. They make no cause may prevail. reckoning of its awful horrors and tragedies. To them Christian men and women must take cognizance of the survival of the fittest, means the security of selfish the ominous and threatening clouds that hide the fair interests at the price of human sacrifice.